The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-19
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

The hill authorizingthec construction of
a bridge across the Yellowstone, at Miles
City has become law.
A dill providing for afourth judge IN
Montana has been favorably reported in
tn. House and Senate and will doubtless
mass when reached on the calendar.
The Butte Miner is about to issue
book descriptive of the West Side coun-
ties Each county will be written up by
special writer
The telegraph line on the Park branch
is being extended from Cinnabar 70
Mammoth Hot Springs, a distance OF
about seven miles.
The Choteau Calument has come to the
front again.
The large increase of freight handled
at Billings has made it necessary for the
Northern Pacific to put in another side
track, on which lot of men are now
working.
To obviate the great Inconvenience re-
- sulting to Madison county from the re-
moyal of Judge Pollard on the eve of a
court term for that county, Chief Justice
Wade has assumed extra labor.
Meagher countys debt is $34,7OO.31,
decrease of$4 ,567O7 during the past year.
The rate of taxation this year is fifteen
mills.
Three men were drowned May 9th,
while crossing the Yellowstone River
from Junction, in a small skif opposite
the cantonement. They are private e. ii.
sanwick, Company X 18th Infantry
Tony Zeinkand, Company | 9Th Infantry
and Edward Mosten, Troop K LIST Caval-
nv. Five men were in the boat when 1t
swamped. Sergeant Frank Robinson
Company X LIST Cavalry and private Geo.
Valentine, Company X 18th Infantry,
saved themselves.
William Lynn who embezzled $llS
from his employers, Schreinsr & Co., OF
Wickes, pleaded guilty to the charge. de
was a clerk for the firm, and was entrust-
ed to make collections at Comet in July |
last He had the checks cashed upon |
his own endorsement, and fed with the
money, but was captured near RAIDERS
burg. In that county. Upon his plea OF
guilty to the one Indictment, the other
case against him, for embezzlement OF
$40 in gold, was dismissed. Lynn was
given three years in the penitentiary
The C. & c. f. railroad scheme has
been antagonized at every step, and by
some who ought to be its friends. 1t 10
said that a certain prominent Republi-
can of Montana, who sometimes runs for
Congress Just for a diversion, has been
continually writing to Senator Mander-
son and urging opposition to it. The bill
is pending in the Senate and House upon
favorable reports from the committee to
whom it is referred. We are reliably IN
formed that the building of this road
will open up mining country that will
rival the justly celebrated Butte camp.
Without it and consequent cheap trans
portation the valuable mines of that
rich district cannot be made to yield q
acknowledgement.
As an outcome of the Stockgrowers
meeting at st. Paul articles of incorpora
ton of the Montana Live Stock Comp
any were filed with the secretary OF
state of Minnesota. The principal place
of business will be st. Paul. Capital
stock $250,0OO. Incorporators, T. H.
Logan, Miles City; W. A...Towers, Kansas
City; T, J. Bryan, Miles City; Granville
Stewart Fort MaFinnls; Adolph Heller,
Milwaukee; r. A. Smith, A. B. Stickney,
W. r. Merriam, Arson Opperhim, Will
lam Lindke, Geo. R, Finch and j. B.
Power, st. Paul.
The property of the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park Improvement Company was
sold at auction at Evanston Wy, last
Wednesday, by order of district court
and under the direction of the receiver,
A. L. Love, for the sum of $4,000. The
bulk of the property consisted OF the
late Mammoth Hot Springs, and the
furniture contained therein The amount ,
of the eale probably covers the amount
of liabilities.
The stockmen of Yellowstone, Bull
Mountain and Muscleshell say the
winters losses were merely nominal and
that the calf crop promises to exceed
that of any previous year.
The new canal at Sun River, which is
intended to preserve the town from in
undation by freshets, is completed. It
cost the county 1920.
The Northern Pacific officials are in
correspondence with Gen, Hazen, of the
signal service bureau, looking to the in
PRODUCTION of weather signal service
along their line of road The idea is to
divide the line into divisions, according
to the ideas Of the signal service bureau,
and keep the people posted as To- the
weather at these different points by
means of the telegraph and signals which
will be placed on the cars of the com
panys trains. These signals will be {
somewhat similar to those used by ,
Observer Lyons at St. Paul, and viii be
made to tin. They will be changed at
each division point, so that people along
the line can tell the nature of the
weather at the division point east ofwest
Of them at the time the train passed that
point. The signals will be of great SER
vice to farmers living along the line, as
they will not only tell them what the
weather was at the point next to them.
but also what the indications are for the
twelve or twenty four hours succeeding.
The earnings Of the Northern Pacific
railroad company for the month Of April
were 1887 ,922, against $S77 ,665 for the
same manth last year; an increase Of
s1lO,257. !