The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-04-10

Fl. j. Brother, manager OF the Maglnnls
Mining company, has returned from re-
cent trip to Colorado and Helena, the re-
suit of which will be the starting up of
the Maginnis mill at once
Information in regard to the where
abouts of Frank Brinkman, Of Cleveland,
Ohio, is sought by his brother, Charles
Brinkman, of the same place. When last
heard from he was in Helena.
Articles of incorporation have been for
warded to the secretary of the territory at
Helena for the organization of a company
of eastern and Miles City capitalists to
supply that town with water and electric
light.
The special commissioners appointed to
assess damages to property sustained
through condemnation by the Rimini
branch of the Montana Central have award
ed total of $4.S77.5O to the different
claimants.
Last week an experimental shipment of
four car loads of horses, belonging to
Samuel Ashbough, was made from Beaver
head county to Illinois. Should this
shipment prove success it will doubtless
be followed by others.
Judge Wade on Tuesday of last week
rendered a judgment against W. K. Rob
erts, the defaulting ex-treasurcr of Lewis
and Clarke county for $42,384.68, that
being the amount of county fluids which
he had failed to account for.
It is stated that eastern capitalists are
looking over the ground with a view to
erecting a large smelter at Garrison. The
natural facilities of the place are an
abundance of wood and water, and loca-
ton on both the Northern and Union Pa
cific roads.
Dan Flowerree has recently purchased
Robt. Ford's entire herd of cattle ranging
on Sun river, for 100000. The herd is
supposed to number 5000. Last year
1900 calves were branded by Mr. Ford.
This is the largest cattle transaction in
Montana for long while.
By the arrest of two men named Ab
bott and Ahrendoff, the Butte police dis
covered "fence'' where stolen goods
were hidden in the cabin of Chinaman
known as "China Dave Jewelry, cut
lery, clothing and miscellaneous articles
to the value of several thousand dollars
were captured.
River Press: II. D. Skerrett, who
taught school in one of the Shonkin dis
tricts last year, mysteriously disappeared
from here last November and has not
since been heard from. Any one know
ing aught Of him will confer great
favor upon friend by sending the infor-
nation to this office.
The body of a man named Bender was
discovered Thursday of last week at the
head of Prairie Gulch near St. Louis. He
had been employed by Kerwin s. Wise
miller in their quartz leads, and had evi-
dently perished in the severe storm of the
previous week, while returning from a
visit to Radersburg.
Capt Harmon of Miles City, recently re-
ceived word that case of his, which had
been in the courts for the past ten years,
had been settled by the United States
supreme court at Washington and YER
dict of $4,000 rendered in his favor.
The litigation grew out of the contract
for building the post at Fort Keogh.
Gazette: Custer County has amended
its complaint against Yellowstone county
and now claims over $6S,0OO instead Of
$4,000. A project is on foot to have
the court appoint an expert to examine
the county records and report to the
court. Such a course would be a saving
of expense and would expedite settle
ment of the dispute.
The body of Chas. Koch, a German,
was found on Monday last on Capitol Hill
near Helena. A coroner's jury failed to
arrive at the cause of his death, but it is
supposed to have been a case of suicide.
The deceased had been divorced from his
wife at the last term of court which, with
financial difficulties, may have been the
cause of his untimely end.
Upon instructions from A. G. Tyrrell,
chief of the Omaha detective association,
City Marshal A. P. Clark of Bozeman, ar
rested Henry c. Walbridge, wanted in
Omaha for embezzlement committed in
Council Bluffs, Iowa. When arrested he
gave his name as John Edwin and dis
claimed all knowledge of the affair, but a
scar on the back cf his right hand sup
Piled all the evidence needed to identify
him. Tyrrell started at once with requi-
sition papers and returned with his pris-
oner to Omaha.
The St. Paul Globe is authority for the
statement that James Harvie, while en-
route from st. Paul to Miles City to as