The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-11-20
MONTANA NEWS,

strikers at the Chicago stock yards.
MONTANA NEWS.
Out of So votes cast at Wilder's Land
ing Toole received SO.
H. M. Hubbard, who was defeated b
one vote for county commissioner in Mis-
soula, will contest the election of his on
ponent.
The crack shots of the Deer Lodg
Rod & Gun Club have sent for a coupl
of hundred live pigeons for Thanksgiy
ing shoot.
The Gold Hunter mine, in the Nigge
Prairie district, Ceur d. Alene country
has been sold to St. Paul capitalists fe1
100000.
J. D. Winter, Of the Judith country
has discovered that cottonwood trees may
be grown by laying down green poles
covering and irrigating the same.
Uncle Sam pays pensions to nineteen
residents in Yellowstone county. Seven
teen are invalids, drawing $119; one is a
widow, drawing $12, and one is depend
ent, drawing $12.
James Yarham, who lives down the
valley, had 81 acres sown with oats, this
year, which yielded 60 bushels to the
acre. He sold the whole crop few days
ago at $1.60 per hundred pounds.
Kemp Roberts. ex-treas,rer of Lewis
and Clark county, who has been on trial
for two or three days past for embezzling
between 100000 and $4,000 in county
funds, was found guilty by the jury.
Montana polled nearly 5000 more votes
at the late election than at the general
election two years ago. This should mark
an increase in our population during the
past two years of at least $4,000 souls.
The assessed valuation Of Lewis and
Clarke county this year is considerably
above $8,OO0,OOO, but the exact figures
have not been arrived at The total as
sessment of Silver Bow county is little
over $7,OO0,0OO.
Scott Hair, teamster in the employ
Of the Dillon Lumber company, had his
ankle crushed into frozen rut smashing
the same into shapeless mass of bone
and flesh by the wheel Of wagon loaded
with 1000 feet of lumber passing over it.
A ''committee of peace" has been or
yanized on Birch creek in Beaverhead
county. The peaceable and law abiding
citizens of that vicinity have resolved to
10 longer endure the frequent violations
If the law that have been common there
# late.
The official vote of Custer county as
returned gives the total vote as 1926.
coole, democrat, 1909; Sanders, republi-
ican, 624; Toole's majority, 378. All
for the Legislature and county
Ulcers on the democratic ticket were
lected except one commissioner, probate
udge and school superintendent.
Miner: Bill Deane, who was lately
rrested at Silver Bow Junction, charged
With robbing the freight cars of the Utah
Northern has furnished bail. and, it is
aid, has skipped his bond and gone to
British Columbia. The company will
ell the stolen goods at auction, as they
ave no use for so many cloaks.
Evanston Examiner: Last week the
emains of Jim Swan, alias "Jack Shep-
ard" were found in the foothills at
1e junction Of Gooseberry creek and the
Jig Horn river. The last seen of Shep
ard, he escaped, handcuffed, from two
len who had him in charge. A knife
nd revolver, both containing his initials,
ere found beside him. He was a prince
nong robbers.
Billings Gazette: The recent census {
the Crow tribe shows that they number
IS than 2700. The census taken ten ,
ears ago showed that the tribe numbered
500. This rapid decrease is continuing;I +,
gentleman intimately acquainted with I
'ese Indians for the past fifteen years
ates that the tribe is decreasing from {
ght to ten per cent annually. In the {
rgest camp in the tribe, that of Plenty |
,us, the deaths exceed the births three /
one. And this band Is less affected
ith venereal disease than any other on |