The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-06-12
MONTANA NEWS,

The citizens of Park City have erected
a large and commodious two-story school
house.
Meetings are being held at tStevensville,
Missoula county, to agitate county division
problems.
| The Bannock Consolidated Mining
company has temporarily suspended &C
| tive operations.
A colt which was born blind is cur
iosity to be seen on the ranch of Thos. M.
Selway in Beaverhead county.
The output Of the Drum Lummon for
May reached the remarkable production
of 1898 tons, valued at 81, 1,465,OOO.
The merchants of Dillon have entered
into an agreement to hereafter keep their
places of business closed on Sunday.
A National bank is to be started at
Great Falls, with C. A. Broadwater as
president and Louis G. Phelps cashier.
Eleven head of mules were stolen from
man named O'Donnefi, living near
Woodville, Jefferson county, last week.
Veterinary Surgeon Herbert Holloway
is stationed at Horse Plains to inspect
stock shipped from the west into Montana.
A Coal Banks special to the Independ-
ent says the river has fallen and there are
indications that the season of navigation
will be short one.
A game of baseball between the Miles
City club and the club at Fort Keogh,
played at the latter place on Monday, re-
suited in victory for the Miles City
boys by score of % to 10.
A territorial Sunday school convention
will be held in Helena on the Gath and
25th Of July. It will be conducted under
the immediate direction of B. F. Jacobs,
the noted Sunday school worker OF Chi
cago.
Rev. E. P. Linnell, now in charge of
the Presbyterian missions in Montana, has
just returned from a lengthy trip to the
Atlantic coast, where he was successful in
raising considerable sum for the church
in Montana.
The influx of FOUNDERS at Helena caused
meeting of the vigiIantes to be held last
Saturday evening, and notices bearing the
legend 3-7-77 will be served on rustlers
with the alternative of going or attending
necktive festival.
The Cheyennes are reported to have all
gone to the Tongue river, and at the mouth
of Cook creek are engaged in the 'sun
dance" The object of this, as is well
known, is by the ordeal of tortures to In
itlate warriors and braves,
James Carter, one of the men implicat-
ed in fatally drugging man named Nc
Monigle at Missoula last year, has been
sent to the Washington territory peniten-
tiary for twenty years, for killing Pete
Kinney at Spokane Falls last fall.
The members of the Yellowstone
Range Association have adopted series
of resolutions setting forth that their
range is overstocked and that they will not
admit any new members or permit the
use of their range property in any way.
AAClOCII 0uuloOu, yOuuS Iduduldu
who is about to engage in the stock bust
ness at Calgary, Northwest Territory, this
week received 1900 head of cattle at
Deer Lodge, which will be driven through
from that place to the Canadian North
west.
]. Spray, assisted by three boys, roped
and killed a mountain lion on Emmels
creek near the foot of Wolf mountains OH
Sunday last. The lion had been wounded
in the shoulder by a ball from a six-shoot-
er after which it was secured to tree
with rope and quietly dispatched.
DR.. Keefer has commissioned Frank
Westervelt of Miles City deputy veterin-
arian and instructed him to repair to the
southern boundary Of the territory to pre-
vent the entrance of Texas cattle whose
owners have not complied with the re-
quirements of the quarantine proclama-
ton.
The framework of the new stable of
RemiEard & Parsons, being erected at
Butte to take the place Of the one Destroy
ed by fire, was blown down on Wednes-
day. The building was 31x1O2 feet. H.
j. Blume, timer employed in roofing it,
was caught in the wreck and seriously
injured. @
The following from Texas paper is
too good to be lost: "a Montana jury re-