The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-03-13
MONTANA NEWS.

| A disconSolate shoemaker named Cur
derson committed suicide at Forsyth la:
week by hanging.
The nomination Of H. E. Williamson G
Mississippi to be Indian agent of the Gro,
reservation has been confirmed.
Arrangements have been made for tn
establishment of bank at Great Fall
and it is expected to be in operation in
ft W weeks.
A building association was organized il
Miles City Wednesday last. The citizen
of that live town have taken $13, 900 wortl
of stock in the association.
The Waverly hotel at Missoula, unoc
cupied and owned by H. J. Desmond, wa
burned Friday night, together with Ton
Turner's saloon adjoining.
The farmers in the vicinity of Park
City offer bonus of $4,000 to any one
who will erect and operate IA first clas;
Touring mill at that place.
James Harvie, Of the St. Paul Globe will
soon sever his connection with that paper,
to engage in business in Montana. j s.
Richardson will succeed him.
Joseph Saville, of the Brookbank Dairy,
Butte, whose large barn was destroyed by
fire few days ago, has completed new
barn and is again supplying that city
with milk.
While in attendance at the session of
the district court at Helena Thursday
Judge J. J. Williams was stricken with
He was conveyed to his room
and at last accounts was reported as doing
we'll. Judge Williams is an old member
of the Montana bar.
A fire Of incendiary origin destroyed
the Avery hotel at Glendale, owned by H.
H. Avery, last Sunday morning. The fire
started about 3 o'clock in the morning and
some of the inmates of the house barely
escaped being burned to death. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Olaf Radley, who relieved his room
mate in Butte few days ago of $4,000
in cash, and was arrested in Portland for
the theft, plead guilty and has been SEN
fenced to one year at hard labor in the
penitentiary. Most of the money was re-
covered and hence the light sentence.
Lucien LaPointe was arrested at Helena
on Wednesday, having in his possession
two horses belonging to his brother and
valued at 5000. He had borrowed $1OO,
giving chattel mortgage on the stolen
horses as security. 1t was his intention
to seek better climate by emigrating to
Canada.
The Oxford Smelling company have
broke ground for the erection of their
smelter at South Butte. The erection of
the smelter and calcine furnaces, three in
will furnish employment to about
seventy-fve men until their completion.
This establishment will be branch of the
great works at Oxford, New
Jersey.
Tuesday evening of last week, at SCOTS
ranch below Glendive, A. D. Landrum
stabbed W. F. Londergan, ex-probate
Judge of Dawson county, between the third
and fourth ribs on the left side, inficting
a wound two inches deep by three and
one half inches long. A dispute arose
between the two men resulting as above
stated. The wound is pronounced as not
a fatal one. Landrum is in Jail.
Wednesday afternoon an accident oc-
cured in the Anaconda hosting works by
which Jerry Mullen was killed outright
md W. J. Elmer probably fatally injured.
The two men were ascending from the
nine, in the cage, and by mistake on
he part of the engineer they were sudden
y raised forty Feet above the mouth of the
haft to the roof of the building, from
where they were precipitated to the floor
,elow.
Miner: It is feared that the slide in
he Liquidator mine, It Meaderville, is more
erious than was first believed. In various
places on the surface breaks are visible
nd unfathomable. There is much specu-
alton among the miners about Meader-
lille as to the real extent of the slide, but
IL agree that it is very serious, and that
is final results cannot be calculated. Ad-
accent owners are taking measures to
'rotect their properties.
About 2 o'clock Saturday morning last
J. B. T. Graham committed suicide in the
northwestern hotel at Butte by shooting
imself through the head. Graham was
bookkeeper and had recently been dis.
harged from the employ Of Kirkenhall
: Brown of Helena, being short in his
ccounts about $500 He was an unusu-
lily intelligent man but was confirmed
lorphine fend and it is to the habit of
sing the drug and to whisky drinking
hat his downfall and suicide are attributed