The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-05-15

They struck against new teacncr WIG
was acting as substitute for the regular
school marm.
The ball given by the Knights of Labor
of Butte resulted in raising 81 500 to aid
the strikers of the east. and draft for the
amount has been forwarded to Grand
Secretary Turner.
Gazette: Mr.. Henry Chapman, of Dill
worth, has had successful operation for
removal of growths from both eye balls
performed by DR.. Wynne, the celebrated
occullst of Helena.
A stage was 'held up'' one day last
week between Butte and Meaderville by
a couple of masked men, who secured
$40 from the driver, the only person ON
the stage at the time.
The examination of Utf1eman, charged
with stealing horse from Sanborn q
Lovel, held before Judge Goss at Billings,
resulted in the holding of the prisoner for
trial at the district court.
Butte was visited by another fire on
Monday morning last The grocery stock
and building of j. D. Fox and saloon
belonging to Thomas Rogan were destroy
ed. The loss is estimated at $2,70O; in
surance 81 900.
James NJ. Snyder, one Of the six coun-
terfeiters arrested at Helena and Butte,
has been convicted in the district court at
Deer Lodge. The conviction of the other
five will probably follow as fast as the
cases are reached.
Mcssrs. Hardy, Seiben and Sweet. of
Montana, have purchased $500 head of
cattle IN Douglass county, Oregon, paying
for them about $3.50, 900 cash. The ship
ment of the cattle has begun and they will
all be shipped by May Goth.
The new canal at Sun River, which is
intended to preserve the town from mum
dation by freshets, is completed. 1t cost
the county $4,000. The commissioners
have not accepted it yet and will not do
so until the spring freshets have tested its
efficacy.
Glendive Times: John Axen, a sheep
herdcr, was brought in from the lower
Yellowstone this week on charge of in
sanity. He was examined before the
probate judge and jury Tuesday, but the
Judgment was withheld until more could
be seen of his actions.
The Shenon mining properties in the
Bannack- Marysville district, Beaverhead
county, have lately been sold for 1926, 1000.
Messrs. F. T. Chapman and Moses Thomp-
son, owners of the famous Lady Franklin
mine in Mexico, and W. S. Chapman, of
San Francisco, are the purchasers.
Cow Bow: A letter from Charlie CALI
gan, foreman for the Hashknife outfit,
states that the company will drive 10000
head of cattle to their northern range this
summer. They will come in thirteen
herds. He also states that there was con-
siderable unexpected loss among the cat
tie during March.
Thomas King, an old frontiersman, is
on mountain tributary to the Yellow
stone capturing and training mountain
lions for eastern menageries. King is an
old and successful hand at the hazardous
employment, following it in the Black
Hills years ago. He says there is heavy
demand for his wares, and they bring
large prices.
The trial of Edward Rehberg in the
district court of Jefferson county last
week, for the murder of his nine year-old
daughter, Cora Rebberg, resulted in a
failure of the jury to agree. The offense
was committed in Lewis and Clarke coun-
ty in August last-the child's death being
the result of brutal punishment inflicted
by her father.
Missoulian: Edwin Erwin, who was in
Missoula up to March, 1885, has not yet
been heard from by his friends for over a
year. His widowed mother is very anx-
ious to hear from her absent son. Any
one knowing anything of his whereabouts
will confer favor by writing such facts
to his brother, Thos. Erwin, Fisher P. O.,
Polk county, MINI.
Saturday night Abe Farwell, squaw
man living on the Crow reservation oppos-
ite Billings, took home two bottles Of
whisky and drank the whole quantity in
side of an hour. He died in an hour af-
terward, believing he had been poisoned,
but the general belief, concurred in by
the coroner's jury, was that straight whis-
ky did the work.
Helena Independent: Major Davenport
went to Billings on Friday to receive 150
Polled Angus bulls on behalf of the
Shonkin association, of which he, as
leading stockholder in the Choteau Live
Stock company, is member. In the
same shipment there will be about fifty
bulls for Samples brothers. The stock