Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-20
MONTANA NEWS CLIPPINGS.

Dlptherla prevails IN Deer Lodge County
Payday on the Rocky Mountain division
of the Northern Pacific this week.
The Musselshell round-up's beef output
fell short nearly 800 head this year.
Over 13, 900 head OF MusselsheIl cattl,
have been driven on the Crow Reservation
this fall.
Judge Wade, at Helena, has decided moi
to admit w. K. Roberts, ex-County Treas
urer, to bail.
Conrad Kohrs, of Deer Lodge County,
last week sold 212 fat steers in Chicago, al
$3.4O per cwt.
The Bozeman water company will supply
the citizens of Bozeman with water from
Bear Creek.
Secretary VIM. B. Webb has returned
from his eastern trip. His family will not
return until two or three weeks hence.
The Billings Gazette says the shipment
OF cattle and sheep this year at that point
will be the smallest in the history OF the
town.
The cattlemen have permission to turn
their cattle on the Indian Reservations by
paying SO cents per head, but will have to
remove them in the early spring.
A large number OF passengers are going
east ticketed via the Union Pacific line to
Omaha, AID ticket sales will make a large
Showing at the Helena Office during the
acknowledgements.
1t is said that the cattlemen drowned
from forty to sixty head of stock in every
| drive that has been put across the Mis-.
souri, and Yellowstone this fall.
There were two lots of MOL. Ia mutton
sheep sold in Chicago last week at $500
Their average weight was ZIG pounds.
This sppma fO have hoo, tho TOW pr;oo ~
the week.
The County Commissioners of Lewis and
Clark County have notified Secretary Weqb
that the Legislature rooms in the new
Court House will be ready for occupation
by the time set for meeting.
The Odd Fellows OF Wickes will dedicate
their new hall on Thanksgiving evening.
After the dedicatory services a ball and
supper will be given blythe Wickes brethren.
Music has been secured from Helena for the
occasion.
William Parker, more commonly called
"Col. Bill" Parker, died last week in Eagle
Rock, Idaho. Col. Bill was known all over
Montana, Colorado, and the Occur d'Alene
country. He has been a mining expert for
over twenty years.
Mr.. John Largent has presented the
Rising Sun with u mammoth cabbage,
grown in his garden, which weighs forty
three pounds. This is really the largest
and finest cabbage heard of in tuis coun-
try. If any one car beat it they will please
step to the front.
The Granite Mountain Mining Company
reports shipments of silver bullion from
January LIST to October 3lst, amounting
to $1,1OO, 800, and besides the above, ore
from July LIST to October 31st
amounting to SIS. 900, making q total of
$l,179, 700, to which may be added $51, 600
since October 31st.
Charles Severance, of Okla, sold his ship
ment OF sheep in Chicago last week at |
$3.55@$3.6O. The shipment numbered
about 1000 head. The sheep were out oil
lot recently purchased from a drover at |
1925 each, and netted Severance & Co., |
owners. a profit OF 35 cents each, which
is indeed a handsome profit on the invest
Observation-Disclosures.
When the earthquake disturbances &C.
Cured in Fire Hole basin, a short time
since, the b!ue-coated defenders of the Park
rushed up to headquarters
and asked to be discharged. X. Beidler,
who happened to be present at the time,
the boys to wait a short time, re.
marking, 1.-THE geysers will begin to play in
! few minutes, and then they will discharge
both themselves and you at the sam time,
ind thus say a great deal OF anxiety and
Observation-Disclosures Journal.