The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-25
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

TWenty-elgnt"ulles Pii"e
,on have been quite disastrous Ihey
avtsnd.d to the Teton in the vicinity OF
Perrysburgh.
rroy,o 70 the Yellowstone National
Dbl "a the heaviest in its history, the
average number Of tourists arriving
oocb dav being about 100. The hotels
accommodation at the Park Is taxed 10
its upmost capacity.
Indians raided on Wrights ranch re-
centlv ON Pen dOreille coulee, and shot
some Of his sheep.
A town called Bonanza City has Oeen
laid ont at the mouth of Painted ROCK
creek.
A new German paper, the Free Press
was issued recently in Helena
From a point fifteen miles below Bel
Imam the whole country has been burn
cd over to the Dakota line.
Delegate Toole says that under the new
Law restricting special territorial legisla-
ton Montana can now make loan OF
over half million dollars-much more
than She will need while she remains
territory. Counties and other mnnlc'
ineLtjes are allowed to incur debt OF D
ner cent of the taxable property, which
would appear to be all that taxpayers
ought to be asked to stand.
An Inter Mountain special says that
John Hartz, a carpenter at the Anaconda
smelter, was accidentally killed by a
falling timber, which he was helping to
Mace. Mr. Hartz, was we'll known in
Anaconda and Deer Lodge, where he
has father and brother living.
A Spokane Falls, Wash special to the
Independent says: The country here
sbouts is being oyerrun to an alarming
extent by drunken scallawags Of Indians
who have no respect for the property or
lives of the white settlers. So far no
livrs are known to nav e been lost in the
freouent rows that have occurred through
their insolence, but the citizens are
becoming alarmed at the state Of affairs
MANY petty depredations and thetts
have been perpetrated and no end OF
ANNOYANCE and trouble is can Ell to Is
olated settlers.
Butte special to the Independent.
Official advances states that conference
in New York between President Harris
of the Northern Pacific, and Charles
Francis Adams, on the Union Pacific,
resulted IN a settlement Of the express
company muddle on the Montana Union
The Northern Pacific Express company
will be permitted to do regular business
between Garrison and Butte hereafter.
Their first car will come here Monday.
Col. Clough, chief of the North
ern Pacific railroad, passed through last
week. He has been through the ter
ritory and says the new timber orders
issued by Secretary Lamar are not salts
factory, not meeting the requirements OF
trade. Mill men, he says, are paving no
attention to the new orders, but will let
the government take the initiative.
The democratic nominees at the
Meaghre county convention were as
follows: Members Of the council, w. ii.
sutherlin, of the Rocky Mountain Hus-
bandman, White Sulphur Springs; men,
hers of the lower house, ]. E. Kanouse, |
of Townsend, and Jas. Anderson, of
White Sulphur Springs sheriff, Fisk |
Mccormick, of Townsend; treasurer, |
Thomas Cooney, of Canyon Ferry; as
SCISSOR, J. f. Upton, Of White Sulphur
Springs; Superintendent of schools, Miss
A. NJ. Dracy, of Townsend; clerk and
recorder, NJ. II. Parker, of Townsend;
probate Judge, J. E. Murry, of Martins
dale; county attorney; N. B. Smith, of
White Sulphur Springs; coroner. j. NJ.
Kumpe, of White Sulphur Springs;
commissioners, w E. Tierney, Of Town
send and JOS Stephens of Fort Lagan.
Frank Higgins, eldest son of Capt c.
p Higgins, Livingston, was in attendance
at the supreme court of the territory in
Helena last week and was admitted to
practice in all the courts in the territory.
He is entitled to the distinction Of being
the first native Montana lawyer. He was
born in Montana, and was enucated at
the University of Michigan.
There was a destructive prairie fire on
Fhonkin range (Choteau county, last
week which besides burning over a large
range, also burned good deal of hay,
several horses and some sheep sheds,
fences and otherimprovements.
a dispatch from Fort Keogh, Montana,
to the Pioneer Press says that on the LIST
inst. Col. John D. wilkins, Fifty Infantry,
was retired by operation of law, having
arrived at the age of sixty-four years.
Lieut.. Col. George Gibson, Third Infan-
try, will probably become colonel of the
Fifth.
The Yellowstone Journal contains the
following: Montana.-First Indian and
scalping knife, then the cowboy and larift
and now the settler and pillow. First the
buffalo and the antelope, then the Texas
steer and broncho and now the Jersey
COW and the Clydesdale horse. First the
dugout and oxen, now the fine residence
and elegant carriage.
A team of thirteen non-commissIoned
officers, is EN- route from Assinaboine to
Smelling to take part in the annual con-
test at rife practice for the department
of Dakota
The discovery Of rich silver mine
under peculiar circumstances by Louis
DeRivers is reported While out pros
pecting at the head of Moose creek
thirty miles south of Butte, he found a
bears den IN cliff, the animals having
dug-Out the decomposed matter along
the side of an Is inch body of ore,
averaging 500 ounces per ton. DeRivers
brought in a ton and half yield ng him
$500 clear of all expenses and mined by,
two men in six days, an average of $50
per day to each man. The den has been
used many yeas.
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