The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-03-20
MONTANA NEWS.

master at MlSSOula.
1t is announced that Edwin Booth, the
actor, will possibly appear ir Helena next
month.
A double set of company quarters are
to be erected at Fort Custer.
On the 9th inst. Acting Governor Webb
pardOned William Lawler and restored
him to citizenship. Lawlcr was sentenced
from Silver Bow county.
An incorporated company has been Or
ganized at Butte for the purpose Of taking
up government land before the present
land laws shall he repealed
The senate on Thursday confirmed the
nominations of T. W. Poindexter to be
postmaster at Dillon, and John McAus-
land, postmaster at Miles City.
On Wednesday last the First National
Bank of Helena celebrated its twentieth
anniversary and the extension of its char
ter for twenty years by keeping open
house.
The following appointments have been
made in the surveyor generals office to
clerkships: r. W. James, Colorado; E. II.
Dubney, New York; V. L. Terrell, Mis-
sissippi.
Hiram j. Jones, box so, Scranton,
Greene county, Iowa, wishes to know the
whereabouts of his brother, Matthew S.
Jones, who was last heard from in Helena
in 1869.
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks was recent
ly chosen member of the board of di-
rectors of the Hecla Mining company,
BeaverEead county, to fill the place of her
deceased husband.
James McFarlane has been appointed
to succeed Leslie Sulgrove, as clerk of the
United States district court of Custer coun-
county by Clerk Muf1y. His appointment
will take effect April 1.
William Fleming, foreman of the Silver
Hill Mining company, died at Comet on
the 1th inst. He was we'll known through
out Montana, having been Il resident Of
the territory for twenty-five years.
The Montana Wool Growers have ar
ranged for their annual meeting to be held
at Miles City on Saturday, the 18th OF
April, two days before the annual conven-
ton of the Montana Stock Growers.
There is coal oil famine in Fort Ben
ton. The large stock of this article usu-
ally carried by the merchants of that place
has given out, and there is no oil to be
bought in that town for love or money.
The bullion shipment from the silver
mills of Butte for the month of February,
1885. amounted to $30G,540. For the
same period this year the shipments were
$685., ,4SO--showing an increase of $25,94O.
The territorial grand jury for Lewis and
Clark county have passed a resolution re-
questing the county commissioners of that
county to resign, owing to their failure to
comply with the requests of the x-pay-
ers made through former grand jury.
A Washington dispatch says that the
president has mitigated the sentence of
dismissal from the army of Lieut.. E. S.
Avis, Fifth Infantry, recently tried at Fort
Keogh, and has directed that he be sus
pended from duty one yea, on half pay.
Ell. Cowles, of the Concord Cattle
company, has sold his interests on Tongue
and Powder river to his partners in the
above-named com pany, and it is announc-
ed that the Concord Cattle company has
sold its stock to the Boston Live Stock
company.
Information is wanted of Thomas Wright
% years of age, black hair, dark brown
eyes. Was in Butte IN January, 1883.
Any information of his whereabouts will
he thankfully received by his father, John
R. Wright, postof1ice box 202, Fort Smith,
Arkansas.
One of Kirkendall g. Browns teamsters
was reported to have fallen from his wagon
Monday last while hauling a load of salt
from Birdseye to Marysville. The wagon
passed over his chest and he was taken
back to Silver City for medical attention,
but with little hope of recovery.
The jury in the case of Anton Ludwig
on trial at Butte for the murder of Adolph
Grassy were out twenty-eight hours and
were then discharged, being unable to
agree. They stood seven for acquittal,
two for manslaughter, two for murder in
the second degree and one for murder in
the first degree.
Independent: Joseph Jandos, of Tim
berline, Bozeman and Helena unsavory
has arrived in Butte, and as a
preliminary had one August Mueller ar
rested for supposed theft of $45 cash and
a lot OF shirts and clothing. Jandos had
a lunch counter in the EldoradO saloon
here but has left it.
w. j. Penrose, editor of the Centreville