The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-04-28
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

At meeting of the Northern Pacific
directorate on the 18th inst. it was decid-
ed to postponed building a branch to
Bull Mountains for one year.
John H. Ming of Helena has decided
to build two brick stores on his lots in
Billings. He has tenants in advance.
So says the Gazette.
Sol Abbott tells the River Press that
fully 800 head of cattle have been killed
during the past winter by Piegan In
dams on the Teton and Marias ranges.
The heaviest losers will be Dan Flower
rec and others whose stock drifted near
the agency.
The rotary quartz mill, erected a year
ago in Bear Gulch, this county, by
Chicago company, is to be removed to
Reynolds City, Deer Lodge county, where
another Chicago company has bought a
mine. The mill pulverizes the ore by
attritions, produced by very rapid speed
Eli Perkins will lecture in Missoula on
May 18th.
J. w. Toohey, Tongue River ranch
man, has been arrested for cutting timber
on government land.
TIC. Power & Co., have bought out
Bennett Bros agricultural implement
warehouse and business in Missoula. Joe
Maynard is manager for the new firm.
CT Conard, of Benton, got the con-
tract for army transportation on the
Montana routes from Helena to Fort As
sinaboine and from Brcadwater's landing
Fort Maginnis.
The stock subscription books of the
Helena Street Railway Company were
opened on the goth. The capital of the
company is $50, 900, and 10000 have al
ready been subscribed.
Alfred Myers of the firm of Myers
Bros, large cattle owners of shields river
is establishing a thoroughbred stock
ranch near Billings, He recently receiv-
ed Is Jersey cows and three calves, by
rail.
RS. Ainslie, division superintendent,
is about to be transferred to the Mimi
esota division, and will be succeeded by
NJ. B. Richmond, now assistant division
superintendent. Mr.. Rlchmond's office
wilIin future be at Billings which will be
headquarters for the Montana and
Yellowstone divisions.
The townof Big Timber bids fair to
haye building boom this season.
The citizens of the Bitter Root valley
will again make determined struggle
for county division.
Gov. Hauser is reported as saying that
Montana affairs are attracting good deal
of attention in menetary circles through
out the east.
Under the reorganization of the opera
ting department of the Northern Pacific
F. r. Richmond will have charge of the
Montana, and F. W. D. Halbrook of the
Yellowstone division.
The stockmen of Miles City raised the
sum of 81 OPS for the relief of the suffer
ers from the late cyclone at Sank Rapids
and st. Cloud, Mimi, and telegraphed
the money to Governor Hubbard, of Min
nesota,
The Pioneer Press says the Northern
Pacific people have definitely decided to
build the following railway mileage this
year. The Helena & Rimini branch,
the Spokane & Palause branch and about
rs miles on the Cascade division. In
addition the company has under con-
sideration the building Of 234 miles, all
in Montana, as follows: Helena to Fort
Benton, $50 miles; Drumond to Phillips
burg; "a miles and from Missoula up the
Bitter Root valley, distance of at least
60 miles.
The chief objection to Judge Pollard
IN the minds of the Senators who oppose
him, seems to be that he was confede
rate soldier and succeeds Union man.
The bloody shirt still does duty. Some
effort should have been made to impress
it upon the minds of the friends of Judge
Coburn that the people of the frat judici-
al district, regardless of party ahinities,
haye the utmost objection to that excell-
ent old gentleman az judicial officer.
Lawyers insist upon Directing to judge
whose mental faculties were so far
broken down that when asked for the
decision of a motion he could not
remember that even it had been argued
Litigants had the efrontery to despise u
Judge who mangled and mixed their
cases merely because his mentality had
so far lapsed that he could not remember
the proceedings. 1t was not Judge
Coburn's fault; it was his misfortune but
the people of the first judicial always
thought it hardship that the misfortune
should be indirectly inflicted upon them
1t is not to be reasonably expected that |
Judge Coburn will be returned to the
Territory in any event but the fact that
he was suspended for good cause should
not operate as bar to Pollarl's con-
6rmation. Whoever succeeded him,
Judge Coburn must have been retired
independent.