The Mineral argus., 1886-03-11
MONTANA ITEMS.

rise.
A street railway for Helena is again
being talked of.
A vaudeville theater, to cost s25, 900,
is to be built in Butte.
The Butte papers employ young
ladies as society reporters.
Farmers of the Yellowstone valley
will plant alfalfa this spring.
A coal mine, Of u superior quality Of
coal, has been discovered on Shields
river.
The Montana Dairy Association met
i'm Helena on the 4th inst, and formed
a permanent organization.
The commissioners Of Dawson and
Custer counties are striving to settle the
debt between said counties.
Sheep in the vicinity Of Miles City
have been attacked by u disease which
is killing them off in great number.
A Helena female brute has leased
her thirteen year old daughter TO u
coon dive" for eight dollars per month.
Mis-. FLA. Reynolds, Of Willis, NJ. r.,
is tue autDOI vi ~ SUI otoIN iiO" oC-
ing published in the Home Guardian,
of Boston.
The Billings a.tesian well has been
pronounced a great bore-to the citi-
zens of the town-the depth Of 1909
feet having been attained and no water.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with The secretary Of the territory
of the Great Falls Tribune Publishing
Compan with a capital stock of $lO,-
600.
| william Moore, ranchman and
stock grower, on the Benton road,
about fOrty-fve miles from Helena,
ten days ago.
The Butte police have been making
raids upon the FOUNDERS and others who
depend upon the prostitutes for a liveli-
hood. Twenty-three Of them were ar
rested few days ago.
Veto Cross, of Miles City, has invent
ed and patented a new safety stirrup.
With its use it is impossible to catch
The fool on aliyhting fiOm horse. IT
tends to disca,d the foot altogether.
Several of our cu'zeps have procured
samples Of the Bull Mountain coal to
test in their stoves, and pronounce it
the hest they have ever used. 1t burns
freely, throws Oui great heat, and
leaves no clinker.--Gazette. ---
II ,umor be at all reliable we shall
soon nave the uivision superintendent
of the Montana & Yellowstone divisions
IF the Northern Pacific located at Bill
lings. The operative force at the work
shops, it is said, will, ut no distant date
be augmented by employees from Liv-
ngston and Glendive.-Gazette.
Mrs. J. S. Clark, of San Francisco,
claims to have been robbed Of $500 in
money, her railroad ticket and several
valuable papers while asleep on the
train between Helena and Miles City.
She was en- route to Minneapolis and
was obliged to stop at Bismarck to
await the arrival Of money from friends
to enable her to reach her destination.
Wm. Bennett, "a gambler well known
in Yellowstone valley towns, who was
convicted Of grand larceny in Billings,
in 1854, aud sentenced to seven years
in the pentontary, has be- N pardoned
bv Acllng Governor W. B. Webb.
~
ton Of checks belonging to T. b. Baker,
Of Missoula, hut the manner i'm which
he did it would not justify seven yea rs
sentence
For the past few weeks bran new
erasshoppers, sufficiently large for fisi
BAN, mosquitoes old enough to present
bil's in ii i'st-cass style, and the mea-
dow lark aud other spriog birds have
beeu with us for several days past.
We bear of plowing and seeding in
tbs vicioi,s, a.,d may safely announce
that spring is here in all its glory in
mid-winlef. There is probably no eli
mate on earth quite as good as Mon
;ala, ana this valley seems to be lit
tie ahead Of any olner section of the
ter, er,.tory.-Townsend Tranchant.
A man direct from Montana was
engaged in II conversation with an ac-
auaintance ut the Ryan the other day,
: aud WAS telling him Of the valuable
mine in which Governor Hauscr, Of
that territory, was interested. Why
said he, ''the men are taking out at the
rate Of si0D0UO "A month or sl.,UUoO0
IA year. There is over ten millions
: in sight, and no telling what is conceal
ed. | tell you, that mine comes pretty
near producing all the money that IA
mule can haul dtwn u slippery hill."-
, Pioneer Press.