The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-04-12

the Territory.
Prairie fires arc now raging in the vi
cinty Of Great Falls.
! A G. A. r. Post was organized at White
Sulphur Springs last Wednesday night
The Ft. Benton board of trade have Of
ficially protested against a reduction oi
the tariff on wool.
A man named Kennedy, an acrobat and
contortionist, broke his leg in the Nevada
saloon. Anaconda, last Saturday.
Mr.. Perrine, aged 63 years. was crush.
ed to death by a wagon load Of ore run
ming over him near Anaconda last Fri
day.
John A. florence, ex-station agent at
| Toston, was indicted by the grand jury at
Townsend last Saturday for embezzle-
ment. His trial is set for April 9.
The surveys of the Missouri valley
canal near Townsend are completed. The
estimated cost is $4,000, and the length
thirty miles. The money is all subscribed
to complete the work.
The commissioners of Choteau county
have instructed the county attorney to
commence suit against Cascade county
for the collection Of $4,000, due on ac-
count OF her proportion Of Choteau county
indebtedness.
The fire department of Bozeman last
Saturday decided to give freman's s tour
nament, to which all fire companies in
the territory will be invited to partici-
pate, on the Fourth Of July. Liberal
prizes will be given.
A fight between John P. Glow we'll
known in Montana. and Mike Conley, the
'1thica Giant" took pace Saturday at
Ashland, Wis. 1t resulted, much to the
surprise of everybody, in Glow being
badly whipped. His hackers refused to
allow him to respond to the call of time
in the fourth round, and Conley was de-
clared the winner.
Teton Jackson, the notorious horsethief
and murderer, for whose capture $4,000
has been offered as a reward by Idaho
and Nevada, was captured at Bundy's
Ferry, about twenty miles west of Bill
ings, last Saturday bp Sheriff Reed. He
has been hunted as criminal for fifteen
years in the northwest, having broken
Jail number Of times in various locali-
ties.
Independent special: George Anderson
has issued the prospectus for his new pa
per: the Montana Weekly Register, in
which he states that politically it will be
"on the question of temper !
ance the Register will utter no uncertain |
sound, but will favor every measure de-
signed to drive this giant evil from the
land" The Register will be an eight-col-
ulnn folio. The initial number Will appear
he first week in May.
From appearances it seems that the
Sand Coulee coal company has just such
mother affair on its hands as the North
'rn Pacific had at Timberline, but on
smaller scale. The men struck on account
# wages, demanding S1.75 per ton, while
IS cents is considered fair price in some
districts. The miners say it is not prac
icable to mine this coal by the ton as SO
luch waste has to be taken out to secure
ton. The miners boarding houses have
cen closed and the men are living in
ents.
All the land in the Fort Ellis reserya-
on was secretly taken possession Of by
lQatters Saturday. A confidential. cir
ular was sent from Helena to Bozeman
xplalning the situation and telling them
ow to act. For fear of being too late,
number started Immediately for the
'serve, and those that went up this morn
g found all OF the choice locations
Iuatted upon. This will probably end
ke all of the former stampedes, in the
Luatters being ordered off by the guard
n. Ithas leaked out that land Office
wyer, formerly of Helena, but now
hool teacher in the rural districts, was
le instigator OF this stampede.
New Northwest, April 9Th: Advices re-
ived by Professor Brantley from Presi-
mt Mcmillan of the College of Montana NJ
day or two ago, state that he has not y
lly succeeded in filling the list with D D
1ich he started from Montana to $25,- D
0, but in addition thereto has the PROM
, of another $25, 900, which we presume d
for an endowment fund for ono of the D.
airs, as he had that in anticipation. Sc
lis will enable the construction Of L
other dormitory building this summer.
d he has it at heart to add yet another be
ilding, the object of which viii be ev
ated il he secures the funds President t't
,Millan has the best faculty CT "reduc- z
: the surplus of philanthrop;c capital r,
q Cf any one We kn0w ~ md 90 h;o w