The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-02-09
Items of Interest From Both
Sides of the Divide.
Incidents Worthy Of Note Occurring
During the Week Given
Space Herein.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.

The Northern Pacific now operates
3,26011s miles of road.
A new telegraph wire has been strung
between Ogden and Butte.
John Mcguire has secured the lease of
Mings Opera House, in Helena.
A large st. Paul lumber company is
going to establish heavy business in
lumber and coal at Fort Benton.
At Cinnibar, Mont, Lillian Hope Pick
erlng was married by proxy to Henry
Ruckelshausen who was at the time in
California.
}. b. league, late postmaster at Town
send, died from accidental poisoning by
strychnine. He was nephew of Hugh
McQuaid, of Helena.
An iron bridge is to be thrown across
the Missouri river at Fort Benton. It
will cost $40, 600 which will be furnished
by the business men of Benton.
J. R. Beckwith, George Morris and
j.. Weike' have been arrested in Lewis
town for making and circulating counter
felt money. The money made was coun-
terfeit silver dollars.
The dead body of an unknown man
was found two miles west of Silver Bow
Junction last Saturday. It is supposed
he got lost and was frozen to death dur
ing the recent cold weather.
A company has been incorporated in
Helena with capital stock of $4,000 for
| the establishment of printing plant and
the publication of weekly newspaper
| to be known as the Sunday Record.
Geo. F Shelton ann Jno. W. Besserer,
of Helena, sailed from New York for South
America on the 9th ult. They go first
to Buenos Ayres and will thence prosecute
their journey into the interior to engage
in mining.
independent: The Helena Typogreph-
ical Union held a meeting on Sunday
and it has since leaked out that among
other business transacted was the pas
sage OF resolution prohibiting the use
of plate matter in any of the offices in the
city.
Secretary of the Interior Villas has tel
egraphed reply to the Butte Board of
Trade concerning the mineral lands ques-
ton, saying nothing will be done in the
way of granting patents without careful
investigation, and asking for reliable in
formation.
The Pioneer Press representatives,
General N. N. Tyner, w. B. Richards and
G. L. Lord, are in Helena after visiting
Spokane Falls, Missoula and Butte. They
have just finished canvass OF Butte and
expect to get out a special edition devoted
to that city in the near future.
MIS-. Moorehouse has been awarded
800 per month al1mony until her divorce
case is decided and the husband pays all
costs to date and is placed under bonds
of $500 to secure the performance of
the courts order. Noorehouse's answer
to the complaint denies ali the grounds
alleged, including that of adultery with
Clara Winters.
Herald: Sheriff Coleman, of Deer Lodge
county, came over the range yesterday
and is at the Cosmopolitan. Mr.. Coleman
has an execution in immediate prospect.
being charged with the unpleasant duty
of inficting the death penalty on Martin
L. Scott, who is sentenced to be hanged
on the II inst The Sheriff says Scott
still has hopes of having his life saved by
the interference Of the Governor.
Independent, 5th: Yesterday morning
Geo. H. Curtis, who is we'll known in
Helena as the leading clerk of a prom
inent hardware firm, appeared in person
at the Office of the probate judge and
asked that license be issued authorizing
him to enter into the bonds of matrimony
with Miss Annie Nolan. Judge Clements
accommodated the gentleman and in an
hour or two the paper was returned show
ing that the twain had been made one
by Rev c. B. Allen, Jr., pastor Of the
First Baptist church.
A Washington special to the Helena
Independent says: Toole has introduced
a bill ir the house directing the secretary
of the interior to cause to be re-examined
all lands in Montana claimed or selected |
by the Northern Pacific under it's grant. |
and upon such re-examination to reject !
or disallow from any claim or selection |
now made, or to be hereafter made, land |
found to be mineral, as intended in sec
tion 3 of the granting act. Pending such
examination it is made unlawful for the
secretary of the interior to patent any
mineral lands to the Northern Pacific,
and such patents here made are declared
void. The bill was sent to the committee
on Dublic lande. |