The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-06-30
MONTANA NEWS.

A Catholic college to cost half a mi
lion dollars is soon to be erected at Helena
The fifth annual meeting of the Mon
tana Wool Growers ASSOCIATION is an
nounced to take place at Fort Benton o.
Tuesday, July 10th.
Rang's dance hall, located near Butte
was destroyed by fire few days since. 4
number of houses in the immediate vlcln
1ty were damaged by the blaze.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Mitchell, some
what notorious character familiarly know
as ..Lill," committed suicide by taking
an over dose of laudanum at Alder gulch
in Madison county, on the 21st inst.
Jerry Manning, Helena gambler ad
dicted to the use of opium, died on Mon
day last from the effects of an over dost
of that drug. His remains were shipped
to St. Paul for interment, where he has q
brother in the grocery business.
Marshal r. S. Kelly states that there
are now 1862 convicts i'll the territorial
penitentiary. the largest number ever con
fined there There are only cell accom-
modations for 40, so cells in the corridors
have been brought into requisition tenn
porarily.
At the Butte Rod and Gun club tourna-
ment last week the contest in the team
shoot was won by Deer Lodge. The
teams were composed of FIVE men from
each club and resulted in the following
score, fifteen clay birds being shot at by
each man: Deer Lodge 40, Butte No. l
48, Helena Al. Butte No. 2 46.
The discovery has been made that in
March or April last 200 head of horses
were stolen from the range of D. A. G.
Floweree on the Teton. The Stock Grow
ers' association offers reward of $4,000
for the return of 100 head of the horses
aud the capture of the thieves-dead or
aliyc-and a reward of $3.50 for each
thief.
Two young men whose names are un-
known were drowned in the Clarke's Fork
river near Weeksvillc, in Missoula county,
Saturday. They were crossing in small
boat which came in contact with rope
stretched across the river for the purpose
of running ferry, upsetting the boat.
The under current carried the men under
without any chance Of saving their lives.
Four men, Frank Coal, John Enos,
Jesse Alexander and James Elem, were
arrested at Billings Saturday last on sus-
picion of being implicated in the Big
Horn train robbery. After an investiga-
ton by Chief Detective Sullivan of Port
land their outfit and eight head of horses
were taken. No evidence was adduced
at the examination Monday, however, and
they were discharged.
New Northwest. Ole Olson, aged
nearly Is years, who resided near his son,
Lars Olson, few miles from Deer Lodge,
was found dead in lot near his house
yesterday He had evidently gone out
with hand AK and a Dutcket of nails to
repair fence, as those things were found
near him, where he lay with his face on
the ground. There were no marks of Vi
olepce. He had evidently fallen dead on
Tuesday.
Yellowstone Journal: Il waterspout lit
upon Pumpkin creek Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning the remaining spans
of the county bridge sailed off down the
creek and rounded the point for the Mis-
souri,. The water raised six feet in the
creek in little or no time and big trees
came crashing along with the torrent. The
old bridge checked the flood until it built
up higher than the bank, then gave way
There is only one bridge left in the
county and that is the one at Stoneville
A truss or suspension bridge is the only
kind that can be depended upon in this
country.
A dispatch from Boulder, jefferson
county, of the Goth says; News has just
reached here of cold bl0oded murder
which was committed at Homestake gulch
in this county, about fifteen miles from
Butte. No particulars can be learned
only that William K. Cartwright split his
wife's head open with an ak and then flee
to the mountains. The dead body of Mrs
Cartwright was found by the neighbors
Sheriff McNeill and Under Sheriff Lind
say have started in pursuit of the mur.
derer The parties are we'll known il
Boulder, as Mrs. Cartwright at one time
lived with family here for sevcra
| months.
Notices have been served upon a!
white people illegally herding cattle upol
the Flatlead reservation that they mus
remove them. At meeting of the chief
| and Indians Of the reservation It was con
| cluded that all white men having cattl
on the reserve should drive them off he
fore the 18th day of June, 1888, in con,
pliance with instructions from the Indlal
office and that should any owner of cattle
illegally on the reserve not conform wit
the wishes of the Indians, the cattle will
be rounded up by the Indian police an
driven beyond the limits of the reserva
tion, and each owner may expect that
sufficient number of cattle from his her
will be taken by the Indians to pay fo
the trouble and expense incurred in sue
roundup aud drive.
A fatal shooting affray occurred at A
hambra Springs, in Jefferson county, O
Sunday evening. Two men, Swedis
tcamster of powerful build and smalle
man, were engaged in a drunken quarrt
in the saloon kept by Hieber, the propr
etor of the hotel. The Swede raised
chair to strike his adversary, when Fran
Walker, the bartender, fearing the smalle
man would be killed, pulled revolve
and fired at the Swede. The bullet misse
its aim and passing through the open dot
struck man named Reeves, lumbe
man from Elkhorn. infictiug serioI