The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-02-02
TERRITORIAL NEWS,
Items of Interest From Both
Sides of the Divide.

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During the Week Given
! Space Herein.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
i Exchanges Published Within
/ the Territory.
Missoula is having q hard time with
her water works.
Major Thos. Watson, of Bannock, is
dead. He was one of the oldest of Mon
tana's pioneers.
Livingston Enterprises: Trains on the
Park branch will be run tri-weekly after
this week, beginning on Tuesday next.
The steam motor was tried in Butte
last week with highly satisfactory results
and the company will probably be per-
mitted to operate.
A prize fight between Murphy and
Frazier is reported to have taken place
in Butte last Friday morning, in which
Murphy was the victor.
DIR. Macomber, of Deer Lodge.
dropped dead at Billings last Saturday
while apparently in good health. Heart
disease was the probable cause
A fire in Butte last week destroyed the
Carson Exchange with the Brewery ad-
joining it and considerably damaged the
Golden Gate and Park restaurants.
Hotelkeeper Nelson at Billings last
Saturday took two shots at man who
disputed his board bill. One of the shots
made flesh wound in the left shoulder
The proposition to bond the city of
Bozeman for $4,000, with which to COM
plete the city hall and opera house build
ing, was carried by vote of 248 against
Is.
A young Welsh girl recently arrived
in Butte and working at cheap board
ing house, was ravished one night last
week by three u1-n III succession. The
men have not been caught.
Nadisonian: "Bert'' johnson, who
was arrested by the stock inspector for
trafficking in diseased horses, was
brought before Judge Williams last week.
and, pleading guilty, was fined 500 and
cost.
The wife of Ike Morehouse of Butte.
is sueing for divorce and alimony on the
grounds of cruelty, harsh treatment, and
adultery. .orehouse is reported to be
worth between 100000 and $15O,OOO.
They have been married only three
mouths.
A Miles City special to the Indepen-
dent says: A young man named John
Mclean, who was engaged in the sheep
business was found with his brother
Thursday last, lying in the snow with a
bullet hole through his body. The death
was accidental
People of the Bitter Root Valley have
signed a petition to congress and forward
ed it to Delegate Toole, requesting the
removal of the Flathead Indians in that
valley to the Jocko reservation and The
throwing open to settlement of all So
called Indian lands in the Bitter Root
region.
Jack Harwick, a butcher at Billings, !
while under the influence of liquor last
Saturday attempted to run things and
began firing rife at the bystanders.
Jackson, the deputy sheriff, was COM
PEELED to shoot and fatally wound the
drunken man before he could effect q
capture
Superintendent Cokefa1r of Miles City
has invented an improved telephone
by which persons in Omaha may speak
with others in Salt Lake city, distance
of ], 900 miles. He will make trial over
copper wire from Helena to Portland IN a
few weeks and if satisfactory the test will
be extended to Portland and Saint Paul.
Livingston Enterprise: One span of
the Goughnour bridge gave way Tues
day while Mr.. Goughnour was driving
cattle across it. Fortunately no injury
was sustained by the stock, but consider
able Inconvenience has since been ex-
perienced by >'r. Goughnour in getting
over the river as the ice has become
so weakened by thawing that crossing by ,
that means has become unsafe. !
Dr.. Mcmillan of the College of Mon
tana, has received an offer of $4,000 from
a Montana gentleman on the condition
that $4,000 more be raised and that one ,
perpetual scholarship be maintained for
a deserving girl unprovided with means.
W. A. Clark and S.>E. Larable en- presen-
tation of the matter put down their !
names for 81 900 each towards the $15,-
900.
Rodtstr1cted.
When the supreme court met at 2:3O