The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-09-22
MONTANA NEWS.

| NUN AN a MI W D.
The Missoula Evening Item is about
become a morning paper. 1t IS brlgh
newsy little sheet and deserves the success
it appears to be having.
/ The troops from Fort Custer that wer
sent out to intercept the Sioux that wel
supposed to be on the war path agains
the Crows found that the reported wa
party consisted of Sioux bucks. Thes
were found in the neighborhood of Pom
peys Pillar and were turned around ant
started back for their agency at Popla
River. This is said by the authorities t.
be the extent of the threatened Indian
outbreak
Great Falls Tribune: j. A. Hackshaw
the recorder of the new town Of Dry Wolf
is in town. He has plat made by Surveyo
Kern, which shows good sized town
There are Is blocks of 20 lots each. Th'
lots are IS by120 feet, and the streets ar
60 feet wide. The alleys are Is feet
The town will be within seven miles OF
the Belt railroad. 1t is located in tht
Dry Wolf district which includes some
placer mines. Mr. Hackshaw reports
considerable activity among miners il
and around Dry Wolf.
The following is the ticket nominated
by the republicans of Fergus county
Representative, John D. Waite; sheriff
w. w. Humphreys; treasurer, F. E
Wright; clerk and recorder, Williams IL
Kelly; commissioner, John McCo1rt
county attorney, Frank E. Smith; asses
sor, L. w. Eldridge; superintendent pub
lie schools, E. c. Vanburen; probate
judge. D. A. Meagher; public admins
traitor, j. II. Smith; coroner. DR.. W. F
Hanson; surveyor, Geo. NJ. Stafford. TGcy
also recommend for joint republican coun-
Gilman for Fergns and Park counties,
Frank X. Stoddard.
The republicans of Gallatin county
have nominated the following comfy
ticket. Legislature, W. G. Newton and
Chas. Anceny; sheriff. John Mitchell
clerk, H. P. McNaughton; treasurer, c.
H. Watcrman; assessor, Caldwell Ed
wards; probate judge, Chas. A. Camp
bell; superintendent Of schools, T.J.
Styles; county commissioner, DR.. r. S.
Kelley; county attorney, Jackson. G. Lane
coroner. DR.. F. NJ. Higgins; public
administrator, George Budd. The follow
ing delegates were elected to attend the
Helena convection: E. F. Ferris, Phil
Dodson, j. g. Lane, w. W. Allerson, j.
V. Bogert and T. C. Burns.
Billings correspondence of the Helena
Record: F. NJ. Gallagher, chief engineer
of tile B. c. F. & C. C. railroad, will leave
in the morning fer New whence
he was telegraphed for to-day to be pres
ent at the meeting of the board of direct
ors Of that road, and Of which board he is
= member. He will be gone ten days,
and upon his return active work, in the
shape of throwing dirt, will be COM
menced from here to Carbondale, on Bear
creek. distance of fifty-six miles. Car
bondale is town-s1te taken up by the
in Park county, and named
after Pennsylvania mining town. The
coal obtained there is far superior to any
other i'll the territory, being what might
be termed hard soft-coal, and very little,
if any, behind anthracite for gas and heat
ing purposes. The road up to the point
spoken of has been definitely located and
cross-sectioning will be finished by the
end of this week.
Calumet: Sun River, from all ac-
counts, is experiencing one of those peri
odical set-backs to which all towns of
Montana, from the largest to the smallest,
always have been and probably always
will bc subject, unless they become self
from manufacturing or other
permanent industries and the natural re-
sources of the territory are more fully de-
Sun River, like Helena, Benton
aud the whole of Montana, has seen
darker days than it will ever experience
again. Its present reverses may seem
serious when contrasted with recent pros
perity, but compared with early strug-
giles, when the town could not support
store or saloon, much less two hotels and
a live newspaper, they are far from dis
couraging. Our neighbor is neither a
tender sapling of uncertain life nor Il
mushroom plant of abnormal growth. She
is deep rooted IN the soil of the beautiful
valley that gave her birth, and will retain
her vitality through the longest seasons OF
adversely and flourish like a green bay
tree in the sweet by and by.
Helena correspondence Pioneer Press:
1t seems that Montana is to he treated to
a genuine Doodle campaign this year, as
the democratic territorial convention yes.
terday nominated for delegate to con-
gress no less parsonage than w. A.
Clark. He is banker and miner at
Butte and is probably to-day the richest
man in Montana He is self made man,
too, having at one time been farm hand
ia Iowa. He was born in Fayette county,
Pa, in 1889 and went west ut an early
age. He was in Colorado in the early
days, and came from there to Montana
when gold was first discovered in this ter
ritory. OF shrewd business ability, he
soon amassed money enough to go into
business, and has prospered ever since.
What with placer mining, freighting, car
rying mails and merchandising in the
early days, he grew rich rapidly, and
when Butte mlncs came into prominence
he gained control of some of the best
copper and silver properties in the camp,
whose product and development have but
added to his millions. One of his early
exploits is worth recounting. He had
store in Virginia City in 1865. In the
fall of that year yeast powder, the main
stay of frontiersman's life, became very