The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-03-17
MONTANA NEWS.


l. The Manitoba bridge over the Teton
washed out, and trains on the western {
q vision are abandoned
q The county commissioner of Cascat
n county have ordered an election April
q to decide on city incorporation for Gre;
: Falls.
Among the petitions and memoria
presented to congress- for an increase
duty on wool and woolcn industrie
Tuesday, were several from Montana.
John Holland and Stephen William
miners employed in the Colusa mine
Butte, fell to the bottom of the shaft,
distance of 200 feet, Thursday, and wer
fatally injured.
Jim Bates, the Montana pugilist, VIII
went to San Francisco to fight Tor
Cleary of that city, was knocked out O.
Tuesday in the sixth round. Cleary wo
$4OO and the trophy.
A fire at Sun River on Sunday last des
troyed the saloon known as the Demo
cratic Headquarters. The building wa
owned by H. D. Blossom and was valued
at $4,000; no insurance.
| l.. 0. Leonard, of the Anaconda Re
view, has been appointed superintendent
of the Rocky Mountain Telegraph com
pany, to succeed Mr.. Mckee, the latter
gentleman having resigned.
The famous pack of wolf dogs in Cas-
cade county were sold last week at auc.
ton. The bidding was spirited and as a
result high prices were paid. Eight dogs
and seven pups were sold and brought
1878.
The commissioners of jefferson county
have submitted the proposition to the
voters of that county to issue bonds run
ming twenty years, in the sum of $780,
900, to purchase grounds and erect a
court house.
The county commissioners of Cascade
county have decided to issue $51 900 in
bonds tc pay the Indebtedness of Choteau
and Meagher assumed by the new county,
and also to meet current expenses of the
present year.
Neil Carter, five year old son of County
Treasurer Carter, of Helena, was strncl.
on the head T"ee'"y ny revolving
plan,, - as a merry -go-round by the
children, and sustained injuries which
resulted fatally.
Ed. Monroe, freight conductor on the
Rocky Montain division of tho Mouth
Paclnc, was serlouo.., - fatally, in
jured by falling from his caboose near
Gold creek. He was taken to the railroad
hospital at Missoula.
Thos. Mast, the cricaturist, has been
sued IN Justices court at San Francisco,
by John Mcguire, for $3.50, money al
legged to have been borrowed at Helena
in December last, while Mast was giving
his illustrated lectures under Maguire's
management.
Information is wanted of P. H. Cole
man, who worked as mason in Helena
in October, 1888, and has not since been
heard from. Any information concerning
him will be thankfully received by his
wife, Mrs. P. H. Coleman, city and county
hospital, MINI.
Argus: We learn that out of the H.
600 sheep quarantined in this county last
summer by David Hilger, deputy inspec-
tor, all but one band are reported posi-
lively cured, and there IS a doubt in his
mind about the existence of scab in even
this exception.
Fred. La Fever, proprietor of Butte
saloon, died on Monday from the effects
OF injuries received by fall while
wrestling in his saloon with friend. He
suffered compound fracture of leg and
sustained internal injuries, the latter
doubtless causing his death.
Mark G.. Carlton, a ranchman, suicided
in the Headquarters hotel at Billings,
Monday morning, by taking heavy dose
of strychnine. He had farmed several
years near Park City and was familiarly
known as 'sRed." He gave as reason
for taking poison that he was tired of life.
At Centreville, Joseph Richards made
an assault upon Joseph Argumego, an
employe of the Lexington mill, with a
billiard cue, by which the latter was SO
severely bruised upon the head that his
life IS despaired of. Richards was arrest
ed and held without bail to await the re-
suit of his victims injuries.
A fire at the electric light works at
Helena on Monday partially destroyed
the building and badly damaged the ma
chinery. The building and contents was
valued at $25, 900, with an insurance of
$4,000. The fire started in the engine
room but It's origin is mystery. In con-
sequence the city has been Temporarily