The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-01-21
MONTANA NEWS.

VlllC TUNNEL On tIle MOuldIld OcIltEd1 ny luc
first of February.
Missoula is to have street cars, and an
ordinance granting the right of way has
been passed by the city council.
The residence of Joseph Coleman. on
Tongue river, was destroyed by fire last
week. Loss $1,000; insured for $1,000.
Miles City is soon to have boom news
paper to advertise the resources, wealth
and prosperity of Custer county and her
capital.
The intense cold at Great Falls forced
the laborers on the bridge and the Sand
Coulee branch to quit work for few days
last week.
E. H. Hurley, an old time Montanian
and engrosslng clerk of the last legisla-
ture at Virginia City, died at Ogden,
Utah, on the 14th.
j. Murphy, miner, fell down a shaft
at the Drum Lummon mine, distance
of one hundred feet, at Marysville, Sun
day, and was instantly killed.
Galcna ore was struck in the Montana
Central tunnel at Wickes. Larson, Keefe,
g. Co., contractors, have located the lead
and sent samples of the ore to Helena to
be assayed.
Fred Jones, of Philipsburg, has skip
ped with about $1,000 belonging to the
firm of Scott & Jonis, of which lie was
member. He took advantage of his
partners absence in Nebraska,
A fire at Virginia City, on the 10th
inst, destroyed the Olive Branch saloon,
Merklcs jewelry store, George Johns
butcher shop and several adjacent build
ings. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
The jury in the case of the state against
Thomas Plat, to oust him from the posi-
ton of quarantine commissioner of the city
of New York, on the ground that he is not
resident of that city, returned verdict
against Platt.
The residence of Mr. Grandchamp,
near Thompson Falls, was burned On Sat
urday last. A son eighteen years of age,
was badly burned about the face in an at
tempt to extinguish the flames. The loss
is estimated at $1,000.
Advices from the Russian frontier say
that troops in the Lublin district are suf-
fering terribly from cold. Forty sentlnels
have been frozen to death. Dysentery and
typhoid fever prevails. A large staff of
doctors have been engaged.
Mrs. Amanda Butler, of Denver, ILL.,.
writes asking for information as to the
whereabouts Of her brother William Black.
He crossed the plains in 1862, and has
not been heard from for "a years and slsup-
posed to be in Montana if he still lives.
David Carpenter, c. P. Connolly, of
Helena, and H. D. Arkwright, of Billings,
have been admitted to the bar of the su-
preme court, having successfully passed
the required examination and been recon-
mended by older barristers for admission.
Miles City Journal, 18th: The ther-
mometer at the post registered 66 degrees
below zero at 6 o'clock yesterday morning.
This, we believe, is the lowest point reach
ed in this locality in the memory of the
oldest inhabitant.
There was surprise at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Dover, New
Hampshire, Street railway company. Mrs.
Mary E. H. g. Dow, a wealthy resident
and leading advocate of woman's rights
was elected president of the company and
her husband was elected treasurer. She is
the first woman ever chosen to fill such
position.
Gazette: Jack Dougherty has had bad
luck the past few weeks by losing valu
able horse, one cow, burned out at Nye
City, and again last night one of his horses
got cast in its stall and was badly hurtby
trying to kick itself free. Its head was
held so tight that its tongue which was
outside its mouth was badly frozen. The
horse will probably die.
Herald: A wealthy Montana man has
offered the college of Montana at Deer
Lodge $4,000, on the condition that the
college raise $4,000 more and maintain
a perpetual scholarship for deserving
girl without means W. A. Clark and S.
E. Larable have headed the $4,000 sub
scriptlon list with $1,000 each. 1t looks
as though the college of Montana would
be handsomely endowed.
New North West: A statement has
been going the rounds of the territorial
papers that Henry Edmundson, one of
the notorious "Edmundson horse thief
gang" now under going sentence IN the
penitentiary for long term, had been
sent to the insane asylum. There is alb
solutely no foundation to the report. The
genial gentleman who loved horses mot
wisely but too well," is still! holding out
at the old stand.
Yellowstone Journal: Harris Bros, of
Rosebud, have $4,000 pounds of corn that
they raised last season on twenty five
acres, two acres Of which gave the enor-
nous yield of 274 bushels. In the mat
ter of potatoes the same parties harvested
1913 bushels from seeding of 180 pounds.
These are statements that will make the
eastern granger stare and doubt the evi-
dence of his eyes, but there is no gainsay
ing the fact that the valleys of eastern
Montana lay over the whole world in the
matter of productiveness.
c. Gross, on Ten Mile, was arrested On
Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Walker of
Lewis & Clarke county, and held for re-
QUESTION from Minnesota to answer a
charge of murder at Detroit, that state.
He was under indictment and was to be
tried December 23d, but broke Jail about
December 1st. The sheriff's officers have
been on his trail for the past two weeks
with the above result. Sheriff Norcross,
of Detroit, will arrive in day or two with