The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-05-26
MONTANA NEWS.


boose at M,ssoula Monday night.
Postmaster General Dickinson has al
lowed an extra $500 clerk to the Helena
postoffice.
! Missoula is to he lighted by electricity,
the dynamo and necessary wires having
been ordered.
Four prisoners confined in the city Jail
at Butte made their escape Tuesday by
excavating underneath the stone wall.
Charles Dickens, Jr., is giving series
of readings from his fathers works, in the
territory. He appears at Helena tonight
Col. w. F. Sanders will deliver the ad-
dress at Bozcman on Memorial day.
Though resident of Helena, he is amem-
Der of William English post at Bozeman.
| Hans Hanson, formerly civil engineer
| and we'll known in the western country,
fell overheard at the scamboat excursion
at Great Falls Sunday and was drowned.
Hanson is supposed to have relatives in
Minnesota.
A young man named Thos. Harten fell
down a shaft of the South Montana mine
at Marysville last Friday, a distance of
over 100 feet. He struck the bottom Just
as five blasting charges exploded and was
instantly killed.
Stevensville Tribune: The Rayilli mon
| ument is being placed and the work is
being superintended by Messrs. Catlin and
Hatch. The monument is grand piece
of work and will recall many incidents of
early days in the Bitter Root valley.
The trial of Clayton for the killing of
Maddux near Melrose in August last has
been in progress IN the district court at
Butte this week. It will be remembered
that the quarrel which resulted in the
killing arose over piece of hay land
claimed by both parties. The jury re-
turned verdict Thursday of murder in
the second degree.
The city election at Butte on Monday
Was sweeping victory for the republic
ans, who elected the whole city ticket and
secured nine OUT of the thirteen aldermen
elected. Four tickets were IN the field
republican, democrat, labor and citizens.
The plurality for Hamilton, republican
candidate for mayor, was 287, out of
total vote of 1884
President Mcmillan, Of the College of
Montana, located at Deer Lodge, who has
recently returned from a trip east in the
interest of the college, has been success
full in his mission and added largely to
the amount subscribed in Montana for new
college buildings, the work on which will
begin within a month. The additions
will cost about $4,000.
The large saw mill and machinery of
Fl. P. Heacock at Florence, on the Mis-
soula s. Bitter Root railroad, was de-
stroyed by fire ON Saturday last The fire
originated in the engine room from burn
ing shavings carelessly dropped into
can Of machine oil. Nearly $4,000 worth |
of Improvements had been put in this
spring. The total loss is about $4,000,
with no insurance.
In drunken row at Argenta on Friday
of last week John Bortill was killed bv
having his neck broken. There are two
reports of the affair, one to the effect that
Bortill kicked at an adversary and, falling
backwards, struck upon his head, and the
other that he was struck and knocked
down and upon being picked up it was
found his neck was broken. The latter
story is the most generally accepted.
Yellowstone Journal: Troop A, of the
Seventh cavalry, now in camp on tie
banks of the Yellowstone, we're serenaded
by the regimental band of the Fifth infan-
try last night and farewells spoken They
expect to take up their march to Fort
Meade to-day, and from there will pro-
ceed to Fort Riley, Kansas, where they
are to be permanently stationed. This is
the first break in the old garrison of Fort
Keogh. The moving troop is officered by
Capt. Moylan and Lieutenant Harmon.
The department commander, upon the
recommendation of the chief quartermas-
ter of the department, has awarded con-
tract to Sidney Paget of Miles City for
furnishing the army with 1873 cavalry
horses at $118.95 per head. 1t has been
the practice heretofore to purchase horses
intended for the service in the south, but
from want of acclimation and other causes
entirely satisfactory results could not be
obtained. The experiment of purchasing
them IN the region where they are to be
used, both in point of price as we'll as SER
vice, has proven successful.
Missoulian: Last Friday Theodore
Bernard and Herman Hutter of Missoula,
in company with another gentleman,
started down the Missoula river on a pros
pecting expedition. The party camped
at Six Mile Creek that evening and Ber-
nard took some giant powder and went
down the stream to kill some fish for sup
per. Just how it happened will never be
known, but it is supposed that the pow
der exploded in his hands, blowing both
arms off and mangling his body and face
in a shocking manner. When his CON-
panions reached him he begged them to
kill him and relieve him of his sufferings.
He fingered ten hours, when death &C.
Cured as result of his wounds.
A case was decided in the district court
of Lewis and Clark county Monday in fa-
vor of the city of Helena and against the
Western Onion Telegraph company.
Action was brought by the city of Helena
against the Western Union Telegraph
company to compel the payment of city
tax of $25 per annum, and also to collect
a fine of 500 which had been imposed
for the non-payment of the tax. The
company held that the tax was illegally
and that being SO the fine was
also illegal and not collectable. Judge
Nc Connell, in an oral decision, held that