The Philipsburg mail., 1888-09-13
MONTANA NEWS.

MONTANA NEWS.
Bozeman will form football club.
Missoula is having diphtheria scourge.
The Florence hotel at Missoula will be
opened tomorrow enening. E.. L. Bon
ner will be the orator.
The immense new hoist on the Noun
tain Consolidated is ready for the roof,
says the Butte Inter Mountain.
Oswego lodge No. 8, Knights of Pythias,
Butte, celebrated the fourth anniversary
of their organization last week.
Benton Is the "City of Dest n.y." Great
Falls the "Future Great" and such they
will always remain.-Sun River Sun.
John Mcguire has commenced rebuild
ing the Opera House, Butte, and expects
to have it ready for opening performance
Thanksgiving night.
Matt W. Anderson, of the Bozeman
Courier, has gone to Boston, where he will
be married on the 18th of this month to
Miss Mary E. Long.
"The beer spangled, idiotic monstros-
ity of a bowling cayuse who grinds out
the public iar,'' is what the New Idea
calls the Stevensville Tribune man.
Helena thinks President Adams visit
to the capital last week means that a
scheme is on foot to build an indepen-
dent railroad branch to that city.-Inter
Mountain.
Gushing & Keim, publishers Of our
"issoula evening contemporary, the
Evening Item, have dissolved partner
ship. Walter F. Gushing will continue
as publisher.
One hundred and ninetv-six marriage
licenses were granted in Lewis and
Clarke county during the year, ending
August 81; three to colored couples, and
one to a white man and cOlored woman.
The Misseula democrats have nomi-
| mated j. NJ. Evans for county attorney,
and the republicans of the same place
have nominated his law partner, F. E.
Webster, for the same Office. The firm
is bound to get the office.
r. H. Cokefair has resig ned the man.
agement of the Rocky Mountain tele-
phone company at Helena, to be sue
ceeded by H. S MINERS, local manager OF
the Rocky Mountain telegraph company
at Helena.
Adelbert and Chauncey Austin, broth
ers, from Big Timber, Mont. we're chloro-
formed while sleeping in a Chicago hotel
which has a reputation for such things,
ard ,rahhed of $3.50. The proprietress
14q Eer Son have been arresfad on Sis
Chief Arlee purchased new buggy and
harness last week. His two cayuses were
quickly hitched thereto, and, with his
dusky better half drove off with great
"eclaw." His saddles and other plunder
we're boxed and will be SHIPPED to Arlee.-
Missoula Item.
The Inter Mountain says that Pound
master Shepherd of Butte is now camp
ing on the trail Of blind mule. 1t is to
be hoped that the gentleman will dis
tiuguish himself by making the capture,
In manner becoming the dignity of a
Mexican veteran.
Two immense granite stonein size each
seventy cubic feet, in weight, jointly,
twenty eight tons, will be landed to-mor-
row at the site of the new Merchants bank
building on Main street. These by far are
the largest building blocks ever cut or
used in structure in this sectiOn.-Hel-
ena Daily Record.
j. K. Pardee, charged with trying to
blow up Northern Pacific graders the
other day, was discharged on preliminary
examination. He proved that the oc-
currence was on his own ground, that he
4 III md
tilted the men to get out of the way as
he was about to set off a blast.-Inter
Mountain.
New Northwest: The Inter Mountain
makes savage attack upon Will kenne-
dy, who has been nominated by the re-
publicans of Jefferson county for the
council. The ground of attack is that he
voted against the registration bill at the
last session of the legislature. Whatever
we may think about the measure there
can be no doubt that when Mr. Kennedy
voted against 1t he did so honestly and
conscientiously.
A small steamer is being built at Horse
Plains with 14-horse power engine to
run between Spring Gulch and Horse
Plains to transport supplies, passengers,
ore, ETC., the old trail to the new mining
district being too slow, as everything was
carried on the backs of pack animals and
a wagon road unobtainable. This new
enterprise if practicable will have ten
dency to boom the mines more than ever.
VI issoula Gazette.
! Following are the officers of the Butte
Miners Union elected to serve for the
ensuing six months: President, Joseph
Norris; vice president, Eugene E. Kelly;
recording secretary, Samuel Harris
financial secretary, P. J. Hickey; treas
urer, w. E. Deeney; warden. Thomas E.
Hickey conductor, NJ. P. Murphy;
financial committee, P. j. Macarthur,
Samuel Arthar and Alex. Pearce. There
were thirty delegates and alternates to
the Silver Bow Trades and Labor assem-
bly, elected.
| The Silver Bow democratic county
convention nominated the following
ticket at Butte, last Saturday i:
Councilman, A. II. Barrett house men,
bers, E. A. Nichols, Thomas G. Courtney
and Sam Leroy; Sheriff, e. j. Macarthur;
clerk and recorder, Chas. F. Booth; pro-
bate judge, Caleb Irvine; county attorney;
w. Y. Pemberton; assessor, J.J. Haggerty,
superintendent of schools. Miss Mary
OFarrell; county commissioner, J. H.Mc-
Queeny; coroner, DR.. Gillespie; public ad-
ministrator. John w. Murphy.