The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-06-27
THINGS TERRITORIAL.
Items Of Interest From all Parts Of, the
Territory.

| smelter.
Work has been commenced on the
Helena smelter.
Helena is to have motor line. Work
will be commenced in few davs.
At Miles City, on the 18th, the ther-
mometer registered 1929 in the shade.
The bricklayers of Great Falls struck
, for SO per day. They were getting So.
Bozeman pays SO.
Butte and Deer Lodge shooters won
all the prizes at the shooting tournament
at Butte last week.
Complaint is made about the Wool
ston water-works at Helena, which is not
on hand when it is wanted.
Work is progressing favorably in the
Castle Mountain mining district, though
the camp is having nothing approaching
a "boom."
lutte is making grand preparations for
the Fourth. The Pioneer Association
has been invited and n large amount OF
money raised to defray expenses.
John A. Gum, land inspector of Mon
tana, has been rendered the position of
chief of the national bank division of the
United States treasury at Washington.
Mr.. G. d. Haig has been succeeded in
the editorial chair of the Butte Miner by
Mr.. A. F. Doty, an experienced journals t
of New York. Mr.. Haig takes the city
editorship.
The Helena Independent says that on
Sunday night, at about l2 o'clock, Joseph
Eslick, workman at the Winscott
mine, met with serious, and perhaps
fatal, accident. He was standing in a
drift, and at the time was showing some
ore which he had just dug out to the
foreman of the mine, when large slab
of rock overhead gave way, and, falling
in a slanting direction, struck him on
the hip, breaking his thigh and limb in
four places.
Mr.. j. II. Johnson has returned from
the East, where he passed the winter
months, and was in town on tn 18th inst.
If half what he predicts comes to pass,
We shall see within the ensuing six
months smelter at Three Forks, rail-
road to the latter from Richmond Flat,
and three companies with ample funds
producing ore from the Revenue Lode
and others in the vicinity, and keeping
the cars and works busy at all hours
| Virginia City Madisonian.
The Age says: The track of the Mon.
tana Central railroad reached Boulder
last Friday at noon and was received
with booming of cannons and other de-
monstrations of joy. The next day or
two was devoted by the track laying gang
to putting down several long side. tracks
and otherwise fixing up the Boulder
yard. Monday morning the track layers
started up the canyon and alread, the
end of the track is several miles above
Boulder. 1t is probable the road will
reach Butte by, if not before, the first of
July.
On Saturday last the Northern Pacific
resumed the use of the Mnllan tunnel
after two months hard and persistent
labor to restore it to its condition OF
safety before the fire. Superintendent
Gilbert has worked indefatlgably to the
accomplishment ofthis end, and deserves
great praise for the indomitable persever-
ance that has triumphed over all OBJ.
stacles. For a while it was thought that
the task was beyond human avail with
out the expenditure ofan extraordinary
amount of treasure. 1t was believed
that in the end an open cut would have
to be made to where the firm rock COM
mences. But unusually high engineer
ing ability came to the rescue, and to-day
the tunnel is as sound and safe as it ever
was. The overhead line has always been in
good condition; there never has been any
interruption of tarfiic, though the addi,
tional expense of working to the COM
pany was very great.-Miner.
A north-bound Montana Union train
last week encountered severe hail
storm in the Deer Lodge valley. The
storm lasted about 25 minutes and was
accompanied by thunder and lightning.
Passengers on the train describe it as
the most violent ever witnessed in that
section. The hailstones were. larger
than hens eggs and peppered the roof
ofthe cars with deafening noise, resem-
bling a fusilade. The passengers had to
yell to make themselves heard during
its continuance. AL the ventilators in
the top of the cars were broken open and
many of the thick plate-glass windows
were cracked. In one car there were
only two whole panes left after the storm.
At Warm Springs station, one of the
passengers got out and picked up hail
stone as large as an apple and tried to
break it. 1t was only by jumping on it
with his heels that he accomplished
this, Crops and stock in the valley must
have suffered severely from the terrible
storm. U....-,.-
A Warm Springs special dated the 18th
inst. says: This evening just after the
north-bound train left the depot and was
speeding on its way, a man named Jack
Wheeler had some wor Is with the station
agent, James Archer, and before anyone
could interfere he pulled a pistol aud
shot him in the head, the ball entering
back of the ear. Archer was not go badly
wounded but that he was able to load
his gun and take after his assailant, who
shot ont of the station and ran rapidly
up the track as soon az he had fred. He
followed him for some distance until his
strength failed him from loss of blood,
when he was Obliged to return. A tele.
gram was sent for Sheriff Coleman to
come up, and he and Deputy Sheriff
Hatton stepped on the train just as the
south-bound was pulling out. They got
off at the Springs, where the wounded
man lay, and received description of
Wheeler, when they went on with the
train as far as Stuart. Wheeler was a
section hand, and had been working only
a short time there. Archer was shot at
by tramp only couple of months ago.