The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-01-25
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

was married in New York last week.
Electric street lights are the latest inn
provcment IN Miles City.
Daylight will be let through the Wood
vile tunnoI on the Montana Central by
the first of February.
Mrs. Ming, of Helena, received $780,.
0GO from the several insurance companies
from policies held by the late J. H. Ming
Chas. Scott, the wife murderer at
Granite has been sentenced by judge
Galbraith to be hung at Deer Lodge ON
Friday, February II.
The intense cold at Great Falls forced
the lahorcrs on the bridge and the Sand
Coulee branch to quit work for n few
days last week,
Harris Bros, of Rosebud, have 10000
pounds of corn that they raised last sea-
son on twenty-five acres, two acres o;
which gave the enormous yield of 274
bushels.
Mrs. Ann Ncgus, widow of the late
VIM. S. Negus, has applied to the probate
court for letters of administration on the
estate of her deceased husband. The
value of the estate is estimated at $780,
600.
Owing TO the freight blockade ON the
railroads there is now hard coal famine
in Helena and anthracite eal cannot be
obtained for loveor money. The supply
of soft coal and wood is still equal to all
demands.
Miles City journal, 18th: The ther-
mometer at the post registered G6o below
zero at O'Clock yesterday morning.
This, we believe, is the lowest point
reached III this locality in the memory
of the oldest inhabtant
Mrs. Amanda Butler of Denver, ILL.,,
writes asking for information as to the
whereabouts of her brother William
Black, he crossed the plains in 1852, and
has not been heard from for "a years.
A special to the Helena Independent
says that the smallpox has broken out in
the logging camps ofthe Bitter Root VAL
ley. The report says that a number OF
men have been taken dowr. This came
report is in circulation at Butte.
DIR. Hersey, the war correspondent, has
sold out his drug business in Billings
and will move at once to Helena, where
lie will establish nm agency for the
Northwest Magazine.
County Clerk Hays, of Yellowstone
county, Montana, filed foi record a
mortgage OH the franchise of the Billings,
tlark's Fork & Cooke City railroad to
the Farmers Loan and Trust Company,
Of New York, amounting to $4,000, ,0G0.
Charles F. Roberts, of New York City,
is president.
Three carloads, OF horses, taken to
England for sale by p. Wylie, brought
an all round price of S203. These horses
were nothing extra, being average Mon
,ana range stock and largely consisting
Z + halEbreeds. The cost of transporta.
iion, per capita, was $50, leaving mar
ein of SlI3 per head and profit of about
S5O.
The Southern Pacific, Oregon & Cali
fornia and Northern Pacific railroads
have issued new freight tariff, taking
effect December q, 1857, between San
Francisco, Sacramento, San jose, Stock
ton, Marysville, Oakland, Sixteenth
street,, and all points on the Montana
Union, making the rates the same as from
st. Paul to Butte.
The secratary of the treasury has
transmitted to the house letter and
enclosures from the acting secretary of
the interier asking for an appropriation
of S3 900 to develop the coal deposits on
the Grow reservation. s. Bidlle's re-
port accompanying the letter, saws the
coal would prove very satisfactory fuel
and the vein is four feet thick. The
place is thirty miles from the agency aud
forty from Fort Custer.
Wickes is excited over the recent de.
velopments in the Montana Central rail
road tunnel. Yesterday morning the
heading of the tunnel pierced small
vein of ore, and since then several