The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-04
MONTANA NEWS.

creek, Jefferson county, was destroyed by
fire on the 9th. Loss $1,000
A fire at Butte on Friday last destroy
ed the Carson Exchange and Brewery sa-
looms. Loss, $4,000; insured for $4,000.
While unloading timber from the cars
at Anaconda ON the 9th, Fred Nelss was
caught between falling timbers and crush
ed so severely that his recovery is doubt
full.
In the examination of j. NJ. Erskine, for
the shooting of Leo Sutor at Basin on the
| 9th, he was honorably discharged, the jury
finding that he acted solely IN self-de-
| fense.
The senate on Tuesday confirmed the
nominations of the following postmasters
for Montana: c. A. Wustum, Billings;
| G. E. Dudley, Marysville; c. w. Price,
Fort Benton.
John E. league, postmaster at Town
send died on Sunday last from poison by
strychnine, which was with suicidal in
tent. The coroner's jury returned ver-
dict of death from his own hand.
The Great Falls Tribune office suffered
damage to the extent of $500 through
the malicious pying OF forms and cases.
The miscreant suspected of this nefarious
work is said to be discharged empioye
Charles Leedy and John Pi Piper, work men
on the bridge over the Missouri at Great
Falls, were severely injured Tuesday oy
the breaking of plank which precipita-
ted them upon the ice, distance of twen-
ty feet.
A meeting of the representative men of
Beaverhead county was held at Dillon
Tuesday night to protest against the pass
age of Senator tullom's bill providing for
the annexation of Beaverhead and Mis-
soula counties to Idaho.
Miner: Mr.. Duffy, who was counsel
for the defense of Hart, the murderer, says
no further appeal of the case will be made.
The only effect of an appeal would be to
delay the execution, and not to prevent it.
Thirty six jurors have pronounced Hart
guilty, and Mr.. Duffy has written to him
to resign himself to his fate.
Complaints have been made to the sher-
iff of Gallatin county and to the prose-
cutting attorney also, that the Gates brothers
had camp last year somewhere on the
Gallatin, from which they killed hundreds
of elk for their hides, in defiance of law,
and that they are there this year plying
their unlawful trade-Helena Herald.
About two weeks ago David Sinclair,
of Butte, started from Philipsburg to his
mine several miles distant He never ar
rived at his mine, nor has he been seen or
heard of since he left Phillpsburg. He
has been searched for without avail, and
it is feared he may have met with foul
play, as he had considerable amount of
money on his person.
Herald: The disappearance OF cranky
Sparks from the land department is sig.
nalized by unwonton progress in the issu-
ance Of patents and the advancement of
business. Our local office has just receiy-
ed some 200 land patents, number great
er than those of all kinds received during
Sparks three years reign of suspicion and
obstruction.
The graveyard water sensation is agita-
ting Butte again. The company is prepar-
ing 10 ask franchise of the city council,
not having one at present, and the mem
bers, of the council say in advance they
will not grant it, unless the company re-
moves its supply plant from the present
locality and secures water which is pure
beyond all doubt.
Independent, goth: A dispatch to Col.
Broadwater yesterday stated that the house
appropriations committee will tomorrow
favorably recommend a bill for the pay
ment of the expenses of the recent special
session of the Montana Legislature. AS
Col. Broadwater bought all of the warrants
of the members and employees at par, this
will be good news to HIM.
The secretary of the interior has in
structed the attorney general to criminally
prosecute the following parties for timber
trcsspasses in Montana: VIM. Thompson,
of Butte, and W. r. Russell, W. J. Pot
ter, A. Tatne, and Louise Truedcll, of
Missoula. The tresspass occurred in Mis-
soula county. 1t is suggested that nolle
pros mi ght be entered in the cases all but
Thompson, who is wealthy, SO as to obtain
witnesses against him.
Herald: A Washington dispatch of
the Gath inst. says 256 patents were is
sued on that date, and among them was
one to VIM. Beeson, of Dillon, Montana,
for flying machine. It is understood
that Mr.. Beeson will make his first
aerial excursion to Helena next month.
He will fly over i'll the morning of the
10th to see Hart hung and fly back in the
evening-that is, providing his atmos-
pheric cayuse don't buck or stall ON the
way.
John Wren, an Engllshman about AZ or
43 years of age, employed in the Granite
Mountain mine at Phillipsburg, met a
horrible death Monday. AS the cage was
being hoisted from the sixth level, Wren
stepped from the cage to the wall plate of
the shaft and was crushed between the
lining OF the shaft and cage and instantly
killed. A coroner's jury returned YER
dict of accidental death and exonerates
the company and its employees from blame
in the matter. Wren was a married man,
his wife and three children residing in the
old country.
Billings Gazette: The man named
Johnston whose leg was broken while
hauling logs for the Red Lodge saw mill,
may probably die from the effects of his
injuries He was first treated by DR..
McComber, now dead, who dressed the
wound while he was under the influence