The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-03-15
TERRITORIAL NEWS,
Items Of Interest From Boil,
Sides of the Divide.
incidents Worthy of Note Occurring
During the Week Given
Space Herein.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.


I the Territory.
The matrimonial fever has broken Oh
S in Virginia city, Montana.
The land department of the Norther,
Pacific will shortly plat the towusite O
, Belgrade, in the Gallatin valley.
A fire broke out in the MacQuee1
house, Miles city. last week and was moi
eAtlnguished until it had caused dan1act
amounting to $1,000.
Inter tountain. 10th: A draft for 500
was received from Philipsburg to he'll
the good cause Of fighting the Northern
Pacific mineral land steal.
The announcement is that the sal alton
army, with flies drums and other parayh-
ernaia, is to invade Montana, and vii
shortI: appear in Helena
A Pullman car conductor was krocka,7
down and robbed while in his car near
Glendive last week. The thieves p-ol1c i
mlstook him for the porter.
Enterprises: A freight train on tho
Northern Pacific was ditched at Gulf
Junction, on Monday. Six cars we're de-
| rallied but no one was injured.
The citizens Of Madison county aro
trying to get data upon which to estti-
mate the probable tonnage which the
county could furnish to railroad.
The arbitration committee appointed
by the printers union and the Helena
publishers have decided that no more
plate natter will be used in Helena.
jaAf In 1deI(It 1ddeI;(7,It OF s2,0eU bt:nds to appear
before the district court.
Andrew j. Hyde, trusted clerk of
Jacob Switzer, the Helena liquor man,
absconded with 5000 of his employers
money, about the 1st inst, while Switzer
was in California. HYDE is now supposed
to be in Vancouver.
A shooting scrape occurred at Henry
Countryman's saloon, Saltwater. on
Thursday. jeff Paine inflicted slight
flesh wound in the shoulder OF Chas.
Pendeton and now takes his meGls at
the Billings jail.-Enterprise.
The house has passed the bill thrs W ng
open the Indian reservation Ill northern
Montana. It is deemed certain that the
senate will also promptly pass the bill.
The advocates of the measure apprehend
no serious opposition there.
| Great Falls is tC have a Vaudeville
theater. 1t will be managed by John
Germ and w. H. Davenport, and A. T..
Frame will be the proprietor. It is
called the Park Theater, and will be
opened with select company of variety
performers on the End of April.
| On February 18th, at the Montana IN
dustrial school on the Crow reservation,
George. H. Pease was married to ''lss
Sarah Walker. daughter OF James
Walker. a Gros Ventre, who lives at Han
cock. Oak. Geo. Fl. Pease is a son OF Ma
ior Pease, well known old timer who
still lives in Montana.
A member of the dem monde abduct-
ed the two-and-a-half year old child o.
one Of our Anaconda citizens few days
since, and succeeded IN getting as far as
Deer Lodge, where she was arrested and
brought back. Justice Fitzgerald re-
stored the child to its father and sent the
woman up for ninety days.-Revlew.
Agent Baldwin. Of the Union Pacific,
is in receipt OF a telegram fron ). s.
Tibbits, the general passenger agent OF
that road, to the eject that the Union
Pacific vii! meet the RECENTLY announced
cnt in passenger rates made ny the
Northern Pacific and on and after April
1st will sell round trip tickets from Mis-
souri river points 10 Butte and hc!t ia
FOR @55
4 terrible tragedy war enacted last
Thursday night at Woodville, small
town five miles from Butte John st
John, a French wood cutter and charcoal
burner. shot and killed Mrs. Robb. a
colored woman. and then killed himself
The pair had been drinking together
and q quarrel arose. or was rather re
naval. for tie two had :n Old and stand
ins dispute over scme property. Attel
tareatonirg the woman, st. John drew
3SS 3SS c:.libre pistol. which he lad purchased
that day, and shot her three times onc'
in the lace and twice through the breast
He then put the revolver to his ov1
head and blew bis brains out Tht
tragedy was witnessed by l5-year-ole
bov. the son of the murdered woman
: who also leaves another child. An in
, quest was held aud both bodies were
buried.