The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-06-02
MONTANA NEWS.

s A miner named Pascoc was killed
the Golden Era mine at Argenta last Fl
day 10y cage falling upon him.
, Lieut. f. B. Jones, Twenty second i
5 fantry, has been appointed acting con
missioner of subsistence. relieving Lieu
; Partello at Fort Keogh.
A base ball game at Deer Lodge SUI
day between the nine of that city and II
Meaderville club resulted in victory fl
the latter by score of 26 to 6.
During storm Wednesday night th
Montana Central depot at Craig WI
struck by lightning and damaged to til
extent of several hundred dollars.
Urban Bugher, a young man employe
in the brick yard at Anaconda, was caugi
in the machinery and so badly crushe
that he died from the effect of his injurie
ON Saturday last.
The salaries of city officers at Butt
were fixed by the newly elected counci
Monday night at total of 100000. Tn
mayor receives $3.50 per year and alder
men So for each meeting.
Mike O'Rourke, bartender at Anacon
da, while returning from Grlgsons Spring
to the former place on Sunday last, wa
thrown from buggy and received inju
ries which resulted fatally.
Fred Engle, the "Butcher Boy" o
Minneapolis, was knocked out at Helen;
on Sunday last by Ed. Smith, middle
weight champion of the northwest. Tht
match was for the gate receipts, whlcl
amounted to about $3.50.
Emil Cohlitz, who was discharged from
the Deer Lodge penitentiary last Novem
Der and subsequently arrested at Sar
Francisco on four charges of forgery, has
been sentenced at Folsom, California, to q
term of twelve years imprisonment.
A match game of ball between the
Boulder nine and the employees of Brcn.
nan & Co.'s saw mill, in Jefferson county,
was played Sunday on the grounds of the
saw mill club. The score at the end of
the eighth inning was Boulder 6, Saw
mill 50.
The boom town of Assinaboine City, on
the northern reservation, has been short
lived. The railroad company has started
new town about three miles distant
from the paper city and its inhabitants
have emigrated in body to the proposed
tOwnsite.
An election was held at White Sulphur
Springs last Saturday for officers of Sec
ond class city. 1t now transpires that the
adult population is not sufficient to entitle
the place to rank as city of the second
class, and the election is therefore void.
The officers should have been elected un-
der the town election law, and another
election will he the result.
The following prisoners sentenced in
Lewis and Clark county were taken to
the territorial pcnitentiary Tuesday: En-
nett O'Gorman. sentenced to three years
troa, the April so, 1888; Chung Lung,
two years from April II, 1888; John
Smith, two years from April Is, 1888;
Ed. West, two years from April 13, 1888:
james Mann, one year from April 80,
1888.
A Fort Benton dispatch says: Several
bands of horse stealing Indians are ope-
rating IN the vicinity of the Marias and
Teton rivers and have already got away
with considerable stock. Three days ago
an attempt was made to run off horses be-
longing to McDevitt, at Fort Conrad, and
shots were exchanged with the night
herder, which resulted in sudden death to
one of the Indian raiders, They proved
to be Bloods from across the line.
independents Fifty Italians were for
chilly elected from train 81 at Nashua.
Mont, the other day, They We're to work
for the railroad company at Assinaboine,
but 1t seems the railroad officials wanted
10 leave twenty men at Nashua and
the remaining twenty five at the next sid
ing west, but the men were 'differept hore
pard.' At last accounts they were trudg-
ing their weary way each with bundle
On his back, counting the ties westward.
President d.. McMillan is advertising
Tor bids for dormitory for the Callege of
Montana, at Deer Lodge, TO be erected as
loon as possible, the structure to be 8Ox45
Ieet, three stories in height, besides a
also a wing for refectory and
culinary purposes. The college at present
S one of the largest and most magnificent
Institutions in the territory, and, with the
addition now in contemplation, will COM
aare favorably with any educational
building west of the twin olties.
Assayer nraden has transmitted to the
director of the mint his report of precious
metals produced in Montana during the
1car 1887. 1t is based on a thorough
of the mining districts Of tho tor
itory, an examination Of reports of min
ng compaaiaa wherever practicable and
conservative estimates of the product at
ew places where the actual figures could
,ot be obtained. The result shoMs total
# &23, TOO 1885 5.23-an increase of 50, ,OOO,-
700 over the year 1886.
Miner: A specimen of Sand Coulee
:oal is on exhibition in the Office of the
Union Pacific railroad, some of carload
hat has been sent to the Parrot smeltcr
or trial. The coal has been tried there
before now without any very fattering
'esults being attained, as the amount Of
'sh made by it is greater than desirable,
An assay will be made of the article and
! thorough test given this lot at the
imelier in order to discover whether the
;oal improves as depth is attained in the
measure being mined.
Billings Gazette; +. r. Bliscoe, the
leW agent of the Crow Indians, was in
own for few hours on Tuesday. AS he
lid not wish tO have it known that he was
lere he sskept dark" He said that he