The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-06-23
MONTANA NEWS.

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The mayor of Helena has offered (
; additional reward of $500 for capture ar
conviction of any person engaged IN Il
recent burglarics in that city.
D. S. Havcns, convicted of murder
the second degree at Great Falls last wee
for killing his wife, has been sentenced b
Judge Bach to eighteen years in the pen
tentiary.
A match game Of base ball was playe
at Helena Sunday between the Maroon
of that city and the Marysville nine, an
resulted in score of ten to twenty -fou
IN favor of the Helenas.
Burglaries have become SO numerous 8
Helena of late that Governor Leslie ha
issued proclamation offering rewar
of $500 for the capture of each pcrso
engaged in the robberies.
The frequency Of burglaries at Helen'
has brought the committee Of safety I
the front again and now all evil doors il
that city are confronted with the cabalis
tic figures 3-7-77. as a timely warning.
John Rodgers, who played first base il
the Helena base ball club last season, ha'
been arrested and taken to Butte to an
swer charge of larceny. His offense il
the stealing Of saddle from Peter Kelly
ut Butte.
James Archer, station agent at Warm
Springs, was shot by a section hand
named Jack Wheeler on monday last
The bullet struck Archer in the head just
back of the ear, but is not believed tc
have made fatal wound.
Marshall, Field s. Co., Of Chicago, are
to establish a branch dry goods house at
Butte, and will erect for the purpose a
6ve-story brick building one hundred and
fifty by two hundred feet, fitted with
elevators from basement to the top floor
The contract for the Upper West Gal
latin and Bozeman canal has been COM
pleted and work begun upon that enter
prise. Contracts have been let for a large
portion of the ditch, w. H. Tracy having
taken seven miles, T. J. Lyndc two miles,
J. II. Nixon one and one half miles and a
number of others shorter distances.
The Deer Lodge valley was visited by
G terrific hail storm Monday evening, hail
stones as large as walnuts being reported.
The windows were broken out OF the
coaches in the Helena tram from Butte
and passengers sought safety by covering
their heads and lowering to one side of
the cars. The storm lasted about fifteen
during which time the tempcra-
ture fell fifty degrees.
A young man named Wyman, who was
in the placer mines in Missoula
yulch last week, uncovered large bone.
which, on investigation, proved to be a
portion of the leg bone of some prehis-
toric monster which must have +Ps{ been t9s As
,.;n,al was mastodon. A mastcdon's
.ooth was found near the same spot last
year and it weighed four pounds.
A Benton dispatch says parties just ar
rived from the town Of Cypress, on the
state that newcomers are ar
irving every day. There is large influx
If settlers from across the line, who CLAIM
that extortionate exactions on the part of
railroad corporations will gradually drive
the people out of the Northwest territory.
As soon as tins years crops are harvested
many Of them will immigrate to northern
Montana.
Since the modification of the quaran-
tine proclamation to prevent cattle from
the Panhandle of Texas to he shipped to
Montana, the movement Of cattle from
that section to Montana ranges is esti-
mated at $4,000. The following herds
are reported en- route: Carter & Bunton,
4, 900 head; Smith s. Howard. 1900;
Ryan Bros, 1000. Con Kohrs has a
herd, and it is said that Eli Coggshall
and Henry Boice each have herds coming
north.
The following persons were convicted
in the district court of Silver Bow county
and on Tuesday taken to the territorial
pcnitentiary: Chas. Clayton, murder, Is
years; Harry Stewart: forgery. three cases,
one year each; Walter Searcy, burglary,
two years; Jack O'Connell, assault with
intent to do bodily injury, one year; VIM.
Keith, assault with intent to kill, one
wear. An execution has been issued by
the district court to take charge Of all
property belonging to Clayton to pay the
cost of the suit against him-$2, ,05O-
The result Of the preliminary hearing Of
the parties supposed to be implicated In
the Bones baby murder case at Victor
some time ago did not suit the citizens Of
that place. Attorney J. NJ. Evans of Mis-
soula was employed by the people Of
Victor to assist in prosecuting them be-
fore the grand jury on the 18th inst.
Complaints were drawn up and warrants
issued for George Miles, merchant Of
Victor; Miss Florence Bones, the mother,
and Royal NJ. Bones, the father Of the
young lady; Luther Miller, a son-in-law
of Bones, and DR.. Pope Of Corvillis, the
attending physician. All were arrested
and taken to Mlssoula for examination.
In addition to the reward already
offered for the capture and conviction of
the persons engaged in the train robbery
near Big Horn, General Manager Oakes,
of the Northern Pacific, makes the fol-
lowing announcement: The Northern
Pacific Railway company Will pay re-
ward of $4,000 for the arrest and con-
viction of the robbers who stopped train
No. 1 and robbed the passengers and
other persons thereon near the Big Horn
on the evening of June 16, 1888, and for
the capture of one or moro OF them a pro-
oortionate amount thereof. The dead
BODY or bodies of robber or robbers JUS
tifiablv killed in their capture will be ac-