The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-12-01
MONTANA NEWS.

! The daily Item of Missoula, will res
ume publication soon under the manage
ment of Keith and Stevens.
The official returns now all in give
Thomas H. Carter majority of 5072
over w. A. Clark for delegate,
Gov. Hauser has telegraphed somebody
in Billings that trains will be running on
the Rocky Fork railroad inside of two
months. .Seein's bclievin'."
The Salvation Army IN Helena was ar
rested, charged with being a nuisance and
obstructing the streets. They were tried
before jury, acquitted of the charge and
went on their way rejoicing.
Bert Vaile, who is to be deputy county
clerk under Jas. w. brennan has taken
up his residence in the city. He in COM
pany with his father-in law Mr.. Copple,
has leased the Aylsworth residence and
planning mill and will give the planning
mill business some attention also.
President Hill of the Manitoba railroad
was in Helena last week He SAID that
the prospects of the Milk river country
| were great. Settlers were coming in rap
idly and not waiting for the government
surveys. Travel over his road had greatly
increased since the through trains had
been on.
The president has directed the new
Fort Belknap Indian agency to be located
on Milk river, twelve miles east of Snake
river, Montana. A change of location
was made necessary by the act of May 1,
1888, which materially reduced the size
of the reservation, leaving the old agency
outside of the new limits.
Helena Live Stock journal: The ex-
tradition papers in the case of George
Godas, the Cree, have arrived from Wash
ington and are in the possession of Sheriff
Hathaway, who started for Edmunton,
Canada, where Godas is being held. The
sheriff will undertake the job alone, being
confident that he is an equal to Godas and
that the willy Cree cannot elpde h1m and
escape. The papers are made out upon
the governor of the province, and are
signed by President Cleveland.
A meeting of the Montana Agricultural
Mineral and Mechanical association was
held in Helena. The officers elected were
the same as last year. They are: Presi-
dent, A. j, Davidson; vice president, T..
G.. Power; treasurer, B. II. Tatem; secre-
tary, Francis Pope; directors, VIM. Muth,
c. D. Hard, L. H. Hershfeld, VIM. B..
Hundley and W. A. Chessman The
meetings for 1889 will be held In July
and August, the regular annual meeting
announced to begin August 25th.
S. A. Douglass of Helena, of the gov
ernor's staff, arrived in Bozeman on Fri
day night, and on Saturday morning in
spected Company B. Within a few days
the boys will get their annual appropria-
ton OF $500 and very soon will come in
for a share of the benefits to be derived
from the national bill introduced by Dele
gate Toole. which fully provides for their
equipment. AT present Company B is
provided with dress uniforms, sabres,
belts, guns, sings, ETC., and will soon pur-
chase a fatigue uniform Chronicle.
Tranchant: We learn that the expense
OF flumlng New York gulch and the fume
operations OF Trout creek have cost F. D.
Spratt fully $140,0O0. The only income
this season will be from the New York
gulch flume, but it is thought that next
year the fume in Trout creek will have
reached pay DIRT and yield considerable
gold. It is thought that $50, more
will be expended in this creek before the
bed rock is reached, but Mr.. Spratt and
his brother, who is an extensive Michigan
lumberman, are willing and able to ex-
pend all the cash that may be required to
consummate the undertaking.
The annual reports of Indian agents
for Montana have been received by the
commissioner of Indian affairs and are
partly in print. Agent Baldwin, of the
Blackfeet agency, states: "The Indians
show marked progress in civilization and
desire for houses and lands to till.
The Indians have built about 5000 rods
of fence, and have also had consi derable
amount of ground under cultivation.
Agent Peter Roman, writing from the
Flathead agency, reports 2,018 Indians
Maj. E. c. Fields, agent at Fort Belknap,
964 Gros Ventres and $50 Assinaboines,
total of 1894 Indians under his care.
The London mine at Neihart, which
has been in litigation for the past three
years has at last been patented. Work
on the property has been continued in q
| quiet way all these years, but since liti-
cation commenced nothing has been
known by the outside world as the mine
had been under lock and key and none
but the workmcn allowed to enter. But