The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-11-24
MONTANA NEWS.

Silver Bows assessment for 1888
amounts to $9,1Oo,Sa5. OF this amount
Butte contributes $5,400,00O.
,, A rich strike is reported in the Major
Budd mine near Butte It is said that an
eight-inch streak assaying 273 ounces in
silver was struck just below their lower
level
Judge Bach has sentenced Charlie,
Gorden of Fort Benton to be hung on the
18th Of january next for the murder Of
John A. Larele last July. The prisoner
on being asked why sentenced should not
be pronounced on him said he had moth
ing to say except that 1t was unjust
Two years ago the territory Of Montana
cast 32,252 votes for delegate, which was
an increase of about 5000 over 1884
This year the vote of the territory will be
from $4,000 to 10000, showing an in
crease of 900 to 5000 votes within the
past two years. Taking this as basis of
estimate the population of Montana to day
is about 100000 souls.
Some sixty men have been arrested at
BlacNfoot mills in Missoula county.
They were taken to Missoula by Deputy
United States Marshal Higgins and
charged with illegal voting The mer
are in custody at the court house, while
friends are endeayoring to find bail fol-
them. This makes total of eighty ar
rests this week of men charged with il
legal voting on the 9th inst.
The vote Of Lewis and Clarke county
resulted as follows: Delegate, Carter
$500 votes; Clark, 2,G75. The following
officers being elected, council, Cole; re
presentatlves, Davis and Gillette; joint
representative, Hunt; commissioner
Crounse; attorney, Balliett; sheriff, JET
feres; treasurer, Barden; clerk and re
corder, Tooker; assessor, Beckett; probate
Judge, Howey; public administrator
Ellis; coroner, Musser; Supt. OF schools
Clarke
The enterprise Of Lenharly & Co. will
be a great benefit to the basin, say:
the Fergus County Argus, and par
| ticularly to Philbrook. This company
composed of thirteen families, has already
commenced to improve It's great ranch
adjoining Philbrook on the south. J. 3
Douglass commenced last April on hi.
contract to get out for them 700 house
logs, besides 1000 poles ind Il ] % nf,s
posts for their twenty three miles of fence
ing. Mr.. Douglass has completed hi
| work, and this material will be hauled a
once to Philbrook The families of thi
company are III Iowa, whence they vii
come in the spring. Lenhardy & Co. vii
devote their time to the raising Of fine
horses.
The long contested litigation in Chi
cago, in the case of I. ". Hall s. Co.
wool commission merchants, IS ended
Judge Pendergast decided the turning
over of the wool to the storage company
who negotiated storage receipts for it, wa
illegal, as the wool was never legally il
their possession. Such of the cons!gnee
as could ideutify their property were al
lowed to get possession of it. Litnemanl
s Schmidt of Butte, Mont, and Grad
Bros. of Big Timber, Mont, recover nearl
all their consignments, and Banker Raw
son, who had advanced Ayers & Fell Q
Montana $4,000 on wool, was declared
to have lien on the property in storag
for $4,000 The remainder is to be dl
vided among the holders of receipts.
The president has signed an order d
recting the return to the Grow reseryatio
in Montana of the three Indian prisoner
Crazy Head, Knows His Coues and Car
ries- His s-Food-who are now under Cap
Pratt's charge at the Indian tralnin
, school at Carlisle, Pa. These Indiar
sided with Sword Bearer, the alleged met
} icine man of the Crows, at the time of h
little rebellion. It was hoped to educat
them to acertain degree of civilization b
sending them to Carlisle. The chief oil
lection to them is their diseased cond
ton, which it was feared would be con
municated to other Indians at the schoo
The Crows, more than any other tribe I
Indians, suffer from scrofulous complain
of very acute character, and it was III
| tribal characteristic which led the autho
: tiles to return these Indians to their re
ervation.
Independent: H. F. Brown own
: and lessee of the Cinnabar coal mine
! was in the city yesterday. Clnnabar IS {
r the Park branch forty-nine miles abo'
Livingston. The mines are distant frc
the railroad aquarter Of mile, and trat
is now being laid to them. The vel
have total width of sixteen and ha
; feet. The present working force is nc
: taking out 100 tons Of coal daily, and up'
. the completion of the railroad track to Il