The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-08
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

The wool clip of Montana was estimas-
ed last year at 5,771 ,42l pounds.
Monsana's population has increased
from 3O,159 in 1880 to $4,000 in 1887.
Butte will send ten delegates to the
Helena mineral lands convention,
Missoula is to have street cars, and
the city has passed right-of-way ordin.
ance.
Holders of West Granite are looking
for boom, as Pardee has gone to st.
Louis.
A Presbyterian publication called the
Church News, has been established at
Miles City.
The Wickes tunnel, which is little
over 5000 feet long, is now about half
completed.
The Montana Central advertises for
proposals for building two section houaes
and four depots.
A surveying party is already in the
field on the Madison for the Helena,
Gallatin 4 National Park railroad.
The Big Bonanza mine west of Mea.
derville has been sold to Butte parties,
not named, for $35,0O0.
The site has been selected at Great
Falls for an immense reduction works
and work will be Immediately begun.
A wool grower of Deer Lodge county
suggests convention of Montana she ep
men in Helena about the middle of
February.
Lee Mantle, of Butte, is the first to
head the list in the hendry memorial
fund. In an appropriate missive he en-
closes draft for $50.
The very cold weather of last month
froze the water mains of the Missoula
water'works company, requiring the
company to thaw them out.
The ice is rapidly going out of the
Yellowstone river. This is one of the
earliest break-ups known in tie history
of the vallev.-Billings Gazette.
DR.. A. II. Hersev and wife, of Billings,
have arrived in the Capital and will
henceforth make Helena their home,
The Doctor is to represent the North
west Magazine.
The supreme court has affirmed the
judgment of the lower court in the case
Of Hart, the murderer of J. w, Pitts.
He was sentenced 10 hang at Helena on
the 10th of next month.
Mileage book tickets on the Mort hern
Pacific railroad are now good on all di.
visions and branches. Hitherto mileage
books sold in Montana were good only
west of Mandan,
The supreme court has affirmed the
judgment of tho lower court in the case
OF Scott, the Granite uxorcide. He will
therefore be executed at Deer Lodge on
the 18th of February unless Governor
Leslie interferes.
Judge McLeary will, in few DAYS,
start to Washington, d, c., and from
there proceed to Texas for the purpose
of bringing his family to Montana. The
judge will probably make his home in
Butte.
John Wren, a miner, lost his presen CO
of mind and, in attempting to get off a
cage, got caught between the cage and
the lining of the shaft in the Granite
mountain mine and was instantly killed.
He was an Englishman, 43 years old.
Duffy, council for Hart, says no further
appeal of the case will be made. The
only effect ofan appeal would BIZ to de-
lay execution and not to prevent it.
Thirty-six jurors have pronounced Hart
guilty, 80 Mr.. Duffy has advised him to
resign himself to his fate.
1t is rumored that there is soon to be
slight change in the running time of
No. 2, the Northern Pacific east bound
limited passenger. The hour of leaving
will be advanced, 80 that the train will
leave Helena at lO:4O at night, instead Of
at midnight, and arrive in st. Paul
correspondingly earlier.
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tho non;ta,,;a. ~ a". psfu1n4u from
T;n,a,. at Deur Aooge one
.ha NJ. 49, s'A' w i'f .nree years az
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go, ,~ @ Il" i'oo' oh charse Oh
tho n.r,,on ~. Is; uhuers'oou that
that the mon oou,d aeu na. w.. vi 'ne eround
lonrs, ~ o'' "'' ''e many months
The warm wave, has about divested
the ranges of this territory of snow.
Cattle men have been looking after their
stock, and are surprised to learn that the
loss is 80 light. They report seeing but
a few dead cattle, and these superanuated
th.sa o.'',." " u,,':, nv. 'A,se'' anu lew OF
;n,en.s,v ooI, .ha sAo weA'her was
stocL oo,,,d .,,,.,a w., .ao" was so'' ana
feat ,ore Tha no.;, o's k0s'ins 'ne'r
cort,nad nu;..;.am.. ' vi 'A'es was
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New Northwest: The assignment of
Judge McLeary to this district, and the
location OF the clerk at Butte, has result.