The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-03-02
MONTANA NEWS.

dent of the Montana Union, is about
finished. and it recommends changes and
Improvements in the line which will cost
in the neighborhood of 5000, 900.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the Office of the Secretary of the
Territory of the Bozeman Water Works
Company. The capital stock is 100000
divided into 1000 shares at 800 each.
The incorporators are Walter Cooper, w.
E. Cullen and Peter Koch.
During the year 1887 the Montana
Union received from the Union Pacific
176,898 tons of freight and from the
Northern Pacific 82,5GO. During the
past year it received from the Union Pa
cific 273,924 and from the Northern Pa
cifc 152,269, making a total increase
from both of 166,734 tons.
River Press: A letter from the new
town OF Chinook, near Dawes station. saws
that the hotel and livery stable men have
arrived and Will Immediately proceed to
provide accommodations for the travelling
public at that point. The construction of
the necessary buildings will commence
as soon as trains can deliver the build ING
materials. The promoters of this enter
prise mean business.
Stock Growers Journal Mr.. H. L..
Kni ght, lately of the Yellowstone Journal
of this city, has located in Rathdrum,
Idaho, where he has purchased the
kootenai Courier. The paper is located
in growing town and the Stock Growers
journal congratulates Mr.. Knight on
having secured so good paper wherein
to employ his good abilities. Mr.. Knight
is his own editor and will, we doubt not,
do we'll in his new field.
Great Falls Leader: A contingent of
some thirty or forty young and middle
aged persons from Ohio, with their fami-
lies, just arrived. They will locate land
in this vicinity. They have come to stay,
to grow up with the country and make
homes and fortunes for themselves and
their fraternity. Success to them. They
hail from the grandest state IN the Union
and have come to Montana just in time
to vote for the new constitution and share
in the honors of the Keystone State of the
northwest
Yellowstone Journal: A telegram was
received by Mrs G. r. Milburn yesterday
her of the sudden death of her
father, DR.. Bliss of Washington, D. c.,
who had dropped dead on the preceding
day without any p1emonitory symptoms
of illness. DR.. Bliss was physician Of
high repute in the national capital, and
was the chief physician in charge Of
President Garfield during his last illness.
In response to the telegraphic summons
Mrs. Milburn and children started for
Washington on yesterdays train.
Stock Growers Journal A new at
traction will be the hotel which will be
built at the Custer Battle Grounds. by
the Big Horn & Southern Railroad Com
pany. All tourists and through travellers
over the Northern Pacific Railroad will
desire to visit the scene of the great
massacre, where the brave Custer with a
handful of men died, surrounded by
5000 savage Sioux led by Sitting Bull.
The graves of the 800 brave men who
were all of the little battalion led by
Custer, are near the monument of granite
which contains their names The hotel
will be located at station about two
miles south of Grow Agency which is 40
miles south of Custer Station on the
Northern Pacific railroad, and ten miles
south of Fort Custer.
The stockmen of Montana are begin
ming to awaken to the fact that there is a
bill pending in the Dakota Legislature
that concerns them almost as much as il
does their Dakota brethren. The bill is
to repeal the law to prevent the spread Of
contagious diseases among live stock, anC
has already passed the lower house Of the
Dakota Legislature by small majority
If the law is repealed it will throw oper
the ranges of Dakota to shipments of dis
eased animals from all parts of the coun
try and will expose the eastern border o
Montana to similar danger. The stock
men of this territory hope to see th'
measure defeated and the Dakota law lef
as 1t is, since it is great help to th'
Montana law in keeping out infectious
and contagious diseases.
Hon. w. A. Clark, of Butte, has strucl
it rich in Arizona. The Tombstone Epi
taph says of the find: While running
tunnel from the Wade Hampton mine t.
the United Verde group of copper mine
for the purpose of ventilation and drain
age, tremendous ledge of silver was dis
covered yesterday. The ledge encounter
ed was large and assayed $1,000 to tn
ton. Great excitement prevails aroun'
the Verde camp, and 1t IS thought tn
strike is one Of the most extensive that ha
been made in Arizona for years. Th
mines are located in Vavapai county an
should the ledge hold out as cverythln!