The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-03-30
MONTANA NEWS,

a. oeiolef has ocen appointed deput
marshal by United States Marshal Irwin
Thomas McCune OF Missoula has OBJ
tanned a judgment of $4,000 as damage
on account of injuries from a fall in a,
excavation made in the streets.
While picking sample from the roo
OF the Elkhorne mine, Boulder district
d. K. Regan met his death by larg.
mass of rock becoming detached and fall
ing upon him.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in Montana for the Montana & Can.
ada railroad, with a capital stock of ST.
OOO.0OO. Helena will be the southern
terminus of the road.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Western National Bank of
Mlssoula to begin business with Ferdl-
nand Hennctt as its president, and T. A.
Wolff, cashier. Capital, $4,000.
Fl. P. Hcacock of Missoula county is
the inventor of and has lately received
letters patent for a belt feed Tor saw mills
and an appliance for reversing steam in
! an engine at any time whether in motion
or not.
Placer gold Is said to have been dis
covered in the bluffs on the Missouri
river opposite Townsend. A man named
McGuggan made the discovery, and
nearly everybody in Townsend has staked
off placer claim,
That Montana is most prolific country
was well demonstrated at Philipsburg
last Sunday by Mrs. NJ. E. Wilson giving
birth to an eight pound boy and nine
pound girl. A net weight of seventeen
pounds ought to make any father proud.
S, 7. Mllroy the murderer of Patrick
Z. Dooley in Deer Lodge county last
week has been admitted to bail in $780,
600. From all accounts the murder of
Dooley was a cold-blooded act and it is
a little strange that the perpetrator IS
admitted to bail in any sum.
The annual spring meeting of the Mon
tana Stockgrowers' Association Will be
held at Miles City, Montana, on Tuesday,
April is, 1889. The session will convene
at the court house, at 10 o'clock a. m., of
the day named, and continue from day to
day until the business of the association
is transacted. A full attendance of the
members requested.
Two boys named Morris and Eastridge,
residents of Boulder, jefferson county,
while playing in II back yard discovered
box of giant caps. Their curiosity
led them to open the box and doing
so the conclusion exploded the caps.
Both boys were badly injured and young
Morris it is thought will lose his eye
sight.
Rising Sun: Articles of incorporation
of the Benton improvement company
have been filed with the secretary. The
purpose for which the company is
formed is to acquire title to tract of
land opposite Fort Benten, in Choteau
county, for a townslte. Capital stock,
100000. Incorporators, Jos. A. Baker,
Chas. E. Duer, Jas. McDevitt and John
w. Tatem.
Stock Growers Jurnal: You get $500
bounty for bear skin, if you kill bear;
you pay the Probate Judge and his assist
ant 2 bits; you walk, drive, Or ride 100
miles to meet his honor. How much do
you make? Ditto mountain lion. Ditto
wolf or coyote. Kill a wildcat, fetch
his honor the skin, give him (the judge
and his aide -de-camp), quarter, and you
will get an order for so cents. Bountiful
bounty.
The secretary of the interior has af-
frned the decision of the commissioner
general of the land Office in rejecting the
pre-emption proof of Dennis Harnel, for
the southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter, and the southwest quarter OF the
northeast qnarter of section 80, township
Is, north of range 21, west, Helena land
district, on the ground that the claimants
filing was illegal, as he had moved from
land of his own to settle upon that COW
cred by his pre-emption filing.
Helena Herald /: Captain Merritt, !
chief engineer of the Rocky Fork rail-
way, was returning passenger from St.
Paul on last Fridays train, stopping off
at his Billings headquarters. He says
trains will soon lie running regularly to
Red Lodge and that the road will be
turned over to the operating department
about the first of May. The captain is
still chuckling over the Rocky Forks
feat of building fortysix miles of railroad
In twenty seven days.
Special to the Independent.-In the
case of Sutherlin Bros, against Meagher
Co. for damages under printing contract,
Judge Bach decided in favor Of the
plaintiffs giving them judgment for
$766. The case is an old one and was
brought about by the county commits
sioners giving county printing to out
siders Notwithstanding the contract had
haen awardad TO Sutlerlin Bros, who