The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-01-27
MONTANA NOTES.

DR.. G. H. Keifer, late veterinary sur
geon Of Montana, is now in Ph9nix, Ari-
zona, keeping drug store.
P. Yeger s. Co., of Billings, are going to
build a Touring mill In that city to cost
$1S, 600, to have capacity Of 100 barrels
a day.
c. NJ. Norgooti, late united labor candi-
date for governor Of Arkansas, and filed
contest against J. II. Eagle, the gover
nor-elect.
The contract for the fireworks to he
used at Washington on the night Of ln-
auguration day has been awarded. The
cost will be $1,000.
John H. McGay, cashier Of the Park
National bank, Chicago, has been charK-
ed with cmhezzlement. He confesses
having taken 1880.
The Spanish government has issued
decree granting amnesty to all press and
political offenders and to the soldiers who
took part In the up rising in Madrid in 49,
S6.
A correspondent writing from Cooke
City says that about forty men are spend
Ing the winter In camp developing lotles
and thus far on every hand they have
obtained excellent prospects.
Almost daily numerous carloads of iron
for the Rocky Fork railway pass through
Billings destined for the end of the
track. where It is being put down with
rapldity rarely equaled In railway build
ing.
"A social society has been organized In
Missoula in which the most popular and
fasttdiOus young man is not eligible to
membership until he has taken unto him
self a partner in life for better or for
worse.
Uriah Tracy. an old miner and prospec-
tor, was found dead In his cabin ut the
head of horse canon one day last week,
The coroner's jury decided he had come
to his death from natural causes, and was
due to old age and exposure.
Quite force of workmen are already
engaged ut the Red Lodge coal banks un-
covering the large deposits of fuel living
there, and making all the necessary ar,
rangcments to put the products of the
camp upon the market as soon Us the track
reaches the point.
NV A10A AAAF sOAA A0aA"UJ ~ uCA(lluK Ill
4 northwesterly direction, II one hundred
and sixty mile contract for construction
having recently been let from Alliance,
Neb. In its present course the road will
tap the Northern Pacific somewhere in
the vicinity of Billings.
Miles City Journal; There is much iu-
quiry for horses, and large purchasers are
expected here this spring. Mr.. Courtnay
has letters from English parties, also,
who are investigating our county and its
capacities with view Of going into the
horse business Oh an extensive scale,
Billings Gazette: A we'll founded report
reaches us that the Billings, Clarke's
Fork l. Cooke City railway company, of
which there has been some doubt rs to its
intentions of paying its indebtedness con
tracted In surveying its line from Billings
south Last fall. will pay up within the
next day or two.
j. Sanford, ranchman near Billings
is interesting himself in scheme for the
establishment of 10000 securing mill
in that vicinity. which shall make, by the
process Of cleansing the wool clip differ
ence of 80 per cent In the weight, saving
thereby at least one-llalf the cost of trans
portation, which will be divided between
the wool growers and mill owners, thereby
furnishing a new industry for Montana