The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-05-18
MONTANA NEWS.

delivery system.
The output of the Drum Lummon mine
for the month of April was $l2O,4OO
working expenses, $4,000.
The president has appointed John B.
Catlin OF Montana tobe agent for the In
dians at the Blackfoot agency
A saw mill and 100000 feet of lumber
belonging to J. c. Walker in Fergus
county was destroyed by fire last week.
Loss $4,000.
Spokane, the Montana horse, scored an
other victory at Louisville, Kentucky.
Monday, by winning the Clark stakes.
Time 2:12!!
Frank Corbett having resigned as clerk
of the second judicial district. Judge De
Wolf has appointed Wellington Napton
as his successor.
A band of eleven Indians, supposed to
be Northern Piegans, are reported to be
stealing horses and committing depreda-
tons in northern Montana.
Deer Lodge is soon to have another pa
per. 1t is to be conducted by Crosson
Bros, late Of Ration, New Mexico, and
will be democratic in politics.
Porto Francisco, an Italian wood chop
per, fell from wood wagon at Butte
Saturday afternoon and was fatally in
jured by the hind wheel of the vehicle
passing over his head
The Granite Mountain mine case was
argued before the assistant attorney gen
era of the interior department at Wash
ington on the 1OtE. Protest is made
against issuing patent on the ground
that the plats were not properly posted.
I. Edward Shepherd, night clerk in
Sands drug store at Butte, suicided Sun
day by taking fatal dose of morphine.
Dependency caused by i'll health is as
signed as the cause of his deliberately
taking his own life.
The city election at Missoula on Satur-
day last was Il mixed affair politically.
The democrats elected the mayor, city
clerk and attorney, police magistrate and
two aldermen, the republicans securing
city treasurer ard two aldermen.
During thunder storm Monday after
noon Henry Hoffman, blacksmith at
Red Bluff. was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. -Four others standing
near Hoffman at the time were threwn
violently to the ground. but sustained no
serious injury.
Proposals are in for constructing the
Butte and Gallatin branch of the North
ern Pacific railroad, and have been sent
to New York to be acted upon by the
directors. The contract will probably be
awarded in few days, when work will
be begun Immediately.
Henry w. Straight has been sentenced
to four years in the territorial penitentiary
by Judge DeWolf. of the district court at
Butte, Straight drugged and robbed a
travelling companion and roommate of
81 100 at the Southern hotel in that city
last month and was subsequently cap
tured at SILVER Bow Junction.
At Butte Tuesday afternoon Harry
Roberts shot and killed j. w. Crawford
in the wash room of the Silver Bow
boarding house. Both men were in the
employ Of Corea's Transfer company,
Roberts as foreman and Crawford as
teamster. The killing was the outcome
of a quarrel of long standing.
f. w. Lester, collection agent Of
Butte, was arrested at Helena Saturday
last on the charge of being a defaulter,
and taken to Butte His offense was the
collection of funds belonging to other
parties, and failing to account for the
same He is also accused of selling q
horse to two different parties and will
probably be tried for that offense.
An attempt was made last week to rob
the stage ell route from Great Falls to
Lewistown, at point near Surprise creek
in Fergus county. The stage was halted
bv two men who secured the treasure
box, but before they succeeded in rit1ing
it of ITS contents the coach from the OPP
poste direction came in sight and the
would-be robbers abandoned it and heat
a hasty retreat
Van Holt, newly elected justice of
the peace at Forsythe, knows no limit to
his jurisdiction. He recently sentenced
tramp, accused of breaking into box
car at that place, to two years in the ter
ritorial penitent.ary He was afterwards
informed that he had exceeded his au-
thorlty, and modified his decision by
holding the prisoner to the next term OF
| the district court.
A surveying party is now fitting out at
Fort Benton preparatory for trip across
the Judith Basin They will run a sur
vey from Benton to Billings on behalf OF
the Northern Pacific railway. This
branch, when finished, Will open up one
of the richest sections of Montana, fac;li
tate the shipping Of produce and live stock
to paying markets and make mining II
the Belt mountains more than a possibil-
ity.
Advices from northern Montana report
that Gabriel Dumont, of half-breed rebel
lion fame, is in the vicinity of Bear Paw
mountains, engaged in getting together ;
contingent of half breed French Cree In
dians to take to the Paris exhibition
Some are inclined to think he is on a re
cruiting expedition to secure volunteers
for another half-breed uprising in the
Northwest territory.
The New Idea, published at Corvallis
by billiard s. ingalls,, annouces in Its las
issue that the paper will he discontinued
The following characteristic notice b.
Editor billiard gives the reasons for sus
pension: 'This country is not able t.
upport first class newspaper any longer
: and so we give the newspaper field of tn
valley up to our esteemed, corn-tasse
; contemporaries, who are content will
picturesque scenery and prospective fame
1t is money we want and not fame.
2 On Sunday evening and night severa
: soldiers from Keogh were held up D