The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-08-17
MoNTAt. / NEWS.

Ii MONTAEA NEWS.
/ The blacksmith shop of Deschamps
! kern at Missoula was DESTROYED by fl
on Monday. Loss $1,000.
e The star mail route from Billings [
: Mateetse has been changed to run frol
e Red Lodge by way of Dilworth.
: Arlee. chief of the reservation Fla
heads, died at his home near the acenc
on the Sth inst. in the 10Th year of h
age.
= Harry Roberts, who shot and kille
Crawford in a boarding house at Butt
several months since. was hanged a
Butte yesterday.
Sarah Murphy. a young child of Nj
and Mrs. Peter Murphy, living at Terr,
, fell into tub of water on Saturday las
and was drowned.
The Gallatin county prohibitionist
met at Bozeman on Saturday last an,
} decided to place in nomination a stat
ticket to be voted for at the comm.
election They will also nominate
county ticket.
Several hundred street laborers a
Butte went out on strike Tuesday be
cause the contractors who employed
them refused to accede to a demand fo
increased wages. They were receiving
SD and $3.50 per day, but demanded
$500.
Track laying on the Gallatin-Butte
branch Is completed to within two miles
OF Willow Creek and seven miles west OF
Three Forks. Work is progressing rap
IDLY, and it is the intention to finish
everything east of the divide except the
heavy mountain work by September |.
A workman named Johnston. working
ON the Northern Pacific grade IN Jeffer-
son canyon, was drowned Monday while
bathing with several others in the Jef
ferson river at the mouth of the CANYON,
His brother was in the water at the time
but was unable to save the unfortunate
| man.
Jack Harris was instantly killed Wed
nesday forenoon while descending from
the Mlnah mine near Wickes with a load
OF ore. The team became unmanape-
able and Harris was thrown on the
ground, the wheels passing over his
body, Deceased was % years of age
and leaves family at Wickes.
Robert S. Tingley, of the firm of Ting
ley Brothers, large cattle owners in
Northern Montana, died at Fort Benton
on Saturday last from the effect of in
lurles received by a fall from his wagon
The deceased was one of the old timers
IN that section, having been one of the
first white men to establish himself in
the territory.
Governor White has granted August
johnson, sentenced to be hanged on the
9th inst at Deer Lodge, a respite of two
weeks. This fixes the date of his execu~
ton at August 23rd, unless meantime
his sentence shall be eommuted.
The governors action was based on the
ground that he had not had sufficient
time to thoroughly consider the petition
recently presented to him for COM
mutation of sentence.
The dry season is at least benefittinc
the enterprising citizens of Townsend.
Many OF whom have turned miners. The
river is SO low that the bed is exnosed
and on it several men have begun ground
sluicing for placer gold. The operation
pays and the dissings yield from 81 to
s. per day to the man. The channel of
tho Missouri is rich in gold deposits and
no doubt the men working these bars
will reap. handsome profit from their
seasons work.
Mining Journal: The drouth is get
ting in IT'S work on the workingmen of
Butte. On account of the scarcity of
water the Moulton mill has been shut
down, and for time work in the mines
will be considerably reduced. The mill
might have been continued, but in order
to do so the water supply of Walkeryille
would have to be cut off entimi., and
naturally that was given the preference.
Unless rellet @sA comes in the shape of
ram other works will be compelled to
close.
MTasculiau: The Bitter Root train
ran over and killed zig near Florence
Friday or Saturday, and since that time
three more attempts have been made
to wreck the train and kill it's ;i.ssen-
gers. There is no doubt but the party
who has so frequently tried to wreck
the train is doing so because of some
fancied grievance of that kind. A poor,
little, lank and lean pig has lost it's life
and the train must be thrown off and
perhaps dozen people killed to pay
for it.
Charles A. Fischer, travelling salesman
for Kohler 4 Frohling of San Francisco.
suicided at the McDermott house at
Butte Monday night, by shooting him
self through the head. He left a letter
explaining his action and assigning as a
motive the fear that failing health would
result in the complete dethf1ning of
reason. He was a member Of the Mason
ic and Odd Fellow societies and request
ed that those orders bury him at Butte.
He left a wife whose residence is in San
Francisco.
A fall of rock in the Homestake tun~
mel on the Gallatin- Butte branch Of the
Northern Pacific on Sunday afternoon
caused the death Of one man and the
serious injury of another. Both men
were Italians, whose names it was impos-
sible to learn, as neither could speak the
English language. The one who died
had his leg cut completely off by the
falling rock. He was taken to Butte.
where an amputation was performed.
but he died half an hour later. The
other man, though badly injured, will
recover.
At the Anaconda races Monday the
Montana record for trotting horses was
broken by Col. Bradshaw in the first
heat of the 2::27 class. There were six
starters: Lord Byron, Col, bradshaw,
Pink, Bishop Hero Tfamps and Wallace
6. The time was 2:2O34. The fastest
time heretofore made in Montana was
2:2154 on the Anaconda track last year.
The next three straight heats of the race
were won by Lord Byron, each
in 2:22, making sthe fastest four heats
ever trotted IN the territory Col. Brad
shaw was second and Pink third.
John Bloom and Louis Siff, who re-
turned to Helena Monday from trit, to
the Cnur d Alene, give the details Of a
thrilling experience On july Both they
left Murray, Idaho, for Missoula, Mont,
with two wagons and four horses They
had been warned at Murray that the
journey would be dangerous on account
of forest fires raging along the line from
there to Thompson. A few hours after
they started the roar of flames was
heard, and they urged their teams as
rapidly as possible, Finally they were
overtaken, and leaving their teams in
deem rayine ran for shelter in a deSarted