The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-04-06
MONTANA NEWS.

M1ssoula IS to have a street railway,
k bc IN operation inside of three months
- =, Jefferson county apportions over SIC
: - 600 to her thirty school districts til
: year.
If Il. K. Morcey has been appointed pos
s. master at Forsythe, Custer county. vic
IS 1. Alexander, removed.
& Samuel Sunnel an old miner was kille
at Beartown last week by mine Gavin
;, in on him while at work.
/, A new Grand Army post was establish
e ed at Great Falls last Saturday. The ne,
n post is called Sheridan No. II.
Philip Stonebridge fell 100 feet dow
= mining shaft near Mcadervillc las
week. Death was instantaneous.
e Judge Mcconnell lately retired from
l the Chief Justiceship of Montana, ha
associated himself with the law firm o
Carter 4 Clayburg of Helena.
The agricultural colony soon to locate
near Fort Belknap, in Northern Montana
feld meeting in Chicago recently. Tht
company starts out with cash capital O
5000, 1000.
At the session of the district court ir
Mlssoula last week, Charles Overman was
convicted of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to twelve years in the
penitentiary,
Boulder Sentinel: With one solitary
exception, we believe, every child born in
Boulder and vicinity during the year
1889 has been girl. Well, they ale a
very necessary article. and there should
be no complaints.
Helena Herald: Ben Folk, late clerk
OF the Cosmopolitan, has formed CO.
partnership with Alexander Devine, for
merry manager of the Independent and
latterly in the U. S. assay office, to con
duct real estate business in Helena.
Chief Engineer Mcfarland of the
Anaconda smelling works has gone to
Chicago to get estimates on the cost of
an iron smelling building to replace that
portion of the works DESTROYED by fire a
few days ago. This would indicate that
the lower works are to he rebuilt at once
Bozeman Courier: Ed. L. Fridley.
the rust11ng' livery stable man, says he
has lost fifty head of horses during
the past fourteen months, one of which
was worth $500, by the "unknown' horse
disease Ed has certainly had streak
of unusual bad luck but he manages to
sustain stiff upper lip. perpetrates a few
jokes every day and wears as good clothes
as the rest of the ''boys.'
Stockgrowers Journal Arrangements
have been made for summer camp of
the troops now at Forts Yates, Buford
and Meade, of Dakota, and Keogh and
Custer, IN Montana. The commands
from all five of these posts will 90 into
camp at some one point between Kcegh
and Meade, the exact locality no: yet
being fixed. To the younger population
who have never seen military manruvers
this Will be an excellent opportunity to
see how their daddies s'fit into the war;
Work has been resumed at the Helena
smelter, the recent strike having been
settled. The Herald says some of the
strikers were re-engaged, while many new
hands were also employed. Three furna-
ces are in operation and the fourth will
soon be completed and started. The
dissatisfaction of the furnacemen was not
on account of wages, bat over the length
of time they had to work. They say that
twelve hours a day near the furnaces is
too much and leads to lead poisoning
among the hands. They hope the time
required for such work will soon be cut
down to eight hours per day.
Billings Gazette: Articles of incorpo-
ration of the Montana Coal and Iron COM
pany have been filed in the office of the
secretary of the territory. The list of
incorporators are principally New York
and Pacific coast capitalists. and the COM
pany is empowered by the papers filed to
build railroads, operate coal and iron
mines and build smelter The company
proposes to operate in eastern Montana
and is composed of those gentlemen
mainly interested in the building of the
Billings, Clarke's Fork & Cooke City
railway. The capital stock is 81, 900, 900.
The headquarters OF the company will be
at Billings.
Vanderbilt Snubbed OF His Own Road.
A good story is told about one of the
Maine Central engineers. Last summer,
when the Vanderbilt car was at Bar
Harbor, the manager.of the Maine Cen
trail sent an engine down there to take
the car to Portland. The run was made
in very quick time, and at Brunswick
the train stopped to take in water.
While there Mr.. Vanderbilt got out
and said to the engineer that he didn't
want him to drive 50 fast. The engin-
eer, the veteran Simpson, looked at him
quarter of a minute and then said: Il