The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-08-31
MONTANA NEWS.

| MONTANA NEWS.
Deer Lodge county has nominated
full independent county ticket.
Mrs. Emma Keithly of Butte suicide6
by the morphine method last Saturday
A fire in the wood camp of A. W. Nc
Cune pear Anaconda destroyed six mile:
OF ftume and about 500 cords of wooC
last Friday.
The contract for bridging and track
laying on the Gallatin and Butte exten
sion of the Union Pacific has been sub
let to Matthew Brothers & Kerrick Of
Minneapolis, MINI.
A man named Gunsterholm, member
of a Northern Pacific surveying part,
operating about forty miles from Billings
fell from cliff at that point and is not
expected to live.
Harry, the fourteen year old son OF
II. 3. CHAMPION, ranchmen living ten
miles north Of Billings, was fatally in.
jured on Tuesday by the accidental dis
charge Of a rifle he was handling.
A passenger on Northern Pacific
train was accidentally shot in the fore
head, as the train was approaching Bill
lings Monday, by another man who was
carelessly handling revolver. The skull
OF the wounded man glanced the ball
and he will recover.
John Green, who had been in the en-
ploy Of Green j. Keete, railroad con,rac-
tors, was run over and instantly killed
by train on the Montana Union near
Butte on Wednesday morning. The in
quest developed that deceased alone was
to blame for his death, having paid no
attention to the whistle and bell sound
ed by the engineer, nor to the calls of
one OF the teamsters who saw and warn
ed him of his danger. It was proven
that he left the track once and then i'm
medlately got back on to it, and when
directly in the center walked toward the
train without looking up until the en-
CINE was in front Of him, when too late
tor him to escape. It is believed to have
been deliberate case of suicide.
Mrs. G. E. Kemp of Helena was found
dead in ditch in that city Saturday
morning. She had been suffering from
nervous prostration and her mind was
somewhat deranged. She left her room
about $50 and her absence was soon dis
covered, and the entire night was spent
in searching for her. Her body was
found the next morning in Chessman's S
ditch. Whnro eha had lrouLIeu IN aDOuL
| ten inches OF water. About two years
ago Mrs. Kemp created sensation, hav-
ing been charged with shooting her
daughter. At the trial, however, the
fact was developed that the woman was
out Of her mind, and that she was in the
act OF committing suicide, when her
daughter tried to prevent it. and during
the struggle the pistol accidentally dis
charged, resulting in the death of the
girl.
Great Falls Tribune: On last Thurs
day the fires raging on the head waters
OF the Teton, above Choteau, reached
the immediate vicinity of the saw mill
belonging to Mr.. Geo. Richards, about
twenty-five miles from Choteau When
the flames had reached within eighty
rods of the mill, the wind suddenly
changed and swept directly toward it.
The men we're told to run for their lives,
and only few of them succeeded in
saving their clothes from the canp be-
fore the flames swept over the log yard
mill and camp, licking everything up
before it. The mill is a total loss, ex-
cept the boiler and engine. The fire is
still raging along Pine ridge, and the
driver of the Choteau coach reported
that the ashes were falling thick in the
streets of Choteau.
Husbandman: We are glad to be able
to state that the smelter at Castle has
been started for run on Cumberland
ore. The Cumberland company have
leased the works and are making this
run to test whether the smelling can be
done protitably or not. The heavy ex-
pense OF shipping the bullion and the
cost OF coke is so great that it is doubt
ful if there will be much profit left. The
company has something over 200 tons OF
ore hauled down to the smelter and are
taking out more right along, having ten
men engaged in the mine, and we are in
formed the ore is of good grade. While
we have fears that it may not be profit
able to run the smelter under the unfa-
vorable circumstances, we are greatly in
hopes it may exceed our expectations
and be kept running. We believe this
work will be economically managed, and
if it is possible to do it proftably will be
kept running.
Glasgow Herald The Indian tribe
known as Crees had sun dance about
three miles west of town Monday, dur
ing which the barbarous ceremony of
making ''brave" was INDUCED in, to
the disgust Of all intelligent spectators
For the information of our readers at a
distance, who do not know anything
about this barbarous practice, we will
give brief description of the proceed
ings. The candidate who desires to be-
come ''brave" is first laid on the ground
and two incisions are made in his breast
A sharp stick is thrust from one cut to
the other and rope passed around the
stick, the ends of the rope being tied to
post several feet higher than the man s
head. The would-be brave then begins
the sun dance, and must either tear the
skin loose or continue the torture for
two hours without finching, singing all
the time. Succeeding in this he is de-
clared brave; failing, he is compelled
to dress like squaw and ever afterward
must do the work of squaw, which is
considered among the noble red men a
disgrace.
Fish for the Yellowstone Park.
Duluth special: Marshal Mcdonald
United States fish commissioner, arrived
here last night from the Pacific coast
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