The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-01-19
MONTANA NEWS.

1t is reported that there is considerable
scarlet fever in Bozeman.
A new warrant has been issued for
Godas in favor of Jefferis, sheriff of Lewis
and Clarke county.
Delegate elect Carter has gone east to
visit Washington and make call on
President-elect Harrison.
John Egan, section house keeper at
Big Sandy, was stabbed last Thursday by
A. B. Wilson, cowboy. It is doubtful
whether Mr.. Egan will recover.
Age: Anderson, one third owner of
the copper mine three miles north of Ru-
dersburg, reports that they have sold the
mine to California company; considera-
ton $4,000
President Cleveland has rendered Judge
Vincent OF New Mexico the chief Justice
ship of Montana, bnt it has been refused.
1t was offered to Vincent as balm for
political wounds inflicted some time ago.
The connecting rods on a Montana
Union engine broke loose one day last
week and made a complete wreck of the
cab. Fireman John A. Lacey was in
stantly killed and Engineer Howe badly
injured.
1t has transpired that the murderer
Godas, who was sentenced to be hung at
Fort Benton and reprleved short time
ago by Governor Leslie, is not Godas at
all, but Charles Swanson of Dunville, Ont.
The condemned man has the sympathy of
the community in that section of the
country and has many friends in the cast
who Will endeavor to obtain a commuta-
ton of the sentence to imprisonment for
life
Articles of incorporation of the Bozc-
man Artesian Well Company have been
filed with the territorial secretary. The
purposes for which the company is organ
lied are selling, renting and dealing in
all kinds of tools, machinery and imple
ments to be used for boring wells for gas.
OIL and water. Capital stock, $4,000.
Directors, J. Mendenhall. L. S. Wilson,
]. NJ. Lindley, E. S. Owenhouse, N. P.
Clark, T. G. Burns, Louis Kruger, e. M.
Gardner, G. W. Highsmith.
The officers of the Montana Bar Asso-
clatlon elected to serve for the ensuing
year are: President, Jason W. Steyell,
Miles City; vice presidents judicial
district, I. j. Galbraith, Dillon; I'd ju-
dicial district, T. c, Marshal, Missoula;
Sd judicial district, O. F. Goddard, Bill
lings; 4th judicial district, Thos E. Brady
of Great Falls; secretary, II. C. Mcintyre,
Helena; treasurer, F. Atkinson, Helena
executive committee, John F. Forbis,
Butte; l. D. McCutchcon, Helena; H P.
Rolfe, Great Falls; L. A. Luce, Bozeman.
A dispatch to the Record from Boze-
man. dated the 18th, says: AS Andrew
Benz and young cigarmaker in the city
named Henke were returning to town late
this afternoon from hunting rabbits on the
Fort Ellis reservation, Henke stumbled
and as he did SO discharged the contents
of his gun into the body of Benz, who was
in front of him. Benz was mortally
wounded and died in short time Henke
came to the city and surrendered himself
to the authorities. Benz is a young
ranchman and was married a few months
ago to a young lady from Dakota.
Record: Charles D. Parsons, a mining
expert of Boston, is in Butte, having come
from the Ceur d. Alenes, where he has
examined the Poorman mine. There is
little doubt that he represents syndicate
of Boston capitalists who have the pur-
chase of the mine in view, and the sale
will depend on his report. Those who
should know say his report will be very
favorable. The sale, if made, will exceed
a million dollars and will be one of the
most important transactions of the kind
that has been made for months. The
Poorman is owned in Butte and Helena.
Chronicle: The new plats of the Fort
Ellis military reservation survey were re-
ceived at the United States land office on
the 5th inst Mr.. lines, the receiver, in
forms US that no order has been made by
the secretary of the interior and no ap.
pra1sement of the lands has been made,
and the prospects are that the secretary
of the interior will do nothing while the
bills are pending in congress for the other
disposition of the lands in the reservation
Hence the filing of the plats cuts but
little figure until the secretary of the in
terror or congress moves in the matter.
| A special from Washington says thai
the report Of the surveyor general of Mon
tana shows that surveys of 3,4O2 miles
were made in the territory during the
past fiscal year on contracts let as follows
c. w. Mead, $4,000; j. w. Wade, 5000
q. Sheetz, $2,940; H. P. Davis, 81, 900
j. NJ. Robertson, $4,000. G. K. Reedel
was paid $4,000 for surveying allotments
on the Grow reservation, and Ep. H. Har
rison was paid So, 800 for re-establishine
t the boundary lines on the Crow reserva-
. ton. The surveyor general says many o
, the surveyors have had to borrow money
to meet their strained circumstances, ant
, many of them have already waited eigh
teen months for their money.
Herald: The Chloride group of mines
new discovery in the Kootenai district
t Idaho, have been bonded for $3.50, 600 h,
Hugh McQuaid, A. A. Mcdonald. Marti
| Maginnis, F. NJ. Chadbourn and Jane
$ F. Wardner. Ten thousand dollars hav
! been paid down and the balance IS to b.
s paid in October next The mines ar
) located in the mountains near the south
. east portion of Pend 'Oreille lake AM
comprise ten or dozen different location
+ with placer claims, mill sites and waite
! rights. The ore Is antimOnial silver, fire.