The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-04-27
MONTANA NEWS.


:. Sun River Sun: Money spent in mis-
representing RE county is misspent
o Money spent in digging irrigation canal
Il will cause our fertile plains to blossom
+ like the rose.
y 1t is rumored that the Northern Pac,f,
= contemplates the survey of route from
Billings to Benton and that there is pros
y pect OF the early construction of roaC
between these two points to connect will
the proposed Montana and Canada rail
road.
A. G. Benson, an old time rancher In
+, the vicinity of Sun River. met a tragic
death last week. He was rolling a piece
OF ground bordering on the river and his
team ran away and plunged into the
stream. Mr.. Benson went with them and in
attempting to rescue the horses he was
carried under and drowned; likewise the
horses.
Helena Herald: His many friends an
pleased to hear of the appointment of
Thomas A. H. Hay as stamp agent at
New York. Mr.. Hay was former resi-
dent OF Helena, holding responsible
post in the United States assay office un-
der R. B. Harrison. He married here the
daughter of Gen. Ruger, U. s. A., and
subsequently returned and located at
Easton, Pennsylvania, his former home,
where he has since been engaged in the
wholesale dry goods trade with his father
and brother. Mr.. Hay keeps warm
corner in his heart for all Montana ac-
quaintances, with numbers of whom he
made the grand rounds at Washington
during Inauguration week.
Notice of intention of G. L. Hogan to
erect and operate paper mill at Bozc-
man has been filed with the territorial
auditor. Mr.. Hogan represents syndi-
cate of eastern capitalists and it is said
will proceed at once in the perfection of
all plans necessary for the successful car
rylng out of the project. By act of the
Legislature the first paper mill for the
manufacture Of the different grades of
paper, also the first blast furnace for the
manufacture of pig iron with pudding
furnace, rolling mill and nail mill at
tached shall be exempt from taxation for
period of six years from the date of
completion and active operation; said
mills and manufactures shall be deemed
completed when the first production of
said manufactures is produced.
The powder house of the Burlington
mine at Butte burned last Satu rdav.
The magazine contained large amount
OF caps and giant powder. The alarm
was quickly given and every inhaLitant
of the town rushed from the place to the
hills adjoining for safety The fire
burned until o'clock, when terrible
explosion took place which produced a
shock like an earthquake. The new
public school house situated near the
magazine was badly wrecked and window
glass was broken all over town Rocks F;
and timbers were hurled hundreds of
feet in all directions. That no casualties 1.
occurred seems miraculous as the fleeing
populace were exposed to flying rocks, F.,
etc. 1t is supposed the fire originated
from matches in the hands Of some BOYS =
at play around the house.
New Northwest A dastardly al
empt, partly successful, was made last =
week on the Flint Creek hills near where
he old stage road crosses, to poison large 7
numbers of sheep and cattle Paris
green, in quantity that is amazing, was
scattered for some distance on the hills, :
ooking, as those who gathered it up in
ormed Judge Ferguson, ''as if two per- t
IONS had scattered it from sacks or '
'oxes.' They scraped up of it nearly :
wo bushels, but not until nine head of
cattle belonging to Joseph Henderson, I
i've head of McPhail Bros, two or three
# Louis Hendrickson' and abeut twenty :
heep of the band belonging to the v
Michael Dooley estate had eaten of it o
md died. This is not the first time stock
las been poisoned in that vicinity. The =
wners of the stock killed are investiga- >,
ing the matter, and will prosecute the II
perpetrators to the uttermost if they can h
e discovered. 81
New Northwest Sheriff Moore and O.
Deputy United States Marshal Frank B
'onley left last evening for Sunset, on =
ne Lower Big Blackfoot, to arrest parties = =
Tho are alleged to have been selling v
'hisky to band of six or eight Flathead is
indians, which resulted IN a row, last VI
[onday, during which Felix Ruel, a q
hite man, shot and killed one of the "
indians. Ruel was arrested, had a of
examination before a justice,
as discharged, re-arrested and on the W
.eond examination held to answer to the &C
rand jury. After the Indian was shot
le squaws stole the arms away from
'e bucks and kept them concealed till
le next day, when the Indians moved
;ross the river, or there might have been
ore killing. They still have whisky,
I'd the settlers in the vicinity are SO tt