The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-02-23

1eatner, out lives IN hope that the gres
reform party will bob up again some day
The Montana Circuit, announces $50,
900 in stakes and purses. The stake
will close on March tst, and the trottin
purses on August 1st. Deer Lodge give
the opening meeting of the circuit O
Aug. 7th 9Th, and 9th. Anaconda follow
on Aug. 18th to 18th. Butte takes Angus
goth to 25th, and Helena holds the closin.
meeting of the circuit on August Goth t
31st.
Herald Apprehensions of an Indial
outbreak are prevalent at Demersville
Mont, resulting from fight which tn,
postmaster, J. E. Clifford, had with al
Indian whom he caught in the act O
stealing his goods, the result of which
was the Indian being killed. Clifford il
believed to have been killed by the In
dians. All is quiet, but the feeling il
very bitter, and it is possible that fight
may occur.
Gazette The deed conveying sec
ton of land to the Hauser railway syndi
cate has been filed for record in the
office of County Clerk Hays. The con
sideration is 81 500 and the site was pur
chased to enable the line of the Rocky
Fork road TO connect with the Northern
Pacific and also five the company ample
room for side tracks. At the junction il
is understood station will be established
to be known as Tilden while the present
railway buildings at Laurel will he moved
to the railway crossing of Canyon creek
where new station will be established
Stock Growers Journal There is 8
prospect of large railroad activity this
year. Paul Mccormick, of Junction
City, was passenger on Tuesdays west
bound train. He was returning from St
Paul, where he had been in attendance
at meeting of stockholders of the Big
Horn s. Southern Railroad. The road
as projected will run from near Custer
Station across the Reservation to Sheridan
Wyoming, distance of one hundred and
sixty miles. T. C. Power was elected
President and A. j. Seligman, Treasurer.
The necessary funds for the completion
of the work are already paid in. Work
will commence about the first of April,
and it is expected to have the road fully
equipped in July. The right of way for
this road has only just been granted by
Congress, and no time has been lost by
tho company III making arrangements for
its early completion.
Half Breed Script The Secretary of
the Interior to-day rendered a decision
in the case of JOS Wallan ct al. of Glen
dive, Montana, against Lewis Merrill ct
al. involving the important question Of
the validity Of the locations of the Sioux
Indian half breed scrip. The defendants
in this case located the Sioux scrip upon
unsurveyed public land as attorneys in
fact for the Indians and under the same
powers the attorney made the improve
ments required by law. The protestants
maintained that the locations SO made
were invalid and illegal on the ground
that it was not shown that the improve
mcnts were made for the benefit of the
Indians, as required by law. The Secre-
tary in his decision sustalns the protes-
tants and holds that the locations as
made, were in effect the result of self
sale and transfer of scrip which is a
direct violation of the law. It is said at
the Interior Department that the decision
will effect titles to large quantities of
land being made Immediately adjacent
to towns on the Northern Pacific railroad
in Montana, Minnesota and Dakota, upon
which scrip, of the character described,
has been located, and the lands sold as
town lots. A large number of cases are
now pending in the General Land Office
and which will also be affected by these
decisions.