The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-08-10
MONTANA NEWS.

MONTANA NEWS.
Helena sent Ss2,260 to the Spokane fire
sufferers. -.
Arlee, head chief of. the Flatheads, is
reported to be dying of dropsy
M. H. Lyons has been appointed post
master at Choteau, Choteau County.
Cornelius Hackshaw of Belt was
killed near his home Saturday night by
his horse falling with him over a cliff.
James q. Staten, who was injured
last week near Ellston by windlass
striking him on the head, died Friday
morning in Butte, where he was taken
for surgical treatment
A petition of the citizens of Ormstown,
canada, was presented to Governor
White the first of the week, praying that
the sentence of George Duncan Bryson
be committed to imprisonment
A. L. Van Leuyin, the man arrested
at Butte last week on a charge of hav-
ing committed murder in Colusa
county, California, has been discharged,
his description not answering that of the
man wanted by the California officials.
William ORourke, a timberman in the
Anaconda mine at Butte, was instantly
killed on the I'd by falling rock.
ORourke was % years of age and had
been in Butte about two years. He had
no relatives in Montana, but a brother
and sister reside in Dakota.
The crown sheet of consolidated en-
gine No. s on the Northern Pacific was
blown out Saturday morning near Arlee
and Fireman Lorenzo E. Tuttle thrown
distance of fifty feet. He was badly
scalded and otherwise seriously injured
and it is thought cannot recover.
The management of the Missoula Ga
zette has been changed, Thos. C. Mar
shall becoming president of the com
pany and L. Mollinelli, late of the Hell
ena Journal, assuming the position of
editor and business manager. A seven
column daily will be issued on and after
the 18th inst
Delegate Carter has appointed James
McEvlly OF Helena to be cadet for Mon
tana at the United States military acad-
emy at West Point, to succeed Bruce
Wallace, who will be graduated on June
Ia, 1890. McEvily is a Montana boy,
having been born in Virginia City in
1863. He will be the first cadet from
the state of Montana.
The night switchmen in the Northern
Pacific yards at Helena quit work in a
body Monday night because one of their
number was arrested on a charge of set
ting car conveniently for parties to
steal the coal it contained. The arrested
switchman was discharged, no evidence
being produced against him, and the
strikers have again resumed work.
Harry Brown. cook of the rs outfit.
was shot and killed by Albert Brazier,
horse wrangler in the same outfit. near
Powderville, on Tuesday of last week.
The shooting grew out of quarrel over
a bottle of medicated bitters, the only
liquor obtainable there, which had been
purchased by members of the outfit, and
which Brown was drinking by himself.
The train which left Garrison Tuesday
evening ran over and killed man lying
on the track about half mile from the
depot. From papers in his pocket it
proved to be J. G. Enslie, a physician Of
Helmsville, in the northern part of Deer
Lodge county. Why he was on the
track is not known. The engineer did
not see him in time so stop the engine.
Hop Wong. a Chinaman who owns
laundry in South Butte and one at
Rocker, stepped into Chinese gambling
house at Butte Sunday night and struck
Lung Wah three blows with hatchet.
All three blows took effect in the head
and it is thought the wounded man can
not possibly recover The two celestials
had formerly been partners in the wash
business and had a quarrel over their
accounts. After the assault the assail-
ant walked out Of the saloon and disap
peared, but was afterwards captured.
Missoulian, 9TH: w. w. Wilkinson ar
rived in town yesterday afternoon and
reports that as he was about to-. leave
Corvallis this morning report was
brought there of the finding Of the dead
bodies of Ollie Jones, his wife and two
other persons, on Big Hole mountain. all
Of whom had been shot in the back, also
a young girl, shot in the hip and still
alive. AS Mr.. Wilkinson came away
party was about forming to go out and
investigate the rumor. Mr. Jones was
married in this town the day after the
circus, and had started for Gibbonsville.
At the time of the report Of the finding
OF their bodies he was about due at Big
Hole mountain. -
Journal: Messrs. Ullman & Buckner
of the Miles City Iron works Saturday
closed large contract with w. H. Bull
lard, covering the construction Of an
improved steaming apparatus for the
beer bottling works now operated by
Mr.. Bullard at Red Lodge. This steam
ing apparatus will be on new and i'm
proved system originated by Mr.. Buck
ner and superior to any now in use.
The contract further includes the con-
struction of dam across branch Of
the Rocky Fork and the building of
canal thence to the bottling works.
where a water motor will be put in to
run the machinery. This latter work
will be under the superintendence of
Mr.. Buckner.
Dillon Tribune: Word has been re-
ceived from various parts Of this county
that the flames are having full sway and
much damage is being done. The tim
Der on both sides of the Big Hole river
near Dewey's fiat, about % miles from
here, has been burning for several days
and all efforts to extinguish the flames
have thus far proved fruitless. In the
Big Hole basin and adjoining country
both timber and meadows are being
burned Several hundred ties have been
lost and ranchmen are even losing their
mown hay The cause of this fire is not
definitely known, but it is supposed to
come from cigarette stub, as some men
who went to work and were smoking
soon discovered the flames at the place
where they first began work. This fire
began on the 23rd and is still burning.
The settlers have fought the flames day
and night, and it is difficult to tell how