The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-07-06
MONTANA NEWS.

, lect DIT Dutte Monday With five carriers,
The name of the postotfice at Gorhan
Cascade county, has been changed t
Point Clair
i j. r. Bowen has been appointed post
master at Silver. Lewis and Clark
county, vice S. L. Crane, resigned
Capt. James H. Mills on Monday as
sumed control of the office of United
States collector of internal revenue.
Prairie fires, reported from different
portions of the territory. the past weel
have done great damage to the ranges.
Archer O. Simons of Helena was or
Monday appointed by the president te
be Indian agent at the Fort Belknar
agency.
The base ball game played at Helena
Sunday by the Bozeman and Helena
teams resulted in an easy victory for the
latter club by score of 20 to l.
The governor and adjutant general
have decided upon Fort Ellis rs the
place for holding the next annual Ell
cam pment of the Montana National
Guard.
Bids are to be advertised for hs Lieut.
Martin, quarterE.asteE at Fort Keogh.
tAr the construction of a water system
at the fort, for which $4,000 was appro-
priated by congress last winter,
Conductor F'ranls Is. Keyes, employed
on the Montana Central, fell from the
top Of his train near Rereniee on the 2Sth
and was instantly killed. The deceased
leaves wife and child in Helena, where
he had resided
The records in the Bryson case are
held sufficient for all PURPOSES, The de-
fense is l:areed by their brief, in which
they state that the defendant was ar
raigned The discovery of the irregular
ity upon which an attempt was made to
get new trial came too late
|
Wilson in the second round in contest
at Butte Saturday last. The exhibition
is reported to have hesn brutal In the
extreme; AZ the close Of the fight the
receipts were attached to pay debts of
Wilson in Butte and Helena
A fire at Marysville on Monday morn
ing destroyed the Peterson hotel, The
building was twostory log and frame
structure and burned with such rapidity
that the inmates barely had time to es-
cape. The fire is supposed to have been
the work of incendiary The loss il sl,tsx1
with no insurance.
June tlth Ferry Swain and John
Griti, both living near Drummond, be-
came engaged i'll a quarrel, when Griff
struck Swain on the head with 9. eurry
comb. Sunday Swain. died nom the eff
fects of the wound, but the coroner's
Jury has exonerated Griff from any
blame in the affair
Freight trajn No. - ON the Northern
Pacific, when near Butler station Tues
day, parted in two places. The detached
sections collided with each other. ea,:s-
ing a wreck of seven cars loaded with
merchandise, No one was injured. The
track was rapidly cleared Of the wreck
age and no delay was caused in the run
ming of trains.
River Press: A remarkable bovine
birth record stands to the credit of Fort
Benton. A three year old Hereford heif
er at her first calving day or two age
gave birth to three we'll developed calves
on the island just below the city. Two
of the calves lived and will probably be
raised. The animal is the property q
Mr.. Joseph A. Baker, cashier et the First
National bank OF this city.
! Glendive Independent: On Monday
two young men of the tramp order made
their advent in town and after soliciting
food they made their way to the high
bank below town and proceeded to take
a bath, and not being able to swim they
contented themselves by padding about
in the shallow water. One of the party
stepped into deep hole and was soon
beyond all help. His partner says his
name was Walter Smith and his parents
reside in London, England. He was q
years of age.
An attempt at Jail breaking was dis
covered at Boulder on the 9th, by
Sheriff Halford. Bryson, the murderer
under sentence to be hanged, had sawed
La hole through his cell into an adjacent
one. from which he could get into the
cage and from there into the corridor
On searching him saw was found on
his person, while two were concealed in
his boots For the first time since con
victed Bryson weakened. A constant
watch both day and night will now he
kept over him.
| Coternur White has offered reward
of LOCO for the arrest of Pierre Pau
and La La See, two Indians who are
wanted for murder. The proclamation
states that in August 1889, the men
wanted killed two white men near the
mouth of the Jocko, in Missoula county
The men have eluded arrest SO far. and
it was Sheriff Heyfren's late attempt te
capture them that SO aroused the Indi-
ans at the Flathead agency. The re
ward is $500 for each of the murderers
delivered to the sheriff Of Missoula
county.
| The Northern Pacific contractors on
the Gallatin branch have temporarily
abandoned work into the city of Butte
owing toprotests from parties over whose
grounds the line runs. The trouble
grows out of the right of way settlement
The Northern Pacific paid money into
the district court for the right of way
where it now lays tied up subject to the
action of the court. The court it seems