The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-04-13

t Agency at Lame Deer with s., 900 wort
! or beef. Stock are so fat at this, tn
close OF winter, that all Mr.. Anderson ha
to do is to round up range stock am
+. drive it to the agency, short distance.
The Helena board of trade have passe,
series of resolutions protesting agains
the unjust discrimination in passenee
rates made by the Northern Pacific j,
issuing stop-oyer tickets to west beunt
passengers good at Spokane Falls ant
other points to the exclusion of Helena.
Pneumonia, or disease strongly re
sembllng it, is making fatal ravages a
Philipsburg and Granite. The maladv i.
so malignant that its victims die within q
few hours after being taken down with it
and few live longer than three days
Most cases are fatal and the doctors are
puzzled over the disease.
The United States supreme court on
Monday affirmed the decision of the
supreme court of Montana in the case of
4Angc .. Hammer VS.. the Garfield Mining
and Milling company. The question in
volved was the right to the so-called
Garfield Or Kinna lode. The Garfield
company brought suit against Hammer
In the court below and won.
Herald: Little Cecil Baker, two wears
and ten months old, and the son of Il. r.
Baker, who lives on the Benedict ranch in
the valley, was killed last Friday by a
gate falling upon him. No one wit
messed the sad accident, and when it was
discovered, the child was lying beneath
the gate dead. The funeral took place
Sunday at o'clock.
fire at Butte on Sunday morning de-
stroyed six buildings and caused loss of
$4,000. The fire originated in Fishers
restaurant, one story building on Broad
way, which was entirely consumed. to-
gether with the Owl restaurant, Job &
Ilckells saloon, Maher & Pollard's saloon
and Chinese restaurant There was not
dollar of insurance on any of the prop
erty destroyed.
Governor Leslie on Monday pardoned
out of the territorial penitentary William
II. Burgess, who shot and killed a man
named O'Brien at Maiden in September.
1887. The trouble that led to the killing
originated in controversy over the
ownership of the Florence mine near Mai
den, and it was generally believed that
Burgess was justified in firing the fatal
shot on the ground of self defense.
Frank G. Trushell, an expert book
keeper employed at the First National
bank at Butte, has disappeared and with
him $500 of the banks funds. Trushell
came to that city from San Francisco and
brought excellent letters of recommend
alton from responsible business men of
that city. The officers of the bank in
cline to attribute the theft to unsound
mental condition rather than premed |
itated steal. Later advises state that
Trushell was arrested at Helena, where !
he was employing his ill-gotten gains in
rlotous living, and taken back to Butte
to answer for his crime
Husbandman: From citizen of Castle |
We learn that Hensley Bros are preparing
to start up their smelter in about a month. |
When started it is proposed to keep it
running right along. They will work ores
from their own mines-the Yellowstone
and American-also some custom ore.
The coal mine, some fourteen miles south
Of town, having proved to be good, they
will get their fuel supply from there
Coking ovens are to be put up at the mine
to coke all the coal they need
The coal has been tested and proves to be
first class for coklng. With the smclter
and coal mine in operation, business at
Castle will he pretty good this season.
A Washington special says: E. L.
Bonner, president of the Montana In
provement company, called upon the sec
retary of the interior in company with
Delegate Carter IN reference to the dis
missal Of certain suits now standing in
the courts against the company, but which
owing to the uncertainty in the quality of
evidence supplied against the defendants,
are not likely to be pushed. The case
was discussed at some length. The secre-
tary, it is said, will investigate the action
Of the employees of the general land office
in the territory, who are believed to be
using their influence and connections to
further political ends. 1t is not unlikely
hat several dismissals from the service
will follow at an early day.