The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-09-05

| Albany Il st. Lewis railway. All the In
iured are in Tell City. Nearly all the
passengers were from local points on
the road.
! The shaft house, hosting works, ma
chinery and timbers in the Stockton
shaft, thirty miles west of Salt Lake,
were burned Wednesday night. The
loss will be $4,000 to S50,CC0. No in
formation has been received as to its
origin. No lives were lost, all the
miners who were in the shaft escaping
by another outlet. The property was
owned by Neidringhaus of st. Louis.
The Russian minister of fnance has
already availed himself of the ukase to
put in circulation two issues, each cf
25,COO,O00 of paper roubles. 1t is rumor-
ed that he intends to make further
issue of 5O,O00,00O roubles guaranteed by
the gold in the state bank. A persist
ent rumor is current that a high duty
will be placed on the white wheat. The
Novoe Vremyn demands that the gov
ernment interdict the expectation of
Bread the Jews having availed them
selves of technical omission in the rye
ukase to export rye loaves.
The Dalles, Oregon, was visited by a
destructive conf1agration Wednesday
afternoon. The town from Main street
west is in ruins. The burnt district
comprises the best portion of the town
and covers about seventeen blocks. A
change in the direction Of the wind is
all that saved the business portion of
the city from being completely wiped
out. The heaviest losses are as follows:
Vogt & Coon, opera house block and
Third regiment armory, 1895, 200; Mich
olson & Co., brick building and ware
house. stationery and jewelry, $4,000;
M. X. Wingate & Co., general merohan-
disc, $4,000; f. P. Fitzgerald, store and
residence, $4,000. Total loss. s191 ,OcO,
Cattle Shipments.
Helena independents: T. A. Mathews,
ex stock inspector of the Wyoming and
Montana Stockgrowers' association, and
at. present the general travelling live
stock agent of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Kansas City Railroad company, arrived
in the city on Friday morning via the
Northern Pacific and departed yesterday
morning via the Great Northern rail
road. Mr.. Mathews was for over seven
years connected with the above associa-
tions and is in all probability one of the
best posted men in the state On matters
pertaining to range anci i've stock inter
ests. Having Just returned from east
ern Montana he was seen by an Inde-
pendent reporter and asked concerning
the range and live stock outlook for the
current season. We'll, sir,' replied Mr..
Mathews, "to commence with, the range
was never finer. TIE nutritious bunch
grass fcc which Montana is so noted and
which has made her fat juicy beefsteaks
SO famous in the markets Of the world,
is simply all that could be possibly de-
sired, Owing to the late spring rains it
has kept green until the present time,
whom it is curing elegantly, and during
the coming fall and winter will equal
the best preserved hay When asked
about the quality and probable quantity
Or number of cattle that would be ship
ped from Montana to the Chicago mar
ket this season, he replied: Beef cat
tie are fatter and for the most part
smoother than than they have been for
five years past, and already 800 Street
stable cars have been ordered by ship
pers at points along the line of the
Northern Pacific, between Dickinson
and Morrell, for dates ranging from the
lst to the 10th of September, ! am also
under the impression that cars for about
10000 head viii be required to handle
the shipments of the Great Northern
from Montana