The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-07-24
STATE NEWS.

Missoula has just sold $4,000
school bonds, bearing 6 percent, at
par less q commission of s1,047.
The assessment of Lewis and Clark
county is completed and shows a to-
tai of S35, 9O3,439 assessable proper
ty; an increase of $1,073,430 over
last year.
The general land office at Helena
has awarded to George H. Stannard
of Helena the contract for survey of
a certain tract Of land in the Flathead
region in northwestern Montana for
1880.
An interesting and exciting game
of base ball was played at butte
Sunday between the Athletics of
Helena and the Electrics of Butte.
Nine innings were played, the score
being five to three in favor of Butte.
Dawson county's assessment will
run to three million three thousand
one hundred and fourteen dollars this
year, being an increase of six hundred
and fftynine thousand four hundred
and fortyeight dollars over last
cars asscssm ,at.
At Helena Monday Sherman S.
Farr a colored man employed at the
Hotel Broadwator shot another color
ed employc named G. l.. Rhoads. The
wounds were slight, there being
three. Farr gave himself up. There
had been some q~uarreling among the
men, which led to the shooting.
The supreme court on Monday
handed down its decision in the Da-
Wis will case, refusing the application
for a change of venue made by the
contestants. This leaves the case for
adjudication in the district court at
Butte, presided over by Judge Nc
Hatton, and will be considered a
point scored against the contestants.
Yellowstone Journal: The Bur-
lington & Missouri road announces
that they will complete their track to
Donkey creek, a branch of Powder
river, and will ship cattle from there
this season. 1t is reported hat they
have selected a townsite on Powder
river and will make a town a short
distance south of the Montana line.
At the school election held at Boze.
mar Saturday, for the purpose of
voting a special school tax of $4,000
to be expended in the improvement
of the west side school building, the
proposition was defeated by a vote
81 to 30, it being the popular i'm
preston that it would not be wise to
put so much money in the building
at present.
Articles of incorporation were
filed Tuesday on the Accidental
Mining company, by John Hanley,
E. ID. Garfield, S. A. Pepper, c.. l..
Merrill, E. J. Jones, Hi Astle, G. r.
Middleton, l.. King, J. J. Hook, H.
F. Batchelder and w. +. Savage.
The capital stock is $4,000, 600.
Acting Secretary Chandler has re-
versed the decision of the commits
sioner of the general land Office in
the cas- of VIM. A. Fletcher vs.. The
Northern Pacific railroad on an ap-
peal of the former from the commits
sloncr's decision rendered March 20,
1890, holding for cancellation a tract
of land in the Bozeman, Montana,
land district. Fletcher will now re-
ceive uudisputed title to this valua-
bic tract.
At Deer Lodge, Tuesday, the
three-eighths of a mile dash was
won by Eclipse, Jr.,i in "a 1-5 seconds,
the fastest time on record for this
distance, beating the time of Cyclone
in Helena, in August, 1889, which
was 344. 1t is by no means the first
time the worlds record has been
beeten at the Deer Lodge track.
The horse is owned by o. j. Gordon
of Wakefield, Nebraska. Yellowstone
was second, Bay Tom third and the
Jew fourth. The purse was 5000.
Mr.. Tracy, a farm hand in the en-
ploy of VIM. I. Mauldin, was killed
by lightning two miles north of Dill
on Monday afternoon. He and an
other man were irigating wheat when
the storm came up. His companion
felt the stroke, and, looking over
where Tracy was working, saw that
he had fallen. His clothing was torn
and his body badly charred. Trac,
was about 20 years of age and re.
Gently came from Fort Lupton, Col.
where his parents reside.
After this week the general deliv