Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-06-18
MONTANA MATTERS,
A RESUME OF IMPORTA nj
HAPPENINGS,

Rewritten, Clipped and Con
dellsed From Our Valued
Exchanges.
Robinson's circus will shortly ar
rive in Montana for a tour of the
state.
The Montana Baptist association
closed it's annual meeting at Butte
Saturday.
Dillon elected the entire muni-
cipal citizens ticket last week with
the exception Of police magistrate.
The Belmont mine, at Marvs-
vile, has been sold to W. Becker
and associates Of milwaukee,, Wis
cousin.
The sixty stamp mill Of the
Alice Mining company at Butte,
resumed operations Monday after
an idleness of several weeks.
Walter McGilIivary, a rancher
living near Kalispel], was instant
iy killed last week by a wagon load
Of rails tipping over and falling on
him. He was prominent Mason.
George Searles and Wm. Knox,
ranchers near Kalispell, quarrelled
last week over the ownership Of a
forty-acre tract of land. Knox
killed Searles with a shotgun and
escaped.
Three hundred and seventy tax
payers of Dawson county: living
north of the Missouri river, have pc
titioned the county commissioners
to remove the county seat FROM
Giendive to Glasgow.
The grand lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Work men is III
session at Helena in the new audi |
toriun building Many Of the del
egates have been delayed in reach
ing there on account of the wash
outs on the railroads.
The waters in most of the Mon.
tana streams have been unusually
high for several days on account OF
the heavy rains and rapidly melt
ing snow. Railroad traffic has
been seriously interrupted and
mails delayed from all sections.
John Nolan was held up on the
streets of Butte last Friday by two
nen and robbed of $50 in cash and
/ watch and chain. One Of the
giving his name as
John Pratt, was arrested. He had
ust completed a sentence in the
york house for vagrancy.
An important strike was made
n the Amy & Silversmith mine at
Butte last week. The ledge recent
y uncovered is about is inches in
width, and samples taken from it
assay as high as 900 ounces in sill
7er to the ton. This mine has al
eady paid dividends amounting to
100000.
A Great Falls dispatch of Sunday
avs: The continuous rains for
he past three days have caused
he Missouri river to rise rapidly /
Considerable damage is reported
bove and below here. Two log
rivers named McCabe and Gil !
ert were drowned in Half Breed G
apids. {
Rocky Mountain Husbandman:
=. G. E.. Barker and d. J. Anderson
eturned from Helena Tuesday,
here they had taken two carloads !
f Montana gold, silver, platinum l
nd telurium ore to be sampled. J
he first class ore sampled 1850,
ne second class $44O per ton, and b
ne total assay value of the two e
ars IS between twenty-six and W
yenty-e eight thousand and will net II
le happy owners about $4,000. u
The body Of G. NJ. Wilson, the p
;out in the Yellowstone Park, who IT
lysteriously disappeared about a :
ear ago, has been found. It was II
iscovered in the timber about one ?
,ile from Mammoth Hot Springs :
nd identified by papers and cloth :
'g. 1t is supposed Wilson com
lifted suicide on account of a love o
fair. The remains will be inter p
ID at Livingston with Masonic II
onors, Of which order deceased j
as a prominent member. Il
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