Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-07-02
MONTANA MATTERS.
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.
ReWrit ten, Clipped and Con
densed From Our Valued
Exchanges.
The 37-77 society has organized

The 3-7-77 society has organized
in Butte.
Beginning July 1, the Anaconda
mine will reduce its product SO
per cent.
The races at Miles City began
last Saturday with a good track
and large attendance.
The bridge over the Flathead
river at Columbia Falls is complet-
ed and open to the public.
J. J. Jacobs of Butte has been ar
rested OIL a charge of using theU United
States mails for the transmission
OF lottery matter.
The Graphic announces that a
deal has been completed with CHI
cago capitalists to putt in an electric
light and water works plant at kssl-
ispell.
The annual meeting Of the Mon
tana Press association, which was
to have been held July II at Aua
conda, has been postponed until
October
David Doucet Of Castle was held
up on the road between Philips
burg and Anaconda last week by
two masked men and robbed of $50
in cash and a $50 watch.
The match race which was to
have been run at Sheepshead Bay
Saturday between Montana, Marcus
Daly's horse, and Major Domo, was
declared off on account of muddy
track.
in the rapids drowning Thayer and
Burkhart. euro and Rcinhold
reached the shore in safety, while
their unfortunate companions were
carried down by the swift stream
to an unknown grave.
Stevensville Tribune: Elmer
Bliss was badly hurt by a cave-in
on the 300 foot level in the CurleW
mine on Tuesday and lies in a very
critical condition with a broken
hip and injured otherwise.
Montana Alliance: a Swede
named F. Stoltz, boarding the east
bound train at Clark fork, when
within the city limits of Missoula,
in some way unknown was killed.
His remains were tai ken charge of
by friends.
The body Of an unknown man
was found in an old we'll at Boze-
man last Saturday. It is supposed
the man was murdered for his
money, as he was seen the night
previous in possession of a consid
erable sum.
Jessie Wing, 13-year-old daugh-
ter Of James Wing, WIS drowned
in the Yellowstone at Glendive
Wednesday Of last week. She fell
out of the boat while crossing the
stream. At last accounts the body
had not been found.
Stockgrowers' Journal: Colin
Hunter last week purchased ninety
head Of pure bred Hereford bulls
from local breeders and started
them north by trail to his Montana
range for use in his herd. This is
a worthy example to ranchmen
generally.
Rocky Mountain Hasbandman:
Robert Coburn and Louis Heitman
purchased 5000 head of steers while
on their trip to southern Utah and
are in correspondence with parties
in that section in regard to the Sc
curing of a thousand or fifteen
hundred more.
Madison County Monitor: A
man by the name of Prickett was
killed recently by cave-in at the
Urley mine on Bear Trap creek,
near Riverside. Alex. Erickson,
who was working with him, had
hip dislocated. 1t was rumored
that Jake Ulery was also killed, but
later reports do not corroborate the
statement.
Castle Tribune: Walter II.
Weed, a geologist connected. with
the United States geologic u survey
has been detailed to examine and
report upon the formation Of the
Castle mountains. Two weeks ago
he entered upon his task. He will