Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-04-16
MON TANA MATTERS.
A REsUM ME OF Mt
HAPPENINGS
Rewritten, Clipped and Con
tcnsed From Our Valued
Exchanges.

house, and it is said Frank G. Hig
giAs is interested in the project.
Attorney General Haskell has
rendered an opinion that members
of the Montana National guard are
exempt from paying the poll tax
Inter Mountain.
BY new schedule Of wages
agreed to by the railroad men and
the Montana Union railroad, engi-
neers have been advanced from
25 to so cents per day, and fire
men from Is to 25 cents.
During the last thirty-six days
run Of the Cumberland smeIter at
| Castle, $50 tons of ore were pro
duced, an average Of nearly nine
teen tons daily The market value
Of the output is about S9O,OUO.
Doc seeley, Sandy Lane and Wm.
Woods, three gamblers who tleeced
a young man from Wisconsin out
of 800 in a game Of cards on a
Northern Pacific train, and convict
ed last week at Helena, have been
,r,a "a ,,n,y.
4 man was badly burned about
the face last Friday at the sneltcr;
his name was not learned. He was
engaged cooling off the Stag pots
when, On getting some waiter Cn the
partial cooled mass of Stag, it ex-
pIoded with the above result.-Ana-
conda Review.
Old prospectors believe that there
is any amount OF placer gold yet I'M
discovered in this state. They argue
that the great vein containing this
gold runs across the state, begin
ming at Idaho, and that some one
will uncover it some Of these days,
when it can again be traced and
worked with great profit for a long
distance.-Bozeman Chronicle.
Nothing new in connection with
the proposed lines Of railroad to
this town has developed this week.
We are assured by those interested
in the Montana Midland that the
road will surely he built, and the
Helena people are working away as
though they meant business. Gen.
Haven is at work on the survey.
and everything looks as though
work would begin on the road as
soon as the sno" goes off the noun
tains. We have but to wait and
see-Castle Mining Reporter.
Lieut.. George B. Backus, First
United States cavalry, stationed at
Fort keogh, Mont, arrived in New
York two weeks ago. Recently
nothing has been heard of him.
The war department at Washington
has received a letter from him, it is
said, stating that he intended to
commit suicide,and requesting that
his name be stricken from the rolls.
Before the lieutenant was ordered
to Fort keogh he was stationed at
Fort Custer and during the Pine
Ridge Indian war was in command
of a company Of Grow scouts which
he took to the front.-Stock growers
Journal.
Chief Engineer Haven, of the
White Sulphur Springs & Castle
railway, is in the town Mr.. Haven
states that he finds the route across
the Belt Range very good, aud the
entire distance Of 11O miles to Cas-
tie of the very Lest character for a
railroad. Fifty miles Of the route,
he says, is nearly level and is as
easy to build over as Prickley Pear
valley. In crossing the Belt Range
onl Y one tunnel will be required
and this only a nile in length. The
surveyors are now in the neighbor-
hood Of Castle, and will have fin
ished the preliminary survey in a
few days-Castle Tribune.
Last week W. E. Bruyn, of Gran
ite, had three fingers of his left
hand nearly sawed off. He was
engaged in saving fivefoot tagging,
when his hand slipped from the
guard and came in contact with the
saw. The fingers, it was thought
for time, would have to be am
putated, but after careful examina-
ton it was determined to postpone