Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-12-16
NEWS IN MONTANA.

The Montana building at the worlds
fair brought 500.
a f.:rners' Institute was in session at
Great Falls LIST week.
The Missouri FLYER froze over earlier
than usual this year at Fort Benton.
Tie reform. school at Miles City will,
ie ready ior in.u,ltes not later than
Feb. /.
The Butte, Anaconda ard Pacific rail-
road Is now open for business letween
Butte and Anacoud...
The Montana National hank at Helena
opened for business Monday morning
and resumed its place anons Montaua's
solid financial institutions.
The meeting Of the directors of the
Great Falls and Canada railroad which
was to have been held at Great Falls
last week Was postponed until Dec. 16.
Thomas Black, assistant roadmaster
o.. the Great Northern, died of typhoid
fever at Great Fa',s. His WIFI accom-
panied his remains to Devils Lake.
n. D.
During the rise in Mix river last
week a part of the dam ju@t west OF
Harlem was carried away. Little loss
was inflicted, except for the necessary
repairs to the dl,n.
A quarrel Between Frank and Box
Miller, lroti@rs, living on ranch in
Park county. eliminated i'll the death Of
the latter by a llow from an axe handle.
Frank gave himself up
Governor Richards has granted a par.
don to Hugh Norton who was convicted
of burglary i'll the second degree at
Butte Sept. 90. 1892. Q. jactions will be
heard bv the state board of ,,ardons Sat-
urlay, Dec. 90.
Attorney General Haskell has decided
that the reading OF the Bible in publ;
schools is illegal, and that schools in
wiki h the practice is continued will LOSE
their public money. The case came up
from Ennis county.
Francis Pope, colt bred and raised
by Colonel w. B. Hundly of Eelena and
named after the secretary of the Mon
tana Fair associt;ion, wo; the Mexican
derby, mile and onc-tour:h at the City
Of Mexico and carried 1a3 pounds.
On The last pay day Manager Wharton
OF the Butte City railway was notfitrl
that the bnts would NOT advance any
mere money on the r.. ways credit.
TIE road will probably be shut down. 1t
has been losing money since it started
James Shields of Anacond, has pur.
chased 800 acre; OF coal laid; from the
Castner Coal and Coke company ut
Bit. This purchase incladas, the pres
ent mines OF the company. Several
hundred men will be put at work sooil.
Game is reported unusually abundant
IN the bad lands at the mouth OF tho
Juci, h river and on lower Arrow creek.
A party of four hunters from Great
Falls spent a week on lower Arrow
creek during the recent cold spell! and
killed "a deer.
The motion to quash the indictments
against Charles Jones, the train robber,
for murder Oh the Crow r>.scl va.ion, AMI
James Moots, his alleged accomplice,
was denied by Judge Knowles of the
United States court. They claimed
they shoull have been present and al
lowed to challenge the grand jurors.
Articles of incorporation Of the Maiden
| Rock Mining and Smelling company
have been filed in Secretary of State
Rotwitt's Office. The incorporators are
J. ODourka, D. Goldber G. NJ Cole
IN n, l. M Jacobs, E. w. kempcr and
J. f. Brick. The eaptal stoe is to le
So, COO, o,ooo, divid, d into 100000 shares
Of 81 each. Operations are to be carried
on i'll Silver Bow county, with al Office
at Butte.
The Golden Messenger mine. near
York, owned by Mtssrs. Tomas
Dougherty, Fuller of Canyon Ferry,
Carl Bergstranl Clark and others, has
been sold to Wright AMI Sheridan, Chi
cago parties, for $50, 900 The purchas-
ers will soon enlarge the plant and be-
gin working the mine on an extensive
scale. The mine is a gold property, an /
the sale includes eight claims and a 10
stamp NIL.