The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-10

S snow since November oath, while on
the south it has been bare for short in
tervals during that time, so that the
: extreme cold weather of the past few
+ days is telling on the stock. Should It
3 continue any length of time the loss
will be a very severe one.-Chin ook
Opinion.
J. b. Lewis shot and seriously wound
Z ed G.. III Brown at Nine Mile, last week.
Brown was brought to Missoula, and
> Lewis came up on the same train and
gave hlmslf up, and is now in the coun-
ty. Jail The trouble seems to have
arisen over the collection of a bill.
Brown is a hotel man at Nine Mile, ia
miliarly called Nine Mile Brown" and
Lewis is a carpenter and builder.
SIN round numbers, ID. S. Murray of
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company, says, 1--WE shall spend S50,000in
Montana this year. We propose con
structing a now metallic circuit of cop
per wire from Deer Lodge to Missoula.
a distance of ninety-fOur miles. We
shall put in a new metallic circuit from
Helena to Livingston via. Townsend
and Bozeman. This will be 125 miles.
The new exchange at Bozeman will be
start"d up tomorrow. All circuits will
w SoiiVCtCu WIFI IutlC anu ptUIl6
here may talk to Missoula or Livings-
ton. The distance from Butte to Liv-
ingston via. Garrison will be 205 miles.
The line will be considerably improved
between Butte and Helena"
1t is reported that a S2JO.OO0 hotel is
to built in Butte the coming spring and
Marcus DAILY is back of the enterprise
The official signatures of every gov
ernor. secretary of state and governors
secretary IN the United States have been
secured and placed on file in the cXccu-
tive Office at Helena.
1t is reported in Helena that a tele-
gram has been received from Commodore
Power stating that Secretary Elkins
had accepted the Kesslcr site for the
central military post. This is the prop
erty near Broadwater.
Mrs. Russell, chairman of the commit
tee on pioneer women, reports that she
has found II women in Silver Bow
county who came to the state prior to
1864. SHE will have photographs and a
biographical sketch Of each.
The section foreman of the Second
district of the Missouri division, be-
tween Glendive and Dickinson, pre-
scented Road Master j. G.. T.. Parker.
with a gold watch ard chain. Mr..
Parker has been at the Brainard Sanitar-
ium for some months laid up with ty-
phiod fever.
st. Valentines eve will be celebrated
in Helena by Montana State League No.
|, by a bal masque, a feature of which
will be a ballot for United States sena-
tor. All purchasers of tickets will have
a chance to vote for a United States SEN
ator, and the one receiving the highest
number Of votes will receive his creden-
tials.
\. recent weather report says: In the
Judith Cattle company country the tenn
perature dropped to G3 below and did
not get higher than 80 below for four
days. Never in the history of the
weather bureau in Montana has such
weather prevailed. nor SO many con-
tinuous days on which the temperature
kept below zero.
e. w. B. Harvey. writing from Glen
dive under date of Feb. ., says "the
frigid u n has been transferred to Daw-
son Thirty-tive below zero and a ter
rifle wind yesterday, and 80 degrees be.
low today. 1t is said that cattle are
dying by hundreds. Eastern Montana
is doomed as a stock country
A Butte exchange says: The county
commissioners met today in regular SEES
sion. but the entire day was taken up
in hearing pleas OF paupeTs and cX-
examining bills. This morning before
the doors of the commissioners we're
open, there were twenty-four paupers
waiting on the outside, and at least a
score more came in during the day.
Billings expects a prosperous year,
says an exchange. The remainder of
the Indian fund, 100000, will be spent
on irrigation bitches within 40 miles of
their town; the water power company
will eXpend $4,000 on the extension of
mains and other improvements; $1,000
will be expended for sewerage, and 3d.
600 for a bridge across the Yellowstone.
Billings will also be a supply point for
the settlers on the reservation and for
the force of men on the b. a. Nj. which
will soon be working across the reserva-
ton.
Mayor Mantle of Butte has sent a
circular letter to all the mayors of Mon
tana for a meeting. The letter reads:
THAT the general municipal act of the
laws of Montana may be amended and
revised to suit, SO near as can be. all sec
tlOns of the state. you, your city attOr-
neys and other officers are invited to at
tend a convention to be held in Helena
for the purpose of framing ii bill for
passage by the legislature :. meeting
for organization will be held at the no,
tel Helena at 8 O'Clock "Wednesday, Feb.
s.. The favor of acknowledgment is re.
quested,"
nelenaites have rented the Salvation
army barracks in that city and fitted 1t
up with lodging to accommodate the
poor and homeless.
Last Friday at st. ignatlus Mission
near M~issoula, IA large water tank over
the boiler room in the Sisters building
crushed through the floors. damaging
and destroying everything below. Three
men were caught in the wreck, one of
whom may die from his injuries.
A weather report says: "The only
point SO far heard from that reports IA
continuous temperature above zero dur
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