The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-01
The total assessed valuation of
Montana is $118, $50, S92. The to-
tai assessed valuation of the state
by counties is as followers:

Yellowstone. .t-,40U 467,
In the late election Granite coun-
ty voted on the location of The
county seat and Philipsburg came
out victorious. The vote stood,
Philipsburg, us; Stones Station,
247; Drummond, 100.
The Montana Brewing company of
Great Falls has just completed it's
new bottling works, equipped with
the best modern machinery, and is
now turning out thirty cases of
beer a day. The company since
they started have been. .disposing
of about 900 barrels of their pro-
duct per month. Next spring they
will put in a mailing plant at an
expense of about s35, 600.
Last Saturday morning John
Washington, a colored soldier from
Assinaboine, was found dead in his
cell in the county Jail at Fort Benz
ton. He had hanged himself.
Martin Stephens, the man who
shot W. ]. Beager the street car
conductor about u year ago at
Butte, and was acquitted by an en-
thusiastic jury a few weeks age,
has gone to Africa His victim is
still a physical wreck.
Burglars pried open the storage
building belonging to the residence
of Gov. Richards at 221 South
Washington street, Butte, Satur>
day night or Sunday morning, but
until an inventory of the contents
is taken it will not be known what
the thieves secured.
The Dillon National bank has.
declared another 10 per cent divi-
dend for its depositors. This is
the seventh one.
Rich placer diggins have been
discovered on French creek, about
twenty miles from where Colgate's
body was found.
The coal mines in the vicinity of
Drummond rand Stone Station,
Granite county, promise when fully
developed to prove big bonanzas.
An eastern brewer is to erect a
large brewery at Bozeman in the
near future. The water there is
good and the barley unsurpassed.
Fort Custer has been reduced
from a first to a second class post.
One company of the Twenty-fifth
infantry and four troops of the
Tenth cavalry are now stationed
there.
The Great Falls Leader suggests
that in view of the fact that that
portion of the state is underlaid
with coal, natural gas might be Sc
cured by boring a deep well. Try
it.
VIM. Ballenger, of Nye, Mont,
who is "a years of age, kill a silver
tip bear On the Saltwater recently.
The animal weighed 900 pounds
and measured seven feet nine in
ches from tip to tip.
The Great Falls school board and
the Northwestern National bank
are having an interesting time over
a recent issue of school bonds.
They were issued for the purpose
of building a new school house, and
the bank bought them with the
proviso that the supreme court
should first pass upon their legal
+ ty. The district court held that
the bonds were all right, but the
supreme court has reversed that
verdict. The bank had advanced
money as it was needed for the
construction of the building to the
Y extent of $40, 900, and now the
question is how r they to be re,
S imbursed. The contractor is also
: out to the tune of three or foul
thousand. 1t is claimed that the
school board could not legally make
these claims good from a new issue
i of bonds, not from any other money
' they may have. An interesting
e legal squabble, with expense to al
parties, seems to be the most likely
outcome.
S AT the recent meeting of the
county commissioners a specia
election was ordered at Townsend