The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-01-10
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

Lieut.. Ben Calkins OF the First Mon'
tana regiment has. arrived in San fr"n'
cisco from the Philippines. .
9. .. Estep Of this state has been ap.
lpointed compositor in the government
printing office at Washington.
The twelfth annual meeting Of the
Montana Society, pf Engineers is to pe
held in Helena three days this "eeA'
commencing tomorrow.
The annual report Of the state boaro
OF education has been filed with 'he
governor. 1t consists mainly OF mat
ters previously considered at the board .
recent meeting.
Senator Mantle has introduced ah
amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill, granting 1000 acres at the Fers
KeOgh military reservation for the edn-
cation Of Indian children.
In his report to the commissioner Of
the general land ofioe Surveyor Cen.
eral Beattie estimates that SIS, 600 Will
be required for public surveys in Mon
tana for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1900.
W.. H.. Sntberlin, Montana's comis:
sioner at the Omaha fair, has received
a number Of the diplomas that the ex-
position awarded to Montana exhib'
itors. These will be distributed in a
few days.
The Daily MissouliaD has ceased pub
LEGATION. Lack Of patronage is assigned
as the cause. The Weekly Muscular
will, however. continue. Missoula is
without a daily for the first time in
eight years.
At a meeting Of the city council OF
Livingston, held last week, the city
clerk was ordered to call for bids for
furnishing survey, plans, specifications
and estimates for the sewer to be con
structed in that city.
George Peterson, who came to Butte
recently from Nevada, was found dead
in a gully just southeast of town Sun
day. His head had been mashed OF
cut to pieces with an axe and less than
a dollar in change was, found on his
person. He had been killed and
robbed and the body dragged into the
gulch.
Henry Filing of Virginia City, presi-
dent of the Union Bank & Trust com
pany Of Helena, says that 1898 was a
memorable year in the history of Mon.
tana. More Indebtedness was liquidat.
ed in the state than in many years past
and, so far as he was able to observe,
the state enjoyed a greater degree Of
prosperity than in any year since 1890.
W. W. Cheely has sold the Madison
ian of Virginia City to Joseph Smith
II. In his s%alutatory the latter says
the paper will be independent in poll,
tics. Mr.. CHIEFLY made the Madisoniar
a splendid paying property and he re-
tires from the field with a goodly
amount of cash. His friends wish hin
equal success in whatever line of bust
ness in which he engages.
The Great Northern surveyors are a,
work in the vicinity Of Fort BenUn,
They have surveyed routes through thu
river bottom below town, around. thu
Evans ranch, along the foothills lead
ing to the Benton depot, and. arount
the butte i'll the vicinity Of the OLE
powder house. 1t IS understood. tina
the various surveys will be Forwarded
to headquarters at st. Paul. at an earl.
date.
The Red Lodge Union meat marke
was Incorporated Saturday by film,
articles with the secretary of state
The capital stock is 81, 600 and tn
trustees and incorporates, with tn
amounts of their subscriptions. are
Patrick J. O'Brien, So, 900; Bed Lodg
Miners union, $1,000; David Haw
thorne, $500; John F. Dunn, 800
Rees Davis. 800; Dominick Contero
$500.
One of the buildings Of the Mentan'
Wesleyan university in Helena, know
Las the Cottage, caught fire Saturda,
morning and was totally destroyed
No lives were lost, although there wer
two narrow escapes. The Cottage wa
used as a place Of residence By Chan
cellor Iliff and family, President Va
Scoy, family and some Of the students
probably twenty. The heaviest l0sse
were sustained by Chancellor Tiff, VIII
lost everything, and President Va:
Scoy. who lost a large part of his pc,
sonal effects. Both were away, tn
former at Miles City. The buildin
was insured for $4,000.
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