Show Montana Matters Bozeman has 678 persons of school age Daylight has been let through Bozeman tunnel The postoffices at Gregory and Lincoln have been discontinued The Constitutional convention convenes at Helena on Monday January 14th Henry Gilbert has commenced rebuilding re-building his brewery at Virginia City Treasurer Gilpert of Madison county had 848759 on hand when he settled last week Two of the leading Missoula firms transacted a retail trade on Monday aggregating nearly 6000 A New England association has been organized in Miles City It has thirty soven members The school apportionment of Madison Mad-ison county this year is 9381 SO There twentyfive districts Good coal has been struck near the mouth of Dupuyer Creek The vein at one place is fifteen and at another six feet thick The new reduction works at Virginia City are running quite successfully and already there is talk of increasing the capacity of the works A stabbing affray occurred in Bozeman on Monday morning Mat Morrison a policemen being severely se-verely stabbed in the abdomen The wouldbe murderer was arrested arres-ted At Junction City on Christmas eve some unknown person from a place of concealment fired at Al Phelps with a shotgun the charge entering his head neck shoulders and arms producing a serious if not fatal wound At Miles City C G Cox and J H Garlock had a falling out the other day and Cox charged Garlock withdrawing with-drawing a gun on him and had him arrested The trial resulted in the defendants acquittal and the plaintiff plain-tiff footing the bill The Mountain time is now in full operation in Helena Banks schools courts churches industries professions stores hotels boardinghouses boarding-houses restaurants theatres newspapers news-papers and housekeepeis have accepted ac-cepted the new departure and advanced ad-vanced their tickers 27 minutes The Bozeman Chronicle says that the person or persons who exhumed the body of John A Clark hanged last Thursday were not there any too soon to accomplish their object for the visit of a second party to the grave with the same object after the labor of reaching the coffin only exhumed a bottle of whisky and a cigar He was worth more after he was dead than he was when alive i i |