Show montana correspondence M T fb ag 1866 affairs political in this territory are ar assuming a rather singular tho the leaders of the union party are arc makin fl preparations prep nations to use their entire strength at washington to defeat any project that may be born of the approaching teri tenito to rial convention they uniformly assert that no ticket will be auth authorized 0 zed nor vote cast for any delegates and further farther that they hey shall reco guis guiss no ac acts passed meet by the legislature which meets I 1 on the fifth of march at virginia thus matters move on in the political arena from lik elk creek boar bar credit and da days Ts gulch we gather that largo large party of irah from kootenai Koo tenal british Br illah possessions had bad arrived and jumped many val valuable Taliu bla claims belonging to californians residing in helena tor for the winter my informant states slates that they seized the aba Re cordora bools and burned them before bla hi aiace face and then tool took possession of all the ground unoccupied A considerable feeling was ar roused upon receipt of this thi intelligence abild horses pisto lt and shot guns guna are arc in do de mandl mandi bapp little trouble will arise from their action as those who took claims S ind and had bad them in person recorded will bo be able abla to prove their title tille and obtain obeal n peaceable possession while those who have never jentho een seen tho the locality nor probably never will but have had their claim elaimy staked off and recorded by proxy prosy are not entitled to hold them nor will they bo be sustained by minor mino rit laws tho the news from this district is unusually encouraging and a largo large emigration hichar will take place in ake th spring another victim of tha sun river excitement cit ement named peter parley in was as found frozen to death a few days since and brought into town yesterday tho the deceased A as ag about thirty eight oars care old tiro five feet eleven elavon inches high light com coin pl flexion exion ion and long sandy candy whiskers ile iio left helena nith a pack animal and riding home it is supposed he became bewildered wil dered in the terrible snow storm which aich cloel follow ed eatho the stampede and without wood or firo fire ho be became sleepy from cold and deliberately laid down to sleep although some twenty days da s hid elapsed his big riding horse d and bridled NN was as found within t twenty euty bards ards of tho corpse this is tho the seventh alo v 10 1 choso whoso life has hag been sacrificed to t the he sun river rover the indian imbroglio vill amount to just nothing at ill all although Alth Alt bugh the tha acting governor has bas used all his persuasive ive powers tu to obtain tho the chinini sary stores I 1 by pledging his word that territorial scrip should bo be issued for tho the saino game pro rata ill ifs is valuation for goods ot merchants v cannot sou the point and refuse to listen beten it is unfortunate that tho the G government overn ment had not posted a email force at rt ft benton and this probably mould have loon leon done before had not their cais been abused niall v ith steam treaties entered into anith ith the beggar portion of th edif ferent tribes A largo large camp 0 are reported ten tell miles milca below benton numbering eight hindered hund hun ored dered warriors in mho be are said tobe to bo anxious for fora a fight blui bite brethren three Il irce piro fire for the ity city of helena imo have been named by the people in iii a mass meeting assembled to take entire charge of the fire department regulate tho tha fire police vi mith aih discretionary n powers to di discharge chargo any officer of said anid department upon proper ahoi ing of neglect of duty incompetency or con duct lliott calculated to render tho the property of i the art rs s james nl vailon aion ki king ua and 1 1 french re rich fit it Is Is I 1 icilla ea ly a ina of cin der cr th chrt d 11 hoam elon liia has escaped the fato of so BO many inan milling 1 tm win in so bolong long 1 I iho ile ell cit is compact built of itell an timber and little attention his been paid to its safety in fact so little that one third of tho the buildings in ill town linio talent at one timo time and another caught firo fire without however hoover doing much daiil dani ngo tige judging bioni aiom the dhimeter chi meter of tile tho gen composing tile ho committee there mil bo be some como overhauling of stovepipes stove pipes lines lacs and file escapes eio tile the beek week n much older INDEX |