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The Tribune. SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION 8 VI. NUMBER 102 GREAT FALLS, MONTANA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1890. PRICE. 5 CENTS 6e. A's MIIIury BIll on (St Patok's Day). Id p nox 'em All. the new spring celebrated hats. ieor? yB buy my clothees TON where I can Tailor-Made goods t shrunk, at about e I shouldhaveto at Bloom in the to put in their ap- t nd it is time that blossom out in new apparel, neat and ady for the eoming You have a great this summer, and a tlook as if you had p by a hard winter. Silnty must go your old La es. There is no ex- a lay, for at prices un- Pe ore, you can be pro the BOSTON with ra and working shoes, OV; styles of hate and se In Bros. latest novel- n sel shirts, silk shirts, inj iePe To Helena da operas and balls of show the people th a nice lot of well- r ntlemen can look he furnished by the of Great Falls. r hmen, Real Estate In ants, Capitallst or Bankers, all alike, ag to suit their lequippedBOSTON. cc tantly coming and as The merry chink in larly heard over ,e ters in exchange for make people happy and of are Therem...Go and Sae Theml for the Celebrated 0 SHATS. fIBOSTON, gad slhoeHo Bae, to First National *pnk FLOOD IS UPON THMI. Mississippi Flownlg Over the Tops of the Levees at New Oleane--SIt uation Critical. Waters Gradually Rising in All the Tributaries-Flarmers Camping In the Hills. NE.w ORLEAnS, March 17.--The river here at 8 a, m. was 16.8 feet, at 2:45 p. m. it was reported by the harbor station M at 16 feet, 9 inches, and at 2:50 p. m. Ihey reported the water at 17 feet, but it t Semained at that point but a short while when it receded to 16 feet, 8 inches, where it seemed to make a stand. This was six inches above the record of other years and the water went over the levees F ,long the city front at every depression tl Sr low place, and soon flooded the streets d nod sidewalks of a large section of the I city. Up town at the head of Jackson, Washington and Sarapapru streets the waves washed over the levee and sub- b merged the streets and sidewalks. The same thing occurred at other points dowa to Poydras street. There the wa ter spread out over the broad space ocu pied by the Morgan road, filled up the low places and then began to flow down Poydra street and out into the gross streets on either side, covering the dide walks on Poydras street as far aE St. Charles street, and filling the gutters back to the drainage canals. At the t rear of the city on Gravier street the water flowed freely completely covering the street in placs. At the head of Canal street the water was running over the levee but very lit Ile, but at Custom House street to Conti :.le water comes, over the levee freely and completely submerged the streets anod in many places the sidewalks and lower floors of business houses. From ;he north side of Canal to Hospital street, a distance of fourteen blocks from the river, to Rampart street, a distance of eight blocks, the water flows off in the gutters or street drains to the drain age canals in the rear of the city. Be ng ow Eliyan Fields street the water Is also passing over the levee in many places. On the north side of Canal street the sidewalk in front of the Toure building was overflowed. Hill's jewelry store was invaded by water and other busi ness places suffered in a like manner. ies The damage done so far is not given. The greatest damage was that sustained by merchants who had sugar stored in ds the old bonded warehouses on Old Levee - street. At 9:20 the gauge at the head of Canal street was 16.8 feet, showing that the river has remained stationary since 8p. m. The overflow seems to have taken people by surprise, though all who had buslnos on the levee made preparations G for it to some extent by removing their goods to safequarter. rvi Since Wednesday evening the levees Yo acros the river have been il danger and ire the water is coming over from the line to of the Davis crevasse above the city to to the lower line, a distance of some i- the teen miles. In many instanqes the water the tfows back for ten squares. Large forces lave been at work raising the levee with sacks filled with earth. A break occurred at the Batch place near Harvey's canal but it only reached a width of four feet when it was discov ered and promptly closed. It is still aof dangerous spot, as the levee is very weak rin there. Thelevee at Sharps place, five Ca miles above Gretna, where tlhere wasa rise serious crevasse some years ago, is again hot creating anxiety, as it shows signs ofTh weakening, and a force of men worked all night to strengthen it. the The private levee on Davis Island, nv SLake Concordia, hae given away, flood- ksu tog Novelty, Evergreen, Sahara, Morgan int sad Polawauttma plantations. The bee .teamer Leathers is hard aground at Th Pecan Grove. oc Midnight-It has been raining steadily ra but slowly since 8 o'clock p. m. The 8.2 rainfall has added to the water pssling .4 over the levee in front of the ity, and, inc running back. has overflowed a large b I section of thecity in the vicinity of bu Claiborne street. The river gaugeshows N no material change. The water is flow- has inog overthe levee rapidly at the head of Oh Peters street, and the sidewalks in the me vicinity are submerged. The water is otl also runnng over the levee pretty freely bet at Third, Fourth, Sixth, ighth,Tole N dano, Sarapaseu and State streets. Gangs of men are working along the 47a levee at many points and the flow of fe water into the Ity may a checkedif wil Sthere is no further rise. The rallroads b e doing good work in assisting the an. lev Stborities a along the line. The outlook, Vi k however, is by no meane reauring. Th still diistn ast Oresavller AG axacL e, Miss., Mareb 17.--The T river rme two inches here and about the are same at t points in this section. The ha levees stillold out. At some places be- ts low Arkansas City the water is running ro over the leves. Rain continues. Rater Almset Over Tees Tops. los r N Lwpou, Ark., March 17. -There aroe o r. country between here and Newark, an fourteen mile distant, i under water e At Black Rook the farmers are flockin k into town, leaving their farmand tote to ~the mercyof he water. From point to its mouth the Black river resenm t tis an inland sea. At places the water f is almost over the tree tops. Hundredse Sof people have been oompelled to e - o doa their homea and the lo wfll e heavy. All taffc is suspended' and the waters are still rising. A t Raiway Trst ae uspended. T. LoUse, Mo., March 17.-The Iron he Mountain road suspended traffic Thurs. sh day n account of the floods, and will t not for the present receive .ither freightt. or pssengers. The onapany hopes to e get a train through tod., but thepr pecprargodforaoomplete tan stillOf ~or la we.k.: fmo People amplpll se the Hillu. CcataNrL as, o., Marsh 17.--Birds Point, Mo,, is ntirely submerged, and be all of the pople er amped m onthesur- t rounding bh . Over 110,Ol0 as of er farming lands are und wterr, and the Sfloods are increasing. Maey Coal asra easLk. NIJxe, Mis., Maoh 17.-The entire eb coal eetk her broke loose fso moor i.g in Wedmseday nIght's stoes. The steamer Alamom soceeded In saving i- i teen barges of . It in notret known kr h wnu ay o he asess NO TRAINS AT CAIRO. S All the Railroads lunning North Are Of Under Water. Il CAIRO, Ills., March 1.-In conse quence of the floods no through trains have left Cairo on either of the three railroads running north in the last thirty -ix hours. The general managers of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas road and the Grand Tower and Carbondale met here and arranged an exchange of traffic Iy way of De[ta,'Mo., which will gl I lhe former an outlet from Cairo via the r ;obile and Ohio and Illinois Central, when these roads are in operation again, l P which will be to-day. Yesterday 400 in feet of the Illinois Central track at Ullin, n. two miles above here, was under water i to the depth of five feet. le NEWS BREVITIES. The Bank of England's rati of dis-. count has been reduced to 4 per cent. Ci Mr. Parnell has recommended Mr. ee Vesey Knox, an Ulster Protestant, to cO mI the electors of West Cavan as a candi- ar to date for parliament to succeed the late in e Mr. Joseph G. Biggar. of n, The Bell Telephone company has de dared a dividend of 8 per share, paya b- hle April 185 to stockholders of record W e March 81. The books will be closed from April 1 to 15. a- R. T. Saunders, alias R. D. Davis the u- fugitive potmaster of Plumb Branch, S. m he C., was arrested at San Francisco and confessed that he had stolen $1,200 from t Dhe mals. as placed in charge of e Deputy United tatese Marshal Hopkins, 17 to be taken hast. re Erickson, the Norwegian who prediots he the destruction of San Francisco, Oak- s1 or land. Alameda, Milwaukee and Chicago ot og on April 14, and has been wandering th aibout warning citizens of Oakland to er flee to the mountains, was looked up in it- the Alameda county jail Wednesday on di iti the charge of insanity. Erickson and a v ly :,ther or' or*iur eli tks have gathered a nt r h crowds in the streets of Oakland Id tat the police were forced to interfere. i LEVEES CANNOT HOLD in f The Chief Engineer Orders People It fl so the Bottom Lands Along the Ark. annas to Reek Safety. w si. Over Four Cable Miles of Rain Have J . Fallen in the Ohio Valley id In Four Days. a in cm War Department Aiding in Strength. he ening the Dykes-Rivers Above st P. . High Water Mark. ad Gn ORRERNVILS, Miss., March 15.-The T river continues to rise. Chief Engineer es Young says the Arkansas levees must ad break, and he requests the newspapers ai tD to announce that he warns everybody in ix it- the adjacent bottoms to look out for p er their lives and property accordingly. It es . n 0 m. SPECIAL RIVER BULLETIN. Ti The ignal Ofmee Furnishes Some. Ioror- 1i mation Abont tie Floods. tit WASHINGTON, March 15.-The signal TI Soffice furnishes the following special t k river bulletin: The stage of the river at oc s Cairo, Ills., is 48.8 feet. The water has w a risen half a foot in the past twenty-four or a hours and one foot in the last four days. cc The conditions are favorable for a fur- TI ther rise. Within the next five days the river will approximate the highest 8 - known water, 52.2 feet. At Cincinnati, i n in the twenty-four hours past, there has oi e been a rise of 7 feet; at St. Louis 1 foot. is t There has been h fall of 8 feet at Chatta- pi nooga and 1 foot at Nashville. The of Y rainfallin the past four dayshas been 0 e 8.8 inches at Louisville and Fort Smith, Ia f 2.4 inches at Indianapolls, and about 1.5 inches at Little Rock, Memphis, Vick Nburg, Shreveport, Cincinnati and Colum i bus Ohio, and 1 inch at St. Louis and m rs Nashville. The quantity of rain that m - has fallen in the drainage area of the r if Ohio river in the past four days is esti m mated to be 41-8 cubic miles. Three re i cubic miles of this has fallen in the area ai 7 hetween Cincinnati, Chattanooga and a SNashville. w a At Vickbrg the stage of the water is a S47.4 feet. It has risen four-tenths of a Sfoot in the past twenty-four hours. It Swill probably rise to 49 feet. There has is been an extensive break in the main , . levee at Aeatil, thirty-nine miles above Vt i Vcksburg on the West bank of the river. The Arkansas at Little Rock has risen 8 1-2 feet in the past twenty-four hours, i Ie The rainfall in the Viksburg drainage D s area below Cairo in the past four days as has been two cubic miles. The present - prosect are that the stage of river igfroi Cairoto Vicksburg will e one of the highest known. WRthoutdesiring to create general alarm in the valley of the lower Mslisippi it would seem that the fi re coming stage of water warrants the ad. I ne visabi ty of timely removal of stock a and such other property e would be de- a etroyed by an extreme flood. Owing in a, Sthe lack of alarger number of reainfall t stations from whioh to accurately deduce at the entire amountof rainfall, the signal tfes is unable to give more definite In formation as to the extreme height to be o reached or the date on which it will oo- II p. our, _ _ GOVERNMENT TO THE RESCUE. Apprprlitleas Made to Aid in S(rength asi/a the Lvees. f Maisums, Tenn., March 15.-The river n here is within three Inches of the highest stage on record and the tributaries con tinuetoo brig down to the Misaessippi immense volumes of water. The levees Sre objects of great anxiety, Secretary t Sllof War Proctortelegraphedhere to Capt. a Sears of the engineers ailoting $80,000 e for use in strengthening the levees be- a tween here and the gulf, and all efforte s a willbeturnedn that diretion. It is e ad hoped the orevae ast Sapplagtons, on r- the Arkanes, maybe ow alsthe gov aof ement force at work there. Ari n e esa City, belew the mouth -o the Arkansas, the river is now six inohes above the highest water ever kno-nI and at Greenville5 on 6sa MisasissppIl ire sde, it isafoot higher, ut th.levees i or- ON ,r sadtrong. At thai1 Aa "ias of T eonnsee river, fttj Scale hatrin snrvuneb n through the 1 water for amileor more on eaS side ofther trek, dsa m tfafew incluh gk moreil apt 06 *h0 a" 3Ih995e 0110101 serrlen Rls . 5 8TOL CAISHB ANDWOMAN. , lo)fanlt r Kunzel, of Blue Earth, S Caught at Kansas City and adi ee Returned. the ;v-_ F ra hie lish d ie lhid Eloped with City Funds and the let lls lrother's Wife-He Admits the I the Crime. th hen -ton n, Three of the Whitehall Lyneihers Fondthe 00 Guilty of Mnrder-Twenty-five u er Others Fined. ma per exl KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 17.-Henry ca isb Keunel, late treasurer of Blue Earth Brl City, Minn., was Thursday arrested, and ala r is in charge of the sheriff of Faribault goy Scounty, on his way to that city. The ral di- arrest was madeon an indictment charg- oth ste irg hint with having appropriated $2,00 of the city's money. Itis also chlarged et e- that he stole from his brother $4.000. ane He becarme enamored of his brother'se tr wife some time ago. and in compan U d with her came lire from Blue Earth City. Kunzel admitted having taken P $1,000, but said he left $2,500 worth o he property at his home and also sufficient S. money to cover the loss to the city. nd ter -m LYNCHERS CONVICTEbD. Of c r oea e, Chree Leaders in the Olson Tragedy tge Whitehall, Wis., Guilty of Murder, h e WnrHITEHALL. Wis., March 17.-Ole C. stn ak. Sletto, Ole J. Hanson and Bertha 14. cit yo Oleson were found guilty of murder il ,o ,g the first degree for complicity in the tho in lynching of Hans Jacob Oleson on Sun on day, Nov. 24. Immediately after this da verdict had been rendered and the suo ceeding excitement had in some mess- o sed eeedingexcine re, uee subsided, the parties arrested on the y double clharge of riot and lynching Ole- is s.on, twenty-five in number, were at a 1 raigned in court. Mr. Frawley, attof- [i iey for Charles Johnson, the man who to led the mob, and who had already eon hi fessed to being guilty of murder in thi Is first degree, addressed the court, saying that his client wislled it understood that the rioters were led by him, and that It was at his instigation that the crime was committed. He therefore asked for the clomenecy of the court on their behal .! eye Judge Nerwman immediately passed sen teln,'e upon tie rioters, fixing the penaltt at $100 and costs of prosecution or at months in the county jail, except in the case of Elbert Oleson, who has been al ready three months in jail and whob fine was fixed at $50 or three months i jail. The sentence of Sletto, Mrs. Ol son and Hanson, with Charles Johneo, the confessed murderer, was deferred. GOVERNMENT FOR OKLAHOMA. :. tLe The Treat Formed Into a TerrltosM, Public Lend Strip Included and es`= e elared Open. Di t WAsmINGTON, March 17.-The house to are amended the Oklahoma bill by establish- wi in ing a land office in No Man's land and se for prohibiting the sale of liquors in se the territory till after the adjourn ment pf the fleet legislature. or The bill was then passed, yeas rot. 100, nays 25. It is a substitute for tihe senate bill on the same subject. tii ral The bill contains pruvisions which, in a teal substance fix the boundarioes of the newS territory so as to include the Cherokee r at outlet with a proviso that no lands to th hs which the Indians occupy under treaty Pt our or law shall be included without their ef lys. consent, except for judicial purposes. i fr. They extend over the new territory theI the constitution and laws of the United at States and the code of Nebraska without th i interference with the local Indian gov- th ernment. It also provides for theelec- hr ha tion of a legislative assembly. Provision t ot. is made for the establishment of a su- t tta- preme and district courts. The Cherokee as rie outlet is declared to be public land and eon open to settlement under the homestead ith, laws, in 1.. __ . M.su1t.ppl's Shortage t 834,612.19. JACKsoN, Miss., March 17.-The treas- N ury investigating committee and com mission are still at work. The present treasurer, J. J. Evans, has submitted ase statement showing cash, bondi~ etc., pI received from ex-Treasurer Hemingway, o amounting to $488,010.85; which leaves t a balance unaccounted for of $84,612.19, m which is very near the flgurees the com mittee will report. Monnument to Grady. C( New YoRK, March 17. The succeseful competitor among the sculptors who at submitted designs for the monument to t the late Henry W. Grady, which is to be ti erected at Atlanta, Ga., was Alexander Doyle, of this city, who is now at work on a model to be submitted in Atlanta. t t The monument will consist of a full t length figure of Mr. Grady in bronzec 9 feet 6 inbches high. It will rest upon af pedestal which with its base will bea 15 feet high. At the foot of the pedestal in front will be a bunch of palm branches in bronze, while upon buttresses placed i at the foot.of the pedaestal on the north and south faces will be seated bronze allegorical figures 1 feet high, repre- tl senting History and Grief, ti Oplum Smugglers Captured. SAN FRANCliSO, March 17.-Custom ri o officers captured $2,500 worth of opium ci that William Bourne was trying to te smuggle to the city. is thought Bourne fi received the opium from a China b steamer or else picked it up under a i wharf where smugglers had placed it a for him. A fireman on a British Col umlia steamer was caught with $500 worth of opium under his coat, i Sawl Fate of Rnllaways. 4. d VIRGINIA, Ills., March 17.-Vernon 0 Ha ay, of this city and a boy of Havana, y both deaf mutes, escaped from the deaf . and dumb asylum at Jacksonville andu 0 started for their lhomes. Near Literberry . a small town outh of here, they were overtaken by a Jacksonville Southeast erm train, which rn over and instantly killed Hay, and seriously crippled the r- Havana boy. Stasley Aneotse to Continue the work, S fr. JonlmeeatY. Vt., March 17.-The Caledonian publishes extracts from a letter written by Henry M. Stanley to a a t. Johnbbury friend, dated Cairo,Feb. 14, In which he he accomplished all r, that was laid out for him to do inhis I ta reent expedition, and should occasion I aliasfor Ihsilkiag charge of another . milslnn he is ready to do ao, WILL MAP OUT ALASKA. An Expedition Fitting Out to Explore the Unknown Regions of Our Northern Possessions. NRW YORK, March 15.-An expedition is now being organized in this city to add to the geographical knowledge of the world facts about Alaska. The Frank Leslie's Weekly and Judge Pub lishing company is at the head of ad the scheme, and is now making the necessary preparations for equipping the expedition suitably. The primary object of this search for information is to penetrate the country lying between ad the Copper and Yukon rivers, in Central Alaska, a stretch of many thousands of square miles never yet trod by a white man. E.H. Wells, a Western newspa per writer, will be at the head of the expedition, His experience consists of a ceampaigo last aummer in which he Straveled 2,000 miles in the wilds of the th British Northwest territory. He has ad also mapped out for the United States clt government a number of rivers in Cent he ral Alaska previously unknown. An .g. other member of the expedition will be g0 Alfred B. Schanz, formerly assistant ed astronomer of Allegheny observatory )s and for the last three years a New York r's newspaper man. The officers of the United Statescoast and geodetic survey at Washington are interested in the an plans for the explorations and will give of all possible assistance. it Spottead Fever In Tennessee. NAsHvsIrE. Tenn., March 16.-A mys terious malady is prevailing in Jefferson county, and many people believe it to be at nuine spotted fever. The contagion has broken out in Carson college, and 0. students are leaving. There is much ex citement for fear the epidemic may be i come general. The bodies of patients are covered with white and black blotches he the size of a silver dollar. A Conscience Stricken Defaulter. GRAND RAPIDs, Mich., March 15.-The so mystery surrounding the disappearance of Clarence J. Tool, the United States h Express company's cashier at this place, is cleared up. Tool's father has received a letter written at sea and mailed at H- Lisbon. Clarence says he is coming home to receive his punishment. He explains in his action as a crazy freak. LOTTERY ONCE HORE. The Bill Recommended as a Relief t Mensure for Furnlslhing Seed to the Needy Farmers. But at Once and Forever Negatived by )1. the House Refusing to Consider It. BIAIsanRg, N. D,, March 15.-The lot tery bill has again been before the North Dakota legislature and has met itsdeath, for this session at least. When the seed wheat commission made its report to the I senate the measure was found snugly en sconced therein. The commission re ported in substance that they found only one way in which the necessary seed for the needy farmers could be secured in time to be available, and that wasby the acceptance of a proposition made by ex Senator George E. Spencer, the agent of the Louisiana Lottery company. The proposition of Mr. Spencer is to the r effect that in consideration of the grant ing of a franchise to the Louisiana State Lottery company to transact business in t the state the company agrees to pay into the treasury of the state of North Da Skota the sum of $150,000 per annnm for twenty-five years, as provided by the terms of said bill, a copy whereof, as amended, is hereby attached, and in fur Sther consideration of such franchises, immunities and privileges, to furnish said committee for the purpose of distri bution among the farmers of the state of North Dakota in accordance with the spirit and letter of said resolution 250, 000 bushels of good No. 1 hard a seed wheat, the same to be furnished and placed at the disposal of such committee on or before the 15th day of April, 1890; a that as an evidence of good faith in making this proposition and of the abl Sity to carre it into effect, the said general manager of the Louisiana State Lottery company further agrees to at once de posit in any responsible bank or banks, to be usetlected by such committee, the sum of $200,000, upon the following o terms: Immediatelyupon said bill be a coming law the said $200,000 shall be held as security for the due and faithful performance of this agreement, relative tothe furnishing of said wheat, and in Sthe event of failure to perform the same the same shall be forfeited and the stid Scommittee tmipwered to use such sasm for the purchase of seed wheat, the same to be distributed to persons thereto el tied under such resolution, absolutely and without the right to demand the re d turn of such wheat or money or any h portion of either. e The report closes by recommending the acceptancoe oftheproposition. After the report was read Senator Barlow moved to lay upon the table, but the mo tion was lost by a vote of 18 to 11. The n report was then taken to the house and io read. Representative McCormack moved 0 to refer it to the committee on state af e fairs, to have printed, etc., hut a motion a by Representative Steven to lay it upon a the table was substituted and carried, it and the house adjourned until 7:810 p. m. S At the evening session another attempt t was iade to bring the matter before the house but was voted down. The vote stood 2e in favor and 81 against the mo tion, eight representatives being absent Ser not voting, A HORRIBLE LYNCHING. dA woha Mardarer Bursed e live by w th cy Indtiu oe His Tribe. r Pluzx,l March 15.-Summary and ter Srible punishment was meted out to s Dirty Foot, a Sioux buck, who attempted murder at a camp on the Bad river. Dirty Foot got possession of some whisky a-at Fort Pierre, and- upon arriving at se camp got drunk. Going to his tepee he a found a squaw known as "Od Sal,'"aund a he picked up an axe and struck her b on the forerhead, crasking her 5ij skull. A crowd soon gathered and es Dirty Foot was caught and thrown into Sa fire in theoenter of the circle of tepees, ,a and when he tried to ascap. was thrown backuntil hewas burned almost to On to of h 'of be ig ry is ·n al of to he a he be a8 it n be nt he By he me fs THIS SPACE IS RESERVED by be ot Bed the ix en Gre the che the ate THIS SPACE IS RESERVED by lot rth ,th, FOR Bed the en re nly be JOE CONRAD'S ex ; of the the ~nt ate e e 0 O Spring Annoneeinent. ii d n ei ce y r Ii y lB 'd a hi a 1, P. it le to be r t '7 at he ad ter 38 Lb !I