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MILLS & KESSLER, PROPRIETORS
--ewitt says lie has authorized the pro
duction of all his telegrams.
-The herald refers to Montana as the
only Territory sending a Democratic Dele
gate. Feun, Democrat, was reelected from
Idaho,
-Only 400 of the 1300 Indian ponies ta
ken from the Sioux at Standing Rock have
reached St. Paul. They were systematical
ly followed by thieves and a number stolen
every night.
-There is a prospect that the race for
presiding officer of the Council this winter
will be a spirited one. Among the names
mentioned are Mitchell and Brown, of
Deer Lodge, Watson, of Beaverhead, and
McAdow, of Gallatin.-Independent.
-Murat Halstead has won the title of
prophet in addition to that of Field Mar
shal. His forecast of the complications of
the Presidential election has been verified
almost unexceptionally. Now will he please
tell us what kind of a winter we are going
to have.
-On the Presidential problem Mr. Wm.
M. Evarts is reported to have said:-"There
is no use in making such a fuss about the
case ithe remedy is perfectly clear, and
the courts are constantly applyiLg it. The
thing to do is to put the Presidency into
the hands of a receiver, with power to run
the concern and collect the debts." That's
a good joke.
-It strikes us the Madisonian is a little
"off" in its assaults upon the judiciary.
In learning, integrity and good character
the Supreme Court of Montana is irre
proachable and without a superior in the
West. These facts should stay the hand of
satire, for when used against such officers
it becomes defamation and is without ex
cuse or palliation.
-Mr. James, Postmaster at New York,
having been informed Mr. Hewitt had
charged in Congress that his letters had
been opened in the New York Post-Office,
says if Mr. H. so charges that such was
actually or probably the case he wishes
him to supplement the charge with a mo
tion for immediate investigation as the ac
cusation is utterly and absolutely false.
-The investigation into the Louisiana
election by the Congressional Committee is
being telegraphed in detail, and is too vol
uminous for our columns. Witnesses are
swearing freely, and if half is true that
they tell the Louisiana election was no elec
tion at all. Fraud, violence, intimidation,
and devilment generally is sworn upon both
sides, and the only recognized authority in
many parishes and polls was might. That
is no republican form of government.
--That wonderful American newspaper,
the New York Herald, made a sad blunder
December 6th, for which the night editor
was doubtless lynched. On that morning,
the one succeeding the burning of the
Brooklyn theatre, the Herald gave a state
ment of the fire, the panic and the tumult,
but stated that the entire audience escaped
and reached their homes safely. That
would be a bad enough blunder for a
country weekly but for the greatest daily
in America it is awful.
-The telegrams state the House Com
mittee has reconsidered the vote by which
it authorized the Chairman to report favor
ably the bill to extend the time for the com
pletion of the Northern Pacific Road. Un
less this bill passes the land grant of the
N. P., where the road is not built, by July
1st, 1878 (we believe), will be forfeited.
We do not look upon the reconsideration of
the vote as necessarily fatal to the bill, but
rather that the friends of the Southern Pa
cific Company on the Committee are in the
majority, and this was a prohibition to the
Chairman from reporting .avorably the
Northern Bill' until the Southern Bill is also
favorably reported. It, however, places the
Northern bill in peril.
-The Ogden Freeman says that nearly
all the Mormons have left Franklin, Idaho,
and are building a settlement in Utah just
south of the line, sc as to evade the perse
cutions of their ungodly neighbors.
We learn that this is correct to the extent
of some thirty families. The authorities
in Idaho have been making it warm for the
Franklin business men living in polygamy
and the cost and vexation of maintaining
two or more wives and two or more defenses
in court has induced some thirty of the
Franklin business men to start the town
of Enoch, three miles from Franklin, and
inside the Utah line. So Mr. Franklin
Polyg now resides in Franklin with one
wife and has the other or others over at
Enoch, where, with a garden and cottage,
Nos. 2, 3, 4, etc. can live in peace and
receive visits from their lords when it is
their will to lodge "at the farm."
-The Estray Law of Montana is a hum
bug that nobody recognizes. It should be
repealed and a new law enacted on the basis
of advertising in the newspaper nearest to
the point where the said estrays are taken
up by those taking up estrays. Persons
desirous to give notice of lost stock would
of course exercise their discretion as to
where to advertise them. In this way gen
eral publicity would be given to description
of strays taken up and the expense would
not exceed $3.50 for one animal, and less
proportionately for several. Men having
stock estray would watch the papers in the
vicinity where it was probably lost, the
probabilities of recovering it would be mul
tiplied many fold, and the expenle would
be but a fraction of what it costs to ride
over all creation hunting them, or what it
would be if the monstrosity now known as
the Estray Law were carried out.
Northerm Pet Dill ReBeusidered.
Wimxxomrox, Dec. 0 - S8ENATE.-
Mitchell presented a joint resolution of the
Oregon Legislature asking an appropria
tion for a geographical survey of that State.
Referred to Committee on Mining.
The Committee on Pacific Railroads to
day reconsidered the vote by which they
heretofore authorised the Chairman to re
port for passagethe Senate bill extending
the time for theoompletion of the Northern
Pacifle The session was mainly occupied
in discussing a new proposition providing
that the Boathern Paciftlc Company of Cal
ifornia shall be allowed to build seven hun
dred miles of the western portion of the
trans.continental line under the provisions
of the original Atkins' bill making it a
through line and open highway for the Gov
ernment and people, and all other railroad
companies, and reserving to Congress the
right to regulate the charges for freight and
passengers. The Committee adjourned
till to-morrow without action.
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Anether Pre is Zttt . R lck
LrrTrLa Roc, Dec. 19.-Another fire has
broken out lt the block, oorner of Mrck &
Sherman street, which threa.ens the whole
eastern biusiness part of th acity. The ut
most excitement prevails. At 9 o'clock 4
engines were playing on the flre. The
block seems doomed. If it is destroyed
the loss will be $150,000.
At 11:15 the walls of brick are crumbling
it is the largest wholesale honsein Arkan
sas. The danes can't be checked yet and
there is no telling what destruction will
ensme.
RETROSPECTIVE.
In August of 1866a pilgrim who had been
set afoot by Sioux in the Big Horn country
trudged into Helena. A few days after,
with three others, of whom Capt. Dan
Buck alone remains, he returned to the
Yellowstone and the party took possession
of the Deserted Village of sixty houses
known as Yellowstone City. Here, until
November, they were engaged in opening
a hydraulic claim in Emigrant Gulch and
had just made the first run when the frost
took possession and the unwelcome news
came that the one-eyed hunter, with whom
they had sent their last dollar to Bozeman
for groceries and clothing, had "gone
through" it at faro and decamped to a mil
itary post. Half barefooted, illy clad and
with no visible means of support the pasty
hastily packed up and amid the fast falling
snow got them to Bozeman, and thence the
" pilgrim " journeyed to Virginia and slept
a "broken" sleep that night in Foster &
Culver's Livery Stable. His cash account
after breakfast the next morning showed a
balance on hand of ten cents-postal cur
rency. His one acquaintance in the city,
C. C. Menaugh, then Clerk in the Record
er's office, informed him there were 1500
idle men in and about Virginia and not a
ghost of a show to get employed. It be
hooved him to " rustle." Before night he
had obtained employment at $50 a month in
the Western House and settled down to the
duties of general utility man. A month
later Messrs. Tilden & Ditt3s of the Mon
tana Post kindly offered him the editor
ship of that paper at $100 a month, and on
the 29th of December, 1866, he undertook
with many but stppressed misgivings the
duties of that position.
In the ten intervening years he has, with
but five months vacation, all told, edited
either a tri-weekly, daily or weekly paper in
Montana. And now that a decade has
passed since entering Montana journalism
as the snows fall again and remembrances
quicken old events, with wife and home and
babe and all he has or has hopes of here in
Montana, he looks back through the inter
vening years that have tdad more of good
than of evil for him, and right gratefully
acknowledges the favor, however undeserv
ed, which Montanians have ever shown
him. He has had bouts and tiffs with
brother editors, has passed through adver
sities and differed oft with others. These
are the inevitable incidents of journalism.
But the quarrels have faded with the years,
the vicissitudes are remembered without sor
row and among the foes of the past are
staunchest friends to-day. As has been so
like may be again. It is something though
to find an appropriate Present where one
may turn and tip their fingers affectionately
to the Past. And this has been our occa
sion. If age detracts from fancy and fine
writing is not essayed we trust experience
and better knowledge will compensate in
full and that when other lustres and decades
have passed, if still our duties shall be edi
torial, we may feel and write the retrospect
as kindly, as gratefully, and as sincerely as
to-day.
BULLION PRODUCT OF MONTANA.
The Mining Review of Denver says : "The
gold procuction of Montana (dust, nuggets
and bars), since the discovery of the mines
in 1873, is calculated by an authority in
that Territory at $110,000,000. The popu
lation of the Territory at its best day was
not over 20,000, and is now about 12,000."
The Mining Review of Denver says:
"Montana is credited with a total produc
tion of between $60,000,000 and $70,000,
000 in gold dust since 1863."
It will be apparent to even the casual
reader that there is a slight discrepancy in
the above statements in the same journal,for
the silver product has been comparatively
trifling as yet, aggregating only a few mil
lions. But the principal objection we make
is that both are incorrect, and the largest
accredited yield is entirely too low. Even
the Repoits of the United States Mining
Commissioners carry the product far above
the largest estimates given by the Review,
and, in earlier years at least, they were no
toriously too low. As an instance, m 1866
J. Ross Browne accredited us with $18,
000,000 produced, and Mr. N. P. Langford,
the U. S. Int. Rev. Collector made up the
Report for Mr. J. W. Taylor, Mining Com
missioner for the area embracing Montana,
giving him about the same figures. But
Mr. Taylor, without any reasonable excuse,
cut it down in his report to $12,000,000.
The real and actual product of Montana,
derived from careful computation and in
vestigation of all the authorities on the
subject, has been not less than $144,000,000
since 1863. These are the figures named
in Mr. Clark's Centennial Address, after a
very 'areful inquiry into the subject, and
he is about the last man in Montana who
would make an exaggerated report.
The population accredited to Montana is
also too low. It undoubtedly had a popu
lation at one time of 25,000 to 28,000 peo
ple, was accredited in the U. S. census of
1870 with 20,595, and at no time has fallen
below 16,000 or 17,000. Though temporarily
depleted some 1200 or 1500 by the Black
Hills stampede this year the population to
day is very nearly, if not quite, as large as
it was one year ago,and Montana will never
again have less people than it has to-day.
There is a steady influx of people to this
Territory, principally those investing in or
coming to work in the quartz mines and
the rapid development of that interest will
be followed by a revival of agricultural and
other interests. Already in the increased
prices of grain and flour we have evidence
of short production and a stimulation to
greater acreage. The bullion product from
quartz will steadily and rapidly augment
until it will more than compensate the de
pletion of the placers and the increase will
be a noticeable feature of the Report for
this year.
We think our contemporary has uninten
tionally done us an injustice in the state
ments above alluded to. The population
and products accredited to Montana have
considerable influence abroad and materi
ally effect us in many ways. We trust if
our corrections are sustained on further
examination that the Review will amend its
figures.
A tGimpse of Daylight
NEw YoUx, Dec. 20th.-The Tribune's
Washington special says : There is a grow
Inm opinion among men of both parties that
the way out of the present difficult situa
tion can still be opened by a Supreme Court
decision. Thus far the whole dispute can
be narrowed down to a question whether
the House of Representativeshas the right,
of its own motion and without concurrence
of the Senate, to throw out the returns of a
State. This is purely a Constitutional
question, and like all questions arising out
of different interpretations of that instru
ment, it ought to be referred to the Su
preme Court. The great difficulty, though,
is to get the matter before the court. Dem
ocrats and Republicans both are favorable
to the plan.
Speaking of Florida affairs, the lri~bn's
Washington special says: Senator Conover
mailfests some uneasiness about his State.
He thinks it is possible the court may order
the canvass reopened, and that the can
varsers may obey its mandate. In such
event he anticlipates the State ticket and
Congressmen may be gained to the Demo.
rata. He does not, however seem to fear
that the b toral vote can be taken from
Hayes and Wheeler.
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Portland, Ore., is going to have an ope
ratic season.
Senator Logan is not sure of a re-election
from Illinois.
Dimes by the ba-relful are being coined
and sacked at the Carson Mint.
So far as counted in there will be only
two Smiths in the next Congress.
The Idaho Statesman wants the Legisla
ture of that Territory to pass a woman suf
frage bill.
When your party does a mean thing you
call it fighting for the right ; when the other
party does it you call it a despicable trick.
Crook's soldier's engaged in the Indian
campaign this winter, will be supplied with
sealskin caps and gloves, and arctic over
shoes.
The first settler on the claim on which
Olympia now stands, was L. L. Smith, who
squatted down there on the 20th of Octo
ber, 1846.
In carving a tarkey in the presence of
strangers it is a breach of etiquette to stop
more than twice to spit on your hands and
get a new hold.-N.or. Herald.
What may justly be called a sinecure is
the position of De Legge, the Professor of
Chinese at Oxford, as not a student has yet
offered himself for the study of that lan
guage.
After an Arctic lover has set up w ith his
girl three or four hundred hou-s it is no
uncommon thing for the young la'dy's papa
to come floundering in from another snow
hut and ask the pleasure of the young man's
company to breakfast.-Chicago Journal.
Senator Cameran is reported engaged to
a very beautiful young lady at Washing
ton, who only enters the society of the Cap
ital this season. She is "much above the
average height, with that rich olive com
plexion supposed to be only perfected under
Italian skies ; her large brown eyes are full
of intelligence, merriment and dignity."
The Rev. L. N. Philips, pastor of the
Methodist church of Monticello, Iowa,
eloped with the wife of a leading man in
his congregation, but before going, he
wrote the following in a letter to his own
wife : " May the widow's God and Father
of the fatherless abundantly bless you and
your children in all things and make you
happy all through life. I want you every
morning and evening to read with the
children m the New Testament. Please
read a verse first and then have each one
read in turn, and repeat the Lord's Prayer.
Oh, Paulina, do keep up the family altar as
long as you have a family. Do live nearer
and nearer to God daily, and ask Him for
His all-sufficient grace." Paulina may in
tend to heed her runaway husband's advice
but the first thing she did was to start an
officer after him.
A Desperate Lover.
MExwrP s, Dec. 19.-A young man named
Bond having been ordered from the house
by L. D. Hill of Shelby depot,whose daugh
ter he was visiting, returned with a pistol
and shot Hill. He then dragged Miss Hill
over her father's dead body to the minis
ter's and insisted on having the marriage
ceremony performed. After other desper
ate deeds he escaped from the posse which
followed him.
Report of Gen. Crook.
WAsHINGTON, Dec. 19.--Gen. Crook, in
his report, says the Black Hills miners did
not violate the Sioux treaty until the Indi
ans had ceased to regard it. He also calls
attention to the fact that his command, less
than 1.000 men, fought and defeated Sit
ting Bull's band on the Rosebud a week
before the Custer disaster. He thinks the
government has treated the Sioux with the
utmost liberality, which they have repaid
by raids along the border of the reserva
tion.
Northern Advice
COLuBImA, Dec, 12.-The Democratic
portion of the Congressional Committee
are now advising Wade Hampton's assem
bly to go back. and take their seats in the
regular Legislature,and compromise by let
ting Chamberlain take the Governorship,
and getting Hampton elected to the U. S.
Senate. They think enough Republicans
can be coaxed or bribed to carry out this
programme. Some of the Democrats here
are very indignant at the advice of the
Northern Democrats, and are outspoken
and vehement in their curses. While they
had set their heads on the Governorship,
they accuse the Northern Democracy of
caring only for Tilden, and of leaving them
in the lurch as soon as they discovered
there was no chance for the great reform
er.
Hewitt's Blunder.
CHIcAGO, December 14.-The Tribune's
Washington special says:-There is bad
blood among the Democrats to-day on
account of Hewitt's proclamation. It ap
pears he had a long address prepared,
declaring a definite programme and an
nouncing what the Democrats would do in
various contingencies, by calling on the
people to assemble in every State on Janu
ary 8th and insist upon Democratic rights.
To give greater weight to this, several
members of the National Executive Com
mittee were summoned to sign it, but, to
Hewitt's dismay, refused, and insisted that
nothing of the kind be issued now. They
clainmed that it was very short sighted
policy to announce the result as definite
and pronounced at present. It was better
to await the development of the Southern
situation. After a prolonged contest,
Hewitt was obliged to yield, but in spite of
failure to secure the names wanted to his
lengthy address, he concluded to have his
say. Hence his personal proclamation.
The fact of his assuming the responsibility
after the committee had voted against it,
causes much unfriendly comment among
the Democrats. Hewitt insists that he will
soon be able to fire off his address.
-orton's Bill Providing for the Electoral
Count.
WAS~IoGTFoN, Dec. 17.-Action by the
Senate on Morton's bill to regulate the
counting of the electoral vote is awaited
with great interest in Washington circles,
and speculation is rife as to the attitude
which the opposing parties will assume in
the debate whien commenced this week
concerning it. Neither party is likely to
accept it without important amendment,
for although it provides that no electoral
returns shall be rejected except by a concur
rent vote of both Houses, it also in sub
stance provides that when there are twore
turns from the same State neither shall be
counted without the acquiescence of both
Houses. Various amendments will be re
ported for reconciling the disagreement in
such cases. There is one by Freylinghuy
sena, providing that the Speaker of the
Htouse, President of the Senate and Chief
Jnstice of the Supreme Court shall have
powerto decide, thus practically making
the Chief Justice umpire between the House
and Senate. Another proposition is to
submit the conflicting certificates to the
arbitration of the Supreme Court by act of
Congress. The position of the Republi
cans will be that no properly certified elec
toral vote can be rejected by a branch of
Connres.
Provision for Contesting Presidential
Elections in the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The bill intro
duced by Senator Wright to establish a
Court for the trial of contested Presidential
Electors, provides that the election of any
one declared elected to the office of Presi
dent or Vice President of the United States
may be contested by any eligible person
who receives votes for the office contest
ed. Notice of intention to contest must be
filed with the Secretary of State, in Wash
ington, within ten days after the declara
tion, accompanied by the sworn statement
of causes of contest, whereupon the paps ;
shall be delivered to the Chief Justice ,,f
the United States Supreme Coult, whose
duty it shall be to appoint a day not more
than ten days thereafter, for the person de
clared elected to appear and answer the
claim of contestant. The court for the
trial of such contested election shall consist
of said Chief Justice and six of the United
States Court or District Judges, to be se
lected by him from different political par
ties, and who shall not be interested in the
pal Licular contest norin any manner related
to the person involved. This Court is to
hold its meetings in Washington, a major
ity of its members constituting a quorum.
If the office of Chief Justice is vacant or
from any cause he is incapacitated, senior
Justice of the Supreme Court shall perform
the duties above specified; Judges are re
quired to take special oath to try the case
impartially, according to law without re
gard to technical errors or irregularities;
Court to have same or like powers to en
force its decisions as is now vested in the
Supreme Court. 'they shall disregard all
technical errors on the part of those engag
ed in certifying to the elections in the sev
eral States and of the Electors and in cast
ing the votes or in any manner connected
with such Electors, having at all times,
however, due regard to the forms of law,
and the ascertainment of the will and true
vote of the people at such elections. The
persons whom a majority of the Con i find
to be elected President or Vice President,
asthe case may be, shall be entitled to such
office, and the Court shall have full power
to enforce thejudgment. In case it shall
not appear that any person has been law
fully elected, said Cour; shall so declare,
and in all cases shall certify their judg
ment to the two Houses of Congress.
The bill further provides that any party
to such contest feeling aggrieved by the
judgment may, within six days after its
rendition, appeal therefrom to the Supreme
Court, but such appeal shall not, however,
operate as a stay of execution of judgment
without a special order therefor, made by
the Court rendering it. The record and
case shall be immediately filed in the
Supreme Court and take precedence of all
other business. The Supreme Court must
then, at once, proceed to determine the
same and shall have full power to carry its
judgment into effect without a remand.
Blatherskite to Make Papers Sell.
WAsHINGTON, Dec. 10.-The Capital to
day professes to have information that as
there is no law requiring the presiding of
ficer of the Senate to be chosen from among
the members of that body, the Republican
Senators have determined to elect General
Grant to that position in case of need and
thus make him President of the United
States until his successor is inaugurated.
The Capital says this deep laid scheme of
desperate men means revolution, and it
therefore, in two vehement editorials calls
on the people to arm for the conflict. It
also intimates that it would be an easy mat
ter to fill Pennsylvania avenue with 100,000
Democratic volunteer soldiers to prevent
Hayes' inauguration and exercising Presi
dential functions.
The Washington Sunday Herald also
contains an inflammatory editorial stigma
tizing as counsels of cowardice the N. Y.
Sun's counsel against any attempt by the
Democrats to use force in the contest for
the Presidential election. It says tyrants
can ask no more than general submission
like this. It adds, however, in a moderate
tone, that it is willing to give the RIepubli
cans the benefit of any doubts as to the re
suit in such States as South Carolina, Lou
isiana, and Florida, but if, when the House
investigating committee return from these
States and there shall be no doubt of Til
den's having an honest majority of the
electoral votes, it will be the duty of Demo
cratic leaders to insist upon their legal
rights and maintaln them. The a .icle
concludesbignificanutly as follows :
"But if the craven policy outlined by the
Sun is the policy of Mr. Tilden the sooner
it is known the better. In th'atcase let the
farce be played out quickly. The honest
voters will acquiesce in the result and pro
ceed to seek other leadots, etc."
The Capital's utterances and the wild
and indflammatory poition of the ILerald's
article are generally discountenanced by
Democratic Snnators and Representatives.
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The Senate on the Oregon Case.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -Regarding the
Oregon case, the Republican Senators will
claim that the Secretary of State's certifi
cate showing the choice of two Republican
electors, enabled the latter to fill the va
cancy and is sufficient legal warrant for
counting the three votes for HIayes and
Wheeler. The Democratic Scnritors have
thus far made no direct defense of Grover's
action. Only threehave publicly spoken on
the subject. Bayard argued merely that
Grover's past reputation and high position
should create the presumption that he
acted conscientiously and right. Wallace
maintained that only two votes can now be
counted from Oregon, and Thurman con
tented himself with quoting several English
precedents and the Indiana decision in sup
port of Grover's theory, and with reading
Hogdley's opinion, on which Grover acted.
Mitchell coming into the debate after these
speakers, challenged any Senator to rise
and personally defend Grove's action on
law or principles of equity, and throe re
peating this challenge and three times
pausing for a reply, exclaimed each time,
triumphantly, "No Senator dares attempt
it."
A Wise S.ggestu.
NEw YonK, Dec. 20.-The Tribur.e'
Washington special says: The President,
in a conversation to-day, said that the pro
gress of population and occupation of the
Territories is so rapid it is necessary to
adopt a different policy so far as the geo
graphical location of the tribes is concern
ed. He thought that the useful occupation
of the public domain for purposes of agri.
culture more important than that they
should be kept as hunting grounds for sav
ages. He said it is better for the Indians,
and certainly more economical for the Gov
ernment to gather all the Indian nations
and tribes as rapidly as possible within the
limits of one designated Territory, where
they may be protected from encroachments
by whites and much more effectually pre
vented from further wars and devastation
upon the settlements.
WASnINOTON, Dee. 20.-In the Supreme
Court, E. M. Bobey et ai. appellants vs. 1
Cornelius Griswold et al; appeal from So- I
preme Court of the Territory of MIontana.
On motion of Mr. R. L. Merrick, docketed i
apd dismissed with costs.
Fire Proof Scenery
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Interesting exper
iments were made at Wallack's theatre
yesterday in the presence of city officers.
Fire proof scenery was submitted to fierce
flames for several minutes without igniting.
Dion Boucicault conducted the experiment.
The materials used for rendering the
scenery fire proof were solutions of tunge
tate of soda and afterwards silicate of soda.
The entire theatre can be made fire proof
for $100. More experiments will shoitly
follow.
Troubles on the Mexican Frontier.
NEw ORLEANS, Dec. 20.-A dispatch
from Fort Davis says the Mexican revolu
tionists have captured a Mr. Miller, an
American banker, at Chihuahua, and de
manded $8,000 In gold as a ransom for his
release. Col. Andrews with a force of In
fantry, Cavalry and artillery has gone to
the rescue. The Revolutionists are report
ed 400 strong and have threatened to shoot
Miller if they can't hold him. A fight is
inevitable.
George C. Gorham Married.
WASINoaTON, Dec. 20.-Geo. C. Gorham,
Secretary of the U. S. Senate, was married
this evening to Miss Effie E. Bassett, of
this city. President pro tern. of the Senate
Ferry and Mr. Flagg, principal Journal
Clerk, acted as groomsmen. There was a
very large attendance of friends at the
Church where the ceremony was performed,
including the larger portion of the Sen
ators.
Hannibal and St. Joe Road.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The Commercial
Advertiser says it is announced that the
original land grant of the Hannibal & St.
Joe R. R. has been fully extinguished and
the trustees have turned over to the Com
pany over two and a half millions of land
sales notes and about 80,000 or 90,000 acres
of unsold lands. The eight per cent. con
vertible mortgage of the Company advanced
on this announcement to 89 per cent. and
both classes of stock are higher this after.
nooh.
Want the Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The Democratic
members of the Louisiana and Florida in
vestigating committees, appointed by the
House, having made a formal demand on
the Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific
Telegraph Companies, for all the dispatches
that have passed between Secretary Chand.
ler and prominent Republicans in New
Orleans and Tallahasse, the Republican
members of the committee will insist that
all the dispatches bearing Mr. Hewitt's
signature, or addressed to him, shall also
be furnished to the committees.' Some
Democrats object to this course, but the
Republicans say they will be content that
all of Chandler's dispatches shall see light
if Hewitt's are also presented.
Inauguration of Wade Hampton.
NEW YORK, December 14.-The Times'
Columbia special says :-The Democrats
went through the ceremony of inaugurating
Hampton Governor this afternoon, in the
presence of a crowd of five or six hundred
people assembled in the open square ad
joining Carolina Hall. Notwithstanding
the strong passion of the colored people for
sight-seeing, hardly a score of them could
be induced to attend the show. Consider
ing the large colored vote which the Demo
crats claim was cast for Hampton, the
conspicuous absence of these voters on
this interesting occasion was certainly a
notable feature of the performance. Hamp
ton's inaugural was witnessed by many
ladies and members of the English Parlia
ment.
Telegrams in Brief.
The Little Rock fires are supposed to
have been incendiary. Loss on Wednesday
$150,000.
W. C. W., the Pittsburg money order
clerk, has absconded, a defaulter in the
sum of $8,000.
Commodore Vanderbilt is failing rapidly.
His death would be no surprise. His legs
are wasted away until they are no larger
than a man's arms.
Gold closed Thursday at 1.071.
The Evening Post says: It is reported
that the World is to be conducted as an in
dependent political journal after the first of
January.
A fire in Jittle Rock, Arkansas, Dec.
14th, destroyed property to the amount of
$160,000.
Chaffee introduced in the House a bill
authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Neva
da and the Territories to fell and remove
timber on the public domain for mining
and domestic purposes. Referred to the
Committee on Public Lands.
WAsHINGTON, December 15.-Inspector I
Gen. Hardee, U. S. A., died in this city t
last evening.
A Vienna special to the Daily News says a
the Grand Duke Nicholas has asked for a e
reserve force of 100,000 men. Their mobil- I
ization has already commenced at St. f
Petersburg and Moscow. It is said of the
Russian troops that are expected to enter c
Roumania shortly, that the movement will (
not be accompanied by a declaration of war t
on Turkey.
WASHINGTON, December 16.-The elec
toral votes of fourteen States have been c
placed in the hands of acting Vice President t
Ferry by the messengers. r
WAEHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Four hundred
employees in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing were discharged to-day. This is
about half the force, and about two-thirds
of them were women.
ST. Louis, Dec. 12.-DMrs. Julie Bareiras,
well known in art circles as a portrait
painter, fell from the roof of her house
through a skylight, this morning, and was
instantly killed.
Sr. Louis, Nov. 25.-Judge Joseph K. t
Knight, who has been on the Circuit Court a
bench of this county for a number of years, f
accidentally shot himself at 7 o'clock this
morning and died two hours later.
Tallahassee, Florida, elected a Demo. i
cratic mayor Tuesday by 12 majority. F
City quiet. Many Republicans voted for f
the Democratic ticket. That is the first
time the city has gone Democratic since a
the war. i
Troubles in Deadwood
At Deadwood, last week, Dick Brown,
banjoist, shot and killed Ed. Shaughnessy,
an ex-baggage-master, saloon keeper and
showman. The trouble arose over a "girl
of the period, "Fannie Garretson. Mr. 8,
some time ago went to the Black Hills, a
leaving his "wife," the Fannie, at Ohey- b
enne, where she saw and loved Dick a
Brown, with whom she went to Deadwood.
The two 'husbands" collided,and the result
was the death of 8.
A report reaches here that Ed. Cook.for
merly a stage driver and well known in
Montana, killed a man in Deadwood re
cently. He was cutting wood for Cook. a
they had a dispute about the measurement,
the man drew a six-shooter on Cook but o
the latter got the drop and killed him. As e
Ed. wa reported killed by Indians some b
time ago this report may be as unreliable
4s the other-or it may be true.
IMPORTANT TOWN SITE DECISION.
Title to Mineral Lands Not Affected by a Town
Site Entry.
DEPARTMENT OF TrIIE INTERIOR,
GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
WASIgINGTON, D. C., Nov. 23, 1876.
Register and Receiver, Helena, Mf. T.:
GENTLEMEN:--O the 27th ultimo., you
were informed that a re-survey would be
required of the town site of Butte, Montana,
excluding from such re-survey all placer
claims and mining ground.
The rule was laid down by my predeces
sor that placer mining ground could not be
included in a town site patent and this rule
was followed in my insti dctions of the 27th
ultimo.
From a COreful re-examination and con
sideration of the law regulating the disposal
of town sites, upon the public domain, I
have become convinced that the rule as
laid down by my predecessor was erroneous.
The law clearly contemplates that towns
will exist in mining localities and that
entries may be made of such town sites.
Section 2380, Revised Statutes, provides,
however, that "where mineral veins are
possessed, which provision is recognized by
local authority and to the extent so possess
ed and recognized, the title to town lots to
be acquired shall be subject to such recog
nized possession, and the necessary use
thereof." Section 2392, of the R. S. pro
vides that "no title shall be acquired under
the foregoing provisions of this chapter to
any mine of gold, silver, cinnabar or copper,
or to any valid mining claim or possession
held under existing laws."
As the Government in issuing patents for
town sites conveys the premises within the
exterior boundaries of the town site entry,
only in accordance with the provisions of
law, the title to all mines of gold, silver,
cinnabar, or copper, and to all valid mining
claims or possessions held under existing
laws, which are situated within such exte
rior boundaries, still remains in the United
States after patent has been issued for
such town site. Title to these mining
claims or possessions can only be acquired
under the provisions of law regulating the
disposal of mineral lands, by parties who
show compliance with the terms of the
mining acts.
Patents issued for town sites in mineral
regions contain a clause in accordance with
the terms of the law providing " that no
title shall be acquired under this patent to
any mine of gold, silver, cinnabar or copper,
or to any valid mining claim or possession
held under existing laws, and provided
further, that the grant hereby made is held
and declared to be subject to all the condi
tions, limitations and restrictions contained
in section two thousand three hundred and
eighty-six of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, so far as the same are appli
cable thereto."
Under the provisions of the law referred
to, the patents for town sites containing
such clause, are held subject to any valid
mining claim or possession, and a purchaser
of a lot from the town site authorities
holds the same subject to the same condi
tions.
In view of the law in the case, I recall
my instructions of the 27th ult., and now
decide that patent may issue for said town
site upon compliance with law, for the
entire premises embraced by the survey
already reported, which patent will contain
the proviso hereinbefore referred to.
Should mine-owners within such town
site entry desire to make applications for
patents for their claims they will be per
mitted to do so upon full compliance with
law.
Be pleased to inform all parties in inter
est and acknowledge the receipt hereof.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. A. WILLAMxsoN,
Commissioner.
Northern Pacito Railroad.
(Copy of bill for extending time for completion of
road--8 years-as passedl the Senate last sesaion and
unanimously passed by the Pacife R. R. Com. of tilhe
House. Now remaining as unfinished business in the
HEouse.)
Be it enacted, etc., That eight years' ad
ditional time is hereby granted to the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company to
construct and complete its main line o1
road, via the valley of the Columbia river,
to its terminus on Puget Sound, under its
chaiter and the acts and resolutions of
Congress relating thereto.
SEC. 2. That this extension is granted
upon the express condition and understand
ing that where pre-eseption and homestead
claims were initiated or private entries and
locations were allowed upon lands embraced
in the grant to said company prior to the
receipt of the orders of withdrawal at the
respective district land offices, the lands
embraced in such entry shall not be held as
within the grant to said company, and shall
be patented to the parties lawfully entering
the same, and under the provisions of this
act, and in case of abandonment by them,
shall be open to pre-emption and homestead
entry only:by actual settlers: but the com
pany shall be entitled to indemnity there
for, as now provided by law.
SEC. 3. That entries remaining unadjust
ed, and suspended in the General Land
Office on account of an increase in price of
the even sections within the limits of the
grant, where the same were made or based
upon settlement made prior to the receipt
of the orders of withdrawal aforesaid at
the respective district land offices, shall be
relieved from such suspension and carried
into patrnt; but nothing in this act shall
be construed to effectexisting adjustments,
nor to authorize the refunding of any
moneys 'eceived for such lands under ex
istin lrws.
SEC. 4. That the extension of time
granted by section 1 of this act shall not
apply to the branch line of said road from
Lake Pend d'Oreille, across the Cascade
Mountains, to Puget Sound in Washington
Territory; and-at the expiration of the
time allowed by existing laws for the con
struction of said branch, the lands hereto
fore granted thersfor and not then earned
by said company by constructing said
branch line of road shall be restored to the
public domain, to be dealt with as other
public lands under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior.
SEc. 5. That this act shall not be con
strued to affect existing private rights
otherwise than is hereinbefore expressly
provided ; and shall, as well as said charter
and other acts and resolutions hereinbefore
mentioned, be subject to alteration, amend
ment, or repeal at the pleasure of Congress.
Sec. 6. That the said Northern Pacific
Railroad Company shall file with the Sec
retary of the Interior, within six months
from the date hereof, its assent to and
acceptance of the provisions of this act, or
be forever debarred from taking or receiving
any benefit from or under the same.
Non-Committal.
WASirIGTON, Dec. 18.-The President
of the Senate has adopted a new form of
receipt of the electoral votes as delivered
by messengers:
" Received of - , be claiming to be
messenger to deliver the same, a sealed
package purporting to contain a certificate
of the vote given for President and Vie
President of the United States by the El
ectors of the State o ----- alleged to
have been elected November 7th, 1876.
(Signed) '"T. W. FnaTv,
"President pro tem. U. S. Senate." I
Helena has 1,041 censns school children,
over 400 of whom are under 4 years old.
The school money amounts to $9,653.49.
Mr. J. M. Barrett, editor of the Inde
pendent, has been quite ill.
Flour is $7.80 to EP in Helena.
It is estimated there were thrashed the
present season in Gallatin county but 42,
000 bushels of wheat against 70,000 last
year.
Gallatin county pays Dr. Monroe $12.50
per head per week for the care and mainte
nance of the county poor and infirm and
$400 per annum to Dr. Hluntc for medicine
and medical attendance for the same.
Hon. Samuel Word, who has been dan
gerously sick with a severe attack of in
flammation of the bowels for a couple of
weeks, is recovering slowly. His many
friends throughout Montana will be gratifi
ed to learn that he is out of danger.-Mad
isonian.
Among the curiosities and valuables that
Col. Deimling brought home with him from
the Centennial, was a $5,500 snuff-box.
The snuff-box, by the way, is not a relic of
the Centennial, but an heirloom of the Co
lonel's family for the last 115 years, and
was a present to his great grand father, at
time professor in one of the Austrian uni
versities, from the Emperor of that coun
try, as a mark of his appreciation of the
services of Prof. Deimling, rendered as a
commissioner to collect and classify the in
sects of North and South America, a col
lection of which is set in precious stones in
the lid of the box. The design is elegant
and the workmanship unsurpassed even at
the present day. -Madisonian.
The Missoula Mills are running night and
day on two run of stone, so as to make room
for the farmers' wheat which is now com
ing in. Worden & Co. have secured some
5,000 bushels of old wheat,which will make
a first-class article of flour, fully up to the
usual quality of that bearing the brand of
the "Missoula Mils." They will soon have
on hand 300,000 pounds of first-class flour,
and can honor all drafts on them for flour,
and feel confident of their ability to quiet
all fears respecting any " flour famine."
Missoulian.
Nellie, the little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Thy. Newman, died just before they
reached Corinne. She had been suffering
with a large tumor on the shoulder for a
couple of years. She bled to death in 30
minutes.
Letters received by T. W. Harris, of Bit
ter Root, announce the death of his son
Thomas. IHe was shot by a Mexican at
Lander City, Wyoming, on the evening of
election day. The reason of the difficulty
or particulars are not given. The Mexican
escaped.-Missoulian.
A petition has lately been in circulation
in Bozeman, and largely signed, addressed
to the Secretary of the Interior, represent
ing that the contractors, awarded the con
tract for furnishing supplies to the Crow
Indians, have made default ; that the Crows
are suffering for necessaries and are pray
ing that action may be promptly taken in
the premises. We shall post ourselves a
little on this matter, and hold up the de
linquents to public execration. Who is to
blame ?-Times.
The demand for dwelling houses in Boze
man is far in excess of the supply, and we
hear of several parties who have vainly en
deavored to rent, and are now trying to
buy. Several will build this winter if the
weather will permit.-Courier.
The assessed valuation of property in
Meagher county is $603,379.
Rev. Mr. Hewitt, of New York, has been
commissioned to the charge of the Presby
terian church of Helena. A telegram to
that effect was yesterday received from
Rev. Mr. Rommel. The new pastor is ex
pected to arrive at no distant day.-Her
ald, 15th.
Dr. Holmes removed a tumor from the
left side of Mr. B. F. Herrin yesterday, of
the size of an ordinary apple. While the
operation was being performed, Mr. Herrin
was reading the news in a daily paper, and
was not aware that the knife was being
used until the tumor was placed on the
table before him. The method of destroy
ing sensibility was this: The Doctor took
a ball of snow, added to it a tablespoonful
of table salt, and applied this freezing
mixture to the tumor until the surface was
white. When the knife was used the tumor
was insensible.-Ilerald, 15th.
Treasurer's report shows the following
amount collected: Taxes, $6,585; special
school tax, 2,180; towusite fund, $2,370.
The present indebtedness of the county is
$5,906.82.-Record, 15th.
Mr. C. E. Kemp says the Manganese ores
of Butte can be worked without roasting
and a high per cent saved.
The Butte foundry is soon to have a new
lathe added to its facilities for the execution
and finishing of fine work.
The Butto Dramatic Exhibition was a
success and another entertainment is to be
given this evening with Stage Struck Yankee
and Kiss in the Dark on the bills.
Erroneous statements having been made
by many in relation to the cause of the
probable insanity of IIiram Belcher, it be
ing attributed to religious excitement and
the study of the Bible, his father, Mr. B. B.
Belcher, desirer, for the cause of religion,
that these false impressions should at once
be removed by giving a correct statement
or the facts in relation to the late strange
conduct of his son. For several years Hi
ram, who is now in his 24th year, has been
in delicate health, and within the past two
months he was attacked with cerebro spi
nal !noningltis, causing a partial paralysis
of the brain and producing a strong incli
nation to wander from home. To this lat
ter tendency is attributed the cause for his
absence, and if deprived of his reason it has
been from the effects of his late sickness
and not from religions hallucination, as has
been stated.--Minwr.
A Mine Worth Having.
The Ontario silver mine in Utah is re
garded as one of the finest properties in
that rich Territory. It was discovered by
a prospecting Dutchman. who by chance
uncovered the vein,when it displayed about
8 inches of ore worth over $400 per ton.
Without sinking a shaft or stripping the
vein at any other point, it was sold to Geo.
Hlurst of California, who accidentally hap.
pened to be in Salt Lake at the time, for
$47,500. The mine was immediately put
under work, and has shipped with great
regularity ever since from $15,000 to $25,
000 in silver bullion per month. The ore
from which this was milled was taken al
most wholly from shafts and levels. The
mine is now 400 feet deep, and explored on
either side of the shaft for about 500 feet.
A recent calculation showed that not less
than $2,250,000 worth of ore is in sight in
the stopes. This is the result, we believe.
of not over too years work. The cost of
development, including purchbase, pumping
and hoisting engines to sink to 1000 feet,
ad two mills, has been nearly $700,000,
and the production of the mine meanwhile
has been about $500,o00.--Yfiasisg Revieto.
CHAS. K. WELj
Helena, Montana,
BOOKSELLER, STAx'I'IORN ,
AND 1)1:.A! I: IN
Wall Papers, Fancy Goc,s,
Notions, To,
Willow Ware, Muri:cal Instr'ment,
Pictures, and Picture Framad
Mouhlings, Mirrors Etc.
AGENT F(IOR THie
Singtr CO's 8owing M1nae18,
My winter stock is oi,' ntlt I
store the largest assortment of io
lolidays ever hrouilht to tile city.
Orders and le.tters of inquiry \i r,,v n .iv l ,
and careful attenltioln.
WHOLESALE GR0CER,
[F. B. MILLER'S BIILDING.]
Deer Lodge, Montana.
KEEPS IN STOC'K
A Full Line of
STAPLE
GOODS,
Dealers Supplied at Rates That Cannot
be Undersold in Montana,
AVINO been impelled by circumttanices t re
H ceive my goods here and unable to get futther
transportation for them, I have
Determined to
Locate Permanently
in Deer Lodge,
AND HAVE OPENED MY STOCK AS ABOVE,
It will he succeeded by Mtocks bought especially
w ith a view to Wholesaling in this n:uket. I solitit
alln examination of my stock and prices and invite a
a share of patrouage on the basis of miaking it to your
interest to deal with me.
(CALL AND EXAMINE FOR I'OUR'SLF.
"56 D. J. WELCH.
Parchen & D'Acheul,
DEER LODGE. M. T.
AND DEALERs In
Paints,
Oils,
Glass,
Ch em icail
LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES
STATIONERY,
BLANK BOOKS
WALL PAPER,
PATENT BUIL!DINC PAPER
NOTIONS, ETC., ETC., ETC.,
I)UYING goods from first hands in the East, anl
) slhippin ill large quantities aIt lowi ratis oi
freight via Fort Benton, we are e blshicd to sall 0,1uJ
at prIces that
DEFY COMPETITION.
Our stock is the largest on the West S.le, 1iI. nlt
CoIIIriltC ill every linle and prices lower than cvir
before
Orders from the outside solieited andtl satifation
nllaranteed. l3li3m
• m, r..
1806. OlistiEstablis . 1.r
C dITY MEAT MARKET.
Chas P. H. Biolellerg; Proprietor.
At tilhe old s.:lhIal
A LARGE SUPPLY AND
CIIO'CE VARIETY OF MEATS
ALWAYS ON TIlE lltoui .
Beef, Veal, Mutton,
Pork, Sausage, Vonizor,
AND ALL GAME IN SEASON
MEATS DELIVIEiED IN ANY QUANTITY ANYwIISl:EI
TIlE CITY FREE OF C1IAiGrE.
PATRON IZE T'IE OLD ESTA BI, IS 11E) IM\! ki:T
HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR HIDES.
p4 C. I'. II. IIIELENBEIIRG
JouN Manon.-ls, Ts. ToI)utI'
IMARHION & TODllHTh,
MMeat Market.
--Williams' Old Stand
Main St., Deer Lodge.
Having re-opened the above Meat Ma! ket we w
supply patrons with
ALL CHOICE MEATS & GAME IN SEASON
And solicit a share of public patronl:ge'.
Our Prices are Reasonable.
Meat in any quantity delivered free in the city.
(ive us a call for nice meats.
MARCUIION & .ro)11L' Ei1'
U. C. IIOUSEL, - REUBEN \LI'
C. C. II() USEL & CO.,
STORAGE FOR WARDING.
COMMISSION MAERCHANTS
OMAHA, - - - NEBRASKA.
&gents for Merchants Dispatch Tranp°For
tation Company
-:o:
'eneral Forwarders of Freighl o.,r
land to all Points tIl'
North-West.
LOST GOODS TRACED. CHARGE r.EA
SONABLE.
-:O:
MONTANA MEIRCHAN'r d
rill find it to their tdvantantge to ship in our ca Ld
revent delay.