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W. P. Snnden.
VOL. IV.
DILLON, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, M. T., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1884.
No. 46.
CP1H HT MBWB HOW».
(Boiled Down Iront the Late Telegram».!
The German Reichstag will convene on
the aolh inat.
Rumor* of the fall of Khartoum and of
the death of Gen. Gordon are now arriving
by the way of Massowah.
Vienna newspapers report that Minister
Astor has resigned. It is emphatically de
nied at the State department.
One Democrat i» elected to Congress
from California. Henley, Democrat, in
the First District, has 59 majority.
President Grevy, of France, has publish
ed a decree stating thaft the Universal Ex
hibition in Paris will open May 6,1889.
The cholera has broken out at Paris,
France, and eighty-three deaths occurred
from the disease in that city on the nth.
Frederick J. Allen, Vice-President of the
Young Ireland Society, charged with trea
son and felony, has been committed tor
trial.
The steamer Etna, which left Hamburg
October 28th for New York, has put in at
Queenstown with its main shaft and ma
chinery damaged.
Final returns from the recent election
for members of the Second Chamber of
States General of Holland show 44 anti
Liberals and 42 Liberals returned.
The conservatives of both Houses of the
English Parliament will hold a meeting
Tuesday next to consider the franchise bill
and its relation to the redistribution bill.
The New York Herald in its summary
ofthevotein Lew York State by coun
ties says: As far as ascertained the offic
ial count gives Cleveland a plurality of
■ ,254 votes.
St. George's Society, of Toronto. Cana
da, has appointed a committee to consider
the best means of preventing the immigra
tion of undesirable accessions to the popu
lation.
Real Admiral Alexander Murray died
in Washington City after a short illness,
lie participated in the war with Mexico
and was actively engaged in the naval con
tiicts of the Rebellion.
The slate was broken at Louisville, Ky.,
on the 10th, and Maud S., Queen of the
Turf, made the fastest time on record.
Time—Quarter, 32^ ; half, 1104 >{ ; three
quarters, 1:37; mile, 2:09#.
A later dispatch from the Mudir states
that one of Mahdi's chief lieutenants is
marching against Dongola with 12,000
men and another with 7,000 men is advanc
ing against the Kabbabieh tribe.
St. John says he held no relations what
ever with any political party in the cam
paign, except the Prohibition party ; that he
had made his fight strictly upon the prin
ciple which he represented, and he said he
would take the field again after a few weeks
rest.
Bismarck will open the Congo Confer
ence to-day, Saturday, in the Hall of the
Palace where the Berlin Conference was
held six years ago. Henry M. Stanley will
attend the Conference on the invitation of
Count Von Hatsfcldt, German Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
It is reported that active negotiations
with a view to the settlement of the diffi
culties between China and France arc in
progress in London, between the Marqué
Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador, and Earl
Granville, the English Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
The Omaha Lumber Company's mill,
Osterbout & Hughart's saw mill, with 15,
000,000 feet of lumber, four dwelling
houses, one store and other buildings were
burned at Duluth on the 10th. The esti
mated loss is $200,000; insurance $100,000.
The fire was of incendiary origin.
It is understood the question raised by
counsel for Judge-Advocate General Swain
with regard to the legality and authority of
the court-martial appointed in the latter's
case has been decided adversely to General
Swain and that the court will assemble
and the trial begin to-day, Saturday.
The election is still doubtful in Wash
ington Territory, but the chances favor
Vorhees, Democrat, for Delegate to Con
gress. The only issue between the two
parties was that of the railroad. Demo
crats and disaffected Republicans demand
ed a forfeiture of the land grant which had
lapsed over seven years ago. Voorhees'
estimated majority is about 200.
A St. Louis dispatch says: The long
talked of Cattle men's Convention will as
semble in this city on next Monday, the
17th. There are nearly 900 delegates in
attendance, aud it is estimated that 10,000
cattle men from the Northwest, West,
Texas and Europe will be present. It will
be the first time the stock men of the en
tire country meet in convention.
•-»l»rr, nun iiuu.j ______, ____________ .
THE CHOLERA IN FRANCE.
Hospitals In I'larne-Rldden Forts Already
Overflowing.
Between noon and it o'clock of last
Tuesday night twenty-seven fresh cases of
cholera and eleven deaths were reported in
Paris. These numbers do not include the
additional cases and deaths which occur
red at the hospitals. In numerous in
stances the victims were seized by the
dread disease in the most sudden manner,
with hardly a premonition. They were
stricken in the streets, in omnibuses and
other public places, or when about their
ordinary vocations.
The cholera hospitals set apart for the
use of cholera patients, are already full to
overflowing, and others are being placed in
readiness as rapidly us circumstances per
mit. Many rases have occurred among
the troops at the garrison. In nearly all
the barracks some soldiers have been at
tacked. If the epidemic continues an or
der will be issued closing the public schools.
The eastern and central portions of the
city are the ones most affected. The resi
dences occupied by English and American
people are in a most excellent sanitary con
dition.
There were eighty-three deaths from
cholera in Paris on last Tuesday, inelud
ing those which occurred in the hospitals,
and 119 cases were admitted to the hospi
tals on that day. The total number ther
under treatment at the hospitals was ,9s,.
Between midnight und noon of that day
there were 34 fresh cases and 13 deaths out
side the hospitals. The epidemic is still
confined to the unhealthy quarters of the
city.
Report, of the Commissioner of Pensions.
The Secretary of the Interior has received
the annual report of the Commissioner of
Pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1884. The report is dated November 10th,
and is signed by* W. W. Dudley, Commis
sioner. It states that there were at the
close of tiie year 322,726 pensioners, classi
fied as follows: Two hundred and
eighteen thousand, nine hundred and fifty
six army invalids; 75,836 army widows,
minor children and dependent relatives;
2,616 navy invalids; 1,93s navy widows,
minor children and dependent relative
3,893 survivors of the war of 1S12, and 19,
512 widows of those who served in that
war. There were added to the roll during
tiie year, 34,192 new pensioners and 1,221
whose pensions had been previously drop
ped were restored to tiie roll; 16,315 were
dropped from the rolls for various causes.
The net increase to the number on the
roll is 18,098. Tiie average annual of each
pension at the close of the year was $106.
75, and tiie aggregate annual of value of all
pensions $34456,600, an increase over the
previous year of $2,221,407. The amount
paid for pensions during the year was $56,
908,597, exceeding the annual value of pen
sions several million dollars, whicli rep
resents first payments generally on claims,
and known as arrears pensions. The
amount paid during the year to 31,207
new pensioners was $33,413,815, and there
remained in tiie hands of the several pen
sion agents 7,203 cases of this class unpaid
on which there was due $4,914,090.
(iovemor Crosby's Report.
Governor Crosby, of Montana, in his an
nual report, estimates the increase in pop
uiation in tiie Territory during the year
at 4,000 and the present population about
84,000. He says tiie cattle now in tiie
Territory number over 900,000, and the
value ot taxable property, which, lie says,
does not represent one-quarter of the
wcaltli of tiie Territory, is between fifty
ami sixty millions. in oilier directions
Montana is steadily increasing the value
other material resources, and will at an
early day apply for admission to the Union
as a .State.
Meen space is devoted by the Governor
to the cattle question. He says: Cana
dian officials and the Dominion press, aid
ed by certain Chicago stockyard men who
fear a diversion of their business, have ma
ligned and outrageously attacked the
health of Wyoming aud Montana cattle.
New Cardinals Created.
At the Consistory, at Rome, on the 10th
inst. tiie Pope created nine new cardinals.
In his allocution the Pope adverted to tiie
painful position in which tiie head of the
church was placed and the trial through
whicli the church is now passing. He
dwelt on tiie progrès» that the Catholic
faith was making throughout tiie world
and especially in the United States where
the plenary council had just assembled.
He mentioned the fact that new bishops
had been appointed in Australia, India,
throughout the east, and expressed es
pecial gratification at the restoration of the
Sea of Cartilage.
MONTANA LAW.
What the Revised »Statutes My Almut As
sessment Work.
For the bcnefll of maters and prospectors
we reproduce the following extract from
Section 2,324 of the Revised Statutes of
the Territory :
"The period within .Which the work re
quired to be done anpnally on all inipat
ented mineral claims Sthall commence 011
the first day of Jant^iry succeeding the
date of location of such claim, and this sec
tion shall apply to all claims located since
the 10th day of May, «ighteen hundred and
seventy-two. When» such claims are
held in common such {expenditure may be
made on any claim : and upon a failure to
comply with these conditions, the claim or
mine upon which such expenditure oc
curred shall be opened to relocation in the
same maner as if no location of the same
had ever been made; provided that the
original locators, their heirs, assigns or
legal representatives Jlave not resumed
work upon the claim After failure and be
fore such location, i'pon the failure of
any one of several co-owners to contribute
his proportion of the expenditures required
hereby, the co-owners who have perform
ed the labor or modft the improvements,
may, at the expiration of the year, give
such delinquent co-owner personal notice
in writing, or notice of publication in the
newspaper nearest the claim, for at least
once !l ' veck . ,or <%*, and if, at the
expiration of ninety dS . s after such notice
in « riting or by publication, such delin
quent should fail or refuse to contribute
liis proportion of tiie expenditure required
by'this section, his interest in the claim
shall become the properly of his co-owners
who have made the required expenditures.
CHINESE ATROCITIES.
Celestial Mulis Cleaning Out the Christ
ians |y JMnn.
Hong Kong, China, advices tip to Nov.
9th say Chinese mobs have been commit
ting fearful outrages on the places of
Christian worship and persons at Canton
and interior points. In the province of
Kwaug Tung atone, four Roman Catholic
and five Protestant churches have been
destroyed, and from 120 houses the resi
dent Christian occupants have been driven
away. In Namhor three Catholic chapels
and a convent house have been pillaged,
and the priests and occupants beeten and
the women outraged.
At Shi -1 lung a church of England chap.'
was destroyed and the mob tore the cioi lies
front the preacher's wife anti shamefully
treated her. At Chant-Sun u Wesleyan
chapel is destroyed. The Christians a:
fleeing from the provinces to Hong Kon
The Chinese gave them the alternative of
sacrificing to idols or leaving their homes.
The Christians preferred the latter, and
many of tiie women were caught by the
mob and outraged.
Twelve Cantonese villages have issued
notices that all Christians must leave.
Fifteen churches in those villages have al
ready been destroyed. Several stores linve
been looted and many (icrsons are home
less. Although the attention of the Chin
ese authorities lias been called to these
barbarous acts they refuse to notice them.
At Kite Yung the mob and the soldiers
destroyed all the Roman Catholic and
English Presbyterian churches. At Siva
tow the Roman Catholic priests were
ordered to leave. After they had left, the
Chinese soldiers broke into the houses aud
ravished the female converts. The news
has reached Shanghai from Pekin that
Mr. Iiagnali, colporteur for the American
Bible Society, lias been murdered in the
province of Shantung.
t . S. Supreme Court »«-risii»,.
A decision was rendered by tiie Supreme
Court of tiie United States in the Alabama
claim case of the Great Western Insurance
Company, appellant, against the United
States, in appeal from the Court of Claims.
This was a suit brought by the insurance
company to recover $309,935, with inter
est, alleged so be due it from the Geneva
award fund. The account was a risk taken
by appellant upon vessels destroyed by
Confederate cruisers. The Court of Claims
dismissed appellant's petition upon the
ground that it hud no jurisdiction. This
court affirms that judgment and holds that
the Court of Clain.s was prohibited from
taking jurisdiction by express statutes, as
ments of the controversy between appel
lants and the United States, arising out of
the Geneva convention. This court de
clines to express any opinion, for tin reason
that a special tribunal has been created for
the determination of such question-.
Mrs. Langtry's Ghincse page
the Beauty's Beast," in London.
i» called
THE ARMY.
Report of Lteutenant-Renerat »Sheridan.
The annual report of Lieutenant-Gen
eral Sheridan has been made covering the
period from Ids assignment to the com
mand of the army November 3, 1883, to
November 1, 1S84. He says during this
time the entire territory undo the super
visinn of troops has been unusually free
from collisions resulting in the loss of
either lives or property, but the services of
tiie military in the West cannot be safely
dispensed with for many years to come.
With litieral allowances of ammunition
and better facilities for target practice than
hitherto, much thought and attention has
been given to rific firing. The high scores
attained in the annual contest for army
prizes during the past season attest a most
gratifying progress in this vitally Import
ant brancit ot military instruction. The
establishment of a higher grade of sharp
shooters lias developed many marksmen
of wonderful skill with the rifle in dist
ances up to a thousand yards, aud it
would be impossible for a close line of bat
tle to stand up before a skirmish line com
posed of our qualified marksmen. Tiie
Lieutenant-General expresses great in
terest in the national guard of States and
thinks Congress should designate that a
number of men in caclt State should have
and provide for them arms and camp and
garrison equipage under some wise method
of accountability for this property. When
ever State governments themselves ap>
propriate substantial sums of money for
the support of their respective military in
such a manner that these sums cannot tie
affected by party legislation, excepting for
our ocean commerce and for our seaboard
cities, lie does not think we should be
much alarmed about the probability of
wars with foreign powers, since it would
require more than a million and a half of
men to make a campaign upon land
against us. To transport from beyond tiie
ocean that number of soldiers with all
their munitions of war, tiieir cavalry, ar
tillery and infantry, even if not molested
by us while in transit, would demand a
large part of the shipping of all Europe.
He earnestly invites immediate atten
tion to the defenceless condition of sea
board cities, and urgently recommends an
early beginning of a general system of sea
coast fortifications to be constructed ac
cording to requirements demanded by the
latest improvements in heavy artillery.
This will probably not come upon us if
capital and labor will only be conservative.
Still it should be remembered that destruct
ive explosives are easily made, and that
banks, United States sub-treasuries and
public buildings and large mercantile
houses can be readily demolished and the
commerce of entire cities destroyed by in
furiated people with means carried with
perfect safety to themselves in the pockets
of their clothing.
Report of MiOor-Mrnrral Schofield.
i
he argues, excellent soldiers, far more val
uabic than many times their number of
untrained militia. The national govern
ment might well give reasonable aid to
these schools in money, military materials
The annual report of Major-General
Schofield, commanding the Division of the
Missouri, treat» of operations in that divis
ion during tiie past year. The roster of
troops in the division shows seven regi
ments and ten companies of cavalry, nine
teen regiments and one company of in
fantry and four batteries of field artillery.
The report urges the necessity of liberal
appropriations to provide shelter and liar
racks for troops in the division. He refers
to the destitute condition of certain Indian
tribe* in tiie Department of the Platte and
urges means for their relief, i le urges the
necessity for a practical school for field ar
tillery fashioned after tiie schools of ap
plication for infantry and cavalry at Fort
Leavenworth. He mentions the encamp
ments of the Illinois National Guard dur
ing the months of July and August, when
the inspection of the troops occured by
Lieutenant-Colonel Sweitzer, Eighth cav
alry. General Schofield in this connection
invites attention to the importance of
schools lor tiie practical instruction of tiie
militia of the several Stales. Tiie urgent
need is for the education of both officers
and men in the use of the modern rifle in
field niana-u vers neccsary to make rifle
firing effective, and a detail of army life,
both in camp and in garrison. One year
of such instruction to young men between
tiie age of 17 and 20 years would make,
and experienced instructors such as would
make the system inexpensive to States
Duncan C. Ross lias issued a challenge
to any man in the world to wrestle or com
pete with him in genera) athletics for the
sum of $5,000 or $10,000.
■'RISSE FIOHTIN«.
Th« Ntiigicer Sullivan Successful On«« More.
John L. Sullivan, of Boston, and John
M. Lafiin, of New York, had their much
talked of bout under Marquis of Queens
bury rules at Madison Square Garden on
the night of the nth inst. The best man
was to have the full proceeds of tiie house.
The question of "knocking out" was not
considered alone, and Fat Sliccdy, Sulli
van's backer, said the Boston man had no
intention of knocking out his opponent.
About 5,000 people were present. Lafiin
at first, on squaring before Sullivan, ap
peared frightened by what he saw. Sul ■
livan led for Lafiin's face, but Lafiin rushed
to close quarters, and hung his 210 pounds
to Sullivan's neck. The crowd hissed and
the referee, Mike McDonald, of Chicago,
parted the men. Scarcely had they faced
each other than Sullivan readied for his
opponent and began savage, short-arm ex
periments upon Lafiin's face. Suddenly
Sullivan loosened himself from another
hug that Lafiin inflicted and the latter sank
to his knees, leaving blood stains upon
Sullivan's breast and gloves. A roar ot'
cheers went up at this sight. Lafiin seemed
as witless as a child in abject fear, and as
he sank to his knees he still clung to Sul
livan's neck and was half lifted to ills feet
again. Then Sullivan knocked him down
and rolled on him, Lafiin catching at and
pulling him down as he himself fell. Laf
iin was set on end again land wai again
knocked to his knee» against the ropes and
was actually hunted around the stage
without opposing a blow. Another at
tempt to hang on to Sullivan's neck was
made by Lafiin and the seconds, referee
and Police Captain Williams separated the
men and the round ended. The remainder
of the battle, if such it could be called, was
like the first. Lafiin lacked the "sand," it
was said, to meet Sullivan.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Annual Report, of Commissioner Evans.
The annual report of the Hon. Walker
Evans, commissioner of internal revenue
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 18S4, has
been submitted to tiie secretary of the treas
ury. The total receipts from all sources
of internal revenue taxntion for the year is
$121,590,039. as compared with $144,553,
344 for the year 1883, $147,523,373 lor u ' c
year 1882, and $135,229,913 for the year
1881. It is estimated that $115,000,000 will
be collected the present fiscal year. Tiie
payment of the tax- on tiie large produc
tion spent in 1881 was a material factor in
the collections during the past year. The
commissioner says the falling oft'anticipat
ed the present year will follow from the
diminished quantity of Bourbon and rye
whiskies produced in 1SS2, on whicli the
tax will mature during the current fiscal
year. Another cause contributing to the
reduction of receipts, will he largely the
increased exportation of spirits in bond, on
whicli for various reasons the owners can
not pay tax. Something like 10,000,000
gallons lias already been forced abroad
during the current calendar year, because
of the stagnation in trade, and the refusal
of Congress to extend the bonded period.
A comparative statement of receipts for
the fiscal vears 1883 and '84 shows a de
crease of $16,041,850 from tobacco; an in
crease of $2,539,610 from spirits, an in
crease of $1,184,338 from liquors, and a de
crease of $10,642,424 from the tax under
repealed laws and penalties, making a total
tlecrease of $22,963,305.
A Riotous Election.
A Galveston jVcw-v Nueva Laredo spy
cial says: Yesterday, the 9th, an election
in the Mexican States of Coahuila and
Nueva Leon came oft for state and muni
cipal officers. Riot reigned in the city of
Saltillo and in the towns Sabinos, Hidalgo
and Bustamcnie. At Saltillo live men
were robbed and killed and 15 or 20
wounded. A number were also killed in
Santa Catarina. In Sabinos Hidalgo a
battle occurred between the government
soldiers and citizens, wherein District
Judge Garcia was killed; the colonel com
manding the troops together with alxnit 20
soldiers arc also reported killed. The
towns are filled with dead and wounded on
both sides. The rioting is attributed to
attempts of the government to coerce citi
zens by the use of troops at the polls into
a support of the government candidates.
It is officially announced through the
British consulate at New York, that the
international invention exhibition will be
held in London in 1885, under the patron
age of the Queen, the presidency of the
Prince of Wales and the management of
an executive council composed of eniinen'
Englishmen.

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