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r 'M Mo.it. I VOL. VII. DILLON, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, M. T., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1887. No. 32. INCITIM* A BA1P ' , , DoW o»t " u< * '* ..«the ot Montana. "r^rttory K,Ud - , , \f c (Jlouil (iazette: Gabriel Dumont, l °r s starrin« lour through tire United 1,:e, i.h the Wild West Show, made Sfa - eS ht'for Montana and is now engaged ' ra,,! him) congenial pursuit of stirring among the half breeds, of which " p ,, great many in Montana Du turning his whole attention to col "lg' '„.one/ und arms, and he seems to L fairlv successful. One methoo '•rtisbig money is by the sale of his pho tor which he gets two dollars '°°[ P He ha» 1,400 rifles and a good nunt of money collected. He has re * veil a great deal of financial aid from Twer Canada, and French Canadians in Ltsna arc lending him a helping hand, numont was at Augusta when Mr. Net left, and was being very closely Ldosed by a Canadian detective. Mr. Stlwn left, and was in two big camps of hilf breeds, and found them right on the »»path, and ready and eager to start .henever Dumont gives the word. Mr. • infvsemont Will* halt-bi t Nelson's chief informant was a half-breed, »ho was in the battle at Batochc, and he sjwcnougn himself to convince him that thev meant mischief of some kind. The programme would seem to be :,s follows: A« soon as the grass is good next spring, the breed* headed by Dumont, will move on the Canadian Irontier. Dumont reck ,ms on the assistance of the Créés in the north, and claims that, with them, he will have about 1,500 men. His present inten tion Is to come into the country to the east ward of Wood Mountain, going north to the scene of the operations in 'S5 It is the pretty general opinion in Mon tana that the raid will be made. The breeds are all ready to start at a word from Dumont and at present they baie the strongest intention ot coming. The object of making the raid is not at all apparent. The breeds do not seem to thing they can Jo anything very much. Their only ob ject, so far as it can be discovered, is to get icvcnge on the Canadian government, and they probably think there may be a little plunder connected with the undertaking. Lewis mul Clark«'« First. M»|>. Bozeman Welfare: The Lewis and Clarke expedition spent the winter of 1804 5 in the Mandait country. During their stay there, Captain Lewis compiled a map oftheir survey during the previous Stim mer, but embraced in addition all the country west to the Pacific ocean, sketched from the best information be could obtain from Indians and trappers. This man was forwarded to Washington in the spring and tiled in the war department, copies being sent to the houses of congress. The map was never published, being of course super seded by the map compiled by Captain Clarke on the return of the expedition. But it has great interest to-day, because it shows us just how much, or rather how little was known about the Rocky Moun tain country prior to the journey' of Lewis and Clarke. A photographic copy has just been -town to us bv Peter Koch. Some years ago he found a reference to this map in a number ot the "Medical Repository" for 1S06, a monthly scientific journal then pub lished at New York. Tracing the matter np, he found the only copy of the map now in existence is the original, sent to the war department, and through the courtesy of Arnold Hague, of tiie U. S. Geological Survey, he has just received a fine photo graphic copy of tiie original. Its verv inaccuracies are interesting. about 11 , Lake ' MMneth,ng knOWn tthe y olranic phenomena of that sec-, On Milk river, is the following le £»cd irazer river was then supposed to be the T.ain fork of the Columbia, and that river ** therefore represented as rising in the far north, and running south parallel to the '.oast until near its mouth. All that part of the interior, rcaliv drained bv Clarke'* fork of the Columbia and Snake river, is made to drain into the Missouri and Yel 'owstone, and these rivers are drawn as cutting clear through the ranges of the 'Shining Mountains," (as the Rockies are '-'ailed.) and heading about where the Blue utounlains of Oregon are situated. Near the geyser region is a stnall stream called Stinking Cabin creek, showing that even at that early day, before Colter's trip t0 Yellowstone Lake, something known rivers. anyone explain that name, or *av what tnc present Indian name of that stream? Al.ogethcr the map i* well worth study ■ an -'° ne interested in the history or ex P oiat.on of the Rock Mountain country. Silv er remains at 96 cents. ■out 1'rob»." Tells What He Knows About Knell Mutters. The Weather Crop Bulletin of the Sig nal office for the month ending July 30, says : During the week the weather has been warmer than usual from the Southern, New England and Middle Atlantic States westward to the Rocky Mountains, the average daily excess being ahout three de grees. During the week there lias been an excess of rainfall in the States bolder ing on the Atlantic and East Gulf States, Minnesota, Dakota and Northern Nebras ka. These excessive rains have been ac companied by severe local storms resulting in injury to the growinu crops and retard ing the harvest in the Central Valleys and Lake region. Less than the usual amount of lain and drought continues in the corn belt extending from Iowa and Kansas. During July the rainfall was generally in excess on the Atlantic (.'oast. Through out the cotton belt, in the extreme north west, portions of the upper lake region and in all that section there has been less than the usual amount of rain during the month, and probably less than one-half the usual amount through the corn belt. The ex cessive heat and absence of rain through out the corn belt has affected this crop un favorably and reports from Ohio, Michi gan, Indiana, and thence westward to Kan sas, indicate that the drought has unfavor ably alfected the potato and coriv crops. In the middle Atlantic and New England States the weather has been unfavorable to corn, but the excessive rains have not injured hay and oats. In Minnesota, Da kota and Nebraska the weather has been generally favorable to all crops, and har vesting is in progress as far as live 47111 parallel. a Th« Idaho Central. General J. F. Curtis, superintendent of the Idaho Central Railroad, has gone to Omaha on business. The"Y" at Nantpa is already laid and about 30 men are en gaged laying the track this way. As many more men, who are experienced track layers, detailed from the lorce employed in widening the Utah »St North ern, will be at work laying the track on tiiis branch the last of this week. When this force is added to the present force they will be able to lay a mile a day, and the branch will in all probability be completed bv the 20th of August. An engine and several cars intended to run on this branch road are already at Nampa. The survey ors who have gone up the Boise river lo cating the road on the south side, are four miles this side of the mouth of Moore's creek. They will probably cross over near the mouth of Moore's creek, when they will strike the survey on this side of the river that was made three years ago.-—Ida ho Statesman , July eStli. I<OII<IC<I lor $«,000,000. The papers in the Camas No. 2 deal were finally signed last Wednesday in this this city, says the Hailey Times. The as owners contract to sell the property for the I consideration of $.',000.000, payable in j stated amounts, at stated periods, during j the ensuing two years. The purchasers j a j ^rou^h their a* r cnts agree to expend at { ; least $2sO,ooo ill developing the property j j ant j securing milling facilities. The pur- j j chaf , el . s arc capitalists residing in New j j y ork nlK | p nr j s , France. As they have ! j j )een negotiating for the property for j of j mrinl | is ; t j s probable that they will take I it. Mr. Hall w ho came here for some of j the most substantial men ot San 1 ' rjncisco. j after visiting the propeity, made a cash: öfter of haff a million do dar* 1er it, last! Monday; out it. was declined. | Married iu Hast. took [ ; JoHvn was the * young 1 *•_ j ! COUp,tf P - V r '° ' j tlîc oi'i tî uued ^their sec-, the nuptial knm and tnc .... - le- journey eastward. »«'.'■ j-—-" ......"•!*-■ repair*"*' ,h '* in the main j j far ! ; ---- Shoshone yourual: A ■ place at the Shoshone i alls Ho.cl \. edne* is ! day morning at 3:30 o'clock, w hile the east j hound train was waiting at the depot, lbe as young couple were John S. McGhmess the ! and Mis* Gracie L. Hazeitine. both ol are j Baker City, Oregon. Rumoi says that i they were fleeing from a wrath.v old gen j tleinan named llazeltine who w ould have j used a hazel brush, or someth:, j had lie overtaken them. Rev trip I telegraphed to he on hand and the young I couple proving to he ot proper ag stronger. is ex . well-known while repairing the stand-pipe in *H shaft of the White A*!', mine, near Golden Col., on the ;)olh, fell to the bottom a dis tance of 670 feet, I n times during the terri fourni the head un recognizable mass. bodv turned st vera! e descent, and w hen ■rushed into an un GLEANINGS FROM TH E ROCKIES. Events Transpiring in Onr Sister States and Territories. Nearly the w hole town of Comptonville, Cala., was destroyed by fire last week. Pasadena (Cala.) capitalists have bought the Murietta Hot Springs, in San Diego county, for $81,600. A $45.000 gold mill is being erected near Ccadville, Col., to work the free gold quartz of the Antioch mine. Pete Johnson has bonded his mine on Cutter mountain to the Buckskin Mining Company of St. Louis for $30,000. The Portland, Or., Council has adopted the rule requiring railroad solicitors to pay a license fee of $15 per quarter and wear a big metallic budge. Articles of incorporation of the Eastern Wyoming Railroad Company have been filed in Uinta county, having previously been filed in all the other counties. This is the supposed C. B. & Q. extension head ed form Sait Lake— Tribune. News received at Victoria, B. C., from the northern fisheries is encouraging. The Skcena river pack will be the highest ever known. Fifty-two thousand cases have been packed already. Alert Bay fishing is good, and the rivers inland ore overrun. Virginia Enterprise, 31st: Silas Powers, the butcher at Small's Station, Lake Ta hoe, was thrown out of a wagon on Tues day, near Tallac, by a run-a way team, and so severely hurt that he died on Thursday. Mr. Powers was an old resident at the lake and a brother of cx-Assemblyman Frank Powers, who now resides in Oregon, Work has opened on this valuable prop erty (the Pine Creek mines). A large force of men are making a road from the timber down the canyon to the river which will be completed in a few weeks. The True Fissure mine is being developed by two tun els, in both of which there are large bodies of high grade ore. The Hum ming Bird also shows a tine bodv of ore and work will be pushed on this and other claims at once. A saw mill is now on the road and the to stamp mill will be erected before the snow flies.—Salmon City Re corder. Grange ville Free Frest: This com munity was a little surprised last Thurs dav to see "Big Mary " walking the streets as large as life. Big Marv is an Indian sqaw, a sort of modern Hecate, who in the White Bird light ten years ago bore an ac tive part and was very diligent in cutting the throats of the wounded and dying sol diers who fell in that action. Some of the poor fellows were horribly mutilated bv this she devil, and we noted a defiant grin on her face as site paraded the streets. She accompanied the hostiles all through the war and was sent to Indian Territory with the other Indians and finally returned with Joseph's band to Colville, but it np pears that she has crossed the line and in all probability will continue on our reser vation. The Government of the United States is a great and good government, hut its acts in preventing the administration <>f and don't care who the civil law in the cases of these mur derer* was a high-handed piece ol ursur pation and an infringement on the rights of the peopl know* it.'' A Miles City Mu nier. Miles City, M. T , Aug. 3.—[Special to the Untie Mini / .j—Considerable excite ment is occasioned to night by information that AI. Vance, a reputable citizen of this countv living on the Rosebud creek, twelve miles from the month of the Yel lowstone, had shot and tilled one T. J. Ryan, a cowboy. The shooting occurred at Vance'* ranch this afternoon and was occasioned by slanders alleged to have been uttered by Ryan. Ryan was at Vance's ranch, and. h ing chargee with the slanders, the murdered man partially admitted his connection with the same. Vance said any one who would say such things was a s ...... ol a b--. Ryan ad vanced towards him as though *'• grapple, but changing mind wheeled around and [ seized his gun which lung behind him on ; a chair and without n-v further ado fired ! point blank at Vance's head. Vance was I unhurt, and before R.an could recover ■ himself had drawn hi own six shooter, j whit'h n tiouhlo «ti'fon one» nml with* * out taking aim pulled t,e trigger, the bul I , et strikin;{ Rvau !u . : . of the ear, killing j ( ^ Jnstan tl v . ' R> ,m .11 over on the floor «• ^"***** \ his nerveless finger* rid fell on the floor beside him. Vance a- soon a* possible came to Miles City ml gave himself up, and accompanied . Corner Redd to the scene of the tragedy t. night. From all that can be learned, aid there were two witnesses, the shooting vas justifiable. MONTANA CONDENSED. From Out- Territorial Exchange*. Other Source*. ami i 1 The Missoula water-works is to be ex-| tended. j Missoula county lumbermen have ad- ' vanccd their prices. * The Christ.*!)» and Presbyterians oil, Missoula contemplate building houses of j worship. Tramps and thieves are numerous m . Missoula and the people arc complaining 1 bitterly of their depredations. I A child was born in the emigrant car on the train between Custer and Billings, which went west Sunday morning. The Kennel club on Sun River are do ing good execution among the wolves in that section. About twenty wolves have been caught by the dogs and they arc still at it. The work of laying the rails on the Coke dale spur of the Northern Pacific was commenced yesterday and will be pushed rapidly to completion.—Livingston Enter prise. Livingston Enterprise: A syndicate ol Fort Benton and White Sulphur Springs capitalists are negotiating for the bonding of and leasing of mines in the Castle Mountain district. It is rumored that the Northern Pacific will shortly place electric lights in the Muir and Mullen tunnels to be kept con stantly burning, tints lessening the danger of travel through them. Argus: A severe Hail storm visited some portions of Fergus county on Mon dai-, and considerable damage is reported therefrom. Many of our farmers' grain fields arc almost ruined, the grain being leveled to the earth. Capt. Davidson, of the steamer Fern, re ceived word yesterday that the machinery for his boat would be here in a few days, and was already to be placed In position on the boat immediately upon its arrival.— Townsend Tranchant. j observe The L. S. outfit, of Eastern Montana, have received information of a drove of their cattle, numbering in the vicinity ot Soo, heing seen on the Missouri tiitr. This is good news to that outfit, as they had counted those Soo as among the lost. John Murray who Is working placer dig gings on Indian Creek, is having a success ful season. Not long ago he made one clean-up of about $18,000 in gold, and it is expected that the output 01 hi* mines tor J the whole season will not be less than $50, 000 — 'Tranchant. There is a good deal of activity in min ing affairs in the Mill Creek, Wisconsin, and contiguous districts, and it looks as it there will be quite a boom in that reg'on before long. There is one thing certain, and that is that when these districts are brought within facile transportation dis tance, so that the shipment of ores, or the importation ot machinery can he accom plished economically, there will be a large number of mines worked that are now ly ing idle.— Madisonian. Missoula Times: St. Ignatius day was d at the Mission Sunday with the usual ceremonie*. The brass band com posed of Indian boys and the young In dians attending the school went through of exercises in the a long programme church. The house was crowded, the old Indians watching the parts taken by their children with the deepest interest. As usual, the Indians came in from all sec tions, and clad in new blankets with] new and flashy handkerchiefs about their heads. Father Directory, of this diocese, arrived in town to-day and is the guest ol Palhei Van de Ven. He has just completed a contract with Architect Roberts for a Roman Catholic Ch troll to he built at Ana conda. The congregation have bought a lot thei e, and with their funds on hand will build a church 50x90 of brick. Only the the foundation, walls and roof will he con pleted at present, leaving the other trimmings until sufficient funds to complete ing to Mr. Roberts' designs.—Butte Minn . Mr. Cokcfair, Manager of the Rocky Mountain BelJ Telephone Co., was in town Tuesday. He has concluded to build an entirely new line, new poles and new cop per win 1 between Deer Lodge ami Butte, following the old county road the entire distance instead of cutting across the range ât Brown's Gulch. Holes a tribuled from several point and next Monday lie will 1 force of men setting pole - and He expect- to complete I and a- the distance is forty towers and tliev accumulate amc accord e being di on the liu •gin with a tringin wire, nr mile* a day, miles, tiie new -hould be completed by . Xorth- West. August to.— The Flail Election. Sai.t Lake, Aug. 3.—Returns from the general election on Monday are nearly all in. The vote was the lightest ever cast in the territory for many years. It Lthought that fully 90 per cent, of those registerec voted. In close districts the Mormdhs cast * s '''k 1 ' 95 ï* r '-• ent - of their registration. . .... legislature, two trom this citv, » The Gentiles elect five members of the two front the mining town of Park City and one from (lie district including the mining Mm|1# ol - Hinfî ham, Ophir, Stockton and n, e A/ormons elect 31 members of the legislature. The light vote is due to the disfranchisement of polygamists and women and to the refusal of many A/or mous and Gentiles to take the test oath prescribed by act of congress. The A/or nions almost unanimously voted for the anti-polygamy state constitution. A Murderous Greek. San Francisco, Aug 3. —A/icolo Pan olicdo, a Greek confined in the county jail In this city, this morning murdered his cell mate, George H. d/arshall, who was await ing trial on the charge of grand larceny. The weapon used was a pocket knife, and it is supposed the Greek first made the at tack on A/arshall while the latter was asleep. A struggle followed and A/arshall was stabbed in a dozen places. The guards were aroused, but Panolledo re fused them admittance to the cell and held them at bay with the knife for two hours. J A PoUticnl Kuw. Louisville, Aug. 3.—The riot reported In a special dispatch from A/anchestcr, Kentucky, saying that six men had been killed, proves to have been exaggerated. The row occurred over a negro vote and shooting was done. A J. Hacker was killed and two other sseriously wounded. Further trouble may grow out of the mat ter as the friends of both sides are angry and going armed. Itnlletl in liver. Green Bay, Wis., August 4.—A beer kettle in Raper's brewery exploded last night scalding seven men, six of whom died during the night. They are August Del forge and two sons, J. B. lloibe, John Biemeret and George 11 . Oihe. Del forge and Biemeret leave families. The kettle held 700 barrels of boiling water which poured over the victims literally cooking their flesh. Fie 111-0- Fue uiiiunia, Springfield. IB-. Aug. 3.—The Gov ernor today received a communication from tiie State Board of Live Stock Com missioners to the effect that since the out break of contagious pleuro pneumonia in Cook county they have slaughtered over 8,000 head of cattle. At the present time the cattle in tint quarantine district arc in almost perfect isolation. Kuntucky Election. Louisville, 1 a. in., August 4.—The Courier Journal lias unofficial returns from 55 counties. These returns from 56 coun ties. These returns show a loss from Cleveland's majority (34,839)0! 7,710. If this ratio of gains and losses continues, the net democratic loss will be 12,850, leaving Buckner a majuritu ot 21,989. Fopper Mille on Fire. Cai.umet, A/icli., August 4. —The Calu met and Ilecla mine i> on fire at tiie 16th level. Immense volumes of smoke are issuing from N. 3 shall. In the liecla branch of the the mine the miners have gone down to shut off the fire|jfrom the "Black Hills" portion of the mine. No lives were lost. shot by ii Nurse. New York, Aug. 3— Col. Lafayette Demmings, aged 5 0 , "as shot and slightly wounded this afternoon by .Mrs. Ellen Harvey, professional nurse, 25 years old. The colonel refused to make any charge against lier but said lier husband and her self tried to blackmail him out of $20,000. Cliolerti in Chili. New York, Aug. 3.—According to ofliciai reports thei<- were 10,236 deaths from cholera in Chili during the period from January to June ot this year, and the government expended $1,<>07,000 fighting the epidemic. Carver Heats the Witi-hl, - ---- Lyni tint ko, \ a., Aug. 4— -in -t shooting match at the lair ground- to day, English rules, Dr. Carver broke the world's record. killing score. fifty pigeons and making a clean