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Professional cards occupying the space of six
lines this type) or undter. .sixteen dollars pci
annum. Estray, Co-partnership, Collection m
other transient notices, not exceleding ten line Li
nonpariel, five dollars for four insertlons. Trani
uient advertising must be paid in advanc.
We allow no commissions and prefer not
to deal with advertising agents. Agents' or
ders for advertising, unless aoompaouied by the
cash, will reoeive no attention.
JOB PRINTING.
We have every facility for executing the Raest
elasses of Book and Jobprintingfl, and our prices
are a, low nIt thoseof any other printing establish
mre eit; in Montana. All BooL or ob work must tbep
paid for on delivery.
~, ffll ff l~laa
0. L. PEN.I0BR & . ., - - r(-n .erZts
the
Sar;h Beruhardt is reported t be dyingA ma
from coinl-um'ption. Lot
Eieven per cent. of the United States
Army deserts .very year. foil
Congress will probably appropriate sut
$1,0(00.(100 for the improvement of the ita
Miss.souri River this year. oft
The clerk of the U. S. Supreme Court dra
makes about $40,000a year. An Associate oft
Justice rcciive' only $10.000 per annum. tw,
John Shermallnt is said to be very indig
nant with Logan for not having given him w
a whiter whitewashing in the contingent car
fund investigation business. coi
Under the new apportionment the next of
electoral college will consist of 401 mem- gai
bers-subject, however to additions in the A.
event of new States being admitted. lar
nt
The Iowa Legslalture has failed to pass i
the bill putting a stop to the free pass sys
tem on State railroads. The economical
grangers could not see the need of such a WO
harsh measure.
Elections will be held in twenty-three ha
States this year. Tile offices vary in im
portance, running from the highest to the
lowest, but they will serve to show whether
the political wind blows Democratic or Re- J
publican.
Isaac 1. McUutclti-on, of Michigan, has th
been appoinied Secretary of Montana. As to
the New Northwest says: "'We know noth- sp
ingot the present appointee, but assuming e
he is worthy and well qualitied, will bid la1
him welcome." elu
The President has Mr. Blaine to dinner
frequently, but seems to have wholly drift- a
ed away from his magnetic influence. The to
latest reports are that the Chili-Peru th
troubles have been amically settled, just as
Chili dictated and in direct opposition to tl
all Mr. Blaines jingo ideas on the subject. W
General Logan is represented as having tip
said that Gen. Grant asks to be placed on al:
the retired list, that he may draw the $10,- cc
000 life pension the position will give him. th
Gen. Logan either misrepresents General til
Grant or General Grant forgot his self-re- be
spect when he asked for what Gen. Logan's do
bill will give him.--Albany Journal. G
C
In all parts of Montana branches of the hi
Land League are being established. Not
alone upon their generous and patriotic p.
members do these associations reflect cred- le
it but upon the whole Territory of Mon
tana, which is justly proud of its Irish cit- fa
izens. The common aim of these Leagues (m
is a high and noble one and we are in I
hearty sympathy with each and all of O
them. it
------ -,
A Panama dispatch dated the 13th of t
last mouth says: "Intelligence has just q
reached here of an appalling earthquake in
Costa Rica. Advices thus far received a
staate that four towns have been destroyed. a'
These are Alajuela, San Ramon, Grecia
and Heredia. In Alajuela alone several t
thousand lives were lost. Those left alive
there are homeless. Alajuela is a city of a
8,000 inhabitants) 29 miles by rail south- a
west of Cariago."
A much larger area of wheat is being
sown in Englan than usual, owing to the
favorable season. There has been no win
ter, and the land is in a'splendid condition,
antd the farmers are stimulated by the d
glorious weather (say accounts fromnt there)
to great exertions. Winter wheat looks
better than for twenty years, and the
farmers throughout the United Kingdom a
begin to hope for an old-fashioned year of
plenty.-Exchange.
The Democrats in Helena have just cause
to congratulate themselves on their recent
municipal victory. They have elected a
Mayor, a Police Magistrate and a Tress- fi
urer and two Aldermen in a heretofore b
Republican city. Under the Republican b
administration of affairs Helena taxpayers 1'
saw that they were threatened with over- b
whelming debt. Of all their candidates the ti
Republicans elected but three Aldermen. M
The issues were local, but still the Helena "
Democratic victory seems to us to fore- ii
shadow results in the delegate election !
next fall.
The cable-motor system for street ears e
seems to be surely supplanting horse pow- I
er. A leading Philadelphia company r
have decided to adopt it on part of their i
lines immediately and to subsequently ex
tend it. It is promised that the change r'
will be perfected by the 1st of July. The
method used in Chicage will, it is claimed,
be improved upon materially. There ap- :
pears to be little doubt that the street-cal n
lines can be run more economically by the f
new mwethod, and its entire feasibility n
may be considered as practically demon- v
strated. Greater speed `is attained, and i
tender-h..rted passengers in o.er-crowd- e
eare are nota bothered b psidseratos i o
for Aufering beasts. 'eonly parties who a
will ot bbeneftedt by the change at the
,+ breders and deler.- It e a
Losses by the forest fires in Michigan
l. ast September of those who have asked
OD uind received aid, as shown by sworn ap
IN praisals, amounted to $2.340,943, or an av
erage of over $726 for each family. The
losses of those who have neither asked nor
required assistance is known to have beeri
.f great magnitude. There has been re
ceived by the State fire relief commission.
I'he Detroit and Port Huron committees.
8 aild committees of other localities, as re
~ ported to the governor, the sum of $263,
7 t36.89 in cash, together with donations it;
44 ind which, when added to the cash con
ributions, would equal the sum of $1,000,
S .)JOK-Echan ge.
sa Here is the record ".,i' a rtecent day's work
: y Mr. Gl,tdstoune: lit the early moruing I
in dtere was the usual business with his pri
rate secretarieh-bt)uusiws of itself sflfi
clent to exhaust the energies of most men
the hen followed a journey to Windsor, the
Council, the private interview with the
Queen, and the return to London. Imme
Lane iiately afterward came the great gathering
dih at Downing street, and the speech from the
t k Prime Minister; then followed the sitting
of the House of Commons, where ques
S:ions had to be answered and two speech
es made; while the day was wound up by
the -long and remarkable address on the
in inmain question of the procedure of the
Lords.--N. Y. Sun.
tater A despatch comes from Panama to the
following effect: "Resolutions have been
iate submitted in the Colombia Congress call
the ing upon the execulive to give one year',
notice to the United States of the intention
of the Government of Colombia to with
ourt draw from the stipulations and obligations
ciate of the treaty of December 12th, 1846, be.
m. tween the two countries. It also authorize.
Idig- the executive to enter into New treaties
him with the United States and Spanish Ameri.
gent can Republics with the view of concentrat.
ing if possible all legitimate interests
concerned in the free transit of the Isthmus
next of Panama, and more particulary with re.
tem- gard to the inter-oceanic canal enterprise
n the Article 35 of the treaty of 1846 is particu
larly condemned as vague and not easy o:
pass interpretation, and likely to bring abou
d ss- liscord between the contracting parties
Bical The resolution is supposed to are the
ich a way for a joint guarantee of .neutrality be.
tween the republics of the new and the
commercial nationsof the old world in be
three half of the canal."
-I i -
:o the Gen John M. Palmer, of Illinois, hay
ether ing recently been interviewed on the sub
r Re- ject of the letter of Garfield to Salmon P
Chase, criticizing General Rosecr:ns' man
agement of the Army of the Cumberland
i, has thus expressed himself: "I do not intent
t. As to take part in the controversy which ha
1ioth- spIr'ung from the publication of Gen. Gat
ming field's letter to Governor Chase, for at thi
.1 bid late day it is impossible that all the cit
cumstances that caused the letter to b
inner written can be collected, or that justic
drift- can be done either to Gen. Rosecrans o
The to the memory of Gen. Garfield. Fror
-Peru the time Gen. Garfield joined the army e
ustas the Cumberland, and until after the bat
ion to tle of Chickamauga, our personal relation
with him were friendly. We agreed thoi
bject. oughly upon what may be called the poli
aving tics of the war. He was a radical anti
sedon slavery man. He favored arming th
$l0,- colored men, and that the overthrow (
Shim. the rebellion should be followed by the e
:neral tirpation of slavery and the equality of a
elf-re- before the law. Gen. Garfield was beyon
,gan's doubt earnestly and sincerely devoted t
Gen. Rosecrans, and notwithstanding th
Chase letter, never voluntarily injure
>f the him."
YNot "How, then, do you account for the aj
triotic parently unfriendly criticisas in the Chat
crled- lettel'."
Mon- "Oh, easily enough. Just as I accoum
h cit- for many letters written by general office
agues (during the war that I have seen in ti
ire in hands of friends since the war endeu
all of Officers were away from all the sources 4
information that were accessible to tl
people at home; they were harassed i
3th of the personal letters of their political a,
(js t quaintances who thought there ought
ake in be marches and battles every day or tw
cived and who were unable to see why, when tl
royed. armies were within a day or two's mar.
evral of each other they did not fight and or
things. Garfield was rthen a very your
ve man, and no doubt in this Chase letter said
of a good deal more thanhe would ever said to
h- a council of war if one had been called."
THE SHERMJAN WHITEWASH.
he The Senate committee appointed to in
n. vestigate the frauds upon the contigent
n, fund of the U. S. Treasury Department
e during the.regime of John Sherman, has at
ka length made a report. Its member un
be animously find that almost all the frauds
m alleged were true, but that no evidence ex
ists to establish the fi.ct that.John Sher
man-was a party to their perpetration;
and moreover, that Mr. Sherman denies
se under oath, that he knew of the rascality
nt of his subordinates Pitney and others.
a When it is considered that most of these
frauds were indulged in for the individual
re benefit of Mr. Sherman-articles having
an been bought for him personally, and work
r having been done on his private residence
,r. by government paid labor-the report of
he this committee is hardly as complete a
n. whitewash as a great politician from Ohio
na might desire. However, John Sherman
e- has engraven on his political crest the
on motto, You can't prove anything, and he
no doubt is satisfied. The committee does
not comment on its findings with refer
Lrs ence to Mr. Sherman one way or the other.
w- Perhaps the following summnig up (c
ny the situation by a Washington correspond
!ir tit of the N. Y. Sun is a correct one:
x- "The public will have to conclude tha
g( the "Sherman Bureau" was run at the cost
he of the Treaeury; that work was done o;.
l, Sherman's houses from time to time; thae
p- :o architect worked ten days forMr. Sher
a] mai; that cabinet-makers made furniture
he for him; that subodinate in thehe depart
ty metdia vartety of things for him in -
n- variety of places, all of which was paid fot
rid ;ut of the Treasury The public must con
d-' lude that all this wa without the knowl
any edgeorprioty ot JoWf thrman, *r it
gan The costly product of demagogism and
ked folly, the Pens ons Arrears act, continual
RP- y crops up as the source of new charge
av- n the Treasury. At prsent the Comm.
Th•e ioner of Pen ions employs 742 men, whos.
nor :unual salaries amount to $885.000. '1
)eel jtust within thr. e years the claims no
re- lending will require a force of 1,159 ll,
ion. id an annual expenditure of $1,957,01 (t
uese a addition to the increased appropriatiti
re ir the Pension office, a corresponding ii
'63 ease of force and expendi' . es will l
c ii eded in the ofli.esot the Adjai.:nt-Genm
°o- al and Surgeon-General, the Second Con
0 i ii" x1141 An l? ti Auditor of the l''ireanh
;it thell, as Senator ltigalls remarked, II
r i a great uati : ll which icall af lr'1 to
n it., not to say extravagatlily 'generous.
,pr atter hat tlhe cost. Abite tie t ch
Soiug rel,,clng r c ions uggeste(l by 1h 1'
en- , At'lrreirs job are that it is likel
the :V a mOa1_ beiefli al fifert on the lot;.
the ty of a co.tsiidr:dlbe portion of out p
n e. .:aild that its vast proportions ill ', •
.rin : '. a nii werfit i ,.ietrreit' .a.gai:fs
•the tI.- iik , . tii- ' JCu. ' S-U ie ;i -
tting ..'hr::ig war. Our greatL. army o. p!,;"
wues- te ought to be a standing remliilnder o: t;,
:ech- oat, of interrupting the peaceful pursuits:
.p by free peopie.-N. F. Tinecs.
Sthe A BNTON AIL WAY SCIiKJif:'
the
Articles of incorpoation for the Fort Bvo
o the tO', it;-kli.r anrd Leollow~5:~e R..i:.,
been otpany hIlve been recently filed in .i
call- lice of tihe Secretary ot the Territo:
I hlie iI'orplotrators are 1 rn. ( Cotrail,
r'tion E. Collins, T. C. Power, and Paris Gil
wtion son, all of Fort Beuton, and Samuelt
eion e llil at .tllt,tllill l Ut i.ilII eapwi ila, *i li,
i. be- ota. lThe articles ut ilcorporatioii r'c
orizes that the new railroad shall start from ..o"i
eaties point on the Yellowstone in Custer count,
mei and inUln tile ce uLII'oUgU t MIeag etic-i' n Cotii
ntrat- (of course thli intean via the Barker mine
erests to Fort Benton in Choteau. The d
;hmus sign of the originators of this new con
th re- pay i, we uluiidte'ltalu, to have it a di
tinctively Benton enterprise. Benton
nramed as its chief place or' business at
atiof- already a certified copy of the articles
about lico'poration has been tiled with the r
corder of Choteau county.
e the Twoii is no railroad on paper scheme. TI
ty be- men who have conceived it are shrewd at
d the arseeinlg. Above all others who migILt
in be- named, they have the requisite energy at
ability to carry it through. Thie count
through wtich this road will have to ri
hay- presents few natural difficulties in the w;
e sub- of high divides and wide streams of wat
ton P. and the 250 to 300 miles of tra
man- uece~stary to connect the termini, B
rland, ton and, perhaps, Couison, can be easi
ntend laid. uttch a road promptly establish
Ih has i would not only develop Benton and
Garl- tributary country with marvelous rapidit
it this out insure tortunes to its sLockhilaiters. A
e cir parts of the Territory are eager for ra
to be roads nowadays, and we are certain ti
ustice the advent of the Fort Benton, Barker a
ins or Yellowstone Railroad will be hailed wi
I- LV nIiuVlw i 1Y ,IVU .... - -
'om0 universal satisfaction by the people of this t
of section.
>at- e
Dns THE COJMfMERCIAL BELATIONS OF t
or-. OUR SECTION.
oli- - t
iti- Not long ago the RECORD republished a
the letter from Paris Gibson of Choteau cous
of ty, which recently appeared in the Miane
ex- apolis Tribune. In his well written letter,
all Mr. Gibson pointed out to the citizens oi
ond the enterprising twin cities of Minnesota
to the mutual benefit that would result to
the themselves and the people of our section
red from speedy establishment of close com
mercial relations. In its editorial com
ap- ments the Tribune strongly endorsed Mr.
ase Gibson's view, and also promised to further
agitate the matter. Already, however,
unt such ideas had been suggested to the capi
_er talists of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and
the that they now tavorably entertain them
led. there can be little doubt. The practical
s of outcome of all this must be the extensioni
the of a distinctively Minnesota railway sys
by tem to Fort Benton. The St. Paul & Mani
ac- toba Railroad, a rich, powerful and ente:
it to prising corporation, has even riiade a pre
we, liminary survey for a track from Grand
the Forks, Dakota, to Fort Buford, in further
ireh ante of such a scheme.
end Stanley Huntley, of the Brooklyn Eagle.
ung a former Dakotian, in writing of the great
said Northwest a few weeks ago incidentally
d to touched on the subject. "Another rail
, road is spoken of seriously," writes
Huntley, "to run through the northern
part of North Dakota, striking the Mis
souti at the mouth of the Yellowstone and
in- crossing into Montana, or keeping along
gent the east bank, around the big head of the
Ment Missouri, and reaching the neighboring
is at territory by crossing the Big and Little
un- Muddies, and then running along the
tuds north bank of the Missouri. It can scarce
ex- ly be possible that human enterprise con
ler- templates such a route as the latter. Fol
r;- towing the river bends, they must travel
nies at least five hundred miles through the
ilty Piegan, Blackfeet, Blood and River Crow
iers. reservation, now a wild buffalo country.
hese and through the region made famous by
dual the unsuccessful raids against Sitting Bull.
ving Yet such things are talked of, and pioneers
vork point silently to the wastes above the Big
ence Bend and look unutterable prophecies of
rt of the swift coming time when the buffalo
le a grass will be plowed under and the land
)hio teeming with crops."
,man The rich and productive Milk river val
the ley, in Montana, will be traversed by this
d he projected road, and when it has been com
does pleted Minneapolis and St. Paul can easily
afer- control a large share of our commerce it.
;her. sheep and cattle, and by establishing work.
S: )r the reduction of our mineral ores, take
end- away fortunes, as Paris Gibson sugges>
from Omaha to Chicago. The Northern
tha Pacific also begins to appreciate th,
cost rich commercial field offered to railroad,
te o;' pproaching this section; and the fact thaý
that it contemplates coming up this way eithes
;her- with its mainline ar s branch track from
itar Coulson, is not to be explained, simply by
gart :he fact that it is on the lookout for good
in i+:oal which crops out only in the form of
Sfoit tgniti In 'thei Ylilowstone country.
con: t'rails precede stage lines in the west ant'
owl-. he stage coach widening trails into geo
w it h ighway V aventually ubhere land give
lInWbs at iihet e
andConsonsadwitis he esttw
an years it is more than probable that the
uai- -attleof railroad trains will be heard on
rg he same route. The Canada Pacific from
mar :cross the British line looks also with
hos- vetous eyes toward our depot at the
' .e-ad of navigation on the Missouri. And
no 11 the while our river flows downward to
rns yard the great trade centres that vie with
,0( 0 ch other for its Montana commerce.
tits .l'h destiny of the country surrounding
ii ;enton, and Benton's own destiny as itE
l • I entre are both great and promising. Their
i !:tturatl raeources are practically unlimit
on-. d1; and now that the existence of these
S are beginning to be revealed to the capital
0 rlld restless enterprise of the east, then
4 ed be no doubt, or ques0;on, as to ouir
.. :isre cornlllnerlc;l imnportacl 'e.
CAT TLE RAISING .V CHO 'EA U
COUNTY.
It is safe to assert that there are now of
1:e ranges of this county some 70,000 heat
a:tttle, worth over a million dollars
l.d when it is considered that under ord.
• :.-rily favorable circumstances a herd o
:.4ttle dotables in value every three years
Stb is more than surprising that eastern
,:,pitalists are not here vying with eacl
.itherfor cattle investments.
:' lready two gigantic cattle compani
:;ave been organized by -Canadians ijus
t .-rc oss the line where the risk of loss i
• ,%uach greater, both from Indians and th
n or of the climate, than in Choieau, an,
t :th boah ot these success is already an :
' i retd fact. More such Casnadian enter
'i Gi .r:ses are to follow also this summer. Fo
lt .L iluereasoll or other, however, the ric
iit ?eln of the eastern states do not seem t
rIC ealize the rare opportunities for makin
,os' ~rtunes here with little trouble and anxiet
Junt3. hat are offered then. Many of thei
(,tt . iave eagerly enough put thousands int
ainer, Jakota wheat fields where the expense I
e de- ,e incurred is incomparably greater an
com- .tie profit to be looked for incomparabl
a di,- less than in a Montana cattle investmen
ton id Perhaps an explanation is to be found i
A Atiu the fact that Montana has been withor
les o1 railroad frcilities; or may be, our resource
he re- have not been properly advertised. Sti
within the past two or three years not
The Montana steer has been shipped east:
vd anu far as Chicago without exciting gener:
;its f, comment in eastern newspapers, even s
y an far as the Atlantic seahoard ; and it seen
)uintr': strange that wide awake eastern capitalis
0o rut seeking good investments should allo
te wa. themselves to be stopped in Dakota simp:
watel for the sake of avoiding a pleasant trip
track two or three additional weeks in order
Be;' reach Fort Benton. It is possible that tl
easil) belief has gone abroad that our best ca
sii heu fte ranges have already been occupie
id it- This idea, we regret to say, has bee
idity, *elfishly encouraged by a few of our rit
rs. All cattle owners. But how preposterous
,r rail- absurd it is can be seen at a glance. Ch
u that teau, which without dispute
Dr and the distinctive cattle county
d with Montana, has an area equal to, two
Df this three of the New Englanid States taken t
gether-and that 70,000 head of cats
should crowd even a hundredth part of i
8 OF range surface, is nonsensical. Moreov.
within the next few months thousands as
thousands of acres in Choteau count
ished a which have heretofore been locked up
couu- an Indian reservation, will be throv
Miane- open for settlers, cattle and sheep. I
letter, cattle investments come as rapidly as
'ea o I wish them to and let herds increase a
nesota normally-and still the question of ove
•sut to crowded ranges would not arise for yeai
tion- Again it is possible that our simple and
cor- expensive system of raising cattle in Mc
Scom- tana rmW not be properly understoc
d Mr. Anybody can put cattle on the range:s
urther that is the vast unoccupied tracts of Gc
v)ever, ernment lands, available only for pastoul
e capi purposes, private titles to which are r
is, and likely to be acquired under the varicl
1 them land acts for a long time to come-a~
actical bese cattle without watching wander
ensio~i will. The only cost is in the spring a
y sys- fall when the stockmen of the varik
Mani- sections combine, "round-up" the catS
I ente:- and brand the increase with the respecti
a pre- brands of the different owners. Each c
Grand tie man, or cattle association defrays 1
2rther- or its proportional part of the common -
pense. There is little risk and lit
gl* trouble in thtl system. It works raost
real effectively:;and has been thoroughly test
ally ed. .
al- The best and safest method for eastern
ites capitalists desiring to engage in the cattle
eri business, is unquestionably to incorporate
:is- joint stock companies, having some ex
an(i perienced and reliable Montanian a stock
O11g holder in each and appointing him a sup
tie ,rintendent or manager at a fixed salary. i
ring There are numbers of such men in Cho
ittlr teau county to-day eminently fitted to
the ,.anage such companies, who are ready t,:
rce- unite the fortunes they have already
son- realized from cattle with eastern capital
Fol- :nd engage in the business on a large scale.
ave: Now is the time above all other--befor.,
th he railroads get to this section-for the
moneyed men o& the East to invest in cat
'ow r.e, if the salient facts we have barely men
try. tioned in this connection could only be
by arought to their notice and consideration.
_ull.
eer. The London newspapers pay the follow
Big ing tributes to the dead poet Longfellow :
s of The Standard says; "Longfellow com
ralo mands a wider audience among our people
land than any poet of this age, save, perhaps,
Tennyson."
val- The Daily TelegrapA says: "The place
this Longfellow occupies in English literature
nom- is decidedly bright. He is almost as well
sil3 known and widely read in England as in
e i. America. His influence has been wholl3
ork. ood. As long as the English language
take asts his works will be quoted as models of
es:- Simplicity of style and purety of thought.
term Death has taken American's greatest liter
th" pry son."
oacd The News says: "Longfellow's death
the will be lamented in every English home.
thet Ills verses are not likely to die out of Eng
rom ash literature for many generations ,to
Cood The Times says: _i'f g'
Sof fellow's death will be; roadr with deepi 'a
,try. fret wherever the English language it
a -,poken.: The death of no literary English
t man could excite morei genuine sorrow
;1v ban athat of the much-loved author of
E Evangelin.' He will be no more e ere
Sly lameted- In Amsric thawsn e tjp
t7ºli1ý:f
t the The Government of Holland has defi
rd on nitely determined to reclaim the Zuyder
from Zee, which has an area of 20,000 hectares.
with The engineers in.charge of this work have
t the been engaged for ten years past in prepar- T
And ing the plans, and the total cost is now es
rd to- timated-at'notless than $46,000,000. The
with dyke will be forty-one kilometers in length 40
ferce. and will extend from the city of Enkhuisen s'
iding to the coast of the province of Overyssed pI
as its The top of the dyke will be built to the
Their height of five metres above the level of th,
limit- ea, which will bring it 2.05 metres abov
theme the highest title. The dyke will be form:
apital from sand and faced with clay, arid will b
there built of sufflieit ditmensions to resist th
;o our heaviest seas. It is interred to commer"
operations on the work at tour diffire.
points, and the calculaiionr is to have i,
AU completed in from seven to tenl years.
ow on :ERRITORIAL EXCHANGLE
Sheii - ITEMS.
ollars.
rordt- Missoula is agitating incorporation.
r of rs. George 31 WVilson, of Bozeman, it
years, dead.
asteri
h each Custer county has organized an immigra
tien aid society.
panir4 . A man named Gilmore was shot at Glen
as just (live a week or so age. .
loss is The Butte Miner deprecates pauper iml- rl
nd the migration to the city of silver.
i, and Cattle in Beaverhead county range in
an as' price fromn $1.9 to $21 per head.
enter- ThomasQuigley, of Custor county, re
. For cently died from-a surfeit of alcohol.
e rich
e~i '' The public school at White Sulphur r
em to
naking 4 Springs is closed for a two weeks vacation.
Enxiety Messrs. Gardner & Co. will put in a
them I quartz smelter at Maidenville this summer. .,
Is into Silver Bow is the only county in Mou- t
ense to tana out of debt. So much for rich silver
er and mines.
marably Recent assays made in California from
truent. ores taken out of the Color mine at Maid- a
aund in enville, run a little over $2,000 per ton.
rithout W. D. Flowere, of Helena, purchased i
sources 3,000 head of cattle in the Lemhi valley re
Still cently. -They are for a new Montana cat- 1
not a tie company.
east as
general The new coal asinaon Sand Coulee has
yen as been developed to a depth of 40 feet and
seems shows an eight-foot vein of an excellent i
italists quality of coal.-R-usbandmaa.
allow A new post office has been established on
simply the Martinsdale and Benton road, eigh
trip of teen miles from Utica. It is called Stan
order to ford.
;hat the Tons McDonough, a Missouri river
est cat- steward, recently attempted suicide in Bis
cupied. marck. He cut a deep gash in his threat
es been with a pocket knife.
ur rich Messrs. Clark & Ulm, who contemplate
erously a cattle drive, will start with from 1,400 to
Cho- 1,500 select beef steers. They expect to
ute is ship by the N. P. road at Coulson.--Hus
y of bandman.
two or General Merrill states that the steamboat
Lken to- traffic for the Upper Missou i will be from
E cattle Glendive, and that the N. P. road will pro
xrt of its bably run its own line of boats.
>reover,
areover The citizensof Miles City have enthusi
nd and
ounty, astically subscribed for the establishment
Sup in of a new road to the MJaginnis mines,
thrown which will reduce the distance to 140
p. Let miles.
as we The editor of the Avant Courier accuses
ase ab- that tiresome old bag of wind, Gen. Bris
of over- bin, of having cribbed a part of one of
r years. his MonLana letters to the N. iY. leraid
and in. from a back number of his paper. It -is a
in Mon- pity Brisbin does not cofuine himself alto
erstood. gether to cribbing.
anges-- MilesCity buffalo hunters hadbetter look
of Gov- sharp. The Bozeman sporting association
pastoral have sent detectives to the Yellowstone
are not country to find out those who are hunting
various regardless of the game law.--Yellowstone
ne-and Journal.
nder at It is stated that Con Kohrs. of Deer
ing and Lodge county, is the o ner of the largest
carious hierdi of fine cattle of any man in the West.
cattle, The herd numbersabout 10,000 Cead, and
spective two thirds of them are represented to be
ach cat- from three-quarteris full bred Short-horns.
rays his The herd is in the upper Snn river coun
non ex- try.-iirsb ndman
Ld little
smost A contractor of the Northern Pacific has
ly test- purchased of the company the right to
establisl a town site at Coulsoa. It will,
eastern however, be aboat ten miles above ther
he cattle location of the present town of Coulson,
rjporate A Gratd Rapids, Iowa, paper says that
me ex- about 500 lonia ceunty people will follow
a stock- Horace Greely's advice and go west when
a sup- spring opens, Montana being their destina
Lary. tion. Several fardilies from Muskegon,
Cho- Michigan, will emigrate to Montana at the
d to fame time..
The decision of the register and receiver
eadv
of the Helena Land Office in the desert land
pitar
cale. `ase of Wallace vs. Boyce has been approv
,for, ed by the Commissioner of the General
the Land Office, notice having been received
cat- here to that effect. The case will be taken
le by appeal to the Secretary of the Interior.
Lion. Messers. Clark and Ulm have sold their
large cattle herd to Downs and Allen for
low- $23 per head. The herd is estimated at 7,
low : 000 head, but may averave that number on
OW- actual count. This lis the largest cattle
ieple sale ever made in Montana and aggregates
'aps, about $161,000. The cattle we understand
will be rounded up, counted and delivered
placeat an early day.-Indepsndent.
iture
well The chief quartermaster at St. Paul re
as in commends that the government contract
1oll on the Missouri river from Yankton to Bis
uagr marck be given to John H. Charles, %f
is on Sioux City. From Bismarck to Fort Ben
aght. ton,toT.C.Power, and that no contract be
iter- made for combined service on the Yellow
tone and Missouri rivers from Glendive to
leath Benton. He deems it expensive,impractical
ome. and uncertain.
Eng- The boss sale of sheep yet made in Men
Ls ;to tana this.season, was four hundred head of
mutton wethe, sold by Philip Thorpe, of
g- Beaverhead county, about ten.days ago at
' : 0ea ch. This i h better than shipning
P1'to Chitca . Mr. Thrope doubtless hias
lish thebest flock or elsehe could not get the
rrow best prices. Ourinformant states that the
>r of focku in Beaverhead county have winter
care- .r well, andthat Mr. Thorpe's flok has
tbis come thr h to n eal condition and
.uyder
Murder InI llris l EI11.
ctares. -
k have WASHINGTON, March 20, 188
repar- To the Editor of the BentonRecord:
The If you are reading Mrs. Burnett's n
length book, "Through OClb Administration,'
nhuisen ,ope you are giving your attention to tl
ryssed. portion of it which deals with the Depa
to th :inents and their clerks. Permit me tot
1 of th. our attention to the following:
a above "The public buildings were no lon)
form,. - rere edifices in his eyes, hut develol
will i, ito tremen!dous communities, regult
sist LIi .t a treme'nd(ous system for which th
nie' nmild be no mdiunl osrin'iefinite st:anli
if'erei. ,In which imiust either be a tremeti
have : .lit or a tretnenllous discr edit to it:
,:l the power it represented. The htun
d'. of the place grew andl impressed it
, him. He began to feel the full sign
G. ,nctre of the stream of humanity wh
•betd and flo ed to and from these hu
:;gs at staten Laurs in thc S!ay. Aftt
t. et afternoon walks on the Avenue,
-e .t1 recognize many a face that pas
man, it , and could cotr prehend somethini
,vhat it typitied He could pick out
nmira,- i.tng woman wi~i "supported her fan
•:tpon her salary, and the young won
at Glien- who bought ribbons with it; the wig
.v'hae pay fed a half dozen children,
per im- rhe husband who&#e earnings wer' app
,riated by a wife of fashionable aspiratit
ange in the man of broken career, whose wae
,:,nbitions and frustrated purposes v
r nrie- d in the monotonous routine u
nt, re- iovernment clerkship, and who asked
;ioped for no greater boon than to be
Sulphur muitted to hold his place through as m
racation. ,f the future as remained to him. It
put in a in orderly and respectably dressed cro
summer. ,s a rule. but there was many a sad fac
in Mon- be seen in it, and many an anxious and
chl silver appointed one."
And in another place Arbuthnot
mia from scribes his genuine friend who has just
at Maid- a $1,200 clerkship, and says he told hin
ton. "If he had money enough left to b
urchaed return ticket home he had better buy
ralley re- and that if he had not I would lend
Gana cat- him. I told him that at his age it wa
a bad idea for a man to establish himse
some career he could depend on, and I
ulee has in default of having the energy to do 1
feet and he might reflect on the alternative of b
excellent ing his brains out as a preparation f
peaceful old age. And I told him tl
lished on had seen young fellows himself before,
ad, eigh- that the end had been tor them wl
led Stan- would be for him."
Mrs. Burnett is enrolling herself an
iri river the clamorers for civil service reform,
le in Bis- I hope, and believe, her work will be i
lii threat efficacious than the constant preachin
the subject with which the readers o
itemplate New York Post and Nation are burde
a 1,400 to Society life at the Capital is also well
expect to trayed by this novelist, and, although
i.-Hus- works are not built to last very long,
certainly rank high in the light liter:
teamboat of the day.
be from There are employed in the I)epartn
will pro- at Washington about 10,000 souls.
Hancock been elected every one of
would have been thrown out of em]
enthusi- ment, and when we consider this nu:
lishment of people, all dependent upon the Re
s mines, lican party for support and consequ,
e to 140 all active workers for that party, wi
nnmnrsrtaa ·mP of the Adds whirh (
appreciate some of the odds which Gen'l b
Hancock was obliged to fight against when a
he ran for President.
And these clerks-what sort of men are
they? As a rule they are good workers
and honest fellows. Most of them have
families which they support with difficulty
on their small salaries, and one would
suppose they would be on the lookout for A
other positions, so poorly does the Govern
ment pay them. But such is not the fact.
A Government clerk has but one desire
to remain in the Department. If he i
sure of his backing, he is careless of hii
work, but if his backing is doubtful, his
attention to his duties is much greater. t
Irhese Department clerks are devoid of am- t
bition. They may have had some of that I
quality when they entered, but it has
quickly left thiem;. and they are equally 1
without energy. There is one variety of t
clerk for whom, in the depths of my soul, I
I confess a profound admiration. It is the
swell who entered a Department young I
and found Washington society so delight
ful, and Department life so easy that he.
really couldn't leave either. His salary is l
suficient to support him nicely single; he
has the entree into the best society, and
Presidents come and Presidents go, but he
stays on forever. Is nothis life complete?
Does not he dress well? Has he not plenty
of friends? Does he not go out every I
night of his life? In Heaven's name whm.n
more does he want?-A wife? He is hap
pier without one.
A permanent place? The uncertainty of
each Presidential campaign is exciting and
pleasant. Fame? He is a philosopher
and desires no better fame than to be talked
of in polite society. But I shudder to
think of the. consequences should this
young swell, grown old in the service or
his country, be turned out of office. He
would be cast on his own resources, and
they have been buried so long that they
have rotted away together. But why
"cloud with dark foreboding the sunshine
of the day." This clerks life is complete
to-day, let to-morrow take care of itself.
But this young old swell class is small
in comparison with that class which plods
wearily on and buries respectable talents
and honesty of nature in the everlasting
drudgery of routine Department work.
The latter is a poorly dressed man, careless
of his personal appearance. He is as hon
est and good natuted a felltow as ever
breathed. He takes an interest in the
work he does and be does it well. Nine
o'clock 'every morning finds him at hip
desk, and four o'clock every afternoot:
finds him walking home. He dies aftel
Sthe Department closes and comes to liti
r again when it opens in the morning. Hi
f has been in office many years--ever since
t Grant's first term."- H was a strong Re
` publican then, but he Weakened during
Haye's administration. Now he is in fa
: vorof Arthur. Is he in the Penslon office
e Uwas a Bently man ayear ago,' but· no
he favors Dudley. He says so too in the
' ~ ~ ° his pih *- sdcaolte
sentiments. And thus rolls on the litf of
this servant of the country-a constant hat
tle with poverty at home, and a constant
dread of dismissal at his ottice. Awl if
1882. dismissed where could he go? what e:.l.h
he do? He is unfitted for other employ.
t's new me't than Government work. Ili ii.rt
ion," I his life of drudgery for the Governul'tl is
to that Likely to lead him to starvation ins tii
Depart- end.
e to cal= And these are the men spokeni of :
hildlers of fat offices. For that clause in
>longer his message to Congress which Ihrnisi T:i(o
velopect -ervants of the G.terl'llmentl. P'csi'tt
gulated Arthur deserves more praise t Iha it r.
11 thlr. "eives. AntI now it s'eelins to lme.. t a Int
!tan lin "r'eat obje f civil set vice reforttt , t hat'
(,lltd L- , ;-: .' i; g th' (jo)vertinllllt outll' 3''y' ,
0 it ".a .- "iglt of il the le-ser otj"eit f -
humnlt, ventinmg he th -e of Goverl'llnItt ploli.ll.u
ed itstlt for party purpo-es. The work of thi: (; ,v
signifi 'rmi wulent is done as well there as i, ;;
v which other counliry, but tihe people whllo o rthe
e bui,!- work are worse ctre! for. But a pr,,~,,i
After r tion to pelnsion the lan who h:s slpit his
,nue, he life as a clerk for the Governiellllt, anll is
paised tunfit for any otheremploy meant Jleets wiih
thing of no approbation among us. Let him "'lie
out the and decrease the sAllpllis populatitn ' a:nt
r family lit his old age be utlcared tor by the ,
woman try in whose service he ha.s spentT ail .rjt
widew years of hlis life that have been servit ',, ti,
ren, and at all. If the $10,t00,0i) J.ulge is pen ,i,r,
- appro- ed when he retires from the temch, ; i
irations, should not the $1200, clerk be rsimii;lat:
waste.d cared for? Is it not as use ess:ry that l.,
es were mouse should have his bit ot cieese, ;( :i,
ne of a elephant his hay?
aked and Civil service reform is very fas;ct'i; tit.
Sbe per- as well as a very complex sui..jter, ia ;_
as much one which Congress is afraid to, rke ,:
It was of. There is no iant ill either the lii,,i
I crowd, or Senate who can propose a good syt., t.
d face to to regulate this branch of the service, t:n.!
and dis- no President has ever been able to do,.
In his message to Congress, l'residetr .Ar
mnot de- thus ieviewe(l the different plaits. :al
s just got found fault with all of them, buit he cilt
I him: offer none better. The quet-ioin then is
to buy a open for competitors, and there is a Bo,,
buy one, opportunity for some statesmlanl to liUiin,
lend it to guish himself in proposing some definite
it wasn't and just settlement of the difficulty.
timselfin But, if Congress has shunned civil ser
and that, I vice reform, as a subject too difficult for it
do that, to wrestle with, it has not been afraid of
of blow- the pig-tailed heathen or the many-wired
ion for a men. The Chinese have been restrieteli
in that I t in their emigration and the Mormons in
fore, and their wives-and some of the best law vyerts
I what it of Congress doubt whether said restriction
is consistent with liberty and the rights of
if among man.
brm, and Sergeant Mason, Guiteatu's would-beh
1 be more assassin, has attracted a good deal of sym
iching on pathy from Washingtonians, because he
ers of the has been sentenced to the pe~litentiatrv,
utrdened. Petitions have been started for a re.lit
well por- fund for his widow and child, ad. a ith
ough her more credit to their hearts thea their
Oag, they heads, a great many people have signed
literature them. But the Sergeant hiiniselt seenms
liable to be punished more severely than
>artments he expected when he attempted to do a
Als. Had good act by means of a crime. lie lrba
e of these bly thought with Thwackeinn in 'JTai
employ- Jones, that so long as the end was good it
.s number mattered not what the means were; which
to Repub- is a most pernicious doctrine.
sequently The pardoning power now rests with
r, we can President Arthur, and no doubt hie would
ich Gen'l be generally applauded were he to stretch
inst when a point in favor of this misguided cr;.nk.
G AIL LA r D.
tiAILLAItD.
MOVING TO MONTANA.
A Flow of Emigration From Missouri
to the Norihwaest-ern Miining
section.
There is a quite a flow of emigration %t
,resent to the Territory of Montan;i, I'lfrol
Southeast Missouri, the pr'iei:,ial ):prt of it
being from Dent county. Last et-k, lbe
tween forty and fifty left on the r.ttnu,'r
Red Cloud for Fort Benton, with til il!
Rention of locaiing in the vicinity of the
Barker mining district. About one hbum
dred and fitty leave for the same tt'.tilia
tion, going to Sioux City by rail. and
thence by river to Fort Benton. Quite a
number of others will follow within the
next two or three months. The great bulk
of the immigrants are of the hardy cIasw,
bring miners and stockmen, and quite :t
nlumber of them men of means, honest, in
dustrious and hard-working people, ieek-
ing homes in the far West with the itrlc
ton of bettering their conditieon in lift.
The majority are men of family, and t'"'i"
families accompany them. Some , t It
females among these immigrans :re the
picture of healt.., and for beauty iad ,~Y!"
naetry of form, as well as suavity (of llin
. er and' bewitching fas..inatio.n--I-avI
had the advantages of rare culture-wou', u
bring the blush of envy to the c!hick of
many a so-called St. Louis belle. 1I a flV
months Barker district will also have ; tirst
:lase newspaper, presided ovei" by :i cul
Mured Missouri gentleman and an oldl ners
paper man, who will not be slow in hlttittn
the world know the immense resources of
this El Dorado of the new West.
The loss of these hardy pioneers will be
a great detriment to Missouri, but of
incalculable benefit to Montana. l'he
whole number leaving the State in a body
numbers near 300, and are under the 11a
agement and superintendency of 3Maj. J'
W..Patrick, who is one of the oldest pio
neers of Montana, and they go there upon
his representations and the advantages of
fered to early immigrants. The Major hai
been assiduously working up the colony
for the past three months. He has no pe
cuniary'interest in the matter vlhatever,
siaving in the number about forty o1 hi'
Iwn relatives, including children. grit d"
children and great-grand-children. On
ot his great grandchildren is the mnother' O'
wo children, although the Major i ,.iY
73 years of age, but on account of the p;re
atmosphere of Montana he expects to see
it least twenty-five or thirty years fnot
Fort Benton has a population of not .les
than 2,000, and boasts of some very no
some and commodious business O
magnificent private residences, splend
hotlls,'exclent schools and grand teunpl
f wa ip, ting all denominsdo"s
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