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THE DAILY YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL.
VOLUME V, No. g8. MILES CITY, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 687. PRICE FIVE CIITS.
THE DAILY JOURNAL
TA. offd..U Iup..r of Luater C.tsy.
Every Morning Except Monday.
Population of Mile City, - - .000.
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YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL,
JoIuI'NAt I I I Niil(.,
11II (1'1* 1'.,I M. T.
IN •
COINTRA( TEPILS.
1(AiLK. & r&TvAwt'r.
CO CoaACTUIa AlD H'.LD2s3.
EI(Mnate. tumarnabl .on ll kinds of carpenter
work
P H I,ECIA\N .
D M. U. R 1 t,
PHYSICIAN AND 8, JROLON.
Of s. at . p:. pap's' drug store. 12 1
C . WAIrNr.Y,
Lain sutat. over Ikackgrowewu Ncaioeaa Dank.
AlI work 4UaftSed and at remnnable ail.
D1. L . V. FIUH.
P;IuTazcam. MIObON AD OmTETrICIAN.
(AntWunda and tcebNrtsbellsr.) 020. At
W~rLg du soeft, Mil.e City, M. T.
PKOIEwI*ONAL.
f %DK[W i. A.1 NLYI(,LI.
S Aormsjat IAt.
Ofea c p . Coup .M lt a (l'(ItyM. 2'.
G£W. 5. MILNUIRN,
ATVQIIKY-A I-LAW.
14k 3pcial ert Iterior iiepariwat.
Dote f, net Urowern bak building. l..k
CiLy, Neal.
LIDMN0D Iii TLEiL.
JJ rfATIuMNKT AT LAW
A6W a Courtcaas. Main street. Ml.. ('ity.
3epttis Chufn--I$etv cP ISunday, II a. m. 7p
S. Ls It. i~owaypastor
Netbodisl Cburb- services Sunday. II a. mi.,
7:31 pm. :". E. alde,. pator
Presbyterian Church-trre e. SIunday, II a. W..
6:30 p. m. T. C. Arnuvtrong. past jr.
St Paul.. 6p scoltel-Daiy acept Saeturday.
9:30 A. a.; t~udyl, %w~ p. to. N r. Bonnhll,
sener.
Church of Sacred Heart, E'4tiaullrc-Sunda1, 10
a. a. E. W. J Lindeumuath, cchatlain. U. M. A.
tM 'IFTI L't.
A. O. H.--Dvision `o I meet first .ud econa
Sa-da' of each mouth.
K. of LI.-Mteeu ar. and third Wednesdays at
7:110 p. mi.. at Odd Fellows'
A. F. A. M.-Yellowstone I.od., No. 26, ,rut
sain 'hied W aeedays.
L A. . Il-teslowetaoe Chapter, No. ., second
and earth Satardays:
K. T.-De.ascus Commandery. second as d
neath Thu.l.eys.
1. u O. t.- 'ub r Lodge, o. 13,, ev ry
Medayo a0 bleir h.al.
L O. 0. --entillal Encas pment. No. 6, irst
and thl. - ridse.
.L ftPP -* ruseder I odge, No. 7, Thursday
anIlgi at Odd s'ellouws Hll5.
C. K. of A.-Miles ('ily Itranch. every 1unday at
. of L.-Firs and third I'rinays.
0. A. I.-U. M. Grant Post, .No 14, irst and
thitl Tueadaya.
I. O. i. T.-14tar of the West, No 24, every
Thuaday evening.
We aro olferlng bargains in
Ladies' and lisses'
SHOES
AND ELEUANT IllI'tHTKD
UNDERW EAR.
GIVE US A CALL.
C. R. Towers & Co.
IAD !IUi zOO6ITI
YOUNG LADIES'
blUING III DII KCloeL,
COMDKOt'rD JY li an
MILS OT2Y, MON4T.
WILLIAM HARMON,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
G- RROCE R,
CROCKERY AND GLASSWAREU
HAY AND GRAIN A SPECIALTY
MILES CITY - - MONTANA,
STOCK GROWERS
NATIONAL BANK,
MI.ES OITY. MONT=.
THE LARGEST BANK IN EASTERN MONTANA
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $105,000.OO
Tb seounats said busneee of stock men solicited and promised prompt attemtioe.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS.
W. 3. TEZBBn1. Pr eaident, W . HAZMON, Vice Prusident.
H.. . BATOCHELO, Cashier.
FIRST
NATIONAL BANK.
! z .-, : OTUr &.U ..
THE OLDEST ID LARGEST BANK IN EASTERN IONTANL
CAPITAL AID PROFITS, 106,000.00.
JOSEPH LEIgBTON, President
01E030 M. MILES, Vic President
E. B. WEIRIOC, Cashier.
H. B. WILEY, Assistant Cashier.
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS.
IMPORTANT TO INSURERS.
The s fety of the assured depends as much upon the skill and knowledge of
the AGENT as upon the soundness of the company. The ability properly
to write policies and make the endorsements so frequently called for, as
well as to give the advice needed and asked for by almost every
person assured, is not acquired in a few days or months, but requires
the study and experience of YEARS. It is well known that most
of the delay and trouble attending the settlement of losses is the
result of the ignorance of AGENTS through whom the insurance
is efected, and their inability to render needed assistance
at the time of and after a ire.
WILLIAM COURTENAY.
McAUSLAIND'S CHARLEs w. SkYDE,
NOtAll PUSUCO,
CItEEDIOOR AIlORY. m au and Real a t a t,
GUN8. Ss m stre .. t e.... to allgher's.
REVOLVERS, MMIL8E CITY. MONTANA.
AMMUNITION
Mercantwe b:oks posted; collections
ofo every deecriptlon. Tb. L*am3eT ITocR
of Heavy harps' Riaes in lb. west. made; all sorts of conveyancing and
(I unsmitllng sad Repsiraln of all kind ;clerical work promptly attended to.
Natly don. sad Wlrsraatd.
ROSEBUD COAL.
S. D. MOORE, AGT.
$3.50 Per Ton,
DELIVERED.
All ordrs filled pomply. Belt coal in the
market. Ordrs can b let at Harmon's storo.
BALD HEADED.
Moss Grown Chestnuts, a Rank
Tenderfoot Correapondent
of the Washin'gton Star
Palms off upon the too Credu
lous Readers of the
Atlantic Coast.
A ORBUST LIAR
Who Dblhe, up Stal, Nrew and I'r.odulter
ated tIffas fur Ea.trra Reader..
It is an old proverb that oi, "must
go away from home to learn the hews,
and it finds reenst ex.tnlplif.ation oIn
tile creed ,of ait o called .orrespondentia.
of the Washingbon .'*tar. j',il -t,.d
iii tahe' is.ue of ID,)ember 24th. T ..
seribtler i. evitet,:ly a correrlspi.hdtt
at large, for hie ult,.. . I. i. undle at
.tale liet. fro i, "-suth..-tertrn ..l ,
tant,'' l).'qe,,cle-r loth, without tihe
year, it. apllearance In ita paer putb
Il.hed l)ecelmbi r 24 1h 1Is.U. leavilng thei
iiferente that the statetll tit. made iII
the artille are ba-ed ou recent oibuer
vationr.. The "rowdy went" teing a
taking suijet t with eastern readers,
these correspondents, who are usually
rank tenderfeet with an Itching for
literay fame, feel it a duty to their
employers to fill the letters with the
mo-t startling possibilities which are
given off as every day fa.ts. The rep
utation of the rowdy west hua got to
be sustained in the eastern proe, and
the correspondent who neglects this
feature soon finds himself out of a job.
From such worthless and sensational
data as this are the people of the fat
west judged by their eastern country
men. The injury that the promulga
tion of such senseless lies does to a
growing place like Miles City, is
almost beyond calculation. Here is
what is said of Mless City by this
veracious ourremsondent.
Alter two days of town life, our long
list of things to do and to purchase
was checked offt to the very las.t itrs,
and pa) lug a princely ball for hotel
acouuamodatioon that would rival the
wret bJdne.s of a North river elas
grant "dave," we drew out sanld rough
but kindly farewells from the motley
group of herders, buyers, pruspectors,
owners, and drivers which orunuauetL
en the piazza of the cattle men's bea ,
quarters.
I bad made friends during my short
stay in town with cattle kiuge, bord
er ruotians, anl Eungish lord, an old
miner, panisards, Meiscans, tlen
fresh from eastern colleges, cliiailial
with a price on their heads, gamblers,
"broncho busters," and men from
almost ivery civilized country in the
wurld.
Strange that this little out-of-the
way corner off the earth should reach
out so far in it gathering, anud
stranger still that men of such differ
-ent metal should be content for the
time to be hand and glove with each
other; but there are all grades of
nmaun stock on the golden ranges 4t
this western cattle country.
The two main tboroughfares of
Mile.. form a letter T. The buildings
are all low and cheap, giving the im
prlesion of a seaside town of summer
cottages. Nearly every other shop in
the long row Is a "gin mill," while the
picturesque wildness of things iunani
mate as heightened by the characteris
tic life of the streets. Filled, at one
time, with horses and cattle, and
resonant with the vigorous shouts ol
rollicking cow boys-at another with
cavalry from Fort Keogh-or a wagon
Irsin of agriculturists; or, p.rhaom.. a
patching broucho makes it lively for
his rider and interesting for the bet
ting sp~etators, who l4,ll out of the
saloons to air their wit upon each
other and the victim. It is always
lively even if it is nothing more than
a malestic Cheyenne threatening to
shoot the dogs which tipsy cow twbys
are setting upon the heels of 'big
buck."
The stores, with the exception of the
handsome bri:nk bank, are all of the
ten-footer species, and line b st one
side of the dirty street. Inside the
tawdry saloons the life of the town
whirls like a vostex 'he men smoke
vile cigars and drink straight fire
water all day, and play stud-horse
poker all night, with now and thei a
lively squall with a shoot over the
stakes.
Naturally the eastern reader would
take the foregoing racy excerpt as de
acriptive of the Miles ('ity of today.
and while in some respects it might
pass muster as a highly drawn peiture
of life here five or six years ago, it ham
no relevancy to the present day.
Contradictory of the first statement
we cite the fact that the Mel.ueen
hotel, heated by steam tbrou:hout
and equipped with the most modern
of botel appliances, is known by
northwestern travelers as the tbet
hotel on the line of the Northern Pa
olie road. The doubtful friends made
by the correspondent could have been
made in any city if the slums are
dragged for this purpose. and the bet.
tor clasu be probably pgaed at from a
distance, while making mental notes
for his lying screed. What Ie says of
the appearance of the streets of Miles
ity was never true even in the
earllest day... Mauc'h less now when
block after block of magnlfleent two
story bri.k structures Ilue the street
on both bides, and the same is true of
our stores. Filomi the days when the
old ''Diauaond It" and A. R. Ninolger
& Co. outnfting etablishmuents were
the leading it,,rt, down to the pres.
eat day, the quantity, excellence and
variety of tjerchaudie sltock carried
by Miles City umer.hauts has been the
wonder of all stranw.er. except perhaps
thibs purblild crrulspondent of the
Washington tMar.
Among the stale and untruthful
iterms with whic.h this correspoudent
is padded out aplears. oine which in
the minds of all I('uter (', urty read
ern discls.es the Ill,-s witll w hll.h it is
draped. 'liisj I- thlt fateflrtl 'Xplloion
that o,vertk B,.b BrownI. lie of the
broken .set. That o.icturd in Augus-t,
l~14. This is recited w ith great eir
'uLtartalntiality an rd u itt lol at of Lstwi
recent .wurrenice and ti .iallnd 'it
on the Situr. Such turrespnLdrece ita
thl is anll inju-tit. t'o evenl the rutwiy
we-t, bul doubless will have to bie ut
Up with U is lo.t ,. '1 sI tlli( i tleit llt et t-l
ini let the ettulitiy.
PUNMIf IILItE.
Awful Experieurc our Irobate Judge Ha*
H thiii al hlyenue lhr.,e and His Little Old
Lion skin.
Black Wolf, the nol le war chief of
the Che3enneu , appeared upon the
streets of the city yesterday, trailing
along after him a trophy of the chase
(a very aged one too) consisting of a
tauueu amountain lion skin. BlackI
Wolf was directed to the court house
and sought out the teepee of the pro
bate judge, where he was met with
(figuratively speaking) open arms,
and actually smiling countenane by!
Hizusoner. The conversation carried
on was particularly animated, oonsld.
ering that the Judge was unable to
catch on to the meaning intended to
be conveyed by the expreselve grunts
of the war chief and that Black Wolf'
was equally in the dark concerning
the courteous inquiries tie Judge
made after his health, the health of
bls squaw., pappooses and wife's re
lations generally. The conference
lasted about half an hour and Black
Wolf occasionally waved the anti
quated mountain loun kin and at lu
tervals the Judge iexamlned the nmuti
lated ears of the hide. Despairing of
ever arriving at a mutual undelrtaud
log the Judge disnisaes the noble
Cheyenue and ejaculates dasumit or,
soue other figure of speech. Tlue'
waxeth apace, the hanud of the offite
clock point the hour of 4. A wutnllug
sound as heard at the eutrance to the
prolate court chamber and the Judge
would fain bide blltae If away in the
safe. Black Wolf stalks in. The
gathering gloom of the eve-inlg gath
era more surely after his entrance.
The tattered lion skin is still clutched
in the strong right bhlad of the ,arrior
and he Is accomplanied by one known
to the Judge as all interpreter. Black
Wolf's mission is uwald known to the
Judge by the Interpreter. He wants
to get the bounty on that aged lion
skin. The interpreter listens to the
Judge's inquiries, is habwn the neces
ary atfidavit blanks required to it.
filled out and then asks Black Wolf
when he killed the mountain lion and
where. Black Wolf understands that
the varmaint must be killed out over
thirty days previous to the delland
fur bounty and wakes it twtuty
eihlit days even. No. It was not kill
'ed on an Indian reservation. Had le
severed his tribal relations .,as a
stunner, and the interpreter acquaint
'ed Black Wolf with the fact that ea he
was yet a ward of the nation he could
receive no bounty. Iliack Wolf de
cided he would turn the skill over to'
Warrouse ,Long Knife), weaului
Rowland, t!.e interpreter at the
agency, to obtalt the bounty, alid de.
parted. "That skin ha t een already!
punched," said the Judge, "and be.
side, it has evidently eleen a tet pree
robe for the lpat fvl, years." Ilack
Wolf i.s dliguted will, the amoutit of
red tape req.uired to obtain bounty,
anld wore a weary look as he drew
his blanket closer around him, and
with the never I'o.enlig grip upon
his lion skin, disdainfully stalks out
into the glo aliug.
'I he West ehure for December, 188,
tI tfl our table and raukee among the
finett holiday magazine published
during the year '86. L. Samuel, the
publl.her, is eunoying deserved cou
Ilwledatiou Lhrough the press of the
northwest for the excellent standard
a.ttained by the West hboreduring
e.veral years past, but the oilmaz is
evidently reached in this latest issue.
The Helena man who was here to
nspeet tbhe manipulation of the tobog
gano lide and get pointers on its e-o
struction, will carry back to the espi
tal city a glowing description of he
Miles City slide, sad Ilts patrs Sad
patronage.
A CHBMITrr FrsAT.
He Prodsues Whisay wieh is Rlobbed
t Yrower to Deauddi--i'rebitlitas_.
May DrLsk It Freely.
For several years a New York ohems
let has been experntenting with a
view to depriving alcohoh liquors of
their intoxicating principle. Aeoord.
ing to this gentleman, the intoiesat
ng prinuciple is the ether, or cwobia.
tious of ether, which remain in aico
hol even after the lusel oil las been
carefully extracted; ether, in crmbi
atlliu with certain gums that give
; hisky and brandy their characteris
tic odors and some of their qualities,
has never beeu eliminated heretofore
without wholly destro)ylog the liquor
as a m.diciual or exhilarating bever
age. 'The process by which the ethers
or combiuations of ether with the
gums hela in solutiou are eliuinated
is a s.cret (,one or which the Inventor
expects to be rewarded should the pro
ceat coue Into general use. None of
the treated whiky hba been autered
tor sale; as yet the dlistiller look upon
the ilvention with extreme distlust,
II ll1t atbsolute euwlly, foa if, as one
diltiller r uemarked, mucih of this alaued
whirlky should get into I.e market
it uioEhti destroy the IeputLtlon
-f a lty liuaUtlly of the real
article; it wulid be eUough
to d,,guCL a oltd toper itl.a whisky
fur life to, dl.cov.er that hall a. .ottle of
it had u(no Wre ettfet " Ii hiu than a
ewru gl-~ets fi beer. He woul, at ouce
Riller that ithing short o vitriol
would be of any further use to, I ilu, o
that whiskey distillers had lo. t their
cunning. In either case he would
give up drinking whisky.
The inventor believe that In ILak
nog this discovery he has done a great
work for the prohlbitionists, ina
much as whisky alter such treatment
may be regarded as nothing more or
less than lood of a highly nutritious
and valuable kind, and under this be
lief he has attempted to obtali the ap
probation of the leading prohlbit:;o
advocates. Unfortunately be does not
seem to have been successful. He
says that the Rev. Dr. Howard Crumb
treated him "like a nigger," and
seemed to take his visit and his botte
of whisky as personal insult. Dr.
Crosby referred him with extreme
warmth to the chemists, and said bhe
had nothing to do with the soetanfle
aspects of the question. With other
lights of the temnerance ctusi
he met with no better luck. Upon
the other band, the liquor deal
ers whom he asked to test his
whisky were unanimous in announe
ing It as Ia rud. As whisky it was
nu.t worth five cents a gallon after de
etherilalion, whatever it light be
as a temlperance drink, and one prom
ineut expert in liquors declared to the
Inventor that so liquor dealer in the
city would dream of plahing the stuf
b'fore his pstrns, first, because the
patrons wanted to get drunk, and reb
uondly, hetruse the liquor daler.
wanted theimi to do un. , more a
dignant ausemnbly could Ihe imagined
'hsli the sital circle at any of our
grog shops attemlptilig a New Year's
crletratioll on this tamlied whisky. A
,pr.lllenlt whisky talster abh, was
a.ke.d for hli. l.roferional opinion upon
the menrite. of the stuff as a drink, aid
that it had no merits; it had lost its
"hite" and any whisky drinker before
whom a bottle of such stuft was placed
would t~ justified in throwing the
iotti at the Ibrtender.
Altogether the prospects of intro
duliing tamied whisks us an article of
commerce are not brilliant, and the
inventor confessed that no capitalists
have appeared ready to manufacture
the article upon a large scale. The
I roen Lis cheap, and would not ap
preciably increase the cost of alcoholle
liquors; the elimination cf the ethers
in whisky would amount to about 5
per cent. of the alcohol contained
therein.-New York Evening Post.
MONTANA MIESTIOv.
A nuutber of crooks have lit out
from Helena, hewded this way. Look
out for them.
Lewis and Clarke county is credited
with the i .uance or l11i marriage oer
tifincate duriug the year INlt.
C. S. Hefferlin. Northern Paifie
agent at Livingston, and Mi.es ioIli.
day. also ,f that place, were anrrIed
on Saturday last.
Keºnp aol.ete, the defaulting tres.
urerof Lewis and Clarke county, who
wu c'nvicted and sentenced to a
term of year. In the penitentiary. has
been pardoned by the executive.
United States Mbrshal Kelly was
presented with a magnificent gold
headed cane by his subordinates at the
Deer Lodge penitentiary. Warden
Torn MeTague made the presentattom
speech.
Warren Evans and Miss Clara Blel.
enberg, a Deer Lodge damsel of only
sixteen summers, eloped and were
married on the first day of the mew
year. The ijaternal benedlctios was
ni it denied.
Hon. T. C. Powers, returmles .t
Fort Benton,, tells a Helena I.ledepS
dent lmanl that there is nohalare am
stock iaen there ooncermnlbg
snow storms, but that on the otriy.
it wasa welcome visitor.
Sir Alexander Gall is at Ottws
working zealously to emeure fLm tb.
DIuinlon govesmnmet a hbarter for
the propnee railroad foam DWmmen
to Fort BHnoSo. Naturally Iea.ot
people advocate the scbeme.
The Northern Pacife and tb. Pa.
cilfc expreu .napanits have Ronue to
a tonmpromise to dles tisue eomselt.
tins for Helena and Butt beelums.
nloes sbortly after the opealal of te
Moetasa Union so.o the pre a wa
bthat Hiblowed, both ompeals as
baol cases In nob towa. Now, how.
ever the Northera Padsl hIs eles
Its uBtt. odeo, and the laSide is
oane a 8ole. leeavag e
psay s sha iwhen Phas
odmes. It o pobiable that Iheb
err oPeeie will i all s e1 e
soat of G. Oiunrssmelýs
dent.