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NEWS OF THE WOILiD.
The Wabash strike still hangs fire.
Small pox is playing sad havoc in
Montreal.
Spain and Germany are not the
best of friends.
Northern Minnesota was visited by
a killing frost last week.
Chas. A. Gambrell, a wealthy Bal
timore merchant committed suicide.
John McCullough, the great actor,
cannot live more than a few months.
The Grant monument fund in New
York last week amounted to $46,932.
The National Swine Breeders' asso
ciation will meet at Chicago, Nov. 11.
Recent tests at Newport show that
the Howell torpedo is a perfect failure.
Rev. Robert West, editor of the
Chicago Advance, is very ill in Sara
toga.
The Southern Ltes in New Mexico
are reported to be in a starving con
dition.
The national Prohibitionists are
holding a camp meeting at Ottawa.
Kansas.
Senator Evarts will deliver at least
one speech in Ohio after the 1st of
October.
The rice crop in Southern Louisiana
was seriously damaged by the storm
last week.
A shot tower will be erected by Du
buque and Kansas City parties in
Kansas City.
The eastern states have recently
been visited by numerous destructive
wind storms.
Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia have
collected about $6,000 for the Grant
memorial fund.
Influential citizens of Los Angeles.
Cal., are about to organize a crema
tion association.
Francis J. Colman. son of Commis
sioner of Agriculture Colman, is dy
ing at Washington.
The California watermelon crop this
year yields melons weighing from 150
to 180 pounds each.
Jack Chinn. the Kentucky horso
man, has sold Ben Fox for <20.000 to
Mr. Hagen of California.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, has been
reading "David Copperfield" since his
incarceration in St. Louis.
Two divorce decisions were render
ed at Chicago within thirty minutes
each of the filing of the papers.
A destructive hail storm passed
through Clinton county, Penn., last
week, destroying the tobacco crop.
The Baltimore & Ohio telegraph
system will be extended to Little Rock
and Hot Springs, Arkansas, withid'a
month.
All the life-saving stations on the
Atlantic and gulf coasts were opened
September 1 and will remain open un
til May 1.
The Venezuelan government is
building a breakwater at Lagnayra,
near Caracas, which will cost ten mill
ion dollars.
There is much whisky in Calgary.
in spite of the laws. It is said that it
is smuggled in from Montana by way
of Macleod.
The silence of Gen. de Courcy, the
French commander in Annam, is sup
posed to be due to his visiting towns
in Tonquin.
Since the beginning of the cholera
epidemic in Spain there has been
156,077 cases of which 61,521 have
proved fatal.
Field, the new government superin
tendent of the Hot Springs reserva
tion, has thrown open the waters for
free bathing.
The recent Delaware river cyclone
has led to the organization of a storm
insurance company in Chester county,
Pennsylvania.
Ex-Gov. Cornell of New York says
$5,000,000 can be raised for the Grant
monument fund in that city, "with
proper effort."
The U. S. Treasurer has made a
rrlling which will seriously embar
rass the court commissioners in the
Alabama claims.
The demand for cotton ties from
the South is unprecedented. Two
mills in Pittsburg are running on or
ders of 14,000 tons.
Prominent Maryland Democrats
say that Senator Gorman will be re
elected United States senator by near
ly a unanimous vote.
The last office which the quidnuncs
have provided for Anthony M. Keily
is that of United States district at
torney at Richmond, Va.
Gov. Knott of Kentucky has patch
ed up a truce between the warring
factions at Morehead, and the State
troops have been withdrawn.
A colored woman in Little Rock
gave birth to a creature with a human
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VOL, 1, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1885, N0, 17 erti ninsof samematter. iýf a
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body and a l',ullfrog's head. The pro
duction lived several hours.
The first number of the Texas Pro
hibition Advocate appeared at Dallas
last week Prohibitionists are gain
ing; ground all over the State.
Rabbits are such a pest in Buena
Vista valley, Nev'da, that iarmers are
providing the Indians with powder
and shot in order to kill them off.
Col. Jesse Harper, the man who
nominated Lincoln for president, made
an oration to the Greenback-ers at
Ioungstown, Oio, Ohioa few days ago.
United States District Attorney,
Dorsheimer, who has bought out the
New York Star, ha's expressed hls in-
tention of securing a western editor.
A love feast. at Ocean Grove last
week was participated in by fully 4,
000 persons. One hundred and sov
enty ministe-rs took part in the exer
cises.
An effigy of Gen. Grant was hanged
on a lamp post in the town of Wirt.
Iowa. last week, but it was promnptly
removed by the citizens when discov
ered.
The Oregon gold regions are sixty
miles northeast of Baker City and
fifty miles north of Hntt:ington, and
the only stage route is from the form
er city.
Aufdemorte, tIhe - absconding re
demption clerk in the United States
sub-treasury in Now Orlanums, has been
arrested in Monterey, with his pal,
Shepherd.
State Senator Newbury of Viriginia
who deserted Mahoae in 182 a.ndi re
turnied to the Dem:,ocrats. h'at annune
ed his inteuntion of supporting siahone
this year.
By a collision near Lucas. Ohio.
Charles Johnson of Alliance, a brake
man. was scalded to death. Several
cars were wrecked, an:d the loss w ill
be 815.000.
The Canadian governmcent has pro
claimed the new law forbidding the
sale or gift to any Indian in the do
minion of any fixed amnunition or
ball eartri de.
The plan for the Sclhiller monument
in Fairnon,:t Park, Philadelphia. was
selected last week. The figure will be
of bronz,. nine feet high, oin a p, des
tal ten feet high.
The St. Louis Sacgar iie:inirg conm
pany, with a capital stock of : 750.tt000,
was org'anized in that c'ityrecently. It
grew out of the old ie Blher Sug:r
Ilet.iining conu:iny.
Henry Irving has sent for his scene I
painter to sketch localities in Nurem
burg, for use in the scenes for the
forthcoming revival of "I'aust" at the
Lyceum in London.
A lamp exploded in the Odare Va
serse house. 1b.2 Dare street, Cleve
land. hIst week. The house was badly
damaged. and Antonia Daring, who
was asleep up1stairm, was suffocated.
Mr. Wright of Pierceville. Indiana,
came across a serpent twenty feet long
and ten inches thick while ploughing
in his hicld. He fled, and there is
tall: of organizing a party to kill the
reptile.
A heated discussion is going on in
Ohio as to whether Dr. Leonard, the
Prohibitionist gubernatorial candi
date, drank ale at a camp meeting or
not. The dispute pervades all classes
of society.
The horse attached to a coupe driven
by Hon. J. Y. Scanwaon of Chicago
ran away in that city, recently, drag
ging Mr. Scammon some distance in
the overturned vehicle. He was not
seriously hurt.
Theodore Roosevelt is the choice of
leading New York Republicans for
State Controller, but he says he can
not be a candidate for any office. He
will actively participate in the New
York campaign.
The ladies of the family of ex-Gov.
Hamilton of Maryland lost dresses
and laces out of their trunks valued
at over $1,000. The trunks were de
layed at a station between White Sul
phur Springs and Hagerstown.
Gen. Middleton has recommended
that a medal be struck for the volun
teers who took part in the Northwest
campaign. The recommendation has
been approved by the Dominion min
ister of militia and forwarded to Eng
land.
The general manager of the St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Rail
road company arrived in the city yes
terday, for the purpose of getting an
order of steel rails filled, which it is
intimated will be 50,000 tons.-Pitts
burg Chronicle-Telegraph.
United States Agent Tisdel, in his
second report on the Congo country.
shows that slavery everywhere exists
there. The unhealthiness of the cli
mate is shown from the fact that out
of six hundred men engaged for three
years by the association only five have
been able to remain.
TILE TE'P RITOIY.
Helena has a hotel thief.
Alice stock is quoted at $1.90.
Butte wants more hotel room.
Anaconda has a building boom.
B.utte is to have a new varity thea
ter.
The Helena fair this year was a do
cided success.
Butte delot allow any covlboy ca
pers eat cn he{r streets.
C Hoerge 11(-,dderiok has been ap
)oi' oi'ted o atu:aster at Ft. Bluford.
A lrse fell Uown a tramiway, a dis
tance of 70 feet, in Butte, and escap
ed injury.
Northern Montana will ship several
thousand head of sheep cast this fall
via the C. P.
The Inter Mountain set up a howl
last week because it did not an elope
enmeat to chronicle.
The Helena papers puff tLe Third
Infantry band plenty. The boys are
good muinsicians and deserve it.
The report that Jim Osborn, the
jiointaona horsethief. had escaped
from the Bis:m, rek jail is unfounded.
JProfessors Salisbury and Cham
berlaii, of the U. S. geological suar
rvoy are in this section of the territo
ry.
Dr. W. A. Allen of Billings, has
pnrchased a half interest in a band
of horses ranging in the South fork
country.
`"Big Re'Ts" grave, thanks to the
kindness of Miss Sybel Spencer, is no
longer anleared for, but has as choice
ftowers in bloom as though he were a
good mani while alive. And why
should his grave be neglected? Ad
mitting that in life he was a despera
do; that hl met his death in a quar
rei of his own seeking and that his
murd'erer was never even arrested for
hie offense and that a whole commu
nity breathed freer when his death
was announced; that no loving hands
c:gsed his eyes or sorrowing mourners
followeýd him to the tomb--admitting
I all this, -big lnt:d is dead and buried,
and "Six feet of earth make us all one
size." The trilute to his memory
shows i, borne in kind remenmb
rance byl one to whom he has shown
some aet of kindness.-Anlaconda Ga
zette.
Gee. Patterso, has shipped 3300
head of mutton sheep io Chicago.
The Judith Cattle company have
40,000 head of cattle in the Judith
Basin.
The Canadian Pacific will ship over
10.000 head of Montana cattle east
this fall.
At the Stockgrowers' Convention
he(1( in HIelena last wv eck, there was
a fill altendaince.
It is said that the per centage of
loss on range cattle is no greater than
the loss in states cattle.
VW.yatt. Ross & IHawley have sold
their Lord of 0000) head to the Rea
Cattle company for $1-45.000 cash.
Stock angent Wilson of the N. P.
says that 10,000 more beeves will be
shipped out of Montana this year
than there were last.
A Texas wool grower says he can
improve the American Merino until
they will yield a maximum of 20
pounds of wool to the ewes and 30
pounds to the bucks.
H. S. Perkins, of Vermont, had on
exhibition at the Helena fair eight
bucks and five ewes of the American
improved Spanish Merino breed.
Their average fleece is twenty-five
pounds.
Stock shippers along the line of
the N. P. are kicking because that
company discriminates against them,
and gives the shippers in the Muscle
shell, Judith and Sun river countries
better rates. The Canadian Pacific
does it.
N. J. Bielenberg & Co., have just
purchased from Joseph Back, of Kan
yon, Oregon, 7,000 mutton sheep.
This is the largest mutton sale ever
made in Silver Bow county. The
sheep are now about eight miles from
Butte, and are to supply the demand
of the firm's extensive trade in this
city.-Town Talk.
John H. Ming sold all his steers,
about 2,000 head to Helena parties,
last week. This week his cowboys,
assisted by several from the Muscle
shell range, have been rounded them
up preparatory to driving them from
the Judith to the Yellowstone ranges.
J. L. Stuart is in charge of the round
up.-Glendive Independent.
PRESS OPINIONS.
Stock on the ranges never looked
better than they do now at this sea
son of the year,- and in about six
weeks will be in prime condition for
the market. The downward tendency
just now of the eastern market need
not be a matter of serious thought,
unless the stock owners on the Chey
enne and Arrapahoe Indian reserva
tions conclude to throw their 200,000
head of cattle on the market. If they
do, it is liable to demoralize prices
for a time, and our shippers will in
all p)rolbability hold their stock. In
fact they may be compelled to or ship
at a loss, which our atocknien need
not do. as they are all in easy circum
stances financially, ma therefore not
compelled to sell at*a sacrifice.
Times.
The contest for the office of sheriff
of Meagher county has been decided
by the granting of a permanent writ
of prohibition against the appointee
of the county commissioners and rec
ognizing the coroner as the person
authorized to perform the duties.
The writ was applied for before Judge
Wade in chambers. but the case was
heard by the supreme court upon an
agreed statement of facts without
prejudice to ihe right of either party
to institute an action to try the full
title to the office in a suit to be for
mally instituted in Meagher county.
The court intimated that as between
the statutes of h172 a legal construc
tion was in favor of the right of the
commissimoers to appoint, but the
statue of 1876 upon vacancies in office,
should be construed as amendatory
of the earlier statutes, and there can
be no vacancy in the office of sheriff,
as the law makes the coroner sheriff
at once. Although this decision is
merely an opinion of the court, it set
tles this much disputed question, and,
we learn, will oust one or two sheriffs
now holding by appointment in the
territory.
THE latest plan of campaign laid
out by the Mormon leaders is to raise
an immense corruption fund and buy
their way into statehood through the
next congress. This briliiant scheme
will surely fail, as others of equal
lustre have been reiegafi to oblivion
The blot of polygamy will never sully
under the guise of statehood the flag
it dishonors and disdains. The Amer
ican congress may not be above price
as'viewed from a Mormon standpoint,
but the nobler ambition of decent
self-respect finds an abiding place in
the bosoms of even sordid men when
the sanctity of all that is pure and
holy in the home is called into ques
tion.-Gazette.
TuE gauziest railroad canard of the
season is that the Rock Island has ac
quired control or intends to lease the
Northrn Pacific. President Cable,
of the Rock Island, who is now in
Portland, Oregon, was interviewed in
that city by an associated press re
porter, and he gives the yarn emphatic
denial.--Inter-Mountain.
EASTERN papers continue to report
an improvement in business, and as
the season advances they look for a
pretty general revival. The hopeful
feeling so prevalent throughout the
country is doing much toward bring
ing around a restoration of business'
-Town Talk.
GREAT WESTERIN LOWERS IIIS
RECORD.
At the Helena fair Robert : oghn's
1400-pound stallion !owere his re
ord eight seconds. The following
gives the horses entered:
R. T. Barnett's b-.1. Mountaineer.
Vaughn's blk. h. Great Western.
Huntley & Clarke's b. h. Bishop.
W. H. Raymond's s. m. Easel.
Earl was favorite in the pools,
Mountaineer second, and Great West
ern and Bishop in the field. The start
was made with Easel at the pole,
Bishop second, Mountaineer third and
Great Western outside. The first heat
was won by Easel, Great Western
second, the other two saving their
distance. Time, 2:181. The second
heat was won by Bishop, Easel second,
Great Western third, and Mountain
eer fourth. Time, 2:47.
In the third heat Easel came in
first, Mountaineer second, Bishop
third, and Great Western last. Time,
2:451. The fourth heat and the race
was won by Easel, Bishop second,
Great Western third and Mountaineer
fourth. Time, 2:49.
IT is a curious point in English col
onial law that a Canadian found guil
ty of murder and sentenced to death
has the right of appeal to the Privy
Council of England. This right was
recently exercised in behalf of a man
named Conner, condemned to death
at Winnipeg. The day for the execu
tion had been fixed, And there being
some delay in b' the matter be
fore the PriF . e man was
executed and was of no
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.MANUF4ACTURE AND KEEP IN STOCK ALUL KINDS OF
Rough AND DRESSED Lumber,
DRESSED FINISHING LUMBER
AND MATCHEDFLOORING LATH AND SHINGLES.
All liids of i\oldling. Orders Filled Dirct From Ihe Saw if Desird.
CATARACT FOLLER ILL.
FULL ROLLER PROCESS FULL ROLLER PROCESS
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To be Completed With Latest Improved Ma
chinery and Ready to Run on'the Coming Crop.
Chow-we & t Ternnison , - pro-prietors
A. M. HOLTER & BRO.,
GREAT. FALLS LANING ILL.
Sash, Door and Blind Factory.
S'L I LUMBE, LATH AND SHINGS FLOORING
Eaxrdware & Building Material.
Chas. Wegner, - - - Agent.
Lumber Yard at Sun River Crossing i 1 Lumber Yard at Johnstown,
,k, TIIoMAs ROSE, AGENT. " i ED DAvIS, AGIN
IN LOVE WIT II A REDSKIN.
There came to Standing Rock Agen
cy with letters of :introduction to Ma
jor McLaughlin a cultured young
lady. who proved to, beoMiss Grace
Howard, a daughter of a prominent
New Yorker.' She had a letter from
her father to Major McLaughlin, aiid
she came with a batch of yourig In
dians who had been at school at Hamp
ton.
It is reported that she is a mono
maniac on the subject of "Lo, the
poor Indian;" that some years ago,
after reading'Fenimore Cooper, Miss
Howard importuned her father and
finally gained his consent to become
a teacher, and as such she acted at
Hampton for some time at her own
exp mAse. Miss Howard was allowed
to go to Standing Rock, with the ex
pectation that when she saw the In
dian in his natural state a disgust
would come that would dispel tle ro
mance; but Cooper was too mnuch,
and Miss Howard had not been at the
Agency a week before she became en
amored of one of the Sioux Indian
bucks, and she is now said to be real
ly in love. She spends all the time
possible with the lazy brute, and can
not see, as every one else does, that
he is a vagabond, not even standing
high enough ariong his fellows to
have gained a name.
THE OVERLANi MONTHLY.
The leading article in The Overland
Monthly, for September, will be by
Prof. Josiah Royce, of Harvard, late
of California, upon "The Sacramento
Squatter Riot of 1850." Flora Haines
Apponyi will furnish a personal sketch
of the late Helen Hunt Jackson, and
Inn D. Coolbrith will contribute a
poem.. These, with editorial com
ments upon Mrs. Jackson's literary
work, will give this number great val
ue as a memorial of the author of
"Ramona." There w~ill be an article
from Hon. S. S. Co, Miister to Tu'rr
key, on "The Thirty-fifth and Thirty
sixth Congresses." Dr. Henry De
Groot will furnish a graphic account
of the ancient "Mhining Camp of You
Bet." Capt. Wright, of the Confed
erate Army and late lecturer of the
California State Grange, will describe
"How the Blockade was Run." The
most important stories will be: "A
Plea Before Judge Lynch." written
by a well-known pioneer, and, "The
Doctor of Leidesdorff Street," a bril
liant and exciting story of San Fran
cisco. These are only a few of the
attractive and valuable articles to ap
pear in September.
FIGHTING FOlR HIS SCALP.,
A Hair-Lifting Experience Out on
the Plains.
Speaking of the recent Indian out
break and mossacre of settlers in
New Mexico, Capt. John Collar relat
ed to a reporter an exciting and al
most "hair-lifting" scene he witness
ed out on the Western plains just
after the Julesburg Indian outbreak
in 1866. Capt. Collar's regiment, the
Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry, was or
dered to persue the hostile redskins,
and had followed them to the Black
Hills country. The regiment had
gone into camp, and some of the boys
had started out for a stroll to see the
sights and possibly shoot an antelope
or two. Among others who hadgone
out was Private Josephus Rich, and
two comrades of Collar's company.
They had got only a mile from camp
and near the foothills when they
were swooped down upon by twenty
five or thirty Indians. The firing
was heard in camp and the field
glasses revealed the factthat the boys
were in a perilous position, but were
making a brave fight. Capt. Collar
was ordered by his Colonel to mount
his company and go to the rescue, an
order that was instantly executed.
They fairly flew to the battle-ground,
and long before they came in range
opened fire on the Indians and thus
notified them of their coming, which
partially held them in check and gave
the beleaguered boys fresh courage.
One of the boys was killed at-the first,
fire from the Indians, and Rich jump
ed into -a shallow ravine, while the
other eu its go get behin a Sai4 ll
tree some distance away and in the
direction of the camp. The Indians
divided their attention between Rich
and the dead man. Rich made a gal
lant fight, rising up and firing his re
volver and then dropping down to
avoid the shower of arrows and bul
lets that rained around him. His
bravery temporary cheched his cow
ardly assailants, but they were grad
ually closing in on him and his scalp
would have been lifted in a few more
seconds, but the close proximity of
Capt. Collar and his company made
them suddenly skip for the hill. Rich
was not wounded, although two ar
rows were sticking in his boot heels.
He was as white as a sheet and al
most speechless, and seemed not to
know his comrades; but he soon came
to himself, and the way he cursed
them flying Indians was perfectly
awful. The dead soldier had fallen
some distance from where Rich had
fought his battle for dear life, and
several Indians golloped to where he
lay to scalp him, but they counted
without their host, for the soldier
who had taken refuge behind a tree
though some distance away, was arm
ed with a repeating rifle, and divided
his favors about equally between the
scalping party and the dusky warri
ors who were trying to kill his com
rade, Rich, and he saved his dead
comrade's scalp. Several dead Indi
an ponies marked the scene of the
miniature battle, but it is not known
that any Indians were killed.
IN the golden age of the Roman re
public (B. C. 150) the necessaries of
life were very cheap A bushel of
wheat sold for fourpence and a bushel
of corn for five. The traveler was
charged for food and lodgings at an
inn only two farthings asay. A bar
rel of anchovies from the Black Sea
brought $70, and fi ing of tongues
brought their wegil ig gold.
SPmJiespal exrelge tha thebish
op of MarciA ha d Isa estate in
to the relief of theor
era` of