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VLI, G, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1885, NO, 33
j onR THi lTRIUNE.
The great American statesman
whose name stands at the head of this
article was born in Florida, Orange
county, New York, in 1801. His an
cestors were Welch on his father's
and Irish on his mother's side, and
settled in the New World at an early
date in its history. At an early age
he was sent to the academy at Goshen,
and at fifteen to the Union College,
from which he graduated with high
honors; he afterwards studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1822,
and the next year entered into part
nership with Judge Miller, of Aub
urn, New York.
In 1828 he was tendered the Con
gressional nomination, but declined
it, and two years latter was sent to
the state senate. In 1834 he was
nominated for governor, but lost the
election. In 1838 he was renominated
for the same office and elected by an
overwhelming majority. In 1849 he
was sent to the U nited a::nd .. . :,:t .
and remained in that ,,i:b ,,:i M ;'.
Lincoln's e:ection, whean i' "V i:
ed lhe posit ion of Secretary of O i: e
in hi> Cabinet, which he accepted and
h.Ild during Mr. Lincoln's and Mr.
Johnson's administration.
Mr. Seward was looked upon and
justly so, as one of the most able men
in tie senate. He was not a great or
popular orator, neither was he gifted
with that personal magnatism so con
spicuous in many of our statesmen.
But few of our public men reached
such eminence. He filled many posi
tions with rare ability, and was the
choice of the Empire state for the
presidency. During the war he con
ducted State affairs in a masterly
manner. and near the close of the re
bellion narrowly escaped death at the
hands of an assassin. During his
lifetime he was a pronounced liberal,
opposing knowknothingism as he did
the extension of the slave power. For
:lmay years he was the recognized
lsadtr of the republican party; orig
:::iillg" 1,;:livy mnueastluv'i'. of great nia
ii eal i~mportance. Of him it may be
triuthfily said. he made history, and
Nxll be f all time r':corded on its
age ass one of the greatest ,of Ame'-0
Sic - blatesllen.
To 'Williai if. Seward. more than
anl other man. are we indebted for
the purchase of Alaska. At the time
the treaty was affected` he wass _ubhject
e:t to sev,"e criticism, generally by
ers ,: difT' ring politically, and who
were not so well informed as he was
on the extent and resources of the vast
territory acquired from the Russian
government.
In 1869 Mr. Seward and party pro
ceeded to Alaska, and received the
most cheering and cordial reception
from all classes. The Alaska "Times"
heralded his arrival by sending out an
extra edition giving a sketch of his
great life and service to his country.
During his stay in Sitka he was the
welcome guest of William Sumner
Dodge, collector of the port, and may
or of the town. The military and na
val officers, American and Russian
citizens, were equally anxious to do
him honor-doing everything in their
power to render his visit pleasant and
agreeable. After spending a week or
two at the capital of Alaska, the Sec
retary, his son Frederick and Judge
Hastings visited the Chilcat country,
inhabited by a numerous and power
ful tribe of Indians.
The presence at the time of Profes
sor Davidson of the Smithsonian In
stitute at Washington, accompanied
by a corps of assistants, made ihe!.
event most agreeable. There was a
total eclipse of the sun observabil ini
that portion of Alaska at the time.
The arrival of Prof. Davidson and
staff brought out the Chilcat tribe of
Indians in great force, and when the
eclipse came on, the warriors became
scarred, rushing pell mell to the set
tlement and casting themselves pros
trate on the floor of their dwellings.
To them it appeared that the world
had come to an end, also the happy
hunting ground. In a few minutes,
however, Old Sol came out bright and
shining as ever, and oh, what a rush
the Indians made to have a good look
at Professor Davidson. Their joy
and gladness was indiscribable, and
the Professor suddenly became the
greatest man in the world. Sec. Sew
ard was nowhere in comparison. No
wizard of the North;no necromancer of
the dark ages could do what Profes
sor Davidson accomplished so easily
to made the sun hide in darkness and
then bring him.out again in brilliancy
and brightness. The Chilcat warriors
could not understand it, but pronounc
ed the Professor, at once, the greatest
Boston man, i. e., American chief in
world; or the world ever seen. It was
while taking observations that Prof.
Davidson and party discovered a
mountain of iron uar Where they
stood.
In his progress through Alaska, Mr
Seward became more and more con
vincoed of the great value of his pur
chase-the forests, the fisheries, the
mines and the seal rockeries impress
ed him greatly, besides he considered
Alaska the public highway; the half
way house and recruiting rendezvous
between the United States and Asia.
In a national and political point of
view, the cession of Alaska has great
significance, and particularly so at the
time the treaty was effected. It was
in the mind of Secretary Seward that
what foreign power and intrigue
sought to accomplish, was the destruc
tion of the Union and the wreck of
liberty. The coalition between Eng
land, France and Spain: England by
the way of Canada:France by the way
of Mexico; and Spain from Cuba. The
plan of intervention was well laid, but
the success of the Union armies South
and West destroyed forever the "'alli
ance" interineddling in American af
fa ..-. W' I. Seward lived to see
- .i , ., !,l from Mexico by the
,o_! e .,i h i, United States. He
, urd the iimperial despot of France
that tle goverinnent of the United
States would look upon the establish
meet of a monarchy in Mexico, an ad
joining sister republic as a menance
to republican government, and re
quested the withdrawal of the French
troops from that country within the
period of three months.
From thence may be dated the
downfalL. o. Napoloon III. He found
himself face to face with the powerof
the American people. He withdrew
and left Maximillian to his fate. The
Mexican people cowed and dispersed,
because convinced that the U. S. army
was coming to assist them. Believing
this, there was a general uprising and
the imperial monarchy and monarchs
mburied in the gloom of the grave.
Mr. Seward also lived to see the
Alabama Claims paid, a:!l the supl;r
cilious superiority of Great Britain
brought down a peg or two.
Previous to leaving Alaska, Mir.
Seward sehlee"ted somne filbser--red
and yelloiv cedar, which he had saw
ed into blocks and sent to his honmin
New York. Visitors to his residence
at Aulurn will :ee this Alaska cedar
lining his sitting rooml alnd !ilrary.
At Sitka, -Mr. Seward delivC rr.d a pub
lic address at the Greco-Russian
church. The large building was
crowded; not a word, not a sentence
was lost to the vast audience. In re
referring to Alaska - it was the Alaska
of the future he he dwelt upon. The Rus
sian Archbishop and clergy were as
tonished at the amount of informa
tion possessed by the great statesman.
Said the venerable Archbishop, "This
good and great American statesman.
who is distinguished in every path of
life, knows much more about the coun
try, its people, its resources, its cli
mate and situation than any Russian
living here all his life.
Leaving Alaska, Mr. Seward went
on to Mexico. No man ever received
such a reception on 'Mexican soil.
Until his arrival at the capital it was
one continuous ovation. Senor Ma
tias Romeo, the Mexican minister to
the United States, informed his peo
ple how it was with him in Washing
ton while the French were in posses
sion ofjhlis'comtry. Not a foreign "rep
resentative," he said, "would recog
nize me. I did not represent any
crowned head, therefore they would
not know me, and my country was in
the power of the enemy. But this
great man, this lofty, dignified and
distinguished American statesman, at
all ti an, and noticeably on great
public ouccasions, showed me most
friendly tl .and_ marked recognition. I
was a w eh-ome visitor to him always,
and now all Mexico should turn out
to salute him and do him honor."
And so they did, from the President
down. All Mexicans vied with each
other in showing respect and esteem
to the man above all others who de
served it. As Secretary of State, he
was the persistent and powerfull ally
of Mexico when that country was
hard beset; assailed by traitors with
in and enemies on all sides. Surely it
must have been most gratifying to
Mr. Seward and the party that ac
companied him, to be greeted with
such enthusiasm and rejoicing.
The last ten years of his public life
passed hastily. The cares and sor
rows and the assassin's daggar mark
ed his features. He died in October,
1872, having attained three score years
and ten. Quietly and silently he pass
ed away, full of years and full of hon
or. He will always be remembered
by the student of history in connec
tion with the purchase and cession of
Alaska to the United States. J.
It is now declared that the disease
from which horsesin Chicago aresuf
fering is not epozootic, but -a trouble
occasioned by drinking impure water.
NOT ORLE FUcIIT.
'Th, county commissioners and the
River Press arzŽ having a war of
words concerning the assessment of
stock cattle in this county. It appears
ithat the board of commissioners in
structed the assessor to list stock cat
tie at the uniform price of $22 per
head. The assessor thought other
wise. disregarded their instructions,
which right no one will question, and
listed cattle at $25 per head. When
the corunissioners met as a board of
equalization, the assessor's report was
taken up, and on a vote-there being
only two commissioners present-as
to whether his report should be sus
tained, one of the commissioners
voted "yes" and the other "no." The
report not being rejected, was clearly
sustained. Later on, at another meet
ing, the commissioners not acting as
a board of equalization, it was
proposed to give the cattle men
-who were advised to pay their
taxes - a special rebate for the
amount paid on their cattle over $22
per head. There being no fund pro
vided by which the treasurer could
legally honor these rebates, he refused
to notice them, and the commission
ers in return rejected his report for
the quarter ending December 1.
This is a plain statement of the
facts as we understand them, and so
far as the TniBUNE is concerned, ends
there, as we do not propose taking
any sides in the matter, further
than to state that we believe that the
assessor and treasurer did their duty
in this matter. Any of our readers are
privileged to think differentently
if they choose. Commenting
editorially upon the rejec
tion of the treasurer's report, the
Press says:
The board of commissioners are
still at it; still hurling whereases and
resolutions at a defenceless people;
still claiming that the board is the as
sessor and the latter officer a nonen
tity; still harping about a board of
equalization "not sustaining the as
sessor," when the vote was a tie; still
making breaks of the most horrible
character.
The freshest piece of folly emanat
ing from is its action in "rejecting"
the report of the treasurer because he
did not comply with the celebrated
"'order No. 1," established, contrary to
law and common sense, a special re
bate fund for the benefit of the cattle
men. This is the cap sheaf of tLe
whole business. The treasurer's re
port, as is well known, comes up to the
end of the quarter--December 1st.
He can take cognizance in his report
of no official act or business after that
date, and still the honorable board of
commissioners "'reject" his report for
the quarter ending Docember 1st be
cause he did not obey an order issued
by them December 9th! The treas
utrer might, if he chose, take cogno
zance of that order in his next quar
terly report, but it is clearly not his
fault if the commissioners were a mat
ter of nine or ten days too late in is
suing the celebrated docunient.
The result of this matter will be
that the treasurer--his report being
unapproved--can pay out no money,
can redeem no warrants, and the
county must suffer a considerable loss
in the way of interest.
THE COOK COURT MARTIAL.
A Bozeman dispatch says: "Lieut
W. Cook, of Fort Ellis, is being tried
by an army court-martial on charges
of assault, preferred against him by
Mrs. C. L. Gilman and Miss Kit
Dorsey, ladies of the fort. Eleven
army officers have arrived to conduct
the case. Lieut. Cook has secured
four of the most able attorneys in the
Territory, and it is thought that he
will succeed in vindicating his charac
ter from the disgraceful charge."
N. P. LAND DECISION.
Col. Geo. Gray, general counsel for
the Northern Pacific Railway, when
asked about the recent decision of the
United States Supreme Court in re
gard to the taxes of that company
said: "The suit of the Northern Pa
cific against Rockers, county treas
urer of Trail county, Dakota, which
has just been decided, is in no re
spect different from two cases decided
by the same tribunal, in which the
Union Pacific Railway was a party.
The first of these decisions was in the
December term of '72 and tie other
rendered in the October term of '74.
Rockers, as county treasurer, wanted
to collect taxes on Northern Pacific
lands in his bailiwick, and suit was
brought to restrain him from so do
ing. In none of these cases was the
title of the railroad company involv
ed, but inasmuch as Congress had
pronounced that the patent to lands
should not be obtained until they
have been surveyed and conveyed by
the railroad companies or other par
ties interested, the Supreme Court
held in all cases that retention of the
patent was security for the payment
of costs and the United States having,
a legal title and that much of inter
est in thelandsno t4tyor Territorial
authority can tax the lands. The ti
tle to no acre of land in Dakota Ter
ritory, held by the Northern Pacific
company, or sold by it in any manner
whatsoever affected by this decision.
The company has always been willing
to pay, but the want of surveys and
the general inactivity of officials in
the land office have prevented pay
ments from being made.
AN ALLG(EI) TIIIEF.
Some time since a young man from
Spokane arrived in Butte and after
remaining here a short time went
to Spring Hill on the U. & N. R. R.
to work:. While at that place he was
arrested on the charge of stealing a
saddle from Thad Wade who keeps a
livery stable on the corner of Mon
tana and Mercury streets. He
appeared boeore Judge French on
Saturday and plead not guilty to the
charge, and bonds in the sum of $100
were required for his appearance at a
hearing that was set for this after
noon. He at once produced the
money and was released. For some
time past a deputy sheriff from
Washington territory has been look
ing for the man, having a vrrant
for his arrest on the charge of cattle
stealing. The deputy sheriff has
spent some time in Butte looking for
him, but without success. He had
about become discouraged when on
Sunday he ran right into his arms on
Main strset, and served the warrant.
The party arrested stoutly protested
his innocence, but was of course
obliged to accompany the officer.
The 'two started for Washington
Territory Monday.-Inter Mountain.
310RMION LAND FRAUDS.
Cheyenne Sun, 12th: Captain I.
F. Evans, special agent of the gener
al land office for Utah and Southern
Idaho, was here yesterday and left on
last night's train for Salt Lake City.
A Sun representative, in talking with
him abont Mormon affairs in Utah,
asked him what the situation really
is. He replied that there would not
be any danger from preconcerted riot.
as l1 preparations for such things
wouMl be carefully watched, and there
would always sufficient force at hand,
civil and miiitaIy, to suppress. The
real danger lies in sudden outbreaks
and riots where the Mormons are
largely in the majority and where
great damage could be done before a
force could be brought to check it.
As agent of the land office, Captain
Evans says he has discovered numer
of cases of the coolest kind of land
frauds, which have grown out of
dense ignorance on the part of the
lower element of Mormons. and the
duplicity and cunning on the part of
the head men. The ignorant and
unnaturalized proselytes of the Latter
Day Saints have taken possession of
vast tracts of land, and have believed
that they held it in fee simple from
the church, the government not being
considered in the matter, and they
have thereafter deeded the land to
the church leaders, Brigham Young
heretofore and President Taylor now,
who hold it under the titles presum
ably obtained by homesteaders and
the like.
NEWS OF THE WORLE.
Diptheria is spreading in New
York, and it is frightfully malignant.
Five Arab beggars, who recently
arrived at Castle Garden, are to be
returned.
Capt. John H. McLaren, a wealthy
Maine shipowner, died at the age of
eighty-five years.
Dr. H. J. McHugh, one of the best
known surgeons in Connecticut,
committed suicide by poison.
Samuel W. Patchen, a prominent
Wall Street broker, fell down the
steps of a club house and broke his
neck.
Lieut. Samuel E. Allen, of the
Fifth United States artillery, was
married in Brooklyn to Miss Conch
ita Terry.
Thieves got away with the elegant
sdver table service of the Philips
Congregational church at Watertown,
Mass.
A man named Carmichaet, cashier
for McMaster & Co., Toronto, default
ed for $30,000 and skipped to the
United States.
Much uneasiness has been caused
at the Vatican by the pope's suffering
from another attack of his chronic
disorder of the bowels.
Logan Carlisle, a son of the speak
er, has gone to Wichita, Kan., to
practice law. Another son of the
speaker is associated with him.
Tony Denier, the famous "Humpty
Dumpty," has retired from the stage.
He is worth $100,000, and lives in
great style in Phicago. .
Klausmeyer, niember of the firm of
Specker, Buddeke & Co., Cincinnati,
has gone to Europe, leaving a short
age of $110,000.
Charles H. Fisher, chief engineer
of the New York Central & Hudson
River, Lailroad company, has been'
taken .ian insuane asylLt
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ADVICE TO HUSBANDS.
Now as the "swearing off" day is
near, the TRIBUNE presents to its read
ers a few suggestions that husbands
will do well not to follow if they de
sire domestic felicity during the com
ing year:
Don't trouble yourself to be on
hand promptly at your meals. Your
meals. Your wife will keep your sup
per as warm as toast in the oven for
you. She enjoys your tardiness. Don't
hurry. It's vulgar to hurry.
Don't begin to eat your breakfast
as soon as you sit down at the table.
Bury yourself in the morning paper
first for about fifteen minutes. Then
your breakfast will be nice and cold
and less liable to give you the dys
pepsia. Your wife enjoys eating hers
in silence and then watching you bolt
yours. It increases feminine amia
bility.
Don't hesitate to remark on the
thinness of the coffee and the tough
ness of the steak. Remarks on the
demerits of the food are encouraging
to your housekeepers, and an accom
plished cook may thereby, be made of
an inexperienced and amiable wife.
Don't hang up the towel when you
have finished using it. Toss it lightly
to the top of the picture frame or onto
the head-board of the bedstead. Your
wife expects to put it in the clothes
hamper, anyway, and by the time she
has walked a few yards on the bed
springs, or joyfully rescued it from
the picture, she will be pleasantly re
minded of the hamper and of-you!
Don't neglect to kick up a row if
your buttons are not all on and your
underwear in perfect order. Don't
spare any pains to encourage habits
of domesticity in your wife. Many
exertions in this direction have been
known to transform a light-hearted
girl into an incomparable house
keeper.
Don't feel any hesitancy in inquir
ing of your wife what she did with
the $2 you gave her four weeks ago.
Carelessness in monetary matters has
been known to engender extrava
gances of a very serious nature in wo
men. Never forget the old saying
that "a woman can throw out of the
back window with a spoon more than
a man can pitch into the front door
with a shovel," and "willful waste
breeds woful want."
Don't fail to break up a few articles
of furniture the first time she reads
one of your letters or looks into your
pockets. The exercise may notnbe
agreeable, but the impression you
make may'do you a good turn in the
future, as she is liable to find some
thing she would not approve of.
Don't contract the habit of waking
easily. You will beoften annoyed by
the children if you do, and when your
wife rises in the morning to build the
fire she feels as fresh as a bird and
she loves to see you enjoying the re
freshing slumber of an innocent child.
Don't let her know your are awake.
Don't allow your wife to handle
any money in running the house. Pay
all the bills yourself, and then you
know just where all the money goes
to. Women are not experiencedLin
monetary matters. They are liable-to
pay their lady friends' car fare,(and
they are fond of ribbons. Some are.
even addicted to foreign mission
THE CHINAMEN.
There can be but little doub
the Oakland Times, but that the
timent of the Pacific coast will be Ii
tened to and carefully considered by
the present congress. And there is no
reason for apprehension thliat all will
be done that can be. We tro well an
ably represented, and the agitation o
the Chinese question here, having
drawn the attention of the western
and southwestern states to the dan
ger that threatens them in the near
future, we may most reasonably ex
pect iheir air and cooperation in se
curing the strongest legislative enact
ment that congress has the power to
pass. Pour in the petitions; they will
prove a thousand times more potent
than threats.
Governor Hauser, says the Hel
ena Herald, is in Washingtonulooking
after the interests of Montana, and
suggesting Montana as a good pair
for Dakota. He can set up the re
sources of Montana in a most convinc
ing way, and catches the Democratic
members with her pretty uniform and
solid record for Democracy. If any
one can secure our admission as a
State from this congress we believe it
is Gov. Sam. Hauser, and father than
miss Statehood we wouldbe willing
to bear, for a season, the 'doubtfnl
honor of going in as a Democratic
State.
Congressman Prico of Wiisconsin,
will intro"uce a bill auothos
refinding of the direet tax
from: ceartain states in 11-6. .