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TRIBUNE. GarAT FALL. . M(oT.
A.C. I('..; , PARIS GIBSON. if. O. CHOWEN,
President. Vicc-President. Sec. and Tre..
CATAR1ACT MILL COMPANY,
GREAT FALLS, MONT.
HAVING assumed constrol of the CATARACT FLOURING
MILL at Great Falls, we propose making such im
provements as may be found necessary in order to
keep up the excellence of the flour of our manufac
ture. We will also erect the present season a commo
dious warehouse for the storage of grain, so that we
shall be able to conv~niently handle all the grain rais
ed in Northern Montana. Cataract Mill Colimany.
OUR BRANDS:
DIAMOND
C.ATAE...CT,
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TO WHEAT GROWERS:
We will PAY you the highest market price
in CASH for all the wheat you will deliver to us.
We mean business.
Cataract Mill Company.
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-R.EAT FIALLS, PMONT.
ECLIPSE
Livery, Feed ailSale Stables,
Czreat Falls, Montaena
Hamilton &.Eaton, - Proprietor
Corral and Best of Accommodations for Feed
Ariimals.
Broken and Unbroken Horses For Sale.
NEW STORE!
Dunlap & Arthur,
---DEALERS IN
Grocries, Provisions,' Hardware
Steel Nails, Etc.
A Share of Your Patronage Solicited.
Groat Falls, - - - Montana
PIONEER HOTEL
G-reat "F.alls, r.o=nt
Best Table and Most tComfortable Rooms of any Hotel
in Great Falls.
O'bLarges SEbea~osonable
Walker & Carter, - , ProDs
Dexter's Ferry
Across the Missouri River above Sun river
IS NOW RUNNING.
W. Q. DEXTER, Prep.
IGR1EATI FALLS TIBUUlE,
VOL, 1, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA TERRIT RY, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, I886, NO, 44
MELANGE.
Another thirty days or so and where
the snow birds flit,
We'll see instead the householder pre
pare to "git;"
And as he softly utows his stuff into
the carter's dray,
Unto his busy better half we then
would hear him say:
"Oh wife of mine, the spring hath
come with all its joys intense,
And moving is much cheaper than
paying of our rents:
And, furthermore, our frugal store
will need a little air,
And we both want some exercise, so
now for biz prepare;
And when the landlord comes again
the fiftieth time he'll find
That with the spring we've taken wing
and left no trace behind.
The following is one of the unre
pealed laws of New Jersey, passed
while the state was a British colony:
"That all women, of whatever age,
rank, profession or degree, whether
virgins, maids, or widows, who shall
after this act impose upon, seduce,
and betray into matrimony any of his
Majesty's subjects by virtue of scents,
cosmetics, washes, paints, artificial
teeth, false hair or high-heeled shoes,
shall incur the penalty of the law in
force against witchcraft and like mis
demeanors."
The rather numerous Dakota dele
gation in Washington, was increased
by another arrival one day last week.
He registered at a hotel and said to
the clerk:
"I may want to stay some time; can
you give me a good room?
"I think we can let you have one
that will suit.
"I suppose you try to make it pleas
ant for guests?
"Certainly, we aim to.
"Of coures. What I like in a hotel
is something home-like.
"I think we can satisfy you on that
score.
"I hope so. Now, I'll tell you; if
you will see that I am made to feel
perfectly at home during my stay,
you shan't lose anything by it.
"0, we'll make it home-like for you.
Let nme see, you are from Dakota?
"Yes. Im a member of the Dakota
legislature, and -
"Here!" exclaimed the clerk, turn
ing to a bell boy, "show this gentle
man to the poker room."
In Zululand a woman is rated at
ten cows. This may look unreasona
ble to a civilized world, but it must
be remembered that cows in Zululand
run wild and have little or no com
mercial value.
It is asserted that Solomon never
laughed. That's not remarkable. A
man who had seven hundred wives,
and a few hundred mother-in-laws, is
not likely to be in a very merry hu
mor.
France has 5,000,000 thrifty' agri
culturists, in absolute ownership of I
their small buildings, while we have I
only 4,000,000. On the contrary, there
are 1,200,000 tenant farmers in "free
America," or more by a fourth than 1
in England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales. Illinois is the champion state I
of landlordism"-with over 80,000 1
tenants-and a recent thoughtful
writer on this subject says, "her land
law is made altogether for landlords I
and by landlords, without a single one 4
of its thirty odd clauses that can be
constructed as other than a device to
secure that the tenant shall bleed to
the full nomination of his bond."
Moreover, "things are going the same
way in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kan
sas and Missouri." Meanwhile, the
public domain available for tillage is
declared to be "practically exhaust
ed," save the Indian reservations
"ever at the mercy of land thieves."
It is time for offiicials who have influ
ence to rescue such part of our squan
dered estate as may be proberly re
stored, and to put a stop to further
rascality and lavish wastefulness.
Neglect of this duty will hasten the
evil day which the Freeman's Journal
avers is "near at hand" when the poor
man "must pay half his labor for
rept." f
A bill has been introduced in the
New York legislature making it un
lawful for a girl to marry under the
age of sixteen and a boy under the t
age of eighteen. Since 1830 no
statuory age for marriage eligibility
bas existed in the state.
They had Just returned from pray
ar meeting, when the wife said to her
husband:
I've lost one of my overs
soemewhere between-i~ ~ere the a
ihuroh, NTow yoa bpryPigll rilak 0
and look along p the snow
for it, and don't you $are to return
without bringing it wii you."
After searching upand down the
hill for an hour or so,qe husband re
turned with the infor ation he could
not find it.
"Of course you co~1l not, stupid,"
snapped his wife."
"I searched diligenti for it, I as
sure you," explained ti husband.
"I suppose so, but-ou might as
well go to bed."
"But how about tharubber?"
"Oh, I found it."
"Where was it?" ,
"Why, I put them b~th on one foot
and did not notice it intil I was re
moving my shoes."
The Marquis' .heme.
The Marquis De icose unfolds his
new scheme to a New .York reporter
as follows:
"We propose," he said, "to stop the
expense of middlemenand send meats
direct from the produner to the con
sumer. I have discovyred that in the
practical workings of he cattle busi
ness, as at present ccducted, there
are eleven middlemen.each of whom
must have a profit lefore the meat
reaches the consumer: The whole
salers are eating us ut. We propose
to start retail shops in all the tenant
house districts of the City, where our
meats will be sold on the account of
the company. The ca.tlo will be kill
3d at our abattoirs, tie beef will be
;hipped in refrigerator cars, and be
lelivered to a centrd market, and
!rom there distributed to the different
;hops. We shall have the scheme at
work in about sixty days. The de
nails are now being perfected. The
advantage to the consumer will
imount to from two to four cents a
>ound all around. We think we
night we might as well give the con
umer the benefit of the profit which
tow goes to the middlemen."
heavy Timber Seizure
On Friday of last week the United
States marehsl at Ti.l o 1ca oil tChe
cut timber in Beavers canyon, Idaho.
There are six or more saw mills in
that locality and the amount of lum
ber is probably 10,000,000 feet or over. t
Among the owners are Stoddard, Hall
Bros. and several Utah firms. So far I
as we know, no one in Butte is effect- t
ed by the seizure except insofar as the t
city was a large customer of those I
mills.
The cause of the seizure is that the s
timber was cut from government c
lands without paying stumpage and F
was being shipped out of the territory t
for a market-to Montana, Utah and f
Wyoming. This is constructed to be
a violation of the laws governing the v
public use of timber on public lands t
and therefore the seizure was made. r
Presumably it will be advertised and s
sold at auction.-Free Press.
Didn't Know it was Loaded.
A special dispatch from Eureka, I
Nev., says: One day last week James l
Berrymen went to the house of Tom V
Pedler, on Ruby Hill, and while there c
pulled out a pistol which he had just I
purchased. Pedler examined the re
volver and handed it to his 16-year r
old son, who wished to see it. The t
boy, believing it to be unloaded, as a
did also both men, pulled back the v
hammer, which slipped and went off, I
the charge taking effect in the lower
part of his father's abdomen from t
which wound he died half an hour (
later. Deceased leaves a wife and five ii
children.
The Goverment's Revenue. e
Uncle Sam's Revenue last year was
$322.000,000, and he spent $300,000,
000. During this century our expen- t'
ditures have increased from $5,000,- a
000 to the present enormous figures. 0
Even as late as 1885 our annual ex
penditures were only $52,000,000. i
This is a great and growing country, t(
but repulican administrators were
alone capable of swelling our budgets 'I
to imperial proportions. Excluding I1
interest on public debt they succeed.. w
ed inswelling our annual expenditure ti
in less than thirty years from about e
$60,000,000 $250,000,000. fi
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Beef Cattle on the Ranges.
Helena Herald: Stock inspector ,
Chas. D. Hard, who has returned i
from an extended trip through the
northern portion of Lewis and Clarke
and Ohotean counties, reports cattle
and horses in the best condition he p
has ever seen them at this season of ei
the year. Herds and flocks have win- al
t~red well, and everywhere are in 0(
good health and heart. Fat beeves
were plentiful in most of the bands
that came under his Qbservatioj.
Pre-Empitors' Proof. cC
Commissioner Sparks has s.
at county clerks alone, and in
nir deputies, cas tatkethe proot of
of pre-emptors and thfla daits ri
NE WS OF THE WORLDi
The second volume of Grant's me
moirs will not be published until
April 1.
Pneumonia is epidemic around
Huntington, Pa. The majority of cas
es are fatal.
The Fort Pitt tannery and stock at
Braddock, Pa., were burned last w eek.
Loss, $50,000.
Queen Victoria will hold two draw
ing room receptions in person at Buck
ingham palace this month.
The Yale College Boat club has dis
charged its professional coach and
will depend upon its own resources.
Edward F. Pratt, a prominent bus
iness man of Milwaukee, died sudden
ly on the street at Rochester, N. Y.
The First Methodist church at Woos
ter, Ohio, was destroyed by fire last
week. Loss, $6,000: insurance, $3,500.
Bishop Bowman at the conference
of the Pennsylvania Evangelical asso
ciation, strongly denounced the use of
tobacco.
Pittsburg is excited over a sudden
failure in the supply of natural gas.
A scientific inpuiry will be made to
discover the cause.
The South is waking up to the im
portance of the dairy industry. MIis
sissippi is the only state in the Union
having a dairy chair.
Farmers in the vicinity of Canton,
Ohio, have organized a vigilance com
mittee for the purpose of breaking up
a large gang of horse thieves.
Robert Giffen, statistician to the
London board of trade, has written an
enthusiastic paper to show that Ire
costs more than she pays.
Cornell university is considering an
offer of Buffalo parties to establish a
law and medical department at that
place under the control of the univer
sity.
Alexander Fitzhugh of Hartford,
Ky., fatally stabbed the deputy town
marshal, George Bungers, last week.
The marshal had levied on a ho.se
Natural gas is being introduced in
to the large iron works at Pittsburg,
taking the place of coal.
During a drunken row at Glasgow,
Ky., recently, Will Cooke fractured
the skull of James Dennison with a
two-pound weight. This was the cul
mination of an old grudge.
John Thompson of Collinsville, Ky.,
shot and killed Amos Fight, a few
days ago, when in a dispute about
politics. Thompson who has killed
two men, excaped. Fight was a peace
ful man.
An Erie (Pa.) laborer out of employ
ment has become a raving maniac
through hunger. For many days he
refused to eat anything, giving his
share of food to his wife and famish
ing children.
An unknown man at Suspension
Bridge took a carriage to the rapids
last week, and thence to the falls,
where he went on the ice-bound base
of the American fall. He fell or
jumped over and was lost.
A street car on the Metropolitan
railroad, in Washington, was run into
the other day by a Baltimore & Poto
mac train. The street car was badly
wrecked, and three persons injured,
but none seriously.
A double tragedy occurred recently
twenty miles west of Cameron, Tex.
Constable F. G. Newman was search
ing for Walter Lane, charged with
cattle stealing, when Lane unexpect
edly came up and both men fired at
the same instant, and both fell dead.
A recent telegram from Matamoras
to the effect that the government is,
about to reissue nickel money was in
correct. The government has sold all
of its nickel coinage in England, and
intends merely to issue copper cents
to supply a lack of small change.
Five prisoners escaped from the
Topeka (Kan.) jail last week. Among
them was the murderer, Kellum, who
while attempting to rob a Santa Fe
train at Coolidge in 1883, shot and kill
ed Erngineer Hilton and wounded the
fireman. A large posse of men is in
persuit. The escape was made by the
prisoners securing the jailors keys,
which he had left on a table in his
office.
The Building Fever,
The Wyoming Legislatuae pro
poses to build a fine capitol at Chey=
sene, and a grand university building
at Laramie, the former to cost $150,
000, the latter, $50,000.
What President Harris Says,
President Harris, of the Northern
Pacifie according to the New York
correspondent of the Pionter Press,
says that the entiaoe o;f his road
into Butte will be effected by the use
of ata third. rail to be laid f Gar
rison jnctio, an ar rnenting
been made with the Utah & Northern
to bring this about as soon as possi
ble. That part of Mr. Bonner's tele
gram, recently published, which told
of a syndicate of wealthy capitalists
being formed to build various rail
roads in Montana, appears not to.be
supported by any knowledge of Mir.
Harris. He is said to have discredit
ed the story.
Our Territorial Schools.
Prof Wm. W. Wylie, Territorial Su
perintendent of Public instruction,
has issued his annual report. It con
tains the following interesting statis
ties:
Whole number of children of school
age, from 4. to 21 years, is 16,626; num
ber of teacers, 337; average pay of
teachers, $71 per month; average cost
of tuition per month, $3.64; number
of school houses, 249; number of pu
pils in private schools, 391; total
amount of money raised for schools,
$210,872; whole number of pupils in
the public schools was 8,750.
Erasing Cattle Brands.
The plan was simple enough. A
piece of blanket was taken and wrung
out after being dipped in water. A
common frying pan was then heated
nearly red hot. The wet blanket was
applied over the brand and the red
hot pan pressed hard against it. The
steam generated scalded the hair
clean off and the job was done. In a
few months the hair grew again and
a new brand was pit on. The same
plan is adopted by horse-thieves
Then, again the fellows had a kind of'
branding iron with which they could
change a number of brands. I once
heard a Texan boast of a man in Pre
sido county, Texas, who started in
five years ago with onlp two cows and
a branding iron, and is to-day worth
$100,000. I told him I knew half a
dozen men in new Mexico who started
in with nothing but the branding iron
and are to-day worth $200,000. The
branding iron has laid the foundation
of many respectable fortunes, both
here and in Texas.-(-Globe-Democrat.
Bound to be a Highwayman.
Williatm Seibusch is a born high
wayman. He came from Germany
when 17 years old, and became a clerk
in a grocery store in San Francisco.
As soon as he had earned enough to
buy a horse and some pistols he went
to Nevada and began robbing stages.
He was caught after several success
ful ventures in his line and sent to the
penitentiary. The governor of Neva
da believing that he had been led
astray by dime novel literature and
had now seen the error of his ways,
pardoned him. Seibusch went back
to California and again began rob
bing stages, It is told of him that on
occasion he held up nineteen persons
while he robbed the treasure box.
Another time, while he was robbing a
stage, a large wagon came along. He
stopped this, too, and robbed both.
He was captured in Calaveras county
and sent to the state prison for five
years. He served his time, and, on
on being released recently, was at
once rearrested on a charge of rob
bing the mails. He has just been
tried and again convicted.
The Montana Tin Mines.
Madisonian: Readers will remem
ber that some time ago we reported
the discovery of a tin mine near the
upper Ruby, by Major J. B. Peck.
The major was in Virginia City this
week, having with him samples of the
ore from the mines, and assays which
show it to contain seven and one
tenth per cent of tin, with a small
percentage of gold and silver, aggre
gating in value about $43 per ton.
The mines are named the Belmont
and Globe, and are located near Ray
mond's Belmont Park on the Sweet
water. A joint stock company, known
as the Montana Tin Mining company,
has been incorporated under the laws
of Montana and this company is now
engaged in the developemenl of the
mines. The capital stock of the com
pany is $2,000,000, in 200,000 shares
of $10 each. Hon. B. F. White of
Dillon is president of the company.
Major Peck informs us that the mines
are being opened by three tunnels,
mne of which will, by the end of July
e 450 feet from the surface of the
mine. The ore body is said to beI
Large and fully as good at the preeat
stage of development as any that hasl
ver been found in the mine. Sutici
mnt of the stock to secure a working
mpital Is to be sold, and Major Peek
s saguine that the certificates of the
*ompany will command face value on
he stock market before the year is
mde&L
The panorama painting "Mssiena
* Ridge," making -the thrd large I
2ttle picare opena to publi view in I
bhicag4o wa disulosed yeytewda. It 1
ap by gritie% oe of the i
m f war niera et piredurwe& t
GREAT FALLS TRIBUItE.
ADYIRTII.NG RTES.
Lweek... $2. $ ..1$4 6.!$ Li $ 1?..
I month, . . 7. 10 .
I months 7 8. 10. l( i 3 I S
S months 9. 10. 15.1 0., ~ L.. k.
1 year,... 12. I15. 2b. 1 t `$ 0 2f0.
Buniness notices in readihs mattes. S·2 ent.
or line.
Busines notices 16 cents per line fore irt in
esrtio., and 10 cents per line foeeach ubwqueOnt
insertion of aame matter..
Branch Railroad.
It is believed the present year wilt
witness the extension of the Helena &
Jefferson County branch of the forth
ern Pacific over the Prickly Pear di
vide to and beyond the Boulder Basin;
mineral district. In that locality lies:
one of the most important miningsec
tions yet discovered in Central M3on
tana, and it is safe to say that the de
velopment of leads on a ls le
and the handling of thousand 'a
of ore monthly would follow - U
vent of railroad facilities in tlfat re
gion. To very many the railroad.
people appear altogether too sI. i "
comprehending the advantages9i o
branch extensions in a vast mineral`"
country like Montana. A single camp
in the Summit district supplies an
enormous amount of traffic to the
Union Pacific. Midway between that
district and Helena are discovered
mines in number and magnitude -
greater even than those opened and
operating so grandly about Butte.
These almost dormant bonanzas clus
ter within a radius of a few miles and
at an expense comparatively small
can be reached within a few months.
time by the Northern Pacific- branch
system already built and profitably.
operating more than one half the dis
tance from Helena. The N. P. an
thorities are represented as attached
to a conservative policy. Are they
really ot a trifle too conservative?'
How <tdo they propose to ignore
an the Jefferson mines- a
p of properties-and
of the immense.
extension to that.
di Helena has .
numbe e of whom '
is able to - to coE
struct the r ereto
by President 6
ern Pacific direct
of contradiction we
extensions tapping the
and Cook City mineraldi
supply to the Northern Pac
fic much greater than now con
ed from any district to any rail
in MontanE These suggestions, w
submit, are worth some attention.
Does the Northern Pacific care for in
crease of business from the great
treasure-bearing regions that flank its
line through Montana? We take it
for granted it wants all of the patron
age of that kind it can create andcop
trol. If one company or its friends
refuse to move and act others wil,,
and they will not be long about it..
The opportunity is now.-Herald.
rhe Wheat Crop.
The American Rural Home has re
ceived crop reports from over five
thousand correspondents, and review
ing the situation says:
Owing to strong foreign competit
ion and the decrease of exports, far
mers who have been growing spring
wheat largely ought to consider very
carefully that amount of wheat they
put out. The winter wheat outlook
is uncertain, alternately freezing, cov
ering and uncovering being likely to
injure the crop. The Pacific coast
reports are favorable. The winter
wheat crop coming out from under
its blanket of snow is generally re
ported to be in fine condition, but at
the same time it will be subjected to
the freezing, and thawing weather
which is due at this season of the year.
Very little grain is moving, and there
is no prospect of.any large increase
Infected Cattle.
Larmie Boomerang: It is reported
that the Blackleg has broken out
among the cattle in this part, of the
Territory. A. D. Clark has lost eight
head from the disease and it is stated
that there are others sick at Virginia
Dale from the same disease.
A Fine Building.
The First National bank of Helens
has accepted'plans and epecifications
from-Minneapolis parties, and will at
once commence the erection of a mod
el banking house to cost about $3000.
000.
Chief Murray and several detectives
at Winnipeg are charged With reeei'
ing bribes, and an investigation hias
been ordered.
Charles H. Nichaus, the artisbt- f
the Garfield statie at Cincinnati,has
prepared designs Ior an equnrtig
statue of Robert ._E -Le, wlic will
be erected in pihmon4, Va. .
The Logan Invcibles ofMar
had arranged a receptionandbquau
o Senatorogan in Baltimat fn
week, and to which a large numbefof
congressmin and senebft atwes l
invitations to attend. A
was sent to Washington fr e
but owing to a mistake h4 pant
Senator Logia the reet~ion had to
begiven without the pni e
Lion. he being in puI" vriboneQ