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SATURDAY. MARCH 19, 1887.
Wish we Had His Job.
The task of eating ninety pies in as
many days has h been undertaken by a Ra
cine, Wis,, man. At last accounts he had
disposed of hir twenty-sixth pie and wasn't
feeling altogether well.
The Drum Lummon Output.
Following is the6-oitput of the Drum
Lummon mine for February: Ten-stamp
mill crushed 410 tons yielding $19,300;
50-stamp mill crushed 2,:310 tons yielding
$126,900; G0-stamp mill (low grade) crush
ed 2.:316 tons yielding $32,500. Total for
the month, $178,700.
Nervy.
A young man in one of the north coun
ties of Dakota had an engagement to marry
during the late blizzard, the home of the
bride being twenty miles away. The
roads were blocked so that he could not
go by any conveyance, but he took snow
shoes and made the trip on time, and his
wife was proud of his feat.
Montana Indian Claims.
A Washington special to the Pioneer
Pris 5 says, the secretary of the interior
today allowed the following Indian claims:
J. H. Nixon, Gallatin conmty, Montana,
claiming $615 damages by the Sioux and
Arrapahoes in 1881, allowed $514; The
same person as administrator of the estate,
John Nixon, a claim of $5,000 damages
by Sioux and Arrapahoes in 1871, is not
allowed.
Helplessness of City Dogs. 1
A Boston woman who loves animals, t
and is a special defender of dogs, writes
that she was never more thoroughly sad
dened by the feeling of helplessness than
in her feeble attempts, while on a visit last 1
October, to complain of "'that disgrace to
your city, the dog snatcher." On account
of their great numbers and comparative
uselessness in the eyes of the majority of
the people, dogs are most in need of pro
tection, she says.
The Indian Commission. f
Washington special: So much oppo
sition, congressional and otherwise, has
developed to the agreements made by the
northwestern Indian commission that it is
feared that its work may be entirely wast
ed. Protests loud and long are coming in -
against the Fort Berthold agreement. The
Montana work of the commission has been C
just received and did not reach congress.
Montana men here say the agreements are
not satisfactory. It is also said that the
Indians may refuse to abide by the agree- I
ments if not carried out soon.
Not so Much Loss as Reported.
A letter from T. Clowes, Mfiles, corrects c
the report that he lost 200 sheep by the
cold weather, and says he will not lose
that many even by shearing time. He
adds: "My sheep have been out on their
range every day this winter excepting two 0
days, and have been fed both hay and r
straw from Dec. 20th to Feb. 28th-a long- I
er period of feeding than ever before, and a
I have had sheep since 1877. It has been e
the hardest winter on all kinds of stock I 1
ever knew, short grass and snow being the r
cause, more than extreme cold." s
Mineral Product of 1886.
The report of the director of the mint o
contains statisticts of the production of n
precious metals in the United States in 5
the year 18S6, was transmitted to congress o
on Feb. 22. From the report it appears a
that the production of gold during 1886. a
exceeded that of any previous year since tl
1880, and almost equalled the production tl
of that year. It amounted to $34,000,000 a:
in 1886, against $31,800,000 in 1885. The p
production of silver, as nearly as can be Ii
ascertained, was $42,895,930. The amount
of gold bullion imported into the United
States was $17,947,518; export, -$27,962,
637.
No More Construction Work.
Official information has been received la
in Anaconda thatowing to the failure of es
congrss to pass the funding bill, the W
Morg. iCc his abandoned all construc- an
tion work of all classes for the season,save ly
only the work now being done in Butte. t
There will absolutely be no railroad build- f
ing in Montana this year by the Union a
Pacific. The widening of the gauge be
tween Pocatello and Silver Bow will prob
ably be completed, but the branch from
Anaconda to Philipsburg, and from Mis
soula ur the Bitter Root are indefinitely
postponed, and all construction engineers
are laid off.--Aalcdnda Rcrei'r.
Charges Against Swmneford.
Some odd charges are made against
Governor Swineford of Alaska, which, if 1
true, show that personage to be a very
shallow demagogue. Affidavits have been
filed by citizens of Sitka in which he is
charged with inciting a riot against the
Chinese, saying that no Chinaman should
be allowed to vote while white men were
unemployed. One affidavit says that the
owner of a gold mill on Douglas island
gave Swineford a $98 nugget as a head for
president Cleveland's cane. The depon
ent says that the governor had a $20 gold
piece melted into a head for the president's
cane and he believes that the $68 cane was
sent to Don Dickinson. All of which goes
to show that Swinefoid considers Dickin
son "a bigger man" than Cleveland.
The Color Line.
The exclusion of a colored man from
the Young Men's Christian Association in
Mew York has given rise to considerable
discussion. The chairman of the board of
managers says: "No one regrets the neces
sity of excluding this estimable young
colored man more than we do, but no
other course was open to us. He gradua
ted from Cooper Institute, and was in
every respect a worthy man, but there is
a stroitg prejudice against colored men
among those we are particularly anxious
to reach, and we cannot ignore it." An
other representative of the Association
urges the establishment of a branch of the
association expressly for colored members
the same as was done on Second avenue
for the Germans.
Bitter Root Railroad.
The surveying party which started in
here along in mid winter to locate the line
of railroad up the Bitter Root valley came
back last week and are camped near the
depot, awaiting orders. They do not know
as yet whether they will build the grade
or be ordered elsewhere. Their line near
ly follows the wagon road and crosses the
Bitter Root river the first time near L. 1.
Davis' ranch and makes the second cross
ing about a mile this side of the Stevens
ville bridge. It goes through that town
between the Mission and the business por
tion and again nearly follows the road to
Corvallis. The last nine miles is on a
straight line and the terminus, for this
year at least, will be at a point bout a h
mile toward the river from
Mtiseoulian.
Military Transporta
Col. Moore to-day opened t
the transportation of military st
department of Dakota, for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1888. The lowest bids
for the routes named were:
Custer Station to Fort Custer-I. Mc
Nutt, of Fort Custer.
Custer Station to Fort Maginnis-Paul
McCormick, of Junction city.
Broadwater Landing to Ft. Assinaboine
-J. N. Graham, of Junction city.
Helena to Ft. Assinaboine-J. W. Power t
of Ft. Benton. 3
Totten Station to Ft. Totten-H-afstrand
Bro., of '3innewaukan.
ITmarck to Ft. Yates-I. Fortune, of I
Bismarck a
To Ft. Randall-A. 'Y. Lavender, of t
Scotland, Dak.
Rapid City to Ft. Meade--P. F. Sparks, t
of Sturgis, Dak.---t. Paul Special. t
New-Placers, f
The Libby Creek placer mines, situated s
in Montana about a hundred miles north
of Horse Plains station on 'he N. P. rail
road, betwon the Flathead Lake and
Kootenai - ~::i,.s are improving in rich
ness as as -:e..l:;)::ents in the district are
extendW! . i. AI. Hubbard of Horse
Pli::ins , - within tire last few months car
rind core 2,t:."!2 of gold dust to the Mis
soula I,dk ~that has been taken out of one
claim by JMc:Gee and Harris Bros. bysluic
ing. The .old is fine but heavy and goes
over $19 fine to the ounce. The ground
mostly is very shallow and has plenty fall.
Some fifteen whites and the same number
of Chinese a'e wintering at the mines so
as to hold their grounds as it is expected
a stampede to that placer will occur when
the spring opens. Libby creek is one of
the old-time Placer countries in Montana
and noted for having the first batch of
prospectors on the creek butchered by the
Indian guides.
Barbarous Stock Raising,
Estimates:of the loss of cattle in Mon
tana from the beginning of winter to the
present date range between 25 and 40 per
cent. of the entire number in the territory
last autumn. If the spring should not be
early, and a few weeks more of cold j
weather should be experienced before the co
snow goes off, the largest estimate is like- ca
)y to prove nearest the truth. Aside from N
the enormous financial loss involved, these )
figures are shocking to every humane in
stinct. : They mean that tens of thousands
of cattle have frozen to death in Montana,
and that other multitudes have died of
starvation, while nearly all that have- sur
vived must have suffered cruelly from cold
and hunger. The native steers and cows
of Montana are wonderfully hardy ani
mals, with a knack of keeping alive when
the ground is covered with deep snow for
weeks at a time, and it may be set down
as a certainty that when these half-wild
beasts perish by wholesale the exposure
and lack of sustenance have been fright
ful. It is well that the cattle business of
the western ranges must soon be adjusted
to new and more civilized conditions. At
present it is barbarous to the last degree,
and whole herds will continue to die of
cold and starvation until the filling up of
the country makes it unprofitable to waste
land and live stock in the present fashion.
-Cleveland Leader.
Starving Indians.
Miles City special to the Independent:
Great destitution exists among the Chey
ennes on the Rosebud and Tongue- rivers.
It appears from what can be learned that
Agent Lpshaw last fall caused Indian
beef cattle to be taken over to MIollok's
Fork, on the Crow reserve, tistant about
thirty miles from the Cheyenne agency,
and turned loose. The result is that near
ly or quite all of the cattle drifted back to
their old range in Wyoming, and even had
they not done so it vWould have been an im
possibility to have driven them to the
agency owing to the depth of snow and
is ill advised action on
l gs resulted
receive any more of the •
dians on the ground that when he wa
flour he would order it, which act caused
the freighters to be idle during the month
to December. After the great storm of
January 1, Agent Upshaw found he want
ed flour, and soon learned that no flour
could be hauled through the great depth
of snow some sixty-five miles. This is
another act of stupidity for which not the
faintest shadow of an excuse can be found
and at this date the Cheyennes will receive
their last ration of flour. They have had
no beef nor flour curing the past fifteen
days, and the Indians have been, eating
their dead ponies and what little meat
they could get from the cattle that have
died from starvation near their camps.
The condition of these Indians calls for
an immediate examination and the worse
feature remains to be told. Ten Indian
babies of.th milis lo Y
y red
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Passing Events.
Hannah Battersby, the fattest woman
before the public, weighs 728 pounds. She
eats a half pound of candy daily.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says he was
once offered pay for a poem in praise of a
certain stove polish, but declined.
A Nebraska man who recently died at
the age of 102, was shipwrecked many
years ago and swam nine miles with a
woman on his back.
N. 0. Shelnutt, who was hanged until
he was almost lifeless, recently, in Jack
son county, Ga., says he suffered very lit
tle pain by the operation.
An odd burglary occurred at Westches
ter, N. Y., recently, where thieves stole
the forms of a paper which were ready
for the press. Newspaper rivalry is the
supposed cause.
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