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GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE.
WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
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SATURDAY. APRIL 23, 1887.
A Row in Winnipeg.
Winnipeg special: There is much feel
ing here over the semi-official announce
ment that the dominion government will
not allow the construction of another rail
road to the boundary. Even solid citizens
talk of going out to build the road at the
point of the bayonet.
An Idaho Rat Story.
It is well known that colonies of rats
finds homes in the underground workings
of the mines, where they enjoy good liv
ing from the scraps the miners leave fiom
their dinner buckets. The late shut down
of our quartz mines, which lasted three
and a half weeks, put the rats on short ra
tions, and in the Idaho mines they were
reduced to such straits that they resorted
to the oil cans which were used to oil the
machine drills. The tops of these cans
were screwed on, but the rats were ingeni
ous enough to 4nscrew them and insert
their tails through the mouth of the cans
and into the oil, and then satisfy their ap
petites by licking the oil from their tails
Grass Valley (Cal.) Times.
Defective Indictments.
Vancouver, W. T., special: The timber
land fraud cases were dismissed by United
States District Judge Allyn, and witnesses
discharged. Six months ago a number of
persons had indictments brought against
them on complaint made by Commissioner
Sparks' agent for converting and appro
priating timber lands in Washington ter
ritory td their own use fraudulently. The
United States grand jury that indicted
them was partially composed of women.
Recently the supreme court of Washington
territory decided that women were not le
gal voters. Attorneys for the timber-laud
men contended that if woman were not le
4.al voters they werenot legal grand jurors.
Judge Allyn decided the point well taken,
and so the indictments were quashed.
The Northern Pacific Tax Cases.
Bismarck Tribune: The most important
civil case before the court at the present
term is that involving the Northern Pacific
tax title issue. W. E. Dodge, district attor
ney, Roderick D. Rose and John S. Wat
son of Jamestown, arrived from James
town yesterday to argue the test case. The
time for hearing the argument was fixed
at 9 o'clock this morning before the open
ing of court. The case involves a princi
ple and fact in law which is of vital inter
est all along the line of the Northern Pa
cific. The land was purchased before the
Northern Pacific survey was made and
taxes were paid thereon. After the survey
was made it was discovered that the land
was a part of the Northern Pacific grant,
which is exempt from taxation, and now
the purchasers bring action for the recov
ery of the taxes. The outcome of the case
is awaited with much interest by many
land owners along the line of the road.
As to Arrests on the Crow Reservation.
A Washington special to the Pioneer
P'ress says the Indian bureau has no infor
mation regarding the arrest of Montana
farmers for the alleged cutting of timber
on the Crow Indian reservation. The
-commissioner believes that the agent would
not have taken any arbitrary action with
out reporting to the office. He is dispos
ed to think that the alleged depredations
of whites, if any, could not have been in
.juriously extensive, and that a %carcity of
fuel would go far to excuse such depreda
tions, if there was any such committed as
alleged in the special dispatch from Bil
inmgs. The theory entertained at the de
partment is that Agent Williamson has
exceeded his authority. I any arrests of
settlers have been made. In the absence
of any advice to the department, the theo
ry In entertained here that there must be
a mistake.:. For hhad Agent Williamson
made the arresta reported, he would have
promptly liSed the depir-tmt of, thI
fact * an*sked iforrth* n to
a fSuits Agai nF , t.
the United States against the Montana Im
provemons Company'in the court.of this
district for cutting timber on United States
lands along the Northern Pacific railroad
west of Deer Lodge, and the amount of.
damages laid at $471,000. Marshal Kelley
served the papers on members of the
campany this week, but there will be no
United States court held here at the May
term, there being no appropriation by
Congress to cover the expenses thereof.
No j'urors have been summoned for the
tern, nor will there be unless instructions
to do so are received from Washington.
We have not seen the complaint in the
above-named cases, but learn some of the
defects of the indictments in the criminal
cases which were quashed have been
avoided in this complaint,-Deer Lodge
Newt Northwest.
The Manitoba's Preparations.
A gentleman, recently from St. Paul,
says that in the Manitoba yards at that
city are strung for a mile in length great
piles of steel rails, destined for laying the
track of the Manitoba extension to Great
Falls. They are being moved at the rate
of 200 car-loads per day, stock cars as well
as flat being pressed into the service. At
Minot, Dakota, where the principal ma
terial yards are established, there are said
to be ten miles of side tracks, alongside of
which the material is piled or upon which
it stands in carloads ready to be moved.
The immensity of the energies bding em
ployed to push the work of construction
tdothe utmost limit may thus be appreci
ated.--Helena Independent.
Life in Washington.
Washington is one of the most cosmo
politan cities in the world; every class of
the genus homo is represented here-from
the highest to the lowest type. The "dead
beats" or the "jedges" or the "colonels,"
as they are indiscriminately' called, are a
large element. These characters live by
their wits. Just how they manage it is
not generally known, for they are gener
ally fairly well dressed and never appear
to have anything to do; but they are al
ways hungry and very thirsty; not one of
the guild was ever known to refuse any
thing in the'way of eatables or drinkables.
It is to illustrate a part of tie career of
one of the coterie that this is written; and
it is absolutely true in all essential particu
lars. He is from Virginia, of course;
stranded or strapped by the war, of course,
again. All his life has been passed prac
tically doing nothing; attending to any
legitimate work would be considered de
grading. This particular "jedge" hails
"from Accomac county, begad, sir; where
the people don't dare go in bathing, sir,
because they are so full of lead, sir, be
gad, sir; they would sink. I myself, sir,
have been principal in twenty-five duels,
sir; and assisted at many more than that,
begad, sir; I am full of lead, sir."
One day w.hen fiat broke this genius
met an acquaintance who had been fortu.
note in obtaining a quarter of all doer, and
volunteered the opinion that he cou Id util
ize it. So they strolled into a gambling
saloon, called for cards and commenced
playing for the lone quarter. Seven times
the same quarter was placed in jeopardy,
and at the conclusion of each game the
African in attendance at the sideboard was
ordered to bring drinks. By the time the
lunch table was spread they were ready to
close the game and prepared to accept the
hospitalities of the house, after which they
walked out, carrying the lone.quarter with
them. It had been "utilized."
1 his genius got an appointment to a
$1,500 consulship somewhere on the east
ern coast of Africa. While ostensiblywait
ing for "instructions" he was really look
ing about for a victim to furnish him an
outfit. One was at last found in the person
of a Baltimorean who had just been left
$4,000 and did not exactly know how to
dispose of it. He got control of this by
appointing his newly-found friend as vice
consul. Together, after securing passage
and outfit, they expended in having a "good
time" what remained of-. the $4,000, and
then sailed for their destination. Reach
ing there, the fact was made-known that
the place was not entitled to a vice-consul.
The victim, now without money, was com
pelled to ship before the mast on a vessel
bound for Boston, and on the voyage had
a leg broken and is to-day in Chelsea hos
pital.- The consul has also been called
home, and can be seen in his old haunts
any day pursuing his former course of life.
tHe says, "Be gad, sir, the confinement of a
consulship was too irksome for him."
Miss Alice Sandborn has been elected
supientendent of schools for Brule coan
treceiving 1,000 of the 1,600
cast.
An Established Fact is that Pricesare Lowest at the
H ON S BA Z eA
&$ELENAP ýMONT, Sn a ape icsadb ovne
TWO FOX.
One of the Murders of Caldwell Run
Down by Sheriff Black.
Sheriff W. H. Black has just returned
from trating the murderers of Caldwell,
which he succeeded inodoing, as far as ci'
cumstantial evidence goes. The same
night (March 28th) that Caldwell stopped
at Bev<nt' place a Piegan Indian na Led
Two Fox, belonging to the, Blackloot
agency, also stopped there. The Indian
left before Caldwell. His pony
tracks were easily followed and led to the
very spot where Caldwell was murdered.
L Four o~rve other pony tracks with one
shod horse track were found to have join
ed Two Fox's trail, also leading to the
scene of the murder. Caldwell was found
to have been shot through the back, the
ball passing through the heart. From the
scene of the murder the tracks of the
t murderers again diverged, Two Fox's go
t ing towards tke Teton, to a place where
e he had formerly lived, and the trail of the
t others, with a second shod horse, taken
e from Caldwell, made directly for the Brit
ish line. The first shod horse is supposed
t to have been the one stolen from Dare &
Kennedy on the night plevious to the
murder. Sheriff Black trailed Two Fox
to the Blackfoot agency, which he reached
on the 9th inst. Major Baldwin, the agent,
was informed of the circumstances and
immediately sent for Two Fox to come to
his office. Instead of doing so the Indian
mounted his horse and left. Major Bald
win sent his Indian police to apprehena
him, and catching up to him Two Fox said
he would not be taken alive, and placing
his gun to his breast shot and mortally
wounded himself, falling from his horse
and dying in a short time, making no con
fession or statement about the matter.
The other Indians were without doubt
Bloods from across the line.--Rier Press.
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Carpenter, Contractor and
Builder.
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA
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Correspndaence solicited.
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