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GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE.
VOL, L. GREAT FALLS, MONTANA TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 91 18871 NO, 16,
STAGE HELD UY.
National Park Tourists Get a Taste of
"Rowdy West" Life.
GA(RD;ER, July 7.--[Special to the
Tribune].-On the evening of July 4 as
the coach of the Wakefield Transportation
Company was welding its way up the
river on the way from Cinnabar to Mam
moth lHot Springs it was held up by two
highwaymen at a point in the road known
as Eagle's nest. Here the coach was
stopped and the passengers, two gentlemen
and three ladies were made to get out and
hold up their hands. They were searched
by the highwaymen and robbed of a check
for a considerable sum and about $16 in
money, but $800 in the pocket of one of
the gentlemen passengers was overlooked.
It is deemed extremely dangerous for
the railway company to run their trains so
that tourlsts must taavel this piece of
mountain road in the night time by stage.
MISSED THE BOOTY.
One of the passengers had a large sum
of money on his person, but the highway
men after feeling in the pocket where it
was withdrew his hand without taking it.
Several other people had similar experi
ences. The robbers evidently expected to
get more money. A pistol was fired so
close to the drivers face that the powder
badly burned him. All efforts thus far to
capture them have failed. It is not known
who they are or from what direction they
came or whence they fled.
Fixed the Jury.
Cnic..to, July 7.---Rmors that the jury
in the county commissioners boodle case
had been fixed in the interests of the de.
fendants trought the case yesterday to a
stand still. The court adjourned for sev
eral hours to give the state attorney time
to get at the bottom fact,. lie found that
four men had been stuffed into the box
that never should have been admitted.
,george S. Tate, O- W. Strandr, William
Narts and l)amel Cudahee are the four.
T'ate is an old friend of Vannen the Warden
of the insanue asylum. The four men were
summoned by Bailiff McGillson at the in
stance of persons interested in securin an I
acquittal, states attorney Grinnell wantsl
all of them removed as soon as it can be ,
done. The judge reserves action until to
morrow.
Monthly Pay. tl
WASIUrsNTON, July 7.-Paymaster-Gen
eral Rochester is now perfecting his ar
rangements to inaugurate a scheme to pay
the troops at all points where paymasters
are not required to cover much territory,
on the first of August. The new system a,
of making payments monthly is simply in
the nature of an experiment. It will be
-tried at ('Chicago. New York. Washinton, tl
Man Francisco and some other cities where
the troops are quartered, and the paymas
ters are within distance. The paymaster- ,
general has no contidence in the experi- t<
menPt, and fears it won't be successful.
He Married Yum Yum. ca
NEw HAVEN, .luly 7.--Yan Phan Lee k
of Fragrant Hills, China, who graduated
with high honors at Yale last commence- ti
ment, was yesterday married to Miss I1
Elizabeth Maude Jerome, a New Haven al
heiress. The ceremony was performed
at the residence of the bride's mother. ei
'l'his wedding is the first on record in New .
Haven, where a Yankee girl has married R
a: Chinaman. and the event created con
siderable comment. After the wedding
trip at Narragansett Pier, Mlr. and Mrs. h
Yan Phan Lee will reside in New Haven. 1
The groom will enter the journalistic I
field.
Conrad is all Right. h.
IIHEENA, July 7.-A Washington spec- tl
ial dispatch says J. W. Conrad, the Mis
souri river transportation agent, is to 01
have his contract after all. As soon as he n,
learned of the disapproval of Commission- Y'
er Atkins with his contract and the likeli
hfood of losing his $1,000 deposit check, ir
he had hil bondsmen telegraph the secre
tary to strike out the alterations and sign
Ith contract. The contract has been re
turned to him, however, and as soon as he
returns it signed and in correct form the
wsscretary will sign it.
Awarded a Divorce, ra
BUTTE, Joly 7.-Yesterday in the dis
trict court a divorce was granted Jennie 1a
Osborne faom her husband Harry Osborne
and she was given the custody of the child. C
He made no defense. The parties are
well known in theatrical circles through
out the country, but Mr. Osborne contin
tnd ill health prevented them from keep. i
dug ftie road, and they have been engaged e]
in e saloon business here for about a
year. _l____
The Apache Sentenced. d
r cas, Cal., ,uJly 6.-Nahdizaza, the ta
Apache, found guilty of murder in the 1
irst degree for killing IAutenant Mott at
San Csrlos Agency. Arizona, on March 12,
has been sentenced to imprisonment for P
life and turned over by the prison .ajtbor- 0
ities to be taken to prison 4 Gbhester,
Illinois.
Seeking Capital,
ST. PAUL, July 0.-Premier Norqury of h
Manitoba is in the city to place $1,000,000 n
ie government bonds for the new Red e
Rier Valley road. The Northern Pacific l
and tie twrand Trunk roads will take a
large slice of the bonds it is said.
The Law ot Gambling. k
HELEEA, July '7.-lu. his address to the
srand jury on Tuesday Thief Justice Mc- t
aonnellsaid: I want to call your attention
to an act relating to gambling. Gambling
is not a crime at common law. Our En
glish ancestors did not aegard gambling as
a crime when they were making the laws
that we inherited from them before the
separation of the colonies from the moth
er country. It is only a crime when it is
made so by local statutes in the United
States, and hence the question of the in
dictable quality of gambling depends en
tirely upon local legislation. Last winter
the legislature passed an act to regulate
gambling, and that is the law, so far as the
criminal part of it is concerned, that has a
bearing upon this practice, and I will give
you briefly some of the points in it. It
says that before a person can be permitted
to gamble he must take out a license as
such, and before he can be permitted to
exercise this privilege for which he has
paid a license, he must put over his room
where he carries on his business these
words, '-Licensed gambling room," The
st-stute says that the letters must be five
inches wide each. At any rate they must
be in large letters so that the character of
the place will be readily recognized. I
will state to you in this connection that if
there is a substantial compliance with the
law that is all that is required, and if the
notice should specify house instead of
room that would be a compliance with the
statute. The purpose of the legislature
was to advertise the place where this
kind of business was carried on, and that
is the reason that they say that the doors
shall not be barred or closed. The var.ous
other games prohibited by this statute you
will also take notice of and investigate.
GENERAL NEWS.
Gov. Hill has signed the bill extending
local option throughout New York
state.
Norman B. Ream of Chicago is said to
have made big money out of the crash in
wheat.
('het Smith, procurer for vile dens at
Hurley, Wisconsin, was given a year at
Chicago.
The June rise of the Missouri at Pierre
was ten feet above low water mark--the
highest ever known.
Conrad Doll, at North Industry, Ohio,
killed his wife and stepson,, s the re
sult of a family quarrel.
At the next es.-ion of the Iowa ,.gih~hi
tuire, a; attempt will he mnade to stop the
druiiggi-ts selling liquor.
At (eveltand, Benjamin S. Wheeler,
80 \years ohl, rich and peculiar, was ac
quitted of wife murder.
The Pakota Knights of Pythias oppose
the admission to the order of Sandwich
Islanders or saloon keepers.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland will
be the guests of Erastus Corning of Alba
ny, at. Bar Harbor in August.
C'mmissioner Sparks hats recommend
ed that the government defend the rights c
of settlers abused by the railroads. el
Lamar has reversed Sparks' decisioin h
and allowed Herman Freese to settle on ji
the former Omaha Indian reservation. I
Attorney David H. Wood of Sioux City,
says that Arensdlorff is generally believed
to be guilty of the Haddock murder.
President Cleveland has cordially ac- h
cepted the dedication to him of the enulo
gy on Henry Ward Beecher by I)r. Par
ker of London. d
Senator Stanford has paid $1,400,000 for d
the San Joaquin ranch near Los Angeles. w
It contains 108,000 acres of land and runs I
along the coast. si
Win. Rean, an experienced Fargo farm- to
er, says there will he but half a crop of
wheat and one-fourth a crop of hay in the a
Red River valley. q
Mrs. Wm. P. Heator and her sister O
horsewhipped Sidney Corbett, aJackson, 11
Michigan, newspaper reporter for slander. c
He is seriously hurt. it
Yankton eounty, Dakota, will vote on cl
local option soon. The commissioners g'
have increased the license to $500 and in
the city there is an additional $300.
Ex-Congressman Campbell, I)emocrat,
of Ohio does not desire to run for gover- L
nor. He says this is not a democratic ct
year, referring to the flag episode. S
A new Oddfellow temple is to be built P
in Rapid City, I)akota,'a $4,000 site having B
just been purchased. Work on the new tr
Masonic temple commences next week. ca
Private Secretary Lamont made an it
agreement with Collector Magone of w
New York by which all Republican clerks B
remaining in the custom house are to be b,
removed. it
The action of the American authorities c'
at Niagrsra Falls in preventing laborers f
residing its Citana from working in the it
United States has created displeasure in f
Canadian official circles, l
Miss Agnata lamsey, daughter of a I
Scotch baronet, took first honors in a H
classical course at Girton College, Cam- it
bridge, Eng, She was the only student ot
either sex to pass the first division.
The increase of business on the great
lakes is phenominal, During the first 15 g
days of the month 796 ess.els passed us
through the "Soo" canal, an average of 58 3
a day. The total tonage was 432,597. June d
14, 84 vessels passed.
The number of claims pending in the
pension office June 18 was 298,7;4; cost
of medical examinations during the week,
$42,243. The available balance of ap
D.opriations for the fiscal year ending it
Iap.di8 .1 $9,483,049. B
Tile boay4 pf )'itors of Gouveneurlf
hospital, New Yppk, rpf M l}y:i there is
no foundation for the chargea qf lrunl -
enness, debauchery and the use of polit -
cal Influence in the management as h
charged by "'Brick" Pomeroy.
All we know of the Sand Coulee coal I w
about which a mild rumpus is now being ti
kicked up, Is that Messrs. Pemponelly and Utl
Eldridge, of the government survey -has d
pronounced It as existing in large quanti- li
ties and of good quality.Philipshrg 1 h
i Mail. p:
W00L STILL FIRM.
Advces in Detail from the
Eastern Markets. e
BosToN, June 30.-The American Woolt
Reporter says the market during the past ci
week has developed no new features, but C
remains firm and unchanged. The vol- sE
ume of business has been somewhat light- t(
er; and manufacturers, if anything, show h
less disposition to take hold.
The sales for the past week include w
103,000 lbs fine territory, 20@22; 115,000 I
lbs medium territory, 22@25; 120,400 lbs
medium territory at 27.
In New York fine wools are in good re.
quest, and are br'nging fully a cent per lm hl
more. For f ne grades of territory, and
especially Montana, the demand has in
creased.
The Philadelphia wool market presents 1
no new features this week. A very quiet B
feeling seems to prevail, with a tendency
of firmness in regard to prices.
The quotations for Montana wool in the eo
seaboard markets are as follows: w
Fine choice, 22@2'4; average, 20@22; C
fine medium choice, 23@27; fine medium to
average, 21@23; medium choice, 25; me- th
dium average, 23@24; low, 20.
The Dakota Crops. m
The average crop of wheat, oats, barley. M
and corn is perhaps, speaking generally, to
larger than was ever known before in the
territory. In the wheat belt on the Red
river valley proper the area of wheat sown
is greater than that of 1886, and the entire
crop is universally pronounced the finest TI
for many years--Traill, Grand Forks, co
Walsh and Pembina counties have never wi
seen a finer crop, and if nothing happens an
to materially interfere whith what now At
appears to be an assured crop, the ) ield pe
will undoubtedly be the largest ever known in
in the valley. l'lero :ire a few localities is
in the contral portion lof the territory that
have suffered .oiiie\ hI.t from drouth, but n
they are inerely I1. al a:Ii the exception.
In portions oi f 0Gal;ti and Coddington
conlnties the walnt f i ".i>ture is noticea
ble,. thI rain, hi m, ever that fell in these lo- BE
calitiil Ia n Morday last will, it is thought, 01
! in.trumnental in bringing the yield up
to what it was last year. Brown county to
has an exceptionally bright prospect be- he
fore it, anrd thme present outlgok surpasses bI
anything in the history of the country. its
In southern Dakota the corn crop is in ex- co
cess of any previous year, and from pres
ent indications the crop will not fall short ze
of 20,(00,000) bushels. Oats and barley thi
will be a good average crop throughout bu
the territory, and roots are in excellent re'
condition everywhere.
Colorado Romance.
Denver telegram: In the divorce pro- P
ceedings of ex-Governor Gilpin, the gov
ernor related how his youhg affections had al
been won by Julia Pratts, how she had It
jilted him for an army officer and, 25 years T
later, he again sought her hand, she hav_ d
ing become a widow, lie says he is now b
convinced that she married him for his
money, and has been living off him at a
$500,000 rate. She would demand of a'
him $1,000 to take a trip to St. Louis, Cal- "'
ifornia, or elsewhere, and if he refused
she would apply to the Rev. Father at the
Cathedral, and get what she wanted. One [
day she confronted him in the library and r
>r demanaded the usual sum, stating that she
s. wished to leave that afternoon. He de- t
is murred when she reached under her
sacque and pulled out a tack hammer and a
tapped him on the skull, knocking him
I senseless. At another time he said he felt d
a chill sugestive of danger and turning
quickly saw his wife standing over him,
prepared to strike him with a table-knife.
r On being confronted she coolly retreated.
lie says the most cruel treatment is the
r. compulsory infliction of prayer meetings
in his own household where his wife and a
n children prayed heartily and aloud for the ti
g governor's removal. 01
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A Sergeant Kited.
t, SA FRANCISCO, July 6.-Private Thos.
L. Bateman, Troop A second United States
c cavalry shot and killed First Sergeant
Samuel M. Sopher of the same troop at ci
It Presidio Barracks yesterday morning. d
g Both men paraded in this city with their si
a troops yesterday and the sergeant had oc- tc
casion to reprimand Bateman whom he L
found drunk in a drugstore. Next morn
n ing the sergeant started in the barracks to
f wake up the delinquents for reveille.
S Bateman was one of them. lie walked up a
e behind Sopher and deliberately shot him W
in the head. Sopher fell and Bateman jc
cooly reloaded his carbine and shot the w
.,sergeant a second time. Sopher enlisted o01
e in Chicago, in May 1881, but had served t
n five years in Montana in the second caval- a
ry prior to that time. The murderer en- h
listed in Arizona ten years ago and gave ti
a his place of birth as Flemingsburg, Ky. -
a He will be turned over to the civil author
- ities.
Sharp in a Bad Way.
it NEW "ORK, . July 8.--Sharpe suffers h
5 greatly from the heat. Dr. Cooms called tl
d and said his patient was growing weaker, tl
8 Sharpe has lost all the ground he gained nI
.e during the past few days. bi
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e Manitoba Extensions. h
BISMARCK, July 7.-Mr. N. O. Herred, a
who has returned from work on the Man
g itoba, from the neighborhood of Fort
SBuford, says the road is now graded and
ironed to about seven miles northwest of fi
r Buford, and that work is being pushed at oi
the rate of about seven miles a day. Mr. Is
[ erred left Buford on the 16th, of June. al
fi coming back he found the creeks soe
high from thevery heavy ralis they have n:
experienced in that locality that they ai
lt were almost impas"sble. As an indica- hI
t tion of high water, the gentleman says ei
that at Milk river, where the railroad k
is dumped 700 loads of rock and built a ai
1- bridge thereon, that the water rose so IE
p high that all was swept away. As to the h
probability of the Manitoba coming into I
McLean, Mr. Herred says thai Mr. B. L.
Parker, the chief engineer of the road,
gave it out that as soon as he could get
through with the work on which he was A
engaged, which would be about the 1st
of August, everything in his department
would be transferred to Minot, and work
commenced at once on a branch road from
Minot to Bismarck. The contractors, D.
C. Shepherd & Co., it was stated without n
secret in camp, had a contract from Minot tl
to Bismarck. They expect to come this al
way about the middle of August-per- t
haps sooner.
Mr. G. L. Hanson, the contractor with a
whom Mr. Herred was working, and who g
has forty-nine teams employed, asked Mr. tl
Herred to stay until he (Hanson) could tl
get through with his contract, and that fi
Herred would be furnished a pass for
himself and teams to AMnot, where he a
could go on with Hanson in grading into m
McLean county, and he (Herred) would ft
be working his way home instead of los- it
ing time. 01
Mr. Herred further says that the Riley ta
Bros. have fifty teams at work, and Kelly tit
& Flynn over a hundred teams, and that B
each has only one more move to make w
when they expect to pull up stakes and ti:
come direct to Minon to work on the at
branch to Bismarck. Other contractors, at
too, are expecting to move, some about in
the middle of August, having contracts cl
on the Ellendale line of road, from which
it would seem that work will be com
menced at once on both ends-from
M-inot to Bismarck and from Ellendale
to Bismarck. fr
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THE MONTANA PRESS. ii,
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Montana presents a prosperous outlook.
The ranges are looking fine with their th
coating of grass. The mining industry sti
will yield larger returns this year than for wi
any year in the history of the territory. be
Added to this the enormous sums to be ex- a
pended by railroad construction, and the an
influx of people to populate the territory, mi
is conclusive evidence that this is to be a th
grand year for Montana.-Dillnn Eranm- he
iner.
ASKS NO FAVORS.
President Hill of the Manitoba says
Benton shall not he slighted by his line. 'ic
Of course not. It is too important a point tu
to be overlooked. It will be the first cit
pc.int of any importance in the way of At
business that the Manitoba will reach in an
its march westward and the company fat
could hardly afford to slight it. And it $5
was manly of Mr. Hill to notify the citi- we
zens that no aid would be required of p1e
them. The Manitoba is asking no favors
but the right-of-way through the Indian
reservations.--Butte Miner.
MARCHING ON. 8
The mouth of Big Muddy has been t
passed by the track-layers on the Manitoba t
road, and all the hands are now working U
at their best in these long days to push the I
end of track further into Montana. Pop- s
lar creek will be the next point reached. t
s The rains and high water may cause some j
delay in the matter of putting in bridges, t
but the season affords good opportunity to
show how the route should be selected
and the grades and bridges constructed to
avoid danger and damage from the high
water in the future.-Ifelea. Ilerald. u
SOMEWHAT DESPONDENT.
SOThere is a sort of fatherless skim-milk c
1 rumor afloat that Montana is to be admit- c
ted as a state, when congress convenes c
this fall. We with all of our heart hope f
the rumor is correct. We don't hardly f
believe, however, that we will blossom out
t into statehood until after the next presi
dential election.---Corvallis Noc Idea.
TIIHE NEW BROOM. ETC. t
Judge McConnell went through the dis
trict court docket yesterday like a cyclone e
and cleared up a lot of the barnacles of ii
litigation that have been hanging about tl
the court for years. The number of cases
on the docket is abnormally large and it is
high time that they were greatly
reduced.--Hel eo Independent.
WANTS MORE MONEY.
There is a big lot of cash in Montana's
t capital and chief commercial city, but it is r
dear to the borrower. A few millions of p
r six per cent money could find ready cus- f
tomers and safe investment here.-He-lena
tHerald.
BOZEMAN FEELS PROUD.
The glorious 4th of July has come and
and gone. In Bozeman it was ushered in
with the boom of cannon, amid the
joy and enthusiasm of patriotic citizens. It
was an event long to be remembered, and h
I one that will always reflect credit upon a
1 those who took upon their shoulders the
arduous labors of preparing for the one
- hundred and eleventh birthday of our na
s tional independence. It was a great day.
--Bozeman Chronicle.
MEIrITIGO APPROBATION. 0
Chief Justice N. IV. McConnell has a
shown strength on the bench and there e
has met with the general approbation of
the bar. He has grasped the legal situa
tion in complicated cases under statutes
necessarily strange to him, and he has
been commended for decisive and just ac- r
tion by the local press wherever he has e
held court. His decisions have been clear t
ard comprehensive.-Butte Miner. ii
A PROSPEROUS YEAR.
1 The reports which we have received
f from all parts of Montana are sure signs
t of a prosperous year. The grass crop is
larger this season than any in the last ten e
and stock are all looking yell. The y
lesson of last winter will be one long re- a
e membered, and those who suffered losses, h
F and there are few who did not, will make
hay this summer without fail. There is V
s enough hay throughout the country to d
I keep all the stock without having to cut v
i and cure any. But the breeder who neg- d
m lects the signs of the times will be left by t
Shi more progressive neighbors.-Montrn a
SLies 8tork Journal.
LAWLESS INDIANA.
A Marn Lynched at Peru for Killing
a Doctor.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 8.--In Peru, on
Wednesday Dr. Worth was shot by a man
named Christianson. The excitement on
the street of Peru during the afternoon
and evening was intense. There was free
talk of taking Christianson from the jail
and hanging him. Men stood together in
groups and the shooting of Dr. Worth and
the punishment of Christianson fornted
the sole topic of conversation. This talk
finally led to systematic preparations.
At 12:15 next morning twenty-two
masked men appeared at the jail and de
manded the keys. The demand was re
fused and the mob broke down the large
iron bars and in fifteen minutes the pris
oner was in their possession. He was
taken on a dead run down Broadway to
the bridge crossing the Wabash river.
He was hastily swung up the first time
without the desired effect, but the second
time his life was extinguished. He died
at 12:45. The lynching was witnessed by
about 1,000 people. Dr. Worth is lying
in a very critical condition with the
chances against his recovery.
Light Weights to Fight.
BOSTON, July 6.-A meeting of the
friends of Jack McAgliff, light weight
champion of America, and Jem Carney,
light weight champion of England, occur
red in this city to-day to arrange a match
for the light weight championship of
the world. The articles of agreement
stipulate that the fight will be to a finish
with skin-tight gloves, Marquis of Queens
bury rules. The battle will be for $2,500
a side and is to take place between the 1st
and 6th day of October next, within 300
miles of Boston. The sporting editor of
the Globe was appointed temporary stake
holder.
Fatal Explosion.
ARLINGTON, N. J., June 8.-An explo
ion occurred in the Celluloid Manufac
uring Company's establishment in this
:ity yesterday afternoon. A Swede, named
kugust Muchsune, was instantly killed,
mnd about twenty others injurged-none
?atally. The works were destroyed. Loss,
p50,000. A number of stores and houses
.ere damaged from the force of the ex
)losion, but the loss cannot he estimated.
God's Country. c:
While Montana is having a very good. a
summer for crops, other sections of coun- 11
I try are suffering under various disadvan- at
tages. The chinch bugs are making their
usual raid on the Minnesota crops.
Drought is afflicting portions of Wiscon
sin, while hot "northers" have swept over
the wheat crops in California to their in- hi
jury, some placing the loss as high as ci
twenty-five per cert.- Billings Gazette. w
I Important to Cod Fishers.
WAs;NGT'o, D. C., July 8.-The treas- ec
ury department has decided that an kE
American vessel, which arrived at New ve
York with a cargo of fish caught off the fl
coast of New Foundland, is exempted from sc
continued supervision of the custom ofli- at
cers on the ground that she did not clear th
from a foreign port and brought her cargo it
free of duty.
A $100,000 Trade.
BUTTE, July 8.-A deed was was filed o0
to-day by which A. W. McCune transfers st
to the Anaconda company all of his inter- or
ests in the Caplice & McCune wood w
flume, and all the water rights appertain
ing thereto, for 2,000 shares of stock in o0
t the Anaconda company, now valued at $50 in
a per share. to
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Caught in the Current. es
NIAGARA FALLS, July 7.-Michael Cro
man, while attempting to swim acress the
Niagara river, starting from the Maid of at
the Mist landing, was caught in the cur- c
rent and carried down through the Whirl
pool rapids. Croman came to the Falls cc
from Boston about a week ago. m
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A Jailer Murdered. w
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 8.-Yesterday a
morning when the jailer went into the w
cell of Reed Townsend to carry him his Ji
breakfast, Townsend sprang to the door, vs
t seized an iron bar and beat the keeper's cr
head to a jelly. The convict had agrudge ni
against his keeper. Is
Coming Westward.
BRAINERD, Minn., July 8.-Ex-Govern
or Hauser accompanied by Senator Vest at
of Missouri and Senator Cameron of Penn- el
sylvania, occupy a private car on the th
s west bound train which will arrive in HeI
e ena Saturday evening. th
Guarding Trains.
AvsTrN, Tex., July 8.-In view of the cx
recent, daring train robberies in Texas, al
a eight trusty men will accompany each c
r train. They will be sworn in, armed and hi
invested with all the power of the regu- P
lar force. it
Stingy People Catch it. re
MINNEAPOLIS, July 8.-The big First 4
Baptist church the other evening was fill
ed with a magnificent audience. There
were not anywhere near enough seats, and
a great many 'stood up during the two- e
hour service. It was a mass meeting in e
the interest of the work on the State Surn
day-School Association. The attraction p
was Sam Jones. Mr. M. B. Critchett, the t
district secretary, presided. There were qi
r the usualpreliminaries of prayer andeong ft
z and an addres b Rev. Mr. Sherin, the ,
a te sere y.' fl alb there were iS- to
000children in the MinneapollsSunday-'
school. Then came Jones. He was tired.
He looked tired and said he was. Sam
g did not say very much about the Sunday
schools or the need for this particular
money, however, and somebody, when he
n asked them to give $25 a piece, amused
the audience by inquiring, "What for?"
Here are some of the sharp things he got
n off:
n "Everyyoung woman here is either go
e ing to marry some young man or die an
i old maid, and I don't know which is the
worst. It's hard for a man to be a hog in
n this country and respect himself and be
I respected by anybody else. A man is a
d heap more liberal when he hasn't got any
thing than when he has somethingt tgie.
It's more blessed to be so that you are able
1) to give than to be so that you have to re
ceive. The liberal people are nearly all
dead-broke. Money will help a man to
get to heaven just as it'helps him to gette
New York. A good many people have
nothin' but worn out dresses and stale
D victuals treasured up in heaven. A church
that doesn't do anything but run itself is
like an engine that simply runs itself,
I and is fit only for the devil's scrap pile.
I The minister that don't believe in revivals
r is not the pastor of a church, but the sex
ton of a cemetery. The millennium won't
a come until we can shout clear through a
collection."
And so they tackled the collection, Sam
Jones shouted through it, but the audience
showed the usual disposition to get out,
which he roundly rebuked. The collec
t tion amounted to several hundred dollars.
THE RANGE AND FARM.
F It is a good plan to wash horses' necks
and shoulders with cold water after the
day's work in spring and summer. It will
strengthen them and prevent lameness and
galling. This is especially necessary if
the horses have not done much work in
the winter and are then set to work sud
denly in spring. If a horse is sick or
lame or swelled, bathing will often im
prove it. If the parts affected be co!d,
then let the water be a little warm; but if
the parts be warm, let the water be cold.
Some salt dissolved in the water will add
to its efficiency.-San Francisco Chronicle.
MOiNTANA SUITS BETTER.
One of the difficulties in growing wool
in far southern latitudes is that the qual
ity of wool deteriorates. Where the clim
ate is not cold enough to make the wool
a necessity for the protection of the
sheep, nature"always considerate, is less
careful to maintain its quality. It soon
degenerates into a kind of hair, and soon
loses its value as wool. For this reason,
northern sheep- growers will always have
an advantage over those farther south.
A USEFUL COLLEGE.
Writes Mr. Charles 11. Small, of the
Colorado state board of agriculture, who
has lately returned fron a trip to our agri
cultural college at Fort Collins, Colorado:
"Two hundred and forty acres, much of
it of inferior quality, have for the most
part been brought under the most approv
ed cultivation at this college. Record is
kept of the results of experiments and in
vestigation of the merits of seed, trees and
flowers; of cattle, horses and swine. The
scope of purpose of the college embraces
attention to every useful animal and inan
imate growth which is likely to receive
the attention of our agricultural commun
ities."-Field and Farm.
THE DEHORNING QUESTION.
lion. James P. Galloway of Montrose,
one of the heavy cattle growers of the
state has gone into the dehorning business
on at plan which some sensitive peoph.
will consider more humane than chipping
out the first growth of horn with a sharp
instrument. He has turned the job over
to a fine lot of thoroughbred pole-angus
bulls, with satisfactory results as far as the
experiment has gone.-Deneer News
A GAIN OF TFN PER CENT.
The lambing season now over has been
an extra good one. The percentage of in
crease has been quite large, although of
course the number of ewes to lamb was
much reduced by the great mortality of
last winter. The percentage of dry ewes
was smaller than usual, and had the Win
ter been a mild one, and had the ewes as
a body come through alive, the increase
would have been something remarkable.
Judging from what we have heard from
various sections, we should put the net in
crease in sheep for this summer above the
number on the range last fall, at a little
less than ten per cent.-Montana- Wool
Griawer.
,GRAIN RAISING WILL PAY.
Every fall since grain in any large
amount has been raised throughout east
ern Montana there has been a cry from
the ranchers of "no market," "starvation
prices," etc. But it was a noticable fact
that last fall almost all of the ranchers
being in easy circumstances, and able to
hold their grain, combined with a short
crop, enabled them to realize in some cases
almost bonanza prices, grain in the Jidith
country selling from $2.75 to $500 per
hundred. Montana grain will always be
preferred, and command a better price, as
it does now, than grain from the states. In
fact where Montana oats are plenty and
reasonably low in price, the states oats are
never looked at.
Gave Them to His Wife.
A certain nabod of the chosen race who
uses and ornaments Wall street was the
envy and admiration of hiss fellow street
ers because of two extremely brflitantsud
enormousni dciamnd stduds. Lately lhe ap
t peared. in . i bacastomed ha. wi
Ithey., "Wbhy, wlieae are .yours tiw
queried an o asier a `&bro'ke'r: e I
tossed, o00t wbedys bn. b aMri