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GREAT FALLS TIRIBUNE.
VOL, I, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1887, NO, 34,
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VICTORYY! -
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ALL HAIL TO THE NEW
CASCADE COUNTY! Ain
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The Bill Passed by the Legis
lature, and Only Lacks the th+
Governor's Signature.
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The Last Telegram Read Amid the
Resounding Music of Cannon, 114
Factory Whistles, and no
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Oceans of Beer.
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HELENA, September 9.-The Cascade by
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county bill has been passed by the house, o
by a vote of 18 to 4, two members being fto
absent or not voting. The four who voted col
no were Buskett of Jefferson, and Lewis & tio
Clarke, Johnson of Custer, Muth of Lewis
and Clarke, and Spaulding of Missoula.
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A POWERFUL SPEECH. ors
Hon. Jesse Taylor made a grand speech
* in which he s4 that 1,200 tax payers de- mn
sire the success of the bill[ thAt the new
* county has ample population and abun- del
dant resources, and that Sun River wanted fro
a county three years ago and also wanted
to be the county seat thereof. He said anU
frc
that the opposition in Benton was caused by or
the same men there, whohave driven out of
every business man who did not bow down Ch
to them and who almost buried the town lia
in ruin by their selfishness. (Applause.)
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THE PEOPLE DEMANDED IT. anr
Mr. Brown of Beaverhead, who had thi
opposed the bll formerly, said that the or
natural topography of the new county he
marked out its boundaries, and that the ,,
people demanded the bill which was need- wb
ed by the business and farming interests ou
tan
of the community. an
GALLATIN SPPEAKS.
Mr. Alderson of Gallatin, who was also am
formerly in opposition, said that Gallatin an'
opposed divisic.n but they were now satis- thi
fled that all the counties concerned would we
rin
be better off by a new deal. '7his was the thi
case in regard to Park, Fergus and Mea- th4
gher counties when such were formed. on
The cause, he said, of Fort Benton's se`
co:
depression, was the narrow views of co:
its prominent merchants, Great Falls,
he added has great water-power if an
it hasn't Tom Power [laughter] and it has bil
a Broadwater besides it. [laughter] Great Sid
capitalists and public enterprise have built tol
there a great city which in a few years ty,
will be second to none. [applause] W
The house then voted and passed the ag
bill by a vote of 18 to 4 amid great cheer- te"
ing. The bill goes to the council for con- thi
currence in the amendments. the
Hon. Jese . Taylor and other friends of sp,
the bill are-receiving hearty congratu!a- rel
tions and thanks from the Great Falls del
egation who hawe all done hard work for mn
the success of the bill. H.P. ROLFE. th.
THE COUNCIL CONCURS. en
TRE COUNCIL CONCURS. e
HELENA, Sept. 9, 8-80 p. m.--Thecoun- i'
cli has concurred. The bill only awaits
the governor's signature to become a law.
¶Jonrad and Sullivan are going home. t
Power is not to be seen.
Congratulatory 'telegrams.
HELma a, September 9.-Paris Gibson,
Great Falls.-Glory be to God. in the
Highest; peace on earth and good will to c
men. The bill has passed the house 18
to 4. Kill the fatted calf.
GEORGE W. TAYLoa, I
H. P. Ronr, C
L. G. PahI.rs.
Bill passed 18 to 4.. It will pass the
council andbe signed by the governor. a
SA M. H. NIcQLs. .
Got there justlntime to save the bill by
hard driving. Congratulations.
W. F. PAn~m, C
A.G.LAD. L a
'"Great godhad it comei to this?"
OSieG W. TAiMU..
The council hs concurred In the house '
amendments awl p e b1l. Goes
to the gove a i s alt4. I the
ternoon. r lesoia. r
* e nnyBil
,, .mor9--t tehos
strances against the Cascade county bill
from different parts of Choteau and Lew
is and Clarke were read. Mr. Taylor
claimed that one petition signed by J. F.
Taylor and twenty others was a forgery,
as he had not s, nod it and there is no
t,, ;!.-- .erron of that name except himself.
A number of telegrams signed by the bus
iness men of Great Falls were read. All
were in favor of Cascade.
SELECT COMMITTEE REPORTS. C
The county select committee who have 5
the Cascade county under consideration
consisted of the members from Choteau, t
Lewis & Clarke and Meagher. They pre- 1
sented a minority and majority report. C
The majority recommended that the bill I
as amended do pass, and was signed by a
Messrs. Taylor, Gorham, Titman and Ka
nouse. The minority report was against i
the passage of the bill in any form and e
was signed by Messrs. Muth and Buskett. t
The amendments changed the boundaries
e by making the Dearborn river the south- t
ern boundary line; substituting the name C
of C. P. Downing for that of Geo. Steell, I
g for the office of sheriff, and gave Meagher
d county $6,000 instead of $5,000, as a por
1 tion of the debt assumed.
is IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
Mr. Muth moved that the bill amend
ments and reports be placed on general
orders.
h Mr. Taylor amende& the motion by
moving that the amendments be adopted. 1
Mr. Muth stated that no provision was
made in the bill for the payment of the
debt of the portion of the county taken i
d from Lewis and Clark.
d Mr. Taylor said the officers of Lewis
and Clarke had stated to the councilman
from that county, that the northern port
y ion of Lewis and Clarke owed the balance i
it of the county nothing as Lewis and
n Clarke's assets were far in excess of her
n liabilities.
Mr. Brown of Beaverhead made a
vigorous protest against Mr. Taylor's
amendment. He said that he wished to
d throw nothing in the way of the machinery
or the axle grease that was running the
bill. But he wanted time to know what
he was about; that he believed the bill
he fd merits.but also thought the people
1- who had showered in telegrams had their 1
rights. He agreed that the bill should
take the usual course to give time for fair
and just consideration. He wanted to see
a map, so he could see the boundaries as 1
0 amended tie wanted to vote intelligently
a and not at the beck of big men with
s thousands in their pockets. No Broad- t
d water, Power, Great Falls, or the Missouri I
river could influence his vote. He said t
Ie this assembly had been looked upon by
I- the public as a set of asses, meeting a sec
1. ond time to rectify the mistakes of thelast
", session, and if matters were so hurridly
considered they might be open to sharp
criticism.
criticism. p
Mr. Taylor withdrew his amendment n
f and Mr. Muth's motion was carried. The P
bill then went on general orders to be con- t
sidered in the committee of the whlie." tl
A telegram was received from Ft. Ben- C
ton against the divislyn of Choteau coun- p
ty; also a protest from Jas. t]
W. Gray and twenty others of Great Falls a
e against division. [No such person or pro- v
test has been heard of in this city.-ED.]' n
The house then went into a committee of a
the whole. The Cascade county bill was v
then taken up and read by sections. The
f special committee to whom it had been p
referred reported it with amendments.
Mr. Muth, on behalf of Lewis & Clarke,
moved to amend by making the boundary
en the principal meridian, and then down c
the Missouri river, and making the north- n
ern boundary along township 22 and 28
north range 2 west, leaving that 'portion
still In Lewis & Clarke, whose inhabit
ants desired to remain in that county, and
giving Cascade twelve more townships
s. than the bill calls for. The amendment
would leave Sun River and the surround- y
ilng country still in Lewis & Clarke.
Mr. Taylor objected to any change from
the bill.
Mr. Page thought Fort Shaw and Sun
River should naturally go to the new 14
n county.
8 Mr. Brown said he was not one of those
who cried against Helena because she
held her head a little higher than the.rest
of Montana. J
The question of Mr. Muth's amendment S
being put it was lost. The original e
° amendment was adopted. Amendments to y
sections 2 and 8 were adopted and these
sections and section 4 were adopted. Mr. c
Buskett moved thatthe bill do not take b
effect iutil ' ecember, 188sand that the 1i
officers be chosen at the general election
of 1888. This amendment was rejected
and the section was adopted. Sections 7
and 8 were adopted. Section 9 was adopt
edas-amen-ded. Sections 10, :I and 12
'were adoped. Mr. Math moved to am nd
section 13 so that the date to toake effect
s*hould be the thlird onday in Decem er, -
1888. Rejiete The : commaitee then a
te bll as amended was repes
e6 avorly, to the house. In the ho;se.
he of the comnm itt
We*'U4 bl odre o
6nkbv M nd T )herad
A Masterly Speech.
SHELENA, September 9.-Hon. Jesse
'Taylor was heard yesterday on the Cas
cade count bill, by the sarecial committee 1
on that subject, Hle made what the Inde- i
pendent regards " as the most telling
speech of the session."- He spoke in part !
to the following effect:
Gentlemen-I am in favor not only of t
creating Cascade county, but I would
creat other counties wherever new towns
spring up in districts with a population
say of three thousand and area of over t
thirty square miles. When, as in this t
instance, such people can make a county t
compact in form, containing all the rle
ments that go to make a strong, wealthy t
and prosperous community, tlhen, gentle
men, I would give that people county
government; for I hold that we should
encourage such settlements, by extending
to them all the benefits which home rule
confers. I hold that we should relieve
them from the burdens entailed when the
county seat is remote from the center of 1
population, and when boundaries fornmd 3
r at random years ago compel neighbors to
go in different directions to transact coun
ty business, which could be done at b e
seat to which all might go easily and work
unitedly for the common good. Look at i
Dakota with her 140 counties. Her re
scources are not one-half as great, nor as
1 varied as ours, yet she has three times the 8
population of Montana, that glorious ter- :
ritory, of lofty" mountains, of mighty ]
rivers, and of fertile plains on whicq mil- I
lions of people might dwell in abunfdance
and enjoy comforts which Dakota with
all her natural wealth can never afford. a
This disparity in population I attribute t
i largely to the fact that Dakota forms a c
county almost aib readily as a farmer raises v
a fence; that she encourages that spirit of 1
local pride which is developed when a E
people have a county of their own and are t
not divided by long distances, by rival a
intgrests and by a sense of injustice, real r
1 or supposed. i
Mr. Taylor then referred to the Sun v
river valley, and argued that its welfare t
would be promoted by annexing it to 3
a Cascade county. As for Sun River he r
said, that place is a little hamlet which e
shows symptoms of that worst of diseases C
for small villages, the desire to become a
r county seat. This accounts for the oppo
a sition to the bill.
t Mr. Taylor paid a glowing tribute to
Great Falls. He said: c
As the representative of all Choteau r
e county, I cordially accord my meed of
r praise to the young Cataract City, which
I started without *ilroad commbnication, a
less than three years ago,andhas now pros- e
perous banks, extensive lumber yards, c
a spacious hotels and mercantile stores of c
s large extent owne1 by men of enterprise. I
All this progress has been accompanied i
by a large increase in her industrious,
1 thrifty population. She stands there on
the Missouri, in the center of a region a
i rich in soil, rich in minerals, and when t
the lecomotive enters her limits, as it'will (
vefy soon, she will be the natural center
f of the territory embraced in the proprsed
county as well as of a large area besides.
It has been said that this bill is inethe
interest of the Great Falls townsite com
pany. I know otherwise, for I have taken q
care to determine for myself the state of 6
public sentiment, and I know that this
t measure is popular and springs from the
people. But, apart from that, I do not l1
believe that the honorable members of I
this legislature will regard with disfavor t
the fact that James J. Hill, Paris Gibson, I
Col. Broadwater and others have invested (
money in that region and are laboring so (
powerfully and so successfully to promote E
the development of northern Montana I
s and of the entire territory.. If such in- 1
- vestments were to be made a pretext for
denying localities their jt right, we
might as well put out our sign at once,
announcing that no outside capital is
s wanted. a
wanted. a
Mr. Taylor concluded by a strong ap
peal to the legislature to provide the peo
ple of Great Falls with the authority to
suppress disorder and maintain good s
government, otherwise they might be p
driven to adopt the ultimatum of lynch b
law, should the advept of the railroad t
cause the criminal classes to swarm ot the I
new city.' -v
The address kas listened, to with close c
attention and served to silence all 6bjec. 1
tions to the bill.
Generale Business.
HELENA, September 9.-In the house
yesterday on motion of Mr. Muth the bill
to repeal the variety bill, so called, was a
considered, enrolled and placed on the f
calendar for third reading. When it I
came up for passage'it was discussed by a
number of the members. The ºill was q
lost by the following vote:
NAs--Blake, Brown, Gorham, Hans- I
com, Harwood, Marshall, Page, Taylor, I
Thompson, Toole, White, Wilson and e
Armstrong-18. - e
t A.s-Alderson, Hoffman, Buskett, 1
Johnson, Kanortse, Mantle, 1Muth, Scobey,
t Spaulding and Titman-O0.
House bill No. 14, making an assessor
eligible for five successive terms of two
y a each, wasas assd. ."
u"IaZse bill No. 9, aitending the me. e
chanics lien law, passed uinanimously. '
House bill No. 10, the apportio.ment
! bill giving Silver Bow four members, was
D lost by the following vote:
Am ;r Blake, Hanscom, Mantle, Mar- 1
shall, Spauldng, Thompson, Toole ani
NAWs-Alderso., Brown ,Buskett, Br
wood, Hoffman, Johnson, ouse, ,th,
Page, Scobey, Taylor, Titman, Wilson and
Armstrg- 14-.
House bill No. 2 appropriatin tonuet
toaidithe codification :of the wa of
-the'territory of Mon t a, was introduc
tra around of ecowomy. Last
n e piling of, the laws, and t as 2
r leron said $8( i wa ven for # t
i' +ceY 4If r
the same, which had not been done, at the
se last session of the legislature.
Mr. Marshall said it was impossible for
as-a lawyer under the present incomplete ,
tee lot of code and session laws to a:scertain
de- for :i certainty what the law on a given
subject was. The new code would be
g made by men learned in the law and be
art complete and correct.
Mr. Blake explained the subject and in
of tent of the bill and said $3,000 would be
ild required for printing and $300 for clerk t
hire.
ms The bill passed.
on House bill No. 2, a bill to provide for
er the levying and assessment of taxes, came
up for consideration. Brown inquired if
the section relating to the two dollar poor
ity tax from persons paying no property tax i
le- was left out of the revenue bill; such was
by the case and it developed considerable
le discussion, but no amendment was offer
ed. The bill passed unanimously.
sty i
dd Where Flourish Pretty Girls.
ng This is the greatest place upon the New
de Jersey coast for pretty girls, says an As
'te bury Park correspondent. There are
he thousands of them spending the suilmer
here. There are staid and handsome
young Quakeresses from Philadelphia,
cultured belles from Boston, who wear
eyeglasses and call by their scientific
names all the shells they find on the
at beach, black-eyed beauties from the South,
short-haired girles from Washington, and
be and genuine "Jersey girls" with teeth like t
er- pearls. Then there are any number of
ity New York girls who combine all the
Lil- beauties of the other girls. The average
ice girl here goes in for a real good time. e
ith She rows, goes fishing and crabbing, takes r
rd. an invigorating bath every day, patronizes
ite the shooting and bowling alleys, plays
a cards and dances with a determination
ses worthy of a better cause on the warmest
of night during the week; and in church on
a Sunday looks as if her "calling and elec
ire tion" are sure. As a general thing she
val also sings and plays the piano. She is
sal wellread and sociable. Her one drawback I
is her devotion to gum. This she chews
un with the same loyal devotion that the old- I
ire time privates bestowed upon tobacco, and t
to yet at the same time she talks with as
he much ease as a mugwump. It is estimat
ch ed that that there are fully 35,000 or 40,- t
ses 000 people here this evening.
Ba t
- Buy at ·Home.
Buy at Home.
to Throw aside your catalogues of eastern
dealers and patronize lgape institutions. to
SThose who think to obtin everything
er
:h needed by themselves in theeastreed not to
n, grumble if they in turn are not patroniz- w
e- ed. It is by maintaining our own busi- Cc
s, ness houses that duc cess attends us and fl
of our town is thus advanced by the prosper
e. ity of the business men. What a narrow cc
d idea it is to expect people to trade with in
is, you and you in turn buy from catalogues. so
n There is no reciprocity in that and a per- hi
in son must not expect a system of the kind hi
n to long prove a success.-Little Muddy Ai
II Optic. oh
er th
xd Cattle Owners to be Sued, cc
WAsnHBITON, D. C. September 8.-The h
Sacting secretary of the interior has re- M
n quested the attorney-general to institute m
of suitagainst the following parties in Mon- P
Stana for the unlawful fencing of public m
ot lands: Sidney Padget, Carpenter & ev
of Robertson, John N. Bean, Niobrara Cat- kt
or tie Company, R. B. Bishop, Columbia hi
n, Land & Cattle Company, Concord Cattle se
3d Company, Green Mountain Ranching tis
io Company, Bull Mountain Cattle Company, cl
te Samuel Kauffman, J. R. Dilsworth and
ia David J. Kennelly. Nearly all of these
n- have their headquarters at .1iles City.
or
e Favors More Counties. sp
ha
is We have always urged the formation of
a greater number of counties. County
at
P- government is the only kind of local gov
to ernment that we have, and our counties oa
x.l should be of such convenient size that peo
be plecould go to the c unty seat and back
:h home from any part of it in one day. Ken- G*
d tucky, with less than a third of the area of L
me Montana, has 117 counties, and Missouri, Si
with less than half our area, has 114
se counties. If Montana were divided into
* 100 counties, of equal area, they would all y
have am area of 1,460 square miles or 984,- m
400 acres.-Hel.ena Herald.
we
e MoVed from Buford.
ill Recently the Manitoba material yard cc
as and terminal headquarters were taken a
he from Foui Baford and advanced to Milk
it River, which is to be the end of a freight T1
a division from here. The division head- iti
as quarters were at the same time taken from a
Minot and advanced to that point-Milk is,
s- River. This move leaves Buford as simp- vt
,r, ly a siding or flag station and of course P
id explodes the theories of.-those who advo- hi
- cated Buford athe end of a dlvision.-- ha
tt, ILUtle Muddy Optic. ne
l, bx
Laeing at CheVenne.
0 Cuanwu, Wyominng, septemb a 8
The esutilt of yesterday's races was de- p
e- cidedly successful! despite a heavy; trak. a
The three-minaute race was won by Scrteli 9
It in 4s;. si, second ; Daniel third. The
' thresyeart-old half-mile tret for the Wye- .
muingl stakes wir aa won by Fftchhtsr.
1:38, Rushmntoreb second; Captaht~ti h ird
SThe vt.ihs-mile-d : -was won by
Mile Vt. ~ In 1:10, Snip, secod;
Cheyenae ithird.
.Rlght Yeo Are.*
SThe Gseat Falls Tzinulitan editorial
~trefers at length to the pwkepe* or~etick Ii
0- oi (Jscad county, Stogaseu Me
he GOOD NEWS CONFIRMED.
or
t. Coal Mines to be Opend on a Great
n Scale--The Track to be
Here Soon.
HELTENA, September 7.-The Indepen
n dent of to-day says: Col. Broadwater has
3e just returned yesterday from his hasty trip
to St. Paul and was very busy when a re
porter called and asked him for news.
Dr COAL LANDS BOUGH'T.
"I went to St. Paul on business connect
or ed with the Montana Central and allied
Lx interests," said the Colonel. "One result
a of the trip was that I paid up a bond on
le 1,000 acres of coal land in the Sand Coulee
r- district. Upon this work will immediate
ly begin in the way of permanently open
ing it for the purpose of mining coal. We
shall also begin work immediately on the l
railroad branch from Great Falls to the
Sand Coulee."
"s- What about the railroad bridge at the
re Falls?"
er "The plans of that will be sent here to c
1e me in a few days, and I will offer them
for the inspection of bidders. I would I
a+ prefer that the contract be taken here i
ar where I can watch the work of contractors
ic and the course of construction more close
1e ly. Another object of my trip was to ar- I
range for express service over the Montana
h, Central. This was also done. What com
id pany? Oh, you don't have to know every
Ce thing at once, I guess." a
A DUE HERE OCTOBER 10. • C
Le "What can you tell the Independent I
e. about the Manitoba's construction?" The I
as reporter asked. I
es "Little more than you know at present. I
It will be completed to Great Falls by t
st October 10th, and will be running trains c
mi into Helena by November 15th. You can
c- go and bet on those dates."
Le i
is "How about Cascade county?" The re
k porter hazarded out of mere habit as he
rs was about to leave, all unsuspecting that z
Il- he was pulling the cork from a vial of t
id wrath.
as "Nothing about it," said Col. Broad. I
*t- water, as his chin twitched rather omin
),- ously. "But I'll tell you when Tom Power
said in the Independent this morning that
he had never opposed the Montana Cen- t
tral or the Manitoba he was telling what
is not true, and I can prove what I say."
an "I know that he lobbied in Washing
ts. ton against the bill to give the Manitoba n
the righ-of-way-through the Indian res
ervation-fought it all he could. L know,
ot too, that he came to me oncein St. Paul" f
z- with a proposition to buy the Montana t
Li. Central oni behalf of the Northern Paci
Id fic That's how much of a friend he has
r- been to the road' or to Helent. If he t
w could have hung up the Manitoba for an
th indefinite time at Fort Buford and had
*, some interest in a line of railway from C
r- here to Fort Benton his steamboats would r
id have made money faster than anybody.
Ay And the Manitoba would have been shut
out of Helena by a hostile line occupying t
the canyon down here, and any hope of
cempeting traffic lines at this point would
have been postponed indefinitely. That's .
Le the kind, of a friend he has been to the I
e- Manitoba and to Helena, that he has been
te making so much capital out of for the
a past year or two. I know what I am b
talking about, and know where I can put [
my hand on letters, telegrams and other
& evidences to prove every word I say. I've I
t- known his game all along, and should not n
ia have bothered much about it but that he
le seems inclined to keep up his habit of at
ig tacking our road in every way while he t
, claims to be a friend to it." , t
A Wonderful Mine. Ia
St Louis is a great center for mining n
speculation, and a great deal of mondy
has been made and lost in mines here. P
Just now there is considerable excitement
about the Granite Mountasn silver mine, ft
which lies near Butte City, Montana, and p
out of which a number of St. Louis men si
have made fortunes. I chatted with Mr. 0
G. C. Bayne, the editor of the the St. ri
f Louis Mining .News, about this mine.
, Said he:
t "Its story reads like a romance. A fear
years ago Charles Clark was a potato 1t
merchant in St. Louis, and Charles D. si
McLure was his friend. Neither was at
worth anything to speak of, and the two t
went to Montana and discovered this mine to
They came back here and organized a B
I company to develop it. After working for h;
a long time and not getting a paying P
k quantity of ore, a telegram was sent for 'a
them to close the mine and stop work. no
rt Thistelegram, however, was crossed on G
- its way by one from Montana saying that c
a a big strike had been made, and the result se
k is. I think, that-they have thebiggest all- al
Sver mine in the world to-day. The stock, th
e which cost originally, fifty cents a share, cl
- has sold for $85 a share, and those who hi
have held on to it made fortunes. It is, re
not now on the market and # not to be
bought Three yearsrago a quantityof it
was sold at auction, ad some of it went p
at $1 a share. Much of this was bought s
in small quatiti ae ud this made many
r people well- .: Lat year the mine paid E
;. a dividend of rnty4ve oents per share L
Sper month4 and the output is now about
f$20,o00 a month. BtAIh Clark and Mc
peyes w h p next to 1 'c aW4e the i
stoe of era, have al beeome
more %ortons i
N8 on ,ptmber YoThe G n
It' a oWi =l+ded at'
Erie and Niagara counties for $62,500.
The model of the invention is a platform
a foot and a-half wide and nearly as long
it again, with three upriht bearins set so
that by starting an endless chain about
them a triangle is fqrmed. This chain is
furnished with flat paddles that stand eut
from it to catch the current, which is by
means of dams or walls, thrown against
Ls its longest side. "It is the intention,"
p said the inventor, "to make a machine
100 feet long, with steel blades ten feet
high and having eight feet sweep. This,
with guiding walls of masonry built In
Portland cement, will cost $12.000."
MR. TAYLOR'S SPEECH.
It The speech of Hon. Jesse F. Taylor,
a of which we publish an abstract that
does not do it full justice, displays a
e broad, comprehensive estimate of the
purpose of county government. Mr.
.e Taylor discerns that the time has
come for Cascade county to go, into
business on her own account,- d ac
0 cordingly he wishes the new enter
d prise success and endeavors to guard
e it from such adverse legislation as
Mr. Buskett and Mr. Math would im
pose. Mr. Taylor is in full sympathy
a with the progressive spirit which per
vades all northern Montana, and he
sees nothing hostile to other counties
or districts in the praiseworthy pur
pose of Cascade to "go it alone," thus
e manifesting that self-reliance and ca
pacity for self-government which do
t. mote even than the federal constitn
Y tion to make this country great, glori
5s ous and free.
n Mr. Taylor has thus struck a h.f'
blow at that lust for control which
e causes counties to oppose any curtail
t ment of their limits--which makes
' them resist the efforts of new settle
. ments to form compact counties of
ý- moderate extent,wherein the people
t will be united by a sense of commonin
t- terest to work "unitedly for the com
t mon good.". He showed that Dakota
has adopted a policy of countydevelop
a ment which has stimulated settlement
and enabled that territory to acquire
i three times the population of Non
Stans, despite the greater inducements
which this favored region affords. On
e this point his argument was un
answerable. Our representative also
denounced that anti-corporation cry
d raised by the Benton faction for lack
of anything stronger. : He exposed
g the foolishness of proclaiming to the
1 country at large that Montana was so
opposed to corporations that she
e would deprive a people of their rights
because a townsite company might
n benefit incidentally by the change.
It Mr. Taylor sees no bugbear in a corn
pany which makes costly improve
t ments and gives a full title to the
property that it sells, which, unlike
that at Pullman, imposed no restric:
tions, but leaves property owners as
free as the people who buy fromthose .
land syndicates at St. Paul and Mia
neapolis, which have done so much to
promote the prosperity of those cities
I Mr. Taylor deserves hearty praise
, for the independent course that he
I pursued, and we predict that be.bre
n six months have elapeed his leading
[opponents will admit that he was
Sright.
Ta Rian Pxasssays:
r"The 'Cascade Catechism,' as gu in
the last Great Falls Tmiunx, bearlugthe
º. signature of 'Astra,' is one thati pr
s ably be adopted in thebar-ooms of that
o thriving village. The object sens to be
b to teach the residents of that ibrg' that
a Benton is a very wicked place, and In-a
r habited by such, miserable beings as Toar:
g Power, the. Cisdi, and ,other` parties
r 'with mean an d selfish motvies,'who wil:
Snot agree to stand idly by -nd see the
lGreat Falls Torwnite and Water Power
t company take the major -parte of trhe; as
t sessableproperty of: Chot-ean aout. . d
- appropriate lto the use and bene*.ef
, that corporation. If the 'rlm o tha
, chaf had added an '' andt left '-the 1r
o his ulgnatnrewoaldhave beeR very ar
S rect"
J This re1eren t tohe towns1ite
t pany reminds a of a sory Whii
S Senator Dais tistheast M0 l
heies ha d
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