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. S Land Office at Bozeman. 1 .
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îitoiîy of Montana, Sept. 13 , 188 -;. (
Note
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,* refiy "hen that Josef Brown, James
Gourl*
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cot. F. spieth and Charles Krti*:,
Whose
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ïllice addret-s is Bozetnan, Montana,
J i,S.
i Brown, v. lies** pestotfiee address
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.»loiiiaio*. have llii's day riled their
il ion î
*o a patent fur| 1 iooi fourteen hundred
linear
f«»rt o
f lii** "l ip Top" tjuartz Lode Mining
Claim,
mim*
or vein lie arid" "old and iron with
t*urfac(
• irroi
mil live hundred and seventy-four
fi*i*t in width, situated in Sheepeater, so-called,
[uiioraanized ! mining district, county of Gallatin,
and Territory of Montana, and designated by the
field notes and official plat on tile in this office as
Sunoy Number I'orty-Kight, in Township Nine,
south of lU.ngo tight east, approximately of
Montana meridian, said survey number forty
eight fieing us follows, to-wit.
Beginning at N W location corner, a post six
inches squa e. it) mound of earth marked 1-18 for
corner No. 1, from which Sheepeater initial po.nt
hears N Hi degiees 56 minutes, \V 247Ü.4 feet, and
;t bl.tzeil pine tree 10 inches in diameter marked
1 18 B. 'i\. hears N 22 degrees 30 minutes, E 4.5
feet thence 18 74 degrees, 1-1 574 feet to post six
indies square in mound of earth marked 2-48 for
corner.No. 2: thence S l(i degrees, IV 1400 feet to
post six incites square in mound of earth marked
3 18 for corner No. '5. from which a blazed spruce
tree marked 3 48 B. T. hears N 60 degrees 53 min
utes, E »7.5 feet, thence N 74 degrees, W 574 feet
to a post six inches square in mound of earth
marked 1-48 for corner No 4: thence N 16 de
grees, E 1100 feet to the place of beginning.
Magnetic variation 10 degrees 45 minutes E.
18.45 acres.
The location of this mine is recorded in the re
corder's office of recorder of said county, in hook
1 of mining claims page 4g. The adjoining
claimants are the said Brown, Spiet h. Oourley
and K nur, on the "Mountain Chief Lode'' on
South.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said " Tip Top" quartz Lode Mining
Claim, mine or surface ground are required to
tile their adverse claims w ith the Register of the
I'niied States Land dice, at Bozeman, in the
I ounty of (.ailatin, Montana, during the sixty
day's period it publication hereof, or they will
be barred by virtue of the provisions of the
statute.
O. P. i IIISHOLM, Register.
Luce «fc Armstrong, Att'ys for Applicants.
Bozeman, Montana. sep30-70d
I no. :!1.)
N otice foii pliilication in a
NEU. SPACER.
Mining Application No 111
UNITED -TATES I.AND OFFICE, 1
lSozi.MAN, 1« rritory of Montana^
September Li. 1884. )
Notice is hereby ma-ie that Joseph Brown,
whose postollli-e address is Gardiner, Gallatin
County, Montana, and Jacob F Spietb,
( lia îles K ru g and J ames Gone lev, w hose post
otlice address is Bozeman, Gallatin County,
Montana, have this day tiled their application
for a [latent for 1500 linear l'eet of the Mountain
( bid' * ode, iiime or vein, bearing gold and
iron, with surface ground 5s.i feet in width,
situated in the so-called Slice,-eater Mining
District, (unorgainzcii) County of Gallatin, ana
territory of Montana, and designated by the
Held n j tes and official plat on tile in this office
as survey No. 46, Mineral District No. 2, in l'p.
it, s. R 8, E. unsmveyed land, -aid survey No.
46 being described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at N \\ location cornel at a post
4 fed long set 2 fed deep in mound of earth
marked 1-40, for cornet No. 1; from which the
-heepeai r ini'lal point bears N 47 degrees 05
minutes. \\ 2:;36 51 feei, thence S 74 degrees, •
o00 feet to a point from w hich discovery shaft
hears - 16 d* grecs, \\ 125 feet, and from said
point 285 feet to post 4 fed long set 2 feet
deep in mound of earth marken 2-46, for corner
No. 2. from which NE location corner hears S
74 degrees, I J5 feet, and corner No. 3 of sur
vey No. 47 bears S 74degrees, h 3(1 feet, thence
S !) degrees 15 minutes. \V 1500 feet to p -st 4
fed lung set 2 feet deep in mound of earth
marken 3-46, for c rncr No. 3, from which 8E
local ion corner bears S 74 degrees, E 15 feet,
thence N 74 degrees, W 585 fed to post set 2 feet
deep in mound of earth marked 4-46, for corner
No. 4. from which a blazed flr tree 30 inches in
diameter marked 4-46 B. T. bears N 74 degrees,
\\ 20 5 feet, also a blazed fir tree 36 inc-hcs in
diameter marked 4-10 15. T. bears N 34 degrees,
E 44 5 feet, thence N 51 degrees 15 minutes, E
1500 feet to corner N< . 1, the place of begin
ning
Magnetic variation ill degrees 45 minutes K,
containing 20 acres.
Tlie location of this mine is recorded in the
recorder's office of said Gallatin County, ill
book 1 of mining rewords, page 445.
I be adjoining claimants are Joseph Brown,
et.al upon the Graham Lode, survey No. 47
and the Tip Top Lode, survey No. 48, on the
north.
Any anil all per-ons claiming adverse! v any
portion of said Mountain Chief Lode, mine or
surface ground, are required to file their ad
verse claims with the Register of the United
State.- Land office, at Bozeman, in the Terri
tory of Montana, during the sixty days period
of publication hereof, or they w ill be barred
bv virtue of the provision of ilie statute.
O. I*. CHIsHOLM, Register.
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The President's Message.
I To the Congress of the United States:
; Siii ce the close ol" your last session the Aruer
; ican people iu exercise of the highest right
j ol suffrage, have chosen their chief magis
! träte for the four years ensuing. When it is
remembered that at no period in the coun
; try's history has the long political contest
j which customarily precedes the day of the
national election been waged with greater
fervor and intensity, it is a subject of con
gratulation that alter the controversy at the
polls was over, and while the slight prepon
derance by which the issue had been deter
mined was as yet unascertained, but the
people everywhere patiently and quietly
a>*aited the result. Nothing could more
clearly demonstrate the strength and wisdom
ol our political institutions. Eight years
have passed sin e a controversy concerning
the result of a national election sharply call
ed the attention of congress to the necessity
of providing more precise and definite regu
lations for counting the electoral vote. It is
of the greatest importance that this question
be solved betöre conflicting claims to tlie
presidency shall again distract the country
and 1 am persuaded that by the people at
large any ol the measures of relief thus far
proposed would be preferred to continued
inaction.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our relations with all foreign powers con
tinueto be amicable. With Belgium a treaty
has been signed whereby the scope of pres
ent treaties has been so enlarged as to secure
to citizens of either country within the juris
diction of the other equal rights and privi
leges in the acquisition and alienation of
property. A trade mark treaty has also been
concluded. The war between whili and
Peru is at an end, and for the arbitration of
the claims of American citizens, who, during
its continuance, suffered through the acts of
the Chilian authorities, a convention will
soon be negotiated The state of hostilities
between France and China continues tobe
an embarxssing feature of our eastern rela
tions. The Chinese government has prompt
ly adjusted and paid the claims of American
citizens whose property was cestroyed in the
recent riots at Canton, and I renew the rec
ommendation ol my last annual message that
the con toil indemnity fund be returned to
China, The true interpret tion of the recunt
treaty with that country permitting restric
tion of Chinese immigration is likely again
to be a subject of your deliberations, and it
may be seriously questioned whether the
statute pus-ed at the lust session does not vio
iate the treaty rights of certain Chinese who
left this country with return certificates valid
under the old law and who now seem to be
debarred from landing from the lack of cer
tificates required by the new law
OUR COMMERCE.
The recent purchases by tlie United States
of a large trading fleet, heretofore under the
Chinese flag, has consi ieraoly enhanced our
commercial importance in the east and in
view of the large number of vessels built or
purchased by American citizens in other
countries and exclusively employed in legiti
mate traffic between loreign prrts, under the
recognized protection of our flag, it might be
well to provide a uniform rate for their regis
tration and documentation so that the bona
lide property rights of our citizens therein
shall be duly evidenced and properly guard
ed. Pursuant to the adviceof the senate at
the last session we recognized the flag of the
international association of the Congo as that
of a friendly government avoiding in so do
ing any prejudgment of a conflict in terri
torial claims in that region and subsequently,
in execution of the expressed wish of con
gress, appointed a commercial agent tor the
Congo basin. Tlie importance of tlie rich
productive trade of the Congo valley has led
to a general conviction that it should be
opened to all nations ujxm equal terms and
an international conference for the consider
ation of this subject was called by the empe
ror of Germany and is now in session at Ber
lin. Delegates are in attendance on behalf of
the United States and of the results ofthe
conference you will be duly advised. The
government of Corea has generously aided
the efforts of the United States minister to
secure suitable premises for the use of the
legation, and as theconditions ol diplomatic
intercourse with eastern nations demand that
the legation premises be owned by the repre
sented power 1 advise that an appropriation
be made for the acquisition of this property
by the government. The United States al
ready possesses valuable premises at Tangiers
as a gift from tlie sultan of Morocco and as is
stated hereafter they have lately received a
similar gift from t he Siamese government and
t he government of Japan stands ready to
present to us extensive grounds at Tokio
whereon to erect a suitable building lpy the
legation, court house and jail, and similar
orivileges can probably be secured in China
and Persia. The owning of such premises
would not only effect a large saving of the
present rentals, but would permit of the due
assertion ef extra territorial rights in these
countries and would the better serve to main
tain the dignity of the United States.
RELATIONS WITH EGYPT.
The failure of congress to make appropria
tions for our representational the court of
the Khedive has proved a serious embarass
ment in our inetreourse with Kgyyt, and in
view of the necessary itimacj of diplomatic
relationship due to the participation of this
government as one of the treaty powers an
all matters of administration there affecting
the rights of foreigners, I advise the restora
tion of the agency and consul general at
airo on its former basis, as I do not conceive
it to be the wish of congress that the United
States should withdraw altogether from the
honorable position they have hitherto held
with respect to the Khedive, or that citizens
ot this republic residing or sojourning in
Egypt should hereafter be without the aid
and protection of a competent representative
With France the traditional cordial relation
ship continues. The Bartholdi statue of Lib
erty Enlightening the World, the generous
gift ol the people of France, is expected to
reach New York in May next, and I suggest
that congressional action be taken in relation
to the spirit which has prompted this gift
and in aid of the timely completion of the
pedestal on which it is to lie placed. Our re
lations with Germany, a country which con
tributes to ours some of the best elements of
citizenship, continue to be cordial, The
United States have extradition treaties with
several of the German states, but, by reason
of the confederation of these states under the
imperial rule, the application of such treaties
is
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it
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is not as uniform and comprehensive as the
interests of the two countries require, I pro
pose therefore to open negotiations for a con
vention of extradition to embrace all the
territory of the empire. It affords me pleas
ure to say that our intercourse with Great
Britain continues to be of a most friendly
character. The government of Hawaii has
indicated its willingness to continue tor seven
years the provisions of the existing recipro
city treaty and such countenance, in view of
tfie relations of that country to the American
system of states, should in my judgment be
favored.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS.
This government is in frequent receipt of
invitations from foreign states to participate
in international exhibitions, oiten of great
interest and importance. Occupying, as we
do, an advanced position on the world's pro
duction and aiming to secure a profitable
share for our industries iu the general com
petitive markets, it is a matter of serious con
cern that the want of means for participation
in these exhibits should so often exclude our
producers from advantages enjoyed by those
of other countries. During the past year the
attention of congress was drawn to the formal
invitations in this regard tendered by the
governments of England, Holland, Belgium,
Germany and Austria. The executive has in
some instances appointed honorary commis
sioners; this is, however, a most unsatisfac
tory expedient, for without some provision
to meet the necessary working expenses of a
commission it can effect little or nothing in
behalf of exhibitors. An international in
ventors' exhibition is to be held in London
next May. This will cover a field of special
importance in which our country holds fore
most rank, but the executive is at present
powerless to organize a proper representation
of our vast national interests in this direc
tion. I have in several previous messages re
ferred to this subject and it seems to me that
a statute giving to the executive general dis
cretionary authority to accept such invita
tions and to appoint honorary commissioners
without salary, and placing at the disposal of
the secretary of state a small fund for defray
ing their reasonable expenses would be of
great public utility.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
The legislature of the last session effected
m the diplomatic and consular service con
tain changes and reductions which have been
productive of embarrassment. The popula
tion and commercial activity of our country
are steadily on theincrease and are giving rise
to new, varying and often delicate relationship
with other countries. Our foreign establish
ment now embraces nearly double the area of
operations that it did twenty years ago, and
the confinement of such a service within the
limits of expenditure then established is not,
it seems tome, in accordance with true econ
omy, and a community of 60,000,(400 of people
should be adequately represented in its inter
course with foreign nations A project for
the reorganization of the consular service and
forecasting the scheme of extra territorial
jurisdiction is now before you, if the limits
of a short session will not allow its full con
sideration, I trust you will not fail to make
suitable provisions lor the needs of the ser
vice. It has been customary to define in tlie
appropriation acts the ranks of each diplo
matic office to which a salary is attached; I
suggest that this course be abandoned and
that it be left to the president with the advice
and consent of the senate, to fix from time to
time the diplomatic grade of the representa
tives of this government abroad, as may seem
advisable; provisions being definitely made,
however, as now. for the amount of salary at
tached to the respective stations.
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The condition of our finances and the ope
rations of the various branches ot the public
service which »reconnected with the treasury
department are very fully discussed in tue
report of the secretary. It appears that the
ordinary revenue for the fiscal year ended
June30,1884, were from customs $195,007,
489.76; from internal revenue $121,589,972 51;
from all other sources $31,866,307.95; total
ordinary reveuues $348,519,069 92. I concur
with the secretary of the treasury in recom
mending the immediate suspension of the
coinage of silver dollars and of the issuance
of silver certificates, and this is a matter to
which in tonner communications I have more
than once invoked the attention ol the na
tional legislature. It appears that annually,
for the past six years, there have been coined
in compliance with the requirements of the
act of February 28, 1878, more than twenty
seven million silver dollars and the number
outstanding is reported by the secretary to be
nealy one hundred and eighty-five millions,
whereof but little more than forty millions,
or less than 22 per cent, are in actual circu
lation. The mere existence of this fact seems
to me to furnish of itself a cogent argument
for the repeal of the statute which haj made
such a fact possible, but there are other and
graver considerations that tend in the same
direction. The secretary avows his convic
tion that unless the coinage and the issuance
of silver certificates be suspended, silver is
likely, at no distant day, to become our sole
metallic standard The commercial disturb
ance and the impairment of national credit
that would be thus occasioned can scarcely
be overestimated. I hope that the secretary 's
suggestion, resnecting the withdrawal from
circulation of the $1 and $2 notes will receive
your approval, as it is likely that aconsidera
ble portion of the silver now incumbering
tlie vaults iu tlie treasury might thus find its
war into the currency. While trade dollars
have ceased, for the present at least, to be an
element of active disturbance in our currency
system, some proyision should be made for
their surrender to the government In view
ot the circumstances under which they were
coined and of the fact that they have never
had a legal quality, f here should be offered for
them only a slight advance of their bullion
value. The secretary, in the course of his re
port, considers the propriety of beautifying
the designs of our subsidiary silver coins
and fo increasing their weight that they may
bear a due ratio of value of the standard
dollar, and his conclusions in this regard are
cordially approved. In my annual message
of 1882,1 recommended the abolition of all
excise taxes except those relating to distilled
spirits. This recommendation is now re
newed. In case these taxes shall be abolished
the revenues that will still remain to the
government, in my opinion, will not only,
suffice to meet its reasonable expenditures,
but will afford a surplus large enough to
permit "such tariff reduction as iray seem to
be advisable when the result of recent reve
be
of
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of
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nue laws and commercial treaties shall have
shown in what quarters these reductions can
be most judiciously effected. One of the
gravest of the profileras which appeal to the
wisdom of congress for «olution is the ascer
tainment of the most effective means of in
creasing our foreign trade and thus relieving
the depreesion nnder which our industries
are now languishing.
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT,
Of the varied governmental concerns in
charge of the interior department, the report
of its secretary presents an interesting sum
mary. Among the topics deserving of par
ticular attention, I refer you to his observa
tions respecting our Indian affairs, the pre
emption and timber culture acts, the failure
of railroad companies to take title to lands
granted by the government, and the opera
tions of the pension office, the patent office,
the census bureau and the bureau of educa
tion .
Allusion has been made already to the cir
cumstance that both as between different In
dian tribes, and as between Indians and the
whites, the past year has been one of un
broken peace. In this circumstance the
president is glad to find justification for the
policy of the government in dealing with the
Indian question, and confirmation of the
views which were fully expressed in his first
communication to the Forty-seventh con
gress. The secretary urges a new enactment
ot state for th« punishment of crimes com
mitted on Indian reservations and recom
mends the passage of the bill, now pending
in the house of representatives, for the pur
chase of a tract of 18,000 square miles from
the Bioux reservation. Both these measures
are worthy of approval, I concur with him
also in advising the repeal of the pre-emption
law, the enactment of statutes resolving the
present legal complications tending the
lapses of grants to railroads and the funding
of the debt of the several Pacific railroads
under such guaranty as shall insure its ulti
mate payment. The report of the Utah
commission will be read with interest It
discloses the results of recent legislation
looking to the prevention and punishment
of polygamy in that Territory 1 still lielieve
if that abominable practice can not be sup
pressed by law, it can only be by the most
radical legislation consistent with restraints
of the constitution,
GEV. ORANT.
I recommend that in recognition of the
eminent services of U. S. Grant, late general
of the armies of the United States, and twice
president of the nation, congress confer upon
him a suitable pension.
Certain of the measures that, seem to me
necessary and expedient. I have now, in obe
dience to the constitution, recommended for
your adoption; as respects others of no less
importance, I shall content myself with re
newing the recommendations already made
to congre-'s without restating the grounds
upon which such recommendations were
based. The preservation of forests on tlie
public domain, tlie granting of government
aid for popular education, the amendment of
the federal constitution so as to make effective
the disapproval by the president of particular
items in appropriation bills, the enactment
of statutes in regard to the filling of vacan
cies in the presidential office and the deter
mining of vexed questions respecting presi
dential inability, are measures which may
receive your serious consideration. As tlie
time draws nigh when I am about to retire
from public service, 1 can not retrain from
expressing to the members of the national
legislature, with whom I have lieen brought
into personal and political intercourse, my
sincere appreciation of their unfailing cour
tesies and harmonious co-operation with the
executive in so many measures calculated
to promote the best interests of the nation;
and to my fellow citizens generally, I ac
knowledge a deep se"se of obligation for tlie
support which they have accorded me in the
administration of the executive department
of the government.
[Signed. | Chester A. Artiidr.
Washington, December 1, 1884.
The Geysers in Winter.
In September, 1884, we had a few win
try squalls, some snowstorms in Octo
ber, and then a delightful winter sum
mer (if that term is admissible) set in
and continued so invitingly warm and
sunny that a tour through the National
Park seemed the proper thing to be
done. IVhile the quadrennial political
storm was still raging, all kinds of ru
mors about the election reached the
Park. At last, on Tuesday, Nov. 11th,
the mail carrier, C. W r . Atkins, brought
the news that Blaine was elected with
out a doubt. So pleased was Superin
tendent Carpenter at the good news
that he accepted the proposal of Miss
Nellie Henderson that we make up a
party and visit the great geysers at the
Firehole river. Later news seemed to
act unfavorably on the superintendent's
resolution and he declined to make one
of the party. But Miss Nellie being
equally willing to accept the people's
choice, either Cleveland, Butler, St.
John, Lockwood or Blaine, and anxious
to see the geysers in winter, adhered to
her resolution, and on Nov. 12th Tom
and Toby might have been seen slowly
ascending Terrace mountain at sunrise,
assisted by the Babe, who had a cable
attached to the pommel of the saddle
and fastened to the pole of the double
seated buckboard. The Babe under the
guidance of his master, G. G. Hender
son, took the conveyance along when
the more venerable beasts in the rear
had to climb the slippery steeps on their
knees. Ole Granberg, Old Liberty Cap
and the lady aforenamed, crawled up
the rocky ribs of Terrace mountain be
hind the vehicle, while the other gentle
man rode the Babe to keep down the
saddle and to help it to drive its sharp
shoes deeper into the slippery soil. The
party then consisted of one lady, three
gentlemen and three horses. Tom,
Toby and the Babe, though not volun
tary visitors, were nevertheless of suffi
cient importance to be recognized as the
party of the second part in this winter
tour among the geysers. Having gain
ed the summit of Terrace mountain the
"party of the first part" were seated, aq*
mit
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Babe released from his leading string,
and away we went through parks, can
yons, basins, and over mountains until
7:30 p.m. we descended from the sum
mit of the Firehole river range, and
saw the lights blending invitingly from
the windows of the Firehole hotel. Mr.
Henderson and the Babe had got in
some half hour ahead of us, and Mrs.
Henderson met us with a smiling face
and a hearty welcome. We sat down to
a supper that would have satisfied a
London alderman or a German empe
ror. Our first day's drive of 40 miles
over the mountains was equal to 60
miles on the level roads of the Missis
sippi valley. On the morning of the
13th our party, with Geo. W. Marshall
as pilot, started on foot to see several
basins to the south of his hotel, which
has been seldom seen and never des
cribed. I ought to state that Mr. Mar
shall is an enthusiast on all matters re
lating to the Park and its innumera
ble objects of in terest and but
for his guidance, what I am
about to describe would be a terra in
cognita to me and to others. I now un
derstand one of the secrets his popu
larity with tourists. He knows wbare
everything of interest is to be fourni
without loss of time. lie adds to the
enchantment of these wonders by the
earnestness of his admiration and the
eagerness with which he seeks to en
thuse others. He has also the good
sense to keep the most beautiful nooks
and basins hidden from the vandal and
the specimen fiend who is continually
seeking that he might destroy. Going
south and up the Firehole river we
came to Effervescent spring close by the
river. When a stick is thrust into the
spring anywhere it immediately effer
vesces like champagne when it sparkles
and froths on being poured into a glass.
The Malls are a light, beautiful blue
and the rim is a solid border of silica.
About 300 yards south of the Efferves
cent spring we entered the first of the
four Chemical Basins, similar to what
has been called Paint Pots in other parts
of the Park. The first Chemical Basin
contains a large number of bowls filled
with paint of every hue and all degrees
of consistency from the liquid that
splashes to the mush that slowly and
heavily bubbles as the liquid becomes
exhausted. In nearly all of the bowls
we found every shade of green that in
dicates the presence of arsenic; also
sulphur in large quantities, and when
these minerals blended the colors were
beautiful beyond description. The
fourth and last of these Chemical Ba
sins attracted the special attention ol
Baron F. II. von Lindern, of Amster
dam, Holland, who visited the National
Pari» in October, 1884, to such a degree
that Mr. G. W. Marshall, by permission
of Superintendent K. E. Carpenter, gave
it the name of Lindern's Basin, and the
largest bowl at the head of the Basin,
Lindern's Flower Pot. This bowl con
tains a rich cream-colored paste of the
consistency of half-churned butter.
This immense mass of boiling mush
extending over an area of 30 feet in cir
cumference is literally covered with
flower-shaped bubbles of every conceiv
able form—morning glories, lillies, roses,
sunflowers, bluebells succeed each oth
er like the infinitely varied forms in the
kaleidoscope. An instant the rose ap
pears in full bloom, and then the modest
lilly becomes a tempting strawberry, a
tiny buttercup, a ripe orange, or the
dimple on a maiden's cheek, all this
phantasmagoria occurs without haste
and yet without delay. About 200 yards
southwest of Lindern's Basin we came
to Microcosm Basin, which to us was
the most wonderfully beautiful spot we
had seen and in so small a space, the
circumference being only 120 yards.
As the name implies it is a world in
miniature. Here could be seen rivers,
lakes, oceans, forests and mountains,
active and extinct volcanoes. Some of
these mountain peaks were simply
vents, emitting dense columns of steam
and puffing like a steam engine going
up a heavy grade with a train of cars;
others were, during eruption, belching
forth lava which in heavy masses ran
down the slope of the mountain sides,
filling the valleys among the foothills
to overflowing. Ætna, Hecla, Vesuvi
us, Cotopaxi, etc., resembling these vol
canos in form. The Bulldog and the
Cannon Ball were peculiarly interesting,
the sides of the former would slowly
move and open like the jaws of a bull
dog, then belch forth its lava and sud
denly elose with a snap like the closing
of a trap. This performance was re
peated eight or ten times during erup
tion. The latter a pointed pyramid,
while in activity, threw out balls of
thick mud to the height of several feet,
at intervals of a few seconds, a dozen or
more charges were thus fired, each one
accompanied with a dull thud. Great
underground rumblings were heard and
terrible earthquakes shook the thin
crust, which broke under us in several
places. There is an auriferous region
in this little cosmos, at the western end
of the basin are two mountains, the
smaller one being shaped like a candle
extinguisher, forming a perfect peak
and the whole mountain gleams in the
sun like a mass of gold. The other has
a vast crater shaped so exactly in its
cavity as if the other had been project
ed out of it and set down on its base as
it descended. The interior of the pa
rent mountain bore the same golden
hue that marked the exterior of the off
spring. Mrs. Marshall broke through
the thin crust, but being as elastic as
steel she sprang forward and upward
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like a bird on the wing, and thus escap
ed serious injury. The Microcosm Ba
sin has been so seldom visited that it
has escaped mutilation. Mr. Marshall
has carefully concealed its existence
from the ordinary pleasure seekers who
are so apt to poke sticks into everything
from mere wontonness or curiosity.
This basin should be inclosed and no
visitor admitted except unarmed and
accompanied by a careful guide. Walks
of plank should be laid down to insure
safety and to admit of prolonged and
careful investigation of the dynamical
aspects of this little world.
Liberty Cap.
MONTANA NEWS.
A little girl named Mabel Parson's, 5
years old, was run over by freight trucks
at Batte and Killed instantly.
In the case of Jessrang, lynched at Dil
lon last year, the following entry is made
in the court record: "Sent to a higher
court."
A few days ago a war party of Piegan
Indians, under Little Dog, left their agency
to raid the Crows and avenge the death of
Little Dog's brother.
W. W. Garland, publisher of the late
Miles City Record, lias been indicted for
criminal libel against T. J. Bryan in an
article published last August.
Three cars for carrying ore from the
Parrot mine at Butte down to the smelter
ran away Monday morning, and at the
crossing of the Utah and Northern
jumped tlie track and were badly smashed
up.
The people of Dempsey creek district,
Deer Lodge county, this year built a school
house and will lia v e the entire amount
collected from them this year in taxes.
Their special school tax amounts to 17
mills on the dollar.
Cow Boy: Deer are more numerous
than usual this year, and large numbers
are being killed in the vicinity of Medora.
flic evening train last Monday ran into a
hand of about two hundred a few miles
west of here and killed two.
A man was arrested a few days ago near
Mandan and taken to that place for trial
on the charge of setting a prairie fire, and
afterwards discharged. He started for
Glendive, but before reaching there was
caught in the cold snap and badly frozen.
He is supposed to have been crazy.
R. M. Beard, of Missoula, who left that
place about two months ago in charge of
a pack train loaded with 750 gallons of
whisky for the Canadian Pacific country,
was killed and robbed of $4,300 near
Goldin City, B. C., on the 28th tilt.
There are at present 87 patients in the
territorial insane asylum at Warm Springs.
As to the percentage of cures effected, Dr.
Mitchell says that of the new cases about
30 per cent are cured, while of the cases
of long standing the proportion of cures is
no greater than 10 or 15 per cent.
Two Chinamen convicted of opium
smoking at Virginia City became contu
macious in durance; and, refusing to saw
wood, were placed on bread and water
< iiet. This they a so declined to take for
a couple of days, but finally the pangs of
hunger overcame their objections, and
they now roll it like a sweet morsel under
their tongues. But they won't saw wood
"alle same."
In the district court in session at Miles
City the following were sentenced to the
territorial prison at Deer Lodge : Andrew
J. Williams, larceny, two years imprison
ment and a fine of $500; Robert Johnson,
burglary, two years imprisonment; Thos.
Donovan, burglary, imprisonment for five
years; Win. Quinby, larceny, one year
imprisonment and $100 tine; Geo. Mc
Cown, larceny,one year imprisonment and
line of $100; Joseph Landre, one year
imprisonment and fine of $50.
The well known Montana horse, Billy
Spanker, is one of the animals captured in
the eastern part of the territory recently in
the bloody encounter between cowboys
and horse thieves. Spanker is now at
Fort Keogh along with fifteen other horses
which were siezed by Maj. Blow, special
agent of the custom's bureau of the treas
ury department, because they were brought
from Canada without duty being paid
upon them. The Montana race horse was
ridden by the horsethief leader who, in
the fight mentioned, was shot from His
back
A doctor in the Yakima (W. T.) coun
try with a practice of 31,200 has only
collected 316 in cash in the last twenty
months. The rest has been takei^in or
ders on stores, saw-mills, lime-kilns,
tailors, undertakers, and well-diggers.
One account of 37 was taken out in fid
dling, and the fiddler could only play
one tune. •• . *. *
Rampant Orangemen. „
St.John, N. B., telegram, 3d: The
attack of Orangemen upon the Redemp
tionist Fathers continued three days,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday last.
They were brutally driven out of Concep
tion Bay amid bootings, stone (K-ltiiig and
violent execrations*. Greut indignation
exists among Roman Catholics, and tlie
protection of the government for its citi
zens has been invoked.