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TERRITORIAL OFFICERS.
Governor—B. Platt Carpenter, ITelena.
Secretary—.John 8. Toofeer, Helena.
Delegate' to Congress—Martin Maginnis, Helena.
Audiior— J. P. Woolinan, Helena.
Treasurer—]). H. Weston. Helena.
Superintendent of Public Instruction—Corne
lius Hedges, Helena.
Attorney-General—!. A. Johnston, Helena.
District Attorney—1st District—II. N. Blake,
Virginia City.
District Attorney—2d District—W. Y. Pember
ton, Butte.
District Attorney—"id District—J. A. Johnston,
Helena. ■
Chief Justice—D 8. Wade, Helena.
Associate Justice—W. J. Galbraith, Deer Lodge,
John Coburn, Bozeman.
U. 8. District Attorney—I. M. DeWltt, Butte.
U. 8. Marshal—Alex. C. Botkin, Helena.
Snrveyor-General—John 8. Harris, Helena.
Clerk 1st District Court— Theo. Muffly, Virginia
Ci Clerk 2d District Court— R. L. Davis, Deer
Lodge.
Clerk 3d District Court—A. II. Beattie, Helena.
Collector of Internal Revenue— T. P. Fuller,
flelena.
Collector of Customs—T. A. Cummings, Ben
ton.
IT. 8. Assaver— R. B. Harrison, Helena.
Register ol U. 8. Land Office, at Helena—Fran
ll Adkineon.
GALLATIN COUNTY.
Sheriff—A. J. Edsall, Bozeman.
Treaeurer—Ed. V. Ferris, Bozeman.
Probate Judge—C. 8. Hartman, Bozeman.
County Clerk and Recorder—James Gourley.
Aeeeesor— T. P. McDonald, Livingston.
County Superintendent of schools—Miss Adda
M. Hamilton, Bczeman.
coroner— R. D. Alton, M. D.. Livingston.
County Commissioners—8. L. Holliday, Liv
ingston; N. H. Tracy, West Gallatin; — Mon
forton, East Gallatin.
J. P., Livingston Precinct— R. W.' Hanson, M.
Kelly.
Constables—John Winnett, J. Cornwell.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Paddy Ryan wants to fight John L. Sul
livan.
Four of the Oklahoma leaders will be
tried on the 10th inst.
The circulation of O'Donovan Rossa
paper is forbidden in Ireland.
The French claim to have defeated the
Chinese in a late battle at Kelung.
At Durand, Wis., Ilenry Cattenhausen
killed his wife and then suicided.
A bill is before congress to provide pen
alties for bribery and corruption in eleo
tiens.
By an express train falling through
bridge in Australia forty passengers were
killed.
Vice-President Hendricks by invitation
visited and conferred with Cleveland last
Saturday.
A severe storm along the coast of New
foundland has caused great loss among
small vessels.
English newspapers advocate a close al
liance between Great Britain and the
United States.
A valuable shipment of silver was cap
tured by bandits between Toulea and
Cuerravaca, Mexico.
An explosion in a coal mine at Savanne,
Indian Territory, killed three miners and
injured about 50.
An explosion of natural gas in Pitts
burg destroycn $20,000 worth of property
and injured 12 persons.
A t Portsmouth, Va., John T. Jack and
C. B. Page fought a duel. The latter re
ceived a mortal wound.
At Lake Providence, Miss., a mail coach
was held up and robbed of $500. Several
arrests have been made.
Fitz John Porter has submitted an aj>
pcal to the president and congress to be
re-instated in the army.
Dynamiters have threat ened to blow up
the British Museum. Extra precautions
are being taken to guard it.
At Jonesboro, Alabama, Bennett Par
sons was shot dead by his wife with the
connivance of his two daughters.
Nevada held a silver convention last
week at Carson, formed a permanent as
sociation and asked unlimited coinage.
James K. Jones Congressman from the
third district of Arkansas has been elected
senator from that state to succeed Walker.
John L. Sullivan the champion slugger
was fined $115 in Boston for fast driving
and beating his horse. He was drunk as
usual.
It lias been ascertained that Chinamen
employed as laborers in Peru are subject
ed to great hardship, privation and
cruelty.
The government of France is consider
mg a proposition to divide $5,000,000
among the unemployed working people of
that country.
At Corning, Ark., Lafayette Milton
was hanged for a murder committed four
years ago when he was captain of "Ku
Klux Klan-"
The number of failures in the United
States and Canada last week was 354 as
compared with 411 the preceding week
and 420 the week before that.
On Friday last a passenger train on the
Reading railroad near Greenville, N.J.,was
wrecked. About or thirty-five persons
were wounded but none killed outright.
Near Georgetown on the Colorado Cen
tral railway a passenger train was blown
from the track and overturned in the
ditch. Eighteen passengers were in
jured.
Numerous threats have been made to
blow up the Holyhead Railway terminus
and hotel, England, the Brittania tubular
bridge, and the suspension bridge crossing
Menai straits.
Royal B. Young of Salt Lake a step-son
of the late Brigham Young has been held
in the sum of $2,000 to answer to the
charge of polygamy. He admitted hav
ing three wives.
Gens. Grant and McCook are indulging
in recriminations and explanations regard
ing reflections on the latter in Grant's ac
count of the battle of Shiloh in the last
Century magazine.
Senator Hill of Colorado says his re
election was defeated and that of Teller
secured by a free use of corporation
money. The legislature of the state will
investigate the charge.
It has been discovered that in San Fran
cisco many female white babies are sold
to Chinese women who ship them to China
where at 12 years old they are sold to rich
Chinamen for their harems.
President Arthur sent a message to Con
gress conveying the offer made by Mrs.
Grant to present to the United States all
the swords and military testimonials worn
and lately owned by Gen. Grant.
In response to the Senate resolution
calling for information in respect to the
proposed opening of the Oklahoma lands
to settlement, the Secretary of the Interior
says : While the lands retain the present
status there will continue to he a series of
troubles. He can see no good reason why
immense tracts of unoccupied lands should
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be held for Indians to roam over, when
they are desirable for settlement.
Randall and Carlisle have both visited
Cleveland in response to invitations during
ten days past. It is not believed that
their visits related to cabinet making as
much as to the policy of Cleveland's ad
ministration.
The President has issued a proclamation
that on and after February 3, 1885, the
collection of the tonnage duty of three
cents per tonshall be suspended as regards
all vessels arriving in any part of the
United States from Panama and Aspinwall.
The House Committee on claims decid
ed by a vote of 9 to 4 to report the bill
providing to refund the tax imposed by
the government on states and territories as
war tax under the act of Congress of Aug
ust 5, 1861, and June 7, 1862, and releas
ing those states which yet owe tax.
A meeting of 2,000 socialists was held
in New York on Tuesday evening. Police
men to the number of 30 were present
and the socialists attacked them and a riot
ensued- The rioters were badly pounded
by the police hut only one arrest was made
—Justus Schwab, a dynamiter.
National Silver Convention.
The national silver convention which
met at Denver adjourned sine die on Fri
day. The meeting was controlled over
whelmingly by the Colorado people and
was marked by many disgraceful petty
struggles which will injure its influence
and the effect of what real work it per
formed. On the last day of the session
two important resolutions were passed
The first demanded the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, the withdrawal of one
and two dollar bills from circulation, that
clearing house balances he paid in gold
and silver without discrimination, that na
tional hanks keep not less than 15 per
cent of their revenues and all their re
demption funds in silver coin and, that
until silver be restored to its rightful
equality with gold, the Bland silver law
he construed liberally and faithfully exe
cuted. The second resolution asked pres
ident-elect Cleveland to appoint for sec
retary of the treasury a statesman who will
not work entirely in the interest of nation
al hanks and Wall street brokers hut will
recognize the great interests of the west
and south in shaping the nation's financial
policy.
Platinum.
The Madisonian is greatly excited over
the discovery of platinum in Alder Gulch
Knowing that this valuable metal is most
often found in gold placers, a resident of
the Gulch sent some of the concentrates
from pincer gravel to Edison the great
electrician. He examined and returned a
considerable amount of platinum taken
from the concentrates. Platinum is the
heaviest, most ductile and most infusible
metal known and is more valuable and in
finitely less plentiful than gold. Its value
is increasing of late owing to the fact that
it is used to tip the carbon points in elec
tric lights. It is a bluish-white metal.
The Madisonian thinks that if a plan can
he discovered to separate the platinum
particles from the sand and gravel in the
old placers, Alder Gulch will produce in
future as much wealth as in the past.
The Black Hills Tin Mines.
Professor Gilbert Bailey, who has fully
examined the tin mines in the Black Hills
says that the hills contain deposits remark
able for their extent and richness. Tin
occurs both in veins and in placers. The
•district is situated around and on the
flanks of the main peak, named after
General Harney. The belt is horseshoe
m shape, thirteen miles in length, and
from two to three in width. The proper
ties now being worked number over fifty
lodes and vary from three to four feet to
about three hundred feet in width. All
the lodes are undoubtedly true veins.
New York capitalists control these mines.
The Professor says they have already been
so far developed that it is now asserted
there is enough tin there to revolutionize
the tin trade and supply the American
markets in a great measure, without im
portations from Cornwall.
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Endowing Western Colleges.
C. B. Wright, of Philadelphia, ex-presi
dent of the Northern Pocific railroad
company, has placed securities amounting
to $50,000 as an endowment fund for the
Annie Wright Seminary for young ladies
at Tacoma, W. T., which was erected last
fall by Bishop Paddock. A similar insti
tution projected for young men is also to
receive an endowment of $50,000 from
Wright.
Botkin's Case.
Last Monday the judiciary committee
of the senate brought up the question of
confirming Kreidler as successor to U. S.
Marshal Botkin of Montana. The papers
in Botkin's case were before the commit
tee but no action was taken owing to the
absence of the senators from Wisconsin
who had asked to be heard in Botkin's fa
vor. The Washington telegram says : In
dications are, however, unfavorable to Bot
kin. The attorney general did not hesitate
to say that he believes him unfit morally,
physically and mentally to fill the position,
saying he is a wreck in every one of these
particulars.
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TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth
Session.
Regular
COUNCIL.
THURSDAY, 29TH.
Committee of the whole reported a sub
stitute for the bill relative to Northern
Pacific landtleeds and contracts. Notices
ot several bills were given. A hill was
introduced to amend chapter 4, title 10 of
the code of civil procedure, also a bill to
amend chapter 6, section 77 ol the code
of criminal procedure. Committee of
the whole recommended that Chas. H
Snell receive $128.50 for wrapping and
mailing 10,000 copies of the constitution
of Montana. Barrett and Cotant were ap
pointed additional members of the joint
ways and means committee. Greene, Buck
and Kennedy were appointed council
members of the committee to visit terri
torial penitentiary and insane asylum.
FRIDAY, 30th.
A hill was introduced to create the
county of Judith out of eastern Meagher
county. Also bills relating to the filing
of mortgages; to amend sections 179,180
and 202 of chapter 4 of the code of civil
procedure ; to amend section 342 of the
5th division of the revised statutes; to
pay G. P. Reeves & Co. $111.72 for marks
and brands. The hill for the payment of
C. H. Snell passed. Also the hill to in
crease the bond of clerks of district coarts
from $5,000 to $20,000. Adjourned.
SATURDAY, 31 ST.
The governor transmitted the reports of
the territorial auditor and treasurer. No
tice was given of a hill to amend section
1,072 of the 5th division of the revised
statutes.
MONDAY, 2ND.
Several hills were noticed among which
was one to authorize county commission
ers to offer a bounty for killing certain
wild animals. A bill was introduced rela
tive to the hours for labor on public roads.
TUESDAY, 3rd.
Greene gave notice of a bill to incorpo
rate the town of Billings. Bill for the
taxation of telegraph and telephone lines
was introduced. Armstrong introduced
several bills relative to the corporation of
Bozeman and one concerning bounty on
ground squirrels. Substitute for bill rela
tive to the duties of county clerks was in
troduced. Council hill regulating North
ern Pacific land deeds was passed. In
committee of the whole it was recom
mended that hills concerning filing of
mortgages, concerning chattel mortgages
and to amend sec. 342, fifth division of
the revised statutes do pass. In executive
session another hatch of notarial appoint
ments was confirmed.
WEDNESDAY, 28tH.
Bills were introduced as follows; to
amend the act relating to mtincipal cor
porations; to amend the act relating to
text hooks in schools ; to allow members
of the constitutional convention $5 per
day, on committee of the whole it was
recommended that the bill relating to as
signments for the benefit of creditors do
pass. The report of Dr. Cole inspector of
the insane asylum was read. The bill
introduced by Armstrong to allow county
commissioners to offer a bounty of 5 cents
each for the killing of ground squirrels
was amended by including gophers, moles
and prairie dogs and recommended that
it do pass. Adjourned.
HOUSE. *
THURSDAY, 29tH.
The petitions of 253 voters of Jefferson
county and of 366 voters of Meagher
county praying for the creation of the new
county of Valley were presented.
The petition of William Wright
and 53 other citizens of Liv
ingston was presented asking that physi
ology and hygiene be taught in the schools.
The petition of 200 citizens of Missoula
county was presented praying for the cre
ation of the new county of Bitter Root.
The petition of 50 citizens of Helena was
presented praying that the license law be
not repealed. Judiciary committee pre
sented substitutes for the bills defining the
duties of county commissioners and re
garding fees of witnesses and jurors at
coroners' inquests. The latter bill passed
to its third reading. House hills 19 (con
cerning fences) and 29 were reported fa
vorably upon and passed to the third read
ing. Committee on education did not ap
prove of the bill relating to teaching phys
iology and hygiene in schools because of
the compulsory provision. Notices of
bills were given as follows : to appoint a
stock inspector and detective and to levy
taxes on live stock to pay the expense of
such officers; to amend the law relating
to attachments; to authorize Deer Lodge
school district to issue bonds for the erec
tion of a school house; relating to the
publication of delinquent taxes; to amend
the game laws; to amend the law relating
to the education of the deaf, dumb and
blind. A bill was introduced to create the
county of Bitter Root out of the county
of Missoula with Corvallis as its county
seat; also to create the county of Valley
out of western Meagher and eastern Jef
ferson counties with Townsend as the
county seat. Bill relating to jurors' and
witnesses' fees at coroners' inquests and
prohibiting bogs from running at largo in
certain counties were both read a third
time and passed. Adjourned.
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FRIDAY, 30th.
Speaker announced that the joint com
mittee to inspect the territorial peniten
tiary and insane asylum had left to per
form that duty. The speaker asked and
was granted leave of absence and Fisk
took the chair. The petition of 36 citi
zens of Madison county was presented
asking the suppression of gambling; also
a petition of 37 other citizens of the same
county praying that hygiene and physiol
ogy be taught in the schools. The peti
tion of 400 tax payers of Missoula county
was presented praying the creating of the
county of Pen d'Oreillc out of a portion
of Missoula, with Thompson's Falls as the
county seat. Ahill for the erection of
this county was then introduced and le
ferred. Judiciary committee recommend
ed an amendment to the hill authorizing
the governor to contract for the care and
maintenance of prisoners. The bill to
amend the law authorizing trustees to is
sue bonds for the erection of school houses
was laid on the table. A substitute was
recommended for the hill relating to the
duties of county clerks. Notices were
given of the following hills: relating to
marriage; authorizing the appointment of
foreign executors in certain cases: con
cerning witnesses. Bill were introduced
as follows : to amend the law of attach
ments; to allow the trustees of Deer Lodge
to issue bonds for the erection of a school
house; relating to the education of the
deaf, dumb and blind. Adjourned.
SATURDAY, 31 ST.
The governor transmitted the reports of
the territorial auditor and treasurer.
Speaker took leave of absence for two
hours and Potts took the chair. Petitions
were presented from over 700 residents of
Silver Bow, Madison, Jefferson and Custer
counties praying the suppression of gam
hling. Citizens of Beaverhead county to
the number of 178 petitioned that physi
ology and hygiene he taught in the schools.
The butchers of Butte petitioned for the
equalization of the license on their busi
ness. The hill to authorize the trustees of
Deer Lodge district to issue bonds was re
ported favorably upon and the bill was
passed. Committee on mines reported
an amendment to the hill relating to rep
resentation on quartz lodes. Notices of
hills were given as follows: relating to
private corporations; relating to the sale
of liquors; providing for the transfer of
certain records relating to the townsite of
Butte. Bills were introduced concerning
witnesses; concerning the appointment of
foreign executors and administrators: re
lating to the bonds of clerks of district
and probate courts. Bill relating to toll
roads, bridges and fences passed its third
reading. Committee of the whole con
sidered bill compelling the teaching of
physiology and hygiene in schools and
placed it at the bottom of the file of gen
eral orders. Committee rose and house
adjourned.
MONDAY, 2nd.
A petition was presented from 443 citi
zens of Butte asking that physiology and
hygiene be taught in schools. Eighty
nine tax-payers of the proposed new coun
ty of Bitter Root petitioned for its creation.
Citizens of Custer county petitioned that
the license tax on commercial travelers be
repealed. Committee on education re
ported favorably on the hill to suppress
gambling and the bill was made a special
order for Wednesday. The substitute for
the house bill relative to the duties of
county clerks was reported favorably upon
and passed. The council hill to divide
counties into districts for the election of
commissioners was indefinitely postponed.
Bills were introduced as follows : to amend
the act relating to the fees of sheriffs for
hoarding prisoners; to amend sections
87-92 first division civil code ; to prohibit
hunting in private enclosures; to provide
certain text books for schools; to amend
the act relating to chattel mortgages.
Bills were introduced as follows : concern
ing private corporations ;to transfer records
of Butte townsite;by Nichols, a bill regu
lating the sale of malt or spirituous liquors,
—provides that any parties selling malt or
spirituous liquors to a habitual drunkard,
or after notice has been given by father,
mother, sister, brother or wife, shall he
convicted of a misdemeanor and a fine of
! 1100 imposed; relating to the publication
of delinquent taxes. The bill relative to
teaching physiology and hygiene was re
committed to the committee on education
and labor. In committee of the whole it
was recommended that the following do
pass: amended hill concerning representa
tion on quartz lodes; amended hill relat
ing to fences; amended bill concerning
duties of county commissioners. Ad
journed.
TUESDAY, 3RD.
Norton presented the petition of resi
dents of eastern Gallatin county praying
for annexation to Yellowstone county. A
petition of residents of Jefferson and
Meagher counties was presented asking
for the county of Valley. A memorial
was read signed by 150 citizens of Helena
asking the repeal or modification of the
license tax on commercial travelers. A
petition of 551 tax payers of that part of
Jefferson county drained by the Prickly
Pear creek was presented asking annexa
tion to Lewis and Clarke county. Thirty
nine citizens of Helena and 178 of Beav
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erhead county petitioned that physic logy
and hygiene he taught in the schools.
Citizens of Helena petitioned for the sup
pression of gambling. It was recommend
ed that the hill relating to the publication
of delinquent taxes he indefinitely post
poned. The bill relative to double taxa
tion was re-committed. A bill authoriz
ing the governor to contract with some
suitable institution for the education of
deaf and dumb or blind children between
the ages of eight and eighteen at a cost
not to exceed $300 a year each and to de
fray expenses of their transjjortation to
such school was favorably reported upon
and passed to its third reading. Norton,
from committee on towns and counties,
reported house hill cutting off a portion
of Gallatin county and attaching it to
Yellowstone county, with recommendation
that the hill do pass. Sloan stated that
the report was a majority re
port, that a minority report was to
be made, and moved that the report be
laid upon the table in order to give the
minority time to procure certain evidences
for which they were waiting. Motion
adopted. The committee of the whole
recommended the passage of a bill pro
viding for the publication of quarterly re
ports of hills allowed by county commis
sioners. A question arose as to the rate to
be allowed for such publication and a gen
eral discussion followed in which publish
ers and newspapers came in for a lot of
abuse—were evidently viewed in the light
of a necessary evil. The discussion re
sulted in the hill being recommitted with
instructions to amend by providing for the
printing of such reports by the lowest
bidder. Bills were noticed as follows : to
authorize the incorporation of annuity,
safe deposit and trust companies; to amend
the law regulating the power of under
sheriffs; to apportion Jefferson county
among adjoining counties ; to regulate the
sale of hutterine and other substitutes for
but.er and cheese. Bills were introduced
as follows: to relieve O'Neill, McFarland
and Bashaw who captured Con Murphy ;
to prevent the spread of contagious dis
eases among live stock; to amend sections
87-92 first division of civil code; to
supply schools with Webster's dictionary;
to amend law regulatingchattel mortgages;
regulating fees of sheriffs for hoarding
prisoners. Bill regulating attachments on
real estate was passed. Bill authorizing
trustees of district l Deer Lodge county
to build a school house was passed. Bill
authorizing governor to contract outside
the territory for the maintenance anti safe
keeping of convicts at not more than 50
cents a day was passed. Memorial regard
ing Northern Pacific land grant intro
duced.
WEDNESDAY, 4l'II.
Speaker Callaway rose to a question of
privilege. He said he had been mis-re
ported in the daily pitpers regarding what
he had said the previous clay of newspaper
men. He had not said they were "very
bad men." Petitions of 173 citizens of
Deer Lodge county and 280 of Lewis and
Clarke were presented for the suppression
of gambling; also petitions of 08 citizens
of Lewis and Clarke and 155 of Deer
Lodge that physiology and hygiene be
taught in schools. The Speaker presented
the petition of citizens of Moreland, Gal
latin county, protesting against any act
cutting off any portion of Gallatin and
adding it to Yellowstone; also, protesting
against any act creating the county of
Park. Bill relating to oaths of office pass
ed to its third reading; also the bill relat
ing to fees of jurors incivil cases; also the
hill relative to bonds of clerks of court;
also the hill to supply schools with Web
ster's dictionary. Norton, from commit
tee on towns and counties, reported the
hill to create the county of Bitter Root,
with an amendment and recommendation
that the hill asiyii ended pass; hill ordered
engrossed. Bill for the relief of the cap
tors of Con Murphy was referred to a spe
cial committee. A bill was introduced to
give under-sheriffs full power to exercise
the duties of the sheriff's office in the ab
sence of that officer. Bill relating to
oaths of office lost. Bill relating to bonds
of clerks of court carried. In committee
of the whole the house discussed the bill
for the suppression of gambling and after
a long discussion recommended that it do
pass. Bill provides that any person keep
ing a gambling house in which games of
chance of any kind are played, shall on
conviction he sent to prison for a period
of not less than ten days nor more than
three months, and shall he fined not less
than $50 nor more than $100. and any per
son who bets or wagers money on any of
these games shall he punished on convic
tion by imprisonment for not more thau
30 days and fined not more thau $100, or
both such fine and imprisonment.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Councilman Greene says he will not
support the bill introduced by Norton, his
colleague in the house, to extend Yellow
stone county by taking a great slice off
Gallatin county. He fears that the success
of that bill would be hut laying an egg to
hatch into trouble for Billings two years
from now. He says he wants Yellowstone
county extended to the Big Timber river
and that is all he does want. Councilman
Greene's head is level.
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The residents of Three Forks or Bridge
ville in western Gallatin county havea
project to cut out a circle from Gallatin,
Madison and Jefferson counties and of it
make a new county which should have
their town for its county seat. It would
make a "dandy" little county but the pro
ject is not apt to ripen this session.
Because John O'Neil, J. H. McFarland
and George Bashaw did not deliver Con
Murphy to the sheriff in good shape they
cannot legally claim the reward of $1,000
offered for his apprehension. A bill has
therefore been introduced in the legisla
ture to "relieve" them—that is give them
the $1,000.
The bill to wipe Jefferson county off
the map has come before the legislature.
As the residents of the county are petition
ing to he annexed to the adjoining coun
ties the hill will probably pass.
The stock men have shown their hand
in the matter of legislation. They have
introduced a bill which provides for the
appointment of a territorial veterinary
surgeon at a salary of $3,000 per year. It
will be the duty of this officer to inspect
all cattle that come into the territory; to
quarantine infected herds and when he
considers it advisable to kill diseased ani
mals and pay for them out of a fund cre
ated for the purpose. The governor shall
prohibit the importation of cattle from in
fected localities. County commissioners
shall levy a tax of one-half mill on every
horned animal, horse, ass or mule to de
fray the expenses arising from the execu
tion of the provisions of this bill.
Away Down in Virginia.
Readers from Helena to Billings will
remember E. L. Gilboy, long a conduct
or on the Montana division, who left
here last autumn for a southern trip.
He is now at Mannington, Marion coun
ty, West Virginia, and a private letter
from him dated there contains so many
interesting points that we take the lib
erty of making extracts from it for pub
lication. He says: "Since I left Mon
tana I have been in most of the leading
cities of the east. I was in Chicago two
weeks and from there went to Wheeling,
West Virginia, where I have friends.
While there I was greatly surprised to
meet William Lutz whom you knew in
Billings, where he was in the employ of
Jim Russell and who managed the lat
ter's business after he was shot. He
has a lirst-elass steam laundry in Wheel
ing, is doing a flourishing business and
making money. He was very kind to
me while I was there and assisted to
make my visit a pleasant one. I do not
like the weather here; though it is not
cold there are too many changes and
too much moisture. It seems odd tome
to be in a country where the rivers are
open all winter and steamers making
regular trips. This place (Mannington)
is 59 miles east of Wheeling. I have
many relatives here. Here I spent my
childhood days, but I have|not been here
before for nearly 20 years. You can
imagine the changes that have occurred
in that time. Of all my little school
mates some are dead, some married with
families of their own, while others like
myself have made homes elsewhere.
So changed does everything seem that I
can scarcely realize that I am here
among the old scenes. This county is
so very rough and mountainous that it
reminds one somewhat of Montana.
The mountains, or hills as they call
them here, are more abrupt than in
Montana with no valleys, only little
plots of level ground scarcely large
enough to build upon. It is astonishing
how much work farmers here do to
grow their crops. The farms are main
ly upon steep hillsides—so steep that it
seems impossible to to drive a horse on
them; yet they cultivate such ground
and grow crops of com and small grain.
If these people could see some of our
Montana valley lands they would sure
ly move west. I wish you could see
some of the hard woods that grow in
this country. The farmers bum up
countless cords of beech every year in
clearing up their lands to fit them for
cultivation. Here you can see hickory
trees over a hundred feet high with not
a limb to assist the venturous climber
if he has an ambition to reach that
hight. Then the red oak! such trees I
never thought grew in any country. If
a good-sized one were cut into wood it
would supply a Montana stove with
fuel for a whole year. The sugar maple
is preserved for its sap which is boiled
into sugar as is that of the maple in
more northern climes. Then there are
poplar, ash, birch—in fact every kind of
hard wood that grows in a temperate
zone. Why, they have walnut enough
on some farms in this vicinity to fence
their farms. My cousin has a large
farm in this county fenced with walnut
and he told me to-day that there are
farms in the hack counties near here
whose chief advertisement is thait there
is walnut enough upon them tö fence
them eight rails high with plenty to
spare. It really see ins too bad to waste
such good timber but there is no de
mand for it in this country. I haveseen
piles of chestnuts spoiling on the ground
about here. I wish we had some of
them in Montana. Send me some pa
pers. I go from here to Baltimore?*
Ely ale McKelvie foreman for Hos
kins & McGirl has been riding the range
between Huntley and the Musselshell.
Among native cattle he saw no loss hut
estimates that 15 per cent of the "dogies"
in that vicinity have died.