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TERRITORIAL OFFICERS.
Governor—B. Platt Carpenter, nelena.
Secretary— .lohn S. Tooker, Helena.
Delegate to Congress—Martin Maginnis, Helena.
Audijor— J. P. Woolman, Helena.
Treasurer—D. II. Weston, Helena.
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Attornev-Ueneral— J. A. Johnston, Helena.
District Attorney— 1st District — H. N. Blake,
^ District Attorney—2d District—W. Y. Pember
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U Chief Justice—D S. Wade, Helena.
Associate Justice-W. J. Galbraith, Deer Lodge,
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U 8. District Attorney—J. M. DeWitt, Butte.
U. 8. Marshal—Alex. C. Botkin, Helena
Surveyor-General—John S. Harris, Helena.
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I NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cardinal McCabe, of Kingston, Ireland,
is dead.
Gen. Tuttle of Iowa is reccommended
to be governor of Wyoming to succeed the
late Gov. Hale.
The labor unions of Canada are crusad
ing against Chinese and pauper immigra
tion to that country.
Timothy Sheehan, of Albert Lea, Min
nesota, has been appointed Indian agent
at White Earth, Minn.,
Richard Short, who stabbed Capt. Phe
lan in O'Donovan Rossa's office, has been
released on $3,000 bail.
The leaders of the Oklahoma boomers
who were arrested were discharged, no
witnesses appearing against them.
Orthodox readers will be pleaded to
learn that Bob Ingcrsoll will soon go to
Europe to remain about five years.
A bill granting the right of suffrage to
women has passed the lower house of the
legislature of Dakota and will probably
become « law.
Lake Ontario at Hamilton, is frozen
ten miles out from the shore, and the ice
is strong enough for teaming. Such a
thing is unprecedented.
A gorge and flood on the upper Snake
river, at Riparia, Washington, destroyed a
considerable amount of paoperty, includ
ing boats belonging to the O. R. & N.
On Saturday last Sam Morris a negro
at Weimar, jTcxas, was taken from the cala
boose by a mob and hanged to a tree for
the outrage of a 13-year-old white girl.
Because the management of the New
Orleans Exposition delayed issuing passes
to exhibitors a riot nearly ensued. The
management claims that the delay was
unavoidable.
Three boilers in the starch works of the
Firmenich manufacturing company of
Peoria, 111., exploded on the 8th inst., kill
ing three persons and causing a loss to
the property of $100,000.
Near Creston, Iowa, on Monday last on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
road, two coaches and a sleeper were de
railed killing three passengers and serious
ly injuring eight others.
Little Shell, chief of the Turtle moun
tain Chippewas, is in Washington, to try
and get a recognition of what he claims
to be the right of his tribe to all the
northern portion of Dakota.
It is stated as a fact that Senator Bayard
of Delewarc has been officially tendered
the position as secretary of state in Cleve
lands cabinet. He has been allowed a
week for consideration and it is believed
he will accept.
A friend of Gen. Gordon in London
says that Gordon had a presentiment be
fore going to Khartoum that he would
never return and went so far as to divide
his trinkets and mementoes among his
personal friends.
Lee Linn, editor of the Wabash (Ind.)
Courier, on Saturday, shot and killed Wil
liam Hickey. Hickey was lying in wait
to assault Linn, when the latter shot the
former twice through the brest. Linn
was not arresed.
It is probable that before the expira
tion of his term, President Arthur will
call an extra session of congress beginning
March 4th, to enable President Cleveland
to make his cabinet nominations and ob
tain confirmations.
One of the periodical revolutions that
overtake the Spanish-American republics
is now convulsing Panama. The city is
under martial law and the president of
the republic has assumed charge of the
national troops to suppress the uprising.
The marriage of the Prince of Colonna
and Miss Eva Mackay was celebrated on
Thursday last. Mr. Morton, American
Minister, and Due Decazes acted as wit
nesses for the bride, and Prince Doria per
formed a similar office for the bridegroom.
Mr. Michael Davitt is seeking to pre
sent an address to the Pope justifying the
action of the Catholic Irish Nationalists.
The Vatican is unwilling to]negotiate with
Davitt; eminent persons, however, are try
ing to procure him an audience with the
Pope.
President-elect Cleveland and Daniel
Manning were entertained at Greystone
last Sunday by Samuel J. Tilden. Dem
ocrats will consider Cleveland's visit to
"the Sage" as another of the omens of a
sound administration by their chosen
president.
American capitalists are arranging for
the formation of an abbatoir company
with a capital of $1,000,000. The inten
tion of the promoters' scheme is to slaugh
ter American hogs in Canada and thus get
arouud the present prohibitory legislation
of Germany.
Glenmore Todd of Burlington, N. J.,
was arrested in Philadelphia Saturday
last and, in default of $10,000 bail, com
mitted to Movamesing prison on a charge
of the embezzlement of $150,000 from
the Provident Life and Trust Company of
Philadelphia.
Five workmen, in repairing a bridge
over the Susquehana at Havre de Grace,
Md., were thrown down by the breaking
of a scaffold. The fall was fifty feet, and
all went through the ice into the river.
Two were drowned, and three were rescu
ed in a precarious condition.
A Wooster, Ohio, special of the 10th
inst says : At Shrieve last night Wilbur
Peters, a jilted lover, shot and fatally
wounded Laura Chester, just as she was
i ^rving the roller rink. He then placed
the revolver to his head and blew his
brains out. The affair created intense ex
citement.
A Berlin dispatch of the 7th inst says:
Reinsdorf and Reuchler, the anarchists,
who were sentenced to death some weeks
ago by the imperial court at Leipsig for
attempting to cause the death of tiie Em
peror and other royal persons at the Nei
derwald celebration, were executed at 8
o'clock this morning at Halle. The exe
cution, which took place in the prison,
was by sword.
MONTANA NEWS.
A Chinaman named Charley Lum Fung
was recently married at Missoula to Miss
Sophia Walton, a half-breed Indian girl.
The Crow Tribe consists of 3,123 per
sons in 514 lodges governed by 26 chiefs.
Plenty Coos is the principal chief; he
rules 47 lodges.
Assays show that the slag years ago
dumped about the old Helena smelter
contains $200 worth of silver to the ton.
The process by which smelting was done
at that establishment was not remarkable
for economy.
Walter Tilliver, a Rosebud cowboy,
while fooling with a 44 calibre pistol a
few days ago accidentally shot himself in
the right leg just above the knee, shatter
ing the ferner bone so badly as to render
amputation necessary.
Argus: The Maginnis mill is new run
ning on ore from the Oro Cache. Both
oscillators are in operation during the day
shift and will be run continually as soon
as the volume of water will permit. The
output of gold will then reach if not ex
ceed $25,000 per month.
J. R. Holden of Dillon was detected in
the act of stealing. He was arrested and
a search of his lodgings revealed and im
mense miscellaneous collection of articles
which had been stolen around town. He
stole about $160 from the postoffice by
means of a duplicate key to the safe.
Frank Farmer a prominent and wealthy
ranchmen of Chotcau county was found
dead on the prairie between Choteau and
Dupuyer. He had evidently died of heart
disease a fatal spasm of which had been
brought on by the violent exertion of
tramping a path for his horse through a
heavy snow drift.
Divorces In Montana.
The Dillon Tribune is crusading against
the system of Montana law and practice
by which divorces are granted with such
ease and dispatch. It cites a number of
instances in its section of 'he country. A
number could be cited from Gallatin
county. The case of I. D. McCutcheon
is notorious and need not be re-capitulated.
Not very long ago a courtesan from
one of the towns in this county applied
for a divorce from her brutal pimp of a
husband. The presiding judge heard the
the case and then refused to grant the de
cree unless it was shown that the plaintiff
was a woman of decency and respectabil
ity. The plaintiff's attorney was non
plussed for a moment but rallied short
ly and asked time to produce the
required evidence. This was allowed and
when the case was again called two
toughs took the stand and swore to their
long and intimate acquaintance with the
plaintiff and their knowledge of her many
virtues as a woman and a leader in society.
The decree of divorce was promptly issued.
The tradition of a unique divorce granted
in this county comes down from the days
of early settlement. A justice of the
peace, who had more sense of the impor
tance of his position than knowledge of its
powers, united two apparently happy
hearts with a matrimonial knot. A few
months later the husband became disgust
ed with his bargain and went to the judge
who had performed the ceremony and ap
plied for relief. The obliging officer,
nothing doubting his jurisdiction, heard
the complaint and without delay wrote out
an order undoing the marriage cere
mony which he had performed—a divorce
which all parties concerned considered ef
fectual. _____
Great Storm.
A tremendous snow storm came down
upon a great area of the northern and mid
dle states this week, beginning on Monday.
All the railroads running south and east
from Chicago were blockaded and for
three days traffic was practically sus
pended. The storm was followed by in
tense cold. Whole train loads of cattle,
sheep and hogs blockaded by the snow
were frozen to death before they could be
moved or relieved. Iowa, Illinois, Mich
igan, Indiana and Ohio were visited by
the worst effects of the storm while states
bordering on them were not so complete
ly buried. While the middle states were
visited by snow the Atlantic slope suffered
from a heavy rain that swelled the streams
broke up ice and in many places caused
disastrous floods.
Chinese Gordon.
Charles George Gordon, major-general
in the English army, Egyptian governor
general of the province of Soudan, who is
supposed to have been put to death or to
have fallen fighting when El Mahdi cap
tured Khartoum has been one of the most
remarkable men of his tine. The story
of his life if ever fully written will be a
volume of thrilling interest. The follow
ing are the central points of his biography.
He was bom at Woolwich, England, Jan
uary 28,1833. His fatherand a long line
of ancestors before him were military
officers and two of his brothers were of
the same profession. He entered the Royal
Military Academy when he was in his fif
teenth year and less than fivi years later
was gazetted a second lieuteiant. In 1855
he first breathed the atmoqihere of war.
On the first day of that year he landed at
Balaclava and took active part in the Cri
mean war then in progress. He was
chiefly employed on engineeringduty and,
m even that unpropitious department for
the display of gallantry or ability, won a
recommendation for promotior and was
decorated with the Cross of tbe Legion of
Honor. Ho won his first lieutenancy and
after the conclusion of the treaty which
closed that war was detailed to assist the
commission that traced the new Moldavian
boundary under the treaty award. In
1859 he was made a captain and in the
year following took part m the English
operations against China which placed
European forces within the wails of Pekin.
At the conclusion of this campaign sur
veying work detained him in China.
Meanwhile he was promoted to the rank
of major. The Taeping insurrection was
then in full sway in the Chinese provinces
around Shanghai and the English govern
ment was asked to detail one of its officers
to take charge of the Chinese forces for its
suppression. Major Gordon was recom
mended and entered upon the work in
1863—when just thirty years of age. His
"Ever Victorious Army" consiited of from
3,000 to 5,000—it varied at various times
—with which to defeat a horde of rebels.
His officers were mostly European or
American; so were those of the insurgent
army. A writer has thus summarized
Gordon's work: "During the sixteen
months the Ever Victorious Army wa9
campaigning under his guidance, it had
taken four cities and a dozen more strong
places, fought innumerable battles, put
hors du combat numbers of the enemy,
moderately estimated at fifteen times its
own, and finding the rebellion vigorous
and aggressive, had left it at its last gasp,
confined to the ruined capital of the usurp
er." Gordon won the highest rank in the
Chinese army and from the world the
nickname of "Chinese" Gordon which he
has ever since retained. From 1865 to
1871 he was employed at Gravesend in
improving the defenses of the Thames.
While there he devoted his super-exuber
ant activity and natural benevolence to
many charitable works and became great
ly beloved by the lower classes. In the
last named year he was sent to the Danube
to superintend work for the improvement
of its navagability. Three years later the
Khedive of Egypt wanted a governor for
his Equatorial province whic'a comprised
the whole basin of the Nile from Gondo
koro to its source. His duties were not
only to govern the turbulent tribes who
laughed at control but to suppress the
slave-trade which just then scandalized
sensitive European nations. He adminis
tered affairs eighteen months. During
that time he mapped the White Nile from
Khartoum to its source ; he gave to the
slave trade of that region a deadly blow ;
he restored peace and confidence among
the Nile tribes so that they freely traded
their products; he opened water commu
nication along the whole distance that the
Nile ran through his province ; he estab
lished peaceful relations with Mtesa, the
most warlike of the black kings whose
tribes border the Nile valley ; he estab
lished government posts with safe com
munication between them ; lie created a
revenue without oppression; he proved
himself an administrator as well as a mil
itary officer. After a brief holiday in
1877 he was again commissioned by the
Khedive, governor-general of the Soudan—
a vast region extending from the Sahara to
the Red Sea and from Egypt proper to or
south of the equator—a country swarming
with hostile tribes, and bristlug with al
most insurmountable natural barriers.
During three years he rushed back and
forth over that vast region, now fighting,
now administering affairs, bmging order
out of chaos, until, disgusted with some
limi tation of his power imposed by the
Khedive, he resigned the thanklass post
and returned to England, physically brok
en down. In 1881 he was appointed pri
vate secretary to the vice-regent of India
but resigned without service; in the same
year he mediated between China and Rus
sia to the benefit of tho former; in 1882
he went to Capeland, Southern Africa, to
terminate the war then existing between
the colonists and interior tribes but quar
reled with the slow-moving colonial gov
ernment and quickly returned. Just then
El Mahdi or the False Prophet ot the
Soudan had reached the acme of his pow
er and was lo ginning to cast bis shadow
not only over Egypt but also on her
a
English protectors. The whole Soudanese
population was ranged under his banners
and the 30,000 Egyptian and European
military or civil residents in that region
were in imminent danger. England after
much vacillation directed Egypt to aban
don the Soudan and withdraw her troops.
Yielding to public sentiment Chinese
Gordon (who by this time had reached
the rank of major-general) m as asked to
go and take command of the proposed
withdrawal. On the 18th of January,
1884, he embarked from London on his
errand. On the morning of February
18th following he reached Khartoum, the
capital of Soudan. For a few days it was
heard how he revolutionized things in that
insurgent city—how he released prisoners,
issued proclamations that rallied many
rebel chiefs to his side—but since then
little has been «known of him except that
he was beleagured in Khartoum by a
mighty horde of Arabs and repeatedly
sortied upon them from the walls. He
constantly called upon the English gov
ernment for succor and the English people
as constantly clamored that he be relieved.
But not until September 27th last was
vacillation changed into resolution when
Lord Wolseley's expedition embarked for
Khartoum. Hicks and his command had
in the meantime been utterly destroyed
and Baker's and Col. Stewart's detach
ments badly decimated. Wolseley's force
progressed slowly toward their goal. On
the 16th of January last Gen. Stewart had
the first fight of the campaign and a few
days later was wounded in another battle.
On the 28th Gen. Wilson reached Khar
toum and found it in the hands of the
Mahdi and the doleful news "Khartoum
has fallen" was sent to the world. Gen.
Gordon is believed to be dead. He was a
great man, though it is doubtful if lie
could ever have attained greatness outside
the particular line of action which mark
ed his life. He demanded absolute power
_such as he possessed in China and in
Africa—to display his peculiar ability.
He is described as having been of a pecu
liarly restless temperament—impulsive as
a child—irascible and irritable to a degree
of eccentricity—devout by times as a
puritan and at others a madman in his dis
plays of angry diabolism. But he was
brave and indefatigable, a good general, a
good diplomat and a good administrator
-,-a great man but a very peculiar one.
Decided Against Botkin.
A Washington telegram of tbe 9th says:
The senate judiciary committee made
quick work ©f the objections to E. A.
Kreidler's confirmation as the successor of
Marshal Botkin of Montana. The nomi
nation was referred to the committee last
Tuesday, and they sent to the attorney
general for all the papers in the two sets
of charges made against Marshal Botkin,
receiving them the next day. To-day
they decided to report in favor of Kreid
ler. The sub-committce, to whom the
papers in the case were referred, went
over them carefully in detail and found
the charges sustained. Their conclusion
was fully related to the committee and no
dissent was made. The Wisconsin sena
tors will make an effort to obtain another
chance for Botkin when the matter comes
up in the senate, but have little hope of
success. __
Counting the Electoral Vote.
On the 11th inst. Grover Cleveland and
Thomas A. Hendricks were formally de
clared elected president and vice-presi
dent of tbe United States for the term be
gining Mardi 4th next. It should be re
membered that in December last the elec
tors of each state met in their respective
capitals and cast their votes. The votes
so cast were sealed and sent to Senator
Edmunds president of the senate and by
him kept in a safe place until Wednesday
last at noon. The senate and bouse then
met in joint session. Senators Hoar and
Pendleton were appointed tellers on behaif
of the senate and Cary and Keifer for the
lower house. Senator Edmunds then
read off the votes and when they were
counted announced the election Cleve
land and Hendricks amid the wild ap
plause of the distinguished audience.
Situation in tbe Soudan.
It has been ascertained that Gen. Gor
don was undoubtedly killed when Khar
tomn was taken. The date of the capture
of that city by the Arabs was the 20th or
27th of Januarary—one or two days be
fore the English troops arrived. The
Maluli's troops gained access to the walled
city by treachery, and soon raised a great
tumult. Gordon went upon the streets to
ascertain the cause of the disturbance and
was stabbed in the back and fell dead.
A fearful massacre of the garrison then
followed. The Egytians fled but were
pursued, captured and put to deatli with
fiendish tortures. Dead bodies were mu
tilated in a manner too horrible to de
scribe, and Egyptian women were treated
with the most shameful and degrading in
dignities. The night after the capture
was spent by the Arabs in a carnival of
blood and debauchery. Meanwhile the
English troops in Soudan are having con
stant fighting. Gen. Earle was killed a
few days ago at Korti. Such troops as
are now in Africa are being hurried for
ward and preparations are being made to
send a strong additional force from Eng
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land. Negotiations are progressing between
Italy and England forco-operation m Afri
ca .Italy offers to occupy strategic points
while England masses lier troops in the
Soudan. The offer will probably be accept
ed, though it is difficult to understand
what Italy is to make out of the agree
ment.
Wholesale Cremation.
Eighteen raving maniacs burned to
death on the night of the 11th, in the in
sane department of the Blackley Alms
house, near Philadelphia. There were
abont 100 lunatics in the building, ol
whom most were violent, confined in cells.
How the fire originated is not known, but
the alarm was given by an insane patient,
and when the attendants were aroused the
flames had made great headway and, the
water supply being insufficient, nothing
could be done but attempt to save the in
mates. Amid the horrible ravings of the
unfortunate creatures, some of whom
laughed in fiendish glee, while others
howled, shrieked, cursed or prayed, the
attendants dragged them from rooms and
cells till all but eighteen were saved.
The loss on the building will amount to
$150,000.
Illinois Politics.
The legislature of Illinois is having a
cat and dog time. It is about a month
since they convened and they have got no
further than to effect a permanent organi
zation. The legislature is a tie between
democrats and republicans on joint ballot
and a senator is to be elected to succeed
Logan, hence all the trouble. On Wed
nesday while the snow storm had block
aded iailroadsand kept members who had
gone home to spend Sunday away from
their posts after leave had expired, and the
democrats were in temporary majority, an
effort was made to force an election of
senator. But the republicans evaded the
difficulty by marching out of their seats
in a body and leaving the legislature with
no quorum for the transaction ot business.
Repetition of these tactics put off the
ballot until members returned to their
posts. Meanwhile State Senator Brown, a
republican, had fallen dangerously sick at
his home at Albion, Ills. He had paired
with Senator Bridges until yesterday—
Friday—and'when that time expired and
a vote was taken the repubiicans would be
in a minority of one unless he were pres
ent. On Thursday afternoon fifteen per
sonal and political friends of the sick
senator carried him six or seven miles on
a stretcher to the nearest railroad station
w'here he was placed in a special car and
shipped to the scene of the legislative
fight to cast his vote and prevent the dem
ocrats from getting a United States sena
tor. They think the exposure and fatigue
will not kill Brown, but if it does that is of
no consequence compared with "standing
off" the democrats.
Colored Men in Congres».
Washington Letter: Smalls, of South
Carolina, and O'Hara, of North Carolina,
are the only representatives of the negro
race now in congress. Small represents
the lower order of negro politicians. He
is able upon occasions to make a fair
speech, but he is seldom heard, and is not
even a man of average intelligence.
O'Hara, on the other hand, is a gentle
man of ability and refinement. He is
vigilant and active in behalf of the race,
and never allows an opportunity to score
a point to slip by. Both these men will
sit in the Forty-Ninth congress. The
negro race has been represented in the
senate by two colored men, Revels and
Bruce. The former succeeded to the seat
formerly filled by Jeff Davis, and al
though lie sat but a year made his mark
by his speech, "The Plea for the Royalty
of Georgia." Bruce, of Msssissippi, never
did anything in the senate to make his
name remembered. In the bouse there
have been more than a dozen negroes,
including the two sitting mem
bers. Six of these came from
South Carolina—Rancier, Delange, Rain
ey, Eliott, Cain and Smalls. Alabama lias
returned three— Turner, Rapier and Har
oldson; North Carolina two—My man and
O'Hara, and Georgia one—Jeff Long,
whose term extended over a period of six
months only, and Mississippi one—John
Lynch, who served in the Forty-seventh
congress. Of these Elliott was by far the
most brilliant of the dozen. He
could fill tbe galleries whenever it
was known that he was to speak.
His reply to Alexander Stephens, James
Beck and I. G. Harris on the civil-rights
bill is one of the most memorable speeches
in the history of congress. Cain also
made a speech on the subject in reply to
Robinson. He afterward returned to
South Carolina and was elected bishop of
the African M. E. church. Rancier was a
man of fine appearance. He resembles
Tom Bayne, ofj Pennsylvania. Haroldson
is now a watchman in the Baltimore cus
tom house. The others are in various
walks of life—the church, the law, the
claim agencies and the barber shops.
A Proposition.
Paris Gibson and President Hill, of the
Manitoba road, have proposed to the inte
rior department that if the government
will build and maintain an industrial
school for Indians at the Great Falls of
the Missouri, these two gentlemen will
give 640 acres of land for the site.
American Tin.
New York Tribune 10th: Two great
blocks of tin ore from Dakota occupied a
table last evening at tbe meeting of the
Academy of Science in Columbia College.
Prof. Bailey talked on the tin deposits
of the Black Hills. Three per cent ef
the ore was yielded in block tin of the
purest kind ; a superior quality was not to
be fouud in the European mines. In the
last thirty-four years the United States have
consumed tin ware worth $224,000,000,95
per cent of which has been iron. With
the development of the Black Hills mines
the castings of tin could be made much
heavier on tin ware and still sell cheaper
than it does now. Solid tin ware might
be used, and even tin water pipes, from
which the sanitary effect would certainly
be better. In the tin obtained by washing
from streams, is found great quantities of
garnets—so numerous that several wagon
loads of earth frequently yielded a wash
tub full of fine garnets.
A Kooky Mountain Lie.
Glendive Times: A strange story was
told us the other day by Mr. John North,
who had just come from the Little
Rocky diggings, that is in substance as
follows: Last fall while prospecting in
those mountains, he saw a strange ob
ject on a high, level plateau, which from
its singular shape attracted his atten
tion and he proceeded to its immediate
vicinity to investigate. On arriving he
found a ship or what had once been a
ship, but the whole outline was a petri
faction. He first supposed it was a large
rock, with this accidental shape, but on
close examination he found the sub
stance to be petrified wood of some
kind, to him unknown; even the deck
was almost perfect and the place where
one mast had been was plainly to lie
seen. Mr. North had no means by
which he could take an accurate meas
urement, but he judged the vessel to
have been about 90 or 100 feet long and
20 or 22 feet wide. No iron was in
sight, but from discoloration he thought
iron had been used in its construction.
Mr. North found a convenient camp
and pushed his investigations and finally
found an entrance to what must have
been the cabin, which was almost full
of earthy matter, but his search revealed
some strange things in the shape of
coins and what must have been jewelry,
and golden ornaments in the finishings
of the cabin. The coins and ornaments
he had sent to the Smithsonian institute
at Washington, for examination, but he
described the coins as being round, with
(to him) strange characters cut or en
graved on them, and all gold but one,
that being copper. The ornaments
were all gold and of various shapes, one
he thought being made to represent the
sun; some of these had inscriptions on
and some had not. The wood he de
scribed as looking like cedar but had a
different grain. Mr. North was scarce
of provisions and could not spare the
time he wished, but proposes going back
to the site of this ancient vessel again.
What history must be connected with
her, and it may be possible that the ex
amination of the coins will assist in un
raveling a part of the mystery. Mr.
North has gone east, but designs re
turning in the early spring.
A special land agent named Haley it
now investigating the affairs of the office
at Bozeman.
Prof. Wylie of Bozeman is a candidate
for appointment to the position of terri
torial superintendent of public instruction.
A dance will be given at the Albemarle
hotel on Wednesday evening next. Tick
ets of admission 50 cents each. All are
invited to attend.
The Hudson Mining Company of Nei
hart has about 22 tons of mining machin
ery on the way to Townsend where it will
bj transported to the mine. They are also
getting out 200,000 feet of logs at Neihart.
An engine with a snow plow attached
jumped the track while operating against
a snowdrift on the O. R. & N. road near
Union, Oregon, and ascended a steep de
clivity 500 feet without overturning. The
engineer jumped from the engine and suf
fered a broken leg, while the fireman hung
on and escaped unharmed.
Counterfeit five and twenty-dollar gold
pieces have made their appearance in Liv
ingston. The fives are not very rare and
occasionally one of the larger denomina
tion is detected. They are not different
faom genuine coins in either size or weight
and are well finished, but their spurious
character may be easily detected by the
dull, dead ring.
The bill for the annexation of a portion
of Gallatin county to Yellowstone county
came up in the house again yesterday on
its final passage. On motion of Sloan it
was temporarily laid upon the table—con
sideration postponed. Unless tli© Bridger
county Dill should fail of passage in the
lower house it is doubtful if this Yellow
stone bill is again taken up.
A bill is before the legislature and will
probably become a law providing for "a
lawful fence." It requires that all wire
fences shall have at least one pole upon
them so that they may be seen. The own
er of a fence not so arranged is liable to>
fine or imprisonment and for the damage
resulting to persons or stock injured by;
running upon the fence.