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Moutaua Historical .Society iuiitg.'itoii VOL. 4. NO. 10. LIVINGSTON, MONTANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1886. PRICE 10 CENTS Yivingsto» tfntcvpvist. MVINGSTON, GEO. H. WRIGHT, MONTANA. Publisher. SATURDAY. , SEPTEMBER 18, 1886. M |$-< KII'TION On<* year........ months..... HATES — PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. ............................$3 50 ......... i 00 .............. 1 25 1 ' ......*............................. Single copies ................................. 10 Mi-« Jennie A. Henderson is authorized to re ceive and receipt for subscriptions to the Weekly Kste units e at Mammoth Hot Springs. jolis A. SAVAGE. tjAVAOU & El JOHN II ELDER, „DER, LAWYERS, Practice * u all the Courts of the Territory. \]j.p have Heal Estate and InsuranceDepartmete. LIVINGSTON, MONT. Uereive applications for Northern Pacific lands and for Livingston property. The same are sold for'oart cash and balance on long time. K D. ULKT I). ALTON, M. D. i itoKos Noktheun Pacific H. K. Co U. PKKKY, IIYSICAN AND SURGEON. LIVINGSTON, ■ MONTANA. Ofib <* in Orschel Bro s. Block, Park Street. J^R. \V. C. SEIILBREDE, DENTIST, has permanently located in Livingston First .lass operations performed, and satisfaction •marante ed. Office in Dodson building, Main St. Bank of Livingston STEBBINS, MUND & CO., Livingston, - - Montan« Transacts a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Exchange on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe. Interest Allowed on TIME DEPOSITS. Collections made a specialty. Correspond ence solicited. ASSOCIATED BANKS. Stockgrowers National, Miles City. First National Bank, Billings. First National Bank, Buffalo, Wyo'g. Merchants National Bank, Deadwood, D. T. Stebbine, Mund & Fox, Central, D. T. tstebbins, Fox .fc Co , Spearfish, D. T. A. L. LOVE Cashier. Lower Main Street FEED CORRAL, Billy Miles, Prop. BALED HAY, CHOP FEED, WHEAT and OATS for sale by the pound or in CAR LOTS. Best of care given to all Stock placeu m uiy care. Prices Reasonable Lumber! Lumber! At the Montana Lumber Co.'s old Stand. LUMBER, SASH, DOORS, MOULDINGS, Pickets, Lath. Shingles, Building Pa per, (Plaster Paris, Plastering Hair, Etc., Etc., Agents for Bodine and Keystone Roofing. Office opposite skating rink. GORDON BROS. JAS. A. CLARE, Proprietor of the National M Lray, Feed and Sale Stables. Hacks and Carriages With or With out Drivers. Sale Horses, Pack Horses, Guides and Camping Outfits furnished when desired. Also operate the Code Stage and Express Line. Parties wishing to make a tour of the Park com fortably, will do well to call at the office of the Weite Barn, Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming. ELITE SALOON! Helferlin Block, 'Main St., CARL MILLER, Prop'r. THE BEST WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Constantly in Stock. MILWAUKEE KEG BEER ALWAYS ON TAP. JOHN BAMFORD, CARPENTER AND BUILDER. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. Estimates and Specifications for any Gass of building furnished on application. Shop on Second St.. LIVINGSTON, - - MONTANA. MRS. W. M. 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We will mall a copy FREE to any ad dress upon receipt of 10 cts. to defray expense of mailing. Let us hear from yon. Respectftally, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. 227 dc 229 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. THE OASIS! LISK & ENNIS, Props. Having just completed our new building on Main Street, and furnished the same with every thing appertaining to a first class 6ar, we are prepared to greet all onr old friends and as many new ones as will favor us with a call. The Best Brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars Constantly on hand. MAIN STREET, LIVINGSTON. Pleasant Valley Hotel! YELLOWSTONE PARK, J. F. YANCEY, Proprietor. Special Attention Given to the Ac commodation of Tourist Travel. Hay, Grain and Good StaUint for Horses. Saloon In Connection, supplied with the very best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. them from *5 to *25 per A*j. So"« earned over *.V» ln a day. fhM^'wboitart at one* NEWS OP THE WEEK Imported oleomargarine is to be taxed 15 cents a pound. Recent heavy rains have almost ruined the crops m the North of Ireland. Peterboro, Ontario, has a juvenile salva tion army of six and eight-year-olds. Chicago is three games ahead of Detroit m the race for the base ball championship. The pope has published a letter relative to the his'tory of Catholic missions in India. John L. Sullivan and Frank Herald are in training for a setto on Coney Island, New York. The oleomargarine stamps will be ready for distribution to the internal revenue bureau this week. There are fifteen men in Portland, Or., wortli a million or more, who went to Oregon without a dollar. A theatre for amateurs is to be built in New York at a cost of $200,000 after the suggestions of Mrs. James Brown Potter. Herr Liebknecht, the socialistic deputy who will deliver a scries of lectures in the United States, has sailed from Hamburg. At a fair at Bismarck Grove, Kas., 500 thirsty people watched the sheriff empty on the ground 8,600 bottles confiscated beer. During a fight at a "corn cutting" near Summerville, Mo., Jerc Orchard, Riley Martin and Zem McCoskell were fatally wounded. Judge Homer, of Nebraska, has been sued for $50,000 by an ex-penitentiary convict named John Williams, for false imprisonment. Since the outbreak of the cholera in Italy, the total number of cases reported are 45,000 and the total number of deaths 14,000. Jack Burke, with his backer, left Chi cago for San Francisco Thursday to meet Jack Dempsey in an eight round contest on September 27. An Arizona paper offers a prize of a demijohn of gin to any one who will fur bish it with a correct list of the twenty worst men in town. The Japan Gazette says that the total number of cholera cases throughout the country since its first appearance this year is 59,000, of which 37,000 ended fatally. John Fitzgerald, president of the Irish National League of America, has ordered 10,000 copies of Gladstone's pamphlet on the Irish question for circulation among the league branches. While a gang of laborers were grading a road near Cresent, la., they discovered an old clay furnace about six feet under ground, and over which was growing a hickory tree eight inches in diameter. Farmer Bowen, father of the girl whose body was stolen from the grave by Wil son, the medical student, has mdentified the body at Toledo, and brings suit for larceny of a silk dress she was buried in. In Vancouver there is a land office es tablished in a hollow tree forty-four feet in circumference. In the same section there is a table forty-one feet long and over four feet wide, made out of a solid board. Large quantities of new crisp $1 notes are being macerated at the treasury de partment daily, with a view ot getting all the greenbacks of that denomination out of circulation and forcing silver dollars into use. United States Marshal Nelms of Cobb county, Ga., is not envied by his neigh bors. The moonshiners-have threatened to kill him, and the marshal thinks that they mean it, but he doesn't weaken a particle. The British war scare of 1885 cost the English government £1,117,000 for the hiring of transports which were never used. For the America they paid £66, 000; the Imbna £48,000, and the Rosetta £32,000. Mrs. Sarah C. French of Coldwater, Michigan, has been discovered to be heir to a large estate valued at $1,000,000 in Elwood, Gloucestershire, England, and will leave in a few days for that place to assert her claim. Frank Hoffman, a citizen of Broad Rip pie, Indiana, was sent to state prison on a serious charge. A few days ago he was released and his neighbors to the number of 350 welcomed him home with a picnic and an all night dance. John Colly, aged fourteen, has been ar rested for setting fire to the National stock yards at East St. Louis, causing a total loss of over $60,000. He says that lie and two other boys did the job because they were refused work. One of the results of the earthquake was to cure the rheumatism of a citizen of Columbia, S. C. „ He used cyutches for years, but when the earth quaked he ran out of the house like a 4-year old steer, and he hasn't used his crutches since. The New York Sun insists that it is true that a prominent trustee in one of the largest churches in New England success fully opposed the inauguration of revival meetings on the ground that sucli a meet ing would destroy their new church car a it in pets. "Besides," he said, "what do we want with a revival? We are out of debt; our pews are all rented ; our house is full, and a revival would only disturb the quiet and orderly development of the church." A great gold discovery was made in western Australia. The gold is coarse, much of it being in nuggets weighing several ounces. The government geolo gist estimates that the new gold field covers an area of from 3,500 to 4,000 miles. A Dakota farmer, grumbling at the poor outlook for wheat in the early summer, offered to give to his wife all the wheat he would have over 1,500 bushels. He has just threshed a trifle over 2,500 bush els, and the wife is going to have a new black silk dress. Lumbermen get 20 cents a log at Wau saw, Wis., for raising "dead" or water soaked logs from the bottom of the Wis consin river. They have already raised about 600,000 feet, and logs that have been dead for 20 years are said to be as sound as the day on which they were cut. The British Trades Union congress at Hull adopted resolutions condemning over time work on the part of men hav ing employment as one of the elements of over employment which causes idle ness and poverty by shutting thousands out from their due share in the world's work. The Niagara Falls excursion train on the Nickel Plate railway collided with a local freight train in a cut on a curve east of Silver Creek, Tuesday morning. Only those in the smoking car were hurt, being completely telescoped by the bag gage car. Sixteen were killed and many wounded, many of the former being mangled beyond recognition. The British are establishing a coaling station at Thaso, on the northwest coast of the island of Thaso, in the Ægean sea. England is chartering steamers and mak ing other provisions against contingencies, and if so, what are her reasons for this activity? It looks to be in a direction in which Turkey has an interest. C. W. Harvey, riding through Califor nia woods, near Royalton, was scared half out of his wits by. the fall of a mountain lion close at his side. His horse was quite as much scared, and jumped into a run just as the lion landed in the road behind him. The beast chased the horse and rider for a mile be fore it gave up the effort to eat one or both. Miss Roily Gchris of Washington township, Pa., who recently died at the age of 84, was always a manly sort of woman. She hired out to the farmers to work in the field and could do a man's work. She smoked and chewed tobacco for over fifty years, and boasted that she had never had a beau, and that no man ever lived who dared to ask her to marry him. The marshes on each side of the Eau Claire river, in Wisconsin, were burned over this summer, and recent rains made a strong lye which was carried into the river. At lfcast this is the theory advanced to account for the fact that the other day thousands of fish came down the river, seemingly in a great hurry, and went over the dam and out into the Wisconsin river. George E. Faulker, a fifteen-year-old boy living near Trappe, Md., loved his mother devotedly. She was ill and like ly to die, and he often said, "If my mother dies I do not care to live." His mother did die on Monday, after calling her children to her and blessing them, and then George went out in the yard and shot himself through the heart. Bismarck Tribune: When asked to provide counsel for Edward Powers in his tiial for murder, Judge Francis asked if it was settled that he had no means of his own for procuring such. "What was your salary as a soldier," asked his honor. "Thirteen dollars a month," replied Pow ers. "It is evident," said the judge, "that no private in the United States army has the means of providing counsel for him self when on trial for his life." An attempt was made to blow up the signal tower of the Lake Shore railway company, Chicago, on Friday evening and then wreck a passenger train due in a few minutes. Of the one hundred batteries in the building thirty-four were broken and will cost $1,000 to repair. The train was signalled before it came up and a ter rible accident was averted. Another such attempt was made on the Illinois Central track and fifteen cars were derailed. Sev eral arrests were made. S. C. Cox, United States minister to Turkey, is about starting for home on a furlough owing to ill health, says a cable gram from Constantinople. Heap, secre tary of the American legation, will con duct the affairs of the office during Cox's absence. Heap will continue negotiations for the new tariff treaty between the Uni ted States and Turkey. More Armeni ans are going to the Uuited States to be naturalized. The United States govern ment has not replied to the protests of those Americans whose American citi zenship Turkey refuses to recognize. on by in the ing ed in er's bed one and ed was He MONTANA NEWS. Deer Lodge's new court house is near ing campletion. Shoshone Indians are reported to have killed 200 elk in the Big Horn mountains this season simply for their hides. The burnt out little smelter at Toston, on the Missouri, is being rebuilt and will recommence operations Octobei 1. Deer Lodge County commissioners have decided that no fire tax shall be levied this year in Anaconda and Philips burg. President Hill aud Vice President Ken nedy of the Manitoba railroad were ban queted in Helena on Friday evening of last week. It is rumored that prominent demo crats of Benton have secured a controlling interest in the River Press and that that journal will strongly support Delegate Toole. Patrick Gibbons, a barber of Anaconda, committed suicide on Tuesday afternoon by taking morphine. The act was the outcome of a long spree and difficulty with the authorities. J. K. Toole is stumping at Benton and northern Montana. He has convinced the skeptical at Benton that he worked for theirs and the interests of Montana while in the national legislature. The railroad employes in Prickly Pear canyon are in a continued fracas, and more broken heads and bruised heads are reported from there than for the whole of the Northern Pacific construction three years ago. The Northern Pacific has rclaid the Mullan tunnel and approaches with 66 pound steel rails, taking up the 24-pound rails. This, with oak ties, insures greater safety and better traction on the heavy grades and curves. Citizens of the Canadian northwest ter ritory are cutting timber by the wholesale and floating it down Belly river to Leth bridge for conversion into lumber, from whence it is distributed to residents of the northwest territory. A Helena special of Wednesday says : The fact has just leaked out that the Northern Pacific and its allied lines will build a branch to Marysville, the great camp of the celebrated Drum Lummon mine, and have trains running within forty days. Billings Gazette : United States Com missioner Walter Matheson has received instructions from Robt. B. Smith, United States attorney for Montana, that all United States cases from Yellowstone county will hereafter be disposed of at Bozeman instead of Miles City. Miles City Democrat: E. R. Brown, charged with the murder of J. W. Toohey, came in Sunday for the purpose of stand ing bis trial. The grand jury failed to find an indictment against him quite to his disappointment as he desired to have the matter finally and forever settled by the verdict of twelve citizens. Chas. Chase was found dead near Ban nock, on Saturday morning, having com mitted suicide by shooting himself in the head behind the right ear. Chase was a brother of John Chase, who was shot by their partner, Jas. L. Cochrane, about a year ago. Debt is supposed to be the cause for the suicide. County Commissioner J. Y. Stafford, of Meagher county, who has a fine ranch at Avalanche canyon on the Missouri river valley, has a flourishing young orchard of over 100 trees and this year raised several bushels of apples that cannot be surpass ed in any country. His ranch is in a fa vored situation, but there are many more in Montana quite as favorably situated, and he is one more who has solved in the affirmative, the question, can fruit be raised in Montana? A tragedy was enacted on Fred. Up linger's ranch near Big Spring creek on Thursday of last week. Adolph Baro owed Thomas Leard some money. The note was due some time ago and Leard notified Baro, who went over to the form er's place ostensibly to settle it. They went to bed together that night and Baro killed Leard. About 10 o'clock at night Charlie Leard went up to the camp. Baro came at him like a crazy man, with a knite which he kept plunging at Leard, who warded off the blows. Leard then pulled his revolvor and shot his antago nist, and afterward found his brother in bed in a pool of blood. Shot His Father Trying to Rescue Him. Spokane Falls special: Late Friday evening F. Aikin returned here from Okanogan City, and relates the story of a horrible tragedy at Grand Coulee, about one hundred miles north of here, last Tuesday. Last Sunday officer J. Hub bard and Aikin left here with a warrant and requisition for one Paine, who was wanted in Missouri for a crime committed years ago. At Okanogan City they learn ed of his whereabouts, and on Tuesday he was found on his ranch in Grand Coulee. He was arrested and the two officers and their prisoner started for Spokane in a buckboard. They had not gone far when they were overtaken by a son of Paine who rode up within range of them and by it As C. ed est his ty al began firing at them with a Winchester. About the third shot he instantly killed his father. The officers returned the fire with their revolvers at first, but finding the range too long also produced a Winches ter. Several shots were exchanged and finally young Paine brought f,r »wn Hub bard and killed one of the horses of the officers. Aikin mounted the other, and by hard riding barely escaped. Young Paine has not yet been apprehended, and it is thought that his chances fot escape arc good. SANDERS NOMINATED As the Republican Delegate to Congress. The territorial republican convention was held at Butte on Wednesday. It was withal uninteresting, the speeches being short and of small effort, the delegates paying more attention to business than oratory. They took up the matters for discussion without much preliminary skirmish and the candidates were at once brought out. Col. Botkin nominated T. C. Power, and between the informal and first formal ballot, Col. Sanders succeed ed in interjecting the platform which he had framed. Mr. Payne, of Missoula, strenuously objected to one of the pro visions but it passed over his head. As the balloting progressed, the scattering votes shifted back and forth. Custer county persistently maintained a solid fronting for Burleigh, and at one time fourteen votes were cast for him. But they changed, and Col. Sanders got those which fell from Burleigh, and at the last ballot the counties stood as follows : Beaverhead—Sanders 2, Power 1. Choteau—Sanders 3, Power 1. Custer—Burieigh, 5. Dawson—Sanders, 2. Deer Lodge—Sanders 9. Fergus—Power 3. Gallatin—Power 10. Lewis and Clarke—Sanders 5, Power 8. Madison—Sanders 5. Meagher—Sanders 4. Missoula—Sanders 5, Burleigh 1. Silver Bow—Sanders 8, Power 6. Yellowstone—Sanders 2, Power 1. Jefferson—Sanders 2. This gave Col. Sanders^ the nomination and the applause which greeted this in formation was loud and prolonged. In response to a call for a speech accepting the nomination, he made one of his bright est efforts; carefully worded, his speech was abounding in appropriate quotations, (Jllglualitica aud V/itiu£ aniuasuio* He appealed to the labor vote, and en deavored to lay to the democratic party the fall in the price of silver. He an nounced that he would immediately re sign his position as Northern Pacific at torney, which announcement was greeted with more applause than any other part of his speech. Burleigh, Botkiu, Carter, Mc Cutcheon, Knowles and Ilaldorn also made short speeches. The resolutions which were quite voluminous were written by Col. Sanders in his best vein. The fol lowing compose the territorial central committee : I. D. McCutcheon, chairman. I. Salhinger, secretary. T. C. Power, treasurer. Henry Knippenbcrg, Beaverhead. Jere Sullivan, Choteau. Wm. Harmor, Custer. H. J. Haskell, Dawson. J. H. Mills, Deer Lodge. J. M. Vrooman, Fergus. Chas. Burg, Gallatin. Hiram Cook, Jefferson. R. O. Hickman, Madison. Louis Rotwitt, Meagher. F. L. Worden, Missoula. P. R. Dolman, Silver Bow. Walter Matheson, Yellowstone. IT WAS HARMONIOUS. Was the Republican County Convention. A convention not as harmonious as it might have been, was that of the re publicans who met at Bozeman last Saturday to nominate county officers on the republican ticket. The convention was called to order at 4:30 o'clock by Hon. G. D. Thomas, chairman of the county central committee. The fight for temporary chairman came first in order, and was between Thomas and Peter Koch. There were 51 votes cast, Thomas receiving 33 and Koch 18, being applauded loudly by the Livingston del egation while the Bozeman delegates remained in "innocuous desuetude." Matters were progressing favorably when a majority of the delegates w r ere bent on making speeches while the minority cheered. Major Eaton sug gested that the democratic friends in the rear keep quiet, and allow the re publicans to worry through w ith their differences. Chas. Berg observed that "we are having a repetition of two years ago," while John Reese, of Reese creek, declared "it was a disgrace," a sentiment which was generously ap plauded. An effort was made for ad journment until Monday, but it was a failure. About this time Chas. Berg came forward with some resolutions which his committee prepared. They read as follows: 1. The republicans of Gallatin coun ty assembled this, the 11th day of Sep tember, 1886, affirm our allegiance to the republican party of freedom* and progress, and subscribe cordially to the principles of the last republican nation al convention. a of to 2. We endorse the resolution adopted by that convention in faver of granting the territory to name their respective officers. 3. We announce the strictest of econ omy in the administration of our coun ty offices, and in the administration of those trusts. We condemn the princi ple heretofore adopted, of employing assistants not identified by the princi ples of the republican party. 4. We endorse the effort of the re publicans in the lower house of the ter ritorial legislature in reducing the fees and salaries of certain county officials, and recommend the further reduction of such fees and salaries until they shall correspond with like clerical services paid in civil life. 5. We endorse the principles announc* ed two years ago by the republican party of GiAleAin county, that persons elected to official positions shall devote their personal attention to the same. 6. That we sympathize with the la boring classes in their effort to receive a fair and just compensation for their services, and will use all commendable exertion to make labor honorable; recog nizing the fact that there is wealth out side of this high and respectable occu pation. 7. We pledge ourselves to the nomi nees of this convention; and that we will use our best endeavors for their election. After a harmonious session of sev eral hours the following ticket was nominated: Councilman— S. L. Holliday, Living ston. Lower House—Chas. Eaton, Cooke City; Jno. Reese, Gallatin valley; Jno. Potter, Moreland. Sheriff— O. P. Templeton, Livingston. Clerk and Recorder—II. P. McNaugh ton, Gardiner. Treasurer—George Berengher, Boze man. Commissioners—Geo. H. Carver, Liv ingston; T. C. Burns, Big Timber; Dan iel Maxey, Bozeman. Assessor—James Ennis, Springdale. Probate Judge—Chas. Carson, Tim berline. Attorney—Frank Henry, Livingston. Superintendent of Schools—Miss Josie Bell, Bozeman. Public Administrator—George Budd, Bozeman. Surveyor—S. Deutsch, Bozeman. Delegates to the territorial conven tion—F. D. Pease, G. M. Dallas, George Ilaldorn, II. J. Hoppe, W. W. Alderson, Chas. Berg, John Potter, G. W. Grant, Oto. Darnabvj !*• P# Hanloy To a certain extent Livingston was favored throughout. Bozeman dele gates were disappointed in the selection of chairman and remained quiet, voting only under protest. Good News for Sheep Shippers. Pioneer Press: The announcement made yesterday that the Northwestern Freight association had issued a new live stock tariff, under which cattle, hogs and sheep were to be shipped east from St. Paul at so much per 100 pounds, will prove good news to all stockmen, and es pecially the sheep ranchmen. The latter have been kept in a shade of uncertainty for a long while whether or not they would be able to ship in single or double deck cars. The fact was shown conclusively that they could not afford to continue in the business unless the double-deck cars were continued in vogue. This mode of shipment has been objectionable to the railroads not only because it was disastrous to their cars, but also because it was in human. The sheepmen could not ship otherwise, because the rates w ere too higli for a business still in Us infancy. The rates upon a single-deck car of sheep were made heavier than upon a carload of cattlo, and the difference too great to war rant the sheep growers to continue in the business unless they were given a more reasonable rate or allowed to ship in double-deckers. The fact that all live stock is to be reduced to tonnage and shipped out at so much per hundred pounds will make the sheep shipper in different as to the style of car in which his stock is transported. The Book of Mormon a Frond. Salt Lake Tribune: A legal gentle man who has been giving his attention to the study of the Book of Mormon has pronounced it a fraud. He has dis covered that the plates which Joseph claims to have found were never in ex istence, because if they had been made of brass they would have been destroy ed by rust, and they could not have been made of gold, because Joseph would have kept them and converted them into money. To his mind this is proof conclusive that there were never any plates in existence. Consequently the divine origin of the book is a hoax. Apaches Shipped to Florida, Las Vegas, X. M., dispatch, 15th : To day a train of ten coaches came from the south, bearing the Chircahua and Warm Spring Apaches from the San Carlos reservation, in Arizona, to Flor ida. There were 460 of the savages. Although none of them have been on the war path since Geronimo broke loose, it is well understood that they were furnishing his band with ammu nition, and there was no telling what moment they might break out. For this reason the government decided to ship them to Florida, where they could do no harm.