illon ?icnt. Hist. Society

VOL. V. DILLON, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, M. T ., SATURDAY, SEPTEM B ER 5, 1885. No. 36.

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* brigade ha. been organized at Afireong _ __ goon a8 the hose and

t e Ä » are received>win2 ^ » d protection to the business por-

^ li itC ^ C o lo .,) Svlvanite mine has

developed * a «">"5 JST*'»rfiich'iias'nt a quarter of a £

I „ It is now claimed that thet i n sight are worth $5,000,000.

The office of the Keystone, at Ketehum,A I,t . ________. . . a c V t n r n p HI Idaho, with all the material, was burned

T H E P IN E V A L L E Y D IST R IC T .

> week- This leaves Ketehum without awper but we presume that it will only bein that condition for a short time.

The Chevenne 5«» of the 25th reportsthe discovery, near Laramie Peak, ot a purple mica mine, said to be the most val-„able sort of mica. Specimens o f it have been shown in Cheyenne and will be sent

East.Morton, who shot and killed Crawford

new Emmettsville, Ada county, Idaho, a s h o r t time since, was held in the sum ot <<oo to appear before the next Grand Jury. He gave the required bond and was re­

leased.The Indians in the Puyallup Valley,

Washington Territory, are complaining vociferously at the reduction of the pay for picking hops to 75 cents a box. The growers are firm, however, and threaten to employ Chinamen.

Superintendent Havens has divided another $2,000 among the owners of the Idahoan mine—-this making the fourth dividend, aggregating $8,000 declared by that gentleman within the past 30 days, uys the Hailey (Idaho) Times.The bids for the completion of the Cap­

itol building at Boise City were opened last Wednesday, says the Statesman. There were four competitors. The lowest bid was $48,5000, by Nlmock & Co., to whom the contract was awarded.

On the 27th of August, in Orland, Calusa county, Cala., George O. Cobb was beating his wife, when his neighbor, Hiram Green, shot through the wall and killed Cobb instantly. Mrs. Cobb had long suf­fered from the drunken frenzy of her hus­band.

it it stated on good authority, says the Phsnix (Arizona) Herald, that the late raid of the Apaches from Sonora into the Huachuca Mountains was known by the Indians on the San Carlos Reservation twelve hours before the telegraph an­nounced the news.

The Winneinucca Silver State says: M Brandenstein & Co. are fencing in their ranch on the Little Humboldt with cedar pasta and barbed wire. They have com­pleted about miles of fence, and intend to build about 30 more this fall. The ranch embraces the old George Carrol place, in Paradise Valley, and several sections which have been purchased from the State and Railroad Company by Brandenstein & Co.

An S-year old boy was killed last week on the Bruneau river by a cougar, says -he Boise (Idaho) Republican. He was with his father, whose name is Taylor, cutting wood, when the cougar sprang out °f the brush and seized him. The fattier ran to the house, got his gun, and shot the ■mimai dead as it held the boy in its em brace, but too late to save his chiled—he was dead.

A Portland (Oregon) dispatch of the 24th **y*: John Williams and wife, living near Lafayette, Oregon, have led a cat-and-dog ‘>f*. One day last week she drove him :?m the house. He went to the barn nttched up a team and went to town. Mrs,

lliams n°t see him move away, and t inking he had hid in the barn, set fire to «to drive him out. The loss is $2,000 no insurance. The woman was arrested :or arson and is now in jail.

Wk BCnt,eman Just from a visit to the1 ite Mountain Indians, states to the St. h n Ar*zona) Herald that they have

ut two thousand acres under cultivation ont e reservation; that the crops are h'Wd*nt: tlle barley and corn will yield «em a large income. The Chiricahuas

tiv'f,ak°Ut t*'ree hundred acres under cul which about two hundred acres

■ m Wle? and the balance in com and *• sa-vs that the yield to these

• at home Indians will be" enormous.

The Marias round-up is in progress.Butte public schools will open on Sep­

tember 7.

Anaconda complains of a superabundance of tramps.

The Rising Sun shines brighter with each issue.

The K of P. are going to organize a lodge at Anaconda.

There are thirty prisoners confined in the Deer Lodge county jail.

Deer Lodge has a brand new brass band. The citizens are to be pitied.

The Anaconda Review presented a much improved appearance last week.

A mock marriage at Butte furnished food for the gossips for several days.

The Presbyterians of Missoula are going to build a new church this year.

The Fort Shaw Military Band was the greatest attraction at the Territorial Fair.

When a Butte man wants to go pros­pecting he just steps into his back yard and sinks a shaft.

Down at Billings the boys put in Sun­days by hauling sand-bags about at the end of a 200-toot rope.

Nine box-cars were ditched near Silver Bow Canyon one day last week. David Conroy had a leg broken.

It is estimated that fully 10,000 head of beef cattle will be shipped from Northern Montana over the Canadian Pacific Rail­road.

The Missoula Improvement Company at present has four saw-mills running. Work on the new Big Blackfoot mill is going ahead.

Butte will soon be supplied with gas of different kind from that so plentifully

furnished, heretofore, by the newspapersof that lively camp.

The cowboys of the Teton range have subscribed over $200 to purchase an organ for the Sunday school at Choteau. Sen­sational liars of the Eastern press please copy.

Twenty-two years ago an Anaconda carpenter swallowed a needle. The other day it came out of the leg of his work­bench. Truth is stranger than fiction Gazette.

Helena is afflicted with hotel thieves during the fair. A man by the name of Charles Wilson had a valuable watch and chain and $13.50 in money taken from his clothing one night last week.

The tooth found in Mr. Chessman’s mine in Helena, and presented to the His­torical Society, belonged to a mammoth (elephas primigenius) which lived here be for and after the glacial period.

Nearly a hundred members of the Mon­tana Stock Growers’ Association attended the annual meeting at Helena last week The meeting lasted two days, and much important business was transacted.

River Press: Charlebois, a halt-breed, recently killed a crazy squaw in Big Bear’s camp. The woman threatened to eat up all the Indians und half-breeds before morning, and to avert this catastrophe Charlebois killed her. A summary way of stopping canibalistic propensities.

A petition, very numerously signed, has been forwaided for the establishment of a postofflee at Buffalo Gulch, ten miles this side of HelmviUe. From what we learn it is necessary for the convenience of the people and should be established. As it is on the Avon and HelmviUe route, it would require no additional service.—.Yew .Xert/i- West.

An unsuccessful attempt was made last week to rob the Marysville coach by two masked men. A “pal” informed the Sher­iff of the “little scheme afloat,” and two deputies were sent ahead of the coach, to near the Seven-Mile House, where they caught the would-be road agents in the act, and took them to Helena where they were jailed.

The Helena Board of Trade invited the members of the Stock Growers’ Associa­tion -one hundred strong—to attend the Opera Houseand see the performance of the “Only a Farm ers Daughter” troupe in the play "of that name. What have those poor stockgrowers done that they should be thus punished? They have the sym­pathy of a large number of Butte theater­goers.—Inter-Mountain.

C H IN E S E IM M IG R A T IO N .

The passenger department ot the Union Pacific have issued a circular concerning the Pine Valley district, which says:

“The discoveries were made in the Pine Valley district, in the Southwestern part of Union county, Oregon, along Eagle Creek and other small tributaries of Powder and Snake Rivers. They are about sixty miles Northeast of Baker City, and fifty miles North of Huntington, Oregon. The only stage route is from Baker City. This is a good road with four- horse stage coach, and runs to within seven miles of the center of the mining camp. From the edge of the stage route to the mines there is a trail over which prospect­ors make their way on horseback and with pack animals. A roadway is in course of construction from the present terminus of the stage road to the village which has sprung up in the mining district. Passen­gers from the East will purchase tickets to Baker City via Oregon Short Line. Other routes, less difficult, will be opened soon. One down the Snake from Weiser, in con­nection with a ferry at Pine Creek, is contemplated. This will take the traffic over a level road to the foot of the gold mountain. The Pine Valley district is at­tracting wide attention in all mining com­munities. No effort has been made to create a stampede or arouse any especial interest. Many inquiries are now being received regarding the new district. Very little development has been made and nothing absolutely definite can be an­nounced. It promises well and we expect It to prove a profitable mining region. We simply publish what information we have been able to gather.”

W h a t J o h n R u s se ll Y oung H as to Say

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CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

John Russell Young, ex-Minister to China, in an interview said: “The {mi­gration question is not understood in America. Emigration from China comes from one point alone. Canton is a city of a millon people and the center of a vast province. The most Southern port in China, within seven hours of Canton by river, is Hong Kong. The Chinese do not care for emigration. They would stop the whole thing to-morrow. They do not, of course, like the idea of other nationalities being accepted in America and they being excluded, but that is only a question of pride on their part. Hong Kong British settlement, as much under the British flag as is Cork or Liuerpool. All traffic in the way of emigration comes from Hong Kong ; mainly through Eng lish houses. There is no stipulation or treaty, and there can be none to justify us in asking the Chinese to prevent China men from going from Canton to Hong Kong. Once there they are free from Chinese influence. If the American Gov­ernment wishes to reach the imigralion question, it will have to go to Lord Salis bury md ask him to instruct his govern­ment at Hong Kong that there may be no imigration. The British Governor-Gen­eral of Hong Kong, whom 1 know very well, and whose guest 1 have been, said he was perfectly willing, if the American Government wished it, to stop the imi­gration, but he had no suçh instructions. There is nothing on record to show that China has ever endeavored to evade the treaty. On the contrary, she has enforced it even more stringently than any request of ours calls for.”

A M U R D E R E R 'S C O N F E S S IO N .

W h y H e K ille d t h e ll i-ak e n ia ii o n C o le 's

C irc u s T ra in E a s t Y ea r.

[Boiled Down from the Late Telegrams.)

At Iowa Gulch, near Leadville, Colo., on Sunday, Harry Kirby killed Phillip Nash, almost severing his head from the body with an axe. The trouble was about mining claims. Kirby was threatened with lynching, but finally landed in the Leadville jail. Both men have the repu tation of being hard citizens.

The census taken in Dakota shows that the population of the entire Territory is about 416,000, and not 263,000 as previous ly stated. The latter figures shows the population of that part of the Territory south of the forty-sixth parallel.

The cholera has made its appearance Ponzone, near Acquit, in the province of Alsandria, Italy. Seven persons have been attacked and four have died. The contagion was conveyed by a family from Marseilles.

The Alaska Commercial Company’s steamer, “St. Paul," which arrived at San Francisco on the 31st from Onalaska, brought 99,995 seal skins, valued at over a millon dollars. Dr. Willis E. Everett, ot the Smithsonian Institute, Washington was among the passengers.

The Preller trunk mystery is at last solved. Maxwell, in the presence of a number of St. Louis reporters, signed statement that he had killed Preller by an overdose of chloroform.

A fine monument has been erected the memory of Commander Oliver Hazard Perry, at Newport, R. I.

A strange and fatal disease has appeared in Clay county, West Virginia. The ease resembles cholera.

Ayer’s Ague Cure, when used accord­ing to directions, is warranted to eradicate from the system all forms of malari.il dis­ease, such as Fever and Ague, Chill I e \ er, Intermittent and Bilious Fevers, and dis­orders of the liver. Try it. The experi­ment is a safe one, and will cost you noth­ing if a cure is not affected.

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IN D IC T E D F O R M U R D E R .

Readers of the T r ib u n e will doubtless remember the murder of a binkeman committed near Garrison last year when Cole’s circus visited Montana, and that the perpetrator thereof had never been apprehended. About a week ago a tramp, who said his name was Murphy, gave himself up to the Minneapolis Police, ac­cusing himself of murder. He was locked up and soon alter made the following statement to a Pioneer Press reporter :

“I murdered a brakeman on the Utah \ Northern narrow guage last summer. We left Ogden, and before we had got to Garrison I had committed the murder. 1 was lying down under a circus wagon, which was on a platform car, when a brakeinan came along and wanted me to pay him for riding. I told him I was one of the circus men, but he said that was too thin, and asked me for money. I told him that I would not give him any, and we began to quarrel. He struck me or struck at me several times, and at one time came near pushing me off the car. I told him that if he didn’t leave me alone i would shoot him. lie made another pass at me. The train was going at a good rate, and I knew he would push me oft the train. When lie came at me I drew my revolver and fired, the ball taking et- lect in his body. He then climbed upon a box car and died. We went into Garrison and thence into Bozeman, where I es­caped. I have been working around Grand Forks, Ardock and Minto, Dakota, in the harvest fields. I know they were after me at Whapeton. Sometime ago I came to St. Paul, where I worked at o«ld jobs. A week ago I came to Minneapolis, and have had a hard time to get along."

S e rio u s C h a rg e A g a in s t th e M a rq u is d e

M ores.

A Bismarck (Dakota) dispatch of the 24th ult., says : The Marquis de Mores, the millionaire cattleman, has been indicted on the charge of murder by the Grand Jury- now in session at Mandan. The charge has been hanging over the Marquis for more than two years.

When the Marquis first settled in the bad lands he fenced in a large tract. The cowboys objected and bad blood was en gendered. While in Bismarck one day the Marquis received a dispatch warning him against the cowboys, who had threat ened to kill him on his return to the Little Missouri.

When he returned he stepped from the North side of the train, while the cowboys awaited his arrival on the South side. He succeeded in getting home, but the cow boys surrounded his premises. The Mar quis and two friends crept through the weeds to a safe shelter and awaited their opportunity when the three fired.

One of the shots killed one of the cow boys, but it is not known whose shot killed the man. The Marquis was, however arrested and given a hearing and dis charged.

A N O T H E R G R E A T SH O W .

T h e N o r th , C e n tra l an<l S o u th A n ie r ic a u

E x p o s itio n .

Government Inspector Armstrong has just returned from an inspection of the In ­dian agencies in Arizona, lie report-, that among the residents of that Territory all f e a r s of further Indian depredations have disappeared, and that the Apaches at San Carlos agency have raised a large crop ot grain this year and are peaceful and con­tented.

During forty-eight hours, eightv-two deaths from cholera occurred at Marseilles, seventy-eight at Toulon and eight, at Salines.

The Oregon Short Line began shipment the ist inst, of 2 7 , 0 0 0 head of cattle from Ontario, Baker county, Oregon, on Snake River. It will take 1.400 cars and sixty days to complete the transportation. Most of the cattle go to Chicago.

The Union Pacific Company have or­dered 400 cars Tor shipping stock from points along the Oregon Short Line, which are to be filled by September 5. Three hundred cars have been forwarded thus far this season.

A child at 127 Pit street. N. Y., was dis­covered Wednesday suffering from a violent case ot smallpox. Part of the building is used as a school, and there are fears that the infection will spread.

New Orleans is to have another great exhibition. The failure of the one known as the World’s Cotton Centenial Kxposi tion does not appear to have had a dis couraging effect upon the promoters of the new enterprise. They have purchased from the Government the buildings and plant of the late Exposition for $175,000 and intimate that they will again open in the fall under the title of the North, Cen tral and South American Exposition, and will continue open until March 31, 1886 The display is intended to cover the same class of exhibits. The company, which is a stock concern, has been organized under the laws of Louisiana, with a capital stock of $150,000, and says it neither asks nor expects aid from the Government. The company very evidently have taith that their venture will be a success.

T H E N E W G O L D M IN E S.

E n c o u ra g in g R e p o r ts F ro m t l ie S w e e t

G rass G o ld A lines.

The Fort Benton River Press publishes the following in regard to the Sweet Grass mines : A couple of gentlemen returnedfrom the Sweet Grass hills recently and are enthusiastic over the outlook for the camp. One of the gentlemen, who has mined in California, Nevada, Oregon and Idaho, says he has never seen such pros­pects for the last twenty years. Ilis state­ments can be relied on. The work which has been done so far is only preliminary to- the opening up of claims. Joseph Super- nant has sunk a shaft to bed-rock on his claim and took out $5 to • the pan. The work has been done at and near the place where the discovery was made, and but little prospecting done anywhere else. It is reported that discoveries have been made in both the East and West Buttes.

A gentleman informed our reporter that, from all appearances, from $20,000to $40,- 000 can be taken from any claim now being worked. It is said that water is more plenty in the East and West Buttes than in the middle one, where operations arc now being conducted. The surface in­dications of the East Butte appear more favorable for the finding of gold than either of the others.

Tins W re c k o f t l ie l l r l g “ I s a b e l la .”

F o u r H u n d re d a N ig h t.

Sarah Bernhardt has signed a contractfor an American tour, guaranteeing her a minimum 225 performances betwenn May, 1SS6, and May, 1SS7, at $4rx> for each and a percentage of the receipts above a cer­tain amount, the tour to embrace both North and Soutli America.

The steamer “Nova Scotian,” which ar­rived at Halifax on the August 28 from Liverpool, brought from St. John, N. F., Captain Scalloason and twenty-one of the crew of the American whaling brig “ Isa­bella,” which was lost in the ice in Hudson Strait. The “Isabella” sailed from New Bedford on May 27, 1SS4, and entered the ice-pack July 11. She was crushed in the ice on tlie 20th of the same month, twenty- miles North of North Bluff. All of the crew, twenty-three in number and a stow­away, were saved. They wandered about on the ice for four days, suffering intensely from the cold. They finally reached a settlement called Acalaier, and remained there until September 9, when the whaler “Eira” arrived oft' the place and they were all taken on board and kindly cared for, but owing to the scarcity of food on the “Eira,” both crews had to be put on short allowance. While on board the - Eira" one of the “Isabella’s” crew, a Swede named Francis Pempro, died of tlie scurvy. The rest of the men arc all in good Health.

M o v in g T h is W ay .

Over four hundred Hungarians and Po- landers left Hazelton, Pa., Aug. 29, for the Northwest, and it is expected that a great manv more will leave for the same region in a few davs.

K n ig h ts o f L a b o r V ic to r io u s ,

A special from Tyler, Texas, says: The Knights of Labor held u meeting and de­manded the three months’ wages now due. The company have about conceded and the men will resume work as soon as they can arrange matters so as to act with uni­formity. The Knights have been re­markably quiet and orderly since the be­ginning of the strike.

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