Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-12-11
EDITORIAL VOTES.

Congress met on Monday last, Dec. 7ih.
1t is rumored that John Howe is to be
appointed Postmaster at Helena The
Herald thinks he would make better
Governor of Montana than Postmaster.
Mayor Havemcycr IF New York died
of apoplexv in that city on. :hc Goth ult. |
All the courts ia the city ad journed on the !
receipt of the news Of his death.
California now holds the Yosemite Val>
lev in trust for the Nation, and has paid
$50 600 to settle the presumption claims OF
the persons who COLOMBO there.
IT is estimated that the yield of precious
metals in Utah will this year foot up the
large sum of SIC, 000, 0O0 against s., GOO, 900
last year.
There is no greater obstacle in the way
Of our success in life than trusting to some
thing to turn up. instead of going to work
and turning up something.
THE number of unemployed persons in
st. Louis is said to be larger than at any
previous period in the history of the city.
According to New York papers there
are not less than $1,000 men, women and
children in that me tropolis out of employ.
ment. and yet 10000 Lcngshoremen refuse
to work for thirty its per hour.
more laborers than she has work for.
In New England and in the mining regi-
ons of Pennsylvania, manufacturers are
running or short time. or have closed al.
J together, Notwithstanding all these indi>
cations of hard times, in the financial
circles of the East money is reported very
: plenty. In the West it Is different.
TIE Oregon Legislature has passed a
- III w nfN
gambling to recover double the amount Sc
lost. The result is that poker>players
: deal the worst possible hands to themselves
,, and four aces 10 their opponents.
II being reported that about sixty white
miners are working on the Sioux Reserva
ton in the Black Hills. Secretary Delane
REQUESTS the War Department to remove
/ any persons SO trespassing. in order te
= avoid trouble with the Indians.
The public debt statement shows the to
! tai debt to be s., 252 $50. 296; total interes
x33, o51 III; cash in treasury, coin, 1888,
n CAB. 762; currency, $16,G09,3l1; special de
: posts held for redemption of certificate:
r Of deposits, 81, 100000; total in treas
i ury, $l4 1858, Oc3: debt less cash in the
! treasury, $2,13S, 94S, 1874; decrease during
the month Of November. 1924 de
c crease since June 30th, 1874, 81, 9,9o7.
THE Commissioner Of Indian Affairs ii
: his annual report gives some i"t"""-
} facts IN connection VIZ, the affairs of hi
: Bureau, me Indians number nearly
three hundred thousand souls. There ART
u ninety thousand who roam over the plains
S and depend upon the bounty Of the gov
G ernment and tie chase for their subsistence
e OF the sem.civilizcl Indians east of til,
; Sierra Nevada mount Tins the number 1
4 fixed at eighty thousand; and those i,
$ California are placed at fifteen thousand
!. He claims that there are fourteen thou
. sand vagbonds and thieves aud only abou
: ten Thousand murdcrers or really bat
. Indians. This portion of the report will
|, be taken With many grams or ALLOWANCE
. by those who are familiar with lnGiaI
t affairs, and it certainly looks as though Tx
| Com missioner was making a special plei
J, for the continuance Of the present policy
e toward them Most of the Indians whs
have become pastoral in their habits ar
3. located in the Indian Territory, al.hou-l
!. quite number are scattered through thu
I States and other Territories, and tn
= prospects seem encouraging that the mum
; Der will increase RAPIDLY as game is getting
: to be very scarce, except o., the nuatins
: grounds of few tribes. The Commls
slOner suggests that the lndians De eiesd
ted to the responsibilities of citizenship
e and be made subject TO the jurisdiction O
United States Courts for any crimes the,
mas, .---.:a. . asssiiftectt tfiest tire Cnf
!. bine is a better civilizer than the hymn
boz k, which is an important point galne(
in the experience of the government. /
$ it had been acted on more fully, there Ii
r little doubt we would have ha less trouble
J on the border.