Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-02-20

and maintenance of iuegitimate chi
dren; obliging tho father to prOvid
for such on complaint Of the mother
the father failing SO to provide, afte
trial in court, is sent to Jail.
II. B. No. 3, an act to authorize Com
mlssloners OF counties to appropriat.
surplus moneys in certain funds for tn,
relief Of other funds.
| IL. B. No. 46, in relation to the ap
pointment Of clerks of Probate Courts
FL. B. No. 80, an act app0rti0nins
the members OF the Legislative AS
sembly: In the Council it gives Madi
son and Beaverhead one member
Deer Lodge two members, and Deer
Lodge and Missoula one member, and
Missoula one member; Lewis and
Clarke three members; Jefferson one
member; Jefferson and Gallatin one
member; Meagher and Choteau one
member. In the House Madison has
four members, Beaverhead one, Deer
Lodge five, Missou1a three, Lewis and
Clarke five, Jefferson two, Gallatin two,
Jefferson and Gallatin one, Meagher
CWO, anu CnOrclu CUe.
II. G. r. No. ?, appropriating $4,000
for the transportation of articles from
Montana, to be exposed at the Cen
tennial. 1876. Largey, Clagget and
Mrs. Bowen have the disposal of the
money.
H. 3. No. Il, authorizing the City
Council of Virginia to levy tax Of
not more than one per cent. on all
property in Virginia for maintenance
of city government.
H. B. No. 40, the roundup law, a,,-
tho,izes commissioners to order round.
ups twice year, and provides for
estrays, and also how round-ups shall
be conducted. This bill has many Ob.
jectionable points, and We fear the
stock men will be much opposed to its
enforcement.
H. B. No. 20, qualifications of elec.
tors; must be man and citizen, or have
declared his intention to become such,
and over 81 years Of age, and must
have been in the Territory six months,
and in tue county thirty days prior TO
election.
H. b. No. 56, prohibiting County
Commissioners from granting the right
to collect toll on any road or bridge in
and declaring all such roads
public highways.
A WESTERN ROMAyCE.
Seven years ago last June great
broad tired wagon, loaded with q
heavy iron boiler, rolled into Central
City, Colorado, and halted in a vacant
lot fronting Oh Gregory street. That
wagon and its ponderous rusty load
stands in the vacant let to-day, com.
nemorating, it is almost needless to
add, a woman's dckleness and a mans
despair. When the wagon was load.
ID in Atchinson, Kansas, in the early
Of 1866, the owner and driver,
yho was a prosperous miner, with a
ort Of passion for hauling useless
across the plains-was
linking Of a bright.eyed blushing
,irl beyond the desert who had prom
sed to share with him his rough life |!
nd his rough fortunes. We can all |
f us understand how the image Of the
'ordor beauty Eas like cloud by day
nd pillar Of lire by night to this
turdy teamster during his two
lonths journey across the plains,
laking dusty days short, and lonely
lights sweet with such solace as never
all to s0lace an absent lover. But
one of us can understand the despair
7hich took possession of the weather.
eaten miner as he pulled up in Cen.
raj City, only to find letter from the
irl he loved, telling him that rival
ad won her hand. He strafghtway
his mules and sold them
n the spot; he left the wagon and the
oiler where they stand crumbling to-
ay, and, after swearing a little and
a great deal, he finally
rifted out of the mines and but Of
fe.