Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-02

A resolution has been presented to Con-
oress from the Legislature Of Minnesota.
asking for such legislation as will provide
for a treaty with the Indians occupying the
country known as the Black hills, SO that the
same can be opened to settlement.
II. C. Jewell has been appointed to sue
coed Geo. B. McCaster as chief Of the bu-
reau of engraving and printing in the de-
partment of the U. S. Treasury.
The Mississippi levee committee will re-
port unanimously in favor of appropriating
from 1900, 900 to $4,000, 900, in the shape
of a refund of the cotton tax illegally col
lected, to 90 to the construction OF levees.
A bill introduced in the Senate by Sargent
and in the House by, Piper, ~amendatory to
the silver coinage laws, provides tor the
coinage of a new silver dollar equal in
weight and value to two of the present sill
yer half dollars, and proposes to make it a
legal tender for amounts not exceeding
twenty dollars. The bill abolishes the ex-
listing legal tender provision regarding trade
dollars. 1t also provides that silver half
dollars shall be a legal tender for amount
not exceeding ten dollars, and that the Gov
eminent shall replace without loss to the
holders all abraded silver coins. The new
silver dollar is to be coined Oh Government
account only.
A bill is before the Senate to confer eX-
elusive jurisdiction over Indian reservations
to U. S. courts, and to punish crimes com.
,,,:44ol ~, ,,,J min T,lsouc An oY,,on1-
ment providing that any person found upon
an Indian reservation contrary to law, and
who shall refuse or neglect to remove there
from upon the request of the agent or super
intendent, shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor, and upon conviction be fined not
exceeding $500, or imprisoned not exceed
ing ON year, or both, etc., was agreed toe.
The Farmers and Traders bank of ST.
Louis, has suspended. r. A. Dyer, Cashier,
is defaulter for $4,000 and is missing.
At the Bay District track. near San Fran
cisco, February Goth, the four mile and re-
peat race, for the $4,000 purse, was won by
Foster, Rutherford, who was the fayorite,
coming in six open lengths behind.
A resolution impeaching Gov. Ames, of
Mississippi, of high crimes and misdemean-
ors in office, has been adopted by the Legis-
lature of that State.
The counsel for Lieut.. Gov. Davis filed a
plea denying the articles of impeachment
against himself.
The Grand Duchess Marie Nicolainena,
sister of the Emperor of Russia, is dead.
At the late election in France the republi-
can principles have everywhere been defeat.
ed and radicalism is triumphant. The tone
of the Roman Catholic journals is particu-
larly respondent.
The amount of bullion withdrawn from
the Bank of England on balance, on the
2lst, was 100000.
A Vienna special reports great floods in
Moravia, and that one hundred and twenty
houses were destroyed.
Among the victims of the explosion of
the boiler of the steamship Strathclyde, wa
Mrs. Green, daughter of Dion Boucciault.
Official bulletins to Madrid thai
the Alfonsists captured twenty-three cannon
t in Estella. The Carlists sacked the CITY be.
fore evacuating it. General Coserta, with
seven battalliops and eleven field pieces, was
routed near Vera, by three Alfonsist battal
f lions.
The jury in the Babcook case returned F.:
: verdict of not guilty.
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