Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-09-12
News Of the Week.

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/ -Ex- Governor Haight, OF California
Gied on the I'd inst.
: At New Orleans 1901 persons have
; died of yellow fever.
Within the past year 6,OOO, 900 people
have died of starvation in India.
The yellow fever still RACES with un-
abated fury in Mississippi and Louisiana.
One hundred and five deaths from yell
low fever occurred in Memphis on the 9Th
inst.
New YORK, Sept. 2.-Subscriptions for
the yellow fever sufferers, $4,000; total to
date, S44,637.
-Rarus has again beaten Goldsmith
Maids best time. August 23d he made
his mile in 2:l3 IL.
Winter wheat in Chicago Is eighty
nine to ninety-one and half cents tor
September delivery.
The wool shipments from Colorado
Springs, Col, from January l to August
l, aggregated 100000 pounds.
Postmaster FilIey, of St. Louis, has
oeen removed for disobeying the Presi-
dents civil service reform order.
The Kearneyilcs have caused the value
Of property to depreciate $40, 25O, 600 dur
ing the past year in San Francisco.
An article in the London Raiiray
Ne,cs on 1.-The Railroads of Montana" be-
gins with Montana has no railroads.
In certain parts of Vermont they are
discussing proposal to establish vigilance
committees, tor protection against depre-
dations by tramps.
Two hundred petitions were filed in
RakFgR!fy # seS S5i ast m Says
with very small assets.
For Delegate, in Dakota, the Republi-
cans have nominated Judge Bennett. of
Yanhton, and the Democrats, Bartlett
Trip, Of the same town.
-Ex-President Grants brother, Orvillc,
has become insane. and has been sent to
the Asylum at Morristown, N. J. His
mind runs on gigantic speculations.
"A number Of box and stock cars are
being built at the Ogden Car Works to
supply the demand OF the increased traffic
on The Ogden 4 Northern road. The stock
ears are made of oak.
According to dispatches. the whole of
the lower Mississippi and Red River coun-
try is demoralized through fear of the yell
low fever scourage. Many towns in west
ern Tennessee are nearly depopulated.
1t does not strike the Omaha Repubh-
can that times can be very hard, or cOun-
try very ''hard up which consumes fifty
million gallons of whisky, ten million bar ,
rels of beer. and two thousand million ci- i.
cars in single year.
The Pioneer Press of st. Paul propos- =
IS during the week OF the State Fair to q
nlarge its proportions to twelve pages or
twenty-five columns. This is evidence OF n
enterprise commendable in the ;,
'roprietors, and a credit to Minnesota. r
Matt. Carpenter received twenty dol !,
hrs per word for written legal opinion. Fl
he Detroit liquor dealers paid him one
undred dollars to study up the constitu- Il
onality OF the Michigan liquor law. He H
udied, and rendered the following opin- f,
m: s. You can't break the law" M
The Yellow fever scourge still RACES =.
the Southern cities. Dispatches of End
ST., state that at Port Gibson, Miss. So
aths occurred ont of 400 cases. At Mem I
lis, the same day, the undertakers report
4s yellow fever interments up to noon.
New Orleans there were 200 new cases
d IS deaths. tic
The terrible flood that occurred in in,
dorado week ago washed away the tn
lroad on the Denver & Rio Granilt route lee
fifteen miles in one place. near St. sta
aries. and did much damage ut other ha
ints. The cloud burst lasted all night. sll'
all tie crops, a great deal Of live stock ito
dwellings were destroyed, and several me
n were drowned.
The Union Pacific authorities have has
cred the freight hurried north from lilo
Ida to the camps of Montana and Ida aoo
There are now stored ut tile end of Iro
track about 500 tone .oma ~ ,,,;,L, aid
been there several months. The pro-
way to get the goods forward would
to offer freighters enough to induce S
n to laul.-Ogden Freeman. l,ea
The n. P. r. K. Co. has two parties arri
under Chief Engineer Roberts, thor ing.
hly examining proposed railroad routes hav
: the Cascade Mountains. The parties the
ther number 30 men. and the neces- gem
expenditures on their account are viii
to exceed 500 day-to the uncon- pres
ID delight of the Tacomans. The is vi
plction of the surveys is not expected Was
November. cam
The chief engineer of the Chicago 4 Inc.
hwestern road, to test the smoothness "he
re track placed Il glass of water on the win
Of Pullman car the other day, and % tt
ed it through from Chicago to Omaha r I,c.,
nut losing drop. Thinking specific Hills
ty might have something to dn ~;,I, place
xt trip he tried a glass Of whisky, tue :
'hen ne examined the glass at the eiS,'
station out he found it rs dry as the i'in''