Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-07-25
News Of the Week.

THURSDAY. JULY 25, ISL,
News Of the Week.
California is builHgg another Stat
prison.
Gen. Sheridan has gone to locate tn
new military post in the Black Hills.
The hearing of the Fitz-JOhn Porte
case is now being had at West Point.
-Thirty-two officers of the regular arm.
were placed on the retired list by the las
Congress.
The Railray Age says the prospect
for the completion Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad is good.
"A grand reception was rendered LORI
Beaconsiield on his return to England
from Constantinople.
William Cullen Bryant usually slep
through the sermon in church, and his days
were long in the land.
The struggle at the election In Ger
many on the Both inst, according to al
reports, will be a severe one.
Congress appropriated 5000 for the
purpose of observing the total solar eclipse
10 occur on the Goth of July.
The employees in the Brooklyn Tax
Collectors Office were promoted lately.
An explosion did it for them.
"A number ofperson died from the cf-
fects of the heat. in Illinois and Iowa, about
the mluole of tire present IIivnth.
Indian Commissioner Hayt has recent
" uncaIthed an almost unlimited amount
of fraud at the Crow Creek Agency, Da-
kOta.
The gambling license at Carson City.
Nevada. in one year and three months is
$4,000. Harf of that sum goes to the
State.
Red Cloud wants to move 200 miles
fronr the Missouri river, and SpOtted Tail
is equally determined to remove 81 miles
from the river.
Ten thousand nail makers are on a
strike in England for an advance of 80 per
cent in wages. Ten thousand more were
TO join the strike last week.
Two camps of freightcrs were washed
away by a waterspout on Rapid Creek.
Black Hills. on the 18th inst, one man
being drowned and much property de-
stroyed.
Queer people they have in the Black
Hills. The Central City Teiegraph-Herald
says: ''Several Falscbottom ladies gave
a pleasant surprise to some of their Bob
tail friends. at Lincoln. Saturday."
The heat on the l4th, 18th and 10th
in Chicago. st. Louis and other eastern
cities was very intense. Many persons
and animals were struck down on the 18th
inst. the deaths in st. Louis from heat
reached fifty-four.
Bishop Merrill, of Logan. has the con-
tract TO grade 80 miles of the Ogden &
Northern Railway, from Oneida to Poc,-
tello, to be completed in fifty days. This
will give Ogden control of the entire trade
Of Montana, Idaho and Eastern Oregon
by next fall.-Ogden Freeman
On Tuesday the great Sutro Tunnel
of Virginia City, Nevada, was completed. j
The rush of air through was SO strong +
That it put out lanterns, until the equil- J
brium was restored and the mine ]
thoroughly ventilated. 1t is over 20 600 |,
feet in length, and cost nearly 81, 000, 600. n
Half mile of iron per day is the ex- 81
ent of shipments from here for the extern 1
ZION of the Ogden & Northern road. 1t II
las been decided to cross Snake river CT
where old Fort Hall stood, so as to build K
he winter terminus north of the Indian u
Freeman. NJ
"A simple act ofjustice was performed =.
" the last Iowa Legislature, in the passage -
f bill to pay 81 800 to an innocent man o,
rho was wrongfully imprisoned in the ~
tate prison tour years, after which his in ~
ocence was fully proved. The only pos =.
ible fault to find with the action above is "
nat the amount appropriated by the bill is -" -.
OF large enough. The statutes Of every ~
tate should maze provisions for the pay =.
tent Of a good salary to every person i'm =.
risoncd, for the time served in prison, on ~
ear proof of innocence Of the crime for -
re supposed commission of which such ~ ~
fri
During the last hours of the late ses- gi
on OF Congress, the House of Represent ca
lives became a tumultuOus mob, and at
mes the disturbance was so disgracefully mr.
iOlent that the sergeant-at-arms was Or ore
oraI ~ OI,o11 n Wb;lo nj 90
treu 10 '"eii IL. WINE attempting 10 m;
erform that duty. the officer was pelted mi
it'll ''pub. docs" and otherwise despite tn
lily used by some of the unruly members. or.
e carried his .'ofiicial mace" the reports tb
", but that emblem of authority was not an
Efficient to protect its bearer from insult. an
policcman's billy might have served the cit
,rpose better, if applied judiciously to ca,
'e skulls of the bowling mob. de
On Friday the two passenger trains on .
re Ogden & Northern Railway ''met on he
e main track" on Mendon Hill. In sit
her words, two cargoes of human beings pa
me within one of being wrecked, by two ms
orlnon conductors ''rtlnning by reveal I'M
M" instead Of by time card. 1t seems to Or
parties very much as if rail- III
nd men were needed on that line. The
=. Il. Il. tried one Mormon conductor, III
d lie panned out SO poorly that they ch
'ally discharged him on the recommended on
IN Of the Freeman, and we have been 2V'
'ndering the matter Of making like re- s'o
est of tie Y. T.. II. Z. officials, now that an'
~ appear little slow in making the WI
cessary changes on the Ogden & North WI
4 rOilte.-Ogden Freeman. "a
The Indians that have committed the po
PRECAUTIONS In the western part Of the On
fritery are undoubtedly Nez Perecs re- Ho
h'nS 10 o"0f 'u'ihS reser'au0n- NOT bel