Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-09-19
News Of the Week.

A plentiful harvest has blessed the PEG
pie of Colorado.
Troops have been detailed from til,
East for Pleasant Valley. Idaho.
Samuel Hayes has been appointed pos.
master at st. Louis, vice Filley. removed
He is not relative of the President.
The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs is
collecting data to show that it would moi
he a saving OF expense to transfer the In
dams to the War Department.
"A heavy rainfall in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and West Virginia, on the 18th and 18th
inst. did a very large amount Of damage
to property. and was the cause Of several
lives being lost.
The terminus of the Utah & Northern
railroad will be changed to Pocatello in a
short time, but the winter terminus will be
located at Black Rock, point fitty-five
miles from Oneida.
The bland announcement is made
through its president, that secretary An
CELLS steal of $4,000 will not interfere
with the business of the Pullman Car
Company, or in any way affect its divi-
dends.
"A special train of twenty carloads Of
Montana cattle left Bismarck on the 10Th
for Chicago. This is the first shipment
of Montana cattle over the Northern Pa
cific road, and is regarded as the beginning
Of large trade.
A steam engine, used to operate
threshing machine. near Lewiston. Minn.,
exploded and killed five men. The engin-
Ger had allowed the pressure to run too
high while the machine was at a stand
still. The engine struck the elevator and
completely demolished il. and then bound
ed on to point over 200 feet from where
it stood before the explosion.
The list of bankrupt petitions in Chi
cago on ''the last day of the fair fills five
columns in the Times. The petitioners are
of all classes. and the liabilities run from |
few dollars to over a million. Pitts
burgh rounded up with one hundred
and fifteen petitions. The well known
Jacob Bum, of Springfield. Ills, put his
one million of liabilities into the hopper.
Recently Russia received forty loco
motives purchased in the United States, of
the Baldwin Locomotive works: also ten
locomotives purchased in England. A
gang OF WOrkmen from the United States
set mp the forty Baldwin engines in
thirty-two days; while larger gang
OF English workmen were five weeks set
ting up the English locomotives. The
Russian authorities were much pleased by
the superior skill of the Americans.
A Chicago special to the Washington
POST says: The first installment of Mon !
tana cattle for the Chicago market will ar
rive here by the Northern Pacific railroad.
They are part of a herd OF 1850 of Ken
lucky origin, now feeding in the Teton
liver country. and which Ex-Governor
Ludington. of Wisconsin, pronounces the
finest he ever saw. Montana, in the fu- {
ure, will compete actively with those {
Western and Southwestern cities which c
lave hitherto monOpoliZed the cattle
rade. a
The work of constructing the military :,
elegraph line is being pushed rapidly. y !,
'N INV 10 eiit Acii1Pitttu. VI IItsiTlN so
O Stevenson, and Will be completed to Fl. !
;utord within three weeks. 1t VIII also be e
ompleted from Buford to Fort Custer du- =
ing the fall, and probably from Custer to :,
'ort Ellis. The line from Fl. keogh to
)eadwood may be put in this season. but q
hat from Deadwood to the Missouri river
viii not be. as the appropriation will not
each. The tariff from Bismarck to Dead u
rood by the new line will be only fifty 7
ents for ten words.-Bismarck tribune.
"A convict named Jones secreted him ;,
elf in the flume that carries the water for "
he Pcnitentiaiy of Oregon. Thorough :.
earch was made and after three hours he -
'as found three feet under water. He had :
lade mask out of rubber to go over his e
ice and head, littinr so closely that it =
vas impervOus to water. A piece of :.
u Der hose, some foQ" feet in length. =,
'as fitted in such manner to the mask as =
, connect with the ''outside" so as ia give -
II the air necessary TO keep the valves of h
is lungs in tune. When found, there he ;.
~ in the fiume, one end of the hose float -
lg by block Of wood attached on the :"
lrface of the wafer. while his corpus :"
as lying on the bottom OF the filme. lie al
nd been so long under water that he was Il
early persisted. h