Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-10

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Supreme Court is in session III Helen
The Indians have been robbing trail
on the San Semon valley. Troops are
pursuit.
English papers think war with Ru
sia is almost unavoidable.
The Turks have evacuated Sofia, an
are concentrating at Ikhtina.
The name OF the post-officc at Tongl
river has been changed to TT. Keogh.
Senator Patterson is lying sick
Washington. lie lies in a critical cond
-Paymastcr VIM Arthur left Bismarc
last month for Forts Stevenson, Bufort
Keogh and Custer.
Captain Bogardus in New York o.
the 81 inst. broke 5000 glass balls inside G
500 consecutive minutes. Good shooting
The Utah Legislature, now in session
is composed entirely of MOrinOns, ant
each ono has from thrcec to nine concu
bines.
"A Chinaman was recently sentenced
to seven days Imprisonment at TuscarOr.
for stealing twenty-five cents worth o
sagebr,lsh.
A bill has been reported to Congress
providing tor the election of a delegate
from Indian Territory, which at present is
unrcpresented.
Gov. Potts has gone East. accompa-
MED by his wife. Secretary JAS. H. Mills
is in charge of the executive office during
the Governors absence.
AT recent term Of Court at Malad.
m Indian was sentenced to term Of years
in the penitentiary tor attempting to kill
white mon at Fort Hall.
Over onc-half of next seasons Monta-
ma freight will 90 via Yankton, contracts
having been made with river men to that
efect.-Press and Dakotian.
-Yankton had Sl2.55O fire on Christ
mas Day. Commodore Coulson, president
of the Missouri River Transportation Co..
lost 81, 500. and Mrs. Z. Morrow, $500.
Edward Trinpy was shot and fatally
wounded in a DeadwOod saloon on the
26th ult. by Kitty Sparrow, better known
among the sporting fraternity as ''Tricks.''
"A bill will be introduced into Con-
grcss at the present session changing the
time Of meeting Of Congress from the first
Monday in December to the first Monday
in October.
A small rebellion occurred in South
America last month. in which 40 persons
were killed and IA wounded. A large.
amount of property was destroyed before
the rebellion was squelched.
While G. & N. W. box car was be
Ing loaded with nitro-g!ycerine at the Jack
son mine, Michigan, the mass exploded.
killing seven men. and demolshing the
car. The locomotive was lifted into the
air and thrown fifty feet, landing in u con-
fused heap Of wood and iron.
In South Carolina on the 18th ult. L.
S. Revenue officers were forced to release
number Of persons they had arrested for
Of the revenue laws. The officers
have appealed to the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue for force sufficient to ar
rest the persons concerned in the outrage.
SAN Francisco. Dec. pa Tuscon
dispatch says that about 40 Indians camp
ed near Janos. Sonora, recently. The So
nora troops attacked them, losing % killed ,
and number wounded. The Indian cas- /.
I,altics are not stated. The Indians are ap- ,
parently victorious, as they subsequently +,
stripped the country, in the vicinity Of Ja- !
nos, Of stock. :
Senator Christiancy has introduced
bill providing for challenges to jurors in r
rails for bigamy and polygamy in the t
Territory of Utah and to amend section v
If the Act Of June oath. 1874, in relation t
o courts and judicial officers in the Terri c
DRY of Utah. This and other movements t
low on foot in Washington has created +
quite an excitement among the Mormons,
Who perceive that really earnest efforts 1
will be made to suppress the tendencies of t
d
On the I'D ult the ice in the Missouri i
iver near Yankton went out. 1t formed a
,orge near the city. Several boats were a
'ushed shoreward, and when the gorge y
'roke the boats were left high and dry. y
The Nellie peck broke from her mooaings U
nd was driven some distance down the
liver, but fortunately struck bar and u
wung into safe harbor on the Dakota =
hore. The grounded boats were pulled :.
Jack into deep water by the Nellie Peck =
he next day. No damage resulted to the :
oats from the break up. Grant Marsh's :
cry boat makes regular trips across the !,
liver, and will continue until the next :,
reeze up.