Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-06-13
The Wisconsin Legislature In 1877

The Wisconsin Legislature In lS7
passed bill offering $4,000 bounty 70
: the best practical steam road wagon. tn
commission Of two leading farmers an,
: one engineer has been appointed by tn
Governor to sit in judgement on invention
; June 10. Some half-dozen machines. from
different parts of the State, will compete
The test will he the carrying of heav,
! load on country road for 200 miles, at
rate of fi:e miles per hour.
-Fhe mines of Eureka, Nevada, tina
have heretofore yielded abunlantly of sill
yer, with a small percentage of gold, arr
now yielding bullion that's nearly or quite
one-half gold. This is reversing the gen
eral rule. On the Comstock and most 9th
er mines the proportion Of gold has de
creased from the surface down to the
greatest depth attained. Thus, year by
year. experience overthrows theories that
had become almost acknowledged facts.
A decision by the court in Pennsylva-
mia, to the effect that the counties in which
the riots of last summer occurred are re-
sponsible for the damage done, has filled
the people Of Allegheny county, in which
Pittsburgh is situated, with alarm. The
prospect of being compelled to pay four
or five million dollars is not pleasant. 1t
will, however, be a good lesson for people
in the future. PrOpery-holders who know
that they must foot the bills will not stand
idly by again when tramps aid rioters are
burning and destroying the property OF
o s.
- amendment to the timber claim
act reducing the amount of timber from
10 to 10 acres, and the distance Of the trees
apart from II to feet, passed the House
on Saturday, and will become law when
it has received the signature of the Presi-
dent. AS the law will stand, any person
may take a timber claim in addition to a
homestead or pre-emption Of 100 acres,
and to hold it for eight years and then re-
ceive patent, on condition that he shall
plant, and keep for that period under cul-
tivatiOn. ten acres Of timber, set in rows
not to exceed four feet apart each way.
The Colorado Farmer, in speaking of
the late storm in that State, says: ''Much
damage has been done to the limited farm
ing and meadow lands of kiOwa, Running
and Cherry creeks, by the sweeping away
was lost, and all plowed ground and grow
ing crops were literally swept away. But
the terrible part of the story is the wreck
ing of train No. s in the kiOwa, together
with the loss of three lives. An engine
and seven cars are buried in the treacherous
luicksand, yet beyond the reach OF the
;earchers, and that, too, in what is to-day
out dry sand-bed. Strangers to Colorado
,annot conceive of it.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
,any, which owns the right to use the
Edison telephone, hopes to establish
throughout the Union telephone commune
alton with at least 1000 towns too small
o support the expense of telegraph
operator. The system will be such that
my one having access to a telephone can,
n few minutes time, be put in commune .
alton with any one else having such ac-
ess. and the two can converse in entire ,,
without the Intervention of t
ven an operator. Telephone clubs will i.
ring the privilege of communication to
lmost every one. c
A Union Pacific train was robbed on =
he night Of the both of May. 1t seems n
nat four masked men boarded the train as n
was leaving Percy station, forty-three :, a
tiles east Of Rawlins, and entering the :
liddie Pullman sleeper, called to the pas a
'ngers, Hands up" and proceeded to re- t!
eve them OF their money and valuablcs. q
y the time they had got through with - ),
lree OF them and had secured $3.50, some n
'atches, rings, ETC., one Of the passengers \
Of up sufficient courage to pull the bell
'pe and the train was stopped. The rob-
rs jumped off and escaped. The Union
acific Company offer reward of $1,000 OF
r their arrest. Later news is to the eff in
ct that they have been captured. ct
A cyclone passed over Richmond on the ~
inst. -leveling to the ground over halt f,
e buildings in town. Over one hundred
fuses are totally destroyed, and the loss al
property will reach a quarter Of a mil "
N. Whole blocks are completely swept an
'ay and the debris scattered for miles. dr
re storm came from the southwest, pass II,
to the northeast and was preceded by a do
avy fall Of rain. Trees We're uprooted M
carried through the air like feathers, So
Were also fragments of houses, and in he
t everything that the storm struck. The fro
mber OF deaths reported is fifteen. The ev
18th of several others is momentarily ex- ~
ted. At least forty persons were seri- wi
sly or MORALLY wounded. lao