The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-01-30
THE MAINE FUSIoNIsTs THREATEN
FORCE
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AUGUSTA, January 23.-Those who i'm
azine that the fusionists are inactive and
have abandoned their cause are laboring
under mistake. While the government
is not alarmed they fully grasp the situa-
ton and will make the State House perfect
ly impregnable. The first military compa-
ny that ever entered the State House
marched in at midnight to-uight-the Capt.
tai Guards. Messrs. PIllsbury, Blood,
Charming and others are known to be en-
rolling men in every county in the State.
Men are collected In the country towns
ready for j. l.. Smiths call Capt. Black,
of Augusta, is drilling men nightly.
Mayor Nash addressed the following note
to Governor Davis last night:
In view of the threatening attitude of
persons hostile to the present. government
of the State, feel constrained to say to
your Excellency that fear my civil police
will ba unable to sufficiently protect public
property at the capital or even hold posses
sion of the building itself as the public en-
emies seem willing to bring against it.
(Slgned) tHAs, E. NASH.
AUGUSTA, January 23-There are suspi-
cious circumstances which lead to alarm
viz Crowds of men collecting at various
points i; the continuance of organization
among the fusionists raising of money to
sustain them IN their action the activity
of Gov. Smith holding out of Sawyer,
who claims to be Secretary of State drill.
| ling Of secret clans of armed men, and the
incendiary talk of the Greenback Labor
| Chronicle of Auburn that the State House
must be taken though it cost q thousand
lives. From consultation with the military
authorities, Governor Davis became fully
convinced Of the seriousness Of the situa.
ton and that the position of Mayor Nash
was perfectly sound. He therefore ordered
/ to the State House the Capital Guard and
the Richards Light Infantry, who at one
o'clock this morning were there. fhe Au
barn Light Infantry will leave that place
for the capitol at two o'clock this morning
and other military forces will be brought
here if necessary. Information of the op-
erations of the fusionists comes from relia-
BILE men in each county that the design is
to take the capital. The prompt action of
Governor Davis will avert all trouble. Men
are known to be ready at the call of Smith
from Lincoln and Somerset counties who
are to take sleighs across the country. The
prompt scthn OF Col. Peaky prevented
movements in Piscatiquas county.
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Protest Against a Proposed Diversion of Public
Lands.
LINCOLN, Nebraska. Jan. 24.-The Ne
braska Board ci horticulture is now in ses-
sion at Lincoln. Among other subjects
which have been considered is that of the
preliminary report of the Congressional
Committee in favor Of Withdrawing all tie
public land west Of the Tooth meridian,
amounting in the aggregate to 100, 600, 600
acres, from entry by homestead and pre-
emption and giving hem upon long leases
tn the cattle kings The reason for this
proposed change of policy is that the land
west of the Tooth meridian will never be fit
for farming not even with irrigation. The
board considered this allegation 10 the light
Of Nebraska's experience the continual
westward extension Of cultivated country
and successful farming without irrigation
being opened 100 miles west of the Tooth
meridian, and decided the report to be en-
tirely untrue. Ia the result on the motion
of Prof Wilbur it was
Reso!0ed, That the Nebraska State Hor-
ticultural Society reppdiate the Congress-
ional report as untrue and injurious to the
State and nation, and orders that the Stats
tics be forwarded to Washington in dis
proof of the allegation and with the view to
save this great body of western lands to
the people Of whom they are the hertz
age.