River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-18


gers, 81, 500, 900; miscellaneous, $562,0OO.
Operating expenses and taxes were ST.
$4,000 Net surplus $2,344 400. Net
increase in business over last year, ST.
012,000.
CONSIDERABLE excitement prevails at
Cheyenne, says a telegram of the 9th inst,
over reported valuable mineral discov-
cries near Rawhide Buttes, which are
about one hundred and forty miles north
of Cheyenne. Recent assays made In
! Denver of surface rock are said to aver
| age 125 ounces of silver and eight dol
| lars in gold per ton. A regular stampede
| to the new discoveries on the part OF
those who can secure transportation, is
now progressing.
| ABOUT sixty Chinese arrived at st.
| Louis, March 9th, from San Francisco,
and all but ten or dozen passed through
en- route to New York and other eastern
! cities, where they will seek employment
| in the shoe and cigar factories, laun-
dries, etc. A large number of these
people are said to be preparing to leave
/ the Pacific coast, and will scatter
| throughout the northern and eastern
states. They say that while they expect
to compete with white labor, they do not
! intend to cut prices, but will demand
/ ldlA RdSNS AOA thOtl 4dDCAs
THE stockholders of the Union Pacific
railroad company met in New York on
| the 10th inst and elected directors, most
of whom had served before. A financial
statement was read showing the opera
ton of the road for the year ending Dec.
! 91st, 1878. The gross earnings were
! $13,201 ,077; operating expenses, includ-
ing taxes, $5,475, SOB; surplus earnings
$7,725, 574; which with the interest col
lected on the invested securities, makes
grand total of IS 148,55S.
MAYOR KALLoCH, of San Francisco, is
sued proclamation on the 10th inst,
declaring that the workingmen of that
city were being falsely represented to the
outside world by mischievous agents
who hoped to incite them to riot. The
mayor said there was not the slightest
reason to apprehend any trouble except
it came from the enemies of The work
ingmen whom, he declared, were the
law-abiding and peace preserving popu-
lation. He was especially severe on
military interference. Notwithstanding
this proclamation intense excitement
prevailed in the city.
THE fourth case against DR.. Longstone,
ex-Indian agent at Crow Greek, who
was charged with crookedness by the
Hayt-Hammond dynasty, was concluded
on the 9Th in tn , United States court al
Yankton, Dakota. The jury was out
three days and finally disagreed. Eleven
were for returning special verdict that
the defendant had made technical VIC
lation of the law, but was innocent oil
any intent 70 defraud the government
or individuals. The other juror stood
for unconditional acqulttal. Three other
cases tried have resulted in acquittal
There are three more to try.
THE democratic state central commit
tee of Wisconsin met at Madison, March
10, and issued call for q state conven
tion to meet at Madison, at noon, on
Wednesday, May 10, for the purpose Of
nominating ten presidential electors to
be supported at the next general cleo
ton, and selecting twenty delegates, foul
from the state at large and two from
each congressional district, to the ma
tional democratic convention to be held
in the city of Cincinnati, June 22nd
1880; and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before the convention.
AN important decree of foreclosure and
sale was entered in the u. s. court
at Milwaukee on the 9th inst, in the
case of Jesse Hoyt, of New York, trustee
VS.. the Milwaukee IL Northern and Me-
nasha & Appleton railway companies
The amount due to the bondhOlders is
$2,662,7 42 The time for the sale of the
property by the marshal has not been
fixed. The foreclosure includes the
franchise, rolling stock etc, of the lines
from Milwaukee to Green Bay, and from
Hilbert Junction to Menasha, and from
the north end of the Milwaukee 81 North
ern road in Menasha to the north end d
Grand Chute island at Appleton. The
matter has been in litigation for mum
Der of years.
THE following shipments of live stock
and flesh meat were made to Europe
last week, says New York dispatch Of
the Sth: BY, steamer Montana, for Liver
pool 200 tons fresh meat; Erin, for Liver
pool, 246 head cattle, 1913 quarters fresh
meat, 300 live sheep, $50 pigs; Holland
for London, 440 head cattle, $50 live
sheep, $50 pigs, 10? tons fresh meat
Gloucester, for Bristol, rs head cattle
City of Montreal, for Liverpool, Al tons
fresh meat; California, for London, 125
head cattle, 81 tons fresh meat, 300 car
cassed sheep; Germania, for Liverpool
100 tons fresh meat; Helvetia, for Liver
pool, 163 head cattle, 10 horses, So tons
fresh meat; Ethiopia, for Glasgow, 49
head cattle, 2,070 quarters beet, $50 car
cassed sheep.
A Boston telegram of the 9Th, says
In 1870 a charter was granted AtpherC
Hardy, and other citizens of the state
under the name Of the Cape,Cod ShiE
Canal company, empowering them tt
cut canal between Barnstable and Buz
Yards bay, thus providing way IL
which cOasting vessels on their way tC
and from New York may avoid the dan
gerous passage around Cape-Cod anC
Nantucket shoals. On Thursday las
the charter would have expired by limi
tati0n had not the company actually
began work 1t has been decided to ex
pend 1875, 100000 in building a sea.leve
canal seven miles long through natura
valley, properly divided at its termin
with breakwater and harbor, and thus tC
accomplish the object which ship owners
have long desired. 1t is estimated tina
the annual saving to tle owner of {
three .hundred-ton vessel employed al
the wear round in costing, say between
Boston and Philadelphia, will be, by
using the canal, 81 ,095. The great an
. nual loss of life and vessel property j!
also to be avoided. Work will be prose
cuted until The canal is completed, which
is expected in 1892. Herr Dirks, the
Dutch engineer, who came with De Les
seps, has been looking the ground over
A ST. JOSEPH, Mo, special of March
18th says: In the late seizure of the
telegraph lines of the Western Union
Company upon the st. Joseph and West
ern railroad, Mr. Gould's managers Gu
the wires at the center of the railroad
bridge which crosses the Missouri river
and at that point connected them with
wires leading to their battery on the Mis-
souri, shore. This was done under the
supposltion that they could not be reach
ed by any court in either jurisdiction
Iniunctions, however, were to-day pro
cured in Doniphan county, Kansas, and
also in Buchanan county, Missouri, by
the Western Union Company against the
st. Joe and Western Railroad, the Ameri
can Union Telegraph Company, Jay
Gould, and others, restraining the rail
road company from preventing recon
nection Of the seized wires, and from
transmitting any commercial business
thereon, and from permitting their use
by the American Union company or in
terfering with their use by the Western
Union. The injunctlons are similar IN
terms to the one procured at Omaha, UNI
der which the lines seized on the Union
Pacific railroad were retur ed TO the tele-
graph company, and Will undoubtedly
| result in carly restoration of these