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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
From the Daily OF Friday.
THE CREE
RAID or the British Redskins Into
the Marias Country-Addi-
tional Particulars.

The center of the recent raid of
Cree Indians from the Northwestern
Territory into Northern Montana is
at Fort Conrad, about ninety miles
from Benton, at the crossing of the
Marias river on the Fort Macleod
road. The ranchmen in the Marias
country are up in arms, and at last
advices the troops from Fort Assina-
boine Y ere in pursuit of the maraud-
ing reds. They have probably by
this time come up with the raiders
who are believed to number about
200, and exciting news may be ex-
pected at any moment from the
scene of trouble. The following ad-
ditional particulars are gathered
from the River Press of the 24th:
Some further information in ref
erence to the Cree raid on the
Marias, CLEANED yesterday. goes to
show that it was more extensive than
was first reported, and there are sew
eral precincts" yet to hear from.
From Tom Bevans, who came in
from the upper Marias, Yesterday, we
obtained the following details Of the
raid: He left Kipp's post on Thurs
day, and up TO that time the car
casses of twelve work cattle had been
found, and he states that all of
them belonged to Clark Tinglev.
Some stock cattle were discovered
slaughtered at Bakers battle ground
and doubtless this is not the extent of
the loss in this particular. Sol. Abbott
and Henry Powell, who have ranches
at the Willow Rounds, lose 25 head
of horses, and about 100 were stolen
from the Blackfoot agency, the prop
erty of white men and Indians. In
stead of 40 horses, as at first reported,
Joe Kipp loses IS head, and all fine
animals.
The raiding devils have not all re-
turned to John Bulls possessions as
yet, a fact later returns will fully
establish. On Thursday morning a
party of them were seen at the Knees,
and the same day five showed up at
Pen d'Oreilles. They seemed to be
moving toward the Teton settle
ments, having made a cleanup of
the Marias. and we can confidently
count on hearing of some more Of
their deviltry in a day or two.
Yesterday morning at daylight
Captain Norwood, at the head Of over
one hundred men, LETT Assinaboine
to head off the raiders and punish
them, and Captain N. will do it if
anybody IAN.
The following kilograms in refer
ence to the matter, received to-day, |
explain themselves:
FORT ASsINABOINE, March %.
I. G. Baker & Co., Z. C. Power &
Bro, and others, Benton: Capt. Nor
wood with I'VE one hundred soldiers
started at daylight towards the
boundary line to intercept and pun
ish' Please keep me advised.
Lieutenant Colonel.
HELENA, March %, 1883.
I. G. Baker & Co., Z. C. Power &
Bro, and others, Benton: Your tele-
gram of this date just received, and
have ordered a force from Fort AS
to try and intercept the
Crees. Please send by military tele-
graph to commanding officer at Fort
AssinAboine any information you
may have in addition to that con-
tanned in your telegram.
THOs. H. RUGER,
Colonel Commanding Dis.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
What is the Matter

The Helena Independent Of Sun
day morning, 25th instant, contains
the following: 1.-THE following item,
clipped from the Bozeman AUont
Courier, is reprinted for the benefit
OF such of our subscribers
as may occasionally fail to
get their papers promptly:
'"The Benton package of Mdepen-
dents came to Bozeman by mistake
in Mondays mail. The papers were
forwarded to their destination. Up
to this writing we are minus n edi-
ton of our Helena cotem."
The Independent noting the above
reached the MINER office yesterday
four days old. Tuesday mornings
Mdependent was received Wednes-
day. Is it necessary for mail from
Helena to Butte to come by the way
of Bozeman also? What is the mat
ter with the Helena postoffice?
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

The Goddess of Liberty on the new
nickel is decidedly fashionable; she
wears her hair banged.
A cattle-raiser in Texas requires
fifty miles Of wire fence along the
line OF the Texas Mexican railway.
IA little tin Butler on wheels" is
what the Springfield Union calls ex-
Governor Sprague.
The story of Lady Florence Dixie's
lacerated stays reads to the Buffalo
Courier remarkably like the story of
Cadet Whittaker's ears.
Pennsylvanians are breathing cas-
Ter since they discovered that Dukes
was born in Ohio. Ohio, however,
disowns the honor.
A Connecticut Judge has decided
that police officers are not entitled to
any reward which may be offered for
the detection and arrest of criminals.
The motto, "Blood and Thunder"
is printed on the tickets of admission
to the services conducted 10y the Sal
walton Army now attacking Pitts
burg.
The first Chinaman who appeared
in chihuahua, Mexico, was mistaken
for an Apache by a Mexican ranch
ero, who rushed the Mongolian before
the authorities and claimed the
reward.
A man always looks through his
pockets four times before handing
his coat to his wife to have a button
sewed On, and even then he is filled
with a nameless fear until the job is
completed.
Kentucky still retains the provi-
sion that mo person while he contin-
ues to exercise the functions of a cler.
gyman, priest or teacher of. any
religious persuasion, society or sect,
shall be eligible to the General AS
sembly."
The United States boasts of 65,00o
lawyers, while Great Britain and
Ireland have only $4,000. The diff
ference is accounted for by the fact
that we have more law, and more
Justice also than is available in the
British isles. There only One law
yer in 5000 people is found, while we
manage to get along with one lawyer
to 800 people and not groan much
either.
Englishmen make fun occasional
" of Western want of erudition; tu
what do they say to this verdict of a
.coroner's jury in New South Wales
that is printed in the current num-
Der of the London Lancet as reprint
ed in this city: 1--WE are of A Pinion
that the decest met her death from
violent information in the arm pro-
Quest from Unoan Caws."
A kite was made near Rochester,
n. Y, recently, of lumber two inches
wide by half an inch in thickness.
1t was covered with Manila paper
and the surface contained nearly $50
feet. The string by which the kite
was flown was Of three-eight-inch
| rope and 5000 feet in length. It shot
into the air like a balloon, and after
floating a mile high for two hours
was only brought down by means of
a pulley and team.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

Prince Bismark probably does not
know what he has attaked in making
wal OH the Ohio hog. A sweet sing
er says of the animal: ooh, the hog,
the beautiful hog, curving his back
as he watches the dog; defying the
law for his bread and meat, roaming
at large through every street; hunt
ing, grunting, noslng around, till the
open front gate is sure to be found
with its hinges broken and ruined
quite, by the lovers who hung there
Sunday night; it wont stay shut, it
wont hang level; so in walks the
hog and raises the devil"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
An Old Timer Gone.

Hon. E.. T. Beatty, of Salmon City,
Idaho, died at st. Marks Hospital in
Salt Lake on the 10th instant. Judge
Realty was II Of the pioneers of
Idaho, and was we'll known through
ont the northwest. He has repre-
sented his county in the Terri torial
Legislature for many years and dur
inc several sessions was president of
the council. During the past few
wears he has occupied the position OF
probate Judge of Lemhi county. He
died at the age of sixty.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
Kenck's Murderer On Trial.

The Fohrman murder trial occu-
pied the attention of the District
Court all day yesterday. The prin-
cipal feature of the proceedings was
the testimony given by Fohrman
himself, which was given through an
Interpreter. No attempt was made
by the prisoner to deny that he killed
Kenck and that it was premeditated.
The whole circumstances of the kill
ing were given in detail. The mys-
terious documen ) which FOhrman
was so anxious to have saved because
as he said, they showed his action to
be justitiable) proved to be a no.
tice of his daughters (Kenck's first
wife) death, clipped from a news
paper; a bill from a newspaper for an
advertisement inserted by his daugh-
ter, asking for information of the
whereabout Of the old man at a
time when she had lost all track of
him; also one or two other papers
equally as unimportant. One of the
witnesses testified that the old man
had told him that he did not expect
to be hanged, because he was not
heavy enough to stretch a rope.
The testimony o. experts as to the
prisoners mental status will be taken
to-day'-Helena Independent, 10Th.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
THE FRONT.
Town Woodbined and q
New One Sprung Up-Pro-
gress Of the N. P.
Track Layers.
A Final Batch Of Characteristic
Last Chance Items.

Special Correspondence OF b MINER.
HORSE PLAINS, MoNTANA,)
FRONT OF N. P. r. r.
March 20, 1885,
Last Chance, like Weeksville and
other front towns, has in its turn be-
come a thing Of. the past. The town
has some natural advantages which
may IN time cause a settle
ment to spring up there, but
as q railroad town it has "woobined"
and its canvas structures, with their
owners, and stocks of merchandise.
red-eye, and hash house fixtures, have
moved to this point. Horse Plains
is situated in Missoula county 1856
miles east Of Wallula Junction, and
546 miles from Portland. The town is
built on Lynch's ranch at the west
ern line of the Flathead reservation.
1t is already getting to be quite a
business point. Eddy, Hammond &
Co., of Missoula, have erected a large
warehouse and opened a well-stocked
general merchandise store, and other
business places are looming up
around the store. The yard is full Of
freight cars, and heavy trains are
constantly going and coming from
both ways night and day.
1.-The track layers have reached the
third crossing of Clarks Fork. The
piling for the false work of a three
span truss bridge at that point is
about all driven. Since writing my
last letter from Last Chance and just
before the general break up
there, the old spirit of outlawry seem
ed to break out afresh, and charac-
teristic shooting incidents were of
frequent occurrence. though results
were not so fatal as in the old Weeks
vile times. On the 18th inst.
the Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
employees were paid off there, and as
the boys began to circulate their
wealth the town began to boom.
Monte, '''s;ud poker" and twenty
one" games were set up in every
saloon, and as the tanglefoot began
to work revolver shots were heard in
every direction and stray bullets
whizzing about made it almost dan
gerous to be safe" on the street. A
row was raised in Smiths saloon.
One ''sooner" thumped his pard over
the head with a six-shooter and
grabbed his gun from him at the
same time and began shooting out
the lights and the glasses off the bar.
A couple of his chums Joined him in
the sport. In a few seconds the
three were left by themselves in their
wild joy. Next morning that tent
looked as though it had been held
under a shot tower.
A town of tents affords but little
protection against stray bullets. Hal-
ry M. Wilson, travelling for Sieben-
hauer, Meyerfeld & Co., San Fran
cisco, cigar manufacturers, was made
aware of that fact while taking in
Last Chance on business yesterday.
He was strolling through the street
when a fracas began in a saloon hard
by, from whence a stray bullet came
and bored a hole through his coat
tail. He had important business at
the other end of town, and didn't
stop to find out who fired the shot.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

So great has been the prosperity of
Smith College for Women that more
dormitory room is needed. All the
cottages are full for next year. At
Cornell the presence of the woman
students is regarded in precisely the
same light as men regard the presence
of women in churches, in theatres,
at lectures or in the street. 1t is
simply an accustomed fact and moth
ing more is thought of it.
One of our most influential Georgia
grangers was experimenting affairs
at his cotton press the other day,
according to the Georgia Major,
when he was accosted by a neighbor:
II e e Colonel, that the Tariff bill
has passed." "Is that so? How
about cotton ties?' "Still 8 per cent.
ad valorem." "Well, here, you boys
thar! sift another shovel o. sand in
the middle of that bale; I can't afford
to reform until the tariff does" And
the sitting was attended to.
A Washington dispatch under
date of the Goth inst. says: It is re-
ported to night that the grand jury
has found indictments against ex-
Senator Kellogg of Louisiana, and
Thos. }. Brady, in connection with
star route contracts held by j. B.
Price. The former grand jury re-
fused to indict kellogg on the evil
dence OF John A. Walsh. Mr.. Walsh
testified before the present grand
Jury last week, his and evidence is
corroborated by Prices statements.
At the ropewalk in Bath, Me-, the
spinners wind huge skeins of manila
hemp around them, catch a thread
or two of it upon the hook, and as the
spindle whirls walk slowly back ward
down the length, spinning as they
90, and leaving before them a long
twisted strand. Every twenty mil
utes they disappear from sight and
are seen as far as the eye can reach
coming into view down the dimly
lighted walk, nearly a mile away.
Thirty or more trips a day make a
wand and every wand is a half mile,
and every day each spinner walks
fifteen miles and spins seven miles OF
strands.
Several localities at the foot OF
Mount Ararat have been destroyed
by snow avalanches. It is stated
that $50 persons have been killed and
100 injured.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
BORN.


STE WART.-In Butte, March 2sth, 1888, to
the wife Of John NJ. Stewart, a daughter.
WITTER-In Butte, March 80. 1888, to the
wife of Aaron T.. Witter, q daughter.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
DIED.

WITTER-In Butte, March 29th, 1888, Ma
bel Adeline, infant daughter of A. e.. and
Sarah Witter, aged l year, 8 months and
days.
Funeral o 0 place from family residence
at 2:3O p. m. yesterday.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
Official Construction of the New
School Law.

Having been informally requested
by several school officers in different
parts of the Territory to construe the
amendment in section 11O8 of Mon
tana School laws, I take this public
method of deciding officially that it
is not the intent of the law that the
terms Of all the present trustees shall
terminate and that a full board
of three trustees shall be
chosen at the general school
election to be held in each district on
Saturday, April Z, prox. Only one
trustee is to be elected and that one
whose term would have expired on
the last Saturday in August, will
now expire on the first Saturday in
April.
New clerks will also need to be
elected in April as would have been
required in August. But as the law
does not provide, as in the ase of
trustees, that the term of district
clerks shall expire on the election Of
their successors, I should say that the
old clerks hold for the full term for
which they were elected or till the
first Saturday in August.
OuueI Guo O1u law IAe IlSut VI
suffrage was confined to ELECTORS
qualified to vote at any general cleo
tion." This restriction does not
appear in the new law. Only 20
days residence in the Territory is
needed, instead of six months. The
right Of suffrage is extended to all
taxable residents and Inhabitants"
not, as sometimes construed, to those
who actually pay a tax, but such as
own properly which is liable to tax
under the law. Women are made
voters at school elections on the same
terms with men and are also equally
eligible to the Office of trustee or
clerk. CORNELIUS HEDGES,
Superintendent Public Instruction,
Montana.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

Miss Sarah Brown, daughter OF
"Ossawatomie Brown" has been
appointed to a position in the United
States mint at San Francisco.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

Harry Gassett came up from Silver
Bow yesterday.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
Taken Up.

At the ranch Of ]. Child, Summit Valley.
one bucksk:n horse, with black name and
tall, three white feet, q aid face, rande
OBJ on right hip, and about ten years old,
which the owner a have by Driving prop
March 18th, 1883. 3-24sw3t
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

A bill has been introduced in Par
lament, extending the hours in
which marriage may lie legally SOL
emnized to six o'clock p. Ill. Al the
law now stands from eight O'Clock Il.
III. until noon are the limits.
Mollie McCarty, the we'll known
California racing mare, recently
died in that State.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
He Wanted to be Run In.

AS Officer Carroll was walking his
beat on Park street last night a wild
eyed individual tapped him on the
shoulder and said, "see yer, you're a
Cop amt yer?" Being answered in
the affirmative, "Well I want ter be
run in, and if yer don't want ter take
me in out of the cold Til make yer
think you've got ter do it anyhow
The officer assured him he could not
arrest him without cause and told
him he had better go off and keep
quiet.
eyer don't want to take me in
then! Yer won't take nae in, eh! BY
the hoopin Jehosephat, I guess yer
wM run me I'M" and then he struck
Dick a blow between the eyes that
made him think the blind wall was
a armament and every snowflake a
star. Recovering himself, the officer
collared the lunatic and got another
singer behind the ear. This was
more than even the serene
temper of a police officer could bear,
and Dick struck out with his right,
sending his man to grass by a single
blow. The man picked himself up
and with a confidential air inquired:
"Now how much will I git for
this?"
"You'll get about five days"
"Then here goes agin!" and he
struck another vicious blow at the Off
Ger, who caught his arm, and getting
his wrist in the nippers marched him
off to the cooler. The prisoner gave
his name as Bingham, without any
front name, and is duly registered
for the chain gang, as soon as the for
mality of a trial has been gone
through with.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
How Mrs. Brewster Came to Mar
~ the Attorney General.
From the Boston Herald,

from the Boston Herald.
Mrs. Brewster is the handsomest
woman in the cabinet parterre. Per-
haps you have heard of the romantic
life Of this young woman, who would
shine in any society in any land.
She was the daughter Of Robert j.
Walker, at one time Secretary of the
Treasury. She accompanied Admit
raj and Mrs. Semmes to Europe and
fell in love with a French gentleman,
one NJ. Delon. A marriage followed
and repentance came only too soon,
but not before a daughter and two
sons were born. The unhappy mar
riage was terminated by Delon''s
death, and the widow, poor in purse,
was given a position in the depart
ment over which her father onceh had
control. The present Attorney Gen
eral-always an admirer of beauty
in wOmen-met her and
offered her his han and his wealth
and his name for herself and chill
dren. "You are beautiful" he said,
land l am hideous, but it will not be
the first instance of the mating of
beauty and the beast, and, although
you may never love me, you shall
eve regret marrying me-" The
children took the step-father's name.
ANDRE. became Andrew, Marie, Ma
ME. But the younger boys name
has escaped my memory at this
writing. All have been well cared
for and had every kindness bestowed
upon them. There had been only
one issue of the present marriage, a
boy, of whom his father is extrava-
gantly fond. l saw a picture of the
two taken together, the face of the
brilliant man with the terrible scars
he will bear to his dying day, and
the fresh, sweet face of the boy be-
side him.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
The COoler.

To the animated the portal of the
underground city prison, usually
called the Cooler" suggests
thoughts of that other portal, which
bears the legend HE who enters
here leaves hope behind" but upon
descending the stairway and enter
ing the heavy doorway, all such re-
Elections are Immediately dissipated
and it is difficult to realize that you
have not just entered the hospitable
and spacious cabin of some prosperous
miner. The cooler occupies the base
ment beneath the Police court room.
1t is spacious, clean and comfortable.
A portion of one side is taken up by
two strongly built cells, one capable of
accommodating eight male prisoners
and the other four females, provid-
ing they are not chair pullers."
The officers mess room is in the rear,
and is furnished with comfortable
beds and a complete culinary outfit.
The mess room is now occupied by
keeper Reeves, Dick Carroll and Doc
Vennor, who are al! stars in the
culinary art and pride themselves
upon the excellence of their cuisine,
with good reason, too, as the writer
can testify from personal observation.
Capt. Owens was formerly one of the
mess, but they say Dick Carroll and
Doc Vennor put up a job on him one
and run in" four wild DRINKS,
. Dutchman, Frenchman, Spaniard
and Irishman, who were confined in
the adjoining cell and made night
hideous with their drunken brawl-
which kept the Captain awake
until morning. The next day he
told his messmates he had found a
place to sleep where he wouldn't be
by a lot Of DRINKS fight
and swearing in sixteen different
languages" The cells contain but
inmates to-day, Woodhouse and
Murray, both of whom are old police
court cases, and expect to get their
dose of five and costs' to-
morrow.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

In the District Court Of the First
Judicial District of the Territory of
Montana, in and for the county of
Madison.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-09-27
A Story OF Fearful Suffering.

Captain Alfred CASTOR, of the bark
Britannia, which was wrecked off the coast
Monday last, tells the story of fearful suffer.
ing. They were on the wreck from Monday
until Tuesday afternoon, and all hands were
compelled to remain on deck, exposed to
the fury of the storm. Finally they took to
to small raft. Hardly had the people got
on this when heavy sea washed Off every
soul, and the captain and eight men were
the only ones who regained it. During the
night and the following morning five others
were washed off In similar manner, Ieay-
only four survivors, who were rescued by a
boat from the shore. Nineteen perIshed,
including the wife and children of Captain
Gasston, all natives Of England. Two OF
the captains children Pere picked up, but
died In few minutes, either from fright.or
exhaustion.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-09-27
A Blaze in North Platte.

Special TO Omaha Republican.
NORTH PLATTE, September PA
frame building on Spruce street, between
Fifth and Sixth, occupied by Babb q Churo
as a law office, and an adjoining building
occupied by Park & Van Dorm AZ a notion
store, were destroyed by fire this morning.
The spread Of the fire was only prevented
by the most energetic efforts on the part of
our citizen. Buildings in close proximity
were scorched, but beyond that no damage
was sustained. Loss on buildings, about
81 200; on stock, about 5000. W. III.
Babb, who was in his office, is burned very
severely about the face and hands. Origin
of the fire not known