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St. Landry democrat., 1883-05-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

SEVERAL shots were fired from am
bush at the Caretaker at Castle Island, Ire
land, the other day and he was severely
wounded. Eight persons We're arrested III
connection with the shooting.
The house of John Dawson, at Brace
bridge, Ont, was destroyed by fire the 9th
er night and Dawson, in attempting to save
his children, was burned to death; also a
son, aged ten years.
The Ten Eyck mansion near Albany,
N. Y, was burned few days ago. 1t was
built one hundred and seventy years ago
and was Tory headquarters during the
Revolution.
The Chicago GIL Anderson pressed
brick works, at the corner Of Elston road
and Asylum place, were destroyed by fire
the other night, the loss being $4,000.
A LANDSLIDE occurred the other
night three miles west of Sioux City, Iowa,
on the Dakota Division of the Chicago, Mill
waukee g. st. Paul Railway. Six hundred
feet of track went into the Missouri River
and disappeared entirely, huge bluff
towering above the track sinking down.
The amount of land affected by the slide
was three or four acres. The river had
undermined it. s4 Il ss
Ten business houses and three small
er structures were destroyed by fire the
other morning at silveeLake, Ind.
A TORNADO passed over the section Of
country eight miles south Of Butte, Mont.
on the 10th, leveling houses, trees and
fences Five hundred feet Of basiil-hum
ing. thirty feet above the ground, was
blown down. Six men who were at work
at the time were seriously injured. One
had since died from the effects of his inJu
ries.
MoosIc, small town near Scranton
Pa, was shaken throughout few days agt
by an explosion of powder in magazine
at coal breaker. One man was almost
torn to pieces and another was not found
HENRY FLEMING was hanged at Pitts
boro, Calhoun County, Miss, on the It'll
for q murder committed two years ago
When at the gallows he attempted to xii
himself with small pocket-knife and in
ficted wound in the throat, but it was no
fatal. His neck was broken by the fall ant
the death struggle lasted but an instant.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-05-26
THE Secretary Of the Interior has de-

THE Secretary of the Interior has de-
livered an important opinion regarding the
withdrawal and settlement of sections OF
land within the indemnity limits of the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
JAMES MULLETT, Edward O'Brien,
Edward Mccartney, Daniel Delaney, Will
liam Morony and Thomas Doyle, all OF
whom pleaded guilty to the charge OF con-
spiracy to murder, were sentenced at Dub
lin, Ireland, on the 18th to penal servitude,
Doyle for five years, the others for ten
years. The trials of Gibney and Kingston
were postponed until the next Assizes.
RAILROAD employees and laborers on
the Northern Pacific Railroad captured
Gallatin City, Mont, a few days ago, but
the Sheriff with posse from Bozeman re-
stored order the next day, arresting sew
era1 of the leaders.
The cable announced on the 18th
that Cetawayo's forces had been routed by
insurgent chiefs with great slaughter.
LOUIS d. JARRARD, Postmaster at
New Brunswick, N. j., is reported to be
$40, 900 short in his accounts.
RECENT advices from China are to
the effect that the French are proceeding
in business-like way to establish them-
selves firmly in Tonquin.
The annual meeting of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters was held on the
18th in New York.
THE liabilities of Turtons & Hadow,
stock specul ators, London, Eng, whose
failure has been announced, are 1920 900.
The annual reunion of the Society of
the Army of the Potomac began at Wash
ington, D. c., on the 10th. A procession,
| including about seven hundred members of
the society, marched through the principal
| streets of the city and was reviewed by
| President Arthur and the members OF his
Cabinet. The afternoon was devoted to a
| business meeting. When the election of
| President was reached, General Newton
and General Grant We're put in nomination.
On the ballot General Newton received 155
votes and General Grant, 1T; scattering,7.
| General Newton's election was made unani-
nous, and with the exception of President,
old officers were reelected. Brooklyn, n.
Y, was selected as the place Of the next
meeting.
The private bank of Eugene Angel,
at Lansing, Mich, closed its doors the
other afternoon, owing to run upon it,
/ amid considerable excitement. 1t was
stated that the late city Treasurer, 3. B.
Wood, was short in his accounts and that
the troubles of the bank had connection
] with him, growing out of the endeavor to
i tide him over his troubles.
THREE murderers were the other day
sentenced to be hanged together at Orange
A burg, S. c., on June 252Richard Jeffioat,
for the murder of Louis Rumph; William
i Irrelevant, for the murder of Frank
Mitchell, and Horace Hall, for the murder
of Daniel Glover.
| THERE was frost throughout North.
ern Ohio on the night of the 18th.
The bodies of John Hurbert ano
Michael j. Currie, two of themen killed al
the recent great oil fire at CommunipaW, N
r., were found in the bay at that place the
other day. They were blown into the bay
by the explosion.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-05-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


THE President has appointed Norman
Fl. Camp Superintendent of the Assay
Office at Boise City, Idaho, vice William
Walters, suspended.
THE Canadian Parliament was pro-
rogued on the 18th after a session OF one
hundred and seven days.
The District Court at Virginia, New,
has granted decree of divorce on the suit
of Theresa Fair against United States SEN
ator James G. Fair. There was nd contest,
and Mr. Fair settles upon Mrs. Fair s. ,2OO,-
600 in money and United States bonds and
the family residence in San Francisco.
THE Duke of Connaught, third son of
Queen Victoria, has been appointed to the
command of brigade in India, in order to
give him an opportunity to qualify himself
for the office of Viceroy of India, which the
Queen desires to see him occupy.
LONDON eng. dispatches report that
the ministerial party in Parliament is
steadily losing strength, and that much of
the abstention in the House of Commons is
deliberately planned to weaken the Min
istry.
SECRETARY FoLGER has informed the
President that special inspectors will have
to be appointed to enforce the law against
Importation of adulterated tea.
The President has appointeu the fol-
lowing United States Consuls: Francis
Haughnot, of New York, at Naples; B.Odell
Duncan, South Carolina, at Catina, and
James Fletcher, Iowa. at Genoa.
The President has recognized George
Edward Stanley as Consul of her Britannia
Majesty for the States of California and
Oregon and for Washington Territory, to
reside in California.
LEWIS MEER Y. TERAN, the man
who as Governor of Vera Cruz had
number of Masons brutality shot, has been
made Major-G
JEFFERSON DAVIS has recently been
seriously i'll with bronchitis, but was con
sidered outof danger on the 16th.
The wife of General Absalom Baird
died suddenly at Washington, D. G., the
other evening from stroke of apoplexy
She was native of New York, and niece
of the late Garrett Smith, the Abolitionist
CHARLES F. KRING, who killed Dora
Broemser at st. Louis, No., for which he
spent eight years in jail, was five times
tried for his life and was twice sentenced
to death, died at st. Johns Hospital in thai
city on the 18th, of consumption.
The Sultan has agreed to convoke
the Turkish Parliament, which will resem
BILE the Assembly of 1876. 1t will be com
posed of representatives of all religions
and will meet in October.
The Kentucky Democratic State Con
vention on the 18th nominated ]. Proctor
Knott for Governor and Captain James R
Hindman for Lieutenant-G
DISPATCHES received from Wheeling
on the 18th indicated that it would take al
official count to decide the contest between
Brown and Snyder for Congress from tn
Third West Virginia District. The former
election was claimed by Republicans b.
fifty majority.
The death Of Bishop Jesse 7. Peck, a
Syracuse, n. z, has been announced.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-05-26

THE jury in the case OF Rev. Henry
Smith, a Baptist Minister, on trial at Can
ton, Van Zandt County, Tex, for the MUIR
der of Deputy Sheriff B. FL. Day, returned
verdict on the 10th of murder in the first
degrse, and assessed the punishment at life
imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
IT was reported from Monterey,
Mex, ON the 10th that Psausland and Mudd,
two Americans in jail for the murder OF
Wickland, wealthy contractor, a few
DAYS ago, had been taken out and hanged
by mob.
AN engine and eighteen freight cars
were thrown down an enbankment on the
Reading & Columbia Railroad near Ephra'
to. Pa, the other day. George w. Hahn,
Master Mechanic of the road, was killed
The disaster was caused by plank mall
ciously placed across the track.
During popular fete and fireworks
in a village adjacent to Lisbon, Portugal
the other day, dynamite bomb exploded
killing four persons and wOundlng twenty
others.
WHILE number of workmen were
digging a trench at Allegheny City, "a.
the other morning the ground caved in, in
stantly killing John Smith and seriously
iniuring Matthew Golden and James
Hughes.
A TORNADO fell upon Denison, Tex,
on the morning of the 18th, destroying the
Baptist Church, damaging the public schoo
and demolishing several other buildings
Mrs. Lee McMurtry was killed.
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A Good Inarsement.

T. A. Wallis letterp the Miner, por-
tion Of which was pulished in the RIv-
Err PRESS Saturday lorning, was IN
dorsed by Sheriff Cahron, Of Meagher
county, in the folloing Characteristic
note:
Editor Miner :-ThlaboYe does not
include the Yogo mins nor does it IN
clnde the Carpenter disict, which con-
tains the WhippoorHl and Uncle
George, also the Hugl and Delorier
and Mountain City, With are the larg-
est mines that have evebeen struck 10
Montana, and the QueeDf the Hills Is
one of the best that has ter been seen,
without any exception. gou, OF course,
understand that this ism top of the
ground, and as I was iRutte in early
davs think I know Whepf [ speak.
Yours, ETC., BILLCAMERoN.
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Sudden Death.

The community was startled last Friday
morning by the news that Mr. Y. 4.
Goss had died at 2 a. NJ. During the
early summer he was dangerously Ill 1or
some weeks and had recovered after De-
ing given up by his friends Subsequent
" he was engaged by +. l.. Bonner q
CO. to receive ties at Warm Springs
creek, and after attending to that duty
he returned on the Sd inst. Although
i'll he was not considered dangerously 50
until few minutes before his death.
Mr.. Goss was Mason and his re-
mains were buried by that body on sat
urday with the impressive ceremonies o.
that order. The funeral was very large
ly attended. He was also member OF
the United Workman order and ais
widow will receive So, 600 from that as
ISOLATION. Mr.. Goss was highly esteem
ed and his bereaved wife has the heart,
sympathy of the community in her time
Of sorrow.-Nesu Northwest.
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From the Husbandman.

Severance & Co. are shipping large
lot of thoroughbred Merino sheep from
Missouri, and will offer about 5oo OF
them for sale this falls
Miss Gibson, who closed her engage
ment with the White Sulphur Springs
public school, has accepted an eight
months school at Halls mill, on the
Musselshell.
Severance & Co. bought OF Goodale
Bros, last week, 1000 sheep, paying ~
a head. Four hundred of the lot were
thoroughbred Merino rams and ewes
The purchase comprises all OF the Good
ale Bros fine sheep, and in fact all
their flock except the wethers.
On the Fourth of July four mountain
sheep went into the flock of George W.
| Cook. near Fort Logan, and grazeo
pretty much all day, and when evening
approached, went quietly home With
the flock and were corralled with them
The Chestnut roundup, which chanced
to be there, undertook to rope them, bu'
failed. Becoming frightened at the ma
nmuyers of the horsemen, they jumpe6
the corrall and scampered away, pursued
by a half-dozen horseman, armed witt
revolvers and ropes, and, strange to say
made good their escape. The herder be
lieyes. if unmolested, they would hav'
staid with his flock and become domes
ticated
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Escaped Convict Captured.

Billy Morgan, one of the conyicts who
escaped from the penitentiary Tuesday
night was captured Thursday evening
near Mart. Mitchel's ranch, on the Ben
ton road, by Deputy Sheriff Steele.
Morgan was mounted on horse which
he had stolen on Dog Greek. The cap
tured man was kept at Mitchell's over
night, Steele placing him in room and
mailing the door fast, and also hiring a
man to stand guard over him. Morgan
was brought to Helena yesterday ana
placed in Jail here. Steele makes 500
out of the capture, that being the reward
offered by the territory. Independent.
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FINE STOCK.
A Visit to Paris Gibson Sons Thor-
oughbred Sheep Ranch.

Up Belt creek from Cashiers a mile
or two is Phil Gibson's splendid ranch,
the home of Paris Gibson Il Sons band
of thoroughbred sheep, some or the I'M
est stock in this line ever brought into
the northwest.
In the Belt creek valley there are
succession of excellent ranches, from the
bridge to the mountains, but 1or the
purpose designed we doubt II more
favored spot, in every particular, could
have been selected for thoroughbred
sheep ranch than the one secured by the
Messrs. Gibson. Atthis point the valley
is wide and skirted on both SIDES py
forest of cottonwoods, many OF them OF
great size, giving the place beautiful
and picturesque appearance. Inc sou
is rich and productive, as is fully shown
by the large and fine crop OF grain grow
| ING in fields cultivated the first time
Here, as throughout the upper Belt val
ley, crops can be successfully grown
without irrigation, but to provide against
the possibility of a failure, ditch mas
been projected that will bring water
upon every foot Of the ranch at a cost
of not more than $500. But besides tne
land enclosed for agricultural and hay
purposes an immense tract will be fenceo
for a pasture, thus giving them every
advantage that could be wished for. Mr..
Gibson has now at this place band OF
900 thoroughbred ewes, merlnos and
Shropshiredowns, but principally the
: former. These, with the exception OF
the few he has bred himself, have been
: selected with special care from the band
of Mr.. Campbell, of Vermont, and are
of the best blood in the country. Ihls
wear he brought out fifty head, and last
season about the same number. Ihese
importations will be continued, select
inc always the very best strains, unit
Butte ranch will outrank all others II
2 the northwest in the number as well a:
, the superiority Of the thoroughbred
: sheep produced. Mr.. Gibson IS fully
: convinced that northern Montana VII
/. be a great wool producing section, anf
q that the demand for such stock as he i
putting thousands of dollars in will b
e a constant and increasing one. His en
: ternrise deserves the need of success
e and he certain to win it.
s Phil. Gibson has the full management
e of this important enterprise, and W
J. found him up to his eyes in work, q
!" recting improvements, etc. He is abot
y to begin the erection Of handsome re-
" idence, and upon its completion, or b.
.. fore, will be joined by Mrs. G. and tt
4 baby. He is getting the ranch in fir
le condition, and will soon have one OF tt
es best stock farms in Montana.
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.A%~N+%~
The Races.

A long line of carriages, wagons and
horsemen Wendcd their way to the race
track on the afternoon of the 18th, the
attraction being the match between the
Buckskin Pony, winner OF the quarter
mile dash on the 4th, and Black Bird,
the mare that ran second on that day.
Arrived on the ground, the crowd found
nothing to do but to walk or drive
around for fully all hour, when an I'M
promptu race was got up between saddle
horses on the ground, for which Shelton
entered a bay, Paget a roam and Ware
ham buckskin. A number OF pools
were sold on this race in which the bay
was a strong favorite. The race was a
| quarter Of mile, and the roam, ridden
by Diamond R Brown" won it, with
the bay close second, the buckskin a
poor third. Rain had commenced fall
ing before this race was run, and after
cessation Of very short time it began
again and continued for some time. Fl
nally, when it did stop, Black Bird was
stripped, the rider mounted and she was
/ ridden up to the starting point prepared
for the contest. The crowd proceeded
to the track to witness the race, but now
ensued most yexatious delay, caused
bv those who were managing Buckskin
and it was full half hour before any
attempt was made to get him ready. Al
last he appeared with rider up ano
| was walked up the track. The Grove
waited in expectancy for the start, bu
| it did not come First Buckskin walk
ed clear back to the half mile pole, ther
back to the $50 yards mark. Then h'
was galloped through to the stand, theI
1 walked back, and the rider dismountet
! and stripped. They're ready to start!'
but no; clear to the half mile walked
{ Buckskin, and back again. It was sup
/ per time and the crowd was getting gu
, OF patience, and they expressed thei
dissatisfaction pretty freely. At last al
J attempt was made to get them Oft, an
after several false starts they got away
Buckskin having little the best Of th
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send-off. Slowly but surely her black |
gained; in hundred yards
she was even, half way down the black
name waved neck in advance OF the
silver one, and Buckskin's rider drew
his whip. 1t was in vain, for true as an
arrow came the black, gaining at every
stride, and shot under the wire two
lengths ahead. This ended the days
snort, and the crowd were soon back in
town.
After the return home the stake hold
er was notified not to give up the mon
ey. as were also the holders OF several
large bets. Charges were made that the
buckskin was "doped,n that the rider
pulled him. ETC., and up to the present
time the money has not been given up.
We do not pretend to be horsemen, but
it is our private opinion that the mares
running was what "doped' him. Ii he
was tampered with it must have been
by some of his own party MI. Paget,
the owner of the mare, authorizes us 10
state that if the stakes and bets are CIV
en- M in accordance with the decision OF
the Judges he will give the Buckskln
party chance to get even on another
race This sounds fair.
Another race is talked Of for the 2otE
q matched race between the roam anC
the gray that ran in the saddle horse
race. The distance is to be quarter o
a mile and the stake $500 side. But
all hinges on the late race, as Paget, "h
owns the roam, tells US he will not rul
unless he gets the money he claims t
have fairly won with Black Bird.
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HEAVY CATTLE SALE.
The Hstser, Stnart & Co.'s Cattle Change
/ Hands for 100000.
Falls.

The h,ayiest transaction in cattle that
has occrred in the territory, says the
NeaU Nethauest, took place this week,
Mr.. Con4d Kohrs, for Kohrs q Blelen-
berg, andMr. Granville Stuart, for Stu
ant & Anderson, purchasing Of Mr.. A. }.
Davis, the Davis, Hauser & Co.'s herd
of $4,000 sattle for 100000. Stuart and
Anderson were former owners in the
herd, thelate sale being in fact pur-
chase of tle two-thirds interest Of Judge
Davis by IT, Kohrs for s266,66 This
is the the ieaviest transaction in cattle
that has evr taken place in the terrific
ry, the nex highest being that few
weeks ago yhen the Montana company
bought of lowns & Allen the old 1000
head herd oElark and Ulm for 1926, 900.
By this tranaction Con Kohrs put him
self at the had of the Montana cattle
business, andn the manner of the times
is the undisuted cattle king of Monta-
ma. he and M. John Bielenberg owning,
or owning mtrolling interest in 70 ,ooC
head Of cattle which, at rates we have
heard of beinapaid recently, are worth
on the range apillion and half dollars
Mr.. Kohrs k1iws what good herd o
cattle is and til fair inference is that II
making the rsent purchase he has Sc
cured what he hlieyes to be very valu
able band of cstle. Messrs. GranvlE
Stuart and Rezi Anderson, two OF ou
old townsmen, 4na 9 one-third lnteres
in the recently nrchased cattle, ranch
es, ETC., and willbave charge Of them
The range headqtrters are within fou
,, miles of Fort Mginnis, in Meaghe
county, and aboutOo miles east Of he
ena. We are glad see our old towns
men keeping the hdiand making a
!. honest penny or tN in the struggle
| life
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all parts o. the town, or, If conducted
through pipes, can be sent to any por-
ton of the city by its own pressure
that the problem of water works for the
new city is already solved, and is COM
paratively an easy one.
I'll. z. Rolfe, Of this city, with num-
Der Of assistants, is now engaged in sur
yeying the town, and will not have the
work completed for two or three weeks
yet. The city will be divided into streets
and avenues, the latter running east and
| west and the former north and south.
1.-THE Nomenclature Of the streets, etc..
Twill be the very simplest, and for that
reason the very best. Probably half
way back from the river will be Central
avenue, 80 feet wide The other aven-
ues and streets will be SO feet wide, and
all alleys 20 feet. With Central avenue
al starting point, all others will be des-
ignated 1st, I'd, Sd, ETC., avenue north,
OF south, as the case may be. Inc
st,eets will be numbered lst, I'd, Sd,
ets., straight through. The lots Will De
of good dimensions, 50x150 feet, 50 that
a single lot will make nice residence
site or two good business lots. AS soon
= as the field work is done plats will be
executed and the lots placed upon the
malket. This will not be for severa
weeks yet, however, and before tina
time it is probable that Mr.. }. j. Hill
: willyisit the coming city and define de
:, finitly the policy Of the company, s.
far al is not already fixed.
:, Inanother article tomorrow we viii
: have something to say about the falls
= the wonderful spring; the water poWe
: available, and the enterprises and Is
= source that can, and will, be brough
- into adion to make a great city OF Grea
y Falls
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The Northern Pacltic liiroad.

WASHINGTON, July 49, The Presi-
dent has appointed Byronlndrews, Of
Washington, VIM. II. BHgman, Of
stamford, Conn, and DudldF Phillips
Of New York City, Commissioners to ex-
anime and report upon twenty-five
miles of the Northern Pacil railway,
Missoula division, Montana.
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Teams w anted.

A LOT of teams are wanted to haul hay
from Sandy to Fort Assinaboine. For
particulars apply to David &. Browne,
Fort Benton.