The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-12-19
Northern Pacific Matters of I'm
portance,
A Prominent Member of Con-
gress Asked to Explain.
A Servant Instead of the Daugh-
ter Abducted.
Washington Topics 80 Silver
Coins-Important Egyptian
News, Etc, Etc.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad
Retrenching.
Prison Horrors.

Prison Horrors.
LONDON, Dec. S.-A Paris corrospon
dent forwards the second letter written il
blood by Nihilist in Fronblestkor tort
at st. Petersburg. 1t describes the har
rowing treatment Of prisoners, and sayl
food is often moldy and sometimes putrid
DYSPEPSIA and scurvy are prevalent. ant
doctors are afraid to touch patients. Few
medicines are prescribed, and wher
ordered are generally countermanded
Prisoners rot away and exhale the Odort
before life is extinct The number O
those who 60 mad in consequence o.
their sufferings is daily increasing. Mad
men are strapped down and whipped
with the knout by keepers. Fierce yells
resound throughout the night. AIanv
prisoners have committed suicide. It il
stated that one woman was outraged and
then poisoned, but no inquiries into the
affair were instituted. Rats are the
worst enemies of the prisoners. A wo'
man with babe was obliged to be con.
stantly on watch and fight to prevent
the rats from destroying her child. The
use of combs and soap is forbidden, and
prisoners, especially women, whose hail
is allowed to grow, are literally devoured
by lice. Jailers are only kind to those
having money. Prisoners who refuse to
reply to questions are tortured, and cases
Of violation of women are frequent. The
writer especially appeals to the civilized
world in behalf of women in prison
whose situation, he says, is far worse
than that of the men.
DULUTH, Dec. S.-An evening paper
here to-day published the synopsis of a
reported letter from a survivor of the
Manistee, who is said to have described
the loss of the boat and the fact that nine
passengers left the boat just before it
went down, and al but three of them
perished from exposure before the boat
| reached the shore Three survivors are
said to have reached Houghton in boat
sixty miles away from the place, where
the boat broke in two and went down. No
names are given of the survivors, and
nothing but the letter said to be adj
| dressed to Mr. Carlson. No one knows
who Mr.. Carlson is, and reporters of other
papers in the city learned nothing about
its receipt, and the general opinion is
that it was pure invention of reporter
or some other person who showed the re-
puted letter to him. Marine men scoff
at the story. The fact is that navigators
now generally hold the opinion that the
Manistee blew up before she was sunk,
as all evidences of pieces of wreck found
60 to show such disaster. The latter is
clearly sensational fraud. A good many
rumors about the Manistee have been set
af1Oat here, but none of them traced to
any reliable source and it is safe to put
down all stories not clearly substantiated,
as frauds.
CHICAGO, Dec S.-A dispatch dated st.
Paul is published here this morning, in
which it is stated that unless the North
ern Pacific railroad company arouses
itself to the adoption of more liberal
policy to emigrants, it will lose much bus
mess, which it might otherwise obtain
that the leading idea of the managers OF
the road has been to charge as high
freights and fares as the people could
stand and as result the st. Paul and
| Northwestern roads have scooped their
| Northern neighbors An official of the
Northern Pacific is reported to have said
that he was unable to effect any change,
intimatlng that the whole thing was
managed in New York, and that the
mandate had gone forth to secure imme.
date revenues by high tariffs. This
statement is said to have been made last
winter, and the facts since then are
! claimed to have come to pass as pre-
dicted. The dispatch then gees on to
| say:
Steps are being taken to bring the COM
pany to time. A meeting of the few
leading capitalists was held day or two
ago at Bismarck, when the situation was
discussed with closed doors. The grasp
ing policy of the Northern Pacific was
commented upon, and it was resolved to
hold convention, at which the matter
will be fully discussed. and if possible
something be done H get the company
to adopt a more liberal policy. The
movers in this scheme are quite prepared
to have the officials of the company re.
ply that they "knoW how to run rail-
rad" The Chicago roads have realized
the fact that cheapness of transportation
has great deal to do in deciding the
head of family in the matter of locating
and the sooner the Northern Pacific
learns lesson or two, the better for its
stockholders.
A high official of the Northern Pacific