The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-11-21
TELEGRAPHIC.
Cold Weather in Dakota and
Minnesota. Montana in
Sunshine.
Something Of Interest for Our
Readers in Oshkosh,
Wisconsin.
The Cold Weather Must Have
Frozen up the Eastern
News.
The Winter Whiteness To-day
Reminds us That Cold
Weather is here.
Only Wished to Steal q Ride.

Only Wished to Steal a Ride.
GALVESTON, Nov. ia Neus Sour
Lake special SAYS: Twelve tramps were
noticed about the depot last night and
the agent suspecting they intended to
rob the coming train, wired to the sup
erintendent, who ordered posse of
twenty men aboard at Liberty. AS the
train pulled into Sour Lake the tramps
rushed for the express car, but were
halted by several Winchesters. The
passengers, especially the ladies, were
almost panic striker. Their valuables
were hurriedly secreted or thrown away.
The gang, however, were unarmed, and
asserted that they only wished to steal a
ride.
CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-The sensational dis
patches publishes here this morning to
the effect that Lincoln's body had been
stolen from the vault i'll Springfield, is
tonight emphatically denied by a rep
resentative of the Associated Press at
Springfield, who sends to the Associated
Press an Official statement of J. {. Pow
ers, custodian of the Lincoln monument,
in which he says: The body had been
placed in coffin in the sarcophugas in the
monument, and the remains had never
been removed from the monument, and
that the remains are absolutely safe.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 16-An Oshkosh
special to the evening Wisconsin says:
The lumber yards of Stonehiller & Co.,
and A. d. Rock are burning, and fire
has broken out in the Morgan block,
near by. The flames are beyond control
and the mayor has telegraphed to Fond
du Lac for aid. The loss of several hum
dred thousand dollars is anticipated, as
the wind blows gale. The fire, which
for a time threatened great destruction,
and caused kilograms for aid to be sent
to Fond du Lac, Neenah and Milwaukee,
although burning for five hours during a
terrific gale, was finally mastered, after
terribly hard fight. The fire broke out
in the yard of Stanhiller & Co., about
noon, and, although it worked down
stream towards the other mill and facto-
ries slowly, it burned over large terri
tory and consumed large amount of
lumber It was checked at the leeward
extremity of G. w. Pratt's lumber yard,
his mill being saved. Had it got into
the lumber yard and sash and door fac
tory of Radford Bros, just beyond, there
is no telling what extent of damage it
might have done. Three dwellings of
employees were burned and about thirty
families forced to move because of their
proximity to the fire. The severest loss
is on G. w. Pratt, whose entire yard was
consumed. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $780,
O0O.; fully covered by insurance.
BISMARCK. Oak, Nov. 16.-The Their
mometer stands at thirty degrees below
Zero A strong wind is blowing at p. m.
ST. PAUL, Nov 16.-Advices from all
parts of the northwest tonight report
temperatures ranging from Is to 40 de-
grees below zero. A strong wind blow
ing, but no snow. All trains are delayed
on account of the wind. Navigation is
practically suspended here; the river is
closed tonight.
CHICAGO, Nov. I7.-Statements have
been going the rounds of the press to the
effect that mail matter via the Northern
Pacific railroad had been carried through
to Portland and there left in the post
office because the single route agent
could not distribute it. Capt. James f.
White superintendent of the railway
mail service, was inclined to discredit
the statements. or at least to regard
them as very much exaggerated. When
the Northern Pacific was opened the
direction of this mail matter was chang
ed and the service organized between
Bismarck, Dakota, and Portland Oregon.
1t was not expected that new men on
the route would be able to do the work
perfectly at first; but with two instruc-
tors they have been making rapid pro-
gress, and, SO far as Capt. White has had
official information, there has been but
little trouble. Since the contract has
been awarded to the Northern Pacific it
is believed that the Union and Central
Pacific and the Utah Northern roads have
had agents watching the mail service on
the Northern Pacific, and that every
delay is magnified as much as it possibly
can be, for the purpose of again securing
the contract for carrying the mail. Capt.
White says the routes are being handled
by good men. and that if the present
facilities are found to be insufficient or
inadequate they will be increased. until
there can be no possible cause for either
delay or com laint.
Charles A. Bosworth, superintendent
of mails of the st. Paul post-office, said
the supervision of the routes on the
Northern Pacific, whence complaints of
heavy accumulations of mails had lately
come, was removed from this district
when the route was opened. He had
heard that when superintendent Arm
strong reached Helena the hours of the
route agents had been SO much lengthen-
ed that each man had run now of forty
four hours in duration, then lay-off of
twelve hours, and another tour of forty
four, and so on-in other words, eighty
eight hours on and twenty-four off in
every 112. The amount of mail handled
was not too great to receive attention;
the maximum number of sacks reported,
100 through and way, not exceeding the
number often handled between st. Paul
and Fargo on single train. Mr.. Bos-
worth was inclined to believe that the
agents had combined to let the matter
accumulate and thus secure reduction
of hours.
CHICAGO, Nov. ia formal notice
has been issued by the st. Paul road that
it is its intention to withdraw from the
Omaha pool which has provoked SO great
an excitement in railroad circles. A
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