The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-06-06
the LATEST NEWS.

Hiram J. Ramsdell, editor ofthe Wash
ington Republic; register Of wills and q
weekly correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Press, says that Mag1nnis' speech
before the army Of the Potomac, was
grand, eloquent and interesting.
The secretary of the interior issued an
order directing the commissioner of tho
general land Office to recognize the claims
of settlers on lands embraced in the Ter
ritory ceded to the United States under
the treaty ratified by act of congress
April IL, 1882. The order formally opens
the coded country to settlement. The
secretary has just completed the agree
ments with the Indians required in the
treaty and the act of ratification. The
order recognizes settlement made after
the date of the approval Of the ratifying
act. The order opens up the following
described territory: Beginning in the
middle channel of the Yellowstone at a
point opposite the mouth of Boulder
creek; thence up the middle channel of
said river to the point where it crosses
the southern boundary of Montana Ter
ritory, being the 45th degree of north
latitude; thence east along said parallel
of latitude to point where said parallel
crosses Clarke's Fork; thence north to
point six miles south Of the first standard
parallel, being on the township line be-
tween Townships and 7 south; thence
west on said township line to the 10th
meridian Of longitude; thence north
along said meridian to a point either east
or west Of the source of the eastern branch
of Boulder creek; thence down said east
ern branch of Boulder creek; thence
down Boulder creek to place Of begin
ming. The cession embraces over 5,OO0,-
600 acres, for which the government pays
the Indians annually $4,000 for twenty
five years, in addition to the annuities
and sums for provisions and clothing,
stipulated and provided for in previous
treaties and laws. The agricultural lands
remaining in the reservation have, under
the treaty, been surveyed and divided
among the Indians in severalty and pat
ents issued to each. The ceded lands
have been surveyed and are ready for
settlement by the public.
A fearful catastrophe on East river
bridge occurred May 3Oth, by which a
large number Of people lost their lives.
The narrowness of the footway for pas
sengers is the cause of the horror. The
number of the dead is not known. At
four o'clock the long line of people on
foot iu the centre walk of the structure
going from and coming to New York City
thickened and swelled and stopped its
motion just at the stairs leading from the
concrete roadway to the bridge proper.
Strong men and feeble women, manhood
and infancy were wedged together in that
fearful pressure Of the crowd which ex-
tended miles. one might say, on either
end of the line. 1t was remorseful
fearful stupid force that held its victims
as immovable as the stone foundation of
the bridge itself. The stoppage lasted
nearly an hour, dnring which time
scores Of people tainted. To release the
jam on the bridge the officials removed
some of the iron paling few feet from
the stairway on the New York side, when
of course those unfortunate enough to be
near enough, and weak and fainting, fell
heller SHELTER, heels over head, down on
the jagged gravelly road beneath, mass
of bruised discolored human flesh. Scores
were trampled upon instantly, and to
was death. Men were dragged
out of that heap Of helpless humanity
with their faces blue as indigo, and their
life blood trickling out of their nostrils.
Children and women, pale, disheveled
and dead. The roadway on either side
walk was strewed with dead and dying,
a pitiable sight, and yet it is said no ef.
forts were made by the bridge officials to |
stop the people coming on the bridge.
The dead and dying were carried off in
wagons, carts, ETC., improvlsed on the
for service, and it was a long |
time before the police arrived and any
thing like order was restored or an am
bulance appeared. Meanwhile teams |
were rushing both ways at full gallop |
over the roadways, why, no one could |
tell, threatening the limbs and lives Of
those on foot who were attempting to
help the unfortunate victims. Men
themselves hoarse crying "Clear |
the way" wagons rattling over the rough |
stones; men and women crying in all d.
rections made it q bedlam indeed. A
party of men in uniform did some service
at the spot as volunteer police to check
the vulgar and curious. At Chambers
stree hospital here there are lying thir-
teen dead bodies, six unknown men and
six unknown women.