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The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-19
Crees and their booty may be taken before
reaching cover

troops ~ SCOutiuS al tIidl uA AcCtSohJ tAe
Crees and their booty may be taken before
reaching cover.
A Maple creek (Northwest, Territory cor
respondent of the Benton Record says:
am told by hali-breeds and whites that par
ties Of Cree Indians have been leaving here
for Choteau county every day for the pur-
pose of stealing stock, and they have said
that they would bring back scalps to pay
for those who have been killed. wish you
would make this part Of this letter public,
and protect its citizens. Now is the time
and not wait till all the poor settlers on
| the border arc killed Or robbed.
The first through ticket from Helena to
J st. Paul and that from Butte to st. Paul
will be sold by auction, and ~ the Butte
people are determined that the Butte ticket
shall sell for more that the Helena one, q
| lively contest is expected. 1t il expected
that the first through ticket from Portland
to st. Paul will bring several thousand dol
lars as a souvenir. The Independent says
that several private bids have already been
made for it, one Of them over . thousand
dollars.
Work on the Park branch is proceeding
rapidly. The graders are busy with rock
! work at Lower and Middle Canyon and
blasting at point Of Rocks. There are
| twenty five or thirty teams employed.
Cross-sectioning, with the exception Of that
to be done Oh contested and, was completed
| last week. The short line branch to the
great pleasure ground will shortly be COM
pleted so far as it can be put down until a
permit to run across the reservation is
asked aud granted.
Among the names registered at the Met
| ropolitan hotel in st. Paul on Tuesday were
those of Mr c, Cobb, Of Bozsman, Mont,
| Mrs. H. G. Clarke, Miss Ada Blair, Mis-. D.
L. Blair and he Rev. D. s. Phillips, Of
Kankakee, Ill. Yesterday, shortly after
noon, this party Of ladies and gentlemen
| repaired to Christ church, and Mr.. Cobb
and Miss Ada Blair were united in matri-
mony. The parties met in st. Paul pursu-
ant to previous arrangement for the pur-
pose of having the nuptial ceremony, and
they are still guests At the Metropolitan.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-19

Secretary Tellerrecently rendered
a decision in which he holds that
the act Of June 8, 1878, which per-
mits the sale at the minimum price
of $3.50 per acre Of lands valued
principally for r.timber and.un-
fit for cultivation, does not apply to
timber lands which may be render
ed susceptible of cultivation by the
ordinary farming process. Such
lands, the secretary says, are within
the purpose Of this act, which ia in
te1ded to embrace within its pro-
visions timberod tracts only in
broken, rugged and mountainous
tdistricts, with soiluntit for ordinary
agricultural purposes when dease0
lW xkk0U8. f A. 1s
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-19
Montana Beef for the East.

The erection of extensive slaught-
ering houses at several points along
the line of the Northern Pacific rail
road in Montana for the prepara-
ton of beef for the eastern markets
is contemplated by leading cattle
breeders and butchers. A St. Paul pa
per says thatC Chicago set the EXAMPLE
some months ago by sending beef
in sides and quarters to the New
York market instead of shipping,
as usual, the live cattle; and now
the farmland breeders and feeders
of steers are about to retaliate on
Chicago. The arrangement is plausi-
BILE and economic. An OK of 1900
pounds on foot, shipped alive to
Chicago, loses 10 per cent. by
shrinkage in flesh and also loses in
quality. The loss in weight is 12O
pounds. The same animal, killed
and quartered in Montana, cuts 60
per cent. Of beef, or 720 pounds, and
the shrinkage of this 720 pounds
by transportation in a refrigerator
car is but one per cent. The loss
on the steer, at S. per hundred, is
$500; on the same animal quarter
ed, at 8 cents per pound for the beef,
it is but 81 4-5 cents. There is
saving of s5.55 on each steer of
200 pounds live weight by killing
and dressing at the point Of depart
ure for the Chicago market. 1t
costs SO per head to ship live cat
tie by rail from Montana to Chicago.
Add loss by shrinkage, $500, and
we have total of s16.20. 1t costs
81 per hundred pounds to ship the
beef in refrigerator car, or 1920
for the killed steer Of 1900 live
weight and 720 dead weight. Add
cost of ice. commission. and IS
cents for the shrinkage, and the total
cost of shipping the killed meat in
quarters is about S9.77. The net
saving is Sc 43 on each OK of 1900
pounds live weight. The same
paper tabulated it statement thus:
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-19

A soap mine has been. discovered
in California. The substance is q
deposit Of white earth, free from
grit, and impregnated With a small
percentage Of potash. tits easily
sliced. into bars, and for cleaning
purposes is q fair substitute for
u,au0f1ctnre3 sap. ).
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-19
Announcements!

The Merchants of Montana ad-
NIT that there is no necessity to so
further East than Billings to pur-
chase their stocks, and the large
wholesale business row done by II.
Clark & Co. proves that they have
carried out their pledge to make
Billings first class jobbing point.
Merchants from the cities and vii
lagos of Montana can purchase their
goods of H. Clark & Co. at prices
which cannot be beaten by Eastern
competition.
Ranchmen and all large purchas-
ers declare that they had never ex-
pected to find the prices of
GROCERIES,
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING,
BOOTS & SHOES,
HATS
CARPETS,
CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE AND
BAR FIXTURES,
and all other articles so low as they
are at Clark's Store, and wonder
how it lis done.
The secret is that unlimited capi.
tai is employed, that all goods are
purchased, at first hand and fol
cash, and that Clark Il Co. are salts.
fled with moderate return or
their capital. The envious cry o.
Monopoly has been raised by some
who arc too short sighted to set
that.the attraction to Billings o.
the trade of the surrounding country
is for the good of the entire com.
munity and that an established
center of trade is for the benefit 0
all. Those who wish to save thei
money md have cash to pay TO
their goods will look over tn
lpIices at {. - -
! II. VlaARk i CO.'S STORE.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-19

Telegraphic dispatches to Brad
streets from the leading trade con-
tres of the country show the condi-
ton of business to. be fairly satisfac-
tory. There is nowhere q "boom,'
but everywhere indications of sta
bilitv, wkich is far more satisfacto-
ry. The uncertainty as to the effect
Of the new tariff on taxtiles appears
to be having a. retarding influence
on trade in those lines, but this will
soon adjust itself.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-19

Differences in favor OF shipping beef. s. IS
1t is clear that this must be a
profitable business. The average of
live cattle lose about 40 per cent. in
weight when killed and quartered.
transportation on this, at least, is
saved, and that item alone insures
the success of the business. Beef
kept in refrigerator is as good and
sound month after it is killed as a
day after. Beef received in st. Paul
on the Goth of February last was as
sweet and good two months after as
| it was the day it arrived there.
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03
KeInl.

We warned our readers to look out for fun
when the Civil Service Commissioners began
their work; but the fun has already begun.
The appointment by the Commission of De
B. Randolph keim to be chief examiner was
the signal for shouts of laughter wherever that
gentleman is known. keim is one of thrifty
class of Pennsylvanians that make the eagle
scream when they get hold of a silver dollar.
and they are by no means Indifferent to quar-
tiers. He would get rich where a Yankee would
starve to death. In the days when the New
York Herald regarded the literary qualitica-
lions of its reporters as of little or no cOnse-
quence. keim was one of its correspondents
and during the Presidential campaign of 1868
he managed to get solid grip on Gen. Grants
coat-tais. He hung on when President Grant
went into the White House, and soon after Sc
cured an appointment as inspector of consul
ates. which enabled him to make trip around
the world at government expense, and likewise
TO accumulate wealth Having sailed down the
proceeds of his tour he became a Washington
correspondent, devoting himself mainly to ped
ding interviews with the President along News
paper Row. He assumed to be on the most in
innate terms with Grant: but good many be-
lieyed that his interviews" were largely mag
mary. He did thriving business for a while.
however, although he is a very Indifferent writ
er. His most Objectionable trait was his anti
pathy to soap and water and clean linen. When
keim put on billed shirt Newspaper Row
celebrated the event by dinner, and the writer
can testify that these dinners rarely came often
sion will not have to 90 far for dirty linen TO
wash as long as they have kam for chief eX
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03
Supreme Judicial Court.
JUDGE DANFORTH PRESIDING.


\. A. Lesan w. Maine Central r. r. Co. On trial
when the Journal went to press last week The
case was given to the jury Thursday afternoon,
but after being out half the night they came in, be-
ing unable to agree. Thompson & Dunton for plf.
Drummond for deft.
W. T. Colburn vs.. Elizabeth P. Whittier Parties
live in Belfast An action from the Police court to
debt of Sl2. 1t was for bill of goods al
legged to have been delivered to Mrs Whitaker and
her agent, Benz. Whitaker, her son Defence that
she never received the goods and that she was not
responsible for her sons bills. Verdict for plh. for
50. Brown for plf Foglcr for deft.
Alfonzo s. Rand of Thorndike, vs. The Inhabit
ants of Jackson. Action to recover damages in the
of $4,000 for alleged injuries said to have been
received on the 9Th of October last The pln, with
two others, were driving home from the Monroe
fair with pair of horses attached to a grocery
wagon. When near the Carpenter or Great farm
in Jackson one of the horses is said to have stepped
its hind feet into hole in the plank covering of
culyert the forward wheels of the carriage follow
ing which broke the axle The occupants were
thrown ont Inc pin, who was driving was caught
III the pCle gearing and was dragged by leg dis
lance of 50 rods, receiving external and internal in
iuries. Tie has not yet recovered, and his appear
ancc Ill INC court room, pfOpped up IN his chair by
pillows, is the first time he has been out since the
accident. The defence of the town is that there
no such defect as alleged, that the town was
not notified of any defect, and that the notification
of Rand's injuries not a legal one. The law
governing such cases is that 4 person cannot re
cover over s. 900, that he must commence his &C
ton within one year from the date of accident, and
that the injured party must notify the town of such
action within fourteen days after the injury was
received. Also to make a town liable it must have
twenty four hours notice of d defect in the high
way. The PIN claims that be has complied with all
these regulations. The Jury could nota Thomp-
son < Dunton for pin. Fogler for defts
Alfred q. Clossan, Of Searsport, IS. VIM. T. Pear
son x Co. of Bangor Action for dcmurrage in The
sum Of 500. Pin. alirnls that on the 9th day of
sept, lSS2, Pearson Il co. agreed to load his
pin :, vessel at Bangor with lumber BY failure in
doing without causing Pin. serious delay the
said Pm claims damages in the above mentioned
Verdict for PHI in the sum of 3ll0 Fogler
for pin. Woodland for lcft.
Minot A Drinkwater IS. Ruth Drinkwater,
athnrN. Parties live in Lincolnville PHI. sues to
recover wages tue him for labor performed By him
on farm of delft for series Of years. On trial.
Thompson 4 Dunton for PIN. Fogler \ Iersey
for dcft.
The indications are that court will adjourn the
last OF lhc week.
Isaac }. Baker divorced from Eliza L. Baker.
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03

/ FISH AND FISHING. The Eastnort Sentinel
| OF April 18th says The sardine factories have
| had an unusual good run of fish during the
| past week for this season of the year. Such a
run Of fish was not expected by the fishermen
and many of the Weirs had not been repaired
OF rebuilt, as they have to be every spring but
work on them is being rapidly pushed forward
| now. There seems TO be scarcity of girls to
work in the factories this spring some of the
factories having only half packers enough
Good packers make good wages at this bust
.....Therc is talk of building a sardine fac
tory at South Lubec...SOme thirty or forty
barrels of live Holsters are shipped west BY
every steamer from Ea>tport.... During the
week ending 9th nit. sardine fish sold at East
port from $ % $50 per hogshead.. THE ques-
ton. ''Who own the clam flats, individuals or
| the town." is agitating Friendship. 49,. Harps-
well young men and boys earn from $1.50 to
S3 per day claiming. Nine fishing vessels
owned at Harpswell paid large dividends last
year. The fleet will be added to this season....
The receipts Of Western Bank Goldfish at Glou-
cester have increased from 10000 pounds in
1876 TO 2,46G,000 pounds in lSS2....A Glouces-
ter fisherman declares he recently passed at sea
trunk turtle at least 40 feet long, 80 feet wide
and 80 feet deep; the tlippers were not less than
20 feet long. 1.-The largest fleet of fishermen
that has ever been owned at Pemaquid will
sail from there this coming Season.... pril Dist
sch. Levanter, of Gloucester, Capt. Wm Cliff
ford, Of Boothbay, landed at New York trip
fresh mackere which Melted over 81 900 April
23d, the Abbie NJ Deering of Portland Capt
Seavey, arrived at New York with hundred
and seventy-tive barrels fresh and ten bar
res sailed. She will net about 81 200. OO
As this is the season of trout fishing it will be
in order to call the attention of fishermen to the
law passed at the recent session of the legis-
iature. The following is one of the sections
''No person shall kill or destroy any landlocked
salmon less than nine inches in length or any
trout less than five inches in length, under
penalty of five dollars for the otfense and fifty
cents for each and every landlocked salmon or
trout so killed or destroyed. Any person having
in possession any landlocked salmon or trout of
less than the above dimensions shall be deemed
to have killed or destroyed them in violation of
the provisions of this section
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03

The Liver is the imperial organ of the whole hu-
man system, as it controls the life, health and hap
piness Of man. When it is disturbed in its proper
aeoh all kinds of ailments are the natural result
Inc digestion OF food the movements of the heart
and blood, the action of the brain and nervous sys
TEN, are all Immediately connected with the work
lhgs OF the LIVER 1t has been successfully proved
that Green's August Flower is unequaled in curing
all persons afflicted with Dyspepsia or Liver Com.
plant, and all the numerous symptoms that result
from an unhealthy condition of the Liver and Stom.
ach. Sample bottles to try, 10 cents. Positively
sold IN all towns on the Western Continent. Three
doses will prove that it is just what you want
26teow46
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03
GenerailtleS.

The st. Lawrence is clear from ice 10 Mont
real.
Cha.. ", Foster, father Of cy-Goy. Foster Of
Ohio, is dead
Manager Maple>on hu, secured Patti fornext
season at $4,000 performance,
The swedish Anthropological Society has
awarded medal 10 Henry NJ. Stanley.
The Jeanette Board of Inquiry has conclud-
a not to modify its report Of February y.
Emigration from switzerland to America is
taking place on account Of agricultural distress.
During laS2 there We're 1863 applications for
divorce, and 3Il were granted in Rhode
Island,
The Democrats have elected Henry d.
Mcdaniel governor of Georgia, without OPP
position.
The Cunard Steam ship Company have asked
q concession to run steamers between Trieste
and America.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is making
efforts 10 settle $4,000 Irish emigrants in the
Northwest.
The recent cold snap in the Northwest has
destroyed the fruit crop and early vegetables in
many places.
Several hundred >hipbulder> are idle in
Philadelphia and Camden, they having been
ordered by their employers 10 stop work.
,r.,..,,,. ,.,i,. ..;.;tol a., ro,,,,, oe noo+o,
PHI, o,"9a' IT f, -
and killed him in the presence of his wife.
po M >., ..:.
NY II. ~" lilln sass , rp!lhs y Just a.
s'UleI a 't1s as pray NJ ms na! oG why
So oin' h'iiioNi"'o ""ht ~ Wy ~ ol'eh ~ oile
"'S
\ negro boy. of twelve wears. in Texas.
murdered WhItc boy ~ tylnS ms wrist 70 the
polnlneI OF saddle ana SaloplhS OIL 70 the
PI'lile'
Gov. Rtflcr.s celebrated schooner Yacht
America wili ,,ot oo into commission tbis smm-
mer ana if i r9nortcJ that She is for sale /.
price. - 600
Large areas Of Michigan are submerged by
floods. The water is nine feet deep in the
loses So0O.00O.
The Augusta, Ga. Chronicle fears that
North Carolina may 90 Republican in the next
IrtHllclltlai contest, as wen as ' lfglnla, ana
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03
The Fight With the Albemarle.

The war of the rebellion is fast becoming a
tradition, save to those who took part in it, and
it is only when we see a manned soldier or sail
or who wore the blue in the days Of the nation
peril that we have realizing sense of the long
and bloody conflict. \ generation is growing
up which has come into existence since Lees
surrender, and to them the stories of battle and
siege rlllst be told anew. The veteran can now
shoulder his crutch and show how fields were
won. and the historian perform his work. We
print on the first page Of this weeks journal.
from the Detroit Free Press an account of the
attacks of the Confederate ram Albemarle on
the Federal fleet. 1t has special interest for
Maine readers Capt. c. A. Boutelle was eX-
ecutye officer of the Sassacu>. and it is said to
have been at his instance that that vessel ram
med the Albemarlr. The Com Hull was com
manded by Francis Jossylin of Camden, and j.
.. Johnson. Of Belfast. now Of Liberty, was
executive officer.
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03

10 THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL : am
aware that your paper is not religious pa
per-. As that term is usually understood. But
| am pleased to see that it takes high ground on
the temperance question. and on all other moral
subjects. And knowing that a large number of
Methodi>t> read your paper | thought that a
brief mention of the church at Wnterport
might be of interest to some, if not to the gen
cral reader Much might be said, but | will
contne what | have to say to the recent past,
mostly. At the conference held in Bangor. in
June, 1850, Rev. George Pratt was appointed
to this charge, and was reappointed in 1891 and
1882: 50 that he was in the work of the third
year when be was suddenly taken from labor
to reward" June 18th. 1852. Mr.. Pratt served
the church faithfully and well during All that
time, and died universally beloved and lament-
ed Mrs Pratt and her daughter remained in
Winterport. occupying the parsonage until No
vember last. the pulpit in the meantime being
occupied by ministers from the different clarg-
es. who very generously gave their services. the
collections going to the family of the deceased
pastor. Since November the pulpit has been
supplied principally by Rev. c. b. Bessc, of
OrringtOn, who has preached once in two weeks
for compensation agreed upon, which has
been promptly paid each Sunday. The society
III Winterport is small They are not a rich So
cety, but believing that g in union there is
Strength they are united. They have a neat
comfortable house of worship, good Vestrv,
and one of the most convenient parsonages and
stables to be found in the district And the
whole establishment is being put in ''applc pie
order" for the family Of the coming man that
may be sent here. Since the death of Mr. Pratt
it has been seldom hat minister has been pres
ent at any of the social meetings. Still they
have been well sustained. Is well as prayerand
class meetings and Sunday school Through
''summer's heat and winters cold" the bell has
rung out calling the faithful together. and they
have come, determined. in the language of their
worthy class leader, &. ". Trevett, 'to hold the
fort" Now they are looking and waiting. with
much prayer and some anxiety to the confer
ence now in session. for the right man to be
sent them. 1t is thought if the preacher that
comes here comes with desire and purpose to
labor for the up-bnilding Of the cause. he will
have no reason to complain Of the reception he
Will receive, for the people are prepared to APP
preciate pastor A. they never did before.
NESTRYMAN. f
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03

\ good many persons are no doubt asking at
THIS time, what is dynamite: The Popular
Science News answers the question as follows:
Dynamite is simply nitro-glycerine mixed with
an aduterant TO render it safe to transport
The added ingredient is usually fine earth of
great absorbent capacity. Dynamite does not
explode at the touch of fire as does gunpowder,
but It must have brought to bear upon it, or in
contact with it another explosive agent, jul
inmate. Dynamite detonates and does not ex-
pode as does gunpowder. It's action is so much
quicker than the movements of air, that it
strikes against column of air with the same
force as hammer falling upon blacksmith's
anvil.
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03

Inc reporters of to-day have lived down the
reputation bequeathed to them by the witty but
| nnpfoNlttnt Bohemlans of twenty years ago.
nowadays man must be sober. bright and
energetic TO JOIN the ranks of the busy news
gathercrs OF New York. New York Sun.
The same may be said Of other cities. There
Is no class more exposed to temptation. and the
change which twenty Years has brought about
without special or concerted effort and extend
lng all over the country, must be accepted as
convincing proof of the steady advance of tenn
terof course that journalist should be drink
Ing man, if not Il drunkard, and within the
memory of the writer, ''getting full was the
RUE ana not the exception with a great major
Itl OF newspaper reporters. OF those we re-
member as in harness twenty-odd wears ago.
few are left, and to-day their places are filled
by Young, ambitious and temperate men. Tn
der this changed condition Of affairs drunken
ness Is no longer tolerated by EMPLOYERS as it
was formerly. The reporter who should now
20 off on Il weeks drunk would find his place
MED when he again reported for duty. And
whereas getting drunk used to be considered
n something to be proud of, now it is rightly
regarded as a disgrace. The ideas that liquors
which bcfuddle the brain are the source of in
spIra'lon and that they are necessary to those
who perform mental labor have been thorough
y exploded. The journalist of to-day, and the
coming journalist, is a temperate man
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03

The libel suit of Rev. John Morse vs.. j. p,
Bass and other prcrrietors of the Bangor Com
mercial, in which damages We're laid at $50 900,
has been on trial at Calais. There is a woman
in the case. The defence pleaded absence of
malice, and submitted evidence TO prove the
correctness of published statements. Tuesday
morning the jury returned verdict for the de-
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03

Eliza Pinkston, the famous Louisiana witness
ID the electoral controversy Of 1876 and 1877.
has died in Jail at Canton, Miss, where She
was serving a term for larceny
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03
LIVER is KING.

EX-Nice President Wheeler is in bad health.
lie Is threatened with loss of eye sight, and is
also suffering from insomnia
The Republican journal., 1883-05-03

Forepaugh's Great Show is billed for Bridge
port, Ct. the home of the great Barnum. This
will be boarding the lion in his den