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The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
Who Were The Heathcn!

last Sunday = Chinaman was buried
in Philadelphia. The novelty of the
pagan ceremonies attracted trel aendous
crowd to the cemetery, and the news
paper reporters of the affair tell us that
the crowd hooted and yelled and tram
pied, like a drove of hogs, upon the
graves. The Chinese mourners quietly
buried their dead according to the GUS
toms and ritual Of their religion, and
when they had performed the last SOL
emn rites over the buried dust of their
deceased countryman, they returned
quietly and peaceably to their homes,
amid the hootings and jeers of the gang
every one of which had been brought up
and educated, if not born, in land Of
Christian institutions and Christian in
fluences. The scene suggests sorrc wful
contrast, and is freighted with instruc-
ton.
We are in the habit of speaking dis
paragingly of the customs and habits OF
heather lands. We commiserate them
on account of the mental and moral dark
ness which paganism has hung over them
like some great pail. But we should not
in view of last Sundays affair and other
circumstances that might be named, be
too fast in condemning what, in some
respects, would serve as very appropri-
ate model for ourselves. 1t is notintend-
ed to cast any slur upon the Christian
religion. The system, taught by the
Nazarene, has been the leaven, hidden
in the three measures of meal, and which
has, through a period of eighteen CEN
turies, succeeded in lifting the world up
to higher planes Of thought and action.
The trouble is not in christianity, but in
the lack of it. If there be any one tend
cncy in the christian religion which, if
pr,perly exhibited, shows itself most
prominently in human life, it is the tend
ency to make a man a gentleman.
Everything that savors of. courtesy and
refinement is embraced in the system
taught bv Him whose chief ambition was
to do good among men. Sourness, harsh
ness, and rudeness find no sympathy, no
excuse, no palliation whatever in that
system. All the sweet graces Of a noble,
refined soul are inculcated by positive
injunction and illustrated by actual life;
while everything that has the color and
character of a sour, crabid, dyspeptic
disposition meets with stern and merited
rebuke. No one can possibly find fault
with the principles and precepts of the
christian religion, but a great deal OF
| fault can be found with the character and
conduct of many who profess to be its
exponents. The affair, last Sunday, GER
tainly should cause all of this professedly
christian land to blush with shame in
the presence of benighted pagans.
Ifthe christian religion means any
thing, it means that those who profess it
should be gentlemen. The hootings Of
| the mob at the Chinese burial are mex
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
A Refractory Audience.

A very sad thing occurred at late per-
formance given at Laramie City. At the
close of the last act one Of the principal
performers is instantly killed. 1t is then
the duty of the audience to rise, pick up
its umbrella and walk home. Sometimes,
however, the audience is not familiar
with the play and does not go home. 1t
waits for more death and carnage before
its awful thirst for blood is glutted.
That was the case at Laramie two
weeks ago. The stage hired man who
hauls the dead off into the dressing-room
waited patiently, but the audience would
not 60. In order to get the full value Of
their dollar they desired to see the post
mortem examination. They could not
60 home until it had been settled that
the villain was fully and tholpughly
dead.
There he lay with his ear against a
kerosene footlight, suffering, at 50 per
week, and the audience absolutely refus-
ing to 90 home and allow the man to
revive or to requiescat in pace. The cur
tain, though loaded at the bottom with
telegraph pole, failed to come down, and
the legs of the avenger and other MEM
bers of the troupe fitted by the space
left by thefunruly curtain, and the dead
villain lay on his back, having yielded
up his life four times that same week in
the same manner, besides carrying the
heavy trunks ofth beautiful actress up
two flights of stairs for her in three diff
ferent towns.
As there were no programmes the peo-
pie looked at each other and wondered.
They knew that this man was undoubt-,
cdly dead, but whether the company had
a fresh one or not was the question.
Finally two adult members Of the
troupe came forward and pulled down
the refractory curtain. Then the man
acer advanced to the front Of the stage,
and in a voice choked with emotion,
said:
ladies and gentlemen, we would be
glad to massacre some more of our troupe
If we could, but we cannot afford it. In
a one-stand town one man is about all
we can afford to yield up to the cold em-
brace OF death. Our printing ishigh and
we have to pay s15 for the hall; there
fore We regret to announce that the play
| is now over. You can go home in safety
and we will attend to the remains. We
have every hope that the young man Will
be able to draw his salary next week and
that we may win him back to JOY and
health again. He has good constltu-
ton, a fair appetite and VIC feel like trust
t ing it all to the future. We regret to see
you 90, but as the janitor is now blowing
/ ont the lights, and it is getting, pretty
well into the shank of the evening we
must say good-by to you, hoping tina,
during our absence the Laramie opera
| company will decide to assess its stock
| holders, purchase some wicks for the
footlights, put the old piano ont OF itf
misery and stick another pair Of Ovcralls
into the broken window of the ladies'
dressins-room, SO that the actresses Wiit
visit your town will feel nlOfe segregated
as If were, and separated from the grea
vulgar world -
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
Ne Was . Singular Man.


white coat, . white hat with a Grape band
and other evidences of lunacv, entered a
restaurant and said to the proprietor:
"Sir, let me explain in advance that I
am singular man."
"All right, sir. A singular mans order
is as good rs any one else's."
II want six oysters on the half she'll
on the left hand half, if you please"
The oysters were opened and placed
before him, and when he had devoured
them, he said:
'sNow take six oysters, run them
through clothes wringer to remove the
dampness, and fry them for me in olive
OIL"
This order was also filled, when he
called for cup of salt and water, added
milk and sugar and drank it down, and
asked for his bill.
II also desire to explain in advance
that an singular man," replied the
reporter.
"Your bill is So
Impossiblew
"Just 50, sis."
"But that is monstrous."
perhaps it seems high, but that's my
singular way Of charging for singular
lunches"
'Ill never pay it!'
"Then I'll sadden your heart"
The sad proceedings were about to
begin when the long haired man forked
over and walked out. Thelesson seemed
to sink deep in his heart, for he halted
at a fruit stand, and without any explana-
ton in advance, paid the usual price for
banana and carried 1t off without asking
the seller to dip the ends Of it in rose
water
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

ness whatever, the liability to each mile
track will be, in round numbers, $4,000.
It is stated authoritatively that prom
inent capitalists have made overtures to
take the whole of these new bonds i'll
advance of their issuance, SO that no
difficulty will be experienced in placing
them. There il good. rrason for the
belief that the Drexels are among those
who have offered to take them. The
traffic on the r,ad since completion has
exceeded expectations. The earnings
during September were $l,21O,OOO, and
for the three months ending September
3Oth, they were over s3,OOO,O00, and this
mainly from the local points, Of which
st. Paul is the most prominent, the
through business having not, as yet,
fairly started. In September, 1882, the
gross earnings were s763,OOO. The open
ing Of the road through to the Pacific
was too late in the season to secure much
of the west-bound freight from New
York tor the coast States for the tall and
winter trade, but the application daily
made for rates by leading shippers to
points west of st. Paul, one of the officers
of the road states, indicate rushing bus
mess for the spring trades. Hereafter"
said he, "the Northern Pacific will take
care of ITSELF Its earnings will be SO
enormous that it will be Independent of
SPECULATION" Regarding the Willard
Gould combination this same officer
makes the assertion that the alleged
meeting at the Office Of a well-known
Wall street broker never took place.
That Mr.. Gould is not interested in sup
porting the Willard stocks, only in so
much as it is for his interest to sustain
the market, and that he has not increas-
ed his holding of stock, nor is he likely
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
GOLD GALORE.
New Finds in the Vicinity OF Gardiner
Cause Lively PrOspeCtiRg-NeW
Coal Beds also Discovered.

Bozeman, Montana, Oct, Especial
correspondence to the Pioneer Press. This
county is considerably agitated over the
Developments Of the week at Gardiner,
the terminus of the Park branch of the
Northern Pacific railroad. For some
weeks half dozen old placer miners
have been prospecting there for free gold
in the gravel deposits that cover the
upper Yellowstone bottoms. The miners
worked 80 steadily that suspicion was
aroused, and the cat was finally let out of
the bag. She proved formidable feline,
and the prospectors owned up to having
washed from 500 to $50 per week to the
man. Stalking off placer claims of twenty
acres each was at once lndulged in, and
now for over three miles north and
south of Gardiner the ground is divided
into claims that are dotted over with
men; some panning, others ground-sluic-
ing, and still others running bedrock
drifts, preparing to put in monitors and
working the ground with hydraulic.
Your correspondent has been over the
upper Yellowstone prospecting for placers
and can truthfully state that the outlook
is fine all along the upper stream. All
the gravel deposit there is rich in gold
from grass roots to bed rock. and one
can not wash pan Of dirt without get
ting all the way from "coloEs" to fifteen
cents to the pan. Numbers of claims in
California and Nevada pay well at one
eighth of a cent to the pan when worked
systematically and one can readily see
how the new placers mentioned will pan
out when water is properly applied,
backed by the Little Giant" monitors.
A company Of gentlemen from Mount
Washington, Maryland, have just organ
lied, and will put in bitches and fumes
from the Yellowstone itself to work
ground near Emigrant gulch, thirty miles
from Bozeman. This company starts its
ditch with a capital of $4,000. A gen.
tleman we'll known in the medical fra
ternity of northern Minnesota is about
to locate a smelter on the "Great East
ern" of Emigrant canyon. This lode is
$50 feet wide between the walls; carries
silver, lead, copper and some gold, and is
traced for miles across the mountains.
At Gardiner, also they have been
testing their huge veins Of bituminous
coal, and find it makes fine quality of
coke. A blacksmith from there inform
ed your reporter yesterday that he had
used that coal in his forge for the past
six months, had never lost heat with
it and preferred it to the usual anthricate
he used in the states. Another large
body of bituminous coal has just been
uncovered four miles east of Bozeman,
and it now seems as though the predic-
ton of your special with the Willard
party were approaching realization. He
propesied that the mining interests of
the Gallatin valley would soon over
shadow it's agricultural industry, and
these new discoveries piling one on the
other so rapidly seem to have sent new
thrill of life into the mining arteries that
reiuvinatcs them. and insures more and
better Developments.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

The Chicago Herald SAYS: "A promi-
nent society belle of Indianapolis has
eloped with 4 member of minstrel
troupe. The man is white but his bride
fell in love with him when he was
blacked up as negro" The Herald for
gets that love is blind and in the case
cited it was color blind.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
Willard Reelected.

The board of directors chosen at the
recent annual meeting of the: Northern
Pacific railroad company met this after
noon and transacted business of consid-
cradle importance. Among other things
the question Of the amount of the pro-
posed second mortgage bonds, that has
agitated Wall street foe long time, was
definitely settled. The old officers were
reelected without exception as follows:
President, Henry Willard: first vice-pres-
ident, T. F. Oakes; second vice-president,
Anthony J. Thomas; secretary, Samuel
J. Wilkeson; treasurer. r. S. Belknap.
The following resolutions providing for
an issue of second mortgage bonds to the
amount of s2o, ,0OO, 600, to pay of the float
ing debt. complete the construction Of
unfinished lines, and furnish working
capital, were passed.
Whereas, There is now required to
provide for the present unfunded debt
beyond the cash means available the
sum of So, 1885, 9,92O, and whereas the ad-
ditional sum of s5,OOO,OO0 will be re4uir-
ed to complete the construction of the
main line contracted for, including
bridges and tunnels, and to provide pay
for all the equipment required and con-
tracted for, therefore be it resolved unan-
iin,ously, that this board, subject to the
approval of three-quarters Of the prefer
red stock, authorizes the exeeution of q
second mortgage s2o,Ooo,OO0 on all the
property, subject only to the priority of
I the present general mortgage; that this
mortgage shall be similar in terms and
conditions to the general mortgage, sub
ject only to the liens Of said mortgage.
Resolved. That finance committee
/ be appointed to open negotiations for the
sale of slSOoO,OC0 Of second mortgage
bonds and to report its action of this
board.
Rrsolycd, That a m:eting of preferred
stockholders Of this company be called,
to be held at the office Of the company
in New York, on the Goth of November
next, and to vote upon the question and
issue of SO ,Ooe, 600 of second mortgage
bonds, and that. in accordance with the
plan of reorganization, the secretary will
give notice of said meeting at least thirty
days prior thereto, and that, for the pur-
pose of said meeting, the transfer books
of the preferred stock Of this company
will be closed October Goth, at 3 p. M.
and remain closed till the 26th of No
vember, at 10 a. m.
Resolved, That the officers of this COM
pany be requested to prepare and publish
with all dispatch, for the information oi
the stockholders, cilcular giving full
Tartienlars ofthe funded and unfunded
debt Of this company, and Of the present
condition of the operating and land dc
partments, including in the latter tht
cancellation of bonds with proceeds o
land sales.
| With this meeting the rate per mile o
the total capitalization of the Northern
4 Pacilic railway will be $3i;ss4o, and in
ck,ding stock, bonds and all indebted
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

A beer barrel may C. all right for
holding steam for men to get loaded
with, but it is poor thing to generate
steam in to run boat. A man in Pat
erson, N. j., made boiler out of beer
keg for boat. People along the river
are now picking up the kindling wood.
The man is sleeping meath the daisies.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

-"Subscriber" asks: "Can you explain
why SO many people who are not Cath
olics make it point to eat fish on Fri
days?' Yes; it is because Friday is the
only day in the week when fish can be
found in the market.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
People We Talk About.

Postmaster General Gresham is down
with chills and fever.
Julian Hawthorne has taken a house
at Sag Harbor, OH Long Island sound.
S.P. Coon. Wisconsin's second attor-
ney general, is dying at Milwaukee O.
consumption.
Chow wo Foo, a noted teacher among
the Chinese, is in Chicago, looking up
his countrymen there.
The Croton Aqueduct commission
want to run through Jay Gould's estate
at Irvington, and he objects.
Bancroft, the historian, is as hearty as
ever, and fairly surprised his guests at
Newport OH his eighty-third birthday,
John Swinton, of the New York Sun,
has decided to start a journal in defense
of the peoples rights against the plutoc-
rasy.
Gov. Proctor Knott will appoint ex-
Gov, Blackburn superintendent of the
Central Kentucky Insane asylum at
Anchorage.
John Russell Young United States
minister to China, is said to have partial
ly mastered the art Of speaking the Ian
guage Of the country.
The physicians of Judge Kelley OF
Pennsylvania require that he shall re-
main in Paris a week longer and they
saw that exertion or excitement may
prove injurious.
Rev. John Rankin of Ripley, Ohio,
who wrote the call for the organization
of the Abolition society, is said to be the
fint abolitionist. He is now ninety-two
years old.
President White, ofCornell university,
left for Washington last night. He was
the referee of the United States and
Great Britain in the Northwestern boun-
Diary questions.
Mathew Arnold will leave Liverpool
for New York next saturday in the
Servia, accompanied 10y hie wife and
daughter. MI. Arnold intends 70 return
at the end of February.
Tom Kinney, Utica, n. L., laryeI
whom the Democrats have nominate<i
for State senator, was charged by the
Herald with having been a rebel spy
during the war A libel suit over the
matter has never been tried
The Boston Universalist society, Of
which Rev, NJ. Houghton is pastcr voted
| that Houshton be retained until April at
his present salary, $4,000. with the un-
derstanding that he will then cease as
pastor. His recent sermon on the Rose
Amber case, it is believed, brought
about this action
The tradesmen Of Florence arc rejoic-
ing at the prospect of having Ismail
Pasha and his harem settled in that city
The ex-khedivc has just concluded the
purchase of the Gheradeske palace, one
of the finest in Italy, an enormous struc-
ture, with extensive outbuildings and
spacious gardens. The price for the
whole was s45,OOO.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

Charles Goodnight has the largest
cattle ranch in the world at the head of
Red River, Texas. He began buying
land four years ago, getting 900 acres
at 35 cents an acre. The price has risen
to 50 an acre. He is still buying. He
controls 100000 acres. To enclose his
lands 25O miles of fence are required.
He has 10000 cattle.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

Faint hearted young men should
take courage. Only three and one-half
months more before leap year. Girls
here's pointer as to your chance with
a procrastinating lover. There's lots OF
fellows, however, who, when they read
this, will skip to the woods.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

Richard X. Fox, owner of the Police
Gazette, is but thirty-five yoars old, and
has an income Of S2OOy0Ui Il year. He
started ten years ago will, a cash capital
of SO.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

John Swinton. of the New York San,
testified before the senate labor commit
tee that newspaper reporters were paid
from $1,000 to 5000 per year. Since
then he has received thousands ofap-
plications for the 5000 positions.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

Northern New jersey has been revel-
ing in a real bear hunt. As the animal
is tame one and is fond Of hugging, the
Jersey girls naturally take great interest
in the pursuit of the coy creature.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

The City Marshal Of Dodge City,
Kansas, will be candidate fer re-elec-
ton and base his claim upon the fact
that he has killed cowboy at distance
of three hundred yards.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

Princess Winnemucca, of the Plutcs, is
pouring thrilling tales Of the wrongs o.
the red men into the eager ears of the
erudite Bostonians.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

President Soto, of Honduras liked San
Francisco go much that he spent the
summer there. Some men arc easily
satisfied.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

A Philadelphia justice of the peace
keeps gambling house and fines him
self occasionally just to uphold the
majesty of the law.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

Though the Moth Pole may worry the
BRAN of scientists for ages, Boston will
still cling to the bean poe with touch
ing tende, ness.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

Somebody wanted Sitting Bull to 60 on
the lecture platform, but the willy chief
tain says he never could bear the smell
of deceased eggs.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

why" asked governess Of her
little charge, "do we pray to God to give
us our daily bread? Why don't we ask
for four or five days or week?" because
we want it fresh" replied the ingenious
child.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

President Gregvy, of France, is dis
tributing the grand Cross Of the Legion
of Honor. Thus far Dennis Kearney
has been overlooked.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
CTEBBINs, MUND & CO.,
BANKERS,
MrlEs Cry, BILLINGS, LIvlNGsTON,
MONTANA.

The above banks are located in the 3
principal towns in the Yellowstone Valley
the commercial centres of an extensive
and growing country. We have therefore
unennalled facilities for the prompt and
Satisfactory transaction Of all business
entrusted TO MS. Zou
: CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

Judge Foraker has made seventy
speeches since the campaign opened, and
hasn't collided with single venerable
600
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
r BOGERT,
Bssinski Building, Main Street,
poxonan M r.
Bozeman. NJ. u.

AEY Commission Of eight years having ex-
M pirsd, advise you that have opened
an oxico ii tho Besinski Building, Main
strssN for the transaction Of business before
the q o, Land Once. Special attention Will
b. givon Contests and all matters connected
V1Sh the eecural Of lands. Abstracts, blanks,
plats, lists Of vacant lands and general infor-
ination fprnished applicants. Entries made,
Proofs prepared, Scrip located and the fullest
PTSEmption, Timber Culture, Desert, Mineral
Gal and Unsurveyed land and Water Right
lew. Informal aud suspended entries will
HoeOive especial attention. A general Real
erty bought and sold, Deeds, etc. executed,
Loans negotiated and rents collected. Cores.
pondence solicited, and prompt attention
nj ]. v. BOGERT.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
CARPENTERS,
ENGINEERS, &c.
TOB PRINTING.

ToB PRINTING.
We WOULD RESPECTFULLY
Gall the attention of our Business Men
10 the net that our Job Printing Depart
ment is one of the best west of st. Paul
and that VIC can supply you with any
thing in the printing line. Fine color
work specially.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

INEs 4 ARMSTRONG,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
VIII buy and sell real estate, insure your
property against flre and make collections.
AVOmce in Courier Building.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17
WEEKLY CHRONICLE.

WEDNESDAY. OCT. 18th. 1888.