The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-05-23
To be continued.
THE LATEST NEWS.

THE LATEST NEWS.
The Canadian Pacific will exp end SILL
100000 this year in constructing and
equipping branch lines.
Contrary to the general fears on &C
count of SHOWS and cold snaps that the
fruit crop was coming in very thin, intel
ligence comes from the middle states that
the prospects are very fine for an abund-
ance Of these luxuries.
Ex-senator Conkling predicts that the
Democrats will carry the country in
1884, and says that the defeat of Grant
at Chicago in 1880 cost the nation ten
years of progress. HIS fails to state in
which direction that progress would have
been.
Gen. Crook has crossed over into Mex
leo in pursuit of the hostile Apaches. He
did this against the orders of General
Sherman, which failed to reach him in
time. 1t is to be hoped that if he gets at
the hostiles he will give them the punish
ment they SO richly deserve.
Wealth does not always bring happ;-
ness in its train, as Senator Fair by this
time well knows. His wife has brought
a suit against him for divorce. Women
and wine seem to be the Senator's pecu-
liar weakness. Well, they have taken in
and done for many better man than
Fair.
Raum's prospective fees from the pros
ecution of claims against the govern
ment already foot up one hundred thau-
sand dollars. This is the nature Of
paying premiums to man who turns
states-evidence. The entire value of
Raum's services consist in private know
ledge he gained as an officer of the gov
eminent.
Little Malone, of Virginia, has got
mad at the administration, because it
pays more attention to and confers more
favors upon "Me too," Ridlleberger,
than it does upon him. There seems to
be general disposition to set down on
Malone, which taking everything into
consideration is about the proper thing
to do.
Personal and political differences are
the cause of the Hill-Teller controversy,
which at present directs public attention
to the Senator from Colorado. Senator
Hill charges Secretary Teller with using
the power of his office to further his po-
litical aims and making personal attack
upon himself, and with giving undue
privileges in the leases recently granted
to Rufus Hatch and others, in the Vel
lowstone Park. Senator Hill also claims
the right to be consulted in the matter Of
appointments and removals from Colo
, RADIO. He accused the Secretary with
having given reporter a garbled and
distorted account of a confidential con-
versation recently had between them.
He challenges Mr.. Teller to make over
his own name the charge that his (Eill's)
election to the Senate was secrredby the
corrupt use of money. The Secretary as
serts, that the leases are the same as any
one can obtain, and that they were sane
toned by the law adviser Of the Depart
| ment as with in the law. He declines to
answer the personal charges Of his adver-
sary. Senator Hill was born in Orange
county, New York, February 2Sth, 1882.
His father was large farmer, and at six
teen the boy was left in charge of the
parental estate. He prepared for college
and in 1858 entered Brown University,
where he devoted himself to the study
of chemistry. In this he achieved such
success, that in 1860, he was appointed
Professor of Chemistry in the University.
| In 1864, he was sent by some Boston
capitalists to investigate mining proper
ties in Colorado. The imperfect method
of treating the ores there in vogue in
duced him to study the subject exhaust
lively, Mr. Hill twice crossed the ocean
for this purpose. On his second visit, he
| IOOk Will IT'LL SCNCAlts lOAio VI OiS' ioi
experimental treatment at Swansea, in
Wales. As the result of this, the Boston
and Colorado Smelling Company was
formed in 1867, Senator Hill assuming the
direction Gifts interests. Works were es-
tablished first at Black Hawk and then
at Denver, where ores were purchased of
the miners at their true value, accord
ing to assay. The Company began bust
ness with paid up capital of s25O,000,
which in 1878 had increased to 100000.
The Senator's management has enriched
the company as well as himself, and he
now possesses an ample fortune as the
result of his efforts. In the Senate, he
has been conspicuous in urging legislation
for irrigating the arid plains in the West,
a measure to which the Senator attaches
the highest importance.