Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1884-01-11


claims counter claim against the Union Pacific
for @889,667, alleged indebtednes., including s
per cent Of the net earnings.
Immediately after the adjournment of the
senate caucus Of republican senators was held
to consider the expediency of at once electing .
Anthony said he was gaining health, but they
had doubts Of the advisability of his undertak-
ing the duties Of the presidency pro tenn. A
committee was appointed to confer with him on
the subject and further action was postponed.
In the Yellowstone correspondence trans
from Superintendent Oonger to Secretary Teller,
which he asks the latter to consider private In
it he says the company's people help themselves
to whatever they want inside or outside of the
government enclosure. They cut timber, allow
their herds to overrun grounds, wilfully break
down and destroy fencing erected by the super
intendent. Hobart, of the hotel there, at
tempted to tear down fences there erected. In
conse uuence Of the destruction of the fences
the pastures are overrun by the company q
herds, and are so bare of grass that he will be
compelled to take the government stock out of
the park to winter it, and also purchase food for
it at heavy cost. He closes the letter with
this statement: "Hobart has boasted in my
hearing Of his influence With you. and that he
had frequently received letters from you. and
told one Of my assistants that You had prom
ised him that should not visit Washington this
winter, and he also said the reason you would
not write me was that you were not going to
haye my letters paraded before congress" !"
Secretary Teller replies to Oonger blaming him
for not conveying the information sooner. He
refuses to receive private information on public
business and says he has placed Conger's letter
on file. He instructs him to notify Hobart that
be must comply strictly with the conditions Of
the lease. 4.
Lieutenant Kingman, in his report to the Sec
retary Of war concerning the improvement OF
the Yellowstone park, estimates that $2lO, 600
can be spent proftably next season in improve
ments upon old roads, laying out new ones add
building bridges. He does not favorably regard
the proposition to build railroad through the
park, and considers that the apparent necessity
for railrood will disappear upon the compile
ton OF system Of good wagon roads. ....
Representative Willis, chairman of the COM
mittee on rivers and harbors, says the commit
tee will consider the recommendation Of the
Mississippi river commission for the immediate
appropriation of q million dollars tomorrow,
and it is expected a favorable report will be
made IN the h0nee next week.
The president will visit New York on the 21st
to attend reception of the Union League Club.
Governor O1dway, Of Dakota, informed Com
missioner General Morehead, of the Worlds Ex-
pdsition ut New Orleans, that Dakota would
make an exhibit of her mineral and agricultural
resa.arces, and he could safely say their exhibit
of mineral curiosities, such as petrifed wood
and bones of mammoth prehistoric animals.
would be of marvellous interest. Governor Ord
way says he will send the names of two able
men of Dakota to President Arthur as United
States commissioners to represent the territory
at the exposition.