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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-12-11
BER DROLLERIES.

A physician says that baby must not be al
lowed to sleep with its mother. Must not be
allowed. Did any body ever know of a baby that
ever slept with its mother or any body else? This
physician ought to know that baby never goes to
sleep until il is time for everybody else to get up.
- Money doesn't always make the mare go Fat
man (who is in something of II hurry)-"fn give
you IS to get to the station in three minutes"
Cabnan with provoking slownessl-"Weli, sorr,
you might corrupt me, but you can't brlbe that
horse ''-Hdrrdrd LdDp0On.
- Little Rock man sold his cooking stove to
get money enough to take his family to the circus
When one of his friends demonstrated with him he
said We had no use for the stove-had nothing
to cook" " But why didn't you buy something to
eat with the money you got for the stove? Then
we should have had nothing to cook IL on. Don't
talk to me; I'm philosopher. ."-ATkansaw 7rau-
etter.
'Tis sweet TO bet,
Eut, oh, how bitter
To bet and lose
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-12-11
LYDIA Z. FlNKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
#x#.+IsA POSITIVE CURE .

For all CT those Posnfai Comp l2Ints and
Weaknesses so common to our best .
80 &FE1IALE POPULATION -
IT WILL CURE ENTIRELY THE WORST FORM OF FE-
MALE COMPLAINTS. ALL OVARIAN TROUBLES, IN
PLANTATION AND LIBERATION. FALLING AND Dis
PLACEMENTS, AND THE CONSEQUENT SPINAL WEAK
NESS, AND Is PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO TIE
CHANGE OF LIFE.
IT WILL DISSOLVE AyD ExPEL TUMoRs From THE
UTERUS IN AN EARLY STAGE or DEVELOPMENT. The
TENDENCY CANCERoUs HUaoRs THERE Is CHECKED
VERY SPEEDILY BIZ ITS USE. /.
IT REMOVES FAIyTNEss, FLATULENCY DESTROYS
ALL CRAVING FOR sTINULANTS, AND RELIEVES WEAK
NESS OF THE STOMACH. IT CURES BLoATING, HEAD
ACHE, NERVOUS PRosTRATIoS, GENERAL DEBILITY,
DEPRESSION AND INDIGESTION. .
THAT FEELING OF BEARrSs Down, CAUSING PAIN
WEIGHT AND BAcKAcHE, Is ALWAYS PERMANENTLY
CURED BY ITS USE.
II WILL AT ALL TIMES AND UNDER ALL CIRcUM-
GOVERN THE FEMALE SYSTEM. .
sF-ITs PURPOSE Is SOLELY FOR THE LEGITIMATE
HEALING OF DISEASE AND THE RELIEF OF PAIN, AND
THAT IT DOES ALL 1T CLAIMS To DO, THOUSANDS OF
LADIES CAN GLADLY TESTIFY. "a
y 4 For THE CURE OF KIDNEY COMPLAINTS IN
EITHER SEX THIS REMEDY Is UNSURPASSED.
LYDIA z. PINKHAHS VEGETABLE COMPOUND 10
prepared at Lynn, Mass Price 81. Six bottles for s.
Soid By all druggists. Sent by mall postage paid in form
OF Pills L0zsIges receipt Of price as above Mrs
Pnkhams "Cuide to Health" will be mailed free to any
Lady sending stamp Letters eondentiaIly answered
No family should be without LYDIA z PINKHsY,s
LIVER PILLS. They CONSTIPATION, DilOusness and
xorpidity OK the Liver. p cents per boz
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Scandal About the Park.

The following Washington dispatch
indicates a bad state of affairs in the Ma
tional Park !: Little less than a national
scandal promises to grow out of the
affairs at the National Park. The de-
velopments show how really little is
to be learned by an executive department
though the ordinary methods of hunt
ing with a brass band at the head of the
procession. Government Officials sent
to the park came and went, and every
thing was lovely, until it occurred to
the secretary to instruct one of the
newspaper men who was going to the
park last summer to make an investi-
CATION incog. and report. The COM
mission was a verbal one, sc that the
approach of the agent was net heralded
through the press. He found, it APP
pears, that no more attention was paid
to the laws of congress or the regula-
tons of the secretary of the interior
than to the pope's bulls. So far from
preserving the game, it was systemat-
ically slaughtered, until not a trace of
a four-footed beast was to be found
wild in the park. Parties of hunters
were regularly employed to provide
game for the hotel and other tables.
The assistant superintendent them
selves were the chief vandals at the
geysers and springs, and openly sup
piled tourists with specimens at an
~exorbitant price. Even the postmaster
had an immense display Of those nat
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Tonquin Difficulties.

NEW YORK, January IA private
letter from Il gentleman residing in Can
ton dated December 5, says: China is
determined to fight and war can emily be
avoided by France backing clear down 10
the ground. France has made IN aWk-
ward muddle of the whole affair. Had
she acted with frankness at first Ton
quin would be hers and everything
would be quiet. The idea of occupying
a country with only 900 or 1000 troops
is too absurd for serious contemplation,
and that is just what France attempted.
France, in her delay and want of reso-
luton, led China to believe that tear
kept her back, and the idea took such
Lold on China's mind that she will not
be satisfied with anything short of a
complete surrender ofthe position which
France assumed. The writer says that
a Chinaman told him the other day that
in vas no Use trying to get along peace
an y with a country like France, which
in Ase most troublesome nation that ever
ecteQd. China must rise up as n man
sush the pride of the French. Ger
eTtried it but although she succeed
g winning the day she stopped short
6 = work, SO now it rests with China
to> amplete the humiliation Of proud
anC = rogant France.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

THE conflict between the farmers
and owners Of pastures and the "free
grass stockmen in Texas is becoming
intense and much trouble is certain to
ensue, despite what may be done by the
legislature which is now in special ses-
sion to consider the troublesome ques-
ton. In the senate last week a bill
passed that all the public domain, ex-
cept homesteads to actual settlers, should
be denoted to the public schools. The
judiciary committee favorably reported
bills making fence cutting a felony with
a penalty of two to five years in the
penitentiary, and the killing of a fence
cutter in the act of applying the nippers
iustifiable homicide. The house special
committee on fence cutting heard evil
dence as to the laWlessness in Coleman
and Runnels counties. In the former
every fence except one is down, and
that is guarded day and night by armed
men. A number of houses and many
enclosed pastures have been burned. 1t
was shown that a great deal of land
fenced in is not owned by the owners of
the fences. Out of 40 men giving fifty
head and over of cattle each for taxes,
twenty-seven owned land enough for
grazing their cattle, fifty owned no land
and fifty-nine only enough to live on.
One man owning 2,O00 horses did not
" a single acre, and one man owning
1900 horses had only three and three
quarters acres. Forty-tWo thousand
head Of cattle are grazing in the county.
Owners of pastures are organizing into
companies, as they despair of protection
from the state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Lands for Indians.

WASHINGTON, January 8.-Ihe secre-
tary of the interior has prepared a bill,
which was presented to congress to-day,
to provide that any Indian who desired
in good faith to avail himself Of the pro-
visions of the act of March 3, 1875, ex-
tending the benefits OF the homestead
laws to Indians who are unable to make
a homestead entry by reason OF poverty,
such entry shall be allowed without the
payment of fees and commissions; also,
a bill providing far the allotment OF
lands in severalty to the Aricaree, eros
Ventre and Mandan Indians on the
Fort Berthold Indian reservation IN
Dakota, and the granting OF patents
therefor. 1t approDriates SlO,o0O 1or
surveying a sufficient quantity OF lana
to permit the allotment OF l60 acres 70
each head of a family, and eighty acres
to each single person over the age OF
twenty-one years; allotments to be Sc
lected by Indians under direction OF
their agent in as compact form as pos
sible, due regard being paid to the adap-
liability of the land for agricultural puf-
poses, and $4,000 for the improvement
of the land and purchase of oxen ana
other agricultural implements. me
bill further provides that the Unlted
States is to hold the land in trust Tor
TWENTY-FIVE years for the beneflI or the
Indian or his heirs, and then convey TO
the Indian in fee and free OF encum-
brance; and that no contract by the
a~llottee creating a charge or encum-
brance on the land making it liable for
payment thereof shall be valid.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

VTHE following from the incisive pen
of the Montana correspondent Of the
Holiday number of the Salt Lake Tri-
bune is worthy of reproduction. We
have not seen the answer to his inquiry
in any Of the democratic free trade or
gans:
There are two industries in Montana
that can be materially improved by legls-
lation. These are the copper and wool
interests. Should congress again reduce
the tariff on wool, and open wider and
more free sthe port of San Francisco to
Australia wool growers, the Montana
shepherd will feel the pressure keenly.
Should the commercial states Of the east
ern seaboard be opened free to Great
Britain and the rest of Europe, so that
their copper which is mined and re-
duced by poorly paid laborers Of that
quarter of the world, and the savages Of
the colonies over which the Unsuitable
fangs of Great Britain are stretched, can
be further brought into competition with
us, our great copper mines Will shut
their doors and coil their cables. Why
a newspaper in Montana can favor a re-
duction of the tariff on these cOmmodi-
ties, and thus advocate the reduction OF
wages, and the driving of money out of
circulation, to me is one of the mysteries
of our times; but when some eastern pa
per publishes a squib favering the re-
moval of the tariff, some other re-echoes
the sound. Why is it? How, and why,
would a reduction of the tariff benefit
any one in Montana? | ask this ques-
ton in all candor, in the hope that some
one of our territorial papers who favor a
reduction of the tariff, will answer. |
know.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

SPEAKING of the recent cold wave
the st. Paul Pioneer Press makes the
following comments, showing that it
was colder in New Orleans than in
northern Montana, which now can sure
ly claim to be the banana belt of the
north:
One popularity of the cold wave was
the fact that on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday the weather was much
colder in Minnesota than in any point
in the extreme northwest. AS a general
thing the weather in the Manitoba
country is much colder than in the
n%eighborhood of St. Paul, but the days
mentioned were the exceptions to prove
the rule. The cold wave was not con-
fined to the northwest, but spread itself
over the whole country, going as far
! south as New Orleans. Tuesday, when
| the thermometer was q degrees below
zero, at Fort A%ssinaboine, a point just
north of the Bears Paw mountains in
Montana, and only-thirty miles south OF
the line dividing the United States from
the British possessions, it registered 81
degrees above. This in itself is a re-
| markable fact, but when a comparison
is made with the state Of the thermom-
eter at New Orleans. it's "Reminiscences
sinks into utter insignif1cance. While
the mercury was "a above at Fort ASSN
aboine, at New Orleans it was 80 degrees
above. The observations were made at
the same time-10 p. M. The fact that
the weather was colder ia the Crescent
City than at one of the coolest points in
| the cold northwest, is an event worthy
to be placed on record as one of the ther-
mometrical phenomena Of the present
| decade.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
benches

AUSTIN will be a busy city this week.
About two hundred cattle men have
already arrived, and it may be presum-
ed thatthese are only the advance guard
of the small army that will act as the
third house during the extra session of
the Texas legislature. The session was
called mainly to consider the fence
cutting war, which for some time past
has been the uppermost topic in the
Lone Star state, and a feeling on both
sides is likely to be intensified when a
thousand or more Of the large ranchmen
and small farmers meet in their capital
city to tell their legislators what must
be done.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

Mr.. PARNELL occupies a unique
position i'm the house of He
is rather distinguished looking, Jelly
cool and unimpassioned, and has the.
attraction which belongs to the myster-
ious. Nobody cal tell what he is going to
say, and he usually says "the unexpect-
ed.n 1t is true, as the London Journal
says, he does not use rhetoric and is not
eloquent. His parliamentary force con
sists in the vice-like grip he has on facts
and principles, and the language, clear
cut as the edge of a razor, with which he
presses and sustains them. No man
leaves the house while he is speaking.
Members rush in and crowd the
benches.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
THE RIVER PRESS.

in Montana that it will be tributary to
Billings, and materially add TO the pros
perity of that town. Fort Benton has a
decided advantage owe them all. With
the immense reservation opened up for
settlement, settlers will come from all
parts of the country, and a few years
will prove that northern Montana is the
most favored of any section of the terri
tory-the paradise of stockmen and the
Eden of the sheep grower.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

PROFESSOR PRICE, of San Francisco,
has accepted a three years engagement
with the London & Berlin mining COM
pany, and is now selecting a corps of
pany him to South Africa to develop the
company's property in the T~ransvaal.
A complete hydraulic outfit, quartz
mill, pipes and supplies have been pur-
chased and will be shipped via New
Orleans and Liverpool.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

A NEWPORT (R. L. special has the
following in reference to Prof. Pumpel-
Iy's transcontinental survey: The trans
continental survey establishment,
which has had its headquarters here for
the past two years, is to be done away
with, the-forty employees, at the head of
whom is Prof. Pumpelly, having been
notified by Henry Willard that their
services will be required no longer. The
establishment has been maintained by
MI. Willard at an OF expense.
Prof. Pumpelly is thoroughly acquaint-
ed with the topography and mineral re-
sources Of the country through which
Mr.. Wizards railroads run, and a large
body of engineers and biologists were
engaged and their reports were sent
here for supervision by other experts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

WHAT is especially needed at this
time in dealing with the tariff is intelli-
gence, logicand courage. In fact, among
all the revenue reform statesmen and
free trade promoters in the democratic
party at present only Frank Hurd really
displays the courage Of his opinions and
the logic of an upright thinker. John
G. Carlisle, Henry Watterson and JOS.
E. Mcdonald don't seem TO enjoy any
more of those qualities than SO many
yearling children. It is true that it re-
quires a good deal of nerve to keep
calmly ON in a crusads whose only prac-
tical result is the destruction Of the
party which these gentlemen have SO
long adorned.-NeW York Sun.
This is putting it pretty strong, but it
is a fact nevertheless. The democratic
tariff thinkers are going to make it an
easy task to elect a republican president
next November.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

ural curiosities on sale, and a wholesale
system of depredations by hunting
parties and tourists was in uninter-
rupted progress. It seems hat The
hotel company and the superintendent
are at swords points, and each is now
holly accusing the other of all sorts OF
irregularities. The hotel company is
charged by the superintendent with
being bankrupt and having assigned
its property to Mrs. McGoWan, OF
Washington. Altogether it is a pretty
badly mixed up affair, and no doubt
congress will he called upon to enact
STRINGENT legislation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Bank Failure.

DENVER, January 18.-A special from
Leadville to the Republican says: The
Bank Of Leadville made an assignment
to-day for the benefit of its creditors.
The bank has been laboring under diff
culties for the past year, and its failure
creates little excitement. The loss is
confined almost exclusively to the stock
holders and directors, who will realize
about fifty cents on the dollar. 1t is
alleged that all the other creditors will
be paid in full.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
MONTANA MATTERS.

Astreet rurlor is to the effect that Snl
livan dropped Il considerable sum Of
money in a little game of ''buck'5 vt
Butte one day this week. The amount
is stated at So, 000.-HeT4ld.
N Horses are cheap. Nine head sold
recently under the hammer for Sle5
Charley Brown was the auctioneer and
Waller A. Burleigh, Jr., the successful
pufchaser.-Miles City Journal.
A fight for $500 a side has been arrano.
ed to take place between Duncan Nc
Donald, of Montana, and Pete Meow
champion light weight of America in
Montana ON the 18th Of next May.
Emigrant travel westward is yerv
heavy despite the lateness of the season
1t now goes mostly by cars attached f.
the regular train, and is destined for tho
Puget Sound and Pacific coast regions
A. r. Nininger, of Miles CITY, has
commenced suit agains c. w. Savage (,
Son and Mund and Curry, the assignees
for an accounting OF the affairs OF the
late firm, and asks for the appointment
of a receiver.
Capt. John w. Smith is about to move
a stock Of liquors to Rathdrum, and
will 20 into the mines as early as posi-
bic in the spring. He is always at the
front where there is Il prospect of lively
times and plentiful money.
Those who so Ito the Ceur d'Alenesl
must remember that they will be accom-
panied by many thousands and that it
will take much gold to divide up and
give them all u living. Attention NAV
also be called to the fact that the loudest
talk regarding the richness of the mines
is being made just now when they are
covered with snow and separated from
the outside world by almost impossible
barriers Of the same material.-Living-
ston Tribune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Arrested for Forgery.

Sioux CITY, January 18.-T. c. Hen
derson was arrested here to-day tor
forgery and held in $15, 900 bonds. He
has worked all the largest towns in the
state. His game was to purchase a cof-
fin for his child, and to enlist the SYM
pathy of the undertaken to such an
extent that his checks were invariably
cashed. Henderson pleaded his case
most ably, and it has since transpired
that he was formerly a noted criminal
lawyer and also a journalist in Kansas.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Marine Disaster.

BosToN, January 19.-F. w. Nickerson
& Son, agents for the Savannah steam
ship line, received the following dispatch
to-day:
BEDFORD, Mass, January Is. :
TO r. TT. NickersOn & Son:
The steamer City of Columbus is
ashore on DEVILS Bridge, Gayhead. She
is fast breaking up and about 100 lives
are lost. [ will leave on the early tram
in the morning. | was saved by the
cutter Dexter.
S. E. WRIGHT, Master.
The City of Columbus left Boston at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon for
Savannah. The following is Captain
Wright's statement: The City OF Co
lumbus left Boston at 8 o'clock Thursday
afternoon, carrying eighty passengers
and a crew numbering forty. At 4:45
a. M. on Friday, with a light bearing
south half east, the vessel struck on the
outside of DEVILS Bridge. The wind
was blowing a gale west by north. The
vessel Immediately filled and keeled
over the water breaking in and flooding
the port side of the saloon. All the
passengers, excepting a few women and
children, came on deck, nearly all
wearing life preservers. Nearly all the
boats cleared away but were Immediately
swamped. The majority Of the passen-
gers were washed overheard.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

MONTANA did not get her man for
president of the Northern Pacific rail-
road, the choice being between Corbin
and Cakes. Harris, however, may be
just the man for the place. Until re-
Gently he was prominently connected
with a great northwestern road (the e.
b. & O. and is doubtless imbued with a
good share of northwestern vim and
anarUN
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

BENTON is not the only dull town in
Montana. Along the line Of the North
ern Pacific railroad the cry goes up of
ssdu,l times.n Livingston is %anxiously
looking forward to the development Of
the mines Oh the Park branch of the
Northern Pacific. Billings wants the
Grow reservation, or q portion Of it,
opened up for settlement, and claims
that it is the finest agricultural country
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Orange Crop Cornered.

SAN FRANCISCO, January l8.-The
orange crop of California has been cor
nered by a combination of three local
firms. They have already secured nine
tenths of the total crop. The idea was
suggested by the short crop in Florida.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23

T~ENNEssEE's law prohibiting the sale
of liquor within four miles Of any school
house will, the Chicago Times says,
intensity Southern illiteracy by stopping
the erection of school houses.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Combinations.

WASHINGTON, January 19.-Richard
Lambror, of California, consul to San
Bias; r. A. Allen, of Ohio, Indian
agent at the Blackfeet agency, Montana;
Commodores R.W. Shufeldt, Alexander
G. Reid-and Thomas Pattison, to be rear
admirals.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
Sensation.

NEW YORK, January 1S.-It was ru-
mored on Wall street again this after
noon that Jay Gould had met with
serious financial losses, the amount being
placed at $4,000. 900. The story, how
ever, was not verified.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-23
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1854.

THE democracy is terribly at sea on
the tariff question. Tariff for revenue
onlyn is not half as popular as it was.
Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-07-31

TIE D. loci attic pape, have been
making lots of fuss about the resiG-
nation of the Secretary of the Mas
sachusctts Repu blican State Conn
mittee. The facts in the case are
that that gentleman Will support
Blaine From the Hartford Comm
EUsnino Pyst We make the following
excerpt, which shows how the mat
ter stands: 1.-THE Democratic man
ayers and the Independent boilers
are prematurely rejoicing over the
resignation OF Mr.. Flagg, Secretary
of the Republican State Committee.
Of Massachusetts. MIR. Fiagg was
not an original Blaine man, but he
will cordially support the Rerubii-
can ticket. He resigns from sense
of honor, thinking that the Office
ought to be conferred upon some
original advocate of Nr. Biaine's
nomination, like Representative
Cove, who would be credited with
bringing to the task the full enthu-
siasm which one can give cahdi-
date of his own choice, and who
could not be subjected 10 annoying
accusations of lukewsrmness, if any
mistake should be made in the cons
duct of the campaign, as is almost
inevitable with mo.t careful man
agement. 1t is believed, however,
that the committee will decline to
accept the resignation. In that case
Mr.. Flagg would undoubtedly bring
TO his duties the same skill and en-
ergy with which they were DIS
charged LAST year"