The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-16
West. We want it cut down and
opened for settlement.
TIMBER.

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opened for settlement.
TIMBER.
Give the people an interest
d and protection wilt result
e Could a farmer buy his forty acres
thousands of entries would be made
The dead stuff would be removed;
proper and economical feeling would
result; a better growth would be in
duced, and the value of every farm
would be increased were the forty
acre rule practically part and parcel
of the Homestead and Presumption
laws.
The Governor advocates debarral
of p~olygamists from Homestead and
Pre-Emption entries. But this is
not enough. They should not be per-
mitted to make any character of land
filings or entry nor should any person
who has not become a full citizen be
permitted to perfect his entry under
any of the land laws. Otherwise las
they used to say in Know-Nothing
days. "What good did it do us to be
born in America ?"
IN GENERAL.
It may seem like 'ssending Goals to
New Castle" but quite a number of
US seDt holiday presents of Bozeman-
made confectionery to New York
this year. A lady, who lately went
East, writes that her relatives were
astonished because she did not re-
turn in blankets and a feather
what they will say to the finest
French boh-bons made near the Ma
tiOnal Park it will be hard to predict.
Because three saloons are about to
close. the croakers have a new attack
of the blues over everything "that is
and is to be-" IT they will but con-
slider that too many places of bust
cess are in sight of prosperity, and
that their closing is an indication of
returning sense, I will admit that
the three saloons put up their shut
tiers be oause I've stopped drinking.
Another new town on the Upper
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Station is the
point this time, and one which all
Park tourists will remember with
gustatory pleasure.
A course of sermons, in proof Of
the authenticity and inspiration OF
the scriptures, is under way here. Is
is hot astonishing that the church
will be forever giving itself away by ,
labored attempts to prove what it 8
in self defense, claim is self
evident?
When w. Maltravers Jones regis
;ered at the Lacled- on Wednesday,
he head waiter announced the ar
.ival of a man with a name as long
Is your arm, with a coupling in the
Hon. w. o. P. Hays body lies in '
he Masonic lodge room, OF Monday. !
lie declined the attentions of the h
leroy at the last, stating that he was a
q no such need. But he remembered v
liz separated wlfe's children in his :.
will and provided for the future Of il
lis own. OF such, in my hum Il
lie opinion, is the Kingdom o S
heaven. -
The Crows have a delegation here, g
%omplaining that not a cent has been il
aid them by the Government upon u :.
be recession or right-of-way treaty n
greements, and that they did not n
gree to remove to the Little Horn, is
ut that they merely bound them :.
elves to consider it after receipt of +.
be ~right-of-way and recession mon \
VS.. Nevertheless, arrangements al
for their removal, and should 7
n outbreak result we would all be
epeating the declaration that all the
God Indians are underground.
W. ''see a prospect" for a $50, 600 = -
otel near or at the corner of Main q
rect and Broadway, upon the n. P. g
ddition. 3
Old Grow, the Crow Chief, was h,
'urneylng to Bozeman, and took R
Eat in a first-class car. The con- G.
elected him to a second-class W ~
RI angement. The Chief glared, ~,
lade signs, rolled up a brown paper til
and Kissed out. II make te
ig wal On the railroad after five VI
Down goes the stock. al
JOHN VEsUvIUs. m
Bozeman, Dec. %, 1883. IT.