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The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-09-20
Price, 10 Cents.
Annual Report to the Stockholders Of tn
Northern Pacific.

/
/ Northern Pacific.
NEW YORK. September l8.-The
! annual meeting of the Northern Pa.
cifc railroad is now in session. The
annual report for the year ending June
80. 1884, shows the earnings. includ-
ing receipts from leased and
branch roads, to be $l2 $685.
SIS; operating expenses. $s6,922, ,535;
leases, $255. .229; total. 81, ,177,754; net
earnings. SIS. .425, 800; add dividends on
investment from other sources, $78,.
go. leaving $5,5O5,69l; surplus over
all fixed charges and expenses for the
year, $l,O55.656. This amount, to-
gether with the surplus for the year
ended June 80, 1883, makes $685.
239. This has been used to pay for
equipment, as authorized in the plan
OF organization. The amount of gen.
eral first mortgage bonds issued dur
ing the year, $4,000 per mile Oh 30
by the president of the United States,
81, $4,000 OF $2,OOO,OOO general
second mortgage bonds authorized
November 20, 1883, $50O,O0O were
sold to a syndicate for $7815 cash. less
5 per cent commission on bonds. Op-
tion Of the syndicate for 355 more of
these bonds on the same terms has
been extended the syndicate, pend
ing the exercise of the option
agreeing to make advances
upon the same to meet con-
struction expenditures. Capital stock
to funded debt June 30, 1884, common,
$40 100000; preferred, $37 37,8O9O67;
total. 1888, ,SO6 .0e7; funded debt, $4O2,.
1856; general first mortgages do seconds,
$4,000, 900; less $414,135 unissued;
total, $1. .585, 700; Missouri liver funds,
$2,5OO.000; less Cancelled by land sales.
$239.6OO; total, $2,26O, 400; Pend d.
Oreille division funds. $4, ,5O0,O0O; less
Cancelled by land sales. ST. .26O. 900;
total. $3. .246, 900; dividend certificates,
$l4, ,640.82l, leaving $68.276,221. The
amount of deferred payments on land
sales is $3,056.4l5, bearing interest at
7 per cent. and is applicable to the re-
tirement of preferred stock 81 .276.O77,
Missouri division bonds 1915. 1927, Pend
d'Oreille division 1857 400. and general
first S6O6.OlO. OF the lands in Mime.
sofa and Dakota east of Missouri river,
remain unso]d 4,O79,055 acres, dedi-
Gated by the plan of reorganization to
the extinguishment of preferred stock.
Cash left available for future use,
$8, 100000. AS compared with the pre-
vious year the statement shows the
following changes: Gross earnings in.
crease, 4.748, III; operating expenses
and tax increase, $2,O83. $50; net in
crease. $2,664, 1874. The income from
other sources makes the net increase
So. .743,39S.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-09-20

The following seems to be the latest iu
the Moroslni matter: ."Oh, don't blame
my sister in marrying that man, said
Julie Morosini; II think any girl right
in marrying the man she loves. It's the
way she married him that I object to- My
father went to New York to-day to attend
to his business. My sister has asked us
all to pardon her, and we have l have,
any way, and | only wish nobody had any
thing more against her than / have"
DIR. Pike says Mrs. Morosinl is out of all
danger.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-09-20

A young man, whose name we nave not
learned, accidently shot an Iadian at
Birch creek last week. He was shooting
blackbirds, and in ejecting ii shell from
his rife threw cartridge into it without
knowing it, and it exploded, striking an
Indian who was standing by in the side.
It was thought to have been done on pur-
pose by the Indians and they were going
to play the blood for blood racket on the
young man, who, seeing the storm brew
ing, got on his horse and rode over to Du-
puyer creek, where there were some cow
boys, who protected him from the blood
thirsty friends Of the wounded Indian.
Sun River Sun.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-09-20
M. C. MURPHY, Propr.

This appointed carefully hotel
Livingston Montana
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pl LINE MARRIAGE GUIDE. I pialsgfs,

Elegant cloth and gilt LinJipg, Sealed fer 90
cents IN postage or CURRENCY. Over flfiy woi-
drrfgl pen pictures, true TO life articles ON the
foiinging siueris. Who may nlnrry who not;
whyi l'reprF are TO GlGrry, Who marry tlrst.
Manhood, Womanhuod. Physical decay. Who
should harry How life and happiness may be
Increased. Those married or contemplating
marrying should rvll it. 1t ought to be read
by n. adult pei stiIs, then kept under lock and
key Popular edition. same as above, but paper
cover and sVOpages, % cents bl mail. in money
o. postage.
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ON from sunfiower Seeds.

The sunHeWcr is grown to a lin
tied extent in the United States;
nowhere, we believe, for any pur-
pose except for ornament and for
feeding the seed to stock. In Rus
STA and India this plant has long
been cultivated for producing oil
from the seeds, and latterly this
has been taken up in Germany and
Italy. With the rapid increase of
population, and the necessity for a
greater diversity of rural pursuits,
may not the cultivation of the
sunfower become a profitable pur-
suit in this country? Fed judi
ciously, it imparts a glossy coat to
the stock, and is highly recon-
mended as food for poultry, 1t
grows readily in most soils, but
prefers light, rich, calcareeus land
devoid of shade. In Great Britain
the rule is to plant six inches
apart, covering the seed an inch
deep, and when the plants are q
foot high to draw the earth up
around them. No subsequent at
tention is required. The yield of
seed is much increased by topping
the plants. Each plant usually
produces 1000 seeds, chiefly on the
main head.
Experiments made in France
with the sunfower gave a return
of ITS pounds of seed from an
acre, yielding Is per cent of oil
(275 pounds) and so per cent OF
cake. The product varies, of
course, with the kind, the climate,
and soil. The common oil is used
chiefly for wooden dressing, light
ing, and soap,making IN Europe.
The purified article is largely en-
ployed for table use, and is con-
sidered equal to olive oil.
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If fowls are not kept in too large
numbers, If they are provided with
well ventilated houses which are
cleaned two or three times u geek,
and are fed with a considerable
variety of food and supplied with
clean water and haye gravel in
abundance with which TO grind
their feed, there is no danger OF
cholera. So soon as any fowl
shows any tendency TO disease il
should be removed from the flock
at once. and if it has what Is term
ed cholera the heroic treatment is
the best, which is to kill the bird
and burn its body. IF the birds
do not seem to be in a thrivi0e
condition, there should be change
in their feed, Il is well to use
cayenne pepper, mixed with corn
meal and fed to them once or twice
a week. A little copperas in their
drinking water occasionally, II
they are out of condition, will be
of service. Applying kerosene oil
to their roosts SO as TO rid them OF
vermln, is desirable. WhItewash-
ing the poultry house eEeFy few
weeks is a good sanitary measure.
Rural World.
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Induigspoas OF Exposures.

Il Is self-evidcnt that a physician paving
particular attention TO class OfcaseS attains
great skill and ply siCians In regular practice
al, over the country knowing this, frequently
recommend cases 10 the oldest 9.lice In America.
where every known appliance Is resorted 70,
and the proved good remedies OF an
ages and countries arc used. A whole house Is
used for office purl o>cs, aud all are treated with
skill In respectful manner: and. knowing
what 10 do, no experiments ale made. On ac-
count Of the great number applying, the
charges are kept low. often lower than is
and eqt aspdedy and peffect life eiire.s that IS
the Important matter. Pamphlet, - pages,
seAt To any address nee. '-'
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A Farmers Home.

Why should not farmers homo
be q veritable little paradise? Who
else has so good an opportunity for
identifying his grounds until they
should far exceed in beauty and
elegance the grandcst possibilities
of any crampod and pent-up city
lawnS We neglect this altogether
too much we have so much to do,
we say, in looking after our crops
that brings us money, that we have
no time to spend with flowers,
shade trees, gravel walks, etc,
which simply ornament the place
and brings no money. As an In
vestment ..evcn, we believe this
to be mistake; but aside from the
financial part of the matter We
think it pays to take little time
considerable, if necessary, to i'm
prove the external appearance of
our homes. Shade trees arc at the
disposal of every farmer, flowers
and plants are cheap and easily
obtained and cultivated, and We
believe that it enhances the value
of home ten per cent. 1t is every
mans duty to make his homo and
its surroundings the most beautiful
and attractive place on earth /; it is
not to pile up large fortune for
the benefit of future generations
and lawyers. We do not expect to
come this way again, to enjoy this
worlds goods, SO why not enjoy
them as we 60 long. Every farm
er can pillow three or four burrows
on each side of the path from the
door to the gate, and on this pillow,
ed ground can be set various kinds
of roses, lilacs, towering almonds,
hyacinths, pinks and many more
varieties, too numerous to men,
ton, all of which cost but a trlfe.
It takes q little time to be sure, but
an hour or two spent each morning
will soon complete the task, and
you are doubly paid in one years
time for all trouble expended
Exchange,
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Ex-Confederate Reunion.

The grand reunion of the en-
Confederate's of Missouri, Old Set,
tiers of Texas, Johnson's Spy COM
,pany, Tennesseeans, Cabell's Ar.
kansas Brigade, Ross Texas Bri,
gade, Ector's Texas Brigade, Pol
ignac's Brigade, Grandberry's Bri.
gade, Maxey's Brigade, 18th Texas
Regiment, Fitzhugh's Regiment,
Sibley's Brigade, and others, which
include all the ex-Confederates in
Texas, from whatever state they
may have come, or command to
which they belonged, will have a
grand reunion at Dallas, COM
mencing on the 9th day of August,
1884, and will continue for four
days. Gen. Hoods Brigade, hav'
ing appointed to meet at Dallas on
the 9th of June, 1884, arrange
ments are now being made to get
Hoods Brigade to defer their
meeting until the 9th of August
and meet with the others, when
they will have the grandest re-un.
ion of ex-Confederates that has
ever been since the war. Colonel
d. A. Williams and others arc
working to this end.
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Swords in the East,

Tho best types of the curved
weapons. remarks Mr.. David Han
nay in the Magazine OF Art, have
been produced by Oriental pco-
pies. From the artistic point of
view nothing can be better. The
scimitars of the Persian model
have beauty of form worthy of
their material, the so-callcd Dam
ascus steel. The Eastern prefer
encc for curved blade was not
artistic, but arose from certain
practical considerations of an ap-
parently plausible kind. The typi-
cal Oriental warrior is always a
horseman, and it is easier to slash
on horseback than on thrust. Then,
too, drawing cut with curved
blade gives slngularly ugly
wound. But the people of the East
have probabably kept to their old
form of sword simply because they
are born to be the stupid victims
of routine rs the sparks fly up
wards. The Moore of Grenada
went on using the same strategy
and the same weapons long after
their inferiority had been proved
to demonstration. Diego Hurtado
de Mendoza, the author of "Laza-
rillo dc Tormes," and father of the
picturesque novel which in time
eliminated in "Gil Blas"-com-
ments on their obstiacy in his his
tory of the Morisco revolt. The
Moors, he says, suffered terribly in
the skirmishes of that war bacause
they persisted in using the edge
and not the point, as the Spaniards
did. The yataghan-of Byronic
associations-is a very typical ORR
entail weapon. 1t is beautiful and
withal terrible to look at-sharp
pointed blade with an edge on the
inside curve. But it is the sword
of nation of butchers, good for
cutting threats, but comparatively
useless for purposes of honest
fighting. These oriental weapons
will always have great value,
both for their beauty of form and
their inferiority as swords has been
proven a hundred times Over
London Globe.
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judgement in Farming.

Texas Farme and Ranch.
There is no kind ofbuslness that
requires the exercise of better judy
mont than most farming opera
tons. It is no uncommon thing to
hear a faemer, say that he read so
and so IN his paper, and tried it,
and it did not work. Such. cases
are numerous, and can be account
cd for onthe ground of a want Of
exercise Of proper Judgement
In the first place, it must be re-
membered that conditions are vari-
able and change, and what would
work successfully in one casewould
work injury in another. The
trouble is, that in far too many
cases sufficient regard is not had
to making mention of every. cir
cumstanees attending any mode of
procedure. !
Asan illustration, suppose, that
a writer makes mention of using q
special fertilizer for a green crop,
without mention of any other
conditions, aud the result is an
enormous yield. A reader who
does not stop to consider the case,
and without thinking of what the
conditions might be, makes q pur-
chase of the same kind but, apply
ing It under different conditions,
is disappointed in the result.
One Individual, with soil ex-
actly adapted, may plow to a depth
of eight or more inches, whereby
he obtained heavy crop of corn.
Now without consideration or the
exercise of Judgment another per-
son whose soil is shallow, perhaps
not more than five or six inches
deep at best, reading the result as
reported, sets his pillow at work to
the same depth of two or three in
ches; the chances would be that his
crop would be poisoned by the un-
used .snbsOil so as to ruin it, and
thensthe disappointed experiment
ter would complain that the re-
ports in agricultural papers were
unreliable. 1t is an excellent thing
for a farmer to read all that he has
time for, but not to swallow it all
without digestion. And to those
who report their successes or fail
ures to the paper, let the sngges-
ton be made, that it is the part Of
wisdom to always use great care
and make mention of every par
ticular that might in any way affect
a result. Farmeres themselves
know too we'll all the conditions
which they have to contend with,
and when the balance of them is
unfaverable, results are unsatisfac-
tory. The best success demands
thecxcrcise of the highest degree
ofjudgement.
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Big Hogs for Texas.

When hardly two months old
four pigs, of the Berkshire breed,
werc brought to this city by Al
derman Stephen O'Flynn, and
placed in small style in the rear
of his hotel, at the foot of Con-
gress street, near the Union depot.
They cost $40, and yesterday were
sold TO Mr.. Charles Trautmein, 0
butcher in the city market, at nine
cents per pound. AT three o'clock
in the afternoon they were turned
out and started up the street to
Baldwin's stable TO be weighed on
the hooG A few minutes before
six o'clock one of them broke
down with fatigue in front of the
postofice. Ten or twelve minutes
later another lay up at the corner
of FanniR and Preston, and at SIT
O'Clock the leading two were driven
upon the scales in front of Bald
wins stable, and they weighed
lO5S pounds. Aboutseven O'clock
The other two reached the scales,
having been bathed and sprinkled
with cold water until their exhaus-
ton passed of. These weighed
1912 pounds. At nine cents per
pound they brought in slS9.9O.
Each was eleven months and twen-
ty days old, and had been fed on
nothing but kitchen slops with an
occasional bait of corn.-[Houston
Post.
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THE WEEKLY BANNER.
Dressed Beer fOr. the East.

psalsA Fnmurs t1fs
This is very important matter
TO farmers, and We shall have
something TO say on the subject.
In Tho meantime we transfer to
our columns the following from
tho Ehicago Daily Journal: The
New York butchers find 1t very
hard to reconcile themselves to
tho aanew departure" Of having
Western drcssed-beefi sent to the
Eastern markets in refrigerator
cars, Instead of sending the hive
cattle to them, TO be butchered by
themselves. 1t is sort of compe-
titien that they arc not prepared
TO moot and finding that It greatly
intcrferes with their profits in var
ious ways, they have made uni
ted effort to destroythe trade in
Western dressed-meat. Their lat
est effort is in the shape of an ap-
peal TO the labor unions of New
York city to Join in boycottong
those who sell any meat that is
butehered outside of the city
slaughter houses. This appeal is
made to the preiudices of those to
whom it is addressed, on the un-
tenable ground that the western
dressed-meat business is foreign
monopoly, and is calculated 60
break down a long-established and
legitimate home business. They
also find il necessary to assert that
which is VIGOROUSLY untrue, name
", that the western meat is infe-
rior in quality and unfit for food.
It may possibly occur to the
beef-consumers ofNew York city,
and other Eastern cities, whose
people are paying from 20 to 30
cents spound for good cuts of
meat. that these butchers are ask
ing alittle too much, and that they
have an interest in cheaper beef
themselves. They can hardly af-
ford to boycott those butchers who
sell them good, wholesome beef,
slaughtered in Kansas. City, Oma-
has or Chicago, and sent to them
as fresh as a ldaisy, merely for the
sake ofbeneftting the local butch
ers, keeping-up prices and adding
to Che expense oftheir own living,
Tho complaint that the meat is in
felaor in quality is simply non
sense, as everybody ought to know
forit is the beef ofwestern cattle
and the meat is better if the cattle
are killed here than it is if killed
after the steers are transported q
thousand miles by rail-sufering
from hunger, thirst, and fever.
Most likely the west will continue
to have a monopoly of the cattle
growing business for some time to
como, and the dressed beef trade
will continue to increase and -four
ish until meat of all kinds will be
much cheaper in all of the Eastern
cities than it now is, the protest Of
the New York butchers to the con-
trary, Notwithstanding.
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Observation-Disclosures.
IT IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF

1T IMPROVES The QUALlT1 VI
the Blood and cnricIesit, and is there
fore q fine inrigorulIt and corrective
incases Of all chronic I1dtddfes which
are associated with an IMPOVERISHED
STATE OF THE BLOOD. These all yield
tothe regulating and nourishing prop
critics OF It's great food tonic elements
Itcompensates for the loss Of citdhfU,
induced By Consumption, Cdtdrrh or
Bronchial and Throat afeotEoifs, "
srW remedy Feminine Debility and
reimburse the Female physique for
those losses of ritdIify accompany
ing complaints peculiar TO tho ser.
Mothers nursing their own children,
and delicate tronten who expect TO
become mothers and bring up cigoT-
Gus children should by all means use
IT. 1t ,ciu restore sufferers from
Mental or Nervous ProStrdtioTs aris-
Ing from Ouer-tCorh, ErcesseS or
Protracted Disease. ~ trttt euro
Drunkenness and the Opium Habit
for as the APPETITE grows healthier
and digestion more vigorous through
tho use OF this Tonic, tho unnatural
craving dies away until totally ex-
tinct. II Is highly beneficial IN L6per
Complaints, IdtdrtQI Feyor, and
ALL MaIdridt Disedsei and Tor the
facilitating effects OF Ferer Of any
Kind IL has no equal. II repairs
,rGste, improves Digestion and Af,-
1,etife, and affords the Dyspeptio In
caiid an easily Gssi1aiid6le article
of food; and is so pleasant TO the taste
that the most sensitive palate VIII not
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ONioNs-To raise a good crop OF
onions two important facts must be
observed. They must have Il rich,
loamy soil, made as fine as posi-,
bic by thorough cultivation, and
they must be kept free from weeds.
Use well rotted manure, in which
case, if it contains weed and grass
seed, their vitality will be impair
ed. For poor or stiff clayey soil
give a liberal application of wood
ashes. Test your seed before
planting the entire crop, and SOW
as soon after the middle of March
as the weather will permit.
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Texas Blue Grass.

Mr.. Hogan, of Ennis, discourses
as follows about Texas blue grass
in Texas Farm and Ranch:
II now have an experience OK
tending through . period of eight
years in relationto this grass. Dur
ing this timeithas been distributed
by myselfand Others in the follow
ing States, viz: Texas, Arkansas,
Missouri, Cherokee. Nation, Flori-
da, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
lana, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Tennessee, District
of Columbia, Pennsylvania and
Virginia, in all of which, so far as
reported, it is doing we'll. The
communication from Edwin Beese,
of Alabama, in your issue ofMarch
Is, is a fair sample of reports re-
ceived relative to it. Mine is now
running to seed. Herewith send
you samples of the blades and seed
stalk with seed attached. / dis
covered this grass February 8,
1876. One rootlet planted in the
fall has increased to fifty-four in
twelve months. / think one acre
of this grass properly managed in
Texas will afford as much grazing
as five acres of Kentucky blue
grass will in that State. l am a
native of the latter State, and have
an acquaintance with the Kentucky
blue grass in that State and Mis-
souri, as well as Texas. In very
dry summers it affords but little
grazing for two or three months OF
that period; 1T shows the beneficial
effects of maturing to greater ex-
tent than any grass rplant | have
known; for summer grazing it is
not equal to the Bermuda. l am
growing the Bermuda and John
son grasses for summer grazing,
and the Texas blue grass and Bro
mus Uniloides for winter grazing"
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DIR. Gross, one of the most emil
nent surgeons in the United States,
died a few days ago, and in aceor-
dance with an expressed wish his
remains was cremated at the Lee
sMoyne Crematory.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-05
TAKING MINES.

The subject of taxing mines will
be thoroughly discussed in this Ter
ritory between now and next Novem-
Der, and 1t it be treated with that
fairness aud moderation which its
gravity demands. there need be no
fear the people will not sustain the
action of the Constitutional Conven-
ton in providing for the exemption
of this class of property from taxa
ton. IL discussing this subject the
Salt Lake Tribune states the case in
Montana when it says: 1.-THE mines
of Utah are the great source of our
common prosperity. Whether they
pay or not, they are of immense ben
eft to the community. They makea
market for produce, for labor, and for
the products Of inventors. With
draw them, and nothing worth the
taxing would remain in the Terrific
ny. They furnish the only source of
keeping a supply of money in circu-
lation in Utah, as there is nothing
that could be sold for cash here save
for the mines. They are what makes
everything else valuable, whether
they are valuable in themselves or
not. To tax them would be IN most
cases to close them down, which
would bea calamity infinitely greater
than could be compensated by the
widest estimate of return from the
mining tax"