The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-05-16

escapes massacre he Will owe no thanks q
his government.
WARRINGTON telegram says the SENATE
committee on military affairs has reported II
favor Of the bill authorizing the Secretary o
War TO adjust aud settle the account agains
Montana Territory for arms furnished n
1867. The report shows that the arms vert
furnished 10 enable the people to protec
themselves, and thus avoid the necessity o.
calling on the army, and indicates the be
lief that they were furnished TO relieve the
army from the duty Of defending the psopl,
no pay ought 70 be expected Of them. The
sum at issue amounts TO SCI, 1861.
THE New York Commercial Bulletin says
Of the contract for 1900, 900 pounds Of cop
per just closed by the Lake Superior Copper.
Mining companies, and which Is deliverable
during the months from June 10 September
"The transaction, as we have reason TO be
lisve, was what is known In trade IS pool
purchase, the largest manufacturers and some
prominent dealers being the buyers. The
price was IA cents per pound, or sdl cent,
above what the Lake companies sold . sim
liar quantity at for foreign account earlier In
the year.
HERE Is a telegram that belongs under
the title "importsnt II true" N. G. PETER
mas, q German farmer Of Pittsburg suburbs,
has made = wonderful invention Of a new
method that will revolutionize modern
whisky distilling. He has discovered = way
of making solidi6ed whisky, making into
packet plugs just like tobacco; besides that,
he says he can also distill In the liquid form
so that II will be the exact equivalent OF two
and three year old whisky when it comes out
of the still. Last month persons from New
York offered him 500 900 for his Invention.
THE mystery of the lost steamship, State
ofFlorida, which was attributed TO an Ice
berg or dynamite or other possible perils, has
been cleared up and the few of her passen.
gers saved have been brought to Montreal.
She collidsd with the bark Pomona from
Hull. OF 1877 persons on the State Of Flor
ida only A were saved and only the captain
and Two men from the Pomona. There
were 1913 soul, lost on the steamer and IL on
utes. Fortunately the weather was calm
and other vessels near b.. The disaster &C.
Cured about 800 miles from Quebec. The
passengers saved were called hurrisdly up by
the collision aud appear TO know nothing of
the circumstances. The crews are reticent.
II appears that criminal carelessness was the
occasion oft
WE PUBLISH elsewhere an account Of the
trial, and remarkable incident connected
Herewith of the Cheyenne Indians who
burned Mr.. Alderson's house, under what
would have been gross piovocation TO men
claiming higher civilization than the Chey-
enne Indians. The verdict Of "not guilty"
In the case Of Black Wolf, succeeded by his
brothers and three others Of the nine in
their guilt, asserting the innocence Of the
others and expressing their willingness TO
bear tho penalty OF their onense II those In
nocent might not be punished, was q scene
that In dramatic effect and self sacrificing in
tsgrty has rarely been equalled In Q court
room or riyaled by the pen Of fiction. The
sentences inflicted were perhaps a. low as
the court could nx under the law, but If the |
were as pallIating as intimatsd |
by the account published, 1t Is doubtful II In
fact these savages are entitled TO so protract-
cd punishment.