The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-03-01

She was the advance ship Of the
Arctic expedition under Sir George
Mares and is so fitted up as to be
especially suitable for navigation in
the Arctic seas. She will be used
in the Greely relief expedition.
On the 18th ult. a band of Cree
Indians from the Crooked Lake re-
serve north of Broadview station on
the Canadian Pacific attacked and
overpowered the supply agents, and
stole lot Of flour and bacon. The
mounted police have been called
and trouble is expected when they
arrive.
Notwithstanding the sufferings
and exposure accustomed by the
flood, the deaths JIM Cincinnati
last week were fewer than for the
corresponding week of 1888. Last
week the deaths numbered 81 and
for the corresponding weeks of 1888
and 1882 they were 145 and 1O2 re-
spectively.
The election of the directors of
the St. Louis and Locky Mountain
R. r. is announced. 1t is stated
that a Philadelphia syndicate is
ready to put up s8,OO0,O0O imme-
diately on the orler-in-council be-
ing passed, granting the land.
They will build 1850 miles from
Melborne, beyond Edmonton.
| A Los Angeles (Cal) dispatch
says the waters are receding, and it
is believed the worst has passed.
Careful estimates place the loss
from the floods in that county at
s750,00O. This will be more than
compensated by the good done the
fruit and wheat crops. The present
indications are that it will be a
golden year for Southern California.
Late advices from the city of
Mexico, are to the effect that the
Mexican government contemplate5
the establishment of consul-gen-
eralship in the Mississippi valley,
with headquarters at St. Louis or
Chicago, and that the name of John
F. Cahill, present Mexican consul
in St. Louis, is favorably mentioned.
The Waite-Burns hard glove
fight for $500 a side and the cham
pionship of Montana came off
Monday evening at the ampni-
theatre. Over 1000 people were
present. In the first round Waite
knocked Burns down and in the
second round Burns struck Waite
foul blow which the referee al
lowed, thus giving the fight to
Waite.
Travel during the last week has
been on the increase, although the
regular spring travel from the east
ern states and Canada to Dakota
and Montana will not commence
for month yet. The union depot
officials report more travel to those
territories than for corresponding
time during the last year. The
two eartern trains leaving at noon
and evening were never so large as
of late.
Idaho Territory has, it is claimed,
became a perfect hot-bed for the
propagation of Mormonism, and
the safety of the territory has been
put in jeopardy by the pernicious
doctrines of the apostles of Joseph
Smith and Brigham Young. Dele
gate Singer Of Idaho, with a view
to checking this evil, has prepared
bill, which will be introduced in
the house, prescribing severe pen
alties for the practice of polygamy
within the confines of the territory
and disfranchising the Mormon ele-
ment. Under no circumstances will
man be permitted to vote at any
election in the territory who has not
signed certificate that he is not
living in polygamy and does not
believe in plural marriages.
On the Goth and 21st ult. ter
rife cyclone swept over the north
ern portion of Georgia and Alabama
and the Western sections of North
and South Carolina, sweeping al
most everything in it's path and
causing loss Of over 500 lives.
The village of Cold Springs, Ca,
was literally wiped from che face
of the earth. In Darlington, S. c.,
four persons were killed and fifty
houses demolished. In Rocking
ham, in the same state, twenty
three persons were killed and
eighteen wounded. At a neighbor-
ing village McDonald's mills were
destroyed and the millstones carried
over fifty feet. In Johnson county
the track of the cyclone was 400
yards wide, and in this space every
thing was swept away as if by fire.
The worst of the cyclone was at
Rockingham. Those who were on
the edge say that all was over in
two or three minutes. Everything
was destroyed, and many people
were killed and wounded in that
short time. Fragments of houses
only remained. The largest trees
were torn up by the roots, and the
ground covered with broke timber
Many people were killed with fly.
ing timber. A young lady when
the house began to rock, ran out
and was instantly killed by being
pierced through by flying fence
b.