The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

lhe French IOrCe IN Mdud9dSCdI IL
having some fighting with the natives.
The town of Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin
was almost entirely destroyed by fire Or
the 18th.
A. F. Zeberger, prominent merchant
Of Chicago, has been appointed collector
of customs at that port.
Snowdcn, negro, was lynched by col
ored men at Ellicot City, Nd, for having
outraged girl Of seven years.
Bishop John Sharp of Utah, convicted
of unlawful cohabitation, pleaded guilty
promised amendment and paid his fine Of
$500.
Galveston, Texas, was dcluged last
week by long continued and very heavy
rain storm that transferred the streets
into canals. ....
Malcolm Hay, late first assistant post
master general, is very ill and not likely
to recover. He resigned his office because
of i'll health.
The value of wheat and other property
destroyed by prairie fires in Dakota with.
in the past two weeks amounts to an in.
calculable sum.
The bank reserve Of New York is de-
cseasing "a good sign. From 100000,
900 few weeks ago it has fallen to little
over 81, 100000.
Mr.. Lamar, secretary Of the interior, is
seriously though not dangerously i'll
There is no immediate prospect of his re-
turn to duty and he may resign.
Col. G. A. Lounsberry, fer twelve years
postmaster at Bismarck, has resigned.
He Is veteran journalist as we'll as a
staunch, though liberal republican.
A Chadron and Deadwood stage was
held up by masked men on the 18th near
a town bearing the classic name of Pimp-
vile. The robbers got little booty.
The American claimants of the rich Las
Cruces silver mines, Mexico, were dispos-
sessed by Mexican troops and Mexican
with a trumped-up claim put in possession
Five Cinnamon implicated in the murder
of Daniel Frazer and robbery in Pierce
City, Idaho, were taken from Jail by citi-
zens one night and hanged to convenient
trees.
The sugar monopolists Of the Pacific
coast are still forcing up the price of that
article. Claus Spreckels says it may
reach Is cents, wholesale, for the best
grades.
Teams of the regular army and from
New York and Pennsylvania states, IL
men each, shot for prize Of $4,000 at
Creedmore on Monday, 800, 500 and 700
yards. The regulars won.
The Canadian Pacific authorities claim
that they have been victimized out of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in the Lake
Superior section by thieving contractors
working in collus1on with equally dishon-
est engineers.
Capt. Lee, the agent Of the Cheyenne
and Arapaho Indian reservation, has telc-
graphed Commissioner Atkins that only
25, 900 head of cattle remain on the reser
vation and these will be removed by the
end of this month.
Arrangements have been completed for
running a regular line Of steamers from
San Francisco to New Zealand and thence
to Australia to carry the mail which the
Pacific Mail company refused to transport
without additional subsidy.
Olsen, a man who was generally believ-
ed to have outraged and murdered Miss
McEwan who was living on her claim in
Cavelier county, Dakota, and who lately
assaulted second girl at Olga, Dakota,
was lynched on Friday last at the latter
place.
Dorman B. Eaton, chairman OF the Civil
Service Commission has presented lis
resignation but it is not probable that it
will be accepted until after the trial Of
the case now pending in New York to de-
eide the constitutionality of the civil SER
vice laws, that is to say until it has come
to an issue in the courts.
A delegation of Pueblo Indians from
New Mexico are in Washington trying tc
arrange for exemption from taxation
They are citizens to all intents and pur.
poses and have property and settled places
Of abode but have never voted and do not
want to. They have never been taxed un.
til this year. They were citizens of Mex
leo before the territory was ceded.
The trial of the Marquis dc Mores or
the charge of murder committed at Little
Missouri two years ago resulted in an ac
quittal on the first ballot of the jury. The
trial gave the noble Frenchman deal OF
advertising which doubtless pleases him
for he is as fond of sensation as a news
paper reporter. In fact there is no very
good reason to doubt that he revived the
almost forgotten tragedy and obtained hi
own indictment. ..-..
Because drunken private of the 25tt
(colored) infantry Of Fort Mead was
elected from a saloon at Sturgis, in thu
Black Hills, he and fifteen comrades
armed with their rifles, drew up in from
of the saloon and fired volley through
the windows which killed Richard Bell, {
cowboy. The trouble is traceable to thu
lynching of Corporal Hollis of thu
same regiment for shooting DIR. Lynch
through window at Sturgis. A mum
ber Of those supposed to have been impli
Gated in the last outrage have been arrested
On Tuesday night the quarters of th'
Chinese Miners employed at the Black
Diamond coal mines near Seattle wer'
visited by armed meu horribly disguised
before whom the Cinnamon fled in utmos
terror. Their quarters were then burned
These Cinnamon had been discharged ant
| were preparing to leave when they were
| run out. A meeting of delegates from
| thu Pnnet Sound country has been callel