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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-08
WHY WE BOOM.
A Cause for Our Prosperity
Some Of Our Advant-
ages Set Forth.
Some Views on the Forty-Day
Order-An Event to be
Remembered.
Beef Round-Up-The Hay Crop
and Prices-Lively
Times.
A Prosperous Town.

We hear it announced, from day to
day, 10y those coming both from the
east and west that Miles City is the
"liveliest towns on the road" There
is reason for this often repeated ex-
preston, but the passing stranger
does not stop long enough to learn the
true condition Of things.
Miles City existed before the rail-
road came. 1t was not split in two
parts by the centre line Of the road, but
the town was established and SO com.
pacted that the railroad could not get
nearer TO it than five blocks. This
fact alone has had much to do In
building up this city. The centre of
business has remained in close con-
junction, which is far preferable to the
4OO-feet spaces intervening between
the business houses Of other embryo
towns on the line of the road. When
the railroad reached the town in 1851
II was a village of some considerable
dimensions, sustaining a trade that
reached to the borders of the adjacent
territories. depending for its supplies by
steamboats, on the Yellowstone river.
With a favorable beginning In loca'
ton, geographical position and trade
ut the advent Of the Northern Pacific
railroad IL took the lead in all mat
tiers ofcommerce and became the cen
ire of trade and the distribution o.
supplies. When the iron rails reach
ed this town ii numbered 500 people
The great cattle industry had already
been established and immense herd
were coming in from Texas to swell
the numbers here. The stock grower
in the southern regions saw the mill
ions Of acres, loaded with nutrition,
grasses, lying comparatively wasted
In eastern Montana and an outlet
opened by the completion of the rail.
road TO eastern markets, and were
quickly induced to send their herds
from the crowded ranges Of the south
to the virgin ranges Of Montana.
The value OF stock in this county
last year according to assessment roll,
was little over Sl5,OO0,O 900. The rep
resentative stock men in this county
have brought their families to thi,
city and are now engaged in building
good and substantial houses or resi-
dences for their future abode.
Our business men seeing that II !,
the disposition of the cattle kings q
abide among us have inaugurated q
construction boom aud are now en-
gagged in erecting commercial blocks
that would do credit to ST. Paul or Chi.
cago both in architectural beauty and
substantial structure.
When the stranger can fully take IN
the immense scope Of our grazing
fields aud the millions of head OF cat
tie that these fields are capable Of sus.
tain and at the same time take into
consideration that Miles City occupi Is
the centre of these great grazing areas
aud that IL has already become the
distributing centre Of supplies for tn,
vast and growing cattle industry hC
may be able 20 see some Of the cause,
for making this the "liveliest town OF
th. road"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-08


richest Of contraltas rendered her snlo
with such telling eject that she too
was recalled. Next Miss Ollie Torbelt
sntramced the listeners with her aTtis-
tic performance on the violin, perfect
ia technique and full Of sympathy
and feeling. Then came America
Queen Of Song, the peerless Kellogg.
1t is not within our province To bestow
the proper need Of praise on her. She
came, we heard, and she conquered
and the tumult Of applause that went
up when she concluded was but
faint tribute Of the praise that all felt
like Offering. or course she was re-
called and catching the spirit Of the
audience she graciously responded.
Mockridge next bewitched the listen
ers with his magnificent tenor and for
an encore sang Then You'll Remem-
Der Me" 10 style not soon to he for
gotten. The first part closed with n
quartette from Rigoletto by Miss KEEL
logg, Miss Groves, Messrs. Moe
kridge and Mnrawski, which tor
precision, balance and perfect har-
mony will long be remembered;
such perfect blending of voices, where
each part was equally distinguishable
and yet subordinate to the main effect
it has seldom been anyone's lot 10
hear. Thus far every number Oh the
programme had received hearty ELL
core and when Mr.. Close opened the
second part with Gottschalk's Pas
quinade the audience were in no
humor TO let him off without due rec
IGNITION. On his recall he gave =
dainty little moroccan that was a per
feet imitation of a music box which
earned him still another encore. Mo-
rawski then gave u magnificent bass
solo and although he tried TO bow his
acknowledgements, was forced to give
a further exhibition If his talents.
Miss Kellogg on her second solo APP
pearance was greeted with perfect
ovation and at the the conclusion of 3
pretty ballad was again recalled. AZ
the familiar strains of Way Down
Upon the Swanee River,r became ap-
parent in the accompaniment, a gen.
erous salvo Of applause went up that
was stilled only by her exquisite voice
In the matchless rendering Of this
sweetest OF ballads. Miss Torbert fol-
lowed with another violin solo and re-
call, and Miss Groves again charmed
the audience with her mellow vote,
in the kerry Dances" The conclud
ing number, the Spinning Wheel
quartette, was fitting climax TO tn,
Incompatible entertainment and wal
rendered with such JUNCTION as to plac,
every listener in the seventh heaven
of delight and at its conclusion the
house stubbornly remained seated and
would not be moved to depart until a
portion Of 1t was given again, when
they reluctantly arose thoroughly sati-
ated, but regretful that the perform
ance was at an end. or the thirteen
numbers on the programme each re-
ceved an encore that was most grac-
iously responded to. IL was the
GROWING feature Of Miles City's ex-
perience in public entertainments and
will not probably have an equal until
Miss Kellogg again favors US.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-08

aREsBYTERIAN CHURCH.. Corner Of Main
L street and Montana Ave. Services at II .. IN.
and 80 D. M. sabbath School at 10 a. IN. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evenings At o'clock. All
cordially invited. 4. Y. LIssELL, Pastor.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-08

TATIIULlC CHURCH, Main street, corner Of
T.uth. Services every sunday 81 10 q N.
REV. L. WI. LisDKsNIrH,
Chaplain, U. S. A.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-08

- pn6lic worship daily. except Saturday, at $50
4. M. 3:,ai ,. IA. On LIST sunday Of each month II
a. IA. aud 7:30 p. IN, other Sundays p. N.
sunday schOOl 5 p. III. Seats free.
Nm. HoRsYALL, Rector.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
THE LATE WAR.
An Omcial Record of Union Deaths In tt
Civil War.

An Ohicial Record of Union Deaths In the
Civil War.
Twenty years have passed since the
close of the civil war, and now, at last,
q careful official record of the number
of deaths that occurred in the Union
army has been made. A little more
than twelve months ago. on the I'd of
June, 1884, General Drum directed Mr..
J. w. Kirkley, an experienced statis-
tician of the Alphabetically Office,
to begin the compilation of this record,
with the aid of ten clerks. A minute
and exhaustive exploration of all at
tainable official documents has now
produced table of statistics which
far surpasses in completeness anything
on the subject hitherto existing.
To state the grand result at the out
set, the table shows a total of 1858
deaths of commissioned officers, and
349,9 deaths of enlisted men, making
an aggregate of $50, 1876 deaths among
the Union forces. The period included
in the record is. for the regular troops,
the interval between April 10Th, 1861,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
Asphaltum.

A correspondent says he never looks
at an asphalt pavement or rolls along
over its smooth surface in a carriage
without thinking of the curio US island
and the still more singular place from
which the material is procured. In
about the center of the island of Trini-
dad, dot in the Caribbean Sea, just
off the coast of Venezuela, there is an
asphalt lake. 1t is said to cover about
100 acres. and is apparently inexhaust-
ible. 1t is a black, sandy substance.
and is believed to be crude rotten pc
troleum. A singular feature of the
substance is that, although about 50,-
600 tons are taken out of this lake an
nually, it constantly fills up. so that
there is no lessening of the supply.
This singular lake of paving material
is owned by the Venezuelan Govern
ment, but Is leased to company in
Washington. They have a fleet of
schooners running to Trinidad. and.
having monopoly of the business.
they import vast quantities of the ma
terial,-thicaoo Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
A SLAVER'S RUSE.

How a Spanish Vessel, Laden With Slaves,
Escaped the Vigilance of British
Cruiser.
A good story is told of the flagship
Winchester, l think-going out of
Simon's Bay bound to the Mauritius
when off Cape Hangklip, late one after
noon. a very rakish. suspicious-looking
craft was sighted, carrying an unusual
number of stay-sa Is and studding-saiis,
who, upon seeing the man-of-war,
hoisted Spanish colors and her number
in Marryatt's code, and requested to be
reported. She passed quite close, and
was apparently a passenger ship of
about 500 tons burden, for as she
neared them about dozen ladies, In
very smart bonnets, wells and parasols.
were observed to come on deck and
demonstration of cordially to the of
have also a large crew. and was
very clean and smart. Suspic on
was quite disarmed, and she was
logged as passenger ship from
Manila to Cadiz. The Admiral was alone
in his opinion that all was not right.
remarking that the ladies waved their
pocket-handkerchief uncommonly long
and vigorously to a mere passing ship;
he also thought the handkerchiefs un-
usually large, and further. he men,
toned that as she passed. he was look
ing out of the door in the stern gallery,
and faint curious Whit came down on
the wind. reminding him of something
long past. He could not remember for
the moment what it did remind. but it
suddenly occurred to him several hours
after that the faint passing odor. as the
strange ship swept by. recalled the
smell of slaveship which he had navi-
gated into port years before. And he
was right. This same vessel was taken
off the Havana, on her subsequent voy-
age, and proved to have been Span
ish ship from Fernando Veloso River,
in the Mozambique Channel. full of
slaves for Cuba. Her captain ex-
planned with delighted pride his meet
ing with the flagship off the Cape. and
how, seeing a large man-of-war bear
ing down upon him with the certainty
, of capture, and no hope of escape
should the ships character be known,
he adopted the clever expedient doubt
less not for the first time. of dressing
up a number of their men in women S
attire, ruse that was in this instance
entirely successful. the Year
Round
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
Everybody's Air-Brake.

Eyes, sab, said Uncle Zach, Use watched
1T forty years an it's an ser: De fust OF
May an Christmas day OF de same year
alters comes on de same week day.o
Further conversation proved Uncle Zach
a most lncredulous person. CHANGING to
mention DIR. Carver's feat of breaking glass
balls with a rifle, he said:
II heerd bout dat shootin' ana Knowed
right off it wasn't squar'; dat was a Yankee
trick, boss, sho's you born.n
'What was the trick?n
''Dar wuz 1oadstone put into de glass
balls, an likewise onto de bullets; SO when
de bullet fly outen de gun, it an de bali jes
drawed togedder, which, in course, brokes
de glass-dat's de trickp
Later, Uncle Zach observed a rope running
along the side of the car.
Boss, what's dat line fur?"
ITO apply the air-brake in case of acct
dent" Then we had further to explain how
the force of the brake was obtained, to
which Uncle Zach responded:
Look here boss, you sholy don't 'spect
me to b'leeve dat foolishness? Why, de
biggest harricane whatever blowed couidn' t
stop dis train, runnin' forty mile q hour.
An you think l gwine to b'leeve a little
pipe full of wind under de kyars cap do it?
Nc, sah-ree!"
There are great many Uncle Zachs who
judge everything simply by appearances.
The air-brake does not seem to he q very
powerful IhihS, ouI power anu eiitiehes al Z
not necessarily equivalent to bigness and
pretense.
Phillip Beers, Esq, VINO resides at the
United States Hotel, New York City, and is
engaged in raising subscriptions for the New
York World Bartholdi Pedestal Fund, was
once upbraided by distinguished relative
who was a physician, for commenting in
such enthusiastic terms n remedy that
cured him of bright's disease eight years
ago. He said: "Sr, has the medical pro-
fession, with all its power and experience of
thousands OF years, anything that can cure
this terrible disorder?" No, no, that is
true; there is no mistake about it but that
Warmers sale cure is really IA wonderfully
effective preparation. That remedy is an
"air-brake" that every man can apply, and
this fact explains whyit has saved SO many
hundreds of thousands of ives.-Copy-
righted. Used by permission of american
Rural Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
PiTH AND POINT.

An engraver recently made this
mistake: mfr. and Mrs. - respect
Iully request your presents at the mar
rage of Their daughter.
"A grain of sand may be the germ
OF new world, but button in the
right place does more good in the rush
ing present--Carl Pretzet's Weekly.
eyeanks: DO you think Miss Labelie
is lprettv?" Minks: mo, she is not
prettyP II must confess think her
beautiful" "Well, 1 did, too, but
asked my wife and she said was mis-
taken. Philadelphia Cali.
Employer to Clerk.-"I don't OBJ
ject to your going to funeral once in a
VIII lie; but think you might bring me
home fish or two" Sunblush on the
end of the clerks nose extends rapidly
to his ears.-Ro16ury Adcocate.
"A gentleman came home in the
''wee sma' hours avant the twal," at
the South End. recently, and was sur
prised to find his wife clad in black.
ny are Won wearing these mourning
garments?" he said, somewhat I'M
steadily. For my late husband" was
the significant reply. He has been in
the house at ten ever since.-Boston
Budget.
Woman is rapidly trenching upon
the domain of man. and the time will
no doubt soon come when she will
have monopolized all the trades. pro-
LESSONS and occupations. When that
happy day comes. man will occupy the
proud position of the Indian brave.
and have nothing to do but look hand
some and keep the women at work.
The lot of the coming man will be a
happy one Chicago Inter- Ocean.
1t was at a ball, and the subject
under discussion was vanity. A lady
maintained that men were also given
somewhat to vanity. The men are
ten times more vain than the ladies, -
she remarked. That's impossible, -
said several gentlemen. The subject
changed. and few minutes later the
lady remarked: 1.-The handsomest man
IN the room has spot ON his white
vest, whereupon every gentleman
within hearing glanced down with a
scared expression of countenance at
his vest.-Teras Sifti,,qs
Mans troubles:
Man that Is married to a woman is of many
days and full of trouble.
the evening,
Behold, il is gonei
1t is a tale that is told;
1t Is vanished, and no man knows whittier it
gOeth.
He rissth up clothed in the chilly garments
OF the night
And seeketh the somnolent paregoric.
mere to soothe his infant posterity.
He cometh as q horse OK,
And draweth the chariot of his offspring
He spendeth the shekels in the purchase of
fine linen
To cover the bosom of his family;
Yet himself is seen at the gates of the city
With one suspender.
Yea, he is altogether wretched.
-Arcnn7k1n journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23

and August 1st, 1865; for a portion
of the volunteers it is prolonged be-
yond the latter date until the muster
out of each organization 1t will be
remembered that the troubles in Mexi-
CO and other causes occasioned the re-
tention of some volunteers in the serv-
ice after the downfall of the Confed-
eracy. Indeed, as Mr.. Kirkley notes,
the last white volunteer organization
was disbanded November 18th, 1867,
and the last colored regiment Decenn-
Der Goth, 1867, while the last officer of
the volunteer general staff was not
mustered out until July 1st. 1869.
Yet careful as the examination of
the records has been, one lack renders
it still far from complete. The death
registers of some of the largest prisons
at the South, used for the confinement
of Union soldiers. are missing. For
the prisons at Americas, Atlanta, Au-
gusta, Charleston, Lynchburg. Macon,
Marietta, Mobile, Montgomery, Savan-
nah, Shreveport and Tyler the regis
tiers have not been secured at all, and
the Importance of these prisons is well
known. Only partial records were had
from the prisons at Cahawba, Column
bia, Florence, S. c., Millen and Sails
bury. There have been ways. it is
true, of partly working up these def
ciences; but, on the other hand, as
Quartermaster-Gene Meigs, cited by
MIR. Kirkley, has shown, in many
Southern prisons three or four corpses
of Union prisoners were sometimes
buried in the same trench, and the
number OF graves only imperfectly in
dictates the number OF dead. Even in
this most imperfect record, the number
of Union soldiers known to have died
in captivity was close upon thirty
thousand-in exact figures. 29,49S.
The late investigation, we may add.
has increased by about one-sixth the
records of deaths among Union prison
erS.
Taking Mr.. Kirkley's tables, we de-
rive from them the following general
results:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
HOME AND FARM.

Put soda in sour fruit for pies and
they will require less sugar.-Boston
Budget.
The Western Farmer recommends
the sowing of orchard grass with blue
grass, timothy and clover for pasture.
1t starts early and grows late.
In hot weather all the uncon-
sumed food should be frequently swept
away from the chicken coops, as it
soon sours and acts like poison If
taken into the crop.-Troy Times.
Baked Potatoes: Slice potatoes very
thin; let stand in cold water one-half
hour, put them in q baking dish with
enough milk to moisten, little pepper
and salt and half cupful of butter.
Bake one hour.-Yhe Household.
The best cure for collie in horses is
the palm of your hand full of turpen-
tine rubbed against the upper gums
and the inside of the upper lip of the
horse, and his breast bathed with the
same If not relieved in one hour re-
peat the dose.-Albany Journal.
If you are obliged to confne your
fowls in summer give them an hour s
exercise just before shutdown. Thus
they will doIilittle injury to crops and
will return quietly to their roosts at
dusk. Some green food is absolutely
necessary to them. - Philadelphia Press.
The killing of sheep by dogs is
usually done during the night. To
guard against dogs the sheep should be
induced to come up every evening to
be fed inside of h Oh enclosure made
of palings or wire. with an open shed
in the center for protection to the
sheep against storms.-N E. Farmer.
The average capacity of the stom-
Hence a peck of oats should never be
given at one meal. except to the larg-
est horses do NC slow work. A little
and often is a good rule in feeding
horses, and the nature of the food must
be determined by their labor. Fast
work requires solid food Chicago
Tribune.
Cake should never be disturbed
while baking. forif it is moved or Jared
after it has risen. before it Is done it is
very apt to fall and make cradle"
The oven should be as near the right
hot as for biscuit, for if it is too hot,
and the door has to be opened to let in
cool air when the cake is partially
cooked. then it is very apt to fall
Boston Globe.
There is probably no farm nipple
ment more generally misuSed on heavy
land than the roller. especially IN early
spring. Land at this season is sure TO
be compacted sufficiently by rains, and
only cultivation is necessary to make
mellow seed bed. The proper tine for
using the roller is in preparing seed
bed for wheat in the fall, and after
spring grain is up and the surface dry
to smooth it for the reaping machine.
-Prdir6e Farmer.
"A distinguished physician believes
from his practice that infants gener-
ally. whether brought up at the breast
or artitici ally, are not supplied with suf-
ficient water, the fluid portion of their
food being quickly taken up and leav-
ing the solid too thick to be easily di-
gested. In warm, dry weather healthy
babies will take water every hour with
advantage, and their frequent fretful-
ness and rise of temperature is often
directly due to their not having it
Chicago Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
A Rabbit Yarn.

Out in Dakota on the railways jack
rabbits are plentiful. An engineer OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Road relates that when one of these
fine fellows is espied on the track. the
engine is uncoupled from the train and
the race begins. The rabbit hasn't
sense enough to get off the track, and
the first thing the frightened animal
knows the dread monster is close up
on him. The fireman grasps the iron
standard of the cowcatcher with one
hand. and the next instant has the vic
tim BY the hind leg with the other.
This sport greatly amuses the train
hands. but exasperates the delayed
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23

The aggregate of nearly $50. 200
deaths of Union soldiers must be sup
plemented by a like record of Confed-
crate soldiers, in order to find the real
number of victims to the war in both
armies. Then the naval deaths must
also be ascertained and added Many
soldier and sailor met a fate more
dreaded than death in being crippled
for life or made the prey of lingering
disease contracted in the service
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23

The Connecticut Legislature has
enacted a law which imposes fine of
fifty dollars and Imprisonment upon
every person who sells, lends, gives Or
offers any book, magazine. pamphlet
or paper devoted to the publlcat on of
Grim nal news, stories of deeds of
bloodshed, lust or crime. If this law
shall prove satisfactorily operative, it
will doubtless suggest the enactment of
similar measures by other Legislatures.
Already in some cities of the country
the sale and eli, culat on of such publ
cations as are prescribed by the Con-
necticut statue are forbidden.-Cur-
rent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
SABBATH-DAY READING.
THE UNSEEN LIFE.

There is a life by man unseen,
A life, the soul and God between,
Nor mortal eye may mark the strife,
Or quiet, OF that hidden life.
Our feeble vision can but scan
The outward merits of the man;
And virtue to our sight be plain,
When God behoids a crimson stain.
A brothers sin will Outlines rise
To mountain height before our eyes,
While He who knoweth each intent
May write that brother innocent.
There is life to man unknown,
Between the soul and God alone,
Nor human line may sound the deep
Where human pride and passions sleep.
But to the great Omniscient eye,
Our inner lives uncovered lie;
No inner thought of thine or mine
Can hide beyond Gods sounding line.
Our hearts should hold how lightly then
The praise and prejudice of men!
Esteeming Father to be right
And blameless in JehOvah'S sight.
Oh! may we strive from day to day
To shape each purpose to His way,
Who knoweth all the Christian strife,
And seeth all his hidden life
- NJ. n. Maitland, in Christian at Work