The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-09-03

Mat thews' training stable, Matthews &
Stringhant's livery stable, Ed, Webbcr'a
blacksmith shop, and three or four shanties
were completely Quilted. The horses were
safely removed. The total losses were
SIG, 900 with 81, 600 insurance.
News Items of General Interest.
Bishop Knickerbacker is resting at Sara.
toga Springs. 90 - - ~
Ex-Gov. Reuben E. Fenton, OF New York
dies suddenly at his desk. =
The Tennessee saluted Mr.. Blaine with
twelve guns Mt Bar Harbor.o
Thirty-two buildings were burned by light,
ming in Stafford county, n. H. ~ trHg
The late Lyman Clark OF Brockton,
Mass, left a fortune OF $5O0,00O.
Lieut.. James D. Mann, Seventh cavalry,
is granted leave during September I
Mr.. Blaine is living quietly at Bar Har.
Dor, attending yacht races every now and
then. 3 ]!
Cardinal Manning intimatsd that some
ecclesiastic in Boston would ere long be
made o cardinal. vi S4fJfftt
The president will deliver. IN address be-
fore the Virginia Agricultural society at
Richmond, Oct. 21. :
hluGA AuLu Nv Guilty. OulO, CttkElcS
away the water works reservoir and leaves
the city without water.
Attorney General Garland has not been
out OF Washington this summer, and win
not take a vacation until the president re-
turns. -I
Senator John Sherman addressed large
mass meeting in the grove ut Mount Gilead,
making the opening speech Of the Ohio cam
paign. - . ,sst-s
Architect Belts latest trouble is in con.
nection with the Kansas City postofice.
He is charged with spending $4,000 i'm;
properly. fsa IS f, 4 ne (
Under the recent navy department or.
ders over four hundred men are employed
in the, construction department at the
Brooklyn navy yard. /
Extensive forest fires are raging all along
the Northern Pacific, between Horse Plains
and Huron Montana destroying immense
quantities OF valuable timber.
Postal cards are reported to lie generally
scarce at the postofiices throughout the
country, the government being very tardy
in meeting acquisitions for the arcicle.
President Mcconnell, iof the American
exposition, at New Orleana, received n. dis.
patch from Geo. NJ. Pullman increasing his
subscription from SIS, 1000 to S25, 900. I
Mr.. Cannon, controller Of the currency,
has been recalled from Monmouth Beach,
N. j., where he has been spending his vaca-
ton, because Of the illness 81 his deputy. |
Capt. John s, Wiarton,t OF Gen. Han.
cocks staff who has been ordered to duty
ut Fort Ringsold, has never seen his regi-
mcnt. He has been on staff duty for seven.
teen years. 3 !. SGlf ;it4s Il ., Z
At the Western Rifle association tourna-
ment at. Western Union Junctio the short
range match is won by Milwaukee,, by a
score OF 235, to $50 for Minneapolis and
j214 for Racine. =
Prof. Wylie, territorial superintendent
OF instruction, and Peter Koch, assistant
were fined $50 each for leaving their camp
fire burning in the National Park. sE
Lord Carnaryon will visit ssali tile large
towns OF Ulsterand the poorer districts Of
Donegal. He has issued q scathing rebuke
I to Clifford Lloyd, with reference to the lat.
'tefss recent article on Ireland in the London
Times. r
Mrs. Mary A. Stuart, wife OF the million.
aire banker Joseph Stuart OF New York,
was incidentally shot and killed. ut Cher
summer home in Rye Beach. She wasa re.
moving revolver from one place, to an
Other, when it exp1oded.s
% AtCooke City, Montana, two miners play.
ed 100 games OF cribbage, the stakes being
100 feet OF the Snowslide lode against 100
ieet OF the Elevator lode-both rich proper
ties. The Elevator man won, and received
his deeds Immediately, for, which he refused.
81 500. = g. sr NJ. "a.
The Conservatives are expressing great
satisfactio on the Zulfkar pass question.
Word: asalready gone out to make this a
a m nIuf, NaSNn 1,,&
that a joint commission will settle the de-
tails on the spot seems to leave everything
where it was before. ST.. ~ h,
The publicity given to the fact that the
United States treasurer has resumed the
transfer OF gold coin from San Francisco
to New York by registered mail. has again
caused q suspension OF that mode ofjtrans-
portation. 1t is not expected that any
more gold will be sent through the mails
Tor SO me time. II.
"A strange tale comes to light in the sus.
pension OF j.. S. Garfield, n clerk in tho post,
office department, from Illinois. Five or
six years ago he was regarded as one OF the
best clerks in that department. For nearly
year past he has been absent.. from the
department nnd, it is claimed, has drawn
his pay regularly, his salary being 81, 400
year. IT now appears that.he has been
in an insane asylum near Providence, r. J.,
during that time, and he is regarded ms III.
curably insane. .,,.r.-,,.,,, +, 1.
The register OF treasury has issued the
following order: To avoid the troubles and
delays in the transfer OF United States bonds
BY the successors or legal representatives
OF holders in nominally or really fiduciary
capacity this office will hereaftet refuse US
a condition precedent to issue to any trus.
tee, executor, administrator, guardian, ETC.,
that the beneficiary orparticulart trust thus
represented shall be named on the applica-
ton and in the assignment OF the bonds for
the purposes proposed. Y !! 4
Carter II. Harrison's attorney, Allen e.
Storey, submitted nm answer to the bill filed
BY citizens two months ago disputine Sir.
Harrison title to the mayoralty Of Chicago
by reason5of numerous miscounts stated to
have been made in the vote and innumer.
able frauds alleged to have been committed
at the polls in the interest OF Harrison.
The answer is in the nature OF a demurrer
generally denying the allegations Of the bill
and giving fifteen reasons why, in the opinion
of the defendant, the case Is not entitled to
n regular trial in court.
DR.. Loring has replied to the: charge tIoi
Controller Durham that he inislaid the dis
allowed accountin his letterofJuly He
says that he. never intended to convey the
AASfe khHS PuAStt1bCo VI lulCtuHcTlNfHeEC. III.
cluded in the disallownrce, and that the con-
troller Inns misapp The: lneaningsof
his letter on this point. In reply to the
statement Of the controller that the pnr-
chase of seeds formed no part Of the sugar
experiments, he claims that the purchase Of
beet and sorghum seeds and the employ
ment OF labor for their dist bntfontwas as
much q part Of the experimental ex-
penditure .as the pnrchass q machinery,
troler will not for,a moment suspect him
Of attempting to misstate the case 3eitherto
HIM or the public.
The Star says: "a i arrnmora to the effect
that John Dickerson, former SUP fintepd-
ent' OF the new pension building had. COM
mitted Irregularities in the management OF
his position, having reached the Star, q re.
porter was sent to trace the matter, and
was informed by persons iii Position to
mi Uo11S La,