The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-08-19
NEWS SUMMARY

The undertaker's bin for the Grant fl-
neral may be $4,000.
The Dakota capitol commission has
settled with creditors by giving warrants
exehangeable for capitol lots and adj
iourned for good.
1t is rumored that tile construction de-
partme. mt of the Northern Pacific road is
to be done away with Sept. l and Gen.
Anderson chief engineer, retired.
Under the compromise between the
government and John Roach's assignees
the new cruisers building in the Roach
yards will be completed.
The internal revenue department
thinks an extensive, system of whisky
fraud has been andis being carried on by
the use ofbogus barrels so made that the
guagers' rods do notsgiye q true meas
ure. s'eit
On the strength of the report of Assis-
tant Secretary jerks of the interior
department, to the effect that the order
of Commissioner Sparks, on April II 1885
affecting the terminal limit ofthe North
ern Pacific road at Wallula by reducing
the railroad grant $4,000 acres, was le-
gally sound. Secretary Lamar has
oyerruIed the railroad appeal from the
order.
Koy Kee & Co., the largest Chinese
boot and shoe manufacturers on the
Pacific coast have failed with liabilities
over 100000.
Saratoga had the worst storm of rain,
wind, thunder and lightning last week
known in fifteen years.
The officers OF the Chicago Burlington
& Northern railroad say the extension
of the Burlington & Quincy to Minnea-
polls & st. Paul will be begun upon at
once.
Senator Vest is at Helena, seriously i'll
with neuralgia of the facial nerves.
Miss Clevelands book is now in its
twelfth edition with sale reaching 50,-
600 copies.
The Grant monument committee in
New York is having hard time securing
subscription only $4,000 being thus far
raised with the people showing so much
Indifference that the proposed million
dollar monument looks the thing of a
far distant age.
Camden, n. j., is somewhat disturbed
by case said to be genuine cholera.
The blast to blow up Hell Gate New
York harbor, will be fred about Oct /.
about 225,0O0 pounds. of rock powder
and $4,000 Of dynamite distributed in So
600 cartridges, will le used
Citizens of Council Bluffs, Iowa, have
formed syndicate and agree to pay the
city's running expenses if they can be
given exclusive control of all saloon and
gambling house privileges.
Salvation Army Booth announces a
scheme for the opening of offices in all
cities, with headquarters at London, and
establishment of system of help for
girls who desire to reform from evil
ways.
Maxwell, the st. Louis trunk murderer,
will reach St Louis tomorrow. His
claim that the body in the trunk was
not Preller's is said to be simply despe-
rate defense, as it was positively identi-
fed by relatives.
The explanation by Commissioner of
Agriculture Loring as to certain expene-
itures for seeds is said to be so unsatis-
factory that legal proceedings will be
begun against him to recover the amount
unless he can offer better.
Pardee, Rataplan and Mink, of Com
modore Kittson's runners have gone
lame and been pulled out for the season,
and Johnson, his PAGER, has tsken on
such a bad leg that the trotting and
pacing stable has cancelled the Wiscon-
sin and Michigan dates and started for
home.
Miss Adrianna P. Brinckle. daughter
Of the late DIR. Brinckle, Of Philadelphia,
has just been released from the state
lunatic asylum where she has been
confined twenty-seyen years for what
was termed when she was committed by
her relatives "scandalous extravaganza"
A year ago the state board of charities
Investigated and reported her not insane
but she has only just been set free,