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The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-02-28

"a site which is in view of Mount Vernon
where "The Father of his Country" is
buried and is in front of the capitol and
the White House. On the 4th of july,
| 1848, the corner stone of the monument
was laid with Masonic ceremonies and an
imposing pageant. Robert c. Winthrop of
Boston, then speaker of the house Of rep
resentatives, being the orator of the Occa-
sion. In 1854 the society had spent the
$4,000 which it had collected and con
gress was asked to appropriate something
for the work but failed to do so until 1876.
Meantime work on the monument was at
standstill. In that year 100000 was
appropriated by congress and a commits
sion appointed to expend the money. The
government engineer then discovered that
the foundation was not sufficiently solid
or broad to support the proposed structure.
To remedy this excavations were made be-
meath and about the foundation and these
were filled with concrete until no further
doubt remained as to the stability of the
structure. Since the completion of that
work the monument has only settled one
and half inches. In 1880 work on the
monument was resumed and was conclud.
ed in December last. Congress at various
times appropriated 100000 to carry on
the work so that in all it has cost consid-
erably over a million of money. The
monument in form is an obelisk surmount-
ed by pyramldal roof. Its size at the
top of the artificial mound around its base
is 55 feet square. From the surface of
this mound to the apex of the roof it is
555 feet 4 inches in height and above the
natural level of the ground it rises 572
feet. 1t gradually tapers from the base to
the beginning of the slope of the roof
where it is 81 feet 81 inches square, which
point is 500 feet in the air. The walls are
Is feet thick at the base and 18 inches
thick at the beginning of the roof. At
the base are two doors opening into
chamber which runs to the top of the
On the walls of this chamber
are bolted great number of memorial
stones contributed by states, territories,
foreign powers and societies. One such
stone was presented by Pope Plus TX and
in 1856 when the fanatical movement
called Know Nothingism was rampant this
was stolen and destroyed. The
outer surface of the monument is built of
white marble and the interior of granite.
In height the Washington monument ex-
ceeds any structure in the world. The
nearest approach to it is the pyramid of
Cheops, Egypt, which is 5as feet high,
and next is the cathedral Of Cologne the
tip of whose spire is sol above the ground.
The Washington monument will at least
crafty the national Yankee ambition to
possess the "biggest' things in the world
and will doubtless long remain the great
est structure of its kind Aside from this
It is proper emblem of the national re-
gard for the memory of one whose name
will live through all recorded time.
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WEDNESDAY, 18th.

The act to authorize county commits
sioners to make contracts to keep roads in
repair was reported upon favorably. The
house bill to punish prize fighting by two
years. imprisonment was reported upon
favorably. The bill relating to indecent
exposure of the person was killed. A bill
to make the Office of road supervisor an
appointive Office was reported upon favor
ably. A bill to permit the county COM
missioners of Yellowstone county to hold
their next quarterly meeting in April was
passed. House bill to insure the Montana
law library was passed. The house bill
to prevent prize fighting was passed. The
bill to prevent the branding of stock dur
ing certain seasons was reported upon fa-
vorably.
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HOUSE.
FRIDAY, GOTH.

Norton from committee on towns and
counties reported upon house bill 73 to
create the county of Bridger without rec
ommendation. Nichols gave notice of a
bill to amend the act of incorporation of
the town of Bozeman. Page introduced
a bill to prohibit more stringently the sale
of liquors on Sunday and on election day.
The council bill for the relief of ex-pro-
bate judge Martin for moneys expended
in the survey of the town of Big Timber
was referred to select committee consist
ing of the members from Gallatin county.
SATURDAY, 21sT:
Gov. Carpenter sent back the bill re-
quiring county treasurers to report quar-
terly and the vote by which it passed the
house was re-considered and the veto sus-
tanned. The governor also vetoed the bill
relating to fences and the bill relating to
the duties of county clerks and considera-
ton OF these vetoes was postponed. Coun-
Gil amendments to the bill relating to the
Phillipsburg fire department were concur
red in, also in the council amendments to
the bill relating to representation on quartz
lodes. Committee on grazing and stock
growing presented majority and minority
reports on the bill to provide for payment
Of loss of stock killed or injured by rail-
road fires. Consideration postponed.
MONDAY, 23RD.
Several bills were introduced among
which was one amending the charter of
the town Of Bozeman, and it was referred
to select committee consisting Of men,
bers from Gallatin county; also bill to
incorporate the town of Billings, referred
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youx sAyAaE. JOHN II ELDER,
Notary Public. n. +. Lana AGENT
OAyAGE 4 ELDER,
A-roasrvs Ar Law AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Practice In oil the Courts Of the Territory.
Main street.
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Kreidler May BE Beaten.


Washington telegram Goth: The senate
took up the Montana marshalsh,p in secret
session tonight. Senator Cameron Of
Wisconsin moved to lay the matter of in
formation over until Tuesday, in order to
give more time for the examination of the
papers made against Marsha! Botkin. A
vote by acclamation on this motion was
carried overwhelmingly. The Wisconsin
senators are now sorry they did not try to
have the whole matter laid over until after
March 4. Senator Sawyer says that for
the first time he now begins to think Mr..
Kreidler's appointment will bc beaten.
The democrats are opposed on general
principles to putting republicans in Office
just as Cleveland comes IN. It is said the
Wisconsin senators exchanged courtesies
with senator Brown on the nomination of
Emery Speer and secured his support of
Botkin.
On Tuesday afternoon in executive ses-
sion of the senate when Kreidler's case
was reached, Senator Cameron moved to
adjourn and it prevailed so that Kreidler
was not confirmed. Major Maginnis has
convassed all the democratic senator's and
asked them not to vote for Kreidler's con-
frmation so that with Cameron, Sawyer
and Cullom in favor of Botkin the matter
is likely to 60 over till after March 4th.
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Presentiments of Relatives Death.

Inter- Mountain: On the morning that
Mrs. N. j. Mcconnell of Butte died her
sister-in-law, Mrs. George C. Stull, who
was in Bozeman, was greatly distressed by
a prescntiment that Mrs. Mcconnell was
about to die, or was already dead. She
mentioned it to her husband, and while
they were yet talking of it, messenger
boy brought them telegram containing
the sad news of Mrs. Nc Connell's demise.
The circumstance is rendered stranger By
the fact that Mrs. Stull did not know that
Mrs. Mcconnell was even seriously ILL.
Another strange presentiment connected
with Mrs. McConnell's death was that on
the night preceding it her mother, Mrs.
Gillette, who was in Seattle (about a
thousand miles away, dreamed of seeing
the deceased placed IN leaky boat, which
was then turned adrift upon dark shad-
owed river.
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GALItATIN COUNTY.
sberiR-A J. Edsalb B9zeman.
Treasurer-Ed. F, Ferris, BOZeman.
Probate JUDGE s. Hartman. Bozeman:
County Clerk and Recorder-James Gpurley.
Assessor-T. p. Mcdonald Livingston.
County Superintendent of schools-Miss AIDA
NJ Hamilton, Bczeman.
.oroner-R d. Alton, NJ. D.. Livingston.
County commissioners. l.: Holiday, Llv'
ingston; ". II. Tracy, West Gallatln; = Mon
lsrton, East Gallat.n. ~
~ D. Livingston Precinct-R. W.: Hanson, NJ
Consta ,nss-J0hn Winnett, J. Cornwell.
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TUESDAY, 24TII.

A large number Of house bills we're in
troduced and referred. The house hill to
prohibit hunting and shooting in the en-
closures of others without permission was
passed. The substitute for the house bill
relating to notaries public was discussed
in committee of the whole with recon-
mendation that it do pass. 1t provides
that the governor may appoint notaries
public for two years without consent of
the legislature. The bill relating to fees
of jurors in civil cases was passed.
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TERRITORIAL OFFICERS.

Goyernor-B Plat Carpenter, Helena.
aecretsry-John S. To0ker, Helena
Delegate to COngress-Martin Maginnis, Helena.
Audilor-J. p. Woolman, Helena.
Treasurer-D. ii. Weston. Helena.
SUPERINTENDENT Of Public Instruction-Corne-
Eus Hedges Helena.
Attorney -(ieneral--J. A. Johnston, Helena
District Attorney-1st District-H. n. Blake,
bistrict Attorncy-2d Dstrict-w. Y. Pembcr-
~" District Attorney--ad District-J. A. Johnston,
Helena.
Chief Justice--D 8. Wade, Helena
Associate Justice-W. j. Galbraith, Deer Lodge,
n" s. District Attorney. NJ. Dewitt, Butte.
q. s. Marshal-Alex. G. Botkin, Helena
Suryeyor-General-John s. Harris, Helena
Clerk let District COurt-TheO. Muffiy, Virginia
Clerk I'd District Court-R. L. Davis, Deer
Lodge. - .,. ,,o,o,.
Clerk Sd District Court--A. II. Beattie, Helena.
Collector OF Internal Revenue-T I. ruler,
Helena. c, pon-
- 8. Asssyer-R b. Harrison, Helena.
EAsiater OF u. s. Land Office, at Helena-Fran-
y Adkl4son.
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r E. HENDRY,
United STATES Court COMMISSIONER,
Livingston, Montana.
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth Regular
Session.
COUNCIL.
FRIDAY, GOTH.
FRIDAY, GOTH.

Mitchell and Buck were appointed a
committee to consider the gambling bill
Morris, Fergus and Kennedy were appoint
ed committee to inspect the books of the
auditor and treasurer. Council bill relat-
ing to chattel mortgages reported back
from the house with amendments and
amendments adopted. The council bill
for the taxation of telegraph and telephone
lines was unanimously passed. Bill pro-
viding for the record of supreme court
opinions was lost. A bill permitting per-
sons under sentence of death to be re-
proved from time to time by operation of
law until an appeal to the supreme court
can be heard was passed. Council bill to
prevent woman beating was passed. The
bill to create the county of Ravalli was
reported back without Recommendation by
the select committee appointed to consider
it. The house bill reducing the fees of
sheriffs in conducting prisoners to the
penitentiary was passed. The council bill
providing for the incorporation of the
town Of Billings was passed. In commit
tee of the whole the bill to create the
county of Ravalli was considered and de-
feated by vote OF 8 noes to ayes.
SATURDAY, 21sT.
Citizens of Anaconda petitioned for the
of their fire department and
a bill to that end was introduced. Mitch
ell introduced bill, &C, to provide for the
of villages in Montana.
MONDAY, 23RD.
Citizens of Fish creek petitioned for
the suppression of gambling. Several
bills were introduced: one to repeal the
act providing for the election of public
administrators, another to provide for the
of road supervisors. House
bill As was defeated. The bill to create
the county Of Ravalli came up for third
teading and was defeated by nays to
ayes. The council bill to provide for the
and audit of county commits
sioners proceedings was passed; also the
bill authorizing husband or wife to dispose
Of property acquired before marriage
also the bill to enable Choteau county to |
lrquidate its court house debt; also the |
bill relating to concealed weapons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-15
SUPPOSED KIDNAPPING.
Young Cleveland Boy, Heir to SIS, 900, 900,
Stolen by His Mother

CLEVELAND, March 14.--Julus K. Cobb, aged
nine years, the son of Elmer Cobb, and one of
nine heirs to the 50, OOO, 900 left by the grand
father, Ahira Cobb, was stolen from Mrs. DR..
Merrick, last night, and was supposed to have
been taken to New York. Elmer Cobb married
Miss Minnie Goodman in this city, ten years ago,
but after living with her eight months accused
her of nfdelty, got divorce, and then com.
m;tted suicide. Mrs Cobb's child was born
few days after the fathers suicide, and was never
owned by the Cobbs or Gcodmans. The boy
was given to Mrs DR.. Merrick to care for, and
recently the court appointed her guardian. and
warned her never to let the child out OF her
sight Mrs. Minnie Cobb had long since married
a New York dry goods salesman named Peck.
and made FREQUENT trips to this city. to see the
child after the q ath of the elder Cobb Yester-
day. Mrs Peck induced Mrs. DR.. Merrick to let
the boy 60 to the dime museum. and from there,
it is charged Mrs Peck and her a %ha hUs,s
stole the boy and took HIM East me ooys
tate is fully established.
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BURN THESE LETTERS.
The Appeal Made by Rev. J. B. Drysdale to
Mrs. D. e. s. Hudson.

New YORK, March A-Mrs. D. E. S. Hudson
was arraigned to-day charged with swindling
the proprietor of the Coleman House out of $25
for board and lodging. She pleaded mot guilty, "
and declared she had never swindled any person
In Boston, she said, she merely got into debt,
and did not go into bankruptcy, because
she had not the means to do so. She was held
to bail for trial In her rooms were found
trunk full of letters from Rev j. B. Drysdae,
now pastor of church at Williamsburg and
formerly rector of st. Pauls Episcopal Church.
Boston These letters full of endearing
expressions and thanks for money and presents
and requests to burn the letters. He also talks
about consultations with fortune telers and his
troubles in the Boston church Drysdale denies
that she has any claim upon him, whereas she
claims he was on terms Of intimacy with her in
Boston, and had cost her between 5000 and
ST. 600 From the Coleman House she wrote him
for money, and she also wrote about him to as
sistant Bishop Potter.
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exists as local growth, and before the blood
and tissues have received the impression of
a cancerous faint.
The geographical distribution of cancer is
of interest. 1t is disease of middle ATTITUDES
rare in Northern, but common in Central
Europe It is unknown in the Farce islands
and of the $1,000 people of Iceland, the NOR
tality from cancer is but thirty annually
while within the English islands cancer ex-
erts a peculiarly malignant and fatal influence.
Coming at an age in which life should be best
enjoyed, after the diseases of childhood and
youth have been overcome and when the
struggle for station and competency should
be past cancer apparently stands as menace
to those who have violated no sanitary laws,
and who should, in the ordinary expectation,
pass on into serene and comfortable old age.
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rHE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, sUNDA

mercy of the architects, whose aim is to
make every dwelling unlike every other, and
especially more bizarre whimsical and ex-
travagant, if possible, than the one they just
designed for rivals ON the same or adjacent
streets What cannot be made to appear on
the house flows over to the out-houses and
stables.
Within the last four years people have laid
out millions Of dollars in dwellings, which,
within generation, will be eyesores, and
must be torn down or remodeled. In public
buildings these half taught architects achieve
architectural effects by piling up combustible
eimcracks on inaccessible roofs and cornices
Some of these failures cost life and treasure
Children mangled and dead under church
floors, holocausts in orphan and insane asy-
lums whole towns fre-swept because there is
no adjustment of heating and water-supply
apparatus to the needs Of the buildings are
some Of the results.
A true artist, whether painter, sculptor or
architect, will not listen to the demands or
suggestions of patrons, but will abide by the
principles of his art, and produce only that
which will grow more beautiful and valuable
as time goes on. 1t is the sham architect,
working for shoddy patrons and conforming
to the petty and passing notions of the present,
ignoring the eternal laws Of beauty and sym
metry, who is mainly responsible for the
present fantastic and barbarian structures
Public buildings, dwellings and stores do
not ELL the bill when they fill up the space
and are simply convenient They must satisfy
the growing desire for beauty of proportion,
fitness of material, surroundings. adjustment
of parts and Legitimacy of decoration.
The architect of dwelling houses should
not only be well grounded in the principles of
architecture as science, and in its historical
development as an art but he should also
have good practical common sense and will
that will not yield to the passing and present
whim. Only such are fit to apply facts and
principles to meet the various demands of
practical construction on the one hand and
satisfy the love of beauty on the other.
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A REFORM SPECIMEN BRICK.
The Sort of Man German Has Imposed Upon
Secretary Manning.

BALTIMORE. March Ex-senator German has
never pretended to be a reformer Of the civil
service any other stripe, and it is entirely in
consonance with his political methods that he
should have made the first use of the vast power
which he possesses in the Cleveland admins
tration to secure such soft place as chief Of the
appointment division of the Treasury Depart
ment for his very faithful and able ser, ast, Mr..
Eugene Higgins. But to the Democrats and
everybody else who has put faith in the reform
tendencies of the new regime, it seems to be
rather an unfair thing that Mr.. German
should have misled into the appointment
of Mr. Higgins the Cabinet officer
who is most closely allied to the new President
1t may be taken for granted that the selection of
Mr. Higgins for the position could not have been
possible if Secretary Manning had any personal
knowledge of the gentleman who has been thrust
upon him by party manager whom he had
right to suppose would not cast any dscredit
upon him by the distribution of the appoint
ments awarded to him.
Mr.. Higgins might be variously described as
sporting man with Office holding ambitions or as
politician with sporting affiliations. In Office
he is most of politician; out of it he is believed
to have always made fair living by profession
over which the law throws no protection. When
Mr.. German began to WELD a master
hand in the Maryland Democratic ring, four
teen years ago; he took Higgins into his service,
placed him in the Baltimore City Council.
and afterwards made him secretary of the State
Senate. He could not have had useful
man in the crooked processes by which he has
assembled to his present eminence. MIR. Higgins
is suave plausible, inscriptions, and there have
been none of the unclean party jobs executed
here within the past ten years in which he has
not had some participation. The id-gloved
elements of the Democracy speak very bitterly
of the appointment, but Mr.. German discounted
all that kind of criticism before he made it. OF
course Secretary Manning may resent being i'm
posed upon but again, Mr.. German is too strong
with Mr.. Cleveland not to override this little OBJ
stace.
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TOWN ARnHITECTuR.E.

Most Western cities have been rebuilt two
Or three times within fifty years. There has
been the log house and shanty stage, then
frame buildings of pine, which gave way in
.iturn to blocks Of iron, brick and stone. The
same with bridge building-frst wood, then
iron and steel. Most of the work done has
been provisional and temporary Our State
capital has worn out one State house, court
house and Union Depot, besides numerous
school and church buildings. The. principal
business streets have been three times rebuilt.
Lateral ard rear extension is, of course, linn
tied by the size of lots. The elevator has
made the upward growth of buildings limited
only by the strength of material. The eleva-
tor has also done away with anything like
harmony in the appearance of street fronts.
Two-story and six story fronts stand side by
side. But the most noticeable feature Of
Western town architecture is that it is q
thing Of fashion, quite as much as dress or
carriage equipage. Three or four styles of
OuolnSSo lIolllS AIdJ NC oecu III every lOWu
thirty or forty years old, and in building
dwellings citizens are as servile as in buying
hats. The same uniformity is seen in the
styles of fencing, porch building and house
painting. The tendency now is to ''paint it
red" From the crisis of 1873 until the re-
vival of industry which came with dollar
wheat and lots Of it, there was no building or
repairing. When rents rose to figure which
compelled house building the old square, two
story, dry goods-box style was abandoned, and
the one-story cottage, with fringed and scol-,
loped edges came into vogue. Many of these
are very simple, tasty and durable A
twelve hundred dollar cottage on a six hun
dred dollar lot, renting at from twelve to six
teen dollars month, is good investment,
and where built conveniently and in good
taste is always in good demand, whether the
times be easy or money stringent Few
Western cities have enough of them.
For the worst evils Of city building, as well
as for most Of the excellent features, we have
to thank the architects. People who acquire
wealth rapidly rarely expend it with good
taste and judgment. They are totally at the