St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-03
Fight Between Jim Hills Montana Gem
trail and the Helena & Red Noun
tain Railroad.
New Roads to Butte and a Through Con
nection Between st. Paul and
That City.
Maj. Maginnis Explains Why the
President Vetoed HIPS Manitoba
Right Of Way Scheme.
The Indian Reservation Commission
--Sparks to be SqueIched--Ter-
rftorial Politics.
Special to the Globe.

LnlckeneQ. Inc Montana central, by It's
chief engineer. Gen. Dodge, has enjoined
the Helena Il Red Mountain from building
over its right of way or crossing the same,
and G. A. Broadwater, president of the
Montana Central, and the able coadjutor
of j. j. Hill of ST Paul, has enjoined the
said Helena & Red Mountain company from
interfering with his private property at the
Hot Springs or Ten-Mile Greek. While the
injunction proceedings were pending the
Helena q Red Mountain company procured
from the same court Judge Wade, sitting in
chambers the appointment of board of
commissioners to condemn the right of way
through these and other disputed premises,
and the commission is now assiduously at
work. In the meantime the Helena 81 Red
Mountain railway is rushing its grade over
the undisputed ground to Remini. There
will be no delay in the work and within the
specified ninety days the Helena d Red
Noun ain company will be running trains
to its objective point.
THROUGH TRAINS TO BUTTE.
! The Northern Pacific has already begun
running through trains to Butte, the gauge
of the Utah & Northern having been
changed from narrow to standard On the
| 18th of August the Montana Union, a COM
pany organized with equal representation
| on the part of the Union Pacific and the
Northern Pacific; will begin to operate the
line from Helena to Butte on such sched-
ule as will give Butte and st. Paul direct
| through connection. Instead of requiring
two days to make the trip from Helena to
Butte and return. as is now the case, the
new schedule will enable a passenger to
leave Helena in the morning and return the
same evening. The trip has heretofore re-
| quired a whole day either way. Now it
can be made in good season. This will
attract others of Butte's wealthy men to
the capital for permanent residence.
Samuel Wards fine residence here will
| doubtless soon be supplemented by Others
built by w. A. Clark and perhaps others of
Butte's millionaires, who do not find the
Great Camp congenial for place of resi-
dence.
ROADS REACHING OUT FOR BUTTE.
But the Great Camp and Helena are
destined to be even more closely allied. G.
A. Broadwater, president of the Montana
Central, pledges himself to deliver coal and
coke to Butte in eighteen months.
and Gov. Hauser. in connection with
the Northern Pacific, promises to push
the Wickes branch, from jefferson up the
Boulder river within an easy stage of Butte
this season. While Maj. Rogers. the hero
of the Kicking Horse pass find. of the Can
adam Pacific. with corps Of fifteen engi-
neers and line men, is looking Up line for
the Central from Remini to Butte. Gov.
Hauser's engineers are already in the field.
headed from jefferson on the Wickes branch
in the direction of Butte. There is no
question but that both of these lines will
eventually penetate the great silver camp.
will ri mir lie
tricts OH the way, as there are vast ore bod
les in the pathway of each. The finger of
fate points to the reflection of the history OF
Colorado in the railway development of this
territory. AS the railroads reach out into
our great mineral belt, rich results follow
Immediately.
A COLLATERAL ISSUE
to railway development in Montana is the
recent appointment of the commission to
negotiate the reduction of the reservation
in Montana and elsewhere Since the pres
ident's veto of the right of way bill. provid-
ing for the connection of the Manitoba and
the Montana Central through the Blackfoot
reservation north of the Missouri, and the
connection of these with the Canadian
Pacific by the Montana Northern, the only
hope is in this commission. Our citizens
are highly gratifed with its constituent ele-
mentS, as they are all progressive men.
Bishop Whipple is at the head of this COM
mission. He is well-known in this territory
as great friend of the Indian but a pro-
gressionist of the most advanced type.
Once sure that the red man is to secure the
value of his land he will favor opening up
the reservation to railway development,
just the same as Senator Dawes. Mr.. Lar
ribee. although he is connected with the
Indian department, is well advised as to
the needs of this territory, from service in
the army on our frontier Of MIR. White of
Tennessee, the third member of this COM
mission, all that is known of him is that he
is progressionist. On the whole. no better
selections could have been made by Secre-
tary Lamar outside the territory.
SPARKS RETURNS TO MONTANA.
The commissioner of the land office is
not more popular here than he is in Da-
kota. Everybody is inclined to give him
credit for his consclentiOuSness but there is
general inclination to classify
him among the cranks. His timber cutting
order, while he may have meant well, if
rgidly enforced, could but have resulted
in retarding the development of the terri
tory and the working of great hardships
upon the people of Montana. But, thanks
to the efforts of Gov. Hauser of Montana,
Stevenson of Idaho and Delegates Toole
and Haley of these respective territories,
and other potent. influence. Secretary La
mar has been looking into the matter. and
promises to modify Sparks rulings on his
own responsibility. This is most graft
flying assurance from high authority.
MAI. MAGINNIs HAS RETURNED
and he explains how the president came to
x,otr fha iUtl t-rf- \ l.
says that an eminent philanthropist of Bos-
ton got hold of one of the executive ears,
and a new York administration editor las
sumed to be Pulitzer of the World the
other and dinned Indian rights and wrongs
into him until they had secured the Veto
The argument is that Gibson, the presi-
dent of the National Park syndicate, and the
original hacker of Pulitzer of the World,
accomplished this in the interest of the
Northern Pacific company. This Is sup
posed to be the interest invoked by the rival
line, alluded to by the gallant major of the
First Minnesota, who is an influence in our
territorial affairs and has been for the last
thirteen years.
AS TO POLITICS
the pot has not yet begun to simmer even
to say nothing of boiling. The Democrats
have called their convention for the oath of
August. The Republicans have not suffi-
GENTLY rallied from the unreasonable shock
to call their convention together. 1t is I'M
derstood that Delegate Toree is in the
hands of his friends: that he may covet,
but doesn't count the Endorsement of a
denomination: that he will enter no
convention to secure it. Major Ma
ginnis. On the other hand, is not
candidate. w. A. Clarke of Butte
doesn't want it. and W. B. Dickson of the
same city will not work for it. For the
other side, as before stated. Col. Sanders is
the most likely candidate, and he has gone
to San Francisco as the territorial delegate