The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-03-31
Whole No. los
THE WEEK.


About 1000 cloak makers are on
strike in New York.
The President has nominated Mark D.
Baldwin, of Ohio, to be agent 9f the
BIackfeet Indians IN Montana. !
A lady whose home is in Duluth, "the
city of the unsalted sea" has ordered in
New York loose Russian sable sacque
that will cost $4,000. -
Congressman Pulitzer has sent his first
years salary of s., 900 to the New York
hospital to be used in endowing per-
manent bed for sick and disabled news
paper men. .---..-s11i.or n
We pay China So, ,0O0000 a years i'm coin
on the balance of trade, and there is a
balance of immigration against us Of
over 10000, who send home in coin all
they make here. = ..r.. .sf,a.-
In response to the Senate resolution
the Postmaster General informed that
body that the total number of removals
of fourth class postmasters, from March
I 4, 1885, to March, 1886, was 1854.
Ang Tia Duck, the Chinese servant
who murdered Mr.. and Mrs Wickers-
ham at Cloverdale, California, and then
fed. has Fast been arrested at Hong
Kong and will be brought back to this
country.
Gladstone referring to the announce
ment made in his, behalf, Thursday, by
Sir William Vernon -Harccurt, Glad
stone said the statement he would make,
April 9Th, would take the form OF an in
troduction of bill for the future govern
ment of Ireland. The announcement
produced sensation.
In the suit of the Chimes expelled from
Eureka, Gala, to recover $57 900 damage
to property an $4,000 for theloss of their
business, Judge Sawyer, in the United
States circuit court granted motion to
strike ont the latter claim. This practi-
cally ends the suits, as no property was
injured by the expulsion.
The new postal law recently put into
force by the postoffice department. makes
the taking of a newspaper and refusing
to pay for the same a theft, and anybody
guilty of such an action is liable TO GRIM
'inal proceedings the same as ifhe had
stolen goods to the. amount of the sub
scription Hereafter it will not be con-
sidered very shrewd scheme to take
newspaper for year and then inform
the publisher that you never ordered it.
Reports from cattle, Wash, SNOW a
gloomy state of affairs. Industries are
disorganized Five Of the seven coal
mines have been shut up for three weeks
by strike, and another is expected to
close tomorrow il the proprietors do
not yield to the miners seamen are
striking for al advance, ,of$5 pei month,
demanding $35 in the rcoastwiae trade,
and loDgshoremen are calling for $4 and
IS day. Trouble is threatened by the
latter at Tacoma. and the. mayor has
issued proclamation warning rioters to
deslst. s8
The Indians who were ordered by
Agent Williamson to move from their
reservation TO the east Of Prior, near
Billings, are setting the order in open
defiance, and say they will stay on
Clarke's even If they don't get anv
rations. 1t is just learned that the Indi-
ans have set fire torthe prairIet grass on
Blue creek, Elbow creek, Rock creek and
at various points along Clarke's fork.
Their object is TO drive off the thous-
ands Of cattle that range along there.
The fire has spread rapidly and is doing
much damage n the settlements up
Rock and Red Lodge creek and may
destroy q lot Of sheep up there A mum.
Der of Indians have settled ON Rock
creek and along Clarke's fork and are
proving terrible nuisance tbf the white
settlers Just outside ofthe reservation.