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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-10-23
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
THE WEEKS HAPS AND MIsKAPs
AROUND TOWN.

Our local market is well supplied
with fine apples.
II. c. Lind, Esq, has been in at
tendance upon Federal Court in
Nashville this week.
DIR. J. H. Snodgrass and w. M.
Bailey, of Sparta, were in McMinn-
vile one day last week.
The construction train has been
at work along the line of our railroad
the present week.
MIR. Robt. Quarles, of Nashville,
is on a visit to Mr.. G. w. Hooden-
pyl's family.
The roof of the new Methodist
church is being covered with CORFU
gated galvanized iron shingle.
Remember the G. P. Church en-
tertainment at DR.. Blacks tonight
(Friday). Admission at the door, 10
cents. Refreshments usual price.
Hon. A. H. Pettibone, who had
an appointment to speak here last
Monday, failed to gethere from some
cause.
Mr.. Crawford McClarty, of New
York, spent several days of the last
week with his brothers. family at this
place.
Judge Smallman and Attorney.
General Whitson left last Monday
morning for Lynchburg, to hold the
Circuit Court of Moore county. They
returned today (Friday).
The members of the Democratic
Executive Committee in every civil
district should see to it that their dis
tricts are well supplied with election
tickets of the proper kind.
Mr.. ID. O. Jenkins is occupying
Mrs. Bakers residence, on Spring
Street, instead of that of Mr.. Walling
on Locust Street, as we inadvertently
stated last week.
Mrs. Caddie Roberts, of Bedford
county, and her three children, came
up Monday to spend a month will
Mrs. RS parents, Mr.. and Mrs, w
G. Britain.
"A new depot is to be built at Tul
lahoma, just opposite the present de
pot. The new structure will be o
brick, and will be for passenger
only. The present depot will be usec
for freight.
Mr.. M. B. Owen and Miss Emm;
Johnson were married at the M. E
Church in Tullahoma on Wednesda,
night, the Rev. Mr.. McNeal officiat
ing. The bride and groom returne,
to McMinnville on the noon trail
Thursday. The STANDARD wishe
them both much joy in the new rela
tions they have assumed.
The attention Of capitalists an
mill men is again called to the sale {
the Annis Cotton Mills, the Falco
FIGURING Mills, and other propert
of Hon. Asa faulkner, decd, advel
tised in the STANDARD. The sal
will take place on the I'd of Noven
Der, and offers fine opportunity fC
good investment.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-10-23

Country merchants, and all deal
ers in coal oils, in this and adjoining
counties, will find it to their interest
to buy their oil of j. b. Ritchey.
A full line of Choice Chewing
Tobacco at Cummins'.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-10-23
High Grade"

Messrs. Lord & Thomas, the well
known Newspaper Advertising firm
of Chicago, have just issued in very
neat pamphlet form, list, of 1882
of the best country papers, the STAN
DARD included. This list they have
very appropriately named "Our High
Grade List" Advertisers who wish
to cover any section at a moderate
outlay should send for this list.
Messrs. Lord & Thomas are one of
the leading firms in the country in
their line, and have the largest Office
on the continent. We take pleasure
in speaking a good word for them.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
Horse-3reaking.

A correspondent in the Yellowstone
Journal, says: A great deal more
care is spent nowadays on horse
n g to the manner in which horses
are broken and the benefit, both to
the horse and to his future owner, is
very apparent. It has been a habit
on horse ranges during past times
land in fact is not discontinued now
TO catch a young horse out OF a band,
put q saddle on him ito do which it
was probably necessary to throw HIM
and then let some good rider, kept on
hand for the purpose, ride him until
he was completely given out, after
which the animal was unsaddled and
turned loose. He was given a sue
cession of these rides and, of course
in due time would become SO worn
out as to be unable to resist, when he
was considered broken and turned
loose or sold as a gentle horse. The
| consequence was that after any leng
thy rest the animal was just as bad, i
not worse than he had been at frs
and if he did not happen to fall int
the hands Of some careful man. prob
ably became a spoilt horse. Many Of
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
The Cnur d'Alene Mines.

The New York Tribune says: A. NJ.
Cameron the banker OF Spokane Falls
is presenting to the Northern Pacific
Managers a plan for two feeders" to
tap that line at his town. One line IS
to go southwark into the Palouse
River region and the other southwest
into the grazing lands. No road has
vet been built into the Cnur d'A1ene
gold fields but several routes have
been surveyed. Hopkins IS n OF
the heaviest investors In that region,
and more gold and silver are being
taken out every month, but it has got
to be an old story now. Harrington,
President Of the Bank at Helena, was
on the train with me the other day
when he said more gold came into
his bank now from the Ceur d'Alene
region than from all the rest OF that
section combined"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
UPPER MISSOURI NAVIGATION.
A Steamboat Being Built to Navigate
the Upper Missouri above
Great Falls.

Isonf Preuitt, the merchant and post
master of our neighboring town Of Bed
ford, some time since received inquiries
from parties at Twin Bridges, Madison
county, as to the width between the piers
of the railroad bridge spanning the Mis-
souri, between our towns. Mir. Preuitt
replied to the inquiries, and has since
been Informed by the parties that they
had under construction at Twin Bridges
a steamboat, to be completed by thet time
the ice clears from the upper rivers, to
ply between our bridge and Great Falls.
| The boat is to be a 90 #. beam, with a
capacity of IS tons, and will be brought
down and receive its machinery here,
and will proceed to business without any
material delay after the ice is out. The
parties in this undertaking are represent
ed Us responsible, and to thoroughly under
stand steamboat navigation and the char
| acter of the stream their craft will have
to contend with, and wessmay therefore
soon expect to regularly hear the shrill
| scream of the steamboat mingle with that
of the iron horse upon the Northern Pa
citic.@Tranchant.
1t never rains, but it pours, is an old
adage, but true. With the almost certain
advent of a railroad the present year,
Northern Montana, and particularly Great
Falls is evidently approaching a very
| prosperous period of its existence. As to
the feasibility of the above enterprise,
| those acquainted with the upper Missou
ri will not question. The only bad piece
of river is at the Half Breed rapids above
Gorham formerly know as Ulidia) and
what obstacle they will offer to a boat of
the above dimension, draught and power
We are unable to say. Below these rapids
to Great Falls, a distance of fifty miles, is
| the best piece of navigaLle river on the
continent, and SO pronounced by expert
enced boatmen, and also by tho govern
ment engineers. Along this stretch of fifty
milse are some of the most fertile lands in
Montana; capable of producing millions
of bushels of grain annually. An enter
prise of this kind will place Great Falls
in direct communication with the best
portion of the Territory, and besides, will
afford the many promising points along
the upper Missouri river cheap transpor-
ta.ion for their products to this, the great
manufacturing and milling center of
Montana. The proposed Montana Central
railroad, which will undoubtedly follow
the general course of the river for some
distance, will o interfere with this en-
terprise to any great extent, and should
not be allowed to offer any hinderance to
its furtherance. We hope to hear the
whistle of this craft not later than April
IS, and will assure its proprietors that the
people of Northern Montana, and more
particularly those of Great Falls will vel
Ecoue its coming, and besides will aid the
enterprise in 4 substantial manner.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
NIGHTLY EXERCISED.
Fort Benton Not Understanding Why
She is Left Out.

1t seems to be a decided fact now that a
railroad will be built from Helena to
Northern Montana the present season, and
that work on the same will begin as soon
as spring opens. The surveyors are al
ready in the field and will continue oper-
ations until the line is located. We un-
derst.nd on good authority that the line
is to be built by a company Independent
of both the Northern and Union Pacific
roads, except so far as traffic arrange
ments with one or both of these roads
may be made. The company that has
taken the important work in hand Is
amply able to build, equip and operate
the line without other assistance. The in
dependence of the lire of the other great
corporations mentioned is an important
matter and will make it desirable, if not
absolutely necessary, that they should tap
the great Missouri river at the hcad OF
navigation. SO as to secur an eastern out
let independent of any other railroad, and
an outlet that will give to Montana the
lowest possible transportation rates.
Railroad tariffs will never touch bed
rock in Montana until an independent or
competitive line taps the mighty Missouri
at Fort Benton-Press.
Benton, evidently, is nightly exercis
ed over this railroad enterprise which APP
pears certain t o penetrate Northern Mon
tana the present year, and which does not
even mention the river metropolis as a
point on its line. Heretofore every rail
road scheme projected fortllis part CT the
Territory, has designated Fort Benton as
its objective point, and a revision of the
old order of things, and the substitution
of Great Falls for Fort Benton, as an OBJ
~jective or terminal point, has broke them
all up. Possibly if the Benton people
would put on their thinking caps and call
up to memory the events of tho few past
years they might tumble to the fact thai
possibly an evening up" scheme is being
worked for their benefit. 1t does not ap.
pear to us that it is absolutely necessary
that the Montana Central should build tc
Benton the present year. A branch line
from Great Falls will undoubtedly be
built via Benton to the country beyond il
| due season. Benton has a corner on the
| Calf road and should be content.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
Alaska's Wealth.

Reese River Reville: The popula-
ton of Alaska is given as 5,627 whites
and about 2s,UUo natives. It is rainy
or cloudy there about two thirds of
the time. The Alaskan, published at
Sitka, the copy Of November 21st of
which is before us; claims the climate
is better there than in Michigan,
where ice was an inch thick and trans
were blockaded by snow, while in
Alaska it had not been cold enough to
injure vegetation and no snow had
fallen. The great Treadwell mill,
owned by Senator Jones, ". S. Ho-
bart, j. D. Fry and three others, pro-
duced S71.0W from September 18th
to October 18th, and the company had
just purchased an adjoining claim for
$4,000 cash. They have the biggest
mining property on the face of the
earth to-day. While in San Francis
co recently We met a scientific gentle
man who had spent several months
there, and he asserts that there is now
ore enough in sight to keep the 12(
stamp mill going for a hundred years
There is really no limit to it, and {
dozen mills of equal size could easily
be kept going. It begins to seem tina
we little understand our most north
ern province and it is very possible
Secretary Seward did not do SO BAG
when he bought it for 100000.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
Important Decision.

In the case of the Montana National
Bank VS.. S. G. Fitzpatrick, brought to re-
cover the property attached by the credit
ors of Geo. Steele at Sun River, the Dis
trict Court yesterday rendered a decision
in favor of the Bank.
So ends for the present at least, a
suit which seriously effect either di-
rectly or indirectly a large number of
people throughout the Sun river
country. 1t grew out of the failure
of the firm Of George Steel & Co, Of
Sun River Crossing, a little more than
one year ago. A plain statement of
facts concerning the affair may not
prove interesting. The firm mortgagg-
ed their effects to the bank, which in
strument they (the bank failed to put
on record until an attachment was
gotten or being gotten out against
the firm by an unsecured creditor,
and placed in the hands Of the then
sheriff, S. c. Fitzpatrick, for service.
The bank Immediately dispatched an
agent to Sun River, who had about
two hours the start Of the officer.
They both arrived in Sun River Sun
day evening, but the sheriff had nc
power to levy on the goods until II m.
at which time the firm turned ovel
-,
the keys of the establishment to tbs
banks representative. The sheriff
served his attachments, and the prop
erty was %replevined by the bank. Suit
was commenced by the attaches
whose claims aggregated seyera
thousand dollars, to have the bank.
mort gage set aside, on the ground:
that it was invalid because not put OF
record, with the above result. NJ
matter what the general opinion i
regarding its validity or invalidity
the matter is irreyocably settled
unless carried to a higher court b.
the defendant.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
Cinnamon Entitled to Land.

San Francisco dispatch, 9th: Uni
ted States Commissioner Sawyer, be-
fore whom the case of the President
and Secretary of the Sam Yup Chi
9 Company were heard, has decid-
ed that they were entitled to land.
Both men were arrested on complaint
of Collector Hager, who charged them
with being illegally in the United
States. They came here on certifi-
Gates issued by the Chinese COUNSEL
at Yokohama, and Endorsed by the
United States Consul at that port.
The rulings of the Treasury Depart
ment are used to prove their right to
land.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
To the Monument,

The selr-styled majority of the board of
commits toner's has again slobbered' over,
and made as big an ass of himself as is
possible for him to do in a four column
article. Not content with hurting this
verbose and unintelligent conglomeration
at the defencelsss public, he threatens to
repeat the dose at short intervals.
We are surprised that the Calumet, the
democratic champion, would allow it to
| appear in its columns, knowing, as it
must, the effect it will have on the party,
and moreover, under its disguised and
misleading headlines. 1t is as far from
being what its title implies as is possible
to ~imaginge. It is simply q dirty, sour
| rilous and disgusting attack upon a private
citizen, and one of the main supports OF
the party which he (the author) alleges to
be amember(: y and a s~elf-laudation upon
his purity.
We would like to ask this self-named
monument of unsullied purity what in
f1uenced his action regarding the Bulls
Head road? True he spread upon the
records Il labored attempt to explain his
mysterious actions. And what was it:
One of the most comical official docu-
ments extant. 1t was an effort to keep as
far away fIurr the TRUTH as raS possible
for a weak mind to conceive. 1T was q
gross exaggeration. A vile vilitication Of
indisputablc facts. And was melted, to
all appearances, by petty malice and pref
udice. This matter alone knocks all his
boosted purity into smithereens. He
should remember that self-praise don't
count, and that the world looks with sus,
picion upon a nan that toots his W
horn. In this case if desires to know
how cordially he is despised, let him al
low his name to go before the people as
a candidate for office.
Also we should like to have him ex-
plain the why and wherefore of his posi-
ton in the little ms-too affair.
So far as the special school tax matter
is concerned, he is enlightening no one.
Every tax payer in Choteau county knows
he has been imposed upon in this regard,
and also just how it was done, and the
majority knows that such is the. His idea
in touching this old sore was to use it to
gain sympathy in the first place, and then
to use it as ii subterfuge or cloak under
which to grind out his w praise. 1t
shows on its face that such were his in
tentions.
Now, in regard to the dirty fling at the
TRIBUNE, it is not worth mentioning.
All that is necessary is to consider the
source from which it eminated.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
Cattle Losses in the Southwest.

The storm which recently swept ov-
81 Texas, continuing for about a week
is without parallel in the history OF
Texas in its extent, severity and du-
ration. Intelligence from the cattle
regions of the state is Of the glooml-
est and most depressing character
The loss in cattle will be great, and
cannot be approximately estimated
until the full extent Of the damage
inflicted by the intense cold upon the
stock interests is fully known. From
the west and southwest news is re-
ceiyed that cattle are drifting against
the fences and are rapidly dying from
tho cold, and that the loss will be I'M
usally heavy. From Batesville in the
northwest the news comes that cattle
are dying by the hundreds from. the
cold. The ~carcasses, it is stated can
be seen far and near, strewlng the
barren pralrles, and the loss Will DC
enormous, no provision having been
made for the care of cattle in those
bleak districts, which are devoid OF
everything except the grass. The loss
to the cattle industry in the Pan Han
die will also be very great, although
no reliable reports have boon recelv'
ed from that remote district. All wa
ter pools and streams throughout the
heavy cattle-growing district of the
state are frozen over hard. The death
rate among stock from cold will reach
frightful proportions and entails ;
| loss of millions.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
Governor Hauser's Silver Dollars.

New York Tribune: Gov. S. Z.
Hauser, of Montana, is another silver
advocate who has been in New York
for some time. He is president of a
national bank and has business con-
necfions. with several New York banks.
I am told he had a balance due him
at one OF the banks here amounting
to a hundred dollars. He had been
talking silver doctrine IN the bank on
several occasions. He was in there
on Saturday afternoon a week ago.
just about the time the bank closed,
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06

and said he would be back in a short
time. When he returned the bank
was closed, and a cigar box, marked
with his name, stood on the cashiers
desk.
whats this?" asked the Governor.
1T is that hundred dollars we owe
you,' was the reply.
The Governor picked up the box
and found that it contained silver dol
lars. He offered them for deposit,
only to have the cashier tell him, with
a laugh, that banking hours We're over.
Then he pluckily picked up the
load and walked off with it. He told
the bank men afterwards that he had
paid the silver on his board bill, and
found that silver was still good cur
rency in spite Of the New York banks.
AS the Governor is a millionaire, the
reply he got was in the nature of a
joke:
'They were probably glad to get
even eighty sents on the dollar for
your board bill said the cashier.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
The General Opinion.

The following letter received by the
last mail is appreciated by the publisher
even if it does not prove interesting tothe
reader. The fact that tho gentleman is
particularly fond of coffee, adds weight to
his testimony iii favor of the TRIBUNE:
MINSEAroIIs, Jan. 20.
MIR. HANKS, S1R.-Have not received
The TRIBUNE for two weeks. II you have
any spare copies please send them. l had
as soon go w%ithout:my coffee for breakfast
as to go without your paper. Want to
get the news from Montana.
S. s. WHITTIER
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
No shoel for Newspaper Men.

Glenaive Times: We don't believe
that there is any hell for a man who
has run a country newspaper fer i've
years. He should be exempt on the
ground that he has had sufficient pun
ishment in this terrestrial sphere to
cleanse him from all impurities A
printers heaven would be a place
whore the legend cash in advance is
strictly adhered to, or where the peo-
pie generally did not carry the idea
that a newspaper can be run without
money.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06

our horsemen nowadays are resort
ing to the eastern method of breaking
their horses. and of course With the
very best results. A colt IS caught
up and handled every day by an ex-
perienced man and is taught by
degrees what is expected of him, and
is put in harness before ever a saddle
is put on his back. After having
been used in harness for a reasonable
length Of time be becomes used to be-
ing handled and is, as. rule little or no
trouble to ride and the great advan-
tage of this quiet method of breaking
horses is that it does not entail SO
many spoiled and vicious animals.
A great many of our horse breeders
are depending almost entirely on the
eastern markets to find sale for the
horses raised by them, and an unbro-
ken horse in the east will not COM
mand comparatively ~speahing) one
half the money which a gentle one
will bring. It does not entail much
expense to break a. horse and it is
much less expensive in the long run
to accomplish this feat thoroughly,
than to be content with half doing it,
and when the value of a broncho, or
what is as bad as a half-broken horse,
is compared with hat of a gentle
animal it can but be admitted to be a
matter worth being careful about.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06

The 'lmajority" should twist the lions
tail again, and then hunt some quiet and
sequstered spot far beyond the pale of
civilization and take a vacation. The
confiding but unprotected public would
be thankful for q short respit from the
wearisome ~exertlon of reading SO much
to learn so little.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06

Chestnut cowmsn were on the range
last week gathering beef cattle to supply
the Helena market. We learn over one
hundred head in good marketable condi-
ton were disposed of at prices ranging
from SIS to $40 a head in advance of that
realized in the Chicago market at any
time during the past season. No doubt
1t sounds queer to u Eastern readers te
talk about gatheriag fat beef aattAe off tbs
range In the latter port OF January. I
should also be taken into considerable:
.ha. during tho fall all the best cattle
we're "cut out" from these same herds
and marketed in Chicago.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06

The River Press In a recent Issue de.
votes considerable space to booming the
Whoop Up coal field in the Northwest
Territory. II strikes us quite fereihly
that the Press might better devote It's
booming energies to the development of
the resources within the bounds
of our own Territory, which will stand
considerable of it. So far as the relative
difference in quality Of the Sand Coulee
and Whoop Up coal, VI have the testi.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06
A Chunk of Cold Comfort

Mr.. Paris Gibson arrived from Great
Falls today. A representative of the River
Press called upon him to get some infor-
nation regarding the proposed railroad
extension to Northern Montana. Mr. Glib
son said that is what he came ownto find
out about.-Press.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06

The item concerning the change OF
name of the Ulidia ~postoffice to that OF
Gorham, which has been floating around
for some time, is getting just a little stale.
We notice that it is making its second
round in some of our exchanges.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-06

In the district court at Shreveport,
La, the damage suit of Capt. A. c.
Ketchum for his 0 Fred against the
Texas Il Pacific railway for $4,000,
for the loss of an arm, with interest
and costs, was decided in fayer of tho
boy. the full amount being allowed
by the jury.