The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-28

Jean Louis Legare resident OF the
Wood Mountain district, n. w. T. wants
Uncle Sam to pay him s1S,432 for
services rendered in procuring the sur
render of Sitting Bull.
Cattlemen in the dry district Of Chot-
eau comfy, will eadeavor to ship all
their beeyes, including three. yeAr-olds
and dry cows, this season.
Major A. Grover was nominated by
the President to be register of the Miles
City land office Major Grover served
four years in the rebellion as captain
and was afterwards major of company
OF Main volunteers, and is brother OF
L. F. Grover. prominent citizen OF
Portland Oregon. His friends have no
doubt but that tie senate will ratify his
nomination. This nomination is made
to fill the vacancy oceasioned by the re-
signation of Washington Berry, who re-
turns to his old home in San Francisco.
Dry, warm seasons like the present are
much better for grain than cold, wet ones
If farmers do their duty. The Montana
farmer who sits down and waits for rain
will find himslf sadly left, and he who
lolters around and grumbles or trys to
find an excuse for his own short COM
ings, in saying the weather has been too
dry. is a poor sample of Montana
farmer. In our estimation he is not
worthy of the proud title. The chief
advantage which Montana possesses over
the states. lies In the independence OF
our farmers OF the tickle and uncertain
skies in their ability to make 1t seasonal
Bile, whether it rains upon the just or the
unjust alike, or visits all with a drouth.
-Husbandman.
The only sure way OF making the stock
business in Montana permanent is for
growers to possess themselves of all the
land possible. 1t has not yet become
absolutely necessary to fence, The
simple owning of water rights, water
fronts ana meadow lands affords all the
protection needed at present. But fve
wears hence it will be necessary to fence
extensively. 1t would be far better now
to fence ranges for winter. The difference
between the growth of grass on the COM
mons in our fields shows at a glance that
the drouth is not the only thing that
affects the range, The drouth has It's
influence, but the chief cause is the pre-
sence of stock, and the only way to have
fresh, new ranges for winter is to buy
the land and feuc it.-Husbandman.
The St. Louis Glob e-Democrat pub
lisnes the following special from Topeka,
Kan, dated July 18th: "The Montana,
Syracuse & Texas railway company filed
its charter yesterday with the secretary
of state. The charter includes telegraph
lines in connection Herewith, commence
ing at Miles City, NJ. I. and running
south through Montana ter ory, Wyo-
ming territory, Dakota territory, through
Sioux, Cheyenne, Keith, Chase and
Dundy counties in Nebraska, and Chey-
enne. Sherman, Wallace, Greeley, Hamil-
ton and Morton counties in the state OF
Kansas and through the country known
as "Public Land or mo Mans Land"
and through the state Ct Texas to the
city of Galveston. The estimated length
of this line is 1900 miles. The Drin-
cipal places Of business will be at SYRIA
cuse, Kan. The road will be a standard
guage. There are seventeen directors, all
Kansas men, and they have placed the
amount of capital stock at $20,000,000.'