The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-09-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


at Oakland Trotting park in California {
Monday last, taking the first, fourth an
ar fifth heats. Stamboul took the secon
e, and third heats, Woodruff coming thirt
" The best time, 2:17. was made by Stan
" boul IN the second heat.
~ Later advices from Florida state ths
ye ye the yellow fever is not yet under the cor
,e troll OF the authorities as was reported
J. Those who have come north from the in
fected districts report complete pani
g, and suspension of business in the neigh
o borhood of Jacksonville.
!; The Winni peg Legislature convened O.
:. Tuesday. The provincial governmen
+ made public the agreement with tn
= Northern Pacific. The government will
: complete the Red River Valley road from
: Pcmblna to Winnipeg, with branch t.
Il Portage La Prairie before November 1st
!, and transfer to the Northern Pacific a
e cost. The Northern Pacific will build
!; within the year from Morrison, on the Rec
+ River Valley road, to Brandon. Pooling
or selling stock to the Canadian Pacific OF
Minneapolis & Manitoba roads or thei,
affairs is prohibited.
The first Henry George ratification
meeting was held in New York last Mon.
day. Besides George, VIM. L. Lloyd
Garrison was the speaker. Mr.. Garrison
said the republican party was content to
dwell in the issue of the past and stood on
the one side, while on the other was the
democratic party, bewildcred. Mr.. Gar
rlson said, among other utterances: 1--WE
have no desire to conceal that our attitude is
one of absolute free trade" Henry George
said: II stand here to ratfy the nomin-
alton of Cleveland and Thurman. Grover
Cleveland is the true labor candidate of
to-day. am free trader and a man
who is not afraid to be branded. as a free
trader does not know the power in the
word free. Protectionists have had their
way for years and it is about time we
tried freedom"
The large paper mill owned by George
Whiting, situated on the island between
Mcnasha and Ncenah, Wis, was destroyed
by fire on August %. While the burning
structure was surrounded by crowd of
spectators, the battery of boilers exploded.
The roof and the walls were thrown out
ward, sending shower of bricks and
timber among the spectators. Eighteen
persons were killed, seven fatally injured
and number less seriously hurt, several
OF whom will die. The mill was a three
story structure, built four years ago at a
cost of 100000. About 80, while the
building was mass of flames, the explosion
occurred without warning. The roof of
the building was thrown upward and out
ward, the walls of brick crambling and
crashing into the street. and in an instant
scores of men were buried by the debris.
Senator Allison in recent speech in
the senate contrasts the expenditures under
the republican and democratic admins
trations. He said the total appropriations
for the current fiscal year not Including
what are called permanent appropriations,
would amount to three hundred and six
millions; that including the permanent
appropriations they would amount to four |
hundred and twenty-one millions. The
estimated revenue will be four hundred
and forty millions. He also furnished
table to show that the exenditures of the |
government for the four years of Cleve-
lands administration exceeded by ninety
five millions the expenditures for the four
years of Garfield and Arthur's admin)stra- !
tion. Hale commented on these figure by
the remark: Thus one by one the il
lusions about the economy of the present
fade away"
About 500 delegates from the states
and territories west of the Mississippi to
the deep water convention have arrived
at Denver Colorado. Thos Mcconnell,
the delegate from Dakota, IS there with
which will be presented to
the convention. He asks congress for an
to tap the Missouri river at
a point in the southeastern part of Flannery
county and construct canal which shall
be 160 feet in width and 20 feet deep
along the water shed to the east between
the Missouri and James rivers to point
in Stevenson county. The canal will be
480 miles in length and will cost $780,
100000. He says that when completed it
will not only open to navigation over
1 500 additional miles through most ex-
cellent farming and agricultural country,
but will afford irrigation for $4,000, 900
acres Of land only lacking an advantage
Of this kind to assist in growing a crop.
The Sioux Indian commission is now
At the Crow Creek agency and seems to
be meeting with more success than at
Standing Rock. The commissioners are
of being able to accomplish
their work favorably at the agency in
few days. The Indians are now camped
in large numbers on the prairie and IN the
groves that surround the agency, {
awaiting anxiously the result Of the coun- |
I'll. The Indians held their first council I
IN Saturday night, at which it was de-
;ided that none but Grow Creek Sioux !;
should be allowed to take part in Mon
lays council, and the Santees, Brules and
! Yanktons located on the agency we're in
ormed that they would be required to go
o their proper agencies to take part in I
he big councils. A courier from Rose t
oud agency has arrived at this agency i
With the intelligence that at the Rosebud 4
'gency.sthe employees were actively work
ng against the ratification of the Sioux
'ill; that no pretensions of secrecy were :
bat that the objections were h
made public openly and continually.
People may hear something drop very
peedily, as they are acting in direct op- d
,osition to the explicit and decided or I
lers of the secretary OF the interior, that !