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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-03-01

s-3-Tnr Dining ifall OF the Hotel will
he Enlar.el to More than Twice it,,
Present size. Thus Furnishing the
Llrr-,t Dancing Room ia l.eSi-toun.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-03-01

Mrs. Meadow passed through the post
ON Monday, en- route east.
Private Brown, of ID company. had hi-
right eye severely injured II few days since,
by n piece OF exploded cap entering the
organ.
There was AN alarm "f fire ia the gar
rison, 3 O'Clock Tuesday morning. \ litt!,
blaze at Picks blacksmith shop Wa
quickly distinguished.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-03-01
FaRa IMPLEMENTS FUR SALE.

I. VI. Hpbcnsack wishes To- inform Farm
cps aud Eanrhinen that he viii have Tor
sale at I.cwistown, fot the Spring trade
some NJ. | Implements. such a. Sulky
Flows, Spring Tooth 1iair"ws. Garden
Truck CtltivutorS. Gar,len Seed Drills.
Grain Seed Drills aud ,.rass ~,'cdcr-, and
invites from you an examination ri merits
aud prices. Viii have "a lar.. stock foT
inspection Icy the middle ri March. Re
serve your orders until you see my ma
chimes and get my prizes. see advertise
ment in later issue.
7. VI. iI,BENsA'R.
4. "a
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-03-01
The Literary Society.

The following is the program ofthe Lewis.
town Literary Society for next Monday
evening, March 9Th:
Debatc-l.esolvcd, That the reading oil
fictitious literature is injurious tothe mind.
Aflirmativc-Rudolfv won Tobel, .!r.. j. NJ.
Vrooman. Rev. J. III. Smith,
Necative-F. T.. Smith, viii Lcard, u. \.
Mcaghcr.
Essay ....................... Miss T.. ". Smith
Reading Ailis Watson
RecitatIo
VI 'rooiiiti
Music
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-03-01

There will I've n meeting of the Judith
Woolsrowcrs' Association 1T LcwiStown
on satur,iay. March 10ii, lsSs. business
ofimportance will come before the meeting.
All menbrrs ave requested to- attend.
T.. \. IIusoN, President.
+. T.. Wright. Secretary.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

Nojury has yet been secured in the Dim
mig case.
About fifty aged Cinnamon are sent to
China each month to die in their native
country.
Many head of beef cattle lately received
from the San Joaquin valley have been
found to be afflicted with head disease.
A serious accident occurred at lis Eddy
street yesterday, caused by the explosion of
gasoline stove. Several persons were Sc
verely burned, and considerable damage
was done.
Leon Girardot, an old Frenchman who
has for many years past occupied a room in
the lodging house at 533 Kearny street, was
found dead in bed yesterday. The gas was
escaping into the room from an open
burner.
On Monday deed was recorded convey
ing from r. Porter Ashe to Amy Crocker
Ashe certain property on Telegraph avenue,
Oakland and also large amount of prop
erty in San Francisco and Fresno as pre-
viously reported.
Despite the extraordinary vigilance and
efforts of the police to run to earth the
gang of expert burglars which has virtu-
ally taken possession of the city within the
last month or two, house breaking and
safe-cracking continues unabated.
Lottie Iverson has sued the Examiner for
$4,000 for alleged libel The complaint
charges that on January 9th last the En-
aniiner, under the heading of Tale of a
Dog" published statements which were
false and calculated to hold her up to pub
lie obloquy.
On Monday there was a meeting of the
Inauguration Committee of the Board of
Regents of the University of California, to
make preliminary arrangements for the
inauguration of Horace Davis as President
of the University. The inauguration is set
for June next
The funeral of Mrs. Delfina a. Carrick
took place yesterday in Oakland. The de-
ceased belonged to one of the old California
families, beng the daughter of Juan r.
Alvarado, who was Governor of this State
under Mexican rule at the time of her
bir-h, forty-seven years ago. Her mother
was member of the Castro family She
was educated at the convent at Benicia.
The State Board of Horticulture has re-
ceived information that never in the history
of the State have fruit trees been as scarce
or the demand greater. Peach trees are,
to certain extent, an exception, and there
will be more OF this variety of fruit planted
this year than ever before One fruit
SAO"C NlAtco sudt Hc ID pidutlDS pedCu
stones, five in hill, the hills twenty feet
apart.
The Executive Committee of the Pacific
| Kennel Club has decided to close the en-
tries for the proposed bench show in April
next on Saturday night prior to the open
ing of the show. 1t was decided to issue
1000 premium lists, and that dog may
be removed from his kennel during the
| show at 10 P. NJ. upon the deposit of s. by
[ the owner TO guarantee the animals return
at the opening hour the next day.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, February 14th.-Among
the bills introduced and referred in the Sen
ate were the following:
By Cullom-For compensation for the
services OF female nurses during the war of
the rebellion.
By Mitchell-To amend the laws relating
to drawbacks on the duty on manufactured
tin.
Blackburn offered resolution declaring
it not in order, except by unanimous con-
sent of the Committee on Appropriations,
TO report any bill without having had it
under consideration ten days OF more. Re-
ferred to Committee on Rules
The resolution for an inquiry into the
cause of the inefficient mail service was
taken up, and Plumb said that if Reagan s
argument yesterday in defense of the Post
master-General meant anything, it was that
that Officer had pleaded the baby act, that
he was burdened with Republican clerks.
There was no restraint on the Postmaster
General as 10 the dismissal of clerks and
no Republican asked to have them retained.
As to the fact that the service was bad, in
excusably bad, bad beyond any previous
record, there was no question
He sent to the Clerks desk and had read
several extracts from a Kansas newspaper
showing the defective mail service in that
State.
Platt said that the trouble was not con-
fined 10 the West, and that scarcely dav
passed without his receiving letters from,
Connecticut making similar complaints.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
STILL HANGS FIRE.
The Democratic Tariff BIZ Still Far from
Completion.

lCopyrigt, 1885, by tie California associated Prsss
WASHINGTON, February 14th.-The ma
10 ity of the members of the Ways and
Means Committee say that they are not yet
prepared to report the bill for the revision
of the tariff to the full committee. and they
cannot explicitly name the time when they
will be ready to make a report. Thus far
neither the metal, sugar nor iruit schedules
have heen completed.
There has been report to the effect that
the minority of the committee was en-
gagged in the preparation of BILL to be
moved at the proper time, as a substitute
for the bill prepared by the majority of the
committee. This rumor is without foun-
dation. The Republican members OF the
committee have had no formal consultation
upon the subject of the tariff. When the
bill is brought forth by the Democratic
members of the committee there will be
caucus of Republican Representatives called
to consider the subject, and upon the views
of the majority of the House, as expressed
in this caucus the minority of the Ways
and Means Committee will prepare its sub
stitute bill and report. The form that the
Republicans plan for tariff revision will
take depends upon the character of the bill
to be submitted by the majority of the
Ways and Means Committee.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
Brooklyn Car Crushed and Several
Persons Killed Outright.

A Brooklyn Car Crushed and Several
Persons Killed Outright.
NEW YORK, February 14th.-Shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock this morning as q Reed
avenue street car filled with people was
passing under large derrick used in erect
ing the elevated railroad structure on
Broadway, near Summer avenue, Brook
lyn, the ropes sustaining the derrick gave
way and the denick fell on the car, crush
ing it in as if it had been an egg-shell.
Seventeen of the passengers on the car
were injured, and four were killed. 1t is
reported that four more of those injured
will die.
Copyright, 1888, by The California associated Press
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER.
New YORK, February 14th.-An investi-
CATION OF the cause of the accident on the
elevated railroad on Brooklyn this after
noon shows there was gross carelessness on
the part of the workmen. Columns and
transverse girders are erected by derricks
standing on the ground. Then a travelling
derrick moves forward on longitudinal grid
ers and raises those for the next span. 1t is
clamped fast to the girders that
it rests upon, to lift those TO
be put in place. The girder about to
be lifted weighed six tons and was
sixty feet long. The girders on which the
derrick rested, and which had been put up
on Monday, were fastened in their places
only by four rivets each at the top, the lower
fiange being unsecured to the transverse
girders. The upright columns had not
been permanently fastened in their sockets,
but were held in their places only with
steel wedges. These had not been driven
securely, and the columns tottered with the
weight of the moving engine and the der
VI al- Il, ~
as TO snap the rivets and pitch everything
into the street.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15

WHY Nor KILL THE DEVIL p The Ne
vada City Herald has raised an argument
with some of its readers on the question of
prohibition of the liquor traffic The Her
aid is against prohibition and thinks that
it is not in the scheme of Providence to
remove from out of the reach of men
those things that will tempt to sin. "The
Creator" says the Herald. docs not resort
to prohibition to guard His children from
evil" The correspondent of the Herald
says that all evils are prohibited by divine
law. 1t seems to US that our friend of the
Herald and his correspondent are getting
into very deep water. They will soon have
the discussion into the question of the ORR
gin of sin. The discussionists are even
now on the edge of that question. Is any
sin permitted by divine forbearance? If
Omnipotence wants no creature of His to
commit sin, why allow opportunities to
sin IN other words, and not irreverently.
why does not God kill the devil?-GrGss
Valley TEdiags.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
A FOREIGN NOTION.
Novel Plan of New Jersey Statesman
| to Execute Murderers

TRENTON On. J.), February 14th.-In the
Senate to-day bill was introduced
providing that the death penalty shall here
after be inflicted by electricity The bill
provides that in sentencing criminal, the
Judge shall name the week during which
the execution shall take place, and within
the week so designated the Sheriff of the
county shall select day not previously to
be made known to anyone except the
persons allowed to be present at the execu-
ton. These shall be the sentencing Judge,
prosecuting attorney, two physicians,
twelve citizens, two clergymen if re-
quested), and seven Assistant Sheriffs
The corpse subsequently must be buried
with enough quicklime to consume it, or
be give up for dissecting purposes. News
papers are prohibited from reporting the
execution, further than the bare mention
of the event
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
THE CAPITAL.
SENSATION CAUSED BY A TEXAS
CONGRESSMAN.
Pension for a Modoc Souaw-Tbe
Troublesome Tariff BiII-After
Indian Lands.
lasE0AL DmrArCHEs TO THE REooRD-UsIoa.!
A TYPICAL TEXAN.
Maiden Speech of a Blue-blooded Son of
the Lone Star State.

the Lone Star State.
lCoprfg, 1888. by The California associated Press
WASHINGTON, February 18th. Repre-.
sentative VIM. H Martin, of Athens, Tex.
to-day made his maiden speech in the
House. This in itself is not a remarkable
fact. but MIR. Martin has peculiar position
IN the eyes OF his country. He is typical
Texan IN appearance-tall, lean and raw
boned, with trickles of tobacco ALWAYS
banging to his mustache (more or less),
and he has alwLys disdained fine clothes.
he wears his vest open-so open, in fact,
that at first glance one sees more shirt
front than ANYTHING else. Mr.. Martin
achieved fame the first day he arrived here.
When retiring that night he blew out the
gas, and only the promptness of the hotel
watchman and hard work of doctor pre-
vented vacancy in the Second Congress
ional District of Texas.
To-day report was presented from the
Committee on Printing to print 1000 addi-
tional copies of the Consular report relative
to cattle and dairy products in Europe.
Mr. Hatch moved that 25.0OO, instead of
1000 copies be printed. Regardless of the
fact that he had not been recognized by the
Chair and that another member had the
floor, Mr.. Martin got up and in stentorian
tones uttered the words, Mr.. Speaker ~
No sooner had he paid this tribute than
Speaker Carlisle brought his gavel down
with thud on his desk But Mr. Martin
had gazed at herds of wild steers without
finching, and little thing like the Speak
er's gavel was not going to discourage him.
Every farmer in the land" he said
[bang went the Speakers gavel1 :" should
have [bang j a copy of this valuable book
[bang ] and we could not use the money
[bang j in the Treasury [bang j more prof
itably bang ] than by giving the farmers
this information" [Bang bangl]
During the course of this short speech,
Mr.. Martins arm had been flying around
his head like an arm of windmill, and
having finished what he had to say he Sc
renely sat down.
The whole House applauded, and so Wig
orously had Mr.. Carlisle welded his gavel,
that as Mr.. Martin concluded the Speaker $
emblem of authority was only shadow OF
its former self. Then there was funny
scene. Hardly before Mr.. Martin had
neatly tucked his legs under his desk, Tom
Reed, of Maine. was leaning over his desk
| warmly congratulating him on his fine
speech. Mr.. Reed was followed by score
or more of Republicans, and as soon as
they had finished the Democrats took their
places and told Mr.. Martin what an inn
preston he had made. The motion made
by Martin was adopted
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
Reported Proposed Change of Route.

For some years the Central Pacific people
have been considering the practicability of
utilizing the old Placerville route for their
road. The money expended in the last few
years to keep the track clear from snow and
the constant renewing OF snowsheds would
have built the proposed route.
The Placerville route was the first sur
veyed, and would have been built had the
people along that route had enterprise
enough to have stood on the proposition
They thought they had dead thing, and
so lost their opportunities.
A survey has been made to Placerville
already, and the surveyors had orders to
keep the line well up, and the line, as now
surveyed, is 200 feet higher than there is
any necessity of having it, unless the man
agement intends to go on to the lumber
regions about Lake Tahoe. This is the
present intention, and the plan is
to strike the lake near Yank's Sta
ton, go about the lake above Glenbrook,
and come down to Carson through Kings
Canyon, striking the old Central Pacific
line by Wadsworth. The road has ex-
pended SO much money in keeping the line
up through the Sierra range that they con-
slider the new route as a matter of actual
economy. When the road is completed it
will make Carson City the leading town in
the State.-Cdrs0R (Nev) AppedI.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
other had, the city has patent to the land
and proposes to hold it.
hIEXICO.

Outlaws Punished by Impressment Into
the Service.
NoGALEs, February 14th.-A party OF
men fired upon some Mexican officials near
st. Helena, in the Arispe District, Sonora
some days ago. Quite brisk fight en-
sued between the two parties. The aggres-
sive parties were atterward arrested for an
assault on the officials. They have been
convicted and sentenced to long terms OF
service in the Mexican army and sent IN
the Yaqui River country for duty.
The Mexican Government has extended
its wires from Ures to Arispe, in the Arispe
District
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
ON THE BRAIN.
Youth Who Imagines the Women All
in Love With Him.

Copyright, 1888, by The California associated Press
FRESNO. February 14th.-Alfred Steller, a
young man whom no one knows anything
about, came here two weeks ago. He got
work, but made violent love to his employ
er's wife and daughter, and was discharged.
Then he wandered around the streets two
or three days, making love to every woman
he met on the street, regardless of age or
color. He wrote a number of letters to
married ladies, filled with protestations of
undying love and affection. Finally the
officers were notified, but before he could
be arrested Steller skipped to small town
in this county, arriving last night. He
broke into hotel, armed with pair of
sheep-shears, and defied arrest. He was
overpowered and brought back here to-day,
and attacked an officer while being exam
ined by the Lunacy Commission. 1t took
five men to overpower him. His mania is
that he is loved by some woman, and he
thinks every woman he meets is the one.
He was sent to Stockton.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
FOR HIS OWN GOOD.
A Brutal Husband skips to Avoid His
Neighbors' Wrath.

Copyright, 1855 by g.e California Associated Press
FRESNO, February 14th.-Joseph Still
man, wife and three children came to this
city several months ago. The wife has
been sick most of the time, and the neigh
bors say that Stillman neglected and abused
her, failing TO provide either physician,
food sufficient or medicine. Yesterday he
tried TO get the Commission of Lunacy to
declare her insane, but they, on examlna-
ton, refused to do so. The neighborhood
where he lives is much excited, and Still
man has left for his own good.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
PACIFIC COAST.
A LOYE-CRAZED YOUTH GETS
IN TROUBLE.
Land.jumping in Utah = Sudden
Deaths as Thick as Libel
Suits-Redding Notes.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-usros. !
Los ANGELES.
More Big Libel suits-Anschlag's Insan-
ity Plea-Etc.


[Copyrigt, 1Sss, byas California Associated Press
Los ANGELES, February 14th.-The COM
plant in civil libel suits against the Times
Mirror Publishing Company, f. J. Rich
ards, capitalist of this city, and the San
Francisco Chronicle, in damages of $50,O
each, will be filed in the morning by Col
onel H. H. Boyce, based on the statement
made by Richards, and published in the
Times and San Francisco Chronicle, accusing
Boyce of dishonesty. He proposes to fight
the matter through.
A commission of medical men will ex-
anime Anschlag, the Hitchcock murderer
in the morning as to his sanity. The ev.
idence this afternoon was unimportant
Public feeling is very strong against the
prisoner, and will not tolerate the success
of the insanity ples.
The great submerged dam at Paurma, in
San Fernando, was successfully completed
to-day, which insuIes plenty of water te
that valley.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
Another Aspirant for Fame.

Copyright 1888, by tie California Associated Press.
ALBANY On. ", February 14th.-One of
the outcomes of the Presidential aspira-
tons OF Governor Hill is canvass of Lieu
tenant-Governor Jones for the Democratic
nomination for Governor. He says " Hill
is candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton for President. All the acts of his ad-
ministration have had the Presidency as
their aim, aud now his ambition is unmis
taxable. Hill not desiring a denomination
for Governor, have determined to become
candidate"
Jones was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor two years ago simply as a last re-
sort, and his present candidacy is regarded
as q good Joke
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
STILL IN THE LEAGUE.
The San Francisco Bali Clubs Still Sign
ing Alta Men.

IES <fILd NItn.
SAN Francisco, February 14th-[Spe,
cial. Manager Harris has signed Thomas
Powers, of the Atlas, to play for the Hav.
erlys. This makes the third or fourth
member of the Sacramento club that has
been secured by the clubs Of this city, and
it now begins to look as if the purpose in
keeping the Atlas out of the league this
season was that its fine players might be
captured by the Bay clubs. 1t is said thai
steps are being taken to secure still more Of
Sacramento's crack baseballists, and il
looks, after all, as If the people of San Fran.
cisco are to have the pleasure of seeing the
Capital City boys do some of their pretty
work this summer, even though they ap
pear under strange banners.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
OLD sONOMA.
Fatal Cunning Accidental Smallpox
Case Turns Out to be Measles.

Copyright 1855. blythe California associated Press.
SANTA Rosa, February 14th.-J W.
Hawkins, brother of G. w. Hawkins, Su-
perintendent of the Poor Farm, left home
this afternoon with a gun and was found
dead few hours later with gunshot in
the body. He was a young man, about
are known.
Mrs. Harriet Crane, the mother-in-law OF
ex-Congressman Barclay Henley, died in
this city last night at theage of seventy
three years.
1t is reported to-day that the supposed
case of smallpox, taken from the New
York Hotel last week, has developed into a
first-class case of measles.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
MEACHAM's RESCUER.
Proposition to Pension Faithful Modoc
SQuaw.


ICopyight, 1855, blythe afornid associated Press
WASHINGTON, February 14th.-If Repre-
sentative Herman's bill to place Wine
male Riddle on the pension rolls at the rate
of S25 per month is passed it will be the
first case in which the Government has
ever granted pension to an Indian. Win
emale was member of the Modoc tribe of
Indians and when they attacked and mas
sacred the Commissioners sent out by the
Government to negotiate treaty with
them, she found Colonel Meacham desper-
ately wounded, and did all that lay in her
power for his comfort. She brought him
food and drink, made him temporary
shelter, bound his wounds, all at the peril
of her own life, had she been discovered.
AS soon as Meacham recovered sufficiently
TO be removed Winemale carried him upon
her shoulders several miles and restored
him to his friends. For this service it is
believed she is entitled to pension.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-15
CROwDING THE REDS.
Movement to Open the Great Sioux
Reservation to Settlement.

Reservation to Settlement.
WASHINGTON, February 14th.-The House
Committee ON Indian Affairs to-day decided
to report bill in lieu of all others on the
subject providing for the division of the
great Sioux Reservation and the relinquish-
ment of the remainder. The practical
effect of this measure, if it becomes law,
will be to open to settlement over II ,OO0,-
600 of the 100000 acres comprising the
great Sioux Reservation in Dakota There
are two general reservations created by the
bill, one in the north and the other in the
south of the present reservation.
The Crow, Creek and Winnebago Reserva-
ton remains as it is, with the exception of
a few townships, which are excluded.
There is also a small reservation created
opposite Fort Thompson, on the lower
Missouri river, which is set apart for oc-
cupancy by the lower Brule Indians, if
they care to take it.
The principal portion of the present
reservation which is thrown open to settle
ment lies between White and Cheyenne
rivers,