The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-04


full amount. The company asked for
new trial on the ground that as Robstell
was riding on another persons ticket h
was an intruder. But Judge Wheeler hold
that the road, in accepting Robstelli'
ticket, made itself liable.
Dan Coney, foreman of tracklaying OF
the Spokane & Palouse road at Colfax
Wash, induced Miss Hughes, daughte
of the editor of the Palouse News, to at
tend ball in his company. On the wa.
he drugged the girl, took her to boz
car and ravished her, and induced ten o
his employees to do the same. She wa
kept in the box car twelve hours, and i
not expected to live. The wretch was ar
rested in Spokane Falls and lynchlng i
threatened.
James Burrows, leader of a band o
men who, at various times during the pas
few years, have held up passenger train
in Texas, Missouri, Colorado and else
where, and robbed passengers, express
companies, mails, ETC., and in many in
stances killed or wounded persons who re
sisted, has been arrested at Montgomery
Alabama. His companion, Ruben Bur
rows, escaped 10y killing his pursuer, an(
is now in hiding in swamp. James Bur
rows will be taken to Texarkana for trial
The greatest land slide ever known ii
California occurred Tuesday on the line o
the California & Oregon railroad. The roae
is new one and the recent heavy rains
soaked the fresh road bed so that the
'swhole country let go and came down or
the track" About 100 miles of track is
covered with debris. The worst slides are
on the divisions between Delta and the
eighteenth crossing of the Sacramento river
and between Hornbrook and Ashland. A
force of 400 men are at work, but it is not
expected they can do much to clear the
track until spring.
The bill introduced by Senator Stewart
to enforce the restrictions on Chinese i'm
migration, provides that after ninety days
fro ~ it's passage Chinese laborers shall
not have the right to enter the United
States on The ground of previous residence
The second section declares that the sec
retary of the treasury shall have the right
to change at will the form of certificate
to be delivered to Chinese departing from
this country for the purpose of identifica-
ton on their return. The secretary is
also granted the power to make all need
full rules and regulations to prevent un-
lawful entry of Chinese into the United
States.
Among the bills introduced III the SEN
ate and referred the past week were the
following: By Stewart-To establish a
land court and to provide for the settle
ment OF private land claims; also, to en-
force restriction on Chinese immigration.
BY Mitchell-To permit miners and MN
ing companies to prospect and develop
mining portions of Indian reservations on
certain terms and conditions. Mitchell
offered resolution which was adopted
instructing the committee on commerce
to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of inserting a
provision in the river and harbor bill re-
quiring all work to be done by contract
An Ottawa dispatch says: A meeting
of the cabinet was held on Saturday to
consider the reports received from the
Canadian commissioners attending the
Washington convention. As the matter
now stands before the commission the Do
minion government deem any settlement
of the fishery side of the negotiation be-
yond possibility, the only hope being that
the result of the convention may lead to a
broader basis upon which all questions in
dispute between the Dominion and the
United States may be amicably settled
and satisfactory arrangements for more
extended trade relations between the two
countries arrived at.
The buildings of the state penitentiary
at Richmond, Virginia, leased by the Da-
Wis Shoe company, of Boston and operated
as shoe factory, were totally destroyed
by fire Tuesday morning, together with all
the valuable machinery and stock. The
loss to the shoe company is estimated at
$175, 900, and the loss to the state on the
building is $4,000. The company en-
ployed between 800 and 400 convicts
Soon after the fire broke out bells in the
city sounded the military call, and in few
minutes about 900 soldiers were on the
ground to guard against any emeute OF
of the prisoners. Everything was entirely
quiet and the military were soon ordered
back.
The first storming of the ice palace al
St. Paul on Friday night last was great
success. A report states that $4,000 uni
formed men joined in the parade and the
bombardment and 100000 would be a
small estimate of the crowd that thronged
the sidewalks and swarmed on the hills
and houses as we'll as the palace grounds
The Fire King was State Senator D. A
Morrison, of Rochester, Minnesota. The
palace was lighted by electric lamps from
within. Reaching the palace the clubs
marched in and encircled it, the Fire King
demanding its surrender. Borealis Rex
from the battlement hurled back defiance
A huge bomb rose into the air and the Fire
Kings forces answered with thousand
roman candles, let off at once. The bonn
bardment lasted half an hour and while
the standard of Borealls was burned early
in the fight the palace itself was not taken
A Winnipeg dispatch of the 3oth, says
The latest reports from the mountains
state there has been great loss of life or
the Canadian Pacific owing to snow slides
Passengers coming on the trains from
Calgary bring meagre particulars of the
disaster. Strong chinook winds have
been prevailing for the past week and al
along the line from Donald to Glacier thu
snow has been coming down on the track II