The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-09-08

them and carrying everything IN its path
The seven sleeping cowboys were carrico
down by the terrible rush, but two o
them succeeded in getting hold o1
branches of trees and clung, half dead
until the flood subsidized, which was about
as Quick as it came on. The bodies ol
the other five men were found scattered
along the bed of the stream from one tc
five miles below their camp.
SCOTS resolution prohibiting the entry
of Chinese into the United States was pass
ed by the house. On its being laid be-
fore the senate Sherman gave detailed
statement of the course of the committee
on foreign relations in regard to the
treaty recently ratified by the senate, with
amendments, including an interview with
the secretary of the state. He said that
no one doubted the power of the United
States government to make the EXCLUSION ot
the Chinese absolute, even without nego-
tiating new treaty and in violation OF
the existing treaty. Every country had
right to provide by law for its own safety.
But it had been the general desire of the
committee on foreign relations to have
the Chinese government assent by treaty
to absolute exclusion, If the object could
he accomplished in that way. The new
treaty had been negotiated and had been
ratified by the senate, with amendments
to make it clear, and which amendments
it was supposed the Chinese minister
would have agreed to.
The will of the late Charles Crock ker,
second vice president of the Southern Pa
c,ic company, has been filed in the pro-
bate court. Mrs. Mary A. Crocker, wild
of the deceased, was appointed executr1x.
The estate IS worth something over twen-
ty-five and quarter million dollars, di-
vided as follows: Real estate, two million
eight hundred thousand dollars; stocks
and bonds, twelve million dollars; ac-
counts. one million five hunrcd thousand
dollars; promissory notes, eli ght million
five hundred thousand dollars; cash, five
hundred thousand dollars. The tes.atOr
declares the entire estate of community
property and his wife is entitled to half
In addition she IS bcqucathed two residen-
ces, one in San Francisco and the other
in Sacramento. A number of relatives
and family servants are provided for. The
testator leaves to his son, George Crocker,
all he had advanced to him for business.
One quarter of the residue is left to two
sons, Charles F. and William H. Crocker.
The remainder is to be invested for the
benefit of deccased's daughter, Mrs. II.
V. Alexander of New York.
Dispatch from Washington says that
the Oklahoma bill is practically a dead
measure for this season. The opposition
that has developed to the bill, which is the
more surprising in that it has grown en-
tirely from the agitation against it Of
single member-Mr Barnes of Georgia =
.iIas become stro1g aud SO detcin.i..oef
that there seems to be no prospects of its
slipping through. Mr.. Springer, who has
been little too careful in guarding his bill
against amendments to protect the Indian
lands made an effort to secure the pas
sage of the bill and prevent further deus
sion through the operation of the rules on
suspension day. Wednesday was committee
suspension day, and when the committees
on territories was called an attempt was
made to shove the bill through under sus-
pension of. the rules. Considerable time
was consumed in ruling the bill, after
which Mr.. Payson demanded second.
The attempt to get a quorum on the vote
for the second showed only 101 yeas and
nays, and the house finally adjourned
leaving the bill where it stood at the
close of the last senate.