The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-08-03
The count of cash and securities i

the United States treasury incident t(
the transfer of office was completed
Saturday afternoon. There is 100000,
600. A shortage amounting to the sum o.
50 was found in tho new silver vault
where 85,6OO,OOO silver dollars are il
stock, and a deficit of SIS in the old sill
YER vault, containing s45,OOO,0Oo. Botf
shortages were Immediately made good
It is believed this money was lost during
the recent flooding of the vault.
The Yellow river of China has agair
burst it's banks in Shan Tung, inundat
ing an immense extent of country
There is twelve feet of water through
out ten large government districts. The
loss of life and property is incalculable
The government authorities at Pekin are
dismayed, owing to the incapacity OF the
local authorities. Foreign engineering
aid, in order to permanently repair the
channel of the canal, is considered i'm
perative.
A suit has at last been entered against
the South Fork Fishing club for dam
ages for loss of life and property occa
stoned by the breaking of the South
Fork dam above Johnstown May 3lst
The suit is brought in Pittsburg by the
widow and children of John A. Little o1
Sewickley, drummer, who lost his life
in the Hurlbut house, Johnstown, by
the food. It is for damages for the loss
Of life of Mr.. Little, and asks for $50,
coo. The defendants named are the
millionaire owners of the Conemagh res,
ervoir. Altogether they number about
fifty Of Pittsburgh's most wealthy and
prominent citizens.
A Yankton South Dakota) special
says: There has been found at ST. Hell
ena, ten miles below Yankton on the
Missouri river, a wonderful deposit OF
human bones. An ancient pit has been
uncovered in which about four hundred
corpses were buried. They were thrown
in promiscuously, men, women and
children, and covered with about three
feet Of earth. Medical men who have
examined the bones say they are the re-
mains Of white people, and that they
were buried about forty years ago. This
region was then in absolute possession
Of Indians, and the find indicates mas
sacre of immigrants. The skulls and
other bones are of all sizes, from very
small children to large men.
The government has commenced sur
veys in Idaho for storage reservoirs, with
a complete system of irrigation, covering
millions of acres of arid lands. No soon
er had the engineers started out than
they were followed by surveyors in the
employ of spectators, who filed on lands
and water rights along streams and
gulches. Such monopoly by spectators
promises to defeat the plans of the gov
ernment. One corporation outside OF
Idaho is attempting to own and control
Bear river for distance of 14O miles in
Idaho, that they may sell water to lands
and towns in Utah. Governor Shour
has telegraphed the secretary of the in
terror, stating the facts and asking that
steps be taken at once to prevent this
great wrong to Idaho.
Democratic Committee Meeting.
The democratic territorial committee
met at Helena on Friday afternoon, July
25th, with the following delegates in at
tendance: Beaverhead, F. S. Graves
Choteau, c. E. Conrad; Custer, c. r
Middleton; Cascade, L. E. Collins; Daw,
son, John Trumbull; Deer Lodge, Sylvan
Hughes; Fergus, Granville Stuart; Cal
latin, Walter Cooper; Jefferson, John w
Buskett; Lewis and Clarke, A. J. David
son; Madison, S. r. Buford: Meagher, J
r. Kanouse; Missoula, w. J. Stevens
Park, J. A. Savage; Silver Bow, NJ. j
Connell; Yellowstone, Alfred Meyers
Anaconda was chosen as the place fol
holding the convention to nominate state
officers. The date was not selected, but
the chairman of the committee was All.
thorized to issue call fixing it as soor
as is reasonable after the adjournment
of the constitutional convention. The
apportionment of delegates to the con
vention was made as follows: Beaver
head, 7; Choteau, 7; Custer, 6; Cascade
Z; Dawson, 2; Deer Lodge, %; Fergus, 5
Gallatin, 8; Jefferson, II: Lewis ano
Clarke, q; Madison, 8; Meagher, 7; Mis-
soula, Is; Park, Z; Silver Bow, %; Yel
lowstone, 4: total, 174.