The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-06-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Governor Hill has vetoed the high
license bill passed by the New York
legislature.
The secretary of the interior has ac-
cepted the resignation of John H. Oberly
commissioner of Indian affairs, to take
effect July 1.
The San Francisco Chronicle on
Wednesday printed a statement that
VIM. B. Tascott, murderer of Amos j.
Smell, is now in Canton, China.
The gross earnings of the Northern
Pacific for the month of May were ST.
625,642, an increase of SSS,353 over the
corresponding month Of last year.
The Bank of Omaha, Nebraska, has
closed it's doors. The liabilities are be-
tween 100000 and $4,000; assets nomi-
nal. Bad loans are alleged as the cause.
In joint session of the New Hampshire
legislature Wednesday David H. Good
all, republican. was elected governor,
there having been no choice by the pco-
pie.
The public debt statement for May
shows: Total cash in treasury, s629,
169,S9S; total debt. s1662,9 Oil 1888 De
| CIttoc uut ulClluIis sO,IO~.Ct StCNICdOS
since June 80, 1888, s72,6S2,105.
Justice Gray, of the United States Su-
preme court, and Miss Jeanette Mat
thews, daughter of the late Justice Mat
thews, were married Tuesday evening at
the residence of the bride at Washing
ton, D. G.
A cyclone swept through Lamar co,on-
! ty, Texas, on the 4th doing great damage
to crops, leveling fences, unroohng build
ings and injuring number of people.
The cyclone struck the southern section
of the county and moved in an easterly
direction, sweeping everything in its
path.
The president has received letter
from committee of the National Wool
Growers association of the United States,
dated Columbus, Ohio, urging the neces-
sity for an extra session of congress, to
be convened at the earliest practicable
day for the purpose OF enacting necessary
legislation in re gard to wool growing and
other industries Of the country.
Nine members of Geronimo's band
who were tried by military court and
sent to prison at Columbus. o., have
been returned to Arizona for trial for
murder, as a result of the supreme
courts decision that Indian offenders
come within the jurisdiction of the Terri
torial courts. The hemp is ready for
them when they fall into the hands Of
| the Arizonans.
Black Bear was killed on Frida, of last
week by another Indian named White
Horse, about mile west of Mandan, Da-
kota, where the latter has been living for
some time Black Bear, it seems, got
| full of re-water and became quarrel
some. He terrorized all the other In
dians in the tepee except White Horse
| who wouldn't be tritisd with. The re-
suit was the shooting of Black Bear
through the abdomen.
Captain Schaan of the Chicago police
| force has been suspended by Chief Hub
bard for allesed dereliction OF duty in
the Cronin ,ase. The action was taken
after Schhck's examination before the
Cronin i.ry, and was announced to be
based upon Schaack's neglect to sum
mon persors other than Mrs. Conklin to
identify me famous white horse and rig
3 RRfHaIen or the night of May 4th-
Pension Commissioner Tanner on Mon
day sent the following telegram TO the
United States pension agent at PlttsDurs:
Make special vouchers received from
towns in Pennsylvania ruined by Hoods
and pay at once their receipts Where
certificates have been lost IN the floods
send permit to execute new vouchers
without presenting certificate to masls-
trate. Permits signed in blank We're
forwarded to-day. Make specially OF
all original certificates OF pensioners re-
siding in those towns and pay on receipt
of vouchers, regardless OF my lnstruc-
tions of May 18th.
The Northern Pacific has made new
rate on live stock, which went into effect
June ID. The rate on live stock IN
Streets stable cars, not exceeding thirty,
six feet in length, west bound to all
| points on main line and branches east OF
and including Granite, Idaho, and to all
points on the Montana Union railway,
will be 125 per cent Of the car load rate
on live stock in ordinary stock cars
thirty feet in length. The rate between
eastern terminals and all stations on
main line and branches, west OF GRANITE
Idaho. to and including Ellensburg'
Washington, will be 12O per cent OF the
car load rate on live stock III ordinary
stock cars thirty feet in length.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
sent circular letter to the post
masters of one hundred Of the largest
postoffices throughout the country, witt
q view to ascertaining the relative I'M
portance of mails on Sunday as compared
with the same on other days of the week
in order to reduce the work on that da!
if it shall be found practicable. The IN
formation asked for covers the sale o
stamps. wrappers, number OF callers
mails DESPATCHED and received, numbe
of letter carrier collections, with tn
amount of matter collected and numbe
of employees on duty on each Sunda
compared with week days during tn
, same time.
W.. McGarigle, ex-warden OF tn
Cook county hospital, under indictmen
' for connection with the boodler's rim
t and fugitive from justice, whc has pee DC.
living at Banf, British Columbia, wake
into Judge Shepard's court at Chlcag
, on the 31st and surrendered hlmsel
McGarigle pleaded guilty to the charg
of conspiracy. A tine OF sl,ooo was .
: once imposed and when this is PAID b
Will be 1reo. lne dCOlou VI oiio oo"A
: was simply the granting of new an
J, Immediate trial to McGarigle under tn
d decision of the supreme court and IN
! posing the fine on his plea OF guilt,
!, This action was taken on the advice
t the states attorney as the best Tn;
a a could be done in view of the decision c
e the supreme court in another case.
a other indictments against McGarlgle al
d dismissed.
"a The inquest in the Cronin case at Oh
% cago is dragging slowly along: No ne
" developments of importance have bee
a, made public during the week, althoue
81 81 evidence is being introduced tending
to strengthen the belief that Detectl'
t, Caughlin, Alexander Sullivan and othe
u who have been arrested are deeply II
plicated in the murder. Among she te
~ timony introduced was that OF Patrl(
is McGar, friend of Cronin, who alieg
rs that Cronin told him he expected to
81 assassinated for the part he took III Il
Of Of investigation at Buffalo for charges tn
in Alexander Sullivan, while a member
10 aa the executive board of the Clan ma ga
he he misappropriated a large part OF the so'
C etys funds and sent men to death al
y tn British prisons to hide such mlsa