The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-02-09


Adopted and approved Feb 1, 1889.
A. W. MILES, Mayor
Attest: j. D. WHELpLEY, City Clerk.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Subscriptions to the new Panama canal
shares amounted to 5000.
Jem Mace has accepted Mitchell's
challenge to box for $500 side with
small gloves.
The greatest blizzard for years was
bowling in Michigan on Tuesday. Rail
road traffic is almost at standstill.
The house, On motion of Springer, in
sisted on the amendment to the senate
bill for the admission of South Dakota.
Advices from New England show that
the weather Is extremely cold, the ther-
mometer ranging from 30 to 40 degrees
below zero.
Snow has failed heavily throughout the
northern part of Canada The weather
is very cold, the thermometer ranging in
some places as low as twenty degrees be-
low zero.
The dissolution of the old Panama
Canal company has been decreed on tile
petition of parties acting in accord with
Lesseps. The court appointed Brunei
official liquidator.
John O'Connor and Thomas Condor,
members of parliament for Tipperary,
have been sentenced to imprisonment for
four months, without hard labor, for in
citing tenants not to pay rent.
Articles of agreement between Gaudaur
and O'Connor for three mile scull race
for the American championship, on San
Francisco bay, have been signed. The
time is fixed for Sunday, March Sd.
Mrs. Meckie Rawson, the wife of the
millionaire banker, who in open court
shot her lawyer nearly to death, was &C
Quilted in short order He was trying to
defame her character, and the Jury de-
cided she was temporarily insane.
The Freeman's Journal says Lord Sal
isbury Is treating with Lord Harrington
with view to inducing him to accept
the premiership, Salisbury to retain the
office of secretary of foreign affairs, and
that the Right Hon. Smith is to be raised
to the peerage.
1t is authoriatively announced that
President Cleveland will return to the
state of New York to reside on the expir-
alton Of his term of Office and will resume
the practice of his profession IN New
York city. having associated himsrlf as
counsel with the law firm of Bangs, Stet
son Tracy & Company.
Secretary Endicott has transmitted the
report of Adjutant General Drum giving
the strength of the organized militia Of
the States and Territories and the force
of men available for military duty but
not organized. Total: Commissioned
officers, 6,397; enlisted men, 98,1O9
number of men available but not organ
lied, s,1O4,628.
John E. Sullivan, county clerk in In
dianapolis, who failed for $75,8OO Thurs
day, is missing, and with Tom O'Neil
his confidential clerk, is supposed to be
in Canada. 1t IS discovered that he is
sued fraudulent warehouse receipts fol
large consignments of poultry, produce
etc. The aggregate is not known, but
one person holds $4,000 of them.
The commissioner of pensions has ad
vised the secretary of the interior that
there will be deficiency in the amount
necessary for the payment of pensions fol
the fiscal year over and above existing
appropriations of about $4,000, and asks
that necessary steps be taken to secure
immediate consideration of the matter by
congress to prevent stoppage of payment
of pensions.
John Meyers, cowboy of Yellowstone
county, suffered from a fracture of the
left leg above the ankle, caused by his
horse falling while he was endeavoring to
corral band of horses about fifteer
miles from the ranch. Meyers was IN
jured at 3 o'clock p. M, and arrived al
the ranch distance of ten miles, at
o'clock the next night, having crept the
entire distance on his hands and knees
exhibiting great nerve and endurance.
The attorney general has rendered ar
important decision involving the right o.
Indians who have taken allowances o.
land under the severalty act to dispose Of
the timber standing upon their several al
lotments. 1t is in fact declaration O
the invalidity of all contracts which have
been made between the Indians, to whom
the lands have been allotted, and other
for the cutting of timber from allotment.
made either under the severaltv act O
under the treaties containing the twenty
five years Limitation clause.
A fire was discovered IN one of th,
great storage warehouses of the Anheuser
Busch Brewing Association in St. Louis
and few moments later tremendon
explosion occurred and the north wall o
warehouse, ninety feet long and 100 fee
high, was thrown down with great crasl
on the iron and glass roof depot building
crushing the building and covering it
contents with debris. The warehouse
contained 100000 bushels of barley ant
malt. About noon the fire was gottel
under control. Loss $4,000, which i
covered by insurance on the whole prop
erty.