The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-08-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


. taken back to that state and tried f
!, the crime Of prize fighting.
] The constitutional convention
> Washington has defeated the woman
: suffrage proposition by decisive majo
!. ity. It will be kept out of the constit
: ton and submitted to vote of the pc
pie next year.
Mackerel some time ago almost Who'll
deserted the Atlantic side Of the cont
nent. Now comes the report that the
have put in an appearance on the P
cific side toward Behring sea, whel
they were never before seen.
Secretary Noble has requested tt
war department to take the necessal
steps to keep intruders from the Siou
reservation. This action is taken in al
} ticipation Of the rush of settlers, no
that the success Of the commission
assured.
The constitution for the state of Mort
Dakota was completed and sent to tn
committee on revision and adjustmer
on the 9th. The convention then a(
journed until Tuesday, when the con
mittee reported and the delegates signe
Theodore Roosevelt, who obtained pt
litical fame as the Napoleon Of the Ne,
York legislature and whose doings as
member of the civil service commission
under appointment of President Harr
son, have caused considerable stir,
rusticating on his ranch near Medors
Dakota
The assistant general freight agent Q
the Northern Pacific at Portland has re
turned from visit to Spokane Falls an
says the total value of property destroy
ed by the recent fire will not excee,
S5,OOO,OOO, instead Of Sl4,OOO,OOO. Tn
Northern Pacific loss will be unde
100000.
A Washington dispatch states tha
Attorney General Garland has decide,
to accept the position Of lobbyist for tn
Northern Pacific road and that his sal
ary is fixed at $4,000 per annum. Tn
Northern Pacific expects another at
tempt will he made to forfeit all of it
grants west OF Bismarck.
A meeting of the business men 0
Johnstown, Pa, was held on the 8th ant
steps taken toward determining the liza
bility Of the South Fork Fishing clut
for the great flood dlsastnr \ commit
tee was appointed and funds will b.
raised to help make the suit of Joh1
Thomas 4 Sons against the club a tes
one.
| The senate court at Paris has founC
Boulanger guilty of embezzling public
| funds and refused to allow any extenu
ating circumstances. Count Dillon an6
Henri Rockefort were found to be &C
completes of Boulanger in his felonious
attempt against the safety Of the state
and all were sentenced to be deported t.
a fortified place.
On the twenty fifth ballot, in the Iowa
state convention at Des Moines, Thurs
day, Hutchinson was nominated for gov
ernor. Poyneer was nominated fol
lieutenant governor. The following were
nominated by acclamation: For supreme
Judge, Josiah Given; superintendent q
education, Henry Sabin; railroad com
missioner, Spencer Smith.
First Comptroller Mathews has decid
ed that the appropriation OF s6OO,OO0
made for agricultural experiment sta
tions' can be used for the benefit only
Of forty stations in each Of thirty nine
states and in the territory Of Dakota and
at the agricultural department, and that
no part of the appropriation can be used
in the establishment Of such stations in
any Of the territories except Dakota
that being the only one included in the
estimates upon which the appropriation
was based,
Major Powell of the senate irrigation
committee advised the tank system in
irrigation in Dakota. A pond on every
farm where practicable that will catch
the storm water and store it until the
water is needed. He says that twenty
acre tank filled with water to the depth
OF ten feet will irrigate 300 acres of land
and increase the value Of the land from
800 to 400 per cent. IF we irrigate we
would never need any other fertilizers,
and we might crop the land without ro-
tatiot, for 1900 years. Water in this
case is fertilizer and the land can never
be exhausted where irrigation is prac-
ticed.'
A Lamoure, North Dakota, special
says A gigantic horse stealing indus
try is thought to have been established
III Uli0 COUcduo dlOls5 UlIt 1NlooOuII llSCI.
Different parties take old, decrepif
horses out ameng the hills, which are
totally uuinhabited, and any strays that
may Be around will come to these horses,
when they are caught and sent to other
parties connected with the gang, and
soon they will have the horses hundreds
of miles from where they we're picked
up and then offer them for sale in safety.
The facts lead to the belief that this or
ganization leads from Pierre, South Da-
kota, to Great Falls, Mont, and prob
ably to the British possessions - '''
A singular case was tried in Judge
Patricks court at Tacoma on Saturday
last. Santos Cardova, an Italian, is the
guardian Of q pretty italian girl whom
he hoped some day to make his wife. In
April Martin Petrick, another Italian,
appeared in the field and proposed mar
riage, but the young lady said she was
engaged to Santos Petrick thereupon
asked Santos what he would take for
his claim on her affections. He named
$50 as the price and bargain was
speedily made. Cardova relinquished
his claim on his fair countrywoman to
Petrick, who soon found that the sale
did not sell, as the maiden did not lavish
any affection upon him. He then pro-
posed to trade back but the cash was
refused. He brought suit but the court
decided that the contract was illegal and
Petrick lost his money.
The state department is in receipt Of a
report by Consul Frank H. Mason of
Marseilles, in which he says one of the
clearly defined tendencies of public
opinion in Europe, notably in France,
Germany and England, is seen in the
steadily growing sentiment in favor of
restoring the bi-metallic standard of
currency. In strong and numerous pc
titions read before the German reich
stag, in the recent resolutions of Chap
lain in the British house Of commons, as
we'll as the frank declaration Of Lord
Salisbury in favor of an earnest partici-
patton by Great Britain in the forthcom-
ing conference at Paris, and in the out
spoken attitude of such serious and in
fiuential French journals as LIE Moni-
teur, Des Interests, Materieis, may be
recognized as the outward manifesto
tions of this new faith and purpose.
The New York World Of the 18th says:
The finance commit zee of the Northern
Pacific road was to have acted to-day on
the s15,OOO,OO0 collateral trust loan plan,