The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-04-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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- train robbery on the Chicago and Alto
x road with the James gang few yea
ago, has been pardoned by Govern,
Merehouse of Missouri.
II It is understood that the naval boar
e selected by Secretary Whitney to locat
e another navy yard on the Pacific coas
have decided to report in favor of Puge
[. Sound, opposite Seattle, w. T.
e David Sheely, member of parliament
undergoing Imprisonment for offence
under the crimes act, has been confnes
j. in cell and placed on bread and waite
: diet for refusing to perform menial worl
: about the prison.
1t IS stated that ex- Governor Swinefor(
! of Alaska is organizing strong syndicate
to 60 in and contest the claims of the
Alaska Commercial company to a re-
} newal of its lease of the fur seal fisheries
Wmcn expires next year.
P. F. Lockwood, real estate dealer
and capitalist of Minneapolis, committed
suicide Monday by the poison route. He
committed the act in the cemetery on his
own lot, and it is thought his peculiar
ideas of spiritual existence prompted the
deed.
John Albert Bright, candidate of the
loyal unionists, was elected Monday to
succeed his father, the late John Bright,
as representative of the central district of
Birmingham in parliament. Bright re-
ceived 5,610 votes against 1850 for the
Gladstonian nominee.
The Oklahoma boomers are confronted
by new danger. The only way of get
ting into Oklahoma is by fording the
Cimarron river. This is rising rapidly and
sweeping everything before it. Several
persons are reported to have been drowned
already. The only place where it can be
forded is near Guthrie.
The first Arbor day was observed IN
Nebraska seventeen years ago, when 49,
100000 trees were planted. There are
now growing in the state COS, 100000
trees. In other states many millions of
trees have been planted, and at the pres
ent time thirty -four states observe an Ar
Dor day, many of them during this
month.
Gabriel Dumont, the F.lf-breed and
right hand man of the late Louis Reil in
the northwest rebellion few years ago,
and who saved his neck by escaping to
the United States, has been amnestied by
the dominion government. He says he
will go to Paris and there appeal to his
French compatriots for aid in liberating
the half-breeds of the northwest.
A bold and nearly successful attempt
was made to rob the State bank of
Minneapolis at noon Tuesday. The men
went to the bank when only two en-
ployes were present. One covered the
employees with rcvolvers while the other
vaulted over the railing and thrust $4,000
on the teller's table into his valise. At
this moment depositor entered and the
robber threw the valise to his accomplice,
who dashed out. They were pursued
and captured. They gave the names of
James Henry and Fred Douglas.
A package containing $4,000 in gold
has mysteriously disappeared from the
office of the Northern Pacific Express
Company, Brainerd. Louis Holman,
night clerk, received from the train four
sacks Of specie, two of which contained
$4,000 each in gold and two of $500
each in silver. The money was to be
used in paying off employees of the road.
Holman says he carried all the specie
into the vault and turned the combina-
ton. A half hour later he discovered
one of the bags of gold was missing and
at once notified his superior. Holman
is regarded as honest and faithful
A terrible tragedy occurred few days
ago in the eastern part of Oklahoma terri
tory, between two men from Kiowa, Kas.,
and two men from Texas, for the posses
sien of claim. Guns we're used freely
and one of the Kiowa men was killed and
a Texan was mortally wounded. The
other men called a truce and placing the
men on wagon started for
ranch. Before they reached
It the fight was renewed and the entire
party was discovered by some COW boys
later on, stretched out on the prairie.
The COW boys took the one dead man and
the three wounded men to the nearest ,
stage station. II
Meredith Stanley Of Cincinnati, the
we'll kncwn athlete and bridge jumper,
made the most remarkable leap on record ,
last Thursday. 1t was from the famous ,
nigh bridge over the Kentucky river, 285
feet high. He selected the water where
It was twelve feet deep, and attired in
silk tights and slippers leaped into the
air and doubling up his body fell into the
water and moment later bounded to the
surface, where he was quickly seized by ,
an assistant in boat. He coughed bleod
4 little while, but sson recovered and took /
the train for Cincinnati. He escaped