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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-28
HERBERT BISMARCK IN FRANCE
Visit to the House in Versailles wher.
the Peace Treaty was signed.

Visit to the House in Versailles Where
the Peace Treaty was signed.
During his recent visit to the French
capital Count Herbert Bismarck ex-
pressed a strong desire to visit the house
at Versailles where his father lived dur
ing the siege of Paris and where the treaty
of peace was discussed and signed. Many
tourists have asked to enter the house, but
the proprietor Mime. Jesse, has consist
emily refused to crafty their curiosity.
She was equally obdurate, according to
the Petit Journal on his occasion. Count
Bismarck drove to Versa lilies accompan-
led only by his friend the Prince Won
Pless, with whom he was staying on his
two days s~ojourn in Paris. After ring
ing at h gate n presenting their cards
they followed a domestic into the garden,
shutting the gate as they entered. They
met Nine. Jesse,and.after greeting her re-
specially, asked permission to visit the
house. She firmly declined to accede to this
request, whereupon they solicited h IA
vor of being allowed to stroll for = few
moments through the park at the back of
the house. To this Mime. Jesse raised no
objection. The count greatly admired the
trees and lawns, so different from their
aspect during the five winter months
which he spent there with his father dur
ing m OF the most momentous periods in
the history of the two nations. He ex.
pressed a strong wish merely TO peep into
the rooms on the ground floor, and the
lady Of the house obliRinRly ordered the
shutters To be thrown open. He looked In
with evident interest, and glanced at the
windows on the first story. There, al the
corner, was the room occupied by the
great chancellor, and next TO IL his own.
Underneath il was the billiard-room, which
i'm 1871 was known as the chancellery, and
near IL the drawing-room, where the peace
WIS signed. The count for "A few m O.
ments was lost i'm ~reverie, and finally
seemed well pleased with the result Of his
pilgrimage.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-28

The greatest mine on earth has been
discovered away north, at the terminus
of the Belt Mountain railroad. The
vein is eight feet wide, with silver,
copper, gold and the rest, the assays
running well up into the thousands.
The shaft on this splendid property is
only six feet deep. But what of thatY
If a vein at the six.foot level assays
s3,i00 per ton, just think what it must
be mt the six hundred level. That's the
way to figure it IL you want to possess
the richest mine in the world in your
mind,
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GIVE HIM A SHOW.

Some newspaper somewhere in Mon
tana has all the right, title and interest
there is in the story that Mr.. Carter is
boycOtted by the Associated Press. The
tale is refreshing.
To think that the worlds greatest
agency should select poor Carter
as the victim of its malevolence.
How these great statesmen do suffer!
II is just too mean for anything that
the good man should be prosecuted in
this manner. We trust that Mr.. Will
liam Henry Smith will put a stop to it
right off and give Carter a show-that
is all the Montana man wants.
The STANDARD does not know just
how faithful the Associated Press has
been in heralding to the world the
words that have fallen from the lips of
Mr.. Carter, 1t has not relied on the gen
eral press service for information relat.
ing especially to Montana.
The STANDARD has faithfully report
ed Mr.. Carter, however, through its
special Washington service, ever since
congress opened. If Mr.. Carriers
friends feel that the republican press is
neglecting him, they can get the
STANDARD for three and a third cents
u day, and its news columns will tell
them how truly great our Thomas is.
VIII the STANDARD fail In this duty
Hardly ever.
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Ex-Governor Hauser In Washington.
From the Washington Post.

Ex-Gov. s. L. Hauser of Montana is
registered at Chamberlin's. He is nearly
as well known i'm Washington as i'm Nom
tana and equally as popular. He is as
democratic ms David ID. Hill and as
shrewd a politician. He is seldom to be
found indoors. His principal use for n
hotel is TO have n place TO leave his grip
sack. He doesn't wait for his friends 10
come To see him; he quietly drops around
TO see them. The Montana democratic
leaders hav recently issued a round robin
challenge to the republican senators and
representatives from Montana in WASH
ington, warning them hat they were being
watched, and that IL they failed to ''come
TO taw" on the silver question they would
find themselves In the mine hole ON
their return home. The quoted exrrcs-
sions are technical phrases largely used
in mining-camp metallurgy, and lose their
significance in Eastern ears. Ii Is under
stood that Governor Hauser is here tosee
that they "come 20 taw.n
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Sullivan himself II the feat could be per
formed incog.
Caribaldf's tomb, In Caprera, In to be
made a national monument, and the Is
land In 10 he devoted TO the purpose OF a
home for old sailors. A light house will
also be erected there.
Coquelin, the French actor, does not
entertain q very high opinion OF Shakes
peare as q dramatist, but he still enter
ain the same exalted opinion of Co
quelin, the actor. as he formerly did.
John II. Stewart, United States consul
Mt Antwerp, and Miss Marie Virginia
Harding Of Brooklyn were married on
Thursday at the residence of the brides
mother. They sail for Antwerp July 2.
General Pieasanton Is n picturesque
figure of war times and occasionally may
he seen ~strolling down Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, wearing n sombrero hat.
which he has worn for nearly a score of
years.
Wordsworth's cottage and garden,
which remain almost the same as when
he lived, are to be purchased and put I'M
der q trust, like the birthplace of Shakes
peare, as a permanent memorial Of the
spot.
The late Sir George Burns, who was one
of the founders of the Cunard company,
and who died i'm his 95th year, came of a
long-lived race. His father lived TO be 90
years old, and was minister of a church at
Glasgow for ~ years.
Isaac Murphy. who rode Salvador, the
winning horse in the Suburban. is a
young colored man who was raised in the
household Of Mrs. Hunt Reynolds, in Lex
iu1ton XIV whara ha livoa NTH his u,ifo
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Mr.. BlaIne's Position.

From the Boston Herald.
There are indications that Mr.. Blaine
is in danger of coming out more or less as
an independent.
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Beware of the Tin,

From the Kansas Crty star.
"Black and Blue" and other famous
tip-givcrs besought the people to put their
money on Tenny TO capture the Suburban
stakes. They did and lost-as usual. Ii
il always safe to avoid The tips sent out by
these alleged experts in New York.
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Practice Makes Perfect.

From the Texas SiNings.
Simpson-What are you going about for
grinning like a country poor house idiot?
Have you been taking laughing gas
DE Smith-No, but I'm Promised a posi-
ton as a hotel clerk at a seaside resort
and I'm getting the bland smile well In
hand.
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The pleasing intelligence is announced
to the world that King Miranga of
Uganda, Africa, has been converted TO
Christianity. With the blood Of several
missionaries coursing through mis- brains
King Miranga should make very good
Christian.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-28

A temperance society, the first organi-
zation 81 the kind ever there, has been
established in st. Petersburg. The OBJ
jects OF the society being Inconsistent
with their first principles, n new field Of
industry is opened up to the dynamiters.
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~. john. Great Work.


FROM the tinaill Zee.
A Kansas paper thus pictures the pain
full situation: "St. John gave us Grover
Cleveland as president. Grover Cleveland
gave us Lamar and Fuller for United
States supreme Judges. Lamar and Fuller
gave us the original package decision"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-28

A New York Judge has fined Jay Gould
500 for refusing TO serve as q juror. Ex-
emption from jury service comes high but
Mr.. Gould has To have il.
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Kentucky's Congratulations.

From The Chicago Herald.
Kentucky, of course, Is enthusiastically
drinking to the health of its famous
daughter. Mary Anderson. Ii is not less
proud of Mary than the really excellent
beverage with which il performs that
pleasing courtesy.
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From the ~. Louis Globe Democrat.
Mr.. Stanley is a great man in his way,
but greater men than he have beer known
10 harm themselves by too mudh talking.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
Its Market Value,

From the sioux City Journal.
A college diploma Is worth just as much
as the man upon whom il is conferred
no more, no less.
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Success. of the Anti Poverty Crusade.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Henry George has sailed from Austria
lia. The result of his ''single tax" cam
paign in that country is represented by a
bag full Of money which the people paid
TO near him talk.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-28
a Dangerous Trust.

From the Kansas City Times.
Although 100000 has beer raised at
Pittsburg To form a nitro-Rlycerine trust,
the fact remains that il is a most untrust-
worthy commodity.
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A Chicago paper Is offering tickets to
Barnum's circus as premiums 20 subscrib-
ers. The press is bound TO give the peo-
pie q show.
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

heard of this Upper Missouri river coun-
try until after the return OF Captains
Lewis and Clarke, in 1906. Their nara
tive Is too well known to need anything
more than Il reference to their discovery
Of the Great falls of the Missouri, the
several minor falls and rapids above them,
and the wonderful spring. We will only
quote Capt. Lewis account Of his dis
covery of the falls. 1t was on Thursday,
June 18th, 1905. He with others were
coming up the river, and "fnding that
it bore considerably to the north, and
fearful Of passing the falls before reach
ing tn" Rocky mountains, they now
changed their course to the south, and
leaving those insulated hills to the right.
proceeded across the plain. In tins d-
miles when his ears were saluted with
the agreeable sound Of Il fall Of water,
an" rs he advanced, ~ spray which was
driven by the high south west wind arose
above the rlain like column Of smoke
and vanished in an instant. Towards
this point he directed his steps, and the
noise increasing as he approached. soon
became too tremendous to he mistaken
for anything hut the Great falls of the
Missouri. Having travelled seven miles
after first hearing The sound, he reached
IL" falls about u O'clock: Tn. hills as he
approached We're difficult Of access ana
tw" hundred feet high: down these h..
hurried with impaticnce, and seating
himself on some rocks under the centre
Of the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

great fountain, so much admired today,
which is between the Black Eagle and
Rainbow falls.
After the establishment Of Fort Benton
in ls4G, white men frequently visited the
Great falls, but We have no written de
scriptions of their impressions.
In 1869. Captain James IIarkness, of
st. Louis, made a voyage on his steamer
camille" to TT. Benton. H.. kept Il journal
Of the voyage. both in going and return
ing. His daughter, Margaret Elliot
Hardness, accompanied him. Gov. Sam
uel Y. lIauser was passenger up the
river. They, with others, visited the
Great Falls on the 18th of August. 1869,
and Capt. !Iarkness journal gives de-
scription Of the whole series Of falls and
rapids up to the mouth of sun river. and
is full of expressions Of admiration. He
notices the eagles nest on the island,
described by Lewis and Clarke. He says
and Clark, that '.it probably is the largest
spring ON the continent. and is equal TO Il
small river" On the Goth he SAYS. '.the
Crow Indians are here and the I'iegans
are expected every hour. In order to
prevent IA fight have sent for the agent
So il was risky then as it was until after
Bakers fight with the Blackfeet in 1870,
70 visit the Great Fails. Parties from
Fort Shaw or Benton went under escort.
Miss Hardness was the first white wo-
man who ever visited the Great Falls, and
the propriet"rs in laying out the city, in
lsS4, have named one IF it, principal
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

the falls, to connect the navigation of the
river above and below. But the next year
Jay Cooke + Co. failed and apparently
the Northern Pacific with them, and all
building stopped until after it was reor-
yanzed and Henry Willard got control of
it. and completed it ten years after in
1ss:'. And so the L. :. government did
not improve the river.
In the time after, until the completion
of the y. T. X. X. in 1883, the people Of
Montana were working at a great disad
vantage. On the north we had to bring
goods from bismarck up tn Fort Benton
by boats and then haul them 15O miles to
Helena on wagons to be from there dis
fributen over the territory. On the south
the nearest railroad point was Franklin,
Utah, about 400 miles distant, and pas>en
gers and freight had to travel overland
that distance. The people were clamor
Gus for relief Propositions to vote sub
sidies Or grant exemptions from taxation
We're proposed but defeated most FORUM
ately. m."- w.."-.
IMPROVEMENTS SUGGESTED.
had become So thoroughly impressed
with Mr.. Roberts ideas aS 70 the feasibility
of improving the navigation of the Mis-
souri, river, both abov. and below the
Great falls, that, on retiring from the Of
flee of T.. N. Marshal in lSsS. | addressed
communication to the Helena Board of
Trade setting forth 1T length the plans and
arguments Of Mr.. Roberts for tile i'm.
nrnyamanf nj tho rivnr 'Thay al
carefully my sentiments and returned me
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

he used with such effect in congress that
he procured an appropriation of $4,000
tn improve the river above the falls.
In September, 1879, Capt. f. Mcguire.
L. :. A. government engineer, in charge
Of the Missouri and Yellowstone river
improvements, arrived ut Helena. The
Board of Trade furnished IL boat and sup
plies and delegated W. F. Wheeler. Harry
p. Comley, Henry CaE,ffon and Chester
A. Hi.ley to accompany Capt. NJ. in ex
aiming the river from Stubs Ferry
down. At the end Of the voyage he pro-
nounced it "a better river for navigation
now than for the same distance below
Fort Benton to the mouth of the Mu>sel-
shell and with the improvements con-
tcmplated it would be navigable always
when clear of ice" He also recommended
the expenditure of the appropriation Sc
cured by Major Mayinnis to be made the
next season. twas expended accortlingly
and the rocks at the Half Breed Island
rapids were removed from the channel.
The two steamers above the falls the
Fern" - ton boat. and the Rose of
Helena with iron hull, have passed
these rapids safely and the Rose returned
un over them easily.
MIR. GIBSON BECOMES INTERESTED
In the summer Of 1879 spent several
weeks at Fort Benton and there renewed
Il former acquaintance with Hon. Paris
Gibson, whom knew as the proprietor
of Il wopllen mill on the Fails nf ",
Anthony, Mimi, which afterward ex-
panued into the noted .Nnrth Star
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

of this stupendous object, which, since
the creation, had been lavishing Its mag
niticence upon the desert, unknown to
civilization.'
This description is us perfect today as
it was in 1906, and the published account
OF the discovery. after their return to
Washington, gave great satisfaction to
the government and the people.
Another description given in Lewis
and Clarke's narrative is that of the Sui
phur spring, on the north side OF the
river about five miles below the Great
falls. Their journal says: 'Since leav-
ing Marias river, the wife of Chaboneau,
our interpreter, has been dangerously i'll,
but she now found great relief from the
mineral water of the Sulphur spring. 1t
is situated about two hundred yards from
the Missouri, into which it empties over
a precipice of rock, about twenty y-fiye
feet high. The water is perfectly trans.
parent, strongly impregnated with sui
phur, and we suspect iron also, as the
color of the hills and bluffs in the neigh
borhood indicates the presence of that
metal. In short, the water to all appear
ances, is precisely similar to that of
Bowyer's sulphur spring in Virginia.
This spring is now resorted to by citi-
zens of the City of Great Falls, and its
waters are found to be very beneficial In
many cases.
THE GIANT SPRING.
Lewis and Clarke also describe the
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11
FRIENDS.
Mr.. Gibson said 1t
was some time before

he succeeded in getting capitalists inter-
ested to take up the land along the river
and the water power; bNt finally he found
the right man in JAS. J. Hill, who aided
him to secure both and appointed him
(Mr. G. to superintend all their operations
which he mas done as a partner, residing
there constantly, and thus became as he
is justly named, ''the Founder of the city
of Great Falls"
But notwithstanding all that had been
done thus far, the city of Great Falls
would have remained a hamlet had it not
been for the enterprise, energy and finan-
cial ability of two men, in Immediately
entering upon the building of two rail-
roads, TO make the place accessible to the
country east and south, SO as to connect it
with all the railroad systems of the United
States. These men were James j. Hill,
who built the Manitoba, and Col. Charles
A. Broadwater, who built the Montana
Central railway. Such feats of railroad
building were never before accomplished.
They built 648 miles of completed road,
from Minot, Dakota, to Helena, Mont,
Except the grading of the 81 miles be-
tween Great Falls and Helena, which had
been completed previously in the unpre-
cedented period of seven months. This
was in 1887, and since then the city of
Great Falls has bounded forward like 4
young race horse and will become what
predicted of it in my letter to the Inde-
psndent Of June 12th, 1854. when took
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11
THE CITY OF GREAT FALLS.
The Chronology Of the History Which Led to
Its Foundation.
lBy Cor. W. F. WHEELER,I


The history of the first settlement of
any country, or of the foundation Of auv
city, which has become leading or great
city Of the world, has always been read
with interest. Among the first facts
taught children in school history are that
4 4:saeasias founded Athens, Romulus Rome
and Dido Carthage, and IN modern times
that st. Petersburg was founded by Peter
the Great. While we do not expect
Great Falls to become as famous as unv
Of these great cities, yet 1t will be a mat
ter Of interest to those who come after us.
say in 30 or 100 years from this time,
to have authentic data as to the times and
events which led to the founding Of
Great Falls: for that it is to become one
of the great cities of the United States it
needs but little forecast TO predict. The
chronological facts may be somewhat dry
10 the general reader, but they will be
facts OF interest for all times to come,
and If any error is made in giving them,
now is the time to make the correction,
and if necessary, we hope it will be
done.
1t is believed that Sieur de Ia N-ren-
lrye, the French governor Of Quebec and
his sons. We're tie first white men TO dis
cover the Rocky mountains north Of New
Spain. The pamphlet of Rev. +. y.
Neill, who gives the first account we have
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

parks in her name. the "Margauret
Park
ROBERTS MAKES SURVEYS.
After the Northern Pacific railroad was
completed to Bismarck, its finances got
into bad shape. Miner Roberts, its chief
engineer, and his sou, Thomas p. Roberts,
from 1870 to 1872 We're surveying route
across Montana for the road. Building
was suspended, and in 1879 Thomas p.
Roberts was "ordered to examine the up
per Missouri river from the Three Forks
downwards to Fort Benton, in order to
ascertain its capabilities for navigation
by light draught steamers" which he did.
lie made thorough survey of the river
and very complete map on a scale of
one inch to the mile. His report on the
feasibility of its improvement at mod
crate cost from Fort Benton to the foot of
the rapids below the Great falls and from
the head of the, first rapids at the mouth
of Sun River was very favorable, so much
so that the War department at Washing
ton adopted the report as its own and
published 1t with the map. Mr.. Roberts
had been engaged under the War depart.
ment in making the slack water improve
ments ON the Allegheny and Monongahela
rivers and in the Ohio below Pittsburg,
and the government had every faith In his
statements. He Herecommended besides the
improvement Of the river that railroad
should be built from the mouth of Sun
river to the mouth Of Forage creek below
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

IL vote of thanks for my letter. and ap-
pointed Il committee, consisting of John
T. Murphy, Hon. VIM. f. Cullen, e. w.
Cannon, Junius q. Sanders, VIM. F..
Wheeler and Captains Warren, late of the
Oregon Railroad s. Navigation company,
and Parkinson, for many years on the
Missouri river, to make the necessary ex-
ploration. We left Stubs Ferry OF Sept.
5tll, 1873, and examined the river thor
oughly to Fort Benton, at which place we
arrived on the morning of the eleventh.
"The result Of the exploration was entire
ly satisfactory to the whole party, even at
the then low stage of the wnter," as they
reported on their return.
company was organized to improve
the river and procure a boat the next
spring. A thousand dollars was spent
in improving the Bear Tooth rapid, but
no boat was forthcoming in the spring.
1t was rumored that Helena merchants
who had subscribed to the stock of the
navigation company had been offered
good inducements, in the way of cheaper
freights, If they would abandon the idea
of trying to improve the river above Ben
ton. OF this know nothing personally.
GOVERNMENT AID.
However, at the request of Hon. Martin
Maginnis, our delegate in congress, l drew
up statement rs to the commerce of the
Missouri river to Fort Benton and Of
freight brought overland from the railroad
to Montana during the year 1878 which
Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

Hon. Granville Stuart says in Il note on
said pamphlet: ..Among the papers OF
the late James Stuart, my brother, was
found a memorandum, evidently refer
ring to Il monument of which he had
heard, ana of which he made note for
the purpose OF tracing it up; but his un-
timely death occurred before he had the
time Of doing SO. The memorandum
reads rs follows: Twenty feet in diam
eter-on river blutfs-round, and runs T."
polnt-spaces between the boulders
filled with green grass and weeds.'
All the river bottoms along the Mis-.
souri,, Smith rivers, ETC., produce the
choke cherry, and are in the Choke
Cherry country. This vague description
renders it difficult to determine where
the French monument was erected. Mr..
.. Z. Morrison and Mr.. e. &. Griffith,
engineers Of Great Falls, both say they
discovered in the Belt mountains about
80 miles from that city,a mound or mon-
ument of stones, regularly built, which
may be the one referred to, but they have
never yet had time to explore it. If the
leaden plate with the French coat Of
arms upon it, which Verendrye buried
under the monument could be found, it
would be an interesting fact in connec-
tion with the claim the French made to
the country on the Missouri up to the
summit of the Rocky mountains.
LEWIS AND CI4ARKE's DISCOVERY.
Nothing after Verendrye's account was