The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-08-09
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.

COUuI DdhOUd, was Wlp6l
out by fire on Wednesday morning
Eighteen business houses were destroy
| ed, the loss being estimated at over hall
a million dollars.
| The returns of the census supervisor
, show the population of Arizona, not in
Guiding Indians, to be 81, 900. Three ol
the largest towns are: Tucson 5,185
Phoenix 3,l15, Prescott, 1,843.
The house elections committee will
report declaring that in the Clayton
Breckenridge contest the seat is vacant
on account of the murder of John NJ.
Clayton, who was entitled to the seat.
Revised returns of the county election
! held in Salt Lake show that the liberals
have elected their assessor, selectman,
surveyor, attorney, coroner clerk and
treasurer. The Mormons elected only
the sheriff and recorder.
In the house Reed, of Iowa, presented
a conference report on the original pack
age bill The report leaves the bill ex-
actly as it passed the senate and is dis
sented from by Oates, Of Alabama, one
of the conferees. After debate the con-
ference report was adopted yeas 100,
nays 93.
Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry had the trial
of her case against the estate of Senator
Sharon in the superior court at San
Francisco, and Judge Shafter rendered
a decision, holding that the so-called
marriage contract was forgery; that
she never had been married to Sharon
and had no claim whatever on the
Sharon estate.
A fresh Nihilistic plot against the
czar has been discovered at St. Peters
burg. According to the report, Prof.
Gorlowaski, of the university of st. Pc
tersburg, and a number of students of
that institution, who, it is alleged, were
concerned in the plot, have been arrest
ed. Many persons have been taken into
custody in Moscow on the same charge.
A telegram from Findlay, Ohio, says:
A prominent tableware manufacturer
says his establishment, with every glass
| concern in the United States, has been
sold to an English syndicate. The price
paid averages 100000 per factory, or
32,3OO,OOO in all, as there are twenty
three factories in the country. The
price OF tableware will be advanced as
soon as the syndicate assumes control.
The Iowa democratic state convention
met Wednesday and the following ticket
was nominated: For secretary Of state,
w. s. Chamberlain, of Independence;
treasurer, A. l.. White, Wayne county;
auditor, George S. Writer'S, Ida county;
Judge OF the supreme court, P. B. Wolf,
OF Clinton; railroad commissioner, Peter
A. Dey; supreme court reporter, Theo-
dore W. Ivory.
Representative Morrow of California
has introduced bill to forever exclude
Chinese from the United States. It pro-
vldes for the exclusion of all Chinese,
even those who may hereafter leave the
United States and attempt to return,
excepting diplomatic and consular Off
GERS and commercial agents, and the
coming of Chinese into the United |
States for transit is especially prohib-
ited.
The North Dakota democratic state
committee nominated the following
ticket: Congressman, John D. Benton,
Fargo; governor, w. N. Roach, Lari-
more; lieutenant governor, George r.
CARAT, Richland; secretary of state, f.
A. Wilson, Bathgate; auditor, G. E.
Meach, Morton county; treasurer, I. B.
Baker, Bismarck; attorney general, J.
Y. Breeke, Devils Lake. Free coinage
of silver was advocated in the platform.
The Farmers Alliance of the eighth
judicial district of Kansas has put in
circulation and endorsed at it's meetings
the following petition: '"To the Hon.
M. B. Nicholson, judge of the Eighth
judicial district of Kansas: In view OF
the disastrous failure Of crops and the
general stringency of money matters, we,
the undersigned petitioners, do hereby
most earnestly request that proceedings
in the foreclosure of all real estate mort
cages now pending or that may be COM
within one year from date be
delayed"
The bill introduced by Senator Allen
to double the fees for the United States
district attorneys, marshals and clerks
in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon
and Arizona, was amended by the judici-
ary committee in some important partic-
ulars. The intent of the measure was
to put these offices in the way of earn
ing sufficient compensation to make
them an object, and the fees were
doubled because of the scarcity of bust
ness in these lines in these new states.
Senator Edmunds believed that in five
years the growth in these states would
be such that they could be put on the
same basis as the other states,
and the bill was amended SO
rs to continue it's provisions only
until 1895.
Senator Mitchell, from the committee {
IN postoffices and post roads, reported 1
favorably, with amendments, the bill to
extend the free delivery system. The
DILL, as presented, proposed to introduce
the system into towns and cities of not
ess than 5000 population, or where the
oostot1lce receipts were not less than
5000 for the previous fiscal year. The =.
committee changed these figures to 5000 !
population and $1,000 postoffice receipts.
\ letter from the postmaster general =
shows that there are 294 cities and
owns that would be entitled to free
delivery, and the estimated expense of =
putting it in operation is $4,000. The
committee says an appropriation of
'35O,00O will be amply sufficient for the {
present fiscal year, provided the bill is ;
'nacted into law at an early date.
A special from Santa Fe says: The 9
White Cap organization near Las Vegas, 8
Y. NJ, whose outrages were recently a
'alled to the attention of the secretary
# the interior, have become so bold in
heir depredations that Governor Price Q
las been compelled to issue proclama-
ion calling upon them to disband, and d
leclares that if they do not do SO he ;
viii order out the territorial militia and q
necessary call upon the United States T
roops. This band of regulators style r
themselves Knight of Labor" and have o
rganized lodges through San Miguel !
ounty until they now have member :
hip of 1,5O0. They have without any o
egal cause destroyed hundreds of miles s.
f fences, turned herds Of cattle loose,
'urned thousands of tons OF hay and .
destroyed other property, while several 2
nen who have opposed them have been
eriously wounded by some unseen as 1,
ASSN, or mysteriously disappeared.
mother unfortunate discovery for the :,
ounty is that for years there has been =
factional fight in the republican party,
nd it is now alleged that the leader of O.
ne faction is in sympathy with the out
lws, and that the organization, unless
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