The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-01-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A large feet of British war ships have
assembled at Zanzibar

Lady Douglass, widow OF the late olf
James Douglass, governor of British CO.
lumbia, died at Victoria, B. c., Nednes-
day night.
In the democratic caucus held at An
apolis, Maryland, yesterday, Senator
Wilson was renominated by acclamation
for United States senator.
One Of the Vanierbilts of New York
has purchased from the earl Of Dudley
the famous picture, The Grand Canal of
Venice The price paid for tie painting
was 100000.
While engaged in leading a raid on q
nhilist club in Moscow, Russia, the
chief of police was shot by woman
I named Olga Charenko. The woman
then committed suicide.
The Northern P,.cific's statement of
approximation earnings for December
shows total gross earnings Of 31,612,-
743, an increase compared with the cor
responding month Of last year of Sl31,-
go.
The steamer City of Pekin arrived in
San Francisco from Hong Kong and Io-
lkahoma yesterday morning. Chinese
advices report the wreck Of the British
ship Nye Chan, from Yarmouth, n. S.,
on Protas Shoal, on November 26th
Captain Butler and eight men arrived
at Hong Kong in small boat four days
later. Another boat containing Mate
Briggs and six men is missing.
A special from Ottawa says: A copy
of the extradition treaty between the
United States and Great Britain has
been received by the minister of justice.
The scope of the proposed treaty is very
wide in contrast with the treaty of 1912,
which contains only fonr offenses. If the
pending treaty is adopted legislation
by the dominion parliament will be nee
essary to bring Canada under it's provi-
sions.
The czar having learned Of the threat
enings of Russian eNiles III Siberia, has,
it is said, ordered the culprits tied. It
Is understood in this he acts upon some
suggestions received from Berlin. The
vice governor of Yakauthk Ostashine,
whose savage order for exiles to march
without supplies was the origin of the
trouble, and Police Official Olessof, who
ordered massacre, will be severely pun
ished.
A cooking main between picked birds
of New York against Pennsylvania birds
was fought near Philadelphia in the
presence of about forty high rollers. It
is said that sixty millions were repre-
sented by those present. The main was
for $500 each battle and 5000 for the
odd fight. Thirteen pairs ''feil in" out
of twenty one shown by each side. The
Pennsylvanians won seven out Of eleven
battles fought, which gave them the
victory.
Yesterday the vice president laid be-
fore the senate a communication from
the attorney general in response to re-
solution adopted by the senate on We'd
nesday. The attorney general says that
no instructions, oral and written, have
as yet been given as yet to District At
torney Chambers on the subject Of the
arrest of W. w. Dudley. No communi-
tion, says the attorney general, was sent
by the department Of justice to the dis
trict attorney of Indiana, nor any re-
ceiyed from him, directly or Indirectly,
with reference to the subject. Dolph,
from the committee on commerce, re-
ported back the bill for the construction
of a revenue cutter for service on the
Pacific coast; also bill to prevent the
obstruction of navigable waters of the
United States, and to protect public
works from. trespass. Frye, from the
committee commerce, reported a bill
for the erection of first order light
house at Cape disappointment, Wash
ington.
A conference between the Occur
d'Alene Indians and the officers of the
government was held at Desmet Mission,
Idaho, Wednesday, resulting in the sign
ing of treaty by which 100000 acres Of
the most valuable land of the Cnur
d'Alene reservation was conveyed to the
United States, The tract conveyed en-
braces lhe largest portion Of the beauti
full Ceur d'Alene lake and a large
amount of rich mineral and timber land.
The Indians were we'll satisfied on all
points. and signed the treaty willingly.
The papers signed were final for all the
treaties, one negotiated in 1887 and also
one last August. The first treaty in
cludes the land upon which Spokane
Falls and Pennington, this state, are To-
Gated. The land embraced in the last
treaty is twelye-mile strip on the north
side of the Caur d'Alene reservation, a
portion of which lies across the Spokane
river from Post Falls, twelve miles above
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the supreme court Of Idaho; Col. WIN
am B. Wallace, of the town of Wallace
and Major George A. Manning, of Post
Falls, represented the government, and
Chief Seltis and eight of his head chiefs
represented the Indians. For several
months boomers have been camping on
the borders of the reserve, ready to move
as soon as the treaty should be consum-
mated.
The grippe is still spreading in New
York, as is shown by Wednesdays NOR
tality list, which records $50 deaths up
to noon. This is the biggest number
known in the history of the health de-
partment in twentyfour hours during a
winter month, and is more than in any
summer month since July 2, 1872, when
35l deaths occurred, Is of which were
from sunstroke. Four Of Wednesdays
deaths are due directly to influenza.