The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-05-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

sizing of a boat.
The chairman of the national green
back committee has issued call for the
convention to meet at Indianapolis
August q.
On Monday the oath of Office was aa-
ministered by the president of the SEN
are to Carlisle, as senator from Kentucky
for Beck's unexpired term.
John G.. Bullitt, Jr., and Tilden r.
Selmes have been appointed as counsel
and assistant counsel, respectively, OF
the Northern Pacific railroad company,
with Offices at st. Paul
The Iowa Indians have formally ac-
cepted the offer of the government
Cherokee commission and the contract
has been completed This means
an addition of 22l ,61S acres to the public
domain.
Senator Davis of Minnesota has Of
fered an amendent to the Mckinley
tariff bill, to place binding twine upon
the free list, in the interest of the con-
sumers of that commodity throughout
the northwest.
George Francis Train reached Tacoma
Saturday night last on his return from
trip around the world, made under
the auspices of the Tacoma Ledge: His
time was sixty seven days, thirteen
hours and thirty five minutes, beating
the record of Nellie BLY, by about five
days.
The secretary of the interior is in ia
vor Of uniting the Indians at the Pine
Ridge agency, South Dakota, and those
at the Tongue River agency, Montana.
and locating them upon the Grow or
some other reservation. The president
believes such an arrangement would
promote the best interests of both
bands.
Assistant Commissioner Stone has
rendered a decision in which he holds
that the soldier who makes location
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but who fails to make settlement there
on within six months, does not thereby
forfeit his right to the land, unless some
adverse claim intervenes prior to the
date of actual settlement.
The statue in honor of Gen. r. E. Lee
was unveiled Thursday at Richmond,
Virginia. The event called thousands
from all parts of the South to Richmond
to witness the ceremonies. The statue
as unveiled is forty feet high and weighs
eighty tons. 1t is cast in eight pieces,
and brought from Paris in three pieces.
The pedestal is twenty feet high,
making the total height sixty one feet.
In regard to the murder of Attorney
Henry Hardie few days ago by hostile
Indians near Tombstone, Arizona, Gen
eral Miles has issued orders to pursue
the Indians and use the same tactics as
in the pursuit of Geronimo. The hos
tile band consists Of KID and his party,
who were sentenced to twenty years in
a military prison, but after serving a
few years were pardoned by President
Cleveland and returned to the reserya-
ton. The civil authorities then tried
them and sentenced them to be hanged.
While being taken to the penitentiary
they murdered the sheriff and escaped.
The superintendent of census has is
sued the following order to all census
supervisors: Please instruct all enum-
orators in cases where persons refuse to
answer questions on the population
schedule in relation to physical and
mental disabilities, p and %, or to ques-
tions relating to farms, homes and mort
cages, 26 to 80 inclusive, to enter in the
proper column the words refused to
answer" No further steps will be nee
essary on the part of the supervisor Or
enumerator, as all legal proceedings will
be instituted by the authorities at Wash
ington through the department of just
ice.
| A project for a railroad to Alaska is
about to take definite shape. Applica-
ton will be made to the Canadian par
lament at the next session for the pas
sage of an act incorporating the Van
couver, Northern Il Alaska Railway and
Navigation company, with power to
build railroad from Vancouver or some
other point on Barrows inlet, on the
bank of Fraser river, by way of Seymour
Creek valley, Pemberton Meadows, Chill
coten Plains and the head waters of the
Fraser river to point on the Parsnip or
Peace river, with branches in a north
westerly direction to Skeena and Sitka
rivers to the boundary of Alaska.
Mansfield King, self-confessed mur-
derer, horse thief and all around crimi-
nal, now in jail at Clayton, Missouri, has
been fully identified as Wells, the rob-
Der who compelled President Moffatt of
the First National bank of Denver to
hand over 1000 cash in 1889 at the
point of revolver H. G. Otis, assist
ant cashier of the bank, went to Clayton
la few days ago, where King is lying at
the point of death. Until few days
ago he wore a full beard and long hair.
When he committed the robbery he had
only small mustache and for this rea-
son Otis failed to identify him at first.
But when his beard was shaved off Otis
Immediately recognized him as Wells,
the robber. King was arrested some
days ago for horse stealing. After the
arrest he was taken very sick, became
communicative and confessed to being
author of several crimes, one of which
was the Denver robbery.
The United States supreme court has
denied the application for a writ of er-
ror in the case of Kemmler, under SEN
tence of death by electricity. The opin-
ION 10 hv Chief Jusfice Fuller The