The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-03-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Dduh money.
A fire in Spokane Falls last Tuesday
destroyed $4,000 worth of property,
with small insurance.
The Comptroller of the currency has
called for a statement Of the condition
of national banks at the close of bust
ness February 28th.
Young Abraham Lincoln, son of
Robert L. Lincoln, United States minis
ter to England, died in London on Tues
day of pneumonia, after protracted
illness.
The strike of factory hands at Barmen,
Germany, is spreading. Employees of
five factories have already stopped work.
Those in others have threatened to quit.
The ia ctories are guarded by the police.
A freighter was murdered by Indians
Monday nine miles west from Fort
Thomas, Arizona The Indians stole his
horses, burned the wagon and cut the
telegraph line between the military
posts. A courier brought the news.
Troops are in pursuit.
News from Shawnee, thirty miles east
OF Oklahoma, says the dead bodies of a
man named Holmes, his wife and two
children were found Thursday. They
we're returning to their claim when kill
ed, it is supposed for money by the out
laws that infest the Pottawatomie reser-
vation. There is no clue to the assassins.
Representative Cutcheon, from the
commi ttee'' on military affairs, last Sat
urday reported to the House the army
appropriation. bill. The total appropria-
ton carried by the bill is s24,458, 800, an
increase over the appropriation for the
current year of s633,6O4 The estimates
subm itted by the department aggrega-
ted s25,611,574.
Complaint has again been made to the
treasury department that Mexican labor
ers are being imported into Texas for
work on the Texas e. Pacific railroad in
violation of the alien contract labor law.
1t is said in order to evade the law no
contract is made with the men until
after they are in the United States terri
tory. The immigrant inspector will
probably be ordered to Texas to inyesti-
gate the matter.
Indian Agent Bennett, located in In
dian territory, has reported to the Indi-
an bureau that it has just come to his
knowledge that an act passed by the
legislative council of the Choctaw nation
about two months ago incorporating the
"Choctaw Orphan Asylum Lottery Co."
The agent reports great secrecy was
ms ;ntained concerning the act, and it
was with the utmost difficulty he sue
ceeded IN securing copy of it.
1ne Indian commissioner has written
l. ter to the secretary of the interior
reEf.ive to the roads which have been
asking right Of way through the Puyal-
| ldp lCOCl NdUiOIls lCotl 1dCOllltts w (tSIl liz
recommends that commission consist
ing of two men be appointed by the sec
retary and one by the roads and the
mayor of Tacoma, settle the price to be
paid the Indians for the right of way
over the lands. He believes that this
provision should be incorporated in the
bill now pending.
State Librarian Dunn of Indiana, has
made an investigation of farm mortgage
Indebtedness and finds that in the seven
years from 1873 to 1S79 inclusive, this
form Of indebtedness increased S6O,379,
900, and from 1882 to 1888 the increase
was 46,476,OOO, total of SlO6, $4,000 in
fourteen years. The average rate of in
terest on the loans is per cent. and the
people Of the state are annually paying
out S7,48O,O0O in interest. He shows
from an abstract of records in the courts
that in three years the foreclosures by
13 foreign companies aggregated over
s1,6OOOOO.
A special to the Toronto Empire from
Ottawa says advices received by the
government from Washington relative
to Behring sea negotiations are very en-
couraging, but at the present juncture
it would he considered impolitic to indi-
cate their nature. Washington CORES
pondents are indulglng in considerable
guess work on the subject, but some of
their guesses are wide of the mark. The
latest reports are to the effect that ne
gotiations in reference to Atlantic fish
cries have proceeded so far towards set
tlement on basis satisfactory to both
governments that the operations of the
modus vivendi have been extended in
definitely. On this point it may be
stated the continuance of the modus
vivendi arrangement rests with Canada
alone, legislation on the part of the do
minion party simply being necessary to
give it effect.
Can railway company commit an
assault and battery? This question is
to be decided in the United States cir
cult court, in Minnesota, in remark
able suit broughtMcnday by Bertha VOL
stad against the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul railway. She asks for $4,000.
Her complaint recites that she purchas-
ed ticket at Winona, on December 80,
for Peterson, MINI. The train did not
stop at Peterson, and the conductor ad-
vised her to stop at Rushford, five miles
distant, until morning, when she could
get train for Peterson. She did as re-
luested, remaining at the Rushford sta
tion from 10 o'clock in the evening until
the next day. While at Rushford she
alleges, she was assaulted by Walter
Green, station agent of the company.
She claims $4,000 damages because the
railway company retained Green in it's
service, and thereby ratified his conduct.
An unknown man supposed to be Rev.
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