The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-04-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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ters of charity of the United States
died On the 9th instant at the Good Sa
maritan hospital in Cincinnati.
General E. F. Murray of San Diego
formerly governor of Utah, is said to bt
booked for the secretary of war portfolio
should Secretary Proctor resign to sue
ceed Senator Edmunds.
A Winnipeg special says it is statee
there that the Northern Pacific has
offered to sell it's whole system in Man
itoba to the Canadian Pacific railroad
and it is probable the offer will be ac
cepted.
A dispatch to the governor general OF
Canada has been received from Wash
ington announcing that Secretary Blaine
has fixed Monday, October -, as the
date for reciprocity conference. This
is acceptable to the Canadian govern
ment.
The president has appointed. Edward
T. Hatch collector of customs for Alaska
Jas. P. Busbee, special agent to allot
lands in severalty to the confederateo
bands of Cayuse, Walla Walla and Una
tilla Indians: and Lorenzo Crounz, OF
Nebraska, assistant secretary of the treas
ury, vice Batcheller, resigned.
The letter of United States Treasurer
Huston resigning the position, and the
presidents acceptance of the same, dated
April Ii, has been made public. The
resignation takes effect upon the ap-
pointment and qualification of Huston's
successor. Nebeker, who, it is under
stood, will succeed Huston as treasurer
A rich galena discovery is reported in
Pennington county, South Dakota. The
Judd property shows true fissure vein
which can be traced 1,5OO feet, the out
cropping being ten to twelve feet wide.
Assays prove that the ore carries So in
silver per ton and yields from so to
cent GO per cent of lead The discovery
is said to be the most important in the
history of the Black Hills.
The grand jury in session at Denver
has returned indictments against Hon.
Otto Mears, president of the Rio Grande
Southern railway; his associates, Jerry
A. Rantz, Fred Walton, ex-state treas
urer; ex State Senator A. M. Stevenson
and Hon. Edwin Mitchell. The indict-
ment charges them with bribery and at
tempt at bribery during the last session
of the general assembly of Colorado.
The presidential party, which has
started from Washington for tour of
the west, consists of the following per-
sons: President and Mrs. Harrison,
Mrs. Mckee, Mrs. Dimmick, Postmaster
General Wanamaker Mr. and Mrs. Rus
sell Harrison, Private Secretary Hal
ford, Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Boyd, Mr..
Tibbett, the presidents stenographer,
and representatives of press associations.
The liberals won sweeping victory in
Prince Edwards Island on the 10th.
Four members, three of whom were sup
porters of the government, resigned
their seats in the legislature to become
candidates fon the Dominion house of
commons. The elections resulted in the
return of four Of the opposition candi-
dates This defeats the government and
will compel them either to resign or
dissolve and make general appeal to
the country.
A Seattle special says mistake which
cost the British government piece of
land as large as Rhode Island has just
come to light. Ensign Moole OF the
United States navy, connected with the
coast and geological survey, is authority
for the statement that the iron monu-
ments for the boundary at Blaine,
Wash, and for many miles east of there,
arei36O yards north Of the forty ninth
parallel, which should be the boundary.
He says the mistake was discovered
three years ago. but has not been Off
cially reported to Washington. The
mistake was probably made in 1852 by
surveyors in northern Montana.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding has in
formed the collector of customs at San
Diego, CAL, that the government has no
authority to extend the provisions of
articles 453 and 454, general regulations,
as to grain imports from Mexico to be
ground and returned, for the reason that
the law under which said regulations
were prescribed, viz, the act of June 8,
1888, is applicable only to grain imported
from Canada. The regulations provide
for the free entry of grain imported from
Canada for grinding in mills owned by
citizens of the United States and then
returned. Duty, however, is exacted on
such portion of grain as is retained by
mill owners as toll for grinding.
General Spinola died in Washington,
D. c., Tuesday morning. Francis j.
Spinola was born ON Long Island in 1921.
In New York City he took an active
part in politics and was five terms an al
derman. He served in the state Assem-
bly, six years and in the senate four
years; was delegate to the democratic
national convention at Charleston in
1860. When the war broke out he or
ganized four regiments into a brigade
and accompanied them to the field as
brigadier general of volunteers, served
throughout the war with credit and then
re-entered POLITICAL life in New York.
He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first
and fifty congresses as a demo-
crat.
A Hoquiam, Wash, special to the Pho
neer Press says: A big deal was re-
Gently made with the Northern Pacific
directors in New York whereby the
Northern Pacific line now in operation
from Centralia to Montesano is to be ex-
tended and completed to Aberdeen,
Hoquiam and Gray's Harbor City by
July %. The bonus to be given to the
Northern Pacific is the same one that
was raised more than a year ago for G.
w. Hunt, who was to have built the
road from Centralia to Gray's Harbor
City, and amounts to almost S1,OOO,OOO,
the contract for which will expire on or
about July %. Hunt being unable to
build the road himself has arranged to
assign the bonus deeds over to the
Northern Pacific, and will also build
road for them in order to earn the sub
sidy.
A Blackfoot, Idaho dispatch of the
18th says: Great excitement was caused
this afternoon over the killing by In
dians of two unknown white emigrants,
who were encamped mile below this
place. Nothing could be learned as to
the cause of the tragedy. Their bodies
were found by party of men, and a
of Indians were seen taking to
the hills east of here. Business is sus-
pended, and the citizens up in arms
About hundred armed mounted men
left the city to demand the surrender of
the guilty parties. Should the Indians
refuse, trouble is sure to follow, as the
posse are all determined men. The gov
ernor and adjutant general have been
telegraphed in regard to the affair.
The anti-tights bill has been passed |
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