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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-16
TEXT OF THE BILL.
Free COiI age Measure Fs,sed by the Sem
ate Wednesday.

Free COin age Measure Fa,sed by the Sem
ate Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.--The free coinage
bill passed by the senate last night is SUBJ
stantially as follows:
An act to provide for the free coinage of
gold and silver bullion and other purposes:
That the unit of value in the United States
shall be the dollar, and the same may be
coined Of 412.5 grains OF standard silver or
25.3 grains of standard gold: and said coin
shall be legal tender for all debts, public
and private; that hereafter any owner of
silver or gold bullion may deposit the same
at any mint in the United States to be
formed into standard dollars or bars for his
benefit, and without charge; but it shall be
lawful to refuse any deposit OF less value
than 800 or any bullion so base as to be
unsuitable for the operations OF the mint.
Section 2-The provisions of section three
OF IAN act to authorize the coinage of the
standard silver dollar and to restore its
legal tender character" which became law
Feb. q. 1873. is hereby made applicable to
coinage in this act provided for.
Section 3-That certificates provided for
In the second section OF this act shall be Of
denominations of not less than one nor
more than one hundred dollars, and such
certificates shall be redeemable in coin OF
standard value. A sufficient sum to carry
ont the provisions of this act is hereby ap-
propriated out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated. So much OF
the act of July IA, 1880, entitled ian act
directing the purchase of silver bullion and
the issue of treasury notes. and for other
purposes" rs requires the purchase OF
4,5O0, o0O ounces OF silver bullion per month
be and the same is hereby repealed.
A Fha s&t tft1nA Ill
in this act, and all silver and gold certiti-
Gates already issued, shall be- receivable
for all taxes and dues to the United States
of every description, and shall be legal
tender for the payment Of all debts, public
and private.
Section 5.-Owners of bullion deposited
for coinage hall have option to receive
coin or its equivalent il the certificates
provided for III this act, and such bullion
shall be subsequently coined.
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CAME STRAGGLlNG IN.
Indians Campe1 Nsmr tie Agency~-A Great
Hurrend1r Of Arms.

Harrender Of Arms.
Pwg KtDGe, Jan. H.--Indians began 10
struggle In At noon. They arc strung out
along White Clay creek for distance OF
two miles. on foot, horseback and in wag-
org, with large number of ponies. Some
of them entered tho friendlies' camp, 9th
ers pitched their tepees on the west bank
OF White Clay creek. These ARC ORaiI alias.
The Brnles are camped in the bottom
around Red Clouds house, hslf milo from
the agency buildings. There are about no
lodges with $3.50 Indians. The Indian
camp two miles from the aganoN has been
broken up. Gen. Brooke WIS ordered to
march with his command from below the
mission TO this point. Part Of his CON-
fiiand will pitch camp on tho west bank Of
White Clay creek, immediately north Of tho
Indians, while another will flank them ON
the west and south.
The advance guard of tho hostiles had
scarcely reached the agency when Fig Road
sent word that he had collected the arms Of
his followers and wanted TO surrender
them TO the agent. When the weapons
came on they were found TO consist OF sim.
ply two shotguns, one Henry rife, one bro
ken carbine, two Sharp's rifles and one
Winchester, nine guns In ali. This sur
render is evident that the Indians do not
propose TO give up oil their guns, and that
they have hidden their best weapons in the
hills. On this basis the entire hostile
band would DO expected TO give up in the
neighborhood Of one hundred guns, when
1t is known that every buck is the owner Of
q weapon. American Horse, Standing
Bear, White Bird and Spotted Horse,
friendly chiefs, have asked protection from
n IA va ra avo n1 At bnr
Announcement is made OF the death at
Fort Riley OF Lieut.. Mann. Seventh cavalry,
wounded In the fight Mt the mission, Dec.
30.
This afternoon the Brules abandoned
their proposed camp near He'd Clouds
house, and pitched thoir tepees with the
Ogallas, forming camp nearly a mile and
Q half in length, connecting with the friend
lies south Of the agency. The main part of
the camp extends westward from White
Clay creek up the bluffs OH the summit Of
which the Indians have posted pickets to
Guard against surprise. Since the surrender
by Big Road OF the nine guns today nothing
has been beard or received from the hostile
camp. Tonight military pickets are
watching tho hostile camp AZ vigllantly
as ever. Tomorrow it is expected other
chiefs will turn over to Agent Pierce the
arms Of their followers, but " 10 doubted
whether the surrender will be any more
complete than that Of Big Roads band to-
day.
The settlement Of the matter without dis
arming the Indians will be one OF great in
terest, though many people hold that the
Indian, even with arms, is not to be feared
il his rights under contract are observed.
This afternoon Gen. Brooke visited the
agency and Inter returned to his camp,
which is now but a short distance outside
Of the northern breastworks. Ali other de-
tachments of troops have moved up and the
the military Gordon still surrounds the hos
tiles.
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Salt Lakes Unjust Requests.

received the demands formulated by the
Salt Lake chamber of commerce at recent
meeting for an amendment of freight and
passenger rates. Managers Of the interested
roads say tho claims made are in most cases
unjust. In respect to passenger rates they
say the rates, Chicago to Salt Lake. are
S52.50 first. class, si7.50 second. and SGT 80
round trip: To Helena they are SOL 80 first,
1860 second. and $50 round trip; to Cali
fornia points $3.50 first, S47.b0 second, and
800 round trip. The managers say car
load of passengers is taken to California
for every passenger taken to Salt Lake and
that Salt Lake people got all the benefit OF
California tourist traffic passing through
there.
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CUSTOMS FRAUDS.
Discovered I'm the Sugar Entries ut Phil.
adc1pfia.

Discovered I'm the Sugar Entries at Phil
adcIphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15.-Special Agent
Chance, of the customs service, made an
important discovery few days ago which
gave evidence Of the existence of gigantic
conspiracy to defraud the government ont
of legitimate revenue. BY the merest acci-
dent he was made aware Of the fact that
there was lowering of sugar entries by W..
Ford Thomas, representing tho Claus
Spreckels Sugar refinery. Collector Cooper
at once instituted an investigation, which
showed that fraudulent alterations had
been made in sugar entries and casual ex-
aminations led to the opinion that the
amount OF money Of which the government
had been cheated WAS almost b25, 900. Col
lector Cooper, with the view Of protecting
the government, made an immediate de-
mand upon G. A. Spreckels, of the firm, for
the SUM of $4,000, believing that would
cover the extent Of the fraud. Spreckels
handed to the collector certified check
for the amount and this, it is believed, will
fully protect the government. The district
attorney will at once institute investigation
with the view of prosecuting the offender.
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To stock French streams.

NEw YORK, Jan. 5.-Superintendent
Fred Mather of the State Fish Hatchery,
Cold Spring Harbor. has shipped by the
French steamer. La Gascogne. to the Soci-
etie d'Acclnmation. Paris. by order OF Col.
Mcdonald, French commissioner of fish
cries, one hundred thousand eggs OF quin-
nat or Columbia river salmon. These eggs
come directly from tho United States hatch
ing station on McCloud river ut Baird,
Shasta county, Cal. where efforts are now
made to supply the enormous drain made
by tho canneries ON the salmon riv-
ers of the Pacinc coast
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Uncle Dick Nominated.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, Jan. 15.-Ex -Goevrnor
Richard j. Oglesby was tonight nominated
by the joint republican caucus as candidate
for the United States senator to succeed
Chas. b. Farwell. The first informal ballot
was: Hamer, 1; ex-Representative Il oss,
of La Sale, 2; Gen. John McNulta, 8;
Cicero J. Lindlay, 3; Walter Q. Gresham,
IL; Chas. B. Farweli. 32; and Richard j.
Oglesby, 48. A formal ballot was then
taken, resulting Hamer. l; Ross. l.; Gres-
ham, 4: Farwell, 80; and OgIesby, 81. Chair
man Fuller declared Richard j. Oglesby
the nominee of the caucus. Crawford, of
Cook county, one of Farweil's friends,
moved that the nomination be made unan :
imous. Miller and Bass, of Cook, seconded
this and the nomination was made unani.
nous by rising vote.
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Expects To Pail Through.

NFw York, Jan. 12.-Paul Crovath. coun-
sci for George Westinghouse, Dr.. tonight
said that the rumors regarding the finan-
ciai difficulties of Westinghouse and the
Westinghouse Electric company. which
have been sent out from Pittsburg the
Inst day or two. we're very largely exag-
eerated. Westinghouse expects 10 return
To Pittsburg tomorrow evening. and with
the assurance OF assistance which he has
recently received here. has strong hopes OF
relieving the Westinghouse Electric conf
pany, which is the only one OF his compa-
MES In serious financial difficulty.
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Subsidized Railroads.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.-Senator McCon-
nell to-day introduced u bill to provide for a
settlement between the government and the
Central and Union Pacific. and certain
other railway corporations which have re-
ceived bonds from the government to aid
i'll the construction of their roads. The bill
directs the attorney general TO commence
proceedings for condemnation against these
corporations, and authorizes the president
to detail three army officers as board of
appraisers to fix tho value OF all property
belonging to these roads. The attorney
general has also instituted proceedings
against all companies to forfeit charters
and other privileges conferred ~ the soy-
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Mur1lered Hy a T,nupI,.

DENVER Jan. 15.--At one o'clock this
morning as Police Inspector Hawley was
leaving the legislative hall. where he had
been tr, ing to quiet ths mob, he was met
by Harley Mccoy, the toughest character in
the city. Mccoy made an insulting remark
to Hawley who replied that he had better
go on.or he would be arrested. Mccoy
without another word, shot Hawley, tho
ball passing through his abdomen. He will
die. Policeman Morris, who came to Haw-
lev's assistance. was shot through the shout
der. Mccoy was arrested.
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The Farmer fu Crime.

SHERMAN, Texas, Jan. 15.--At Bells, Tex
as, George Smith. farmer. entered a
saloon last night and compelled seven men,
at the point of his revolver, to hand over
their money and valuables. Az he was
leaving town Marshal Sible fired, but
missed. Smith returned the shot, fatally
wounding the marshal. Smith was after
wards captured and jailed, in spite of the
efforts of three mobs to lynch him.
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An Oatmeal Trust.

CHIcAao. Jan. l5.-Tho local paper says
this evening that the Schumacher Milling
company. of kayenna, Ohio; tho Cereal
Milling company. of Chicago. aud the Cedar
Rapids and Rockford Oatmeal company
and the Iowa City Oatmeal company have
agreed upon plan of consolidation to- day
The mills interested represent 81 per c,nt
Of the tota. oatmeal output Of the country.
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station Agents and Photographers.

CmcAao, Jan. i5.-There seems to be
little question that nearly 700 men employ
ed as station agents and operators on the
st. Paul road will quit tomorrow, although
the officials OF the road here still profess
ignorance of any extensive movement. II
is believed they are making every effort to
break the force OF the strike and prevent
the serious interruption Of business.
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THE HIGH EST BIDDER.
VIII Secure Federal SenatorsI,fp From
North Dakota.

Will Secure a Federal senatorsIip From
North Dakota.
BISMARCK, N. d., Jan. 15.-[SpeciaI. IA
careful review of the senatorial situation in
North Dakota fails to warrant prediction
as to the probable winner of the contest
which is close and exciting, with enough
sensational features to satisfy the most fas-
tidious. That al almost fabulous amount
OF Doodle is being freely used by all sides
oannot be denied. Several great railroad
corporations have swarms of lobbyists on
the ground to plant Doodle where it will do
the most good. The winner will certainly
be the man who has the strongest financial
backing. The strongest candidates ut the
present moment are Pierce. Miller and
Hansbrough. Pierce leads the race with q
following of about thirty. There are a
number of lesser lights who will
be snuffed out after the first two or thrge
ballots. The democratic strength of
twenty-seven will go to one of their own
candidates as compliment. There is a
lively squabble gong ON between McCor-
mack and Maratta for the democratic
Gratis, and both are looked upon as leaders
VI uoiHoCIacy III INC 6tate.
Congressman Hansbrough believes he
was called off from Washington too soon,
and wants balm for his wounds in the shape
of a senatorial plumb. His SUCCESSOR in
congress. M. N. Johnson is also here, but it
is not apparent as yet whom he will sup
port. 1t is believed he will show
some magDanimity towards his fallen
antagonist, Hansbrough, and give him
a lift. johnson being Swede by birth has
a powerful influence with that element in
the legislature and to them he owes his DO
litical prestige.
Pierce's enemies are getting in hard licks
with the lottery gang last winter. Several
of his federal appointees are said to be pro-
nounced adherents of the late Mr.. Dauphin's
concern. The lottery has been the means
of strewinR great many political corpses
on Moth Dakota battlefelds. Ex-Gov,
Miller seeks the senatorial tega on the
strength of his warlike attitude toward the
lottery bill and has quite few enthusiastic
supporters.
The legislature is overwhelmingly farm
or. There are less than a dozen of any
4ther class of people in the body. Their
action often sets the whole state laughing.
They have the power to elect one of their
own brethren and may do SO if the result
hangs fire many days after balloting be-
gins. Voting for senator will commence
next Thursday. Every candidate thus far
approached as to his chances in the race
expresses the utmost confidence in his VIC
tory. so, as the matter now stands, it is all
guess work.
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A Surplus ofsLarceny Crooks.

MrssouLA, Jan. 15.-[special. This af-
ternoon Officer Murray. while riding in a
buggy. noticed two men walking rather fast
and acting suspiciously, with something
under their arms. He jumped out and
stopped them. The articles proved to be
dry goods from Sab!otzky's store. where the
loss had not been discovered. Judge Lo-
gan gave them 800 fine and ninety days
each. The Jail is getting filed with gen
eral assortment Of larceny crooks,
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olyed that as the state convention unani-
rnously nominated John M. Palmer last
summer the endorsement OF the oaucns WIS
unnecessary. The fact that certain mem
bers have said they would not vote for the
caucus nominee OF either party may have
something to do with this.
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Expected to Put 1t Back.

COLUMBIA. s. G., Jan. 15.-It was an
nounced to-day that Gen. Milledge J.. Bon
ham, son of the late Gov. Bonham. is n
defaulter to the amount of $1,000, having
used that amount belonging to the militia
fund. Bonham confesses the defalcation
and expects to make restitution. He had
taken the money expecting to replace in the
bank before the militia drafts came.
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The Last of Blair.

CONCORD, N. H., Jan. 15.-The republican
caucus tonight nominated Jacob II. Gal
linger as candidate to succeed Senator
Blair. He was nominated on the second
ballot, receiving 10 votes as against forty
eight for Blair. eighteen for Cheney, four
for Burns, and one for Buggs.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-16
State Troops go Home 9.

OMAHA. Jan. 15.-On the assurance of
Gen. Miles that no more danger to the set
tiers is anticipated. four companies of mil
itia stationed on the frontier were ordered
home to-day. There are still thirteen COM
panies in the fold, but they will be ordered
home by the end of this week. unless more
trouble occurs
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TIL ~ DAVIS CASE.
a Commissioner Appointed to Take Tes-
timOny In Iowa.

Commissioner Appointed to Take Tes-
timOny in Iowa.
BUTTE. Jan. Especial. Another step
WIS taken in the Davis estate case this
morning, it being the appointment OF Il
commissioners to take the testimony of Z.
G. and Augusta Jackson, of Van Buren
county. Iowa. A commission was issued
by the clerk OF the district court upon the
application Of w. W. Dixon, as attorney
for John A. Davis, and Il. II. Starr, of the
county and state named, WAS duly appoint
ed. Together with the application for the
appointment OF the commissioner were filed
u n'!sfocr of interrogatories to be pro-
pounded to the witnesses named, most Of
which were purely formal. The drift of
these questions WAS to determine if tho wit
nesses knew A. j. Davis and his writing; if
they had seen deed made by him
to one Robert Elliott and knew the sig
nature to be genuine and acknowledged by
Davis in person; il they had delivered said
deed to one Dwyer and if they knew where
it was to be found now. The purpose is ev-
identity to establish in this way the sigma
ture to the will offered for probate by John
A. Davis. TO these interrogations Messrs
Toole & Wallace and Mcconnell IL Clay
berg, appearing for Henry A. Root and Ma
stating in general that the answer to be
elected by those questions would be irrele-
want. immaterial and improper. The pa
pers were all forwarded to Commissioner
Starr tonight.
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SOlons of Kansas.
Jyg1

TOPEKA, Jan. 15.-In the lower house this
morning. contrary to all precedent, J. s.
Doolittle. a farmer, was made chairman of
the judiciary committee. A great number
of bills were introduced. Among them is
one extending the time for the foreclosure
of mortgages and another providing for the
abolition of all railroad passes and reducing
passenger fares to two cents q mile.
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Singed q Celestial.

BUTTE, Jan. 15.-[Special. About five
o'clock this morning fire WAS discovered
in Chinese laundry on Mercury street, of
this city. The flames were subdued in time
to save the building, but the contents were
ruined. Chinaman named Sing Wah was
sleeping in the house at the time, and,
probably being under the influence of
opium, WAS badly burned before he could
be aroused and taken out. Together with
the damage done by water to a Chinese
store on the first floor, the damage will
amount to 81 800.
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viii support Palmer.

spRISarrELp, Jan. 1.-THE deomcratic
joint caucus was held tonight. II was re-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-10

of the Woman's Missionary society in
foreign lands. He stated that by taking up
this work the women were only obey
ing the noble instincts OF their sex. He said
that God never selects any one to do his
work who shut their eyes to their duty.
Those who say that the heather at home
must be Christianzed before the heather
abroad need attention have not the
grace of God in their hearts.
He dwelt. upon the work that had been
done in China and Japan. This work had
continued since the day that Commodore
Perry had anchored in the bay Of Yeddo
and read the One-Hundredth Psalm, for
it was Sunday morning, until the present
time. The only successful way, he said, to
Christianize China was through the efforts
of the women. As John the Baptist pre-
pared the way of the Lord, so is woman to
prepare the way 10 salvation for the
heather.
Rev. Jones is fine speaker and his ad
dress was long one and very interesting
as well as instructive.
After song and prayer the audience re-
ceived the benediction and the meeting adj
iourned till O'Clock this morning.
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horses from suffering through there being
very few stablemen to care for them, a
number of policemen have been detailed to
assist the companies in feeding and in
other ways taking care of the horses. At
Hornsey 100 of the men employed about the
stables have abandoned the strike and gone
back TO their work
The road car company only started
twenty-five of its omnibuseS to-day. The
general omnibus companys vehicles are at
r. complete standstill. The result naturally
is that pirate or scab omnibuses are reaping
harvest of fares. The pirate buses, it
should be added, are plying with the con-
sent OF the omnibus employees union. and
in addition several minor omnibus lines
have been permitted to start their vehicles,
having conceded eight hours of work and
other terms asked for by the men Many
Of the owners OF private buses have sent
their agents into the provinces in order to
bring into this city as many oumbuses as
possible. In consequence of the enforced
idleness of the London omnibuses, the
horsecar lines are besieged with people and
find themselves unable to carry one-quarter
of those DESTROYS of travelling upon the
tram cars. The strikers now show signs OF
alarm at the great increase in the number
Of private buses and are discussing the adj
visibility of limiting the number Of these
which the union will allow to ply for pas
sengers, with the idea of putting the public
to as much inconvenience as possible, with
view. the strikers claim, of bringing the
public 10 support the strikers. a strong
squad OF police are protecting all the omni-
bus company's yards, which, as usual in all
ers in addition TO the pickets stationed
there by the strikers. The latter keep their
temper admirably and appear TO be san
guine of ultimate success.
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century is the outgrowth Of prayer, and
one of the secretaries of the American
board has. well said "a work conceived
and born in prayer, as this missionary
work assuredly was, must be sustained
also and completed in prayer.
An account was recently given of a
shipwreck which was thrilling in its de-
tails. and most appropriate in this connec-
ton.
The wreck was seen from the shore, and
number OF fishermen manned the only
boat that could be found. and with great
difficulty, all were brought safely TO land
except three or four
The storm ragged with great fury and the
men laid down exhausted on the rock bound
coast, saying they could go no more TO the
wreck. An old man of eighty years was
standing with q few others on the shore,
and hearing them declare that they had
made the last trip, he kneeled and prayed.
then said: If four others will go with
me and row, will steer the boat and bring
OF the captain and those that are left on
the ship Four young men at once said:
1--WE vii go, you stay on the rock and
pray" On they went, breastmg the great
waves, reached the ship and brought the
helpless ones TO the shore in safety. So
our work and our duty confront US.
ION the wreck OF heathendom not three
or Tour, but millions upon millions of our
race are sinking. The lfe-b boat is going 10
and fro, but there is not strength enough;
the hands employed are almost exhausted.
Men and women of God, come to the res
cue!f