The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-06-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

At New York, Herr Most, anarchist
has been sentenced to one years impris
Onment.
The democrats of Iowa, in convention
at Ottumwa on the oath, renominate,
Governor Boies by acclamatlon as thel
gubernatorial candidate.
Sells Bros showmen engaged in
row at Omaha Sunday night. A negr'
attache fatally injured S. H. Goodman
an acrobat, by clubbing his head to
jelly with an iron pin.
Duval, the sharper who victimizet
several United States senator's last win
ter by getting money from each on tn
strength OF the assertion that he hat
named his baby after him, has been sen
fenced to total of nine years imprison
ment upon three separate indictments
The American derby, the event a
Washington Park, Chicago, on Saturda,
last, was won by Strathmeath by al
open length, Poet Scout second, half ;
length before Kingman, third. Higf
Tariff, Montana horse, fell dead upoI
the track, having been urged beyond
the limit of endurance,
Senator Squires, Of Washington, ha!
been summoned to the capital, and it il
stated he has been rendered the position
OF minister tn China. Senator Squires
friends say he will not give up his place
in the senate for any foreign mission
but it the president wants him to recon
mend good man he will do so.
Utica, ILL.,, busy little cement ano
brick manufacturing town, was almost
devastated by cloud burst on the 18Th
Shortly after noon clouds broke north Of
town over high bluff and f1ooo
poured through the valley. Water was
six feet deep in the town. Outbuildings
we're carried away and residences and
business buildings badly damaged. For
tunately there were no fatalities. but
pecuniary damage will amount 20 many
thousand dollars.
At Boise City, Idaho, Judge Sawyer OF
the United States court, rendered de-
cision in the long pending mining case OF
j. NJ. Burke against the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan Mining company Of Ward
ner. The suit involves the question of
original jurisdiction of United States
courts in suits brought in support Of ad-
verse claims for patents to mining claims
and establishes clear precedent. The
decision is in favor of plaintiff on every
point. The case involves title to mining
property valued at several million dol
lars in northern Idaho.
The Casa Grande improvement COM
pany is soon to present it's petition to
the new land court established by the
last congress to determine the title to
457, 100000 acres of land in Arizona. It
is an old Spanish claim, and the esti-
mated value of the land involved, as it
stands at present, is between 100000
and s3O,O0O,OOO. At an expense of about
100000 about 100000 acres of the
grant can be irrigated, which will make
the total value about S1OO,OOO,OOO. This
petition will probably be the first bust
ness to come before the land court.
A special from Norfolk, Neb., gives an
account OF country school house
crowded with children being washed
away during the recent storm, resulting
in the drowning OF Charles Miles, Cora
Hamlin and Anna Cox That all did not
perish was due to the heroism of young
Miles, who on observing the ravine fill
ing with water and the building settling
to conduct the school chill
dren to high ground. Several pupils
drifted away with the food, but young
Miles gallantly plunged into the food
ashore with two little girls all three
were swept away beneath a pile of drift
wood,
The will of the late General Albert
Pike, grand commander of the Scottish
rite order of Masonry of the southern
has been filed. He leaves
all articles, personally, to trusts for the
benefit of the order Of which he was
grand commander. The fee to which he
is entitled in the famous Choctaw award
he leaves to his two sons and daughters
and all his real estate in Arkansas to his
son. Moneys in the treasury of the
United States arising from the sale un-
der process of confiscation of his prop
srty in Little Rock he wills to the United
States. "That they may have an honest
title thereto and no longer hold them as
proceeds of plundering under the form
If law, and also indebtedness of the |
United States to me for four horses lost |
oy me in the military service of the
United States in Mexico"
The department of state has been no.
ified of the appointment by the British
Of Sir George Baden Powell
md Mr.. Dawson, agents to visit Alaska
md collect information respecting seal
isheries. The statement coming from
london that these men have been ap-
,ointed arbiters is erroneous. Negotia-
ions looking toward the arbitration of
he claims by the United States have
lot yet progressed to a point that would
'ermit the appointment of arbiters, and
q fact the nature OF the arbitration it.
elf has not yet been agreed upon. It
nay be that Powell! and Dawson will
ereafter serve as representatives of the
British government upon the expert
commission which the two nations are
ound to send to Alaska, but it is alto
ether improbable that they will be ap-
ointed arbiters, as their previous duties
hight be supposed to unfit them to act
ldicially in matter where they form
rly acted as partisan experts.
The department Of state is informed
nat the German government has de-
lined to surrender True w. Holt, de-
aulting employe of the gas light COM
any of Philadelphia. There is no OK
-duIUlOu GIodGy Will O0IillAuy covering
1e points of the offense, and while the E
+erman government is willing TO sur {
,nder him without a specific treaty i
;ipulation, it was only upon condition t
lat this government would recognize Y
le demand by the German government {
y the surrender Of escaped criminals |
hose crimes are not covered by any ex- {
ting treaty. OF course this condition
,uld not be accepted. But in the s
eantime this government has been in !
with the government of 3
reat Britain and it has hopes of secur- I
g Holt in the end. He is within the !
ritish jurisdiction at Southampton, \
here the extradition proceedings we're +
sgun, and German steamship officers +
reference prevented his arrest there. \
A st. Louis dispatch Of the 22nd says: r
olice investigation has developed the
ct that the riot at the Chain of Rocks a
lnday morning was not the result of t
ctional fight between Italians, but h
iginated from hard feeling caused by t
le arrival of Italians at the camp. The n
id was made by American workmen. q
he Italians were driven from their u
mp, their valuables and money were t,
by the gang Of American la a