The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-01-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The public debt statement shows a de-
crease Of 81, 600 for the month Of De
cember.
The president has issued a proclama-
tion prom ulgating the reciprocity treaty
with San Salvador. 1t goes into effect
February l next. 1t is similar IN Its
main prov .sions to those heretofore en-
tered into with other Central American
states and West Indian islands.
Two of the three prisoners who over
powered the deputy and escaped from
the Jail at Cheyenne, Wyoming. on New
Years eve, have been recaptured. One
is dead and the other is dying. They
are Kirgen, the wealthy and notorious
cattle thief, and Charles Miller, the boy
double murderer. They succumDed to
cold and hunger.
The St. Louis Republics Laredo spe-
cial says party in from the vicinity of
Garza's operations reports the rebels IN
a sorry plight as regards horses. The
hard usage they have been put to has
about used them up, they being grass
fed and being in country where the
grass is all dried up. 1t is hardly posi-
BILE the command can be kept together
long when dismounted.
A dispatch from Carson, Nevada, of
the End inst. says Snow on the sum-
nit is from to IA feet deep on the level.
Two Italians were lost in the snow this
week and probably perished. Richard
I'll 1off 1aof
Monday in search of party supposed
to be lost in the snow between Placer
vile and Lake valley. Nothing has
been heard from them since. This
makes nine men lost in the snow. A
heavy storm is still raging.
Congress reconvened after the holiday
recess Tuesday. There was a large at
tendance of members and visitors. At
noon the house was called to order by
Clerk Kerr, who stated that he regretted
to announce the illness of the speaker,
and declared the only business in order
was the election of a speaker pro tenn
On motion of Springer of Illinois, Nc
MILAN of Tennessee was elected. Upon
his taking the chair he was warml, ap-
plauded by his party colleagues.
The mint will inaugurate the new
year by the issue of new silver coins,
half dollar, quarter dollar and dime,
bearing the new design. The mint at
Philadelphia started on the coinage of
these pieces Saturday, and the mints at
San Francisco and New Orleans will
start as soon as the dies reach them.
The silver used will consist of uncurrent
coins now in the treasury awaiting re-
coinage. The director hopes to recoin
at least Sl,OOO,OOO of uncurrent coins un-
der the existing appropriation, and when
it is exhausted congress will be urged to
make deficiency appropriation to con-
tinue the coinage.
Colonel Ballou, lawyer from Provi-
dence, r. l., connected with the Graves
Barnaby case, is missing. He took the
train for Chicago when the verdict was
rendered and probably arrived there
Monday. A Denver dispatch says:
John H. Conrad, witness for the state in
the Graves Barnaby case, speaking of
Colonel Ballou's fight, said: "Although
Ballou fed, it is as easy to bring him
back as it was for him to disappear. l
will follow him to the utmost parts of
the world The grand jury met Mon
day, when Ballou's flight was considered,
and it is reported he will be indicted
within the next few days.
Prlnz Won Michaels was arrested in
New. York Sunday and committed to
await an examination into his mental
condition. Michaels wrote letter to
John L. Bassford, general agent of the
Mutual Life Insurance company, re-
questing his assistance in planning an
elopement with Jay Gould's eldest
daughter, and among other things saiG:
II am going to elope with Helen Gould.
We will go west and travel for some
time. Jay Gould may miss his daugh-
ter, but he'll gam good oninlaw, and
he needs one. What do you suppose
he'll give us for starter?' An exami-
nation was held Monday and the "Prinz'
was pronounced insane
Charlton NJ. Lyman, of the firm of
Lyman & Sons, type foundries of Buff
falo New York, related to a reporter a
big deal in which an English syndicate
has invested s25,OOO,OOO to s3O,OOO,OOO
This syndicate has bought all the type
foundries in the United States. There
are four in New York, four in Chicago
one in Buffalo, one in Cleveland, two
each in st. Louis, Cincinnati, San Fran
cisco, Philadelphia and one in Balti-
more. A few of the smaller. foundres
may be removed to the south and west
and some of them may be closed. The
option expires January 30, and the
agents Of the syndicate are vigorously
at work. The company will be called
the American Type Foundry company
The current number of the Railway
Age and Northwestern Railroader con
tains review of the foreclosure sales
and receiverships in 1891. Itshows that
twenty-one railway properties, with an
aggregate mileage of 1923 miles and a
capitalization of Sl68,OOO,0OO, were sold
under foreclosure during the year
While this is less in the number OF
roads and slightly less in the mileage
than the totals of the previous year, il
shows an increase of about S3,5OO,OO(
over the capitalization represented by
the sales of 1890. A summary of fore
closure sales for sixteen years shows 8
total of 498 roads, with a mileage of SO,
748 miles and capitalization of S3,O33,
3O4 Goo Receivers were appointed il
1891 for twenty-six different companies
representing 2,159 miles of railroad an6
S84,479,OOO of capital.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indi
ans, his nephew, the young chief Lone
Ha,r, a Umatilla Indian, and Moses Min
thorn, an educated Christian Indian, &C
companied by Agent Crawford of thu
Umatilla reservation in eastern Oregon
are expected shortly to leave Spokane
for Chicago and Washington to pleao
with the Indian authorities to allow hin
to return with his people to the old hom,
in the Blue montains of eastern Oregon
The Nez Perces, it will be remembered
rebelled against the attempt to remove
them from the Blue mountains to !;
strange reservation, and led by Joseph
made their phenomenal running fgh
with General Howard in 1877. Afte
their defeat they were stationed on th'
| Colville reservation, near Spokane, bu
they have never been content and tax,
slowly to the customs of civilization.
| The New York Herald Valparaiso cor
respondent says he hears that the Chi
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