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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
FOLLY WANTS 4 CEACKIR.

The following dispatch, which explains
itself. was among the dispatches crowded
out of the TRIBUNE yesterday morning:
WAsHINGToN, Jan. % Senator Haw-
ley today introduced a bill to establish
a military post neal Helena. Mont, upon
acquisition, without cost. by the United
States of 1000 acres of land for the cree
ton Of necessary buildings. 100000 is
appropriated.
This scheme is not a new one. tine
proposition being advanced several years
ago that a military post would fill II of
the long-felt wants of the city ON Last
Chance with great satisfaction to its I'M
periled inhabitants. The increasing hos
tility Of Butte, coupled with the re-
peated assertions of Gen. c. S. Warren
that the Silver city would capture the
capital from "Hogopolis:" the threats of
Bozeman that she would scoop the
seat OF state government from
the trembling grasp of the "Queen City
Of the Montana" the stealthy reaching
out Of Deer Lodge and Missoula for the
capital; the unfriendly attitude of the
painted warriors Of Hog'em, Pinch'em
and Cheat'em on Indian Creek and the
overshadowing growth of Great Falls
have all conspired to make the presence
of a we'll disciplined army at Helena a
bowling necessity. The eagle eye of Col.
Sanders took in the danger but he was
so overcome with fear and trepidation he
was forced to get his friend Hawley to
go to the relief Of the endangered
'~'metropolis.' A man by the name of
Holman in the other house will attend
to that bill should it reach his end Of the
line.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

WHITE-wINGED peace still hovers over
the little republic down on the Pacific
coast and the greater one on the North
American continent. Great Britain and
this country will settle the Behring sea
troubles amicably, the farmers of the
country are not burning their corn for
fuel this year, the country is feeding the
hungry millions of Europe, a democratic
house by it's conservative course is bring
ing the party in the closest touch with
all the people, the election of a demo-
cratic president is assured, Great Falls
tie end capture the capital, and every
body should be happy.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

The Power-Fields matter seems to
have resolved itself into a question of
veracity between Nj. Power and the
Helena Independent reporter and Mr..
Power and the Chicago paper representa-
tive. If the gentleman was mis-quoted
he could call upon the gentleman conf
posing the Helena irrigation convention
to bear him out in the declaration. Mr..
Power yves it to himself and to the state
he is supposed to represent to square
himself before the world in his alleged
charge against Justice Fields. Until
he do this the judge can hold no personal
communication with Mr. Power.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
a CAPITAL POSSIBILITY.

Great Falls is assuming prominent
proportions as a capital possibility. 1t
is not saying more than the outlook JUS
titles when it is said the city may secure
the prize by working for it. 1t enters
the race under the most suspicious cir
cumstances. 1t has virtually received
the endorsement of the labor element of
the state. 1t has but to fulfil a possible
requirement to secure the solid vote of
Castle and the counties of Fergus and
Meagher. 1t has warm friends in every
other portion of the state, for nature has
written her recommendation upon the
face of the city's surroundings. She has
done her part, the rest is in the hands of
the people Of Great Falls.
1t is none too early to agitatc the CAPT
tai question. 1t Is not a party question.
1t is n in which the people of the
whole state are equally interested. They
should carefully and candidly weigh the
claims OF each candidate for the position
in order that they may intelligently vote
upon the proposition. They can do this
now with a clearer conception of the ad-
vantages or disadvantages of the several
candidates for the capital than they can
in the heat and excitement of a hotly
contested political campaign. Every
man should determine how he will vote
before the nominating convention Of
either party meet.
Great Falls invites investigation; it
invites a calm consideration OF its claims
for the capital and it fears not the YER
diet when the people make it up. 1t
asks that the investigation
now. and if it do not show more and
better reasons. than any other candidate,
why it should have a clear title to the
capital, then no value can be attached to
evidence of any kind.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
THAT LAND DISTRICT.

Col. Sanders new land district bill for
northern Montana lie being handled
without gloves upon all sides. Settlers
in western Choteau county and those in
the vicinity of Great Falls and in Cas-
cade county generally are loud in their
denunciations Of Sanders attempt to
put them on the tail Of the Helena land
district kite for all time to come. They
are indignant at the insult offered them
through Sanders measure. They have
uncomplainingly borne the expense and
Inconvenience of travelling from one hun
dred to one hundred and fifty miles to
Helena to transact their land business,
believing that the time would soon come
when the fast increasing settlement of
Cascade county and contiguous territory
would justify congress in granting Great
Falls a land office and it's surrounding
country a land district.
That time, so patiently awaited, has
arrived, but instead of receiving what
they reasonably hoped for Mr.. Sanders
serves them with notice that 1t is his
purpose to continue that part of Cascade
county, which he does not turn Over
into the proposed Fort Benton land dis
trict, as al a%ppendage to the Helena
district. There is not only evidence of
rank injustice to the people Of Great
Falls and vicinity in this proposition,
but IN exhibition of culpable indifference
to their interests upon the part Of Col.
Sanders. The g%entleman's desire to turn
all travel in the direction of Helena, and
to make that city the sun from which
all the other cities in the state should
receive their warmth and light should
not lead him to forget or ignore the fact
that communities as we'll as individuals
have rights and privileges which should
be respccted-even by their representa-
tives in congress.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
Therp'll Re No War.
SATURDAY. JANUARY 30. 1892

Chill has no idea of fighting the
United States. When the COMPRESSION
alists had put the Balmacedans to flight
and completed their victory by the es'
tablishment of a provisional government
a few hot-headed leaders among the
less intelligent classes imagined the lit
tie nation could whip the world and be-
came Extensively aggressive in their Ian
guage and bearing toward this govern
ment. This hostile sentiment had its
origin in the part the United States took
in the Itata affair and manifested itself
in the cruel treatment of the Baltimorc's
sailors.
The official heads of the Gillian gov
eminent were placed, as it were. between
two fires. They knew the police and
soldiers did a most shameful and brutal
act in the streets of Valparaiso. They
knew the United States had just cause
for complaint against the CHILEAN au-
thorities. But what could they do?
Upon the one side was the government
demanding an apology for the cowardly
murder and maltreatment of American
sailors and ample reparation to the fam
lilies or relatives of the murdered men;
upon the other were a frenzied mob.
composed of the lower classes, an army
of half disciplined soldiers drunken with
recent victories over demoralized Balma-
cedans, and sympathizers in the lower
strata of CHILEAN society.
The position of the government was
an embarrassing one. In the state of
feeling then existing to have immediate
ly yielded to the demands of this govern
ment for an apology and reparation
would have turned the wrath of the mob
upon the head of every government Of
fetal and the stability of the government
itself would have been threatened. The
folly of going to wal with the United
States was recognized, though it must
be conceded the proud, naughty govern
ment would readily have tried con-
illusions with IA less powerful nation.
JnQer the circumstances tntTe was Dut
one course to pursue. The government
must temporize. 1t must gain time in
which the hot blood of the lower classes
could cool and the people be clothed in
a suitable frame of mind to listen to
reason. The hundred days which
elapsed between the enactment of the
bloody scenes in the streets Of Valparaiso
and the reception of the ultimatum of
the United States government did the
business, aud when the latter came it
found the Chilians prepared to yield all
this government demanded of them.
There vii! be no war. The reply of the
CHILEAN government to the ultimatum
shuts out the possibility of such a
termination Of the long strained relations
between the two powers. Chill recalls
her offensive note: %withdraws her re-
quest for the recall of Minister Egan
and expresses a willingness to submit
the Baltimore affair to arbitration or to
the decision az the supreme court of the
United States. That should end the
unplcasantncss.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

In his message to congress last Mon,
day President Harrison referred to An
insulting note sent by Senior Malta to
the CHILEAN minister at Washington on
December II, but does not give its con.
text. The TEIGUNE is able to lay be-
fore its readers the insulting para
graph of which the president complains.
Here it is:
Mr.. Tracy and Mr.. Harrison had been
led into error respecting ourselves, our
people and our government. The in.
5tructiOns cnjuining impartiality and
friendship has not been observed either
in the present or the past. If oiliciaI
charges have not been made against the
minister lEgaut and the naval officers, il
is because the facts, public and notorious
as they are in Chill and the United
States. are that our confidential agents
have been unable TO call attention to
them, though the subject Of the charge
has been well founded. The request Of
Balmaccda. the concessions made to him
in June and July, and everything con
corning the Itata, the San Francisco in
QuinterOs and the Calve companies are
proof of this.
The issuance of this note the CHILEAN
government now admits was an error OF
Judgment and it is withdrawn.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
Scientific Waifs.

The north star cannot be seen south
Of thecquator,b but it is visible everywhere
to the north Of the line.
A steam roller in Vienna is WORKED
massute. composed of liquid residuum
OF petroleum retineries.
The latest advices about the moon
state that it is q dead. dcsolate waste OF
played out volcanoes and cooled oil lava
beds, without atmosphere.
Umbrellas made of paper are one OF
the latest products of French ingenuity.
The paper is toughcned and rendered
waterproof by being treated to a solution
of felatine with bichrOmate of potash.
Watch crystals are made by blowing
a sphere of glass about one yard in dia,
meter. after which the disks are cut
from it by means of a pair of compasses
having Il diamond at the extremity OF
n leg.
Trunks are now made of paper pulp
that has been subjected to great pres.
sure in the same name as the material
used for the manufacture Of paper car
wheels. Owing to the tenacity OF the
paper it is practically impossible to
injure a trunk made Of this material.
Persons with tender feet will be inter.
eted in a new insole for boots and shoes.
ct is made of hollow india rubber, infat-
ed with air or gas under pressure, the
external protective covering being IAN.
tyuO Glib or Atkar os,ptl.r ,..:l T.
serted in the shoe, it relives the pres
sure of the leather against all tender
parts of the foot.
Water may be heated above 2l2 degs.
Fahrenheit without passing into steam,
and while 1t is nnder ordinary atmospher-
ic pressure, provided it is kept perfectly
quiescent; but let the slightest motion
be communicated to it--even the tremor
produced by a footstep and behold! the
water which was calm and quiet sudden
ly flashes into steam.
To cut sheet brass chemically the fol
lowing method meets with great success.
Make a strong solution Of mercury in
alcohol. With a quill pen draw a line
across the brass where it ia to be cut.
Let it dry on, and, with the same pen,
draw over this a line with nitric acid.
The brass may then be broken across
like glass cut with a diamond.
The surface OF any given quantity Of
gold, according to the best Authorities,
may be extended by the hammer 3lO,814
times. The thickness Of the metal thus
extended appears to be no more then the
SOS, O2Oth part of an inch. Eight ounces
Of this wonderful metal would gild a
silver wiro of sufficient length to extend
entirely around the globe.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
Weeks Floral Guide, 1899.

True and tried friends are always well
come, consequently 'Vick's Floral Guide"
is sure of ID warm reception, especially
when dressed as daintily as this year.
The "Nellie Lewis carnation on the
front of cover, and brilliant Poppies''
o the back, are unusually attractive,
and the numerous colored plates of flow
ers and vegetables are certainly works Of
art and merit. The first twenty-four
pages. printed in violet ink, describe
Novelties and Specialties. Send l0cents
to JAMES Weeks Sons. Rochester, n. v,
and procure a copy of this attractive and
useful catalogue. 1t costs nothing. as
the 10 cents can be deducted from the
first order.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

POLyGAMY no longer exists in Utah.
The doctrine is not taught in the church,
having been stricken from it's articles of
faith a year or two ago. Every intelli-
gent newspaper writer in Montana
knows it. Every gentle in that territory
has constituted himself a detective to
ferret out any infraction OF the anti
polygamy law. None cln be discovered.
Polygamy is as dead as the Capulets in
Utah, but like the .'bloody shirt it will
be held up before the world for political
purposes for years to come. As an
eastern exchange well puts it, 1.-The bat
teries once turned against Utah can now
more protitably be faced about and dis
charged upon states east of the Mississip
pi where polygamy, shielded by wealth,
stalks unblushingly before honest men
and women.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

Thar is a very accommodating party
of gentlemen who proposes to establish
general headquarters in New York city
for western irrigation companies. For
the information Of the gentlemen the
TRIBUNE will state that Mr.. Tom G..
Power has not yet succeeded at his "end
of the line" to secure a large government
appropriation for irrigation purposes.
Until he do the self-formed but essen
TALLY disinterested combination should
60 SLOW in mourning indebtedness for
rent, fuel, stationery, etc. Powers
scheme may not materialize.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
About Public Buildings.

Great Falls is sadly in need Of a pub
lie building. Helena needs one n so
does Butte. These are the three largest
cities in the state. The government
rents it's postofice building in each place
as it does in other places in the state.
While appropriations were being made
| right and left last winter for public
buildings Montana could not get one.
Her representatives in congress intro
duced bills for public buildings at Hell
| ena and Butte, but for some reason the
| billion dollar congress had other uses for
| the public money and gave this state the
go-by. 1t will get no public building
this year nor next year.
The failure must be charged to the
billion dollar congress-. The people took
the matter of appropriations OF public
funds in hand at the last congressional
election. They looked them all over and
concluded that the last congress had
been recklessly extravagant and so they
turned out of Office nearly or about all
those who had voted away their money
and filled their places with democrats.
The latter we're given a majority OF 100
in the house. This was a notice served
upon congress to be economical in the
expenditure Of the peoples money and
the democrats heed the warning. This
congress may be called parsimonious-
stingy-but it will not suffer the oppro-
brium attached to shameful extrava-
gance. 1t will sacredly guard the peo-
pies substance and leave the rest to the
people themselves.
The pruning knife will be applied to
public building appropriations. All
these will be denied until such time as
a depleted treasury can recover itself.
In the meantime the public business
will go right along as usual. The mails
will be delivered and distributed, courts
will be held and taxes collected as they
have been. There will be no Interrupt
ton in any of these native industries
But cities in want of public buildings
must continue to wait a season longer.
If taxes are to be reduced, if the country
is to be satisfied a system of rigid econo-
my muct be practiced at Washington.
Public building bills must be given d
rest. 1t is true there are worthy ones,
but for every worthy one which may he
passed a dozen unworthy ones would he
dragged after it. The knife will be ap-
piled to all. The innocent will suffer
that the guilty may not survive. Helena
nor Butte will get no appropriation for
a public building this year.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

The River Press "A see great lnlus-
tice in compelling men living nea that
city to come to Great Falls to transact
their land business. but it can see none
in compelling land claimants within a
rod Of the limits of the city of Great
Falls and west Of it TO go to Fort Ben
ton, from forty TO fifty miles distant, to
attend to their land matters. The River
Press is afflicted with acute mental stra-
biSmus.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
THE SMUGGLING OF CHINAMEN.

Governor Toole's letter to the treasury
department in relation to the violations
OF the Chinese exclusion act in Montana
was written none too soon. 1t is we'll
known that Cinnamon have been
Struggled into the state across our
northern boundary, and while a few
have been apprehended and dealt with
it is reasonably certain they do not con-
stitute a hundrdth part of the number
that succeed in entering and hiding their
identity among their countrymen in the
larger cities OF the state. The remedy
for the evil, suggested by the governor,
can only be partial at the best as it is
almost impossible to guard the long
boundary line between the northwestern
states and the British possessions, for
the struggled Cinnamon are under the
guidance of men who know the country
and can easily secrete their charges I'M
til the moment arrives for their final
break INTO the forbidden ground.
The enactment of Representative
Stump's bill into law is the 'sure thing"
on Cinnamon. Under its provisions
every one in this or in any other state
would be compelled to exhibit a certiti-
cate properly signed, certifying to his
right to be in the country. A Chinaman
without one will be deported in short
order. The bill should become a law.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

The election or defeat Of a presiden.
tial candid1e does not depend. in the
least, upon the fact that he was nomi-
mated at this or that place. Long before
the day of election the great mass of the
people will have lost sight of if not for
gotten the place where the candidates
were nominated. The questions next
fall will be tariff reform and silver
coinage and not Minneapolis or Chicago.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

PRESIDENT IIAREIsON'S message Mas ii
most conservative and patriotic state
paper, though in the hight Of a more
ter and ink. However, 1t will prove
profitable reading to other nations and
doubtless destroy the appetite of all for
and flag.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

LOST! One of our favorite infant in
dustries. Vas last seen in Piqua. o..
and was heard Of several times during
the Mckinley campaign. 1t answers to
the name of ''Tinplate' and seems to
have died or disappeared about the time
OF the Ohio election Denver News.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

SANDERS denial that Power made his
charges against Justice Field.upon his
Sanders authority, puts the com
modore deeper in the mire. In the'face
of Sanders denial and Justice Fields
unanswered questions Mr.. Power oc-
cupies a very unenviable position before
the people of the world. He has made
Montana their laughing stock and butt
of rldicule.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

KEEP it before the people that Great
Falls is the only candidate for the state
capital whose streets are undetiled by
the footsteps of a Chinaman. Great
Falls is essentially and emphatically a
white mans city. No Cinnamon need
apply.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

INouIRER-No. Mr.. Powers r%esigna-
ton of his seat in the senate has not yet
been received by Governor Toolc. The
impression seems to prevail that the
commodore would rather look at cold
shoulders at Washington than a politi-
cal death in Montana.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

The -belligerent attitude now
taken by Chill is a sore disappointment
to the army of would-be government
contractors, and spectators who counted
on gathering a harvest Of shekels while
death revealed upon bloody battle
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

Now THAT the curtain is rung down
on the Gillian rumpus the stage may be
cleared for the appearance Of Power and
Sanders in their great tragedy entitled,
why Did You Say ! Told YOu?"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

. lT is not in good form for a republican
free silver advocate to denOunce an east
ern democrat for his opposition to free
coinage while the vote of his own party
on the silver bill in the last congress
stands recorded in favor of gold .bugism.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

AN exchange says Tom Reed weighs
as much as he ever did, to which
another replies that while he may he
doesn't sit down 80 heavily upon demo
Gratis as he did last winter. That is SO.
Mr.. Reed has something soft upon
which to sit. He has tumbled to him
self.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

Chill has unbounded confidence in
the supreme court of the United State,
or very slight objections to extending an
ample apology to the United States and
reparation to the maltreated sailors of
the Baltimore.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

Cor. SANDERs' scheme to bar out
Great Falls from obtaining a land Office
has not yet materialized. And the
colonel's hair will probably become
many shades whittier before it will.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

The ugly rumors which have recently
been heard in regard to the closing down
Of the Anaconda works and mine for an
indefinite period, seem to be without
in fact.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30

Is O Sanders north Montana land
district scheme a land district gerry
mander: At this neal view it looks like
one.