The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-03-05

welter-weight fight between Damn
: Needham and Jack Burke resulted in
: victory for Needham, who knocked hi
3 antagonist out in the tenth round.
Friday night two men, named Gibbor
and Walters, were arrested at Bushnell
ILL.,, by deputy sheriff from Spragu
: Wash, who accuses them of stealln
sixty head Of horses in Washington an
selling them there. They have bee
bound over for ten days.
The three cases in -hich importer
sought to test the corstitutionality c
the Mckinley tariff act were Monda
decided by the United States suprem
court. The court affirmed the judg
ments OF the New York and Illinois cir
cult courts of the United States in favo
Of the constitutionalty tf the act.
joaquin Miller, according to trust
worthy information from San Diego, ha
renounced the world and sought re
treat in the mountains He told friend
he.felt deeply disgraced by the shame o
his sons sentence to three years in Sal
| Quentin for stage robbery and declared
that he would never again write over th'
name which had been so dishonored.
A London dispatch says: 1t is now
estimated that 468,OOO miners will cease
work in a fortnight in their efforts te
prevent a reduction in their wages
Should the present intentions of the
miners be carried out and a strike in
augu7ated, branch industries will be ad
versely effected and it is estimated that
100000 mon will feel the effects of the
struggle. The price of coal is rapidly
rising in London.
The Boston Commercial bulletin gives
official figures showing the number of
sheep in the country, by which the clip
of 1892 can be forecast. The total in
crease in sheep is 1,519,229. The de-
crease is mostly in the southern states,
though the heaviest shortage is in Colo
RADIO and New Mexico. The states
showing the largest increase are Texas,
Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, the Dakotas,
California and Ohio. Expert estimates
from these figures show the total yield
of the United States in 1892 will be 316,
053,731 pounds, or secured yield of
l41 ,O96,937 pounds.
The senate finance committee has di-
rected that favorable report be made
on the house bill for the better control
of and to promote the safety of national
banks. An amendment was added au-
thorizing the banks to enlarge their
to the full par value of
United States bonds deposited, SO the
bill must 60 back to the house if it
passes the senate. The committee Or
dered adverse reports on four bills intro
duced by democratic senators to remove
taxation on state bank circulation and
to subject national bank notes and
United States treasury notes to state
taxation.
Henry Willard in an interview at st.
Paul last week said there was nothing in
The rumored consolidation of his lines
and the Baltimore & Ohio, and also in
the report that Edison will be frozen out
If the new consolidated electric light
HE only owns one fifteenth of
5he stock now, and with this interest he
s hardly in it, so he cannot be frozen
)ut," said Mr.. Willard He added that
when the consolidation of the electric
ight company is completed he would re-
ire from the presidency of the Edison
company. Regarding the proposed cleo
ric railway between Chicago and Mil
yaukee, he said that in due time proper
would be made regard
ng it.
In the senate Monday Stanford intro
luced bill to determine the value of
he legal tender bill. It was laid on the
able for the present. 1t provides that
he value of 25.8 grains of gold be the
tandard by which shall be determined
he value of dollar; all dollars shall be
eceived and paid out in the discharge
# debts, both public and private, at par,
measured by that standard, whether the
tamp Of the government making the
lollar be on gold, silver, paper or any
'ther material; also that the legal ten
Ter value of each dollar issued by the
United States shall depend alone on the
tamp of the government, and there
hall be no obligation on the part of the
'overn ment to exchange one dollar for
mother.
A notable affair OF the past week was
he annual dinner Of the Chicago Bank
RS club, feature of which was an ad-
lress in advocacy of the free coinage of
ilver, by President William P. St. John,
It the Mercantile National bank of New
FORK. Free coinage and free silver, he
'aid, are common but misleading terms
or the proposal to restore the
coinage system of the United States
ounded under Washington, ad-
Used by Hamilton, recommended
" Jefferson and ratified by jackson;
hat the system Of equally un-
'estricted coinage of gold and silver,
which it is now proposed to reinstate,
vas maintained continuously for 80 years,
Until it's overthrow unnoticeably in 1873,
md yet no objections are now too para
toxical to hail from one and the same
antagonist of silver coinage. President
It. John analysed the monetary condi- |
ions of continental Europe as showing
hat there is need of silver amid the
worlds insutticiency Of gold. II Europe
hould desire to discard her silver he
aid the statistics of the worlds con-
Of silver at present, including
'ur treasury adoption, would appear to
Va in oyceaa Of the worl6'c rracop+ y,r~, I