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

The town of Saybrook, in Mclean
county, Illinois, was destroyed by tire
Sunday night. Loss, 100000.
A cyclone swept over portions Of
Georgia Tuesday night, doing great
damage to property and resulting in loss
of life. The town of Fayetteville was
almost totally wrecked and number OF
persons killed.
In a terrific gale and binding snow
storm the United States revenue cutter
''Gallatin" was wrecked on the Boo-HoC
ledge Wednesday. She went down in a
few minutes. The officers and crew
were saved with the exception of the
steamers captain, jacobson, who was
crushed by the falling of the smoke
stack.
The senatorial struggle in Ohio ended
Wednesday and resulted in the election
of John Sherman over Joseph B. Fora
ker, by vote of 53 to 80 in the caucus
of republican members of the legisla
ture. John Sherman is 60 years old. He
was elected to congress in 1854, at the
time of the Kansas Nebraska troubles
and as a member of the congressional
committee on the question of the exten-
sion of slavery, in 1854, he wrote the
famous anti-slavery report which thrilled
the nation and made him one of the
prominent leaders of the day. How well
he has maintained that prominence in
the service of six years in the lower
house, four years in the cabinet as sec
retary of the treasury and an aggregate
of twenty-eight years in the senate, the
pages Of American history bear record
The president has sent to the senate the
following nominations: Interstate com
merce commissioners James W. Me
Dill of Iowa, vice Thomas M. Cooley, re-
signed; William M. Lindsay of Ken
lucky, vice w. L. Bragg, deceased; w
r. Morrison of Illinois, reappointed
Fourth assistant postmaster general
Estes g. Rathbone of Ohio; William B
Hess, consul general at Constantlnople
William d. Mccoy, Indiana, minister to
Liberia; Andrew P. Mccormick, Texas
circuit judge for fifth judicial circuit
Matthew T. Allen, United States at
torney for the southern district of Cali
fornia; Abraham j. Seay, governor OF
Oklahoma territory; Chief Engineer
George W. Melville to be United States
engineer in chief and chief of the bu
reau of steam engineering, with the rel
ative rank of commodore: United States
consul, David K. Duck of Oregon, at
Sonneberg.
Washington special: Western con
gressmen have been trying to devise 6
method to secure claimants of minera
lands in Montana and Idaho mines in
case the pending case in the supreme
court is decided adversely to them
The late Judge Sawyer of the ninth cir
cult rendered a decision which woulC
give all mineral lands on odd-numbereC
sections of railroad grants to the rail
roads, unless the mineral was discover
ed prior to the time the rights of the
company attached. If this decision is
sustained by the supreme court then all
mineral claims on railroad lands in Mon
tana and Idaho, if discovered since 1864
would belong to the Northern Pacific
company, ard that would mean pretty
near all the mines on odd bered sec.
tions. 1t would include some of the
best mines in the country, the famous
Drum Lummon in Montana among the
number. A plan has been prepared to
RoU Un6 DeSI vi tlle COlllptuy LII CttSc ullt
decision is in it's favor, and the PROPOSE
ton is to forfeit the lands of the com
pany which were not earned in the time
specified in the grant That would in
clude all of Montana and Idaho. There
has always been a sentiment in favor OF
forfeiting those lands between Bismarck
and the Pacific coast, and such al
amendment was offered to the genera
forfeiture bill of the last congress, but
failed; but it is thought the public sen
timent that would be created in case al
tie mineral lands claimed by the com
pany were awarded it would be strong
enough to force through forfeiture
bill of these lands by the sheer necessit.
of protecting the thousands OF minera
claimants who have in good faith pros
pected and opened up the mines. 1t il
doubtful if a forfeiture could be pu
through, but the attempt may be made
and there is possibility that compro
mise would be effected in case there wa
danger of it's passage. The democrat
could be depended upon to pass such ;
BILL because Of the natural antipathy the
party has to the Northern Pacific, ant
senators from the mining states nigh
feel obliged to vote for it in behalf 0
many of their constituents.