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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22
SHOOTING AT A DANCE.
a Saioon-Keeper Pounded and Robbed
and Three Men Shot.

a Saloon-Keeper Pounded and Robbed
and Three Men Shot.
HELENA, Dec. 1G.-[Special to THr
TRIBUNE. Frank Belunak, a drunken
miner, went to a surprise party at Union.
will last night and was put out. Then
be went to Chris Mathesen's saloon
where he had been stopping, robbed the
proprietor and beat him with a pick
handle. Then he got a shot gun and re.
turned to where the party was in prog.
ress and opened fire as some of the men
came out. Joe Daniels was shot in the alb.
domen and will die. William Metcali
was shot in the face and Ben Heckshav
in the neck, neither seriously. After the
shooting Belunak went away and took
the gun home and returned to the place.
where he was secured and handed over
to the sheriff this morning. The money,
S2G, and the watch taken from Mathesen
were found on him.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

The Royal Milling company recently
closed a contract with Senator r.. G.
Power to furnish bran by the carload for
sheep-feeding. They are also negotiat-
ing with other sheepmen and expect to
sell bran quite extensively for that pur-
pose during the coming winter months.
Bran is used for feeding purposes very
extensively in the eastern states and is
q of the most highly priced stock
foods. 1t is especially rich in the quail
tiles that produce a strong, vigorous,
healthy growth Of meat and wool. 1t is
a well-known fact with eastern sheep
feeders that a ration of this feed adds to
quality, weight, and growth Of wool, and
is regularly considered by the feeder as
an item to be worked for in his business.
We have this feed now in quantity. Why
should u sheepmen not utilize it and
gain the profit that the eastern feeder
makes?
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22
Christmas Giving,

How many slippers thatno man car
wear, rickety homemade limp shades
that nobody a use, bits of p~asteboard
painted in daubs that wouldgive an ar
fist the ague, calendars that will hang
up and get smoky a few weeks and then
be pitched into the CRATE, inexpensive
trifles," that will litter the parlor till
they drive the mar of the house into us.
ing bad language, then they, too, will go
into the grate-how many of these items
will be presented to people who have
money, in the expectation that the giving
of the wretched little n~uisances will be
recognized and rewarded by something
in the shape of a genuinely valuable and
handsome present!
Let us turn over a new leaf this year.
Let us for once be independent and
bring back Christmas gifts to their orig
inal intention-the giving out Of pure
love or good will to the persons u whom
we want to give, and nobody else. If
we love anybody dearly, we naturally
will give to that person something use
full or beautiful and artistic, the best we
can afford, and our hearts will go out
Joyfully with the gift. If, again, we
wish to assist some one who is less for
tunate than we are-some worthy i'll
dividual, mind you, hone of the gang of
hungry, greedy parasites who always
hang around people with money at
Christmas time-then let us give to this
one also.
But to those who merely expect some
thing" of us, not n cents worth! Let
us make u declaration of independ-
ence and institute a revolution. Do not
give n dime to the tramp or profess
sional beggar who besets you on Christ
mas morning. The tramp ought to starve
if he will not work, and public charity
in America provides abundantly, too
abundantly, for the beggar already. 1t
is we'll to give in charity, but find out
the really deserving, those who starve in
silence rather than make public their
restitution. Send to these good food,
Christmas cheer, and they will know
that there are those still on earth who
remember why the Christ child came
among men. Above all, on this day
when the Christ child came, help his little
ones, the children who are pinched with
cold, and who will have on the 25th of
December no token to remind them that
they were born in a Christian country in
the latter part of the nineteenth century
of the Christian era.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

A quartz grinding machine has been
invented, which, it is claimed, will Sc
cure much more gold from the ore than
any apparatus yet known. The new
machine grinds the quartz to a powder
SO fine that most of it will pass through
a sieve containing 14,400 holes to the
square inch. The powder passes into a
stream of water, which washes away the
lighter particles of dross, leaving them
to float off, while the gold falls upon a
bed of mercury, with which it smalga-
mates.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22
OLD
Prison Discipline Did Not Work IA Refor.
nation.

Prison Discipline Did Not Work IA Refor.
nation.
HELENA, Dec. 1G.-The jury in the
United States court yesterday after
being out all night brought in a verdict
finding Henry Edmundson and Stuart
Russell guilty Of stealing a wagon and
other fixings from Abraham Fenton on
the Grow reservation last May. John
Edmundson, tried with them, was &C.
quilted because it could not be shown
that he was connected with the affair.
The Edmundson brothers had served in
the Deer Lodge prison, John fourteen
years and Henry twelve years, for high
way robbery. 1t was to rescue them
that their friends attacked and held UP
the stage between Jefferson City and
Boulder eleven years ago John has
been out two years and Henry was par
doned a year ago. Russell was released
last February, having served five years.
The present sentence is one year ami
81, 600 fine.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

Professor Young, astronomer at
Princeton university, calculates that the
suns heat has lasted in the present
shape of that orb Is, 900, 900 to 90, ZOO, 900
years. But it has already reached a
stage much nearer the end than the be-
ginning of its career. Its bulk is shrink
ing by cooling at the rate of $50 feet a
year. 1t is, however, $4,000 miles in
diameter, so that the cooling off process
will be slow. The sun and its system
of planets will still last from 5000, 900
to 10, 1000, 600 years longer. Where shall
we be then?
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

English editors certainly ought to
know their own country. Serfdoln was
prevalent in the days Of William the
Conqueror and afterward. But in the
reign of Elizabeth, in the year 1914, it
was said that the last serf on British
soil had been manumitted.
The reader will find, however, by
perusing the following paragraph from
All the Year Round that this was a
mistaken impression. Serfdom still
fourishes in free Britain in a form as
ubiquitous as it ever did, apparently.
The tiller of the soil does not begin to
be as comfortable and well fed as the
four footed animals upon the farm:
An agricultural laborer who is married and
has a family never buys meat. He never
tastes II unless 1t is given him as a dole. He
never takes n holiday. When a holiday il
forced upon him, it means short commons
that Is, nothing to eat. The only prospect he
mas IN lie Is not alone the prospect but the
certainty Of getting poorer-poorer and poorer,
with the house" In the end.
II lie is lucky, and the parson and The squire
and such like look after the parish, he will be
a recipient Of charity from the cradle To the
grave. lie will never have anything in the
shape of rational amusement, neither he nor
his. Were anything Of that sort TO come his
way, he might cape and stare and laugl-if
you can call the hooting sound he makes laugh
ter. But not only would he not enjoy himself,
he wonld not understand what was meant.
lie Is imbruted-a mere animal. That Is what
sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain"
In the present year of grace has made him.
HIS only enJoyments are material beer and
'baccy. The wise folk who speak of improving
his condition seem disposed to begin by deprive
ing him of those.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22
Charged with Bribery.

SPRINGFIELD, No, Dec. lG.-Rumors
have been flying thick and fast for the
past few days Of bribery in the city
council over the award of a contract for
tl25, 600 for city electric lighting. These
rumors are now confirmed by the arrest
OF Reed NJ. Duvall, representing the
Ozark and Fort Wayne Electric Light
companies, for giving the bride, and
Councilman Wilburn for accepting it.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

The Evening Muscular of Missoula
has been received. 1t will be published
as long as its patronage justifies and
from present appearances it does not
look as if that town were dead and bur
ried. We are glad to note that there is
enough enterprise left to support one
daily. When the business men of a
town become too parsinonious to sup
port their home paper they had better
sell out and make for more enter
prising citizens.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22
Merchants Should Wake I'm,

Our business men and other public
spirited citizens show entirely too much
apathy at this critical period in the his
tory of Great Falls as to our future
These people have an idea that towns
grow because a necessity for them ex
lists. They cannot see, or pretend not to
that the town that goes ahead is driven
by its citizens. 1t will not grow of its
W accord but is built up by the vel
directed efforts of its citizens. We have
a number of large mercantile houses
which are trying to shirk the burdens
and responsibilities of this up-buiiding.
They are perfectly willing to share in
the general results Of such a movement.
but do not seem inclined to turn their
hand over to bring it about.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

The sum required to run this govern
ment is always estimated by the secre-
tary of the treasury and appropriated a
year ahead by congress. The amount
needed for the year 1895 the secretary
says is SAL ,S10,0Il. That is $50, 600, 900
less than has been appropriated for 1894.
The falling off in the estimate is due in
considerable part to the reduction in pen
sions, which from this time on will
gradually fall off by natural causes.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

The Royal Milling company desires to
know approximately the amount of oats
tributary to Great Falls that could be
marketed. If a sufficient quantity can
be obtained it will be possible to organ.
ize a plan to furnish an outlet for it. If
the parties who have oats for sale will
drop the company a line or call person
ally 1t will prove mutually advantageous.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22
Sold a "Salted" Mine.

DENVER, Dec. 16.-John G. Chaney,
accused of selling a ''salted" mine to
Denver capitalists, including Judge
Felkes and ID. II. Moffatt, was arrested
in La Junta Wednesday. His partner,
M. ID. Morgan, was arrested a week ago.
The mine had been made by sweating
gold into a rock IS inches.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

The ladies Of San Francisco are on a
crusade to reform the newspapers of
that city. The San Francisco Examiner
recommends them to make part of their
work consist in the encouragement and
support of those newspapers that are
published on the cleanest, most moral
as well as most grammatical lines. This
is first class advice.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22
One Crank Adjudged Insane.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1G.-John Westgarth,
the Lily Lake farmer who issued a cir
cular calling for 10000 armed and
mounted men to meet him on the lake
front Tuesday night, was adjudged in
sane at Geneva, Ills. He will be taken
to the ASYLUM at Elgin.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

Complaint is made to THETRIBUNEt that
the citizens Of Great Falls and neigh
borhood are sending east large orders
for goods. We are asked to protest
against this injustice. The complaining
merchant does not advertise in either Of
the dailies nor does he do much else to
benefit the town. Let him quit his
g%rumbling and advertise and perhaps he
will have no cause for complaint.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

ELwooD, Ind, Dec. lG.-The Frank
ton window glass factory has been de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is heavy. The
fire originated through a defective tank
and was well under way before discov-
cred. The factory recently removed
from Findlay, o., and had just started
up with 100 hands.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

Science can certainly get the mastery
OF nature on a small scale. In the
northern lake and river ports hereafter,
when navigation is blocked by ice, all
that is necessary will be for some skill
full engineer to have the ice dug away at
a certain spot, put some pounds of dyna.
mite there, lay a fuse and blow up the
ice gorge.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22
New York Journalistic Taste.

New York is "A city that prides herself
on giving the law to the rest of the coun.
try on all matters of art. taste and fash.
lon. The newspapers there harp cease.
lessly OH the fact that when New York
pipes on these tunes the rest of the coun-
try must dance. Particularly we have
observed that they are fond of institut-
ms comparisons between the journal
istic good taste of the metropolis and
that of the wild and woolly west. The
crude, coarse character of western Jour
nalism" is so Indispensable "A theme for
large joke and sncer that it is hard to
see how they would survive without it.
AS an illustration Of this refined and
elevated newspaper taste Of New York
city we may mention a recent article in
II of the leading papers there. /; was
printed on Sunday, the day when the
metropolitan Journalistic brain chiefly
discusses matters of ethics and asthet-
les. The article was "a long description
OF how women well known in New York
talk and act while undergoing a Turk
ish bath. There was no mock modesty
in the d%elineation. 1t told everything.
One felt after reading it as though he
had been attending a lecture in the dis
secting room of "a medical college. 1t
produced II feeling of absolute loathing
and nausea in the internal parts of any
one not educated up to the standard of
taste of New York journalism.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

New life and vigor must be infused
into the Board Of Trade. Our business
men have simply set back in the harness
and appear utterly Indifferent as to
what the result will be. There can be
but one result-nothing will be accom-
plished. Gentlemen, turn out to the
Board Of Trade meetings, reorganize that
institution il it doesn't suit you, and try
and accomplish something for the city
Of Great Falls for the yea" 1891.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

In the libel suit against II. E. Gray
which came up in the district court
yesterday, the plaintiff was awarded 500
damages and costs. The matter will be
carried to the supreme court for final
adjudication,
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

People who have tried it, say that
there is no better midicine for dyspepsia
than Ayers Sarsaparilla. 1t may not
give one the stomach of an ostrich, but
it so strengthens the alimentary organs
that digestion Of ordinary food becomes
easy and natural.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

A dispatch from Washington says the
house committee on public lands has
reported favorably a bill allowing Mon
tana to select the lands she was granted
under the enabling act before they are
surveyed, title not to pass until survey
is made.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

Yellow fever has left us, and cholera
did not come at all, but the grip is I'M
fortunately still with us and promises
to stay by us. In the not large city of
st. Joseph, Mo-, there We're lately over
400 cases at once. The epidemic appears
to be travelling westward, as it has not
yet appeared to a great extent in the
eastern and middle belts of states. 1t
may come yet, however. Do not there
fore conclude, though, that you must
fall a victim to it. During it's prevalence
in former years there were those who
kept it off by simply making up their
minds that they would not have it. They
did not trumpet this determination
abroad, but kept it to themselves and
passed through the winter unscathed,
while scores around them were suffering
and losing time from business. Doctors
know better than anybody else how n
may imagine himself i'll and thereby re-
ally fall i'll. Keep your skin clean; let
it com in contact with cold water free
ly if you can bear it. Get all the fresh
air your lungs will hold. Sleep with
your windows open. Take all the exer-
else outdoors in the sunlight that you
can; dress warmly but lightly; eat di-
gestible food, Of which fruit shall form
a good share; keep your conscience clear
and your heart warm toward all man.
kind; know no fear of man, beast or
fiend, and you will escape the grip.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

The Great Falls Plumbing and Heat.
ing company, successors to G.. S. Went.
worth. are prepared to do all work il
their line promptly. Satisfaction guar
antaad
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

ut is melancholy to think that an
American city should sink below the
moral standard of Constantinople," says
w. T. Stead. It is indeed, William, If
such is the fact.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

MoUNT VERNON, Ind, Dec. 1G.-Threc
distinct shocks Of earthquake were felt
here during the afternoon. They were
sufficient to shake goods off the store
shelves.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

A. ]. Jackson, an employe at the b. ~
Nj. smelter, won the horse and buggy at
the rattle at Ed OReilly's saloon last
night.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

Special discount to Sunday schools
and societies for toys and Xmas good.
at CalkinS' Bookstore.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

For accident insurance call on Phil
Gibson.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-08
waRISE NEWS.

TAToosH. Dee us p m.-IspeciaL l-Thick:
fresh south wind oafwsre-s;r asckinaw,
go q. a.
NgsH BAY, Dec Us D n--Jspecial +
Light rain: light southwest wind. Iugs Sea
Lion aud Tacoma IN bay.
Ct.LLsN BAY, Dec. Us ?. rn--ispecial J.
C.ondg: llgbs vest wind.
PYsHT. Dec. us y m--tspecial CLOUDY
Hight southwest wind
GErTYsBCEs. Dec. Us .. m.-Especiai. y
Ciogtys cain.
PosT CavscEsT, Dec. Us p m.-tspeciaL l.
Cloudy. ght southwest wind.
FoET AseELEs. Dee LIS p. m--fspecisL i
Cloudy: light sorthwcst wind
Togr TOWNSEND. Dec. 7.-fspeciaf + To sail
iomoEfov-sh ksnneDee, from seattle for San
Francisco.
HOQrIAx, Dee. 5.--fsrecisL i-sailsd--sch
James A. Garfield. TO- san Francisco.
AsrosTs, Dec. Especial The Lighthouse
tender Golumblne arrived tonight from Destrac-
sions. Before returning abe placed q new
wnistlipg baov on the UmatilIa reef Next
saturday she leaves for the sound for another
inspection. Capt Frenholt will join her 1T
Seattle
Arr.vef--ssr state of California. from San
Frsneisco aud left for Portland: str George W.
Eider, from Portland.
san FRANCISCO, Dec. Z-ArfIved-sfr Arazo,
from Coos bay. str Alki. from Departure bay !:
str Columbia. from Portland; sh spartan. from
seattle; ok Seminole, from Departure bay; schr
". 2. 1eweii, from Portland Clear ed-str
Wellington. for Sanaimo: sh Henry Willard, for
Ysqaina bay: ok Charles W. Morgan, whaling
NEW YORK, Dec. T.-Arrived-Lahn. from
Bremen: Sordand, from Antwerp: Stuttgart,
from Bremen.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-08
THE u. P. KxoxrvxRs POLICY.
Glad OF German BondhoideFs' Action
Future Of Colorado Lines.

Glad OF German Bondholders' Action
Future Of Colorado Lines.
OMAHA, Dec John NJ. Thnrston, gen.
eral solicitor of the Union Pacific. who
has just returned from st. Louis. expresses
himself ut length on the question of dis
indignation of the Union Pacific system.
which has been exploited the past week,
also touching the action of the German
bondholders of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company. The latter move
he says. Is by no means q surprise. 1t is
preliminary step much desired by the
receivers of tho Union Pacific, who have
wanted To transact matters pertaining to
the receivership with some one person or
bank authorized TO act in behalf of the
stoc khoiders. This has been done. There
Is no fear OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the sys-
tenn, as tho interests Of the Union Pacific
are too closely interviewer to be lightly
put aside. There is nothing suspicious
about the meeting of the German bond
holders In Berlin. Ii is only q prelimi-
nary step in assisting the receivers 10
manipulate the property for the interests
of oil concerned.
! Ii the Union Pacific, Denver q Gulf
system under the new receiver should fail
10 meet interest payments on the Colorado
Central mortgage. the bondholders under
that mortgage would commence fore
closure proceedings. asking segregation
of the Colorado Central lines from the bal.
nnce OF the Gulf system, and would un-
douhtedly be entitled 10 a separate receiver
pending foreclosure.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-08

from chicsgo. Mississippi river and Mis-
souyi river TO North Pacific coast termI-
nails from SID from Chicago. $i-65 from
Mississippi river and $50 from Missouri
river 70 ri. 10 all around: on carriage and
wagon springs from ST. = IN less than CAT
loads and 90 cents in car loads 70 II IN
car loads and % cents IN less than car
loads from Chicago and Mississippi river.
and - censs in less than car loads and 81
cents In car loads from the Missouri river.
On slaves, headings and hoops in car loads
the rate 10 reduced to IS cents. IS cents ard
s7Ix cents from the three terminals respec-
ffveix
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-08
The Pacific Coast Council.

The final call for the third annual con-
vention Of the Pacitic Coast Council of
Trades and Labor Federations has been
received in this city. The commit ee will
meet in Sacramento January s, and the Cal
ifornia Farmers Alliance will have dele
CATION present for the purpose of eifscting
an utilization with the council. No proxies
wall be allowed, no council can send over
six delegates and each council will be en-
titled 10 enc vote tor each 100 constituents
MP TO 1000 and for each 20 above that
uumher