The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-04-28
GENERAL NEWS.
Representative Holman, of In
diana is dead.

E."m GENERAL NEWS
} Representative Holman. of In
diana is dead.
Showaltcr, republican,, is elected
TO congress in the 25th PENNSYLVANIA
district.
The republicans of Omaha elected
the mayor, the entire city ticket and
seven out Of nine councilmen.
Haas and Wiley, the first to suffer
under the new law in Ohio, were
clcctrocutcd at Columbus last Wed
ncsday.
Dan Stuart is beginning to prepare
TOR his August carnival OF sports at
Carson City, and thinks he can get
Fltzsimmons and Corbctt together
again.
I,ne SAP iSsa99atfc c;0o}WoJmittte{c, ;0}W GU vqauiy A;ac
nomination of Wm. NJ. Jones, Of
Wisconsin to be commissioner of
| Indian affairs.
From Puerto Principe City comes
news of severe fighting which lasted
ten days between the Spanish col
| umns OF Col. Crus Gonzales and several
bands OF insurgents, numbering 1000
men, which resulted, after series Of
skirmishcs. in a great victory for the
insurgents, the Spaniards losing 800
men.
The interior department. has
granted permission to Chief Joseph,
the Ncz Pcrcc warrior, to accompany
Colonel Cody in his wild west show.
Chief Joseph is the famous Nez
Pcrce chief captured by Generals
Miles and Howard in 1877, after a
pursuit Of nearly 5000 miles towards
the British frontier.
Japanese having been turned away
from Hawaii, are trying to gain an
entrance into the United States.
Fifty Japanese laborers have arrived
from British Columbia to work in
California orchards. The immigra-
tion commissioner is Investigating
the report tha the japanese are
coming hithcr under contract.
The president has nominated
Harold NJ. Scwall, of Maine, to be
minister to Hawaii. He gained
prominence during the last campaign
by reason Of his advocacy of the re-
publican ticket and platform, al
though his father, Arthur Scwall,
was the nominee Of the democrats
for vice president.
Tho Northern Pacific is organizing
the largest party Of mountain climb
CrS ever seen. They expect to Sc
cure the assistance Of the Appalacll-
ian and other mountain clubs in the
proposed ascent Of Mount Rainier
next June. They expect about 300
climbers from various parts of the
country to make the ascent of the
mountain which is the largest in
America.
Arrangements have been completed
by the Canadian government for the
construction of the Crows Nest Pass
road into the gold fields Of the koo-
tcnay region. The Canadian Pacific
las.llndcrtakcn to build the new road.
For doing SO it is to receive from the
Canadian government a subsidy Of
$40, 900 a mile, or So, 250, 900 in all.
In return for this subsidy the Cana
dian Pacific is not only to build the
new road. but to allow other roads to
run their trains over it.
A number Of placer miners have
started out from Livingston for the
tllsspurposc Of working the bars along
the Yellowstone river near Big Tim
Der for gold. Parties last season
worked the bars to advantage and
made good wages. The gold is very
fine and fIakv and the method they
adopted for saving it was BY lining
the sluicc boxes with Brussels car
pct, which experience proves will
catch and retain 80 per cent Of the
gold. The apparatus entire consists
of hopper, elevated to eight to ten
feet above the ground, and having Il
sluiccboX attachment. The gravel
is carried up a plank incline in
wlcc]barrows and dumped into the
hopper A cheap, home made pump
raises the water from the civcr,
which, being turned into the hopper,
washes the gravel through the slucc-
boy, the large rocks and boulders be-
ing prevented by screens from enter
ing the slui:c.