The Ravalli Republican., 1898-03-09

And Teton county is also to have
a county seat fight, Dupuyer being
engaged in getting up d petition to
have it moved from Choteau to that
town.
a. J. Fisk has been appointed post
master at Helena, and D. J. Tallant
at Great Falls, Fisk is an admins
tration man and Tallant a silver re-
publican. -@-"".s. #".
Reuben Harvey, a we'll known
miner of Madison county, cut his
throat with a razor last week and
died in a short time. He was great
sufferer from rheumatism.
-Four men at Moose Lake named
Short, Lacy, Sarchet and Hextrum,
drank a quantity OF wood alcohol last
Friday night, and two of them, Lacy
and Short, are now dead, and prob
ably Hextrum is too.
1t may be news to many that the.
Montana state laws. provide for the
imprisonment OF a common drunkaru, ).
on the ground Of vagrancy. Leonard
Ernest, of Sand Coulee is serving 60
days in the Cascade county jail under
the provisions OF the law, which is
set forth in Sec. 1855 OF the Penal
code. ''t r. .-@. ..@
l. Active farming operations are 60
ing forward throughout the Yellow
stone valley and in several instances
spring seeding has been in progress
| for two weeks. Walter Story, who
was in town from Park City the past
week, says that he has already seed
ed twenty-five acres to wheat.-Ga-
Zette.
An old Indian doctor and little
girl who kept house for him have
been found hanging from trees near
the cabin at the head Of Irish creek,
in North Carolina. The two went
there about a year ago and spent
most Of their time in hunting herbs.
Threats had been made against the
old man.
State Veterinarian Knowles was
in Bozeman on Wednesday looking
after a, shipment Of hogs still in
quarantine in this city. The doc
tor says that the utmost care must
be exercised in. keeping hog disease
out Of Montana which promises to
be the best hog raising state in the
union Chronicle.
The secretary OF the interior has
sent to the senate the treaty nego-
tiated with the Indians on the Fort
Hall reservation in Idaho. The ces-
; sion embraces 418,560 acres, $4,000
, Of which is susceptible of cultivation
and includes the site OF the town of
Pocatcllo, which had been previously
sold by the Indians.
Spain will have to reckon with
; Japan and with. the United States in
the event Of the responsibility Of the
Main explosion being laid at the
door Of the don. The navy depart
} ment has ascertained that on the
; Maine we're. several Japanese sub
), jects employed as cooks or servants
and they were lost. The fact OF
their death has been made known tt
the Japanese government through
! the state Department.
= While the civil sundry appropria
= tion bill Was under discussion Rep
resentiye Hartman introduced ar
:. amendment under the item providing
:, for improvements in the Yellowston'
" National park which asked for al
y increase of $4,000 for the purpos
j., !, of extending the government roat
. . in the park to connect with the roa<
- built up the West Gallatin by TIL
= Bozeman people. Representativ
Livingston of Georgia opposed on tn
ground that, the money should b
Il used to fortify the coasts. Th
: amendment was lost by a large ma
il jority.
70 A herd of Montana cattle will b
a. driven to the Klondike this summer
rs and furnish juicy beef to the pros
pcctiye millionaires of the diggings
G. W. Thcbo, OF Kalispel, is contract
s. Ing with various parties for goo
~ steers that have been on feed a
~ winter and expects to secure abou
7, 1000 head. A northern Montan
AZ stockman met Mr.. Thebo couple
e.. e, days ago, the specu}ator at that tim
'e having IN View purchase of aboC
400 steers in Beavethe;id count,
as He is paying cents per pot1ad, fre
na on board cars wh1ch makes the COS
Ii $50 per head or over at point of sl'i
IL ment. The stock will be transpor
at ed to Dyea, and be driven from thu
a. point to it's destination. Mr.. Tiaea
ty is understood to have English bac|
in ing in the speculation to the amour