The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15


this morning makes the total army
estimate for the last year f92 2,309,-
153.
Calcutta, Dec. l0.-Half million
in gold was shipped to London on
December 8 for payment of silver
purchase for the coinage of rupees
Local purchases for this act since
February is 47,000,000 pounds.
f. Aug. Heinze has let contract
to H. r. Davies to sink the first 100
feet of two compartment shaft on
the copper prospect recently ac-
quired by Mr.. Heinze near the city
of Helena and the work is now in
progress.
The official canvass of the votes
cast on the sixth day of last Novem-
Der has been finished and the result
shows that the plurality of William
j. Bryan in the state was l. ,773, as
against 32,043 four years ago--a
falling off of 65 per cent. The vote
cast for Mckinley four years ago
was 10,494; this year the vote was
1913.
A special to the Chronicle from
Mason, Washington, brings news of
a strike upon Fourth of July creek,
branch of the Kettle river. Sheet
gold has been discovered. Digging
in that vicinity has been secretly
worked by George Arnett, an old
miner, for three or four years. 1t is
estimated he has cleaned up $4,000
The strike extends on both sides of
the British American boundary.
Never since the birth of the new
navy has there been such throng Of
shipbuilders and metal kings as were
assembled in the office of the secre-
tary Of the navy on Tuesday last to
witness the opening of bids for an a
mount of naval construction which
Secretary Long denominated as the
greatest Industrial event this or any
other country has ever seen, involv-
ing the placing of contracts for about
$50, 100000.
Washington, Uec. chairman
Payne of the ways and means com
mittee today introduced bill reduc-
ing taxation under the war revenue
act, after the republican members of
the committee had agreed on the
number of articles to receive re-
duction of tax.
1t is intended to have the full
committee act on the bill tomorrow,
and to put it through the house be-
fore Christmas.
The bill provides an aggregate
reduction estimated at $40,000,348.
The Engineering and Mining
Journal says: Although the war in
South Africa seemed to be nearly at
an end some months ago, the re-
sumption of work at the Wltwateis-
rand mines does not seem to be as
close as has been expected or desired
by their owners. The defeated
Boers seem to be still carrying on a
guerilla warfare of very annoying
kind, and until stop is put to this
any general starting up of the mines
is unlikely. 1t was hoped thai the
actual output of gold could begin
with the new year; but even this now
seems uncertain. A good deal of
preparatory work is going on, how
ever, in the way of repairs and new
mac hinery. When the military oc-
cupation is so far relaxed as to per
NIT the general return of workmen
to Johannesburg work will proceed
very rapidly.
A. G. burst of Chinook, who is in
the city, is authority for story of a
peculiar loss of many hundreds of
sheep near his home. During the
recent Storm" he said, "John Thibe-
deau, who is an extensive sheepman
in our section, lost between 1,500
and 1900 sheep. He had gone into
his cabin and the sheep which were
near by, soon wandered out on the
ice which covered small lake, at
tracted by the grass which projected
above the top of the ice. When he
discovered them he started the dogs
to round them up and get them off
the ice, but the endeavor was not
successful; instead the sheep bunched
the ice broke and hundreds were