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11-0 M Newwa- “Jam (‘oaanty—A I‘m-fly Jon-W - I 30me MONTANA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 80, [885. 'uuuquon ‘mna :0 million Salim] mu m \00 a Hummer) 6—H SMI\ A T H, HARNESS. L - sums, BRIDLES, ms, Leather and Hardware. m...\ 0mm to Order. , Be- palrlng a Bpeolaly. WE'T PARK STREET .p_ 0. BOX 2‘. Bl T'l'l‘l‘l. I“ on! aann. 4m}! Wi—ckes Hotel WICKES, Montana. First-Class in every particular. G O O D S T A B L E Connected with the house. MILTON (‘A UBY. Prop. En}? Central Hotel. Byrraaklaraham. Newly Built and Newly Furnished throughout. The leading Hotel. Centrally located and pleasantly sit- uated on Main street. Thetablea are supplied with the beat the market alorth. Ines-tron all potanwstthtsno‘sl. Hulk-nos. [ET-ulna. Bleefil‘eIEyok, Md”!!- fllLIlliIflBllLll. .' m m m u— murmur.\ nonhuman-tunnels“ “Whom tnA-Iea wort-mm. wuuzvm. From the New York Herald. “I may not be. as the New York Herald says, the oldest man on earth, but I an: 125 years old. My papers and documents show it,“ said Shad- rack Nugent, the centennian to the Herald correspondent yesterday. Shadrack Nugent is a light-skinned mulatto, who has lived in “'sahing- ton since the war of 1812. He was born. he says, in I760, in Frederick county. MIL, near the present town of Frederick. He ownsa couple of houses. and in rather well provided for. He is universally respected by both white and colored. and is n stendyr-Irurchgwr. IIc only when he goes out at night. and while rather shaky, he walks well enough foramanball'hisnge, what~ is. He is known as \the Man\ for thc rcawn that he ““08 I (‘Bllt‘ ever it Moon has devoted many years to observa- tions of the! moon and the relation of the moon to the changes of tho- wcath- er. “I hau- such all the presidcnte sincc .lamcs Madison. and ban- tulkcd with llu-mall cxccpt I'rcsiilcnt (‘lc\c- land. I am going down to scc him I saw Mr. Madison when he had to drivc away from the “'hitc Shun. ”nose when thc llritish burned it. lb’ll turcd. turncd to it after it was fixed up and in to kccp from being cap- I also saw him when hc rc- painlcd it while. It is a white house but it It was more yellow sandstone color than anything t‘lsc. All of thc front was blackcd up by thc amokc when it That's the reason they lit-for“ that it was the ”0“\ “‘85 Hill (III'_‘ lllf‘ll. was burncd. painted it. same color of thc trcazmry portico. and was built out of the snmc quarry of sandstonc. l have about proved my casc. and will soon gct tny pen- sion as a soldicr in thc rcvolutionary war. though I wasn‘t a soldier, only a body servant. “Idcutclmnt (irufl cnmc to Rock- villc. Montgomcry county. “11.. and bought a farm in the year ITSI. Thc court house rt‘cortls will show that l was frcc the year after. having bccn bound to him. was 21 years old. I was freed when l My mother first gave inc. when‘l was ll or 7 years Shc was a poor woman. but she promiscd old. to Mrs. Caterer to raise. she would raise mc so as to play with her children. Four or live vcars sf- terward it was fixed up that I was to the sold to a Georgia planter. II» was going to kidnap Inc. The plan was that I should be sent out to shut the gatc at night and this Georgia man was to catch me. I told about it. and Mr. George (irafi laid an in- junction on her to keep her from selling me. The judge then bound me to George Grad till I was of age. He was a rich man. My free papers are recorded at the Montgomery county court hoursc, but I have lost them. “There was no voting in Montgom~ ery county when we moved in from Frederick. The first voting was when General “'aabington was elect- ed president. In 1784 we camped on Federal Hill. Baltimore. “’e ex- pected Lord Cornwallis. We were there four months. There were no houses there then. Capt. Stiner. Lieut. Gral and Lieut. McPherson werethefiratolcera dthe first ar- tillery company that bad cannons in Frederick. There was no hank d music then. only (In-I and “as. This artillery oompuy w- ordered to Baltimrne to.“ .0 place. Some of the 0\ , d 1812; the fifth w- the Florida war; the sixth was the Mexican war. and the seventh was General Grant's or war. Getting a. the subject of the war the old man mid: “I smoked when I wanaboyandfur some timeafter I grew up, but was never much of a smoker. I never chewed tobacco because I was not allowed to. Mr. Gral said it did not look well for: a boy to chew,and I did not chow. He chewed. and the ruflcs of his shirt were dirty all the time with tobacco juice. I believe that was the reason he opposed me chewing. Yes.l have drank some liquor in my life, but very little. I havn‘t touched a drop of any kind of liquor since General Lafayette came to this country. I was awful drunk the night he arrived but after that no more. My experi- ence has been with white and colored people that liquor causes more trou- ble than everything else put togeth- er. I.igbt aliplu-rs,even if late. dolx't do any one harm, but I have never belicved in eating greasy atufl at night. Ice cream should never be eaten after sundown. TI is danger- ous for night eating. and is not very Regularity in mcrvthing is beneficial. and cspccial- healthy at any time. ly so about paying all bills that arc due. If you aint got anything don't promise. only pay when you have money. In my carly days thcrc was l but littlc liquor inadc in this country. It was all imported. IIigh-toncd gv-ntlcmcn drank rather heavy and played cards strong. They would play thc saddles ofi thcir horses.\ (in thc subject of 'ifimms. Shudrnck .Vugcut talked very freely. rcfcrring |to thc history of mums which he had lprintcd in IKTN the result of 51‘\ v-n- ' :y-liu- yenrs‘ study. “The \vcathcr comes by moon-2.\ continued the llltlllll man. “instend of by months. Thc nuron is cold and the sun is hot. The monm chills the hcnt given out by the sun at titucs and we have winter. 'l'hc springs will be later and later when the sum- mer mmui changes on the 20th of June. which won’t be for many years yet. The red sunsets of last year and this year are in consequence of being late.\ Speaking of his family. he said: \I did not gct marricd until I was advanced in ycars. l have three girls. ,and oncbov. 'l‘hc youngest girl is V in\! veers of age. I have u lot of good cbildrcu.\ 'I'I-cs Have Changed. From the Pioneer Press. An old timer. who lived in St. Paul in the ”50's. but removed to Montana thirty years ago. and has rcmaiucd away ever since, showed up again yesterday. and spent the (lay in won- dering how on earth such marvelous progress and development had been made. His idea of the rapid manner in which the city had grown away ahead of what he even dreamed it could be was illustrated in a very unique way, much to the amusement said be. “when I lived here in the ‘50s it was rather a common occur- rence to be compelled to thrash the newspaper men. because of articles that were printed reflecting on a fel- low‘s character. l used to have to do it myself once in awhile. At that time, though, I could go up into the oflce and whip the managing, city, telegraph, commercial. news. and dramatic editors and the reportuial ataf simply by doing up one man. That‘s all there was to the concern. for one to underfle—tbaee mean many dthem—andthhbwhatleall a practical illustratkm d m and develqi-ent.” ' TnnCaaoar. Lise-nan. a... s . firm. who m’t malignant-nu- A ington’swar;tbshnlthwantbewarlm cum m of a crowd at the Merchants. “VVIIy.” pec Now, however. the job itoomnoh 5-“ \T— as. nus-n a fiss- lh\ a.- tenselteh-tygntemnl l'lve has. After a long and tediuts trial the murdereraof “Opium Jim\ have come to grief. Judge Galbraith's exhor- tatiou to the prisoners was very touch- ing. We copy from the Miner of the fith inst.: 'rttl: Husker: tic-slain. Elmer Cannon and ‘Wm. Riley, two of the murderers of “Opium Jim\ were directed to stand in). It will be remembered that Cannon stood trial and was convicted of murder in the second degree. and that by con- sent of the district attorney. Riley pleaded guilty to the same dense. Addressing the two prisoners. J udgo Galbraith said: The life of every human being is in the 9 es of the law e( uall ' sacred. In this nd. where the life one hu- man being is criminally taken by another. the law makes no distinction in relation to the nature of the crime, whether or not the person slain is of snv particular race or color. or whctb- cr 0 be rich or potw. high or low, or learned or unlcurncd. The jury by their verdict must havcjuuud that. you killed or stood bv. aided. abcttcd orassisted in the killing with malice nforethought. either express or im- lll(‘ll. of one Ah Tit. a ('hiuaman. I‘hc evidence shows tbc killing to have bccn of thc most barberous character, bordering almost. I might say. upon torture. For at least uln- half hour this luwlr man was accord- ing to the cvidcncc. in the bands of l his murderers. who drove and pulled ' land dragged him from his house loan ' .embankmcnt forty or fifty feet distant ; and back again, cutting him with lJ.\I‘K-K\‘l\'lv:x~' .xxn nl'Tcnizickxivi-zs; l finally leaving him stretched upon a | . table in his own botnw, while one of , his murdcrcrs stotidmcr him. aml as he atrugglcd to escape cjeculnted: “Noyou don‘t.\ Ilia left arm. bc-J twccn thc shoulder and the clbow. ovus slashed dccp with wounds. the 7 hand of this arm was almost scvcrcd at the wrist. and his left breast was cut between the fourth and fifth ribs and deer into the substance of the lung. lnrnrncd physicians tcetificd that these wounds were fatal. and that he died in consequence. thereof, after lingering for six or ecvcn days. The annals of this territory dolnot . contain the record of ammo: causelcsa or more barbarous murder. and my memory does not rccall such another instance in thc criminal history of our land. The only circumstance which could have in my judgment rcduced this crime from murdcr in the first degree to murder in the ace- ond degree. was the fact that you had been drinking beer. and wcrc at the time under the influence of in- toxication. which intoxication was of such a character as to prevent pro~ meditation and dclibcrntion. Iiut I am inclined to think that the length of time you were engaged in Tut: Paxrana‘nox or‘TIIta Hutton-2n, and your conduct immediately after. upon your arrest. one of you. Riley, running away. and the other. Cannon. resisting the officer. would have war- ranted the jurv in finding you both guilty of murder in the tint degree. [do not mean to reflect upon the verdict of the jury. It is probably as correct a verdict as in the resent condition of the public min a jury of twelve men could have been ex- ted to render. But the circum- stances of the murder must be taken into consideration by the court in rendering its judgment. I might. indeed. impose upon you the sentence of imprisonment for ife. but in View ofyour youth. some degree of mercy wi l m' and soften its severity. and remember that behavior in will reduce your term (I imprisonment. and if you live, will enable an to come from. your seclu- sion an punisblz‘ent bettari‘rpemand to . your i . . ‘ whi: I moatsinoerely 5.1..me 3 Eli .i i} .1?” l‘ .govcrllmcnl can havc in prcvcnting is certainly one (I the II. “as' d the germ; and tht i. b been a wanton and clinical oal'.‘ cl timber in some localities mount It is neverthele- true, that a Iq- ulation limitiug'the rightto cut wood and lumber to what one Milt his own use, would be most dis-tron. Nearly all our cltiaenea areaoaitu- ahd they cannot out the wood and timber they must have, or live in dug-outs and without ire. Such a regulation enforced would depopulate the territory. Somethingsimilar was tried by Secretary Schun. and was found impracticable and abandoned. Until our timber lands are surveyed and put in the market. the settlers must have some means of obtaining the wood and the lumber so neces- sary in this climate; and for a bun- dred years the government has rec- ugnixed this necessity and permitted the settlers to use what timber was necessary until the land was surveyed and and oflered for sale. The only way the government can stop the cutting of timber on gov. crnment lands, is rtoflggryeyAthcvseA lands and o‘er them for sale. \\hen this is done all will bc enabled to buy what is needed in their homes and no reason to complain of tbc most stringent rcgu- lations for the protection of timber on bur-incss. and will have the public domain. Just as soon as our own citizens bc- come owners of timbcr lands. they i will bccomc most interested to pre- vcnt thc destruction of our forests either by tire or timln-r-tbicvcs, and will be the tune! cfiicfcnt aids then dcprcdntionw upon the public domain. Nothing save the protection of oil- vcr is now so much dcmaudcd for the good of Montana. as a rapid survey . of our timber lands. A hundred sur- veying parties on a hundred contracts ought to be put in the field at once. The timbcr lands would sell likc bot cakcs in a mining camp. Such a policy would makc business very lively for a year at least, and till the country with ncw life and hopes based upon the sottlcmcnt of a vexed and dangerous question. [lad we a surveyor general as well acquainted with our territory as Col. Dclacy, he could locate these par- ties at once and have the timber land surveyed before much more mischief isdonc. Butn stranger will have to study the geography of our timber lands a year or so. before he will be prepared to rclcct the localities whcrc surveys are most needed.» -In- dependent. B. B. to be Built to Benton Next Year. “'e take the liberty to publish the following extract from a private In:- tcr from “'. E. Belcher. live stock agent of the C. I’. R. IL, to thc editor of the River Press: “I had a conver- sation recently with M r. Barclay. chief engineer of the Galt Railway. who informed me, that he was going to pay a visit to Benton very shortly. simply to look over the ground. The survey, he says, will be commenced early next spring, and he eapreaaea the opinion that theroad will be com- menced early next season, and l be- lieve it is left to biopiniun.” This information is in a general way confirmed from other sources, and there seems to he noqueation but Benton will have mueotion with the great C. P. R. 3. system next year. It 5 the niMbeheall others, that we want—River Prom. flint”. Honeys-Iago}.W.Pookn-eta mammali- d is presence an. urchin W“. ”MH‘ c L o '1' KING: “11W WEDRUGS FAND WPATEXT 13\.Ib All New Stock and Prices as low as the Lowest. Next to ”my Mai Again for “'ELLS, FARGO & CO.‘S Expm. - WICKES. list. Ml m A! “VII”. ll TIA”. 4,, Mill-JAM m inatoral’the tame-a leaflet. Colonel Dexter R. “'right related to a company of G. A. R. friends who were assembled in his oflice last evo- ning the following interesting story: \I wasin “'ashington just after Erics- i son had perfected his plans for build- ing the monitor. am] in company with a lricnd was on my way to call on ‘ (iitlcnll “'ells. who was then the sec- retary of the navy. \thn about half way down the long corridor that led to the secretary‘s oflicc we met a man very much bowed down and with tears streaming from his eyes. I looked at the poor fellow, and al- though I did not know what was troubling him atul he was an entire stranger to me. I pitied him from the bottom of my heart. The man passed in down the corridor, and was met by C. S. Bushnell. who. great warm- hearted follow that he was. noticed the grief stricken appearance of the man and said, ‘My good fellow. what is troubling you?” The man. who was Ericsson. explained to Mr. Bush- nell that he had invented a vessel of war that in his judgment would rev; olutionize the naviea of the world and that Secretary Wells had refused to order one built. Mr. Bushnell listened to Ericsson’s explanation of the model of the monitor and at once saw that the invention was of start- ling merit. arm and said, ‘Cotne with me.‘ They at once passed to the secretary's of- ficc and in half an hour's time Erica- aon came out with the order for the building of the vessel that conquered the Merrimac. I speak from per- sonal knowledge when I can any that that was the first meeting between Bushnell and Eric-on. People can say what they please about C. S. Bushnell. noblest men that God ever made. It has always seemed tome tilt an all- wiae Providence udained that meet- ing, and that C. 8. Bilbao\ w. tb humble inetrumentin God‘s hanb d .iating to build Wilt proved to be the solutkm d our navy.”-—New Haven Palladium. 0.. M M The wirbw “Quotation-tad several m l the Mb I BimHeP-hwhleb “be.“ He took Eric-on by the “ lconsiderhimoneofthe' em and designated b the to notes and platonl‘llc thlsotllceasklt Holth township 7 a. range a w, of principal has llnc and merldlan of Xoatsna ' Iald lot No. 40 beta as follows. to-wlt: Be outing at car. ‘0. 1. {ran which tbs lnltl polat for survey- In t 7 n. 0 w. been n m deg. as rain w 4.182 ft; thence a CI deg.“ mlu c Minding“- ll 0 mlne 1.271 It; thence I'm.“ ' 1.850\: thencesldeg.urnln w ” thence a 14 «1:33.31 into c ”0 ft; the-ea stz. 16 mln e m It; thence a t in min c 1.11711; thence use dog. it wt‘fllhtheucen lbdc .Mmln ft; thence a 20th..“ ft; thcncc n 1 deg.“ min e“ n 39dcg. 48 min w 1150“: M deg. 40 mln Iv 1.150 ft: thence ‘ in Hill! W 4.56? ft; thence n w 2.5:!) It; thence n 10 deg. ft; thence n 10 deg. 82 thence n 0 deg. 08 e we deg. 22 min w 578 ft- th V: t 868 ft; thence atonee. fiewfledbhvefied ‘ ad. douswblshmeflpman‘ ddsfiegruelhon ”.0
