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T H E M O N T A N I A N . Published Every Friday Evening at Cbotenu. Choteau Co., Montana. S. M. CORSON, Editor. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTfON. BY MV.Il— PC.'TAGF rF l?P .U £ . Ooo «;opy, or.o yo»iv (In Atlvnucr-) ............. Six Mont-lia ........ “ * .............. Three Months... '* )t ............... Single Copies... “ ‘ .............. Advertising Kates on Application $ 3 r i. .. i ¿<o. . I On. . 10 . F riday , J anuary s , ishs . ___ NEWSPAPER LAW. A poatinaater is required to give official notice ^returning a paper ones not satisfy the law) when u 8Uoscribev doo* not hi- papor trout the oflice, audio fetuto the reason■* for its Iramg taken, and a neglect to do so makes the pos - must,or res] ><>u.sib_o to the i»ubl >l\er tor ttm payment. , Any person who takes a paper from the post- office, whether directed in his name or in that of another, or \vh< thor lie has subscribed or not, is responsible for the pay. If n person orders tiis paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, anu collect the whole atnoaut wnether it bo taken from the office or not.. There esn be no legal discontinuance until the payment is made. If the subscriber orders his paper to be stop ped at a certain time, and the publisher con tinues to send it, t bn subscriber is bonnd to pa> forit if he takes it out of the office. The law proceeds upon tin* »round that u mau must pay for wliwllio uses. A , The courts 1 . ve decided that rofnsing to take newspapers« *1 periodicals from the postollice is prima facie .„-valence of intentional fraud. M ontana bids fair to be one ol the fairest of the fair young states reresented at the World’s Fair in 1S93. _______________ d ohn S herman has been selected to .-acceed himself in the Fifty Second congress as U. S. Senator from the state of Ohio. T he governor of Kansas has ap pointed B. W. Perkins to succeed Plumb in the U. 8. seanate. He Mas sworn in on Wednesday. T he ^present shift of snow is considered a blessing by the stock men, but to us, whose wood pile is rather low, it is pretty thorough ly disguised. T he hand that- rocks the cradle may have something to do with ruleing the land, but the man who gets control of the water in Montana holds the top hand. T he supreme court holds that certain classes of misdemeanors, such as assault and battery, should be tried in justice’s courts, in which case the district courts have appellate jurisdiction. G ive us the sole right to use the waters of Montana and we care 110 b who owns the land. With the water under our control we could extort more money out of the land than the owner. I t is quite evident that- the peo ple of this section are not fullv alive to their interests, or they would pay more attention to the work now before the irrigation convention now in session at Helena. T he price of wheat is not made in Liverpool as stated in Tim Col lius’ catscliism, but in Chicago England buys no wheat of the United States until after the prod ucts of hei dependencies and ol other, cheap prodneeing countries have been exhaused. Then, and not until then, does she come to us for wheat.. And she pays the Chicago price for it, and not the t prices which, until then,have held ) in Liverpool. The price of wheat | '0 England is made by the Chicago Board of Trade and not by the English buyers, as Tim Collins would have us believe. England only comes to us for wheat when she can not get it elsewhere, and she pays the price asked by the “ Shorts” or goes without. T his month’s Cosmopolitan con fniued the announcement that aerii navigation was to be under taken by that energetic magazine, and now comes the announcement 1 hat Mr. Win. Dean Howells will leave Harper’s Magazine, to take editorial charge of the Cosmopoli tan, on March 1st, and thus call,« attention to the process of build ing up the staff of a great maga zine: “ .Probably in no monthly has the evolution been so distinct ly under the eyes o f the public as in the case of the Cosmopolitan. The first step after its editorial control was assumed by Mr. John Brisben Walker, was to add to it Edward Everett Ha lei who took charge ol a department called “ Social Problems,” subjects con cerning which the greatest num ber of people are thinking. Some months latei, a department was eslabli.died called “ The Review of Current Events.” Mr. Murat Hal stead look charge of this depart ment with the distinct understand ing Hint his monthly review should he philosophical and never partisan. The nezl step in the history of the Cosmopolitan, was the p[acia ot the review of the intellectual movement of the month in the hands of Mr.Brander .Matthews, who for for some time has been recognized as one of the two or three ablest critics in the United States. Finally came the acceptance of the editorship con jointly with Mr. Walker, by Mr. Howells.” Witl) such a corps ol able writers the Cosmopolitan can but be an excellent publication. P o p u lar T a lk- cm Law . BY WM C SPRAGUE. ESQ. Ohio vs. Indiana We hear recently from the news papers of a discovery having been made that the boundary line as now established between the states of Ohio and Iudiana is not a cor rect one—that the latter state has within her accepted territory a portion of the fair soil of her sis ter state. Some have asked, how is this to be remedied? Without attemptingtlo apswer this ques- ! definitely, I wish to refer to cases arising at the threshold of our life as a nation, the reference to which may be interesting and instruct ive. In the days of tne Continen tal Congress, many were the disputes that arose between states as to territory and boundaries,and between individuals claimitig lands under grants from the differ ent states. Among these contro- vercies were those between Pennsylvania and Conneetcut; Pennsylvania and Virginia; New Jeisey and Virginia; Mas*achus~ setts and New York; 8 ruth Caro lina and Georgia; New H unpshire, Vermont, N jw York and Massa chusetts. The Articles of Confedration provided that the United States in congress a-sembled should be the last reson on append in all disputes and differences ihen subsisting, or that might- arise thereafter, be tween two or more stales concern ing bouudary, jurisdiction or any cause whatsoever. A mode of establishing a court for the trial of these controversies, was specif ically prescribed. This was adopt ed in 1777. The first controversy arising was that between Penn sylvania and Connecticut over .the fair and fertile Wyoming—a terri tory of five million acres. Delegates from each state met and failed to agree. Resort was had to arms, and much blood was shed. Connecticut informed congress of the state of affairs, and that body body appointed Rutledge, Chase, Jefferson, Kinsey and Hopkins a committee. This commilleo recom mended the cessation of hostilities and a settlement in a legal way. Peace once more reigned. After the articles o f confederation were finally ratified, investing congress with the powers above referred to, Pennsylvania prayed congress for a , hearing. Congress seL-a day for a hearing, which was notic d by both parties, and at the time des ignated the disputants appeared by their agents. The states were then directed to appoint by joint consent commissioners to consti tute a court This was done. The court sat at Trenton. F.fteen days were devot ed to arguments. The court decid ed for Pennsylvania. This was the only decision in controversies be tween slates under the articles of confederation. The judgment was approved by congress, and acqui esced in by Connecticut. This did not prevent a war growing out o f adverse claims to the private light of soil between individuals, and the ‘ Ponnainite and Yankee’' war was the result, but Pennsylvania confirmed to actual settlers their lands, and the distuct 11 as e n d e d into the county of Luzerne. Pennsylvania and Virginia d:f- 1‘ered as to the famous “ Mason and Dixon’s” line. Acommi-sion com posed of clergy in Virginia and college professors in Pennsylvania finally agreed upon the line. New Jersey and Virginia differ ed as io a tract called Indiana in the Northwest Territory. No com mission was appointed, for Virgin ia presented to congre-s a deed of cess'on in 1784. New York claimed the land between the Merrimac and the Charles, but before the commis sion which had been appointed had met,the two contending states, New York and Massachusetts, setr tied the dispute between them selves. South Carolina and - Georgia lought for tiie upper waters of the Savannah river. The states failed to agree upon a commission, as directed by congress, , and that bodj' chose a cou t for the purpose, but the states came to an agree ment. New Hampshire, Vermont,New York and Massachusetts quarrel led over the region lying between lake Champlain and the Connect icut river, which resulted in the recognition of “ the pretended state o f Vermont” as a state. Thus much lor early controver sies. In case of conflicts now arising, we quote from Article III, Sec. 1, ol the constitution: “ The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one, supreme court and in such inferior courts as the congress may, from time to time, oidain and establish,” and from Sec. 2: “The judicial power shall extend to * * * contro versies between two or inure states. * * * ” It is altogether likely that the states of Ohio and Indiana would be able to adjust any diffeience that might arise from an error in survey or other wise, and ihe course taken in ear ly controversies would become unnecessary. ------------ . 4 1 ^.. ------------ F I it 81 JttaP O P IH E W u E L D . t o b i tx l i i b i 'e d at The W o r ld’s t air iu 1 8 0 3 . The first map\of the world ever made, it i» reported, will be exhib- led at the exposition. A cable gram from Loudon stales that Pope Leo has consented to its loan Irotn the Vatican library. It is known as the Diege Ribere map and was begun in 1494 and finish ed in 1529. it is accompa «ied by a con temporary copy of tne map containing the famous busecting line wliicii Pope A.exander VI. drew across it to settle tne claims of Spain and Poitugal to Arneri can territory. It was bequeathed by Cardinal Sorgia to the Vatican library, and is the same which Pope Pius IX refused to allow the American government to have even a copy of. It is three feet by seven, and is in an excellent state of preservation. It begins with the Molucca group and ends with the other h ilf. The Nile is traced to three lal tes. Russia and Siberia are put down as barren and un known countrii-s. America makes a showy appearance with Yucatan, Brazil a d New Suain distinctly indicated, the north terminating with .Labrador. . Stop A t the ULM House Great Falls.
