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r oo-aposup. I' stilliss.1—sesonsiossr1sosillgaist, •••••••••• Vol. X. THE.RIVER PRESS. Fort Benton, Montana, Wednesday, 1 4 Tovember P4149. No. THE BLACKFOOT AGENCV. The Indians Becoming Civilized—School Fa- c ilities --The Indian Po Mild Winter Predicted—Rich quartz Discoveries, Etc. orrespondence of the RIVER PRESS. Piegan. or Blackfoot agency, lies in the n orthwestern part of Choteau county, 123 m iles from Benton on the right bank of aadger creek. The present agent is .la - ; or J. B. Catlin of Missoula. under whose m anagement affairs are in a flourishing ! oadition. W. J. Livingston is chief :ierk, and J. P. Wagner is issue clerk. The reservation contains 1.760,000 acres. :t is one of the best portions of Montana. Che Indians, Blackfoot, Bloods and Pie - belonging to the agency number about 2,000. Many of them live in com- fortable log houses while others prefer he aboriginal tepee A few farm on a anall scale, but no general agricultural fever will ever break out among them. ley have put up about 200 tons of hay for the winter use of their stock. P. Cat - n. Kennerly and Chas. Aubrey in- - , truct the Indians in farming. For a period of ten years from 1888 the .anual ape t ropriation for the benefit of nese Indians is $150,000. Thia money is be used in the purchase of supplies. .agons, farming implements, horses and 'auto and in building and maintaining -noots and other institutions for their ducation and -civilization. Two hundred brood mares and ten stal- .ons were brought here last summer, also large number of wagons and farming alplements. Thirty Indians with as ..any wagons are now engaged in freight - mg supplies from Benton, for which they receive $1.25 per cwt. in cash. For other iabor done for the government they re- a3ive $1 to $1.50 per day in tickets ex- changeable for supplies from the govern- ment stores. Chief White Calf and other .g and little Indians bask in content - Ant on a weekly ration of four pounds f beef and five pounds of flour, which is aid every Saturday. The sick and in- :,rm receive an extra issue every Wednes- day. About twenty good Montana beef steers are killed weekly to provide the sinews of peace. One thing, however, ',Vlaite Calf does not like; that is the pres- suee at the agency of the colored troops, where a few occasionally escort come as :o some officer or other military duty. The old chief thus draws the color line: \I don't wante them here. Let them go aack to the place where they grew and aimed black. My people are dark enough for me and I want to see them turn whiter.\ He is afraid the color is catch - The agency boarding school is in charge ,f A. B. Coe principal, with the following assistants: Miss Cora M. Ross, teacher; Miss Isabella Clark, matron; Mrs. Belle Coe cook; Miss Kitty Kennedy, laundress; Miss Mary E. Pelky, seamstress. The at- \endance now is 21 boys and 12 girls, be - ;ales 15 day scholars. The children are 'aright and learn readily. Besides their audies the boys milk 15 cows and culti- :ate a garden the proceeds of which, be- yond the consumption of the school, are levoted to buying extras from the:govern- ment supplies. The girls are taught to work and sew. The accommodations for :he pupils are rather limited, but the gov- srtenent will soon let a contract for the ouilding of a large two story brick school The Catholics have also in course of . enstruction a large frame building on Two Medicine creek, four miles from the Vency, for which Miss Drexel. of Phila- ielphia, donated the funds—$17,000. This school will be known as the Piegan In - lien Mission. It will be for full blood In - Lan children only, and the intention is to Tiake it an industrial school like that at 1 ;arlisle, Pa. N. Monshausen is the ar- laitect, Joe Kipp contractor, I. A. Skin- ner, of Helena, has charge of the carpen- 'er work and James Manix, of Sun River, las charge of the masonry and plastering. The main building is two stories high, 1 )11'.30 feet; wall of 6 inch studding and louble boarded, filled in with concrete aad lathed and plastered. A main wall -tough the center divides the boys de- airtcnent from that of the girls. In each *Itartnient on first floor are two school \\*Irba two play rooms and a parlor. The 'Weirs consists of dormitories, a chapel iad nuns' work room. A one story wing 1) . 1115 feet is for kitchen, dining room ' 41 boys and girls infirmaries. Provision also made for a bakery, laundry and +sah rooms. The building will probably m completed by January first next. The \aitshops and priest's residence will be eat next year. A chapel 263150 feet has ' re adY been built. With these two ' eh bal - houses completed the educational anilines will certainly be ample. The uniformed Indian police are quite 4 . .featur e of the agency. They are twenty - \In number and are selected from the tuen in the tribe. They are Prompt in enforcing the reserve - n laws . and arresting their offending 'rsthern. Chiefs White Calf, Big Nose kid Tearing Lodge constitute a police 4 . 1nal to try misdemeanors committed S reservation. Thirty days on the wood pile is generally the fate of the In- dian caught drunk or with liquor in his possession. The guard house was empty on the day of our arrival, but we were in- formed that seven or eight bucks were sometimes in confinement. Despite all precautions some of the Indians manage A XICW c* r. Ewa, bet Dr. Fulton espressos so doub1! of the ultimata recovery of the patient. - - 4 414mck fur Milk Bitter. tun w a 11111111114, SOADS ...11•11111000. The Opposing Voirees of rho D. C. C N. ome logethir o:«Tbio Iroaroser nose' I y noodled. A big band of race horses belonging to forced daily and Isom Itioodolted 'sex - t pect441. It us thought that Howard has gone to Virginia but is expected to return The beet citizens of Harlan county are joining Lewis and with 4uch a sletermin- w Khors a: Bielenberg was started for the ! CitooKsiox, Minn., October 31.—The ed leader there is no dibt the law and to get hold if the fiery fluid occasionally. Milk river country last Friday. They first real skirmish between the Manitoba obrderreak up rt t y he w g ill a n e r i th e a o t u h t v ictobeenrioausterarnodr The liquor when taken from them is spilt On Octeber 15th, 1885, four years were driven to Helena and from there' and D. C. & N. forces occurred this after- , to all Eastern Kentucky for the by one of the policemen ceremoniously Lui Myers, alias Dutch Lui, becoming shipped by rail. The range in that sec- noon about 4 o'clock. The D. C. & N. breaking the bottle on the agency H ag disgusted with the scarcity of timber and taon is said to be very good, and consid- graded on the county road and laid ties twenty -five years. staff al a crusader. It is said that a poor water for mining purposes in the Sweet The Custer County Contests. old squaw going by the flag staff shortly Grass hills, turned his face westward in territory is being sent there for the win- hitched sixteen horses on a rope attached after one of these ceremonies picked up search of new mining fields. Since then I . 1 _ — ...._.___ one of the glass fragments and sorrowful- he has been prospecting in the Rockies.. WHO KNOWS OLIVER JONES? ly licked it, thinking no doubt the while DU ring the past summer I stumbled upon' of Ingersoll's rhapsody on sending a bar- asl of 18 -year old to his friend. The Indians expect a mild winter. In this view they are sustained by several white men whom your correspondent met. Hugh Monroe, an old timer 105 years of age—of whom I may have occasion to write again—says that before a hard win- ter his rheumatism troubles him greatly; he bus no twinges to speak of this year. Oal man Ellis has observed that a hard winter follows a heavy equinoctial storm and vice versa.B. D. Labreche, of upper Sheep creek has noticed that the hair of cattle and horses, by a kindly provision of nature, is generally very long and wavy before a hard winter. It was so in 1880. This year the hair is short. • has. Cart- wright says that the bark of his dog is not any thicker than usual on the north side this fall. This is an infallible sign. Piegan is the home of Joe Kipp. the noted scout and guide. He has a general merchandise store here and has a good trade. R. L. 'ecGonigal is in charge of the store. John Eldridge conducts the hotel. He has a good run of custom and provides the nest beef steak in all Montana. The agency has no physician at present. The Indians look wise and say since the last doctor left nobody has died; but then they are prejudiced against white medi- cine men. Lately some rich quartz has been found in the main range of the Rockies directly west of here and in the opinion of old timers there will be several good mining camps before long. Of course prospecting and mining are forbidden on the reservation but the prospector and miner \get there just the same.\ Coal is used at the agency from a vein on Two Medicine creek. Plume. PLAYING A STIFF GAME. Messenger Webster of the State Canvassing Board Makes a Call ---County Clerk Booth Held the Winning Hand and Took the Pot. At about 11 o'clock Saturday morning Benjamin Webster, private secretary to his Excellency Governor White, of Mon- tana, called on Charles F. Booth, county clerk of Silver Bow county, and demand- ed of him a certified copy of the returns of said county as certified by the canvass- ing board. The demand was formal in writing and addressed to Mr. Booth \Clerk of the Board of County Commis- sioners in and for Silver Bow county,\and was clothed in the following verbiage: I, as a messenger from Benjamin F. White, Henry N. Blake and L. A. Walker, acting as canvassers of the vote cast in Montana territory at the election held on the first day of October, 1889, do hereby demand of you, as county clerk and ex -of- ficio clerk of the board of county commis- sioners in and for said Silver Bow county, a certified copy of the abstract of the vote of said county as cast at said election therein and canvassed by the duly au- thorized canvassers of said county and duly certified by them. Mr. Booth was not prepared for the vis- it and the demand, since the returns with Judge DeWolfe's mandate attached were sent to Helena by special messenger and special train as long ago as Wednesday morning. He therefore asked for a brief time in which to consider the matter. Af- ter he had consulted his legal advisers, he prepared an answer, which was addressed not to Mr. Webster, but to Messrs. White, Blake and Walker, by title as governor, chief justice and secretary respectively and was as follows: \In reply to your demand for a certified copy of the abstract of votes made by the board of canvassers for Silver Bow coun- ty, I beg leave to say that there are no legal abstracts of said votes in my office other than those already sent you upon your former demand. The board had not completed their abstracts of the votes at the time the writ of mandate was served upon them. I herewith enclose you an attested copy of the judgment in said case, ordering the board to complete said, count and include herein the rejected pre- cinct No. 34. From Mr. Webster's manner when the rep]; was delivered into his hands and after its contents had become fixed on the tablets of his intellect, it was apparent that he had come prepared for a reiniff. He said very little, however, and walked away and the place thereof knew him no more that day. He departed for Helena on the 3;30 train.—Butte Miner. or A 110.00 premium and the RIVER PRE.SS one year, for $3.50. A Luck Proapeetor—Neat Mine Itioecoterkits Bow to Reach Them --011 Sprier. Struck—The .\ Klawsted A uteri - cans\— Practicable Rail- road Pass, Etc. Correspondence of the River Press. his camp. It is situated on the main backbone of the Rockies, at the head of I Copper and Quartz creeks, and about. fifty intlea south of THE: TNTERNATIONAL LINE. The district is easy of access from either ' side of the divide. The known mineral ' belt is about five miles in length, running northwesterly and southeasterly, and about three miles in width. The forma- . Con in which the veins occur is green trap rock and sienite and the veins vary in thickness from two to six feet and are genuine true fissure veins. The gangue is a grayish white quartz carrying gold, silver, copper and some lead. Assays from the district run from $80 to 85m per ton of 2,000 lbs. at the present market ue of the above named metals. DUTCH LUI is the owner of several promising claims that will yield him a rich return for a life- long labor spent in prospecting. There are a number of prospectors in the dis- trict and a Butte syndicate is now form- ing for the purpose of carrying on devel- opment work on a large scale. The best way to reach the district is to go up the Kootenai river on the east side of the range and thence up Copper creek; or, if coming from the west side of the divide, to go up the north fork of the Flathead river to Quartz creek, and thence up Quartz creek. There are good trails either way. The scenery in the vicinity of the district is grand and imposing. South of the district is the Myers glacier, about three miles wide and five miles in length, its face a sheer precipice of ice 1,000 feet in height, terminates in a lake that appears bottomless. North of the district is the Dunlap glacier, two miles width by about three miles in length, a huge sugar -loaf shaped mountain of ice that is pushing a terminal moraine at its base 500 feet in height. Five miles to the south is HEAVEN'S PEAK, whose summit is always covered with snow. Game is abundant and of the fol- lowing species: Deer, Elk, Bear, Ptarmi- gan, and last but not least, the Rocky Mountain ibex or goat. The fishing is ex- cellent. At the Kootenai lakes our British cou- sins have \struck ile,\ or more properly speaking, have found a number of oil springs. The oil is a lubricant, but they hope to get petroleum by boring. The country is staked for miles around the springs. I was told upon good authority that an eastern expert has offered $15 per acre for a large block of land, one-half cash the balance in one year, but that the holders refused the offer. I visited Macleod for the purpose of buying provisions and found a strong feeling antagonistic to THE BLAWSTED HAMERICANS, \don't you know,\ among the officials. The editor of the Macleod Gazette is howling for blood for what he considers the seal fisheries outrages. Old Allen, the custom house inspector, wreaks his vengeance by taxing Americans one dol- lar per head on horses, all the treaty obli- gations to the contrary notwithstanding. Everybody is damning the government under their breath. The common herd swear that the cattle barons own the country and employ the police for herd- ers. A prominent cattleman told me that the C. P. R. owned the country; but at any rate the Northwest territory is a good country for the American to steer clear of. Their laws have made one-half of the citizens thieves and whiskY smugglers, while the other half are informers and spies, the officials \eating the doughnut.\ If the Manitoba or any other railroad is looking for a pass over the Rockies, Copper creek is the route. A three mile tunnel would obviate the necessity of building snow sheds and there would be no more grade to encounter than any- where through the prairie. They could take in the oil fields, the mining district and the great coal fields of the Flathead country. It is the best pass that I know of in the Rocky range. PALNUlt. Condition of Marcus Daly. Last Sunday it was feared that it would be necessary to take Marcus Daly to New York for treatment, so critical was the condition of his eyes, but his strength was not sufficient to warrant the trip and Dr. J. F. Fulton, the eminent St. Paul specialist, was summoned by telegraph. He arrived last night, and after examina- tion rendered a favorable decision regard- ing the preservation of Mr. Daly's sight. It will require patient and careful treat - Arable stock from various points in the ter. -Northwest. ! A Mother's Efforts to Find Her Missing son, — From a letter received at the post office yesterday it is evident that in some local - I ities the city of Butte is known only as a speck on the map. This letter came di- rected to the \Foreman of the Silver lines, Butte City, ontana,\ and was ad- dressed within to \My Dear Son.\ There seems to have been some uncertainty in Ithe writer's mind as to her son's identity as the \foreman of the silver mines at Butte,\ because she changes suddenly Ifrom relation to imploratien in the fol- I lowing words: \If anybody reads this letter please tell us if he is there. The last news that we got was that he was in the Montane silver mines.\ So there- fore if any reader of the Miner knows Oliver Jones, that reader will confer a fa- vor by telling him that his mother, Mrs. Jones, of No. 31 Brock street Montreal, Province of Quebec wants to hear from him. The words, \Post Haste\ written on the face of the envelope, speak a \various language.\—Butte Miner. a Montana Miner. National Silver Convention. The arrangements for the national sil- ver convention, to assemble in Grand Mu- sic Hall, St. Louis, November 26tb, have been closed. The promoters of the move- ment in that city, have shown a great deal of earnestness in the work, and from ad - vices received the business people of the city appreciate the importance of the convention by the manner in which they have subscribed to the fund for the enter- tairment of the delegates and visitors. The indications are that the convention wits attract an attendance of upwards of 20,000 people, coming from all parts of the United States. From the mining coun- try there will be several special cars, and displays of minerals from leading camps. The grand Music Hall which has been secured for the convention for November 26, 27, 28 and 29, is one of the largest and best arranged halls in the country. It has an adequate seating capacity for both delegates and spectators, while at the same time the former are placed compact- ly and advantageously. The entertain- ment being arranged by St. Louis will in- clude a grand Thanksgiving dinner. This will be of an elaborate description, and a decided novelty. It will probably be held in the hall of the Merchants Exchange, which has the largest floor area of any hall of its character in the country. The hall will be elegantly decorated with flow- ers, and the trimmings usually used. There will also be entertainments dur- ing the other four days of the session of the convention, and St. Louis will make every effort to surpass herself in caring for her guests. The delegate representa tion will be large from every state and territory in the Union. The governors of the states and territories to whom is del- egated the authority of appointing dele- gates have shown a great deal of care in selecting the best possible men for the positions. The same care will be taken by the executive committee in its selec- tionof I00 delegates at large, provided for from the United States. The attendance from members and ex -members of con- gress will also be large. From present indications that the con- vention will result in a great deal of good and in educating the people of the coun- try, particularly of the agricultural dis- tricts, up to the importance of the silver question, outside of what benefit it may be to those actually engaged in the min- ing industry, there can be little doubt. Winter at Philipsburg. Winter has come, not in the habiliment of ill seasoned blasts, and not in angry manacles, but in the robe of complacency that invites the youth to take down his Judge Lewis Overtakes and Kills Six of the gun and sled, and the maid her skates Howard Gang. and muffle; the babe, in its cradle, nestles for sweet meats and honey; the matron PIN EVILLE, Ky., October 31.—News dons her cherished burden for the spin- reached here to night by reliable parties Ding wheel and spindle, while the sire that Judge Lewis came up with Howard sweeps the deep, dark cavern for gold and and his gang yesterday and killed six of, iSilver. All represent the great populace of the Howard gang without losing a man. ST. Louts, November 3. --Judge Parker, humanity; all are members of the mighty Three of the men killed were named Hall I of the United States district court for the family; all ingredients of one amazing in- tegral of mankind, and all are wisely con- vinced that the spinal column of the fu- rious monster, pneumonia, has received a stupendous crash - - beyond recovery. Who dares to say the snow is not bene- ficial as well as beautiful and ornamental? —Granite Mountain Star. Bargains in town and ranch property, live stock, etc. Write the River Press Commission Agency for list. and rails to the Manitoba rails. They to a fiat 'ear tied were attempting to pull the car over the crossing when the Mani- toba forces took the ties and rails and threw them bodily into the ditch, togeth- er with superintendent of construction Evans, who was on the debris at the time. No general row ensued, but a FEW BLOWS WERE STRUCK. Lawyer Montague, who is an interested factor in the incoming road receiving a forcible argument on the side of the cran- ium. The Manitoba forces numbered about 250, while the D. C. & N. road had but 90 men on the ground. The, D. C. & N. workmen commenced throwing bolts and spikes, one Manitoba employe being hit in the stomach and severely in- jured. The Manitoba men did not retali- ate as they had received orders not to resort to force unless absolutely necessa- ry. The D. C. & N. men withdrew from the croseing to their camp about five miles from the scene of the trouble and up to this hour 11 p. m. have not made a second attempt. The Manitoba is master of the situation and it will be next to im- possible for the D. C. & N. to effect a crossing. The Manitoba is loaded for them having two trains of flat cars and five engines. Engine No. 115 with Engi- neer Cleary at the throttle is transformed into a VERITABLE BATTERBNG RAM. Very large heavy timbers have been bolt- ed to the front of the pilot and a full head of steam is constantly kept on. One train of flats and two engines are on one side of the county road, while a train of flats, the battering ram and two engines are on the other. They can either bunt any obstruction from the road or pile a promiscuous wreck of engines and cars across the road. supt. Jenks, of Larimore came in this afternoon and brought with him twenty-five of hie best division men. R,oadmaster Dowling came with him and took part in the fray this afternoon. One hundred more of Supt. Jenks' men came in this evening on the east -bound passen- ger train. When asked how affairs were Jenks' said: \We are prepared for them. We don't mean to use violence. We are simply here to protect our property. I have 100 of my best division men here. When the D. C. & N. folks come around to the thing in the right way they can probably cross. They haven't done the right thing and we are going to protect our property. I don't anticipate any attempt on their part to cross to -night. but if they do try they will find us prepared.\ Supt. James of the Manitoba was asked \If they attempt a crossing there will be an N. P. wreck won't there?\ He replied, \No not exactly an N. P. wreck. It will be a D. C. & N. smash-up. Excitement runs high. Half the able-bodied popula- tion of Crookston witnessed the set-to this afternoon. HOW IS THIS? Where is the Bismarck Tribune's Porter House Steaks it Spoke of. WASHINGTON, October 30.—Representa- tire H. C. Hansbrough, the new congress- man from North Dakota, called upon Secretary Proctor to -day in the interests of the citizens of Ramsey county in that state. They have had bad crops two years in succession and are in a destitute condition. Winter is approaching and they are not able to purchase fuel to pro- tect themselves against the blasts of that severe climate. sir. Hansbrough has ask- ed Secretary Proctor. to permit the desti- tute settlers to cut fire wood from the timber tract on the Devil's lake reserva- tion, Fort Totten, covering several thou- sand acres on the shore of the lake. The secretary was not certain of his authority in the premises, but promised Mr. Hans- brough an answer to -morrow. He feels inclined to grant the request. A DESPERATE FIGHT, laet MILES CITY, November 2.—it is an nounced that J. R. McKay, elected coun- ty commissioner on the republican ticket in this county, whose right has been con- tested on the ground that he is an alien, by Geo. Rhode, will retire from the tight. Thomas H. Irvine, democrat-, also con- tests the election of Ed. Jones on the same ground. Two more contests are spoken of but have not yet been tiled. He THE DRAYM AN'S STORY. Adds Testitnony that is Very Damaging to Burke. CHICAGO, November 2.--Cnarles J. Carl- son, son of the owner of the Carlson cot- tage was the first witness in the Cronin case this morning. He also identified Burke. The witness was subjected to a long cross examination which did not seem to develop any new facts. He was followed by Johanna ( 'arlson, his mother, who identified Burke. Hokan Marti - n- sen, the expressman, who carted the fur- niture from Clark street to the Carlson cottage, pointed out Martin Burke as the man who hired him to move the furniture He said he had seen Burke in Winnipeg on the 21st of June last and had there identified him in the jail yard. After a long cross examination in which the facts were brought out that the witness re- ceived $13 or $20 at one time and $25 at another time from the chief of police and that he is now in the employ of the city taking care of horses. The court ad- journed until Monday. Flatheads to i)e Removed, --- MissouLA, November 2.—Major Peter i Ronan returned from the Bitter Paoot this ! evening, where he has been in company with Gen. Carrington, relative to the re- moval of the Indians from that section. The major, in reply to a question, said: \We met with excellent success. Out of the fifty-one claimants there more than one-third have already signified their willingness to sell their claims and have signed papers to that effect.\ Gen. Car- rington remained in the valley to adpraise the lands of the Indians prior to making his report on the subject. GAGS ON GWENDOLINE. The Collapse of the Murat -Caldwell Nuptials Food for London Gossips. LONDON, November 3.—The collapse of the matrimonial engagement between Miss Gwendoline Caldwell and Prince Murat, close upon the heels of the Hatzfeldt - Huntington wedding has thrown the gossips of the clubs into ecsta- sies and furnished the music halls with at, almost inexhaustible fund of \gags\ at the American girl in search of a title and impecunious owners of titles in search of a fortune. Opinion in regard to the cause of the rupture is divided, but it must be said that the division is unequal. While there are many who are outspoken in condemnation of the action of Prince Murat in haggling over the price of his title, after having offered -it for sale, there is a still larger number who profess to be- lieve, and doubtless do believe, that the lady's bid was entirely too low, judged from the UPSET PRICE OF A TITLE of equal rank, but much more battere- 1 and disfigured, which was disposed of ie the matrimonial market a few days ago, and regard the Prince as abundantly jus- tified in refusing to close the sale. It is not to be understood, however, that the Murat title is permanently withdrawn from the market. It is merely withheld until competition becomes a little sharp- er, when it will doubtless be sold for a good round sum of money acquired in lard speculations, petroleum ventures or some other of the means of rapidly accu- mulating wealth which abound in Amer- ica, enabling its new possessor to air her vanity and cause a flood of envious tears to flow from the eyes of others of her sex who may deem themselves less fortu- nate. Nine Will Hang Together, one by the name of Whitlock the other two names not learned. Judge Lewis and fifty well armed men took dinner near the camp of J. P. Meyer & Co., on the Louisville & Nashville extension about thirty miles beyond Cumberland Gap, last Friday. Men who spoke with the judge say that he is determined and will never quit his chase until Howard and his gang are killed or driven from the country. Both parties are being re -in - western district of Arkansas, to day pass- ed sentence of death upon nine murder- ers setting the date of hanging on Thurs- day January 16, 1890. The murderers are George Tabler and Charles Bullard, ne- groes, Harry Austin, John Billy, Tom Willig, Madison James, Jefferson Jones, Sam Gaens and Jamison Burris, all full blooded Indians except Austin. The crimes were all committed in the Indian territory within a year. 4
