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• THE RIVER PRESS. Port Benton, Montana, Wednesday, December 18, 1889. .N( ). 8. THIRTY KNOTS AN HOUR. t N04e1 Craft to be Launched To -day Ex- pected to Attain That speed. \SEN YORK, December . 12. To -morrow , c horning a remarkable craft will be launched from the shipyard of James , enno x. South Brooklyn. The boat has been named the Evolution, and was built 4 \dr. LenDOX for Dr. W. M. Jackson, t he designer of the craft and patentee of the novel machinery with which she is to equipped. The Evolution is built on a he w plan, there being no knees or trainee ed in hel. construction. She is 108 feet .)vol all, twenty-three feet beam and six li ed our -half feet deep from under side of leck to the bottom planking. Owing to - he tremendous spread the hell takes from the keel, she will draw it is claimed, .ess that four feet of water. The inside kin of the boat is built of cedar plank - ay. The first layer is run diagonally from stern to stem, and the second in the same way from stem to stern. The out- side skin is of NARROW STRIPS OF MAHOGANY, • running.from stem to stern. She is a beautiful model. The keel of the boat .as laid March 14 1888, 'blizzard day,'' And the work of construction has been going On ever since. She is only intend - as an experiment craft, but it is said oevt when her machinery has been placed o position and ever)thing in readiness for the trial trip she will have cost her owners $200,000. The boat is to be run by hydraulic power by forcing out a vast quantity of water through a small pipe ander great pressure. To carry out this plan a consuming engine of 1,500 horse power has been constructed. The water -is pumped into the vessel through eight inch pipes on either side about midshi-)s and is then forced through three -fourth lneh pipes at the stem or stern according to the desired motion of the vessel for- ward or backward. The ends of the lat- ter pipe are covered with movable collars, which can be turned in any direction de- sired and by this means the vessel is steered. Instead of a wheel the pilot STEERS WITH TWO LEVERS, one for forward action and the other for a stern movement of the vessel. The severs are e connected with the revolving collars, and the direction of the craft is obtained according to the angle of the volume of water ejected through the •hree-fourth inch pipes in stem or stern. Et is claimed the boat can be given a aroadside motion by turning both °seep- ng jets of water (stem and stern) either to port or starboard, as desired. It will thus be seen that a rudder would be a superfluous attachment. The boat, how- ever, has been supplied with a rudder made of solid brass, which is so arranged that when not in use it can be hauled sponthe deck through a groove; it will only be used when the vessel is under sail. The boiler of the vessal is about 14 feet wide, and 14 feet from end to end and 8 feet high and has two tire doors at either end and contains nearly four and one-half miles of steel pipe every inch of which is exposed to the fire contained in the boiler. With this great heating surface it is not strange that the great pressure thus ob- tained forces the water through and out ,f the three-quarter inch pipes at the rate of about 600 feet per second, or over 36,(X - i0 feet— about SIX KNOTS PER MINUTE. A little launch that was fitted out with like machinery, though of course on a .ery much smaller scale, it is claimed made over ten knots an hour. The en- gine used on this boat was only about 18 horse power and the volume of water foreed out of her measured less than oue- quarter of an inch in diameter and was ejected at the rate of 200 feet per second. It was on the strength of the performance Of this boat that the Evolution was built. Her outside surface is of polished mahog- any and will O'er very little resistance to the water. From the speed made by the small launch it is confidently expected That the larger craft will be able to run at least twenty-five miles an hour and Possibly at a much greater speed. TESTING THE LAW. tie Mormon Residents of Territories a Right to Vote. Wasrus(sros, December 10. —Argument was eontinned in the United States su- p . rerne court today in the case of Samuel 1) . Davis, appellant, against H. G. Beason sheriff of Oneida county, Idaho, involving The constitutionality of territorial laws iftehibiting Mormons from voting. Davis eas convicted and sent to jail in 1889 on afl indictment for conspiracy, charging tern and sundry other persons with hay- ng eombined to be unlawfully admitted :o registration as voters. Davis' unlaw- act consisted in taking an oath that rat was not a member of any organization Practicing the doctrine of plural mar - when he was in fact a member of 'he Mormon church. The case comes here on application for a writ of habeas so. rpus, on the ground, first, that the facts ta the indietment do not consti- %it* a criminal effense under any law of :be territory, ard second Crat 80 much of the statutes of the territory as prohibit members of bodies believing in plural marriages from voting is \a law respect- ing an establishment of religion\ in vio- lation of the first amendment to the con- stitution and are void. THE etrizcas WIN. Chicago's Most I in portal, t Election Carrit 41 by a Fusion Ticket. CHICAGO, December 12. ---The most im- portant local election probably ever held in Chicago took place to day. It was to decide the control of the new- ly created board of nine water way com- missioners, the members of which are to have the raising and disbursing of funds estimated at from fifteen to thirty mil- lions of dollars, to be used in carrying out s the great Chicago drainage and ship canal project, which will necessitate the employment for an indefinite period of from 10,000 to 15,000 n I Cumulative voting Was permitted and the democrats and republicans each nom- inated but five men, the aim being to se- cure a majority of the board. A Citizens or independent ticket was afterwards put in the field with six names . three former democrats and three former republicans. At midnight the returns from about half the precincts indicate the election of ! the six independents, and that the three remaining places will fall to democrats. On this basis the board, which promises to play an important part in Illinois politics, will stand three straight democrats, three independent democrats, and three independent repub- licans. UNLUCKY JOHNSTOWN. Ten People Crushed to Death in a Rush for Life. JousrsTows, December 10. During a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, at the Opera house to -night the cry of tire was raised resulting in a rush for life down the narrow stairs. Ten persons were instantly crushed to cleat* And prob- ably fifty are seriously injuree. Among the killed are Mrs. Nester, and Geo. Fish- er, the latter being a resident of Balti- more. It was found necessary to have a stream of water from a lire engine thrown over the crowd before the dead and wounded could be taken out. The peo- ple rushed from outside up the narrow stairs and were crushed by the erowd forcing its way to the street. Smallpox In Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, December 14. A few days ago a man named Bunch arrived from Montana, and being unable to sup- port himself was taken to the poor house. Considerable excitement was created to- day when it was discovered he was afflict- ed with the small pox. Active measures were taken to prevent the spread of the contagion. TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA. Senator Platt Would Provide it With a Gob - eminent. WASHINGTON, December 9. --Senator Platt to -day introduced a bill providing a territorial government for Oklahoma. It provides for the appointment by the pres- ident of the usual territorial officers. There is to be a council consisting of nine members, which may be increased to twelve, and a house of representatives, to consist of thirteen members, which may be increased to twenty-four, to be elected by the people. The members shall hold office for two years, and the sessions shall be biennial and limited to sixty days' duration. The apportionment for the council and the house of representatives shall be made by the governor, on the basis of population, excepting Indians not taxed. Troops are not to be allowed to vote unless having a personal domicile in the territory for six months. The gov- ernor is given the veto power, a two- thirds vote being necessary to override it. The governor is to receive ezcoo, the jus- tice of the supreme court 83,000, and the secretary $1,800 a year. SAT UPON. Ingalls Objects to the Senate Receiving a Me- morial From the Montana Le g islature WASHINGTON, December il. — Ingalls called attention to the fact that a paper !purporting to be a memorial or resolution I of one branch - of the legislature of Mon- tana had been presented this morning and had been referred to the committee on mines and mining. It was a matter of public notoriety, he said, that there was some difficulty about the organization of the legislature of Montana, and in order to avoid any committal of the senate by reference to a committee of a resolution qteither branch of the legislature, he moved that the order of reference be re - revoked and the paper be laid on the ta- ble. It was so ordered. Property owners desiring to find s I buyers shoul Press list with the River sion Ages,cy. Wasitesisros, December 14. --Franklin B. Bowen, a well known railroad officer and lawyer of Pennsylvania, shot himself to -day in a room at Wormley's hotel and died almost instantly. The immediate circumstances sur- rounding the death of Bowen are shroud- ed in iinys , tery. The last seen of him at the hotel before the dead body was dis- covered was at 2 o'clock yesterday after- noon, when he came down to the dining room to take lunch. He then appeared in excellent spirits. About noon to -day the chambermaid went to the door for the third time and finding it still locked in- formed proprietor Wormley who made an investigation, looked through the transom and lying on the floor was the dead body of Bowen and by his knee lay a pistol. Persons who saw the body were unable to tell how long Bowen had been dead. Bowen came to Washington on the 9th and has been here ever since. He was engaged as counsel in some very impor- tant cases which have been on a hearing before the inter state commerce commis- sion several days. Bowen was born in Philadelphia and was in the fifty-fourth year of his age. He was admitted to the bar in 1860 and in 1862 was elected district attorney for Schuylkill county. He was afterwards retained as counsel for the Philadelphia and Reading and Girard coal trust. In 1869 he was chosen president of that company, failed of re-election in 1881 on ; account of differences regarding the poli- cy of the company, but was re-elected in 1882. Bowen conceived and put into ears- ! cution a movement against the famous organization known as the \Mollie Ma- guires.\ In the trials which followed this movement Bowen was one of the counsel for the commonwealth. KILRAIN'S TRIAL. lie i4 Acquitted of Prize Fighting but Re- ceives a Fine. PURVIS, Miss., December 14. ---The jury in the Kilrain case returned a verdict of not guilty of prize fighting but guilty of assault and battery. They were out five hours. The jury was secured without much difficulty this morning, consisting of nine whites and three negroes. The testimony was not lengthy and did not differ materially from that in the hearing a few months ago. Referee Fitzpatrick was one of the witnesses. A strong charge was made by the attorney for the state, while the attorney for the defense held -that the affair was a social combat, not a prize fight. After five hours of de- liberation the jury returned a verdict as above and Kilrain was sentenced to pay a fine of $200 and imprisonment in the county jail for two months. An appeal was taken and he was admitted to bail in $1,000. Created a Sensation. Pull.ADF.I.Prirs, December 14.—The news of Franklin Bowen's death caused a great sensation here. Francis I. Bowen a nephew of the ex -railroad president, and who has a law office in this city, was dazed and could scarcely recover from the shock for a few minutes. \I can form no idea,\ said he, \of what mo- tive actuated him to take his life.\ Mr. Bowen left for Washington at 5 o'clock this afternoon for the purpose of bringing the body to Philadelphia. Financial dif- realities are not suggested as the -incen- tive to the deed. Bowen is estimated to be worth between $200,000 and $300,000. The announcement that he committed suicide caused the greatest surprise in tinaneial circles. \1 never haul anything to startle me so in my life before.\ said A THRILLING ACCIDENT. it), Express Train MI the Canadian Pat itic Suspendril er a Precipice. WINNIPE(:, Man., December 12.---A citi- zen just arrived .from the Pacific coast tells of a thrilling accident to the Cana- dian Pacific, through express in the moun- tains. The rail gave way at a point on Ida 'the mountain side high abovsethe Colurn I his river. The engine passed over safely, i • : but the two following coaches swung . MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., December 16.-- vacant land remains. about and toppled over. The bank was Some twenty-five years ago an old sailor Charles Smith is the pioneer merchant. almost perpendicular and the cars would et tile name of Lawson met and loved a He has considerable trade with settlers have tumbled several hundred feet into pretty English girl. They were married and Indians and will enlarge his business the river had it not been that the !cou- in Detroit. Lawson continued his tivoca- next spting. He will then put up a two - piing twisted around and held the tre- , tion of sailing before the mast, being ab- ! story building. John Manning has a ho- inendous weight. There were the two . sent most of the time. The result was ! tel and restaurant here. Al Cecil is pro- cure, one with its load of passengers. sus - that they e ere separated, brit not before ' prietor of the ever-present saloon. He , have all fallen off. Illinois which was pended over the abyss. • r he - weight uf a baby was born. When they separated ' plays a hard game of seven-up, i once supposed to be \the granary of the the engine and the balance of the train Mrs. Lawson took the child with her. I The mail facilities here and at other , continent,\ has for several years produced prevented the suspended cars from draw - Shortly after the husband and wife made ! stations east on the Manitoba are execra- less than enough to supply her own con- ing the whole train down. The suspease' up again for the sake of their child. i ble, in ffact, there is no service at all. The . suniption. But, while the area and sup- ' I was dreadful. T frightened passengers . I he lasciut this time Lawson, who was mate I mail for Harlem is taken out at Chinook I ply of winter wheat, have been decreasing were compelled to remain in their peril- I of the Morning Star, was taken down and then sent here by some freight train, the newly opened regions of the porth- ole: position until the train hands built a with fever. He was sent to the Marine 1Subscribers to the RIVER PRESS say they ,' west bid fair to produce an abundant platform around and underneath the hospital and there remained for several !succeed in getting their paper once orsi supply of the now famous No. 1 herd President Cummins of the Girard Na- tional bank. \No one will ever convince me that Bowen took his own life. I nev- er knew Bowen to carry a pistol and you can rest assured if he lost his life through a pistol shot, the wound was inflicted by accident and not by design.\ FOUND HER FATHER. May Lawson, Stolen When a Baby, Makes a Discovery. WAYSIDE NOTES. Harlem ---The New Belknap Indian as Agency ---The tribe without first obtaining the consent a Farmer ---St. Paul's Mission. white men whose dusky better halves took a notion to go buffalo hunting with the NEW WHEAT REGION. ' hanging ears, enabling all to make their escape. The place where the accident occurred is eonsidered the inns? dangerous one in the mountains. lt ills OWN HAND. A %% ell Ft I I Railroad Attorney Commits I , weeks. I He recovered, but only to find his wife had flown, and taken their little girl with her. Lawson's heart was broken. lie begun to age, and a year or two after- ward was compelled to give up sailing. Finding himself incapacitated for any kind of manual labor, be accepted the Meld of friendship extended to him by 1 Allen Armstrong. in whose family he has found a welcome home for 16 years. Mrs. Lawson, when she left Lawson with their little girl Ida May, who was then two years old, went direct to Chica- go. There she became the wife of J. F. Drake. who was well to do. Ida May gra s d up to be a pretty girl and a beauti- ful woman. All that she knew of her 1 ; father was that he had been drowned, as ! she had been told, in the wreck of the Morning Star. In looking over a Detroit paper recent- ly Ida May saw an article in regard to one G. W. Lawson. which set her to thising. She then sent the following lettA• from Michigan City to him. CITY Ind., December 1.— Mr G. W. Lawson; I hope you will par- don me for taking the liberty of writing to you, but I happened to be looking over an old paper and something attracted my atteetion, which I will send to you in this strange letter. I hope you will ex- cuse the awkwardness of this composing, j as it is very hard to write to a strange I person, but I will try to come to the I point at once. I think myself to be your j daughter, and would like you to answer ; this letter and ask for what proof you think necessary. You will see I address you as G. W. Lawsou, as my father's name was George Washington Lawson. I lie was a sailor. I have not seen him ' since r v, as two years old, when my moth- er left Detroit and moved to Chicago, ; where she married J. 14'. Drake. I have your picture—that is if you are my fath- er. My mother gave it to me. Now, I will not write any more, but will patient- ly wait for an early reply. State in your letter if you would like to see me; if so I will come as soon as possible. I will now say good bye and hope I will not be dis- appointed in the expectation of finding my long lost father. I will sign myself for the present only, IDA MAY LAWSON. Mrs. Lottie Armstrong, 'proprietor of the Bijou where Lawson is domiciled, sent the following telegram in response: \G. V• a c. h L er., Lawson of this city is your long lost f The young lady will soon leave for De- troit where an affecting meeting will take place. Ida May Lawson has been for some time a resident of Michigan City, where she went by an assumed name. A Sure Thing. BOSTON, December 15.--A meeting be tween Sullivan and Jackson at the Cali- fornia Athletic club within five months for a purse of $15,000 is now assured. This morning Capt. Cooke, of this city, received a telegram from President Ful- da of that club which stated that Jack- son, prior to his departure for Lonuon, had cabled over his willingness to meet Sullivan provided he had five months to get ready in. Fulda requested the cap- taiu to find out from Sullivan whether he would meet the black pugilist in that time for a purse of $15,000. Sullivan was seen this afternoon, and when matters were explained he at once accepted the proposition, being, as lie said, perfectly satisfied with the terms and the time fix- ed. He will journey to the Pacific coast in a short time and prepare for the meet- ing there. He is now in fairly good con- dition. He will leave either to -night or to -morrow for New York to fulfill his en- a gagement there. Correspondence of the River Press. Harlem is a station on the Manitoba railway 119 miles east of Benton and 22 miles from Chinook. Within a radius of three miles twenty-five homesteads were located last summer and a large influx of settlers is expected next spring as much A (silo - ) wave a thousand miles in width and of great length is reported to the northward coming doe -if on Montana's banana bolt like a wolf on the fold. At present, however, the gentle chinook holds the fort and is sending out the warm breath of a spring day throughout. the land. twice a month. There is no post office here. Four miles south of the station is the new Belknap agency for the Gros Ventre and Assinaboine tribes who removed here last fall from their old agency near' the \Hill surrounded by timber,\ where Chi- nook now stands. The reservation for these Indians ex- tends twenty-five miles along the right bank of Milk river from the mouth of Snake creek to the mouth of Peoples creek and south to the crest of the Little Rocky mountains, containing 722 square miles. It is an ample area of fertile river and creek bottoms and bench and timber lands for all their futnre agricul- tural and pastoral needs. The new agency buildings on Milk riv- er which have just been completed by Contractor Senieur at a cost of $35,000, are models of architectural skill. The residences are two stories high, large and roomy, the agents house being in the center with two double cottages for em- ployes on each side. At one end of the row is a large barn and stalsle and at the other is the office and council room, doe tor's office, a warehouse 60x100 feet and carpenter, blacksmith and butcher shops. Minnesota pine was used in the construc- tion. The usual stockade has been dis- pensed with. By a census lately taken the Indians number 1,754 men, women and children. The deaths among them during the past five years outnumber the births. They do not seem to be as vigorous a lot as the Piegans, which is probably due to their more intimate association with the whites for some time ast. Major A. 0. Simons, of Helena, took charge of the agency last August, suc- ceeding Major Fields. He rules his charges with a firm yet gentle hand, and under his supervision they cannot fail of improvement. In the spring special at- tention will be given to developing their agricultural qualities. Chas. Ohleking has been head farmer since 1878 and to his instructions the aborigines owe their success in farming so far. Fifty plats of ground of from rive t'sa twenty-five acres have been plowed up by the Indians and will be put into crop next spring. Many of them have selected locations which will be awarded to them in severalty. Nearly all have their winter homes in snug log cabins—some of hewed logs and neatly whitewashed—built by themselves and scattered for twenty miles in the sheltered nooks along Milk river and at the base of the Little Rock- ies. The government provides amply for their support, $115,000 being the annual appropriation for ten years for their \civ- ilization, comfort and improvement.\ Every Monday an issue of beef, flour, sugar and coffee is made. About Christ- mas the annuities of clothing, blankets, cooking utensils, etc., will be issued. Under the influence of twenty beef steers infused into their lagging blood every week, besides rations of flour, coffee and sugar they will doubtless soon re cover their ancient vigor, and at the end of ten years when the treaty allowance expires they will have acquired enough \civilization\ to make them self-support- , ing. At St. Paul's Mission in the Little Rocky mountains, forty miles from the agency, an industrial boarding school is, maintained for the Indian children. Rev. Father Eberschweiler, S. J., is in charge and is assisted by the mother superior and sisters. One hundred pupils attend ind are in tiring tool progress in reading, writing and arithmetic. The government will also build a school house at the gency next year. Dr. John Carroll is agency physician. J. C. Rainsforth is chief clerk. Mr. Rainsforth is an old hand at the industry of civilizing Indians, having been clerk at the old agency near choteau in 1876 when Major Woods was agent. Some of his experiences there would make interesting reading. He men - of their husbands. Many of the old timers around Chotea m will remember him. Northern Montana to Add to the Wheat Area of the Country. It is a significant fact that the acreage devoted to wheat in the United States has failed to keep pace with the increase of population, at the same time that the av- erage yield per acre has fallen off. New York, Ohio, Illinois and the states %est of the Mississippi, have successively been regarded as wheat producing centers, and spring, the best wheat for bread making in the world. The great reservation in northern Mon- tana. which was opened to settlement last year, will add greatly tli the available ,; wheat area of the co untry. Its area is equal to the three states of New Haiiii; shire, Vermont and Massachusetts, ano nearly all of it is arable land. It- is a plateau 1,900 feet above the ocean level a: its eastern extremity, rising gradually t , ' 3,000 feet above at Great Falls, near its _ western. This plateau is fanned by the warm Chinook winds from the warm cur- rents of- the Pacific, bringing moisture in summer- and tempering the severity of winter. The Milk river valley, which extends 200 miles through this region, was the favorite feeding ground for the countless herds of buffalo, whose bones whitened the ground when the reservation was first opened, but are now being gathered up, at the rate of over a hundred tons a day, and shipped eastward. In every part of this region, where wheat has been sown. a large yield has been secured. The seed is sown in February as soon as the Chi- nook winds have thawed out the surface. It is ready for the harvest during the lat- ter part of July, yielding from 25 to 40 bushels per acre. Millions of acres lie open to homestead entry, and it does not require any very vivid imagination to see in the near future the entire Milk river valley waving with yellow harvest fields. I T. G. Harris, in American Agriculturist. THE BENTON & BILLINGS BY. The Billings Gazette has a Few Word'. t. Say About it. ' It is proposed by several gentlemen tu arrange for a survey of a line of railway from Billings a few miles north, believ- ing that a more practical line can be lo- cated for the Billings -Benton railrore: than that which was recently located by Engineer Harlowe, of the Northern Pa- cific. If, as stated, this end of the pro- posed route can be improved upon, says the Gazette, the city should take such steps as are necessary to raise the funds for the hire of a competent engineer ts see what can be done to more firmly se cure the line right into the town whenev- er it is built. No one questions but what Mr. Harlowe, the gentleman who made the location of the road north, under- stands his business, but possibly he ma) have overlooked a certain lay of the land directly north of the town and for this reason the ground should be gone over for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the easiest grade has been secured. The people have waited patiently for a number of years for the building of the Billings and Benton railway and now tbst its building next summer appears a cer- tainty the matter of the proper location within the town limits is of considerable importance. If, as stated says the Ga- zette, the route selected by Mr. Harlowe can be improved upon for a few miles north, let the work be done and all infor- mation pertaining thereto forwarded to the Northern Pacific headquarters. Christmas and New Year's Excur- sions. For the holiday season excursion rates will be in effect on the St. Paul, Minne- apolis & Manitoba railway to and from all p. ints on its lines. Tickets will be sold on the following dates -December 24th, 25th, and 31st, 1889, and January 1st, 1890, at one and one-third fare for the round trip, except between points in Dakota and Montana. where the race will be one and one -fifth fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good for return passage up to and includ- ing January 3d, 1890. Apply for further information to agents of the St, P. M. & M. Ry., or write F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul, Minn. The Montana Stockman. A monthly journal devoted to the inter- tions divorces, having granted several in este of Montana et ckmen in general. his official capacity as acting agent, to Subscription price, S.1.50 per annum,
