THE BILLINGS HERALD.VOL. III. BILLINGS, MONTANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1884. NO. 10.

O FF IC IA L D IRECTO RY .

FEDERAL DIRECfORV.Delegate to Congress...Martin Maginnis, HelenaGovernor....«»...........J. Schuyler Crosby, HelenaSecretary....»..« «........ John S. Tooker, HelenaTWftmiter........................... D. H. Weston, Helena•kUditor......................... J. I*. Woolman, HelenaChief Justice..................Decius S. Wade, Helena

( W. J. GalbraithAssociate Justices.................\ John r<)hurnDistrict Attorney......A. F. Burleigh, Miles City.Butrevor General.«...... John S. Harris, Helena6. 8. Marshal.................Alex. C. Botkin, Helena

COUNTY OFFICERS.. , . , A f f. W. McAdow

Members of the Legislature..... | s j t KnvinSheriff' .... .............................James FergusonTreasurer...................................Jules BreuchaudClerk and Recorder.... .................... •—H- H- BoleDeputy Clerk District Court..........................John TinklerJudge of Probate........................ John McC.inaessAssessor...................................................... Robert PetersBurreyor............................................. T. iAmportCoroner......................... - .........Walter MathesonSuperintendent of Schools-............B. F. Shuart

(IV. B. WebbCommissioners..... - .........................'S K. S. Tntt

(.F. W. Lee

TOWN OF BILLINGS.. . . „ f J. D. Matlieson

Justiccsor the Peace................ j Fred giveetmanConstables...............J. H. Bloom. Henry VœlkerRoad Supervisor......................

•Firewarden........ ................... »V. H. \anSinden

Business Cards.u S. SCOTT, D. D. 8.,

DENTIST.All work known to the profession carefully per­

formed. Office adjoining T. R. Mallou & Co. s meat market. ______________ ____ _

ü B. KELLEY, M. D.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.Office in Montana Lumber Co/s Building. Office

hours 1 to 4 p. ra. Telephone connecting office and residence. ____________ ____

y H. RINEHART, M. D.

J PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.Office in Belknap Block.

M. PARKER, M. D.,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.County Physician, Surgeon Northern Pacific Beneficial Association, and Physician to Board of Health. Office in H. H. Baled; Co.’s Drug Store.

p v F. GODDARD.

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.Montana Lumber Co.’s Building. Up Stairs.

■p t N. HARWOOD,

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.Bffira three doors East of Bank, Montana' Ave.

Billings, M. T. ___________________

J J N. PLATT,

Attorney and Counselor-at-Law.Montana Lumber Co.’s Building (brick front.)

Montana Are.. Billings.

JAM ES R. G JSS,

LAWYER,Buys and Sells Real Estate. Collections wi]l receive prompt attention. Office over Fenske's Store, Billings, Montana.

ALTER MATHESON,

NOTARY PUBLIC.At Herald Office, Montana, Ave.

1* ̂ AMPORT ii OLDAKER.

Civil Engineers and Surveyors. Office over L. H. Fenske’s Building.

FRENCH CAFE.Choice lunch !

Meals at all hours !Board by the day or week!

JO SEPH PAROUE.

Fresla. 2v£il3sDELIVERED DMLY

J&.t L o w e s t ISate© !C E O . 4 . B E R K E Y .

L. WHITNEY,Real Estate Agency.

for sale in all parts of the town jm 825 to 82500. Buildings to rent. Come and see

me in the Postoffice building

STEAMSHIP TICKETSFor passage to and from all parts of

Europe and the United States. Gdion Line. I A mericas Line.R*d Stak Line. | A llan Line. H amburo-Amebican I F lokio It l batting

Packet Company. | Italian Line. Rotterdam Line.

L. WHITNEY, Agent.

F irs t N ational Bank- O F -

BILLINGS, MONTANA.

(Successors to Stebbins, Mund A Co.)

Authorized Capital $2 50,000

Paid-up Capital $75,500.

OFFICERS, STOCKHOLDERS AND DIRECTORS:

W. R. STEBBINS, Prest.Vf. L. PECK, Vice-Prest

H. H. MUND, Cashier.H. L. RICHARDSON, Aset-Cash

P, W. McADOW,JOHN McGINNESS,

JOHN R. KING.G. A. GRIGGS,

J. W. COLLINS.FREDERICK BILLINGS, N. Y, City,

W. G. REEVE. Peru, III.,8. J. ANTHONY, Denver, Col.

Transact a General Banking Business. Collection» promptly made and remitted for

H, H. MUND, Cashier.

BILLINGS Steadily and Surely GROWING.L Ü S T

C hurch , School H ouse, Ja il, F in e B ric k S to res, F in e R esid en ces, I n c re a s e

in T ra d e 150 P e r C ent.

T I K I SSlaughter House, New Hotel, Bank Block, New

Stores, New Residences.

E 1 T S I D C E O P SNow Assured From

The Fruitful Farms of Clarke’s Fork Bottom

Steady Increase in Trade. Rapid Growth of Stock Interests.

W H I L E LOTS JS3E CHB-A.I5Every Prudent Man Should Get Himself a

H O M E

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TER’ it Tr

W here lie C an H a v e F resh , G reen L a w n ,

T E É E S -AmiTlD J & - 3̂TN o D u st. Good Soil. P e r fe c t D ra in a g e . L o ts f r o m one (1) to tw e n ty -f iv e (25)

fee t h ig h er th a n F en sk e ’s corner. E v e ry lo t ir r ig a te d . C o n s ta n t s tr e a m o f r u n ­

n in g w a te r over one m ile long, a ffo rd in g a b u n d a n t w a te r f o r stock.

CENTRALLY LOCATED.»

Three blocks f r o m D epot, in th e g ro w in g p a r t of tow n. $ G0 ,0 0 0 w o rth o f b u ild ­

in g in th is a d d it io n la s t y e a r , in c lu d in g b rick ch u rch , j a i l a n d school house.

A ll the g ro w in g s tre e ts o f th e to w n le a d to it. C o u n ty r o a d lo c a te d th ro u g h the

cen te rPERFECT T IT L E -L O T S FROM $25.00 UPWARD,

S p e c ia l In d u c e m e n ts to p a r t ie s who w ill bu ild . F or p la ts a n d p r ice s c a ll on or

a d d r e s s ,

THOS. C. KURTZ, o s FRED H. FOSTER,M oorh ead , .M inn. ' B illin g s , M o n ta n a .

CHEÄP GOODS— AT —

Mrs. David Matheson's

Children’s hose, 15c to 20c per pair Children’s gloves, - 30c per pair Children’s slippers, 81.25 per pair Boys’ strong shoes, 81.75 per pair Gentlemen’s hose, 30c—40c per pair Gentlemen’s fine Lisle hose, 50c Gentlemen’s ties, - - 75cLadies’ kid button boots, 82.50 Ladies’ black lace bonnets, 86.50 Ladies’ trimmed hats, $3,86.88,810 Children’s untriinmed hats, 60c New hats arriving at similar prices Ladies’ plain cotton undergarments

at 45c.Children’s tucked cotton undergar­

ments, 40c.All of good sewing material.

Ladies’ Merino Underwear Cheaper than ever, and an assortment

of other things to numer­ous to mention at the

Lowest Prices.

Mrs. David Matheson,Next to Park Hotel.

B E E R ! B E E R !

KegiBottled BeerConstantly on Hand.

C ITY BEER HALL !

W IL L IA M F. E IL E R S , P roprietor.

F r e s h B e e r A lw a y s o n T a p .

The Bar i* Supplied with the Finest

W ines, L iq u o rs & C ig ars .

Good Lunch Can Always be Obtained.

J . C. Bond,

BLACKSMITH

AND WAGON MAKER.

B ill in g s B re w in g Co.

B il l in g s . M o n ta n a .

Horse shoeing, Wagon Repairing, and all kinds of Blacksmithing Promptly and Satisfactorily done.

27th Street North.

S T A T I O N E R YPost Office building.

All Eastern

Newspapers, Periodicals and Maga­zines. Ink, Notions and Can­

dies. Cigars and Tobaccos.

Orders taken for Music and Musical Instruments.

BLANK BOOKSN. D. MALCOLM.

T . R. M a lian & Co.

P ioneer M a rk e t.

Wholesale and Retail

B U T C H E R SIowa Creamery and Minnesota

Dairy Butter, Lake Superior Fish, Eggs, Game, Poul­

try and Oysters.

BILLINGS. MONTANA.

L . H . F E N S K E ,

Wholesale Dealer in

Wines,Liquors

A nd C igars.

FINEST BRANDS is the MARKET

Trices Eqnal to St. Paul or Chicago.

Freight Shipped at our Risk.

Agents for Val. Blatz’ M ilwaukee

Beer.

A L ay o f L aw n Tennis,

Where the level lawn is greenest, and the sun light glistens sheenest,

Lo! she stands;While the game is just beginning, there’s the

racket poised for winning,In her hands.

She is daintily athletic, she is very energetic In the set;

See. she’s just returned a twister that was sent her by her sister,

O’er the net.

She is great at “Renshaw smashes,” 'tis a stroke that rather rash is—

All the same;But her pretty little muscles arc quite equal to

the tusslesOf the game.

nappy he who stands beside her and is privil­eged to guide her.

As she plays!I would do that pleasant duty to this Amazonian

beautyAll my days.

Ab I watch her garments flutter there are words I fain would utter.

But I’m dumb;For she's tennis mad, and never from her racket

seems to sever—When I come. '

I must take my chance while plavlng, there’s danger in delaying;

I’ll confldeMy devotion so unswerving to the lady when

I ’m servingBy her side !

But all Atalanta's paces, when she ran her fam­ous races,

Were more fleet;The Milanton in olden days, I ’d cast the apples

goldenAt her feet,

HO N.JO HN A. KASS0N

Of Iowa, Our N ew M in ister to G erm any.

Billinss. Montana

F. L. BENEPE,------ DEALER I N -------

A g ric u ltu ra l Im p le m e n ts

Mitchell Wagons. Miller Buggies, White and New Home Sewing Machines.

S T O R Y ’S R o lle r P ro c e s s F L O U RAlso Eastern Flour.

Feed of all kinds, Seed Oats, Wheat, etc. Everything in my line at Bottom

Prices. Call and see for Yourself.

JOS. M. V. COCHRAN, Manager.

TH O M A S S . W ADSW O RTH,

Beal Estate

Buys and Sells Real Estate,

F A R M S AND R A N C H E S ,

Makes a specialty of caring for city property and collecting rents.

Its head alone was above the sur­face. Dogs bitten by rattlesnakes instinctively seek such places and bury themselves in the mud. Old snake hunters say that if a dog is able to find swamp mud and covers himself with it, it will invariably draw out the poison. Davis left his dog in the swamp, and drove on to this city with Miller. Last evening the dog arrived home, ap­parently none the worse for its en­counter with the venomous reptiles althouge it must have been bitten by them many times.

BEECHER'S W ILD RIDE.

Hon. John A. Kasson, who was lately appointed as Minister to Ger­many, was born at Burlington, V t, January 11th, 1822. He acquired the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his neighbor­hood, and when twenty years of age graduated from the University of Vermont. Upon leaving this institution he determined to study law, and pursued a course of read­ing in Massachusetts and after be ing admitted to practice he remov­ed to St. Louis where he engaged in his profesion until 1837,where he settled in Des Moines, Iowa. In the following year he was elected state director in the organization of the State Bank of Iowa, and in the next was state commissioner to in­vestigate and report on the condi­tion of the executive department of Iowa. About this time he was elected chairman of the Republican state committee, and in 1860 he was both a delegate to the Chicago con­vention and the représentave of Iowa on the platform committee. Upon the inauguration of President Lincoln, Mr. Kasson was appointed first assistant postmaster general, a position he occupied until the fall ot 1862, when he resigned to accept a nomination for Congress, but in the ensuing election was defeated. In 1863 he was appointed U. S. commissioner to the International Postal Congress held in Paris. On his return he was elected a member of the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and at the close of that was chosen for the Thirty-Ninth. In 1867 he visited Great Britain, France, Bel­gium, Holland, Germany, Switzer­land and Italy as United States Commissioner to negotiate postal connections, and succeeded in in­ducing all the governments except that of France to sign the prelim­inary agreements. From 1868 to 1873 he served as member of the General Assembly of Iowa, and was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses.

Soon after his accession President Hayes appointed Mr. Kasson United States Minister to Spain, but on ac­count of the stand he had publicly taken in Congress upon the subject of Spanish atrocities in Cuba he de­clined the portfolio, and was then given that of the Austrian mission. Upon his return from Vienna, he returned home and was elected to the Forty-seventh congress from his old district. He has ranked as one of the Republican leaders of the House, and his retirement from that body will be greatly regretted.

H ow a D o g C ured Snake B ites.

Williamsport, Pa., Special: John Davis and George Miller drove from Collonsville to this city on Monday. When they were crossing the mountains at a place known as the Old Hermit’s, a valuable coach dog, which accompanied them, ran off into the woods. Soon after­ward they heard him yelping in a peculiar manner. Both men jumped from the wagon and started in the direction of the cries. They came in sight of the dog in a small hollow, and found him in a fight with several rattlesnakes, which surrounded him on a large flat stone and struck him from everv side. Miller and Davis each seized a long club and went to the dog’s assistance. They killed eleven rattlesnakes, and Many others escaped among the rocks. The largest one was four feet long, and had seventeen rattles Searching for the dog afterward he was found with his body embedded in a mire hole in a swampy spot.

The Experiences of the Plymouth Pastor on an Untamed Tricycle.

Peekskill Letter: Members of Ply­mouth church will be surprised to learn that Henry Ward Beecher is an adept on the tricycle. He is the happy owner of a cycle of extra size, on which he cavorts down the hills near his residence. Owing to constitutional heavy facts, the great preacher does not ride up hill, nor does he move with starling speed on the level road; but take him go­ing down hill and Maud S. would go into a hysterical fit at the sight of such velocity. Whenever the neighbors,who live on Mr. Beecher’s pet hill, hear a rush and a rattle and see a yard of hair floating in the dust, they do not become frightened, as formerly. They know that the Rev. Mr. Beecher is on his three-wheeled steed, bound for the bottom of the hill. Mr. Beecher does not care to talk much about his first experience on his tricycle, but, your correspondent happened to be fortunate enough to be one of the party who listened to the story from his own lips, which were constantly smiling at tlie thought of the figure he cut at the time. It seems that the old gentleman was the victim of an ex­tremely practical joke. His son, with other gentlemen friends, thought that a tricyle would be a welcome addition to the stable of the house, and they asked a friend in the vicinity w'ho owned one to call at the house and infatuate the great divine with his easy move­ment and speed. The friend did as requested, and the conspirators dilated on the adaptability of the carriage to stout elderly gentlemen of Mr. Beecher’s build. It did not take much persuasion, as Mr. Beecher viewed the machine with delight, and even after its depar­ture he talked in raptures of the tricycle, and expressed his deter­mination of buying one. Young Mr. Beecher kindly took upon him­self the task of making the purchase.

The tricycle was brought forth, and it was a noble one. Mr. Beecher sat on the seat and filled it with credit to himself. The cycle groaned a mite, as if its punish­ment was greater than it could bear. Mr. Beecher bore down on the treadles, but the machine replied with a grunt and refused to budge. All the family and several of the neighbors and invited guests were present. Half a dozen small boys, uninvited guests, were also present, and the snicker that greeted Mr. Beecher’s failure could be easily traced to this source.

“Try again father.” said the duti­ful son.

The sickliest smile ever seen up­on the face of Mr. Beecher spread over that expanse. He bent for­ward with all his might, but the only effect was another groan from the tricycle more pronounced than before. Another snicker from the ho vs and a polite hiding of faces in pocket handkerchiefs were more than Mr. Beecher could sit out, and with a little joke about hitching a horse to the tricycle he dismounted.

“I have never been beaten yet,” said Mr. Beecher, “and I don’t in­tend to begin at this late day.”

Young Mr. Beecher rode the ma­chine to the brow of the nearest hill, and the Rev. Henry Ward walked behind, with the rest of the party. The hill is a fine one, and will be easily recalled by all who have ever been in Peeksville by the large clump of trees at the right of the road in which stands a monster oak. Arrived at the summit, the original Beecher again mounted his balky steed, and told all hands to stand back. His son gave the ’cycle a vigorous push, and off she went, gathering increased momentum at every revolution: Mr. Beecher’shat came flying back to the starting point. He himself was too busy to notice such a trifle, having more important business at that moment in an honest endeavor to stop in his downward eareer. His hair stream­ing out behind, with his horizontal coat-tails as stiff as a plank; his eyes protruding in such a manner that they could have been knocked off with a stick; and his hands grasping the sides of the carriage; and the plunging, whizzing tr icy ole made a picture which the natives who saw it will never forget. There is a sharp curve in that hill at the red gate which shuts off the road to the ice pond. Farmer Thompson stood there and looked up the hill in wonder at the coming meteor with its clowd of meteoric dust be­hind. His first impulse was to throw a log in the way. If he had carried out that design Plymoth church would have been called up­on to mourn ths untimely fate of its pastor. As the tricycle hastened to pass the farmer Mr. Thompson saw what the trouble was. So did his dog, which immediately joined in the chase, adding music to the “merry-go-down.” Like most hills this particular inclined plane has a bottom and it came none too quick­ly for the lightning divine. The sigh he heaved as he struck level ground was jilainly heard in the

village. The tricycle revolved less wildly and stopped short at another hill. Before it was fully stopped Mr. Beacher jumped off with sur­prising agility. When the sympa­thizing friends, all a-tremble, caught up with the tricycle, they found Mr. Beecher almost drowned in cold perspiration. He avowed that he would never try again, but he has, and now he slides down that hill with great enjoyment, a horse dragging the machine home from the foot of the hill.

A F o rtu n e in H oney,

“One of the most extensive bee culturists in this or any other country,” says the New York Sun, “is Capt. Hetherington, whose apiaries along the Cherry Valley creek, in Scnohrarie county, an­nually turn out over 100,000 pounds of the choicest honey. It takes nine men and two steam saw mills five weeks to prepare the lumber for the boxes in which the honey is made by the bees. Nearly 150,- 000 panes of glass, about six inchss square are used in these boxes, Capt. Hetherington has at work this season nearly 2,500 swarms of bees. These are not all on his own prem­ises. but are scattered among the orchards and fields of farmers along the creek, to whom he pays a rent for the privilege of his bees work­ing in the clover, buckwheat, or whatever blossoms are in season on the farms. The care of these bees docs not fall upon the owner of the land. Capt. Hetherington keeps men and teams constantly employed looking out for them. He has re­ceived as much as $25,000 for one season’s crop.

H E R B A N D T H E R E .

The dwellings and farms of wid­ows, minors, and spinsters are exempted from taxation in several states ef the Mex­ican republic.

Over 100 bushels of grasshoppersiiave been captured this summer on one farm in Plymouth, N. H., by the owner, for which he received a bouaty of $1 per bushel.

A Binghampton physican is suing the estate of a deceased judge of that place for the recovery of a $9,000 doctor's bill. Oae item for $5,000 is charged for embalm­ing the body of • eon of the Judge,

Gen. Sherman, who has at last paid his license for extra street washing, added to his letter: “The city of St. Louie reminds me very much of a hotel in Omaha whose proprietor advertised ‘Terms $4.50 per day; board and lodging extra.’ ”

Redwood forests in California are yearly diminishing, as this wood is increas­ingly used in building on the Pacific coast. The superstructure of most dwellings in San Francisco is of redwood, and the ’Fris- cans cherish the belief that it does not burn as readily as other light material,

The total muster of the House of Lords is 518. Of these five are members of the royal family, who, in accordance with usual practice, abstain from divisions on a political question. Of the remainder, 288 rank as Tories, and 2I8are usually classified as Liberals. But many nominal Liberals, lise Lord Bradbourne and Lord Dunraven, usually vote again it the government on party questions.

The production of oil from sun­flower seed has become an industry of con­siderable importance in Russia: It is ex­pressed on the spot, and the product Is largely employed in the adulteration of olive oil; the purified oil is considered equal to olive and almond oil for table use. The most important industrial application of the oil are for woolen aressing,lighting and candle rnd soap making, it being regarded, for the last named purpose, as superior to most other oils. The Russian article is of a-pale yellow color.

As an evidenco that the paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds have not lost their value or interest, the London Academy mentions that one of his pictures, known as “Simplicity,” has recently been sold privately for the sum of £3,760. It is a portrait of Miss Theopbila Gwatkin, daughter of one of Sir Joshua’s neices(Miss Palmer) by her marriage with Robert Lovel Gwatkin of Killiow Park, Cornwall. I t was painted in 1789 as a special present to the father and mol her of the subject, to whom it was presented by Sir Joshua after exhibition. Until the sale above recorded, it had never been out of tbe possession of the family.

Dr. French, in a recent work,“Nineteen Centuries of Drink iu England,” says that mead was the iutoxicant of the ancient Briton. The Romans introduced wine. Cider was known at an earlier date, but the Saxons, Danes and Normans brought in the secret of strong beverages. Distilled liquors were introduced by tbe Plantagenets, and clergymen then began to tipple. In the sixth century men of all degrees “slumbered away their time in drunkenness.” The prevalent intemper­ance of the seventeenth centnry is said to be due to the Act to Encourage Distillation the exhaustion of light wines, the influen­ces of the court, and the development of toaating and club life. Dr. French predicts that moderation will increase until intoxi­cating beverages shall be used and not abused and thus beeorne one of our bles­sings.

T he C hinese farm house is a cu ri­ous looking abode. Usually it is sheltered with groves of feathery bamboo and thick­spreading banyans. Tbe walls are of clay or of wood, and the interior of the house consists of one main room, extending from the floor to the tiled roof, with closet-looking apartments in the corners for sleeping rooms. There is a sliding window on the roof, made of cut .oyster shells arranged in rows, while the side windows are mere wooden shutters - The floor is the bare earth, where at nightfall there often gathers together a miscellaneous family of dirty children, fowls, ducks, pigeons and a litter of pigs, all living to­gether in delightful harmony. In some districts infested by marauding bands the houses are strongly fortified with high walls containing apertures for firearms, and protected by a moat crossed by a rude drawbridge.