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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1877
Page
2
A varied digest from 1871 recounts Vancouver and Atlantic telegraph plans, Montana mine yields, and the rise of Wyoming and Virginia City enterprises. It notes gold and silver outputs, telegraph rate aims, wheat shifts, presidential election questions, and railroad financials. It highlights Captain Mills of the New North-West praise, and editorials on US political tensions.
Disjointed notes discuss the Bland bill and small change, vendor resistance, and consumer burdens. It contrasts silver market chatter with shipbuilding gains and US iron costs, then surveys Southern views on the Hayes-Tilden presidential question and war aversion.
A writer argues against a proposed one percent tax on bullion and ore in Montana noting how it would confiscate working capital from miners and mill owners. He details how monthly ore production would be taxed repeatedly, threatening quartz, wood, lumber, blacksmith, and newspaper businesses and threatening to shut many operations.
Crook announces a council with Indian scouts and plans to march homeward from North Fork of Belle Fourche on December 21. The expedition has rations for twelve days and forage for a week, with limited transport hindering further pursuit. Sioux activity around Big Horn Mountains concerns scouts as the force nears Fort Reno, aiming to return to Fort Fetterman by the 27th.
A December report from Fort Prot, Dakota, details a clash near Bark Creek as Sitting Bull’s camp with about 5,000 warriors retreated across the Missouri. Lieutenant Baldwin notes the pursuit by 100 infantry and 50 cavalry, with the camp located on Bark Creek. In Washington, a Senate committee session involved subpoenas for Cronin associates in the Oregon electoral matter.
In New Orleans December 1926 Republicans seal the Louisiana State House to block Democratic pursuit of power. Metropolitan Police guard two main entrances while Wiltz, the Democratic lieutenant governor candidate, is accused of aiming to seize the Senate Chamber. Six Democratic Senators refuse to cooperate, and Nicholls’s rule is described as merely interim before departure.
Government officials in Florida respond to a Supreme Court mandate as the canvassing board reconvenes to re examine votes. Drew leads with a 195 vote majority after later recounts while Hayes electors tally at 200, with secrecy and protest notes from Attorney General Cocke and others. Ex-Attorney-General Williams arrives amid ongoing legal maneuvering.
Waaiineton December 20 report on Senate action toward creating a new territory. After considering several proposed names Wyandotte Oxallalla Brule and others Huron was chosen as the territory name and capital. If no change is made the territory will be called Huron Province with Huron as capital.
In brief telegrams several topics emerge including Oregon shifting electoral vote to Pyrositent Perry who declines receipt due to two reels from Florida. New York Nye dies after long illness. December theatre in New York burning. Washington subpoenas issued to Orton for Morrison Committee in New Orleans. A Washington discussion on abolishing the Presidency and forming an executive council with secretaries. Also notes from Kobe Allen and Tony Pastor’s aid event.
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