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Show COLD -IN. MONTANA Frost Kills Thousands of Sheep and Cattle. MANY HUMAN LIVES LOST. The End e f Congress is Near and Much Remain be Dona Many Bills of Importance-Several at Yet Entirely Unconsidered Un-considered Other Matters. Butte, Mont., Feb. 17. Reports of additional fatalities in the recent blizzard bliz-zard in the eastern part of the state are being received almost daily. The report today ia that August ouaier, agent of a etcck company in Fergus county, started to assist the herders in getting a flock of sheep under un-der shelter. When the blizzard came up, he got lost in the blinding snow. His body was found last night within a few rods of the house, and his dead horse near by. A herder ror State Senator Swift, near Miles City, named Smith, was lost in the storm and has not been found, The loss in. stock, and especially sheep, will be tremendous, as in many cases whole flocks were frozen. TIME GETTING SHORT. Washington. Feb. 17. There is beginning be-ginning to be a slight uneasiness on the democratic side of the senate that some democratic appropriation may fail. There iemais only twelve more working days of the session, and four ot the more important of these bills are entirely unconsidered in the senate. sen-ate. . 'J hese are the Indian, the sundry civil, the legislative and the general deficiency bills, each of them considered consid-ered as more likely to afford ground for debate than any of the appropriation appropria-tion bills which have already received attention. This anxiety has snob vet, howeyer, been very pronounced. It would be more marked but for the fact that it is generally believed that the republicans re-publicans are sincere in their protestations protes-tations that they do not desire to prolong pro-long debate sufficiently to cause the failure of any of the bills and thereby render themselves amenable to the charge of making an excuse for an extra session. The democratic managers expect to gain considerable time by moving at an early day for 11 o'clock sessions and following discussion bv prolonging ' the daily sessions into the night. They had expected not to hold 11 o'clock sessions ses-sions until the sundry civil bill should be taken up, but when they reached that decision they had supposed tat they would be able to dispose of the postoffice, the Indian and the agricultural agricul-tural bills last week. Instead, they succeeded suc-ceeded only in passing the postoffice bill and in having the agricultural bill still only partially considered and the Indian bill untouched. If it becomes apparent that the Indian bill will require re-quire time proportionate to that put in on the postoffice or District of Columbia Colum-bia bill, the motion for earlier meetings, meet-ings, which is already pending, will be pressed early in the week. The agricultural bill will be disposed of on Monday, and after that is out of the way, the sundry civil bill will be taken up. The sundry civil haa not vet been reported from committee, but it is hoped that it will be reported tomorrowcertainly to-morrowcertainly it will be be'ore the Indian bill can be gotten out of the way, so there is no prospect for the senate finding itself without an appropriation appro-priation measure to proceed with. There is very little prospect for much consideration of any other" subject and probabilities for any general legislation, legisla-tion, such as that proposed in the pooling, pool-ing, territorial admimission, Pacific railroad, naval personnel and bankruptcy bank-ruptcy bills are growing smaller everv day. There will be a strong effort to get up and dispose of the pooling bill, but there will be determined opposition, op-position, and some of its best friends are growing discouraged over the prospect. pros-pect. The probabilities of the week also include in-clude a discussion of the territorial bills, but the prospects are against their pasage. Ttere are several financial bills and resolutions which may be called up, and the rules of the senate permit such latitude that a financial speech may be injected at any time and regardless of the measure in hand. There is still occasional oc-casional reference to the agreement which came so near being completed Thursday last for the two days' debate at. the beginning of the week un the Jones bill, with a vote at the close, and the matter may be revived with or without unanimous consent. Senator Jones still insists that either his bill shall be considered on its merits, or that its opponents shall show their indisposition in-disposition to consider H by filibustering filibuster-ing against it. Senator Vilas has also given notice of an effort to call up his gold bond bill tomorrow, and in doing sojis liable to precipitate a financial discussion dis-cussion at the beginning of the week's work. Altogether the outlook is lor a busy week in the Senate. children die while parents dajce. Grayling, Mich., Feb. 17. Three children, aged 9, 6 and 4, respectively, lost their lives in a fire at Lewiston last night. The children had been put to bed while their father, Eli Seymour, snd wife attended a dance. When they returned the house was in flames. When the fire had been sufficiently ex-ticguished ex-ticguished to enter the house,-the child-l child-l ren were found dead side by side in bed. They had evidently been suffocated suffo-cated without being awakened. The i cause of-the fire is unknown, |
