The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-11
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The Tribune advocates q Mining Exchange
for Salt Lake City.
The New York City government wants an
appropriation Of thirty million dollars for
next years expenses.
The "Old Scratch was at the bottom of it
of course, and no wonder when he is around
that it goes Republican.
A wicked Republican wants to know where
our rooster is? The fact of it is he scratched
too much and is temporarily i~ndisposed.
Queen Victoria's income last year was
$2,5O0,C00. She manages to get along COM
fortably without going to the soup houses.
Grants estimated wealth is about Sl50,OOO.
This is the estimate of John Russell Young
who swung around the world Nth the Gene
raj. ....
The Secretary of the Navy orders appropri-
ate honors to be observed to show respect to
Rear Admiral Reynolds, who is recently de-
ceased.
The telegraph is exclusively in the hands
Of Government in Italy. An innovation is
telegraph cards for ten words, to be dropped
in office boxes or sent gratuitously through
the post to the desired telegraph office.
The American eagle, nicely stamped in
gold, is rapidly flying from Europe to this
country. The neat little snm of $5,3SS,S25
came over last week, and between 100000
and Ss,00O,OOO are now on their way.
The Kansas City Journal says: "When
they arrest a man in Utah for bigamy, they
select one having less than four wives. If a
man has a half-dozen or more wives his big
amy is greater than the courts can hope to
handle for the next five years.
That N. P. R. R. land grant has already
begun to give trouble in Custer county. We
have been so occupied with the Utah North
ern that we have lost sight of the enormous
subsidy given to the Northern Pacific, a large
portion of which comes out of Montana.
Our dispatches chronicle a chapter of acct
dents; trains run into one another with more
or less loss OF life; a mandatory in Kansas
City, Mo-, falls and takes fire, and seven per-
sons perish. These horrors are followed by a
steamboat collision, whereby tllirty-two lives
were lost.
In his recent New York speech John Sher-
man praised the character and ability of A. d.
Cornell. Some one in the audience asked
the Secretary why Cornell was removed from
office by the President if he was such a coed
and honest man. 1t took the speaker by sur
prise.-I.:.
Boise City had a destructive fire a lew days
ago Ill which several buildings were con-
sumed. Had it not been for the steam fire
belonging TO and recently imported by
the city the fire would have been still more
Let rs have that water brought
in at once.
Commissioner Bentley, Of the Pension De-
paltment, has lately unearthed a fraud, who
has been trying to impose on the ignorance of
pensioners and induce them to give money
for the pretended purpose of getting a pen
sion bill passed by Congress. In one instance
swindled all old lady seventy years of age,
out of S25.
A delegation of Indians from the Sacos,
Foxes and Iowa tribes, waited on Commls-
Hoyt and Secretary Schurz Yesterday.
They wished permission to remove from
Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska to
he Indian Territory, in order that they might
i" breathing ROOM" AS 800 of them &C.
,upied $4,000 acres of land, it was thought
hey would have fresh air enough, and their
'equest was refused.