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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28
NOntanianS in California.

Dick Jockey, in the Independent, gives
news of old Montanians. We give a few ex-
tracts
Geo. NJ. Pinney will soon open an Office in
New York city Tor tie sale of mining prop
erty.
Judge H. L. Hosmer has a position as in
spector at one of the government warehouses.
EX-Judge j. L.. Murphy, the Workingmen's
candidate for City Attorney, succeeded in his
election, but Is regarded as one Of the acct
dents of politics.
j. W. Whitlatchs still operates in mines but
much of his time is spent in the East.
Clltus Barbour is ..Gher a prominent man
at the Workingmen's gatherings at the Sand
Lots. He is regarded as one of Kearney's
best men, and has lost some OF his gift Of
CAB for which he was somewhat noted in
Montana. His defeat for Congress last sum
mer is regarded, however, as IA fatal blow to
his ambition, as the Workingmen's party are
daily becoming less influential in California
politics.
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From Thursdays Daily.J
Our Superintendent of schools.

W. Egbert Smith, Superintendent of Terri
torial Instruction, left yesterday morning for
Missoula county, to visit the schools. Super
intendent Smith will deliver a free lecture on
educational topics in the most important dis
tricts, an excellent method of waking up the
public mind upon this important subject. We
hope he will not give Butte the cold shoulder.
Superintendent Smith has had in bygone
years much practical experience in the school
room, and the gleanings Of that experience
will well command the attention of those i'll
terested in public schools, a number which
includes about everybody we believe. We
only wish his salary was large enough to al
low him to give his entire time TO the i'm
provement of our schools.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28
The Fall Of Pork.

1t is approaching the time when the Chi
nese Muck-a-Muck Festival is observed, and
the graves of the good Cinnamon are adorned.
Now, all essential element of this observance
is roasted pig. Besides, next to the chicken
of the heather whites, burnt pork is beloved
by the Celestial more than all dainties, rats
not excepted. And SO when two boys aged Z
and 8 years, whose fond parents read the
MINER and took that editorial entitled
"Buy a Rifle to be one of the twelve (?)
commandments, with malice preperse and
force Of arms were Willing away the soft In
dian Summer hours by shooting at a mark
and accidentally (?) shot three infant porkines
to say that John was disguised would be too
tame. The fact is, John was highly incensed
in a sense, so to speak. But John is a law.
abiding citizen, and, like all such, he sought
the officers of law. The offenders were ar
rested and taken to the Temple of Justice.
So were the young and tender porkines.
With tears in his eyes,
Heaving up great waves OF sorrow
AS he thought bitterly of the morrow,
And no pork there to swallow,
Or in quiet trough TO wallow,
John plead his case. Unfortunately for the
effect of his eloquence, the Guardian of Peace
was absent and time may diminish its efficacy.
Meanwhile there is a statute forbidding the
using of firearms which we hope to see en-
forced. Boys of the age mentioned have no
business with firearms and a fine for the
parents, the parties most to blame, would
have a good effect.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28

Mr.. Mcfarland, of the firm A%ylesworth Il
Mcfarland, has rented the St. Nicholas
hotel. He is now making repairs ON the
interior of the house and digging a cellar
which is a much needed adjunct of a hotel.
1t is not known whether terms will be made
with the Thompson creditors so That the
furniture will be leased to the Deer Lodge
firm, since the atflirs are so mixed that it
taxes all the ingenuity Of the Butte legal
fraternity to clear them out. But however il
may end, the firm will stock the house with
furniture and all the comforts of civilization.
The repairs necessary to be made before
opening the establishment will delay the
matter tor a week or more. However, it is
expected that it will be opened early in
November. That the gentlemen will be re-
warded for their undertaking is evident from
the fact that at this unusually dull time for
Butte travellers find much difficulty in get
ting lodgings. 1t is indeed highly probable
that in another season some one or other OF
our worthy landlords will find it necessary to
build a larger house. Such all enterprise will
not be unexpected, Judging from the constant
increase of travel to this city.
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A Handsome Yield.

Mr.. J. Mccormick shOwtd us yesterday the
gold dust from a half pan full of dirt from a
mine in the newly discovered district in which
he is interested. At our request he, in COM
pany with other gentlemen, took it to the
bank TO have its value ascertained. The re-
suit, as shown by the figures of Mr.. Lewis
was as follows: The one half pound of dirt
yielded 6-l0O of an ounce of gold. In the
SAME proportion 81 pounds Of dirt would
yield an ounce of gold; 2OOO pounds, or one
ton, would yield 24O ounces, which at Sl4.Oo
per ounce would be worth the handsome sum
af $500. We intend to contract for IA few
tons of that dirt ourselves. The gold and the
paper containing the figures Of Mr.. Lewis can
be seen at the Silver Butte saloon.
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From Wednesdays Daily.

Services were held for the first time in st.
Peters church, at Helena, last Sunday.
j. c.. Singer is making improvements on
the room next to his furniture room by lath-
ing and plastering so as to fit it for a store.
Water is being brought into the Silver
Butte saloon. One after another of the bus
mess houses is supplying itself with plenty OF
water.
The trustees of t;le Butte NJ. +. Church
are, we understand, about to take out an in
surance policy for $1,000 on their new and
handsome editice.
The report reaches us that Mr.. y. Ann
strong is about to establish a banking house
in the thriving own of Glendale. 1t is a
want long felt, and the opening is a good one.
A letter from the terminus TO a citizen OF
Butte, received yesterday, states that - cents
per pound freight is being offered from the
end of the track to Helena, and transporta.
ton is scarce.
Crowds of prOspectorS Wen over to the
new mines yesterday, all with their largest
sized hats on for specimens. 1t is unknown
as yet whether they came back with Il brick in
their hats or not.
The funeral of Mrs. C.. b. Vau.Han tooR
place at the Christian church, in Helena, last
Sunday. The Independent says the funeral
procession was one of the largest ever wit
messed III Helena.
A man IN the streets yesterday was selling
apples at 12a cents a pound. or al 8 cents fol-
quantities of over a thousand pounds. This i:
the lowest rate. We believe, at which fruit wa.
ever sold in Montana.
The labor of filling up the old shafts ant
prospect holes within the city limits is bein.
prosecuted vigorously, and if the good worl
goes on until all these dangerous pitfalls ar
removed it will be a blessing to the city.
The brick work on the addition to Owsle,
n Nantes stable is ready for the root. which
is to be of tin. The addition will he uset
principally for sowing AVA carriag .. III,
cost of it is estimated to be about $1,000.
The newly discovered mine near Bush.
station is creatin much excitement variou
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28
A Kindness Appreciated.

About seventeen years ago, Greeley French,
of Silver City, was living in California. he
accommodated a friend who wanted to 60 to
Cariboo, with the loan of $50. For many
years Mr.. French heard nothing of the debtor.
Recently, however, he received Il letter from
him, dated Montana, in which the debtor
stated that for u long while he was unable to
learn French's whereabouts, adding that he
was now ready to liquidate his obligation.
He said he had just discovered a very rich
gold mine, and wanted French to go up and
share his good fortune with him, concluding
his letter with the request that French should
write him in case he did not have sufficient
money to make the trip, and he would send it
to him. Mr.. French passed through here for
Montana on Sunday evening. We greatly le-
greet to be unable to publish the name of tie
honorable and generous debt r.-Cdrson Ap-
peal, Oct. 7tH.
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Stage Accident.

An unhappy beginning was made by
ssrs. Gilmer Il Salisbury on the new route
ently established via Glendale to the
minus. Saturday last the incoming coach,
3idl leaves Glendale at 6 o'clock p. m.
len about three miles from that place and
pmiles from the crossing Of the Big Hole
the mouth of Camp Creek, turned over,
mping the driver on the roadside and the
M with the stage on its side, and a
senserinside went on down the grade until
y struck a stump or some other obstacle
ich brought everything to astop; and none
soon, il seems either. Mr.. H. Franklin,
only passenger aboard, was found by the
YER, the latter not having been much
urcd by the fall, underneath the stage,
h a great part of Its weight resting upon
body. With some difficult he was finally
~ricatet, and, using Mr.. F.'s own words in
ating the accident, sit was the happiest
Ement of my whole life to find
1t l was alive and had no bones
bken." Farther than a slight abrasion of the
IN over the right eye and some pretty Sc
be bruises and scratches about the body and
!, he was uninjured. How he escaped so
PLY he is unable to say himself,as he thinks
must have been dragged beneath the coach
some distance. The cause of the accident,
stated by the driver, was the binding
3ud of dust raised by the team, which,
eeping alongin front, SO obscured his sight
It he could not see the roadway, which in
ces is very narrow, and, getting off the
fde, the coach upset. A broken tongue was
extent of the damage to the stage, and,
Ter ''splintering" and 'bandaging" that with
lows and lope, the journey was resumed to
lnderlich's, where "A ''dead-aX" wagon was
bcured and the home station at Silver Bow
Rched in safety. Mr.. Franklin arrived in
tte on Sunday, and putting himself imme-
Rtely under the care of DR.. Hough, is rap
recovering froalfhe effects of his injuries.
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tFrom Wednesdays Daily.)


1t does not need close observation to notice
that Butte is prospecting. Hardly is there a
street in own on which there is not some
building or other going up. The sound Of
the hammer and click Of the trowel brings
music to the ears Of the visitor by day while
the continuous ~churning Of the mills at night
shows the same restless activity is kept up
after the shades of evening have fallen. The
scarcity Of masons and carpenters is notice.
able. There are few occupations in the labor
line which will pay better than these. Good
carpenters, masons and mechanics will be in
demand for years to come and, there being the
same demand for such labor in outside towns,
there is little danger of the market being
overstocked. 1t Is already about as easy to
find a pin in a haystack as to find a suitable
house for rent. The advertisement of such
a house brings a dozen customers at once.
This state of affairs is likely to remain so
notwithstanding the buildings which are
being erected this season and the many more
Which will be next year. The majority Of
men whit make up our population are men
who have come here alone, leaving their fam
lies. With a little economy these men save
up means sufficient to bring their families
here. The excellent schools already in pro-
gress in Butte furnish strong inducements to
men who have children to educate. The re-
cent developments in the Alice mine and IN
those mines which centre around this city
have created universal confidence fin the pros
perity of the town. Next year, with the
railroad not over a hundred miles away, pos
sibly at our very doors, Will see a large immi-
grafton into Butte. The men who are here
and already established will profit by the
influx. While the building has been extern
sive this year, if the signs of the time do not
greatly deceive, the next season will behold
double the amount of building, and could
there be a reasonable security against the de-
struction by fire we might be confident OF
more than double the amount. With such
protection there is no safer investment of cap
ital. 1t gives certain and ample returns not
payable at the end of every year but at the
end of every month, which makes consider
able difference when the interest is computed.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28
The Dancing Club.

Ehe Silver City Dancing Club was duly Or
|ized on last Saturday evening. The
|cers selected are: Henry McMurphey,
esident ; II. j. Argyle, Vice-President VIM.
Forbis, Secretary and Treasurer. The
|mmittee of Arrangement consists of VIM.
fNamara, John A.. Rowand, b. F. Neil
|, II. Roudebush and David Marks. SIS is
! initiation fee and the membership will not
reed GO. The club has secured Owsley's
III and Butts band, and will have its first
hcc Friday night. With a dance at II
party or the other every week during the
kter the young ladies will have plenty of
brcise. Their mothers will be envied on
|urday mornings so hints all old bachelor.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28

The question of moving a company of cav
airy from Fort Ellis has for some time been
agitating the people of Bozeman and vicinity.
Major Maginnis has endeavured by telegraphic
correspondence with General Terry, of st.
Paul, to prevent the removal. The following
dispatch, handed us last evening by the
recipient, presents the latest phase of the
matter:
ST.. PAUL, Oct. u.
To Hon. Martin Maginnis, Butte:
have referred the question of keeping the
cavalry at Ellis to General Ruger. He is
going to Ellis. ALFRED Ii. TERRY.
Brigadier General.
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Deputy Mineral surveyors.

By request we publish the part of the Land
Commissioners decision omitted yesterday
on account Of its length:
"United States Deputy Surveyors and Dep
uty Mineral Surveyors hold appointments
under the United States. Tn Secretary of
the Interior is charged with the supervision
of business relating to the public lands. Gu.
s. II. 3. Sec. 441.) lsE4 :
HThe Commissioner Of the General Land
Office is required to perform under the direc.
ton of the Secretary of the Interior all exec
utive duties appertaining to the surveying and
sale OF the public lands of the United States
OF in any wise respecting such public lands.
(U. S. r. s. Sec. 453.) -
"The Deputy Surveyors are therefore
amenable through the Surveyor-General, to
tile supervision and control of this depart
ment Of the United States Government"
"The appointment of United States Survey
ors-General by the President is authorized by
United States Revised Statutes, Sec. 2,2O7,
and the appointment Of Deputies by such
Surveyors-General is authorized by Sections
1928 and 1924. Bonds are required of such
Deputies for the faithful performance of all
surveying contracts contided to them by Sec
ton 2,23O Revised Statutes"
"a Deputy is one authorized by an Of
hcer to exercise the office or right which the
officer possesses for andin place of the latter -
'tSaid deputies therefore hold appointments
under the United States; are amenable to the
supervision Of United States officers; repre-
sent Surveyors General of the United States
in certain things acting in the discharge of
duties conferred on them by United States
laws, and are bound unto the United States
by an official bond for the performance of
their duties. Ta.sr##
'The fact that such deputies are appointed
by the Surveyor General in no manner
changes the fact that they hold appointment
or commissions made by the United States.
"They are as clearly officers by appoint
ment under the United States when appoint.
ed by the Surveyos General as are the Sur.
veyor Generals when appointed by the Presi.
dent for the appointment in each case is
made simply as the law of the United States
derives authority solely from the United
States. m., -.u
"Neilher can it be said that a Notary Pub.
lie appointed under the Territorial act Of July
II, 1879, aforesaid, does not hold said office
under the Governmen mt of said Territory, fol-
this appointment is no where authorized ex.
cept by the Government of that Territory
through its law making power"
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From Thursdays Daiiy.]

Water is being carried into ]. G.. Singers
house to-day.
Caleb Twins Office is receiving an outside
blanket of clapboards.
Joseph Hyde is erecting an L to his house
on Broadway, at a probable cost of $500.
Unclaimed messages in the telegraph office
for Miss Birdie Porter, and D.. J. Hennesy.
The underpinning for Mr.. Woodward's
house is being laid. One Or more rooms will
probably be added to it.
The Herald says strawberry plants are in
blossom on Ten Mile and on some of the
plants the berries are nearly ripe.
The police court room has just been fitted
up with a stove and a low partition to sepa-
rate his honor from the vulgar rabble.
A few copies of Copp's Handbook of Mining
Laws still Oh land and for sale at the MINER
office. Call and secure one before the stock
is exhausted. Price only 81 90. If
A new stable has the frame work up on
the extreme west end of Park street, sheds
are already built and a cellar is being dug.
The stable belongs to Mr.. J. B.. Thomas.
W. II. Archer, or Park street, is clapboard-
ing his house on the outside, and will put an
addition in the rear. He says he will have a
Mansard roof yet, and possibly a mortgage if
he can get it cheap.
The frame work of A. H. Barret's house,
which fronts on Galena street, is I'D and a
veneering of brick is rapidly being laid. 1t
forms a handsome cottage, and is cheap at
5000, the price for which, it is said, it will be
built.
During the past week the MINER office has
received several thousand pounds of job
printing material, consisting IN part of Bill
Heads, Letter Heads, Note Heads, Statements
and Cards. We are now prepared to execute
orders for almost any class of printing III as
good style and at as low prices as can be OBJ
tanned anywhere in Montana. Send in your
orders. If
Does advertising pay? Well, we should
say it did, and to prove it We will give a case
in point. Our worthy townsman, Mr.. B. &.
Belcher, had a dwelling house which he
wished to rent, and yesterday afternoon gave
i'll a notice to that effect at the MINER office.
No sooner was the type set and the notice
ready to print than Mr.. d. came rushing in
with the information that he had rented his
house, and that we need proceed no further.
Mr.. }. T. Corners, of the Rocker Silver
Mining Company, Binghampton district, II
miles west from Jefferson City, is in town.
Uncer Mr.. Corners superintendent a wagon
road, costing 1000, has been built from the
district to the works of the Alta Montana
company. The Rocker Company have made
considerable developments upon their mining
property in the district, running tunnels and
sinking shafts.-Independent.
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That Prisoners Complaint.

The case of John Ward, the complaining
Soner, whose grievances received express
n through Sundays MINER, is certainly Il
st singular one. When brought face to
E with the City Marshal Mr.. Ward not only
putty maintained that every statement con-
ned in the article referred to was the lit
truth, but furthermore, that lie was will
to go before the proper officer and make
h TO that effect. The prisoners case then
fuires no re-statement. AS for the reply
Mr.. Warfield, the City Marshal, it is as fol-
rs: He acknowledges that the prisoner
given only two meals per day, but two
Pals a day is what the law prescribes, Meth
more For less. All other statements are
4phatically denied. As for the quality of
food, It is only necessary to say it was
Fen from the Marshals home table. This
Pm ample guarantee of its excellence both
to material and manner of preparation.
fpecting the quantity it is difficult to UNI
1stand why Mr.. Ward should have suffered
pangs of hunger, whena liberal portion
the food served at each meal was left I'M
hsumed, IN assertion which the Marshal
prepared 10 prove by the testimony of
neral responsible and disinterested persons.
bRill he seen then that the matter resolves
III into a question Of v~eiacity between the
" Marshal and the prisoner, and in this
fdlct, the latter, being q stranger and COM
fatively unknown, comes out second best,
M the fact that Mr.. Warfield, during
" years. residence among this people, has
rfblisl'ed a sterling character for truthful
p; and not only that but also for generosity,
lantecedents goingto prove that he would be
but the very last man to try to make any
Ing by skrimpihg the bill Of fare OF a soli-
city prisoner. Mr.. Ward and his friends
Feared fearful lest a ''man who was poor
friendless should be refused notice in the
Es," but having obtained the notice they
Puld have been equally as fearful about not
King out a good case when they once I'M
took to make complaint.
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AbsenteiSlsR.

In another place will be found the report OF
the public schools for the last month. We
trust the reasonable reques. of the Superin-
tendent relative to tar,lincss and absence, will
be needed by parents and guardians. Occa-
~sionally parents have the notion that schools
are established for the exclusive benefit of
their children, and that it makes no difference
whether their children attend school or not.
That is a mistake. The reason that men who
have a large amount Of property pay their
taxes so cheerfully, is not because they are
charitably inclined. They pay the money
because it is one, and a most important one,
of the means of protecting their property. 1t
is by what may be termed n police regulation,
that Legislatures are justified in taking pri-
vate property Tor public schools. Now men,
who have 10 children, have no more right to
refuse to pay taxes for schools than they have
to refuse paying taxes to build jails. But
they have a right in all reasonable ways to
demand that it shall be spent for the use for
which it was designed, and that is to educate
all the children. SO when you keep your
children from school, unless for good cause,
you are detrauding the men who are paying
the taxes to provide schooling for them. And
yet every day one notices in saloons and
stores a crowd Of boys from 0 to Is years of
age who are nuisances to business men, and
who are learning to become idlers, paupers
and criminals. So far We have spoken only
of the rights of other men, rights which are
incontcstable. But there are other reasons
for the consideration of parents: that by
keeping your children out of school you are
doing Them, your O,vn children the greatest
possible injury that can be done them that
for which, when hey have become older,
they will reproach YOU. 1t is not a wise plan
to allow occasional absences. Nothing is
more 'discour aging to the pupil than to find
he has fallen behind his classes. OF course,
cases of sickness should always be excepted.
! One writer has remarked sit matters little
whether you leave your child money or not F.;
give him an education, and You leave him
that which is greater than wealth."