The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-23

masnourhe case states that Washburne's
majority was 3,013 that the district has al
ways Deen largely Republican, the majority
ranging from zoos to S,153. The renort
declares that little if any of the evidence
d. re the commission would be received in
any court Of justice, being generally hearsay
ana very unreliable hearsay at that.
lhere is evidence that both sides used
money to poll the district and provide means
iof getting voters to the polls who were re-
ni1te, etc. Canyassers were paid and so were
ticket.hoiders for both parties. Speakers re-
celVed money and the committee do not say
that such use OF money Is entirely %illegiti-
mate, certainly not unusual. 4 member was
unwilling to dignity the alleged testimony by
olierlng to disprove it. There was little
worthy OF being disproved. Many of the
Witnesses We're disappointed applicants for
brides. Whether or not the law preventing
the numbering Of ballots was constitutional
there was no law or precedent for rejecting
2,2s2 votes. ..... :
1t is rumored that something in the nature
OF a compromise is in the wind, the outlines
of it being that Blaine is not to make an &C.
i've canvass in Ohio against Sherman and
friends to consider Blaine as an
available second choice, and Blaine's friends
to think favorably of Sherman as a second
choice.
Tn Senate rejected the nomination of
Summers, Of &c Irgia, as census supervisor.
Blaine made a humorous speech saving he
had established beyond any doubt, in his
letter to the President asking for his appoint
ment, that he WIS a firm and unflinching
Republican,, and in his subsequent letters
and declarations, seeking confirmation at the
hands of the Senate, he was a red-hot and
uncompromising Democrat. Further than
this, he had proved himself to have been an
answering Loyalist and an enthusiastic
l a n n sT ,o,,-t dat l~,,~ 49, a--
votes, for then l would take pleasure in giving
one to confirm this devoted Unionist, this
sincere Republican, and equal satisfaction in
giving the other TO reject rhis active rebel and
ardent Democrat.
Mrs. Christiancy is talking very freely to
newspaper inte%rviewers and is filling columns
with stories of her alleged wrongs, From
her statement the ex-senator must be a very
bad man. She represents him as an opium,
eater, Crunkard, a man of intolerant %preiudi-
ces, wife beater, and jealous beyond descrip-
ton. Those who have known the Judge
through a long and honorable life will be
surprised at these His friends
here are very indignant at these ISLANDERS, and
insist that Mrs. Christiancy is r~esorting to this
method to gain public sympathy.
Consideration OF the Public Lands Bill.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The House
committee on mines devoted two hours to-
day to the further consideration of the bill
recently reported by the public lands com
missioner. So far as it relates to mining To-
cations it was a spirited discussion. Upon
the proposition to allow the miner one year
after making his location in which to discover
minerals, Berry, Colorado, and Campbell, of
Arizona, members of the committee, strenu-
ously opposed the proposition, but in view of
the fact that in some parts of the country
minerals are found from 200 to 300 feet be-
low the surface, the committee determined
to give the prospector time to find them. The
committee agreed to the amendment offered
by Bedford, of Colorado, reducing the price
of mineral lands from five dollars to two dol
lars and fifty cents an acre and also extend
ing the term for applying for patent from one
to two years. The section in reference to
mining locations as agreed to is as follows
"A mining claim located after the first day of
September, 1880, may equal but shall not ex-
same may be any shape 50 that neither length
nor breadth shall exceed 1900 feet, nor aggre-
gate all area to exceed that of the square here
inbefore first described. The section gives
to a miner all area of about twenty-five acres
but does not allow him to follow his mineral
beyond his surface boundary lines" The
committee are unanimously III favor of the
application of the common law principles to
all mining locations hereafter to be made.
The members of the committee declared there
can be no prosperity in mining interests until
liefthrough legislation is afforded they be-
lieve when a miner is confined to his side OF the
lines there will be no more litigation about
mining claims than there is about railroad
lands. The committee are moving slowly in
this matter because they recognize the great
importance of the subject and the necessity of
e~nacting a law that will secure. the miner in
his rights and shield and protect him from
litigation.
Another meeting will be held next Wednes-
day.
Ku-Klux i'm Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, March 19.-The Courier
Journals Grayson Kentucky special says j.:
Last night a hundred men went to James
Benison's house on Big Sinking Creek to no.
tify John Boggs, a notorious character, to
leave the country. Benson refused them
admittance and fired fifty shots at them kill
ing one man. The regulators broke down
the doors and shot Benson dead. They
seized Boggs, tried him, fred shots at him
and hung him and left him after whipping a
nineteen year old son of Benson for joining
the fusilade.
CHICAGO, March 1S.-The Inter-Ocedns
Washington special says: The rejection of
Wells as surveyor of the port OF New Orleans
was made for purely political reasons. The
Democrats hate his father j. Madison Wells.
Nothing was urged against him.
J. G. Thompson does not think that Iilden
will be nominated at Chicago. He thinks
Thurman is the coming man.
LONDON, March 1S.-The DAILY Ners in
an article on elections says: 1t is estimated
that in Scotland the Conservatives will lose
ten seats. In the north of Ireland the Con-
servatives expect to lose seven seats. OF the
English and Welsh seats there is reason to
believe thirty-nine will be transferred from
the Conservatives to the Liberals.
cratic State committee have decided upon
May 9TH for holding the State convention to
elect delegates to the national convention at