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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

Mr.. DE Haas, ex-Consul at Jerusalem, has
set at rest q multitude of recent contradictory
statements about the Holy Land In the fol
lowing series of pointed denials "There is
not a railroad in all Palestine. There is not
an American missionary in the Holy Land,
nor a Sunday School. But one Protestant
church in Jerusalem, another outside of the
walls and one at Nazareth. The jewish pop
ulation has increased during the last few
years, but the population of the country has
more rapidly decreased. The Jews have no
intention Of re-occupying the land. They 60
there to die, not to live. No Jew around
Jerusalem OWNS or culivates an acre of ground.
The Jews of Europe and America will never
return to Palestine unless forced back at the
point of the bayonet."
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

"Mr, Smith, father wants to borrow your
pape". "e only wants to read it." "Well,
go back and tell your father to send me his
supper. Tell him l only want to eat it."
Science says that it took millions of years
shows that it takes less than a minute to
transfer the clam into q man.
The american Nd.Wal:t tells a funny
story about an owl tina tally wrung its
own neck until death su,'l, by standing
still ana keeping it's eyes fastened upon a man
who walked around and round the bird to
try the experiment.
According to an Eastern exchange, if = it is
desired to please a Cincinnatlan do not talk
Of a sweet girl of sixteen with golden halr,
rosy cheeks, blue eyes, and a foot that will
slide into a No. l Shoe gracefully, but praise
the good points OF a porker.
A school teacher recently electrified her
pupils who were annoying her with questions:
'ChiIdren, l am engaged" Noticing the gen
eral look of establishment, she added, but
not to any fool CT a man. and the excitement
died away.
ooh, dear! I feel so tired said Mrs. Hick-
e%nlOoper, as she sank into a chair. "We)l, |
should think you would be- growled MIR.
Hickenlooper, as he put on his coat TO go out
''you tramped around more'n seven miles
this afternoon making your silly calls. |
shouldn't call myself half bright if did such
II thing" And then he went down street and
walked nine miles around 4 billiard table,
poking ivory marbles with a stick, at % cents
all hour, and she thought how hard he had to
work at his business, poor man, when he
came home at midnight and dragged his en-
feebled limbs into bed.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13
A

The recommendations Of the I4lU commits
sioners, who recently visited lie Western
states aud territories for tie usGcns.DIe pur-
pose Of flaming such new legislation as may
he necessary 10 encourage the lniiin. industry,
but tn result Of Whose suggestions, if
favorahlY acted upon, would be the stagIlaiion
OF legitimate mining III c"eiy camp Oi the
country, with the single cXc3pt;Dn Of Lead
vile, lave been c~5ntiusiY.Lj L:InUu3tr4ted e.
be absurd and u,jus'. The op.niYu has been
freely &aG generally expressed that the let
welI-euoug!-alona policy, VII ch long headed
statesmen are now advocating On behalf Of
the nations finances, is fully as applicable 10
the question OF mining legislation.
As the MINER has already shown, the pro
posed square location law, for good and subj
cieut reasons, is utterly inadequate to secure
the object for which its enactment is intended,
and had it been the expressed desire OF the
commissioner to paralyze The mining indus
try in the richer and more permanent
camps of the coast, no plan could have
been decided upon with more fatal effect
than to procure the passage Of a measure
enforcing the square location system. But the
square location plan was not the only recon-
mendation prejudicial to the best interests OF
mining. Among other proposed violent in
noVationS upon the ola law Was hat i'll the
new bill 10 regulate The location and develop
ment of mines there should be a provision
requiring each owner of a claim to make
application to patent the same within one
year from date Of location under forfeiture
of title in case of neglect so to do.
Heretofore the miner has been allowed to
hold his claim while he complied with the
representation law, but if the suggestion OF
the commissioners, allowing only one year in
which to make application for patent were
incorporated in the bill now under discussion,
obvious injustice would he done many poor
miners who are destitute of the means to fill
that requirement, which is we'll known to be
an expensive one, and the natural result
would be that rich men would have bound
less opportunities TO acquire mining
property and poor men none at all,
1t is encouraging, therefore, to receive the
intelligence by telegraph from Washington
yesterday that this recommendation has been
materially modified by the House COMMITTEES
on mining, and that the time allowed mine
owner to apply for a patent has been extended
from one to three years. This provision Of
the bill is therefore shorn Of a very objec-
tionabie feature. Yet if even a three year
law is to be enforced something should at once
be lone looking to a reduction of the present
heavy expense attendant upon securing letters
patent TO mining claims.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13
SQUARE

1t is stated that some positive steps will
soon be taken by gentlemen prominently
interested in this district, to protest in a body
against the passage Of the new mining bill
now pending in Congress. 1t is a wise move
mcnt, and one which should be initiated in
every amp in the territory. Should tie
recommendations of the land commissioners
regulating the location of mining claims
receive favorable attention at the hands Of the
national Legislators, the great mining interest
OF the Pacific coast would receive a blow
from which il wou.d never recover. Capital
wolld De withdrawn from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
for It could 10 longer be safely employed.
Nine out Of every ten mines which are now
undergoing profitable development, and which
are enrlcLing the wealth of the world at 4 rate
difficult to estimate, would cease operations.
Thousands Of honest miners who are now
earning a comfortable living for themselves
and families would be forced to enter new
fields of labor with which they are totally
UnacquainteG, aud III which they could barely
support themselves. Iillers of the soil in
isolated localities where their surplus pro-
ducts would be Of no benefit we're it not for
the marke. created by the mining population,
would be forced to leave their homes and
seek a livelihood elsewhere. But it is UNI
necessary to enumerate the reasons why the
recommendations Of the Commissioners
should not be framed into a law. All men
who have any practical acquaintance with
the needs OF the country are well aware Of
the disastrous results of such a measure on
the general welfare of every camp in the
West with the single exception of Leadville,
for the sole benefit of which emp the
suggestions seem to be made. If the bill is
passed it should be entitled "a bill for the
promotion Of miningi in Leadville and for the
suppression of that industry in every other
section Of the United States" The only way
in which this vicious and outrageous leglsla,
ton may be prevented is for the mining men
throughout the country to send to Congress q
loud and emphatic protest-a protest which
Congress will not dare to disregard, and
which will have the effect of stimulating
Western Senators and Representatives 20 al
energetic and persistent opposition of the
proposed monstrous iniquity.
1t is Therefore encouraging to note that the
subject is about to receive some proper atten
ton, and We hope soon to record that the
general indignation which will descend OF
the narrow heads of the commissioners from
every permanent camp in the Union has hat
the effect Of causing Congress to sit down OF
the land-office experts, and Hereafter to sent
out men of personal integrity and practica
intelligence.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13
A SICKLY OUTFIT.

The Herald has very suddenly taken a
back seat, having decided that discretion is
the better part of yalor. The five editors OF
shat sanity journal are now consoling them
selves with some pap administered by the
Sheridan Messenger, an obscure sheet, OF
which the Herald never before took any no.
tice. The Messenger condoled with the Blaine
organ, and the latter meekly observes:
Neighbor, the ''ritching in" business has
never caused us a rang or cost us a penny.
We have lost neither rest nor piece OF mind
by reason of blatherskites, soldiers Of fortune,
or others of their kidney and kind. They
strut their brief hour, are kicked aside, and
are heard of no more. The press only that
t~olerates them has suffered by their hire.
Numbers of the journals have fingered in
want or have persisted and been forgotten.
The few that remain are charity charges,
sharing with the paupers of our poor houses
the commiseratiOn and tribute of the public.
The Herald speaks for itself. 1t has enjoyed
uninterruptedly for fourteen years the un-
bounded confidence and the moral and none
tary support of the masses. 1t has fourished
always, and was never so greatly prospered as
to-day.
This is a very tame way to crawl out of the
lesser aperture of a horn, and the amount OF
practice the five editors have lately had in
so extricating themselves from journalistic diff.
ficulties into which t'lei. tuick-headed abus-
iveness has led them, sl.ouid rend I'm
better able to beat a retreat in good, 81. Ii
is extremely fortunate for them that tnev have
lost neither rest or piece ~ of mind y reason
of blatherskites and soldiers of fortune.
This shows that they are not given to personal
"reminiscences of themselves, for if they were
their microscopic souls would never be re-
freshed by the balm of sleep. The statement
that "1hc Herald speaks for ITSELF" is most
true. 1t certainly never spoke for anybody else.
1t is just now trying to speak a little for
Blaine, but if he had any idea of what a
sweet scented reputation his organ enjoys in
this Territory, there is no doubt that he
would promptly agree to any arrangement
for official patronage rather than have it longer
continue to support his nomination. 1t is al
ready becoming evident that the only way in
which the Maine statesman can secure the
delegation from Montana is to influence the
Herald to come out in favor of Grant or
Sherman.
But the humility of the Herald outfit in
sucking consolation from the Messenger is
ridiculous. 1t is bad enough for a paper to
be utterly destitute Of principle, but when it
is likewise devoid of common sense, and aftel
opening hostilities with a flourish of trumpets
tanely subsidies with a show of injured inno-
cence, the spectacle gets to be pitiable indeed
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

Suppose 3ayard or even Tilden elected
President, and with a Democratic Congress
at his back, what harm is coming therefrom
to tho freedom of the nation? The amend
ments will not be endangered. No new out
break of terrorism is to be feared, for no
occasion tor it exists with d Republican
President, the Democrats and Democratic
Independents and Readiusters control every
Southern State, and under a Democratic Presi-
dent they have nothing more i'll that section
to seek. The anticipation of new 'barbarism'
under a Democratic Administration seems to
have no basis. The barbarism of the past has
existed while the Republican Administration
ruled AT Washington. 1t is high time to rec
ognize that t!c veal OF woe Of the freedmen IS
not chiefly nor largely dependent Oh who holds
the Frcsilency.-SpTiaAfelG (-Iass.,) NtpN5-
IcdR.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

Giles Hall, of st. Louis, received a caveat
from the Patent Office, a few days since, on a
machine for extracting gold and other prec-
ious metals from auriferous deposits without
water or artificial heat, by means Of machine
with a series of plates or pans with basins or
pockets forty III number, each containing
chemicals with parting plates over each. The
machine is so constructed as to bring the in
terror on different angles. By the vibrating
motion of the machine, and the aid of the
Irssent blast blower, it causes a continual
storm from the hopper to the failing end of
the machine, making doublea action over each
chemical pocket, thereby causing %amalgama-
ton of the precious metals. After leaving
the first chemicals, it has the other thirty
nine chances, thereby taking every particle of
gold out of the deposits, being much cleaner
than the water sluice now in use, and cheap
er, as water in some mining districts is very
scarce.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13
HELENA. April s, 1880.

The members of the house of Lords receive
in pay, pensions, etc, f35l,47O lbs. Sd. per
annum. There are 275 Conservative and 2OS
Liberal peers. Five peerages date from the
thirteen century, five from the fourteenth,
thirteen from the fifteenth, twenty from the
sixteenth, and fifty-nine fromthe seventeenth.
The members of the House of Commons re-
ceive flO7 ,062 lbs lid. per mum from the
public treasury. The fighting interests are
represented by PSI members, the peerage
interests by 1913 members, the law interests
by lis members, the railway interests by 1876
members, and the commercial and manufac-
turing interests by 1874 members. '
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

Our newsy little namesake, the Silver Reef
Miner, is in dire distress, the editors having
been arrested on a charge of libel, preferred
by a pompous and self-important secretary of
one of the mining companies. The offense
charged against them is that they "gave
away" a swihdlins stock job put up on a
played-out mine. Their honesty in the mat
ter is to be admired.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

Nep York Tribune Mr.. Clarence King,
the, head of the geological survey, makes a
request of Congress which the rapid increase
IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~throughout the country
will cause to be received with general interest.
Mr.. King points out the fact that only a por-
lion of our great mineral deposits are to be
found on the public lands, to which the sur
vey is restricted. An accurate and exhaust
i've presentation of the mineral resources OF
the country cannot be made unless the juris-
diction is extended, as he proposes shall be
done by joint resolution, to the whole terri
tory of the United States. His idea would
be, he states, to issue an annual volume of
statistics OH the subject. It is needless to say
that such a volume would he sought by the
public with greater interest than usually
attaches to government publications. Mr..
King predicts for some time in the future an
annua mineral yield Of $1,000, 100000.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

Interoceanic canals may prove to be paying
investments, but experience has shown that
interior canals in the United States, at least,
have not been profitable to the stockholders,
and they are gradually falling into dislse.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

The Blaine boom in this Territory has
lately assumed a very sickly aspect. Bob
Ingersoll says this is to be a soldier year and
Montana Republicans will not support a
nominee who sent a substitute to the war in
1891
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

There is a prospect of largely increased
imports of wool into the United States this
year, as the home crop will not be sufficient
to meet the manufacturing demand.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

They are bachelors in Mississippi, according
to law, at twenty-five years, and must pay a
tax of $25 If they elect to remain in single
blessedness.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

"Dont pucker your mouth when you talk
through the telephone" is the advice OF an
experienced electrician, but he probably fears
that the telephone may be used Tor Illicit
kissing.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

The President. has approved the star route
deficiency bill.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13
Goal and Pole Mocd.

Messrs. Wall & Stark are prepared 10 furnish
Charcoal and Pole Wood in any quantities on
short notice. Leave orders with
feb25 3mdw L.w. FOSTER i CO..
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-23

Says the Philadelphia Record: " 1t may be
well for such unfortunates AS are struggling
with the fifteen puzzle to understand that
the possibility ofarranging the numbers IN reg
ular order depends entirely upon the position
in which the blocks are first put In the box
The chances are about even that they will be
put in right Should it transpire, however,
that the positions of any two consecutive num-
bers are reversed when the other blocks have
been worked into proper order, no amount of
moving will serve to straighten them out
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-23

NEWSPAPER READING RooMs.-The Stock
ton Mail reads the following sensible homlly
on the exchange fend, and incidently allades
to the man who sits for hours at time la
newspaper Office when the editor IS the busiest:
The free reading room is net yet established.
Some gentlemer.-nice, intelligent gentlemen
too-seem to think it has been. They are, ap-
parantly, under the impression that 1t mas
been started in the Mail edltorlal-room. IL
hasn't. Neither has the Mail edltorlal-roon
been fitted up specially for the interchange OF
social courtesies and for the discussion OF cur
rent events between gentlemen who lind the
time hanging heavily on their hands. Inc
paucitv of chairs in the Mail editorlal-reem
must strike even the most careless observer
This smallness of the sitting area OF the e1hco
is not accidental; it was deliberately designed
with the view of disceuraglng nass-meetlngs
around the editorial table and of rendering
exchange fiends uncomfortable. The edit
ors Of the Mail may be peculiar in this
respect, but they can't write and carry
on conversations at the same time and
any degree of pleasure, and they don t
exactly see why they should try. Anybody
having business to transact will always be wei
| come: bat those who may have suggestions to
| make as to how the Mail should be conducted,
or who desire to express their views on things
| in general and on themselves III particular,
should communicate with US in writing, aslns
only ink and one side of the paper, and lnva-
riably signing their names to the letters Our
waste basket is large and therefore correspon-
dents need not restrict themselves. Ne want
items, and we thirst for information OF al
kinds that will interest our readers, but we
don't banker much after mere opinions, since
we have quite as many of our own as we car
get along with.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-23

BoUIsoN CONVENTION -The Democratic
Central Committee met at Virginia City yes
terday and decided to hold the State Conyen-
ton at Winnemucca, May u, and for the
purpose of sending delegates to the National
Convention. 1t was decided to allow the
Convention to elect delegates instead of having
the Central Committee appoint them. The fol-
lowing aportlonment of delegates was made:
Churchill county, 1; Douglas, 2: Eiko, IL;
Esmeralda, 5; Eureka, IL; Humboldt, B;
Lander, 6; Lincoln A; Lyon, 2; Nys, 3;
Ormsby, 4; Storey, %; Washoe, 7; White
Pine, 5. Total, SO.
The general sentiment of members of the
committee was that the next State Conven-
ton should remove a Troublesome bone Of
contention from future party councils by de-
claring that hsnceforward all State Convsn
tions of the Democratic party should be held
at the State capital.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-23

The chain mail vest which is said to have
saved Gen. Melikotf from Vladetskis bullet,
has for many generations past been common
article of wear with the leading personages OF
Europe, the most notable examples being Vi,
liver Cromwell, Gustavus, of Sweden, the pres
ent Gar, and Louis XVI In the Middle Ages
these mail coats were known as Milan shirts
and greatly esteemed for the hneness OF their
workmanship. famous Italian guerrilla,
who went into the battle of Ravenna thus
equipped, was found dead with the links of his
mail still unbroken, though the bones beneath
it were completely shattered by the force of
the death blow. A bullet proof vest OF this
kind was offered by a Spectator to the Duke
of Wellington, who got rid of him in very
characteristic manner. Bidding the man put
it on, he called to the sentry outside to load
with bal-cartridge aud come up at once; but
the visitors confidence in his invention did
not apparently extend to the testing of II IL
his own person, for he took to his heels at
once.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-23

The Lyon County Times says: The majority
of the ranchers in the valley are opposed to
the railroad coming among them. They fear
it will interfere with their freighting to Bodle
and Aurora when their teams are not needed
for farm work Some of them, however,
think that the filling up of mining camps at a
distance from the road on each side of it will
more than compensate for the loss OF the 30
die freight 1t is also argued by many of the
ranchers that the railroad will bring them into
competition with California farms.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-23

A preacher writes to Virginia City paper
that he envies no rich mans flower garden,
because the beauties of the lilly and the
sweets of the rose are his, likewise the glsries
of the stars, and the fine air of the zephyr;
continuing in this strain he closes: 81 own
all can appropriate of anything i'll nature. y
And next morning his neighbers for blocks
around, put padlocks ON the doors Of their
hen roosts.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-23

1t is reported that the young wife of Minis
ter Christiancy, who is now in Washington, is
about to sue for divorce. She says her hus-
band is wife heater, IAN opium-eater, drunk,
ard, a man of intolerant prejadices, and that
she doesn't like him very well anyhow.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-23

When a death occurs in Fiji it has to be
registered; and the native scribes not untre-
suently fill the blank left for ''cause of death
with the words " medicine supplied by the
missionaries.