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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18
GREAT FIRES IN THE EAST,
A"""red Square Miles Of Timber
Land in New Jersey Swept
by the Flames.

WlLLIAMspoRT, Pa, May 14.-It is reported
that the fire which commenced in Miltou
ABOUT ll:3O to-day has destroy d fifty build.
inss' including the car shops, the machine
snops, ana Methodist and Reformed churches.
ohiess the wind changes the entire town will
We burned. Milton telegraphed here for as.
slstance. Telegraphic communication is now
interrupted.
N1BsoNs MILLS, N. j., May 14.-Scarcelv
an acre of timber land can be found i'm ,bs
vicinity OF Hanover, Writings and Woodman,
all having been destroyed by the fire now
sweeping to the sea. The population was all
OUT last night turning the flames from the d.
rection OF the thickly Inhabited places. Over
one hundred SQUARE miles of valuable berry
Dogs, timber land aud vineyards have been
destroyed. The village of Great Republic
lost ~ buildings. In the vicinity of the Piaua
river nearly seventy acres of choice cranberry
Dogs were burned, besides some hundred
acres OF valuable cedar and oak forest.
E LIBERTY, Ohio, May 13.-This town
was visited this afternoon by a disastrous con-
naeration. 1t spread with great rapidity,
owing to coming in contact with a large
quantity of coal oil stored in DIR. Kurfurst's
drug store, and despite the utmost exertions
OF the citizens it burned its way through the
town. Loss 100000; insured partially.
CoNNERsvILLE, Ohio, May 13.-The White
water Valley %company's coffin establishment
was burned to.day. Loss $4,000; insured
for $4,000.
MILTON, Pa, May IA fire broke out at
II o'clock to-day in the car works, and q
heavy northwest wind prevailing it was i'm
possible to check the progress of the flames
until the entire business portion of the town
was destroyed. 1t is estimated that over foul
hIInlrnI lnptlhtyCc vuaVa ht,r,,nH ipoIuI,,r al
the churches. The fire burned over a space
seven squares in length and W in width
Assistance came from Sunburg, Danville
W~illiamsport, Lewisburg and Watertown
The banks, telegraph Offices, newspaper offices
Pennsylvania railroad depot, and all the no
tells were destroyed. Several bodies have
been recovered, but are burned beyond recog
milton. About $50 families are rendered
homeless, and are camping out in the fields
Supplies of provisions and clothing are needed
at once. 1t is impossible to estimate the los
at nresont.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
House.

WASHINGTON. May 12.-By Goode, from
committee on naval affairs authorizing The
Secretary of the Navy to take necessary steps
to secure adequate coaling stations and har-
bors for United States naval forces at proper
points on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts,
Central America and American isthmus.
James Il. Eads appeared before the House
committee to day with counsel who explained
the bill proposed to be introduced to give
effect 10 the plan for a slip railway across the
Isthmus OF Darien.
Hooker introduced a bill abolishing the
Indian commission. Referred .
Springer said he would tomorrow reply to
Orh's speech N the Venezuela question.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18
4 N7HGLIST NEWSPAPER.
The EOx3 Sheet that u sta III Of One Student
Writes Prints and Distributes.
fSt. Pa'erShurg Correspondence OF the Manrhes-
ter Guardian.

fSt. P"'e"Shnrg Correspondence OF the Manches-
ter Guardian.l
have lust seen one OF tie greatest typo-
raphica curiosltieS in the world-a Russian
revo lutionary paper. IL measures about three
inches by ten, and is printed on one side of a
single sheet. 1t bears the imposing title Of
Tile wiz Of the People. This little sheet took
such possession OF me that | could not rest
until ] learned more about it. | made inQui-
ries in the proper quarter, and obtained a
most interesting revelation OF the whole Gill
wardness' of one of those Russian ~leyolu-
tionary papers which so pelpleX the police.
TIL office of a Russian revolutionary journal
is usually a little back room in Il very big
house. Ihc room must be so Insignificant
that 1t is, as it were, lost in the house, and "A
policeman would hardly think of looking MO
it in a general search. 1t bears on the door
an humble business announcement to the
effect that Artificial flower making, or some
such harmless handicraft, is carried on inside.
The room is s~cantily furnished, and the staff
of the journal is just one small unwhplesome
looking eX-studcnt who las been turned out
of college for INSTRUMENTATION and who is lOw
living by his wits on pawning and a small
allowance from a revolutionary centre. The
staff has long, uucopbed, greasy hair, and a
face which is rarei ~ washed with anything but
its " tears. 1t wears a long cloak or wrap
rascal Iieu VIII "lab was ONCE 1uf Dll Is
now merely a bald surface of hide, and the
only glimpse or hint YOU get of neither gar
ments is in certain trayed ends of trousers
peeping out from below. Within this wrap
rascal is the all in all of a revolutionary Jour
nal-its soul and spirit and its material life.
When the cloak moves, the staff and the type,
the pen and paper, the ideas, the principles
and the policy-all go with it. 1t is a triumph
of the art of packing. 1t is still rather mac
curate to say that the staff is "A pure indivldu-
ality. 1t is a dual one. A woman shares the
wretched room and the lahors of the wretched
enterprise. She, too, has been Il student. and
She is still young. She studied medicine.
perhaps at Zurich or at Paris, served as
Queens messenger between the home cen.
tiers aud the leaders abroad, until the police
made Russia too hot TO hold her in her own
name. TO the other half ofthe staff she is
devoted heart and soul. and through him to
his hobbr-the universal revolution. She is
a voluntary outcast from II respectful T. family.
and she would as cheerfulIv lay down her life
as any petroteuse of Paris for her creed.
The journal is not a daily journal, but what
may he called an intermittent one. 1t ome
out when it can. The first business is to col
lect material. For this purpose the reporting
stall, after a scanty meal on the cold remains
OF last nights supper. wraps itself in its cloak
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18

WASHINGTON, May 14.-At the cabinet
meeting to-day Secretary Sherman laid before
the cabinet a statement showing the daily re-
ceipts of the government for the present
month had averaged more than a million dol
lars. The Grow Indians agreed to sell the
government two million acres Of their reser-
Walton in Montana for 3 10000 dollars per
year for twenty-five years, and the ShoshOne
and Bannack Indians, of Fort Hall, Idaho
reservation, signed an agreement disposing of
100000 acres of their leservatsOn for SIC, 900
per year for twenty years, The indians will
remain upon certain portions of their reser-
Walton.
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Some Curious Facts about Memory

M. Delaunay has made a communication to
the Societe de Biologie respecting memory as
studied under the various biological condi-
tions. The inferior races of mankind, such
as negroS, the Chinese, etc, have more
memory than those of a higher type of civil
cation. Primitive races which were unac-
qlainted with the art of writing had a Won
derful memory. and were for ages in the hab-
it of handing down from one generation to
another hymns as voluminous AS the Bible.
Promptars and professors of defamation
know that women have more memory than
men. French women will learn a foreign
language quicker than their husbands.
Oulhs have more memory than adults. 1t
is well developed in children, a,tains its
maximum about the 18th or 18th year, and
then decreases. Feeble individuals Of a
lympha.ic temperament have more memory
than the strong. students who obtain the
prize for memory and recitation chiefly be-
long to the former class. Partisan students
have also less memory than those who come
from the provinces. At the Ecole Normale
and other schools the pupils who have the
best memory are not the most Intelligent.
The memory is more developed among the
peasantry than citizens, and among the clergy
than among the laity.
The memory remains intact in diseases of
the left side of the brain. and is much affected
in those of the right. from which it may be
inferred that the right side is more the seat
Of this faculty than the left. From a physio-
logical point cf view memory is diminished
by overteedmg, by physical exercise, and by
education. in this sense, that The ~illiterate
have potentially more memory than those
who know how to read and write. We re
member, moreover, better in the morning
than in the evening, and in The summer than
in the winter, and better in warm than in
cold climates Memory is therefore, to a GER
tain extent. in inverse proportion to nutrition
ana, more than that, it is IN inverse proper
ton to evolution, since it is greatest in those
individuals who are the least advanced from
an evolution point Of view-inferinr races,
women. children. the feeble. etc. In short,
according to NJ. Delaunay, there is All evolu-
ton of the memory which is first sensorial.
literal, and then intelligent !; bnt memory,
properly speaking, diminishes inversely a sthe
eyclution-Medjc Ul Press aud Cirrviar.
The Egyptians made glass and colorod il,
beautifully 5000 Yeas before Christ.
When tea wa. first introduced intU England
it sold for fity dollars a pound.
Coal is nothing else than ferns, moses and
sea-wec lis, petriticd heneath The surface of
water in the absence of air. Thele are no
less than $50 different species Of plants petri-
fled into coal, of which 80 at least are
gigantic ferns.
$50" said Il lady RECENTLY tna merchant.
''your pretty daughter has married u rich
husband ," Well" slowly replied the
:.Slirr. :. believe she has married ii rich man.
but | understand he is a very poor husband
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DAKOTA AND MONTANA

7 OF FrClght or Passage, apply 10
Barrett & Warren. Butte.
+. o. Hudson, III North al St. st. Louis.
Ward " Brady, Front street, st. Louis.
II. tOOpe. IL Vine street. Cincinnati.
w. >. Evans. 50, Wafer street. PittSburg.
G.. K. Capron. I'll Clark street, Chicago.
l.. =. Hilliard. ST Clark Street. Chicago.
Rnht. Bruce, 400 r. Water ST.. Milwaukee.
|. G.. Smith. BOB Broadway, New York.
Jos. II. lIiXon. 22s Washington ST, Boston.
= G. Sanhorn y. + r. r., st. Paul, Mimi.
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OFFICERS

This old Reliable line of steamers will ope-
rate be wecn Pittsburg and all points on the
Ohio, st. Louis, Kansas City, st. Joseph, Oma-
Sioux city, Iankton, Springfield, terminus
C.. NJ. d 81. I..N and BismaLck. 10 all points in
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-13

"Widow Bedott" was presented last
evening TO a crowded house ut the
Dramatic theater. So great was the
desire to witness this famed creation
Of Petroleum v. Nasty that our
amusement loving people were not de-
TERED by the warm weather. They
were highly pleased with the enter.
tainment. or course the spirit Of the
comedy centers in the widow Be-
dott," which character Is assumed by
Neil Burgess. Mi. Burgess succeeded
admirably In pleasing the audience who
laughed Mt the innumerable eccen.
tricities Of the widow.
Tho play is not burdencd with merit,
and one wonders why Mr.. Haverly
ever paid $4,000 for the copyright.
But perhaps $1,000 is the proper
figure and then 1t is high enough. Mr..
Burgess gets all out Of the role that Is
In it, and when he Is of the stage there
is nothing In the play. Still our people
enjoyed the performance. It afforded a
relief from the monotony of life on the
plains. But 1t does not follow that II
would be palatable as a steady diet.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-13
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-13
stock suucrlns In Colorado.

There will be about 100, 900 head OF
cattle driven from Colorado to northern
Wyoming this year. The ranges In
Colorado are burnt up by the heat of
the sun, and cattle are suffering, while
sheep are absolutely perishing by the
thousands. Various stockmen have
been visiting the streams in northern
Wyoming, and have found suitable
ranges. They are preparing to move
their stock thither. Fortunately there
Is plenty Of room in our territory for
thousands moro cattle ; we refer, OF
course, TO streams where there are no
cattle now ranging. II our Colorado
neighbors will locate on new streams
they will find plenty of good grass and
be welcomed by our stockmen.
We understand that In southern Col
orado some of the owners are making
no attempt to a " their dying sheep,
as it would not pay. In Wyoming all
the sheep are doing well and yielding
heavily In lambs and In wool.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-13
POINTS.

Chas. II. Terry went to Denver yes.
terday on a combined business and
pleasure trip.
w. e. Packard, OF the Greeley
Tribune, was In Cheyenne yesterday
making his quarterly calls.
Mr.. English paid Mr.. Hancock a
visit yesterday. This was probably
done for the purpose of sizing each
others bari.
Senator Conkling Is understood 10 be
arranging his business with n view to
passing the summer and early autumn
in Europe.
At the Union Pacific: T. G. High,
e. & A. r. R.; H.. r. Hoyt, A. N.
Hoyt. A. H. Scribner, Gordon Wen.
dell, New York; A. Coots, Golden.
An associated press dispatch says
that Rev. Talmage will pass his vaca-
tion In Colorado. What, then, becomes
of his scheme to lecture on the Pacific
coast?
At Dyer's: Walter Fesler, Harry
Rich, Andrew Mallon. J. H. Mack,
Neil Burgess. Jos. Smit, New York;
w. C. Lykens, Horse creek; James
Dowlin.
The article on Horace Greeley In the
new edition Of Encyclopedia Britain
MICA" was written by whitelaw Reid,
the space Allotted to 1t being limited to
a page and n half.
NJ. Dumas can throw knives and
stick them close about q PERSONS head
leaning against a door rs skilfully as a
professional juggler.
Gen. Sherman believes in gold rs a
current specie, but has greater faith in
farms rs a e Of giving a good
living and reasonable profits to a poor
man. He said to the ''boys OF Mime
sofa" ut the st. Anthony Falls celebra-
ton, that ''there is more gold in farms
than in mines"
Mr.. Amasa Stone, the Cleveland
(Ohiol railroad millionaire, has offered
20 give s4oO, 600 for an endowment and
500, 900 for the purchase Of land to
the Western Reserve college, Of Hud-
son, Ohio, provided 1t is removed to
Cleveland. There is little doubt Of an
acceptance Of the offer. Western Re-
serve college is under Presbyt erian
control.
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AUzNIHG


DeEssT k~DuIilaan. hoadsy.
From ByeEs,s little station % the
Kansas Pacific railroad. there came
the report Of = bloody and fatal tragedy
which occurred at the depot. The
Republican IL indebted to Mr.. Edgar
NJ. sellon, telegraph operator at the
X. p. depot in this city. for the follow
ing particulars:
Last evening about o O'Clock several
men were sitting on the platform at
the depot, talking in the twilight. They
noticed a man coming from the prairie,
and thought that he acted strangely.
But n he came upon the platform and
entered into conversation they thought
that he was suffering from hunger. He
began to tell m inooherent story Of his
wanderings about the prairie, but his
tale was so broken that they could not
understand him. The man laid down
on the platform and entered into con-
versation with the other who wers
there They gathered about him closer,
and rs they caught parts Of his pitiful
tale began TO pity him. hut never
thought Of fearing him.
After he had talked about twenty
minutes, suddenly, and without the
least warning, and drawing a huge
hunting knife from his belt he sprang
TO his ieet and struck at Samuel
Green, who was standing nearest To
him. Mr.. Green lodged the blow, but
did not escape 4 bad cash in the eye.
The tramp then turned upon John
McGlynn and gave him n hari-kari
cash In the abdomen so that his bowels
gushed out and fell TO the ground. The
wounded man raised such u hue and
cry that Frank McCracken, the tele-
graph operator, rushed from the Office,
and met the maniac. In an instant
the murderer grappled with him and
they had a life-and-death struggle.
Finally the tramp, who still grasped
the knife, gave him 4 probably fatal
cash In the region Of the heart.
McCracken had strength enough to
tear away from the maniac and ran
across the street with the tramp still
brandishing the bloody knife close at
his heels. McCracken's cries for
"helpi" attracted the men who were
In the saloon there. As McCracken
dashed In they rushed out. At the
head was Constable Frank Virgins, a
man 60 years old, who took in the stu.
alton at a glance, and drawing his CUR
shot the maniac dead.
The little hamlet is In n wonderful
state Of excitement and the telegraph
operator at that point has had to dc
more special work since the tragedy
than In a month before. McGlynn and
McCracken are in q dangerous condi.
tion.
At a late hour last night DIR. ii.
r. Riddle, of Denver, was taken on q
special train to Byers, to attend the
wounded men.
The residents OF Byers made an In
vestigation OF the tramp's clothing,
but nothing could be found to identify
him. He is supposed to have been a
maniac. probably from starvation on
the plains.
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MIAoa aKzTI0x.

The county commissioners are still
In session . q board Of revision.
Denver has three archery clubs, A
ladies belong, they, Of eo1rss, aim at
the heart, q Ia Cupid.
For some unknown reason the
Omaha papers Of Sunday failed to
reach Cheyenne yesterday.
MoriAechi, the widow Of Texas
Jack, " had 4 benefit the other evening
in Leadville, where her husband died
and was planted.
Chas. Heeht has received two splen-
did new hearses which he will ht up in
q few dAyA His business isrspidly In
ereasing, and he Is adding funerals As a
specially.
Passenger trafhc yesterday: No. 3,
G Cheyenne; IS Colorado; IS west; No,
Z, Cheyenne; 10 Colorado; 80 through
ID. p. Is Cheyenne; 8 east; 2 west
c. G. 10 Cheyenne; II cas-. ; 4 west.
The hrst number Of the Blackfoot,
Ihaho, Register. is at hand. IL 10 pub
lished by VIM. Z. Wheeler, Of the late
Evanston A0e. II 10 % column pa
per and Is well filed with Lews and nd.
yertisements.
There were two hres In Omaha on
last Friday night: One, the Omaha
smelling works, which suffered slight
ly; and the other. the Omaha elevator,
which was destroyed. Loss In the
FIRST fire 5000; in the second. $50, 900.
AL. +. emigrant sleeping car wa.
taken through on No. 8 train yester'
day, being destined for Ogden. All Of
the u. p. emigrant cars are TO be con
verted into sleepers. Each I'M viii
hold 4s passengers, As before, and fur
nish good sleeping accommodations.
Some of the city's employees endeav.
ored TO better the condition OF that
filthy ditch near the depot, yesterday,
but no Improvement Is observable. The
water therein still lies In n stagnani
condition. The complaints against
this hlthiest place In the city are loud
and earnest.
The value Of subscribing for n paper
was illustrated yesterday by one Of tho
subscribers TO the LEADER. lie said
to the writer /: by seeing 4 little ad'
vertisement In Sundays LEADER
will make more money than the sub
scription for ten years. II l hadn't thu
paper, ] wouldn't have had the oppor
tunity." The advertisement referred
TO RAJ a "want," and the aforesaid
subscriber saw the ad., supplied tn,
want, and Is To- making his profits &c
cordingly.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-13

You are asked every day through the
columns Of newspapersand by your drug
gist to use something for your Dyspep-
sin and Liver Complaint that you know
nothing about !; you get discouraged
spending money with but little success.
Now to give you satisfactory proof that
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER will cure
you Of Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint
with all its effects, such n sour stom-
ach, Sick Headache, Habitual Costive-
ness, palpitation Of the Heart, Heart
burn, Water-brash. Fullness Of the pit
stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue,
Indigestion, swimming Of the head, low
spirits &C., we ask you to 60 to your
Druggist and get a Sample Bottle Of
GREEN's AUGUST FLOWER for 10 cts.
and try 1t, or n regular size for 75 cents.
Two doses will relieve you.
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&. eoLIlIxs DEAD
TIE NsII-AAs~s AadIe sAd rssG-
trader ssist1es
The following press disp.t.h explains

The following press dispatch explains
itself:
OMAHA, July II.
This city was greatly shocked this
morning when IL became known that
G.. III. Collins had committed suicide
between twelve and one O'Clock during
the night while alone In his bedroom.
He stood before = mirror, and placing
= revolver 10 the right side Of his head.
just above the ear, sent the bullet
through his brain and dropped upon
the floor q corpse. His wife hearing
the report, jumped from her bed in the
adjoining room, and ran In and found
him lying in front Of the bureau In
drawers and undershirt. with blood
oozing from the head. He had already
passed into eternity.
Deceased came 70 Omaha from Galena
In 1854, and WAS an intimate friend Of
General Grant, who, on being elected
president. gave G.. ii. and J. 5. Collins
. post leadership nj Fort Laramie, which
they hold yet. and from which they
have made q fortune.
The deceased was an enterprising and
successful business man and a highly
respected citizen : was the head Of the
firm Of G. II. and J. s. Collins. whole
sale leather. saddlery and harness deal
ers Of Omaha and Cheyenne, and head
Of the firm Of Collins & Petty, whole
sale dealers In guns, ammunition and
sportsmen's good. The public are mt q
loss TO solve the mystery, but generally
assign the cause OF the deed TO tempo
rary insanity.
The news OF Mr.. Collins death was
first telegraphed to Cheyenne on SAN
day morning, Mr.. Geo. H.. Ketchun,
manager Of the store. belonging to the
Collins, receiving the sad news.
sympathy for the deceased was full and
widespread. Every person had good
words to say Of him, and all at
tested 10 his sterling qualities as q cIti-
zen and business man. He had
been one Of the posttraders ut Fort
Laramie for several years, his brother,
J. s. Collins, having held the position
previously.
Mr.. Collins was a man OF much en-
terprise and was highly respected
by the soldiers Mt the post and the citi'
zens Of this territory generally.
On the 30th OF June the deceased
came down from Fort Laramie with
his wife, In order to spend the summe
In Omaha, he not feeling well in health.
Their daughter, Miss Nettie Collins
remained at Laramie, and Mr.. ]. s,
Collins went up 10 attend to the bust
ness.
Mr.. Collins was for years a sufferer
from a terribly painful disease and had
been worse for a short time previous &c
his death. This fact may account fol
the rash act.
The business enterprises In which
MT. Collins was engaged with BIZ
brother will be continued, Mr.. ]. S
Collins taking charge as surviving part
ner.
Mr.. J. S. Collins and Miss Nettie
daughter Of the deceased, arrived In
Cheyenne yesterday and departed OF
No. 4 for Omaha. They will be in tint
for the burial, which will take place
this afternoon.