The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15
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Wholesale farming pays. VIM. F.. Dali
rymple, the great grain raiser of Dacota,
claims to have made a clear profit last year OF
$250,OO9 from his magnificent farm near Far
20.
Within the last fifteen years the govern
ment has spent over 81. 100000 in watching
and fighting Indians in the western states arl
territories, and still the Indian problem si'ot
yet solved.
Conger. the recently elected United State
senator from Michie an, is an Ohio man. Some
one has said: at is better to be born Ill
Ohio than to be born rich The assertion
bids fair to pass into an aphorism.
Dacota stands first in the amount OF rail-
roads built in 1880, having constructed 6o0.eo
miles. Texas is second, with 65S.SO miles.
Michigan built 2SS. Is miles divided among
ten lines. So says the Portage Lake Mining
Gazette.
If the joint resolution reported by the
house select committee pass the council, Mon
tana will send a block OF variegated Jasper to
Washington to be placed in the monument
now being erected In honor of the Father Of
our country"
The Burlington Ha,okeye thinks the north
pole will never be reached until the govern
ment will establish it into a new ana indie
pendent congressional district. Then look
out for the rush. There are men in Ohio
who would walk to it.
The floods in California are producing an
immense amount of damage. 1t is estimated
there are about $500 square miles of the Sac
ramento valley under water. The loss from
the carrying ava of houses, destruction of
fences, drowning of stock andthe s%ubmerging
of grain fields will be
The bill to provide for the election Of Off
GERS of Beaverhead county, and the bill for
the better preservation of game, have passed
both houses of the legislature. The bill to
reduce the interest on county and territorial
bonds, and the bill to prevent cruelty to ami
mails vii, also become laws unless vetoed by
the governor.
The Hon. Harry Comfy is justly compli-
mented by the press for the fine scholarly
and legal ability he displayed IN revising the
statutes of Montana. A more competent per-
son than Mr.. Comfy could hot have been Sc
lected to perform this arduous task. That he
has performed it well will be no surprise to
those who are acquainted with the gentle
man.
The council CT mmlttee on towns and coun-
ties has reported favorably upon a bill for the
repeal Of the act consolidating offices in
Beaverlead county. This is a step in the
right direction. The law has been from the
first cons dered a measure of doubtful pro-
priety. It's trial for the past few years has
demonstrated its impracticabiiity in other
counties besides Beaverhead. 1t ASKS and ex-
poets too much of the average man. AS the
territory settles other counties will be forced
to appeal to the Legislature for relief from its
provisions.
Preparations on a magnificent scale are be-
ing made for the inaugural ball. The work
oftbe decoration Of Pennsylvania avenue is
now going on. Every endeavor i, being
made to make the bali the most successful
oSSuoioh VI IN hluu III VIC uiSIoIy Vi GDc
country. In view of the immense expense
attending the preparations, no complimentary
tickets will be issued except to General and
Mrs. Garfield. The escort of the President
elect will consist of 20, 600 militia and four
teen companies of regular troops and marines.
General Sherman will be grand marshal of
the parade. Mr.. and Mrs. Grant, President
Hayes and lady, and General and Mrs. Gar
field will, previous to the ball, receive at
Museum Hall. General Hancock has been
favored with an invitation, and the gossip
mongers predict that he will attend. Amid
all this fuss and feathers General Garfield
will skip into the presidential chair once &C.
cupied by the sedate Washington.
The English parliament has a ready and
~efiectual means of disposing OF a troublesome
member or silencing the voice of a conten-
tious minority. They are a vast improve
ment over the methods adopted by the
Sparkses and Weavers of the American con-
gress to hush the voice of an opponent. The
modus operandi is very simple. The speaker
names an individual who persists in being
heard, whereupon Gladstone moves that the
offending member be suspended. The mo-
ton is carried by an overwhelming majority.
A sergeant-at- arms stands conveniently at
hand to enforce the decree of the house.
This he does by leading or dragging out the
obstinate member. This mode of procedure
simplities matters amazingly. The other day
n home rulers were. invited to take a walk
out of the English house of AZ
they refused to take the prescribed exercise
erously afforded the same by placing his burly
form behind that OF the unwilling home
ruler and walking out with him. Those
home rulers prefer to wors in the lead. On