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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-20


ysYHIs PROPERTY Is SITUATED u MILES
north of Single Springs, Ell Dorado coun y,
California. shaft has been sunk 40 feet deep,
developing q ledge feet wide OF good milling ore.
1t is proposed to erect hosting works. and syste-
matically open the mine hy the most approved pro-
cess The Company is Incorporated, and offers a
lin ted number OF shares for SALE for the purpose
OF a orking capital
The company has placed Thirty thousand Shares
in the treasury for this purpose, Ten Thousand to
oe sold at 25 cents per share all the money to be
expended in developing the mine, when it is expect
ed that the developments will be such that The
mlining Twenty Thousand shares will sell nj 81 per
SHARE and the proceeds be applied 10 build suitable
Eiill and pl- cling the rhine paying basis
This mine offers supeii Inducements TO any per-
son for investment, and il Sacramento and oper
to inspection 10 any or all persons before investing
The company owns 500 lineai feet on the ledge
and lG0 acres of land adjacent e. the mine plenty
of wood and water, and every facility for working
tn. ores cheaply.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-20

CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 19.h.All the
clauses OF the Convention are arranged. and
the final details for settlement of the Greek
question have been adopted at meeting of
the ambassadors and Turkish delegates.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-20
Man Drowned.

PORTLAND, May 19th.-A dispatch from
Spokan Falls to-day states that man named
Fl. Minor fell from log into mill-pond at
that place this morning, and was drowned
before assistance could reach him. The body
was recovered soon after.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15
An Immigration Bureau.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Northwestern
Company, established by the Texas and
Pacific, the International and Great Western
and the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad
companies, Joined by the Missouri Pacific,
Missouri, Kansas & Texas, St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern, and the Dallas and
Wichita companies haye opened bureaus of
information concerning the southwest-its
lands and resources, and are about opening
similar offices IN London. In connection
with the bureaus here and in London will be
maintained a display of soils, minerals, ag-
ricultural and other productions of the sec
tons represented, so that ali may obtain
accurate knowledge of the country which in
vites them. Geographical n photographic
maps will also be prepared and distributed
from those Offices to show the character and
formation of the soil, the various water
courses, available water power, the location
of mineral deposits, and the rainfall and
healthfulness of the country. The same
plans which resulted successfully in peopling
Kansas and Nebraska are to be tried in con-
nection with the southwest. 1t is remem.
bered by all C%alifornians that in 1856 a
bureau of the same character was opened by
the citizens of the Pacific coast for the same
object in this city.
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Contracts to be Continued.

New YORK: Feb. 12.-The Tribune says !:
1t was stated yesterday that a freight contract
between the Pacific mail steamship company
and the overland railroads was to be contin-
ued, and that when the Southern Pacific rail-
road was completed it would have an equal
interest with the Union Pacific and Central
Pacific in through traffic. 1t was asserted
that an agreement had been reached Thurs
day before the departure of Trenor W. Park
and several others for ga thirty days rest in
Florida" Sidney Dillon, president of the
Union Pacific, stated that nothing definite as
to the continuation of the contract had been
reached. There had been several consu,ta-
tons between representatives of the different
companies, and a proposition that the Union
Pacific should purchase the San Francisco
and China steamer City of Pekin and City of
Toxic was still under consideration.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15
Dillon VS.. Rannack.

The bill providing for submitting to the
voters of Beaverhead county the question of
removing the county seat from Bannack to
Dillon met an overwhelming defeat in the
house. The bill, known by its abbreviated
title Of blouse Bill No. 90" was read three
times for the edification of members, when it
was put on its passage and lost by a vote of 7
for to 16 against the bill. We believe that a
majority of the people of Beaverhead are at
present opposed to tampering with a county
seat removal. The present county seat, Ban
mack, is geographically near the centre of the
county, and until the county is divided or
otherwise cut up is convenient enough for
most of the Beaverhead folks. The debt of
the county is about $4,000, and the mass of
the heavy Taxpayers of that county are OPP
posed to increasing the county debt, which
would become necessary if the "Dill on bill'
had passed the legislature.
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From South Africa.

LONDON, Feb. 1l.-An official report from
Durham clearly indicates that Gen. Colley
was defeated in the fight with the Beers and
narrowly escaped to camp under cover of
darkness, leaving all his wounded. The
Beers, by superior craftsmanship, inflicted a
loss utterly disproportiona,e to their own.
A London paper urges the stoppage of this
hateful and bootless slaughter by making
peace.
LONDON, Feb. lit is reported that / 900
Beers are advancing to intercept a squadron
of Hussars, and with reinforcements from
Sierra Leone, the available troops at Cape
Coast Castle number only 600.
The managers of the Cunard steamship
company have perfect confidence in the
safety of the Batavia.
The Mersey steel and iron company, lin.
tied, of Liverpool, has gone into liquidation.
Liabilities ESQ., 900. Their assets, consist
ing principally of stock, premises and machin-
cry, are considerable.
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The eastern press and people are becoming
alarmed in view of the strenuous efforts now
being made by interested parties to engage
the government in the telegraph business.
The Buffalo Courier tenders its advice to
congress in the following sensible words: 500
not let the nation go into the telegraph bust
ness at all. If you do determine to set the
nation up in that line, do not buy, but build,
and above all things, as a preliminary to risk
ing the management of any more great enter
prises in the hands of public officials, pass an
effective civil service bill. Without the Sc
curity which such a measure will give, the
postal telegraph. if adopted, may result in
our political ruin. 1t will make the Office
holders supreme IN their party and the office
holders party supreme in the country"
That this would be the inevitable consequent
ces of the government engaging in the postal
telegraph business is apparent to the most
superficial thinker.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15

In a dispute about five dollars, VIM. Stew
art shot and killed David Roberts at Susan
vile, CAL, on the 9Th inst.
At Harrisburg, on the 10th, the 22d ballot
for U. S. senator stood Wallace, SS; Beaver,
So Bayne, 81; Scattering, 25.
On the 10th inst, near Hillsboro, Texas, t
party of citizens and COW boys attacked some
Indians, killing 10 and completely routing
them. The reds were makina.for Mexico.
A frightful explosion occurred at E. q.
Maur & Co.. coal mines, at Robbins. on the
Niles and New Lisbon railroad, in Ohio
The mine was known to contain deadly gas,
and the men had been warned of its presence
in that particular place, but that place being
= good one through which to pass the mule
teams, one of the miners disregarded the
warning. One boy and several men were
killed. Eight out of the Is men in the mine
escaped at a side shaft.
The farm and live stock products of Hi.
nois for the year 1881 amounted to the sum
of 1926, OOO, 900.
Mrs. Ella Corse, wife of Gen. Corse, died
at Burlington, Iowa, on the 18th. She was a
prominent woman reformer of great literary
requirements, and highly respected for the
purity of her private life.
Miss Anna Reed, a medical student of Ann
Arbor, Mich, recently committed suicide by
drowning in the lake. No cause assigned.
n--r ---I.- r-.-- WI - --u
elected president of Williams college, Prince
ton, uice C%hadbourne, resigned.
The leading republicans of Milwaukee be-
lieve that the post Office portfolio will be tend
cred to a Wisconsin man and that the recipi-
ent will be H. 9. Hayne of that city.
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A

5 far Montana has but two valley towns.
1t is ceI knoun that the days Of mining camps
are uery brief, and that the yalley cities be-
come richer and more prosperous avhile the
mining settlements dwindie and eventually
pass a,rdy."
We find the above displayed in italics in an
advertisement that sets ferth the great pecll-
mary advantages which the speculative or
other classes of the public may reap in in
vesting in lots in a certain embryonic city in
Montana situated net a thousand miles from
Butte. We hope the ambitious little town
may become all that its ~sanguine friends pre-
dict for it-that it may become a very great
city, full of life, activity, enterprise and
wealth, and that it may become not only the
metropolis of Montana, but the great city of
the great northwest. But should it ever reach
this enviable position it will be through the
rich mining centres of Montana that accord
ing to the advertisement "dwindle and pass
away" And when they do "dwindle and
pass away" he would be a bold speculator
or an escaped inmate of a lunatic asylum who
would give six bits a dozen for town lots in
that or any other valley own in Montana.
We do not refer to this matter in a spirit of
Jealousy or with a desire to depreclate the
Importance of the thriving little town that
possesses so many real advantages for the
profitable investment of capital. But we do
it rather to Yindicate the truth of history and
to correct an evidently unintentional misrep-
resentation of facts. When the mining in
dustries of Montana cease, its agricultural
interests will receive their death blow and
valley towns will become as unreal as the
''baseless fabric of a vision"
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just measure, many of our largest taxpayers
signed a petition to the house to concur In
the council amendment if the bill could not
become a law without it. Their desire for a
division of the county overcame their repug-
nance to the amendment. But by a larger
number of our citizens a different view is
taken Of the matter. They do not recognize
new, fresh, young and vigorous county OF Sill
yer Bow with official habiliaments. While
they admit they aided to elect the present
county officers, they contend these officers
knew that an effort would be made this win
ter to divide the county, and therefore went
into the campaign with their eyes open to the
fact and with the knowledge of the chances
they took OF becoming officers of the whole
or a part of the county. Believing this they
haye sent a monster petition to the house
praying it not to concur in the council
amendment. This conflict of opinion among
our citizens is just what the enemies of the
division measure have been working for.
They have sought to anagonize one portion
OF our cltlZenS against Ine OCner III Lne nope
that by so doing the bill would be placed be-
tween the fire of its friends and thus be de-
stroyed. It is only one of the little wheels
in the intricate clockwork of legislative tao
tics that has been set in motion. Whether it
succeed in eflecting its purpose depends upon
the action of the house on the council amend
ment. In view of its probable rejection by
that body, and that the council may not re-
cede from Its amendment, we can see but one
course for the friends of Butte in the legisla-
ture to do, and that is to effect, if possible,
the passage of Clem's bill to remove the
county seat of Deer Lodge county to Butte.
We have been assured that a majority of the
members of both branches of the legislature
is willing to extend to the people of this
county the privilege of voicing their prefer
ences as between Butte and Deer Lodge for
the county seat. Should the proposition be
submitted to the people of the county there
can exist no doubt as to the result. Give the
people of Butte a chance under Clem's bill.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15
HOUSE BILL NO. 6.

For the past few days we have purposely
refrained from making particular mention of
this bill, commonly known as the Deer
Lodge county division bill, for the reason
that we have not been in a position to speak
adyisedly in regard to the course which.
through the manipulations of its enemies, it
has been forced to take. 1t is well known to
those who have sat in legislative bodies or
who by a steady attendance upon their ses-
sions, have been able to closely watch their
proceedings, that the true motive that a mem
Der may entertain for casting a vote upon a
given proposition does not always appear on
the surface. There are, so to speak, wheels
within wheels in legislative as well as in 9TH
er bodies polite n he is a wise man who
can tell from a distance the influence which
is brought to bear upon each separate wheel
to cause inharmonious revolutions of the
whole towards a certain end. Not being
fully advised in regard to the character'of the
influences which, it appears, have unfortun-
ately placed the division bill upon wheels
which are moving in opposite directions and
thus jeopardizing its existence, we have re-
manned silent in regard to it, hoping that the
great and vital Importance of the measure to
the citizens of one OF the most %populous Sec
tons ofthe territory, would sufficiently inspire
our legislators with a regard for the interests
Of our people to prompt them to check the
hostility that has been developed by a fac
tious minority against it. But it seems that
a few members of the upper branch of our
legislature do not appreciate the fact that
this minority desires to kill the bill and for
this purpose has saddled it with an amend
ment that may accomplish this end. In re-
gard to this amendment we propose to say a
few words.
The division bill passed the house by a vote
Of twenty-five in favor of and two against it,
When it was presented to the council for the
consideration of that body, it provided that
the proposed new county should elect its W
officers. While the bill was under discussion
n committee of the whole, Mr.. Mitchell Of
Tered an amendment o the effect that the
present county officers of Deer Lodge county,
except the county commissioners, shall be
ex-officio officers of Silver Bow county and
shall serve as such until their successors be
elected at the next general election. This
amendment was defeated, but the vote
by which it was defeated was sub
s%equently reconsidered and the amend
ment adopted. OF this amendment some-
thing may be said in its favor and much
against it. While not accepting il as a strictly
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15
TELEGR RAMS
Trains Stopped By Snow.

WELLINGTON, Kansas, Feb. 11.-Fiftsen
inches of snow has fallen since last night, and
the storm continues strong, a heavy gale
blowing and the snow drifting. The Kansas
City, Lawrence & Southern passenger train
has been stuck in a cut two miles east of this
city since IL O'Clock last night. Two en-
gines have been at work all night, and a third
one buried itself in a snow-drift this morn
ing and was abandoned. The passengers
have been removed.
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H. q. 4s.

We are in receipt of II. B. No. 43, a bill
for an act to provide for a system of public
schools, introduced by the committee on edu-
cation and labor. The MINER has heretofore
given expression to its opinion in regard to
the necessity Of a change in some OF the fea-
lures of the present school law. 1t holds to
those opinions still. 1t cannot agree with one
Of its contemporaries that duties which should
be discharged by properly elected school ofic-
ers may be farmed out to Tom, Dick or Har-
ry, because said Tom, Dick or Harry happens
to be a county clerk or a county treasurer.
We hold that a good school law is one of the
most important laws of the land. Under its
provisions parents hope to educate their chill
dren. Upon the quality of that education
depends not only the happiness of families,
but the prosperity Of our country and the sta
bility of its institutions. A good school law is
a very important factor in determining families
in their choice oftheir future homes. Its value
to a young territory like ours cannot be over
estimated. This bill in question contains
what some may consider grave faults. We
do not approve of that section which requires
a district to hold a fourmonths annual session
Of school under penalty of losing its proper
ton of the county school fund, without max
ing some provision whereby they can sustain
one for that length of time, without resorting
to direct taxation. Other minor faults may
be referred to, but as a whole it strengthens
so many weak points that exist in the present
law that we hope to see the bill become a
law. .
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London Notes.

NEW YORK, Feb. ia London dispatch
says: 1t is now asserted that last nights rum
or OF the arrest of Parnell and Waugh is not
founded in fact, and is believed to have had
its origin in the announcement hat when
the aims and purposes of the land league
were made public, all the leading members
of the land league would probably be arrest
ed; and it was also said that publicity would
soon be given to all the secrets of the league
IN consequence of this.
d is again agitated with the widest
rumors and even though DEFENDERS expec-
tation of a bloody Christmas are happily dis
appointed, prophets are again predicting an
active and %sanguinary conflict,
The story now current is that the govern
ment has intercepted the land league cores
pondence and opened many of its letters, In
political circles there is intense excitement
and it is freely asserted that the schemes are
fraught with the greatest danger to the peace
of the country. A most important document
is said to have been found in the possession
OF Michael Davitt just before he was arrested
in Dublin and which is now asserted led to
the cancellation of his "ticket of leave %
and subsequently his commitment to Port
land prison. This document, according to
rumor, eliminates some of the most prsmi-
nent persons IN the present agitation and pol
iticians say that Parnell exhibits his sense of
its Importance to the government by his re-
naming in Paris, where he is to be joined by
Dillon tomorrow.
A meeting of the leaders of the league will
be held in that city next Monday, after which
it is understood Parnell will sail for the
United States.
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Produce Market Report
BUTTE, Feb. ID; /

BUTTE, Feb. Ii; Il
The following are the wholesale
paid by merchants and hotel keepers a
commodities enumerated, delivered froI
wagon. Price list carefully corrected
Monday:
Flour, Ruby Valley, xxx, $500 De,
Mill Greek, xxx, $5.O 0
Union Mills New Process Cream q
Valley, 5000.
Union Mills xxx Snowflake, $500
Utah, choice, $500.
Graham, S..
Wheat, per h., 81 cents, fair demand,
Oats, per h., 81 cents, in demand.
Butter, per h., 30 to As cents.
Eggs, per dozen, 60 cents.
Corn meal, 5 to Z cents.
Beet, on foot, &c
Beets, 8 cents.
Hay per ton, $27.OO to $500; in den
Fresh fish, 20 cents per pound.
Cheese, Is to 10 cents.
Barley, 81 so to 2 Is per hundred.
Dried beans, Montana, I cts.
Mutton, 10 cents per pound.
Fork, dressed, ID cents per pound.
Veal, 10 cents per pound.
Vension 9 cents per pound.
Chickens, $500 per dozen.
Wood, So per cord.
Rutabagas, &c.
Potatoes, SIC.
Onions, Sc.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12.-The schooner
John Bright, which left this p~ort'last May for
Bonham Island, has never been heard from
since she left, and the insurance companies
have settled with her owners. She was COM
manded by Capt. Bentley, and had on board
nine men all told.
A steam pipe on the City of Stockton ex-
pIoded on the San joaquin river, below
Stockton, last night, badly scalding WIN.
Hurley, Charles Licens, Richard Sumter and
an unknown passenger. Hurley's injuries
are probably fatal.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15
Safe.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-THE steamer Bata-
via. long overdue, is spoken, and is now be-
ing lowed in with her propeller gone. The
sound feet remained outside all day yester-
day, fearing to run through He'll Gate in the
fog. They are now landing.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15
Washington Notes.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE senate terri"
torial committee has authorized senator
Saunders to report fa%vorably Upon the bill
creating The territory of Pembina out of the
northern half of Dakota.
The house foreign committee will report
that The Spanish claims in east Florida should
be put in the way of adjustment and payment
with interest by the United States.
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The TELEGRAPH Z ing.

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-There is good au-
thority for the assertion that Gould has pur-
chased the Montreal Telegraph company.
With the completion of the Mexican system
he is a~utocrat of the telegraph lines of the
country.
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Conkling Letting Down,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Conkling begins
to evince a disposition to be friendly with
the personal friends of Garfield. The stall
warts Of late make no complaint about
Blaine's~ probable power in the new admins
tration.
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Buzging Garfield.

MENTOR, Feb. Ex-senator Logan and a
gentleman supposed to be Postmaster General
Maynard had a long interview with Garfield
to-day.
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Denver News,

DENVER, Feb. 11.-A fire This morning
destroyed some frame buildings with stocks
of fruit; etc. Loss, $4,000; insured.
Resolutions of sympathy with ireland were
passed by both houses.
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