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Recess.

Aiken moved that the reading of II Z s, to
with and the committee recommend that the
bill pass.
Mitchell stated that he desired to offer an
amendment and the motion was Withdrawn.
II B 6, a bill for an act to create the county
of Silver Bow, was read.
Section I was read and adopted.
Mitchell moved that section 2 be amended
by striking out "March 1st' and inserting
in its place, "May 1st." Amendment adopted.
Section 2, as amended, adopted.
Mitchell offered the following amendment
to section 4: Strike out all thereof, and
insert the following as section 4: That all
the county officers now qualified and acting as
such for the county of Deer Lodge with the
exception Of the board of county commits
sloners, upon complying with the provisions
thereof, be and are hereby constituted en-
oflicio officers Of their respective offices for
the said county of Silver Bow until their sue
cessors shall be duly elected and qualified at
the next general election in 1882; tllat before
entering upon thsir respective duties as such
ex-ofiicio officers, they shall execute a bond as
now provided by the general laws Of tie ter
ritory of Montana, in reference to theHualili-
cation of county officers, to be approved by
theIboard of county commissioners OF Silver
Bow county and shall take and subscribe to
| the necessary oath, which, with the bond
aforesaid, shall be fled in the proper office ;
thai the said ex-Oflicio officers shall have and
keep an office at the county seat OF Silver Bow
county and shall keep all the necessary rec
ords sof their acts and proceedings thereof
as amply and fully as if they were the officers
regularly elected and qualified as such tor
said county of Silver Bow and it is further
provided that the probate judge of said coun-
ty of Deer Lodge shall hold at least five
terms of said court at the county seat OF said
county of Silver Bow in the following named
months: January, March July, September
and November of each year,to commence on
the third Mondays thereof during each year,
for the transaction of any and all business
that may come before him as such CT Gtjct0
ofilcer for said county Of Silver Bow, and
shall keep and preserve a full and complete
record of such business at such place as may
be provided by the board OF couHty commits
sioners of said county Of Silver Bow.
Morris thought that while by the proposed
change some Of the present officers of Deer
Lodge county might suffer, the passage OF the
amendment would endanger the bill. ard foi
that reason he should not vote for the amend
ment.
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adopted

The Montana Copper Company Of New
York are rapidly ~enlarging their present facil-
tiles for the reduction of ore The capacity
of the mating furnace, which was fired up
last fall, is entirely inadequate to the work of
treating the amount Of ore which can be roast
ed in the reyerberatory furnaces. For some
time, therefore, a second furnace of the same
size as the first and capable of smelling
twelve tons of concentrated ore per diem has
! been in process of erection. 1t will he
completed this week, and will start into
operation on or before the list proX.
With these two furnaces going
the daily output Of copper matte will be be-
tween ten and twelve tons. At the east end
Of the works another apartment is being
erected in which will be built as soon rs the
weather will permit a blast furnace which
Will still further increase the productivenrss
of the smelter and make it the largest con-
Germ of the kind in the territory. About 500
tons of copper matte, carrying between fifty
and sixty per cent. copper, are on hand
awaiting shipment east.
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Day.
MORNING SESSION.

MOiNINE oESSlON.
The committee on towns and counties re-
ported Ii b CO, attaching Dawson to Custer
county for judicial purposes, with a recon-
mendation that it pass.
The select committee reported H B 81, for
the refullding of the debt of Lewis and
Clarke county, with amendments; the report
Was adopted.
The on GAucation and labor re-
ported IL b u, 10 enable the people of Butte
TO build IA school house, with amendments;
report auoptcd.
Notices Of bills {:
Donne!ly, to provide for the public health.
DeWoitt, defining The duties Of clerks Of
courts and sherlllo III certain cases.
Glenn, for All election III Deel Lodge coun-
ty, on removing the county seat.
Sedma!l, to regulate the expenses and sal
aries Of county superintendent of schools.
Cullen, i'll relation to territorial officers.
CB :, to regulate the sale OF opium, was
read twice and referred to the judiciary COM
m.ttee.
Atumber Of bills were received from the
Council a,lu referred ~lolleir appropriate COM
mittees.
Bills introduced
Powers, Ii b Y, for an act to provide for
the refunuing Of the 10 per cent. bonds of
Measler county referred to The Meagher
county delegation.
Cullen, Ii Is 70, tor an act relating to the
t,,,,, ,y otii,a. raf,rraI RI tha nD,nn,itfaa of
the whole; it makes county officers ineligible
for a third consecutive term.
Blake, ii b "A, for an act concerning the
laws.
Ii B IS, concerning chattel mortgages, was
passed.
IL b IS, concerning the exemption of fire.
men from jury duty, was passed.
The title was amended to read "exempting
certain persons from jury duty"
Ii b 81, for the %refunding Of the 10 per
cent. bonds Of Missoula county and for other
purpose, was read.
Blake opposed the bill he recited the leg
islation already enacted for the benefit OF
Missoula county and insisted that it was quite
sufficient to enable the people to pay their
Indebtedness if they wanted to. He COM
mented severely on the provision requiring
thai the bonds shall be registered or be DEEM
ed invalid. The bill also violates the provis-
ion for a sinking fund that was adopted at
the eleventh session.
Beach pointed out what he deemed to be
defects in the bill.
Chambers resented the imputation that any
reputation was intended. The gentleman
from Madison reminded him of an old brindle
COW who gave a pail Of milk and then kicked
it over. (Laughter.) The people of Mis-
soula wanted this bill
Recess until , p. m.
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DAY.
MORNING SESSION.

CORNING SESSION.
DeWolfe presented a petition from citizens
of Butte for the passage of the Sunday law.
He spoke highly of the character of the sign
ers, and said that it came to him with almost
the fierce Of a command. What he could not
understand was why men of such intelligence
required a law 70 make them do what they
could do without any law. The petition was
placed on file with the suggestion by Humber
that no reflection should be cast on DeWolte
for not presenting it two days earlier.
The committee Oh ways and means report
ed c B 5, concerning costs in certain cltmi-
nal cases, the majority recommending that it
do not pass, and the minority, Beach and Par
chen, That 1t do pass. After debate the mo-
ton to refer the bill to the committee of the
whole was lost, 10 to II. The majority report
was adopted.
The same committee reported Fl B II, re-
lating to county printing, Recommending that
it do not pass, and the minority that it do
pass.
The motion to refer it to the committee OF
the whole was laid on the table by the follow
ing vote
Ayes-Beach, Chambers, Cnrbly, Cullen,
Davis, Eastman, Garlock, Harrington, Hum
Der, Hauser, Rodgers, Wilson, Mr.. Speaker.
ID.
Noes-Bel, Blake, Glenn, DeWolfe, Ken
nerly, Parchen, Pardee, Powers, Sedman, Sted'
man-lO.
A communication was recpivdJ from thp
governor transmitting a i petition from the cit.
liens Dawson county for the organization OF
that county ; referred to committee on towns
and counties.
Committee on towns and counties reported
II B &c, to extend the boundaries of Gallatin
county, with a recommendation that it pass.
Committee on grazing and stock growing
reported II B Ga, concerning barbed wire
fences with amendments.
Committee of the whole reported II B 4:
with a recommendation that it be indetinitel,
postponed.
Notion to adopt the report lost 8 to II.
Bills made special orders for I o'clock thi
evening
The report OF the committee of the whole
OF II B Al, to repeal section 722 of the re
vide for the election of officers in Beayerheat
county and II B &, to repeal the law consoli
dating certain offices in Custer county. The
committee also reported ii B "A, concernin!
terms of Office, with a recommendation that i
pass.
Donnelly moved to amended by excepting
the superintendent Of schools and the subor
dimate officers of the legislative assembly
adopted.
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Toole1 said there was some justice in the
proposed amendment. All of the gentlemen
who were affected by it were his political
friends. and many of them were personal
friends, but he thought, with the gentleman
from Madison, that the amendment would
seriously jeopardize the interests of the peo-
pie Of Butte. He thought it was impractical
BILE that one set of officers should attend to
the duties of two different counties. 1t may
be done, perhaps, by deputies, but there were
many serious objections to such an arrange
ment. He was opposed to it, as it would, be-
sides the objections mentioned, act as an in
.cubus to the passage of the bill.
Mitchell stated that he had not introduced
the amendment for the purpose of retarding
the passage of the bill, but as a simple mat
ter of justice to the officers of Deer Lodge
county.
Hays considered that it would be unfair to
legislate the officers of Deer Lodge county
out of office, and for that reason he favored
the amendment.
Ford was of the opinion that counties were
made for the benefit of the people, and not
for the office-holders. There were several
thousand people in Butte whose interests
would be put in jeopardy by the amendment,
and he should oppose it.
A division Of the house was called for and
the amendment was lost by the following
vote: Ayes-Mitchell, Browne, Hays and
Kerley-4. ~Noes-Alken, Ford, Hundley,
Morris and Toole.-5.
The remaining sections of the bill were
read and adopted, as they passed the house.
The committee arose and the council went
into executive session.
Resumed with open doors, and the clerk
was instructed to enter upon the journal that
during the executive session the council had
confirmed the following nominations by The
governor For territorial treasurer, D. II
Weston for notaries public, John Q. Bald
win and James W. Forbis, Deer Lodge
county Massena Billiard, Lewis & Clarke
county ; Walter S. Corwin, Meagher county
and Horace R. Buck, Choteau county.
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N--ESN sAfEtE-t NWesH 49, ~
The house ven into committee of the
whole, Blake in the chair, and resumed con-
sideration of H 3 As, to provide for a better
observance of the Sabbath as a day OF rest.
Sections S and 8 were adopted. Section Z
provides hat barber shops, livery stables and
drug stores may be kept open, except for the
sale Of intoxicating drinks.
Harrington moved to strike out the excep-
ton lost.
Chambers moved to strike out barber shops;
lost.
Sedman moved to strike out the clause that
excerpts persons who conscientiously observe
some other day of the week lost, 6 to o..
Cullen moved to insert butcher shops.
elem moved to amend the amendment by
adding cor the working of mines, mills or
smelters'; adopted. W.. ~
The amendment, as amended, was adopted,
and section I, as amended, was adopted. Sec
The report of the committee adopted by a
vote of IL to 10.
Notice of bills
Corbly, in relation to the fees of counsel as
signed III criminal cases.
Beach, concerning additions to cities and
towns.
Power, to enable the people of White Sui
phur Springs to erect a school house.
Stedman, to incorporate the own OF
Helena.
Rodgers introduced a concurrent resolu.
ton that no business shall be received
after Saturday, February 18th.
Donnelly moved to lay it on the table.
Carried by a vote of Is to s.
The chaplain was granted leave of absence
for the Sth and 9th.
Recess.
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SESSION.

SESSION.
Kerry, from the printing committee, re-
ported c b 80, concerning printing, with a
recommendation that it pass.
The president signed the following bills:
G IL, concerning small estates.
H B 5, concerning the qualifications of
jurors.
b 80, concerning official terms of JUS
tices and constables.
A communication was received from the
governor transmitting a petition of the peo-
pie of Dawson county, praying that the co,ln-
ty might be organized.
Mitchell introduced g b 33, for the better
protection of fish in the streams Of Montana;
read twice and referred to the committee on
internal improvements.
Cardwell, G B IS, to provide for the man.
ner of selecting jurors.
Kerry reported that G 3 1G, II B 5 and Fl
b 81 had been presented to the governor for
his signature.
/ II B 35, concerning chattel mortgages, wa:
referred to the judiciary committee.
III Is IS, concerning the ~eXeilptlCl OF IRE
men from jury duty, came up.
Hays moved That the bill be amended by
adding the words !'and all men who read
newspapers lost.
II B y, to repeal secs l5C-7-S of the 4tl
division of the revised statutes, was passed.
H b SO, concerning the office of county
commissioner, was read.
Mitchell moved that it be recommitteu fol-
amendment; carried.
Recess.
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THE LAKE CITY.
The Mining Business in ChIcaGO-Inter-
estinS Gossip About Isntae People
Where Delegate MasintIs Used 10
Worh~gtss Tyler and E4earOck AT the
Academy CT Music.

Editor Butte MINER
This city is fast becoming one OF the great
est cities in the world for speculation in mill
ing stocks. Day after day new schemes are
put on the market. some of them respectable
and some of them worthless. A great many
Chicago people have made fortunes within a
few years in mining enterprises in the terrific
ries, and a great many others haYe come back
dead broke. But when one man comes back
with a pile, and a hundred others don't, a
hundred and one more will start out for the
lane of gold and silver, each with the eXpec-
tation that he will be the lucky one TO make
a fortune. A few years ago a lawyer of
and has lately returned with wealth enough
to build hundred thousand dollar business
blocks, private residences and a theatre.
Messrs. Field & Letter, the great dry goods
firm, are supposed to have made a million in
mining speculations in Leadville. Such finds
as these turn the heads of men eager to be-
come rich, and tlley often bite at mines that
are too much "salted' to be satisfactory.
There is a good amount of business tran
sacted by the mining stock board organized
here about a year ago. Only mines of known
worth are listed on the board, and, as they
charge a round sum for listing, the income
from this source is sufficient to pay Office ex-
penses and salaries.
Charles Whitford, son of DR.. Whitford,
formerly Of Butte, is preparing to follow the
profession of his father, and IS studying hard
at the Bennett medical college in this city.
He is said to be making rapid progress.
William pascoe, of Butte, who has been
visiting friends in Wisconsin. is temporarily
stopping in Chicago. Like all other residents
of Montana he prefers its glorious climate tc
that Of Chicago. He returns to Butte in q
few weeks.
VIM. McDermott, OF your CITY, is visiting
relatives and friends in Chicago. He speaks
glowingly of the future Of Montana, and say:
Butte City will in few years rival, if no
surpass, any city between Omaha and Sar
Francisco. Mae has many friends here, ant
they are Glad Of his success. He will remair
4 few weeks longer and then return to Mon
iiilh. lie Il StthN !uS hllith- diu NLIbihSIIN
here.
Montaua's delegate in congress, Martin
Maginnis, has many friends in Chicago, anc
occasionally stops here III his way to anc
from Washington. Tho foreman of the
Tribune office worked with Martin when III
used to stick type in Red Wing, Mimi, ant
Que of the proof readers OH the same pape
stood shoulder to shoulder with him III thu
1st Minnesota regiment, Of which MI. Magin
mis- was major at the time it was mustered
out.
George Learock and Georgia Tyler, win
played in Butte City last summer, are at tn
Academy of Music here winning golden opin
ions for good work. The theatre is one G
the haudsomest in the city. GERALD.
CHICAGO, Feb. LIST, 1881.
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SESSION.

The question being on the passage of II b
Missonla county, it was lost. Ayes s; noes
II.
Fl L No 60, defining and publishing
%swindIing and fraudulent devices, was passed,
ayea l6 noes, 2
Mr.. Speaker announced the signing of II
d No 3, defining the qualifications of jurors !;
H b No 2, CONCERNING the official terms of
justices and conslahIes, and C Is No 1G, con-
corning small estates.
\ communication was received from the
governor transmitting a copy of the contract
for The keeping of the i~nuigent insane.
II b 10, tie school book bill, was referred
to the committee of the whole.
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COUNCII.-Thirtietn Day.
MORNING SESSION.

MohNlN1 SESSlcN.
Frley, from the committee on education
labor, reported Fl Il II, an act to require
ons keeping gaming houses to prohibit
from stopping therein, and recommended
the bill do pass.
tchell from the select committee consist
pr members from Deer Lodge county,
rted FL b &, an act to create the county
liver Bow, aud recommended that the
be referred to the committee of the
Owne, from the Judiciary committee, re-
ed IL b SO, an act to establish the fees of
flelk Of the supreme court, and recon-
ded that the bill pass.
undley, from the committee Oh agricul-
aud manufactures reported Ii B IS, a
Tor an act to secure the protection of
e, with the recommendation that it do
ken, from the select committee, reported
81, an act to repeal all act entitled all act
NJ AK Suppoip u IhC Du'tS ihS
artment, and recommended that it do
pass.
unanimous consent the following bills
Introduced without previous notice:
kerley, CB 30, an act concerning pub
Prlnting. Read twice and referred to the
Elng committee.
Hays, g b 81, all act to provide addi-
~ peDitentiary room. Bill read twice
feierred to the committee on ways and
Jus.
Hundley, G b 81, an act concerning
ate courts. Read twice and referred t o
judiciary committee.
l, III relation to the Montana peni-
iary, was taken up as amended by the
y, and amendments concurred in.
j 3, in relation to The memorial stone
me Washington monument, was read
eond time and referred to the committee
ederal relations.
b l, a bill for an act concerning chal-
es to Jurors in criminal cases, read a third
and lost.
d ID, a bill for an act concerning insur-
Companies and their agents, read a third
aud passed.
ecess.
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AT great expense, Manager W. B. Blaisdell
has engaged a vaudeville troupe, who are re-
hearsing some entirely new pieces which will
be presented this week. The members of the
company are highly spoken of and We may
expect some very interesting entertainments.
Mr.. Jack Martin Miss Foley and others
remain as members of the new organization.
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II ha, been decided by c ;'l e. Il hay
ing i'll c, ergo the forthcoming masquerade
ball to be given oy the Silver City Orchestra,
that no special invitations will be issued.
However none but those known to be ladies'
and gentlemen will be admitted.
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Local News.
From Tuesdays Daily.
No Courts for Butte.

A dispatch was received in this city yester-
day stating that Chief Justice Wade and As
sociate Justice Conger have rejected the pro-
position to establish terms of the district
court at Butte. This decision will exert an
able consideration by the council Of house
bill No. 6.
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OIED

T~HOMAS.-A Rocker, NJ. r., Feb. .. 1881, Mr..
William Watkin Thomas. aged So years and
/ moths.
BUoCH.-At Butte. Feb. Q, 1881, Frank, son of
william and Mary Busch, aged IL years, 3
months and - days.
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TAKEN Up.

Came to our ranch neaf the Hump, in Deem
Der 1880. three Cows-twN of Them white. one
with a red head and neck and IL short tail. about
S years Old another witt "a little red about the
head, years oil the othEF is red with "A short
tail. All branded viii an y ON right hip. !.
feb t0-d3t WIT MILES BROS.
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standardization was received from the
Richland beacon., 1881-10-15
GLUCOSE HONEY.

Bees eat glucose with the greatest
svidity. or, rather, they act as tunnels
by which the glucose is poured into the
comb. For it is true that honey made
by bees which have free access to glu-
cose differs scarcely at all from the glu-
coee itself. But the quantity of honey
which bee will store away when fed on
glucose is truly wonderful. This glut-
tony, however. rapidly undermines the
spiarian constitution, and the bee rarely
lives to enjoy the fruits of its apparent
good fortune. In commercial honey,
which is entirely free from bee media
ton, the comb is made Of paraffine and
filed with pure glucose by appropriate
machinery. This honey, for wilderness
and beauty, rivals the celebrated real
white-clover honey of Vermont, but can
be sold at an immense profit at one-lalf
the prio&
Richland beacon., 1881-10-15
a MN SHOPPING.

If you want TO torture the average man.
serd him shopping. More misery can
not be heaped upon him, esp ,cially ii lie
has to 60 to q store where the clerks are
ladies and he doesn't know exactly what
he wants to buy. A lady clerk has such
way Of utterly crushing a man and
making him realize his ignorance. We
had little experience the other day.
We wanted enough cotton to pack n set
of jewelry i'll box some two inches
square. This cotton we set out to pur-
chase. We had an indefinite idea We
could get it at big variety store Cd
fremont street, and We drifted around
that way. But when We got there and
looked in, We didn't have the nerve to
enter. 1t was crowded, and we didn't
know which way to turn after We got
there, and We felt that we should get
lost there, aud altogether it was no use
We wouldn't do it. So we went round
to fremont Row, and finally found
store that was comparatively quiet. and
there we entered and explained to the
best-natured looking saleswoman that
We wanted some cotton batting. Sh.,
said they had 1t for Is, 30 and % cents.
We said we'd take the best. and away
she went. Soon she returned, followed
by boy with roll of cotton abort the
size of beer cask. That was handed to
us. We gazed at it and concluded that
it was more than we needed for that
iewelry box. We said TO the lady:
Madam, you are mistaken. We don't
desire to start . wholesale cotton mart,
We don't desire to get up corner in
cotton, We don't run burlesque troupe.
What We want is about enough cotton
to fill box two inches square" Sew
eral lady customers overheard us, and
looked at US and the roll of cotton. And
then they kind of snickered, and the
clerk looked at us with glance of eon-
temptuOus pity that was worse than the
laughter of the customers. We finally
got the cotton and fled from the store,
but We had got to feeling so annoyed
and mortified that we didn't get over it
all day. And We rather enjoy shopping,
for a mar---SoeSOn Globe.