The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-30

University crew, claim that the other mem
bers of the crew sold the race with the Aus
TRAN crew on the 18th inst.
MIR. Conkling denies over his OWN signatul.
that lie ever said, sThe President has forced
me to commit suicide or murder. l prefer
murder
Russia has made no demand for Hartmann
grant an indefinite leave of absence to all OF
her Hartmanns and the Gear will not shed a
tear if they never return.
1t is a great pity Guitteau didn't get out OF
Washington as soon as he shot Garfield. A
Boston Corbett could have quieted all furth.
er apprehensions concerning his future move
mentS and the poor wretch would now be at
rest.
In its article on "The Right of Way DIFF
%ficulty,' the Inter Mountain, in its issue LIST
evening, fell into several errors which we
shall point out tomorrow. Want of space
forbids further reference to them this morn
ing.
If reports be true, Chill is liable to have
her hands full dealing with her quarrelsome
%neighbors. 1t appears that a Bolivian conven-
ton has determined to continue the wal with
Chill unless the latter power grants liberal
and honorable terms of peace to Peru.
Another Russian newspaper with a long
and u~npronounceable name has been sus-
pended for saying something the government
ji1 rnt EG-o T1a C,yJe yrbi,b wv , O e,,,o,I
ed some time ago, has reappeared under the
name of the Ner Gazette, the proprietors
evidently believing that a rose under any
other name would smell as sweet. Those
Russian journalists have a hard time of it.
That is rather a romantic and interesting
story about the California claimant to the
Tichborne estate. The alleged valet of Sir
Roger follows the wanderings of the lost
heir through South America, until he was
left for dead on the pampas. Then the Wallets
story finds Sir Roger again in 1861 as captain
of a Wisconsin company. All we need now
to make the narrative complete in interest is
the strawberry mark.
That is a comforting letter the socialists of
Switzerland sent to the tribunal OF judges at
Geneva. They threaten to resort to the
weapon ofcowards and assassins-dynamite-
and blow up the council because 1t would not
permit the meeting of the murderous mis-
creants at Zurich in what they please to term
the social congress. Social congress, A
meeting of demons is a more appropriate
name.
The San Francisco Daily Exchange saws
There is d rumor afoat that Guilteau's Jour-
ney from the Jail to the court is to be enIiy-
ened by 9 bomb, which will be exploded un-
der the prison van. Leo Hartmann will. of
course, be master of ceremonies, and will
show us on this side of the Atlantic how adj
mirably and with What regularity a little
affair of this kind can be conducted. 1t will
also be nice practice for the new recruits of
the Nihilists, a SOFT Of company drill as it
were.
When Mr.. Bookwalter was nomiL a.ed for
governor Of Ohio his pocketbook appeared to
haunt the sleeping and waking dreams Of the
republicans of that state, and now that lie
stubbornly refuses to buy up the disguised
member OF the Foster party and a few thou
sand other purcbasable republicans these
same representatives of the party of "moral
ideas" are greatly exercised over what thew
denominate his stinginess. Notwithstanding
all this it is pretty generally conceded that
Mr.. Bookwalter will be elected by a hand
majority.
Says the Bismarck Tribune:
Spotted Tail, the big Injun whom Crow
Dog recently sent to the happy hunting
didn't like bale headed men. Two
Years age, at the council Camp Robinson,
ne said to the gentlemen who came to talk to
hem: Go back to the Great Father and
ell him to send no more bald-headed men to
nan who was not a liar"
The Indian that was thus capable of ma
igning twe-thirds of our best looking young
men has, in the opinion of the traduced class
net a merited fate. Crow Dog will be voted a
Gather medal.
The vast land grant Of the Northern Pa
life railroad company is greater than is gen.
rally known. When the road runs through
State the company has half the land-dis-
ributed in alternate sections-for twenty
niles OF each side of the track. When it runs
hrough a Territory it has half the land for 40
niles Oh each side. 1t takes one-half of a belt
orty miles wide in Wisconsin, forty miles
vide through Minnesota, eighty miles wide
through Dakota, eighty miles wide through
Montana, eighty miles wide through Idaho,
lightly miles wide through Washington along
he Cascade branch, forty miles wide along
be Portland branch in Washington and
wenty miles wide in Oregon along the last