The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-04
3utte Beeklp @iner.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1881

Senator johnson says Senator Ben Hill
will probably never be able to fully discharge
the duty of Senator, although he may be able
to appear at tire called session.ot the Senate
and >nte. Senator Platt, of Connecticut, who
is ill, will pair with Senator Hill, should the
latter desire.
A point is raised in the defense Of Mason,
charged with the attempt to kill Guiteau, that
he must be proven TO have not only the i'll
tent but the " ability to carry out the Intent"
1t W as a physical impossibility to have killed
Gui,eau from where Mason fired the shot,
and it is claimed that his act was innocent Of
crime as if he had discharged an uuloaded
muske' that he thought to be loaded.
A Washington dispatch of the 24th saws:
The Indian bureau learns that the Arizona
war | as erded and that the hos'il4s are sur
rendering. Agent Tiffany telegrsphs that
1850 OF his Indians are on the reservation,
leaving only seventeen White Mountain Apa-
ches out. probably at Cooley. They expect
To receive the surrender of al but Pedro's
and and Chief Sanches, who will surrender
near Fort Apache. Five of the chiefs have
surrendered to General Wilcox.
Mr.. George William Curtis is still barpinc
Oh his hobby of civil service reform. He
made an address to the Social Science Assoc
citation at Saratoga, in which he said that re-
form was not, as DR.. Johnson defined patri-
otism, 'the last refuge of a scoundrel,' or a
.. " l. - I,, b,,, hat, > a,
it was an effort to change a system that had
dehauched the CT vii service OF 100000 900 OF
pc ,ple, and was one to which puOlc senti-
meAL Is becoming more lLsu.able.
NIcc-lIesideu 1T Cakes Of The Noltllerl
! a,int mieA at BlsinarcH e.iu: Why, the
L4lhILg Interests Of Montana Lhat must pay
tribute 10 the Northern Pacific Val pay TIE
. runuing EXPENSES OF this road, and il ulvluenu
besides. lnere is enough ore III sight 10
ylalancc This statement for at leas. twenty
Iears." The way The matter now looks lIe
Northern tactic stcs mote money ia Trans
porting tie looes and peltlieS gathered by lie
MullcIs Oh our lUrthein border.
Guiteau will be i dlctel to morrow o. !eNt
day, and the prooiem whica Is now trouo-
lIlg the Authorities is how 10 transpolt inn
safely from the Ill 10 IN" court huus UA-
der tne posse couttAtuS 'a", United States
J,uops cannot be used, AMI II IS uoub ful
vile her tie police are equal to the elf"lt Of
Ike .piMg Inn out Of tie hAuds Of the people,
VINO will watch his III vaue Is. 1t is !.o"
kuuNn That Mctrill, the guard who reported
that GuiJeau Il tackled him, really unde!.uuk
IL kIll GuilcAu, i'll pretended sclt-iei'll >c,
and that GUIleau nhl a harrow escape Oh
that OCCASION. He IS III IA continued state of
fright, and i4nr!ure, protection constan ~.
Pap-rs Oh the west side Of the tour
G'Alene mountains are now devOti!4g some
attention to Tie report Of Major IruaA, WHO
was sel.I out to survey a route for he North
ern Pacific through tlese mountains. The
surveyed route leaves 'he Columbia a. Its
junction with Snake river, and p ,octeding up
the last named river to the confluence of
Clearwater, follows upthlt steam AMI cross
es The Cnur d'Aleles into Bitter Root valley.
The party made the survey on foot, torling
the sire ans and Flushing their work and le-
turning llsluc Vi i've Neehs. 1Ic party It-
ports that the grade does lot exceed 80 feet
TO the mile above Lewiston until within so
miles OF The summit OF the BILer Root range
where 1t Is nearIy 30 feet T." within ID miles
of the divide, "'here il is llearIy - feet to
the miir, and hat the greatest altitude above
the level OF the sea is 5000 feet, showing his
- be a very practic4bte loute for i railroad.
1t has beef, a 10! SliIne study with railroad
engineers to iiud a way Ii !uugh these lug=rti
AMI Formidable mOuntains. lie route fol-
LOWING down Clalk's Fork to Pen u'Orelt!e
lake, and thence almost due south TO Aalla
Waiia, IS in form lnucn like all OK bow. an
il 10 MeIe possible 10 tind ii way along tAe
chord OF the are # this circle tile distance
would manifeStly lie much ,lur encd. 1t is
stated that the distance telween NJ ss0ula and
Naiia Walla Will he shortened 100 miles uy
this new survey. SiIcr the Central Pacific
has crossed The Sierra Nevata, and the
S ,uthtrn Pacific has Owe CONE lhe obstacles
OF the san iieTnartiino mountains, 10 country
has been deemed Impossible to rAilICad ef-
fort.
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