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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-12-13
REPORT
Of the Committee on the School
House Question.

At the adjourned meeting called last Nil ht
at the old Good Iemplars'. Hall, the follow
ing report was received and adopted by q
unanimous vote of those present.
The opinions of the men whose names are
attached to this report, and vino were ap-
pointed by an overlooking mass meeting Q
the taxpayers of this community, need no
recommendation to our citizens, and will be
endorsed unanimously:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN-You our committee appoint
ed by you at 4 previous meeting to iuvesti-
satc school and school house matters, beg
Lave to report as follows:
1t is tina opinion Of your committee that
the new addition To the school house cannot
be made satisfactory for the purposes for
which il IS intended, except by tearing it
down and rcGonstructing The same.
You committee farther believe that the
present site is not a favorable one for a school
house Of any character, As it is subject to Il 9
dangers and annoyauces of the busy traffic
of q cisy Of prodisious growth.
IL is moreover the firm conviction Of your
committe that the Board Of Trustees, having
first ascertained that suitable locations may
be had St reas unable prices on which to es-
tabllsh, say one hign school building aid two
or more primary school buildings, shoul
proceed to sell, according to law, the grounds
now owned by the school district in the mos.
advantageous manner and apply the proceeds
Of such sale to that purpose.
With this end in view your committee has
eNerled itself TO arrange a basis of settlement
between the Trustees and contractors with
the following result: This contractors, hav-
ing already received ~torty-siX hundred and
fifty dollars and and expended as they claim
in cortr&ct"d liabilities to the extent of over
eight thon>aud dollars now propose to relin-
Qujsh the leo tract and deliver the property
as u new stands to the trustees, free from
any lncumbraIces incurred by them upon the
piymrnt to them by the trustees Of the addi-
uoual sum rftwelve hundred AID fifty dol
lars.
In view OF all these circumstance your
committee does earnestly recommend:
lie c4rccja,ien Of the contract between
She trustees and she contractors on the terms
and conditions herein above stated.
The sale OF the premises and the pur-
! cuAse # otta9 suitable -"ouDls for the ersc-
! ,inu Of sucn buildings for school purposes as
NAY inlhe Judgment OF tho board of trustees
he Gcemrd necessary to the end that al
( lie chill 1rtu ia the district rich and poer
alike NAV be comfortably and efftctuslly ed
ucased.
NJ Of which is respectfully submitted.
JoHN c. G.. THORNTON,
CHAs. AEDEIEUX SCommtttee
\. ". BARNARD
W. y. CLARK.
BUTTE CITY, Dec. : 1851.
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From Tuesdays Daily
THE WALkBRVILLE MAILS.
And a Few Other Postofftce Matters

H .. -
Sunday morning we made, through the
columns OF the. MINER, az the request of cit
izens OF Walkerville, tie following inquiry !:
"ihe citizens of VAUDEVILLE complain that
'helr mail does hot reach them until 10 or IL
O'CLOCK IN the morning. VIII the postmaster
Inform us just where the difficulty lies ?'
yesterday the Acting Postmaster of Butte
handed Us the following answer:
SIN reply TO the above l will state for the
Information of the MINER that according to
contract The schedule time for the departure
and arrival of ths mails between Butte CITY
and Walkerviiie is as follows:
Leave Butte at II In.
arrive at halkeryille at l p. III.
Leave Walkerville at z y. III.
Arrive al Butts at 3 p. m.
Having complied with your request, w Il
you in return favor us with your reason for
Invariably making complaints / rough your
columns without hlst taking occasion to learn
facts by lnqnirlng at The postotice?
Respectfully,
HARRY G. KEssLER,
Acting Postmaster,
Butte City, Mont
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MEE N
Adjourned till Tonight at Seven
O'clock.

The citizens meeting called by the com
miltee on the school house qurs ion will be
held to.uisit At Old Coed Templar's Hall, at
seven o'clock sharp. The committee had
named last night As the time for submitting
Their report to lie citizens aud taxpayers OF
his school distrivs. out discovered that il
was impossible t. secure the tall, aud couse-
Every tax payer in School District Numbcr
One is requested to be' I, ese!t to night At The
hour named, at Old Good Teuplars' Hall. As
before stated, the time was fixed for seven
O'Clock punroGally, for the pu pose Of ena-
bling lie m-",img 10 finish its business ANA ad-
iourn il good season for The ~cautata. which
viii bc.lu Il eight o'clock
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Small PON.

Last evening DR.. Beal appointed DR.. Strom
rjty Musician in place OF DR.. Holmes who is
now laid up with pneumonia.
Yesterday afternoon George Gin was tax
en- sick in this city, and MAS pronounced by
Drs. Thompson AMI Strom to have the small
nox. He was at once taken TO the pest house.
MIR. Gin slept at Air. Wuuderlich,s two
weeks ago. This was the only new case last
night.
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A CHANGE OF SCENE.
Enter the Utah 60 Northern Marrow
Gauge Railroad.

From Mr.. Robert B!ickensderfer, Division
Engineer for the Utah Il northern division of
the Union Pacific read, We learn that the
track will be dsdaitely completed and con-
stlu@ttOn trains running 10 the Butte depot
grounds during the present week. A con
struction train will probably be run to Butte
thursday or Friday. After Saturday there
will be 10 obstacle to the entrance Of the
regular passenger cars with Pullman palace
and sleeping coaches. Thu entrance Of the
regular train of the Utah ). Northern will
disabuse many persons OF the ioea that mar
rnw gauge are deficient as compared with
broad gauge cars i'll appearance and accom-
NJ odations. Next week viii doubtless be the
occasion OF a joyful greeting from the metrop-
oils Of Montana TO the great carrier of civili-
zatiOn.
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THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Proceedings OF their Regular SEES
Sions.

Messls. Jack, Down ms and Hyde, tina Com
missioners of Silver Bow County, hSve been
in session for the past two days in the Re
corder's office in the Caplice building. They
will DO in session to-day and TOMORROW,
auditing bills, transacting miscellaneous mat
tiers and closing up general county business
for the year.
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Out OF Debt.

Col, D. }. Welch, treasurer Ct silver Bow
county, mailed last night to Mr.. Il. Il. Ieuor,
Que of the county commissioners Of Deer
Lodge county, a check for S2S,552.5O, in full
payment Of al monies due from the county
Of Silver Bow to It's parent county Of Deer
Lodge.
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Sunday a youthful son of Mr.. Miles Kaysu-
augh was knocked insensible, by the fall of a
ladder at the Aodoc mine. He is not cousid-
cred how ever TO have been seriously injured.
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Tue Saddle Rock restaurant has bean
moved into the rooms formerly occupied by
ths telegraph off &c Oh Broadway, lust east Of
the MINRR office.
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Two Mixes

Mike, Size stage driver between LeGyirGs
~ Dearborn, bounced drunken brute from
his coach last week, who was Insulting a lady
passenger. In Helena lSst Friday evening
Mike Lynch, another driver, spset 4 sleigh
coutxisirg several ladies' and gentlemen who
we're On their way TO visi. Mrs. y. Gredel OF
Silver City. No passenger was seriously hurt,
but Mike vas badly CuL aud bruised.
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Dec. 4th, 1881.
Mr.. kessler evidently m'sunderstsnds this
particular inquiry, as we'll as the usual meth.
Cd which newspapers adopt to secure infOr-
nation for Their Subscribers. 1t is for their
benefit and at their reqncs' that We made the
above inquiry, aud for their benetit-and let
our own, we publish The reply. There 10 no
suggestion Of blame ia any particular quarter
IN tbs language of the paragraph originally
published therefore there is no complaint
against the Butte Office. The ONLY other
time when we have interes,ed ourselves in
P"sto1ilce matters, we inquired. at and acted
with the assistance OF the officials OF the
Butte postottice, and should judge that they
nave no cause to complain of the result in
view Of the letter received from Mr.. Macin-
his last week, and published in the MINER of
last Saturday.
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The Main street auctions draw large crowds
and make numerous sales.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03

A few days since, we had occasion
to drop a line to a friend in Centralia.
We took great pains with the pen
manship of this note, for fear "Rody,'
of the Guard, might e 1t. W. even
showed it to some of Jul friends, as
the best we ever did. The following
is the unkind way in which he handles
US. We demand an apol ,gy in his
next issue:
"Horace Greedy was considered
one of the worst scribes in America.
That was before Bob White, of the
Mexico LEDGER, made bis appearance.
When Bob gets in a hurry he more
titan discounts any living mar. A
few days since a man of this place
received IA postal card. and as no one
could decipher the writing it was sub
mitted to us. After looking at it
from all sides, this is what we made
out:
Phore Jistribheld axeras via subsquinto dog
Rue W bhmsqnint slam bug scat STAN Mix Cow
Mire, slew clam mash, yum snook, ba ba up yum
trash plug upelaro. r. NJ. WHITE.
The rest fesembled a streak OF
forked lightning endfngznowhere.
We judge Bob has been on a bust,
was chased by a dog, whipped a squirt
eyed man, slammed a bug, kicked a
cat, mixed his drinks, was kicked in
the mire by a COW, slew a clam, play.
ed smash yum yuming Shocks, and
proved himself a regular plug ugly.
The card goes into our museum of
curiosities.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03

SuiNeJoIS! survey
To County Surveyors of North Missouri
Whereas, there is room for differ
ence in the construction OF the law
regulating surveying in the State of
Missouri, and knowing that county
surveyors do construe certain claus
es of the law differently, by reason
of which the methods practiced by
county surveyors are not uniform,
thereby giving rise to different re-
suits in the same survey, and fire.
quently causing trouble and litiga-
ton among land owners, we, the I'M
dersigned county surveyors, believ-
ing that a full and free joint discus.
sion of said laws and said methods
would lead to a more thorough and
correct understanding of them and a
lore legal and uniform system of
surveying in the State of Missouri,
by which the public would be greatly
benefited, do respectfully call a
meeting of the county surveyors of
North Missouri, to be held at Mo-
berly on the 18th and 10th of Febru-
airy, 1881. for the purpose Of discuss
ing our State law, and e%ndeavoring
to establish a uniform system of do
ing our work. Hoping all our coun-
ty surveyors will try to attend, we are
respectfully,
T. H HOLLY, Galloway.
W. l.. COMBS. Monroe.
G d. RODGERS. Audrain.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03
please, MAY T."

Has it come to such a pass that 9
business man cannot go to St. Louis,
or any where else, without some Sup
start of a reporter telegraphing that
be left for fear he would meet his(the
reporter's) master? Is this a free
country? Or does a mar have to ask
permission to go to St. Louis, or to
church, to keep from being molested !:
Maybe. we owe some one an s'apol-
ogy" for going to St. Louis withou,
asking. For one, we recognize no
mans right to dictate to us.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03
POPULATION

According to the census returns
the present population Of the United
States is so, 152, $50, against SO, $685.
81 in 1870. As compared with Eu-
ropean nations, the American Union
has a larger population than any of
them except Russia but although the
country occupied by them nearly
equals ours, we have only about one
sixth of the number of its inhabitants.
The statistics of the census are full
of instruction. They show that the
irresistible attractions of climate and
soil are making themselves felt, at
last, at the South and Southwest.
The silly efforts of partisan journals
to restrain population from seeking
those sections are proven by the re-
turns to have been abortive. The
per centage CT increase throughout
the South during the last decade
stands 31.05 against 1886 at the
North, and only 14.70 in the New
England States. The fifteen SO called
Southern States have added Apt, 700
to their population, and the twelve
Western and Pacific States only s.
5S1,8O5.
The comparative population of our
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03
Trustees Sale.

WHEREAS, Nancy Craig a.,
w Landon ID. Craig. her bushsad
on the 2Sth day Of September aug
teen hundred and seventy-eioh, esa'
veyed to the undersigned truste. g \
their deed of trust. which is res,ey
"a in book IN" at page 27s. in
corder's office. in Audrajn eon. fe'
Missouri, the following land in aa,
county and State, to-wit: Ram;se
ming at the stone let for the NJ,
east corner of survey No. l,0le u
thence west SO feet. Ga little mo,s aa
less), to northeast corner of su,,oN
No. 1.4Sl: thence south with y!
line of said survey. No. l.4sl o.
feet to its southeast corner: than,
west with south line of said surrae
1927 -, to southwest corner Of ~,
survey. being also southeast corss.a
block No. 6, in billiards. addjtion y
Mexico; thence south with east l;a'
of billiards. addition 1885 feet. 10 i i.
tie more or less), to southeast corn.
of Block "A billiards. addi,;a,.
thence west with south line of s.;s
block &c feet thence south G, Az
grres. 80 minutes, east 95 feet: them.
south 543 feet TO a point in north i'm
I of Love street, 40 feet north of ,ts
north line of Craig's addition n
Mexico, and 272 1-2 feet east of II.
east line of Calhoun street than.
east on north line of Love street :.
per plat of Craig's addition. APP fe.,
more or less. TO a point IS feet soa,s
of the southwest corner of portb.
west fourth of northwest fourth n
section %, in township 81 raso.
nine. west : thence north on the sss.
ton line between sections % and d
to the beginning corner. aud con.
tanning 20 l0-l00 acres, a little mor.
or less, and being east part of south,
east one-fourth of southeast ons
fourth section %. township 81. ana
range 3, west, and east part of III,
northeast one-fourth of the north
east one-fOurth section 26, TOWNSHIP
81, range 9. west: also block sAsiI
billiards. addition to Mexico, as me-
plat of said addition, in Office .
recorder of deeds. containing in Al
80 acres. be the same more less, b
survey and numbers as above De
scribed, to cur the payment 0
note in said deed of trust described
That said note is due and unpaid. A
the request of the holder said mott
| will. on
Friday, February Is, 1881,
sell said property, at public sale. 70
cash. at the east door of the cou,
house, in Mexico, Missouri. to sati
fly said note and all casts ofthis ssl
ID. Ii. MCINTYRE,
39-at Trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03
CITY.


Special Correspondence Of the Ledger.
JEFFERSON CITY, January 31.-The
legislature is getting down to bust
ness. A number of bills have been
introduced into both houses many
Of which will scarcely become laws,
and yet among them are some excel
lent measures. Among this latter
class is il TO change the time of
making assessments from August l,
to June l, and an amendment to the
revenue law requiring biennial Instead
of annual assessments of real estate &;
besides these, is a bill making the
keeping of a gambling table or de-
vice a felony, punishable in the peni-
Tertiary for a period of not less than
two nor more than five years. The
committee of Ways and Means are
still considering the Gates PROPOSE
ton. The bill affecting associations
engaged in mutual life insurance on
the lives of their members, intro
duced by Mr.. Major aud adopted
by the house, authorizes benevolent,
social or religious associations to be-
come corporate bodies with permits
sion to pay to the widows or children
of their deceased members certain
stipulated sums of money without be-
ing subject to existing insurance
laws. Latterly a number of such as
sociations have been formed as a sub
s'itute for rickety insurance compa-
mes. These associations are prompt
and popular, paying what is prom
, ised through assessments without
lawsuits, judgments Or executions ;
they have never asked the State to
take cognizance of them in any way;
they need neither examination nor
Endorsement; they keep no funds,
make no reports and hold no sccuri-
ties; their dealings are strictly on
honor and lever come within the per-
vue of law. So far they have been
blessings wherever they have existed
As their incorporation will be wholly
voluntary under the proposed statute
nobody is making objection to it.
Only the senate convened on Satur-
day, and the most OF its time was
taken up with an animated discus
sion between Senators Macky and
Hurd and the Lieut. Governor on the
joint resolution asking our Senators
and representatives in Congress to
secure. if possible, the right of way
for the St. Louis & San Francisco
Railway through the Choetaw nation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03
Friday, February 4, 1881.
AdministratOr's Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that l, Y
undersigned Public Adminlsu.
tor of Audrain County, Missouri
have taken charge of the estate v
Nancy Morris, deceased, late OF Az
drain County. That the date
taking charge of said estate is -,
18th, 1880. That al. persons haii.s
claims against said estate are y
CURED to present them to me fof
lowance within one year from ~
Jan. 18th, or they may be preciasss.
from any benefit thereof and na'sn
said claims be presented within y. N.
years from the publication OF "a
notice, they will b.. forever DarIe
GEO. ROBERTSON
4O-4w Public Administers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03
CONGRESSIONAL
cIal Correspondence Of the Ledge.

Special Correspondence Of the Ledger.
WASHINGTON, January 28.-Sena-
tor Kirk wood introduced to-day q
bill to aid the United States Postal
Telegraph Company incorporated in
Iowa, with a capital of 800, 600 900,
and authorized to construct and OPP
crate postal telegraph lines In con-
nection with postoh ces, and in the
waters embraced by treaties with
foreign nations, at a rate not TO ex-
coed 20 cents for messages of twenty
words for any distance.
Congress undoubtedly has as much
right to transport messages by wire
as in a bag, and the only question to
be decided in regard to authorizing
and either assisting, purchasing or
operating government t%elegraphs is
the advisability of doing so. If send
ing messages by telegraph gets to be
a private monopoly according to
present prospects, there will be little
opposition to making it a public one.
1t is, indeed, only a section of the
wider question of interstate COM
merce to which railroad and steam
boat transportation as naturally be-
longs. In 1866, Congress authorized
telegraph COMPANIES under state in
corporations to construct and main
tain telegraphs along roads and
through the public domain and I'M
der American waters, and subse-
quentiy made provision for purchas-
ing the property and wires of such
companies, and all lines west of the
Missouri are expressly subject to the
p%raisement and purchase. At first
there may be disposition to shrink
from the enforcement of these rights
n powers of government, but in
the business of both transporting
and te%legraphing perfect freedom of
competition is interferred with from
the start by the manner and mode in
which it must be conducted. Great
wealth and extraordinary ability are
always required for such operations,
and no person nor company, no mat
ter how wealthy or Intelligent, can
construct either a telegraph Or rail-
road without entering upon and
using the land of others and without
needing and obtaining governmental
authority to do SO whore permission
is not voluntarily granted, and
thereby obtaining a species of mo-
nopoly to which government alone
can authorize competition. 1t is for
government, therefore, to decide
whether it will most bentit the pub
lie to permit others to maintain pos
tai and transpoI tation monoplies, or
to carry them on through its public
servants. The great change that has
recently taken place in the ownership
of our railroad and Geographic lines
is forcing the consideration Of such
questions upon the attention of Con-
gress and our legislatures, and the
conclusion is Irresistible that the
nation cannot and will not suffer
combinations Of wealthy syndicates
to control such Important and such
universally needed services.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03

Mr.. David Ewing and Mrs. Gina
Morris, both of Laddonia, we're mar
ried at the residence of Col. j. J.
Haden, In this city, last Tuesday
morning. They left on the eastern
bound train for a pleasure trip in the
east. Dave is one of our most enter
prising stock men and a good farmer.
Mrs. Ginia is we'll known and loved
by her many friends 10 Mexico. The
LEDGER joins their many friends in
wishing for a long and happy life.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03

The Dallas lTexas) Daily Times
says the following of the wooden we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. Greenwald, SON.
in-law and daughter of Recorder J.
F. Gillian of this city:
Mr.. and Mrs. Greenwald, At their
residence on Main Street in East
Dallas, celebrated their wooden we'd
ding in an elegant manner last even
ing. They were welcomed by q large
number of select friends who enjoyed
the elegant repast spread by the hos
tess, after which the company amused
themselves until a late hour. The
Times hopes that they may live to
celebrate their golden wedding.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03
Admtnfstrator's Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that -
undersigned Public AdminisHs 4
tor, i'll accordance with an oraeI !.
the Probate Court of Audrain ~
ty, made Jan. 10th, 1881, have a. ~.
charge of the estate of Camilla -.
NELL, decea,e ed, late of AudIr
County. That the date of my Ia ~
charge of said estate is Jan. lUh, g. ~
That all persons having c 4
against said estate are require
present them TO me for allow
within one year from said jam -
10th. or they be pr"clnded from
benefit thereof; and that unless -
claims he presented within
from the publication of this n
taey will be forever barred.
GEO. ROBERTSONs
4O-4w Public Administfas
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-03
stance q

The absolute gain of Texas has
been greater since 1870 than that of
any other state in the Union, being
42, 900 more than that of Pennsylva-
mia, and 46, 900 more than hal Of
New York. At the same time her
ratio of increase has been enormous,
and should it be maintained, as there
is no reason to doubt will be the case
as leng as the Indian Territory re-
mains inaccessible, the next census
will probably rank Texas as the fourth
in population of the States. With
the impulse impaired by existing and
contemplated railroads Texas, if I'M
divided, may even occupy the third
position OF rank among her sisters.
The other state whose ratio of in
rease is based upon causes likely to
be as durable as those of Texas is
Oregon, which has grown at a pace
nearly double that of California.
The growth of population in tie
cities has even more significance than
that in the country. We possess vast
areas of uncultivated lands to be had
for the mere occupancy of them, and
yet population is concentrating in
places, where existence is most pre-
carious and the means Of livelihood
most difficult to be obtained. Fifty
years ago the proportion Of our pop
ulation in cities was only a sixteenth,
but to-day it is about one fifth, with
the prospect of being more than one
fourth in 1890. This increasing ten
dency of population to congregate in
large cities IS the greatest of evils
that attach to modern civilization.
1t is due mainly to the use of ma
chinery in manufactures carried on
at particular places by wealthy corpo-
rations, and is a condition Of society
pregnant with such social dangers as
our municipalities are inadquate to
cope with, making the question OF
city government 80 as to maintain
order and yet preserve liberty one OF
the most serious the States have to
deal with.