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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-30
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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-30

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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
Thur,ow Weeds Span Of Life.

ThurIow Weeds life almost spans the
history of this country under its present
Constitution. He was born before Wash
ington died. and when Webster, Clay,
and Calhoun were making their reputa-
tions he had edited several country
newspapers and fought in the battles in
his country. He was older than Seward
or Lincoln, or Greeley, and when Clay,
Webster and Calhoun were dead he had
not entered upon the most important
part of his career. He was alive when
Napoleon's star appeared in the dark
ness of the French Revolution, and was
already man when the battle Of Wa
terloo was fought. He lived and worked
with three generations of public men.
Most of the men who are now beginning
to attract attention might have been his
grandsons. Benjamin Franklin died
seven years before Mr.. Weed was born.
These lives of these two journalists take
the world back into the reign of Louis
XIV. and beyond the birth of Frederick
the Great. Another such would very
nearly reach tne time of Shakespeare.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
Important Developments.

The Pioneer Press Of the Goth ult
says: President Hill, Of the Manitoba
company, and President Stephen of the
Canadian Pacific left st. Paul last night
on the 8:45 train for New York city their
private car being attached to the regular
passenger. Mr.. Hill will be absent two
weeks, and it is stated on good authority
that his visit East with president Steph-
en- is the result of the favorable termina-
ton of the conference which has been
held relative to the future relations of
the two railways. It is also stated that
negotiations are in progress which will
undoubtedly end in an agreement upon
one Of the most important developments
in the railway line yet attempted in the
Northwest. 1t is understood that the
relations OF the Manitoba and Canadian
Pacific will be much more closely allied
than ever before, and that tney III now
ioin in common interest OF vast I'M
portance and insuring the beginning OF
a work OF magnitude.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
CHEAP STATIONERY.
A Valuable Invention Adopted By the Post
Office Department.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-The post
| master general to-day concluded CO II
tract with Leo Ehrlich Of st. Louis for
the use Of his recent ingenious invention
of combination letter sheet and envelope.
BY the middle of January, the Ehrlich
invention will be on sale at the principal
postoffices in the country, in the shape
of a letter sheet and envelop and stamp,
all for 3 cents, and circular letter and
envelope and stamp for one cent, adding
cost OF paper. The single sheet is man
ufactured with gunmed flaps, which,
when the sheet is folded, lap over the
two open edges and secure the missive.
The government stamp is to be embossed
On one of these flaps, which comes over
like the flap on an envelope, and the
whole is licked, stamped and sealed
with the same motion. This brings the
stamp where the old waters and seal
used to be, instead of being upon the up
per right hand corner. The letter can
not be opened nor the embossed stamp
removed without destroying the stamp.
The principal advantage is
IT'S CHEAPNEss,
both to the government and to the busl-
ness public. To the man who writes his
communication on one side of the sheet,
it will be saving of so per cent in time
and expense. It will cast but a trif1e
more than an ordinary envelope, and in
general use will save, it is alleged, half
the present weight of the letter mails.
The stamped article will be manufac-
tured under the supervision OF the gov
ernment stamped envelope agents.
Those that are to be put on sale at the
stamp windows will be of the denomina-
tons of 8 and ] cent, the latter, or cir
cular form, being minus the end flap Or
open. This patent letter sheet will be
sold at a price ranging from 81 to 81
thousand, according to the quality of
paper used. It would seem to be a Sc
we're blow to the stamped envelope bust
ness, and to be an important factor in
hurrying mp cheap postage. Another
phase of the case is that Mr. Ehrlich
managed by skillful lobbying, to get q
bill through o~4sIess, last .rssIon, au-
thorizing the use Of the device by the
post master general, which will make
him fortune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
A Black Hills Costume.

The following item Is at present enjoy
ing the run Of the eastern press:
One of the DeadWood '9girls' is hav-
ing q dress made and embroidered with
the cattle brands of the various cattle
men whom she counts among her adj
mirers. It is evident that she is in ca
boots with the coroner and surgeon, and
is taking this way to promote duellstlc
encounters.
Among the many paragraphs going
the rounds of the states press regarding
people and things in the Black Hills,
the above is the only truthful one that
we have yet encountered. The others
are all bantlings of some journalistic
fiend's fancy. The dress referred to is
net only receiving the brands Of many
of our thoughtless young stock men, but
the initials OF their names as well. An
artictic seamstress in Fountain City Is
doing the embroidery, under contract OF
5000. Some of the investors in the dress
will no doubt be heartily ashamed of
their fool investment before they die, if
not sooner.
The brands and initials of her particu-
lar favorites cover the side of her neck
and bosom, and the brands, ETC., OF those
occupying an Indifferent corner in her
affections are attached to the bottom OF
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
The Presidents Mail Bag.

I was in the White House the other
day and saw a stack of some hundreds
of communications addressed to the
President of the United States. They
were neatly jacketed and briefed and
corded up, awaiting the Presidents re-
turn. I asked Secretary Pruden what
the tenor of such letters was.
"Oh, everything,' was the reply.
"They are on every conceivable subject
Of personal nature to the writers.
Many of them are direct appeals for
money. Now, you would never sup
pose a stranger i'll Texas, Nebraska Or
New Hampshire, or somewhere else,
would write to the President for few
dollars with the expectation of getting
it, u'd you?"
I answered that I didn't feel quite
sure about that, since women and men
who are total strangers to me frequently
came into my offieeand requested me to
get them pass to Philadelphia or New
York, or q government clerkship or a
s1luitLIoA OI q lCdAlAASo aC"op1pSi.
"Well, it's fact, There are letters
here asking Mr.. Arthur to send various
sums by return mail or express, from so
cents to $500. One young lady writes
for money to buy piano, by which,
she says, she will be able to earn her
own living. Another, man wants to
borrow $1OO for six months, for which
he will give his note and ten per cent.
interest,"
I glanced at the top jacket and saw
the brief "Pecuniary Assistance"
Eyes, that's one," said the genial Sec
retary. "There are great many more
in the stack. Some want official sine
cures, making no professions Of service.
They merely want to be put On the roll
somewhere for few months, so the sal
ary will help them along. They were
usually not particular, however whether
the government Or president furnishes
the money! -
Which, Of course, he does?' said /.
ooh, yes, the same as you provide the
railroad passes and clerkships. Why,
his $4,000 year wouldn't be enough to
pay their demands upon him personally.
He can't even read their letters. It's
very funny world this" And so it is.
Correspondence Philadelphia Times
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06

miles, or 3Oy feet to the mile. 1T is pro-
posed to overcome these difficulties by
alternately tunnelling and cutting.
Should it be found impracticable to cross
the Selkirk range in direct line, the val
ley of the Columbia will have to be
followed. He started from the summit
Of Kicking Horse pass to cut trail
down to where Mcmillan was surveying
and was afterward ordered to cut q trail
to the Columbia river and thence to the
pass discovered by Maj. Rogers through
the Selkirk range. There are said to be
serious difficulties in the way of effect
ing crossing through this pass; for in
stance it is said that there are five miles
Of snow slides where no shed would have
sufficient strength to resist. This river
bends q long way to the north, whereby
the distance would be very much in
creased, though no great engineering
difficulties would be encountered. Heus-
tons party started TO run preliminary
and location survey from the summit OF
the Kicking Horse pass westward and
Davis party eastward. It seems to be a
settled matter that the railway is to be
built through the Kicking Horse pass,
but how the difficulties of the Selkirk
range are to be overcome, would appear
to be rather question for the future to
decide,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
.Edison's Dream.

New York special to Cincinnati Ga
zette: The Edison Electric Light Conn
pany promises, if the developments of
the light are at all equal to the present
expectations, to become perhaps even
q more iniquitous monopoly than the
gas companies now constitute. Origin
ally the experiments for the electric
light were carried on with a capital Of
perhaps 100000. This was swelled in
to watered stock of 100000. and now
the capital is $4,000. Edison's great
object is to SO water the stock as to final
" issue twenty or thirty shares for every
now held by the Electric Light COM
pany stockholders; and, if this is accom-
plished, the capital will be raised to from
SIS, 900 900 to $40, ,OOOfOo0. Who will have
to pay for this? The people of course.
His idea is to enjoy stringent monopo-
" Of the entire electric lighting of the
country, to absorb all the other electric
companies, and to make competition alb
solutely impossible. Edison owns of
the present 1900 shares nearly one-third
and if his dreams can be realized, his in
terest in the company some day will be
worth from $3, ,00o, 900 to IS, 100000. The
fact is the scheme is throbbing through
his mind so wildly that he does not give
himself time to eat, to sleep, to think,
almost; that he abandons soap and water
and meals, all the comforts and conven-
fences Of life, to work night and day at
his shops, and is reducing himself to the
condition of the most pitiable laborer.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
Canadian Pacific Engineering Difficulties


WINNIPEG, Nov. 25.-Maj. Rogers,
assistant chief engineer Of the Canadian
Pacific railroad, returned last night
from the Rockies, where he has been
for two years looking for direct line to
connect with the British Columbia end
Of the line. He says that at the summit
of Kicking Horse pass was found beau
tiful prairie, three miles long by two
wide. There was also chain OF three
lakes and beautiful glacier on the
south side appeared to fill up Q valley
in the mountains from the summit. The
party followed the side Of the mountains
for ten miles. From the summit the
Blackberry runs westward, and Bow
river eastward. The prairie referred TO
is described as interspersed with large
trees of spruce, Douglass fir and other
varieties, presenting beautiful, park
like appearance. During the past spring
three new parties were sent out TO re-
nlace those which had returned the pre-
cedinp winter. Those coming by way
Of Fort Benton reached Kicking Horse
valley in July of this year. Mai. Rogers
had in the meantime reached McMii-
lan's encampment. About the 4th OF
May party of ten or twelve men was
sent up Kicking Horse pass with sup
plies to meet Aymer's party, who It was
thought would be short OF provisions.
McMillan's party was reinforced by the
new party, and recommended work IN
the Kicking Horse pass. The surveys
Of ten miles each way having been made
from opposite directions, there remained
AN uNsURvEYED SPACE
Of ten miles, which the party now sur
viewed. The second summit Of the pass
il twenty miles from Columbia river.
Aymer's party is stated to have spent
a large portion Of the serson In
CUTTING TRAILS.
Here again it is stated there IS Q fall
Of about 800 feet in distance Of tive
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
A Good Race.

The following very interesting account
Of mile and quarter handicap at San
Francisco, in which two Montana horses
figured-one of them winnings from
the Examiner:
Joe Howell showed to the front right
away, Frank Rhoads close up and Boulis
but few feet behind. The rest strung
out length apart before the quarter had
been run. When they had gone half a
mile Frank Rhoads went up and passed
Howell and kept that order to the half
mile post, where Flowers, Winters little
colored rider, commenced to push up
with Atalanta. At the bottom of the
track Atalanta had got to third place
Here, too, Garfield made his effort, but
the pace was too hot, and he could not
stay. The real race was made on the
home stretch, from the three-quarter
pole all the way to the finish. Rhoads
was bit ahead at the stables, where
Duffy made his last effort with Joe
Howell. AS the gallant old horse rail-
lied under the whip and shot ahead Of
Rhoads, hundreds cheered and waved
their hats, for his success was very pop
ular and they thought he had won the
race. Then as the leaders speed began
to fail and Frank Rhodes crept up and
up until he had Tapped HowelI's girth,
the cheer died away and many long
face was drawn. Under the wire the
leaders thundered, Houston whipping
irantically and Duffy sitting close to
his horse, riding him out but using no
whip. "A dead heat cried the people
on the outside. Howell wins!' 'Rhoads
wins' came from all parts of the track,
but Joe Howell was the winner by
bare nose, and had the race been yard
longer, SO fast was Rhoads coming up
Howell would have gone to second
place"
did you not cut that trif1e fine, DUFF
fy?o asked the reporter, after the race,
thinking that Duffy was initiating Ford
ham, the illustrious English jockey,
and had purposely made a sensational
finish.
mo, SIR" replied Duffy "the last time
/ gave old Joe the whip he WINGED and
swerved, but did not respond, and /
knew that he was clean run out. All
could do was 10 ease him as much as
possible by sitting close and praying TO
the Lord that Houston would think he
was beat and stop coming. | tell you
that Joe was run out to the last pound,
and little wonder over such track with
that weight
The race was run in 2:17. The track
was very heavy.
The Montana race horse Jocko will
run in the two-mile heat race at Oak
land, California, on the 9th inst. The
reason Jocko did not take part in the
feur-mile race was because the track was
heavy, and, beside, had not had suffi-
cient work
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
LIGHTNING TICKS.

DETROIT, November 26.-Cornwell,
Prince & Co., the largest paper dealers
in the city, have failed. The figures are
not given. Their failure created much
surprise.
JOLIET, November 28.-The Trade
and Labor Council boycotted two news
papers of this city, and all merchants
who patronize them. on account of de-
nunciatoIy article in the papers directed
at unions.
RICHMOND, Va, November 2s.-The
state board of canvassers threw out the
vote of Gloucester county, and gave the
certificate of eIection to Mayo, coalition,
to congress. The delegation stands six
coalition and four democrats. Notices
Of contest are made.
CHICAGO, November 26.-Local papers
are calling the attention of Mayor Har-
rison to the fact that large number Of
gambling bells are openly running in
the city. Names of places and numbers
are given with great circumstantiality
but the Mayor professess to know no.
thing of any such illegal places. Uni
versal praise is accorded to the police
superintendent for his late raid on Han
kin's den, and he is urged to eradicate
the whole unlawful nest.
ROCHESTER,, November 2s.-A bad
disaster was narrowly escaped at Cayu-
ga, on the New York Central, where
some of the most horrible accidents in
the history of railroads have been wit
messed. The engine on a New York
express ran into drawbridge through
some sort Of carelessness that has char
acterized the management of this bridge
before. The forward part of the engine
rests on the deck Of canal boat in the
draw. Fo lives were lost.
CHICAGO, November 29.--Gen. Rose
Grams is here with his wife and daugh-
ter, en- route to Washington. He said
of Kearney. "The last heard of him he
was drayman for the custom house. The
sand lots party is gone, and Dennis is
working somewhere, but I've lost track
of him.
The only exclusive hardware house in
Northern Montana is that Of FL. J..
Wackerlin & Co
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
N o., z.

the skirt, and some are located SO as to
be frequently set down upon. After
reading this explanation her admirers
will be enabled to discover ut glance
their standing in the girls sinful love,
whenever she apperrs in her novel frock.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06

A gentleman from the east recently,
via the Northern Pacific, offers to wager
that trains will be running between St.
Paul and Helena before the close OF the
present fiscal year.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06
Distress in Ireland.

LONDON, Nov. M.-It has been offici-
ally reported to the Government that a
widespread distress is feared in Ireland
this winter. The distri It's are most seri-
ously affected through want Of the en-
ployed on farms and the failure Of the
potatoe crop are Sligo, Ballena, Seven
ford and the greater portion Of Galway.
There is much restitution in West Glare
and Connaught. Owing to the continu-
Gus heavy demands upon Irshmen in
America to support the Land League
there has been considerable decrease
in remittances to the struggling natives
in Ireland. This has reduced many to
the condition Of being unable to pur-
chase new seed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06

WASHINGTON, November 28.-Fort
Point, San Francisco, will hereafter be
known as Winfield Scott, and Fort San
Jose, on the same harbor. as Fort Mason.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-06

The only exclusive hardware house in
Northern Montana Is that Of FL. J.
Wackerlin & Go.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-16
A GhastIy Trophy.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.-Pale and
punched in features, woman of man.
moth proportions was carried into the
clinic room of the university hospital
this afternoon. The subject was
woman 81 years of age, the mother of
three children, who had come from her
home in Blanchard, Centre county, to
have determined by the knife the ques-
ton of her existence. The patient was
about five feet five inches in height, and
by actual measurement five feet and one
and one-half inches in girth, or within
three inches as great around as she was
in stature. The cause of her abnormal
condition was an ovarian tumor which
had already attained q weight much
greater than her body and was slowly
and surely sapping her vitality. The
tumor made Its appearance nine years
ago, and from the start grew with
amazing rapidity. For some lime
the woman had been absolutely unable
to assume any other than a sitting
posture, the very act of lying down,
making death certain by suffocation
DIR. Goodsell, after administering ether,
placed the insensible subject in the best
position her enormous bulk would per-
NIT, and made the incision. The knife
sank deep into the flesh, and the fingers
OF the surgeon separated the tumor
from the life it was feeding upon. When
the mass had been completely taken
away it was placed in tub of the larg-
est size, and filled the vessel within three
inches ofthe top. The t1mor was then
placed on the scales, and was ascertained
to weigh liz pounds, the largest, il is
believed, ever removed from a human
being. Subsequently, the patient, now
reduced 10 a mere skeleton, and hanging
to life by the veriest thread, was gently
lifted to the scales and found to weigh
but seventy-five pounds, or thirty-seven
pounds less than the mass just taken
from her body. On recovering con
sciousness the patient could scarcely ex-
press the sense of relief she experienced
at the absence of the weight that had
been burden to her for so many years
DR.. Goodsell, when the woman had
been carefully placed in bed expressed
the belief that she would live
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-16
FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.

Damage to Property by High Water.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. ia Vicks.
burg special says: Capt. Lennox, of the
steamer City of Providence, reports q
break in the levee at Trotter's Landing
opposite Helena, Arkansas. The levee
there is run around, and the damage is
not yet serious.
LITTLE Rock, Feb. ia Gazette's
Helena special says: The river at this
point has risen twelve inches. Many
express the hope that the crisis has been
reached, but are hoping against hope, as
advices from Madison and Walnut Bend
indicate rapid rise. During the past
"a hours the levee at Walnut Hill has
broken in several places. There are not
three acres of land TO be seen in any di-
Fection.
kilograms have been sent TO Memphis
asking tor boats to be sent down IL take
cattle, horses and mules.
The st. Francis river is reported rising
along its entire length. The situation
is indeed alarming, but the citizens of
Galena are determined to leave nothing
undone to keep out of the water.
a report was received at noon that
the levee had broken at Delta, Missis-
sippI, ten miles below, but the fun par
ticulaTs have not been learned.
The LoDgville river is on the ram
page. A trestle of the Iron Mountain
s. Helena railroad across the same is
about fifteen inches under water. Mails
and passengers are transferred by means
of skiffs. Lick creek is very high and
was running across the track of the Ar
kansas & Midland railroad at the
bridge.
1t is now raining hard. If it contin-
ues all the small streams in this section
will be booming by morning, greatly
interfering with railroad traffic. La
borers will be at work, and the levee
will be strongly guarded at all times.