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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
A Fight With the Apaches

CHICAGO, May IA dispatch
received this morning, dated Hermo-
sillo, May 10, says: Colonel Torres re-
turned last night from the Sierra
Madres. He had been pursuing the
| Apaches twenty days, and found
them entrenched in a stronghold in
the mountains. He attacked them
with 600 troops and dislodged them.
The troops tianked the hostiles,
charging them in the rear at the
point of the bayonet. The Indians
fled, leaving eleven dead. Five SOL
diers were Killed and eight seriously
wounded. Colonel Torres says the
Apaches fought savagely, and were
armed with repeating rifles. He
thinks the Indian troubles in Sonora
are ended. The troops returned to
Gunymas. Montezuma. with the
wounded and to replenish provisions.
Further particulars are expected this
evening.
SAN FRANCISCO, May ia
Chronicle special from Hermosello,
Mexico, gives further particulars of
Torres fight with the Indians. He
had been pursuing the Apaches for
tw enty days on the trail which led
to the MOnteZuma district in North
ern Sonora. At Guazonar he was
joined by Colonel Garcia and made a
forced march of five days and nights
for the hills of Sierra Madras. The
scouts spied the Indians moving off
twenty-five head of stock. A large
body was in a stronghold heretofore
~, TO tho o1SDek rnn,,t and
had the appearance of being settled
three or four years. They had Il
quantity of stolen stock. The old
huts the scouts attacked, but We're
driven back to the main body of
troops. The mountains being mae
cessible, the cavalry troops dismount-
ed and made a march of twelve miles
and found the Indians strongly in
trenched on the crest of a large spur
Of high mountains. The troops,
three hundred strong, madean attack
at l o'clock and had to climb the
mountain on their hands and knees.
The Indians, failing to damage
them by firing, rolled boul-
d-rs down the mountain side without
effect. 1t was supposed that Chief
OuA h0u u Sl1IlOH VII a 1llSh pplHI -
the mountain, in command of the
Indians, who could be heard distinct.
ly for a mile. 1t took two hours for
the troops to gain the crest of the
mountain. When they reached it
two were shot dead in the fight Oh
the summit. The fight lasted two
hours. The troops swung behind to
the left of the Indians and made an
attack, charging them with the bayo-
nets and forcing them from their po-
sition. The Indians fled, leaving IL
dead bucks on the ground. Five sol
diers were killed and eight seriously
wounded. The Indians were driven
for miles, and the trail showed mucl!
blood. A great many are supposed
to be wounded. Torres says 1t was
the most savage fight ever made with
the Apaches. He says they retreated
to northern Chiricahua. He thinks
that this was the long unknown
stronghold of the Apaches. 1t is two
hundred and fifty miles east Of
and about the same distance south
west from the Arizona border. tie
says that the trails of all the small
bands depredating Sonora and All
IONA lead to this place.
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An Important Bill.

LONDON, May ia pill was in
PRODUCED in the Commons yesterday
by which agricultural tenants will be
entitled to receive whenever their
tenancies expire compensation from
landlords for Improvements they may
have made to land they occupied.
This will be the principal measure
brought before the House this session.
By it the landlords right of distress
will be limited to a sum equivalent
to one years rent.
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The Milwaukee Sentinel should
have the services of a missionary all
to itself. Referring recently to the
statement of a Boston paper that ''the
list of divorce suits set down for trial
at the May term of the Supreme
Court is simply shocking" the
Wisconsin journal .%unfeelingly re-
marks: AFTER all, perhaps we ought
to let the Mormons alone-the mar
riages at Salt Lake serve to balance
the divorces in New England, and
the social equilibrium is MAIN
tained.u
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San Francisco Notes.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1O.-The in
quest on the death of the young mil
liner, Lottie Hunsenger. who died
suddenly in the rooms of Seth Cook,
the millionaire, resulted in a verdict
of an over dose of neuralgia pills care
lessiy administered by herself.
Military headquarters report no
news from Crook. None is expected
until he has accomplished what he
was directed to perform.
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PURSES VS.. BRAINS.

The unenviable notoriety which
many of the public men Of the day
have attained is directing the atten-
ton of the observing and thinking to
the mental calibre of those who are
guiding the destinies of this great
nation. The people are almost in
voluntarily making comparisons
which are not in the least f~attering
to our rulers. Here we have a coun-
try of SO, ZOO, 900 freemen. Schools, col
leges and churches are not wanting.
Every facility is offered for the cul-
,tivation of the mental and moral ma
ture of the citizen. The country is
rich in intellect. It cannot be said to
be a pauper in morals. Yet brains
are at a discount and corruption sits
in high places. The Bentons. the
Marcys, the Calhouns, the Clays,
the Websters, the Douglasses,
the Stewards, the Lincolns,
the Stephens and the Summers have
passed away, and their places are
filled-by whom? Are they men
who are distinguished for their ability
and craftsmanship? Are they men
who were chosen for their eminent
intellectual attainments and purity
of character? Are they men who
occupy their exalted positions by
virtue of their fitness for them ?
These questions are answered in the
charges and counter charges of fraud
and corruption which are SO freely
banded between those whom the
people have honored by bestowing
upon them the highest positions in
their gift.
Then the question is a pertinent
one how came these men in the
councils of the nation? If they are
not possessed of great intellect
ual power; if they are wanting
in the elements of craftsmanship; if
they are lacking in moral culture
how did they get there? The cynic
would answer by their purses, sir.
The politicians would reply by their
purses, sir. The average citizen,
with his eyes half open, would say
by their purses, sir. And the cynic,
the politician and the citizen would
be s.nearer right than he who de-
clared that positions of profit, honor
or trust yer bestowed upon men
nowadays OF account Of their pecu-
liar fitness for them. A long purse
is a better passport to political favors
than a long brain. Who would think
of a Sharon, a Fair, a Sabin, "a Mitch
ell, a Malone, a Riddleberger, a Ia
Dor, or q dozen others who might be
mentioned, for United States Sena-
tors if they were poor men?
Yet we find them and others of
like mental calibre filling the seats
once occupied by men whose pames
adorn the brightest pages of Ameri-
can history. The one have long
purses; the others had large brains.
Brains once won, but purses are
trumps now. The man that can
sport q $3.50 night-shirt and a bar'l to
air it on has more points in the game
for office than be who has nothing to
recommend him but an honest heart
and a cultured mind.
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A Niger in the Woodpile.

CHICAGO, May ia morning pa
| per prints the following It is stated
by well posted insiders that matters
OF grave importance are brewing in
the management of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
About six weeks ago p. =. Merrill,
General Manager of the line, with
members of his family and several
friends, among them certain well
posted eastern capitalists, started
from Milwaukee in a special car for
San Francisco. They travelled
through the west over the Union
Pacific, Central Pacific, Southern
Pacific, Mexican Central, Denver 4
Rio Grande, Atchison, Topeka l.
Santa Fe, Atlantic & Pacific, and
other roads, and only returned last
week. In an interview with the
Herald correspondent Merrill said
he returned we'll pleased with the
west and its grand resources. It is
now learned that there is little
doubt that the purpose of Merrill's
visit to the west and particularly
to California, was building, or rather
the extending of the Chicago, Mil
waukee Il st. Paul to San Francisco
and an active competition with the
Union Pacific, Burlington, Santa Fe,
Southern Pacific and Northern Pa.
cific and other California routes. 1t
is known that this road is now en-
gagged in extending their line to
Deadwood, and the track: is laid to
Chamberlain, D. T. 1t would take
but little more to build on to the Pa
cific coast. It is stated that Merrill.
when west, examined the country to
see where the best paying route from
DeadwOod west could be located. and
that he canvassed the chances for
u extension among western rail-
way men. He is said to have con-
suited, while in San Francisco. with
prominent Pacific coast capitalists as
to the prospects of their taking the
bonds of the new line. There are
said to be several big eastern capital
lists at present bolders of St. Paul
stocks and bonds in the scheme. The
matter will excite much comment
and discussion on all sides. Merrill
has never been a week away from his
duties before since his connection
with the st. Paul road, and hence
Importance is attached to the matter.
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HANGED.

CHICAGO. May 11.-At New Gen.
eseo, ILL.,, Sylvester K. Mackinston,
for the murder OF Mrs. Maggie Cope
land near Kewanee August 18th,
1882, was hanged at Cambridge county
seat at one o'clock this afternoon.
He protested his innocence and as.
cribed the crime to Joseph Cole.
JACKSON, Ohio, May l1.-John w.
Jackson was hanged here this after
noon for the murder of Samuel L.
Hull.
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SEX AND DISEASE.

Among other interesting data de-
veloped by the late census none are
more instructive or surprising than
! that devoted to disease and resultant
deaths considered in the light OF sex.
The following figures from Truth
show that of the total deaths during
the census year, 1880, 39l $50 were
males and 1854, 933 females, the total
living population on that day being
25,518,S2O males and "a, 8 1853 fe-
males. For every thousand deaths
of females there were 1,074 males,
which places the male death rate at
1876 per thousand and the female at
14.81 per thousand, a difference Of a
little over oAe-half of ore per cent.
Taking the group of only common
diseases, there were 2O4, 813 deaths. of
which 1O2, 700 were males and 1O2.1l3
semales, a difference of only 5S7 in
sex. Into this calculation, however,
should enter the fact that 4,3l0
females died of puerperal septicaemia,
a cause confined of course to women,
which shows that considerably more
males than females die of the COM
mon ailments.
There were but 81 deaths from that
dreaded disease, smallpox, and they
were about equally divided between
the exes. Seven hundred o fe-
males than males died of diphtheria,
the total being 38,39S. In ali the dis
eases of this group the number of
deaths was greatest among males,
with the exception of measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria. whooping cough
and fever. Two thousand n.re wo-
men than men died of old age, which
would indicate that women take bet
ter care of themselves than men-
but they are less exposed
to death by accident. Con-
sumption laid fatal seige to the lives
of over ten thou and more females
than males, and the grand total was
8 1861. Who will deny that thin
soles and insufficient clothing are re-
sponsible for this amazing difference?
Cancers killed 1906 persons, of
whom 5000 were females, an excess
against them of 1882. The largest
number of cases ofcancers in females
were internal-raising a question as
to whether corsets and tight lacing
are chargeable with this awful NOR
tality, making of woman SO easy a
target for death to aim at unerringly.
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Charged With Perjury.

NEW YORK, May 11.-Andrew J.
Smith, president of the Manhattan
Fire Insurance Co., has been arrested
and held in bail in the sum of S., 900,
charged with perjury in swearing to
false returns in the annual report of
the company for 1880 to the New
York insurance department.. Nc
Call swears that another officer of
the company, whose signature was
also affixed to the report, has pur-
Joined 500, 143, and that he altered
the compaBy's books, attempting
thereby to conceal embezzlement.
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Left in the Lurch.

CHICAGO, May 11.-Ihree male
members Of the Catherine Lewis
comic Opera company, Lennon,
Nash and Rickets failed to appear 81
the performance last night owing TO
the nrn-payment OF back salary. The
manager explains that owing 70 snS
extravaganza of Alfwedson, husnana
of Miss Lewis, whom she dismissed
of New York a few weeks ago q
left the metropolis heavily IN debt
but had nobly succeeded in wiping It
out. The performance PROCEEDED
with the Aid of minor members OF the
troupe.
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ThompsOn's Trial.

CISC1NNATI, May 1.-THE Times
Star Harrodsburg, KY, special says
In the trial of Phil. b. Thompson fol
the killing of Walter H. Davis. tne
calling of Mrs. Rothe, of the st. Clsll
Hotel, Cincinnati, by the defense, 10
prove the acts of Davis and MIS-
Thompson, was the signal for an on
lection by the commonwealth to !i't
admissibility of all evidence of tina,
character. An argument followed
for two hours, when the court rlleu
that it would admit evidence subject
to future ruling.
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Searching for Charred Bodies

JERSEY CITY, May 11.-Search is
being made for the bodies of the fire.
men and boys killed by the explosion
of q tank at the fire which YESTERDAY
destroyed the National Storage Com
panies works at Coxzen's Point.
Thus far a small 4uantity of charred
human bones have been found in
two distinct places under q piece of
iron, probably all that is left of two
victims. The bones have been D ut
in q keg. The water has been
dragged without success.
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Duel with Broadswords.

CHICAGO, May 1.-Two German
residents, G. H. J. Mallery, an un'
dertaker, and VIM. Baschorn, a brew.
er, both married men, had a duel
with broad swords at Brownsville,
suburbs of this city, late yesterday
afternoon, as it is alleged over the
affections of a maiden. Six carriag-
es containing principals, seconds,
surgeons, and friends proceeded to
the rendezvous. The undertaken the
challenging party, was cut rather
severely about his head and cried
quit. Nc arrests were made.
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Chinese laHv.

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE more
respectable Chinese residents of the
city sent a communication to the
police authorities promising aid in
supplesslng crime among their fellow
countrymon.
The sale of Jersey cattle continued.
- rIrinclpal sales, bull "Goldcoast.U
$2,2Oo. Imported heifer, "Dadier
nose, $!,o25: Heifer, "Aunty Bet
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Shanghai Notes.

SHANGHAI, May LII Hung
Chang has been nominated to the
chief command of the Southern
Provinces. 1t is doubtful whether
he will acc. pit.
The disturbances in WI Chang
nave been depressed. Thirtv-five
leaders OF the uprising have been be-
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San Francisco Mining Stocks.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-THE
following are the official closing
prices of mining stocks:
A Lockout.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, May ia
lockout occurred at w. S. Kimball
4 Co.'s cigarette factory to-day.
Seven hundred female employees
being refused work. The firm thrice
refused an advance of 2 per cent. de-
manded, and fearing a strike, refused
to give the employees work when
they arrived at the factory this morn
ing.
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The Chief

WASHINGTON, May 11.-Cbarles
Lyman to-day rendered his resigna-
11on as Chief Clerk of the u. s.
Ireasurer's office and subsequently
TOOK the oath of office as Chief Ex-
amlner under the Civil Service Com
mission. He will enter upon his
new duties tomorrow.
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BONDED

The following table exhibits the
bonded Indebtedness of thirteen rail-
roads, principally Western. The in
terest on this Indebtedness must be
first paid before earnings can be ap-
piled to stock dividends:
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Raum,s Place Filled.

WASHINGTON, May 1l.-John J.
Knox, Comptroller, entered upon
the temporary duties as acting Com
missioner of Internal Revenue to-
day. He says Deputy Commissioner
Rogers will virtually have full charge
of the business of the Office.
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WAsHINGToN, DC, May 1.-THE
comptroller Of carreucy authorized
the First National Bank of port
townsend, Washington Territory. to
0ee'n ouslness with q capital Of $5o,-
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New YORK, May 11.-Money 1904;
closed ; offered g.. Prime mercantile
paper, 6@64; Sterling Exchange
bankers bills quiet but firm at 81 833.
Sterling Exchange demand, S4.86f.
Dry goods, imports for the week,
81 7O7. 600.
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1t is said Vanderbilt's income is
now 80 large that he can't possibly
spend 1t. Now let him start two or
three daily newspapers to meet .
'long felt want"
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Rev. s. e. Snyder has been ap-
pointed Indian agent at Poplar
Greek, vice n. J. Porter.
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There were forty mineral locations
made In Madison County in the
month of April.
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George Wood came in from the pio-
neer camp yesterday.
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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
A New Railroad Enterprise
Talked About.
The Dodge City Difficulty
Much Exaggerated.
The Mexicans' Battle With
the Apaches.
Damaging Evidence Against
Jere Dunn.
Money Market.

MISCELLANEOUS, ETC. ETC
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a daring and dangerous undertaking
in which Crook is engaged, and not
only his ucces but his safety de-
ponds upon the loyalty of his Indian
scouts. Crook Is one of the ablest
and most fearless Indian fighters in
the United States service, but his
field of operations now is a very diff
ticult one. He is really driving In
dians-huating them out of their
mountain Businesses and forcing
them through passes into old Mexico
where a well-equipped army of grea-
sers stand ready to gobble them up.
He is making the present campaign
n of determination.
Salni Morse's Passion PLAY is. for
the time being, squelched, but Salmi
Morse is not. That irrepressible gen.
tleman has commenced q crusade
against the short skirts of ballet
dancers. The world, he says, is
scandalized at their brevity. They
should be heightened, contends this
new reformer. While there arr but
few who will disagree with Salmi,
the observing will detect q heroic
dose of sarcasm in his structures.
Public opinion "downed" his Pas
sion Play for its alleged blasphemy.
but this same public opinion has
never raised its voice against the
short-skirted fairies who nightly tip
toe and twirl before the fashionable
audiences of New York City. Salmi
evidently thinks they ought not to
strain at his gnat of q play while
they swallow without q grimace the
great camels of ~indecency found on
the New York stage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-17

FIG. u-CORONA, AS OBSERVED by LIAIS IN 1907.
Now here 1, rather rough picture and Is q wood-eut
of the eclipse of 1857, observed By the astronomer
Lais in Brazil, but It brings ont many curious things
about ths Here you have the disc OF the SUM-
and them these black spots here which are really
a brilliant red. They prominences which were
painted red in the picture from which the photograph
was taken but you know red takes black upon photo
graphic plate. you must imagine they are blazing
red suns Branching out dIrec, from t ans tss
popularity the petal shaped form or these rays with
fysa ef s Sqq T TS ont h The
eclipse, which was seen on tn Island Oh java III Isos,
swSa w a' the n%s iO curved lines: but
there was stream projecting out from the sun that
fact that the tails Of comets generally are pro,
jected very nearly directly from the SUM- and
was the fact that other observers did not see
IL at all At he eclipse at Sioux CITY, seen by Mr. Gil
tons. A: about that time there was great discussion
whether the corona was really somethins Of
or one whether it was Wholly in our own
atmosphere Many, British astronomer.-ProfesSo
own atmosphere although think the symmetrical
OF total eclipse the observer Is In the middle OF
a black shadow. and, as Tar as our ar
dark space instead Of bright one The question was
raised whether nt the sun aud WAS found
studying the spectrum Of the corona that certain pOr
tons gave peculiar green line when was at the une
supposed TO be- cOlncdent with the line ot irOn though
~. j
identity. Nobody knows what ir r. Il looks Ike sim
pie fact that this spectrum should give bright line int
hut that entirely conclusive evidence that
the corona cannot entirely at the IN
atmosphere. II t az the edge 81 tic moon we Ought
TO see that bright line all the time 10 could not he IN
atmosphere. The shading OF portion OF
own atmosphere by tho moon ought not
for any asfgnabe reason to bring out bright line in
the spectrum. 20 that settled the matter and proved
thar 1t 10 great radiation from tho sun. You
carry that to the and 10 becomes
q phenomenon Of great interest and Importance
TO the explanation Of these strcaks and rays wo arc
not yet abe TO give any; 10 not know how they
come. precisely; do we know precisely Why this
material shines, what II Is mudc o. although sc arc
ahe 10 detect hydrogen IN portions OF It,
In 1870. the next year, an eclipse occurred In the
Mediterranean sen and in Spain and italy. and tho
corona photographed by Taccnin on The Island Of
Sicily l had the pleasure Of obserying that
Same eclipse in Spain. and although We
were troubled By couda succeeded
in getting photograph OF the that agreed very
well with his YOu Will find when sou como TO study
different pictures critically that they 20 certain
main feaiures the Re ns yOu VIII find that there
Is most slrpraug and curious difference ln the repro
nrnfn TINT dIlI.rnnt