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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-21

BY a new law, the postoffice de-
partmeEt will issue "postal notes" of
S. and less, in July, to be used for
the transmission of small sums of
money by mail-good for thirty days.
OF the temporary clerks in the PEN
sion Office, whose appointments
expire this month, $50 will be re-
appointed and 80 will be discharged.
There will be no further reappoint-
ments until April /.
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From the Daily of Tuesday.
The Union Guards.

The new military company which
was organized last Friday is com.
posed of Butte and Centreville men,
and. now numbers n hundred
members. A letter from Governor
Crosby was read at the meeting in
which the Governor warmly ap-
proved of the organization and prom
ised to do all in his power to furnish
the company with arms from tre
Territorial armory. The following
roster of commissioned and nOn-com-
missioned officers was elected to
serve until January LIST, 1884:
Secretary, Edwin Edwards.
Treasurer, Thomas Trevail.
Captain, Samuel Reynolds.
First Lieutenant, Bird Reynolds.
Second Lieutenant, w. H. Mitch
ell.
Second Junior Lieutenant, George
Leford.
Orderly Sergeant, George Ham.
Second Sergeant, Thomas McCrin-
non.
Third Sergeant, James Greach.
Fourth Sergeant, Thomas Crapp.
Quartermaster Sergeant, William
Moulder.
Color Sergeant, VIM. Joab.
First Corporal, John Conroy.
Second Corporal, Thomas Temby.
Third Corporal, Nicholas Tregear.
Fourth Corporal, William Cur
rens.
Fifth Corporal, Samuel Tonkins.
Sixth Corporal, Walter Jane.
Seventh Corporal, John Gold
smith.
Eighth Corporal, Ed. Rodda.
A vote of thanks was rendered to
the Silver City Cornet band for the
use of their hall. The Alice band, of
which the members were all enrolled
members Of the guards, were elect
ed as the company band.
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Mail Matters.

We acknowledge a pleasant call
from postofIice inspector T. K. Ban
herman of Salt Lake. He informs
us that hereafter there will he no
cause for complaint regarding the
delay of mail matter at Silver Bow
Junction, as a through pouch will be
carried both ways between Butte and
Deer Lodge, which will not he
opened except ut terminal points.
MI. Zimmerman also informs us that
it has been decided to discon tinueth
Valley postoftice, as those who have
heretofore been served at that office
can now be accommodated through
the Stuart postonce.
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JUDGE LYNCH.
Two Suspected Inoendfarfas
Dragged From Their
Beds and hung by
Masked Men.
Violent Death of an Eccentric
Old Timer.

HELENA, M. T., March 10, 1888.
On last Friday night a barn belong
ing to H. G. Mentally, who lives or
the Mullan tunnel road, near the
eleven mile house, was burned with
all its contents, including eight
horses and three cows, besides sad.
dies, harness, hay and grain.
The fire was believed to be the work
OF an incendiary, aud suspicion fell
upon old man Coombs, who is post.
master and proprietor of the Eleven
Mile house, and his hired man, Jim
Smith. The suspected men have
been closely watched since the fire
and aside from some very suspicious
actions, both have dropped state
msnts showing great animos-
lty toward Mr.. McNally
and evincing a guilty knowl-
edge of circumstances connected
with the burning of his barn. It
had been determined to secure war
rants for their arrest tomorrow, but
about two O'Clock this morning a
band of masked men rode up to the
house kept by Coombs, four of whom
dismounted and knocked at the door.
Upon the door being opened by a fe-
male attendant, the four men rushed
past her, and proceeding to the room
occupied by Coombs and Smith,
dragged both of them from their beds
and hustled them out into the road,
where ropes were placed about their
necks, by which they were led a
short distance from the house and
hung. The vigilantes rode off, leav-
ing the bodies hanging. None of
them were recognized, and nothing
is known of their identity, but they
are supposed to be residents of the
vicinity. Both Coombs and Smith
bore an unenviable reputation, and
have been suspicion I'd of many
crimes since they came to this Sec
ton.
Tom Darlington who has for many
years carried on a vegetable ranch
on prickly Pear creek, about five
miles from this city, came in yester-
day with a load of potatoes. After
.disposing of his load he started home
with his team. A short distance from
the city the horses became frightened
and--ran away. The wagon struck a
large boulder, upsetting it and throw
ing Mr.. Darlington from his seat.
struck on the side of his head
breaking his neck and killing him in
Deceased was an early set
tier here and was well known, as an
and uneducated but very
shrewd and successful ranchman. |
He was about fifty years Of age, and
un married.
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The nearest Northern Pacific town
to Butte, which is expected to boom,
is Townsend, situated about seventy
miles east Of this city on the line
between Jefferson and Meagher
counties. As yet the embryo city
exists principally on paper, but a
large number of lots have been pur-
chased by prospective settlers
and building operations have
commenced on a small scale.
The people Of Radersburg, about
fifteen miles this side of the
new town haye contracted for the
construction of a number of business
houses and residences aud it is stated
that the entire town Of. Center
Vile, situated three miles north will
be moved into the boom town next
month.
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Personal.

R. L. Davis, of Deer Lodge, is in
the city.
Rev. s. C. Blackiston has returned
from Deer Lodge.
Marcus DAILY spent st. Patrick's
Day in Salt Lake City.
J. S. Robertson and wife arrived
from San Francisco on Monday
nights train.
Col. w. N. Aylesworth has re-
turned from Deer Lodge, and is re-
operating at the st. Nicholas.
N. J. Beilenberg and P. H. Beilen-
berg and daughter, of Deer Lodge,
are spending a few days in the city.
Townsend.
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AS the warm season is approaching
persons who have dogs running at
large should have them registered
and properly tagged by the City
Marshal, or a scarcity of CANNES may
soon take place in this market.
The editor of an agricultural jour-
nal has been asked by q correspOn-
dent for an answer to the question,
"Do hogs pay p" Looking over his
subscription list he finds they do not
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-21
MARRIED..

GARWOOD-LAMASTER.--At Mountain
View NJ. f.. Church, IN Butte City, NJ.
T, March 18th, 1855. by Rev. j.. j. Garvin
Mr.. lie Roy Garwood and Miss Ida La
Master.
STURTRiDGE- COMMQNS.-I In Butte.
M. T., March, II, 1855, by Rev. j Jay
Garvin. Thomas Sturtridge and Bessie
Commons.
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The colossal remains of some eX-
tinct species of animal which were
found in the Belt range, and have
been on exhibition III this city for
some months past, have been pur-
chased for the Harvard University by
direction of Prof. AgaSSiZ,
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EUROPEAN
STEAMSHIP TICKETS.
Z

WIN AAlNILA<tiA htA 1 l-tD'
Tickets sold from all parts of Eiu-
rope, to and from all parts OF Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana ut
greatly reduced and forrest possible
rates over the following lines:
North German Lloyd Steamship
Company.
Hamburg American Packet Co.
White Star Line Steamship Co.
Red Star Line Steamship Co.
American Line Steamship Go.
Apply personally or by letter to
~OLDENDORFF. HARJLI
&c LEAHI. agents, No. 10, WASH
ington Street, National Bank Build
ing, Portland. Oregon
p. o. Box So. 3-o1 sW-2m
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Taken UD.

Came to my premises on or about Fab. Il,
1855. one roam COW; no marks or brands. n"ns
broken and dropped. Also, a young ttit.
five or six days OIL. The owner is requested
TO prove property. pay charges and take
them away. f w. FARLlN.
2Steb-S-W-3W
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quer time. ''SGG a week IN your own town.
So outfit free. No risk. Everything new.
Capital not required We will furnish yon
everything. Many are making fortunes. la
dies make as much as Maen, ana boys and
girls make great pay. Reader if you want
business at which You can make great pay
all the time write for particulars to H.. Hal
lett Il Co, Portland, Maine.
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GF1 A week made at home by the indus
Oh trious. Best business now bcfor"
the public. Capital not needed. We vii
start you. Men, women, boy ana girls
wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is
the time. You can work in spare time or
give your whole time to the business. No
other business will paw nearly a. we'll.
No one can fail to make enormous pay by
engaging ut once. Costly outfit and terms
freq. Money made last. easily and honorably
Address True Il Co.. Augusta, Maine,
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who~dO not improve their opportunities re
main in poverty. We offer Il great chance
to make money. We want many men.
women, boys and girls to work for US right
in their W localities. Any one can do the
work for us prOparl7 from the fist start.
The buslre>s will pay more rhan ten times
ordinary wages. Expensive outfit furnished
free. No one who engages fails to make
money !abidly. Y;n can devote yCnl whole
time 10 the W0rk.r o lly our sr re mo-
meutS. Full information and ali tiat is
needed selit free. Address Stilis m 4 Co..
Portland, Maine. 3iT:sWiy.
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Stock Ranch for Sale,
Cheap for cash. a No. I stock Ranch,
improved. Suitable for Cattle; Horses or
Sheep Government title.
Address, A. NJ. BERRY.
Virginia City, Madison County, NJ. 4.
lOma-SWtt
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0Hn not. life is sweeping by. go
and dare before you die.
q something mighty and sub
lime leave behind to con
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Aa1A0 - People are always on the
lookout for chances ~ in.
crease thcirearnings and in
SkN time become WealthN;lhOse
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-15
Chickens Hatched by the Hundred.

DIR. G. Morwitz, proprietor of the Ger
man Democrat, is successfully engaged
in Matching chickens by artificial means
on his farm, near Bristol. The incuba-
tor which he uses is heated by an ordi
nary stove, which does not consume for
the purpose of warming the eggs more
than q few pounds of coal, at cost of
about 80 cents, or less than 81 for the
entire time necessary to hatch out box
of 400 eggs. Usually about 80 per cent.
of these eggs are Matched, which is 80
per cent. more than the results obtained
from the Matching of eggs by the natural
process.
One of these stoves will answer for
four incubators, containing 100 eggs
each, and as many as 1900 young chick
ems have been Matched by this artificial
process at one time, The eggs which
are placed in the incubator and will not
hatch on account of want of vitality, are
taken out after q few days, cooked hard
and fed to the young chickens, which
are very fond of them. 1t is curious
fact that such eggs are really good for
table use, even after they have been in
the incubator for some time. The young
chickens are cared for in the machine
until they are able to care for them
selves in small covered place, provided
for them to run in, with the aid of an
artificial mother. The incubator used in
the experiments is very simple, and was
invented and has been patented by nj.
Meyers, the superintendent of the farm.
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building iatO the Air.

Plans were filed the other day for .
magnificent apartment-house up town
which is to be twelve stories high. New
Workers used to gasp at seven and eight
stories. but what do they think of living
$50 feet up in the air?
The proper answer to this is that they
will get So accustomed to it as not to
Think about the matter ut all. The real
growth of New York is not longitudinal,
but vertical. 1t is cheaper to build in
the air than into the adjoining lot. And
cheapness, not safety, will determine the
direction. The ordinary imagination cat
see in the near future palatial structure,
in New York that are tweuty-four store
les high, and beside whose ascent Mon
Blanc will be child's play. At the bot
tom of these heaven reaching homes, tho
well-meaning but helpless Fire Depart
ment will stroll in times of fire, using
telescopes instead of hose, and remind.
ing one of astronomers observing the
transit OF Venus.
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Zero Suits the Obelisk.

| The obelisk shows no outward evi.
dences of suffering from the cold. 1t is
of syenite, variety of granite in which
the mica is replaced by hornblende.
None of it has split off IN the late frosts,
| so far as discovered.
think it will become gradually disin-
| tegrated if exposed to our climate, u
Gen. Di Cesnola said yesterday. 81 do
not care to say much about the matter,
as those who are responsible for it are
not of my opinion. AS to the crack
which now appears in the obelisk, do
weather, but of the heat endured by the
stone when Cambyses set fire to Heliop-
oils"
II don't know enough about the
stone," said Mr.. Calvert Vaux, "to Judge
how it will stand our climate, but there
are many tests which Can be applied to
stone. A good test is soaking a piece of
the stone repeatedly in solution of ep'
som salts, which will affect it just as
| frost will.
Commander Gorringe said: "There is
no truth whatever in the stories about
the disintegration of the obelisk. They
are periodical, and l believe they
originate with the inventor of silicate
paint. The Luxor obelisk in Paris was
covered with thin, transparent coating
of caotchouc in 1903, when it was erected.
| The coating was several times renewed,
but it was abandoned long ago, and no
appreciable disinte grafton has taken
places. Red spenite is very hard des-
cription of granite. l made squeeze
| from the inscriptions before the obelisk
was put up, and there is no apparent
difference now between the squeeze
and the inscriptions before the
| obelisk was put up. and there
is no apparent indifference now between
the squeezed and the inscriptions. The
| assure near the base on the east side is
not a crack, and it il nowhere no more
than one-third of an inch in depth. The
very earliest photographs, taken in
Egypt, show issures-some of these
photographs in my possession being 20
years old. 1 explored that fissure with
a sharp.pointed, thin steel blade, and
found it to have been once occupied by
| vein of hornblende. which long
ago disappeared. Hornblende yields
more rapidly than the other constituents
of the stone to atmospheric influences.
| AS to tlle otuer partS WHICH snoW rouSH
surface, they are in exactly the condition
they were in when 1 took possession of
the stone in Egypt. Assuming the most
rapid rate of disintegration yet claimed
as the effect of the American climate,
the hieroplyphs will be perfectly legible
five thousand years hence. The stone
was quarried three thousand six hundred
years ago, and that period, added to five
thousand. makes, 1 think, fairly rea-
sonable legible life for an inscription.
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and twenty-five rods and empties into
Ham river! You boys would look nice
starting out as lawyers, doctors and
book-keepers, wouldn't you? Go to
your seats, and as a punishment each
one of you must write fifty words and
give ME the name of every President of
the United States.
"Class in arithmetic step this way and
be careful how you step or you won't get
any dinner to- day. Now, James, what
is rhom boid?'
81 don't know, sir"
"You don't? You are expecting to
grow up and become a clerk in cloth
ing store, and you don't know what
rhomboid is! A rhomboid, sir, is par
allelogram whose opposite sides are only
equal, and whose angles are not right
angles. Take your seat, and don't you
dare look up until you have committed
seventeen pages of history to memory"
"Now, Thomas, what is the amount
due on q note for $467 1879, given for
one year, ono day, one hour and nine
tenths of minute, and bearing seven
aud three-elevenths per cent. interest?
Come, now, answer OFT hand"
Cant do it, sir"
IOu cbu u. Ohiy yooOChuuy yOu tOlu
me that you intended to run grist mill
when you grew up, and here you can't
answer a simple question in mathematics!
You'll never be able to run one end of
corn-sheller, and might as we'll tell you
so now. Go to your seat and cipher out
160 examples in vulgar fractions"
"Class in ancient history now advance.
When was the first rebellion against the
Assyrian King Saradanapalus?"
No answer.
flames, Henry, Charles, Samuel
what! None of you able to answer this
question! You are preparing to go out
into the world as insurance canvassers,
telegraph operators, bank clerks, board
of trade spectators, and behold your
ignorance! What would any of you do
if you were walking through an alley on
dark night twenty years hence and
some one should suddenly stop you and
ask this question? The class Is dismissed.
How the next generation will manage to
run stores and factories and keep the
wheels of progress moving, l don't
know"
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Pig.StlckIng In Morocco.

The sport par excellence, however,
of the country is pig-sticking, for which
expeditions are periodically organized by
Sir John Drummond Hay, the British
minister to the court of Morocco, and
owing to his kindness and hospitality
was enabled to see good deal of this
pastime. The other method of boar.
hunting is by the battue system, the
guns being posted in front, and the
game driven up to them. This, if not
equal to pig-sticking, is like excel,
lent fun-the shrieklng and uproar OF
the heaters, accompanied by the barking
of dogs, the braying of horns, and the
discharge of guns, rendering it very ex-
citing. The curses and imprecations,
mingled with the most biting sarcasms
that are showered on the unfortunate
animals, are enough to outset the most
stubborn boar from his lair. An Arab
oath is very elaborate affair, being
sustained through number of paren-
thesis and subordinate phrases to an in
definite length. MAY Allah burn the
ashes of your great grandfather, who
was the miserable offspring of brother
and sister," etc., may serve as an
example. They imagine the unclean
animal to be the abode Of jins, or
evil spirits, and maintain sometimes q
running conversation with HIM, every
word of which he is supposed to under
stand. There is a curious ceremony
connected with the sport to which all
successful noyices are subjected. After
killing my first pig the chief hunter
came up and took away my gun, and, 1t
ring being formed, the piece was put up
to auction. After it had been hidden for
a while you have to buy it in yourself at
a certain price, say four or five dollars.
1t is way of paying the heaters. who
otherwise contribute their services for
nothing Boar hunting has its disad-
vantages, for it is unquestionably dan.
gerous amusement. There are perils Of
the pig, which, if wounded, will turn
and rend you; perils of the gentleman,
who will ride with his lance in rest in
stead of carrying the point in the air. or
if the no less Objectionable individual
who shifts from his post and fires wildly
down the line; OF the ambushed Moor,
who shoots impartially in any direction
while, unless you are well mounted, you
have very tolerable chance of breaking
your neck.- Edinburgh Magazine.
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Going to School.

"Class in geography, come forward,
and in case any OF you drop pencil.
1 will keep the whole school in at re-
cess. Now, then, where is Green Cheese
creek?"
They give it up.
WHAT None Of you able to answer
that question? Here are twenty boys
who expect to become business men, and
seven girls who will become wives and
mothers, and not one Of you know that
Green Cheese creek rises in the south
eastern part of Hindostan, and flows in
northwesterly course for seventeen miles
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lie Knew What She Wanted.

A young lady in q neighboring town
last week went into q dry goods store and
thus unburdened herself:
1T is my desire to obtain a pair OF cir
cular elastic appendages, capable OF
being contracted or expanded by means
OF oscillating FURNISHED steel appliances,
that sparkle like particles of gold leaf set
with Cape May diamonds, and which are
utilized for retaining in proper position
the habiliments Of the lower extremities,
which innate delicacy forbids me to
mention"
The vendor of calicoes was non plussed.
but not wishing to appear ignorant. said
that he was ''just out" After her de-
parture hc ruminated in silence for Q
few moments, when new light broke
upon his distracted brain, and he broke
forth with:
by thunder! I'll bet that woman
wanted pair Of garters."
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HE AND SHE.

She was sitting at the window
AS he passed,
And ne wished himself in Hindoo-
Stan for fast.
In the gutter stuck his shoe.
And straight in the air he flew
All aghast.
He was sitting in puddle,
Awful mad,
And his head was in a fuddle-
II was sad
While the girl she coldly smiled,
While the more his soul it rilcd.
Crushed lad.
lie was sitting at the window
As she fell;
! think il was sin, do
You rs welt?
He turned not away his head
They were silk, and colored red.
Don't you tell.
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An Abundance OF FOrefathers.

Persons suddenly enriched by some
unexpected freak of fortune are apt to
suffer from lack of ancestry, and to MUIR
muir at Destiny for having omitted to en-.
dow them with length of descent as well
as with abundance OF wealth. An Italian
statistician has made a discovery that
can scarcely fail to prove consolatory to
parvenus who have hitherto deemed
themselves afflicted with the above-men-
toned dearth of forefathers. According
to this painstaking calculator, every hui
man being at present upon the face OF
globe has the undoubted right to claim
descent from no fewer than one hundred
and thirty-nine thousand two hundred
and forty-five billions Of ancestors, only
as far back as the commencement of the
Christian era.
Besides the above number-should he
make point of being exact in family
matters--some odd ancestors are still
due to him from the epoch in question,
II .O0O, 600, 900 or so. But few men, we
think. however greedy with respect to
a copious ancestry, are likely to be over
particular about such q trifing item as
the last one referred to, while cheered
by the proud conviction that, barely
1900 years ago, it took nearly a
hundred and forty thousand billions of
progenitors to render their existence pos
sible at the present day. The Italian
states his proposition very reasonably.
Everybody must, at one time or another,
have had father and o mother; those
parents cannot have been exceptions to
this absolute rule, and ancestors must,
therefore, be multiplied backward by
two according to the law Of pro-
gression, which process, reck-
oning three generations to
the century. will, at its ffty-seventh
power, yield 139. 245. GIT .489. 534 .976 an
cestors for each man of our day, no mat
ter how seemingly humble his birth.
Let there be no more complaints OF in
sufiiciency in the matter Of forefathers.
The number indicated, II correct, Ger
tainly point to superfuity rather than to
privation Of that article, ~ we'll a. to q
somewhat remarkable surplus popula-
ton Of this globe in the year of our Lord
One.-l London Telegraph.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-15

The Rev. Singsing-ki. Of Hok.ning-
foo, is discouraging tho opium-smoking
habit in and about Fun Chow, Kuohsng
and Sioh-chio..