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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-18
TIE DEATH
A Murderous Monaghan Sent to
His Celestial Home at
MissOula.

Special Dispatch to the MINER.
MIssvULA, August 16.
All Young, diias All Kee, the
Chinese murderer of Horse Plains,
was hanged at 2 p. m. to-day in the
presence of 100 spectators. He walked
boldly up the flight of steps to the
scaffold, where his arms and legs
were Immediately bound, the black
cap adjusted, the moose thrown
over his neck, and in
less than a minute was
dropped irto eternity. His neck was
broken by the fall. Not a muscle
moved nor was a tremOr observed.
His pulse stopped beating in one
minute and a halt, and in thirty
minutes the body was cut down and
buried.
The preparations for the execution
we're complete. The "drop" had
been thoroughly tested, and the gal
lows enclosed by a high board fence
in compliance with the salute.
Briefly, the crime tor which All
Young suffered the extremepenalty of
the law, was committed as follows:
Early last spring at Horse Plains he
endeavored to blow up a tent
occupied by several Cinnamon
to secure money and valuables
locked in a trunk. Six sticks of giant
powder were fired, but the tent was
not blown up nor did the inmates
run away as anticipated. All Young
was seen and his name called, where
upon be fired his revolver, killing
one of the Chinese occupants of the
tent and w%cunding another. He
was subsequently arrested, tried,
convicted and sentenced to be
hanged August 10TH:
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THE READY
Jack James Shot and Killed by
L. 8. Leavltt at Barker
Junction.

From Gus Shaffer, superintendent
of the Barker stage line, we learn the
particulars of q murder at Barker
Junction which occurred Monday:
l.. S. Leavitt owns a ranch on up
per Otter creek which was leased this
year by Jack James. They have not
agreed upon some business matters
and from time to time have had their
disputes. Monday the old quarrel
was renewed at Barker junction,
where they CHANGED to meet. James
had a picket rope in his band upon
the end of which was a pin, and he
struck at Leavitt with this, when the
latter drew his revolver and
fired the fatal SHOT. The bullet took
effect in the center of the forehead,
causing instant death. There we're
two or three witnesses to the affair,
and it is claimed that the deed was
done IN self-defense. However, if
the statement Of facts are as we have
learned them it is pretty hard to see
ju. t where the self-defense comes in.
The Barker coach came along soou
after the shooting, and as it hap
pened, Sheriff Cameron, of Meagher
county, was a passenger. Leavitt
gave himself into the custody of the
sheriff and was taken to Barker,
where he will have a preliminary
examination before a justice Of the
peace.-River Press.
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SNAKE v PLA GERS.
Gold Enough to Pay the Rational
Debt.

An Eagle Rock correspondent of
the Salt Lake Tribune says:
The gravel bars OF Snake River
are becoming valuable. There is not
a claim within five miles of Eagle
Rock that Is not staked OFT.
A paragraph went the rounds OF
the papers a year ago, saying:
"rhere is gold enough inSnake Riv-
er valley to pay the National debt, II
it can be saved.'
1t can be saved! Ninety per cent.
is now being saved by the best appli-
ances around Eagle Rock. This pc
culiar kind of mining is yet in its in
fancy, but it is taking giant strides.
Scarcity of water is a great drawback.
The Snake River Water Co. is fur
nishing all the water now used. This
company cal supply water for thirty
miles in length; but except where
the gravel banks are TRIBUTARY to the
canal, the gravel is, for the present,
un workaDle.
One man with plenty of water can
wash out about half an acre during
during the season. He can WASH
out ST. every day, at a very low esti-
mate. This makes about : $4,000 gold
that can be saved in every acre OF
these gravel beds. How many acres
are there?
There will be gold enough washed
out and saved in the next ten years,
from the Snake River gravel beds, to
a the National debt twice over!
bonanza kings will be made on
Snake River in the next two years.
The time has come; the valley is
ready to yield up its untold millions
of gold. Fortunate the men who get
in on the ground floor.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-18
THE DILLON
Mrs. Clark Thinks Eva Sulcided
and Refuses TO Believe
Lewis Guilty.

A Chicago special to the Minnesota
Tribune says:
A telegram was received from Dill
lon, Mont, stating that a young girl
named Eva Clark, whose home was
in Chicago, had been killed, and that
Chas. A. Lewis was in custody on
suspicion of having murdered her.
The mother of the girl, Mrs. r. &.
Clark, lives at 4O6 Madison street.
She says that last May, Eva, who is
a gifted Young girl Is years OF age,
went with Lewis to travel as his
assistant on a lecturing trip.
The entertainment included lee
lures on psychology, meslnerism
and sleight-of-hand tricks. The
mother received letters frequently
bo'h from Lewis and her daughter,
and had reason to believe she Was be-
ing well treated. She refuses to be-
lieve Lewis is guilty, and thinks her
daughter has committed suicide. The
only thing that could have induced
the girl to take her own life was
broodinc over the brutal treatment
received from her father last fall. Her
father is James S. Bird, of Pent.
water, Mich, nut he has not lived
with Eva's mother for Is years.
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Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

The distinguished lecturer, Rev:
Henry Ward Beecher, accompanied
by Mrs. Beecher, will arrive from
Deer Lodge on this mornings train.
While in the city they will occupy a
suit of rooms at the Centennial hotel.
The matter OF giving the eminent al.
vine a reception has been broached
by prominent citizens, but in the ab-
sence of any information as to Mr..
Beecher's views i'm regard IT, the mat
ter, no definite action has been taken.
1t is probable that the rapid trip
across the continent, and consequent
ly short stops at each place, whlcn
Mr.. Beecher is making. reiider IL
necessary for him to decline all pup
lie receptions. and that he is fuinll-
ing his. trans continental engage-
lnents under a heavy strain is lndl-
Gated by the following extract fren
a letter written by Mrs. Beecher TO a
friend in Helena.
This is not a journey, but a race;
travelling all day, lecturing at nlgh';
Mir. Beecher, when On an extended
lecturing tour, especially when ne
Will be taxed as severely as on this
one, never gees toany friends house.
even when close by, hut goes at once
to lis room at II hotel ana Keeps
quiet, going nowhere, and seeing no
one, but rests, writes, or sleeps untll
time to go to his lecture. He says ne
enjoys so much talking with friends,
and being with them, that is uses up
the vigOr and strength he must nave
TO keep his brain clear"
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Escape of Indian Prisoners.

Four Indians, two Stonies, a Pie
gan and a Blood, undergoing sen
fence, escaped from the custody of
the guard last week. While out ex-
ercising, they suddenly, in some
mysterious manner, got off the balls
and chains, securely fastened and
locked to their legs, and made a bold
dash for the brush and liberty. The
sentry pursued, firing a number Of
shots, which only had the effect
of making them run faster
which they did. They took the old
direction, through the brush east of
the tort to the river. f. w. Spicer,
an ex-sergeant in the police, was near
by, and riding across the river sue
ceeded in heading off the two STONES.
They attempted to stard him off
with rocks, but he held them there
until the police arrived, who cap
tured them and brought them back
to durance vile. The other two got
away and nave not since been heard
of.-MQcle0d Gazette.
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dvic to Mothers.

Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering and crying with pain of
cutting teeth? If so send at once and
get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's SoOth-
ing Syrup for children teething. Its
value is incalculable. It will relieve
the poor little sufferer Immediately.
Depend upon it mothers, there is no
mistake about it. It cures dysentery
and diarrhea, regulates the stomach
and bowels, cures wind collie, softens
the gums, reduces inflammation, and
gives tone and energy to the whole
system. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup for children teething is pleas
ant to the taste, and is the prescrip-
ton of one of the oldest and best fe-
male physicians and nurses in the
United States, and is for sale by all
druggists throughout the world.
Price 70 cents per bottle. 616-swly
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From the Daily of Friday.
RIOTOUS LIVING.
What q Staid Old Man Saw in
Helena, Daer Ledge and
Butte.

The Portland Nevs in an article
upon the general depravity of west
ern cities, cites the experience of a
staid old man:
"Who has taken fifty years of hard
work in an Atlantic city to earn a
holiday long enough to see the length
and breadth Of his own country. He
stops first at Chicago and there sees
some indications of riotous living that
slightly shock him; then he comes on
to st. Paul, and sees SON ething q lit
tie more open. At Helena he finds
the business men all congregate in
some richly appointed drinking sa-
loon. and that gives him another
shock, for in his old town, where he
is rich, with his money at four per
cent, he was taught that no business
man who goes in a saloon in open
! daylight can be trusted; but when he
| gets to Deer Lodge he is all aghast.
| He never dreamed of such a thing as
possible in this land of greatness and
wealth. There, by the open street
doors. where women and children
must pass, are groups of men around
faro layouts, and other groups busy
| at what is there called ''studhorse
poker" He pauses in blank amaze
ment, which is not lessened when
some more knowing traveller tells
him that tue p%roprietors of these
games are the men who really pay
the local taxes. Then he goes to
Butte, and in being driven through
the city to the mines he sees, for the
first time in his life, the gilded names
of harlots blazoned or the doors ia
signs a yard long. Probably the
good old soul lad never seen
a faro layout in all his pre-
vious experience, and as for this
other evidence of vice, he had known
that there were harlOts, as he had
known that there was a hell, and he
had a pretty definite idea that the
abodes of harlots were mysteriously
somewhere between the earth and
the other place. To see them on the
principal streets staggered him."
THIS is rough on the denizens of
our capital city who are noted for
their abstemious hsbits and proper
department. The good people of
Deer Lodge, which is the moral and
virtuous community of the Territory,
will scarcely recover from the shock
which this aspersion upon their
character will give them; but the
people of Butte would like to know
what route this innocent old tender
foot took to the mines, as none of
them lie In the direction of Park
street.
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Produce Market Report

BUTTE, NJ. T., August Is, 1888.
The following are the wholesale
prices paid by merchants and hotel
keepers for the commodities enumer-
ated, delivered from the wagons
Price list carefully corrected every
Saturday:
Flour Ruby Valley, xxx, $500
Mill Greek, xxx. $3.50
percwt.
Kansas xxx $3.50.
Bakers, $3.50.
Mill Greek, New Process, $500.
Gallatin, $40 per cwt.
Union Mills, New Process, Cream
of the Valley, $500
Ruby Valley, new process) $500.
Union Mills xxx Snow flake,
$3.50.
Utah Common, 1925
Utah Choice, $500.
Graham, $500.
Wheat per Ill.,, q cts.
Oats, $3.50.
Butter, per Ill.,, s2@35 cts.
Eggs, per case, $500.
Corn Meal, &c.
Beef, carcass, 124 cts.
Hay per tol, $23@$25
Bailed Hay, per ton, $22@23.
Cheese, 2O@22 cts
Barley, $2.25@2.5O per cwt.
Dried beans, Montana, I cts.
Mutton, 10 cts.
Pork, dressed, Is cts. per ID.
Veal, l5cts. per 10.
Chickens, live, $12 per dozen.
Wood, 1925 @ $500
Potatoes, $1.3O@l.5O p cwt.
New potatoes A at SC per 10.
Sausage, Is cts. per H..
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far off Montana was a great rarity,
and could probably be enjoyed but
once in q life time. The people of
Montana are greatly indebted to
Messrs. Frank Bosworth and John
Zeigler by whose enterprise the great
lecturer was induced to visit the
principal cities of the Territory and
who assumed the entire responsibility
of the expenses incident to the series
of lectures. From Butte Mr.. Beech
er goes direct to Portland, Oregon.
where his next lecture will be deliv-
cred.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-18
An Unknown Man Killed.

The Ogden Pilot says: A somewhat
Questionable affair occurred Oh the
Utah & Northern Railroad. at Mont
pelier last week. A party, whose
name we could not learn, went to
NcCammou station and made HIM
self somewhat obnoxious to the peo-
pie of that place, and they decided 10
Ship him to Ogden. 1t is said the
authorities purchased him a ticket on
the ground that he was insane, u
sent him away on the cars unattend-
ed. When the train reached Mont
pelier, he went out on the platform
u~nobserved, and fell under the train.
None OF the tIainmen or passengers
saw him fall, nor was he missed by
anv one until the train following
picked up his remains and mace a
report of the affair. The people that
sent him away alone are censured 6y
some of those familiar with the cir
cumstances of their action.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-18
WOOD RIVER.
lettings from the Haley Times.

Agent Smith, Of the U. P. depot,
reports that the shipments of ore and
bullion average about seven ears per
day.
MI. Quantrell is running his saw
mill on Deer Greek and has about
80, 900 feet of lumber on the dump
ready for delivery. The lumber as
says $$335 per 1000 feet.
Advices from Easley's state that
Boulder mountain Is booming, and a
large number of new strikes are re-
ported there, with rich ore on the
groupings. John Foster has struck
a rich lead and has been taking out
$50 worth of ore every day since max
ing his location.
The road from HALEY to Galena,
Sawtooth and Vienna, is one of the
marvels of western enterprise, and
we'll illustrates the dash and spirit
with which western men use capital.
Between Ketchlm and Galena the
road crosses Wood river thirteen
times over as many bridges, each one
of which is built to sustain many
tons weight and in excellent repair.
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s The GAP.
The Converting Ends of the
Northern Pacific to Meet
Within the Next8
Days.

The Northern Pacific from the
East is advancing rapidly down the
opposite side of the Main Rocky
Range. Almost two and one-half
miles progress per day has been made
since the 7th inst. On Saturday night
the end of the track ended upwards
of one mile west of Keene station.
It is estimated that seventeen miles
of rails will be laid the present week,
taking the track by Saturday next to
Little Blackfoot. From the west the
advance this week will be equally
rapid, and on the goth there will
probably remain an interval of not
more than four or five miles between
the two ends. This WILL be closed
not later than the ed, and probably
the last rail may be laid on the 2lst,
should the tracklayers prosecute
their work on Sunday. The 'last
spike" ceremony in which President
Willard and many distinguished gen
tlemen will take part, is appointed
for September 7th, a fortnight after
the grand meet from the east and
west and the steel span is complete
from St. Paul to Portland.--from the
Great Lakes to Puget Sound. Herald
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From the Daily of Friday.
ULOPEMENT
NARY.
The Flight and Ola Intestine Mar
rage Of q Twelve
Year Old Girl.
Six Masked Men said to have
Allotted the Escapade.

According to the MissOula Times
Bitter Root valley is revealing in a 70
nance the details of which possess all
the outlines of a first class sensation.
A school girl twelve years of age
leaves her home at night with the aid
of masked men, Is led to an altar at
the foot hills two miles away, the
knot Is tied. the couple drive rapidly
to Missoula, and as the morning sun
rises, dimmed by shadowy clouds OF
smoke, they fly westward over the
Northern Pacific.
Samuel G.. Crawford with his fami-
~ have resided in Bitter Root valley
about one year. He had a step-daugh-
ter, Christine German. whom he re-
Gently placed at a school five miles
from his home, boarding her in the
family of James Saunders, who re-
sided near by. A young man named
Henry Golfer. "a years of age, worked
in the neighborheod and some time
since became quite intimate with the
girl, ascertaining which, Mr.. Craw
ford took occasion to give him a
piece of his mind, which not avail
ing to stop his persistent attentions,
he subsequently kicked the child
wooer off fro m his premises, It now
%transpires that Golfer took advantage
of the girls walks to and from the
school to keep up his intimate rela-
tons with her ard arrange the de-
tails of an ~elopeme7t which has been
successfully consummated.
Last Saturday night while John
A. Phillip, a young man employed
by James Sanders, was returning
home from Stevensville, it is claimed
that six masked men took him in
charge to assist in taking the girl, as
he was acquainted with Sanders
house, and knew the location Of the
room occupied by Christine. This
scheme was successful, and the girl,
only too willing, was hastily taken
across the field to the foothills, where,
1t is claimed, a justice of the peace
performed the marriage ceremony as
briefly as could be expected under
the circumstances. This accom-
Pushed, Golfer and his schoolgirl
bride were driven to Missoula, and
the morning train was boarded fol
the west.
Sunday morning Christine Ger
man, already Christine Golfer. failed
to appear from her room as usual and
put on the coffee pot. Her room was
empty, and the alarm was such tina,
young Phillip let out the whole his
tory of the previous night.
MI. Crawford and Mr.. G.. B. Saun.
ders immediately followed the run
away couple to Misscula and finding
they had already flown beyond thei1
reach, sought the aid of m attorney
to prosecute Anderson Baker Of Ste
vensville, who is the justice Of the
peace alleged to have unlawfully per
formed the marriage ceremony.
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METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Proceedings of the Mission Meet
ting, August 18th.

Prayer meeting as appointed at
$50. Bishop Wiley took the chair at
8 a. m.
A resolution was offered by S. E.
Winger on church %ex-society work,
showing the progress Of this ause.
Reports of teachers were then
called from the following charges:
O. w. Winter reported the Glen
dale charge. Some new societies
were organized and the prospects
hopeful.
w. A. Shannon reported the Mis-
soula circuit. It had been freed from
debt, and is now being repaired, the
people there being very much en-
eouraged.
"This church has been very much
embarrassed for years, but now is re
lieved, and as a reason for and as ex
preston of, the following resolution
was offered: That it is a source of
congratulation to this mission, that
through the United efforts of its
members, the board of church extern
| sion, and members of the church at
| Missoula, that the debt 50 long a
source Of Reimbursement has been re-
moved from that charge
Hugh Duncan reported the Jeffer-
son valley charge, where be has been
the last number of years. Here are
some good old members, as standbys.
R. G. Dell reported his work on
Lemhi valley circuit. This, a new
charge, is full of promise, and a new
church is about to be erected.
Geo. G. Stull reported the Miles
City circuit, where he has been Ia
boring for the past six months. HI
too has just completed a new church
at Glendive.
E. B. Elder reported the Dillon
circuit, one of the best in the mis-
sion.
w. E. Ring reported his work on
the Virginia City circuit. This is ont
of the oldest charges in the mission,
and a heavy and laeorious one.
f. F. Boylan, a new man among
us, comes to take work.
Wilder Nutting called, reported hi:
work on the Billings and Park City
circuit thinks they will soon build
chapel there.
w. w. Van Orsdell reported hi
work as missionary at large durin.
the year. He has travelled extensive
ly and seer quite a number of con
versions.
Adjourned with benedictien b.
DIR. Fisher.
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Accidents and Incidents as Mar.
rated By Our Exchanges.

Maiden wants a bank and q first
class hotel.
Gallatin valley crop prospects are
excellent.
Wallace is the name of a new town
in Missoula county.
Miles City, Helena, Billings and
Bozeman are boring artesian wells.
There are now between twenty-five
and thirty business houses in Town
send.
Thirty thousand dollars has been
subscribed for the organizatiOn'0f a
bank in Benton.
There is great excitement over new
mineral discoveries at Snow Greek in
the Montana district.
Col. Eaton is employing n hun
dred men at Cooke City in erecting
buildings for his smelter.
Jim Stanley, formerly a partner of
John Chinnick in Miles City, was
fatally shot in Livingston on Satur-
day night.
Gold creek, where the first discov-
cry of gold in Montana was made in
1861, will probably be the place where
the gold spike will be driven.
Rufus Hatch's Yellowstone Park
excursion party will commence their
westward trip to-day. The entire
party will aggregate about fifty per-
sons.
It is said that a white man killed
an Indian at Crows Nest, Occur
d'Alene mountains. The Indian
stole a horse and the owner followed
and killed the thief.
The Miles City Press, of the 18th
inst, says John Ch!nnick, who
claims to have been accidentally shot
during the recent troubles there, is
much worse, blood poisoning having
set in.
The Big Hole monument has been
removed from Silver Bow to Dillon,
whence it will be taken to the Big
Hole battle ground by teams. Its
weight is between 1000 and 1900
pounds.
J. J. Bowles went cunning for
VIM. E. Deer at A~ndersonville last
Sunday, firing one shot which came
very near getting his game. He was
arrested and placed under a $500
peace bond.
Miss Birdie Damon, so we'll known
throughout Montana, has just grad
uated at the New England Conserv-
atory of Music, and sails soon for
France, to take a two years. course
of music in Paris.
In Helena last Friday articles for
the N. P. Refrigerator Car Company
were filed; capital, $500, 600; principal
office at Newark, n. j.; incorporators,
Vallambrosa, Marquis de Mores, HeI-
man Haupt, Jr., c. Edgar Haupt.
A six-vear-old son of Mr.. d. w.
Thompson, g.neral manager of the
Northern Pacific Coal Company, was
drowned Wednesday at Sims, a sta
ton on the N. P. Mr.. Thompson
was preparing at the time to join
General Manager Haupt's party.
John Hays, clerk of the steamer
Rosebud, was robbed of $500 and
some other money which cannot be
accounted for, while the boat was at
the dock last evening. He left the
safe open while he stepped from the
boat and upon his return it was gone.
No clue to the thief has been OBJ
taiued.-Bismdrck Tribune.
A heavy thunder and lightning
storm at Deer Lodge Cd Monday
caused such arrangement OF the tele-
phones in that city yesterday that
not an instrument could be worked.
The damage to most of them was &C
companied by an explosion during
the prevalence of the storm which
finally knocked every instrument in
Deer Lodge out of keller.