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PRICE TEN CENTS.

pany and a few cabins. The OK
carts and toboggans by which all
transfers of freight were made have
been supplanted by hundreds of
railroad cars; and the inn of few
years ago by score Of hotels, sew
eral of which possess all the con-
veniences to be found in the oldest
cities in the country. Plats of
ground which five years ago could
be bought for a few dollars an acre,
and were considered dear at most
any price, have been sold and re-
sold, enriching their owners by hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars, and
now command almost fabulous
prices. The population which was
only two hundred and fifteen souls
in 1870 has increased to twenty-six
thousand, and has more than dou-
bled during the past two years.
The assessed valuation of the pro-
perty has increased from s3,415,O65
in 1879, to s3O,522,72O in 1882. SO
great has been the "boom" at times
that lots have advanced from 100 to
500 per cent. in a single day, and
some have sold at prices compara-
lively higher than land in New
York city, Chicago, or any city
where real estate is equally valuable.
A single unimproved corner lot was
recently sold for $4,000. 1t is not
expected, of course, that land will
every where advance SO rapidly in
value, nor bring such high prices
that would very soon stop the de-
velopment Of new country; but
cheap lands can be found in many
parts of the northwest that will so
increase in value that their owners
will, in few years, find themselves
rich, and the young men who are
leading an uncertain existance in
the cities would do well to make up
their minds to give up the pleasure
Of city life for a while and seek
home in the new Northwest, where
by the exercise Of pluck and indus
try they may in a short time be-
come independent. They need not
go to Manitoba; better land can be
found within the boundaries of the
United States-in Dakota, Montana,
Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
Territory. All these Territories
have great future before them, and
the early settlers, if they are wise,
will reap golden harvest.-[Cin-
cinnati Gazette.
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is the home of the famous Elnore
which, with a small 2O-stamp mill
in thirty days has poured out $500,
OOO-the largest months yield,
believe, of one mine with mill o1
this limited capacity, yet recorded
in the world. Among the other
tens of thousands of quartz veins
already found is the Morning Star,
whose shipment of 100 tons from
Silver City to the Atlantic seaboard,
containing 100000, is fresh in the
minds of at least the owners. A
near neighbor of the Morning Star,
in trying to duplicate this output,
fell only $4,000 short, and added
another brilliant achievement to
those in mining history, by yielding
$4,000 ,OOO-s1 100000 for each 100
feet Of its 400 feet Of depth-in q
comparatively brief period. Along
the Yankee Fork of Salmon riyer
they will perchance gaze in wonder
at the Charles Dickens, whose great
orebody is so rich that two men
have pounded $1,000 out Of it in
mortars, in single month, or the
Montana mine, where five men ex-
tracted $4,000 last year in eight
and shipped ore in 2O-ton
lots worth $4,000 per ton. They
will be shown thousands of pounds
of ore from these mines glittering
with the native gold, and worth s.
per pound. These things come like
a revelation from a region much OF
which is still marked unexplored
country on some of our maps
["Wherc Rolls the Oregon"
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Wood River.

About the headWaters Of Salmon,
Boise and Wood rivers in southern
central Idaho, is a region some 25,-
900 square miles in extent, whose
early history borders upon the mar
velous. Until three years ago its
nearest railway was from 25O to 800
miles distant from the leading mines,
and the country was practically un-
known. Since then it has had the
Utah and Northern branch within
$50 miles, and has managed to at
tract some attention in spite of the
Leadville, Gunnison and Arizona
stampedes. The Oregon Short Line
will 90 to the heart of it the coming
spring, and the thousands of miners
and others who make a pilgrimage
in Pullman cars that way, will have
something of surprise. They will
find of local note at Atlanta the
Atlanta ledge, which, traced for
miles on the surface is 80 to 100
feet wide, and has shipped { by
wagon 800 and by rail 1,1O0 miles,
1000 tons Ga small portion of its
product) to Omaha, where 100000
were extracted from it; also at Bo-
nanza City, the Custer ledge, the
giant among American mines, from
whose unparalleled outcrop of 200
feet above tha surface, four men,
during eleven months of last year,
quarried ore which yielded 81, ,0OO,-
600, and which has, through small
20-stamp mill, poured out 81, ,4O0,-
600 in the last fourteen months:
they will find at Idaho City a small
area of the placer ground of one
county which has produced s2O,OOO,-
600 in gold-more than a million a
year for eighteen years-and other
larger areas, which in years to come
will often duplicate Idaho's total
past placer yield of $65,OOO,OOO
Silver City, Idaho, they will discover
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The Athletic Art,

Jem Mace, the champion boxer,
and the cleverest man with his fist
the world has ever seen, landed in
San Francisco at the end Of the old
year, and telegraphed to r. X. Fox,
of New York, as follows: II have
taken up my quarters at Patsy
Hogan's Palace hotel with the big
one. His name is Herbert A Slade,
and he is an Australian by birth.
He stands siN feet two and half
inches in height, and when in fight
ing condition weighs over 200
pounds. | think he will be q good
match for Sullivan or any other
man. Although ! am now in my
tifty-second year, | am still cham
pion of the world with the gloves,
and would only be to happy to have
a trial with John L. Sullivan, the
American WONDER especially as you
state there is SO much money to be
won by beating him. He must be
a great pugilist if he knocks me out
in four rounds. | have sent a letter
by mail with full particulars. l
call your attention to my partner
Slade, whom / wish you would
make no arrangements with until
you receive my letter.
Mr.. Fox was asked if he had
made any arrangement in regard to
Jem Mace. "Yes," he replied, Il
have sent word to Mace and his
party to give an exhibition in San
Francisco, and come on to New
York at the expiration OF two weeks.
| have received offers from two
railroad lines to bring the party on
and have taken the best offer and
sent on four tickets, and when they
arrive we will make a match, if pos
siblc, to fight John l.. Sullivan for
any amount"
John l.. Sullivan, who is in New
Orleans, on being interviewed, said:
81 will fight Mace if | have to, but
/ would rather fight the younger
man, Slade, as there would be more
credit in it. Mace, according to
to his own his own say, is 81 years
of age. l will box Mace and agree
to stop him in four rounds easily.
If Mr.. Fox, after two years looking
around, thinks he has found the
man to whip me, l will fight him
for $1,000 a side, to accommodate
him, but would rather have it for
$4,000 a side. l care nothing for
the title Of champion of the world
which Mace claims, but am salts
fed with that Of champion of
America"
"Slade is a half-breed Maori and
the hardest hitter l ever saw in my
life" says Jem Mace; che has lick
ed every man that ever crossed him,
and none of them ever came back
for q second blow when he got his
fist right home. He can stand
punishment, too, for I have tapped
him once or twice and he never
WINGED. He is a wonderful wres-
| tier, too. He threw Prof. Miller
just as l would a baby, and you
people know that Miller is no
slouch. He can outjump any man
! of his size, and is as active as a cat. !"
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Wild Game.

Montana new Governor, uSt
from the jungles of Florence in
Italy, rushes into print to save from
destruction the vast herds Of wild
game disporting themselves upon
the luXuriant grasses that abound
in Fire Hole Basin or upon the
grassy slopes of Sulpher Montana or
Soda Butte. In the dim ages of
the past the Indian had a tradition
that the evil spirit had his home in
that region, and he gave it wide
berth. Whether the game of Mon
tana has been moved by similar
considerations, or because there was
only the most inferior quality of
grass in the National Park, to give
that particular locality the go-by, is
something no fellow can find out,
as my Lord Dundreary would re-
mark. 1t is only when 'Uncle
Rufus " Hatch and a few disintcrcs-
ted patriots wish to obtain exclusive
privileges over the National Park,
that this momentous question of
wild game comes to the front.
1t is no doubt beautiful in theory
that our National Park should be-
come q sacred spot, where the nobi-
lity of the Old World and the cod
fish aristocracy Of the New can
make an annual pilgrimage to feast
their souls on the wonders of nature
and their bodies on the abundance
Of fat game, while the old-timer,
with his little pack outfit and his
raiment decorated with the cross of
the legion of empty XXA flour
sacks, has to betake himself to the
lower attitudes for his boarding
house steaks Of venison. A revival
of the English poaching laws Of
former generation, applied to the
Wilds of Montana, over which the
fearless hunter and ragged prospec-
tor have come and gone without re-
straint, would put an eifectual stop
to the destruction of game where no
game has been known to exist.
Such methods Of getting around do
violence to aesthetic ideas of the
unique and beautiful.
1t is a pity that the early settler
of America had not been imbued
with that love Of the beautiful to
preserve the game that roamed
about the country at it's first settle
mcnt. Manhatten Island was then
a park filled with game, and the
Western States the natural home of
the buffalo. Now Manhatten Island
is the seat OF q mighty city, filed
with shopkeepers and greasy me-
chanics and the smoke of unpoeti-
cal manufactures, and the West is
the home Of plodding farmers, and
the game has disappeared, and a
thing matter-of-tact people call civil
lization has usurped its place.
There is an irreconcileable war be-
tween civilization and wild savagery.
We stand in with the new Cover
nor Butte Miner.
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|
"Blizzards has a funny side, some
times. | remember when a bucl
| blizzard slammed into Bud Kip
| pies funeral. We mourners jus
laid right down and hung on witt
our teeth, but the defunct hadn'
our energy, and he was whirled W
pretty near a mile! We never ex
pected he was going that way, and
it must have been something of az
astonisher to Bud! Miss, he hasn't
come down yet"
"And you didn't bury him?'
calculated the Mortified girl
ooh, we planted him. You don't
find any lamented hunting around
our parts for the benefits of religion.
A funeral is to good a chance for a
fight! We just set to- and built a
grave right up to him, and he's
sleeping his eternal rest in the dog
ondest place you ever saw, right on
the top of that grave! He heedeth
not the blizzard's howl, nor careth
he a-a-a''-and the Montana man
pulled up suddenly in his pious re-
Election and rolled his eyes.
"What a curious ideal" muttered
the girl.
"You bet your sweet life!r con-
ceded the Montana man. "But the
blizzard that struck Small Pox Run
was a teaser. The air was SO black
nobody could see what was going
on for an hour, and when got
around again there was the prettiest
little old edge you ever stuck foot
in! Pretty! Yum, MN! l
reckon not. Twenty ounces to the
pound and all wool! The biggest
find ever known in them partsI"
"What was it?" asked the be-
wildered girl.
"a mine! A bonanza! And them
fellows worked it! Assayed two
hundred dollars to the ounce and
no limit to the game! But they
lost it,"
"HOW?"
"Some preachers from Minnesota
came over and claimed that it had
been blown from their State, and
the Montana men had to give it up.
The Minnesota men packed it on a
wagon and took it home" "
81 didn't know they could carry
a mine that way. What kind of
thing was it?"
at was q church debt! Them
Minnesota fellows had been living
olfit for years, and hadn't had to
sink Il shaft. The placer was as
soft as your cheek, and they hadn't
touched the main vein! 1t was a
bonanza, and Small Pox Run has
never been the same place since"
II never heard a church debt
called mine before sighed the
girl.
Then the Montana man rose up
and looked at her with mingled
pity and contempt, for there are de-
grees of innocence that even a
Montana man can't toleratc.-[Dc-
troit Free Press.
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Winnipeg.

How rapidly towns develop when
well ''boomed,'' is illustrated in the
history of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Up
to the time of the completion of
the railroad connecting it with the
outside world in 1879, the bleak
prairie, upon which it has been
built, was broken by only a fort
the stores of the Hudson Bay Com.
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AUCTION SALES.
FUTURE DAYS.
THONAs BOWLING, Aucuoneer.

DWELLING AND sLAUGHTEK HOUSE IN
SIDE OF HIah sTsEfT,. ExTENIEp, ANp
dPPs2ININS FEE aE kSAS 70 THE NAVAL
By virtue Of decree Of the Supreme Court Of the
District II Columbia passed the seventh day Of
june. A. p. 1882. in cause pending in said court
and numhersd in Equity 777s We Win sel e public
S19 E AZ isss &
FIVE O'CLOCK p. M, all those pieces Of parcels
Of ground lying and being in Georeetown. b. O..
lot numbered two hundred and sfy Seven ASH
and part Of lot numbered two hundred and Nifty
!2ool In Beatty aud Hawkins addition to George
town. - contained within the following metes and
northwest corner Of said lot numbered ISL. at
point at the Intersection OF High continued and
theroa 70 the United States naval observatory, and
running thence IN an easery direction along the south
south two hundred and forty feet thence
hundred and twenty three and half feet east
line Of said High street continued. thence north
hundred and thirty five and half feet TO the place
more or less. with the improvements thereon consist
ing OF story dwelling. sAughter house. and all
ut,buildngs necessary in the conduct OF butcher
business.
Terms Of sale prescribed by the decree: One third
OF the purchase In cash and the balance In equal
instruments. six, twelve and eighteen months from
day Of sale. with interest for which the promeeory
notes Of purchaser win be taken all cash At the
money is paid in full All conveyancing at purchasers
cost deposit Of $500 required at time OF sale II
terms are not compiled with In days from the day
Of sale the trustees the right resell at risk
SAMUEL MADDOX.
WILLIAM }. MILLER. iruS'ees
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AUCTION SALES.
THIS A AFTERNOON
YTHOS. ]. FISHER CO.,
Real Estate AuctioneerA
UNIMpRovED PROPERTY AT

: UNIMPRovED PROPERTY AT AUCTION
/ Under and by virtue Of decree Of the SupremeH2a
Court Of the District Of Columbia passed in Equity
plainants and Morthington ct n are dsfendanta The
undersigned Trustee will sell. at public auction the
following described real estate ct the times and places
On SATURDAY. NAY FIFTH. at FOUR O'CLOCK
M. at the office Of Thos ]. Fisher Co.. No. 1924
F street northwest
Sub. Lot 40, square 545; Lot 5. square eos:
Lots s. Is. and 49, square 608: Lot l. square Coz
Lots 10. 16. and south half Of IL. square 6l0;
Lot .. square GIL; Lot ., square 6lS;
Lot II, square GIT Lot s. square 662;
Lots and 7. square east of ga:
Lot 4, square south Of square 667;
Lots and ~, square east OF south OF 667 and the
east 1Ol feet inch on NJ street Of square No. 695.
Terms Of SALE prescribed by the One third
Of the purchase money in cash. and the residue in two
equal insta!menfs at six and twelve months respect
lively, with interest at the rate Of six 60 centum
annum from day Of sale. to be secured by approved
notes. with reserved lien on the property sold the
purchaser shall have the option OF paving N the
chase money in cash. A mon deposit shall be re
Quired on each Of the said pec- property sold the
amount whereof Will be anno,...ced on day Of sale.
Upon default OF any purchaser In complying with terms
Of sales within ten Q0) days. the property upon which
default has been made may be reso ut the risk and
cost OF the defaulting purchaser after three 60 days
notice IN the Evening Stsr newspaper Conyeyanctug
shall be at the cost Of the purchasers.
CHAS D. FOWLER. Trustee,
Webster Law Building, sos d st. northwest.
THOS. J. FISHER l. CO.. Auctioneers. apt g. t. th&ds
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THOMAs BOWLING. Auctioneer.

G GogETRfK ESQ SEAT OF THE LATE JOSEPH
By virtue of decree of the Supreme Court Of the a
1859 Doc 90 we will sell at pu bic auction. to the za
highest bidder. at the Mansion House upon the prem
MAY. A. D. 1883. at FOUR O'CLOCK p. n. al that hat
tract parcel of land in the county Washington
lexington" described by metes and bounds In said
decree) containing 81 Is Of land. less.
and improved with large and substantial dwelling
There several beautiful building sites upon the
property, which is well wooded and watered and over
the city The tract viii be offered as whole and
If not sold we will then offer the according to the
plat of our subdiv in lots which viii be ex
hibted at the sale viz Lot 1, improved with the man
sion house and oubuldinss containing % Ia 100 acres
Is s4lOO acres These lots lie west of the line Of the
metropolitan branch of the b. o. r. II. Lots and 2
mis- scheutzen ark and has front q isi 10 zoe fet
on Boundary street. The remaining lots lie
railroad and upon the brentwood road. Lot contain-
$500 This lot has also front Of 5Is so 100
Terms cf sale: One fifth of the amount of the pur.
chase money in cash. aud the lesidue four equal
months from the day Of sae the purchaser
or purchasers giving his their promssory notes
Of er the sse ens
The title to said property viii be retained unt the Whole
hereof shall 6e FUZZY paid and il any w Surcsaser shall
f. to comply with the terms of sale within ten days
at the risk snd cost Of such defaulne purchaser The
plat Of subdivision be upon application the
sold es whole and $3.50 each lot If sold in separate
parcels
dAHPEs {; EP SxkhlsEt 20 81 s.
A5HS y m Ri iPPGGXXkALt -SsLaavn'w trustees
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1T WOULDN'T DO.
Through a Habit of Keeping His Eyes
Open a Gentleman is Protected from
n Small SSVindle.

Thanks. my little daughter you did the errand
very quickly and nicely" said the head of certain
Irsasant home in Thirty fourth street, opening q dim.
lhutive package the child had just placed In his hand
But. see here Mamie. this isn't what sent you for
this is not BENSONS CAPCINE POROUS PLAsTEB
at ALL but some cheap imitation Of It, is not as neal
as the genuine. and It hasn't got the word CAPCINE
cut IN the middle. You must have made mistake dar
ling"
NO. didn't papa. no didn't answered the bright
Little eisht-year-old eagerly defending herself Il
asked the drug man down here the corner for BEN
SONS CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER. told him the
whole OF the long name exactly you told 1t to me-
ana then gave him the cents you gave me
to pay for 1t WITH and he took this out OF box and
told me to run home wi h it. didn't make any mis-
take. papa. didn't in eed. half ready to cry.
All right, Mamie. on your part " said the father
kindly. Il think can through this business. In
the language Of the reporters. guess III myself
and interview that drug man, as you call him."
scENe II. FIVE MINUTES LArER.-Mr. Gamboee. 1 sen,
my little girl to your store just for one of BEN
SONS cAPCINE POROUS PLASTERs. Didn't you
understand what she wanted?"
''Oh. yes understood her, but"
But what! indignantly but whatY If you un-
ueisSoou uoFs why IN heavens name, didn't
send the right article."
Il beg pardon. meant no offense, but we are on,
OF Benson's plasters to-day. Sold the last one this
morning and thought what sent would answer as
well, and So"
There that'n do. that'n do. Please remember tina,
when send for a thing want that and nothing else,
When desire you to exercise your Judgment TIL lei
you know Here's your cheap and worthless substitute
BE good enough to refund my money. ana I'll try
somebody else In your line who is not addicted to small
swindlas."
All druggists are not like Gamboge. but precaution ID
always wisdom.
seaoury Johnson Proprietors. New York. ms
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apes d&ds DUNCANSON BROS.

(SHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
~ REAL ESTATE ON DELAWARE AVENUE, Be
TWEEN AND q STREETS SOUTHWEST
by virtue Of decree of the Supreme Court of the
District OF Columbia, passed in Equity No. a
All, docket o. 29th March, 1883, the undersgned
Iru tee will. on FRIDAY, the ELEVENTH DAY OF
MAY. AT. 1888. at FIVE O'CLOCK P. NJ. at public
estate to witt Being parts of lots thirteen and four
teen Q3 and l IN square six hundred md forty
CAD. commencing for the at point ON street
distant thirty feet eleven inches from the northwest
corner OF said square, and running thence south at
right angles to said street eighty feet nches
feet two inches through the partition of houses
on parts of said lots thirteen and fourteen
Q3 and 1A, and thence west On said F street
to the place OF beginning and also parts Of said Lots
thirteen and fourteen Q3 and 14 in said square six
hundred and fortytwo (642) commencing for the same
At point on street distant fourteen feet east from the
northwest corner Of said square, and running thence
hches thence south at right angles to said street
point three feet north of the dividing lots twelve
and thirteen 2 and 49, thence westward parallel wi ID
said dividing line sixteen feet eleven inches and thence
north TO the place OF beginning.
Terms Of sale prescribed by the decree Of court:
ence IN six and twelve months respectively from the
day of SALE with interest at six per per Apnum
and secured by deed Of trust upon the
all cash. at option Of the purchaser. deposit Of 500
required at the time OF sale. IL the terms not
with in ten days after SALE the trustees the
tight to resell the property at the the default
ing purchaser AZ SonysyanctnE at cost Of purchaser.
f.s:s $40 d street NV. r-,,s.o..
JNO. A. CLARKE. A1us'eeo'
Sl9 ~ street NV.
j. T. C0LDwELE, Auct. apSO-l0t
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C!HANGERY SALE OF VALUABLE COUNTRY
" PROPERTY, ON THE BLADENSBURG TURN
PIKE, KNOWN AS THE ..LAUER PLACE. /"
ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN WASHINGTON
AND BLADENSBURG
Under decree o. Supreme Court District Of Columbia
IN equity cause No. $780, Bernard Geer against regor
isuer ct al we will sell at public auction front Of
FIVE ~. O'CLOCK p NJ al that part Of tract Of land
IN the District of Columbia, called Haddocks Hills
lying on the east side Ct the WASHINGTON and Bsdens
Durz turnpike road and beginning for the at q
stone the east side of said road being also
Of lot in the division of ''Haddocks Hills" and En-
closure and running thence north with the line of said
road S5A degrees east 46 perches to the center Of
branch: thence with the center of said branch
south 80 degrees east perches thence south 22k
grees east Is erches thence south IA Ok
perches thence south IS degrees Al perches
place Of beginning. his place contains about 81
acres, is improved by brick DWELLING slaughter house.
ice house. stable well arranged for the residence
and business of a butcher.
Terms: One, fourth cash; baancs in SIX, twelve and
eighteen months, with interest day of sale six
cent per annnm. all cash if desired $50 de-
post required Conveyancine at purchasers cost and
terms to be complied with in ten days.
FRANCIS MILLER.
JOB BARNARD, Irussees
sos d street northwest
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