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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-25
The Tewksbury Matter.

Boston. April 24.-The Tewks-
bury investigation opened by .Attor-
ney Brown, by IA examination of
the removal Of the trustees.
Grown commenced to review the
latters' statement regarding the re-
moval made in an interview with re-
porters last night, but the Gov. inter-
rupted and protested against the dis
cusslon OF topics not pertaining to
the investigation. He (the Governor)
was entitled to express his personal
opinion in Whatsoever manner he
choose. Brown was about to talk of
something for which the Governor
was not responsible, when the latter
said he alone was responsible to the
people of the State. Tremendous
applause.)
After considerable pickering it was
decided that Brown should not have
the privilege of making his intended
remarks.
Margaret Perry, Of Boston, testi-
ned that the nurses at the aimshouse
were rough in their treatment of ra-
tlents, striking them and holdinp
pillows over the mouths Of insane
patients to. prevent them asking for
necessarIes, and also gave details of
The outrages inflicted on various in
mates from time to time.
Mrs. Abtie Wheeler saw a nursa
named Dunnell stamp OH a patien,
with her knees six times.
Mrs. Bridget Dolan had a daughter
n grand child at T%ewksburv
and made several attemps to oct
them out as her daughter begged to
De taken away. She didn't sHcceed
and her daughter died at Tewksburv
ine child had been treated so badly
it lost Its speech and could not walk
While her daughter was dyiny If
consumption she was fed on snice
black sour fish, two water-soaked
potatoes and a bowl of skim mill
Ihls was about four weeks 400
WORD was not sent to her unit, af7er
her daughters death. Witness was
not drunk at Tewksbury but onlv ers
Some. of her answers va
very contradictory. Two tanners
testified that certain human sL;ns
were brought them to be tanned h,,9
could not say they were from, Tew lul
bury. Adjourned. AS
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The Scar Route Trial.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-In the
star route trial, after recess. Kerr
took up the "Gumboot Routen from
eugene City to Bridge Creek. Ore
gon, so-called because one of the nost-
masters testified that the entire nail
over that route was carried in one
rubber boot. Kerr summed m rho
evidence concerning this route with
tne following expressive rhyme:
"Ihe mail was small, Scarce anv at OH
a. etter or Two nd a paper
"Snt over the route in the leg of a h,ot
Ane morse was on q dye mile capersn'
lLaughter) and Mr.. Kerr addod-
so I ne contractors made a profit If
S9,4GO per annum.' ~ vi
Inc route from Canyon Citv TO
camp McDermott, Oregon, was newt st
saken up, and the consideration ns
evidence relating to it occunied tho
tlme up to the adjournment Of CONT 'ne
Attorney-General Brewster has mod.
: 1ormai application to Judge WIZ
10 oe allowed to take parf in fhe
closlng argument in the star route
case. s'"i route
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-25

"his own right hard" that stole the
Presidency from Tilden seven years
ago and gave it to Hayes will not
avail him more than Dorsey's claim
that he bought New York and Indi-
ana four years later Ito save the Re-
publican party" availed him. But he
will get the full value Of that plea
in some way. If he cannot
seek immunity from punishment be-
hind it he will use it as a weapon
against his old time friends, and
then there will be music in the air.
If Kellogg goes down he will see to
it that others go down with him.
He is no lamb to be sacrificed for the
good of the party. He is likely to
tell some stories not at all agreeable
to the Republican party. He may.
see fit to divulge the remaining Sc
crets of that most disg racefu- theft
and otherwise make a valuable con-
tribution to the political history of
the period. kellogg is gong to talk
unless he is aided in his present di-
lenma by his old time partners in
his former crime.
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A LITTLE

An enterprising chap in New York
| advertises that he is prepared to re-
ceive orders for the composition of
dime novels, circus advertisements
and other extravagant pieces of fic-
ton. His disabilities are not esti-
mated. but they must be immense
Noywist0Wn Herald.
II say, Guy" said one dude to an
other at one of the Delmonico balls.
Jim Skipp's gone to Bermuda for
his health" bermuda? Bermuda
where's that?" said the other.
Blessed if I know responded num-
one, "but 1 think it's down on Long
Island somewhere. "-New York
NeWs.
They were o to be married. He
had vague ideas of house furnishing.
and he asked her what kind of car
pets he should get for the parlor.
She said, "Axminister." And he
warmly protested it was none of the
minister's business Chicago 7ri5-
une.
The successful grocers have gener-
ally started business on a small scale.
IN. O. Picaguue.
Remarkable transformation OF color
When the white stag turns to bay.
Time runs away under the spur of
the moment.
Squire Jackson's cat had been dis
appointed in love, and sat upon the
back yard fence bewailing it's fate in
accents far from musical. A neigh
Dor who happened to be passing at
the time, heard the sounds, and a
ing at the front gate observed in a
cheerful, congratulatory way to the
Squire, who was seated at the omen
window reading his paper: "Glad
to know that your wife's cold is
leaving her. Her voice appeor to be
much clearer this morning."-Mi-
c0gO Herald,
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Everyone has heard the story of
the foxes when making raids upon
neighbering henroosts inscribed
upon their banners, "a Society for
the Protection of Spring Chickens"
The Republican party in this city is
about to open u campaign in which
the motto of the foxes in the fable
will be the rallying cry-the people
being regarded as the chickens. The
people have seen something of Re
publican rule during the past twenty
years and know what value may be
placed in the promises of that party.
They have Jared no better in the
past than the chickens did under the
protection of the foxes and are not
likely to be again fooled by loud
professions of reform and honesty on
the part of Republican Reynards.
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movements of Crook

ST: LOUIS, April 24.-Advicas from
Ne" Mexico say that General CrooE
broke camp at Wilcox YESTERDAY ' a.d
started soa tor Guadaloop Canyon Win
SUI troops, 200 Indian scouts and 40: 81
wagons: In a talk with Ga,,orai
crook, the Indian scouts told 1 tha
General that they wanted him '1 te
lead them against the Chiricah,a 20
uhtli all We're exterminated or aoa
tufed, as they could not hono s sir
peace on the reservation ,thempe, nos
that was done. The exnaI;t;n@
Is admirably we'll appointed anI Gi.loh
pred Tor 80 days. On his arr;ra1 " =.
1nadaloop Canyon, Capt. Crawfos az
s - Lieut.. Gatewood, command;nuu
the scouts, with one comnan nuln af
troops under picked Officers III
penetrate the Businesses Of the s;s Will
Mountains and the ere re n,eira
a asan OF the command will he ,1 nns1ad
az the boundary. Cant. Don pol.eu
mas been ordered to Join his cosn-
at Fort Apache to Us , uo,,
a gains ! ANTICIPATED trouble s w;th
mountain Apaches. e win
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h Storm in Utah.

SALT LAKE, April .i.-The slo"
storm of the last two DAYS endeu N
high wind, which blew Off the llat L.
and partly wrecked two Utah Noi ,p,
ern passenger trains. Not ~
learned if any one was SERIOUSLY Au u.
A standing train at Ogden ""
blown over, and several bal'ulr "as
We're damaged. The snow Is sun
here and fruit trees are i'll olo' ~.
Union Pacific trains are on tine
dav
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-25
low the Queen Receives The
News.

The queen has her own pariiamel-
tary reporter, and whether she is il
the far north or at the isle of Vigil,
she is acquainted with the prQceef-
ings of both houses long before any
OF her subjects. On ordinary occl-
slons brief abstracts of the debate are
telegraphed to her in,ajesty, but
should the discussion be of excef-
tiOnal Importance, fuller reports are
sent, aud continued down to The
close of the debate and taking Of the
division. Besides the kilograms r-
ceived by her majesty from botb
houses, the leader Of the House OF
Lords and the prime minister OF the
House of Commons write her a short
account Of the debate.
Outside the walls of parliament Tie
queen is probably first to know thai
ministers have gained a victory OF
suffered a defeat. IN time OF war
too, the queen is kept fully Informed
OF the progress of events day by Gay
and hour by hour, and every as,
patch from the commandM-In.chitI
to the war office is forwarded dlret'
to her majesty by special messense''
-CdsseU's Mugdsine.
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Grant on Lincoln's Assassination.
WASHINGTON Cor. Boston Traveller.

WASHINGTON Cor. Boston Traveller.
Gen. Grant, in a recent converse
ton, said "The darkest day of my
life was the day I heard of Lincoln's
assassination. I did not know what
it meant. Here was herebellion put
down in the field and stirring up
again in the cutters we had fought
it as war, now we had to fight it as
assassination. Lincoln was killed on
the evening of the 18th Of April. [
was busy sending out orders to stop
recruiting, the purchase of supplies,
and the muster out of the army.
Lincoln had promised to go to the
theatre, and wanted me to go with
him. While I was with the President
a note ca1he from Mrs. Grant saying
she must leave Washington that
night. She wanted to so to Purling-
ton to see her children. Some Incl
dent of a trifiing nature had made
her resolve to leave that evening. [
was glad to have it so, as [ did not
want to go to thetheatre. So l made
my excuses to Lincoln. and at the
proper time we started for the train.
AS we were driving along Pennsyl-
vania avenue, a horseman drove past
us on q gallop, and back again round
our carriage, looking into it. Mrs.
Grant said: "There is the man who
sat near us at lunch to day, with some
other man, and tried to overhear our
conversation. He vas so rude that
we left the dining room. Here he is
now, riding after u.s. I thought it
was only curiosity, but learned after
ward that the horseman was Booth.
It seemed that I was to have been
attacked, and Mrs. Grants suddes
resolve to leave changed the plan. A
few days after 1 received an anony-
nous letter from a nan saying that
he had been detailed to kill me, that
he rode on my train as far as Havre
de Grace, and as my car was locked
he failed to get in. He thanked God
that he had failed. remember that
the conductor locked our car, but how
true the latter was I cannot say. [
learned of the assassination as / pas |
sed through Philadelphia. I turned
around, took a special train, and came
on to Washington. 1t was the gloom
lest day of my life"
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Minister Sargent Criticise ed

BERLIN, April 24.--The Nord ii"
man Gazette severely crilicises a re-
port from Sargent, American NINE,
ter here, in regard to the action
Germany on importation OF Auiel'
can pork. The Gu=cHc says 1t IS II.
markable to find Sargent's slgna'O,'
TO the report. If the report sueses..
means to force American Grlclllnau ~
Germany's consumers it uses All III
gument similar to that which lofDs"
the basis of the Chinese opium 'ta"''
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Peck's Bad Boy.

"That must have been where your
"a got his black eye," said the gro
cery man, as he charged the bunch
Of celery to the boys pa. did the
minister hit him, or was it n OF the
sisters ?"
"Oh he didn't get his. black eye at
PRAYER meeting! !" said the boy, as he
took his mittens off the stove and
rubbed them to take the stiffenlng
out. 1T was from boxing. Pa told
nv chum and ne that it was no harm
to learn 10 box, cause we could de-
fend ourselves, and he said he used
to be a holy terror with the boxing
gloves when he was u boy, and he
has been giving us lessons. We'll, he
is no SLOUGH now, I tell you, and ne
handles himself well for a church
member. I read in the paper how
Tack Chandler played it on Conkling
by getting Jem Mace, the prize fight
or. to knock him silly, and. l asked
pa if he wouldn't let me bring a poor
how who had no father to teach him
boxing, to our house to learn to box,
and pa said he would be glad to 40
anything for a poor orphan, n TO
bring him along. So l went down
in the Third Ward and got an Irish
bow by the name of Duffy, who can
knock the socks off of any boy in the
ward. He fit a prize fight nee. IL
WeuId have made you laugh to see pa
tell him how to hold his hands ana
how to guard his face. He told DuHy
not to be afraid, but to strike u ana
hit him for keeps. Duffy said he was
afraid pa would get mad If he
and pa said : "Nonsense, boy, knock
me down if you can and / will laugh
ha! hal" Well Duffy he hauled
back and gave 20 one in the nose n
another in both eyes, and cu1ted MN
on the ear, and punched him IN the
stomach, and damned him. IN the
mouth and made his teeth bleed, ana
then he gave him a side-winder IN
both eyes, and pa pulled of the box,
ing gloves and grabbed a chair, ana
we adjourned and went down stairs
as if there was q panic. l haven't
seen pa since. Was his eye very
black?"
"Blsck, 1 should say So" said the
grocery man. "Apd his nose seemed
to be trying to look into his left ear.
He was at the market buying beef
steak to put on it."
so, beefsteak is no account. l
must go and see him and tell him that
oyster is the best thing for a black
eye. Well, I must go. A boy has a
pretty hard time running a house the
it should be rum" and the boy
went out and hung a sign in front of
The grocery: 'Frowy Butter a Spe-
cialty.' N-Peck's Sun.
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The Marquis of Lorne is expected
soon to show symptoms of a bad case
of dynamite, and perhaps not with
out ON reason. Men who are so
lost to all the better feelings of human
nature as to plot and plan to blow up
public buildings regardless of the
number of lives that may be sacri-
feed, would not hesitate to assassin
ate man whose only offense is that
he is the son-in-law of a Queen. But
N the present state of popular feeling
in America it will be a bad day for
those who employ dynamite here to
correct an evil which exists across
the Atlantic.
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The San Carlos Indians.

DENVER, April 24.-The Ell Paso
(Texas) Times prints the military
report received by Crook from Lieut..
Davis of the Third cavalry, com
handing a detachment at San Carlos
Agency Davis called the. Indian
chiefs together and explained the
situation as to the threatened attack
on the reservation by alleged n
ers from Tombstone. The chiefs
promised to obey Crooks wishes.
They will defend themselves from
an attack on the reservation, but will
not go off or follow if assailed. There
are 4O0 left for its defense. Davis is
not alarmed at the prospect of an
attack, or doubtful Of the Indians
obeying orders.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-25

The ticket which the City Demo-
cratic Convention has placed before
the people is recognized as unexcep-
tionally strong. All the candidates
are men of unimpeachable character,
and possess the confidence of the
people. The nominees for the coun-
Gil are gentlemen who have large Pc
cuniary interests in the community
and possess a corresponding interest
in the welfare and prosperity of the
city. The election of each by a de-
clsive majority is confidently antici.
pated.
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Hanged.

DALLAS, Texas, April "a. - Ed.
Allen (colored) who assisted Fred E.
Waite and Daniel Compton in kill
ing A. Wyse, Deputy Sheriff and
Tailor of Robertson county, March
18th, was hanged at Franklyn yester-
day in the presence of a large crowd.
He made a speech occupying nearly
two hours, warning others against
fast living and expressed the belief
that he would be happy in'the next
world.
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The Philadelphia North american
thinks that what the English want
is for the people Of this country to
get up a little coercion act of their
own over here and do special police
service for the British benefit. This
is more than there is likelihood of
being granted. AS long as the Irish
agitators in the United States keep
within the law they cannot be inter-
fered with. When they violate it
they will he dealt with like other
violatOrs Of the law.
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Money and Mining Stock Market.

NEW YORK, April 2+.-MoDey, 4
&c. Prime paper, 81 e. 6. Sterling
exchange dull and weak at 4.S2fi; on
demand, 4.S5.
Governments were weak and low
err. railroads fairly firm; States neg
lected. The day in stocks closed
showing only fractional change in
prices. The transactions were $780,
COO shares,
Mining stocks were dull; Sonora,
81 @ 50: Robinson con-, IS; Navajo,
3:25; Alice, 3.25; Bodie, 1.25; Sierra
Grande, LIS; Chrysolite, Ito; Grand
Ptize, LOO 0 Ito; Harlem, l.45 a.
l:5o; Hale & Norcross, 4.50; sales of
the day, 1886 shares.
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The Texas Round UPS.

ST. LOUIS, April "a The stock
men in Texas Panhandle, at a recent
meeting decided to begin the
spring roandup of cattle in Canadian
and Wichita rivers and Wolf creek
districts on May 10th, and in Salt
Park and Red River Districts on
May Goth. If there be. any trouble
with striking cowboys it will dcvel-
op during these roundups. Lieut..
j. Hoffer, with a company of the
frontier battalion of Texas Rangers,
in camp near Mabeetle, in center Of
the troubled districts, will do every
thing possible to preserve order.
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In the Musselshell country there is
one vast body of grazing land about
5000, 600 acres in extent. This whole
section of country is occupied by
herds of cattle, all of which have
come through the winter in good
condition. The prairies are also dot
ted at intervals with herds of ante
lops varying in number from a dozen
to 800 in q herd.
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Omaha Herald: Republicans
need not waste their respiratory
functions over Democratic divisions
on the tariff issue. If the Demo-
cratic national convention will draw
the line aud bring out the issue
broadly so as to make it clear to the
people that the Democratic party
favors low tariff duties for revenue
as against protection for the sake OF
protection, the seat of real danger
will be discovered to be in the very
heart and centre of the Republican
party, and not in the Democratic
party"
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Gladstone Preserves Silence.

LONDON, April 24.-In the Com
mons this afternoon, Gladstone, re-
plying to a question of.Bourke as to
whether any steps had been taken
at Washington relative to conspira-
cies organized in America against
England, said he didn't think it in
accordance with. public interest to
make any statement touching COM
munications with the United States
government on the subject of out
RACES
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Miles City cast sos votes at a
school election recently held there.
AS a rule not over 20 per cent. of the
population of any large town vote at
school elections. The Miles City
election must have been an exciting
n or it has a larger population than
ii is credited with.
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French Designs.

PARIS, April 24.-The caolhttr an
decided to send 1900 soldiers J" ,Iri.
quin. The rejection Of France s,ain,
matum by AMMAN is deemed teit ,ha.
An inspired paragraph declares rnys
whatever treaty M~aIagassS e ni
may make with other tooltbt
France will not allow anything Ioda.
done %prejulicing her rights IL nav
gascar.
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Mr.. John Sherman will probably
he the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio at the October election.
His candidacy would mean hard
work and a good man by the Democ-
racy to beat him.
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THE STAR ROUTE TRIAL.

The star route evidence is all in.
The great mass of perjury and lies is
sarnered by the prosecution and il
being examined dissected and sifted
by judge, jury and counsel. They
have a fearful task before them. The
jury has the greater task. Before it
stand the accused who once occupied
exalted and honorable positions at
Washington. Their guilt is proved
beyond question, and the people have
already condemned them. They can
expect but little from Judge Wylie.
He did not show during the trial
that he was enanlored of them and
his charge to the jury will not likely
be encouraging to the conspira-
tors. 1t looks at this distance
that they will be convicted
and punished, but it is exceedingly
doubtful that the jury will agree. In
fact, the greater probability is that
the present trial will end as the pre-
ceding one ended in disagreement
and failure. As we have stated.
there can hardly exist two opinions
AS to the moral~guilt of the accused.
but the jury must establish their le-
gal guilt from the mass of testimony
before it. Herein lies the difficulty
to an agreement. If it could enter
the jury room without hearing the
labored harangues of Bliss and Mer-
rick, the classic diction of Brewster.
the poetry and eloquence of Ingersoll
and the summing up of the other at
torneys in the case, a verdict of
guilty would be returned without de-
lay.
Bat as jurymen are only men after
all and too frequently very ordinary
men full of faults and failings. and.
as this particular one is no excep-
ton to the rule it may be set down az
= fact that each memberof it will 90 to
the jury room with his head burden.
ed with doubts as to the legal guilt Of
the land pirates and thus fail to
agree. The decision of the iury,
however disappointing to the public,
will not erase the brand of guilt
which tho public has, long ago,
stamped upon the defendants.
This trial has been so long before
the people that they are losing inter-
est in it, but the next one, or the
one in which Mr.. William Pitt
Kellogg will figure as a
defendant, will not fail to attract
attention. This Louisiana CARPET
Dagger and right bower of Hayes in
'7G will not allow the trial to become
dull and spiritless. Kellogg is going
be pressed and, like the animal
that infests country henroosts, he
will make it disagreeable for those
who press him. His plea that it wa>l
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Winston Bros. are said to have
slowed up q trifie in track laying, to
allow the rock cutters in Missouri
canyon to get their work out of the
way of the approaching construction
trains. The track going down, aver
ages about three -fourths of q mile per
day.
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From the Frozen Noi'n'

ST. PErtRsBuRc, April .oir,d
Geographical Society has iIiticu
a telegram from the Polar ESpRi yt
located at the mouth OF 'ne are
Lena, stating that the explol1',nr re,
all well. The lowest 1empeF" .'.as s.
corded during the winter V"
Reumer.
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That Fatal Cyclone.

NEW ORLEANS, April 24.-The
latest report from sections of Missis-
sippi, received by train Sunday,
shows SO persons killed and about
300 wounded; many dangerously.
The loss Of property is ~unprecedent-
ed.
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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
Great Loss of Life by the
Louisiana Cyclone.
Sickening Revelations in the
Tewksbury Horror.
Crook After the Murderous
Apaches.
as a. Poet in the Star
Route Trial.
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC, ETC.
Homicide.

Homicide.
IS EVANSVILLE, KY, April "a
J. D. Clarke, of the firm OF Clarke q
Frank this place, was shot and killed
yesterday by his partner, j.. F.:
Frank. He had accused Frank OF
stealing the firms money: A quar-
rel arose. Frank shot Clarke five
times.