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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
Herald Editorial.

New YORK, March 3J.-Cheer,,.
intelligence Of rains On the Psciss
coast this week will 60 far to rel;au.
the anxiety very generally felt e..
California crops. The Prospect fl.
the wheat crop, while by no means
as bright as might be desired j.
much better than it was q week acn
and there is reason to hope for sill
further improvement next month
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Trouble in the West India Islands,

New YORK. March 30.-The Capt.
of the steamer Alene from West In
dian ports says Generals Vasely ana
Blanzhel are trying to overturn the
present Solomon and that the
steamer Tropic lying in Inauga has
but ~ refugees aboard. Blanzhel is
the man who burned the Gonoyies
and is bringing troops from Kingston
and Colon. The steamer which las
just arrived here also landed 80 paS-
sengers from Kingston at Inauca.
and the passengers that sailed on her
from New York have returned on
her. The British man-oEvar Foam
is at anchor off Inauga.
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Washington Gossip.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-There is
the best authority for the statement
that no correspondence whatever has
passed between this government and
Great Britain in regard to a system
of international police by which a re-
ciprocal watch is to he kept in each
country upon criminals and enemies.
The president to-day received from
Berlin an additional contribution Of
1900 marks. for the benefit of the
sufferers from the f1oodin the west. Of
this amount 5000 marks were con-
tributed by the emperor and empress
Of Germany.
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Admiral Shufeldt and tho Navy
Department..


WASHINGTON, March 3O.-It san
nounced Admiral Shutelit will go 10
the Pacific coast. but not at once a.
first reported. He will remain At
the head OF the advisory board until
the work of building new war vessels
Is at least under way. 1t is stated
tnere Is a practical advantage in
sucn an arrangement which so a>tlIte
a secretary. as Chandler is. did rot
overlook. 1t is claimed that Admit
raj Shufeidt is 4 solitary example OF
an officer OF the navy OF proper rank
to be ct the head OF the advisory
board. who is not 80 hidebound by
preJndlce rs to repel every suggestion
OF anythingTor Improvement in the
way OF constructions. unless il comes
from the bureau OF tie department,
or had been approved ~ the British,
with this condition oi things il be
comes necessary 10 keep Shuied.t
at the head cf the BOARD. or abandon
tne nope OF further appropriations
lor the nsvy from Congress. where
the anlinus OF the navy clique Is
understood and resented. II Is eN-
pected that the keei> ott"ur 1t" Veg
sells Will he laid by August 1t, OF
possibly some OF item ly July l>t.
3 o the head of the bureaus ot
construction, engineering and ord,
nance is %criticising plans proposed
ny the board and trying to prove tnat
that body Is phenomenally ignorant
upon The subject of maritime aren't
lecture. Were the secretary mol
hampered by the bureau. the chiefs
or which regard the existence ct the
advisory board un insult to the
department, more progress would be
made. Under these circumstances
the best he can do is to have tie
board send down plans, which they
nave done, then have the bureau put
IN the details and finally send them
back for the board to take out what
the bureaus have supplied and restore
first.
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a Successful Search and value
less Find.

New YORK, March 3n.-Immedi-
ately after the close of the ball 81 The
Vanderbilt mansion Tuesday morn
ing, an array of wcrkmen was elu-
pioyed to remOy e the temporary dec
orations and clear up the house. j
report in ONE manner was circulated
among them that valuable diam"ni-
and other precious stones had t,en
lost by guests and each Workman Gil
deavored to be more vigilaut than
ais neighbor in search for the treas
ire. Suddenly Il man picked W
nom the floor OF the dining room Il
%GiitteriDg bautie which had been
concealed from sight by the edge of
the crash cloth which covered the
carpet. He Immediately quit work
leaving his tools behind him. One
felloW-werkman, who had noticed
the movements. hastenet Il East
Fifty First street Police Station. ard
there impaired to "A detective
his startling information, after
having exacted a promise from the
detective to share with him the pros
pective reward for the recovered
Jewel. The detective, with the pros
Dect OF reward looming up before
him, started out with his Informant
in search OF the ma supposed 10
have made the lucky find. He had
gone down town apparently to dis
pose OF the precious stone. They
found him in the neighborhood Of
John street, and when the detective
asked him to show up what he had
found the mysterious workman pro-
duced a piece OF glass nearly the size
OF a walnut, valueleSs. The aS,uIe
detective vas dumbfouuded. and
abandoning his informant and the
man for whom be had made d four
hours search returned to the station
house.
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The Diamond Nine,

CHICAGO, March 3a.-De>pairing OF
overcoming the distractions in the
BraidwoOj mine. which now make,
it diIncult TO search Tor the lema;p-
ing bodies, a correspondent states. the
owners are considering the PROPOSE.
ton to close and abandon the mine
and erect over the entrance a m0nu.
ment TO the memory OF those Ell
tombed. This suggestion is opposed
by the friends OF the DEAD men.
No additional progress was made up
~ q late hour last night in clearing
away the debris.
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An Old New Yorker Dead

NEW YORK. March 31.-Wil,iam
De Peyster Stagg died YESTERDAY in
his ninetieth year. In ISL S;agg
went with others in the empIovG q
John Jacob Astor on q voyage 10 ,ha
north Pacific coast in search OF furs
and was detained there by British
cruisers during the wal of ISL. Ha
was one of the party who founded
the city of Astoria. Oregon.
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TWO PICTURES.

1.-THE friends OF American labor
will miss with regret in the Forty
eighth Congress the stalwart forms
Of its unflinching defenders and
uncompromising advocates, George
n. Robson of New Jersey aHd Hor-
ace F. Page Of CALIFORNIA;; while the
anti-American advocates of foreign
capital will be reinforced by the re-
appearance of Hurd of Ohio and Dor
sheimer of New York, men who are
as stupidity hostile to American
industrial independence as were the
savages of the wilderness to colonial
independence during the revolution,
when they slaughtered our forefathers
for British gold."-Ame lean Protec-
ZIONIST.
To the above the Iowa State Lead
er replies as follows:
"Gemini whiz! Robson aud Page
the friends of American labor and
Hurd and DOrsheimer its enemies !!
God pity American labor. But how
nicely this betrays the sweet-scent. I'd
crowd Of robbers and jobberS who are
really working this patriotic tariff
trick! And what q fool the Iowa
farmer is who votes with that crowd!
What q blessing it is that they won't
run the Forty-eighth Congress!"
And what a blessing it is that Page
no longer misrepresents the interests
of the people OF the Second Congress
sional District of California. Pos
sessed simply with that brazen as
surance born of iliiteracy, he has, by
the grace of the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company and the Indulgence of
a badly cheated constituency, been
able to hold a seat in Congress for
several terms. Like all men of his
stamp, he succeeded in improving
his financial condition during his
official career. He entered it the
owner of a two horse jerkey. He
leaves it a millionaire.
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The Canucks to Have American
Whfskey,

OTTAWA. March pa private dis
patch has been received here from
Washington stating that the Ameri-
can government had placed in the
hands of the British minister a noti-
tication for conveyance to the Ca
madam government to the effect that
the Y could have no objection to the
Dominion government modifying the
existing laws and regulations respect
Ing the admission Of American whiS-
KEYS into Canada. to meet the re-
quirements of the distiiiers' as
ISOLATION of the United States.
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TIL OPIUM r

It is growing. 1t is not confined
to Chinese deps aud other carefully
guarded schools for INDUCING in and
learning this degrading vice, but it
claims among its victims many OF
those who move in the higher circles
of society. The refined East as wei!
as the uncultured West furnish devo-
tees of the Joint" Taking the
country through it is estimated that
each drug store has an average OF
five regular customers. Many of
these are society bellies, who began
by taking morphine to induce sleep
after the excitement of a night OF gay
ETY.. In a shor: time they lost the
power of self-controf and have re-
sorted to the hypodermic syringe.
with which sulphate of NOR
phia-the most fashionable form
OF the drug-is injected be-
meath the skin. The number al
dicted to this manner OF using the
drug is said to be frightful. It seems
no statutory law a reach their case.
A Philadelphia paper says there are
at least 1900 victims of the opium
curse in that city. New York, Bos-
ton, and other eastern cities claim a
proportionate number. The West is
full of its victims. II is said there is
not a town in Nevada that does not
show evidence of its use in the
pinched and colorless features of
scores Of its inhabitants. Notwltl,-
standing our laws, it is said opium
/, ems still flourish in every city and
town of the Territory. The preva-
lence of the vice calls for extreme
to prevent its further
spread.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
Murder Of Judge McComas by the
Apaches,

SAN FRANCISCO, March PA
Lordsburg dispatch says Il me senger
from Thompson's Canon. eighteen
miles northeast of here. gives intelli-
gence OF the murder by Apaches of
Judge II. G. McComos, of Silver City:
that himself, wife and child were to
have arrived at this point last night.
Mrs. McCOmas and her son were cap
tured by Indians.
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A Missing Man Fcn,.;

NEW YORK, March 3V.-H t.,
Weeks, of Menc!a. who djsannoller
mysteriously from bis home ip in
gust, has beer heard from in au'
Francisco. His mind is said cal
affected. His vie s.artec ia 70 100
HIM home. "ihg
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Ex- Senator Kellogg, Of louisa

Ex- Senator Kellogg. Of Louisiana
will doubtless now receive a little at
tention by star-route trial jurors. 1t
is said his indictment by tho grand
jury at Washington for conspiring
to defrand the government is a FORE
gone conclusion. Unless Brady and
Dorsey can be convicted and pun
ished it looks like a waste of time and
money to pursue the smaller fry of
offenders. If the principals escape
the tools should be permitted to run
with the thieving gang.
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Gathering Them In

CHATTANOOGA, March 2l-F,s.
Morgan, a presiding eide: of ,If
Mormon church, left this city to.d ,ue
with one hundred and fifty conway
for Utah from all parts of the Sout't's
Ninety missionaries in the Sou.t;
claim six hundred converts aunnauaa
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j, The Press Association must be
hard put for news when it is forced
to fill out its budget with such trash
as the story Of the finding of a piece
OF glass in Vanderbilt's dining room.
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1t is said that when President

1t is said that when President
Arthur heard his sen was engaged to
the daughter Of Congressman Crow
ley of L%ockport, he took the young
man to task, and finally persuaded
him to break the affair off. This did
not please the young lady's mother,
who, to save the family pride from
open jars, packed the daughter up
and went with her for the Pacific
Coast till the gossips should cool
down somewhat.
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Miscellaneous.

ATHENS, Ca, March 3O.-Forty
armed men entered Lexington q
night or two ago to lynch Jones, the
wife murderer, but left, as the Jail
was heavily guarded. Jones cannot
sleep.
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Brother Jonathan and his Cana
dian neighbor will soon be able to
drink their whiskey out of the same
bottle. "Barkis is willinn on this
side of the line.
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The peryersity of the average news
paper correspondent may be seen in
the fact that David Davis objected to
his wedding being written up. The
correspondents aided by jenkins
have done their best not to comply
with his request.
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BALTIMORE, March O.-Tb0a
ical works of A!onzo l.. chera.
the southern section of the c;,r il
almost entirely destroyed nv Wee
day. Damage estimated at 50 nde 70.
$5O, 900; fully insured. ''Voto
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FOREIGN News.

ROME, March s0.-Monsignor Van
Nuttelli, Papal Nuncio Of Brazil.
viii! represent the Pope at the coro-
nation of the Car.
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Ex-Governor Rouut is the Repub
ican candidate for Mayor of Denver
Oh, what a fall was there, my coun-
trymen!
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Nine RiSmaroE hog rooo;voj

Nine. Bismarck has received from
the Slah of Persia the highest deco
ration of that Empire, an honor
neve before bestowed on a woman.
The Star ofthe Sun is large enough
to cover half of a modern bali dress
bodice,
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Denver is in the throes of a munic.
ipal political campaign.
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Protectionists would have Ameri-
can laborers believe that a protective
tariff insures them continuous work
At remunerative wages. To impress
this mere forcibly upon their minds
they assert that such tariff will make
the prices of foreign-made articles so
high in this country that they will
not be imported, and everybody will
buy American products. 1t was this
kind OF talk that elected Garfield
President. 1t was drummed in their
ears by Republican orators upon the
stump in every Northern State, ard
the people in the midst of a heated
political campaign, did not stop to
eason upon the soundness Of the
argument. but bI;ndly voted as
directed by the large manufacturing
interests Of the North and
East. They have now learned
and to their cost that a protective
tariff so increases the cost of Aaaeri-
can production and so swells Ameri-
Can prices that the pauper labor of
Europe al afford to pay our duties
and then underseEl the American
manufacturer in his own market.
This is shown by the present condi-
ton Of the Eastern labor market and
the following figures indicating the
increase Of imports during the rast
five years:
.Si37 ,05l.5533
4i5,777,775
667 $50, 30
lSSl Ga, 665i .62S
724.6223.3l7
Do not these figures clearly prove
that protection does not protect: An
increase of nearly $500, 600, 900 of i'm
ports in four years should convince
the Eiost skeptical that American
artisans are not benefited by the
Republicans protective policy.
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\. Beidler and a partner are going
into the sheep business.
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1t is conceded by very many infiu-
entail republican newspapers that
the issue in The next presidential
campaign must be on the republican
side a stout defense of the theory and
practice of protection. On the DEM
ocratic side it must be a tariff for
revenu' only-a straixhttax without
regard to any American interest.
This is only a material question, but
it involves the business, the comfort
of the whole people, and the credit of
the nation and is quite important
enough to form a dividing line.
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The Kansas City Times in noti

The Kansas City Times in noting
the discussion going on in the East
ern papers respecting the annexation
of Canada, pertinently remarks:
"Tbe question with US will be, do
we want Canada? There are seven
provinces that would mean seven
States. and of course fourteen Sena-
tors. There wouid De forty members
Of the House Of Representatives.
They know how to pull the wires as
well as the greatest adept at Wash
ington. They wonld hang together
worse than Malone and Riddelber-
ger, and make their own terms every
time. If they could not eject the
President they could say who should
be elected. Only think of it-ffty-
four Presidential electors!
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-09-12
To-Morrow's Visit.

At meeting of the chamber of
commerce last evening it was decided
to give the visitors who will arrive
heSe tomorrow afternoon as good q
reception as the short time they pro-
pose to stay will allow. 1t WAS the
original intention TO have an elaborate
reception, but after the chamber had
communicated by telegraph with Mr..
Willard and Mr.. Prescott it was found
that the stay of the visitors would be
exceedingly brief, 50 that the greater
part of the proposed celebration must
be omitted. However steamers can
meet the guests and welcome can be
extended to them none the less hearty
that it is necessarily of an extempOre
nature. Last evening finance COM
mittee was appointed consisting of
J. III. ID. Gray, John A. Devlin, and
j. o. Bozorth. A committee of ar
rangements was also appointed, con-
sisting of J. d. Merryman, E. C.
Holden, f. J. Taylor, n. c. Crosby,
and S. d. Adair. The finance COM
mittee will report to the committee Of
arrangements at two o'clock this after
noon, and both committees will report
at a meeting of the chamber at eight
o'clock this evening.
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Our American Cousin.

Geo. Holland will appear at Occi-
dental Hall tomorrow evening in the
famous character of lord Dun
dreary" in "0ur American Cousin.
Mr.. Holland IS supported by Miss
Constance Murieila and a strong
comedy company. The Philadelphia
North American of 4 recent date says:
"0ur American Cousin" was played
at the Walnut last night with Mr..
Holland as "Dundreary, 1t has
been expected that he would do him
self credit, for Mr.. Holland is too
competent and careful an actor to fail
in anything which he cares to under
take, but his "Dundreary" was really
so fresh and enjoyable that it took
the spectators by surprise. 1t was as
far as possible from being a mere copy
of the original. Between the humor
of Mr. Holland and Dir. Sothern there
is an essential difference. The latter
had a singular keen sense of the
ridiculous and unequaled capacity for
its realization. The humor of George
Holland is more genial and human
1t springs from the heart. The ef-
fects he produces do not spring from
the superficial playfulness of the pro-
fessional joker and wit. They have a
deeper source. They are due to a
sympathetic and truthful appreciation
of the contradictions and eccentrici-
ties of which human nature is capa-
bic. Thus his "Dundreary" is more
real, is more of a man, than the "Dun-
dreary" of Mr.. Sothern. The latter
was never anything more than a
laughable absurdity, whose possible
existence could not be conceived by
any effort of the Imagination. But
in Mr.. Hollands hands, 'Duntlreary"
becomes a potential man, and one for
whom the spectator can hardly fail to
entertain a liking, SO skillfully does
the actor indicate the good qualities
of heart which underlie the eccentrici-
ties of his demeanor.
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ACROSS the River.

The Washington packing company,
at Cosmopolis, viii run two traps
and seven boats during the fall run of
salmon.
Last week John BriscOe sold eight
acres OF land, about a mile west of
Ilwaco, near the beach, for the sum
of 81, ,600-S200 per acre-to T. A.
Davis, of the firm of Hodge, Davis &
Co, of Portland.
There is much need OF a postofice
above Woodlands Landing, on the
Willapah. At present settlers living
thirty miles above the Landing have
to come there after their mail. 1t has
been suggested that point on Fern
prairie, twelve miles above, would
meet the appreciation of nearly ev-
eryone.
The Aberdeen cannery, 4: the
mouth of the Wishkaw. commenced
operations Monday. They will have
a force of eighteen boats-thirty-six
men-fshing for them. Dan Mark
ham ani Fred. Colbert have the
piling ready to put in traps. The
run will probably last about ten
weeks.
The oyster business of Shoal-
water bay begins to assume some of
its old proportions. Large quantities
are shipped to San Francisco by every
lumber-laden schooner hat leaves
this port. The Farorite is constantly
engaged in carrying oysters to the
head of the bay, from whence they
are hauled across the portage and
shipped from Ilwaco.
There Is a disposition on the part OF
many citizens Of this county to
question the justice of allowing a rail-
road large tract of land as an in
demnity grant when the same railroad
does not pass over one foot of the ad-
joining county. 1t is a well-known
fact that the Northern Pacific includes
within its grant some of the very best
land IN Pacific county. When a
county is able to derive a small bene-
lit from a railroad, even if it be very
slight, it might possibly afford to do
nate one-fourth of Its entire area, as
this county is compelled to do.
Situated as Pacific county is, unfortu-
nately, no perceptible benefit. other
than that consequent upon the de-
velopment of the territory at large,
can result to it from the Northern
Pacific railroads wholesale land grab.
Journal.
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Gould not a better word than
Consumption, be coined to ex-
press the use of articles of wear, diet,
etci Consumption is a bad disease,
to be dreaded by all. Fire may con-
sumo house or a hay stack. But
the idea of delicate girl consuming
dishes of ice cream and watermelOns
is awful. Little better is it to speak,
in market phrase, of ladies becoming
consumers of furs, hoop skirts and
face powders, or Of men being con-
sumers of suspenders, socks, neckties,
corkscrews and shoe blacking. Now
is a good time for the linguist to step
to the front.
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"A two-weeks old paper in Man
zano. New Mexico, is struggling I'M
der the unique, but oleaginous name
of the Gringo and Greaser. Its edit
or boasts that it is "the oldest an6
best paper in Valencia county" 1t
is printed entirely in italics. 1t howls
to the people not to send in their sub
scriptions and money SO fast, as it
keeps the editor up too late nights at
tending to the lucre. If the editor
doesn't die. the paper may live.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-09-12

Railroad operations have begun
in earnest on the Siskiyous and soon
steady progress will be made on both
ends of the big tunnel. On the north
end the Burleigh drills are in 100 feet,
while the large cut at the south end
has been finished and boring is under
wav
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ers, plows, feed cutters and harrows
in less than car loads 2.
Seed drills. corn planters, cultiva-
tors, shovel plows, tanning mills, horse
rakes and similar light bulky machines
in I. c. /. l.
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-"0ur American Cousin" will be
played at Occidental Hall tomorrow
night by the Bush st. Theater Co., of
San Francisco; George Holland ap-
pearing as Lord Dundroary." Re-
served seats at the New York Novelty
store.
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After the 30th inst, in such a
city as Portland, which has postal de-
livery, it will cost as much to send a
letter across the street as to send it to
New York.