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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-20
A sQuBAt FROM c,oMpra6f3-
LER KNOX.

It seems Secretary Folger ''put his
foot in it" in making his recent call
for Sis, 900, 900 of 3 per cent. bonds.
Upon investigation it is found that
National banks hold a large amount
of these bonds which are deposited
with the Comptroller as security for
their circulation. If they should he
called in it would compel the retire
ment of SIG, 600, 900 of National bank
notes, which means a contraction of
the paper currency of the country to
that extent, unless the banks invest
in hiyher-priced bonds to secure their
circulation. This mango of them can
not do and make profit on their is
sues 1t has been suggested that Ma
tional banks be permitted to deposit
State bonds in lieu Of Govern
ments, but objection is raised
to this plan on the grounds that some
state securities are too fuctuating in
value, and the penchant a few states
have of repudlating their bonded in
debtedness Or Of adjusting it u la
Malone.
Doubtless some effort will be made
at the next Congress to help National
banks out of the dilemma in which
they fiud themselves. AS the law
now stands they are compelled to de-
posit with the Comptroller of the
currency securities covering 80 per
cent of their circulation. These Sc
curities at first consisted in Govern
ment 7 per cents. As these were
called in and redeemed from an over
flowing treasury Governments bear
ing a lower rate of interest
were deposited. These in turn
have been redeemed, and now
comes a call that is taking the last
props from the banks. OF course
they can go in the market and pur-
chase Governmentsecurities, but they
will have to pay such price for them
will cut down if not destroy the
profit in their issues. In view of
these facts the necessity arises for
Congress to provide some other basis
tor the National banking system if
it be found that the interests of
the people demand the continuance
of that system.
In the meantime, under the pres
ent tariff, the Treasury is overflow
ing with money which cannot be ex-
hausted unless it be applied to the
.xtipguishment of the National debt,
or appropriated for thieving jobs.
The latter has been the favorite course !
for keeping it down to a healthy lev
Ell, but in view of the fact that a Dem |
ocratic Congress will not follow in
the steps of some of the previous
Congresses the alternative is forced
upon the administration to apply the
treasure to legitimate purposes-that
is in paying off the National debt.
To do this now, hurts some of the
and hence the squeal that
Comptroller Knox uttered in our yes
mornings dispatches.
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Sufferers.

ATHENS, Oct. 19.-The govern
ment sent two ships to the Grecian
Archipelago with supplies for the
sufferers by the earthquake. One
hundred and twenty bodies have
been recovered near Chesine. La
Anatome the earth literally swal-
lowed up houses and people.
LONDON, Oct. 10. - The British
Consul at Chios reports a thousand
people on the mainland killed and
wounded by the earthquakes. AS
sistance is urgent. The Lord Mayor
consents TO transmit contributions
for the relief OF the sufferers.
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Siberian society will receive. an adj
dition to its members in the shape Of
63 Nihilists who were sentenced to
spend the balance of their lives in
that delightful country, day before
yesterday. Next to a Russian, a
Russian Nihilist is to be envied. He
can travel farther in that empire
without money than in any other
country in the world.
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It is hoped that not a single men,
Der of the Corean embassy will get
lost in America. For the last month
or two the movements of that pre-
cious gang of heathens have been as
faithfully recorded by the wires as
every motion and every note Of the
long-winded Episcopal convention
have been.
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KANSAS CITY, Oct. 1S.-The passen-
ger agents in the Colorado pool asso-
citation, held a meeting here this af-
ternoon; all the roads were represent
ed between the Mis- >ouri river and
Gan francisco. A ratio was fixed and
the revised rate sheet will be issued
mex week. to 60 into effect Nov. l.
Inc subject OF the payment of co,n-
MISSIONS was discussed. and the
speakers favored it's abolishment.
Inc meeting adjourned to meet in
Chicago OH the Both inst.
The railway conductors session to-
oay was not especially important.
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Coal Mine Explosion.

LONDON, Oct. 19.-At the explo-
sion at the Wharnclitf colliery, in
Yorkshire, % men were in the cit at
q time. 1t is believed ali persisted.
Three bodies have already been re-
covered: When the explosion oc-
Cured five men rushed to the mouth
OF the shaft and were rescued. The
men remaining in the pit. number
lag ~, are lest. A search force is Or
ganized, but the f ding of the roof of
the pit retards the work. The ex-
plosion is attributed to a blast shot.
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Yellow Fever.

SAN FRANCISCO, Ooy. 19.-rhe Pa
citic Mail steamer Granada, which
arrived from Panama to-day brought
one a of yellow fever, Christian
Monicos, a native of Swi zer!and
The captain says it is impossible to
understand how the ase developed
as the steamer did not stou. at any
Mexican port, except Mazatlan,
where he only took on mails which
were fumigated. The ship has II
passengers in the cabin and 50 in the
Storage. The vessel is guaranteed
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Foreign News.

ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 19.-Cholera
has made its appearance in a small
village. The disease is attributed to
the infiltration in the canal which
rms through the cemetery where
cholera victims were inferred.
VIENNA, Oct. l9.-TwO bands OF
mounted gypsies, encamNed near
Weissenburg, became involved in a
fight in which both women and
children joined. Four Of the pact;ci-
pants We're killed and many seriously
wounded.
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WALLA WALLA, Oct. 10. The
losses by the fire at Weston are esti-
mated at $3.50, OOO. The insurance
was $75, 1000. The heavy losses are
due to the town not having any fire
engines.
CALHOUN, N. ", Oct. 17.-Marga-
ret Harrison, colored, the murdereys
of little Leila Lewis, was hung in the
presence of nearly 1900 persons.
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A R9DOrted Battle

PARIS, Oct. IA battle is report
ed in Madagascar between Hovas aud
Sakalavas. Admiral Gaiiber was pre-
pairing to resume the offensive on the
coast where Hovas recap.ured sever
al places. The English naval au-
thorities are reported hostile to the
French.
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An Ohio man takes the place of
Mr.. Marble, who recently resigned
the commissionerseip of patents.
Ben Butterworth is his name, and he
belongs to that small army Of Repub-
lican ex-Congressmen who are daily
besieging the White House for a
place at the public crib. It is a cod
day when an Ohio man permits him
self to be overlooked in the dispersal
ton of Federal favors.
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CAUSE FOR GRADUATION.

~ 10 q oOutCO VI SOA4C SIdVll1Cdl1Ol1
to learn that at least one Arctic ex-
petition has returned afe, and that
something of interest to the scientific
world has been gained by it. We re-
fer to the Point Barrow expedition in
command of Lieutenant Ray. This
expedition was sent up in the inter-
est of the signal station bureau, and
an additional cause for graduation is
the fact that all the work ordered by
the Chief Signal Officer has been
successfully performed. According
to the report the return was not ac-
complished, however, without dam
ger. 1t was only on the third at
tenn pit that the Lee was successful in
reaching the party and taking them
on board. Twice the vessel was beat
en- off by the ice, and once it was bad.
~ damaged, but the third trial was
successful.
Point Barrow was one Ofthe Gordon
of stations around the North Pole es-
tablished by the International Con-
ference. It and Lady Franklin Bay
were the stations occupied by the
United States. Although it is, with
one exception, the northernmost
point of the North American Cont
nent, it is nearly ten degrees south Of
the spot where Lieut.. Greedy ana his
party have been for two years, and is,
with the exception of the station in
northern Europe, the southernmost
of the stations occupied for Arctic
observation. The risk encountered
by the members of the party was not,
therefore, small for the narrow Behr-
ing Strait does not allow the warm
current of the Pacific, the japanese
Kuro Siwo, to flow into Arctic wa
tiers; while the sea to the north Of
Norway is sensibly modified in tenn
p~erature by the waters of the Gulf
stream. This warmer current rem
ders it possible to reach much higher
ATTITUDES to the north of Europe than
can be attempted on the other side of
the Pole, to the north of Alaska. The
record of the observations made by
Lieut.. Ray and his party will be
awaited with great interest by scien-
tifc men. Complete records of this
sort have seldom been brought away
safely by Arctic explorers.
The Republican Convention of the
Third Judicial District is at a dead
lock. Col. w. F. Sanders and Com
modore T. G. Power are both caRdi-
dates for delegate-at-large to the Con-
stitutional Convention. It seems OBJ
is raised to the former on &c.
count of his relations to the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, he being
its paid attorney, while the Commo-
dore is supposed to. have the interests
Of the Missouri river traffic in his
keeping. Hence the opposition to
him. The vote is 4 tie between the
two gentlemen. This little incident
in the very first step toward state
hood may suggest to the mind of the
most careless observer that state con-
stitutions may be formed in the in
terests of corporations, and that it
behooves the people to choose dele
gates who are known to be closely
with the welfare of the
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KANSAS CITY, Oct. 19.-RaiIway
conductors this afternoon elected
grand officers as follows: Chief Con-
ductor, G. s. Wheaton, of Elmira,
N Y; Assistant, Samuel HI. Detries.
Toronto; Secretary and Treasurer
w. P. Daniels. Cedar Rapids, a.;
Senior Conductor, James Laughlin,
Kansas City.
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BOOB NOTICES.

The MINER is pleased to acknowl-
edge the receipt of a work entitled
"a Guide-Book and Itinerary for IT,
use of Tourists and Travellers over
the lines of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company, and the Ore
gon and California Railroad" The
book contains 276 pages, a splendid
map of the country through which
the Northern Pacific ana it's allied
roads pass, and forty well-executed
engravlngs illustrating the principal
objects of interest seen on the line of
the road. The Typography of the
work is unexceptional and the matter
it contains IS prepared with special
reference to Instruct and entertain
the traveller and the tire-side reader.
The author, Mr.. Henry J. Winser,
has been in the regions he so graph
ically describes and has thoroughly
qualified himself for the work which
he now presents the public. Every
person contemplating a trip over the
Northern Pacific should not fail to
provide himself with a copy of the
"Guide to the Northern Pacific and
lis Allied Roads," It is published
by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.
Price, III paper, 40 cents.
"Her two Husbands and other
Novelties" by Emile lola, is the
title of q very interesting book for
which we are indebted to T. B. Pc
terson & Brothers. Philadelphia.
The novelties are SO many master
pieces, both in construction and
theme, while the variety given is al
most endless. Strokes of telling nat
uralism abound, and the exceeding
]y lifelike characters show not even
the faintest sign of ex~aggeration.
We are made acquainted with
French anarchists, soldiers, stu
dents and farmers, with
good girls, mischievous girls and puz-
cling girls There is plenty of what
is known as real life in the book, and
fun alternates with sorrow, prosper
ity with adversely, domestic happi-
ness with thrilling catastrophes.
There are love scenes, coquetry, MUIR
der, the duello, gallantry, thievery,
honesty, sincerity, deception and
Irritation. In fact, the field covered
is so extensive and varied as to ut
terly defy classification. lola must
have studied deeply and made toll
somes searches to gather the material
for this volume.
The October number of Lippin-
colts Magazine contains the usual
amount of carefully prepared reading
matter which characterizes each is
sue of this favorite periodical.
Among its contributors are some of
the best and most popular writers in
the country, whose efforts always
command the attention of a large
and intelligent circle OF readers.
Lippincott's for October should he in
the hands of all who appreciate a
rich literary treat.
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Vennor's prediction that the COM
ing winter will be a very mild one
is fortified by the fact that ground
hogs have not begun to build their
nests, nor the wood-peckers to drum,
nor muskrats to add another layer
upon their houses, and corn husks
are unusually thin.
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Land Cruisers.

WASHINGTON, Oct 19.-Commis-
sioner Mcfarland, of the general
land office, is continuing a vigorous
crusade inaugurated against what
are known as "land cruisers" Upon
the report of special age.ts, Thirteen
entries of public lands in Washing
ton territory were yesterday held tor
cancellation. The Commissioner says
all parties in these cases appear to
have combined in the commission of
fraud, the combination even extend
ing to the notary who witnessed the
papers. All entries after confrma-
ton were transferred to one individ-
ual.
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The Semi Weekly Miner.

The mania for conventions has
broken out among the women of the
East. 1t is a harmless thing but ter.
ribly trying upon the patience Of the
average telegraph editor.
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It is said that Mrs. PartiDgton was
once found intently perusing Web
ster's dictionary. When asked what
she thought of the work the good old
lady inDocently replied: "It's a good
history but it seems to me to be bad
ly disconnected" That is about
what our readers will think of
Evarts' speech at The Newburg CEN
tennial. But then the wires got hold
of it before we did.
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The lower house ct the Legislature
Of Washington Territory has passed
. Woman's suffrage bill by u vote of
IA to 7. 1t is safe to wager that that
body is composed of bald-headed
bachelors.
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Milwaukee can't indulge in a Ma
tional Saengerfest until it builds
more hotels. Since the burning OF the
Newhall house last winter there is q
lack of confidence in the safety OF
some of the city's hotels.
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Creditors OF the Late Archbishop
Purcell,

CINCINNATI, Oct. l8.-About 200
creditors OF the late Archbishop Pur-
cell met tonight and passed resolu-
tions condemning the decision of the
district court as illegal, charr-
ing the court with being under the
influence of the clergy, and actuated
by political considerations. The reso-
luton was very bitter. A committee
of five was appointed to request the
assignee to appeal the case to the
supreme court. The meeting also
attorney.
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The trial of O'Donnell is postponed
to the 2lst of next month. He plead
ed not guilty to the Indictment
against him for the shooting of
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Report of tho Commissioner Of
Pensions.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-The re-
port of the COMMISSIONS OF Pensions
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1883. shows that there were 3O3,658
pensioners on the roll at the end Ofthe
fiscal year. During the year named
whose pensions have been
receipted previously were restored to
the roll, making 38,95s persons added
during the year, an excess of lO,645
over the preceding year. The aver
age annual of each pension is $1O6,
and the aggregate annually of all
pensions is $32, 2245, 1872. an increase Of
So. 900, 900. The amount paid for
pensions is $500, 00o, 600.
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DENVER, Oct. 19.-At the Jockey
Club races to-day, Gilt, owned by
Covington, Montana, won the three
quarter mile dash in l Is. In the
three year old, mile handicap. Tina "
won, also owned by Covington of
Butte, in las.
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Excited Negroes.

DENVER. Oct. IS Ille Alrlc""
Methodist Episcopal chirch to'tlrr
ence. embracing several "es't .ha
States, in session here, discusses ts
recent decision Of tine lnltei 7 !"ht.
Supreme Court on the civil llsI ns
law, and denounced the Judges III .'J
strongest terms. \ bishop decl'i,a
that if the negroes rights We're 'd"r
pied upon, revolution WI | 'e ln'
suit. ,,uod
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 1S-The coio tLr
citizens are highly indignant over ,m
civil rights decision OF the >ul an
Court, and have called a meeting s az
Saturday night for the purPo>;n in.
they say, of denouneing the lll';' hrs
famous decision affecting ln'
of American citizens yet mace.
DENVER, Oct. 1S.-This nlo1i' nn
the east bound Salt Lake express a
the Denver Il Rio Grande. ran ln' ~.
landslide near here, wreckl'lS l ~ 4
connective, killing the engineer H. the
Godfrey, a d seriously l'Juriis na,-
fireman and mail agent. Inc
sengerS escaped.
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To Artistic.

CLEVELAND. Oct. 1S.--rhe trHs-
tees of the Garfield National Monu-
ment Association invite inteEHatioE-
al competition, open to all artists, for
a monument In honor OF JAS. \. Gar
field, late President Of the United
STATES. The following conditions
will control the competition:
LIST. All designs to be represented
by models or DRAWINGS OH IL scale not
to exceed One-tWentieth Of the pro-
posed size, with al estimate Of the
cost. The trustees reserve the right 10
req,,ire any drawings they may judge
desirable to be Represented in model
before a final decision.
I'd. ,ch design to be accompan-
led with a sealed letter inclosing the
name and residence of the artist.
Upon the envelope shall be a mari
or motto, similar to Il mark or motto
upon the model rs a design to ldel-
t;fy the artist and his work.
3rd. The designs to be presented
by the 1st of May, 1854, in the city of
Cleveland, Ohio, free Of cost to the
trustees, to he exhibited iii the rooms
furnished by the trustees, bat at the
artists risk, to be removed By the
artist within two months after the
decision is announced. or otherwise
to become the property Of the trus-
tees.
4th. The dt signs will he publicly
exhibited for at least two WeeAs pre-
vi0us to the decision.
9Th. The trus ees are at liberty to
reject any Or all designs presented,
9th. For the design possessing the
highest merit. in the judgment ot the
trustees. $1,GO0 will be paid; the stat
uary to be of bronze.
[Signed] Charles Foster, presi lent;
r. B. Hayes, vice president; }. ii.
Wade, II. B. Payne, Joseph Perkins
executive COMMITTEES; }. II. Rhodes'
S~HHcAtacX
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DAY DISPATCHES
colored Brethren Threaten q
Revolution.
Garfield National Monument
Association.
A Utah Woman Speaks Her.
Mind.
Er.1
ETY.
Nothing New.

CHICAGO, Oct. 18.-In the Wo,am.
Congress, Mrs: Jennie F., Froiset4t
Of Utah, read a paper on "Wow n'selh.
Utah" She said the women OF An VI
lea did not begin to know the .vt Ier.
and bitterness OF the ~deoradat;nueh
the women in that Tertiary whaol
polygamy held sway. Traye,arnae i r.
Utah might in vain ask orestion,l III
to why the Mormon women wers a.
degraded. Even in Salt Lake. yherets 80
Mormons adopted many of the f,s ile
ions and ways of the outside worM
it was easy to distinguish Morm0un'
women from all others. They seanoa
to carry about with them a marx i;Ia
that OF Cain, which made it perfactl,,
easy to tell them wherever met IVY
true secret of this was that if ha n1
been the policy Of the Mormons az ~
degrade woman. She was made IA ho
lieve that she Was inferior to mnu
and that her only hope of heaven wac
10 go IN as Il satellite of tho
man; that she was to be mans slava
Her only hope of immortality was
to be married to some man that sLo
might be raised from the dead nnt
because of her own worth. bnt no
cause she was allotted to some NAM
the Mormons thought No more If
taking additional wives than they aid
OF buying cows. Sac spoke of thei in.
PRODUCTION Of polygamy as practical N
the Mormon church and the crusade
against it by the women, which fol.
lowed. At first they fought ayainst
being plural wives, but special rey-la.
tons were made for special cases. and
everyone who would not accent reva.
lation was charged With being a
traitor to her faith, her reputation
was blasted and blackenei, and there
was added to this cruelty the bias
phemOus teaching that it was better
to cruelty the body than let the soul
go to destruction.
Women were told by Brigham
Young, that they could not EXPERT
the loye Of their husbands. it was
enough to have the honor Of beingtaf.
en- as VII es. One OF the Chief CAUSES
which kept the women III the Nor
mon Church was that they were
taught to believe, that in the church
they were hOnored wives, but outside
they would be treated everywhere as
concubines. MIS-. FIoiseth pictured
the degraded condition of the female
Saints, the cruelities to which they
were subjected, and the influences
which kept them there.
At the evening session, Mrs. J. Y.
Dearbein, OF Boston, read a pager on
the prevention OF the nervous strain
by home and school training; and
Mrs. DR.. Julia Hoimes read a paper
prepared by Antoinelte Brown Black
well, OF New Jersey on "Leredity."
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A Growl at the Northern Pacific.

IA 0AO dt OA0 ANOi oAACiA
SAN Francisco, Oct. iS.-Tlle ali
road managers here Jay ttal lne
threatened refusal Of tie Northern
Pacific to continue the special con-
tract system will have 10 effect OIL
he roads west of the Missouri river
Under the fifth section OF a prlVal0
agreement the Northern Pacific com
pany took a solemn obligation, as the
clause reads, to maintain the present
existing rates. TIE managers mere
claim that Willard will have to 10 80:
unless he gives the required 10 DAYS
notice of Withdrawal 1rum the con.
pact. The reasons assigned Tor thls
proposed acti,n of the Northern ~
cifc are that Wizard wants to e''"o,
lish a special contract system on II,
own line. One manager asserts tI'a1
he is doing so now in violation Oh tAe
agreement entered into; that ne 'ia'
proof that Willard offered speclll coh'
tract rates to Portland merchants li'0
mediately after the close Of the cor
ference, the contracts 10 run III pe
cember 81, 1884. He says also lllai
he has re. son to know that ltila.a
committed himself By a promise ~
give through rates on local la'ln,,
These matters will be considered a,n
meeting to be held in Chlcago,llle'1'r
Inst. when another commissioner
will be elected.
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NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Proceeding Of the Episcopal
Convention.
Successful Raid on a Gang of
Couaterfeiters'
Report Of Lieut.. Darlington
Of His Voyage.
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC, ETC.
Montana Horses to the Fore.

MISCELLANEOUS, ETC, ETC.