The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-12
The Semi Weekly Miner.
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The early frost has got in its wm
on the tobacco fields Of some of tn
states. The banana belt in Montan,
has not yet been touched 10y it.
A locomotive was recently stolel
in Vermont. Owners of red-ho
stoves and grizzly bears may well fee
anxious about their property whel
such hvld thieves : re around.
Stephen J. Field would like t
have the Democrats name him "Bar
kis," for he ''is willin'" to accept tn
nomination fer the Presidency
There are many others of Mr.. Field
mind.
A skeleton was recently dug up IL
Missouri, and the bones of the fee
show them to have been eighteen
Inches long. A St. Louis detective
thinks he now has a sure clew to on,
of the missing Chicago bellies.
The Pennsylvania legislature ha.
been nearly $50 days in session. /
is haggling over an appointment bill
A cyclone of stalwart proportion.
could find profitable employment in
the vicinity of Harrisburg.
A sister of the Late Captain Webb
cepm itted suicide by drowning her.
self III a river in Natal, South Africa,
upon hearing of the death of bel
brother in the whirlpools of Niagara.
1t seems the family naturally takes
to water to drown all sorrows
Six hundred Swedish proselytes to
Mormonism landed at New York on
the 9th inst. This last invoice of ig.
norance is reported to be the dirtiest
and foulest ever landed in that city.
They are the kind, however, that
make good Mormons.
The way ofthe transgresser is hard.
Maj. WATSON. the embezzling army
paymaster, now serving his time,
has been detailed to superintend the
building of a road between Leaven-
worth and the ~penitentiary. He asks
to be allowed to wear overalls instead
of convict trousers.
Now that the census bureau pro-
poses to fasten itself permanently on
the Government, why not have a
mining bureau, a stock grazing bu-
reau, and other bureaus as badly
needed as the first named? The
country suffers for the latter quite as
much as for the other.
Mr.. G. P. Huntington emphatic
ally denies he made a bargain or had
any understanding with Garfield re-
lat,ve to the appointment of Stanley
Matthews to the supreme bench Of
the United States, or that he gave
financial aid to the campaign in con.
sideration Of such appointment. AS
Gould has entered a similar denial,
as far as he is concerned, the matter
now becomes one of veracity as be-
tween Gould and Huntington on the
one side, and Dorsey on the other.
1t is now in order for Dorsey to ex-
plain.
Jay Cooke was the one person alb
sent who should have been present at
the driving of the last spike at Inde-
pendence Creek. Billings, whose ex-
ecutive ability rescued the Northern
Pacific ENTERPRISE from the disaster of
'73, and Willard, whose energy has
pushed it to completion, were central
figures at the imposing ceremonies of
last Saturday hut the eye looked in
vain for the man who breathed lifein
the Undertaking and whose ability as
a financier put it upon its feet. His
presence would have added much TO-
ward rounding out the grand cere-
monies of the occasion.
Commissioner Dudley anticipates
that the publication of the pension
list will make a great increase in the
work of tina office, because it will
thousands of letters from every
part of the country, protesting
against the granting of pensions to
persons named. This supposition
should not interfere with the speedy
publication of the list. 1t has been
charged that many are fraudulently
pensions from the govern
.ent, and if the publication of the
list will result in striking off the
names of such persons the O n it
be made the better. Those who are
entitled to receive pensions should be
protected against frauds. The gov
,rnment has all it can do to pension
hose who have l~ighttully earned it.
Colonel Godfrey, a member Of the
Utah commission, has a panacea for
he ills of Mormonism which he is
(nxious congress shall administer to
errlng Latter Day Saints. The
act, as was anticipated, has
proved a failure, and now every po-
itical empyrio wishes to try his hand
n preparing a dose which will,
n his opinion, destroy the power of
dormonism. His plan may work
veil. but we believe a cheaper and
way Of reaching the same end
would be for the government to colo.
lie the territory with a sufficient
lumber of Gentiles to outvote the
and then admit the terri
Dry into the Union with an ironclad
onstitution, which the Mormops