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The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
BEHEADED,
James Sweeney Killed by the
Cars Near Missuula.
NJ. ssoula Times.

M. SSOul6 IuCS.
Last Wednesday evening a shock.
ing accident occurred at The east end
of three mile grade, about fourteen
miles up the canyon from Missoula.
James Sweeney, = laborer employed
under Contractor Winston, was run
over by the cars and instantly killed,
his head being entirely severed from
his body.
From the testimony taken at the
coroner's inquest, it appears that the
accident happened at 9:2O p. M. En-.
gineer Chase, of No. 452, was run
ming his train up the canyon, aud
soon after rounding the curve at the
point mentioned he saw a man lying
between the rails. He whistled for
down brakes three times and the
train was stopped as soon as possible,
but not until half its length had pas
sed over the unfortunate man. The
train men found the body within the
rails aud the head two and one-half
feet distant. The body was moved
to the side Of the track and left
wrapped in blanket.
When discovered Sweeny was w.
ing between the ties and, as the road
was not ballasted, he nigh have es-
capped injury, but he raised his head
on the sound of the whistle just
enough to have it taken of by the
wheels of the engine. No other part
of the body was injured, not even the
upper part of the head which was cut
off As cleanly as though done by the
guillotine of old.
From papers found it oppears that
Sweeny was an Irishman, and was
naturalized in Ohio in 1880 Letters
were found from his mother and sis
ters but not of recent date. In his
pocket was $2905. The body was
brought to Missoula and buried by
the county undertaken. Two wit
nesses testified to having seen Swee-
ney intoxicated during the afternoon
previous to the accident.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
Produce Market Report.

BUTTE, M. T., August 4, 1883. /:
The following are the wholesale
prices paid by merchants and hotel
keepers for the commodities enumer-
ated, delivered from the wagons
Price list carefully corrected every
Saturday:
Flour Ruby Valley, xxx, $500
per cwt.
=" Mill Greek, xxx. $3.50
percwt.l
Kansas xxx $3.50.
6 Bakers, $3.50.
Mill Creek, New Process, $4.OO.
Gallatin, $3.4O per cwt.
Union Mills, New Process, Cream
of the Valley, $4.OO
Ruby Valley, new process) $500.
Union Mills xxx Snow flake.
$3.50.
Utah Common, 1925
Utah Choice, $500.
Graham, $500.
Wheat per ]b., q cts.
Oats, $3.50.
Butter, per h., 32@35 cts.
Eggs, per case, $500.
Corn Meal, SC.
Beef, carcass, II! cts.
Hay per ton, $23@$25
Bailed Hay, per ton, $22@23.
Cheese, 20@22 cts.
Barley, $2.25@2.5O per cwt.
Dried beans, Montana, 7 cts.
Mutton, 10 cts.
Pork, dressed, Is cts. per lb.
Veal, 15cts. per Id.
Chickens, live, $12 per dozen.
Wood, $5.25 O. $500
Potatoes, $1.3O@1.5O p cwt.
New potatoes 44 at sc per 10.
sausage, Is cts. per h..
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
st. Mary's Academy.

Among the educational institu
tions of the west none have made 8
higher record than st. Mary's Acad-
emy Of Salt Lake. The thorough
ness of the course of instruction, the
healthful restraint and fostering care
exercised over the youthful minds OF
those entrusted to the care of st.
Mary's has made it popular institu-
ton among parents of Montana, and
the efficacy of its course is fully at
tested by the proficiency OF many
young ladies Of Butte. The ins,itu-
tion is specially adapted to the pur-
poses of an educational home for
young ladies by its beautiful sur
and the elegant appoint
ments of the buildings which are
in every detail. The an
nounsement for the fall term ap-
pears in another column of to-Gay's
MINER.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
Terrible Accident.

George Gordon, the 14-months-old
son Of DR.. J, G. Bryant, met with an
accident Thursday afternoon that re-
SUITE d in its death Friday evening at
6 o'clock. Mrs. Bryant left the child
with its two older brothers in the
chamber. 1t was just learning to
creep, and pushed its way to the
stairway, and, the railing not having
been erected, fell to the floor below,
a distance of thirteen feet. The
child struck on its head and frac-
tured its skull to such degree that
portions of the brain 0Ozed cut
through the nostrils. The funeral
was held Sunday afterDoon.-Mis-
s0ula Times, 1st.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
Japanese Cremation.

On arriving in Toxic, and driving
through one Of its suburbs, my atten-
ton was arrested by q group of very
peculiarly shaped tall chimneys,
very wide ct the base and ending in
a narrow mouth, SO strangely sug-
gestive of old sketching days in
Kent, that the idea of the familiar
IA: m "oast house" at once presented
itself. On inquiry, I learned that
this was one of the city crematories,
of which there are about half dozen
scattered over the principal suburbs
of the vast city. Supposing that in
the great capital the process of cre-
nation might be performed more
tremendously and scientifically
than in the country cemetery, which I
had previously visited, determined
to visit this also. But in the mu'-
titude of more attractive interests,
never found time to do 50. Soon after
wards, however, my friend Miss Bird
visited similar establishment in the
same neighborheed, and found the
samo perfect simplicity in all details.
The great chimneys form the only
material difference, their object, OF
course, being to convey any unpleas-
ant fumes to such height as to in
sure no nuisance being created in the
neighborhood. Not only is this de-
sirable result secured, but even with
in the premises there is nothing in
the least obnoxious or disgusting.
Miss Bird states that although thir-
teen bodies had been consumed in
the burning house few hours before
her visit, and a considerable number
of bodies were awaiting cremation
(thOse Of the wealthier class being
confined in oblong pine chests, and
those of the very pool in tubs of pine
hooped with bamboo), there was net
the slightest Odor in or about the
building, and her interpreter in
formed her that the people living
Hea. never experience tho least an
Hoyance, even while the process is
going on. The only difference be-
tween the city crematory and the
burning house in the rural cemetery
was that tho high-roofed mud huil(-
ing was divided into four rooms, the
smallest of (which is reserved for such
wealthy persons as prefer to have
their dead cremated apart, in soli-
tary state, for which privilege they
pay S., whereas ordinary mertals are
of in the common room for
the modest sum OF something under
feur shillings. One shillings worth
of fuel is the average consumption re-
quired for each body. Granite sup
ports are laid in pairs all along
the earthen floor, and on these the
coffin chests are placed at eight a. m.,
when the we'll dried fagots be-
meath them are kindled. The fires
are replenished from time to time,
and at a. m. the man in charge
goes round the building, and from
each hearth collects and stores in a
separate urn the handful of ashes
which alone remains. Some wealthy
antilles secure the services OF Bnd-
1ist priests to watch all night beside
;hese funeral pyres, but this is consid-
ered quite work of supersrogation1
After the religious service in the
house the further attention of the
priests is OPTIONAL; but in many
'ases they return on the morrow to
'fficiate at the interment of the
'shes.-The Contemporary Review.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04

strikes in this golden land where 81
to the pan has been obtained and
the great quartz deposits. are show
ing better than anything before
known in the history of mining.
The party who returned consists of
Capt. J. A. Fisher, E. A. Boblett, J.
F. Conkling, 8. Haptonstall and Mr..
Robinson. The water was turned
into one sluice box for three hours
and resulted in $40 in glistening mug
gets. The country has been staked
of for ten miles up and down the
stream and the entire company will
return to the gold fields, accompanied
by many. of our citizens during the
latter part of the week. They weuld
not have come in this trip eut were
out of grub"
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
Cete wayo.

The death of Cetewayo took from
life rather remarkable parsonage,
remarkable in that a savage he sue
ceeded in attracting the attention Of
the civilized world by his prowess,
and gained sort Of social recOgni-
tion in London during his princely
captivity. Cetewayo was the son of
I anda and nephew Of Chaka, who
usurped the Zulu throne by ousting
his half brother, Uzingojona, and
proved very effective monarch. On
Panda's death Cetewayo succeeded
to the authority, being crowned by
the present Sir Theophilus Shep-
stone in the presence of 10000 war
riors. The animosity of the King
against England was aroused
by the remonstrance of that govern
ment against his execution of sub
iects who failed to obey the marriage
laws, and for it's refusrl to let hin 90
through the ceremony of washing
his spears" the first forlnality of .
Zulu King ON coming to the throne.
This occurred in 1876, and by vari-
Gus means afterward CstewayO was
Dullicu luIO CuS ldLnpuS wal Will
England, in which the Prince I'M
perial perished, and which cost the
Zulu his throne. He fled into the
wilds with handfsl of followers in
1879, and his subsequent capture was
regarded by the English as a highly
important matter. He was brought
to England together with two of his
many wives, two concubines, his
daughter, and four male followers.
There he was lionized, and liked it
immensely. Acquaintance with the
English and the sight of the British
army led him to the conclusion that
he twas born only yesterday. l am
mere baby" He regretted the
war, and behaved 50 we'll that he Sc
cured the sympathy of the people,
and when he was reinstatsd it was
with the general approval of the peo-
pls as well as the government. Get
ewaye leaves an heir in q bright, in
telligent boy of Is, to whom the Zu-
lus are greatly attached.-Chicago
Inter- Ocean,.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
NEW GOLD EXCITEMENT.
Headwaters of tho Occur d'Alene
Glistening With Golden
Nuggets.
A Stampede of Miners From
Rathdrum, Idaho.

Since the experience of the Pend
d'Oreille gold stampede last spring,
Montana miners will be slow to take
upany new excitements of this char
acter. The following report of fabu-
lously rich placers in the Coeur d.
Alenes is taken from Rathdrum
special to the Sprague (Idaho) Her.
aid. If the placers are as genuine
as the excitement in Idaho appears
to be, the report will be verified by
authentic information before many
days; and the MINERS advice to
prospectols is to wal: until such in'
formation has been received before
starting for the Ceur d'Alenes.
The Herald says:
This evening a party of old Cali.
fornia and Nevada miners returned
after q three months prospecting
trim on the head waters of the Coeur
d,Alenes. For years it has been con-
ceded that gold in fabulous quantl-
ties exists in the streams heading in.
the Ceur d 'A!ene range; yet 1t beng
but comparatively little prespected
the extent could not be imagined,
but now it is a settled fact that again
in our midst we have gold region
which would cause the ancient
Iucas of Peru to weep tears OF
shame at their departed
nI"rv About rs miles south of Rath-
drum there lies a great mountain
ous GUS country which is only at this day
cific Railroad. This great wealth Of
quartz and placers which have for
ages been hidden in its rocky denles
and mountain Businesses are at last
uncovered by the indomitable pros
hector and the poor and the rich can
Oar people are grouped about on
tho street corners conversing in
subdued whispers at the wonderful
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
st. Mary's Academy.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Conducted by the
Sisters Of the Holy Cross

The course Of study is thorough, embracing all
the branches Of . solid and refined education
fitting the pupils to be intelligent, useful and
accomplished members OF society
French, German, Latin, Drawing. Special
Culture in Vocal Music, Ornamental Needle
Work, being included in the English course
form no extIa charge.
The Musical and Art Departments, conducted
on the basis of tho best European ConservatO-
ries and Art Schools
No interference with the religious belief Of
non-catholic pupils.
Terms for board and tuition moderate.
Small boys received in . separate depart
mont.
Classes to be resumed Monday, September 3,
1883.
For catalogues address ~ above. S-As.w3m.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
The Alta Montana Company.

Mr.. Austin Corbin and the presi-
dent of Western bank, after a
thorough examination by experts,
have purchased under foreclosure
sale the entire property of this com.
pany. A new company has been
formed with a capital stock of 6OO. 600
shares of the par value of S. each. A
new mortgage of $500, 900 has been
created to run fife n years at six per
cent. annual interest to commence
after a period of eighteen months
from the present date. The old stock
holders are offered one rhars OF the
new stock for ten shares ef the old,
although legally the aforesaid old
stock has eked out.-N' Y. Mining
Record.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
MONTANA MELANGE.
Accidents and Incidents as Mar.
rated BY Our Exchanges.

J. Anderson, a hash house keeper
of Missoula, has woodbined, leaving
debts behind him to the amount Of
$1,000.
The gross earnings of the Northern
Pacific for the year ending June 80,
are estimated at 81, 7,SOO,O
The body of Thos. Cromley, who
was drowned in Belt creek sometime
in June, has been recovered.
Orders have been issued from the
headquarters of the Northern Pacific
railway to the effect that all en-
ployes on trains and at stations over
the whole extent of the line must ap-
pear in uniforms.
Harvesting has commenced in
Yellowstone valley and the prospect
is very flattering for a good yield of
all the cereals.
An attempt was made on9 night
last week to burn the office of the
Glendive Times.
Track on the Park branch is now
laid to a point forty miles from
Livingston.
The cash donations to the Benton
hospital fund so far amounts to ST.
2SS. so.
Surveys are being made for rail-
way from Helena to Jefferson City
and Wickes
The new lodge of Masons at Bill
lings will be called Ashlar lodge.
Benton Record: Mr.. Churchill is
trying to make a dry goods clerk
out OF an Indian boy and is meeting
with success, so far, but we are
afraid that about the time the young
man learns to measure a yard of cal
ico correctly, he will begin to fiud
the business too confining fer his
health, and his next move will be for
q horse and breach clout.
A large number of men steod guard
all night at the Helena land office
last Thursday night in order to be in
time to file upon the recently released
railroad lands in Southern Montana
before anybody else. By ten o'clock
in the morning 221 filings had been
made.
Billings Herald: Several gentle
men of Billings left about IL o'clock
Sunday night, on some secret expe-
ditiOn to some remarkably rich gold
discovery recently made by their
prospectors. The object Of the mid
night journey was to dodge some par
ties who Intended to follow them.
They believe their new find to equal
the richest ever known in California,
and they propose to establish new
tOWn in the vicinity.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
New York Copper Market.

The market is dull and lifeless.
Manufacturers are we'll supplied, and
there is no outside interest in the
metal. 1t would be difficult to real
ize more than 15c. for Lake. copper,
if holder were forced to sell, while
those buyers coming into the market
must pay l5Bc. For other brands,
of which there is no abundance, the
figures range between 14@ l44c. The
latast cables place Chill bars at esq
l2s. Cd. @ 964, and best selected, 969
@e7O.-N. Y. Eng. and Mining
Journal
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
WOOD RIVER.
Jottings from the Haley Times

JOttlnge IRON the Haley Times.
Heavy teams loaded with ore are
arriving daily from Bullion, and un-
loading at the railroad.
Werk upon the county court house
is progressing finely, and the founda-
tiOn will soon make showing aoove
ground.
A contract has been let for che
erection of a smelling plant ON Fish
Greek, and wood contract has been
let also.
The HALEY postofice has $50 lock
and call boxes in regular use, and
additional calls for boxes daily. On
August 10 the contract for U. s. rail-
way mail service direct between
Shoshone and HALEY will 60 into Of
fet,c
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
HanlOn Won,

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. g.
Hanl0n easily won the decisive heat
today, Hosmer second, Teemsr
third. In the consolidation race to-
Plaisted and Riley were the only
starters, the former won by length
and Q half.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
Strayed-$6O Reward.

From east part of Helena, about tho middle OF
no brands; shod when she loft with plain shoes:
two little white spots on backbone larger than
the other; cut or sore on fore ankle. $50 70,
ward will be paid for her return to me or for iu-
formation that will lead to her recovery
7-Sos-W2m d. w. BEACH, Helena
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
INQUIRY Demanded.

BERLIN, August 3.-All the news
papers demand an investi CATION into
the case of Prof. Puttitz, who com
mitted suicide by drawing the death
lot in the so-called American duel
Some papers allege the duel was pro-
voked by Jewish lawyer.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04

Attention is called TO the notice of
a surgical instrument lost.
The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
FURTHER MEETINGS.

There will be an adjourned meet
ing of tho Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Unien, at Mountain View
M. E. church to-day at 3 p. M, in
stead of tomorrow, rs wss Erroneous
ly announced in the Convention.
A regular meeting of the Mountain
Gem Juvenile Temple will be held at
Good Templar's Hall, Saturday af-
ternoOn at 3 o'clock.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-02
One tn Count On.

To the Editor of The Labor Enquirer.
LAPoRTE, May 27.-Your welcome note
has just come to hand, and as good luck
would have it, my pen was already in
the ink My long silence cannot be ex-
planned, and | should not have been
guilty of such meanness, and it would
be good job to explain all the reasons
for it, For ten days previous to last Sun
dav | was in the mountains working at
an old mine, or rather a tunnel | have
about seventeen miles from here, and
will Just state to you that have worked
in all the old lOdes in Gilpin county, in
Georgetown and in Boulder county, and
have not seen anything to equal it in
looks, for fine looking quality of ore.
can burn the gold out. 1t is tellurium
ore, and pyrites of iron and several
other kinds of mineral. Now, what am
l to do with it? l have not the capital
to develop it properly. There is no mill
man that know of that l could send it
to and get anything like justice done.
Look at Hill, the scoundrel, who robbed
the poor miners, and then for him to
dare to represent his victims anywhere.
| have been told by all who have seen
the property that it is rich and hard to
beat, and if my friends were not all
poor men I should soon have mill in
operation upon it.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-02
What ts Butlertsm !

This word is appearing rather fire.
quently in the columns of some of our
esteemed contemporaries, especially
those published in the region northeast
of us. 1t is not in the dictionary. We
are asked to define it. Well, in the light
of the latest information available, we
should say that Butler1sm means the
conglomerate science of being smart and
honest at the same time, of knowing
shams, of hating shams, of going for
shams both theoretically and practically,
and of not caring a tinker's damn who
gets hurt. That is the general idea
which may be got from the word. Sun.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-02
BOYCOTT THEM.
The Attention Of Smokers and Chew
ers Called to the Following
Circulars.
I[tnball d. Co,

The firm of VIM. S. Kimball & Co.,
of Rochester, New York, manufacturers
of chewing and smoking tobaccos, have
shown their capabilities for niggardly
meanness, and have thrown down the
gauntlet to the workingmen of this
country. We sincerely hope it will be
picked up, and the rebuke which justice
demands be administered. An oppor-
tunity is offered the workingmen of this
vicinity to contribute their share to the
good work in hand, and line of action
is presented, which is not only thor
The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-02

The miners met these as the others,
and with trace enough left of the infer
nal deal to tell the tale Of woe. Arrived
at the Wyoming house, three of their
number were detailed at once to, 20 out
and ask a conference with three or more
miners. The conference had, the regi-
ment notified their colonel to send them
home the next morning or prepare for
mutiny. They were sent, and rooster
feathers again trailed the dust. ... I,
Monopoly determined to find some
thing as degraded as itself, (which it
never will and next made application
for the tatterdemalion federal troops, re-
cruited from New York City slums, and
stationed on Blackwell's Island. They
were not citizens of the state would
not be fraternal. They were savage and
would not spare. They came, and, My
God what a sight; prostitution alleys
and whisky lanes were piled. One man
could chase thousand such. 1t was
over week that civil and military au-
thority secured the city dens to find its
protectors but they did find them at
last, and in them found men in every
way superior to the degraded monopoly
devils that called them there, and that
made the rank and file of money, morals
and intellect that ruled the city.
This detachment divided the last
crumb with the miners as cheerfully as
their predecessors had This closed the
pet game of monopoly to murder men
and screech blood to get an army to help
stamp out what of life remained to the
victim of crucifxion. It was the harm
less thrust of the soldiers spear that
death had defeated.
Labor is the cross on which you hang;
necessity is the great rusty nails driven
through your hands and feet to hold you
there. Soldiers with spears stood about
the cross of Christ, lest he should come
down and slay his murders. A standing
army, weapon in hand, that you are
starved and plundered to pay, like a
shadow of death, covers the earth, and
when crucifxion is most complete de-
tailed squads surround to insure safety
till the hellish ordeal ends.
The cases above cited are Intensified
types of the worlds general average,
crosses on which crucifxion is a little
ahead, spots on which the rending cry
of anguish 10 little more distinctly
heard.
Gentlemen, in the name Of God, come
down from this cross. Christ could not
until he had measured the type. That
you have met it's fullness is proved, by
God putting in your hand an all-sufici
ent weapon-dynanIite.
The man who hesitates to release
women and children from the horrors Of
this death, at any cost, oughtnever to be
husband or father. Eternal Justice
should station the science of surgery be-
tween him and the possible But they
will save themselves and others woman
has not trusted man in vain. l know
men :. I know the world. Man is now
created. God now breathes his breath
upon him, the first outgo of which, in
dynamite, will shiver the chains of the
race and free the world.
Mrs. P. c. MUNGER