The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
The Semi Weekly Miner.

SATURDAY, MAY IL, 1883.
Logan wants to be President. HI
would be a tough n for the half
breeds to swallow if he received the
Republican nomination. But many
of them would just tuck their nap.
kins under their chins and. imagine
Logan crow was the tenderest spring
chicken.
They have a level-headed sheriff in
Boston. That official recently said:
MANY women come to me at the
jail and want to read and talk to the
criminals, but 1 tell them to 60 and
read and talk to the same class that
are not as yet criminals, and keep
them from being SUCH"
An exchange says: "The Rerubli-
cans stand a good chance of carrying
North Carolina at the next election;
they failed last fall because of differ
ences that no longer exist. The
Democrats fully realize this, but
many young men, heretofore acting
with that party, have left it," The
spring crop of campaign lies bids fair
to be a big one.
Some little anxiety is felt tor the
safety of General Crook. The Cen
eral is an old Indian fighter, and if
he is not led into IN ambuscade,
which he will certainly guard
against he will come out all right.
He is after Apaches, not hunting tele-
graph stations, and he will overhaul
the redskins if be is compelled to fol-
low them through Mexico into Cen
trail America.
And still the Inter- Mountain will
not explain how it happens that one
side of that sheet expresses one
opinion and the other side another.
There are many who would like to
know how a great party victory"
could he obtained in an election
when "politics did not enter into'' it.
Come, neighbor, don't dodge the
question. Let US hear your explana-
tons.
sGovernor Butler has paid but lite
regard to the dignity belonging to
his position in pressing the Tewks-
bury inquiry, Notwithstanding he
has been frequently reminded of his
sacrificing it in becoming a District
Attorney. But Butler never did
care for dignity-not even at Bethel,
or at New Orleans, or when bottled
up in James river, or in Congress, or
in the courts. He is TOO earnest to
be digniied.
A soap mine has been discovered
in California. The substance is q
deposit Of white earth, free from grit,
and impregnated with q small per-
centage of potash. It is easily sliced
into bars, and for cleaning purposes
is fair substitute for manufactured
soap. 1t is expected that as depth
is attained upon it an improved
clothes washer and wringer and a
spring of pure spring water will be
struck. There is nothing impossible
in that State.
1t is said the discouraged silver
miners of Virginia City, Nevada,
regard the return of pair of gray
eagles to one of the basalt cliffs of
Mt. Davidson as a good omen. The
eagles have been gone since 1861.
During that year the busy hum of
the streets of that city was so inces-
SAINT that the fowls of the air and the
wild beasts of the mountains were |
driven from their old.time haunts
and habitations to distant forests.
The return of the eagles would seem
to indicate that desolation and death
had fallen upon the once proud and
prosperous silver city. Probably the
miners would feel more encouraged
ifgrass were growing upon its streets.
The Pueblo News says: "For the
last six months the Tellerites have
been holding a regular Indian war
dance around Senator Hill. They
have hooted and yelled, chartered
and grinned at him; they have BRAN
dished their knives in his face and
their clubs owe his head they have
bid him prepare for death, and
watched to see him shrink and faint
at the prospect; but by some fatal
mischance they seem to have mis-
taken their man. He is not appa-
rently of the shrinking and fainting
kind. Having found this out, their
war-dance and their jubilee of death
have suddenly ceased; and they have
concluded that the torturing of q mar
is a barbarous pastime at best. We
commend their new discovery, but
fear it has come too late"
General Crook is not in one of the
safest places in the country. With
OnlV about one rec regular sol.