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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07
sHosHONE.
a Red Hot Terminal Town of tho
Oregon Short Line.
Progress Of the Railroad.


special Correspondence Of tho MINER.
SHosHoNE, Idaho, April l, 1888.
Editor Miner:
Naples has for many years been
known as an unimportant postofice
town in Oneida county, Idaho, and
TWO months ago its population mum.
bered only 200 souls, but the advent
OF the railroad has not only changed
Tie name ofthe town, which is now
S%hoshone, but its general aspect has
gone through very material change.
About one month ago the arrival of
the rails at this point made Shoshone
the terminal railroad town and about
the same time $4,000 was disbursed
among the graders and track-layers
IN this vicinity, who were no sooner
possessed Of their wealth than they
began to scatter it in the reckless
manner ~prOverbial among railroad
men IN front towns. Before twenty
tour hours had elapsed, all
the beer, whisky and other intoxi-
cants in town had been drank up,
and a drink could not be obtained
for love or money. Gambling was
rampant, and faro, ""keno," "stud"
and other games were established,
and the day after "pay day" there
were about as many men "dead
broke" as there were of those who
retained some moiety of the hard
earned wages which they had re-
ceived the day before. Although the
road has now advanced some eighteen
miles toward HALEY, this is still the
"terminal' station for all railroad
purposes. 1t is estimated that our.
town contains 1900 to 2oOo inhabi- |
tants. Business is very we'll rep
resented, and twenty places may be
counted where whiskey and beer
is sold and about the same numbe
hotels and restaurants. The gen
eral impression is that the town can
not last, that the terminus will soon
be moved and the people will 20
with it, but there will undoubtedly
always be a town of more or less
here. Last Sunday was
pay day on the o. S. L., and as usual
he streets were filed with royster-
ng drunken men. Nine of the most
turbulent DRINKS we're run into the
cooler, which is a frail structure, but
! party eff the prisoners broke into
he lookup and released the entire
Wood River is having an
unprecedented influx of immi-
Every train is loaded
With tender feet, many of whom
taken advantage of the free
transportation furnished to laborers
Who come here to work for the road,
nd skipped out to the mines of Hal
ey and Bellevue upon arrival at this
'oint. The. road is expected to be
ompleted to Haley some time next
Month. A lively contest is going on
lst now between the townsite own j
and the occupants of town lots
nder railroad titles, with the odds s
1 favor of the townsite proprietors.
he settlement of the dispute will 9
,volve lengthy litigation. +
SASARAC
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07
The Park Branch.

Butteites who contemplate a trip to
Wonderland this summer will he
glad TO learn that they will not be
compelled to make the portage from
the n. P. r. r. to the Park by
shanks line, or OH the hurricane deck
of a rectangular cayuse, but may ride
in Pullman cars from Livingston to
Mammoth Hot Springs. Advices
have been received from G. X.
Barnes, general passenger agent n.
P. r. r., at st. Paul, that men are
now being sent forward daily to
commence operations upon the Ma
tional Park branch, and that it will
be completed this a in time for
the tourist travel.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07
BOOMING BUTTE.
Night Scenes Upon Main Street
Evidences Of Material
Prosperity.

Strangers in the city invariably
remark upon the lively appearance
of the streets Of Butte during the
early hours of evening, and it is no
doubt true that no other city west of
the Rocky mountains presents the
appearance of metropolitan life and
activity, which has ceased to excite
comment in this city because we see
it every day. Butte is seen at
at its best from eight to ten
o'clock in the evening, when, a
thousand or two miners, having
finished their days labor, gravitate
toward Main street for an after sup
per stroll, and joining in the throng
Of mechanics, clerks and citizens, help
to make the sidewalks of Main, be-
tween Granite and Park streets, more
difficult to shoulder ones way upon,
than are those of Broadway New
York, or Washington street in Bos-
ton. The brilliant evening scene is
always enlivened by swelling strains
of music from one of the theatre
bands; violin, organ, piano, or vocal
music, floats upon the evening air
through the halt open doors of the
score or more dance houses and con-
cert saloons, while sky rockets and
Roman candles, from the Park street
Comique, whiz their arch of fire over
the streets and house tops, and occa-
sionally a bonfire spreads a lurid
light upon the front of some saloon,
the proprietor of which takes this
method of advertising a special occa-
sion at his gilded bibitory. The
stranger within our gates is usual
~ impressed by these scenes
and Immediately pronounces Butte
a "boomiDg camp" He may be
correct in his conclusion, but errs in
his premises. The thronging crowds,
the music and the pyrotechni>s
are merely evidences Of the love of
excitement, evanescent spirits and
broadguage business views of our
Rocky mountain mining
community. The evidence of our
prosperity will not be found
upoa the crowded street, or
in the gilded temples of
but in the mines. where
miners work the stopes and
.lrifts; at the mills and smelters;
Upon the long pay rolls of our min
ng companies; in our extensive and
prosperous wholesale and retail mer-
establishments; in the blocks
If business buildings, built of brick
lpon foundations of solid masonry;
It the depot, with its train loads of
outgoing copper wealth; and in the
'ohsignments of silver bars at the
Express office, will be found the real
wilderness of our material prosperity.
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Notice CO-OWner.

To Walter Jones: You are hereby no.
titled tina the undersigned has in accord
ance with the provisions of section 324,
revised statutes of the United States, per
formed the labOrs and made the necessary
improvements of the alu of 500 in iep-
~resentinS the year 1882 in the Bummer
quartz 10 !e mining claim, situated IN Sum-
nit Vail y Mining District, Silver Bow
County, Montana.
And ' u are hereby notified that unless
you contribute or cause t. b3 contributed
portion amounting 10 S25, together
with interest and costs within 30 DAYS from
date hereof, AL your right, title interests
and claims to the above mentioned quartz
claim will become the property of the
undersigned cO-Owner, who has made the
required expenditures.
IS. H CANAAN.
Butte, NJ, r., April Z, 1883. s-w9h
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From the Daily of Friday.
EXTENSIVE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
a Retail Stores in Butte Of
John Caplice & 90.

Inc Wholesale and retail bushes,
OF the various firms in which lob,
Capllce ls interested constitute one O
the most extensive mercantile estab
'isnments in the West, anc
embraces in its Identification,
Tile houses of John Caplice & Co..
Butte, Caplice, Smith l. Dingwell
New Chicago aplice, Smith & Co..
M'ssoula, with a branch store a,
Horse Plains) and Caplice & Smith.
fhll'lpsburg. In this city the firm
nave recently opened an extensive
wholesale store in Caplice building,
ana a retail establishment on Main
street. A MINER reporter took
a stroll yesterday through
the retail house and was surprised to
ind so complete, systematically
arranged and extensive an establish.
ment in this city. The store would
DO credit to Chicago or New York.
Entering the grocery department,
shelves to the ceiling are filled with
fancy and canned goods, while upon
every available counter, end
through the center of the floor,
piles upon piles and tier upon
tier OF sacks. cases and packages
Of staple groceries aud provisions are
stacked nearly to the ceiling. On the
right is a patent elevator which is in
almost constant use conveying to
and from the spacious cellar, goods
from. the large stock stored there to
replenish the shelves of the store. In
the rear a counting house is part1-
toned of, where the bookkeepers keep
track Of the minutest details Of the
immense business. To the right of
the counting house an arched OPEN
ing gives access to a store room, re-
erected, where heavy goods,
such as paints oils, flour, tea and
in the original packages, wines
and liquors in pipes, casks
and barrels are stored. On the
south side of the grocery house
passage way has been constructed
which connects with the other retail
house where goods Of perhaps Il, less
attractive kind, though none the less
Useful, are sold, viz, the boot, shoe,
nat and cap, furnishing goods and
underwear store. This department
las recently been completely
renovated and furnished with hand
ONE fixtures and is one of the Hand
omest stores in the city. Although
lie store is large, every available
pace is filled with goods, attractively
nd Systematically arranged upon
helves and counters and in the ele-
ant show cases. Both establish
nents are under the general manage.
lent of Fred w. Caplice, whose great
Executive ability is fully demonstrated
y the facility with which he keeps
rack Of the detailed transactions of
0 large a business and the wonder
III knowledge which he displays of
he location of every article in either
apartment. The retail establish
lent o fJohn Caplice & Co. isa credit
} Butte, and the firm will undoubte
dly reap the harvest of trade which
leir enterprise merits and their ex-
'aordinary business facilities ensure.
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4 Bad Citizen.

M. C. Murray, who was released
from the city Jail Thursday evening,
got into trouble again yesterday. He
thought he would celebrate his liber-
alton from the tolls of law and
straightway proceeded to get drunk
on the vilest red-eye to be found on
Galena street. He next concluded
to distinguish himself by
cleaning out barkeeper
on Park street. The barkeeper had
something to say about that, and
when a,police.otficer rescued Murray
from, tie conlpounder's clutches he
looked a, if he had been run through
a mud machine in a brick yard. The
b. k. had knocked him down and
stamped on him, and was
Just larruping around in the
muddy street when the officer
came to his rescue and locked him
ur in the cooler again. Murray is
an incorrigible, and will probably
get the full limit OF the law this time.
The police court records show that
during the past year he has spent
three months and thirteen days in
the city and county Jail.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07
Pavilion MASQUERADE.

The carnival on skates at the Pa
vilion last night was one of the most
social and enjoyable events which
have taken place at that popular
place of amusement. The imperson-
ations of character were perhaps not
so numerous or elaborate as those
of the opening night carnival, but
the masqueraders seemed to be bent
more upon sociability and fun than
the display of elaborate costumes.
About 200 maskers occupied the floor
end the galleries and corridors were
well filled with spectators. There
were several handsome and many
strikingly ludicrous costumes, among
the latter the "Chinese washerman,"
a Giant and Giantess," who, by
some Invisible process, occasionally
elongated their anatomy until their
heads were among the rafters. The
''Old Man" was a character well sus-
tanned, and the character was made
evident by the snowy locks, grey
whiskers and a conspicuously carried
copy of the Inter Mountain. Firemen
with red shirts, regulation hats,
trumrets and hose were plentiful,
while a number of young men who
appeared in short coats, sailor hats,
extensive collars and blackened faces
acted their parts so we'll that they
succeeded in demonstrating that
there's very little difference between
a white mar and an Ethiopian, when
the white man wears a black skin
A CHASTITY impersonation was a black
dominoe, with a deaths head mask
and 3.7-77 in large letters across the
shoulders. The music was excellent
and everybody enjoyed the carnival
to the utmost.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07

Ben Brown is a bad man with q
razor, and having been too ~promis-
cuous in displaying his favorite
weapon he was yesterday brought
before the police magistrate to plead
to the charge of Exhibiting a deadly
weapon in a rude and threatening
manner, not necessary for self
defense" He pleaded guilty, and
will tarry for a while in the county
bastile in default of $50 fine and
costs.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07

There is an Indian woman l2o
years old living in Fitzpatrick, Ala,
who was Onc a cook on Andrew
Jackson's staff when he was cutting
q road from Alabama to Florida.
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ISLANDER SUIT.
A Reputation Sized Up and j. ID.
Thomas Asked to Pay &c.
900 for Damages Thereto.

A complaint was filed in the office
of the clerk of the District Court yes
terday III which L. E. Manning asks
for a ten thousand dollar plaster to
mend his reputation alleged to
have been badly fractured by
a remark made ty J. D.. Thom-
as, derogatory to the general
character and reputation Of said Man
ming for honesty and integrity Of
character. The complaint alleges
that "the said defendant, on or about
the 18th day of February, 1888; at the
town of Butte, county of Silver Bow
and Territory of Montana, in a cer-
tain discourse which he then and
there had, Of and concerning him in
his said business and calling, AS such
merchants clerk, bookkecper and
accountant, as aforesaid, in the pres
ence and hearing of divers good and
worthy citizens of dis Territory,
falsely and maliciously spoke and
published concerning this plaintiff,
and concerning him in his business
of clerk, bookkeeper and accountant,
certain false, malicious and defana-
tory words as follows, to wit: He
(meaning this plaintiG is a robter,
and has robbed me- That the said
defendant thereby intended to charge
the plaintiff with having teloniously
defrauded the said defendant, John
D. Thomas, while acting as his clerk,
bookkecper and accountant. That
said words and the publication there
of are and were false malicious and
defamatory. That in consequence of
the speaking of said words the plain
tiff has been greatly injured in his
good name and reputation, to his
damage in the sum of ten thousand
dollars.
"The plaintiff therefore demands
judgment against the defendant for
the sum of ten thousand dollars and
costs of suit"
The defendant in the case mas not
been heard from, so far as the records
of the district court show, and it
is not known what line of defense
the prosperous grocer will decide to
pursue.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07

NEW YORK, April 6.-Barnum's
elephant "Pilot' was killed to-day.
He became uncomfortable.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07

Our chronolcgist- made rather an
astonishing statement in yesterday
mornings MINER to the effect that
the killed and wounded at the battle
of Shiloh did not exceed forty on
either side. He meant to say that
the difference in killed and wounded
on either side would not exceed forty
Upwards of $4,000 good men and
true lost their lives at bloody Shiloh,
but the Union and Confederate losses
were so evenly divided that histo-
rians fail to state which side were
the greatest losers in killed ard
wounded.
Our merchants report business as
more active, and a heavy spring
trade ia anticipated.
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There are some old soakers who
would like to. get into that "whiskey
pool"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-27
The Laws Of Breeding.

William I'll. Brewer, an authority on the
laws of breeding, says he knows of no case
where new breed has been made of two
we'll defined breeds, the new breed having
the excellencies of the others, or even the
excellence OF first cross. 1t is common
experience, he continues, that while the
first or earlier crosses are reasonably uni
form, successive crosses vary greatly. On
the other hand numerous examples may
be given OF new breeds being formed from
the crosses Sf several, and then, by
long continued selections of animals
having the desired qualities, from three
several Breeds Mr.. Brewer further
says: again, it is common experience,
particularly in breeding for hesh (but it
is true of all characters), that in cross bred
animals for one or two generations the
cross breeds may be better as animals of
use than either Of the parent stocks. But
this excellence cannot betmaintained with
sufficient uniformity insure profit
In truth, the whole and sole reason of the
enormous prices which Thoroughbred ami
mails of various kinds bring, a long proved
pedigree, is not because of the superior ex-
cellences of those animals themselves as
animals of use, but simply because their
characters are transmitted, and those OF
equally good mongrels are not. The cross
ing of different breeds of sheep for NUT
ton or for particular grades of wool will long
be continued, aad is very profitable in many
directions but is only profitable, so far as
| have been able TO hear, where these rules
are obeyed, and we frequently go back to
the pure breed, on one side or the other,
for keeping up the excellence. y Prairie
Farmer
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RAILWAY liens OF INTEREST.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
laying a second track along the Raritan
Canal bank, on the upper Delaware river,
between B1rdentown and Trenton, n, J.
The single track line already there is in.
sufficient to accommodate the increased
traffic.
It is expected that the Atlantic and Pa
cifc Railroad will be completed TO the
junction with the Southern Pacific Rail-
road near the Colorado river, about the
middle of March, and soon thereafter
through trains to the Pacific coast viii be
put on.
The New York, Chicago and ST. Louis
Railway has made connection with the
Baltimore and Ohio north Of Monroeville,
Ohio, and is now constructing connection
with the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
at Bellevue, about fifteen miles west of
that point.
The extension of the Pittsburg, McKees-
port and Youhiogheny up the Mononga-
hela from Mckeesport is located as far as
Cheat river, and the intention is to extend
it on to the Virginia iron, timber and coal
fields, and to finally connect one of the
Southern systems of roads,
The Spanish Government is now con-
structing railroad from Huesea to Cam
franc, which it is stated will shorten the
distance from Madrid to Paris by hun
bred miles or more. The railroad is to pass
under the Pyrenees by tunnel that will
| be another marvel of human ingenuity
when finished. The beginning of the work
was celebrated recently with interesting
ceremonies, King Alphonso digging the first
| spadeful OF earth.
The indianapolis Journal says The
| iron-clad order issued by Superintende 1T
| Watts, of the third division of the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and st. Louis road, which
prohibits trainmen using Intoxicating liq-
uors and the visiting of saloons or gambling
houses during the hours of duty, and
which alao requests that when off duty
they avoid such places, is working admirs-
| bly,. During the month, however, fourteen
men have been discharged for disobeying
the order.
On the Isl Of January, 1882. the Cana
dian Pacific Railway had 400 miles con-
structed and track laid. On the lst OF
January, 1853, it had completed and trains
running regularly over 943 miles of road.
For every mile of road constructed, 2,640
! ties are required, which gives total OF
| l 49,, $40 ties used during the year, and
for every mile of track IS tons of rails are
used, giving 47.7S4 tons of rails on the
main lines alone, or taking the sidings and
main line together we have, ties l .564, 440
and rails 81. AS tons. II is the intention
of the company 20 reach the Rockies be-
fore the first of August next, and this win
ter they have small army of men at work
on thss portion of the line which lies TO the
north OF Like Superior, hoping to have
passenger aud freight trains running oyeI
it before the end of five years. Seven
thousand men are also working on the Brit
ish Columbia section of the same road, and
rapid progress is being made. The contract
will, TO all appearances, be completed
within the allotted time.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-27

EIoR UPWARDS OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
DIR. LGHTRILLS professional attention has
been exclusively devoted to the relief and cure OF
these important ailments and it is with pardonable
pride that ne refers to the success which he has
achieved in this special department of medical sci
ence. His apparatus and appliances for the exam
nation and treatment of the hidden cavities of the
head, throat and air passages are original and con
fesssdly the most perfect of anything Of the kind
yet devised, enabling him not only to readily dis
cover the exact nature of the complaint but also to
direct his applications to the diseased parts effect
ually that relief is experienced at once and perma-
nent cures are often effected in the most stubborn
and aggravated cases. And it Is one of the happy
features of his practice that the applications
neither pain Distress and therefore be read
lily administered to the most tmid or nervous per-
son.
A candid opinion viii invariably be given as to
the probabilities of cure, and case will be ac-
cepted for treatment which does not offer reason
able chance Of success.
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was plaque adorned with figures of ton.
sured saints half of life.size. rhe glass
eyes of one of them had fallen away by
some mischance, and he was looking ex-
cessively miserable. These glass eyes, by
the way. were beautifully made, and, in
ali the other coils, well.set, and of soft,
life-hke expression. As we were consist
emily struggling against the sentimental
allegiance that irresistibly awskens in one
within the precincts of an old Roman
Catholic Church, the sexton hazarded the
information that the church had once been
used as fort, '.to defend the Indians,
as he expressed it, which was too much for
our gravity and destroyed our sentimental
ism. PHILIP SHIRLEY.
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kHrshiras AS Milkars

Every now and then somebody's COW is
put forward as the champion mixer and
butter.maker. For some time the Jersey
cows carried off the palm, and now they
give way to the Ayrshire. A subscriber at
Kennel Square. Pa, writes of four-year-
OLD Ayrshire COW yielding l6 pounds of
butter in seven days, and Of two. year.
old which gave 10 pounds in seven days.
Mention is also made OF registered COW,
Nancy Cornell 4S44 a. R. as giving, in
the month of June last, l, 507 pounds of
milk and of Phora, 53l3, A. r., as giving
1857 ponds in the same time. A corre-
spondent at Mexico, n Y, not to be out
done notes that the Ayrshire cow, Dahlia
v, 1929. A R., gave in June last ,64l Z
pounds Of milk. These figures, however,
are nowhere compared with the
record kept by Herbert Miriam,
of Weston, Mass, who has for a
series of years kept record of the daily
weight of milk from each of his COWS The
following is record of few of the best
milking Ayrahires Harriet 246S, A. R.,
6,04S pounds; Kelbirnie Maid Ill. 4449,
A. R., 6.54l pounds; Lady Errox III.
1896 A. R.. 6,672 pounds Kelbirnie Maid
II. 1881, A. R, 7649 pounds; and Lady
Rice 1894, A. R, with first calf, G, 40
pounds. Il Turf, Field and Farm.