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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
BANDITS.
Conductor and Brakeman Turn
Robbers and Rifle tho Pockets
Of q Stowaway Passenger.


Anton Appel isl thrifty Austrian
youth of twenty, who has worked all
winter in the Northern Pacific round
house at Forsythe and saved $500
from his earnings. According to the
Billings Herald, on Sunday evening
March 18th, he crawled into a box
car, loaded with lumber, atForsythe,
for the purpose of getting q free ride
to Billings, where he intended to
purchase a draft with his $500 to send
to his old mother in Austria.
The car was coupled onto a freight
train and he soon felt himself speed
ing over the rails. All went well I'M
til about five o'clock Monday norm
ing, while the train stood at the
third station west of Forsythe,
when the brakeman, John Sui
Ivan, came to the car with
a Ratchet and threatening to kill him
demanded money. Appel got out of
the car and handed him five dollars
which he had in his pants pocket,
telling the brakeman that was all the
money he had. Sullivan then COM
PEELED him to get up o top of a box
car where conductor Richmond was,
and again demanded money, threat
ening to strike him with the Ratchet,
and once struck him in the mouth
with his fist. The conductor did not
interfere other than to advise the
brakeman not to hurt Appel. Sui
Ivan then searched Appel, and in a
pocket sewed on the outside of
his undershirt found cash and checks
to the amount of $215 which he took.
Appel then got down and went into
the caboose where Sullivan and
Richmond followed him. Another
man was there who the railroad men
told Appel was a sheriff and liable to-
arrest him. AFTER questioning him
as to where be had worked, the
brakeman said as he was a poor labor
ing man he would give him back the
money, and handed a roll to the pre-
tended sheriff who gave it to the boy
and he put it in his pocket without
counting it. Then the brakeman
and conductor went out and Appel
and the man who played Sheriff
counted the money twice and found
only $S5. He afterwards gave the
conductor five dollars to pay his fare.
The brakeman John Sullivan, and
conductor r. Richmond, were both
arrested at Billings.
Full Associated Press News.
BY a contract entered into some
weeks since with the Western Press
Association the Butte and Helena
papers. will receive full telegraph
news dispatches commencing with
April. The transmission of the full
press report has been impracticable
until recently on account of meagre
Geographic facilities connecting
Montana with the outside world, but
the construction of New Western
Union lines has now made an I'm
prOvement in the service
possible. Recognizing the fact
that. the rapidly increasing
of this city and outlying
towns served by the MINER demands
such improvement, the arrangement
has been entered into which, al
though the cost of Geographic news
is more than double, will enable the
MINER to lay before its readers every
morning the full Associated Press re-
ports 1.-THE same as heretofore publish
ed by the Salt Lake Tribune and
other dailies which have enjoyed bet
ter facilities for Geographic commune
cation.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

Special bargains in Table Linens,
Towels, Napkins, White Goods, etc
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

ElucE and (OiOre0 Silks.
We offer a magnlf cent stock of new
in this line at New York prices
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31

Thursday evening Of each week a
Ladies' Assembly at the Pavilion.
o2ldswtf
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
TAILOR,

Wishes to inform the public that he has an
Office in COLEMAN & CO.'S store, MAIN
strict, where he exhibits 2 full line of
The latest
SPRING AND SUMMER SAMPLES,
And makes CLOTHING TO ORDER AT
CHICAGO PRICES. suits made to order
from SIS upwards. Pants to order from $3.50
upwards. lOmarft
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
MaShinQiOn.

Seattle is tn have a Third national bank,
and in this respect takes front rank, ahead Of
any city west Of the Rocky mountains. The
names Of national banks in the order OF organ
ization are: The First National bank of Seat.
tie, the Puget Sound National bank of Seat.
tie, and Merchants National bank Of Seattle.
The dry lands' in Umatilla county, near
Echo, are proving rich grain fields. Some
samples of wheat taken from sod land" show
thirty-two well filed heads, and have straw
forty inches in length. The barley is fully AZ
fine.
The assessment of Pierce county this year
is 81, 912, 800 against 81 800, sos in 1882, and
81, 722, 1855 in 1881. The taxes for the year
have been placed at II mills on the dollar.
During the year ended May 81 last there
were 1,277 vessels entered at Port Townsend,
the aggregate tonnage being 500, 900 tons, OK
elusive of cosstwise vessels.
By mutual agreement the Seattle papers
have raised their rates of advertising about 30
per cent, and are bound to n strict adherence
to the schedule Of rates.
TIL custom house force at Port Townsend is
said to be inadequate to prevent the crossing
Of Chinese from British Columbia into this
country.
The school directors Of Seattle, w. T., have
purchased for IS, 200 n block in Bells addition
Of that city and will erect q school house
thereon.
There are over ninety practicing physicians
in Washington Territory,
The delinquent tax list Of Umatilla county
amounts to over $4,000.
There are a thousand men at work on the
road between Seattle and Tacoma
Mustardville is the name of O new town in
the territory.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27

has fallen through, the citizens and steel com.
pany being unable to agree on the question Of
subsidy.
The heat In Stanislaus county was 30 great
on the 9TH and 9Th inst. that n number OF small
birds were killed from exposure IN the suns
rays.
A man named Beebe found some rich gold
bearing float in the Occur d. Alenes, from
which he pounded out in amortar 81 900 in one
day.
A confidence operator has been fleeing the
mine owners Of Placer county, getting consid-
cradle money.
II Is estimated that the hot northers have
damaged the wheat crops of Colusa county 40
per cent.
A contract has been let for the building Of n
$40, 1884 school house at Lodi.
The town Of Riverside has been Incorporated
as a municipality.
The burned portion Of Daggett is being re-
built.
st. Helena streets are now lighted by gas.
Helena is talking of a public park.
Farm hands are scarce in the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS.
Colorado.

The day Is not far distant, says The Jour
nal, when thousands Of tourists will visit
Breckenridge to take q look at miles of snow
covered mountain tops which surround tho
town at this season OF the year. The view
discounts anything in Europe or Eastern
America.
Freight rates are no high between Denver
and Breckenridge that parties Of the latter
place are contemplating the establishment OF
a freight team line.
The Red Mountain Pilot has suspended,
the material having been removed to Chstta'
nooga.
San Juan county covers sixty square miles
and has 10000 mining localities.
Silverton wants q good substantial hotel
building at once.
The wool crop Of Colorado will soon be put
on the market.
Ouray is to have . 800 900 hotel.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
California.

As an illustration Of the cosmopolitan char
acter Of San Francisco an English traveller
visiting there writes: ~ had my boots blacked
by an African, my chin shaved by a European,
and my bed made by an Asiatic, a Frenchman
cooked my dinner, an Englishman showed me
to my seat, an Irishman changed my plate, a
Chinaman washed my table napkin, and q
German handed me my bill"
The laborers blasting rocks ON the railroad
extension beyond Redding are Strengthening
hundreds Of snakes that have taken up their
quarters there. Every blast OF powder sends
into the air q writhing mass of snake flesh and
the noise made by the rattlesnakes can plainly
be heard at a distance.
1t is understood upon good authority that
the bridge under course OF construction by the
Atlantic 4 Pacific railroad company over the
Colorado river at the Needles has been aban-
doned FOR the present on account of high water.
This will delay the completion of that road for
fully three months.
San Francisco Call; There is ut present
81, 000, 900 worth Of opium in the appraisers
store, and every China steamer arriving has
large consignments of the drug for San Fran
cisco merchants, most Of which is prepared for
smoking, to be used in this city, very little 60
ing east.
IL is stated that at Red Rock canyon, on the
regular road from Mohave to Independence
the carcasses of 1900 sheep are lying, polluting
the atmosphere for miles about. 1t is sur
missed that they were poisoned by the bad wa
ter of that place,
The remains of a Chinaman buried ~uineteer
years ago at Merristown, Sierra county, wer,
disinterred for shipment to China recently
and IL was found that they had become petri
fed.
Copper City, Shasta county, Is again depop
ulated. Three times has this town taken
squirt since 1868, but each time has failed Il
hold its grip.
John Thomas, OF st. Helena, recently ship
ped 1872 barrels Of brandy TO Liverpool, beinl
the largest shipment yet made from that poin
for expectation.
The scheme to erect steel works In San Dieg'
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
Montana

Butte Inter Mountain: News from Ana
conda to the effect that the first frame struc-
ture Of that future great" city has been COM
pletod il Just received. The building is to be
occupied by J. Ross Clark with a general mer-
chandise stock.
Allen Cecil, a discharged soldier from Fort
Shaw, has been arrested for robbing the treas.
ure box on the Helena and Benton stage Of
$500, three months ago. The evidence against
him Is said to be very conclusive.
School houses are to be built this summer
in Deer Lodge, Livingston, Missoula, Dillon,
Miles City, Glendivo, Jefferson City, Benton
and probably Helena and Billings.
Street cars are running between Billings and
Coulson, with return tickets for twenty-five
cents, which will include two glasses OF beer
at the brewery in Coulson.
The Hecla Consolidated Mining company
Of Glendale paid its monthly dividend fol
May of 5000, making $4,000 in dividends
since the LIST of January.
Yellowstone county warrants are at par
and there Is enough money in the treasury II
pay all bills allowed by the county commits
%sioners,
At Benton a Chinaman bought q PiegaI
squaw and her two-year-old pappoose for tw'
sacks Of musty -four.
The salary of the government guide ap
5000 per annum.
He'll Roaring Greek, a tributary of the Vel
lowstone, heading in the National park, !
being ~prospected for gold.
Bradstreets has only recorded one business
failure in Montana since the beginning of tn
current year.
Settlers along the line are still troubled b.
the Crees, who steal all tho stock they can &c
hold Of.
Montana claims to have produced $500, 900,
900 in precious metals, the largest part OF
gold.
The opium dens Of Boxeman are regularl
raided by the city marshal.
New coal beds have been found With
eight miles Of Billings.
Helena talks Of having a German news
paper.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
Dakota.

Ten years ago an American army officer
married an Indian girl and established q
rancho on the Missouri river In Potter county.
Five years after he died and a short time ago
his wife,, who has since married an freshman,
was offered $4,000 for her interest in the
place.
A party of English capitalists are thinking
OF buying what is left of the town of Swan
Lake and making it o summer resort and
pleasure grounds for the benefit of the citizens
of Hurley, Parker and Centreville.
Pillsbury 4 Hubert will this season erect q
large elevator ut Mapes, at which point it is
expected from so, 900 to 100, 600 bushels of
grain will be marketed this year.
The new county of Steele, comprising thirty
six townships with the town of Hope for coun-
ty seat, was organized last Wednesday, and il
in complete running order.
Howell, in Hand county, il located on the
survey of the Chicago & Milwaukee road, il
has lately been scripped and plated and lots
are selling rapidly.
1t is said that the Baker hotel, now in course
of construction at White Lake, will be the
finest building in Aurora county when com
pleted.
Eastern parties are said to be in the north
ern part of the territory seeking to contract fm
the coming wheat crop at 81. 20 per bushel.
VARIOUS Masonic lodges will ~otficiate at tn,
laying of the corner stone of the Grand Fork
university, about the first of July.
The Bismarck Tribune says 3,467 peopl
passed the Merchants hotel one evening re
Gently inside of an hour and . half.
The territorial bonds for the construction o
the university of Northern Dakota, at Gran,
Forks, are to be sold July I'd.
Plans and specifications are being made 70
n new opera house at Fargo. 1t will have
seating capacity Of l 900.
A 80, 900 school building will be erected a
Devils Lake City, the money being raised b.
private subscription.
Deuel. county guarantees the biggest whea
crop this year that she has ever produced.
II Aurora county papers complain of
scarcity of school houses.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
WYOMING.

The Laramie Leader says that several byci-
clists of that city contemplate taking o trip
upon their wheels in the near future to Den
yer, and will probably go as far az Leadville.
Cheyenne Sun: An exhibition of fine horses,
cattle and sheep should DO held in Laramie
county this fall. There is plenty of supe-
rior stock to make a good showing.
The postmaster general has ordered the ap-
pointment Of James McGibbon ~ postmaster
at Cooper, Albany county, and +. Chatterton
at Fort Fred Steele, Carbon county.
Boomerang: Laramie Is known throughout
the east " the wool centre Of Wyoming. She
Is deser wing Of the title.
The Cheyenne Sun says the Wyoming mail
facilities are In adeplorable state Of ruin and
general worthlessness.
A company has been organized, with a cap.
ital of 100000, to build q dam and ditch or
Horse creek.
The carpenters Of Fort Collins have formed
themselves into q union for mutual protec.
ton.
During May 1867 acres of land were sole
in Spokane comfy by the railroad company
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27

MANHOOD Positively Restored in from two to 10
wi days by Mexican Vegetable CONNECTION. For
particulars address San Meteo Medical Co. p. O.. Box,
21sl, st. Louis, Mo. jell-d&w-2m
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27

no more of wringing their necks off than
/ would of so many chickens. " this
shoe fits any Of the %tine-haired gentlemen
who helped to rob the Indians during
that time, let them wear it, and ] hope
it will make bunions on their toes as big
as Pixies peak. |, for one, wish to re-
main where my family can enjoy life
which suits them best. Let people say
what they will about me, it matters not
to me, so long as they don't say it in my
presence. / love my wife and children,
and the more they talk the more | think
of them. / know of some heightened
government officials who have gone out
and bought an Indian maiden for a few
paltry dollars, kept her until they tired
of her, and then sent her and
her baby back to her relations
to beg food enough to keep them both
from starving. Is it any wonder that i
don't love Indian agents2 Do you know
/ witnessed things at Fort Laramie which
would make an honest soldier blushi
There were five companies, i think, sta
toned there at one time, and | made a
visit there for the purpose of buying
some provisions. i stayed ten days,
played poker, drank suffers whisky, ate
peaches, and had time to get acquainted.
To tell the truth, ! think every other
man in the post, from a dog-robber up to
a commander, had a squaw from a neigh
boring encampment. Maybe this wa
done to c~ivilize them. | will tell you
my opinion on this subject. 1t is simply
that if the fathers of two-thirds of the
half breeds on the reservation have not
money enough to educate their wi flesh
and blood. her I think the government
should.
CHIEF w%HIsTLER's KILLING.
"The killing of Chief Whistler, n of
the best chiefs the Ogallallas ever had,
next to Two Face inspired the Sioux
with renewed suspicion, and they lost all
faith in the white man, the government
and everybody else. The Indian agents
kept going and coming. As soon az n
thief was fattened another took his
place and did q little robbery on his own
account until he made a small sized for
tune and gave way to another. The In
dams are poorer now than they were
25 years o. When / first came among
them they were happy, honest and vir-
tuous. Now you ask them where their
virtue has gone, and they will tell you
the whites have stolen it,"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
Miscellaneous.

The Maricopa Indians on Salt river, A. T.,
will this season harvest the largest crop Of
wheat they have ever raised. The wheat
raised by this tribe is considered the finest and
cleanest produced in the territory.
The Tacoma, w. T., News says: 1.-THE
first apple tree raised on the Pacific coast,
from seed sent out ON u Hudson Bay com
pany's ship to Vancouver in 1896, is said to be
still standing on the government reserve near
Vancouver"
A $50, 900 hotel. three stories, Queen Anne
style, is to be erected at Portland. There was
a conflict of opinion rs to whether it should be
Qneen Anne or Elizabethan that nearly re-
suited in a riot.
Salt Lake City has hotel accommodations
for 1000 guests, and the cry is still for more.
The Tribune calls for a big house like the
Windsor of Denver, or Paxton at Omaha.
Charges have been made against the fire de-
partment of Virginia, New, that they are dill.
atory in responding tn alarms. The county
commissioners will investigate the charges,
The Union Pacific railway announces that
it intends to put $3.50, 900 into a machine shop
and round house at Shoshone this season,
1t is rumored that an enormously rich strike
of horn silver has been made in the Papagu
country, Arizona.
Silver City, n. NJ, pays its public school
teachers $3.50 a month.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
CHIEF wHIsTLER's KILLING.
MONROE. Mich, Sept. %, 1875.

MONROE, MICH, sept. 70, 1915.
SIRs-I have been taking Hop Bitters
for inflammation of kidneys and bladder.
1t has done for me what four doctors
failed to do. The effect of Hop Bitters
seemed like magic to me.
- w. 7, CARTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
Matter of Application of H. Erdman for
Liquor License.
.o.

D.,
Notice Is hereby given that II. EIdman did upon
the S5th day of June, A. ID. 1883, file his application
to the mayor and city council OF Omaha, for license
to sell malt, s~pirituous and yinous liquors, at :. i.
corner 10th aud Dodge street, Fourth ward, Omaha,
Nee., from the nth day of July, 1883, to the nth day
OF October 1883.
II there be no objection, remonstranoe or protest
filed within two weeka from June 21th, A. ID. 1883, the
said license will he granted. II, ERpMAN,
Applicant.
Tue OMAHA BEE newspaper will publish thu above
notice once each week Tor two weeks at the expense
Of the applicant, The city OF Omaha is not to be
charged Herewith. J. J. l.. q. JEwErT,
i06-lew.2w City Clerk.
Matter Of Application OF Margaretta siert for Liquor
License.
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that Margaretta siert dd
upon the 25th day VI June, =. ID. lSsS, file her appli-
cation To the mayor and city council OF Omaha, Tor
license 10 sell malt, s~pirituous and yinous liquors at
No. l4l4 farnam street, Third ward, Omaha, Nebi
from the nth day Of July 1858 to the 18th day OF DC
toher 1883.
II there he no objection. remonstrance OF protest
Med within two weeks from June 25th, A. 1888, the
said license Will be granted.
MAReARErrA SHIRT, PER Henry siert,
Applicant.
TnK OMAHA BKE newspaper will publish the above
notice once each week for two weeks At the expense
Of the applicant The city of Omaha Is not 10 DC
charged herewith. J.. J. L. q. JswsrT,
io5.stiew City Clerk.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27

A Coon INVESTMENT. One Of our
prominent business men said to us the
other day; 'In the spring my wife got
all run down and could not eat anything;
passing your store | saw a pile OF Hoods
Sarsaparilla in the window, and | got a
bottle. After she had taken it "a week
she had a rousing appetite, and did her
everything, She took three bottles, and
it was the best three dollars | ever in.
vested, c, l., Hood Il Co., Lowell,
Mass.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27
Matter OF Application Of Victor Dreher FOL
Liquor License.
NOTICE.
Matter OF Application OF VIM. weckbach for Liquor
License.
NOTICE.

Netioe Is hereby given that Vim. weckback did upon
the 25th day OF June, A. d., 1883, file his application
to the Mayor and City Council OF Omaha, for license
to sell Malt, Spurious and vinous Liquors, at No.
1913 FaInam street, Sd ward, Omaha, Neb., from the
18th day ofJuly, 1883, to the 18th day OF October, 1883.
II there be no election, remonstrance or protest
filed within two weeks from June 25th, A. u. 1888,
the said license will be granted.
wM. wEckBAcn, Applicant.
The Omaha Bee newspaper viii publish the above
notice once each week for two weeks at the expense
of the applicant, The city Of Omaha Is not to be
charged Herewith.
lo4-lew-2w. j. J. l.. G. JEWETT city Clerk.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-27

Iffyou don't want to freeze when it's
cold; suffer from excessive perspiration
when its warm-use Browns Iron Bit
tiers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-07
They Wheeled.

About face" was the command es.
terday to the Republican senators, and
they wheeled accordingly. The day be
fore the Senate had almost unanimously
voted for the resolution directing that
no appropriation bill should be reported
for the payment Of the Legislature for
any time that the session may continue
after September 10th, until apportion.
ment bills are passed" Yesterday after
nights reflection and hearing from
Chairman Cooper, who had been away
the day before, the Republican senators
unanimously voted to reconsider theii
vote Of the day before, that they might
strike out from the resolution the words
until apportionment bills are passed.
They pretended TO be Mortified by the
discovery that the resolution as adopted
offered a bribe to the legislators to PASS
apportionment bills. 1t said that they
should be paid after September 10th, if
they did, and should not be paid il they
did not, pass these bills, which they had
been called in extra session to pass
But it was not the bribery aspect Of
the question that Caused their sOmer
sault. 1t was produced by their reiicc
tion that they would be deprived of their
thunder after September 10th, and could
no longer claim that the Democrats were
keeping the Legislature in session to
earn their ten dollars day. With that
resolution passed the governor would
have the authority OF the Legislature Ia
veto any appropriation for its pay after
September 10th, and it would be too late
for any members to repent who might
hereafter become hungry for their per
diem. The resolution moreover adver
tised the possibility of appOrtionment,
which is thing the Republican senators
have been swift to deny. They made a
mistake, from their standpoint, in voting
for the resolution with the obnoxious
clause in. They supported it in the hope
that 1t would secure an early adjourn
ment; but they took too big risk. After
they had made the step, however, it
would have been better for them to stand
by 1t. The failure Of the Democratic
senators to vote, left them without power
to reverse their action and they would
have been wise to keep quiet and make
the best of it.