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The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21
Market Reports.

ST. PAUL-Wheat, No. l hard, g3005c.
No. l, SIC; No. 2 hard. sec: No. 2, 76c.
Corn. No. 2. sic. No. 3. A 604Sc.
Oats. No. 2 mixed, 2Sc; No. 3 mixed, 26c;
No. 2 white, 29c. ; No 3. white, 2Sc.
Barley. No. 2, soc No. 3 extra, 4Sc. No. 3,
40c.
Rye. No. ?, 55c.
Baled Hay, wild, $500; timothy s12,Od.
Eggs, l6@l6kc.
MILWAUKEE Wheat, Nc. 2, $40
Corn. No. 2. $50
Oats, No. 2, white, SAC.
Rye No. l. 63hc.
Barley. No. 2. 55c.
Mess Pork. $500.
Lard. S120.
Butter, choice creamery 101Sc; fair to
good, 16@17c: best dairy, l4@15c.
Eggs, l5@l59c.
CH1cAeo.-wheat, No. 2 Chicago spring,
S6S59Ec.
Corn. 55056c.
Oats. 300501{c.
Rye. gre.
Barley. 64066c.
Flax Seed. s L.320s1.3 So
Pork, s16OO6s1L00
Lard, S1150s1.20.
Butter, creamery, 17@1sHc; dairy, 14@141fc
Eggs, l59l5Hc
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21
H CIVIL

Annual Meeting of the National Associa-
tion, with an address by George Will
liam Curtis.
The fourth annual meeting of the National
Civil Service association was held at New York.
George William Curtis delivered the opening
address.
Mr.. Curtis gave a lengthy review of civil
service reform legislation in congress from the
time the subject first claimed popular attention
until the defeat, at the last session, of the bill
to repeal the fopr-year tenure of office act
He then referred to the civil service law passed
by the New York legislature, and enumerated
and explained its provisions. Mr.; Curtis high
ly commended the work of the
present civil service commission,
and praised President Arthur's
course in regard to this branch of government
al reform. The speaker then urged to COM
pletion the repeal of the four-year-laW, and
concluded: "The greatest and most beneficial
reform in methods of administration which
has ever been proposed in the country, a re-
form of abuses which were subjugating legit-
innate party action, destroying the moral au-
thority of elections, demOralizing the public con-
science, degrading official character, excluding
able and upright men from public life and
disgracing the American name has been begun
and has thus far effectively accomplished,
not by party but by patriotism, by men in office
and out of office, of different political conven-
NlOAA0 6A1OASll Ae&CAAC W 49,
anticipating political careers, yet cooperating
with sincerity and enthusiasm, not as Repub-
leans, not as Democrats, but solely as Ameri-
cans; before all, proud of their country; above
all. resolved that the national name should be
unstained and national politics raised to con-
troversies of principle and policy. In all the
proceedings of our associations and of this
league, in all our appeals and arguments,
there has been no word and no thought
Of party. Both houses of congress passed
the national reform bill with
practical party unanimity. A democratic legis-
fature in New York, a republican legislature in
Massachusetts,, passed a state reform bill, a
Republican president, q Democratic governor
have been the two most conspicuous and eff
fective executive agents in enforcing the re-
form. If in the mad tumult of party passion,
in the storm of hatred, falsehood and malig-
nant injustice which q presidential election
whirls overthe land, some appalled, citizen should
be ready to despair of his country and to be
ashamed of his kind, let him take heart again
and be prouder than ever that he is an Ameri-
can, and anticipate with surer confidence the
greater glory of his country, as he reflects that
civil reform, thus far, has been the triumph OF
patriotism in the midst of party conflicts and
despite the ferocity of party spirit"
A business meeting was subsequently held
at which remarks were made by Representative
of various cities setting forth the progress made
in civil service reform in each of said corpo-
rations. Resolutions we're unanimously adopt
ed congratulating the members upon the worI
already accomplished
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A recently enacted law forbids the
gratuitous publication of statistics col
lected by the Government, and the cab
alistic figures of imports, exports and
immigration which until lately flowed
in recurring streams from Washington
will be seen no more for aseason.-The
great masses of figures gathered and
published by the government, are sim
ply rubbish to a majority of the people.
but to certain specialists they are val,
liable for data and comparisons, and
this class will not be debarred from &C
quiring all they want through other
sources.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21

Chief Justice Daley of New York,
president of the Geographical Society,
writing to the New York Herald, ex-
presses disbelief in the existence of the
open polar sea so earnestly advocated
by Lieutenant Maury, DR.. Zane and
DR.. Hayes, for the general reason that
the ce-bound condition of the portion
Of the Arctic that is known to us should
be assumed to continue in a still greater
degree to the pole. as the nearer we APP
proach it the further we are removed
from the influence of the sun. The idea
of an open polar sea originated in the
imaginary representation upon old
maps of the early part of the sixteenth
century of such a sea at the north pole,
with four rivers corresponding to the
cardinal points flowing from it, and a
statement made during the same CEN
fury by one Moxen, AN English hydro
grapher, that he had met a sailor in a
taven at Amsterdam who had seen this
sea and sailed upon it. Still Judge
Daley advocates continuous scientific
observations around the polar basin,
extending as far inward or toward the
pole as favorable opportunities offer
for we shall neve accurately know the
laws of aerial and oceanic currents un-
less we know more than we do now
about what takes place in the Arctic
circle. and this viii not be abandoned,
Notwithstanding the calamity that has
Defallen the present expedition.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21

Somebody once accounted for the ex-
cesses of the French Revolution on the
ground that the nation had become in
sane, arguing that people may go mad in
masses as well as individually. This idea
appears to find confirmation in France
now, in the case of the prejudice against
doctors in the cholera smitten districts.
The explanation of the prejudice is that
a pamphlet written by a German, and
containing the assertion that cholera is
natures means of Kidding the earth of
surplus population, and especially OF
that part not fitted for the struggle of
existence, has been widely circulated in
France, and that the people think the
views of the government accord with
those of the German writer. The doc
tors are looked upon as the agents Of
the government, and their object to en-
courage instead of suppress the disease.
A good many follies may be attributed
to simple ignorance under the influence
of fear, but this folly is so extreme az
to lead to the suggestion that it ema-
mated from and is believed in only by
persons who are insane.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21

Seymour, Iowa, Special Telegram -Satur-
day morning, a fire broke out on the back part
of Earnest's drug store and Young's hall. The
entire town turned out, and everything posi-
bic was done to %extinguish the fire, but to no
avail. Twenty-three buildings in the business
part of the town were destroyed. The losses
on the buildings will amount to at least $780,
GOO A great many of the goods were saved in
a more or less damaged condition. The msur-
ance will not cover more than one-third of the
total loss. The principal losers are Geo. Her
bert; Post Office; Morrison d Co; Youngs Hall;
w H. Earnest; Union Block; Odd Fellows
Hall, etc.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21

During the month OF July the nation
al debt was reduced nearly 81 900, 900,
which decrease, in view of the heavy
disbursements made for pensions and
interest. is quite as large as was expect
ed generally. A few persons expected
the extinguishment would reach $5,-
O00,O OO, the sum fixed upon in the esti-
mates, but the warrants for pensions
aggregated $40, OOO, 900 and so absorbed
some of the surplus intended for debt
reduction.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21
Personal Points.

The win of the late Royal Phelps has been
filed in the s~urrogate's court at New York. It
is dated Feb. II, 1884, and gives all his proper
ty to relatives with several small requests to
old employees. His nephews, Royal Phelps
WILDER, and Herbert S. WILDER each get $50, 000,
and James H.. WILDER gets $4,000. The other
Bon-in. law, John Lee Carroll of Maryland gets
$1,000 The remainder of the estate is be-
queathed in as many equal parts as there are
grand children surviving him. Thomas Matt
and is appointed executor of the will
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21

Alabama leads off in the elections of
1884, choosing state officers and a legis-
lature. Arkansas will hold a similar
election on Monday, September 1, and
Vermont the next day. Maine will elect
a governor, a legislature and congress-
men, and vote upon a proposed prohib-
tory amendment to its constitution, on
Monday, September 8. Georgia will
hold a state election on October 1, and
Ohio and West Virginia on the 14th of
the same month. Thus preliminary con-
tests will occur in seven states, but pub
lie interest will chiefly be attracted to-
ward those in Maine and Ohio, and in
each case the campaign will be extreme
ly vigorous.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21
Record of Casualties.

The Grand Trunk railroad repair shops be-
yond the southwestern city limits of Chicago
were burned recently. Loss $4,000.
Two Chinaman fought Tuesday night at
Portland Ore, over a courtesan. Both we're
MORALLY shot One, a very desperate fellow,
barricaded his room and refused to surrender
to the police. He threatened 70 kill any officer
who approached. The building was sur
rounded, the room flooded with water and the
wounded man drove out.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21
Nine Horse whieves KILLED.

Meagre particulars have been received of an
other slaughter of horse thieves in the Muscle
shell region Montana, $50 miles northeast of
Helena, last week by cowboys. While in pur-
suit of stolen horses a log house was discovered
in the timber on a mountain side. l was secret
ly watched a day or two, duriug which time
several parties of men came and went, some by
day and others by night, having in their pos
session horses, evidently stolen. 1t becoming
evident that it was the hosre thieves rendez-
yous the cowboys c~ongregated, and last Mon
day night, crawled up close to the house and
attacked fourteen horse thieves about the
premises at the time. Nine we're killed and five
escaped. The cabin was set on fire ndburned.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21

Finley and tne inspector general of the interior
department, visited the Payne camp at Rock
Falls, Indian territory, and, after reading the
presidents proclamation TO HIM and his as
sembled followers, directed them 10 leave the
territory. Payne refused, and the soldiers
raided and destroyed the settlement and drove
the settlers away.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21
Railroad and River News.

The earnings of Northwestern roads for the
month of July were as follows: Chicago &
Northwestern, 81, 962. 500; decrease, $19S, 800;
St Paul & Omaha, s461 800; increase, $4,000;
Milwaukee & St Paul, 81, $685. 600; inceease,
Sl20, 10 Northern Pacific, $l,O26,4 49; increase,
S176,225.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21

DR.. Koch, the celebrated specialist,
who was sent to France by the German
Board of Health, to study the cholera
epidemic, believes that cholera will go
everywhere in the course of afew years.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-21

Body snatehers are bothering the good PEG
pie Of Boyden, Ohio.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14
TRY BRITANNIA !
The Great Remedy
for Rheuma-
tism.

This Justly popular medicine is deci-
dedly without parallel in the effscting
of rapid and permanent cures. 1t is en-
tirely reliable, and not only removes the
cause of Rheumatic pains from the blood
but tones up the entire system. The
Stomach, the Kidneys and the Liver
participate in the benefits derived from
its use, and persons who were
troubled with sour stomach, kid
ney complaints and Indigestion,
have entirely recovered after using Bril-
tsnnia even for only short time. One
bottle will generally effect a cure. A
teaspoonful of the medicine makes a
wineglsssfol of the tonic. It ia pleasant
to take, aod many persons keep it as
family incidence using it as a mild
aperient and appetizer. Price Csc. per
bottle. Special rates to the trade z. O.
NJ. I. Drug Department, general agents
for Utah. Main street. Salt Lake City
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14

Chas. Houghten, Esq, lawyer,
State st., Boston. reports case Of Sail
Ri, UNI under his observation for ten
years, which covered the PATIENTS body
and limbo, and to which all known
methods Of treatment had been applied
without benefit, which was completely
cured solely by the CUTIcURA RENE
DIES, leaving clean and b slthy skin.
F. III. Drake, Esq, Detroit, Mich.
suffered untold tortures from Skin Dis
ease which appeared on his hands. head
and face, and nearly destroyed his eyes,
After the most careful doctoring and
consultation Of physicians failed to re-
lieve him, he used the CUTICURA REM
EDIEs, and was cured, and has remained
so to dato.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14
EsTRAY NOTICE.

w HEREAs. IN THE 9TH DAY OF
w May, 1884, I received from Officer Z.
D. Bennett a certain white Mare. about 8
years old, bran ed T on left shoulder, also a
certificate signed by said officer setting forth
large upon Eleventh street, between Maple
and Locust streets. in violat on OF section 126
ofthe Revised On dinances Of Kaysviile City,
and that the amount Of fine against said anil
NAL is five dollars (s5).
Notice Is hereby given that If the said ami.
NAL is not claimed and taken away and said
penalty and all costs paid before one ~
o'clock Pm. On Monday, the 18Th day OF May,
Davis County, Utah, / Win at said time and
place offer said animal for sale at public AUG
ton, and sell the same to the highest and
best bidder for cash, to satizfy the amount
claimed on said certificate and all costs.
Kay,vills City, 1884.
C.S. LAYTON,
mI2 City P0undkeeper.
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the Townshend bill, providing that
hereafter no Territory shall form q
constitution or apply for admission
as State into The Union until! II
shall coniain a permanent popula-
ton equal to that required Ill a
Congressional district In order to
entitle it to representation IN the
House.
Kasson criticised the bill as useless
and in violation of the spirit of the
Constitut on, IN that it denied to
people of the Territories the right
of petition in its highest form.
HsrdeInan denied that the bill
touched upon the right OF petition.
but declared it merely said, in JUS
tice to old States, it wouli not give
to the people of the Territories ba-
sis of representation which CID
States did not have
Cox, of New York, favored the
bill, because it would have moral
emphasia end because it was moths
ing but a fair, just restriction on the
right of popular or squatter SOW
ereignty.
Brents protested against the bill
as working injustice to the people
of the Territories.
Keifer opposed it as uLconsti'u-
tion9l.
Horr character zed it as nothing
but buncombe.
Hammond thought it an unwise
and futile attempt by this Congress
to bind another.
Potter expressed himself in favor
of the bill. 1t was, he thought,
time for Congress to annOun ,e that
it was the policy Of the country that
the great people of these great
States were no longer to be override
den by admit ing States of the from
tier when they had a population in
sufficient to make respectable town
in one OF the older Sta es.
Townsend sad the object of the
bill was to inform the Territories
that until they attained their ma
jority they could not enter into
their inheritance.
Hammond moved to lay the bill
on the table. Agreed 70, 100 10 Is.
Bills were passed extending the
Jurisdiction of justices Of the peace
in Wyoming. and providing that
hereafter the legislature shall con-
s.st Of twenty-four members of the
council and forty eight members OF
,he house.
adj burned.
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House..

Washington, 10. : Past submits
the c eng view views Of the minority OF
S W. &C. commute on Pacific Railroads,
- ;ae Oil to amend the Thurman
sinking fond act. u' "''N
~; AtIer short discussion the com :
out r t ,wa rose and the bill passed with
Hill hin G;tmIendlng. As it is a Senate
the P. oUS fequ res the approval Of
torv ,f fiI, provides that the Terri
evil .. al Alaska hall constitute 8
ten NJ "nu !ud'il district, with a
wb;d5S OEary sea- of government.
G- I.I III Is es' abli he'd at sitka: a
s',t5 fn7r shall be appSinted with
ers ~ 81 = to Sc that the laws
an = 81 TOT the district sre enforced.
MAO M, Slo shall be ex>rffcio com
DOW eeIr n'ch;ef Of the militia wi h
10 the d 10 call it out when rs cessary
disfriIott ne execution of the law: =
shah So,ssou court is established. which
wear ear lod at least two terms each
WTanoO.a7.e at Si'ka, the other at
and = 5o a c erk, a district attorney
and sn MARSHAL are aIso provided for.
point,aori'y IS given for the an
with ,bo ut OF four commissioners
commia o powers and jurisdiction of
cult Gnu. OF United Sta es cir
the st toaf' 4. The general laws of
be ,ho VI Oreg3n are deo',rs.I -
thev We n laws of the district as Tar Iar 50 se
four vess appointed 'or the term e of
Ing sslsri s a1d receive the follow
ttIc, l 4ttas.G Governor, So 900: De.
$500; Judge, e. 90 - 500; ktarahal,
The nsxt a. s 5000 ,ooO; eierk, $500.
measure { :nsidt red Uoas
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14

Chas. Eayre Hinkle, Jersey Oh y
Heights N. j., led of II years, who,
for eieh wears, was one mass Of Scabs
and Rumors, and upon whom All knoa I
rea edies and cures were tried in vain.
was completely cured by CUTICURA
REMEDIks.
Sold By all druggists. Price: CUT
CURA. Soc; REsoLvENT, 81; Soap, 25c
POTTER DKuG AND CHEMICAL Co.,
Boston Mass.
Send for "Row to Cure Skin Dis
cases.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of The salt Lake and West
ern Railway Company will be held
at the comrany's station building,
Lehi junction, Utah Territory, on
Monday, June 9Th, 1884, at II a. m e.
for fne purpose of electing directors
TO serve for the ensuing year.
HENRY MCFARLAND,
Secretary.
SALT LAKE CITY, May II, 1854
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14

DISFIGURING HUMORs, Itching
IL and Burning Tortures, Pa nful ETup.
tions, Salt Rheum or Eczema, Psoriasis
Scald Head, Infsntile or Birth Hu-
mors and every form of Itching, Scaly.
Pimply, Scrofulous, Inherited, Con-
tagious, and Copper Colored Diseases OF
the Blood, Skin, and Scalp, with Loss o;
Hair, are positively cured by the CUn
CURA REMEDIES,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14

Cuticura Soap, an exquisite Skin
Besutiier and Toilet Requisite, prs
pared from CUTICURA, is indespensab bic
in treating Skin Diseases, Baby Humors.
Skin BIemishes, Rough, Chspped or
Oily Skin. Cuticura Remedies are
absolutely pure, and the only real Blood
Purifiers and Skin Besutifers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14

Cuticura Resolvent, the new blooo
purifier, cleanses the blood and perspirs-
ton of impurities and poisonous ele-
ments, and thus removes the cau:e; while
Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, in
stsntly allsys Itching and Infsmm stion.
clears the Skin and Sea p, heals Ulcers
and Sores, and 1estores the Hair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-14

Mr.. John Mcguire. manager Of
fhe Walker Opera House, is now on
a flying trip up north. During his
absence the business o. the house is
in the hands Of Mr.. S. F. Walker.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-03

CONTROLLER DrSS's occupancy of
office is being signalized by the unearth.
ing Of good deal either of official rot
tenness or neglect. 10 the case OF Gray
It proved to bo the former. In the case
Of the late Republican Board Of Harbor
Commissioners and the Republican Com.
missioner Of immigration IL is undoubt-
edly the latter. Gray, the executive
officer Of the inculpated Republican
Harbor Commissioners, Is in the Peniten-
tiary. Gen. Evans, one Of its member,
died by his own hand, presumably from
the vexation arising out OF the expose;
while Bunker the immortal hugger.
muggcring Bunker--is standing of jus.
tice, Controller Dunn and the whole
State Of California. There is something
very dcfiant and majestic in the way
Bunker sits on his swag and allows the
slow, unmoving finger Of scorn TO be
pointed at him. In one OF Marryatt's
nautical songs the common sailors sing
the irreverent refrain, Port Admiral
you he ID" This is the sort Of salute
Bunker tenders to the Controller and At
torney a eneral Of California, and to all
their myrmidons, several and collective.
Mr.. Dury Melone is the last victim Of
Mr.. Dunn's argus-eyed vigilance. A de-
ficiency Of a considerable amount has
been discovered in that gentleman's ac-
counts while he was Republican Secre-
tary Of State. As the Hon. Drury had
the sagacity to marry rich woman, he
tells the Controller to "fgger" out the
little deficit, inform him Of the amount
and his check will be Forthcoming. The
Democratic Controller is unquestionably
Of some pecuniary value to the State.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-03

AMONGST the many useful bills which
have been introduced into the Legisla-
turs we have yet failed to see one which
contemplates the outright abolition OF
commissions Of all kinds. How happy
would the people Of California be II the
last political commission were in the
deep bosom Of the ocean buried! What
good has any Of them ever done! The
Railway Commission. even at its best,
when Stoneman, Smith and Doyle were
its personnel, did nothing but compile
voluminous book which left the whole
matter in state Of confusion worse con-
founded. Some Of these commissioners
were able and were presumably honest
men, and yet they accomplished abso-
lutely nothing. The farce embodied in
the history of the later commissioners is
known to every one, and the only body
that has even attempted to accomplish
any thing-or pretended to attempt to
accomplish anything -- IS to-day III hot
water. The creation Of this body was to
take the Railway question out Of politics.
As result, never since California was
q State has there been such an incessant
agitation about any one topic as there is
now about the railway. Pluck it up,
root aud branch, Messieurs who legislate
for California, and return to your con
stituencies to receive the heartiest ova-
ton ever chrtnicled on the Pacific
Coast! DO the sane with the Harbor
Commission, which is nothing but re-
fuge for the played-out politicians OF
both parties. Let the people govern
themselves through the medium of their
representatives, directly elected to ex'
press their will on the issues OF the day.
As to the harbor of the metropolitan city
of the Pacific Coast, turn it over to the
Chamber Of Commerce of San Francisco
and be sure that its concerns will be
conscientously and capably attended to,
without money and without price.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-03

OLD Boreas is blowing his cheeks
open in the devoted Eastern States lust
now. Cyclones appear to be the only
wear there for the nonre, and some Of
their performances are eccentric. Take,
for instance, the carrying away of the
bodies OF two women and the deposting
OF their mangled remains Ia wood.
There Is something very realistic and
horrible in thing like that The
widest gale that ever blew in California
was gentle zephyr compared to such a
hurricane. In the Biographies in use
when the writer was boy such cas-.
uslties weIe supposed to be exclusively
incidents OF tropical countries. Be.
ginning with the cloud burs. at ALE.
gheny, Pa, in the summer of 1888,
when over two hundred lives were lost,
our Eastern cousins have been treated TO
a series. OF sensational meteorological
episodes in the ans-Rooky Mountain
States which far discount any happen.
ings of the kind reported from the