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One OF Plnk5rtOn's Early Ad7eu
lures.

When the Michigan Central RalI,
road first started there was soo'
deal of opposition among The farues
and Others. Trains were WJeeheu
repeatedly and the opportunity ~.
plumber attracted the worst ehsi"s,
'eHs Of the country. Allan PlnSetson
Was called upon and undertook III
person to ferret out the equity parties.
He finally learned of Il plot to WrttA
q certain train. Repairing t. the
spot after night he found u calvert
where he concealed himself. Groplns
around in the darkness he fund
several crOwbars and knew then thaI
he was In the right place. He had
been waiting for hours, when three
approached the culvert. Plhk'
erton had doubled himself up i'll
corner to remain undiscovered. The
Bic took the crowbars and pr coed
ed TO tear up the track. Single-l4no'
Ell as he WAS, he followed the meh
and declared them to be his prison
ers. In the dark Of the mis- BIT The
pistols We're whipped out and a f1gh,
began. in which Pinkerton klllta
two men aud wounded the thlfg'
who ESCAPED in the darkness Htlu.
ly had Pinkerton ascertained ina;
none of the rails We're yet displac.u
when the train Numbered by II
8 tfety. That was the last orgaliz"
attempt at train wrecklng.
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THE SEMI-wEEKLY MINER, BUTTE, MONTANA, JULY 70, loo4.

American politics, and any attempt
to capture the Irish voter upon such
grounds is an imperlenence and on
insult to his intelligence.
Probably NO one laughs more heart
lily over this talk about his friendship
for Ireland thar Mr.. Blaine himself.
Those who pirate about it are practic-
ing q double game of deception.
They imagine thsy are fooling Blaine
when they ascribe something to him
which he knows he does not possess,
and that they are fooling the Irish
voters in making them believe Mr..
Blaine is their bosom friend. The
game will not win. Mr.. Cleveland,
ong ago, placed himself on record as
the friend of foreign-bOrn n~aturalized
American citizens. Mr.. Blaine has his
record yet to make. So allthis twad'
die about Blaine's love for Ireland
and Irishmen should end.
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st. John Accepts-COnveMtion Notes.

~PITTsBURG, July 25.-J. =. Little,
Of Newark, New Jersey. received the
following dispatch this morning
from Ex-Governor St J hn:
ROCHESTER,. n. Y, July 25.-Hon.
J. B. Finch Genrse r. Scott and M.
Bennett: l was at Lake Side yester-
day, and did not receive your tele-
gram until this morning. While l
did not seek or desire the nomina-
ton, l greatly appreciate the unani>
nifty with which it was given as
we'll as the honor it conferred. I can
only say now that l acqui-sce in the
actisn Of the convention ana looking
to God for His guidance l shall try
t. do my duty.
(Signed.) JOHN P. ST. JOHN.
Delegates are leaving for home on
every train, and all will on to mor>
row nave left the city. After the adj
j"urnment of the convention last
hight the California delegation on
behalf of DR.. Mcdonald rave a ban
quet to the delegates and leader of
the convention. In interviews to-
day they claim they will poll from
500, 600 to a 1000 600 votes. and
that they will probably carry Kansas
and Maryland, and so throw the
election into Congress.
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nolen Notes.

PARIS. July 25.-Beeweea ~ fron1
cholera At Marseilles. There IS q
large falling of in the non''e
cases. h
PARIS. July PA steamer WIN
.boiara ahoard arrived of Puelva,
Spain. The inhabitants are pane
stricken. and fed across the lron'ie1
into Portugal. NM =.
PARIS. July 25 "A pitable case Is
-ronorted from Marseiiles. A woman
eventv years of age was missing
several days. The police at last
forced an entrance into rer lodgings
and found her body upon the h'or III
such condition that d mus nao
been dead some DAYS. An exaih'na
ton proved she was the v>ctlln vi
cholera. She had lived almost eA-
clusively on fruit.
The corvette Argentina recently, al
Marseilles, desired to take on coal ~
Gibraltar. The English authorizes
forbi.l this and threatened to hre un-
less the vessel departed. The Argen-
tina thereupon proceeded TO a port IN
Portugal and began coaling, but the
inhabitants became panic striker
aud compelled the authorities 10
order the immediate departure OF the
unfortunate vessel. Where the Ar
pentina js tn find fuel enough to return
to La Plata appears an lnsoiuoie
problem.
PARIS, July 25.-There were fifteen
deaths in Toulon last night, five in
the hospital, three in town and seven
in the suburbs. 1t Is feared the
stormy weather will increase the viO-
lence of the epidemic. Six hundred
people left TOulon within two days
for the Pyrenees. The deaths at
Marseilles last night were sixteen.
PARIS, July pa member of the
of Deputies who returned
from Marseilles. says there has been
more deaths in that city from cholera
than are registered. Marseiiles, he
is a prey to thieves who plum
der at will. They entered the court
house Wednesday aud robbed the
offices of the Procureur de Roi.
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THAT F1VE-oENT-FARE BILL.

In tho absence of all Well~based Oh
lection to the Democratic nominee
for President the Republican press
have harped upon the fact that, rs
Governor, Mr.. Cleveland vetoed q
bill reducing the fare on the elevated
railroad in New York city from ten
to five cents. Had Governor Cleve-
laid been q time-serving dema-
gogue, anxious for the plaudits Of an
unthinKlng public, he would have
signed the bill. But he is an honest
man, and being under oath to sup
port the constitution and laws of his
State he vetoed it. Now, the fact is
even the tyro in political affairs
knows that no Legislature possesses
the right to interfere with con-
stitutionally vested rights or to nulify
existing contracts.
The charter of the elevated railroad
designates the fare that shall be
charged, and the legislature did not
possess the right to interfere with the
contract thus made between the COM
pany and the State. Upon this
ground Governor Cleveland vetoed
the bill. Besides, the proposed re-
duction was not at all in the interests
If the laboring classes. The charter
Of the company compels the line to
charge but five cents during the
hours from half past five to half pest
eight o'clock in the morning, and
from half past four to half past eight
o'clock In the evening. During these
hours the line Is patronized by the
working classes, and at no other to
%appreciable extent. Consequently
the proposed reduction to five cents
during all hours would have benefit
ed only the merchants, bankers,
brokers', etc., whose business does
not require attention but q few hours
each day, and who can well afford to
pay the ten cent rate. This 10 the
case in a nutshell.
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A CONTRIBUTOR to the Boston
Herald suggests that Mr.. Blaine's
record in the last year is enough to
down him. Two propositions Of his
illustrate the character of the man.
One is that the national government
should continue to collect more
money than it needs, and distribute
the surplus among the states; q most
pernicious, aagitious and wrong
headed proposition, which defies the
constitution and common sense. The
other is that the national govern
ment should assume Virgin,a's debt,
a proposition which, Were it to come
from the Democratic size, would ut
once be hOOted down as a rebel claim
pregnant with danger to the country.
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LONDON Tnlv a.

LONDON, July 4.-uSI
steamer "Gijon," WINE Sp.,,
with the steamer "La "bh,eh , ess'
passengers and a crew ~ hs%dE-
ty-tnree Passengers and q. n.y.
Of the crew Ia .d.dat q" lwsnt,.
believed the Latham tuhna.
aboard the Gipn, whi,tc Crew y
after the Latham had "d' ann, fouats,s||
f. CALAIS, Me-, July Az Az a.sG
scull race the first heat w ,ss ID
Teemer by a length, IN way ~ W.
and % seconds. In the ss so aG
reneyck won, time p nsec'pd
81 seconds. The third WY
Gaudieri in 22 minutes and q ~ w.
OTTAWA. July 24-Th's' sseG
ment has taken ,he utmost g.
against the introduction ~ p'ssel
PORTLAND, July al.-pss' '1.
Harris, OF the Northern
started east to-day. az
July 2l-Th,
district nominated A, SIs'.ts
Congress. Hh
DENVER, July 24.--FrankA
the defaultlng L.eadviile bsnt
to-day sentenced to ten ysa,s
penitei tiary. "Al
LONDON, July 24.--Ir4Is,a
the Eicho shield at the rife m.,
Wimbledon to-day. The ,oo''
Ireland. 1888; Scotland, l4-s.s 3,
land, l,475. '''
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candidate for the presidency, and
when, therefore. no cause for pretense
and hypocrisy existed, even were
Grover Cleveland, as he is not. capa-
BILE of any such vices. The provoca-
ton to this speech, too. was given by
the state department of which Nj.
Blaine was then the head, for its lack
of activity in behalf of the rights of
Irish-American citizens arrested in
Great Britain. Here is the passage
in Mr.. Cleveland's speech referred to
1t needed not the statute which is
now the law of the land, declaring
that ''all naturalized citizens while
in foreign lands are entitled to and
shall receive from this government
tue same protection of person and
property which is accorded to . ma
llve-bOrn cit,zen," to voice the poll
cy of our nation.
In all lands where the semblance
of liberty is preserved the right OF y
person arrested to . speedy ACCUSE
lion or trial is or ought tO be q funds-
mental law as it is y rule of clvlllZa-
ton.
At any rate, we hold it to be so.
and this is u Of the rights which
we undertake to guarantee 10 any
native-o0rn or naturaliZed citizen OF
ours. whether he be Imprisoned by
order of the car of Russia or unuer
the pretext of q law administered for
the benefit of the landed aristocracy
of England.
We do not claim to make laws for
other countr.e Is, but we do lDslst mat
whatsoever those laws may be, they
shall, in tho interests of human free
dom and the rights of mankind, so
far rs they involve the liberty. OF our
citizens, be speedily administered
We have q right to say, and 90 say
that mere suspicion without
alton or TRAILS not sufficient to justify
the Long Imprisonment of q cltlzen ot
America. Other nations nlay permit
their citizens to be thus Imprisoned.
Ours will not, Aud this in effect has
teen solemnly declared by statute.
We have met here tonight to con-
slider this subject and to inquire into
the cause ana the reasons and the
Justice OF the imprisonment of Ger
tain OF our fellOw-citiZens now held
in British prisons without the sem>
of q trial or legal examination.
Our law declares that the govern
,uent shall act in such cases. But
the people are the creators of the
government.
Now let those Republicans who
have charged that Mr.. Cleveland is
to the n~aturalized citizen
paste the above speech in their hats
the vigorous" jings
record of James G.. Blaine.
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A SOmbre Situation,

MARsEILLEs, July 25 -The aspect
here Is becuming more sombre. One
steamer only arrives weekly from
Algeria. The suppressed line to
Syria has stopped. The south Amer
lean packets have Ceased to call here.
The customs offices and quays are
deserted. There are many funerals
during the night, the burials being
performed by the aid of lanterns
The mayor has interdicted the
annual fair and forbids professions
on August 18th. An official inquiry
into the deaths of twelve sisters If
charity and almoners of Nunnery
Retra,ke showed tina the last rites of
the churcn were performed over the
body of the first sister who became q
victim of the disease, and
the clothing nor cell of the de.
ceased had been ~dislnfected. The
directors Of the bank of France met
the heads of banking houses OF this
city to-day and it was agreed to re-
fuse the request of merchants to ex-
tend the time for payment on bills
due. In special cases the renewals
will be given.
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H IRISH VOTE.

AS to the assertion made by Re-
publican politicians and Republican
newspapers that the Irish vote will
be cast for Blaine it is all moonshine.
There is not a word of truth in it. Can
any one show why Irishmen should
vote for Blaine upon the assumption
that he is friendly to the Irish? Has
he ever said a word in behalf of natu-
rallied citizens prosecuted abroad
that will compare at all with Mr..
Cleveland's speech, part Of which APP
peared in the MINEE yesterday morn
ing? If so, let his friends show it or
forever keep their peace. Now, the
fact is, as President of the United
States he could be of no use to Ire
land, even if he is as friendly to the
Irish as his friends pretend he is.
There is no act of his public life that
can be recalled which shows any pc
culiar friendship for Ireland. When
he was Secretary of State he could
have shown some interest in natural
ICED Irish citizens of this country,
languishing in English prisons, but
he did not. Hence all this talk of
the willingness of Irish Democrats to
vote tor him is q campaign falsehood
coined for the purpose of inducing
them to do 80.
In considering this question Irish
voters should not forget that the
United States is not Ireland. One
President Is the same as another as
far as Ireland is concerned. It is all
the same to that country whether
Cleveland or Blaine be elected.
In his foreign policy he will be
by the will of the Ameri-
can people as expressed through their
representatives, whoever he may be.
Any other course is simply impossi-
BILE. Whatever may be the Presi.
sympatbies he is in a position
where it is impossible for him to
or exert them. To Ireland
It makes no difference who is elected
next November, and Irish.Ameri-
cans are interested in the result not
hs 1rishmen but as Americans, The
of all this is that tho IRISH
question has no relation whatever to
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Cholera ON the Mississippi.

WASHINGTON, July Is. - DR..
Hamilton, surgeon General of the
Marine Hospital, has received the
following dispatch:
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July %. To
Surgeon General Hamilton: A sns-
pected case of cholera from the
steamer Annie P Silver for St.
Louis. The patient died ut Port An.
derson, Nj as. "a child.) The parties
came direct to New Orleans from
Toulon. Have notified Cairo and
st. Louis.
(Signed.) AMEs, Surgeon.
The Surgeon General Immediately
t~elegraphed to prominent points
along the river not to allow the
steamer to land until thoroughly in
spected. This evening DIR. Hamilton
received a d spatch notifying him
that the Annie P. Silver passed Carlo
on the 22d, and is now at St. Louis.
and that no more suspected cases of
cholera have occurred on board. He
Immediately telegraphed the Sur
geon of the Marine Hospital Service
at St. Louis to make a full investiga-
tien and report to him at once the fact
with regard to the susp. cted case
reported at Port Anderson. Missis-
and the general condition of
the vessel and her passengers and
crew. In answer to the dispatch of
Surgeon Ames at Evansville, Indi-
ana, from Hamilton has been in
formed by that officer that his dis
patch this afternoon was based upon
telegram received by him (Ames)
from the officer in charge 1T Nash>
vile, which stated on the authority
of DR.. Pierce, of Port Anderson.
Mississippi, that q case of cholera had
been put off the Anne P. Silver at
that place and the vessel was then on
her va, up the river.
Dr. Hamilton says he Dies not be-
lieve the case was cholera, but feels
justified in taking all proper precau-
even to the extent of tracing
down the suspected case and putting
officials on their guard at once with
out waiting to prove his suspicious
baseless.
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Presidential Appointments.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-The Pres
ident has appointed John E. Bryant
U. +. Marshal for the District of
Georgia, vice Gen. Longstre-,. John
q. Brady, AIaska, George E. Ihrie,
Pennsylvania, and Chester Zeber,
California, commissioners for the
District of Alaska, to reside respec
lively at Sitka, Wrangel and Onna-
laska. Pay Director J. H Watmong,
formerly Paymaster General of the
Navy, will be placed on the retired
list on the Both inst. No action will
be taken by the President in the
matter Of the commis>ionership of
the new Bureau of Labor Statistics
until his return to Washington
about the middle of August.
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For the first time in the history of
the paper the New York Herald
hOists the names of candidates tor the
presidency and vice-presidency at
the head of its editorial column. This
is significant of the ~earnestness of the
Herald in its advocacy of a reform in
the administration of the governs
ment. 1t is hardly necessary to state
that the names Of Cleveland anc Hens
bricks are the HeruId's candidates.
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A y MAZEpp.
An ErriDg Young Men,.
Ranchman LasLed Nak.a..
Wild BrOrcho's Bach ",
Carried 200 Miles in
Seven Days-A Ta,a
for Marines.

The following story aj,pearss :,
Minneapolis Tribune of a recent ~.
J.. b. B%nussaud, a prominent -
chant of Omaha, had occasion .I t'
time ago to visit his cattle ranol
Northwestern Nebraska, wh4raI l..
extensively engaged il stock-r,i.,'
While in camp one day he WA, -.
prised TO SEE a hur-e come 100,
along with a man lasheo Mays1"
like to his back. Mounting y har'
he succeeded IN overtskiny y
broEcho and resc"ing the u,an f,As
his dilemma. He brought y.
stranger INTO camp, and after ami, !
ing re%stora.ives brought him to ~!
seriousness. When able to taIk
said that his name was Henry Pr,
bank; tnat he WAS an Eng,jsbrs'
and 81 years Of age. About rnn,
years ago, at Falmouth, England, i.
formed a partnership with a friesi
named Thomas Wilson, some w.
his senior, and wi II him came +.
America 10 embark in the CATTLE In.
ine>s. They cast around for a viii.
and finally settled m Northwest
Nebraska, where the range was m.
limited. They built Il con fortsh. /
ranch on u little stream, where VI.
SONS young wife rejgned as hopA
k eyer, attended by one or twott ua. .
dOmestics and half 9 dl Zen wjllrs
cowboys Burbank was q hanJ.Ops
young gallant, and while w lson vs
absent riding about the range, fuj
it agreeable t. make love to lhe4
ter's wife. This continued /
some months until in iii
latter p,rt Of May one Of
the cowb US, who had a grievance
against Burbank, SURPRISED him and
Mrs. Wilson in d c"niproms ny slsu>
alton, and reported to the wowan's
husband. whose Jealousy had already
been aroused. That night Burbank
WAS captured while asleepi il lei by
Wilson and three OF his nlen and
bound before he had Il chance TO
make my Resistance. After outTag'
eou-ly n%altreasing him, Wilson had
Burbsn NIX stripped Of every bit q
clothing and bound on the back Of
wild brOnchO, which was started Of
by a vigorous lashing. Before moru-
ing Burbank became uncousclou,
and is therefore unable tell anything
about his terrible trip. He think,
that the outrage WAS committed Oh
the night Of Nay p: and b.
was rescued on the morning
June 3rG, which would mah'
seven days that he had been travel
ing abou' the plains on the horse;
back, without food or drink, and rx
posed to the SUI and wind. Wilson
ranch is about two hundred Nile
from the spot where Burbank va
found, but it Is hardly probable Tia
the brOncho took a direct course, al
therefore must have covered man
more miles in his wild journey
When fully restored to health, bul
bank proposes 10 make d visit OF re
taliation for Wilson, and i'll this
will be ta :ked by Boussand's men
the number OF twelve. and also
quad from the Ogaliala Ii; q al
Cattle Company, whose range Is nes
BOussand'S
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Democratic National Commit
tee Preparing for Action.
The Cholera Situation in the
South of France.
Reported Case OF Cholera on
the Mississippi River.
p Plaster on q Tree Don't Hold Claims
Against the Working Miner.

Special to the MINER
EAGLE CITY, I. T.. July 25.- An
important case was decided in the
district court to day which virtually
settles the principal question involved
in many of the disputed mining
claims now before the court, viz:
Whetherthe twenty acre locator who
anne here early and possesses no title
to his ground other than a
paper notice of location tackled
on the side of q tree, can hold
the property to the exclusion of the
miner who came later and proceeded
to fully comply with the law by
stalking, blazing and working the
ground in such a manner az to de-
velOp the mineral resources of the
country. Toe case decided to~day
was that of Mcqueen VS.. J. H.
Lynch, Cooney ct al, and the verdict
for the defendants, being regarded as
the first gun for the working miners
is considered an important advantage
for the entire mining community
which is in high spirits tonight over
the result. L.
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Payne's ~Squatters.

WASHINGTON, July 3.-The off,
Ger commanding the United STATES
troops, charg. d with the duty of ex-
polling the squatters from the Chero-
kee outlet lauds in the Indian Terri
tory has requested the Interior De-
partment to send q representative to
point out which persons shall he
elected. It Is probable that an at
tsche of the land Office will be directed
to discharge that duty.
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TIE INDEPENDENT MOVE
MENT,

The meeting of Independent
which was held in New York city
day before yesterday was such q on
as may have been expected from thu
character Of the men engaged in it
When men like George William Cur
tbs, Carl Schu'z, Colonel CsdmaI
and Clarence Bowen, aud such jour
mails as Aarper's Weekly, New York
Times and New York Post, engage
in u political movement they neal
business. There will be no child's
play about 1t. These men AID thest
journals can afford to be indepen'
dent. They are backed up by tie
best element OF the Republican or
ganization aud the party lash has nc
terrors for them. They have united
to defeat Blaine and Logan and have
declared in plain language their de-
formulation to accomplish that pur-
pOse.
They do not propose 70 abandon
the Republican party, hut will for
the present withdraw their allegiance
to it and direct their efforts 10 insure
a pure administration Of the govern
ment. To accomplish this end they
will support Cleveland and Hem
bricks for the Presidency. Their ar
raignment of Blaine and Logan is
complete. Coming. as it does, from
men who have always acted with the
Republican party, who have been
counted among its most powerful
leaders and who have borne the brunt
of its political battles in many a bit
terly contested field their presen
hostile attitude TO its standard bear
ers will exercise a powerful influence
in determining the issue of the pres
ent campaign.
The IndeI endent movement cam
not be checked. As one speaker
said, it is "growing to enormous
proportions" and is supported by
some of the purest and most influen-
tial men of the Republican party.
Twice, said the same speaker, have
the Independents defeated Blaine
in convention, and now they pro-
pose to defeat him at the polls.
Their reasons for encompassing that
defeat, as announced in their plat
form, are that Mr.. Blaine has shown
Oy his own words and acts Of official
record that he is unworthy of respect
and confidence and that he has
traded upon his official trust for his
pecuniary gain-a representative of
men, methods and conduct which
the public condemns. In other
words, they hold that "Mr. Blaine
is not fit to be President" and that
Ibis nomination is an insult to
manhood" This is plain
language, and frankly spoken
by earnest men who hold that d pure
administration of the govern ment is
more essential to the prosperity Of
the country than a party success.
There is q sufficient number of those
in the Republican party who enter
tain similar views to carry New
Connecticut, Wi consin, Indi-
ana, and possibly Massachusetts, for
and Hendricks. Never did
The prospects for the election of
Presidential candidates
appear brighter han they do to-day.