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The Mineral argus., 1884-08-07

ed a divorce from Jonathan Goodwin on the
ground Of drunkenness and cruelty, with $50,
coo alimony.
At q meeting of creditors of the suspended
banking firm Of Clinton R Weeden & Co, of
Providence, R L, q statement was made show
ing liabilities, s654,0O0, and assets $500 ~
both nominal: unsecured liabilities, S2T0,OO0;
stimated available assets, S12S,956
The soldiers monument at Dayton. o., is
completed, and derrick and debris removed
1t is of granite, eighty five feet high; the column
set on a pedstal forty feet from the ground 1t
is twenty-eight feet high and weighs twenty
three tons.
Louis Coin 4 Son, manufacturer of cigars,
Chicago, have gone to the wall Two confes-
sions of judgment a~ggregating SIG, $50 we're
filed, and the sheriff took possession Of the
premises. The firm have been doing a large
trade in the northwest The Liabilities are
said to exceed $4,000, About 800 men will be
thrown out Of employment ,
Mankato, Mimi, Speciality. b. Straight &
Co. of Hudson, Ohio, who have produc
house in this city, have assigned to A Kohler
twenty-five thousand dollars, and assets said to
be sufficiently ample to cover all claims. ex-
cept operations in cheese in Ohio, and the
general financial depression in business
throughout the country are the causes of the
failure. The firm has on hand about eleven
thousand dollars worth of cheese, which finds
a slow market even at. present low prices.
Their Minnesota business is not ac-
c~ountable fer the failure in any way, as it is in
a prosperous condition and has ample funds
to meet all liabilities without touching their
real estate.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-07
Anew York paper replies to the asser-

Anew York paper replies to the asser-
tons of county papers that cholera
may prevail in cities on account of the
non-enforcement of society regulations
and says that if it is a fact that if sani-
tary science is neglected in American
cities, it is almost unknown in our small
towns and villages, especially in the
South. There are thousands of beauti-
full tree-planting villages in the South
ern States where there is absolutely no
drainage whatever, and where every
kind of abomination has lain reeking
in the hot suns since the town was
founded; there are towns, too, at the
North, the stencil of which reaches to
heaven like that of Gehenna of old.
Half of the summering places and farms
to which people go for pure air in the
hot weather are unfit for human habi-
tations from the same causes. If the
cholera comes let each man look at his
own cellar and each community TO its
own drainage.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-07

A brave attempt is made to show that
something valuable has been accom-
plished by the Greedy expedition; but
it all comes down to the fact that two of
itsmembers reached a point four or five
miles farther north than any previous
explorer ever set foot. that a few new
theories as to the conformation of the
land and water ~thereabouts are preached,
and that a few old ones are discredited.
This does not pay for the loss of nine
teen lives and the frightful suffering ex-
perienced by the h alf-dozen survivors
who would have been past relief if the
rescuers had been forty-eight hours
later.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-07

As a rule, a censusess under the direc-
ton of the various state governments
viii not be taken until next year. In
Michigan, however, the authorities are
now receiving returns from the cities
and towns, and the results of the de-
cennial census for 1884, so far as known,
show a noteworthy tendency of the
population towards the cities and larger
towns. In the period of 1S7O-S0, while
the population of the whole state in
creased 38 per cent, the ten principal
cities made a gain of nearly 60 per cent.
In the years since 1880, this movement
cityward has also been marked. De-
troit and all the chief places have grown
steadily. Detroit reports 1874, 1874 in
habitants, a gam of Is per cent in four
years. Michigan is a farming state, yet
the centres of business, and not the ru-
raj districts, show the larger increase.
1t is probable that the ~censusses of
many states to be taken in 1885 will
show the same tendency, and also the
national census of 1890, unless there
should be a period of business stagna-
ton, which is apt to send a great many
people to the country to earn a living
where living is cheaper than in the
cities.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-07
A Catskin Mountain Bear Story.
"Do You often get hold of a bear? ?"

DO You often get hold OF a bear?"
Eyes, there's plenty of bear. Nice
fat fellows, weighing from 200 to 800
pounds. A bear and two cubs were
caught only last week at Big Indian.
They viii come down after the o
but, bless you, there's no danger in
meeting n of them. He'll trot off as
hard as he can directly he sees you,
and never turns ugly unless very hard
pressed. 1 only heard of one story in
this neighborhood of a man being at
tackled by a bear. 1t happened in '65
to a man named Wey, a carpenter, who
was crossing the hills after some work.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-07

A warfare between the New York
Central and Hudson River, and the
West Shore systems has reduced fares
to So from New York to Buffalo with a
prospect of going sill lower. These
roads run parallel and for long distances
in sight Of each other-hence the rival
ry that pleases the public which gets
the benefit much more than it does the
stockholders.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

Agents:
 CHARLES ATWOOD, Birgman. CHARLES ATWOOD. Mineral Park.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01
News of the Week.

London. May 23.-Lord St. Leon ards indicted for an indecent assault upon servant girl, was convicted today. The Court has reserved its y:,..gment.
 New York, May 24 A special from St. Johns, says: The French brig Senerine went ashore at Grand Bank Friday, and was a total wreck Tn if teen minutes. Fifty-three passengers and nine of the crew were lost. The SeneriDe was caught in fog, and the captain having lost his bearing. pqs making fol this port, going slow. When she struck tue widest disorder prevailed, the officers and crew mak- Ing for the boats, leaving the passen- gers to care for themselves. One E4t containing twenty passengers
 some Of the crew was swamped
 1t got away from the steamer by
 Iurching of the vessel. Tine
 Is Of the women were heart
 A
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

on. Sumner Howard, Chief Jus
 of the Supreme Court -af the
 f Arizona, has come and
 advent among us has
 surprise and of pleasure.
 in promptly answering l!5h forwarded to him by the citizens of Mohave county for an immediate session of Court by com ing in persOn, has not only met tue wants and wishes of the people, but has added credit to his well-earned
 widely known reputation as an
 advocate and profound lawyer. Within two hours after his arrival a town he took his seat on the bench Ior the firss time in his life, and yet everything moved as smoothly ID Court as though he had been there or twenty-five years instead of Prac- Ring before it. As a judge, his ck ana impartial rulings have mel
 appTobatiun of the entire com munity. His lecture to cafa'ess 'fh- Acers and bis rebuke to negligent at sornevs convlIee us that hereafter no lsoolisbnrss or frivolity will be per nitted or indulged by the officers of bis Court. He is man who believes hat the temple-of justice should be held sacred and respected as sucl and Le is just the man to See that II 50 held and respected. Learned be law, prompt to declde, impar-
 administration of justice.
 e6n the admiration of every sAe here. As a gentleman, his many brilliant qualities and his ready fund z of humor has endeared him to every one who has been bonored with bis acouaintance. The voice of the peo -le of Mohaye county goes forth th one accord that Judge Howara indeed an acquisition to the bencL this Territory of whom the whole -ritnrx. may be proud of.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

Lon. Clark Churchill and 4. H. bins, the two delegates from oua 10 the National Republican entiou, which meets in Chicago lesday uext. will both be present ,son. Mir. Churchill wlll be the delegate to cast 8 vote in the sntion, and the fact that hls vote be cast for James G. Blame can but be regarded as a favorable by the friends of the latter.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

Is is reported that the Bank of Montreal exported eight millions gold to New York during the recent finan- cial tro1bie
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

4 welcomaaddit;on to our exchange list is the New Era published at Lake Valley, New Mexico. It Is q good paper for any mining communl- fr
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

Secretary Folger has issued call for sl0,OOO,OOO of three-per cent. bonds
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

The Honsa has begun considera- ton of the bill forfeIting the Oregon Central land grant
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A ralnstorm has dcne much dam age in Texas.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

}Leland. Stanford proposes to erect ad institution of learning at Palo Alto in memory of his son.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

H B. Sheldon, Indian Agent at Round valley, has resigned, under pressure.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

The House has seated English, tue contesting Democratic member from Indiana, by a vote of 130 10 129.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01

Butler has accepted the Anti Monopoly nomination for Presid- dent.
Mohave County miner., 1884-06-01
ns@E

< TH aee by Gen. Butler of
 lne e aeb 1abor nomination has
 bttfscred the attention of the Demo sratic politicians to his availability as lcandidate.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
Musical Criticism in Cincinnati.

hIublcbI STittCl5ih Iu
Commercial Gazette Countrymen on Their
Little May Festival.
1t was a bigger thing than q circus.
Did he Scaria with his deep basso pro-
fundo voice2
The ~soloists occupied the stage and the
sohighists occupied the gallery.
Wagner's musiG sounds like q Cincin.
natl riot on a tin roof chased by a Calling
gun.
The great organ was as silent as the
crave after a medical student has inter
viewed ii.
Peonies and snowballs were not as
prominent as chest-protectors on Tuesday
night.
One of the "Tannhauser" characters is
Biterolf. He should be muzzled or have
his teeth pulled.
Opera in citiz5ns' clothes doesn't catch
On with that holdfaatiness characterizin,
the other variety.
The man who asked IN what part Of
Italy Beethoven was born can have the
cake by calling at this office.
One man went away disappointed be.
cause they didn't give either "Sweet
Yiolets," or "Only a Pansy Blossom"
Some of the ladies were elegantly at,
tired. Clothes don't make the man, but
! they give a woman a powerful boost.
When Thomas gets stirred up he
| sings himself around like a man playing
short stop and second base at tho same
time.
Young men who part their hair IN the
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
THE DEAD ALIVE.
pared fox Burial, Suddenly
Comes TO Life.
Cleayland Leader.

Cleavland Leader.
~CREsTLINE, o., May GA most mys-
terious affair took place here yesterday
afternoon which has excited the curiosity
of all our citizens who are familiar with
the facts, and it has been the principle
subject of conversation among u Cos
sipers. James Barton, an influential
and respected citizens, and who for a nu-
mber of years has been working in the
p. L. w. repair shops at this place,
about six weeks ago, by reason of sick
ness, was obliged to quit work and 90
home. 1t seems that Mr.. Barton grew
gradually worse, and he was obliged to
take his bed part of the time, but he was
not considered dangerous. About 2
o'clock yesterday Mr.. Barton's family
were startled by his apparently dying
condition. His features were yerv
much distorted and he fell
back on his pillow seemingly dead. The
family, almost crazed with grief, at
tracted the attention of their neighbors,
who, hearing them, rushed in and dis
covered that Mr.. Barton bore no signs of
animation, and upon a closer examination
they pronounced life extinct. His breath.
ing was not p~erceptible, and his eyes
looked as if they were closed in death.
The mystery is that Mr.. Barton remained
in this condition forfour hours. Prepare
tions for burial were about to DO made,
but happily for the family and all Mr.,
Barton's acquaintance when 6 o'clock ar
rived, he suddenly aroused from his sup.
posed deathbed as quickly as he had
seemingly expired. There is something
very mysterious connected with this affair,
for during the four hours Mr.. Barton lay
as a corpse he was turued about and ali
those who reviewed him claimed that
there were no visible signs of life.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
AFaoNrrEs GAME OF POKER.
The Fate of Spok Jim nnd What q
jury Thought of His Death.
st. Louis Globe Dsmbqrt.

st. Louis Globs Dsnibsnt.
While o party Of Us were refreshing
ourselves in an inn at Thompson Falls u
shot and q veil outside caused everyone
to drop what they were about and rush
to the door to see what tho disturbance
could be. Another and another shot
cracked out, five in all, and then there
came the cry, San Indian on tcast." |
ran to the}place, and beheld a swarthy
Indian lying on his back, the blood drip
ping from both his sides. His right hand
s~pasmodically clutched n largo butcher
knife, and his murderer stood over him
with the smoking revolver with which he
had done tho deed still in his hand, every
chamber of which was empty. There he
stood %haranguing the crowd, just,fying
his action in strong, excited language,
which seemed to meet their appreciation,
for every once IN a while could be heard
such words as ''served him right" "well
done, paid" ''another good Indian" and
the like. The victim bore the name OF
| Spokane Jim, and the slayer was known
as Hiram Parry, son of Bishop Joseph
Parry, Ogden, Utah.
1t appeared that the Indian and Parry
had been engaged in a game of stud
poker with some others, in which Parry
came off with large gains. Spokane jim
was the most expert gambler of his tribe
and could not brook defeat, so he drew
a large butcher knife and made a desper
ate lunge at Parry, who received him
coolly at the muzzle of a revolver, with
the result as stated. Parry gave himself
up without resistance.
A frontier jury was hastily ~impaneled
who immediately sat on the case, re
turning in five minutes a verdict of ''self
Defense and Hiram Parry was a fret
man forever, having once been put il
jeopardy of his life and acquitted. TIL
jury then adjourned from the case sin
die and into a neighboring saloon, wher'
a few minutes afterward l saw the lat
prisoner inviting them one and all t.
Step up, gentlemen, and partake of on
of the necessaries of life." A strang'
sight in q strange country.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
THE
They Begin Gathering From all Parts
OF the State.

Yesterday the Masons began focking
in from all parts of the state to attend
the meeting of the Grand Lodge which
opens here to-day, and which will con.
tinue in session until Friday night. 1t
is expected that about 1000 will be in
attendance, and the body embraces rep.
resentative men from every section.
Yesterday the local reception commit.
tees, already named in The BEE, were
busy welcoming the arriving members
and guiding them to desired places.
The school of instruction was held yes.
terday in Dohany's old hall, and the
sessions of the Grand Lodge will be he'd
in the new opera house, the new Mason.
ic Temple not being near enough to com
pletion to enable the holding of the SEES.
sion there. The visitors are a fine look.
ing set of men and the gathering is an
important one in many respects.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
A TRUNK THIEF.
He Misses However n Fat Roll OF
$500.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.

Fred Brown, who is employed at the
Eagle cheap house, came very near being
a heavy loser by a trunk thief. The
trunk was at Mrs. Evans house where
Brown boards. Sunday night he put in
his trunk 5000 and about 3 o'clock yes
terday morning on going to work he took
it out. Sometime between then and
six o'clock his trunk was broken open
and several articles stolen
but the thief failed to get
the roll, which was probably what he
most desired. Suspicion fell upon one
Steve Carter who had worked with
Brown, and detective Ed. Bates started
in search for him. He found Carter
across the river in the depot at Omaha
and arrested him and brought him back.
Carter had on his person a revolver
which belonged to him, but which he had
kept in Browns trunk, so that it looked
pretty clear that he vas the one who went
through the trunk.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
How Sam Ward Saved Andy johnson.

One Of Sam Wards most noteworthy
achievements was in the part he played
in defeating the impeachment of Andrew
Johnson. This is his own account of it:
81 am prouder of the part | took in de-
feating the impeachment of Andrew
| Jackson than of any of my ground and
lofty tumbling.' 1t was on Washington's
birthday, 1868, when the Democrats mot
at Welcker's to appoint a time and place
for tho presidential convention, viz. July
4, 1868. And learned that, after Stan
ton, owing to the weakness Of General
Thomas, had retained possession of the
war department, it was resolved by Sum
ner, Hooper, James Il. Wilson, of Iowa,
aud the leading Republicans to impesch
the pr, sident in three Gays and try him
in four weeks. 1t was ! who first carried
the tidings to Secretary McCulloch
and took from him a card 20 the
president, whom | did not know. He
was entertaining the corps diptOmdtique
at dinner, 30 / had an hour to spare,
which | spent in seeing Chief Justice
| Chase, to whom the news was "a surprise.
1t was also one to the president, when |
found him at 10 O'Clock. | told him to
secure the most eminent counsel, half
Democrats and half Republicans. He
took Curtis and Eyarts and Nelson and
Groesbeck. What killed the impeach-
ment is not for me to say here. But it is
due TO the late Senator Grimes of Iowa
to state that he was the hero Of the &c.
casion. There were hundreds Of thousands
botted upon the issue, aud the biters,
deceived by Gen. Buffers assurance,
were heavily bitten. All this is a matter
of history. But l am prouder of having
countermined that vile intrigue
| to make Ben Wade president, with a
cabinet that Gen. Grant was asked 10
name, than Of any other event Of my life.
! contributed my stoutest efforts and we
won and saved the country from being
| Mechanical"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
IOWA ITEMS.

The Catholics of Storm Lake are build
ing a So, 1000 church.
Dunlap has raised $476 to flap the
eagles wings on the 4th
Des Moines has at last got the bast
ball fever, and got it hard.
Algona's building improvements fol
April and May foot up $4,000.
The Keokuk Canning company are n
larging it's works by IN addition of
15x94 feet,
Elizabeth Park of Warren county, hat
sued G. FL. Nichols for breach of promise.
Damages $40, 900.
A company, with a capital of $78, 900,
has been formed at Keokuk, to publish u
democratic paper.
The American District Telegraph com.
pany, of Des Moines, with a capital OF
$40, 600, has been incorporated.
Since the first of the year the tax col.
~lections Cf the treasurer of Buena Vista
county have amounted to $77, 093. SO.
l. The drive wells at the Atlantic water.
works are all finished, and water is being
now pumped from the wells exclusively.
School children of Des Moines sent a
handsome wreath of flowers to Cleve-
land to be used III decorating the tomb
Of Garfield on memorial day.
Cedar Rapids is to have plow-works.
The sum Of $79, 900 has been subscribed
to the stock of the company, and it is ex-
pected to close the subscription list in a
few days.
THE BEE correspondent at Atlantic,
under date of May 80, writes: ''ThC
greenbackers are jubilant over the nom,
nation of Butler, and are firing 100 guns
in honor OF the event."
Mrs. Matilda Thornley, suicided at the
home of her husband, Peter Thornley,,
in Wolf Creek township, near Sioux
City, Friday, by cutting her throat with
a butcher knife. Domestic broils.
At Carroll on the 25th a fire destroyed
$4,000 worth of property. The
buildings consumed were nearly all dry
goods stores with families living in the
second stories. No one was killed or in
juIed.
John y. Holden, agent OF the Illinois
Central at Wsverly, had been found to be
short in his account with the company
about 80, 1000. The money was lost in
speculating in options through the bucket
shop at Waverly.
Two freight cars, pushed by a switcl
engine, collided with a street car at D4
vepport the other evening. The freighta
went into the street car with a crash. Dut
fortunately no one was injured. There
were nine passengers in the car and q
small panic.
June % will be a memorable day viii
the Bohemians Of Iowa. On that d9l
they viii attend the unwilling of a monu
ment at Belle PLANE, erected to tn,
memory of Prof, Ladimer Klacel, tbs
most noted Bohemian, perhaps, who hat
ever lived in America.
The Des Moines Leader says that tn.
appeal commenced by Harry Call for tn
Chicago, Milwaukee d 81. Paul ~railroa,
company against the Sioux City d ST
Paul company for the purpose of correct
ing the title of a large body of land il
northern Iowa, has been perfected an,
consolidated with the appeal of the latte
company. II is now in the guprem
court. Over 3 900 COO isat stake, max
,ug this n Of the largest, il not TIA
ARREST amount ever involved in an actio
n this state.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03

middle or bang it, and talk about Bee.
tho.ven, should DO put in a bunch of pink
cotton aud be beaten to q Jelly with lily
stems.
Some of tho folks In the front rows ex.
press the opinion that Scaria should he
provided with q cuepidorc obligatory.
What sort of a musical instrument this is
d~eponent knoweth not.
True art prompts u young man who
does not know an allegro con brio or an
andante con motto from a bag of bran to
pay 81 for two seats and take his girl to
the show in a street car.
The Hutter of the fans,
The nirter of the fans,
In the chorus made q most ontrauc-
ing vision;
Like o group of angels fair,
Shine the beauties rich and rare,
In a dream of silk and satin, mul
lelysian,
Beethoven's symphony, No. 8, c
minor, op. 67, is delightful to the arts.
tic ear, but to tho man who has been &C
customed to the simpler melodies of the
weiner wurst boy's midnight cry, and
the ravishing strains OF the over.the.
RhinerY orchestrss, there is something
in it which puts him to sleep In spite of
his most esrnest endeayor to brace up
and show the true musical spirit.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
CITY N
Bids Opened For .sewering the City

At the regular meeting of the city
council last night bids for sewerage were
opened. There were eleventh. A.
Moore, Jonn Hammer, Chris. Straub,
w. W. Chapman e Co., of this city; E.
j. Brennan, j. E Riley & Co., w. Nc,
Hugh q Co., r. r. Shannon 81 Co., and
Fitch & Co., of Omaha; p. II. McAuley
of Des Moines, and Burke & Ryan Of
Denver. The bills were referred to 9
committee to report tonight. McAu
ley's bid proved to be the lowest, Nc
Hugh & Co. next and Fitch q Co. third
Adjourned to tonight.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
Wanted TO join BunAlo BuI.

ChICt3O MOVIE.
Felix McNally, a jolly crank, 30 years
old, was before the county court to-day
and found to be insane. His principal
amusement for years has been to wander
about the streets picking up tin caus and
dirt. He loves 10 root in the cutters and
with the filth black his face.
Would you have any objection to 90.
ing to Jeferson1" asked Judge Prender.
CAST.
"Well, cir, | really think that my bust.
ness engagements will not permit me,
replied McNally.
why did you black your facet"
"Well, sir, | heard Buflto Bill was il
town with his lnoians. aud / thought IC
like to join the band"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-03
ALMOST UNLIMITED RANGE

for cattle, sheep or horses; the bunch
grass being as fine as can be produced;
stock of all kinds wintered here finely,
and the death list was very light.
In conclusion | would cay that there
is no better field for young men to start
in than Idaho, and as good a chance In
Custer or Alturas counties as any place
in the west. There is a post-ofiice at
Carbonate, j. ii. McCalester p. M. j.
FL. Stewart is secretary of Carbonate,
and w. +. Seamonds president.
AT some future time | will drop you
another squib with further description OF
the mines. Pro Bono PUBLICo.