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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-19
Mali Matters.
Mlasolllian March L.


The Frenchtown and Forest City
mail has been increased to q trl-
weekly service to begin ON the 10Th
inst, and will leave Missoula every
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
The Offices on this route are, French.
town, l6 miles: Martina, or Nine
Mile, SIS miles; Quartz. ~ miles: SUI
perior; 60 miles: Forest City, 80 miles
rhe Pustot1ice Department. has re-
fused q petition to supply Eagle City
from Superior, having prepared to
supply Eagle from Fort Caur
-d'Alere.
The Postmaster General has refused
the petition for service six times q
week on the Bitter Root route, the
net revenues from the offices sup Piled
being only $l68 As year and the cost
Ot service three times q week being
$3.50. The Offices on this route are:
Carleton, Is miles, which wilt u Oba.
ly be in. operation in ten days or
two weeks; SsevensviIle, 80 mile;
G rvall's, 40 miles; Skalkah", 81
miles; Como, So miles. The Victor
postOftice has been established OF the
west side of the river, on Sweathouse se
Creek, but no service has yet been
ordered. 1t will prvoabIy nave iu-
service from Slevensville.
Offices north and north west IN the
county are: Flathead, 25 miles; ST.
lxnatius, 45 miles; Selfish, 125 miles;
Horse Plains, 80 miles; Heron, 125
miles.
Applications have been made for
offices ut Belknap, or Enterprise,
(there is a Belknap postottice iu
Choteau county, los miles; Thomp.
son, loo miles; aud at Ashley, Is
miles north of Selfish.
The only Office in the county east
of Missoula is Wallace, Is miles.
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The Story Of his Sell Out.

MINNEAPoLIs March Is "A d I'D
wood. Dakota. special says: JOnn
CranstOn has three columns in the
TIM 8 this morning, exolanlng tne
story of hi- Sell out of the Northern
Transportation line to the l.lack
Hills. He says Fred Evans proposed
this to him: 1--WE will part If you
take third, and me two thirds, or I
will give you $lO,' OO in lieu of third
interest,"" CranStOn claims he SUBJ
mitted the proposition to Jones, but,
ON reflection. went back and told
Jones he would nj sell out. After
tuls. he alleges, he could get no
understanding with the Northern
Pacific aud then went to Chicago
and procured the publication of the
following denial from Evans and
Carpenter:
We, the undersigned, ha wing heard
that u dispatch had been forwarded
to Dradwmd stating, in substance,
that John Cranst0n had sold out the
Black Hills Merchants Freight to US,
we reby state it tO be absolutely
and wholly untrue.
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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Decides the Printing Law to be In
Full Force, Never Having
Been Repeated.
Independent, March IA.

The Galiatin County Commission
era, tor the purpose Of determining
whether they should recognize the
contracts under the printing law as
sti'l binding upon them, applied to
Col. J. A. Johnston, Attorney Cen
eral OF the Territory, for information
Oh the subject.
Col. JOhi,s"n decided after exam
ination that the law was stiliin force,
never having been repealed. We
understand that the Attorney.Gen-
'eral cited In support Of his opinion q
law Of the last session Of the Legis.
lature approved py Governor Crosby,
in which the printing law Is expr. So
ly recogniz-d as in full force and
operation. The following is the text
ot tue law referred to, which will be
found on page liz of the laws of
1888:
"Section l. That all blanks neces.
sary to be used by the governor Of thu
Territory of Montana in the perform
ance of any duty required of him by
the laws thereof, may be printed at
the expense of said Territory under
the provisions of chapter 81 Of the
J7tth diuision Of the Revised Statutes
Of Montana' he printing law.
X X
Saying nothing about the unan-
swerabie obj jectiols to the view of the
printing law taken by Judge Wade
heretofore presented in the Mdepen-
dent, the ahOve section to which the
Attorney General refers, is conclu-
sive in itself. 1t show that the leg
i>lature at its last session not only rec
0gnized the printing law as in full
force, LUt made another law based
upon its provisions.
TIE Attorney General is made by
statute the legal adviser of the Gov
erDor, the Territorial Auditor. and
Treasurer. and other Territorial OFF,
cials. Gov. Crosby has 50 far ignored
the printing law, and assumed to
make contracts for the public print
ing without even Offering it to the
lowest bidder. As the Attorney
has decided the law to be in
Force. it remains to he seen whether
) ". Crosby will continue 10 disre.
gard it.
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RenshaWUpera House.

The presentation Of Arrah Ma
Pogue last evening concluded most
successful engagement of Miss Nc AL
listers splendid company in this
city. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that Miss McAllister as Arrah Ma
Pogue met every requirement of her
part In the most acceptable man
ner, and that all the members of the
company creditably acquitted them-
selves. The company leaves for Hell
ena this morning where it will play
weeks engagement. We take
pleasure in recommending it to our
East side nelghbors as the best COM
pany that has ever appeared before a
Montana audience. Miss McA Ulster
is an actress who will win her way
to the hearts of every audience.
Mr.. Butler, who ably sup
ports her, Is an actor of
sterling qualities and is rapidly
to the very first rank in
his profession. Mr.. j. w. Fox and
Mrs. Fox are excellent in every part
assigned them and have given
evidence of their superior
ity as performers. Mr.. Fitzgerald,
Miss Emma Lathrop, Miss Lois, and
in fact every member of the company
deserves more than p ssing notice,
but tfme and space forbid it. We
can conscientiously commend the
to the patronage of
'ur East Side neighbors, feeling as
'ured they cannot possibly be disap-
pointed in it.
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PARIS, March l4.-The following
m. ssage was received from The scene
of battle, dated Phanghoa, March II.
We marched this morning to Bac-
nlnh. the first brigade proceeding via
Chi which was carried in a brilliant
manner to the heights of Tsguna,
which were projected by five earth
works. The second brigade, support
ed by the FlOtilla, resolutely pursued
the enemy to the heights Of Dahicua.
which were occupied by combined
movement. Details of the operations
succeeded perfectly. The troops
marched admirably and with spirit
over difficult ground. The Temps
says the French will occupy ThailIg-
yen and Langson and establish sci
entific frontier.
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Personal.

j. w. Collins and family, from
Eaton, Kansas, are at the Gen.
tennial.
Messrs. 0. J. Gish, s. Newkirk
and J. =. Orr, Of Fish Greek, are
registered at the Centennial.
Mr.. VIM. w. Prowse, who has
been visiting in the Southern States.
returned from New Orleans yester-
day.
Col. w. +. Sanders arrived in the
city last evening from the East
Side. The Colonel was welcomed by
a host OF. old time f.iends in the Silver
city.
The Amphitheatre was crowded
last evening, the principal attraction
being the half-mile race between
Eddie Carr and Louis Demers. The
latter won in 2:3O5, the time of the
former being 2:353.
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Communication Stopped.

LONDON. March l5.-In the House
of Commons to-day. Harrington,
war secretary, announced that tele-
graphic communication with Khat-
toum was broken, and that y steamer
passing down the Nile from Khar-
toum t. Shelby had been subjected to
a continuous fusilade for three days
He believed the tribes If that region
were in revolt. A battalion of
British soldiers have been dispatched
to AnsOuan.
Ellis Bartlett, conservative, and
Henry Labouchere, radical. attacked
the government.
Fitz Maurice, Under Foreign Sec
rets ry, argued in favor of changing
the relations between England and
Germany that were so unfriendly.
and denied that General Gordon was
an extremist.
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Our Strateg.s SITS.

The Haverly Comedy Company
will appear tomorrow night in this
popular play at Renshaw Opera
House. The Chicago Tribune, in
Speaking of the play. says: 1T is one
OF the funniest and most amusing
performances ever seen here. The
end of the third act caused almost h
panic in fhe house. People leaned
over their chairs on their neighbors'
shoulders, doubled up and laughed
yes, roared, until many of them
looked like so many apopiectic
strokes. The company was called
before the curtain at the eud of each
act" No such demonstration has
ever been witnessed in the Acad-
emy."
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Likely to be DELAYED.

WASHINGTON, March l5.-It has
been uuderstW d that the FItz John
Porter bill. having beeu returned to
the House for its concurrence in the
Senate amendment, would 20 to the
foot of the list of measures on the
Speakers table and be covered by
one hundred Senate bills now lying
there. Gentlemen well posted
on the rules and practices
of the House, however, stated
to-day, that this bill, under existing
rules, was readily acc ssible and
could he taken up any day when a
majority desired, under the rules.
After The morning hour had expired,
motion to 60 t. the speakers table
may be carried by ma jOrity vote
The order Of business then Is to take
up the first executive c"mmuni.
cations, which are generally dis
posed of as they are received, and the
next take up bills returned ~ the
House from the Senate with amend-
ments. Under this heading the FItz
johu Porter bill would be justly
reached, as there are but one or two
measures ahead if it. 80 the bill,
which many thought was pigeon
holed, may be brought up any day.
1t is expected by some of the menu
bers that it will be taken up the first
portion of next week.
The subcommittee from tie House
Lomtni tee on Foreign Atf.irs to-day
considered the Lasker resolutions
and agreed upon report aid resolu-
lions concerning It. The action of
the subcommittee Is to be committed
I" the full committee on Monday.
The resolutions agreed upon by the |
committee are To the effect that the
action "f the House If Representa-
tlves was Ill express on If y! npathy |
with German people in their great loss
and haI nO cuncern with the rela.
lions existing bt tween the Legislative
aud exc. ulive branches IF the Grr-
mad government, which that *
pres>i"n of sympathy was Intended
to reach.
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Temperance Matters.
DEER LODGE. March Is.

DEER LODGE, March Is, 's4.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Mr, w. Bennett, of
the Butte Reform Club has been
holding IT form temperance meetings
In Deer Lodge during this week with
great success. Many have left their
evil ways of drunkenness and be-
come temperance men. Mr.. Ben
nett's ability as a speaker is good,
aud his ability as a singer and musi-
clan Is far superior to any that ha,
ever been in Deer Lodge in fact ne
is young man that is able to do a
large amount of good in the work of
reform. He is a credit to the Reform
Club of Butte. l understand that
Bennett is leaving here for B"zeman.
In leaving he has the good wishes of
all. BY publishing this in your no.
ble paper you will oblige,
Yours truly,
j. J. RoBBAY.
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Petroleum.
Livingston Enterprise, March l3.

A gentlemon of our acquaintance
claims to have discovered Indications
of petroleum in the cliffs that form
the Lower Canyon Of the Yellow
stone. In small cav or break in
the wall he found quantities of a Pc
ouliar substance that res smnled
crude petroleum and had exuded
from cracks or thin crevices in the
rocks. The substance had evidently
made its escape in thin liquid state
but had hardened somewhat Dy age
and exposure to the air. It is very rea-
that where there is so much
coal and such an abundance ofnnineral
coal oil may also exist.
it will ever be found In con-
quantities or whether it
will be, when found, available for
purposes is yet matter
for speculation.
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Purchase of Steamers,

GRAND FORKS, D .kota, March Is.
Captain Alex. G:iggs has pur-
chased the line of steamers, consist
ing Of the steamers Pluck and Alsnp
with five barges and equipments be-
sides all the wheat Ware houses
owned by Alsop Bros. along the
river. The price paid was $46, 500.
The headquarters of the line will be
at Grand Fork, and this purchase
fOr,us an important commercial ac-
QUESTION.
Ole Sorba, a Norwegian farmer liv-
ing ten miles from here, was assalted
yesterday by saloon Keeper named
Eddie, and brutally beaten with a
heavy club.
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" here Are They 2

Many people, when they read in
the dispatches of Khv rtouni, suakim,
Tokar, Trlnkitat, Ell Obeid, DArfur,
kordofan, and so on. IN the dis
patches from Egypt about the loss If
the Soudan, have only very hazy
idea of the geographical relations of
he places named, and therefore
cannot appreciate the s'gnif1csrce of
many of the dispatches. For the
convenience Of those who have not
time to ldok up all these things in an
atlas, It may BE- well to give short
statement Ofthe position of the lead
ing points mentioned in the daily
news.
KhartOum is situated IN the upper
or southern part of what used to be
called Nubia, above the sixth ca'ar.
act, at the junction of the White aud
the blue Nile. SOU Invest of it il
the district OF Koriofan. in which Is
situated the city of FL Obeid, whence
the Mahdi advan ,ed toward .Khar-
toum. Still to the west, several
hundred miles, Is Darfur, q much
larger territory than Kordofan and
entirely within the boundaries of the
Soudan proper.
Suakim, from which General
Baker marched out the other day, is
on the Bad Sea, about half way b.
tween Supz and Alden aud over 400
miles northeast of Khartoum. Tokar
is just south Of Suakim. aIso on the
coast, and Trink,tat is between the
two. Sinkat, where Tewfix Bey's
army has been des' royed by the hos
tile forces, is near Suakim to the
north. South west of these places, be-
tween them and the Nile, is the
Bishareen desert. The p,iut on the
Nile nearest Tokar is Berher, be-
tween the fifth and sixth catararts
and about 200 miles northeast Of
KhartOum. IL will he seen that COM
munic ati0n between Gordon, on the
way t,. Khartoum, and Baker aud
Burnaby hemmed in on the coast Of
tae Red Sea, 800 miles or more away,
Is inp0ssible.-NaH and Express.
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Sentences,

FARGO, Oak, March 15.-Judge
Hudson to-day was we'll enough Ia
be in courta short lime and sentenced
the following persons: Chas. G. Spen-
Ger, assault with = dangerous wea pon,
two, years and three months; John
McMai,On, grand larceny. three
years and three months; Jas Grimes,
grand larceny, one year and two
m0ntha; John Kane, grand
larceny, plead guilty, one year and
one month; Edward Murphy, assault
with a dangerous weapon, sentence
suspended; Edward Murphy. at
tempt to rescue q prisoner from
friends, thirty days and $lCO fine;
Thos., Donoran, robbery, plead gull y
~ robbery, five years and two
months; John Ryley. robbery, five
years and two months; Geo. Coleman,
grand larceny, one year and four
months; 10 Rice, robbery. tried an
Of murder In the second
degree, five years aud three months;
Louis Myers, same as Rice, three
years ran0 one uOnth. =.
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The Pool 3 oxen.

New YORK, March ia special
to the Norning Journal II ON CHIC ,go
says: "rhe newspapers seem to
know all about the affairs OF the
NOrthwestt IN Traffic A socIation,"
said COmmissi Carman's assist
ant to-da =. They claimed that the
pool would break up to-day aud
war of rates would be inau .urated.
There had been no rate cutting so
far, but what would BE- done next
Week no one could tell. Railroad of.
ficials say the situation in the LoOl
is the same. The fact was some of
tue roads had been cutting rates all
the Week.n
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Miscellaneous.

DEADwO0D. March 15.-Cornelius
O'Neil was sentenced to four years
imprisonment for the murder of
Timothy O'Leary.
BOSTON, March l5.-The silver
ccinsge resolutions passed by the
PrOdnce Exchange have called out
letters to the Secretary of the Board
from Representatives Long. Rawley,
Morse and Lyman aud senator
Dawes. They I'LL agree that some
thing ought to be done, but think,
with the present Committee on Com.
age. Weights and Measures, that no
action Is likely 20 be taken.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 1.-THE
Journals Madden, Oak. special says:
The ice in the Missouri is rotting
rapidly and showing signs Of a gen.
eral break up, but from the present
outlook it will come by degrees and
do no damage. The machinery ana
stock on the low lands are being
moved in the meantime to the blaffs
to be out Of the way of possible dan
ger.
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Local News.
From the Daily Of Sunday.

from g1e Daily OF sunday.
But little was done In the District
Court yesterday. After hearing a
few motions the court adjourned to
Ga. m. tomorrow.
Missoulion: Major Roman Informs
as that Congress appropriated $780,
COO for the support of the northern
Indians aud that Tom Power and
Broadwster received several con-
tracts last week for furnishing
supplies.
Livingston Is taking steps to Or
ganise . mining bu,eau and ex.
change. The business men Of that
enterprising place will leave no stone
unturned to, bring the resources cf
their surrounding country to the no
tice Of capitalists.
Is this so7 An old California miner,
just returned from the Ceeur d'Alene
publishes In the San Fran
cisco Csronisls that the rich quartz
specimens and nuggets exhibited as
having come from the new mines are
all California productions.
The Baptist Church will worship
tomorrow morning In the Reform
Club rooms and hold their Sunday
School in the same place in the after
noon. As the District Court Is occu-
pying their usual place of worship,
the evening service will be omitted.
Miss0ulins: The Northern Pacific
trains are not allowed to
stop at Thompson Falls, but run a
mile further on, and, as at present
there are no accommodations for
the town, it leaves passen-
gers in somewhat bad fix. That's
one way of building up an opposition
town.
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Whsre Queen Victoria Passes
Her Tlms.

Queen Victoria does not spend
more than 4 fortnight If the year in
London. She passes four months at
Bal'nOral, IN the midst of her farm
eIs; three mouths iu very simule
country house in the Isle Of Wight,
and the re Of h-r time ut Windsor.
She gives tvo balls aud Two ncerts
q year at buckingham Palace in Lou
don. This palace is now scarcely in
hatited. ex x'ept by rats; and The EN-
press of r l@sia who passed a month
there 4 1875, suffered terribly from
rheumatism ali the while. At all
the receptions the Prince of Wales
and his charming Lrincess replace
the QUEEN. They d. 1t admirably.
Amiable and ungrudging Of their
trOuole, all the year r.,u"d they may
be seen jour.eylng hither and lhIth-
er, laying f'uadst'on stones If
churches Or other, im,.ortant hnild.
ipgs. opening hospitals, bridges,
pi0Ess etc.
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AnO.h-r Account.

LONDON, March l5.-A suakim
d spalch dated eleven this morning.
gives another account 1T the panic
last night among the E .vptians In
Baker Pasi...'s camp at Zr+b ba. 1t
saws false u arm was spresd that
O.,nan Digna had rallied and routed
General Grahaan's for.:e and Was ad-
vanciny Oh Z.reba. The report pro-.
dnred y panic among the Egyptians,
MANY of whom openly announced
,heir intention 10 palt company wi b
Osman Digna. A riot ensued and
order only was restored by the arrest
and imDrisOument of the mutineers,
some of whom had to he bAyOneted.
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Dutchman Killed,

HASTINGS, MINI, March Is The
cor"uer's jury ia tue rase OF B. H.
NelsDu, # Paxton. Ill killed at
E ter by Du'chman, yesterday.
adjourned unit Monday to 20 out
and view the xrouud. The deceased
had in charge car "f stock for
DdkO a On the west bound freight,
which was ride tracked. Nelson
Went ahead f"r some reason, and
when first seen by the engineer of
the train he was thirty feet ah-al Of
the curve where lie was struck and
killed.
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THE BOOK OF DEUrERoNony
Valuable Discovery Of an Ancient
Manuscript OF the Ninth
Century Before Christ.

New YORK, August 5-The Suns
London catlegran says: A Mr.. dhu.
pira of Jerusalem, bookseller and
dealer in antiquaries, has just depos-
tied in the British Museum fifteen
slips Of black sheepskin leather, on
which are written IN characters sim
liar to tn Sc on the celebrated Moab
ite stone portions Of the Bo * of
Deuteronomy, differing materi lily
from the received version. The date
of the slips Is the ninth century be-
fore Christ, or sixteen centuries older
than any authentic manuscript of
any part of the Old Testament. Mr..
Shupira ought them from the Arab,
a d he axis tor them S., ,OOO, ,0)O from
the British Museum. Ifgenuine, the
interest and importance of the dis
covery cannot be overrated. aud so
far as the variations in sacred text
are c'ncerned, there is promise of one
of the greatest controversies that
scholars have ever entered upon. The
Decalogue furnishes q good example
for comparison with the received
version. l quote from the Shupira
recurd:
I am God thy God, which liberated
thee from the land Of Egypt, from
the house Of bondage. Ye shall have
no other Gods. Ye shall not make
to yourselves any craven image, nor
any likeness that Is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the waters under the earth.
Ye shall not bow down to them nor
serve them.
lam G d thy God. In six, days l
have made the heaven and the earth
and all that there is therein, and
rested on the seventh day; thereto re
rest thou also, thou and thy cattle
aud all that thou hast.
I am God thy God. Honor thy
father and thy mother.
/ am God thy God. It lou shalt not
kill the person of thv brother.
I am God thy God. Thou shalt
not commit adultery with the wife of
thy neighb,r.
I anu Gid thy God. Thou shalt
not steal the property Of thy brother.
l am God thy God. Thou shalt
not swear by my name falsely, for
visit the iniquity of fathers upon the
children unto the third ara fourth
generations Of those who take my
name in vaiu.
! am God my God. Thou shalt not
bear false witness gainst thy bro.
ther.
lam God thy God. Thou shalt
not cOvet his wife, his man servant,
or his maid servant, or anything that
is his.
I am God thy God. Thou shalt
not hate thy brother in thy heart.
am tod thy God. These ten
words God spake.
Dr. Ginsb"rg. the eminent Jewish
scholar to whom Gladstone has just
given Ell for the production Of his
work on the M asorah, has deciphered
the above, and is busy completing the
aud determining, on be
half Of the Museum, the genulneness
0f the Fragments.
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Foot and Mouth Disease.

CHICAGO. March ia Burling-
ton (Iuwa) sp-cialsays: Twenty head
of cattle affected with the disease
which is called the foot aud mouth
disease are all right. The cattle eat
we'll. Opinions differ as to tue ma
ture of the disease. Some claim 1t is
the result of freezing, and Others be"
lleve it is foot and mouth disease.
A Muscatlne Iowa. special to the
Journal says: Physicians prom ounce
the cattle disease near WapellO the
foot and mouth plague. Three of the
animals died.
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IT'S the EpiZ 1otic,

NEOsHo FALLS, Kansas, March Is.
Several surgeons, representing inn
portant cattle interests both east and
west, have arrived here. They all
pronounce the disease genuine epi-
20 tic beyond doubt, and are Con-
findent it Can be easily and wholly
cured by the destruction of the in
fected herds.