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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-10-08
The Blaine Circus

ST. MARY's, w. Va. Oct. latter
reviewing the procession at Parkers-
burg last evening MI. Blaine, by spe-
| cial request went up to Marietta,
Ohio, to attend a meeting there. He
made q short speech, in which he
made allusion to the origin and early
| history of the state. He remained
all night at Marietta, and was ferried
across the Ohio to Willlamstown,
where he met his special at $3.50 this
morning, when it came up from
Parkersburg.
CANTON. Ohio, Oct. About
noon the train arrived at Wheeling
There were about 1000 people at and
around the depot. who cbeered
Blaine as he came out of his car.
There was a large meeting in front Of
the State House and Blaine was
escorted to the stand by the local
committee and by a body of Plumed
knights. The chairman of the meet
ing was Mr.. II. Heard, who has been
until quite recently a Democrat.
There were a great many ladies in
the audience. Blaine was very
warmly received. He made a short
speech in which he again presented
the protective tariff as the leading
issue in the campaign and declared
that no State in the Union
was more interested in maintaining
it than West Virginia. He was
loudly cheered. From the meeting
his carriage was again escorted to
Wheeling and across the river to
RridDonnrk an tho nhi0 aldo hS,
private car having been transferred
IN the meantime. After q few words
of thanks and encouragement to the
young men of the clubs that had es-
corted him he bowed to the crowd
and entered the car, whereupop the
train started for Canton. Stops
were made at Mayard. Flushing,
Freeport, Ur%ichsville, New Philade!-
phia, Dover and Masillon. At each
of these places there was
a wildly enthusiastic crowd
and at each Blaine appeared
on the ear platform and spoke
brief fly, acknowledging the compli-
ment paid him and urging the i'm.
portance of the tariff question. The
cheerings and general demonstra-
tt. MS were more energetic and sus-
all along the route this after
noon than on any previous part of
Blaine's tour. About 3 o'clock the
train arrived at Canton, the end of
the days journey. A large torch
light procession of Plumed knights
and Blai0e and Logan clubs escorted
to the house of MI. Aultman.
one of the business men of the city,
where he took Tea. He then went
Town to the speakers stand, around
Which several thousand people were
tssembled: When he appeared upon
ne stand there was great cheering.
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Racing.

CONVICTION, Oct. 7.-Track a trfh,
damp. The seven and a half furlonu
race for all ages was won bv Alect
Ament; Pericles. second; Ferg HYDE
third; time, 1862.
In the tive-eighths miles selline
race Banana won, Strickland. sec
ond; Nora M, third; time, 1880.
The Tobacco stakes, mile and q
quarter, tor three-year-olds. was won
ny Binette; Boreas, second; Malaria,
third; time, 2:15.
! q Mile and three-eighths, all ages.
Santhem won; LOftin, second. Var
gle, third; time, 2:2O.
Mile and q half race, six hurdles
Hearne Fay won; King Dutchman
second; Bee Line, third: time. 2:l5l'
NEW YORK, Oct. THE >iar,nao
Park track vas fast. Three.oIartar
mile, all ages, Renwick won, Strathl
pey, second; Lady Maud, third: time.
In the mile race Roy s. Clute won.
ta!malaya, second; Shenandoah
third; time, 147!.
vile and q quarter, all ages; Roval
Arch won; General Monroe. second.
duplex, third; time. 2:4l.
Mile and a quarter, three wear old.
anu upward; Blue Bell won. Toln
second; Joe Mitchell, third: time
The next race was a steen1o ohoso
over a short course, Thara n'ae
quite a scene before the start when
an omcer OF the Society for the Pre-
ventlon OF Cruelty to Animals re-.
FUSED to allow Jim MCGOWAN to stat
the horse had a sore back. FINALLY
tne pollce lnterfered and escorted tha
once from the grounds after he had
received some rough treatment A.
twelfth jump Jim McC;owan,s'
fell off and Charlemagne Won:
Disturbance, second; Echo. third'
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San Francisco Notes.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. IA large
number of Chinese passengers by the
City Of Pekin, lately arrived, are
taking advantage of Judge Fields
ruling that Chinese born in the
United States are citizens and en-
titled to land. Thirt writs have
been taken out in the last few DAYS
by Chinese who claim to be of Amer
lean birth.
Honolulu advices state H. M, s.
ship Constance left for Washington
Island September 23d. The jana
nese man-of. war Tsukiaba arrived
here September 20.
At to-day's session of the Brother
hood of Engineers E. 5. Ingraham
was reelected First Grand ENGINEER.
Il. Sprague, of Toronto, Second
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DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF SILL
YER BOW COUNTY.

Resolved That the Democracy of Silver Bow
county in convention assembled heartily sub
scribe to the principles recently adopted in the
Democratic National Convention at Chicago
that we accept the same in detail and entirety
as not only correct, but essential to the truesl
welfare of the country and the best interests OF
the citizens.
Resolved. That while as citizens Of q Terri.
tory we are deprived of many rights and privi-
leges which are inestimable to freemen, we yet
feel Q deep interest in the triumph of these
principles which the Democratic Iarty,
from the days of Thos. Jefferson to this time,
have always advocated, and when in power
have always illustrated.
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A Lockout.

PITTsRURG, Oct. The lockout
at the Oliver Bros. & Philips rolling
mills begun this morning. Three
thousand more men are added to the
already large number out of employ
ment in this city. The men posi-
lively refuse to accept the l21 per
cent reduction, and the firm gave no
orders to light fires, so that instead
OF a strike 1t is a lockout This after
noon there will be a conference of the
Amalgamated officials and the firm
when the former will endeavor to
have heaters and rollers helpers.
who are now included in the reduce
ton, classed among skilled or scale
labor. II successful the mills can re-
sumo at once without unskilled labor.
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A r OF HISTORY.

The New York Tribune, with q
sublimity of cheek to which even
John A. Logan is q stranger, says:
"The Republican party has secured
treaties from all European countries
except France, giving American cit
liens the same protection that they
had at home"
To this assertion the World cites
the following as an example from
the Bancroft treaty with Germany.
accepted and ratified by q Republi-
can administration and q Republican
Senate:
ARTICLE ~. If a German natural
iZed in Amerca reDews his residence
in Germany without the intent to re-
turn to the United States, he shall be
held TO have renouHced his naturali-
zation in the United States. The
intent not to return may be held to
exist when the person naturalized IN
one country resides more than two
years in the other country"
From 1860 to 1884 the Republican
party has abandoned, by special
treaty, every right for our foreign
born citizens which the Democratic
administrations from 1900 to 1860 bad
compelled foreign governments to
respect. When Ingraham compelled
the Austrians to surrender Martin
X. tzka, who had only declared his
intentions, he struck the keynote of
Democratic policy for ffty-two
years. When President Grant tame
~ permitted Two native-born Ameri-
can citizens, studying In a German
school, to be impressed into the Ger
man army, he struck the keynote of
the Republican policy. What DEM
ocratic administration could have
signed q treaty compelling q cit zen
who remained for two years in q for
eign country to renounce by that act
his American citizenship?
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Mr.. Keely, it is claimed, has at last
found something that will 60 of, but
whenever the inventor of the motor
comes before the public with q new
invention, he must expect thorough
scrutiny before his machine is &C
cepted. Trading in secrets that are
to be revealed at some future time
not named will not answer in his
case, and even his apparently sue
cessful experiments are open to
doubt. When 8 conjurer is about
and something extraordinary hap
pens people ri apt to regard it is a
copjurer's trick. Mr.. Keely's atti
tude IL something similar. 1t is
natural that he should be regarded
with distrust because of his extrav-
agant claims for . motor that did not |
move. We were once told that it
did move, and SO we want to be sure
that this thing went off before we
pin eur faith to it. !
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Some Money on a Card.
New Mexican Record.

lANS" AAS ANN'OlbJ
A great many astonishing tales
have been told about the laE
amount of money which has bHl
staked upon the turn Of a card
Lesdville, during the height diE
prosperity, had many stories told,
citizens reckless betting, some
of the bets reaching up into The
thousands. But the largest betthi
has ever been told OF upon the turn
of a single card was made by Colond
Pine, in California, some yearss ago.
The Colonel, as every one knows
was at one time considered the
wealihiest man in Mexico. Js
Stlnson tells the story and Vouilr
for its truthfulness:
"Plno and his partner had been
to California; said 10, ''to dispcs
of a large ranch of sheep. They sa.|
their money and were aO0uI
starting for home when the Colona
thought he would play a lltlt|
monte. He played iG bad luck sl
lost considerable money, VhNl
naturally got him a little ezclta
After awhile Pine said to Lux
dealer: Il
"How much money have your
the bank??' -.
ut was flush days then, andlH
bank-roll was no insigniticanlsu n
After counting it tie dealer sU
About S4S, OOO.'
"I'll bet you $4,000 that the queer .I
wins agains the ace said the'~
onel.
"His blood was up and be nleSD'
what he said -
"The dealer looked at him III
quiringly to see if he really ne''
it, and finally exclaimed, coollJ'
"I'Il 90 you ONT II ! lose oot
"The dealer was Miner olllo",
now in Denver, and a nerVief n''
,Cere never lived, ,.a.
He shrffltd up and gave lfe e"s"
o Pine to cut, after which NE o'S"'
o draw the cards. .ho
N vt a word was spoken ahu'D'
'ilence was terribly oppressive ;,hor
ut was a long time before els si"h
ard showed, but at last a lohS om
up and the banker u' hsck
Ugh of relief. Pho gave him a eh1 10
or $4S, 900 and left the rooln' ayt
anne back to New Mexico lhe n
.ous'
us Colonel Pine living no"'
vas asked. bo-p
TO-. yes. He lives right e'ose
ut on his ranch.'
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In one respect Blaine is correct.
He says this is "primarily and en-
phatically a contest for the conserva-
ton and promotion of the business of
the country" It is. Hence we see
business men unite in the support of
Gov. Cleveland who were never be-
fore known to vote q Democratic
ticket. They will have no lingo pol
lev in theirs.
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NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Uncle Sammy Tilden Writes
q Letter,
In Which He Reviews the
Situation.
The Democrats Alone Can
Save the Country
An Editor Gets Married on
the Quiet.
Peregrinations Of the Blaine
Menagerie.
An Editor Spliced.

WASHINGTON, Oct. John Nc
Lean, editor and proprietor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and Miss
Emily Il. Beale, daughter of General
Edward F. Beale: were married
this morning at the residence OF the
brides father in Lafayette place.
The. ceremony took place at 8 O'Clock,
Rev. DR.. Leonard officiating. No
cards were issued and no guests
were pr sent, the ceremony being
witnessed by none but the inlmedi-
ate families of the bride and groom
The bride wore a travelling dress and
Immediately after the ceremony Mr..
and Mrs. Mclean left for Philadelphia
whence they will 20 tn the groOm's
home in Cincinnati, which will be
their residence hereafter. The mother
of General Reale and aunt of Mrs.
Beale, two venerable ladies, n 81
and the other 81 years of age, wit
messed the ceremony. Others OF the
marriage party were: Mr.. and Mrs,
Beale. the parents Of the bride, and
Mr.. Beale, a brother of the bride.
Two old colored servants, who have
been with General Beale's family for
more than forty years, also witnessed
the marriage Of their young mistress.
The marriage was a surprise to the
friends If both parties, as it was not
known the engagement existed.
Their marriage Was the result of an
attachment formed at Deer Park,
where both Mr.. Mclean and General
Beale %sojourned during the summer.
Nylo GOD 49, hoo ,~~:, 800 ~v110
known in Washington society. Gen
eral Beale and General Grant are
most intimate friends, and during
the latter's administration General
Beale was minister to Austria and
was later spoken for Secre tary of the
Navy. For a time the family lived
in California. where the general
owns a large tract of land. Miss
Beale has been M of the most popu-
lar bellies in society circles here.
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He Had a3Great Mind

II have a great mind to 60 a uvi
town tonight $ id Mr.. Jooo'''"
Zle to his wife. -, srr.
"What ?" she replied VIII !"
prise. douu
II have a great mind to 60 0''
town Tonight
"WhOse::p she asked.
"WhOse what ~
"Whose great mind" r
MY own, of course, nlaoa'ne
"Oh!" oays
And the rising infection s n1o vol.
to the ejaculation was yer! P'
ing to a man of fine feeling.
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Cannot support Blaine.

NEW YORK Oct John D. War.
rem, chairman of the Republican
state committee, yesterday received
the following letter:
SIR.-I wish to tender my resigna-
nation as Republican eleclor for this
State. l am sorry t. say I cannot
consclentiously support the present
nominee for president, J.. G. Blaine,
l remain yours respectfully,
w. E.. FORREST.
Forrest is a prominent doc!o Of
TINS city and refuses to say anything
beyond what is in the letter.
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OF N 8.

The constitution of the State g
Montana as adopted by the Consti
%tutional Convention provides in Ar
ticle XII as follows:
SECTION 8. The property of tn.
United States, the State, counties
cities, towns, and other m~unlcipa
corporations, and public libraries
shall be exempt from taxation,
SEC. 4. Lots with the buildings
thereon, when such buildings are
used solely for religious worship, OF
Tor charitable purposes, also GENE.
teries not used or held for private OF
cooperative profit, growing crops.
live stock under six months old. and
all mines and mining claims, both
placer and in rock, containing gold,
silver, copper, coal, or other valuable
mineral deposits. shall be exempted
from taxation; Provided that all
machinery used in mining, and all
property and surface improvements.
appartenant to or upon mining
claims, which have q separate and
Independent value, the value of the
surface ground embraced in said
claims, and the annual net proceeds
of said mining claims, shall be taxed
as provided by law.
SEC. 5. The Legislative Assembly
may provide that the increase in the
value of private lands caused bv the
planting of hedges, orchards. and
forests thereon, shall not for q linn
tied time, to be fixed by law. he
taken into account in assessing such
land for taxation.
SEC. 5. The Legislative Assembly
may, In its discretion, exempt bv law
from taxation other property in adj
oltlon to that herein specified"
The above numbered sections COM
prise all in the constitution which
provide for the exemption of prop
from taxation in the State of
It will be seen that besides
the usual exemptions extended to
counties, cities, towns and religious
denominations, the farmer, the stock
raiser, and the miner are to a certain
extent favored, and that the Legisla-
i've Assembly is empowered to ex-
'mpt other classes of property for a
number of years from taxa
ion. Still it seems that that clause
the instrument exempting mines
rom taxation is the one alone which
'rovokes the opposition of several of
'ur East Side contemporaries and
out the opposition of a few
and agriculturists in the
anne section. Now let us reason
and for q few moments re-
lew this question of tax exemption
nd get a proper understanding of it.
In the first place growing crops are
tempted. These include cereals of
kinds, vegetables and grass. The
SCISSOR generally finishes his rolnds
the country before the grain is
lreshed and binned, the vegetables
FUSED, and the hay put in stack.
e venture the assertion that the as 1
ssors' rolls of the several counties
the Territory will disclose the fact t
at not over one bushel in fifty of t
one bushel in q hundred of '
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Men of che Hour.

Mr.. Blank-"Well, my dear; rour
become famous in spite Of an
predictions" -,
Mrs. Blank-"Famou'. .oun Br
"Yes, indeed; the stumpt oSer the
gle publishes my portrait
heading Men ofthe Hour;
Ibid they get the hour i's'
"The hour right" raly.>
Yes, it is 2 a. m. se
PHILADELPHIA CAL.
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The dispatches relating to Blaine's

The dispatches relating to Blaine's
hippodrome lay particular stress
upon his greeting by workingmen.
"As the tain left workipgmen in
the freight depot ran out and cheered
Blaine, who bowed his acknowledge
ment," is the stereotyped phrase.
Aside from the suspicious character
of the dispatches, it would be curious
to know if Blaine spoke to them, of
their wonderful prosperity. If not.
why not?
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The cOachman mania is still
abroad. The latest victim to it is q
Miss Drake, a graduate of Parker In
stitute, Brooklyn, the possessor of
$4,000 in her own right, and the
daughter of one of the wealthiest
men in Westchester county, New
York. No cure has yet been sug-
gested for the epidemic.
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Cholera Nnf>s

MADR1D, Oct. 7.-During the mast.
twenty-four hours four fresh past!
cholera and one death occurreG hot VI
several suspicious cases nneera ner e
Barcelona. appeared at
Rome, Oct. 7.-During the n.st
twenty-iour hours there were fa pa ~
tnree Iresn cases of cholera Ivy
N xe%.y-sevsn deaths in the citv "u ~
ana twenty-one fresh o.s VI
ana seventeen deaths In Genoa cases
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The New York Morning Journal
says that Steve Elkins took Blaine's
hat in New York on the occasion of
the recent reception of the former in
that city to pass around for contribu-
tions and 'just what we thought of
Elkins, Blaine never saw his hat
again."
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FORT WAYNE, Ind, Oct. THE
first of the series of four Joint discns.
sions upon the political issue of the
day between Calkins, candidate for
Governor OF Indiana on the Repub-
lican ticket. and Gray, Democratic
candidate for the same office, was
held here this afternoon. A vast
crowd assembled in and around the
court house yard. Both CANDIDATES
held an informal levee upon the plat
form shaking hands at the close of
the debate.
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UNPUBLISHED MULLIGAN
LETTERS,

A Boston correspondent of the
New York Evening Post in a recent
letter to that journal says:
Letters from Mr.. Blame to Warren
Fisher, Jr., are probably in existence
besides those which have already
been published. Whether they will
ever be printed will depend on the
course of the campaign. Before the
second installment of letters appeared
they were described to me in part in
a way which corresponded exactly
with their appearance. My informa-
ton now is OF the same character as
before, and I have just as good
reason to relieve that these Other
letters exist as I had four weeks ago
TO think that Mr.. Blaine had written
"burn this" to Mr.. Fisher. 1 have
just as direct information that
not by any means the most
damaging of Blaine's epistles to
Fisher have been published, and
especially that if one of them were
given 10 the public "it would drive
Blaine from the country by the next
steamer" All the remaining letters,
so l am told, have been given out
right by Mr.. Fisher to Mr.. Mulligan
as his own property to do with As he
see fit. For these letters Mr.. Multi
gan has been offered by q friend of
MI. Blaine, my informant state, the
large sum of $4,000. But Nj. Null |
ligan replied that he had all the
money he wanted, and that, at any
rate, no amount of money would buy |
them; not $lO0, 600. nor a million, nor
hundred million. This statement
was made in answer to the question
whether Mulligan was trying to
Blaine. Why the letters
are not all given out 1 cannot learn.
But the question, why do not these
.errible letters appear if they are In
existence? was followed by their ap-
pearance, and perhaps these others
nay appear.
Statements regarding other letters
IT Blaine, which l have never before
leard mentioned, have been made to
ne to-day by a gentleman who says
10 was told by q man who has read
hem. He says that there are in the
Ossession of the Union Pacific off, ]
ials in this city letters written by
[r. Blaine which supply the missing 9
nks regarding the sale of Little =
,OcK bonds to the Union Pacific q
lad, and prove conclusively that t
le transaction occurred which has ! z
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1t is a cold day in Wisconsin when
some prominent Republican does not
announce his intention to support
Cleveland. Hon. William Young,
the great wheat commissioner mer-
chant in Milwaukee, and Judge
Butt, the Republican candidate for
Congress In the Seventh district two
years ago, are the latest accessions.
And Wisconsin has eleven electoral
votes.
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Tell the truth. The Associated
Press (strictly "non-partisan'O said
from 10000 to $1,000 Democrats were
at the recent Columbus meeting.
The New York Sun Intensely anti
Clevelsnd) said there were from
$4,000 to 100, 600 Democrats present.
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been 80 positively denied by Blaine.
These letters 1t IL further asserted,
will never be given to the public.
The railroad officials hold them, but
sympathizing with the Republican.
will not permit them to 20 out.
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Cleveland.

ana ndisANY. Oct. 7.-Governor C,ouo-
bnsineeo oes to New York on nr ri,
r BUSINESS Wednesday next 80 p1ivs1e
nrun a I'm until Thursday. whe nu ho %li'
ttra1;onu 10 De present at a demnn'
''on TO be held at Brooklyn e'oon-
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APPOINTMENTS.

The meetings will open at 7;3O o'clock p, n.
at each of the places named, except at ThOmp.
son Fall. at which place it will be held at
o'clock p. m. Other speakers will be present at
each Of the places, whose names will be here
after announced.
The Democratic committees of the several
counties are requested to make all arrangements
for meetings in their respective counties.
w. Z. CULLEN, Chair nan
h. s. HOWELL, Secretary.
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Fire.

SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa, Oct. Z
AT O'Clock this morning a fire
started under the stage Of the Grand
Orera House, which resulted in the
total destruction of the building and
adjoining business blocks. Loss
S1.O. 900.
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'ore1gn News Goss,n

obiiee ed's f. at dinner in Morocco aro
whila LINES during the m neu na a@s
around f1mico, Eating slaves stand
cense. ""ng them with n
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VOTING PRECINCTS OF SILVER
BOW COUNTY.

At their meeting, on September 18th. the Com
missioners established precincts and the places
of holding elections at the n~extgeneral election
in November as follows: