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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

HERE'S Your FLoUR-THE ONL,
Full ROLLER MILL IN THIS PART OF
THE STATE-THE MACKEY MILL IN
FILL BLAsT.-The Mackey Touring
mill, which has been undergoing .
process of complete remodelling
started up again last Saturday. DIR
Mackey, with commendable enter
prise, decided last summer to intro
duce into this county the roller pro
cess of manufacturing -four. In or
der to carry out this intention he
contracted with firm in Milwaukee
to put in an entire outfit of machin-
cry, including full set of rollers and
other modern improvements. This
work was begun about the middle Of
August and has just been completed
at cost of $4,000. 1t consists OF
sixteen rollers and has a capacity Of
fifty barrels of -four per day-enough
to supply the entire town. And il
is the intention of Mr. Joseph; the
enterprising miller, to supply the
entire community with flour equal
to- the very best city brands and to
do it al low figures.
Industrially this is a long stride
for Morgantown, and one in which
we ought to take good deal OF
pride. Mr.. Frank Kohnle, a profes-
sional miller, of Milwaukee, is here
testing the mill. He pronounces the
machinery perfect, and says it will
make as good flour as can be manu-
faetured anywhere.
For the last three or four years
fully half of the -four that has beer
used in this town has been brought
from Pittsburg, thereby taking q
vast amount of money out of the
county.
There is no reason why all this
should not be kept right at home
The general cry is, Encourage home
" dustry and enterprise" Now lei
is motto be put into USE
The work of arranging and put,
pg up the machinery was done by
~. G. Yorty, master mechanic oil
|lwaukee, Wisconsin. The ma
inery was manufactured by Ed
I'd p. Allis & CO., the most exten-
e manufacturers of milling ma.
merry in the world, and is perfect
N the construction of the practi
v new mill, 1900 feet of dry
ho,, ~.~<,.- Rad 4, addition ~ ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

NNthos " Vot 90 ythtoT.
HATS OFF THE CAMERA TURNED
Onto SOME MoRGANTowN CHApEAUx.
Maj. McGrew wears soft gray
hat, like a southern cavaliers.
Prof. Purinton would not be recog-
nized without his elegant silk s'stove-
pipe" He is supposed to have worn
it from youth up.
President Turner wears high
crowned Derby.
JOS. Moreland, Esq, had a high
hat some twenty years ago, but it
caught on the horn of the moon, and
since then he has worn a SLOUGH.
Lieut.. Wilson sports Fourth Ar
tillery cap.
Rev. Mr.. Crawford has taken to a
chapeau that looks very like a
ground-sparrow's nest.
Drs. Brock and Wade wear twin
Derbys.
DIR. Clark has never been seen
without his ''stove-pipe."
Luther Boyers divides his love
between SLOUGH and silk.
Geo. Hayes wears a jaunty round
top Derby.
E. c. Protzman carries No. s,
well back on his head.
A. L. Nye and Prof. Stewart wear
hats that came in the same box.
They are sawed-off hight tops.
Prof. A. L. Wade never puts his
beaver on his head without brush
ing it.
William Wagner's silk is used as
mirror by his grand
Hon. Geo. c. Sturgiss has laid his
''stove- pipe" on the shelf and taken
to soft hat crushed in the centre.
Rev. Mr.. Chandler and Prof. Rey-
nolds belong to the high-hat brigade.
Will Hoffman goes bare headed
in the bank.
John Samsel and G. A. Hayes wear
white "stove-pipes,' relics of the
Greeley campaign.
Captain McVicker protects his
ears with a cap.
Geo. M. John puts ON a new one
every other day. The one he wore
yesterday was brown Derby cut
bias, with cores in the back.
Principal Hodges lengthens his
esfr ST. Of, Nth
Editors are still wearing their last
summer five-cent straw hats, They
do this { mostly) in order to give
their excited and active brains proper
ventilation.
The opera crush hat does not give
satisfaction here. The children cam
use it as stool.
Homeopathy and 'stove-pipes" are
not good friends. Drs. Coombs and
Casselberry wear low hats.
Sanford Pickenpaugh would not
know himself under a SLOUGH hat.
Indeed he has never been known to
wear one.
Jno. j. Brown, ESQ.,, would grace a
beaver, but he doesn't seem to have
liking for that kind of head gear.
Neither does Samuel Hackney, nor
Henry Hayes, nor friedrich Dering,
nor William Carraco, nor Benz. Dor
sey, nor Thornton Pickenpaugh, nor
w. W. Houston, nor Squire Hayes,
nor Squire Staggers, nor L. S,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

FINE Napkins and Towels at
ID. CHADWICK Il Co.'S.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

A LITTLE Boz FATALLY 4Ny9kkD ~
"a HoRsE--A most distressing and
no doubt fatal accident befell little
son Of Mr.. John Sanders, of Maids
vile, ON Sunday evening last. The
little fellow, whose age is four years,
went to the barn yard with his older
brothers at feeding time. He was
some distance from them, when a
horse plunged at him and struck him
on top of the head breaking his
skull and almost killing him instant
ly. Drs. Brock and Wade were call
ed, and did all IN their power for
the little sufferer, but his recovery is
thought to be out of the question.
The large artery that passes over
the head, was severed, and the skull
broken SO badly that the brain was
exposed. The sympathies of all who
know the interesting little boy go
out to him and his parents in their
sad affection.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

THE RINK.-Under the manage
ment of the brass band the roller
rink is looking up immensely. 1t is
open three times per week, Monday,
Wednesday and Friday evenings,
and the audiences are constantly in
creasing. Polo has become the most
interesting game with the boys. A
very interesting game was played
last Wednesday evening. Willie E.
st. Clair, r. G. Porter, w. r. Bias
nett, Will Morgan and Charley
johnson, composed the winning side.
Ernest Hayes, Russell Huston, Ber-
ME Morgan, Clarence st. Clair and
NJ. d. Dawson, composed the other.
Friday night thirty-fve skaters
were on the floor at one time, and
the interest is gradually growing to
what it was last winter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26
Teacher.

New REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
AGENcY.--T. w. Anderson has de-
cided to locate in Morgantown and
will carry on the Real Estate and
Insurance business. He is prepared
to give as good companies and at as
low rates as any other Insurance
Agent, and will advertise all kinds
of Real Estate without charge to
owners, unless sale is effected, in
which case a commission will be
charged on amount of sale. Parties
having Real Estate of any kind to
sell should attend to it before the LIST
of January, (if possible) so that it
may be advertised at that time
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

RAILROAD NEWS AND NOTES.-The
Warrington correspondent of the
Inde1 writes: We noticed a short
time ago in the Register mention
made of the purchase of the Wash
ington and Waynesburg narrow
gague road, by the Pennsylvania R.
r. Co., and that said road at an
early day would be made into a
broad gauge and extended to Blacks
VILE We learn from parties who
have recently been travelling in that
section of the State, that there is
strong talk of bringing it ON through
Warrington thence to Clarksburg,
which would be shorter route by
6S miles from Pittsburg to Clarks-
burg Uia Washington and Manning
ton than any other route that could
be taken. They will also strike one
of the richest coal fields in the west
ern part of the State, which is the
Bingamon coal and said to be equal
in every respect to the Fairmont
coal. Would it not be good idea
for some of our business men to look
into this matter little and see what
car be done to induce the Pennsyl-
vania company to bring it on? Just
think of a competing railroad, natu-
raj gas and oil
We can almost hear the locomo-
tive toot Tracklaying is in progress
about five miles from town. In the
next issue of the New DOMINION Jan
uary 9th, we believe the announce
ment can be made that the tracklay-
ers are within sight of town
The F., NJ. & P. r. R. Co. will proba-
bly, run train over the finished por-
ton of the road ON Christmas to ae-
commodate corners and goers. The
road will moth completed for several
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

ARE THE Town SCALES ACCURATE?
There seems to be a well founded
belief that the town scales are de-
fective and inaccurate-that,i in fact,
the inaccuracy amounts to about
one-tenth addition to the true
weight. That is to say, for every
one hundred pounds of coal, hay, or
other commodity sold by weight on
the town scales, the purchaser pays
for one hundred and ten pounds
for every half ton he would pay for one
hundred pounds more than he got;
and for every ton he would pay for two
hundred pounds more than he got.
If he purchased hay at twenty dol
lars per ton he would pay ten cents
on the hundred pounds, or one dol
lar on every half ton, and two dol
lars on every ton, in excess of what
he agreed to pay, on account of this
inaccuracy of the scales. If he was
buying coal, there is about 500
pounds excessive weight in every
100 bushels of coal. There are
plODdDit OhC
bushels of coal sold over these scales
to the town of Morgantown every
year. This would amount to eight
millions pounds weight, and would
represent an inaccuracy of eight
hundred thousand pounds in excess
of the true weight. In other words
the town would pay for about ten
thousand bushels of coal every year
more than it receives.
We call attention to these facts in
order to show what small defect in
the town scales may cost the town.
1t is probable, that if the.inaccuracy
exists in the present scales to
the extent supposed, it costs the
town not less than five thousand
dollars every year-more than it
would cost to buy new set of scales
every year.
1t is due to the town, therefore,
that this matter be looked into by
the authorizes. The charge of de.
feet in the scales ought to be enough
to warrant an investigation; and
this charge has become general.
Neither is it based upon mere sup
position. Articles have been weigh
ed upon the town scales and then
taken to cattle scales in the neigh
borhood, and the difference has been
found to be what we have stated
about ten pounds on the hundred.
We hope the Town Council will give
this matter attention without delay.
It Is not enough to prove the accura-
cy of the scales to say simply that
they balance.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

ing Ill CHlS OIllce as ne toured Tn
town.
We regret to say that Rev. How
ard McQueary is still quite SICK
Indec.
Adam Bower, of Morgantown
smiled on his Waynesburg friends
this week.-Independent.
Jos. Keener, one of Morgantown'
most extensive stock dealers. passed
through our place one day last weel
with fine lot of cattle.-Messenge,
Prof. Wade, of Morgantown, is il
the county trying to sell diction
aries to the various Boards of Edu
cation for the schools.-Iyler Coun
ty Star.
1t is now pretty generally under
stood, about town, that Joseph II
Hawthorne, ESQ.,, will leave here ant
locate in the west next fall.-Ksng
acoed Journal.
Jared M. Armstrong, of Frencl
Creek, was in town last Friday
to hear from his son Robert, b,
telegraph, who is sick at Morgan
town.-Buckhaanon Deltn.
Rev. G. w. Foster, now in Roches
ter Theological Seminary, will spen'
the holidays in Clarksburg and viii
aid Rev. L. E. Peters in series O
meetings while there.-Fyeeman.
Mrs. Thornton Pickenpaugh, O
Morgantown, with her son Clark
was visiting at F. M. Durbin's sew
eral days this week. They were re
turning home from trip to Oak
land.-Grafton Sentinel.
Mr.. c. f. Grafton, one of Nor
gantown's old friends, is in town
The Hancock Independent says
Ed. Grafton left for Morgantowl
to-day, to take situation with al
engineering corps. He will proba
bly, be absent all winter.
Miss Gertrude Steele, of Birmina
ham, Ala, is visiting friends in Graf
ton this week. She visited the pub
lie school one day. this week an,
caused great rejoicing among he
late pupils. When she taught her
her pupils almost worshipped he
and will always respect and remem
Der her kindly. Sentipsl
The Indisnapolis Joxrxoy saya
IH z. pering, assistant 8eneral PEI
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

The sermons Of that eminent divine, REv. r.
DEWITT TALMAGE, will, as heretofore, appear
regularly in the REGISTER
Agents wanted everywhere. Special inducements
offered. Send for specimen copies and circulars.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21
CHINESE AGITATION.

It may be safely said that the anti
Chinese faction on the northwest
coast is at an end There may be a
few more meetings, but no more out
RACES. Nine tenths of those who have
been engaged in the demonstrations
are the same class who composed the
notorious "sand lotters" in San Fran
cisco under the leadership of Dennis
Kearney, and who We're members Of
the sandlot mob years ago. The
leaders in the agitation at Tacoma
and Seattle were not workingmen,
but professional politicians of small
calibre, who hoped to make capital
out Of it. Since yesterday these
leaders have awakened to the realiz-
alton of the fact that they have
committed a crime against the United
States and Territorial laws, for which
they will be held responsible.
Possibly there may be secret agita-
tion, but no one will have the
hardihood publicly to order the
Chinese away as was done at Tacoma
and towns in the immediate vicinity.
The outrages have been confined
exclusively to small part of Puget
Sound, viz: Seattle, Tacoma and
small towns within 20 miles of these
places There were no demonstration
at Olympia or Port Townsend.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21
A BLOODY TRAGEDY.

Butte was the seems of a bloody
tragedy last week, in which one John
Folly shot his mistress, endeavored to
kill his rival, and then blew his own
brains out. Jealousy was the motive
for the crime. Folly and his mistress,
Mrs. Flick, seemingly had had some
disagreement, and in the morning of
which the crime was committed, she
was walking on the street with one,
Yates. Folly followed the twain, and
when alta short distance from them
drew his revolver and opened fire,
the first shot taking effect in Mrs.
Fick's right breast, who sank to the
ground The second shot was aimed
at Yates and took effect in his right
cheek, making a painful flesh wound
The villain then placed the weapon
against his own breast and fired. and
seeming to fear that the wound would
not prove fatal, deliberately placed
the muzzle of the revolver in his
mouth and, and fell to the ground
and Instantly expired. Mrs. Flick's
wound is not considered necessarily
fatal, and she will likely recover.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21
A MISTAKE.

Helena Special to Pioneer Press:
Charles Smith, inspector Of the cattle
district Of Choteau county, reports a
great loss Of lambs III the upper coun-
try by wolves The animals are rap
idly increasing and getting bo]der
and more ferocious each day. The
sheepmen are becoming frightened
over the rapid disappearance of their
focks, and are using every, means to
exterminate the wolves. Among the
losers are Paris Gibson, I. ". Beach
and the Montana Sheep company.
The above is a pure fabrication so
far as the sheep industry is concerned,
and there is nothing in it, but there
is no question but that the wolves
and cayotes are more numerous than
for a number of years, and also that
they are committing numerous depre-
dations, which are confined, however,
almost wholly to the cattle ranges,
where they prey off the young and
weak stock. SO far as the sheepmen
are concerned, their loses from this
cause are light, and no fears are en-
tertained that it will be otherwise.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21
HASkETT ON ALASKA.

T. W. Haskell, whom the new adj
ministration has displaced as district
attorney for Alaska, arrived in San
Francisco recently. In speaking to
an Examiner reporter he expressed
himself in many respects pleased with
the country, but considers it a land of
undeveloped resources. Gas for
mines," he said, ''it is probably that
a large portion Of Alaska is one large
mineral deposit. As yet, I suppose,
all the mining in Alaska could be in
cluded within mile or SO square. |
would not advise man without capt.
tai to go to Alaska in the hope Of en-
gaging in any mining business, There
is gold there and lots of it, but it re-
quires capital to work and develop it.
The mines Of the basin and Treadwe1l
mine have paid immensely during the
past year, but it has been done with
capital Prospecting is very diff
cult matter, owing to the condition of
the ground and the thick timber
lands The placer mining is conduct
ed on the hydraulic plan. You see,
the mountains are very high and are
capped with glaciers. The miners
consequently just hitch on to the
melting end of a glacier and find an
abundance of yd1aulic pressure" "
Mr.. Haskett related the occurrence of
disastrous and fatal landslide which
occurred recently at the basin, by
which two old California miners
Mike Powers and Fred Cushman
and an Indian were buried. The slide
was about half mile wide and from
six to forty feet deep. At the time OF
Mr.. Haskett's departure the bodies OF
Powers and the Indian had been re-
covered in a horribly mangled condi-
ton.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21
THE ADMISSION OF DAKOTA.

It is said the President will recon-
mend the admission of Dakota to the
Union. The matter has been referred
to Secretary Lamar, who will proba-
bly, coincide with the views of Cleve-
land, and Congress will be asked to
admit the dependency. For several
years past there has been no good and
sufficient reason for denying state
hood to Dakota, which has demon
strated it's ability to maintain state
government without assistance from
the general government. If Colorado,
Delaware, Nevada and Oregon are
worthy of statehood, so is Dakota
with it's half million people, its thous-
ands of miles of railroad and its un-
limited resources. The question of
the politics of the majority of its citi-
zens, out not to be considered by
either party; the republicans have no
right to demand the admission be-
cause the territory is republican, and
the democrats should be ashamed to
raise an objection to the admission
on account Of the opposition politics
of the people. The sooner all of the
territories are erected into states the
sooner will justice be done to the OPP
pressed inhabitants of the dependence
les, and sooner will gross abuses in
the federal administration of the col
MES be abolished. Dakota is a good
4orrito,v +o haoin with
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21
IIVER-EATING JOHNSON.

There is no one in Montana but that
has heard of Liyer-Eating Johnson,
the scout and Indian fighter, but only
a few know how he gained his cogno-
men. The following narrative ex-
tracted from correspondents letter
to an eastern paper, explains itself:
Up the edge of the lake quarter
of mile nearer the enemy a small
outfit of volunteer scouts were cook
ing the choice cuts from the hump of
a buffalo shot that day, and the piece
Of dog-tent table-cloth was luxurious
ly set off by three tin cups, coffee
pot and solitary hardtack. As the
dense but not particularly unpleasant
perfume Of burning buffalo-chips
hoated upward on the evening air, a
long. dark broWed man with big
telescope rife over his shoulder stroll
ed along the lake shore and saunter-
ed up to the scouts fire. This was
Liver Eating johnson, who was act
ing as guide to the command. He
had been found camped alone in the
hostile country, and he went along
for S6 day-not because he cared
whether or not he was camped alone
on disputed dirt. He was a we'll
known frontier character who was said
to have been surrounded by band OF
Sioux on the Musselshel. He was
standing off the enemy when one OF
the warriors dashed in upon him
where he was holed up in some rocks.
He killed the warrior, cut out his Hy-
er, and eat it in sight Of the Indians.
This so filled the red men with super
stition that they withdrew and nicked
off johnson on their coo-sticks as a
man to be let alone. Envious from
tiersmen who wished to detraet from
,Johnson's fame claimed that he only
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21

The Sacramento Bee claims that
tho Chinese take 100000 a year
out of California. sending it home.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21
ANOTHER ROUTE FOUND.

No matter what may be the action
of the Northwestern Traffic associa-
ton with regard to the use of double
deck cars for the shipment Of sheep,
it is almost certain that Montana and
Washington Territory sheep will con-
tinue to reach Chicago on that kind
of cars. The Northern Pacific can
not we'll afford to submit to the dicta-
ton Of the traffic association. It has
too much at stake. It has fostered
sheep growing in the Territories
through which its line, runs too much
to now stop and give up this business
To submit to the recent ruling would
be to give up the transportation of
sheep. for the rates for single deck
car shipments are too kigh to warrant
the northwestern sheep grower to
market his stock As it was formerly
the grower did not make much more
than decent living out Of his business
With the new rule in force he would
not make that The Northern Pacific
freight department, when Informed
by the Waterloo route that it would
no longer accept sheep SO loaded,
looked elsewhere for a means for
reaching the Chicago market. This
was found, and should the association
ruling not be rescinded, all future
shipments will be directed that way.
The officials state that next season ar
rangements will be made for sending
this business via the lakes In order
to be prepared to handle it properly,
pens, yards, etc, will be built at Du-
luth, or some other Lake Superior
point reached by the company-Pio-
neer Press.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-21

Of which number 294,013 came as
steerage passengers, and were landed
at Castle Garden, whore they were
examined by commissioners. Most
of these were destined to Illinois, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa,
Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
During the year there were returned
to the country whence they came
l,1S3 emigrants, of which 81 were in
san, 80 were idiots, 2 blind, 9 deaf
and dumb, q crippled, Is en- eiente,
478 disabled by sickness, II by
reason Of old age, and 435 were
without visible means of support.
The amount of the immigration fund ,
collected under the act of Aug. 3,
1882, was S142;2lO, and the expenses
of the commission amounted to S14O,
OBJ. The comm ssioners recommend
that the act of congress to regulate
immigration be amended so as to pro-
vide for adequate penalties for all
violations of the law a.za.