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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

TaE Supreme Court of the United States
is so far behind it's work that a court OF
appeals or some similar means OF relief
will be seriously considered at the next ses-
sion of Congress. There are now about
LOO cases on the docket. At the present
rate of increase nearly 200 more will be
added before the close Of the present term.
II the court should work as hard as it did
last year, it will take three years to clear
the docket, mailing no allowance for the
additions of the next two yearsy 81 state
Of affairs is a dravon justice and a serious
impediment to the progress OF many I'M"
portant business interests. Dickens satlr
lied the old English Court OF Chancery' pu'
-~--~-e4 n NO. not in much worse con
infusion of new blood or the bench is need
ed it would at least help matters consid'
erably if it did not altogether remedy
them. OF the nine judges, one, Judge Brad
ley, is beyond the age when they may retire
if they choose, and three Others, Justices
Field, Miller and Chief Justice Waite, will
be seventy within a year. If all OF these
were to retire and their places be filled by
younger men, all Democrats, the court
would stand five Republicans to four Dem
ocrats. Partisan feeling should not inter
fere, as it has in the past, in bringing re
lief to this important body and expeditinl
husiness.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28
IT 10 not altogether what our mill mel

IT Is not altogether what our mill men
can afford to pay that enters into the salt
controversy. The first question to be met
is one Of principle-Why should the min
ing industry be taxed to maintain the large
earnings of the Utah and Northern rail-
way? The rate on salt $50 a ton for a trifle
more than a 400 mile haul, is outrageous.
1t is a burden hat our mines should not
be asked to stand, and amounts almost to
robbery. The UNon Pacific hauls coal
from a point 200 miles further aM ay, and
delivers it in Butte for 81 a ton, yet MAIN
tains a $50 rate on salt. It is not a ques-
ton as to what the mills can afford to pay,
but what they ought to pay, on a just
basis. We fail to see why this extortion
should be practiced upon the mills, on the
operations Of which SO much of the COM
pany's other. traffic depends. The mills
cannot afford to pay SO high u rate, and
even il they could they should not be asked
to pay it, when the most liberal conces-
sions have been made on all other classes
OF freight. Come down with the freight on
salt,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

EDWIN BOOTH will make a tour next sea.
son under the management of Lawrence
Barrett. Mr.. Barrett will play his own
season as usual, and the two organizations
will be separate and distinct, although
under the same management. Mr.. Barrett
has long aspired to become a manager and
this is his first actual step in thatdirection
He has the good sense to start out well,
with a star that cannot fail but draw. Mr..
Booth has not been beyond the Atlantic
seaboard for years and a tour of the
country by him would amount to an
ovation. Under Mr.. Barrett's manage
msnt the stage settings would be perfect,
properties complete and company the best
obtainable, three conditions hat have
always been against Mr.. Booth, who has
never had decent management, and taken
position solely because Of his incompatible
genius and art.
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business.

THIS is how the Bozeman Chronicle looks
at the recent attempt of the Helena Herald
and it's echo, the Inter Mountain, to belittle
and ridicule Mr.. Webb: 1.-THE Helena
Herald evidently intends to create, il pos
sible, the impression that Secretary Webb
lacks ordinary intelligence. In a recent
issue it accuses him OF taking the oath oil
office before he received his commission.
The Herald went OF half cooked, as Mr..
Webb had previously received his com.
mission. II y y The Herald fails to see
how any Democrat can be intelligent who
takes the place OF a Republican official anG
is solid for civil service reform when applied
by a Democratic President. 1t would have
us believe that there is not sufficient intelli-
gence in the Democracy of Montana to
creditably fill the offices of the Territory"
The Chronicle has sized up the Republican
Organs" about right. They are for civil
service reform when they have all the Offices.
but took pains when in power not even by
accident to appoint a Democrat to office or
to leave one in position. The Republican
papers are playing the hypocrite in this
matter and do it in very bungling manner
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28
The business men OF Ogden have shown a

The business men OF Ogden have shown a
disposition to get rid of their Chinese help as
RAPIDLY as possible, and consequently the
Knights of Labor have raised the boycott
there. In his address making this procla-
nation the Master Workman says: ave
trust that all persons will see the direct
wrong that it is upon the Caucasian race
to patronize these heather and turn away
those who are anxious to work; and stat
ing further that our efforts in this matter
shall only be dismissed when victory a be
proclaimed. There is no similarity between
Chinese and white intelligent labor, and it
is useless to say to the public or individ-
uals that white labor is not to be had. We
know that it is not to be procured at the
same remuneration az Chinese labor, and if
our principles are carried out, it never
be. Pay living wages to the deserving
Of our own race and p~atronize them, even
at present it may bea little inconvenient,
is all we ask"
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and commencing us for the tenth a.
the particular courtesies Of the Jme to
We did not imagine that this a o ,
our last OF them, but so it has bas ou'd be
never have seen Miss Sally again, nn We
saw-Only saw the Doctor. Last Duee We
CHANGED that we were passing throv earN
town and found an hour at onr JJ!!sh The
between trains. Taking one OF tbo Tfasposa'
shabby hacks at the station, we aalh!fal
to Miss Sally's house. Alas! # wa ur Mt
Sally's house NJ longer, but mot Miss
phosed into a smart new hotel w. " aa
| not the heart to enter, after inon mad
vain for Miss Sally OF a stray porfer my III
maid sweeping the steps Of the on ana a
mansion. Failing there we took opposite
/ to the cemetery; the graves at least way
be unchanged. We ven directly to t% %oald
bury lot. Yes, there all was as vme AS,
known it, the white marble angels woon naa
at the monument, the graves Of the CCspms
ais, and Co.onels, and Judges, tbo I, ;aH
mounds abov the children, and the aowar'
heaped IN the OLD profuslon over one sinai,
grave. There was a single new ston n'a,
took the flowers which | had brought and
laid them at it's foot, beside the rosas an1
violets already there. Grace read tbo anu mt
scriptiOn aloud:
I'm memory Of Aurora Honoria A.h..
RaveneI, beloved wife of Raoul Moult,y'
Ravenel." Below were the dates Of h;n tl
and death-nothing else. She had nn1n
lived thifty-four years. Poor. wsais
kinly, passionate woman said Cen
God forgive hertz,
Then we walked back, down the wide MAI,
between the dwarf magnolias. Half wan
on the spot where l had looked to see w.,
Ravenel k~neeling by her child's grave W..
both stopped and looked again. It was
here that we saw DIR. Ravenel. He was .n
preaching the graves from the other s;d p'
and his arms were filled with roses A.
formerly, Eis coat was black, but it was ~"
longer threadbare. He put his burden o
flowers down close to mine and stood ~
remembered attitude, with his uncove,a,
head on his breast. "Let us 90 and snesl
to him." whispered Grace. 81 do hone h,
has married Miss Sally"
To this day Grace cannot understau,
why l would not comply with her reoues
and was go afraid Of losing the train.
shall never tell her; she would laugh at m,
sentimental jealousy on behalf Of a deaf
woman whom l scarcely knew, and VIII,
was far from a stainless character, but
own here that it was because | wanted I,
keep my romance intact. | dreaded lest
should zeal that the Doctor had marrie
> Miss Sally.
THE END.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28


OMAHA Is now discussing the advisabilty
of furnishing free text books in the pubic
schools of that city. This is the custom in
Pennsylvania, where it works admirably
In the early days in the history Of the com
mon schools it a the rule in Pennsyl
vania for the boards OF control to provide
the children OF INDECENT parents and or
phans with text books at the expense o
the public. The courts, on a test OF the
right OF the boards to SO expenl money
decided that they could not, as it was the
creating Of a special or favored class, which
was E%epugnant to our institutions and con
trary to the litter and the spirit Of the
laws. That the school fund was created
for the whole people and that it must be
shared equally among those who claimed
it's benefits. That the education which was
free could not be effective without text
books; that, therefore, the boards had a
right to purchase text books from the
general fund, but that it must be done hi
all, and not for a special class. Thlss
now the rule in Pennsylvania and it could
with profit be adopted everywhere.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28
The two Helena papers are now quarre

The two Helena papers are now quarrel
ing over their press dispatches. These dis
patches are the joint property Of the tw Q
papers. The evening paper is not entitled
to take it's copy out OF the telegraph Office
until after the morning paper has gone to
press, and the morning paper ia under like
restrictions in reference to the afternoon
dispatches. This is a matter that is regu-
lated by rule everywhere and no paper
thinks OF violating it. The Independent was
wrong in using, in any shape, the afternoon
dispatches before the Herald appeared
upon the streets.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28
Death OF Mrs l.. b. Critlelide''

The friends of Mrs. l.. b. Critteh'tIh W..
be panied to learn oi her death M",4 - her
CURED on the End oi THIS month Mon,
home near Hamilton. She came hand.
tana in September, 1872. Her n n.J in
Kew. l.. b. Crittenden, was t m' GaIla-
preaching at several stations IN !ns wears
tin valley until his health failed '"rrt Mrs.
ago. While he was doing this "o,nrvins
Ccittenden, with her daughter was twelve
on a young ladies seminary anon. ,rE she
miles from Bozeman. At TINS W, rrpiIs
was very successful, as the ,l h !" TO tas-
who attended her school al! atl'Sus ,ttel-
tify. After several years dig" inf and
ton to this work her health 7',. those f
the past five years OF her HE VIII ;lluess she
a hopeless invalid. In her n' nd her
last is,t'h hours r Were made happy by her '''''"
Christ
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

The prompt manner in which the fire at
the Alice mine was extinguished OF Thurs
day shows the value Of a tirsu-,iass fire de
partment, such as Mr.. Hall maintains at
mines under his care. MIR. Ellis, the fore
man OF the Alice, proved himself a valuable
man. The managers OF the mines c~ontigu'
Gus to the Alice also showed an excellent
spirit in rendering prompt and effective
aesistance.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

A is to be erected in Philadel.
phia to the memory OF the late Uriah
Stevens, the founder OF the Knights OF
Labor. The order which he founded with
q handful of fellow laborers now comprises
1000, 900. A donation of ten cents from
q member would build a monument of
which the order might be proud. 1t would
be a small sum for any one member to give
and u deserving tribute to IL good man.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

We admire the pluck o fthe ladies OF the
Butte Christian Temperance Union, but
iearthat when they determined to attack the
quarters of His Satanic Majesty at Galena
and Wyoming streets they assumed a hope
less task. There is Il point at which the
possibility of human salvation ceases. The
large majority OF the denizens of "helrs
half-acre,'' located in that neighborhood,
have passed beyond the lines.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

THE Crescent City must be in a bad way
when the New Orleans States pleads for a
Tweed who, while robbing the city, will give
it some show for a part OF the loot. Il
New Orleans is really in SO bad a way, why
not send for Butler. He gave them a show
for his loot, and is the only man who kept
the city free from disease and in Thorough
sanitary condition.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

The Washington Star wants Secretary
Bayard to intimate to some Of the forelsn
governments represented there that WASH
ington is about tired out with the drunken
antics OF the members Of their legations
h seem to think that their dipiomaut
duties consist in making public n~nisances Oh
themselves. They may be above the reatn
OF the statutes relating to the COLLECTION"
debts and that sort oil thing. but surrey
they should not claim immunity from 'F
laws OF propriety, and decency, which ae
observed by gentlemen everywhere. lD'',
is force and sense in what the Starsays anu
Mr.. Bayard should adopt its suggestions
There are a number OF attaches 10 ''
different legations who have about ""I"
out patience and they should no longer"
tolerated. The least intimati0n from VII
Bayard will result in their recall.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28
Peter Nadeau Heard tfoi'''

Yesterday City Attorney h'n Assist
ceived a letter from W. W. Bls!iJT%p r,ncicco
ant District Attorney OF o h"t Peter Nr-
county, California, stating t"' IN october
deau had arrived in that til' Of Frisco
4th. Peter is an Old resident there. lie
and is well known to the pollte ii obtain
was arrested here on the eh'Fse and sltea
ing money under false prete"sfs ran away.
bond OF $500, after when n ns bond Sa'
The last night OF the court t ~ the ~slretle'
declared forfeited, but it is sa''
are duly secured.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

Mr.. n Mrs. WILL Il. HAYES, two Oh |"
richest people in Cleveland, ONO, nave"
clded to separate. Four years ago she We"
an heiress, seventeen years Old. Nhea 81,
and Hayes, who was but eighteen e'op''
the affair created a sensation. Eve cum
re2 have been born to them, and the III"
band claimed that his wife loved so'H';
and admiration and she charges hin Wv,
having wearied OF her. They aveahe tS'",
house, but his wife. who will retain 'nV
children, will return to her mother Ill"
husband to his parents. Scandal '''
vorce will naturally follow, another 's'o
enforcing the truth that children-n'at'"'
are almost certain to end disastrous! -,
as this one has. II the lesson VIII !" -
lost on parents and the rising seIer''''"
will have served Il useful purpose.
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THE END.

The MINER is indebted to d member a
the club. for the following invitation, whic,
some of our readers with a leaning to aua
ling may appreciate:
DEAR SIR:-The Ichthyophagous Club will
hold it's annual dinner at the Buckingham
Hotel, on Wednesday, October 2lst. At
6:3Op. M, and will be pleased to have ycur
assistance in sampling the varied collee.
ton Of aquatic life, which has been collected
for experiment in determining its value AZ
food. The Club points with pride to the
very low rate OF mortality at its tables
and the fact that the insurance companies
no longer class its members as extra haz.
ardous." The result has been attained by
not allowing the younger members to in.
dulge too freely in Enchytraeus TriventraI.
Opectinatus, or in Strongyloceantrotus
Drobachiensis, but in combining them to the
| safer and more paltable marine forms, like
Pleurobrachia Rhododactyla, trout from
| the Bigosh, and Lutjenus BIackfordii.
There will be several medical men present
! who will make no charge for ATTENDANCE
! the price OF dinner tickets $500 being
ample to cover everything. These neces
sary paste-boards may be obtained from
| the Treasurer, Mr.. E. q. B!ackford, Fulton
Market, IOf I'LL equlFtleHel III treasury NOTES
silver certificates or bland dollars. Trade
dollars, mutilated coin and promises to
pay will be turned in to the landlord.
By order of
JOHN FooRD, President.
Eugene G. Blackford, G. X. Miller, Fred
Mather, John H. DeMott, Francis End-
colt, Committee Of Arrangements.
This invitation is printed on tinted pa.
per, the plates representing marine ana
submarine monsters, its very appearance
giving one Il touch OF the jim jams. Mr..
Foord, the president OF the club, is ia
nous journalist of New York, and his as
sociates are all more or less closely allied
with the press. They undoubtedly hada
good time at their brainy feast.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

THE surest way for a young man to sue
coed in New York society is said to geI
"under a social cloud" An elopement ana
to figure as a correspondent in a divorce
anti are the surest means whereby to grow
in the world OF fashion. There must DC
something wrong with the moral atmos'
phere OF New York.
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Ar one session OF Judge Gardeners court

Ar one session OF Judge Gardner's court,
in Chicago, recently, eight DEGREES OF di.
vorce were granted. In every instance but
one the women were the compliments, and
in their bills alleged criminal acts against
their spouses. 1t may be right to grant
divorces in this wholesale manner but it
surely should be the business OF some one
to see that these adulterers and would-be
murderers are punished. To dissolve the
matrimonial bonds which have already
made them FESTIVE, to relieve them Of the
support OF wives OF whom they already had
wsaried, 10 to put a premium on crime.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

If THE Union Pacific can afford TO maui
coal from Rock Springs into Butte at ~
Der ton, it should be able to haul sai' "
shorter distance for a like figure. Our mn
men, however, would be willing to pay $lo'
but with the present price OF silver $2o Is
more than they can pay.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

SPANS reply to Britain's protest against
the outrage on it's Consulate at Havana'
IN said to be unsatisfactory to Britain
There need be no fears OF evil results, now
aver IA Spain will make any apology that
ENGLAND NAV dictate.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

THERE is an unusually large crop OF
wicked men and frail women ready to elope
with them, throughout the East, this sea-
ION. Their number is so great that 1t has
occasioned much scandal and some lndie-
nation, not enough, however, to Indicate a
very healthy general sentiment in the
Eastern social world.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

IT would be a great relief to have nos
midget kings in the East quit their talking
and do some fighting. That Servian army
has been 80 long "crossing the border that
we do wish it would cross and stop making
faces and threats.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

TIE moon was full last night, and "the
orb of night as he wobbled along in the
heavens looked down upon many human
midaets in like condition. That is, il he
scanned Main street, in Butte, he did.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

THERE are just six men in the city OF
Butte who are opposed to maintaining a
respectable fire department. The fire boys
should congratulate themselves on the iact
that there are only hall a dozen cranks IN
his city.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

THE New York Financial and Mining
Record says that at al carly day it will
nublish an article on "Butte, Montana, as
= source OF copper production, an elaborate
,,ketch OF the copper mining and smelling
-~lustry of that important source OF the
,nhtal-u sketch that will be in all respects
the completest as yet published"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

The Devil Worshipers in Ceylon nave dis
covered that the Prince OF Darkness Is d
woman. While few people will be surprised
at this discovery, they will wonde wha
sort al a fellow her husband is.
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braith, meets with the universal approval
OF the people of the camp. Hanging would
have suited them better, but a 2O-years
sentence will nave a tendency to deter men
OF hat stamp from giving play to Their
vicious passions.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

GREAT BRITAIN is about to establish a
Chinese mail by wa OF the CANADIAN
Pacific, and by way OF the canadian Paclhc'
and by steamship from Coal Harbor, British
COiumbia.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

SIMON PURE has just been sent to the
penitentiary in New York for bigamy. Al
ter that, what's in a name?
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

WHAT is worrying Butte just now is how
to squeeze 1000 school children lnto d
SPACE calculated for 800.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

SPAIN is taxing schools; no wonder it has
dwindled into a fourth-class power. what
Spain needs is more light.
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H SEMI. WEEKLY MINER
BUTTE, OCTOBER "a, 1885.

LADIES' HATS are growing higher and higher
and a man will soon have to take a seat IN
the gallery to see a play.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28

THE special fire tax will be iald by Vooe
OF the people. The members OF the depart
,nent fully appreciate the vote OF yesterday.
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DOdIuIl ACu JSnlo ASc, AllSS S(&IIy
Ashbury' g house stood on the main street in
a prim and spacious garden which looked
like nothing SO much as the towery demon
stration Of a geometrical problem, with its
broad paths of shining white SAND defining
the ~triangles and squares and circles Of
geraniums, gillyAowers and pansies. The
house itself was a fine old succeed man
sion with a Grecian portico. Inside the
rooms were big enough for a ball, and each
room had a royal Fireplace. where the
''lightwood" OF the region made a mighty
crackle and blaze. Age had s~oftened
gaudy carpets and wall paper to a har-
monious dingiHess. 1t was an altogether
delightful house, and Miss Sa!ly-so every
one called her in the kindly Southern
~fashion-was a delightful land-lady. She
was a comely sentlewoman of about 10
what matter on which side OF the line? Her
soft, thick hair was gray, but her fresh
complexion, bright eyes and fine car
riage made people turn to look at her
in the street. Miss Sally wore black,
but there was nothing pensive about our
friend. She loved a joke and told a good
story and frankly enjoyed pretty clothes
and compliments. Best OF all to us Miss
Sally was a famous housekeeper OF the old
Southern school. Candor compels me to
state that the frying played q leading
part in the Asbury kitchen, and we GER
tainly had more hot bread than was really
good for our health; but the dishes were de-
lightful to the palate, whatever they may
have done to our digestion. Miss Sally's
mother lived with her, a pretty, faded little
woman, always wrapped i'll "a shawl and
shivering, but having some dregs OF cheer
~fullness left. There were ten boarders be-
sides. OF these all were Northerners
save the Ravenels. Possibly that
was why the Ravenels interested us;
though / think it was more because
for some reason, Mrs. Ravenel always kept
her room. The Ravenel rooms were at the
end of our hall. DR.. Ravenel, the child and
Tempe, Mrs. Ravenel's maid, came and
went. Each morning, alter breakfast, Miss
Sally might be seen with a nosegay in one
hand and a silk busting cloth in the other.
Halt an hour later she would re-appear, re-
tanning the buster, but having left the nose
gay. The Ravenel doors never stood alar;