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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
AN OFFICIALS TROUBLES.
An Ex-City Treasurer Arrested tor
Misappropriation of Funds.

About 10 o'clock last night there were
rurnors floating around town of the arrest
OFF. G. Letter, ex-City Treasurer of Butte,
upon charges Of ethbezzlement while in
Office, and after some difficulty, the matter
was traced down to the result of the labors
of Messrs. Gessler & Olmstead, the gentle
men who have for some time past been ex-
amining the books of the city for the pur-
pose of collecting the delinquent city
licenses and taxes, in accordance with the
contract entered into between them and
the city at the last meeting Of the Council,
whereby they were to receive a commission
of so per cent.
Mr.. Gessler was found by q reporter of
tails of the arrest were obtalned: When
Messrs. Gessler & Olmstead took the
license books Of the city they began making
out notices to those who were believed to
be behind in their accounts. On Tuesday
morning a number of these were sent
through the mail.
THE FIRST INFORMATION.
During the day Goldsmith & Co. called
upon the experts and informed them that
the firm had a license receipt for the IS
which the notice claimed that they owed
the city. The receipt was produced, signed
by Mr.. Letter and upon q comparison OF
the number upon the license and that on
the stub in the book it was found that the
latter called for $1.25 license as having
been paid by Mesdames Curtis & Lockwood,
a millinery firm, while there was no data to
show that Goldsmith & Co. had paid the
city their license.
King & Lowery, the Main-strset firm,
were represented as owing two quarterly
gambling licenses of $47.5O each. A call
upon the house developed the fact that
they also had their licenses, while the cor
neutrality-suspicious. stubs called for
licenses of $1.25 and $3.50 respectively as
having been paid by two uther parties.
Morehnuse, Albertson & Co. were shown
to be in arrears for three quarters at
$A7.6O each, while the firm produced their
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23

peace. The disease, said Lord Salisbury,
existed in Westminster and not in Ireland,
and the government must try to stamp it
out. The words of Gladstone he declared
were answerable for many Of the Irish
evils for Mr.. Gladstone had o spoken,
he said, with sufficient frmness concerning
the integrity Of the empire. The Prime Min
ister's speech was received with cheers.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
Taffy for the Pope.

BERLIN, January 21.-The North German
Gazette in an editorial to-day p~ronounces
it's praise OF the Pope's successful media
ton in the Carolines dispute between Ger
many and Spain, and says that nobody
else would have been able to succeed in
bringing about a peaceful settlement OF the
question.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
Closed Down.

As was the expected result of the recent
Meaderville affair Superintendent Mueller,
OF the Montana Copper Company, yester-
day received orders from the New York
office of the company to close down every
thing about the rporation's works, ex-
cept the pumps. and he accordingly dis
charged nearly all Of the men under him,
leaving eight in the East and two in the
West COlusa mines.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
Spending u Fivo-Gent Piece.

A man will hold up this fve-cent piece as
maiestically as though it was a sword
when he pays his car fare. He will pull it
out of his pocket as though he considered
it a diamond-studded snuff box when he
purchases a paper: But when it comes to
spending it for it's face value in peanuts the
man looks as though he were transacting a
miserably small and contemplate pieceof
business. He glances up and down the
street to satisfy himself that he is not Do
served, and then sides up To the stand,
holds his pocket open, and gazes about
with dilated, bullying eyes while the peanuts
are being poured Ill. Then he hurries away
as quickly ;a iN,sslble.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
More Strikers.

P1TrsBURG. Pa, January 21.-The miners
at Uniontown works joined the strikers
this morning, swelling the total number of
men now out to 5000. The State troops
are in readiness to move If needed, and
additional police have been dispatched to
Mount Pleasant.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23

SAN FRANCISCO, January 22.-Dynamiters
Weissman, koosher and Mitlestadt. who
were convicted January 6 OF having
illegally stored gunpowder within the city
limits, were sentenced to six months i'm
%prisonment each in the House OF Correction
yesterday.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
THE CATTLE
In Eastern Montana and Western Da-
kets Worry Favorable.

Special to THE MINER.
MANDAN, OAK, january 21.-Traveling
through Eastern Montana and Western
Dakota, your correspondent observed care
fully, and can only report favorably upon
the condition of live stock along the North.
ern Pacific, notwithstanding this severe
weather. In the section referred to the
snow is light, but sufficient to meet the de-
aires OF stock men, OF whom sevsfalpromi.
nent representatives were interviewed, and
stated that the outlook continues satis-
WILLIAM 81. DuMxE.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
The Billiard Tournament.

The fourth game in the billiard tourna-
ment vas played last night at Hamilton's
billiard parlors, by the two best players in
in the Territory-Miller and Spinks-the
former being, as usual, the winner. From
the start Miller took the lead, and kept it
till the game was ended. Spinks was. with
out doubt, "rattled," and consequently
totally unable to come up to his mark.
Neither of them made any large runs. the
highest being by Miller, U, IL and s, and
one hour and twenty minutes. The win
ner's average was 2 8-11, there being fifty
five innings. Considerable betting was done.
This evening the fifth game will be played
between Hunt and Miller.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
WINTRY GRAVES
Fatal Snow Slides in Utah and
Colorado.
VICTIMS
Of the Disasters.--Panio ct Park City,
A.Whole Train Covered Up
Near Aspen.

SALT LAKE, January I'll The hrst fatal
snowslide in Utah this year took place at
Park City last night about 8 o'clock, when
a small slide not over fifty feet wide caught
q miner named Thorstrom who was pass
ing and buried him six feet under snow.
The body was recovered this afternoon.
At $50 this morning another slide higher
up the gulch caught up the empty cabin on
the side of the mountain and hurled it
down on the cabin of A. o. Patterson.
Patterson and wife were asleep at the
time, and the logs and debris and snow
crashed through the roof burying them ten
feet deep. They were dug out about z
O'Clock, both dead. These were the first
slides hat aver took place in that gulch.
The families are all moving out. 1t has
been showing hard for three or four days
and is still showing.
oURAY COUNTY, COLORADO.
DENVER, January 21.-An Ouray special
to the News says: Last night George Boss.
the mail carrier between Ouray and Silver
ton, got in after 1 o'clock and reported a
huge slide on the Dutton Mine in which
four miners were swept away and the
houses and new plant Of machinery lately
erected, also a miner on the tennessee, near
the Dutton, was carried away. The Gilpin
Mining Company's building and George
Potter's store, at Sneffels, are all gone.
Five feet Of snow has fallen since Sunday
in the mountains, and the loss OF life and
property will be large.
BURIAL.
DENVER, January 21-An Aspen special
to the News says: Freighters who arrived
at Aspen to-day state that t~wenty-seven
snow slides occurred in the neighborhood
Of Maroon Pass during the past three days.
Tuesday a party of ten men with
eighteen mules started from Aspen to clear
out the pass, since which nothing had been
heard of them until this afternoon when
the news was brought here chat an ava
lanche three days ago had buried the men
and mules at the mouth of the canyon.
The two Hoskins boys, Marion Stew
art and Charles Miller rescued themselves,
but their clothing was torn from their
bodies and they were terribly bruised.
After q nights struggling in the sno they
reached Spoilers cabin and gave the alarm.
A party started to the scene Immediately,
and succeeded in r~escuing twelve OF the
eighteen mules, but up to noon to-day had
not found the remains of the men. The vic
Tins are:
ALBERT SLoPER,
IRA HALL,
JAMES HUNaEFORD,
DAVID PATTENHALL
And two others, unknown. A six-mule
team and driver went over Independence
Pass between Leadville and Aspen this
afternoon, falling and sliding nearly q
thousand feet. The driver was uninjured
but the mules were killed.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
Fort Douglas, salt Lake.

CHICAGO, January ala special is pub
lished here saying that General Howard
has received instructions to make extern
sive improvements at Fort Douglas, Salt
Lake City, which is taken as an indication
that it is the intention Of the Government
to keep Battery D stationed there.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
The PeaOa Of EufopA.

ST. PETERSBURG, January 21. - The
Journal de St. Petersburg says: Tho dig
nifty Of Europe demands that the. Powers
should redouble their efforts to compel
Greece, Servia and Bulgaria to disarm SO
AS to prevent c1lamities, the extent and
issue OF which no one can foresee."
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23

CHICAGO, January 21.-A special dispatch
says that 800 men employed in the Union
Pacific shops at Omaha have heen dis
charged to cut down expenses, ON order
from Boston.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
instantly Killed.

TERRE HAUrE, Ind. January ala
boiler explosion in the distillery this morn
ing instantly killed Frank McNellis and
George O'Herman. and seriously injured
several others,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
British Victory.

RANaooN, January 21.-Advices from
Mandalay state that the British troops on
Monday last captured Kurnah and secured
thirty-six guns. Thirty rebels were killed.
The rebel Princes have fed to the interior.
One Sepov was killed,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
Fishy Story.

MADRID, January 21.-1t is rumored that
a revolutionary expedition against Spain
is being prepared in France, and that it
will depart from Marseilles.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23

Lord Salisbury in a speech outlining the
policy of the Government said that Ger
many had granted assurances that she did
not intend to annex Samaoa. With re-
gard to Burmah he said it would be better
to await the arrival of papers from Lord
Hufferin before making any statement.
The Government was using it's influence to
prevent any important breach of inter
national laws on this point. He said he
felt strongly, because it had been reported
that he had given encouragement to
Greece. This statement he emphatically
denounced as untrue, and declared that
England above all nations desired peace
in the East. Referring to Ireland. the
Premier said that the government had re-
framed from renewing the crimes act, be-
cause there had been a prospect of return
ing order in that country. The experiment,
however, had failed, although every chance
had been given to make it a
success. Nothing. he said, could ex-
coed the patience Of the Earl Of
Carnavon in carrying out his mission OF
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
at Sea,

Boston. January 21.-The ship, Frank
N. Thayer, from Manila to New York was
burned at sea. The vessel vas valued at
$50. 600, and the Cargo at 100000. No
other details.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
A Maiden with q Melting Heart.

A Maiden with q Melting Heart.
From the Springfield (Mass) Union.
A snow image, representing q young lady
in full dress standing in the yard OF Major
Hathaway, attracts much attention and
may indicate a future sculptor, the statue
being extremely we'll modelled.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
A Strike Ended.

PrrrsBuRo, January 2i.-The strike at
Edgar Thompson's steel works is ended,
and work will be resumed at onee.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
With open Doors.

WAsnINaToN, January 21.-1t is reported
that :. resolution was introduced in the
executive session OF the Senate yesterday
and laid over for a day, to consider nom
nations with open doors. Several Sena-
tors are SAID to have expressed their ap-
prevail of the resolution when it was
offered,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23

Lassom's local pictures of the late John
Foley and his wife, Dune. Mcdonald and
others have attracted very large crowds to
the Comique. They are a nice piece Of
work and well worth seeing.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23

Admiral Porter, who has been seriously
i'll in Washington, ia now considered out OF
danger.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-23
TROUBLED HELENA.
The County Court House Muddle.-.Local
Political Pointers.
Il Correspondence of the M1NEk.

Special Correspondents Of the MINER.
HELENA, January 21.-The public pulse
had resutned it's normal condition when
suddenly there is burst upon us the
information that the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
Mt. Hone.

Corn planting is about done in this
locality
The nights of the 10th and 18th were
a little too cold for the health of plants.
Some damage was done to fruits
A. J. Zeigler has gone to Prairie du
Chen to learn the dentists profession.
Harley Handy has returned from the
West. He does not seem to be very
favorably impressed with that region.
No settlement of damages done to the
school house is yet made.
j, G. White and his daughter Anna
went to Bloomington Saturday.
jay Snider was at the county capital
last week
Vincent Lynass passed through here
last Saturday, on his way home from
the Platteville Normal, where he has
been attending school He will return
in the fall.
DIR. Corey's genial countenance was
noticed on our streets Saturday.
Last week our school grounds were
thronged with visitors, as high as thirty
al once, viewing the remains of the ''Old
Stone Fort which has stood the storm
since '6S, but which at last surrendered
to the storm king. The primary school is
now held in the upper room of the High
School building FEUILLEToN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
Tories as Rebels.

London, May II. = Three thousand
men belonging to the London volun-
teers and 100 officers of the same force
have offered to join any army put in the
field by Ulster in a rebellion against
Irish home rule. The volunteers, it is
stated, offer to equip themselves and to
fight in listers cause without pay or
reward so long as their services may be
needed. The British 0rangemen are
called upon to hold a mass meeting in
London tonight under the auspices of
the Premier's Club for the purpose of in
augurating league for the protection
of the unity of the Empire. The meet
ing viii be devoted to effecting prelim-
mary organization, adopting title and
agreeing upon the subject to which the
mission of the organization is to be de-
voted Catholic as well as Protestant
loyalists are invited to join. One of the
purposes of the league viii be, it is de.
clared, to procure the enrolment of men
accustomed to service.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
Commercial Intelligence.
OUR CHICAGO MARKET REPORT.
CHICAGO, May II, 1886.

CHICAGO, May II, 1886.
The markets to-day were active but
unsettled in price, though higher Very
favorable reports are received from all
the principal wheat growing sections.
The government report estimates that
wheat will average 80 per cent.
Corn is strong with an improved
shipping demand. Shippers are buying
all the contract grades and stock has
been materially reduced.
Oats are quiet but prices are firm.
Rye and barley are a shade iirmer,
with better demand Seeds are rather
dull.
Provisions are slow and weak.
Cattle came in more freely this week
than last, and prices have declined Is
to 20 cents but the market is active at
the decline and the pens are kept well
cleared.
Hogs are active and prices shade
higher. The quality is much improved
aud most of the heavy sorts although
the light fancy sorts are in the best
demand
Sheep market is active to the extent
of the supply, but the arrivals are very
poor and common.
FreightS continue active and firm.
The money ilarket shows gradual i'm
provement, and the outlook il more
favorable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
Atrocities by the Apaches.

w. j. Glenn, Chief Engineer of the
Sonora Land Company, of Chicago, ar
rived at FL Paso last Friday from the
state of Sonora, Mexico. He gives a
truthful account of the terrible atrocities
of Geronimo and his band of Apaches in
Sonora and Southern Arizona. Massa-
ores are of daily occurrence. The In
dams seem encouraged and are more
bloodthirsty than for several months,
and Mexicans and their families as wei
as the whites are indiscriminately
butchered when found. The company
sent three surveyors into the mountains
recently and no trace of them can be
found. There is no doubt they were
butchered. Mr.. Glenn said Northern
Sonora is much excited over reports that
a body of Mexicans numbering fifty mer
and their families have been surrounded
in the mountains and will in all prob
ability be massacred. 1t is known tina.
twenty Americans have been murdered
since the late outbreak in the vicinity Of
Nogales alone.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
Grant Gnllntp Nerala,
Rusk, Ryland and La Toilette.

ahuSns anu LII Oiftttts
The HERALD is pleased to present and
indorse the article on the fifth page
concerning the nomination of Hon. G..
w. Kyland for Lieutenant Governor.
Grant County, with her large and
steady Republican majority. is we'll en-
titled to recognition at the hands of the
Republican state convention by place
on the state ticket. If this county shall
receive this recognition, Mr.. Ryland
would be almost unanimous choice of
the Republicans of the county for the
place. The HERALD fully agrees with
the writer of that communication that
it is high time the suicidal factional
war which has so long almost parayzed
the magnificent Republican majority of
Old Grant should become thing of the
past, and this nomination would do
much to accomplish that desirable re-
suit.
The HERALD also agrees with its
correspondent concerning the renom-
ination of Rusk and La Toilette. The
events of the last few weeks have rem
dered the denomination of Gov. Rusk a
foregone conclusion. The attention of
the whole country has been at
tracted to him and the least the whole
country expects of Wisconsin is to re-
tain him in the highest place she, as
state, can give him. Mr. La Toilette,
also, has lately attracted national at
tentlon and commentator, and to re-
turn him to Congress is certainly the
proper thing for this district to do.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
Madison Matters.

FROM our Regular correspondent
Last Tuesday it was announced that
the Governor and Guards would return
from Milwaukee in the afternoon, and
accordingly preparations were at once
made by Mayor Keyes and several
others to receive them with a public
demonstration. The University bat
talon. the G. G. Washburn Post, G.. A.
r., the Sons of Veterans, detachment
of the fire-department, Lueder's Band,
the University Band, and a general
turnout of citizens composed the pro-
cession which marched from the CAPT
toll to the depot CT the c., NJ. & St.
Paul company. at East Madison, To well
come the returning heroes. At five
O'Clock the train appeared at the depot,
and was saluted by several shots from
the university battery. The procession
marched through the important streets
of the city and then to the capitol,
where Governor Risk and Adiutant
General Chapman alighted from their
carriages, and Mayor Reyes addressed
the crowd He welcomed the Governor
to mis- home again, praised the prompt
ness and decision which he had dis
played in dealing with the strike. The
Governor responded briefly, saying that
just one week ago that evening be had
left for Milwaukee without his supper,
and when he arrived in the city he
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
CYclene at Forrest. Ohio.

About midnight last Friday a terri
BILE cyclone passed over the country
about two miles west of Forrest, Ohio.
Young forests were blown down
and huge trees hurled into the air.
Farm houses and outbuildings were de-
molished and scattered like straw. The
train on the Pittsburg & 1T. Wayne
Railroad, which left Chicago at 3:15
had narrow escape from
being blown away. A large tree was
thrown against the coach. injuring
twelve passengers slightly. The storm
took course along the Blanchard Riv-
er, its tracts being strewn with cattle
and the debris of ruined buildings.
Saturday morning, shortly after II
o'clock, the cyclone struck Dunkirk,
lifting many buildings from their found.
atoms and completely wrecking them.
Others were unroofed, and the screams
of human beings could be heard above
the roar of the elements. 1t is not
known how many were fatally injured
Four were picked up dead. Eighteen
wounded persons have already beer
found. The air was filled with balls OF
fire which exploded with a loud snap.
ping sound. The storm came from the
southwest. Five persons are known tc
have been killed and number injured,
two probably fatally.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20

found that the half had not been told
him. A mob of 1000 men had march
ed on Bay View mills and he had found
it necessary to call out IL companies of
the w. N. Guards, who had responded
and done their duty excellently. Three
rousing cheers greeted the close of the
speech,
Hon. Burr w. Jones then welcomed
the Governors Guard to their homes
again. The boys looked brown from
the weeks exposure under their short
caps, and appeared really like soldiers.
They were cheered heartily by the
crowd. The demonstration was good
lesson of encouragement for the militia,
while its effect on rioters will undoubt-
eddy be the opposite.
The next prize to fall to the reform
administration is the United States
marshalship, which has been held by
Major Oakley, but whose term will ex-
P'AS hAo II. LIS SuCCCsSOf VIII pC MT.
Fulton, of Hudson, who has heretofore
figured as liberal Republican.
The G. A. Il. boys are preparing to
celebrate Memorial Day in fitting way.
Most of the G. A. r. boys in the Adj
jutant Generals Office will attend the
various reunions this summer.
The Sixth Battery boys are going to
make things lively at Lone Rock, June
% and "a
The Scandinayians of Dane County
celebrated May II, the national holiday
of their fatherland, in an enthusiastic
manner at Madison Prominent Sean
dinavian speakers from all parts of the
county, and some American speakers
appeared on the program
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
North AndOyer.

Miss Ida Register and Mrs Larned
were visitors here Monday
There will be grand ball in the At
kinson Hall Friday night, this week
Reuben French and Owen Thomas
were here Sunday, on their way to Glen
Haven.
Miss Lena Grimm, the telegraph OPP
orator at Cassville, was in North Andov-
er last Sunday.
Miss Emma Taylor has returned from
Glen Haven, where she has been visit
ing friends for the last week.
Mr.. Perkins has returned from Mime
sofa to see his brother, who has been
very low all the spring.
Miss Emily Wildman has returned
from Glen Haven, where she has been
for the last eight months
DR.. Cory, of Patch Grove, was cher
Saturday to see Miss Mary Ortscheid,
who is quite sick.