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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
Prohibition Convention,

WORCESTER, Mass, September 8.-Tht
State Prohibition Convention which as
sembled here this morning was the largest
ever held in this State in many years
Eugene II. Clapp, OF Boston was perma.
nent Observation-Disclosures Clapp on taking
the chair, delivered q long address.
The resolutions adopted declare that the
liquor traffic is the greatest fundamentally
OF corruption in our politics; that it par
alyzes our industries; is a blight on social
life; is a destroyer of homes and an evil
and a curse everywhere. The resolutions
demand a prohibition OF the manufacture,
transportation and sale of all Intoxicating
beverages and declare that this privilege
should be made secure by a constitutional
amendment. They also declare that any
political party that will not grapple with
this evil, with honest and earnest intent OF
o~verthrowing it, is unworthy of their con-
fdence n support. Both of the great
political parties are condemned for their
past course regarding the liquor question.
After recess a vote on the nomination for
Governor was taken and T. J. Latbrop, of
Taunton, received an almost unanimous
vote and was declared the nominee. DR..
John Blackmer was nominated for Lieu
tenant-Governor.
The State ticket was completed as fol-
lows: Secretary of State, George Kempton,
Sharon; Treasurer and Receiver, General
L. Kilburn, OF Lee; Acknowledgment,
Samuel NJ. Fairfield, OF Maiden; and Audi
tor, William w. Sherman, OF Lowell. Cap
tain George W. Balm, of Kentucky, then
an address. Adjourned.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11

The Washington Starsuggests as a reason
for the continued presence Of Secretary
Bayard in Washington the fact that he il
next in the line Of the presidential success.
sion. President Cleveland, it says, is in
the depths OF the Adirondack forest,
"where it would be difficult for even an ex.
perienced guide to find him if his presence
in Washington were suddenly demanded, "
and it questions whether in the strict con
temptation OF the law his inability to dis
charge the duties OF the presidential office
does not now exist, thus making Mr.. Bay
ard President OF the United States for the
time being. Such a suggestion must fill
the Secretary's enemies with horror, and
should it prove to be actually true, our
Republican brethren would find in the fact
a sufficient reason for the earthquake.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11

OF age, or at one OF her fathers country
homes. From her infancy she was destined
by her great-grandmother, the Duchess de
Montmorency, to become the wife OF the
DUO de Luynes, who was her cousin. At
the time these children, married they did
not number t~hirty-eight years between
them. When the Duchess was twenty.o one
her husband was killed at Patay. She is
still young; she has a graceful, delicate fig
ure; dark hair and blue eyes. She dresses
with great simplicity. She has jewels
worthy OF a queen; but they are guarded in
their cases, waiting for the marriage of her
daughter.
Amiable toward all, she loves youth, and
is always surrounded by young girls. She
has a rare talent for painting, and is one
OF the best pupils Of Cot. Her pictures are
signed Yolande Dalbert, aud many have
been admitted to the salon. Her passion
is for travelling, and she is not a simple ex-
Four or five years ago, with
the Comtesse PotOcka. she went to Algeria,
and if Madame Potocka had yielded to
they would have followed the great ex-
on their perilous journeys. In
America the Duchess will find no noun
tain too high and no cavern too deep. and
will probably take back to Paris artistic
souvenirs of her voyage-souvenirs the
work OF her own hand.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.

Excelsior Geyser, in the Yellowstone
Park, is the most powerful geyser in the
world. It is somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of eighty feet in diameter and from
its immense crater the bubbling, seethipg
waters throw off great clouds of steam
which cover "Hell's Half Acre"-the name
given to the locality in which it is situated
with a moving, revolving canopy of white
which is constantly forming and con-
stantly ascending until lost in the
heavens above. During the past four
years it has remained in this condition and
throwing no water above it's monstrous
jaws. But about the time OF the Charles.
ton earthquake it's great de:ths became
disturbed, and when the unfortunate
southern city was being shaken from center
to circumference and the whole country more
or less disturbed, the immense geyser belch-
ed forth for twenty-four hours a column of
water over ESQ feet in circumference and
sent it the same distance in the air.
Whether the events had any connection
with each other is left to scientists to de-
termine. We have simply recorded the
event as it occurred.
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CAT AND MONKEY TINE.
A Husband Fights for the Possession o
His Children.

A Husband Fights for the Possession OF
His Children.
New YORK, September S.-The Herald's
Queenstown special says An occurrence
of u most singular character and Of an
exceedingly painful nature took place
aboard the steam tender which conveyed
the passengers to Queenstown from the
White Star steamer "Britannic." which
arrived from New York. Among the a
loon passengers transferred was a young
American LAZY named Mrs. Abbie Farwell
Ferry. She was accompanied by four
children and a maid, also by her lawyer,
George Westover, OF Chicago. These re-
paired to the cabin of the tender, and were
just seated, when a gentlemanly dressed in
dividual rushed in and claimed the children
as his. He then turned to the lawyer, and
having accused him of running away with
bis wife and children. caught him by the
throat and threw him to the floor: Mrs.
Ferry and the children screamed. The law
yer regained his feet and a struggle ensued,
the lawyer eventually succeeding in over
coming his adversary. A detective who
was aboard, with the assistance OF others,
separated the eombatants. The gentle
man who attacked the lawyer excitedly ex.
planned that he was Mrs. Ferry's husband
and that they all belonged to Chicago, He
had been in Queenstown for the past few
days awaiting the ~."'Britannic." Lawyer
Westover stated he came with the lady to
see her father, who resides in Lennon street,
London, to nave q consultation with him,
as Ferry had deserted his wife and children.
Mrs. Ferry declined to have anything to
say to her husband, Mr.. Westover stating
that he proposed to have the case submit
ted to the American Consul in London.
Mrs. Ferry is the daughter OF J. v. Farwell,
Chicago's millionaire dry goods merchant.
Several weeks ago Mr.. Ferry suddenly left
Chicago for San Francisco. Then it was
developed that he and his wiIe had quar-
relied. He wrote to his agents. They in
formed that Mrs. Ferry, with four children,
had departed for New York. Nr. Ferry
Immediately started here, but his wife re-
fused to see him. The courts were appealed
to with nc better success. Detectives were
stationed or all sides of the house where
Mrs. Ferry stopped, but she eluded them
and sailed for Europe.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
THE APACHE WAR ENDED.
Geronimo, Matches and Their Band Of
Brother Cutthr0ats Sent Out
of the Country.
Geronimo Will be Turned Over to q
Court Martial to be Tried.

Geronimo Will be urned Over to .
Court Martial to be Tried.
SAN FRANCISCO, September Seen. o. o.
Howard Commander of the Division OF the
Pacific received a dispatch from Lieutenant
Gen. Sheridan to-day, directing that the
Apache and Warm Spring tribes be sent
Immediately to St. Marion, Florida, with
exception of Geronimo and the other
Apaches, recently captured. All the latter
will be taken to Fort Bowie where they
will be confined under close guard until the
Government shall determine what shall be
done with them. 1t is understood, how
ever, that Geronimo and other hostiles
will be tried by a Military Commission at
that place. They will o be turned over
to the civil authorities as the District At
torney claims to be unable to procure
positive evidence against them. Gen. How
ard gives it as his opinion that to save
their necks, some OF the hostiles will turn
States evidence, as was the case with the
Modoc mrauaders. The Apaches at the
Fort will tart tomorrow for their new
home.
Gen. Hazen, Chief Signal officer left to-
day on the steamer "Starbuck" for Pana-
ma. He will stay over at Guatemala until
the following steamer and then proceed to
Washington.
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PLAIN

IT is high time the rank and Gle Of thu
Republican party OF Silver Bow County
asserted their manhood. For years they
have been led by the nose by sclf-consti
tuted leaders and bosses OF the party. They
have stood it like martyrs. Now and
then one OF them has been permitted to ap'
pear in his party convention as a delegate,
but when it comes to selecting candidates
for county or municipal Offices he and bis
friencs were emphatically snubbed and ig-
nored. They might possibly be permitted
to run for constable or some other small
Office, but the 'fat takes were reserved for
the kid gloved members of the party. 1t is
against this order of things the rank and
file are kicking. They are determined to be
recognized. They hold hat if they are
good enough to vote for the Republican
ticket they are good enough to be placed
upon it as q candidate. They are right,
and it is high time they demanded recog-
milton in the counsels of their party.
The foreign born citizen never had any
business in the Republican party. It is the
spawn of the old Know-Nothing party, and
while it has favored and catered for the
vote of the foreign born citizen it has
studiously ignored him when his name has
been presented in nominating conventions.
He is patted on the back and praised for
his staying qualities as a voter of the Re-
publican ticket, but when he intimates that
he would not object to being placed upon
it as a candidate for some lucra.
tive Office he is turned off with promises
which are never fulfilled or met with an out
and out rebuff.
The leaders delight in derisively charging
that the D Democratic party is the home of
the "hannel.mouthed Irish end the lop-
cared Dutch" but when election day comes
same leaders are foremost in the
scramble for the votes of these same foreign
born citizens and are as profuse in their
declarations Of love for them as they are
parsimonious in giving them an office. 1t is
this treatment the foreign-born
are rebelling. They see that the
Democratic party is a party OF the people;
that it makes no discrimination among it's
members; that ~foreign-born citizens are &C.
the same rights and privileges that
are accorded native-born citizens;that they
Ire entrusted with Offices of trust, honor
Inc ~emoluments, and that they are the !
peers politically OF the first men il the
and. They see all this and demand the
recognition, the same rights and the
'ame privileges that their more fortunate
brethren are accorded in the Democratic |
party, and they should have them.
While they made an unfortunate choice
n uniting their political destiny with a
permeated through and through
With the leaven of Know Nothingism,
t behooves them as men, as citizens en-
lowed with all the rights and privileges OF
he free born in a free land to assert their
manhood and demand y fair division of
'fices and political honors.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
A CHASTITY Discovery,

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, S, ptrmher Go
Ruppe, labnrer, was making al tzcat
to-day in the rear Of 1,1O3 5 nth
street, when he came upon an nd
Striking his shovel ITO It. he taII'
skull. Soon after he fou Il %anotlf
a thigh bone and SOM, ribs. lhe%
LAID out on some straw, and the %
summoned to make an Investigation.
lowing upon the rec Mt Easton i
mystery this find created conslde'a.
terest. The ground where the val
situated was formerly covered 1g al
ling Old tenement house. The pll'
known as Pig Foot ali Y, and Ii:
ment was inhabited by as worthless
OF people as could be found Under d
There was no distinction as to!i
color, and crimes We're rampant al
them. The bones are those ii I'LL"
men, and there are reasons to 0tIr''
they were murdered and throwl ilI
vault. The means OF murder do ~.
pear, for the skulls are whole. An @'
CATION will be made at once.
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Served Him Right.

VALLEY CITY, Oak, September b.
Raven, "a young foreigner, who La.
studying law here, applied foradnl;:, :.
the bar, and Judge Francis app"--
committee of examination. III,
night q large delegation I'll cltizes' :
on the Judge with the request fia' a. =,
to practice be withheld from ha'ea%
reason that it was generally ur1E
that he WIS an u arcIist. Nj. 'l-'
ham stated that Raven was ana
the Alarm. an anarchist paper az
and had told them he intended TO-
a society OF anarchists Ill var
Judge Francis replied that ne ha.@
found Ravens views s'ttlsiattoft;
communist or anarchist, II hho'D
be such" he continued, 'can e's i.
mitted to the bar before NE aDu I.
ton OF you gentlemen i'll doing a. ID.
done is a credit to your city anu ~
American citizens.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11

The problem now will be what to do with
Geronimo after his surrender. There is no
doubt that he has over and over again
made himself guilty OF murder, and that
he and many of his band could be con-
victed OF murder in the first degree if tried
before a jury of honest men. He ought,
therefore, to be turned over to the civil
authorities OF A~rizonafor trial. The Grand
Juries of the counties in which his crimes
were committed should promptly indict
him, and then he should be tried and pun.
ished like any other criminal would be
punished upon conviction OF the same
grade of offenses. By this means the
Apaches would be taught to respect the
law and to obey it.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
A PLUCKY WOMAN,

h Defeats q Combination of Men and
Carries Her Point.
BALTIMORE, Nd, September s.-About
two years ago Mrs. Schaeffer, OF Texas,
Baltimore county, lost her husband. She
was not upprovided for, however, having
been left considerable property by an aunt
and more by her father. Most of her estate
was in beds of limestone, She built two
lime kilns and commenced business. From
the outset she had every obstarle thrown
in ner way by those who were already in
the business. They wanted no more op.
position and as they were getting good
prices for material, they feared that a new
enterprise would bring down figures. AL.
most all the ime-burners OF Texas united
in a combination against the widow and
endeavOred to run her business. Mrs.
Schaeffer paid no attention to them, but
employed the best help she could get: paid
her workman good wages, and made as
good lime as anybody in Texas. Her kilns
were kept constantly at work and the de-
mand for her product increased so greatly
as to annoy the members of the combina-
ton, who feared they were losing their
trade. The harder they fought her the
greater seemed to be her success. She
found it necessary to have a track built
from the Northern Central Railway into
her grounds, and obtained permission from
the county commissioners for the work.
She wal attacked by Injunction after in
junction, but defeated her opponents in
every case. Maddened at their lack OF sue
cess in driving her out OF the business, the
combination met Thursday and passed a
resolution, a copy OF which they forwarded
to dealers in Baltimore, to the effect that
any n purchasing lime from Mrs. Schaef.
fer could purchase none from them. I'm
mediately upon the receipt of the docu-
ment all OF Mrs. S:haeffer's customers mott
fed her that they would take the entire
product OF her kilns and if that was not
sufficient for their use they would supply
the deficiency elsewhere. The members of
the combination are greatly chagrined at
their defeat. Mrs. Schaeffer is an attrac-
tive woman, in the prime Of life, and has a
daughter about IS years old.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
A Sarinus Accident.

INDIANAPoLIs. September lin
noon, white a force al t&en were ~.
tearing down tine cid Young wen "a
Association buli!iug, Hrtpafa''* j
erection Of u rev one, tilr sP'i7r IL
inside wall threw duHn the uPF.ss
joists upon which were went .ts &
men precipitatiug them AL ton ,a@r 4
about twenty feet. All OF lil1 cs1
more or less injured but seven at...
in the debris and had t. be eAlL,"ia r
these it was found that 1oUf .I1r +
ously injured and e,hals ia' In.i2.
were Albert Schumaker, OF trs,-cc
Schumacher, contractors, skI'.' a ND ID.
B. Darleth, collar bons broken r r j
nal injurie-: Henry Miller, Ies usrryr,
internal injuries; OllVPr ';rl7'
crushed. The other s"'tre!l W m
H-nry Schumacher, leg broken, lar Iats2
scalp wound, and Gus AieA"N
INJURIES.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
THE PROHIBITION PARTY.

The MINERS dispatches during the past
day or two contain the proceedings of sew.
eral Prohibition conventions. recently held
in the Eastern and Southern States. Their
platforms show that the attempt of politi-
cal leaders to win over the Prohibitionists
to the Republican party on the compro-
mise ground OF high license is not proving
much of a success.
Taking Mr.. Blaine's speeches in the Maine
canvass as their keynote on the temper
ance issue, the Republican politicians
throughout the entire country are appeal
ing to the Probitionists to abandon their
independent movement and to come back
to the Republican party. The reasons that
are urged in behalf of this appeal are that
the Republican party is and has always
been a temperance party, and that while
it does not commit itself to direct and alb
solute prohibition, it does propose to come
to it in the round-about-way of high license.
The Republican argument in behalf of high
license is that by this system the poorer
classes will be driven out of the liquor
traffic, and that when it is made respecta-
bic by being placed in the hands of the
wealthy exclusively, the traffic will cease
to be offensive. This argument is legiti.
mately in the line of Republican doctrine.
he Republican idea is to give wealth q
monopoly Of everything and that then the
millennium will be established.
But somehow or other the Prohibi-
tionists do not see it in this light. They
are imbued with the pious belief that in
temperance is the blighting cause of mod (
ern civilization or az they put it in the
Massachusetts platform adopted day be- |
fore yesterday, "the liquor traffic is the
greatest fundamentally of corruption in
politics; that it paralyzes our industries; is
blight on social life; is a destroyer OF
and an evil and a curse every where"
They can see no golden mean of virtue and
vice. They hold there is no safe middle
course on the temperance question and
that the compromise offered by the Repub-
is more dangerous than an open ad-
OF a wide-open liquor policy.
They also declare that any political party
hat will not grapple with this evil, with
and earnest intent of overthrowing
t, is unworthy of their confidence and
support.
Here is where they stand. They want no
compromise. They are not looking for a
middle road. They propose to jump on
he vice with both feet. Eradication is the
MOTTO inscribed on their banners, and if
here is to be a union between them and
he Republicans it must be on their own
platform. That is the situation to-day
md it will be the situation when there is a
union between the two parties.
hat union is coming. 1t is in the very
ear future. As the Know-Nothing party
wallowed the old Wing party and the Re-
party swallowed the Know-Noth-
ng party, SO will the Prohibition party
wallow the Republican party. The latter
already fast finding it's way in the NAV
I its last born-the Prohibition party.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
A Relief Company Organized

NEW YORK. September San informal
meeting was held in New York to.dav ~
several prominent business men of Char1e ~
ton and a portion of acommittee apnoin
cd by the Chamber OF Commerce at it's re.
cent meeting for the relief of Cha rleston;s
sufferers. Preliminary steps were taken
towards the organization OF a trust com
pany, with it's pricipal Office in Charleston
and branch offices in all the large cities Of
The country for the purpose of raising the
necessary funds by subscription to its
stock for rebuilding the ruined portion of
the city: Money is to be loaned on bonds
secured by a mortgage on the property i'm.
proved at 3 per cent. interest. -"
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
THE DUCHESS DE LUYNES.

This lady, her son and her daughter, and
a party OF ladies and gentlemen will be in
Butte first OF next week. She is making a
tour Of the United States and is st present
visiting the National Park. The Duchess
de Luynes isthe daughter of Compile Sos
theme de la Rochefoucauld, Duo de Bisaccia,
and her mother was the Princess Yolande
DC Polisnac, noted for her beauty. When
the Duchess is in Paris, about two months
OF the year, she occupies a little house next
to the palace of her father; the rest of her
time is spent at the castle of Dampierre,
which belongs to her until her son shall be
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-11
A FEW FIGURES.

While Mr.. Hill, the railroad magnat,
and ''little giant" of the mort. west is il
Butte looking over it's great mines and
estimating it's immense sourc the fol
lowing figures may serve to aid him in the
| object OF his mission and to impress the
fact upon his mind that this city is the
center of the greatest mineral section in
the world.
There are now or will be within the next
sixty days, when the Blue Bird mill com
mence operations, 1926 stamps ready to
drop on ore, and seven smelters with an
aggregate capacity OF 1880 tons per day.
The several mills when fully employed
use nearly 10000 tons OF salt each month.
During the year 1885 Butte shipped 49,
Ill tons OF copper ore, 12,455 cons OF
matte and t~ailings, and 523 toni of silver
ore. The Pacific Express alone carried
out during the same year 375, 900 pounds
of gold and silver. The total shipments
from Butte for the eleven months ended
November 80, 1885, were 235 ,653 tons;
total receipts for same period 1906
tons.
AA0SOAuo1 la oAop0o ! oAASAS AAAA III
Butte, a town containing nearly 5000 in
habitants, situated twenty-seven miles
from Butte, shipped from January l, 1885,
to May 81, 1886, 100, 675, 179 pounds and
received during the same time 993, 1872, 954
pounds, making a grand total of 94O,512
tons handled at the two places during the
period named above.
Within a radius of three miles from
Butte there are 1000 mineral claims 10.
Gated of which 1.4OO are held under
United States patent. When in operation
the mines and mills of the district give EN-.
ployment to $500 men, who receive
monthly about 500, 900 for wages. The
city and immediate vicinity are credited
with a population OF "a, 1000 souls, and
property assessed at nearly S., OOO,O OO.
With increased railroad facili: les, cheaper
fuel and cheaper freight transportation the
possibilities OF this magnificent mineral
cannot we'll be over estimated. Mr..
Hill will please bear in mind that Butte is
but in its infancy as far as the develop
ment OF it's great mineral resources are
concerned.