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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

The report of the Committee on Streets
and Alleys was read as follows:
To the President and Council of the City
OF Butte--Your Committee On Streets and
Alleys beg leave to report: As to the petit.
ton for a sidewalk on East Park street
they ask for further time.
AS to the bill of F. L. Grandey for pay
for work on the streets, they fail to find
any authority Tor doing said work, but
ask for further time to investigate the
facts.
Grading has been done for a sidewalk on
the north side of Quartz street.
Two and a half days grading has beer
done on West Park street with a street
force consisting OF eight prisoners who have
done good work.
Filling in has been lone on East Park, on
Montasa and OF a well on North Arizona
street.
As to- petitions for sidewalks OF Colo
RADIO, Porphyry and Silver streets, they
ask for further time to report.
w. PNKHAM, Chairman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12

be completed next June. There il
about three thousand feet yet to be
done. and when this is finished the
picturesque route over the summit will
be abandoned. 1t is not likely, how
ever, the switchback will be removed
as it will be very necessary adjunct
to the road in case of an unexpected
blockade of the tunnel.
There is difference of twenty-scv-
en- feet in elevation between the west
,ortal of the tunnel and the east por-
tai, the east portal being the higher
Leaving the west end of the tunnel,
the road winds down the Green river
canyon and crosses that stream man y
times A more romantic country can
scarcely be imagined. The water OF
the river is of deep green color, and
looking down into the deep pools a
perfect aquarium is seen The river is
replcte in falls and rifles. and simply
teens in speckled beauties of largo
size, which are always anxious to de-
your the tempting fly cast by the nu.
merous devotses of Isaac Walton. who
camp there during the summer months.
1t is withal an extremely fascinating
stream, and 1t is undoubtedly the best
trout stream in the mountains of
Washington Territory. On the banks
of the river. about fifteen miles from
the switch back. are located the cole
brated Green river hot springs. much
noted summer resort and sanitarium.
Chicago Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
SAVING PUBLIC LANDS.

Forty Five Million Acres Absolutely Re-
stored to Public Settlement.
The first task undertaken by the
Cleveland Administration ON coming
into power in 1885 was reversal of
the Republican policy, maintained for
over twenty years, of granting inn
mense bodies of public land to rail-
road corporations and permitting other
corporations to appropriate other large
areas without any warrant of law.
The grants to railroads were made on
conditions, but the Republican party
had shown itself so favorable to the
companies that these conditions were
disregarded by the roads and not.en-
forced by the Government, and the re-
suit was that when the Democratic Ad-
ministration came in it found the roads
claiming large bodies of land which
they had not earned by compliance
with the conditions of their grants. It
made forfeiture of these unearned
! lands a part of its policy and set to
work to enforce it, and the result up to
this time is before us in the report of the
interior Department.. The total
amount of lands restored to the pub
lie domain since March 4, 1885, is 81
S21, 4S9 acres, equal to the area OF the
State of New York. In addition to
this IA, 23S 913 acres have been reeov-
cred by the canceling of fraudulent
entries. making an aggregate of S.
G63, 1874 acres in all restored in the Last
three years
This is good bit of work., and it
strikingly illustrates the popular char
acter of the present Administration in
contrast with the policy of favors TO
corporations that marked the, proceed
ing Republican Administrations Sec
rotary Lamar says in his report:
Nothing can be a surer safeguard in
free community against the donlinat-
ing influences of powerful corporations
and ombinations of capital than a
body of independent small land-own-
ers living on their own freehOlds. "
and the restoration of 40, 900, 900 acres
to individual settlement is. therefore,
matter for emphatic congratulation.
So. Louis RepubEica71.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
a Much-Married Man,

An amorous Pole rejoicing. in, tho
hame of Vladish of Kofmofsky married
n Warsaw girl in his tweAty-seyenth
year. When the honeymoon was mn
he took his yoang wife's PERSONAL saw
ings and departed for Galicia. where
he moved about to a number Of cities
within two years and married three
girls, serving each of them success.
fully rs he had done the first. until
the police got on his scent and he ha
to skip. He went to Prussia where
he was married fcr' the fifth time
Soon after he went back 10 Poland
and married No. 8 at Mlava. That
girl being rich, he was able to take
his travelling expenses from her on 3
larger scale. and skipped to Warsaw
Having obtained work at a factorv he
succeeded in finding favor with the
blooming daughter Of the factory Ian
itor, and was just going to make her
his wife No z, when No. 6 mazda har
appearance and saved the girl. She
did not, however, succeed in stonn;nr
the career of this new Don Giovanni
who had hardly seen that his game a..
Warsaw was up when he again
skipped and went to parts unknown
assisted. no doubt, by the ample funds
taken from the Golfers Of No, 6.--Ghs-
cado Meas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
a POLITICAL cHAMELEoN.
The Mixture of principles" Advocate,
by the Party of Blaine.

The Mixture of 'PrincpIes" Advocated
by the Party of Blaine.
The colors of the chameleon are not
sufficient to picture the diverse hues of
what the Republican party fondly
styles its principles. To the mixture
of high tariff and free trade, prohibi-
ton and anti-prohibition, greenbackery
and hard money, anarchy and GEN.
tralism, all of which are intermingled
in the hotch-pot of Republican states
manship, must now be added the de-
cision of the Republican Supreme
Court of the United States sustaining
State sovereignty to the extent that
no individual can sue a State in the
United States courts for violation of
contract.
If there is any one idea in politics
that has been assiduously inculcated
in the minds of Republicans by those
who speak for their party it is that of
the supremacy of the Federal Govern
ment. Republican statesmen have not
hesitated to pronounce the doctrine
of Estates rights heresy, and only
few Years ago such an exercise
of the sovereignty of a State as
that which has just been sustained by
the Supreme Court in the case of Vir-
ginia would have caused the average
Republican politician to froth at the
mouth with Indignation. But it seems
that Republican doctors disagree on
this question as they do with respect
to the tariff. prohibition, the currency
and socialism.
If things keep going on this way we
may expect the Republican party in
due time to oppose impartial suffrage
and even to tackle kindly to the
speeches of jeff Davis. Already John
Sherman has given out that he be-
lieves twas mistake to enfranchise
the negro; not, of course, that Mr..
Sherman would just now disfranchise
the negro, but the hint is thrown out
tentatively that as the Republican
party gains but little by the votes of
the negroes and the Democrats gain
considerably by increased representa-
ton in Congress through impartial
suffrage, it would be better for the Re
publican party if the negro were dis
franchised. So, you see, there is no
telling what hue the Republican
chameleon may assume next.-Harris-
burg (Pa.) Patriot.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
ON a SWITCHBACk.
Mighty Engines That Ascend the Grade
of the Cascade Ranges.

Mighty Engines That Ascend tho Grades
of the Cascade Ranges.
Your correspondent has just enjoyed
the thrilling experience; says let
ter from Tacoma. Washington Ter
ritory. of riding oven the famous
switchback of the Northern Pacific
in Washington Territory Arriving at
Martin, near the east end of the tun-
mel, st $40 R. M. the ordinary loco
motive was detached from the train of
six cars. and gave way to two decapod
locomotives, which were attached one
at each end of the. train Oae of these
was ample to draw the train, but two
the uncoupling of the tain or other
wise. These decapods are iron steeds
of gigantic proportions. weighing a
quarter of million pounds apiece,
and are the most powerful ever con-
structed. The name decapod signi-
fes ten-footed, and refers to
the ten driving-wheels which trans
nit the traesive power of these
immense engines. One engine. is ca
pable of hauling 500 gross tons of
1,100, 600 pounds of cars and lading up
straight grade of 1856 per mile.
The boiler is the largest ever made for
locomotive; tho same being true Of
many of the, other parts. The locomo-
tives were made in Philadelphia. Leav-
ing Martin. the train moved quickly
/ mp the first steep grade of shout one
I bo1
| passed switch connecting with a
track leading in exactly an opposite
| direction. but ascending tho same stsep
| grade, the train went reversed, the
pushing engine then becoming the
pulling power. This operation was
performed five different times in going
over the mountain.
| There are two switches on tho east
ern slope of the mountain and three
on the western slope. making n triffe
over seven miles of track. The main
line between the terminal of switch
back is about three miles. The maxi
mun grade on the switchback is 296
feet to the mile. Tho elevation at the
summit is 8 678 feet
a peculiar state of weather was en-
countered at the summit. On the east
ern slope snow was falling in large
fakes, while GA the western side raj n
was pouring.
Near the top the road winds in q
circle. always ascending. and at one
time making complete double horse.
shoe. On the western slope of the
mountain at one point seven different
tracks can be seen.
The Stampede tunnel through the
mountains will be 9. $50 feet long. and
is the second longest in the United
States Work on the tunnel from boil
ends is progressing rapidly. and vii
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
REPUBLICAN, BuGABOOS
Why Political Spook-Stori Have Lost
Their Frightening Effect.

Why Political Spook- Have Lost
Their Frightening Effect.
For twelve years after the war the
Republican managers frightened the
voters out of making a much-needed
change in the Administrations
They worked alternately. and some
times together, the t'rebel scare and
the "business scare" The voters were
told that if the Democrats obtained
power the "rebel debt would be paid,
the negroes re-enslaved and the fruits
of the war; lost. This bugaboo
worked so well that one gleeful spook-
manipulation proclaimed. sixteen years
after the close of the war, that "there
is one more President in the bloody
shirt.
The loss of Maine in September of
1880 showed him his mistake. Instant
Iy the ssbusiness scare and a corrup-,
ton fund were substituted and Ohio
and Indiana were saved. The people
were made to believe that Democratic
success would bring confusion to the
GOVERNMENT finances and ruin to
business interests, and Garfield was
elected.
In 1884 both these bugaboos were put
into the field, but the voters refused to
| be frightened further. Cleveland was
elected. During nearly three years of
Democratic Administration the finances
have been put in a better condition
| than ever before. There has been such
a revival of business prosperity as was
not known in the dozen preceding
years. Peace and good order Aave
prevailed everywhere, and the fruits
of the war" are seen to be as secure as
the fruits of the revolution of 1875.
Blind to these lessons, the Republic
ans have already brought out the
stariff scare as their bugaboo for
next year. They think the people are
such fools as to suppose the country
will be ruined by reduction of need
less war taxes. They have nearly 8
year in which to find out their mistake,
but it will not take them half that time.
The day of bugaboos is passed.--M 7.
World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
NEW works. SOCIETY.
Tho Inner Circles of Swelldom Limited to
Seven Hundred Members.

Tho Inner Circles of Swelldom Limited to
Seven Hundred Members.
A census of good society has just
been made in this CITY,. and it is found
that out of the population of nearly
two ting in the metrop-
oils and it's suburbs-only seven hum
bred are qualified to rank with the best.
In republic where the notion is out
rageously general that behavior is the
true test to worthiness. it requires an
authoritative edict once. in while to
squelch the leveling tendency. The
Patriarchs have done the Job this time.
They are an organization of intensely
swell gentlemen who give annual
balls at Delmonico's, and they
put what they regard as their
minds to the drawing of the
line distinctly between society"
and common people. The Patriarchs'
next ball is to occur shortly. Ward
McAllister, an old beau of unques-
toned standing. is the high moguL
Every autumn he makes out q careful
list of ninety-nine otherrear gentlemen.
making hundred In ALL. They con-
stitute the Patriarclis, and they were
chosen recently. They ara assessed fifty
dollars apiece for a fund with which
to pay the costs of music and supper.
Upon them is placed the awful respon-
sibility of issuing invitations, for the
documents are substantially creden-
tials of the highest possible characters.
proving that the holder is lin So
ciety." Each one Ia the hum
dred names seven persons. The
number is based, on careful
and critical estimate that there are
no more than. seven hundred men
and women in all New York quite
worthy of the glorious distln ction.
The separate lists of seven are sent to
McAllister. who calls. % secret meeting
of the entire hundred, to whom the
names are read, and single vote
against a candidate is sufEi cient for ex-
clusion. All of which is funny to the
reader, but very momentous to the
| coterie of persons, concerned When,
Mrs William Aston. gave notable
ball two years ago she extended her
invitations to eight handred, and was
| by her friends considered liberal. con-.
sidering how sacred are the precincts.
of society" Thus you will see that,
so far as New York is concerned, there.
| may be an, "npper ten thousand. i"rbut
towering altludinoasly above them
| are Less than one thousand of positive.
uperlatives.-M Y Cor. Putsbatr0
| DISPATCH
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
RACE PREJUDICE.
Queer Controversy in n Strongly Repub-
lican Buckeye State Town.

Queer Controversy in n Strongly Repub-
lican Buckeye State Town
In the little town of Oxford.
in the great Republican State of
Ohio, the people are in quite a
stew over the question of the co-educa-
ton of the races. they have been
in this stew for some time. but it is
worse now than ever, and there is
every reason to believe that the con-
test will end in row which will not
be very dear to the heart of Editor
Murat Halstead and other pr professional
waivers of the bloody shirt
We have already given an account
of the troubles in Oxford over the at
tempt of the negroes to send their
children to the white schools. The
school board of Oxford assigned the
colored children back to their own
schools. Then followed suit brought
by negro named Perry Gibson, in the
circuit court. The court decided that
Gibson's children had right to at
tend the white school. Since this de-
cision tie prosperous little Republican
town of Oxford has been, in manner,
torn up. The white people are loud in
their expressions of disgust at the YER
dict of the court. and against every
measure looking in any way toward
the establishment of mixed school.
Gibson, the colored man. was advised
by his attorneys to send his children to
the white school at once. The superin-
tendent of the schools declined to re-
ceive the negro children. He was adj
vised not to admit them as the case
had not been put on record. Mean
while, the case will be taken to the Su-
preme Court.
| What is to be the result of this con-
troversy in the Republican town ofOx-
ford, in the great Republican State of
Ohio? The white citizens propose to
boycott the entire colored population.
! A prominent merchant and a member
| of the board of education has discharged
all the negroes in his employ, and
will not give them work of any kind.
| A systematic boycott is in contempla-
ton. and it is thought that seventy
five per cent. of the white population
will participate in it, showing that pre-.
! judice against the negro race is as
broad and as deep as it is in the South.
1t is to he hoped that when Halstead
and John Sherman begin to wave the
bloody shirt they will shake it little
for the benefit of Ohio.-AtlaastG Co,ssti
| tuition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
THE WISCONSIN WAY.
How Railroad Fares are Collected in the
Timber Region.

How Railroad Fares are Collected in tho
Timber Region.
A railroad conductor who used to
run up in the Marinette and Hurley
regions of Wisconsin. and who is now
cooling off in Chicago from the effects
of some warm experiences which he
had in that bsnighted section, enter
tanned party of friends in the follow
ing vein: ~ had been told. when !
first took charge of the train, that
would have tough lot TO deal with.
The first car entered on the occa-
sion 1 am telling about was full of the
hardest looking customers ever saw.
There wasn't a sober man in the lot
l approached each man and said Tick
cts in firm but polite way. They
all gave mo big laugh, and when /
had gone through the car I hadn't a
ticket or 8 cent to show for my work
Ifelt as though l was in great luck to
be alive. entered the next car, and
encountered an individual who was
infinitely harder looking than the
chaps I had left. I said Ticket to
him, and he shrugged his great shoub-
ders.
"'How much did you get O that
other carp he asked.
Il told him not ticket, not a cent
"'What are you going to do about
itP'
81 told him I didn't know.
kin you afford it?' he crowded.
Il told him / couldn't.
Then you'll get bounced-lose'
your job. won't you?' he asked.
Il said I guessed that was the size
Of it
"'Well you won't, he said. Gimme
your cap. I'll get your tickets.
4 handed him my cap and insignia
and went forward The first man he
came to he hit under the ear and
bawled out: Gimme your ticket or
your fare or I'll bury you in the
floor
THE man recovered and handed the
thumper bill.
'"'You don't got no change this 'ere
trip said the acting conductor. and
he hadn't more than said that than he
hit another man under the ear. Ticket
or fare says the acting conductor.
and that man unloaded.
I'm less time than it takes me to tell
it every man in the car was on his
feet with money In his hand waiting
to, pay, and every one of them did pay.
1.-THE acting conductor brought the
roll to me and said: You want to hit
these fellows under the ear when you
want fare
! s.Rut never had the courage to do
it,. and I soon afterward resigned I
never knew who my benefactor was.
I asked him his name and he wered:
~%You got your money, didn't
youP'
Il said yes
Well, he added, don't ask. any
foolish questions
Il saw him frequently after that
but never learned his. name. He al
ways paid his fare. and Inever hit him
under the ear for it, either. - Chicago
Mail
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
PiTH AND POINT.

4
| Goodness is beauty in its pest 90
| tate.
A mans life is half over before ne
learns how to live. :.
Shake hans wild began. an
he'll think yo'er one. Judge.
Some mon dat am de ahkitects op
aair own fawchunes creek mign'y
| crazv buildin' g. Judge
Good intentions will not heiP
| man on his way if he takes the wrong
road. SomerUtxe journal.
"A rolling stone gathers no moss
| but 1t knocks out all opposition at the
foot of the hill. - WASHINGTON Critic
A show spoken of as "a rare en-
tertainment'' proved to be perform
ance not well done. N o. Pscdyune.
The difference between the life OF
an old bachelor and the life OF an OLD
maid is that one is full of fun and the
other isn't.
Some people are as backward In
paying their respects as though re-
spects were another name for debts
TEXAS Sif7sngs.
Some Differences: First Specu-
lator-"Did he fall in with your
.schemep' Second Speculator-"No,
he tumbled to itI'-7sd- Bits.
-Biones. who is still a bachelor,
says that he has learned from expert
ence that a girl can smile and smile
and be unwillin' still. -Sonaervttte
Journal
1t is one of the blessings of free
and enlightened country like the
United States that the law-abiding cit
izen never knows that he is governed
until he gets married.
Landlord-'Come, Sepp. that is
the tenth match I've seen you strike.
What have you lostp" Sepp-H I'm
looking for match that I've dropped
on the floor German Joke.
The Freshness of Youth. =
When we're getting along in years,
And more of the world we see,
1t almost makes us weep to think
How fresh we used to be.
Boston Courier.
II would perhaps say yes" said
the gentle maiden to her dude lover.
eff you had more push, more energy"
II could have more push. more ener-
gy," he said, eff / had mind" eff
you had a mindI Yes, that's just it !"
--Brown-''You're lucky dog,
Robinson. So you married a girl worth
half million dollars in her own
right" Robinson Gather more sadly
than the circumstances seem to war
rant)-.'Yes. Brown-''You ought
to put up the drinks" Robinson "All
right, old man. just wait while run
into the house and see if can get
dollar - Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
THE FRIGATE HUSSA7..
Unsuccessful Efforts to- Raise tho Treasur<
of a Sunk@n Ship.


ola Sunksn Ship.
En- the earlier days of the revoln-
tienary war, the British warstip
Hussar was sunk In the Eas. River.
New York. On board of ~ at the
time, it is said there were EFs., million
dollars in gold coin, which were to, be
used in paying the army and navy.
On November %. 1880. the Hnssar,
while going through the sound, en her
way TO Newport. T. L., struck upon
Pot Rock and foundered. Efforts
|. have been made, at various, taines to
/ raise the sunken treasure and large
amounts of money have been spent,
without success The British Govern
ment in 1894 sent two. briggs DO this
country to try and SECURE the treas
ure, and in 1929 another unsuccess-
full attempt was made. Companies
have been organized i'm nearly
every large city in the I'm
ion for she purpose Of secur-
ing the wealth. brsb all have failed. In
1848 Captain Thoraas, the, inventor OF
the submarine sEmor, made an at
tempt, ard he was followed by Charles
B. Pratt. Mr.. Pratt secured more than
any of mis- predecessors. and was at
work until 1866, when he abandoned
the scheme. Nlr. Pratt was succeeded
by the Frigate Hussar Company. which
spent large sums of money to no pur-
pose. A number of people have been
ruined by being connected with the
enterprising men who were confident
that they would be able to bring the
treasure up from the bottom. Of the
| river. Work has been stopped on the
wreck for number of months. but it
is soon to be resumed again. A new
stock company has been organized.
and more money is to be spent in max
ing an effort to dig up the British gold.
| The wealth has been buried so many
years that 1t Is doubtful il it will ever
be brought to the surface. -Demoresc {
| AonthlH