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In the C0mstock yfinee

Then when you think of the great depth
Of these mines; the gigantic, incomprehensi-
DE weight OF the mass resting upon the
t1mbers, and the travelling mountain in which
are the mines and on which is Virginia City.
you involve propositions that have stumped
the deepest thinkers. For instance, queer
polished sticks, as smooth as mahogany, and
no thicker than my cane, are every once and
a while taken out of tho old workings. They
are as hard and as heavy as iron, and a knife
will not make a mark on them. Now, what
are they? Originally they were twelve by
twelve inch solid timbers, and the millions
OF tons bearing upon them in all directions.
perpendicularly as well as laterally, for it is
only in this way that mines can b timbered,
have compressed them to this shape. They
are found sometimes in bits, sometimes in
long pieces, taken out where caves have &C.
Cured and the workings displaced. No
known mechanism at present, nor in any age
of the past, SO far as history r%ecounts. has
such power to compress and work marvels
with wood.-San Francisco Examiner.
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Chairman ZONES Regarding Blaine.

Chairman Jones Regarding Blaine.
P1rTsBURG, May SIN an interview to day
Chairman Jones, of the national Republican
executive committee, said so far as Blaine's
health was concerned be was as we'll as he
ordinarily is. He said: "Blaine has not
decided to be a candidate; be has not asked
his friends to make an aggressive movement
in his behalf; he has 10 written any letters
declining the nomination the second time,
and it is not true that he will be on the
ocean and out of the reach of telegraph when
the Chicago convention is in session. Blaine
said he desired to remain aboad two years,
but feared he would not be able to do SO.
l would not be surprised to hear he was COM
ing home next month, or that he would stay
until next year. There is no denying the
fact that ever since the declination there
has been a growing sentiment among Repub-
licans that Blaine should accept the leader
ship of the party in the next great battle.
This movement has great strength and will
be powerful if not the most powerful element
in the convention. I do not think that it is
the intention of Blaine to come out squarely
for any candidate. He is only human,
and may of course say so, and as my friend
l would like to see him nominated, aud such
expression would have great weight"
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A STATEMENT was published in the east
ern press Immediately after Conkling's death
that Senator Chaffee, during the early part
of the last Presidential camp align, realizing
that Conkling's assistance would be . great
help to Blaine, sought out the former, who
promised that if Blaine would write him 4
personal letter asking his assistance he
would reply in IN open letter pledging his
active support; that Blaine promptly and
gladly wrote such letter; that it was placed
in the hands of his son, Walker Blaine, for
delivery; that the latter went to New York,
fell in With certain Republicans who did not
want Conkllng in the campaign and the let
ter vas suppressed aud never reached Conk-
ling, who became indignant =: the repulse
and stood aloof during the campaign. This
inside history is now vouched for as correct
by A. NJ. Hughes, Jr., Chairman Of the
State Republican Executive committee Of
Tennessee. 1t will neither help nor harm
Conkling now, but il these statements are
true the defeat Of Blaine rests on other
shoulders than those of the alliterative
B%urchard, and the facts should be known.
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Chew Your Food More.

ain not much Of an advocate of prenared
foods for dyspeptics. They may spare the
stomach some extra work, but it is better to
do that by thorough mastication of the food
before swallowing it. Let the teeth earn
their board, and they and you will be all the
better for it. The fellows in the army who
ate hard tack" had the strongest and best
preserved teeth. What if they did knock off
a piece of enamel occasionally, they gave
their teeth pretty lively exercise and
strengthened the roots. In many cases Of
dyspepsia there is nothing whatever the
matter with the stomach. The furnace is all
right, but it is not given a chance to draw
properly. Coal is piled on too fast and tho
fire becomes choked up. Be a little easy with
it, and it will work all right.-Physician in
New York World.
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The Helena Independent, barring a slash
at us, which is legitimate if it sees proper to
take that line, was remarkably improved
this week over preceding issues. The abb
sence Of ribaldry and contemplate dispar-
agement Of prominent men whom it sns-
poets Of political ambition is conspicuous and
commendable. A man is not less entitled
to fair play and respectful mention that he
is q candidate. ISLANDERS and lies and ''dirty
work" are just as disreputable in politics as
in any thing else. Newspaper men are
sometimes misled, and in the heat of cam
paigns may get off wrong, or say things af-
terward regretted, but they can always
endeavor to avoid these things, and should.
If We can draw the fire of our erring brother
quill until he shall have exhausted his maya.
Zine of mistakes, so that henceforth others
will have immunity, We will be content,
and we trust our readers, who have not been
imposed upon much in that way, will be in
dulgent while We "digress." The Lndepen-
dent has been our special admiration as q
newspaper for some time, and we do not
want to see it 60 down without some effort
to save it.
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The act of Congress which tie President
approved the other day affirming the agree
.ment Is to opening northern reservations to
settlement adds 17,500,00O acres to settle
ment and title by actual settlers in Montana.
It will add vast areas of excellent land to
the cultivable domain Of the Territory, and
from what we learn of it will quickly be
populated more densely than the lands east
of Livingston OF the Northern Pacific. The
Manitoba Railroad Company has worked
energetically and At much expense 10 secure
this contamination to build up local traffic
and travel along several hundred miles of
its line, but the result will innre Is we'll to
the benefit of the Territory, adding largely
to its population and wealth and peacefully
solving the Indian question in one of the
dangerous strongholds. There has never
been . better thing done by Congress for
Montana, for all concerned, than this open.
Ing Of the northern reservations. And yet
President: Cleveland deferred It's approval to
the last day Of his limit. ...".
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St. Petersburo,s Move,

h spring break up usually occurs about
the middle OF April, when all crossing upon
the ice is stopped by the police, and the cere-
monies Of opening the river take place. No
boat is allowed to be launched till the COVER
nor OF the city has passed up and down the
entire distance and taken a goblet of water
with his report to the emperor, who drinks
it, and fills the silver cup with gold coins for
the poor. Then the governor rows over the
course again, declares the Neva.open to navi-
CATION, and all the inhabitants who have boats
or can hire them follow him with hands Of
music by day and fireworks by night, great
festivities occurring in their houses and the
places OF public resort. A state ball is some
times given to celebrate the opening of the
rlver.-William Eleroy Curtis in Chicago
News.
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PERHAPS OPPORTUNITY, comes the startling
information that VIM. T. Coleman & Co.,
one Of the largest, and considered one Of the
soundest mercantile institutions on the Pa
cldc Coast, has gone down in q financial
wreck beyond redemption if the Mills tariff
bill shall prevail. Mr.. Coleman is one of
the most eminent business men in the
United States, honest, sagacious and wise.
His house has been established nearIy fifty
years and has been a synonym for integrity
and solidity. Yet q little item, placing q
relatively unimportant commodity on the
free list in a bill IS yet not passed, has
broken this great commercial institution like
a reed. What, then, may we expect to see
result when thousands of industries and in
vestments involving infinitely greater inte-
rests and the occupation of millions of
American citizens, are enveloped by the
crushing and killing boa constructor with =
free trade head and an English tail known as
the Mills Tariff bill? The country, and
especially California, will sorrow that Mr..
Coleman, around whom the better element
of that State rallied and won victory when
crime and corruption threatened its very
life, is owe rwhelmed in his old age with so
great = ruin, but 1t may, perhaps, be oppor-
tune to stay the wild partizan folly that is
threatening half the industries of the
country, and grateful hands may again place
house on its old firm basis.
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THE PRESENT a11MBERp POLICY.

The Misso,Aidn of last week was in
formed by Mr.. A. S. Caldwell, Government
Timber Agent, that any person or association
has . right TO cut timber from public mine
raj lands and dispose of it in any manner,
except that they must not sell it to the rail-
road or transport 1t out Of the Territory. As
to timber on non.mineral public lands, no
one can remove'it or purchase it from the
government. It may be removed by actual
settlers In order to clear the land or raise
money for making necessary improvements.
This is in substance the present policy Of
the Department.. As to what lands are min
eral or n~on-mineral, the person cutting the
timber must determine, and II the Govern
ment prosecutes the question is decided by
jury. If this is the "plan of campaign" and
the "boycott" the Government proposes to
work on Montana IL Is q fine administration
our Democratic Central Committee has just
endorsed. There is practically no timber
on the mineral lands of Montana Is they are
work one in ten of the producing mines of
Montana. Timber for them is necessarily
obtained from what are classed rs non-min.
eral lands, and any man is, under Mr.. Cald-
wells Interpretation, if be is correctly
quoted, indictable aud punishable unless he
is 'sclearing the land" or '~raising money for
making necessary improvements" We ven-
ture to say there has never been an acre Of
timber land "cleared" in Montana for Guilt
walton. The author Of those Instructions
was off his base. "Raising money for max.
ing necessary improvements" on timber
lands is absurd, because the land is not sur.
veyed SO actual settlers can get title, and no
improvements are needed on timber lands.
If there ever was aquestion affecting citizens
of the United States handled with conspicu-
Gus and Jealous ignorance by the Interior
Department it is this question Of timber in
the mineral regions. If timber cannot be
cut and utilized by those who supply the
miners and mill men, from any but what are
classed as "mineIal lands'' by the Govern.
ment, then mining and reduction must cease
and every industry in Montana will be para I
lyzed. MY" 5"~~"m@ "~#" "@ "
We are pleased to see the Missoula Ca
zette, edited by W. j. Mccormick, Esq,
Montana member of the National Demo-
cratic Committee, than whom there is no
editor in Montana more intimately CONVEX
SAINT with the facts As relates to this "timber
question. in Montana, com squarely and
earnestly to the front in behalf of right and
justice and the Territorial welfare, and con-
denim the policy Of the Interior Department
on this important question. This condem-
of persistent wrong 10 Montana does
not tally with the approval of the Cleveland
administration by the Central Committee q
week or " ago. Should there not have
been an exception as to his views on timber,
lead and wool?
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IN BRIEF,

Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, is serious
" i'll at Milan.
Lord Stanley, of Preston, is gazetted gov
ernor general of Canada.
John p. Bonner knocked out Paddy Ryan
in Duluth . few nights ago.
Hon. James Birney, died at Bay city,
Mich, Wednesday, aged 20 years.
Charles Lyman, chief of the Dead Letter
office, died in Washington, May 4th, aged 80
years.
Mrs Paran Stevens, Of New York, warned
the American News Company against circu-
lating last weeks issue Of Truth which con-
tanned a %scandalous story in which she and
the Duke of Marlborough figure.
A Philadelphia dispatch says General 10
seph E. johnson, highest in the rank of liv-
ing officers in the Confederate Army, has
been unanimously elected an honorary mem.
ber of E. B Baker Post Nos g. A. r. OF
this city. He is the first ex-Confederate sol
der who has ever been received into the
ranks of the Grand Army Post.
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REFERRING to the "triple loaded" sensa-
ton published in the Philadelphia Times
that the friends of Blaine in New York had
received the latter's assent to an aggressive
movement for his denomination, the New
York Tribune says SIT is merely goose food"
nothing in it.; Stephen B. Elkins had not
heard Of any such message and did not be-
lieve 1t; Chairman Jones, of Pittsburg, did
.Dot believe 1t, but believed Blaine meant
every word he said in his letter of declina.
ton. The trouble with the Times and its
ilk is that q long IS Blaine is = possible
candidate they have to keep their guns
trained upon him constantly, and they want
to force an iron-clad expression of refusal
from him so they may turn their guns on
Others. r.. ,
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A Tragedy Without Spectators.

ARLINGTON, Neb., May AT 6 o'clock
this morning fire was seen on the farm of
Widow Freeze, one mile out Of town. A
posse of citizens went out and were horri6ed
to find the remains of seven human beings,
only identified by their stature as follows:
Old lady Freeze, Fred Grateluschen, his
wife and three children and Fred's brother
Louis, scattered in different parts of the barn
among the horses and cows, some fifteen of
which were also burned. One theory is
foul play; another IS that each member of
the family aimed to save the animals. All
failed and were suffocAted suddenly. The
daughter, who is away visiting, is the only
survivor of the family, but It is reported that
the hired man cannot be found.
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If he hasn't let 60 of his interest in it our
old friend Samuel Wilkinson, Secretary Of
the N. P. K. r. Company, may be happy
yet. An exchange says:
"Henry Ward Beecher's "Life of Christ"
will be issued 10 two large volumes some
time next fall by Charles l.. Webster & Co.
Each volume will contain over GOO pages.
OF the % chapters in the work Mr.. Beecher,
at the time of his death, had completed rs.
The remaining three chapters will be the
work of DR.. Lyman Abbott, now the tenn
porary successor of Mr.. Beecber in the pull
pit Of Plymouth Church. In tho volume of
this work published before the trouble with
Theodore Tilton there were printed Is of
these % chapters.
It was this celebrated work the genial and
gifted Secretary remarked during the
Beecher- Tilton trial would "be knocked
than = kite" by the disagreeable stu
alton affairs were assuming. mm@ ...-|
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A~srARrLING FAILURE,
william r. Coleman 3 Co. Of San Francisco,
Assign.
The Mill. Tariff Bill a Cause.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-The Wholesale
commission house Of William T. Coleman
& Go. assigned to-day to L. L. Baker
and Lewis Sloan for the benefit of their cred.
itors. Frank D. johnson, managing part
ner of the firm, submitted = statement to
the effect that the firm was unable to real.
lie upon its assets Immediately, and in view
Of the pressing engagements of New York,
where calls upon them for money were urgent,
they had decided to make an assignment
to prevent the dissipation of their property.
johnson places the assets Of the firm at from
four to four and one-half millions and the lia-
bilities at two millions. The Indebtedness
in California, with the exception Of 4 mum.
Der Of small amounts, is confined to four
banks and two individuals. johnson further
states that among the most valuable assets
of the firm 10 borax property, which is
valued At two million, and that the negotia.
lions for the sale of which were in a fair
way to be c~onsummsted, when the an.
nouncement of the tariff bill placing borax
on the free list tended to make abortive all
efforts in that direction. The firm feel con.
ident that the resources are sufficient to
more than meet all engagements. The
banks mentioned a. creditors arc the Bank
of California, the Bank of British Columbia,
the Nevada Bank and the Bank of British
North America. The firm is indebted to
the Bank of California $40, 900, of. which
$780, 900 are secured. It is estimated that
$100, 600, the Nevada Bank $780, 900 aud the
Bank of British North America 500, 600.
1t Is stated that of the whole amount of in.
debtedness one-half is in this State and the
other half in the East. The house was
founded by VIM. T. Coleman in 1910.
Since that time it has taken the foremost
place in business places in the East. It has
agencies at Astoria, Oregon; New York,
Chicago aud London; also acts as agent for
q large number of manufacturers and produc.
ing establishments and for the principal
salmon canneries Of the Pacific Coast. The
department is agent for several
lines Of clippers to and from Australia,
China and other ports.
VIM. T. Coleman, in an interview, states
as the direct cause of the assignment: 81
needed $500, 900 to meet obligations in New
York to-day and could not raise it without
promises and assuming obligations
saw Eo possibility of meeting"
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REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION.

..............".SU
The county Republican Committees of the several
counties, Except Cascade will proceed to call County
Conventions in their respective counties, and elect
Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the Territorial
Convention as above designated.
In Cascade county the County Convention NAV he
called by the member of the Territorial Committee of
that county.
1t is desired that ample notice Of such Conventions
be given.
The following rules have been adopted for the gov
eminent of the Republican Territorial Conventions in
the Territory of Montana
1-Delegatea and Alternate Delegates shall be cleo
ted In the future to Territorial Conventions, and in
the event Of the failure OF q Delegate to attend. the
Alternate Delegate shall cast the vote of the Delegate
whose Alternate he is.
Pin the absence Of q Delegate and his Alternate,
a majority Of the delegation from that county shall
cast the vote of the absentee.
sin the absence of all the Delegates and Alternate
Delegates from any county, no vote shall be cast for
such county.
Ain the county in which the Territorial Conven-
ton shall be held, when any Delegate and his Alter
nate Delegate are absent, there shall be no vote cast
in their behalf
SDeegates and Alternatee must be Republican
residents Of the county which they represent.
BY order Of the Territorial Republican Committee.
!. SALHINGER, ISAAC D. McCuTcHEoN,
Secretary. go st Chairman.
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None but American Flags.

New YORK, May A. Alarge meeting to
express satisfaction with Mayor Hewitt,s
policy of displaying none but American flags
on public buildings was held at the Cooper
Union tonight. The hall was p~rofusely
decorated with the national emblems. Peter
Forester presided, and Col. j. 81. Pierce
was secretary. Sanford E. Church was the
first speaker. he said foreigners were well
come, but after they were here they could not
foreigners. The band played orally
Round the Flag and the audience joined
In the chorus. Col. j. 81. Pierce and Judge
r. Il. Hsnnen also smoke.
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Raising Buffaloes as an Industry.

A writer from Manitoba says it seems to
him that the raising of buffaloes is an i'm
portant question for the farmers of the north
west. The national government ought to take
measures for the encouragement of the rails
ing OF the buffalo stock. A cowhide is worth
-, but it is useless as a robe, while an aver
6 buffalo hide is worth SO, and as a robe
IS almost indispensable in the northern
climate. The buffalo sheds its woolly hair
once a year. This wool is easily gathered
and works up well into a coarse yarn. One
animal will yield from ten to twelve pounds
OF raw wool.-New York Tribune.
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Ano 1oang Housekeeper's Mathematics
~ aoong aousekeeper Ito butcher-What is
nutcher-Fourteen cents, mum.
noung Housekeeper-And lamb?
1utcher-Eighteen cents, num-.
,,aa Dung Housekeeper surprised)-Is it posi-.
W.. Ges why, a lamb isn't more than half tho
SNe VI observation-disclosures Bazar-