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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08
TIE SIOUX COMMISSION.
The Indians Evidently FavOrably Inn
pressed with the Act of Congress.

The Indians Evidently FavOrably Inn
pressed with the Act of Congress.
ROSEBUD AGENCY, OAK, June 4.-The
commissioner first council with the Sioux
was held yesterday afternoon. All the
prominent Indians of this agency were
present, as well as delegations from all
other Sioux agencies. Governor Foster,
chairman of the commission, explained at
length the provisions and scope of the
bills. He said that while the government
did not propose to take their land, except
with their full consent, and would pay
literally for it, the commission hoped to be
able to convincs them that it was for the
interest OF the Indians to sell. At the re-
Quest of the Indians. the whole act was
read to them. The council then adjourned
to give the Indians an opportunity to dis
cuss it's provisions with each other.
ROSEBUD, Dak., June 4.-The proceed
ings of the council held to-day were unevent-
full. Major Warner of the Commission in
compliance with q request of Swift Bear,
went over the provisions OF the act Of Con-
gress explaining the benefits which would
result from the acceptance OF it's terms.
The Indians were evidently favorably i'm
pressed and asked time Tor consideration,
and said the matter is OF great Importance
to them and they did not wish to be hurried.
The council adjourned until June 9th.
when it is expected the Indians will be pre-.
pared to discuss the question and give their
decision.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFS.
x. Beidler's Odd Marble Formation-A Big
Purchase of Cattle.

x. Beidler's ID Marble Formation-A Big
Purchase of Cattle.
A number OF sheepmen and farmers have
recently located on Wolf creek. A gentle.
from that favored section informs the Ben.
ton Press" that the immigration there is
immense.
The Benton "Press'' is informed that an
application for IN injunction upon the
county commissioners of Choteau county
has been made to prevent the board from
either purchasing the bridge or issuing war.
rants for that purpose.
Great Falls ''Tribune:'' The new discov-
cries made by Dan Carpenter and others on
Saw Mill creek, near Barker, are in Cascade
county. A new district has been organized,
called Summit district, and from present
indications it is likely to prove q very rich
one. Judge Larkin and several others
have located claims in the new district and
there was something of q stampede to that
point last week.
Helena "Herald": X. Beidler has q 6ne
specimen of q curious marble formation,
resembling q caulifiower petrifed, on axhi-
bition at the Grand Central. It came from
the Yellowstone country g the park,
and x. says he has a mountain OF it. Asa
Tor lawns, rOckeries, fountains,
etc., it would be an excellent article, and
x. hopes TO furnish it to some OF our
wealthy citizens.
Glendive Independently: Pierre Wibaux
has just concluded another large cattle
deal, having purchased the entire band Of
the Powder River Cattle company, esti.
mated at 10000 head. The pricepaid was
$3.50 per head, calves thrown in, delivery
tn ha mod do on Mr. Wibouv,c ropoo poor
Mingusville between the 10th of August
and the 18th of September. There is in
cluded in the deal 800 head of saddle
horses at the same figure. This gives Mr..
Wibaux 25, 900 head of cattle now on the
range, placing him in the front rank in that
line of business, and unde. his able man
agement success is sure.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08

Pneumonia Developing to an Alarming
Extent-The Reasons.

Pneumonia Developing to an Alarming
Extent-The Reasons.
OF Prospect Hill, the same to which severa
hundred terror-stricken people fled to
escape the food, the Associated Press cor
respondent scrambled this afternoon. He
came upon the pneumonia scourge which
bids fair to do for a number of the escaped
victims what the food could not. Death
pursued them to the highest places and the
terror will not die.
Every little house, and there are a hun
dred or two of them, had thrown it's doors
open to receive the bruised and half-clad
~iugitives on the dark day Of the deluge,
and every one is now a crude hospital.
Half the women who had scaled the hight
were 80 overcome with fright that they
have been bed-ridden ever since.
There had been pneumonia in but few
isolated cases. To-day, however,
SEVERAL CASES DEVELOPED
among the food fugitives, and the local
physician said the prospectsfo for the scourRe
are all too promising. The enieebled con
dition Of the patients and the necessarily
close quarters in which the people are
crowded, render the spread OF disease
are almost certain.
To-day, a ray OF light came in the nature
Of a carload OF provisions, and another
from Columbus, Ohio, containing clean
mattresses and bedding, all specified as for
the Prospect Hill sufferers. On this emin.
snce stands the Cambria City hospital, in
rambling cottage. A great work is being
done through the combined agencies OF
medical science and brotherly love. The
woods are full OF suffering ones who were
dragged from the teeth Of the flood.
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
The Hungarian Political Situation-A Kid
napper Killed in Cuba.

The Hungarian Political Situation-A Kid
napper Killed in Cuba.
BUDAPEsrH, June 5.-Leading members
OF the liberal party gave a bunquet Mon
day night to Tesza, the Hungarian prime
minister. Tesza. in a speech, declared that
those who we're trying, under the cloak Of
r~adicalism, to import the reactionary ele.
ment into the government, and intended
ultimately to join the reactionary party
and overthrow the existing state Of affairs,
would not succeed as long as the liberal
party existed.
HAVANA, June 5.-A dispatch from Jove.
llanos states that Cristobal Fernandez, the
kiknapper, was executed there yesterday.
LONDON, Jnne 5.-Lord and Lady Sails.
bury gave q dinner, last evening, in honor
of Prince Albert Victor. Among the guests
were the United States Minister and Mrs.
Lincoln.
PARIS, June 5.-In a debate in the Cham
Der of deputies yesterday, on the CONVEX
sion of the Egyptian debt, Spuller, minister
of foreign affairs, said the conversion, to be
legal, must be submitted to the powers for
assent. "The French government, he said,
fes an examination Of the question of the
evacuation of Egypt. Our conduct may
differ according as we are treating with
Egypt, occupied by British forces, or as
completely independent.
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THE LOST and RECOVERED.
Gen. Hastings Estimate of the Number OF
Victims of the DeIuge.

Gen. Hastings Estimate of the umbe Of
Victims of the DeIuge.
HARRISBURG, Pa, June A. General
Hastings telegraphed the following to the
manager IF the telegraph company in this
city.
BETTER inform Gov. Beaver hat this
mornings reports give the number Of lost
| at Johnstown at between $4,000 and 49,
600. The greatest disorder prevails. The
Mace ia infested with thieves and vandals
who are robbing the dead and appropriate
ing everything they can lay their hands on.
These people are eating almost everything
in the shape Of provisions sent here for
the food sufferers"
BALTIMORE, June 4.-General Passenger
Agent Charles O. Scull OF the Baltimore q
| Ohio road, lost nine relatives in the Johns.
| town flood. They were Mrs. Mary Hurst
and five children, and Mrs. d. N. Ogle, the
noble telegraph operator who died at her
post, and her two children.
NINEvEH's CHASTITY
JoHNsrowN, June 4. - Three hundred
more bodies have just been found opposite
Nineyeh. This makes 700 found at that
point.
This evening the charred body OF young
woman was uncovered a short distance
above the stone bridge. On her finger was
found a slender gold ring on the plate o.
which were engraved the initials K. }: B.
She wore a striped wooden dress and q black
underskirt. The body was taken to the
Fourth ward school-house.
Several yellow flags were noticed sticking
up from the HACK wreckagea above thestone
bridge. This vas a new plan adopted by
the sanitary corps to indicate where
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08
Jewish Colonies in Western China.

The very interesting discovery OF many
wears ago of Jewish colonies in Western
China is now well supplemented by the dis
coyery OF Christian clans or sects in Africa,
south If Abyssinia. These wholly isolated
people have retained some forms OF Chris.
tian belief and worship since the early cen.
turies when Egypt and the lands to the
south were in the hands OF the followers oil
Jesus. Mohammedan;sm arising in the
seventh century cut of this section, and
has obliterated Christianity to the north
OF them. What is left, however, OF the
better faith, is now so thoroughly degener'
ate that it is not worth the preserving.
Africa is full OF wonders. Stanley will
have another story Of the marvellous sort
to tell.
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THE FLOODS ELSE
Millions of Dollars of Damage Done-Live
Lost and Great Suffering.

Millions of Dollars of Damage Done-Lives
Lost and Great Suffering.
Harrisburg, Pa, June A.-The damage
in this county by the food exceeds half a
| million dollars.
PHILADELPHIA, June 4.-Superintendent
/ Petit of the Pennsylvania road made his
way to the edge Of the city OF Dock Haven,
this morning. The principal citizens say
there is no suffering. All the houses had
from six to ten feet of water in them.
Only one person al drowned there, but
several lives were lost at Mill Hall. This
is the first news from Lock Haven since
Friday.
HARRIsBURG, June 4.-Mayor Forrest OF
Williamsport telegraphed to Governor
Beaver, to-day, that the situation is bad.
The boom is cleared from logs from the
yards all along the river front and manu-
factured lumber has
BEEF WEEP AWAY.
The houses of people nearest the river
had been carried away with all they pos
sessed. Thousands OF people homeless and
without anything but clothes upon their
backs. Many people are in absolute want
for necessaries of life.
At a meeting of business men, called yes
lterday, over 81, 900 were subscribed.
/ Dead animals and all kinds OF filth are
lodged on the streets and great fears OF an
epidemic are entertained.
It is impossible to estimate the loss and
damage to different kinds of property.
Five million dollars ia the lowest estimate
on loss on lumber alone. Other losses are
large.
The surrounding country suffers just as
badly. Booms, bridges and villages have
been swept away. The loss OF life has been
considerable. Thousands Of tents afford
the greatest possible relief to our people,
who are 10Y without shelter.
HI GOVERNORS REPLY.
Gov. Beaver replied to Mayor Forrest in
substance: xvii reach you with help as
soon as the Montgomery bridge can be
crossed. I am loading cars here with -four
and groceries, Notwithstanding the
pressure upon our W strlck-
en- people. Put your unemployed
men to work in removing debris and clear
ing your city. I will furnish means for pay
ing them reasonable wages.
1.-THE country is responding nobly to the
cry OF humanity, and I have no fear of a
lack of funds for furnishing all the needs.
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CASES OF HUMAN GREED.

Marrow Escape From Bein,
Lynched-Fiye Dollars for Flour.
JoHEsrowN, June "A milkman vhs
was overcharging for milk this mornin,
narrowly escaped ly~nching. The infuriat
ed men appropriated all his milk and dis
triDuted it among the poor and then drove
him out OF town.
The body OF the Hungarian who was
iynched in the orchard last night will he
recovered by his friends. The monster was
noticed as he cut off four fingers OF a wo.
man. he dropped the fingers into his pock.
OF, where they wsre found when he was cap-
tured. The act maddened the men and
they took him to an orchard on the hill.
side and hung him.
A man caught stealing a gold watch ia
now in the temporary jail of what is left OF
the town. A shot was fired at him but he
q not wounded. The only thing that
saved him from lynching was the smallness
OF the crowd.
Some Of the unfortunates who could NOT
go to different trains endeavored to obtain
flour from the wrecked stores in j ohnstown.
One dealer was charging over
FIVE DOLLARS A sACK FOR FLOUR.
Suddenly the crowd heard OF the occur.
renee and several desperate men went to
the store and delivered -four gratuitously
the homeless and stricken people. An.
other was selling -four at $1.5O a sack. He
refused to give any away, guarding his
store with a shotgun.
Bodies that have been recovered to-day
been robbed by the ghouls that flock
10 the scene. 1t is known that one lady
several hundred dollars in her pos |
'ession just before the disaster, but when |
ne body was recovered not q cent was in |
he pocket.
The Huns attacked a supply wagon be-
.ween Morrellville and Cambria City to-day.
The drivers repulsed them, but they again
A second fight ensued, but after |
lively scrambling the Huns were again
away. After that the drivers and
yards OF supply wagons were permitted
o 60 armed.
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In the Tolls Again.

Dan Murphy. one of the men arrested
some time ago for completely in the Dublin
gulch dynamite outrage, is in trouble again.
He was jailed for the offense but afterwards
released, the proof against him being Insult.
fcient. The day he was let out he engaged
in some more crooked work but the offended
parties refusing to prosecute him he was
ordered to leave town. Yesterday he re-
turned and the police reconstructed to ar.
rest him. He eluded the officers until last
night when officers Waters and LeLande
captured him and when searched eleven
skeleton keys Of all sizes and shapes were
found in his possession.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08
Presidential Appointments.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-The President
made the following appointments, to-day:
Receiver of public moneys-John T. Car.
lin, of Montana, at Bozeman; James
Dolan, of New Mexico, at Las Cruces.
Registers of land of offices-Frank E.
Baldwin, Of Colorado, at Pueblo; Eddy F.
Feres, OF Montana, at Bozeman.
The President, yesterday, appointed
Charles L. Knapp, Of New York, to be con.
sul-general at Montreal; and Alexander
Reed, OF Wisconsin, consul at Dublin.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08
HE STOPPED THE SHOOTING.
An Incident Of the Civil War-Jake Klein
ON Picket Duty Before Williamsburg.

An Incident Of the Civil War-Jake Klein
IN Picket Duty Before Williamsburg.
just before the fight at williamsburg my
company al on picket at the front. The
man on the left Of me, as / went on guard
| at 10 o'clock one night, was q German
named Jake Klein. He was q sood-na-
tured, obedient fellow, and not easily put
out, but that night he was out OF sorts, and
as the rebel pickets were constantly firing
in our direction Jake finally got his dander
up. It vas against orders to leave his post,
but after awhile he camelumbering through
the bushes like an OK team, and growled
out:
"Vhell, shall we do sometings?"
What can we dor" I asked in return.
Take 'em some prisoner, eh?"
you'd better go back and keep quiet"
"But dose rebels vhas shooting all der
while. Dot Wasn't fair play. I belief I 60
oafer und shtop him."
"Well, hurry up" I replied, with q laugh;
and to my surprise and CONSERVATION he
started off in the direction Of q rebel picket
post. / called to him, but he answered back
through the darkness:
1T yhas all right. / make dot follow be-
have herself or pring him in some ~prisoner!"
He was gone half an hour before I heard
anything. Then there was q crashing in the
bushes, some swearing and growing, and
Jake appeared with q full-rigged confeder.
ate infantryman, having a firm clutch on
his collar.
Here vhas dose feller,' he announced,
as they came to a halt. HE doan' prom
Use to keep shtill, and so bring him along"
"Drat the emery Dutchman," growled the
Johnny. He stole up behind me and
jumped onto to me like a mountain before
l heard him."
"Who vhas some Dutchman?" said Jake.
"You was"
'Look oudt a leetle, old Teller, or 1 / break
off your head! l vhas only Dutch 10 my
mouth, all der rest vhas union. Come
along und behave yourself, or I make you
dead as crowbars!"
Jake had actually capture a picket at
his post and brought him off a prisoner,
and did it as cody as any of the rest OF us
would go out to drill. The reb was so mad
he cried, but he was turned over to head.
quarters, and Private Jake Klein had "cor-
poral" as a handle to his name after q few |
days.-[New York Sun.
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A DONKEY AND A BULLDOG.
Terrible Battle. in Which the Dog Gets the
Worst of It.

Worst of It.
A burro and a bulldog had a fight re-
Gently in Fresno, Cal. Burro is Californian
for donkey. The burro was browsing on
cookie burrs by the roadside, when the bull
dog trotted along, stopped, and, without
a growl, seized the donkey by the shank.
bone of the off-hind leg. The borro kicked
and kicked, and then tried to reach the
dog with his mouth, but unavailingly.
Then the burro laid down on it's back and
brought it's hind legs forward toward his
head. He shut his jaws on the dogs back,
and slowly Strengthened out.
The dog without iinching kept bis grip on
the shank-bone. But thedonkey had just as
much grit, and kept On Strengthening itself
out, though the strain was causing the flesh
and muscles to be terribly lacerated. The
dog let 60 first. The burro kept his hold
on the dogs back and in a second was
standing on it's feet, with the dog dangling
from it's mouth.
The burro's leg was terribly lacerated,
but he did not seem to mind it. he limped
across the road, and. deliberately pausing
several times to rest, rubbed the dogs back
and forth over a b~arbed-wire fence until it
was killed. The dog did not howl from the
beginning to the end.-[San Francisco
Chronicle.
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Foreign CAPITAL In New York.

The New York Herald" says that large
numbers OF the huge buildings on Lower
Broadway, put on the tax books in the
names OF well-known Americans, are really
owned by foreign capitalists, who consider
the investment one of the soundest they
can make. Amsterdam and Frankfort
millionaiTes are glad to get 5 or 6 per cent.
for their money in America on q safe basis.
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CAPT. Setback AGAIN SUSPENDED.
The Cronin Inquest,

CHICAGO, June 4.-TheC ronin inquest was
continued to-day. Patrick McGar, a
friend of Cronin's, testified that Gro
min, told him he expected he would be
assassinated for the part he took in the in.
vestigation at Buffalo for the charges that
Alexander Sullivan, while a member OF the
executive board of the Clan-na-Gael, mis-
appropriated q large amount Of the So
ciety's funds and sent men to death and to
British prisons to hide such misappropria-
tiOn.
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As THE WATERS RECEDE.
CHASTITY Sights and Scenes in and Around
JOhnstown-The Purifying Bodies.

CHASTITY Sights and Scenes in and Around
Johnstown-The Purifying Bodies.
JoHNsTowN, June 4.-The water receded
in the night almost as rapidly as it came,
and behind it remains the sorriest sight i'm.
| aginable. The dove that comes has NO
green leaf OF promise, for it's wings are
draped with the hue Of mourning and desc.
lation. Before the windows of the associ.
ated press headquarters lies the great skele.
ton OF dead Johnstown. Great ribs of rocky
sand stretch across the chest SCARED and
covered with abrasions.
Acres OF mud; acres Of wreckage; acres OF
unsteady. tottering buildings; acres OF I'M
known dead; acres Of CHASTITY objects which
have been eagerly sought for since Friday;
acres OF smoking, steaminR ruins; acres OF
there in the sunshine.
There issevery prospect that, as the heat
becomes intense later in the day, the effect
will be
f TO THINK OF.
Hundreds of bodies are lying along the
river banks and under the piles OF big tim.
Der, and the trouble will come from there,
because they are hard to find and harder to
dig out.
Out in the center of the river an extreme
edge OF mass which rests against the bridge,
are the Pittsburg firemen. They have a
stream playing or the wreckage. They are
literally in the middle of q river putting out
fire. Bonfires are burning everywhere. Fire
is the agent employed to help the commit
tees get rid of the refuse and broken wood.
By means of fire the Cambria Iron Com
pauy cleared away most Of the lighter lum-
Der and will DOE be able to work on
heavier piles. The completion of the tenn
porary track and bridge which permits the
passage OF trains over the river, has been a
blessing, for it allows men to work much
faster than before and get the tools and
material closer at hand.
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THE DAM As A DEATH-TRAP.
A Sad Conflict of Statements-The Dam
Had Been Condemned.

A Sad Conflict of Statements-The Dam
Had Been Condemned.
JoHNsrowN, June Al notice that the
secretary of the South Fork Fishing club
said yesterday that the club had not filed
an indemnity bond as it Was claimed by a
citizen OF Edensburg that complaints had
never been made about the safety OF the
dam by any of Johnstown's citizens. He
10 undoubtedly correct as to the bond, but
Is misleading as to the second part OF his
statement.
There is not the shadow OF q doubt but
mat the citizens OF Cambria county had
frequently complained off the dam as con-
Structed, aud very vigorous efforts were
made to put a stop to the work. 1t is true
tae leader in this movement was not q citi-
Sn Of Johnstown, but he was and il a large
alne-oWner in Cambria county. His mine
sOlolns the reservoir property. He related
20 Saturday, the story OF his labors in
we effort to protect the lives and property
@lhe people in that valley. de was ire
SSuently on the spot, and his W engineer
Inspected the work. He says the embank,
SSsat was principally OF shale and clay and
STRAW WAS 8
stop the leaking OF water. While the
"Otk was going on he called on the sheriff
|Vambria county and told him il was his
Su'y to apply to the court for an iniunc
sOn. The sheriff promised to give the mat
"a MS attention, but instead OF going be
0e a court, he went to the Cambria Iror
~upany for consultation. An employ.
SEss sent up to make an inspection and al
~sreport was not favorable to the reser
hr work, the sheriff went no farther, bu'
t% S gentleman referred to said he had mo-
sSued to make public his protest at tn
%@e' and to renew it frequently. This re
~@mendation for On injunction and pro
%sS were spoken Of by citizens OF Altoon,
~ hackReyed subject. Its confirmation
~Ss certainly had at South Fork, Cone
laugh, Millvale and Johnstown on tina
H%s4i Friday. Runors were prevalent Of
SsSk at these places early in the day, but
I1ne citizens remarked, such rumor wa
familiar incident OF annual freshets. /
THE OLD sToEY OF WOLF, WOLF"
tney gave up the first floors to the waite
SuO retired upstairs to wait until the rive
S,uOuid recede, as they had done often b.
%'s' scouting the oft-told story Of tn
NTTs1klng OF the reservoir.
NAS reader will note the remarkable con
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tho petween that shaIe and clay story Of
rbi; niue,owner referred to above, and the
neao, who had charge OF the construction.
that the masonry was solid -gran;ta ana
limestone and was believed to be A. endur-
ing as the pyramids Of Egypt. The awful
calamity would seem to confirm The alleoa.
ZION o. the use OF unfit material in the cor.
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Notice to Committees.

The members OF the various subscription
committees appointed Tuesday evening to
solicit contributions for the Pennsylvania
food sufferers, are requested to meet at
nv Office this afternoon at 1:3O O'Clock to
close up the matter and make final reports.
W. r. KENYON Chairman.