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The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01
MONTANA DIVIDEND PAYERS.

MON1ANA Dividend PAYERS.
T is fact worthy Of that the mines of Montana
i alone have paid onc-quarter of the whole
amount of dividends declared by all the mines of the
United States and Mexico during the year 1883.
Following is list Of dividends paid from January
to December l, 1888:
Granite $,t.ooo
Montana Limited s,+nn
Boston Montana Copper, ...................... 4nan
,,.," % ""'@". $500. ...:...''... 's"n
jay Gould pNup
Hope Observation-Disclosures. spap
Alice Gold and Silver Mining Observation-Disclosures. sono
funston. .
Total. Observation-Disclosures. .sssno
The dividend payers for December Boston &
Montana Dunston, Jay Could Parrot, Hccla Con. and
Alice Besides these there large number of other
mines which pay immense profits, but being owned, III
instances, by foreign and III others BY close
poraons and individual, il IS impossible ascertain
the exact amounts.
GOLD AND SILVER
II (hc gold and silver melted at the United States as
y say office at Helena for the year ending June
3O 1883, is given follows by the official report Of
Sprcule Bradcn, assayer:
1857. gold
July 50 $,,os
August ....................
October ,sss,. s $50 3
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
Total value gold and slvc
MONTANA'S DIVIDENDS TO OCTOBER l.
ontanas dividend record for the first nine MONTHS
TO ,barin IF sta
Boston Montana Copper Company.
Mnna
Origin
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01

limited supply, are found grouped together When
is considered that this extraordinary combination of
found in spot easy of by railroads
and SO near to the mines Of gold silver and "copper"
it be doubted that with the ample railroad facilities now
being established it will become the most import ant CEN
ter in the West for treating ores and the seat of
flourishing industries.
MONTANA'S MILLS AND SMELTERS
ITl1iE number Of stamps in operation in Silver
= Bow county by the several mining and milling
companies IS follows:
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01
GOLD AND SILVER.

|Tz The gold and silver melted at the Untc, States
1 say office at Helena for the year ending June
80, 1883, is given follows by the official report Of
: | Sprcule Bradcn, assayer:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
CLEAN OUT THE CHERoKEEs.

An old frontierSman writes us that the
first thing to do to secure the opening of
the Cherokee outlet is to bring Chief
Mays up standing in some court and
force him TO tell what he does with all
the money received by him from the
cattlemen. That's one way. But if we
were on that commission we would say,
"here Mr.. Cherokee, you agree to accept
S1.25 per acre for this land and agree
quick, or it will be thrown into the
courts where your claim of ownership
will be sifted to the bottom" If the
latter should be done it is the judgement
Of men most familiar with the
treaties that it would be found
that the Cherokees have no fee simple
title, not the shadow of one. That is
just what the committees of congress
concluded and Mr.. Cherokee knows it,
and before taking the chances of title
and of losing his entire claim he would
accept the eight millions of dollars,
which the commission can give him
under last winters bill. He knows too
that the interest on $s,000,O00 would
to double the money he is get
ting from the cattle organization of
which MayeS Is member
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
WHISKY TOPEKY:

The truth about the awful condition of
the rum racket at Topeka is slowly but
surely coming TO light. The league
| which so long existed there to lie it out
if it took all summer and which en-
braced all the newspapers and officials,
was broken in the defeat of Metzker and
there is no longer any trouble in getting
the truth at Topeka, or whisky either for
that matter. The thing about the whole
matter which hurts us most, and which
must have telling effect on the whole
state, is not the divulgence of the fact
that more whisky is being drank in
Topeka than in any city in Kansas, but
the way which the people of
that town can so syste-
matically lie, at mark as
it were, and keep it up, with a straight
face, for a years. 1t will have a tendency
to weaken the real estate market at the
capital and by reflex action other mar
kets. No dependence can be put in the
assertions of their people as to the price
of property when it becomes generally
known that they won't even tell the
truth about such small matters as a
bottle of beer or a graduate of whisky.
If the thing had occurred in Atchison or
in Kansas City, Kansas, or other I'M
representative town, the state as state
would have been affected less and we
wouldn't have felt so bad. But we don't
like to dwell on a weakness of such
utter disregard for truth. 1t strikes us
it would have been far better for
Topeka to have clapped a figure
of Gambrinus astride her court
house cupola and all her people
given themselves over unrestrainedly to
the bacchanalian life of the average Mis-
souri, town.
The following is the humiliating con-
fession of the Topeka Democrat:
I'VE would inform our genial friend.
Mr.. Murdoch, that two opinions exist in
Topeka today on the subject of prohi-
biton. The pros claiming there is not
an open saloon in Topeka, and there is
not one, hence prohibition is a success.
The ANTS claiming that as much liquor
is drank as ever; that you find bottle in
every mans pocket, in his office, in his
home; that men drink by the quart now
instead of the drink, etc, etc. The fact
of the matter is no stranger need godry
who stops at any Topeka hotel, and as
for the boys, well, the invitations to
drink are just as frequent on the avenue
as any one could desire.
This is the cause of the two extreme
opinions at Topeka. And we think every
one who reads this statement and knows
anything of the circumstances, will ad-
nit that the impartial view we give of
the situation of Topeka Is the correct
one =
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
SUFFERING DAKOTA.

Dakota has suffered terribly from prai-
RE fires, and the inhabitants have been
forced to appeal for help. A blaze which
wastes but $15, 900 worth of property is
an everyday minor matter in great
city; but in a newly settled prairie dis
trict it may mean the loss of the houses,
cattle, clothing, farm implements, and
winters supply of food of dozen fami-
lies. The ''shanty" or the "sod-house"
may be very cheap affair, but it is the
home of a family of pioneers. There
are no millionaires upon the open prairies
of the far west. and few wealthy mer-
chants in the near by towns and villages.
The season of toll and rigid self-denial
which precedes the accumulation of
wealth is all but universal in the terrific
ries and newly made states. And it is
this toll and self-denial that makes the
state wealthy andproductive. beneftting
the individual. There is no doubt of the
American grit of these Dakota people,
but with all things, to the very seed
needed for planting, swept away by fire,
and suffering stares them in
the face. Generous aid to these stricken
people is an absolute necessity to keep
them alive until autumn, when they will
be ION their feet" again,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
FROM DAY TO DAY.

A YOUNG LADY Of New York recently com
rnitted suicide because her poetry was 10:
appreciated
4 LITTLE girl IN Philadelphia swallowed
one OF the small whistling balloons and died
in a few minutes. Il had gone down stem
first, and IL her struggles to breathe she III
fated II and choked 20 death.
MA1DEx-LASE jewelers. are selling anu
lets, said 20 contain crystzlized tear
from the ere OF Cleopatra Happiness,
wealth and good luck viii attend the wearer
Of the amulet, and il WI. cost yoa oaly Efty
cents.
JAMES BAIET, poor coal-minsr Of Shan
okiu. Pa. with wife and seven children,
lately fel heir 20 $3.50, 90 By TIE death o.
a. uncle IN England, who 5isinherlted hin
at the tine Of MS marriage, and repeate1 On
lis dez.h-bed-
One HCxoEED yo1ng girls we're recently
induced 20 leave England for the purpose CT
filing the places Of housenslds row occu-
pied bv Cinnamon Unfortunately fo- then
selves. TIRE girls we're Rot dozes;scsIlY IL
clined, and zzzny OF theEa returned % Ez-
gland
losT Of Tie pupils CT voau~ ladies'
boGriiaE -scEool a. Buffalo wear BIRDS N
their hats, and the cher day so-ae one
Paced crursb q brs<d Il each Of their
bsiis- They were 3 fs1nay -.ss.zszg lot Of hz.s.
sr3 most Ct tie owners wore then o. =
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
the Street before the tricK was discovered


A MAN III Newcastle, Pa, dreamed the
other night that he had a misunderstanding
with one of his neighbors, and the two de-
cided to fight. After few blows had been
exchanged the dreaming fighter decided 20
kick his adversary. The kick was deliv-
cred, and the man awoke to ind that he had
kicked the head-board and broken his big toe.
A WOMAN in Massachusetts town who
had read and accepted literally the news
paper statements as 10 the facility with
which divorces can be obtained in Chicago,
recently astonished the judges of the chan
Gerry court in that city by sending them q
written request to return her by post de-
cree of divorce absolute. she not having the
time nor money for personal appearance
before them.
Five cents fare for that child, madam"
said street-car conductor, yesterday, as he
opened the door and put his head into the
car. Every well" she replied, feeling in
her pocket; ''this is an orphan child and |
am Its guardian. must have q receipt for
all moneys paid out, and as soon as you
write one III drop nickel into the box"
He shut the door and leaned over the brake
ike man in deep thought
A YOUNG lady in Dubuque, Ia, who is of a
somnambulistic habit, astonished some of
the natives the other night by walking into
saloon and ordering fifteen cents worth
of porterhouse steak. The saloon keeper,
seeing that something was wrong, put her
under the care OF his wife and later on the
girl awoke 10 find herself in a strange
house, in her night-dress. She was pro-
vided with proper clothing and escorted
home.
JoHS HALF, of Westbrook, Ga, is evident
~ humorist, although he has not yet be-
come known to the world as such. His first
baby was christened First Half. the next
Second Half, the third Other Half and the
fourth Best Half lie has big sign over
his cabin door which reads: THE whole
family Of John Half lives within A half
family is better than none, bat IL you want
TO see six halves in one hole come inside and
see what Is left Of us. God bless our
home"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
BETTER LET 1T ALONE

| The ignominiOus failure and terrible
er, who undertook to set up an independ-
ent government in Lower California with
himself at its head in the fifties, and
similar exploits in Central America a
little later, to say nothing Of the more
portentious Macmillan invasion of Mex
leo still later, it would seem, should be
sufficient warning to deter even the
hardest, most adventurous spirits of the
present time from attempting a similar
undertaking on the California peninsula,
as is mentioned in the dispatches just
now. However tempting the prize-and
the more valuable the more stubbornly
its possession would be contested by its
owner, the Mexican governmental
would be hardly possible for an expedi-
ton to be organized strong enough, in
numbers and resources, to successfully
resist the power of Mexico, the full force
of which would unquestionably be
brought to bear to defeat any attempt
that might be made to dispossess it of
any part of its territory. Without
encouragement and substantial support
from this government it would be the
height of folly tn even think of captur-
ing the country mentioned, ans of course
the government would not only not
cOuntenance such scheme but would
use every means atits command if neces-
sary to prevent the fitting out of an ex-
petition of the sort mentioned within
the bounds of its territory if apprised of
it in time.
The more sensible course for those to
pursue whose cravings for notoriety or
wealth, or both, would impel them to
such rash acts, would be to go into Okla
homa or some other unexplored or unin-
habited regions within our own domain,
where, by the expenditure of the same
amount of mental and physical energy
and money as would be requiaed to sue
coed in foreign country, they would
gain more Of everything desirable, and |
without the risks incurred by the other |
scheme.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17

Even the Santa Fe recognizes the
probability of the western side of Okla
homa taking the precedence, for it Is adj
vertising stage connections with the
west side. 1t is probable that the Santa
Fe will build south from Caldwell if the
rush is well sustained. -Anthony Repub-
lican.
The Frisco depot at Winfield was
broken into Sunday night, the COM
pany's safe blown open and $50 IN cash
taken. A man suspected of robblng the
same depot year ago OF a similar
amount has been arrested, and the
Courier says there are circumstaces that
point to his guilt.
Farmer McLain, an extensive and sue
cessful corn raiser of Harvey county, in
a logical and forcible article on corn
raising. published in the Newton Repub-
lican, says: Il would advise to plant
none of the large late varieties of corn at
all, but use medium size and medium
early corn for your main crop.
Monday morning Robert Weir. while
assisting in move house at Detroit,
beneath the building which fell on ac-
count of the slipping of the jack-screws
and was crushed TO death. When dug
out, he died in twenty minutes. He
was twenty-one years old and married.
Sheriff Worster, of Lyon county, is
receiving large amount of advertising
over the state on account of the fifteen
hundred bottles of beer he has in custo-
dy. The Lawrence Tribune thinks if he
will announce himself as candidate for
congress he will receive unanimous
nomination on first ballot. 1t may be
proper TO note that the Republican NOM
mating convention will be held in Mr.
Worster's town, Emporia.
The police judge of Topeka fined
blind man $15 and costs the other day
for exercising the great American privi-
lege of ''jawing' his wife, who is SINH
larly afflicted. Its hard to conceive how
humane judge could see his way clear
to such exactness, but suppose he acted
upon the information that both were
professional beggars, and making their
money easy and being equally guilty he
would punish both by taxing their joint
bank account. The Journal says the
blind man had no trouble in finding the
amount of his fine and paid if.
At the Sexton ranch, Salina county,
Monday morning four more steers affiict-
ed with hydrophobia were killed. A
dog got in the feed yard some time ago
and bit one or two of the animal, thus
the rabies. The result
has been that one after another of the
fine 1900 pound steers have become
until eleven thus far have been
killed and two more will probably have
to die tomorrow. The dog was killed at
the McMaster ranch few days ago
Abilene Reflector.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
TIPS ON MANY TOPICS.

VIENNA gets its name from the river
Wien, which flows through the city.
TEE term derrick is al aobrev.ation Of
Theodore, hangmau az TTolrn in the sew
enteenth century.
THE first slave labor within the present
limits Of the United States vas that er3-
ployed at the founding Of St Augustine,
in 1865.
ETHIOPIA is Greek, the first part az the
word meaning 20 burn, and the latter The
face. Ethiopia, therefore. is the land where
men have burned or caTk faces.
BoILrS5 TO death was introduced a. a
mode Of capital punishment during tbs
reign Of Heasy VIII, IN 1881, but the &C;
establishing II was repealed sixteen years
later
TABLs-xAPETSs have been Ii use Ecre
than twenty centuries In early days each
guest brought his aaExin when 6sddea 70
feast An expensive trsz. for Prince
was NAPKINS of asbestos, vhsch were
cie@nsed b. throwing them ia;o charcoal
fire.
HEygr CL2T was known as the NIL Boy
Of The S.ashes" Ee was called By this mare
because he was born Gear pace IN Han
over County, Va, knowD a. the Slashes.
losT, sws-py country, EAsFe tsere -as
NIL 70 witch, As boy, he was cftez senf q
crraucs.
TIE sandwich - the inventor' q Lord
Sandwich, Al English &ristcers.. who was
srch Al i1vs-erate gambler TIA. Be wcusz
not leave TIE gaming tsbaes ard E&e siaces
Ct neat placed between sslSes ef bread
which lie deTczre1 czrizg TIE ProgTess Ct
TIE games.
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American trees panied * Rzrpps Lord
Wey1osth, X tie year f7ts. pszzied TIE
white p4ns &C lis S-csEes Il C1sasez, Gag
Frc-a TIA. cSte. tse tree kzs bsez
csitlTs,ed u E2rcYe r1te- tie Ez-se 81
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
know how and when TO sow alfalfa.

know how and when TO sow alfalfa.
Catalogues of all prominent dealers in
seeds say that the ''seed should be sown
broadcast, at the rate of one-half bushel
or 80 pounds per acre on well prepar-
ed seed bed and lightly narrowed or
brushed in; care being taken not to cover
too deeply. Severe frosts will kill it IN
til one or two months old 1t does well
If sown with a hay crop, the whole
being cut for grain in spring, and can
be cut again the first year; the second
year it will reach a growth from which
may be cut four or five crops of hay of
1-2 to 2 tons per acre"
Some farmers CLAIM that twenty
pounds of seed per acre is sufficient, but
farmers who have tried it say that
twenty pounds does not give sufficient
stand. A farmer in this country who
has raised alfalfa informs US that it is
better to sow forty pounds per acre
than to sow twenty. 1t is admitted by
every one who has raised asfalfa that is
valuable for hay, but is more particularly
of its value as pasture for hogs that we
have been speaking.
What we want is a hog pasture. The
prairie grass of this valley can not be
excelled for horses and cattle while it
lasts, but is of very little use for hogs.
If the EAGLE can by discussing this mat
ter be the means of securing every farm
er in this valley lasting valuable pas
ture for his pigs which will result in
unnumerable fine hogs for the Wichita
packing houses and millions or dollars to
the farmers in this valley our object will
have been achieved.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17

halls and mansions, and even their thea
tiers were strewn with IT, It's flavor was
greatly appreciated, and IL was much en-
ployed in seasoning dishes.
ACCORDING TO a Washington mathcmati-
clan, President Cleveland has shaker in the
past year over 100000 different hands Mrs.
Cleveland is supposed TO have shaken half
that number. The individual who is author
iity for this statement says Mrs. Cleveland
has frmer grip than the President.
NEGRO is pure Spanish for black, and is
derived from the Latin word Nijar-black
The Spaniards, being near Africa, appro-
priated the word TO the inhabitants Of that
continent in early times. They applied it
more particularly 20 slaves, and hence the
English application OF the SAID term TO the
dark-skinned race.
TUE idea Of putting pictures On the backs
OF National bank notes originated with y
NJ Clark Chief Of the Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing at Washington. The plan was
20 use the pictures in the ro,unda Of tho
Capitol at Washington. The denomination
Of the note was 60 be fixed by the picture.
II was hoped that children, or poorly-edu-
Gated people, or foreigners. would thus learn
TO know the difference Of values.
THE following list shows the order in
which the various wedding celebrations
properly come: At the end Of the first year.
cotton wedding, second year, paper we'd
Ding third year, leather wedding; ffth
year, wooden welding; seventh year.
wooden wedding, tenth year, tin wedding.
twelfth year, silk and fine linen wedding;
fifteenth year. crystal wedding; twentieth
year, china Wedding, twenty-afth year,
silver wedding; fitch year, golden we'd
ding; seyentY-iifth year. diamond wedding
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
STOCKSLAGER AND THE KANSAS
DELEGATION.

The Wichita EAGLE is down on Land
Commissioner Stockslager, and SAYS he
ought to be wiped out as unceremoniouslv
as be wiped out the Wichita land office.
There is no doubt that Stockslager would
have TO go if the EAGLE had influence
with the administration. 1t pains us to
state, however. that this administration
seems to be running the government with
out any apparent regard for the wishes OF
the esteemed EAGLE.-Emporia Republi-
can.
And that is just the way it has been
seeming 10 us. OF course its painful
fer you 10 make the statement, but it
pains us good deal worse to admit its
truth. How that outfit known as the
Kansas delegation, who don't seem to
hare even as much influence with the
administration as the EAGLE, must fee.
can only be imagined by such as possess
strong imaginations. There is one con-
ISOLATION, however: while the EAGLE is
compelled TO put up with the present ad-
ministration the whole people of this
state are compelled to put up with the
Kansas delegation or move. to Oklahoma.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-17
MORE ABOUT ALFALFA

An editorial in this paper a short time
since has aroused an unusual interest
among some of our farmers and stock
men. That to which we refer was in re-
gard TO alfalfa and its value for grazing
hogs. This clover has been grown to a
very limited extent in this valley for a
number of years. but it has not been
generally understood that it is a
hardy and reliable grass that is suited
TO this climate. 1t has been no
uncommon thing for many years
past to hear farmers remark that
the climate of southern Kansas is the
most perfect for hog feeding of any sec
ton of this great country. Winter or
summer the pigs grow and fatten, until
in an incredible short time, they are the
large fine porker ready for the slaughter.
We presume there is scarcely farmer
in this great valley who has not many
times remarked that there is but one
thing lacking TO make this the perfect
home for the hog. This one thing lack
ing was the pasture. Red clover has
been many times tested; it would at
times appear TO be success, but finally
ihseemed that something always hap
pened that put an end 70 its existence.
The winter was too cold or the summer
was too dry.
Now that the EAGLE has announced
that alfalfa has been tested and proven a
success, and that whether with gentle
rains. drouth, sunshine or storm, alfalfa
grows on and grows on forever in south
ern Kansas, many farmers with visions
of fat pigs in clover" and We'll filed
pocket books are calling upon US to