, 1889-12-05


holiday edition of 1ss7-s, the other
of April 25, 1883; the Evening Chron-
iclc and Weekly News; Helena,
Mont, Observation-Disclosures News;
Murray, Idaho, Record and Sun and
the Chicago Inter Ocean. No doubt
the publishers of those papers Will
appreciate these copies as relies of
one of the greatest fires, according
to population, ever known In his
tory.
WHAT WENT IN YESTERDAY.
In addition to the articles above
enumerated, the following were de-
posted In the new and larger box,
which 1t Is hoped will remain there
for centuries. Two copies of the
morning REVIEW, one containing
an account of the great fire. dated
August o last, and one of Novem-
Der 80, 1880. A history of Goetz &
Baer In Spokane Falls up to the
present, portion of which was
published in the REVIEW November
"a; business card of NJ. Sellers & Co,
with the names of the firm written
on the back. Sample of marble
furnished by II. Dennis, w. II.
Bell and Others of the Spokane
Marble Company; the card of
George G. Blakeslee, treasurer for
Goetz 4 Baer; a copy of the Spo-
kane Falls Post, II German paper;
photograph of General Tom Me
Donald considered by the firm of
Goetz h Bner to lie one of the
greatest men living; IL coin dated
1881, contributed by Dan Letter
man; Japan penny and card by G.
Christopher, coin dated 1900 by c.
V. Porter, one silver dollar by II. V.
Scott, silver dollar and toy turtle
IN n box by c. P. Tatro.
III. +. Baer, small copper
cent, all he had on earth when he
landed In Omaha from the old coun-
try, In 1860. Howard d Mack of
the Silver Safe saloon contributed u
silver afe, one inch square, contain
ing one gold dollar, II copy of Spo-.
kane Falls, illustrated programme
of the new theatcr Comlque. &. ID.
Smith furnished copy of the Pitts
burg, Pa, Gazette, printed August
IL, fa, containing a part of the
proceedings of the first United
States congress, Mr.. Smith also
contributed IA Russian coin, valued
at three kopeks. RI. G. McCamant,
25 cent shinplaster. Roberts Il
Helme, u poker chip and nickle with
their initials. BY n. II. Kemp,
clipping from the REVIEW of No
veinber II, 1880, containing the his
tory of u trip to Mttaline made by
A, NJ. Mason, +. III. Grote and him
self. W. ID. Gillispie, II small trum-
pet made from the Chicago court
house bill, destroyed 10y the
great fire of October, 1871;
George Gardiner, patent cork screw;
II. r. Baer, travelling cards issued
him by the I. o. o. +. and x. of p.
orders; +. T.. Earle, the business
card Of the Pacific Mutual Live
stock Insurance company; George
NJ. Stinson, architect and builder
card; Archie Daniels, his photo
graph; Doc Gleason, photograph of
his intended wife; j. B. Farrow,
Canadian haif-penny; Charles Far
ly, 80 cents In silver; y. Triplet,
the brickmaker, 10-cent shin plas-
ter; George and Ed. Manchcs-
ter gold coin; q. NJ. Rambo, 25
cents In silver; j. :. Mct'nrty,
United States naval badge; Peter
Quinn, % cents in silver;
II. X. Mcdonald, II contractor, who
is building the Lowenhcrg and 9TH
or blocks, deposited silver
plate with his name engraved
thereon; Goetz 4 Bacr, Photographic
copy of the San Francisco. Chroni-
Gle, containing u picture and the
history of Charles de Young, who
was nssassinatcd April %, 1850.
the Falls City Plumbing Company.
Photograph of Harry Frankfurt
Goetz, born August !, three days
after the fire. Photograph of j. B.
Krcinbubl. \ verse from the gos-
pei of ~, Luke, by j. B. Farrow.
Card Of the Buckeye livery and
feed stable. Watch spring, by
George Docrr. Letter from Thomas
Smith representing the Dearborn
(ChicagO) iron works, who fur
nished the iron for the old and new
FRANKFURT blocks.
IL was the intention of Mcssrs.
Goetz & Bncr to have an orator on
the ground and make the ceremon-
les much more impressive, but the
gentleman whom they had engaged
was compelled to be out of town
yesterday, and the laying of the
cornerstone was successfully
accomplished without him.
Only four persons who assisted
In laying the stone on April ., lssS,
were In thpir plurps ypatar,luy viz '