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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-03-01
AT WASHINGTON
Gen. Harrison Beset by an Army of
Callers From All Over
the Country.
President Cleveland Forgets Himself
and Signs the Mrs. Sheridan
Pension Bill.
A Minneapolis Lawyer Said to be
After Warden Glidden of
Sioux Falls. ..
A Busy Day for Harrison.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-This has been a
very busy day with Harrison. There was
constant stream of visitors to the parlors
Notwithstanding the weather was ex-
tremely wet. slushy and disagreeable.
Among the callers were G. c. Moody and
A. j. Edgerton, of Dakota. The cabinet
gossip was the theme everywhere. Blaine
and Window are given places by all. The
general impression is that beyond two or
three places nothing is settled. Some Cali
fornians think the slope will get place
for Estee or Swift of California, or Gov.
Moody, of Oregon. A new possibility de-
veloped in the person of Con-
gresham Coggswell, of Massachu-
sets. 1t is thought Wana-
maker and Noble are only probabilities.
The New York Platt and Miller factions
are greatly harrassing Harrison, both
wanting cabinet positions. 1t is asserted
w. n, H. Miller of Indiana is sure of a
place.
While the President and Mrs. Cleveland
were entertaining General and Mrs. Harri-
son at dinner Colonel Lamont was initiat-
Ing Colonel Halford into the mysteries of
the official side of the executive mansion.
The information the former gentleman was
able to impart will be of the greatest SER
vice to his successor.
The Indiana republican congressman
called in body to-day on the president
elect and were received by General and
Mrs. Harrison. The Illinois delegation
will call tomorrow.
WILL KNOCK Villas OUT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Congressman
John Lind is quoted as saying: "Vilas'
scheme for consolidating the land offices
in Minnesota will fall through. I say this
| with positive knowledge that it will
amount to nothing and want the people
of Minnesota, all Of whom are interested
more or less, to know that the consOlida-
ton will not take place."
MIR. AND MRS. MORTON ARRIVE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Vice- President
elect Morton and Mrs. Morton arrived here
this afternoon. They are stopping at tn e
Arlington.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-03-01

GEN. HARRISON SAID.
My good friends and neighbors, can
not trust myself to put in words what I
feel at this time. Every kind thought that
is in your minds and every good wish that
is in your hearts for me finds its responsive
se sRd thought my Rs %na and ass
been nay own cherished home. Twice be-
fore have left It to discharge public
duties and returned to 1t with gla0ness as 1
hope to do again. It is q city on whose
streets the pompous display of wealth are
not seen; It Is full Of pleasant homes and
In these homes there is an unusual store Of
contentment. The memory of your favor
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

HENDERSON, Of Omaha, Nebraska,
seems to have known whereof he spoke,
when, a few days ago, he declared it
would not be necessary for him to leave
Washington and go home to look after
his chances for reelection, as there was
no doubt about it all. The Nebraska
Legislature, yesterday, reelected him
United States Senator. Does Charles F.
Henderson carry Nebraska in his vest
pocket ? And where was Van Wyck, Gen.
Charles FL He made Of the most
gallant fights for the benefit Of the peo-
pie ever made in the U. s. Senate. And
yet, for doing this, he was left at home,
and Paddock put in his place, which
illustrates the difference between favor
ing the people and the corporations.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM OIL
VOTING.

The AUSTRALIAN SfSIEM OE
VOTING.
The Australian system Of voting
seems to be commencing itself to all
who give it attention. It is referred to
favorably by Governor Leslie in his
message to the Legislature, and almost
every one believes it would be a means
of securing greater purity in elections.
THE MINER cheerfully gives room to
the following editorial on this subject
from the Boulder "Age," the Hon. Will
Kennedy's paper:
During the present week blank petitions
asking the Montana Legislature to enact
as the territorial law the main features oil
what is known as the Australian system oil
voting, will be sent to every postmaster in
the territory for circulation. The petition
is accompanied BY q description OF the
system, so that no man need be ignorant
of the nature CT the petition be is asked
to sign. 1t is hoped that every man in
Montana who is interested in electoral re-
form will read the explanation Of the sys-
tenn. and IL he approves the plan will sign
the petition and ask others to sign it.
There is no practical measure which will
effect such a radical reform in elections as
this, and a slight effort on the part OF those
Interested in securing and maintaining the
purity Of the ballot-box will certainly
bring about the desired end.
This is a matter that interests every
voter and every citizen. Electoral re-
form is needed in Montana as much as
anywhere. The sooner it COMES the
better.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
THE "HOLIDaYM MINER"
What the Critics Have to say About this
Magnificent Publication.

What the Critics Have to say About this
Magnificent Publication.
From the Salt Lake Tribune: The
HOLIDAY MINER issued by the MINER Pub
fishing Company of Butte, Montana, is
superior to the holiday edition of any
other journal, east or west, that has
reached this Office. 1t is printed on fine
book paper, with illuminated covers and
geographically it is equal to the best
work of the Eastern magazines. 1t con-
tains 100 pages devoted entirely to Mon
tana; to her mines, business enterprises,
Improvement, etc. There is no padding.
1t is terse and business-like, and abounds
in interesting statistics.
A list of the heavy tax payers Of Silver
| Bow county is something marvellous when
we reflect what was there a short decade OF
years ago. There are $50 who pay taxes
on more Than $4,000 each, while some 60
I'D into the hundreds OF thousands. The
number of great enterprises described is in
excess OF any territory of the same age
that ever existed. There is, through all, a
buoyant, hopeful tone which indicate that
the tide of prosperity is in full flow in the
territory. The browning glory OF the
edition is the illustration OF hoisting
and reduction works, fine business struc.
lures, private residences and public build.
ings, with here and there a dash OF natural
scenery. There is one picture of a thor
oughbred colt which is a clear Indication
that Montana means not only to have the
biggest mines but the finest horses n~the
country.
The edition is an immense credit to the
publishers, and it moreover reflects won
derful credit upon Montana; for in none
but progressive regions car publishers OBJ
ton.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

THERE is objection in as well as out of
Utah to the admission of that Territory
to statehood. 1t would seem, however,
that it is fighting chaff. There is not
much danger Of Utah being admitted.
Indeed, an indication that any of the ter
ritories are likely to be admitted would
be reassuring. But with nearly every
member of Congress apparently in favor
of the admission Of all the other terri
tories, which, nevertheless, fail to get
there, makes assurance doubly sure that
Utah, whose admission nearly all seem to
oppose, is not likely to come in, eyen by
the back door. So do not lie awake nights,
good gentiles, over any probability Of
statehood for Utah.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
Death of #. o, LinfOrth,

The news was received yesterday of the
death Of Frank o. Linforth at Philips
burg. His death occurred on Monday
evening OF pneumonia to which he sue
eumbed after only four days sickness. He
was we'll known in Butte where he had
many warm friends who sincerely mourn
his loss. He formerly occupied b deposition
of assayer at the Alice and also at the
Anaconda. About q year ago he went to
Philipsburg where he has been assayer and
mill man at the Hope. He was selected to
take charge OF the new Bi-Metallic mill on
the LIST OF next month. He was a young
nan about 35 and leaves a widow. His
life was insured in one of the companies for
which Frank Marsh is agent. Last even.
ing Mr.. Siegel received a dispatch to the
effect that the body of the deceased will be
taken to-day to San Francisco, where the
families OF his wife and himself reside, Tor
burial. Mr.. and Mrs. Siegel will leave by
the morning train for Drummond to meet
the remains and pay their last tribute OF
respect, being warm friends of the deceased.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
The Maid and Her Alarm Clock,

From the Chicago Herald" A week ago
last Saturday night a servant girl, whose
family were out OF town, went round to
spend the night with a domestic chum. As
she desired to attend early next morning
she took her alarm clock along with her.
in order that she might not oversleep her
self. The clock was set to give the alarm
at an early hour, but about daybreak the
visiting servant girl awoke suddenly. She
supposed that the alarm clock had aroused
her. She called the other girl and both
proceeded to dress hurriedly. They started
for st. Malacy's church, and as the visiting
girl desired to 60 directly home from the
service, she put her alarm clock in her
pocket. The girls reached the church on
time. and when both were knee ing at the
beginning of the service the alarm clock
reached it's hour and went off with a ter.
rible din, much to the modification OF it's
owner and her friend.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

The Governors Recommendations Endorsed
Changes That should Be Made.

The Governors Recommendations Endorsed
Changes That Should BE Made.
That portion of the Governors message,
published in a special edition by The MINER
yesterday, which refers to inquests in cases
of alleged insanity struck Probate Clerk
Sproule as peculiarly appropriate yester-
day. The gentleman has had a long ex-
p~erience in the Probate Court and is
BILE OF passing a competent judgment on
the subject. The Governor refers to the
present system OF insanity lnquests, as
they are called, as q fit subject for legisla-
ton, and recommends that every possible
safeguard be thrown around the act OF de-
priving a human being OF his or her liberty.
For such it is, he says, and such it is in
fact, and he refers to the numerous cases
that have come to light where relatives
have immured their own kith and kin from
mercenary objects.
He recommends that 1.-THE present law
should be amended, SO that no person shall
| be put upon trial under this charge until
the county attorney or some other lawyer,
| skilled and able in the profession, is pro-
vided, and is present to assist the accused,
and guard against abuses such as those to
| which l have referred. [ further recon-
| mend that no less than twelve citizen
housekeepers be the jury to hear the evil
| denee and pass upon the question OF the
| alleged insanity. This is the provision
| made by law for all who are arraigned upon
a criminal charge, both as to counsel and
| the jury. And why not guard liberty and
| free locomotion as well to one accused OF
insan ty as to the criminal? A conviction
in Ell, her case is the loss OF liberty and i'm
| prisonment."-
Referring to this Probate Clerk Sproule
| said in his own experience such a provision
would have saved many a person from be-
ing improperly sent to the asylum, not
only from motives OF greed, but simply to
make them a charge on the public. HI
stated he knew instances where people in
full possession of their faculties had beer
sent under the present system to the asy
Ium Just to have them supported. "a
case occurred in the court the other day.
said he, (which was fortunately nipped in
the bud. The person alleged to be insane
was found to be simply ignorant of thu
language. She wasn't violent-needed nc
restraint was able to take care of herself
and yet her relatives wanted the public tC
, take care OF her. Ii such a law were passed
as the Governor recommends there wOult
be fewer unnecessary attempts to sent
people to the asylum. A PERSONS hbert.
cannot be surrounded with too many safe
guards and such a method of procedure
would also be a safeguard on the publ
treasury.n
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
n~EoU1sIne LEeIsLAr1rE ACTION.
A Matter for the City Council to Callto the
Attention of the Legislature.

A Matter for the City Council to Call to the
Attention of the Legislature.
This evening the City Council will meet in
regular session. There is no business OF i'm
portanre remaining over from previous SEES
sions. But little of consequence is to come
up 80 far as known. but n Alderman
stated yesterday that he intended to intro
duce q resolution with a view to calling to
the attention of the Legislature tho neces-
sity OF passing a law to deal with the opium
question. sit is not right" said he, "that
the police should have SO much trouble
with these opium fends. The law re-
qires to be radically remedied. As it
now stands it is very hard to pro-
cure a conviction, owing to the freedom it
gives to individuals to smoke or use
| opium in their own house. OF course,
| there is the constitutional question of the
freedom of the citizen involved in the mai
| ter that complexities the subject. But l
| hold that the smoking OF opium should be
| classed as a crime against society and the
| individual caught in the act or in the pos.
session OF the materials for smoking should
| be sufficient to procure a conviction.
tThen there is the indiscriminate sale OF
morphine as at present carried on. That
/ is wrong, and there is no doubt that the
| Legislature ought to have its attention
drawn to the subject with a view OF sur
rounding the sale with the same safeguards
as obtain nearly everywhere else in the coun'
try. I think the Council should take action
in the matter and memorabilia the Legisla-
trre calling attention to the dangers OF the
present practice and asking for its suppress
| siOn.b
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

DISPATCHES from The Hague report
that the general idea there is that the
Netherlands King William Ill, Grand
Duke Of Luxembourg, is dying, and the
utmost anxiety is felt about his sue.
cessor. He was born in 1917. The sue
cession will probably fall upon Adolph,
Duke of Nassau, but it is anticipated
that the King of Prussia, the young En-
peror William Of Germany, may appro.
pirate the responsibilities, on the ground
Of ancient claims to the Orange heirship
which the Kings of Prussia asserted uI
to the time of the pragmatic sanction Of
1874, issued by Charles VI, Emperor Of
Germany, which secured the throne t.
his daughter, Maria Theresa.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
JIM GIVEANS AS BLUDSO.

Wa'al, no, I can't tell yer whar he lives,
Becaze he don't live, yer see.
But wbar We been, these last three years,
AS yer never heard tell,
How Jim Bludso passed in his checks,
The night O. the Prairie Bell?
He warn't no saint!
These engineers is purity much all alike
One wife in Matches, under the hill,
An another one here in Pike.
A careless man in his speech was Jim,
But an awkward one in a row,
For he never funk, an he never lied
An | reckon as he never knowed how.
This was all the religion Jim had
To treat his engine well,
Never to be passed on the river,
And to mind the pilots bell.
An a thousand times Jim swore
| That if ever the Belle took fire,
He'd hold her bow agin the bank
Till the last soul got ashore.
All boats has to have their day, on the
Mississippi, you know,
And the Bellies day come at last.
The Movistar was a better boat,
But the Belle, she wouldn't be PASSED!
An so came tearin' along that night
The fastest craft on the line,
| With a niger a'squat on her safety valve,
An her furnaces crammed wi resin and
pine.
A fire broke out as she cleared the bar
And burned a hole in the night.
Quick as a flash Jim turned, and made
For the wii!er, bank on the right.
There was ~runnin' an %cussin', but Jim
yelled out,
Above all the Internal roar:
"IIl hold her nozzle agin the bank
Till the last galloot's ashore!"
Through the hot, blackb reath of the burn.
in boat
Jim Bludso's voice was heard,
And they all had trust in his cussedness,
For they knowed he'd keep his word.
And. sure's your born, they all got off
Afore the smokestacks fell,
But Jim Bludso's ghost went up, alone,
In the smoke OF the Prairie Belle.
He weren't no saint, but at judgment
I'd run my chances with Jim,
Longside some ious gentleman
As wouldn't shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, dead sure,
An made for it, thar and then;
And Christ amt a goin' to be too hard
On a man that died for men.
John Hay.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
The Meaderville Disaster Lottery.

The committee appointed to solicit cub
scriptions for the families OF the sufferers
by the Meaderville disaster are out selling
tickets for the lottery which is to take
place next Saturday evening. They ought
to meet with a ready response from every
one to whom they appeal as there never
were two widows more suddenly and awfully
bereaved than Mrs. Edmunds and Mrs.
O'Connor. John Mcguire has rendered the
committees in charge Of the lottery that
has been devised for their benefit, the use OF
his theater at Turner Hall, where, at 8
O'Clock or Saturday night, the drawing will
take place in the presence OF all who choose
to be present.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
BETWEEN SAMOA and PANAMA.
United States Vessels Kept on the Alert
Between the Two Ports.

United States Vessels Kept on the Alert
Between the Two Ports.
WASHINGTON, January 15.-The Secre-
tary OF the Navy has issued instructions
to Rear Admiral Kimberly, commanding
the Pacific station, to proceed in the
steamer Trenton to Samoa for the pur-
pose OF protecting American interests on
those islands. The Trenton was at Pana-
ma at last accounts watching the progress
OF events on the lsthmus. She will be re-
lieved at Panama by the Vandalia, and
probably the Mohicken, now fitting out at
San Francisco, and the United States
steamer Atlanta. now fitting out at New
York, will be ordered to take stations on
the other side by Aspinwall. There is con.
siderable apprehension OF trouble on the
Isthmus, and it has been deemed advisable
to have ~somesvessels there as soon as DOS
sible.
WASHINGTON, January 15.-Consul Gen.
eral Sewell was before the Senate court on
foreign relations yesterday, and continued
his recital of events of the past year or
two on the Samoan Islands. He was in
terogated with particular reference to
communications that passed between him
self and the state department with regard
to his afforts to protect American interests
on the islands.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
A NARROW VALE.

Life is O narrow vale between the cold
And barren peaks of two eternities.
We strive in vain to look beyond the
heights,
We cry aloud; the only answer
Is the echo OF our wailing cry.
From the voiceless lips of the %unreplyine
dead
There comes no word, but in the night oil
death
Hope sees a star, and listening love can
zeal
The rustic of a wing.
These myths were born of hopes and fears
and tears
And smiles; and they were touched and
colored
BY sll there is OF joy and grief between
The rosy dawn OF birth. and deaths sad
hight.
They clothed even the stars with passion,
And gave to gods the faults and ~frailties
OF the SONS Of men. In them the winds
And waves were music, and the lakes and
Streams, springs, mountains, woods and
perfumed dells
Were haunted by d thousand fairy forms,
-[Robt. G. Ingersoll.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

THE mob, always thirsting for human
gore, hanged the wrong man, in all prob
ability, Mt Birmingham, Ala, a day or
two ago. The sheriff claims he has the
right man in the Jail. The victim Of the
mob's unreasonable haste and violence
was the negro suspected of assaulting
a woman and killing her sol And now
a negro uprising is threatened. Thus
one form of violence leads to another.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
All in Half a Century

The uniication OF Italy.
The annexation OF Texas.
The French revolution of '4S.
The discovery of photography.
The laying OF the ocean cable.
The discovery Of the telephone.
The emancipation of Russian serfs.
The discovery o: the electric telegraph.
The overthrow Of the Pope's temporal
power.
The establishment of ocean steam payi.
CATION.
The extension Of Russian power into Cen.
trail Asia.
The great Franco. German war and tho
unifcation of Germany.
The great civil war and the abolition ~
slavery in the United States.
The rise and fall of Napoleon Ill, and 90.
tablishment Of the French republic.
Inc discovery OF the sources OF the Nile
and Niger. and the exploration of Inter;ne
Africa. ~
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

ALL the courts and juries-that is,
nearly all-seem to look upon bribery in
elections as a little reprehensibly sharp
practice, deserving only Of off-color cen
sure, and in the end something simply to
smile at. Here is this outrageous In
diana Dudley letter case, which is about
to be dismissed, a dispatch says, because
a conspiracy" does not establish itself
to the entire satisfaction Of judge and
jury. No wonder that Carl Schurz says
the corruption Of the ballot in this coun-
try is something appalling, Where will
it end?
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

AND so Stanley isn't lost at all? MOI
hasn't been? A London dispatch init
mates that when he is wanted he will bt
found, but that "there are certain rea'
SONS the government has for keeping
secret at present the whereabouts of thu
explorer" This information, after all
only confirms the suspicion Of nine
tenths of the people. But what he is be
ing kept secreted for, is the mystery.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

A BILL has been introduced in the U. s.
Senate to revive the grade Of Lieutenant
General, and authorizing the President
to appoint any Major General to the posi-
ton. Can any one give a good excuse
for such a measure? 1t is doubtful if
even Senator Chandler can. 1t should
not become a law. This heaping honors
and wealth on the few and allowing the
thousands of suffering and really needy
soldiers to exc out existence on a mere
pittance or perhaps nc pension at all, is
not creditable. Chandler should extend
his philanthropy to those who need it.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
The LEGISLATURE,

HELENA, January 15.-After assembling
this forenoon, both branches Of the Legis
~lature, after roll-call and prayer by the
chaplain, met in the chamber OF the House
to listen to the Governors message. Mid
dleton and Odds on the part of the
Council, and Haskell, Comfort and Blakely
on the part OF the House, were appointed
to escort the Governor to the chair
Speaker Mantle yielded his gavel to DR.
Cole, President OF the Council, and the
Governor then read his message. 1t was
well received.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19

THE bill Of Congressman Plumb, OF
Illinois, to refund the iHterest-bearing
debt of the United States, will strike the
patriotic citizens as a wise one But IL
can hardly be expected to meet with Re.
publican approval, the leadars of that
party evidently believing the British doc
trine that "a public debt is a public bles.
sing" If the public debt were done away
with, what longer possible excuse could
there be for continuing the wal tariff
The Republican fnanciers will have tt
sit down on Mr.. Plumb rather heavily.