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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-03-09

VICE PRESIDENT MORTON TAKING THE OATH.
without any protection from the falling rain,
waiting for the presidential party to appear.
On the outer edge of the crowd was fringe
of umbrellas and beyond that ring of car
riages.
1t was funny procession that came out
on the platform-funny in spite Of the sol
emnity of the occasion. With the exception
of the police, every one carried an umbrella.
President Cleveland and the president-elect
were well wrapped in heavy overcoats, and
the president carried in his hand a generous
umbrella, which served in measure to pro-
tect both. But umbrellas afforded very lit
tie protection against the driving rain.
Chief Justice Fuller and the associated jus
tees appeared in their flowing robes and on
their heads silk hats which were battered
and wet. The crowd which was entitl ed ia
admission to the seats ON the platform did
not seem anxious to take an advantage of
the privilege.
When the oath had been administered by
Chief Justice Fuller, the president resumed
his hat, and, standing under an umbrella,
which was held by Sergeant-at- Arms Cana
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w. H. VI. MILLER. had determined to
follow. After teaching school couple Of
years he began to study law under the in
structions Of Judge Waite, Of Toledo, O., ar
forward chief justice Of the United States
supreme court. On completing hh studies
he returned to Oneida county and married
Miss Gertrude A. Bunce, and removed TO
Fort Wayne where he entered actively upon
the duties of his profession. He rose rapidly,
and in the course Of eight years Of practice
at Fort Wayne met Harrison frequently
and In 1874 he received an offer OF partner
ship with Harrison N indianapolis The
offer was at once ACCEPTED. and he and ia
family moved to indianapolis. The nrrrt
business was nearly all Of that class that pay
big fees, railroad and other corporation liti-
CATION; and the firm Of Harrison Miller az
Elam was sure to be employed on one side OF
every large case that found its way into the
federal courts.
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20, 1881. He was
the eighth OF nine
children. Among
his brothers is
Henry G. No
bl Q, a prom
inent lawyer OF
Columbus, o. He
passed his early
days in Column
bus and Cincin-
natl, where he
enjoyed good ed
ucational advan-
tages. He at
tended Miami uni
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county, Pennsyl-
vania, January 81,
1880. He had the
advantage Of ex-
cellent teachers at
his own house,
and for a part Of
the year ls41 he
was at school In
Lancaster, o, and
at the age OF thir-
teen he entered
Washington coli
lege in his native
county. where he
was graduated in
lS47. Some time
A. -. <fss.kf,...
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nearly sixty-two
years ago, o n d
& in Q d $ o m 0
prominence there
before moving to
Minnesota in 1853.
He served in the
house as a repre-
sentative during
the Thirty-sixth
congress, and sue
cessively in the
Thirty-se V Q mt h,
Thirty 9 / & b t b,
Thirty and
Fortieth, and was
appointed to I'LL
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county, New York,
nearly forty-eight
years ago. His
father was a Wing
and an admirer Of
Gen. Harrison the
First. He entered
Hamilton college at
sixteen years OF
age, and was gre<as
uated at twenty,
devoting a part Of
the last college yehr
to the study OF lazy,
which profession BE
q
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in the administers
tion OF President
Harrison, and as
far as political
shrewdness and
business ability 60.
he iustihes the
claims made for
him. He IS chiefly
known In. his de-
veloprn~nt Of the
marble industry,
and is probably the
greatest manufac-
turer Of and dealer
in marble in tho
United States. urars-
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NO. As

this Office, but in that time Is regarded as
having demonstrated his capacity as a imam
cier. Since then he has been practicing law
in New York, and has not been much iii
Minnesota. He dropped out Of Minnesota
politics altogether. He is close friend Of
Gen. Harrison.
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A GLIMPSE or THE BALI.

The pension building court, with its acre
Of dancing floor was beautifully garlanded
with flags and flowers. In the center stood
a two-story Japanese pagoda. The lower
part Of the structure was grotto built Of
rocks and ferns.
The first floor was occupied by the Ger
mania orchestra, of one hundred Philadel-
phia performers, who played the dance
music. Above them on the second floor, the
Marine band was stationed Under the di-
rection of Band Master Sousa, it furnished
the music for the promenaders. The unique
structure was ablaze with lights and parei-
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WITH so many strangers in town, it
will be we'll to keep an eye out for
thieves. Don't permit him to enter
your house. Often they are spying
for place to get away with your
property. Let our policemen be-
vigilant.
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THE INAUGURATION BALL.

One of the Most Brilliant Affairs Ever
Witnessed in Washington.
WASHINGTON, March 5.--The climax OF
the great events Of the day was the grand
ball at the pension building. In all its con-
ditions, it was the most impressive social
gathering in the history of this or perhaps
any other country
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an unexpired term in the senate and subse-
quently elected to full term. When Gar
field became president he was made secretary
at tina treasury He had but short term Of
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-03-09

John Wilcox Noble, secretary of the in
terror, was born in Lancaster, o., October
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j. Redneld Proctor Of Vermont. the
secretary OF war, has always ranked
high as a cabinet possibility, and as n power
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THE CABINET.
The Men Whom President Harrison Has
Chosen as His Advisers.

James Gillespie Blaine, secretary Of state.
was born in West Brownsville, Washington
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William Window, secretary of the treas
ury, was born in belmont county, Ohio,
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Attorney General.

William Henry Harrison Miller, the attor-
ney general, was born in Augusta, Oneida
, 1889-11-16
The Coal Stealing.

Harry Howard, whose bold theft OF a
car load of coal was reported exclusively
in this paper yesterday. will be given a
hearing before Judge Lee to-day. How
ards reckless raid was town talk yester-
day. Everybody agreed that he had
beaten the record.
Howard is still under the ban for the
theft of a set of harness from Hellman &
Rutledge. He sold this plumber to j. M.
Newman. for s35, which sum seems to be
favored by him. He begged off on this
case and promised to settle with Mr..
Newman, who gave up the harness.
Howard repaid only part of the sum.
Thos. McCutcheon, another switchman,
was arrested yesterday, being charged
with assisting Howard. He will also be
arraigned in the Justices court to-mor-
row,
, 1889-11-16

That blow nobody any good" are plenty
on the storm-vexed Atlantic, to say moth
ing of the occasionally typhoon swept Pa
ciic. The helpless voyager, when shaken
Up by the heavings ofthe ''brinY" should
take that pleasant and most salutary of
doses, a wineglassful of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. the finest slomachic
and tonic that ever warmed, regulated
and quieted the human interior. Rail-
road iolted and steamship shaken travel
ers will exercise a wise provision by sup
plying themselves with a suficiency Of
this Incompatible medicine for the jour
ney. So will mariners, emigrants to the
West, and others about to seek fresh
fields and pastures new" Malaria, the
scourge of newly cleared aud mining dis
tricts, is completed conquered and surely
averted by the Bitters. Liver, bowel and
kidney complaint and incipient rheuma-
tism it annihilates.
, 1889-11-16

Being approached regarding the scheme
to secure the Fort Worth line Mr.. KIM
ball of the Union Pacific said he thought
it would be accomplished. "Negotia-
tions are now pending" he said. (which
| think will eventually eliminate in a deal
whereby the Union Pacific will secure a
through line from the Northwest to the
Cult of Mexico. We will place a local
manager at Denver to look after that por-
ton of it operating in Colorado and New
Mexico, and the Colorado Central and
South Park lines. Owing to the Texas
railway laws we will probably have to
place a manager at Fort Worth Also"
, 1889-11-16
lis afternoon and evening.
Cheyenne.

Commencing Sunday the Union Pa
cifc's west bound limited fast mail will
reach this city at S:45 a. H.. the east
bound at 2:l0 a. M. The afternoon west
bound passenger will be in at 2:30 and
the morning east bound passenger at $50.
The limited trains have a schedule of
forty four miles an hour. The company
will be fined 800 for every hour or frac-
ton the mail is delayed and no effort will
be spared to make the card time.
, 1889-11-16

John Drew, who was captured while
b~urglarizing rooms in the Tilden block,
was arraigned in the district court yester-
day, and pleaded guilty. This action was
a clever ruse on the part of the defendant,
as his conviction was certain.
Harry Carpenter who skipped from
Laramie with 5000 said he wasn't guilty.
Hoke and Borchwingle, tho Nebraska
rustlsrs. will stand trial. They answered
mot guilty" to one OF the six indictments
against them.
, 1889-11-16
Murder of Thomas.
[~Saguache Register.

The f~avorite old drama, Uncle Tom.
Cabin, was presented at the opera house
last night by Griswold's excellent com
pany. The familiar characters of Eva,
Topsy. Marks. Aunt Ophelia, Eliza. Gas
sic, st. Clair, Uncle Tom, Geo. Harris.
Phineas Fletcher. Gumption Cute, Geo.
Shelby, etc., were all portrayed more or
less effectively, and then the jubilee sing
ers, the bloodhounds and of course the
donkey all going to make up the greatest
entertainment of the kind that ever visited
Springfield, and proved abundantly salts
factory to the large audience. Come
again, Uncle Tom.
This afternoon and evening.
, 1889-11-16

Copper values seem to steadily increase.
Yesterdays quotation was $l2,75. Ten
weeks ago the figure was 80. This in
crease is decidedly encouraging and not
without significance. There are several
promising copper districts in this county
and at one mine-tbe Michigan-develop-
ment work is being pushed profitably, for
every pound of ore moved is worth ship
ping clear back to Pennsylvsnia for re
duction.
, 1889-11-16
MXCHIGAN ES.
Northern Speys, Bell
HOsCes-s, greetings, Bald
aUtss's SiUeet Cider, neaU
BMcksUheat HOsxr, Maple
syrup, etc.
Il. Unde91UOOd = Bro.


The passenger department of the Union
Pacific railway has Just ISSUED a PAM
phlet entitled 'Outdoor Sports and Pas
times" which gives the correct rules for
base ball, lawn tennis. croquet, polo,
cricket. racquets, quoits. Lacrosse, foot
ball and curling. 1t will be found espe-
cially convenient as u reference book for
these games, and by sending two cents in
postage stamps to Z. L. Lomax, General
Passenger Agent, Union Pacific railway.
Omaha. a copy will be cheerfully mailed
to any address FREE.
, 1889-11-16
THE CORRECT FIGURES.
Official Canvass OF the Vote Cast at the
Election Nov. 8.

An official canvass of the vote cast in
the county at the recent special and con
stitutional election was made at the court
house yesterday. Justice Hart and As
SCISSOR Fisher Tailed while Clerk Frsdods!l
and Judge Lse handled the returns.
There was a small attendance during the
count.
Below is q complete tabulated state
ment of the result:
, 1889-11-16
Ranchman Disappears.

The people of the Big Horn valley are
excited over the disappearance of William
B~altenhouse, a w%ell-to-d do rsnchman. His
cabin WAS found deserted, but search for
the owner has been fruitless and it is
feared that he has been murdered and
his body thrown in the rive-.
, 1889-11-16

The Phoenix market will to-day make a
marked reduction in prices. While this
may be an unexpected concession it is
made to meet the demands Of trade in
view of hard times.
Prices will be reduced. yet quality will
remain the same. 1t will. as usual, be the
aim of this market to place before the
people the best goods and in the greatest
variety.
, 1889-11-16
Short on Sheep Cars.
[Rawlins Journal

Sam Matthews is holding about $500
sheep here waiting for cars to ship. Grit
Edwards is also holding nearly 1000
head for shipment, while another party
has between 5000 and 5000 head on the
road in from the South for shipment
East. The traffic is so heavy on the
Union Pacific Just now that it seems i'm.
possible to furnish cars as fast as ordered.
, 1889-11-16

OBSERVERS OFFICE. Cheyenne. Nov.
1.-THE report Of precipitation for the
twenty-four hours ending at 8 a. m. to-
day was as follows: Fort Buford .01
inch, st. Paul .06, st. Vincent .O4,
Buffalo .04. Salt Lake and Galveston
trace. Range of temperature in Chey-
enne from l20to 80. For to morrow.
warmer aud fair weather.
, 1889-11-16
On to Buffalo.


The Burlington officials informed Hon.
G. H. Burritt during his visit to the East
that the Burlington & Missouri will be
pushed to Buffalo as soon as the frost
leaves the ground in the spring. That
means at least one railroad for Buffalo be-
fore the snow flies next year. The Bur-
lington will be built directly across the
Big Horn mountains from here.
, 1889-11-16
Expects a Favorable Report.

General Attorney Thurston of the
Union Pacific has returned from the
West, where he accompanied the Pacific
railway investigating committee. He is
of the opinion that the committee will
make a favorable report as regards the re-
funding bill.
, 1889-11-16
Nebraska Visitors.

Superintendent Phelan Of the Cheyenne
& Burlington came up from his Holyoke
Office yesterday and brought along these
McCook, Neb.. gentlemen: John f.
Majors, of the land office; J.. NJ. Hutch
ms Of the interior department and j. E.
Kelley from the Chicago offices of the
Burlington. Mr.. Phelan showed his
friends about Cheyenne. The party left
for Colorado this morning and may return
from Fort Collins overland.
, 1889-11-16
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

Matinee this afternoon.
Newcastle coal will be on the market
about the Goth inst.
The conundrum and donkey social at
attended.
Geo. g.. Jackson has been commissioned
a notary public for Crook county. He
lives at Suadance.
A special fast freight OF eighteen cars
of raisins passed east over the Union Pa
ciic this morning.
Among railway men the late extensive
raid on company fuel is referred to as the
'sSwitchmen's Coal Trust"
Rev. s. A. Bright VIII assist in con-
Quoting a series of revival meetings to
commence at Laramie Sunday.
Uncle Toms Cabin will be given at
the opera house this afternoon and
evening. Big parade at 2 o'clock.
OF seventy cars of stone ordered some
time since. Manager Nichols has received
for Smith Gillette forty-seven cars.
Conductors Smith. Wolcott, McManus.
billiard. Park and O'Brien will pilot the
new fast mails between Omaha and Og-
den.
Water has been diverted into the Lake
Minnehaha ditch and the east end basin
will be filed. The city now has plenty of
water.
Cheyenne is. entitled to the next big
tournament of the Rocky Mountain
Sportsmen's Association. 1t must be
held here.
Ten mail catchers. to be used in CON
nection with the limited trains. were
placed at Union Pacific stations on the
Wyoming division yesterday.
James G. Taylor. trustee, has sold to
Thos. Fitzgerald, Denver. lots /. 2, 5, 4.
5, g., 7. 8, 9 and 10, block %, Holdrege
addition to Cheyenne; 81. 500.
1t is said that Attorney Campbell and
Marshal Carr will present some matters
of local interest to the United States
grand jury next week.
A court room of people ~applauded
when a Laramie jury acquitted Ed. Al,
len. Judge Saufy threatened to fine and
imprison the entire audience.
Auction sale this afternoon and even.
ing next door to Cheyenne National
bank. Ladies specially invited. Seats.
V. BAKER.
Keefe & MEG arvey are getting mater
ial and tools and organizing forces and
will commence on their big Fort Russell
contracts SO soon as the weather settles.
THE LEADER job rooms are now better
equipped than ever tor the expeditions
performance of work. Big consignments
Of new type and stationary have lately
been received.
Several business men approached on
subject of the big shooting tourney last
evening promptly said that they would
aid the project. This will be a grand at
fair.
David FotLeringham, who three years
ago was falsely charged with the theft
of 800. 900 in connection with the Joe
Cummings robbery, is now a hotel clerk
, 1889-11-16

Special Dispatch to the Leader.
Rock SPRINGS, Nov. l5.-Frnnk
Wones. a switchman. was seriously in
iured here this afternoon while coupling
cars. A link broke and a piece struck
him il the head. His face was badly
bruised and his eye will probably be
lost. Wones was taken to the Denver
hospital.
, 1889-11-16

MalOrty IOr
Majority for the Cons.itution..........l678
About a two-thirds vote was cast in the
county. The total was 2,4l2. MI.
Adams was whitewashed at FIVE pre-
cincts.
Clerk Fredendall at once certified the
returns to Secretary Medium. Laramie
is the first county to report to the secre-
tary.
, 1889-11-16
.MOTHERS


If you are tn need Of u sNif
for your boy, call at ~.
Marks and look at hts
S1.05 b0v's suit. IL. aUiiI
pay you 10 do SO.
~. M.ARKA.
, 1889-11-16

Special Dispatch to the Leader.
Rock SPRINGS. Wyo.. Nov. l6.-The
miners are not working full time and the
company is falling behind with orders. all
because there is a big shortage OF cars.
, 1889-11-16

Fine Greeley Potatoes at
Z. 8. JOHNSTON 4 BRo's.
, 1889-11-16

Pure lard made and sold oy the
C c G.
, 1889-11-16

he largest stock of fine brandies. old
WHISTLES, choice hQpeurs and superfne
ciRars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
, 1889-11-16
Notice.

Mrs. Tyndall wishes to announce to
her patrons and the public in general
that she has now secured q lease
of her present premises Nc. 17I6. Fer
guson street and will continue to run a
first-class restaurant.
, 1889-11-16
Cut in Prices.

Dried fruit in great variety at the
c c C..
, 1889-11-16

Dressed poultry of all kinds at the
C C G.
, 1889-11-16

Pickles, bottled or in bulk, at the
C C C.
, 1889-11-16

Boston brown bread in cons at the
C C C.
, 1889-11-16

Green vegetables at the C c C.
, 1889-11-16

Pop corn, shelled or on the ear a
the G G G.
, 1889-11-16

Fancy groceries at plain prices at
the C 9 G.
, 1889-11-16

Parrot brand of crackers at the
c C C.
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legitimate as any other business AS long as
the gambling was straight" there was little
complaint; it was the arrogance born of long
liberation and consequent attempt to "bull-
doze" outsiders which brought the Viclsburg
gamblers TO grief.
"Natchee- under-the-H Hill" was then the
only place where regular Skin games" or
''cutthroat gambling" was tolerated. Never,
probably, on the western continent was 50
much licentiousness, drunkenness and dos
peration crowded into so small space. For
forty years the name was throughout the
west a synonym for all that is vils. and when
the hurricane finally laid it low and the
swelling Mississippi swept away the made
land" on which it was built, many an old
boatman on the upper rivers drew deep
breath and declared that now he believed in
special judgments. To this day the riotous
and richly descriptive, highly favored old
song called ''Natchee-under-the-H Hill" may be
heard occasionally in the valley homes Of
Illinois and Missouri-when there are no la
dies present.
War was the great scavenger. Gentlemen
quit gambling, and then it was easy for the
Mississippi river cities to close the ''densH and
drive the vice into dark retreats. Like other
vices, as it was driven down the grade and
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LUCKY FOR YOU HAD BUT THREE TRUMPS. "
concentrated so to speak, it grew more dam
gerous; and within few years past one could
find in New Orleans tolerably decent looking
places where policemen stood just inside the
door, halted each conner and deity "felt over
him for weapons" Since the war the flash
towns on the Union Pacific railroad and in
the mining regions have been almost the only
places where gambling was Legitimate
1t is claimed that the biggest betting since
the war was on the last night the houses were
allowed to run in Chicago, when noted sport
named Shindel won sci 900 on the turn of a
card 1t is not easy to trace the truth or
falsity of such reports. In Cheyenne, in the
palmy days of 1867, on many nights as much as
10000 changed hands. In Bear River City,
early in 1862 the professionals gathered in
ell the money; then the ''toughS" and an
angry lot of workers on the railroad grade
organized riot; the gamblers and business
men joined forces, and fourteen men were
killed in five minutes.
Billy W, a noted sport of the far
west, won Sc, 900 in a short time in Denver,
and lost it all in st. Louis San Antonio,
Tex, was for short time the greatest gam
bling town in the west, as it grew from
village to 4 city of 5000 in year or two.
Bob Thompson, one of the San Antonio
sports had forty hicks in his pistol, and
claimed that each represented a man he had
killed. He finally killed another sport"
named or known as Jack Harris. little
later Harris partner, Billy Simms, killed
Thompson, and the moral atmosphere was
purified. In the large cities of the east each
generation has had about the same proper
ton of great gamblers-inown as such to all
the reading public Whether the actual
amount of gambling has been reduced of late
years is still disputed; that it is far less pub
lie than formerly is plain to all Observers
1t seems almost incredible now that Wash
ington city was once a very paradise of
gamblers and that such men as Henry Clay
and Thad. Stevens played openly and with
out loss of party standing, Yet SO it was.
There, too, the game has re tired to very pri-
vate quarters. After Washington, Chicago
was, and for many years, the great gambling
center. Indeed, all cities that grow rapidly
and all places where fortunes are suddenly
acquired, as in mining, become notorious for
gambling, as witness Leadville, White Pine,
Helena, San Francisco and nearly all the
boom towns on the new railroads As long
as the boom is on, all is well; it is when
business settles into regular grooves and few
earn big sums that gamblers become danger
GUS. Too many of them then turn to Skin
games" or political tr,ickery. After that, in
the wild west and fervent south, comes the
vigilance committee.