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The HI0cknsie on the Union Gncstc Raised.
PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 27.-Thc blockade
all along the line of the Union Pacific is
reported to he raised again. through
train arrived this evening. On the South
ern Pacific the blockade remains un-
broken. and no immediate prospect OK it
being raised. An oregoaiaH special from
Olympia. WASH. says u bill has been i'm
trotluccd in the house to- repeal the acts
under which the Oregon Improvement
company acquired the title to the tide
lands claimed 10y il at Seattle. This bill
affects the property of the company to- the
value of Si.OOO,oO.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-28

YARMOUTH. n. -. Jan. 27.-The schooner
G.. e. Kelly was wrecked on p. ase island
Saturday night. The crew hal terrible
experience. were dashed to the stunps OF
unasts. rem m,ined all Saturday night and
part Of Sunday. the freezing sea beating
over them. Three gave up and were
washed away. The survivors were res-
cucd by the steamer louise.
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The Journ.yn..n Cutters Convention.

ST. Louis, Jan. 27.-The third annu al
convention of the Journcvm.n Cutters
association of North America began its
session i'm this city this morning. It's
meetings will be secret.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-28

DE TN Of Gene ssl Faulkner.
CANAsERAGA. N. ", Jan. 3.-GenorAl
Lester Il. Faulkner died his morning.
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Tn. --latest Mormon sensation.


tHICNUo. Jan. .T.-A special to the
Times from New York says: John Morgan
and John Roberts, representatives of the
Mormon church west of the NiiSsiSs ippi.
are in this city upon a most extraordinary
mission. aud the reasons they give for
their presence are unusual and scnsa-
tonai in the highest degree. They have
com" here to prove n general political
schcm the part of the republicans of
tho territories of Idaho. Arizona
and Utah, 10y which 2D.Op peo-
Pile ar.. tn bc disfranr hiscd. three new
states created and the presidency assured
to the republican party iu 1-.,2, matter
how New York may go. Mr.. Roberts was
until recently associated editor of the
Herald. "a democratic paper, published in
Salt LAX" City. MIR. Morgan said tonight
that the Utah territorial government will
soon bc thing of the past. and that
Stewards hill, recently introduced into
congress. proposes TIN. Wholesale disfran-
| chiscncnt of the Mormon people. thus
leaving th. political control of these three
| territories in the hands of the wirc-pull-
crs of th. republican party. The Idaho
state constitution declares in effect
\ that no Mormon shall vote or hold office,
| while the republican governor of Arizona
r"ticwS his sugyrSti1is that congress dis
| franchise the Mormous OF that territory.
| The political status of the territories is in
| au uudcvclopsd condition owing To their
| not participating in national elections.
| But il is understood that these territories
| would unite with Montana in electing re-
| publican state goycrnucnt, when they
| ar" admitted. At least there exists evil
| democratic party. or that the party would
| not labor so earnestly tn take the ballot
| from them. The programme is to admit
| Idaho with the const tuition that leaves IL
party and to 'iisfranchise tho Mormons of
| Utah,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-28

Ex-Li-utenane Governor Br"s- Dead.
CHICAGO, Jan. IT, X lieutenant Cow
ernor Bross of Illinois Il. ed o-niHht.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-28
HE WILL TRY FOR 1T
Congressman CaPteP'S Bill for q Buildin9
in Butte FIXED Up.
fasor,sbI- Goosositt.e Action ReEarsiing
Tw" Additional Land Di.tricts fsr This
ssst~-Mr. Clark Watching Dat
FOR Major Magtnnus.
sln.ci.I Ia The standard.

Special To- the standard.
WA-HINoToS. Jan. 21.-Reprcsentative
Carter has had the grippe. He is up and
about again. and he told the STANDARDS
correspondents this evening that he had
prepared a bill which provides for this. erec-
of "a public building in the city of Butte.
Mr.. Carter says that the bill will he in
truti,Iced in few days The congress
mau from the SrNnDARD's state will have
To work hard in order tn get any action
this bill during the present session.
MIR. Clark il m town and IL rapidly max
ing friends. He has tb.. courtesy of the
floor Of the senate and il looking every
day for the arrival of Major Maginnis.
The fact that ueIth.r of the republican,
aspirantss il in the citv has occasioned a
good deal of comment here
matter OF Importance" to Montana re-
cciv ,d favorable acti ~ to-day The
house committee ON public lands ordered
favorable report the bill. which
creates two additional land dist let's for
the state Mr.. Carter said this afternoon
that h- was coniid"nt Of favorable action
IN the house ON this measure.
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Extra heavy fianncis only 2Os. at Estes
4 Connell's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

concerning the cnlmera. Until BelIer-
ophon put q stop to it's evil career, the
latter monster behaved precisely as the
piasa is reported to have done, sometimes
carrying off fat COW, sometimes a tough
agriculturist, sometimes condescending to
trihe with its appetite by bolting baby.
The Greeks. too. ascribed TO the sphinx
a most reprehensible fondness for human
flesh, which she gratifed in polite and
cultured fashion. She invited people to
call upon her, and asked them conun-
drums, and if they could not answer cor
rectly she ate them up. Gdipus, the
Turanian. paid a visit to her cave, and
answered her questions correctly, where
upon she fell into his power, and he slew
her with his darts, all of which was made
the subject of noble picture by the
French painter, Ingres. Notwithstand-
ing the weight of Greek tradition, there
can be no doubt that with the Egyptians
the sphinx was the symbol of royalty,
and with the Etrurians 1t was a faithful
guardian of the tomb. Nor is there any
adequate reason for doubling that all
poly forms were symbolical, and that no
representation was intended of any mon
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

said Farmer Flint the breaksabe he asked for
coffee, I've made discovery"
Cyrus about the last I'd thing;
what is it?"
the heavy responded
looked dgued triumph quickly
discovery, l Il.
Golden Medical drives boche
Cousin who had
il a
in
(which
For Weak Lungs Splitting of Blood shortness of Breath Bronchitis
Don't be fooled into taking something else said be
cry" 1t contains alcohol ebatc
vegetable good
Mai
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30
Strange Monster Of the Deep.

On the little strand at Dugort, in
Achill Island, on the west coast OF
Mayo, now lie the remains of one of the
most curious creatures, perhaps, to be
met with in all the animal creation. 1t
was stranded for some months on one
of the outlying reefs at the entrance to
Blacksod Bay, where the villagers took
it to be the carcass of large whale.
1t was afterward carried on the Achill
strand by the late gale. This large
sea monster is none other than the
gigantic squid or king cuttle-fish, and
is rarely seen on our shores. To what
species of the Gmmestrophes it be-
longs will ever remain unknown, as it
was too far gone in decay, and was
shorn of all beauty. The suckers and
horny rings had fallen off long before
it reached the strand, and the parrot
like horny beak, which is peculiar to
this animal, was also missing. The
animal, though shrunk and distorted,
measured as follows: Length of ten
tacles, or long arms, thirty feet each;
circumference of body, including short
arms, sixty feet; circumference of
tentacles, in some places, four feet. l
know OF only four instances OF the ap-
pearance of this strange monster in
British waters. A very faint idea can
be gathered from what is preserved in
museums of this curious creature, as it
shrivels away almost to nothing except
a large cartilage pen, which runs across
the body and branches off to the short
arms. 1t would take vessel as large
as the hull of the Great Eastern, filled
with spirits, to show off the animal for
exhibition. Curious tales are often
told by mariners about this sea mon
ster. Its enormous arms or tentacles
are armed with formidable suckers and
horny wings, which are set with small
teeth pointing inward. These long
arms, seventy feet in length when out
stretched, as they float about in the
ocean, may have given rise to the story
of the sea serpent.-London Stand
1,.I
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30
A NOVEL DICE TRICK.
How a Young Politician Manages
to Win a Little Money.

Several young men were in South
End resort recently shaking for the drinks
when suddenly one of the fellows, a
young man who is reckoned as one OF the
coming lights of the political arena, said !;
"Let me take that dice-boX for a
minute"
1t was handed over to him, and taking
out four of the five dice which were in
the box. he handed them to the bar-keeper,
and turning the box on one end placed
the remaining dice on it, and taking his
hat from his head covered the box and
dice with it.
"Where is that dice now?" He asked
one of the men standing about.
son top of the box, of course" B." was
the reply; I" that is, if you havn't shifted
it since you put the hat down"
Il have not, )" said the young polite
ian, and he lifted the hat again, and sure
enough there sat the dice ON the box, just
as it had been before.
He sat the hat down again and took
his hands away from it, while he asked
the same question he had in the first in
stance.
son top of the box, of course" re
peated the man who had been questioned.
"You saw it there, did you9"
Certainly"
"Would you bet that it is on the top
of the box?"
"Of course | would"
"I'll bet you dollar that it isn't where
you say it is"
GAN right" and the men put up their
money.
The first man lifted the hat and there
sat the dice as before. "What did tell
your exclaimed the second. '1've won.
There is the dice on top of the box
Hold n minute" exclaimed the young
politician. "When you come to think
of it, wouldn't it be rather difficult task
to set up dice on the top of a dice box
when there is only a very narrow edge to
set it on. If you will look very carefully
you will see that the dice is resting on
the bottom of the box instead of the top.
! guess the money is mine, Mr.. Stake
holder"
"That's So" exclaimed the other man
who had bet; ait is the bottom of the
box, isn't it.
"It's a very simple CATCH" said the
winner to the writer; "but it's sure to
catch 80 people out of every 1907 Bos-
ton Herald
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30
Likes and Dislikes of Elephants.

Head Keeper Byon, of the Philadelphia
Zoo, says: "Thesc animals are half
human, | believe. Why, they have their
likes and dislikes. There's Jennie; she
and Bolivar used to be the best of friends,
but one day they got into quarrel over
the respective rights of male and female
elephants and the rc"ult was that Bolivar
was ungallant enough to strike Jennie
three or four severe blows with his trunk.
''Don't you think that Jennie submit
ted to it. She's got muscle and she did
the trunk act too, and Just as she landed
good one ON Bolivars right hip with
her left | entered the cage and separated
the combatants, and ever since then we
have chained each of them at ends of the
cage. Empress had viewed the quarrel
with lots of satisfaction. She had al
ways cast jealous eye on the friendship
of Jennie and Bolivar, and after they
were separated she 'cottoned' up to Boil
ivar and they became the warmest sort of
friends. Not satisfied with this, Empress
commenced to do mean little things to
Jennie at safe distance and taunt her
over gaining Bolivar's affection. We
chained her one day for her disagreeable
ways.
''Things went on rather smoothly in
the elephant cage for some time. One
day, however, Jennie gave her chain
wrench and broke the links. She had Il
great many old sores to settle with Boil
var, and she was beating him in great
style when |, at the head of detail of
men, jumped into the cage and after
half hours struggle ended the battle,
Ever since then Jennie has been held by
the heaviest chain we could tind.n
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

Lydia and Cyprus the sphinx of Etruria,
Greece, and Egypt, the winged man.
headed bull of Assyria, the human headed
harp of old Ireland, the griffins of
Europe, Asia, and northern Africa the
centaurs of the Greeks and the ancient
Picts, and the wyverns of the heraldry
of northern Europe. 1T was" the arch
mologist exclaims with bitter grief, "our
only polyform monster, our only one; it
was in a perfect state of preservation,
and blundering brute of q naval officer
made it u target for gunnery practice.
Oh, inexplicable folly! oh, irremediable
loss!"
Fortunately it has been thoroughly
described by gentleman who seems to
have been perfectly competent for the
task, and who under stood its real charac-
ter. j. r. Miles, of Miles Station, ILL.,,
made drawing of it, which is presented
here, and accompanied this with written
description obv ously of the most au-
thentic kind He wrote: Il first saw it in
1888, and since that date have seen it many
hundreds of times before it was destroyed
during the late civil war. must say that
it is mistake for any one to say that it
was painted on the rocks. 1t was not
painted on the rocks, nor was there a
drop of paint used in its construction.
The bird, if bird it was. was cut or chis-
eled or picked into the solid rock of the
bluff, but how or by whom I know not.
It's body was that of lion, its head and
horns that of deer, and is wings that of
bird. Is there anything about this that
looks like horrible man eater? do not
believe that such an animal ever existed.
/ deny that its existence is compatible
with natural laws, and l assert that the
piasa bird was made by some race we'll
acquainted with sculpture to commemo-
rate the noble deeds of some great per-
sonage of ancient times.
humanity is indebted to Father Mar
quette for its first knowledge of the man
eater of the Mississippi, and he wrote a
description of it in 1853, from which an
engraving was made in Paris. Mr.. Miles
made his drawing on the spot, but the
French picture which is here presented
was ushered into the world under condi-
tions that made it dubious. The good
father described it from memory, having
learned all the Indian traditions about it,
and being influenced very much by those
traditions. The engraver made it as
frightful as he could in order to be in
teresting. Thus between the two was
evolved an object which, as any one can
detect, never could have been sculptured,
which perhaps accounts for the persist
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30
Lost His Watch.

An incident is related to have occurred
at the Bulls Head, near London, by
which a man named Woolley lost his
family timepiece in strange way. He
and company of friends were carouSlng
when they heard that an Irish officer
had Just taken rooms overhead. They
sent up and invited him to join the
party, but he refused. Woolley then
sends up his servant with watch in hand
to ask the Irishman if he can tell what
time it is by an English watch. Pres
entity the servant returns with the irish
mans compliments ''and he will be down
directly with his watch and an answer. ]"
A great shutting of feet is heard over
head, and in due time the Irishman ap-
pears, followed by his servant carrying
n tray with the watch and pair OF pls-
tolls upon it. The officer then announces
that he has come to challenge the owner
of the watch and he hopes that he will
have the "dacencyo to claim it and take
up one of the pistols.
'Talle the watch round, john" he
said to the servant. SIS it yours, sir, or
yours, or yours2n turning to one after the
other.
mo, sir" is the lnvarlable answer
from each put to this cruel test. At
length it comes to the owner.
as this watch yours, sir2"
"No, sir"
"Well, then, John, since no one will
own the watch put it in your pocket, and
as we do not seem to have fallen among
jintlemen, bring out the horse and we'll
ride on another stage
Woolley thus lost his watch and gained
never lost.-LChicago Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

of Lycia Tor supplementary goats
head. But the serpent, instead of tail,
did not admit of any naturalistic expla.
nation, and the chimera is now admitted
to have been a national symbol. In the
treasury at Curinm, Di tesnola found
EARRINGS, rings, and bracelets of gold
fashioned like the chimera, only that the
form of the lion disappeared entirely
and the body was purely serpentine, to
suit the requ rements of the objects.
These jewels were of Phnnician manu-
facture, in the opinion of all experts.
Tiffany Of New York declared that in
them all the processes known to modern
working were employed, and with
exquisite dexterity.
is to be rem arked that the legends of
the Indian tribes dwelling on the Missis-
slppt about the piasa bird were exactly
the same as the legends of the Greeks
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30
Left.Leggedness.

A paper under this title has recently
been read before an English scientific
association, by q physician who says
that man, generally characterized as a
right-handed animal is also popularly
supposed to be right-legged. The the
ory is, however, as he maintains, not
supported by fact. When q man is
standing, and is working with the righs
hand, there is tendency to use the
left leg for balance.
round circles to the right than to the
left. Race-courses are almost always
made for running in circles to the
right, and it will be noticed that the
majority of movements, like dancing
and running, are more readily per-
formed in that direction.
The general rule in walking is that
of keeping to the right, and it appears
to have foundation in nature. OF
large number of intelligent people
who were asked about the existence of
this rule, only 67 per cent. among men
and 53 per cent. among women were
aware of it. This supports the fact
that it is unoonsciously obeyed
All crowds tend to bear toward the
right. The left leg being stronger, it
is more readily brought into action,
and for this reason troops start with
the left foot. 1t is the foot which is
placed in the stirrup of saddle, or
the step of bicycle, in mounting, and
it is that upon which man rests in
making jump.
In series of experiments made by
bandaging the eyes of boys and then
telling them to walk straight" the
right-handed ones diverged to the
right, and the lefthanded ones to the
left. In short, all the evidence thus
far obtained by this writer tends to
prove that man, being either naturally
or artificially right-handed and left
legged, tends unconsciously to bear to
the right, while the lower animals, on
the other hand, appear nearly always
to circle to the left
These are at present but curious
speculations, and it may be that the
author of the theory is too much occu-
pied in finding facts to support it to
see those which teach the reverse of
his doctrine. Certainly the left legs of
all right t-handed persons are not the
stronger. Right-handed men and boys
kick a football with the right foot, do
they not?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

ence of the belief that it was a painted
image. Marqut ties idea of it was that
it had the head of bear, the horns of an
elk, the body of n fish or dragon, OF
something with scales, and bears legs,
with gle's claws. The tail was fifty
feet long, coiled several times round the
body, and terminated in spearhead.
The parallelism to the chimera is
marked, and perhaps Mr.. Miles may have
been mistaken in supposing that the tail
was the bona fide tail of lion. The
error is one into which almost every one
fell who saw the painting Of the chimera
on the famous Hamilton vase, which was
found near Naples during the Napoleonic
war. 1t is here given according to ON ac-
curate copy made for the Museo Borbon-
leo before Sir William Hamilton, the
English Ambassador at Naples, sent it to
England. 1t never reached its destina-
tion, for the vessel foundered, and the
famous vase reposes in some dark un-
fathomed cave of the Mediterranean. At
first it was supposed that the lions tail
was simply drawn with an exaggeration OF
its sinuousness, but some one who mis-
trusted this view carefully examined
what was thought to be the knot of the
lions tail and found that scale of dirt
covered the eye of the snake. Very
dainty washing revealed the mouth also,
and it became apparent that the dragon
part of the chimera was not form mdable,
and did not offer any special danger to
the hero Bellerophon upon his prancing
Pegasus.
The discoveries Of Gen. Di Cesnola in
Cyprus gave to the world another repre-
sentation of the chimera in which tho
serpentine character of the lions tail is
absolutely unmistakable, rs will be seen
by the drawing. The coil is something
which could not bo found in genuine
caudal appendage of q lion, and the
snakiness of the end is obvious. This
finding of genuine chimera was q sad
blow to school of thinkers who have
been endeavoring to explain everything
by references to natural objects, and who
claimed that the polyform monster was
only an exaggeralion of special kind Of
lion that once existed in Asia Minor.
Human beings have goitre, horrible
swelling in the neck, and if lion had
goitre then the swelling might have been
taken by the unsophisticated shepherds
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

An English temperance lecturer, de-
termined to lose no chance of deepen
ing the impressions he sought to make
on the minds of his auditors, called to
his aid the powers of the magic Ian
tern. He threw on screen magni-
fed picture of drop of water, in
which wriggled animalculn of par
ticularly lively nature. To this pict-
ure of active life succeeded the gloomy
view of q drop of water with spirit
added, and behold the poor animal
culm all curl up and die. "Lor" said
an old man in the audience, "be q
sure, mister, 1 sha'nt never drink a
drop of water after seeing that, unless
l qualities it with lots o spirits to kill
the beasties" The lecturers satisfac-
tion with his experiment is not en-
larged upon.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

traces of Phenician inspiration but there
is nothing from Green and to the Hermit
of Cape Horn which the widest conject-
ure can attribute to the Phunicians save
the piasa bird. This remarkable object,
says the Chicago Times, was sculptured
on bluff Of the Mississippi, near Alton,
and was destroyed either wholly or in
part by superstiious Yankee comman-
der Of tin clad, who made it the tar
get for his parrots and columbiads, be-
lieving it to be what tradition declared a
memorial Of devilish flying creature
that carried off bisons and human beings
with ease and devoured them in its bone
bestrewn lair. 1t is to be hoped that
enough remains of this sculptured form
to repay the in estigation Of some trained
archeologist, for there can be but little
doubt that it was one of those polyform
symbols which the Ph9nicians left among
the peoples whom they visited. 1t be-
longs TO the same order as the chimera of
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

HE State of Illinois
o SIS 9 g d, until
within n few years,
the sole frail memo
rial in existence that
the famous Phnni-
clans visit e d this
land in tn o most
+ 9 m o t g antiquity.
I here are many OBJ
jects made by the
Peruvians and Mex
leans prior to the
arrival of the Span
iorIa which q h n w
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

All are entitled to the best that tn cir money
will buy so every family should have, at once
a bottle of the best family remedy. Syrup of
Figs, to cleanse the system when costive or bill
ious. For sale in 50c. and 81 bottles by all
leading druggists.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-30

Is in store for all who use Kemp's Balsam foi
the Threat and Lung, the great guaranteed
remedy. Would you believe that it is sold on
Its merits and that any druggist is authorize
by the proprietor of this wonderful remedy to
give you sample bottle FIRE /? 1t never fails
to cure acute or chronic coughs. All druggist
sell Kemp's Balsam. Large bottles soc. and
81.