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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-04
Hound to Get ~. Money. Worth.

From the Buffalo Express.
A granger entered n cheap Main stree,
restaurant and called for a plate Of baked
potatoes. The dish was brought i'm due
time and the farmer punished as much Of
the TODD as his stomach would allow. Two
big potatoes were left and he hated TO
leave them there. Turning To another
customer who sat behind him he said
Don't you want To- buy these 'uns p'
The man addressed laughed outright, but
the farmer. not to be outdone, stealthily
wrapped the potatoes into his napkin,
showed them into a pocket. paid his bill,
and launched forth with the feeling of a
man who is in the habit Of getting his
moneys worth.
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JoId by Old Timers.
TALK OF A GIANT OUTLAW WHO TERRORlZED NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA IN THE EARLY DAYS.

prevailed. :Just at the turn of the tide
the region was startled by the news of o
murder. An OLE French soldier. said 70
have been q drummer boy at Waterloo,
had AIKEN up q n in ~ mountains,
and a dispute over boundaries arose with
"BiR Sandy" The old soldier lived
alone in his cabin, his sole friend being q
magnificent thoroughbred horse he
owned, which was stabbed in n small
building about fifty feet from the cabin.
Big Sandy and a companion came one
moonlit night and hid behind trees ON the
hill. They threw stones against the side
of the stable and made the horse rest
less, until the old man walked out i'm his
shirt sleeves and slippers with n pistol In
his hand. A. he crossed the moonlit
strip of grass they shot him with buck
shot and accidentally shot the horse also.
The bodies of horse n man lay in the
hot September sun and wild animals tore
them for several days before anyone
passed hat way.
The country was aroused. and a rider
galloped of through the scrub oak and
bull pines" TO Shasta City, to swear out
a warrant against Big Sandy and his
brother, who were at once suspected OF
The murder. The sheriff secured a posse,
and, much to his W surprise, found the
men quiet, genial and even smiling. They
felt certain that no evidence could be
secured against them, and therefore
offered no resistance. The close of the
affair was highly dramatic.
BY a chain of remarkable circumstance
the state had n witness, a rough sort OF a
blue eyed mountaineer with a picked up
education. This man though not an eye
witness of the murder, had first discov.
cred and welded together the chief links
in the evidence against the outlaws.
With him out OF the way they would prob
ably have escaped. They managed TO
get word to their adherents that the ek-
school teacher must be got out of the way.
He lived In a small cabin on the western
slope of the Sierra, below Singletown,
some forty miles from the county seat.
He owned q tough little mule, n since
h days were very sultry he often o
long jou rneys at night.
rs he rode along the mountain trail, on
his way to Shasta City by moonlight, q
woman, to him unknown, met him and
sal that he had better 90 some other
way. He took the warming and reached
the county seat In safety. Blu il is said
that a couple of men lay oil the trail they
expected him to take, n waited all
night there, with their b~uckshotted guns
and sharp bowies.
Justice at last overlook the two moun
tain terrors. They received a sentence OF
80 years. Big Sandy became a tradition
in the rocky wilderness OF the Shasta
foothills of the "Lassep side of the val
ley" Farmers settled the region. the
Texan steers, Angora goats and slab
sided, razor-back hogs disappeared and
year by year the stories of the 'Terror oi
Cow Creek are forgotten.
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HOW THE BABY WAS SAVED.
The Story of n Snowslide Among IL
Mountains of Nevada.

The Story Of n Snowslide Among the
Mountains Of Nevada.
From the Virginia City Enterprise.
Yesterday was the anniversary of a now
slide which came down Mount Davidson
i'm 1867. sweeping away W. or three
houses and killing Richard Northcy. The
slide occurred at a point oil the eastern
face of the mountain, above the old Hale
& Norcross hosting works.
In 1875, on the 18th of January, there
was n secon avalanche at the same
place, which killed two men and buried a
woman and child. The woman and the
child were, however, dug out of the sno
uninjured. The woman vas protected by
a portion of her wrecked home-a frame
structure.
The house wal swept from its founda-
ton in such q way as To leave the lower
fioor intact. The woman was first res
cued. She at once began 10 cry out for
her child, of which nothing was to bc
seen about the wrecked house.
Soon someone said: ~ hear a child"
All listened and several persons as
serted that they heard the lain cry OF a
child and agreed that il came from
above-up on the sid OF the mountain.
All i'm that direction appeared to be a
compact mass of snow. Men were soon
scattered over the mountain slope near
where il was supposed the several wrecked
dwellings had stood. The faint cries OF a
child were heard, but IL was somem minutes
before the searchers could agree whence
The sounds came.
Al last the sounds were SO well located
that digging began. The snow was so
compact that il was difficult TO remove il
with shovels and the worker dared not
use picks, therefore there was time for a
big crowd TO collect and a great excite
ment to grow while the digging was in
progress.
The cries of the child constantly he.
came more distinct and at last, after
about four feet of snow had beef dug
through, the top of a cooking stove was
reached.
The voice of the child was then so plain,
ly heard that several cried out: at is IN
the stove. The child is in the oven ofths
stove"
Soon a hole had been made beside the
stove and a man thrusting down his hant
said that the oven door Of the stove on
that side was closed. Examination soon
showed that the opposite door was also
closed.
The mystery of the whereabouts of thu
child was not solved until the workers hat
dug down to the floor OF the house. II wa,
then found that the child was beneath thu
stove, whence IL was hauled out safe an,
sound
the floor when the avalanche came and "A
the first rush of snow was pushed lnde
The stove, which fortunately stood oi
blocks several inches in height.
That child is probably still alive and IL
thec city. III so IL is now abou 10 years o
age and to big To be again saved in tn
same way.
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ENGLISH O CRITICISED.

Eugene Field says Too Many Of Them
Have mig Feet and Driak Gin.
From dhe Chicago News.
Every American who sojourns
In London raises her voice against the
large and ill-fittinR shoes which she finds
here. The natives seek to justify the
m~onstrosities on the plea that the feet
should be clad loosely and stoutly. The
truth, however, In that English women
have big feet-abnormally big feet. More.
over, marvelously low insteps seem To he
q characteristic of the typical English
feet. The English women are exceed
prodiRious pedals, and they make IL n
point TO talk of the propriety of wearing
large boots or shoes In order to avert
corns n other similar discomforts; yet
l am told by dealers in Foe wear thst
corns and bunions are quite as prevalent
English ladies with wonderfully small
feet.
One of the famous beauties Of the court
Of George Nv. a shoe only five inches
in length, yet she was above medium
height and Was otherwise symmetrically
proportioncd.
Lacing is "a vice that obtains very gem
orally among the IN of this country;
nowhere else are to he seen such slender
waists as are to be found here. The vice
of tight lacing is practiced in every class
OF society he she duchess or barmaid, the
native woman who INDUCES with the same
persistency her vanity i'm this particular.
Another abominablc practice that OBJ
tains among English women Is hat of in
diligence in spirituous liqurs. Gin, rum
and Scotch whisky are freely taken by
women Of every class here. | suspect that
IL the English houses were better heated
there would be a much smaller demand
for liquor.
As IL is, everybody drinks more or less
and generally more) in order to keep
warm. The freedom with which women
frequent the taprooms is simply shocking.
Ii is n common sight of an evening Ia see
n woman with a babe i'm her arms recling
i'm or out of n public barroom. These
wretched creatures belong, of course, tn
the lower class, hut in the so-callcd better
classes of society guzzling obtains TO quite
as considerable in extent. Ii is the alco-
hal they have consumed that gives To so
very men of the swell ladies' To he see i'm
London the rubescent noses, the coarse,
fiabby cheeks. the purple lips, and the
swollen eyclids that have come To he re-
garded as essentials To a typical English
face.
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II FIDDLED AND THEY FIT"
A Fight to Death Between Five Hundred
Wolves.

A Belt mountain miner nus winds up
a story of a fight between 500 wolves that
besieged his cabin n night recently in
the mountains Of that region, melted TO
frenzy by the notes of the aforesaid min
er's fiddle:
~ 1ddlcd and they fit and ate each
other till the band began to thin out.
Every time / gave an extra rasp on the L
string they howled louder and pitched in
afrcsh. They kept il up for three hours
when there wasn't more han 40 or
80 left, and they so blamed full that
they could hardly waddle. When one
threw up the sponge the other bolted him
IN n ~twinkling. By and by there wasn't
more than a dozen left. But ilddled and
they fl and Toasted.
when they got down 70 three, each one
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-04

N'U Iork sun: II have one last request {,
make" remarked the trout. rs the fisherman
carefully removed the hook.
"Nane IL" said the fisherman.
at Is that You will not refer H. me as /;
speckled beauty
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Opposed to IL.

Ttrrc Hdute Express: First Tramp: ".Ierry,
what's your opinion on lie eight hour move
ment?"
Second Tramp: "it's my honest opinion dat
eight hours movement is heap too much FOR
one day"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-04
Dangerous Pets,

Life: az Britannia rules the sea, said Mar
low. there's one thing She ought To le made Ia
do right on"
whats that"
"lut muzzles ON the sharks"
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glory. The ring kept getting smaller, but
I addled and they chaWed until there was
only n bunch Of HAIR left and that bowed
away down hill. The SNOW was all red
with blood and trampled down ten feet.
Heads and homes were strung all own
the canyon and there was fur enough in
sight for q circus tent. II was the danRest
dog fight I ever saw"
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Good Reason Enough.

PiftsbUy Chronicle: II wonder why Eastern
people make so much fun OF our feet, I" said a
Chicago girl 10 a Pittsburg damsel.
swell" was the reply; you'll have TO admit
that the subject covers a good deal Of ground. p"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-04
A Ready Made star.

rcnouin,'s NcWs; Stage manager tn under.
sized amateur; "No Use your studying for Ham
let: younl do Just rs You are
Amateur lfiatteredD: Really
Manager; 'rertainly, aren't you a little ham
now"
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America Still Ahead.

Tara Hd,dc Express: First sweet girl "Jusl
think. The ear Of Russia has "A throne that
cost more than SiO,Osl."
Second sweet girl; "Really! Why that Is not
half a. much rs papa paid for his seat In the sen
ate.
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Epoch: G~ilroy-That's a very plainlUpking
girl in the nearest box.
Iairkin-Thai girl is worth s5oo,0O in her own
right.
Gilroy All. now ! look al her again I see she
is really handsome.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-04
The All Importnnt IL

Chicago Timos: smith: THAT man wlu1i
you just met is unduly familiar In his manner d
greeting you. Id haul the fellow over the Goals.
Brown: $50 would !, If"
III WHAT
'If lie didn't know so much about me-"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-04

Smoke Prince Cuban Cigars. Peckover,
sole agent for Anaconda.
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MINING MACHINERY

And Machinery for the Systematic Reduction of Ores by Amalgamauon,
Concentration, Smelling and Teaching, Builders Of the Homestake, Gran
lite Mountain, Drum Lnmmon, Anaconda, Blue Bird, Lexington and BIZ
Metallic Companies Reduction Works.
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EGENCIES:

Estes 4 Connell Company, Anaconda.
A. Frazer, Billings.
Geo. Il. Young, Livingston.
Berg Bros. Townsend.
". II. White. saltwater.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30
The Water Works Question.


If a reservoir, having depth of four or
five feet, were constructed at the wafer
works, and the castings OF the wells cut
down so that the mouths of the wells would
be on a level with the bottom of the reser-
voir. would not the supply Of water fur
nished by the wells be equal to the capacity
Of the pump! If Expert Johnston's reason
ing is correct there is very little doubt that
it would. But if the supply should not be
quite sufficient could it not be easily in
creased by sinking one or two more wellsl
Clearly. the thing to do ct once is to give
the city pure artesian water. That can be
done, it is believed, in the way indicated,
and at very small cost
Expert Johnston said that it would take
about two years to get first-class water
works plant in operation at the new well on
the Springfield plantation. OF course, he
had in mind one immense pump. But is it
necessary to erect large pump? Would it
not be less expensive to erect small one
first, and to add other small ones as they are
needed, all, however, to be under one roof
with a battery of boilers of suffi-
Gent capacity to run the number
of pumps that may be needed eventually
The water could be thrown into standpipe
connected with the present water pipes.
The supply of water could thus be increased
as the demand for it increased. and the
total cost Of supplying it would increase in
proportion as the population of the city
increased.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30
The Trades Display.

The display made by the merchants, man.
ufacturers and railroads of Savannah yes
terday, was one to be proud of. 1t sur
passed expectations. 1t not only showed
Savannah's trade and industrial resources,
but it made clear the fact that Savannah's
business men know how to make q display
of that kind attractive.
The display would have been creditable
to city of twice or three times the size of
Savannah. About every kind of business
and many manufacturing industries were
represented. and very generously and hand
somely represented. There was a deter
mination evidently that the display should
be success.
1t would not be an easy matter to point
out wherein it was lacking in completeness.
As a general thing, trades displays dc
not possess a great deal of interest for the
sight-seer, but that of yesterday had SC
many novel features, and contained SO many
surprises that it is not improbable that oul
visitors will carry home with them the idea
that it was one of the best things of Mer-
chants week.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

In the good old days the ''spank" was q
famous thing for training up child in the
way it should go. With the march Of civ
ilization the 'spank" as corrective fell
somewhat into that condition which Editor
Dana's bette noir rendered famous by de-
scribing it as ''innocuous desuetude." But
the ''spank" reappeared at Bridgeton, N. J.,
the other day, and in new role 1t was
used on Mrs. Davies, an elderly lady, and
saved her life. While Mrs. Davies was eat
ing an apple a piece caught her false
teeth and carried them to her throat.
She was choked, she turned black
in the face, and would probably
have been gathered to her mothers
had not patriarch of the good old days
seized her, turned her over his knee, and
given her sound spanking" which sent
apple and teeth flying from her throat.
Mrs. Davies declared the spanking" sent
her back fifty years to childhood. Vive
the ''spankl'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30
Chambers Mistake.

Senator Chandler's effort to introduce
Speaker Reeds methods into the Senate
will hardly meet with success. He wants
the previous question so that he can cut off
the talk of long-winded senators
when he gets tired of it, and he
wants to confer on the presiding
officer of the Senate the power to count
quorom. 1t is quite safe to say that the
Senate will never agree to either of
Mr.. Chambers propositions. The senators
have always had the privilege of talking
just as long as they pleased on any subject,
and it is privilege they are going to
hold on to. As for giving the Vice Pre,i-
dent the power to count quorum, they
will never do that If the Vice President
ever exercises such power he will have to
do so without authority, just as Speaker
Reed did.
1t is alleged that the main reason Mr.
Chandler wants TO cut off debate is that hs
is afraid that if his party should want to
pass a partisan measure thu democratic
senators would defect it by talking it to
death. Ii is highly probable that they
would take that course if they could not
defeat an obnoxious measure in any other
way. There are democratic senators who
can talk for six or eight hours on a stretch,
and they can do it every other day in the
week. There are two, at least, who de-
serve the title of champion takers of the
world. They can be depended upon to
protect the country against any bill giving
the national government control of the
elections.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

Prince Plon-Plon Napoleon has never
amounted to much, but his latest FREAK is
likely to set the world shrieking with laugh
ter. During President Carnot's recent tour
through France he visited Corsica, and
while there the early home of the great
Napoleon. For this Plon-Plon goes into par
oxysms, and writes President Carnot let
ter, soundly berating him for daring to place
foot across the threshold of the Napoleonic
abode. 'Your visit" concludes the letter,
sis naught but parody; your false respect
naught but proclamation, against which it is
my duty to protest" Poor, petulant Prince
Plon-Plonl de is nothing now.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETINGs-Golden Rule Lodge, No 10, l. o.
o. F.; Executive Board of the Merchants of
Savannah.
SPECIAL NOTICES The Finest Lots in the City
For Sale; G. II. Dorsett, Real Estate Dealer;
Notice as to Bids for Bonds of 1872 AS to Crews
of German Banks Louis and Adeline; Notice to
Carnival and Torchlight Marshals; Notice as to
Closing of Stores on May /; The Celebrated
Bear-Hog at 30 Broughton Street; Invitation to
Visitors to Savannah. McGillis & Rustin; Base
Ball Between the Macons and Kieffers of Savan-
nah To-day.
GRAND EXCURSIONS WEDNESDAY - Steamer
Crescent City.
COTTON GINs-Brown's Cotton Gins.
AUCTION SALEs-Furniture, by LaRoche &
Mclaughlin; Liquidation Sale of Diamonds,
Watches, Etc, Harmon Walker & McHarrie,
Auctioners.
GRAND SALE-Of City Lots at Sheffield, Ala.
Doors AND SHoEs-H. II. Sasnett Represent
ing Meinhard Bros. & Co.
RAcEs-At Thunderbot Park To-day.
LEGAL observation-disclosures Sale.
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

Love doesn't seem to be very evenly dis
tributed in this world. Over at Fernandina
recently man forced woman to marry
him at the pistols point, and now comes
the news from Kansas that another woman
has now breach of promise suit against a
man who killed himself rather than marry
her or defend the suit. The Fernandina
woman, who was bride by force, at last
accounts was calling on her parents for
protection from her husband, and the
Kansas woman who wasn't married at all
was asking the courts for heart balm.
Really, if this thing keeps up men will just
quit trying to please women.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

La grippe is queer disease. During its
prevalence there were numerous cases of
insanity attributed to it. But now DR.. N.
E. Paine. superintendent of the Massachu-
sets state hospital for the insane, makes a
singular statement He says that seven
inmates of the hospital have been restored
to sanity by the disease. Four of these in
mates were women who had suffered from
acute mania for long periods. one for two
years and one month. The others were
men who were suffering from less severe
form of mania. As soon as they recovered
from la grippe reason returned. La
grippe would appear to be a double-action
sort of malady.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

Gen. Grant strenuously maintained that
no able bodied ex-soldier should be quar-.
tered on the taxpayers. Gen. Grant
has been dead quite awhile; bu,
unfortunately for the taxpayers, the
pension claim sharks and the peanut politi-
clans, who degrade the ex-soldiers by
imagining that their votes may be bought,
still live. The republican caucus recently
agreed upon service pension bill which
will ''loot" the treasury of $4,000, 900 the
first year of its operation. Should the bill
pass, the God-chosen Harrison will sign it
The taxpayers would have been better of
under three terms of Grant than they will
be under one term of Harrison.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

The jury system got another blow in Chi
cago recently. Frank Eckhardt, clerk,
was tried for grand larceny. Eckhardt ad-
mitted the theft, but the jury, after being
out half the night, returned verdict of
acquittal. When the verdict was announced
the astonished judge exclaimed: swell, if
you jurors can't convict man when he
confesses he is guilty, don't know what
you can do" That judge will probably
agree with the late Alexander H. Stephens
that if there is one thing that the Lord does
not know, it is what the verdict of petit
iury will be-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

The American Grocer has been sending
out advance sheets of an article shortly to
appear in its columns advocating free sugar.
An unique phrase used by the Grocer is a
'free breakfast table" Free sugar would
not liberate the breakfast table. If crock
cry, cutlery, table linen and utensils used
in the kitchen were put on the free list the
breakfast table would be in a measure
emancipated. But the ''racket" such a
course would make would deafen Maj.
Pagoda Mckinley.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30

The Presidents order, intimating blue
coats and bayonets for Florida if that state
doesn't humble herself in the dust before a
court constituted for the purpose of perse-
cutting her people, should have occasioned
no surprise. The Republican party out
ragged Florida in 1876 by stealing her cleo
toral vote. Persecution would follow such
a wrong as that naturally. Florida is a
thorn in the Republican conscience-if that
party has any conscience