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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

Republicans in the house of repre-.
s~entatives appeared in a shabby role
last Monday. They are playing tricks
on the old soldiers. They promised all
sorts of general pension bills, but the
most they have done toward redeeming
promises has been To subject the de-
pendent pensions bill and the prisoners
of-war bill to danger of defeat by call
ing them up for passage under suspen-
sion Of the rules. Thus, when the
prisoners-of-wa bill was up, no pro-
posed amendments were i'm order, dis.
cussion was limited TO fifteen minutes
for each side. no substitutes could be
made, and, under the circumstances,
mel of both parties opposed the PROPOSE
ton TO give to every man who got into a
rebel prison honorably or dishonorably
two dollars a day for each days con-
iinement. Mr.. Cummings, OF New
York, and Mr.. Warren, of Missouri,
both union veterans opposed the bill.
II was defeated by a vote of li3 to ~,
not two.thirds voting for il. The re.
publicans made a pretense with this
bill well knowing how IL would fare.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

Reports of the testimony taken in the
contest over the Davis estate demand
a good deal of space In the newspapers
these days. This seems to he war
ranted, as the large public, although
not an heir-not yet, at least is inter
ested TO know what is tn become of the
millions which were accumulated in
Butte, a generous portion of which, II
is to be hoped, will stay there. The
wrangle is one that would edify the
man who gathered all this money were
he GA earth again. OF the army of law
yers who have their talent and their
contingent fees involved in the contest.
he is the veritable philanthropist, who
when he was asked yesterday what on
earth his relations are to the case, an
swered: Il am OH neither side. am
a seeker after truth" Verify, he takes
the bun.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
FOREIGN MONEY FOR MINING.

In behalf of the committee of which
he is chairman, Mr.. Carter lately asked
the house of representatives to pass an
amendment To the Alien Land law.
The aim which the committee had in
view was accurately presented by Mr..
Carter in his remarks which. with a
full summary of the debate, the
STANDARD prints this morning.
The proposed amendment was pretty
savagely attacked by members of the
house, as the report of the proceedings
shows. Objections came thick and fast
from gentlemen who live a great many
miles away from the territories chiefly
concerned. The debate shows that
these members are ~nervously anxious
TO protect foreign capital in this one
particular and save il from harm. IL
also reveals the fact that they misap-
prehend the conditions that control a
mining region. According 10 their
talk, they would not make very good
prospectors.
The Alien Land law. at the time of
its passage, was received with general
favor in the Northwest. Its aim was
to prevent foreigners from acquiring
for a song vast tracts of lands in the
territories, which are sure TO be i'm.
mensely valuable at nc distant day
The peculiar conditions surrounding
the development of mining property
are easily distinguished by people who
are familiar with the circumstances
and some of these conditions were re-
cited during the debate IN the house
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
WHY OBJECT TO lT7

In certain quarters a disposition is
shown to cayil at the fact that a per
son named Quay. who dominates the
republican party, absolutely in Penn
s~ylyania and to a great extent in the
whole country, has been confessedly n
rascal and a nan of forbidding record.
The facts about Quay are pretty well
known. Ills record was advertised by
the most powerful republican newspa-
per in Pennsylvania, not SO many years
ago when first the man revealed an
ambition TO achieve rank in state and
national politics. II was then that the
newspaper In question. the Philadel-
phia Press, pitilessly scored Quay as
the type of every low-down thing i'm
gutter politics. Qnay is again under
discussion that has its source in an
other quarter. We are sorry to see
this cavilling. IL is not fair either the
republican party or tn Quay.
The situation is practically this. The
republican party has a certain large
amount of a certain very dirty sort of
work to be done. Somebody must do
that work or the party will go to smash.
Would IL be right for the party to seek
10 impose that work upon a decent and
e lf.respecting man of a probably I'M.
furnished reputationy Would IL be
proper for the party To intrnst that
work TO a man unskilled in such bust
ness? Is IL not, rather, altogether the
iii and proper thing that the party
should select 10 do that work IA man
whose tastes incline that way. whose
reputation can suffer no harm
from il and whose experience
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
WEDNESDAY. APRIL g. 1880.
IL the declaration of Won Caprivi Il

II the declaration of Won Caprivi is
made good, there will be a clean sweep
in the German government Offices. The
chancellor will find it a very large I'M
dertaking. This country entertains
toward the empire a feeling of cordial
friendship which would tempt our peo-
pie to spare Clarkson and Dudley and
Quay TO assist Bismarck's successor in
the arduous work before him. These
men know how the thing is done, and
if they find themselves where there Is
need of particularly mean work of the
underhand sort to be performed they
can wire for Sanders.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

The republicans in Oregon took the
Mckinley bill by the forelock. Oregon
will elect a governor i'm Jun who,S hinder
that states constitution, will hold Office
for four years. OF course, the parties
have to set up n platform and, in the one
they framed, the republicans, wanting to
say something about tariff, endorsed the
Mckinley bill. Under the circumstances
this was an endorsement of the bill as IL
was TO be, because the Mckinley commit
tee had not completed its work when the
Oregon republicans met In convention.
The sudden changes made by the commit
tee, just ms the bill was to be reported,
leaves some of Mr.. McKinley's work In
condition that ought not TO warrant very
hearty commentator in Oregon.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
Masculine
From the Chicago Times.

from The Chicago Times.
Much-enduring woman, who losses her
pretty head impatiently every time she
reads a paragraph on the subject of fem.
mime curiosity, has at last her revenge.
Here is a full-erown man named Albert
Martin Of Plainfield, N. j., who,
while killing reaches with paris-green,
couldn't restrain his curiosity, and ate
some of the poison to see how il tasted.
he found out, and probably to-day is Inn.
parting the information to some compan
ion floating at his side on a rosy cloud in
''the dim beyond" Masculine curiosity
may not be as all-prevalent as the fem.
mime kind, but it makes up for that i'm
being 100 per zen more idiotic.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
The Western Girl.

From the Atchisnn Globe.
In the East, when a girl gets an invita-
ton Ia he theatcr. she writes a letter 10
the information column of the a ask
ing IL il is proper FOR a girl Of % To accept
an invitation from a man of - the tenth
time she met him. having been introduced
To him at her home in the presence II all
her relatives, her mother Ia accompany
her To the show, the play To Ia nothing
more immoral than "Cnclc Toms CABIN"
and hc to call for her i'm "A carriage, and
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
II would shine for All.

From The Chicago Times.
Should Jay Gould succeed In ousting
John Wanamaker from the cabinet how
would II do to make Charles A. Dana
postmaster general? Then we would he
sure Of having a two-cent postage stamp
which would prove TO be q Joy forever
one SO aesthetic I'm its beauty that II would
make an American Oscar Wilde roll up
his eye with ecstasy every time he licked
IL.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
Give II to the Conscience Fund.

Ff0In The ChlcagO Times.
indianapolis republicans are reported
to be very angry because the Hoosier
o~filceholders at Washington scraped up
only S5l to carry the home city of Harrison
ut the recent municipal election, and il Is
said that they returned the contribution
with the caustic remark that II was UNI
worthy Of acceptance. IL the rebuffed
donors are at q loss TO know what to do
with II, II might help them to suggest that
IL be spent for coal to use in warming the
white house these chilly days.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

The Chinese emperor having discovered
a Doodle ring in Pekin threatens, it Is said,
To chop off n number Of official heads.
The Chinese system Of removal from
office is much superior TO the American,
for the chopping is done with a ma
tcrial axe.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
I,.ware OF the smooth Tongue.

From the williamslnrt sun.
Probably the moral in the downfall of
the dcfaulter Shcllenberger is that II pco-
pie did not trust every smooth-tongued
scoundrel with their money there would
be no Shcllenbergers.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
A ~scripturnl Reference,

From the 81. Joseph News.
The prohibitionists of st. Paul have
nominated n city ticket. st. Paul? Why,
was II not st. Paul who heartily endorsed
n little wine for the stomach's sake?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
Healthy Jack Tars.

From the Morenci Mich Observer.
The fact that Secretary Tracy is invit-
ing bids for 10000 pounds Of plug tobacco
indicates that our nav Is in good work
ing order.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

The STANDARD heartily agrees with the
esteemed Salt Lake Tribune when II says
th~at"thcre are notmany A~nacondas In this
world.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
4 Ruling Habit.


From Chatter.
IL suppose when you were i'm Rome you
did as the Romans do"
"Well. no; not exactly. You know I'm
a little too fond Of soap TO give il up nj
my time Of life"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

The German emperor wants the press
to treat considerably his reform measures.
The German press will have to. That's
what il is under censorship for.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

b TO wear her blue silk or black alpaca.
In the West, when q girl gets an invita-
ton, The puts on her duds and goes.
But the East IL cultured, and the West ID
not.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
Transplanted Il Would Thrive.

From the Omalia lee.
While the west vigorously assails the
''gold bugs of the east, there is no objec-
ton to their following the march Of en-
pire and transplanting their metal.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

fmm the Chicago Times.
'1Old Hutch, old Hutch. %, whittier so
high"
ITO gather the treasures of the sky.
I've cornercd the earth, and | want the
moon.
%. I'll come down again very soon"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

From the wilkcslarrc Evening Leader.
Explorer Stanley seems TO bc having a
warm time explaining things. but the wise
observer notes behind all this the fact
that he is AT the same time securing n big
lot of FREE advertising for his forthcoming
book.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
CURRENT COMMENT.
A second Hand Job.

From the indianapolis News.
New York is taking up Chicago's aban.
doned work Of supplying quotations to
bucket shops.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

The New York Times thinks the New
York Sun doesn't know much anyway, an
opinion which is cheerfully reciprocated.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23

The secretary of the interior is consider
ing n project of recruiting an Indian regi-
mcnt. Il would be a Mhooping success.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
FRASER & CHALMERS,
-CHICHCO-
MINING MACHINERY

And Machinery for the Systematic Reduction of Ores By Amalamaaou.
Concentration, Smelling and Leaching, Builders Of the Homestak, Gran.
tie Mountain, Drum Lummon, Anaconda, Blue Bird, LexinetonSnd BIZ
Metallic Companies Reduction Works.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-16
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

-Emin Pasha has an aunt living at
Pittsburgh, Pa, and cousin who has
been mayor of Terre Haute, Ind.
Mrs NJ. A. Schaefer, of Monroe,
Ga, has held the post-office at that
place for twenty-three years, and has
never lost a day on account of illness.
Miss Matte Mitchell, daughter of
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has the
reputation in Paris of being the most
beautiful American woman who has
ever been seen in that city
PHO Pico, the last Mexican Governor
of California, has been notified to leave
his old homestead, it is stated, and this
leaves him homeless and friendless at
the age of nearly ninety years.
"A woman teaching in California the
last fifteen years has invested her saw
ings from her salary in real estate, until
she owns valuable town lots vineyard
among the foothills, 100 acres in the
vinelands of the south, and 100 acres of
fine timber land in Oregon.
Prince Bismarck has 1O3 decorations.
Fourteen are set in diamonds of great
value. He belongs to no English order.
The late Gar of Russia gave him the
Order of st. Andrew, the most important
in Russia. Bismarck's diamond star be-
longing to this order is worth $50 OOO
Mr.. Gladstone says that the three
handsomest men of their time were the
late Duke of Hamilton, Sidney Herbert
and Cardinal Manning; and the three
most naturally eloquent speakers of
their day were the Duke of Argyll, the
late Lord Elgin and Bishop Wilberforce.
Addressing the Mayors club at Bos-
ton the other day, General Butler said
that of single class of eight pupils at
the Lowell high school, three became
Governors, two were leading engineers,
one was Secretary of the Navy, one a
leading physician and the other died.
The prime pal of the school, Mr.. Clark,
is now Bishop of Rhode Island.
The three men who have most de-
cidedly and most benefcially nodded
the affairs of Mexico have been: Hidal-
go, who led the revolt against Spain;
Juarez, who led the movement that Gull
| minated in the establishment of liber-
al constitutional republics and Diaz,
who has made this constitutional repub-
| lie practical working success.
Thomas Banks, one of the most pc
culiar characters that eyer lived in Ala
bama. died at Montgomery recently.
He was Industrious and miserly. and
had accumulated an estate valued at
100000. Fifteen years ago he had a
handsome mausoleum erected in the
city cemetery and directed that he and
his brother should be laid to rest there
| together He had the mausoleum fur
nisted with wash stand, bowl and
pitcher, soap and towels and comb and
brush. He used to visit the place daily
and make his toilet in the mausoleum.
He could not bear the idea of being
buried under the ground, and said if he
came to life again he would find himself
1 in comfortable quarters
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-16
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

First boy-"How do you like your
new teacher?" Second boy-''He is not
a lightning teacher. He strikes several
times in the same place. Texas Sift-
ings.
The preacher--"Well, Sam, how
have you been getting along since your
conversion?" Sam-''Oh, fust rate, sab,
fust rate, Me an de whole family has
quit lynn, swearin' an steaiin' in great
measure. Light,
-Boy-"Father, was there ever any
ship which carried more people than the
City of PARISH" Brightwit boys father
Yes, my son, the Mayfower. She
carried all the ancestors of American
society. "-Elmira Gazette.
Guilty or not guilty?" asked the
court. swell, iedge," responded the
prisoner, II amt exactly sure in my
own mind, yet / guess I'll wait until
the testimony is all in before I render
an opinion. Van Doris Magazine.
-Husband-"Lithium my dear, is
the lightest metal known, and it is
worth S16O an ounce" Wife (of supe-
rior kpowledge)-''Pshaw, that nothing.
1t is so light that it takes four or five
pounds of it to weigh an ounce. Phats
what makes it so high"
The Height of Cruelty.
lin the history class)-"Mr. FizzleF,
what was the torture on the wheel as
practiced in the Inquisition?" Fizzler
(who has not the iaintest IDEAL
reckon they made fellow ride bicycle,
4 ,uhau found ha,d pavar haan IN n
| machine.P
-Consoling Irish fsBegorra,
and I've knocked the fever out of him
That is one good thing.' Wife of pa
t.ent-''Oh, doctor, do you think there
is any hope?' Doctor-'fSmall chance
of that, marin; but yen have the salts
faction of knowing that he died cured ;
Pick Me Up
This issbogt the time OF the year, :
said Mrs Watts to her neighbor, that
the fishing fever strikes my husband
If he can get cut on the banks of some
creek and catch two or three little mud
cats in the course of an afternoon he i:
perfectly happy" Indeed? So he i:
fond of fishing, then?" Fond of fish
ing2" WY that man is perfect an
glomaniac. n-Perre Haute Express.
-Scientist-s'So you have followed
the sea all your life? 1 presume yer
are a thorough meteorological prognos
ticator by this time" Jack Tarre-''A
which?" Al mean you can easil,
foretell a gale, can't yon?" "Easl
'nough, sir. When you see the captain
dancin' around an yell n out forty or
ders at onct you kin jest make up y
mind that it's goin' ter blow. IN. Y
IWAptls
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-16
PREHISTORIC REMAINS.
Prof Leidy's Discoveries of Fossil Bones in
T.

Prof Leidy's Discoveries of Fossil Bones in
FOrida-
Big boxes full of curious old bones
have been arr. wing lately at the Biolo-
gical School of the University of Penn
sylvania, pending resting place in the
working room of Prof. Joseph Leidy, the
famous anatomist- They are were found
in Levy County, Fla. The specimens
have been carefully wrapped up in
Florida moss and other packing to pre-
vent break ng on the way north.
These bones are hundreds of years
old. They belong to extinct creatures
OF the quaternary period DIR. Leidy
has been hard at work identifying the
animals of which the bones form part,
and this Identification is now complete.
His conclusions are very interesting.
The chief bones he says, are those of a
rhinoceros, a mastodon, a llama, a
three-toed horse and a giant sloth
There are also parts of a tapir, small
crocodile and a gar pike.
In 1887 gentleman living in Archer,
in Northern Florida, found some fossil
bones in beds of clay, and wrote to the
late Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian In
stitute about them. At that time
scientists were not expecting the dis
cOvery of fossil remains in Florida at
all, and Prof Baird. becoming inter-
ested, suggested to DIR. Leidy that he 90
there and search for more bones. DR..
Leidy, being unable to do so, interested
Major Powell, superintendent of the
United States Geological Survey, in the
matter, and the latter sent one of his
assistants, Mr.. Dali, to Archer for two
weeks.
DR.. Leidy identifies the rhinoceros as
a variety whose skeleton has never be-
fore been found in this country east of
the Mississippi. 1t is about the S re of
the present Indian rhinoceros, but has
tusks eight inches long instead of three
| inches and was probably hornless. 1t
lived in FLORIDA in the quaternary
period, previous to the appearance of
man. The mastodon, whose bones were
found, DR.. Leidy calculates to have
been half as large again as the present
Asiatic elephant, and different species
from the common mastodon, whose re-
mains have been found in almost every
State in the Union. One of the giant
sloths, pronounced by DR.. Leidy the
megatherium, was also as large as the
Asiatic elephant. The only living sloth
! known, about the size of a terrier, is a
! tree animal.
DR.. Leidy is satisfied that the ele-
plant, tiger, horse and camel, being
found in the same cave, lived at the
same time, and thinks it likely that the
others had been brought to the spot by
the tiger as its food. The finding of
the bones of horse is considered strong
evidence that the common horse once
existed on this continent and afterward
became extinct. These animals are also
placed in the quaternary period
Until these recent discoveries the
eyes of scientists had not been turned
toward Florida in expectation of finding
fossil remains. European biologists are
now on the qui vive to hear the descrip-
tions of the animals unearthed there
The Bad Lands, Oak, and Bridger,
Wyo. T., arc two of the prominent fossil
fields in the West-N. Y. Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-16

Tney sometimes raise fair crops of corn,
as the soil is very fertile, and little
cultivation is needed. There is no mar
ket for the corn except at the nearest
illicit distillery, where it is converted
into mountain dew or moonshine
whisky. Hogs are owned by few of
them, but they are small and of inferior
breed. For meat they depend on kill
ing wild game, deer, turkeys and squir-
rels, which are found in large numbers
among the hills.
at is twenty miles from the hills
where the clay-eaters live to the nearest
country town, and almost twice that
distance to the nearest railroad. Very
few of them ever saw a train, and they
know absolutely nothing of mod
ern inventions, such as sewing
machines and cooking stoves. None
of them can read or write, and
there is no such thing as a school-house
in their settlement. Fifteen miles from
the neighborhood of the clay-eater
there is a country store, where they
barter eggs, chickens, moonshine
whisky, deer and coon-skins for coffee,
powder and shot.
THE clay-eaters have some peculiar
custom and superstitions. They have
signs for every thing, and almost wor-
ship the moon. The average clay-eaters
has mortal dread of an owl. AS soon
as the boot of an owl is heard, char
is overturned. If the hooting ceases, it
is sign that the threatening danger
has been warded off; but if it continues,
there is weeping and wailing In every
Fireplace will be found piece of flint
rock. This is supposed to keep foxes
and owls from catching the chickens.
If they start on journey, no matter
where, and rabbit is seen to cross their
path, the journey is at once abandoned,
because a rabbit never runs directly
across mans path except to warn him
of death. Like the negroes of the,
South, they are all firm believers in the
magic power of the left hind foot of the
graveyard rabbit. To sweep trash out
doors would sweep some one out of the
family"