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ELECTRICITY IN MINING.

The change that will be worked in
mining by the employment OF electrioi-
ty is destined to be n of the greatest
economic revolutions the century has
known. Thousands of small mines, and
many large ones, that have been aban-
doned for many years because of search
ty OF fuel, cost of transportation, or re-
f~ractory combination of ores, will in the
near future be proitably worked by the
new agent. Stephen Barton, in a paper
in Western ELECTRICITY, thus writes from
California:
From the door of my house I can see,
with a field glass, the abandoned works of
the once famous Harley mine. Mining
journals abounded with illustrations of the
manner in which rugged nature had been
overcome, and auriferous ores handed
down from crag to crag by means of a ca
bic tramway two miles long. Tit tramway
took the ore from an altitude of 5000 feet
above Kern river, and landed it on the
banks of one of the noblest mill streams in
California to be reduced by steam power.
10 keep a costly plant employed, thousands
OF tons of gray granite were shipped down
the mountain and crushed with the vein
matter. In a few years the richer ore bodies
were SO far worked out that it was no Ion
ger possible to maintain a humble of high
salaried officers, equal to the number of Ia
borers employed, and the property was
abandoned, while $500 worth of iron pipe
would convey water to this mine from a
mountain stream sufficient for amalgama-
ton and other purposes. A small cable
would suffice to %ransfer to the same point
adequate electric power, which would be
generated by a wheel now standing idle on
Kern river, owned by another company,
and this mine could again be made to yield
up its hidden treasures with but compare
lively little expense.
1t is Mr.. Barton's confident opinion
that small springs with a fall of 500 or
1000 feet will, in the future, be employ
ed to generate electricity, and a system
OF cheap plants will yet reduce the ores
directly On the dumps. Intelligent
mining will nc longer deem it necessary
to transport thousands of tons of ore
dow a steep mountain side for no other
conceivable purpose than to get gold
bullion nearer market.
On the streams that hitherto have not
yielded placer gold, but along which rich
gold has been found in refractory rock,
MI. Barton says that electricity will
soon be successfully employed as a re-
agent to separate the precious metal from
the combination and that the greatest
contributions that have yet been made
to the worlds wealth will come from
this source.
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HELENA. MONT, NAY 80. 1891.
SUNDAYS

Sundays INDEPENDENT will be a dou-
BILE number Of sixteen pages filled to
overflowing with good things. The
pecial Montana feature will be a full
and accurate account Of the famous
Castle district, including the fourishins
towns Of White Sulphur Springs and
Castle, their and their future.
This will be the most careful and cor
rect description Of this great region yet
published. !.
Among the other striking specialties
Of this number will be an illustrated
article. "Queens of Ghost Land" an &C.
count OF some queer old women Of the
witch family; "To Europe Without
Crossing the Atlantic" showing our
new way around the world; "From the
Mothers Lips" OF how some of our
great men first got their inspiration; a
Decoration Day poem "a Pecan Of
Peace" written especially for THE IN
DEPENDENT, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox;
"A Triumph OF Unveracity," one Of
Howard Fielding's capital humorous
sketches; Ellen Osborn's illustrated
fashion letter for June; New York gos-
sip; doingsJ of Helena society; European
correspondence; gossip Of the day, etc,
etc.
Advertisers should hand in their
favors for this special edition not later
than noon to-day to secure choice OF
position and classification.
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Oldest House In Washington.

Down at the foot of Seventeenth street.
away from the usual route of the guide
hook sightseer, stands the Oldest house in
Washington. TIL moss had grown thick
upon its humble roof long before QUARREL ng
congresses wrangled and disputed over the
location of the future federal city, and
when at last the dispute was ended and a def
mite site selected, it was found that the I'M
%pretentious home and paternal acres of a
sturdy old Scotchman, David Barns by
name, occupied a large portion of the pro-
posed situation.
The homestead itself was located almost
upon the immediate bank of the Potomac,
here a mile or more in width. and only a
little distance away from the beautiful hill
upon which the observatory now stands
the hill upon which, it is related, Braddook's
forces camped on their first night out from
Alexandria, in that ill-starrsd march into
the ADMINISTRATION L. Adkins, in New
England Magazine.
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SHERiFF,S SALE ARTHUR O'BkIEN.
~ plaintiff, VS.. Mary &. Lunn and George Lunn,
Defendants.
Under and by virtue of an order of sale and
deer rec of foreciosure and sale issued out of tie
district court of the First Judicial district of In ,
etate of Montana, in and for the county OF evils
and Clarke, on the 26th day of May, A.. b. 1891, in
the above entitled action. wherein Arthur O'Brien.
the above named plaintiff, obtained a Judgment
aud decree of foreclosure and sale against Mary
q. Lunn and George Lunn, defendan S, on the
9Th day of April, A. ID. 1881, for tn, sum Of SS7.27
said decree was on the 9th day Of April, A. ID.
court Al page 53t, ! am commanded to sell all
that certain lot, piece or parcel Of land, %situate.
lyinS ami b'ing in the comfy Of Lewis and
Clarke, stat IT Montana. AID bounded and de-
ecribad rs follows, to-wii:
Lot number seven ~ OF block number ssven
a. of tux's addition to tho townsite Of tho city
of Helena, "a appears by the official plat thereof
on I'll in the once of the county clerk and de-
corder OF said Lewis and Clarke county.
fub'lc notice ls hereby given that on Friday,
the 18Th day Of June, A. ID. 1891. at u o'clock IN.
OF that day AT tho front door of the court house.
He,ena. Lewis and Clarke county, Montana, /
will. in obadionce to said order OF sale and decree
of - e;loSure and sale, sell the sbove described
p~r6re-ty, or 80 much thereof a. may be
nee to satisfy said Judgment. with interest
and costs, to the highest and best bidder for cash
in hand.
Given under my hand this eth day of May, A.
ID. 1881.
! CHAs. NJ. JEFFER,s. Sheriff.
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ATCHISON

A great many people get into the swim
who can't swim.
There was never a man who was unwilling
to work tomorrow.
A Irritation is a smile to-day, & cry to-
morrow, and a blush every day thereafter.
The world never knew a man who was
better thar his mother thought he was.
There are a thousand and one ways to
make money; there is only one way to
save it.
When woman obeys man she is his de-
light; when a man obeys woman he earns
her contempt.
Before offending a man it will be we'll to
remember that enemies have wonderfully
good memories.
If it gags d man to kiss a man, why does
it not gag a woman to kiss a man? Women
are much nicer than men.
A woman never appreciates until she gets
sick how much greater her mothers love
for her was than her husbands.
Women know men better than men know
each other; probably for the reason that il
is women who marry them.
The nice things a man says TO a woman
before he marries her he is called upon tc
prove every day after he is married.
A man can usually tell his own fate by
going out and looking at the weeds on the
grave of a friend who died a year ago.
Men, az a rule, are furiously jealous Of
their wives. But there never was a mar
who would admit that his wife had a righ'
to be jealous of him.
There are very few women in the worlG
who will not get up an hour earlier in the
morning to find something to cry about; ant
very few men who will not get up an houl
eaalier in the morning to find something tc
swear at.
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THE CONGREGATIONAL COLLEGE.

The Rev. w. s. Bell Throws Some Light
on the Contest in the Committee.
To The INDEPENDENT: Having returned
to Helena last evening for the first time
since the college committee meeting al
Livingston, I find that such erroneous and
conflicting statements have been made with
reference to my attitude at the meeting,
and the action of the committee az a whole,
that deem it just to myself and to the
town of which l an a citizen, that l should
makea few explanatory statements.
First, rs TO my position on the committee.
When action was taken at Butte to equalize
the representation of the contestlng towns
on the committee, I was retained as a mem
Der. not as representing Helena, but be-
cause owing to my official position | was
supposed to represent the state as a whole.
This made it important that / should en-
deavor to divest myself of all local pre-
iudice and bias.
After the claims of the three contestants
had been presented at Livingston, felt
that while from Il pecuniary standpoint
Helena's bid was far superior to the others,
Great Falls presented some very strong in
ducements not offered by the other two. l
also felt that Helena might have secured a
more accessible and desirable site, and that
while q few of her citizens had worked
nobly, there was among the people gener-
ally a decided lack of enthuslasm-just
that kind of lack which led our honored
citizen, Fl. M. Parchen, on Tuesday even
ing to resign his position as president of
the board of trade. At the same time, the
fact that Helena is my home, naturally led
me to desire that the college should be
here.
1t soon became apparent that the contest
was to be a stubborn one. I voted part of
the time for Helena, part of the time for
Great Falls. When it became evident that
Helena could secure but five Of the seven
votes necessary for a choice, while Great
Falls could get six, l voted for Great Falls.
hoping that the other vote could be secured
and thus the matter settled, which seemed
to me very important. At DO time was my
vote Withheld from Helena When there
seemed any prospect Of her securing the
prize.
Of the five members of the committee
who were supposed not to be affected oy
local preiudices, four, including myself,
were willing to vote for either of the towns
upon which a majority of the five could
agree. One of the five did not feel that he
could surrender his own convictions, and
for the committee failing to reach any de-
clslon.
am pleased to see the interest which has
been awakened in Helena on the matter,
and her determination to secure a college of
some kind. | am also firm in tho conyic-
ton that the future will see in Montana n
Congregational college which will be the
pride OF the state and n great boon to tho
town that secures it. When the matter of
the location again comes before the com
mittee, | shall strive with impartiality to
act for the best interests of the future in
stitution. W. S, BELL,
Helena, May e.
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adversary. Our allicators had had a LONG

"
Never Of an nmiahle disposition, alli-
gators are in particularly bad humor after
y journey, and become the most ferocious
OF creatures IL they escape. Ours esca ped!
What confusion there was! Everyone rushed
to the door, the lights went out, my wife
and l were left In tho darkness, face to face
with this horrible, invisible danger.
We had climbed on a table. At n blow
from the tail Of one Of che sau riana the legs
gave way. Terrified, we rush cd from one
side of the room to the other. hunting for
the door. The friehtful grum bling Of the
angry beasts mingled with the sound OF
their tails and jaws striking against the
furniture, the fag-stones an d the walls. At
last l found the door.
We were free; but that was not the end
OF the matter. Not to be injured by a
stroke Of the tail of one of the alligators
was one point, aud not to be ruined was an
other, for these delightful companions had
cost us our little fortune. l went back car
rying Il torch. l threw myself resolutely
into the melee, and finally succeeded in
getting the saurians into safe quarters.
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"GOLD OF OPHIR.'
The Stanford Dinner to the Harrisous ant
Friends.

The Stanford Dinner to the Harrisons and
Friends.
At the Stanford dinner to the Harrisons
(given in San Francisco) covers were laid
for forty. The leading tone in the decora-
ton was gold color. Above the table the
lights of the chandelier shone in the center
of a canopy of ropes of yellow roses, called
gold of Ophir roses, set in their own foil
age. The name-cards at each place were
unique. They consisted Of a piece of palm
bark, upon which WAS tied a bunch of wild
oats and Il spray of maiden-hair fern with
a broad gold ribbon. One end of the bow
was white silk, and on this was painted il
guilt the guests name.
The souvenirs were tiny redwood buckets
in each of which was an elegant gold ano
silver soon, engraved with name and date
Washington Star.
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AN OLD SOLDIER.
Don't look so sorry, children!
/ cannot lift a gun,

Don't look so sorry. children!
cannot lift a gun,
have to shoulder crutohes now,
My marching days are done.
I've had my jolly times, dears;
A soldiers life was gay,
In those old years that came before
Your Decoration Day.
From shop and school and furrow
Recruits came trooping tast,
And bright-eyed girls were waving,
To cheer them as they passed.
l am a gray old fellow,
But was then a boy,
And yet my heart throhs quicker
At that remembered joy.
Twas brave to hear the bugles,
And to feel the big drums beat,
The only sadness, darlings, .
Was when they called retreat.
Tattoo and taps were welcome sounds
To weary men at night,
And ~reveille was splendid
At the early break of light.
I've seen the glorious times. dears
When, all the land astir,
Men swore to live for Freedom,
And smiled to die fer her;
Brave fellows sought the field. dears,
Twas craven then to lag,
When all our best and boldest
Were following the flag.
Not all the country's flower
Were on the side with me.
! fought with Grant and Sherman;
Some trained with General Lee.
But if the boys could speak, dears,
Who the blue n gray,
They'd say. Forget divisions
On Decoration day."
You can't think how it felt, dears.
To walk the sentry's beat.
Alone on some dark outpost,
Far of from home SO sweet, F..
And mother praying for you;
With battle just before,
You'd smell the lilacs blooming
Beside the kitchen door.
And ali! how home would beckon'
But then you'd stiffen up.
enlisted for the war, boys"
And bound to drink the cup
That freedoms hand should offer.
And bound the price to pay,
Mine was-you see my clutches!
This Decoration day.
Thank God we're yet a nation.
All brothers. man to man.
And they who sleep are happy;
They died-they never ran!
How keen and sweet those bugles:
How splendid are the drums!
Go children, with your flowers!
The grand procession comes!
Margaret E. Sangster.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-30

THE abundant rains are still adding
to Montana's riches. The grass on the
ranges never grew more luxuriantly,
and the sheep and cattle we're never in
finer condition. AS to the placer mines,
it is now certain that the present season
will show the greatest yield the country
has known in ten years. Montana is
not only the land of promise; it is the
land of realization. By the opening of
fall millions of dollars, the profits of the
seasons products, will be in circulation
in all our channels of trade and every
kind Of business will feel the revivifying
effects. This is not prophesy; it is what
is in sight. Let is all rejoice-and
celebrate the Fourth of July in antici-
patton.
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AiLIGATORS UNDER THE TABLE
An Animal Trainers Lively Experience
While Unpack1ng Saurians.

An Animal Trainers Lively Experience
While Unpacking Saurians.
The author of 1.-The Collections of a Lion
Tanner relates how, after being for some
years employed as an animal trainer, he
and his wife had, by great economy, saved
enough TO buy q mo lest menagerie. and re-
celVed their stock of c~rocodiles, 80! penis
and monkeys at an mn near Lyons. France.
One evening several alligators came, and
were placed in a storeroom which opened
from the courtyard. He writes:
Maria and /, with several persons to hold
lamps. set to work to unpack them. You
can imagine how agreeable that unpacking
was. The alligator is wholly lacking III
grace and gentleness. Each of his Jaws IL
ornamented with seventy-tive teeth, his
body is covered with armor that detes Mt.
tack, and his tail is an inyincib!e weapon
that can overthrow, cripple or destroy AL
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-30

PERHAPS the Helena artesian we'll will
strike oil or gas. Who knows?
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Facts for the Curious.

Fictofia's crown jewels are worth S15,-
OUO, 1850.
The total forest area of the United States
is estimated at All, 7G4 ,53S acres.
An English statistician estimates the
worlds Indebtedness at Sl50,000, 000, GOO.
The United States has G37, 900, coo gold
COINS and only 4ll,o0j, 900 of these are in
circulation.
There are abou $500 counties in the
Union, with all average size of about LOCO
square miles.
lhr coast line of Alaska exceeds in length
by 300 miles that OF all the rest of the
United States.
The word nicotine is derived from the
name OF John Nicot, who intro luced to-
bacco into France.
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dial. They have grieved the
hearts and bowed the heads OF the
Pittsburg presbytery. They have
we regret to say it--been guilty Of a ter
rible enormity. They have exercised
their rights as American citizens. They
have-~tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not
in the streets Of Askalon they have
voted at an election. Now may tho
Philistine rejoice and the daughters Of
the unreformed triumph! But we are
thankful to say that the "old guard
stands firm. T%ritiing and innovating
congregations, without a due sense of
their rich privileges IN belonging to the
Reformed communion, have petitioned
in favor of these backsliders, and have
babbled Of the rights Of private opinion.
But the old guard holds the fort. They
have referred the fate Of these young
wording to the committee on church
discipline, and their name is Dennis
That is right. Men with such liberal
ideas as these pastors cherish have no
business in the ranks of tho Reformed
Presbyterian church. Let them get
out Of it and breathe.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-30

The Washington correspondent OF the
Now York World, in a general review of
the political situation the country over,
makes a gratifying showing Of the devo-
ton and fidelity Of the democratic party
to the interests of tho people. Speak
ing Of the administrations of the demo-
cratic governors, in several states, he
says:
These energetic governors have done
more than sign good bills and veto bad ones
as they came along. Each has accom-
plished something Of material benefit to
his people. Each has stamped an earnest
individuality upon state policy and estab-
lished a precedence for intelligence in get
ting at the real needs of the people and for
persistence in accomplishing a well-detined
purpose that will keep a high STANDARD con-
stantly before the eyes OF his successors for
years to come. The amount of good thus
achieved BY positive men like Hill, Albeit.
Pattison, Campbell and Russell IS really
incalculable, for, instead of ending with
their retirement, it continues a less conspi-
cuous but not less substantial benefit for at
least one generation. No future governor
of New York will care to sanction appropri-
ations requiring a tax rate of over 1875;
none III New Jersey will dare ask the over
burdened farmers to contribute to the sup
port Of the state governments; none in Penn
s~ylvania can withhold his support from
any reform demanded by the people with
out inviting unfavorable comparisons: none
in Ohio can afford to sign a bill restricting
the full exercise of local rights, and none
in Massachusetts will be able to see a
lobbyist under the gilded dome without a
shudder.
The result is that the party in all
these states is in splendid shape for the
campaign of 1892. In not one Of them
has there been legislative jobbery or
corruption. In all there have been
capacity, integrity and economy in the
management Of the public business. It
is a good record on which to go to the
DeODle.
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Coon for Mayor Kleinschmidt!
Thanks to his public spirit and per
sistent effort the signatures of a major
~ Of Main street property owners have
been secured to the petition for paving
that thoroughfare. Now comes the
question as to the sort of pavement to
be used. Let our citizens give this
matter attention and get the best.
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Makes regular trips through Gate of Mountain
on the Missouri river, from Hilger's Landing to
Picn C Canyon and Beartooth Mountain and re-
turn, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, dur
ing the present naYigable season, leaving Hill
gers Landing at IL a. nj. and return by $3.50 .. N.
of same day. Will also make special trips with
rartles of ten persons or more on Mondays,
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, during same
hours of the day. Fare for one person to Picnic
Canyon and return On regular trips, 81. so; to
Beartooth Mountain, 81. For parties of fifteen
or more persons, 81 each 10 Picnic Canyon, and
Beartooth g.. 80, Special trpis for parties of ten
or more to Picnic Canyon s.. so; to Beartooth SO.
For parties Of fifteen or more on 81 ecial trips
So each. For parties of fifteen or more on spe-
cial or regular trips. including conveyance per
John Zeigler's band-wagon, from Helena to Hill
gers, and from Hilger's to Picnic Canyon and
return to Helena, leaving Helena at 7 a. m. and
return at $50 p, m. same day, So per person.
N. LII R Proprietor.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-17
LOCAL PERSONAL.

Mr.. A. j. Miller is critically ill at his res
idence.
Rev. NJ. 7. Reilly returned home last night
on the Chattahoochee from New York.
Mrs. B. II. Hopkins and two children,
from Jacksonville Fla, are visiting her
mother. Mrs. A. w. Sollee.
Miss T. M. Fleetwood and Master Law
renee Fleetwood sailed on the Tallahassee
yesterday for New York.
J. G. Hopkins and the Misses Bessie and
Fannie Hopkins were passengers on the
Tallahassee for New York yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. 8. l.. Outten returned home
last night after spending several weeks at
the mineral springs of North Georgia.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles r. Heron, who
spent the summer at the mountain resorts
Of New York, arrived home yesterday.
Paul johnson, entry clerk in the custom
house, has returned after spending a two
weeks vacation in the northern part of the
state.
R. L. Pritchard leaves this afternoon on
the steamship City of Macon for Boston,
where he will spend two weeks on business
and pleasure.
Rev. P. H. McMahon and his sister, Miss
Josie McMahon arrived home last night on
the Chattahoochee from New York. They
spent the summer in Europe
Mrs. W. S. Bowman, recently of this city,
Is seriously i'll at the residence of her hus-
band, Rev. DIR. Bowman, in Charlotte, N.
c. Two of Mrs. Bowmau's sisters left by
the Central railroad Tuesday night to go to