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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
Skulls Found in an Oven.

The establishment of Mr.. Pearson
of Duluth, who operates a large
store at that place, was robbed sew
eral moths ago. An inventory of
the stock showed $4,000 loss. One
of the articles taken was a large tel
escope. The attention OF the
officers detailed on the case was at
tracted to a mysterious red cottage
at Powder lake, and Simon Neil, it's
more mysterious owner. A visit
was made to the place by officers.
When they attempted to arrest him
he seized a revolver from a bed, ex-
claiming: " You will never take me
from here alive" Before he could
raise his revolver the guns of the Of
fcers covered him, so he tossed his
weapon back on the bed as the Of
fcers requested him to do. Search
was made of the cottage, and hidden
away under a pile of papers was the
telescope taken from the Duluth
merchant. Under the bed was
found a striped suit Of convict's
clothing. Neil refused to explain
how he got it, and it was thought
that at one time he perhaps served a
term in a penitentiary and escaped
before his time expired and kept his
suit as a remembrance of his flight.
The large oven in the kitchen was
opened, which was filled with human
bones. Six skulls highly polished
which had the color of a nicely
Drowned meerschaum pipe, were
found. The prisoner positively re-
fused to say a word about how he
got them or to whom they formerly
belonged. The skulls were not dis
turbed, but the striped suit which
was under the bed was taken to the
Central station. Neil was taken to
Duluth, where he was convicted as
an accessory to the theft of goods
from the Duluth store and sentenced
to fifteen months in the state prison
at Saltwater. The man was as mute
after being sentenced about the
clothes and human bones as when
the officers, arrested him. Among
some decayed leaves and weeds a
the cottage door vas found an old
envelope on which were the words:
"Clara Neil, Air Line Junction, To-
ledo, O. The ink had SO faded that
the address was indistinct.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

THE best hit hat Il. E. Collins
made in his Neihart speech and that
which was cheered most was purely
a republican doctrine. He said that
revenues for the state expenses
should be collected from ga and
personal property directly assessed
and not by the sale of licenses to
conduct business. This doctrine is
taken from the republican platform
adopted at Great Falls. 1t is sur
prising to what ends men will resort
for the sake of a political argument.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
Two Books of Rules.

Leo Tolstoi, the Russian novelist,
who has ideas of his own as to the
right of the community to punish it's
offending members, saw the other
day a policeman take an individual
into custody. He at once walked up
to the constable and said:
Can you read?'
Certainly, sir"
Have you read the Scriptures"
Yes, sir"
Then you forget that they CON-
mand us to love Jul neighbors as
ourselves
The minion of the law, quite taken
aback, stared at the count; then,
after a moments reflection. made
answer:
And, pray, can you readG"
Yes"
Have you read the police regula-
tions?"
No"
"Then read them. Green Bag.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
f.. l.. MURPHY.

The above named gentleman has
been in and about Meagher county
since 1882. He was first known as
a miner in the camp Clendenin. He
followed prospecting in that district
for a season. 1t was, and has ever
been, his custom to come and go as
the camp went up or down and he
has often left his claims in dull years
to 60 by default. He next bosbed
up, to the notice of Neihart people,
at the .town of Wickes, where he
is said to have taken part in
a labor agitation, and lost his
lob in a smelter. He came to Mel
hart about four years ago and follow
ed representing and prospecting till
the winter of '9O,-'91 when he open
ed a small faro game with his con-
federate, Frank McGreggor, in
different saloons in the town of Mel
hart. This was at the tail end of his
term as president of the Miners
Union, he standing i'll with the work
ing men apparently to fleece them OF
their hard earned stuff. He has
since repeatedly changed his voca-
ton from miner to faro dealer, always
taking up the former when no long
err able to cash checks at the latter.
He pays taxes in county on the mag
nifcient sum of $500 worth Of pro-
perry not real estate, after spending
ten years of his life in the glorious
west. Do the voters of this county
desire this man to represent them in
the Senate in preference to the hon
orable, straightforward David B..
Folsom, whose record we have pre-
viously set forth and who has made
his undertakings a success.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
The Rig Trees of Puget Sound.

AAc DiS AiCCo VI oSSo DO"
The last of the great forests of tie
United States are those of the Pacific
coast, and UNNECESSARILY the great
est of them is what is known as the
Puget sound forest, extending from
the British Columbia line on the
north to the Columbia river on the
south, and from the Cascade noun
tains on the east to the Pacific ocean.
Where the forests are at all dense
the average amount per square mile
is greater than in any other forest in
the world. This is largely due to the
extreme humidity of the atmosphere
and the character Of the soil, which
is one of the richest anywhere found.
At the foot of Mount Tacoma there
are trees that by actual measurement
by one of the best surveyors N the
coast, Professor Fred G. Plummer,
have been found to be $50 feet high.
Professor Charles T. Sargent, who
prepared many Of the articles on the
forest trees of America for the cen
sus of 1880, stated that the Douglas
fir had q trunk from 0.63 to 1866 me
ters, or from 2 feet Z inches to II feet
in diameter.
The red cedar is of still larger
growth and is often found to exceed
20 feet in diameter, and on Johns
river, which flows into Gray's har-
Dor, is a red cedar apparently sound
all through that measures 36 feet in
diameter at the butt, two feet from
the ground, and 80 feet i'll diameter
at six feet from the ground. This is
of course exceptional, but cedars 20
feet in diameter or 63 feet in circu1n-
ference are very frequently met with
in the state.-San Francisco Chron-
ic1a
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
The City of Babylon.

Accordingto HerodOtus, the ancient
city of Babylon stood on a broad,
level plain and was an exact square
of fourteen miles each way, making
the entire circuit of the city ffty-six
miles. 1t was protected both by a
wall and a moat, the latter being
broad and deep and kept constantly
filled with water. But the wall was
the wonder of wonders, being 93B
feet in width and an even 200 feet in
height. This monster barrier was
provided with 100 gates, all of solid
brass, the lintels and side pieces be-
ing in bronze. Cross walls ran along
the banks of the Euphrates, each
provided with twenty-five gates.
which corresponded to the number
of streets running in each direction
from the river.
The most remarkable edifice inside
the wall was the Temple of Bel, a
pyramid of eight square stadia. On
the summit of this pyramid stood a
pure gold image of Bel forty feet
high, two other smaller figures of
the same precious metal and a golden
table 40 feet long and Is feet wide.
This wonderful city first came promi-
nently into the history Of the world
in the year 747 B. c., but since the
time of Alexander the Great it has
been a ruin, the site having at one
time been entirely lost.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

SENATOR MATS who spoke last
Friday night for the democratic
cause gave an especially dry dis
course. The speaker merely talked
on, without displaying much elo-
quence, and his arguments did not
fire his listeners with special enthu-
siasm. He made one assertion, how
ever. which took tremendously when
he gave his endorsement to the acts
of strikers at Homestead and in the
Ceur d. Alene country. He said
that the case is identical with the
fight between the north and the
south, both troubles being by Amer.
leans fighting for their rights. The
comparison reads we'll in poetry, but
the wilful destruction of life and
property as seen in the latter case is
non-American, non-union, treasona-
BILE; besides, more than half of the
persons implicated claimed p%rotec-
ton under a foreign flag.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
POLICY.

The public is more and more a
wake to the masked policy of demo-
Gratis and their organs in trying to
show how democratic and populistic
ideas are identical. Powderly says,
'If poor men continue to vote the
democratic ticket they will never be
any thing else than poor men," We
call especial attention to the tele-
graphic report on our front page as
figures are given by the Hon. Chas.
Foster, the present secretly of the
treasury.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

We shall not soon forget Il visit to
the thriving mining town of Neihart.
Appreciative audiences greeted US at
lectures. Our thanks are due Rev. Mr..
Vigus of the M. f. church, Mr.. Norell Of
the City bank and the editorial
brethren, and foreman of the Mel
TART HERALD. The citizens of
Neihart are justly noted for their
generous hospitality. A prosperous
future is assured for the place.
THE above is a much appreciated
compliment which appears in The
High Private, a fine semi-monthly
paper published at Fort Assiniboine
by Chaplain g. c. Bateman, who
lectured so ably to our citizens a
short time ago. We extend this
editor our best and heartiest wishes
and trust that he may again be able
to give us one of bis valuable talks.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
Secret Tele~ranh ReCeIver.

The public has very little ide OF
the amount of leakage that goes
on in the transmission Of telegraph
messages. An operator may be care
lessly lounging in the vicinity OF a
way station or railway office Win
his hands in his coat pockets, one
hand being busy in taking down
with a short pencil on a pad lntor-
nation of the utmost Importance
which the noisy sounder is ticking
off, and which may be used to the
serious detriment of the interests OF
the sender.
With a view to gauge the extent
to which such eavesdropping could
be carried an expert operator was
employed a short time ago to call at
some of the Wall street brokers' Of
fees, as well as some Of the city no
tells of New York. OF some dozen
offices he visited he was able in this
way to obtain information more on
less important from every one, and
LII UllC llOGClS IL was lOulIu DC1ICttly
easy to take any and every message.
By way of remedying this very Sc
riOus drawback in certain classes Of
Geographic work a '~'secret" tele-
graph receiver has been devised.
This instrument is fitted with special
resonator of aluminium of extreme
sonorousness. Although the instru-
ment as generally constructed may
be kept SO adjusted that no move
ment of the armatures can be de-
tected with the naked eye, and that
no sounds can be heard without
holding the ear close to the instru-
ment, this %resonator even under such
conditions transmits the message to
a receiving tube from which the sig
nails can be easily read. -Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

If ANY citizen wishes to know
who David F.. Folsom is, let him ask
our fellow townsman, Daniel Lenny.
When MIR. Lenny came to Montana,
Mr.. Folsom owned a sheep ranch
near the Springs. Lenny found in
him a friend and an employer. He
worked some months for Mr.. Folsom
during which time he received s. to
$40 a month more than other ranch
ers around were paying. He enjoy
ed also the liberties of the house, and
the use of the family library; and
when Mr.. Folsom could no longer
give him work he took him in his
own buggy to a neighboring farmer,
who on the recommendation of Fol-
som, gave him steady employment.
Mr.. Folsom always pays high wages
from principle and not because he
fears any organization or body of
men. He befriends the laborer out
of a common, sympathetic feeling,
and this same feeling will prompt
him, once a senator, to do great
things for the people.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
Mining Application No. 1857.
l. S. Land Office, Helena Montana, !
c. = IOAl Z

~ ~ Acp~'
Notice is hereby given that Patrick II. Hughes,
Paris Gibson and Timothy E. Collins whose post
office address is Great Falls, have made applica-
ton for a patent for 800, 1.500 ard 1897 linear
feet, respectively, on the BLUE DICK, AZUR-
IDE and PAUPER'S DREAM lodes, bearing gold
situated in Judith mining district. Meagher coun-
ty, Montana, anddescribed in the official plat and
field notes on file in this office as follows, viz:
Beginning on survey number 4045 at corner
number l from which L. 5. L. VI. 4045 bears south
80 degrees 46 minutes west, 1863 feet: thence south
40 degrees > minutes west, 800 feet: south 20
degrees 55 minutes east Geo feet north 40 degrees
) minutes east, 100 feet: north 70 degrees 80
minutes west 600 feet.
On survey number 1876 at corner number l from
which [. S. L. NJ. bears south 30 degrees 4G
minutes west 1868 feet: thence north Ii degrees
2S minutes east 1,50 feet: south 20 degrees 50
minutes east 600 feet; south II degrees rs minutes
west 1.5G0 feet: north 70 degrees So minutes west
600 feet.
On survey number 4041, at corner number /,
from which l.. s. l.. M, 4045 bears south 81
minutes 46 minutes west 1868 feet: thence north
II degrees % minutes east $50 feet; north IS de-
grees So minutes west 1913 feet: south II degrees
As min. W. 1887 feet: south 20 degrees 50 minutes
east 1882 feet: north 10 degrees > minutes east
800 it. Containing 51.91 acres and from a portion
of the (unsurveyed) section ID north range 10 east.
The location of this mine is recorded in the
Recorders office of Meagher county. Adjoining
claimants are unknown.
All persons holding adverse claims thereto are
required to present the same before this office
within sixty days from the first day of publication
hereof, or they will be barred by virtue of the
provisions of the statute.
1852 5. A. SwIGGETT,
Register.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
The HEDGEHOG.

The hedgehog runs the roads in
England freely. He is a quaint lit
tie fellow, our hedgepig, having far
more intelligence than people give
him credit for. 1t is curious, as you
stand perfectly still in the middle of
the road, to see him come running
along, then stopping to sniff and
whine and examine the high, strange
object that hardly breathes lest he
startle the little creature. Then
with a gentle grunt he will pass you
by. A very low yet decided grunt
he gives, and he whines as WE'LL
BlackWood's Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
COUNTY TICKET.
Judge Sixth Judicial District
FRANK HENRY, of Park.

Senator,
DAVID 2. FOLSOM, of VIII. Sui. Spr
Representatives,
G. L. PARKER, of Neihart.
Y. E. BENSON, of Castle.
Sheriff,
ARTHUR FOWLER, of Neihart.
Treasurer,
GEO. CATLIN, of VIII. Sulph. Spr.
Clerk and Recorder
CHAS. E. HILL, of VIII. Sui. Spr.
Attorney,
n. C. BAINUM, of VIII. Sui. Spr.
Clerk of Court,
B. W. BADGER, of VIII. Sui. Spr.
Assessor.
J. II. FREEMAN, of Castle.
supt. of Pub. Inst.
MRS. BELLE BLAZER, OF Townsend
Public Administrator.
ED. C. HILL, of VIII. Sui. Spr.
For Public Administrator,
ED. C. HILL, of VIII. Sulph. Spr.
Surveyor.
R. G. WIGHT, of VIII. Sui. spr.
Coroner,
DIR. CRAIG, of VIII. Sui. Spr.
Commissioners.
GEO. W. BROWN, of Neihart.
JOB THOMPSON, Of Townsend.
!. A. McNAUGHT, of Martinsdale.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
Hurt in His Fathers House.

A poor Irish lad was sitting by a
turf fire in his fathers cottage when
suddenly an explosion occurred and
something struck him in the eye,
causing a wound which necessitated
the removal of the eye. The only
explanation seems to be that a car
fridge had been dropped on the turf
by some sportsman, had been trodden
in and out of sight and finally ex-
ploded when the dried turf was laid
on the fire.-LOndOn Tit-BitS.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

C. l.. PARKER, our own straight
forward and gifted leader, is grow
ing in popularity as the campaign
advances. His recent visit to the
southern part of the county was vast
ly in his favor, and it seems as a run
ner he will make time in that locali-
ty. Frankness and honesty are al
ways to be admired, especially when
chicanery and trickery are pittcd a
gainst them.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
STATE TICKET.

Congressman,
CHAS. S. HARTMAN, of Gallatln.
Governor.
.JNO. E. RICHARDS, OF Silver Bow.
Lieut.. Governor,
ALIEN. C. BOTKIN, of Lewis Il Clarke
Secretary of state,
LOUIS ROTWTTT, OF Meagher.
Treasurer,
FRED. w. WRIGHT, of Park.
Auditor,
ANDREW B. COOK, of Mlssoula.
Attorney General,
HENRI J. HASKELL, Of Dawson.
Supt. of Schools,
E. A. STEERE, of Beaverhead.
Chief Justice.
HENRY N. BLAKE, of Madison.
Clerk of Supreme Court,
BENJAMIN WEBSTER. of Choteau.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

TEARS larger than teakettles roll
ed down the cheeks of Hon. 7. E.
Collins while he was showing how
there could be but two political par
ties, the ms and the outs. 1t is in
deed a pitiable circumstance when
two political parties so far apart in
principle as the peoples and the
democratic, come to compare woes.
1t lisa "Mountain of Misery" where
Jupiter sees men lay down sore
heads, and pick up blind eyes and
deaf ears to take their place.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

Is IT better to import cheap labor
from North Dakota and Canada than
from the old country. What else
has the east end of Neihart been do
ing for the past two years? Saw
mill hands worked for 1926 a month
and board all last winter. No word
of explanation or criticism is offered,
but William Tierner asks for the la
boring mans vote. Will he get it?
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

THE Miner tried to create a tenn
pest in a tea pot on account of the
Messrs. Brown and Parker being
capitalists. The thunder has pealed
and its echo has died away, and
neither have the people been fright
ened nor hoodwinked. Let them
say if VIM. Tierney of Neihart and
VIM. E. Tierney of Townsend are
any better fitted for the same posi-
tons.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

Two things look suspicious to the
HERALD and to the public. First,
why hasn't our opponent given Jas.
OMAR its support? Second, why
hasn't it explained Peck's labor re-
port? Hot mush is eaten with diff
Guilty even in small bites.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
A HOPELESS A S
He Had Figured 1t All Out and Took
Things PhilosOphicaIIy.

Things Philosophically.
A claim, beautifully situated on
upland prairie, but waist high with
weeds; a dilapidated sod shack whose
matched roof, as in the old song,
''let in the sunshine and the rain,"
whose cubby hole windows were
broken here and there and stuffed
with wearing apparel of various hues,
and whose four walls were so storm
worn that they barely held together;
an ancient wagon here, with n
wheel off and a hopeless stagger in
the other three; a ghost of a horse
there, grazing in a patch of thistles,
and a man in the shadow Of the shack
smoking and complacently cycling
the desOlation about him.
"Hello,' | cried, hating my horse;
whats the matter here2"
Matter with what?" drawled a
voice, as the speaker turned upward
a pair of languid eyes.
Why, with this farm. Running
down, isn'tit!"
He shrugged his shoulders and
smoked on in silence.
DO you live here3"
''Uh-huh."
''Married?"
"Gosh-a-mighty"
Why don't you fix things up2
Look ut that wagon, there. How do
you get to town."
Ride horseback"
looked toward his shadow Of a
horse and remarked pointedly:
''Thistles are poor fodder"
"ShO! wonder"
Why don't you picket your horse
on the long grass down yonder in the
bottom?"
Puff. puff, puff-and a wreath of
smoke was my only answer.
Don't you know" l went on Sc,
verely, that the animal will die if
you don't take care of him? Then
how would you get to town."
"Hoof it, l reckon"
IF | were you I'd have some snap
about me. I'd pillow up all these
weeds and get this farm into some
kind of condition"
'Fate's agin it," he said, shaking
his head ominously.
"Why so?"
Knocking the ashes out of his pipe,
he put it away and hooked up n of
his knaoc with both hands
Look here, stranger, this hero
claims full O wild mustard. Do you
know how many seeds there is in
m O them plants?"
NO"
We'll, | spent all last summer
finlin out an averagin up the
chances. They's 81, 900 seeds in one
o them tarnation little plants. That
means 81 600 plants to raise $1,000
more seeds next year, an how many
billion plants d'you s'pose they is on
this place, anyhow. Jest guess an
multiply that by 81, 900 why,
stranger, you couldn't git all the
fggers on an ordinary slate. 1 amt
no fool, tho l do brag a mite OF
flosofy, an | tell you, now, I amt
goin to struggle agin fate. I've been
White Capped in Kentucky, grass
hoppered in Kansas, hailed out O.
Dakoty, an now if this blamed mus
tard's goin to drive me out O here l
shan't fly in the face o Providence
Ell that's what"
Then he took his pipe out of one
pocket and a handful Of tobacco out
of the other, and proceeded to fix
himself for another smoke.
looked at him a moment, resigned
him mentally and rode away.
But I'm glad that mustard haln't
h1ndock," he called after me "'cause
every derned burdock is responsible
for 400, 600 more, am
lost the rest. Ihad heard enough,
however, to set me thinking.-De-
trOit Free Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
The Streets of Amsterdam.

Amsterdam, in Holland, a city of
ten miles in circumference, is mostly
built on piles driven into the sandy
subsoil, but the flowing of the tide
and the debris of the Ainstel river
has made ninety islands, and the city
has more canals than streets. The
watery ways are traversed by over
500 bridges, SO that Amsterdam has
earned the designation of the Venice
of the North.-BOstOn Globe.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
The Wedding Ring of St. Anne

st. Anne, the mother of the Virgin
Mary, is worshiped on July 26. She
was the third daughter Of Matthew,
a priest, and Mary, his wife, and was
married to Joachim in Galilee. Their
wedding ring was kept by the nuns
of St. Anne in Rome, and it worked
miracles. It was stolen during the
sacking of the city in 1924, but was
brought back by a crow, which laid
it upon a stone where the nuns found
it.-St. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15
The Ice Cream Scoop.

An inexpensive utensil is the ice
cream scoop. 1t costs but forty cents,
and is worth several times the price
to the woman deputized to ladle out
the ice cream at a fair or fete.
These scoops cut out the cream in
perfect forms, giving Tom the same
amount as Dick or Harry. Anybody
who has tried to preserve even a de-
gree of impartialjty III her haste be.
hind the scenes at a church fair, for
example, will recognize the value of
this invention. Her Point of View
in New York Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-15

WE COME back with the same
argument the editor of the Miner
uses. He prints another lie. David
Folsom is not a gambler, and Ed. l..
Murphy has dealt faro within the
last two years. Read his record in
another column, Mr.. Miner and swal-
low the lie. When you get the
slime off the walls of a Dublin Jail
scraped from your eyelids so look in
a glass and see yourself as the
public see you.