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Chewing Birdskins.

The Eskimo method of preparing bird
skins is extremely peculiar, and therefore
interesting, and is thus described:
The first step is carefully to dry the
feathers, then the skins are turned inside
out, and the layer of fat scraped away as
thoroughly as possible with mussel shell
great delicacy. Then the skins are hung
up under the roof to dry.
After few days the last remnants Of
fat are removed from them by means OF
chewing. Then they are dried again,
then washed in warm water with soda and
soap three times over, then rinsed out in
very cold water, pressed and hung up fol
the final drying. If the feathers are to be
removed, SO that only the down is left-as,
for example, in the case of the elder duck
they are plucked out when the skin is
half dry. Then it is thoroughly dried and
cut up, and SO is ready for use.
The chewing is very remarkable proc
ess. The operator takes the skin, almost
dripping with fat, and chews away at one
spot till all the fat is sucked out and the
skin is soft and white. Then the chewing
area is slowly widened, the skin gradually
retreating farther and farther into the
mouth, often until it disappears entirely,
to be spat out again at last with every par
ticle of fat chewed away.
This industry is for the most part car
ried on by the women and children and
is very highly relished by reason Of the
quantity of oil it enables them to absorb.
In times of scarcity the men are often glad
enough to be allowed to do their share.
1t is a strange scene that is presented
when one enters house and finds the
whole population thus engaged in chew
ing, each with a skin in his mouth. The
peculiar excellence of the Greenland bird
skin is due to this process. Family Her.
aid.
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WITH HIS Dogs
s: IN NORWAY.
Waiter Wellman and His Party
Received With Cordially.
ALL CUSTOMS DUTIES RENTED.

Foot on Norwegian Soil, q Thing That Has
Never Been Done Before-Norse Scholars
to Go North With the Party-A Good sea-
son For Arctic Work Predicted.
copyright, 1894. by Walter Wellman. All
rights reserved
AALEsUND, Norway, April 20.-In four
days the Walter Wellman north polar ex-
petition will sail from this pretty port for
the arctic seas. The icy waters are not
far away. Five or six days up the pictur-
esque coast Of Norway to Tromso, and
then, about May 1, straight northward
into the polar ocean, which lies at the very
gates of that far northern town. From the
weather which we have had since our ar
rival here one would not suspect himself
to be farther north than the southern end
of Greenland or beyond the sixty-seco
parallel. For 10 days we have been with
out overcoats. We sit by open windows
and sip our coffee upon the veranda of our
hotel. If transportation lines were always
prompt, if transshippers did not insist
upon smashing up the most precious parts
of our outfit, and if the eager eyes of all the
officials in Norway were not upon our pack
of half a hundred draft hounds, we should
be thoroughly happy, despite the near ap-
preach of the day on which we are to
plunge from civilization into the unknown,
the mysterious and therefore the dreaded
regions of the far north.
We have been made welcome in Nor
way. The English understood us and ad-
mired even the dashy American way in
which we have set about our task. But
these Norwegians, sons of the mountains
and the fords, Injured to the storms of the
arctic seas while pursuing whales and seal,
have genuine appreciation Of the difficult
ties which confront us as we'll as of the
practical means which we have adopted in
hopes of overcoming them. From the out
set we have been made to feel that the Nor
wegians were our friends. At Liverpool
we were met by our agent from Christi
ania, gentleman whose name indicates
his characteristics Wright-who bore
with him three important documents. One
was a contract with the five gentlemen
from the University of Christiania who are
to accompany us in part for the purpose of
scientific investigation, the second a per-
NIT from the authorities for the importa-
ton free of duty of all the outfit and pro.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1894-10-26
THE MINING RECORD
A LOCAL AND GENERAL REVIEW OF
IT, THE LEADING INDUSTRY.

Two New Mills i'll the Royal District
New Enterprise in Madison County
A Nations Folly-Ihe Lead Duty-A
Great Saving-General Mining Notes.
Peter Scherr, who has been mining
and prospecting about Princeton for the
last six years. is now on the road to for
tune. He has a gold mine adjoining the
Royal and has several hundred tons of
ore out ready for milling. He recently
placed mill Of five stamp capacity on
the property and was in Anaconda this
week attending to the shipping Of an
engine and other machinery to operate
the mill.
Very encouraging reports are received
from the Lookout mine in the Princeton
district. Thos. Finn, an old time miner
who visited Anaconda during the week,
declares it is the best mine he has seen
in Montana. 1t is a gold property. A
mill has been purchased and the manage
ment is anxiously awaiting its arrival. A
ST. Paul capitalist has invested $4,000 in
this property and is we'll pleased. 1t is
said the Granite Mountain people are
very anxious to buy an interest if they
can secure control, but being unable to
do this they will not invest.
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General Mining Notes,

British Columbia wants a Mining Bu-
reau SO as to advertise its mining re-
sources.
The Homestake mine, in the Black
Hills, has eight years supply Of ore for
its mill in sight.
Cripple Creek, Colorado's best gold
camp, is turning out over half million
dollars a month.
Arizona has produced more than $780,
100000 Of precious metals. The exports
OF silver have exceeded $5,000O0O a year.
Of copper $4,O00,0O0.
China is buying American wheat and
Japan is buying our lead. Last week 200
tons Of lead, to be used in making cart
ridges, was shipped to Japan.
The tin plate factories of Pittsburg are
reported going to close on account of the
new tariff law. Thousands of men will
be thrown out of employment.
The Houston copper mines, Houston.
Idaho, have been leased by w. A. Clark
y Co. of Butte, and will be worked by a
large force this fall and winter
Charles 0. Parsons, who was the first
perintendent Of the Boston Il Montana
smelter at Great Falls, died at Spokane
last week from typhoid fever. Mr.. Par
sons was well known and respected in
mining circles throughout the State
Captain Miles Standish of Salt Lake
has purchased the Placer Basin group
near Seven Devils, Washington county,
Idaho, for S150,000. The property CON
sists OF four quartz claims owned by E.
M. Barton, j. A. Dimick and Harry
Siskrow.
w. NJ. Potter brought in from his
placer mines at Potter gulch, sixteen
miles from Helena, 81 ounces of gold
dust worth $18 an ounce. The largest
nugget washed out this year was worth
1913 and there We're a great number of
smaller ones worth from IS to S15.-
Mining Area.
The Anaconda slnelters use up $4,000
fire brick every month. The brick are
manufactured at Anaconda. The tireclay
comes from Three Forks, Jefferson
county, and the silica rock from Beaver
head county. An order for 100000 fire
brick for the coke ovens at Belt, is now
being filled. One hundred and sixty men
find employment at the brick works.
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SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

Many varieties of wood are stronger
than steel.
Analysts say that butter is the most nu-
trltjous article Of diet and that bacon
comes next.
The right side Of the human body,
when maynetlzed, gives off blush light
and the lett side a ye!loWish red.
Arctic explorers who have found them
selves i'll the midst of an aurora describe
it as producing cooling, pricllly sensa-
tion aud a very eXhilarating effect.
In Australia horses and cattle are now
being branded by electricity from storage
batteries The temperature is uniform
and the brand safe and artistic.
Sir John Lubbock is authority for the
statement that 4 single bee, with all its
industry, energy and innumerable jour
neys will not collect more than single
teaspconful of honey during d season.
The discovery has been made by a
scientific Frenchman that potatoes
planted near an electric wire grow to be
very large, and that tomatoes in contact
with an electric wire ripen eight days
earlier than usual.
Solitary confinement is calculated, doc
tors state, to produce melancholia, suici-
dal mania and loss Of reason. Nine
months OF absolute solitary confinement
are almost certain to result in the mental
ruin Of the convict.
Scientific research shows that meats,
fish, milk and other animal foods cost
more than flour, meal and other staple
vegetable foods to getthe same nutritious
result, 1t is also shown that the heavy
work of the world is not done by the
meat eaters.
A writer in Harper's Weekly says that
the upper great lakes were once drained
by way of the Illinois river. and that the
bed Of the Illinois is now but thirty feet
higher than the Niagara river. TO cutthe
Illinois fifty feet deeper would, therefore,
turn the flow Of the lakes into the Missis
sippi and leave Niaga1a dry.
We may soon have aluminium tea
kettles, warranted not to rust, and not to
crack when hot and suddenly filled with
cold water. They are very light, too, and
it is asserted that water boils in them in
half the time required for it to boil in
iron or tin, but that SQUADS like the par
tial enthusiasm of an advertiser.
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ANOTHER OLD-TIMER GONE,

Ex-Sheriif Brown, of Madison County,
Dies at His Old Home i'll Illinois.
Mark Brown, who was we'll known all
over this section Of Montana, died at his
fathers home in Turner, Ill.,, on the 9TH
Of this month, says the Virginia City
MadisonAn. The deceased served two
terms as sheriff Of Madison county and
had many friends in southern Montana
The following notice of his death is from
the DuPage County Qll.) Independent:
"Nark Brown, son of Thomas Brown, one
Of our oldest settlers, was born in Turner,
June 4, 1877. and resided here until the
spring Of 1861, when at the age Of seven
teen he enlisted in Co. G., 141st Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, and served the hun
dred days Of his enlistment, when he re-
turned to his home again. In the spring
Of 1866 he, in company with his brother,
William II. Brown, took the overland
route to Montana. There he continued
to reside until October Of last year when
he came home, suffering from an acute
attack Of kidney and liver trouble From
this he never recovered, and his death
has been expected for a long time. Dur
ing the years he spent in Montana he was
twice elected as the Republican sheriff Of
Madison county, one OF the largest coun
ties in that state, and filled the Office in a
way that made him both hated and feared
by the lawless element of that part of the
state. Mr.. Brown was u member of the
Masons, Odd Fellows and Eastern Star
societies and by which he was buried.n
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LOCAL CAMPAIGN
A GOOD MEETING At THE coiIRT
HOUSE WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

George w. Oker, Nominee for the Legis-
lature, and j. H. Schwend Candidate,
for Assessor, Make Patriotic Speeches
in Support of the Peoples Cause.
The Populists held a good meeting in
the court house last Wednesday evening,
presided over by the chairman of the
county central committee, DR.. A. II.
Mitchell. Addresses were made bv J
Henry Schwend, candidate for assessor.
and Geo. W. Oker, candidate for the
legislature.
A good crowd was present and listened
to the speakers with the deepest interest.
Mr.. Schwend, the first speaker, entered
into areyiew Of the financial legislation
of the two old parties and proved by
figures that the salary of the office Of
president has quadrupled since Lincoln's
time in its power to purchase all the
great staples He presented with great
fairness the superior merits Of the popu-
list platform over that Of its opponents,
the half-horse and half-alligator platform
of the Demo-Republican party. which is
like Emory Storrs' mermaid-too much
fish to embrace and too much woman to
fry. .-~....@
Mr.. Oker followed with strong appeal
to all Nlontanians to support the party of
the people, His speech undoubtedly
won him many votes, and those who be-
lleve that the working men of the state
should have representative Of their own
class in the legislature will vote for Mr..
Oker; and they may rest assured that he
Will vote for no man for senator from
Montana who will not be true to the in
terests Of the state, and for no law which
is not just to all. He is an earnest and
forcible talker and will undoubtedly
catch the speakers eye Of the next house
when he takes his seat as a member
from Deer Lodge county.
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El Paso county, Col, resolved to support
the Republican State ticket to restore the
standing Of the State.
The A. p. A. in Washington is sending
candidates for public places 4 copy of its
platform, with arequest for an immediate
opinion Of each section thereof.
Tammany Hall Democracy nominated
Nathan Strauss for Mayor of New York
city. The outi-Tammany Democrats in
dorsed Strong, the nominee Of the Com
mittee Of Seventy.
Senator Hills friends are commenting
severely on the fact that Vice President
Stevenson is the only member Of the Ad-
ministration who has congratulated him
on his Gubernatorial nomination.
All the Legislative tickets in Colorado
have women candidates, and it is certain
that number Of women members will
help make the laws at the next session.
About 10000 women have registered.
John NJ. Thurston for the Republicans
and Congressman w. J. Bryan for tie
Democrats in Nebraska are to engage in
a series Of debates on the relative claims
of the merits of their respective parties
on silver.
In emulation of the women's work in
Kentucky against Colonel Breckinridge,
there is forming in New York an anti
Tammany Women's auxiliary association,
which will use its influence to secure
votes against the Tammany ticket this
fall
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1894-10-26
THE POLITICAL ARENA.

Tammany Hall has over 5000 men on
the New York city payroll.
Governor Mckinley is going to make
several speeches in New York.
Women will vote FOR trustees of the
State University in Illinois this year.
The Illinois Republicans are counting
upon majority of from 10000 to 10000.
The total assessment of the Democratic
candidates for county offices in Chicago
is $4,000.
a new law in Illinois provides for regis
tration every two years instead of four, as
heretofore.
Senator Sherman will speak in the Ohio
campaign and perhaps at a few points
outside the State.
Illinois will probably give the largest
Republican majority of any Western
State this year.
Mr.. Morton,s letter accepting the nomi
nation for the Governorship Of New York
has been given to the public.
It is said that Jerry Simpson is the only
Populist candidate for Congress in Kan
sas who is likely to be elected.
The great query in New York now is,
Will Grover Cleveland say word in favor
OF the election of David b. Hill?
The Democratic club Of Brooklyn,
N. y, comes out and openly repudiates
the nomination of Senator Hill for Gov
ernor.
The Louisiana sugar planters want Nc
kinley to come to New Orleans and de-
livera protection speech, but the governor
will be unable to go.
The Democrats Of Colorado Springs in
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The Lead DUTY,

The Mckinley law made foreign lead
dutiable at the rate Of $50 per ton, while
the German bill makes it dutiable at $15
per ton. Another very painful fact is
that under this intelligent Democratic
regulation of the duty, lead continues to
be quoted at q small fraction over 3 cents.
at which rate there is not a lead mine in
the United States that can be worked to
o profit unless it assays very high in sill
yer. One of the greatest lead mines in
the world is the Sunset, in the Cuur-
d'Alenes, but it is idle because under the
threat of free lead for two years and
under the final reality of three -fourths of
a cent duty, the owners OF it realize that
its operation would be losing venture.
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machinery formerly used. The power
house is situated one and a half miles
IRON the mine, the generators being
operated by Pelton water wheels under
500 foot head. The cencentrator and
compressor are each driven by 175 Kilo-
watt motor, while a $50 Kilowatt motor
serves to operate the mine pump, raising
800 gallons Of water per minute to q
height OF 800 feet. One great advantage
attending the use of electric power is
stated to be the avoidance Of destructive
effects Of steam on the timbering of the
Shafts Mining and Market Reporter.
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Attention Voters.

The law Of 1893 amended the registra-
tion law Of 1889 in several important par
ticulars, and voters should be careful and
not rely upon the old law.
Unless voters name appears on the
"check lists" or on the copies Of the otli-
cial register furnished by the registry
agents to the judges of election, at the
election precinct where he offers to vote,
he cannot vote.
Under the old law voter who had been
registered had the right to ask for a Ger
titicate which would be given him, en-
titling him to vote at any precinct in the
county except the one in which he was
registered. That is amended He may
get certificate, and a registration agent
on being presented with such certificate
will register him for the precinct in
which he wishes to vote, but he cannot
vote on the certificate.
Every citizen must reside in county
thirty days before the day OF election, or
he cannot vote.
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Odd Fellows Officers.

The Grand Lodge I. o. 0. F. elected
the following officers at Missoula Wed
nesday of last week: Grand master, r.
w. Nicol, Hamilton; deputy grand mas
ter, Thomas Stees, Butte; grand warden,
j. 5. Kemp, Missoula; grand secretary,
A. j. White, Butte; grand treasurer, VIII
liam Wood; grand representative to Sow
ereign Grand Lodge, Massena Bullard,
Helena. The other grand officers will be
appointed in due time by the grand
master-elect, The next meeting will be
held at Walkerville.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1894-10-26
CLEMENTS AND "TOM"
WHAT THESE WORTHY GENTLEMEN
SAY OF ANACONDA'S FRIENDS.


The People of Montana Should Read
These Extracts from Speeches Made by
Two of iIelena's Prominent Citizens
Engaged in the Capital Campnign.
The following from the Missoula Dem
ocrat is self-explanatory
Judge Clements Of Helena is a recip-
lent Of Northern Pacific favors and is
going over the state in 4 special COACH
placed at the disposal Of Helena men BY
that giant corporation. At Livingston
Judge Clements made a speech, which,
for foul mouthings has not been, equaled
by any Helena booster during the present
campaign, and there have been some
dirty filings. A stenographic report Of
the judges talk is as follows:
"Judge Cullen and myself have been
fifteen days going over this state, and |
find that this contest has brought to the
front the vi]est specimens of humanity,
and that they are Anaconda's shouters.
81 find that the gambler has new
suit of clothes and is going about offering
to bet money on Anaconda
81 find the drunkard has straightened
his back and is moving around a little
later at night and a little earlier in the
morning, and he is shouting for Ana
conda.
"Iou will find the wife beater CON
stantly talking capital, in fact it is evil
dent that the governor of this state par
doncd good many people and as soon as
they got out they found employment.
I'VE find every man with a breath
strong enough to knock the wheel off a
scavenger wagon talking capital, and this
contest on the part of Anaconda includes
more than that class of people
Livery editor in the state with scent
intellect and a 15-dollar mustache is
writing vilifications that are blacl1er than
hell itself
"You will find the man who wants to
drive the Cinnamon out Of the country
who wants his wife to support him-you
Will find that man, too, for Anaconda
81 say that those who are Anaconda's
Warmcst supporters can dive deeper stay
under longer and come out nastier than
any set Of men on this continent"
Ii al Ill uLcIHlEW dltef JlG speech j llQ ge
Clements said he referred to the present
governor Of the state, Governor Richards.
lie was also reported to have said in his
remarks that nobody WAS for Anaconda
except the blue overall crowd, but this
the judge denies and his denial moes for
what it is worth. We want the people of
Nllssoula to read what Judge Clements
says. We want them to circulate his re
marks, and then we want them to read
what Tom Carter said at Bozeman, as
follows:
sin every community east Of Bozeman
tunnel, with here aud there conspicuous
exception, the decent, honest people are
with Helena, whereas the buns and
the thugs and deadbeats are found in the
Anaconda procession.
"Now that will apply to every county
from here to Mingusville, but it does not
apply to the Gallatin valley | am told
that in this valley just as good men as
live within the state of Montana have es-
pOused the cause Of Anaconda
Ii that kind of talk goes in Montana
then the future Of this state is not brill
liant.
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COUNTY TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
An Elaborate Program FOR the Meeting.
i'll Anaconda Next Week.

80 > '1'' ~ ''i' ...ee'''is
i'll Anaconda Next Week.
I1o1t,,,;,o, ; +b u,> g ~,
~ " hS 10 uAo PioSie ietllhhio VI 'lAe
to be held in Anaconda. Oct. 81 and Nov.
and 2 1904.
Ononinr .xar,isns
Elnmrntorv Natural Science Nv 1,a,n
Physiolouv-The Eve Miss Liyinrstou,
1.3O O.,,ocl
vocal Music. sic.......................M Mrs. Wilkinson
Arthmetic=-Flactlons s..........Mi Miss Bond
s D.c1ock
Address of Welcome Mr. j. NJ Kennedy
Response ..................M Mr. Wolfe
Music
Address. s.......................... Miss Thomson
Recitation .....................M Miss Kate Evans
Music.
a Practical Education ..:...' Miss Anne Douglas
THURSDAY, NOV, l-';ao O'CLOCK.
rha u,tri st iAtl.soa
orthoyraphy and orthoepy Mr.. Kern
Penmanship. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mr.. Wolfe
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POWDERLY AFTER II
He Will Again BE Candidate for Gen
er;al Master Norilm:,n.

GrilI NlnsteT WOrIlm:ln.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-T V. Powderly,
it is said in Knights Of Labor circles, will
again be candidate for General Master
Workman before the General Assembly
of the Knights of Labor, which will meet
in New Orleans November 18th Bitter
contests between the Sovereign and
Powderly factions in the National Trades
assemblies and district assemblies are in
progress. The friends Of Sovereign, how
ever, are closely united. They say they
will make a hot fight to get Sovereign
reelected