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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18
A Handsome Gift.

Col. F. E. by, general passenger
agent of the Maine Central, has present
ed the Park Commissioners superb
photograph of White Mountain scenery
on the line OF the Mountain Division of
the road, to be placed in the new wait
ing room at Deerings Oaks.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

The Machias Republican says: 1T APP
pears that feud which has existed be-
tween some families who live near the
junction of the Jonesport and Columbia
roads in Jonesboro resulted in quarrel
between Charles White and Olif Ander-
son. Mr.. Anderson was badly beaten, and
at last accounts but little hopes are en-
tertained of his recovery"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

For the past few days some very large
blocks of stone have been hauled into
Hailowell from the quarry. Among
them were SIX stones, each measuring %
feet, 10 inches, by 4 feet wide, which
will be cut into pillars for the American
Surety building at New York. 1t re-
CURED 90 horses to transport each one to
Hallowell.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

A meeting of the Maine Relief Corps
Home Corporation was held at Hotel
North Wednesday afternoon. 1t Is the
purpose to ask the legislature for an APP
preparation of $50, 600 for the erection of
building and $4,000 year toward sup
port of the veterans.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

A feature of the crusade against cigar
cites in Brunswick which might be profit.
ably initiated by other places, is the
formation of leagues among the school
boys to work against the foolish and
harmful habit. For this idea credit is
due Principal Charles Fish of the High
School.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

At the recent burning of her home in
Readfield. Mrs. VIM. Atkinson, through
great nervous excitement and cries for
help, lost her voice. She has not been
able to speak above a whisper since,
and will seek aid at the Maine General
Hospital. 1t is very peculiar case.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

Last Tuesday a party consisting OF
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. johnson of Macwahoc;
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Kimball of Boston; and
Miss Agatha Stewart of Halifax, n. B.
started to visit lumb Der camp at Mill
nocket, on the B. & A. railroad, and in
crossing the Millinocket the ice gave
way and great difficulty was experienced
in getting to shore. 1t was narrow
escape.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

The Liberty correspondent of the Bel
fast Republican Journal, says: Not a
tramp has been seen in the village
since December 31st, and they used to
swarm here. Poor, starving tramps
begged food from every house through
the village, and as soon as they were
outside the village began to throw it
away. C.I.Dayis says that food was SO
plentiful on the road between DR.. Por-
ter's house and his that he was tempted
to pick it up for his pig. Good TODD it
WAS, consisting of bread, butter and
meat, but not good enough for road
walker.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

The question of food and shelter for
the large 1ocks of doves about Belfast
was discussed at the city meeting Mon
day. These birds are protected by city
ordinance, but have increased to such an
extent as to become almost nuisance
in many sections. Mr.. Moses Which has
flock of about 800, which he has fed
for several years; Captain r. Fl. COON bs
is feeding large mum Der, and smaller
fiocks make regular calls at the door
yards in various parts of the city.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

This season at French Bros. duckery at
Sandy Point on the Penobscot they have
marketed and sold alive $4,000 ducks,
besides 1884 wintered for breeders, 1,400
pounds of feathers, 1880 pounds of pork,
IL, 600 eggs. They have paid for labor
of employees of this place about $2,260;
for turn1ps and oabbages raised in this
vicinity $3.50.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

A railroad man cites Conductor Swan
of the Bangor & Aroostook road as say
ing he has had more trou BILE in the last
IS years with the two Indians-Joe and
Newell Gabriel-now under arrest for
the Twin Lake murder, than with ali
the rest of the travellers on his road.
They were often on his train, usually
drunk, as wild as hawks and as ugly
as panthers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

A number of Eastport gentlemen have
had no little pleasure the present winter
by forming themselves into an ice boat
club. They have a fine camp on the
shores of Boydenn's lake in Perry,
about ~ miles from PASSPORT, and have
had many pleasant meetings there since
the ice was strong enough for them to
indulge in their favorite sport.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-18

A new industry recently started at
Hastings is the manufacture of steam
engines by W. II. Emery, who is now
building several of the compound type
of eight horse power.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03
REALM OF SOCIETY
Continued from the Ninth Page
LIFE IN LIVINGSTON.

LIVINGSTON, Feb. Tho leading So
cial event in this city during the past
week was the complimentary banquet
and camp fire rendered the Grand Army
veterans by the Noman's Relief Corps on
Tuesday evening. Aside from the pro-
gressive whist contest and the banquet
there was given an excellent musical and
literary entertainment. Attorney II. j.
Miller, in neat speech, briefly reviewed
the history of the two patriotic orders,
and paid them a glowing tribute. The
party was favored with "A very appropri-
ate recitation inimitably rendered by Miss
Joey Fem. while Mrs. w. L. Shawk en-
tertained the gathering with select read
ing, the whole being interspersed with
vocal music 10y Misses Jeanie simpson
and Rose Hopkins. The whist prizes
were captured by Mrs. sam Wilson. Miss
Lou Hicks, John Skillin and W. II.
Neaton.
Grand Master Il. e.. Nicol, of the Indo-
pendent Order of odd Fellows, came over
from Hamilton Monday aud Instituted
Faith lodge No. Is. Daughters of Rchekah,
AT Masonic hall IN this city. The lodge
starts off WIKI a charter membership OF %
and IS ofliccrcd as follows: Mrs. ". &.
~chlbrede, noble grand: Mrs. 4. Van
BrocklIn, vice grand. Miss Cora Cole. sec
Rotary; Mrs. G.. Winslpv. treasurer: Miss
Cole. varder: Miss Edith Bean. clnduc-
Miss Cole, l.. =. 10 y. G.; Mss Halle
Bean. x. :. 10 '. c.; Miss Cole. J.. y. to \.
e.; Miss Lulu Byrd, inside guard George
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03
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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03
THE UNIVERSAL ROUTE.

As we journey along. with a laugh and song.
We see, on youths fower-decked slope
Like beacon Of light, shining fair on the
sight.
The beautiful station OF Hope.
But the wheels OF old Time roll along as we
climb,
And our youth speeds away on the years:
And with hearts that are numbed with ufe's
sorrows we come
To the mistcoyered station OF Tears.
Sun onward we pass. where the milestones.
alas!
Are tho tomhs OF our dead. 10 the west.
Where g.irters and CLEANS in the dying sun
beams
The sweet, silent station OF Rest.
Al rest IS but change, and no grave can
e>trause
The soul from its Parent above:
And, >gornnE the rod, Il scars back 10 its
Good.
TO tie umt.css city OF Love
-EHu Whss'cr Wilc1r
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03
WHEN CONGRESS ADJoURNs.

Tharn be Joy in this country when congress ad-
journs-
When congress adjourns,
Adjournsi
That lane is the longest that never makes
turns
That never makes turns,
Makes turns!
Tharn be Joy on the hilltop an Joy on the
plain,
An JOY in the sunshine an Joy in the rain;
So. keep up yer courage an wait fer the train,
When congress adjournS,
Adjourns!
TharT be JOY in this country when congress adj
1ournS,
When congress adiourns,
Adjourns!
Wen settle the bill fer the gas that 1t burns
Fer the gas that it burns.
II burns!
Tharn be Joy IN the country an joy in the
town.
An JOY will 90 skeetin' an iyin' all round;
Three cheers and tiger from Billyille to
Brown
When congress adjourns,
Adiourns!
Atlanta Constitution.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03

Ex-Alderman Randall of Great Falls,
who is following the California races with
a string of horses, is said to be meeting
with unusual good luck, having won two
races and captured second money.a couple
of times.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03

A judgment for 81 sos &c has been filed
here in favor of Jacob Rupert against
Jockey Edward II. (Snapper) Garrison,
who used to ride for Rupert. The judg-
ment was obtained against Garrison to Sc
cure the payment of two notes. Garrison
did not defend the suits.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03
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chestnut mare Gussie,
who is owl. ed by Ike Morehouse
of Butte, won the Palace hotel
stakes, valued at 5000, mile
and n sixteenth, at San Fran
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03

Philadelphia is not slow in all things,
Her new building, erected in 1894, cost
50, 000, 000.-NetU York Mercury.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03

What's the fun in being rIchc Think of
Hctty Green. the richest woman IN the
world. and ono OF the most unhappy
Nrg 1rt Mercury.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03

The weights of the Kempton Park Great
Jubilee stakes for 5000 sovereigns, which
is to be run May IL and for which Stone
nell, one of Richard Croker's horses, is to
run. is published. Stonenell will carry
eight stone, being sixth from the ton,
Dryers Harry Reed will carry eight stone.
There are 90 entries.
The Chester cup will be run at Chester
on "wednesday, May 3. and shows co en-
tries, among which is that Of Richard Cro-
ker's 3-year-1ld Dobbus. Dobbins has an
almost top weight Ravensburg will carry
nine stone. Dobbius and Son Of a Gun viii
carry eight stone 10 pounds each, and
Mike Dryers Don Alonzo. 4-year-o.d.
takes sixth from the top with eight stone
eight pounds 10 carry. All the other en-
tries carry under these weights, ranging
down 10 SIX stone.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-03

We have Just received from an Eastern
Stationer sample sizes Of calling cards
which Will be fashionable the coming
ea5On.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

Gladstone charging them with treason;
the other "for assisting, aiding and COM
forting the existing rebellion against the
United States" Upon the latter charge
all the defendants, save few of the crew,
were tried in October, 1863 Justice Field
presided, assisted by United States District
Judge Hoffman. William H. Sharp,
United States Attorney, and Thompson
Campbell special counsel for the Govern
ment, prosecuted. while the prisoners
were defended by Judge Delos Lake, after
ward United States Attorney OF Calltor-
mia, and Judge J. B. Crockett.
Great numbers of the citizens of San
Francisco thronged the courtroom and
approaches. The prisoners were escorted
to the courtroom by twenty mounted
armed men, while a squad of infantry OF
the provost guard stacked arms outside the
tribunal. After trial lasting many days,
principally in the selection of a jury,
Greathouse, Harpending and Rubery were
found guilty, sentenced to pay fine Of
$4,000 each and be imprisoned for ten
years in the San Francisco County Jail.
until Congress should provide some other
place OF confinement" Before Congress,
however, could provide some other place
of confinement President Lincoln pardoned
the culprits. 1t was in proof, so it was
alleged at the time, that the conspirators
had in mind to seize some of the Pacific
Mail steamships, while on voyage to
Panama, and rob them of the treasure
which in those days was sent East via the
lsthlnus named. J. f. O'BEIRNE.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

instituted in 1858, calls mp to memory the
pending litigation concerning the title to
the Oakland water front.
Minturn, as old pioneers recollect, was
the founder of the ferry system between
this City and the shores of Alan edaCounty.
In his bill CT complaint against Larue,
Minturn alleged that he was the proprietor
of ferry across the bay of San Francisco
with termini at this City and the new town
OF Oakland. As assignee of one E. r.
Carpenter (brother of Horace W. Carpen-
tier) Minturn claimed the exclusive right
for twenty-five years from 1858 to run a
ferry between the terminal points men
toned. This right, he asserted, was granted
Carpenter by the trustees of the town of
Oakland pursuant TO an act of the Legisla-
ture of 1852; therefore he demanded a per-
petual injunction against Minturn from
infringing upon his alleged monopoly.
The affidavits on file in the suit contain
some spicy reading concerning early legis-
lators and town trustees. Suffice it to say,
Judge McAllister and Hoffman did not en-
terrain favorable opinion of the merits of
Minturn's proposed grab. In their de-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
THE STORY OF THE ninth CIRCUIT COURT.

Haight, in 1865, practiced law in the office
now occupied by the Consul of Mexico, at
the corner of Clay and Montgomery streets.
Notwithstanding the movement south
ward of the courts and lawyers, E. B.
Mastick still holds the fort as IN 1850, yes,
since 1850, at the northeast corner of
Montgomery and Commercial streets,
building made memorable some years ago
when the notorious cracksman, Jimmy
Hope, and his pals broke into that law
ver's office with the intention of gaining
access to Banker Pedar Sather's treasury
vault below.
Such are the names of but few of those
whose signatures were appended to the
roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law,
solicitors in chancery, proctors and advo-
Gates in admiralty in the early Gays of the
United States Circuit Court. To the auto
graph hunter the little red-morocco bound
book, dusty with age and hidden among
the archives of that court, would be a VERT
able treasure, containing, as it does, the
names of many illustrious pleaders at the
bar, long since departed, side by side with
those still left whose fortunes were bound
up with the pioneers.
The first term of the California Circuit
Court opened in what was then known as
the new" now the "old Merchants Ex-
change" on Battery street, corner of Wash
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

the bark and recovered Judgment for
heavy damages in the Circuit Court.
The noted case of the United States
versus John Parrott, III. w. Halleck, the
Forbes Brothers and others, involving the
title to the New Almaden quicksilver
mines, occupied the attention of Judge
McAllister and United States District Judge
Hoffman, who sat with him. Fraud was
alleged in the original grant from the
Mexican authorities. From the date of the
occupation of California by the Americans
up to 1856, when the suit was instituted,
$S,000,000 worth of quicksilver ore had
been extracted by Parrot and his asso-
ciates. The suit was in equity to restrain
waste and for an injunction to prevent
further working of the mine and the APP
polntment of receiver, and one of the
allegations of the complaint was that
Captain, afterward General, H. w. Hal
leck, then superintendent of the mine, was
extracting ore to the value of 81 000, 900
per annum.
The suit was stubbornly contested for
years and in the end Halleck and his part
ners won. Among the counsel for the
United States in this suit was Edmund
Randolph OF Virginia and E. NJ. Stanton,
afterward Secretary of War during Lin
coins administration, when Halleck was
general-in-chief of the United States
army.
1t may not be amiss to allude to another
important cause tried by Judges McAllister
and Hoffman before dismissing the subject
of litigation in the era between 1856 and
1862, when McAllister resigned. The suit
OF Edward Minturn versus II. NJ. Larue,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

wink the authorities that vessel had OBJ
tanned clearance from the local Custom
house on March IA, 1868, ostensibly for a
run to Manzanillo, Mexico, in the peaceful
pursuit of carrying a cargo of hardware"
to that port.
The suspicious of the United States mill
tary authorities as well as of Detective /.
w. Lees were aroused, and as the Chap
man was about to be towed to sea. on the
morning of March 16, two boats with
armed marines put off from the United
States sloop-of-war Cyane. then lying off
Alcatraz Island and boarded the schooner.
The matches were pried off, and fourteen
men fully armed were discovered slowed
between decks. The consignment of
hardware proved to consist of guns,
brass cannon, two boat howitzers, an array
OF cutlasses, reviewers, solid and hollow
shot and shrapnel
The stowaways, together with the mas
ter and crew, were then placed in irons and
taken by order of General Wright, U. S. A.,
to Alcatraz, where they were locked up.
Further examination of the suspicious
craft and of the persons of the prisoners
brought to light uniforms and copies of an
oath to be administered to those engaged
in the undertaking.
In the following September the United
States Grand Jury presented two indict-
ments against Greenhouse and his asso-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

and bankruptcy business, Congress passed
a relief bill in 1869, under which Judge
Lorenzo Sawyer was commissioned Circuit
Judge of the Ninth Circuit by President
Grant, and, taking his seat on the bench
February 2, 1870, remained there up to his
decease, few years ago, when he was sue
ceeded by the present Circuit Judge, Hon.
Joseph McKenna.
One of the most interesting cases, and
historical in point of view, was tried
shortly after Justice Field spread his COM
mission on the Circuit Court minutes.
The case is entitled 1.-The United States of
America versus Ridgeley, Greathouse ct al,
Familiarity known to the residents of San
Francisco in 1863 as the Chapman piracy"
case. From the records of the Circuit
Court and other data of thirty-two years
ago it appears that Greathouse, promi-
nent banker of this City, who had espoused
the cause of the Confederacy, associated
himself with Ashbury Harpending, Alfred
Rubery and others in fitting out and arm
ing (under letters of marque signed by
Jefferson Davis the fast clipper schooner
j. w. Chapman. With intent to hood
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

Richard P. Hammond, late Police Com
missioner, was then Collector of Customs.
The counsel engaged by the accused were
two OF the best known pleaders in criminal
law IN those DAYS, Colonies Z. d. Baker
and Calhoun Benham. AT the outbreak of
Baker was killed while leading his regi-
ment i'll charge at Balls Bluff. Benham
had been United States Attorney for the
District of California in the latter part OF
the sos. Throwing up his practice, then
very lucrative, he essayed to reach his
native State. Virginia, in 1861, but was
captured and imprisoned for while in
Fort Lafayette in New York harbor. On
his release he proceeded South and took
up arms for the Confederacy. After the
surrender at Appomattox, Colonel Ben
ham, shattered in health and fortune, re-
turned to California, where he shortly
after died.
Of the events which formed part of the
history of the Circuit Court since 1860 to
the present time much could be written,
since the business of that tribunal has
kept pace with the increase of population
on the Pacific Coast. In 1856 California
was the only State embraced in what is
now known as the Ninth Circuit. Later on
Oregon was admitted into the Union, then
Nevada, and these three States, up to
few years ago, when Washington, Montana
and Idaho were likewise admitted, formed
the Ninth Circuit. Now that circuit is
composed of the six States alluded to, and
of recent years an additional Circuit Judge,
Gilbert of Oregon, was appointed.
The resignation of Judge McAllister was
drawback to litigation and litigants in
California, so Congress enacted law, APP
proved March 3, 1863, entitled San act to
provide Circuit courts for the districts of
California and Oregon and for other pur-
poses" Said act authorized the appoint
ment of one additional Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
and pursuant to the provisions Hon.
Stephen Johnson Field was appointed As
sociate Justice and allotted to the ''tenth
circuit" as It was then termed in law,
comprised of the States of California and
Oregon. Justice Fields duties at Wash.
ington, however, precluded his devoting
more than two months time in each year
to the circuit, and as Judge Hoffman's
time was well taken up with admiralty
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
DAN LAMONT IN TOWN,
Cleveland'S Secretary of War
Will Arrive Here This
Morning.
He Is on His Way to Establish q
Great Military Post on
Puget Sound.

Hardly have the military gentlemen in
the Phelan building put away their dress
parade suits after doing honor to General
Schotield than another and an equally i'm
portant occasion has arisen to require them
to reopen their trunks.
To-day Secretary of War Daniel S. La
mont, accompanied by Quartermaster-
General Batchelder, will arrive in San
Francisco direct from Yellowstone Park
en- route to the State OF Washington,
where an important military post is to be
established.
Secretary Lamont's party consists be-
sides Quartermaster-Gen Batcheld er,
of Colonel Davis, secretary to Mr.. La
mont, Mrs. Lamont and several of her
lady friends.
From Washington the Secretary of War
went directly to Yellowstone National
Park, where he made an extended stav for
the purpose of investigating complaints
against the management of the Govern
ment's broad acres.
Upon the arrival of the distinguished
visitors this morning they will be formally
received by General Forsyth and staff at
the ferry and escorted to the Palace Hotel.
Accompanied by Quartermaster-Gener
the Preside and look over the new build
ing plans and the Notifications.
The principal object of Secretary La
mont's visit to the coast and the one which
will engage his attention after few days
rest in this City, will be the establishment
of military post on Puget Sound. 1t will
remain for him to select the location, and
in this connection, it is probable that the
post at Walla Walla will be abandoned.
The establishment of a post on Puget
Sound and the discontin uance of smaller
posts along the coast is in line with the
policy of the War Department to bank the
strength of the army at important coast
points. To achieve this purpose the small
forces removed to the Preside, the new
post at Puget Sound and one or two other
posts along the coast. All these will be
made permanent, and will be thoroughly
fortified and improved.