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SKETCHES BY N. QUAD
Grttinr Eren VIII Cahhy.

At fl O'Clock at night Il cab drew up
at the corner of Broadway and Twenty
third street ana an old man with a big
satchel got out and said 10 the driver:
How much do l owe ye:'
''Woll. replied the driver, who had
picked him mp at the Grand Central
depot, "o4 it's after 10 o'clock, aud
as
"Now, then, don't try to play mo for
a hayseed!' interrupted the passenger.
I'm not trying to play you. The or
dinaucn regulates the fare.
Eyes, l know it does! This isn't my
first trip III a cab O. New York;
mo, sir, of curse not. All l want
ia my legal fare"
"T6at's what You'll git, Whom You
begun to talk about it's bein after IL
O'Clock and all that, ] thought you were
fggerin to put up a job on ne. Here's
81"
eyes sir"
"And hats every cent You'll git"'
eyes, sir.
The driver picked up his lines an'
drove off, and tho passenger came up t.
me as l waited for a car and trium
phantly said:
"He found he'd tackled the wrong
man-ha, ha, hal If / hadn't stood NJ
to him he'd hev probably charged M
six or seven dollarsl'
"You gave him four, / believer
Eyes, only four"
"The regular fare is Il dollar, but h
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aud lie in conjunction with -four other
claims. The Biehorn is better developed
than the rest, having a 500 foot tunnel
ON the main vein. This vein is several feet
in width between Il contact of lime and.
granite. Float has been taken from This
vein which assayed all the way from SeN
To Sl15 in gold besides carrying some
silver. There is five feet of oxidilel ote
in the face Of the tunnel. which does not
run high in metal. Mr.. Cra9g will start
to work on this ground and hopes soon
to reach II good ore chute rs it !. sure
that there is rich ore at some part OF the
ledge.
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things as ] do. I suppose there are no
objections to my going over there to
have a talk
II haven't any, but if l were you /
should bo rather careful about raising a
row."
"Oh, there'll be no row. My way is
the smooth, oily way, You know. and
no one can take offense. just watch for
me as | return"
1t was two hours before he returned
and the officer happened to be at that
end Of his beat again. The man had
two beautiful black eyes and a bloody
nose, and ho had lost his hat and his
overcoat was all dirt and split up the
back.
well, is it to be war or peace?"
asked the policeman.
WAR, sir-war to the knife re-
sponded the man i'll a hollow voice.
Take a look at mev'
Eyes, I'm looking
Il went over there as an envoy OF
these great and glorious United States.
l was for peace first and last and all the
time. In my smooth and oily way | told
a Teller in q saloon that it would take
this glorious republic just 10 minutes
to-to'-
ITO annex Canada-go on
"Just u minutes to annex Canada
sir, when he rose up and yelled that j
, would take 80, and then used me as yo'
sea me-"
, He licked you:"
.sII, IA W.. 81, tla p,,nv 10
licked man, and the Canadians do no
want peace, and now, sir, let the wa
@ begin and go ON and last until the pur
waters of this mighty river are tinge'
. with crimson and the thirsty fields ar
sodden with blood Yes, sir, and III b
at the front-the front, sir, and slayin
right and left, sir, and do You know
any place around hero where they kee
6 3 cent beer, sir?''-M. Quad in Detro'
Free Press.
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His Mission "A Failure.

81 think" he said to a patrolman at
the foot of Woodward ayenu the other
morning-'I think I'd better 90 over to
Canada and soc if Ican't settle this mat
ter without war"
"You mean the Venezuela ~dispute!'
queried the officer,
eyes, sir. If we have wal with Eng
land, Canada will Of course be dragged
in. If the matter is presented to the
people over there in a proper light, there
will be no war and its attendant horrors.
Has any one been over there 10 settle
matters?"
"Not that | know Of"
"Then I'll go. War should always be
avoided when possible. III be back IL
about an hour and let you know how
came out. I think | can make them SCI
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AT THE SPRINGS.

From the News:
Fred. Dancer made a trip to Mathis
dale this week, on county business. On
his return from that place he made "A
trip to Helena.
Hans Roehl, after Il pleasant weeks
soiourn here, has returned to Neihart.
He is very much pleased with the
Springs and hopes to return
]. r. Nudge, superintendent Of the
Copperopolis mines, was in town Mon
day. getting tools together and securing
supplies for the proper working of the
mines.
]. b. Phelps has a new musical in
strument on exhibition at the Monarch
called a graphophone. 1t is on the style
Of the monograph, and can be heard all
over the room and out doors without tie
necessity of using ear tubes. It's al
right and you should not fail to hear it
Con McGee and Andy Ray were il
town on Thursday and wish Us to state
that the local in the H~usbandman to thu
effect that VIM. Weir ''carricd off th'
laurels in sheep shearing in this vale.
this year. is not correct. 1t Is said il
the article referred to that Mr.. Wei
sheared $500 sheep. Both of the abov
named parties state that they hay
sheared over 1000 during the season.
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No Time NasGed.

A COW and a mule We're harnessed to-
gether and hitched to Q pillow, and 4 wo-
man was holding the ploW ana ripping
the soil Of Kansas up the back al IA great
rate as l rode along the highway. !
halted to watch the novel sight and as
she caught sight IF mo the woman stop
ped her team and camo stridjng across
the burrows to say.
"Hello, stranger! Did ye stop at the
shanty:'
eyes, stopped for a drink"
"Was the children all right"
81 saw seven Or eight playing on the
grass and having a good time. Where's
the old mau?'
"Pesged out last fail"
"Do you mean he died:''
"Didn't do nuthin else fur about three
months, and finally got thar. Yes, he's
gone to o better land, and I'm worlIin
to pay up his debts!'
'FIhcn you are Il widow, of course:"
t'Sartiniy. Coin to settle out hora!'
"Po55ibly.
''Married:"
"No."
"Want me?"
"No."
"Stranger, ahalsor' she exclaimed as
she came nearer ana extended her hand.
lyon ar a critter as knows your gait.
you ar, and it does me good to meet
you. Lands alive, but the men who
come along here don't know huff tc
hound sand, and | waste about three
days a week on 'em! Iwant IL critter tc
say yes OF 10 right off the handle ano
hey done with it. So you don't want me,
and the younguns, and the mule, and
! the COW, and the claim:'
"No, ma'am."
"'Nuff sed-so long-gee up thar
you critters, and git around the fiel'
, aiore another Teller comes along!'
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At the Head Of Belt.

VIM. Cragg came down this week
from the head of Belt creek where he
has some mining claims. He has not
done his representing this year but will
soon start to work upon the upper Belt
properties. The Bighorn and Crystal
are both located upon the same vein,
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no Feathers on 1t.

CHOW, then, I've caught you in the
act!' exclaimed the policeman as he
came upon a colored man who was just
coming ont Of all alley of High street,
east, at midnight with something in a
bag.
Eyes, sab. Yo's got me-" was the
reply.
GIVE been laying for you for a dozen
NIGHTS past, and here you are at last!
How many you got i'll that bag"
"Only one, sah."
"Got q tooth for chicken, eh:'
eyes, sab. Drelful fond o. chicken,
sab, but de price is awful high dis win
ter"
"We'll see about the price. Any II
with your
"No, sab"
"Got scared before you could fill the
bag, ehy Well, you come along with
me-"
eyes, sab. Whar yo' gwine to?'
''I'm going TO ring up the wagon and
have you taken in. The judge will put
you where you won't taste chicken
again for three months! Where did you
get it,"
"De chicken, sah?"
eyes"
"Hain't got none, boss. | dun toled
yo' dc price was so high dis winter dat
| couldn't afford chicken"
$50 you don't call this a chicken!'
exclaimed the officer as he reached for
the bag and shook the contents out on
the walk.
ono, sah, " replied the man, as a big
black and white cat was dumped out
and with a yowl ran up the Officers
body to his head and sprang into the
limbs Of a shade tree.
"No, sab, " he went on as he reached
for the bag and folded it up-''no, sab,
dat amt rs chicken, but an ole cat dat
| was carryin off to get losted. Cam
dun make out, sab, how yo' calls dat {
chicken, hut if yo' seq so / hain't gwin'
to dispute ii. AS / toled yo' befo' -
But the officer "raised him one ant
ordered him to nov Gil.
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1t will be noticed that the increase
over 1895 is made up principally by the
net proceeds of mines.-Ed.
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This office turns out the finest and
best job printing obtainable anywhere.
Stock blotters and L. 5. typewriter lin
en- always on hand.
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ssThe workingmRn's Dollar"

81 am by silver like an old 1rishman
who heard Pat Collins talk on the cur
rency at Boston," says Ex-Governor
Taylor Of Tennessee. collins got up i'll
a pompous way and held a gold dollar
in one hand and a silver dollar i'll he
other and said:
my hearers, | hold i'll my right
hand a silver dollar and in my left a
gold dollar, and the one represents 53
cents worth of silver and is good only i'll
our own country. The other is a tiny
thing, but it is worth 81 anywhere in
the world. Now, which, my fellow citi-
zcns. will you take:'
THE old Irishman got up and said:
"'Well, sor, as l have nayther, III
take ayther.
That is about the situation of the
money question
Legal News.
"Why is it that lawyers carry green
bags?'
CHATS the color of the majority OF
their clients. "-Chicago Record.
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Belt Mountain Miners Union

This order holds its regular meetings on
each Saturday evening at 80 in their hail over
\athan's store, Neihart, Montana.
Jos. T.. QUIRK. f.. j. SANFoRD;
Financial Sec'v. President.
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Patriots of America.

Meet in NJ. L. liall. Neihart, Mont. Ind. 18th
and 5th II esday evenings and also on Sunday
evening before the list and I'd tuesdays
Jonathan McAsssy, F, =.
G.. l.. McGihbon. Rec.
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Assembly No. S64, X. of l..

This order meets regularly at u. NJ. VI. L. hall
Thursday evening of each week.
DAVID SWEENEY. VI. W.
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Meagher Coulty's Tax Roll.

The following is the assessment roll
of Mcagher county as completed by
County Assessor James Jobb and his
assistant, Walter Upton, Friday evening
last. In times like these of falling
values it speaks we'll for the energy and
perseverance oil the assessor to be able
to show an increase of the taxable
wealth as is demonstrated by the tie
ures delow:
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The appearance of Remenyi the world
famous violinist last night was greeted by
an immense audience. Crawford's hall was
IS packed to fnllness and every one able to
procure a seat was present. To say that
the performer gave satisfaction is not to
do the case justice. The player carried
the house by storm. His classic rendi-
: ITEMS carried the audience off their feet.
Hi; soulful minors and tender pathos lift
ed them to the seventh heaven. Then
gliding gently onto the spirited strain OF
the Irish Washerwoman or the Devils
Dream he brought them down to earth
with dizziness and dexterity which
proved him master of his profession
His limitations are unique, and intense
expression is his chief power. The
people of Neiharr were never before
.entertained by such a master as Edeuar6
Remenyi. /.
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The

Clean Beds: Large, Airy looms;
Excellent Table Fare:
Location Central:
Rates Reasonable.
The record-union., 1896-12-12
FIGS AND THISTLES.

The pernictous influence Of nasty and
sensational Journalism upon the minds
OF youth and generally upon the COM
munities Of the country is attracting
just now more attention than at
any time since this viIlainous
that the American people are tolerant.
1t is gratifying that the public con-
science is becoming quick to the enor-
nifty of the evil and alarmed concerning
it.
Say what we may of European sys-
TENS and boast as loudly as we will of
the free and independent character of
our institutions, this remains, that in no
State of all Europe will civilization or
law tolerate for an hour such foul and
corrupting journalistic influences as are
represented by two Of the so-called up
to-date New York journals and some
imitators, which are not fit to be
touched save with the tongs.
Of course every student Of civilization
knows that one Of two things must hap
pen, either society will prohibit the daily
printing and thrusting before the people
OF all filth and indecency, or the genera
ton now well on the way to maturity
will come on with tastes so vitiated, its
Ideas Of propriety SO warped, it's regard
for authority SO weakened, it's estimate
of woman SO lowered, and its famili-
arity with crime and low levels SO inten-
sified as to blunt all moral sensibility-
then the end Of modern advance will be-
gin.
1t is simply impossible to conceive Of
stable and decent social conditions
dominating in communities where the
mind of youth has been for years cor
rupted by nasty newspaper literature;
by a press that caters to the lewd, SEN
sual and criminal tastes. 1t would be
just as reasonable to expect boys and
girls to grow up self-respecting, modest
and decent, law abiding and ornaments
to society, If their associations were
daily in the tenderloin districts of great
cities; along the Barbary Coasts of sea-
ports and metropolitan centers; with
their reading selected from annals of
bawdry and crime, garnished by indie
cent illustrations and lasciviously sug-
gestive pictures-a literature based upon
the doings Of lewd variety actresses, un-
faithful wives and unblushing girls, dis
solute men. cut-throats, thieves and
thugs; and the romance of which is
drawn from the careers of rich rogues,
immoral women and wealthy rakes. We
cannot grow figs upon thistle bushes
The record-union., 1896-12-12
THE BUSINESS SENSE OF THE
MATTER.

The radical and destructive press,
along with some papers that have not,
apparently, a correct appreciation OF
the facts, are worrying over the state
ments from Washington that the fund
ing bill relating to the transcontinentaI
railroad Indebtedness is likely to pass
Congress. They declare that If It does
the people Of the coast will be taxed to
pay the installments of the deferred
payments.
What Stiffness this is. 1t makes no
earthly difference who owns a business
so far as the truth is concerned that the
business must either support itself or be
supported. If any of the transconti-
mental railroads are to come under Gov
ernment operation does anyone dream
that they will be run at loss? Is there
really any man or woman on this coast
so shallow as to believe that the people
of the East will consent to be taxed TO
pay the cost Of operating railroad lines
for the benefit Of California?
Now it is reasonable that the railroad
property IN the hands of it's original
owners, who have other railroad prop
erty with feeder and connecting lines re-
lated closely to the indebted lines, can
better operate the roads. and better
make payments upon the Indebtedness
The record-union., 1896-12-12
An interior exchange says:

Amehdment No. 2, making it possible
to use voting machines, was adopted by
a majority of 42,041, but why 76,SSS
people should have voted against it is
a mystery.
Not at all. The amendment proposes
an experiment and experiments are al
ways looked upon with suspicion by a
vast body of the people. Had the Aus
tralian metheod of voting been sub
mitted to popular vote at the time it
was first broached in California it
would have been defeated almost unan-
imously. But after some five years OF
debate of the proposed law it was
thought safe to ask for it's enactment;
but it was rejected. Two years later
it won, and to-day it could not be torn
from the people. They are jealous of
any scheme that would even admit its
abandonment.
We believe the machine system to be
a plan worthy of trial. If it fails we
have the Australian system still left,
as that law is not to be repealed, but
simply modified to test the value of
voting by machinery
The record-union., 1896-12-12

We have not the faintest idea that the
ex-Queen of Hawaii has come to the
United States to attempt to secure re-
cognition of her claims to a throne in the
island republic. On the contrary, while
it is true that two years ago she was
bitterly opposed TO annexation of the
islands to the United States, she is now
very likely of a different mind and will
labor to secure that end rather than
have the Dole Government continue in
power But then she has little influence
one way or the other
The record-union., 1896-12-12

Senator Cullom's speech in behalf of
Cuba appears to indicate that he wishes
armed interference on the part of the
United States. That is unnecessary
States might do, and for which the
European powers could not take her to
task, is to announce her recognition of
the independence OF the Cubans. 1t is
not understood that they are asking
anything beyond that If the speech
referred to, however. is correctly in
terpreted, and that advice should be
taken, it would certainly involve US in
a war with more than one of the
powers of EurOpe.
The record-union., 1896-12-12

The restriction Of immigration is
now under debate in the Senate, with
a fair prospect for the passage Of the
Lodge substitute bill, which requires all
immigrants over IA years of age to be
able to read and write in their native
tongue and to write at least five lines
Of the Constitution Of the United States.
Such a measure is not as far reaching
as we wish restriction to be, but it
moves in a right direction, so that it's
passage Is something gained, provided
paralyze other effort to secure only
desirables by immigration AS we
understand it the educational test is
not applied ON the theory that it es-
tablislles the moral fitness of the ap-
plicant for admission, but on the basis
Of the truth that from among Hitter
ates comes the highest percentage of
dependents and criminals; that the Hit
crate is least likely to become the in
telligent and desirable resident or cit
iZen. If we correctly interpret the
thought of the bill and the motive of
those who advocate it, then it is con-
fessedly a palliative only and not a
remedy. The promoters Of the measure
say in a letter from their official heads,
now before us, that statistics prove
that the distribution Of the illiterate
immigrants is mainly among the At
lantic States, that very few indeed go
to the West and scarcely any to the
South. In fact, only about IL per cent.
go beyond the Atlantic States. 1t is
added, "An educational test as a meas
ure Of restriction would therefore not
affect in any important degree the
Western and Southern States, many Of
which are naturally desirous of OBJ
tanning a large immigration, for the
uliterates largely stagnate near the At
lantic seacoast, while the more edu-
Gated nations move on to build up the
new States" This is a distinct bid for
the votes of Western members for the
bill. and it is one of much force, it must
be confessed.
The record-union., 1896-12-12

appraisement of the estate of Clara
Comassi. deceased, which consists Of
cash STA, real estate valued at 81, 800.
personal property valued at $40 and
amount from former executor $57 60
John w. Heath, Moses Patterson and
Joseph Pratt have filed their inventory
and appraisement of the estate of AL
fred L Spooner, a minor, which con-
sists of real estate valued at $1,7OO.
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Department Two-Johnson. Judre.)

department Two ohnson, Judge.)
In Department Two, Judge johnson
partially heard the final account and
petition for amendatory decree of dis
tribution of the estate Of ]. B. Gates,
deceased, and continued it one week
for further hearing.
An order was made that the executor
file his final account of the estate Of
James Walsh, deceased, on or before
December 18th.
The will of Jose Simas Sibastiao was
admitted to probate and letters tesla.
mentary granted to Manuel Simas ST.
bastio, with bond fixed at $500. A. G..
Winn, Manuel +. Silviera and James
O'Niel were appointed appraisers and
Henry Starr appointed attorney for the
absent heirs
Letters of administration of the es-
tate of Caroline A. Cothrin were issued
to W. K. Cothrin, with bond fixed at
SS,OOO. e. A. Crouch, Frank X Walker
and Frank Johnson We're appointed ap-
praisers.
An order was granted to mortgage
real estate belonging to the estate of
James McNasser, deceased.
Letters OF administration of the es-
tate of John Carey, deceased, were
granted to w. B. Miller, and Charles
F. Gardner appointed attorney to rep
resent the heirs.
The demurrer to the complaint Of
James Porter against J. w. Wilson
and others was oveIruled and the de-
PENDANTS given fifteen days to answer
The will OF George F. GLIB, deceased
was admitted TO probate and John E.
Givens and James Ryan were granted
letters testamentary
The record-union., 1896-12-12

The San Francisco press is now urging
the Supervisors of that city to adopt the
Sacramento anti-expectoration ordi-
nance, and admits that there is no city
in the Union where such a law is more
needed than the metropolis. So say all
the people. For once we agree with the
San Francisco press.
The record-union., 1896-12-12

No Christmas and New Years table
should be without bottle of DR.. Sic
gert's Angostura Bitters. the world-re-
nowned appetizer of exquisite flavor.
Beware of limitations.
The record-union., 1896-12-12
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Notice of Motion.

]. M. Short, executor Of the estate Of
Elizabeth Young, deceased, has given
notice Of motion for new trial in the
case of Elizabeth Noble and George w.
Noble against him.
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Appraisements Filed.

Frank De Witt and n. e. Bollen-
bacher have filed their inventory and
appraisement OF the estate OF Miles
Coffield. deceased, which consists c6 q
cemetery lot valued at $3.50.
Frank Hickman, IrA Naneeo - 8 q