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The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-09
STARTLED BY AN OWL.
It Sets the Wisdom of Learned Men at
Naught.

It Sets the Wisdom Of Learned Men at
Naught.
In one of the many glass cases in the
Smithsonian institution at Washington Is
a stuffed owl. This particular owl is the
Hayes, "that Jared the Washington monu-
ment." and therein lies the story.
During Centennial year congress re-
solved to provide the necessary funds for
the completion of tho monument, which
up to that time had been worked at only
while the several smaller appropriations
lasted. 1t was discovered however, that
the original foundation was likely to prove
incapable of sustaining the enormous
weight of marble necessary for carrying
the shaft 800 feet above terra flrma. A
new foundation was therefore needed, and
architects thought a solid concrete bed 100
feet square and nearly IA feet In thickness
would accomplish tho strengthening de-
sired.
During the operation of replacing the old
foundation It was considered expedient to
provide means for noting carefully the
slightest vibration of the walls, lest the
monument might be in danger Of collaps-
ing. Accordingly heavy weight was
suspended by a stout thread from the apex
to pan Of thick sirup located In the base,
so that no chance drafts Of air would be
likely to sway the weight. An Ingenious
contrivance was SO attached to tho weight
that tho slightest vibration Of the shaft
would DO faithfully recorded, and Its inse-
ourty would at once be nm established fact.
Ono morning few months after these
careful precautions had been taken there
was great commotion among the work
men. A complete record of numerous per-
turbations and tromblings had been writ
ten on tho index, showing conclus!voly
that the mammoth obclisk had Jared,
swayed and settled during tho night.
Scientific beads were obviously shaken.
After much persuasion ono Of the men
finally consented to go to the top and ex-
anime into tho cause. Tho astonishing ro-
port came into tho midst of tho anxious
throng below that an owl I'm seeking shell
ter In tho lofty tower had somehow man
aged TO catch Its wings I'm the thread and
was still hanging there, suspended to tho
interior Of the monument, and tho innu-
morable ilappings and struggles of his owl
ship had all been recorded 10y the indox as
testimony against tho stability of plumb
laid marble blocks and solid concrete
Philadelphia Record.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-09
UP THE VALLEY.
Lincoln People Surprised at
the Deal Made.
Members of the Council Criticised
at the Part They Took.
Pollard Sldetracked but Will Reap the Reward
Broke His Leg Notes.

A great deal of surprise was evidenced
Wednesday afternoon at the meeting Of
the Lincoln Town Council when 1t was
announced that George Sherman was
elected Town Sergeant, and notwithstand-
ing the promises made to Henry c. Pol.
lard he was side tracked for Mr.. Sherman.
In view of the promises said to have been
made to pollard, the council was in a pre-
dicament, inasmuch as they did not want
to elect him.
In order to smooth the matter over and
not cause an open revolt the Council elected
Mr.. Sherman, who Is an invalid, owing
to injuries received laster winter, and Mr..
Pollard will perform the work and reap
the money consideration. The outcome Of
this deal has aroused considerable indig-
nation among the citizens of Lincoln, and
severe criticisms of the Council are heard
on all sides. Mr.. Pollard was elected
special officer to enforce the liquor laws.
What this means no one knows, as the
town has at the present time number of
officers for this purpose to whom they pay
500 each year. II Mr.. Pollard is to be
the special officer for this purpose and to
serve for what ever fees he can make out
of 1t, a number of citizens argue that 1t
will be q waste of the towns money to
continue the other officers in power. The
five or six hundred dollars paid to these
other officers for doing nothing, practi-
cally, could be placed to good advantage
in other departments.
Resolution Had Some Effect.
At the last meeting of the Cumberland
Town Council, Councilman Dillon intro
duced q resolution that the consolidated
railroad officials be compelled to place
fiagmen upon several of the crossings made
dangerous by the change In the timetables.
Last evening hagmen were placed on
Whipple's crossing and on the crossing
just north Of the depot.
Broke His Arm.
Frank Marshall, who Is employed In the
picker room of the Berkeley Mill, while
putting on q belt on one OF the pickers
Wednesday, got his right arm caught be-
tween the belt and q pulley, breaking his
arm below the elbow. DIR. Marshall re-
duced the fracture.
Notes of the Valley villages.
A new switch Is being placed at the cor
ner OF Broad and John streets.
M. II. Hogan OF Ashville, N. c., is visit
ing his parents In Valley Falls.
nThe Perkins Horse Shoe Company has
shut down for the summer season.
A hand ball alley will be built at the
back OF the Institute, at an early date.
The regular meeting OF the Cumberland
School Committee will occur tomorrow
afternoon.
The Cumberland Board OF Assessors are
In session each day this week from 10 a.
I'M. to IL m.
The Valley Falls Board OF Firewards
and tho Cumberland Hose Company will
meet this evening.
Miss II. J.. Abernethy, one OF Cumber-
lands school teachers, left yesterday to
spend the summer ut her home at Middle
burg, Vt.
A lawn party upon large scale will be
held upon the grounds OF Gilbert w. Pratt,
superintendent Of the Lonsdale Mills, on
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-09
Cut His Wrist.

Frank Greene, foreman of the Greene &
Daniels yard, met with q painful accident
late yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Greene had
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-09
Midsummer Carnival.

Do not fail to visit the Mid d-summer Car.
nival tomorrow evening at Temperance
Hall. Special arrangements made to cool
the hail. Admission l5c.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-09

The vigor OF youth given to the Iaged and
inhrm by using Hop Bitters See, ,ladveft
ments
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-09

No-To-fia for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. Doc, 81. All druggists.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
A NEW MARCH,.

A Special Musical Gift to all Readers of
The New Northwest.
The very latest musical composition to
enlist popular approval is "rhe Broad
Street Conservatory March, composed
by a young Philadelphian, Roland II.
Smith, pupil of the popular Institution
to which his work is dedicated. 1t is
highly inspiring. suggestive of the popu-
lar marches written by Sousa. 1t has
been played by all the leading theatre
orchestras, and concert bands in the Qua
ker City, and at the seaside and mountain
resorts. The piano part Of this excellent
march has just been issued and through a
special arrangement with the author we
are enabled to present a copy free to
every reader of this paper who will send
name aud address, enclosing this notice
and six cents in stamps to cover mailing
and postage, to The Broad Street Conser
vatory of Music, 1881 South Broad street.
Philadelphia. The retail price Of the
March is 40 cents and this is an offer that
should he appreciated by our musical
friends.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
yukOp Gold Fields.

Miners aud prospectors contemplating
a trip to Alaska should not overlook the
fact that the ''N orth American Transpor
tation and Trading Company" has estab
lshed new and elegant line of steamers
which will operate between Seattle, Wash,
and the Yukon Gold Fields
The first steamer will leave Settle
June 10; the second, August 10. 1897.
From Seattle the steamers will pro-
ceed directly to "Fort Get There" on est.
Michael's Island" near the mouth of
Yukon river. There, change is made to
the company's river steamers, which pass
up the Yukon riverto Circle City, Fort
Cudahy and Forty Mile; thus atfordipg
an easy, pleasant and quick trip.
For tickets, maps and full particulars
call upon, or write, your nearest North
ern Pacific agent. or w. M. Tuohy, gen
eral agent, Butte, Mont. 80 lot
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
ingalls, Roasts Cleveland.


Ex-senator Ingalls, of Kansas, now
writing for a syndicate of newspapers.
wrote this of the passing of Cleveland:
Entrusted with plenary power by the
people in 1898, the failure of his admin
istration in every department stands CON
fessed. His policy at home has been de-
structlve and abroad humiliating and ig-
nomnious. The degraded coalition by
Which he was elected made no promises
that he has not violated, and gave no
pledges that he has not betrayed. His
tariff reform has afforded neither revenue
Tor the treasury, protection for capital
nor wages for labor. His financial meas
ures have restored neither confidence nor
prosperity. Upon the pretext of replen-
ishing the gold reserve, the national debt
has been increased and bonds sold to ia
V9red syndicates to meet deficiencies in
the ordinary expenses of the government.
His diplomacy has been apologetic and
Vaclllatlng to the verge of dishonor.
saved only from infamy by its grotesque
ana dlVertlng lmbecllity.
"The Hawaiian episode would be in
credible in the prospectus of comic
opera There has been no day in the past
four years that has not witnessed some
ne" triumph in Clevelandism - some
bank closed; some railroad in the hands
of receiver; some merchant broken.
some furnace extinguished: some manned
and disabled veteran stigmatized and
branded with dishonor, driven to the
asylum or the grave. Boosting of his ro-
bust and incorruptible integrity, he re-
tires with a vast fortune accumulated
during the most disastrous periods of his
country's history, in which millions have
been reduced from atiluence to want and
from poverty to beggary.
eHistory will record its incredulity that
such an impostor could SO long escape
detection. He'll the central figure of one
epoch to which no lover of his country
will ever revert without tie blush of in
dignant shame at the destruction of its
resources and the degradation of its dig
nifty and honor, a period that has no par.
ailel except in the times of Walpole. de-
scribed by Macauley as the era of dwarf
ish talents and gigantic vices; the para
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
+ MINING NOTES.

About 900 coal miners are employed
at Belt and about 700 at Sand Coulee.
The Diamond r people contemplate
building a 100 ton concentrator at Nei
hart.
1t is said that the capacity of the
East Helena smelter will be doubled this
spring
The Alice company has declared an
other quarterly dividend of five cents per
share, aggregating 100000.
-Worl has commenced on the grad
ing for a 400 ton cyanide mill at Marvs-
Vile to be built by the Montana company
drum Lummon).
DR.. j. NJ. Fox, general manager of
the Rocky Fork Coal company of Red
Lodge, says his company is mining about
500 tons of irst-class coal per month and
employs about 800 men.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
BUCKLEY AND BLOOR.

The first return received from the
grand jury, which has been in session at
Helena the past few weeks, investigating
the alleged crookedness of the late legis-
lature, were given to the public last Mon
day, when it was announced that John
Bloor, late secretary of the senate, and
Martin Buckley, member of the house,
had been arrested and placed under
bonds.
The Indictment against Bloor charges
him with falsifying the records of the
senate. He was arrested at Kalispell, his
home, and his bonds were fixed at S10,-
600. 1t is alleged that Bloor failed to de-
liver house bill 113, bill reducing the
number and salaries Of the deputies of
counties, to the chief clerk of the house
as he should have done. The bill passed
both houses and was signed by the presi
dent of the senate. In the closing hours
of the legislature it was lost sight OF and
adjournment was taken without its be-
coming a law. The bill would have eff
fected all counties, but would have re-
duced expenses in Silver Bow and Cas-
cade counties particularly. 1t is estima
ted that it would have effected saving
of 80 per cent. to the taxpayers over the
present cost of deputies in counties 1t
is charged that Bloor kept possession of
the bill and, it is alleged, that there are
witnesses who told the grand jury that he
had not delivered the bill and that
he could not have done so He himself
went into the house the day after the ses-
sion closed and in the argument that fol-
lowed discussion of what had become
of the important missing document he
volunteered to look for it llimself in the
pigeon holes of the desk of the clerk of
the house. The pigeon holes had been
searched before, but Mr.. Bloor found the
bill there and the finding of the indict-
ment indicates that the grand jury had
some evidence that made it believe that
Bloor had placed the bill there himself
while pretending to be conducting a
search for it.
Buckley, who was expelled from the
house for bribery, was arrested in Helena
on Monday afternoon and placed under
$4,000 bonds. The bond was furnished
and he was set at liberty. Buckley is in
dicted "for accepting bribe of 5000
given to him by person or persons to
the grand jury unknown, for his vote and
influence in support of the Rosebud
county bill. 1t is understood that the
name OF the person who gave the bribe is
not such mystery as the jury intimates
by its Indictment"
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
The PESkY REDS.
Uncle Sam Will Have to Pay for Their
Old Time Pleasantries.

Uncle sam NlI IiaNe to Pay for Their
Old Time Pleasantries.
Judge Loughrey, special United States
attorney from Roseburg, Oregon, began
this morning taking testimony in the In
dian depreciation cases before United
States Commissioner Wallace p. Smith of
Missoula, says the Missoulian of last
week. The work is being conducted in
the office Of Attorney l. g. Denny, who is
counsel for eight of the claimants, among
them Thomas II. Harris, who was buried
at Stevensyille last Sunday and who suf
fered the loss of property by the Black
feet Indians in Missoula county in 1866.
James House and Samuel B. Scott of
Clinton, later on, in 1862 were raded by
the Blackfeet and Crow Indians between
Cone Butte and Black Butte in the east
ern part of Montana. In 1865 Thomas J.
Holt, now living at Grantsdale, was rob
bed of his possessions by the Indians in
Nebraska AS late as 1877, when the
Nez Perce Indians We're returning
through the Bitter Root valley, Peter
Whaley of Stevensville, who was then
living near old Fort Owen, suffered the
loss of crops, stock, etc. In the same
year and by the same Indians John F.
Woods of Stevensville suffered similar
loss. Still later, in 1881, B. E. Beaupre of
Missoula, who was at that time freighter
in Deadwood, Dakota, was attacked by
the Sioux Indians on the Little Powder
river aud his outfit taken away. Another
heavy claimant is the estate of p j. De
mers for about $4,000. and is represented
by I. Marshall us counsel.
Testimony is being taken under an act
of congress passed in 1881 to provide for
the adjudication and payment of claims
arising from Indian depredations. Sew
eral days will be consumed with the
work which is now in progress. Most Of
the claimants have arrived in the city
and good Indian story is an easy thing
to find in Missoula were any one to ques
tion any of the trail blazers who did so
much to help the settlement of Montana
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
Information Wanted.

The address of friends of #. E. Hutch
ings, formerly of Vancouver, Portland,
Oregon: Bitter Root valley, Montana, and
Boise City, Idaho, are desired by his
widow He was in government employ
as wagon master, teamster, etc, from 1851;
for several years under Captain ingalls,,
Col. llaZen and others. Address
Mrs. MARY c. IIrTcHlNGs,
Cochecton, Sullivan County, N. Y.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02

disc of cold hearts and narrow minds;
the golden age OF the coward, the bigot
and the slave He bequeaths to his sue
cessor falling revenues. disordered tinan-
ces, prostrated industries, and social dis
content, which has already obliterated
political frontiers and will compel the re-
adjustment Of parties to meet the condi
tions of the revolution upon which We
have entered T"
The new North-west., 1897-04-02

Any young lady or gentleman desiring
to take business course in CONNER
cal college can secure scholarship on
very reasonable terms at this office. The
Engelhorn Business college of Helena is
hrst-class in every respect, and frequently
places can be found in good private fam
lilies where pupils can exchange light
services for board and room before and
after regular school hours, thereby re-
ducing their expenses to minimum.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
PUBLICATION OF NOTICE.
New Regulation Setting Forth What i
Now Required.

Now Required.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-A question of
great importance throughout the West,
mining claimants. was settled in the de-
cision of Secretary Francis in the case of
II. w. Gowdy ct al. VS.. the Kismet Gold
Mining company, coming up from the
Pueblo, Col, land district. These regu
lations heretofore have been generally
dsregarded. TO prevent confusion and
misinterpretation, and to enforce the law,
the following rule is substituted for rule
90 of the official regulations:
"The claimant is required to post
copy of the plat of such survey in a con-
spicuous place upon the claim, together
with notice Of his intention to apply for
patent thereof, whether or not he will
give the date of posting, name of claim
ant, name of claim, mining district and
county; whether or not the location is of
record, and if so, where the record may
be found, giving the book and page there
of, the number of feet claimed along
the vein and the presumed direction
theretrom: number of feet claimed on
the lode in each direction from the point
of discovery or other well-defned place
on the plain; names of all adjoining and
conflicting claims, or, if none exist, the
notice should SO state"
This will take effect June 1st next, and
publications thereafter must conform to
it.
The Fergus Argus says that recently
half breed named Peter Lavalla appeared
before Judge DuBose to obtain his final
papers, whereupon the following CONVEX
sation took place: Court-Who is presi-
dent of the United States? Lavalla.-
Don't know. Court-Who do you think
it is? Lavalla-Uncle Sam. Court-Who
is governor of this state? Lavalla-Don't
know. Court-Who ran for sheriff against
Jack Waite last fall? Lavalla-Don't
know. Court You are admitted The
judge considered that half breed whose
politics were so pure that he did not
know who ran for sheriff in Fergus
county last fall, would make d model
citizen.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02

b. c. White of Fergus county has been
appointed uperintendent. of the reform
school at Miles City to succeed Al Hyl-
ton, resigned 1t is said Mr.. White has
had experience in eastern reformatorics.
and this, taken in connection with his
large experience in the sheep industry in
Montana, ought to give him pretty good
knowledge of the "lamming" business.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02

An exchange says: "The monster Dur
rant in San Francisco is complaining of
the sunbridled license of the press.''
'Unbridled' is good for Durrant-but
haltered would be better,
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
HOW They Got Wives.

"There are plenty of women in Oregon
now," observed a prominent Oregon pol
itician who is in Washington to see that
the state is not forgotten in the matter of
patronage, "but it is within the memory
Of many of us when women were scarce
there. We gave it Out that we wanted
them for school teachers and the like,
and encouraged them to come out there,
but the truth was the men wanted them
for wives. | remember once we sent a
young man to Massachusetts, where he
was we'll acquainted, with orders to col
lect 100 young women and to escort them
back to Oregon. We guaranteed every
one of them one years employment. The
active man in the matter was fine look
ing young fellow, who afterwards served
two terms in congress from our state. He
spent two months in selecting the party
and started West with them. On the way
out he courted one of the school teachers
on his own hook and actually got her to
consent to a marriage on the arrival of
the train at Portland. The boys howled
considerably about it, claiming that he
had treated them unfairly in having first
choice, but there was a lot of fine looking
and marriageable material left. Some of
those women are today the leading ladies
of the society Of the state. More than
three -fourths of the hundred were mar
ried inside Of three years, and many in
less than one year. A few of the lot.
however, are teaching school there yet,
not that they did not have any offers, but
because they would not accept any of the
fellows who offered themselves. Now
that Senator Mitchell has about given up
his contest to return as senator, he will
likely be succeeded by a gentleman who
married one of the party of school teach
ers, to whom | refer. He will bring his
wife here with him, and your Washing
ton folks can see for themselves the kind
of ladies we had out there for school
teachers. They cannot be surpassed, if
equalled, anywhere. | may be an inter
ested person, though, for it happens that
my wife was one of the party
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
Some school Statistics.

State Superintendent Carleton has just
issued an interesting statistical table Of
public school information. 1t shows that
Deer Lodge county pays its school ma ans
the highest salaries Of any county in the
state, the average salary received by them
being $69.57 per month. Silver Bow
pays $64.11, Granite S6271i, and Lewis
and Clarke $5S. The men teachers in
this county average $3.50. Deer Lodge
county has IA male and 40 female teach
ers. The Anaconda superintendent re-
ceives 5000 per month The school emu
meration in Anaconda is 1,740 enroll
ment 1,242. This city employs 23 teach
ers, Butte has 80, Great Falls 33, Helena
40. Deer Lodge county has 36 school
districts. The school population is 3,1S1,
and the average daily attendance /, 1,127.
This county has school property of the
value of $192,020 Lewis and Clarke
leads with S2s3,277, and Silver Bow has
$lI2, 900.-Reo order.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02

Livingston Enterprises: In naming
western man, in the person Of Binger
Hermann Of Oregon, for commissioner OF
the general land office, the president has
shown an appreciation Of the fact that
more intimate knowledge of the needs of
the country is required for the intelligent
management of departmental affairs. by
far the greater part of the business of the
commissioners office involves western in
terests and should have the supervision
of a western man.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02

does not relish. They need The toning upof
the stomach and digestive organs, which
course of Hoods Sarsaparilla will give
them. 1t also purities and enriches the
blood, cures tAat distress after eating and
internal misery only a dyspeptic can
know, creates an appetite, overcomes that
tired feeling and builds up and sustains
the whole physical system. 1t SO prompt
ly and efficiently relieves dyspeptic symp-
toms and cures nervous headaches, that it
seems to have almost "a magic touch.'
The new North-west., 1897-04-02

Sheridan Paper: If some one will loan
the editor Of The Paper Il million dollars
for five years, he will guarantee to show
up, in the mineral zone contiguous to
Sheridan not one of the greatest but al
together the greatest mining district in
Montana-Butte not excepted. We have
the mineral here and if capital could only
be induced to come in and unearth it, we
wouldn't do thing to the financial de
preston.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
THE MONTANA PRESS.

Hawaii is still anxious to be annexed to
the United States. 1t is the only thing
that will save her from Japan, and while
the United States is not in need of more
territory Hawaii and Cuba would make
pretty good wings for the American
eagle Missoulian.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
DO general banking business and draw exchange
on all principal cities of the world.
Careful attention given to collections and remit
tances promptly made

New YORK Correspondents: Importers & Traders
National Bank, New York City. N. Y.
The new North-west., 1897-04-02
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This is the complaint OF fsAz
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