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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

RIGHT REV. JAMES EDWARD QUfGLEY
took hold of the matter. He first got
the confidence of the men by attending
their meetings and talking to them in a
frank and sincere manner. That vas
not hard for him to do, for before his APP
pointment as bishop he had been the pass
tor of St. Bridget's church, in the dock
district, and it is to this church that the
majority of the scoopers belong.
In one of his talks he said: You know
that as bishop | am without a parish,
but henceforth the docks of Buffalo shall
be my parish. And l shall not leave
you until you are hack at work, happy
and satisfied that the conditions under
which you are working are what they
ought to be-"
That settled it. Bishop Quigley was
named as the chairman of a committee
to negotiate a settlement. The first
meeting of this committee was held at
the bishop'S house. When the other
members of the committee reached the
house at the hour set for the eommittee's
first meeting they found the bishops
team and carriage waiting in front of
the house. The members of the com-
mittee were told that they would have
to accompany the bishop to the hall
where the men had been holding daily
meetings. He said be wanted to get
from the men credentials to act for them
that would be unquestioned. The au-
thority asked for was granted in a min
ute and then the committee went on with
its negotiations which ended in a happy
settlement Of the strike.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
IDAHO'S
MINING
TROUBLES
why the Ceur d'AIene Conn
try Is Under Martial Law.
BY CHARLES WARNER.

NO~O N ~ ~
In the history of mining troubles there
has been nothing more serious than that
of the Occur d'Alene country Idaho,
where General Merriam still maintains
martial law with a regiment of colored
soldiers and a body of state militia.
Probably no statement of the causes
leading up to the affair would be accept
ed both by those who sympathize with
the miners and by those who denounce
them as criminals and outlaws, but the
origin of the trouble may be broadly said
to have arisen from the fact that n big
mining firm refused to recognize the pow
erful miners union.
The various stages which this dispute
was carried through reached a climax
some weeks ago when a crowd of 1000
masked and armed men assembled in adj
joining towns, captured a train, rode into
Wardner and blew up the buildings of
the offending company with 5000 pounds
II giant powder. Then the men went
pack to work.
The whole offair was over in three or
four hours, but in that time property to
the amount of $1.250,000 had been de-
strayed, several persons killed and the
whole country stirred up.
As the miners have refused to talk to
newspaper representatives their story of
the affair remains untold, but here is
an account given by an eyewitness who
might fairly be called disinterested.
1.-The movement started on that date at
Burke, when about 800 men armed with
Winchester rifles boarded a mixed train
and rode to Gem. There another large
force was added to the mob, and a ton
and a half of giant powder was taken
aboard. 1t was divided into six charges.
/ do not know where the powder was Sc
cured, but according to general informa-
ton it was picked up in the vicinity of
Gem. When the train arrived at the
switch outside Of Wallace IS or 100 more
armed men, who had walked down from
Mullan, seven miles, were taken aboard.
The train pulled into Wallace looking
like a moving arsenal. Wallace added u
large number to the mob. There were
probably 1000 men OH the tain.
''Ibe people of Wallace looked on in
mate amazement. The whole affair had
the appearance of a huge joke. 1t was
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
Kip,,ug,. idea Of a Druuken Man

Just before his recent illness Rudyard
Kipling was made very welcome at the
Century Club, in New York, and there
are several unpublished bits of Kipling
going the rounds of other haunts of men
in this city in consequence One of them
purports to give the adult Beetles
definition of intoxication. A group Of
men were discussing the exact location
of the boundary between sobriety and in
ebriation, when one of them, who is ia,
NOUS for his verse and his views OH civic
patriotism, asked the A~nglo-lndian when
he should say a man was Trunk. Accord
ing to the story, Kipling replied, in his
driest style:-"I should say that a man
is drunk when he sits on the curb out
side his club and cries because he isn't
at home.,'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
PLUNGE INTO INFERNO.
A Miner Goes Over the Precipice
J Inte Death Valley. !
WEIRD PANORAMA OF A BUSY LIFE

Clutching Wildly For Cactus and
Rocks ON a Barren ~slope-eIt Must
Be Providence That Watches Over
P-rospectols."
J. p. King, who owns a mine close to
Leath valley, in the great Panamint
range, came very near losing his life
while on a prospecting tour lately.
King is a typical California miner,
says the San Francisco Call, and
does not seem much the worse for
his experience. But he admits that
his nerves are pretty well shak-
en-, and he afirms most solemnly that he
would not go through the same thing
again for ali the wealth of Guzerat or
Golconda.
sOne blazing hot day." says King, 81
left my camp in Pleasant canyon, where
the big lodges are to be found.
AFTER climbing the back of that i'm
mense ridge which leads by a series Of
broken bikes and rugged ascents almost
to the foot of Telescope peak, that giant
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
OCEAN GAMBLING.
Crooks Who Work the Unwary on
Atlantic Liners.

Atlantic Liners.
The Atlantic liners suffer much at the
hands of professional gamblers, who
cross the ocean more than a dozen times
In a year. living in the lap of luxury, for
no other purpose than to fleece the guilt
BILE people among the better class passen-
gers.
One of the most successful Atlantic
scrooks' was a man who served a num-
Der Of terms of Imprisonment and used
SO many aliases that IL one knows pre-
cisely what was his real name. His sue
cess was due to his marvellous skill in Sc
cretly marking the cards with his nails,
which he did SO quickly and cleyerly that
once a pack had passed through his
hands he could almost invariably identl-
fly the cards by his AGATE sense of touch.
His occasional failures were resultant
of the suspicious aroused by his wonder
iul luck rather than by any weak points
in his methods, and no one ever satlsfac-
torily decided how he manipulated the
cards to such personal advantage until
one day, when intoxicated, he disclosed
some of his secrets. During one Atlantic
trip he feecel three young men of an ag-
gresato sum Of nearly $50, GOO, and on
another occasion, when posing as a Brit
ish army officer, he succeeded, without
arousing any suspicion, in cheating one
of our congressman of a considerably
larger sum.
One difficulty which the single handed
sharper has occasionally to face is the
presence on board of a rival sharper
whom he did not recognize or suspect,
and this generally means bad times for
both. and sometimes great amusement
to those passengers who care to watch
the card play.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

posed dead man opened and a very Sc
pulchral voice murmured in a feeble pro-
test: Don't cut. the dress. It's a new
one.''
An immense cheer rent the air and was
quickly taken up on board the warship.
The whole vicinity was filed with the
joyous sound which told of the divers
marvellous survival.
Beyond the fact that his arm was Sc
verely confused and painful Young ap-
peared to be none the worse at the time,
and, after a good nights rest, he was go
ing about his duties as usual the next
day. When it is considered that he was
under the water, rs feet deep, for over
five hours in total darkness, most of the
time upside down and hopelessly entan-
gled with two robes and the torpedo, it
can safely be said that his experience
was unique, and in all the records of div
ing his escape may be taken as the most
wonderful known.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

The Filipino s,.tdier has been toiling
through a mountain pass, which the
rainy season made more thar ordinarily
unpleasant.
"Cap'n," said he, Il love my country"
"Of course you do"
81 regard Aguinaldo as a second
George Washington in hard luck"
$50 say we all of u.s."
"But, cap'n, as a candid man l want to
confess this much. If l thought los Yam
KEGS would get up a good roads move
ment as soon as they conquered the is
lands, I'm blessed if | wouldn't be tempt
ed to desert. Washington Star.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

OVER THE PRECIPICE INTO DEATH LIE
sentinel of the range which towers for
nearly II 600 feet into the burning sky
of the desert. my eye lit upon some we'll
defined outcroppings of quartz. This
seemed a likely spot at which to com
merce my prospecting. and hobbling my
burro and taking my prospecting pick |
began slowly to traverse the course of
the vein as it was defined by the crop
pings. AS I descended toward the Death
valley slope OF the ridge the vein showed
still more strongly. and, intensely inter
ested, !. failed to notice that the ground
over which | was slowly picking my way
grew more and mere piccipitous.
Suddenly, as l rounded a rocky es-
carpment, TIE awful panorama of Death
valley unfolded itself to my view. | had
never contemplated this scene without a
certain feeling of awe, and l now stood
motionlcss before the vast spectacle.
Seven thousand feet below me lay
the valley, hideous, repnlsive, appalling
in its vista of desolation, it's course de
fined by apparently endless upheayals of
volcanic origin, while borne on the wings
of an approaching storm an enormous
cloud was sweeping toward me at least
half a mile below. From the center of
this cloud flashed incessant l%ightnings,
and the revcrberations of the accom-
panying thunder, echoing from rock to
rock, completed this picture of a yerita-
bic inferno.
4 can't tell you just how it happened,
but something moved under my feet as |
stood watching the storm, and before I
could help myself l was slipping down,
down, with a rapidly that took away
my breath, toward the sheer edge Of the
precipice.
"As | slid, however, retained sufi-
cient presence of mind to clutch at every
thing which might impede my progress,
but there was not much on that barren
slope. The next few seconds were ter
rible. | knew that if nothing stopped me
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
Horrora Of Chinese slavery.

Vancouver adyices speak of the sale CT
two Chinese girls into slavery by their ia
Their at Quesyellc. A pioneer of the Carl
bou district is reported as saying that in
his experience this has occurred more
than once. for girls have been brought all
the way from China to be slaves of bach
elor Chinese. who live by mining or fish
ing in the interior. lie says that as high
as $500 has been paid, and then the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

SHifIINd
girls were only 10 or IA years old. On
one occasion a Chinese girl was sent to
Caribou Grated as freight. At the end Of
the trip she was 50 exhausted that she
became historical and was thus discov-
cred. The authorities say that this kind
OF traffic has been going on in an under
hand way too long, and people in the
community in which the outrage was per-
petrated threaten to deal summarily with
the offenders. The girls are bright chill
dren aad are very adverse to returning
to their unnatural parent.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
fOmcial proceedings.l

Regular meeting of the Board of Alder
men of Jersey City, at the Assembly
Chamber, City Hall, Tuesday, May %.
1899.
In the absence of the President the
Board was called to order by the City
Clerk at S:45 o'clock P. NJ.
Present-Aldermen Barr, Bedle, Calnon.
Cookson. Decker, Dittmar, Ehrhart. Far
rell, Fichtl. Howeth, 10th. Maxwell. Nc
Bride, Menge, Murphy. Muller. Perry,
Price. Ritter. Stell, Warrin and White
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

An unusual case of guilt being proved
by a simple circumstance occurred at
Ashford (Kent) Petty Sessions the other
day, says a London exchange.
A brood of chickens was stolen from a
farm at Wye, and the police, on examin-
ing the spot, CHANGED to find a portion
of a ~pelargonium bloom. This was the
only clue to the robbery, but the police,
on making inquiries, found that a person
named Hayward, residing at a neighbour
ing village. had beer seen in Wye on Sat-
urday wearing a ~pelargonium for a but
tonhole. Within six hour Hayward was
arrested, and the chickens were found,
ten alive and six buried in Hayward's
garden.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

Machias can boast of a freak in natural
history. A hen belonging to Mrs. Stephen
Saddle brought out a brood of chickens
the other day n among the number
there is one which has already achieved
great fame. die has legs enough and to
Spare. From beneath he tail there is a
perfect third limb and claws growing out
in a horizontal manner, besides the two
in the ordinary position, which,
like other chickens, he uses for walking.
1t Is hoped that his head will not become
enlarged by the attention that he Is con-
stantly reeeiying.-Bangor (Me.) News.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

It's really too bad! Here is the Lon
e.s 24-icet''. asserting that song birds
E-p, u 1ets may be the means of in
4 .ctfy taelr owners with deadly disease.
TlLefcu' sis is a common affliction
aAlcbg eanaries, and the custom of kiss
lis one feathered pets is said 10 be a
.ssngerofs practice. which nay spsead the
i-fection. Parrots, too, come under a
IKE bar. they being subject to q special
type Of sneumonia.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
COMPRESSED AIR JAGS.
Science Comes to the Assistance
of the Riotous.
CHEAP spREEs IN GLASS JARS.

How a Few Drops OF Liquor Nay Be
Made to Do h Work of n Gallon.
Intoxication and sobriety In Dou-
bic Quick Time.
A discovery of the greatest importance
to thinking men has been made by DIR.
G. Leonard Corning Of New York, says
The journal of that city. If it's features
are seized by inventors and applied in a
practical way the consumption of alco-
hol will decrease nine-tenths, and shares
Of the whisky trust viii sell on the Stock
Exchange at 8 or 4 cents each.
The discovery, though not intended by
DR.. Corning to nave that effect, will not
abolish drunkenness. 1t simply multi
plies the Intoxicating power of whisky by
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

Philippines. In a recent message to
Washington, General Otis advised the
promotion of Colonel Summers in accord
ance with the urgent recommendation of
General Lawton.
This gallant Oregon officer has been
several times mentioned for conspicuous
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
ono VINO Showed Nome.

"Myra,' said Tommy to his elder sis
Ter, .'here's a line in my copybook about
the progress of the age"
"Welly"
"You don't take much stock in that, do
you, sis? You've been 81 for the last six
years,"-Chicago Tribune.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

The British army on January / NUM-
bered 23s, $50. Of whom 107 GOO were station
ed at home: 1850 in India; $1,000 in the
colonies; / 800 in Crete. There are 1900
cavalry. Last year the assertions in
round numbers were 4,oo0.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
SETTLED Al STRIKE.
How the bishop OF Buffalo Played
the Part Of PeaceInaker.

One of the most prominent of the ris-
ing men of the Catholic Church of
America is the Right Rev. James Ed
ward 4Quigley, who was recently in,
strlllnentaI in settling the great Buff.
falo lock strike Hei is a young man I'd
be in charge Of such an important do
ccse.
The strike of the grain shovelers had
assumed serious proportions when he
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
Had Results.

"Henry, you said before we were mar
ried that you would never let me do any
cooking
Yes: and now | wish / had said that
you neein't even try" Detroit Free
Press,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
Nautical

81 believe" said Uncle Allen Sparks;
sit is customary to call a common Jack
Tar a seaman. But when he gets to be
an admiral it's the fashion to speak Of
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
CAUGHT UNDER TIE SEA
How a Daring Diver Narrowly
a,M4os Escaped Death. foa4s1
FOULED WITH A LOST TORPEDO.

coF HOURS hGau
In Utter HeIpIessness-Weird Com
test Between Death and Time Gauss
ed by N Leaky Dress.
In all the fact and fiction written of
the submarine diver there is nothing more
thrilling than the veracious and plainly
told story of an adventure which befell
Seaman Diver Young of the British bat
tleship Hood in Suda bay, off the island
of Crete.
A practice torpedo launched from the
battleship had. through a disarrangement
of its mechanism, plunged straight down
ward and buried nearly half its length in
the sticky mud IS feet below the surface
of the bay. A practice or baby torpe-
do costs about $1,000, and efforts to re-
cover the lost one were at once put under
a
Diver Young had donned a brand new
dress for the occasion. He went over the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

In Russia people must marry before 50
or not at all and NAL marry only five
times
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10
EARNED HIS

Colonel Owen
Summers, who
has just been
brevetted brig
adler general,
is in command
of the Second
Oregon yolun-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-01

did you ever have a big piece of pure
luck when you really needed it badly?"
said one who is at present high railroad
official, according to the New Orleans
Times Democrat. 81 did once, and never
again Ii happened in Denver in 1882. l
was broke, / had just come out OF the
hospital after a long tusse with pneu-
mOna and ! was unable to do manual
labor, which was the only thing I could
find one afternoon, when things were
at their very worst, ! was sitting in the
Old Charpiot Hotel and overheard two
men talking very secretly about a big
strike in some mine. / inferred from their
conversation that il was somewhere in
ting San Juan district, but they didn't men
ton the exact location or the name OF
the property.
when they went out l noticed tiny
piece of ore lying on one of the chairs,
where il had evidently been dropped while
they were examining some specimens. 1t
was brown quartz, literally full of gold.
1t was ore that made a fellows heart
jump just to look at it, and while ! was
turning 1t between my fingers it all of a
sudden flashed into my mind that it must
have come from the Lady Alice They
had taken such stuff from it once, but
the vein had 'pinched out, and the prop
erty was supposed to be n. C. Its stock
had dropped to nothing.
"Of course, 1t was only a guess" con-
tinued the speaker, land there were sew
eral hundred chances that it wasn't the
Alice at all. l did some quick thinking.
There was a banker up town who owned
a lot of Alice stock, and in two minutes
l was on my way to his office. Look here,
says 1, when / finally got into his den,
I have Information worth lot of money
to you; what is worth to me-? Not a cent
down., says he, promptly, but 10 per cent.
if l get it, l handed him the piece of ore;
it was about as big as the end of my
thumb. They've struck that in the Lady
Alice, says l.
ITO my surprise he turned pale as
death and yelled for a clerk Run after
Smith! he bawled, and bring him back
with that stock" Smith, it turned out,
was the messenger. and he was then on
his way to deliver a bundle of Alice stock
for which the banker had just been offer
ed couple of hundred dollars. He had
thought il a good trade until he saw my
ore. Smith came back and the banker
tried his best to pump 49,, but l wouldn'
tell him aiy more. If he had known l
was only guessing he would have kicked
me out, but the fates were with me. The
next day the news of the discovery got
to the public; it was Alice, sure enough,
and the stock went scooting skyward.
Meanwhile the fellows in on the secret
had bought up all they could. Ny banker
scooped in big pot of money and 1 got
$500 for my share"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-01
A TICKLISH SITUATION.

In our dispatches yesterday it was said
that there were signs that Gen. Mer-
cier and some of the other generals would
admit that Dreyfus was innocent, and
thus practically bring his trial to close.
1t was also said that some of the gen
erals We're considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
throwing the blame for the whole Drey-
fus business on one of their number who
has been very conspicuous in the prose
cution of Dreyfus. 1t is safe TO say that
there is nothing in these reports. The
generals could not afford to admit that
they knew all the time that they were in
the wrong. The people would be so in
censed that they would demand their in
slant arrest and punishment.
There was a report a few days ago-a
report that has been repeated-that If
Dreyfus is acquitted 1t is the intention TO
have Gen. MERCER and some of the other
generals arrested for the part they have
played in the Dreyfus affair.
There may be some foundation for this
report though the chances are that the
government has no intention of interfering
with the generals in the event of Drey-
fus being pronounced not guilty. The Pres
ident and all OF his minis ,ers viii be glad
to be rid of the case without further trou-
Bile, and il is understood that Dreyfus has
no Intention to prosecute those who were
instrumental in bringing about his degra-
da tIon and suffering.
In fact ii is question whether il would
be advisable for the government to at
tempt to have the generals punished. II
is alleged that the army is with them
and that more than half of the people be-
lieve that they are trying to save the re-
public and are in the right in the Dreyfus
affair That being the case, the generals
might object TO being arrested and pun
ished. II they should adopt that course
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-01
Elephant in the SnIss.

People who saw the Glen Island ele-
plant make a meal off EmNbossed paper
yesterday afternoon are AIH wondering if
he had an uncomfortable feeling in the
rgion of his stomach during the wee, sma
hours, says the New York Mail and Elk
sress.
For some unknown reason his ebon lord
snip had a fit of the sulks early in the
afternoon, and he turned his back on all
visitors, persistently refusing to come
around and accept the tempting bait Of
fered him by the admiring crowd on the
outside of his stan.
1t was about $50 when a young man
and his Sunday girl Joined in the group of
watchers. They were both in a lively
mood, and the young woman carried in
her hand a big glazed-paper bag, filed
with bonbons. After watching the elephant
for a while her escort took candy from
the bag and held the tempting sweet as
far over the rail as he could reach, at the
same time making a roaring noise to at
tract his lordshiD's attention. The odor Of
the candy seemed to please the big beast
and he put himself in motion. Slowly rails
ing his ponderous feet, he swung round
toward his admirers and stretched out his
trunk for the coveted morseL He enjoyed
it so much that he coaXed for more, and
piece after peice was deposited in his
greedy Droboscis.
Finally the young woman tired of the
fun. Here you" she said to the young
man, Il don't want that beast to have all
my candy He's got enough. Give it to
me-"
"Oh, I'll get you some more, Mayme,"
he answered. Don't be stingy."
I'm not stingy" she replied, land 1
want that. and what's more I'm going to
have it," and she grabbed for the bag.
"Oh, are your said her tantafizer,
junping aside.
But some one else wanted the bag, too
As the man turned the great black trunk
of the elephant curled though the air,
there was a scream, and before any one
could speak or move, the bag and the can
dy had both disappeared down his capa-
cious throat.