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DIAMONDS.

Mr.. John O'Reilly, who had occasion in
the winter of 1867 to do business in the
Hopetown district of Griqualand West.
on the other side Of the Vaal river, first
~iscovered diamonds in South Africa,
He passed a night at the house of Schalk
a Niekerk, a Dutch farmer. While
bartering with the Boer and his wife
O'Rellly's attention was attracted by a
game the children We're playing, being
particularly struck with the peculiar
transparency of M of the pebbles used
in the game. Though O'Reilly had never
seen a diamond in the rough, he ex-
pressed an opinion that the pebble
played with by the children was really
the precious gem. The farmer ridiculed
the idea. saying O'Reilly might have it if
he cared for the rubbish, adding that
there were plenty more of them in the
liver clay. O'Reilly accepted it on the
understanding that if it turned out to be
a mo the farmer should receive half
the sum. At Colesberg it was submitted
to experts, most of whom denied its being
OF much value, but DR.. Atherstone of
GrahamstoWn. pronounced it to be a veri-
table diamond. weighing 23kkarats and
worth $500. The then governor of the
cape, Sir Philip WOdehouse, bought it for
that sum. Diamonds were afterward dis
covered In the mud walls of native huts.
and this led to the opening of the dry dig
g1ngs where now stand Du Toits Pan. De
Beers. Kimberley, UHfontein and the
Premier mine.
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prive them of their rights. They had an
government. They had their
own army, their own legislature, their
own mint, and their own government al
most as Independent of Russia as one of
our states is of the other states of the
union. All that has to a large extent
been taken away from them within the
last year or tWo. Many men of the Firms
nave come to America. They are a tall,
straight race, about the same stature
iwegian and Swedes. They are, in their
original state, light haired, blue eyed,
fair complexioned. with broad faces,
stubby noses and high cheek bones. They
are energetic, bright. able people. In
the days of Sweden's greatness, when
GuStavuS AdOlphuS was at the head of
the Protestant army in Germany and
fought for the cause of Professionalism,
some of the best regiments he had in the
swedish army We're mpOse of Firms.
and at the battle of Lutzen, when Gus
tavus Adolphus was killed and the Swe-
DISH line OF battle was almost waver-
ing, 1t was a regiment of Finnish caval-
ry that restored the order of battle and
gave the victory to the Swedes.
1T is the descendants of these people
who have come here. They are to be
found in the copper and iron mines in
the northrm part of Michigan. They GO
there and work "a half dozen years or SO
in the mines, accumulate a little money.
and they &c out in the northern part OF
Wisconsin, Montana, Idaho and those
states n buy farms and become farm
ers. They do not come to this country
to make a little money and then go bach
to the dc country.
They will cover the hills valleys of
Alaska with nde as they are in lap
land, in the northern part of Norway and
i nSweden. The animals live upon a kind
of moss in summer and winter and they
find this moss in Alaska, as they find
there the same climate as in Lapland.
Both the reindeer and their traditional
masters are destined to rescue Alaska
from the desert state in which 1t has
repOsed for SO long, and make It q bust
ling, prosperous, worthy part Of our
union. Let us see that they are en-
Outraged to com over.
KNUTB NELSON.
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ALASkA'S FUTURE IN THE
HANDS Of Firms AND LAPS

Washington, May 25.-We have in
ALASKA a vast stretch of territory but
little explored, sparsely settled, possess
ing peculiar advantages, unique difficult
ties and,a apart from its golded loadstone,
attractive to few because of the nature
of the country. What shall we do with
1T? How shall we make of this great
primitive state a cultivated, smiling
land The answer comes from a far-off
race. a people h have been ever pa
tient toilers in an ~unproductive land, op-
pressed and poor. with no great national
traditions. but eminently fitted for the
work of transforming Alaska into a set
TIED and cultivated state. l allude TO the
people of Lapland and Finland. the Gu
rious races of the region of reindeer, bit
ter winters. iceDergs and snow. They are
Il class of emigrants that should be en-
Couiaged to come to Alaska, for they
can occupy a country that no other race
an the world can make anything of and
an influx of this people into the north
western state would be one of the great
est blessings that could befall that coun-
try.
Unfortunately, there has arisen in
Alaska, among the miners, an a%ntipathy
of these men, and it is with the object of
showing how necessary it is for Ameri-
cans to put a stop to their persecution
and to encourage rather than attack the
Laps and Fin that this is written.
Now. let me begin by explaining who
these Fin and Laplanders are and how
they came to settle in their present linn
fted numbers in Alaska. On a part of
the map hat is little studied by the
people of this country, north of Norway
and Sweden and the extreme northern
patt of Russia, north of the province of
Finland and within the limits of the
Arctic circle, is a region whose chief fea-
ture is it's intense and unrelieved drear-
mess. No vegetation of any kind can be
coaXed to the surface there except moss
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and a few stunted birch. Were it not
for the Laplanders and Firms, who have
settled there n who manage in some
mysterious way to entice from the
cherries earth the means of eking out
q precarious existence, the country would
be utterly unpopulated and unsettled
and OF no use to any one. That whole
country has for years been in the sole
possession of the Laplanders. Their
chief property consists of herds of rein
deer. The reindeer are the very life OF
the ~Laplanders. They furnish them with
milk, butter, cheese, skins for clothing,
skins to cover tents and meat to eat. A
Laplander's wealth is measured by the
number of reindeer that he owns.
For hundreds of years these Lapland-
ers have lived this way contented, even
happy in their icy and dreary home. They
might have remained there forever. COM
paratively nknow to the Americans
but for the fact that the bright idea was
conceived by an American senator of in
Producing reindeer into Alaska. In order
to get the reindeer there and make a sue
cess of their introduction it was neces-
sary to bring over the Laplanders, too
for they are the only people who know
how to care for the animals, how to
break them in, drive them and hitch
them. for the n of Lapland are no
only used as meat and drink and cloth
ing, but as beasts of burden. So with the
reindeer came the RENDERS master, and
these were rushed across the country to
the far northwest n at once became the
most useful settlers there. The Lapland-
ers had never emigrated, they are not an
emigratory people. but, when they found
"a country that suited their simple tastes
50 well as Alaska did, they became citi-
gems and by the introduction of reindeel
into Alaska gave to the miners and to
everybody else in that territory the
greatest blessing that had ever come into
their hare lives. The reindeer, it was
soon found, furnished the best transpor-
tation facilities in the winter provided
skins for clothing, overcoats and gloves
and ar abundance of good meat. Let me
explain here that we cannot introduce
0ur cattle into Alaska and make a sue
cess of it. In some few points of the
southern shore on the seacoast a few
sheep and cattle can be raised, but in
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the interior no food animals but reindee
thrive. Is 1t not astonishing that The
people who have brought this blessing to
Alaska should be attacked? People who
have come under the conditions which
the IIaplanders and the Firms come with
the reindeer should be treated as our
own flesh and blood and given a doubl
warm welcome as being newcomers who
can take up a burden in Il backward
country that no others are fitted consti-
tutionally for.
Then h Firms. They are worthy to
be sharers in the welcome that ought to
be accorded the Laps. Who are tho
Firms! The pronvince of Finland is sit
uated north of the city of st. Peters,
burg. There are about two and a half
mllllons OF people. 1t vas a country that
originally settled and colonized by the
SWedes over four hundred wears ago
When the Firms We're barbarians. 1t re-
manned under the control of Sweden az
a provinces colony of Sweden-for
nearly four hundred years. until the he
ginning Of the nineteenth century,
think 1907 or 1S0S-when Russia ACQUIRED
the country. They became civilized. The
Swedes Christianized them. They all
became Lutherans. They became an in
telllgent and educated people. There was
great admiXture with the Swedes. and
tina educated them. Many of them, or
most of them, read and wrote the Swe-
dish language. Their great poets and
great authors all write in the Swedish
language.
They had a government of their own.
and when finally Sweden was compelled
to relinquish the province of Finland to
Russia at the beginning of this century.
they We're permitted until within the last
year to retain their own government,
n the car of Russia simply calls him
self he Grand Duke of Duchy of Fin
But lately, within the last year or
two. the Russian car, for reasons of his
own, and his ouncil has seen fit to de-
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Railway Time b
Butte, Anaconda 4 Pacific
LOCAL TINE Ia

LOCAL TIME TABLE.
Ieains leave B., A.. 4 r. depot. Butte.
- FOLLOWS: S:2S a. m. 11:25 a. M, 400 ..
m.. 1000 p. IN.
Ira1As leave Union passenger station.
Anaconua. as follows: $40 u, m, l2:45
y. m, S:OO p. M, TAO D. m,
tEA NORTHERN train leaves Ana.
cOnda: ~ ~
via Butte. "~"
''so .. M: Through train for MI point,
east and west. ~
oRTHERN PACIFIC vain leaves
Anaconda: ~
lZ:lo p. M. Pacific Express for Portland
and all points west.
~ ?. m. Through train for all points
east and west,
Anaconda:
south. w" ~
Tickets Tor sale for ali points. loca, and
tnrouEh' on tho Great Northern railway.
oregon Short Line railroad ana North.
ions.
Steamship tickets for sale to all points
IN Europe via the above lines.
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BUTTE SCHEDULE.

EAST.
NO. IL. Pacific Express from st.
Paul and Missouri River
points. arrives daily -. 100 m
NO. l. North Coast Limited
from st. Paul, arrives
~ daiiy -. .............. S:4S pm.
NO. Il. Twin City Express, to
81 Paul and Missouri
~. hiver points, leaves daily ITO pm.
1No' :. North Coast Limited"
to st. Paul daily, leaves 11:4O b. III
NO. "a. Mixed. TO Whitehall,
daily except Sunday;
Twin Bridges, Tuesdays.
thursdays and Satur- rs
days: Pony and Norris. aS
Mondays and Fridays;
ieaves N. p. local freight
oepot =. =. ............ TOO am.
WEST.
NO. 10. Copper City Limited, to
hamilton n all coast
points. leaves B., A. &
depot dea1y /. LIES am.
No. l. North Coast Linlfted.as
~. to Portland. leaves daily s:5S pm.
No. is. Copper City Limited
from Halimton ana Port
iand. arrives. daiiy,,4B.. 49,
~ ~. Depot. ..s.s,....s 1:35 pm.
NO. Z. North Coast Limited.yA
from Portland, srives 1880 o.. m
Note-That No. 2. the ''North Coast
limited %eastbound train not shown, as
evening of MAY 4th. On and after that
GATE the double train service will be in
erect on all portions Of the line.
City Ticket Office: Corner. ,rlain and
Park Streets, Butte.
W. II. MERRlMAN. q. A.
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and run even though my entrance fee
had been rejected. I went out but John
son had appointed Mcbride. captain of
the Yale football team as Marshall to
keep me from running. Rather than
make a scene I did not run, but protested
to no raj
Last ALI I was president of the Yale
Cross Country Club n "a captain OF
the team. Falso trained the Cross Coun-
try team that was second in the IntercOl-
legiates last fall. l have had a great deal
Of experience in training and coaching
school and college track teams and have
had several offers from colleges to coach
their teams next year anu / may accept
such a position.
Last fall I coached McGilI university
for their games with the team of Mon
treal Toronto University. McGill won by
a large score for the first time in years.
Last spring I was captain of the Yale
two mile relay team hat won the Inter-
collegiate championship and broke the
worlds two mile relay record. I ran the
last relay and finished $50 yards ahead
having gained sity yards on Penn's best
man, Lane. For several years / was
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-02
year as a runner and I greatly surprised
my friends as well as myself.

year as a runner and I greatly surprised
my friends as well as myself.
When the competitors took their marks
the end of the first quarter, which was
run by Ordway of Yale in 81 ga seconds,
I was in last place but IN the back
stretch l closed in on the leaders and on
rounding the curve was in third place,
with Bremen of Yale and Bust of Har-
it was noticed that I was given h very
outside position. even though I was con-
sidered Yale's fastest man and therefore
should have had the 'pole'' or inside. At
ward ahead of me. AS we all Swung into
the homestretch I made my effort and
sprinted by the leaders. BUSH and Bre-
men sprinted also and tried hard to hold
me but could not. I came down the
stretch and breasted The tape. g winner
by more than five yards. Bush and Bre-
men made a very plucky fight which end
ed only as Bremen crossed the tape aEfeW
inches ahead of BUS a" #R
The day was rainy and the track very
reavy and the referee, Father "Bi Cur
tis," said that. on a good day and with a
seconds better. AS it was I ~lOweredsthe
Yale and the Yale-Harvard half mile rec
ords to one minute, 81 As seconds. =
That was the last good race that I ran;
for my trainer from then on insisted that
the way I ought to run was to run hard
from the pistol to the tape. SAID
thai I should run the first quarter always
under IS seconds. This was proven a
wrong theory in subsequent races at Ber-
gen Point or May 30th. and at Queens
u in London, on July 22nd. In the
Yale-Harvard race I was last at the end
of the first quarter and then won the
race in record time.
This spring, after having been laid w
most of the winter with q strained back
and only training two weeks, I was rum
ming, faster than ever and Trainer Jim
Robinson said that no one could beat me
this yea for the Intercollegiate cham
p~fonship. lust then Captain Bascom
Johnson took advantage Of a little incl
dent to get even with me for some per-
sonal trouble between US. dating back
several years and forbade me to train
any more or to enter the Yale Glass
Games which are open to every student
In good training.
Yale undergraduates were astonished
at such Q breach and told me to 30 out
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YALE's RECORD
BREAKER

among the many able athletics who
nave won for Yale Pink" Adams is no.
table. His half mile in one minute 81 As
seconds last May was a surprise to those
who knew him and to himself, for he does
not go in for severe training as most Of
the crack athletes do. His own story of
the race is interesting as he tells it.,
On May 18th, last year. I broke the Yale
n Yale-Harvard half mile running rec
ords by covering the distance in one min
ute, 81 As seconds. This was my first
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ONE WAY OF OBEYING.

My four-year-old Carl has been forbid
den to eat ice Imagine my establishment
when I found him sitting alone out in
the back yard eating ice as fast as he
could. "Carl. what did I tell your" I de-
manded with some i1npetuosity. "Mam-
ma" he replied, IT'S not eating ice; rs
only sucking the juice"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-02

Yale's champion walker having walked
a mile in six minutes, 50 As seconds.
Will be graduated in June and will then
attend law school,, though at which one
I have not decided.
J. PINCKEY ADAMS.
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And all points East and South. Fres
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senator knute Nelson of Minnesota, himself a Norwegian by birth, is con-
transform bleak Alaska INTO prosperous n Furnishing country.
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lions, This will throw into confusion
nearly 1900 miles of state boundaries.
Congress may be obliged to take ACTON
regarding the boundary between the
United States and Canada, for, assuming
the maximum annual movement to be
forty feet year, n strip OF land on the
Northern boundary of the United states
between these two countries, containing
many thousands of acres, may become
disputed territory. The boundary be-
tween British America and Alaska VIII
also be affected The exact boundaries
will have to be predetermined and hNed
by natural landmarks. as latitude ana
longitude are no longer accurate methous
of boundary definition.
Determinations of longitude VIII GER
tainly be exceedingly awkward to make
inasmuch ns the basis OF the world
longitude the meridian Of Greenwich. -
not spared the uncertainty, as its posi-
tion is oscillating around the observatory
at Greenwich. England. which is by deii-
milton the zero longitude of the world
ant the odd circumstance Is that points
on the carths surface may at times De
enst and at other times west of the town
of Greenwich. T.,
Another difficulty which has arisen Is
that astronomers must revise their Ia
HES. ms the Inaccuracies thus discovered
nermeate all previous catalogues or stars
nehulae and consultations. Furthermore
the variations of the axis OF the eaftn .
rotation Internationally affects the
r,oon's motion, introducing irregularities
which must not be lost sight OF III accu-
rate determinations.
Another consequence Is the change In
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HIS SCYTHE STILL REMAINS IN THE PINE TREE.
"Le Stay Till He Returns Said Massachusetts, Farmer When His
Boy Marched Off to the War;

field This club II was that built the rails
ing around the tree, and IL promises To
protect this curious reminder OF the civil
war time from decay or any harm for
many years to come. The name OF tho
club is Sheomet II Is said TO be ono OF
the most prosperous clubs In Western
Massachusetts and Is well able TO keep
the promise II has made.
Milton Bliss, the father of Augustus. 10
still living. He Is IS years old. having
been born at Royalston. from which place
his father, stephen Bliss, moved to War
wick when his son wns one year old. He
bears up we'll says correspondent. un-
der the weight of years, although COM
planning of being rather feeble on account
OF a heart difficulty, lie smiled when told
that the rest of us would like just such .
heart trouble II It should have the effect
of prolonglng life az his has. MIR. Hiss
was large landed proprietor. cutting OF
the timber he needed II for his mills
OF the 400 acres no originally owned he
has sold all but twenty acres and tho
buildings He is now enjoying "A happy
old age dividing his time with his chti-
dreu and friends and his home at Biiss-
Vile He has always been hard-work-
ing man, having been. besides lumber
man and manufacturer. n builder ana
mover of buildings In Athoi. where M
lived nine years. and many OF the sur
rnuudiur towns Several years ago hs
went 10 South Dakota and took up two
claims Later he went 10 Salt Lake city.
where ne had sister living. with whons
ba anent some time. Ills son. Christo-
,her Biisa. was a leading citizen OF Aber-
aeon $. D., and from there he went tn
,raromn Mr. Bliss has been twice mar
,iea. his first wife being Miss Nancy M.
coaaard. ~ orange, by whom he had
srp.n children. For his second VIE he
.,srr5ea ELLEN Goddard. 81 warwick. shS
~, 49,, tweufy-fve years ago, leaving
.,Uaren one died before reaching
.,N,t,ord Thus he was the father OF
sanrteen children, seven by each mar
rage. b.
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currents and the movements OF the at
mosphere unquestionably play important
parts in complicating the movement
Another and very interesting theory
comes from Prof. Vito Volterro. the lam
GUS Italian mathematician, who is abie
assuming permanent currents in the mol
to account for the observed motions by
ten interior of the earth.
Special attention has been drawn 10 the
still more positive factor in the phenome-
non, namely, the unequal Distribution VI
land I'm the northern hemisphere, as Wen
as its uneven massing arouhu the eai III
from east to west.
PROT. Neweomb hints at a possible COM
hinatlon OF all these causes operating To
produce the observed fluctuations. II inns
is "A fact, 1t might easily happen that they
might at some future time all operate IN
conjunction in the same direction ana
produce a great Increase in the velocity
OF the motion OF the poles which couid
not at present be predicted but which
would seriously affect geographical posi-
tfons and boundaries determined IN terms
of latitude and longitude.
prof. Chambers results showed a great
need for n more widely extended series OF
observations, planned especially Tor TINS
purpose, In twenty-nine series or ooser-
rationa made Mt eighteen different sta
lions Prof Chandler has tested MS theory
thoroughly at three different longitudes-
that of Kasas that of Berlin, ana that
~ Rethlehem Pa--and In each case the
results have been confirmed
Perhaps the most rigid test OF MS con
clusions was his willingness to rest ms
theory upon the accuracy OF MS prenlC
tion Of the movement Of the pole through
SEVERAL wears Already the corresponds
.nce Is found TO be remarkable-ahd IN
snite OF the slight discrepancies not Net
accounted for-the observations cohh'"l
tba predictions so remarkably as 10 CUT
the ground from under the feet OK thoss
yybo wish To put aside the variation q" u,
latitude as empirical OF not proven.
rhe evidence for its existence ana TOT w
general truth az the law formulated w
prnf chandler IS already over" "i"l''s'
and NOW observations only add To IT,
The International Geodetic Ass'S'a !. ,Sn
100 nrrnared an elaborate scheme i"T 1ne
1,.strnstic observation Of these NN' a''"'',
~ Latitude The same general form "'
.s,tth instrument viii be used IN az 'n'
,,rratories Although three st'llo"F
-, bave determined tho polar motions
t ...,,H c"reiaorable accuracy, yet fer in'
~ ~ greater precision SIX stations
have been selected