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THE PHILIPSBURG MAIL. OL. . PHILIPSBURG, DEER LODGE COUNTY, MONTANA, JUNE 16, 1887. N.21. THE PHILIPSBURG MAIL. Bryam & leCoy, Proprietors. Issued Every Thursday Evening. Entered at the postoflice at Philipsburg, Deer Lodge county, Montana, as second class matter for transmission through the mails. Subscription Rates. One year, in advance ....................$3 00 Paid at expiration of year ............... 4 00 Six months, in advance ................ 2 00 Three months ......................... 1 2. Notice. Local Notices 10 cts per line. Professional Cards (1 inch) $18 per year. Regular advertisements payable monthly. Transient advertisements payable in advance. Anyone failing to receive the MAIL regular ly should notify us promptly by postal card. Any person taking this paper can have the same discontinued without trouble by notify ing us and paying up all arrears. County Official Directory. Member of Council ...............J. K. Pardee Representative................ J. R. Toole Sheriff. ................ .... Lew Coleman Under Sheriff...............Frank Hatton Clerk and Recorder...... W. M. Thompson Treasurer ................... Richard Kenyon Assessor .......................John J. King Probate Judge..............Oren Emerson Deputy Clerk District Court..... Wi. Shanley County Attorney. .............D. M. Durfee Public Administrator.........Joseph Lodge Superintendent of Schools.....Margaret Wolfe Morgan Evanims, Wm. Walker, > ..............Commissioners. J. Y. Batfrton, ) TOWNSHIP OFFICEIS. A. Labrie,.... abri stices of Peace Philipshurg J. McDonell.. Granite C. H. Orcutt,... - Constables ..Philipslmra Jas. Carten....ranite PROFESSIONAL CARDS. W. I. ALLEN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Disesees of women specially treated. Office next door east of Hynes' Hotel. PiaursBUIo, - - - MONTANA. BROWN & CRUTCHFIELD, ATTnoaaN AT LAW & NOTARY PUBLIO. All lcl business promptly attended to. Spec I1l attention paid to collection. MuLOT BUILDINO, - PmLIPsBUno. iWA. K D. BROWN, NOTARY PUBLIO, General Legal Business Promptly Attended to. Mining work a specialty. Pi.LPrsnBUR, - MONTAxA. W. M. *RAWV, ATTORONEY AT LAW, Al lopal business promptly attended to. Min ing work a specialty. GRANITE. - - - MONTANA. F. Adkinsen, Ii. Forrest Titas, Helena. Philipsburg. ADKINSON & TITUS, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Special attention given to applications for mineral and agricultural patents, and contests before the Land Ol1ce and Interior Depart mentL D. H. DUIEFEE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Prosecuting Attorney for Doer Lodge county. Legal business of all kinds promptly attendvd to. PmuLIPSBaUR, - MONTrANA. W. L. Brown, Campbell & Duf-y, Philipsburg. Butte City. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Legal business of all kind. to be transacted in Philipsburg or vicinity will receive prompt at tention. Address frm at either postofice. n. IL CONNOLLY, AcouNTAw T AND BOORKERPER, Neglected Accounts Carefully Examined and Correctly Balanced. Office with F. D. Brown, PaLuLsnuao. - - MONT. 0. A. KELLOGG, CivmI ENGINEER, [DIVwr U. S. Mineral Surveyor.] Orders for survers of mineral and agricultural lands will receive prompt attention. DIaB LoDox, - MONTANA. W. J. MW'ARTZ, TONSORIAL ArrTIST, Shaving, Hair Cutting and Shampooing neatly and promptly attended to. GRANITE, - - MONTANA. THE MINERS' HOSPITAL, PaHIIPSBUR, MONTANA. Anyone subscribing $1.25 per month to the above institution will be entitled, when sick, to all the privileges of a first-class hospital without A. Labrie, N. D. Prep. MISCELLANEOUS. NOTICE. CONSUMERs pi WATER, Are notiied that all rates must be paid prompt ly by the 20th of each month. All persons using water from the Company's hydrants and not pay ing therefor will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. WI. T. ALLISON. Sapt. and Collector. Go to the MAIL office for fine printing of all kinds. WARD. & GIBLIN, Are Prepared to do BRICKLAYING & PLASTERING, At the Shortest Notice. M"Headquarters at the Kaiser House, Philipsburg, Montana. A. SHILLING, The Leading Merchant Tailor, BROADWAY, EAsT OF LEOPOLD'S. FINE DRESS AND BUSINESS SUITS New and choice material for Gents' Clothing ordered and on the road. The business man, me chanic and artisan are requested to inspect the new stock of goods and patronize a home insti tution. Satisfactory work guaranteed. Beware of Eastern and California shelf-goods men. Leave your measure and get a good fit, out of good material, and go away satisfied. AlU Kinds of Cleaning and Repairing t Neatly Done. 12-tt PEOPLE'S MARKET, Wholesale and Betail Dealer in BEEF, MUTTON, Pork and Ve Branch shop at Granite, wnere the Granite public will be attended to. J. E. Meyer, Prop. THE KAISER HOUSE M. Kaiser, Prop. First - Class Table. WELL LIOHirun, Handsome Rooms Fire Proof Brick Biling,. Headquarters for Commercial Travelers. All stages stop at this hotel. M. KAISER, Prop. THE HYNES HOUSE, UPrua BROADWAY, Philipsburg. NEATLY FURNISHED AND COMMODIOUS. The tables are supplied with the beet the market affords. Bates: Rates, per day...................... $ 2 00 Rates, per week....................... 10 00 MRS. H. HYNES, Prop. Kaiser Brothers' Saloon [Next door to Kaiser House.] WINES, CIGARS AND LIQUORS OF ALL KINDS. A billiard room in connection with the sa loon. KAISER BROS. Cash Produce Store (With the People's Market) Fresh Butter, Egg, Poultry, Fresh Fish. Dry Vegetables, Green Groceries, And Fresh Fruits of All Kinds. All orders left at the People's Meat Market at Granite will be promptly filled from the Burg. H. L. TURNER, Prop. Dissmluti.e" otilee. The public are notified that the undersigned has this day sold to Homer Sweitser his undivided one-half interest in the saloon business situated in Philipsburg, known as the Smith & Noble sa loon. The ksiness will be continued as Noble & Sweitzer at the old stand, the new firm assum ing all liabilities and collecting all debts due the old firm. Gxo. W. S.xra. IPSBmIusnue, M. T., June 7, 1867. 20-12t GENERAL NEWS. Doings Throughout the World and the Nation. Items Taken From the Latest Tele graphic Reports on Subjects of Interest. Lansdowne is to be a made a Duke. Pool selling is to be stopped in New York. Levy, the great Paris pawnbroker has failed. There is a prospect for a prolonged In dian war in Arizona. No more liquor will be distilled in Ken tucky until July, 1889. Chas A. Keep, editor of the Wall Street News, died last Thursday. . Sixteen persons were buried in a land slide at El Pedro, Panama. Herr Most and his associates are to be punished for Sunday's riot. The president held an informal recep tion at the executive mansion. The French Chambers is agitated over the discussion of the army bill. Belgrade reports a brand-new cabinet of unpronounceable names.-Miner. The striking carpenters at Toronto got the advance asked and have resumed work. At McMinnville, Or., last Friday Oscar Kelby killed his wife and then tried to kill himself. The will of Mrs. Henry Wood, novelist, bequeaths $36,000 to her children in equal shares. Vernome in Turkestan was nearlydes troyed by earthquakes last week and 125 lives were lost. W. E. Chandler has received the nom ination for United States senator from New Hampshire. Emperor William is better and iys Oat of pain. The Crown Prince's condition is also improving. John Morley, the English historian, will become political director of the Daily News, London. A representative of the Paris Figaro has been turned out of Alsace-Lorraine for incendiary writing. The Rt. Rev. Wm. Bacon Stevens, bis hop of the diocese of Pennsylvania died in Philadelphia last Saturday. Hon. J. W. Ewing, an uncle of J. G. Blaine, died at Washington, Pa., last Thursday. He was 90 years of age. Russia has raised the import duty on iron and steel and articles manufac tured therefrom from 25 to 30 per cent. Twenty-five thousand miles of land are inundated in Hungary. Attempts to maintain the dykes are being abandoned. The Russian railway is completed to within 125 miles of the Afghan frontier. There is no fighting going on in Afghan istan. Reports brought to Port Townsend, W. T., by steamer from Alaska say that In dians and miners are fighting in the in terior. Daniel Manning, late U. S. treasurer, arrived in New York on Saturday last from Europe looking much improved in health. A Russian named Smolienoff, in San Francisco, claims to have discovered a way m which nitro-glycerine may be used with safely in projectiles. Among 3,000 immigrants who arrived at Castle Gardens last Saturday were sixteen penniless Greek from Syria, who will probably be sent back. MM. Clemenceau and Foucher, the latter editor of the National, have fought a duel with pistols near Paris. Neither of the combatants were hurt. An attempt to wreck the west-bound Northern Pacific train was made last week at Spokane I alls by piling rolls of telegraph wire upon the track. Already the pension bills to be urged on the next session of congress are being gotten up and circulated among Grand Army posts and elsewhere. The buildings of the Havemeyer Sugar, Refining company at Green Point, N. J., were destroyed by fire last Saturday; loss, $600,000, of which half was insured. A recent decision of Judge Bond of the U. S. circuit court at Raleigh, N. C., is to the effect that unpaid interest on $10, 000,000 worth of North Carlolina bonds, issued in 1869, will have to be paid. The amounts involved are up in the millions and a special session of the legislature will doubtless be called. The Times-Union says that no cholera e4 ft in Florida except at Key West, which is on an isolated island nearly 100 miles from the nearest point on the main land. On Sunday last, a force of police was sent from Bodyke to Treakle to disperse -Davitt's meeting, but did not get there till Davitt's had finished and left the place. The whole power of the United States can't fire Dogberry Oliver from justice of tI* peace in Washington. The district .thorities are trying a writ of quo war ranto. A contract for part of the work of drain ing the Valley of Mexico has been award ed to a syndicate of Cleveland, Ohio, cap italists known as the Bucyras Construc tion company. The NewYork produce exchange reports the visible supply of grain on June 4 as follows: Wheat, 42,452,000 bushels; corn 14,709,000; oats, 3,453,000; rye, 259,000; barley, 194,000. Lawrence Donovan, of Brooklyn bridge jumping fame, was arrested on Westmin ister bridge, London, last week, while at tempting to jump therefrom into the Thames in honor of the queen's birthday. Mrs. Langtry is going to reside in San Francisco after the completion of her pro fessional engangements there. The gos sips say a desire to take advantage of cer tain California laws on divorce is the principal cause. President Cleveland and party on their way home from the Adirondacks stopped at Albany and breakfasted with Gov ernor HilL The president then went on to Washington while Mrs. Cleveland went to Oswego to visit a friend. Gen. Sherman has written to grand army offcials in St. Louis ridiculing the idea that the Iowans would do anything insulting or disrepectful to President Cleveland in case he visits St. Louis dur ing the prospective G. A. R. encampment. Of ninety assisted emigrants, who ar rived in New York from Ireland last week, all but twenty-three have been or de.k.to be taken_.back by the Inman S-tamsbip company.- It is believed the steamship company will contest the case in the U. S. courts. The total coin and currency in circula tion May 31, 1887, was $197,256,560, being a net increase of $58,566,545 over that in circulation May 31, 1886. The princi pal portion of the increase is in paper currency and in coin of the denomination of $20 and under. No information has been received at the war department m Washington re garding the recent outbreak in Arizona, beyond the fact that thirty Apaches have left their reservation and that Captain Lawton is in pursuit of them with four troops of cavalry. A Memphis newspaper, having sent out circulars to leading newspapers of the south asking if they favored Cleveland after having pocketed the river and har bor bill, received 35 replies, of which 27 were in the affirmative, 6 in the negative and 2 on the fence. At an Anarchist picnic at Oak Ridge Park, N. J., last Sunday, at which Herr Most was present, a workman who hap pened to be going through the park was attacked and a general row precipitated, during which several shots were fired. No one was seriously hurt. At the commencement exercises at West Point, N. Y., the graduating class num bered sixty-four. General Sheridan wel comed them into the ranks of the army. The colored cadet Alexander, who is the second of his race to go through the academy, graduated second. The Independent is authority for the statement that Vice-President Oakes is to be appointed to the presidency of the Northern Pacific railroad. The feasabil ity of running a line of steamers from Puget Sound to China and Japan is to be considered by the company. When Captain Thomas Phelan was stabbed in O'Donovan Rossa's office, New York, two years ago, he had an accident policy for $3,000 insurance m the Travel ers insurance company. The company refused to pay the money on the plea that Phelan had provoked the as sault. Phelan was last Saturday award ed judgment for the full amount. A Mrs. Brooks who went to Denver from Michigan last year to take posses ion of $80,000 worth of property which had been left her, has ever since been missing, her husband who went west to look for her, and several detectives whom he has employed, finding no trace of her. Mr. Brooks has now just received a letter from his wife mailed in Boston but en dorsed by the postmaster as having been forwarded from California, in which she says she is held captive by a gang of men who already have $20,000 of her money and want the rest. TERRITORIAL NEWS. Items of Interest From Both Sides of the Divide. Notes Clipped and Condensed From Exchanges Published Within the Territory. Butte is to have new water works. Dennis Dunn's house in Centerville was destroyed by fire last Monday morning. Loss, $2,500; not insured. H. W. Child, of Helena, refused $100, 000 for a piece of Helena real estate while in St. Paul last Saturday. Ed. Hayes and Dennis Enright were drowned at the Buckhouse bridge-site while crossing the Bitter Root river in a boat. Two car loads of horses from the Prickly Pear Valley were shipped to Pittsburg, Pa., last week over the North ern Pacific. On June 27th, Smith's Joe Bowers and George's Jack Dowd will run a mile dash for $200 a side on the West Side Associa tion track at Butte. The catch-as-catch-can wrestling match in Anaconda, between Peter Shoemaker and Frank Kinney resulted in a draw after a two hours' struggle. The rails on the new track over Mullan tunnel spread on Saturday evening dur ing the passage of the west-bound trian, which was consequently delayed twelve hours. A number of agricultural surveys in the Yellowstone country were awarded to E. P. H. Harrison last Thursday. The price amounts to about $10,000 with no other bidders. A bridge-tender named Griffin, while clearing some drift from the N. P. bridge between Heron and Thompson Falls last week, fell into the water and was drowned. The Butte Rod & Gun Club will have a shooting tournament early in July. Leyson & Turk :will offer a cup tobe competed for which will be the territorial championship cup. Last Friday night the express pouch of the west-bound passenger train on the N. P. was robbed at Deer Lodge of a money package containing $147. Noth ing else was taken. The Rocky Mountain Husbandman is full of items about the new strikes and and promising prospects in the Castle Mountains, and also reports discovery of some promising looking coaL Silver bullion certificates have been placed on the regular list of the New York stock exchange. The certificates will be for 1,000 ounces of silver 1,000 fine and no silver less than 998 fine will be re ceived. At Helena, on Sunday last, the two year-old son of John Gibson was shot in the forehead by the accidental discharge of a rifle in a shooting gallery. The wound is a dangerous one, but the child will recover. Last Sunday William Rockliff, engi neer, and Jack Connelly, miner, em ployes of the Buffallo mine, near Butte, got into a row over lowering the cage down the shaft, in which Rockliff finally shot Connolly in the arm. The Yellowstone Park association have everything in readiness for the opening of the hotels on the 15th inst. The most inportant improvement of this season will e the erection of a new and perman ent hotel at the Grand Canyon. The Montana Central railroad from Helena to Butte is being pushed with all possible speed. On the north end of the tunnel the heading is in 200 feet and on the south side 30. The work is expected to be completed by Decemebr 1st. The Cree Indians, who came into Northern Montana during the northwest ern disturbances in Canada last year, are now in process of removal from their present camp at the head of Sun River to some point in Canada not yet deter mined. Last Friday two woodchoppers, names unknown, were held up between Comet and Wickes and robbed of everything they had including quite a sum of money. The thieves are supposed to be a couple of toughs known as Jack Garland and R. D. Evans. Julius Levy and J. T. Powell, late part nersin a Butte gambling house, are at law over a division of the profits for the last six months or so. Powell is now running a game in Helena, which is reported as unlimited, and called, we believe, the '~Gilt Edge" gamoe. The game of ball at Helena last Satur day between the Helena and Walkerville nines resulted in a victory for the latter with a score of 8 to 6. The gamewas well contested and most creditably play ed all around, the result remaining in doubt up to the last inning. Eugene Winzler was bound over by Judge English, in Helena, last Monday, to await the action of the grand jury, on the charge of bigamy. He married in Salt Lake about four years ago, and in April last, during a temporary absence of his wife, he married a Miss Kate Slate. The rumor that bogus bonds of Jeffer son county, Montana, are in circulation in the east has been confirmed by N. Merriman, who informs the Independent that some weeks ago the treasurer of the county received one of the counterfeit bonds from a bank in the east where it had been deposited as security for a loan. Last Thursday night John McRea, Chas. Stuart and Frank Lasba were struck by lightning while working in the yard of Clark's Colusa smelter and all three paralyzed. Drs. Bacon and Whit ford by dilligent use of the electric bat 'succeeded in dissipating the paralysis and all three are on the road to recovery. The Inter Mountain reports the incor poration of a company to build a tailroad from Bozeman to Butte and over the Pipestone pass. The articles of incorpor ation are not yet complete and the names of the projectors not fully determined, but it is understood that among those who are willing to go into the scheme are Marcus Daly, A. J.Davis. Judge Knowles, of Butte, and Hon. Con. Kohrs of Deer Lodge. Indian Chief Tew Doy, with a few of his Bannack Indians, is now in Butte, with a permit for an absence of thirty days and a recommendation from Agent Needham to be permitted to trade in furu. without a license. The day after his ar rival in town he asked the assistance of the law for two of his followers who got drunk and whom he wanted to have ar rested before they got into trouble. He also helped the officers find the seller of fan l.. wo+a.; h.. pnanAd to b a tanab character known as Hog Joe, and will probably serve a term in the penitentiary for the offense. The ninth anniversary of the Miners' Union was celebrated most auspiciously in Butte, last Monday, by a street parade of great magnitude, followed by speeches at their hall by President Barker, Rev. W. E. King, W. J. Penrose and J. M. O'Neil. A grand ball was given in the evening. A feature of the occasion was that of the procession's going to the Blue Bird mine, the only one where a holiday had not been given in honor of the day, and while there persuading the Italian miners to quit work and join in the fes tivities. Twenty-five were afterwards initiated into the union. It was the lady who thought she was going to swoon who had a faint suspicion. TIEB WARKETS. The Latest Quotations in all Lead. Ing Lines of Trade. The following are the latest market quotations obtainable up to this morning the 16th inst.: SILVER. New York............. ........... LEAD AND COPPERB. New York, lead, per 100 pounds..... $t 70 New York, Copper.................. 9 90 GRAIN MARKET. July wheat opened %'c lower at 83-, now quoted at 83 2-16 and is irregular; cash 92%; Aug. 97%. Corn-Steady; cash 37%; July 38%; August 39. Oats-Easy, cash, 25; July, 26; August, 25. Pork-Steady; cash, $22. Lard-Steady; cash, $6.62.'i; July, $6.671'; Aug ust, $6.62%. LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET. Philipsburg markets, corrected by Featherman & Co., each week. Hay, per ton, baled .....................,..$25 00 Oats, per 100 lbs ............................. 25 Wheat, per 100 lbs ........................... 3 50 Potatoes, per 100 lbs.......................... 3 50 Cabbage, per 100 bs......................... 7 00 Onions, per lbs .............................. 600 Hanch Butter, per lb............................. 50 Tub Butter, per lb........................... 5 Flour, Pillebury's Best ...................... 450 Flour, Snowflake............................ 850 Eggs, per doz................................. 25 Sugar, per 100 lbs................... ..... 875 Ham, per 100 lbs.............................. 18 09 Bacon, per lb................................ 14 00 Shingles, per M.. ............................ 4 50 Clear Pine Lumber, per M.................. 35 00 Common Pine Lumber............. ..... - 2 00 Cumberland Coal, per ton................... 96 00 LOCAL MEAT MARKET. Beef by side, per ....................... .... 10 Hind Quarter, per ......lb.................. 121 Fore Quarter, per lb........................... 09 Mutton Carcase................................. 10% Pork Carcass................................ 12 t---- --l- The MAIL ofice is the place to go for hine ob e o r rinti.e