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VOL. VII. NO 45. PHIILIPSBURG, GRANITE COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1893. PRICE. 5 CENTS.
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lowing letter:
BUTTE, MONTANA, NOV. 10, 1892.
DR. C. SCHULTZ, City: I desire to make the following statement relative to my
case in the hope that other unfortunate sufferers like myself may be equally bene
fitted. I had been suffering for about three years from seminal weakness, lost
manhood and nervous prostration, causing meloncholly and loss of sleep. My body
was covered with ulcers and my forehead being swollen just over the eyebrows so
badly as to have the appearance of growing horns. I was unable to obtain more
than one hours uninterrupted sleep at one time, the terrible itching and mental
suffering caused by my disease making it impossible for me to sleep or rest. When
my disease first appeared I consulted local physicians without relief. I then at
tempted to cure myself by using patent medicines, but again failing I consulted and
was treated by several American specialists, who also failed to cure me. I was de
spaired of ever being cured, but a friend of mine recommended you, I decided to
try once more and so put myself under your care with the result that after only
two weeks' treatment I feel like a new man and am able to return to my work. I
take pleasure in certifying to this statement before a notary public and will recom
mend you personally to all my friends and acquaintances. J- G--
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of November, 1892.
C. L. CAMPBELL, Notary Public.
"THE PHILIPSI;U "MAIL" $2.00 A YEAR.
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FROM SOUTH AFRIC
Our Regular Correspondent's
Newsy Letter.
BE IS WORKING ON HIS PROSPECT
He Gives Soiue Interesting Facts
About the Country and the Laws
that Govern It-Johannesburg
a Model and Substantially
Built tClty-- Puff Adders.
THE PROSPECT, DeKaap, Transvaal,
S. A., September 22, 1893.-Having a
little spare time, I thought I would
write a few lines which -I believe will be
of interest to the people of Montana,
showing the peculiarities of this country
and the customs of the people.
There was a shght rainstorm here last
night; it only lasted about an hour, but
that was long enough. I never saw such
lightning or heard such thunder; it was
something grand.
Al Wentworth had been up here, but
was taken with the fever and Joe Carle
ton went back with him, so I was alone,
and just as it got to raining right good
the tent went down, or up rather, for the
wind took it about one hundred yards.
I soon caught it and set it up again.
The river raised ten feet in two hours,
and I expect it was only a small piece
of a storm such as they have in the
summer.
Joe Carleton expects to go to Johan
nesburg soon. I will stay and work the
prospect. There is no use of two white
men working, as one can get a Kaffir who
will do more than a white man for £1 10s
per month, and it costs about £1 more to
feed him.
Joe is very much taken up with Johan
nesburg. It is truly an inviting city, and
there probably never was a mining town
anywhere else where the population
took so much trouble to establish them
selves in permanent houses. Good
houses surrounded by carefully laid out
and well kept grounds are the rule in
the residential quarter, and people go in
for social life with as much vim as they
do for money maaing. Shops and banks
all close at noon on Wednesdays and
Saturdays and the afternoon is given up
to tennis, polo and social pleasures.
There is a racing association with a capi
tal ground, a Gymkhanaspoiting~society
arid an athletic club, with an orchestra
worthy of any city. Ladies vie with
each other in entertainments, costumes
and carriages, and dress coats after 6
o'clock are the rule with the sterner sex.
In fact, people dress and live there as
much for effect as they do in London.
People are not allowed to work on
Sunday here. There has always been a
£5 fine for it, and now I hear that the
penalty is £500. It will be tough on the
companies in Johannesburg, as they all
use steam.
I have sunk two holes on the prospect,
both as deep as one can shovel, and in
both places it shews up good. Will
send some of the rock from these and
from some other places that are vacant.
There is some good looking copper ore
near here. If we can tind. anything big
enough to bother with, it can be worked
cheaper, I think, than it could in Mon
tana. There is plenty of' good water
power handy and labor is so cheap; but
it costs lots to hold ground, and timber
is not very plenty. I have not located
much ground yet-only four claims.
The mining laws of the Transvaal and
those of Mashonaland are different.
The entire Transvaal has been divided
into ' farms." Many of these are occu
pied by settlers and the rest still belong
to the government. Any one may pro
cure a license to prospect for gold or
other metals by paying one shilling a
month. This, howeyer, only admits him
to farms still owned by the government.
If he finds anything good on such land
and in a district not yet recognized as a
gold field he reports it to the govern
ment, which examines the land, and if
valuable "proclaims" it. Any one may
then locate on it, the finder having the
first choice.
In case a discovery is made on an oc
cupied farm no work can be done with
out the consent of the owner. But as
long as the owner refuses to allow his
farm, or a portion of it, to be "proclaimed"
he is himself debarred from working its
reefs. When proclaimea the finder has
the right of the first location and the
farmer of the second. The farmer must
also be paid at a fixed rate by the other
locators.
The length of a claim is 150 feet and
the width 400 feet. Each locator is en
titled to a block of claims, twelve in
number, making his real location 1,800
feet in length. The only apparent
reason for calling it twelve claimsinstead
of one is to permit a separate license of
10 shillings a month to be charged on
each.
The Transvaal is a Dutch republic,
and its people do not like foreigners, who
do nearly all their mining. Their idea is
that if the latter wish to mine there they
must be made to pay for it. Accord
ingly everything used in mining is tre
mendously taxed at the frontier, while
farming implements used almost exclu
sively by the Dutch are practically free.
Some articles, dynamite for instance,
were absolutely prohibited for a time,
and a monopoly for its manufacture and
sale was sold to a local firm. But the
product was so bad and so expensive
that the miners refused to use it, and
finally forced the government to break
up the monopoly. If the Droduct of an
alluvial or placer field sinks and its pop
ulation becomes less than one to the
square mile, the government will dis
possess the miners and restore the fields
to the original farmers.
Well it is getting ready to rain again
and a tent is a little better than nothing
in these rainstorms. It did not rain
much this time. Have just been cut
looking around and saw two puff adders
less than a hundred yards from the tent;
got one of them. They are a small
snake, not over two feet long, but are
said to be the most dangerous snake in
this country.
I have company just now, two Swazle
ladies. They brought some quata. It
is a drink they make from corn. If one
drinks enough of it it will make him
drunk, but I guess it would take five or
six gallons. It costs about six pence
per gallon.
The samples I send are as near an
average as I can get-they are not any
better than the vein anyway.
This would be a good country to come
to if the people already here did not
spoil it. Th, re is going to be a big war
just north of the Transvaal. The Eng
lish are going to try and take Matebele
land. They offer volunteers a farm ond
part of the cattle captured; that is, if
they'whip the natives. Lobenguli, the
native king, is also getting volunteers in
the Trandvaal. He has 500 already, and
I think he will get a lot of help from the
Dutch as they hate the English. If it
wasn't for the prospect I think I would
go up for Lobenguli. He gives every
man a farm, and I expect he throws in a
few wives.
Joe and I jumped up a rhmoceros
when about fifty miles below here. We
did not see much of him.
Well I will close. I hope 1 will get a
letter from someone pretty soon. It is
getting lonesome. Regards to all.
JACK HARTWELL.
THK OhLJ AbdONKQUIN MIlL
Will Be Started to Work To-Morrow
(Friday) Morning.
The Mill Will Run on Ore Fronm the
Puritan Mine and Will Be Oper
ated by That Company-Under
stooi to Have Plenty ot Ore.
Manager John McKechney, of the Puri
tan company, was in town yesterday and
informed THE MAIL representative that
the Algonquin mill at Hasmark would
be put in operation on Puritan ore to
morrow morning. He also states that
the company have sufficient ore taken
out at the mine to fully justify them in
starting the mill, and that the recent
discovery on the 400-foot level guaran
tees them a season of greater prosperity
than has been enjoyed at any previous
time.
The starting up of the, mill will.. not
only give employment to a number of
men but will go quite a way toward
stimulating many branches of business
in Philipsburg. Mr. McKechney has
always bought his supplies from home
merchants whenever he could, and in
this way mutual benefit is derived.
Everybody admires the pluck and
stability of this company in not only
keeping their regular force of miners at
work throughout the panicky season but
also from the fact that they are now to
start their mill with silver at such a
ridiculously low price.
The operation of this mill, though
small in comparison with that of the
Granite or Bi-Metallic, will greatly as
sist in tiding over the hard winter now
u.pon us, and it is the sincere wish of
everybody that there will be no limit to
the success of the Puritan from now on.
SOLD FOR $5,000.
A Philipsburger Disposes of an Interest
in a Colorado Gold Claim.
W. H. Enfield has received word that
a property he owns a one-quarter inter
est in at Cripple Creek, Colorado, is to
be sold providing terms can be agreed
.upon. He has been offered $5,000 for
his interest, which he has decided to
accept. l'he property is a gold one and
callea the Golden Terry.
Mr. Enfield has resided in this section
for some time and went to Colorado
from Black Pine about one year ago,
and three days after his arrival in Cripple
Creek he located the claim in q estion,
and dlsnosed of the other three-fourths
interest. He returned to Philipsburg
last March and has remained here ever
since. He says the sum is not very large,
but that it will be very welcome these
hard times.
Burning For Centuries.
Here is an instance of a fire that has
been burning for centuries. According to
the testimony of the Duchess of Cleve
land, the great hearth fire in the hall of
Raby castle has never been suffered to
expire. This castle is perhaps the noblest
and most perfect specimen of feudal
architecture in England. It was in the
large banqueting hall of the famous man
sion that ages ago 700 knights are said
to have paid suit and service to the earls
of Westmoreland, one of the many titles
borne by the princely family of the Nev
illes.-London Tit-bits.
SFREE! FRE E!!
Prospectors, Mine-Owners, and all
who have Mining Claims, may secure
the proper blank form at
THE lAIL
for recording their intention to hold
claims by taking advantage of the
act of congress relieving the owner
from doing assessmentworkfor 1893. *
We give these blanks away free of
charge if called for at our office.
If you want them by mail inclose a
2-cent stamp and we will forward
same to your address.
THE MAIL,
Philipsburg.
SI[ERN IN KNGL ND
The Effect a Further Declin e
Would Have.
AFRAID OF FREATER DEPRESSION
Sir Mereton Frewen, the Great Eng
lisli Financier andi Bi-Metallist,
Talks About thu M bite .Metal
A Drop of a Few Cents WVould
Cause a Paulnc in Lonldon.
Sir Moreton Frewen, the English ad
vocate of bi-metallism, while in Colorado
Springs, the other day, was interyviewed
by the Gazette of that city. In part he
said:
"I have come out here to look into the
silver question somewhat and I want to
ask you if your silver mines can be kept
open and the production of silver go for
ward as it has been doing if the price of
silyer falls to 70 cents, yes, to 60 cents,
And whether or not you think an adjust
ment of wages coupled with a general
fall of price in other articles used, will
enable you to do this. For it means very
much to us in London. Our exchanges,
especially with China, are at a snapping
point. If Colorado keeps on producing
silver as before, the price of the bullion
needs only to drop a few cents more be
fore it will produce a panic among Lon
don merchants. If, on the other hand,
your mines close down, decreasing the
amount of silver bullion offered for sale,
and thereby increasing the price of it,
our merchants may tide over for awhile.
I look for a very serious time between
now and Christmas in London.
"I have been in Washington for the
past week," said Sir Moreton, "and have
been struck by the utter ignorance upon
the currency question displayed by the
repealers. The only men who seem to
have studied the question are on the sil
ver side-such men as Senator Jones, and
Senator Teller of your own state, who
know the subject from A to Z. I have
not seen everything in the utterances of
President Cleveland which would lead
me to suppose that he had studied the
question at all. The congress seems to
be bent ongoing steadiy ahead toward
the policy which we have had in Eng
land for so long, and which has grown
worse from the beginning. It is a policy
which should be avoided rather than
followed. I think that silver bullion
will only have to drop a few cents in
order to bring England to her senses;
and then something will be done to re
store our export trade, which will cease
entirely with this drop in the price of
the bullion."
Continuing, Sir Moreton said : "It
would be amusing were it not so serious
to observe the attitude and listen to the
discussions of the subject which have
taken place in the eastern press and
among members of congress. We were
assured by them that just as soon as the
repeal bill was passed that immediately
there would come an era of prosperity,
and that prices would go up and that
business would go up; Wall street would
sell her stocks at higher prices and the
rest of the country would reflect the
glory of Wall street. They said that
London would immediately begin to in
vest heavily in American securities and
that they would consequently go up in
price. But, bless your heart, London
has no money to invest in American
securities; we are very hard up and want
to sell."
In speaking or the situation in India,
Sir Moreton said that he believed that
the experiment of closing the mints to
free coinage had proved a failure.
Passing on to the French experiment
of opening her mints to free coinage he
said it was a triangular method of ex
change. As sood as France found her
self becoming overstocked with the white
metal from England and other countries.
she proceeded to ship it to India and
China and other silver using countries in
payment for goods; these countries in
turn would pay it to English merchants
for goods and it would eventually find
its way back to that country; so that
France received the equivalent of a bank
of Engl:nd note for all the silver she re
ceived from that country. He thought
that the United States with her wonder
ful capacity and resources might do the
sate thing.
When a Queen Bee Is Introduced.
A correspondent in American Bee
Journal writes:
Here is a way to tell whether a queen
is safely introduced when released
among the bees. In fifteen or twenty
minutes after you release her disturb
the bees in some way by smoking, jar
ring the hive, etc., and if they do not
pounce upon her at once shut up the
hive and go on and give it no further at
tention regarding the introduction of
that queen. A queen is never safely in
troduced until the bees show her royalty
or feed her, and I might say she is only
safe in summer when she begins to lay.
Cultural Notes on Tomatoes.
In a bulletin from Cornell station
Professors Bailey and Corbett announce
additional items in the treatment of to
matoes or confirm previous ones. Early
setting is important, giving the plants a
longer season in bearing before frost.
Leggy or long stem plants should be set
out nearly flat, half the stem being cov
ered. Hilling plants is of no advantage,
nor is trimming. Single stem training
gives more and earlier fruit. Early sow
Ings gave earliest fruit, but the heaviest
crops came from late sowings. Nitrate
of soda is a good partial fertilizer, but it
is of Y o benefit in very poor soils.
The Editor's DreaPm.
I would form the city's rule and law
from its fashions and forms cut loose-
and go where the strawberry grows on its
straw and the gooseberry grows on its
goose; where catnip tree is climbed by
the cat as she clutches for her prey, the
guileless and unsuspecting rat on the
rattan bush at play. I will watch with
ease the saffron cow and the cowlet in
their glee, as they leap in joy from bough
to bough on top of a cowslip tree, and list
while the partridge drums in the wood
and the dog devours the dogwood plum
mn the primitive solitude. Oh let me
drink from the moss-grown pump that
was hewed from a pumpkin tree-eat
mush and drink from a rural stump, and
form and fashion free--now gathered
mush fiom the mushroom vine and milk
from the milkweed sweet--with luscious
pineapples from the vine-such food as
the gods might eat! And then to the white
washed dairy I'll turn, where the dairy
maid hastening hies, her ruddy and gold
red butter to churn from milk of her
butterflies. And I'll rise at morn with the
earliest bird, to the fragrant farmyard
pass, and watch while the farmer turns
his herd of grasshoppers out to grass.
The Newspaper Man.
NEVADA VALLEY NOTES.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Boyd and little
daughter, of Sunset, visited friends in
Oyando last week.
Mrs. A. Williams, of Drummond, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. M. Williams, at
Ovando this week.
Grip is all the "go" here just at pres
ent. All who wish to be "in it" must
catch a hard attack.
Hughie Leonard made a business trip
to Missoula last week and reports times
dull in that vicinity.
Mrs. A. Hoepfner went to Helena this
week to visit friends and do shopping.
She will be absent about two weeks.
The company have just finished up
threshing in Big Blackfoot valley, and
have taken the machine to headquar
ters.
Miss Blanche Chloran, of Brecken
ridge, Mo., arrived a short time ago, and
will spend the winter with her father on
Mt. Ogden.
Miss Ida Collins, who taught in Sal
mon Creek district last summer, has ac
cepted a position as governess at the
home of Mrs. T'. McCormack.
We had a fore-runner of the conming
winter Wednesday night in the shape of
a "northeaster." Get out your felt boots
and "mackinaws," boys, and prepare for
the."round-up."
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Marcum, who have
been "doing" the Fair and visiting
friends in the east, returned to their
home in Helmville a short time ago, and
had a delightful trip.
Mrs. W. H. Murphy and Miss Mary
Murphy returned from the east a short
time ago, accompanied by their brother,
Mr. James Murphy, of Apple River, Ill..
who will remain here to enjoy our genial
climate until spring.
Miss Mary E. Smith closed a very suc
cessful term of school at Ovando, No
vember 10, with an exhibition and social
dance, which continued into the "wee
sma' hours" in the morning. The exer
cises were followed by the presentation
of a beautiful pair of vases by the pu
pils to their teacher.
The members of the Unique Debating
society elected their officers last Satur
day night, as follows: Mr. E. Kilburn,
president; Mrs. C. K. Jackways, vice
president; Mr. D. M. Hunsecker, secre
tary; Mrs. A. Goodfellow, critic. One of
the most interesting features of the pro
gram was an essay on "Essay Writing,"
by Miss Birdie Turrell.
The Independent Meat Company make
close prices and continue to sell as low
as the lowest. 42-tt.
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FOR RENT.
FOR RENT-Firet-class furnished rooms;
well ventilated. warm and comfortable;
rent reasonable. Mrs. E. McDonel, Broadway,
F.OR RENT-Three furnished or unfurnished
rooms to rent in Doe & McLeod block. In
quire of J. W. Monse.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTICE-AI persons are hereb biden
to bunt or kill game on the John Rains
ranch, south of Philipsburg. HYIER & Co. tf
W ANTED-A young man to take care of
horses and make himself useful for his
board; plenty of time to attend school. Ad
dress "D," Philipsburg.
DAIRYMEN, TAKE NOTICE-We have a lot
of transparent paper for butter rolls for
sale. It is far better than cloth and much
cheaper. THR MAr office.
sentO dlo p 05l.ea of
Sent Free to Any Address.