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SYEAR THE PHILIPSBURG MAIL. aYR
VOL. VIII. NO 2. PHILIPSBURG, GRANITE COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1894. PRICE, 5 CENTS.
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" A '
ABOUT BI-MRITLISM
Silver Gaining Friends in the
United Kingdom.
PROMINENT MEN ARE TURNING
A Short Time Ago Bi-MIetallisnm Was
an Almost Unheeded Fad -Now
England's Greatest Financiers
Admit That It IMust Come
Are Becoming Alarmed.
The Edinburg Scotchman, a strong
bi-metallic publication, says: "Only the
other day bi-metallism was an almost
unheeded fad. Mr. Chaplain was laughed
at for adopting it. Lord Randoph
Churchill was sneered at for coquetting
with it. Mr. Goschen was in danger of
losing his reputation as a financier for
hinting a prepossession in its favor. But
the other night Lord Salisbury astonished
the house of lords by seizing the oppor
tunity afforded by the debate on the loan
of ten millons to India to deliver a close
ly-reasoned argument for the aboption of
the double standard, and Lord Herchel,
still more to the wonder of the house,
instead of repudiating the ex-premier's
doctrine as rank heresy, contented him
self by apologetically declaring that in
his opinion the "time was not yet ripe"
for bi-metallism. There is talk of many
conversions in high places to the view
that the double standard must come, and
that before long. Lancashire is all for it,
and Mr. Leese found out at Accrington,
and in the interval between the general
election and the late contest he changed
his mind unon the subject."
Englishmen, it seems, are becoming
alarmed at the evil effects of the demon
itization of silver in India. The com
mercial and industrial conditions of that'
country are in a state of chaos and ruin,
and the financial and commercial inter
ests of England are the greatest suf
ferers thereby. This is the reason why
bi-metallism is gaining ground so rapidly
in that country.
A Charitable Pawnshop.
At the Thanksgiving service in Trin
ity church a collection was taken for
the establishment of a pawnshop to be
run in connection with the newly estab
lighed Trinity House in the south end.
The place will b'erun ds ariy pawnshop,
except that the rate of interest charged
will be only 4 per cent. Dr. Donald
says he is assured of the success of the
venture, r
Two Kinds of Marital Cruelty.
Mrs. Maria Cook Ehlers has begun a
suit for separation from John Ehlers, a
wealthy liquor dealer of 234 Flushing
avenue, Brooklyn. The couple were
married 16 months ago. Mr. Ehlers
was a widower and twice as old as his
bride. Mrs. Ehlers says that she was
threatened with death. She says her
husband forced her to visit the graves
of his first two wives. rre -
THE GRANDKST ON RUTH
Whal Ofr Representative Thinks of
the golden 8tate.
The Beauties of the Ildwinter Fair
"Would Rather Spend One Day in
Golden Gate Park than a Week
In Jackson Park-Now is the
Time to Go to the Fair.
Special Correspondence of THE MAIL.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 1894.-After
spending ten days in San Francisco and
its suburban points of interest we have
come to the conclusion that California
is the grandest country on earth, and its
Midwinter fair an achievement that few
if any other state in the union could
rival at this season of the year. The
Chicago fair is the acknowledged world
beater, but, candidly, I would rather
spend one day in Golden Gate park than
a whole week in Jackson park.
The contrast in leaving the snow-clad
valleys of Montana and in.a few days'
ride be landed amid warm sunshine and
balmy air, with flowers in bloom and all
foliage as green as we are accustomed to
see it in June, is truly a revelation. The
Midwinter fair was officially opened last
Saturday (the 27th). The day was per
fect and the opening proved a grand
success; upwards of 70,000 people paid
admission to the grounds.
It will of course be some time before
the entire display is in place. Many
buildings are not yet completed, and in
fact some are only started; but it is
surprising how rapidly the construction
progresses after a start is made.
One great contrast between the World's
fair grounds and the Midminter grounds
is the absence of water in the latter, but
instead of water it has flowers. The
court of honor is beyond all description,
and one never tires of looking at the
beauty displayed there.
Several Philipsburgers requested me
to give them some idea of the best time
to visit the Midwinter and some explana
tion of the best way to make the trip.
People whom I have talked with here
say gocd weather is most likely to pre
vail from now on, as the rainy season
seems to have passed, and as the fair is
ready for public inspection the trip could
be made with satisfaction at any time
.after.. Febtjary lst.. From Portland,
Seattle or Tacoma most travelers, and
especially tourists, go overland one way
and by water the other. In this way a
great deal of country may be seen and
the expense is but little more than in
making the round trip over the same
line. We came from Portland by steamer,
and though the trip was novel and in
teresting we were not in condition to
enjoy it very much, as we got sick while
crossing the Columbia bar and remained
in our staterooms for two days.
In San Franlisco one can live to suit
himself, or his pocketbook rather. The
best and perhaps the cheapest way to
stay here is to rent a room, which can be
obtained at from $1.50 to $10 or even
more per week; then board around
wherever it is handiest. Proebsting and
myself have a nice front parlor at $3 a
week and our board costs just whatever
we have a mind to spend for it. Good
substantial meals can be had, however,
for 25 cents and upwards.
We have met several Montanians here,
and some from Philipsburg as well. All
have made our stay very pleasant and
we will probably remain here a week or
two longer, or until we go broke. The
army of unemployed is already so great
that there is not room for more among
them, so we have no hope to remain after
funds are exhausted. T. C. CONODON.
PRINCETON POINTERS.
'The "Little School House" to be Formnally
Opened on Feb. 22d.
Regular Correspondence of THE MAIL.
PRINCETON, Mont., Feb. 7.
"Conquer we must
For our cause it is just."
The "Inaugural entertainment and
ball" which is to dedicate our new school
house to its high and noble mission on
the 22nd of this month-Washington's
birthday (could any other day of the
year be more appropiate for such an oc
casion?) will be a grand success. The
programme of exercises will include an
oration on education by a gentleman
well gifted to do justice to the subject.
Vocal and instrumental music "that
humble harmonist of care on earth"
will make everyone present feel happy;
and those who are not present will be
simply "out of luck." Some solo rendi
tions have been promised by ladies whose
singing I know will deligh L every listener.
Dialogues, recitations and such, are in
preparation.
Last but not least, by any means, is a
dancing floor of matchless smoothness
and a band of music that will make every
one forget his years, provided he has at
tained any. The floor committee will be
responsible for that and when you read
their names you will conclude that they
are equal to the task: Charles Kadell,
chairman; Lee Henry, Dominick Byr
nes, jr. and Frank McAndrews, associates.
So: iuch'for the school house ball.
Jottings.
There are quite a number of other
promising gold ledges in that neighbor
hood that will soon be opened up. There
is this characteristic about the ledges
here, that when you once strike them
"they will stay with you, and if they
should prospect reasonably well you had
better stay with then\."
"The clouds are rolling by," and there
is the promise of a bright future for our
new county ahead. In this immediate
neighborhood things wear a more cheer
ful appearance than they have for a quar
ter of a century before, and that is say
ing a good deal-all owing to the phe
nomonal development of the Royal gold
mine. "It is in the air" that this mine
will be opened up on a large scale the
coming season, as she deserves and ought
to be. RoLAND.
IN FAR OFF AUSTRIA.
Mr. and Mrs. Spiro Gregovich Now So
journing There.
Special Correspondence of THE MAIL.
CASTEL LASTUA, Austria, Jan. 11.-We
have traveled many thousands of miles
since we left Granite until we reached
my old home in Castel Lastua. We
went through America, England, Bel
gium, Germany and Austria, but have
not seen a country like America, and
especially Montana. This is a different
country from America and Castel Lastua
is a different place from Granite or
Phihpsburg. It is a seaside town and is
nice and warm. No fear of getting up
in the morning and finding it forty below
zero. This year we had two Christmases
-the Roman and Greek. One came as
usual on the 25th of December and the
other thirteen days after.
I am home and have plenty to eat and
drink and a good home to live in without
ever working, but give me America.
Here you dare not express your opinion;
if you should you are liable to be put in
jail. I will be glad to be back again in
the land of the free.
We receive TaH. MAIL regularly. With
kind regards to all, I remain,
SPIRo GREGovICII.
THE SILVER CLUB.
Converted Into a Mock Congress of tIh
United States.
The silver club held a meeting as usual
at the court house last Thursday even
ing and started the preliminaries for or
ganizing a mr.ck congress of the United
States. Tbh following officers were
elected: Spueaker, James McDonel;
speaker pro tern, Frank D. Brown; chief
clerk, A. A. Fairbairn; assistant clerk
J. G. Carson; Chaplain, David Pizer;
sergeant-at-arms, Dr. Wm. Ray; door
keeper, E. H. Campbell; pages, -lans
Hansen and Tommy Hickey.
Hon. John H. Cole gave notice that he
would introduce a bill abolishing all the
town and county officers at the next
meeting.
Considerable discussion followed on
the credentials of Hon. F. D. Brown,
who presented himself as a delegate from
Alaska. Messrs. Cole, Brown, Campbell,
Dearborn and others electrified the aud
ience with speeches on the question.
The debate was finally wound up by re
ferring the matter to the committee no
privileges and elections, composed of the
following members: Messrs. Campbell,
Dearborn, Ray, Cole and Bryan.
The club adjourned until Friday night.
AMONG THH LRUIRE
The Prospects in the Flint
Creek District.
BI-METALLIC EMPLOYING A FEW MIEN
The Work Has Hardly Got Under
WVay Yet-Prospeects for Increas
ing the Plant of the Royal Gold
-Claims Bonded by the Ana
conda Co. In the Boulder.
Work is being pushed with a limited
force of men on the lines mapped out by
the Bi-Metallic to be carried out at the
mill. Considerable preparatory labor
must necessarily be done before much
of a showing can be made on the big
tunnel. A few men are now engaged on
that enterprise. When everything is in
full blast and the several projects are
fully under way quite a large number of
men will be employed and the Flint
Creek district will feel the business im
pulse in no small degree. In fact, at
present business shows improvement,
though in no very appreciable extent.
THE ROYAL GOLD.
Arrangements Being Perfected for Mlore
Extensive Operation.
Willard Bennett, the well known
owner in the Royal Gold property, has
returned from Chicago, where he has
been for some time past. This gentle
man, in company with his brother,
Nelson, also a stockholder in that
bonanza, went up to the Royal proper
ties early this week. 'ni. MAIL is
reliably informed that arrangements are
now under way for the operating of the
Royal on a much more extensive scale.
The output now ranges between $5.000
and $7.000 per week in gold, and this,
too, with a ten-stamp mill! They have
an extensive vein, and by the addition of
more stamps can greatly increase their
output.
Granite county is fast making a record
as a gold producer, and if a few more of
our gold properties are developed we
will lead in gold as we have for years in
the silver output.
GOLD PROPERTIES BONDED.
The Anaconda Company Take Hold of
Granite County Gold Claims.
THE MAIL has information to the
effect that Peter and John Sherr and
Charles Kadell have bonded their prop
erties, the Bloomington and Gold Bug
lodes, to Marcus Daly, of the Anaconda
company. The properties are located in
our rich Granite county, a short distance
from the Royal Gold in the Boulder
district. The bond is said to be way up
in the thousands. Ten men are now
working on the claims with every proba
bility of opening to the world another
rich gold mine.
SOUTH PFRIGAN LKTTKR
lack Hartwell Writes Another of His
Interesting lpistles,
Bossing Twenty Kaffirs In An African
Gold llne - Accident Caused by
Giant Powder-Good Output for
a Smnall Mix Mtamp Mill -
Houses Built of Iron-Etc.
Regular Correspondence of TIE MAIL.
MOODIES, DeKaap, S. A., Dec. 10.-It
has been a long time since I heard from
.ontana. I am working for wages now
-£20 per month--for Charles & Temple
ton. Charles is an American. Lige
Bergeron has been working for them ever
since we arrived. He is putting in a
tramway for them now, and I am in the
mine; have to sharpen tools, show the
"boys" where to put in the holes. I have
about twenty to look after. They make
good miners after they are broken in.
We have very hard rock here, about the
worst I ever saw, and two "boys" will
clean up the rock from the day before
and drill twelve feet in a day, and I know
there are lots of white men who could
not do it. Some of the best "boys" in
this mine get £3 per month.
We are getting the rain that one reads
about now. Nearly every day we get a
storm. The forenoon will be so hot one
can't stand it, and about noon you will
see a little cloud which does not move
any but just grows till it covers the
whole sky, and one can't describe the
lightning. Most of the houses are built
of iron and they are never stricken, but
houses built of wood, stone or grass get
hit very frequently.
There are a great many "boys" killed
every summer (by boys I mean Karfirs
a Kaffir is called a boy if he is gray
haired).
Well, it is so hot to-day that I can't
write. Will let it go till night. I started
this letter one week ago; will try and
finish it now.
You just ought to see it rain all last
night. One can hardly call it rain: it
was more hke Niagara falls. I don't
know how many feet of water fell, but I
put a half barrel out doors yesterday
evening and this morning it was running
over, and all day it has been raining
steady.
I had an accident in the mine a few
nights ago. A "boy" blew his hand off.
I had left three of them to hoist water,
and one did not understand just how
pbwder exploded, so he got hold of a
primer and I guess he hlled it with giant
and then held it in his hand and set fire
to it. He lost his thumb and two
fingers, but he has learned all about
dynamite. Experience comes high for
some people.
Charles & Templeton cleaned up to-day
after thirteen days' run with six small
stamps eighty-eight ouncesof gold. That
is not bad. The vein is thirty fbet wide.
I can't give the number of tons worked,
but I think about fifty.
I have been working now one month;
will finish another and then quit and
see what I can do for myself. Give my
regards to all. JACK HARTWELL.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hansen gave a
whist party at their residence last Friday
evening in honor of their son, Jnlius'
birthday. A jolly crowd was present
who thoroughly enjoyed themselves at
card playing, etc. A sumptuous repast
was served at midnight by the hostess,
after which whist playing was resumed
and was continued for an hour or so,
when the party broke up, each declaring
that they had spent a very pleasant even
ing.
LIFE IN TEXAS.
ThPl Trials and Tribulations of a Friend
in Loye.
Special Correspondence of THE MAIL.
BOOOTA, Texas, Feb. 1.-Well, you
ought to be in Texas, if you want to feel
the warmth that affects humanity the
most. Peaches and stomach-ache are
common luxuries here. Mosquitoes and
ticks are very active; so are flies. Dogs
bowl the same old way; the cats' solos
have the same monotonous subject and
occur about the same hour; the same
number of boot-jacks, old shoes, etc., are
thrown at them, as in old times, with the
same result-never hit one yet.
I am mashed on a mighty pretty girl
here, but I'll be darned if I believe she
is mashed to any great extent on me.
She loves to hear me talk though, for
what reason I can't tell, unless she de
lights in seeing what a darned liar a
man can be when he tries hard. Lots of
pretty girls here, but she is the prettiest
and smartest by all odds, in my opinion,
and if I can't sum up the physical,
moral and intellectual qualifications of a
young lady (ahem!) damme, sir! I dr.":·
know you can.
There is a darned toe-headed, kn:oK
kneed, hollow-eyed, flop-eared, liver
lipped, bullet-headed, hyena-faced snide
who takes his life in his hands far
enough to speak to her some times when
I am in reach of him. I haven't had an
opportunity to explain his peril to him
yet. What use he is in this community
I can't see. Therewas. a good friend of
mine told me he would fight at the dron
of the hat. I don't see what she notices
him for.
Well, I must close this interesting
letter. You surely must admire the
graceful and accurate style of my chirog
raphy. Take something. I am going to
send for a quart of procession whisky.
Next week I'll tell you how it worked.
Yours truly, JOHN.
M.illng Conflicts Settled.
A Helena dispatch of February 1,
states that Judge Knowles, in the United
States district court, signed seven de
crees settling conflicts between mining
claims of the Hope company of St. Louis
and other people. All the claims are in
the Flint Creek district, Deer Lodge
county, and the conflicts have been set
tled by stipulation and agreement be
tween the parties to the suits. The Shap
leigh and Constant lodes, owned by the
Hope company, conflicted with the Gar
net, the Amended Garnet and the Porter
Extension lodes, owned by Angus A. Mc
Donald and Eliger Bergeron; while the
Shapleigh lode also conflicted with the
Hope and High Ore lodes, owned by R.
F. Parkman, In these cases the agree
ment allows judgment to be entered in
favor of the Hope company. In the case
of the Amended Ohio lode, owned by
Henry Knatz and E. Shuh, which
conflict with the Constant lode, the
agreement allows the claim of the plain
tiffs and judgment against the Hope
company. These judgments straighten
out a long controversy between the Hope
company and the owners of other min
ing claims in the Flint Creek district.
James Stanley a Widow.
Another of the strange stories for
which the English chancery court is re
markable is astonishing everybody to
day. The Widow Cullener had a life
interest in her husband's estate, ter
minating on her remarriage. It is al
leged that she married a certain James
Stanley in 1865. The answer is that
the widow is Stanley. She has lived as
a man for the past 28 years and carried
on business as a plumber. She went
through a marriage ceremony in 1866
with another woman named Newland,
and they lived as man and wife till
1885. The case is still on trial.
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