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• • A ' A. WE HAVE airale'Veln TO 25 E. QUA UTZ ST. I BUTTE, MONT. • - , 1 1 1-tE BASIN TT ES. / ArCIIMV WE ItAVN mituovICD TO' E. Q1' A liTZ St. BUTTE, MONT. VOLUME 3. BASIN, MONTANA. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 189. N 1\ NI BER 12.. morgall p s • HARD AT WORK court at Boulder, Saturday l euit, and after all of the testimony in the case had been heard tho jury discharged the defendant with very little hesitation. A number of Mr. Dunovams frieuds came over from The Poor Man's Cash Grocery. 340 and 342 E. Park t, Butte. You must have ,. \Money to Burn\ \ If you do pot take advantage of . this Week's Offer. Ikk• There is No Excuse Fur . ou paying big prices to Credit Stores any longer. To give you a chance to get acquainted, we will refer y011 to any wholesale house in Butte or Helena, or any other house you ligille. Morgan Pays the Freight Por one week only to let vou know the was we ao business Send thegloney with the Order 441 bars Montana Soap $1 00 Best Hams and Bacon, per lb .10 4 50 -lb sack Dory Salt 1 00 0 lbs of Boiled Oets • 10 -lb tub Best Butter 241) Alny package Coffee, lb .20 I -pound package Tea .25 2 &Yen good Lemons .25 3 cans Corn, Pens or !te e ns .. 100 -lb sack Dakota li. W. Flour 50-10 sack Pastry Flour 6 lbs good Rice .2:1 It lbs good lea ins ... .25 3 lb package Cold Dust . .911 1 dot Matches. P. or S. .15 6 palm Dom Sardines.. „.. .25 1 ii••a Miners Candles .25 i • 4 -10 can of Pepper .10 io lb pail of Pure Lard .75 la -lb pall of Jelly .75 2- 1 -1h can of Price's Baking Powder . _ 1.00 1 lb Bati le Si 'Tobacco .25 1 lb Star or Horseshoe - . 4e 1 -lb package Seal of North Caroline. . .45 I -lb box Plug Cut 40 II geed Cigars for .75 Oureanteed Eggs, case 3 75 26 lbs of Beans . 1.00 Eagle Milk. per can .15 12 cans of Cream 1.00 I lb Bakers Choco.ate .40 25 ounces Morn Baking Powder . .25 311 bars of Eastern Soap. 1.00 ) ...... • •w. 75 Just Received - A 'L.JLL LINE OF Dry Goods, Corsets, Ladies' Shoes, Dress Goods, Notions, Stationery, Drugs and Patent Med- t.) icines. hitters' Preserves And Everythinv Carried In a First-class Gen. ral Mercan- tile Establishment. COME._ - And Visit Our Store. In- spect our Goods, and In- quire our Prices. We are here to Please. Dennis Driscoll 84 Co., BASIN. MONTANA. Gaffney Mercantilg Company, Boulder, Montana. HOLESALE 1, RETAII, GROCERS. Hie,. I AI:11.1:o FOR Farmers' and Millers' Supplies. t The Largest and ,est Selected Stock in Joffer on County. Charles R. Leonard, Butte, _ Attorm y -at-Law. Butte. Among theni were Torn leillgallou, Foreman Buckley Is Doing All He Can to Reach th-e Bodies of the Miners. PROBABLY TAKE SIX MONTHS The Work Progressing Slow -- The Main Shaft Caved From Top to Bottom. There has been nothing to chronicle the past week about the accident at the Hope, unless it Is that the owners have concluded to take the bodies out of the shuft. Foreman Buckley hes taken charce of the work in person and as he is the most In- terested party if is a safe bet that he whi do all that human skill can do to bring the bodies up to the surface in the shortest. space of time. The main shaft is raved from top to bot- tom, but the slopes have never been tilled in with waste, the ground being such that there was not the danger of the ground coming together as it does in Butte, so the men can bulkhead and dump the waste that is in the shaft back into the stopeo At the 100 -foot level the men will have to sink in one of the compartments and use a windlass, or they may put. Inc small engine into use that is at the Ilkl, sviiii•ti has been wed for hoisting and lowering pumps, if steam can be gotten to it. I he bodies Will he recovered in 'imolai shorter buil, than has been anticipated, Basin, siren the tire, looks much like a deserted camp, but there are other mines adjacent ta he I•ia . n th•t toed% to make of it a wiping center. This fire was the saddest. bio.,y 1r.ln ever • xperienced, and desid entombed at the bottom of the 300 causes a deep gloom to be spread over the entire distiitO. Many ot the business men of Resin have gone in search of other bus- iness loe,,tions, end in but a short time Basin will be just where it started two years ago, still retaining all of the mineral we ith claimed for it, but the vengeance of an unforseeMpower is too much for it to withstand. Basin will yet be one of the greatest mining camps of Montana. It possesses the wealth; thq mountains are ribbed with a thousand veins, not one but what, is as remunerative as . toe most pro- ductive mine in the country, but the ill luck which has befallen It has tended to set it beck, bus, time will bring it forth *gain in the bloom of the beginning of a greater future. We trust that when mining abed Basin begins &gala a proper system of mining will be carried on, which we believe has never been adopted hut in a very few of the mines of the Cataracteamong the properly managed properties may be named the Katie, wherd the Class boys, we believe, took all the precautionl possible for the Safety of the men and nilne below. The Mope company is slowly endeavoring to recover the bodlee from the bottom of the shaft, but they are progressing as fast as the work will permit. They have been displaying a °imposition to recover the oodles and net make of the Hope shaft is lasting grave, yard for the well known and highly restected comrades, who lie ground In mud and water far below tne earth stir face. How setilreflatien the bodies will be reached. cannot be told, hut the greatest care will be practiced in all of the work performed, rind it may take, three, months or it may take six mouths before any of them are taken out. We trust that Dm company may be sue- ce•sful, as soon as poseible, and we, - too, congratulate the Helena stoeictiolders on the feet or their having decided it best to recover the bodies from the shaft and net leave an opportunity for the miners of the northwest to take tel task in hand and recover the bodice, whIch would be an everlasting dimorace to any- one who Is connected with this nole in the ; g rotina. What the intention!. of the relatives of the doveased are Its to the! recovery of d amages from the company for having operated a mine In the manlier the was, has not boon learned. but the prospects lire that there will be several civil actions oommenced against the Basin Mining & Coneentrating commit', with the posso Witty of a judgment being recovered whien may force the men who advanced the money to conduct the last work to close in and take poosession r of the mine, and h.: relatives of the deceased . are liable to suffer the same as is being experieuced by the suffering relatives of the Butte eo• Woolen, in which so many innocent lives were offered up as a de:oily sacrifice to the careless storing of immense quantities of powder contrary to law, but seemingly satisfactory to the rithckbolders of the powder magerines, which they surely proved theaseelves- to be on that terrible night. If the relatives of the men that wIre killed In the Hope over intehd to commence either a criminal . or is el V II actioa t well for them to take advantmee of tiN Butte slaughter and profit thereby. ter a stock- holder is a hard proposition to belittle and a very uncertain quantity. - DONOVAN DISCHARGED. I He s•es He Is Still In the Ring for Governor. The ea of Ames Donovan, who was charged w having taken about ado from Montana. Mike Oltunell. tame up In The district peter Breen, PhIl Harringtou, Frank Hal- ley and James Brown, each of whom swore they haa known Mr. Donovan for years an all of which time he bad been an honest, upright, i lotker witnesses developed the lustrioas, hard work lug roe- Th Net that the trouble all grew out of a drunken i polItIcal brawl, and that when Jim had goTteuMciently sober to realize that O'Donnell had given him some money, he had his wife return what was left, &mould- ing te $02). Mr. I ionovan says that 1141VIIII ii011 ligek case to a finish antt, corn/nese* a civil action for damages, aslie says that O'Ihmiell did all that he could &gallant bon -So the end is not yet. Donovon says he Is stilt err aspirant for governor of Montana, subject to the decisiou of the populist state convention, and is going to stay with it. A pr44ton was :mole be the prosecu- tion to settle the ease for V*4, but it was Ignored by Donovan. FROM ,SOUTH AFRICA. 'What a Basin Man Has to Say About the Country. • ' Bossoa Mina, Rime/Kis, Smith Africa, 1..ii1). 23, WIS. FillIENII Joe: , . ' \I atm writing you again, es I promised, to let you all know how I ani getting along. Well, when I gate (lisps Town the trouble was goilkir on in the Transvaal, so I bought a tieket to the end of the railroad going into the iinterior. 'I'ben I started for Bulawayo. six bundred miles Inland. The stage fere was $175 so I could trot pay that, end the ox team that does all the freightire charged $4e to go'svith them and they take from eight to ten wetois to go there and that was too slow for me, so another fellow and I started to walk teal got there after 25 days. It was tbrUligh a poor, sandy county, two-thirds of the way mostly prairie with% little scrub timber all over it About the size of apple trees, but every tree is full of thorns. We had to carry' water along with us to driuk. The stores were SO to 100 miles apart, KO we had to curry gruh for that distance. It was very hot and we had to travel mostly morteugs and evenings. Whets we got there yr found times very dull on account of the war in the Trunsviuil, no capital being is - vested and very little doing, but I got a job to go inland 110 miles to work in a mine, so I urn to work bossing about 25 ueeroes. The negruesi do all the mining , here, but the white men boss them and show them where to puttytine hole* and do all the luaditor • andtlr like the . My pay Is $5 a day laud 1 pay t g and keep their time II I don' . , $40 a Month for board, and it's the poorest board I ever got; they don't give a fellow half enough to eat. Everything is „irery dear, nothing less than twenty -hive chts Meals everywhere are eigItyOlve emits; two sheets of pauer and covet 'peg are -twenty-eve omits, gild everything in pro porkier), so you see there ii riot mopcli chalice to make money hero. There Is - de chauct to make money at prospecting, as you have to give oue-bulf to the Charter company, and the companies in the tultaieg business will sot buy anything except.old mines that the old . anriont people worked here hundreds of years ago ad they -are hard to find now, iss they are mostly all fopnd and sold to the companies already. Tlia Charter comma) has everything in the eountry that is Pliny goer reserved for themselves. All the good feminine and stock -raising land is re- served, except that In the foyer district where no one can live. \The country a whole is very poor and 1 fever is very bad I over this part of the 1 country from November until May. Half the whites here are clown with It now. I want to get out of it before next November, when the fever starts again. I want to se. , the Yambesia river first and go to the coast : by way of Beira in Portigal county. I am ' aboot ;30 miles from the end of the railroad When I leave here I am going to Salisbury ln hlashonaland. I em about 150 miles from there now. I expect to be back in the civilized Transvaal by nest November when the fever Mine sets in here. I will try that country until April, then if I don't like it I will start for America. Times are very dull here now oa account of the war aunt everything Is closed and hundreds are out of work. This will never tie a good country for white labor, as the negro°s do ail the work except skilled labor. All the railroads are narrow guage and they lay the iron ties 9 . the prairie and do very little grading. All the bridge' are built of stone and iron and the negroes do all the grading. There are lots of bogus coni- pante* all over thin country taking up worthless minis' ground end selling sham. This will never be a good country for ferm. lug as they can never depend on rain and grasshopper' are meetly all over it. There are very few mountains In the reentry, and It Mike prospecting on a prairie oovereo with grass. There Is lots of timern every- where but very little of it worth eaything. except old urines acid lots of them are so good It seems the country , was thoroughly prospected by the ancient people hundred of years ago. It Is hard to end anything of any good, and them that do. fret beat out of it, or have to sell it to these companies for otbing. You may see me back In abo a year from this so: ing, for I would çptlSrr work In America feria a day than bore for $10. There Is lots ofatageleg in thin country, but the Degrees do all the driving. Mules are generally used, eteept in some places they use °Rea to draw the owe, ap homes don't live in this country, aid even oxen dle with some disease at certain times of the year. From your old fr end, T. Pow/11..\ BEFORE WE LEAVE Hon. Daniel McNeill R9sorn- mended to the Voters of - Jef- ferson County. THE DONOVAN CASE IS ENDED Africa Heard From -John Gillis Frozen -Two Loyal Men - Card of Thanks. Before ctot tftic$ the t Ain to bec,oine a per. moment re In the whirl and swim of the exct mes in Mc - butane's metropolis, we deem it b tan act of justice that devolvem upon us, to again bring to the attention of the citizens of Jefferson vounty the fact that they are' truly entitled to a nomination by the republican state convention. and we know of no one more fitted in the county than him whom we haveso often mentionea, Hon. Dan McNeill. We are satisfied that HON. DANI•1. MCNEILL. the people of this comity are loath to part with hint for the reason they fear that Dan may never -return to Jeffersol county again were be to be successful and lice take up bis residence in the permanent seat of government. Thio we (tenet fear, nee shoild the good people be back ware, nor should the republican state convention refuse him the nomination of state treasurer on these grounds. Ile is s gC0.1 Wan. lin 1% a MOO suited for the position. He is not an ollice• seeker, sever having asked for any office of any description in his whole life, lie is a fitted person for tho position into which some of his ardent unit loyal supporters are forcinAitn. - We are emphatic in demanding that l i ef ferson county Ire revognired, and we know of a no more capable man for the office of state treasurer in the whole of Montana than Hon. Dan McNeill. If it be necessary for a mau to be a political manipulator, a rinoster and a. wire worker to get the nom- ination, one tiring Is certain. Dan McNeill will not be the h011111100 of the republican state convention; but should tie receive the nomination, it will be an absolute fact that It will have etninatod from tho spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm of a loyal people free front the taint and tarnish of ring con trot. We true that the office in this' in. 'stwice will seek the man auil not the man I a office. We are for Hon. Dan McNeill for state treasurer for the resume Jefferton county should receive recognition, and who Is there In Jefferson county who dare dispel/1r- trhr capabilities, hoi foes or that Jet ; forsou county woild not roll up ever ?Oval majority for the oomihets of tine repuhlt cans state convention. JOHN GILLIS. Was Lost In the Mountain* and Frozen. Poor John Gillis got lost in the mountains In the close vicinity of tbe Eva May mine and had his feet and heeds severely froseq, Captain John Sheehan and a number of the man at the mine worked for four hours taklifethe frost out of the,froten mono:term, after which he was taken to Dr. Rainy ille't hospital for treatment and where he is do- ing as well as could be tt exp‘rted at this writieg. lie will probably loose the tops of his toes, but otherwise he will most likely play In good hick, taking Into Consideration this un) rtunate circumstances. . NOT ALL PONE YET, Ta• Populists Have a Few Asoir rents Left. Ey a great mans It is thought that or the termer a few of the populist as piratits bad got somewhat damaged in legal complica- tions that there would be a ri•oreliy of as- pirants about Basin, but such is not the else James Donovan, the populist as- pirant for the neminahon of governor, says that he Is still In the ring and He4'4, for the nominatioo stronger than ever, and be will vindicate himself before the people of Mom. tone by bringing a heavy suit for damages against his traducer. Jim has blood in his eye. Ho Is fin slouch in the manipulations of anything when once lie puts him head to hooempliswor it When he has succeeded In vinileating his reputation by recovering' about $25,000 In damage+, the populleto can look out for a regular redbot political no paign, with money to throw at the birds. Now there is no a-pirant in Rushi for sheriff, for John Weber has left, by some it Is suld, to take up his 'permanent metedince In Helena. Anyone lmOwnm that a raiz oi of Lewis and Clarke qunty cannot run for sheriff of Jefferson come aud we are firm in the belief that Weber wMII1T not make a very successful candidate, for be has lost all of his prestige since he scooped the boys at the school election. Our advice would be for Weber to remain in Lewis . and Uterine county and make stump speeches for the populists, as he was a stunning suc- cess at the la.sO general election, when both Weber ahd Waldron, the defeated candi- date fa - county attorney, thrilled the boys to a dead stand -still from the billiard table In Schunp'm saloon. OIC it. was is deed,' but Weber got so enthused at his own el quence that he got tangled up in his re- marks and got stuck on the second word, and if it were not for those two words John Weber, populist candidate for the Montana legislature, wquld nave not made a speech at all. If there has been a little coneumtion in the populist ranks of Basin it is no reason they cannot drum up as many candidates as they' want, for there are lots of ex-demo - orals and lots of republicans who would accept a proposition of placing an ex befolv the word republican just for the kip of running for office. Milt Collins, the grand tyoe of the counts , combination, has his eye on the ex's and it takes nearly all his time to keep the rene- gades out of the party who want to brit -,k in for revenue only-. Milt says nothing but straight popillism goes, and thut there are any quantity of candidates ; but he (Ives not. want to bring them to theNfrout too soon for the darn Stsio Times -to kill the cdi It - blamed outfit before it's time for the ?eerier to yell \go.\ There's the layout for you! RACING SEASON, Descriptive Letter of the Event to . be Held This Year. Anaconda and Butte prOthihOS , to have the greatest racier( sea -sour dacha lane that has beets the pleasure of these Ottay towns to over experienee. There will ba 41 days of racing, from Juue 30 to July IS, In the great smelting city of toe world, A OaCelltia, aud front July '20 to August 15 in the great- est mitring camp on earth, Hove. The purses will fermata to over $10utel0 end many of the best horses in the United States will be in both of these places. We have receive.: an invitation from Ed A. Tipton, the inano-ger at, Anacouda, to enter all of our blooded :04, whieh we are not in circumstances to %tempt, as W I the emairupeds pot:lessee by the editor 01 this *porting jourual is a otte-gYed eajusre. e racer, taut riot fast enough to c impeu• with the flyers that will meet at this race leveling in Anaconda and in Butte. Tile following descriptive letter was re- ceived, which is self-explanatory, and which distinctly soya that the race meetings will be no siciueh: mu : S A: t: oco:um, Montana, Air il 17, lore. „ \Your srttemitiomi is respeei fulls c o iled 1 0 the great race meotiugs rut Anacondis and Butte -see dates above -and to the import , ant fact that, when once at the Anaconda track you will have seven weeks (.41 days) of continuous racing with but true, move, and that only 27 miles. The purses wit, amount to about iltiodosol end. no backward step will be taken, tee progromme for the gintiti weeks being up to the standee,' tvt the uric I eni•lose tor tirAt and second weeks at Anaconda. \liegiunIng with the first week at Ana - coeds, the programme for runtiug races will be anuounced weekly, but the full pro- grumme for bunions l'aIlleas svnll be an- LI011tleOd on or befuretlay 1st. \Most of the rates or trotters and paters will be mile heats 41 iu wbieti will en- able a horse to be rated twice Ito often a., itits.pbsniblo under the old oystein, and yin able the spectators to take dinuer at II re- spretsolo hour, which fact alone will teed to Increase the interest in hareems racing. \Trusting you will have wine horses for Anaconda and Butte arid that you will be present in person, even if you have no horses with us. \It you have harness horses for these meetings, write me at once what elasses will suit therm If you intend brlughig running horses, let me know how many stalls you will need. ifoinetriber that both Anaconda mid Butte have ext-edent full m e tracks. Yours truly, j He. A. TIPTON.\ The tracks in both . towns are the equal of any in the United States, and Bob Horn will be there, too, to make the hue:cone esitheri lig as entertaining and as alleceSS- tul as has airy meeting of tins description with whieh Bob has been identified. TWO LOYAL MEN Both Have Rsoords and Repo hlicao Records at That. , Hon. Harty Winter 'lime down ream the upper Haslet couniry•Weunesday. Lie hail keltb bim that regular quantity of republi hen enthusiesin and a republican campaien song, words by C. W. Drupermitled \Pro- tection and Himetellion,'• dedieoted to Montana's littal giant, I 'harks S. Hart- man. lion. Harry says that lie aspires for no position in the gi4t •,f tiw emning republi can conveption, but the people will not have it that way. Such an honorable man eannot be side tracked . he must carry the replIblican banner to %whoa. agate. The' people, and partleuturis the topublhint, of Jefferson rounty demand that lion. Harry Winter shall acts -opt the reoloinies- -• Hon for the assembly. Hurrah for Hon (.ltutrie Hartman, II Harry Winter, Protection and Bimetallifila R/Stlf. NLW GOODS - • , • Our Spring Stock of Dry Goodai • . .„ Hoots, Shove, Crookery and Wass - Ware have • commeneal to arrive, ,These goods were bought especially.\ for this market and we l t/now ttret they will please you. As o,ur last year's stock lots been enfirely sold out, every- thing is , fine, fresh and clean. No 01.1) SHELF -WORN goods with us. In Carpets we can do you some good -can sell them here cheaper than you get them anywhere in the state. And while you are reading this, note that we are plways Headquarters for Groceries, Flour, Feed, Hay, and Grain Hard- ware anclagining Supplies. 'c Come aN see um A neat order will realve prompt attention. Freight paid on all out of town orders. Yours, G. W. Connick . . . . Mercantile Co. Frank Shaddock, Manager. BASIN, .•• MONTANA. Basin . Saloon WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, TRY US, Finest Sample Rooms in Town. JOHN SACKERSON. Basin Proprietor. . Bakery NOW OPEN AND Ready for Business. 111r••••.i. rt.'s Calc•• so: 5c•1••••••,. arta. 1111.....tt• \'sloes. Give Us a Call. A. VOGEL, Proprietir. South west corner of littera/1W 'seam and Basin street, . . MOI/T4114 ES&Iin Drug Co., Basin, Mont. carry a run [Joe of Drugs, l'stsat Medi- cines, Perf mines, Combs, Brushes and Rub- ber Coods, The Rest Line of Stationary is Basis, which we arc selling at reduced num. School Books, Slates and Tablets. The Only News Depot in town Where vop find all the Daily !tupelo, V4eklv and Monthly Peri- odicals and Magazines. All the est Novels by the best Authors: Wall Paper.Paper. Paints. Oils, Varnish and Glass. But what we taice the most pride Inn I.. our Preticriptton Department. whieh is ant coninh•te as any Sri the cities. Careful Attention is Always Given to Physicians Prescrip- tions. CO YOU . . . . SMOKE? Try oho of our 5 cent Cifia_ry Tait 11E+r Mini Fos • 1. • •
