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JEFFERSON COUNTY SENTINEL. The Pioneer Newtqmper of Jefferson Connty—A. Family .1<)arnsti VOL. 3. NO 35.)' Independent in Policiet4. 411 101_11_,DER, MONTAN A. FIZ WAY, Al '1 I.'20, 1 83 PER YEAR The Most Desirable Clothing Rouse in Helena is The Northwesthrn. Right in the heart of the city, opposite the Grand Central Hotel, we are located, with a complete stock of WINTER CLOTHING, MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES. Rats, Caps, Gloves, Blankets and Quilts. In short, anything from head to foot for Men, Youths, Boys and Children. We sell for cash at the lowest living prices. When you come to Helena ne sure and call on us. In the mean time send us your order order by mail or express, which shall receive prompt attention. T. E. LANDSMAN & CO. THOS. F. MURRAY, DEALER IN 1.i01111VRI'El cook, Heating and Camp ROVE, Nail*, Giant POWDER, CAPS and I /is, WOOD=W_A_IR.,=, CIRJOCI•C=1?..:Y, Lamps, Chandeliers, Sash, Doors and Moldings, Plated Ware, Glassware and Bar Goods. .gents for the Celebrated. Buckeye Force Pumps and Shutler Wagons, .{ Inczniectn where a_l l kindsoLJbvorcand Re- T IN SHOr painswedehe. )pposourtyouse l koulder ▪ - Ittontettillt Jug RE-OPB110t1 and Re -F111111.3 Boulder HOT Springs. Wonderful Curative Properties ! IN ALL CASES OF Chronic, Muscular and Inflammatory Rheumatism.' Lead Poisoning, Constitutional Weakness, and General Debility. A PLEASANT RESORT FIRST-CLASS I:OTEL AND BATHING ACCOMMODATIONS. Reached by Stage from Helena, Butte, Wickes, Elkhcrr, Comet, and all Points in the Territory. Terms moderate. t first-class Physician DR. IRA A. LEIGHTON, Is constantly in attendance For full information address, WM. TROTTER, Prop., Boulder, Mont. PARCREN, Helena. Wm. MORRIS, Boulder 1 2 'arcliera. MOrric, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TD tJGr G- I B 1 \1\ Carry a large stock of- - DRUGS, CHEMICALS, • PAINTS, OILS, BRUSHES, WALL PAPER WINDOW GLASS, PATENT MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, And TOILET ARTICLES. Also Lamps, Cu dis, Tobaccos, Cigars, 111[11 LICK:MS*1nd sT.ArrioNiErtv : k FINE ASSORTMEN; OF WALL -PAPER IN STOCIC. PRESCIOTIONS FILLED AT ALL HOURS. A tine line of Watches ard Jewelry always on hand. The Windsor House. kFlE, Prop BOULDER, Mont Everything Fir A-CI:ass BOARD PER WEEK 700 DAY, • P 2 P00 thEersoll Comity Corroplldeilv. A Rich Output On the Court Hostas Question, etc., From Various Precincts by Gifted Corres- pondents -• The County CommIBBIOnors Corn - mended -The Sen tinei's Course Endorsed. CoLD SPRINGS CRAPE I know one man who will probably vote against the new court house. He is a Holterite I guess. Some old mossbacks hate nothing as badly as daylight, and a good county building or a good county newspaper like the SENTINEL, is organized daylight to the chronic, old growlers. I heard that Father Follet, when on a recent clerical trip, remark that we have had the stone age, the bronze age and so on. I wonder what the pre- sent age ought to be termed? Little Tommy, (who reads the SENTINEL), quickly - answered, \The age of steal, father.\ By -the -bye, when are the Catholics of Boulder going to put up their church there? The county com- missioners deserve credit for their court house actions. Isn't it awful about those Butte girls posing as Greek Goddesses at the Butte balls and parties as that horrid, old \Wan- dering Reporter\ describes them do- ing in Lent, and on a Sunday morn- ing, for the Patrick's night ball en- croached on the Sabbath? I hope Vold Springs may yet become a fash- ionable resort like the Boulder Hot Springs, the Pipestone ones, or Hel- ena or Butte. But I must close my first epistle to SENTINEL lest its read- ers find out. what a horrible fool I am indulging in such bandinage or chaff. This precinct is called \Cardwell No. 8, I think. The election on Sat- urday twit will be held at our worthy postnriaster's, John Flaherty, who is chairman of the election. Judges Dennis Sheehy and George Franks, will assist Judge Flaherty. I have confidence enough i,p the honesty, public spirit, integrity and upright- ness of the voters of our county, to predict that an overwhelming ma- jority will record their votes in favor of the county owoing its own court house. It will be a shame.and an ev- erlasting disgrace if this county re- mains any longer a Holter tenant or serf. From remaining so good Lord deliver it! ELKHORk ECTIOES. Your correspondent has spoken to republicans and democrats on the sub- ject of the new caurt house, and the majority of these approve of the ac- tion of the county commissioners and SENTINEL staff in this important mat- ter. The time has come that Jeffer- son county, with its untold wealth of resources, should own her own court house. The man without a home is generally looked upon as little above a tramp, (no disrespect is here meant of the homeless, for I've been a tramp myself), and Jefferson county without a home for Justice will be put down as a \tramp\ instead of what it will surely be, the \Banner\ county of Montana. It is ail old and I believe true proverb, that \God helps those who help themselves.\ Then, in the name of God, let the people of our great county show that they can help themselves and that they have con- fidence in themselves by voting Sat- urday in favor of the court house. To apostrophize the words of a cel- ebrated Roman over the mutilated body of the great Cmsar, I would say: \Jeffersonians countrymen and lov. era: Who lives in Jefferson county so mean that does not love this county? Who is there so vile that would be a traitor to it and endeavor to create two or three counties with staffs of official \leeches\ in such counties to suck all the blood that could be got out of the people? Who is there so base and degraded as will cast their votes in favor of ,the Holter's owning our temple of justice and victimizing us as they like? Do you love the Ho: ter brothers better than you do your- self? Do you think more of their in- terests than you do of your own? Do you prefer to be Holter's tenants or your own landlords? Don't you know that two great lines of railroad operating through your county will add millions to your wealth in the near future? Are you not aware that you can assess and tax every rail on such roads, their buildings, etc., just the same as your own houses and wheelbarrows, or the tongsandpoker in your house can be timed? Don't you feel that if you voted next Sat- urday for a court house to cost $100, 000 you'd be only doing your duty? The election in this precinct will be held at the school house, A. Gilliam being chief Justice) with Matt Guth- rie and E. F. Hardin as associate jus, tires of election. It is believed that everyone will vote in favor of new court house. GREGORY GRIST ANT) GOLD. I believe there is no higher ambi- tion for a newspaper correspondent than to help to contribute in the slightest degree, to draw closer and firmer the bonds of amity that should always unite all the residents of the various precincts of our county. The question is next Saturday, \Will the people of Jefferson county show by their votes that they think more Of the interests of the Hotter brothers than thee lo of their county or of the toilers and wage-se:101-p selio might be profitably empl.iyed the erec- tion of the new ..)urt house?\ The ilolter's are Nv , ! - Lt , g hard for their own benefit. \\ hy should not the wage-earners by their votes show that they can also look after their inter- ests? I sin glad to notice the grand stand taken by the SENTINEL on the court house question, and itsgrander stand for protection. A school boy, ten or twelve years of age, ought to see the neccessity of a rich county owning its own court house, and the great desolation that free trade would bring upon Montana and the nation at large. Take the one article of lead and sue the result. It would throw thousands of men employed in this and other mining camps, out of em- ployment. Our people should not be inactive or blind to their best inter- ests. They should unite .;n every city,!town and mining camp through- out the county and declare (like the SENTINEL), in thunder tones for the protection of American industries. Goodness knows the times look dark if we only ponder over these recent strikes in the east, yes, too dark al- ready, and those who are trying to make them darker are not worthy of the name of tree Americans. The surplus in the treasury can be ex- tended legally in various ways. Bo- nuses could be granted for the run- ning of woolen factories in Montana and elsewhere, thus saving millions every year to the inhabitants of this Territory for the woolen goods we have to buy in the - east and in Eu- rope. Then citizens who would like to settle on homestead land but who have not the means to do so, could be assisted or should be assisted by government loans to create happy homes. I am a democrat of the Jef- fersonian school, and believe that \Charity should begin at home.\ I am therefore in favor of the erection of a new court house. I am in favor of protection. But, mete partisan- ship aside, I agree with Captain Bran- nigan, of Butte, and do not wish to see Cleveland's free trade heresy car- ried into force. It would result in the destruction of many „of our in- dustries. When that as effected the miner and laboring so an would find themselves reduced.° the posi- tion of the pauper laborer of Europe with no hope that hisconelition - would we bettered. I am note statesman, but it is clear to even tbe veriett no- vice in the study of na that under the circu ese has to face, ths at wealth nces con - r tiling to o is to relieve and nnprove the con- ditions and opportunities of our own people before considering ithose of others. Put me down for the erect- ion of the new court house, for pro- tection and for the grand, old SENTI- NEL that has for years vigilantly guarded the interests of Jefferson county. I send you the name of a new subscribet and some gold per bearer. . I am delighted with the the stand taken by SENTI- NEL on the tariff question. With lead placed3 on the free list Gregory would have to close up and the wagesearners here forced to seek elsewhere for employment. I am just after reading a newspaper banded to me in which it is stated as a fact that the Edgar Thompson steel works at Pittabutg, have closed down, throwing five thousand mfhi out of employment. This Pittsburg close down is one the strongest answers to free traders. It affirms what Eastern manufacturers have so frequently stated, that the difference between what they receive and what foreign manufacturers receive is paid to American laborers principally, that manufactured iron and steel repre- sent very little except labor, and that in the pitiless competition they make but a very small profit. Five thou- sand men (mostly married), thrown out of employment means that twen- ty-five thousand people have their support taken away and must search for some new field of labor, and that hundreds of others who made a living by supplying the twenty-five thous- and people with food, clothes, furnil ture, etc., have lost their customers. Iron and steel will not be a cent cheaper in the pound. The free trade craze is already bearing bitter fruit. The court house judges of election here are William Dwyer, Henry Blakeman and S. p, Cady. I think Gregory will do its duty and place itself on record as in favor of pro- gress and justice, by voting unani- mously in favor of court house bonds. The yotes on Saturday will tell all. FISH ‘ CREER Jefferson county posiesses many beaetiful and picturesque places of resort such as Boulder Hot Springs, Alhambra Springs, Pipestone Springs —beautifully located, Basin and nu- merous others. Among the many of these places there is none more at- tractive or beautiful, both in situa- tion and eerroundings than Fish Creek. Here is a place that should be known to every sportsman ni Montana. This would be the place for the Presideet to start from in case he accepts your invitation ed- itorially extended to go a -fishing un- the pilot' ge of jolly Charley Curtis, of Helena, -. • I l atrick Talent, of Butte, and _your own mail Appollo, Col. McSorley of Boulder. Why didn't you include in the outfit Tom- my Cruse, Sam. Ilauser, Sam. Word, Col. Broad water, Major McGinnis, Private Toole, W A. Clark, James A. Murray. 1 ' v Clark, Marcus Daly and \big guns\ of the democratic -. Captain John Brannigan of .1; would be 1 lit- tle out of lila • -.uch a crowd, owing to his .ale heresy,\ or Cleveland's rather. We all know that when President Cleveland went fishing in the Adirondacks, the east- ern dude reporters were on hand with spy -glasses and ear -trumpets to chronicle his minutest risings up and sittings down, what the Presi- dent and his wife had for breakfast; how many times he cast his fly, how many fish he did not get and the number of times he slapped at the punkies and mosquitoes, how many times he pared his bunions and blew his nose, how many times he scratched his seat of honor and numberlesit other little acts performed by Grover and his good lady. Evidently those effeminate eastern reporters believed that it was not all of fishing to fish. The whole gang should come to Fish Creek and learn how to fish and fry their fish. The SENTINEL, I notice,. is in favor of \Protection.\ I am a republican and must say that I think we have protection now which does not protect. From the condition of having almost no laws for the pres- ervation of game or fish, we are get- ting into that of having too many, which is about as bad as the first. Wherein are we any better off with a lot of acts and statutes that could scarcely be understood by a Phila- delphia lawyer, and too unwieldy to be enforced if the best possible means were provided, as they seldotn are for that purpose? Wherein is there more protection with laws un- inforced than in no law at all? In this there is serious food for thought and reflection on the part of all your readers who are interested in protec- tion. It is evident to every one wilt) has considered the subject that a lot of Warm Springs asylum inmates would pass as good laws as our Hel- ena law -makers in their legislative botching and tinkering. In Montana the unseasonable killing of fish and game is almost unnoticed and set, dom punished. All laws for the pro- tection and preservation of fish and game should be few and simple, rea- sonable in their exactions, easily en- forced, and then above and beyond all quibbles, enforced. There are in this World a number of well-meaning individuals who are always ready to croak at the good works accomplish- ed or attempted by other people. These \croakers\ do not wish to see a new railroad, a new school or a new court house in the county especially if either of these happen to extract a few nickels, dimes or dollars from them. These old \shellbacks\ who are a century behind the times in progress rejoice and cry out their vengeful but useless wail about the actions of our able and efficient county commissioners in the court house affair. They forget all about what is due to \justice and that she is entitled tea home of her own in this , county. Such \growlers and croakers\ will doubtless place them- selves ignorantly in the path of pro- gress next Saturday at the polls— but thank the \fish and fairies\ of this section they are few. The elec- tion in this precinct will be held at the school house under judges Har- rison Jordan, chairman, .W.11. New- kirk and John Elmer. It is a good rule in this world to do all the good one can, I therefore hope thr'new court house will SOgn ornament Boulder. I send you also the names of two new subscribers—both Hel- ena men who are delighted with your expose of the many million timber steal. Send their papers to accom- panying addresses, LOWER BOULDER LISPINGS. Our worthy county commissioners have appointed Con. Smith, chair- man, with Matthew Smith and Mi- chael Quinn as judges of electiqn on the court house question next Satur- day. Your magnificent output of rich, rare and racy correspondence of four full columns in last week's issue speaks in no uncertain tones the as- pirations of the people of this county. The duty of every patriotic citizen of this county is to allow no one, not even an anti -court house man, to create discord among the various pre- cincts and elements of our people, and array them against each other in order to advance time \Shylock\ in- terests of the Holter brothers. Do what they may they cannot get away from the issue they have forced upon the honeseelectors Saturday. They will have to face the music, even though the musicians at the polls may sarcastically feel inclined to play well say, \The Rogue's March.\ The word \justice\ is an empty term until we show the goiter trihe that we can furnish the \Goddess\ with a suitable home in Jefferson county in spite of all their planing, plotting and trick- ery. NORTIISIDE NOTES. In response to your editorial invi- tation for a few lines not to exceed one hundred words, I beg to ,state that nearly all with whom I have conversed seem to be in favor of the immediate erection of the new court house. The election will be held at the school house here next Saturday with Judge E. Ryan, chairman; A. D. Dulaney and Hoopes as assist- ant judges. Goes 1) , !TII: nowI bring; '' • - , rda Lw n -T Yes, ti, - to the SENTiNittotfter next Saturday Jefferson county will no longer be at the mercy of the merciless tribe of landlords, these robbers by daylight, who bring their extortionate usury to bear even on the temple of Justice, and who have been for centuries the greatest curse of old Ireland. Electors, clear out the gang next Saturday byyour votes and grant them no more boodle, and God will bless your honest work. AMAZON ARNICA. The election on Saturday will be held at company office under the sup- ervision of Judge B. P. Mason as chairman; Judge Greene and Judge Moore assisting. The votes should be recorded IS favor of proposed court house where the couuty records would be safe and no danger of a cloud being cast upon real estate ti- tles—which cloud would cost the county probably double of the pro- posed cost of the absolutely necces- sary new building. After reading over the four columns of culturea correspondence in, last Friday's issue I have only to say that I return my thanks to the SENTINEL and its tal- ented correspondents for the best literary square meal I s have enjoyed for many years. May that • God who has inspired them andtieSENTi- NEL inspire the voters on Saturday to vote \Bonds?yes;\ and may be in His infinite mercy, prosper all who vote so. JEFFERSON RIVER JOTTINGS. The court house election will be held next Saturday at our school house under the management of the following gentle- men as judges; Robert Milligan, Esq., chairman; F. J. Parker, Esq., and Frank Hallef. The majority of the electors will, I think, vote in favor of the new court house and not leave the county any longer at the mercy of any \Shylocks\ who have buildings to rent. As this is leap year the following short story may serve as a model for some of the fair Jeffersonians to copy. \They have some queer girls in Colorado. One of them who resides in the Cache la Poudre Val- ley has been receiving the attentions of a young man for about a year, but becoming Impatient at his failure to bring matters to a crisis, she resolved to ascertain his intentions. When he next called she took him gently by the ear, led him to a seat, and said: \Nobby you've bin foolin' round this claim mighty near 0., yer, an' her never 'it shot oft yer modal on the marryin' biz. I've cottoned to yer on the square, clean through, an' her stood off every other galoot that has tried to chip in; an' now I want yer tu come down tu business or leave the ranch. Ef yer on the marry an' want a pard thet'll stisk to ye till ye pass in yer cheeks an' the good Lord cells ye over the range, jist squeal an we'll hitch; but ef that ain't yer game, draw out an'srive some other fellow a show fur hie pile. Now sing yer song, or skip.\ He sang. PLACER POINTERS, Why does not Jefferson county own its own court house and not be paying rent to any man or number of men? Doesn't everyone know that \Holler's court house Is not a safe or suitable building for the records and increasing demands of this great county? It is to be hoped everyone will vote for the new building next Satur- day. Our able county commissioners have appointed J. W. Rogers, chairman; re.1 ) . Tucker and H. H. Squires as judges of t s he election, which will take place next Saturday at the Placer school house. I pi-est/ft .- your reacillirs with a pointer on schools. Glad you carried school bonds in Boulder. I hope court house bonds will be carried by as large a majority. Here's thesschool story: \First class in geogra- phy come out,\ said a demoralized coun- try school teacher. \In what portion of the globe is Greenland?\ he inquired. \In Ireland,\ said the head boy. \How do you make that out?\ shouted the teacher. \Because it is called the Green Isle,\ was the intelligent reply. \Where is Finland, next boy ?\ \Off the coast of /9 ewfoutid- land,\ answered another bright south. \What makes you say that?\' asked the bewildered teacher. \Because there are more fins caught there than in any other part of the globe.\ \Pie we, sir, ain't that a fish story ?\ asked another. \Silence' sir. What is the bed of the ocean sups posed to be like—next?\ \Like—like avy Jones' locker.\ \Go lock yourself in the woodshed,\ thundered the teacher. \Next. \What is fortification?\ \Some- thing in multiplication, sir\ \How so ?\ \Cause two twentif3.cations make one for- tification, sir!\ \Ai I am either getting misled, or my pupils are. Go home, all of you. There will be no more school today.\ Your four columns of county correspondence on the front page of last Friday's SENTINEL speaks volumes for your spirit of enterprise. But that &rend output of which the S4INTINSL should be justly proud, could never have been ac- complished but for the zeal and cordial co-operation of your talented staff of cor- respondents. It is the output of a com- mon faith in a common cause which knits us all together and impels our activities in the direction of abolishing landlordism in Jefferson county—that incubus which has been the curse of Ireland. God pros- per you. TEN MILE TIPS. What business has the outside press or newspapers to dictate to the people of this county I'd like to know? Would they look at home perhaps th,ey'd find work enough to do without poking their noses into this county's business. Do not these same newseepers wish to divide and sep- arate us if \ley only could? Would they nbt then have a slice of that \Jefferson pie\ they are longing, waiting, praying and hungering after? Well tney won't get the slice, you can bet your bottom dol- lar while the SENTINEL is able to stand on duty, which I hope for the interests of the people of this county may be a full cen- tury. The election for the new court house will be held here at McCauley's house, Judge'- G. McCauley, eided by L. C. Hap u 4, Kropp. Now, if the eohrt • aiestion is carried by a large MajOriti, at.. 1 , \ 11 next Saturday, what will it ks ss to the outside wot Id rove th4tJeftereon coun- ty demnocr I republicans alike have a deep, wide, I): d. confidential and heart- felt interest in their county. It will prove a true, genuine patriotism which should make Ten Mile rejoice in the prosperity of Wickes, Greenrysin that of Woodville, Bedford and le, , lersburg in that of der and BasiD, L.Ld SQ 6 , 14 4 Will iirove that we are all as we should be, like brothers, with no violently conflicting in- terests, no real grounds for petty jealousies and no cause for the creation of another county or for internal dissensions, but that we are pound together by a union of good, honest, square, above board princi- ples and purposes; by a common sympa- thy in our aspirations and a fraternal fel- lowship in our destiny. It will prove that we have pulled manfully * together and so energized our legitimate ambitions as to insure a rapid march in all ways of material development and substantial pros- perity. It will piove that we believe in the \Goddess of Justice\ when we pro- vide her with suitable quarters commen- surate to her dignity and to the county's increasing needs. It will prove to the Holter's a sad and bitter pill to digest. MITCHELL MUSINGS. There are hundreds and thousands com- ing to Montana who rush through it its the railway cars or stay for a brief period at the well known pleasure resorts, or put in a few hours at Helena, Butte, Missoula, Boulder, etc., and never see Montana as it is. These people go home, and where they did not find the same comfort they are used to in their eastern residences, they grumble at the exageration of the never endless beauties of Montana. How seldom do you find a traveler who can boast of mountain climbing simply to see the grand mountain scenery. Yet nowhere in the world is grander scenery to be found than along the main divide of the ever glorious old Rocky mountains in Jefferson county. The court house election at this place will be held at Turner's house, D. C. Turner, chairman; A. D. Guy and J. J. Hoyle being the judges. The Holters will meet a storm of public reprobation and condemnation at the polls next Saturday, or your correspondent is very much mis- taken. Let it blow like a Kansas cyclone or Dakota blizzard and let it blow the Hol- ters and their court house out of Jefferson county forever. Many a dry eye would betoken their loss. Public opinion is at last aroused, thanks to the SENTINEL and its correspondents, to the neeeessity of protecting the business interests of this county, when the loiter brothers persisted in their shameful treatment of our worthy county commissioners, their defiance of public sentiment and total disregard of the interests of the people, when they ima- gined they had Jeffersonians in the hole to levy whatever blackmail they liked un- der the name of \rent.\ The honied words of the Holters now cannot make this coun- ty forget their past treatment a it and their recent quibbling evasions to our com- missioners. There are oceations like that of next Saturday, when none but cowards will absent themselves from the polls, when every impulse of manhood is ap- pealed to and when to refrain from taking sides is to become a party to the wrong. Let use r hasten therefore, td,the polls and rid ourselves of the feeling of mortification which must fill the hearts of honest men at the thought of being ruled over and landlorded over by the goiter Bros., or -any other firm and let us all record our votes so as to read \Bonds Yes.\ Per- sonally, I have no ill feelings towards the Hotter Bros., its the principle, not the mere human tools or Shylocks, I consider. ST. LOUIS SMILES, The efficient board of county commis- sioners have appointed the following gen- tlemen as judges of the cqprt house spec- ial election at school house in this - pre- cinct, namely: William Risk, our genial postmaster, chairman; J. B. Bailey and E. Johndro. I hope the electors will recoid their votes in favor of new court house and not act \mean\ like Bob Plumen in the following extract: \Hello Maggie, how're you?\ said a Pokeberryville beau easily and gracefully ll to one of the bees of the town. \Can't I come 'round and see you to singing school Friday night?\ \No you can't, Bob Plumen,\ was the freezing reply. \I'm up to your tricks, sir. You can be mighty friendly when its coming Christmas time, can't you? 0, I know you! Mebbe you think I'll knit you three more pairs of wristlets and a red and green and yeller and blue scarf nine feet long, and then have you give me nothing but a little old ten -cent candy heart with 'Remember Me' onto it, like you did last year. I've 'remembered' and you'll get no more scarfs nor wristlets nor nothin' from me.\ NELLIE GRANT NOSTRUMS, The election here will be held at cons pany office. The judge* are M. J. Cavan- augh, chairman e Charles Qrth and H. Fisher, I hope the court house bonds will be voted for and a proper building immediately erected. I read in the SEN- Tirmetin able article by the \Wandering Reporter\ stating that Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has introduced a bill to change the mining law, restricting a miner to one claire or lode and prohibiting a man re- locating a claim once abandoned or fore feited by him. Itethe \Wandering Res. porter's\ remarks he seems inclined to fever the measure, but he also seems doubtful of the efecieuoy of any measure to preveet the ellims being secured some- how. Now, I am not quite sure that such a measure will be beneficial to the mining community. Who can say that tuts two. claims are on the same lode before such is proven to bathe case by 4 etwa connec- tion? If amine can be traced farther than a claim who has a better right to it than the finder? Who works harder hethat thanahen has prospector? as spent t3e I t ma years looking for such a mine, and every one ikeews it is easier to sell a mine, or to enlist capital when such a mine is riwned or controlled by one men or company of men, than when there are diverse interests. All syndicates generally try to get hold of all the prop- erty adjoining the mine or ground, the\ intend to purchase, in order to aeold any law troubles. As to preventing a person relocating a claim he has ciece abandoned,, the object 1 presume is to prevent men from echipping in\ on the government by h le ah tti d if ethveeryir New w im l s lapse ,ear,s nd da a yto be re in ioc g 'e re-locate. It seems to me that it is a hardship t o forbid any person frOTRYG-lOcatiag a claim once abandoned in good faith, because he may at some future time see sufficient grounds to renew his efforts and, perhaps strike a 'bonanza,' whereas he o is ,ul p dw re ho v nly en y t i e lbt ; from so doing because he once had a lo- cation the e n l th aw at so gro th u a n t d a . ma l:TOZ . prevented from re -locating for a certain period, say six months? If after six months no one wanted the ahendoned ground he shduld be entitled to re -locate It if he so wished, Surely in that time no one could say he was tryis a . to defraud anyone. Certainly it is h to ma k e laws to suit everybody. I 1 , .., , ,su pleased to see that both t • 'EL and \The Wandering Repo . : - e to be in favor of everything ( ; , , i with i m n in , lug ttu s ch n ftS ta,e. forming „ lii , i ` vu• , ; ,1 7:3;: Tr' ' , -iictes8 ancl lig it the. e _,ae,w int ' bers I will 6 C bi li i i :1 (mis t t0011:70 the lette m c s , e - h -p ic apel h ADIOS, ,r1s. e.:
