Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1887, Page 5

FORCING THE YOUNG IDEA Buperintendent Lane Issues Direc- « tions on the Bubjeot. AN EASTERN PHILANTHROPIST. He Sends Mayor Sayer $10 in Ald of Bupposed Nebraska Sufferers— Feasting the Fakers—Capital City Doings. [PROM THE BRE'S LINCOLY BUREAU. | State Superintendent Lane has just issued circular for the guidance of teachers and school officers relative to the compulsory education law enacted at the last session. ‘The superintendent gives the following list of what should constitute excuses and fol- lows with instructions for the execution of the law: If the parents or guardians of the child are « poor, and by reason of such poverty are un- able to provide the child with suitable cloth ing, books and other hecessary articles re- quired at school, then the board, after ascer- taining such facts, should excuse the child from attending school. Children constitutionally weak, or sickly from any other causes, are generally entitled 10 an excuse, especially if they have a long distance to go to school . Also, in cases of general or prolonged sick- . mess in the family, one child might be ex- cused if needed ut home to care for the sick. General physical disability or mental i pacity of the child might be a reasonable ground for the board to t an excuse. If & child attends a private school or pa- ial school for a period of twelve weeks during the school year, such attendance lhoulg be regarded the same as attendanoce at & public achool. ‘The school board in determining the pro- ficiency of a chila, should be |iui led by the judgment of the teacher. If the teacher finds, upon examination, that the child wish- ing to be excused on the claim of *‘being pro- ficient” is further advanced in the branches studied in the school by pupils of the same l%‘ then the child is entitled to be excused. he teacher should secure from the di- rector a list of all school children residing in the district, from eight to fourteen years old, inclusive. From this list should be checked off by the teacher those in attendance as shown by the dmly register. After reasona- ble time and before the school has comtinued 80 long as to leave only twelve weeks mo: of the school during the year, the teach should flle with the director a list of all chil- dren living in the district, between eight and fourteen years old, inclusive, who have not ot school. After having checked from this list thoso excused by the board, the teacher should send a copy of the compul- 80 v attendance law to the parent or guar- f cach of said children remaining on the list, 'he teacher should also report to the county superintendent before the close of the school year the names of all children under the law who have neither attended school nor have been excused therefrom, LP FOR THE SUFFERING. _Mayor Sawyer arrived home from Wash- ington Monday and was surprised to find in his mail awaiting his_arrival a letter from a entleman i New York City enclosing $10 n aid of Nebraska suffercrs who have been rendered helpless by storms and for families any of whose members have been frozen to death, The writer also suggests to the mayor the advisability of his making an ap- peal direct to the citiés of the cast for help for sufferers. The communication is a fair mrsm of the ideas prevailing in the cust regarding suffering in the west, notwith- standing the fact that there has been no suf- fering int the state from storms and vold, and at best only three cases of death in 500,000 inhabitants. Other letters of similar import. have been received by the mayor. THE BOYS REMEMBERED, Representatives of the press of Lincoln were agrecably surprised yesterday by an in- vitation to a Christmas feast prepared by the pular_caterer, Don Cameron, who did not lorget the hungry newspaper men 1n his rush of holiday custom. After a couple of hours ed ut the feast the participants organ- by selecting Colonel Hyde as chairman, who was instructed to notify Mr. Cameron that he was the unanimous™ choice of his guests for president over his namesake, who at present occupies a seat in the senate from Pennsylvania. L AR OF INCORPORATION, Articles of incorporation of the Pacific rail- way company were filed yesterday with the secretary of state. The incorporators are 1. P. Bonnell, E. Barrington, C. E. Adams, Charles Loymeyer, J. W. Morse, William Bueltman, all of Superior, and P. S. Will- iams, of Baltimore. The route defined for the road commences on the south line of Hall county, thence through the counties of Hall, Buffalo, Dawson, Custer, Lincoln, Keith, Cheyenne, Sioux and Dawes in the state of Nebraska to the west boundary line thereof, with a right to construct branch lines in the limits of the state. The cap- ital stock is fixed at $8,600,000. ‘The Weeping Water Lime and Stone com- pany, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state {efllurllu}'. The capital stock is 350,000, Indebtedness is limited to 820,000 The incorporators are Eugene L. Reed, H. S. Fuller, . R. McConwell, Robert S. Wilkinson, Thomas Orr. The Westlich Courrier Printing company, of Omaha, filed its articles with the sccre. tary yesterday, capital stock, $£0,000. In- debtedness 18 limited to §2, The incor- porators_are Bruno Tzschuck, Alfred Mar- schner, W. J. Connell, John T Paulson, C. B. midt. 'ne Seven Valleys bank of Callaway, Cus- tor county, also filed articles. The capital stock is &0,000. The incorporators are W. E. Purdy, J. Woods Smith, A. L. Mathews, }: B. Ingram, A. J. Thompson and C. W, oot. STATE HOUSE ITEMS, Secretary Laws and family passed Christ- mas ut their old home at McCook. Judge Sam M Chapman, of the Second ju- dicial district, has filed his outh of ofice with the secretary of state, Deputy Secretary of State Cowdry enjoyed 8 Ohristmas visit from his parents, 'Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Cowdry, of Columbus. Miss Clara Carmody, of the ofticeof public lands and buildings, passed: Christmas with relatives at Columbus. John Lane, of Lincoln, who was awarded the contract for the ercction of the indust home at Milford, has entered into coutr and filed his bond for the work. Superintendent Sweet, of the Beatrice feeble minded building, was at the state house Yesterday making the estimate of wo tho Dast month smounting to 2,500, Auditor Babeock and family were at North Loup, Valley county, for Christmas fostivi ties, expecting to return yesterday., Deputy Auditor Benton made a Christmas visit to his old home and passed the day with Congre: V. Governor Thayer is so overed as to make a short visit to his office and hopes to be on duty again in a fow days. Deputy Auditor Benton was engaged yes. terday in drawing the warrants disbursing #250,000 of school money amony the different, . ollowing notarial commissions were v for the exccutive ofices: nox, Chase county; W. Lewis A. Kent, Mi The igsued yeste Charles E. fil‘n 3 i George W. Ames, Thomas, Benkleman, Dundy es Q. Watts, Oealaila, Keith Hell,St. Paul, Howand county ; ‘hadron, Dawes county; B. R. {I W Wahoo, Sanders county; J. P, Hur- ley, Greeley Centre, Groeley county; W. W. Hopper, Superior, kolls county; W. A. Black and W.A. Polloc West Point, Cuming county, ——— . st feature about catarrh is its dangerous tendency to consumption. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures catarr by purifying the blood, P Hugged By a Bear. A man who is well thought of by the railway fraternity is Hoyt Sherman, general agent of the Union Pacifie, of Salt Lake, who arrived from that place yostorday, says the San Francisco Ex- aminer. He was first brought into rominence by an adventure which he ad on the road from Beaver Canyon into the Yellowstone National park. Mr, Sherman was a tourist agent for the road, and when a big party went up to the park he would lmm:(l‘p.l them. The dir:m‘-,e from Beaver A&ny{m is l:fi to wiles, aud threé years ago, when he had the adventure, the road was very primitive. Rough and rocky. it wound its way through deep canyons, whose walls rose to magnificent heights, making the scene awful and grand, and then over fertile plains, through moun- tainous country inco tlmb«re regions that could not be excelled. There was something about this drive that thrilled and delighted passengers and made them want to cover the distance again But as pleasant ns they were, they w not free from danger. It lurked eve where, In the fissuresof the rocks were skulking mountain lions watching the passage of the stuge coach with gleaming eyes, while panthers, more cowardly, yet fully as dangerous, perched in the trees that overhung the road on which the stage traveled, would give their fierce ery and perchance leap upon its top to find that its occupants were beyond reach. Then the silvers tipped bear and big black brui his stately round for meat, would cautiously pun.{m way., Sometimes at night the tourists would camp for a change. It was one night that they did this that Mr. Sherman had his adventure. one that is not new to him now. They camped in & clump of timber below the mountaing, and corralled the horses a few rods off. It was about mid- night when Mr. Sherman was awakened by the neighing of a horse. He got up to reconnoiter and saw o black object near the corral. The moon was out n all her splendor, though the trees shadowed the earth. Thinking that the object was a man,and that he meant to steal the horso, he took his pistol from his ;»ockot. and noticing that his clasp-knife was all right, he cautiously advanced. He was looking about to see where the big black object had gone, when, as though it had risen from the ground, a big black bear stood in front of him. First he '.huufht to run, but this 'would be death, for one stroke from its powerful paw would lay him low. The pistol was a small one, but he raised it after his first surprise was over and E[ulhsd the trigger. It did not go off. e just remembered that he had neg- lected to reload the weapon that even- ing after discharging all the cartridges. V\I“’mn the trigger snapped the bear looked at the pistol curiously and then at Shermun. The latter took his knife out and slowly backed up until he was protected by a tree. The bear followed and carrersingly began to hug him. Its hot breath was upon his face, and he grew faint. He rallied and drove the knife to the hilt into bruin, who, now fully enraged, rolled Sherman on the ground. Now it was tight or die. An- other plunge and the sharp edge of the steel wcntl)lowin g up the bear, fairly disemboweling ’flim. The struggle soon ended, and although Sh was the victor, he was not alto unharmed. The tourists hear noiss, and were in time to witness the end of the battle. For a k after three Englishmen did nothing but curse their ill-luck at not being the man that the bear attac . Dr, J. H. McLean’s strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier, by its vital- izing properties, will gbrighten pale cheeks, and transform a pale, haggard, dispirited woman into one of sparkling health and beauty. arly Struggles of Rich Men. Frank Carpenter Writes: It is inter- esting, indeed, to look-back at the hard times that some of these rich men have had, and not u few of the envious may be w g that they were experienc- ing similar times now. Let me bunch a lot of them together. Woerisheffer, the rich banker, who died not long ago, b gan life as a bank clerk. Rufus Hatch's first speculations were in steel pens and turkeys. Tom Seott, the famous rail- rond president, drove a mule on the State canal in Pennsylvania, and Horace Greeley worked at'the printers’ case for as low as $2.50 a week. bor- rowed 81,000 to start the Tribune and afterwards loaned Cornelius Vanderbilt $8,000 without curity. orge 'W. Childs, the millionaire, editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, was an errand boy when he decided to be- bome a rich man and owd the Ledge and James Gordon Bennett when hegsat ars of age, landed at Halifa otland, had just 25 in his pocket. He was about starving when he got to Boston, and was overjoyed at finding a shilling. He got work in a book store, andin a few years afterward started the New York Herald in a cellar on Wall street, with two barrels with a plank across them for a desk. His brains told, and a son,a six millionaire, can now keep yachts and spend his fortune on polo and Paris, Stephen Girard, the richest banker in he United States at the time of his death, was a wall-eyed cabin boy on a sailing ship at fifteen years of age, and his first business in Philadelphia was that of a wine bottler, Wanamuker, the great Philadelphia clothier, worked for years in his father’s bri ard, and his fivst work away from home brought him in $1.25 a week. He received this for clerking in a book store and walked, four mile: day from his home to his work. He did his work welland his was increased to 81,50 a week. He hus now one of the biggest stores in the world and it takes 3,000 clerks to do his busine: Henry Disston, the sawmaker, whose saws are esteemed the best by cabinet- makers, was apprenticed to a sawmaker at seventeen. He made a million and more by'sticking to his business. Mar- shall Jewell, one of Grant’s postmaster generals, left a fortune. He began life in a tan yard and until he was eighteen he !l'nl')"d skins and worked about the vats of his father’s establishment. The information here gained aided him in making a fortune in leather belting and before he died he said he had never been connected with an institution which did not pay a good interest on the investment. Matthew Vassar, the millionai whose money Vassar college got art, yme near being a tanner, and had his ther succeeded in making him one he would probably have made a fortune at it. The boy, I)Iuwovur, did not take to the idea and his mother helped him to run away from home to keep out of the tan-yard. She gave him seventy-five cents and her blessing, and he deemed himself rich when he was afterwards able to make $300 a year. His father was a brewer and the son for a time run an oyster and beer saloon at Pough- keepsie. He afterwards came back home and established another brewery after the burning of that of his tather, and it was this thut formed the foundation of his millions. Thus Vassar college is built upon beer, and it is a fact that some of the greatest charities of the world have come from liquor dealers. The two greatest cathedrals in Dublin are from the profits of Guinness stout and Irish whisky and the brewers of the former have been lhru\lgh their wealth made members of the English nobility. The aristocracy of wealth in the ‘present money-making era rules the umiverse and the above instances will show that the tooks are open to every one who will enter and the race is free for all. A i s Prickly Ash Bitters warm up and in- vigorate the stomach, improves and ::‘renglhen the digestive organs, upen'; @ pores, promotes prespiration, an ualizes ufe wlmnhugn. pAl a correc- tor of disordered system there is noth- iog to equal i, e,from | SOUTH AMERICA'S COLD FIELDS Ameriocans Who Seek Fortune in the New HlI Dorado. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE Very Poor Place For a Man Without Capital--Wonderful Stories of Mining Stocks -« A Trip Through the Gold Fields. Cape Town Cerrespondence of the New York World: Gold, gold, gold, and the new discoveries constantly being made in the Transvaal. This is all the people talk about in Cupe Town of Jate. Hundreds are leaving by every coast- wise steamer for Durban and the new gold fields of Barberton and Wit- watersrands, mostly newly arrvived Englishmen, with a sprinkling of Calis fornians and Australians. ‘‘Forbes’ concession in Swazilund is yielding 1,500 ounces of gold per month!” “Quartz from the Wit watersrandt, mostly newly arrived inglishmen district running fifteen ounces to the ton!"” ‘‘New alluvial dis- coveries in the De Knap Valley!” These are the reports one hears on every hand; in the hotel corridors, in the sa- loous, the clubs, the railway station, everywhere,and they keep the gold fever at high pressure. Ave these reports true? Yes, every word. During the next five years the Transvaal, Swaziland, Zululand, and the Matabele country gold ficlds are going to astonish the world. California and Australia in their flushest days will be eclipsed by the discoveries and out- put of fiold in this South African coun- try, and that at no very distant day. I have just returned from an exten- tensive trip through the gold-bearing country and the outlook for big things in the near future is mmurknhf' prom- ising. And yetI wouldn't advise any- body to come here with the ideaof doing anything without pienty of capital. It is not a poor man's country, where indi- vidual *‘diggers” can make fortunes with pick, pan and shovel. Paying placer diggings may possibly be discov- ered later, but at present men who should umml!n wooing the golden calf single handed, as of yore on the Pacific slope, would quickly find themselves in a fair way of starving to death, or tak- ng to sheep herding, the next thing to it. Iknow a round dozen Americans, dead broke in Cape Town now, waiting for money to be sent them to return home on. It is the old story with ench one of them. They came here with enough money to tniw them out to the Transvanl and to tide them over till they could begin “digging gold.” One sad fool T saw _and talked with but yesterday. He had resigned a $150- a-month position in Chicago last spring and started for this country with $2,000, the savings of years. He is now sling- ing drinks in a third-class beer house for his board, waiting for a remittance to pay his passage back to the United States. A few months’ prospecting and floating around without finding any- thing and he found_ himself with empty pockets and sometimes. even with an empty stomach In the absence of paying placers the only opening for individual effort is in rospecting. Ifa man gets broke it isn’t always easy to get anything to do, for all the lubor about the mines and mills is done by Kaffirs under the super- intendence of white foremen. The out: look for the busted American ii thing but brilliant. provisions are almost as dear as they were in California in 1849 and 1850, £5 note doesn’t amount to much in dis- tricts where everything of consequence has to be hauled hundreds of miles by wagon. I have paid 820 (to reduce it to American money) a hundred for fiour, $2 a dozen for eggs, 75 cents a und for cheese, 81.50 for a bottle of beer or a can of condensed milk, with ether stuff in proportion. .At these prices a_fellow prospecting over the country for nn" length of time wants to have plenty of money. The man who reaches the gold fields with but a fow hundred dollars will find it used up almost before he knows what has become of it. If he could start right into place digging for his support it would be di ferent, but the odds are against his being able to do this at present. There are plenty of men in the De Kaap valley trying placer mining, but they are meeting with indifferent suc- cess. I tried it for a couple of months, an pecting and digging, but although had no trouble in finding gold it was in such small quantities that I couldn’t make current *expenses, and so had to give it up. In prospecting for quartz it is also equally important that a man should not be cramped for means. Nowadays a claim has got to be opened upand proved before it will sell or attract capital. Thousands were ruined by the mad speculations of last year, and peo- ple ave only just beginning to recover rom the reaction. Twelve months ago ybody who had pieces of good quartz show could find plenty of eager peo- ple anxious to investigate his claim with u view to purchase or partnershi All this has changed with the reaction: to display pocket specimens and talk sell now is to be regarded with suspicien or ignored entirely. All this comes of the inflation and the inevitible collapse of last spring. Last year Sheba mine shares, that sold or inally at %5, sprang up to $25 in next to no time. From $5in May and $25f by midsummer the shares ran up to $00 by Christmas. Everybody was seized with a wild mania for speculation, It was California and Consolidated Virginia duplicated, Servant girls in Cape Town and Durban and Kimberly drew their little hoardins Jfrom the savings banks and_bought Sheba stock, mer- chants sold out their business and men mortgaged houses and real estate to swell the sums of their investments. The country was for the time mining- share mad. Last spring the bubble burst. Hundreds were ruined. Other hundreds saw the hard-earned sayings of years swept ruthlessly away. A few promoters made big fortunes. Having passed through the seemingly inevitable frenzy of gold fields newl’ discovered, mining has now ne'.tlux down in the Transvaal on a solid, sensi- ble basis. Everything is owned and dona by companies. Mills are being brought from Eugland by the score in every steamer, In the Witwatersrandt district the gnhl-hmn'in“ formation is what is known as “banket,” a sort of conglomerate that is wonderfully easy to reduce. Banket ean be reduced for less than # per ton. It is composed of a sort of pebbly quartz cemented together by a fine silicious sand. A piece of it may easily be crushed beneath the foot,una a little water poured over a lump will cause it to erumble at once. Such is *‘banket’ and the gold is con- tained chiefly in the cement. Veins of positive quartz are found in the same reefs as the banket, but the mills are working exclusively on the latter so far, “CAPITAL PRZE"OF 500,00000 Tickets can be procured FREE OF CHARGE by applying at 1119 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. Drawing Takes Place Daily Bet. 7 a.m' and 9 p.m. No Blanks; every Ap- plicant Gets a Prize, as the amount will be divided into 31260 Prizes as follows. Satarday Drawings, Dec. 24, 1887, will consist of A PAIR PANTALOONS. ich was made to order by a Mn“rchant Tntlur. “ “ “ “ “ “ “ ‘Which was made to order by T DA te= ol “ “ “ “ “ $51.85 $35.60 Which was “ “ “ “ “ “ Including a complete stock of furnishj C ] Y the dollar in which your savings will award a nice prize AT THE MISFIT PARLORS, N. B.--Orders by mail receive prompt and careful attention. ‘ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ [ “ “ “ “ A SUIT. & Merchant Tailor. w“ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ « “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 4 “ « “ “ “ « “ " AN nishing goods, VERCOATS. made to order by a Merchant Tailor....... 1119 Farnam Street 1119 Bankets runs in lodes or veins varying from one to twenty feet wide. There 1s such an abundance of this material near the surface that' it is practically inex- haustible, and as deep as shul_h« have thus far béen sunk it holds its own width of vein and richness. Thousands of stamps niay find remunerative em- ployment night ‘and day for years on banket now in plain sight. At present nearly a thousand stamps are working steadily on banket in mlgu Witwatersrandt district alone, and it is thought that by this time next year six times that number will be hard at it. The average clean-up yields about one and ope-half ounces of gold to the stamp per day. At this rate some of the com- anies have commenced paying divi- ends at the rate of 50 per t o year on the capital invested, and shares are held at ten and twelve times their original cost a few months ago. T!ns is what may be called an exceedinyly healthy state of affairs, everything being bona-fide from beginning to end. The banket lodes were discovered a year by & Pretorean named Stublig. %‘he district was totally wild and unin- habited, a barren plateau, mnfhlurnd fit for nothing. Then came the inevitable rush, and with mushroon spontaneity hae sprung into_existence the town of Johannisberg, already numbering 6,000 inhabitants. 5 The country round about Johannis- berg for many miles contains no timber. Many of the houses are queer things, built entirey of movable iron sheets im- ported from England; others are of adobe or mud rock. 1t a regular gold- field city, full of rowdyism and hard characters; dance-houses and sa- loons by the dozen are in full swing.and robbery and shooting affairs are of almost daily oceurredce. There is big money lrere for expert mine with plenty of capital—big money. But at present the man with- out capital, and lots of it, had better stay where he is unless he likes herd- ing sheep for a pound a week and slim rations. ~— Weak lungs, spitting of blood, con- sumption, and kindved affections, cured without physician. Address, for treat- ise, with two stamps, World's Di;],n- - sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Sl THE HOOSIER POET. How Riley Forced Himself Into No- tice in Indiana. Tudianapolis Letter: The applause which followed the appearance of James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana poet, at the recent convention of authors in New York has naturally attracted at- tention to him and has lent additional interest iu his early life and to a career which, whilg attended by many viciss tudes, always had like Riley himself, its its comic side and distinguished him from those with whom he associated. Riley is a native of Hancock c v this state, and. is now about thir f’flfll'h of age. His early education was imited, not begcause his father was wanting either, in the means or the desire “to " give him a classical education, but bpeause hisson preferred & pursuit les ry than poring over books and wading through the declen- sions and cpnjunctions of Greek and Latin noung and verbs. Before his sdhool days wereé completed the young Riley abandoned his books and took up the trade of a sign-painter, and soon be- gan traveling from place to place, apparently contented if his day's work brought him money enough to” pay for the nights lodging. Even his signs par- took of his comic nature. and both th grotesque letters and the peculinr pressions were entirely original, and served to attract attention to him and his work. Nature gave to Riley a peculiar pair of eyes, and they often’ served him in his summer tramps over the country as & painter. He would frequently enter a town as a blind sign-writer, and soli- cit work while being from house to house by a boy, and when his ability to do the ‘work "was questioned, he de- manded a trial. Ruaning his hand over the surface as if to take the dimensions, the “blind sign-writer would hur riedly and apparently without effort; write the sign while the people would gather around him and express the greatest astonishment at the accuracy of the work. On one of these summer tramps Riley fell in with avenderof patent medicine, and for a time the two traveled together, Riley amusing the crowd with his banjo and comic songs and sayings asthe med- icine man extolled the virtues of his wonderful catholicon and sold it to the people. As a sign painter Riley became perfectly familiar with the language of the 'street, the ignorantand the un- sophisticated, and thus laid the founda- tion of his future success as a writer of dialect prose and poetry. : Riley's first productions appeared in print between 1875 and 1876, but they attracted little attention because their publication was limited to the country press, the author not being able to reach the public through the periodicals of larger circulation and more cultured readers. Believing that his writings possessed merit and were rejected by the publishers simply because the author was without a name among Riley hit upon & plan to bring into Huhlic notice and to prove that his productions were not without merit, even if the writer was without fame. With the consent of the editor of the Kokomo Dispatch, he published a short poem which was an excellent imi- tation of Edgar A. Poe’s style introduc- ing it with the statement that the poem had been found written on the blank leaf of a book once belonging to Poe, and found by a relative of the deceased poet who moved to this state from the east many years ago. The poem and the accompanying statement of its dis- covery were reproduced by many papers and a heated discussion was the result, some nsisting that the poem was unquestionably the work of Poe, and others that, while strikingly simi- lar, it was wanting in some of the essen- tials that distinguished Poe from all other writers. Finally one of Poe's publishers sent for the book in which the poem was alleged to have been writ- ten and the truth came out. Though Riley was severely criti- cised, the encomiums which the poem received from those who really be- lieved that it was the production of Edgar A, Poe convinced him that he himself was lacking more in name.than in merit as & writer, and he soon after- ward secured employment on The Journal, of this city, at a moderate sal- ary, and while thus engaged wrote most of his dialect verse. Within the last fow years he has contributed a number of pieces for eastern periodicals, and has published a book of selections, in which, however, the piece in imitation of Poe's style does not appear. e Got Their Money. Mention was made in a recent issue of the Times of the fact that Jim Baker and Sum McArthur had drawn #15,000 in the Louisiana Statc Lottery. Last Thursday the money was received through the Missoula National Bank, and turned over to the lucky holders of the ticket. The boys did not know but that there might be a mistake somewhere, and were naturally restless until the money came and was placed to_ their credit in the bank. The Louisiana State Lottery has stood the test of years, and is just as solid and retiable as any concern in the country. We believe the drawings are absolutely fair and that the lotteries are conducted as Lon- estly as and equitably as any other business. We are informed that three or four other minor prizes were secured by Missouln par- ties at the last drawing. Another tenth of the capital prize of $150,000 was drawn by William Poad of the town of Anaconda, in the adjoining county of Deer Lodge, and was collected through the Omaha National Bunk of Omaha, Nebraska. Messrs. Baker and MeArthur have secured a snug little sum, and by carefully investing their stake, they should be able to kecp the wolf from’ the door during the balance of th?ir7hv .—-[Missoula (Mont.) Times, Dec. 7, 1387, e Riding Ocean Turtles. 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