Show last wednesday tacio occurred on slate mountain near ashcroft one of accidents that make nian frealic how terrible arc the perils that environ alic lithway pit hway of the fortune hunter in these great mountains A young man n alicd J M zern who lias been pros pectin ami contracting mound ashcroft for ionic time past hail in connection with another man a contract to run in a tunnel on a claim very near alio summit of slate mountain tho claim is kuon as abo shamokin Sha lode they had nearly completed alio contract ami zeni was making his preparations to get out of alio country for alio winter alio trail leading from alio cabin occupied by alic two contractors to alio llio claim wind s its sinuous and perilous way along alio steep slope of alato mountain to avoid the lodged and casu tho grade kait there is one place far up toward alic where alic slope is almoite perpendicular for quite i distance and under the best conditions travel at eliat spot is cry perilous alic trail about eighteen inches wide is cut out of alic mountain hide anil it would make a hair stand on end to look down there lias been a crust of snow several inches thick on and near the summit of slate mountain for a week or more past and the cold s frozen this snow where it has been pressed down along the trail until it is as slipper as glass last wednesday morning and his partner were proceeding along the trail to alio llio shamokin Sha lode and at alio precipitous spot referred to missed his looting the misstep carried his body off the trail and in an instant the doomed miner was down tho snowy wildly grasping at alio air and attempting in vain to some foothold on the frozen ground his ler partner utterly to render him any assistance stood gazing at tho terrible night with emotions past description down doin the buor fellow tt and when his bruised and bloody frame reached the bottom it was 1800 feet from where it started and boro but little of its original self Lc alville democrat attorney general cleaves of maine in his annual report favors tho restoration of capital he s tho convictions for murder in tho lii st degree during tho alone number during the three years previous to of tho penalty and aro nearly equal to the number during oliree jeara following |