Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER. Published Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. J. B. BASS, . . . EDITOR. Subscription $2.00 per year, Strictly in Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. Application made for entering the Helena Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. Address all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 21 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. Republican Primaries and Convention. The Republican Primaries of the City of Helena, Montana, will be held Tuesday evening, March 20, 1906, at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of n minating a card date for Alderman from the First, Second, Third, Fourth Fifth Sixth and Seventh wards respectively, and enacting the following number of delegates and Alternates to the Republican city convention, to wit: Delegates, Alternates. First Ward 13 13 Second Ward 7 7 Third Ward 9 9 Fourth Ward 8 8 Fifth Ward 7 7 Sixth Ward 8 8 Seventh Ward 17 17 Said City Convention will be held Friday, March 23, 1906, at the Auditorium, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Mayor, City Treasurer and Police Judge. 1st Ward, City Hall, 2nd Ward Masonic Temple, 3rd Ward, Grand Central Annex, 4th Ward, Auditorium, 5th Ward, School House, 6th Ward, Fire Station, 7th Ward, Fire Station. By order of the Republican City Central Committee. EDWARD HORSKY, Chairman, WM. B McCLATCHY, Sect. Dated March 14, 1906. Our Bow. With this issue we make our initial bow to the public in the field of journalism. We do not claim that a newspaper in this particular community to be a long felt want, nor do we aspire to leadership; our only aim shall be for the progress and uplifting of a race with which our destiny is linked forever. It should be a source of pride to the colored citizens of this section of the country to know, that they have right here in Helena, probably the best equipped printing establishment west of the Mississippi river. We shall at all times advocate the principles of PEACE, PROSPERITY and UNION. Shall stand up for the righ and denounce the wrong. Our mission shall be at no time to stir up strife, but rather to pour oil on the troubled waters. We believe that as a race we must, if we keep pace with the mighty procession of progress, accumulate something and to a greater extent than ever become active in the business world. We realize that in the past, valuable time has been lost in frivolities and the lesser things of life, and now if we keep pace with this mighty progress of a nation, we must redouble our efforts along the above lines. In this section of the country there are great opportunities for the frugal and thrifty in mining, agriculture and other pursuits. We shall advocate a development along these lines, the infusion of new blood, and encouragement will no doubt bring gratifying results to the colored race in the great Northwest. We shall advocate a greater Helena and present to the world the inexhaustible resources of Montana, and in doing so we shall endeavor to attract some of best talent and citizenship to this great Eldorado of the Northwest. Politics shall always be subordinate to the interests and welfare of our people. While shall always take a definite and dectded stand on all the political questions which may arise, w shall do so having in view the benefits which it is possible for our people to gain. While we are conservative and we believe in the doctrine of that justice wSich exalteth a nation, we Historical Society of Mouths unhesitatingly subscribe to the principle of republicanism as represented by our present strenuous Chief Executive and we shall advocate those priciples in the columns of this paper. We can relied upon at all times to advocate such principles and measures as will redound the greatest amount of good to the greatest number of our people. Passing of Miss Susan B. Anthony. On last Tuesday another of the earth born saviors of mankind in the person of Miss Susan B. Anthony, the great advocate of woman suffrage, passed away at 12:40 a.m. Rorchester, N. Y. The colored people will always rever the memory of this great woman; who when this country was a slaxe ridden one, did her part along with the Phillips, Lundys, Garrisons, Summers, Stowes and other great abolutionist te destroy the institution of slavery. She has ever since the emancipation of thk race, been one of the staunch friends for their uplift and advancement We know of our own presonal knowledge several colored institutions in which she has always taken a kindly interes and helped with an annual endowmdnt. Her life has been a long and eventful one, well svent on a mission of goodness. She like an angel was always a welcome visitor where ever she went, and all mankind has lost a true friend in the cause of humanity and justice. Anent the newspaper discussion just now as to exorbant rail road and express rates, from personal experience since locating THE PLAINDEALER we can say there is something radically wrong, and a R. R. Commission, extra session or something else is in ordes to bring the people releif. The best way to refute and at the same time discredit such plays as the 'Clansman,' 'Leopard Spots,' etc., is not to uention them; they have been given entirely too main attention, which has only enriched the unprincipled author, Thamas Dixon. While we have always been a staunch admirer of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Turner, senior Bishop of the A. M. E. church, and a man of tremendous intellect and power we cannot indorse his recent utterances in reference to America and the flag. For the ambitious and thrifty young man or woman, no state in the union offers more pomising adthan Montanan. But there is no room for the shiftless or moral leper. With the state convention in Topeka, the Kansas Lincoln Day Club should take advantage of the opportunity and accomplish results for the race. Our ideal of living is to BE SOMETEING, HAVE SOMETHING and DO SOMETHING. Must Kill President Roosevelt. Will Lose Her Life If She Doesn't Is Woman's Hallucination. New Orleans, La. Mar., 7.—Declaring that her life will be taken unless she assassinates President Roosevelt, a woman who gave her name as Mrs. W. B. Lewaller of Philadelphia, applied at police headquarters for protection today. She spoke rationally on all general subjects, bvt it was decided to detain her for an examination. Mrs. Lewaller said she fell in with a porty of Socialist in Phil adelphia and that she was taken to a room there and made to take an oath against the president, being told that she would be detroyed if it was not executed. She said she fled to Houston, Texas, but the men followed her there and that she had then come to New Orleans. Helena, Montana, Friday, March 16, 1906. Race News. William Harden of Quihcy, Fla. is the only colored man in the South who owns and operates an electric and ibe plant for lighting the town and supplying ice. The Italian Brotherhood of Newport, R. L. at their annual meeting elected as their physician for the year 1906 Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland, a colored man, who won so much fame some months ago through a delicate operation performed upon Miss Walsh, daughter of the multi-millionaire. To the colored people of Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and other southern states: We are in receipt of a communication from Mr. W. G Byrd, 675 Hood St. Portland, Ore., who says that excellent opportunities are now offered for progressive colored men and wom who wish to improve their oppor tunitiea. There is great demand for them, as the white people of that section of the country are getting tired of Japs and Chinamen; they do not want anything but progressive and industrious colored men and women. No loafer or those who idle the year around need look towards Oregon, as the laws are very strict against that class and are rigidly enforced. It strikes us very forcibly the colored people of these states who wish to better their condition should go to a state like Oregon, where the laws are more equally interpuncted. The schools are mixed, the laws are administered according to justice, and seldom, if exer, the people judge by the color when it comes to business. Take advantage of the opportunity and scatter oer the great Northwest.—Topeka Plaindealet. The above applies to Montana also and all information desired can be secured by addressing The Montana Plaindealer, 21 S. Main Street, Helena, Mont. On January 10th, the Pekin Vaudeville Theatre of Chicago, Ill., was destroyed by fire. The Pekin was the only theatre owned by colored people in the West. Robt. Motts the proprietor, states that he will immediately rebuild a $15,000 theatre on the old site. Mrs. Dora Leonard, a white woman was fined ten dollars in Court of Criminal Correction of St Louis a few days ago for refusing o answer the questions of a Negro attorney. She engaged in a colloquy with the presiding judge and was severely reprimanded. She was prosecuting Mrs. Phoebe McElroy, formerly employed by her as a servant, whom she accused of stealing a pillow slip and towels. H. H. Hofer, counsel for the defense, endeavored to get Mrs. Leonard to ell how she identified the articles. She refused to reply to his question, saying: "I don't have to answer a nigger." Judge Moore imposed the fine and ordered her in custody of the sheriff until it was paid. She paid, still insisting that she would not answer the "nigger." Like a ray of sunshine through clouds of threatening darkness came the news from Kalamazoo Thursday last that Bert Burton, colored, charged with criminal assault, has been acquitted of the charge. Mr. Burton and Miss Daugherty a pretty white girl, be came loxers in the town of Three Rivers, last year and, deciding to marry, they eloped to Kalamazoo to have the ceremony performed. In this they were frustrated, as they could not find any one to marry them, and they stopped over night at a hotel. Burton was arrested the next morning and the girl's father sore out a warrant against him, charging criminal assault. Not only was Burton acquitted of the charge, but the broad of white people in the court room applauded the verdict. Miss Daugherty was a witness in the case and was as true as steel to her afflianced husband, her testimony being entirely in his javor. At Baton Rouge, La., a few days ago dur ing the annual conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Thomas Dixon and his boods were censured. Bishop M. B. Saltar of South Carolina, said: "Thom as Dixon who wrote "The Leopard Spots" and "The Clansman," is an agent of the devil, and when he said there is no virtue among the Negroes he promulgated a false hood as black as hell. I thank God he does not represent the thought of the best white people of the country. He is worse than a murderer." Members of the "Abyssinia" company, headed by Williams and Walker, have sent to Mrs. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a handsome silker punch bowl, lined with gold. Its cost was estimated at about $800, paid for by contributions of company. There is an allegorical sketch engraved on the bowl picturing the progress of the Afro-American people, while a faithful likeness of President Roosevelt smiles benign approval. The card accompany the bowl bore this legend. "From some colored New York admirers, with their respectful wishes for your future happiness." Cornelius J. Jones, a Negro prominent in business circles of Guthrie, has purchased the town site of Chase, which is eight mules west of Muscogee, for $4,000. Mr. Jones intends to make of Chase an exclusively Negro town. He also desires to make it an educational and industrial centre similar to Tuskegee. If he succeeds Chase will be the most famous town in the west. A New Enterprise SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. The doubting Thomas's when this issue is off the press will doubt take up another cue and begin prophesying just how long we shall live, as all aspersions as to our ability to put in operation a newspaper have been hurled back in their teeth; but we have no time to parley with this class of clitizens as they are the weights upon the progress of the race. We have this class in far too great a number, but they are our and we must bear with them; tell them the right way to live and set living examples before them as a part of our duty. The Emancipation Proclamation could not suddenly rid us of all that centuries of slavery and barbarism had left. Ours must be a growth, and those who are guided by superstition and ignorance will, of necessity, be overlooked as we proceed to take our station in the front ranks of this mighty progress. Those to whom enterprise and thrift appeal, we shall ask co-operation for a greater spirit of activity along business lines. We have, at a large cost, put in operation a complete newspaper and job office and are prepared to do any kind of work in our line, guarranteeing satisfaction. In our efforts to do business along these lines, we have an abiding faith that we shall have the support of all progressive citizens of all races and classes, and that we shall obtain our share of the business in our particular line. Our offices are located in the Novelty Block, No. 21 South Main Street and we welcome the public to visit us and form our acquaintance and see in realty a complete Negro Newspaper and Job Office. Our genial foreman, Joseph H. Tucker, who is one of the pioneer Negro printers and has worked for many of our leading race, is in charge of the composing and press rooms and will tdke great pleasure in showing yau around' Later on when we shall have gotten straightened out a little better we expect to have several more employke3 in the different departments of this publication. We shall immediately place correspondents in Butte, Billings, Anaconda, Great Falls, Havre, Missoula and other Montana points; in fact we shall be newsgatherers from all parts of the continent. This enterprise shall at all times strive for a greater Helena and for a mutual prhgress of all the people of the community, and for a greater activity of our people in the business world. With these purposes and the support of the progressive people of all classes, we have no fears but that the people will be benefitted and that another spoke in the wheel for the progress of the race is an accomplished fact. There will be a special meeting of the Lincoln Day Club at Lloyd's Parlors on Monday evening, Mar, 19, at 8-30 o'clock. All members are requested to be present as there is much business of importance. One of the very best conducted gentlemen's Clubs in in the state, is the Manhaitan, under the direction of Gus Mason and A. Palmer. Subscribe for The Plaindealer. Paul L, Dunbar. Comment from the Denver Post en this Remarkable Genius. Dayton, O., Feb. 9—Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the Negro poet, died at his home here this afternoon of consumption. For three years he had been seriously ill, and for a year critically ill, but he kept at his work intermittently and wrote his last poem for his Christmas book, "Howdy, Howdy, Howdy," just before Christmas. Mr. Dunbar was born in Dayton, June 27, 1872, and was first a newsboy, and then an elevator boy, and in his ups and downs for a living practiced writing. His first poem was written when he was writing for the Steele High School in 1891. His first of a total of 21 books was "Oak and Ivy." His poem best known was "When Malindy Sings," which was written to his mother whose name is Malinda. Mr. Dunbar is survived by his mother, his wife and two half brothers, who reside in Chicago. He will be buried in Woodland cemetery, this city, next week, many persons of note being expected to attend. The deceased was the first poet to arise out of the African race in America, and his status among the literary men of the East is more than a sufficient answer to the argument of the ignorant bigot who is ever pestering the world with queries as to "What we shall do with the race question?" Paul Dunbar's books and poetry will tell if he consults them—the question will settle itself if he will only let the Negro enjoy the opportunities opened up to him by the abolition of slavery in the United States. He was born 34 years ago in Dayton, O., and was educated in the public schools of that town. Thirteen years ago he was an elevator boy in a big building in Dayton, and, like most of his race, he seemed to be marked for a life of uneventful toil. Yet since that time he published many books, contributed to the best magazines and newspapers, established a solid reputation and recited his verses to many audiences of the highest culture. At 25, with the encouraging plaudits of his first success ringing in his ears he went abroad for new conquests. In England Mr. Dunbar was received by the most highly cultured and aristocratic people in the land, because he had genius—the key that unlocks all doors that bar the way to fashionable or cultivated society abroad. The love of rhythm that characterizes the Negro manifested itself early in young Dunbar. Like Pope he listed in numbers. His father died when Paul was a lad of 12, and the future poet contributed to the support of his widowed mother and his brothers and sisters with what he earned as a newsboy. Between times he mowed lawns, ran upon errands, was faithful, kind and gentle. His first verses, childish, it is true, but of good promise, were written on the flyleaf of an old spelling book, and were entitled "An Eastern Hymn." At 14, he had already broken into print, and a few of his poems and short stories had been published in the Dayton Herald and in other local newspapers. His small successes gratified his mother beyond expression. She believed that her son had a great future in store for him, and encouraged by her, he wrote a story in Western dialect which he called "The Tenderfoot" The story was copied widely. It was the first literary production of its kind to be published from the pen of a Negro Many other stories were sold by Dunbar, and the way began to grow brighter for the struggling author. Dunbar attracted the attention of Fred Douglass and the colored statesman looked him up. By this time the public began to become interested in the personality of the young Ohioan and his future was assured. He secured admission to the highest literary circles everywhere and became a popular lecturer, while his revenue from his writings steadily increased. HIS SONG OF DEATH. Storm and strife and stress. Lost in a wilderness Groping to find a way Forth to the haunts of day. Sudden a vista peeps Out of the tangled deeps; Only a point—the ray But at the end is day. Dark is the dawn and chill, Daylight is on the hill, Night is the lifting breath, Day rides the hills of death. WHAT THE POST SAYS OF HIM. Paul Dunbar is dead. Paul Dunbar was as black as coal and his mother couldn't write her own name. He began to earn his own living when he was 11 or 12 years old. He began as a bootblack and graduated into an ele- vator boy in a middle west city. One day he sat in the corner of his elevator, when the office building was closed, and wrote a piece of verse. The next day he read the verse to a man who had an office in the building and who took a kindly interest in the black boy. The man told the boy that the verse he had written was good, he spoke to someone else about it, and finally, in some roundabout way or other, it was published. It was not very long before someone else was running the elevator, and Dunbar, the black boy, was writing poems and songs, and stories for a living—and making a good living too. His poems were published in the best magazines in America. He went abroad and titled men and women made a great fuss over him. He wrote songs and librettos and he sang and told stories and laughed and was sick and suffered after the manner of his race, and then he went home to his mother and died—still a young man Black as ever, and as simple hearted and kindly and simple mannered as he was the day he sat in an elevator and wrote his verses on a torn scrap of paper with an old stub of a pencil. Who is there who dares, in the face of such evidence as this, to say: "I would have been someone if I had had a chance." What chance did that black boy have but the chance he made for himself? What chance do you want, young man with the red blood of the great white race leaping in your joyous veins. You are no 'prisoner' within the cruel jail of color and of race. The best in the world is none too good for you if your hands are strong enough to grasp it. What chance do you need—but the chance you take for yourself? If you cannot take the chance be content. The grass does not grow as high as the pine tree, but the world needs the grass, 'just as much as it needs the forest. Smile at the world serenely and say "I have never had much ability, but I've done the best I could," and you won't need anyone's pity. But don't lay the blame of your humble lot in life and the humble achievements you are modest enough to make, on chance. You were not at home when chance knocked at your door, or, if you were you were asleep, and did not answer. national 094 Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the black elevator boy, heard opportunity slipping by in the night and he ran out into the cold and the dark and caught him, and chance turned and smiled at the black boy. FORT HARRI SON NEWS The Literary, Musical and Amuse ment Club will give a St. Patricks Day dance on Saturday, evening, March 17, '06. The dance is given entirely 5y the enlisted men of the 7th Inft., whose object is to open up social inter course between the citizens of Helena and the members of the Post and to establish a friendly-Neighborly feeling between them. It is strictly an invitation affair and only invited parties or guest will attend. It is intention of the committee having the matter in charge to make it the social event of the season. Owing to the fine days we have had in the past week, our boys in blue were to be seen on the gtneral parade grounds 'accompanied with short hikes over the Helena Mountains, but the "Hoodoo" or ground hog, must have seen their shadow and the boys good looks fell when they were taken to the Post Gymnasium daily, where they had to hustle or loose their name. Word has reached this post that Lt. Alderdice, 7th Inft., left Columbus Barracks, Ohio, with 22 recruits for this station on the 11th inst., and is disly expected to arrive. In beginning of our career in the journalistic field here, we ask the hearty co-operation of all the people. While this journal will represent the colored people, we will do so only in a way which will promote harmony and progress between all races. We therefore expect the hearty support from all people regardless of race and shall solicit readers from everybody. So we want our patrons to line up with us. We shall keep our optics open at all times for your interest and to reciprocate. We want you to help us by trading with the firms that place their ads., in this paper. These lines convey a great deal; a hint to the wise is sufficient. See! Spring Humors Impure or effete matters accumulated in the blood during the winter cause in the spring such disfiguring and painful troubles as boils, pimples, and other eruptions, also weakness, loss of appetite and that tired feeling. The best medicine to take to rid yourself of them is Hood's Sarsaparilla, which thoroughly cleanses the blood, and effects permanent cures by giving healthy functional activity to the stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels and skin. This is the testimony of tens of thousands who have taken this great spring medicine. Accept no substitute for Hood's Sarsaparilla, but insist on having Hood's and get it today. Sold by druggists everywhere. Usual form, liquid, or in new form, tablets, 100 Doses One Dollar. The 20 round boxing contest between Sailor Kelly and "Kid" Fredericks, scheduled to take place in Wardner February 24, has, it is announced by the promoters of the fight, been postponed until March 3. RHEUMA BODY RACKED W No other bodily suffering is equal to that of matism. When the poisons and acids, which is trenched in the blood there is hardly any per- fected. The muscles become sore and drawn, the joints inflame and swell, the bones ach- agony, and the entire body is racked with pain by indigestion, stomach troubles, torpid Liver, inactive state of the system. The refuse m through nature's avenues is left to sour and fo poisons which are absorbed into the blood. MATISM ED WITH PAIN ual to that produced by the pain of Rheu- ids, which cause this disease, become in- ly any part of the body that is not af- drawn, the nerves twitch and sting, bones ache, every movement is one oi d with pain. Rheumatism is brought on erpid Liver, weak Kidneys and a general refuse matter instead of passing off sour and form uric acid, and other acrid the blood. Rheumatism does not affect RHEUMATISM BODY RACKED WITH PAIN No other bodily suffering is equal to that produced by the pain of Rheumatism. When the poisons and acids, which cause this disease, become intrenched in the blood there is hardly any part of the body that is not affected. The muscles become sore and drawn, the nerves twitch and sting, the joints inflame and swell, the bones ache, every movement is one of agony, and the entire body is racked with pain. Rheumatism is brought on by indigestion, stomach troubles, torpid Liver, weak Kidneys and a general inactive state of the system. The refuse matter instead of passing off through nature's avenues is left to sour and form uric acid, and other acrid poisons which are absorbed into the blood. Rheumatism does not affect all alike. s them with the acids and salts of this the cold and dampness of Winter always and the sufferer to get relief from the thin liniments, oils, lotions, etc., or uses These are desirable because they give no effect on the real trouble which is in each treatment. S. S. S. is the best rem- with health-giving properties, it fills them with the acids and salts of this painful and far-reaching disease. The cold and dampness of Winter always intensify the pains of Rheumatism, and the sufferer to get relief from the agony, rubs the affected parts with liniments, oils, lotions, etc., or uses plasters and other home remedies. These are desirable because they give temporary ease and comfort but have no effect on the real trouble which is in the blood and harmed the body. So in the best form and causing disease. The cold and intensify the pains of Rheumatism, and the s agony, rubs the affected parts with liniment plasters and other home remedies. These are temporary ease and comfort but have no effect the blood and beyond the reach of such treatme edy for Rheumatism. It goes into the blood and attacks the disease at its head, and by neutralizing and driving out the acids and building up the thin, sour blood it cures the disease permanently. 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Europe, in comparison with America, has not one fifth the railway mileage per capita, the figures being 4.5 per 10,000 of population, as 'airst 25.9 miles in the United States. The mileage in Prussia per 10,000 of the population is about 18. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to treat it, the patient must be taken directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Halls's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Halls's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine, and the setting directly on the mucous surfaces in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, and the setting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. Halls's Cure Props., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 75c. Halls's Family Pills are the best. It is recorded as a remarkable fact in England that eight members of the new liberal cabinet are lawyers, the legal profession thus having nearly half of the whole ministry. Such a proportion would excite no surprise and break no records in America. Permanently Cured. No Flu or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervous Counter. Send for Free $250 trial bottle and treat Dr. Kline's Great Nervous Counter. Miss Edith Wetmore, daughter of the wealthy Rhode Island senator, is one of the most consistent music lovers among fashionable folk, and has been an earnest worker in the effort to establish a national conservatory in Washington. The Tekoa Commercial club was adopted as the name of the business mens' association at Tekoa. A Doctor's Medicine Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is not a simple cough syrup. It is a strong medicine, a doctor's medicine. It cures hard cases, severe and desperate cases, chronic cases of asthma, pleurisy, bronchitis, consumption. Ask your doctor about this. "I have used a great deal of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs and hard colds on the chest. It has always done me great good. It is certainly a most useful coated medicine."--MICHAEL J. FITZORALD, Medford, N.J. Made by J. G. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Also manufacturers of SARSAPARILLA. PILLS. HAIR VIGOR. You will hasten recovery by taking one of Ayer's Pills at bedtime. waking. In some cases it takes a wandering form; it may be in the arms or legs one day and in the shoulders, feet, hands, back or other parts of the body the next. Others suffer more seriously, and are never free from pain. The uric acid and other irritating substances find lodgement in the muscles and joints and as these deposits increase the muscles become stiff and the joints locked and immovable. It matters not in what form the disease may be the cause is always the same—a sour, acid condition of the blood. This vital stream has lost its purity and freshness, and instead of nourishing and feeding the different parts with health-giving properties, it fills painful and far-reaching disease. S.S.S. PURELY VEGETABLE Coffin's Prepared Codfish (In glass top boxes) The Finest Packing of the Finest Codfish Coffin's Prepared Codfish THE FINEST PACKING OF SEPTICIDE Coffin's Prepared Codfish THE FINEST PACKING OF SEPTICIDE Coffin's Prepared Codfish THE FINEST PACKING OF SEPTICIDE Practical receipts for preparing codfish in each box. Ask your grocer for it. Packed only by The W. H. Coffin Fish Co., Seattle. Wanted A bright man with light team in your county. Steady work and good wages go to right man. References required. For particulars address ```markdown ``` Study Music at Home. Piano, Organ, Mac dollin Gutar We teach by mail and guarantee success. First applicants enrolled and admitted National School of Music Box 1192, Seattle Wash. U.S.A. REV. MRS. L. F. SHARE, Trance, Test and Business Medium, 22 years in Portland. Stands for honesty in medium- ly. You en rapport with the higher spirit trees and with your devoted friend leadings by mail, three questions, $1. sealed questions answered by spirit power under ab- solute test conditions, without opening, $2. sealed questions may be stitched together or fastened in any manner to make it impossible for them to be opened without detection Fifth street, Portland, Oregon Spokane N U. 9'90 Sporting News. On paper, at least, Tommy Burns of Detroit is now the heavyweight champion pugilist of the world. He got the decision at Los Angeles Friday night at the end of 20 rounds from Marvin Hart. Jack Dougherty of Milwaukee earned an enviable position in the boxing world through his defeat of Buddy Ryan at Milwaukee. The Colafx high school basket ball teams took a double header from the Pendleton, Ore., teams, boys and girls, in two hot games, at Colfax. Lea Myers, manager for Kid Scaler, announces that he has matched the Spokane favorite against Kid Bernstein at Sandpoint. Aberdeen baseball men have decided to accept President W. H. Lucas' offer of a place in the Northwest league, providing it is still open. About fifteen years ago I had a severe attack of Rheumatism and could not work with any satisfaction. My legs were swollen and I could not could scarcely walk. I wried many remedies but could get no relief. I was finally recommended to try S. S. S. and it soon cured me sound and well. I am now able to work. I never had any return of the trouble. JOSEPH FROME HAWLEY, Box 104. Aurora, Ill Sometimes ago I had Rheumatism and had to quit work. The pains in my back were so severe I could not rest or sleep. I tried everything but nothing did me any good till I heard of and took S. S. S. This cure cured me sound and badly purified my blood and made me feel like a new man. CONRAD LOHR, Anderson, Ind. 122 E. 19th St EX-PRESIDENT OF FRANCE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR CHURCH AND STATE DIVISION. Famous Cathedral of Notre Dame Center of Excitement—Great Crowds Assembled to Watch French Officials Take Inventories of Catholic Churches—Safes Blown Open. A Paris dispatch says: The famous cathedral of Notre Dame was the center of much excitement Saturday, which later took the form of a disorderly manifestation against former President Loubet. Crowds assembled in the Place Notre Dame, expecting the authorities to come and take an inventory of the chapter house, and a force of 150 policemen patrolled the surrounding streets expecting trouble within the edifice, but as the authorities did not attempt an inventory, this did not take place. The crowds outside gradually increased in numbers, however, and finally several hundred persons marched to the Rue Dante, where M. Loubet has taken up his residence. The manifestants passed before the house of the former president, uttering insulting cries against him. The police then drove off the crowd, which, however, reassembled and turned, only to be dispersed again. A slight affray took place between the police and the manifestants as the latter sought to return once more, and a dozen arrests were made. The explanation of the movement against M. Loubet is that the bill for separation of church and state became a law during his administration. Inventories were made at several Paris churches, though. At the aristocratic church of St. Thomas Aquinas, the prefect of police, with a strong body of men, had to force his way through a long passage into the sacristy, owing to the resistance made by a number of the parishioners. The priests then refused to hand over the keys and the prefect caused the safes to be broken open. An inventory of the property was then made. Ten arrests were made, General Recamier being among those taken into custody. ELEPHANTS RESCUE MAN. Big Brutes Are Used to Lift Streetcar Wreck. A New York dispatch says: When two trolley cars crashed together on Sixth avenue at Forty-second street, near the Hippodrome, they blocked the street and tangled up traffic. A press agent saw his golden opportunity and ordered his Hippodrome elephants to the rescue. Many persons were slightly bruised and cut by the flying glass, but all were extricated without much trouble from the wreckage except Hugh Klernan, who was held a prisoner under the trucks of two cars. At a word of command from the trainer the four big brutes bent down their heads, got their trunks under the wreckage and brought the trucks up about six inches and the man underneath was dragged out and hurried off to the hospital. His right leg was crushed. The elephants also moved the wrecked cars around out of the way so that street traffic could be resumed, and then walked in a single file back to the show house. KING EDWARD IS LAME. Hunting Accident Has Left Him a Cripple. A London dispatch says that it is impossible longer to publicly ignore the unsatisfactory condition of King Edward's health. His majesty's condition gives his medical advisers much anxiety. It is persistently asserted that he is suffering from an affection which entails, among other things, total abstinence from the use of tobacco. The king has aged rapidly in the last few months. The best information is to the effect that his majesty is suffering from phlebitis of the leg, following a hunting accident. The king is unable to walk even a few steps without a cane, and his general condition suffers from his long deprivation of exercise. Open Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation Congressman French of Idaho has introduced a bill in the house for an allotment of 80 acres to each member of the Coeur d'Alene Indian tribe and the opening of the residue of the reservation to settlement under the home-stead laws. The Coeur d'Alene reservation contains about 500,000 acres of land, much of which is among the richest land in the northwest. There are 250 adult and 250 minor members of the tribe, making a total of 500 who will receive allotments, aggregating 40,000 acres, leaving 460,000 acres to be opened to settlement. Three Texas Workmen Drown A special from El Paso, Texas, says: While fighting to keep back the flood waters of Lake Guzman, overflowed on account of the high water in the Casas Grandes river, the waters threatening the Sierra Madre railroad, three laborers were drowned. A big stretch of track is already washed out. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. Ask dealer or we send post paid at 10c a package. Write for free booklet, how to dye, bleach and mix colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri. MONTANA SQUIBBS William Bell, an old and well known resident of Hamilton, took his own life recently by shooting himself in the head with a 40-32 rifle. The man's face was blown completely off. An order which will we received with approval by the people of Cascade county, is one filed in the Great Falls land office, restoring to entry the desert land south of the Missouri, withdrawn October 8, 1902. The amount of land which is affected is well within the Great Falls land district and comprises 1,150,000 acres, of which it is estimated that over 200,000 acres have been taken up by the residents of Cascade county and about 1200 entries stood suspended during this time. Police Judge Charles Warren of Butte fined Dunc MacDonald, the well known athletic instructor, $25 for refereeing the Sullivan-Ketchell fight in Butte. Kid Ketchell was also fined $25, but Sullivan managed to evade the officers and thus far has escaped arrest, though the officers are on the lookout for him. A Chinese doctor known by the name of Charlie Can, and a pioneer resident of Butte, was found murdered in his home recently. He was supposed to be wealthy and robbery is alleged as the motive for the crime. A Chinaman has been arrested, but as yet there is little evidence to connect him with the crime. The line dividing Montana and Idaho, which is now being run by engineers, has so far been completed from Lolo pass to Regis pass. By this survey, it is figured, Idaho has gained 430 square miles of territory over that shown in the most accurate maps made. It is estimated that when the survey ae completed, Idaho may have gained enough territory to make a large county. Theatrical Notes. The opera season at Spokane closed last week with the remarkable record, according to Manager Ralph Edmunds, of having not varied $10 in receipts among the four performances. Mr. Edmunds gave the takings at each show as being over $3000—a total of $12,000. Miss Grace Van Studdiford is going into vaudeville. Miss Jeffreys Lewis and Miss Grayce Scott have been engaged for the company to support Mme. Bertha Kalich in a Zola play, which Harrison Grey Fiske has in preparation for her use. Henry W. Savage has secured the American rights of Puccini's opera, "Mme" Butterfly," and will produce it in this country next season. It is not true that the younger Irving is to undertake the characters that his father acted, except the double part of the brothers Franchi in a revival of "The Corsican Brothers" next spring in London. The Theater Francais in Paris has enough accepted plays in hand to provide it with new pieces for six years to come. Miss Ethel Barrymore will sail for London the first week in May. Thomas Jefferson, who is now resting at his winter home in Florida, will resume his tour in "Rip Van Winkle" in Minneapolis, March 4. Fear Plague at Capital. Washington.—Dr. Arthur C. Staley, physician at Garfield hospital and residing on exclusive Massachusetts avenue, has smallipox. As he attended a large clinic at the hospital a week ago fears of an epidemic are felt. Most alarming views with reference to relations between Germany and France reavil in certain diplomatic quarters of St. Petersburg, where the situation is considered to be exceedingly tense and a conflict no means unlikely. George Collins, the attorney at San Francisco, was found guilty of perjury. Collins was accused of having committed perjury in swearing that he had never marriedCharlotta Newman. Collins characterized the redict as an empty one and that he would appeal. The Gaekwar of Baroda, the Indian potentate who has been entertaining the prince and princess of Wales, possesses the most wonderful necklace in the world. It is a collar composed of five rows of one hundred diamonds each, the whole set between rows of emeralds. Some of the stones are as large as walnuts and all of them are of the greatest purity. Mrs. Francis Alexander of Florence, Italy, is one of the oldest women, if not the oldest, writing today. Mrs. Alexander is in her 93d year, and has just translated from the Italian more than 120 miracle stories and sacred legends. Manhattan, Nevada's latest gold mining camp, which is 82 miles from Tonopah, now has a newspaper, the Mall. W. F. Bond paid $40 for the first copy off the press. The eyes of the mining world are on Nevada now as they were a generation ago, when the famous Comstock lode made millionaires of the pioneers of the early days. In the United States are 350,000 acres of peanut land and 170,000 peanutters. Three hundred million pounds of peanuts, worth $11,000,000, are produced here every year. CONFERS 19 MITRES AT ROME. Pope Plus Creates French Bishops in Solemn State. Rome.—The consecration by Pope Pius of the 19 French bishops who were created last Wednesday took place at the Vatican Sunday with solemn ceremonial. Several thousand persons were present, most of them French. The new bishops dined later in the Borgia apartments with Cardinal Merry Del Val, papal secretary of state. Canadian Government Loss. The Canadian government sustained a loss of $1,000,000 by a fire which destroyed practically the entire plant at Monckton, N. B., of the Intercolonial railway. The financial loss is the greatest caused by fire in this province since the confagration which obliterated the business section of St. John in 1877. Lord Ashton is an immensely wealthy British peer, but his generosity is on a scale with his income. He has made his vast fortune out of the great carpet and linoleum works founded by his father in Lancashire. The town of Lancaster only last year accepted gifts from Lord Ashton to the amount of $560,000. His lordship has no son to inherit his wealth, which will probably go to his daughter, who is married to Hon. William Peel, eldest son of the ex-speaker, Viscount Peel. At her marriage Lord Ashton settled $150,000 a year on his daughter and $50,000 a year on her husband. Coal Strike Not Likely Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 26.—Vice President T. L. Lewis of the United Mineworkers of America declares that there will be no strike of the mine workers on April 1, saying that the operators will restore the reduction accepted by the miners two years ago and perhaps more. Jones—Got a match, Smith? Smith (insinuatingly)—Yes, but I have no cigar. Jones—Then you won't need the match, will you? Yet's have it.—Cleveland Leader. HOWARD E. BURTON, Assaver and Chemist. Specimen prices—Gold, Silver and Lead, $1; Gold and Silver, 75c; Zinc and Copper, $1; Cyanide test. Mailing envelopes and Umpire work solicited. Leadville, Colorado Reference, Carbonate National Bank. "Erin-go-Braugh" was stamped on a cap purchased by a patriotic member of the Clonmel (Tipperary) Industrial association. He was surprised on examining the cap to find that it had been made in Japan. The speed of the electric current in copper wire is 463,500,000 meters a second. The fastest ocean steamer makes only 9.8 meters a second. and saves time, money and gets out of misery quickly. It Acts Like Magic. Price, 25c. and 50c. The Little Doctor in your Vest Pocket SEE the thin, round-cornered little Enamel Box below! When carried in your vest pocket it means Health-insurance. It contains Six Candy Tablets of pleasant taste, almost as pleasant as chocolate. Each tablet is a working dose of Cascarets, which acts like Exercise on the Bowels and Liver. Cassandra THE ONLY CANDY CATMARCIC IN THE WORLD Cure Constipation Pain to Cure Preparatory Histling Remedy Showing size of "Vest Pocket" Cascaret Box compared to Watch. It will not purge, sicken, nor upset the stomach. Because it is not a "Bile-driver," like Salts, Sodium, Calomel, Jalap, Senna, nor Aperient Waters. the food stopped up in them at that particular time. These emergency drugs relieve the immediate trouble, but do not relieve its Cause. The same trouble will therefore recur again till that Cause is removed permanently. The chief cause of Constipation and Indigestion is a weakness of the Muscles that contract the Intestines and Bowels. Carcarets are practically to the Bowel Muscles what a Massage and Cold Bath are to the Athletic Muscles. These waste Digestive Juices of the system needed tomorrow, in merely flushing out the Bowels today. * * * Neither is it like Castor Oil, Glycerine, or other Oily Laxatives that simply lubricate the Intestines for transit of OREGON ITEMS. Pendleton wool sales day is set for May 28, and from indications a large percentage of woolgrowers of the county will hold their clips for that occasion. Mrs. H. E. Stevens, wife of the manager of the Echo Lumber company, who was accidentally shot by a 22 caliber rifle in the hands of her son recently, is dead as a result of the wound. The son is nearly distracted with grief over the unfortunate affair. D. C. (Tatto) Kelly, convicted of the murder of Thomas Flemmings in a holdup of a Portland barroom last December, today was sentenced to life imprisonment. His accomplice, Hiney Rassman, who turned state's evidence, is still confined in the county jail. It is now believed he will be brought to trial. Bomba Kill Odessa Police. A special from Odessa, Russia says: Sunday afternoon the police raided the residence of three anarchists, who in turn threw bombs, which exploded, killing a police commissary and the janitor of the building and his wife. Thereupon the Cossacks were summoned and bombarded the house, killing all three of the anarchists. The ancient Romans were great oyster epicures. They ate the bivalves in immense numbers, and experts were able to tell with eyes closed just what coast they came from. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets, draggins refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. "Well, I never had such a slow time in my life as I had last night." "Why, I heard you were playing poker." "So I was; with my wife, your wife and my sister, not in earnest, but just for fun."—Philadelphia Press. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES, teething, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles, Druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. 60c. The golden crested wren is the smallest not only of British, but of all European birds. Its average weight is only about 80 grains troy, so that it would take 72 of the birds to weigh a pound. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during teething period. The mercantile firms of C. J. Johns of Sumpter and Guy Lindsay at Granite have been consolidated. Sir Oliver Lodge, whose name is famous in connection with psychical research, was put into business at the age of 14. They stimulate the Bowel Muscles to contract, expand, and squeeze the Digestive Juices out of food eaten. Cascarets do this naturally, without purging or discomfort. They don't help the Bowels and Liver in such a way as to make them lean upon similar assistance for the future. This is why, with Cascarets, the dose may be lessened each succeeding time instead of increased, as it must be with all succeeding doses of other Cathartics and Laxatives. Cascarets act like exercise. If carried in your Vest Pocket, (or carried in My Lady's Purse), and eaten just when you suspect you need one, you will never know a sick day from the ordinary ills of life. * * * Because, nearly all these ills begin in the Bowels, and partial Constipation paves the way for all other Diseases. "Vest Pocket" box 10 cents. Be sure you get the genuine, made only by the Sterling Remedy Company, and never sold in bulk. Every tablet stamped "CCC." ```markdown ``` FREE TO OUR FRIENDS! We want to send to our friends a beautiful French-designed GOLD-PLATED BONNON BOX hard-enameled in colors. It is a beauty for the dressing table. Ten cents in stamps is asked as a card with which to send and to cover cost of Cascarets with which this darling box is loaded. Send to-day, mentioning this page. Add Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. In another column of paper will be found the call of the Republican City Central Committee primaries to elect delegates to the city convention which will nominate a city ticket for the April election. It behooves every republican to turn out to the primaries and caucuses to the end their shallbe nocomplaint as to boss, ring rule etc. And we know from personal experience the only and surest way to get representation is to be present at all the primaries as well as the general election. Reuben M. Baker, an old Helena boy, is at present our "devil," but hopes soon to be a full fledged printer. The work on this week's paper has been very much retarded by the illness of the editor who has a well developed seige of tonsolitis. Ed Johnson aside from his regular duties at the Record office, is about the whole thing in the stereotypug room this week. J. H. Hall, formerly Q. M. Sergt. of Co. M. 24th Infantry, is spending a few days in the city this week. On account of the illness of our ad., man this week, the advertisers of the city were overlooked, consequently our space goes begging this week. But, look out for the future as he will always be at the services of the advertisers. Mr. Harry Cooley arrived in the city Friday from Denver Colo. Clover Smith, the undisputed champion colored pool player of the North west challenges any player in the city and he deposits one hundred dollars as a guarantee of good faith. A Have your Suit Sponged,Pressed and your Shoes Shined every Day F $3.00 Per Month. No Extra Charge for Calling and Delivery. 'Phone Lloyd's, 410. Under Nat. Bank of Montana. Lloyd V. Graye, Prop., Henry Saulsbury, Mgr. Afro-American Employment Company, J. B. Bass, Pres. D. H. Harris, Vice Pres. J. H. Tucker, Sekretary We will furnish First Glass AfroAmerican Mechanics, Domestcs and Laborers in the states of Idaho, Washington, Montana, Nevada and Oregon without Charge. 21 S. Main Street, Helena, Mont. 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