Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Who Owns The Plaindealer. the mooted question with some the knockers and wiseacres am, after they saw that the plishment of one more enter by which the colored people old accrue the credit, we preed would be as to how long we old live, but we now understand they have sprung entirely a intact,—"And that is as to who is THE PLAINDEALER. Now, while we do not think this old concern the average mem of our race so long as they are organ through which their of the questions which freely arise can be put before public. order that these investigators know the details, we affirm the name that appears at the end of this paper is the soleer, manager, and absolutely in way is responsible for the TANA PLAINDEALER. In the first place the parties who are circulating this petition or paper, or attempting to do so are bringing on themselves only ridicule and contempt. As we understand it Graye is no applicant for society or political honors nor does he aspire to leadership. He does not attempt to mingle outside of his sphere. He caters to all the trade he can command in his line of business. He is a resident, and part and parcel of Clore St. He has chosen that line of business, and attends to the same. We can conceive of no circumstance whereby we would enter such business, and we know that Mr. Graye's advice to all young men looking up a business opening is go into something else than the saloon business. So be that as it may, Mr. Graye is a resident of Helena, a real estate holder, and pays a revenue into the county and city treasury of Helena which gives him a standing among the business element, and that should be a source of pride to all race men. And the only source of regret should be that we have not got more men in the various lines of business than Mr. Graye and Mr. Dorsey. If we cannot help a man in the line of business of Mr. Graye, we can stand off and say: "I admire the hustling qualities of the man, and wish him well." We know of our own personal knowledge and experience Mr. Graye's devotion and zeal for his race, and the same commends him to us more than any other quality. We do not know of a race cause that ever appealed to him for assistance in vain. In starting this publication he has been one of our best customers, having taken more advertising space than any other firm. Aside from the great number of colored men he gives employment at his place on Clore St., he maintains the finest shining parlor, tailor and barber shop in the city where every man regardless of color, race or previous condition of servitude may be served. What the race needs in all parts of this country instead of censuring someone who is doing something, is more men like him. It was reported to President Lincoln once by some of the Generals who disliked and envied General Grant, that Grant should be dismissed from the army; when asked by Mr. Lincoln what for, they said that Grant drank whiskey and got drunk. Lincoln answered these envious generals by asking them what brand of whiskey it was that Grant used, and on being told, he recommended that all the generals procure some of that whiskey and get drunk on it and maybe they could win some pattles as Grant had done. So we say to the ones who are circulating a petition against Mr. Graye, you should petition for about a dozen more Grayes in this community, and you will see the stock of the race to which we belong rise 100 points in the business world. St. James church sewing circle met Thursday at the residence of Mrs. H. J. Baker, 818 Breckenridge street. After the regular routine of business of the cirle the following menu was served: Potatoe salad, Cold pork, Dill pickles, Boiled eggs, Hot biscuit, Coffee and cream, Raspberries and cake. The following were present: Mesdames Bramwell, Harrison, H. Meeks, C. J. Johnson, Ford, B. F. Harper, L. Napper, Cole. Rev. and Mrs. Allen, Miss Minnie Johnson, J. R. Johnson. The next meeting will be held next Thursday at the parsonage. Helena, Montana, Friday, March 23, 1906. Race News. 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 women who wish to improve their opportunities. 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 interpreted. The schools are mixed, the laws are administered according to justice, and seldom, if ever, do the people judge by the color when it comes to business. Take advantage of the opportunity and scatter over the great Northwest.—Topeka Plaindealer. The above applies to Montana also and all information desired can be secured by addressing The Montana Plaindealer, 21 S. Main Street, Helena, Mont. H. T. Calloway, of New Orleans, has established a mail order tailoring business in Chicago, with offices for gentlemen and ladies, and is doing a large business in South and Southwest, giving employment to 16 Afro-American traveling men. He ships over 5,000 suits a year. Thomas J. Emery in his $50,000 charitable gifts to the Cincinnati fresh air fund bequests $4,000 to the colored orphans of Vondale, and to archbishop of Ohio in aid of any Catholic institution for the care of the aged and children, provided none are excluded on account of creed or color, $5,000. The supreme court has received instruction to prepare the necessary papers for an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States in the Bud Cartwright case from Coffeyville, Kas. Cartwright, a colored man,brought mandamus proceedings to compel the board of education to allow his daughter to attend school with white children. The Court de cided in favor of Cartwright. The appeal to the Supreme Court will tie the thing up long enough for the next legislature to pass a law similar to the Kansas City separate high school law, which has been held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court. It is rather a peculiar circumstance that both of the decisions of the Kansas supreme court on the question of separate schools for whites and negroes will go to the U. S. su preme court. In the Kansas City case, the right of the board of education to proceed under a state law and provide a separate school for colored children was sustained; in the Coffeyville case, the right of the board to provide seperate schools without such a law was denied. Both cases are to be appealed. Last Friday night Prof. W. R. Richards conducted an enormous mass meeting of the people of District of Columbia to protest the suffrage conditions in the South. The Denver mint has seven colored people employed out of about 125. A bill was offered last week in Mississippi to legalize lynching. The Postal Telegraph and Western Union Pull Together. The dissension among our people over things of a trivial nature are the shoals over which our hopes and ambitions for the race founder. Suppose we all do our part toward discouraging this spirit, and it will be seen how quickly our stock will begin to rise. Instead of belittling the efforts of our fellowmen to rise, lets do something ourselves, and when we can get more of the race to undertake business efforts the better it will be for the entire race. If we have an organization amongst us which we feel as though we cannot endorse, lets not fight that organization, but rather build up another, and constantly do all the good you can. You cannot build a race or a people by knocking. Let's get together. To do so, we of necessity must lay aside envy, hate, ignorance and superstition. We believe strictly in the proverb: "If you cannot say anything good of a person do not say anything." We also commend the following: "If you speak well of a person speak it to others; if you have anything against a person speak it to him." The Republicans Nominate Strong Municipal Ticket. Mayor, F. S. P. Lindsay, Treasurer, J. D. Gorkey, Police Judge, Chas. Horn. The above ticket was unanimously nominated at the Auditorium last night by the Republican City Convention. It was a harmonious gathering of republicans who came together for the purpose of naming a ticket with which to march to certain victory on April 3d. There we several colored delegates to the convention W. R. Dorsey elected from the Seventh Ward, and Edward Johnson elected from the first ward. David Gordon who was elected as an alternate from the Second Ward was made a delegate at the Convention, also L. V. Graye, who was an alternate from the Third Ward by reason of his delegate not being present made a delegate. Everything was, it seems, agreed to beforehand and of course the boys had nothing to do but look wise and vote. Mr. Dorsey nominated the chair man of the convention. The Independent did not say in its report of the meeting who nominated him. In our next issue we shall give an exhaustive resume of the candidates, and the concensus of opinion of the coloerd votes. We never expect to abuse anyone through these columns, but we expect at every opportunity to snatch off of the wolf's face the sheep's mask, and show those who so parade in their true colors. There never was a truer adage than: "A dog that will bring a bone will take one away." GRANT COMMENTS IRELAND. In Archbishop John Ireland's speech of February 22, Kansas City, Mo., to an audience of ten thousand, among other things he said: BE JUST TO THE NEGRO. "The Negro we have and must keep. Let it never be forgotten that the Negro did not come hither of his own accord. Our own forefathers constrained him to emigrate from his African haunts to be their servant, their slave. Let it not be forgotten that the long servitude to which they had subjected him prevented him from growing in civilization, and aimed rather at reducing him to the low stages of animal life than uplifting him to the higher regions of spiritual thought and activity. Whatever difficulties there are in the Negro problem, we must say in all humility that they are of our own making. This is sufficient reason why we should bring to the solution of the problem good will and patience. The progress made by the Negro since their emancipation, forty years ago, is the happiest of omens and indicates that years will prove them to be fully worthy of our confidence and esteem. Let us be just to the Negro, according to him willingly the rights which the law guarantees to him, opening to him the avenues of industry and thrift, affording him all due facilities of education and self-uplifting; let the Negro, on his part, make allowance for the conditions of the present, unavoidable legacies of the past, and trust in the future, meanwhile so upbuilding himself in self-control, in culture of mind and heart, in social independence that his fellow citizens must hold him in esteem—and the problem will have lost the asperities now seemingly in the way of final solution. "Human society, under every form of government, is entering on a period of intense unrest in its search for solutions to those economic problems which are called forth by the spread of education and the material and industrial progress of modern times. The liberty of discussion which our institutions allow, and the fact that the populations of the world are parts of our own, warn us that the agitation of these problems will be especially acute in these United States." BISHOP AND HIS REPLY. Most Rev. John Ireland, D. D., Archbishop, St. Paul, Minn.: My Dear Sir: It was my pleasure to listen to that magnificent address delivered by you at Convention hall, February 22, Kansas City, Mo., and I cannot refrain from expressing to you my gratitude for the same. It seemed to me that the address covered every phase of American life, truly patriotic, a plea for justice, honesty, civic righteousness and the liberty to which all people under the American flag are entitled. When such men as Rev. Thomas Dixon, Governor Vardman, of Mississippi; Governor Davis, of Arkansas, and Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, are making strenuous efforts to convince the world of the unworthiness of the Negro and his inability to accept and appreciate a higher civilization, your plea to an audience of ten thousand for justice and fair treatment to him, came to my ear as a cooling spring to a thirsty soul. We have been waiting patiently for some time for one of the great men of our country, with national influence, to rise in the majesty of his manhood in the defense of a helpless people and simply state the facts with reference to this contingent of Americans, give counsel and advice and throws a new lustre upon the star of hope held out by President Roosevelt. Eternity alone will make known the good you are doing along the lines above indicated, and on behalf of a grateful people I thank you. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 26. Right Rev. Dear Sir: I am glad that you were pleased with my lecture in Kansas City and I thank you for your kind expressions of approval. In what I said of the Negro problem I simply spoke what my sense of justice demands and what my heart certainly desires. I believe that the solution of the Negro problem lies along the lines indicated by me—charity and patience both on the part of the white man and on the part of the black man. Men in influential positions, such as you, can do very much towards the solution by upbuilding the Negro race and calming the prejudices of the white race. Yours sincerely, WOMEN REQUIRED TO HUG AND KISS THEIR PASTOR. New Religion Calls for Osculation of Men—Husbands up in Arms Against it. ATLANTA, March 3. On the complaint of several husbands who thought he was too demonstrative as "Apostle" of the new religion, Church of God, Saints of Christ, Alexander Dawson, who hails from the West Indies, has been arrested. One of the requirements of this latest religion among the negroes is that all female communicants must hug and kiss the pastor and elders of the church. Dawson came to Atlanta about one year ago from Washington, D. C., where lives the "great prophet" of the new religion. Dawson tells his followers' that the "great prophet" is the appointed of God. One of the requirements of the church is that each member shall contribute 10 per cent. of his or her earnings every week for the support of the "great prophet." The church also observes Saturday as the Lord's Day. The kissing feature of the religion has caused considerable consternation among the negroes. All male members of the congregation are entitled to receive a kiss and hug from the female members, but they must seek them out, while the pastor stands in one corner of the church and receives the embraces of the faithful. The above article is no new sensation, as we know of the same creed and sect in Kansas and other Western States which preach the above doctrine, only they are white leaders whose followers are both white and colored, and the sisters became so color blind that they chose only the colored brothers, and even these sainted followers of Christ would not stand for this, and in many places they have ceased to do business, and no longer call the colored man brother. The Mentzel Murder Case. The entire week in the District Court has been taken up with the Nora Mentzel murder trial. The trial itself has been very sensational. In the first place the strong defense that was produced came like a thunder bolt from a clear sky to the prosecution, and the great machinery of the state was put in motion to rebut and break down this defense and County Attorney Lacroix has had a strenuous life ever since Attorney Odell McConnell made his opening address to the jury. Ugly charges of perjury on the part of L. L. Grisson and Clover Smith, alias Bad Boy, have been made and warrants issued for their arrest. The trial itself will close with the closing address to the jury which is being made by County Att'y Lacroix, as we go to press. Mr. Spaulding opened the augment for the defense, his summing up of the case was a clear and concise analysis of the evidence and theory of the defense. Mr. McConnell's address closing the argument on the part of the defense, was a masterly piece of eloquence and at the conclusion of his appeal for his client there was scarcely a dry eye in the court room. The fate of the defendant is now in the hands of the jury. She has been most ably defended and it is for the jury to decide as to the evidence which they learned from the witnesses and the law as given to the court as to whether Nora Mentzel is guilty or Innocent. We note in the Topeka Plain-dealer a wail from one of the delegates as to why Topeka did not get the 1906 meeting of the Colored Business Men's League. And it is the same old hard luck tale, perhaps if the Colored Business Men's representative of Topeka had patronized his own printing establishment, and their own genius in the various lines their matter would have reached them in New York more promptly. Camp Bird Mining Company Mill Des- trroyed and Loss Will Be Over $500, 000—Tao Men Injured and Second Slide Occurred in Evening, Making a Clean Sweep. Pueblo, Col., March 19—A special to the Chieftain from Ouray says: A snowslide at 1 o'clock Sunday morning killed one man, injured two and damaged property belonging to the Camp Bird Mining company to the extent of $500,000. William Cressey was caught in the slide and instantly killed, and William Albright and a man by the name of Stickney were injured, but not seriously. The Camp Bird mill, which had recently been installed at a cost of over $400,000; the reading room of the mill and 14 strands of tramway were carried down with the slide. In the evening a second snowslide occurred, which carried away the angle station, the shed building of the Camp Bird dump, the blacksmith shop, storeroom where all the provisions were kept and two miles of the camp Bird tram. The destruction of the provision house cuts off the food supply. The 250 men employed in the mine, fearing other slides might come, have taken refuge in the tunnel. Preparations are being made to rescue the men or get provisions to them before the snow makes it impossible to reach them. In addition to those mentioned above, slides have run among the mountains around Ouray. The lines of communication have been interrupted to the following mines: The Bankers' National, employing 80 men; the Revenue, employing 200 men; the Atlas, employing 16 men; the Camp Bird, employing 250 men; and the San Pedro, employing 160 men. During the afternoon a slide tools out the power line of the Animas Mining company Later a second slide took three quarters of a mile of the Telluride power plant, which furnishes power to the Revenue, San Pedro and Atlas mines The Camp Bird clubhouse was one of the finest ever built for a similar purpose. Camp Bird is the mine sold by Thomas Walsh, the millionaire mine owner, several years ago, to an English company. Later Report. Six hundred miners employed in the various mines within a radius of 20 miles from Ouray have been cut off from all communication with the outside, and it is known that some lives have been lost. As many as 25 mines are completely isolated. The body of William J. Cressey, the Englishman who lost his life in the slide at the Camp Bird mill, has been recovered. It is feared that as many as 20 men have lost their lives in the slide, but the exact number will not be known for days. The damage may reach $1,-000,000. It is said there is 60 feet of snow at the high tower of the tramway of the Camp Bird, and the snow is deep all along the route of the tramway. In the Imogene basin the snow is 150 to 300 feet deep. This will prevent work on the reconstruction of the tramway for several weeks. Machinery for rebuilding the mill and materials for the buildings can not be taken up during the present condition of the road. Latest Report. Denver, Col., March 20. -By the loss of 12 lives in a snow slide near Silverton, the death list resulting from the great storm of last week in the San Juan mining district has been increased to at least 15. At Silverton, at the camp Bird mine, a few miles from Ourray, and at coal Basin, on the western slope, hunders of miners, their wives and their children are facing starvation. Mills and other mining property estimated to be worth $1,000,000, have been swept to destruction in deep gulches. Cattle on a thousand hills are reduced to skin and bones. Railroad traffic is paralyzed and telephonic and telegraphic communication is interrupted over at least half the state. For Jap Sufferers. The state department has received from the Christian Herald, through the Red Cross, and forwarded to the American embassy at Tokio, $50,000 for the relief of Japanese famine sufferers. This is a total of $80,000 which the Christian Herald has forwarded to the department for this purpose. Expels Royal Arcanum Man. Rome, N. Y.—Frank Z. Wilcox, a member of the Royal Arcanum, and leader of the opposition to the increase of rates, has been found guilty of charges of alleged improper conduct, and has been expelled from the order. Haverhill, Mass., March 20. — Fire in the Haverhill Manual Training school and high schools' annex imperiled more than 150 boys and girls, but ainly because of the coolness and generalship of the teachers no lives were lost. Muggins—What did you lose in the poker game last night? Buggins—Three dollars and five friends—Philadelphia Record. FEDERATIONISTS GET SYMPATHY Labor Men of Three Cities Have Faith in Idaho Suspects. Resolutions condemning the methods of the prosecution of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, and of the governor of Idaho for alleged conspiracy to deprive the defendants of their constitutional rights, were adopted at two largely attended meetings held in Salt Lake last Sunday. The socialists of St. Louis held a meeting and were addressed by A. M. Simmons and L. Beckon of Chicago on the subject of the Colorado miners' situation. A resolution was adopted as follows: "We pledge our moral and financial support to our persecuted brothers in the Rocky mountains, and that we shall do all in our power to insure them a fair trial, so that they may prove their innocence and show to the world that the source of crime is to be found in the general offices of the corporation of Colorado." A collection was taken up at the close of the meeting to be forwarded to Colorado. At a mass meeting of working men of Washington, at which most of the unions were represented resolutions were adopted protesting against the unwarranted arrest" of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone of the Western Federation of Miners in Idaho. The resolutions assert the conspiracy charge against the men as 'trumped up.' LATE NEWS ITEMS Henry Hendy and Andrew Westerhall, employees of the Minnie Moore mine at Bellevue, Idaho, were killed recently by a cavein and Henry Westerhall seriously injured. John Peterson, custodian of the John O'Brien Lumber mill payroll, who was held up recently near Somers, Mont., has been lodged in jail on account of suspicious circumstances. The theory is that he stood in with the play. Former congressman S. C. Hyde of Spokane will surrender his position as superintendent of the Washington state soldiers' home at Orting on April 1. His successor will be W. L. Ames of Seattle. All of the packers who were indicted by the federal gandr jury last summer at Chicago upon charges of being in conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce have been granted immunity from criminal prosecution under the indictment. While the individuals are to go free, the indictments found against the corporations, of which some of the indicted individuals are members and others are employees, are to stand. A decision to the above effect has been handed down by Judge J. O. Humphrey in the Illinois district court. A savage attempt was made last Wednesday upon the life of Sheriff Sutherland at Wallace, Idaho, by William Hanna, whom the officer had called to serve a writ for the restitution of the property occupied by him. As a result of the fierce encounter the Sheriff is wearing bandages on his neck and on his hands, the neck wound being caused by a bullet from Hanna's .38 caliber revolver. He is not seriously hurt. The people of Chicago were much agitated the other day by a London cable announcing that railroads in England would put on smoking cars for women. Club women as a rule became purple as they considered the preposterous proposition and declined to take it seriously. They all agree that no American women would dare smoke in public. "Billy" Bliston, of Dillon, Mont., committed suicide recently by submerging his head in a basin full of water and holding it there until life was extinct. The body was found with the right hand tightly gripping the edge of the basin, slightly tilting the bowl so as to completely cover the face with water. Apparently the deceased had not made a move after placing his head in the water. ROBBERS STOLE NEARLY $500,000 Moscow, Russia, March 22. — The Credit Mutual, one of the largest banks in Moscow, was mysteriously robbed by masked men at dusk, the robbers securing $432,500. It was an unusually daring job. The facts already developed raise the question whether the robbery was committed by or under the direction of some one at present or previously employed in the institution. ALL TO SUFFRAGIST CAUSE Estate of Susan B. Anthony is Worth $10,000. Rochester.—The will of Susan B. Anthony was offered for probate Saturday. The estate amounts to $10,000, all of which is left to the woman suffrage cause. Rev. Dr. Anna Shaw, of Philadelphia, and Lucy E. Anthony, of Philadelphia, and Mary S. Anthony, of this city are named as the trustees. The Anthony homestead is in Mary Anthony's name. By the terms of the will Mary Anthony will not receive anything from her sister's estate. Modern Young Lochinvars A special from Morenci, Arizona, states that at a ball, given by the Azurites, a prominent social organization, three masked men entered the ballroom and kidnapped a young lady and "shot up" the dance hall. When pursued by a posse, the desperadoes dropped the young lady and escaped into the hills. Girls who wear out their beaux are never short of ribbons. NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. A Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. Speaker Cannon Saturday gave a company. Ann Arbor.—Prof. A. P. Pattengill of the University of Michigan, is dead. Starvation has forced blacks in the northeastern Australian gold fields to cannibalism. The average low temperature for Nebraska Saturday night was seven degrees below zero. Plague is prevalent at Noumea, French New Caledonia. A number of deaths have occurred. The Dresses Machine Tool company's plant of Cincinnati, burned recently. Loss $100,000. Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of the treasury, has decided to resign as president of the United States Trust Martha Wolfenstein, authoress, the daughter of Dr. S. Wolfenstein, died recently at the home of her father in Cleveland. Dr. Y. G. Allen, 46 years old, a missionary to China, called upon the president recently and urged relaxation of the exclusion law. Uniontown, Pa.—Mrs. Mary McKittrick, believed to be the oldest person in western Pennsylvania, Saturday celebrated her 108th birthday. dinner to the Gridiron club, the famous organization of Washington correspondents, whose guest he had been on many occasions during the past 22 years. St. Petersburg—There is already evidence that only a check and not a defeat has been administered to the reactionists who are conducting the anti-semitic agitation. Non-negotiable bonds and mortgage notes worth $30,000 were stolen recently by robbers, who blew open the safe, in the office of Frank Troost, a monument maker of Chicago. Professor H. W. Smith of the English department of the Spokane high school has resigned his position and has gone to Butte, where he has been elected to the principalship of a grammar school. One man was killed and three others were injured, one of them perhaps fatally, during a fight in the saloon of Henry Dusing at Lakeview, near Chicago. The dead man is William Curry. No matter what the results of the troubles in Russia—no matter whether the first experiment into the realms of a parliamentary government is or is not a success, the czar himself is ageing rapidly. The United Mine Workers' convention this morning voted $5000 and as much more as necessary to defend the western miners arrested and charged with the murder of ex-Governor Steuenberg of Idaho. Berlin.—The police have just discovered that a married couple by the name of Schmolz, living at Gelsenkirchen, have since their marriage, in 1897, killed seven out of the eight children born to them. Charles M. Travers and O. C. Lillie pleaded guilty to misapplication of the funds of the First National bank of Conneaut, Ohio, and were sentenced to six years imprisonment. The bank failed as a result of their crimes. The finding of the Canadian commissioners who investigated the Valencia disaster is ready and will be presented during this week. It is stated to find the wreck due to error of judgment on the part of Captain Johnson. The president has announced the reappointment of Rear Admiral Endicott, chief of the bureau of docks and yards in the navy department. Admiral Endicott will continue as a member of the isthman canal commission. He will be placed on the retired list next November. Columbus.—The American Express company has brought suit against G. E. Fletcher, who is serving a six years sentence in the state prison for arson, for $4,311. It is charged that Letcher was the agent of the company at Fayette, Ohio, 20 years ago, and burned the office. Judge Dillon of Columbus, Ohio, has sentenced Frankie McHugh, formerly featherweight champion of Ohio, to four years in the penitentiary for knocking down W. A. Watkins' of Pittsburgh in the street and robbing him of $1300. McHugh was assisted by four other men, who received like sentences. Burglars recently committed a daring crime at Longbeach, Cal., money and drafts to the amount of $3000 being stolen from a room in the Park hotel. Only a few minutes elapsed before the robbery was discovered, but the thief had made good his escape. The money and the drafts were the property of Mrs. M. King, of Montana Confirmed Ethel Roosevelt. President Roosevelt's second daughter, Miss Ethel; Secretary Taft* daughter, Miss Helen, and a daughter of General A. W. Greely of the army were among a class of 25 young people confirmed at St. John Episcopal church Sunday afternoon at Washington. To Cremate Most's Body: Cincinnati.-The body of Herr Johann Most, the aarchist, will be cremated here. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Robert E. Strahorn, promoter of the North Coast railway, has arranged to purchase the right of way, the grade and the equipment of the Spokane-Columbia River and Navigation company for $80,000, so it was authoritatively declare Monday. The Spokane-Columbia River road planned to build a line from Ringold bar on the Columbia river through Connell and Berry City to Spokane. Representative Jones of the state of Washington has introduced a bill empowering the reclamation service to condemn, if necessary, certain lands in Okanogan county, Washington, for a reservoir site in connection with the Okanogan irrigation project. Representative French of Idaho has introduced a bill authorizing the Milwaukee railway to construct a bridge across the Snake river at Lewiston. Judge Fookes at Felix Swan's ranch, three miles across the river from Prosser, Wash., was accidently shot in the knee by a shotgun in the hands of Stewart Seals. He died from the shock a few hours later. Mr. Fookes was 27 years old. Advices from Taihoku (capital of Formosa) state that the earthquake on that island was more serious than at first supposed. In the prefecture of Kagi alone 1400 houses were completely destroyed, 1014 persons being killed and 695 injured. That high prices for meat in Germany have driven some of the kaiser's ppeople to eating dogs and cats as well enormous quantities of horse flesh is the startling revelation of Prussia slaughter house statistics recently published. Last year 97,000 horses and 1072 dogs were butchered for consumption. The Cuban presidential electors formally met last Monday and nanimously elected Tomas Estrada Palma president of the republic. SIMPKINS CAUGHT DOWN IN ARIZONA SIMPKINS CAUGHT DOWN IN ARIZONA Bisbee, Ariz., March 21.—L. J. Simpkins, arrested at Naco on information received from the detective agency for complicity in the murder of former Governor Frank J. Steuenberg of Idaho, has broke down and confessed he was in Caldwell at the tme, but denies any complicity. Simpkins was a member of the executive committee of the Western Federation of Miners. Charles Commersford, arrested here a few days ago for holding up a saloon, confessed that he was in the gang, and that Simpkins was also. Commersford went insane yesterday and tried to commit suicide, stating he would hang for the murder of Steuenberg if Simpkins was caught. During the agitation here a week ago, when the camp was in in uproar over the union, Commersford had a conference with Clark of the Western Federation of Miners, and together they sent the man believed to be Simpkins over the line into Mexico. Simpkins tallies exactly with description given by the detective agency. There is no question among the officers but Simpkins is the right man. Commersford arrived here from Cripple Creek two months ago. Governor Gooding of Idaho has increased to $2000 the amount of the reward for the arrest of L. J. Simpkins Later Report. The prisoner supposed to be Simpkins was taken to Tombstone, Ariz. The officers think the prisoner is not Simpkins, but believe he is wanted in connection with the dynamiting of the Independencece depot at Victor, Col. The man under arrest gives his name Tom Mower. Rockefeller Located John D. Rockefeller, for four months a fugitive from process servers, has been located in his home at Lakewood, N. J. He was in conference today with his personal counsel, S. C. T. Dodd, former general counsel for the Standard Oil Company. Dodd came to Lakewood yesterday and at once went to the Rockefeller house. He spent the afternoon there and was again in consultation with Mr. Rockefeller today. It is understood the conference referred to the hearing in the suits brought against the Standard Oil company by the state of Missouri, which will be resumed in five days. Mr. Rockefeller is practically a prisoner in his home. His estate is patrolled night and day by armed guards, who have orders to shoot any one found on the grounds after dark. Searchlights mounted on a tower sweep the place all night. One reason assigned for such extraordinary precautions is that the richest man in the world is in constant dread of kidnapers; he fears he will be taken captive for ransom. Mr. Rockefeller has resigned his office as trustee in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church. The reason given is poor health. Found Dead in Bed. Kansas City.—William B. Ryder, active in Missouri politics since the Civil war, was found dead in a rooming house in Walnut street here. He had been ill for many years. When found he evidently had been dead for several hours. The body at first was identified. Ryder was the author of the Missouri law imposing tax on beer and had declared he was the original expounder of the eight hour law. Welcome Snow in Kansas. Topeka, Kan., March 20.—The storm in Kansas Sunday has been general throughout the state, the depth of snow fall varying from four to six inches. RESULT OF TERRIBLE WRECK NEAR PUEBLO, COLORADO. Employee forgot to deliver an order and two passenger trains came together during a blinding storm—Wrecked trains soon was ablaze and passengers burned alive. In a blinding storm which made it almost impossible for the trainmen to see ahead, two passenger trains collided headon at a point on the Denver & Rio Grande road midway between Portland and Adobe, 25 miles west of Pueblo, Friday morning. Immediately following the collision several of the cars burst into flames and were consumed, a number of the passengers burned to death. Over 30 others were injured, but of these none were fatally hurt. The wreck was accompanied with horrors exceeded only by the Eden disaster, which occurred August 7, 1904, on the line of the same railroad. The trains were the Utah-California express No. 3, westbound from Denver, and the Colorado-New Mexico express No. 16, eastbound from Leadville and Grand Junction. They met on a sharp curve. They were less than 200 yards apart when the engineers discovered that a collision was imminent. The cause of the wreck is attributed to the failure of an employee to deliver an order which changed the meeting place of the two trains. While the exact number of lives lost in the Adobe wreck will never be known, it will undoubtedly take rank among the great disasters in the history of railroading. In other wrecks there has been greater loss of life, but none has been productive of greater horrors. Conservative estimates on the loss of life place the number of dead at 36. Seventeen charred, mangled and unrecognizable bodies lie in the Pueblo morgue, two others are in the morgue at Florence, several other persons are known to be dead and possibly a score of bodies were burned to ashes. There was not a single entire body recovered from the wreckage, with the exception of the enginemen, who, although horribly mangled, had not been reached by the fierce flames which swept through the wreckage. Bits of charred flesh and piles of bones were all that indicated that a holocaust had occurred, but trained eyes picked out the pelvic bones from the charred masses, and from these it was seen that, so far as the search had progressed, no less than 36 human beings had perished. List of Dead. Following is a partial list of those who perished in the wreck: William Hollis, engineer No. 16, Pueblo. Walter Coslett, engineer No. 3, Pueblo. H. D. Sudduth, fireman No. 16, Pueblo. Edward E. Baird, deputy sheriff, Denver. Archibald Whitney, prisoner, on the way to the penitentiary at Canon City, in charge of Baird, Denver. Mrs. William Burnside, daughter and daughter's child, all of Kansas, town not learned. A. N. Barklo, Salida. Aeneas McPharland, express messenger, Denver. Taylor Hewitt, Lebo, Kan. Mrs. Lillian, Lebo, Kan. Pearl Hewitt, 15 years of age, Lebo, Kan. Mrs. Catherine Hewitt and baby boy, Lebo, Kan. Mrs. Winona Hewitt, Lebo, Kan. Ed Cowley, Lebo, Kan. Fred ones, Lebo, Kan. Mrs. Ed Cowley, Lebo, Kan. Fred Cooley, Denver. Patrick Murphy, Florence, Col. Ray Field, aged 10, Keystone, Wyo. Mrs. Belle Webb, Keystone, Wyo. Mrs. Grace Cowley's child. "Missing After the Adobe Wreck," will be the only epitaph of the other victims. The police of Denver have been asked by the sheriff of Fremont county to locate Frank Lively, the Denver & Rio Grande telegraph operator, at Swallow, to whom negligence is attributed. Kills Man Who Crosses Love Lancaster, Pa., March 20.—Frank Meissenger, 47 years old, of Columbia, was shot and instantly killed on the threshold of his home Sunday by Clayton Christy, 24 years old, of the same place. The latter was arrested and lodged in jail here Christy was in love with Miss Rachael Findley and charged Meissenger with attempting to prejudice the woman against his plea of marriage. He Wants Enemies' Testimony St. Petersburg. — The evidence taken in the course of the investigation into the surrender of Port Arthur, which will probably drag on for six weeks later, will heavily damage the reputation of General Stoessel, who is now demanding that General Nogi and other Japanese commanders be summoned as witnesses to testify to the character of the defense. Mitchell Replies. Indianapolis, Ind., March 20.—President John Mitchell of the United Mineworkers of America has malled to George F. Baer, chairman of the anthracite coal operators committee, his reply to the committee's communication rejecting the demands of the miners' organization. UPRISING PREDICTED. Russia Preparing for Trouble—Railroad Patrolled St. Petersburg—Disaffection among the populace is on the increase and the authorities are actively preparing for another uprising, which is expected to rival in violence that of last November. Minister Durnovo, with the cooperation of the war office, is actively engaged in strengthening all garrisons at every point where socialistic and terrorist organizations are known to be strong. Maxim guns and ammunition in large quantities are being shipped to points where the uprising is expected to be fierce, and at Warsaw, Moscow, Odessa, this city and other places where past experience has shown it is a difficult task to maintain order. Armed automobiles, recently purchased in Paris, are being placed in charge of soldiers, who are being thoroughly instructed in their operation. These vehicles of death are expected to prove potent instruments in putting down street demonstrations, as the troops in them will be free from attack at the hands of mobs, while from behind their shelter machine guns can be operated in most telling manner. Fresh detachments of Cossacks have been detailed to all railway lines to patrol them and maintain order and prevent any interference with the operation of trains. Black sea sailors are unmistakably preparing for a revolt, and it is reported a plot has been discovered of widespread proportions to seize fortresses and vessels. FROM EACH MAN. $10,000 New York Life Trustees Must Make Good Donations. The New York World says: It is agreed that the trustees of the New York Life Insurance company who were members of the finance committee during the presidential campaigns of 1896, 1900 and 1904, and were cognizant of the political business of the New York Life should reimburse the company to the extent of $148,000. This is the total of the political contributions made by the company. Each trustee will go into his own private funds to make the payment. In all there are 15 trustees involved and under the agreement each man will have to contribute a trifle less than $10,000. It was originally the plan to hold the estate of John A. McCall responsible for all of the political contributions and to bring legal actions against it to obtain reimbursements. Abandonment of this plan is involved in the decision reached at yesterday's conference. LABOR DELEGATION MEET PRESIDENT President Roosevelt last Wednesday received a large body of representatives of organized labor at the White House and talked to them about their urgent request for the enactment of labor measures now pending before congress. Samuel (gompers, president, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, headed the delegaton, which consisted of about 100 members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor and officials of the organization which comprise the federation. Practically all of the important labor organizations of the country were represented. Secretary Morrison read to the president a memorial of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor urging action on the various demands for legislation being made by organized labor interests of the country. The memorial dwelt particularly on the nine hour law and its enforcement on government works, including the Panama canal, and the immigration laws, especially the Chinese exclusion law. President Gompers and James Duncan of Quinion, Mass., first vice president of the federation, followed with brief addresses on the lines of the memorial. President Roosevelt, after listening to the statements, replied in an extended address. Michigan Town Burned. The business portion of the village of Justin, Osceola county, Michigan, was destroyed by fire recently The fire started in the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Ten guests escaped in night clothes. Four were burned to death. Gen. Thayer Is Very Low. Brigadier General John M. Thayer is very low at his home in Lincoln, Neb. Because of his age, 86 years, his physicians say he cannot survive. General Thayer at different times was United States senator from Nebraska. Kills Man Who Insults Her. Kansas City, March 20.—Mrs. Ida Donlelson, while entertaining a party of friends at dinner Sunday, became enraged at a remark of E. C. Harris, a painter, one of the guests, and shot and killed him. Formosa Earthquake. A severe earthquake occurred at Kagli, Formosa, Saturday. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed and many hundreds of people were killed. Paymaster Ash Dead. The navy department has received news of the death at Guantanamo Cuba, of Paymaster Howard P. Asha Hood's Sarsaparilla We are often asked, Why does Hood's Sarsaparilla effect so many cures of cases that seem to be almost beyond the reach of medicine? The answer is this, that this great medicine is enabled by the peculiarity of its formula to produce results unapproached by any other medicine, this peculiarity consisting in the balanced combination of the very best specifics for the blood, liver, kidneys, stomach, and bowels, namely, for the blood, Sarsaparilla, Stillingia, Yellow Dock; for the liver, Mandrake, Dandelion; for the kidneys, Uva Ursi, Juniper Berries, Pipsissewa; for the stomach, Gentian, Wild Cherry Bark, Bitter Orange Peel; for the bowels, Senna, Mandrake and Dandelion. Sold by druggists everywhere. Get a bottle today. 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Ask your grocer for it. Packed only by The W. H. Coffin Fish Co., Seattle. Cleveland Passes 69th Birthday. Princeton, N. J., March 19.—Former President Cleveland spent his birthday away from home Sunday for the first time since he moved to Princeton. This is his 69th birthday. Mr.Cleveland is now in Florida. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. K. W.GROVE's signature is on each box. 25c. If the atmosphere be charitable a certain amount of strength, is required to wave the subscription paper aside. Pale, Thin, Nervous? Then your blood must be in a very bad condition. You certainly know what to take, then take it — Ayer's Sarsaparilla. If you doubt, then consult your doctor. Weknow what he will say about this grand old family medicine. Sold for over 60 years. This is the first question your doctor would ask. Are your bowels regular. He knows that daily intake of bowels is absolutely essential to recovery. 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It is the remedy of all remedies to sweeten and refresh and cleanse the system gently and naturally, and to assist one in overcoming constipation and the many ills resulting therefrom. Its active principles and quality are known to physicians generally, and the remedy has therefore met with their approval, as well as with the favor of many millions of well informed persons who know of their own personal knowledge and from actual experience that it is a most excellent laxive remedy. We do not claim that it will cure all manner of laxis, but recommend it for what it really represents, a laxative remedy of known quality and excellence, containing nothing of an objectionable or injurious character. Genuine - Syrup of Figs manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., and in order to buy the genuine article and to get its beneficial effects, one has only to note, when purchasing, the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—plainly printed on the front of every package. 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Of the very latest type of freight steamers is the British ship Belleraon built without masts, instead of which she has four pilars, two abreast fore and aft, for derricks. The hold is made especially to accommodate heavy machinery and other bulky consignments for the China and Japan trade. Twenty-six winches and derricks can be worked from the deck. Charles Sullivan Drowns. Vancouver. — Charles Sullivan, pioneer resident of this city, was drowned by the capsizing of a boat in which he was rowing. His body was found under a wharf here. For Russian Paper in Nagasaki. Some Russian revolutionaries who are at Tokio are seeking for permission to publish a daily newspaper at Nagasaki. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during teething period. The 20 round fight between Maurice Thompson of Butte and Kid Parker of Denver will take place at the Spokane Amateur Athletic club rooms March 30 at 8:30 p. m. TOWN SWEPTBYFIRE FOREST FIRE MADE CLEAN SWEEP OF NORWOOD, WASHINGTON. Thirty Families Are Homeless—Had to Fice for Safety—Shingle and Saw Mills Are Doomed—Large Loss to Farmers—No Reports of Loss of Life Received. Bellingham, Wash., March 20.—The town of Northwood, five miles from Lynden, in the Nooksack valley, was caught in the path of a fierce forest fire and 30 families are homeless. The property loss is $30,000. The entire town was laid waste by the flames, and the little population had to flee for safety. They arrived at Lynden and were afforded temporary relief, but it is uncertain how lasting this will be, as the flames are creeping toward that place. The storm of flames had been slowly gathering for hours.* Then they commenced to increase in density, and shortly before noon it became apparent that the town was in the path of the fire and doomed. Citizens hurriedly gathered together their valuables and other effects that could be carried and made waste toward Lynden. There are three shingle mills between Northwood and Lynden which it will be impossible to save, as they are directly in the path of the fire. The loss to farmers is also great, as many buildings near Custer and Fernale are completely wiped out. So far no reports of loss of life have been received. Coming Events Stockgrower's association, Miles City, Mont., April 16-17. A. O. U. W. Grand Lodge, Bellingham, Wash., April 4 Eastern Montana Woolgrower's association, Miles City, April 16-17. Inland Empire Teachers' association, Spokane, Wash., April 5-6. Montana State Sunday School convention, Dillon, Mont., May 22-23-24. I. O. R. M. great council, Tacoma, Wash., May 8-10. Washington State Sportsmen's association, Spokane, May 24-26. Washington State Dental society Bellingham, May 24-26. G. A. R. department encampment, Bozeman, Mont., April 12-13. I. O. R. M. great council, Helena, Mont., May 8-9. Washington State Bankers' association convention, Tacoma, June 21-23. Idaho State Republican central committee, Pocatello, August 1. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES, licking, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles. Druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days 50c. Oakland.—An additional shortage of $500 has been found in the accounts of the late treasurer, A. W. Feidler. This was in the teachers' annuity fund. Waters Give Up Their Dead Victoria, B. C.—The body of Maud Newbury, who disappeared a month ago, has been recovered from a lake at Beacon Hill. The missing girl had hallucinations that spirits called her. SPORTING NOTES. Umpire Jack Sheridan announces that he has signed his 1906 contract with the American league and wound leave for the east next week. Joe Gans of Baltimore decisively defeated Mike (Twin) Sullivan of Boston Saturday at Los Angeles in 10 rounds. While Sullivan was not counted out he was on the floor and practically helpless when the police instructed the referee to end the fight. Splendid progress was made by the committee which has in charge the collection of subscriptions for the proposed Helena club in the Northwestern league fathered by W. H. Lucas. Harry Berthong, who, in 1868, ran the bases in 14 1-4 seconds, making the record, which has stood for nearly 40 years, disputes the claim of Marty Hogan that he ran the bases in 13 1-5 seconds. He says that the performance credited to Hogan is a physical impossibility. Noah Brusso, the fighter, who, under the ring name of Tommy Burns made a show of Marvin Hart at Los Angeles February 22, is one of the most unique characters seen in the square circle in years Brusso is a French-Canadian, being born at Hanover, Ont., 24 years ago. The pugilist came from a good family and adopted a ring career to the great chagrin of his parents. However, there was no keeping the boy out of the prize ring, as he was so completely fascinated by the sport that he was a professional boxer before he realized it. Brusso is one of the best all round athletes in the business. A great number of the eastern baseball players are drafted from the western league. There is hardly an eastern team without several western players. On many teams they are in the majority. BAGS Have you ever used Bemis Bags? See that they are placed on your next order. We are manufacturers and importers of ..... Wheat Bags Oat Bags Ore Sacks Barley bags, Flour bags, Wool bags Hop cloth and burial of all kinds BEMIS BRO. BAU CO., 1508-1514 Colorado street, Seattle, Wash. MINING NOTES. The strike of the coal miners at Lethbridge, Alberta, has caused so much uneasiness among the citizens that they have called upon the dominion government to render assistance, and the northwest mounted police has been placed in control of the town and martial law now practically obtains. More than 500 men, members of the union, are on strike, and there are still about a hundred at work under police protection. The New York Herald of recent date has a column article headed "Country in Clutch of Mining Craze," and says that eastern bankers are gravely concerned as to the outcome. In speaking of conditions, the Herald affirms the New York business has grown from a score of brokers selling stocks in Broad street in 1905 to hundreds of brokers selling thousands or shares stocks daily. This boom in copper and other mining stocks has extended to Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other eastern cities. A mining exchange has been formed in New York to deal in the stocks of Goldfield, Tonopah and other districts. The Herald remarks that San Francisco has regained some of its old glory of the days of 76-79, and even the conservative people of Baltimore are playing the mining market. Disappointment is felt at Greenwood, B. C., over the defeat of the West Kootenay Power & Light company's bill. The smelters and mines are especially affected. They have been planning large improvements, depending upon the increase in supply of electric power to be obtained through the Kootenay company coming into the Yale country. According to reports from Weiser, Idaho, a gigantic deal is now being consummated whereby a Scotch syndicate is to take over the entire interests of the Klienschmidt, in the Seven Devils country. The ledge of the Ajax property which is an extension of the Hercules mine, was broken into recently in tunnel No. 2 and it is expected that an ore shoot will be encountered soon. Owing to the severe frost of the past week, Contractor J. W. Jones, who has the contract for building the Great Northern spur into the Belcher mine, on the reservation near Curlew, Wash., has had to discontinue work. 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Treasury Statement Washington. — Saturday's treasury statements show: Available cash balances, $154,708,912; gold coin and bullion, $78,120,697; gold certificates, $46,427,690. Rev. Allen of St. James A. M. E. Church desires us to announce that Sunday evening there will be a Song Service at the Church, and everybody is requested to be present. V. Rodgers from Alhambra Springs ran up o Helena to spend a few hours with the boys on last Tuesday. Jos. Lewis has returned to work at his old position at the Montana Club. Porter Groves, the eminent mining author it in these parts, announces that he will commence next week active operations on all of his claims, and from now on things will hum in Grovestale. J. W. Eaton has resigned his position on night shift at the Montana Club. A. F. Smith announces that he will commence loading ore from the McKinley Mines. C. H. Mason, formerly head water at the Montana Club, writes from Hot Springs, Ark., that he is doing well, and that he will go to Chicago to live April 1st. There is a dark man with a bundle, circu lating a petition against one of his fellowmen. Have you seen him? Irs. A. Marshall is improving nicely. Miss Helen Anderson has moved to 326 Pine Street. Mrs. M. Robinson has moved to her new home on 1st street. H. J. Baker has built a new addition to his home on Breckenridge St. Mr. A. Marshall has built a new room to his house. Henry Banks a promising young colored Comedian was given a try out at the Edison this week, in his sketch of old man specialty and song and dance work. He made a decided hit and will probably be signed on the circuit. Henry Miller, retired Color Serg't 24th Infantry, better known as Mike, was an important witness for the state in the Mentzel murder trial. Mrs. Wm. Howard of West Main St. who has been very ill, is improving. The popular saloon of Bossler and Miller were among the early PLAIN-DEALER subscribers. Our old friend I. Hicks complains of overwork this week. Mesdames Lee and Ferguson gave a luncheon Friday afternoon from 2 to 4. Those present were Mesdames Booth, Ingram, Sanderson, Nicholsen R. Smith, Misses Adams and Grisson. Mrs. Howard was forced by the state to come from her sick bed to testify in the Mentzel case. W.R. Dorsey and Edward Johnson, L. V. Graye and David Gordon were delegates to the republican convention Friday evening. St. James Church is arranging and making preparations for a grand Easter program. Friday afternoon Clover Smith, better known as "Bad Boy" was arrested and incarsarated in the county jail charged with subordination of perjury in connection with the Mentzel murder case. It is reported there will be several arrests for perjury in connection with the Menzel murder case. Subscribe for the PLAINDEALER now and be in on the ground floor. Mr. Reuben Baker and A J. Johnson are regular appointed agents for the PLAINDEALER. Give them your subscription and secure a receipt. Those who wish to accomplish results should be sure you are right, and then go ahead. It is a wise man who knows his own business and attends to the same. The above phrase means a great deal, if a great many of our people would use more of their energy and time in their efforts to promote their own business and welfare as they do to creating dissension and discord in other people's affairs they would be a success. We have in mind one or two gentlemen whom this paragraph would aptly apply to, and they can no longer conduct a gum shoe campaign of vilification, — the PLAINDEALER will snatch the masks from their faces and show them up in their true light. There is a somewhat ancient lesson contained in the following from the New York World, but it is so excellent that the story is produced here : "Don't advertise if you believe you are wasting money. Let your competitor waste his money on advertis- A In Zanzibar. BIG DOINGS AT THE ZANZIBAR. ing, and perhaps in this way you'll soon put him out' of business. Just stand back and laugh at him when you see him squandering his money for printers' ink. Once there was a boy named,—we think his last name was Wanamaker, or maybe Money-maker; anyhow, his name was John, with some sort of a maker attached to his last name. He owned fifty yards of calico, three pairs of jeans, a half dozen pairs of boots. He called this a dry goods store through a Philadelphia newspaper, and offered to sell a pair of socks for 39 cents. The don't-believe-in-advertising just laughed. Young John spent $65 with a Philadelphia paper to ad vertise just one time, and less than $100 worth of goods. He was cautioned by the merchants who 'knew it didn't pay.' It was through sympathy that they offered him advice. But John did not listen to them, and went and blew his money foolishly; and today poor John sees the result of his misdoings,—he has so many large dry goods stores that he can hardly find time to study his Sunday School lesson. Can you see a lesson in this? Be a progressive up-to-date business man. Advertise your wares if you want to sell them." Have your Suit Sponged, Pressed and your Shoes Shined every Day C No Extra Charge for Calling and Delivery. 'Phone Lloyd's, 410. Under Nat. Bank of Montana. Lloyd V. Graye, Prop., Henry Saulsbury, Mgr. J. B. Bass, Pres. D. H. Harris, Vice Pres. J. H. Tucker, Sekretary We will furnish First Class AfroAmerican Mechanics, Domestcs and Laborers in the states of Idaho, Washington, Montana, Nevada and Oregon without Charge. 21 S. Main Street, Helena, Mont. The New York Ary Goods Company, Sheer White Linen Dress Fabrics. White Linens of sheer texture will be in great demand this season for Waists and Dresses. Lingerie effects are the latest cry of fashion. With this in view we have made extensive pur chases, and are showing a profusion of the scarcest and most stylish Pure Linen Dress Fadrics. For This Week We Will Sell Shirt Waists. Hand Embroidered Waist Pattern semi laundered collar, cuffs and neckbands, made on pure Irish Linen at $6.50 White Lawn Shirt Waists, made into embroidery insertion, button in back and front styles, long cuffs and short sleeves. at $1.50 White Jap, Silk Shirt Waist front elabo rately taimed with white silk embroide ry, $6 value at $3.95. 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