Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vol. I. 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. Our First Stand. THE PLAINDEALER is of course elated over the result of Tuesday's battle of ballots. It was our first stand, as it were, in the political arena of this publication. We did our duty as we saw it in standing up for those principles which we believe will redound to the credit of the people as a whole and community as well. It is an auspicious beginning and one which we shall perpetually endeavor to emulate in the interest of, not only our own people alone, but for the progress and prosperity of the city, state and nation. We shall through our political horoscope at no time neglect to look after the interest of the race and use our influence, if we have any, for the advancement of the interest of our people, and it behooves us to keep pace with the mighty progress of the present age, so that we shall at all times have competent timber to present in case that we should want to line up at the pie counter. One of the cardinal principles of republicanism as exemplified by our strenuous Chief Executive Theodore Roosevelt, which should be emulated by all good republicans, is not to close the door of hope in the face of any man on account of his color; but on his merit and competence he shall be given a show. We have no fears but that the colored people will receive at the hands of the incoming administration the recognition to which they are entitled. A Good Beginning The late campaign we understand has been the first in many moons when money was not freely used on both sides for the purpose of paying voters to vote, and the discontinuance of this practice is to be commended. We believe in the legitimate spending of money, and liberally too, in campaigns, such as hiring workers, meetings, etc., but the idea of paying men to vote is an abomination, and the only way to end this pernicious practice is to stop paying them. We have this element. They are confined to no particular race; they are only leeches and political grafters of the lowest type who cannot be depended upon in no event, and we hope that the good work of eliminating this feature will be carried out in all future campaigns. Strokes That Count. Mr. L. Vernon Graye last week purchased at his home in Topeka, his father's old homestead worth about $2,000. The deal was consummated through the Montana National Bank of this city. Mr. Graye is setting an exemplary example to our young men in business. Do Something and Have Something; these are two of the several requisites through which the race will solve the problems which confront it. Permiscuous Grafting We heard a well known ward heeler (colored) claim that not one third of the colored voters registered in his ward voted, and as a reason he said there was no money in sight. This statement he no doubt gave out to others and in doing so if they would take his word, it would only bring himself and those particular voters in disrepute. It would be better were such a class of voters never allowed to vote. But it is not true. There is a large and patriotic element of our people who are incorruptible and the statement of ward heeling grafters to the contrary are lies told from pure cussedness as they would at all times do all they could to discredit themselves and their race. The endorsing of the republican ticket by the Lincoln Day Club at the recent election, no doubt puts that organization in line for considerable prestige, not only with the incoming administration but in all future contests. The sarcastic flings and inuendos of its foes will have no weight as the organization on the even tenor of its way went on record by endorsing the republican ticket from top to bottom, and its work stands out in bold relief against all statements to the contrary. People of this day admire and give credit to those who do things and there is no question of the prestige of the Lincoln Day Club. The Daily Record made a gallant fight for the principles which it advocates in last Tuesday's election. The owners are made up of that kind of stuff which will bring results, and the republicans are to be congratulated on having such an organ to advocate their cause in such a fearless, able manner. Great credit is due to former Mayor Edwards for the aggressive fight he made in behalf of the republican ticket in the recent campaign, which had much to do with the splendid majority by which Mr. Lindsay was elected. Chairman Head by caaeful and painstaking efforts, marshalled his forces so well that he swept everything before him. The Lincoln Day Club is feeling fine, Thank You. SOME ADVICE.—AND A STORY. 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 advertising, 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 Moneymaker; 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, and 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 30 cents. The don't-believe-in-advertising just laughed. Young John spent $65 with a Philadelphia paper to advertise just one time, and not 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." ATTENTION. A meeting of colored citizens is called to meet at Lloy's Shining Parlors Monday evening to discuss matters of vital importance to the race in this community. It is to be hoped that everyone who is interested in the progress of his own race will be in attendance. No one can afford to remain away from a meeting of this kind. Helena, Montana, Friday, April 6, 2006. 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 that 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 So. Main Street, Helena, Mont. Cole and Johnson, the premier colored performers, have sailed for Europe. "Bill" Carr was lynched at Crescent, La., March 18, for butchering a cow alleged to have belonged to a planter. Fifteen men consummated the act. No arrests have yet been made. Rev. W. E. Gladden of Colorado Springs, was last week appointed a Chaplain in U. S. Army by President Roosevelt to succeed Chaplain Allen Allensworth retired. Benjamin Vance of Topeka, Kansas died last week. He came to Kansas about 15 years ago with nothing. At the time of his death he owned about 500 acres of the farming land in the state and his wealth was estimated at about $35,000. Monroe Nash, a white special laborer with clerical duties at the Norfolk Va., navy yard, resigned his position recently because he did not like to work side by side with a Negro clerk, to whom he was required to pass his work. Nash's resignation was promptly accepted. Ernest A. Adkins and G. H. Mitchell, real estate dealers at Greensboro, N.C., control about $250,000 worth of property, and are the only colored men engaged in the business. There are five colored physicians, two drugists, one dentist and many minor business enterprises that promise well for the future. Rev. M. M. Ponton of Atlanta, Ga., field agent for the John C. Martin Educational Fund, has been appointed a member of the board of directors and general superintendent for the South. The amount of money which Dr. Ponton helps to disburse is fully $3,000,000. In Easthampton, Mass., Thomas M. Gregory, youngest son of Principal J. M. Gregory, of the Bordertown Industrial School, won the individual silver cup for the best of the six speeches delivered in the debate between the Adelphi and Gamma Sigma Societies on Friday night at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. This is the fourth successive time that young Gregory has been on the winning side in these annual public debates at Williston. The representatives of his society argued on the negative of the question, "Resolved, That the United States Government Should Own and Control the Interstate Railroads." WHO ARE THE BRAVEST IN LIFE'S BATTLES. A Brilliant Essay Read by Mrs R. J. Alexander at St. James A. M. E. Church Song Service Sunday Evening, March 25, 1900. REV. ALLEN AND FRIENDS: As "Brevity is the soul of wit," my part in this evening's entertainment will be, indeed, brief. Much more could be said, but I shall leave it to you to finish in your minds what I shall leave unsaid. My subject is an old one and yet ever new,—"Who are the bravest in life's battles?" Some will say the soldier, the sailor, and the hero in other walks of life. Yes, they are brave, as their many deeds of valor as recorded in his- tory assures us. But braver than any of these, the wide world o'er, are the mothers of this world. Very little do we hear of their valor. No country claims them. They are the heroines of all countries. From that far away home in Bethlehem down to the present day comes the cry of the mothers. And women have been fighting these battles unceasingly day by day. They have no place upon a map, but are being fought by the mothers of men, each hour,—aye each minute in the day, and will be until the end of time. No powder or shot is ever used,—nor sword or pen is ever brought into action. Nor yet with eloquent and stirring words from lips gifted with beautiful speech. But as every mother can tell,—from a deep, walled up woman's heart. Women who will never give up, who will, in silence, bear bravely her part in this fearful struggle and fight. Her heart is the battlefield. There is no gathering of troops, no waving banners. No trumpet's sound, but the heart-throbs that only a mother can know and feel. These, and these alone, are her insignia. And we mothers know they last from the cradle to the grave. You hear no shout, scarcely a groan; but she keeps on to the end, fighting bravely. Then silently and unseen goes down. If children, especially the young men, would only think,—quietly think, of the anguish, anxiety, sorrow, cares, and woes of their mother's heart, I am sure there would be less heart-broken mothers today in the world fighting these battles. Maternal love is the invisible providence of all races. Its influence is constant and universal. Each young man, when roving far from the old home and mother, sends many a thought of longing to be once again within its walls and near that mother, and listen to her words of kindness and good will. Think of her always. Think of her bravery, of her love, and cease spending your days in riotous living. Be a comfort in her declining days. Remember, her battles have been all fought for her children. Fighting life's battles is no easy task. Not only have women proven brave in life's struggles. But in her country's need she has stood among the bravest. I might speak of the Spartan mothers of Ancient Greece, who gloried when they learned of their fathers, sons, and brothers as among the slain,—to think they had died gloriously for their country's freedom. And the Scotch women, after the battle of Culloden, at night, with lanterns lighted, searching that ill-fated battlefield for their dead and wounded relatives, would shame each other if one, upon coming across the dead or wounded body of some near and dear relative, showed signs of grief. When the Huguenot women of France were forced with their men to flee from their homes, for religious reasons, leaving behind their homes and riches, not a murmur ever was heard from the lips of those brave women, who suffered many hardships in finding a home in a foreign land. The women, too, of Switzerland, we must not forget. That little mountain republic gave to the world some of the bravest women of the times. In 1622 the Emperor of Austria, in order to extinguish the Protestant religion, sent his army into Switzerland. The valley they entered was shut in by high mountains. The men were high up on the hills, driving and watching their herds. Only the women remained at home. They heard the approach of the Austrians,—no time to call the men,—they seized their husbands, pikes, scythes and pitchforks, and rushed out to meet them. There are passes in Switzerland where a few well-armed persons can beat back a thousand. The women prevailed over the Austrians,—they were driven back. Of course the Swiss men were as brave as the women. On account of this gallant defense of the women, it continues to this day to be a standing rule in the valley that the women go first to the Communion, and the men follow. I will not dwell upon the French brave heroine and martyr, Joan of Arc, who, at the head of the French Army led them to victory. But within a few months, during the Japanese-Russian War, a case second to none was recorded. We all know the Japanese are ancestor worshipers. Their laws are, no son or husband can become a soldier if the mother or wife is dependent on him for support. The one I refer to was the only son of a widowed mother. He was anxious to serve his country, but his mother could not be left alone. She daily saw his grief to be in the ranks fighting for his country. One day he found a letter containing these words: "Your company needs you; you are free to go to her aid." And how?—She had taken her own life, rather than stand in her son's way. I might speak of the great women of our day. The brave workers of the "Woman's Christian Temperance Union," with which you are familiar, and that noble leader, Frances Willard whose memory will live in the hearts of all good people, regard less of nationality,—of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Julia Ward Howe Susan B. Anthony, the prison angels, and thousands of other brave, noble women, not forgetting one of our own race, who today stands as one of God's noblest creations. Jennie Dean, a few months ago a poor working girl of Virginia, seeing the great need for industrial education among the children of the poor farmers around Manassas, Va., is carrying on successfully a school that stands second to that of Booker T. Washington's. Such, and so many more I could name if time permitted. Women pass through moral and physical dangers with a courage that is equal to the bravest. They are pre-eminent in steady endurance. Such are the heroic women of all ages. Some will say such things unsex a woman. Not a whit of it. Those women of Sparta, of Switzerland, of Scotland, went back to their homes and daily duties as women, the mothers of children, their home duties resumed just the same. It unsexes no woman to be brave in the face of danger and overwhelming odds. I remember once of seeing in the Corcoran, Art Gallery a small painting by the celebrated French artist Millais. It is the figure of a woman bound fast to a pillar far within tide mark. The sea is curling its waves about her feet. A ship is passing in full sail, but not heeding her or her doom. Birds of prey are hovering over her, but she heeds not the birds, or the ship, or the sea. Her eyes look right on, her feet stand firm, and you see that she is looking directly into Heaven, and telling her soul how the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed. Under the picture is this legend copied from the stone set up to her memory in an old Scottish No. 4. kirkyard: "Murdered for owning Christ supreme, Head of his Church, and no more crime. Within the sea tied to a stake She suffered for Christ Jesus' sake." When you look at it, it seems a type of a great host of women who watch and wait, tied fast to their fate, while the tide creeps up about them, but who rise as the waves rise, and on the crest of the last and loftiest are borne into the quiet Haven, and hear the words of the Master, who is no respecter of persons, and who only judges of us by the genuine good that is within us. "Well done good and faithful servants." GET TO THE FARM. (Topeka Plaindealer.) The Springtime is coming, and as the buds put forth we hope the Negroes in the various states will look towards the farm. There are several opportunities in that direction that will be of great benefit to those who follow that pursuit. Persons with five acres of land, incubators, alfalfa, and other cereals to feed to the chickens can make it profitable, earn a good livelihood and grow independent. The salvation of our people now is to rear their sons and educate them to advantage to till the soil. The man who follows that occupation in life is always the one who is independent and can express himself more liberally and freely on matters of importance than those who hang around the city and live from hand to mouth. There are too many young men around the cities who live up to every nickel they happen to earn, and idle away most of the time in useless and unprofitable occupation. If the young men who are waiters in hotels, and porters and employees in railroad shops would form a corporation among themselves, and buy up land and select one from among them to manage it, the others continuing to work and buy cattle and hogs to stock the farm, as the value increased, they could divide up and another could be selected from the same corporation who would quit these jobs in hotels and go to the farm, where they could continue to grow wealthy as well as those who are associated with them. In that way hundreds could be benefited in a few years. There is no beating about the bush. The salvation of Uncle Ephraim's descendants lies in riding behind farm horses and mules in the corn and cotton fields. When he is cultivating his own land, and gathering the products thereof, he can then be dubbed an independent American citizen. We would like to see the Negroes make a special effort to own and control a larger proportion of the land in some particular counties in Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina. It is an outrage for men to continually cry and howl for their rights, yet make no preparation to defend the same. The only way to become a man is to surround oneself with all that is necessary to defend the rights of a man. Negroes must get land and learn to cultivate it and grow cattle, hogs and other things that find a ready sale on the market. Hogs and chickens require very little capital, and they are things which the Negroes mostly consume, yet they raise very few of them for themselves or the market. If they would adapt themselves to raising these things, profiting thereby, they could take their places beside the white man, where they belong. No Favorites. We want it understood that we shall at no time play or boost favorites in the columns of this publication; we shall at all times be glad to publish such matters as reflect credit on the community, or of individuals who are doing something which is creditable for the public to know; at the same time we shall at no time hesitate to denounce those who are stumbling-blocks in the way of the progress of a community. We want the people where this journal circulates to take a lively interest in getting news items of interest to the public to reach us not later than Thursday of each week for publication. With the kindly assistance of our patrons along these lines we can furnish you a newsy and up-to-date weekly journal. We shall soon go over the State and appoint agents and correspondents in all of the principle points of Montana, and no doubt THE PLAIN-DEALER will continue to grow like a green bay tree. Read THE PLAINDEALER for the news. NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. A Review of Happenings In : Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. Japan, has won the first prize in the anuual oratorical contest at the University of Michigan. ‘A Naples, Italy report says: Ap automobile containing Mrs. Janette Giman and daughter and French chauffeur ran over and killed Giovan- ni Fara, 13 years old. ‘The ladies faint- ed from fright and the chauffeur ran away. He was followed by carbineers and arrested. The house committee on public buildings and grounds has agreed to report @ public building bil! carrying appropriations of $20,000,000. As a result of the coal strike every paper mill in Wisconsin may be foreed to shut down a considerable portion of the summer on account of lack of fuel. Water power is inadequate to operate them. ‘The Transcontinental Passenger as- sociation has sanctioned a one fare rate to the coast for the round trip from all points west of Chicago, com- mencing June 1 and ending Sept. 1. Senator Tillman announces that he will make his campaign in South Carolina on the issue that the state liquor laws must be amended. ‘The president's determination to take no hand in coal matters until every possible means of settlement is exhausted meets the approbation of even the administration's sharpest critics. ‘A canvass of members of the house eommittee on public lands shows that there t¢ no possible chance of the pas- sage of the Lacey bill abolishing the office of land office receivers, as sec- retary Hitchcock has so strenuously urged, Henry Hughes, convicted in the so called bridge trust case at Sandusky, Ohio, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $1000 and costs of $500. Hughes will appeal. ‘The National Congress of Mothers, will meet at Los Angeles, Cal., early in May. Orders have been issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad company re- ducing the hours of its 9000 shopmen trom 55 to 25 hours a week because of the impending coal strike. ‘The correspondent at St. Petersburg of the London Observer says that a plot has been discovered to blow up the national parliament with bombs, ‘The employes of the Havana Elec- trie railway are on strike for higher wages. Right hundred are out. Two dynamite explosions in dif- ferent parts of New York city, Satur- day, killed one man and injured nine, three seriously. Sigurd Ibsen and M, Horst have been appointed members of The Hague court of arbitration. C. M. Hatehe’s store at Bridgeport, Conn., in which is located the post- office, was robbed of $5000 recently. Santa Fe passenger train No. 10,| the El Paso-Chicago flyer, east bound, went into the ditch 37 miles south of Las Vegas, N. M. recently. Twelve] Mexicans en route to Colorado were} seriously injured, at least one of whom | will die. Prince von Buelow, of Berlin, has, been made a member of the Prussian] house of lords. . Secretary Boneparte was the chief] speaker Saturday at the graduating exercises of the naval medical school at the national capital and presented diplomas to the 21 young doctors who| | finished their course. United States Senator Alger is seriously {11 at a hotel at Atlantic City, | N. J., but his physicians say that the|| senator's condition is not dangerous. || All the union painters of Denver are out on strike for higher wages. The Oakland street car situation is]! unchanged. ‘ Agrarian disorders continue to be]! reported at various places in Russia, Bishop John Lancaster Spalding of the diocese of Peoria, IIl., has returned ‘0 his home greatly improved in health | ufter an absence of three months in|$ the south. I ‘The Theodore Roosevelt, believed to} « he the fastest passenger steamer on|r jake Erle, has been launched. i St. Paul, Minn. put on its holiday at-|t fre Saturday in honor of its 50th]d nniversary as a municipality, and]s elebrated with parades of bands,|t nilitary and civic organizations. 3 The Jap tamine is not so bad as at irst_ reported, still there has been nuch suffering. e ‘The date or holding the national en-| ampment of the war vetrans in| ¢ Washington, D. C., is Octobed 8 and|p rill Inst through the week. The prest-| y lent will address the veterans and re- ew the parade, 8 President Roosevelt has appointed| q ‘rederick W. Whittenredge of New| p fork as special ambassador to repre-| ent the United States at the wedding | ft the king of Spain rf Deputy Sheriff Harvey Smith was in-| s tantly killed and constable Robert | McCabe was seriously shot about six]; proportions. Many riotous scenes taking place. ‘At Wanipeg, Man, no attempt is made to run cars after 6 o'clock p. m. but little patronage was accorded them during the day THEIR ESCAPE A MIRACLE. Hundred Persons in Wreck Piled on Embankment. Piled in a wreck on top of an em- bankment 30 feet high, 100 persons escaped injury in a miraculous manner in a collision on the Lake Shore rail- road near Delta, O., two freights, eastbound, were tied up in a rearend collision, with the caboose of the train| in front, which had stopped to take water, thrown squarely across the trace of train No. 3, a westbound pas- senger. ‘The mixup between the freights had scarcely occurred when the passenger bowled along, striking the overturned caboose, The brakes were set, but g0- ing almost a mile a minute, the head- way was So great that, with a crash the passenger locomotive jumped the track, plunging along the ties, driving the cavoose ahead. Two Pullmans were telescoped, but after the train had come to a stop, the passengers dashed wildly out of the various coach- es and slid 30 feet to the bottom of the embankment. The wreck took fire and caused damage of $100,000, REFORM WAVE HELPS OHIO. Legislature Provides Laws for Benefit of the Masses. The Ohio general assembly, which has adjourned, has, backed by the reform sentiment that swept away par- ty lines in the election, enacted many reform measures. Among these are the laws providing for 2 cent passenger fares, creating a state railroad com- mission, and providing for the regula- tion of freight rates, wiping out the fee system for the payment of county offi- cers and putting them upon a salary basis, abolishing prison contract la- bor and repealing the inheritance tax law. ‘The saloon tax has been increased from $650 to $1,000, local municipal option may be enforced by petition in- stead of election, and a search and seizure law enacted to aid the enforce- ment of the local option laws. WASHINTON’S OUTPUT IN 1905. Federal Report on Production of . Wheat, Corn and Oats. ‘Thé Crop: Reporter, issued by the agricultural department for the month of March shows the grain crops to have been unusually good last year. In Washington the crops for 1905 were as follows: Corn amounted to 261,263 bushels; 16 per cent of the stock on hand, Maren 1, 1906; 5 per cent shipped out of county where grown; 82 per cent merchantable. Wheat amounted to 32,510,810 bushels; 16 per cent of the stock on hand March 1, 1906; 77 per cent shipped out of county where grown. Oats amounted to 8,227,000 bushels; 26 per cent of the stock on hand March 1, 1906; 37 per cent ship- ped out of country where grown. MISSOURI TO MINE COAL. Strike Can Not Hurt the State Insti- tutions. Governor Folk, through Warden Matt Hall, of the state prison at Jef- ferson City, Mo., has leased a mine near Waverly, from which coal will be mined during the presen strike in suf- ficient quantities to supply the 15 state institutions with fuel. The min- ers at Waverly are paid 10 per cent more than the regular scale and do not want to strike. If they should be forced to go ont, Warden Hall said, there would be no difficulty in operat- ing the mine if the state is forced to resort to that extremity, BOISE MAN IS PRESIDENT. Heads Y. M. C. A. of States of Oregon | and Idaho. The convention of Youn; Men's Christian associations of Oregon and Idaho, which met in Portland recent- ly, elected the following officers: President, H. E. Neal of Boise, vice} president, Louis Adams, Oregon City; secretary, C. J. McKee, McMinnville: assistant secretry, Ray Dozier of the Drain normal school. John Bull’s Wallet Fatter, ‘The revenue of the United Kingdom for the fiseal year just ended shows $769,394,920, an increase of $3,481,010. During the year the customs revenue decreased $6,315,490 and the excise revenue $2,314,110, while there were increases of $5,400,000 in the postal telegraph revenue, $3,299,740 in estate duties and $6,400,000 in stamps. The surplus balance in the exchequer at the close of business today was $24, 396,450. From Vienna: Mrs. Bellamy Stor- er, wife of the retiring American am- bassador to Austria, has reconsider. ed her determination to maintain com: plete silence in regard to the contro- versy caused by her husband’s recall. Reports emanating from Europe stated that Mrs. Storer abused conf dence in using a private letter from President Roosevelt in behalf of the candidacy for a cardinalate of Arch- bishop Ireland, now in Rome. The re- tirement of Ambassador Storer was sudden, and Mrs. Storer in some quar. ters is blamed for the ruin of his dip- lomatic career. Mrs. Storer is an ar- dent Roman Catholic who has made many friends among high dignitaries of the church since her husband en- tered the diplomatic service. She is a member of the Longworth family of Ohio, and is an aunt of Nicholas Long. worth, the president’s son \n law. ; COAL MINERS STRIKE GREAT STRUGGLE BETWEEN CAP- ITAL AND LABOR IS ON. Companies Post Notices That They Would Be Glad to Continue to Op- erate Under Award—Ohio Awaits Development—Celebrate In Illinois —Stopped in Texas. tLe usual hours Monday morning as a matter of form. There was practt: cally no response to them on the part of the mine workers. It is expected that all classes of employes, except firemen, engineers and pump runners, who are not affected by the order, will quit, including even those who do not favor a suspension of work. All of the other big coal companies are following the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western company in posting notices announcing that they stand ready to continue to operate under the provisions of the mine strike commis- sion's award, The Delaware, Lacxa- wanna & Western company operated four of its washeries with the regular forces of men originally employed among them. ‘There was a joint meeting of the Dunmore locals of the United Mine Workers’ at which it was decided that all company hands, in addition to the steam men and engineers, could work at repairs and putting the workings in condition until further notice, provi- ding, of course, that they mine no coal. The Dunmore men were surprised to find the Erie company with 85 guards and colored cooks on hand, ready to go on duty, guarding the company’s property. The company is to under, take at once the operation of No. 5 colliery in Dunmore by concentrating the stockade around the breaker and erecting eating and lodging houses for the men who will work. It was an unusually busy Sunday on the main line of the Reading rail- way. Saturday's product of the Schuyl- kill region, amounting to 1,600 car- loads, was sent through, and this will have reached its destination by to- morrow. Many foreigners have passed through Reading, Pa., and there is a regular exodus from the anthracite region. A Holiday at Springfield. All coal miners in Mlinois are idle, not only because of the strike, but because the men on that day will cele- brate the eight hour work day, ob- tained April 1, 1898. About 350 miners employed in the John Taylor mine in St. Clair county will not go out, the miners professing to believe the ope ators will sign the scale in the neéxt few days. This mine is outside the op- erators’ association. No Excitement In Texas. 5 Fort Worth, Texas, April 2—Work in the local mines of Texas stopped Saturday night, and the situation is merely one of waiting to ascertain what will be the result, Kentucky Mines Working. Louisville, Ky., April 2—All_ the Kentucky coal miners are at work as usual. The contracts for the eastern district do not expire until September Ist. Mitchell In New York. John Mitchell, president of the Unit- ed Mine Workers of America is in|' New York. ! Up to a late hour Sunday night there had been no developments of interest | in the coal mining districts in Mis- sour, Kansas, Arkansas and the terri-|. ‘ories,where the union men quit work. | Everywhere quiet was reported, with no signs of trouble. Fire broke out at 10:30 o'clock Sun- lay night in the basement of the Allen | | Shoe company’s store, 421 Riverside venue, Spokane, did more than $40, 100 damage, and for an hour threaten-| ¢ ad to destroy the Marion building, |; mown as the old Tull building. : May Sign Scale. i Dispatches to Pittsburg from the soft | ‘oal fields indicate almost a general]: nnouncement from the operators of |! vestern Pennsylvania to pay the min.|' rs the advance of 5.55 per cent called | ‘ or in the restoration of the scale of|' 903. With notices posted at the ma-|! ority of the mines, the strike in the]! oft coal field has lost that threaten-|! ng aspect that has surrounded it since ast January. The executive board of the Ohio nine workers has been called to meet |‘ n Columbus Tuesday to determine|' he policy of the Ohio miners with ref-|* Pea ae , Later Report. t Although the greatest suspension of oal mining in the United States since he production of fuel attained is enor- | t nous occurred Monday, the fear of a|t omplete tieup of the industry has pass | t d and the situation is expected to im-|e rove rapidiy with every day. Reports eceived Monday night from the bi-|n aminous fields show that many of the| t eading coal companies have signed| a he 1908 soale, which gives the men an | o dvance of 5.55 per cent over the wage hey received during the last two| y an almost total suspension of mining in obedience to the instructions issued by the Shamokin scale committee. The representatives of the operators and the miners will meet in New York for a further discussion of the differences existing between them. 'No disorder of any consequence is re- ported from any of the bituminous coal Ags. ‘There will be 29 strike of the thtuminnos miners in the Pittsburg dis- trict and, according to Francs L. Rob- bins of fthe Pittsburg Coal company, there will be a general resumption of work Tuesday following the holiday ‘celebration of the eight hour day. Latest Report. The subcommitte representing the anthracite operators and,the minework ers of eastern Penneylvanie held their first joint meeting Tuesdey ‘in New York, and after nearly a three hours’ session adjourned until Thureday,with- ont coming to an agreement. Each side of he controversy has refused to make the slighest concession, and the whole question apparently is as far from 80- lution as it was before the conference. In the meantime the tieup of the an- thracite industry remains as complete as it was Monday, without indication that a resumption of mining will occur very soon. Notwithstanding the fruit- less session and the appurently hopeless deadlock between the workmen und their employers, rumors are till cur- rent that a way will be found that will enable the operators and miners to stand on common ground and settle their differences. ce GEN. IDE IS INAUGURATED. Imposing Civic and Military Display at Manila, P. |. Manila, April 3—The inaugural cer emonies in connection with the in duction of Henry C. Ide jnto the office of governor general, took place Mon day with civic and military display ‘Three thousand troops of all arms at tended and the marble hall of the Ay: untamiento, the official home of the governor general, was thronged with thousands of citizens of all classes, while army and naval officials, con sular officers, Captain Shimamuera and staff of the Japanese navy, all in full uniform, added briliancy to an im- pressive scene. ‘The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Cayetano Arellano of the supreme court, In his inaugural address, Governor General Ide said in part: “The policies of President McKinley, President Roosevelt and of Secretary of War Taft will be our policy. The Philippines must be Philippines for the Filipinos. This duty we, have as- sumed. The tariff barriers existing between the home country and our is- lands will be brokendown.” Governor General Ide laid great stress on the necessary of the advance- ment of agriculture. He praised the work of the constabulary, army and navy officers, and the various feder- al bureaus. The address concluded with a summary of the policy of the new insular administration and of the intentions for the betterment of the islands and its people. TO ABANDON MANY FORTS. Missoula In List Proposed by General Bates, a5 The abandonment of a number of army posts in the west and southwest is proposed in a recommendation for the redistribution of troops prepared by Lieutenant General J. C. Bates. chief of staff, and approved by Secre- tary Taft, It is the purpose of the goneral staff to have as many brigade posts as possible. Two or three years would be required to effect the chan- ges. The posts recommended for evac- uation are Forts Liscum and Davis, Alaska; Ringgold, Texas; Missoula, Montana; Niobrara, Nebraska, and Reno, Oklahoma. MEICO ADOPTS RED CROSS Nation Will Adhere to Geneva Rule of War. At Mexico City, President Diaz op ened the spring session of congress Sunday evening. In his message he states the government will instruct delegates to the Pan-American con gress to be held at Rio Janeiro ir July; that the Mexican nation has ap, proved the adhesion of Mexico to the terms of the Geneva conference re specting the neutrality of hospitals in time of war, and that the government has signified its willingness to take part in the proposed second peace con. ference at The Hague. lowa House Bars Passes. The house of Iowa has passed the antipass bill, 76 to 17,with an amend. ment to include all federal offices and & publication clause,which will require legislators to pay their way home. If the senate accepts the amendments, the measure will become a law. ‘The report that J. J. Hill is building through Canada a third transcontinen tal line with which to enlarge his sys. tem of Pacific railroads is confirmed in effect by Vice President L. W. Hill. “The report might be called approxi- mately correct,” said Mr. Hill, cau- tiously. “It contains more facts than are usually found in newspaper stories of that sort."” . Mr. Hill agreed that the hew line would probably be completed some time before the Grand Trank Pacific is built through to the ocean. “Our line,"” he said, ‘includes only 800 or 900 miles that ‘are still to be constructed west of Winnigep. ‘The Grand Trank Pacific has done nothing yet in that region. It has been stated that the the Grand Trunk Pacific must take four or fire years to finish iteline, two we would complete ours within but, or, at any rate, within three years.”’ r DAMS THE COLUMBIA wa 100 ACRES OF TIMBERED LAND SLIDES IN RIVER. Near Jerome in Colville, (Wash.) res- ervation—Flow of Great Rived Dam- med for Two Hours—Water Backed Up Eight Miles—Damage to Proper: ty Is Slight—Ferry Washed Away. _ The Black Hole cliff, containing 10¢ acres of land, heavily timbered, slic into the Columbia river recently. The slide occurred at China gapids, sis miles south of Jerome, on the Coiville reservation, where a similar slide took place on June 24th last. ‘The tremendous mass of earth dis tributed filled the river channel an¢ rose 75 feet on the opposite bank. The flow of the great river was dammed for two hours, until the powerful cur rent forced its way through the debris Since then the river has been deeply tinged with mud, The river backed up for eight miles. The sweep of waters washed away a eabing owned by Dan Laydon, a home steader. Laydon was drawn into the river and then thrown upon the bank by a wave. His hip was dislocated. The flood also carried away the ferry at Jerome. Black Hole cliff was a huge bank of black loam. Undermining by the swift current is presumed to have caused the landslide. MONTANA SQUIBBS. A. B. Keith, Sr., recently editor of the Butte Miner and one of the pro- minent newspaper men of the north: west, died at Butte recently of heart failure, aged 58. Jasper Lebo was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary at Kalispell, having pleaded guilty to illegally registering for the city election. Scott Winnett, a wealthy ranchman residing near Columbia Falls, was killed recently in a runaway. Howard E. Babcock, a well known Helena merchant, died last week at Lake Geneva, Wis., aged 40 years. He was a native of Monmouth, IIL, and came to Helena 20 years ago from Denver. The Right Rev. Jobn Patrick Car- roll, bishop of the diocese,Helena, has made the announcement from the pul- pit of the cathedral that Peter Larson of Helena had made a donation of $25- 000 toward the construction of a new cathedral on a $25,000 site donated by Colonel Thomas Cruse, the banker and mining man of “Helena. The bishop also stated that a resident of a state other than Montana had made a gift of $35,000 toward the erection of a pa- rochial school on the same block. Oth- er contributions aggregating $5,000 were announced, making the total gifts $90,000. It has been repeatedly stated by those in authority that the new line from Great Falls to Billings will not enter Great Falls via Rainbow; there- fore, the surveyors now working around Rainbow may be doing so mere- ly for their own amusement. Court at Lewiston has been adjourn. ed until the 23rd of April, owing to the postponement of several cases and the settlement of others. A bill has been passed granting the Capital City Improvement company 0: Helena, the right to construct a dam across the Missouri river in Montana. SPORTING NOTES. Manager McCarey has announced the date for the Nelson-Herrera fight. fixing Friday night, May 1, as the time It is probable that the Britt-Herman affair will be pulled off May 9 Gordon Glass, the Spokane boy, is a member of the Harvard crew of 1906, and his excellent work is attracting attention among eastern oarsmen, Solly Stroup, the Alaska champion, was easy money for Kid Scaler Friday night at Spokane. The two were to fight 10 rounds. It took the Spokane boy just one and a halt rounds to place Stroup in the clear. William Roosevelt, familarly called “Teddy,” has been elected captain of the University of Idaho baseball team by a unanimous vote. Maurice Thompson of Butte defeat. ed Kid Parker of Denver in the 16th round of what was to have been a 20 round go before the Spokane Amateur Athletic club Friday night. Isaac Tennebaum, father of Harry Tennebaum, the pugilist who dled after his glove contest with Frankie Nell, on February 28, has sued the Associated Athletic club of San Fran. cisco, which conducted the affair, for $100,000 damages, In spite of the fact that word was received stating that Walla Walla had definitely given up the idea of having a team entered in the league race this season, the baseball magnates in Spo. kane are still hopeful of securing a sixth town and carrying out the regu- lar program. Asks Peace Congress Coin, In a communication to congress sec- retary Root asks for $50,000 to enable this government to participate in the Second annual peace congress. It will Probably be held next fall. Fraeascetiasacia No Tieup In Indiana, According to advices there will be no general tieup in the bituminous fields of Indiana, | Advice should be weakened to ft the strength of the party seeking it, —<$——___ | A doctor must have patience to have patients. a CITY OUSTS “ELIJAH” Dowie ‘His Wife and Son Cast Lot With Vo. liva, the New Leader. At a meeting of 5,000 adherents of the Christian Catholic church at Zion City, near Chicago, of which John A). exander Dowie is the founder ang first apostle, Dowie's authority was re. pudiated and Willbur Glenn Voliva, who, for some time has been conduct. ing the affairs of the church, elected in his stead. Mrs. Dowle also repy. diated her husband, and their son, Gladstone Dowie, cast his lot with his mother and the new leader, Voliva, Most of the officials of the church were present at the meeting, and Dow. ie was denounced by many of those as having deceived the people and having wasted their money in extraya. gance. The meeting, however, refused to hold that he had knowingly’ errea, and John G. Speicher,the former over. seer and once second in command to Dowie, who was recently deposed, per. emptorily declared Dowie to be insane. Mrs. Dowie, in her address, also up. held that declaration. The casting off of the authority of John Alexander ‘Dowie followed the .oceipt of an 809 word telegram from Dowie, who is in Mexico, in which he peremptorily ord. ered the immediate discharge of Dea. con Alexander Grainger, financial man ager of Zion, who has been one of the most aggressive leaders in the effort to place the affairs of the church on a secure footing. Dowie also an. nounced in the telegram that a letter would follow in which other officials were named for deposition. Alihough Dowie's authority in the church has thus been repudiated, scores of the industries and homes of Zion City stand upon land the titles of which read in Dowie’s name. Willbur Glenn Voliva, the new lead. er of the church, was born in Indi- ana in 1870, and has been in the min- istry of the church since 1889. He was ordained an overseer in 1901, and soon afterward was sent to Australia. MOROCCO DEAL 1S SETTLED. Algeciras—The conference on Mo- rocean reforms has registered a com: plete accord and appointed a com- mittee to embody this accord in a formal protocol. The consummation of the work in the conference was an- nounced in the following communica- tion: “The conference has terminated its labors and accord is established upon all points. It has adopted a definite text of the remaining articles concern- ing the state bank and customs. The final article, regulating the distribution of police at ports, was adopted from the Russian draft. By it France will police four ports,Mogador, Safi, Maga- zan and Rabat, and Spain two, Teutan and Larache. France and Spain to- gether will police Tangier and Casa Blanca, subject to an inspector of po- lice. The Dutch delegate announced that his government declined to ap- point an officer. The conference has appointed a special committee to re- vise the texts of the agreement.” Germany does not appear to have gained much in the long conference at Algeciras over the policing of Mo- rocco In the agreement which has finally been reached two ports will be policed by Spain, three by a Franco- Spanish mixed police and four by a French force alone. Heretofore six Moroccan ports on the south of the Mediterranean have been policed by the French. So it seems an exclusive controi over two is abandoned, but still a partial control retained. France has yielded something, but not enough seriously to effect her interests. ‘Steel Works Shut Up Shop. The Republic Steel company of St. Louis has suspended operations with the announcement that the suspension is due to the impending coal strike situation. The plant uses 500 cars of anthracite coal a month and employs 1,500 men. Having no facilities for storing coal to meet the strike emer- gency, it was decided not to attempt to continue operations. Jealous Lover Kills Rival. A New York dispatch says: In an insane fury caused by jealousyJames Ahearn, 34 years old, a cabman, shot and instantly killed James Black, 54 years okt an upholster, in his flat at £229 Sixty-third street, fatally wound- ed Mary Woods, 30 years old, Black's housekeeper, and then put a bullet into his own brain, Ahearn died two hours later. The woman ig believed to be dying. Keep Out Strike Breakers. Ottawa, Ont., April 2.—A. B. Ayles- worth, minister of labor, has received @ telegram from the trades and labor council of Winnipeg, asking him to send an alien law officer there to deal with cases of strike breakers alleged to have been imported from the United States by the Winnipeg street railway company. The department will Invest- igate at once, ee Depew Still a Sick Man. Promises that Senator Depew would return to his place of duty by this {ime have not been fulfilled for the reason that hopes of, his family for ® complete restoration of nis health have been disappointed. He is still in re tirement in the Elliott F, Shepard es tate, back of Scarborough-on-Hudson, where he has been in seclusion for month since he suddenly left Washing: ton, See ee Mrs. Roosevelt at Havana. Havana, April 2—Mrs. Roosevelt, “ceompanied by her children, Ethel. Archie and Quentin, have arrived here a board the Mayflower. ‘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. 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Upon the strength of a reported strike of a vein of two and a half feet of ore assaying $250 to the ton, it is announced that the Ward brothers and C. 8. Chrysler, principal owners of the Wake Up Jim gold quartz mine, in the North Side district above Wallace, Idaho, intend immediately to begin the erection of a 40 stamp mill upon the Property. The building of a mill on the Wake Up Jim has been decided upon for some time, if only a satis- factory showing of ore could be got. Miners and operators of western | Kentucky district No, 23, have agreed on a wage scale and there will be ne strike in western Kentucky. In the eye socket of the skull of a hugh mastadon unearthed in the Forty Three gold run claim near Dawson a few days ago was found gravel that washed $1600 in gold. ‘Three thousand tons more ore were shipped last week from Boundary mines in B. C,, than for the previous seven days. The Le Roi strike continues to at- ‘tract a great deal of public attention, Drifting is still in progress on the 800 foot level west of the big Josle dike, and the ore body has been drifted on for about 140 feet. ‘The ore is said to maintain good values throughout ‘The largest treatment plant in Ore- gon {s located at the Granite Hill prop- erty, near Grants Pass. It is an electric plant, and is reported that in its milling and concentrating not more than 40 or 50 cents to the ton remains in the tailings, Work has been started on a property on ‘Trestle creek, near Hope, Idaho, opposite the Marguerite, and which is owned by Minneapolis’ people. Phil Young of Hope is superintending the work, A strike of significance is reported to have been made yesterday upon the Oreana, the prospect lying directly be. ‘ween the Mammoth and Tiger mines, near Burke, Idaho. ‘The strike 's being renewed through- ut the mining regions of France. A wnguinary affray has occured at Henin-Lietard. It is reported by mining men from Black Tail mountain, Pend d’Orei..e, daho, that there is a large number of |! rospectors working that part of the country, and that many properties are ing located. ‘The Granite creek egion is also said to be attracting af’ arge number of gold hunters. ; The property of the Allen brothers, peated east of Hope, Idaho, is being} | rorked and good results are being] btained. This property is a high grade old and silver proposition. q The Cosmopolitan. “The Treason of the Senate,” by David Graham Phillips, is the title of a series of scourging articles in the Cosmopolitan, the king of the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Phillips takes up the record of each conspicuously iniquit- ous member of the senate, beginning with Depew, in the March number and treats it in a tremendously effective and interest-compelling manner. This series will be as notable as the Law- son articles and more important, as the subject is a bigger one. Viquez Is President. San Jose, Costa Rica, April 2.—Li- censiado Cleto Gonzales Viquez, for- merly minister of finance, has been elected president of the republic of Cost Rica. SURELY A MIRACLE FRENCH COAL MINERS ENTOMED FOR 20 DAYS COME OUT ALIVE, Thirteen Haggard Wiser, Unaided, Escape From Pit at Courrieres— Live on Hay and Horse Meat—Tale of Terrible Sutffering—Others a Be Found. Thirteen of the 1,200 miners whe were entombed in the coal mines at Courrieres; France for 20 days were taken from the mine alive. They had lived on hay found in one of the underground stables and the morsals of food, which they took into the mine with them nearly three weeks ago. All attempts to rescue the en- tombed men had been abandoned more than two weeks ago. The sudden appearance of the im- prisoned men caused stuperfaction. A gang of salvagers had just completed their night’s work when they were startled to sce a group of miners, ter- ribly haggard and exhausted and with eyes sunken, appear from a remote part of the pit . The strongest of the party said they had broken out of a distant gallery where they had been entombed since the disaster of March 10. The rescued men were taken up the elevator, but were unable to see, ow- ing to the dazzling daylight. |The mine officials were deeply affected as the weeping survivors were taken to a hospital. The men were able to talk feebly but audibly. ‘They all asked ior news of relatives or friends and wished to go home at once. More Living Men Entombed. later crowds besieged the mines in the hope of further escapes, necessi- tating the employment of a strong po- lice force and detachments of troops to maintain order. It is said that oth. ers of the entombed miners are alive and about to be brought out, their sig- nals having been heard. One of the men rescued, a man named Nemy, said that for the first eight days the party Ate the bark off the timbers of the mine. Later they found the decompos- ed body of a horse, which they cut and ate with hay. The survivors brought up portions of decomposed horse meat, Tale of Terrible Suffering. Nemy, who was the most lucid of the miners who escaped, graphically de seribed their imprisonment as follows: “After the explosion I groped my ‘way about, stumbling over bodies and seeking refuge from the gases, 1 found some comrades sheltered in a remote nitche. We ate earth and bark for eight days. “We continued to grope among the hodies, seeking for an outlet from our prison, but were forced back time and again. We found some hay and two days afterward we found a dead horse, which we cut up and ate with the hay and bark. We suffered most for the want of water. Finally we became desperate and separated into three parties and communicated with each other by shouts. Last night we felt a draft of fresh air, which finally guid- ed us to an opening.” This party which escaped originally cumbered 20 men, of whom six dis- appeared during the groping in the Jarkness. A number of the salvage corps were counted among those brought out making the actual number of survivors 13. | Suffered From Cold. A survivor named Martin said: “We suffered intensely from cold. The chamber above us was burning, but it lid not temper the cold in the iower gallery.” Another survivor, LeFebvre, when asked if he had slept, replied: “We never closed our eyes. Some- imes we dozed, but Nemy, who took command, would not permit us to sleep.” Nemy displayed his watch, which he had wound up regularly throughout his ‘mprisonment. The watch was fast, ind therefore the survivors counted mly 16 days from the time of the ex- plosion. The rescued men are being kept in semidarkness, Dr. Loutiers, who is in charge of the patients, says they are wiffering from ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating the decomposed meat of the horse that perished near them. The floors of the hospital, where the ‘escued men are being treated, are covered with straw to prevent noise, and the patients are kept in semi larkness. The families of the patients ‘wwe admitted to see them for very brief periods. When the prefect visited the men, Nemy, the leader of the rescued party said: “I have some additional details to sive. My mine boy, Provost, was in- lured by the explosion, and I was obliged to lead and carry him during our search for the outlet, ris sharp ears heard three responses to our calls. Afterward I heard men using pickaxes, and Provost rapped on a wat- er pipe. To this we received repeated answers. It was the noise made by a working party which guided us out” Gen. F. Harrington Dead. 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It matters and between my shoulders was soins not in what form the disease may be Syeremning Gur worhing site any wed the cause is always the same—asour, fill 1 heard of and tcok 8.8.8. hit acid condition of the blood. This Piritied my blood aud made me Yoo ike vital stream has lost its purity and 2 hew man. freshness,’ and instead of nourish- ‘a ee ee ing and feeding the different parts 4"4erson, Ind. ees ie with health-giving properties, it fills them with the acids and salts of this ainful and far-reaching disease. The celd and dampness of Winter always Eitensify the pains of Rieumstiam, and the suierer to get relief from the agony, Tubs the affected ‘parts with Iiniments. oils, lotions, etc., or uses plasters and other home remedies. These are desirable because they give lemporary ease and comfort but have no effect on the real trouble which is in the blood and beyond the reach of such treatment. S. S. S. is the best rem- 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. @ e @ While cleansing the blood S. S. S. tones PURELY VEGETABLE, 2 te stomach, digestion and every * other part of the system, soothes the excited nerves, reduces the inflammation, dissolves the deposits in the joints, _ relieves all pain and completely cures this distressing disease. 8. S.S. is certain cure for Rheumatism in any form; Muscular, Inflammatory, Articn. | lar or Sciatic. Special book on the disease and any medical advice, withoug charge, to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GAs | The only daughter of the German emperor is the youngest of seven children. She is 12 years of age and is “tall, angular and pale.” This young lady is called affectionately princess schen by the people and is said to be the only one of the kaiser’s children who ever dares to take any liberties with the august head of the family. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for an: voase: of Catarrh that cannot be cured by HALT Gather Sie J. CHENEY & 09:, Prope. Toledo, oO We, the undersigned, have known F.' 5. Cheney for the iast 15 years, and believe him riecliy honorable in ‘all business trancac: Rous and Simanetally able to carry out any o>- igatiganmade by ett br cra Tass, Whoeane Brogriata, Toledo, 0, Watnixe, Kisyan d Sanvin, Whonae Sri Stirs Catatné Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur- fades of the system. Price Toe. per bottle, Bold a Drngpists. Testimonials free. ‘Hall's Family Pills are the best. Prevents Arms Reaching Carlists. Barcelona, April 2—The gunboat Pinzon is crusing off Barcelona in or- der to prevent arms and ammunition reaching the Carlists. There have been numerous seizures of rifles at Monis- trol, 227 miles northwest of Barcelona. A cheerful lie is welcomed where a 1omely truth is kicked into tne street. The quality of the tobacco raised in Greece varies greatly; some of it selis as low as 2 cents, some as high as 24 cents a pound. BURTON, HOWARD Eo sepecAttyer and Chemist, Leadville, Coto. Specimen prices’ Gold: silver, Lead, 1s gold, silver, Zoe ; gold, Se; alne or copper, $1. ‘Cyan: ide tests. ailing ‘envelopes and ‘full price List sent on applicalion. ‘Control and. umpire work solicited. References: Carbonate "Ne. Honai‘Bank,_ “eferenees: Car | The oldest lighthouse in existence ts at Corunna, Spain. It was erected in the reign of Trajan, and was rebuilt in 1634. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES, Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles, Drugpliieare euthorisedfo rend manag tt FAAS OINTMENT falls to cure in 6 to 14 days It takes 40,000 tons of copper a month to satisfy home and foreign de- mands. Mothers will find Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during teething period Gov. Pattison No Worse. Govenor Pattison of Ohio, continues to hold his own, according to the bul- lotion of the dectaes. Wat writing t0 sdverticers plenee| |B mention this paper. 5 ee a Steamer Turns Turtle. Eureka, Cal., April 2.—The steamer Newsboy, which went ashore at the en- trance to the harbor, turned turtle dur- ing the night. An effort will be made to drag her into the harbor. To Break In New Shoes. Always shake in Allen’ . & powder, weures hot, sweating: aching: woliee foe Cures corns, ingrowing nails aga uniona, Ai oo rebate farted Fae Lae Men's" Oimated, Le'kor Wy, TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Bake LAXATIVE BROMO, Quinine Tablet, Rroggiste refund movey it t tall cure. , W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. Se. The Japanese cigarette has made its appearance in London. It consists of broad strips of chocolate colored tobacco, to which is attached a card- board tube an inch long. Permanently Cured. No ftsor nervousness: FITS ar fatday sungofDr Kline ret ecve Decline, Lids i8t Aveh bt, Philadelphia, Pa With a population of only 3,315,343 Switzerland has a foreign trade of more than $400.000,000 @ year. W.L. DoucLas $322 %%3:°° SHOES & Ww. Douglas $4.00 Ct Ege Lin sea S ie | ON IR Ke py a Es Se [Se [|] Elles UA MEWS BS OO SHOR HA EO 1 SHO: (AN AM) FE! Mists toaeene Hata ores $1 0, 000 REWARD to anyone who can could take you inte any three lar lactories at Brockton, Mass., and shew you the infinite Sire with whichercry palrof shece Iseeade set Sasid realize why We Dougige S880 stat Cost more to make, why they fold dein shay fit ‘better, “wear longer, and are ot grealet WE Douoine Sire ny Macio Shove f rene or ‘Mon, $2.50, 00. " School Deets Shoes, 82-56, SEE 78. sso CAUTION — Insist, upon having W.L.Doug. wltuout his name and price smpatan Weta Fast Ooar Eyelets ised’ they il Ret Sear hey, Walt for fiisctrated cattiog W. 1. DOUGLAS, iirockton, Mass. Coffin’s Prepared Codfish {aglaw ton bore The Finest Fucking ofthe Saest Codaan = Or BE Ree Fe Eft es P SEE US SP Ere) Fs VHEEA i S/F FE ho es figs s3Ny) EF FERRY TS Ge) Sf pose, 2 (6 pf Fe See et Practienl receipts for prepariug colds tv ach bos Aak your grocerfor it: Packed only The W. H. Coffin Fish Co., Seattle. bio c. me ia os Joseph H. Tucker, Foreman. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF Letter Heads, Note H Galling Cards, Envelo and Dodgers. All Work Guaranteed Satisfactory or Money Letter Heads, Note Heads, Galling Gards, Envelopes and Dodgers. All Work Guaranteed Satisfactory or Money Refunded. One Trial is all we Ask. Locals. 21 S. Main, Helena, Mont. The man with "influence" is now out of a job; the election is over. Election day passed by uneventfully; we did not hear of a fight or even a serious dispute. Clove Smith who was arrested in connection with the Mentzel murder case, has been released from custody on bail. We are under many obligations to Mr. Callahan of the Sheriff's office for his kindness toward the PLAINDEALER. The Lincoln Day Club report that they are feeling fine, thank you, as to the result of the recent election. Preaching at St. James A. M. E. Church, cor., 5th ave., and Hoback street, Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7-30 p. m. by the pastor. Sunday School at 2 p. m. We want at this office an intelligent young lady or man, who would like to learn the printer's trade, and to become proficient in the newspaper business. Inquire at our office, 21 South Main st. Mr. Nathaniel Diggs of Boonville, Mo., is in the city looking for a location. Mr. Diggs is prominent in Masonic circles and we hope he will decide to locate in our midst. J. W. Clarke has lost his cows. She strayed, is lost or was stolen, and any information looking to her recovery will be thankfully received by Mr. Clarke. Mr. Harry Saulsburg desires to meet the young people of Helena and has called a meeting at Lloyd's Shoe Shining Parlors for Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock to arrange for a grand Easter ball. The excellent essay read by Mrs. J. R. Alexander at St. James A. M. E. Church Sunday, March 25th, which we published in our last issue, we desire to give same a wider circulation, therefore we publish it again in this issue. Lookout, there will soon be another enterprise started by our people in this city. Watch for the announcement and let the good work go on. Mr. Geo. L. Alexander came into our office this week and left an order for cards and other job work. We appreciate the same and if all of our people would also do something like this, they would greatly assist in the progress of --- s, Note Heads, ds, Envelopes odgers. factory or Money Refunded. not only this enterprise, but the progress of the race as well. The Sunday School scholars are out selling tickets for the grand Easter concert at St. James A. M. E. Church. Be sure and buy one. Mr. Harry Simmons is in the city. He had the misfortune of being in a wreck on the road of which he is employed and was badly bruised up. His wounds were painful, but not serious, and instead of going to the hospital at Missoula, he came home to be with his family until he has recovered. Mr. Chas. Johnson, janitor at the Granite Block, who relieves the elevator man at the noon hour in that building, had a sensational as well as a perilous decent on last Tuesday at noon. When on the 5th floor loaded with about a dozen passengers, the cables of the elevator suddenly broke and the entire load at a terrific rate took a decent to the basement. The escape of the passengers from serious injury was miraculous. While the elevator car was a complete wreck, the passengers, aside from a severe jolting and shaking up, escaped serious injury. The Ladies' Aid Sewing Circle met Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. A. Marshall. A pleasant and profitable session was reported. Next Thursday afternoon the Circle will be entertained by Mrs. Morris at the residence of Mrs. A. Napper. Be sure and get one of those best shines, shaves or haircuts at Lloyd's place under National Bank of Montana. Mr. A. Marshall, Superintendent of St. James Sunday School, is busy training the scholars for their grand Easter Concert for the Monday evening after Easter. Mrs. Jordan Allen is visiting in Butte. There will be a general meeting of the citizens of Helena Monday evening at Lloyd's Shoe Shining Parlors. The meeting is called to discuss matters of vital interest to the welfare of the colored citizens of Helena. Everybody is requested to come out and take part in this meeting. If you are a race man, and have the pride that goes with it, subscribe for THE PLAINDEALER and keep posted on the doings of the race. We call special attention to the readers of this paper to our ad. columns and advise them to patronize those who patronize us and by so doing you will receive the full value of your money and at the same time show your appreciation of those who are willing to help a race enterprise. Come in and see us and leave orders for all kinds of job work --- EasteR Novelties. Exclusive Buents. Tonsorial Parlors. Pool and Billiards. Free Library and Cynasium Elegant Furnished Rooms in Connection. Steam Heat, Baths and Electric Lights. Professional Headquarters: 121-23-25-27 CLORESTEET COPYRIGHT The Goldsmith Joseph Priss Da CLOTHCRAFT and we guarrantee satisfaction or money refunded. Mr. George Lee, will leave for Hunter's Hot Springs next Wednesday. Ward Cole with the advent of sprink-like weather, is busy wielding the brush. Some of our local talent are organizing a baseball club and they say that it will be a hummer. Of course it is summer now and Missourians will have to be shown. The King murder trial is on docket for next week in Judge Smith's court. The PLAINDEALER Job Office will be running full blast next week. The Soldiers of the Seventh Infantry will go on a hike Saturday, Prof. Anderson who has contemplated a trip east, has indefinitely posponed the same. Our genial friend Frank Mitchel was a very busy man last Monday. Lookout out for the Special edition of THE PHAINDEALER which will be published in the near future properly illustrated with half tone cuts and sketches of prominent citizens. Get in on it. W. E. Scott purchased last week a fine pedigreed Scotch Terricr. Subscribe for the PLAINDEALER and keep posted as to the news. Advertise your wants in these columns ann we guarrantee quick and satisfactory results. Call at this office for 'want ad.' rates. Lloyd's Boot Black Parlor, Pantatorium AND BARBER SHOP. 'Phone 410 Llovd's. Free Calls and Delivery. Under National Bank of Montana. Special Department and Special Attention to Our Lady Patronage. Patrons Please Report Any Inattention on Part of Employes. SUITS, OVERCOATS The New Shade Bivalve Gray. For the Swell Dresser. 15 to $35 OUR GREAT Blue Serge, $15.00 IT'S A HUMMER. The Hub L. Weigel, Fres. Knox that. Lloyd's Boot and Bar Shoes Cleaned, Vests Dusted, Tricusers Dust Coats Dusted Overcoats Lightw Overcoats Medical Overcoats Heal Ladies Coats and Pressed, 25 to 30 Sponged 'Phone 410 Lloyd Under N Special Department Patronage. Patronage or IBAR and Cafe, Pool and Bil- and Gynasium Rooms in Con- eat, Baths and Headquarters: FORESTEET MONT. Graye and Gorden, Prop. The New York Ary Goods Company Helena, Montana. White and Colored Shirt Waists $1.50—Rich values, oceans of them, regular $3.00 to $3.50 for a few days $1.50 Dress and Walking Skirts $4.95—Good values, colors and black, knitted, side pleated, circular and circular gore $10 and $12 values, at $4.95 $1.95 Coats and Jackets, $1.95—In meltons and beaver; colors tan, red, brown and black, $10, $15, $20 values, $1.95 $1.25 Sateen Petticoats $1.25—$2.50 and $3.00 Sateen Petticoats, made with acordeon pleating and full flounce $1.25 Women's Vests—45c and 50c quality Women's Jersey Ribbed Vests summer weight, high neck and long sleeves, ecru color, at 26c Vests and Pants—65c quality of Women's Soft Cotton Vests or Pants, Jersey ribbed, Forest mills make, the spring weight, special 40c Summer Vests—12c quality Women's or Children's Summer Vests, low neck, sleeveless, all sizes, special, each 10c Women's Union Suits—50c quality Women's Union Suits, low neck, knee length, sleeveless, lace trimmed, all sizes, special suit 25c PRICE LIST: Lloyd Vernon Graye, Prop., Harry E. Saulsburg, Mgr. Leave Orders at 16 South Main Street. Men's Socks—A great offer—Men's ea gant French hose, of every conceivable style; regular 50c to 75c values, cho per pair Men's Collars—Men's pure linen colla all styles, sizes and shapes, regular quality, each Men's Underwear—Men's Derby Ribb Underwear, heavy weight drawn made with double seat, colors blue flesh, 75c quality, at each Men's Night Shirts—Men's Muslin Nig Shirts, made from twilled Wamus muslin, are reinforced throughout quality, each Children's Hose—15c and 20c qual Children's Fast. Color Ribbed Hos sizes 5 1-2 to 7 1-2, odds and ea black only, special this sale Misses' Hose—25c quality Misses' Eau Fine Ribbed Cotton Hose, warrants fast colors, sizes 5 1-2 to 9 1-2 spec this sale, pair Women's Hose—35c quality Women's Fine Gage Lisse or Cotton Hose or black, spliced heels and toes, doo sole, special pair Women's Hose—35c quality Women's Fine Black Hose, lace instep and be effect, colors tan, white and bla special pair.