Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vol. 1. THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Published Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. J. B. BASS, . . . EDITOR. Subscription $2.00 per year, Strictly in Ad- vance. 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. PEACE! PROSPERITY!! UNION!!! The Funeral. I was walking in Savannah past a church decayed and dim, When there slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn; And a sympathy awakened, and a wonder quickly grew, Till I found myself environed in a little Negro pew. Out at front a colored couple sat in sorrow, nearly wild; On the altar was a coffin, in the coffin was a child. I could picture him when living,—curly hair, protruding lip,— And had seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried Southern tiip. But no baby ever rested in the soothing arms of Death, That had fanned more flames of sorrow with his little fluttering breath; And no funeral ever glistened with more sympathy profound. Than was in the chain of teardrops that enclasped those mourners round. Rose a sad old colored preacher at the little wooden desk, With a manner grandly awkward, with a countenance grotesque; With simplicity and shrewdness on his Ethiopian face, With the ignorance and wisdom of a crushed, undying race. And he said: "Now don' be weepin' for dis pretty bit o' clay, Fo' de little boy who lived dere, he done gone an' run away! He was don' very finely, an' he 'preciate your love; But his sure 'nuff Father want him in the Large House up above. "Now he didn't give you dat baby by a hundred thousand' mile. He jus' think you need some sunshine, an' he lent it for a while! An' he let you keep and love it till your hearts was bigger grown, An' dese silver tears you sheddin' your jes' de interest on de loan. "Here's your oder pretty childrun! — Don't be makin' it appear Dat your love's got sort o' 'nopilized by dis little feller here; Don' pile up too much your sorrow on de little mental shelves, So's to kinder set dem wonderin' if dere no account demselves. "Jus' you think, you poor, deah mounah, Crepin' long o' er Sorrow's way, What a blessed little picnic dis yere baby's got today! Your good fadders and good mudders crowd de little feller round In de angel-tented garden ob de big Plantation Ground. "An' dey ask him, 'Was your feet sore?' an' take off his little shoes, An' dey wash him, an' dey kiss him, an' dey say, 'Now, what's de news?' An' de Lord done cut his tongue loose; den de little feller say, 'All our folks down in de valley tries to keep de Hebbenly way. "An' his eyes dey brightly sparkle at de pretty tings he view; Den a tear come, an' he whisper, 'But I want my付ees too!' But de Angel Chief Musician teach dat boy a little song; Says, 'If only dey be fait'ful, dey will soon be comin' long." "An' he'll get an education dat will probably be worth Seberal times as much as any you could buy him on earth. He'll be in de Lord's big school house wid out no contempt or fear, While dere's no end to de. bad tings might have happened to hin here. So, my pooah, dejected mounahs, let your hearts wid jeusus rest, in' don' go to criterism' dat ar One wat knows de best! He have sent us many comforts,—He have right to take away,— o de Lord.' but Lord be praise an' glory, now an' eve.—Let us pray." —W. C. subscribe for the PLAINDEALER I keep posted as to the news. Ruined Grand and Palace Hotels, San Francisco. The Rev. Thomas Dixon, with his "Clansman" can now gloat with ghoulish glee over the conditions which that imfamous and hell-inspiring play has wrought in this particular bailiwick, that it makes demons out of those with a propensity for evil, which would make the chattering jargon appear as a refined product of modern civilization beside the creations of Dixon's ignoble teachings. This hypocrite sailing under false colors as a disciple of Christ may stir up strife, prejudice and race hatred into the hearts of the unintelligent, weak kneed, but as sure as there is a God, the day of reckoning will come. As long as such barbarism and shuch atrocities are committed, we may expect that portion of the scripture to be apparent which says "God works in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. The San Francisco Holocast. Right on the heels of the barbarism displayed at Springfield Mo., on Easter morning; comes the appalling disaster which has laid in ruins and devasitation, one America's greatest and most beautiful and most beautiful cities, in which Ruined hundreds if no thousands of lives The civilized world stands aghast at the horror and calamity with this stricken city has met. The latest report as we go to press indicate that the entire city has been destroyed; the loss of property being second to the great Chicago fire. The city has the sympathy of the entire civilized world and will in this hour of distress be shown the same by their profers of aid add sympathy. A Popular Verdict. The jury in the King trial which occupied the entire week in Judge Smith's court last week, brought in a verdict of NOT GUILTY at at 8-30 o'clock Monday evening. The verdict was an eminently popular one, and demonstrates the value of an honorable life in whatever community or circumstance it may be the lot of a person to come. The defendant in this case was reared in this city. Her life has been such, that in the long drawn out trial, there was no one te say ought against her; this was also true of her entire family. With such environment it is but natural that she would in her hour of distress have friends, and from her past record great weight would be given her version as to how her Helena, Montana, Friday, April 20, 1906. Dewey Monument, St. Francis Hotel and Union Square, San Francisco. But just think of her contention had her life been different? It pays to live right and do right. It is a great assistance in time of trouble. As To The Union We were hampered this week in getting out our paper on time by on account of the local tpyogsaphibal union. In order that we may be correctly unperstood, we desire to state our position in regard to the union: We do not oppose them as we believe in the adage, "That in union there is strength" and we have no objection to any of our employees being a member thereof. But as an organ of the colored people we would stulify ourselves by being or attempting to be a part of any organization which as we understand discriminates against our people. If we could be could be convinced that we would get the same recognition regardless of color, we would then consider the proposition of making this a union shop. But until we are convinced, we shall be compelled to do the best we can with an open door. we believe that every man should conduct his busines to the best of his ability without outside interference as to how he should run it. Grand and Palace Hotels, San F We have no fight to make with the union and all we ask is to be let alone to work out our own destiny. Governor Folk is to be commended by all of our best citizenship for the prompt action which he taken in the premises to uphold the law, by sending the troops to Springfield to overcome the savage brutes, and by causing the arrest of the members who composed the mob. Dewey Monment, S John E. Spurlock, Virginia's noted Negro gunner, who formerly lived in Manchester and Richmond, is heir to $1,175, which has been left him by Captain H. C. Taylor of the U. S. Navy. The Negro has been regarded as one of the best employees of his race in the Navy. Race News. At Columbus, Ohio, a roller skating rink to cost $8,000 is to be erected for the accommodation of colored patrons. The plans are all ready and the building will be started in a few days the contractors promising to rush it through to completion within a month. It will be so arranged that the sides and back can be opened in the summertime, making a splendid dancing pavilion. The floor and all arrangements will be unsurpassed by any white rink in this section. The building will be 200 feet long and 90 feet wide, giving a floor space of 18,000 square feet. The interested party is Ralph W. Tyler, and he will personally manage the affair. Colored people are delighted over the news. It is also contemplated to add a billiard and bowling alley department, but this will not reduce the floor space for skating. This section has got the roller skating craze badly, and it is the opinion of all that this rink will prove a gold mine in addition to being the means of furnishing to colored young men and women a Francisco. handsome and delightful place of amusement. A few days ago at Cincinnati, Ohio, a herd of elephants broke loose from their keepers as they were being loaded into cars at the Hagenbeck winter quarters, and after tearing down fences and uprooting trees, charged in a body on the First Baptist Negro church at Elmwood Place, and the congregation fled for their lives. The leader of the herd broke down the St. Francis Hotel and Union Square door of the church, but before he could enter the worshippers had departed by way of the windows. The stampeders then amused themselves by tearing up the church yard. The elepants, numbering eleven, were captured by mounted men, after creating about $500 worth of damage. After the ex- Chattering Jargons, On Native Heath Outdone Springfield Missouri, the Latest Recruit to Act of BarBarism Which Cause the Civilized World to Look Aghast at the Horors of Barbarism Committed. Three Men Who in all Probability Were Innocent of any Crime, Without Trial or Casual Examination, Murdered by Brutes. Feindish Acts of a Mob which Emulates the Lessons Taught by Tillman, Vardaman, Rev. Thos. Dixon, et al. On last Saturday night at Spring field Mo., a town of about 35,000 population, a howling mob forcibly token from the county jail, three American citizens and foully murdered them, and about the only excuse for this foul and uncivilized act was that they were Negroes. Gov. Polk promptly sent the state guard to the scene and the cowards who would commit such deeds sneaked back into obscurity. The ringleader have been arrested and it is promised all will be brought to justice. GOV. FOLK TALKS. This howling mob of murderous savages even went so far as to select for their scene of action the statute of liberty, enlightening the world. They actually hanged the from the arm thereof and after hangidg them built a fire up against the statute and burned them, and in savage glee danced around as a Chattering Jargon or an Indian in the palmy days of his savagery. This henious offense was all committed on the word of man's wife, who was out riding with another man. She claimed an attempt had been made to assault her, but she postively stated that neither of the men lynched were the men. This rabble and offal of civilization celebrated the resurrection of Chirst the next morning by coming out in their newest and best and poking in the ashes hunting for souvenirs and making merry. The Clansman had played there a few nights before and had served its hellish mission all too well. citement had died down the members of the congregation, through a committee, made a demand on the circus management for damage and it was promptly granted. On his visit to Booker T. Washington's school, Andrew Carnegie stopped to inspect a colossal cheese in the products exhibit of the institution, and to tell the Rev Dr. Toliferro, pastor of the Baptist church at Opelika, Ala., a white man, that Booker T. Washington is the greatest man in the world. "And not only that," said Mr. Carnegie, "if Booker T. Washington does not go to heaven I do not want to go there. He is a man without sin." Mr. Carnegie quare, San Francisco, has given more than any other man to Tuskegee Institute, but he had never visited the place until this week. It is believed that he shortly will announce a gift of $3,000,000 to the Institution. "Bob" Small, a white man, is to be hanged for the killing of a --- No. 6. Gov. Polk promptly sent the state guard to the scene and the cowards who would commit such deeds sneaked back into obscurity. The ringleader have been arrested and it is promised all will be brought to justice. GOV. FOLK TALKS. St Louis, April 17,—In a speech here to-night at the Commercial Club banquet, Gov. Folk said: "We have recently had an occurrence in our state that has shocked the civilized world. Strange to say there are men, good men, too, who approve of what the Springfield mob did last Saturday Nifiht, when three Negroes prisoners were lynched by hanging them to the outstretched arm of the statute of Liberty, holding aloft the torch of civilization. "Whatever may have been the crime of the wretches, irrespective of their guilt or innocence, it was murder for the mob to kill them. The may have dsserved death, but it was death at the hands of the law and not by a mob. We have a government by law and not by mobs. Murder and criminal assault are punishable by death in this tate, and a failure of justice in the case of the latter crime is unknown. "The action of the Springfield mob was dastardly, cruel, inhuman and cowardly." Negro, and John Hall, another white man, implicated in the killing of the same Negro, is to serve a life sentence in the penitentiary of South Carolina. Last year the two men, each of whom is less than 21 years old, while drunk on a public highway, shot and killed a Negro named Frank Scott. They were convicted at Darlington. The case was appealed to the supreme court, which has affirmed the verdict of the lower court. The Crime of a Black Skin. Three negroes suspected of crime, but two of whom were declared by their white employees to be absolutely innocent, were hanged and burned without trial, without even a casual investigation, by a mob in Springfield, Mo., early Easter morning,—Easter morning, remember! The sheriff and several other officers did their utmost to save their charges from torture and death, but most of the police held aloof, and the mob was irresistible. Had these suspects been white they would have been given a chance to prove their innocence; they would not have been put to death without due process of law. But the feeling against the black race in Springfield has been strong for some time. And it was because of this feeling that the negroes of that place made a plea that "The Clansman," a fierce propaganda of race hatred, should not be presented in that city. The appeal was in vain, Continued on Page 4. SAN FRANCISCO RUINED Over 1000 Lives Lost by an Earthquake and Fire. San Francisco---This city was struck by an earthquake at 5 o'clock a.m., Wednesday The whole city is in ruins and all south of Market street is burning. Later. No girl likes to be pinched in a Leslie Peters, 16 years old, shot and mercenary way. HUNG THE NEGROES WORK OF ANGRY MOB AT SPRING- FIELD, MISSOURI. Took Them From Jail and Strung Them Up In Center of the Public Square and Built a Fire Under Them as They Hung—Negroes Had Assaulted a White Girl. Springfield, Mo., April 15!—A mob tonight took two negroes from the county jail and hanged them to the electric tower in the center of the public square and built a fire under the men as they hung. The negroes were Horace Duncan and James Copeland, both under 21 years of age. They were in jail charged with assaulting Mabel Edmondson, a white girl. Fully 5000 people went to the county jail about 9 o'clock, and with sledge hammers and telephone poles literally tore the jail to pieces. The two suspects were dragged from the jail and taken to the public square and hanged. It is fully a mile from the jail to the square, and the mob marched down one of the principal streets of the town, shouting and firing pistols. Mabel Edmondson came here recently from Monett, Mo., to obtain employment as a domestic servant. The other evening she was riding in a buggy with Charles Cooper, a young man of Springfield. In a secluded part of the city the couple were held up by two negroes. The man was knocked unconscious and the girl dragged from the buggy and into the woods by the roadside and assaulted. The two negroes lynched were suspected and arrested, but were only partially identified. Circuit Attorney Arthur Sager was a witness of the tragedy. He slipped down into the cellar of the jail and cut off the gas, hoping to thus confuse the mob and defeat its plans. He was just a second too late, as the mob had secured the negroes. Sheriff Horner tried to argue with the mob, but it was determined, and hooted and insulted him. Jailer King was assaulted when he refused to give up the keys. He finally gave the mob some keys, which were not for the negroes' cell, however, and the mob was forced to smash in the iron doors. Sheriff Wilson Crane of Polk county was present and tried to induce the mob not to hang the negroes. The mob, beside wrecking the jail, attacked the sheriff's house, demolished the furniture and rendered the sheriff's wife unconscious by threats and violence. Will Allen, a negro charged with the murder of a man named Rourke last January, was next taken from jail by the mob that lynched Duncan and Copeland, and hanged in the public square. Allen was perfectly calm and collected as he jumped from the scaffold. The rope about his neck broke after his weight fell on it, and he dropped into the charred remains of his former companions in prison. He was taken up on the tower again and this time his captors were more successful in their work. "I swear that I am not guilty of killing Rourke," were his last words. The lynchings took place under a statue representing "Justice," on an electric light tower. When Duncan and Copeland were dragged from their cells in the jail they could say nothing but "Oh," "Oh," "Oh," and it is thought that long before they were dragged into the square that they were completely unconscious from fright. When they were strung up to the statue of Justice their bodies were limp as though they were dead. Neither made the slightest resistance. It developed about midnight that there were two mobs, one well organized and composed of men, and another composed altogether of rowdies. The first mob reached the jail at about the same time as did the mob composed of boys and ruffians in general. While the mob was making a great noise outside the jail, shooting, threatening and throwing stones at the jail windows, the organized mob was getting in its best work. killed Ralph Burns, a negro of bad reputation, one of two who attacked him while he was escorting a young lady home from a party. The negroes accosted him at the gate of the young lady's home and one of the negroes fired two shot from a revolver at him, but neither shot took effect. Peters immediately fired four shots at the negroes, killing one of them and the other escaped. Peters went to the police station an gave himself up, but he was released without bond. The news of the killing of another negro spread like wildfire through the city and hundreds of people left their beds and hastened to the public square. The militia on guard prevented any voilent outbreaks and after a time dispersed the crowds and no further trouble is feared, though it is believed that the killing Monday night will tend to increase the feeling against the negroes. People who had been disposed to sympathize with the nergoes are incensed at this latest negro assault. Four men are now under arrest charged with being leaders in the mob that broke into the county jail and lynched three negroes. One of the alleged mob leaders is in jail and three have been released on bond. Charles Cannefax and Oney Calfrey were the first men arrested. WASHINGTON NOTES. Walker A. Henry of Spokane has been nominated by the president for receiver of the land office at Waterville, and Wm. F. Haynes of Coulee City was also nominated for the position of register. W. A. Nicholls of Ellensburg was named receiver at North Yakima. The discovery has been made that the amendment to the Seattle city charter providing for the recall of councilmen, believed to have been carried at the election last month, was probably defeated. The new line to be built by the Northern Pacific between Spokane and Pasco will be a portion of the North Bank road now under construction. Fire at Chelan recently caused a loss of ever $5000. The flames started in a shoe shop, and before they were quenched had destroyed the Haycock and Kingman buildings. The jury in the case of Battista Rigazin, an Italian of Roslyn, brought in a verdict of manslaughter. The town of Pullman has received assurance that the long contemplated branch line to a connection with the Riparia-Lewiston road is to be built in the near future. A three year agreement between the brewery unions and the members of the Northwestern Brewers' association at Seattle has been signed and labor troubles that have existed for several months have been satisfactorily settled. Six Chinese merchants and two Japs are now boosting for Spokane as members of the 150,000 club. Two railway mail clerks were bruised, the passengers severely shaken up and traffic was interrupted for more than seven hours Saturday afternoon because of the derailment of the locomotive and five cars on the Great Northern company's westbound train between Adrian and Ephrata. The accident was caused by a broken wheel on the engine tender. The supreme court has sustained a reversion clause in a deed which provided that in case of the sale of intoxicating liquors on the premises the property should revert to the donors. The decision was rendered in the case of Lewiston Water & Power company vs. E. N. Brown, Henry Reed and W. R. Wilson, from Asotin county. The Pullman club plan to make Pullman the headquarters for the pure bred stock interests of the Inland Empire. Returning to his post of duty at Ft. Lawton from Ballard, where he spent a three hours' leave of absence with his fiancee, Miss Alma Carlson, perfecting arrangements for their wedding, which was to take place immediately upon his discharge from army service on April 19. Sergeant Roger Cornett of the Tenth infantry was struck by a passenger train on the Great Northern tracks near Seattle and instantly killed. Colonel De Long and John Wray were drowned in the surf at Long Beach Sunday. Belle G. Spencer ended her life on Easter morn at Spokane by taking carbolic acid. She was despondent. She came from Shakopee, Minn. A GRAND CEREMONY LAYING CORNERSTONE AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. President Roosevelt Took Prominent Part as Well as Leading Citizens of the Nation—President's Speech Very Impressive—Masonic Fraternity Active Participants. In the presence of a distinguished assemblage, with the president of the United States taking a prominent part, with the supreme court and the senate, the house and diplomatic corps as spectators, and before a large concourse of people, the cornerstone of the office building for the representatives was laid with impressive ceremonies Saturday afternoon. The address of the day was made by the president, who spoke on "The Man With the Muck Rake." Today, with impressive ceremonial the cornerstone of the largest office building in the world solemnly devoted to the primary purposes of legislation and the comfort of its legislators, was laid with the Masonic fraternity as the active participants, assisted by President Roosevelt, who, like Presidents Washington and Filmore, is a Mason and who, following immemorial custom, delivered the principal address. In commemoration of today's event the Masonic fraternity of the District of Columbia had been ordered into line, and, with the grand lodge of Masons, escorted by the several commanderies of Knights Templars marched to the building. In the northeast section of the building, according to Masonic usage, the cornerstone was placed. Work on that section had been held back pending the ceremonies, but the construction of the outer part of the rest of the edifice has progressed up to the second story. Previous to the ceremonies a copper box two and a half feet long and 18 inches wide was placed in the stone in the presence of the grand treasurer of the grand lodge. The box contains many rare and unusual articles, together with the coins of the United States and the series of postage stamps now in use. Unlike other boxes used for similar occasions, this box, which was made by one of the employees of the capitol, has a series of small compartments arranged, so that envelopes containing the articles many stand upright instead of living flat, as has been the custom heretofore. This box was hermetically sealed and in position when the grand master of Masons began the ancient ceremony of placing the cornerstone in position. The building dedicated will be classic in design. It suggests in general division, the Garde Heuble, on the Place de la Concorde, in Paris, while the pavilions are modeled on those of the Colonna de Louvre. Architecturally, the front is divided into two parts, the lower corresponding to the first story of the building, constituting "a rusticated" base, on which, extending through the second and third stories, is the colonnade, surmounted by its entablature and balustre. Some idea of its size is given by the following frontages: On B street, 476 feet; on New Jersey avenue, 470 feet; on First street, 452 feet, and C street, 348 feet, making a total frontage of 1740 feet, or approximately one-third of a mile. The building will contain 410 rooms for members, together with a multiplicity of caucus rooms, audience rooms, postoffice, restaurant and other features of a modern office building in any large city. The long unbroken cornice of the building leading up naturally to the capitol building and thence to the great dome, the crowning and dominating unit in the group of buildings now on Capitol plaza, are calculated by its designers to conduce to the desired effect of the making the capitol building more imposing and executive. Address by President. "No good whatever will come from the warped and mock morality which denounces the misdeeds of men of wealth and forgets the misdeeds practiced at their expense; which denounces bribery, but blinds itself to blackmail; which foams with rage if a corporation secures favors by improper methods and merely leers with ladeous mirth if the corporation is itself wronged. "The only public servant who can be trusted honestly to protect the rights of the public against the misdeeds of a corporation is that public man who will just as surely protect the corporation itself from wrongful aggression. If a public man is willing to yield to popular clamor and do wrong to the men of wealth or to rich corporations, it may be set down as certain that if the opportunity comes he will secretly and furtively do wrong to the public in the interest of a corporation. But in addition to honesty we need sanity. No honesty will make a public man useful if that man is timid or foolish, if he is a hothaded zealot or an impracticable visionary. As we strive for reform we find that it is not all merely the case of a long uphill pull. On the contrary, there is almost as much of breaching work as of collar work; to depend only on traces means that there will soon be a runaway and an unset. "The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did suc- ceed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth. On the other hand, the wild preachers of unrest and discontent, the wild agitators against the entire existing order, the men who act crookedly, whether because of sinister design or from mere puzzleheadness, the men who preach destruction without proposing any substitute for what they intend to destroy, or who propose a substitute which would be far worse than the existing evils—all these men are the most dangerous opponents of real reform. If they get their way, they will lead the people into a deeper pit than any into which they fall under the present system. If they fail to get their way they will still do incalculable damage by provoking the kind of reaction which in its revolt against the senseless evil of their teachings would enthrone more securely than ever every evil which their misguided followers believe they are attacking. "More important than aught else is the development of the broadest sympathy of man for man. The welfare of the wageworker, the welfare of the tiller of the soil, upon these depend the welfare of the entire country; their good is not to be sought in pulling down others, but their good must be the prime object of all of our statesmanship. Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made; spiritually, and ethically, we must strive to bring about clean living and right thinking. We appreciate that the things of the body are important; but we appreciate also that the things of the soul are immeasurably more important. The foundation stone of national life is, and ever must be, the high individual character of the average citizen." "Again, the national government must in some form exercise supervision over corporations engaged in interstate business—and all large corporations are engaged in interstate business—whether by license or otherwise, so as to permit us to deal with the far-reaching evils of overcapitalization. This year we are making a beginning in the direction of serious effort to settle some of these economies by the railway rate legislation. Such legislation, if so framed, as I am sure it will be, as to secure definite and tangible results, will amount to something of itself; and it will amount to a great deal more in so far as it is taken as a first step in the direction of a policy of superintendence and control over corporate wealth, engaged in interstate commerce. This superintendence and control ought not to be exercised in a spirit of malevolence toward the men who have created the wealth, but with the firm purpose both to do justice to them and to see that they in their turn do justice to the public at large. The first requisite in the public servants who are to deal in this shape with corporations, whether as legislators or executives, is honesty. This honesty can be no respecter of persons. There can be no such thing as unilateral honesty. The danger is not really corrupt corporations; it springs from the corruption itself, whether exercised for or against corporations. "No good whatever will come from that warped and mock morality which denounces the misdeeds of men of wealth and forgets the misdeeds practiced at their expense; which denounces bribery, but blinds itself to blackmail; which foams with rage if a corporation secures favors by improper methods and merely leers with hideous mirth if the corporation is itself wronged. "The only public servant who can be trusted honestly to protect the rights of the public against the misdeeds of a corporation is that public man who will just as surely protect the corporation itself from wrongful aggression." COAL MINERS IN A FATAL RIOT Johnstown, Pa., April 19. — Three men were shot dead, a boy fatally wounded and a mining engineer, Eugene Delaney, seriously injured in a riot at Windber among the striking coal miners. The place is in a state of terror. Sheriff Begled has summoned and an appeal has been made to Governor Pennypacker for troops. Several of the rioters have sustained slight injuries. When something like order began to appear in the town it was learned that the names of the dead men were Pietro Miartini, Paul Zills, leader of the rioters, and Antonio Mazuka. The boy who was fatally wounded is Charles Foster, 12 years old. LET THEIR POLICIES LAPSE President Paul Morton Says Small Holders Have Showed Fright A statement given out by the Equitable Life Assurance society says: "Investigation shows that the fears engendered by the developments of the year resulted in the lapsing of 27,385 policies for $10,000 or under, while only one policy for $250,000 was allowed to lapse. "Of the entire volume of lapsed policies in the Equitable, 84 per cent were for $3000 or less." The proceedings in connection with the separation of Norway cost Sweden $277,775, according to the Swedish budget. FOUR PERSONS KILLED IN CATE OLIC EDIFICE IN CHICAGO. More Than 400 Persons, Mostly Ladies and Children, Were at Easter Service Saturday Night When a Boy Opened Church Door and Shouted "Fire"—Congregation Stamped. Chicago, April 15.—During a panic which followed a cry of fire Saturday night while 400 persons were participating in the Easter service in the St. Ludillmas Roman Catholic church, Twenty-fourth street and Albany avenue, three children and one woman were killed and a score of others injured, several seriously. The majority of the worshipers in the church at the time the false alarm of fire was given were women and children, and in a few minutes all were in a tangled mass, fighting to escape from the supposed danger. Many persons jumped through the windows, but the greater portion crowded to the center aisle. The extra weight proved too much for the floor, and some of the beams supporting it broke. The cracking of the timbers increased the fright of the now terrified women and children, and everyone in the place became panic stricken, men, women and children fighting desperately with each other in an effort to reach the outside. The women and children suffered most in the struggle, and when the church was finally emptied three children were lying dead in the aisles and one woman was so badly hurt that she died while being removed from the church. Trampled to Death. The dead: Mrs. Kate Kanik, knocked down and trampled upon; died from internal hemorrhages. Emma Hotka, 5 years old; trampled to death. Barbara Hermanek, 10 years old; crushed in the crowd. Lillie Gunat, 9 years of age; trampled to death. Fully a score of other persons, principally children, were more or less injured, but none fatally. A boys prank was responsible for the accident. While Rev. N. Farnik, pastor of the church, was offering the evening prayer one of a crowd of boys who had been loitering 'outside the church suddenly pushed open the front door and shouted "Fire." Seeing the serious effect his words had on the congregation the boy ran away, and the police were unable to find him or to learn his identity. MINING NOTES. A new shipping mine, the Preston, is added to the Boundary, B. C$_3$ list last week. The introduction of a bill at Ottawa by the representatives of the Lord's Day alliance of Canada, or at its instigation, to close all industries in Canada on the first day of the week, is agitating the minds of the smelter superintendents of the Boundary, who freely state that such a law is out of the question for smelting works, which must be operated continuously, owing to the great cost of blowing in and blowing out the blast furnaces. "The greatest rush the world has ever known will be made into central Alaska within the next few years," said L. C. Dillman, the real estate man of Spokane, who is now interested on the coast and in Alaska. An unconfirmed report has been afoot for several days that the owners of the Jumbo Mining & Milling company are negotiating with eastern people for the sale of the property. Bar silver, 64 5-8c; Mexican dollars, 50c. Arthur James, a capitalist of New York, and a party of New York investors are in British Columbia, where they will inspect mines and smelting plants at Nelson, Rossland and Phoenix. The development of the Centre Star at Rossland continues to yield good results, particularly with the 10th and 11th levels of the War Eagle. MOTOR CRANKS ALL BATTY Accident Insurance Co. Balks at Auto mobilista' Claim. The Ocean Accident company has refused to pay a big accident policy in New Orleans on the death of M. L. Hancock, a millionaire killed in an automobile accident in Los Angeles several months ago, on the ground that the company can not pay claims on automobiles, as most of them are mono-maniacs on speeding machines and, therefore, the company is not responsible. Sunflower in Girl's Ear an embryotic sunflower growing in the ear of an little Grace Barrett, daughter of a Delaware, Ohio, preacher, was removed recently and the child's hearing, which has been steadily growing more defective, was completely restored. The child, it is supposed, stuffed the seed into her ear while at play last fall. Examination showed that a perfectly formed and healthy sprout had developed. Banquet to Capt. Harry Lee Pekin.—Captain Harry R. Lee, late commander of the American legation guard, has started for Manila. Captain Lee was given a farewell banquet by the commanders of the several legation guards. Bourke Cochran Has Been Engaged to Defend Them. Attorney E. F. Richardson of Denver has docketed, the supreme court appeals from the decision of the circuit court of Idaho in the cases of Charles H.oyer, William D. Haywood and George A. Pettibone, who are held in custody at Caldwell, Ida, on the charge of complicity in the murder of ex-Governor Steuenenberg. Moyer is president and Haywood secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, and they, as well as Pettibone, were implicated in the crime by a confession made by the man Orchard, who is charged with placing the bomb with which Steuenenberg was killed. The appeal is from a decision by the circuit court refusing to grant writs of habeas corpus. Richardson has asked the supreme court to advance the cases in order to secure a hearing during the present term of court. Interest in Miners' Meeting. Denver.—Notices are being sent out from the headquarters of the Westera Federation of Miners in this city to local unions urging a large attendance at the annual convention that will open in this city May 28. This is expected to be the greatest convention in point of attendance in the history of the organization, because of the widespread interest aroused over the arrest of President Moyer, Secretary Haywood and Geo. A. Pettibone, on the charge of the murder of ex-Governor Steuinenberg of Idaho. It has been customary for small unions to deliver their proxies to delegates from other unions in the same districts in order to save the expense of sending men to the conventions, but acting-Secretary James Kerwin is requesting locals wherever possible to send delegates instead of proxies to the convention this year. It is said that Maxim Gorky, the Russian revolutionist, will take part in the gathering, Congressman Bourke Cochran of New York and Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, who it is said have been engaged as additional counsel for the accused federation officials, are also expected to attend the convention. COAL MINERS MAKE GAINS COAL MINERS MAKE GAINS Pittsburg, April 17. — Chairman Francis L. Robbins of the Pittsburg Coal company has announced that all the Hocking Valley, Ohio, mines except those of the Sunday creek Coal company had started work, the operators and miners having concluded and signed the interstate and district wage scales. The mines in operation represent an annual production of 3,750,000 tons of Hocking Valley coal, half of the entire Hocking Valley output, and employ 6500 men. O. R. & N. ROUND- HOUSE BURNED Umatilla, Ore., April 19.—The O. R. & N. roundhouse in this city was destroyed by fire, and several locomotives were destroyed. Loss, about $40,000. The cause of the fire is not known. OREGON ITEMS. The prohibitionists of Oregon have placed in nomination their state ticker as follows: For governor, I. H. Amos; United States senator, long term, Rev H. Gould; secretary of state, T. S. McDaniel; state treasurer, Leslie Butler. Clarke Nelson, the registering clerk of Umatilla county, has completed the work of checking up his books, and announces that the exact total registration for Umatilla county is 3456. After two years of preliminary work articles of incorporation have been filed by the Oregon Coast & Eastern Railway company to construct 1200 miles of railroad in Oregon. The capital stock is placed at $10,000,000 and is subscribed by New York and St. Louis capitalists. The right of way has been secured throughout the distance of the proposed construction, 40 men having been at work securing it. states one report, and work will begin within the next four months. The line will be built from Humboldt Bay, Cal., up the coast to Portland and lines constructed through central Oregon from Coos Bay to Snake river forming a junction with the coast line and probably connecting with the Moffat road and the Chicago & Northwestern. Plot Revolt in Morocco. According to the London Daily Mail's correspondent at EI Arelah, Morocco, a young relative of the sultan will soon be proclaimed ruler in the south, and a formidable revolt against Fez is maturing at the city of Morocco. Miss Nellie Grant Is Ill. Miss Nellie Grant, a grand daughter of President U. S. Grant and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Grant of New York is seriously ill. Peace Conference Later It is stated on good authority that it is now certain that the Hague peace conference will not meet this summer. Australia's flour exports to England have more than doubled since 1900, when they were valued at $2,095,000. 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. Usual form, liquid, or new form, tablets, 100 Doses One Dollar. CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children—Experience against Experiment. Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. Chas H. Hitchcock Get What You Ask For! Cascarets easy citrus Live Conscious Food. Exiting Jermouth. WET WEATHER WISDOM THE ORIGINAL 132 TOWER'S TRADE MARK FISH BRAND SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES CATALOGUES FREE Cruiser Brooklyn Coming Home. The United States cruiser Brooklyn flagship of Rear Admiral Sigsbce, has left Messina for the League Island navy yard. In answer to a query, Berry, formerly the English executioner, states that not one of the 500 persons whom he hanged was a total abstainer. CASTOR The Kind You Have Always Been ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, an personal supervision for over to deceive you in this. C “Just-as-good” are but Exp health of Children—Experien What is Castoria? Castoria is a harmless subs goric, Drops and Soothing S contains neither Opium, Mo substance. Its age is its gua and allays Feverishness. It Colic. It relieves Teething T and Flatulency. It assimilat Stomach and Bowels, giving The Children’s Panacea—The The Kind You Have Bears the S In Use For Ow THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURR Get What Y THERE is a Reason— Why the Good People of America buy Cascarets as Fast as the Clock Ticks. Every second some one, somewhere, is Buying a little Ten-Cent Box of Cascarets. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6—60 times to the Minute, 60 Minutes to the Hour, 3600 Boxes an A hour, 36,000 Boxes a Day of Ten Hours, 1,080,000 Boxes a Month, and then some. Think of it—220,000 People take a Cascaret tablet each day. Millions use Cascarets when necessary. The Judgment of Millions of Bright Americans is Infallible. They have been Buying and Taking Cascarets at that rate for over Six years. Cascarets Cement Cement Cure Consisting of Staining Similarly It is not an Experiment, not an Accident or Incident, but a sound, Honest Business, based on Time-Tried-and-Tested Merit, never found wanting. There is a Reason Cascarets are the implacable foe of All Disease Germs; the incomparable cleanser, purifier and strengthener of the entire Digestive Canal. They Act like Exercise on the Bowel-Muscles, make them strong and active—able to Help Themselfs do their work—keep themselves clean. Cascarets are the safe-guard of Innocent Childhood against the Dreadful Death-dealing Dangers that threaten the Lives of the Little Ones. They are Purely Vegetable, absolutely Harmless, always Reliable and Efficient. Twelve Tons of Gold The steamer Campania, which sailed from Queenstown Sunday, has on board what is said to be the largest consignment of specie ever sent across the Atlantic on one vessel. The total value of the specie is about $6,250,000 and its weight is close to 12 tons. Teacher—Tommy, what is a widow? Tommy—A woman that wants to get married again.—Exchange. Coffin's Prepared Codfish (in glass top boxes) The Finest Packing of the Finest Codfish Practical receipts for preparing codfish in each box Ask your grocer for it. Packed only by The W. H. Coffin Fish Co., Seattle. Bought has borne the signa- nd has been made under his over 30 years. Allow no one counterfeits, Initiatives and experiments, and endanger the ence against Experiment. ASTORIA Institute for Castor Oil, Pare- syrups. It is Pleasant. It morphine nor other Narcotic guarantee. It destroys Worms cures Diarrhoea and Wind Frobles, cures Constipation ates the Food, regulates the or healthy and natural sleep. The Mother's Friend. Ye Always Bought Signature of Flitchus. Over 30 Years. RAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY You Ask For! a true, faithful, loyal servant of Mankind. Over Five Millions of Dollars have been Spent to make the merits of Cascarets known, and every cent of it would be lost, did not sound merit claim and hold the constant, continued friendship, Patronage and Endorsement of well-pleased people year after year. * * * There is also a Reason— Why there are Parasites who attach themselves to the Healthy Body of Cascaret's success—Imitators, Counterreiters, Substitutors. They are Trade Thieves who would rob Cascarets of the "Good Will" of the people, and sneak unearned profits, earned and paid for by Cascarets. A Dishonest Purpose means a Dishonest Product and a Disregard of the Purchasers' Health or Welfare. Beware of the Slick Salesman and his ancient "Just as Good" story that common sense refutes. Cascarets are made only by the Sterling Remedy Company, and the famous little Ten Cent "Vest Pocket" box is here shown. They are never sold in bulk. Every tablet marked "CCC." Be sure you get the genuine. FREE TO OUR FRIENDS! We want to send to our friends a beautiful French-designed, GOLD-PLATED BONBON BOX, hard-named in colors. It is a beauty for the dressing table. Ten cents in stamps is asked as a measure of good faith and to cover cost of Gascarate, with which this Delight trinket is loaded. Send to-day, mentioning this paper. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. SIX MEN PERISHED FATAL EXPLOSION ON BATTLESHIP KEARSARGE. Atlantic Fleet Had Been for Weeks Engaged in Most Severe Drills in Caribbean Ssa--Admiral Evans Reports and Message of Condolence Is Sent by Navy Department. Two years ago to a day later than the fatal Missouri disaster, as every sailor immediately recalled, on a Friday and the 13th of the month, six men were done to death in the forward turret of the battleship Kearsarge by one of those accidents which acquire additional terror for sailors because of their obscure origin and of the almost impossibility of prevention. The Atlantic fleet had been for weeks engaged in most severe drills in the waters of the Caribbean sea, culminating in the quarterly target practice. This practice was about concluded with most satisfactory results up to Friday, and it was confidently expected at the department upon the basis of preliminary reports received that all records would be broken in the matter of rapidity of fire and efficiency of the gunners. But just at the close of the week's work at the department, came a cablegram from Rear Admiral Evans, commanding the Atlantic fleet, telling of a dreadful accident on one of his best ships, the Kearsarge. The news came from Caimanera, a little cable station at the mouth of Guantanamo bay, indicating that the Kearsarge itself had arrived at that place. A slight telegraphic error, requiring the consumption of some time to effect the deciphering of the message, added to the anxiety of the officials, as soon as they had made out the fact that a serious accident had occurred. Lieutenant Joseph M. Graeme, gun ampire, has been sent to the Maryland in a very critical state. The following have since died: Lieutenant Hudgins, turret officer; Peter Norberg, gunner's mate; Theodore Naegley, seaman; Anton O. Thorsen, seaman; Julius E. Koeester, turret captain, first class; Ellis H. Athey, seaman. The following were dangerously injured by the accident, recovery doubtful: W. King, ordinary seaman. The dead were buried at Guantanamo. The vessel was uninjured. A message of condolence was telegraphed to the commander in chief of the fleet, Admiral Evans, by Acting Secretary Newberry. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarch that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarch cure. J. HENYEN & CO., Propa, Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially to carry out any objection to his firm. WEST & TRUX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonial free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Photographer—Try and look pleasant, please! Farmer Jones—Get out. This picture is for some relatives that want to come and stay a month with me.—Judge. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during teething period FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Klaine's Great New Restorer. Send for Free $3 trial bottle and treat- Dr. R. H. Kline, Ld., 991 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. In the first edition of the London Medical Credit Guide, shortly to be issued, will be the names of 20,000 living in London and vicinity who have forgotten to pay their doctors' bills. W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W. L. Douglas $4.00 Glit Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOEMAKER SOLE AGENTS FOR W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6, 1876. CAPITAL $2,500,000 W.L. DOUGLAS MAKES & SELLS MORE MEN'S $3.50 SHOES THAN ANY OTHER 0,000,000 disprove this statement. if you can buy my three large stores at Brockton, Mussel, and you can infinity care with which every pair of shoes is made, you can realize how much they cost. If you can wear them, why must they wear it better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe. W. L. Douglas Strong Made Shoes for Male Models Dress Shoes, $2.50, $2.50, $1.75, $1.50 CAUTION. -Insist upon having W.L.Douglas and make no substitute. One genuine without his made price is not on bottom. Fast Color Euletels used; they will not wear brazzy. Write for illustrated Catalog. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. W. H. Stowell & Co., Assayers. Stowell Drug Co. Spokane, . . . Wash. MILP WHAT JOY THEY BRING TO EVERY HOME as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play—when in health and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injurious or objectionable nature and if at any time a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used: remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, because they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform all reputable physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an original method, from certain plants known to them to act most beneficially and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret remedy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co. plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required. THE KING OF BLOOD PURIFIERS No other remedy has given such perfect satisfaction as a blood purifier and tonic or is so reliable in the cure of blood diseases of every character as S. S. S. It is known as "The King of Blood Purifiers," and the secret of its success and its right to this title is because "IT CURES DISEASE." It is an honest medicine, made entirely of purifying, healing roots, herbs and barks, which are acknowledged to be specifics for diseases arising from an impure or poisoned condition of the blood and possessing tonic properties that act gently and admirably in and possessing tonic properties that act gently and admirably in the up-building of a run-down, weakened or disordered condition of the system. One of the greatest points in favor of S. S. S. is that it is the only blood remedy on the market which does not contain a mineral ingredient of some kind to derange or damage the system. It is the one medicine that can be taken with absolute safety by the youngest child or the oldest member of the family, and persons who have allowed their systems to get in such condition that most medicines are repulsive to the stomach will find that S. S. S., while thorough, is gentle and pleasant in its action, and has none of the nauseating effects of the different mineral mixtures and concoctions offered as blood purifiers. As every part of the body is dependent on the blood for nourishment and strength, it is necessary that this vital fluid be kept free from germs and poisons. So long as it remains uncontaminated we are fortified against die. uncontaminated we are fortified against disease, and health is assured; but any impurity, humor or poison acts injuriously on the system and affects the general health. Pustular eruptions, pimples, rashes and the different skin affections show that the blood is in a feverish and diseased condition as a result of too much acid or the presence of some irritating humor. Sores and Ulcers are the result of morbid, unhealthy matter in the blood, and Rheumatism, Catarrh, Sorefula, Contagious Blood Poison etc., are all deep-seated blood disorders that continue to grow worse as long as the poison remains. But all blood diseases are not acquired; some persons are born with an hereditary taint in the blood and we see this great affliction manifested in many ways. The skin has a waxy, pallid appearance, the eyes are often weak, glands of the neck enlarged, and as the taint has been in the blood since birth the entire health is usually affected. In all blood troubles S. S. S. has proved itself a perfect remedy and has well earned the title of "KING OF BLOOD PURIFIERS." It goes down into the circulation and removes all poisons, humors, waste or foreign matter, and makes this stream of life pure and health- S.S.S. PURELY VEGETABLE Diseases, Scrofula, Contagious Blood Poison and all other blood troubles are cured permanently by S. S. S., and so thorough is the cleansing of the blood that no trace of the disease is left to break out in future years or to be transmitted to offspring. If you are in need of a blood purifier get "THE KING" of them all, S. S. S.—and good results are assured. Book on the blood and any medical advice desired furnished without charge to all who write. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease FREE. Write Allen S. Olmsted, Lre Rey, N, Y, for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease. It cures sweating, hot swollen, aching feet. It makes corn cobs, ingrowing corn and bunions. All drugstores sell it. 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Affirms Russian Loan News In spite of ugly rumors at at Petersburg to the effect that there has been a hitch in the loan negotiations, it is positively affirmed that the loan will Gentlemen:—S. S. S. is used as a family medicine in our home. I myself have taken and always found it what it is claimed to be. It thoroughly cleanses the system of impurities, increases the appetite, improves the digestion, and builds up the general health. I have given it to my children with fine results. It promptly restores the appetite and clears the skin of all eruptions. It is a very fine blood tonic and has my hearty endorsement. 124 S. 9th St., Lebanon, Pa. P. H. THOMPSON. sustaining. Nothing reaches inherited blood troubles like S. S. S.; it removes every particle of the taint, purifies and strengthens the weak, deteriorated blood, and supplies it with the healthful properties it needs and establishes the foundation for good health. As a tonic this great medicine has no equal, and it will be found especially bracing to weak, anaemic persons. Rheumatism, Catarrh, Sores and Ulcers. Skin THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, ATLANTA, GA. be signed April 21 for a milliard francs (about $250,000,000). General Henry E. Tremain, the newly elected president of the Republican club of New York city, has a splendid war record. He enlisted as a volunteer and rose to be a brevet brigadier general in 1865. He was one of the founders of the Grand Army of the Republic in New York state and always has been active in politics. Colored Clergy Appeal. The colored clergy of Chicago will appeal to President Roosevelt for an official investigation of the lynching of the three negroes at Springfield, Mo. Saturday night. A resolution was prepared Sunday asking the president to take action, and it will be laid before the Chicago African Methodist Episcopal Ministerial association to morrow. SWIFT'S SPECIFIC, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. JOB DEPARTMENT Joseph H. Tucker, Foreman. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF Letter Heads Galling Garden and D All Work Guaranteed Sat Letter Heads, Note Heads, Galling Gards, Envelopes and Dodgers. All Work Guaranteed Satisfactory or Money Refunded. One Trial is all we Ask. 21 S. Main, Locals. 21 S. Main, Helena, Mont The boys who are getting up the All Star Baseball Team held meetings on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, they are very enthusiastic over the prospects, and there is no doubt but what they will get up a fast team. The Sunday School gave a concert at St James A. M. E. Chruch. Sunday evening; which was well attended, and from which quite a neat sum was realized, for the benefit of the Church. Mrs. Henry Johnson of Butte, who has one of the finest dwellings owned by our people in that city is erecting a new modern five-room brick residence. 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. Mrs. Rev. Lydia Allen, who is the regular conference evangelist for this section, while at Butte and Anaconda recently, preached at both churches in those places. We could see our esteemed fellow citizen, Miles York, smile a block away the first of the week. We later on learned the cause, a young lady visitor had arrived Sunday night. Mother and child are doing nicely. If you want to show race pride, subscribe for the PLAINDEALER. Bring us your job work. Our press is now running at its full capacity. Drop in and compare our work and prices with the other offices in the city. Much anxiety has been felt in this city as to the fate of numerous acquaintances, friends and relations who formerly lived in Helena. Easter Day Exercises at St. James A. M. E. Church on Last Sunday. The members, officers, and pastors of St. James A. M. E. Church are to be congratulated on not only the able sermon of Rev. Jordan Allen at the 11 o'clock services, but for the beautiful decorations of flowers, etc., in keeping with the occasion. The church was profusely decorated with geraniums, ferns, evergreens, and other house flowers, and to add charm to the beautiful decorations, there, were numerous canaries with the music of the choir, intermingled with the sweet voices of the Sunday School children; all seemed to --- Hds, Note Heads, Rds, Envelopes Dodgers. ntisfactory or Money Refunded. Helena, Mont. join in one mighty chorus of the anthem, "He Has Risen." Rev. Allen, at the 11 o'clock services, preached a beautiful and instructive Easter Sermon, his text being "He is not here, he has risen." In the afternoon at 2.30 the Sunday School had a special Easter Service which was highly entertaining and instructive to the older folks, as well as to the children. Sunday evening the regular services were given over to a splendid program, arranged by the Sunday School, which was creditably rendered as follows: Opening Chorus. The Sunday School; Prayer, The Pastor; Duett, Misses Anderson and Goung; Numbers, Miss Florence Anderson, Mr. Chas. Cole; Duett, Misses Emma and Lena Dorsey; Recitation, Miss Florence Anderson; Easter Greeting, Mr. Carrol; Song, Miss Anderson; Recitation, Miss Lottie Ford; Recitation, Miss Ruth Hooper; Chorus, Sunday School; Recitation, with violin accompaniment by Mr. Carrol, Ed Johnson; Recitation, Miss Oppie York; Song, Miss Alma Bass. A large and appreciative audience greeted the children, and gave them encouragement. The program was well rendered. Special mention might be made of Miss Anderson's song, Miss Ruth Hooper's recitation, and also of Master Ed Johnson's violin rendering. The Helena Giants. A colored baseball organization was launched on last Thursday ever to play ball this season. The team has organized under the cognomen of the Helena Giants. It is composed of some rattling, good, fast player who no doubt will give a good account of themselves on the diamond this season. They haue signed such players as Jos. Marshall, Willie Wooley, Ward Cole, Jos. Brown, Clover Smith, Jos. Smith, Jas. Howard, Gus Mason, Chas. Graves, Jos. Lewis, and have in view several other promising players out of which they expect to hove a crack team which will uphold the reputation of the Capital city, in the baseball world. J. B. Bass was elected as business manager, Ward Cole, captain, J. C. Brown sect., Gus Mason, treas. Last December there was published in the New York and Chicago papers the predictions of --- A Black Skin continued from Page 1. and while this play did not create race hatred in Springfield, it intensified it, and gave eloquent encouragement to the passions that resulted in this tragedy. It is a terrible crime to be born black, especially in this "Land of the Free." Thomas Dixon, author of "The Clansman," used to be a minister of the gospel. What does he think of the Easter Services in Springfield, Mo.?—Kansas City Times. 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. Lloyd's Boot Black Parlor, Pantatorium AND BARBER SHOP. Special Department and Special Attention to Our Lady Patronage. Patrons Please Report Any Inattention on Part of Employes. Prophet Spangler of the East Side District, New York, for this year. A Helena man cut the prediction out of a Chicago paper, and yesterday when the news came of the disaster he looked up the clipping, and found the New Yorker had predicted the earthquake shocks on the coast. Spangler is the man who predicted the assassination of President McKinley. This prediction of Spangler follows: Dissolution of Russia. Overthrow of Turkey. Assassination of the Czar. Assassination of the Sultan of Turkey. Prevention of three wars by President Roosevelt. Protracted race war in the south. Destructive spring floods in the United States. Destructive eruption of Mount Vesuvius; activity of Mount Pelee and Popocatapetl; volcanic eruptions in all parts of the world; eruption of many volcanoes now supposed to be extinct. Great loss of life at sea by storms. Destruction of two Western cities by cyclones. Earthquakes in all parts of the world; destructive earthquakes in California and the Philippines. Rebellion in Spain. Great disturbances all over Europe. Spangler says further that the summer of 1906 will be hot and sultry throughout the temperate zone, with a high death rate.—Helena Independent. When the convicts at the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., were called for breakfast Monday, March 26th, Guard J. W. Wood of Macon, Mo., was pounced upon by "Sonny" Anderson, a Negro prisoner, who stabbed him to death. Anderson also stabbed William Sheridan, a murderer, who went to the guard's aid. His wounds are probably fatal. Anderson then seized a hose and directed a stream of water on those who attempted to capture him. Thereupon the guards shot him to death. In a cell in the county jail at Pittsburg, Pa., U. S. Gray, a Negro, bemoaned the loss of his perfumed baths, and held a handkerchief to his nose to put out what were to him most atrocious prison odors. Gray was a porter in a down town department store, and he and three other Negroes were arrested, charged with stealing over $2,000 worth of goods from the store. The police state that Gray is the most fastidious man they have ever seen. Every morning he emptied into his bath half a dozen bottles of imported cologne, and afterward sprayed himself from head to foot with an atomizer filled with the most expensive scents to be found in the store where he was employed. Read THE PLAINDEALER for the news. 'Phone 410 Llovd's. Free Calls and Delivery Under National Bank of Montana. SPRING STVLES 1906. Men's Fine SUITS and OVERCOATS Our Suits and Overcoats are Equal to the Average $18.50 and $20.00 Lines. Established 1866 The New York Dry 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 $8 $10 and $12 values, at $4.95 $1.95 Coats and Jackets, $1.95—In mcltons 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 accordeon 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, ceru 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 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 PRICE LIST: Lloyd Vernon Graye, Prop., Harry E. Saulsburg, Mgr, Men's Socks—A great offer—Men's elec gent French hose, of every conceivable style, regular 50c to 75c values, choic per pair 25 Men's Collars—Men's pure linen collars all styles, sizes and shapes, regular 19 quality, each 8 1-3 Men's Underwear—Men's Derby Ribb Underwear, heavy weight drawers made with double seat, colors blue and flesh, 75c quality, at each 500 Men's Night Shirts—Men's Muslin Nig Shirts, made from twilled Wamsu muslin, are reinforced throughout, 10 quality, each 800 Children's Hose—15c and 20c quality Children's Fast Color R.bbed Hose sizes 5 1-2 to 7 1-2, odds and end black only, special this sale Misses' Hose—25c quality Misses' Exn Fine Ribbed Cotton Hose, warrant fast colors, sizes 5 1-2 to 9 1-2 this sale, pair Women's Hose—35c quality Women's Fine Gage Lisle or Cotton Hose, t or black, spliced heels and toes, doub sole, special pair Women's Hose—35c quality Women's Fine Black Hose, lace instep and boo effect, colors tan, white and black special pair. IBAR and Cafe, Pool and Bilt ry and Cynasium Rooms in Con heat, Baths an headquarters: LORESTEET. , MONT. Graye and Gorden, Prop. Pantatorium