Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vol. 1. MONTANA PLAINDEALER Published Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. J. B. BASS, . . . EDITOR. Description $2.00 per year, Strictly in Ad- dence. Advertising Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter April 12 19, at the Post Office at Helena, Montana, after the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Press all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. EACE! PROSPERITY!! UNION!!! Welcome to The Eagles Next week the Eagles with their lions will swoop down upon the vital City, not in hostile spirit wever to feloniously devour us, it to accept the hospitality which is been offered them to hold their usual Arie in this city. The local order has spared no ins or expense in getting every ing in readiness to make the stay the Eagles which will congrete from all over the state, a asant and profitable one and in the assistance of all of the zens, there is no question but at their welcome shall be royal; Mayor will no doubt present in the keys of the city and call the scream of the Eagle. the membership of the Eagles over the country is made up of he hearted and broad gauged and there is no organization worthy of the freedom of the and the hospitality of its citizens than that of the Fraternaler of Eagles. e Rev. R. C. Ransom Episde. The humiliation traetment accorded that able and distinguished wine, the Rev. Reverdy C. Ranm of Boston, Mass., who was to have delivered the Commencement dress at Normal, Ala., is indeed be deplored, and if reports from liable sou ces are true, shows upide to the character of Prof. W. Council which we could have ever conceived. We are glad that people of his home city, Boston, are ascertained the facts and are loyally standing by Dr. Ransom we know to be an able, honor- and dignified gentleman. In diametric contrast to his journe- in the south, we had the honor new years ago of inviting him to assas to keliver the principal adrs for the Lincoln Day Club, and his eloquent and forcible force on that occassion still rings our ears. We left nothing undone to make stay a pleasant one and nothing this demeanor gave us the slight-provocation to think he would under false colors and we verily save that the reports sent out in the south to be a slander and al pure and simple. People who live right, try to do nothing and have something, we nothing to fear from the rab-shiflless and immoral cowards in have no standing themselves would bring all down to their aid of falsehood and viciousness. Boston, Mass., June 2, '06 the colored people of Boston of facton are deeply stirred up indignities to which thier townman, Rev. Reverdy C. som, pastor of Charles Street M.E. church, was subjected by white passengers in Tennessee who mobbed him and drove brutally from his seat in the Pullman car and by the colored principal of the industrial school at Normal, Ala., who because of the assault upon him by those Tennessee ruffians not only forbade him delivering the Commencement address he had been invited to deliver by this same principal, but turned him away from the grounds without even offering him shelter, rest or food. Especial resentment is felt here by the colored people over the false reports sent out by the Southern branch of the Associated Press and over those sent out by principal of the school at Normal Ala. Rev. Ransom, coming straight back from Alabama, arrived in Boston Wednesday night completely exhausted from his long fast and suffering from injuries received going down. It has been found out that Rev. Ransom at noontime was in the dining car, that he did not speak a word of German or French to any one, that he was conversing with no one when attacked. An hour before a ladp had asked him from a seat across the aisle if he were a Frenchman pointing to the foreign tags on his suit case and he had replied in English, indicating he knrw about a foot of French. Not two dozen words had passed between them. Previously Rev. Ransom-had given the porter a copy of his Garrison Centennial oration. He bought his ticket, including Pullman in Boston. His wife who was with him says he especially inquired if he as a colored man would be molested. He addressed his assailants in Enlish at all stages. The uncomplimentary reports as to Rev. Ransom's condition by the school principal have also been found to be absolutely false and undeserving of belief anyway, inasmuch as neither this principal nos his alumni were courteous enough to meet the distinguished visitor. Rev. Ransom's requests to see the principal were denied. None of the messengers at the building on the outskirts of the grounds to which Rev. Ransom had been taken in a carriage, would tell him why he would not be allowed to deliver his address or discuss the matter. They simply told him the principal was busy and had sent orders for him to leave the place at once. POLITCAL SNAPSHOTS By the way in which different states are endorsieg bryan, it seems as though we he lands at Castle Garden, he will be tendered by the democracy the Presidential nomination on a silver platter. By the way, what is the name of that fellow who was the last Democratic nominee for President? If we remember correctly he was from some place in New York state. It looks as though the popular, able and brilliant young stalwart Republican, Edward Horskey, is about the man to take LaCroix's measure this fall providing the Democrats are foolish enough to nominate him. F. D. Coburn who refused the senatorship tendered him by Gov. Hoch of Kansas, is not the first Kansan to refuse a senatorship. Gov. Humphrey appointed the Hon. Geo. R. Peck to the U. S. Senate to succeed Senator Plumb, deceased, and he too declined. Senator Thos. H. Carter, it appears, cuts considerable ice in and around Washington. What became of the recent great agiation for a primary election law? Did the fixer kill it in embryo. Helena, Montana, Friday, June 15, 1906. Spirit of the Negro Press. The two speeches dellivered by President Roosevelt at Hampton and Howard were filled with good advice and sound sense that might be given to buy people. In both of them he confined himself almost wholly to those fundamental the importance of which is not recognized by a people low in the scale of civilization. He dwelt on the points of conduct, sobriety, thrift and economy, just such things as should be impressed upon the minds of three-fourths of the people of this country, and perhaps upon a larger per-cent. But as a matter of fact the people whom he addressed on these occessions were not of the class who are without definite and fixed ideas of what constitutes useful living and good citizenship. They had already made response to the demands of this civilization and and their lives are an amen to what he had to say. In view of this it does seem that the President might have spoken to the students of these two schools on a plane which would have shown that he regarded them as having reached the grammar grade of advancement. However much it may insisted that what is said on these occessions is applicable to all people alike, we cannot free ourselves of the impression that the advice is given because it is h. g o y n COOK WITH GAS. Gas Ranges Sold at Absolute Cost. Connestions Free. CASH OR ON EASY PAYMENTS A Call at Our Display Room Will Convince you that Gas is the Quichest, Cleanest and Safest Fuel Always Ready When You Need It. Costs Quichest, Cleanest and Safest Fuel Always Ready When You Need It. Costs Nothing When You Don't. Helena Light and Railway Company. thought to be especially needed by all of the race; that the mere fact of a brown skin calls for primitive lessons, regardless of the conception of life or the attainments of those who listen. We do not wish to be overly sensitive on this point, but we do believe that there is too much assumption that a brown Negro, simply because he has a brown skin, requires a special brand of intellectual entertainment. We want to hear about those larger affairs of human life and endeavor; of the duty and relations of each to each, and all to each, not as black or white men, but as MEN. We hope to hear some time of Mr. Roosevelt making just such an address to just such an audience as he found at Hampton Institute and Howard University.—Freeman. The sorriest spectacle in this whole, wide, round world is the man or woman who is walking around alive—vet dead. Dead because they are living in the past, in the days which are gone by and which we will never see or know again. The Negro, as a race, is largely living in the past; wedded to the things and conditions which used to exist. He is etill talking about the things which happened and obtained during the war, or just after the war. Somehow he refuses to see that the tallow candle, the stage coach, the old-fashioned farmer and the old-timed societies have almost entirely disappeared. Somehow he refuses to see that his occupations in which he once had a monoply are swiftly passing into the hands of white men. Somehow, he refuses to awake and realize that the white men and women who used to befriend him are either nearly all dead or have quietly withdrawn from him. Somehow, he, even with forty years of schools and churches, refuses to make the religious progress which everybody has made and is making. The whole world has changed. The electric line of progress rushes the cars by him, while still stands at the station, in doubt or fear of himself, thinking of the good, old daws of the fast walking mnle and the fast trotting ox. Isn't there some way to arouse our people and get them in the train before it is too late? Isn't there some way to teach our men, women and children the lesson of organization, political and financial? Isn't there some one who can teach our Negro societies, churches, clubs and organizations the proper place for Negro money? t and Safest Fuel You Need It. Costs Isn't there somebody with love, real love, sure enough love for his own race, to stand up in the pulpit and preach the doctrine—that the past is deud, ahd that they who are now living in past are dead too? Isn't there somebody somewhere who is willing to stand and preach by his living daily example what the Negro professional men can do when he receives Negro support? That the Negro merchant can thrive when the Negroes give him their patronage? Isn't there somebody, somewhere who feels it his God-given duty to to teach by actual daily practice the Gospel of Race Help? How long are we to think about the times when Negros were holding all the best posittons of labor, domestic and public service? How long are we going to think about those days when wages were high and employment sought the man? How long, how long, how long are we going to be ALIVE—YET DEAD.—St. Louis Herald. The packers and the insurance companies will shy at political campaign funds in 1908. Reputable merchandise is the only sort we offer, and REAL BARGAINS can be found here at all times. If we are not favored with your trade, give us a trial, for our forty years of actual Helena Dry Goods experience, backs all we sell. At all times we handle only up-to-date Dry Goods, and ready to wear garments that you can feel assured is in proper taste. Come have a visit and we will go into more details. SANDS BROTHERS GO. Helena, Montana. ```markdown ``` Children's Day. The Children's Day Exercises at St, James A. M. E. church on last Sunday evening were a credit not only to the Sunday school but to the church and community also. It was an inspiring sight to be present, listen to, and she the children do credit to their parents, and they could congratulate themselves that their efforts to properly rear and educate them, are not in vain. Great credit is due the teacher of the Sunday school for the successful rendition of such a magnificent programme. The carchch was tastfully decorated with flowers distributed about the rostrum in profusion. Miss Ruth Hooper had charge of the evening's program and did herself credit for the prompt and satisfactory manner in which she disposed of the extensive exercises, Mrs. N. Ford's recitation was perhaps the best of the evening ane her rendition of the same was suberb and all pronounced he effort a master piece of elocution. Miss Lena Dorsey'e recitation was also a good one and full of pathos.; her enunciation perfect and if she applies herself along this line we predict for her a great future. The primary class of the school rendered a song entitled "Nature's Call'iwhich was well received. The recitations of Willie Green, Myrtle Tolden and Miss Alma Bass were above the average and excellently rendered. Mrs. A. Napper's class in dialogue ond song, captured the audience in the splendid rendition of their flower song. Miss Ella Anderson sang with splendid voice a solo which was well received. Other number that were creditably rendered were as follows: Recitation, Olga York; Recitation, It Will Pay You It Will Pay You Arthur P. Curtin. Reliable Housefurnisher, Grand Street. OTHERS GO Montana. Billy Donnell; Recitation, Albert Marshall; Song, Calata Ford; Recitation, Tressie Ford; Song, Carrie Dorsey. PROGRAMME The following programme will be rendered on the 18, 19 and 20, in the Zanzibar Music and Entertainment Parlors; Monday: 1. Zanzibar Quartette in new and up to datesons. 1st Tenor, J. J. Anderson; 2d Tenor, Emmett Latty; Bariitone, Jos. C. Brown; Basso, Jos. Bernard. 2. Eureka Lewis, Buck Dancer 3. Cuban Sandow The Strong Man 4. Piano Solo Yankee Council Overture Prof Jos; J, Anderson Tuesday: 1. Piano Solos (a) Belle of the Season, (b) Under Fire Prof Jos J Anderson 2. Songs, (a) Just my Style, (b) My Illinois Prof Jos J Anderson 3. Buck and Wing Dancing 4. Zanzibar Quartette 5. Cuban Sandow, Strong Man Wednesday: 1. Piano Solo and Song, Stars and Stripes 2. Baritone Solo J C Brown 3. Tenor Solo Emmett Latty 4. Bass Solo Jos Bernard 5. J J Anderson in Songs with Zanzibar Quartette, (1) Loving Henry (2) Hiram Greene (3) Just a Bunch of Wild Flowers 5, Buck Dancing Eureka Lewis 7, Cuban Sandow The Iron Eater Graye and Gordon Props. Prof. Jos. J. Anderson, Musical Director. Percy Witmer the poplar Recorder of Deeds is conducting that office to the entire satisfaction of his constituents and they will no doubt show their appreciation of the same. Prof. W. E. Harman, State Super intendent of Public Instruction, has for quite a long seige, experienced a strenuous time having been on the road attending school commencements and other educational meetings. Pay You YOUR FURNITURE OF CURTIN YOUR CARPETS OF CURTIN YOUR DRAPERIES OF CURTIN YOUR LINOLEUM OF CURTIN YOUR RANGES OF CURTIN YOUR CROCKERY OF CURTIN YOUR BEDDING OF CURTIN YOUR TINWARE OF CURTIN will pay you to trade here. The y get the best and newest in every man inferior goods are sold for D. Curtin, --- No. 14. A Review of Happenings In Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal The sailors strike at San Francisco is ended William Jennings Bryan, his wife son and daughter are at Dresden. Dr. Parks Ritchie, dean of the University of Minnesota, has tendered his resignation to the governor. A reception given by Ambassador Luke Wright recently was one of the most brilliant social functions ever seen in Tokio. Stockyards to rival the present scene of packing house industries are to be founded by Sir Thomas Lipton near Cary, Ind. The identity of the murderer of Mrs. Alice Kinnan, who was struck down on the stoop of her home in New York is still a mystery. Mr. Blackburn of Kentucky has been elected chairman of the democratic conference committee to succeed Senator Gorman. Mrs. John E. Madden has been granted an absolute divorce from her husband, the horseman, on the ground of gross negligence. The village of San Quirulicio, near Calbaga, on the island of Samar, has been burned by the Pulajanes, but no casualties have been reported. The Mexican Central freighthouse an doffers at Chihuahau, Mexico, together with 50 cars of merchandise, were destroyed by fire recently. Loss $250,000. Henri Brisson, formerly premier, who was elected provisional president of the chamber of deputies, June 1, has been definitely elected president of the house. The convicts in Sing Sing and the other prisons throughout the state of New York will have honor marks attached to their clothing as a reward for good conduct. The first freight competition between Yokohama and Shanghai has been inaugurated by the Nippon Yusef Kaisha, one of the leading Japanese steamship companies. Cadet Harold S. Hetrick of Connecticut received the much coveted honor last Tuesday of being graduated at the head of his class at the United States military academy. Governor Edward Warfield has announced the appointment by him of ex-Govenor Pinkney Whyte of Baltimore to succeed the late United States Senator Arthur Pue Gorman. David Hobbs, former customs inspector of the Canadian Pacific railway, is under arrest in New York. It is alleged that Hobbs is more than $55,000 short in his accounts. A 10,000 gallon water tank crashed through a three story brick building at Pittsburg causing a rear wall to fall out and injuring seven persons so that they had to be taken to hospitals. It is announced that the new line from Casper, Wyo., to the Shoshone reservation, which is to be openel July 16 to July 31, will be opened for traffic in time for all passengers who intend to apply for land. The explosion of an oil stove in an apartment at Syracuse, N. Y. resulted in the death of Mrs. Desmond Davis, aged 26; Mrs. Homer Alexander, sister in law of Mrs. Davis, and her 3 year old daughter, Gladys. King Victor Emmanuel, answering a suggestion made through Foreign Minister Titoni, said he would be delighted to accept the degree of doctor of laws from the Pennsylvania university, if it is offered to him. In a street fight in a notorious part of Lexington, Ky., Jess Johnson was shot through the abdomen and mortally wounded, John Ratliff was stabbed and badly wounded and Edward O'Dea was shot through the arm. The fight was the result of trouble between some of the men last Saturday. Tonight the men met and the shooting began. Fire originating from crossed wires in the Portland station did immense damage to the plant of the Portland General Electric company at Oregon City last Sunday. Three of the largest dynamos were destroyed, two others were ruined by water, and a large switchboard was burned out. The accident happened about 8 o'clock and in almost an instant the streets of Portland and Oregon City which depend on this plant for light were in darkness. Premier Seddon Dies Richard Seddon, prime minister of New Zealand, died from heart failure Sunday afternoon aboard the steamer Owestry Grange, on which he had embarked during the morning to return to New Zealand. The steamer put back into Sydney. Mr. Seddon was 61 years of age. Mr. Seddon's death was totally unexpected. He has been in Australia since the middle of May. Saint-Saens, the famous French composer, is a many sided man. He writes the librettos for his own operas, dabbles in astronomy, zoology and botanics and has even published a pamphlet on the relations of plants and animals, in which his results are grounded on original investigations. You lift no one up by looking down your nose. ANOTHER ROCKEFELLER TRUST. Have Got a Monoply on the Rubber Business. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his brother in law, E. D. Aldrich, son of Senator Aldrich have startled the financial centers of the world with a coup which rivals the feats of their respective fathers in the handling of money and pounds and the extermination of competitors. The two young men have followed the Standard Oil example in that they have selected the product of nature—rubber—about which to build a powerful monopoly by controlling not only the source of supply, but the means by which it can be refined into an article of merchandise. Already they have caused the loss of many millions to the rubber trust, their rivals. The Continental Rubber Company of America is the concern of which young Rockefeller and Aldrich are the heads. It has come into the rubber business with such a weight of money that the price of rubber has been driven down so that the estimate of last year's crop, $116,158,000, would dwindle to $82,000,000 if sold at the last price quoted under Rockefeller. SAN FRANCISCO MINT AT WORK Making Money Again at the Government Mill. The big machines of the San Francisco mint have been put in operation again and for the first time since the fire the work of making money was resumed. The mint will not open for a regular session until July 1. SPORTING NOTES. Harry Green, the well known Spokane race horse owner, has decided to quit the game and will turn his attention to the fighting game at Spokane. George Croll has been signed by the Seattle club and will play left field in place of Heine Heitmuller, the University of California player who has been released. Winnie Cutter, the pitcher, runner, cartoonist, football player, university coach and all round athlete, is about to break into league baseball again, according to a Seattle account. The board of directors of the S. A. A. C. completely exonerated Manager Eddie Quinn of all charges of graft and mismanagement which had been made against him by Jack Mooney at Spokane. Claud Camp, aged 21, while catching in a ball game at Muskogee, I. T., Saturday, was struck over the heart by a foul tip. He picked up the ball, threw it to the pitcher and fell dead. St. Louis.—After being thrown by Farmer Burns in nine minutes, Frank Gotch, champion wrestler of America, threw Burns in two straight falls in 14 and five minutes, respectively. Shot While He Was Praying Murder came as a denouement of troubles at the Providence of God Lithuanian Catholic church, West Eighteenth and Union streets, Chicago. Anthony Leitch, 30 years old, was shot and killed at the very entrance of the church. The shooting occurred about daylight, and John Bendzal, janitor of the church, is declared by the police to be the one who fired the fatal bullet. Leitch was on his knees at the church door, his hands raised above his head in rayer, when the shots were fired which ended his life. To Wage War on the Mosquitoes A summer sanitary campaign against mosquitoes which transmit yellow fever, has been planned at New Orleans. The city proposes to spend about $900 a day during the summer months. The work is based on the experience gained last summer during the yellow fever outbreak. F. I. Whitney Resigns F. I. Whitney, for 18 years at the head of the Great Northern's general passenger department, has resigned, effective July 1, as general passenger traffic agent, to go into business MORE SENSATIONAL INFORMATION SECURED AGAINST THEM. Secret Service Men Were Sent to Chicago by President Roosevelt—Report Will Make Beef Trust Back* Up in Its Fight Against Congress and the President. Secret service men are reported to have sensational information in their possession as to the use of preservatives by the beef trust. They were sent to Chicago by order of the president as soon as he had been advised verbally of the results of the investigation of Labor Commissioner Neill and James Reynolds. It is said that they have concluded an exhaustive inquiry, which will not only bring the packers to their knees, but will remove the power of the influences that are being exerted against congress and the great cattle interests with a view of forcing the president to capitulate. This pressure has become gigantic. Every business, political and financial ramification of the great trust is being utilized directly and indirectly to have a halt called on governmental exposure and, if possible, get an official declaration that the portrayal of conditions in the packing houses has been exaggerated. The cattle interests of the great west and southwest which for years have been clamoring in congress and outside of it for protection against the trust are even being persuaded that continuation of governmental hostility will ruin them. A cry of panic has been raised. Not only the bankers handling the trust's funds, but their employees, friends and acquaintances in the business, social and political world have been enlisted to use their efforts in a gigantic struggle that is now in progress to stem the tide against the packers. BRAVE GIRL SHOOTS THUG Miss Pearl Jones Gamely Defends Her honor. Miss Pearl Jones, night operator at Selma, N. C., on the Atlantic Coast railroad, shot and fatally wounded Doua' Richardson, a negro who by his own confession had premeditated an assault upon her. The young woman went out into the back yard of the office early in the morning and was attacked by the negro. She immediately shot him. The negro is in a dying condition and admits his intention of committing an assault. His accomplice has been arrested and jailed. Admiring citizens are raising a fund to present the brave girl with a gold mounted revolver and a gold medal. DRAMATIC NOTES E. L. Sackett has gone to Los Angeles, a refugee from San Francisco. Russell & Drew have leased the Grand at Seattle, for the warm season. "The Energetic West" is the title of one of the new plays which may see the light next season. Mrs. Langtry comes to America in November, for six weeks in vaudeville at a fancy figure. "Swell Elegant Jones" is the name of a new play which Ezra Kendall is writing for himself. Eleanor Robson, who played "Merely Mary Ann" at the Spokane, has closed her season in that piece. Thomas Q. Seabrooke, the comedian, is reported to have been sent to a sanitarium a few days ago. He was suffering from nervous prostration. George Arliss, who supported Mrs. Fiske last year, will support Olga Nethersole in Paris during the summer. Fatal Crash in Motor Car. Four Chicagoans were injured, two of them fatally, by the overturning of an automobile near Winnetka, north of Chicago, Sunday. The accident was caused by the bursting of a fire. Those fatally injured, were Edward Salvess Pinger and Walter Steffins, the chauffeur; Miss Margaret Pinger, a sister, and John Pinger, a brother of the young man, were badly bruised. The party was returning from a visit to the residence of Louis Swift, the packer, in Lake Forest. Wellman's Airship is Ready to Start. Paris—The airship in which Walter Wellman, the American explorer, will attempt to reach the north pole, has been completed, and a number of English, French and German scientists inspected it Monday. Strike at St. Louis The St. Louis building trades council has declared a general strike on all buildings on which members of the bricklayers and stone masons' international union are employed. Colonel Henry A. Dupont of Wilmington, Del., the powder king has defeated J. Edward Addicts of gas fame in the contest for the vacant seat form Delaware in the senate. William J. Bryan has accepted an invitationto make a speech in London at the American celebration the Fourth of July. When first taken from the mines opals are so soft that pieces can be picked off with the fingers. --- SCIENCE TEMPLE DEDICATED. Large Demonstration of Christian Scientists Near Boston. One of the most remarkable religious demonstrations ever witnessed in New England occurred Sunday when the new $1,000,000 Christian Science temple in the Back Bay district was dedicated. From every state in the Union and from all parts of the world came people to be at the dedicatory services. It was estimated that more than 40,000 Christian Scientists were in the city today. Six services were held to accommodate the vast throngs, but even then thousands were unable to gain admission to the temple. The seating capacity of the new edifice exceeds 5000, and at each service today hundreds stood in the aisles and in the rear of the church. MINING NOTES. Eight men are dead as the result of the fire in the Rocky Fork coal mine near Red Lodge, Montana. The new mining town of Ernest, Pa. was recently the scene of a conflict between a detail of state constabulary and striking coal miners, in which eight strikers were wounded, three of them fatally. A big strike of copper ore is reported at Mullan, Idaho. They encountered the vein 120 feet before it was expected. An agreement which will end the coal strike which has been on in the Eleventh Mine Workers of America district since April 8, has been reached by the scale committee of the Indiana miners and operators. The settlement of the southwestern coal strike agreed upon by a subcommittee of the miners and operators, assisted by John Mitchell, president of the United Mineworkers, has been ratified by the full conference. Orders to clean up the mines have been issued and work will be resumed June 18. The settlement covers Kansas, Indian Territory, Arkansas and Missouri and involves more than 10,000 men. The 1903 scale is to prevail for two years, and small difficulties at several mines are to arbitrated. Mr. Mitchell aided very largely in securing the agreement, being called in after the conference had reached a deadlock. Herbert M. Smith fell into a pot of molten metal at the smelter at Tacoma and was burned to death. Bringing about $200,000 in treasure, the first shipment since navigation opened on the Yukon river, the Alaska Steamship company's steamer Dolphin has arrived in port at Seattle. On the steamer were 53 passengers, 27 being from Dawson, Atlin and other interior camps. It was the first crowd of the season to reach Skagway and consisted of the passengers of the river steamers Thistle and Prospector. The two boats were the first to leave Dawson for White Horse, and bucked the ice all the way to the rapids city. For the year ended June 1 1906, the mines owned or controlled by the Amalgamated Copper company of Butte yielded net returns of $13,805,811.67, which was $5,113,568.15 more than the preceding year. These figures were made public today when the Amalgamated company field its annual statement of net proceeds of mines with the county assessor for assessment purposes. Manuel Martinez, aged 17 years, a Mexican coal worker, has been arrested at Trinidad, Colo., charged with having set fire to the big Engleville coal mine, owned by the Colorado Fuel & Iron company. Martinez was discharged from the mine three weeks ago, and the next day the property began to burn. Hundreds of miners were imperilled, many of them being saved with difficulty. The fire is reported to be still burning fiercely. The loss to the fuel company already is estimated at over $100,000. GUATEMALA REBELS' VICTORY Cabinet Has Quit and There is Panic at the Capital. Salvadorean advices report a great victory for the revolutionists, who repulsed a vigorous attack by government troops in southern Guatemala, where the government forces had artillery and kept up a terrific cannonading for six hours. Under the leadership of General Toledo, the revolutionary forces fought with success. There is great rejoicing in their camp. President Cabera's cabinet has resigned in a body, and intense excitement prevails in Guatemala City, where it is believed the revolutionists are on their way to the capital and may reach there by Tuesday. Clergyman was Fined Appleton, Wis.-Rev. A. H. Zechel, a representative of the Wisconsin Antisaloon league, was found guilty of violating the Sunday labor law by purchasing beer on Sunday to secure evidence that a saloon keeper had violated the Sunday closing law. Robert Roosevelt Is Ill. Robert Roosevelt, uncle of the president, is seriously ill at his country home, Lotus Lake, Saville, L. I. He is 70 years of age, and anxiety is felt by relatives. Will Assure Denatured Alcohol. The president has signed the denatured alcohol bill. There are more aquatic birds than there are land birds. NEWS OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON, IOWA, MONTANA AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS. A Few Interesting Items Gathered From Our Exchanges of the Surrounding Country—Numerous Accidents and Personal Events Take Place—Fall Trade Is Good. WASHINGTON NOTES. Attorney General John D. Atkinson has been called to Alaska on a business trip. The Spokane county pioneers' 10th annual picnic at Medical Lake was a great success. al Tacoma's mayor has put himself on record as in favor of saloon and restaurant boxes. a. Excellent work is being done on the wagon roads leading into Colfax from the surrounding country. b. The Everett Milling company will begin the erection this week of a large grain warehouse at Ephrata. c. C. E. Briggs, a well to do rancher of the upper Methow valley, and a pioneer, committed suicide by shooting himself recently. e. The finding of John Carroll's body in Garrison creek, near Walla Walla, removes all doubt as to the aged milkman's death. He disappeared May 29. kettle Falls citizens have voted unanimously that the district be bonded for $1000 to build an addition to the large school building and establish a high school George Taylor, engineer on the Meinnis Lumber company's tug Saretta was killed in an unknown manner on the boat about four miles below Newport. Governor Mead today granted a parole to John Harrigan, alias Charles W. Hamlin, who was sentenced in whatcom county on August 6, 1902, to 14 years for robbery. The prosecuting attorneys of the state will hold a convention at Everett on July 12, 13, and 14 in connection with the eighteenth annual session of the State Bar association. A well dressed man who committed suicide at the Tacoma hotel has been identified as William Campbell Beasley, publisher of the Commonwealth Magazine of Seattle. His former home was in Peoria, Ill. Twenty farmers of the Kittitas valley have formed an association and purchased Samson De Thoreembrails, an imported Belgian stallion, from McLaughlin Brothers of Columbus, Ohio, for $4000. One of the largest' realty transfers in Yakima county in recent months was the sale of the Bounds ranch in Selah valley by P. A. Bounds to Urban Ditman, a widely known stockman, for $30,800. Theodore Strong, laborer in the Erickson-Peterson construction gang on the O. W. & I. road at Riparia, met with a serious accident recently which will necessitate the amputation of his left leg above the knee. It is announced that Samuel A. Wells, former receiver of the Spokane land office, has been nominated by President Roosevelt to succeed Eugene B. Hyde, the present receiver, who succeeded Mr. Wells four years ago. Thirty-six of the 37 counties of Washington were represented at the first annual convention of farmers held under the auspices of the Washington State college. Okanogan county was the only one not sending a delegation. One hundred and fifty farmers met in Cunningham Saturday and voted to build a farmers' elevator. Steel storage tanks will be put up to handle the crop. All the wheat will be handled in bulk. This does away with what the farmers call the "sack graft." Manager Lennox of the proposed Whitman county fair has been working hard laying plans for the event. He has about decided to hold the fair the first week in October. The prizes will be more valuable and cover a larger number of displays than ever before. Wenatchee valley fruit growers are receiving higher prices for fruit this year than ever before, the prices up to date averaging 50 per cent higher than those paid last year. The Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers' association, an organization of the growers of the Wenatchee and Columbia valleys, controlling 85 per cent of the fruit raised in the Wenatchee valley, is doing the work. A. A. Armstrong, who killed Robert Patton near Aberdeen three years ago, was hanged at the penitentiary Friday morning at 5:26 o'clock. The execution was successful in every detail. The man's neck was broken by the fall and death came in 13 minutes. Although 60 years old he bravely met death. Engineers of the reclamation service are measuring the area of lands contracted for the Tieton project. Approximately, 24,000 acres will be reclaimed by this project, of which about 95 per cent has been subscribed. This is all the government requires, but some of the land subscribed may be shown by engineers to be unsuited, which will necessitate additions to the land already contracted. OREGON ITEMS John Bear shot and killed "Brick" Johnson Monday night in the Otts sa-loon at Enterprise. Bear escaped. As a result of the meeting of the Pacific States Telephone and Farmers' Line companies in April the two systems, which cover the entire Walla Walla valley, are now amalgamated. August Ebell, one of the best known farmers and truckmen in Baker county, living 12 miles south of Baker City, was killed Friday afternoon by permitting a tree which he was engaged in felling to strike him. The Umatilla county grand jury which brought in nine indictments found that F. G. Naylor, the Athena farmer who was mysteriously murdered in Pendleton on the night of April 14, and whose body was afterwards thrown into the mill race at the east end of town come to his death through being poisoned. The Heacock & Lawrence iron works at East Sixth and Belmont streets, Portland, was gutted by fire recently. Cause of the fire is believed to be spontaneous combustion. Loss, $25,000, partly insured. More than 20 persons were injured in Portland last Sunday, none dangerously, in a head on collision between two loaded Woodlawn cars of the Portland Railway company at the intersection of Union and Holladay avenues. When all the passengers had been removed from the cars it was found that only eight had suffered sufficient injury to necessitate removal to the hospital. MONTANA SQUIBBS. Six victims of the mine disaster at Red Lodge—Thomas Skelley, Terence Fleming, Michael Garriage, William Bailey, Alvin McFate and Matt Relka—were buried Saturday, the whole town suspending business and paying tribute. The fire is still burning in the mine. Percy Bonathan Hanson, a section foreman, was fatally shot by William Hanson a prominent flockmaster at Harlem, recently. It is said that Beaver Creek, near Havre, is a mile wide. Two officers, Vasco and Calderwood from Hinsdale, were robbed lately by supposed cattle rustlers. The officers were out looking for the rustlers to arrest them when they were held up at a house 20 miles from Hinsdale. When they entered the house they were covered with guns by several men and all their possessions, save their clothes, including their livery stable team, were stolen from them. The identity of the robbers is not definitely known. Excessive rains in Eastern Montana have almost paralyzed the railroad traffic. The coroner's jury inquiring into the death of Thomas Ford of Anaconda, foreman of the Allen Gold Mining company, who was found near his cabin in French gulch with his throat cut, returned a verdict that the man came to his death from having his throat cut by unknown persons. County Attorney Leon LaCroix has filed information against six women, residents of the Union depot section, of Helena, charging them with shoplifting. Thousands of sheep and lambs have been drowned in the Montana floods. Ranchers are still forced from their ranches into the towns and the Milk river, Missouri and other streams are out of their hanks and still rising. IDAHO NOTES The state board of education has for some time had under consideration the plan of establishing a school at Boise for the dumb and blind of the state. The matter has been held in abeyance the past few days pending the return of Attorney General Guehen. The latter says the question has been as to the authority for the board to take such action. Mr. Guehen thinks it can be done. A rumor is current that Bayard T. Byrnes has purchased for the regents of the University of Idaho the Carthers residence property on University hill, Moscow. It is believed the property will be used as the site of the new agricultural department building. Michael Burns, Frank Brown and Fred Stang have been arrested at Lewiston by Police Officer Den charged with having committed seven burglaries in Clarkston. The police recovered, $500 worth of merchandise practically everything that was stolen from Clarkston stores except the money. The latter had been used to buy a team and wagon, with which the men were preparing to get out of the country at the time they were arrested. Bids have been opened by the Rathdrum village council for the sale of village bonds to the amount of $12,500, and the bonds were sold to the Bankers & Lumberman's bank of Portland, Ore., at 8 per cent premium. The proceeds will be expended to purchase a water system. The Idaho state encampment of the G. A. R. will be held at Payette, commencing June 26 and lasting three days. Owing to the cold weather, the annual pioneer picnic at Moscow was not so much of a success as in other years. Andrew Gilstrom, aged 50 years, employed as a blacksmith for several years, committed suicide at his home in Post Falls recently. John H. Newbury of Mullan has sent in his resignation as postmaster on account of his suffering with rheumatism. He has recommended Harry Ingalls as his successor and he will doubtless receive the appointment, as there is no opposition. At a recent meeting of the Idaho state land board a date was set for one of the biggest timber sales ever held in the state of timber scattered over 8500 acres of state land in Kootenai county. The timber is of a miscellaneous character, white pine, fir, tamarack, etc, and it has been carefully estimated at 100,000,000 feet. The upset price has been approximately figured at $145,000. The sale will be held at Rathdrum July 20 and it is reported that every indication point to lively bidding. 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Several persons were injured, but up to a late hour no fatalities were reported. The fierce wind carried rain with it, which fact precluded the possibility of damage by fire. Men and women were swept from their feet by the hurricane and for several minutes it was courting injury to venture outside. Later the wind subsided some and the work of rescue commenced. An earthquake could not have more completely demolished the glass in the city. There is so scarce a whole pane of glass in the down town district and residences also suffered severely. The Havre hotel lost 280 window lights and many other buildings were similarly treated. Pandemonium reigned for a time after the hurricane struck. Women were hysterical, and even the men feared to venture from their houses. To remain insideaws equally as dangerous, for the cyclone threatened momentarily to demolish even the strongest structures. The two top stories of the Havre Commercial company's building, concrete affair, were picked up by the wind and deposited on an adjoining lot. The lower floor, used as a store, remained intact, but 11 clerks, most of them women', narrowly escaped being buried in the debris. Telegraph wires are down, and communication with the outside world is practically paralyzed. In the quarter of the city occupied by the colored residents a panic prevailed. Many believed that the end of the world was at hand, and scores prostrated themselves upon the ground in simplification. Contrasted with the fright of the colored population was the stoical demeanor of the Indians from the Assiniboine reservation near this place. The redskins huddled in a group near the post trader's store, wound their blankets about them more tightly and weathered the hurricane without a murmur or an exclamation of fear. Locomotives in the railroad yards sounded signals of distress when the fire tower was demolished by the wind. A score of railroad employees hastened to the scene and rescued several men from the ruins. Meager news accounts from Fort Assiniboine tell of great destruction wrought there by the tornado. Several large buildings went down. Several thousand feet of the track of the Great Northern railway west of Assinniboine have been washed out. Engineers report that the territory between Havre and Glasgow resembles a sea. Fears are expressed for the safety of residents in the vicinity of Harlem and Chicago in view of the breaks in the irrigation reservoirs. A report says that both of the reservoirs at Fort Assiniboine burst and that the quarters of the soldiers are being flooded. Four troops of the Second cavalry and four companies of the Second infanty are stationed there. More and faster horses have entered this year in the early close events for the races at the Spokane Interstate fair, which opens Sept. 24, than ever before. This partly is because of the San Francisco disaster, which has turned California horses to the North and gives promise of the finest racing ever seen in Spokane. The management of the fair has decided to continue this racing for two weeks instead of one as heretofore. In the 3:12 pace 17 entries were made, and in the 2:16 trot there are 19 entries. This is several more in each event than entered last year.¶ Entries closed in these on May 15. Manager Robert Cosgrove announces that $20,000 in purses will be hung this year, which is much heavier than ever before. There will be 12 days of racing with six or more races each day. There will be a 10 day relay race of two miles a day. Last year the purse for the relay race was $1000, and this year it has been increased to $1500. Coburn Refuses Senatorship Foster Dwight Coburn, who was appointed by Governor E. W. Hoch of Kansas, to be United States senator succeeding Joseph R. Burton, resigned, has announced that he has decided not to accept the appointment. Governor Hoch immediately offered the vacancy to Judge A. W. Benson of Ottawa, Franklin county. There is little doubt but that he will accept the office. Judge Benson is about 60 years of age and has been prominently identified with republican politics in Kansas. Electrician Clutches a Live Wire. Ed Kelley, an 18 year old boy, employed by the Standard Electric company at San Francisco, was electrocuted at the company's works, 34 Kansas street. He was working on a transformer at the time and missed his footing. In failing he clutched a live wire, and 2200 volts of electricity passed through his body. Made by J. C. Garey Co., Lowell, Mass. Also Manufacturers of Ayer's SARSAPARILLA. PILLS. CHERRY PECTORAL. Spokawe N U Commerce of Great Britian Grows. The May statement of the board of trade in London shows increases of $22,987,500 in imports and $22,386,000 in exports. The principal increases in imports were wool, grain and manufactures, but the import of cotton from America decreased $5,000,000. The principal increase in exports was in manufactures, of which cotton goods increased $7,500,000. Colonel Henry J. Latshaw, who at one time represented the Fifth Missouri district in congress, and who has been active in Missouri politics since the civil war, died Sunday night, aged 71 years. He was an intimate friend and associate of the late Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll and they cooperated in organizing an Illinois regiment during the civil war. The will of the late John A. McCall was recently filed. The estate, according to the petition for probate, is valued at over $20,000 and left entirely to his wife. The will is dated February 17. Making wealth common will not make the ideal commonwealth. SKIN DIS There is nothing more distressing skin disease, and upon the rest who are afflicted with skin trouble and know that they will be in summer months. The blood is hot to the surface the skin seems terminal applications is all wrong, but The most such treatment can be done up the trouble for awhile, but as all food taken into the body the different parts. One portion is the making of blood, another for one for bone, still another for fat, After these different properties tracted from the food there still portion that is useless, or wast which is intended to be disposed of the natural channels of bodily liver, Kidneys and Bowels. At the of the year, however, these organ torpid, dull and sluggish, and fail the system and are absorbed by the acrid humors. The blood cannot p and begins to throw off these acids in Eczema, Tetter, Psoriasis, Salt Rh EOZEMA appears usually when there flows a sticky fluid that is generally on the back, breast, and afflicted. In TETTER the skin dries in the blood dries up the natural oil and giving it a leathery appearance, pimples and black-heads, and is prance, while PSORIASIS, a scaly. One of the worst forms of skin dising sores and producing intense itch and sometimes the hair falls out and These and all skin diseases are the blood, and until this vital fluid treatment for all skin diseases is Stirely from roots, herbs and bark effect. It neutralizes the acids and blistered and burned by the fiery It goes down into the circulation as SKIN DISEASES There is nothing more distressing than an itching, burning skin disease, and upon the return of warm weather those who are afflicted with skin troubles find the symptoms appearing and know that they will be tormented through the hot summer months. The blood is heated with humors and acrid matter, and as they are forced to the surface the skin seems to be on fire. The treatment of skin diseases with external applications is all wrong, because they do not reach the trouble which is in the blood. The most such treatment can be expected to do is, allay the itching and burning and cover up the trouble for awhile, but as soon as it is left off the disease returns. All food taken into the body contains, in some form, the elements necessary to sustain the different parts. One portion is used for the making of blood, another for muscle, one for bone, still another for fat, and so on. After these different properties are extracted from the food there still remains a portion that is useless, or waste matter, which is intended to be disposed of through the natural channels of bodily waste, the Liver, Kidneys and Bowels. At this season of the year, however, these organs become torpid, dull and sluggish, and fail to perform this duty, and these accumulations remain in the system and are absorbed by the blood to ferment and sour, producing burning acids and acrid humors. The blood cannot properly nourish the system while in this impure condition, and begins to throw off these acids through the pores and glands of the skin, producing Acne, Eczema, Tetter, Psoriasis, Salt Rheum and skin diseases of every description. EOZEMA appears usually with a slight redness of the skin, followed by pustules from which there flows a sticky fluid that dries and forms a crust, and the itching is intense. It is generally on the back, breast, arms, legs and face, though other parts of the body may be afflicted. In TETTER the skin dries, cracks and bleeds, and is often very painful. The acid in the blood dries up the natural oils of the skin, causing a dry, feverish, hardened condition and giving it a leathery appearance. AGNE makes its appearance on the face in the form of pimples and black-heads, and is particularly disagreeable because of its unsightly appearance, while PSORIASIS, a scaly disease, comes in patches on different parts of the body. One of the worst forms of skin disease is SALT RHEUM. It discharges a watery fluid, forming sores and producing intense itching. The head and face are the parts usually affected, and sometimes the hair falls out and a mass of sores forms on the scalp. These and all skin diseases are due to the same cause—burning acids and humors in the blood, and until this vital fluid is cleansed and made pure they will continue. The best treatment for all skin diseases is S. S. S., a remedy that is purely vegetable, being made entirely from roots, herbs and barks, and acts directly on the blood with a cleansing, healing effect. 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The dead are: Benjamin Gebhardt, aged 22; Benjamin Riner, 21; George Riner, 20; Fred Rice, 23; Collins Parker, 18; Phares Haff, 18; William Funk, 19; John Boatman, 17; three unidentified men. The seriously injured are: Walter Brown, Martin Riner, George Gray, Charles Cramer and Jacob Shoeff. The accident was one of the most horrible in the history of Lancaster county. The victims were literally torn to pices, hardly enough remaining of the bodies to make identification possible. The cause of the explosion is not known. Two of the unidentified victims had just started to drive from the place with a load of dynamite. They had gone scarcely fifty feet when the plant blew up with a detonation that was plainly heard 15 miles away. A great cloud of smoke covered the site of the factory and when it cleared away there was not a vestige of the horses, wagon or men. Fragments of human bodies were found hanging to trees a hundred yards away. THREE DIE IN NEW YORK BAY Many Boating Parties in Distress Are Rescued From Storm. New York, June 10.—Three men were drowned in New York bay this afternoon when the yacht Lottie W., with a fishing party on board, capsized during a sudden storm off west Bank light. William Moran, Paul Smith and George Geise, all of Brooklyn, were drowned. Eight members of the party clung to the side of the yacht until taken off by a tug. The thunder squall, which swept the harbor late in the day, was the most severe of the season. Wholesale Produce Prices Vegetables—Potatoes, 60c cwt; cabbage, $2.50 cwt; lettuce, 20c lb; rhubarb, $1.00 crate; onions, 30c doz; spinach, 75c crate; Walla Walla asparagus, 8c lb; radishes, 30c; tomatoes, $3@4 crate; strawberries, $2.50@3.50; cherries, $1.75@2; Walla Walla peas, 5c lb; gooseberries, $1.75@2 crate; beets, 30c doz; new potatoes, $2.25 cwt; California red onions, 2; carrots, 30c doz. Oranges—$4.00@4.50 box; lemons, fancy, $4.75@5 case; dried figs, 75@80; 10 lb box; figs in bulk, 6c lb; black figs, 10 lb package, 80c; Fard dates, 8@9c lb; golden dates, 7@8lb; cranberries, 15 bbl, 5 crate; bananas, $2.75@3.50 bunch. Flour—Local, $4@4.75 bbl; Minnesota, $5.75@6 bbl. Butter and Eggs—Fresh ranch eggs, current receipts, $6.50 case; fresh ranch, selected, $6.50 case; best creamery butter, 22c lb; cheese, twins, 15c lb; local ranch butter, 21c lb; California butter, 22c lb. Honey—$3.25@3.50; strained honey, 8c lb. Sugar—Granulated cane sugar, $5.55 per 100 lbs; beet sugar, $5.35 per 100 lbs. Coffee—Common package goods, $16.25 per 100 lbs. Seed—Alfalfa, $14 cwt; red clover, $16.50 cwt; Kentucky bluegrass, $12.50 cwt; timothy, $5 cwt; opion sets, 8c lb; white clover, 17c. Wholesale Feed Prices. Bran, $16 ton; ban and shorts, $16 @18 ton; white shorts, $21 ton; corn, $1.35 cwt; cracked corn, $1.45 cwt; timothy hay, $20@22 ton; alfalfa, $15 ton; rolled barley, $1.30 cwt; whole oats, $1.60 cwt; chopped oats, $1.65 cwt; wheat, $1.20 cwt; red shorts, $18. Wholesale Meat Prices. Beef—Steers, dressed, 7@8c lb; cows, dressed, 5@7½c lb; mutton, dressed, 10@12½c lb; pork, 8@1/8c lb; hams, 13½c lb; bacon, 14c lb; lard, 10@11c lb; dry salt extras, 10%@11c lb; dry salt backs, 11%4c lb; veal, fancy, small, 7¼c lb; veal, fancy, large, 3@ 5c lb. Prices Paid to Producers. Live Stock—Steers, $4 cwt; cows, $3 cwt; sheep, $4@5 cwt; hogs, $7 cwt. Hides—Green steers, 8c lb; cows, 7c lb; salted, $4 higher; dry hues, 15c lb; calfskins, green, 10c lb; kip, 8c lb; sheepskins, $1@1.25. Poultry and Eggs—Live hens, 13¼c; live spring chickens, 20c; live roosters, 11c; live ducks, 14c; live geese, 12c; live turkeys, 16c; dressed hens, 15c; dressed ducks, 14c; dressed geese, 14c; dressed turkeys, 18c; fresh ranch eggs, $5@5.25. Creamery products, f. o. b. Spokane—First grade creamy butter fat, 22¼c. Feed—Timothy hay, $17@19 ton; alfalfa hay, $12.00; oats, $14.00. Northwestern Wheat. Walla Walla—Bluestem, 65c; club, 64c f. o. b. No sales, market quiet. Tacoma, Wash.—Unchanged, Export: Bluestem, 74c; club, 72c; red, 6:c. Portland, Ore.—Club, 73c; bluestem, 75c; red, 71c; valley, 73c. Buy Hair at Auction? At any rate, you seem to be getting rid of it on auction-sale principles: "going, going, g-o-n-e!" Stop the auction with Ayer's Hair Vigor. It certainly checks falling hair; no mistake about this. It acts as a regular medicine; makes the scalp healthy. Then you must have healthy hair, for it's nature's way. The best kind of a testimonial "Sold for over sixty years." 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S. does not leave the least particle of the poison for future outbreaks, but entirely rids the blood of the cause for all skin diseases. S. S. S. tones up the system and regulates the Liver, Kidneys and Bowels so that they will carry off the natural waste and refuse matter through the proper channels, instead of leaving it to be absorbed by the SCHOOLS OF FISH ON A SPREE. Distillery Dumpa Whisky Jalapen Distillery Dumps Whisky Into Kentucky Stream. Since farmers along the banks of Benson creek, in Kentucky, have been gathering in baskets and catching with their hands thousands of live fish that were rendered temporarily hors de combat by the breaking of great vats at the Fitzgerald distillery. More than 13,000 gallons of pure whisky were turned into the stream, and as a result of this accident the fish were made drunk. In droves they came to the surface of the water, sported around and cut most fantastic capers. They seemed to be about three sheets in the wind and generally disported themselves in most unfinnylike manner. The distillery will lose about $25,000, in addition to being forced to shut down for repairs. It is said enough fish were taken to supply the whole community for weeks. The senate has confirmed the following nominations: Reeciver of public money, Samuel A. Wells at Spokane, Wash., Charles A. Wilson at Great Falls, Mont.; John R. Hilman at Kalispell, Mont. Postmasters: Idaho — Gracel H. Wooley, Preston. Washington—W. W. Ward, Dayton; F. W. Moller, Oakesdale; W. L. Lemon, North Yakima; Carrie Newton, Benwood. W. R. Wilson, register of the land office at Bozeman, Mont. The Carter compromise on the statehood bill has been argued upon by the republican leaders of the senate and house. Nothing now stands in the way of the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as a state, and a choice by Arizona and New Mexico as to whether they desire to come in as another state. Wisely—What? 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That the farmers and live stock men are not standing with the beef trust, but heartily endorse the attitude of President Roosevelt in probing the Chicago packing house conditions and exposing the same, was shown in a manner which leaves no doubt of how the farmers stand at the Washington State Farmers' convention at Pullman Saturday when a rousing resolution endorsing the attitude of the president was passed unanimously, amid shouts of approval. FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENERY & C.C. business in the City of Toledo, County and State adresse and the landlord will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A.D. 1886. SEAL A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the innocuous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Tommy—How do your pa and ma work? Johnny—Like the house and senate; if one of 'em passes any bill the other kills it.—New York Sun. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease FREE. Write Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease. It cures sweating, hot swollen, aching feet. It makes foot-riders feel better. Corns, ingrowing nails and bunions. All drug-gists sell it. 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Patrick J. Meehan, the oldest editor of a Catholic paper in the United States, having served continuously for 54 years as editor of the New York Irish-American, is dead. ACNE, TETTER, ECZEMA, PSORIASIS, SALT RHEUM. 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. Preaching at St. James church 5th avenue, and Hoback street, Sun days at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. by the pastor. Sunday school at 2 p. m., A, Marshall supt., Carrie Dorsey, Chorister, Florence Anderson, sect. Pleas notify this office when you chnge your address; or if your paper does not reach you regularly each week. Pat Keys formerly at the Palace saloon has accepted a position as valet for Col. Thos. Cruse. Gus Mason and J. B. Reid left Helena last Monday evening for an extended trip in the east. Editor J. B. Bass is in Butte this week in the interest of 'THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER. Wednesday was pay-day at Fort William Henry Harrison. It is reported that the wedding bells will soon ring among Helena's elect. Buy your vegetables and meats from the Helena Packing and Provision Co. Harry Simmons will have charge of the extra help at the Grandon next week. Strawberry short cake is in great demand as the price of berries decline. Mr. V. Rodgers who has had charge of the Turkish bath rooms at Alhambra Springs for sometime has resigned his position there, and left Helena last Saturday for Devil's Lake, N. D. Ward Cole left Saturday for St. Paul. He is in the dining car service on the N. P. Railway. Rev. Jordan Allen has returned from Kansas City where he has been in conference with Bishop Grant. The ladies of St. James church will serve meals at 35 S. Main St. the 18, 19, and 20, for the benefi of the church. The ladies's sewing circle met Thursday with Mrs. Chas. Johnson on E. 9th Ave. Chas. Porter Grove returned from Butte and prospective purchasers are now making an examination of his mining properties. J. W. Eaton left the city last Sat urday and will not return until fall. If the writer of anonymous communication signed a "Lady Subscriber," will give us their name and address, we will gladly furnish her with all the information she desires to why we have not started the Owl column. At high noon last Tuesday, Mrs. Annie Franklin and Mr. George Harrison of Bozeman were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock Judge Reese officiating. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taylor, acted as best man and bride's maid. The Plaindealer Would Like To Know The New York Age, The Richmond Planet, The Chicago Conservator and The Cleveland Gazette, does not reach this office. Everybody can not wear new dresses now as we learn that certain parties are offering to "give them away." More colored men do not go to Billings and get in on that land distribution on the Crow reservation. There are so many knockers among our own people against one of their race when he attempts to rise in the business world. The fellow with the "jingling dog" did not leave for Havre as was pre-arranged, ADVERTISE in the Plaindealer. Church and Society Directory. St. James' African Methodist Episcopal church, located at Co. 5th Ave. and Hoback street, Rev. Jordan Allen, Pasior. Services Sunday at 11 a. m, and 7-30 p. m. Sunday School, 2 p. m., A. Marshall, Supt., Carrie Dorsey, Choristar, Florence Anderson, Sec'y. Prayer Meeting Wednesday Evening. Class meeting, Friday evenings. R. J. Fletcher Lodge No. 101, A. F. and A. M., meets the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in the Lucas Block. R. I. Ford, W. M.; Jas. Crump, S. W.; W. H. Rivers, W. W. Geo. Alexander, Sec'y.; W. R. Dorsey, Treas. Byrd Lodge No. 11, A. F. and A. M., meets the first and third Monday evening of each month at 14 1-2 S. Main St. H. J. Baker W. M.; G. M. Lee, S. W.; J. Harris, J. W.; Chas. Ecton. Sec'y. W. C. Rose, Treas. Bethshela Lodge, O. E. S., meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday evenings of each month in their hall in the Lucasblock. Mrs. Chas Johnson, W. M.; Mrs. N. Ford, A. M.; Al. Napper, W. P.; Mrs. M. Simmons, Treas Mrs. C. C. Matthews, Sect.; Mrs. Jos. Clark, Con.; Mrs. J. Harrison, A. B; M. O. J. Arnett, W; Chas Johnson, S; Mrs. L. Napper A; Mrs. Jas. Crump, R.; Mrs. M. A. Cole, Esther; Mrs. E. Dorsey, M.; Mrs. George Alexander, Electa. Golden City Lodge No. 3455, G. U. of O F., meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month. R. Brown, N. G.; J. M. Reed, V. G.; J. Howard, P. N. G.; N. Ford, P. S.; W. Parker, E. S.; W. Cottles, Treas.; J. W. Crump, N. F.; Albert Marshall, Chapain; W. Mason, Wardom; J. Ingram, I. G.; J. Tolbert, P. N. F. Household of Ruth, No. 842, meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evening of each month. Mrs, Mattie Simmons, P. M. N. G. Mrs, N. Mitchell, M, N. G.: Mrs, S. Ford, R. N. G.; Mrs. E. Johnson, N. G.; Mrs. G. Irvin, W. R. Pride of Montana Lodge, No. 4, K., of P., meets the 2nd and 4th Monday evenings of each month at A. A. R. hall. J. W. Crump, C. C.; H. Robinson, V. C.; S. Smith, M. of F.; W. Cottles, M. of E.; J. H. Howard, K. of R. and S.; D. Gordan, M. at A.; Geo. Harrison, O. G.; W. C. Irvin, I. G.; A. Napper, Prelate. 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 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 39 cents. The don't-believe-in-advertising just laughed. Young John spent vertise 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. JACOB POST. CIGARS AND TOBACCO, 59 S. MAIN ST., Helena Mont. Distributor for Cherry Diamond Cigars. Manhattan Club, 17 South Main Street, Helena Mont Strictly a First-class, Gentlemen's Club. Everything up to date. Augustus Mason, Pres. UNION LAUNDRY GO, 116-120 Broadway, Phone 13. Helena, Montana. The Family Theatre, High Class Vaudeville, Change of Program Weekly. Three Shows Daily 3, 7:45 and 9 p. m. Popular Prices 10, 20 and 30c. G. F BROWN. Fashionable Tailor and Draper Full Line of Imported and Domestic Woolens Always on Hand. 113 N. MAIN ST. - Helena, Mont. REAL PANANMA HATS REAL Only $5. Straw Hats, Latest Styles ALL GRADES. Driving Gloves, Fancy Underwear, Manhattan Shirts, New Suits, Latest Styles, Low Prices. GANS & KLEIN COMPANY, Established 1866. Leave Orders at 19 South Main Street. WHOLESALE Oysters, Fish, Ponltry, Fruit, Vegetables, Butter and Eggs. Helena, Montana. 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. HELENA, MONT. TIN, COPPER and SHEET IRON WORK Stove and Furnace work a Specialty. 315 N. JACKSON ST. - Helena, Mont. CENTRAL BEER HALL AND RESTAURANT, Henry Rossman Proprietor. Telephone 136. 118 S. MAIN ST. - Helena, Mont. DALTON & RICHARDSON New and Second Furniture and Household Goods, Agents for Acorn Stoves and Ranges. 335 N. MAIN ST. Telephone 426 B Helena, Montana. Graye and Gorden, Prop. Eugene Bourquin Dealer in Sawed and Split Wood and COAL. Yard, 437 W. Main St. Residence 370 Water St. 'Phone 632-F. Helena, Mont HELENA ICE COMPANY Office: Montana Clnb Building. 'Phone 110. - Helena, Mont. Pat. P. Smith HORSESHOEING and BLACKSMITHING, 15 S. PARK AVE., Helena, Mont. The New York Helena, Montana. Underwear and 20c quality Women's Fine Black Cotton Hose, warranted fast color, spliced heels and toes, special pair 12½¢ 85c grade Women's Union Suies, cotton or lise, low neck, sleeveless, knee length, umbrella or tight fitting, choice for 65c 20c grade Children's Good Ribbed cotton Hose, expansion knee, all sizes, double heels and toes, special, pair 100 Cloak and Suit Sections. $10 Dress Skirts, $4.95—Walking and dress skirts made in circular and full pleated effects, serge and Panama, colors and black $4.95 $12.50 Shirt Waist Suits, $5, Shirt Waist Suits of serge melrose and mohair, colors green, blue and black, suit $5 $3 Children's Dresses, $1.75, Children's Dresses of fine fancy lawn, short sleeves and low neck, pink and light blue for $1.75 Banking The Union Bank and Trust Company exactly the same terms as those of the mails are entirely safe and parts of the country transact bank. Deposits may be sent by regular money order, or by bank check or first deposit it will be entered on one depositor as a receipt for the money. Accounts opened from four per cent interest. THE UNION BANK & OF Montana Capital OFFICERS:—George L. Ramsey, President; S. McKennan, Treasurer. DIRECTORS:—R. S. Ford, President; Clark, Virginia City, Executor of Curtin, Helena Merchant, R. C. Glace Company, Helena, W. G. George L. Ramsey, President. The Montana JOB DEPA Joseph H. Tuc Banking by M. Union Bank and Trust Company receives deposits the same terms as though made in person at the banks are entirely safe and are convenient, and per country transact banking in this way. Uses may be sent by registered mail, postoffice, or by bank check or draft. As soon as we will be entered on our books, and a passbook as a receipt for the money deposited. Grants opened from one dollar upward per cent interest on savings deposits. UNION BANK & TRUST COMPANY Montana, at Helena Total $250,000 —George L. Ramsey, President; A. P. Curtin, S. McKennan, Treasurer; Frank Bogart, Cashier S.—R. S. Ford, President Great Falls National Bank, Virginia City, Executor of the Henry Elling Estate, Helena Merchant, R. C. Wallace, of the R. C. Company, Helena, W. G. Bailey, Capitalist, Helena, George L. Ramsey, President, Frank Bohart, Cashier The Montana Plaindealer B DEPARTMENT Joseph H. Tucker, Foreman Banking by Mail. The Union Bank and Trust Company receives deposits by ma on exactly the same terms as though made in person at the Bank. The mails are entirely safe and are convenient, and people in all parts of the country transact banking in this way. Deposits may be sent by registered mail, postoffice or express money order, or by bank check or draft. As soon as we receive the first deposit it will be entered on our books, and a passbook mailed the depositor as a receipt for the money deposited. Accounts opened from one dollar upwards Four per cent interest on savings deposits THE UNION BANK & TRUST COMPANY. Of Montana, at Helena Capital $250,000,00 OFFICERS:—George L. Ramsey, President; A. P. Curtin, Vice President; S. McKennan, Treasurer; Frank Bogart, Cashier DIRECTORS:—R. S. Ford, President Great Falls National Bank, W. A. Clark, Virginia City, Executor of the Henry Elling Estate, A. P. Curtin, Helena Merchant, R. C. Wallace, of the R. C. Wallace Company, Helena, W. G. Bailey, Capitalist, Helena, George L. Ramsey, President, Frank Bogart, Cashier. The Montana Plaindealer JOB DEPARTMENT Joseph H. Tucker, Foreman. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF Letter Heads, Note He Galling Cards, Envelop and Dodgers. er Heads, Note Hea lling Gards, Envelope and Dodgers. Letter Heads, Note Heads, Galling Gards, Envelopes and Dodgers. All Work Guaranteed Satisfactory or Money Refunded. One Trial is all we Ask. 19 S. Main, Helena, Mont. Hosiery Section 65c and 75c grade Women's Vest, low neck, sleeveless, had crocheted yokes silk or lile ribbed, choice for 50c 35c quality Women's Hose, lace boo effect, colors tan, white and black, spliced heels and toes, special per pair, 25c 25c grade Misses' or Children's Fine Ribbed Hose, spliced heels, toes and soles, sizes 5½ to 9, special pair, 14c $1.75 Chileren's Dresses, 95. Child- dren's in mohair and ginghams, colors pink, light blue, tan and white 950 $20 Suits, $5. Long coat suits and blouse effects in serge and mohair, colors blue, green, tan and black, suit $5.00 $3.00 Lawn Kimonas, $1.95. Lawn Kimonas and Wrapper styles, fancy lawn extra long and good style, $1.00 by Mail. Company receives deposits by mail made in person at the Bank, are convenient, and people in all in this way. Received mail, postoffice or express staff. As soon as we receive the books, and a passbook mailed money deposited. One dollar upwards on savings deposits TRUST COMPANY, at Helena $250,000,00 President; A. P. Curtin, Vice President; Frank Bogart, Cashier Great Falls National Bank, W. A. the Henry Elling Estate, A. P. Wallace, of the R. C. Wal Bailey, Capitalist, Helena, Frank Bohart, Cashier. Plaindealer DEPARTMENT er, Foreman. Note Heads, Envelopesgers.