Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vol. 2. Published Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. J. B. BASS, . . . EDITOR. Subscription $2.00 per year, Strictly in Ad- vance. Advertising Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter April 12, 1906, at the Post Office at Helena, Montana, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, PEACE! PROSPERITY!! UNION!!! Evidently Mayor Schnitz of San Francisco thinks that the way of the transgressor is hard. We wonder if editor Chase, in his sweeping charges against "vacillating and weak-kneed Negro editors," gives them the credit of keeping their ears to the grass roots in the interest of their people and self-preservation as well. And who are the big four that Editor Chase refers to? By all means let the little fish know, so that we may not be swallowed up. All eyes are now looking toward Topeka for the meeting of the National Business Men's League. What has become of the great Western Press Association? We do not see the usual announcement of their Annual Session. Today the Negro pays taxes on quite $800,000,000; let's make it a billion. And even yet the question of "What You Gwine To Do With Ham?" to some is a perplexing one. Rev. Baker of Anaconda, we understand, is doing a good work in that place, and they are looking forward to dedicating their new church in August, when they expect to have with them the Right Rev. Bishop Grant. This will be a strenuous month for the editor and publisher of this paper, scheduled for two lectures, and getting together sufficiently to make the trip to attend the National Business Men's League. Our patrons knowing themselves indebted to this paper will confer a favor by remitting or calling at our office and paying up. Butte must wake up and make an entry in the great Voting Contest. There is enough due this publication from that city to give any of their favorites a great start in the race. The officers of the National Business Men's League are working with commendable zeal for a great gathering at Topeka in August. The indications are that this will be the greatest gathering of individuals of the race that stands for something which has ever gathered together in this country. After all, we see that the Seattle colored people are preparing to entertain the colored delegates to the Christian Endeavor Meeting. With so many conflicting stories status of things at Jamestown, it seems to be a toss-up as to who is next. MISS FITZGERALD IN THE LEAD IN VOTING CONTEST This week marks quite a change in the Grand Voting Contest, Miss Fanny Fitzgerald taking the lead with Miss Simmons a close second, and Mrs. C. C. Matthews not far behind in third place. Mrs. Ada Booth who promised to make such a splendid race, is forced to retire from the Contest on account of an extended business trip to her home in the East, to which place she will depart on July 21st. She gave Miss Simmons 100 votes. Mrs. F. Walker of Anaconda also retired in favor of Miss Simmons, who, she says is an old Anaconda girl, and if no one from that place is entered the Anaconda folk will back her to win. There will, however, be several more entries before the 15th but the present contestants have the advantage in procuring a good lead. Miss Fannie Fitzgerald 232 Vote Miss Vera Simmons 218 “ Mrs. C. C. Matthews 118 “ THE RICHARDSON-SCOTT NUPTIAIS ARE A SWELL AFFAIR Promptly on time to the tune of Mendelssohn's Wedding March the bride-to-be, likewise groom, Mrs. L. T. Richardson and Solomon Scott, accompanied by Miss Young and Mrs. Lewis as bridesmaids, and Pat Keyes and Ward Cole as best men approached the alter at St. James Church, where Reverend Osborne performed the beautiful ceremony of the A. M. E. Church; the bride was given away by Mrs. Brown. The bride was gowned in a beautiful white creation with a veil of tulle, and the groom in a conventional black. The wedding was probably the most elaborate ever conducted at the Church. Every detail was carried out with exact nicety; quite a concourse gathered at the Church for the ceremony. The reception at the happy couple's home on Breckenridge Street attracted many guests; the house was decorated in green tied with white satin bows, and a white wedding bell was suspended over the receiving party. The happy pair were the recipients of many useful presents, among them cut glassware, silver, and rare china. A host of friends wish them bon voyage through life, with many blessings and not a sorrow. The meeting spoken of for organizing a Business Men's League will be held next week. A. J. Young of Virginia City will be a visitor in the city during the three days' celebration next week. Helena, Montana, Friday, June 28, 1907 WASHINGTON LETTER The first appeal taken by the government under the law enacted by the last Congress giving the United States the right to appeal in certain classes of criminal cases, which was docketed in the Supreme Court recently, will determine whether the Federal government under the Fourteenth Amendment has the right to punish lynchers where the State authorities fail to act. The appeal, which is in the case of Robert Powell, grew out of the action of a mob at Huntsville, Ala., in September, 1904, in storming the County Jail, which was guarded by the Sheriff's deputies and a whole company of the Alabama National Guard, and taking Horace Maples, a colored man charged with the murder of a white farmer, from the structure and hanging him in the Court House yard. Hon. W. T. Vernon, Registrar of the Treasury, the silver tongued orator, has gone to Xenia to attend the Commencement Exercises of Wilberforce University. Dr. Vernon is an alumnus of Wilberforce. Sensational dispatches were sent to various daily newspapers of the country recently, stating that Cyrus Field Adams, Assistant Registrar of the Treasury, was "masquerading as a white man." The dispatch carried its own refutation when it named a number of national and local "colored" organizations with which Mr. Adams is connected. To those who are personally acquainted with Mr. Adams, and even the thousands who have any knowledge of his career, the charge is ridiculous, for they know that he has practically spent his whole life for the uplifting of the race. While yet in his teens he was appointed a teacher in the Colored public schools of Louisville, Ky., and also became the editor of The Bulletin, a paper published in the interest of the Colored race. A prominent colored man, a self-appointed protector of the white people, called their attention to the strong editorials which Adams was writing in defence of the race and they saw to it that he was not reappointed as teacher the following school year. Adams then went to Chicago, where for twenty-three years he has edited The Appeal, a paper which has struck sledgehammer blows for the race. He has also contributed many articles on the race questions to the magazines. Mr. Adams is a life member of the National Afro-American Council he was the first person to pay $50 for membership. Mr. Adams was the first to become a life member of the National Negro Business League, of which organization he is also Transportation Agent and he is President of the National Afro-American Press Association. Mr. Adams says that the statement that he blackballed Mr. Wilkerson, who applied for membership in the Washington Philatelic Society, is absolutely false. He voted for him and for every other person who has ever been proposed for membership. The dispatch was evidently the work of some local Ananias for Mr. W. Calvin Chase one of the District's most prominent citizens and the editor of The Bee, who was charged as being at the head of a movement against Mr. Adams, declares that there is no such movement on foot, and Mr. Wilkinson says that he does not even know Mr. Adams, and that he is not connected with any movement having the case as basis of operation. Mr. Daniel Murray, one of the assistant librarians of Congress, is doing a great work for the race in the preparation of an Afro-American Bibliography. He finds that more than 5,000 different books have been written by colored men and that colored men have composed more than 3,000 pieces of music. Hon. Ralph W. Tyler, the new Auditor for the Navy Department, has made an innovation which is very pleasing to the messengers in his bureau, who have done flunkey work without compensation. For many years it has been the custom for the messengers to shave the Auditor, Duputy Auditor, and chiefs of divisions, and shine their shoes. Believing that the messengers' time should be given wholly to their official duties, he called them before him and informed them that they could cut out the shaving and shining stunt, as they would not be allowed in the future to spend government time in personal service for the heads of the office. Colonel Scott, Superintendent of the Military Academy, has made the conduct of the colored troopers stationed at that place the subject of a special report to the War Department, which is of interest. Colonel Scott says the conduct of the Negro troops since they have been at West Point has been admirable and flawless; indeed much better than that of the white regulars who preceded them at the Post. At the recent meeting of the Colored Men's Business League the following officers were elected for a term of one year: J. A. Lankford, President; W. H. Davis and Edward Rowser, Secretaries; William L. Pollard, Treasurer; Daniel Freeman, First Vice-President; Dr. Mary Williams, Second Vice-President; W. R. Griffin, Third Vice-President, and J. B. Nickerson, Sergeant-at-Arms. William T. Vernon, Registrar of the Treasury, was elected a member. The following delegates were elected to represent the District of Columbia in the Annual Convention of the National Negro Business League, which is to meet in Topeka, Kan., August 15, 16, and 17: J. A. Lankford, John C. Dancy, W. Calvin Chase, William L. Pollard, Dr. A. M. Curtis, Arthur Gray, Dr. W. H. Davis, Chas. W. Brown, George Forest, William T. Vernon, Mrs. L. R. Clark, Dr. Mary Williams, Daniel Freeman, James W. Poe, and Alex. W. Undown. Dr. Davis then addressed the meeting on the advancement of the race in the District along certain lines and the good the local business league has done and can do. Howard University was founded on the 15th of November, 1867, and it is proposed to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of that event when the date comes around next fall. Arrangements have already begun. President Wilbur Patterson Kirkield has conferred with President Roosevelt, who is expected to be the principal figure in the ceremonies, and a committee of the alumni has been organized to promote the success of the occasion. It is proposed to commemorate the event by raising the fund for a new building which is greatly needed to accommodate the 46,000 volumes which are now overcrowding the present library. The occasion will call back to Washington many of the 3,000 alumni for a reunion, and such a Continued on fourth page The New York Dry Goods Store. Helena, Montana. 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Curtin, Reliable Housefurnisher, Grand Streets. --- Of Mixtures, Plains and Panama. $8.00 to $10.00 values, choice. $4.00 Teller Grand Voting Contest M Note Until July 5th DEALER VOTING CONTEST open for entries Popular Lady Of Montana to 1,000 Votes for Favorite YOUR HOME COMPLETE Of the Money We will come to our Second Hand Dress, Carpets, Stoves and House department is not filled with old words that have been used slightly rally as good as new. P. Curtin, --- No. 3. NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. A Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. Believing that he would not attain his ambition, which was to become an eminent surgeon, Dr. Henry Schaefer Hutchinson, son of a millionaire and prominent in Philadelphia, committed suicide. William S. Shunk, one of the foremost engineers of the country, died the other night at Harrisburg. Captain Richard Wainnight has been selected to command the battleship Louisiana to succeed Captain Couden, who is to be promoted to rear admiral. William Cledenne, formerly a member of the Canadian parliament and once mayor of Montreal, was cut in two by a train at Depew, N. Y., recently. At Stevens Point, Wis., the plant of the River Paper company is closed by a strike of all the employees, who demand a raise of 25 cents per day. Count von Posadowsky Wehner, imperial secretary of the interior and vice chancellor, has resigned and his successor will be Dr. von Bethmann Holweg, the Prussian minister of the interior, who will at the same time discharge the functions of the vice president of the Prussian ministry. Secretary Taft has returned to Washington from his western trip. Former Senator Baker of Kansas is dead. He was among the leading lawyers of the state for 50 years. The Tennessee supreme court holds that the new charter of the city of Memphis is unconstitutional. John O. Ericson of the University of Washington wone the fifth oratorical contest between the state universities of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, held in Eugene, Oregon. James H. Frazier of the University of Idaho won second place and H. M. McKinney of Oregon was awarded third place. A sheriff's jury has determined that James Dartlett Hammond, president of the Hammond Typewriter company, is mentally incompetent to manage himself and his affairs. Brigadier General Henry T. Allen, chief of the Philippine constabulary, has tendered his formal resignation as head of that department to take the position as head of the Yellowstone park service. The body of Emma Pontius, 10 years old, was taken from the lake at Chicago go recently and her elder sister Clara, 12 years old, is missing. Aoki may remain at Washington, D. C., as Japan has not decided on recalling him. His government must be assured that the is not wanted at Washington. Near St. John, N. B., the steamer Crystal Stream was burned to the water's edge and three of the crew were burned to death. Winnipeg advices say that the government of the Dominion has settled its quarrels with the Doukhobors regarding 250,000 acres of land set aside for the Russian immigrant fanatics on the occasion of the original entry to Canada under the sponsorship of Count Leo Tolstol in 1899. These lands are in the vicinity of Yorktown, Saskatchewan, where applicants of settlement must make appearance before July 6 next. Many of the Doukhobors have consented to the agreement to take 160 acres each in severality, but the majority had insisted on the community proposition of living, and its members announce themselves as content with 15 acres each. Cloudburst in Southern Montana A destructive flood in the Stillwater valley west of Columbus Saturday night destroyed five bridges which span the Stillwater river, and swept away the pliers of the Columbus Land and Irrigation company. Great damage was done to growing corps and a long stretch of railroad track was washed out. The flood was caused by a cloudburst, and the losses will aggregate more than $100,000. Five People Drowned at Tacoma Five people were drowned and a score or more were injured at Tacoma Sunday by the breaking of a landing slip of the steamer Multnomah, which was taking aboard a picnic party numbering upwards of a thousand members of the Swedish Order of Valhalla of Tacoma. DEATH TO 13 IN A BALLOON. Three Killed by a Fall, Ten Others by Explosion. Vienna, June 14.—Thirteen persons were killed in a balloon accident near Debreczin, Hungary. Three aerosnauts, two French officers and one Austrian officer, fell from the balloon and were killed. Peasants in trying to capture the balloon approached it with a light and the balloon exploded, killing ten of them. Love can only find a home among lovers. SPORTING NOTES. The Ritzville baseball team has disbanded. Peter Pan, the champion 2-year-old of the season, easily won the $15,000 Tidal stakes, mile and a quarter, at Skeepshead Bay Saturday. Freddy Weeks, who, a year and a half ago was fighting preliminaries, has pulled up another notch towards the featherweight championship by defeating decisively Jimmy Walsh of Boston in 10 rounds at Denver recently. Tim Hurley, who recently fought a 20-round draw with Nick Burley at Mullan, Idaho, has been matched to meet Jack Curley of Seattle at North Yakima on July 4. Tom KinSley, who also fought a 20-round draw with Nick Burley, has been matched with Tom Reilly of Seattle for a 20-round boxing exhibition, to take place at Hayre, Mont. Jack Burnett of the Tacoma team has gone to St. Louis, where he will play with John McCloskey's National league team. McCloskey gave $2,500 for Burnett. Dad Brown, manager of the Aberdeen team, slipped one over on the interstate commerce commission. Before the new rate law went into effect and the railroads knocked out special rates, Dad bought transportation for three long trips for his team. The enterprise saved him about $380. Rugby is again the game at Stanford. “Con” Struthers, newly elected manager of the Vancouver baseball club took hold of the team Sunday. The first trial heat for the selection of a challenger for the new international yacht racing Alexandra cup presented by Lieutenant Governor Dunsmuir of British Columbia was held recently in Seattle and was won by the Spirit. Perry Queenan is training for a match with Maurice Thompson of Butte, to be fought at Missoula on July 4. Barney Oldfield drove a mile against time in $52\frac{1}{2}$ seconds Saturday in Portland, and a mile in competition in one minute flat. Both are world's records. The race season is over at Oakland, Cal. The King County Fair association is now simply waiting for June 29 to open the greatest thoroughbred race meeting ever given at the Meadows. The best stables that have raced in California are either already quartered at the track, are now en route, or soon will be. D. A. Sullivan of Butte has gone to Spokane with the intention of locating there. Mr. Sullivan is an athlete of great prowess, having represented America in the Olympic games at Athens in the middleweight world's wrestling championships and in the pentathalon games there. Joe Gans, the lightweight champion, and Jimmy Gardner, the clever puglist of Lowell, Mass., will probably be matched to meet in a finish fight at Goldfield, Nev., on the afternoon of July 4. Moscow won the third and deciding game in the series of games played at Elberton last week for a $200 purse. Four athletes from the Olympic club of San Francisco carried off the honors at the track meet of the P. N. A. held at Seattle Saturday afternoon before 2,000 spectators. In practically every event in which they entered, the southerners carried off the honors. They had been counting on winning the big event of the day, the Marathon race for 15 miles, but Nelson, who wore the colors of the New York Athletic club and holds the international championship, was defeated by Chandler of Vancouver in a magnificent contest. The course was rough and the little Englishman set the pace for the first 10 miles, when Chandler's steady stride began to tell and he started to overhaul Nelson. At the eleventh mile they were neck and neck and seesawed for another stretch when the Vancouver runner steadily crept ahead and at the finish he was fresh and about 600 yards in the lead. Nelson was well spent when he arrived. Lou King of the Irish-American Athletic association of San Francisco took third and Johnson of Victoria finished fourth. Dan Kelly hurt his leg in practice and was limping and unable to compete, thus greatly weakening the Multnomah aggregation, which had been expected to capture the big meet. Five northwest records were broken. Bantz of S. A. C. took the 56-pound weight, at 28 feet 5 inches, Welch of Spokane did the mile in 4:40 4-5. Gilmore of San Francisco threw the shot 45 feet and threequarters of an inch and Zacharias of Multnomah threw the 16-pound hammer 149 feet $10\frac{1}{2}$ inches. Glarner did the 880 in 2:02 1-5. Northwestern League. General Duffield Is Dead. Washington, June 25.—General William Duffield, for a number of years superintendent of the United States coast and geodetic survey and said to be the oldest living graduate of Columbia college. New York, died at his home here recently. He was a brigadier general in the civil war. WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON AND MONTANA NEWS. A Few Interesting Items Gathered From Our Exchanges of the Surrounding Country—Numerous Accidents and Personal Events Take Place—Crop Outlook Is Good. WASHINGTON NOTES. N. M. Hart, superintendent of the Butte, Mont., public schools, has been elected principal of the Spokane high school. His salary was fixed at $3,000 a year. The fifth annual Lincoln County Pioneer and Historical association's picnic was the most successful in the history of the association. Hundreds of carloads of harvesters are being brought to Tacoma for transshipment to Vladivostok, whence they are sent by rail to Manchuria. A Great Northern railway passenger going west was wrecked about eight miles up the Tumwater canyon west of Leavenworth Saturday night. The train was a double-header. The first engine spread the rails, falling on its side. The second engine was thrown from the track into the Wenatchee river, carrying the mail car along with it. There was nobody injured except the fireman, who was slightly injured about the head. The large blast near Kahlotus on George Chew's contract on the Portland & Seattle line was exploded Saturday night. This blast consisted of 150,000 pounds of powder, which represents an outlay of over $12,000 for powder alone. State Horticulturist Frank E. Huntley and his deputy, P. S. Darlington, are in Wenatchee to investigate the condition of the orchards and the fruit crop. Mr. Darlington will make Wenatchee his headquarters and have under his official observation the counties of Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan. J. E. Nessly of Pullman is not guilty of maintaining a nuisance and Judge Chadwick instructed the jury to return verdict. Jonnie McLain has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary at Walla Walla. The crime for which he was arrested and to which he pleaded guilty was that of the murder of William Cameron, a white man, on the Colville reservation about two weeks ago. McLain is a halfbreed Indian. The Stevens County Pioneer society will hold its regular annual meeting and picnic at Chewalah next Sunday. The body of William Gustavus Adolphus Schoeninger, formerly a student at the University of Washington, was found floating in the bay near the fire boat at the foot of Madison street, Seattle, Wash., Coroner Carroll believes that Schoeninger committed suicide while temporarily insane. The body had lain in the water at least two weeks. Ernest F. W. Poolton, aged 15, a student in the freshman class of the Seattle high school, died Monday as the result of burns received from an exploding lamp. Under the name of the Young Men's Buddhist association of Seattle, Japanese of Seattle have raised a fund of $15,000 and have purchased a site for a temple. George W. France, for over seven years postmaster of Hoquiam, succumbed to a lingering illness from cancer of the stomach and other organs which was too far advanced to be removed. While Mrs. Bumgardner and her daughter Clara were assisting the feryman in crossing the Central ferry recently the rear wheel, which they were operating, got beyond their control, and, catching in the clothes of the woman, threw them overboard. Mrs. Bumgardner caught in the ropes and was rescued, but the younger woman, being less fortunate, was thrown far out in the stream beyond all possible help and was drowned. Saul Loule, the Indian charged with murder in the first degree for brutally beating the life out of his sweetheart on the reservation April 19, because she lavished her affections upon another red man, was sentenced to 14 years in the penitentiary at Walla Walla. Complete returns from the special election held in school districts No. 1, 10, 25, 38, 40, 46, 51 and 116 Whitman county, to decide whether or not they should organize into a high school district show that a large majority voted against organization. The wreck which happened on the Spokane & International recently at a point near Spokane Bridge, killed George E. Kendall and W. H. Waters, both train men. IDAHO NEWS. A sensational shooting affray in one of the rooms of the first floor of the Idanha hotel at Boise caused much excitement Sunday afternoon, which, however, was quickly allayed when it was found that it had no connection with the Haywood trial. There was a woman in the case. H. M. Hedges, an engineer, well known in Caldwell, fired five shots at A. S. Whiteway, a building contractor of Boise, seriously wounding him. Three of the bullets took effect. Case of jealousy. Probate Judge T. O. Hanlon of Lewiston has dismissed the suits brought against Edward Rabolin and several other Nez Perce Indians who were charged with malicious destruction of property on land claimed by Joseph Ziver of Spalding. In dismissing the cases Judge Hanlon upholds the contention of the government that the land in question, which consists of about seven acres, is a reserve created for the purpose of booming logs. The cases have attracted considerable attention because of the unique contention of Ziver who sought relief in the state courts by means of an action brought against the Individual Indians who destroyed the property, acting under instructions from the department. The ruling of Judge Hanlon upholds the report of the government and makes Ziver himself the trespasser without any title to the land. The 18-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. H. Duncan, living near Cambridge, 20 miles north of Council, wandered away recently from the house and was drowned in Rush Creek. The body was recovered nearly a half mile from the house. Judge Fremont Wood announces that he would hold the Sunday rest law valid. The Moscow city council in special meeting recently opened bids for constructing the new building at the city water works. All bids were rejected and the work will be done by the day. The 3-year-old daughter of Dr. Watts of Gifford accidentally swallowed strychnine tablets recently and is dangerously ill. The little one gained access to the doctor's medicine closest. The state land board and the Fire Protective association in the northern part of the state will unite in their efforts to save the timber from forest fires. James R. Garfield, secretary of the interior, and Gifford Pinchot, national forester, will be in Wallace July 5. Arrangements have been completed by which a special train will leave Wallace and the canyon towns for the purpose of taking friends to attend the funeral of Charles Manley, to be held in Spokane. Two men were found guilty at Lewiston of fouling a stream by dumping sawdust from mills into waterways which have an outlet into streams filled with fish. MONTANA ITEMS. Conductor Harrison and Brakeman Durfee were killed recently near Yegen siding, four miles west of Billings in a collision. The Rocky Mountain Bell telephone service was entirely put out of commission in Anaconda Saturday by some one stealing about 300 pounds of phone wire, stripping it from the poles for a number of miles. The phone girls at Virginia City have quit work, being refused an advance in wages. The big wool clip of the Sun River Stock and Land company, the T. C. Powers outfit, amounting to 200,000 pounds, has been sold to Fred H. Putnam, representing Hecht Lienman & Co. of Boston, at prices not made public. The unique case of a child of 9 years being informed against for incorrigibility was witnessed Saturday at Butte in the case of Dorothy Covel, a wee bit of girlish humanity, whose parents declare she is beyond their power to control. By a vote of eight to one the executive board of the Montana Federation of Labor has decided to hold its annual convention in Helena during the week beginning August 19. While endeavoring to cross Simms creek near Fort Shaw in a wagon Sunday afternoon, Mrs. J. C. Furman, wife of a prominent Augusta rancher who holds a contract on the government reclamation project at Fort Shaw, and her two sons aged 5 and 3 years respectively, were drowned and their bodies carried downstream. Mrs. Furman attempted to drive across the stream, which was swollen from the heavy rains, and when in the middle the wagons was caught by the torrent and swept away. Fourteen inches of snow fell in Butte Sunday, but by nightfall the streets were a mass of slush. The government rain gauge showed a net precipitation of $1\frac{1}{4}$ inches. Extensive damage was done to the trees at Columbia gardens, the wet and clinging snow breaking many large and small branches. Arrested as a vag, but thinking the officers were aware of his identity, O. E. Brown has confessed at Butte to having embezzled $25,000 from the Big Four railroad office at Bloomington, Ill., of which office Brown states he was the cashier. Brown seems glud that he is captured after a varied and exiting chase experienced in various parts of the country. Brown declares he took the money while on a spree, the opportunity presenting itself at a time when he says his mind was in an uncontrollable frenzy. Up to that time he declared, his accounts were straight. rown says he found it great sport dodging the Pinkertons. OREGON SQUIBS The Sunday closing law as set forth in the statutes of Oregon and interpreted by District Attorney Manning was sustained by Presiding Judge John B. Cleland in the superior court recently. The decision of the jurist orders "hands off" to the city council of Portland. J. E. Boulden, son of R. M. Boulden of Wattsburg, Wash., was instantly killed at the sawmill in Elgin Saturday. He was loading logs onto a wagon, when one of the timbers slipped and fell on him, breaking his back. The citizens of Summerville are making arrangements to celebrate on the Fourth. Portland's first rose carnival and flesta was inaugurated Friday by a parade of 2,200 school children. Shanghai Oplum Dene Closed. Shanghai—Investigation shows that the official order closing Chinese opium dens in this city has been observed. NOW IT IS DENVER GRAND JURY GETS IN ITS WORK IN COLORADO CITY. Rich Men of Colorado and Surrounding States in the Dragnet—Principally Coal and Timber Land Frauds—Vast Tracts Will Revert Back to Government—Arrests Follow Immediately-- Denver, Col.—As a result of the special grand jury, which closed its sessions Saturday afternoon and reported to Judge Lewis, about 70 indictments against men prominent in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and eastern states, including Wisconsin and Missouri, were returned, principally for coal and timber land frauds. coal and water. As a result of the Routt county coal frauds, a coal mining company of Wisconsin will have to answer for alleged thefts on a wholesale basis. A St. Louis corporation is said to be indicted for coal operations in Colorado. Other states also are represented in the list of indictments. At least two officers of Durango coal companies, one of whom is a millionaire, will be arrested with the rest, while county officers of Archuleta county, including judges, clerks and lesser official lights, are said to be on the list. The vast thefts revealed by the investigation show the true antimus of President Roosevelt's land policy and the reason for the withdrawal of hundreds of thousands of acres of coal and timber lands from settlement and for forest reserves. In course of time, it is admitted, these will be restored, more as a result of indictments of the grand jury than any action of the recent land convention. That this is true is admitted by officials who have been prominent in the investigation. L. W. Wheeler, who is in charge of 100 secret service men who have been in the state for six months gathering evidence against men accused of fraudulent coal and timber land entries, considers the work of the grand jury in Denver by far the most important of any inaugurated by the United States attorney general since the beginning of the land fraud inquiries. Ten prominent citizens of Colorado have been arrested in connection with the indictments. The charge against them is conspiracy to defraud the government under the coal and timber laws. Those placed under arrest are: J. J. McMillan, Robert Forester, Otis R Spencer, F. W. Keitel, John A. Porter, E. M Biggs and, John J. Moginnity, Charles D. McPhee, A. T. Sullenberger and C. H. Freeman. All were arraigned before United States Commissioner S. C. Hinsdale and held in $500 bonds, with the exception of McMillan, whose bond was placed at $2500. The bonds were furnished in each case. So far no warrants have been issued for those residing in states outside of Colorado. Land Frauds Excite Montana. Helena, Mont.—All is expectancy in the vicinity of the federal building in this city, where the United States grand jury is in session, and which is expected to report before the first of the month. It is confidently believed that this jury will return indictments involving "bigger guns" than any of its predecessors, which include former government and state officials. STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION Annual Meeting to Be Held at Everett July 25, 26 and 27. A circular letter has been received by newspaper men over the state from E. E. Beard, president of the State Editorial association giving due and official notice of the annual meeting of that organization at Everett July 25 26 and 27. Aside from the discussion of topics of interest to the members the main feature of the meeting will be a trip in a special chartered steamer down the straits and back around the islands, stopping to see the fish traps. Everett has prepared other entertainment in the form of trolley rides, banquets, etc., more than sufficient to keep the visitors busy. The official program is in process of arrangement and will be sent out soon LATE NEWS ITEMS. A suit has been strated in New York in the United States circuit court by Henry M. Walker, a resident of New Jersey, against Edward H. Harriman and other defendants, alleging breach of contract and conspiracy to prevent construction of the Portland, Nehalem & Tillamook railroad in Oregon. In his compalint Mr. Walker places his monetary damages at $500,000. Two corporate defendants and 29 other individuals have been served, and for this reason their names have been withheld by the court. Eleven persons are dead and many prostrated as a direct result of the warm weather experienced in the Pittsburg district Monday. The law forbidding the trafficking of oirgareets in the state of Washington goes into effect September 1. Contracts have been let for the two new buildings at the State college at Pullman, Wn. Twain Meets the King. London—Mark Twain was the center of attraction at the King's garden party at Windsor Saturday afternoon, and besides meeting the king and the royal party, he had a handshake with several hundred notables. Evidently Liberated 26 Years Ago in Pacific. One of the puzzles of the sea came to the surface recently when a gigantic sea turtle was captured by Julius Solissa; a fisherman at San Diego, in whose net it had become entangled. The monster weighs 1,502 pounds, almost a ton, and its shell is five feet two inches from tip to tip. On its back somewhat plainly is burned or carved this inscription: "British ship Sea Bride, August 12, 1881, three south, 86 west. If found please notify Thomas Fletcher, Brawley road, Rivington, England." It would appear from this that the turtle was captured 26 years ago in the south Pacific, and that it was released after the lettering had been burned in its shell. MINES AND MINING The most sensational gold strike of recent years in the state is reported from the Hope mine at Basin, Mont., being operated by M. L. Hewett of Helena and James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway company. The Hope was formerly the producer of the richest ore in the state, but was practically abandoned years ago as worked out. The new shaft has paid from the grass roots down. That the Hope will resume its former prestige is the belief of mlnung men, as the new vein is entirely independent of any of the old workings. Word from Thompson Falls, Mont., says 16 feet of concentrating silver-lead ore has been struck in the Montana Standard. The convention of the Western Federation of Miners has practically agreed upon a constitutional amendment providing for a referendum vote by any local union before a strike is called, two-thirds of those voting to answer in the affirmative. "Within two years I anticipate that no mill in the Coeur d'Alenes will be producing coarse tailings," says W. Clayton Miller, general manager of the Federal company. The largest consideration paid for a grass root mining claim in an undeveloped mining district of Washington is reported from Chelan. Kingman and Pershall have sold the Butte claim, located on the south side of Chelan butte, for $20,000 to Mr. Foreman, a mining man formerly of Denver, Col. now of Seattle. The owners of the claim reserved out of the sale 1,600 pounds of sacked ore, valued at $1.25 per pound. H. W. Jackson, while timber cruising on Deep creek, opposite the Last Chance mine, near Northport, Wash., discovered an outcrop of a ten-foot ledge, between granite and lime, of much the same character of ore as the Last Chance, carrying 75 per cent lead. He at once started development and in only a few days' work has four feet of pay ore. The tenth annual session of the American mining congress, to take place at Joplin, Mo., November 11 to 16, has been officially called by James F. Calbreath, Jr., of Denver, secretary of the organization. Another strike is reported from the Little Pittsburg mine on Pine creek, near Wardner, Idaho. Quite recently a six-inch stringer of shipping galena was cut on the footwall. It seems an assured fact that Charles Sweeney of Spokane has sold out his entire interest in the Sullivan Group Mining company, which owns the Sullivan mine and smelter near Marysville, B. C. The California-Giant company is repairing its machinery and extending an air pipe line from the compressor on the California to the Giant territory. J. A. Miller, late foreman at Granby, has been appointed superintendent of the California-Giant and states that development will soon be commenced. Mining companies at Rossland, B. C. have decided to pay miners $4 per day, instead of $3.50 as heretofore; shovelers $3.25, instead of $3.00; timbermen $4 and shaftmen $4.50, on and after July 1. It is thought the advance will result in a full supply of men, as Rossland is one of the most pleasant mining camps in the country. Following are the shipments from the Rossland camp for the week: Centre Star, 4,500 tons; Le Roi, 1,960 tons; Le Roi No. 2, 350 tons; total for week, 6,810 tons; and for year to date, 124,651 tons. At the Trail smelter 4,200 tons of ore were received during the week and at Northport the smelter received 1,960 tons. No Bomb. Says Bradley. F. W. Bradley, the man whom Orchard testified he tried to kill with a bomb at San Francisco, has made a deposition that he believed the explosion that wrecked his home was caused by gas. He said his cigar ignited accumulated gas that escaped from the pipes in the front hall. He was hurled outward into the street by the explosion. Bradley was cross-examined by an attorney representing the prosecution in the Haywood case. Bradley's deposition was secured by the defense, to be used in rebutting Orchard's testimony. Schmitz Vetoes Appropriation. From his executive cell in the county jail, Mayor Schmitz returned to the board of supervisors the municipal budget and a message vetting the appropriation of $720,000 for the reconstruction of the Geary street road. Schmitz, besides opposing the appropriation for the reconstruction of the Geary street railway, also objects to the levy of a special tax of 20 cents to raise revenue for the city government. Acting Mayor Gallagher said last night that Mayor Schmitz's right to pass upon the budget was not questioned by the board. COME ON, FELLERS! PROCLAMATION LET US HAVE A QUIET FOURTH Jim Wrayer For What's De Use-the kids TOY PISTOL SUCH TEMPEROUS YOUNG PERSONS! GIANT FIRE CRACKER SAY KID THERE'S NO THIN TO IT! A NEW DECLARATION. The old Declaration which Jefferson wrote In the ceasant accents we treasure and enjoy. The old Declaration whose truth is as true As in 'seventy-six, when its phrases were new. Let us linger on its message and Let us look and behold how in practice we play With the rights of the lives of our fellows to-day. Mired deep in our cities are infaunies where The new-born are stifled for lack of God's air; Where the fooble unfortunate, ground by negligbt In the height of the light of this noon of our day Is liberty his who has nothing to pay? The Law-breaker, high in our council of state Passes on to reward which is greater than great; But the begar who gasps out a prayer for relief, "Without means of support"—let him herd with the thief! And happiness. What, shall we mock at him, too? What happiness, pray, is that man's to pursue Who is worn to the bone by our monsters of greed. Who suck out his marrow, who prey on his need? Lo! one gives his life for a grave at the door. And another holds kingdoms no mortal might spend. Arise again, Jefferson! Take up your pen and draw is nowwed Declaration again! Men are equal and free, born with rights which deny King Greed, whom Monopoly raises on high. By the deeds of this day! let the old belfry sing A new Bardation against the new King! -Edmund Vance, Cooke. A FOURTH OF JULY DIARY ```markdown ``` HE morning of the Fourth—got up at 3 o'clock and hurrahed. Got my brother out of bed, and we hurrared for Washington, Gates, Green, Putnam, Ethan Allen and Gen. Stark. Fired our young cannon. Shot our toy pistols. Fired off a bunch of firecrackers. When daylight came we had all the cats and dogs in the neighborhood on the run. If we could have found a Britisher we would have had him on the run as well. Lemonade with breakfast. Lemonade after breakfast. Lemonade every little while all the forenoon. If our forefathers had drank more lemonade they would have gained their independence all the sooner. Firecrackers and torpedoes all day. Burned my thumb, got something in my eye and lost half my hair, but what boy won't go through perils for the sake of Liberty? Johnny Green said that George Washington didn't amount to so much much, and I gave Johnny a licking. Big pieces of coconut and lemonade and oranges after dinner. Wish the British would pitch into us again, so that we could have two or three Fourths of July in one year. The more I see of this business the more I like it. Father says there's a good deal of nonsense about it, but as he has been through two wars himself I know that he is talking through his hat. I've heard him say that he once shot off 30 packs of firecrackers one Fourth of July. When evening comes I am chuck up to the chin with good things I have eaten and drunk, but I am a patriot still. Still whooping for Bunker Hill and Valley Forge—still cheering as Washington crosses the Delaware. Night and fireworks. Yum! Yum! Skyrocks, Roman candles, pinwheels, serpents and a dozen other things. I cheer, I yell, I bubble. Then the show is over and Sammy and me go home and get into bed and are sleep in about two minutes, and as we sleed we dream that we are selling around in the sky on the moon, and that the redcots down below are shooting skyrockets at us and calling us young rebels and impudent rascals. Fourth of July Don'ts. Take any chances on its not being loaded. Pick up a lighted cracker to find out why it does not go off. Be too certain that the cannon fuse is not burning. Point any explosive at your little sister. Fail to treat powder burns instantly—they cause lockjaw. Try to see how much powder you can pack into a toy cannon. Leave smoldering crackers near inflammables. Shoot skyrockets into curtained windows—your father, probably, needs the house. Forget that the careless use of fireworks may change what should be a joyous day into one that will be remembered with sadness for a lifetime. THE FOURTH OF JULY. Stop and Consider What Independence Means To-day. The signing of the Declaration of Independence was a deed to commemorate, without doubt. But is it not well to stop and consider just what independence means to-day? Every boy who helps to make the Fourth of July hideous with noise can tell you that he is celebrating the birth of liberty. But is he not also accenting the growth of license? Why should he awaken his neighbors at 3 in the morning with sounds of the Inferno because he dwells in a free country? If he's free to celebrate, why should not his neighbors be free to sleep until a reasonable hour in the morning? It was this forgetfulness of the rights of others which made King George of England a tyrant from whose persecutions America declared its independence on the original Fourth of July. We talk much of our glorious liberty in America, but we are rapidly developing a tendency toward a tyranny as great as that which once compelled us to rebel against a king. It might be well for each one of us to ask himself on the birthday of American liberty just what he is doing to make liberty a universal possession. American independence is becoming a good deal like American business enter- AN INTRODUCTION NEEDED. RALPH WILDER Be too brave. Hold exploding crackers. prises—a thing of trusts and monopolies. Before you decorate your house with flags and send off your fireworks upon this Fourth of July, like good American citizens, you would better make a little mental analysis of your motives, habits and methods of life, and find out just what you are dally contributing toward the freedom of all Americans. Are you doing everything you can in your social, business and political orbit to give wider liberty, leisure and prosperity to humanity at large? Are you thinking how to lessen the hours of labor for the hordes of people who toil twelve and fourteen hours out of the twenty-four in this glorious land of liberty? Or are you planning ways to get more work out of them, and to increase your own fortune and leisure? Are you helping to teach the law of brotherhood, or are you widening the breach between the employer and employee by your arrogance and selfishness? You have no right to celebrate the birth of American independence or to talk of the beauties of freedom until you are ready to aid by thought, word and deed all mankind to the benefits of liberty.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The American Flag. The American flag has been the symbol of liberty, and men rejoice in it. Not another flag on the globe had such an errand or went forth upon the seas carrying everywhere, the world round, such hope for the captive and such glorious tidings. The stars upon it were to the pining nations like the morning stars of God, and the stripes upon it were like beams of morning light. Let us, then, twine each thread of the glorious tissue of our country's flag about our heartstrings, and, looking upon our homes and catching the spirit that breathes upon us from the battlefields of our fathers, let us resolve, come weal or woe, we will in life and in death, now and forever, stand by the stars and stripes.—Henry Ward Becker. Why He Objected. 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Golden City Lodge will initiate a large class into the Odd Fellows next week. A. J. Young of Virginia City will be over to mix with the boys next week. Vote early and often for your favorite in our grand voting contest. Harry Saulsburg has joined the march of progress by going into business for himself, the firm of Corrier & Saulsburg are in the cleaning, pressing and repair business at 128 East Sixth Ave., and solicit your patronage. A. Palmer says he will hike to Anaconda this week to attend the Grand Ball at that place. Miss L. T. Richardson and Solomon Scott were married at St. James Church last Wednesday evening. The ceremony and reception at the bride's home on Breckenridge St., was quite elaborate. The Stag Social at the church Tuesday evening was quite a success. J. W. Bush and others take notice.—Arthur Palmer & Jas. Howard, et al, went fishing last week, and say that they caught over 300 fish. Shoots With Fatal Results On last Sunday morning James Minor, at his home on the West Side opened fire on one John Wade with fatal results. He shot Wade in the back, from the effect of which he died at the hospital in less than twenty-four hours after. There have been no two stories of the shooting that were alike, and at present it is shrouded in mystery. It seems that Minor had previously had trouble with Wade at his home, and had ordered him to desist from coming to his house, which order, it seems, Wade did not obey, and when Minor came home and found him there, he opened fire on him with the abovc results. Minor is a retired soldier, with a good record. Little is known of Wade, as he is a stranger around here. Public sentiment is that he got his just deserts, and there is little probability that Minor will ever be convicted for the homicide. A certain young man who journeyed to Great Falls, it seems, is located there, and refuses to come back. Walter Parker was re-elected N. F. of Golden City Lodge at their last meeting. THE PLAINDEALER only recently called attention to the fact of the notorious action of some of our young men toward married women, and that they would reap as they sowed. John Wade is the first one to reap, and so it will be all along the line, and public sentiment will uphold the perpetrator. Next week will indeed be a gay week for Helena. The Luzon Bees have disbanded so it is said. We have received a communication from J. D. Pettigrew, general lecturer and organizer for a colored co-operative movement, who says he will be in our city and lecture at St. James Church on Saturday night; it might be profitable for our people to attend the same, as any balm to cure the present ills, and to assist this people in this section is indeed a welcome lotion. A Huge Success The Stag Social given at the Church last Wednesday evening was a huge success. The program rendered, although entirely by men, was a good one. True, some of the numbers lacked harmony, but for the occasion it was in line. The supper served was voted to be the "best ever," and after all, the Stags are to be reckoned with when it comes to furnishing fun and amusement. Chas. P. Groves is back from a trip in the interest of his mines, and showed us a contract where he had boned and leased his mines for $50,000. Maybe Porter Groves is not asleep after all. Lost Charles Ross or Cole, after all has been discovered, and managed to get in from the Falls Wednesday. Dockstader's Minstrels were strong competitors to the wedding Wednesday evening. It seems as though the Broadwater boys have gone into obscurity after a flash. The managers of the Men's Social at the Church Tuesday were very condescending in furnishing the great friend to the race, The Independent, with a write-up of the affair, with their names, etc. We know they did because no representative of that journal lends his presence to a gathering of color other than a cakewalk or minstrels. Still Nero fiddles while Rome burns. Walter Fisher is at home on a 20-day lay off from his run on the Northern Pacific R. R. Mrs. W. T. Osborne will soon put on a play at the Church the title of which is "Jack and the Bean Stalk." Mrs. Lee promises an interesting program for the literary which does not meet until the 10th. Mr. & Mrs. J. Lionel Ellis entertained a few of their friends at a card party Thursday evening in their apartments at the Monticello, and quite an enjoyable time was had by all. Refreshments were served. St. James African Methodist Episcopal church, located at Cor. 5th Ave, and Holback street, Rev. W. T. Othorne, Pastor. Services Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7-30 p. m. Sunday School, 2 p. m., A. Marshall, Supt., Carrie Dorney, ch. Lister, Florence Anderson, Secy. 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 Locas Block. R. I. Ford, W. M.; C. Johnson S. W. Spencer Smith, J. W. Geo. Alexander, Secy. 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, Secy. W. C. Rose, Treas. Bethabea Lodge, O. E. S., meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday evenings of each month in their hall in the Hall in the Lucas Block. Mrs. Chas Johnson, W. M.; Mrs. N. Ford, A. M.; Albert Napper, W. P.; Mrs. M. Simmons, Treas. Mrs. C. C. Matthews, Sect.; Mrs. Jos Clark, Con.; Mrs. J. Harrison, A. B; M. O. J. Annett, W.; Chas Johnson, S.; Mrs. L. Napper A.; Mrs. Jas Crump, R.; Mrs. M. A. Cole, Eather, Mrs. E. Dorsey, M.; Mrs. George Alexander, Electa. Golden City Lodge No. 3455, G. U. of Oy 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, Warden; 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. Sadie Ford, M. N. G.; Mrs. Lucy Nicholson, P. M. N. G.; Mrs. Elanora Johnson, R. N. G.; Mrs. Carrie Johnson, N. G.; Mrs. Georgia Irvin, W. R. Pride of Montana Lodge, No. 4, K., of P, meets the 2nd and 4th Monday evenings of each month at G. 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. 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