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THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER MONTANA PLAINDEALER Published Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. Subscription $2.00 per year, Strictly in Ad- dance. Advertising Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter April 12, at the Post Office at Helena, Montana, after the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PROSPERITY!! UNION!!! IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. Much of the lustre of the brilliant vitor of the Independent is dimed, when he refers to such a man the venerable Bishop Turner as pertinent smart Alec; No man so knows or knows of Bishop Turner, but that admires his great telequality and commemds his best service to the country both at the battlefield and as a distinguished prelate at the head of one the greatest religious organization in this country. We do not endorse Sentiments which he promulates in his dotage, neither is it so the race at large but for all that is one of the grant intellects of his country. Evidently editor Rafferty has unposed our educated Jack Ass the smart alee to which he refers. The Independent along with ardaman claims that education of blacks makes them impudent smart Alec's he should read of their progress. But on the whole if that the race has accomplished in years of freedom along all lines business and industry is an indicator as to the appellation given them by these distingushed and ethical gentlemen we shall wish to continue in the Smart Alec Clan. That Co-operative Movement the movement put on foot by one D. Pettigrew and taken hold of some of our citizens is one which we have had our weather on ever since its incipiency and as we may, we cannot see the benefits to be derived by an exponent, when we have the opportunity of organizing for ourselves without paying high tribute to an organizer; in an organization which was made for itself a national republic and has at its head the grandest Roman or them all Prof. Booker Washington. Who is this man Pettigrew and that steam is there behind him that has he done, he came here and announcing what organizations he had formed in Spokane, Seattle and other places among our people, but search of our exchanges at those places fail to show that his movement is attracting any attention he did read a one line local saying it was in Denver. But a man who does Things is never passed up by the Afro. American press. And it is passing strange that we can get no confirmation of his assertions. It looks to us that Helena looks easy for him and the speedy manner in which our people opened their purses on his first visit here attracted him for a return visit. But we will say that among the Helenaite there are many Missourians and They will have to be Shown. According to the friends of Governor Hughes, of New York, he will not become again a candidate for Governor of the State, nor will he except the nomination for the Vice-Presidency. The inference, of course, is that he will accept the nomination for President. Mr. Hughes has not signified his willingness to become a candidate for the Presidency, but his friends insist that it would be foolish to assume that he would not accept the nomination if tendered him. And indeed his friends need not go so faras to make the assertion. It will be taken for granted that any one nomination for the exalted position and with a reasonable chance of success, would not decline the honor. The New Yorker is growing in popularity without much effort on his Of course, the State of New York, politically considered, is a factor in growth. Who can carry New-York? is the ceaseless question during Presidential making days. The foregone conclusion is that Mr. Hughes for one can do it. The fact makes him a formidable candidate Time is the other element necessary to determine what will happen to Mr. Hughes. Freeman HOW ABOUT THIS The Past Unveiled. Bruce Grit," an old friend of Dr. Blyden, quotes in his New York letter to the Boston Guardian very liberally from a recent pamphlet of the doctor, which gives a speech delivered by Alex H. Everett, a Caucasian Bostonian, in 1888 to the Colonization Society, who said; Go back to the earlier period in the history of the human race. See what the blacks were and what they did 3,000 years ago in the period of thier greatness and glory when they occupied the forefront in the march of civilization, when they civilized world of their time. Trace this very civilization of which we are so proud to its origin and see where you will find it. We received it from European ancestors; they had it from Canada and Romans and the Jews. They derived it from the Ethiopia and Egypt; in one word from Africa. Moses, we are told, was instructed in all the learning of the Egyptians. The founders of the principal Grecian cities, such as Athens, Thebes and Delphi, came from Egypt and for centuries afterward their descendants returned to that country as the source and center of civilization. There it was that the generous and scendants returned to that country as the source and center of civilization. There it was that the generous and stirring spirits of that time—Herodotus, Homer Plato, Pythagoras and the rest made their noble voyages of intellectual and moral discovery as ours now make them In England, France and Italy. "Sir, the Egyptians were the masters of the Greeks, the Jews, and consequently of the modern nations in civilization, and they had carried it very nearly as far—in some respects a good deal farther—than any subsequent people." Helena, Montana, Friday, October 18 1907 PROF.W. T. VERNON AT SPRINGFIELD ILLS. PROF.W. T. VERNON AT SPRINGFIELD ILLS. [Image of a man in formal attire, holding an open book]. Register Of U. S. Treasury Prof W. T. Vernon Matchless Orator And Leading Educator. "The ruins of the Egyptian temples laugh to scorn the architetural monuments of any part of the world. They will be what they are now, the delight and admiration of travelers from all quarters, when the grass is growing on the sites of St. Peters and St. Paul, the present pride of Rome and London. Egyptians Were Black Well, sir, who were the Egyptians? They were Africans; and of Colored race. It is sometimes pretended that though of African and Ethiopian extraction they were not black. But says the father of history who Register Vernon Speaks. (From the Springfield(Ill)Leader. W. T. Vernon, the famous orator addressed the Chautauqua Emancipation Celebration last Monday. It is said by thousands who heard him speak to be the equal of Hon. W. J. Bryan as an orator. Complimented by Ex-Senator Mason, who followed Mr. Vernon and said that he had heard all the great men speak in this and other countries, and that his address was the finest he had ever heard fall from the lips of any man. We consider it a great compliment Register Of U. S. Treasury Prof W. T. Educator from Mr. Mason. You will fined a part of his address in another column. Signature Is In Great Demand. Who is this man Vernon, and what secret of the great value of his autograph? Vernon is in the, autograph business. He makes his living by putting his name on paper. He caters to a clientele that is insatiable. His signatures are all alike, but vary in price from $1 to 10,000, according to the paper on which they are written. Still no one ever tries to beat HAVRE NOTES. The Paul Lawrence Dunbar Literary Society, are doing things, they have finished paying for the wiring of the church for Electric lighting the sum being 18. dollars They meet every Thursday night. traveled among them and knew their appearance as well as we know that of our neighbors in Canada? Sir, Herodtus tells you that the Egyptians were black with curly hair. Some writers handertaken to dispute his authority, but I cannot bring myself to be lieve that the father of history did not know black from white. "It seems, therefore, that for this very civilization of we are so proud, and which is the only ground of our present claim to superiority, we are indebted to the ancestors of thesevery blacks whom we are pleased to consider as naturally incapable of civilization Broad Axe. AT SPRINGFIELD ILLS. him down, for the 10,000 k1ud is ten thousand fold more defirable than the $1 kind. He was born 36 years ago in a log cabin on a plantatton near Ledanon, Mo. of parents who had been slaves. He went to work in the fields dragging hay at the age of 8. When 15 years of age he began his education at a school for negroes in Missouri, finishing his course of study he taught school in Mo. for 6 years, and then took charge of Western University an Industrial school at Qnindaria Ks. Mr. Vernon was then the only teacher and his pupils numbered six. When he left the institution T. Vernon Matchless Orator And Leading Orator. last June he had 14 teachers and 250 pupils. The collegeo pert y consists of 170 acres of land with buildings valued at $175,000. He is affiliated with the leadlng negro organizations, has the degree of master of arts and tor of laws conferred upon him, and as an educator, an orator, a writer and a leader of the people np to tpe light of a higher plane of life, he is classed with the famous teacher of Tuskegee' Booker T. Washington. Rev. and Mrs. Redd arrived in Havre last week. Their many friends are delighted to see them again. The Rev.was appointed Pastor of the A. M. E. Church here, with the Church at Great Falls attached to Havre. The Pastor is workina hard on the Parsonage. He has it nearly reaby for the roof. [Havre Notes Continued on Page 4.] The New York Dry Goods Store. 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Secretary Metcalf says that Puget sound can harbor the Pacific fleet. Charles G. Burton of Nevada, Mo., was recently elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. W. J. Biggay has been sworn as chief of police of San Francisco. The president has appointed John G. Matos Jr. appraiser of merchandise at San Francisco. A special government official has left Ottawa for Vancouver to deal with the oriental labor question. At Hays City, Kan., fire destroyed the I. I. Post mill and elevator and other buildings, causing a loss of $115,000. Senator, E. J., Burkett, of Neb., declares he will fight the Alaska-Yukon exposition appropriation in congress as the exposition at Jamestown proved a failure. Unknown persons recently exploded dynamite in the presses and four linotype machines of the News-Herald, Joplin, Mo., causing damage amounting to $20,000. The Saraput district of Viatka province, Russia, has been placed under a state of "extraordinary siege," owing to the prevelance these of murders and acts of incendiarism. J. H. Koontz and wife of Echo, Umatilla county, Orc., have presented the Deaconess hospital, a Methodist institution of Spokane, with $10,000 in the form of an annuity. A German architect has patented an invention for the manufacture of glass telegraph and telephone poles. The glass mass which the poles are made is strengthened by interlining and intertwining with wire threads. To rehabilitate its treasury, the great council of the Improved Red Men has increased the per capita tax from 10 to 15 rights on all tribes in territorial jurisdiction, those outside reporting direct to the great council. Governor Johnson of Minnesota says he is not a candidate for president. Brother Dominic, provincial in charge of schools conducted in this country by the Brothers of Xavier order, is dead. Mrs. Louise Taft, mother of the secretary of war, was 99 years old Saturday and for the first time since she became ill on July 25, she sat up and received callers. Former president of Cuba Palma, seen living on his estate at Byamo, stated that he is keeping aloof from politics and is devoting all his time to agricultural interests. Viscount Hayashii minister of Foreign affairs, has been promoted to the rank of count, and M. Motono and M. Kurlin have been created barons in recognition of their services in concluding treaties with France and Russia. The Mary Kingsley medal instituted by the Liverpool (Eng.) school for the study of tropical diseases, to commemorate Miss Mary Kingsley, the African traveler, has been awarded among others, to Dr. Charles Finlay, chief sanitary officer of Cuba, who originated the theory that yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes. Crimes and Criminals. Chan Mon We, president of the Chinese Six companies, was found dead recently infront Francisco. Death was due to plague. At Goldfield, New Herbert E. Riggs, cashier for H. H. Newland, a broker, was recently found unconscious on the floor of this office. The door of the safe was open and cash amounting to $1300 had been stolen. The person responsible for the death has de The parish board of Illinois has denied the application for parish made by Paul O. Stensland, and he will have to serve out his full term of imprisonment for booting the Milwaukee Avenue Savings bank of Chicago, of which he was president. A gigantic syndicate of smuggling dressmakers, said to have defrauded the government to the tune of half a million through the illicit importation of Parisian gowns, was broken up by the clever capture in New York of three of its alleged members and the confiscation of more than $30,000 worth of rich dresses and rare lace. Accidental Happenings. Juan Espinosa, an expert Chilean marksman, while attempting to shoot an apple from the head of a man at a circus at Rio Jardiro, missed and killed the man. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict that it could not state the real cause of the fall of the Quebec bridge, but declared that, according to the evidence advanced, all necessary precautions were taken. Refusing the proffered aid of a life preserver thrown to him and declining to get into a rowboat and be taken back to shore John Alzburger continued to swim about the North River, N. Y., with all his clothes on in an effort to find the body of his friend, Frank Hillcoot. Giving up the search, Alzburger swam to a pier in an exhausted condition. Satah always keeps a large force busy coining excuses for not doing right. sympathetic with Roosevelt's roots. Chicago Tribune publishes a resume of its poll of the New England states, which conservative district stands for President Roosevelt's progressive policy, more than 85 per cent of the republicans ratifying Roosevelt ideas. Sentiment for the nomination of Secretary Tatt of Government Hughes is overwhelming, and general opinion favors both these men on the ticket. Tatt of course is larger in the lead, having received the votes of 289 republican editors, senators and congressmen, for first choice out of total of 520, while Hughes was kept in 289 for first choice preference, markable and significant showing for a public man who has been before the people for so short a time. A year ago he was scarcely known except for his progress in the insurance investigation, while toffey the last petitioned is the first, second or third choice in 389 out of 520 ballots, while Tatt is first, second or third in the running on 414. Figures for the secretary of war show that in New England more than half of the ballots mentioned him as first choice; one fifth were for second choice, and 10 per cent were for third. What is perhaps most surprising of all is that while two candidates, Taft and Hughes, who have most frequently been classed as progressive, were so abundantly popular in New England, men like, Cannon, Fairbanks, Knox and others of the distinctly conservative type, have comparatively small following. Taking ballots for first choice, Taft has more than the others but together and equally real competitor is Hughes. For second choice, Hughes loads Taft, and for third choice as well. LATE NEWS ITEMS The plague outlook in San Francisco at present is very serious. Outrages still occur in the streets of Odessa, Russia. A verdict of manslaughter was returned by the jury in the case of Joseph Faniff, on trial at Wallace for the murder of James H. Thompson. The record price for whiskey was reached in Cincinnati last Monday, reaching $1.34. Andrew J. Ballier of Seattle has been appointed as assistant United States district attorney. He will be enlisted of the bureau of naturalization. With the submission of all the tribes, which now seems practically assured, it would appear that the mission which took General Drude into Morocco has been fully accomplished. Heavy selling of copper stocks last Monday precipitated a slump in values on Wall street. Granby leading with a all of 18 points, from 98 to 80 while Amalgamated dropped 18½ points. The railway values also dropped the day, but the slight support given tho the copper stocks only caused a temporary cheek to the fall which prevailed all through the day's dealings. Ten years in the idaho penitentiary is the punishment imposed on Thomas Egerman for the attempted murder of Hilda Carlson and her small brother. While waiting in Morges, they for ducks which he had been shooting, Grover C. McCormick of Leavenworth, Wash., suddenly took cramps and drowned in about 30 inches of water. Mrs. Cassie M. Chalwicks, noted witch of finance, who swindled Ohio and eastern banks and capitalists out of millions in loans on bogus securities was stricken with nervous collapse at the penitentiary Tuesday which left her blind. Henry H. Rogers is in a very weak physical condition. He is unable to transact any business or even discuss ordinary affairs. Ever since J.M. Rookefeller retired from active business some years ago, M. Rogers has been looked upon as the virtual dictator of Standard Oil policies and for many years has been the nimble spirit in Amalgamated Copper Affairs. All the boiler makers of other road shops in Speakare are out of trade in conjunction with the other boilermakers in the west. The incorporation of the Bitter Foot railroad by the officials of the Oregon Railroad Navigation company with the vowed intention of constructing a line from Spalding, Idaho, to Bristol, Mont., is believed to mark a press option of hostilities in that territory between Hartman and Hill; a dissolution of the O. R. N.-Northern Pacific compact to jointly construct and operate a line from Riparia, Wash., to Grangerville, Idaho, and the early completion of the Lewiston-Huntington outfit. Twenty-five thousand dollars, or half the yearly salary of President Reevelt, will be expended by the Mint Order of Enakops on their carnival during the first two nights of the Spokane fair. Ten thousand dollars has been expended for a display of women's celebrated fireworks. An additional several thousands of dollars is being spent for elaborate floats. One of these floats will carry the Carnival Queen, Miss Hattle Anderson of Elberton, and her maids, of honor, four other celebrated Whitman county beauties. The balance of the floats will portray the wanderings of the members of the order from the time of their expulsion from Egypt in 1313 B. C. (before Columbus) up to the present time. Cape Colony has 20,000 acres of vineyard with 60,000 vines. --- A Few Interesting Items Gathered From Our Exchanges of the Surrounding Country—Numerous Accidents and Personal Events Take Place—Crop Outlook Is Good. WASHINGTON STATE NEWS. A library under the new state law seems assured to Ellensburg. Six persons were injured Saturday morning when a Puyallup car crashed into the rear end of a Fern Hill tripper at Tacoma. A thief entered, a rear door of Swift's pharmacy, in Seattle, recently, removed the cash drawer in the same in the back room and made away with approximately $500. There is a strong grange movement on in Kittlesburg county now among the farmers. A movement has been started among the various county citizens of the state to form a state organization to meet once each year. The new directory just issued gives Ellensburg a population of approximately 4500. Louis Crossmiller, a Walla Walla school keeper, recently received a maximum fine of $300, for selling liquor to a probated drunkard. Hop picking is now at high tide and it appears what more of the growers around North Yakima are picking their crops than was expected. The directors of the Yakima Valley Transportation company have decided to advise by the original franchise granted them and will proceed with the construction of their line at once. Friends of Carl Braun, who was killed by a Tacoma interurban train, now advance the theory that he sat down on the track with suicidal intent. United States Deputy Marshal Pray recently shot, and killed Dan Stafford, who was resisting arrest at his ranch near Bissel. Stafford was indicted for selling liquor to an Indian. That Electric Locomotive Engineer O. W. Frost had died of apoplexy just before the wreck was expressed as the belief of Inland Empire railway of flicks for the cause of a freight collision at Freeman recently. A grand jury for Whitman county has been called under the direction of Judge Chadwick of the superior court. Plans are already been made for the annual potatch and lovefeast given by the Yakima Indians. The formal opening of the new power plant of the Northwest Light and Power company, of North Yakima, occurred Sunday. L. Mackenzie of Colafax, and Edward Riggs of Portland, have closed a deal for the purchase of the electric light plant in Chehalis. One hundred and fifty thousand cubic yards of solid rock was blown out and crumbled into pieces in size smaller than a man's body and much of the debris was no bigger than a man's head when the charge went off at Hooper, Wash., on the North Bank road a few days ago. Harvesting is about completed in Ashton county, and every one reports a good yield. Poole & Tyler's grocery store at Tekoa, was entered by thieves recently and robbed of $110 in cash. Nothing else was touched. A suit involving millions of dollars' worth of Seattle tide lands, brought by Attorney W. F. Hays in the Olympia superior court against C. B. Russell and others, has been ordered transferred for trial to King county by Superior Judge Linn. MONTANA NOTES. Ballings is excited over the discovery near Custer and Big Horn on the ceded portion of the Crow reservation of what appears to be a valuable and extensive coal deposit. The Associated Press operator at Butte, who was sent from Salt Lake and began service Sunday night, was surrounded by a bunch of strikers, who threatened to "beat him up" if he did not promise to leave town. Joseph Case, a well known business man of Butte, was thrown from a horse recently, sustaining a fracture of the base of the brain. Mr. Case was one of the active members of the well known dry goods firm of Case, Gravelle & Irvin before its absorption by the Symons company. James Kinney, formerly of California, an uncle of Harry Tracy, the noted outlaw, has been murdered by unknown persons near Toston, 20 miles east of Helena. There is no clew to the identity of the murderer or murderers. Important changes have been made in the administration of the public land office at Helena, by which much red tape has been abolished. Hereafter applications for permits to cut timber on public lands outside of the forest reserves will be made direct to the chiefs of the field divisions of Montana, of which J. L. Sharp of Helena has charge. An investigation will then be made by Sharp's force, and the application will be forwarded direct to the general land office in Washington, with his recommendations, if granted, the permit will be mailed directly to the applicant. Northern Pacific office at Missoula was entered recently by burglar who secured about $400, mostly in paper money. Three persons were injured in a wreck of a Great Northern train No. 4, near Midvale, Saturday. The baggage car, mall car and express car left the track. The cause of the wreck is unknown. OREGON ITEMS. Although several posses are scouring the country in the vicinity of Rondo Siding, six miles west of Rexford, where the Great Northern train was held up and robbed by bandits recently, no clue as to the whereabouts of the highwaymen has yet been obtained. A double-end collision, in which five Japanese were killed and five seriously injured, occurred at Dillard station, 107 miles south of Roseburg. Robert Hixon, one of the early pioneers of Oregon, died recently at his home in Pleasant valley after an illness of several weeks. Although they reiterate that they are expecting no trouble and are not preparing for any, every Japanese in Portland is armed with the best of revolvers, many of them carrying automatic guns of the latest pattern. IDAHO EVENTS. Steve Adams has been removed to the county jail at Rathdrum pending his trial in the capital of Kootenai county, which has been set for October 14. A train running on the Clearwater division struck and instantly killed Clarence Johnson, a Yakima Indian, recently. George A. Pettibone, charged with complicity in the assassination of Governor Steunenberg, was taken to a Boise hospital recently in a critical condition and an operation probably will be necessary. There will be no further prosecution of the case at present. Sheriff Doust of Bonner county has stopped all gambling at Bonners Ferry. Thomas Eagan was convicted of attempted murder of Hilda Carlson. The jury returning a verdict after two hours' deliberation. The first payment on the Craig mountain timber land recently secured by the Northwest Lumber company was made Monday, the deeds for 170 tracts having been drawn. The company has options on approximately 50,000 acres of land, as well as owning outright about 10,000 acres. Messrs. Williamson and Hawthorne of Post Falls have returned from a flying trip to the Alberta country. They report the snow to be from a foot to 18 inches deep, and the grain crop ruined. Estimates of the total amount of grain raised on Nez Perce prairie alone this year by the grainmen place the yield at from 3,000,000 to 3,000,000 bushels, which, if all sold at the present prices, would bring $1,500,000 to the farmers. A fire, which originated at the Overland hotel, Glenns Ferry, destroyed seven business buildings and inflicted a loss of $51,000. The fire burned all afternoon. Incendiarism is suspected. That active warfare between the Hill and Harriman forces is imminent is the belief of railroad men, who have viewed with interest the building of the joint line between Riparia and Grangeville. A detective has placed under arrest James Sharkey, at Bonnons Ferry, who, it is claimed, knows something about the Great Northern holdup that occurred west of Whitefish, Mont. The C. M. & St. P. Railroad company is planning to build a large dam at the mouth of Mica creek, on the upper St. Joe river, where the water will be harnessed to supply electric power with which trains will be operated through the tunnels on that division of the road. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Spotted Eagle, a Nez Perce Indian has been convicted at Grangeville, Idaho for cattle stealing. There is a disposition on the part of large manufacturers to reduce their working forces, and one in particular is the Pullman company which, it is stated by one in close touch with corporations' affairs, had reduced its working force of 5000 men already, and that further reduction is contemplated. It is stated that 2500 men were laid off Saturday. A case has been brought into the federal court at Portland to test in court the question as to whether the act of congress of April 10, 1869, and May 4, 1870, to permit citizens of the United States to settle upon the lands granted by the acts of congress, in quantities not to exceed a quarter of sextio to any one settler, and to sell the same to such settlers at $2.50 an acre, as is expressly provided by the acts referred to. It is asserted that congress simply made the railroad company trustees to dispose of the land at the fixed price of $2.50 an acre. It is alleged that the railroad company has refused to conform to the terms of the acts, retaining for its own use lands granted by congress for settler purposes. Charles S. Reed to Seattle, now superintendent at Chehalis in the training school has been appointed superintendent of the penitentiary at Walla Walla, vice Kinoaid. Stevens County at Fair Stevens, "the mother of counties," will have a prominent position in the main exhibit building at the Interstate Fair this year, being assigned to the place just to the right of the main entrance, the same space occupied last year. The Colville Commercial club is reported to be collecting a varied assortment of choice farm products for the Stevens county showing. FATAL TRAIN WRECK Quebec Express Collides With Boston & Maine Freight—Due to Mistake in Train Dispatcher's Orders —Occurred in Early Morning Hour During a Heavy Mist. White River Junction, Vt., Sept.16. —A fearful head-on collision between the southbound Quebec express and a northbound freight train on the Concord division of the Boston & Maine railway occurred four miles north of Canaan station early yesterday, due to a mistake in train dispatcher's orders, and from a demolished passenger coach there were taken out 24 dead and dying and 27 other passengers, most of them seriously wounded. Nearly all of those who were in the death car were returning from a fair at Sherbrooke, Quebec, 160 miles north. The conductor of the freight train was given to understand that he had plenty of time to reach a siding by the night operator at Canaan, receiving, according to the superintendent of the division, a copy of a telegraph order from the train dispatcher at Concord, which confused the trains numbers 30 and 34. The wreck occurred just after the express had rounded into a straight stretch of track, but owing to the early morning mist neither engineer saw the other's headlight until it was too late. Those identified up to 6 o'clock Sunday night were as follows: List of the Dead. Timothy Shaughnessy, Castle Bar Quebec. Mrs. Shaughnessy. Miss Anna St. Pierre, Isle Verte Quebec. Fred M. Petts, Ochiltree, Texas. Miss Barrett, Manchester. Mrs. Philip Gagon, Sherbrooke, Quebec. Miss Alvina Garon, Nassau. Mrs. Webster, a dressmaker living in Massachusetts. J. J. Concroth, Somerville, Mass. Infant child of Irving Gifford, Concord. Mrs. E. T. Briggs, West Canaan, N. H. John G. Duncan, Bethel, Vt. The unidentified include a boy 4 years of age and a man 40 years old. a woman of 50 years, another of 55. a man of 35 years and four others. Twenty-two of the bodies were removed to Concord during the night. The Train Was Late. The passenger train had left here bound for Concord about an hour late. The track to the south is a single one to Franklin, 50 miles distant, with a few sidings. It abounds in curves, while the greatest part of it from Canaan is down grade. The freight train pulled out of a sliding some miles to the south and started up the track for this place at 4 o'clock. The train dispatcher's sheet at Concord is declared to show that the freight crew disobeyed orders in doing so. There are no signals on the road and the trains are directed from station to station. Going north it is a long, straight track from Canaan to the curve where the accident happened and the freight was making good time when the passenger train came around the curve. It is estimated both trains were going at a speed of from 30 to 40 miles an hour. There was time to put on the brakes and both engine crews jumped and escaped injury. Early in the afternoon, although 10 of the 30 freight cars which had composed that train were derailed, and the track was torn up for a quarter of a mile, the work of rescue had been completed, and it became known that the number of dead was 24. Twenty-two of them were taken by train to Concord, and two were sent to this place. Before the removal of the bodies 14 had been identified. Four Killed in Auto Accident. Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 18.—Eight men, crowding into a powerful racing auto built, to hold but three passengers, dared death in a wild burst of speed down the west Huerfano street hill at 3 o'clock in the morning and the most frightful accident in the history of Colorado Springs resulted. Four men lost their lives, being mangled almost beyond recognition, and the other four occupants of the car were more or less seriously injured. The machnie, a six cylinder, forty horse power Ford, is the same one which ran over and killed C. V. Dasty in the recent double tragedy, the auto races at Overland Park, Denver. The dead: W. H. Ralston, John S. Grey, formerly of New York, H. Winnall, and Britton L. Graves. The injured: George Buckley, F. H. Markshoell. Markshoell, who was driving, lost control of the wheel and the machine, swerving from side to side across the car tracks, ran into the gutter for fully fifty feet. The heavy car plunged onward, the right front and rear wheels running in the gutter and the two left wheels a foot higher on the curb. Suddenly a front wheel struck some obstacle and the machine slew around, was thrown a distance of about 45 feet down the hill. SPORTING NOTES. Max Hensler of Prosser, Wash., ex-professional, captured the grand Pacific coast handicap shoot at Spokane. After 25 minutes' actual wrestling, Charles Delluk defeated Ludvig Liefson, a young miner from the Standard mine, at Wallace recently. The match was for $100 a side, and the conditions were that Delluk was to throw Liefson twice in an hour at catch-ac-catch-can style. Jack Johnson, the colored heavy-weight, fought Sailor Burke at Bridgeport, Conn. The fight was of six rounds and the colored man, who outweighed the sailor, landed some terrific blows, flooring his man several times. Burke weighed 165 and Johnson 185. London—Sir Thomas Lipton will send a challenge for America's cup. Sir Thomas admitted that the Royal Irish Yacht club was challenging in his behalf. It is learned that File would be asked to design Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger if he is not already at work on the model of the Shamrock IV., for that is to be the name of the new yacht. Bill A. is dead. The old thoroughbred, who appeared on the tracks of New York as a 2 year old and was later brought west and made the circuit of the Pacific northwest for years. A heart-breaking muff of a fly ball from Cartwright's bat by Left Fielder Suess of Spokane, a clean steal of third base by the Butte captain, and a pretty single into right center field by Stis gave Butte the first, last and winning run of the most spectacular, the longest, and perhaps the cleanest game of professional league baseball ever played in Spokane. It lasted 16 full innings. During the St. Louis-Detroit American league baseball game Sunday Umpire Evans was struck on the head by a soda water bottle in the hands of a spectator and was seriously injured. His recovery is doubtful. Lew Buchholz of North Yakima will meet Joe Hienrich on the mat this fall for a purse of from $100 to $500. It will be a 70-footer with which Sir Thomas Lipton will try for the America's cup next August. Russ Hall, the manager of the Butte team, says he will be back in the game again next year. Manager George Shreeder of the Tacoma team has signed George Engle, a pitcher who helped Portland win the pennant in 1901, to finish the season for Tacoma. Terry McKune, shortstop, and Dave Rowan, first base, of the Spokane League team have been sold. McKune goes to St. Paul and Rowan to St. Louis. Big Meet at New York. Many athletes who figured in the international track and field games at Jamestown were among the competitors in the fall games for the New York Athletic club at Travers Island Saturday. Ralph Rose of the Olympic club, San Francisco, was the most prominent figure in the field events, as he made several new world's records in throwing weigh's at Jamestown. In the regular event with the 16-pound shot, Rose sent the missile 49 feet 5 1-2 inches. His first record was with the 8-pound shot, which he sent out for 67 feet 7 inches, beating M. K. Sheridan's world record by 6 feet. His other figures were 12-pound shot, 55 feet 11 3-4 inches; 14-pound, 51 feet 6 3-8 inches; 18-pound, 43 feet 9 14 inches; 28-pound shot, 34 feet 5 inches, all new marks. With the 24-pound shot he failed by a quarter of an inch to equal his own record of 38 feet 2 3-4 inches. Forest Smithson of the Multnomah A. C. of Oregon won the high hurdle race handily in 16 seconds from scratch, but he was beaten over the low by Langdon of the Irish American Athletic club, to whom the western runner was conceding 10 points. J. M. Simpson, manager of the University of Idaho football team, has completed arrangements for practically all the big games to be played by the university on the gridiron this fall. The big game of the season is to be played at Moscow November 8, when the state college comes over for the annual contest. LUSITANIA, "QUEEN OF THE SEA" Makes Trip Faster for the Course, and Also for the Atlantic Ocean. The giant turbine Lusitania of the Cunard line, came into New York Saturday on her maiden voyage, with a new record of five days and 54 minutes between Queenstown and New York. The Lusitania failed to lower the hourly speed average of 23.01 knots made by the Kaiser Wilhelm II., of the North German Lloyd line, though she covered the distance between ports in an average of 23.01 knots, which is a record for a maiden voyage. Captain Watt said that when the time comes for record breaking after her machinery is in thorough order, the Lusitania will be the empress of the seas. The Lusitania, the largest ship afloat, was given a royal welcome on her arrival, and it was a continual ovation from the time she sped pass Sandy Hook light vessel and made her way through the Ambrose channel the first ocean liner to enter the new fairway, until she was safely warped into her dock. Vernon H. Brown, American representative of the Cunard line, said: "The Lusitania burned considerably less than 1000 tons of coal a day in making 23 knots. Her engines worked perfectly and there was not a hot bearing during the entire trip. 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Reports were received from all the shop points of the five railways and these indicate that the strike is already general. The managers state, however, that it has not so far caused any inconvenience in the operation of the roads. Midway Shows at Fair. Nat Reiss, carnival king of the northwest, whose Midway shows at the Interstate fair last year attracted so much attention, will again have charge of the carnival to be held at the fair this year. It will contain a number of new attractions direct from Europe this year, and the Midway will be along entirely new and original lines. With the exception of the high diving dog, one of our free attractions, the educated dogs of Madame Wanda, and the baby incubators, all our shows this year are entirely new and have never before been seen in the northwest. The Midway should be visited by all to complete their enjoyment at the fair. To Furnish Coal to Fleet. Valparaiso, Sept. 19.—The general director of the navy has ordered the commander of the Talcahuano naval station to furnish any quantity of Welsh coal the American battleship fleet may require. The cost price of about 40 shillings a ton will be charged. Teheran.—Mushir Ed Dowleh, ex- grand visier, and ex- foreign minister of Persia, who was regarded as being chiefly responsible for the Shah's re- scripting an assembly, died suddenly Saturday of heart disease. FITS St. Vitus Dance and all Nervous Diseases permanently by Dr. Kline Great Nerve Restorer, end for FREE! trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. Kline Ld., 881 Arch St., Phila., Pa. When you can fully realize the depth of a mother's love you are just beginning to realize the depth of God's love. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothie Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during teething perior. The farm hand who takes his girl a riding in a rubber-tired buggy rarely gets bounced. A widow and her weeds are soon parted. 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The resignation is said to be impending because of a seeming sudden reversal in the policy of the administration in its frequently announced determination to make relentless war upon the trusts. The Standard Oil case is said to be what raised the issue between Bonaparte and a higher power which must have an inevitable climax in retirement of the former. The first sign of the breach between Bonaparte and the administration was the postponement of the announcement of the department's decision in the question of granting immunity to the Chicago & Alton Railway company because of that road's extending aid to the government in securing the conviction of the Standard Oil company, and the subsequent infliction of the fine of $29,000,000 by Judge Landis. According to disclosures just made Mr. Bonaparte found that the then district attorney, Charles B. Morrison, acting for the department of justice, promised immunity to the railroad. While the present attorney general regards this as a pardonable exigency of that prosecution, it is rumored he was amazed to find that immunity had also been promised in every other case against the same company, where other railroads were equally culpable with the oil company. Rebate Abuses Dropped. This would have received Mr. Bonaparte's condemnation as an extra assumption of judicial power by the department of which he is now the head, but it is said that he also found that not only had immunity been granted half a dozen big trunk lines which had resorted to rebate abuses with the Standard Oil company and innumerable other favored shippers for years, but to scores of high railroad officials, and this wholesale granting of immunity the preceding administration of the department had practically tied the hands of the government so that its "wholesale trust busting" campaign must fall. These discoveries amazed the attorney general. He was reluctant to believe that his predecessor, acting through United States Attorney Morrison, had metaphorically released a whole school of whales to catch a porpoise, with the knowledge and consent of the administration. He investigated, according to report, and learned that his predecessor had acted advisedly with the full consent of the highest powers. MINES AND MINING. In a private Pullman sleeping car a party of 20 capitalists, T. L. Greenough of Missoula, T. J. Humbard, J. D. Porter, D. W. Twoby, Julius Galland, H. H. Boomer, R. B. Paterson, F. P. Hogan, J. P. McGoldrick, J. H. Speer O. Dorman, T. S. Spencer, R. K. Nell, J. B. Greenough, F. T. McCullough Samuel Glasgow, Dorlan Mhills Moritz Thomsen of Seattle, Joseph Carson of Wallace, Idaho, W. T. Clark of Wenatchee, Wash, A. L. Smith of Helena, Mont., E. W. King of Bozeman, Mont., and J. R. Toole of Missoula, Mont., have left for Lander, Wyoming, where they will visit the 22-000-acre placer mine. 20 miles from Lander, recently acquired by the Greenough interests. The party has been arranged through the interests of Tom L. Greenough, Wilbur D. Greenough and J. B. Greenough. After lying undisturbed by pick or shovel for ages, the vast acreage in Wyoming was prospected by engineers in the employ of the Greenough interests, said to be the richest area in gold that has yet been discovered in the west. Reports submitted by Engineer W. F. Edwards, after an investigation of the mine, approximate a net earning of $3,000,500,000 from the property. In order to secure the necessary water for development, a tunnel 3000 feet in length is being driven through a mountain facing on the Little Pope Agie river. In order to ward off any boom which might have been precipitated by the announcement of the acquiring of the property, all lands on each side of the river for a distance of 29 miles have been taken under option or purchased outright. Situation at Butte. Overproduction of copper and a temporary hull in demand for the red metal has caused the Amalgamated Copper company to curtail its output. Orders have been issued by which the output of the Amalgamated properties will be reduced to about 40 per cent of normal production, form 20,000,000 pounds to about 7,000,000 pounds per month, and in the future no work will be done on Sundays. Curtailing the production to 40 per cent of normal production will mean a reduction in the working forces that will throw about 5000 men out of employment. When the mines will resume a full force is problematical. The .amond mine will be closed and work at the Belmont will be com- pletely suspended. The Gagnon and Parrot mines are also shut down. John Gillis, general superintendent of the Amalgamated properties, acting under managing director John D. Ryan, stated that there would be no general shutdown at the present time. "For some time," said Mr. Gillis, "a gradual curtailment of the copper production has been going on. We shall cease all construction work. The shutdown of the mines will avert a fuel famine this winter. Reducing the output of the Amalgamated properties will have a far-reaching effect, with less tonnage to Great Falls and Anaconda. It will be necessary to shut down portions of the smelters in these cities, thus throwing out of employment 2000 men. "The action of the Amalgamated Copper company in adopting the Sunday closing rule will probably be followed by all other companies operating in Butte." Mining Notes. William T. Stoll, Spokane mining lawyer and property owner, is ill in a Chicago hospital. Near Rock Springs, Wyo., 40 men were injured, 20 seriously, by an explosion recently at the mouth of the third entry to mine No. 10, owned by the Union Pacific Coal company. While a number of the injured are very badly burned it is not expected that any of them will die. It is learned that the real object of the recent visit of John A. Drake, the New York millionaire, to Lewiston, Mont., is to consider a plan that has been fully worked out for the removal of the fine, modern mill from the Gold Reef mine at Gilt Edge to the North Moccasin at Kendall. In a few months Butte will no longer be able to boast of the highest smokestack in the world. The new stack that is being constructed at Great Falls for the Boston & Montana electrolytic smelter will exceed 500 feet in height. Duluth, Minn.—The directors of North Butte and Calumet and Arizona have decided to curtail the production of their copper mines 50 per cent. This will mean a reduction of 700 tons a day at the Calumet and Arizona mines, and 500 at the North Butte. It is understood that the options on Republic properties, which were held by the Rogers syndicate, have been allowed to expire, and that no efforts were made for renewals or extensions Arthur King, well known in Stevens county (Wash.) mining circles, and who has been a resident in the Deer Trail district for a number of years past, has just been selected to take charge of the Lee Jumbo mine, in the Lee Echo camp in Nevada. Approximately the following are the several amounts paid out by the mining companies in Phoenix (B. C.) for August wages last week: Granby company, 50 men, $50,000; Dominion company, 280 men, $28,000; Consolidated company, 170 men, $17,000; total, 950 men, $55,000. While all the coke wanted is not yet in sight at all the district smelters there is some improvement at some of them, with the results that the shipments of ore and treatment at the smelters begins once more to run over the 30,000 tons per week. Granby and Dominion have had their full battery of blast furnaces in operation most of this week. in the Coeur d'Alenes. F. W. Bradley, president of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine at Wardner, Idaho, has assured the men that there was no danger of the property closing down on account of the decrease in the price of lead. Mr. Bradley then explained the plans of the management of the mine to establish a clubhouse and gymnasium for their employees. It is reported that the Silver King property in Government gulch, near Wardner, Idaho, is about to be placed in litigation by the Coeur d'Alene Development company, which is controlled by Burch & Burbridge. The property was transferred by them to Heinze and is now being worked by Heinze men. It adjoins the Stewart, another Heinze property and the Stewart mill is built within the boundaries of the Silver King. This mill has just being completed and operations were started this week. A tunnel is being run through the Silver King to the Stewart to convey the ore to the mill. George Austin has been awarded a contract for 100 feet of tunnel work on the Rainbow property. Gus Ehrenberg, manager of the Frisco mine at Gem, denies the rumors persistently circulated that he is to resign. The Sheridan Mining company, which owns a property adjoining the Terrible Edith mine, near Murray, has let a contract for an 85-foot extension of the main crosscut, which it is thought will cut the ledge at considerable depth. A second strike has been made in the Star property near Mullan. Reports received from the management of the National Copper mine, located near Burke, which was the scene of a disastrous explosion Friday night, state that Robert Brand, a brother of the day foreman, suffers the loss of his left eye, and Jack Quinn the loss of three fingers of his right hand. A large body of silver-lead ore was cut in the Golden Star mine last week. The property is near Baker City. Six tons of ore from the Pyx mine in the Greenhorns recently yielded nearly $12,000, or almost $2000 to the ton. C. L. Cox has begun development work on his Big Elk group on Olive Butte. A shaft will be sunk on the vein. The Spreo shaft is down to the 100-foot level and the ore is said to fill all sides of the shaft. No crosscut will be made as yet. WILL OPPOSE RAILROAD'S NEW TARIFF IN THE COURT. Tariffs Given by Hill and Harriman Road to Be Attacked. It Is Said They Have a Defense Sum of $250,000. Most Important Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 16.—After a conference with Franklin K. Lane of the interstate commerce commission, the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' association announced that formal complaint will be shortly filed with the commission attacking the reasonableness of the new lumber tariffs recently filed by the Hill and the Harriman lines. The lumbermen have a defense fund of $250,000. The hearing, which will cover a wide scope, will be one of the most important held before the interstate commerce commission. Commissioner Lane heard testimony in the case of Schwager & Nettleton against the Great Northern to recover charges made by the railroad for reloading lumber destined for Sawyer, North Dakota, on the "Soo" line. The case involves the question of the right of the railroad to charge for reloading from its own cars to those of a foreign line without giving previous notice. Several Cases Are Submitted. The case of the Alaska lumber company against the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was submitted without the taking of testimony. The hearing emphasized the fact that the interstate commerce commission can not recognize any contract made with any railroad which violates the published tariff. The Alaska Lumber company sent a carload of shingles to El Paso, Texas. While in transit the shippers directed that it be sent to Denver, and there delivered to the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe had agreed that the freight charges would not exceed the joint rate by way of Beatrice, Neb., in which case the delivering line would be the Rock Island road. It developed at the hearing that the Santa Fe had no joint rate with the Burlington and the Northern Pacific, and the sum of the local rates over the three lines was greatly in excess of the through rate by another route. The Santa Fe was willing to make good its contract, but was not permitted to do so under the law, else it would be open to the charge of rebating. MR. HARRIMAN PLANS A ROAD Will Double-Track a Line to the Pacific Coast. As a result of his trip throughout the northwest, and owing to his unbounded faith in the continued ospority of the country, E. H. Harriman has approved plans for spending between $75,000,000 and $100,000,000 to complete what he believes to be the best double-track transcontinental railway system in the country. His plan contemplates the construction of a low-grade, double-track railway from Chicago to the Pacific coast at San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, and its operation over the mountain sections by electricity generated by water power from the Rockies and the Sierras. The completion of this enterprise practically will have the effect of adding three single-track roads so far as capacity to handle tonnage is concerned, to the transcontinental systems. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Rear Admiral Walker, U. S. N., retired, died recently at York Beach, Maine. Frederick McNally, for three years president of Rand, McNally Co., Chicago, died last Tuesday. He had been ill for three weeks with nervous prostration. No change in the near future is contemplated in the ambassadorship to this country from Germany as it has been rumored. Frank Evans of Hitchcock, Wis., shot and seriously wounded Lettie Jensen a the home of the girl's sister, Mrs. Albbert Johnson, near Davenport, Wash., and then went into the road in front of the house and shot and killed himself. She had rejected his proposition of marriage. The vote on the constitution has carried Oklahoma state by all the way from 50,000 to 70,000. State-wide prohibition has carried and C. N. Haskell, democrat, has been elected governor of the new state. 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Lightning is of such rare occurrence on Puget sound that even the whale was terribly frightened by the vivid flashes and crashing peals of thunder in the recent storm. According to the officers of the tug Elf, the whale became frantic in a recent storm, threshing the water into a milky white color for some distance about by its huge tail, and its madness almost demolished the boom of logs which the tug was towing. Both Captain Burnham and the chief engineer say this whale is larger than any hitherto seen by them on the Sound. It is at least 90 feet long, and its tail was eight feet across at the tip. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. New cases of yellow fever were discovered in Cienfuegos recently. The convention of the International Association of Machinists voted $10,000 for the benefit of the Erie railway strikers. The will of Isaac Wing of Bayfield. I suffered with Eosema for forty years and could find nothing to cure me until I tried S. S. S. I suffered in烫伤 and burning; pustules would form from which there flowed a sticky fluid; crusts would come on the skin and when scratched off the skin we would have a piece of beef. I suffered agony in the long years I was afflicted, but when I used S. S. S. I found a perfect cure. There never been any return of the trouble, Stockman, Neb. S.S.S. MISCELLANEOUS EAST COLOR EYELIDS SUPPLIED EXCLUSIVELY Trade with the Helena Packing and Provision Co. W. Webb of Butte was in the City Tuesday. Charly Johnson one of our popular young men voted ahandsome block of votes for his favorite in the voting contest Wednesday. Paul Laurence Dunbar He was the world's greatest Negro poet. The fact that he had no white blood in his veins makes his achievements in the literary world the more gratifying. A fine engraving made in three colors has just been issued, which sells for only one dollar ($1.00). Send for one today. Address The Colored American Novelty Co., P. O. Drawer 2318, Washington, D. C. Agents wanted. Mrs. Nannie Mitehell leaves Saturday for Atchison Kansas for a visit with relatives. W. C. Rose after a few days in the city on business has returned to Saltese where he has a Contract for hauling 5,000,000 ft. of lumber. J. D. Pettigrew promoter of the cooperative league was in the city this week. Daddy Green the head pnsh of the Claffin Transfer Co. says he is all in. Magnificent Engraving Of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, the eloquent evangel, the matchless organizer and corresponding secretary of the Baptist Women' Auxiliary Convention. This engraving is made in three colors, resembling an oil painting, and is suitable for the home, Sunday Schools and Chapels. Price only fifty cents ($0.50). Agents wanted The Colored American Novelty Co., P. O. Drawer 2318, Washington, D. C. The Odd Fellows are contemplating giving a big entertainment in the near future. Charley cole seems to be making good over at Bozeman. J. M. Reed has gone to Belt where he has accepted a berth at his trade. Geo. Lee will leave Monday for Hunters Springs after a months Vacation at home. Uncle Dave Gordou says its no dream and that the event will take place in Chicago Dec. 20th. Mrs. Julius Anderson is reported on the sicklist. Cut this out for A vote in the grand voting contest. And now we have the consolation to think of Indian Summer. Savings securely cared for Interest at the rate of 4 per cent. Money always ready when called for Booklet about 'Banking by Mail' sent free on request Union Bank and Trust Company, Helena, Montana as been on the sick Mrs. W. T. Osborne presented a splindid program at the literary las Wednesday evening after which the following officers were elected for the ensueing quarter. W. R. Dorsey Pres. H. J. Baker 1st. Vice Pres. Mrs. C.C. Matthews 2nd. Vice pres Mrs. Chas. Johnson Sect. Miss M. Johnson Asst. Sect. Mrs. W. T. Osborne Treas. it was decided that a debate between the ladies should be the order for the next meeting. Mrs. W. T. Osborne made a decided lut at the Colorado,conferenc she responded to the address of We come and has chose as a delegate to the National meeting of Mission aries to be held in Baltimore next year. Helena loomed uP on the Honzon as never before and her claims wereably represented by Rev. and Mrs. Osborne, as a resuet of his efforts the next annual conference of the Puget Sound conference of which this City is likely to be transferred will be held in this City. Gymnasuim and Daucing. Edward Johnson will open up a first class dancing academy and gymnasuim, weekly dances will be given and the gymnasuim will be open to members and their friends at all times will start Oct. 31st. at No. 10 South Jackson Street. Kobert Meade left for Bozeman Friday where he will work with Will Walker at the Gallatin Valley Club. Mrs. Frank Mitchell left Saturday for a few weeks visit with relatives at Atchison Kans. A farewell musicale was given Friday evenin at the residence of Mrs. J. B. Bass by Mrs. Saulsburg and Miss Alma Bass a joyable evening was spent all wtshing Miss Bass a pleasant journey and success at Western Universitá. Miss Alma Bass left with Mrs. Mitchell for Western University at 2:10 Saturday. The young ladies of Helena will give a Masquerade Ball on the evening of the 30th Inst, Johnny Malowe stoie off to Lewistown last week. Prof. Wm. Medonald has departed to one of the inland Villages where he has an engagement at his profession. L-ok out for the close of the Graud Prize contest Conducted by this paper Thanksgiving week. Mr. Shelby who recently dassed the examination as a pharmacist is p epaaing to open up a drug store near the Union Depot. ready For but mail'" re- MAIL and y, ana Church and Society Directory. St. James African Methodist Episcopal church, located at Co. 5th Ave. and Hoback street, Rev. W. T. Osborne, Pastor. Services Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 30 p. m. Sunday School, 2 p. m. M. N. Ford Supt., Carrie Dorsey, Chorister, Florence Anderson, Sec'y Prayer Meeting Wednesday Evening. Class meeting, Friday evenings. R. J. Fletcher Lodge No. 101, A. F. and A. M., meets their first and third Wednesday evenings of each month at 14 1-2 South Main L. Ford, W. M.; J. D. Hart, S. W.; E. Clark, J. W.; Geo. Alexander, Sec'y; W. R. Dorsey, Treas. Byrd Lodge No. 11, A. K. and A. M., meets the first and third Monday evening of each month at 14 1-2 S. Main St. W. C. Rose, W. M.; G. M. Lee, S. W.; J. Harris, J. W.; Chas. H. Sec'y; H. J. Baker, Treas. Bethsheba Lodge, O. E. S., meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday evenings of each month in their hall in the Lucas Block. Mrs. Chas Johnson, W. M.; Mrs. N. Ford, A. M.; Albert Napper, W. P.; Mrs. M. Simmons, Trees. 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. W. R. Dorsey, N. G.; W. Mason, V. G.; J. Crump, P. N. G.; R. Brown, N. F.; J. L. Ellis, Sec'y; W. Cottles, Treats; 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. Gordon, M. at A.; Geo. Harrison, O. G.; W. C. Irvin, I. G.; A. Napar, Prelate. Furnished Rooms or Houses by the Day, Week or Month Apply 115 East Cutler Street Joseph Richards The Oldest Exclusive Undertaker in the City 140 West Park St. PHONE 307 BUTTE, MONT. THE LITTLE COTTAGE DINING-ROOM Mrs. Frank M. Shannon, Proprietress SILVER CITY CLUB Billiard and Pool Tables in Connec tion. All Appointments UP-TO-D.A.TE. 38½ E. Park Ave. Butte, Mont. 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. GENTRAL BEER HALL Henry Rossman Proprietor. Telephone 136 118 S. MAIN ST. - Helena, Mont. VOTING CONTESTI WILL CLOSE THANKSGIVING WEEK It has been definitely decided to close our grand voting contest at Electric Hall Thanksgiving week, at which time our grand prizes will be given away, by the judges which will be named by the contestants. A grand entertainment will be given tickets will be put on sale and for each five cents a vote will be allowed to vote. This week Mrs. Matthews has withdrawn from the voting and it is now a straight race between Miss Fitzgerald and Miss Simmons How They Stand Miss Fannie Fitzgerald 2176 Votes Miss Vera Simmons 1835 " Withdrawn 993 " GRAND VOTING CONTEST For Our Grand Prize Lady's Hunting-Case, Diamond Studded Solid Gold Watch Commencing the 15th of this present month THE PLAINDEALER will inaugurate a Voting Contest, to which any lady, young, married or single, in the State of Montana, may enter. Their is a splendid prize to be offered for the one receiving the second highest number of votes. Every 5 cents paid on subscription to this paper shall represent one vote, or every copy of this paper shall represent one vote with the coupon cut out, filled and mailed, or left at this office. One year's subscription will be worth 50 votes to the one you desire to vote for. For every 5 cents paid on back subscriptions there will be allowed one vote. Our Specialty Diamond Fitting Expert Watchwork Monogram Engraving Chas. H. Pratt Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut Glass and Novelties 19 N. Main Street Opp. Grand Central Hotel Helena, Mont. Strangers visiting the Capital City will be given a hearty welcome at all times at the Manhattan Club, 17 South Main Street C. J. Bausch, TIN, COPPER and SHEET IRON WORK Stove and Furnace work a Specialty. 315 N. JACKSON ST. - Helena, Mont. Eugene Bourquin Dealer in Sawed and Split Wood and COAL. Yard, 437 W. Main St. Residence 370 Water St. 'Phone 632-F. Helena, Mont. As we go to press no trace of A. Donegan, Jockey Stwart and J. Brown had been found, they are now dynamiting the lake with the hopes of bringing the bodies to the surface. It can be relied upon in all cases of Nervous Exhaustion, brought on by over-work, or great mental effort. It restores Nervous Energy. It allays irritation. It assists the Nerve Cells to generate nerve force. Its soothing influence upon the nerves brings restful sleep-nature's rest period so essential to the tired, worn-out mind and body. For Headache, Neuralgia, or any pain or distress, you will find almost instant relief by taking Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They are sold by all druggists, and you may try either of these remedies on the positive guarantee that if the first bottle or package does not benefit, your druggist will return your money. We repay the druggist the full retail price, so it is to his interest to refund if called upon to do so. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind Helena PACKING - AND - PR - AND - PROVISION PACKING AND PROVISION COMPANY wholesale OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY, FRUIT, BUTTER & EGGS FISH, POULTRY, FRUIT, BU OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY, FRUIT, BUTTER & EGGs WE SELL HART, SCHAFF SUITS AND MANHATTAN SHIRTS GANS & COMP ESTABLIS T, SCHAFFNER & SUITS AND OVERCOAT TITAN SHIRTS "YOUMAN ANS & KLEIN COMPANY ESTABLISHED 18 HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX SUITS AND OVERCOATS. MANHATTAN SHIRTS "YOUMAN'S" HATS GANS & KLEIN COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1866 HAVRE NOTES Mrs.- John Gordon and Mrs. B, Williams left for Spokane last week where they will make their future home. Sargent Rose left for his new Post of duty in New York State. His time expires in June when he will go on the retired list. He told some of his friends before leaving that he would marry his former wife from whom he is now diversed and make his home in Wash. D. C. The --- --- OVISION COMPANY Y, FRUIT, BUTTER & EGGS FINEER & MARX OVERGOATS, "YOUMAN'S" HATS KLEIN PANY NED 1866 lady we understand is very handsome and highly educated with charming manners and accomplishments. The ladies Aid Organized by Miss. Pauline Baker gave an adron and necktie social at the Church Tuesday night, a good time was euj yed by all. The receipts for the entertainment was six dollars and teu cents, out of which the aid donated three dollars twenty five cents to help pay the balance on the organ of seven dollars and half