Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER J. B. BASS, . . . EDITOR. Subscription $2.00 per year, Strictly in Advance. 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, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PROSPERITY!! UNION!!! IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. ADDRESS To the American People. Well Tempered and Thoughtful Document Adopted by Methodist Bishops in Convention at Washington, D. C. As the Chief Pastors of the A.M. E, A.M. E. Zion and C. M. E. Churches, assembled in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, U. S. A. we send greetings to our communicants in particular and the race in general. We, first of all, desire to render thanks to Almighty God for having preserved us in the midst of racial opposition for about 300 yrs. and for the marvelous progress we have been enable to achieve. We congratulate the race upon the religious, moral, intellectual and financial advancement that has been made, in spite of great difficulties and felicitate ourselves in the splen did showing of our progress in the churches, our schools, our numerous homes and other institutions. We are thankful to the friends, North, South, East, and West who have aided us in any degree in reaching our present stage of advancement we congratulate ourselves upon this great religious movement which has brought us together. One is reminded of the religious convocation of other centuries, the early convocations of the Christian church, councils in which Clement of Alexandria, Irenius, Jerome, Orein, Cyprain, Augustine, Tertulian and the early fathers sat; great menious men, zealous men who shaped the destiny of the Christian church so far as its doctrine and its ecclesiastical policy was concerned. We too, are shaping the destiny of the great American churchwhich is to be one of the largest and most influential which the world has ever America will only be the one of this great church, but Africa is to be the scene of its great operations. May the good Lord help us to realize our responsibility and our dufy to this future church We hail with delight the tidal wave of temperance now sweeping over the country and feel assured that our race will not be the least among its beneficiaries and promoters. We heartily commend all efforts being made to rid our common country of the rum traffic and we pledge this righteous movement our hearty support and take this occasion to urge our people, especially those who are qualified to vote to give the cause their united support until this evil is driven from the land. As Fathers of the churehes represented, we advise that in public and private places and in common good citizens to the end that favorable public sentiment may be created in our interest. We, the Bishops of the A.M.E. A.M.E Zion and C.M.E. churches take occasion as the religious lead of about 2,000,000 of communicant in America and a following of over 5,000,000 to the address ourselves to the Christianity and justice of the white people of the nation in respect to the rights and wrongs of our race. To enumerate the civil, social, moral judicial and polital idjustices that today exasperate and annoy the members of our race would be a hard task. we do not make for our people any claim that they are better than other classes or racegroups of the citizens of the republic. Nor yet do we assent to the imputation that they are worse than any other, and yet they compose in your midst analien race inthe land where they have lived and labored and loved for about 300 years. we speak the same language; we obey the same laws; we worship with you the same God; we have no blood in our veins which has not been American for centuries. This blood we have shed freely with you for our common country in four seqarate wars. we fought side by side with you in the war for American independence at Lexington and Bunker hill; in the war of 1812 under Jackson at New Orleans, under Perry at Lake Erie; in the war to save the Union in 1861 under Lincoln and Grant and Butler and Farragut, and i the war to free Cuba under McKinley, Dewey and Shafter. In these great struggles we never flinched nor fouled, but struck with our might on land and sea the embattled lines of our nation's foes. we are American by right of birth; by the blood we shed; by the service we have freely given to achieve the independence and to preserve the life of the republic against foreign and domestic enemies. we are citizens of the United State under the supreme law of the land entitled as much to equality of civil and political rights as all other men before the law. we have therefore, rights, sacred rights under the constitution of our common country, such as the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness The same, no more, no less than white men possess; andto avoice in Helena, Montana, Friday, March 27 1908 the goverment, state and national, exactly as other citizens enjoy. we do not ask at your hands any special favors; we ask at the bar of this Christian natioh nothing to which we are not entitled under the law and constitution. we ask only for that which belongs to us as right, for justice, for equality of freedom of action and opportunity before the law and in industrial life of the land North and South alike. We ask for fair treatment, that we may, like other races, make the most and best of ourselves, that we may rise or fall onour merit like other men in the political and industrial life of the republic. We cannot do this unless we and our children are given equal opportunity with other people to get an education at the public expense, unless we are given equal voice with all classes in making the laws; unless our labors are given chance to obtain work with all other laboring classes in the industrial system of the nation. These things are not only necessary to the highest good of our common country as well; for be it forever born in mind by all, white and black alike, that the free st and most intelligent labor is the most productive. This also is a truth worth remembering namely that a labor class in an industrial Republic like ours deprived of the right to vote or a voice in the government is at the mercy of other laboring classes which possess that right and that voice; indeed, at the mercy of all thus privileged. Now, badly as a labor class needs the ballot, needs education at the public expense, needs industrial opportunities to sell its labor freely like other classes in the Republic, in the South by one device or another it is almost universally deprived of the right to vote. In many cases ourchildren are denied equal privileges, and the whole race in the North and Suth is deprived of equal industrial freeman to obtain work with other labor classes. We appeal to the friends of humanity to use their influence to rid this glorious country of mob violence, which is sending so many to an untimely grave. We appeal to the liberty-loving men in authority to lend us their assistance by influence, by legislation forthe removal ofthe "JimCrow car laws, which have placed a stigma up on the noblest and the best of our race, from the bishops of the church to the humblest, while atthe same time we are required to pay the same fare for inferior accomodation. As leaders of the people, we finally appeal, for all the rights guarranteed tothe citizens fthis Republic NOTICE There will be a mass meeting of the colored voters of this city at the rooms of the Manhattan Club Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock, every voter is invited to be present. By Ord r of Committee. J. B. Bass Chairman. The accompanying cut is an excellent likeness of Mr. J. W. Bush who is at the present time one of the genial employees of the Gallatin Valley Club of Bozeman, Mont. Since his residence for a number of years in this section of the country he has proved his worth as a steady sober and industrious Citizen. He was born in the Blue grass state of Kentucky and later moved to Dayton Ohio at which place his kindred live, he has traveled extensively. Is a member of Puritan lodge No 4 K. P's of Boston Mass. also a member of Great Lakes lodge No 43. Mr. J. W. Bush of Bozeman, Mont. I. B. P. O. of Elks. He journeyed to Helena last week where he became a member of the R. J. Fletcher lodge No. 1 A. F. and A. M. In connection with the same it may be stated that Mr. Bush put on one of the greatest banquets for the brethren ever given in this City. Mr. Bush is a jovial citizen whom everybody is pleased to meet and withal is truly a representative citizen of whom we are all proud. SOUNDS YOU HEAR AT NIGHT. When lying on your downy bed And sleep is overdue, But still refuses to come round And makes a date with you, Although the world outside is dead And not a soul is near. It's startling then and strang, indeed, The noises that you hear. You lie there counting sheep, perhaps To make the sleep man come When from the corner of the room There starts a low, soft hum. While you are guessing at the cause It fads and grows more faint Or breaks out in another place Just like a new complaint. Outside from time to time you hear A faraway report A fairway report That seems to be a pistol shot Or something of that sort, Then suddenly a noise begins. Like rattling of the tin, Which makes you think a burglar bold Is s rely breaking in. Each sound is greatly multiplied, A door across the street Slammed by awayward wind sounds like The booming of a fleet, As for the creaking of the house, It gives you such a flight. They drive you to distraction quite- The sounds you hear at night. Nashville American The Republican City Convention held this week nominated the following ticket; For Mayor—Frank J. Edwards. For Treasurer—Moss Morris. For Police Judge—H. H. Guthrie Councilmen First Ward—John Wendell. Second Ward—Chas. H. Reifenrath Third Ward—O. H. P. Shelly. Fourth Ward—J. U. Sanders. Fifth Ward—C. S. Caird. Seventh Ward—Jno. Dryburg. The New York Dry Goods Store. Helena, Mont. White Goods Department Colossal Purchase of Exquisite White Goods HON. J. C. NAPPIER STATES HIS POSITION. Gives. Reason. for. Not. Opposing Secretary Taft. (From the Nashville Clarion.) The colored people of the United States, by force of circumstances which I need here detail, have been so long confined to the one political party that they have had but little opportunity to grow accustomed to having among themselves pronounce- and radical differences of opinions. One group of religionists among us can see a group of another faith korshipping God at a different shrine from its own without having its rage excited, for we have learned that even pious and intelligent people can in all sincerity hold radically different views concerning religious matters. What we have come to in religion we will some day reach in politics, that is, the ability to view without unseemly rage the race divideed, like all other races of men, into various political groups. If the honest convictions on political matters which I am now to express do nothing more than furnish to the race one more example of a man exercising his divine right to freedom of thought and expression upon matters in which he has as much vital interest as any other American citizen, I feel that I shall not have snoken in vain. Brownsviile I was and am of the opinion that President Roosevelt's course in reference to the Brownsville affair was open to criticism. Normally the Anglo-Saxon race in Europe and in America is an oath respecting race. But in some parts of our country the sentiment has been developed that perjury is no offense against good morals where the race question is involved. Often truth is no more required by the racial sentiment than truthfulness concerning his army is expected of a prisoner taken in war. Thus, we have returning boards swearing falsely and without a grimace as to election returns, and United States Senators taking oaths to uphold the Constitution of the United States, knowing the while that they are going to be parties to the violation of the fifteenth amendment to that Constitution as much a part of that document as any other part. In view of the well known racial feelinw which rendered the whole Brownsville affair difficult of straightening out, there was to my mind a wiser way for the President to have handled the matter. The President's Record. The President But I am one of those who think that the President acted as he did because the soldiers were colored men. There is nothing in his whole career upon which to found such a conception of his character. His nomination years ago of John R. Lynch to be temporary chairman of a session of the National Republican Convention, his entertainment in the executive mansion at Albany of a noted colored singer who was denied entertainment in the hotels his now famous courtesy, to Prof. No..24 Booker T. Washington in the White House, his views as enunciated in the Crum case, the peonage prosecution, all, all preclude the thought that he was influenced by considerations of race. I go further and venture the assertion that no President that ever sat in the chair has taken a more important step than Mr. Roosevelt in wiping out the color line in politics so far as relates to federal appointments. When he became President there was what might be called a system of Jim Crowism in appointments. Colored men had a restricted sphere in which to aspire. The President broke up this corner by pushing colored men on the judicial bench in Washington, D. C., by the appointment of Anderson in New York, Lewis in Boston and Trler to an auditorship in the Navy Department, and by other appointments in new fields. All the appointees cited let it be observed are in territory never before occupied by the race in the history of the nation, and a beginning has been made toward the opening of the whole field of federal service to Negro aspiration. If the precedent of regarding no territory as forbidden ground to the Negro is followed, Jim Crowism in the federal service is doomed. To take an incident like the Brownville affair and twist it into a color question with which to castigate a man with a record like that of President Roosevelt on the color question is indeed to my mind a severe indictment of our judgment. Mistaken I believe the President to have been. Actuated by race prejudice I do not believe him to have been. I am frank to admit that in spite of the President's mistakes, as I view the matter, he has my support, and I support him for the same reason that onfluences a man to stand a pyramid on its base and not on its apex. That is, I judge his attitude toward the race by his course as viewed in the lagre sense rather than by one incident, which could definitely be pronounce as born of race prejudice only by that great reader of hearts, the Christ, who has solemnly warned us against going behind the returns, and saying what is in a man's heart. Judge not lest ye be judged. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured unto you again." Secretary Taft. I shall now express my views concerning Secretary Taft: To begin with he comes of old abolition stock, and the traditional attitude of his family has been one of cordial friendship for the colored people. His course in Cuba and the Philippine Island shows that he is a believer in the rights of the dark races. He believes in the fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution and has said over and over again that the sufferage laws should apply equally to both races. Such mistakes as the colored people made in the early days in voting he sought in some Southern speeches to explain philosophically, and to show that they were errors out of which the colored people could grow. This was done to offset the claim of those Southern whites who hold that reconstruction experiences should serve as an eternal bar. These efforts of Secretary Taft to trace to 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. McInnis & Ross of Portland, Ore., were the lowest bidders, at $178,489, for constructing the proposed hospital at the Puget sound navy yard. An order issued at the navy department detaches from duty Rear Admiral S. W. Very as commandant of the naval station at Honolulu and assigns to that position Captain C. P. Rees, now at Portsmouth, N. H. A terrific fire recently burned the Grand Pacific hotel, a 15-story building in Chicago. Charles Jones and Charles Logan, mounted customs guards, were shot to death recently at El Paso, Tex. Frank Hosford, a newspaper man, at one time reading clerk of the house, committed suicide recently at Washington. The Ohio river and all its tributaries are rising rapidly. The health of Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., Massachusetts' governor, is improved. Although the last of the four Pennsylvania tubes under the East river, New York, was cut through this week, it is announced the tubes will not be put into actual service for at least two years. No passenger trains will be run through the tubes until the entire system is ready. Emma Goldman, the anarchist, is suffering a nervous collapse. The American battleship fleet is to visit Japan. On the rocks within an eighth of a mile of Busby island, Alaska, the steamship Saratoga of the Alaska Steamship company went aground during a blinding snowstorm. At Globe, Ariz., Jerry Enright, aged 34, recently shot his wife and her sister, Clara Dalson, aged 19, and then committed suicide. Miss Dalson died later. William Hannon, sixth vice president of the International Association of Machinists, has arrived in Denver, and has been placed in full charge of the Denver & Rio Grande shopmen's strike. Plunging into Stoney creek at Blue Island, near Chicago, to escape several policeman, after he had stabbed and proably fatally wounded a girl who had jitted him and wed another man, Nicholas Fortune, 25 years old, was taken with cramps and drowned. Abraham H. Hummel, the lawyer who was released from the penitentiary recently after serving 10 months for conspiracy in connection with the Dodge-Morse case, has gone to Europe. A band of night riders recently shot and killed Harlin Hedge, a prominent farmer living near Carlisle, Ky. A wholesale exodus of Polanders to Europe will follow the 10 per cent reduction in wages in the Chicopee and Holyoke cotton mills, in Massachusetts. Seventy-five per cent of the 4500 operatives affected are Polish. Count Leo Tolstoi is very ill. Governor Johnson of Minnesota is to be the chief speaker at the Jefferson dinner of the National Democratic club, to be held on April 13 in New York. Every branch of the army will take part in the street parade which will follow the arrival of Admiral Evans fleet at San Francisco. FLIES AEROPLANE !N PARIS Skims Through Air for Nearly Two Miles. Paris.—Following his record performance of flying a mile and a half in his aeroplane, Henry Farnman has made another spectacular flight at lassy, covering two and a half kilometers, a little less than two miles, in 3 minutes 21 seconds. Later, in company with Leon De La Grange, he entered the latter's aeroplane, which moved over the ground at a rate of about 30 miles an hour and then went into the air, making a short but highly spectacular flight. This is the first time that an aeroplane carrying two persons has made a successful flight, and the aeronauts were cheered by thousands of spectators who had gathered. These accomplishments of yesterday and today are hailed with delight, as they are considered as having demonstrated that aerial navigation can be definitely solved. It is be led now that only an improved motor is needed to insure long flights of the aeroplane. Alia Would Suicides. Giuseppe Alia, the condemned murderer, made repeated attempts to commit suicide by beating his head against the iron bars of his cell at Denver. He is to be executed during the week of July 12. He will be taken to Canon City in a few days, and there confined in the penitentiary until the time fixed for his execution. Thieves Steal Rich Statue Rome.—At Frazel thieves broke into the magnificent villa Aldebrandini, which dates from the 16th century, and carried off a valuable bust in Gerinthian bronze of Pope Clement VII. The thieves gained access by breaking a window and removed the bust, which weighs 500 pounds, from its position in the central hall of the villa. SEN. ELKINS SPURNS A TITLE Refuses to Become Italian Duke to Oblige Nobility. Rome, Italy, March 25. "Are we to be spared humiliation?" cries high society in Rome on hearing that Senator Elkins has spurned a proposition to make him an Italian duke so the king's cousin, Duke D'Abruzzi, may get a wife not without rank when he marries Miss Elkins, as it is now understood that he certainly will do. Indeed, there is a rumor that the marriage has already been solemnized privately, which intensifies gossip. Feeling in royal, aristocratic and popular circles has been raised almost to the boiling point by accumulating circumstances connected with the duke falling desperately in love with an American girl. There was strenuous opposition to the match at the outset because the duke had chosen for his bride a woman with no rank in European eyes, and not even the faintest claim to the lowest order of titles. Then, when gossip spread that d'Abruzzi was after Senator Elkins' millions, Italian protested that the duke has an income of $90,000 a year and through his rank has membership in the house of Savoy and because of his personal fame he was eligible to wed the wealthiest and proudest of European princesses. But it was explained that the duke always has been democratic in his views and greatly admires American institutions. Report persists that Miss Elkins refuses to change her religion and that the match has been broken off. This story would be willingly believed, but those who are acquainted with d'Abruzzi and with the facts in the case, ignore it. LATE NEWS ITEMS China has extended a cordial invitation for the American battleship fleet to step in China on its way around the world. The 10,000 employees of the General Electric company in New York are now working on full time. Alfred Zayas has been nominated for president of Cuba. Every indication points to an improvement generally in the railroad and industrial situation of the country, according to reports made by the great railroad systems of America to the interstate commerce commission. Washington, D. C. —In refusing to grant a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the penalty imposed by the United States district court for the district of Minnesota on the charge of contempt of court in instituting a proceeding in a state court for enforcement of the railroad rate law after the federal court had prohibited such a course, and in affirming the decision of Judge Pritchard of the United States court for the western district of North Carolina, discharging from imprisonment James H. Wood, a ticket agent of the Southern railway at Asheville, after he had been sentenced by the Asheville police court to serve a term on the rock pile on the charge of collecting for a ticket on that road a greater price than was permitted by the state railroad law, the supreme court of the United States has added another to the series of decisions which have rendered notable the present term of that court. Saloonmen Must Pay. The supreme court of Nebraska has handed down two decisions in which liquor dealers are held responsible for the deaths and declaring that damages can be collected. In one the widow of a man who died as the result of a debauch at David City was empowered to collect a reasonable sum for support from the saloonkeeper who sold her husband liquor. In the other the Willow Springs Brewery company of Omaha is decided to be liable for the death of a boy who is alleged to have become intoxicated at the brewery, wandered on the railroad track and was run over by an engine and killed. Hindus to Isthmus In view of the humiliating annoyances to which the high caste Hindus in British Columbia have been subjected and the rapid growth of the feeling in the northwest that the white races in the British empire have no use for them, the more intelligent of the Sikhs are planning a general exodus to the Isthmus of Panama. They pay 20 cents an hour to Hindus on the canal and the Sikhs feed themselves. Negroes get this much pay on the isthmus and the canal commission feeds them, out the Hindu sticks to his caste idea and prepares his own food. Double Maryland License A high license bill for Baltimore city has been passed by the house. Under its provisions saloons and clubs which now pay $250 annually will pay $500 next year, $750 the year following and $1000 the third year. The license will then remain at $1000. The act is expected to cause a reduction of 25 or 30 cents in the city tax rate at the end of three years. Taft in Moving Pictures The moving picture men, who supply the "Nickelodeons" throughout the country with their miles of photographic films, have triumphed. In spite of all protests and the modesty of Secretary Taft, he has succumbed to the camera, and within two weeks his figure will be on view in 300 first class vaudeville houses and 4000 5-cent theaters throughout the country. Holland butter is being imported into Chile and sold at 45 cents United States gold a pound, while the Chilean product is sold for 60 cents a pound. IMPORTANT DECISION FROM INTERSTATE COMMISSION. Says They Have no Jurisdiction Over Ocean's Traffic from This Country to Any Foreign Ports--Different Companies Can Pool Traffic and Commission Cannot Interfere A decision has been promulgated by the interstate commerce commission in one of the most important cases it has been called upon to determine for some time. It is that of the Cosmopolitan Importing company a Philadelphia organization, chartered under the laws of New Jersey, against the Hamburg-American Packet company, the North German Lloyd Steamship company, the Wilson lines, and the Scandinavian-American lines. The complainant's petition was filed with the commission nearly a year ago. Some time subsequently the defendants filed a demurrer, attacking the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission. The opinion in the case, which is very voluminous, was prepared by Commissioner Franklin K. Lane. In brief, and in effect, the commission decided against itself. It holds that it has no authority over oceanic transportation and this determines the case adversely to the contention of the complainant. In this case the complainant alleged that the defendant steamship companies transport traffic under the bills of lading between inland points of the United States and foreign ports, and are thereby subjected to the jurisdiction of the commission; that defendants have made an arrangement for the pooling of eastbound export traffic maintained by rail to Atlantic ports and thence by steamship lines to points in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and German ports in the Baltic, and that this so-called "Baltic pool" arbitrarily determines the ultimate rates from such inland points of the United States to such toeign ports, the North Atlantic ports; and that the Hamburg-American Packet company maintains a monopoly of westbound and eastbound traffic forwarded on local and on through bills of lading between Germany and other continental countries and inland cities of the United States. The prayer of the petition is that the commission declare the "Baltic pool" to be an illegal pooling of freights under the interstate commerce act; that the monopoly of the Hamburg-American Packet company be declared unlawful and that relief be granted to the complainant, which is also a trans-Atlantic steamship company, doing a freight business between American and continental ports. Lane Explains Decision. In his discussion of a few of the reasons for the commission's decision, Mr. Lane says: "The commission may regulate interstate traffic, whether by rail or by combined rail and water route, from point of receipt to point of delivery; but the commission in its control over foreign commerce is limited to the regulation of such traffic, whether by rail or by a combination of rail and water carriers, from and to the points of transshipment. "The pooling of traffic by water carriers is plainly a matter over which the commission has no jurisdiction. "A rail carrier may control, and connect with a line of steamships engaged in foreign commerce, with which it may interchange business as freely as with another rail carrier, and it may quote a combination rate for the through movement, the agents of the railroad company acting as the agent of the steamship company in so doing." WAR BUDGET WINS. Fortifications Bill Goes Through House Without Material Amendment. Without being materially amended in any form, the fortification appropriation bill was passed by the house. During the closing debate the war department was criticised by several members regarding the money spent on fortifications at Subig bay, which it was charged, was wasted in view of a later recommendation that the defenses at Cavite be strengthened. Criticism likewise was offered to the estimates of the department, which recommended over $300,000,000, which it was claimed, could not have been expended within 10 years. Senate Gets Generous Almost the entire session of the senate was consumed with consideration of the executive and judiciary appropriation bill. The bill, as finally passed, carried an appropriation of $32,945,661, the amount added to the house bill by the senate being $642,718. Won $52,000 at Roulette Reno, Nev., March 26.—Riley Grannan, in Rawhide, recently broke the gambling house of Carl Young, winning $52,000 at roulette. At one time he had Young's roof tree in jeopardy, but on the next roll of the marble he lost. This was his last bet. Had Grannan won this wager he would have been $34,000 better off, as Young's saloon is valued at $17,000. Olive oil is injured by being kept in the light. When used at the table it should be removed to a cool, dark place after each meal. SPORTING NOTES New baseball rules: "A ball intentionally discolored by a player shall be substituted by a new ball, and the offender fined $5." "A sacrifice hit shall be credited to a batsman who hits a fly ball that is caught but results in a run being scored." Vic Holm, the old star pitcher of the Fairbanks-Morse team in the Spokane city league last season, has signed a contract with George Shreder of the Tacoma baseball club. The wrestler, Gotch, generally steps on the mat weighing between 210 and 230. At Bakersfield, Cal., Friday, Kid Scaler of Spokane gained another decision over Billy Snallham of San Francisco, after 20 rounds of rugged fighting. James J. Corbett, ex-champion pugilist of the world, refereed the fight at Spokane last week and gave the decision to Fred Creel over Louis Orsie. J. F. Curtis of The Dalles, Ore., won his forty-fourth consecutive victory in wrestling contests when he succeeded in throwing J. P. Donner of Troy five times in 36 minutes and 35 seconds before a large crowd at Moscow. At Palouse Lou Bucholtz won the handicap wrestling match in which he agreed to throw Bagley three times in an hour. The falls were won in 24.11 and 14 minutes, respectively. Lieutenant John Jacob Astor, a son of William Waldorf Astor, recently won the raquet championship of the British army by defeating Captain Luther of the Yorkshire Light Infantry by a score of 3 to 2. At Honolulu F. Mackenzie, a Kamehaha schoolboy, won the Hawaiian championship meet Saturday. He won the 50 yards in 1 5-1 seconds, defeating En Sue, the Chinese athlete. He won the 100 yards in 10 1-5 and the broad jump at 21 feet 7 inches. Benny Henderson, the former Portland pitcher; Doc Moskiman, the former Oakland pitcher, and Bill Moriality, last year's third baseman of San Francisco, have signed contracts with Stockton in the California State outlaw league. At Baltimore George Hackenschmidt, the Russian wrestler, failed in his undertaking to throw Gus Schoenlin in 15 minutes. Schoenlin weighed 174 pounds against the Russian's 208. The Stanford track team Saturday defeated the University of Southern California athletes by a score of 104 to 18. Anxious to get a bigger slice of the money taken in at the gate than they receive by being merely semi-professionals, lacrosse players in British Columbia are now wrestling with the question of the advisability of their becoming out-and-ut professionals and playing the game on salary. After 19 rounds of the dirtiest kind of fighting, Billy Ross of Centralia, Wash., was awarded the decision recently over Barney Mullin. Ross secured the decision after he had deliberately thrown Mullin to the floor, when the latter refused to get up, Victor McLagen, the referee, counted him out. Bell, the outfielder who played such grand ball for Butte last season, is making a hit with Clark Griffith of the New York Americans. At Dexter park, in Chicago, on the night of April 3. George Hackenschmidt, the world-renowned wrestler, will contest to the world's championship title with Frank Gotch, the American champion. The men will wrestle to a finish, the winner gaining two falls out of three and carrying off the lion's share of the $10,000, besides a large side bet and the championship title. DESTROY THEIR TOBACCO BEDS In Forty-two Kentucky Counties, Farmers Ruin Their Crops. Lexington, Ky., March 25.—Because of warning letters and visits from night riders, many farmers in nearly all of the 42 counties. In the White Burley tobacco district are busy destroying their tobacco beds, and at the present time less than one-third of the number usually planted have been started. Stoessel Locked Up. St. Petersburg.—Lieutenant General Stoessel, who has been sentenced to serve the ten years' service imposed upon him for surrendering Port Arthur, occupies a room in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, adjoining that of Rear Admiral Nebogatoff, who is serving a like sentence for surrendering to the Japanese in the sea of Japan. The room is about 20 feet square and verlooks a little garden, in which the officers are permitted to promenade. Stoessel's family has received permission to furnish his cell. The officers not connected with the fortress run a private mess for their meals. Coming Events. Walla Walla Valley Ministerial association, Milton, Ore., April 7. Montana Stockgrowers, Miles City April 20-22. Montana Sunday School association Butte, May 11-13. Livestock show, Corvallis, Ore., May 15-16. Washington State F. O. E., Spokane, May 28. A scientist looking for microbes says there is absolutely none on the Swiss mountains at an altitude of 2000 feet. Roumania is the most illiterate country in Europe. The last census shows that in a population of about 6,000,000 nearly 4,000,000 neither write nor read NORTHWEST STATES WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON AND MONTANA ITEMS. 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. Bruce M. Watson, an educator of Syracuse, N. Y., has ben chosen superintendent of the Spokane public schools. Sunday hereafter will be a day of rest for the train operatives on the Spokane Falls & Northern division of the Great Northern. The Bonners Ferry and Wilson Creek locals on the main line will also discontinue running on Sundays. Beginning April 19 the Soo-Spokane train will resume its run from Spokane east. Cy Franz, an old resident of Wenatchee, has disposed of 39 acres of fruit land in Wenatchee valley for $50,000. Seattle parties are the purchasers, and they expect to enter the fruit growing business and run it on a large scale. Due to hard work, according to his physician, Senator Tillman is seriously ill at his home. Instead of increasing their forces of telegraphers as it was announced they would to observe the provisions of the federal law regulating the hours of railway employees, which became effective March 4, railway operators over the state say that the transcontinental lines are laying off men. The Rev. Dr. G. William Giboney, head of the First Presbyterian church in Spokane for 14 years, resigned his pastorate Sunday. It is reported half of the lumber mills of the Inland Empire will be in operation by April 1, and the other half will be running before the last of May. At the recent apportionment of the state school fund by State Superintendent R. H. Bryan, Chelan county was given $4597.63. Dr. H. C. Bentley, a pioneer business man of Garfield and one of the first settlers here, has been appointed a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Governor Mead. Records compiled from the court show that in Yakima county since January 1, 1907, 118 divorces have been granted, as against 354 marriages in the same time. The annual horse show at Dayton, which has been et for April 4, has been postponed until April 11 in order to hold the show and market day at the same time. The Sunday lid has been put on at Yakima. Clarence Collier Crandall, after defrauding a number of Elks in Tacoma by means of forged checks, is before the courts. The board of control has fixed the year's price for penitentiary grain sacks at 7 2-10 cents. Oat sacks, 8 cents. Sacks have been apportioned as follows: Garfield, 81,000; Columbia, 90,300; Walla Walla, 170,400; Whitman, 380,250; Spokane, 78,000; Lincoln, 188,100; Adams, 187,500; Douglas, 160,000; Franklin, 120,000; Benton, 36,000; Klickitat, 33,750; Yakima, 24,000. The salaries for the coming year for all state institutions will remain the same. IDAHO NEWS A farmers' union has been organized in Grangeville. It is reported at the navy department that the battleship Idaho will be delivered to the government at League Island navy yard about the 26th. The commandant has been ordered to proceed with putting the vessel in commission as soon as practicable after the preliminary acceptance of the vessel. Rathdrum, a village of some 1500 or 1800 people and on eo, the oldest settlements in Kootenai county, is soon to have a new park. A new postoffice has been established at Pinchot, in the St. Joe country, with R. M. Debitt as postmostress. The meeting of the joint teachers' institute of Kootenai and Bonner counties is to be held at Sandpoint from April 6 to the 9th, inclusive. Arrangements were completed by the Portland Commercial club for an excursion to Lewiston on the occasion of the Lewiston-Clarkston blossom festival on May 2. MONTANA ITEMS The Helena city council has passed an ordinance under the terms of which the poolroom must cease doing business in that city within 30 days. After considering the bids for the care of the state's prisoners at Deer Lodge, Mont., too high, the board of prison commissioners rejected all bids and agreed to advertise again. The $22,000 fine imposed upon F. Augustus Heinze and his two superintendents, Frank and Irise, for contempt of court, is en route to the national treasury at Washington. A. B. Hayes of Utah, who has been solicitor for the internal revenue bureau, has resigned and will be succeeded by A. B. Harnett. coded by A. S. James of Great Falls. The decomposed body of Anutee Hugsted, who has been missing for about a month, was found hidden in a clump of brush, near St. Regis. Hugsted had been murdered, and the police have arrested Mamie Ainsworth, Frank Haight and D. McGregor. The woman declares all were drinking together and Hugsted addressed an insulting remark to her and Haight hit him over the head with a chair. The policemen of Butte, 74 in number, are signing a petition for an increase in pay. The patrolmen at the present time are being paid $100 per month. While confined in the county jail in Billings, R. J. Carr made a desperate assault on Albert Kennedy, a half-breed Indian, with a razor, inflicting wounds which are serious, and may prove fatal. The body of Zana, McNorton, a 16-year-old girl, was found some distance from her home at Belknap. She was murdered. The girl left her home Sunday morning for a walk, and, falling to return, a search was instituted, resulting in the discovery of the dead body. During a quarrel among a band of Cree Indians camped near Clancy over the division of some slaughter house refuse Howling Buffalo, one of the leading men of the renegade band, shot and instantly killed Hungry Wolf, a young buck. Friday the trouble was resumed, Lean Bear, a relative of Wolf, taking up the fight with Buffalo, Buffalo chased Bear with a knife, and Bear in a wild dash across the tracks of the Great Northern, which pass close to the Indians' camp, tripped and fell across the rails just as an engine dashed around a curve. His head was completely severed from his body, which rolled down the side of the grade into the creek beside the track. As a gift from the state whose name it bears, the United States battleship Montana, which was launched from Newport News on December 16, 1906, is to receive a magnificent silver service. The service will be on exhibition next month at rielena. Made of native silver from its Montana mines, the gift comprises these pieces: Large punch bowl and plateau, 30 crystal cups and ladle, small punch bowl and ladle, pair of condelabra, pair or comportium, pair of sandwich dishes, pair of fruit baskets, pair of serving trays, pair of bottle holders, coffee urn and cigar OREGON SQUIBS Eddie Nestle, a young bakery wagon driver of Portland, put on St. Patrick's day regalia Tuesday and had a jaunty picture taken for a chum. That night he drank carbolic acid and was found dead the next morning. Atter April 1 employing metal workers will go on an open shop basis in Portland. Umatilla county has expended $74,000 on roads and bridges during the past year, and the widom of the action has been fully shown in the recent floods which extended over the entire country. Not a bridge of any size was removed by the high waters. Many special sheep inspectors are arriving in Pendleton to assist in the annual spring inspection under the direction of Dr. S. W. McClure, head of the bureau of animal industry. Falling off the high bank into the swollen waters of the Little Elk river at Albany, Roy Smith, 10-year-old son of W. 11, Smith of Elkhorn, near Mill City, lost his life by drowning. An engine and 14 freight cars were ditched at Pendleton recently on the Northern Pacific track. The train crew escaped injury. The body of Paul Todd, who was drowned at Pendleton, has been found. Senator Bryan Dies Washington, D. C., March 23.—United States Senator William James Bryan of Florida, died at Providence hospital at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning of typhoid fever. It was only 72 days since he took his seat as successor of the late Senator Stephen R. Mallory, who died December 23, and 23 days of that time were spent in his fight against disease. In Mr. Bryan the senate loses the seventh member by death since the adjournment of the 58th congress on March 4, a year ago. They were: the two late' senators from Alabama, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Pettus; Mrs. Mallory, of Florida; Mr. Latimer of South Carolina; Mr. Proctor, of Vermont; Mr. Whyte, of Maryland, and Mr. Bryan. Senate for Ship Subsidy Under the terms of the ship subsidy bill as passed by the senate vessels of 16 knots an hour sped, traveling between American and South American, Philippine, Japan, China and Australian ports, will receive a subsidy of $4 per mile. An allowance of $2 per mile is made for 12 knot vessels. A provision was adopted that the expenditures for foreign mail service should not exceed the estimated revenue from ships engaged. An amendment to add 27 auxiliary vessels to the war fleet was defeated. Prince Manuel May Lose an Arm. Madrid, Spain, March 25.—El Mundo says that it learns on good authority that the wound of Prince Manuel—now king—received in the arm on February 1, when King Carlos and the crown prince were assassinated, has not healed and has recently become much worse. The attending physicians, says the paper, declare that amputation is imperative. Chester Gillette Must Die. Albany, N. Y., March 24.—Governor Hughes will not interfere in any way with the execution in the week beginning March 30 of the death sentence upon Chester Gillette of Cortland, convicted of the murder of Grace or "Billy," Brown of South Ossielco Chenango county, at Big Moose lake in the Adirondacks in July. 1908 and now in the "death cells" at Auburn prison. Your Blood Needs purifying and your whole system renovating in the spring, as pimples, boils, eruptions, loss of appetite and that tired feeling annually prove. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the most effective medicine ever devised for the complete purification of the blood and the complete renovation of the whole system. It will make you feel better, look better, eat and sleep better and give you the best possible preparation for the hot days of summer, as over 40,000 people have testified in the last two years. Today buy and begin to take Hood's Sarsaparilla Usual form, liquid, or in tablet form, called Sarsatabs, 100 Doses $1. "Bromo Quinine" Laxative Bromo Quinine USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. FARM DRAIN TILE Will make your soil absorb and retain water at the minimum depth required for perfect development. Send for our free booklet, "Hints on Farm Drainage." It gives the proper methods and results of, draining land, how it is done, and the appliances necessary. We have recently made quite a cut in the price of drain tile to encourage farmers to drain their land. A lot of you can club together and buy in carload lots. We will make satisfactory terms with you. Write for the booklet. DENNY-RENTON CLAY & COAL CO., Lowman Building, Seattle, Wash. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES $300 SHOES AT ALL PRICES, F.R. EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. MEN, BOYS, WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN. W. L. DOUGLAS makes and sells more men's $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world, because they hold their real value and wear well and are of greater value than any other shoes in the world to-day. W. L. DOUGLAS $4 and $5 Gilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At Any Price. CAUTION. W. L. Douglas name and price is stamped on the front. Take No Substitute. The best shoes dealer everywhere. Shoes mailed from any part of the world. Illust. famed family treasurer addresses. W. L. DOUGLAS. Breskema, Mass. IS BAD FOR THE CHILD. Chicago Teacher Says That About Tea and Coffee. That tea and coffee are worse for children than beer and that the teachers in the Chicago public schools are not qualified to teach physiology as required by state law because they are too ignorant, were the startling statements made by Dr. Lelia E. Whitehead, a teacher in the Nash public school, at a recent session of the spring institute of the W. C. T. U. in Chicago. Gives $100,000 to the Y. M. C. A. Chicago, March 21.—The plan for raising a $1,000,000 endowment fund for the Chicago Young Men's Christian association in recognition of its 50th anniversary was given impetus by the liberal pledge of $100,000 made Saturday by John G. Shedd, a prominent merchant. Mr. Shedd's offer was to give $50,000 if the association shall raise $600,000, and $50,000 additional if it shall raise $1,000,000 this year. The Taking Cold Habit The old cold goes; a new one quickly comes. It's the story of a weak throat, weak lungs, a tendency to consumption. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral breaks up the taking-cold habit. It strengthens, soothes, heals. Ask your doctor about it. The best kind of a testimonial— "Sold for over sixty years." Made by J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Also manufacturers of SARSAPARILLA. PILLS. HAR VIGOR. We have no secrets! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. Keep the bowels regular with Ayer's Pills, just one pill each night. 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The blind population of the world numbers 64 persons out of every million. Your Own Business Get into business for yourself—the jewelry business. Learn watchmaking. engraving and optics. Easy terms. Positions secured. Money earned while learning. Seattle Watchmaking School, Corner Fourth and Flake, Seattle. WHEN writing to advertisers please mention this paper. THE ENDLESS CHAIN With the coming of spring, squirrels, gophers and sage rats regularly appear, to devastate the fields of growing grain. Early in the season, when their natural food is scarce, their numbers may be greatly diminished by a systematic warfare upon them. Every female killed before the young are born, reduces the number of pests at least ten later on. "Woodlark" Squirrel Poison is the most reliable and destructive agent yet devised for their extermination. It is an absolutely certain instrument of death for squirrels. Every kernel is warranted to kill. Climatic changes, dew, frost, or the moisture of the earth do not effect its strength. It requires no mixing or preparation, and is always ready for use. No other is so good. Dealers will refund the purchase price, if not as claimed. The Hoyt Chemical Co., Portland, Oregon WOMEN DEMOCRATS Will Be at National Democratic Convention in Denver. Denver, Col.-For the first time in the history of any political party there will be women delegates sitting in a national convention when the democratic party meets here July 7 to nominate candidates for president and vice president. Colorado women who are advocates of woman suffrage have organized to invade the democratic primaries and use every effort to secure the selection of one of their number as delegate to the democratic national convention from this state. Will Parents Ever Learn? At Detroit, Mich., Johnnie Wielek, 15 months old, shot himself and his mother recently while playing with a revolver. One bullet passed through the baby's head and struck his mother in the neck. The child is alive, but his death is expected. His mother is not seriously wounded. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. Don't accept any substitute. Sample FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. In the British museum there is a huge rope of hair, weighing nearly two tons. It was originally made for one of the emperors of Japan. Quinine" Homo Quinine CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. E. H. Brown RAIN TILE Retain water at the minimum depth Send for our free booklet, "Hints the proper methods and results of, the appliances necessary. We have the price of drain tile to encourage lot of you can club together and satisfactory terms with you. Write CLAY & COAL CO., An Building, Seattle, Wash. WAS 350 CHILDREN. Amorous houses In the their and other Be Equalled At Any Price Is stamped on bottom. Take No Substitute. Called from factory to any part of the world. Illus. W. L. BOULDER, Brockton, Mass. SAVE THE CARTON TOPS and Soap Wrappers from "20 Mule Team Borax" Products and exchange them for VALUABLE PREMIUMS FREE 40 page illustrated catalogue of 1000 articles given away FREE. Address Pacific Coast Borax Co., Oakland, Cal. SILVER SPOON 20Cents Send us 20c in stamps and we will send you post paid a beautiful Rose pattern spoon guaranteed for 5 years. 1000 other articles. Agents Wanted. Nothing over Twenty cents. Arcade Annex Arcade Novelty Co., SEATTLE. Treasury Figures Show that the Per Capita Is in Excess of $1,310. VAST GROWTH OF FINANCES. Money in Circulation on Jan. 30 Last Was Nearly $3,000,-000,000. Major Alfred R. Qualiffe, vault clerk of the United States treasury, who has charge of Uncle Sam's money, called my attention the other day to the almost incredible growth of the business of the Treasury Department since he came into the service, forty-two years ago, and he furnished me with some very interesting and rather startling comparisons, writes William E. Curtis, the Washington correspondent. For example, the wealth of the country, which, of course, has kept pace with the transactions of the treasury, is three and one-half times greater to-day than it was in 1870. The total then was $30,068,518,000. The estimated total to-day, based upon the census reports and information received by the Agricultural Department, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency, is $107,104,211,917. The wealth per capita of citizens of the United States, based upon similar estimates, has increased from $779.83 in 1870 to $1,310.11 in 1907, which makes the United States, with its enormous population, the richest country in the world. The money in circulation has increased four-fold since Major Qualiffe came into the treasury. The total in 1970 was $675,212,704, while on Jan. 30, 1907, it was $2,914,342,256. The circulation per capita has almost doubled, notwithstanding the present money famine, and has increased from $17.50 to $33.86 during the last forty-two years. When Major Qualiffe came into the cash room we had only $25,000,000 in gold; to-day we have $756,605,869 in gold coin in the treasury alone, not counting that in circulation and boarded away. Uncle Sam's working capital on Dec. 14, 1907, amounted to $1,756,491,464.31—all of which is hard cash. Of this amount $1,253,705,699, in coin is held on deposit to secure the payment of $756,605,869 gold certificates, $471,525,000 silver certificates, and $5,515,000 treasury notes outstanding. The treasury reserve, which is kept by law, amounts to $150,000,000. The cash balance available to pay the current expenses of the government on Dec. 14 was $259,762,300.65. Uncle Sam does not keep all of his money in Washington, although there is a good deal of it here. The remainder is scattered among the different subtreasures, mints and national bank depositories as follows: Treasury, Washington ... $175,971,843.79 Subtreasury, New York ... 270,623,907.87 Subtreasury, Baltimore ... 16,027,023.41 Subtreasury, Philadelphia ... 18,968,820.00 Subtreasury, Boston ... 19,028,274.90 Subtreasury, Cincinnati ... 13,417,882.59 Subtreasury, Chicago ... 55,803,802.72 Subtreasury, St. Louis ... 18,000,802.40 Subtreasury, New Orleans ... 23,059,620.80 Subtreasury, San Francisco ... 33,430,693.79 Mint, Philadelphia ... 354,178,511.72 Mint, Denver ... 58,370,907.19 Mint, New Orleans ... 33,392,871.34 Mint, San Francisco ... 322,483,714.10 Assay office, New York ... 79,858,325.27 National banks ... 246,284,455.09 Treasury Philippine Islands ... 3,795,390.59 In transit between offices ... 496,788.45 In addition to the working balance and the reserve, there is a total of $811,736,128 in bonds in the vaults at Washington, of which $633,535,970 is to secure circulation of national banks and $178,200,158 to secure deposits in national banks. An additional sum of $103,751,380 is deposited for similar purposes in the subtreasuries of New York and San Francisco, making a total of $915,487,518 of other people's money in Uncle Sam's charge. Alaska's Population 31,000. Gov. W. B. Hoggatt of Alaska, in his annual report, estimates the population of the territory at 31,000, exclusive of 6,000 or 7,000 persons of mixed nationalities employed in mines, canneries and railroad construction during the summer. He reports extensive prospecting in the various mining districts. He considers the whisky peddler the worst enemy of the native, and recommends legislative restrictions of liquor sales within a five-mile radius of any railroad or other enterprise employing 100 or more men, except in an incorporated town. A paper read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the University of Chicago reveals the fact that Dr. Simon Flexner of New York City has succeeded in transplanting arteries from one animal to another successfully. The experiments have thus far been confined exclusively to the lower animals, but the favorable results in this field are believed to point the way to a successful application of the practice to human belings. Ships to Use Gyroscopes. It is reported that the Hamburg-American line, having bought the German rights of the Schilch gyroscope, intends to equip all its North Sea and channel boats with the apparatus, which it is expected will keep the ship steady in the roughest weather. The gyroscope will be located at the stern of the vessel. BLUE PRINT MAPS OF STEVEN'S county showing all vacant government land, $2.50. Township blue prints of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan, Douglas and Chelan counties, $1 per township. Frank R. Cortaley, S5 Washington street, Spokane, Wash. The Burmese government proposes to sell the lease of the government rubber plantation at Mergul for a period of 30 years, with the right of renewal for another 20 years. WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE From October to May, Colds are the most frequent cause of headache. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE removes cause. E. W. Grove on box, 25c. RHEUMATISM CAN NOT BE RELATED It is perfectly natural to rub the spines, joints and bones are throbbing Rheumatism the sufferer is apt to turn external application, in an effort to get counter-irritation on the flesh. Such rarity, but can have no direct curative does not reach the blood, where the can than skin deep—it is rooted and grained by constitutional treatment—Rheumatism is due to an excess of urtic the accumulation in the system of ref of bodily waste, the Bowels and Kid refuse matter, coming in contact with uric acid which is absorbed into the blood, and Rheumatism gets possession are only symptoms, and though they by surface treatment, they will reap dampness, or after an attack of indigestion can never be permanently cured with irritating, pain-producing uric from muscle to muscle or joint to joint inflammation and swelling and such it is often shattered, the health undermined and crippled for life. S. S. renovates the circulation by neutralizing matter from the system. It warms and a matism. It contains no potash, alka- made entirely of purifying, healing e- barks. If you are suffering from Rhe- trying to rub a blood disease away, but us about your case and our physician advice desired free of charge and will see Manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS - 50k per BOTTLE Ask for Inland Crackers and get the best. PUTNAM F Color more goods brighter and faster color equally well and is guaranteed to give perfec Write for free booklet, how to dye, bleach an FADELES aster colors than any other dye. One 10c give perfect results. Ask dealer, or we s bleach and mix colors. MONROE DRUG PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. Ask dealer, or we send post paid at 10c a package. Write for free booklet, how to dye, bleach and mix colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Quincy, Illinois. Catholics Must Marry Catholics. In accordance with the decree of Pope Pius X, of last August, Archbishop Farley sent a letter today to all Catholic churches explaining the new marriage law that will go into effect on Easter. In the main the decree prohibits civil marriages for Catholics, and declares union in the church on and after April 19 invalid if the bride or groom is not a Catholic. There is more Catarch in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years docu- ncesed it for local disease, and prescribed it for remediable treatments, faili- cing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarch to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's & Co., Toledo, manufactured by F. Cheney & Co., Toledo, initially conducted a con- tinual cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucus of the system. They offer one hundred dollars each to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Address, F. J. CHENY & CO., Toldeo, O died by Drugsint, 756 of the drug. He was the best Hall's Family Pills are the best. TEA Linger longer over it; let it be steaming hot from the earthen pot; and the loveliest woman pour it. Your grocer returns your money if you don't like Schilling's Best: we pay him. Lead pencils were first made in the United States in 1811 by William Monroe, at Concord, Mass. HOWARD E. BURTON, Assayer and Chemist, Leadville, Colo. Specimen prices: Gold: $1.25; gold silver: $2; gold jac; zinc or copper, $1; Cyanide tests; mailing envelopes and full price list sent on application. Control and umpire work solicited. References: Carbonate National Bank. The lyre bird of Australia is the largest song bird. It is about the size of an English pheasant. ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Look for the signature of E. W. GROYE Used the world over to cure a cold in one day. 25c. Mount Morgan, New South Wales, is a veritable mountain of gold. It has produced 2,471,303 ounces of gold worth $20 an ounce. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. The Japanese will never sleep with their heads to the north, but their dead are always buried that way. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna acts gently yet promptly on the bowels, cleanses the system effectually, assists one in overcoming habitual constipation permanently. To get its beneficial effects buy the genuine. THE MEN WHO KNOW THE SUPERIOR QUALITIES OF TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKERS. SUITS AND HATS are the men who have put them to the hardest tests in the roughest weather. Get the original Tower's Fish Brand mode since 1836 CATALOG FREE FOR THE ASKING A. J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, M. A. TOWER CANADA, COLLEGE OF ARTS, BOSTON, CANADA "WATITE" ROOFING IS WATERTIGHT It is also sun, acid and alkali proof and fire resisting. Looks like slate and handles like leather. It won't dry out or crack. Comes in four weights with liquid cement and nails packed in each roll. SEE SAMPLE AT YOUR DEALERS "OUCH" OH, MY BACK IT IS WONDERFUL HOW QUICKLY THE PAIN AND STIFFNESS GO WHEN YOU USE ST. JACOBS OIL THIS WELL-TRIED, OLD-TIME REMEDY FILLS THE BILL 25c.—ALL DRUGGISTS.—50c. CONQUERS PAIN RHEUMATISM It is perfectly natural to rub the spot that hurts, and when the muscles, nerves, joints and bones are throbbing and twitching with the pains of Rheumatism the sufferer is apt to turn to the liniment bottle, or some other external application, in an effort to get relief from the disease, by producing counter-irritation on the flesh. Such treatment will quiet the pain temporarily, but can have no direct curative effect on the real disease because it does not reach the blood, where the cause is located. Rheumatism is more than skin deep—it is rooted and grounded in the blood and can only be reached by constitutional treatment—IT CANNOT BE RUBBED AWAY. Rheumatism is due to an excess of uric acid in the blood, brought about by the accumulation in the system of refuse matter which the natural avenues of bodily waste, the Bowels and Kidneys, have failed to carry off. This refuse matter, coming in contact with the different acids of the body, forms uric acid which is absorbed into the blood and distributed to all parts of the body, and Rheumatism gets possession of the system. The aches and pains are only symptoms, and though they may be scattered or relieved for a time, my surface treatment, they will reappear at the first exposure to cold or dampness, or after an attack of indigestion or other irregularity. Rheumatism can never be permanently cured while the circulation remains saturated with irritating, pain-producing uric acid poison. The disease will shift from muscle to muscle or joint to joint, settling on the nerves, causing inflammation and swelling and such terrible pains that the nervous system is often shattered, the health undermined, and perhaps the patient becomes deformed and crippled for life. S. S. S. thoroughly cleanses the blood and renovates the circulation by neutralizing the acids and expelling all foreign matter from the system. It warns and invigorates the blood so that instead matism. It contains no potash, alkali or other mineral ingredient, but is made entirely of purifying, healing extracts and juices of roots, herbs and barks. If you are suffering from Rheumatism do not waste valuable time trying to rub a blood disease away, but begin the use of S. S. and write us about your case and our physicians will give you any information or advice desired free of charge and will send our special treatise on Rheumatism. THE SWIFT SPECIFIO CO., ATLANTA, GA. WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE Fleet to Visit Japan. The Japanese government has extended an invitation to the American government to have the Atlantic battleship fleet visit any port in Japan on its homeward cruise around the world. S.S.S. PURELY VEGETABLE Only 82 cents 4-light house windows, only $2. Larger sizes at higher prices. We have our own mill and we sell windows at about half the price asked by the ordinary dealer. We have only one price and we offer delivery and slab windows, delivery windows and slab windows, the world's standard doors, only $1.50 per door, for not larger than 2 ft. 8 in. by 6 ft. 8 in. Moldings, 50c per hundred feet. Forch columns, only 60s. Hinges, 14c a pair, Window swing boxes, only 1e each. 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Spencer Compton Cavendish, eighth duke of Deveonshire died recently in France of heart failure. Sheriff James W. Webb of Yellowstone county, Mont, was shot and killed Tuesday morning on the Musselshell, about six miles from Billings, by William Byckfound, a horsethelf, wanted in Wyoming. Byckford is located in a coulee in the Horsecreek country and is sure to be taken. Four persons were killed and 20 injured in a wreck of a passenger train near Lexington, Kentucky, on the Queen & Crescent railway. It is said to have occurred because the night operator had been laid off. The battleship fleet will visit China as well as Australia and Japan and will be home on Washington's birthday, 1909, in order that President Roosevelt may participate in the welcome before his retirement from office, 10 days later. Littlefield Resigns Congress. Governor Cobb of Maine, received a letter from Congressman Charles E. Littlefield, tendering from the Second district of Maine. The resignation is prompted by Mr. Littlefield's desire to take up his law practice, which has been seriously interfered by his congressional duties. He will reside in New York. The right hand, which is more sensitive to the touch than the left, is less sensitive than the latter to the effect of heat and cold. One Amsterdam factory alone cuts 400,000 diamonds every year. ESS DYES the 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton or we send post paid at 10c a package. DRUG CO., Quincy, Illinois. Savings securely cared for Interest at the rate of 4 per cent. BANKING Money always ready when called for Booklet about * ‘Banking by Mail'’ sent free on re- quest | MA IL Union Bank and Trust Company, Helena, Montana ‘Trade with the Helena Packing Company. The Bees are Buzzing 22 person enjoyed a delightful evening witl the Sec. Miss Mamic Walton, ‘Shu eve, After quite a deal of busines had been transacted, and plans fo: a grand China Bazaas in June- The B's were seated ata table, which ippeared to be set for a bridal feast Fruits, Salads, Sandwiches, Lem. on ice, Cakes, and Coffee were ser- ved. The’B’s reported the jolliest time yet:- They also have in treas $21.57 as a beginning for the new quarter. Beautiful music played as the B’s all directed by J.B.Bass. Messrs Gus Mason, Ward Cole, and Spencer Smith made a speech’ atthe Busy B Club. Each gentle- man highly complimented the B’s on their excellent swarming anc their transaction ot business. Mr. Mason said he read often of the B’s inthe Plaindeuler, but thoughtthem a meer bluff-and was agreeably surprised to find them real Bees gathering real honey. He further said their work was a great one “Assisting the Church”. and not only would they have his presence often, but his pocket book as well. Mr. Cole said it was his first but not last visit, and his presence and money would never run out when it comes to the Beautiful women engaged in the grand and noble wo rk of the Busy B Club. Mr, Smith has visited with the|! B’s before and had much to say to}: ward encouraging the ladies- He onsiders himself one of them, and 1a8 given his assistance from the|} ery beginning. t Madams E. G. Cole, Cora John-|f on, M. Simmons, L, Scott, F. Mas n, E. Harris, and others dropped eeds of encouragement, that will] 1 pring up in June and bring forth |< bountifal fruit. itis a Chine nd glass Bazaar, they are going to ave both hand painted and Cug|‘ lass. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bass who has} een the guest of Miss M. Walton yr amonth, returned to Anaconda st Monday’ eve. Mr. E, B. Jones is, working with] ne boys at the Federal Building. | Mr. B. F. Hooper has-been onthe ick list the past week. Andrew Green has a large cont-|! act laying cement walks. ( Rolla Hughes departed fromthis ity to Salt Lake city last Tuesday Miss Rebecca Palmer reports af, plendid sojourn at White Sulphur Springs. Mrs. Dinah Brooks left lastweek or ewistown, Frank Mitchell whohas beenon tof the boys for years in and arcun Helena, taken a ticket of feave las week for Parts unknown. : ,] ‘The band boys nave secured qu arters for themselves atthe Parcher | building on Jackson streetand fron Jnow on will make rapid progres: with their work. | Rev. W. T. Osborne returned Fr |from Billings where he assisted Rev. McCully with his revivelmeet ing. The Young Peoples Institute which was such a great success in this City last May will be held this year in Great Falls. The loafer who refused to work ‘on account ofthe cold weather now refuses to work as it will interfere with his engagement to play ball. ‘The new band contemplates giv- ing in the near future a grand enter tainment for the purpose of rais- ing money to pay on their new uniforms. Wm. H. Holland whe played| for the literary at St. James Chu- rch last week created a sensation, as it was not dreamed of that Hel- ena contained such a performed on the piano. C. H. Mason arrived home from Hot Springs Wedenesday night he as been down there as secretary of the past 4 months. Owing to the serious illness of jis father. Mr. Wm. Knott, the te- ior singer from Topeka Kansas ailed to arrive last week. It is reported that Wm. Seals of} Wolf Creek remains in a criticall ondition. And what have you to say now ne measly delegate to the repud- ican convention, Look out for next weeks issure with all the political dope. Mr. H. B, Jacobs, who has been oujourning in Lewistown and Spo vane for the past three week retu- ned home Friday. Mr. 4.J. Walton received sad sews Thursday of the death of his} aeice, Mise Gurtrude Walton, of| guthrie Oklahoma. For Sale; - Business of) Second hand furniture und small stock of wall paper. Inquive at No. 110 Broadwsy. ELEGT OFFICERS | The new Helena colored band held an enthusiastic meeting on last Monday night formed a per- ‘manent organization abd elected the following officers D. H. Harris Conductor, J. B. Baas Business mmiger, Eugene Clark Sec. Harry Saulaburg Treas, The fiuance committee consists of J. B. Bags, Eugene Clark and W.D.Cole The band isthe recipient ofmuch encouregement from allthe citizens and as they are coming to their aid so loyally it is now up to the boys to make good. | Hon- J.C.NAPIER STATES HIS POSITION natural causes any shortcomings of the race as voters, have been seized upon by his enemies as indications that he does not believe in equality of citizenship. But I challenge any one to produce a speech on the race question where- in Mr. Taft has not declared for equality of citizenship. As the Republican Party of the North seems hopelessly divided on the question of federal interferrence with Southern elections Secretary Taft believes in trying moral suas- ion, in trying to win over white men in the South to the Northern views of the sufferage question If made President it is my earnest belief that he will use the whole pow- er of his position to influence senti- ment in the South favorable to the acceptance in good faith of the fif- feenth amendment. He says he is with Prof. Booker T. Washington. On the question of the equality of citizenship, Prof. Washington thus expressed ‘himself in a letter to the Constitutional Con- vention of Louisiana: “Since the war, no state has had such an opportunity to settle for all time the race question, so far as it concerns politice, as is now given in Louisiana. Will your convention set an example to the world in this respect?” ~ “L want to suggest that no state in the South can make a law that will provide an opportunity or tempta- tion for an ignorant white man to vote, and withhold the same oppor- tunity from the ignorant colored man, without injuring both men. No state can make a law that can thus be ex- ecuted, without dwarfing for all times the morals of the white men in the South. “Any law controlling the bolot, that is not absolutely just and fair to both races will work more permanent injury to the whites than the blacks.” * + * “The Negro does not object to an education or property test, but let the law be so clear that no one cloth- ed with state authority will be tempt- ed to prejure and degrade himself, by putting one interpretation upon it for the white man and another for the black man.” * * * “While I do not persume to advise you, yet it is in my heart to say that if your convention would do some- thing that would prevent for all time strained relations between the two races, and would settle perman- gatly the matter of political relations in one state in the South at least, let the very best educational opportunity be provided for both races; and add to this theenactment of an election law that shall be incapable of unjust discrimination, at the same time pro- viding that in proportion as the ig- norant secure education, property and character, they will be given the right of citizenship.” Here we have Mr. Washington's creed, the ideals toward which he 1s striving, and to this creed Secretary ‘Tait subscribes I have stated above my reasons for not severing my allegiance to President Roosevelt on account of the Brownsville affair. In the main they apply with equal force to Sec- retary Taft. He avows that the question of r eacdid not enter into. the matter with him, and his avowal taken in connection with the whole history of the man, is sufficient for me. Ti then the race question is elimi- nated (and who can prove the -pre- judice asserted), the question is re- duced to simply a matter of error of judgment from our viewpoint, and here it is, that I take my stand that all men do for the race is not to be swallowed up by some one error. Suppose that study champion of the soldier whom all of us so profound- y honor for his stand, Hon. J. B. oraker, commits an error of judg- ment to-morrow, will it serve to nullify a life time of championship of the rights of the race? Are the men who serve us to serve us with the spectre ever before them of Wdes- ertion and abuse if they do not ale ways view matters as we view them: Of course where a man deserts us on account of race or color we are justi fled in deserting him, whatever his past. But I hold that to be far from Proven in the sases before us. Will the man who finds fault with this position give me the privilege of going into his life and choos any one incident therein, an! agree to be silent while I ask’ the public to judge his whole life by the une in- cident of my selection? Enforcing the Constitution Permit me to say that I favor the Passage of the Lodge Election Bili which looks to the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment. That bitl failed __ At present I see no signs of a pub- While the ntaion sleeps along that ine and others are busy tyiix to wakeit up. [am joining hands with those who in this period of quiescerice are trying moral suasion. in my State the Fifteenth Amendment is Sbserved. What we need here isa more liberal spirit among the whites What will bring it about? We ail aim at the one thing, some striving the one way and some the other. When the battle is finally won, as won it will surely be, it will then perhaps be plain to the race that eac h tegment of earnest workers has play- eda part in the achievement of the vietory. POLITICAL NOTES In the first ward the conglomora- tion of all political mixtures met for the primaries on last Wednesday evening, old conservative _ leaders were thrown aside , the saloon in- terests under the leadership of Col Major Mark Good dominated the proceedings and had everything cut and dried and their ticket of lily whites went through with a whoop \ Se. COLORED BROTHERS LOST IN “THE SHUFFLE. it was evident from the kick off that the colored brother was to be the recipient of the marble heart, and when Col. Good counted up, not one had* enough votes to get a look in at the city convention although they were desirous of help- ing out in the capacity of party work- ers. One would think from their action that this new — propaganda which ignores this loyal element of the party has decided that at no time in the game will their services be needed, As a result of the pri- maries held throughout the city one lone colored delegate was sent up from the second ward. They say that A. J. Duncan is not losing any sleep over his chances for defeat. Mr. Geo. Beatty was one of our really strong men in the city council, ind it is to be regreted that the city will not have his services in conduct- ing the affairs of the city for no long- er_period than they have. Colored Congressmen In th. United States. ~ Since the advlitionof slavery ii the United states in 1883, many neg roes have held official positions. Two were Unt. . States Senators, Twenty-twoRepresentattves; three Registers of the ‘Treasury; several were Lieutenant GovernorsofState: About forty have held diplomatic and consular positions: many have bern officers inthe army; slx were Recorders of Deeds in the District Columbia. A fine engraving of these Neg- roe Congressmen as just been issued giving accurate potrates of each; also the Congress in which they ser- ved and the years of service. In the picture,the two Senators, Meser= Revels and Bruce, occupy the cen ter of the group, surrounded by the other twenty Representatives. Tn the backgrounb, theStars and Strips in color. This beautiful engraving. with a booklet containing biograph- ies of these eminent men, is sold for one dollar. This engraving is a gra- phic political history of the Negroc in America. No home, library office orschool-room will be complete with out it. Send for one to day. ‘The Colored American Novelty Co. Washington, D.C P.O, Drawers 2318, Agents wanted. N. B. 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