Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER It is to be hoped that the grand conference of the A. M. E. Church which met at Norfork, early this month will not in the natural event of things have anything to with Brownsville." HOULD SEND A COLORED ALTERNATE The Republican convention which meets at Butte on the 14th est, should by all means give their loyal ally, the colored voter, recognition, and it would be the momently and proper thing for the convention to at least give them one of the alternates to the Republican National Convention. There are more than 1000 new voters in this state, 95 per cent of which have been loyal at times on national issues lined like a stone wall for the Republican ticket, they have been caught for at voting times, but for the political enrollment and donors thereto they have herefore been studiously avoided. We think it about time, and the thing to do, is to start off right in the campaign by giving recognition where it is due and inking for an alternate delegate a recognition extended to this royal element of the party, we do not think we are asking too much and that the same should berant. THEY CHANGED FRONTS Bro. Bailey, of the Kansas City error, is saying some very tinent htings just now which no small degree reflect on the stability of some of those com at times we think are the longest, he cannot account foriden changes of the altitude supposedly strong race journals so were so strenously opposing it and who after an invitation Washington came bac k as it supporters. We take it that man is allowed to change his and even up unto the eleventh aur, and besides these eminent all pushers headed by the talic Nicodemus Chiles, were seen upon the mountain top and own the beauties and granduer the valleys below and then seen to the inner sanctum of thewers that be and great joys uspered into their ears, and all this Brother Bailey who did stand; and our only suprise in our mountain fastness where seems we are not thought of is at the editor of the Mirror was out in the cold in this mighty and triumphant procession of all drivers when they took the nation's capitol by storm. ith our ears to the grass we hear ominous rumblings in local political circles and it seems as though there will be a multiplicity of candidates for everything in sight at the approaching fall elections. The Western Press Association will meet this year two months earlier at DeMoines, Iowa, the time has been changed so that the newspaper men can attend it and also the National Convention at the same time and only have to make the one trip for the year. So the Association has been called to meet at DeMoines on June the 10th to 12th. In its dying days the Lindsay administration did change its attitude of non-recognition to the colored brothers and put one or two men as park tenders on the West Side. Better late than never. And now the Republican leaders have it up to them and we will see if they will at the coming convention at Butte give recognition to the colored voters by the selection of one as an alternate to the National Convention. The great Brownsville debate certainly seems to go the limit in the U. S., and even Senator Borah of Idaho, sought to win his first lesson in the Senate at the expense of the poor Negro Soldiers, Ray Stannard Baker has certainly been in around and among the boys and learned of their thin ways. NEW YORK SALOONS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST COLORED SOLDIERS Watertown Saloon Keepers do ..not care for Trade Ffom Troopers. Some Smash Glasses After Serving a Drink and Others Charge Exorbitant Prices—Shameful if True, and Should Be Fought at Once in Courts. Utica, N. Y., April 17—The saloon keepers of Watertown have become infected with the anti-Negro sentiment which has taken a strong hold on that community since two battalions of the 24th regiment of Colored troops were assigned to Madison barracks at Sacketts Harbor near Watertown. The saloon keepers are not anxious for the patronage of the Colored soldiers from Sacketts Harbor and are doing many things to discourage the men from frequenting their places. Exhorbitant prices have been charged in many instances, while at other times the glasses have been deliberately smashed on the floor before the patron as soon as he finished the drink and replaced the glass on the bar. One saloon keeper has large sings printed, bearing the words, "Prices here subject to change without notice." Yesterday a Colored trooper went to the bar with a friend. One took whiskey and the other beer. When they asked "how much?" the bartender replied $1.50 explaining that beer cost 50 cents a glass and whiskey $1 a drink. Helena, Montana, Friday, May 1 1908 Minster's Institute of the A. M. E. Church And Young Peoples Meeting of Montana. May 12 13 and 14. 1908. Great Falls. Montana. N. B. Each pastor will Please notify the Rev. E. D. Abbott of Gt. Falls. The number that will be present, By the first of May. One delegate from each of the following. Sunday school, Literary Society, Allens C. E. League And Church. All Pastors, and Missionarys in Mont of the A.M. E. Church are members. Paper, "The business side of a preacher's life." .....Rev. B. McCully, Billings Topic: "Are the people doing their duty for the church." .....D. G. Bould, House Delegation One hour praise meeting led by.....Rev. J. H. Hubbard 10 A. M. Devotional.....Rev. W. L. N. Baker Bozeman Topic, “How shall we gather in the young and hold them, .....Rev. E. D. Abbott, Great Falls Topic, “African Methodist”.....Helena Delegation Topic, “Choir and Its value to the Church”.....Billings Delegation Topic, “Our Sunday Schools”.....Great Falls Delegation Topic, “Literary and Its value to the Church”.....Butte Delegation 2:30 P. M. Devotional.....Rev. B. McCully, Billings Topic, “Infant Baptism”.....Rev. W. T. Osborne, Helena Topic, “Montana Future Field for Missions”.....Rev. F. P. Greenlee, Butte Topic, “The Spiritual condition of the Montana people”...Rev. Wm. Gillard, Helena “The Fall of MAN”.....Rev. J. H. C. Redd, Havre 7:30 P. M. Song service, led by.....Great Falls Delegation 8 P. M. Preaching.....Rev. W. T. Osbourne, Helen Devotional.....Rev. Wm. Jackson, Havre Topic, "How to get the most good out of the Methodist Hymnal" .....Mrs. W. T. Osborne, Helena Topic, "The Importance of concerted action".....Rev. F. P. Greenlee, Butte Topic, "Best Method for raising Ministers Support".....Rev. J. H. C. Redd, Havre Topic, "Are the Allens C. E. League meeting the purpose of their existence? If not what is the Remedy?".....Rev. W. T. Osborne. A; M. Helena 2 P. M. Allens C. E. League Mass meeting; WHERE SHALL WE HOLD THE NEXT SESSION Rev. J. H. Hubbard, President Rev. W. T. Osborne, Vice-president Mrs. H. E. Redd, Secretary P. E. Osborne, Corresponding Secretary Program Committee. Program Institute of the A. M. E. C. And Peoples Meeting of Montana May 12 13 and 14. 1908. Falls, Montan e. Rev. J. H. Hubbard. Rev. W. T. Osborn. Mrs. H. E. Redd. istor will Please notify the Rev. er that will be present. By the first from each of the following. ool, Literary Society, Allens Cavictors, and Missionarys in Mont PROGRAM FIRST DAY Tuesday, May the 12th 10 A. M. J. H. Hubbard, P. E. 2:30 P. M. Mrs. development in Montana" Mrs. W. of Montana for our People," A. side of a preacher's life," ... Rev. be doing their duty for the church, Mrs. P. C. Ree 7:30 P. M. led by... Anaconda and 8 P. M. Greenlee. Segates. School. PROGRAM SECOND DAY Wednesday May the 13th 9:30 A. M. g led by...... 10 A. M. ...Rev. W. gather in the young and hold them, ...Rev. E. rist"... value to the Church"... schools"... value to the Church"... 2:30 P. M. ...Rev. "...Rev. Field for Missions"...Rev. condition of the Montana people"...Rev. ...Rev. 7:30 P. M. 8 P. M. ...Rev. W THIRD DAY Thursday the 14th 7 A. M. Love feast (the old way lock doors) 10 A. M. Re most good out of the Methodist Hymn Mrs. of concerted action".....Re r raising Ministers Support".....Re C. E. League meeting the purpose of Rev. W. T. 2 P. M. Allens C. E. League Mass meeting; SHALL WE HOLD THE NEXT 8:30 P. M. State Library Helena, Mont. White Goods Department Colossal Purchase of Exquisite White Goods The New York Store acquiring thousands of dollars worth of newest, dainiest and most beautiful of 1908 English white fabrics in charming tints and gatterns 12 1-2c English Checked Nainsook. per yard ..... 8 1-8c 20c India Linen, per yard ..... 18c 30c Persian Lawn, per yard ..... 20c 40c Persian Lawn, per yard ..... 30c 45c Persian Swiss, with satin stripes for waists or dresses per yard ..... 65c 75c Manchester Embroidery Batiste, in checks and stripes per yard ..... 15 20c French Dmity, in stripes or checks, per yard ..... 25c 35c Dotted Swiss, for dresses and waists, per yard ..... 20c 30c French Dimity, in stripes or checks, per yard ..... 25c 35c Beverly Batiste, in plaids or stripes, per yard ..... 40c o e : : 55c Allover Embroidery for Dresses waists, per yard ..... 45 SPECIAL PROGRAM There will be a special program at the St. James Literary next Wednesday eve. and the ladies will serve refreshments in the basement. This program will be free, the ladies who will have charge of the refreshments hope to raise funds for the purpose of sending a delegate to the Institute which meets in Great Falls the 12th Inst. The program presented by Miss M. Johnson last Wednesday eve. was every way a creditable one. Mr. Chas. Cole doing himself especially proud in a solo also Miss Tressa York rendered a very pleasing piano Solo. Miss Clara Howard also favored the society with an instrumental Solo. The society decided to purchase a piano and from now on there will be no trouble about the musical end of programs to be given by the Society. Geo. H. Lee was up this week from Hunters Hot Springs visiting his family. The Grand Annual Plaindealer benefit will be given this year in connection with the first public appearance of the Helena Colored Band probably at the Auditorium, watch for the announcement Grand Minstrels by the Band. J. B. Bass will give the program at St. James Literary next Wednesday, it will be the best that has ever been given. NEWS FROM CHICAGO Rev. Wm. Gray, of this city who has made so much talk about building a home for the aged Baptist Ministers is now out of a church himself. Rev. Gray is unpopular with the people, nobody wants anything to do with him it is reported that he will soon leave the city and go to the Philippine Island and a large number of colored people in this city will be very glad when he takes his departure. Two Sundays ago the Compact Negro Knights Templars of this city turned out but they made a very unfavorable impression upon the people there, was about No.27 fifty-five in number in the possession. It was controlled and directed by one R. E. Moore of this city, another individual by the name of J. W. Moore acted as master of cermonies for the occasion. Mrs. W. T. Carter, of Pittsburg Pa., is in the city on a visit. Rev. D. P. Roberts, Bishop C. H. Shaffer will leave the city next week for the general conference of the A. M. E. Church at Norfolk, Va. Mr. Geo. R. Jackson, of N. Y. Mr. Samuel Green of Rochester, N. Y. are in the city on a visit. The fourteenth annual session of the Imperial Grand Council of Colored Shriners of United States will be held at Staunton, Va. commencing July 13th, 1908. John G. Jones who was the first colored mason in the United States to have the Mystic Shrine degree conferred upon him and a patent of power and authority was given him to institute temples of the mystic shrine in the United States will attend the convention He will be accompanied by Hon, E. H. Morris, T. Webster Brown Abner A. Hodges and A. E. Harper and S. H. Prather who are prominent colored shriners in this city and members of the Imperial Grand Council of the Mystic Shriners of North and South America. Any person coming to the city of Chicago who desires a very nice place to stop at can inquire of Mrs. J. E. Johnson, 3238 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Mrs. Johnson's place has been highly recommended by a large number of colored persons who have already stopped there from time to time. It is reported that John F. Fry, proprietor of the Keystone Hotel in this city will soon sell out his place and go to some other place. From all accounts Mr. Fry seems to be unpopular with quite a number of persons, his departure from Chicago will not be regretted. SLIDE HITS QUEDEC VILLAGE WITH FATAL RESULTS. Thirty of the Population of Notre Dame de Salette Known to Have Perished — Those Who Escaped Were Found Panic Stricken and Preparing to Leave. Buckingham, Quebec, April 28.— Half the little French hamlet of Notre Dame de Salette, 16 miles from here on the Lievre river, disappeared Sunday under a sliding mountain and at least 30 of its small population are known to have perished. The river Lievre winds at the foot of the hamlet and a mountain towers behind it. Heavy rains for days have been melting snow and ice on the mountainside and streams have been coursing down to the river. At 5 Sunday morning, just as the little hamlet began to stir for early mass, part of the mountain started to slide toward the river. It tore a path of death and destruction in its way and those who were not killed when their homes were engulfed were left buried under the mass of rock and earth. Camille Lapoint's house stood first in the path of the avalanche. He and his family of 11 are known to have perished. Eight others, whose names have not been obtained, are missing and the rescuers are attempting to find definitely how many more are missing. Mrs. Desjardiné's cottage also was swept away and she and her two children, a domestic and a hired man are known to be buried in the landslide. With a Roar, It Rushes Down. De Salette, like many hamlets of its kind, rambles into the gardens and little fields on the mountain side, so about half of it was not in the path of the slide. The sliding mass rushed with a roar and spread over a part of the place and dumped itself in the swollen stream at its foot. Cut off from the outside world, messengers were dispatched to Houpere, the nearest hamlet. Those who arrived first estimated that at least a dozen houses were crushed in the path of the landslide. Buckingham was appealed to, but the flight of the messengers across the spring roads was slow. Those first on the scene found De Salette in a panic with the uninjured ones packing their belonging for flight. HIS MIND A BLANK. Washington Man Has Queer Experi ence for Three Weaks. Living for several weeks with his mind an absolute blank, although to all appearances his brain was in a normal state, was the strange psychological experience undergone by George B. Harmon, a rancher of Crescent Wash., who mysteriously disappeared from Spokane on the night of March 15. From the time he was rendered unconscious by a blow on the head from a blunt instrument in the hands of a thug and robbed of $200 in the Division street cut on the night of his disappearance Mr. Harmon remembers nothing until his memory was restored as mysteriously as it had been lost when he fell from a scaffold on a ranch near Helena, Mont., April 21, and sprained his ankle. How he recovered consciousness after being beaten into insensibility by the footpad, where he went afterward and how he came to be working on a ranch in Montana are allike problems which are shrouded in the deepest mystery. RAFFLES BUSY IN FRISCO. Vigilance of Police Foils Bold Attempt at Robbery San Francisco, April 28.—Through the vigilance of Policemen George Sullivan and William Quinn, what is declared to have been a sensational attempt to rob guests at the Hotel Fairmont was checkmated early Monday morning, and two well-dressed men implicated in the attempt were captured after a desperate struggle with one of them and lodged in the city prison. The police believe the men, who gave their names as George McFarland and James Owens, to be society burglars of the cleverest class, and say they are the thieves who entered a room of one of the guests there two weeks ago, through an outside window, and secured more than $200 in cash and gems. Owens fought strentuously to avoid capture, well nigh overpowering Sullivan, who was obliged to fire two shots and call for help. Makes Small Fine. Freeport, IL—In contrast to the $29,000,000 fine against the Standard Oil company, Judge Landis, in the federal court here, fined John Klapp an octogenarian of this city, 1 cent, without costs, for sending a threatening letter through the mails to a tenant who owed him $15. Several specators offered Klapp pennies, one of which he accepted, and he paid the fine and departed smiling. Thousands Idle in Chicago. Ten thousand stranded workingmen are nightly begging lodgings or seeking shelter in the hallways of public buildings and under the structure of elevated railroads, in the parks and elsewhere in Chicago. ABOUT "NIGHT RIDERS" Press dispatches almost daily tell of another "night rider" raid in Kentucky. With change of date and location, one dispatch will serve for each account. A band of men ride into town, burn a tobacco warehouse, hurt somebody that amounts to an interference maybe—and ride out again. Today the Kentuckians are fighting not only for the right to reasonable returns for labor and capital, but for the very right to exist. Their enemy is the most relentless and most complete monopoly with which this country is cursed—the tobacco trust. Having absorbed all American and perfected working agreements with foreign purchasers of raw tobacco, the trust laid its heavy hand on the producer. In 1898, with a greater retail demand than ever before, the price paid the growers began to fall. From that time their income was steadily forced down from 12 cents to 6 cents a pound in a few years—this in a period when labor and living expenses were on constantly ascending scales. The trust finally announced that the growers must sell the 1966 crop for 5-12 cents or go out of business. Many of them chose the latter, as either proposition meant the same thing. The growers finally organized, agreed to sell no more tobacco at less than 15 cents per pound and to permit no other tobacco to be supplied the trust at less than a living rate, if they could help it. That is why "night riders" are burning tobacco sold to trusts and whiping growers who attempt to furnish it. The governor of Kentucky, former attorney for the tobacco trust, stands ready with a veto for remedial legislation that is the basis of a desperate struggle in the legislature. The "night riders" are recruited in the heart of the blue grass region. They are neither ignorant nor lawless. They are fighting as free men will ever fight with the only effective means at hand against injustice and crime their country's legal machinery will not reach. And the best feature of their fight is that they are bringing the trust to terms after holding their crops and starving along for three bitter, discouraged years. MONTANA NOTES. F. H. Mathison, manager of the Amalgamated Copper company at Butte, and William Scott of Helena, state game warden of Montana, are on the Flathead reservation, working as a commission to investigate the plans for the establishment of a fish catchery. Unable to sleep, H. G. James, a wealthy rancher residing at Castle Butte, near Lewistown, wrote a brief note to his wife, stating that he had been unable to get a wink of sleep all night, and then went out into the yard and shot himself through the head with a rifle, dying instantly. Cracksmen in Logan recently entered the saloon of Charles Markin, constructed a small skidway at the rear door, over which the saloon safe was rolled out into the alley, a charge of dynamite placed on the top of it and the entire side of the safe blown out. The bandits escaped with the entire cash contents of the strong box, 8210. Recently, in Great Falls, Mont., an unknown stranger, well dressed, committed suicide in a room of the Lea and lodging house, firing two bullets into his brain. A statement has been issued by E. W. Winstanley, a prominent real estate and insurance man of Missoula, and until a few months ago receiver of the United States land office, charging the misappropriation of nearly 110,000 of public money by Lynde S. Matlin, who has for several years been chief clerk in the office, under the civil service. Coming Events. Eastern Washington and Northern daho Sunday School association, Spokane, May 4-6. Farm demonstration train, Garfield 'olambia and Walla Walla counties May 5-7. Washington State F. O. E., Spokane May 28. Washington State Library association Spokane, June 22-23. Washington State Press association Vancouver, July 16-17-18. Oregon State Press association, Vancouver, July 16 17-18. Spokane District Epworth league convention, Moscow, Idaho, May 22-24. Snow Is Falling in London. London, April 25.—The most remarkable weather for this season of the year experienced in the United Kingdom for several decades has been prevailing this week. Snow has fallen in London every day since Monday, and once it was two inches deep on Hempstead. There have been heavy snowfalls at Bath and Bournemouth. The Newmarket races have been postponed on account of the snow. Nineteen women have been-elected to the Finnish parliament. STORMSWEPTSOUTH HUNDREDS OF PERSONS WERE KILLED DURING ITS SWAY. Whole Business Sections of Towns Wiped Away—Property Destroyed Will Reach Millions of Dollars— East Tennessee Suffered the Most— Mississippi Also in the Path. Between 500 and 1000 persons lost their lives and 1500 were injured in the series of cyclones which swept the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Ala- bama, Tennessee and Georgia the last two days of last week. Millions of dollars' worth of prop- erty has been wiped out and business of the stricken sections has been par- alyzed. The full horror of the catastrophe struck when reports began to pour from all over the stricken states, showing that the disaster was much worse than earlier reports indicated. Every point which has reported the visitation of the cyclone has shown heavy loss of life and property. It is believed that when all the reports are in they will show that not fewer than 1000 persons lost their lives. Telegraph wires are down in all directions and advices are still comparatively meager. The heaviest loss of life is reported from Natchez, Miss., the capital of Adams county and Amite, La., which were stricken Friday afternoon, and from the vicinity of Cedartown, Ga., which was swept by the storm Saturday morning East Tennessee, between - Chattanooga and Knoxville, along the line of the Southern railroad, suffered more severely from a cyclone early Saturday than did west Tennessee and the other portions of the Memphis district, which suffered Friday morning. The present series of windstorms, which are spreading death and destruction in their wake, started Wednesday in Texas, and has moved steadily eastward. Another disastrous cyclone passed through south Mississippi Friday afternoon. Devastation marks the path of the storm. It is impossible at this time to get positive reports, but it is by far the most desolating storm which has swept this section of the country since 1892. Terrible Scenes Follow. Visitors to the storm scene at Purvis, McClain, McLaurin and McCallum bring heartrending reports of infants torn from mothers' arms, children crushed in the debris of falling houses, parents carried away in the twinkling of an eye from those dependent on them for bread. The storm clouds, as usual, seemed to travel in the same general direction—toward northeast. A receipt was picked up on the streets of Ellisville, Miss., signed by a merchant at Dicke, Miss., a hundred miles away. The air was full of floating papers, leaves and twigs. A terrific cyclone is reported on the Mississippi state farm at Parchman, doing great damage. 2500 Houses Razed. The totals of death, misery and ruin caused in four southern states by Friday's tornadoes are now at hand in approximately correct form: Briefly stated, they are: Killed, about 350; injured, painfully and seriously, 1200; homeless, several thousand. Towns reporting serious wreckage, 46; habitations and business houses practically complete ruins in these towns, about 2500. The above figures do not include the wreckage on plantations and farms, scores of which were struck and damaged. The number of dead may never be known, accurately, for the reason that about 300 of them were negroes and they were buried in many communities without careful record being made of their numbers. While some of the first apparently reliable death lists have proven unreliable, nevertheless remote places reporting their dead have served to swell the total death list to around 350. The manner in which this death list has grown for two days in spite of continued subtractions from earlier reports has been a melancholy index of the interstate scope of the disaster. Three Death Currents. By following the wreckage of towns the general direction of the tornadoes can be traced closely. Apparently, the storm struck in three separate currents, each describing the arc of a circle and traveling toward the northeast. The first of these struck through northern Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee before daylight Friday morning. The second appeared further south about 7 o'clock in Louisiana and Mississippi. This apparently was the storm which had swept through Alabama and Georgia on Friday night and Saturday morning. The third portion of the storm appeared during Friday afternoon further south than either of its predecessors. This was the storm which demolished Amite, La., and Purvis, Miss., the towns in which the wreckage was worst. Tornado in Mississippi. Meridian, Miss., April 27.—A disastrous tornado passed through a sparsely settled section of eastern Mississippi south of this city late Sunday. Meridian also was visited by a violent wind, rain and hail storm, much dam- age being done to crops and shrubbery. Timber properties are reported almost devastated. A late report received here says that the timber section of southern Mississippi and the adjacent Alabama territory has again been visited by a heavy storm and much damage done. LATE SPORTING EVENTS. The annual track and field meet between the University of Montana and the Washington State college, at Missoula, resulted in a victory for the Washington school by the close margin of 10 points, the totals being 68 to 58. Honey Mellody has announced, according to eastern reports, that he is through with the ring. Joe Gans, the "culld gent" from Baltimore, is to start his training Tuesday for his battle in San Francisco with Boer Unholz on May 14. The athletes representing Whitman college Saturday afternoon administered an emphatic defeat to the University of Washington men in the dual track meet on the university campus. The final count on points totaled 55 for Washington and 67 for the Missionaries. The shell of the University of California pulled through the smooth waters of Sausalito bay by eight men, all of them over six feet in height, was two and one-half lengths ahead of the shell of the Stanford crew at the finish of the two and one-half mile race. The time was 13 minutes 18 seconds. In the freshmen race over the same course Stanford won by four lengths. Time: 13:28. The day was ideal, the water perfect and the crowd large. Philadelphia.—The character of the performances of hundreds of athletes at the annual relay races and field sports at the University of Pennsylvania were of the highest order. One world's record, that for the pole vault, was broken by W. R. Dray of Yale, 12 feet $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches, and another record was equaled. The University of Pennsylvania won the blue ribbon event of the meet, the one-mile relay race for the championship of the United States. The Michigan four-mile team, which was given the four-mile relay event by default, entered the two-mile national relay championship and won easily. Pennsylvania was second. The one-mile championship, won by Pennsylvania, was anybody's race from beginning to end. The official time was 3:23 4-5. Of the eight special events, Yale and Illinois university each took two firsts, and Dartmouth, Indiana university, Syracuse and Cornell each captured one. Aberdeen, Wash.—"Duff" Millette, a local high school lad, at the track meet this afternoon ran 50 yards in 5-1-5 seconds, establishing a new world's amateur record. Millette also ran 100 yards in 10-1-5. He is 16 years old and weighs about 110 pounds. Speaking to members of the Princeton baseball team Saturday, President Roosevelt sharply criticised the athletic policy of Harvard, his alma mater, as represented by President Elliot and others high in the councils of the university. Berkeley won at baseball Saturday over Stanford by 2 to 1. Louie Long of Spokane and Eddie Santeries of Taft, Idaho, fought 30 fierce rounds to a draw at Taft Saturday night. A big crowd saw the event, many coming from-Wallace on a special train. The result of the four-corned track meet between the high schools of North Yakima, Prosser, Ellensburg and Sunnyside, held in North Yakima Saturday, has not been decided, both North Yakima and Prosser claiming the victory. The decision will depend upon whether or not the winners of the second and third places in the half mile relay will be given points. If three and one points are granted for second and third places, respectively, Yakima will win with 42 points against Prosser's 40. If it is decided that only the first place wins points, then Prosser will win the meet with 41 points against Yakima 40. Surrounded by prison walls and in the presence of 500 people Sunday afternoon, Uncle Sam's team from Fort Walla Walla went down and out before the team of convicts. The penitentiary nine made two circuits of the diamond, while the soldiers never passed third. The game was clean throughout. With a total of seven points, the Seattle Athletic club won the championship boxing and wrestling meet at Portland, which ended Saturday night. Multnomah was second with three, and Spokane and the Olympic club of San Francisco each won one event. New York.-It won 14 innings for Yale to defeat Columbia by 7 to 4 Saturday. The blue practically had the game at its mercy until the local lads struck a batting streak and tied the score. STANDING OF LEAGUE TEAMS. The Coast League. Spokane City League. Bradley's ..... Dodds ..... Cubs ..... U. I. W. ..... Slater & Slater ..... NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. A Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. State Bank Examiner Hofer of Nevada has taken charge of the Rickey banks at Carson, Tonopah, Goldfield, Blair and Manhattan and ordered all business to cease. In San Francisco a plot has been discovered to kill Francis Heney and Rudolph Spreckels. Under suspension of the rules the house has passed a bill readjusting and increasing the salaries of officers and employees in the customs service. Clasping tightly against her breast the severed head of the 5-year-old child that had been decapitated by a trolley car, Mrs. Marion Hutel of New York waited nearly an hour, sitting on the curbstone, while a frantic crowd labored to free the body. Oakland, Cal.-Louis L. Carmin, husband of the woman for whose murder Mark A. Wilkins has been found guilty, died Saturday. His body will be shipped to Carthage, Mo. One hundred pickpockets and strong arm men were rounded up recently by the police as the beginning of a crusade to clean the city of Chicago of crooks before the republican convention. Thomas E. McCune, a painter who had been unable to find employment, locked himself in his room in Chicago and turned on the gas. Naval officers say that, while they appreciate the invitation of the Canadian government to have the Atlantic fleet visit Victoria and Vancouver, this will be entirely impossible, owing to the lack of time. In San Francisco Saturday three Chinamen were shot in an affray on Washington street near Battlett alley in Chinatown in what is presumed to be a renewal of the tong war between the Bing Kong tong and the Hip Sing tong. Naples.—The latest reports regard the affairs of Mme. Gould, the Countess de Castellane that was, and Prince Helle de Sagan is that they have selected Florence as the place where their wedding is to occur. The ceremony is to take place within a fortnight. Death has claimed Clark W. May at Charleston, attorney general of West Virginia, after meeting with an accident two weeks ago, in which his leg was broken. An accident to the engines on the Missouri that occurred Saturday on the run of the fleet from Santa Monica to Santa Barbara, Cal., proved to have been more serious than at first reported. Philadelphia, Pa.—To make death, which he preferred to idleness, doubly sure, Thomas H. Nice, possessor of $500,000, stood on the brink of the Schuylkill river, shot himself in the mouth, and fell into the water. His wealth gone and then his employment as a shipping clerk, which he was forced to take to eke out a meager existence, William H. Meyer, 51 years of age, of Chicago, formerly a rich Milwaukee merchant, ended his life. Moy Back Hin, Chinese consul for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, has received his commission reappointing him to office from Wu Ting Fang, ambassador from China. He lives in Portland. 28 DIE IN GLADIATOR Loss of British Cruiser Is a Severe Blow. London, April 29.—The total number of dead and missing of the Gladiator's crew as a result of a collision between the American liner St. Paul and the British cruiser off the Isle of Wight is 28. The admiralty has issued a revised list of the names of the Gladiator victims, which includes an additional death in the hospital, bringing the total of deaths known up to five. Twenty-three men are missing, according to the list, and six are suffering severe injuries. The secretary of the admiralty expresses fear that there are still eight others missing, but is unable to give the names as yet. Divers today searched part of the sunken cruiser for bodies, but were not successful in finding any. The opinion among shipping men and naval officers and officials appears to be unanimous that the accident was unavoidable, being one of the chances of the sea which all seamen must risk. Evans in Command April 30. Santa Barabara, Cal.—Rear Admiral Thomas, at present commanding the Atlantic fleet, has received a telegram from Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans at Paso Robles Hot Springs saying taht the later would return to the fleet and again hoist his flag on the Connecticut as commander in chief when the ships reach Monterey, on Thursday evening, April 30. Thousands Idle in New York That prosperity has not yet settled her wings over the east is evidenced by a recent canvass made in New York which shows that about 250,000 people in the big metropolis are out of work American Heiress, Theodora Shonts, Prematurely Widowed. Paris.—In the presence of his bride of less than three months, Emmanuel Theodore Bernard Marie d'Albert de Luynes d'Ailly, 'ninth duke of Chaunes and of Piquiny and marquis of Dangeau, died suddenly from heart failure recently in his apartments in the riotel Langham, in the Rue Boo-zodero. The physicians summoned to attend the duke in his sudden seizure of the malady officially gave the cause of death as embolism of the heart The duce de Chaulnes and the duchess, who was Miss Theodora Shonita, youngest daughter of Theodore P. Shonita of New York, were married in New York February 16 of this year. The wedding was a brilliant social function, and the end of the brief honeymoon was sudden and tragic. Since the arrival of the couple here a month ago, they have lived comparatively quietly at the Hotel Lanham, taking an occasional automobile ride in the afternoon and in the evening dining with intimate friends, or going to the theater. The duke for years has suffered from a weak heart and for some time had been the subject of fainting spells. Several times since his arrival here he consulted Dr. Henri Iscosco in an effort to obtain relief from his ailment. Despite all positive denials by relatives and friends of the family, the rumor continues to be persistently circulated here that the death of the Duc de Chaulnes was due to an overdose of morphine, and not to heart disease. Cars Collide, Nine Persons Die Detroit, Mich., April 29.—Two large interburban trolley cars on the Detroit, Jackson & Chicago railroad, a part of the Detroit United Railroad system, running form Detroit to Jackson, collided head-on Tuesday afternoon while running about 45 miles an hour, 25 miles west of here, near Ypsilanti. Nine men were killed and 15 men and women injured, some of them seriously. The severely wounded were taken to the hospital. A mistake of orders on the part of Motorman Issa Fay of the limited motor car, who was crushed to death beneath his vestibule, is alleged to have caused the collision. It is charged he oween his orders. The dead: Motorman Issa Fay, Jackson; John Paget, Detroit; Charles Carmen, Detroit; George E. Howard, D trot; Jack McMullen, tatier, Syracuse, N. Y.; Garberino Gronni, Detroit; three identified men. Four of the injured are in a critical condition. Among the less seriously injured are Edward De Witt, Grand Forks, N. D., and G. W. Reeve, Ohio. STEAL MAIL BAGS WORTH $500,000 London Reports Theft—New York-Den iosis Any Knowledge of it. London, April 30. The London postal authorities have learned that two bags of mail from this city containing securities and other valuables worth $500,000 were stolen in New York the latter part of last month. According to the reports received here, one of the bags was destined for St. Louis and was shipped by the Majestic which arrived in New York on March 26; the other, destined for Brooklyn, was shipped by the steamer Quillah, which arrived at New York March 29. Both bags disappeared in transit between the steamers and the postoffice. It is said that they were handed over to the mail boats and receipted for. Efforts have been made to keep the theft a secret while the investigation is going on. Postal Inspector Mayer of New York said that it was true that a couple of mail bags which had arrived here late in March were missing and as yet unaccounted for, but the authorities here were inclined to believe that the absence of the bags were due to an error. He said he thought they had probably been wrongly labeled. GIVES WIFE TO HER AFFINITY Waterville, Maine, April 14—William H. Sturdivant of Oakland, says that if his wife, Lillian Sturdivant, thinks more of A. J. Ponsant than she does of him, she is welcome to him. In proof of his willingness to acquiesce in Mrs. Sturdivant's preference, Sturdivant actually hitched up his gray mare to the carry-all and drove his wife and Ponsant to Waterville station, where they departed on the Boston express. Sturdivant is 70 years old and his wife 30. They were married nine years ago. LATE NEWS NOTES The funeral of Edward F. Osborne, the conductor on the Great Northern, who was killed Monday, was buried last Wednesday at Garfield. J. D. Brown appeared before the grand jury at San Francisco and made a complete confession as to the bank failure. The opera house at Milton, Oregon, burned to the ground last Monday. Close One-Pupil School. After being in session two years, with an attendance of only one pupil, the smallest school in the world, located in Sampson, Wis., closed Saturday. The one pupil will be sent to a New Auburn school and his tuition paid by the school board. S.S.S. CURES MALARIA Malaria is due to impurities and poisons in the blood. Instead of being rich, strong and healthy, the circulation has become infected with germs of disease which destroy the rich, red corpuscles that furnish nourishment and strength to the body, and reduced this vital fluid to such a weak, watery condition that it is no longer able to keep the system in health, or ward off the countless diseases and disorders that assail it. The loss of these red corpuscles takes the color and glow of health from the cheek, and we see pale, sallow faces and washed out, chalky complexions among the first symptoms of Malaria. But Malaria is a general systemic disease, and as the blood becomes more heavily loaded with its germs we have more serious and complicated symptoms; the impure blood having its effect on all parts of the body. The appetite fails, digestion is weakened, chills and slight fever are frequent, and the sufferer loses energy and ambition because of a constant tired-out and "no account" feeling. The lack of necessary nour- pulses, and salutes of all colors. S. S. S. goes down into the circulation and removes every trace of impurity or poison, and at the same time gives to the blood the health-sustaining qualities it needs. It cures Malaria thoroughly and permanently because it removes the germs and poisons which produce the disease, and while doing this tones up and strengthens every part of the system. When S. S. S. has cleansed the blood the symptoms pass away, the healthy color returns to the complexion, the old tired, depressed feeling is gone, and the entire health is renewed. Book with information about Malaria and any medical advice free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. Manufacturer; WILSON IMPROVED STEEL FRAME ADJUSTABLE HORSE POWER; IMPROVED ROLLER FEED MILLS; four sizes; THRESHERMAN'S TANKS; DRAPERS, any size, to order; GENERAL THRESHERMAN'S SUPPLIES. All Humors Are impure matters which the skin, liver, kidneys and other organs cannot take care without help. of without he Pimples, bolls, eczema and other eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired feeling, bilious turns, fits of indigestion, dull headaches and many other troubles are due to them. They are removed by Hood's Sarsaparilla In usual liquid form or in chocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs. 100 doses $1. Tile Drainage is a profitable and permanent investment and pays the highest rate of interest possible. It will improve your property tenfold. Our free booklet tells all about it. Get our neighbors together and buy a carload lots direct from us, taking advantage of our cut prices and favorable terms. Denny Renton Clay & Coal Co., Lowman Bldg., Seattle. Ask for Inland Crackers and get the best. NOT MADE BY THE TRUST Holland butter is being imported into Chile and sold at 45 cents United States gold a pound, while the Chiloar product is sold for 50 cents a pound. S.S.S. Malaria is due to impurities and po rich, strong and healthy, the circulatic disease which destroy the rich, red coro strength to the body, and reduced this condition that it is no longer able to k the countless diseases and disorders red corpuscles takes the color and gle see pale, sallow faces and washed out symptoms of Malaria. But Malaria the blood becomes more heavily loaded and complicated symptoms; the input of the body. The appetite fails, dig fever are frequent, and the sufferer lo constant tired-out and "no account" ishment and healthful qualities in the blood causes boils and abscesses, skin infections, and in some cases toes and ulcers to break out, and sometimes the patient is prostrated with a spell of malarial fever which may leave his health permanently impaired. To cure Malaria both a blood purifier and tonic are necessary, in order to remove the cause and at the same time build up the system from its weakened and run-down condition. S. S. S. is the medicine best fitted for this work. It is the most perfect of all blood purifiers, and the purely vegetable ingredients of which it is composed make it the greatest and safest of all tonics. S. S. goes down into the circulatic or poison, and at the same time gives files it needs. It cures Malaria that removes the germs and poisons which this tones up and strengthens every day cleans the blood the symptoms p the complexion, the old tired, depress is renewed. Book with information free THE SWIT Girls Found in Opium Dens. New York.-Eight young women, who, the police say, are members of wealthy families, climbed down rope ladders from the second and third story windows and made their escape when a luxuriously furnished opium den was raided in Walton street, Williamsburg. Three girls and two men were arrested. COFFEE Your grocer must sell poor coffee; we can't all be comfortable; but he needn't sell it to you. Your grocer returns your money if you don't like Schilling's Best; we pay him. Present operating costs for the movement of every car and engine in the country total $1,400,000,000 in one year. By electrification this would be reduced by about $250,000,000, representing that much actual and net saving. Does Your Heart Beat Yes. 100,000 times each day. Does it send out good blood or bad blood? You know, for good blood is good health; bad blood, bad health. And you know precisely what to take for bad blood-Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Doctors have endorsed it for 60 years. One frequent cause of blood blood is a sluggish liver. This produces constipation. Poisonous substances are then absorbed into the blood. Keep the bowels open with Ayea's Pills. MADE ON J. G. AYER FO., LOWELL, Mass. Also mailed directs of HAIR VIGOR. AGUE CURE. CHERRY PECTORAL. We have no secrets! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. CURES MALARIA poisons in the blood. Instead of being infection has become infected with germs of orpuscles that furnish nourishment and this vital fluid to such a weak, watery keep the system in health, or ward off that assail it. The loss of these glow of health from the cheek, and we but, chalky complexions among the first a is a general systemic disease, and as added with its germs we have more serious pure blood having its effect on all parts digestion is weakened, chills and slight loses energy and ambition because of a feeling. The lack of necessary noun During 1900 I was running a farm on the Mississippi river and became so impregnated with Malaria that for a year I was almost a physical wreck. I tried a number of medicines recommended as blood purifiers, chill curcs, and Malaria eradicators, but nothing did我 any good until I began to use S. S. S. The result was that after taking it for awhile I was as well and strong as I ever was. I have never had a chill since the northest symptom of Malaria. I hope others will be benefited by my experience, and with that end in view I give this testimonial, knowing that S. S. S. is the best remedy for Malaria. Amory, Miss. S. R. COWLEY. ction and removes every trace of impurity to the blood the health-sustaining quality thoroughly and permanently because it which produce the disease, and while doing any part of the system. When S. S. S. has pass away, the healthy color returns a stressed feeling is gone, and the entire health on about Malaria and any medical advice SIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA It has not been our object to build a machine to meet the demands of the grain growing sections of the world, but for twenty years we have used our best efforts toward perfecting a Separator to Handle Crop Conditions Peculiar to this Section, as to grain saving and capacity equaled by no other machine. WESTERN GRAIN LEE BAY WIND STACKERS. STEEL FRAME ADJUSTABLE HORSE POWER; S, four sizes; THRESHERMAN'S TANKS; L THRESHERMAN'S SUPPLIES. RT HUNT CO, WALLA WALLA, WASH. LAS $350 Y. CHILDREN. Chairman Tawney Makes Statement About Bill—Is far Greater Than Ever Before—Hard Times Causes Revenues to Fall Off—Isthmus of Panama Gets Nearly $30,000,000. The sundry civil appropriation bill was reported to the house Saturday by the appropriations committee. It carries $105,715,369. The following statement of the bill was authorized by Chairman Tawney: The estimates submitted by the different departments of the government for sundry civil expenditures for the next fiscal year far exceed the estimates for like expenditures in any previous year in our history, aggregating $141,284,366. These estimates were prepared for submission to congress last September, when the revenues of the government were far in excess of current expenditures. Before congress convened the financial stringency came on, resulting in a material failing off in the government revenues. This necessitated a thorough examination of the estimates with a view of ascertaining the amounts actually required to continue the service usually provided for in the sundry civil bill, and also to continue the public works previously authorized until the next appropriations shall become available. Estimate Is Less. As a result of hearings and investigations the committee has reported the bill to the house carrying in the aggregate $105,715,369, being $35,568,997 less than the estimates submitted by the departments. The amount recommended by the committee is ample to provide for continuance during the next fiscal year of all the public service usually provided for in the sundry civil bill and for continuance of all public works heretofore authorized until the next appropriations become available. This reduction of more than $35,000,000 in the estimates submitted for sundry civil expenditures, together with the reductions that have been made by the appropriations committee in other bills in which that committee has jurisdiction, aggregate almost $75,000,000 below the estimates submitted by the various departments outside of the estimates for army and navy expenditures. For Isthmian Canal. Included in the appropriations recommended in the sundry civil bill is the sum of $27,627,000 for the isthmian canal, which amount is reimbursable to the treasury from the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized. The aggregate carried by the bill is $5,327,631 less than the amount appropriated by the sundry civil bill for the current fiscal year. The bill carries for public buildings—including marine hospitals, quarantine stations, annual repairs, heating apparatus, vaults, safes and locks—$2,182,375; and for the improvements of rivers and harbors under contract authorizations $17,692,645. The total of $105,715,369 is $1,842,289 more than the total sundry civil appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908. Among the items carried in the bill are the following: Millions in Salaries. Life saving service, $2,268,857; current expenses of revenue cutter service, $1,504,000; engraving and printing, $3,354,758; interstate commerce commission, $935,000, an increase of $106,755 over the current year. Assistant custodians and janitors for public buildings, $1,688,872; fuel lights and water for public buildings, $1,400,000; expenses of collecting customs, additional to the permanent appropriation of $5,500,000 for that purpose for 1909, $4,500,000, an increase of $500,000; public health and marine hospital service, $1,299,750, an increase of $137,000; quarantine service, $400,000. Immigration station at San Francisco, $185,000; lighthouses and establishments, $5,194,000; coast and geodetic survey, $996,290; bureau of fisheries, $783,000; enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act, $500,000. Expenses of collection of revenues from sales of public lands, $1,439,220; surveying public lands, $479,000; geological survey, $1,085,520, a reduction of $339,500, which includes the omission of $100,000 for gauging streams; education in Alaska, $175,000; government hospitals for the insane, $370, $60, a reduction of $55,000. Cut Armory Estimate. Armories and arsenals, $484,715, a reduction of $151,375; buildings and grounds in and around Washington, D. C., $203,450; expenses for the executive mansion, $78,000, including $25,900 for traveling expenses of the president; improvement of rivers and harbors under contract authorizations, $17,692,645, an increase of $11,299,915; national cemeteries, headstones, etc., $322,110; buildings at military posts, $800,000; erection of barracks and quarters for the coast artillery, $1,987,260, an increase of $737,260. 1,198,100 Military prison at San Francisco, $100,000; Fort William McKinley, $180,204; improvement of Yellowstone park, $65,000; road in Mount Rafinier park, $50,000; antical military parks, Pure Wholesome Those who believe in quality use KC BAKING POWDER 25 Ounces for 25 Cents Made from pure, carefully tested materials. Get a can on trial You never saw such cakes and biscuit. They'll open your eyes. 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. 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In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. $295,650; survey of northern and southwestern lakes, $265,000; artificial limbs, $300,000, an increase of $230,000; national home for disabled volunteer soldiers, including the volunteers in the war with Spain, $350,000, a reduction of $50,000; the unexpended balance of the fund for enforcing the anti-trust laws is reappropriated and is increased $250,000; expenses of United States courts, $7,349,660, an increase of $837,840; publishing and binding, $5,559,700, an increase of $115,000; continuing construction of the isthmian canal, $27,627,000, an increase of $465,632. It is provided in the bill that all funds hereafter derived from customs duties collected upon property of the United States imported from the canal zone are appropriated to the construction of the isthmian canal. 40% to 50% Per Annum An established manufacturing business in Spokane is offering a limited block of its treasury stock for sale to procure funds for enlarging its plant. It is running constantly at its full capacity, but is unable to till more than a small portion of the dollars in stock. A monopoly of the known raw material west of the Rocky mountains, together with the fact that the freight rate on this class of goods from the east is more than the cost of manufacture here, gives the company a fast-growing field, and makes dividends of 40 to 50 per cent per annum seem certain. The company is managed by well known Itzens of Spokane and vicinity, has always armed large profits, and corollary involves the fullest investigation of the business, with a really high class investment, with none of the elements of speculation, write at once to the Spokane Pottery Co., 24 Ziegler block, Spokane, Wash. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarch. Hall's Catarch Cure is the only positive eurenow knowled to medical fraternity. Catarch being a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarch Cure is also internally acting directly upon the blood and nervous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the function of the disease, and giving to the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have no more, than in its native powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Sold for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggets, 75e. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Uses Phone System. It was announced at the Rock Island headquarters that telephones will be installed to displace operators over the entire system. Dispatchers will be maintained at division points. The Kansas division will be the first equipped by July 1. The cost on this division will be $10,000. VACANT GOVERNMENT LANDS. BLUE PRINT MAUS OF STEVENSON county showing all vacant government land $2.50. Township blue prints of Stevens Ferry, Okanogan, Douglas and Chelan counties, $1 per township. Frank R. Corbaley S5 Washington street, Spokane, Wash. Admiral Robley D. Evans was graduated from the naval academy in 1863 and was engaged in the United States navy in the civil war, taking part in both attacks on Fort Fisher. 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Habitual Constipation May be permanently overcome by proper personal efforts with the assistance of the one truly beneficial laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna which enables one to form regular habits daily so that assistance to nature may be gradually dispensed with when no longer needed as the best of remedies, when required, are to assist nature and not to supplant the natural functions, which must depend ultimately upon proper nourishment proper efforts, and right living generally, to get its beneficial effects, always buy the genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. ONLY SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS one size only, regular price 504 per Bottle New England Against Saloons. Conditions governing traffic in intoxicating liquors in many portions of New England will become considerably disturbed on the first of May, when changes in local option take effect and temperance workers are pointing to the general situation as an index of spreading sentiment against the saloon. In Vermont only 28 cities and towns will legalize the sale of liquor this year, as compared with 92 licensed cities and towns five years ago. It is estimated that about 2000 men were employed in the places which will have to close the ensuing year. Swallowed Needle in 1868. Iowa City, Iowa, April 29.—Stephen Yoder, a pioneer farmer of Johnson county, is dead as the result of swallowing a needle 40 years ago. Surgeons could not fathom the mystery of his recent death, and an autopsy was held today. The needle was found between his stomach and liver. He was 60 years old. Anti-Race Track Sunday. Sermons voicing a protest against the race track evil will be preached in over 2000 churches of California next Sunday morning, the plan having been elaborated by the Anti-Race Track league recently organized in Berkeley. May 3 is to be known all over the state as "anti-race track Sunday." Close C. P. R. Shops; Dispute. The Canadian Pacific railway shops closed down Saturday night and will remain closed until the new terms proposed by the company are accepted. A strike appears to be imminent. Lead pencils were first made in the United States in 1811 by William Monroe, at Concord, Mass. Gophers, Sage Rats and Prairie Dogs annually devastate our fields of growing grain. Their number 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. 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Send for our price lists in which we illustrate and describe hundreds of make shipments everywhere throughout the West, and guarantee absolutely safe delivery. Price lists mailed free, with in-print order to order. We have only one price. A thousand bargains. Write today. O. B. WILLIAMS CO. 1610 Western Avenue, Seattle, Wash GLOBE BUILDING PAPER is of a light cream color, easy to handle and perfectly odorless. It is thoroughly waterproof and is the strongest, best and cheapest sheathing paper on the market. GET A SAMPLE AT YOUR DEALER'S, ALSO OF A1 BLACK BUILDING PAPER, ACID AND WATER PROOF. WHEN writing to advertisers please mention this paper. LOGALS Trade with the Helena Packing Company. Mr. W. C. Rose was a very wel come visitor in the city this week, he has been absent from his home for so long that it was like old times to see him around. He has a big contract at Taft Mont. hauling freight which will last until September after which he is contemplating going on another contract over in Canada. Dave Knott is over from Great Falls on a visit. Mr. Chas. Denwiddie is a new arrival in the city from Colorada Springs, He is a paper hanger and painter by trade and will make this his future home. Mr. Wm. Knott of Topeka Kan. arrived in the city Tuesday morning, Mr. Knott is a Tenor Singer and comes to take part in one of our local quartettes. The Colored Band is making excellent progress and in no far distant time will be ready to play in public. Mrs. D. H. Harris is reported on the sick list. H. C. Simmons is now a full fledged West Side Park Tender. Mrs. J. B. Bass will take an extended trip in the east on or about June 1st she will visit her daughter at Western University at the commencement on June 4th and with her will visit relatives and friends in Missouri and Kansas returning to Helena about Sept. 1st. SMOTHERED IN DEBATE The great debate which taken place at St. James Literary on last Wed. eve. was fully up to expectations and a large crowd was out to hear it, the question for discussion was; "Resolved that slavery was a benefit to the Negro Race" Rev.W. T. Osborne assisted by J.W.E.Clark represented the affirmative and J.B Bass assisted by W. D. Cole had the negative, it was a battle royal between these gentlemen all of whom acquitted themselves creditably and presented their side in a forcible and able manner. Osborne and Bass as leaders respectively rose to the heights in rhetorical and oratorial effort and all through their addresse, the large crowd present was worked up to a high pitch of enthu siasm, the judges after diliberation Time Certificates of Deposit when issued to you may be kept In Your Possession You may negotiate them by endo ing to the bank, should you prefer holding them until due. On time six or twelve months we Pay You 4% Interest per annum. 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Those present were: Misses Rebecca Palmer, Mamie Walton, Vera Simmons, Pearl Palmer, Frances Anderson, Florance Anderson, Sarah Green, Minnie Johnson, Fannie Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Anderson, Madams M. A. Cole, E. G. Cole, Wm. Gaillard Merssers Chas Cole, B. B. Jones Senator Murrill, C. H. Thompson, J. L. Ellis. A very surprising party wasgiven at the residence of Mrs. M. A. Cole 225 Breckenridge St. last Thurs. eve. in honor of her son Ward. The eve. was spent by playing cards and dancing up until 11;30 when Mrs. J. L. Ellis presented to Mr. Cole a beautiful wax doll dressed in a lovely white satin bridal gown with a long veil decorated with apple blossoms. After which Sandwiches, Chicken Salad, Coffee Ice Cream and Cake were served. After which Miss Pearl Palmer played Home Sweet Home when one and all joined in congratulating Mr. Cole and his mother on the bride. Mr. J. L. Ellis and Miss Walton was the Host and Hostess. Survey J. E. Ellis and Miss Walton was the IIost and Hostess. Those present were;- Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. E. B Jones; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Ellis, Misses M Johnson, V Simmons, P Palmer, M Walton, R Palmer, Madames M. A. Cole, F Anderson, Banks E. G. Cole, Mersses W. D. Cole, D Gordon, L Foreman, A Palmer, Gus Mason, Jno. Reed, Chas. Cole. Mr. Lewis Alberts was over from Great Falls Tuesday, he came over to take the examination for engineer ing which he successfully passed. Mr. N. M. Marlow of No 31 State St. who has been very low with the pnuemonia is now convalescent. of Deposit except ion endorsement without com- prefer to use them instead of time certificates issued for erest money in this way you run t. Safe and sure for out of E Trust Co. J. W. D. GOLE. der of last A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit a bicycle billed for us. Our agents everywhere are for full particular use only. We are not limited until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship without a cent deposit in advance, prepay freight, and receive a tax credit. You may ride the bicycle and if you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to kick us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. The highest grade bicycle it is possible to make on one small price. We can save $10 by burying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone receive our catalogue and learn our unheard of factory special offers to rider agents. NISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and our super models at the wonderfully this year. We sell the highest price of this year. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. We sell all our bicycles under your own name plate at the day receipt. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out or sell. We distribute list mailed free. Rented chain stores and pedals, parts, repairs and half the usual retail prices. PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 80 PIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY WANTED—A RIDER sample Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle making money fast. Write for full price! NO MONEY REQUIRED until you do so. Where in the U.S. without allow TEN DAYS FREE TRIAL put it to any test you wish. If you are keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our FACTORY PRICES at one small price to $3 middlemen's profits by buying and selling it until you receive our e prices and remarkable special offers to YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED w low prices we can make you this year. W the factory. We are sat BICYCLE DEALERS you must our prices. Orders filled the day receive usually have a number of BICYCLES. We do not prompt at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. single wheels, imported roiler equipment of all kinds at half the use $8.50 HEDGETHORN PUNCH SELF-HEALI G TIRES The regular retail price of these tires is $3.50 per pair, but to introduce we will NO MONEY REQUIRED but particular and special offer at once. You receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U, without charge, prince freight, and allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL during which time you will be able to keep your bicycle ship to you. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep your bicycle ship to you at our expense and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES. We furnish a factory price to be given to $8 middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and the manufacturer's profits. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive a factory unheard of factory prices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and MEDUETRAM RECORD BUDGET TIME CO PRODUCER FELD REALING never becomes porous and which closes up small surfaces without allowing the air to escape. We have hundred instances from satisfied customers stating that their tires have been lifted up once or twice in a whole season. We weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the surface. The regular price of these tires is $5.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes, making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.00 per pair. dede same day etter is received. We ship C.O.D. on examined and found them strictly as represented. (thereby making the price $4.65 per pair) if you close this advertisement, we will also send one returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a will find that they will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used, or seen at any price. We then you want a bicycle you will give us your order, since this remarkable tire offer. any kind at any price until you send for a pair of firm-structure-Pro tires on approval and trial at Write for our Fire and Sunday Catalogue which is at about half the usual prices. today. DO NOT TEINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. You do not pay a cent until your orders shipped same day etter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (them making the same per pair if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will not receive a cash hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires you rider easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever ordered at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. hoped same day approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and approved. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby mail WUFLA CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this a nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at O not satisfactory on examination. Tires are perfectly reliable bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find it was better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have know that you will be well pleased that when you want We want you to send us a trial order or you need WE want you to send us a trial order don't buy any kind of IF YOU NEED TRES Hedgethorn Puncture the special introductory price above; or write for our describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires DO NOT WAIT or but write us a postal today. DO NOT WAIT or a pair of tires from anyone we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY. IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of Hedgehog Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted by me, or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catak que which describes and quotes all makes and kinds at the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal message. DO NOT WINNED BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. Mrs. James Crump who has been visiting in Portland Ore. for the past few months returned to the city on last Friday eve. much improved in health. Mr. James Yancey and Butler of Butte were visitors in Helena last Sunday. Mr. H. B. Jacobs went to Butte last week. A GARD OF THANKS. Through the columns of the Plain Dealer, I take great pleasure in extending acard of thanks toall ofthose who so kindly rendered their service to us during the illness of our Husband and Father and also those who did us the honor to call and offer their service, very glad to inform you that he is able to be out again. Hoping to remain very truly yours Mrs. M. A. Marlaw. Lucius C. Foreman. SURPRISE PARTY ON MRS. JAS. GRUMP. A suprise party was giving in honor of mrs. Crump last Wed. eve when many of her friends came in on her unsuspecting and taken the house by storm. A very enjoyable eve. was spent light refreshments were served. mrs. Crump has been for the past four months out on the coast for her health, she returned much improved and all were very glad to see her again. WILL HAVE A LODGE ELKS Last Sunday Jim Yancey made good on that long expected and promised trip to explain the proposition of accruing here in Helena a lodge of Colored Elks. He met many of our citizeng and at a meeting Sunday night he outlined in a business like manne the requirements to get up a lodge here the same was very satisfactory and the prevail- NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS TROUBLE will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs now over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and durable and lined inside with $SPECULATION$. $SPECULATION$ ing sentiment was that a lodge would be set up in a short time. Mr. Yancey was accompanied by Mr. Geo. Butler the exalted ruler of the Butte Lodge. Who proved himself a jolly good fellow and the team Yancey and Butler made good. HAVRE NOTES. HAVRE NOTES. Mrs. Sadie White entertained her friends with abeautiful Easter party Monday eve. atthe residence of Mrs Thomas Preston on 3rd Ave. The decorations were roses and Ferns Four tables of whist were played--Miss Viola Spaulding won a lovely vace, and Mr Chas. Conley won a Japanese paper holdes, which were the first prizes, Mrs. Preston Cottomua won the second prize a beautiful China dish and Mr. O.R.D. Wilborne abronze and crystal ink stand The baby prize was won by Mrs. Conley and Mr. A. W. Steward. Delicious refreshments were served consisting of shrimp salad, ton gue sandwitches, olives coffee, and whipped cream cake and ice cream The tables were then removed and dancing was indulged in until a late hour. Mr. Richmond Jones playing the piano in his best style. Among those who were present were mr. and mrs. Barnes, mr. and mrs. Cottomus, mr. and mrs. P. C. Redd, mr. and mrs. Lawson, mr. and mrs. Conley, misses Lorena Spaulding, Viola Spaulding, Ruth Lawson, mersses A. W Steward, O.R. D. Wilborne, Chas Conley, M. Murry. All beparted declaring Mrs. White a most perfect hostess. mr. and Mrs. Emanet Reed and family have moved to Belt where they will make that their permanent home. Mr. John Gainey of Great Falls, was a welcome visitor to our city Thursday. Viola Spaulding and Ruth Lawson, high school students are enjoying a vacation for a couple of weeks on a account of school being closed for the illness of Prof. Troy Mrs. Mattie Tibbs has been on the sick list for the past week. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent trim cutting. This makes any other make-SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. REAL PANAMA KAYS ```markdown ``` New Shapes $ 50 THE MALLORY CRAVEN Soft and Stiff Hats are the best we Sell Them. MART, SCHAFFNER & M. FINE CLOTHES GANS & KLEIN, ESTABLISHED 1868 RY CRAVENETTE Hats are the best, ell Them. FFNER & MARX CLOTHES, KLEIN,CO. ISHED 1866 THE MALLORY CRAVENETTE Soft and Stiff Hats are the best, We Sell Them. MART, SCHAFFNER & MARY FINE CLOTHES GANS & KLEIN,CO ESTABLISHED 1866 Helena PACKING - AND - PROVISION - GO wholesAle OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY, FRUIT, BUTTER PROVISION - COMPANYlesAleRY, FRUIT, BUTTER & EGGSGENTRAL BEER HALL PACKING AND PROVISION COMPANY wholesale OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY, FRUIT, BUTTER & EGGS AND RESTAURANT Henry Rossman Proprietor. Telephone 156 118 S. MAIN ST. - Helena, Mont. Joseph Richards The Butte Undertaker 15-19 South Montana Street. Ind. Phone 1307 Office Always Open BUTTE, MONT. Furnished Rooms or Houses by the Day, Week or Month Apply 115 East Cutler Street Helena, Montana SILVER CITY CLUB, C. DUMAS, MGR. Billiard and Pool Tables in Conne ction. All Appointments UP-TO-D.ATE. 38 1/2 E. Park Ave Butte, Mont. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT Inquire 221 Breckenr dge St. Mrs. M .A. Cole. Eugene Bourquin Dealer in Sawed and Split Wood and COAL. Yard, 437 W. Main St. Residence 370 Water St. 'Phone 632-F. Helena, Mont. --- Shapes 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. C. J. Bausch, TIN, COPPER and SHEET IRON WORK Stove and Furnace work a Specialty. Strangers visiting the Capital City will be given a hearty welcome at all times at the Manhattan Club. 17 South Main Street Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut Glass and Novelties $ 5.00