Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vo1 II Published Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. J. B. BASS, . . . EDITOR Subscription $2.00 per year, Strictly in Ad- vance. Advertising Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter April 12 1906, at the Post Office at Helena, Montana under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 Address all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PEACE! PROSPERITY!! UNION!!! IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. For President! WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT of Ohio Of New York Presidential Electors: W. F. GALLICK, of Silver Bow C. S. WARREN, of Silver Bow PAUL McCORMICK of Yellowstone The triumph of William Howard Taft is only about 10 days distant. We can hardly, this week, discern the politics of the Topeka Plaindealer, from the write ups therein. A. P. Heywood should and will receive the united support of the Afro-Americans for judge of the district court. The Negro Bryan and Kern club of this city seems to have died a borning. AFRO-AMERICAN VOTERS ATTENTION! NATIONAL TICKET Democrats Attempting to Use Negro Electors as Cat Paw Progress of the Race Under Republican Rule William J. Bryan and his national democratic campaign committee are covertly attempteing to secure the support of the negro voters. I nthis extremity to force M. Bryan's election upon country, his campaign managers find themselves close to a powder magaizine. They fully understand the attitude of democrats in southern states on the negro question, and know that these democrats would rebell against affiliation with negroes. Mr. Bryan and his managers, however, are hopeful that they may utilize a certain portion og the negro votes in northern democratic states, and even in northern republican states, without its being discovered by the democrats of the south. It would be interesting to know in detail just what Mr. Bryan and his managers areo offering negroes in exchange for their votes. If it be patronae, thes outh democrat wil have a reckoning on that score at a later day. If patronage has been promised with no intention of keeping the promise, Mr. Bryan and his managers would stand discredited as trickesters and political swindlers. If not patronage, the only other offering would be money, and it cannot be believed that Mr. Bryan would indulge in that kind of thing. The truth is, Mr. Bryan and his managers have nothing to offer, the negro in exchange for his vote. They cannot give the negroes office, and they would not dare give them anything else, even if the negro would be willing to accept it. Though seeking votes, Mr. Bryan does not dare publicly to declare his views on questions that affect the negro race. Bruce L. Keenan, of Tahlequa, nominee for presidential elector on the republican ticket in Oklahoma, addressed not along ago a letter to Mr. Bryan that put the latters sincerity to a severe test. Mr. Bryan received the letter, but did not reply to it. Keenan pledge himself to vote for Mr. Bryan if the latter would make public his views on any following proposals. Mr. Keenan's offer was as follows: No. 1. State if you approve in a general way the course of southern sentiment on the race question, as indicated by constitutional and legislative enactments on the suffrage question respecting franchise, and if you would approve a change in the national constitution so that this program could be said to be within and not with out the constitution. If you approve this course of your southern allies I wil support you for having the courgae to say so: if you do not approve this course of the "solid south," and will say so, I wil suport you for having the courage to tell them wherein they are wrong. The thirteenth amendment to the federal constitution abolished slavery; the fourteenth, gave civil rights to the freed people; the fifteenth prohibited suffrage on disqualification on account of race. No.2 If you believe these amendments incorrectly prescribed the political and civil rights of the negro race, and will indicate the error, I will support you for having the courage of your convictions to speak on the subject. On the other hand if you believe that these amendments correctly define the civil and political rights of the negro race, then I will support you for having the courage to say so. No. 3. If you will give your approval to Oklahoma Senate Bill No. 1, declaring that the immediate safety and peace of the state of Oklahoma depends upon separating the negro from the white men and the Indian in railroad waiting rooms and passenger coaches, then I will support you provided you will have the courage at the same time to say why you never thought it neces ary to advocate the "jim Crow" railroad laws and separate schools in your own state of Nebraska. No. 4. If you believe there is a negro issue in the south, and define what that issue is so that there may be a moderately fair understanding of the issue, then I will support you for the courage you maw have in such a task. No. 5. If you wil come to the south and make speeches to the negroes on the issues of political economies, or if you will have published address along the line of your interview, appealing to the negro for his support on the question of the tariff, for example and will circulate these political documents, among the colored race to influence his vote by "appealing to his intelligence os well as his patriotism," then I will vote for you for this act of high devotion to duty. Helena, Montana, Friday, Octeb r 23 1908 FOR STATE TREASURER The republican candidate for State Treasurer is the Hon. E. E. Esselstyn of Billings, and in his candidacy they have a man of whom any citizen might well feel proud to assist by their support, he is a wide awake progressive citizen who has come up to the high ranks which he occupies in the party by hard work and at all times has rendered his service to the party both at home and abroad. All classes of our citizenship will rally to his support, the colored citizens of Billings say that he has always and at all times has been a staunch friend of the race and its progress, and there were none who are more enthusiastic for his election than they are. The following is a sketch from the Billings Gazette commenting on his candidacy: The proof of true friendship is what one's friends will do to help one without solicitation. Elmer E Esselstyn of this city was the recipient of such a favor at the Republican state convention held in Helena last month. Without his knowledge his name was presented and carried through the convention like a whirlwind showing how the delegates from every section of the state felt about the eastern Montana man who has made such an enviable record. His friends here received the news with joy and offered congratulations to Mr. Esselstyn, who was taken completely by surprise and yet was pleased to think that the Republicans neid him in such high regard. Mr. Esselstyn has had a FOR JUDGE OF BIA A.P. Hey Wood Canidate for FOR JUDGE OF BISTRICT COURT FOR JUDGE OF BISTRICT COURT [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. Two years ago the Plaindealer made an extraordinary fight for the election of A. P. Heywood for county attorney. We said then that we believed if elected he would fill that office both with credit to himself and to the county. How well that prophecy has been filled, has been amply exemplified by the splendid record which he has made in that position during the past two years. He has been eminently successful as a prosecutor and as an advisor for the various county officers. At the same time he has never been anyone. So faithful and has he filled this position to republicans by an almost famous vote in the county convention nominated him an exalted position of judge, district court. We believe as we did two years ago elected he will make one best judges which has evided over the judicial de of the county, he is a your who has came up, by his dividual effort, and he beli justice to all and by giving our united support on No known to appress or prosecute we cannot err. known to appress or prosecute we cannot err. splendid career. Coming to Montana in 1887 from Watertown Wis., he became associated with the mechanical department of the Northern Pacific railroad. He worked as a clerk in the office of Master Mechanic Angus Brown and later entered the operating department of the road as a locomotive fireman. He remained until the local officials of the road recognized his ability and transferred him to the purchasing department as coal inspector with headquarters in Red Lodge. Mr. Esselstyn made hundreds of friends in the metropolis of Carbon county and accepted the nomination for clerk of the district court in Carbon county in 1899, filling the position until 1904, when he was re-elected. In the Government Service Mr. Esselstyn resigned as clerk of the district court in 1906 to accept the position as register of the United States land office in this city. He resigned that place last August to become general agent of the Owl Creek Coal company. Mr. Esselstyn decided to remain out of politics for all time when he left the registry office, and to devote his talents to private business interests. But when people know that a man is sincere and honest; they want him for their service. The office of state treasurer is one where the utmost trust and fidelity must be placed in the man elected to such a position. Such a man is Elmer E. Esselstyn, who has always made good and never betrayed a trust given to him by any man. DISTRICT COURT for Judge of District Courr. anyone. So faithful and well has he filled this position that the republicans by an almost unanimous vote in the county convention nominated him for the exalted position of judge of the district court. We believe now as we did two years ago that if elected he will make one of the best judges which has ever presided over the judicial destinies of the county, he is a young man who has came up, by his own individual effort, and he believes in justice to all and by giving him our united support on Nov. 3rd, we cannot err. The New York Dry Goods Store. Helena, Mont. SPECIAL OCTOBER FUR SALE Our Redoubled Efforts Make This The Most Exceptional Money Saving Fur Sale Ever Offercb The Discriminating Fur Buyer 4 The candidacy of J. Miller Smith for one of the judgeships on the republican ticket has proved to be a strong one. Well and favorably known and a success in his profession it is conceded the republicans acted wisely in making him one of their nominees. He has been a resident of Helena for 18 years during which [Name] J. Miller Smith Canibate for Juge f the District Court. time we has practiced his profession in this city in 1904 he was appointed as assistant district attorney in the U. S. district court of Montana, resigning on Oct. 1st, this year. Mr. Smith will no doubt receive a hearty support from all our people who have known him since his residence in this city, speaking of him in the highest of terms and are enthusiastic in their support. FOR CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT Judge F. R. Reece who is the Republican candidate for clerk of the district court is making a winning canvass and it is almost a foregone conclusion that he will be triumphantly elected on Nov. 3rd. Judge Reece is not only popular among republicans, there are scores of democrats who are loyally supporting him for this position, he is a man whom all classes can suport feeling that in him they have a friend and hence he will receive on Nov. 3rd a loyal support from all classes, and be triumphantly elected as the next clerk of the District Court. No...39 CARACUL FUR SETS Large pillow Muff a d Stole: Regular $10.00 Values 6.50 MISSESS FUR SFTS Sets Made of imitation Ermine 6.50 CHILDRENS FUR SETS Of brown imitation sqirrel 3.75 BABY FUR SET Angora Fur THE STATE RAILROAD COMMISSION One of the enactments of last republican legislation was that of creating a state railroad commission. When the bill became a law and the members were appointed there was a general recognition of the fact that the first two years of the existence of the board would be largely devoted to getting the body in shape as would assure results later. But the commission owing to the excellent personnel of its members, has done a great deal more then get ready for business. It has done business. Today owing to its work, conditions as regards railroad transportation within the state are better than in any state in the union, where similar bodies have been in existence for many more years. The commission has brought the use in this state of interchangeable mileage books, the first ever used on the Great Northern or Union Pacific, west of Missouri. It has caused the inaugration of as liberal demurage rules as are enjoyed by shippers in any state in the union on lumber, coal coke, lime and other commodities It has brought about an approximate reduction in coal rates on the Great Northern to state point of forty per cent. It has brought about a reduction of lumber rates from 25 to 30 per cent. It has brought a reduction of fruit and vegetables rates of 20 to 24 per cent. It has forced the railroads to cut thartes on grain and on ores, and generally has given the producer and the customer a chance to do business on more favorable terms. There are scores of instances where had it not been for the work of the commission stations which are open today would be closed, and scores of cases where injustices have been rightened. The state railroad commission has more than made good. Two of the men who are responsible With Japanese Escort of Sixteen Battleships It Was Imposing Scene When They Anchored at Yokohama Bay—Japanese Most Royal Entertainers—Everything Is Free to Visitors. Sixteen American battleships, constituting the Atlantic fleet on its peaceful cruise around the world, are at anchor at Yokohama in the bay of Tokio, occupying the position of honor in front of a like number of Japanese men of war, the white hulls of the American vessels making a strong contrast with the somber-hued ones of the Japanese. In the bay, alive with bunting, gaily decorated tugs and steamers loaded with sightseers are steaming to and fro and launches from the shore and the wharves are bearing uniformed officers on their official visits of welcome. Proceeded by its tender, the Yankton, the American fleet entered the harbor in a fog that hung over the bay and dropped anchor at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning, one-half hour later than the time scheduled. The fleet proceeded to its anchorage ground and anchored in four column in front of the Japanese fleet of 16 warships. When anchors were cast a committee representing every department of the Japanese government and accompanied by attaches of various foreign embassies and the mayor of Yokohama boarded the flagship Connecticut and officially welcomed Rear Admiral Sperry, his officers and men to Japan From thousands of flagstairs and buildings and every point in the big city floated the Stars and Stripes and the entire length of miles of street were almost walled with intertwined American and Japanese emblems. The bay itself was fairly aflame with bunting where tugs and steamers, gaily decorated with streamers and pennants, lined the wharves awaiting thousands of excursionists who were going out to meet the fleet. The enthusiasm of the people was evidently sincere, though mixed with the natural curiosity to see the big fighting ships from America, the long and successful cruise of which has marked a new epoch in naval history. Courteous to Foreigners. Foreigners were in the minority i the crowds, but wherever they appeare they were treated with even exceptional courtesy because today to the Japanese all foreigners must be Americans, many of the Japanese being unable to discriminate between Americans and those from other lands. Passing up the coast off Yokohama the first note of real welcome was sounded when a fireworks salute was fired by the America's Friends association, comprised entirely of Japanese who had assembled at Kurihama on the site of Perry's monument. The flee responded by gracefully dipping colors The first item in the reception Monday to the Americans was the departure of Rear Admiral Sperry and the admirals and captains of the fleet for Tokio. They were driven to the station in carriages elaborately decorated with flowers, where they entered a special train at 9 o'clock. Even the carriage of the train were especially prepared for the occasion, having been newly painted and draped with American flags and beautiful decorations, while the interiors were filled with flowers. Along the whole 18 miles of the way to Tokio, through a country interspersed with quaint thatched cottage and native villages, there was a continual ovation to the Americans. Each village school turned out in force, the children waving two flags, an America banner and the emblem of their native land, and every one cheering lustily, Admiral Sperry bowed his response from an open window and his officers waved their hats, while the ladies of the party fluttered flags and handkerchiefs from every window of the train. The trip was one long procession through a line of waving flags. Walls of Singing Children. The wonderful inspiration of the massed children's voices, representative of New Japan, was evidently a part of a carefully thought-out plan. It is the intention of the reception officials to have 1,000,000 school children this week voice the sentiment of the nation's coming generations. On reaching Tokio the train was met by a committee composed of representatives of every department of the government. Secretary Jay of the American embassy and the entire staff from the legation were also on hand to greet the visitors. After the exchange of formal greetings on the station platform a procession was formed and then came a great surprise when the band struck up the national hymn and 10,000 school children massed in a chorus which packed the entire approach to the station, sang the words of the hymn in English. The entire effect of the American naval of ficers walking through the narrow passage and the walls of the children of Japan singing the national air in English was such as to stir the inspiration and enthusiasm of even the weather-beaten commander of the American fleet, who, with his officers, bareheaded, passed along. After 15 minutes of continuous sing- ing the band stopped and the leader stepped out and 10,000 voices cheered again and again the Americans. The American officers were then conducted to carriages in waiting and the work of the day commenced. The admirals were driven to the Shiba palace in the imperial carriages, attended by aides. The 27 captains and commanders were taken to the imperial hotel. Strees Literally Packed. The streets leading to both places were literally packed, hundreds deep, with madly cheering crowds. The effect of the mass of waving flags resembled a sea of red, white and blue. It is said that the return of Admiral Togo to Tokio, after his great victory of the Sea of Japan, did not arouse as great enthusiasm as was manifested today. The admirals received official calls this morning and returned them, after which they called upon Ambassador O'Brien and remained to partake of an informal luncheon at which only the embassy staff and the naval officers were present. This was followed by two garden parties, one at the American embassy and the other at the residence of Baron Iwasaki. At 8 o'clock a dinner was given by the American ambassador at the Imperial hotel. One thousand sailors from the fleet will be brought on special trains daily to Toklo, where every form of entertainment will be provided for them, free of charge. Everywhere the sailors are treated with kindest hospitality. The streets of Yokohama are packed with the "Jackies" of both nations fraternizing and the utmost friendliness and good humor prevails everywhere. The American naval officers say that their reception exceeds anything that they have experienced on their long cruise, but the Japanese say that the reception has hardly commenced. GREAT EDUCATIONAL CONGRESS Greatest Northwest Ever Held to Be at Walla Walla. The greatest educational congress the Pacific northwest has ever held, attended by men whose fame is national, will be held in Walla Walla November 17 and 18, under the auspices of the board of overseers of Whitman college and Walla Walla. Not only will the congress include famous educators, but it will attract scores of the most prominent citizens of Washington, Idaho and Oregon, the invitation to attend extending to all who take interest in the unbuilding of the region. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., famous the country over in the field of education, will be one of the speakers. Dean Alfred Burton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be another. Special trains will be run from various localities in the three states at reduced rates. Special effort is being made to provide for the comfort and to prepare for the entertainment of those who desire to participate. Plan of Higher Education. Effort has been made during the last year to discover whether it was not possible to unite the three states of the Pacific northwest in some educational plan whereby there could be provided some one strong private institution which would supply the demand and would fulfill the requirements for the educational need in this Pacific northwest. It is planned that this institution, while not a substitute for the work of the state institutions, should be made a private institution sufficiently strong to be an assistance to the various state institutions in this region. WOMEN DEMAND RIGHT TO VOTE Delegates, to National Convention of Suffrage Association Talk. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 19.—What woman with the ballot in her hand could do toward alleviating the hardships and suffering in the industrial world, due to injustice and inequalities, was told to the industrial massmeeting at the Star theater Sunday by delegates to the 40th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association. President Anna Shaw said that every human being should be given the opportunity to toil; that God's greatest gift to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his breed by the sweat of his brow. Harriet Stanton Blatch of New York made an eloquent plea for more attention to the industrial training of young girls who are going out into the world to work. She took exception to the expression "lower class," and said that some of the grandest characters she knew had the workshop for their alma mater and the trade unions for a post-graduate course. Yukon Exposition Notes. A unique feature of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle in 1909 will be the camps of the Indian of the Pacific Northwest. The Arctic Brotherhood, a fraterna organization of the hardy pioneers who have lived in Alaska and the Yukon, will have a fine building on the grounds of the exposition. A part and at times all of the vessels of the Pacific squadron of the U. S. navy will be anchored in Seattle harbor and will be open to visitors. The school children of Alaska will make one of the most attractive exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle next summer. Leaden tobacco boxes are apt to cause lead colic and paralysis, the metal impregnating the tobacco with acetate of lead. 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 Good. WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Columbia county tax is 10 mills It is reported that there are about 15 cases of smallpox in Pullman. Irwin V. Mathews of Waterville is dead, after a short illness with pneumonia. The Idaho Trust company and the National Bank of Lewiston are to become one in the near future. From 12 to 15 cars of apples a day are being shipped from Wenatchee to different sections of the United States. The Spokane rate case will not be decided for a month, according to the secretary of the interstate commerce commission. The generous rains recently are of inestimable value to the country. The rain has been general and came in the nick of time. Harry E. Gordon, a pioneer resident of Spokane, where he has resided continuously since 1885, died of locomotor ataxia Saturday. Madeline King, who confessed to having burned the body of her aged husband, was acquitted of the charge of murder by a jury at Port Orchard. Walter A. Davenport of Colfax has accepted a position with the Seattle branch of the Foster & Kleiser Advertising company, in which he is a stock holder. Spokane postoffice receipts for the month ended September 30 show an increase of 10 1-2 per cent over the receipts of the corresponding month last year. Work on the New Ridgeway theater building at Colfax is progressing rapidly and the superintendent thinks the structure will be ready for use by the first of December. A movement has been started to put now life in the Spokane Playground as sociation, to increase its membership, establish and equip playgrounds in every school district in the city. John Hanson of Everett, for the past six months a member of the board of pardons of the Washington state reformatory at Monroe, has been ap pointed for the long term ending July 17, 1913. Exclusive of the $600,000 that has been paid for the site to be occupied by Spokane's new 11 story hotel, property on Sprague and First avenue has sold within the last two weeks to the amount of nearly $400,000. The loyal parishioners of the Ahtanum church, North Yakima, came down on their pastor, the Rev. Owen Umstead, recently, and now the parochial heencoost is loaded till it bends The Rev. Mr. Umstead was given a chicken shower. A report from Tacoma says that the state executive committee of the socialist party has decided not to pay the fee demanded of its candidates on the state ticket, but to make the race by means of stickers and the writing of the names of the candidates upon the ballots. Robert Serompus, 20 years old, pro prietor of the Star dairy at Rigney Hill Tacoma, was shot and killed Sunday o his dairy ranch by Fred Abel, 18 year old, who, with Roy Conly, two years hi junior, was hunting upon the dairy man's land. The boy murderer claims the deed was done in self-defense. IDAHO NOTES. One feature of the creeal exhibit at the Lewiston-Clarkston interstate fai was the excellent specimens of corn gathered from Nez Perce county farms The jury in the case of the state against Charles Rollins, alias Charles Burns, at Wallace, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. Rollins was identified as the asailant of Charles Edwards shortly after the shooting, which occurred on the morning of July 4. It is expected that the forestry bureau will soon issue orders for the management of the Nez Perce Indian forests, which will be under the supervision of James Stuart, the Nez Perce Indian civil engineer who has made the surveys for most of the reservation and a large part of the Bitter Root forest. Deputy Sheriff W. A. Hamilton of Wallace arrested a man at Burke on a warrant charging forgery who is believed to be the person who, a short time ago, passed so many worthless cheeks, victimizing merchants at nearly every town along the line of the Northern Pacific from Taft to Wardner. John Gaffney, chief warden of the Clearwater Fire Protective association, has completed his report for the year, which he has filed with Secretary Dominick Cameron, who states that the fire loss of association timber during the summer season approximated $3500 about 2,000,000 feet of timber being destroyed. The cost of protection averages a trifle more than 2 cents an acre Mrs. Emma Goldsmith, or, as she is known throughout the Coeur d'Alenes, "the queen of the dynamiters," was arraigned in the probate court at Wallace for a hearing on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder. On October 7, it is alleged, she shot at Ed D. Scott, an employee of the Snowstorm mine, near Mullan, with a rifle, giving as her reason that the Snowstorm company was trespassing upon her property, on which she claims it was unloading stall timbers. loading the screen. On the 24th the Idaho football team play the Bremerton navy yard at Moscow. The Prep football team of the University of Idaho played the Lewiston State Normal at Lewiston October 17th winning by a score of 54 to 0. The Idaho Confederation of Women's Clubs held their biennial meeting in Moscow this week. A afternoon they were guests of the University of Idaho domestic economy department. The northwestern convention of the Young Women's Christian Association with delegates from Whitman, Lewiston Normal, Fullman, Oregon and other institutions met at the University of Idaho ho from the 16th to the 18th. OREGON NEWS. Several sheepmen who spent the summer months in the vicinity of Sumpter with their flocks report that while driving them back to their white homes a great many head were lost. The jury in the case of Edward Hugh Martin, tried for the murder of Natha Wolff, a Portland pawnbroker, on the night of May 10 last, brought in a verdict of guilty, fixing the degree at man slaughter. Despite refusals of postal inspector who are investigating the apparent shortage in the cashier's department of the Portland postoffice, it is known that the discrepancies, said to amount to $3000, date back to the time that Charles A. Straus was in charge of the department. That Pendleton is the greatest wool-shipping point west of the Mississippi river became known recently, when it was discovered that more than 7,500,000 pounds had been shipped from that city during the present season. The body of Jack Nugent, an old man, was found beneath an old dock in the northern part of Portland last Saturday. A heavy gash on his head lends color to the theory that Nugent was murdered, but it may have been the result of a fall. MONTANA SQUIBS. Bands of mountain goats are numerous in the vicinity of Libby, hunters having killed some of the largest ever seen thereabouts. The fair on the Crow Indian reservation was attended by many Indian as well as white people. It is said that 4000 Indians were present. Mrs. Emma Smith, wife of William Smith, said to be a wealthy minewine of Montana, went shopping last Thursday in Chicago and has not since bee seen by her friends. Chief of Police Bates of the Butte police force, while out on a still hunt at Lewiston, Idaho, for a thief much wanted in the Montana town, was himself the victim of sneakthieves as he slept. They relieved him of a walle containing $8. The Sloan ranch, on upper Butte creek, one of the best known in that part of the county, has been sold by Frank and Claude Sloan to Ephraim L. Smith of Echo for $30,000. The ranch consists of 1400 acres, partly in cultivation, and the deal is one of the largest consummated in the county recently. Captain Joseph Brown of Bonney candidate for presidential elector o the democratic ticket, died in St. Loui Friday. Captain Brown was only recently selected as nominee for electo to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of W. G. Conrad of Grea Falls. While wandering through the brush near Wolf station the other day a Italian came upon the body of Carl D. Henry, an engineer on the Great North oern in the maintenance department, which has been missing for the past six weeks Henry had evidently shot himself, the revolver lying on the ground near the body. The annual meeting of the grand lodge Knights of Pythias of Montana closed at Great Falls Wednesday after noon. It was decided to hold the next session at Lewistown. Grand chancellor, George E. Palmer of Butte; gran vice chancellor, Will Cave of Missoula; grand keeper of records and seals, Le Dennis of Great Falls; grand master of exchequer, Arthur Perham of Butt TRIES TO MURDER PRIEST. Assassin Shoots Twice, Then Makes His Escape. Chicago, Oct. 19.—An attempt to assassinate the Rev. J. K. Fielding, pastoe of the Corpus Christi Roman Catholic church, was made Sunday afternoon. After twice shooting at the priest in the Sunday school hallway of the church the would-be assassin, knocking down scores of children standing in his way, ran into the street and escaped. The shooting and the screams of the children created wild excitement in one of Chicago's fashionable residence districts. Tragedy at Omaha, Neb. Omaha, Neb.-Sewell Sleuman, reputed to be worth half a million dollars, and well known throughout the west as a broker, Saturday night shot and killed Eva Hart, whose company he has been keeping for some time, and then took his own life. The shooting occurred at her home. NEWS OF THE WORLD A Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. The second division of the Pacific fleet has arrived at Honolulu. There have been frightful massacres in Armenia, according to reports. A new observatory is to be built at Ancon, on the isthmus of Panama. The Seventh regiment armory, in Chicago, has been opened as a skating rink for negroes only. Dr. Walther Weaver, German consul general at Chicago, has been appointed as consul general at Cape Town. The department of justice has received the resignation of William Story United States marshal for Utah. The Russian steamer Korea from New York, Sept. 30, for Rotterdam and Libau, is ashore on the Middleground Twenty buildings were burned and E. V. M. Prior and wife lost their lives recently in a $50,000 fire at Shirley Md. Reports from Chang How, China, ar to the effect that more than 300 lives were lost in that city as the result of Thursday's typhoon. Losses totalling about $100,000 were sustained Saturday in a fire starting in a lumber yard of the Morgan company at Oshkosh, Wis. Forest fires are raging in many sections of Wisconsin. The town of Pound reports a lumber yard and three stores burned. Loss $40,000. Nance O'Neil, the actress, and her manager, McKee Rankin, must go to California to stand trial on a charge of infringing the copyright privileges San Francisco, Oct. 17.—Hazel Taylor, 18 years old, daughter of a contractor employed by the city, committed suicide yesterday on the beach by drinking carbolic acid. Indictments charging Captain Pete C. Hains, Jr., and T. Jenkins Hains with murder in the first degree were handed up by the Queen's county grand jury at Flushing, L. I. Te Nebraska military acodemy, located three miles west of Lincoln, Neb., was destroyed by fire Saturday morning. The loss is estimated at $100,000, with $20,000 insurance. San Francisco and Puget sound will both be named as locations for great navy yards by the government, according to Admiral R. C. Holliday of the United States navy, chief of the bureau of docks and yards. Eager to secure the duck she winged while hunting with her husband, Mrs Otto Sall waded too far into the Minnesota river. Her husband went to her assistance and in the struggle to be gain the shore both were drowned. NEAR EAST TALKS PEACE. War Clouds Over Bulgaria, Servia and Turkey Are Thinning. London, Oct. 19.—The cloud which lowered over the near eastern situation Saturday has been dispersed, leaving a more hopeful prospect for the preservation of peace. Official denials of the mobilization rumors from both Turkey and Bulgaria are held to indicate the success of the diplomatic efforts of the western powers in Constantinople and Sofia toward settlement of a difficult problem and, although it becomes more clear daily that the agreement entered into by Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary, and M. Iswolsky, Russian foreign minister, concerning the proposed conference of the powers, is not acceptable to Austria or Turkey and that prolonged and delicate negotiations must precede the assembling of the conference, the belief in the best informed quarters still is that peace will be unbroken. WILL WOMEN LIKE DEW BATHS Los Angeles Converts to Hanish Ar Aroused. A certain number of Los Angeles society women are said to be thinking seriously of indulging in dew baths as suggested by High Priest Ottoman Zar Adush Hanish of the Sun Worshipers who went there from Chicago in search of converts. Hanish has devoted much of his time in an attempt to persuade society women to forsake the milk bath for the bath of dew, in which the Sun Worshipers indulge. The November St. Nicholas. The November St. Nielolas will have the first chapters of St. Henry Barbour's new story, "Captain Chub," carrying on the fun and adventures of Roy, Diek, Harry and Chub, whose experiences have been told in "The Crimson Sweater," "Te n, Diek and Harriet," and "Harry's Island." Duck Hunter Is Killed Brawley, Cal., Oct. 19.—Bayard Hubbard, 20 years old, a rodman for the California Development company on its survey outfit, was accidentally shot and killed by R. Van Wagenen, a fellow employee, while hunting ducks Sunday afternoon north of Brawley. SHORT SPORTING ITEMS. The National baseball commission has declared war on the California courts. With a change of ownership of the Spokane league baseball franchise a change in the spirit of the ownership is also expected. With two athletic clubs in Spokane it looks as though the followers of all leagues should be treated to some fair competition in the way of dual meets. Christie Mathewson, premier twirler of the New York Giants' pitching state is the leading twirler in the National league by one point. If the northwest inter-club meets run off smoothly as the managers meet together on the dates, the meets this year should be a great success. The consistency of all the northwestern coaches in sending out their bear nosedries may mean that they are all respecting to spring their real strength about the same time. After an absence of four years from the ring, Kid McCoy reappeared in New York Friday night at the National club an deasily defeated Jim Stewart at Brooklyn in a six round bout. This is the time of the year when the wayward athlete looks to the P.A. for reinstatement into the amateur ranks after his yearly try at summer baseball or "meal ticket" fighting. "Bill" Martin, Whitman's fast, little spinner, has been elected captain of Whitman track team for the season in 1909 to succeed George Philbrook, who has left Whitman to enter Notre Dame An annual cross country run in which the Washington State college, Walman college, University of Idaho, S.A. C. and Y. M. C. A. of Spokane, participate, is to be held the latter part of the present month in Pullman. Now that the club house of the Spokane Rod and Gun club is complete the organization is in a position to compete with any gun club in the most west for shooting grounds and a location in which to entertain its members and guests. Melville Sheppard of the Irish-American Atheletic club, the speediest mid-distance runner of America, and one of the heroes of the Olympic games, likely to have another distinction for upon him in the shape of an appointment direct from President Roosevelt. Fifty thoroughbred horses, including in the number the most successful racers in the James R. Keene, Payne Whitney string, left Saturday, board the Atlantic Transport in steamer Minnehaha for England, when the greater number of horses will trained for racing next season. Other of the cargo of race horses will be sent to France. Pennant Winners, 1908. National league ..... Chicago American league ..... Detroit American association ..... Indianaapolis Eastern league ..... Baltimore Southern league ..... Nashville Western league ..... Sioux City Three-I's league ..... Springfield Central league ..... Evansville Central association ..... Watertown Wisconsin-Illinois league ..... Wausau New England league ..... Worcester Northern league ..... Brattleboro Cotton States league ..... Jackson Tri-State league ..... Williamspur New York State league ..... Scranton Atlantic league ..... Shamrock Ohio-Pennsylvania league ..... Auburn Western association ..... Topeka Connecticut State league ..... Springfield South Atlantic league ..... Jackson Texas league ..... San Antonio Arkansas league ..... Hue Spring Maine league ..... Portland Penn-W. Va. league ..... Unionton Ohio State league ..... Lansing Southern Michigan league ..... Sarina Illinois-Missouri league ..... Hannibal Virginia league ..... Richmond Bluegrass league ..... Franklin Oklahoma-Kansas league ..... Tal Gul Coast league ..... Lake Clarence Northwestern league ..... Vancouve Pacific Coast league ..... Los Angeles Saturday's Football Games. Princeton, N. J.—In the first half the game here between Princeton the Virginia Polytechnic eleven, Princeton was scored against. By a score of 10-0 Whitman defeat the Waitsburg high school at Walla Walla. West Point, N. Y.—Yale defeat West Point in a fierce battle by a score of 6 to 0, in which both teams play like demons. Seattle, Wash.—The University Washington football team defeat Whitworth college here in a game that was even in the first half and had lately one-sided in the last half, Washington scoring all of the 24 points the closing 25 minutes. Seattle, Wash.-The Lincoln high school, with the best team the slas has ever had, ran into a snag in a form of the Tacoma high school and was lucky to get a draw with boys from up the Sound. Minneapolis.-In one of the hard games played on Northrup field on the famous battle of 1903 Minnesota and Nebraska fought to a nothing, nothing tie. The Russians invented wood P for streets. Preparing for Roosevelt. Cairo, Egypt.—Preliminary arrangements already are being made here for the visit of President Roosevelt to Khartoum in 1909, and he is being talked of as "the great celebrity" who is coming to Egypt. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. 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IF YOU'VE NEVER WORN WESTERN FOR BRAND SLICKER you've yet to learn the bodily comfort it gives in the wettest weather MADE FOR HARD SERVICE AND GUARANTEED WATERPROOF #300 AT ALL GOOD STORES CATALOG FREE A.J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, U.S.A. TOWER CANADA CO. LIMITED. TOWON CAN Watches AND FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE OF WALTHAM AND ZION WATCHES, WE HAVE YOU ONE- THIRD ON YOUR WATCH PURCHASES. SEATTLE WATCH CO. SEATTLE WORLD NEW YORK WORLD THINKS IT POSSIBLE FOR EITHER. Gives Several Good Reasons Why— Claims to Have a Poll Which Gives Taft 205 and Bryan 178, Sure—Whoever Carries New York Will Win— Ohio and Indiana Doubtful. New york state democratic and Bryan wins; republican and he loses. This is the deduction the New York World, which supports Bryan, made Sunday morning, from a general poll of the doubtful states taken by that newspaper and about 20 others through out the country. Large gains for the democratic nominee are claimed in all the so-called doubtful states except New York, a revised poll of which shows slight republican losses above the Bronx over last Sunday's estimate. Ohio, Indiana, ...ebraska, West Virginia and Maryland are classed as doubtful and, together with New York bring the total of doubtful electoral votes to 100. The poll gives Taft 205 and Bryan 178 sure votes. Twenty-three states were chosen as the battle ground for the campaign. Newspapers of each of these state cooperated with the World in making the canvass. Causes for Doubt. The World gives five causes leading to the belief that the contest for the presidency is in doubt. They are: "The injection into the campaign in some of the western states of an insidious and disturbing religious factor which is working against the republican candidate. "The tendency of the labor vote to break away from the control of all parties, as illustrated in the surprising spread of the socialist cause, both in the east and the west. "The inability of both the republican and democratic parties to intelligently approximate the distribution of the vote to be cast by an army of unemployed—estimated in round numbers at 1,400,000 voters. "The inability of both the republican and democratic managers to anticipate the distribution of the colored vote in states where it has always been classified as republican. "The complete absence of an issue of general value or vote-getting potency to either side." The World goes on to show that Mr. Taft must carry New York state, the chieftest of the doubtful states, to win by a margin of two votes. If he carries it, his election is assured. Bryan to win must carry New York, Ohio and Maryland or Nebraska or West Virginia, which will give him 248 votes, or six more than is necessary to elect him. If he carries New York, Indiana, West Virginia and Nebraska or Maryland, and yet loses Ohio, he may still be elected by six votes. Under any combination he must carry New York to win. KATE ELKINS WILL BE PRINCESS Italian Paper Says King Has Consented to Abruzzi Union. Rome, Oct. 20.—The Giornale d'Italia declares the king has formally consented to the marriage of the duke of Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins and that Miss Elkins is now practically an Italian princess, as it has been decide she shall enjoy royal rank and privileges before the wedding. Heretofore the Italian press has never explicitly stated the king sanctioned the marriage Hence an official denial is not expected and the marriage is regarded as certain The Italian court has already initiated the formalities of marriage. The duke will shortly go to Havre or Che bourg, whence he will sail for America In consequence of these development ex-Queen Marguerita has postponed he proposed visit to London which is connected with the marriage of the count of Turin and Princess Patricia of Connaught. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Tacoma business men are raising a big fund by subscription for a new school stadium, costing $100,000. Margherita, the dowager queen of Italy, has at last consented to the marriage of the Duke d'Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins, daughter of Senator Elkins. King Victors Emmanuel's present to the bride, it is said will be a diamond tiara valued at $100,000. Clarence Cromwell, a prominent stockman living on the edge of the Flathead (Mont.) Indian reservation, was killed Tuesday night by his brother-in-law, Frank Masterson. It is said that Cromwell entered Masterson's bed room and drew a gun. Masterson struggled with Cromwell, and, securing the weapon, crashed Cromwell's skull with the stock. General Count Nodzu Dies. Tokio.—General Count Michitsura Nodzu is dead. General Nodzu was born in Satsum in November, 1840. He fought as colonel in the civil war of 1877, was promoted to lieutenant general in 1885 and was made a full general in 1894. He commanded the Hiroshima division and later was commander of the Firs army during the Chino-Japanese war in 1894 and 1895; was appointed inspector general of education and commander of the Fourth army in the late Russo-Japanese war. Shot by Indians, He Killed Four Missoula, Mont., Oct. 20.—Charles B. Peyton, deputy game warden, with headquarters at Ovando, in Powell county, lost his life Sunday, but not until he had killed four of his Indian assailants. Peyton left Missoula a few days ago for the purpose of arresting some Flathead Indinas near Swan lake, 65 miles northw st of Ovando, who were reported as having killed largere quantity of game than the Monta la law allows. He reached the Indians camp Sunday, end finding four bucks and a number of squaws in camp decided to secure assistance in the person of Herman Rudolph, who was working no a nearby ranch. Peyton and Rudolph proceed to the Indian camp, but Petyon left his companion some distance away and entered the camp alone. He informed the bucks that they were under arrest and that they would have to accompany him to Missoula. Instantly the reds drew their weapons and began firing at Petyon, the latter returning the fire, although it is believed that he was mortally wounded at the first volley. Rudolph ran up to assist him, but the squaws, who had retreated to the brush, opened fire upon him and he was obliged to retreat. Peyton kept firing nutila four of the bucks were killed, and then he collapsed, and when picked up some time later was dead. The squa was escaped, but a posse has been organized to hunt them down. Peyton has a wife and three children. He was formerly a professional guide, and two years ago was appointed a game warden. He was well liked in the Bitter Root valley,where he had resided for 17 years. Killed Poor Woman Then Shot Self Moscow, Idaho, Oct., 20—Mrs. Clara O'Neil of Wallace, Idaho, was shot and killed Monday afternoon by Fred M. Seward of Palouse, Wash., in a storeroom on the alley back of a house formerly occupied by Grace Flemming. It is said she paid the penalty of the life she had led at the hands of an alleged lover, who then attempted to take his own life by shooting himself through the right corner of his forehead, just above the eye. The woman had lived in Palouse and went by the name of Grace Wilson and is dawn to be a daughter of people named Reese. Mrs. O'Neil was the mother of one child, a little girl 8 years old. BRIEF NEWS NOTES. Charles Eliot Norton, the well known philanthropist of Cambridge, Mass., is dead. In an automobile wreck near Salinas, Cal., John Hoeheit was killed and five other men, including the chauffeur, were badly injured. Three indictments have been returned a against William Montgomery a banker of Pittsburg, for the alleged embezzlement for nearly $750,000. H. T. Butterworth, a jeweler and prominent business man of St. John, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, was shot through the heart and instantly killed by a highwayman Tuesday night. The murder was committed in his front yard, the object was to steal a diamond ring valued at $350, which Butterworth wore. The next convention of the National Woman Suffragists will be held at Seattle. Colonel R. Z. Taylor, aged 60 years, and Captain Quentin Rankin, prominent attorneys of Trenton, Tenn., were taken from Ward's hotel at Walnut Log, Tenn. 15 miles from Union city, at midnight Tuesday by masked "night riders" and murdered. MINES AND MINING. Joseph Bidleman, a mining expert of New York city, has arrived in Spokane. A. W. Bennett, out from the Marshall lake district, Idaho, reports everything flourishing in that part of the country. Extensive development work is being carried on by the Golden Eagle mine syndicate of British Columbia. Their property is located near Grand Forks, B. C. High grade silver-lead ore has been encountered in the property of the Clugsten Mining company, whose property is located about eight miles east of Rossburg, Wash. High praise of Alaska as a future mining country is given by E. M. Aldrich of Spokane, who has returned from Nome, where he has spent the last three years in developing dredging ground. Final shipments of bullion for the season are being made from the camp at Pierce, Idaho, and the gold properties of the camp have shipped about $87,000, which is an increase of $10,000 over last year. A ledge of ore 16 feet wide has been opened in the Queens mine, located in the Sheep Creek district, in British Columbia. Assays of this ore average about $20 per ton, and there are now immense quantities of this ore in sight. An organization has been formed in Spokane under the name of the International Lead & Iron company, for the purpose of developing a group of claim located about two miles from the junction of the Salmon and Pend d'Oreille rivers, in southern British Columbia. More than 11,000 people were imprisoned in England last year for debt. Most were victims of the installment plan. THIRTY LIVES LOST IN GREAT FOREST FIRES OF SOUTHERN MICHIGAN. Heaviest Loss Occurs in Presque Isle and Alpena Counties—Persons Driven From Homes Camped in Open Fields—Twenty-three Persons Lost Their Lives on Ill-Fated Relief Train. Dispatches from Alpena, Mich., indicate that the number of deaths in the forest fires of Presque Isle and Alpena counties last Friday, Saturday and Sunday will surely exceed 40. In the vicinity of Metz, Bolton and Posen the fires have burned sufficiently to leave several hundreds of women and children camping with comparative safety in the open fields. Perished in Relief Train. It is now estimated that 23 persons lost their lives in the destruction of the ill-fated Metz relief train that went to the rescue of refugees of forest fires. It is doubtful, however, if the names of all will ever be known. Dispatches from many points in the Michigan fire zone indicate the dange in some places has passed and in others it is greater than ever. Conway, Hastings Heights, a summa resort, and Riggsdale are also threatened. Over them hovers a cloud of smoke so hot that it seems almost ready to burst into flames, and so stifling that it is impossible to breathe freely in it Bay View, the scene of many chautauq meetings, where there are many valuable buildings, is in great danger. There are no residents there, but im monse property loss would be entailed should the buildings catch fire. Hundreds of Men Fight Fire. Marion, Ohio, Oct. 18.—With hand blistered and working with tireless energy, several hundred men are almost in a state of collapse in their efforts to prevent the flames which are sweeping over thousands of acres of pasture and timber land from destroying the town of Larue. Unless there is a shift in the wind their efforts will be in vain. Man head of cattle have been burned. Villagers near the fire zone have been forced to flee. The fire started from sparks from a locomotive and the district being in a parched condition the farmers were unable to check the blaze. In the hope of checking the flames wide furrows were plowed around Larue and it is believed that the flames will not cross them. Providing for the Homeless. Detroit, Oct. 18.—Measures of relief for the stricken people in Presque Isle and Cheboygan counties are already under way. Hundreds are homeless and many have not sufficient clothing. A drop in temperature would cause great suffering. A theater at Alpena was thrown open to receive contributions for the refugees. The fireswept district takes in an area, according to estimates made today, of about 100 square miles. The fires in the neighborhood of Sault Ste. Marie were growing worse Sunday afternoon. The clouds of smoke there are so dense that the sun is obscured. All of the country between the South Shore railroad and Lake Superior in Chippewa county is ablaze. Harrowing scenes are reported from Posen, where many of the homeless burned and suffering refugees from Metz and Bolton have sought shelter. Anguish over the death of relatives and friends is in many cases more keen than the physical suffering. Monday's Report But one fresh report of loss of life came into Alpena today. Henry Hines his wife and two children are believed to have been cremated on their farm near Cathro. Between Metz and Rogers City seven more bodies have been found, making a total of 26 lives that are known to have been lost in Presque Isle and Alpena counties since Thursday night. Rogers City has been saved. South Rogers is also safe. The village of Posen has been in grave danger, but its chance to escape destruction are thought to be better. Alpena is still surrounded by fires, but is not in danger, unless the wind shifts to the north. Between 500 and 1000 men are constantly on the fire line working to protect the city. Up to noon Monday 44 dwelling houses and 65 barns has been repaired destroyed in Alpena county alone. FITS St. Vitus Dance and Nervous Dis causes permanently cured by Dr. B Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 981 Arch st., Phila., Pa. A statute of Liebig is to be erected in Darmstadt, where he was born in 1803. By the use of liquid air a soap bubble may be frozen solid. 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We also make Honorblit Shoes, Martha Washington Comfort Shoes, Yerma Cushion Shoes and Special Merit School Shoes. F. MAYER BOOT & SHOE CO. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN COMMITS SUICIDE IN CROWD. A. Luetgert's Rash Act at Elgin, Ill. Last Saturday. Chicago.—Arnold Luetgert, brother of Adolph Luetgert, the Chicago sausage maker, whose trial and conviction for the murder of his wife was one of the most sensational in the criminal annals of the country, committed suicide in a spectacular manner at Elgin, Ill. Luetgert was visiting an amusement park when, to attract the attention of the crowd, he fired three shots into the air. With everybody staring at him he then sent a fourth bullet into his head. Breaks a Cold Promptly The following formula is a never failing remedy for colds: One ounce of Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris Compound and one half pint of good whiskey, mix and shake thoroughly each time and use in doses of a tablespoonful every four hours. This if followed up will cure an acute cold in 24 hours. The ingredients can be gotten at any drug store. What's the matter now? "Why, your wife tells me you've invited the grocer and butcher to your party tonight!" "Well, what of it?" "Think of what you owe society." "Yes; but think what I owe my grocer and butcher!"—Judge. COFFEE Nothing does more for a grocer, one way or the other, than coffee. He must sell poor; (he needn't sell it to you) it is good that makes him. Your grocer returns your money if you don't like Schilling's Best: we pay him. Gentleman—But I am afraid he wouldn't make a good watch-dog. Man (with bull terrier)—Not a good watch-dog! Why, lor' bless your 'art, it was only last week that this wery animal held a burglar down by the throat and beat his brains out with his tail. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of "Landlord," said the boarder at the summer resort hotel, "you advertised that you had 'good fishing' here. I've fished every day, and all I've caught is half a dozen carp and three or four bullheads." "Didn't some of the fish you hooked get away?" asked the proprietor. "Yes, of course." "Well, those are the good fish we advertise. What are you kicking about?" The German empire consumes 85,000 tons of tobacco a year. Worms bring to the surface yearly as much as ten tons of soil to the acre on grass and cultivated land. General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its component parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remarkable success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-Informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine—manufactured by the Caformia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle. Washington's Wheat Yield While the estimated wheat yield of Washington this year is less than that of 1907 it has a value almost $3,000,000 greater than the 1907 crop, according to a report of the Washington state grain commission. Though the yield is less, the acreage this year is 125,000 greater. The state commission's estimate by bushels for this year follows: County— Acres. Yield. Garfield 45,000 1,010,000 Columbia 50,000 1,250,000 Walla Walla 200,000 4,000,000 Whitman 440,000 7,600,000 Spokane 80,000 1,200,000 Adams 350,000 4,500,000 Douglas 280,000 2,240,000 Franklin 100,000 600,000 Benton 80,000 160,000 Klickitat 75,000 750,000 Yakima 40,000 400,000 Asotin 40,000 800,000 Lineoln 350,000 5,250,000 Total 1907 ..... 2,000,000 40,845,000 The value of this year's wheat crop is estimated at $22,699,000 as against about $20,000,000 for last year. In the oats crop the estimated yield is 7,350,000 bushels and the barley crop 5,700,000 bushels. The returns from the different districts will not be completed until November 1, so that the yield will not be accurately known until that time. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease FREE. Write Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease. It cures sweating, hot swollen, aching feet. It makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for corn, ingrowing nails and bunlons. All druggists sell it. 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Binks—Shall we invest in this stock or not? Dinks—Well, what do you know about it? Binks—Know about it? Good heavens man, by the time we find out it may go way up. HOWARD E. BURTON, Assayer and Chemist, Leadville, Colo. Speckman prices: Gold, silver, lead, 81.60; gold, silver, 75c; gold, 59c; zinc or copper. Foil tests; mailing envelopes and full price list sent on application. Control and numbe work solicited. References: Carbonate National Bank. Trade with the Helena Packing and provision Company. The literary society rendered a very interesting program Wednesday Even of this week. It was one of the best programs held this year, Recitations by Messers Clark' and Lee and Miss Fitzgerald Music by Misses Dorsey, and Simmons Messers Baker Lee and Cole completed the program we are please to commend them highly and hope that we hear from a them again soon. Next Wednesday a mock Trail will be given. There will be big doings at Electric Hall, Friday evening, Oct. 30th, under the auspices of the Helena colored band, who will give a grand concert, specialties, etc, everybody is invited to turn out and assist the band. After the concert there will be a dance, 50 cents admission for everybody. The big debate came off at the St. James Literary last Wednesday evening it was said that Senator Murrill was at his best and literally run over everybody in the debate and won hands down. Be sure and attend the grand band concert at Electric hall. Friday evening October 30. Mrs. A. Marlowe gave a birthday anniversary in honor of her son F. A. Marlowe on last Friday evening and although the weather was very inclement, almost every invitation was responded. Many presents, useful and valuable were received. The evening was spent with games, conversations ets, The young people repaired to a specially prepared room and there to the strains of the Imperial orchestra composed of Prof. Saulsburg and Mason tripped the fantastic toe to the queen taste. All had an enjoyable time and left wishing for Buster to have countless more birthdays. Some people asks why Arthur Palmer will not tell his age. Everybody wants to meet every body at the Electric Hall, Friday evening, October 30th. The colored Taft club will have a meeting at the Manhattan club rooms Tuesday evening. All are invited to be present. Senator Murrill and others will deliver addresses. Be sure and attend the literary Wednesday evening. Everybody will be at the Electric Hall on next Friday evening to see and witness the big doings. One of Helena's Bells, has been it is reported, patinetly looking for her Beau Brummell who was to have arrived about ten days ago, the wedding trousseau it is said is all ready but for some reason the Groom to be has not appeared on the scene. The young lady however is is HAVE YOU ANY MONEY? If you have none you will probably admit its your fault. MOST men have MADE money but most men haven't SAVED it. Don't wait until you get a LOT of MONEY. The man who waits until he has a hundred dollars before he starts a bank account may never start one. Start now with a small sum. We will pay you 4 per cent interest. Union Bank & Trust Co. HELENA, MONTANA. said has a valiant heart and is waiting, waiting, still. Wm. Knott left Thursday for his home in Topeka he his been working at the Montana Club while here made many friends who regret to see him leave. He goes on account of the sickness in his family. Mrs Wm. Howard one of the pioneer colored residents of this section; died at St Peters Hospital on Thursday after a long and protracted illness, The funeral will be held from their home in Keslers addition Sunday at 3 oclock and the intermst at the post cemetery. Perhaps few colored people are aware that the number of Afro-Americans in the service of the Army and Navy—has more than doubled in the last four years, under a Republican administration. Their aggregate pay has been increased from $3,000,000 in 1904 to more than $8,000,000 in 1908. Plank in Republican Platform The present Republican platform contains this plank: "The Republican party has been, sistent friend of the American for more than fifty years, the conand citizenship. It wrote into Negro. It gave him freedom the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry, and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the Nation. "We demand justice for all men withoutregard to race or color; we declare once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement, in letter and in spirit, of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution, which were designated for the protectino and advancement of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reason of color, alone, as unfair, un-American, and repugnant to the supreme law of the land." The Hon. William H. Taft, in a speech in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn recently said: "What the Negro and his friends demand is equality of enforcement of the law under the Constitution*** Democrats Hate Negroes Contrast these kindly sentiments of Republicans with the following from Democratic sources. W. J. Bryan in his speech at New York, 1908, said: "The white man in the South has disfranchised the Negro in self-protection; and there is not a Republican in the North who would not have done the same thing under the same circumstances. The white men of the South are determined that the Negro shall be disfranchised everywhere it is necessary, to prevent the recurrence of the horrors of carpet-bag rule." Hoke Smith, who was a member of Cleveland's Cabinet and who is at present Governor of Georgia said: "I favor the elimination of the Negro from politics and if I am elected I will urge this with all my power. Senator Tillman, in a speech in the 59th Congress said: "Some of the Negroes are so near akin to the THE WALTON HOTEL NO.15 STATE ST. HOME COOKING BOTH REGULAR MEALS AND SHORT ORDERS Railroad Commission con. for its efficiency and good work are candidates for re-election. M. Stantion for the four year term, and Mr. Morley for the two year term. The third republican nomine is Dan Boyle of Livingston, than whom no more competent, no more experienced, no more honest man could have been named. If Montana wants an effective, working railroad commission it will elect these three men, who have had the experience which fits them for their duties. In Uncle Sam's Service Under the kindly fostering care of the Republican party, that wiped the stain of slavery from the Stars and Stripes, with the blood of statesmen, the colored race has established a world's record, in the progress of civilization and onlightened, aggressive citizenship. Today colored men and women, to the number of 13,987 are occupying positions in the Government servise, under Republican administration, and draw in the aggregate the sum of $8,032,355 annually from the public treasury. They are to be found in every position from that of common laborer to that of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Their salaries range from $600 to $10,000 a year, the latter sum being paid to our colored Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Haiti. The intelligent Negro does not worship false gods. He is thoroughly familiar with the condition of his brothers in the South where Democracy is in the saddle. He knows that at heart, the leaders of the Democratic party do not wish his association in politics, but only hopes to use him and to disgruntle him against the Republican party, in order that they may, without benefit to him, be elevated into power. It does not need the declaartion from the Democratic party, that it is a white man's party, to convince the Negro with any brains that his interests and future welfare and that of his race, lie in the hands of the Republican party. monkey that scientists are still looking for the missing link." Democratic Hypocracy With defeat staring it in the face, without a real virile issue except these embodied in the "Peerless One" Democracy is struggling to win in this present campaign, with the Negro vote in the North, and without the Negro vote in the South. This seems to be the crowning climax of political idiocy. The Negro, disfranchised in the South by the Democratic party, is expected to lock the hand that smites him, execute an about-face movement, and aid the Democrats in swinging Republican States of the North into the hands of Democratis oppresors! From the day ofits birth, the Democratic party has not only hated its boasted Democracy at the color line but has bragged about it. There is not a law on the statute books today for the benefit and protection of the Negro that was not placed there by Republicans in spite of the Opposition of the Democrats. World's Record of Progress Under the Republican policies the Negro race has flourished as the history of the world. The 10 race ever flourished before in REPULIGAN TICKET. STATE TICKET For Congressman CHARLES N. PRAY of Chouteau For Governor EDWARD DONLAN of Missoula For Lieutenant Governor W. R. ALLEN of Deer Lodge For Associate Justice W. L. HOLLOWAY of Gallatin For Secretary of Satate A. N. YODER of Silver Bow For Attorney General A. J. GALLEN of Lewis and Clark For Treasurer E. E. ESSELSTYN of Carbon For Auditor H. R. CUNNINGHAM of Silver Bow For Superintendent of Public Instruction W. E. HARMON of Gallatin For Railroad Commissioners DAN BOYLE of Park, Six-year Term B. T. STANTON, Four-year Term E. A. MORLEY, Two-year Term COUNTY TICKET District Judges A. P. HEYWOOD J. MILLER SMITH County Commissioner MOSES ROOT Senator CHARLES N. KESSLER Representatives HARRY HALL J. A. SHOEMAKER J. A. WERNER THOMAS GIBSON M. A. WITMER GUS KIRBY JOHN EDGERTON Attorney E. D. PHALEN Sheriff M. L. HIGGINS Clerk of Court F. L. REESE Clerk and Recorder LEON SHAW Treasurer T. B. KIRKENDALL Auditor T. H. SPRATT Assessor F. E. TIBBETTS Superintendent of Schools MISS EDITH BRADLEY Coroner B. V. McCABE For Public Administrator SAMUEL SCHWAB For Surveyor J. D. McLEOD Justice of the Peace CHARLES HORN J. W. EDDY Constable J. M. ADAMSON C. W. WILSON illiteracy of the Race at the time of emancipation was almost complete. When the census of 1890 was taken, it showed that this illiteracy had been reduced about 44 per cent. Italy today has 38 per cent of illiteracy; Spain, 68 per cent; and Portugal 79 per cent. These are all white countries, with centuries of civilization behind them. There are 40,000 Negro students in higher institutions of learning, pursuing all branches from trade to classical and scientific course. Forty thousand colored youths have graduated from secondary institutions of learning, and 4,000 colleges. The race has developed 30,000 teachers, 16,000 clergymen; 1,700 physicians and surgeons; 1,000 lawyers, and 400 journalists and literary people. It has 200 institutions for higher education in the United States. In 1904 it owned property amounting to $1,100,000,000. In 1904 the farm property belonging to Negroes was valued at $200,000,000. It operates 746,715 farms and owns 187,797 farms, or about 25 per cent of the total. This is not abad showing for ar ace which the Democrats decline to be unfit for citizenship. The instincts of self-preservation demand that the American Negro vote for Taft and Sherman and a continuance of the Republican policies. THE MALLORY CRAVENETTE Soft and Stiff Hats are the best, we Sell Them. 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