Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER. 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, PROSPERITY! UNION!!! Montana has joined the Jim Crow Colony alongside of Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Arkansas. God help us! Muffly, of Jim Crow fame, can now go back to Broadwater and say to his constituency, "I have saved our race from being devoured." Senator Anin of Yellowstone, Republican Jim Crow statesman, along with Sykes, Allbright, Sanders, et al, have done more harm to Republicanism than all the democrats in Montana, and will rue the day that they were a party to enacting laws which are clearly class legislation and contrary to the letter and spirit of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment. The Treasure State in a long editorial of last week seeks to justify Jim Crow law, and reassuringly says to the race that even if you are Jim Crowed, if you deserve it you shall rise. Just as well to tell us even if you are in prison, if you deserve to be free you shall be. Why give to us this great handicap in the race of progress. In this issue this people frown on miscegenation, but object to being singled out for class legislation, even though amalgamation was inaugurated under the lash by the slave trader, the love for race by all, regardless of Caucasian reinforcement is such that we are not afraid of being devoured and losing our identity as a race. Hon. M. A. Witmer is making an enviable record as representative, and may be found at all times representing the real interest of his constituents. Mr. Harry Hall, although he got his picture into the paper, has been noted as a misfit in the Lewis and Clark delegation, and showed his antipathy to our people by his vote, and also has run wild on several propositions, which he found were live wires instead of insulated STRANGE GOINGIDENT TAKES PLAGE During Address Given by Booker T. Washington at Waldorf-Astoria WELL-KNOWN LAWYER CHUM OF SLAVERY DAYS During the Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club at the Waldorf-Astoria last Friday evening, Booker T. Washington, who was a guest of the occasion, figured in a highly dramatic incident. While addressing a large and select gathering in response to the toast, "Abraham Lincoln," Dr. Washington turned impressively to A. H. Burroughs, a well-known New York attorney, who sat at the President's table, and said: "There sits a man who is the grandson of Joseph Burroughs, who was my owner down in Franklin County, Va., when I was a slave. He and I played together as children, fought and wept, laughed and sobbed together. He was the white boy, I was the black boy, on that old plantation. "He liked me then, and he likes me yet. I liked him then and I like him now. But until this week I have not met Abe Burroughs since one day away back in 1863 it came to my frightened cars that old 'Massa' Burroughs, his grandfather and my owner had been killed. "There was a skirmish, and the Federal troops, I was told, had shot him. I was frightened. I rushed home and told Abe, and he and I cried together. Our hearts were broken. That is a long while ago. But here is Abe and here am I; and we meet tonight at a banquet board in the greatest city in the world, to celebrate the Centennial of the birth of the man who set us both free,—I mean that. Abraham Lincoln set Mr. Burroughs free when he set me free." During his speech Dr. Washington was applauded time and time again, and keen interest was shown by all throughout his entire address. When he concluded his hearers arose and cheered. Following is Dr. Washington's address: "You ask that which he found a piece of property, and turned into a free American citizen, to speak to you tonight on Abraham Lincoln. I am not fitted by ancestry or training to be your teacher tonight, for, as I have stated, I was born a slave. "My first knowledge of Abraham Lincoln came in this way: I was awakened early one morning before the dawn of day as I lay wrapped in a bundle of rags on the dirt floor of our slave cabin by the prayers of my mother, just before leaving for her day's work, as she was kneeling over my body earnestly praying that Abraham Lincoln might succeed and that one day she and her boy might be free. You give me the opportunity here this evening to celebrate with you and the nation the answer to that prayer." "Says the Great Book some Helena, Montana, Friday, March 5, 1900 where, 'Though a man die, yet shall he live.' If this is true of the ordinary man, how much more true is it of the hero of the hero of the hour and the hero of the century,—Abraham Lincoln? One hundred years of the life and influence of Lincoln is the story of the struggles, the trials, ambitions and triumphs of the people of our complex American civilization. Interwoven into the warp and woof of this human complexity is the moving story of men and women of nearly every race and color in their progress from slavery to freedom, from poverty to wealth, from weakness to power, from ignorance to intelligence. Knit into the life of Abraham Lincoln is the story and success of the nation in the blending of all tongues, religions, colors, races, into one composite nation, leaving each group and race free to live its own separate social life, and yet all a part of the great whole. "If a man die, shall he live?" Answering this question as applied to the one martyred President, perhaps you expect me to confine my words of appreciation to the great boon which, through him, was conferred upon my race. My undying gratitude and that of ten millions of my race for this and yet more! To have been the instrument used by Providence through which four millions of slaves, now grown into ten millions of free citizens, were made free, would bring eternal fame within itself, but this is not the only claim that Lincoln has upon our sense of gratitude and appreciation. Lincoln Lives Today "By the side of Armstrong and Garrison, Lincoln lives today. In the very highest sense he lives in the present more potently than fifty years ago, for that which is temporal, that which is unseen is eternal. He lives in the thirty-two thousand young men and women of the Negro race learning trades and useful occupations; in the two hundred thousand farms acquired by those he freed; in the more than four hundred thousand homes built; in the forty six banks established, and ten thousand stores owned; in the $550,000,000 worth of taxable property in hand; in the twenty-eight thousand public schools existing, with thirty thousand teachers; in the one hundred and seventy industrial schools and colleges; in the twenty-three thousand ministers and twenty-six thousand churches. But above all this, he lives in the steady and unalterable determination of ten millions of black citizens to continue to climb year by year the ladder of the highest usefulness and to perfect themselves in strong, robust character. For making all this possible Abraham Lincoln lives. "But again, for a higher reason, he lives tonight in every corner of the Republic. To set the physical man free is much. To set the spiritual man free is more. So often the keeper is on the inside of the prison bars, and the prisoner on the outside. "As an individual, grateful as I am to Lincoln for freedom of body, my gratitude is still greater for freedom of soul,—the liberty which permits one to live up in that atmosphere where he refuses to permit sectional or racial hatred to drag down, to warp and narrow his soul. "The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was a great event, and yet it was but the symbol of another, still greater and more momentous. We who celebrate this anniversary should not forget that the same pen that gave freedom to four millions of African slaves at the same time struck the shackles from the souls of twenty-seven millions of Americans of another color. "In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists. "In abolishing slavery, Lincoln proclaimed the principle that even in the case of the humblest and weakest of mankind, the welfare of each is still the good of all. In re-establishing in this country the principle that, at bottom, the interests of humanity and of the individual are one; he freed men's souls from spiritual bondage; he freed them to mutual helpfulness Henceforth no man of any race either in the North or in the South need feel constrained to fear or hate his brother. "By the same token that Lincoln made America free, he pushed back the bounderies of freedom everywhere, gave the spirit of liberty a wider influence throughout the world, and re-established the dignity of man as man. By the same act that freed my race, he said to the civilized and uncivilized world, that man everywhere must be free, and that man everywhere must be enlightened, and the Lincoln spirit of freedom and fair play will never cease to spread and grow in power till throughout the world all men shall know the truth, and the truth shall make them tree. Lincoln in his day was wise enough to recognize that which is true in the present and for all time, that in a state of slavery and ignorance man renders the lowest and most costly form of service to his fellows. In a state of freedom and enlightenment he renders the highest and most helpful form of service. Slavery to Color Prejudice "The world is fast learning that of all forms of slavery there is none that is so hurtful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch The New York Dry Goods Store. Helena, Mont. SPECIAL NOVEMBER FUR SALE Our Redoubled Efforts Make this the Most Exceptional Money Saving Fur Sale Ever Offered the Discriminating Fur Buyer. 10 with him. One who goes through life with his eyes closed against all that is good in another race is weak and circumscribed, as one who fights in a battle with one hand tied behind him. Lincoln was in the truest sense great because he unfettered himself. He climbed up out of the valley where his vision was narrowed and weakened by the fog and miasma, onto the mountain-top where in a pure and unclouded atmosphere he could see the truth, which enabled him to rate all men at their true worth. Growing out of this anniversary season and atmosphere may there crystallize a resolve throughout the nation that on such a mountain the American people will strive to live. "We owe, then, to Lincoln, physical freedom, moral freedom, and yet this is not all. There is a debt of gratitude which we, as individuals, no matter of what race or nation must recognize as due Abraham Lincoln, not for what he did as Chief Executive of the nation, but for what he did as a man. In his rise from the most abject poverty and ignorance to a position of high usefulness and power, he taught the world one of the greatest of all lessors. In fighting his own battle up from obscurity and squalor, he fought the battle of every other individual and race that is down, and so helped to pull up every other human who was down. People so often forget that by every inch that the lowest man crawls up he makes it easier for every other man to get up. Today throughout the world, because Lincoln lived, struggled and triumphed, every boy who is ignorant, who is in poverty, is despised or discouraged, holds his head a little higher. His heart beats a little faster, his ambition to do something and be something is a little stronger, because Lincoln blazed the way. "To my race, the life of Abraham Lincoln has its special lesson at this point in our career. In so far as his life emphasizes patience, long suffering, sincerity, naturalness, dogged do Large Muff and Stole. Regular $10.00 Values 6.50 MISSES' FUR SETS Sets Made Imitation Ermine 6.50 CHILDREN'S FUR SETS Of Brown Imitation Squirrel 3.75 BABY FUR SETS Angora Fur 1.50 termination and courage,—courage to avoid the superficial, courage to persistently seek the substance in stead of the shadow, it points the road for my people to travel. "As a race we are learning, I be lieve, in an increasing degree, that the best way for us to honor the memory of our Emancipator is by seeking to imitate him. Like Lincoln the Negro race should seek to be simple, without bigotry and without ostentation. There is great power in simplicity. Great men are usually simple men. Great races are those that strive after simplicity. We, as a race, should, like Lincoln, have moral courage to be what we are, and not pretend to be what we are not. We should keep in mind that no one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy no influence can defeat us. Like other races, the Negro will meet obstacles, often be sorely tried and tempted, but we must keep in mind that freedom, in the broadest and highest sense, has never been a bequest; it has been a conquest. In the final test, the success of our race will be in proportion to the service that it renders to the world. In the long run, the badge of service is the badge of sovereignty. The Lincoln Courage "With all his other elements of strength, Lincoln possessed in the highest degree patience, and, as I have said, courage. The highest form of courage is not always that exhibited on the battlefield in the midst of the glare of trumpets and the waving of banners. The highest courage is of the Lincoln kind. It is the same kind of courage made possible by the new life and the new possibilities furnished by Lincoln's proclamation, played by thousands of men and women of my race every year who are going out from Tuskegee and other Negro institutions in the South to lift up their fellows. When they go, often into lonely and secluded districts, with little thought of salary, with little thought of personal welfare, no drums beat, no banners fly, no friends stand by to cheer them on but these brave young souls who are erecting schoolhouses, creating schoo de (Conc\uded on last page) NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. Miss Agnes Irwin, dean of Radcliffe college, has resigned. Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York city, October 27, 1858. Northwest lumbermen are fighting the proposed tariff removal. More than 31,000 men will march in the inaugural parade March 4. Wheat for May delivery sold in Chicago Saturday at $1.16 1-4 a bushel. A printers' strike is on in the Union and Statesman offices at Walla Walla. The railroad rate case may go against Spokane, according to the latest report. The cutting of prices by the steel manufacturers has begun and a general rate was is expected. Mrs. Ida Cooper, a bride of four days, was murdered in Chicago Saturday by some unknown person. All within the space of five hours 32 absolute divorces were granted by Justice Thomas in Brooklyn recently. Senor Francisco de la Barra, the newly appointed Mexican minister to the United States, has arrived in Washington. The 35th annual convention of the American Bankers' association will be held in Chicago in the week of September 13. Canes made from woods of historic significance were presented by President Roosevelt recently to several members of his cabinet. At Ware, Mass., Clara Laliefete, a 13 year old schoolgirl, shows signs of recovering consciousness after being asleep six days. Doctors cannot arouse her. The announcement from the White House is made that there will be no more appointments to federal positions during President Roosevelt's term of office. Half of the business section of Lovelock, Nev., a small town not far from Reno, is in ruins as the result of a fire, which destroyed property valued at $400,000. --- The Rev. John Eastman of Sisseton, S. D., a full-blood Sioux Indian, will be South Dakota's representative on the staff of the grand marshal of the inaugural parade. Count Boni de Castellane has appealed from the decision of the French court handed down on December 20 that his three sons remain in the custody of their mother, Princesse de Sagan. President-elect William H. Taft was the other night in Cincinnati made a "Knocker at Sight." His initiation furnished entertainment for 100 prominent business and professional men at the Knockers' annual dinner. Chicago—Former Circuit Court Judge Abner Smith and Gustav F. Sorrow must go to the penitentiary. They were convicted of wrecking the Bank of America, 10 days after it had been opened for business, the stockholders losing $175,000. President Roosevelt, by signing the bill for the creation of the Calaveras national forest, California, has completed legislation which saves for all time the most famous grove of trees in the world. This act is the culmination of efforts extending over nine years. Sergeant Wilson of the northwest mounted police force believes that "Bad Bill" Miner was one of the gang of train robbers who robbed a train near Denver the other day. He asserts that the robbery was committed near Miner's old stamping ground, where he knows every foot of the territory. So thoroughly impressed is President Roosevelt with the necessity of conservation of the natural resources of the world that he has directed Secretary of State Bacon, at the suggestion of the North American conservation conference, to extend a formal invitation to foreign powers to participate in an annual conference to deal with this important problem, to be held at The Hague next September. Have Army of Nurses The Red Cross First Aid Legion of Illinois, a state organization planned for some time, is a fact. The ideal at which it aims is 30,000 men in Illinois trained by officers and surgeons of the United States army and equipped similarly to the Illinois national guard. The Chicago crib disaster is pointed to as an illustration of the advantage of having a large state organization composed of workingmen in every division of labor, who will be trained in first aid medical science. Land to Aid Seattle Poor. Seattle, Feb. 24.—Henry H. Dearborn, a well-known pioneer resident of this city, where he has been in the real estate business for 30 years past, died recently. In his will the deceased bequeathed a block of tide lands, valued at $50,000, to the worthy poor of Seattle. CARROLL D. WRIGHT IS DEAD Former Commissioner of Labor Succumbs to Malady. Worcester, Mass.—Carroll D. Wright, president of Clark college and former commissioner of labor, died Saturday, aged 69 years. President Wright had been a sufferer from diabetes for more than two years. After his return from Washington on December 7, his last public appearance, he was obliged to take to his bed. Carroll Davis Wright was born in Dunbarton, N. H., July 25, 1840. He was educated at Tufts college and enlisted as a private in the Fourteenth New Hampshire volunteers during the civil war, being promoted to colonel before the close of the war. He was a member of the Massachusetts senate, 1872-3, and chief of the Massachusetts bureau of labor statistics from 1873 to 1886. He had been on the faculty of the Catholic University of America, Columbia University and Harvard. He had been president of Clark since 1907. Mr. Wright was a prolific writer in the social economic field. He was decorated with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor of France in 1907. For 20 years, from 1885 to 1905, he was United States commissioner of labor. Two Men Killed In Seattle Cavein Seattle, Feb. 24. —A cavein occurred Tuesday morning in the tunnel which being driven for the northern trunk sewer and buried beneath 700 tons of earth 11 men,two of whom were crushed to death, while nine are entombed in the tunnel beyond the cavein. The dead: August Stangle and Duncan Robertson. The entombed men are in a clear space in the tunnel 12 in diameter and 42 feet long. Communication was established with them by driving 2-inch pipe through the fallen earth with a battering ram. Electrict light wires have been passed through the pipes and the men are provided with light. Food and water are furnished through the same source. The entombed men have no fear of further caving and they seem in cheerful their position. A large crowd of men are driving a drift through the fallen earth as papidly as possible to reach the prisoners. Extra men stand by to relieve the workers every half hour. Although provided with tools, the men entombed have been given instructions not attempted to work their way out. It is 34 feet from the ground to the roof of the tunnel. The cave was probably occasioned by the sinking of one of the vertical timbers which formed a part of the bracing. The accident occured on the Green Lake section of the sewer at a point about 200 yards from a cave which caused the death of three men a year ago, where the tunnel passes through the grounds of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. The men will be reached on Wednesday. BRIEF NEWS DISPATCHES. President-Elect Taft has completed his cabinet with the offer of the treasury portfolio and its acceptance by Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago. London.—Every effort of the suffragettes to force the hand of the government becomes more dramatic and it is increasingly difficult to predict how their demands may be successfully parried. High officials of the Great Northern railway have refused the request of the prosecuting attorney of Spokane county for documents to be presented to the grand jury called by the superior judges of the county to probe the Root-Gordon scandal. A $50,000 pearl necklace belonging to Miss Jennie Crooker of San Francisco is reported to have been stolen during the Mardi Gras ball given by Mrs. Charles O. Alexander at the St.Francis hotel Wednesday night. It is the supposition that the string containing the jewels broke, allowing them to fall to the floor. Sweepings of all the rooms occupied by the wall guests were collected and examined at once, but no trace of the pearls was found. CONFERS DEGREE ON ROOSEVELT University Honors President for the Unlift of Ethical Standards. Washington, Feb. 23.—The regular midwinter convocation exercises of George Washington university Monday were notable because of conferring of the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon President Roosevelt, Charles E. Hughes of New York and Bishop Alfred Harding of the diocese of Washington, and by the address of Governor Hughes. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon President Roosevelt "in absenteia," as the president was at Hampton roads welcoming the returning fleet. Three Suicides Monday New York.—Second Lieutenant John J. Miller, Eighth United States infantry, stationed at Monterey, Cal., who was on furlough in the east, shot himself in the right temple and died in a few minutes. J. S. Murray, a miner, living at Gem, Idaho, swallowed several grains of strychnine with suicidal intent, dying in terrible agony half an hour afterward. He was despondent. E. R. Woodard, superintendent of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club of Portland, Ore., shot and fatally injured himself. Causes unknown. ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA, WASHINGTON AND OREGON. A Few Interesting Items Gathered From Our Exchanges of the Surrounding Country—Numerous Accidents and Personal Events Take Place—Outlook Is Good. WASHINGTON STATE NEWS. Alfalfa hay is scarce at Pullman. Dayton won the recent debate with the Davenport high school team. A company has taken over the Sunnyside Sun and Sunnyside Valley Republican plants. The Rockford Register has been purchased by W. J. Taylor, former principal of the high school. The milking machine is said to be a success. "The Rosalia" is the latest. It is manufactured at Rosalia. The jury at Mount Vernon declared Leo Bezmer guilty of kidnapping for the purpose of holding for ransom. Olympia offers a $10 prize for the best slogan, something catchy, to be used at the A.-Y.-P. fair on Olympia day. At Raymond, Charles Resk, a Finn, was shot and killed in the Astoria saloon recently by Deputy City Marshall Ray Wheaton. Farmers around Oakesdale predict an early spring. Grain is reported in good condition, and unless late freezes damage it it will be heavy. April 18 is the date for the hanging of Jose Nichols and J. Arata, who were recently convicted of murder in the first degree at Port Orchard. The postoffice at Hay station, in western Whitman county, was broken into recently and a small quantity of stamps and some small change were taken. W. P. Reser of Walla Walla Saturday sold 40,000 bushels of wheat at 92 cents for club and 89 cents for turkey red. This is the largest sale there this season. North Yakima police announce that their campaign for a purer Yakima has resulted in the discovery and breaking up of a gang of men engaged in the white slave traffic. At a recent meeting of the La Crosse Farmers' union $2300 was subscribed by 20 members present toward a fund to buy or build warehouses at La Crosse, Pampa and Meeker. Friday morning occurred the death of one of the oldest pioneers of three states, more so of eastern Washington, when Alexander Dallas McMichil passed away at Spangle. A sample of bluestem wheat, grown by Adolph Hermanns in Waitsburg, has taken first prize at a fair at Winona, Minn., which exhibited samples from every locality of the wheat producing states in the northwest. The members of the Yakima county Alaska-Yukon-Pacific committee, representing nearly every town in the county, recently made an apportionment of the sum of $25,000, which will be raised for the county exhibit. The name of Ulysses S. Grant was added to the list of distinguished American statesmen whose deeds have been commemorated by having Washington counties named in their honor. It was taken from Douglas county. The state board of control has fixed prices for grain bags this year at the Walla Walla prison at 6 2-10 cents for wheat sacks and 7 1-2 cents for oat bags. Under the law passed by this legislature application for purchase will be received to April 1. In commemoration of the deeds of the band of men who, under Colonel Steptoe, met and captured the hostile Indians on the prairie near Rosalia in 1858, a bill is billed the legislature to buy a plot of ground and erect a monument on behalf of the state. The land will be made into a park and the monument will be set in the center of it, thus giving the people of the surrounding towns a chance to create a resort of some importance. The following figures will be interesting as showing land values in the state of Washington for assessment purposes, according to figures compiled by the state tax commission covering every county in the state. The estimate is made on improved land only. In Pierce county the price is $100 per acre; in Chelan and Yakima, $55; in Skagit, $40; in Snohomish and in Skatag, $36.50; in Okanogan and in Spokane, $30; in Kittitas, $25.55; in Island, $25; in Clarke, $22; in Asotin, Columbia, Walla Walla and Whitman, all grain producing counties, $18; in Garfield, Linecoln and Stevens, $16.60; in Chehalis, Cowlitz and San Juan, $15; in Adams, $12.50; in Benton, Douglas, Ferry and Klickitat, $10.50; in Kitsap, Mason, Pacific, Thurston and Wahkla-kum, $10; in Skamania, $16.70. IDAHO ITEMS Idaho's local option bill has been signed by Governor Brady. At Moscow, a fraternal temple and opera house is being planned by the Odd Fellows and Masons. Ben Olney, who pleaded guilty at Lewiston to a statutory charge, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Plans for a $25,000 stone and brick building for the Catholic school at Moscow, under the Ursuline sisters, have been received by the trustees. The spectacle of the Palouse sending hogs to Wallace and in return using lard rendered in Wallace is amusing to think about, but it is true. It is stated that the Orofino Improvement company will spend $150,000 on mill construction and improvement at Orofino, where it recently secured large holdings. Asbestos in large quantities has been discovered three miles north of Moscow, at Estes station on the Spokane & Inland line. The find is on the farm of L. H. Ayer. An attempt is in progress to legalize the leasing of state mineral lands for 50 years, to enable the carrying out of the contract which G. W. Thompson, the Lewiston banker, claims that the land board has made him. Articles of incorporation were filed at Wallace by the $1,000,000 corporation which is to take over the Idaho Northern and Lewis lumber mill and other properties. F. A. Blackwell is the principal stockholder. William Mohl, deputy state horticultural inspector, has been engaged for several days in inspecting the orchards in the vicinity of Lewiston. He states that the peach trees in the higher districts were uninjured by the January cold snap. A thorough auditing of all the records of Kootenai county, Idaho, and especially those of the office of C. A. Bailor, formerly county assessor, has been demanded by the surety company which has furnished bonds for all this county's officials. Many applications for leases of the grazing lands included within the boundaries of the Nez Perece Indian timber reserve have been received at the agency, but the plan adopted by the department provides for the awarding of leases to the highest bidder, and it is not expected bids for these reserves will be received before May. OREGON SQUIBS. More than 5000 shaded trees will be set out along the streets of Hermiston on Arbor day, April 3. This day was recently designated a holiday by the city council and citizens have taken up the idea with enthusiasm. The Oregon legislature adjourned sine die Friday. Appropriation bills carrying $4,200,000 were passed. Among the notable measures passed was a bill taxing public service corporations on their capital net earnings, which is expected to add at least $25,000,000 to the assessable property of the state and bring in a revenue in excess of $250,000 yearly. “Drillers and other experienced gas producers estimate the daily production at from 400,000 to 600,000 cubic feet as a result of the great gas strike at Ontario, Ore., says David Wilson, president of the Ontario Cooperative Gas and Oil company. Everett, 3 year old son of Samuel Beisell of Cedar Flats, 15 miles east of Eugene, was drowned in a spring recently. He went out to get a pail of water and after 10 or 15 minutes his mother found him face downward in the bottom of the spring. John Campbell, a conductor, aged 25, on a logging train running between Hilgard and a camp on Rock creek, was fatally wounded last night by the accidental discharge of a revolver he carried in a coat pocket. He was brought to the hospital. The bullet pierced his groin and lodged near the spine, but he may recover. MONTANA NOTES. The Whitefish business men have organized a chamber of commerce to boost the country. The Washoe saloon of Butte was held up recently and the cash register relieved of $22.50 by two masked men. The misecgenation bill which prohibits the marrying of whites with negroes or Mongolians passed the house Tuesday. It is reported by trappers that the mountain lions and wolves are killing deer by the wholesale on account of the snow being deep and frozen. The jury in the case of Albert Hatch of Great Falls, charged with participating in the robbery of the Great Northern passenger train, returned a verdict of guilty. Claire McGee, a youth of Missoula, killed himself in a barn at his mother's residence because his sweetheart, Minnie Vandorn, has jilted him. The wedding was to have taken place the day he killed himself. Pat Kelly, a pioneer business man of Montana, aged 70, who is believed to have a large sum of money buried near his home, died recently at Trout Creek. He never married and has no known relatives in this country. Governor Norris has signed the anti-poolroom bill. It goes into effect immediately, and the Law and Order leagues in the different cities wherein poolrooms are conducted will at once take up the matter of its enforcement. Joseph Ormsby, postmaster at Meaderville, formerly a justice of the peace in Silver Bow county, has been jailed upon a charge of first degree assault, sworn to by Alfred St. Louis, a barber, who says Ormsby threatened his life with a revolver. Word has been received of the death in the Philippines of Captain Charles W. Mead, one of the most prominent of the national guardsmen of Montana. Captain Mead went to the Philippines with the First Montana at the outbreak of the Spanish war, and at the time of his death was superintendent of coal mines in the island of Cebu. Mrs. William Crist, aged 85 years, said to be rich, and John Teear, her hired man, nearly as old, were cremated Saturday night when the cabin on the Crist ranch, six miles from Jefferson, was burned. It is believed that they were the victims of a double murder, the motive of which was robbery, and that the fire was set to conceal the crime. CURIOS OF TOZIER'S Legislature of State of Washington Is Asked to Provide for Its Purchase—Was Gathered by Captain Tozier of Revenue Cutter Service While Along Northwest Coast—History of Same. This "Magnificent Collection," as it is called by the curator of the United States Museum in Washington, D. C., was made by Captain D. F. Tozier during the many years he was in command of the United States revenue cutter service of the Northwest Pacific coast. Collection of Indian Curios. Collection of Indian Curios. Captain Tozier was an enthusiastic and indefatigable collector, who spared neither effort nor money in his determination to secure specimens of everything made, and in actual use by the Indians of Alaska, Northwest British Columbia, and the state of Washington. His official duties took him, year after year, into all the bays and harbors of three thousand miles of sea coast. He visited every remote Indian village of the islands and main land, from the Aleutian isles, our most northwestern possessions, down the Pacific shore to the Columbia river, Grey's Harbor, Straits of San Juan de Fuca, Puget sound and Hood's canal, always with the fixed purpose of gathering the most characteristic and valuable specimens existing in the places visited, to add to his collection. It took him years, in some cases, to secure a particular piece that he wanted, and only the most indomitable perseverance and patience, with liberal cash payments, has accomplished his purpose to make this the most complete collection of the work of the Indians of Northwest America, that has ever been made. In addition to the exhaustive Alaskan and British Columbia collection, every known tribe of the state of Washington is represented by its basketry, carving or head work. Many of these Indian tribes are already extinct, while the others are rapidly passing away, or being merged into reservation settlements, so that the distinctive work of the existing tribal remnants of Indians is even now almost wholly lost, or so mixed that the specimens to be found today of recent manufacture are almost value-less for ethnological purposes. The scientific, ethnological and historical value of this collection can hardly be estimated now, and it will grow more valuable as time goes on, if it is properly cared for and preserved as it should be. The few pieces of ancient Indian work in existence today are being scattered all over the world, and it will never again be possible to get together so valuable a collection as this represents, because it is made up largely of the most ancient specimens to be found in Northwest America. In the collection are 11 mammoth house totems measuring from 6 to 12 feet high and weighing from 600 to 20,000 pounds (according to Professor Gilstrap's estimate), which are conceded to be the best representative specimens of this kind of work extant. It is stated on good authority that it cost the British Museum of London $5000 to land only one similar house post in London. There are also the largest and best specimens to be found of war, racing, sealing, fishing and traveling canoes of cedar, and bidarkkas made of skin and intestines. The large war canoe measures 40 feet in length and would easily carry 75 men. A racing canoe is still longer, measuring nearly 45 feet from stem to stern, but as narrow and graceful in line as a modern college shell. There are whaling, fishing, war and ceremonial outfits and paraphernalia. Dancing and ceremonial masks and head dresses of every known tribe in Alaska and Washington. Traveling chests, wonderfully carved and decorated, and more wonderfully joined together. Carved feast dishes of every variety, many of which are curiously inlaid and polished. Curious old seats of ancient design. Copper shields and bead, horn, ivory, shell, copper and silver ornaments. Black slate carved boxes, plates, totems, pipes, small figures, etc. This slate collection is alone a very valuable collection. Over 1800 Baskets. There are over 1800 baskets, ancient hats, mats and pouches, representing the work of every tribe of the state of Washington and Alaska, and showing every variety of weave, twine and coil, and every stitch used in imbricating, embroidery and beading known to the Indians. The study of American art will in time make this collection notable for its variety of artistic designs. The legends connected with them are as interesting as the specimens themselves, and as valuable in this way because they are all that can be secured of prehistoric American literature. This collection is far too large to be properly cared for in any ordinary museum, and many valuable specimens in it are being damaged and forever lost to the world because of the crowded and packed condition in which it is being stored, where moths and destructive vermin have access to it, and have already destroyed many things that can never be recovered. The owner realizes that he cannot himself secure for this collection the home and care required for its preservation, and he desires to have it placed where it will forever receive care commensurate with its value, in order to preserve it for the education of our children and future generations. Education for Children. Knowing that it belongs, geographically and historically, to Northwest America, he has demonstrated his loyalty to the locality in which so many of the years of his active life were spent, by making a most liberal offer of his incomparable collection to the state of Washington for a price that does not equal one-half the value he would receive if sold by the piece during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair. where Indian curios will be in great demand. The United States government has offered to install this great collection if the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair precisely as the ethnological specimens are installed in the United States museum in Washington, D. C., and will deliver it to the owner at the close of the fair, correctly labeled, catalogued and encased in moth and dust proof glass cases, which will be forever loaned to the collection, for its preservation. This would enhance the value of the collection tenfold, with no additional cost to the purchaser, and eloquently proclaims the value which the United States authorities attach to this particular collection, and to the invaluable results of the years of research made by its author. Only Opportunity of Purchase The opportunity for securing this collection can never occur again, since if this state does not take it now, arrangements will be made to take it east during the coming summer. It should, unquestionably, be owned by the state of Washington, its natural home, for the use of the State University, and it should be maintained by the state as the finest, largest, most complete and most valuable collection in the United States, of the work of the Indians of Northwest America. FRANCES H. SCOTT, Chautauqua, Wash. Refued Increase President's Salary Refued Increase President's Salary With its war paint on, the house of representatives defied the senate of congress Wednesday by rejecting its amendments to the legislative appropriation bill providing salary increases for the president, vice president, the speaker, the judicary, and for the creation of the offices of under secretary and fourth assistant secretary of st. patricks party lines were obliterated completely. Not before during the present congress has the speaker been compelled to wield his gavel with such force to bring about order. Of parliamentary tangles there were many, but the veteran presiding officer emerged with his decisions undisputed. Woman Suffrage Passes Senate Olympia, Feb. 24.—By a vote of 30 to 9 the senate has dassed the woman suffrage bill, which now goes to the governor. There is little doubt that it will be approved and the question will come up for adoption by the voters at the next state election. This will be the third time in the state's history on extending suffrage to women. It was voted on at the time of the adoption of the constitution and again at the general election of 1898, both times being defeated. BLAMED FOR IRON MERGER Senate Committee Says President Washington.By a vote of three to two, the subcommittee of the committee on judiciary, which has been investigating the merger of the Tennessee Coal and iron company and the United States Steel corporation, decided that the president was not authorized to permit the absorption. The committee found also that the president was equally unauthorized to direct the attorney general not to interfere with the merger and not to enforce the federal statutes against it. It was decided also that as both companies were engaged in interstate commerce the absorption was in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. It was found that the effect and purpose of the absorption were to monopolize the iron ore supply of the country and generally to eliminate the Tennessee company as a competitor of the United States Steel corporation. SPORTING NEWS NOTES Louis Orsie, last year amateur wetterweight champion of the northwest, was given the decision over Louie Longa, the veteran pugilist, at the end of a four-round contest at Spokane Monday night by Referee George Douglas. To Will R. Chandler of Vancouver, B. C., belong the laurels of the first race ever run over the full Marathon distance in Seattle. He finished more than two miles ahead of his nearest competitor. London.—Johnny Summers, the English pugilist, Monday night received the decision over Jimmy Britt in a 20-round bout. Cheered on by the shouts of the great crowd which thronged the Golden Gate park stadium, at San Francisco, and the discordant hooting of countless automobile bile horns Otto Boeddiker of the Olympic club ran the last 800 vards of the long Marathon course Monday. He is a plumber. Want Pardon for Taylor Louisville, Ky.—Kentucky's most vexatious political and penal problem has emerged again with a petition presented to Governor Willson by Caleb Powers for the pardoning of former Governor W. S. Taylor, former Secretary of State Charles L. Finley and John L. Powers. The paper was signed by 15,000 citizens of Kentucky, regardless of party. England Clings to Free Trade Lodon.—After a debate lasting two days the tariff reform amendment to the address in reply to the king's speech from the throne was defeated in the house of commons by 27 votes to 107. ANGRY MOBS ATTACK GREEK COLONY OF CITY. ANGRY MOBS ATTACK GREEK COLONY OF CITY. All Because a Greek While Under Arrest Had Killed a Policeman—Two Boys Were Shot and Eight Seriously Injured—Ottumwa, Iowa, and Kansas City Also Scene of Violence. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 22.—Following a harangue at a mass meeting at the city hall in South Omaha Sunday afternoon, at which two members of the state legislature and an attorney were the principal speakers, a wild mob of 800 to 1000 men started for the Greek quarter to avenge the death of Patrolman Edward Lowery, who was shot and killed Friday night by a Greek whom he had placed under arrest. Before their thirst for blood had been satisfied two boys were shot and at least eight persons had been injured by heavy missiles which the crowd used as weapons and not less than 30 buildings were partly demolished. The injured boys are Frank Sweeney and James Gamble, each about 15 years old, who received part of the contents of a shotgun fired into the crowd by the maddened Greeks. 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Express charges prepaid on all drug orders STOWELL DRUG CO., SPOKANE, WN. were sent to their homes. Greeks' Homes Smashed. A crowd of perhaps 600 to 1000 quickly gathered to augment the size of the mob and a general assault was begun on the homes and business places of the Greeks. This attack was centered at Twenty-sixth and C streets, where is located the principal Greek quarter. The maddened crowd began its work of destruction by throwing stones and bricks through the windows of stores and houses known to be occupied by Greeks. In a very short time have was made with the fronts of these places and the stocks of the stores were quickly laid waste. Two blocks east another crowd smashed the front of a saloon and several daring spirits attempted to pillage the interior, but a squad of police charged the crowd and prevented the mob from securing the liquor at this place. It was here that the two boys were shot and the other persons injured. A third crowd rushed to Twenty-fourth and L streets and attacked a confectionery store run by Demos Brothers. The big plate glass windows were quickly smashed, the doors kicked in and the stock and showcases destroyed. Mrs Mary Demos and her aged father were in the store and both narrowly escaped death at the hands of the mob. Other Foreigners Assaulted. The three attacks were made almost simultaneously and the destruction was completed before Chief of Police Briggs could get his scattered forces together. Meantime Sheriff Brayley collected all the deputies possible and rushed them to South Omaha to aid the police. It took some time to organize this force and during the interval Greeks were attacked on every hand. The members of the mob assaulted many Italians and Rumanians who were mistaken for Greeks. The lawlessness lasted for three hours before a semblance of quiet could be restored. Small Riot in Kansas Kansas City, Kan., Feb. 22.—Following a quarrel Sunday in Kansas City, Kan., between a Greek laborer and an American, a general fight ensued in which four men were painfully hurt. Fifty Greeks were being attacked by a crowd of 600 men and boys armed with sticks and stones when the police reserves arrived and arrested a number of the participants. Ottumwa, Iowa, Feb. 22.—Angered by the brutal attack by a negro upon Mrs. Charles M. Johnston, the invalid wife of a traveling salesman, a mob of 1000 men and boys Sunday night surrounded the jail, thirsty for vengeance upon the unknown culprits. Four negroes were locked up as suspects, and John Junkin, a negro suspected of the murder of Clara Rosen, two weeks ago, was hustled out of town to avoid the mob's fury. Company G of the national guard was held in barracks, in readiness for action. GIVE SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITIONS Government Expert Will Demonstrate Use of Water on 20 Acres Near Spokane During Irrigation Congress. Officiels of the United States department of agriculture, under the direction of Dr. Samuel Fortier, chief of irrigation investigations, will make demonstrations of the scientific application of water on a 20-acre tract of land near Spokane during the sessions of the 17th National Irrigation Congress August 9 to 14. The following committee has been appointed to select a site and make the other neces ary arre rangement C. M. Speck, chairman, Spokane; Walter N. Granger, Granger, Wash; W. T. Clark, Wenat-thee, Wash; E. H. Libby, Lowiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Wash; C. E. Burlingame, Walla Walla, Wash; O. L. Waller, Pullman, Wash; James Stephenson, Jr., Boise, Idaho; Alexander McPherson, Twin Falls, Idaho; Irving Worthington, Irrigan, Ore; E. E. G Hopson, Portland, Ore; I. D. M. Donnell, Billings, Mont; Dwight E. Heard, Phoenix, Ariz; Frank H. Short, Presno, Cal; L. G. Carpenter, Fort Collins, Colo; Ada Dobson, Linecoln, Neb; Gordon H. True, Reno, Nev; L. Bradford Prinee, Santa Fe, N. 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He was surrounded by the admirals and captains of the 16 world-circling vessels, brilliantly attired in all the gold lace and paraphernalia of special full dress uniform, and every glass was raised in response to the president's suggestion. "We stay-at-homes also drink to the men who have made us prouder than ever of our country," added the president, and against the toast was pledged. "Proudest Moment of Our Lives." "When the fleet sailed from San Francisco, Mr. President," replied Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, "you sent us a message, saying that ours was a heavy responsibility and a great honor. That we have today fulfilled the responsibility makes this the 'plewd' moment of our lives. I say 'we' advisedly in speaking of the fleet, for no one man could have done what has been done without the loyalty and the willing cooperation of every man on the fleet. Thus briefly the commander-in-chief of the returning ships made his official report to the commander-in-chief of the army and navy. The president was in the same joyous mood as he was when the ships set sail, 14 months ago. "Do you remember the prophecies of disaster?" asked the president. "Well, here they are," he added, pointing to the ships, returning after 14 months without a serach. "I say it is magnificent." Visited the Flagships. To the men and junior officers the president expressed his appreciation and the thanks of the country for the prestige which the cruise of the fleet had given to the American navy by making visits to the four divisional flagships. On the Connecticut were gathered detachments of bluejackets from all of the other ships of that division and the same was true of the companies on the other flagships. Going aboard the Connecticut with the crew manning the rails, or drawn up at attention on the quarterdeck and after bridge, with the band playing "The Star Spangled Banner," and the forward guns firing the salute of 21 guns in his honor, the president passed first down the long line of officers along the starboard rail and paid a cordial greeting to each one. Previously on the Mayflower he said a personal word of congratulation to all of the flag and commanding officers. On the Connecticut the president went upon the barbette, or steel foundation of the armor turret, with its protruding 12-inch rifles, and in the shadow of those great guns he briefly addressed the crew. Roosevelt Addresses Crew. The president interspersed his prepared remarks freely with asides and particularly caught the fancy of the men when he told them he was immensely satisfied with the gunnery work thus far accomplished. "You have done A1 in smooth water," said the president, "but what I want to see next year is a target practice under conditions in rough weather and water." The bluejackets on the bridge started the cheering, which was caught up by the white-gloved officers. "For if you ever have to fight," continued the president, "you can not choose your water." Again the men burst into cheers. The men are enthusiastic on anything pertaining to target practice, and the rivalry between the different ships both at record and battle practice is intense. The men cheered again when the president declared that this was the first battle fleet ever to circle the globe and that any other nation that ever attempted a similar performance must follow in the footsteps of America. "You have done the trick," he exclaimed, and the quick response of the men brought a glad smile to the speaker's lips. "Other nations may follow," replicated the president, "but they have got to go behind." Pacific and Atlantic Coast. 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Will Walker was over from Bozeman this week, when last here he was vanquished, in the Buck and Wing contest, but he got even this time by beating all comers playing pool. J. C, Smith, the barber, was called home last week by the death of his father. He left for Topeka, Kansas, last Thursday. Eureka Lewis, one of the victims of the recent street car accident, on payment of his $500.00 claim, left for his home and mother at Vicksburg, Miss. Black millionaires were the order of the day on Upper Main St. last week just after the Street Car Com pany settled with its victims. Quite an interesting debate was the feature at the St. James Literary last Wednesday evening. Mrs. C. E. McEvoy, who has been quite ill is reported as much im proved. Ward D. Cole left last Friday for Spokane, Wash , and while gone will visit Seattle for the Fair. It is indeed unfortunate that there is friction at St. James Church, and the efforts of all to help out are seem ingly not appreciated. Mrs. A. Marlowe and husband enter tained at dinner Sunday Messrs. L. R. Bailey and C. D. Martin. Mr. Baltimore of Billings was a visitor in Helena last week. Will Smith, ex manager for Lloyd's place has returned to the city, and is again on duty at the old stand. J, H. Taylor and family have moved back into the city, having tired of rural life. Perry Nichols left last week for Seattle, where he will reside for the Fair. The Afro American Building Association is busy working out plans for a new building, which will contain a public hall. The weather for the past few days has not been very encouraging for the coal man. The home coming of the only A, J. Young has been looked forward to with a great deal of interest. Richard Lewis of Butte is a visitor in Helena. One of the best programs that has ever been rendered in Helena was given by Mrs. A. Palmer at St. James Church Thursday evening. The leading talent of the state was presented. Mr. William Jefferson, one of the leading baritone soloists, rendered a beautiful solo. Recitations and readings by Miss Greenleaf and Miss Fitzgerald, and a vocal solo George Lee, Jr. completed the program, after which an elaborate supper was served. We Miss Palmer much success in her undertakings. Miss Vera Simmons is indisposed at her home. Mrs. Eugene Ingram is ill at St John's Hospital. We are glad to see Mrs. Howard among us again. We are pleased to learn that Mr. Jeffer son has decided to make Helena his home. Rev. Wm. Gilliard left Saturday for Ana conda, to which charge he has been as signed. Strong Board of Din Means a Strong Insti Strong Board of Directors B. F. WHITE, President First National Bank of Dillon. R. S. FORD, President of the Great Falls National Bank. W. A. CLARK, Virginia City, Executor of Henry Elling Estate. A. P. CURTIN, Helena, Merchant. R. C. WALLA, President Company. HON. JOSEPH EERNOR of F. GEORGE L. R. FRANK BOGAN S. MCKENNAN Union Bank & Trust HELENA, MONTANA. --- Mrs. Cora Johnson returned Wednesday from Great Falls, where she was at the bedside of her sister, who has been very ill. Mr. R. L. Bailey, who has been here since last fall, and has been employed at the Montana Club, left last Tuesday evening for Lincoln, Nebraska, where he has employment at one of the leading hotels. THE PLAINDEALER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW The dapper young man made his get away so quick and easy. Arthur looks so lonesome since John and Gus have gone. A certain young lady is always hunting another certain young man. Miss Ruth Hooper should not make a specialty of elocution. The big hit she made at the Lincoln Day exercises warrants it. The other party was so anxious to know what the Plaindealer would say. The Street Car Company manufactured millionaires so fast last week. The cigar store caters so strongly to the colored trade. Is it a brace game, or get the money quick? The white man on Upper Main St. lines up so quickly with the colored boys in the poker games, but has the restaurants to put out a sign: "No Colored Trade Solicited." Some of our "Holier than Thou" people, who consider themselves better than all others, condescend to ask those same people for their patronage at any thing, time, or place. The young ladies have failed to provide the usual return to the gentlemen in the way of entertaining. There is so much friction at St. James Church. The party who camped in the Plaindealer Office last Thursday night failed to leave his address. Will Walker stayed in one place so long. Wm, Holland calls himself the Solo King. Wesley Cottles was of such good nature last Monday. George 1, George 2, and Wesley made those down town trips last Thursday evening. Jeff likes Helena so well. Kid Bailey does not like the mountain air. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE DATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. 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We ship without a credit deposit in advance, please pay for. TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and if you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to to us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone receive our catalogues and learn our unhindered offers to rider agents. We save $20 by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar- door. We sell the highest grade bicycles at the wonderfully this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We treat satisfied customers and profit above factory cost. you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at day received. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. retired roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and the usual retail prices. PUNCTURE-PROOF $80 RES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY Montana Pla READ The Montana Plaindealer! making money fast. Write for full particulars and special offer at once. We wish to anyone, anywhere in the U. S. without a cost deposit in advance, prepay freight, and put it to any tat you wish. MAIL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES The highest grade bicycles it is possible to make to $25; middlesmen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guide at any price until you receive our catalogues and for a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and for a pair of factory prices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and wonderly low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for our other factory. We are satisfied with $4.00 profit above cost. BICYCLE AND OTHER FACTORY. We furnish our bicycles under your own name plate at our prices. Order filled the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a hand on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES. equipment of all kinds, roller chains and pedals, repairs and repairs COASTER-BRAKES, single wheels, imported roller equipment of all kinds at half the usual $ 5.0 HEDGETHORN PUNCH SELF-HEALING TIRES The regular retail price of these tires is $3.30 per pair, but to introduce we will HEDGE THORN RECORD PUNCTURE PRODCT SELF HEALING TIME CO. UNIT A/D porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that their tires have been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given on a hard surface, and are covered on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $5 per pair for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same da same day day after is received. We ship C. O. D. on examined and found them strictly as represented. (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you close this advertisement. We will also send one returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are really reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a will find that they will ride us easier, run faster, fire you have ever used or seen at any price. We fire you have a bicycle you will give us your order, ence this remarkable tire offer. y any kind at any price until you send for a pair of orn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at write for our big Tire and Safety Catalogue which es at about half the usual prices. it today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined it. We will allow a week discount of 5 per cent (thereby making FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this a nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at O not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find wear better, last longer and look finer than any tires you have know that you will be so well pleased that when you want. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this rent. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this rent. You don't buy any kind of the special introductory price quoted above, or write for describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY (Forward from page 1) systems, prolonging school terms, teaching the people to buy homes, build houses and live decent lives, are fighting the battles of this country just as truly and bravely as any persons who go forth to fight battles against a foreign foe. "In paying my tribute of respect to the Great Emancipator of my race I desire to say a word here and now in behalf of an element of brave and true white men of the South, who, though they saw in Lincoln's policy the ruin of all they believed in and hoped for, have loyally accepted the results of the Civil War, and are to day working with a courage few people in the North can understand to uplift the Negro in the South, and complete the emancipation that Lincoln began. I am tempted to say that it certainly required as high a degree of courage for men of the type of Robert E. Lee and John B. Gordon to accept the results of the War in the manner and spirit which they did as that which Grant and Sherman displayed in fighting the physical battles that saved the Union. "Lincoln also was a Southern man by birth; but he was one of those white men of whom there is a large and growing class, who resented the idea that in order to assert and maintain the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race it was necessary that another group of humanity should be kept in ignorance. Lincoln was not afraid or ashamed to come into contact with the lowly of all races. His reputation and social position were not of such a transitory and transparent kind that he was afraid he would lose them by being just and kind, even to a man of dark skin. I always pity, from the bottom of my heart any man who feels that somebody else must be kept down or in ignorance in order that he may appear great by comparison. It requires no courage for a strong man to kick a weak one down. "Lincoln lives today because he had the courage which made him refuse to hate the man at the South or the man at the North, when they did not agree with him. He had the courage as well as the patience and foresight to suffer in silence, to be mis understood, to be abused, to refuse to revile when reviled. For he knew that if he was right that the ridicule of today would be the applause of tomorrow. He knew, too, that at some time in the distant future our nation would repent of the folly of cursing our public servants while they live and blessing them only when they die. In this connection I cannot refrain from sug double or SECOND usually have sell you a sample pair for $4.80 (cash order $4.55). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air. Outside. Thirty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. **DESCRIPTION:** Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, verdurable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becom gesting the question to the millions of voices raised today in his praise. 'Why did you not say it yesterday?' Yesterday when one word of approval and gratitude would have meant so much to him in strengthening his hand and heart. "As we recall tonight his deeds and words, we can do so with grateful hearts and strong faith in the future for the spread of righteousness. The civilization of the world is going forward, not backward. Here and there for a little season the progress of mankind may seem to halt or tarry by the wayside, or even appear to slide backward; but the trend is ever onward and upward, and will be until some one can invent and enforce a law to stop the progress of civilization. In goodness and liberality, the world moves forward. It goes forward beneficiently, but it moves forward relentlessly. In the last analysis, the forces of nature are behind the moral progress of the world, and these forces will crush into powder any group of his manny that resists this progress. As we gather here, brothers all, in common joy and thanksgiving for the life of Lincoln, may I not ask that you, the worthy representatives of seventy millions of white Americans, join heart and hand with the ten millions of black Americans, these ten millions who speak your tongue profess your religion,—who have never lifted their voices or hands except in defence of their country's honor and their country's flag—and swear eternal fealty to the memory and the traditions of the sainted Lincoln-I repeat, may we not join with your race and let all of us here highly resolve that justice, good will and peace shall be the motto of our lives? If this be true, in the highest sense Lincoln shall not have lived and died in vain. "And, finally, gathering inspiration and encouragement from this hour and Lincoln's life, I pledge to you and to the nation that my race, in so far as I can speak for it, which in the past, whether in ignorance or intelligence, whether in slavery or in freedom, has always been true to the Stars and Stripes, and to the highest and best interests of this country, will strive to so deport itself that it shall reflect nothing but the highest credit upon the whole people in the North and in the South." Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This must hast any other make- SOFT, LASTIC and EASY RIDING. THE MALLORY CRAVENETTE Soft and Stiff Hats are the best. We Sell Them MART, SCHAFF FINE CIN GANS & K ESTABLIS READ THE PLAINDEALE SCHAFFNER & NE CLOTH TS & KLEIN ESTABLISHED 18 PLAINDEALER AND KE MART, SCHAFFNER & MARX FINE CLOTHES GANS&KLEINCO ESTABLISHED 1866 READ THE PLAINDEALER AND KEEP POSTED Helena PACKING·AND·PR WHOLE OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY The Family Theatre, AND PROVISION HOLESAI ISH, POULTRY, FRUIT, BU Family GENTRAL PACKING AND PROVISION COMPANY WHOLESALE OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY, FRUIT, BUTTER & EGGS The Family CENTRAL BEER HALL 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, Tinner. TIN, COPPER and SHEET IRON WORK Stove and Furnace work a Specialty. 315 N. JACKSON ST. • Helena, Mont Strangers visiting the Capital City will be given a hearty welcome at all times at the Manhattan Club, 17 South Main Street Helena - - - Mont. Our Specialty Diamond Setting Expert Watchwork Monogram Engraving Chas. H. Pratt Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut Glass and Novelties 19 N. Main Street Opp Grand Central Hotel Helena, Mont. FURNISHED ROOMS Inquire 221 Breckenridge St. Mrs. M. A. Cole --- FIER & MEYRX LOTHES LEIN CO. NED 1866 R AND KEEP POSTED OVISION · COMPANY ESALE , FRUIT, BUTTER & EGGS GENTRAL BEER HALL AND RESTAURANT Henry Rossman Proprietor. Telephone 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 Billiard and Pool Tables in Conne ction. All Appointments UP-TO-DATE. 38½ Park Ave. Butte, Mont. Sawed and Split Wood and COAL. Yard, 437 W. Main St. Residence 370 Water St. 'Phone 632-F. Helena, Mont. C. DUMAS, MGR