Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vol. 111 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 Montan Plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PROSPERITY! UNION!!! EDITORIAL The Plaiddealer wishes It,s aeaders a happy New year and an other year of ptosperity. City treasurer A. J. Duncan has made an enviable record in that position and is no wonder that his friends are boosting him for a promotion. When that Billings push goes after anything it generally lands It we heartily congratulate her. Major Generals Jack Johnson and Jim Jefferles continue to be the most talked cf. POLITICALLY, WHERE IS THE NEGRO AT? We have been watching the Press throughout the country for some days to see (1) if Senator Cullum, o Illinois, would himself rise and refute the charges that he has gone on record as favoring the wholesale dischancement of the Negro citizens in the South. (2) As to whether President Taft would deny that he is wrongly quoted as concurring with the Senator's views, but the Associated Press has afforded us no relief. We have waited in vain for refutation from either of the distinguished representatives of the G. O. P. and take for granted that they must be accurately quoted. That being the case all we have to say is, words are inadequate to express our surprise and disappointment, especially when viewed in the light of what the Negro has suffered for those very men and the party since the day of emancipation. When we think of the oceans of Blood shed by the Negro and men—we mean white men—of the North to perpetuate the principle of the Republican party, when we think of all this, and more, we are astonished beyond utterance that right now at this particular hour we are "wounded in th house of our friends," lacerated and thrown overboard and now into the sea just where our late lamented leader, Frederick Douglas said we would be if we ourselves desert the party now. What would Mr. Douglas say were he alive today—can any one guess? And what is this sacrifice on the alter laid, namely listen and think as you read: "To build up a lily white Republican party," Where is the Negro at? The Freeman --- P Arthur Palmet made a hit as assistant Chef at the Big Masonic Bangvet Monday night. er of the Church. The much discussed question as to the value to be placed upon Arthur Palmet made a hit a Big Masonic Banquet Monda the church in the affairs of men is never a problem to fair minded men, when the question is reduced to its final analysis. That through the inspirational power of the Church, the desire Hen. Nick Chiles the Vitrolic Editor of the Topeka PLAI EALER for better things ramifies every portion of our racial and national life all will agree. Coarles H. Dillard well known here who's father met with a fatal cident at Topeka Kansas. It is to this great force that we owe the preservation; in a great measure, of the morals of the race through two and a half centuries o slavery. This inquitous system which did all to brutalize and debauch, and which fattened on degeneracy, the result of its existance, would have made impossible the rebeen for the preachments of the demption and salvation of the American Negro, had it not made a mockery, and Christian- were all influenced to the through the preachment of crude, unlettered men w faith in God and could His word with a power th the consecrated knew. The Negro leaders in Churchhoe joined with the as assistant Chef at the day night. ity little less than a jest, there arose out of suffering's night, a star of hope—the Negro Church. And so Nat Turner, Denmark Vrezey and other of that type were but the product of these preachments and the light they saw was a reflected illumination radiating from the fires that burned on the alter of the Negro Chaaley Black of Butte one of the boys Church. The Negroes who fled to the swamps and withstood masters, overseer and blood-hound; the Negroes who followed the North star to a land of Emanuel Cortez fsmovs boy senor. freedom, and who through the underground railway found the pathway to liberty and light were all influenced to this effort through the preachment of these crude, unlettered men who had faith in God and could deliver His word with a power that only the consecrated knew. The Negro leaders in these Churches joined with the abolitionists. They stood with Garrison, Lundy, Phillips and Harrison, Beecher, Stowe. The strongest of them was that local preacher, a slave, who escaped from Maryland's East-have his marriage legalized. He took on a sir-name, and his children born in wedlock knew the J. W. Bush formerly of Helena now making good in Chicago. mother. These children he placed in schools organized and fostered by Negro Churches and Negro preachers. And with the great denominational schools—those of the Freemen's Aid and Southern Educational Society, the African Methodist Episcopal the Zion, the C. M. E., the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the Epis Short Fenter of Butte one of the best all around bevs in the Northwest. copalian, the Catholic, and American Missionary Association School all worked to one end—the education of the Negro—these forces took this dead mass, breathed into its nostrils and breath of life—the Negro stood up and became Alonzo Leatherbury pioneer oeadWalttrer of Anaconda. While working for elevation of mind and salvation of soul, the Church urges the condition of realty holdings and the develop- The Manhattau Club on New year's day. ment into the highest possibilities of cithizenship. The influence of the Church as a factor in racial development can never be made a second to any other force. This is as it should be, for with the coming of Christ men have been teachern shore rebauching clavery,—Frederick Douglas. Following in his wake, working with him, were such men as Binggeld Ward, Raile A. Payne, Henry Highland Barnet, Alexander Crummel and the mightiest spirits of that time, whose names do not wither and tion of their teachings the Negro whose deeds can never pass away Everywhere under the inspira-Gospel of Jesus Christ during those awful years. In the darkness of that hour when real religion had been ing the duty of man to man, The Church through the centuries, has been the hope of the common people. It afforded opportunity for the lower classes to rise when all else failed. As the highest exponents of the ability of the Church to produce great men—men who by way of The late LouiS Onil of Butte. the Church can rise to prominence in affairs of State and religion, and become most morally instruments for the furtherance of the cause they represent and the uplift of humanity, we need but behold the distinguished guests of the evening, the Hon. Ernest Lyons, Minister Plenipotentiary to Liberia, and Bishop I. B. Scott, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Church to Africa. One of the most striking and interesting things about the American Negro, and on that has impressed itself upon my mind more and more in the course of the preparation of these articles, is the extent to which the black man has interwined his life with that of the people of the white race about him. While it is true that hardly any other race of people that has come to this country has remained in certain respects so separate and distinct a part of the populationas the Negro, it is also true that no race that has come to this country has so woven its life into the life of the people about it. No race has shared a greater extent in the work and activities of the original settlers of the country, or has been more closely related to them in interest, in sympathy, and in sentiment than the Negro race. In fact there os scarcely any enterprise of any moment that has been undertaken by a member of the white race in which the Negro has not had some part. In all the great pioneer work of clearing, forests and preparing the way for civilization the Negro as I have tried to point out, has had his part. In all the difficult and dangerous work of exploration of the country the Negro has invariably been the faithful companion and helper of the white man. Negroes seem to have accompanied nearly all the early Spanish exploreres. Indeed it has even been conjected that Negroes came to America before Columbus, carried hither by trade wind and ocean currents, coming currents, coming from the west coast of Africa. At any rate one of the early historians, Peter Martyr, mentions "a region in the Darian district of South Africa where Balboa, the illustrious discovere of the Pacific Ocean, found a race of black men who were conjectured to have come from Africa and have shipwrecked on this coast." It is said that the first ships built along the Atlantic coast was constructed by the slaves of Vesquez de Allyon, who, one hundred years before the English landed there, attempted to found a Spanish settlement on the site of what was later Jamestown, Virginia. There were thirty him in building the first ship that was constructor on the Pacific ocast of America. Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, had three hundred Negro slaves with him in 1522, the year in which he was chosen Captain-General of New Spain, as Mexico was then called; and it is asserted that the town of Santhiago del Principe was founded by Negro slaves who had risen in insurrection against their Spanish masters. story of Esteven, "|little Steve," Negroes with the Spanish discovered, Balboa, and they assisted a companion of Panfilo Narvaez in his exploration of Florida in 1527, who afterward went in search of the seven fabulous cities which were supposed to ge located somewhere in the present state of Arizona, and iscovered the Zuni Indians. Negroes accompanied De Soto on his march through Alabama in 1540. One of these Negroes seemed to have liked the country for he remained and settled among the Indians not far from Tuskeree, and became in this SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL OVER THE ENTIRE GLOBE. Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. Slough J. Fletcher, millionaire owner of the Fletcher National bank of Indianapolis, died the 25th. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was the man to initiate a typical Yankee Christmas in King Daudi Chwag territory Saturday. At Spartansburg, N. C., Miss Myrtle Hicks, one of the three women mail carriers in the United States, was fatally injured by a train the 25th. Christmas brought to New York a snowstorm, cheering all who delight in winter holidays and gladdening the heart of the small boy with his new sled. King Edward spent Christmas in the good, old-fashioned English way, with his own family, and as a private country gentleman, at Sandringham house, Norfolk. The railway labor situation at Chicago has been aggravated by a flat refusal of the Chicago & Northwestern to grant the demands of the locomotive firemen for increased pay. Mexico now harbors Zelaya, the defeated and unpopular ex-president of Nicaragua, embarked under heavy guard at Corinto on a gunboat for a trip to Mexican port Saturday. Nine persons were crushed and mangled Christmas when an interurban car sturck the rear end of another car while rounding a curve two miles from Mount Pleasant, near Pittsburg. Made despondent through illness and the desertion of his "affinity," who returned to her home and family in Auburn, N. Y., J. T. Hill, a young liverman of Sacramento, ended his own life. The first section police of Russian secret service here arrested two men and four women charged with being implicated in a plot to kill Czar Nicholas and the czarina while at Moscow this week. Reports from various parts of Spain about the recent storm state that the damage is incalculable. Railway communication with Portugal has been cut off except by one route, which was recently inaugurated, and 20 villages in Leon have been inundated. Reports which have been received at the British legation in Peking regarding the suppression of opium smoking show that considerable progress has been made in the northern provinces and in Yunnan and Kwangtung. Brussels.—The Twentieth Century, an organ of the government, quotes "an authoritative person" as confirming the religious marriage of King Leopold on his deathbed. It also says that a few days prior to this, Baroness Vaughan received holy communion. Judge Horace H. Lurton has tendered to President Taft his formal resignation as judge of the United States circuit court. This step is preliminary to his assuming his place as a justice of the United States supreme court in succession to the late Rufus J. Peckham. Berlin.—Owing to the defective means employed in heating the church of Gefrees, in Upper Bavaria, 30 men and women and all the school children in the gallery were rendered unconscious by poisonous gases during the sermon. Henry S. Yamishita, a Japanese, and Maude Lawrence, a pretty white girl of 18, were married at Tacoma Saturday by Justice Graham. The pair came from San Francisco accompanied by the bride's mother and will return to that city to make their home. Rumors that will not down link the names of Mrs. Alva Willing Astor, divorced wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, New York, and Lord Curzon of Kedleston. Another rumor has it that the beautiful young woman with $10,000,000 is to marry Captain Ponsonby, the hero son of the earl of Bessborough. DISCHARGED FOR LIGHT WEIGHT Pennsylvania Railroad Employees Are Discharged. Nineteen employees of the Delaware & Hudson railroad shops were recently discharged because they weigh less than 150 pounds, and it is expected that others under the weight will lose their positions soon. H. L. Wilson Leaves Belgium. Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 28.—The new ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson of Spokan3, Wash., retiring minister to Belgium, has left Brussels, the legation being in charge of U. Grant Smith, secretary, pending the arrival of the new minister, Charles Page Bryan, formerly minister to Portugal. Strange Disease Kills Dentist. Omaha, Neb. — Dr. Leonard J. Schneider, a dentist, died recently of Polio-myelitis, a strange disease which attacks the gray matter of the spinal cord and which has been the puzzle and despair of physicians here. Artist Remington Dies. Ridgefield, Conn., Dec. 27.—Frederick Ramington, the artist, died here Sunday of appendicitis after a brief illness. He was operated on last Thursday. FARMER NOT TO BLAME. Nelson S. Pratt, mayor of Spokane, a successful farmer and lumberman in the Mississippi valley and the Pacific northwest, takes exception to the statement by James J. Hill, who says the present high cost of living is chargeable to the extravagance, carelessness and lack of thrift of the agricultural classes of the country. Mayor Pratt said: "I am more than surprised that a man with the understanding and observation of Mr. Hill should undertake to make such sweeping charges, in view of the fact that the methods of a quarter of a century ago are not to be compared to the present systematic mode of farming. There is nothing to bear out Mr. Hill's contentions. "As the result of a recent visit to some of the largest districts in the middle western and Pacific states, I am prepared to say there has never been a time when general farming was conducted along such economical lines as at present. In fact, the methods of today are marvels to those who farmed land in the '80s. Had we been as thorough then as are the farmers of today, we certainly would have been equally successful. Agricultural colleges and experiment stations have been and are important factors. "It is not overstating the case when I say that the present-day farmer conducts his operations along the same lines that prevail in a well-organized business establishment, and as a result he is making a good living, educating his children and putting money into substantial improvements, as well as into the bank. "It is idle talk to charge the high cost of living to the farmer, as it must be plain to any one who has studied the subject that at least three causes contribute to increasing the prices of the necessities of life. The large production of gold during the last few years is an important factor, in that it has resulted in making money cheap, and, to a great extent, no doubt is responsible for increases in prices. Cheap money means high prices. "Perhaps the greatest factor for the present high cost of living is the tariff, which, I believe, enables manufacturers to combine and compel the consumers to pay enormous and unreasonable prices. Such farm products as beef and pork are controlled entirely by the so-called beef trust, while butter, eggs, cheese and poultry are handled by cold storage companies and kindred combinations, and the prices of cereals are fixed largely by the speculative boards of trade and stock exchanges. "As a matter of fact, I found while in the Mississippi valley, a short time ago, that the prices of butter, eggs, cheese and poultry are nearly as high there as they are on the Pacific coast, where the demand at present is far greater than the supply. I also learned from reliable sources that these products are almost entirely controlled by combinations and not by the producers. "I hold no brief for the farmers of the country, but from an experience of almost a lifetime, until about 15 years ago, as a farmer, born and raised on a farm, I know that the system employed during my time was no comparison to the present method of farming. Intensive farming, by the use of water supplied by scientific means, was then largely an experiment, and so-called dry farming, or more properly soil and moisture conservation, was in its very infancy. These methods are successes today, as is evidenced by crop gains, taking acre for acre. "I challenge Mr. Hill or any one else to show any period prior to 1894, when they were larger acre yields of grain and fruits, grasses and roots than at the present time, and with this I would also ask him to point to any year when the farmers were more prosperous than they are today. Extravagance, carelessness and lack of thrift and progress and prosperity do not go hand in hand, and that fact alone answers Mr. Hill's broad statement, which I am charitable enough to say, probably was made by him for the want of something to say in fixing the causes leading to the present high cost of living." TAFT FAMILY'S CHRISTMAS Washington.—The first Christmas of the Taft administration was joyously spent. While the capital was nearly denuded of statesmen, the day retained its old-fashioned spirit. President Taft and his family observed Christmas in the White House and there were a number of visitors to wish the family happiness. The day at the White House was spent quietly. There was no Christmas tree and no stockings were hung. Only members of the Taft family were at the White House in the morning. Shortly after arising the Taft family gathered in the library and the president distributed the gifts to Miss Helen, Robert and Master Charles. He was given many in return. The White House was decorated with holly and Christmas greens. Every attache of the White House was given something. Mrs. Taft received as a Christmas gift from women of the cabinet a beautiful diamond brooch. If God had intended us to tell all we see He wouldn't have given us two eyes and only one tongue. 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—Fall Outlook Is Good. WASHINGTON STATE NEWS The main line of the Northern Pacific from Spokane to Tacoma and Seattle is to be shortened 100 miles during 1910. The Sound steamer Columbia, a vessel of 120 tons, was rammed and sunk by the steam schooner Tiverton at the Standard Oil company's wharf at Seattle. One of the largest land sales made in Sprague district was consummated recently when T. N. Lynch sold his farm of 560 acres for $22,400. The land is eight miles south. Charles S. Voorhees, prominent Spokane attorney, for two terms territorial delegate from Washington to the United States congress, one of the pioneer residents of the city, died at his home Sunday. Heart failure is given as the immediate cause of death. Eastbound mail train at Odessa Sunday struck the buggy of John Schimke, seriously injuring the three occupants, John Rougust and Ruth and Talbert Schimke, the latter two being the children of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Schimke of Odessa, aged 9 and 6 years respectively. The driver died the same day. Ben. Bergunder, one of the oldest and most prominent residents of Colfax, fell recently on an icy sidewalk and is confined to his home in a serious condition. The Seattle National bank and the Puget Sound National bank, two large banking houses, are to consolidate. Governor Hay signed final discharges the 24th which gave liberty to 25 convicts who have been working all summer on state road work in the Cascade mountains. In the 13 banks and trust companies of Spokane, with a population of 125,000, there is a larger aggregate capital stock than in the 19 similar institutions of Denver, Col., a city with about 220,000. A Washington nurseryman has closed a contract to furnish 46,000 fruit trees to be set out on 500 acres at Priest rapids. The order will contain 24,000 apple trees and 22,000 peach trees. A stabbing affray occurred at Ione recently in which a lumberjack by the name of Kirby was seriously if not fatally injured. With wheat at a dollar and higher, wheat men believe the high prices will be not only maintained, but are destined to go to still greater extremes by spring. Convicts at the state penitentiary gave their minstrel show Christmas afternoon, and gave it well. A stage was erected in the dining room and set with scenery furnished by the theaters in the city. The actors and the audience, with perhaps a dozen exceptions, were all prisoners. Judge R. S. Lovett, successor of E. H. Harriman as head of the great Harriman system of railroads, has already taken steps to meet the effort of the Seattle Commercial club, acting, it is believed in New York, with the backing of James J. Hill, to divert the China trade to the northern port, so it is said in Wall street. Whitman county won the grand sweepstakes prize in the boys' corn growing contest inaugurated by Washington State college and the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company last spring and set a pace for older corn growing states in the yield. Four counties competed in this contest and the winner of the sweepstakes prize of $100 had the yield of 93 bushels an acre. This was Warren Love of Garfield, whose two brothers are graduates of Washington State college and whose father is a prominent farmer. IDAHO ITEMS Carl Overhalter of Moscow, was recently arrested in Pullman by Deputy Sheriff Roberts, charged with having deserted his wife of a year and an infant daughter. The big mines and the majority of the smaller mines and the prospects in the Coeur d'Alenes closed for Christmas to give their employees a vacation. The period of these vacations varied from two days to 10 days. The main producers allow two or three days' holiday. According to Sany McLaughlin, aged 35, well known in Sandpoint and surrounding country by woodsmen, he has fallen heir to about $500,000. A free library for Sandpoint is proposed. Wallace will have a library inside the next year. By the beginning of the second semester at the University of Idaho there will have been completed one of the most up-to-date testing departments for dairying in Morrill hall of any similar institution in the country. Farmers bring cream and sell it to the experimental station at good prices and the institution buys all that is offered. Any surplus is made into butter and sold in the local market at 40 cents a pound, retail. Paddy Burns, a miner from Pierce City, has been judged insane and taken to the Idaho insane hospital at Orofino. As a forceful commentary on the better times prevailing in Wallace Christmas season than previous is the fact that the number of destitute families is only one-fourth as great as last Christmas. Gilbert N. Lightfoot of Enaville Idaho, died Sunday morning at Spokane, the result of a blow struck, it is alleged, by Sam Lewis, a young cabdriver, during a saloon brawl. Lewis, who is now in jail, may have to answer the charge of murder. Harry Crofoot, aged 65, for three years head farmer at the Fort Lapwai Indian agency, has been arrested, charged with selling liquor to Indians. For the third time Mrs. Siotha Riggs has launched her craft on the sea of matrimony, being married to James F. Marcum, well known in Nez Perce. MONTANA NOTES. While searching for a man named Charles Laher, who is wanted for the forgery of a cheek which he cashed with Miles Milligan, Sheriff Wells of Miles City, stumbled onto what he thinks is a "robbers' roost," on the island in the Yellowstone, known as Milwaukee park. J. W. Olinger, a former resident of Nebraska and well known Black Hills character, during an altercation recently shot and killed Dan Keater, in the former's saloon at Newton. It is said that Keater held Olinger responsible for his arrest on a charge of running a hurdy-gurdy house, for which he had just completed a jail sentence. "I'm guilty of making that counterfeit money. I alone. No one else helped me," emphatically declared 80-year-old Joseph Lee, anent the charge against him of making and passing counterfeit coins, to which he had only a few minutes before entered a plea of not guilty in the federal court at Helena. "I want to stay with my son John until the trial comes off. He didn't have a thing to do with it. He stayed with my wife, with whom I have not lived for 20 years. Our affairs have been entirely separate," he continued. The Christmas season of 1909 will go down in the annals of Butte as one of the most prosperous ever enjoyed by the mining metropolis. A Great Northern passenger train, in charge of Engineer R. W. Larter and Conductor Mathews, was derailed Christmas night at Stonehill, 72 miles west of Whitefish, by a journal on the baggage car breaking. The car broke down and tore up a part of the track. All the cars following ran onto the ground. Engineer Larter stopped before he had gone more than the length of his train and the frozen ground prevented the wheels from sinking. The Montana legislature met Monday in extraordinary session to consider the character of materials to be used in the new wings to the capitol, authorized at the last session at a cost of $500,000. Because of the high price of Montana stone the board of examiners authorized the use of Bedford (Ind.) stone and a contract was made on that basis. Montana residents protested against the use of foreign stone, but this came to naught until the labor unions discovered that there was a strike on at Bedford, and then pressure for an extra session to make an appropriation so that Montana stone could be used became irresistible, and it was called by the governor. Now it develops that the Indiana firm with which the contract was made has never had any trouble with the unions, but in the meantime demands have been made for the use of other Montana products and these will also be considered by the legislature. Indiana outbid Montana by $58,000 on the stone. Legislators are serving gratis during the extra session. OREGON SQUIRBS The Oregon Short Line has recently received 500 new box cars with steel underframes and an exceptionally large cubic capacity. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Triest of San Francisco were arrested recently and charged with passing forged checks at Roseburg, Ore. and Chico, Cal. Reports from the vicinity of Vale, in the northern part of Malheur county, indicate that Oregon is destined to become one of the oil producing states. Six companies are drilling in the vicinity of Vale and one company reports having struck oil at a depth of 1,000 feet, which flows at the rate of 150 barrels a day, but the report has not been verified. Because a five-mill tax failed to produce sufficient revenue for the town needs members of the council at Creswell "passed the hat" among the business men and during the week seured an additional $200. FRUIT GROWERS ACT Dayton Commercial Club Backs President J. L. Dumas. Dayton, Wash.-Action has been commenced by the Dayton Commercial club to offset damage done the fruit growers of the northwest by the recent publication and circulation of articles against President J. L. Dumas of the Washington Horticultural society, who is leading fruit growers in their fight on the Porter and Lefaean bills, which propose to change the size of the standard apple box, and thus destroy the commercial pack of the Inland Empire apple growers. These articles, say the Dayton commercial organizations, are thrusts made by eastern fruit commission men who are opposing the northwest growers, believing that their own interests will be furthered if the Lefaean bill passes. Cooking Turkey: Burned. Los Angeles, Dec. 26.—Mrs. Polly Bolotin, who suffered frightful burns when she used kerosene to encourage the fire under the family's Christmas turkey, died a few hours later. He Is Fighting Now to Keep the Price of Corn Down Low—He Is Known to Be Nearly 20,000,000 Bushels “Short” and Stands to Lose Nearly Two Million Dollars. Chicago, Dec. 26.—With the dawning of Christmas day James A. Patten, whose recent corners in cotton and wheat have made him a dominant figure in the bourses of the world, is entering upon the most desperate speculative battle of his career. Surrounded on all sides by enemies and facing a rising market he is fighting fiercely to keep down the price of corn. In spite of his most strenuous efforts the cost of that commodity has risen from 10 to 12 cents above the price at which he sold it. He is known to be between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 bushels of corn "short." Unless there is a radical change in market conditions in the near future, his enemies say, the one time "wheat king" by May 1 next will be metamorphosed into the "corn goat" to the tune of $2,000,000 or more. Already Mr. Patten has suffered huge "paper" losses. All indications point to those losses being greater instead of less. During the last month he has been playing Santa Claus to large sets of farmers throughout the west and southwest. The farmers saw the Christmas money possibilities of the corn market about the same time that Mr. Patten did. But from a different angle. Patten Sells; Price Goes Up. That was last August. Mr. Patten sold corn and the farmers bought. Ever since then the price of corn has been going up. With the beginning of the Christmas season the farmers began to close out their line at profits of from 6 to 10 cents a bushel. Meanwhile a group of corn "bulls," composed to a large extent of cotton men, whom Mr. Patten squeezed severely in his recent incursion into the southern cotton market, have organized to keep the price of corn up and have joined with the farmers in their efforts to make things unpleasant for Mr. Patten. That means that Mr. Patten must continue buying corn now while corn is going up, for if he waits for prices to go down a situation may arise which will make it impossible for him to get hold of corn at any price. Also, there is the danger that corn may go to $1, as the bulls confidently assert. A ROYAL TRIP. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EXCURSION JANUARY 17 Many Prominent Resort Points Will Be Visited. "If I could only have * personal talks with every one considering a trip, or could have them talk with one who accompanied our excursion last year, we wouldn't be able to get cars enough to carry them," says Harry Munson, city ticket agent for the O. R. & N. Co. at Spokane. From the time the train leaves the depot at Spokane until long after the arrival at Los Angeles, the party is just like one great big family. Acquaintances are soon made and all go in for a good time. One of the nicest features of this trip is that all arrangements are made beforehand for the party to see the prominent resort places of California at their best. Sufficient accommodations are made for all. Some of the side trips taken and hotel facilities could not be purchased for ten times the money. When an excursion as large as this comes to California the people there treat the party like kings. They want you to see and have their best. From Spokane the rate is $99. From Walla Walla, $94. This includes every expense on the going trip—Pullman berth, all meals on diner and at the palatial hotels, all side trips and entertainment, also a hundred mile trip by trolley through the orange groves at Riverside, Redlands, etc., and the return ticket. Tickets will be good for three months and good for stopovers. An itinerary of the trip will be mailed any one on request. Berth reservations are coming in rapidly, over 150 now booked. The number will be limited to about 200. The train will consist of eight Pullmans, two diners, observation car and baggage, 12 cars in all. Access may be had to trunks in baggage car at any time on the trip. For further particulars, write Secretary Chamber of Commerce, or H. C. Munson, Agent O. R. & N., Spokane, or to R. Burns, D. F. & P. A., O. R. & N., Walla Walla, Wash. Taft Rules on Whisky Whisky is whisky, President Taft has at last decided. It is whisky when made of neutral spirits, says the president, if reduced to potable strength. But it must be branded so that those buying it may know just what they are getting. King's Brother to Canada According to the political program the duke of Connaught, brother of King Edward, will succeed Earl Grey as governor general of Canada in 1910. Serious consideration, it is an announced, is being given by President Traft and members in congress to the question of attempting to enact a federal incorporation act in advance of a final decision in the Standard Oil solution. There appears to be an important difference of opinion between Mr. Taft and his advisers, who want him to withhold the message which he has announced he will send to congress. It is understood that Mr. Taft thinks business generally will suffer if the supreme court affirms the finding of the circuit court in the dissolution case, and that he strongly favors what might be termed "vaccination" of the body corporate by the administration of a legislative remedy before the evil appears. On the other hand, congressional leaders fear such a course would merely supply ammunition to opponents of the administration by giving them an excuse to charge that the force of the Taft regime is being directed toward creating a shelter for women. If the president should submit his recommendations soon after congress reconvenes and should follow what he said to be his present inclination, he would ask for the passage of a federal corporation law without delay, on the ground that honest business is measured under the interpretation of the Sherman anti-trust act given by the circuit court decision in the Standard Oil ENUMERATORS' TASK EASY. Census Director Durand Sets February 5th as the Date. Washington, D. C., Dec. 27.—Any person of good judgment, who has received an ordinary common school education can readily and easily pass the test to be given applicants for census enumerators' places on Saturday, Feb. 5th, the date set by U. S. Census Director Durand, according to an announcement from the census bureau. This will be a comforting assurance to the several hundred thousand persons who are lived to be contemplating application for the places. It was emphatically stated at the bureau that the test will be an eminently reasonable and practical one, similar to that applied to applicants at the twelfth census. It will consist of filing out a sample schedule of population from a description in narrative form of typical families, and, in the case of enumerators whose work will be in the rural districts, they will be called on to fill out an additional sample schedule of agriculture, from information furnished by the census bureau. All persons, whether women or men, who may desire to become census enumerators, must be citizens of the United States; residents of the supervisor's district for which they wish to be appointed; must be not less than 16 nor more than 70 years of age; must be physically able to do the work; must be trustworthy, honest and of good habits; must have at least an ordinary education, and must be able to write plainly and with reasonable rapidity. Those who can comply with these requirements are invited to put in their applications, as there will be at least 68,000 enumerators' places to be filled by the middle of March in preparation for the enumeration beginning April 15th. Application forms, with full instructions as to filling in, and complete information concerning the test and the method of appointment can be secured by writing to the supervisor of census for the supervisor's district in which the applicant lives. All applications, properly filled in, must be filed with the supervisors not later than January 25th, as any received after that date cannot be considered. DAY WAS SAD ONE IN CHERRY Miners' Widows Moun in Illinois Town. Cherry, Ill.—There was no Christmas in Cherry Saturday. Only a semblance of the Yuletide spirit was seen, for despite all the efforts of charitably inclined persons, the dominant spirit of grief that has held this little mining town since the fire in the St. Paul mine, on November 13, was unhidden. Toys and sweets by the carload had been sent to Cherry to be distributed among the half orphans, and they were happy. But all day long the kin of the bruised dead surged about the little cemetery and stood by the little mounds. At the mouth of the sealed pit in which lie the bodies of 200 or more miners, there gathered scores more of peasant women who were deprived of the poor consolation of even seeing their dead. Drops Dead on His Steamer. Captain Theophilus Greene, aged 59 years, one of the best-known navigators on the Pacific coast, dropped dead of heart disease Christmas day just as his steamer, the Vason Island was making a landing near Seattle. He was father of Captain J. W. Greene, master of a government boat at Santiago, Cal. Killed by Policeman. San Francisco, Dec. 27.—Andrew McCormick, said to be a member of the Industrial Workers of the World from Portland, Ore., was killed Sunday in a pistol duel with Patrolman A. W. Bigelow, after the policeman had been shot in the arm and a bystander slightly wounded in the head. The battle followed a row in a saloon. General E. H. Farman Dead. Washington.—General Ezra Hayes Farman, since 1905 chairman of the Chicamauga and Chattanooga park commission, died at his home here the 25th, aged 75. He served throughout the civil war. — . There is a broad distinction between “needs” and “wants.” The man who is careful to spend only for his “needs” will some day be able to have what he “wants.” He who will have what he “wants” often “needs” other things far more. Start a Savings Account with the money you do not “need.” We will allow 4 per cent interest, compounded semi-annually. ; Union Bank&Trust Co. HELENA, MONTANA. {GALS ee ees Trade with the Helena Packing and Provision Co. Mr. Ed. Miller was over thi: week the guest of Miss. M. John son. Dr. M. O. Ricketts of St. Joe mo. will visif Helena in March ch will be on an official visit as Grand Master of Masons of which of which the local lodge is « part Mr. N. Ferd has been on the sick list this week. It is said there will shortly be big doings iu Masonic circles. The babtist church are seeking new quarters the the present building having been, out grown. H. J. Robinson was in the City thia week frem Alhambra. Rev. B. R. Guy and wife were the recipients of many valuable and useful present for Xmas. The big possum dinner did not materalize on account of a bone head firm in St. Jce failiug to keep their contract, Word was received in this Citv last Sunday that Harry Simmons had been sc unfortunate as to be in a wrebk and was severely injured. Mrs. Bighee cf Great Falls visited her sister Mrs. Ed. John- son last week. Word reaehes us that Wm. Mason and wife are yet so-journ- ing in Los Angeles picking roses while we throw snowballs. Senator Murril and the big mock Congress will be the next attraction. H. Anderson has not announced a new itenerary for some days. The way that ihey wait for the Plaindealer, it must have the dode, Mrs. H. Saulsburg left for Bill- ings Wednesday evening where she will visit friends at L. Somer- villee for a few days. Mrs. J. Gaines who has been East for six monthshas rewu-ncd 0 Helena. ° ’ sare _ Dr. Miles’ — LHR . e ‘ e-~ Restorative Nervine . - Makes Weak Nerves Strong. It can be relied upon in all cases of Nervous Exhaustion, brought on by * over-work, or great mental effort. It restores Nervous Energy. ‘ It allays irritation. It assists the Nerve Cells to generate nerve force. Its soothing influence upon the nerves brings restful sleep-nature’s rest per iod so essential to the tired, worn-out mind and body. . For Headache, Neuralgia, or any pain or distress, you will fmé almost instant relief by taking a Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills. They are sold by all druggists, and you may try either of these remedies on the positive guarantee that if the first bot- tle or package does not benefit, your druggist will return your money. Wwe * repay the draggist the full retail price, 80 it is to his interest to refand if called upon to doso. e* > Miles Medical Co.,, Elkhart, Ind. MASON CELEBRATE What was unquestion the neat- event pulled off in in the capital city for many days was the banquet given by Unity Lod e No. ror at the Elks Hall Monday night, | It was St. Johns Day the Mason’s their families and frieops gathered there all faultlessly dressed and the Mnsons with their finest regalia. The following program and menu was rendered. Unfty Lodge Abresa, E.L. Clark Music Mrs. C, Heward Tribule wives daughters and sister, G. W, Alexander Sr. Music Mas.C, Howarg A message from the Daatern Star. Mrs. J, R. Alexander A Closer bonb of Union H. J. Bake’ paper Mrs. J. L. Ellis Rncitatiod Miss Kuth Hooper Adrees Rev. BLR. Guy Masorry’s tribute to race progreas J, B. Bass CHICAGO NEWS THE MOntana Plaindealer' Mr. William Delacy is one ef our Proment and most efficient Police ‘Officers of the Police Department in Chicago. Mr, Delacey is one among the promnent coloed men of Chicago andistaking an active interest ir the number of enterprises for the advancement and bettering the conditionsof the colored people in Chicago. Officers Delacy is now stat. foned at the Harrison Street Police Station in Chicago, cS - ‘1H EACH TOWN (i WANTED—A RIDER AGENT 2200: ot Saeisge Oy sezeie Lees Medd Ranger! heels tlibed by oe Dernamscreneton es NS Sibi ones st rae laced per dirs and seta oer a once 5 NO MONE REQULAEL eal you teeta soot Sout Cel We hip ‘a vit Saree yhere in the U.S. without a cent deposit in advance, proper /reel. and ' (NG es ‘DAYS’ FREE THIAL during which time you may ride the bloyele and Pa HAND et ey rates rey, toe re hen oc nesecy aka or Sonat st NV] Lt TORY PRICES Oc formes ine Lassen erik Biycles his posthie te make h Wim FACTORY PRICES 2 occ oat iy 'Scatl Lory ena "Vou cave bs Ye ‘ 'S; Ce oa a, direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar- PRAM soko Sicel res Sx BEY a Weyele crs pirat tees fos aopons I MMMNRTD sey are "el you rece par caloturs sed ste oat aabeand of clos NN MRUIN Vou Gi GE ASTORIGRED ornare omental colons Ni Wap YOU WILL. BE ASTONISHED m:s> "> sors cus beaut alone and dee pr canta you ts ya, Werf err ade ice eee f BaP Soa es, chia" bac Wes excsded ‘wie fuss peat clone etry eo 4 "BICYCLE DEALERS. you can sell our bicycles under your own ame plate ai Ig SBcox Wako WAC CEE We LS ety tad wr fund ees mally have. nussber om hang tikes ia tide by ot Chicago reat sores ‘These we leat out promis st prices tabging front 8S te OS or BIDS Dersee tas is Pale ee Siogis “Sisclat imported Totter’ shales att pedis, sane: o GCOASTER-BRAKES, Societe sl intatat Aa)’ he nstd vad ys, = 5.0 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF $f 80 SELF-HEALING TIRES foinmmsouce'ou? QB ~ TO INTRODUCE, Y The regular retail price of these tires is ‘ * $8.50 fer pain, bul fo introduce et]! ——— J isowasimplehoirtordt cathalthorici S) ras s NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES (7S Thi NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the eer ANS air out 'Siaty thouesid palrs sold lat year. ss ANS Mim inn ipo Vr DESCRIPOION: Masi na sizes I: istively ainlcaey anger uated ised oewit a Moyes qeeigel mutter wach severe, an oan ued whic closes up sail posciarcs witout allow. Pog theatrtoescape. We have nundrcisof ietterstrom satis ml Notice the thick rabber tread Scicuntomerssiating Hat thelr tires avconly been pumped QU ay Dp,Pancture stripe "irs uponce ortwice ina whole season. 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L°MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, — CHICAGO, ILL a : paves SeeeSs -»-—SO JEN, Shke Rev. A.J. Carey Pastor at the Institutional A.M. EB Church, in thi City, preached powerful anb eloquent sermon toa large congregation on last Sunday Eyeing. There is no doubt but what Rev. Carey will make the Instl. A. M. E, Churh, the leading and the most proment department, known asa “Day Nusery” to give Rev Carey their unaniomus and heart; support. ‘Mrs, Albert Fletcher left the City Oct. 9th for Omaha, having been called away on acount fo the illness fo Mrs, Hattle Thomas a former resident of Chicago. Evans Tyree, Manager of Columbia Tennesse Jubllee Singers, left this week with his company on their Seasons work. They visit all the proment cities in the East and West returning to the city for their vacation probably May 1, 1909. 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Bausch, Tinner. TIN, COPPER and SHEET IRON WORK Stove and Furnace work a Specialty. as NN. 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. Jar Specialty Diamond Setting Expert Wetchwork Monogram Eagragie Chas. H. Pratt Watches, Clocks,:Jewelry, Cut Glass and Novelties 19 N. Main Street pp. Grand Cartel totel Helena, Mont. FOR RENT Inquire 221 Breckenridge St. Mrs. M, A. Cole — Eugene Bourquin Dealer in Sawed and Split Wood and COAL, Yard, 437 W. Main St, Residence | 370 Water St. "Phone 632-F. | Helena, Mont. CNTR BER HAL Furnished R or Houses by the Day, or Month Apply "5 East Street Helena, Montana C. DUMAS, MGR. Billiard and Poo! Tables ia nection. All Appointment UP-TO-DATE. 38 1-2 Park Ave. Batte, The Unionvill DAIRY Prompt Dilivery Milk And Creat Wholesale Axb P.0. BOX No “ ; ; ; 60. YEA z, ExPERIENa “trace mat commantg pues anes Bees ae sepefren, Set thors Me. rickoot cour s "Scientific Ameri ee meget rom He | inn C koa . £0020 eae —— Rev. J. F. Thomas 10 returned from Hot Spe sey ypanyo 39:2ed see Mr, Frank H. Yeris ducts a place for railroad Sist street and Armovt been very sick.