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 Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter April 12 1906, at the Post Office at Helena, Montana, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PROSPERITY! UNION!!! EDITORIAL The commission form of Government, we believe, is intended to in a large degree to eliminate politics from municipal affairs, we thing Helena is about ripe for such a form of government if it was only within the law. DRYBURGH THE MAN In our last issue we indicated that we should, in this issue, submit what we thought to be the best course for our people in the pending campaign in the matter of mayor for Helena, to be voted for next Monday. All that the thinking members of our race ack for is a SQUARE DEAL and Mr. Dryburgh has unmistakably shown that attribute not only now but all along during his public as well as private career, and we are forced to believe that in him we have a man who is sincere in what he says. This being the case, we see no reason why the Hon. John Dryburgh should not receive a hearty support at the hands of our people for the position to which he aspires. There has never been a time when this paper has failed to take a stand on both men and measures, but we have reserved the right at all times in local affairs to speak of men and what we think they stand for regardless of their politics. If in our opinion they are good men, we do not hesitate to say so. Montana has only one Doctor Lanstrum. The man, black or white, who takes money for his vote should be disfranchised; look out for them next Monday. John Wendell of the First ward should have the undivided support of our people, he is a man who represents the masses and who can be depended upon at all times for a square deal for all. The issues of the pending campaign are now up to the people, and with three candidates all pledged to municipal ownership of the water plant, the same should be realized in the next two years. The present campaign has been short and lively with all the guessers in the air Some of the candidates will be in the market for kicking machines after next Monday. John Wendell, the old warhorse of the First Ward will make the race again as alderman from that ward, barring accidents he looks like a sure winner. H. H. GUTHRIE FOR POLICE JUDGE The present incumbent, Judge Henry H. Guthrie of Helena's police court, is a candidate for re-election. He stands squarly on his record in that position. If he has made good he asks the indorsement of the citizens for the second term he has been a resident here since 82 and has never held an election office except this position he has a large following of all classes who are loyally giving him their support re-election. LINCOLN WORKING CANDIDATE FOR POLICE IUDGE Former County Attorney Lincoln Working is a candidate for the office of Police Judge to be filled by election on next Monday, April 4th, 1910. He made a good record as County Attorney and there is no doubt of his qualification for the office of Police Judge. E. Fishel, old resident of Helena, well known and popular is the democratic candidate for City Treasurer and asks the support of all the people. 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 dischisement 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 reeman Helena, Montana, Friday, April 1 1910 REPUbIiCAN TICK ET A StRONG ONE REPUbIiCAN TICK ET A StRONG ONE For Mayor, John Dryburgh, with a large and varied experience as alderman from the seventh ward, makes his especially fitted for that office, with his slogan "A Square Deal For All" he is carrying everything before him for a triumphant election. Geo. L. Elmer for City Treasurer, is one of our young and progressive citizens who is well adapted to handle the city's finances and will make a worthy success to the present gentleman who has so successfully filled that position. John Wendell the old republican war horse of the First ward is again a candidate for his old seat which he filled for years with signal ability for the welfare of all the people of Helena, and there is no doubt of his election. Chas. Reifenrath has creditably represented the second ward for the past two years, is a candidate to succeed himself and will re- ETTS AND PARTY ROYALLY RECEIVED The most worshipful Grand Master of Missouri and jurisdiction of which the local lodge here is a part, has come and gone; his presence here has been of great benefit to the craft as well as to the citizens who were fortunate enough to hear him. His address at the banquet tendered him was a master-piece of which everyone present hung on to the last word for fear they would miss something which this eminent speaker should say. He was greeted by an immense gathering which tax-banquet was held. There was, ed the capacity of Elk's Hall at which place the exercises and contrary to expectations of all, no program to speak of. And while on an occasion of this kind it is not strictly ethecal for the honored guest to do all the entertaining, such was his lot which he done to the entire satisfaction of all present. But the Plaindealer would suggest that another time with such a distinguished guests, there should be a program consisting of your talent. So that the visitors shall not form the opinion that because you have none that it is a lack of talent and for the further reason that it is eminently proper and right that the guests should be entertained and not put strictly in the role of entertainer. The splendid paper of Mrs. R. J. Alexander saved the day to some extent, and probably the Grand Master and visitors thought we were conserving our other resources for some future time. Also the two instrumental solos by Mrs. Clarinda Howard and Miss Carlotto Ford were creditably rendered and enthusiastically received. T. P. Mahmmit the genial editor was equal to the occasion and paid a high compliment to the order and citizens at large. As also did R. D. Buller of St. Joe, Mo., who was introduced as the man with many titles. But the crowning efforts was the masterly and eloquent address of Grand Master Dr. M. O. Ricketts, who held the audience spell bound as the gospel of race progress and the things that go to make a race, his telling points were received with ceive a hearty support for a second term. C. O. Connor is just the man for alderman from the Third Ward; a young and entergetic business man, alive to the interests of the city; he is making a winning race for that position. J. R. Witmer of the Fourth Ward will win hands down, and the Fourth ward is to be congratulated on having a man of Mr. Witmer's saliber to make the race, he wil receive a hearty support from all classes and is assured of an election. C. S. Caird has served the people of the Fifth Ward faithfully and well and will be elected to succeed himself. Hans Valentine is the man who will represent the Sixth Ward after May 1st, in the city council. The Seventh ward presents E. C. Murry who will be elected from the Seventh Ward. deafening applause. Our only regret is that we were unable to procure his address and publish it for our readers. After Dr. Ricketts address, the guests and visitors partook of one of the greatest feasts ever prepared in these parts. It is another regret that no printed program of menu, etc. was prepared so that each guest would have had at least a souvenir of the greatest banquet of them all with such distinguished guests present as on this occasion it is an almost unpardonable error. VISITS LOCAL LODGE On the first evening that the Grand Master was here he paid an official visit to the local lodge at which time he exemplified the first three degrees, there were two candidates for the occasion. On Friday afternoon he visited officially the order of the Eastern Star of which he is also the Royal Grand Patron. The sisters made it an open meeting for all master masons and it was indeed a red letter day for the Eastern Star. The Grand Master and his two assistants, T. P. Mahammitt and R. D. Butler, were busy during the rest of their stay in conferring the higher degrees, about 20 taking up the higher degree and on Friday evening and Saturday they set up a chapter of Royal Arch Masons and a commandry. The Grand Master and party were much pleased with their trip to this section and so expressed themselves as to the beautifully city of Helena and the hospitality extended to them. They also spoke in glowing terms of the reception accorded them in Billings and Havre and the same spirit of hospitality which they met everywhere. On the last day of their visit here E. L. Clark, H. Saulesbury, N. Ford, H. Baker and J. B. Bass procured open carriages and provided a drive over the city for the distinguished visitors so that they could see the beautiful homes and the scenery. MRS. BALTIMORE ENTER- TAINS The ladies of the social set of Billings were delightfully entertained Friday afternoon by Mrs James Baltimore. Those present were: Mesrames W. Browning C. Browning, Abbott, Reed, A State Library The New York Dry Goods Store Silk Petticoats futt, Sims, Hart, Harrison, Rhodes and Reynolds; Misses Lewis, and little Josephine Harrison, the table was tastefully decorated with Green and natural pinks sisted of soup, grape fruit a La Mayonaise, Turkey, Creamed potatoes, Pink Ice Cream, Cake, Black Coffee. After spending a very pleasant evening in social chat the ladies retired declaring Mrs. Baltimore to be an ideal hostess. with pink and green candies. A handsome silver candlebara formed the centerpiece. The elegant menu which con- HON. WILLIAM T. VERNON Register of the United States Treasury Man with a Remarkable Career A Story of Enedavor and Successful Struggle—Proof That Unselfish Devotion to Race Has Its Reward. By R. W. Thompson (Freeman) The man of any race whose signature is necessary to give value to the legal tender and bonded securities of the greatest government on earth is bound to occupy a large space in the public eye, when, however, the man who attains that dignity is found to be a member of a race that but little over forty years ago was held in chattle slavery by the very nation which now honors him with such a trust, his career may be set down as one of the marvels peculiar to the world's most remarkable century. Willian T. Vernon, Register of the United States Treasury, is the central figure of a story that reads like fiction. Of imposing stature and engaging personality, he would attract attention in any crowd. Mr. Vernon was born in Lebanon, Mo. His parents, Adam and Margaret Vernor, desired to give their children an education, and he, with younger members of the family, entered the public school in his native town, and remained there until fifteen years of age, when he entered Lincoln University—the State school for Negroes at Jefferson City—graduating therefrom in 1890 as valedictorian of his class and class orator, having worked his way through college. He taught school in Bonne Terre, Mo., for two years, and was then called t othe principalship of a public school in his home town of Lebanon. After four years of service there he resigned to take charge of Western University, at Quindaro, Kan., a part of the educational system of the A. M. E. Church. This institution then had but one small building and a half dozen students, and he was the only teacher. He remained there from 1896 to 1906, during which time he had secured appropriations from the State of Kansas, which have grown until, with recent appropriations, these augment a quarter of a million dollars, in additions to other donations and collections. The institution now has 130 acres of land, five large buildings, a faculty of twenty teachers and nearly 400 students. There is now in course of erection upon the campus a commodious girl's dormitory, worth over thirty thousand dollors. It wil furnish space for one hundred and fifty young ladies, and will be a steam-heated, electric-lighted and thoroughly modern structure. The institution has its own heating and lighting plant. Mr. Vernon became active in religious and educational work among his people, as well as prominent in the political affairs of Kansas. He rendered valuable assistance to his party in several exciting State and national campaigns, and, because of this, in addition to his personal merit, sterling character and administrative experience, he was appointed Register of the Treasury by President Roosevelt in 1906. This responsible position had previously been held by but two Negroes, former Senator B. K. Bruce and Captain J. W| Lyons. Co well pleased were the trustees of the Western University with his work that when he was appointed Register of the Treasury he was re-elected president of that institution, and granted leave of absence while serving the United States government at Washington. Dignified in bearing, as befits his official standing he is is the soul of geniality to all, from the most exalted to the humblest. He is, indeed and in truth a man of the people—"everybody's register of everybody's treasury." It may be interesting to state that Mr. Vernor is not only the youngest colored man who has attained the position of Register of the Treasury, but no man, for the past fifty years, has attained his office at such an early age. Not yet forty years o fage, his career promises even greater things for his race. His struggle from a one-room log cabin through the university, where he labored to pay his way, up through the front rank as an educator and church leader to the highest place held by the race in America, is an inspiring study for the young Negro who is sometimes disposed to view his prospects "as through a glass darkly" because of the numerous obstacles that confront him. The history of the Negro race will never be complete without the story of this man's rise ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA AND WASHINGTON. ‘A Few Interesting Items Gathered From Our Exchanges of the Sur- rounding Country—Numerous Accl- dents and Personal Events Take Place-- Business Outlook Is Good, WASHINGTON ITEMS. Jue Vdlouse Youds aré iu bad shape, aecuiding to reports. Fullsowu wheat aud rye have stood jue winter frosts us tine shape aud are Well advanced for this time of the yeur, Four women aud six meu, two of Wwhout are’ Ghinese pliysiciaus, were ar rested ut Seattle receutly ou charges Of piwetiving medicine without a state hivense, ‘At Walla Walla Prosecuting Attorney Smith aud Sherif! Mavilaud reeently served warrants gu men accused of gambling, eight men having beea caught up to midnight. Iu am explosion at the Dupent Pow der works near ‘Tacoma recently three workwea.were instantly killed and sev eral injured. ‘The dead are Eugene Wheelon, Julian Witten and Charles Holden. Bids for the construction of a hydro- electric plant on the Entiat river, to cost’ approximately $500,000, will be opened early in April and it is said construgtion will be commenced as soun as the contract is set. Oil Fuspector KF. A. Clark of Everett will sotain. his position, Governor Hay being convinced that there Js no merit to Yhe ‘charges brought against the in- spector ty the relatives of Clark's dis charged: former chief deputy. Tus, pigiest sien, ever paid for qudrttr stetion in the vieinity of Pa loosetveay given Saturday afternoon by John Nagletor the J, T, Simpson farm five miles cast of Palouse, which he bought for $90.an acre, or $14,000. City Mayshal ‘Jack’? Dietriek, wh was killed by Martin Kloos, who late shit hitnself Thursday night while serv ing as-eity marshal at Northport wat shot, in the groin four yeurs ago as b was making an arrest, by a half-breed anil *batne ‘near dying at that time. Hijected from the ministry because i is ‘glleged he had resorted to writin worthless checks when le found it im possifiie to4ive on the salary, H. D Stanley, ..a former minister of th Methodist church in Seattle, is unde arrest Yor fraudulently taking subseriy tions to a fashion paper. His arres Vrought, a. flood of messages to polie headquarters, showing that he is wante in Tacoma and Everstt for various o fonsea: 6 = Gharles,Ufpn, a saloonkeeper and pol tician of Georgetown, a brewery subur of Seattle,’was removed Saturday fro1 the-jury panel of the superior court i whigh be had been serving, placed i the prisoners’ dock and sentenced to 3 days "tn jail And to pay a fine for sel ing aliqnor to. minors. Ufen had bee conyjeted of selling liquor to an aut mobilé party of girls and boys, thre of whiom-avere ‘Accidentally killed soc after.gpasting home. - IDAHO JOTTINGS. ‘THe Tdahd Northern has a large foree of taen st work. on. its line between, Bnayille and Murray repairing the dam- age eased by “high water. : ‘Listhe Ira Russell, who wandered away,.from Cocur d'Alene City while playing with his brother, was found drowhed in a’ small creek near Spirit Laker’ * Avgreat strike. has just Veen made on the Muckie property, near. the Anaconda mine, six miles by trail from Newsome and*‘¥om four ftom the Harmon-Mor- rows mine. 5 Governor Brady visited the Lewiston State Normal school recently and ex- pressed himself ay extremely pleased With, the manner in which the appropri ation for the new normal buildings had been expended. Feit Giuber, “sentenced at Coeur d’Alonerdity to hang May 20 at Boise for the killing of J. H. Billings, and Osea Snyder, sentenced to from onc to 14 years in state prison for stealing chickens, were taken’ to Boise by F. D Rich, a guard of the prison. ‘The efforts of the government t prové that 6,240 “acres on whieh th Washington Water Power company wai given ancasement for $1.25 an acer is susceptible of drainage and there fore Valuable for farming is ended a Coeur#*A lene. Professors MeCafferty and Chedsey 0 the mining department, with about dozen”mining students, will spend th spriifg vaeation from April 9 to 17 i and ground .the mines and smelters a Rossland and Trail, British Columbis ‘The party will leave Moscow the ever ing of April 8. Whether Charles Rundaye, aged 2: employed at a logging camp near En: ville, was murdered while under th inthuence of liquor and his body throw into the pond or he fell in while tryin to cross gnd was drowned, is a que tion Coroner L. E. Hanson will try t solve: Superintendent of the state fis hatebéry,’ located on the south sid of Lake Pend Oreille, D. L. Oliver, bi left tor the southern part of the stat where he wil superintend the takir of fish spawn from mountain strean of that section of the state. Darin the coming season about 600,000 eg; will be received and hatched at th hatebery, the matured fish to be planted in the streams of the six eounties in the northern part of the state. Mr. Oliver will be gone about two monthe. ““Ydaho corn-fed hogs have wrested the laurels from their corn-fed middle western cousins, according to returns ‘yeceived by C. C. Day of Asotin, who recently shipped to the Union Stock- yards company of Portland 60 head of 10 and 18 months old hogs that aver- aged 336 pounds each, and sold for 1112 cents a pound, The returns said they were the finest lot of hogs that had ever come into Portland and that the price brought was the highest in the United States since the civil war. The purchase of Magill’s business is a part of the plan formulated by the farmers’ union convention held in Lewiston a short time ago, when North {daho and Asotin county, Wash., were formed into a distriet to establish a system of farmers’ warehouses, and other grain storage plants at different points in Nez Peree and Idaho coun- ties are being negotiated for. The farmers of Grangeville and Fenne will ‘also operate houses of their own the coming season, a company having been formed there in the last few days which has leased the houses of the Interior Warehouse company. ————— Clinton Smith, an old-time rancher of Tobacco Plain, committed suicide re- coutly by shooting himself with a .30- 30 carbine. Professor Condon; for eight years city superintendent of Helena schools, has received notice of election to a similar position at Providence, R. 1, and will accept. Kalispell Odd Fellows have just bought three lots, 75 feet, on First ave- nue west and Third street, where they will erect a lodge hall. Five thousand and five hundred dollars was paid for the site. ‘The Spokane Jefferson society has recived word from Governor Edwin L. Norris that the subject of the latter’s Jetferson day address in this eity, Apri 13, will be ‘Policies of Jefferson, the Creed of the Nation.’? Plumbers wie now receive $6 a day jot eight hours at Great Falls have made a demand upon the master plumbers fo1 a raise of a dollar a day with half bol |iday Saturday. “If the demand is no granted the men will strike. | Eli Lumbardi is in the county «jai at Butte accused of having shot an |\cilled Lad Petraneaovich and wound ing Bozo Jakavieh, presumably in eon sequence of a quarrel about a game 0 cards, The shooting oceurred in a sa loon. After piling all his effects in a nea heap on the bed, writing a note to friend and direeting the details of hi eo Peter Weiss, smelterman Great Falls, swallowed -earbolie aci He was found dead on the floor besid his conch, Charles Ordish, who trapped durin |the month of February in the Yak country, was filed with the county cler and recorder his elaim for bointy o 10 timber wolves, which he trapped du Jing that month. As the state pays bounty of $10 each for timber wolve | Mr. Ordish’s claim amounts to $10 In addition to the wolves he also kill ,|several mountain lions in this vieini .|for that purpose. Governor Norrig has received a lett from Secretary Ballinger stating th there will be no more eause for co1 plaint of dismissal of clerks in the fe |eral land office in this state. Monta ; {is making a half million aere lieu sele " [tions for Iands’as substitute for lan surrendered in forest reservations, ax a|getting no results, made protest in ; own behalf through the governor, a | also for the benefit of new settlers w ‘t|ure now flocking into the state by t hundreds. ‘The secretary informs t | governor that extra clerks will be add "to handle all business promptly. At t ‘|present rate there will be no gove “| ment land left in the Great Falls ¢ triet by the first of July, according n| the register. x.| ‘The supreme court has handed do “1{six opinions, in one of which an i j-|portant rule of law was laid dos \1|Sarah Dunseth sued the Butte Elect Railway company in the federal co jr] for damages and lost in a personal we [ duty action. She started it again nd | the district court and won, only to hi Ne {the judgment reversed and appeal ng {missed because it was once tried on {merits and adjudicated on the sa facts in the federal court. In anot to|case the superior court refused A 1. | Miley damages against the Northern cifie for failure to deliver her at fe {Point to whieh she was ticketed, Kc |at_nearest point where train stopy e; [because her ticket was purchased a lower rate than the regular fare. Ot issues were unimportant. of! At a recent meeting of stockhol in of the Boston and Montana Mining ¢ Hel pany, it was voted to go into the in |eently formed copper merger, all St lcompany’s mines and smelters bé ‘s-} sold to the Anaconda Copper Mix company, holding company of merger, for 1,200,000 shares of the la 24,/eoncern’s stock, which has a par vi na-|of $25. The Boston and Montana ¢ the | pany is capitalized at $3,750,000, tl Wn | being 150,000 shares, of which all img] 50 were represented at the meet es|The annual copper production of tol company is about 100,000,000 pox of copper annually. ‘The company o ish | the electrolytic smelters at Great F ide} the largest of the kind in the wi hus|It was the largest subsidiary of ite, | Amalgamated Copper company and ing| trols a number of the fargest mine ms} the Butte distriet. ing’ ee ad A man can have most of his vices overlooked by inheriting a fortune. NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY PLACE ON THE GLOBE. A Beview of eels is Both Bast- ern avd Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical Political and Personal Events Told in Short Paragraphs. Professor Kichard von Zeyneek of the University of Prague has discovered a method of warming the interior of the human body by electricity. A second great strike has just been made in the famous old War Eagle mine at Rossland, B. C., now the prop: erty of the Canadian Consolidated com- pany. ‘Thirty-one civilian candidates for ap- pointment as second lieutenants in the Coust artillery corps have successfully passed the required examinations and will receive appointments, Five million dollars will be spent on improvements to its northwestern gas, electrie and telephone systems by H. M. Byllesby & Co. of Chicago, Lll., ac- cording to recent information. George B. French, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad, announces that $1,500,000 will be ex- pended in improvements on the line between Portland and Spokane during the present year. Bud Stephens, the former cowboy who shot and killed Dodd Mackenzie, son of Murdo Mackenzie of Colorado Springs, Col, was found not guilty at Aver- deen, 8. D. The plea of self-defense was accepted by the jury. Every one of the torpedo boat de- stroyers composing the Atlantic torpedo fleet except the Presten and the Lam- son exceeded its contract speed on the recent run from Key West to Pensa- cola, a distance of about 450 knots. A prairie fire started near the town of Dickens, Neb. Saturday, swept northward, carried by a terrific wind to the Platte river. It swept a path 15 to 20 miles wide. A number of per |sons lost their homes and live stock. |] Robert C. Clowry of the Westers || Union fand Postal Telegraph company ‘|denies the rumor circulated over the ‘Jeouutry to the effect that his company jJand the Postal company had decided t Jinerease the wages of operators by 1 per cent. | Burope is to see again many of th |ships that made up the great America: naval fleet that encircled the globe : Secretary Meyer stated that it was hi ‘| present intention to order the Atlanti ;|iteet to the Mediterranean some time i November next. ‘Mrs. Henry W. Page of Trenton EIN. J., has brought suit for $20,000 dam ‘ages against Professor Howard MeLen ahan and Edward Plymton of Princeto Atuniversity, alleging that they burne “lher husband so severely with X-ray | that he died of his injuries. | ‘The twelfth annual convention o j|the Inland Empire Teachers’ associ y|tion came to an end at Pendleton, Ore with the selection of Spokane as th [place for the next mecting, and wit [the selection of officers. Henry M. Hai ]of Spokane was elected secretary. | ‘The historie old Dutch Reforme g|church at Bloomfield, N. J. built i ¢-| 1800, is a mass of smoldering ruins 4 ig[@ result of a fire that swept throug q,|the structure Saturday night. TI tg{church was one of the oldest in tl ‘a (state. ‘The fire was caused by burnis no }grass in nearby fields, lighted by mi ne[ehievous boys. ‘The loss will exces ne | $25,000. od| George Fassel, owner of a grocei he|in the residence part of Salt Lake Cit n-|Wwas shot and killed by holdup men tl ig-Jother night. Fassell was alone in b to|store when three men entered and cor pelled him to hand over the conten vn {of the cash drawer, amounting to abo v.|825- As they were leaving the sto me, |Fassell attempted to give an alarm, ai Nig}one of the robbers turned and shot hi it {Harry ‘Thorn, later arrested, confess in. {0 the erime, naming Jobn. Hays a in| man called Curly as associates. ve| By the terms of a contract recent is- [signed between the Western Steel ¢: its | poration of Seattle, and the Hang Ya me|Steel company of Hankow, China, t ner |Seattle company is to obtain 200,0 ita|tons of pig irom and ore per anm Pa.|from the Hankow company. The e¢ the| tract is to run 15 years. Coincide put] With the signing of the contract 4 ed,|the importation of the pig iron fr ,a{China it is announced that the st her|company immediately will begin t construction of new plants involving 1 ere expenditure of $10,000,000. ym- Sap sree? re-|” BRIEF NEWS DISPATCHES. Milton J. Staples, aged 23, a brake- man, was killed at Coeur d’Alen city Idaho, last Monday. Thieves stole $85,000 worth of stamps ‘at Richmond, Va., from the postoffice and made their getaway. {m the fatal accident on the U. S. cruiser Charleston at Manila last Mon- day eight men were killed and several slightly injured. During paretice a 3-inch gun blew out and ite flight across the deck cut through a steel stanchion and mowed down the men. ‘The dead: Philip MeKee,Walter Ansted, Harry Heaton, Leo Remale, Harry Graden, Ross Barkman, Maxie Barnard, Ed- ward Moline. ‘A contented man is always rich, al though he is frequently broke. SPORTING NEWS ITEMS. ‘The Langtord-Ketchel Sight is dated for April 27. Michigan defeated Cornell in an out- door track meet Saturday, 541-3 to 1723. The National Lawn Tennis associa- tion, through its exeeutive committee, meoting it New York, has given the Lewiston (Idaho) State normal the priv- ilege of holding the second anual Idaho State Tennis tournament on the school courts beginning June 7. Stanley Ketelel’s last battle with Klaus is open to some suspicion in the minds of eastern sporting writers. Ox the other hand, some think that the ‘Assassin’ has gone to the dog: rapidly since his last fight with Jack Johnson. Seattle carried off the honors of the northwest Y. M. C. A. wrestling cham pionships, held there Saturday. Seattle men took five out of the seven cham pionships, Tacoma and Portland eacl getting one, while Everett Y. M. C. A. the only other entry, did not suecees in getting to the finals. Mew Football Rules. Six far-reaching changes in the game of football were decided upon recently by the intercollegiate football rules com- mittee at the close of a two days’ ses- sion in New York city. ‘The changes in the outline are: 1. Removal of the requirement that the player who receives the ball from the snap-back run five yards to either side before advaneing. 2, A requirement that seven men be maintained by the offense on the line of scrimmage. 3. Prohibition of the flying tackle, 4. Division of the game into fou periods of 15 minutes each. 5. No pushing or pulling of the run ner to be allowed. 6. All requirement that the ball, it the case of an on-side kick, must strike the ground at least 20 yards beyond thi line of serimmage, failing whieh th members of the team kieking the bal are offside. HARNESS RACING DATES. California Circuit. Monterey Agricultural society, Sa linas, August 3 to 6. Woodland Driving club, August 31 t September 3. California State fair, Sacraments September 3 to 10. North Pacific Circuit. Everett, Wash, August 30 to Sey tember 3. Portland, Ore., September 5 to 10. Salem, Oregon State fair, Septembe 12 to 17, Walla Walla, Wash., September 1 to 24. North Yakima, Wash., September 2 to October 1. Spokane, Wash., October 3 to 8. Lewiston and Boise, Idaho, Octob 10 to 15. ‘ ‘There ig. now talk of a great figh Jearnival in and near San Francisco du ing the early days of July equaling tl famous three days of fighting in Ne Jorleans, which ‘concluded with 1 | snuffing out of John L. Sullivan as ¢ | American heavyweight champion. Jack Johuson goes in training Ap ,|25, near Frisco. Justice Brewer Suddenly Dies Washington, March 29.—David Jo- siah Brewer, associate justice of the supreme court of the United. States, died Monday night at 10:30 o'clock of a stroke of apoplexy. His death oc- curred before eh could be carried to his bed. Mra. Brewer was with him when the end came. Justice Brewer was 73 years old. ‘The end was altogether unexpected. Although he had not been feeling good for the last day or so, the aged jorist was up and out Monday, and apparent- ly in good health and spirits. He spent the evening reading. Shortly before he retired to his room, and within a few minutes Mre. Brewer heard a heavy fall and went to investi. gate. She found her husband prone oz the floor of the bath room. He did not regain consciiousness and died ve fore a physican could reach the house. Justice Brewer came to the supreme court from the federal court in Kansas He was the second oldsst member ot the court, Justice Harlan only being his senior. He was regarded as the most democratic of all the members o: the court, most affable, approachabl and accommodating. He was the on man on the bench who had proof copie of his opinions prepared for the news papers, and this he did constantly. Justice Brewer's death raises a ser ious question as to the action of th court regarding the Standard Oil an American Tobacco company suits, an itis improbable that the cases wil have to be retried, since there now re main but seven justices to pass upoi them, Justice Moody not having pat ticipated in the trials by reason of con letneed jiiment. Saloons May Be Mobbed. ‘The state supreme court of Kansas has decided that a saloon keeper in Kansas ean not recover more than nominal damages in the event that he is mobbed and his property destroyed, The case was appealed from Harper county by George D. Stevens. He was awarded $100 by a jury after his place had been raided by citizens and he had been mobbed. - Dr. Cook in Jersey. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who has been reported about everywhere of Inte, ac- cording to latest rumor is at the home ‘of his wife’s sister, Mrs. Henry Harvey, ‘at Pensuaken, Camden county, N. J. DRY FARMING THEME INTERESTING FACTS VOICED BT | Modern ajneaist outariae in United States Spreads to Foreign ‘Lands—Has | Brought Settlers and the ‘West and Northwest Are Developing Fast ‘Unde ‘These New Methods. Probably no subject of public inter- est in recent years has attracted such wide attention or spread so rapidly as that of dry farming. Four gatherings have been held for the discussion of this subject and preparations are now going forward for the fifth convention of the Dry Parming congress and Interna- tional Dry Farming exposition, which will be held in Spokane the first week in October. Every state and territory in the s0- called arid and the semi-arid west and many of the states in the humid dis- triets of the United States are pre- paring to send delegates to this con- gress, and the pfuvinees of western Canada and the provinces and nations on every continent are also making ar- rangements for representation with | delegates and exhibits. Not only agriculturists and opera- tive farmers, but scientists of the fore- | most agricultural colleges and experi- ‘|ment stations, of the national depart- ments of agriculture of many govern- ments, as well as economists and pub- '! lieists everywhere are interested in this movement. Wonder of Age. ,| ‘The growth of the dry farming move- 'Tment is one of the wonders of the ,|present age. A term that was pro- =| voeative of incredulous smiles and || deprecatory jests five years ago, today is recognized as symbolical of the higher agriculture toward which all na- tions are striving. ‘The first meeting, at whieh the Trans-Missouri Dry Farm- “ling congress was formed, was regarded as a joke; the fifth Dry Farming con- | gress, which will meet in Spokane, holds , | the serious attention of nations, " Growth Phenomenal. ‘The growth of the dry farming move- ment has been phenomenal in that it *Thas spread to all quarters of the globe in four years, but its advancement to __|the frout of public questions in .eco: T 1 nomic importance is particularly notice: able in the western United States and 19 Canad: ‘anada. |, Five years -ago there were a fow S| ruymers struggling against adversity ou the plains of eastern Colorado, in New Mexico, Utah and elsewhere in the semi T) arid west. ‘The settlers who took uj ,, [lind in non-irrigable sections of th west were regarded as foolhardy, o worse. Their efforts to make the dry 'e | farms produetive were condemned as in | viting nothing but failure. he Early Settlers Struggled. Many settlers who had gone int .i}| the dry regions did fail and man; struggled along for years eking out bare existence with the aid of a fey exceptionally propitious years, but num bers succeeded. Scattered throughou the west in Utah, Wyoming, Montans yg | Colorado, and in other states were mor or less isolated exeeptions to the ex pectations of the pessimists. In som jo-| sections, notably in eastern Washing he|ton, Qregon and Utah, there wer es, | notable exceptions, and in these state of|dry farming was accepted as a fact, oe-| Five years ago the newspapers 0 tol|the country were reluctant to publis im} articles of the successes of dry farn eT ling. ‘There was a prevalent ide throughout the east that the greate ed. | part of the west was useless for farm yod'| ing; that desert land would remain bai ‘ist}ren and desolate, where the irrigatin nt-| ditch was unknows, and that so-ealle He|dry farming was ridiculous in conce] 1m,|ti22 and impracticable in applicatio var! Scientific Cultivation. ati-| ‘The failures that have been record¢ on}among the Settlers on the dry lanc did |and the prejudice in the minds of eas be-Jern and western skeptics against di ise. | farming had a common origin— me | ignorance of the conditions under whic sas. | dry farming was attempted and of tl of} methods necessary to .successful di ing} farming. The settlers who found tl the| conditions on the dry lands too har S did not know how to combat those eo ble | ditions. They did not know how to plo One| their ground, what kind of seed a plant, what kind of cultivation’ to gi their growing or dying crops: In brie ser-| they did not understand the conserv ‘tza|tion of moisture or the scientific tivation of soil. and and|, The unbelievers in the east did n will |K2Ow the west, did not understand t re- | Conditions necessary to successful far pon |g in any region, did not believe t par-| facts when they were presented, 1 son-|cause they did not know the. we Skeptics in the west did not know th west or were influenced by motives selfish interest, inspired by mistak nsas| idea that the settlement of the count reia|by farmers was somehow in conf ‘han | "th their own private interests. session at Cheyenne, Wyo, whey ; threw off all shackles of locaisy,* and became an international movem A systematic campaign of cdyent® wae carried on and it resulted in ter? ing diy farming to the attention ot 3 leading editors in all parts of yt country. z Baucational Work Started, Edueational work among th fof the west was instituted by Seca” Burns at the beginning of the coupe land farmers everywhere were immprease with the fact that dry farmers wht know and practiced tie fundamemel principles of dry farming wore sussset ful. Demand for more education nasy with the growth of the movement, wet today scores of letters ure receive, daily from all parte of the west inguis ing about dry farming and asking qos, tions about the problems arising in they daily work. Has Made Converts. The Dry Farming congress gives th farmer the knowledge he requires fae successful agriculture in the semiang west. ‘The principles of scientie agn, culture ave being carried into the hose, of tho farmers. Dry farming he ‘made good’? in all sections of tha vast area between tho 9sth meriies and the Pacific ocean where tainfll is limited and where irrigation is im possible or impracticable. Because farm, Jers. who have followed dry farmiag methods have succeeded by consciet | tiously applying the principles of mos ture conservation and intelligent tillage Jas taught in tho literature of the Dry | Parming congress, a great wave of se |tlement has been started toward the |Dakotas, western Kansas and Nebrasia |Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Okie Jhoma, western Texas, New Mexiy ,|Utah, Idaho, eastern Washington an Oregon, Arizona and Nevada. In these states and territories town Jare springing up on the sagebrus ,| plains and in sandhill districts, sur |rounded with prospering dry farmen || Dry farming has become a vital par ,|of ‘the economic development of the as ,|tion.. Because of the importance of it "| part in national development the eye , Jof the country will turn toward Spokan ’|next October when the congress meet j|and thousands will come from all se - | tions to see the evidences of dry farm g|ing suecesses that are now being pre pared in the various states and tert tories of the semi-arid west for exhiti _| tion in the International Dry Farm { |exposition—By David T. Ham, Chat {| man Washington Board of Cost © | Fifth Dry Farming Congress. HOBSON RENEWS WAR ORY, Says Pacific Coast Is in Defenseless Condition, “Our National Defenselessuess”? was the theme around which Representative Hobson prophesied disaster in the house recently, Referring to the conditions on ‘the Pacific coast he said: «Tt is unfortunate that I can not re fer to existing conditious on the Pacife coast without these peace dreamer erying out ‘war and jingoism,” but you ean all verify for yourselves that the city of San Francisco can not regulate her own schools as she desires, The legislators of California, Oregon and Washington today can legislate upos segregation of the yellow people. “<Those legislators were told to drop that dangerous question. 1 will tell you why. We are defenseless on the Pacifé ocean. The Japanese navy is rated a 490,000 tons and ours at 695,000 tons. All of our 695,000 tons substantially is in the Atlantic ocean and has to st there.’’ COMING THEATER ATTRACTIONS AT SPOKANE THE AUDITORIUM, H. 0. Haywit ‘Post St, north of Riverside Avs. Me. High-Class Productions— April 3, 4 and 5—ROBERT EDESON in ‘*A Man’s a Man.” April 8, 9 and 10—'' The Alaskan. 7: ‘The House of a Thousand Candles.” Manager Hayward of the Auditorius announces as his offering ov Tuesisf next ‘Phe House of a Thoaasl Candles,’’ a drama founded upa Meredith Nicholson's sovel of the samt name, which has had an extremely log and prosperous run at the Hackett st Daly theaters in New York. ‘The play is peculiar in that 1 de seribe it one has to coin a name for 8 new type of drama; ‘‘ Mythical” # probably the adjective that fits it most aptly, SS SS THE SPOKANE, Chas. W. York ME Post St., south of Riverside Ave Every Night—Popular Prices. __— Have seats resorved by mail, sends acy ager and stating sbest dered te mans Taaing atrartion ot OS | JOSEPH A. MULLER, Res Me Phonee Main 3140 SN ‘This Week's Attractions—Matt Be sen, Elita Practor Otis, Aun# Laughlis Marshall Montgomery, Fred 3 Players, Five Juggling Norma’ : Rose and La Gusta and notion phot raphy. Ie Others Would Heed. Combelage, Mese—in 0 alee made by George W. Coleman and git out recently by his attorney, Henry : Winslow, the former, who i* cit with embezzlement from the Nati City bank of Cambridge, admitted be te Zook #180,000 and that Bea ‘cent of it was lost in crying *? “_ a Oe te Saw York.” the cause of pimples, boils and other eruptions, as well as of that tired ing and poor appetite, which are so known in the spring, is impure and overlushed blood. The best way to purify and enrich blood, as thousands of people know experience, is to take food's Sarsaparilla except no substitute, but insist on ring Rood's. Let it today in usual liquid form or related tablets known as Sarsatabs. Inland Crackers They are crisp and wholesome. All Grocers Sell Them. Mfg. by Inland Empire Buscuit Company, Spokane. CHEAP INSURANCE Wheat FOR GRAIN GROWERS "Woodlark" Squirrel Poison is the most suitable and destructive agent yet devised for the extermination of Gophers, Squirrels, Sage Rats and Prairie Dogs. It is the cheapest insurance against their wagues. Every kernel is warranted to kill. Climatic changes or moisture of the earth do not destroy its strength. Requires NO MIXING OR PREPARATION. Is always ready for use. No other is so price if not as claimed. Pamphlet free. ROVT CHEMICAL, Co., Portland, Oregon To be supplied by BENHAM & GRIFFITH, or THE POWELL-SANDERS CO., Wholesale Grocers, Spokane, Wash., or by the Manufactures KOW-KURE is not a "food"—it is a medicine, and the only medicine in the world for cows only. Made for the cow and, as its name indicates, a Cow Cure. Barreness, retained afterbirth, abortion, scours, caked udder, and all similar affections positively and quickly cured. No one who keeps cows, many or few, can afford to be without KOW-KURE. It is made especially to keep cows healthy. Our book "Cow Money" sent FREE Ask your local dealer for KOW-KURE or send to the manufacturers. DARRY ASSOCIATION CO. Lyndonville, V Worms "Cascarita are certainly fine. I gave a friend one when the doctor was treating him for cancer of the stomach. The next morning he passed four pieces of a tape worm. He then got a bourn and in three days he passed a tape-worm 45 feet long. It was Mr. Matt Freck, of Millerburg, Dauphin Co. Pa. I am quite a worker for Cascarita. I take them very fond and find them beneficial for most any disease caused by impure blood." Chas E. Condon, Lewiston, Pa., (Mifflin Co.) "CUT THIS OUT, mail it with your address to the Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago, Ill., and receive a hand, some souvenir gold Bon-Bon FREE." Automobile $200 and up Bargains List mailed free - Send for it. Automobile Exchange, 715 E. Pine St., Seattle Cut-over lands for sale very cheap.. Phoenix Lumber Company, Spokane 234 Main Ave., near Bernard St. A new, strictly modern hotel, 105 rooms, hot and cold water and telephone in every room. Rates, 50 cents and up. Elevator service. Telephone, Main 4567. Claimants' Claim Department Personal injury, Freight, Stock, Lag gage, Fire and Insurance claims investigated and adjusted. 301-302 Lindale block, SPOKANE, WASH. DR. KELLEY Men's Specialist. Book free--send 4 cts. postage Dr. Kelley's Museum 210 N. Howard St. Spokane, - Wash. DR. KELLEY Men's Specialist. Book free-send 4 cts. postage Dr. Kelley's Museum 210 N. Howard St. Spokane, - Wash. WHEN writing to advertisers please mention this paper. Evidence Against A. W. Walters Is Damaging—May Be Other Victims—Looks Like He Tried to Conceal the Crime by Burning the Body—Was Identified by Parts of Dress Goods. New York, March 28.—One of the most revolting crimes ever perpetrated in New York was uncovered when the charred body of Ruth Amos Wheeler, a 15-year-old stenographer, who disappeared last Thursday, was found on the fire escape in the rear of No. 222 East Seventy-fifth street, next door to the house in which lived Albert W. Woltert, now held on a charge of homicide. Wolters had been arrested on a charge of abduction when it was found that the girl had gone to his rooms seeking a position as stenographer, but the charge was changed when the body was found. Handkerchief Is Clue. The body was wrapped in an oil-soaked gunny sack, and was burned almost beyond recognition. A charred fragment of rope sticking to the neck showed that the girl was strangled. Wrapped up in the sack with the body was a package containing a man's white shirt bearing the initial 'W.' The fire escape on which the body was first discovered is of the balcony type, and was for the use of the tenants of both No. 222 and 224. The flat occupied by Wolters opened on it. The police made a careful examination of the apartment Wolters had occupied and discovered that a fire board protecting the wall from the stove had been removed, newly repainted and replaced. The condition of the grate was such that the police believe that the body was wrapped in cloth or papers, saturated with oil, crushed into the chimney and set on fire. No blood was found, which strengthens the belief that the girl was strangled. The body was first discovered by John Taggart, who lives in No. 222, who supposed the bundle to be garbage and pushed it over the railing into the yard. The fall burst the bag, and attracted the attention of John Woshl, who saw it contained the fragments of a body and notified a policeman. Girl Choked and Burned. In the bundle with the body was a new paint brush with a red handle. The bristles were stiff with black paint, and the brush evidently had been used in painting the fire-board in the Wolters apartments. Later, a can partly filled with black paint was found in the rooms occupied by Wolters at No. 122 West One Hundred and Fifth street, where he and his alleged wife went after leaving the East Seventy-fifth street house. Several of the tenants told the police that late on Thursday night or early Friday morning they noticed a strong smell of kerosene. From fragments of a postal card found in his room it is believed that Wolters made a practice of writing to business colleges to send him girl stenographers. He had a wide correspondence with these girls and many of them called on him. In the past few months he had lived at three different addresses. He Denies Crime. Albert Wolter, the youth in the fireplace of whose rooms were found portions of the burnt body of Ruth Wheeler, was committed to the Tombs without bail, charged with the girl's murder. Wolter persists in his deni l that he had ever seen the girl, ever had written to her or knew how her body came on the fire escape outside his window, or why fragments of human feet, hands and arms were found in the ashes of his fireplace. His Mistress Denies Knowledge Katie Miller, the girl with whom he lived, was arrested as she approached the house where the murder was committed. She was reading the details in a German newspaper as she walked, smiling as she read. During a long cross-examination she held to the story that she knew nothing of the crime until she read of it in the newspapers. On Thursday night, when she returned from work at the laundry, where she earned $6 a week—and gave it all to Wolter—she said she noticed the stove in front of the fireplace had been maved, the fireboard newly painted and a colored lithograph pasted over the hole where the stovepipe formerly entered. When she asked Wolter why he had done this, he answered that summer was coming and they would not need the stove. BURSTING GUN KILLS EIGHT. Report Says Accident on Flagship Charleston Believed Fatal. Manila, March 29.—A report reached here today that a gun on the United States cruiser Charleston exploded during target practice and killed or wounded eight men. The Charleston is returning to Manila. Suicide on Train. Salem, Ore., March 29.—Andrew Jackson Casey, aged 55, en route from Roseburg to Spokane, slashed his jugular vein with a pocket knife while nearing Salem, Ore. TRIALS of the NEEDEMS ME NOT GETTING ANY BETTER, THE DOCTOR DOESN'T SEM TO BE DOING ME ANY GOOD I MOW MY MEDICINE JOHN, AND TAKE A PAW PAW PILL I GOING TO THE OFFICE DAY THAT PAW PAW PILL MADE ME FEEL LIKE A NEW MAN THE NEED HOPE THE PILL THAT WILL RESOLVED that FOR BILLIOUSNESS CONSTIPATION AND INDIGESTION MUNYON'S PAW PILLS ARE BETTER than A DOCTOR. I PILLS IN A BOXION. Munyon's Paw Pill Pills coax the liver into activity by gentle methods. They do not scurge, gripe or weaken. They are a tonic to the stomach, liver and nerves; they rich the blood and enable the stomach to get all the nourishment from food that is put into it. These pills contain no calorie; they are soothing, healing and stimulating. For sale by all druggists in 10c and 20c sizes. If you need medical advice, write Munyon's Doctors. They will provide you with the absolutely free of Charge. MUNYON'S 58d and Jefferson S. Philadelphia, Pa. Send 10c for Trial Package Only One "BROMO QUININE" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for the signature of E. W. Grove. Used the world over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c. A lady who was very plain looking called on a friend. This friend's little girl came into the room and her mother introduced her. "But, mama, isn't she awfully homely!" said the "young hopeful." "Why, Laura, you mustn't say such things; it isn't polite." "I meant it only as a joke." "But, dear, how much more of a joke it would have been if you had said, 'How pretty she is.'" DR. MARTEL'S FEMALE PILLS Prescribed and recommended for women's ailments—a scientifically prepared remedy of proven worth. The result from their use is quick and perma nent. For sale at all drug stores. "We had a sensational case of kidnaping in our house lately." "You don't tell me! How did it happen?" "The baby slept the whole night." If It's Your Eye Use Petit's Eye Salve for inflammation, styts, itching lids, eye aches, defects of vision and sensitive to strong lights. All druggists or Howard Bros. Benham—I think our boy is getting along too rapidly at school. Mrs. Benham—What's the matter now? Benham—He asked me today if Atlas had happened to have a chill when he was supporting the earth it would have caused an earthquake. Biles Cured in 6 to 14 Days. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. "Would you ride on a monorail car?" "Not unless it ran on two monorails." Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. As the twig is bent so is the small boy often inclined across his mother's knee. Art is long, life is short and the rest of us are go-betweens. Stomach Ills May Seem Trifles at the start, but that is when you want to take the matter in hand. Neglect can only result the one way—sickness. The stomach is largely responsible for one's health and strength and as such it needs to be kept in a normal condition. If it becomes weak, the food remains undigested, ferments, and causes untold suffering. Thus you lose the strength-giving properties of your food and you become weak and run down. This is very noticeable at the beginning of Spring when the system is overloaded with Winter impurities, the bowels clogged and the blood thick. No wonder you have the "Spring Fever." Commence taking Hostetter's Stomach Bitters this very day and cleanse the entire system. Then your Stomach Ills will also vanish. It is for Sick Headache, Indigestion, Dyspeia, Spring Fever, General Debility and Malaria. SASH AND DOORS FROM MILL DIRECT TO YOU SAVE RETAILERS PROFIT WE SHIP ANY WHERE WITH NO EXPENSE O.B. WILLIAMS CO. SEATTLE WASH. Reasonable Rates. HETHERINGTON AND RIECHERS, 820 Paulsen Bldg., Spokane, Wash Throat Coughs Ask your doctor about these throat coughs. He will tell you how deceptive they are. A tickling in the throat often means serious trouble ahead. Better explain your case carefully to your doctor, and ask him about your taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. We publish our formulas We banish alcohol from our medicines We urge you to consult your doctor Who makes the best liver pills? The J. C. Ayer Company, of Lowell, Mass. They have been making Ayer's Pills for over sixty years. If you have the slightest doubt about using these pills, ask your doctor. Do as he says, always. Made by the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. RESCENT BAKING POWDER NO TARIFF TROUBLE CANADA AND U. S. GOVERNMENT IN AN AGREEMENT. Each Side Makes Concessions at Recent Conference at National Capital—Reciprocity Treaty Partially Promised to Canadian Government by President Taft—A Long Sought Prize. Through mutual concessions the threatened tariff w: between Canada and the United States has been averted. The agreement reached at the White House between President Taft, Secretary of State Knox, Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh and Charles M. Pepper of the bureau of trade relations, representing the United States and Minister of Finance W. S. Fielding and Minister of Railways George P. Graham, representing Canada, promises not only to keep undisturbed the present friendly commercial relations between this country and Canada, but to bind them more closely in the future. An arrangement not to make public the details of the agreement until next Wednesday was to enable Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian premier, to pass finally on them. It appears Canada has granted to the United States concessions on about 30 articles, giving the same rates to the American products as those on similar articles produced in France. In return Canada gets the minimum tariff of the United States with the assurance that the Taft administration will use all of its influence to effect negotiation and ratification of a general reciprocity treaty. For many years Canada has been trying to get such an agreement. CHILDREN AWAIT DEATH. Lie in Row at Maniac Father's Order. Hartford, Conn.—An insane father was prevented from butchering his four little children on the banks of the Connecticut river the other day by the timely arrival of the police. When located back of the bushes his four boys were partly undressed and were lying in a row, the maniac father, Valentine Chingle, standing over them with an uplifted ax. The children ranged in age from 2 to 7. A boy of 4 was to have been the first victim. The child was lying beneath the shining blade with a crucifix in one hand, enmily awaiting his fate. The others, under orders of the maniac, had removed part of their clothing and were terrified spectators. UNION MEN BACK TO WORK. Sympathetic Strike Ends in the City of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, March 28.—The general sympathetic strike in this city is a thing of the past. The various unions which quit work out of sympathy with the striking carmen went back to work Monday Leaders of the striking carmen declare that the car strike would be continued all summer unless the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company receded from its position. The company claims its service is improving daily. BODIES ARE STILL IN RUINS. Search Continues in Smouldering Debris for Bodies of Fire Victims. Chicago.—Search of the ruins of the Fish Furniture company building from the smouldering debris of which 12 bodies were recovered Saturday, was resumed. Three more bodies, it is thought, are still covered by the wreckage. The search was temporarily discontinued, owing to weakening walls. Prominent People Died Sunday Mrs. Beulah Stubbs, former wife of John Sunderland, democratic national committeeman, died suddenly at Berkeley, Cal. Brigadier General Hawkins, governor 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Des Moines Litterer Pumpkin Seed Almond Sugar Buddle Sugar Anise Seed Peppermint Hibiscus Seed Worm Seed Clarified Sugar Worm Sugar Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Dlarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of H. H. Hutchison NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS Guaranteed under the Food and Wrapper. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Cha. H. Hutchison In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. of the National Soldiers' Home at the national capital, died suddenly at Glen Springs, N. Y. W. S. Campbell, a pioneer and well-known farmer living near Pullman, Wash., died in Moscow, following an operation for appendicitis. John R. Winder, aged 88, whose position in the Mormon church was second only to that of President Joseph F. Smith, died from pneumonia. Dr. David G. Wood, the blind organist of St. Stephen's Protestant, Episcopal church of Philadelphia, who had an international reputation as a composer and performer, died after a brief illness. William Cooper, grand chancellor of the Utah domain, Knights of Pythias, died from diabetes. He was 45 years old. For 20 years he has been connected with the publication of the Salt Lake City directory. 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Designed Pitcher Pumpkin Sugar Alc. Starch Belle Salts Amine Sugar Propargyl Lemonade Sugar Worm Sugar Clarified Sugar Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. PacSimile Signature of Mayer Boot & S. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses—35 CENTS Guaranteed under the Food Act Exact Copy of Wrapper. Mayer Genuine it means Martha W They fit like rest and relief. They on and off like a provides perfect fit over know how comfortable a good loo MARTHA WASHING Beware of imitations. Only the genuine and Mayer Trade Mark stamped on Your dealer will supply you; if not FREE. If you will send us the name of not handle Martha Washington Comfort send you free, postpaid, a beautiful p. Washington, Size 15 x 20. We also make Honorite Shoes for mus. Shoes, Vermeil Shoes, Spec. Shoes and Work Shoes. F. Mayer Boot & S. MILWAUKEE. SEND THIS AD. FOR FREE PREMIUM Pacific Coast Biscuit Company Portland Seattle Spokan Ask for Their Goods and 手指 COPYRIGHT LORD OF Berkeb Aff Pound Woman Suicides. Phoenix, Ariz., March 29.—Not until she had remained suspended from a tree three days in plain view of pedestrians and streetcar passengers and the police had been searching for her in vain, was the death of Mrs. Ellen Torgensen discovered. Mrs. Torgensen was 52 years old and had lived in Chicago and Los Angeles. A note was found among her effects at a lodging house directing that $2000 held in a Chicago bank be sent to relatives in Sweden. Big Fire at Welsh, La. Welsh, La., March 28.—The business section of Welsh was practically wiped out by fire Sunday. Thirty buildings were destroyed, entailing a 'loss of $200,000. A thing of beauty may jaw forever. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Hutchins In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Martha Washington Comfort Shoes ine comfort—that's what ans to wear the stylish Washington Comfort Shoes. like a glove, and insure complete No buttons or laces—just slip e a slipper. Elastic at the sides over any instep. You will never looking shoe can be until you have worn INGTON COMFORT SHOES genuine have the name Martha Washington on the sole. Refuse substitutes. if not, write to us. of a dealer who does comfort Shoes, we will ful picture of Martha for men, Lending Lady Special Merit School & Shoe Co. EE, WIS. PREMIUM LIST company pokane and THESE END SEALS VALUABLE any Useful Cost TRADE MARK Painters and Paperhangers Send for our sample books of W=A=L=L=P=A=P=E=R showing the latest designs Spokane Paint & Oil Co. Madison and Railroad Ave., - Spokane Have You Stomach Trouble? if so strike at the cause, get a permanent cure. POWELL'S STOMACH REMEDY is positive and permanent. For sale by all druggists, or sent direct prepaid $1.00 bottle. A. H, POWELL, Mfg Chemist, Box 1773. Spokane, Wash. Poverty Or wealth? saves may be wealthy some day. We allow 4 PER CENT on savings. Trade with the Helena Packing and Provision Co. Miss Pearl Palmer has been on the sick list for the past week. Miss Sadie Merriweather who visited here last week returned to Great Falls Saturday from which place she will return to her home in Kentucky. Mr. R. Frazier and H. Pugh of Butte were visitors in the Cify last week. Mr. English is a new comer from Pocatella Idaho. Dave Gordon made a flying trip to Missoula last week on business. Rev. Jones of Butte was over last Sabbath and preached two sermons at the babtisp church returning to his home Tuesday. Miss Fitgerald was the rege last week. T. P. Mahammit Editor of the Enterprise Omaha Neb. and R. D. Butler of St. Joe Mo. were callers at the Plaindeler Office last Saturday. C. H. Mason formerly of this city now has charge of one of the leading hotel of Salt Lake City. The Mens Progress club has reorganized and elected L. C. Formen Pres. and a full set of officers and are now ready for business. The local church will send a delegate to Butte to the Sunday School Convention. Mr. Ed, Miller paid a visit last week to be initiated into the Masonic fraternity. Mr. J. W. Crump was the host at dinner Saturday afternoon in honor of Grandmaster Ricketts, T. P. Mahammitand A. D. Butler Those present besides the honored guests were Mr. O. J. Arnett and J W. Crump. he babtish church are making plans for a new church edifice. While the Masonic banquet was short on program it was long on eating. J. W. Bush writes that he will soon be this way. Poverty Or The man who does never be wealthy. GETS $30,000 ESTATE Court Decides That James Edward Johnson is Entitled to Property Left by the Late Bridget Torpey. James Edward Johnson, a Negro, has been declared the legal heir of Bridget Torpey, a cook, who dide several months ago over 70 years old, leaving an estate valued at $30,000. In handing down a decision in favor of Johnson Surrogat Thomas said: There was unquestionably an Surrogat Thomas threw out the will presented by Miss Bennett, and further decided that Johnson was the proper person to receive the estate. Bridget Torpey came to this country when she was 11 years old, and for over twenty-five she worked in the kitchen of Mrs. N. B. Taft's boarding house at 46 West Twenty-first street. During this time she accumulated $30,000, of which amount $16,500 was in cash in banks. understanding between her and Johnson that if he would care for her during her lifetime he should inherit the estate, says the Surrogate. I do not think it surprising that the decendent chose to reside with Johnson. She had worked with Johnson and other Negroes for a quarter of a century, and was accustomed to them. She only went to live with Johnson after she had diligently sought a place elsewhere. The decision in the Torpey will contest was of general interest, in which two brothers and a sister sought to have the Torpey will annulled, and Margaret M. Bennett, a trained nurse introduced a will purporting to have been drawn up after the document which named Johnson as heir and best friend of the testatrix. Senator Murril retired, is yet alive. DRY LAND FARMING "Dry Farming Practice in Montana is the title of the pamphlet just issued by Director Linfield of the of Montana Agricultural Station which contains a mass of practical information and points out the methods which, when followed, will insure success in farming without irrigation in Montana. The authors are Alfred Atkinson, and F.'S. Cooley, superintendent of the farms institutes. Every in Montana should have a copy this pamphlet which will be sent free, on request, by J. H. Hall State Commiss of Agriculture, Helena, Montana. It assists the Nerve Cells to generate nerve force. Its soothing influence upon the nerves brings restful sleep-nature's rest period so essential to the tired, worn-out mind and body. For Headache, Neuralgia, or any pain or distress, you will find almost instant relief by taking 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 bottle or package does not benefit, your druggist will return your money. We repay the druggist the full retail price, so it is to his interest to refund if called upon to do so. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. READ THE MOntana Plaindealer! making money fast. Write for full participation and be distressed by us. Our agents everywhere are MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to you without a cent deposit in advance, propert freight, and allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL. You may ride the bicycle and put it to any tast you wish. If you are then required to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not be out to wish to furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make FACTORY PRICES to $25 middlemen's profits by buying direct of us at actual factory cost. You save $6 to $25 middlemen's profits by buying direct of us at actual factory cost. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price because we engage and learn our unhassed of factory prices and remarkable special offers to ride. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and TOU WILL BE ASTONISHED study our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles in the money department. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above money. BICYCLE DEALERY you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled the day receive the SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices range or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. single wheels, imported chains and pedals, parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at half the price. never becomes porous and which closes up small spaces without allowing the air to escape. We have hundred pairs of customers stating that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given to them, than a specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these is 50 per pair, but for advertising purposes we make a selling price of the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day. appended same day etter is received. We ship C.O.D. on examined and found them strictly as represented. If chlorely making the price $4.55 per pair) if you choose this暇 advertisement, we will send one envelope at OUR expense if for any reason they are exactly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a will find that they will ride easier, run faster, or any you have ever used or seen at any price. We then you want a bicycle you will give us your order. Hence this remarkable tire offer. Any kind at any price until you send for a pair of bicycles you will give on approval and trial at write for our big Tire and Sunday Catalogue which lies at about half the usual prices. today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle you will tell you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. O, KANSAS NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR AND THE WEST College, Normal, Sub-Normal State Normal Industrial School the West Advantages You do not pay a cent until you have shipped same day etter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You will do a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making them strictly admissible per pair) if you will pay WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will pay a nickel plated brass plate for you to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We will pay a cash and money sent to us as is safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find a tire rider easier, run faster, a rear tire faster, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or price. We know you will so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. **IF YOU NEED A TIRES** Gledhorm Puncture-Proof tire proval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sunday Catalogue which describes and quotes all kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. **DO NOT WAIT** but write for a THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you are approved. approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined all We will allow a small discount of 6 per cent (thereby m send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose 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 the wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you 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 rem IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at all the special introductory price quoted above, or write for describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about h DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everyth J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY Western Uni QUINDARO, K THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL KANSAS AND THE DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, and State Normal Leading and Best Industry of the West Courses Western University THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Normal INFORMATION For Terms, Prices and Inducements Offered write to Shelton French, Acting President Phones. West 14231 ench, A. M., president est 1423; Residence, Bell We sell you a sample pair for $8.00 (cash with order $5.5). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS Rocks or Glass will not let the air out. Six thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Makes sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and with a special quality of rubber, which never breaks. Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal, including Piano, Organ and Harmony), Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laudering, Farming and Gardening. MEDGOTHORN RECORD FUNCTION ARROWS TIP CO. REV. DENING Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This makes any other make-SOFT, LASTIC and EASY RIDING. Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. MART, SCHAFFNER & MAR FINE CLOTHES GANS & KLEIN CO ESTABLISHED 1866 HELENA ND PROVISION COMPANY holesaIe POUITRY FRUITBUTTER & EGGS OYSTERS, FISH POUITRY FRUITBUTTER & EGGS C. J. Bausch, 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 pp. Braal Central hotel Helena, Mont. FURNISHED ROOMS R RENT Inquire 221 Breckenridge St. Mrs. M. A. Cole AN ES A H n Prep. Phone 136 118 S. Main St. Helena Mont. Mont. Rev. JAMES, Pastor, Rev. JONES, Pastor, Butte Eugene Bourquin Dealer in Sawed and Split Wood and COAL. Yard, 437 W. Main St. Residence 370 Water St. 'Phone 632-F. Helena. Mont. GENTRAL BEER HALL LODGE' DIRECTORY Helena, Montana Golden City Lodge, No. 3455, G.U. O. of O. F., meets the 1st and Third Tuesday evenings of each month at their hall, foot of Broadway. J. B. BASS, N. G. N. Ford, P. S. G. M. LEE, E. S. Unity Lodge, No. 101, A. F. & A. M., meets the 2nd and fourth Wed- nesday evening of each month at their Hall in Galen block. E. L. CLARK, W. M. H. SAULSBURY, Sec. Mount Helena Commandry meets 4th Monday evening of each month at Unity Hall foot of Broadway. E. L. CLARK, E. C. J. B. BASS, Recorder. Meridian Chapter meets the 2nd Monday evening of each month at Unity Hall. H. SAULSBURG, H. P. A. Palmer, Sec. Pride of Montana, No. 4, K. of P. meets the 1st and 3rd Monday evenings at Unity Hall foot of Broadway. SPENCER SMITH, C. C. E. L. CLARK, K. R. S. Besheba Chapter, Eastern Star, meets 1st and 3rd Thursday evening of each month at Unity Hall, foot of Broadway. Mrs. R. J. ALEXANDER, R. M. Mrs. C. C. MATTHEWS, Sec. Naomi Chapter, Household Ruth, meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month, at Unity Hall, foot of Broadway. Mrs. M. PARKER, M. N. G. Mrs. C. Howard W. R. St. James A. M. E. church, cor. Fifth and Hoback; services Sunday, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Friday night class. Sunday School class, Sun- day 1 p. m. Second Baptist church, 417 N. Main St., services Sunday 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday School 2 p. m.