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, Mon under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 Address all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 17 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PROSPERITY! UNION!!! The Jews in Russia are suffering now untold horrors and being sigregated more so than the Negroes of America ever shall be. But they stand by each other and are enabled to lighten their burden. The Negros of America should take lessons from the persecuted jew stand together and aid and assist in building up their own enterprises and get ready for the coming segregation. ..The Kansas City Star which has been publishing letters from divers persons sympathizing with Doctor Hyde should get some letters from out this way it is almost the unanimous verdict that he got his just rewards. We are waiting daily to hear of the appointment of Register of U. S. Treasurer, W. T. Vernon to succeed himself by president Taft. ..We do not believe that the Helena insurgents are going through with their program and we think it is up to president Baker to call a meeting of the colored voters league before a campaign is upon us. Upon taking a competitive examination we were appointed by Census Supervisor, the Hon Leon Shaw of the 2nd supervisors district of this state to take the census of the colored population of the entire city of Helena also the First School district excluding the city. We appreciate this recognition for the race, while we are not allowed to tell any thing in regard to the result of our canvas, we will say that the colored population showed up well in numbers also in real estate holdings and when the result has been given out by the census bureau, we shall have what we think from all the circumstances, a very creditable showing. As the peerless Roosevelt would say, it is well to beware of the man who does not practice what he preaches. Everybody should contribute something toward paying tor the monument erected to the memory of John Brown on the camqus of the Western university at Quindaro to be unveiled during June see Rev. Guy who is receiving the funds for this section and et on the list of honor for the man who died to free the slaves. The fences are now being put up for the coming fall election. A great boone of contention with some of the fellows who do things in local politics, is Wood street, and that Jake Switzer is making all the money. The newly appointed Postmaster is a representative of the young blood and a just recognition to the boys who do the fighting to win victories. He is just like his brother the doctor, and there need be no worry but that George Lanstrum will make good. Of course Johnny Frey will not favor the re-election of Sol Hepner for County Attorney. L. C. Foreman, J. E. W. Clark E. L. Clark, James Crump George Alexander, et al., will have to make their speeches over in the coming campaign. The office of County Clerk will be an attraction that some one is going for. County Commissioner is an important position to be filled again this fall. .. But the seven members to be elected for the legislature will be easily the center of attraction ANACONDA PROGRESSIVE AND UP-TO-DATE Before being quarantened we made a flying trip to Anaconda and found our people tehre keeping abreast of the times, making money, buying homes and studying more than ever, the economic question of the day. We visited the beautiful home of Mrs. W. Walker while she was absent from the city we met her brother, an invalid, but who was more than interesting. Mrs. Walker takes a lively interest in everything for the uplift of the race, and is a tower of strength in church work. We also called on our former correspondent, Mrs. Wil Johnson and husband and found them nicely situated after an absence from the state and doing well. Also the old war-horse, L. P. Diver is still the leading spirit in the Copper city as a business man, he has a highly creditable cafe with Buffet in connection and runs it strictly on business principles and is pospering. Oud old friend Alonzo Leatherbury is still holding down the head waiters job at the Montana hotel, he is as debanior and hospitable as ever and one of our very best citizens who stands at all times for the progress of the race. While there, we had the pleasure of addressing a gathering of our people, and were pleased at the marked attention to what we said. We shall call again soon We also met a young man ambitious to keep abreast of the times, in the person of Geo Williams, and others whom we shall speak of later on. Mrs. J. B. Reynolds of Billings is one of Montanas wide awake women who believes in patronizing ace enterprises and of making a showing for the race, she has one of the leading spirits of those who are race building in the Sugar Beet City. And the Plaindealer appreciates her friendly interest and for a continued success. Helena, Montana, Friday, May 27 1910 HELENA IS HIGHLY PRAISED BY THE MASONIC VISITORS This stay in Helena should not pass without mentioning the social features, which among the many should be chronicled a midday dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs. James Crump and a drive which had been arranged by Unity Lodge No. 101, which began at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Crump and encircled the whole city and suburbs and ended at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrison, where a formal dinner had been arranged for the masonic party, which was all that could have been desired. The party reached Helena at 6:30 Wednesday evening. They were met at the station by brothers Wheeler, Arnett and Smith of Unity Lodge No. 101, and taken to the home of Mrs. Cole which had been selected for their abode during their stay at Helena, and where they were joined by Grand Master Ricketts of the party. Dinner was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Naper shortly after the arrival of the party, and this fully met the wishes of the most fastious. Late in the evening the party repaired to a hall where a welcome banquet had been arranged for the party. Prior to the banquet a literary and musical program was rendered. After this the lodge members and citizens who had provided the banquet and the party partook of the excellent repast which had been prepared. On this occasion, W. M. A. L. Clark of Unity Lodge No. 101, was toastmaster Several very thoughtful speeches were made. Grand Master Ricketts, on hebalf of the party, respounding. One of the pleasing acts of the evening was the very unique method the ladies pursued in presenting the visiting party. By some finely arranged plan the members of the party were moved back upon the stage and brought within a semicircle which the ladies formed, and in this position were introduced to the masons and friends who had gathered for the entertainment of the evening. It is not saying too much when we put it down that the evening was one of pleasure and profit. When the reception was concluded the throng gradually dissembled and went to their homes. ed at the J. Harris ner had a masonic p could have The pa ted to ha home to press ing they were sonic wo Mr. and recently ipines are one of the china, cu and brick the pleas in a home Sunday breakfast and Mrs. breakfast formed th ey were hours lat opportu ming his esti No part tention that they Arnett, R. C. I. press lin W. Clark A. J. Wa and the con ducted and is o west, anter of th The party very greatly regretted to hasten from the Harrison home to the Lodge hall for their pressing duties there, where they were to engage in their masonic work. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have recently returned from the Philippines and have in their home one of the best collections of china, cut glass and table linens and brica brac that it was ever the pleasure of the party to see in a home. Sunday morning the party breakfasted at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Saulsburg. While breakfasting the party was informed that the train on which they were to leave was three hours late it thus gave them the opportunity to spend the whole morning with Mr. Saulsburg and his estimable wife. No party ever had more attention from men in any city that they ever visited. Brothers Arnett, Smith, Bass, Clarke and Wheeler should be especially mentioned for their attention. There are many business enterprises in Helena conducted by colored people. Among them should be mentioned a very large grocery store, operated by Mrs. R. C. Dorsey, Miles-York Express line and barbershop, J. E. W. Clark's hair dressing parlors. A. J. Walton's second-hand store and the Broadway Suitatorium, conducted by Harry Salsburg, and is one of the neatest in the west, and is located in the center of the city and in one of the largest buildings; it is partonized by the best people of Helena. Mr. Salsburg is from St. Joseph, Mo., and Mrs. Salsburg is a Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Salsburg are young and have only been in business here for two years, yet they have won a competency and have dennemonstrated that a success can be made by a man and woman who are willing to work together in a business way. Robert Wheeler, nephew of Mr. Salsburg, works with them. Brother Wheeler is a single man but he keeps up his correspondence as he was carrying it on while we were with him he won't be a single man very long. If any MASONIC PARTY VISITS HELENA, MONTANA Finds a City Full of Prosperity The journey between Billings and Helena, Montana covered a distance of 240 miles. The country covered on this distance is devoted very largely to cattle raising and mining. There is very little farming in this section. One of the fascinating things between these two last mentioned cities is the constant view of the snowcapped mountains. Between Billings and Helena the party touched at Livingston, Montana one of the main stations for Yellowstone Park, which is a very thriving city and the largest one between Billings and Helena, and is only a distance of 5 miles from Yellowstone Park. It is surrounded by lofty mountain peaks which hover around it and form a great natural protection for it. Thursday afternoon the Eastern Star Chapter held a reception in honor of the masonic party. The meeting was largely attended. The chapter has a large membership, and we are told that the officers are very punctual and faithful in the performance of their duties. This chapter has only recently come into our purisdiction from the California jurisdiction. Mrs. R. J. Alexander is Royal Matron and Mrs. C. C. Matthews is secretary, and Mr. M. O. J. Arnett is Royal Patron. At the conclusion of a very pleasant talk by the Grand Patron and introduction of the other brothers of the party, the chap- ter was called off and the afternoon became one of pleasure and the happy indulgencies incident to that fellowship which alone obtains in the realm of life and work. Refreshments were served and enjoyed by all those present. On Thursday evening the masonic party visited Unity Lodge No. 101 and gave a demonstration of the work with several candidates. Friday evening the party organized a Commandry of Knights Templar. The masonic work having been finished the remainder of the stay of the party was devoted to sight seeing and a study of the conditions. State Library The New Dry Good Silk P We are nowloffering positively the Petticoat in this citg. A regular ly tailored in black, white and Hosier Under 35c value Childuen's Fine Spring N cream only, sizes 25 to 24 specral 50c and 65c values Ladies' Frieze emdroidered or lace; special this sa The New York We are nowloffering positively the best bargain ever offered in a Silk Petticoat in this city. A regular $7.50 Taffeta, elegant silk beautifully tailored in black, white and colors. Our price, choice at $4.96 member of the party can in any way serve brother Wheeler, he is at his command. The Montana Plaindealer is one of the best newspapers published in the west. It is published by J. B. Bass, who tells us that Helena is a good newspaper town. Judging from the portlines of brother Bass, Helena has supplied him with everything he needs. who refuse to work with a man because he is of a little dark color, the result is idleness in the oppressed. Out of this idleness comes laziness, and crink. This is the pedicament that groes in the West are in today and this is the one thing the leaders of the race are are trying to eliminate. It is almost impossible for an educated negro to use his education for his s Brother H. J. Baker very kindly gathered for us a list of the property holders in Helena. They follow with their valuation G. W. Alexander, $6,000, B. F. Hooper, $6,500, Mrs. R. C. Dorsey, $8,000, James Crump $4,000 J. E. W. Clark $3,000, Geo. W. Lee, $3,000 Henry J. Baker $3,500, Mrs. E. G. Cole $5,000, Miles York $4,000, Nathaniel Ford, $4,000, Jefferson Harrison $3,000, C. C. Mathis, $1,500 Nathan Walker $1,500, L. C. Foreman $1,500, Arthur Plummer $1,500, Logan Smith $1,500 Sergeant Robinson $1,200, Sergeant Smith $1,000, L. C. Mathis $1,500 Robert Brown $1,200 David Gordon $2,000, Albert Napper, $4,000, W. C. Rose $4,500 Mrs. Annie Marshall $2,000, Alonzo Leatherburg $1,000 Spencer Smith $300.00, Clarence Walton $500.00, Mr. William Miner $1,000, Robert Lucas $1,500, One A. M. E. Church $15,000. This showing ought to be reassuring to all members of the race everywhere. Full of encouragement for the beterment of the race, the party left the hospitable gates of Helena, Sunday afternoon for their journey westward to the coast. The above clipping is from the Omaha Enterprise, of which T. P. Mahammit is the editor, he was here with Grand Master Ricketts. The list of property owners should have contained the names of Mrs. Lizzie Hall $1,500, James Tolbert $2,000, Walter Parker $500, Mrs. Andrew Green $500.00. We suppose they were unintentionally overlooked. The following article was wrote by Jessie L. Brooks who is well known here, and who is to graduate next year from the High school at Great Falls, and, while he is evidently at error on one or two points, the article itself is ably written and shows the possibilities of the future man if he keeps on. The article is clipped from the Round Up a school journal. RACE PROBLEM IN THE WEST Idleness is a great hindrance to any race or class of people. Yet, if employment is cut off on all sides by prejudiced beings LER To York eds Store etticoats best bargain ever offered in a Silk $7.50 Taffeta, elegant silk beautiful colors. Our price, choice at $4.95 ry and rwear eedle Vests or pants, fleeced lined each. 25c Gauze Hose, silk lisle, fisle or cotton le per pair. 40c who refuse to work with a man because he is of a little darker color, the result is idleness for the oppressed. Out of this idleness comes laziness, and crime. This is the pedicament that negroes in the West are in today, and this is the one thing that leaders of the race are are trying to eliminate. It is almost impossible for an educated negro to use his education for his support, and we all realize that education is the only salvation for any down-trodden, oppressed people. Is it jealously that makes you hate us and persecute us so? or is it because of our black skin? Surely if you are a Christian, you know we all came from one family. Why is it then (since you have brought us here) that you won't help us to develop our abilities, and be a credit to you and the whole of this great American nation? Can you not see that we are bound to develop? Where in history can records be shown where any other people, under the most favorable conditions have progressed with the rapidity that we have? After being kept in bondage for almost five hundred years and then let go without an inch of ground that we could call our own, we now possess, after fifty years of hard struggling, three million dollars' worth of real estate and personal property. Thing then of what we could have done, and can do, with less oppression by our white brother. Yet, by this great struggle for existence, we are only growing stronger,although the progress FOUR is less rapid. Education is what is making and is going to continue to make us a great people. What we must have are highly educated leaders. We hear many criticisms of higher education of the negro, and many say that university education is only time wasted. I do not agree with these critics. Not that industrial education should be minimized, but that higher education should be emphasized. There is a need for systematic organizers and administrators, as well as workers. We have to fight not only against our prejudiced white brothers in this great struggle, but we have to fight against ignorant, immoral negroes. Lazy, restless negroes are immigrating from the south and coming north and the majority of the black population in small western cities are of this type. Fifty per cent of them can neither read nor write and they only make the struggle harder for honest negroes. So you see that although we are making steady progress, the march is slow and hard. But remember those mighty words which God has caused to be written in the Book of books: "And in the end Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands." JESSE L. BROOKS, 1911 10 JESSE L. BROOKS, 1911 NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY PLACE ON THE GLOBE. A Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events Told in Short Paragraphs. The Oregon census shows 675,879. A. D. Pelton, owner of the Toledo Blade from 1857 to 1868, died Saturday aged 87. The Rev. Billy Sunday is headed for California to start a campaign against the big fight. The Rev. Dr. John W. T. Booth, one of the oldest and best-known Baptist clergymen in the United States, is dead at his home in White Plains, N. Y. James M. Lynch was re-elected president of the International Typographical union by 8,000 votes in the election throughout the country by the organization May 18 Amoy, China. — Conditions arising from the continued drouth are serious. There has been no rain for four months, food supplies are running low and the crops are a failure. A severe storm in Clay county, Kansas, Saturday night did much damage to crops, trees and outbuildings. Telegraph wires are down and the full extent of the damage is not known. General Louis Botha, premier of the Transvaal, has been summoned to form the first union ministry cabinet of United South Africa of which Viscount Gladstone is the first governor-general. Harry Pike, formerly of Chicago, and whose divorced wife now lives there, shot and fatally wounded Hazel Ritter, aged 25, of Laramie, Wyo., and then attempted suicide at Denver, Colo., Saturday. Arraignment of the administration's sale of the Philippine friar lands and of the activities of the so-called "sugar trust" in that archipelago, was made in the house Saturday by Mr. Covington of Maryland. John M. Simpson, California argonaut of 1849 and Oregon pioneer of 1866, died at his home in South Tualatin, Washington county, Cal., Friday, from the effects of injuries sustained in a runaway accident near there some time ago. George Turner, former United States senator of Washington, has sailed from New York to The Hague to act as one of the attorneys of the United States in the adjustment of fishery and boundary questions between Canada and the United States. With the approach of the time for the maneuvers at American Lake, Wash., in August, when the posts of the northwest will be all but deserted by all soldiers and officers, interest increases, and all activities bear relation to making preparations to go. Seven hundred nonunion miners employed at the Providence electrical and at White Dog zine mines, Webb City, Mo., have struck upon the refusal of the company to increase the wages to figures which obtained before the decreased price of ore forced a 10 per cent reduction. Twenty-one students of the mining department of McGill university, Montreal, are at the concentrator of the St. Eugene mine, Moyie, B. C., where they will remain for four or five days devoting their energies to the acquiring of a practical knowledge of the various modern methods of silver-lead ore treatment. A heavy snowfall delayed railroad traffic and threatened telephone and telegraph service around Trinidad, Colo., Saturday. Six inches of snow is reported in the Stonewall mountains. The snow is melting rapidly and the moisture means thousands of dollars to farmers and stockmen in this section in prospective crops and grass for stock. A lockout in the building trades of Germany, affecting 200,000 men, is in full swing. It is expected the lockout will spread even further. Although the employers of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen have not joined the movement, it is expected that work there will be suspended. Negotiations for a peaceful settlement are under way at Munich. The body of Martin P. Case, president of the Independent Oil company, and for a number of years known in financial circles as a wealthy man, was found in the basement of his home in Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday night. He had died of a bullet wound apparently self-inflicted. He was 73 years old. The despondency of old age is thought to be the cause of the suicide. Cuba Has Birthday. President Taft Saturday sent the following telegram of congratulations to President Gomez at Havana: "On this, the eighth anniversary of the independence of Cuba, I extend felicitations and good wishes for the continued peaceful development of the republic and for the happiness and prosperity of its citizens." Bryan Sails for Scotland. It will be up to the next congress to determine whether the next president shall be a democrat, William J. Bryan believes. Mr. Bryan sailed Saturday from New York and as a delegate at large from the United States to the international missionary conference in Scotland Judge George Gray of Delaware was a fellow passenger. FARM TRAIN WILL TOUR THE PALOUSE O. E. & N. Plans Most Complete Demon- stration—W. S. C. Experts Charge. A completely equipped farming demonstration train will leave Pullman over the O. R. & N. June 20, and will visit the principal towns of eastern Washington, making a six day tour and stopping at 22 towns. This train will consist of six exhibit cars, all electrically lighted, a sleeper and a business car, and will be the best train of the kind that has been seen in the state. Demonstrations will be given in co-operation with the Washington state college, and will be in charge of 12 experts from the college faculty, headed by Professor R. W. Thatcher. Will Carry More Livestock. There will be no poultry car, more livestock being carried than on the previous train, and a feature will be made of farm mechanics. The livestock car will carry horses, dairy and beef cows, sheep and hogs. A flat car carrying orchard supplies will follow, on which will be given demonstrations in grafting, budding, pruning and spraying. On a second flat car will be carried a large variety of implements used in soil tillage, and on this car will be given demonstrations in dry farming and diversification in soil cultivation. An entire baggage car will be devoted to farm mechanics, a small dynamo suitable for farm use, being installed. The making of concrete fence posts and the repair and construction of farm buildings and outhouses will be shown in this car. Exhibits of Grains. The second baggage car will be given up to an exhibit of grains, grasses and seed tests. In the third baggage car will be found dairy machinery and products, demonstrations in milk tests, milk and cream separation, and possibly improved methods of manufacturing butter and cheese. While full details of the trip have not been arranged, the itinerary now includes stops at Colafax, Elberton, Garfield, Farmington, Tekoa, Rockford, Fairfield, Latah, Thornton, St John, Winona, La Crosse, Wallula, Touchet, Walla Walla, Prescott, Dayton, Turner, Huntsville, Waitsburg, Starbuck and Pomeroy. It is planned to make stops of from two to three hours at each of these places, evening demonstrations being given at some points between the hours of 6:30 and 8:30. AMERICAN WINS ACADEMY PRIZE Award in Historic Latin Poetry Contest Goes to Dr. San Giovanni of Brooklyn. Dr. Edward San Giovanni, a teacher in a Brooklyn high school, has received word from Holland, informing him that the Royal Academy of Amsterdam has declared him the winner of the Hoeufft international contest in Latin poetry. His poem was a love story entitled "The Oasis." The prize has been awarded annually in Holland since 1843, with scholars from all parts of Europe, America and Australia as competitors. Dr. Giovanni is the first American to obtain recognition. BURN BODY OF BOGUS LORD Disposition of Lord Douglas' Ashes a Mystery. Washington, May 24—The body of Sidney Lascelles, who died eight years ago in Asheville, N.C., charged with being a bogus "Lord Beresford," a bigamist and forger as well, was cremated here and much mystery surrounds the disposition of the ashes. The body was shipped here from Asheville on Friday, May 20. Lascelles' wife No. 1, said to be a woman of a prominent New York family, is said to have ordered the cremation. NEW PLACERS IN ALASKA. Claims Totalling 72,000 Acres Are Taken Up. Eight Fairbanks men have located claims in the Totalinka valley in the foothills of the Alaska range. Reports received here say the claims include T2., 000 acres of gold-bearing gravel and will be used for hydraulic mining. As a result of the labor shortage due to the stampede to the Iditarod, miners are demanding $6 a day and board to remain at work in the Tanana valley. Lightning Causes Death. Ramah, Col., May 23.—Struck by a heavy piece of timber torn from its fastenings when a bolt of lightning struck the house, the 5-months-old infant of Mrs. Edward Miller was instantly killed in its mother's arms while the woman was making a dash from the house on her ranch, 20 miles from here, during a terrific electrical storm. The mother was unhurt. In the same storm John Ferguson, a cowboy at a neighboring ranch, was struck by lightning and killed. Jewel Creek Gold Strike. Weaverville, Cal., May 26.—Gold in large quantities has been discovered in the Jewel creek canyon near Minersville and all the ground in the vicinity of the little stream has been staked out by prospectors. Charles Heath, who had been prospecting on Jewel creek for some time, struck a pocket which yielded $6,000 in seven days. Some of the pans he washed gave him as high as $100. Many have gone to the scene of the strike. AEROPLANE AGAIN SENT OVER BY A FRENCHMAN. Count de Lesseps Rivals Noted Performance of Bleriot in July—Used Rays of Sun for Guide—Took Him 50 Minutes, While Bleriot's Time Was 33 Minutes. Dover, England, May 22.—For the second time within a year the English channel was crossed Saturday by an aeroplane and again the honor rests with France. Count Jacques de Lesseps, a grandson of the late Ferdinand de Lesseps, the celebrated French engineer, driving a monoplane of the same model as that with which Louis Bleriot conquered the straits July 25 last, duplicated his countryman's feat in a dense fog, starting at Calais and landing safely at Winston court farm. Fifty minutes were consumed in the journey. Bleriot's time was 33 minutes. Returns Today. M. de Lesseps intended making the trip from Calais to Dover and return without alighting, in an effort to win the Ruinart prize of $2,500, but the mist compelled him to descend. Leaving Calais amid the cheers of an immense crowd, the aviator sent his monoplane up to a height of 400 feet and then headed it in the direction of Dover. When scarcely a mile out from the French coast the Scarabee, as the monoplane is known, was lost to sight from the torpedo boat destroyer Esecopte, which was racing underneath it to render aid should the aviator and his machine fall. M. de Lesseps' only means of reckoning his whereabouts were the rays of the sun, which dimly penetrated the banks of fog in which he was enshrouded. He determined to keep on, however, and, in order to avoid the possibility of colliding with the cliffs of Dover he sent the monoplane to a height of a thousand feet, at the same time keeping it pointed in the direction in which he believed the English coast lay. Lands Easily. The Frenchman's courage soon was rewarded by the sight of the gray cliffs immediately beneath him. There he stopped the whirring motor and let the machine glide to earth, landing without mishap at the Winston court farm, a mile inland and midway between Dover and Deal. Used 50 H. P. Machine. De Lessseps used a 50-horsepower "Scarabee." He descended from the point at which Louis Bleriot started on his cross-channel flight last July, and rose gradually to an altitude of 1,600 feet, at which height he was traveling when he was lost to view in a light haze. The torpedo boat destroyer Escopette followed in the wake of the flying craft. QUAKE AT SALT LAKE EARTH ROCKED THE UTAH CITY SUNDAY MORNING Last About Half a Minute and Much Damage Was Done to Property—Kansas Professor Said It Appeared 2000 Miles Distant and Similar to the Costa Rica Quake. Salt Lake, Utah, May 22.—The Sunday morning slumber of this city and immediate vicinity was disturbed by a violent rocking of the earth, which lasted apparently about two seconds, although the seismograph at the state university recorded a disturbance of 30 seconds. The earthquake was quite sharp and caused considerable damage to crockery, chimneys and old adobe houses. The tremor was local in extent, being confined within a radius of 50 miles. Slight damage is reported from the towns of Bingham and Garfield. The shock occurred at 7:28 a. m., and was followed by two other shocks, one at 8:38 a. m. and the other at 11:24. Both were barely perceptible. Local scientists say that the shock was caused by the slipping of a great fault searp at the base of the Wasatch mountains, east of the city. Is Registered in Kansas. Lawrence, Kan., May 22—The seismograph at the University of Kansas recorded an earthquake shocks this morning from 12:37 to 2:15 o'clock. Professor H. P. Cady, who observed the movement, said: "The quake appeared to be about 2000 miles distant. It had all of the characteristics shown by the recent disturbances in Costa Rica." Her Love Ends in Death. Peoria, Ill., May 23.—Miss Minnie Alders, 20 years old, a schoolteacher of Princeton, Ill., was found dead in bed at a hotel here with three bullet wounds in her body. Her companion, S. T. Easterly of Chillicothe, Ill., a freight conductor, is detained by the police pending an investigation. C. S. Starts $3,000,000 Line. Pueblo, Col., May 23.—The Colorado Southern railroad will start work today on a line from here to Watsonburg, Col. The work will cost about $3,000,000. "BILLY" DODD, A GOOD SPORT. Always Has a Team in Bowling and Baseball League at Spokane. It would be a hard matter to determine whether "Billy" Dodd of Spokane is best known, in the city of his residence and throughout the Inland Empire, as "Billy" Dodd, president of the Dodd Clothing company, or as "Billy" Dodd, friend and patron of all clean, legitimate sports. For instance, it is pretty generally known through the clothing trade of the northwest that he is a pioneer in the business, and was, long before he moved his big gents' furnishing store from the northeast corner of Riverside avenue and Post street to the southwest intersection of those two busy thoroughfares of Spokane. He is agent for the famous "Gordon" hat. In Spokane he has been known for the last twenty years as a booster for the metropolis of the Inland Empire, a member of all the commercial organizations and a man of high civic as well as business ideals. The same policy that keeps his attention constantly devoted, apparently, to his business, has kept him in touch with every movement for municipal reform or for the exploitation of the gigantic resources and industries of the Inland Empire. But there is another side to "Billy" Dodd—a side which men who do not excel him in business ability or in patriotism do not know so well as do the baseball fans, or the bowling alley enthusiasts. These latter will say that it was the culmination of "Billy's" career when, about four years ago, he put the Dodd Clothing company's baseball team in the City league at Spokane. And men who don't know the urbane merchant in his big store watch eagerly for the appearance of his team in the tournaments of the Spokane City Bowling league each winter. And so does "Billy" Dodd. He watches the two teams with all the eagerness of a boy, and is proud of them and their triumphs, or depressed at reverses, just as though he had not put over a score of years into the strenuous business life of the Inland Empire. Those years do not seem to have taken much out of him. The Dodd Clothing company will have a team this year in the Spokane City League. The Dodd blood is apparently inoculated with the baseball germ. Ralph Dodd, youngest brother of the clothing man, is known over the country as one of the best amateur baseball umpires in the northwest, an umpire the honesty of whose decisions is never questioned and whose services are sought by all the amateur games of the Inland Empire. THEATER ATTRACTIONS AT, SPOKANE Have seats reserved by mail, sending a deposit to manager and stating about where you desire seats, naming attraction and date. THE AUDITORIUM, H. C. Hayward Post St., north of Riverside Ave. Mgr. High-Class Productions— June 3. 4 and 5—"The Thief." June 3, 4 and 5—"The Thief." June 7 and 8—Grace George in "A Woman's Way." June 22 and 23—Henrietta Crosman in "Anti-Matrimony." June 24 and 25—Maude Adams. THE SKOANE, Chas. W. York, Mgr Post St., south of Riverside Ave. Every Night—Popular Prices. "Sapho." Alphonse Daudet's emotional drama, "Sapho," will be the attraction furnished by the Lawrence and Sandusky Stock company for this week at the Spokane theater. Popular prices, best seats 50c. Joseph A. Muller, Resident Manager Phone Main 311 Matine Every Day, 2.30 This Week's Attractions: "The Mermaids," Peter Donald and Meta Carson, Lewis McCord & Co., Clown Zertho, Agnes Mahr, LaToy Bros., R. J. Hamilton and motion pictures. FASHION HINTS 1 Our sketch shows one of the lovely chiffon robes veiled in gauze. The robe is creamy white with a shaded pink border, while the overdress is a deep pink. A black satin hem makes an effective and practical finish to the skirt. Sheep—Market steady; native, $4@6.90; western, $4@6.85; yearlings, $6.50@7.90; lambs, native, $5.90@8.90; western, $6.50@9. WASHINGTON, MONTANA AND IDAHO NEWS NOTES. A Few Interesting Items Gathered From Our Exchanges of the Surrounding Country—Numerous Accidents and Personal Events Take Place—Business Outlook Is Good. WASHINGTON STATE NEWS. Ritzville had 590 pupils at the close of term. C. M. Banker, a prominent resident of Cashmere, died recently. The outlook for the grain crop in Whitman county is not so good as was expected. Wenatchee citizens have already subscribed $11,180 for a Y. M. C. A. building in that city. The estimated wool clip of the Columbia country this year is approximately 250,000 pounds. The state grange meets in Pullman on June 7, 8, 9 and 10. There will be several hundred delegates. Pasco is to have cleaner streets or fewer hobos, if the present plan of the police department is a success. Conconully.—No convictions were secured by the state in criminal cases in the present term of superior court. There will be three times as large a fruit crop this season as there was last year throughout the Palouse country. One car of fruit to every acre of bearing orchard is estimated as an average for 1910 in the Toppen vicinity. William Kennedy, a deck hand on the steamer Inland Empire, was run down by a switch engine at Kennewick and killed. Mrs. Frank Leo, Walla Walla, the white wife of Dr. Leo, a Chinaman, has returned to him after an absence of several months. The supply of jute bags at the prison this year has been exhausted, according to Warden Reed, and no more orders will be taken. Work has started on the reconstruction of the Union Iron works machine and boiler shop, destroyed Friday afternoon by fire at Spokane. The Walla Walla Farmers' Warehouse company will not join the combination of co-operative grain warehouses in this state, Idaho, Oregon and Utah. A farmers' institute will be held at Husum May 28. The meeting will be addressed by professors from the State Agricultural college at Pullman. D. L. Gillespie, publisher of the Brewster Herald, wants to be register of the land office at Waterville, and has gone to Washington in the matter. Lumber industries in Chelan county are enjoying a prosperous year and the demand has been so great that local dealers find it hard to keep up a supply. J. E. Martin of the government reclamation service, has taken up the matter of draining the Toppenish wheat country, for which $250,000 has been appropriated, a part of which is now available. The Okanogan Publicity league is the name of a new organization formed by the real estate men of Omak, Concoonly, Okanogan and Malott. Large sums of money are being pledged for publicity use. Dean A. W. Hendricks of Whitman, who has been in Washington, D. C., in the interests of the bill to allow Whitman to purchase the Fort Walla Walla property, has returned and declares the bill will eventually pass. The formal transfer of the holdings of the Lewiston-Clarkston company to the Lewiston-Clarkston Improvement company through Spencer, Trask & Co., was made Saturday at noon when its temporary president, George W. Bailey, received a telegram from New York to assume control. The deal involves $2,500,000. That fruit produced in the Yakima valley this season will be unusually fine, provided orchardists do not neglect immediately spraying for codling moth, is the opinion of Fruit Inspector T. O. Morrison, who has been watching eggs of the moth carefully, and reports that they are about ready to hatch. Prosecuting Attorney Chamberlain of Whitman county has issued a warrant for George Bafus, charging him with murder in the first degree. Bafus is at large on the coroner's warrant. On April 16 George Bafus killed his brother-in-law with a stick of stove wood following a quarrel. He was bound over to the superior court and afterward released on $8,000 bonds. IDAHO NOTES The first passenger train to reach Salmon, Ida., arrived at 8:00 p. m. on the evening of May 17. The installation of the new compressor plant at the Caledonia mine near Wallace, Idaho, has been completed and shipments at the rate of 40 tons of crude ore a day are now being made to the smelters. As the result of the sudden disappearance of F. B. Tharp, postmaster and merchant of Fenn, several weeks ago, Mrs. Tharp has made voluntary assignment of the merchandise and accounts, and his bondsmen are in charge of the postoffice. On June 25 and 26 the Modern Woodmen of America and the Rolay Neighbors of Coeur d'Alene city have planned the annual outing at St. Maries. The local camp has chartered a steamer and will use the dancing barge Bonita to reach St. Maries. A carload of eastern capitalists arrived in Weiser Saturday and left for Council to visit orchard tracts. Their visit is especially to visit the Mesa orchard tract, where 6,000 acres are being set to apples. The party was in charge of Captain O. M. Carter, a director of the Weiser Land and Water company, and C. E. Meisse of Chicago, general manager of the company. The program for commencement week at the Lewiston state normal opens June 3, when a musical will be given in the state normal gymnasium. June 4 a reception will be given by President Black and Dean Lyle in honor of the seniors. June 7 will be Alumni and Senior Class day. Tuesday afternoon Dean Southwick will again give an interpretative recital, "The Rivals." Commencement exercises are to be held Wednesday morning, June 8, in the normal school gymnasium. After it had been trodden over by the thousands of merrymakers in the confetti-ankle-deep streets, Edward Sutton, a day laborer, during the closing hours of the centennial at San Bernardino, Cal., picked up a wallet containing $1600 in paper money. Sutton, by means of cards and letters in the wallet, found it belonged to H. L. Bounce, an Idaho cattleman. Sutton returned the money to its owner and Bounce offered Sutton $600, but the finder declined to take a reward of any amount. MONTANA ITEMS George Pfaff is Boulder's new postmaster. Bozeman is to have a new band, to be known as the Interstate band. Victor Fey, 18 years old, died at a hospital in Helena, the result of an accident in the Dearborn country. A comprehensive survey of the financial condition of the city of Butte is afforded by the recent report of Mayor Nevin. Work is to be started June 1 on the building of the railroad from Harlowton to White Sulphur Springs, a distance of 18 miles. Captain Pease has just effected a deal whereby he becomes owner of 320 acres of timber land in Flathead county in the vicinity of Kalispell. W. G. Conrad, millionaire land, livestock and mining magnate, and prominent democratic politician, announces that within a month he will establish a new bank in Helena. An auto trip over the entire state is planned by John Groeneveld and Edgar Wild, two young men of Butte, who will strike into the wilds of the western part of the state, traveling thence to Kalispell and making a trip into the new Glacier National park. A. L. Eakins, manager of the Enterprise sawmill at Sedan, was killed Saturday by being thrown 20 feet to the rafters of the mill, while trying to put a belt on a pulley. At the same time a millwright named Gunn was hurled through the mill and sustained an injured back. James Breen has concluded negotiations with the Union Bank and Trust company for a reconvection of the Broadwater hotel property near Holea, which was sold by the sheriff last year to satisfy claims of creditors. The Union bank bid the property in for the amount of judgment. Fred France, a pioneer rancher and woolgrower near Gilt Edge, has sold his entire holdings to G. P. Burnett for $85,000, and will shortly leave for southern California for an extended stay. Mr. France came to this section with the soldiers, and was formerly the post-shoemaker at Fort Maginnis. With that humble beginning he now retires from active life with a handsome fortune. Official figures for the Great Falls land office for April, 1910, indicate that a new record was established by that office which has never been equaled by any land office in the United States in the matter of receipts for one month's business. Last month the receipts of the local office aggregated more than $45,000, which is $1,100 in excess of that for the month of March. The total number of entries made last month was approximately 2,800, while over $19,000 was taken in by the Great Falls office for enlarged homesteads under the act of February 19, 1909. FARMING SPECIAL IS SLATED FOR A NORTHWEST TOUR Officials of the Northern Pacific, believing an educational train will be of great benefit to the farmers of the northwest, will start a train of eight cars from St. Paul early in June, to be known as the "Farming Special" and will run the train over their lines in North Dakota, Montana and Washington. ington. The train will carry latest improved farm machinery, seeds and live stock, and a coach will be reserved for members of the party. A lecture car will also be provided. also be provided. The train will be under the direct supervision of the heads of the various agricultural colleges in the different states through which the special will be scheduled to run. be scheduled to run. All expenses of the trip will be met by the railroad company. One object of the special is to help those who are so isolated as to make it practically impossible for them to attend a farmers' institute. Band Instrument Factory Burns. Elkhart, Ind., May 23.—The plant of the C. G. Conn company, said to have been the largest manufacturing plant of brass band instruments in the world, was destroyed by fire today, entailing a loss of $500,000. An employee was burned to death. "The daddy of that boy," said the Georgia man, "has raised such a racket in congress that the mamy doesn't want the boy to go there." "Where, to congress?" "Certainly." "Well, the boy doesn't have to be a congressman." "Don't you believe it! Down South it runs in the blood, like bein' born a colonel or a general. 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Washington, May 23.—Churches in every church echoed the precepts of the World's Sunday School association, which is holding its sixth convention at Washington, by the observance through a common form of service of the World's Sunday School day. In this city services were conducted in all Protestant churches. The devotions began at 7:30 a. m., when in many of the churches the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was observed. Delegates from the executive committee visited every Sunday-school; there were missionary rallies for boys and girls during the afternoon, and in the evening meetings in more than 100 churches were addressed by foreign missionaries fresh from the field. The work began with a sunrise prayer meeting at a hotel, at which the Rev. S. D. Zweimer, for many years a missionary in Arabia, presided, and prayers were made for the Moslem world. All the services were strictly international, as well as interdenominational. Practically every Protestant denomination was represented, and it was estimated that folk of 51 nationalities were gathered. Some of the foreign workers who spoke at meetings were Professor Albert Clot, Italy; Professor J. R. Chitambar, India; Professor T. H. Yun, president of the Anglo-Korean school in Korea; the Rev. N. Tamura of Japan, the Rev. E. N. Pressler of Mexico, Francis Connell of the Stockport (England) Sunday school, largest in the world; the Rev. Aquilla Lucas of the West Indies, the Rev. Jean Paul Cook of Algeria and the Rev. J. Monroe Gibson of London. Rebukes for Barring Negroes. Delegates from Great Britain to the sixth convention of the World's Sunday School association, now in session here, declared in addresses at several church services that the action of the local committee in barring negroes from the men's Bible class parade on Friday last was unChristian. They said that such a thing would not have happened in England, where the negro can occupy positions on an equality with his white brother. Rev. Dr. John Read Shannon, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church, also criticised the action of the local committee. An open letter has been addressed by a committee of negro ministers to the delegates attending the convention exonerating the general committee of the association of race prejudice and placing the blame entirely upon the local committee on arrangements. Issues Letter to His People Expressing His Gratefuiness to Them—Loss of Late King a Great Loss and Keenly Felt By All—New King to Maintain Father's Racing Stables. London, May 24.—King George has commenced his reign with an act of clemency, granting remission of short sentences and reduction of others throughout the kingdom and in the army and navy. He also has issued a touching letter "To My People" expressing grateful appreciation of the affection the nation has shown in the face of "a sorrow so unlooked for that it might well have been overwhelming." But the king, "has made me realize that it is a loss to my people as well as to me. They share it with me. I do not stand alone. With such thoughts I take courage and hopefully look to the future, strong in my faith in God, trusting my people and cherishing the laws and constitution of my beloved country." country. It is announced that King George intends to maintain a royal racing stable at Newmarket and a breeding stud at Sandringham, and that he will patronize racing on the same extensive scale as his father. Taft's Brother Out of Race. Charles J. Taft, brother of President Taft and at present a guest at the White House, will not take part personally in this year's campaign in Ohio. He will sail for Europe Saturday and will not return until just before election. 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The original processes were clumsy and more or less crude, but an excellent article of sugar was produced, although in limited quantities. Improvements were made in the process, however, and by scientific means the quality of the sugar was greatly improved says Philadelphia press. It has been an important article of commerce, but Cuba and Java produced the greatest quantity of cane sugar, owing to the fertility of the soil and the salubriity of the climate, and but little was raised, comparatively speaking, by the rest of the world. About 1747, however, an astonishing statement was made to the Berlin Academy of Sciences by Herr Marggrave, who announced that sugar could be produced from beets, and prophesied that this would become the basis of a great industry, and about 1797 Archeard solved the problem of its production and a number of beet sugar factories were established, and from this small beginning it grew, until last year the United States produced of beet sugar alone over 384,000 tons, while the production of cane sugar for the same time was 1,220,000 tons, of which Louisiana produced 350,000 tons, Porto Rico 245,000 tons, Hawaii 475,000 tons and the Philippines 150,000 tons. Germany, Austria and Russia excel in beet sugar production, and the total world's production of beet sugar in 1909 was 6,775,000 tons, while the production of sugar from cane totaled 7,935,000 tons. The total amount of sugar used in the United States in the calendar year 1908 showed a per capita consumption of 81.17 pounds. 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E. 3201 Riverside Ave., Spokane, Wn Leslie M. Shaw, formerly secretary of the treasury, denies that he had predicted war with Japan in his recent speech at Morristown, N. J., which is said to have occasioned comment in Tokio. "I did cite certain well-known facts, the logic of which spell war," said Mr. Shaw. "I cited the fact that we sent 16 warships to the Pacific ocean to demonstrate our prowess, and hired 27 ships built of foreign material in foreign yards, and floating foreign flags, to carry the necessary supplies, and stated what all men knew, that one hostile shot from the meanest gun would have sent every one of these home, for no country would consent to have its flag mixed up in our contention. "I called attention to the fact that Japan can—I did not say she will, but that she can—put 200,000 soldiers in Hawaii in 30 days without firing a shot, and, being then at war, we could not put 100,000 over there to contest the territory in two years. We have no ships with which to do it, and in event of war, we could neither hire nor buy. "Japan can land a fleet at Seattle any foggy day without so much as causing the barking of a dog and she can march her troops down the Coast and take every excuse for fortifications which we have on the Coast without serious opposition. Not one of the forts is protected from the rear and cannon that are mounted to defend against an attack by sea can not be turned around in 15 minutes to resist an attack from the land. "I also cited the fact, that, if every powder mill in the United States were to make powder 24 hours per day for more than 30 days, the product would last our present navy two hours, so that in case of war, if every powder mill were to cease making sporting powder and blasting powder and work 24 hours per day for the government, we could furnish powder for a month. "These are not state secrets. Everybody knows them except ourselves. And still we go on building battleships." INTERESTING MINING NEWS. The Del Rio mine is attracting more than ordinary attention in the Elk City district. Greenwood, B. C.—The C. P. R. spur into Wellington camp will be completed next week. About 20 inches of ore, showing iron, copper and galena have been struck in the Argo tunnel. Another big lead-silver strike was made recently in the Monarch mine, east of Murray, Idaho. The big tunnel of the Greenwood-Phoenix Tramway company is in 700 feet. The rock is very hard, and two machines on one bar can drive only five feet a shift. A wire has been received in Nelson, B. C., stating that silver-lead mines in Ainsworth, belonging to the Highland-United mines, limited, are to resume work immediately. Lewistown, Mont.—The new Cumberland mill at Maiden has started on its trial run. The event has been awaited with great interest, and the general belief is that it presses a great revival in the mining industry. The force of men employed at the rejuvenated mining camp of Syllanite, near Libby, Mont., is being increased steadily, according to reports, and good progress is being made in getting the mines ready to run. C. R. Westgate of Montreal, Canada, vice president of the company, is visiting the camp. Patrick Welch, of P. Welch & Co., railroad contracting firm, and T. J. Humbird, president of the Humbird Lumber company of Sandpoint, Idaho, and vice president of the Old National bank, are two of R. K. Neill's principal associates in the Mexican mining venture, to which he has given his own name. This much concerning the personnel of the syndicate which bought the Paloma placers at Altar, Sonora, Mexico, a few days ago, has leaked out, owing to the fact that articles of incorporation of the Neill Development company are about to be filed with the secretary of state and the names above mentioned occur therein, along with those of W. D. Greenough, R. K. Neill and Oscar F. Greely and W. E. 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Made with 1, 2 and 3 burners; the 2 and 3-burner stoves can be had with or without Cabinet. Every detail everywhere; if not at your, write PREMIUM LIST Company pokane and THESE A END SEALS E VALUABLE any Useful Cost TRADE MARK Trade with the Helena Packing and Provision Co. Jno. L. Ellis is now working for the Holter Hardware Co. M. Claude James is a visitor in the city from Billings. Mrs. Wh. Seals who has been visiting for more than a year with relatives in Topeka, Kans. has returned much improved in health. Rev. B. R. Gug paid the Plain-dealer Sanctum a visit this week Rev. J. C. Coleman will attend the presiding Elder's conference to be held in Kansas City, Kan., on June 6th. Misses Tressa York and Alma Bass will return home from Western University about June 10 for their summer vacation. Mr. L. C. Foreman has taken up his permanent home in Butte where he has procured a lucrative position. The Knight Templars have placed their order for their new uniforms and will soo be ready for their public appearance. James W. Crump is getting well fast and will soon be able to get out and about. Mrs E. L. Clark is now with the Broadway Suitatcrium. Mrs. J. B. Bass who has been ill with the diphtheria is now convalescent. Miss Lena Dorsey maintains her reputation as a prrtrayer of Dunbars selections without a close second. Mrs. M. A. Cole was victorious in the case before justice O'Donnell ast Friday in which she was sued for the value of an umbrella. When it comes to giving informal parties and to give the people what the want of all the good things, Mesdames Gaines and McGinness of 17 N. Ewing are there all the way. Their birthday at home was the best ever. L. C. Mathes spent a few days in Butte last week on business. The Area Quartette were the feature on the bill at the Family Theatre this week, it is one of the best colored quartettes which has appeared in this section for many days. The St. James literary will put on for next Wednesday evening, a Spelling Bee, everybody should attend. Poverty On The man who does never be wealthy. The saves may be wealt There Is Only One We allow 4 PER CE Union Bank & Poverty Or wealth? The man who does not save can never be wealthy. The man who saves may be wealthy some day. There Is Only One Way SAVE We allow 4 PER CENT on savings. HELENA, MCNTANA. Mrs. Wm. Blanke gave a very successful entertainment for the 2nd Baptist church at her home on 8th Ave., Friday evening. Mr. Wm. Stafford is in the city from Missoula. Fed Anderson and wife, the well known musicians, formerly of this city are reported to be in Great Falls. Joseph Bond writes that he is in Spokane and doing well. Mr. E. L. Clark has reconsidered his resignation as head waiter at the Montana club and returned to his old position. Mrs. A. J. Walton has gone on an extended trip to Spokane, Seattle and other points in the Northwest. Robert Wheeler left last Sunday for a trip to his home at St. Joe, Missouri, it is surmised he will return however, or he will be different from others who have gone. They all come back to Helena. The Fidelity club will give a grand entertainment at the Second Babtist church Tuesday evening, June 7, everybody invited to come, a big time. Free. The Busy Bees will give their annual Baazar at St. James church on Tuesday and Wednesday evening, May 31st and June 1st, the big Maypole on Tuesday night. Everybody come. Unity Lodge, No. 101 A. F. & A. M. held their annual election Wednesday evening, electing E. L. Clark, W. M.; H. J. Baker, S. W.; A. Palmer, J. W.; H. Saulsburg , secretary; C. C. Matthews, Treas. Mrs. Rev. J. E. Jones, of Butte was a Helena visitor last week as the guest of Mrs. Logan Smith. While here she was royally entertained, the guest of the Busy Bees at Mrs. Saulsburgs hourday evening, Friday dinner in her honor at Mrs. Wm. Blanks, that evening a reception in her honor at Ms. Logan Smith's. Party Saturday evening at L. C. Foreman's and Sunday breakfast at Mrs. Nathanill Walkers, she returned to Butte at 1:10 p. m. 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 farmes 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. Or wealth? does not save can y. The man who healthy some day. One Way SAVE CENT on savings. & Trust Co. --- MONEY TO LOAN AT 5 PER CENT We will bup you a $1000, 2000 3000, 4000 or $5000 home and allow yon ten and one half years in which to pay for same at the rate of $7.50 per month plus interest for each 1000 dollars borrowed, and with the privilege of paying all or part of the loan at any time with six months grace on your paymnts in dase of loss of position or sickness. We loan only on real estate and require first mortgage. For full information and particulars, clp coupon below, enclose same and return postage and we will mail you literature explaining our plrn. The Standard Home Company "Juc" The Largest Company oF Its Kind in America AsSETS OVER $£10.00N.00 L. E. maThfS SPECIAL AgENT 1023 loth.Ave. Western University QUINDARO, KANSAS THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Normal Leading and Best Industrial School of the West Mrs. Thompson who was last year employed by the Florwee family, has returned to the gratification of the Helena people, she was accompanied this time by a Mrs. Carrie Carter, a very preposessing and attractive widow. Mr. Ered Turner will leave next Thursday with his wife for Chicago where they will reside in the future. THE PLAINDEALER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY Some of our apparently intelligent and ambitious young men do not at least encourage enterprises conducted by THEIR OWN RACE? ...It is said by many that Miss W. sent J. D, a substitute? A certain party in a nearby town will not bring his wife to Heelna? Why Uncle D—— cannot get seated before the telephone rings. And also why it keeps him jumping to keep his dates? The guests would not own to going to the party after they went? ... The gras widower called on the grass widow with his ice cream socks on and the snow on the ground? A. G. D. is all smiles when the widow from the southland is nigh? MONEY T AT 5 PER Why Pa We will bup you a $1000, 200 and allow you ten and one half for same at the rate of $7.50 for each 1000 dollars borrowed of paying all or part of the loo months grace on your paymtr stition or sickness. We loan only on real estate age. For full information auck below, enclose same and retu mail you literature explaining The Standard Mom The Largest Company of F AsSETS OVER L. 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The insurgents have not had another meeting? Why and who is the lady of color that sends the swell meals and nice presents, to Tim Labeau at the county jail. A Spokane paper says that Miss Vera Simmons who is the belle of Helena will soon become a resident of that city. Miss Ella Davir who was injured by a fall from a dnggy has almost entirely reco vere TO LOAN PER CENT Rent 2000 3000, 4000 or $5000 home half years in which to pay $7.50 per month plus interest owed, and with the privelige loan at any time with six months in case of loss of po estate and require first mort- tion and particulars, clp coupon return postage and we will maintain our pln. Home Company "Jur" of Its Kind in America VER $£70.00N.00 GENT 1023 10th.Ave. University O, KANSAS NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR AND THE WEST College, Normal, Sub-Normal State Normal Industrial School West Advantages Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION For Terms, Prices and Inducements Offered write to ench, A. M., president est 1423; Residence, Bell We Malory Soft and Stiff MART, SCHAFF FINE C GANS&I ESTABLI HEL PHCKING AND PR whol OYSTERS, FISH POUIT and Stiff Ha w SCHAFF NE CITY TS & K BLIST HELF AND PROV hole FISH POUITRY Soft and Stiff Hats are the best. MART, SCHAFFNER & MARX FINE CLOTHES GANS&KLEIN CO ESTABLISHED 1866 OYSTERS, FISH POUITRY FRUITBUTTER& EGGS C. J. Bausch, Tinner. TIN, COPPER and SHEET IRON WORK Stove and Furnace work a Specialty. 315 N. JACKSON ST. - Helena, Mont. Strangers visiting the Capital City will be given a hearty welcome at all times at the Manhattan Club, 17 South Main Street Manhattan Club, 17 South Main Street Helena - - - Mont. Chas. H. Pratt Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut Glass and Novelties 19 N. Main Street pp Grand Central hotel Helena, Mont. FURNISHED ROOMS FURNISHED ROOMS RRENT 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. CENTRAL BEER HALL R HALL ANT. AND RESTUARANT- Heury Rossmau Prop. Phone 136 118 S. Main St. Helena Mont. --- Hats are the best, THEM FFNER & MARX CLOTHES KLEIN CO. ISHED 1866 LENA RY FRUITBUTTER & EGGS Mount Helena Commandry meets 4th Monday evening of each month at Unity Hall foot of Broadway. Meridian Chapter meets the 2nd Monday evening of each month at Unity Hall. 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. 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, Sunday 1 p. m. Second Baptist church, 417 N. Main St., services Sunday 11 a. m. and 8. p. m. Sunday School 2 p. m. Rev. JAMES, Pastor, Rev. JONES, Pastor, Butte Cravenette COMPANY 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 Wednesday evening of each month at their Hall in Galen block. E. L. CLARK, W. M. H. SAULSBURY, Sec. E. L. CLARK, E. C. J. B. BASS, Recorder. Mrs. M. PARKER, M. N. G. Mrs. C. Howard W. R. Rev. B. R. GUY, Pastor.