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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24
Arrivals ,t the Grand centra,,

II. W. James. Butte. Eph. w. Merritt, Roch-
C.S. shoemaker. quite. ester.
John Ga bis, Wickes. p. l.. Bathrick, Elk
VIM. Hoger3, louider. horn.
Il. w. Cundy. st. Paul. S. O. Ihunnser, ON
j. w. Gillin. Rozsman. aha.
C. X. Riaie, iimini. W. w. Iraul, Neihart.
Oscar j. Cllinser, Bar j. Iinley, McLeod.
ker H.. e.. Roster, Clenden-
A. McGregor, Dia- min.
mond. Jesse Wilkinson, Rim
j. Corbett, Galla,in. mi.
George Seymer, Ten J. II. Forbes. Guide
Mi o. VIM. schrainer, WicAes.
Louis Miller. Corbin: John licnards, LADDERS
H.. Fl. Trerise, Ruby burg.
Bar. j. Ii. Trariee, Butte.
Ihos. H.. ,Spratt. York. thas. Hossfeld. Ioston.
Bert Ford, city. W. pendieton, Law
w. ID. Eumsey, city. renee. Kan.
j. Il. Faulkn r, city. Il. leterson, Portland
VIM. Mayer, Butte. q. A. Cook, New York.
Robt. j. Evoy, Philips Ole Brasett Black
burg. Pine.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24

The Californis Wine House andles the
best and purest wines direct from the
growers.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24

Between you, us and Santa Claus, bargains
were never better or bigger than at Butcher d
Bradleys.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24

Christmas comes but once a year and The Bee
Hive takes up the intervening time to place their
orders SO as to meet the wants of all.
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Arrivals at The Helena.

A. H, Angsley. city. CA. Nelson, Elkhorn
w. L. Sanders, city. j. S. Tooker. city.
W. Ii. Ieudielon. Law Daniel Hanley, city.
renee, Kan. W.. l.. Corker, New
c. Il. Edwards, New York.
York. j.. Il. Clark, New York
W. j. Gilbert. st. Paul. F. e.. irish, St. laul.
L.. b. Massen, New q. w. Aeisser, Milwau.
York. waukee.
VIM. L. Eird, N. 2. R. E. A. Perkins, New
r. Co. York.
T. j., Batten, New j. Aleovam. ] DWELL,
York. Ike Eaw er, New York.
j.. r.. Jackson, st. X. b.. Aadcliff, Cincin-
Paul. natl.
+. J. Clasen, ST: Paul. j. N. Young, city.
v. IL. Peck, Minneapolis.
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The Bee Hive has the largest and most COM
plete line of dolls in the city ut prices to suit the
times.
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All members of above lodge are requested
to meet at Odd Fellows hall Dec. % (Fri-
day). at - M. to attend the funeral of Sis
ter James Hindle.
MRS. KATE ROGERS. N. G.
Miss LULU BURT, Secretary.
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NOTICE TO C~REDITORS-IN THE DIS
~ trict court Of the First judicial district Of
h 0 State OF Montana in and for the County OF
Lewis and Clarke.
In tho matter of thu estate of William New
comic Gardner, q ereased.
I'D Office is hereby given by the undersigned, ad-
Illustrator OF the estate Of William Newcombe
Gardner. deceased, to the creditors Of and al
to exhibit tlem, with the necessary vouchers.
within ten months after the first publication, OF
this notice, to the said administrator, at the law
office Of Msssena Bullard. room No. 8, Gold
plock, in the city Of Helena. county OF Lewis
and Clarke, state of Montana, the same being
tic place for the transaction OF The business OF
said estate in said county OF Lewis and ClaIks.
HENRY j. GARDNER.
Administrator Of tho estate Of William New
connie Gardner, deceased.
rated Dor 9, 1891.
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WHY is Rocky Fork Coal Becoming So
Popular
and giving such great satisfaction? Because
hey are down LOO feet and it is very com
pact. All orders filled promptly by
ifLoaRtsT Bros. % EDaAe
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The Weekly independents. IL pages, tc
Jan, 1. 1898, for 81.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24

Come early and avoid the rush for their bar
gains to butcher Il Bradleys.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24

A fine line of clothing and gents furnish
ing goods must be closed out Immediately.
stock will be offered at 30 cents on the dol
lar. Call soon in Novelty block, opposite
sands Bros.
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IONS ot az kinds can now be seen at The Rec
hive. Ma BODY dolls, bisgue head dolls. china
liinp aoiio. rubber dolls, china dolls, rag doIls
dressed and nndressed dolls, in fact eyery kind
Oh doll. IN all size and at prices to suit.
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INVESTMENT STOCKS.
1000 Cgmberland-great SNAP if taken at
at once.
$50 Glengary, S1.25.
7oo-so Helena and Victor. $2.25--ono of
the best stocks offered,
LOCO Iron Mountain, $50. This stock has
the call now.
1000 Poorman, $1.O71%.
i,o9o bl-Metalic Extension, 45c.
l,uoo Bannister Irregular dividend payer).
The only lot ever offered.
lhsfe Is not a stock i'll this lot that is not
safe TO buy for Investment. or tbat wiiI nos
pay big interest in 1892,
Rooms 2C Il 27. Bailey Block.
santa llaus' Headquarters. See our sign
and make no misiaAe. butcher & Bradley, e
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Fifty Cents on The Dollar.

The Weekly Independent, LIZ pages, t
Jan. !, 1898, for 81.
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To Stockholders of the Elizabeth Mining


Buy your Christmas candies at the Motor CT
fee.
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The Weekly Independent, IL page, to
Jan. ], 1898, for So
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24
USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL.

Gentlemen's travelling cases in great
variety at II. &. Hale s. Co.'s.
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Parsley.
Boston Fish Market.
ID N. Warren street.
Telephone 81.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24

Odd Fellows Attention! Naomi Rebek ah
Lodge No. 1.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24

Buy your wines and liquors for tho hoii.
Nnys at the California WIne liOuse.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-24

The Haynes Palace Studio car is now a. the N
+. depot and will remain TIL Saturday at noon.
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Go to Tho Bee Hive for Christmas cards.

santa Claus. Headquarters. See our sign
anu make no miB,aAe. butcher & Bradley. ~
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16

Wauamaker's enterprise the office was
cheap at that price. The finn OF
Wananaker & Brown doubtless made
some money, though not so much as
was expected, through the advertise
ments which Hon. John caused to be
circulated by postmasters. In tne
lioht of subsequent events it is PROB
able that if he could have gotten his
postal telegraph scheme to work there
would have been millions in it toi
the republican party and for the SAINTS
of the republican party Instead Oh oeins
squeezed in his stock jobbing oper'
ations by Jay Gould, Mr., WanamakeI
might have danced gleefully upon the
financial coffin of the great Wall street
operator.
But it begins to look as if the Harri
son administration is gradually finding
out that it sold itself too cheap; gave
itself away, in fact when it let Nana,
maker in for 100000. The scandal OF
the keystone bank is slowly permeat
ing too many branches of the govern
ment in Washington to be at all com
Portable to the occupant OF the white
house. The derelictions of official duty
already shown in connection with that
bank point strongly to the conviction
that men who are dishonest enough TO
use money corruptly in politics are also
dishonest enough to resort to crooked
practices in order to get their money
back with interest.
The Harrison administration owes IT'S
existence to shameless fraud and cor
ruption practiced in the election OF
1888. Mr.. Harrison owes his office
largely to bribery and purchase II
his latter months in the white house
shall be clouded with scandalous ex'
posures of his associates, it will be sim
ply another case of the engineer blown
skyward with his own dynamite cart
ridge.-St. Louis Republic.
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16
THE TIN PLATE HUMBUG.
Phenomenal Decline of the Productive
Capacity of the Industry.

Capacity Oh Ine
The output of domestic tin plate has
fallen off in the office of the Cleveland
Leader, as well as in the columns OF
certain other Mckinley papers On
Nav 21 the Leader said, in an editorial
paragraph relating to a meeting OF
"the tin plate manufacturers OF the
United States"
ut was reported that mills now In working
order in the United States are turning out tin
at the rate of 6OO 900 tons year"
That is to say, that American manu-
facturers were at that time making tin
plate at the rate of 1874, 400, 900 pounds,
or 1,200, 900 boxes, per annum. But the
Leader said on June 8, about three
weeks later:
mo protectionist expected that any great
amount of American tin plate would be made
until the higher duty went into effect What
was counted on was that arrangements would
be made for its manufacture, and this has be n
done Small quantities have been made an,
sent out over the country as samples
Here is phenomenal decline of the
productive capacity of the industry in
less than three weeks from 1874, 400, 600
pounds per annum to small quantities
sent out over the country as samples. "
The remainder of the editorial article
from which our second extract is taken
is composed chiefly Of the customary
references to the Lies" and "free
trade howls" of journals that are un.
willing that the people should pay
millions of dollars for these samples. +"
N, Y. Times.
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16
Average since 1876. 5 4 64 5S7 2y9

These figures alone do not bring out
fully the difficulty of making cheap tin
plates in this country. The thickness
of sheets in the first three columns is
No. 27 wire gauge; but sheets for max
ing by far the greater part of the tin
plates used are much thinner, being
what are known in the trade as No 80
wire gauge. Only roofing tin is made
of thickness so great as No. 2S.
Now thinner sheet means additional
labor and expense in rolling, and sheets
thin enough for tin plates are ever at
higher prices than the above. More
over, all the best grades of plates, ex-
cept roofing tin, are now made from
steel sheets, and it is therefore the
second "0f" the above columns which
principally concerns the American
manufacturer. These sheets, too, must
undergo an operation called picking
before they are to be dipped in tin.
The third column, that for galvanized
iron, is given in the above table, since
this is product somewhat similar
to tin plate, only being covered with
zinc in place of tin. But zinc costs less
than one-third the price of tin, and this
difference must further be taken into
consideration in the comparison here
made. Even with this difference in ia
vor of the galvanized iron men it is
seen above that they have been charg-
ing 2.SS cents pound more for thin
galvanized iron than the. tin plate maxi
ers get for their product,
In the light of these facts tin plate
cannot be made here, even under the
Mckinley duty, unless the sheet steel
makers offer their sheets at very much
lower prices. Vice-President Wiegand,
of the Nedringhaus company in St,
Louis, whose concern has been making
u little tin plate for exhibition pur-
poses at republican banquets and con-
ventions, has recently confessed in a
public interview that the Mckinley
duty is too slow. He claimed that a
duty Of AZ cents a pound would be
necessary to establish the tin plate sin
FAINT" as it costs two cents pound to
coat steel sheets with tin.
He seems to be right, but what will
the consumers say when they foot the
bill of Sl5,OoO,OOO year for our tin
plate experiments?
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16
COUNTING THE COST.

Figures For Our New Tin Plate Industry
Our Sheet Iron Costs More Than Welsh
Tin Plate-A Higher Tin Plate Duty
Needed-A Gloomy Outlook For the In
dustry.
We are told on high authority that a
wise man, before building tower, will
sit down first and count the cost
If our political tin plate makers, that
are to be, had done likewise they would
not have been filling the air for a year
or more with their eXtravagant prom
ises that we can make tin plates and
sell them in America at lower prices
than in Wales.
Unless our makers of sheet iron and
steel have been squeezing the most
exorbitant prices out of the consumers
during the past ten years, it may be
confidently stated that tin plates can
not be made in America and sold at a
profit in competition with Welsh plates,
even with the addition of the Mckinley
duty of 3 2 cents pound to the price.
Tin plates are made of very thin
sheets of iron or steel dipped in mGten
tin, the latter forming only about five
per cent of the weight of the finished
sheets. Now the fatal fact which
hangs gloomily over our newborn tin
plate industry is that our sheet iron
and steel have themselves ranged con-
siderably higher in price during the
past ten years than the finished tin
plates made in Wales.
The following table shows how prices
compared during the years from 1881 to
1890 inclusive. The first column gives
Philadelphia prices for common sheet
iron, the second Chicago prices for re-
fined sheet steel, the third the price OF
galvanized sheet iron covered with
zinc), and the fourth the price of i'm
ported tin plate at New York, not in
cluding the duty. The prices are given
in cents per pound
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16
TARIFF MAKING IN FRANCE.

How That Country IL Copying Mckinley.
ism-Iiigher Duties ON American Farm
Products-Our own McKlnlcylsm Re-
sponsible Our Large Trade with France.
The tariff bin which has been agi-
tating France for some months has
finally reached the stage in the cham
Der of deputies where amendments are
offered and voted upon; and some Of
the amendments recently adoped are Of
no little interest to our farmers.
The French have u somewhat pecu.
liar method Of procedure in tariff maxi
ing, First the government fixed up u
provisional bill with the duties which
II would recommend to the Legislative
power for approval, This preliminary
measure was submitted last fall TO n
large joint commission of the senate
and chamber Of deputies, All winter
long this committee was pothcring and
tinkcring away at the governments bill,
raising the duties recommended by II
in nearly all cases But now that the
bill has gotten TO the amendment stage
IN the chamber that body Ia showing IL.
self TO be infested with the disease Of
Mckinleyism TO an even greater extent
than the Joint committee itself.
American farmers will be interested
TO know how French McKinleyism is
hitting some of their products, Last
year we exported TO France 1916, 600
pounds Of canned beef In It's prclimi.
nary bill the French government pro.
posed TO make the duty on this 70 cents
per 100 pounds, but the tariff commis-
sion raised the duty TO SL75, and this
latter figure was adopted by the cham.
ber
On salted beef and pork of which we
exported 50o,coO pounds to Franco last
year the old duty was 70 eents per 100
pounds Tho new duty proposed by
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16

the government was Sl.97 on beef, bur
the commission raised it to s. 80, and
it was so voted by the chamber. The
government wanted duty of Sl,05 on
salted pork, but maximum duty Of
ST. wss voted by the deputies.
Duties on lard and tallow will be an
nounced in due time, the chamber hav-
ing apparently notyet acted upon these.
Both are on the free list now; but the
commission recommended duty of
SlO0 on lard as well as duty on tai
low. Our exports Of these two articles
to France increased greatly last year
over those of 1889, tallow reaching A.
5OO,O 900 pounds and lard $1,000, 900
pounds.
Our own Mckinley ism is largely re-
sponsible for this high tariff craze in
France. In the recent tariff sgitation
in that country the example of the
! United States was often cited as a
strong reason for raising duties. In it
all a decided spirit of retaliation was
shown, and NJ. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu,
the most distinguished free trade econe-
mist of France, has to confess that "all
this talk about retaliation has a vexa.
tious appearance of being provoked"
The corrupting example of our Nc
Kinleyism in France may be seen still
more clearly from the report which the
joint commission prepared to accom-
pany its tariff bill. Criticising that
part of the report which refers to the
/ United States, NJ. Leroy-Beaulieu says.
''The expose of motives, which servea
as preface to the new tariff bill pro.
posed by the French government next
leaps the Atlantic at bound. In Amer.
lea it finds soil upon which it delight
to eXpatiate. The United States have
not ceased to increase their tariffs; that
of July IA, 1862, adopted during the war
of secession, and the duties of which
were already very high, has been revised
in an upward direction by a whole series
of laws, codifed in 1874, modified again
in 1875 and in 1S79 recast by the act of
March g. 1888, then by another still
more vigorous of October 6, 1890, and
fortified by the rigorous formalities
which Mr. Mckinley has invented, the
new regime of American tariffs makes
the unhappy importer slave of the
custom house authorities, which can
use these duties. against him almost ad
libitum."
Our trade with France is of no small
Importance to us. We sold the French
$40, 0O0,O 900 worth of goods in 1890, and
we bought from France goods to the
value of S77,OOOOOo If we adopt the
foolish Mckinley notion that buying in
France is harmful to us and seek to
prevent it by Mckinley duties we must
not wonder that France is equally fool
ish and tries to prevent her people
from buying American products.
1t must be noticed that in order tc
protect our manufacturers Mckinley
arouses spirit of retaliation in France
which is directed against our farmers.
This is but.another case to show that
while the manufacturer dances to the
music of protection, the farmer must
pay the piper at the end of the frolic.
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16
POLITICAL POINTERS.

If Maj. Mckinley will now con,
descend to put his ear to the ground
he will hear his doom in the slogan:
"The Campbells are coming" - st.
Louis Republic.
MIR. Mckinley at Columbus said
the republican party could look back.
ward or forward, If it is glory and
victory it is after the farther backward
it looks the better defined will be the
objects. Chicago Globe.
1t will not be for the lack OF
practical object lessons if workingmen
and women fail to understand the tariff
question this year, President Cleve.
land in 1887 told them that it was not
a theory they must look at, but the
facts. Albany Argus.
1t does not make Mr.. Sherman
any warmer to know that the repub.
licans of the Ohio convention cheered
Mr.. Foraker until they were hoarse.
The Ohio republicans evidently prefer
a buckfuss to fnancier. louisville
Courier-Journal.
President Harrison apparently
took advantage of Secretary Blainc's
temporary disablement to push to a
conclusion the negotiations for a closed
season in Bchring sea, Mills, Ellsins
ct al are no doubt convinced by this
time that one Of Blaine's anchors Ia
windward has dragged badly. - St
Louis Republic,
Another Of the beneficial effects
OF the Mckinley bill" is to be seen in
fall River, where $4,000 mill operators
are to suffer cut in wages. Napoleon
Mckinley, republican candidate TO,
governor of Ohio in search of yindica,
tion, will not dwell upon this fact In
his speeches this summer and fall
Chicago Herald.
The great American tin-plate in
dustry which was to cripple and dwar,
the Welch platers and shut no th,
cornwall mines, to say nothing of re-
duction of the price to point below
the widest dreams of the most ayari
eious free trader has joined Hans
BreltmNnn's party and is lost In the
Ewlgkeit-Boston Transcript (Rcp)
Noting the fact that children
are working in Cincinnati for wages
Us low rs six cents u day The
working woman Is listening for PRO
tests from senator Sherman or Mni
Me kinley, yet hears none about these
ONO children. 1t does not believe II
that kind of protection but wants th,
babies protected from the mills nnf
factories -- kcokult Constitution. Dem.
ocrat
--Maj' Mckinley says The democrat,
are pledged now TO impede II they cnn
The prosperity Of the country until ofter
the next presidential election and tbo,
their tariff legislation would beno
Ut every country but their own" Wha,
rot Is this to come from u man who Act,
up as staiesmanl Of course Mai
Mckinley does not entertain such ar
idea and In pretending that no does n,
merely advcrtIscs his belief In popula,
erednl'ty and ignorance, indianapolis
Sentinel, ''''' F'"'
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16

Asthma. sufferer IRON ASlQ'
ma and severe Colds
every Winter, and last Fall my
friends as we'll as myself thought
because of my feeble condition, and
great distress from constant cough
ing, and inability to raise any the
accumulated matter from my lungs,
that my time was close at hand.
When nearly worn out for want Of
sleep and rest, a friend recommend
ed me to try thy valuable medicine,
Boschee's German
Gentle, Syrup. l am con-
,..., fdent it saved my
ne'reSh'he life. Almost thefrst
Sleep. dose gave me gfea'
relief fanda gentle re.
freshing sleep, such asI had not naa
for weeks. Mycough began innledl,,
ately to loosen and pass away, ana
found myself rapidly gaining u
health and weight. | am pleaseqI
to inform thee-unsolicited--
am in excellent health and 40 Ger.
tainly attribute it to thy Boschees
German Syrup, c. B. STIcKNAs y
Picton, Ontario. F" v
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16
A Phosphorus Fungus.

The coal mines near Dresden have
ong been celebrated for the production
of fungi which emit n light resembling
pale moonlight 1t is phosphorescent
in its nature, Another species furnishes
useful color for dying; another is em-
ployed in making ink; another is util-
lied for stupefying bees, for stanching
blood and for making tindcr; another
serves the Laplanders to destroy bed.
bugs, for which purpose II is smeared
upon the walls and bedposts; and an
other is valued by the Knmschatkans
for manufacturing an Intoxicating
liquor. The 'polyporus squamosus'
makes razor strop far superior to
those commonly sold. For this purpose
IL must be cut from the ash tree on
which II grows In the autumn, when It's
Juices have been dried and It's substance
has become solidihed; II Is then to be
Aattened out for twcnty.four hours In u
press, after which II should be carefully
rubbed with pumice, sliced longitudn.
ally and every slit that is free from
damage by insects glued upon u wooden
strctcher In quite ancient times this
fungus was 80 employed, and II seems
strange that II has gone SO entire out Of
fashion, Chicago News,
Sharp County record., 1891-07-16
Beating the Tariff.

a tariff tax is never popular With
people who have to pay it, and there
have always been attempts to evade it.
Some of these attempts exhibit the lu-
dicrous side of the tariff, as well as dis
play the ingenuity of the mind in work.
ing out ways and means to beat it. The
Industrial World gives the fyllowing
instance of the shrewd evasion of the
tariff laws: sat one time, many years
ago, when heavy duty had been laid
on imported lead statues and busts of
both marble and metal were admitted
free of charge, as works of art Forth
with the evaders seized upon the pro-
vision of the tariff as a loop-hole
of advantage, Busts of Washing
ton, Hamilton, Franklin, Jeffor.
son and other eminent Americans,
all cast in lead, began to appear on
ships manifests in considerable nun.
bers, and were passed free, without
question, through our custom houses
These counterfeit presentments of our
greatest men, once safely in the hands
Of the consignees, were melted down
and nodded into lead bars, 1t was no.
ticed with astonshment that the busts
were received from on shipboard with
out complaint even when the nose was
hattened, or an eyebrow broken in, or
the face and head otherwise bruised and
battered; yet months rolled away be.
fore any suspicion Of the true inward.
ness of the importations dawned upor
the minds of the authorities"