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Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

The expected arrival of j. j. Hill from
his hurried visit to Europe has revived
the story that his trip was for the pur-
pose or in some way securing control OF
the Northern Pacific road. This time the
statement is made by a Wall street
agency, which says it has good authority
for making it. The gentleman will be in
New York tomorrow and there may then
be some developments. His trip has GER
tainly given rise to much speculation in
financial and railroad circles. In addi-
ton to the allegation that he was after
the Northern Pacific were stories that he
went to protect his interests in the
Great Northern; that he was after the
Oregon Navigation company; that he
wanted money to build a line of
Pacific steamers, and now there is
a curious surmise that he is negotiating
to purchase tho interest of the Hearst
estate in the great Anaconda company.
No one appears to be responsible for this
story, but it is floating around. The fact
that Marcus DAILY has gone east may or
may not have anything to do with the
return of Mr.. Hill. but it is a coincidence
that will cause people to talk. 1t is gen
orally supposed that the two gentlemen
have business interests, either present or
prospective, in but what they
are, or when they will materialize, only
themselves know, and they will not talk.
This much can be said, that in all of his
recent utterances regarding Great Falls
Mr.. DAILY has insisted that the future
for this city was full of hope, that
Mr.. Hill was contemplating enter
prises that would be OF vast value.
1t required time TO carry out the plans
and that the exercise of a degree of
patience was necessary on the part OF
the people. In the meantime let one
thing be borne in mind. AS compared
with other cities in the state Great Falls
is in a prosperous condition, and the re-
ports from the best posted and most Oh
servant of travelling men are that Mon
tana is the most prosperous state in the
country. 1t is natural that we should
desire to see business brisker. That bet
ter times are in store is certain, but we
must wait.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
THE SILVER BATTLE.

The Salt Lake silver conference, which
is composed of delegates who are men,
bere of both the great political parties,
have reached the conclusion that it will
be i~nexpedient at present to attempt to
organize an independent silver party.
They are of the opinion that the cause
is growing in strength so rapidly that by
the time the national conventions are
held both parties will be forced to give
it due recognition in the platforms and
also in the matter of candidates. If this
belief proves delusive other more radical,
measures will be taken to have a free
coinage candidate. IL the signs of the
times are right, there Is every reason to
believe that the democratic party
will declare unequivocally for free
coinage at a ratio of is to l, and it it
does and the republicans attempt a
straddle of any kind the free coinage re-
publicans will beyond doubt abandon
the party and rally to the support of the
democrats. 1t will be noticed that all
the recent u%tterances Of prominent re-.
publicans indicate that they are not in
favor of free coinage. They still insist
that it is impossible except by interna-
tlonal agreement, and they are casting
about for a scheme of some kind to, as
they say, help silver, but at the same
time to refuse il the nIace il ia .ntitlad
to as money. This is the situation at
present, but a year may bring about a
change of sentiment. One thing is GER
tain, the people of the United States are
determined to have actual, bona fide BIZ
metallism, no matter what the party
bosses may think or do. If they do not
get it at the hands of the old parties
they will place a silver candidate in the
field and elect him. There will be no
compromising or temporizing.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
SIZING THEM UP.

A Wisconsin Judge in sentencing an
embezzler declared that gambling in the
Chicago board of trade had Caused more
distress, ruined more men and wrecked
more families than the civil war. The
judge may have heen a little extravagent
in his statements, and be WAS running a
risk in making it. He should have stop
ped to consider that the men who IN
troll and manipulate the boards all over
the Land are now being held up by the
eastern press, aud the money power as
the one element, who know anything
about tn. national finances, and they are
daily being called together and resolut.
ing that gold is the only salvation for the
country. If the judge has got them sized
W night their say so on any subject
should count for but little among the
honest Intelligent people Of the land.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

For one reason or another it has be-
come the fashion in Great Falls for
school boards to let the election of
teachers go until very late in or after
the close of the school year. This works
an injustice upon the teachers who are
not reelected. The season is past when
good positions can be secured. A teacher
has proved worthy of continued favor
or otherwise long before the last week of
the spring term. One Of the first duties
of the new board should be the choice OF
teachers for the next year.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

and that the passage or defeat Of meas.
ures before that body were too often
made the subject of commercial trans
actions, and without reference to the
merits or dement's Of the bills presented.
We are also convinced that bills we're
introduced and passed which would not
have been introduced had it not been
in the hope that interested parties would
furnish money as an Involvement for
their defeat. We find it a difficult mat
ter to fasten the responsibility upon
members for the very reason that under
the law both the bride giver and bribe
taker are equally guilty, and for the fur
ther reason that he who will be a party
to bribery will not hesitate to commit
perjury to protect himself"
This is refreshing and is an unique
way of a grand jury putting it. They
must at least have known the names of
the 'some members they refer to, but
instead of mentioning them they place
the entire body under the ban of suspic-
ion. For this there IS no excuse nor
justification. 1nuendo of that character
should have no place in the report Of a
grand jury. The report is ex parte and
privileged, aud there is nc reason why it
should not deal with facts.
The Helena grand jury was not only a
failure, but it unjustly sought to hide its
inability behind subterfuges that ought
not to have been reAorted to. Glittering
g%eperalities are well enough in their
place but their place is not in the report
of a grand Jury. Its province is to deal
in solid facts,
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

In the Chicago Tribune of May IL
there appears a lengthy letter from
Helena, in which the unknown writer
takes occasion to wilfuily lie about the
people Of Montana by declaring that the
majority is opposed to free coinage and
that Congressman Hartman m%isrepre
sents his constituents when he stated
that in the event of the election being
thrown into the house of representatives
be would vote for that candidate regard
less of party who stood upon a platform
of free coinage of gold and silver at a
ratio of lG to l. This statement is as
false as it is gratuitous, and the man
who sent it to the goldbug Tribune knew
that he was telling a deliberate untruth
when he wrote it. If there is one sub
ject upon which the people of Montana
are a unit it is upon the free and un-
limited col nage of silver. TO accomplish
that party politics will be subordlnated,
in fact free coinage is our politics regard
lees OF all other issues.
But this writer for the Tribune, not
satisfied with the bald-faced falsehood
regarding the sentiment of the people
upon the financial question, goes a step
further and slurs the masses of working
men of the state in the following con-
temptible reference: 1.-THE rabble in
Montana is noisy. as also elsewhere. For
the sake of peace good people allow
demagogues to imagine they are having
their own way. 1t is the best way to
control them, but there never has been
a time when these turbulent creatures
were not turned down at the ballot box
when it was necessary to so. Last sum
mer the lawless element of the state
gained a victory on the Great Northern
railway through the weakness of Presi.
dent Hill. This victory made the labor
leaders arrogant and presumptuous and
led them to antagonize the very men
who had enabled them to win the strike.
This antagonism was a good thing, how
ever, as it caused the lawabiding citizens
to combine for the common good, so
when the strike followed on the North
ern Pacific lawbreakers were speedily
subdued. The turbulent masses also
met with a crushing defeat in their at
tempt to remove the state capital from
Helena"
We have quoted at length from this
slandering article to show what manner
of rot is being served up to the readers
of the goldbug papers of the east. Their
cause must be desperate when they have
to resort to such tactics. The d%enuncia-
ton of the workingmen of the state as
"rabble' and "lawbreakers' may serve a
purpose in the east, but it will do no
good in this section. That the Helena
correspondent has libelled the people
of Montana goes without saying, and yet
his outrageous statements may find
believers in those who are not acquainted
with the true condition OF affairs One
thing is certain: in spite OF the Chicago
Tribune and it's Helena correspondent
the people of this state are unanimous
for free coinage and they will demon
strate it at the polls when the oppor-
tunity offers.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
A DISMAL FAILURE.

Another promised Helena sensation
has ended in smoke, and very thin smoke
at that. About two months ago a grand
jury was appointed in that city. 1t was
composed Of veritable eIeuthe who felt
sure they had d productive mine of mis-
feasance and malfeaeance to explore, and
lay bare. Its motto was "let no guilty
man escape and 1t was expected that
there would be a shaking up that would
reach to the uttermost parts Of the
state. 1t has finally concluded its. la
bora and submitted it's report, which, for
quantity, is a daisy, but for quality a
keen disappointment. According to the
Helena papers the grand jury held 32
sessions, examined So witnesses and cost
the county about $1,000. Ia return for
this expenditure of time and money the
jurors have informed the people of Lewis
and Clarke county that the prisoners in
the county Jail are entitled to a bath
tub; that only competent persons should
be elected to county offices, and that
these Offices should be kept open longer
hours. The report tells the people Of
Helena that the method Of paying the
city employees is very imperfect, and that
there is a law prohibiting city officials
from dealing in city warrants, or furnish,
ing the city with supplies.
Having startled the county and city
with this new and important informa,
ton the jurors dip into state affairs anC
discover that Miss Ella Knowles drew
salary as assistant attorney genera
while che was sick; that the state board
of examiners increased tho salaries o.
certain clerks of state officers out of al
appropriation that the jury believes
should not have been utilized for tina
purpose; that the bill for the printing
of the codes was so framed that compe
tition was prohibited; and, this is how
they get in their work on the legislature
"Ihe grand jury has taken a larg'
amount Of testimony covering the act.
of the last or fourth legislative assembly
and while from the evidence we Go no
feel justified in finding indictments w
are convinced that some members uset
their positions for personal advantage
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

silver by the United States independent
Of the action of other nations?
II do.
SO. Is there a strong probability that
the democrats of your state will vote to
put a free coinage plank in the national
democratic platform?
"They will.
50. What is the feeling among the re-
publicans of your state as to this ques-
ton?
"Unanimously in favor of free coinage
independent of the action Of other ma
tions."
the answers sum up the Situation in a
nutshell. The Montana creed is free
coinage irrespective of party, and it can
be safely said that it is also the creed of
the people of all the other northwestern
states.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
HON. A. r. SPRIGGS.
Ahe rather of the BrOadwater County
Bill Visits Great Falls.

The Father of the Broadwater County
Bill Visits Great Falls.
Hon. A. e. Spriggs, one of the repre-
sentatives of Meagher county, was a Wis.
itor in Great Falls yesterday. Mr..
Spriggs has the record of making n of
the gameieat fights that took place dur.
ing the recent session of the legislature.
He was the father of the Broadwater
county bill. The first time the bill was
up for consideration it was hotly con.
tested, and after a struggle was defeated
by a tie vote. The following day a mo.
ton to reconsider the vote was lost.
Everybody was under the impression
that that settled it SO far as Broadwater
county was concerned at this session.
A few days later Mr.. Spriggs' fine Italian
hand was exhibited and through the ex-
pert ~manipulations of some OF the ardent
advocates of the bill it was resurrected
from it's supposed burial place and after
a heated battle it passed the house by
two majority. The combination against
1T IN the senate. however, was too strong
and 1t went down to defeat.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
JUSTICE DEM

la another column is printed an ar
ticie from the Spokane Chronicle to the
effect the Northern Pacific Railroad
company ia making An attempt to obtain
patents to land in that state that are
4nown not to be agricultural. This
may or may not be true. In Montana it
has been Understood that pending the
iabors and decision OF the mineral land
commission as to the character of the
land embraced within the grant no pa.
tente would be issued to the Northern
Pacific, and that the officers OF the road
had agreed to this ruling of the United
States land department. TX the Chron-
icle item is correct it will be we'll for all
who are Interested in this state to keep
their weather eye open, There are no
doubt thousands of acres in this state
within the grant that are not agricult-
ural but which have not been sufficiently
~prospected to determine the existence of
mineral, and there is no reason why the
road should gobble them in spite of the
law. The general not the specific char.
acter Of the ground is at issue. The law
as we understand it is hat land not
known to be agricultural shall not be
patented to the road, and it is not neces,
sary to prove the existence of mineral
upon it in paying quantities. If the
Northern Pacific expects or intends to
take advantage Of technical points rather
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

The city council at - meeting last
night confirmed a majority of the ap-
pointments Of Mayor Webster for city
officials. 10 the gentlemen nHmed there
is M objection on the part Of The
TRIBUNE; personally, all are acceptable,
and there is every reason to believe and
hope that they will fill the bill as we'll as
have the retiring officers. Our idea was
that those who during the previous ad.
ministratiun had rendered good and eff
cient service should be continued. This
WAS also the expressed opinion OF a ma
jority of the council. The gentlemen
composing this majority were in position
to enforce their opinion, we were not.
For reasons best known to themselves
they have changed, but we have not
The council, or the majority of it, two
weeks ago evidently considered it was
right in refusing to confirm the nomi-
nees. If they were right then they can
not be right now in abandoning the
stand they then took. The TRIBUNE
still holds to its position that there was
no need for the changes. but as they
have been made, why, good luck and fair
sailing to the mayor, the council and the
new city officers.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

Chicago papers that the
American Railway union is liable to be
drawn into the strike against the Illinois
Steel company, now in progress in that
city. During his tour in the west Presi
and interviews to declare there would be
40 more general strikes by that order.
Can Mr.. Debs carry out his declaration
and hold the order together my soon be
a question, though. for the sake of all.
it is to be hoped the issue will not be
raised.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

Memorial day in Chicago will witness
the dedication of a monument to the
confederate dead in that city. TO this
there has been an objection on the part
of some of the Grand Army men in va
rious sections, but in spite of their criti-
cisms the occasion will be distinguished
by the presence of many of the most
prominent union generals. They have
reached the conclusion that the war
ended years ago and that honors paid to
the brave dead, even though they were
adversaries, cannot detract from the
courage or loyalty of the living.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

palilng, that 1.-THE sick, destitute, and
feeble are calling for aid. Their scantv
stores are becoming exhausted and vet
.hey know not where to replenish Their
Meanwhile the time for planting is pass.
ing swiftly, but these people have no
seed, and without seed hone il oona
lhe'r need for provisions to tide ove,
the weeks between the present time and
the coming harvest is very great, yet so
Imperative is the necessity for a supp)v
OF seed for their crops and feed for the;,
teams while cultivating that even pres.
ent wants are almost lost sight of in tbo
anxiety to provide for future ~sustenanco y
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

Lha New York Herald quotes from the
stone Of Mississippi a sentence that the
continued agitation,of the silver question
means the defeat II not the disintegra-
ton If the democratic party and calls
on democrats 10 ponder over the proph-
ecy, The Herald and Mr.. Cleveland are
troubled with the same hallucinatlon
and affect 70 believe that in addition to
being president Mr.. Cleveland is the
democratic party. Before this contest is
ended they will have discovered their
mistake. When the roll is called it will
be found that Mr.. Cleveland, not the
democratic party, has been defeated.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
PLEASANT

andrew Carnegie Orders the Wages of
twenty Five Thousand EmpIoyes
Raised Ten Per Cent.
PlTTsBuRG, Pa, May 15.-The board
OF managers of the Carnegie Steel CON-
pany decided yesterday to advance the
wages of its 25,0OO employees 10 per cent.
the rise to take effect June lst. Not
w%ithstanding the existing contracts be-
tween the Carnegie Steel company and
its employees, fixing the rate of wages
for 1895, the association has decided that
the present business outlook will Justify
higher rates, and accordingly takes
pleasure in notifying it's employees that
on June LIST, 1895, and until further no.
tice, the scale rates paid to all tonnage.
day, and turn men will be increased 10
per cent, this without prejudice to the
1898 wage contracts still in force. This
action is entirely opposed to what mem
bers of the board gave out after Satur-
days meeting on the demand for an in
crease made by the furnacemen nj the
Edgar Thompson furnace. tits claimed,
however, that Mr.. Frick cabled to An.
drew Carnegie in England and that the
increase was first suggested by Carnegie.
This is the first advance since the re.
duction of 1892.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

The State Irrigation association of
Utah has effected a temporary %organiza-
ton and proposes to become a potent
factor in promoting the interests Of irri-
CATION in the state with the great salt
lake. 1t proposes to include among it's
duties the gathering Of INFORMATION from
all Of the surrounding states relative to
the systematic use OF water for irrigation
purposes. There cannot be too many OF
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
M'CLURE'S MAGAZINE

The story Of Lincoln's secret night
tourney from Harrisburg to Washington
IN 1861 to escape the possibility of assass.
lnation at Baltimore, will be told in ths
June numbe OF McClure's Magazine, by
Col. A. K. Mcclure, editor of the Phila.
oelph'a 11mes' who himself took part in
all the conferences preparatory to tho
tourney and saw Lincoln aboard the
train at Harrisburg.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
MATRIMO NJAL INFELIClTy.

Nancy Ann McNabb Seeks "a Divorce
from Archibald cNabb
A suit for divorce was filed Wednesdav
in the district court in which Nancy Ann
McNabb asks for a divorce from Arch
bald McNabb. She alleges that they
were married at Owen Sound, Ont, Dec.
Ia, 1889. Two weeks later defendant
began a series of acre which plaintiff al
leges, constituted extreme cruelty. He
struck plaintiff, called her vile names.
reflected upon her chastity. and threat
ened to shoot her. He repeated such
conduct so often that plaintiff is unable
to state the particular and exact dates.
therefore she asks for absolution from
the marital VOWS.
The plaintiff pleads poverty and Judge
Benton ordered that she be permitted to
prosecute the case without costs.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
THE SILVER CONFERENCE.

The silver conference at Salt Lake
has organized with a large attendance
of duly accredited members and viii! no
doubt express in proper terms the SEN
timent of the people of the west upon
the financial question. Those who are
in the conference are representative men
and what they say will have the weight
of authority. The main object of the
meeting is to devise a practical way Of
furthering the silver propaganda, and
that this will be accomplished is certain.
The gathering is a non partisan one; it
ia for the advancement Of the cause of
bimetallism pure and simple, and it will
be surprising if the manifesto to be
issued does not declare that the people
of the west demand and insist upon
free coinage independent Of politics and
that they will not support any candidate
OF any party who is not unreservedly
pledged to free silver. This is the poll
platform is announced and understood
the better it will be for all concerned.
No matter what may be said to the con
trary the voters of Montana are a unit
upon this subject, and when cleo
ton day comes and the issue
is made they will be found voting solid
for free coinage Independent of what
other nations may do. The feelings of
the people Of this state are admirably
voiced by Gov. Richards in the follow
ing replies to queries ]propounded by the
New York Mercury:
~. DO you favor the free coinage OF
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

Adj, ices from st, Paul are to the effect
that San Hill. president Of the Montana
Central. has gone east to meet j. j. Hill.
who is expected 10 arrive in New York
from England May l.. The only special
Information contained in the news is
that Sam has finally found out that his
father.iu-law has been on a visit To Eu,
rope, Why he went or the result of his
visit ls yet an unknown quantity, and it
is safe to say that sam Hill told the
truth when he declared that he did not
know he had gone or the object Of his
going. The newspapers were probably
netter posted than Sam. but it will take
d little time to lind out,