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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-05
Fast Time West.

The Union Pacific positively makes over
HEE HOURS QUICKER TIME TO
DENVER. Twenty-six hours quicker time
to Cheyenne. Ten hours quicker to Ogden.
hours quicker to Salt Lake. Twelve
hours quicker to San Francisco. Nine hours
quicker to Portland than any other line.
Splendid trains, vestibuled, steam heat.
Pullman palace sleeper without change,
Karsas City to San Francisco. every day
in the year. Pullman Perfect Dining Cars.
Only line running two trains daily Kansas
City to Denver City ticket Office, 1000
Main st. Telephone HOS.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-05

The police have been asked to find James
Miller, a railroad man. who is missing
from his home at 923 Wyoming street.
Miller IS 80 years old and is thought to
be drinking.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21

District Court Sessions. 1897 March End.
June 9Th, August 2.,rd. November sth.
County Commissioners meet in regular ses-
siuns on the first Monday of March, June, Sep
tember and December.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21
STAGE NOTES.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's plSy,
"The First Gentleman of Europe" is
meeting with great success at the Ly-
ceum theater in New York. twill prob
ably run out the season there.
Joseph Sparks is to remain with May
Irwin when she starts out under her
own management. None of the other
members of the "Courted Into Court"
company has yet made any statement
as to plans for next year.
George Rignold. who will be remem-
bered for his triumphal tour of the
country in "Henry "" IS or 20 years
ago, has lately revived that play in Mel
bourne. Australia, where he is manag-
ing a theater.
THE Serenade" is the title of the new
opera in which the Bostonians will open
their season at the Knickerbocker thea
ter next month. Harry B. Smith wrote
the libretto and the music IL by Victor
Herbert.
The DEMONSTRATION of Henry Es-
mond" for E. H. Sothern was done in
collaboration by Glen Marlborough and
Louis Evan Shipman. The latter has
been publishing in Life and other pc
riodicals a number Of clever society dia-
loRues La Anthony Hope.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The naming
of the three commissioners by Presi-
dent Mckinley under the act of the
last congress to promote bimetal-
lism was the subject of considerable
discussion about the capital today.
Almost without exception the selec-
tions were commended. Senator's.
regardless of party, were pleased
with the selection of eX-Vice Presi-
dent Stevenson. 1t appears that
this selection was the presidents
own, no one appearing to urge his
appointment. The president desired
a Democrat who stood high in his
party and who was an earnest silver
man. He sent for Stevenson, and
after talking the subject over with
him, decided to make him n member
of the commission. President Nc
Kinley desired that the subject of
international bimetallism should be
lifted above party politics and that
the men selected should be those who
would work in harmony toward
bringing about an agreement. 1t
was also believed by the president
that the name of Stevenson would
give the commission great weight
abroad.
Among the earnest advocates of
the selection of Payne. wereSenators
Hoar. Allison and Chandler, all oi
whom talked with the president on
the subject and recommended him as
] a man who would aid materially the
cause of bimetallism. 1t has been
generally considered that Senator
WOlcott would be one of thecommis-
sioners, as his work since the cleo
ton has been in the direction O
bringing about an international
agreement. Senator Wolcott Is very
hopeful of success. He looks for
ward to hard work, but says from
what he learned while abroad last
year. he Ii most sanguine of the re
suits. Wolcott believes that in thu
selection of the commission and es
pecially in naming StevsnsOn, a sill
yer man and who supported Bryan
President Mckinley has convincet
Everybody that he is an earnes
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21
J. B. FITZER ARRESTED
In Salt Lake City the Charge Of Defraud-
ing the State OF Montana on Bonnty
Claims.

j. w. Filter, who created a sensa-
tiOn yesterday with the aid of the
associated press by confessing to Is
or 20 murders in general and the
murder of DIR. G. II. Nichols, of Wash
ington, ID. c., i'm particular. il pretty
well known in Helena. Filter Is the
enterprising individual who was
arrested in Salt Lake City a few days
ago, and held until deputy sheriff
fro N Beaverhead county could go
after him with a requisition which
was issued by Gov. Smith last Thurs
day. Filter was wanted in Beaver
head county for perjury i'm connec-
tion with bounty frauds i'm which he
was implicated.
Filter is a fraud. He did not kill
DIR. Nichols, as he claimed, for the
doctor, according to n later asso-
ciated press dispatch. died n natural
death. Filter claimed that he
wanted to die and that he would
make a confession of 15 or 20 MUIR
ders he had committed II the author
tiles would insure his execution. 1t
is believed that he is feigning insan-
ity so that he may escape the peni-
tentiary, which seems to be waiting
for him.
Fitzer's operations I'm this county
showed no evidences of insanity. 1t
was his occupation to beat the state
i'm the way of collecting bounties tor
coyote skins. He would buy vol
and coyote skins I'm Utah where he
could get them at little cost and
would then bring them to Montana
and collect bounty on them. Hewaf
a thrifty person, for he collected
bounty on the same hides more than
once.
Deer Lodge, Jefferson and Silver
Bow counties each had experience
with Fitzer last December. He came
to Helena a little before Christmas
with about 60 coyote skins which b,
took to County Clerk and Recordel
J. ). Tooker's office. Punching skim
for bounty certificates was one o
the duties that devolved upon Deputy
Fred Yeager, and when Filter ap
peared with two sacks full of tn,
hides he escorted him to the basemen
with his ill-smelling bundles. Th
law requires the county clerk t.
punch holes one inch In diameter IL
the ears of the hides and SO preven
them from being presented a secon'
time. Deputy Yaeger was about t.
punch the hides in the usual wa.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21
binetallist.

bimetallist.
In the United States Senator VOL
cott anticipated little opposition to
bimetallism. What opposition, VOL
colt says, there is, comes from the
German bankers of New York who
are already fighting bimetallism and
whose opposition the commission
will meet when it goes to Europe.
The appointments inspired little
comment among the members of the
house who were at the ecapitol today.
Chairman Dingley of the ways and
means committee said the appOintees
were all good men. This verdict
was endorsed by all of the represen-
tatives but the Republican members
were adverse to making any predic-
tions as to the probability of success
with the European powers.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21

The best way to buy any,
thing is to borrow it first.
Get a package of ScIal
Hng's Best tea of your
grocer. He pays you your
money back if you don't
like it.
That's our way Of lend
ing.
Schilng Company
San frascisco 0S
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21
INTO DEATHS JAWS.
Rode wm. nckiniey when Ordered to Ad-
vance as the Battle Of kernstown.

Wednesday afternoon, when the
President of the United States was
sitting at the bedside of his old COM
rade, General Russell Hastings, in the
Emergency Hospital In Washington,
1t must have recalled to both of them
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21
TO PROMOTE BIMETALLlSM.
President Mckinley Appoints . comm'ssio"
to Further the Interests Of Silver.

WASHINGTON, April l3.-The presi-
dent today appointed Senator VOL
colt of Colorado, Ex-Vice President
Adlaie Stevenson of Illinois pnd
Charles j. Paine of Boston, members
of the commission to promote inter-
national bimetallism as provided Tor
by act OF congress.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21
SCHOOL BOARD.

w. +. Cort. Charman; +. T.: Wright. L. Il
Root J. |. Corbly, X. q: Jackson, Thos II
Mackey w. II. Culver. l.. o. worden. Clerk.
Regular meetings inst Saturday Of each month
at s D. M, at Cort 81 Worden's Office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

his wife and daughter. At the Chinese le-
cation several of the gentlemen have
adopted the American invention with en-
thusiasm, though at the peril OF their
qeue and voluminous apparel. Mr.. S. X.
A. SEE, the first secretary, has become ex-
pert, though compelled to ride a ladys
wheel on account of the silken petticoats
which the diplomatic customs Of his ma
tive land require him to retain.
Among ministers of the gospel who have
taken to the wheel for exercise and
amusement, Rev. Dr. Newman. of the
First Congregational church. was the pio-
neer for he rode rs far back is 1888, when
there was hardly a thousand cyclers i'm
Washington. where now are 10000 or So
Rev. Dr. McKim, of the Church of the
Epiphany, and DR.. Macky-Smith have set
the example for other Epscopalian
Bishop Hurst Of the NJ. f. church has
lately learned, and il is announced that
Bishop Satteree is about to begin private
practice For three or four years past the
wheel has been particularly popular with
the Roman Catholic clergy in America
despite the general understanding that
the pope, about year ago, issued an
edict against priests as cyclers. If such an
edict was ever issued-a thing to be
doubted-it was intended to apply to
priests only who wear the cassock, in the
streets as well as indoors; and that, as
we know, is not practiced in this coun-
try. Rev. Father Bart of St Mathews
church, is an excellent cyclist; so is IA
Their Hannah of St. Pauls, and Father
Foley, and dozens of others. Father Han
nan always goes on his wheel when Wis
itng the sick and making parish calls He
rides in a cut-away coat, derby hat and
clamps on his trousers, and has even car
red the Sacrament la this manner 20 "A
dying parishioner. Why not, as well as IN
carriage or on the back Of a horse?
Fannie Brigham.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

with extended arms glided toward them
from the westward, uttering a sort OF glD-
herring moan. Affrighted, they turned
their horses back on a gallop never
drawing rein till daylight met them'
twenty miles on the back track. AS usual,
their courage returned with the sunshine
and on returning to the camp OF the night
before they found the barefoot tracks or
a man leading from the southwark ana
ending on the very brink OF the well.
This was their ghost of the night before
a poor prospector crazy from thirst, had
unconsciousiy strayed toward the well and
fallen in. They shouted down the well,
and even let a bucket down at the end OF
their ropes, but all was silent, nor did
the bucket strike any solid object on the
water.
Following the barefoot track backward
In the direction from which II came, they
found within a mile or so, his shoes and
parts Of his clothing, but there was no
c.ew to his identity-he had pershed and
left no sign. No one can say how many
others may have met the same fate in the
same place, for few keep any track of the
comngs and goings Of prospectors Some
times they stay out for weeks and some
times for months. and II they do not re-
turn, and any one thinks of them at all, It.
will be merely thought that they are on a
longer trip than usual or perhaps that
Having occasion 10 stop at the old well
last summer, saw how some one had OBJ
tanned water by sacrificing his overals
and wooden shirt Lying beside the well
was a coil OF improvised rope composed of
strips of blue overall material Joined to
strips OF a red flannel shirt and the whole
pieced out with lengths OF baling wire left
by some freighter who had fed his animals
baled hay To the end OF this was at
tached an empty tomato can, and, letting
Il down the well, I found that It just reach
ed the water. Whoever IL was who had
thus obtained water had probably saved
his ,ife by his ingenuity, though he must
have gone on his way rather lightly clad.
When 10 the unknown number who are
conjectured to have fallen into the we'll
are added three desperadoes who were shot
IN the barroom during the days OF It's ac-
uvity, It Is small wonder that the place
has earned the reputation Of being haunt
ed,and that the Mexican placer miners who
pass 10 and fro from the gold diggings IN
the Plomosa mountains can never be In
dqced TO even pass by the station after
dark.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

setshire, but he did not remain long here.
and In 1868 he settled down to his life work
at Broad Hembury In Devonshire, among
the beautiful hills near the Black Down
range. lie did not occupy quite the posi-
ton Of Goldsmith's village parson. who
was passing rich with Gao a year, but the
produce of the living certainly did not
amount to more than $50, Sull, he was
evidently happy and, on the whole he
exercised a successful ministry among the
people TO whom he had been called. Top
ladys labors In Devonshire were sadly
interrupted by the state of his health.
The seeds Of consumption were already
in his breast: and. his doctors advising
him 10 that course, he made a change to
London la 1775. still retaining his living
az Broad Membury.
"Toplady besides being a laborhous
student, had early employed himself In
the diversion Of verse-maklng. Indeed.
he printed a little volume at Dublin In
1853, when he was only 10. Later on,
while az Broad Hembury he issued a coll
lection of no fewer than 4l9 Psalms and
Hymns for Public and Private Worship
n considerable number of which were
from his own pea There are something
like 1913 hymns attributed 20 Toplady, but
only a very few of these have attained
to anything like popularity. Indeed, ir
we except Rock of Ages Your Harps.
Ye Trembling Saints and perhaps OBJ
ject of My First Desire we shall be safe
in saying that Toplady's hymns have
quite passed into oblivion. or at least re-
membered only by the curious IN such
matters. But. then. look at the reputa-
ton which has been founded on that sim
gle hymn, Rock of Agesr Some six or
seven years ago there was a magazine
plebscite In which about $500 readers
voted for the 100 best English hymns, and
out Of the whole number 3.2i5 votes were
given for Toplady's lyric. A different re-
suit might perhaps be attained now, for
the rise Of taste In regard to hymns has
been very marked Of late, and II can
not be denied that from q literary point
Of view Rock Of Ages is open TO serious
criticism. Curlously enough, this favor
lite hymn was written by Toplady for a
controversial purpose, and It was the
Wesleys against whose doctrines the au-
thor desired 10 protest"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

THE AUTHOR OF CROCK OF AGES.
Augustus Montague TOpIady's Life
ns Minister and Hy mnfsf.

Augustus Montague TOpIady's Life
ns Minister and Hy mnist.
From the London Sunday Magazine.
The recent proposal to celebrate tho
association OF Augustus Montague Top
lady with Trinity college. Dublin, has
placed the author OF Rock OF Ages"
once more on the borders OF the living
land. In truth. there Is some need 20
have the name Of Toplady recalled to us.
for. although everybody knows his Ia
nous hymn. the man himself Is al but
forgotten. Yet Toplady was "A notable
character In the theological circles Of his
time. Topady was the son OF a major In
the army. and was born In i7i0 az Farm
ham. IN Surrey. His father was killed az
the siege OF Carthagena. before the boy
WIS n year old and the future preacher
was thus left solely TO tho care Of his
widowed mother. Like Charles Wesley.
he WAS "a pupil at Westminster school,
from which he passed IN due time 20
Trinity college. Dublin. his mother having
removed 10 ireland. According 20 Top
lady'a own account. his conversion was
brought about when he was only IS by
hearing u workingm1n preacher named
Morris Ia barn az place called Cody
main.
Having graduated y. a. at Dublin. Top
lady was ordained In june i762. His
hrst charge was AZ Blagdon, In Somcr-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20
AN IDAHO SAPPHIRE.
Said to he the Largest In the World,
weighing POS Carnts.
From tho Denver Republican.

From the Denver Republican.
An Idaho miner brought stone to the
miners bureau, which was pronounced a
sapphire OF the purest water and the
largest ever seen. The gem was nearly
"a cube, being about one and one-half
inches thick, one and one-hah inches wide
and two inches long. II was much water
worn, showing plainly the pebbly conform
alton gradually assumed by gems found
IN the beds Of mountain torrents. the
edges being very much rounded. This Is
the FIRST sapphire OF any size discovered IN
Idaho. They are frequently found IN Nom
tana, and some very fine stones have come
from there. The owner OF this stone Is
operating placer mines In Idaho. aud the
stone was found In the tnllngs. and pre-
served on account OF It's bright blue color.
News OF the find reached New York and
an agent OF Tiffany, after examining the
stone, offered $500 for Il. The owner de-
cided that II II was worth that in tha
rough, n was probable worth much more.
ana is now on his way 20 London where
he expects TO realize It's fun value.
The stone IL almost perfect, the only
blemlsh being a fracture on one SIDE ex-
tending less than onc-eighth OF an inch
into tho stone. AIR. Taylor who has a
that. I'm his opinion. " Is the largest known.
sapphire IN the world, the weight being
20S carats. Sapphires are valuable ac-
cording 70 their purity. perfectly clear
gems bringing high prices.-like that %
diamonds-boing increased per carat IA
proportion TO the weight OF the stone.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20
DESERT WELL.
CHASTITY History of IA Gloomy Spot In
the Arizona Desert.

the Arizona Desert
From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Phoenix, Ariz.-Desert station, on the
long-since abandoned stage route between
the town of Ehrenburg. on the Colorado
river, and Prescott, once the capital Of
Arizona, is a desolate and lonesome spot
in which to pitch camp by daylight and
It is ten times more 50 after dark The
dreary waste, bare OF all vegetation ex-
cept struggling clumps OF the dingy Gre
osote bush. stretches away on every side
In miles Of dead monotony and the only
sign Of life about the solitary group OF
half ruined adobe buildings are the little
gray lizards that flt across the crumbling
walls. IN this brown, barren desert the
silence Is appalling. Far away. beyond
the horizon, are the faint outlines Of blue
mountains. but there Is nothing IN the
middle distance for the eye 10 rest upon
save the thin streak Of sandy road stretch
ing out lnterminably 10 the east and west.
In the early sixties. when the strange
route was IN active operation. and stages
stopped here twice a day. this was an I'm.
portant station, being the only watering
place In a sultry stretch OF seventy miles.
It's Isolated situation IN the heart Of
hostile Indian country rendered "A militia
~ guard necessary much OF the time:
and on more than one occasion IL was this
object OF attack and siege by marauding
bands OF Apaches. one can sim see by
the number and size Of the buildings
grouped within the hig mud corral that
~ fast melting into the desert that il
could have once accommodated quite a it
he community OF inhabitants The old
road was FOR years the only entrance into
Northern Arizona from California. and 10
the adventurous Californian Of those days
as he stood on the west bank Of the Col
orado. Il seemed TO lead 10 the promised
land. for the riches OF Montezuma were
surely hidden Ia those grim, dark canyons
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

TINS Week upaSs former efforts line what
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

We have anything you want in the Refrig:
,rator or Ice Box line.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

This is where we break the
record.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-02
ABBO

two years were $500 dry holes, represent
ing probably an outlay of $1,000 600 or
more, absolutely valueless. Could all the
wells drilled in the two years be put one
below another in a continuous string and
a cable with a sand pump be hanging in
the hole thus made, to pull the sand pump
from the bottom of the hole would require
about the same time that it takes for a
passenger to start from San Francisco
and cross the continent and then embark
and sail across the sea to London, provi-
ded the sand pump travels at the speed
of fast trains and fast steamers. A
month would be consumed in lowering the
pump and bringing up one bailer full of
sand and water.
The romantic experience Of the last two
years hows that the only new and reliable
field to turn to is West Virginia. That
state has vast area yet undeveloped, and
although the cost of q well i'm the deep
and treacherous rock is great the rewards
that follow a good producer are so tempt
ing that the wildcatter will keep on. No
doubt an enormous quantity of oil will be
taken yet from Pennsylvania wells, but
the Pennsylvania hills have been speared
over so generally that the best TO be hop
ed for in this state is an occasional small
pool and the further coaxing of the older
wells.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-02

bandit who resided there. went to the
pace of exhibition to see for herself If her
brother had really met his death at the
hands OF Love and his rangers
AS she gazed she was overheard by
Judge Q. b. Sudger to remark TO her es-
cort. in SPANISH
That is not my brother"
She was asked who il really was. and
smilingly replied
1t is Joaquin Gonzales"
The country had been suffering at the
hands OF three Joaquins. and then and
thereafter the sister Of the chief bandit
insisted that the rangers had not captured
or slain her brother, but that the victim
was one of his namesakes
Her reason for making the assertion was
possibly merely family pride, for, in spite
OF her statement, it was firmly believed
that the head exhibited was that of the
true Joaquin Murietta. 1 was positively
recognized by many who had been well ac-
quainted with the bandit in all parts of the
state
on the other hand, the assertion was fire.
quently heard that Joaquin had made good
ms escape to Mexico, and there he is said
10 have been seen and recognized many
years after his supposed DEATH
Whatever may have been the truth, the
fact remains that in 1854 the state appro-
priated 5000 for Joaquin's captors, of
which sum Harry Love, as captain of the
rangers, appropriated the greater portion.