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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19

the Mountain house the first day. Tie
boom was busted and those who had
money had gone out, and those who
didn't have any walked out. Those
who made money mostly turned it over
to the faro dealers. l walked to
Thompson Falls and climbed up on top
of a box car without cent or a morsel
to eat. The brakeman says to me that
1T was a. dead givaway and I should
come back and get in the end car. I
got in the eabooSe, and there were 20
of us in there all on the way to Butte
When the engine stopped we would all
get out and wood up. The conductor
comes along and he opens the door and
he says:
Are you all in there?'
And Jack says: Twenty is correct.
pass on
, None of us had any money.
Il came up to Missoula and stayed
there two days. / struck an old time
restaurant man there and he saved
my life I ate all I could for two days
| then soaked my blankets to a fellow
named Frank Dado and bought ticx-
ct to New Chicago. From New Chi
cago | walked TO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. so
miles. I stayed there with Billy Lange
for week and rested UP. Then
walked to Anaconda, 80 miles more. In
Anaconda l struck a friend who gave
me 800 goldpiece, and said that ought
TO fix me out to Butte. You bet / look
ed pretty seedy. l bought new pair
of pants and a wooden shirt and got on
the cars for Butte. That was my third
entree into Butte.
"Klondyke? UmphI umph. Fate
says / belong to Butte. Every time
have left it / have had to walk back,
and this is the only town for me. no.
] don't want any Klondy'Se / die in
Butte.''
In the meantime, Fat Jack is willing
to bet his new hack, his Bryan suit, his
teeth and his body after he dies, on
any horse which his judgment says
ought to win. He has quit faro for
horse racing-he says you are just as
sure of losing, and they don't egg you
on so. You lose it quicker, end you
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19
WHITE FRONT GROCERY.
1t Is Ono of the Most Prominent and
Popular Stores in Butte.

Popular Stores in Butte.
Among the retail grocery stores of
Butte, the most prominent and popu-
lar is Enthusiastically the White Front
Grocery at 30S-310-312 North Main
street, conducted by Thomas F. Court
ney. The building itself is peculiarly
we'll adapted for a salesroom, having
large windows in the rear, which, with
the large exhibit windows in front, af-
ford room so well lighted that goods
are easily discerned and examined in
any part of it. The front interior of
the building being painted white, gives
it an individuality and distinction above
all others on Main street, and this fact
has been soaccentuated in the advertise
ments of the store that the name White
Front Grocery is familiar to all resi-
dents of the city. White seems to be the
business color of the establishment as
it is not only the color of the store but
of the delivery wagons and teams and
also the labels on the special lines of
canned goods and delicacies that has
enabled patrons to say, If you buy
your groceries at the White Front
Grocery they are good"
While no pretenSion to wholesaling is
made, it is well known fact that, ow-
ing to the large amount of goods hand
led in the store and the close prices at
which they are bought and sold all the
advantages claimed by the wholesalers
are possessed by the White Front For
this reason, the buyer in search of gro
ceries in large or small quantities makes
no mistake in purchasing at the White
Front
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19
FORTUNES OF BUTTE'S FAR-FAMED FAT jack

Has Seen Good Deal of This Western World and Has
Had His Share of Experience in All Kinds of Life the
Frontier-He Came to Montana More Than Thirty
Gears Ago and He Is One of the States Faithful Old
Timers-He Is the Pioneer Hack Driver in Silver Bow
County and He's Bird at the Business-He Is Well
Liked and When He Sees the Standards Photograph
of Him, as He Looked When He Drove Bryan He'll
Be the Proudest Man in Butte.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19

n the first hack that ever ira
versed the streets Of Butte
Fat Jack handled the ribbons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
FLORIDA SHIP CANAL.
To Shorten the Sea Route From the
Atlantic to the Gulf

New York. Sept. 6.-Articles have
been fled for the Incorporation of the
Florida TranSpeninsular Ship Canal
company. The chief incorporat tors are
Robert May Caffal1, Freeman H. Bald
win. H. BOl6t PeraZa, consul general for
the Greater Republic of Central Amer
lea in this city; Benjamin F Cromwell
as $4,000. 0OO-
The projectors have in mind the build
ing of ship canal and railway 10 con-
Ez%CI the Atlantic with the Gulf. Tee
NEW canal will be of sufficient capacity
for the passage of seagoing vessels.
Consul General Peraza says that the
new canal would be of the greatest i'm
portance to the United States. 1T will
be of great advantage in the defense of
the country in the case of an interua-
fional war,as well as being of the great
est commercial benefit in times OF p ace
It will shorten the time for vess-l going
10 Texas or Mexico by three days. The
Florida are treacherOus, owing to the
numerous currents All this danger will
be done away with We expect tina
5000 coo tons Of freight will pass
through the canal each year and even
Hight tolls on this will make the enter
prise pay.
we have applied for the charter and
gineef. Mr. CafaH, has studied the
ground and all arrangements have been
made TO push the work
He said further that the harbor of ST.
Augustine would be the eastern en-
trance to the new canal The width
will be 200 feet through its entire length
and il will be deep enough to allow the
largest ships 10 pass through. 1t will
proba bly, be about five years before the
canal is cOrnDleted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
ICE HIGH ALASKA.
Sells for SO Cents a Pound in the
Klond Ike.

San Francisco, Sept. 6-Imagine ice at
50 cents pound at Dawson. close under
the arctic circle, with the thermometer
80 to 100 in the shade. A letter received
from Edgar Miner. written from Dawson
on June %, tells of this and other sum-
mer rigors of an arctic climate, and the
life and death struggle with the mos
quitoes.
Things are little quiet here just at
present. Miner writes, ION account of
the scarcity of water. The weather for
the last ten days has been very hot. the
thermometer ranging from 90 to loo in
the shade. and ice 80 cents a pound-just
think of that for a place so close to the
arctic circle. Last winter everybody was
too busy digging gold to save ice.
Every few days rumor goes the
rounds that gold has been struck in some
new creek. and at once a stampede is
started for that locality, but the men
soon return empty handed.
mo one can conceive what a terrible
pest the mosquitoes are until he has ex-
perienced them as they are here They
come out of the wet moss by the mill
lions Clouds OF them swarm all over and
remain with you. making their way under
your netting and hat, up your sleeves,
and covering your netting so thickly that
you can hardly breathe through it.
have seen grown men throw up their
hands and cry and howl in despair and
almost go crazy. It would take very
large nugget to tempt me into the noun
tains until they thin out some They say
they will mostly disappear in about two
weeks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
FINDING FAULT.
Instructors Can't Surrender to the
Inevitably Without Comp. amt.

Superintendent J. H Glotfelter of the
city schools in AtchiSOn has complained
to the state superintendent that the
bindings of the fourth and fifth read
erS and grammarS being sent out by the
publishers do not correspond to the
samples in the office of the state sup
erintendent from which adoptions were
made
The superintendent and attorney gen.
eral are examining the matter today
and after an inspection of the books of
which Superintendent Glotfelter COM
plains will take action
If the books do not come up to the
required standard trouble is likely to
follow. The law requires that if the
books are not up to the standard the
attorney general shall bring suit on the
publishers bond.
George w Crane who published the
books said: Il am sure these charges
are unfounded and am anxious for the
inveStigat ton which is promised. The
books are not poorly bound: they are
finished according to contract, a fact
which will be demonstrated when the
investigation is made"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
JUDGE ALLEN ON 1NJUNcT1oNs
The Use of the Injunction Should be
Restricted

Justice 6. H. Allen of the supreme
court thinks the writ of injunction and
the privileges accorded Hereunder
have been greatly abused during the past
few years.
Concerning injunctions Judge Allen
says:
THE use of injunctions should be re-
Stricted within those bounds which
both English and American courts rec
OgniZed through centuries. The Ameri-
can people should zealouSly resist any
and every extension of the power to
deprive a citizen of his liberty without
a trial by an impartial jury. After all,
the greatest and best bulwark ever in
vented for the protection of the Hber-
ties of the people is the right of trial
by jury passed down TO us as price
less heirloom from our own ancestors.
While that remains intact there is lit
tie chance for systematic oppression
With its destruction personal liberty
would soon become a reniniscence."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
GIVES THE ALMIGHTY CREDIT
Congressman Ridgley Piously Ac
counts for Kansas Prosperity.

Congressman E. R. RidgIey of Pitts
burg, who is one of the Labor day
orators this afternoon, said to Jour-
Financially the Third district is in
the very pink of condition God bountf-
fully blessed our people this year, and
to say that Mark Hanna Mckinley or
the Dingley bill did it, is not only rot
but blasphemy- The will of God and
the sweat and toll of men brought
about the prosperity which. in a meas
ure, we are enjoying
What is the political condition of
the district?"
Politics is quiet at present. Our
people have not changed their minds
in the least nor have they lost one iota
of their determination to bring about
those reforms which are so much need
ed in order to enable the people to Sc
cure those political, social and material
advantages to which they are entitled.
Every county in the Third district has
either adopted or agreed on fusion with
the exception of Cherokee county. The
various party conventions We're held
and adjourned. They will meet again
Tuesday and the wisest men believe
they will effect a satisfactory fusion on
satisfactory terms
OF the issues of the future, Mr.. Ridg-
ley said:
1.-The people of my district-PopuIists
as we'll as their alHes-win, I believe,
stick to the issue of monetary reform.
question that must be settled as speed
lily as possible in the interest of all the
people and in the interest of the gov
eminent itself There is another great
question which, think, win become
leading issue, and that is the principle
of the referendum. Outside of the mon
ey question. think that is the greatest
question before the American people
today. 1t is the most important with
the exception 1 have stated. Doodle
is the great stumbling block to sound
legislation, and the boodIing practice
would cease when corporations would
know that all laws of Importance must
be referred to the people. The Jeffer-
sonian idea was that the people should
have voice in everything. The people
delegated their power to congress. Con-
greSs is divided between the political
parties, the majority controlling. The
ma iority delegates its power to a eau
Gus, and majority of the caucus gov
ems, so that only about one-f fourth of
that body controls-or, in other words.
about 100 men dictate the legislation for
about IS, coo, coo of people. This caucus
majority elects a speaker and delegates
to him the power of making the rules
governing the body. The result is that
we have actually One-man power di
recting and shaping the legislation of
this great country That must be stop
ped before popular government is
crushed forever out of existence. All
laws of great Importance. to the people
must be referred to the people for eth
er their approval or VetO.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
INVITE KANSAS CITY
To Send a FIeat to AdYertis e
Priests of PaIIas
And One to Advertise the Kar-
niVal Krewe.
Denver Should Advertise Her Festi-
val of Mountain and Plain at
Our Festival

One of the things that has given the
Committee of Fifteen some trouble has
been the makeup of the Wednesday
night parade during Festival week. the
committee has five floats for the parade
and so far as they are directly concern
ed there the matter stops. There are
some assurances Of additional floats
from the Santa Fe and Fraternal day
parades and no doubt some of the floats
adapted to night displays will De put
on
II would be an excellent plan if the
Committee of Fifteen could interest
other cities that will have festivals in
the parade Let them use the Topeka
celebration TO advertise their own To-
speka can afford TO be magnan4 NOUS
The celebration here will be unSurpaSS-
ed. Il would therefore be good Plan
for the Committee of Fifteen to send
invitations to the karuiVal committee
in Kansas City and the reunion COM
mittee n LeayenwOrth inviting them to
prepare floats for the Wednesday n ght
demonstration. Let the floats be an
advertisement of the KarnivaI Krewe
and Priests of Pallas in Kansas City
and the Leavenworth float something
that viii attract the people to that city
during reunion week.
The committees in those cities would
jump as such an opportunity, for bet
ter opportunity for advertisement was
never offered The cities that would
send floats could not afford to send
cheap ones and the result would be that
we would have a beautiful feature to
add to the night parade and those cities
would have the advertisement This
idea could be enlarged TO include the
Festival OF Mountain and Plain in Dem
Yer and other western celebrations.
The time is short and it is necessary
for the Committee of Fifteen to take
action at once if they hope to have any
thing done.
Reports from Kansas City say that
that city is much interested in the To-
peh1a Fail Festival and nothing could be
done to stimulate the interest already
manifested more than an invitation to
prepare a float to show in the big dem
onstrat ton Of Wednesday evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED.
General Paine of the BimetaIlic Com
mission Returns

Boston, Sept g. Gen. Charles J. Paine.
the Boston representative of the bimetaJ-
lie commission. is just back on a flying
visit by the Canada. Asked what the
commission has been doing he said:
simply waiting that is all that can
say
''Can you tell US where you have been.
what the commission has done; whom
you have metz
Il think that would be entirely insult
able. no. I do not think that it would be
proper for me to do So was the reply
Have you seen any Indication in Eng
land that her people desire to join with
US on a bimetaIlic basis2''
Il can't say that 1 have; we are wait
ing to see. There seems to be a desire
for international bimetallism. 1t is more
marked in France and Germany than
across the channel"
oh but the United States cannot as
sumo the responsibility and declare for
bimetaIlism alone
''Oh, no; that was not what we were
sent abroad for. That question was de-
cided at the last election by the people
who declared for the Republican party
platform as against that of the Demo-
cratic platform, but the Republicans
pledged themselves to do all in their
power to procure international binetal-
ism and that was the mission upon which
we were sent TO Europe. That mission
has not been so successful as we might
hope, but the outlook is by no means dis
couragfng.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
REFORM SCHOOL DOCTORS.
DR.. Lindsay Gives Some Figures as
t. Saving Expenses
Topeka, kan, Sept. 4. 1891.

Topeka, Kan, Sept. 4. 1897.
To the Editor of the state Journal:
A correspondent from the southern
part of the state writes me regarding
the following article printed in the
Journal August 18th:
DIR. Harding Appointed. DR.. Eva
Harding has received the appointment
from the state board of charities as
physician for the Reform school. This
position has been held for several years
by DR.. L. A Ryder of North Topeka
During Dr.. Ryder's long illness Dr.Eva
Harding attended to the duties at the
Reform school and she is familiar with
the work required By employing a
homeopathic physician at the Reform
school a saving in medicine bills is
The homeopathic medicines are mex
penslye. DIR. Harding has already as
stunned her new duties at the Reform
school, The position requires but little
time except when an epidemic prevails
in the school,
The statement in this item that an
annual saving of $500 for the expendi-
ture of medicines at the Reform school
IS an apparent error. Not more than a
fifth or a quarter of this amount could
possibly be expended for this purpose.
For the four years ending June 80. 1893,
I held the office of physician to the Re
form school During this four years
the total expenditure for medical and
surgical supplies as shown by the pub
average of S159.3o. and an average ex-
penditure for each inmate of 74A cents.
1 was succeeded by DR.. L. A Ryder,
homeopathic physician who held the
position until June 80. 1897. No report
for the fiscal year has been published,
but the published reports show the ex-
penditure for medical and surgical sup
plies under DR.. Ryder's administration
for three years ending June 30. 1886, to
have been $449.97, an annual average
expenditure Of $149.97, and a yearly ay-
erage for each inmate of 20 cents
Thus it is shown by these figures
which any one can verify for himself
that the average annual expenditure
under both regular and homeopathic
physicians was less than one-ffth the
amount which the article claims will be
saved by the appointment of DR. Hard
ing The figures also show that the
difference between the regular and the
homeopathic expenditure to have been
less than SO year, a difference which
may easily have been brought about by
other causes than a difference of
schools.
W. s. LINDSAY,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
CORN CROP 1e7,o0o,ooo Blu,
to Secretary Coburn-Dry
Wea. her May Decrease This
Amount

The ssguessers'' have been figuring
that the Kansas corn crop would reach
$50 millions of bushels. 1t is seldom, II
ever, the Kansas guesser gets too low,
but that is what those who have been
figuring on corn have done.
According to reports received by Sec
rotary Coburn of the state board or ag-
riculture, the corn crop in Kansas will
amount to 167, 677. 2So bushels, averaging
20 bushels per acre
Secretary Coburn has issued a press
bulletin concerning corn in which he
says:
As a rule and except in few of the
counties along or near the northern
border the reports plainly point out
that the latter half of August, owing
to general lack of rainfall and severely
drying weather. was a trying period for
nearly all corn and more especially
that not planted sufficiently early to be
previously wel-nigh made"
These conditions have in many coun-
ties materially checked the growth of
ears and stalk, fastened their prema-
ture ripening and diminished bulk,
weight and quality.
Future rains can work but little i'm
provement except in some localities
where conditions have been uninter-
ruptedly favora bic.
In fact. in the southern half of the
state cutting and shocking has been ac-
lively going on for two weeks or more
and much of this corn can afford but
shriveled nubbins. or less, and fodder
more or less inferior.
Washington, as last month, leads in
high percentage of condition. with Re
public, Sheridan and Sherman very
close up, reporting 100 or above Jewell
has dropped back fully 20 per cent
within the month The general condi-
ton for the state Is now 80, points
lower than one month ago
The yield of corn now in sight as
carefully figured from the judgments
of the growers, made of course before
any husking has been done, is, for the
entire state, practically 20 bushels per
acre, or 165, ST.. $50 bushels.
The counties given as having yields
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
RICHEST LAD IN AMERICA.
Young Ogden GoeIet Can Count His
Wealth Above the 100000 Marx.

New York, Sept 6.-Young Ogden
Goelet, by the recent death of his fat! er
in Eng and. becomes probably the rich
est lad of his years in this country The
bulk of the Ogden GCelet estate is to go
to him, and he ought easily to have two
and half millions for each of the 20
years of life he has spent in the world
since he entered it with golden spoon
His father was and his Uncle Robert is
among the richest land owners in the
country. Their holdings have been
placed under the lows st estimate at $780,
100000 1t is very much larger than
OF course, Mr.. Ogden Goelet's will has
not yet been made public, as the family
will wait till their arrival in New York
city, where he has the greater part of
his real estate holdings. 1t is rurnor-
ed, however, that the bulk of his for
tune will go to young GOeiet, although
Miss May GOelet, the announcement of
whose enga cement to the Duke of Man
chester created stir, only to be con-
tradicted, is said to have been gener-
ously remembered by her fath1r- Miss
Goelet is worth millions in her own
name already With millions more that
she will inherit from her father, and
millions more she will inherit from the
Wilson family, to which her mother be-
longed. Miss May GOelet will be one of
our richest heiresseS. Ogden GoeIet
said he would rather be dead than see
her the wife of a titled foreigner
Her brother Will be far richer than
she, however He will inherit much of
the famous GOelet farm, acquired by
Peter Goelet. which extended from near
the site of the present Windsor hotel to
the East river EIbridSe 7. Gerry also
came in for a share of the farm. The
Goelet farm increases in value from
year to year, and while worth IS 600 900
twenty years ago is worth now $40 00O,-
GOO Young GOelSt will, of course. be
unable to handle his own property, as
he is not of age and is still acquiring an
educat ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06

the purchase or condemna ton. and in a
single transaction. the state, paying SIM
ply the actual value of the property in
vested in transportation, would have the
same control over that the national gov
eminent has over the postofffce system,
and could prescribe such rates as it saw
fit, making good by general taxation any
loss. But, as $1,000, 00o, Geo are invested in
the business of railroad transportation,
the public may be reluctant to incur such
Indebtedness, and seek to accomplish the
same result of uniformity of rates by
means of legislation similar to that be-
fore u.s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06

of 80 bushels or more per acre are Re
public, 50 bushels; Washington, 35;
Sheridan. IS; Jewell, 81; Wyandotte, 81;
Decatur. 81; Doniphan. 81: Clay, 80;
Nemaha, 80; Marshall 50.
The counties with the largest aggre-
gate yield are Jewell, with S,032, 064
bushels: Republic. 7,12S,17o; Marshall,
$3.50 go; Washington, 6,S12.S55; Nema-
ha, g. 53S. $50: Smith, 5,774,328-
These six counties, constituting a
strip of land ia miles east and west,
and 29 miles wide, produce Al 168, 81
bushels of corn, and its last years pro-
duct was 49. 0s5,079 bushels The same
counties reported to assessors in March
as having n .633, 942 bushels of their old
corn on hand.