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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-31

Half Price for
Baby Carriages.

The Baby Carriage season lasts for two or
three moashs yet. But the twenty-five Car
riages that comprise what arc left Of the
Smith stock are to be closed out right
away. To dc IL we offer them at just
actly ONEHALF OF Smiths prices-and
we assure you he had them marked very
low In the first place.
We offer Whitney Baby Carriages, with
reed body and parasol and rod, strongly
built, neatly upholstered, that CD en-
nave been so-for..--...-.----. eDZeOV
We offer Hayward Carriages. upholstered
in Derby Cloth and plush, with silk UNI
brella and patent brake, that g me-
have been $40, fcr.----........ sp-TeSO
We offer Fine Reed Carriage upholstered
in Blue Velour; bicycle wheels; eRsy-run-
ming and strongly built; parasol e A d
and rod: price was SS.50-NOw eDFs ZO
We offer Fine Reed Carriages. upholstered
in Drab Corduroy, richly finished, with
handsome parasoi, patent brake and the
strength of build that makes them econom-
ical carriages 70 buy. Price has en- nS
been S2U-NON ......-.--..... eD>sr0
Reed-body Go-Carts. with bicycle wheels;
latest pattern; price has been CD AZ
Snow .--.....-....---.---. ep<eTS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-31

The survivors of the District volunteers
who went to the front In 1851 are taking
animated interest in the reception to the
District boys who followed their example
in 1888. At meeting held last night at
National Guard armory there were present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-31

Want" ads. in The Star pay because shsf'
bring answers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-31

positions to distribute in the fall; if any
of said places are suitable for the boys
they shall have first choice.
AS a member of the finance committee
The Evening Star has received the follow
ing contributions for the reception fund,
which have been turned over to Mr.. Edson,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

time. With this end in view at an early
hour yesterday morning. he entered
the All Nations saloon OF Lower Main
street. Mr.. Higgins was armed with
several firecrackers. He let a lighted
cracker fly at the bartender of the All
Nations saloon. striking that gentle
man on the forearm and seriously
wounding that member. Mr.. Higgins
was taken in charge by Officers Steb-
bins and O'Brien and the story of mis-
placed patriotism is now of record on
the police locke What Mr.. Higgins
side of the case is, does not appear, but
1t will probably this morning when
Judge Fitzgerald gets down to attend
to business.
1t is possible hat hearing so much
of late regarding Anglo-Saxon and
other alliances that the gentleman con-
cluded to extend his alliance so as to
include not me care, but all nations.
Throwing a lighted brand into the
house, however, did not strengthen the
entente cordiale. In other words, the
All Nations gave Mr.. Higgins his pass
port and he is in persona non grata, or
something of that kind. with the All
Nations, though there may be a reap
prochement and diplomatic relations
resumed shortly.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
ANACONDA NEWS.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.
There Were the Usual Number of
Fourth of July Incidents.
NO ONE WAS BADLY HURT
One Lady Caught Fire From a Cracker
INC Displayed Splendid Presence of
Mind-Dr. Snyder's once the
Scene OF a Small Blaze.

A Fourth of July without casualties
would no be a properly constituted
one. There were no very serious ones
I'M Anaconda yesterday, though there
were some very disagreeable expert
ences. An elderly lady who was stand
ing in front of the Montana watching
the parade yesterday caught fire and
might have been seriously burned but
for her own presence of mind n that
of Joe Peters. The bottom of her dress
skirt had caught fire from a cracker
and had burnt a large hole in her dress
before she discovered it. When her at
tention was called to the fire by a lady
who was with her, she did not attempt
to run. but tried to put the fire out with
her hands. She lifted the bottom of her
skirt up to do this, and the breeze Inn
mediately famed the smoldering fire
into flames. Mr.. Peters rushed to her
assistance. He got her to .kneel down
on the sidewalk and he then stamped
the fire out with his shoes. The lady,
when the fire was extinguished, took
refuge in the Montana.
DIR. Snyder was also the victim of a
small fire that might IA been serious.
Some one threw a giant firecracker at
one of the windows of his office, with the
result that the glass was broken and
the burning pieces of the cracker fell
inside the office and set fire to the win
dow curtains. DIR. Synder happened to
step into his Office just in time. He tore
the curtains down and carried them
out in the street, where they completely
burned up. In the meantime some one
turned in the fire alarm from the stand
ard corner and the department made a
In IN fnxxT nnnndG fhn
hose wagon and steamer were on hand.
1t vas all over, however, before they
arrived.
j. f. Messenger is also a victim OF the
deadly and noisy torpedo. Yesterday
morning early, while the town was cele-
brating, a torpedo was launched against
Mr.. Messenger with terrible effect. The
fuse had just been timed properly, so
that it exploded at the m it struck
him. The torpedo hit him on the left
brow and came within an ace of de-
stroying his sight.
James Kunkel also had a narrow es-
cape from being burned alive. He had
been assisting at an early hour yester-
day morning in setting off a lot of fire.
works. He had been carrying in his
coat pocket a hot extra edition of a
Butte paper. Mr.. Kunkel was walking
towards home and happened to put his
hand in his coat pocket. He did not
leave 1t there, but with a whoop OF
'Holy smoke!" commenced undressing
in the street. He succeeded in getting
the paper out of his pocket before his
coat was entirely destroyed, though all
the lining was burned out.
Last night one of the rockets that
went wrong came down upon a man
who was standing within the zone of fire
at the head of Main street and complete
ly split the back of his coat from collar
TO tails.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
VIOLIN.
An Old Instrument Which Is Said to Have
Belonged to the Statesman.

Belonged to the Statesman.
The ways in which violins of famous
make n great value emerge from OBJ
security are varied, and no greater proof
of this fact has been advanced for many
years than the discovery of Thomas
Jefferson's favorite violin in the hands
of an octogenarian negro near Char
lootesville, Va The violin bears date of
1911, and its maker was Nicolaus Amati.
This relic of Jefferson and of the skill of
its Italian maker was found by Albert
Hildebrandt of 10 North Liberty street,
Baltimore, Md Mr.. Hildebrandt is an
amateur musician. The story of his dis
covery and what led up to it is told by
himself:
II happened into a BARRIERS shop kept
by a negro at Charlottesville and Incl
dentally asked him my favorite ques-
ton: do you know of an old violin, as
1 want to buy one?' Said he: L knows
of an old fiddle, boss, that belonged to
Thomas Jefferson, and old John Scott
owns 1t now The barber was so inter-
ested that he sent one of his men with
me, and soon we were on the road to
Scott's home, about two miles from
Charlottesville, at the base of the Mon
ticello mountains and adjoining the old
Jefferson plantation. John Scott /
found to be an active. bright negro of
80 years. When l saw him he was work.
ing in his garden. / asked to see the
violin, and he brought to me from the
cupboard a dilapidated double violin
case that had once been covered with
leather. So many years had elapsed,
however, sine the leather was first
placed on the case that a large part of
it had come off in patches.
Opening it 1 saw hat the moths had
had a feast with the red lining. The
instrument was wrapped carefully in a
piece of old cloth, and the minute l
looked at it / saw 1t was the best speci-
men of Nicolaus Amati's violins 1 had
ever seen. After a while / managed to
strike a bargain with the old man, and
the violin became my property. In 1t
am certain 1 own one of the very best
violins existing to-day. The scroll is
most artistically carved, the model and
workmanship beautiful. The varnish is
of golden yellow color and the pegs are
of ivory. All that was needed was a
few repairs and now 1t is a singing
beauty.
John Scott, from whom i bought the
violin, told me that he inherited the in
strument from his father, who was a
slave of Thomas jefferson. After re-
turning to Charlottesville with my priz,
/ learned that jefferson was quite a
good musician, a lover and player of the
violin. and that he had owned several
valuable instruments of Italian make.
The one l had bought he had christened
Pet and this makes me believe that IL
was his favorite violin"
The violin is to-day being constantly
used by a friend of Mr.. Hildebrandt,
who is one of the orchestra of a Balti.
more theater.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

Butte to see the game. These young
men of the capital not only wore the
copper and green colors. but bet their
that way, n rooted every time
Anaconda had a root coming. They
occupied a hack across the gridiron
from the grand stand, and every time
Anaconda started its yell Helena
chimed in from across the field. The
people from this city appreciated the
courtesy, and to show that they did,
several times before the game was me
ed the call went forth from Anaconda,
whats the matter with Helena?"
She's all right"
who's all right?"
"Why, Helena"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
VIM. Higgins Charged With wounding a
bartender With a Torpedo.

william Higgins is the victim of mis-
placed patriotism and ~firecrackers. He,
like everyone else in Anaconda, was
celebrating Sunday night. He is not a
man who believes in keeping a good
thing all to himself. He felt he had
enough patriotism to cover and encom-
pass the earth. OF course. in a sense,
II a strictly speaking, an Americans
right to howl, but Mr.. Higgins, with
that open-heartedness which is typical
of Americans, wanted everybody to join
him in celebrating and having a good
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

The streets, harbor and MORO Castle
are fully pictured in The Standards
war premium, 1.-The American Navy"
1t will pay you to subscribe for the
daily for a period in order to obtain
the work. The daily for six months for
Sc, including the book, or the daily n
year for $40, with the book free.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
MINORS GETTING LIQUOR.
The Police Found Another Small Boy
Yesterday Who Was Intoxicated.

Yesterday Who Was Intoxicated.
Yesterday afternoon Policeman Steb-
bins found a little boy near the Turn
halle who was very much intoxicated.
The youngster lived down in the east
part of town and the officer took him
home. The boy refused to divulge who
had given him the liquor, beyond say
ing he had obtained it from two
Swedes. The boy was taken in charge
by his father. Then there was a tab
leau of Uncle Sam rebuking h young
king of Spain.
The officers say that of late it has
been getting rather a common thing
for them to find minors drunk around
town. They are investigating the mat
ter, and should the persons be found
who sell or give intoxicating liquor to
miners, they will be vigorously prose-
cuted.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
DID NOT MEET.

The City Council Postponed Its Meeting
Until This Evening.
Last night being the first Monday in
the month, it was the regular meeting
night for the city council. There was.
however. no intention of desecrating the
Fourth by doing any business. 1t was
agreed previously hat the meeting
should be adjourned until tonight.
Mayor Lesser and one or two aldermen,
supported by Chief White, met in the
city hall promptly at s O'Clock n adj
journed the meeting until the same time
his ening
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

McLaughlfn's concert hall, 10 Main
street, is packed nightly, a natural re-
sult of the high class entertainment
given there.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
ROOTED FOR ANACONDA.
Helena People Yelled for the Copper and
Green sunday.

One of the pleasant features of the
football game Sunday to the Anaconda
crowd was the hearty support given to
the Copper City team by a crowd of
young men from Helena who went to
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

NJ. J. Roach left yesterday for Chi
cago to spend the summer.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

Not an arrest was made for drunk
enness or other minor attractions yes
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
4. Santiago de Cuba.

When in Butte lunch at sherman's.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
HE WAS TOO PATRIOTIC.

Anaconda Steam Laundry. s05 E. Parl
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

Levi Davis went to Deer Lodge yes
terday afternoon on a brief visit with
friandc
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
.berkmoes. ontica, speciaust.

Verberkmoes, optical specialist.
Cream freezers at Young & Dezelfs.
Only genuine porter. Days saloons.
Baths-Montana hotel barber shop, Csc.
Refrigerators at Young & Dezell's.
DAaaL Lea x,oor e. ri.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

Second hand tandem bicycle for $50;
$40 down. $3.50 a week on balance, at
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

B. F. Brown, public administrator,
came over from Garrison yesterday
mourning to help Anaconda celebrate.
The silver star., 1898-02-17

THERE was never a town SO
crowded, or a community so dense
ly populated that it would not ad-
nit one more. This community is
no exception to the general rule.
There are plenty ofexcellent oppor-
tunities here for more farmers and
plenty Of land for them to till, and
and best of all a good market for all
the produce they can raise. Every
one here is working for the advance
ment Of the country and will join
hands with'all newcomers to push to
the front and make Dolores and vi.
cinity one Of the most productive
and prosperous communities in the
San Juan. You are invited to come
and look the country over and we
arc confident that you will locate
among us.
The silver star., 1898-02-17
DoLoREs, COLORADO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY -. 1ses.

Inter State Commerce Commission
vacated by the retirement of Hon,
VIM. R. Morrison, the old demo-
cratic war-horse of Illinois. A
Pennsylvania man was slated for
this position, but so many vigorous
protests were received from labor
organizations that Mckinley was
afraid to appoint him.
Boss Hanna is again asserting his
power. He kept very quiet for a.
while after he returned from his late
Ohio shopping expedition, but he
this week compelled Mckinley t..
carry out the terms of a bargain
made at the St. Louis convention,
in the face of protests not only from
the people of the city directly inter.
ested and the entire Georgia dele
CATION in Congress, but from mem
bers of his own Cabinet. This bar
gain has brought about the nomi-
nation of ]. H. Deveauz, a negro
politician who helped Hanna con-
troll the Georgia delegation to the
st. Louis convention, to be Collect
or of Customs at Savannah, Ga.
The excuse given by Mckinley to
Representative Lester, of Ca, who
called at the White House to make
a personal protest in the name of
every merchant who does business
with the Savannah Custom House
against the nomination of negro
to be collector, was not calculated
to add to the respect for him by the
white people of Georgia, or of any
other State. He said in effect that
instead of kicking, the white people
of Georgia ought to thank him, be-
cause he had not appointed negro
postmasters at Savannah and Au-
gusta, as he had at one time intend
ed to do. The democrats may not
succeed in preventing the conirma-
tion of this negro's nomination by
the Senate, but there is consolation
in the knowledge that every negro
put in an office of this sort makes
additional democratic votes.
Representative Dingley should
give Senator Hale, of his State, a
little coaching on prosperity"
When Hale was attempting, as us
ual, to defend Spain when it had
been attacked by other Senators. he
incidentally mentioned that there
were million idle men in the U.
| S. Now, surely no sane man would
call country the size of the U. S.
prosperous while a million men are
idle.
The silver star., 1898-02-17

keep such mill running, for as soon
as it was an assured fact that the
mill would be built and an increas-
ed market established the farmers of
the Montezuma valley would in
crease their wheat crops by plant
ing more ground. Then, too, such
mill would be an advertisement
that would bring in new settlers.
Why not push the scheme to a sue
cessful reality and make Dolores a
milling point as we'll as shipping
point?
1t has also been suggested that a
small electric lighting plant to be
run in connection with the Touring
mill might be put in and knock out
the coal oil trust to a great extent.
This might also be worked up and
put in at small expense. At any
rate the whole proposition is one
worthy of careful investigation.
The silver star., 1898-02-17

SOME pin-headed galoot, whose
brain would rattle inside mustard.
seed, and who probably knows no
more about irrigation than a hog
does about war, has had the audac-
ity to get cluase inserted in the
bill providing for the irrigation of
the Southern Ute lands, which
reads: mot exceeding a minimum
of so cents per acre per annum for
the maintainance of water upon land
irrigated" We suppose the maxi
mum will be rs cents. Can any
one tell why the farmers under the
Montezuma Canal should pay one
dollar and fifty cents (S1.5o) and
the U. S. government only so cents?
Are the Indians any better than the
white man that they should be IA
vored to the detriment of the white
man! The. galoot who proposed
such clause must be an Eastern
sympathizer who thinks the "poor
Indian" has been treated unjustly,
and who would like to see the In
dians turn loose with their old style
barbarism and massacre few hun
dred whites of Colorado who have
paved the way to civilization in the
West, provided, o. course, that he
was resting securely in some nice,
high-toued house in the effete East.
Such warts on the face ofhumanity
ought to be given a taste of their
own medicine or have their brains
irrigated with a good oak club.
The silver star., 1898-02-17
JAW wiooLER HANNA
Opposes the Proposition To Irigats the South.
en- uts Lands. A Disgruntied Stats
msnt From Crank.

THE Denver News of last Satur-
day gives place to an interview with
Major ]. w. Hanna, in which he op.
poses the proposition now before
Congress for the irrigation Of the
Southern Ute lands and says that it
is an "attempt to break into the
treasury" that the whole thing is
a steal and a rank injustice to citi-
zens who are trying to make all hon
est living in southwest Colorado by
farming" and that he ''has land in
the Montesuma valley that will be
injured by divefting water there
FROM"
Not one sentence Of Major Han.
mas statement is true and he knows
It as we'll as any one. He docs not
own one foot of land in the Monte.
yuma valley nor one cent ofstock In
the Montcxuma canal. Several
people in this part Of the country
would be glad to discount bills a.
xainst him so per cent. Weaie in
formed NY .feitnNt. 'rsrn wisr fsAr-,
The silver star., 1898-02-17

volunteered to sign their names to
the above that it is true and that his
assertions regarding the water sup.
ply and amount of land that can be
watered, are false.
Hanna once had charge of the
present ditch and all that hurts him
is the fact that he cannot have the
handling of the money that will be
used in this case. The statements
of such a disreputable scoundrel are
not to be credited in face of the re-
ports of experts who have examin-
ed the situation and men of the rep
utation and standing of Senator
Henry M. Teller who favor and
work for the proposition.
Colonel D. F. Day, ex-agent of
the Southern Utes, sumed up the
situation in the most excellent style
in the following language in Sum
days News:
"Maior Hanna Is aware of the fact That the
ditch in question is OWNED. through foreclos-
.ure. by j. v. Far well. of Chicago. tie Dci,ver
National band OF this city and Colorado State
bank of Durango. ! denOunce each and e, cry
assertion Major Hanna makes false. and clim.-
lense him to establish The accuracy OF II single
pros osition advanced
'Thc Utes in the section mention, d have
never been afforded an opportunity to accept
allotments upon what Is kown ns the Navajo
springs reserve. The entire water fioS upon
the resc: walton in question is less than 10 gall
Ions per minute, and the area covered en-
braces 50s,OO atres in Colorado and New Mex
ico.
"The payment for this water is taken from
the tile fund and jviutIy The confederate y nd
OF Uies have millions of acres unceded ,lni lions
Of acres ced, I'd and unpaid for and In addition
81, $4,000 in and per cent. bonds and they
desire and aro pay ing for the water ii uves-
tion.
"watering the Ute lands is an emergency.
1t must be accomplished. There is no water
available beyond tho flow OF the Dulores river
not an available foot-and the price asked
b. the MOntezuma Valley cornp,n, Il s6OO per
cubic foot less than actual worth. Tn. Name
Or river has no now aftr Juno the waters OF
the San Juau are positively unavailable. and
for successive years the Western utes hav.
been forced to drive their stock to The m, ui,.
tains for forage and water. The major Is we'll
aw;ire OF the facts and his assault Is beyond
the range Of ordinary comprehension"
The silver star., 1898-02-17
FLOUR MILL.

THE scheme Of erecting a flour.
ing mill at this point on the coop
cratiyc or stock system has been
advanced to a small extcn Thy some
and we fail to see why it would NOT
be a paying undertaking. The
location is such that n mill could BIZ
run by water power at small es-
pe,,se and in q very short space ol
time the mill would bc paying divi'
dends. There would be no diff
tbity lh.gettInx 4piehty'uf ~heat 1T