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not be a formidable obstacle. Black
wants a denomination for vindication
and presidential purposes. He has made
a rascally sort Of governor. There has
beer a nine-million-dollar canal appro-
priation scandal under his regime; he
secured the passage OF an Ubiquitous
force bill; he has catered TO the baser
elements OF the republican party; he
runs with the machine. Altogether
Black is in pretty bad odor with the
people But like Caesar and A~guinaldo
he is ambitious and aspires to the
presidency himself.
Lest there should he any mistake
about 1t, it may he said right here that
Colonel Roosevelt isn't saying a word.
But there is a great deal of wood saw
ing and button distributing going on.
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THE DRAGON OF THE SEAS.

They say the Spanish ships are out
To seize the Spanish main:
Reach down the volume, boy, and read
The story DER again.
How when the Spanlard had the might
He drenChed the earth, like rain,
With human blood, and made 1t death
To sail the Spanish main.
With torch and steel, with stake and
rack,
He trampled out all truce.
Until Queen Bess his leashes slipt.
And let her seadogs loose.
God! How they sprang! And how they
The Grenville, Hawkins, Drake.
Remember, boy. they were your sires!
They made the Spaniard quake.
They sprang. like lions, for their prey,
Straight for the throat, amaini
BY twos. by scores. where'er they caught
They fought the ship of Spain.
When Spain. in dark Ulloa's bay.
Broke down enlightened faith.
Bold Hawkins fought his way through
fire
For great Elizabeth.
a bitter malt Spain brewed that day!
She draine it to the lees;
Her faithless guns that morn awoke
The Dragon of the Seas.
From sea to sea he ravaged far,
A Scourge, with flaming breath
Where'cr the Spauiard sailed his ships.
Sailed Francis Drake and Death.
No port was safe against his ire.
Secure no furthest shore:
The fairest day oft sank in fire
Before the Dragons roar.
He made tn Atlantic surges red
Round every Spanish keel:
Piled Spanish decks with Spanish dead.
The mobiles of CASTLE.
From Del Fuego's betting coast
To sleepy Hcbridcs.
He hounded down the Spanish host
And swept the iiamink seas.
He fought till on SPANS Utmost lakes
lakes
Mid orange bowers set.
La Mancha's daughters feared to sail.
Lest they the Dragon met.
King Philip. Of his raven reft.
As forfeit claimed his head;
The great Queen laughed his wrath tt
sCorn.
And kniGhted Drake instead.
And gave him ships and sent him forth
To clear the Spanish main
Fnr England and for England's brood.
And sink the fleets OF Spain.
And well he wrought his mighty work,
Till on that fatal day.
lie met his only Conqueror
In Nombre Dios Bay.
There in his shottcd hammock swung,
Amid the surC,s' sweep.
He waits the loukuHts' signal
Across the quiet deep.
And dreams Of dark Ulloa's bay
And Spanish treachery:
And how he tracked Magellan Tar
Across the unknown sea.
But II Spain fires a single shot
Upon the Spanish main.
She'll come 60 deem the Dragon dead
Has waken 20 life again.
Thomas Nelson Page In Washington
Post.
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The New York Murder.

"A EW YORK city has another sem
M sational murder on it's hands. 1t
comes at an opportune time. The
reporters and artists are back from the
war, and business is a little slack. This
murder to them is a godsend. or per-
haps. 10 be more exact. a devilsend. 1t
is good for pages of gruesome cuts and
more or less thrilling narration. I'm
fortunately for them it is not a murder
mystery. The mystery element being
lacking, the career of the murder i'm
the New York papers will be short
lived. like hat of the victim in the
case. She was a young and beautiful
woman. WHO led a double life. She was
murdered in a room at the Grand hotel
for her money and Jewels. A worth
less check for $13. 900. evidently used as
a decoy. was found in the woman's
clothing. The man who indorsed it. a
physician, who posed as the woman's
husband at the hotel, is now under ar
rest, n the evidence of his guilt is
conclusive. He seems to nave exercised
a strange influence over the woman,
and, for that matter, over others like
her, for she belonged to the class TO
whom luxurious living is worth any
price. She had given this man money
to bet on the races, for he had a betting
system. She had told her mother in
Mount Vernon that she had expected
to get large profits by the money which
she had intrusted to her friend, the
doctor. The girl lived in luxuriously
furnished apartments, and made trips
to Mount Vernon, where she spent sun
days i'm the home of her parents. where
all was staid r~espectakility. She had
drawn $500 from a Mount Vernon bank
and said she was going to take it to
New York. She borrowed a black
leather bag from her mother TO carry
away the profits of her speculation.
This bag, still open, was found upon the
floor of the room in the hotel near the
~lifeless body of the woman. Near it
was a piece of lead pipe, cunningly
fashioned into a weapon, by means of
which the woman's head had been bat
tered and her neck broken. Her ear
rings had been torn from her ears.
The tragedy is enough out of the COM
mon to excite a great lea of talk, par
ticularly about "degeneracy" and all
that. People ave an opportunity TO
look wise and quote Nordau and Lom-
broso and air their scientific lingo. If
the present period really is suffering
from ~degeneracy, there is no better
proof Of it than this modern dilettante
tendency TO treat crime as a physiology
cal phenomenon. To a healthy mind
uncontaminated by Nordauism the only
lesson that the New York murder
teaches is the old, old one. that the way
Of the transgressor is hard.
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The Roosevelt Boom.

~HE Roosevelt g~ubernatorial boom
is on. What it will amount to
II uncertain. Thu colonel him
self isn't saying a word. Now. sop IL, -"
he said to a dozen reporters WHO broach-
ed the subject of the gore.ELr.hip the
other day, Il will not say a word about
myself. but / will talk about my rcgi-
ment forever" The colonel is shrewd-
shrewd at least at talking If not at let
ter writing. He is not saying a word
about the governorship. Neither is Tom
Plat. They say Plat realizes that he
has a hard game in New York this fall
and is anxious TO let the nomination go
TO the candidate who is the strongest be-
fore the people. He wants to retain
New York in the republican column this
year at all hazards. So Plat isn't say
ing a word. Nature is TO be allowed to
take her curse with the Roosevelt
boom.
The colonel's personal friends are &C
tive. They have ordered thousands and
thousands of Roosevelt buttons. They
believe in the power Of the button IN
politics. The button has a picture Of
Roosevelt. There is a SLOUGH hat on
the head. a brave. firm. determined eN-
preston on the face and a pair of eye
glasses on the nose. Besides the image,
there is a superscription Our Teddy for
Our Governor" Around ii all is a circle
of stars. The colonels friends, as we
said before, are very active in distrib-
uting these buttons. They are also very
active in explaining away the colonels
letter to Secretary Alger. hat keeps
them very busy indeed. The colonel,
they say, really cast no reflections on
the volunteers. Not at all. IL was only
their archaic weapons and smoky gun
powder he was driving at. In reality
the colonel loves the volunteers. III
was a volunteer himself and he ought TO
know. If a man can't see II in that
light. something is wrong with him.
Colonel Roosevelt, we repeat. isn't say
ing a word. He is not taking himself
out Of the list Of possibilities. He il
doing nothing to impair the virtue of
his lightning rod. That he is alive 70
the political situation in New York Is
evidenced by the statement attributed
10 his military chief, General Wheeler
who is quoted as saying that on tbs
trip from Santiago to Montauk Point
he told Colonel Roosevelt that the PEG,
pie Of New York state wanted him TO b5
their governor. and that the people oI
the United States next would want hin
for president. To all Of this. Genera
Wheeler is quoted as saying. Colone
Roosevelt merely smiled.
Apparently the only obstacle in this
path Of the c~olonel's g~ubernatorial am,
bltion is Governor Black; and that may
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The Cable Is Working.

THE Manila-Hong Kong cable,
which Dewey cut after the bat
tie of May /. has been repaired
and direct communication with Manila
is restored. That long delay in trans
mission necessitated when the news
had to reach Hong Kong by steamer.
has been peculiarly vexatious TO news
papers and newspaper readers, but the
cutting of the cable was not the less
a wise and clever piece Of business.
Dewey is anything but a typewriter
and telegraph strategist. He left that
field of military genius to it's great ex-
ponents. Blanco and WeyIer. There is
nothing Of the grandstand player about.
the hero of Manila, and that is one of
the reason why George Dewey is
the most popular American since
any work to do at Manila he did it.
He knew that news could wait but that
circumstances couldn't. He cut the
cable because he wanted the field Of
operations clear to himself. He under
stood his business and he wanted no
intermeddling by foreign governments.
Like enough, too. like Captain Clarke
of the oregon. he was afraid of being
"hampered with Instructions from his
own government. Whatever were his
motives. Dewey did the right thing. He
alu-aNc does
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TEN PAGES.
MONDAY. AUGUST %. 1895.

IN some respects New York is the
most fortunate city on the continent.
The New Workers see many things
that the rest of the country must be
content to read about. THERE'S not an
American in the land who does not feel
that he has missed something in not
being privileged to witness Saturdays
great naval review. There is not an
American in the land who does not take
a deep. personal interest in those grand
battleships and the men who man
them. We all love them, are proud Of
them and feel a sense of ownership in
them. The naval review was an inspir-
ing spectacle. 1t was all over in two
hours and a half. but there was more
inspiration in il. more grandeur, i'm
p-ressiveness and suggestion than in any
of those old Roman triumphs when it
took three days for the procession, lad
en- with the spoils of conquest, to pass a
given point. 1t is to be hoped that
the kaleidoscope people were on hand
Saturday fr~agmentary reproductions
will be better than nothing. Some day,
IL is not unreasonable to hope, invention
will have enlarged its scope and per-
fected its kaleidoscope To a point at
which fac SMILES of such an event as
Saturdays will live on canvas as clear
IN and definitely as the original lives in
history.
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Dishonest Contractors.

II y Eastern newspaper cites an IN
stance Of one contractor who
sold 1000 pairs Of paper-soled
shoes for the troops at Camp Alger. The
test was made on a short march. in the
midst Of peaceful scenes. and the result
was unimportant in a military sense;
but II might easily have been different.
The paper referred to says: The great
Frederick was the first soldier TO recog-
nizs the Importance Of good shoes for
infantry. Since his time, however, gem
erals have recognized the fact that shoes
for footsoldiers were as important a con-
sideration as horseshoes for cavalry.
For the shoes II the infantry to give
out in an emergency might easily NEAR
the loss Of a battle. Hence the contrac-
tor who would, TO make a few cents
more per pair, furnish such shoes. is in
a sense guilty Of treason. Treason is a
capital odense. The hanging Of a guilty
contractor would do more than anything
else We can hin of TO put this country
on a hrst-class war footing"
II was not on a hrs;-class footing Of
any kind that the contractor proposed
to put the infantry. when the returns
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The Montana Press.
The Politics of 1t.

From the Flathead Herald-Journal.
SIMPSONS absence from his place at
Santiago with what was deemed the best
ship In the American navy when Ger
vera came out may have been uniucky
for him. but the United States was fortu-
nate in having SchIcy there to take his
place as commander. Here is the truth.
the people Of the United States know to
whom the honors belong and IL
the recommendation of the pres
idont for SIMPSONS promotion ov-
Cr the heads Of our real naval
heroes shall prevail there shall be a reck-
onIng in tho future. There may be no
politics I'm the navy but TO n man I'm Flat
head county IL looks like the elevation
OF Sampson would be bad politics.
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Co-Operative Action.

From the Tenton Chronicle.
The Chronicle believes that cooperative
action on the part of silver parties -
not only advisable but necessary. Parties
engaged in the advocacy Of reform.
though under a different banner. can bet
ter AFFORD To meet their end by unison
work than to lose all by attempting 10
gain everything. Fusion means a grand
sweep Of the state. while a~nti-fusion
means "a general split-up and opposition
work within the ranks. When il is ap-
parent that the gold bug sheets are anxi-
Gus for an anti-fusion. then IL is time for
a fusion.
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LUCK.
Came Near Being Punished for an Act
Which Caused His Promotion.


Most Americans know Captain Eulate,
late of the Vizcaya, only as the Span
lard who presided at the trial of the Viz
ginius men, and who, when he last de-
parted from New York. promised, in a
rather threatening way. to come back
soon, and who has been just a little i'll
tempered and sullen as a prisoner at
Annapolis.
He deserves some kindly regard from
us, however, says the New York Times,
for not only is he a man who has suf-
fered a great misfortune, but he once
showed effective gOoo will to a repre-
sentative of the United States. 1t was
at La Guayra, Venezuela, in 1891, when
the city was raided by by one of Dicta-
tor Mendoza's generals. and all the for
eign merchants and Il foreign consuls
were thrown into prison. The American
consul happened to escape the net, and
rowing out to the only foreign warship
in the harbor, he asked for aid. n
ship was the Jorg Juan-destroyed at
Nipe the other day-and its commander
was Captain Eulate. then a sub-lieuten-
ant. The consuls story was heard with
sympathy. and the guns and men of
the Jorg Juan were instantly placed
under his orders. The dictator's general
was Immediately informed that the
town would be bombarded IL the prison
ers were not released within 20 minutes.
They were released. The Spanish gov
eminent was indignant at the action or
its lieutenant. He was ordered back TO
Havana, deprived of his mma and
sent 10 MORO castle. A court martial
was ordered, and the lieutenant was
charged with piratical acts at La Quay
ra. Before a verdict was rendered the
Spanish government had received the
thanks of 10 foreign governments. rang
ing from the gigantic empire Of Russia
to the queen of Hawaii. This opened
the ayes of Spain. She recognized the
Injustice done Eulate. He was released
from custody, received one of the high
est naval decorations and was placed on
waiting orders. Within a short time
| he was made a captain in the Spanish
navy and appointed chief of the arsenal
I'm Havan
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~HE Brooklyn Eagles correspond

~HE Brooklyn Eagles correspond
ent at Montauk Point gathers
the universal opinion OF con-
tempt for the Cubans. The remarks Of
one cavalryman are quoted to illustrate
the sentiments Of all. He said: Them
Cubans are fakes. You can't make 'em
fight" An officer who was hurt at San
tlago says that the insurgents were on
his left. As soon as the rumpus began
he paid his attention to matters in
front. and on turing around a few min
utes later was not surprised to find that
the Cubans had ~skedaddled. A shell
had exploded over them. They hest
tated. Then came a second shell and
they all skipped-two thousand of them.
He insisted that they had never fought,
and never would; that the only thing
they had ever lone was to attack lonely
outposts and carry on a guerrilla war
against plantations; that the insurrec-
ton had been going on for years with
out a casualty worth mentioning, and
that this country had a problem on its
hands in the disposition of a people who
would only bluff at fighting for their
own liberty and could be relied on to DO
nothing but eat United States rations
n smoke cigarettes.
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area of public land. the revenues of which
formerly went to the crown. 1t is now
proposed to throw these lands open to our
soldiers as settlers. which would Ameri-
canize the island on short order. The
scheme Is feasible and quite a laudable
one. Better do that than allow syndicates
TO control them and get all the valuable
concessions. which they are already pre-
pairing to do.
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After the War l. Over.

From the Miles City News.
The war of 1898 is over. The white
winged dove of peace will resume its
perch on the persimmon tree. The Ameri-
can soldiers will beat their cannon balls
into baseballs and their rifle stocks into
baseball bats. and the tin horn of the
ball crank will be heard In the land. The
troopers h under the blazing tropical
sun of Santiago. so nobly filled the
breaches and killed Spaniards. will now
fill the bleachers under the 100 in the
shade and no shade Northern sun and
cuss the umpire.
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The Responsibility.

From the Big Timber Express.
After the war is thoroughly over IL will
come to light just how many lives have
been sacrificed as a result of Ayers
incompetency and political trafficking.
The story of the Montana regiments voy-
age to Honolulu Is enough TO make any
honest Montanan wish ne had Alger by
the nape of the neck. Just as Alger must
be held responsible for the horde of vul-
lures under him. so Mckinley must be
held responsible for Alger. and he is like
ly to find IL a heavy responsibility.
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Copper Properties.

From the Western Mining World.
During the past three years no shares
of any kind of enterprise have shown the
remarkable and steady increase in values
that the copper shares have. During the
past year and a half eight of the leading
copper stocks has increased over $780, 600
600 and they have increased more than
$50. 900, 600 during the past six months. The
total par value of their capitalization is
S160 O0 600.
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are all in. many cases OF the kin will
a to be reported. Many others VIII
never come to light. 1t is sad 10 reflect
that incompetence and dishonesty have
caused more damage to the American
army thar the bullets Of the Spaniards.
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The Presidents Choice.

From the Boulder Sentinel.
In deciding to make both Sampson and
Schley rear admirals. the president has
not ended the controversy between the
friends of the two officials. on the con-
trary he has added to it. by making
Sampson the ranking rear admiral, an
honor which Schley's friends think should
have been his.
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Choate's Argument.

From the Helena Independent.
Lawyer Choate's suggestion that We
shut one eye to ante-war declarations in
regard to seizing Cuba is the opening
statement in defense of the policy Of
land-jumping. a doctrine not popular in
personal experience out West.
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To the Boys who Didn't Fight.

From the Fort Benton River Press.
While the honors of the war are being
showered upon those who were at the
front. let us remember the boys who vol
unteered for the fight but were prevented
from crossing swords with the enemy.
They were ready to perform any duty as
signed to them. and impatiently awaited
orders that never came. Here's to the
boys at Chickamauga and other military
camps i'm the south and elsewhere.
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The New Picket.

From the Red Lodge Picket.
As for us. we simply desire TO say that
we intend to give the people a paper that
shall accurately reflect the progressive
spirit of a splendid citizenship, one that
shall be an index to the growth and pros
perity of as lively a city and as rich a
county as can be found within the con-
fines Of Montana. We point To the en-
largement and Improvement with pardon
able pride, and trust that you will all
get stuck on the Greater Picket.
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Rlanco's Woe.

From the Bozeman Courier.
The worst used up Spanish soldier in
all Cuba is General Rlanco-he has been
whipped ont OF his boots and his impreg-
nable stronghold without having an OPP
]portunity to FIRE a single shot. lie is also
deprived Of surrender that would have
given him access TO Uncle Sans army ra-
tions-
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Porto Rico settlers.

From the Nsihart Miner.
A suggestion that would probably re-
suit In a great deal OF good is that the
United States extend the homestead law
10 Porto Rico and allow our soldiers 10
settle there. Porto Rico contains a large
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Committee on Claims.


 The Committee on Claims will meet in the Aldermanic Chamber City Hall. Thurs day, September 22d 1898, at s D, m, when the following matters will be considered x: Petitions of Mary J. Allen, Mrs. Edward J. Ryder, David E; Childs, Ernst Perpento and Anthony Carroll for damages Petition of the German Lutheran Zion Church for abatement of street sprinklins assessment,
 Petition of the Standard Electric Time Company for abatement of taxes. Petition of Anthony Carroll for compen- sation for moneys expended in behalf of the city.
 Communication of the Director of Public Works de assessment against Andrlna Cliff ford for the extension of County street. Communication of Anthony Carroll de con tract for the coal supply of the New Ha- ven School District and the inspection and weighing thereof
 All persons interested in the foregoing are notified to attend and be heard thereon with out further notice. Per order,
 JOHN T. HOGAN, Chairman. Attest: JAMES E. MARTIN, s20 3t Assistant City Clerk.