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USEFULNESS At AN END
CONTINUED from Pare One.)

out the responsibilities which IL nae
become evident tina the government
had already Incurred. The divisions of
this aggregate force had been deter
mined upon at yesterdays cabinet
meeting in practically the following
proportions:
Philippine occupation, $4,000: Porto
Rican occupation. $4,000; Cuban. 100. 900;
reserve and home defense, 125, ZOO.
The estimate for the Cuban army Of
invasion was based on the conviction
which Is now common to all authori-
ties. both civil and military. in Wash
ington, that order cannot be restored
over that large territory without the
presence there for some time 20 come
of at least 10O. 900 troops, and that little
or no reliance can be placed on the ca
pacity of the Cubans for ~self-govern-
ment for at least a year or two. As
regards Porto Rico, IL is not believed
the inhabitants will be able to MAIN
tain a government of their own in less
than "A generation and practically the
same conclusion is reached regarding
the Philippine islands
The necessity for 125, 900 men under
arms at home. at any rate until some
condition of peace is assured, is ad-
mitted. as well as the necessity for re-
lieving volunteers after a brief tour of
duty in the tropics and providing
prompt reinforcements should any of
the conditions have been underesti-
mated.
General Miles had expected to start
for Tampa last night. but delayed his
departure until Sunday night. because
the president desired to have the bene-
fit of his advice in the meantime. 1t is
understood, however. that the presence
of General Miles at Tampa Is not es-
sential to the departure of troops from
that point. although in case an inva-
sion of either Cuba or Porto Rico Is be-
gun this week. General Miles intend to
hurry after the expedition in a fast
warship, which the navy will place at
his disposal.
IN are especially persistent that
actual military operations In the West
Indies will begin before June I, n
speculation seems equally divided on
the chances of an invasion directed
against Cuba or against Porto Rico. 1t
Is said to be the desire of the govern
ment to strike a blow at Spanish OBJ
stinacy by Immediately Selling and oc-
cupying Porto Rico, an island whose
climate is far more healthful than that
of Cuba. and whose value for
OF decentralization al the close of the
war is self apparent. With the aid of
a part of Admiral Simpsons fleet, it
is thought a Juan could easily be
taken.
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TEN PAGES.
FRIDAY. MAY q. 1895.
Cervera Is Out of IL.
= In ~good-enough news to know that
Cervera's ships arc out OF our way.

IT In good-enough news to know that
Cervera's ships arc out of our way.
The methods Of the government,
owing to the e~xigencies of war. are
such that the authorities have lately
kept the public In the dark. I'm refer
ence TO the movements of the fleets.
For several days after II was known
or the coast of South America. the best
the public could do was to guess the
Spaniards' destination and wonder
where Sampson was.
2 This mornings news In in conirma-
ton OF the interesting tidings of yes
terday. to the effect that the Spaniards
are in the harbor OF Santiago and hat
our ships are in front of the entrance
thereto. the situation being such that
a fraction OF the fleet viii easily find IL
possible to proIong indefinitely the stay
of Cervers in his present quarters.
The queen regent. so IT was wired.
sent a message Of congratulation to
the Spanish admiral when she learned
Of his safe arrival at Santiago. The
Americans certainly share with the
enemy this feeling of satisfaction; the
Spanish fleet has rendered a substan-
tial service to us by voluntarily put
ting itself out Of the acknowledgements
ing to all accounts. IL is simply impos-
sible for Cervera to elude our blockade
of the port he entered.
This situation will he satisfactory to
all. except those who have been hop
ing for a decisive battle between the
fleets at Cuba. II would indeed have
been more satisfactory had there
been a meeting and an opportunity to
have IL out then n there. However.
the conditions that eliminate Cervera's
feet and cave US free tn turn practi-
caIiy our full force against Havana and
Porto Rico ought to be regarded as
thoroughly satisfactory.
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As to the Cables.
~ HE rumor is renewed that the
Spaniards will cut this coun-
fry.s r.h1a aonna.tfnn NTH In

- HE rumor is renewed that the
Spaniards will cut this coun-
try's cable connection with Eu-
rope. Our government has undertake
en- some operations i'm that line. IL
Spain carries her threat into execution
Europe will experience an embarrass-
ment tha; will tend powerfully to make
the war unpopular.
This cable-cutting business brings up
a new question. The nations have a
code governing the cable. nu there has
not hitherto been a war that presents
he question In a practical way-a war.
we mean. that has intimately concerned
vast interests on both sides Of the At
lsntic. Since our war began the opin-
lon of eminent authorities on interna-
.ional law has beer sought. The an
swers have not. as a rule. been very
3ehnite. although il appears to be gen
orally admitted that the cutting of of
belligerent country from cable service
by the other beiligerent is a war right
that must be admitted: IL is added.
however. thai II this war Is long kept
~ abo ~ Ahtti aiO ~ No'f'
zee prolonged. new rules will probably
De established. An eminent European
naval authority is quoted as saying. On
this point: Clearly a blockade is an
imperfect performance II IL leaves to
the enemy free use OF a voice-pipe com
municat ting with his own headquarters
At home"
For that matter. we have not suf-
fered particularly from the use Of the
cable service thus far during the war.
We have received considerable import
ant information regarding conditions in
the West Indies by wa Of Madrid.
Then. too. il is probable that the Ger
vera feet might have remained at the
docks In cadiz had IT not been b TO
count on the guidance which IL could
get. after arriving At Martinique.
through the cable service: and it Is al
together better for US that the feet was
Induced TO cross the Atlantic, to get
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SCHNEIDER PAROONEO.
Sent to the Pen for Grand Ln~rceny-Jurors
signed the Petition.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, May 26.-John II. Schneider,
sent to the penitentiary from Fergus
county Aug. q. 1897, for grand larceny.
under sentence OF one year. has been par
doned by Governor Smith. Many of the
leading citizens of the county Joined in a
petition to the governor for the pardon.
They claimed that Schneider. during nine
years residence I'm that county, had al
ways enjoyed a good reputation; that he
has ranch property in the Grass Range
country going to waste; that he has been
sufficiently punished: that his wife Is in
delicate health and INDECENT circumstances
now and that his pardon would be an act
of humanity. Schneider's wife and several
citizens of Lewistown also addressed the
governor in behalf of the man.
In granting the pardon the governor adj
dressed the following letter to the board
of pardons:
Subject to your approval. l hereby
grant an unconditional pardon to John
II. Schneider. who was convicted In Fer
gus county of the crime of grand larceny
and committed to the state prison for one
year, and I direct that he he discharged
from prison and released from custody
on the 4th of July next. Schneider's SEN
tence will expire. with the usual allow
ance for good behavior. on the Sd OF Au-
gust next. and as ne has now served most
of his time. ] have thought that the best
interests of all concerned will he sub
served by pardoning him. The petition for
his pardon. herewith transmitted for your
inspection. is signed by eight of the jul
rors and 200 or more of the citizens of
Fergus county. and is based i'm part on
the previous good character and reputa-
ton of the prisoner and the fact that his
wife is i'm INDECENT circumstances and
needs his support and care
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Not Wanted.

q vNDER the revision OF war plans,
II is proposed to send $4,000 men
TO the Philippine Islands as the
army Of occupation. Thus the demands
for men, for the purpose Of holding
these islands, grow constantly larger:
we shall have in Asiatic waters, In a
region h a VIGOROUSLY is not health
full. 4 force equivalent to the regular
army this country has hitherto main
tanned.
IL is not possible to say whether. when
peace between the United States and
Spain Is declared. the force for the per
msnent patrol Of the islands can be re-
duced: our government. with spain out
OF the way. will still have fifteen million
people more or less untamed TO deal
with. people who are altogether foreign
to US Ia methods. manners. ambitions.
speech and ftness for citisenship-they
are a sort of hslf-breed Malay race. A
dozen decades Of American military su-
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UNITED STATES COURT.
Jury spent All tho Night on Damage Case
without Returning n Verdict.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena. NAV "a jury I'm the United
States court spent all night celebrating
on the case of Thomas Scale VS.. the Dis-
mond Hill Mining company. an acton for
5000 damages. personal injuries. without
arriving at a verdict. The case went to
the jury at $50 yesterday afternoon. At
1920 this morning the jury came into
court and reported an agree ment impossi-
bile. The court discharged the jury. re-
marking that IL looked as though some of
the jury had opinions of their own re-
specting the law bearing upon the case.
The jury stood 10 to 2 In favor of a small
verdict. the two jurors refusing to give
the plaintiff a cent. Scale, while employed
as a miner, was injured in the mines Of
the company in Broadwater county In
March. 1897. by having a rock fall upon
him. his right leg being broken I'm two
places. He claimed the company was re-
sponsible for the accident.
The case of the United States VS.. Ed
gar Many Guns came up for trial to-day.
A jury was selected and the governments
case submitted. when court adjourned at
5 o'clock. Assistant District Attorney
English is prosecuting and G. w. Wiley
of this city defending. Many Guns, the
defendant, who Is a Gros Ventre Indian.
Is accused of committing An assault upon
william sherman. a white man., upon the
Blackfoot reservation Oct. 5. 1877. Many
Guns escaped trial last winter on account
of a technical fault in the indictment at
that time returned. He was re-indicted by
the last grand jury.
Judge knowles to-day set June ] as the
time for hearing arguments upon the pleas
In abatement I'm the cases OF the United
States VS.. l.. II. Hershfield. Aaron Hersh-
field. T. y. Bowman and Leo Harmon,
bankers, indicted by the late grand jury.
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Getting Their Work In.

- LREADY :he country has grow
n a full crop Of men who know
better how Ia run the war than
their own minds. have no doubt that
they do. A good many of these people
are editors. They conduct occasional
campaigns on paper. Ineir efforts are
not chiefly In planning fights but in
snarling at those who are entrusted by
the people with the conduct of the war.
Some of these men write in criticism
of the policy under which the war is
conducted because they are born fools:
others of them are ambitious to put
politics into the war by seeking to
make the administration as unpopular
as possible: others attack the war pol
icy simply because they think that is
the smart way tn be sensational. 1t
makes a man tired to read the drivel
these men write. On sight, they
wouldn't be able to distinguish be-
tween a Maxim gun and a pegging ma
chine in a shoe factory. But they want
Havana taken right OF. and Dewey re-
lieved in a few minutes. and Cervera's
ships sunk and the rest of the Spanish
blown up. They affect to fret because
the war is so painfully long and the
navy so laggard and the army so slow:
and they bray like jackasses at every
body and everything,
These self-appointed critics forget
how lucky II is that Spain was almost
as III prepared for war as we were. AS
a rule these same men were the heavy
boosters for the war-they wanted II.
And II we nae been silly enough to
proclaim war six weeks ago will Ger
many. instead of Spain. they o be
bowling now because We had not blown
the city Of Hamburg of the map and
they would call for the capture Of Ber-
lin before the war was 30 days old.
It's a pity the government cannot
Ike these men. push them right in
front at Havana and give the Spanish
guns an opportunity to use them for
target practice.
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premacy wouldn't adapt them to our
standards OF citizenship.
Manila is six thousand miles from San
Francisco. At the briefest. II Is three
weeks from our coast. Whenever emer-
gencies arise on the island Of Luzon. we
could not meet them-snd, by all the
~precedents. they would be constantly
arising. The situation would always be
hazardous: the cost wou be vast. This
country Toes not want the Philippines.
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A Gas Explosion.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena. May Blower Main street was
treated to an explosion to-day when Sam
uel Miles. a carpenter. who was making
some changes in the floor of "A store,
lighted "A match to ascertain whether a
pipe he had disjointed in the cellar was
an empty water pipe or "A gas pipe. IL
proved to he the latter and IL speedily
furnished enough gas to cause an ex-
plosion. raising the floor, breaking the
plate glass windows and generally wreck
ing the front. Miles escaped uninjured.
Fire added to the excitement. one OF the
adder trucks of the department upset as
II reached the scene. throwing the fire.
men upon the pavement and more or less
bruising them. There were no fatalities.
hut the entire incident furnished more or
less excitement.
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Not Our Fight.

A 1oRE cabinet discord in Madrid.
MI Indeed, the troubles that are
the latest to spring up in
SPANS effort to provide ways and
means have spread TO the cortes. and
the ruction is likely to become general.
way the decision In regard to financial
legislation goes. one side or the other
OF the cabinet will give up its brief
authority. Added to the talk about
factions i'm the cabinet and uproar in
the cortes. comes the report that the
queen regent has been urged to prepare
for flight. so ominous are the mutter-
ings Of the populace in Spain. One Of
yesterdays London-date dispatches
says that as soon as the Spanish fleet
gets another whipping there will be an
outbreak at Madrid. that wcll-informed
people feel sure of II and that Francis
Joseph has given IL as his advice to
the queen regent that her safe policy
Is to pack up and leave. 1t is an even
chance hat the trouble at Madrid
reach us in exaggerated presentation.
But II. In fact. SPANS domestic troub-
les are as dismal as the press dis
patches picture them. that has nothing
to do with our end OF the war. This
country's business. at this particular
time. Is to crush Cervera, crowd the
investment Of Havana and get through
with the war as soon as possible.
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shut in and be made useless. II prompt
ly upon the declaration Of war the
cables had been cut Admiral Cervera
might hardly ave beer induced to risk
his ships in Cuban waters: II is well
for our side that he took the risk.
IL Spain cu,s transatlantic cables. the
Inconvenience will he great. but In real
ity 1t will be greater for Europe than
for rs
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Laudsnde and Wreck.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena. May 26.-Traffic on the North
ern Pacific was laid out east of here from
I o'clock last night until II a. m. to-day
by a landslide and wreck seven miles
east of Logan. A large amount OF earth
and rocks descended upon the track in a
cut in a curve yesterday afternoon. About
Z o'clock last night a westbound freight
dashed into the obstruction. The engine
and three cars left the track and were
badly injured. The engineer and fireman
escaped by jumping. The track was not
In a passable condition until ii this morn
inD
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humanity and against society. but now
they will die before American and Gu
ban arms.
Il take this opportunity to speak thus
to our people and our army that they
may be encouraged and know that we
now have noble allies who will aid us In
our fight for freedom. which long has
been deserved and which we now can
see will be a reality at no far distant
day. ] shall also, from time to time. in
Las Wales. communicate with o In
the same manner"
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San Francisco. May es.-Thc new char
ter submitted to the electors to-day has
undoubtedly been carried by a majority
approximating 2.0Oo. The new charter.
which will go into effect on Jan. I. 1900.
possesses many of the features of the chi
cago charter. The new San Francisco
charter includes as one of its chief fea-
lures the initiative and referendum. On
the petition of Is per cent. of their num-
Der the electors can have any subject OF
legislation brought up for a vote. and IL II
IL approved by a majority of the voters
IL becomes part of the municipal law.
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The editorial pages Of the Eastern
newspapers now coming to hand show
a strong disposition on the part of THE
Anglo-American Alliance and other
leaders TO order the Bellamy obituary
notice to column left. march.
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notwithstanding the imminence OF a
revolution in Spain. the Madrid dis
patches say the queen regent refuses
to fy." h isn't a bird OF a queen
regent by any means.
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Her Dowry Right.

Chicago. May e6.-Mrs. George NJ. Pull
man has renowned the terms of her hus-
bands will and chosen her dowry right.
The share which under the dover mr.
rangement will fall to her Is conceded to
he materially greater than under the pro-
visions of the will.
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Not everybody may 60 to the front,
but the man who doesn't buy a flag and
display IL somewhere ON his premises
u be a pretty poor American.
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All general business letters and CORE
epondence should be addressed to tn
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Anaconda. Mont.
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If the strategy board wishes to do
something for it's country, II might as
certain the kind of whiskey Admiral
Dewey patronizes.
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Death Of 4. A. Ireland.

kagua Alaska. May y. via Seattle
May 2s.-E. A. ireland. United States mar.
shall Of Utah under President Cleveland
died at Lake Bennett last "Wednesday OF
dropsy of the heart. His remains will hs
shipped to Salt Lake on the next steamer
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If admiral Sampson parts his whis-
kers according to his pictures, it's easy
enough for anybody to locate the Wind
ward Passage at a glance.
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II the Mantle-Carter strategy board
will kindly press the button and raise
Montsna's apportionment under the
second call from Sl4 To 1000, Montana
will raise the rest.
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Spain threatens tn retaliate by cutting
some American cables. but Spain has
not yet shown her ability to cut any
thing but a poor figure.
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1t Is quite possible that the $500
Americans who ave started for Ma
Mia are casting some reflections and
other things on the Pacific ocean.
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Some of the Spanish survivors at Ma
Mia now seem anxious TO perfect them
selves In the use of the rapid-fire gun
by turning 1t on the person OF Admiral
Montejo.
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The Ohio mother who has named her
girl triplets Red. White and Blue is evil
IDENTIFY willing to rear a great deal for
the sake Of her country.
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The finest piece of strategy exhibited
by the strategy board so far is the in
OF plensry power I'm the Schley-
Sampson steering committee.
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It's just about time again for BARGE
Iona to spit on her hands and announce
the sending of 1000 Spanish troops to
the Philippines.
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II is gratifying to earn hat a, last
besides the $500 Americans the good
ships City OF Picking. City Of sydney
and Australia got a move on.
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The news from the Caribbean Is
scanty, but such as IL is it's not provok-
ing any more hilarious celebrations in
Madrid.
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Porto Rico's rainy season has begun.
too. but the Americans are not going
there for their health.
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II Mr.. Schley succeeds In punching
his hits. the rest of us will bunch the
f~irecrackers
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The associated press finds the wild
and woolly West Indian rumor about as
hard to run down as a Spanish squad
ron.
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Speaking of pronunciation, II should
be borne in mind hat Cadiz rhymes
with hades.
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Evidently the associated press boat
Dandy got into the company of swells
that were too high rollers.
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The Standard has branch ofnces at
Butte. Missoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plication.
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TO ADVERTISERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers a bona fde paid circulation.
Daily and Sunday. three times greater
than that of any other newspaper pub
lished In the state Of Montana. Advertise
ing contracts will be made subject to
this guarantee.
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While the second call calls for only
rs, 900, we desire to assure Mr.. Sagasta
that there are about 75,Ooo,oo Ameri-
cans within call.
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II Cervera wishes to do the handsome
thing he should pull the bottle in after
him.
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Although the strategy board eonfesses
its ignorance of their movements. IL Is
confidently believed that Schley and
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New York Ohfce-n Tribune Building.
Chicago Offce-4@ The Rookery.
The 8. c. Beckwith Special Agency.
Sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
Washington Bureau-lus q street
n. w.
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For several days now there has been
more activity in base bail than cannon
ball circles.
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In the opinion of Captain Clark. the
Oregon is a whole squadron Itself.
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The run of the oregon wasn't exactly
a run of luck, either.