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WAR DECLARED.
How the New. of IL was Received by en-.
EIeet


Fleet.
A small boy fell or Of his bicycle in
front OF the MOTEL, says Richa I'd Hard
ing Davis in S~crlbner's. and ran his eyes
along the porch until they rested on a
correspondent of the New York Herald.
To him he handed a telegram, and,
mounting his wheel again, rode away
up the hot and dusty street. The cor
respondent opened the envelope with his
thumb and read, Rain and hail." and
started. and then, seeing hat the
watchful eyes of half the row were on
him. turned his back and took a narrow
code book from his pocket. and run his
niger down its page. He held II to-
ward me. as | stood looking over his
shoulder, and | read: Rain and hail"
War is declared. fleet is ordered to
sea. And a few moments later the
porch was empty. the hall of the hotel
was piled high with hand bags and sail
ors kits. and hackmen were flashing
their horses down the dusty street, and
at the waters edge one could see
launches. gigs and cutters streaking the
blue surface with ashes OF white and
brass: signal flags OF brilliant reds and
yellows were fiutterfng at the signal
halyards; wig-waggers beat the air
from the bridges, and across the water,
from the decks OF the monitors. came
the voices OF the men answering the
roll, one. two, three, four! one. two,
three, four"
War had been declared. 1t had come
at last, and as the fleet lay waiting for
the day IL In a question IL any man in
the squadron slept that night, but did
instead keep watch alone, and won
der what war might bring to him. To
whom would 1t bring honor. to- whom
honor with death, to whom would the
chance come and who would seize IL
when 1t came. and who would make il
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
A Hard Luck Story.

IN exclusive news from It's special cor
respondent, the Standard printed,
Sunday morning. the FIRST tidings
this region has received from the First
Montana regiment, since II sailed from
San Francisco. The news was from
Honolulu; II vas a sorry tale. The
Standard has been hoping that the first
accounts were harsher than the facts
warranted and that later information
would give to the picture a brighter side
Nothing OF this pleasanter sort has
thus far been received. Meanwhile.
from their own sources the San Fran
cisco newspapers have information con-
corning the Pennsylvania run from
that city 10 Honolulu, with the Montana
soldiers on board. and this testimony Is
all to the effect that the trip must have
been a rocky one Items respecting
fcant food, bad food, lack Of quarters
and threatened mutiny, as given in the
Standards special dispatch OF Sunday.
are printed. with fuller details, in in
stances. in the coast ewspapers.
In its summary OF news from Homo
lulu. the San Francisco Chronicle says:
The conditions on the Pennsylvania,
Puebla and Peru were undoubtedly very
bad. h Pennsylvania was badly over
crowded. The officers gave up the
smoking room and part Of the dining sa-
loon for quarters for the men. n still
. hundred or more had nc quarters at
all TO sleep In except the deck passages
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
No End To IL.

4. II RTICLE three in the protocol re-
u cites that THE United States
will occupy n hold the city,
bay and harbor of Manila. pending a
conclusion of the treaty OF peace, which
shall determine the control. disposition
and government OF the Philippines"
Were the secretary of state at Wash
fngton TO write article three to-
day. IN full knowledge of what
mas been transpiring on the
other side Of tie globe, he would
tnsert two significant words, and the
article then would recite that the United
States will continue TO occupy. etc.
BY way OF Madrid. the latest Philip
pine ews is that Manila surrendered
"af,er the last attack made upon the
City" By their own confession, the
,spaniards wanted to take a great deal
of punishment tefore they would admit
that their honor" had been satisfied.
Manila helps them out In tha respect
II need not surprise the people of this
country to receive. almost any morning,
she news of the ex post facto surrender
of Havana. That would round the
whole case out in good form for Span
ish honor"
As for US Americans. the Standard
would remark-if II weren't so close to
the adjournment of Methodist confer
ence sessions IN Anaconds-that this
mornings word about Manila viii
prompt every one OF US quietly to re-
mark: We'll. I'll be darned."
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
Better to Omit Senators.

n LII Of the gossip about members
Of the commission hat is TO dis
cuss the terms Of peace includes
senators in the list of probable APP
pointees. Senator Allison, Senator For
aker, Senator German and Others have
been mentioned-the presumption ap-
pears TO be that, in any event, the COM
mission win have representatives Of
the senate.
There are presidents for this. yet
there Is merit i'm the suggestion that no
members OF the senate should serve on
the commission; even IL their appoint
ment Is permitted, under the constitu-
ton, IT is not the better way-and some
members Of the senate. Mr.. Chandler,
for instance. insist that, in law, no sena-
tor can serve.
The business OF the president OF the
United States is to negotiate treaties: IL
is the duty OF the senate TO confirm or
reject these. Thus the senators who
serve, under the presidents appoint
ment in the p~reliminaries 10 a treaty.
have. at length, TO sit in judgment on
their own work. They would. naturally
enough, be expected to approve it; 1t
might easily happen that their vote
would settle the issue.
So that, ever II the appointment OF
senators to membership Of the commits
sion Is legal. it Is not expedient. Yet
II is In the predictions Of the correspond
ents at Washington that the president
will name senators for commission
service.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
A Subtle Answer.

The Bookman tells his story Illus
trating the humors of examination: 1t
appears that at an elementary exami-
nation in English which was lately held
in a school near New York two SEN
fences were given out to be corrected
by the younger pupils. The first SEN
tence was to be corrected as to it's
subject matter n the second as to lis
syntax. These were the sentences:
The hen has three legs.
Who lone II?
When the papers were handed in II
was found that n or the examines
had apparently regarded the sentences
as subtly connected in thought, for his
answer was as follows:
The hen didn't done IT; God done IL.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
A Better Chemist. Perhaps.

II Is said that the late Professor
Cohn OF Breslau. the famous botanlst,
thus opened his course OF lectures on
botany. The -four chief constituents
OF plants are Carbon. G: oxygen. O:
hydrogen, II. and nitrogen. N" Then
writing down these four letters, with
apparent carrlrsgness. on the black
board -coHN-he smiled. observing /:
II Is clear that { ought TO know some
thing about botany"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
He Might Command a umb Camp.

Cannot President Mckinley hnd some
place. north or. south OF the equator, to
locate Secretary Alger and renew conf
dence in the capacity and Integrity OF the
war department by the selection Of some
one who has the qualities needed? Alger
was appointed for pretty much the same
reasons Mr.. Lincoln named Simon Came
ron. TO discharge obligations and pledges
incurred in the nominating convention
Pittsburg Post.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
Met His Own Kind of Argument.

Bob Ingersoll was recently talking
with ar old colored woman in Wash
ington upon religious matters. DO
you really believe. aunty.' said he,
that people are made out of dust?"
Yes, sab The bible says dcy Is, and so
/ b'lieves it," But what Is done in
wet weather. when there is nothing but
mud?" Den I s'pects dey makes inf
duls an sich truck"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
Current Comment.
~>igsbee's All Right.

Though the appointment OF Captain
Sigshee TO the Texas comes too late for
him TO do the work that his heart acncd
to do. the world will always place his
name among the first Of the heroes of the
Spanish war. The test that he received
al havana, when the Maine was de-
stroyed, and afterward. was perhaps re-
Verer than that OF any Of our naval Off
GERS now living That he came out Of his
trial with honor and reflected honor on
the country this nation will never forget.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The state central committee has adopted
the following rules for the government OF
the convention:
l. Delegates and alternate delegates
shall be democratic residents of the coun-
~ they represent
2 In the absence of a delegate his al
ternste shall cast his vote.
3 In the absence OF a delegate and his
alternate. a majority OF the delegation of
that county shall be entitled 20 cast the
vote of the absentee.
4. In case any county shall be without
representation. either by delegates or
their alternates. such county shall not be
entitled TO vote.
s. In the preliminary organization OF
the convention the unit rule shall not
prevail, but the vote of each delegate shall
be counted in accordance with his own
Views.
BY order of the state democratic central
committee. W. NJ. COCKRILI.
JOHN G. MoRoNY. Chairman.
Secretary.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
Big Game.
From Tn-RIta

From Tit-BitR.
A gentleman was one day having a walk
down a lane with a gun In his hand TO
see what he could shoot. while ne was
going down H. met a little schoolboy and
said to him
is there anything to shoot down here.
my lutie boy"
Yes. said the boy. -thsre's the school
master coming over the hill"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

A democratic state convention Is hereby
called to meet In the city of Anaconda,
Mont, at IL m, on Wednesday. Sept. Il,
1898. for the purpose of nominating a cam
didate for congress, one chief Justice Of
the supreme court, one associate justice
of the supreme court, one clerk OF the SUI
preme court, and for the transaction Ct
such other business as may properly come
before the convention.
The representation in the convention 4.
apportioned among the several counties
as follows:
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
~Sagacious

sagasta Is credited with having made
the remark that the situation at the pres
ent time would be very different IL Spain
had a fleet. That is true. We would now
be hunting that fleet instead of fooling
around the island OF Porto Rico.-Peoria
Herald.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
still Working at the old stand

Among Uncle Sans coaling stations. old
and new. there is no other equal TO Pitts
bur g-Pittshurg Dispatch.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
Went Home Too soon.

Weyler made a mistake by not remain
ing in Cuba and getting into the surren-
der. lie might, like Cervera, have become
an American hero.-Pittsburg Times.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16

New York Ofice-4s Tribune Building.
Chicago Ofice-46q The Rookcry.
The 5. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
Sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
Washington Bu~reau-1I5 G street.
n. ".
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
The Great Health Re.nrt-

In the light OF recent experience the best
place 10 secure health and longevity
seems to be a berth In the navy of the
United States.-St. Louis Republic.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
The Weapon of Peace,

The war news will be missed, but the
political campaign will soon be open.
Brickbats are sometimes as exciting as
bullets.-Boston Herald.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16

All general business letters and CORE
s~rondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Anaconda, Mont.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16

Tho Standard has branch Offices at
Butte. Mlssoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
piica ton.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
Everybody Exoner,ted.

II turns out no one was responsible for
any of the plumbers of the war.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
TO ADVERTISERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers a bon nde paid circulation,
Daily and Sunday. three times greater
than that OF any other newspaper pub
iished in the state OF Montana. Advertis-
ing contracts will be made subject to
this guarantee.
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Entered ~ the postorice at Anaconda as
second elias - mail matter.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-13
HEIR TO 100000.
Windfall for Mrs. Katie AmmOn, n
F Michigan Woman.

] Detroit, Jan. s.-Mrs. Katie Am
mon, Of Vandalia township, Cass
county, has fallen heir to $3,Ooo,o00 by
the death of an uncle at jackson, Miss
Two weeks ago there died at Jackson,
an aged planter, Silas A. Trabos. He
resided in Cass county. during the war,
his parents living near Saginaw. At the
close of the war he went to Mississippi,
where he purchased a cotton planta-
ton, and finally amassed fortune of
$3,OOO,O00. This has been left to Mrs.
Ammon and two minor heirs, over
whom she has been appointed guardian.
Mrs. Ammon has retained Attorney Stu
art McKibbon, of South Bend, Ind,
WIN will leave at once for Jackson to
attend 10 the probating of the will. Mr..
McKibbon has telegraphed Jackson
law firm and received conclusive as
surance of the reliability of the claim.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-13
. MINOR NEWS ITrn1S.

A Boston boy has been christened
with II names, one of them having IS
letters.
A woman has made the journey from
South Africa to South Dakota to sue
for divorce. ::
A woman in Hope, Knox county, Me-,
still wears a common hairpin which
she has WORE for 40 years.
A naturalist of eminence finds that
land birds make their jonrueys in the
daytime and water birds at night.
James G. Blaine, Jr., is once more a
newspaper man, having just been en-
rolled on the staff of the New York Trib-
une.
Political friends Of William J. Bryan
have arranged to offer him the fusion
nomination for congress from the First
Nebraska district.
William G. Miner, 80 years old, of
Hartford, Conn.,, dreamed that he was
young again and when he awoke he was
SO, disappointed that he shot himself.
Rev. Patrick Cuddihy, who recently
celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary
of his ordinate at Milford, Mass, is
the oldest Catholic priest in this coun-
try.
Gov. Jones, of Arkansas, has commits
stoned Miss Emma Wilmington IN hon
orary colonel of the reserve militia. This
is the first appointment of the kind
ever made in the state.
Hr 4o+o hot ho ~
reindeer will eat nothing but moss that
grows in the. polar region, and conse-
quently will be unavailable for carry
ing relief to the Klondike.
Reports from all of the contracting
locomotive shops show that 1881 en-
gines we're built in 1897. Of these 38G
were constructed for export. The num-
Der does not include those rebuilt by
railroad companies in their own shops.
Cabinet circles in Washington are
busy discussing the approaching mar
riage of Miss Frances Alger, daughter
Of the secretary of war, to Charles Pike,
of Chicago. The event will take place
early in the summer, either in May OF
June. a.. ,....s-.-4.. ..,s. a. g., d.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton say that they have discovered
that the site of the general post office
in New York city marks the spot where
the first blood of the American revolu-
ton was shed and the members of the
Martha Washington Colonial chapter
propose to erect a tablet there to com.
memorate their discovery.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-13
MAI. MOSES p. HANDY.

States to the French exposition Of 1900.
He recovered sufficiently to make the
journey to America, and came at>once
to Augusta. =,
Maj. Moses P. Handy was born in Vir-
ginia, his father being a prominent Meth
odist clergyman. While under age he en-
tered the confederate service and served
with gallantry during the closing months
Of the war. He was employed by theeNew
York Tribune as special correspondent dur
ing the Cuban troubles. and won distinc-
ton by his report of the Virginius massa-
ere. Later he became managing editor of
the Philadelphia Times, and subsequently
the editor of the Philadelphia Daily News.
He was one Of the founders and for many
years the president of the Clover club, of
Philadelphia. He moved to Chicago in 1893
to accept the position Of chief of the bureau
of publicity and promotion of the Worlds
Columbian exposition. At the close of the
fair he went to New York and engaged in
literary work and newspaper correspond
ence for a year. He returned to Chicago as
the editor of the Times-Herald in 1S95'when
the paper was purchased by Mr.. H. H.
Kohlsaat. Last year Maj Handy was ap-
pointed by President Mckinley as special
commissioner to the Paris exposition,
where he rendered valuable serVlce.H.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-13
LYNCH LAW,
MObs Hang Men in States of NashinE-
ton and Arkansas.

Colfax, WASH, Jan. 10.-Marshal
Chadwick, the suspected murderer of
young Heyden near Pennington, the.
night of October -, was taken from
Jail by a mob Saturday morning and
hanged to the west wall of the court
house. A rope was fastened around his.
neck and he was dragged out OF the Jail
and up the narrow street to the superior
courtroom, to a double window, where
the rope was tied around stapda rn be-
tween the windows. Chadwicl.'s Body
was then pitched out head foremost
and left dangling at the end of an eight
foot rope against the courthouse wall,
in plain view of the people on Main
street. :
Little Rock, Ark, Jan. 1O.-Fcur col
ored men have been lynched in the vi
cinity of Bearden, Ark, within the last
few days. Two were charged with; as
sault and two were murderers. The
former-Devoe and Hunt)ey-were
swung up near Harlem Mill ranch,
about three miles north of Bearden,
while the murderers met their fate near
the town of Little Bay, few miles
south of Bearden. The work was done
by two separate mobs, and according
to reports from Fordyce, near the scene,
the quadruple lynching created little.
excitement
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-13
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Po-
UticaI Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions. Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
CONGRESSIONAL.

Proceedings of First Regular Session.
Senator Mason Oily introduced. "a bill in
the senate on the 5th fixing special tax
of 500 upon the manufa cture ofmixed flour:
Senator Teller introduced concurrent res
olution declaring the bonds of the United
States payable, in silver dollars. Senator
Davis gave notice that he would call up
the Hawaiian annexation treaty in ex-
ecutive session on Monday next The civil
service: law Was disguised. In the house
bill was introduced appropriating $780,
600 for a gunboat on the upper lakes. The
legislative appropriation bill was taken up
' and the item coveriHg'the expenses of'the
civil service commission led to general de-
bate on 1fye Question of civil. Service.
A favorable report on the bill increas-
ing the military force of this country to
the extent of two regiments of artillery
was made in the senate on the 9Th. In the
house bills We're introduced ito amend the
patent laws of the United States: to at
tach the Indian territory to the territory of
Oklahoma and make the two territories
into one, and "a bill for carrying out the
plan of the monetary commission for the
reform Of the currency. A joint resolution
providing for the election Of United States
senators by direet>vote of the people was
favorably reported. Mr.. Grosvenor (OD
spoke in favor of a modification of the
civil service law and Mr.. johnson Qnd.)
replied in defense,of the law.
In the senate onthe 7th a joint resolution
was offered for an amendment to the con-
stitutien providing for the election Of the
federal judiciary by the people. Senator
IMHsns i1itroducedN a resolution declaring
that the United States should begin the free
coinage Of silver at the ratio of sixteen to
'Gne In the house the civil service de-
bate occupied the time.
The senate was not in session on the Sth.
lin the house bills were introduced to
protect r,vetepapstip the: government
service, :ardkf o. INCREASES and make flexible
the national bank currency. A favorable
report was made on the bill appropria ting
s5C, GOO fottalstatue to Abraham Lincoln on
the Gettysburg battle field. The civil serv-
ice debate occupied two hours.