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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-23

NO. Al.
List of warrants paid was found correct
and the warrants cancelled, as follows:
On general fund. .$2.S58 SO
On contingent fund. 1876 IS
On road funds. commune. 1872 Sc
On poor funds. 102 60
lOOdI .........pC,IAU AZ
Ordered, that 500 be transferred from
the general fund of the county to the
district road funds, and that amount of
money in general road fund be transfer
red to district road funds.
Ordered that the sum of 100000 be
transferred from the general fund to the
contingent fund.
Examination of report was completed,
and balances on hand found as ollows:
General Fund. 81, 509.54
Contingent Fund. ........... ..1,056.4S
Road Fund. 1882
Poor Fund. .... ,963.32
Sinking Fund. ..1,816.37
General School Fund. ...432.64
District School Funds ...... .5,998.04
Institute Fund. 800
State Fund. .199.47
Bounty Fund .40.78
Stock Detective Fund. 1916
J.. B. Long, Tax Deposit. ........ .647.70
Estate John A. Moulton. ........ .277.95
Total. .$2O,317.35
The report being found correct, was
her approved and ordered filed. Board
then proceeded to count the funds in
%treasurer's hands, and found same cor
rect, $2O.317.35.
Adjourned to 10 a.. M, June 10.
FIFTH DAY.
June '10.--Board met at 10 a. M; all
members present, and proceeded to ex-
anime report of county surveyor. Same
was approved, and warrants ordered on
the several funds for expenses incurred.
A petition was presented asking that
an alley be opened through a portion of
block 26, of Hazlett's first addition to the
town of Choteau, with report of viewers
favoring same. Referred back to viewers
with recommendation to arrange with A.
E. Paisley, owner, for right of way thro'
the portion referred to.
Afternoon Session-Board met at 2 pm:
all members present. Remaining claims
against county were examined, and war
rants ordered for those allowed.
Bill of S. M. Corson, county printer,
item $124.50 balance, disallowed as set
tied at March meeting, and item $7.96
for school warrant books, as being prop
erly payable by differnt school districts.
Report of VIM. Dawes, justice of the
peace, Marias township, was examined
and approved. No business transacted.
Application of j. e. Erickson, county
attorney, for permission to leave the
state for period of ten days, was granted.
The matter of deputy sheriffs was
taken up, and it was ordered that the
sheriff be authorized to appoint a deputy
at Pondera and one on the Coded Strip,
for thirty days, respectively, at a salary
of sixty-fiye dollars per month each.
Ordered that the board meet at pom.
dera on July IA, to select sites for Marias
and Collins bridges.
Or1aro1 that olaim Of Mory Wopoc1oy
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-23

9Th.
THIRD DAY.
June 8.-Board met at 10 a. M; all
members present.
The matter of registry districts was
taken up and, after discussion, it was de-
cided that all districts remain as in 1896,
with the addition of a new one to COM
prise the Coded Strip. Salaries of registry
agents were fixed as follows for the period
appointed
District No. 1-Choteau. ....... $50 90
District No. 2-Bynum ......... 30 90
District No. 3-Dupuyer......... so 90
District No. 4-Robare .......... SO CO
District No. 5-Belleview ....... 30 90
District No. 6-North Fork...... 30 00
District No. Lowry. 80 0C
District No. S-Collins. Is 0C
District No. 9-Pondera ......... 30 0C
District No. 10-Shelby.. so 0C
District No. 11-Sweet Grass. -. 80 0C
District No. 12-Raymond...... 80 0C
District No. 13-St. Marys....... SO OC
Agents for the several districts were
appointed, as follows:
No. 1.................J John w. Shields
No. George B. Fry
No. James w. England
No. Willis Nichols
No. Frank H. Freeman
No. William M. Lint2
No. Angus M. Rose
No. Charles N. Green
No. 9................Mi Miner W. Shultes
No. 10. ....... William X. Bass
No. IL. H.. Buckley
No. u. II. l.. Halliday
No. 13......... ...... Thomas r. Magee
An invitation was received for the board
to appoint five delegates to the Interna.
tional Mining Congress, to be held in
Salt Lake City, June 6 to 9, inclusive
The board appointed the following named
delegates, to serve without pay from OF
expense to the county Joseph Kipp
E. G. Garrett, Peter Hughes, George e
Barrow, and Samuel L. Mitchell.
Board then adjourned to 2 p. NJ.
Afternoon Session-Board r~eassembleo
at 2 p. M. all members present. The
business of auditing claims against Teton
county occupied the session. Warrants
were ordered in payment of claims allow
ed, and at 5 p. u. board adjourned to II
a. m., June 8.
FOURTH DAY.
June 9.-Board met at 10 a. ~, al
members present, and resumed examina
ton of claims against county. Warrants
we're ordered in payment of those al
lowed.
On motion, it was ordered that clerl
advertise for bids to furnish county will
Is tons coal, to be delivered in ccdl bous'
at county jail. Bids to be opened a
September meeting.
On motion, it was ordered that VIM. ID
Jones act as purchasing agent for tn
county at Dupuyer.
Adjourned to 2 p. m
Afternoon Session-Board reassemble,
at 2 p. m. and proceeded to examine tn
report of the county treasurer.
List of licenses issued was compare,
with stubs of license book, and foun'
correct.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-23

Inst of warrants paid was found correct
and the warrants cancelled, as follows:
On general fund. .$2.858 SO
On contingent fund. 1876 35
On road funds. ............. 1872 Sc
On poor funds. 1O2 60
Total ......... ..$5,120 %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-14
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and Trimmings

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imported till
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Silk and Mohair Braid Trimmings Worth
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15c and ISc. Fine Swiss Edgings. Opening
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costliest-
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Umbrella neatly trimmed with embroidery and lace
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-14
Toilet Wares
and Perfumes.
Price 4fc.

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ether tier Of shelves Ssturda,
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Cake Of Cream Floating
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Opening price, .1Nc. OF
Large box Of Talcum Pow
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10

vested right, and prefer to hazard the
life OF the nation rather than surrender
their ancient privileges. The Filipinos
both at home and in Europe have ear
nestly entreated the United States not
to abandon them to the robbers again.
Their appeal is pathetic; only harden
ed conscience can read it unaffected.
The public sentiment of England, the
one nation which can understand war
for humanity and justice, is well.nigh
unanimous in depreciating any surren-
der by America of people already half
emancipated by the guns of DeweY's
fleet. Everything combines to make
our duty clear. That duty is, we re-
peat, not to withdraw from the Philip
pines unless and until we can secure to
this unfortunate people the foundations
of civilization and progress-iustice,
liberty, and education.
How can we do this? The London
Spectator points out one possible meth
cd:
Take a dozen or twenty old West Point men,
as heads of districts, and put under them a
certain number of youths caught young from
Yale and Harvard, and given to understand
that they have entered upon "A profession that
will protect them and provide for them through
their lives, and in few years an administra-
ton will be created that will be the wonder of
the Spanish-American world. There would
be no stealing, mndd1ing, or oppression. More.
over, Americans who saw what good admins
ton could do for Cuba and the Philippines
would begin to ask why things should be done
better in their dependencies than at home
Very soon they would think of the answer
Because the dependencies had well-paid and
self-respecting permanent civil service by mel
who made administration their life business
and made also matter of conscience of wha
| they did.
We do not say that this is the oaly
method; we do not say that it is the
| best method. But it is possible meth
cd. And any method is better than {
cowardly abandonment of late allies t.
their enemies and ours, and an indirect
reinforcement of the armies of those
enemies in continued war against them
To say that America cannot govern
colonies which desire our institution
and our protection is libel on Ameri
ca. Nations, like individuals, always
can do what honor and conscience cal
on them to do. The plea of Nationa
inability is plea of cowardice. Amer
lea, if it can make the Philippines free
can preserve their freedom. And by
securing for others justice, liberty, ant
education, il will learn how better tt
guard these trusts within its own bord
ers and for lis own citizens.-The out
| link
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10

The condition of the troops at Santi-
ago, their present sufferings and
imminent peril from disease, has fo-
cussed public attention on the war de-
partment and brought out in bold relief
all its errors of judgment and its gener-
al incompetency. Criticism that was
silent when the Nations military adj
ministration sent an army, in winter
clothing, from land of mills and manu-
facturers, into tropical climate, that
armed its soldiers with "archaic weap-
ons" to encounter the Spaniard equip.
ped with the deadly Mauser, that ne
elected the commonest provision for
the sick and wounded in land whose
climate suggested to the dullest mind
the necessity for extraordinary prepare
ton, that is charged with other serious
errors, is now given full voice.
1t is suggested that Col. Roosevelt,
in the letters he has written in protest
against the proposition from Washing
ton to send the army inland from Santi-
ago, and in explanation of the real con-
dition of the men at that place, has in
Cured the displeasure of the depart
ment he has practically arraigned for
its incompetency; and that court
martial is the penalty his breach of
military discipline would ordinarily in
cur. The action most proper in the
case, considering all the circumstances,
Col. Roosevelt's ability, experience and
record as public officer, among other
things, would seem to be make him
Secretary of War in the place of Russell
A. Alger, removed for causes well
known.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10

could do to send an adequate number
of surgeons or assistants with the army,
and adequate medical supplies, and
made his protest to his superior
officer, the secretary of war, when he
found there was ga lack of transporta-
ton facilities" to take them to Cuba,
and officially washed his hands of re-
sponsibility for what might happen,
and certainly would happen in his de-
partment when the army landed in
Cuba, the responsibility for the inade-
quacy of the medical corps, in a great
and easily anticipated emergency,would
be entirely with the head of the war
department. AS the facts of the case
appear to be, the responsibility is with
each, the chief and the subordinate.
1t seems to be generally conceded that
the stuffed efiigy of Edwin M. Stanton
in the office of the secretary of war
would have better served the depart
ment at this time than Russell A. Alger,
its living administrator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10
The SurgeOn.Genera and the
Red Cross.

The report by Mr.. George KEENAN,
in last weeks Outlook of the terrible
sufferings of our wounded soldiers be-
fore Santiago must have aroused in the
minds of our readers no small indigna-
ton against those who were responsible
for the failure to provide adequate sur
gical force, medical stores, food and
clothing, for an exigency which even
the dullest should have been able to
anticipate. One such night of need
less agony might, however, possibly be
excused, though nothing could justify
it; but subsequent reports make it, un-
happily, clear that the same lack of adj
ministrative ability in the medical de-
partment is still continuing to inflict
needless suffering upon our soldiers.
The transfer of wounded men from
Zone of the most perfectly appointed
and thoroughly equipped hospital ships
in the world" to the Seneca, for trans
portation to the United States, "with-
out a stitch of clothing except the
nightshirts they had on" with no food
except the regular army rations, with
few medical supplies except some OBJ
tanned by Red Cross nurse, and with
no supplies of ice except some obtain
ed from the Red Cross State of Texas
has been semi-officially made known by
Miss Jennings, Red Cross nurse who
accompanied the wounded soldiers on
the Seneca, and confirmed by others.
We had hardly recovered from the
horror of this story when the Leona
arrived from Cuba with fifty sick and
wounded men on board and mot a
single DOCTOR" and this was followed
by the arrival of the transport Concho,
bringing one hundred and seventy-two
sick and wounded soldiers on steamer
which had berths for only 6fty-eight,
with few physicians, few nurses, scare
ity of medicines, inadequate food, and
all the water on board shipped two
months before at Tampa. And this
was the provision which the United
States made for soldiers, some of whom
had just left yellow fever hospital
81 had" says one of the soldiers,
"enough military experience on the
Concho to last me lifetime. wouldn't
mind getting shot, but to get bad food
and putrid water when a fellows sick
is tough" In the face of these and
kindred facts-for they are, unhappily,
illustrative, not isolated-Dr. George
w. Sternberg, the Surgeon-General of
the United States army, declares HIM
self, in a published interview, as OPP
posed to the Red Cross work at the
front, because sit is no place for
women. "-Outlook.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10
For The Waterman.
Indian Corn.

The author of the following lines, expires.
sive in phrasng and appreciative in spirit,
writes IF you could see our cornfelds Ma
ture has Just taken a thorough bath-most re-
freshing) shining, luxuriant, and altogether
beautiful, now at the climax of loneliness,
you would see l am sure, how came to put
them in verse;
Looking across to the eastern hills,
In the glow and sparkle of dewy hours
When morn has gilded grass and flowers,
A marvellous beauty my being thrills
In the fields of Indian corn.
Nowhere in all the wind-swept fields,
Swaying and surging with whisper and sigh,-
Golden barley or oats or rye
Nothing so fair in all they yield
AS the fields of Indian corn.
Erect and strong in the summer breeze,
Tasseled and plumed like knight for the
fray,
Rank upon rank in martial array,
Banner and pennon and spear one sees
In the fields of Indian corn.
Ribbons of satin and cream tinted spray,
Kissed by the sunlight and wet by the rain,
Simmer and tiutter and glisten again
In the light of this glorious August day,
In the fields of Indian corn.
And perfume arises soft and rare,
While the sun annoints each crested crown,
And zephyrs are shaking the pollen down
Like incense upon the hallowed air,
In the fields of Indian corn.
GREEN MOUNTAIN MAYBE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10
Terms of Peace.

The Outlook reaffirms its strong con-
viction that policy and justice combine
to demand that we do not abandon the
Philippines without securing in them a
commercial port under the flag of the
United States, nor without affording to
the Filipinos an adequate guarantee
of Just government. And by Just
government we mean one which will
secure to the people an adequate return
for the taxes levied, civil and religious
liberty, and some system OF universal
education free from ecclesiastical con-
troll. The question of self-interest we
reserve for future consideration; the
National obligation already affirmed in
these columns we reaffirm. Whether
Manila has surrendered or not, we are
masters Of Manila. We can take it
when we will. Our wise patience, that
innocent lives may be spared, neither
limits our rights, nor lessons our obi
cations. In the campaign against
Spain the Filipinos have been our al
lies. If it be true that AguinaldO has
been as bumptious, self-conceited, and
self-assertivesas some reports indicate,
that fact neither destroys the rights of
the people to consideration from US nor
weakens our obligations toward them.
To withdraw and leave them to the
tender mercies of Spain would be dis
honorable indeed. But withdrawal
would be more than desertion. We
are about sending 10000 Spanish SOL
diers from Cuba back to Spain at our
expense, and they would be imme-
diately available in Spanish warfare
against the Filipinos. To make peace
with Spain in Cuba and disregard the
well-being of the people of the Phil
ippines would be to make practical al
lance with Spain against them. That
is impossible, without guarantees. And
no guarantee which Spain could give
would serve as any adequate assurance
of good government for these unhappy
islands. Spain has neither the capacity
nor the will to give good government
to her colonies.
Without capacity for governing, Spain
is equally without the will. The OBJ
ject of her colonial rulers has been,
with rare exception, not public we'll
fare, but personal emolument. 1t is
for this that the war is still kept up.
War is not demanded by the people
they are indifferent; nor by national in
terest--it is bankrupting the nation;
nor by national honor-the honor of the
nation is furnished by its past centuries
of misrule far more than by inevitable
defeats suffered at the hands of
stronger nation. War is kept up be-
cause corrupt bureaucracy, who
have robbed the colonists abroad as
they have robbed the peasantry at
home, regard their right to rob as
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10

strong expressions of opinion that no
part of Spanish territory redeemed
from Spanish rule in this war should
again pass under the dominion of the
Spanish flag. The part of negotiation,
from the American side, is plain and
short, and American diplomacy will
save time, trouble and strain on public
patience by adhering rigidly to the
clear and simple conditions that are
the logical and inevitable result of the
events of the war. The case admits of
no debate. The attitude of this govern
ment in the negotiations, and its de-
termination, should be simply thso of
Grant at Donelson, peace on the ground
of the independence of Cuba, the ces-
sion of Porto Rico, the retention of the
Philippines, the Ladrone and the Caro-
line islands in trust, or the dispatch of
Watson's squadron to the coast of
Spain. This ought to be what Presi-
dent Mckinley offers Spain, and his
course if she does not promptly accept.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10
The Vermont Mutual.

The seventy-irst annual report Of
the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Montpelier is now in press
and will be sent to policy holders next
week.
The exhibit of the company is in all
respects an enviable one. This insti-
tuition has now lived beyond the three
score years and ten that measure the
allotted span of human life, and which
far exceeds the existence period of many
enterprises of human creating. But
added years have brought to the Yer
mont Mutual robust strength, and pros
perity that has steadily increased with
the revolving years, as the school boys
snow ball grows with each turn of the
accommodating mass. In their report
the directors say:
No other State in the Union has mutual
FIRE insurance company with such a sub
stantial record The amount at risk reach
es the enormous sum OF almost $50, 900, 000.-
90, or exactly $40, 283, 27100. The premium
notes amount to almost $4,000, 900. 90, or ex-
actly $3,802 $500. The surplus and cash
reserve amount to S105, 852.73. The losses,
expenses and indebtedness Of the company
up to August l, 1898, have all been provid-
ed for by four per cent assessment, leav-
ing $28, 047 40 to be added to the treasury
balance. In 1888 your company paid $10.-
049.55 for interest. In 1898 the receipts for
discount were 1907 "a more than all the in
terest paid. The company is now prepared
to discount every loss and other claim, at
sight, without borrowing money or paying
interest During the year from
August /, 1897, to August /, 1898, policies
have been issued to the number of $685.
insuring property to the amount of 81 ,014,-
317OO; premium notes taken, 1927 1890;
amount of advance premiums, $60,75l.84.
The company commenced issuing
policies March 81, 1928, and had issued,
August l, 1893, an aggregate of $50, 044 +,
of which, as stated above, 1913 were
written during the business year re-
Gently ended. The number in force
August /, 1898, was 81 ,582. During all
the years of its existence the Mutual
has taken under its protecting wing
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10
1t Is No Defense.
being.

Surgeon.G General Sternberg has writ
ten general defense of the medi-
cal corps of the army and himself from
attacks made upon them, many of
which he says were instigated by those
who became offended at his opposition
to sending women nurses to camps of
instruction or with the army in the
field. He says the only trouble with
the medical corps Is that there are not
enough surgeons in the army, even in
peace; that it is probable that in taking
on about three hundred contract sur
geons, some incompetence may have
slipped in, owing to hurried examina-
tions. OF the shortage of medical
supplies at Santiago, be says the princi-
pal reason was that the supplies were
left behind when the army left Tampa,
owing to lack of transportation facili-
ties, and one of the minor reasons was
the delay in landing supplies of all
kinds at Siboney.
does not defend. Men are placed in
high station, ordering affairs that d.
rectly affect the welfare of the Nation,
and that Immediately concern the health
and lives of its defenders, because of
their known or assumed fitness for
their important duties. 1t is their
business to control circumstances, not
to be controlled by circumstances.
Did the surgeon-general exhaust every
means to secure the transportation of
medical supplies when the army left
Tampa, and did he make his protest to
his superior officer against leaving
such supplies behind2 1t was clear to
the dullest comprehension, it was pat
ent to the most ordinary capacity for
affairs, that in shifting an army from
the temperate to the torrid zone extra
ordinary provision was needed in
surgical corps ample in numbers, skill
and medical supplies for all the exigen-
cies of tropical region and climate in
midsummer, when all the conditions
hostile to health were at their worst;
and ample, also, for all the casualties
of battle, whose victims would in
cur added risk to life and endure in
creased suffering by reason of adverse
climatic and physical conditions. No
luminous hindsight can be pleaded in
extenuation of the faults of the ad-
ministration of the surgeon-general's
department.
"The only trouble with the medical
corps" was just the last trouble that
should have existed at all. Had the
army left behind its ammunition when
it sailed from Tampa, "owing.to lack of
transportation facilities" how would
such defense for defeat, by the gener-
al in command, have been regarded?
If the surgeon. general did everything
that mortal man and human foresight