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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-12
THE MATCH IS OFF.
Jeffries VIII Not Meet the Husky Heavy
weight

San Francisco. July 1l.-News has been
received in this city in the shape of tel
egram from Billy Delaney, Jim Jeffries'
trainer which seems to indicate the cham
pion has backed out of his proposed four
round go with Jeffords, the husky heavy
weight from Angeles Camp. Jeffries pro-
posed to knock his man out in four rounds
or forfeit $500. The National club made Il
match for next week and Jeffords arrived
here to-day to sign articles. The follow
ing from Delaney. however. would indi-
cate that Jeffries is unwilling to meet the
man who so nearly got a decision over
hin. before he became champion:
''rhrall informs me that match is off,
You had better see him."
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Discharged From Custody.

Seattle. Wash, July 11,-In the
United States district court to-day
Judge Hanford discharged from GUS
tody S. A. Sylvester, who is wanted in
North Dakota for rembezzlement. Sylyes-
ter has been in Jail about one year. The
state supreme court ordered him re-
turned to North Dakota, but this de-
cision was disregarded by Judge Han
ford, who holds that the federal court
has jurisdiction over extradition cases.
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NOT ACCEPTED.
Crow Thinks the Companies Should he
Punished.

St. Louis, July IA special TO the
Post-Dispatch from jefferson City, Mo.
says: 1t has been persistently reported
that Attorney General Crow has agreed
with the 73 insurance companies ousted
under the decision of the supreme court
for violation of the antitrust law to con-
sent to a modification of the order to all
of them to continue on payment of fine
and the filing of certificates and affidavits
that they had dissolved their western
union and would in the future obey the
antitrust law. To-day Attorney General
Crow stated that a proposition of that
character had been made to him. but that
he had not accepted 1t; that the matter
was in the hands of tine supreme court.
and that 1t alone had power to act. He
thinks the companies should reduce rates
in this state for insurance. They made a
stubborn resistance to the suit in the
court and now he feels that they should
be punished.
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RAISED PRICES.
Mayor Issues an Order stopping tho
ExtortiOn.

hxtOrttOn.
Havana, July 1.-THE influx of Cubans
into Bayamo, province of Santiago de Gu
ba. in anticipation of payment for the
surrender of their arms, continues, and
the merchants of that place have at
tempted to profit beyond reason by this
situation. They raised prices beyond rea-
son, upon which the mayor argued with
them. pointing out the injustice of their
attitude. The merchants. however, re-
fused to modify their prices and the may
or therefore issued an order regulating
prices and providing heavy fine for vio-
lation of the ordinance. Food is now
cheaper.
The price of liquor is high There are
about 5000 men in and about the city, but
there have been no disturbances. All
those who had arms in their possession
have delivered them to the mayor and OBJ
ta!ned receipts. so as to enable them to
obtain payment when paying off begins.
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Hearty Congratulations.

Los Angeles, Cal. July 1.-THE board
of directors of the n. f. A. at their
meeting to-day, unanimously passed
the following resolution, offered by Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler of New York:
Resolved, That the president of the
National Educational association be
requested to send the following tele-
gram of congratulation to the Ameri-
can delegates to the peace conference
now in session at The Hauge:
Andrew d. White, chairman of the
American delegation to the peace con-
ference The Hage, Holland: The Ma
tional Educational association in con-
vention assembled tenders to the peace
conference heartiest congratulations on
the success which has attended their
noble effort in behalf of the principle
of arbitration
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she WAS JUST UGLY.
Mrs. Ingerson, Kidnaper. Put in Soli-
tary Confinement.

Chicago, July 11.-Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Ingersoll, kidnaper of Gerald Lapiner,
spent last night in solitary conflne-
nlent in a padded cell in the peniten-
tiary at Joliet. The terrific struggle
for liberty which she began when the
officers started to take her from the
county Jail in Chicago was kept up
all the way TO the prison. So intense
became her rage that she tore with
her teeth and hands several handker-
chiefs into shreds.
At Joliet she became more frantic,
and her often repeated cry that she
would never go behind the bars was
accentuated by imprecations poured
upon the officers, and the warden lock-
ed her in solitary confinement until she
would quiet down.
The warden said it was the worst
case he ever had to contend with.
There was no hysteria about it. She
had full control of herself but was
Just ugly.
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Awaiting a Decision.

Denver, July ia meeting was held
to-day between j. b. Grant, chair
man OF the operating committee of the
American smelling & Refining COM
pany, and about $50 of his employees,
and the situation was discussed for
some time. Some of the proceedings of
the meeting were made public but
later Mr.. Grant reiterated his declara-
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San Francisco. July 1.-THE passengers
VINO arrived here from the Orient on the
steamship Nippon Maru. and who were
QUarantinea on account of suspicious
deaths of some of the passengers who
We're supposed to have died from the bu-
bonic plague, Were released from quaran-
tine to-day after a confinement of IA days
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Iowa EloRted.

Seattle. July 1.-THE battleship Iowa
was fioated out of the dry dock at the
Port Orchard naval station tonight.
She started out at 7:30 and by $40 was
anchored in the sound. The event was
witnessed by large number of eX-
cursionists from this city While in
the dock the Iowa was thoroughly
cleaned and hilge keels were put on.
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Clumsy Forgeries.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 11-Daniel T.
Ames, the noted handwriting expert of
New York, is in this city as a witness
in the trial of r. A. Bird for forgery.
In an interview to-day Mr.. Ames, who
was witness in the Dreyfus trial in
France, said that the documents which
Dreyfus is accused of writing are not
in his handwriting and that the writing
is not even a clever imitation of Drey-
fus handwriting.
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Havana Customs.

Washington, July 1.-THE war de-
partment announced to-day that the
customs receipts at the port of Ha-
vana for June were $1.012, ,S99. The total
receipts for six months of 1899 are 10
be exact, S5,146,S30. The monthly aver
age for six months is SS57, sos.
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ISrereton Assigned

Washington, July ll.-Lieutenant Colo
mel John Brereton, appointed yesterday.
has been assigned to the 33d volunteer in
fantry, 10 be- organized at Fort sam Hous-
ton, Texas,
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Special Dispatch to the Standard
Helena, July n.-Deputy United
States Marshal Meiklejohn left to-day
for Cheyenne, taking Dave Putty and
Bud Nolan, the suspected train rob-
hers
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Patent Granted.

Special Dispatch to the Standard
Washington, July u.-John A. Elliott
Butte. has been granted patent for an
electrical hot air heater.
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ton that no effort would be made to
resume the operations of the smelters
until the supreme court makes it's de-
cision on the validity of the eight-hour
law
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Silver ESDurts

New York. July 1.-THE steamer New
York sailing for Europe tomorrow, will
take out 1900 ounces of silver.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24
Kobbe to Be a Brigadier.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The appoint
ment of Colonel Funston to be brigadier
general of volunteers filled but one of the
vacancies in that rank caused by the or
ganization of the new army. One more
vacancy remains to be filed, and it was
said at the War Department to-day that
1t will be filled by the promotion of Major
William A. kobbe of the Third Artillery.
and has greatly distinguished himself,
and has been mentioned on more than
one occasion for conspicuous bravery.
When it was determined to raise the first
ten volunteer regiments he was named
by the President as colonel of the Thirty
fifth Volunteers. His promotion to brig
adler general will result in the promotion
of Lieutenant Colonel Edward II. Plum
mer to q COlOnelcY.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24
RIDICULOUS STATEMENTS
OF FILIPINO PRESS

Special Gable 70 The Call and the New York
Herald. Copyrighted, 1899. by James Cor
don Bennett.
SAN ISIDRO, via Manila, Oct 23.-Gen-
eral Lawton IS now giving his personal
attention to the matter Of getting boats
containing subsistence and ammunition
stores up the Rio Grande. but they are
still four miles away. 1t is a serious
problem to undertake to supply troops
here, as the water is too shallow tor
launches.
Some twenty American prisoners are re-
ported to have been moved north from
here two days ago. A Filipino newspaper
makes the statement that independence
viii be given 10 the islands in December,
when BRYAN will be elected President Of
the United States. The newspaper also
makes the statement that the American
casualties have been % 900 since last Feb
ruary and that the policy now is to make
q retreating fight.
A Filipino officer who had been cap
tured. in an interview said he had no wish
tC return TO camp, as they were short Of
ammunition. San Isidro is to be put under
q civil administration. One hundred men of
the Thrty-fourth are coming to San Isidro
10 act as scouts. A reconnaissance at Santa
Rosa. eight miles away, revealed small
force Of the enemy entrenched. Bridges
on the river at that point are down
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24
NATIVES Of
GUAM HOSTILE
Leary Appeals for Re-
Inducements.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-Natives of
Guam, that interesting island in Ladrones
which became the property of the United
states by the terms of the Spanish
American treaty of 1898. are causing
trouble to American authorities there.
Captain Richard P. Leary, U. S. N, Gov
ernor Of the island, has sent an urgent
request for reinforcements, and the Navy
Department and the brigadier general
commanding the marine corps to-day is
sued orders for augmenting the Guam gar
r1son by a battalion of marines Several
sections of this additional force $50 men
In all, will leave various stations for San
francisco as soon IS possible. They Will
sail thence for Guam on army transports
Information as to the details of the
trouble In Guam are not obtainable The
natives of the island were credited with
glad of the change of government but ac-
cording to advices from Governor Leary
they have developed a hostile attitude to
the Americans and are not as peaceable
as was supposed. Their number is not
great enough, however, to excite any ap-
prehension in official circles as to the
the island to maintain order.
This change in sentiment or develop
ment Of hidden feeling may be due to the
Spanish influence that prevailed and per-
haps still exists In the island. There was
small Spanish garrison at San Luis
dApra, the principal town, when Captain
Henry Glass, commanding the cruiser
Charleston, which was conveying the
army transports City of Peking Aus
tralia and City of Sydney, sailed into its
harbor June 20, 1898, and made the Span
iSh Governor and his SubOrdinates prison
ers of war before they were able to
understand that hostilities had COM
menced between the United States and
Spain.
This Spanish force Of six officers and
fifty-four enlisted men was taken away on
United States ships to Manila, but wheth-
er any of it's members returned to Guam
after peace was declared is not known
here Some Of the enlisted men had fami-
lies in Guam and may have gone back
there to live instead of availing them
selves of the privilege Of being trans
ported back to Spein at the expense of
the United States.
Orders were sent also by the Navy De-
partment to-day for the dispatch Of an
naval station near Manila. These orders
are the outcome of a request from Ad-
mira Watson for marines to serve in the
island of Cebu.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24

ARE BADLY
VORSTED
Engagement Near Calamba
Results in Heavy Loss
to the Enemy.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

MANILA. Oct. %, $50 p. m.-The in
surgents around Calamba and Angeles
have bothered the Americans lately with
their repeated attacks, which, like most
of the Filipino attacks, consist of shoot
ing a lot of ammunition into their op-
pouents' camp at long range. Major
rheathams $ battalion OF the Thirty
seventh Infantry, three companies of the
Twenty-first Infantry, q battery Of the
Fifth Artillery and a gatling gun sailed
CuJ this morning from Calamba, drove the
Filipinos from their trenches and pursued
them for three miles, inllicung heavy loss
on them. one American was killed and
three were wounded in the Twenty first
Infantry.
Lieutenant Ferguson, with twenty
scouts Of the Thirty-siXth Regiment, re-
conuoitering near LabaO, encountered a
party Of mounted Filipinos. He killed six
of them and captured eight, with ten
rifles.
-Four men from the gunboat Marivelos
We're lured ashore, eighteen miles from
Ioilo by a flag of truce and the in
surgents killed one of them, wounded one
and captured a third. The gunboat was
unable 10 fire for fear of woundtng the
Americans.
The Second Battalion of the Nineteenth
Regiment, Major Reefe commanding, en-
barked for Iloilo to-day TO reinforce the
troops.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24

the meantime, unless something is done
TO prevent it, these prisoners would re-
main in prison under guard of the troops
of the United States.
"I do not wish anyway to make any
suggestion relating to the administration
OF justice in your State, or to imply that
the failure to bring these prisoners to
trial has not been for perfectly good rea-
sons in accordance with the law and prac-
tice Of the courts of Idaho, but l am
much disincllned to have the troops of
the United States continued longer in the
attitude of retaining in custody the citi-
zens of a State who have remained SO
long without being tried and I feel bound
to urge that if it is not convenient to
bring the prisoners to speedy trial you
will substitute civil guards as their Gus
todians and relieve the troops of the
United States from further performance
Of that duty.
The reply of Governor Steunenberg, un-
der date of october 10, asserts that the
withdrawal Of the troops would surely
result in a great loss of property and the
loss of life in that vicinity.
Covert threats" the Governor adds,
"are constantly being made by those Xho
engaged in the riot of April 29 thae as
soon as the troops are removed they Will
crafty their revenge upon those citizens
who have been induced to assist the state
in the attempt to ferret out crime, and the
history of that region conYinces me that
these are not idle threats.
"It should be understood that this Is
not a conflict between capital and labor,
nor a question of wages, but II Is a con-
fiict between the State of Idaho, and GER
tain criminal organizations which seek to
cloak themselves under the cover OF Ia
bor organizations. We are not in con-
filct with organized labor, as such, in any
way whatever.
"At the present time in the Occur
d'Alene quiet apparently prevails, but 1t
Is solely by reason of the presence of
the Federal troops. A large number OF
these parties who were in the. riot OF
April 20, it is true. have simply gone
across the line to Butte, Mont, and to
British Columbia, and will return imme-
diately upon the removal of the troops.
TTpon their return there will be inevitable
conflict which in my judgment will re-
suit in much bloodshed.
"In concluding my answer to this por-
ton of your letter, I will say, that in my
Judgment the necessity still exists for the
detention of troops in the Occur d 'Alenes,
and 1 ask that they be permitted to re-
main to assist us in policing the situa-
ton.
''As to the guarding of prisoners, 1 will
state that on November l the State Will
be able to relieve the troops Of all such
duties This has been our desire from the
beginning and it has been our intention
at all times to perform this service as
soon as we could, and we have done SO,
in so far as 1t was possible.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24
CUSTODY OF THE PRISONERS.
Governor Seeks to Hold Federal Gov
eminent Responsible.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - Governor
Steunenberg of Idaho had another confer
ence to-day with Secretary Root respect
ing the maintenance of Federal custody of
the miners who are now held as prisoners
in Idaho by the troops. The War Depart
ment is anxious to escape the responsible
ity for the further care OF these prisoners
On the other hand, Governor Steunenberg
cannot see his way clear to accept their
custody, because he has not sufficient force
to take care Of them. Secretary Root has
suggested that the Governor issue a call
for special session of the Legislature to
deal with the question. Meanwhile the
War Department viii continue for a short
time at least to hold the prisoners.
Secretary Root on September % wrote
to Governor Steunenberg, protesting
against the further employment Of
United States troops to guard the prison.
ers, saying:
II am informed that they are now being
used by the civil authorities of the State
ers-upward Of a hundred in number
who have been arrested by the civil au-
thorities upon warrants issued by the
civil courts, and are held under such
warrants or indictments found by the
grand jury Of the county; that these
prisoners, or most of them, have been
held for a number of months and that
during the period of their detention the
District Court of Shoshone County, which
is the court having Jurisdiction to try in
dictments found by the grand Jury, has
twice convened and adjourned without
bringing these prisoners to trial; that the
next regular term of court will not be
held until January Of next year, and in
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24
SUIT AGAINST
A RAILROAD
Water Front Rights of
Eureka Involved.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

EUREKA, Oct. 23.-An important suit
was filed to-day in the Superior Court in
which the city of Eureka is plaintiff and
the Eel River and Eureka Railroad de-
fendant. The action is brought to set
aside the franchise granted that corpora
ton by the council that went out of office
January l.
The complaint contains serious charges
against certain members of the old coun-
ell. The Eel River road has already laid
tracks along the whole water front, and
II the city is bested in the suit will control
the whole commerce of the bay.
The franchise is asked to be annulled
and the tracks declared public nuisance
on the grounds of fraud; that the Eel
River road has no right to extend the
road from its present terminus at the foot
of a street; insufficiency of publication of
the franchise, and that the Council did
not comply with the law in granting the
franchise in that it was not put up for
sale.
On the result of the case depends
whether the city will be deprived of the
whole water front, worth many thou
sands of dollars, and whether the Klam-
ath railroad shall be allowed to enter the
city. The case promises to be bitterly
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24
STATEMENT MADE
BY STEUNENBERG
Assumes Responsibility
for the State.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct 23.-Chairman
Dick of the Republican State Committee
has received a copy of a letter written
by Governor Steunenberg of Idaho under
date of October 10 to Secretary of War
Root, in which the Governor assumes for
the State full responsibility for all that
has been done in Shoshone County in con-
nection with the Couer d'Alene mining
trouble. The letter was written volun-
tarily, it is said by the Governor, on ac-
count Of the criticism which has been
made of the Federal Government Gov
ernor Steunenberg says:
'While it is not necessary to inform
you of the relative positions of the State
of Idaho and the general government in
the matter, as this status is clearly de-
fined by statute, still it may be proper for
purposes of general information to add
that the State of Idaho is responsible for
all that has been done in Shoshone Coun-
" relative to the call for troops, the ar
rest detention and care of prisoners,
the regulations under which the mines
can and have been operated from the time
and the regulation of all matters con-
cernng the employment OF men In these
mines, all of the above matters having been
under the immediate supervision, control
and direction of the officers and repre-
sentatiVes of the State of Idaho and not
in any way of the Federal troops. l
further state that the State of Idaho as
sumes and acknowledges all responsibility
for the manner in which the affairs are
conducted in the Cour d'Alenes so long
as martial law, as proclaimed, prevails.
'Tt should be stated here, however, that
these men Ghe prisoners) have not been
held under or by reason of indictments
upon the part of the State, but because
thev were men whom we could not permit
to be at large under the present condi-
tion Of affairs in that section. The men
who We're held under indictments found
by the State Grand Jury and whom we
desire to try, escaped prison a few days
before the regular term of court, at which
time all preparations had been made to
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24
HOW CAPTAIN HOWARD
MET DEATH IN ARAYAT

WASHINGTON, Oct 28-The following
telegram confirming the report of the
death Of Captain Guy Howard was re-
ceived at the War Department from Cen
eral Otis to-day:
MANILA. Oct. 23-Captain Guy Howard. az
sistant quartermaster and quartermaster OF
volunteers, was killed yesterday near Ara
yat while in a launch on thu Rio Grande
River by concealed insurgents. His clerk,
civilian employe and native was
Volunteers, encountered insurgents southwest
OF Santa Rita, scattering them killing sly
capturing eight, and ten rifles. No casualties
General Lawton is operating at San Isldro
The forwarding of supplies to that point con-
OF lack Of transportation, which viii be sunN
piled soon, Insurgents In Southern Luzon at
tackled Calamba- These were driven off No
casualties
This morning Kline, commanding at Calan-
ba, vigorously attacked insurgent force con-
centrating on his front, routed them from the