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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18
Eagan's Epithets.

| T N army circles there are courtesies
| | within courtesies and wheels with.
in wheels. The "embalmed" beef is
IN evidence on this score. Genera
Miles condemned the stuff, and his tes-
t1mony was backed by that of several
men of prominence in military cir
cles
Eagan. who is at the head of the
commissary department. ragged and
tuned 1t was his mission to obtain
d certlfcate of character for the "em-
balmed' beef. He started out by get
ing testimonials to its excellence from
the contractors who furnished it; of
course, with one accord they certified
that the meat was of the best, and of
course, the public did not place a, very
high opinion on this testimony.
Later on Eagan concluded that his
proper course was to go at Miles in
hob-nail style. So he announced that
Miles lies in his throat, in his heart
and in every hair of his head" that he
Ought to be drummed out of the SER
vice. and sent to prison, that he should
be barred from the clubs and not be
spoken to by decent people,"
Our public affairs furnish no paral-
lei for Eagan's manner of attack on
Miles. 1t is as indecent and as des-
perate as the methods which proven
bribers in Montana have lately sought
TO use against men of known probity
VINO are members of this states legis-
lature. tEagan has disproved nothing:
ne has not been able to raise @ seri-
Gus doubt as to any one of the asser-
tons set forth in the testimony given
by Miles,
Meanwhile Shafter comes to the
front. Eagan undertook by inference.
to fall back on Shafter, in support of
his defense of the beef. Shafter prompt
ly repudiates these tactics. Skaters
relations with Miles have been a hit
strained. but he utterly disowns the
statements relating to the beef which
Eagan seeks to impute to him, and
he rallies for the defense of Miles
against the assault made by Eagan.
IL the commissary department was
not responsible for the condition 6f
the beef, it ought to be able to clear
ITS skirts without resorting to billings
gate. General Eagan has certainly
not created any public opinion in his
favor, and by using language unbe-
coming an officer and a gentleman, he
mas not made General Miles testimony
any the less convincing.
The Eagan broadsides, however, will
make possible a more thorough inyes-
tigatiOn, and when that is ended the
public will be the better able to defer
mine whether General Miles has tried
10 placken the character of a fellow
officer, or whether the commissary de-
partment proved itself incapable of
coping with conditions, a theory that
has been pretty generally supported.
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Senatorial Bribery.

From the Syracuse Post Standard.
A grand jury has been called in the
district court at Helena, Mont. to in
Vestlgate the charges of bribery made
by State Senator Whiteside. This gen
tleman turned over to the committee
S5o'ooo in bills of the size of 81, 900 each,
declaring he had secured them from
the representative of w. A. Clark CT
Butte, a candidate for United States
senator.
rms is serious charge, and one
maze IN such way,and with such cir
cumstantial evidence of it's truthful
ness that it cannot be ignored. 1t is
sincerely to be hoped that it will be
probed to the very bottom, and trat
the guilty men, if discovered, will
spend a term behind the bars of the
states prison.
There is little doubt, judging by the
evidences that are af1oat around every
state capital and political center, that
the crime of bribery has greatly in
creased within the last few years At
the same time legal proof of such acts
is very hard to get for the reason that
it is possible to see" men on the quiet
or to reach them, often without their
knowledge, in dozen ways. The inter
est of both parties to such transactions
being identical, the procurement of evil
dence is extremely difficult The strong
est obstacle to the doing of justice,
however. is the lowering of public sent
iment, which is more disposed than
formerly to condone offenses which are
generally known to be of common oc-
Currence
The Montana case appears to Re
plain. There is no reason why it should
not proceed to the very end and the
guilty men, whoever they may be, land
ed behind the bars
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18

the little brown horse" was the hest
! morse on the place. Touchstone was
| trained, became a great racer and a still
| greater sire of racers.
| billet, sire of Miss Woodford Sir
Dlxon, Beivedere and a long list of sreat
! pei ioilhefs' passed an obscure existence
| on TWO continents before chance nlaced
him at the stud: He was given away
N England to man who tried to make
| steeplechaser of him. Billet did NOT
take kindly to the ''leaping" game. and
was then sent up to Reading and sold
TOT a4o. He was shipped to America
dnu iof time munched oats in a livery
stable IN new York. Finally Mr.. Pow
ers got hold of him and took him to Nil
nois, where he served few mares Then
colonel Clay bought him, and in the blue
grass country he became the great est
slaiilon OF his time, the poorest of his
get bringing $1,000 or 81 500 each at the
yearlng sales
Midloth1an, when he was first placed
IN Mr.. Haggin's Rancho del Paso stud,
was SO small and unpromising that no
tnought was wasted on him as a breed
ing possibility. John Mackay was so
anxious to get rid of one of his yearl-
ihgs, MonoWai, that he farmed him out
on shares The next season, in 1892
Monowai swept everything before him
ON the coast, and w. OBJ. Macdonough
paid $4,000 for him.
Queen Mary, progentor of the great
est family of mares in the stud book,
was sold for a song as a "no-account,"
taken to Scotland, turned into the high
lands. Subsequently Robert Hanson,
who was impressed with her breeding,
visited Scotland, purchased her and her
two foals and brought them back to
England. From Queen Mary came the
great Stockwell, Blink Bonny, Poca-
hontas and host of others.
Miss Pratt, dam of Eichidna, dam of
The Baron, a famous English race horse
ana sire, was for years used as a hack
by Captain Gamble, her owner, before
she was placed in the stud. Deadlock,
dam of Isinglass, one Of the very great
est horses of recent years, was sold for
4 go note and for long time trudged
about London hitched in the shafts of a
costermonger's cart,
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About the Birds,
n n ORE legislation of an indirect
wi character is being aimed at
! Butte and other parts of Mon

n ToRE legislation of an indirect
WI character is being aimed at
! Butte and other parts of Mon
tana' showing that the goldbugs of the
East are not able to treat the people
OF the West with any degree of fair
ness. There is now pending before the
United States senate a bill which pro-
vides that birds feathers and parts of
olrds Tor ornamental purposes shall
not be imported into the United States
and shall not be transported between
the states. If this bill is passed by
congress, what is Butte going to do
for birds?
1t is acknowledged that for long
time Butte has been deprived of the
Joy of hearing the music of song birds,
In fact, the people of Butte have nat
urally almost forgotten what the song
of bird is like. The only birds the
people of Butte are privileged to see
are the birds which adorn the bon
nets of Butte's ladies. Is Butte IN no
deprived even of that pleasure?
All due sympathy should be extend
ed to the humane people who are look
ing after the song birds. They are
seeking to stop entirely the use of the
gay plumage which has figured so
strkingly in feminine headgear. 1t is
claimed that the birds are rapidly be-
coming extinct and that the slaughter
OF thousands of birds every year for
personal adornment is most fnhuman.
But the humane people should not over
look the fact that the only birds OBJ
talhable out here are the birds which
decorate bonnets, and where the songs
OF birds cannot be heard the beautiful
piumage is the more to be desired as
being all that can link Butte With the
bird land.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18

| of the United States right along-they
supposed that the annexation scheme
| was as good as settled They We're so
sure OF their ground that they dealt
IN top-lofty sneerng at those who
presumed to stand by the proposition
that to annex the islands is neither
right nor expedient
Senator Hoar has given the annexa-
tionists some very hard nuts to crack
Senator Billy" Mason is against an
neXatlon. Senator Foraker, who
stands very close to the president
startled the senate and the country last
week with positive assertion that the
president does not want the Philippines
to become part Of the United States.
Senator Hanna says that 1--WE are SIM
ply drifting" Senator Platt of New
York is inclined to favor such a form
of government as we are trying TO buil5
up in Cuba. Vice Presii ut Hobart saws
that 'it may be advisable, after the
circumstances are taken into consider
alton, to deal with the Philippines as
we propose to deal with Cuba" Seaa-
tor Lodge says: whether we Will es-
tablish protectorate or allow the Phil
1ppines to set up an indie endent form
of government, or crelte some other
form of government, will be determined
later on
The outlook isn't at all eh aery for the
republicans who were up and dressed to
go into the campaign of 1909 with an
annexation cry which, they fancied,
would drown free coinage out.
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| members representing Silver
Bow and Deer Lodge counties
IS perfectly we'll understood. They are
ready and willing to give their votes to
any honorable man who can be elected
to the office of United States senator.
| They are not the supporters of any
dark horse" or the advocates of anv
faVorite, or the sponsor for any fac
tional choice. They stand like a stone
wall against w. A. Clark, whom thew
know to be bride giver. They never
will vote for Clark; he realizes that he
cannot buy them.
All the chicanery printed in the news
papers which Mr.. Clark owns cannot
divert the public from the central is
sue. This legislative struggle is 1he
peoples fight against a million dollars
of bribery. Any man with clean hands
can be Montana's next senAtor.as far
as the membership representing Deer
Lodge and Silver Bow can contribute
by its vote to that end. That has been
the declared attitude of these mem hers
from the outset. The question is
whether W. A. Clark's money can avail
to make impossible the election. Of IN
honest, honorable man.
These Clark organs are as shameless
in their attempt to shield bribery as
their owner is in the effort to bribe.
you cannot get in any community in
Montana an expression of opinion to
the effect that the Clark support is I'M
bribed support 1t is not Il question
anywhere in this state as tc Clarks
willingness to bride; the 1nly inquiry is
whether it We're possible for bribery to
let its fearful power be so felt as 20
make complete the sale OF the senator
ship.
On that score-however deep the ann
fety that million dollars may occasion
there can be but one conclusion. It
Is not written on the page of hsrtory
American honor and American moral
ity, bribery can prevail There will be
no triumph for Clark's gold at Helena.
Depend upon it, in the en;l his desDer
ate attempt to buy Montana will rot
avail, even though he has lei the v.1d
go out that he will make the Ircc a
million rather than take defeat.
Clark has bought some votes; he has
bought democrats who know, by the
indisputable testimony of the election
returns, that the man who has bought
them, body and soul, is fresh from an
efort to defeat last autumn's Gelno-
cratic state ticket and from an attn,n.t
to wreck the democratic rar-v in
county where % per cent. of Mlntana's
vote is cast. These men know that in
all the politics of Montana, back tn a
distant past. w. A. Clark's record ia q
stencil, Always in the past this mans
bribery processes have failed. Thev
will assuredly fail this year.
And it is fact that the single pur-
pose of the members from the two
counties, as Well as from certain other
sections of Montana, is to elect to the
office OF senator any honorable man
who can show that the contribution of
their votes will end the strife and save
this states o11d mama
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Current Comment.
That's Different,

rom the San Francisco Bulletin.
we may yet have to whip Germany as
we whipped Spain" remarked Mr.. Berry
IN congress yesterday MIR. Berry is
wrong. All of us are confident, of course
that we can get the best of any nation
on earth' but we won't whip those iron
bound sons of the fatherland quite like
we whipped the Spaniards-not by consid-
era Bile
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How FrencIlmen Do.

FROM the Cleveland Plain Dealer
They do things differently in France.
over there General Miles would have
Eeheral Eagan out at 20 PAGES; they
wound lire lneffectually at each other sew
erai times; then they would shake hands,
embrace, crack a small bottle and go
home rejoicing
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18
In Desirable" States.

From the Chicago Record.
Civilization in this country has adj
Vanced SO far that prize fighters who
want TO pull off" match have no
place to go except Carson City or New
York.
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The Same With Clark.

FROM the New York Mail and Express.
washington gossip says that Senator
smith OF New Jersey spent more than
sz",ooo IN MS attempt to procure a re-
electloll. IL that story is true it merely
emphasizes the old adage that a Smith
and his money are soon parted.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18
Several Plat Products.

From the Utica Observer.
Piatt has permitted Roosevelt to be gov
ernor, Choate to be ambassador to Eng
lahd ana Depew to be United States sena-
Tor rms is what Abe Gruber would call
wandering to the better element" with
a vengeance.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18
Happy Augury at Albany.

From the Boston Herald
For the first time in more than genera
tlon the gubernatorial residence at AL
pany mas some little children residing
therein. Happy augury of happy ad-
ministrationi
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Hard Labor,

Perry Patettic-I just got to stop work
in so hard.
Wayworn Watson-Stop what?
"Workin' so hard. I've plumb wore my
self out this afternoon figgerin' what I
would do eff l had 81 OOO"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18
Their Tune Changed.

HAT now of the administration
Wv organs that have been SO gaily
sailing the sea of annexation?
These newspapers, presuming that
they had the straight tip, were making
the Philippine islands part and parcel
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18
Clark's Bribery.

FROM the Philadelphia Times
II sums like $4,000 could be offered as a
orioe TO Montana legsla tors no wonder
some of those far West places have been
called pocket" states.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18

New York Offices Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency,
Sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
Washington Bureau-1,415 G street, N.
W.
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Would Have Been Great Help.

L rom the Philadelphia Bulletin.
!nere is no telling what heights of
achievements Lucretia Borgia might have
reached If she had only been able to use
the United States mails.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-18
The Passing of yeyler

From the Rochester Union.
General Weyler appears to have dropped
out OF the public mind about as COM
p.eteiy as IL he had published a volume
of poetry.
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Soft SaMder.

From the Detroit Free Press
when | was discharged my employer
let me down easy.
How SOP
"He said l could get work more readily
than an inferior man."
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The Standard has branch offices at
Butte. Mssoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plica ton,
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TO ADVERTISERS,

The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers a bona fide paid circulation,
Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that of any other newspaper pub
lished in the state of Montana. Advertis-
ing contracts will be made subject to
this guarantee.
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All general business letters and CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
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Main Office-Standard Block, Anaconda.
TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
Business Office ......... ..............No. 1
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STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Publishers and Proprietors.
Printed Every Day in the Year.
Entered at the postoffice at Anaconda as
second class mail matter.
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Daily and Sunday. six months 500
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Postage free for the United States, Can
ada and Mexico. Elsewhere
postage added.
La Junta tribune., 1899-10-07
Clean Sweep Prices....

You're buying them at the same prices, and often
quite little less, than the average merchant
pays, but it's quick clearance here. and we're
bound to keep the prices down-to move the
goods-to keep you coming. There's dollars OF
good savings to you every selling day-prices far
and away out of the ordinary-values that de-
monstrates our earnestness in this greatest OF
all clearance sales.
La Junta tribune., 1899-10-07
Nav. mev., seen showed.

The democratic-po populist candi-
date for treasurer, A. II. Cawthron,
came out in card in last We'd
nesday's issue OF the Democrat, to
the effect that ''what man has
done, man can do" and says that
he feels thoroughly competent to
perform the work in the county
treasurer's Office, if elected, with
out the assistance Of a deputy.
What man has done, man can
do, may be true in some instances,
but it devolved upon a republi-
can official to demonstrate .'what
man can do in the county treas
urer's Office. The democrats held
the Office for six years previous to
the term OF the present incumbent.
and always employed a deputy a,
salary OF sIoo per month. They
never appeared to be very anxious
to demonstrate "what man can do
even when the work in the Office
was not one-half what it is at the
present time.
La Junta tribune., 1899-10-07
Rocky Ford notss.

!. L. Godding is in New Mexico
after a large herd OF lambs bought
for our farmers to feed the coming
winter.
After all the grumbling about
blight in the cantaloupe, poor mar
kets. etc, this years cantalouPe
crop has net the farmers more
money than ever before.
Newdale farmers are now ship
ping one car load Of tomatoes to
the Pueblo Canning Factory per
day. They receive seven dollars
per ton cash, I. o. b., Newdale.
Elmer Conner bought the T. F.
Godding lambs at s2.75 per head.
which may seem big price, but
as some of them weigh from IS to
IS pounds, Mr.. Conner has a cheap
bunch OF lambs after all.
Mrs. Burke and her daughter on
their way home Tuesday evening
met with severe accident. When
passing Mrs. Elser's the horses
became frightened, upset the buggy
and both were thrown out. Mrs.
Burk suffered from severe shock
and bruises but no bones were
broken. The daughter was only
slightly bruised. CAN'T ELoPK-
La Junta tribune., 1899-10-07
Tn. Churches.

BAPTIST. Preaching at II a. m.
Evening service in charge of the
Women's Mission Circle.
PRESBYTERIAN N.--Regular servic-
es both morning and evening con-
Quoted by the pastor, Rev. Robert
Coltman. Everyone welcome.
ST.. ANDREWS CHuRcH.-Rev. w.
H. Haupt, pastor. Morning prayer
and sermon at II a. m. Sunday
school at o:3o a. m. Friday, 1880
p. M, evensong and choir practice.
CHURCH or CHRIsT-Preaching
both morning and evening by the
pastor, the Rev. Elmer Ward Cole.
Morning subject, "Free Thought
What Has II Given to Theol-
ogy?" Evening subject, "Impend-
ing Changes in Church and State. :"
Evening prelude. "The Anglo
Saxon and South Africa" Come
and we will give you royal wei
come
METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Regular
services both morning and even
ing conducted by the pastor, Rev.
!. L. Vailow. Morning subject,
"Divine VS.. Human Bene6cence. +"
Evening subject, 1.-The World
Under Mortgage to Righteous
ness" Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Epworth League at 6:3o p. M,
and class meeting at IL m. These
meetings are all open to the public
and the people are all cordially in
vited TO attend.
La Junta tribune., 1899-10-07
Glorious hs~s

Comes from DR.. d. b. Cargile,
OF Washita, l. T. He writes:
-Four bottles OF Electric Bitters
cured Mrs. Brewer, OF scroiula,
which had caused her great suffer
ing for years. Great sores would
break out on her head and face
and the best doctors could give no
relief; but her cure is complete and
her health is excellent" This
shows what thousands have proved
that Electric Bitters is the best
La Junta tribune., 1899-10-07

morning. They were on their way
to Chicago.
Judge E. c. Goblin died at his
home in Rocky Ford, Thursday
morning. aged 81 years.
Jack Brown is now employed by
the Price Draper Clothing Com
pany, where he will be pleased to
meet his numerous friends.
DIR. Frank Finney and wife re-
turned yesterday morning from
Kansas City, where they had been
to attend the wedding of relative.
La Junta tribune., 1899-10-07
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The board Of county commits
sioners met in regular monthly
session Monday, all the members
being present
The board made their regular
quarterly examination OF Official
bonds and found them all good and
sufficient.
The designations of G. A. Lang
ley as justice Of the peace in JUS
ttce precinct No. 2, and P. C..
Dunlap in precinct No. 3. and ].
E. Mock as constable in the latter
precinct. were accepted.
The support of insane for the
month OF September cost $tao.
In the matter OF the petition Of
]. w. Brown ct al. tor a county
wagon road to be laid out in Sec
ton $, township a3 south, range
81, and Of A. II. Hamlin ct al. for
a county wagon road to be laid
out between sections ~ and IS,
township %, range 81, after due
consideration. the same were de-
MED.
The statement OF the expendi-
lures for the relief of the poor for
the month of September was pre-
sented and ordered filed.
The work Of constructing the
sewer through the court house park
cost Otero county Saao.74.
The board made their regular
quarterly visitation to the county
jail and county poor farm, both Of
which institutions they found in
their usual good condition.
The petition OF II. O. Wheeler
ct al for the vacation OF that part
OF county road No. S on section
line between sections 10 and IS,
township 23. range So, was pre-
sented and referred to h. n. Kirk
patrick. c. n. Allen and S. r.
Lyon, as special commissioners.
to view said road and report TO the
board at their next regular session.
The petition OF K. A. Steen ct
al to make Granada street county
road from Smithland avenue east
| through Santa Fe and Bradish ad-
ditions, and also to make Harriet
street county road from Trinidad
Plaza south through Bradish addi-
| ton, was granted and the roads
ordered opened and worked as
provided by law.
The board then proceeded to
make the ordinary cosnty revenue
fund appropriations for the year
1900, which were as follows;