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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-01-31
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES

44EAB IA ..sM 49, sg9sS44%. n&-.#ssM tt.Ns.
The Irving and Longfellow rhetorical
societies Of the high school will give
their half-year joint programme at the
opera, house Friday evening of this
week. The programme is printed else
where. II is the intention Of the high
school literary societies to give occa-
sional public programmes, primarily
for the benefit received individually,
and also to promote a fund for the
purchase Of a piano for the high school.
The exercises Friday evening will be
conducted BY the societies through their
presiding officers and the proceeds will
lie used ss the nucleus of a piano fund.
Tickets Is, 90 and 80 cents. On sale,
after Tuesday, at Iceberg, Holmes q
Calhoun's drug store. By buying
tickets early You may avoid the crush
that attended the sale of tickets at the
former school entertainment. Only
tickets enough to seat the house will
be sold, and every person having a
ticket will secure a seat.
Monthly Report for January, 1899.
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ALMOST

Not a single republican in Yellow
stone county. this newspaper is proud
to say-either before or since his elec-
tion-has been heard to express himself
in favor Of the republican members
voting for Clark for senator. That dis
grace belongs alone to Lewis and
Clarke and Custer counties, outside Of
which sentiment was universal that the
republicans should stand by q party
man. The folly Of the republicans of
Helena might have been expected. but
there Ia no excuse for those of Custer
county. We are surprised at their &C.
tion and can hardly believe that forty
add men In good old republican Custer
county advised u Of their legislative
members to stultify himself and prosti.
tute his party. II IN almost incredible.
but that appears to DO the record, al
thongh ID does seem strange that such
was only given to Mareyes, that
Inssrsoll was loft without amy make.
shift al justification, and that Senator
Mckay, ore ef this hesoss Of the iegis.
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lature, was: no importuned to follow
in the footsteps Of the ether traitors.
Mckay is the one ray Of light in a per
fidious crowd from Custer. and while
we know that % per cent of the repub-
licans of that county will condemn the
treachery OF their representatives, we
sympathize with our loyal neighbors
in the disgrace that has been heaped
upon them BY a few republicans taking
such a. stand. Col. Sam Gordon, we
trust, will promptly cleanse the repub-
lican party Of Custer Of that element;
the organization, largely through his
teachings, is strong enough to dispense
with members Of that stripe, who
should be Immediately loaded into the
CLARK Doodle wagon and carted off to
Helena.
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more reason that it should be preserved
on that account. Itsiis like an oasis in
a black desert Of infamy extending all
overt the, state.t;A Bnt these four men
furnish the nucleus for the building up
Of. a republican majority in future
Montana legislatures. They are heroes,
every one; they possess that strength
of character and fidelity to principle
which makes men great; they. are
steadfast and true. upright and honest
and every man, woman and child in
the state respects them. All honor to
this heroic little band. The millions
of a democratic boodler did not tempt
the men who compose it; all his wealth
could not swerve them from the path of
duty
Take heart, republicans Of Montana,
and resolve, in future campaigns, to Sc
lect only men of that character fer leg
islative candidates. There are plenty
of them in every county in the state;
they must aud will redeem this great
commonwealth and prove to the world
that personal honor and political integ-
rity still live in Montana. This is a
dark hour for the honest men Of the
state, but right will triumph aud the
republican party be preserved; that
organization cannot be junstly held
responsible for the acts of eleven trait
ors who deserve to be in the state peni-
tetiary instead of sitting in the legisla-
ture.
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Honor Roll.

Room a, South, Miss Ella H. Hood.
Teacher. Harry Davis, Inez Elliott,
Harold Tomlinson, Orley Nelson, Har-
old Rixon, Robbie Holmes, Harold Stull,
Lille Schmudlach, Walter Brown,
Wayne Vaughan, Palma Nelson, Roy
Matheson, Dora Rademaker, Lena Oh
land, Maud Hart, Mead Brown, Alva
Baker, Addie Goulding, Bessie Awe,
Amy Rademaker, Birdie Szitnick, Josie
LaVigne, Oscar Davis, Lille Marsh.
Fourth and Fifth Grades, Miss Jane
E. Pitcher, Teacher. -Leora Brown,
George Deckert, Mary Flanagan, June
Gardner, Della Gilsdorf. Arthur Han
serd, Ethel Mcbride. Ben Hensen. Van
Salisbury, Minnie Stupe, Ben Witham,
Mike Flanagan. Reuben Smith, Essie
Summers, Fenew Deckert, Earl Fri
zelle, Mabel Hoe, Ethel Hanserd.
Pearl Owens. Sophia Sawyer, Frances
Tschudy. Ole Hoyem.
Third and Fourth Grades, North
Frank Connev, Gertrude Davis, Willie
Eilers, Florence Hutchinson, Helen
HEREFORD, Whitney HEREFORD, Conrad
Hetfner, Fred Lechner, Kate Matheson,
Henry Mason, Rae Newton, Ethel New
ton. Mary Peters. Abner Robbins, Maud
Segur, Ira Salisbury. Helen Haynes,
Constance Chapple, Mary Hill, Lisle
Hammond, Dolorise Parker, Jennie
Reed, Ned Townsend, Willie Clanton,
Ralph White. Cassius White, Fannie
Brown.
Second and Third Grades, SOUTH
Myrtle Address, Tom Clarke, Richard
Davis, Willie Davis. Bernice Deckert,
Robert Foster, Walter Graham. Christie
Hoe, Rufus Sawyer, Bert Schock, Mary
Sherwood, Ruby Tomlinson, Myrtle
Tschudy, Florence Wilson, Grace Awe,
Robert Huckleberry, Mae Kennedy.
Mamie Murphy. Helene O'Donnell,
Lottie Schock, Frank Swim, Edith Silt
nick, Ella Erickson, Edmund Summers.
Room 4, North.-Edna Allen, Edna
Cardwell. Walter Ch1ysler, Edna Craw-
ford, Florence Davis. Anna Dunno,
Marie Hannah, VIM. Parker, Alice
Radclitf. Lille Reed, Harold Ross,
VIM. Parker. Alice Shaw, Lucille
Vaughan. Lucy Hawks, Mamie Clan
ton, Lyle Hungerford. Amy Bennig-
hof, Eva Berky, Joseph Biesinger,
Jennie Grove, Gertrude Grove, Irene
Elliott, Myrtle Hammond, Claude
Lane, Frank Robbins. Hugh Rowley,
Harry Segur, Elizabeth T~rieschman,
Max Zimmerman, Sydney Zimmerman,
Clara Spear, Carl Wells. Walter Wal.
lace. W.
Primary Grade, North. - Edna
Dunno, Geraldine Panton, Bessie Ten
Eyck, Gertrude Mccormick, Agnes
Burton, Bessie Borgers, Leonard Ter.
rell, Florence Hubbard. Roland Kel'
lison. Nellie Reed, Frances Rinehart,
Marie Segur, Myrtle Weber, Otto Kim
berly, Joseph Nelson.
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The above are the eleven republicans
in the Montana legislature who voted
last Saturday for W. A. Clark for
United States senator. No excuse car
be offered for their crime. They have
disgraced themselves and their constit-
uents and brought dishonor upon their
party. No sensible man in the state
will believe that they did not sell their
votes for money; they supported the
only democrat in the contest who was
purchasing members and must therefore
suffer the ignominy of having betrayed
their party for gold.
These men are disgraced and should
evermore be stunned By all honest citi-
zens. They are traitors to political
principle and strangers to honor. They
do not belong to the republican party;
it is no longer responsible for them !;
they are outcasts. They had fair warn
ing Of the category in which they
would be placed before they voted for
the democratic arch %boodler; Repre-
sentatives Lindsay and Hedges, besides
scores of republicans from all wei the
state, adjured them to be honest and
turn away from temptation.
These eleven men deserve no sympa-
thy they will receive none from re-
spectacle people. The disgrace will
follow them to their graves, descend tc
their children and grandchildren and,
like the six republican traitors who
sold out to w. A. Clark in 1898, mis-.
fortune will overtake them. Every one
Of those men today are practically pen.
niless, as we'll as disgraced. Money OBJ.
tanned in that manner does not stay
with a a there is a curse upon it.
The same fate will follow the clever
traitors of last Saturday. The price Of
dishonor is poverty and abject misery
in this life, eternal damnation in thu
life hereafter and a lame which black
ems the pages Of history to be read BY
generations yet unborn. Disgrace ii
eternal. The day will come when tn,
men who last Saturday betrayed thei,
party will agree that, death-witl
honor-would have been a preferable
fate. There is none to do them homo
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TO CATCH THE TAX sHIRKER.

E. M N<A @
Nothing has SO puzzled the assessor
as how he could catch the tax shirker,,
but the best plan devised to get him is
a bill introduced in the Dakota legisla-
ture. The Montana legislature might
pattern after Dakota in this particular,
which would prove a blessing to this
state. The bill in question provides
that every assessor shall carry a seal
and stamp every bond, note, mortgage,
or other evidence of indebtedness that
all notes and mortgages not stamped by
the assessor shall be void. This law
would come nearer trapping the shirk.
ers than any we have seen proposed.
With such a law the holders Of all such
papers would not dare do any Sinking.
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Yellowstone Park Map.

The Northern Pacific railway has
just issued u new map Of Yellowstone
Park, that should be in demand. II il
u relief map in colors. ~. scientifically
made, and Is complete In topography
and nomenclature. The map 10 about
asxas inches In size and Ii printed GA
heavy paper thus making II suitable for
framing,
The map IL specially adapted for
school aud class rooms and will be
mailed In tubes 10 any address by. ChaA.
\. Fee. Gen. ffass, agent at the Nerthr
ern Pacific, 80. Paul, Mimi, upon
of 10 cents. bD.tf
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HIGH SCHOOL ENTERTA1NMENr.

To Be Given in the Opera House Friday
Evening, Feb. 8.
Piano Solo-Valse 8. Chopin
Lora Goddard.
sold Mother Hubbard. 49,. -.
Roscoe Allen.
Quartette-Tyrolese Chorus. 4,
Martha Tompkins, Ida Lamport,
Lora Goddard, Hattie Brayton.
"Our New Navy in Peace and War"
Edward Fraser.
Quet-"Whispering Hope" ......
Ida Lamport. Mary Towne.
"The Witches" ................
Edith Lavigne, Lulu Railsback,
Stella Hoover, Clara Schmudlaoh.
Original Verses
Hattie Brayton.
Violin Solo-Selecti0n from Bohe-
milan Girl .............I...
Ellen Stebbins.
''Sweet Briar Rose. ..........
Lulu Railsback.
"Nightfall.
Cecil Brocsway, Maude Gxuwsli,
Marion Thum, Winnie Jones.
experiments. .,........,.......
Fred PenYod, Director,
Spring Song acknowledgements.
Martha Tompkins.
MRS. Maloney ON Chinese Question"
Anna LOTUS.
SonR-''The Owl and Pussy Cat."
Alice Nord. Ellen atebbins.
Clara 6chmudlaeh, Lila I4Amp0rt,
Mary Towne. Josie Terrell,
Hattie Hsayton. Martha Tomp.
ki,s. Harriet etehhina.
Shadows In the Life % 4 Senior. -.
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Anaconda Standard: As to the re-
publican flop to CLARK, let it be known
to all men that Thomas @. Power and
Senator Lee Mantle actively aided and
abetted it, and that Col. Wilbur F.
Sanders did everything he could to
hold the republicans in line.
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Representative Lindsay: "Not for
800. 900 would I stand III the shoes Of
any one of those eleven republican who
voted for W. A. Clark. They will be
execrated by the republican party and
despised by all mankind"
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There are three Yellowstone demo-
Gratis in Helena, we believe, who ap-
prove of the election of CLARK, but so
far only one other in this county has
been discovered.
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W. A. CLARK, with the worlds
Doodle record, and A. ]. Campbell,
with his Pinkerton detective proclivi-
ties and genius for draw poker, will
make a fine pair in Washington, in
deed! But they'll be notorious, any
how,
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Dyspepsia can be cured by using
Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets. One little
Tablet will give immediate relief or
money refunded. Sold in handsome tin
boxes at rs cents. Sold by Chapple
DruD Co.
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The Sheridan (Wyo.) Enterprise has
changed hands again, Fred j. Meyer
having sold the paper to his younger
brother, Anil Meyer, who will con
tinue the publication as heretofore.
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THE BLACK LIST.

s. s. Robson Of Fergus County.
w. W. Beasely of Sweetgrass County.
b. ID. Phillips of Choteau County.
C. C. Long of Fergus County.
G. w. Magee of Teton County.
Samuel Mitchell of Teton County.
5. A. Bywater of Flathead County.
A. l.. Jacqueth of Flathead County
j. H.. Geiger of Flathead County.
G. F. Ingersoll of Custer County.
G. f. Marcyes of Custer County.
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THE ROLL OF HONOR.

THE NOLl OF HONOR,
VIM. Lindsay of Dawson county.
j. \. Mckay Of Custer coanty.
W. A. Hedges o. Fergus county.
Tyler W0rdsn u MissoulA county,
Thess MO tho only honorable men
~ reeahlieais hAve istt In ths Non.
tsna legislature. Tho rail of houor In
Z snall -. indeed. but thsss u I'll the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-28

his father declares that he was riding
horses at the age of 2 years and b
months. At that period of HIS lie II
is asserted, he rode a horse, unassisted'
between jacksonville and San LUIS
Ohispo. a distance of 1870 miles, with
out once leaving the animals back
Last week Halfway and man
named Dennis Wilkinson went on
horseback from Arroyo Stco, in san
Luis Obispo county, to Porter's ranch
in what is known as the Huesan dis
trict, distance of about 30 miles,
where Halfway was to negotiate the
sale of some horses. The vaquero rode
an especially wild horse, which
though he had long had 1T in some
measure under control, was neverthe-
less treacherous and full Of tricks.
reached the place in safety and with
out incident, but on the return Cams
steed began his pranks. He at hrst
started bucking and bumped his back
nearly double, while he jumped high
from the ground Halfway grew an
CRY and began jabbing the spurs into
the beast in the endeayor to get him
on a run; but he would not run, save
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-28

to make fitful starts of a few PAGES,
then stop suddenly in the endeavor to
throw his rider over his head. 1t was
while he was making one of these
plunges that Cam" drew him back
with sudden and severe jerk of the
bride, when the most surprising and
shocking catastrophe occurred. The
animal ceased his forward motion with
jerk and reared ON his hind legs.
Cam" thought nothing of this, for
horses had reared with him before; but
SO Infatuated was the beast that it did
not seek to recover itself, but rose
erect upon his hind hoofs and then fell
backward in a heap, and this before
Halfway had an opportunity to jump.
The young man was thrown violent
ly to the ground, his head striking a
large stone. He did not feel the weight
of the ugly brute as it fell back upon
him, though none of his bones were
broken by its fall, and though he lin,
gered through the night, on the follow
ing morning he quietly passed away.
He was friend of the cowboys and
they turned out to show their utmost
respect. A grave was dug on the
ranges of San Luis Obispo, over which
he so loved to ride, and here with
solemn obsequies the rough but affec-
tionate cowboys inferred his body.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-28
MYSTERY OF NELLIE KNOX.

Alfred C. Ellis, a prisoner In the
st. Louis city jail on two charges
obtaining money under false pretenses
and bigamy-is accused, in a letter
sent to Sheriff Pohlmann by Mrs. NJ q.
Knox of No. 1900 Twentieth street, Den
yer, Col, OF knowing more than has
ever become public of her stepdaugh-
ter's disappearance. Ellis admits that
he left his father-in-law's home with
this girl. who was Is years old, on the
night when she disappeared. She was
his wife's sister He claims that he re-
members nothing of what occurred.
He says he does not know where he
left her, what he did or where he was
from o'clock at night until 4 o'clock
the next morning. Two years ago the
girls skeleton was found in what was,
at the time she disappeared, country
lane. 1t was identified by her father,
Major Knox, by means of ring. ELS
has served term in the Animosa, Ia,
penitentlary for bigamy and has been
sent to the workhouse in St. Louis for
minor offenses. He has been married
four times, and, according to the stories
his wives tell, only one of them was
legally united to him. Here is a para
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-28

AS the latter drew near the wild ami
NAL retreated to the side of the corral
With Its launches toward him: he
lifted his head high and turned 1t over
his silky black name until the white
OF his shiny eye glared on Cam" like
beacon The intrepid rider, however
moved boldly up to the rear of the
beast. 1t was apparent there was go
Ing to be action in the scene in a mo-
ment and the situation was getting in
teresting to the score of cowboys and
farm hands who, at a safe distance
lined the fence on the further side Of
the corral.
Suddenly the black fellow lifted his
heels and kicked viciously at the ponv
and its rider. 1t was a fateful move
for the black. The pony sheered aside
as deity as a prize-fghter ducks a
right from an adversary, and in an
instant Cams lariat had caught the
two flying hoofs, while the pony gave
little rush forward, and the big beast
lay sprawling and writhing in tbo
dust, tumbled mass of defeated horse
flesh, which henceforth would no moro
think OF kicking than he would of nv-
ing. -
halfway was peculiarly product
OF the plains and the valleys of the
West. He was born in Kentucky but
mad come to California in infancy, and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-28
Clever Piece of Team work.

The win of the United States anna
the cleverest exhibition of team rae
ing ever seen in this country. The
first contest was tie, and in the run
over the Americans frequently drop
ped back for consultation, for the race
was very SLOW Peabody, as captain of
the team, arranged at first to have each
of his mates watch a man and ride
to beat that man. This might have
won if the Canadians had not caught
on in the first contest, but Captain
Peabody changed his tactics and ar
ranged his plans all over again while
the second race was in progress. He
moved up along the pole himself, with
Wilson on his rear wheel. Then
Moran, of Chelsea, moved up behind
Wilson, with Ingraham on his rear
wheel. This placed the four Ameri-
cans along the pole single file and the
Canadians watched for surprise, rid
ing each one of them on the outside
of an American. In the last lap Pea
body made run out to the front and
brought his team along with him.
Cleared of the Canadians, Moran start
ed for the tape with Ingraham, while
Wilson hung on behind Peabody. The
game worked all right, for Wilson got
first and Ingraham third, while Pea
body took fourth and Moran sixth.
This gave our team the victory by a
wide margin of points.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-28
Mile Figures Lightly Regarded.

Every preparation is being made to
send Major Taylor for the mile
yfraight-away record at the first OPP
portunity in an attempt to place Joe
Downey's figures of lis 2-5 away in
the shade, for it is believed the mile in
one minute is possible. A dozen men
under pay are now securing the coun-
try for straight piece of road two or
three miles in length and level through
out-a hard thing to find in America.
This will be within the limits of New
York city If possible; otherwise in
northern New Jersey. Three miles of
telephone accoutrements and electric
timing apparatus are ready and will
be placed in position within twenty
four hours after locating the right
stretch of roadway. Taylor will be
paced by his steam pacing machine
which he used in Chicago when he did
1922 3-5. He does not value that rec
ord highly now, and McDuffee like
wise believes the time can be lowered
readily with modern pacing. The Bos-
tonian will go to Chicago soon to try
for the figures. Such a contest Is well
come to Taylor, who wants faht for
the greatest record of the yeaT Harry
EIkes also believes that the record as
1t now stands may be beaten, and he
will shortly make trial at Philadel-
phia on the Woodside park track, paced
by a four-horse power gasoline motor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-28
CAM HALFWAY DEAD.
WAS MOST NOTED BRONCO
BUSTER IN AMERICA.
Infatuated steed Quickly Reared ana
Before the Rider Could Act HAD
Fallen Backward Upon Him-How He
Came to Win His Distinction.

In the death of Camden r. Halfway,
which recently occurred as the tragic
sequence of horse ride in San Luis
Obispo county, Cal, the West, and
hence the United States loses its most
distinguished bronco-buster Halfway
was only 2S years old, yet in the brief
span of his career as centaur he had
experienced all the vicissitudes or
which the antics of horse flesh can
plunge the human; his final exploit
rounded out a record of wild daring
and completed with death the last or
these terrible rides. Halfway was by
profession a tanner of wild horses, his
last subject being regarded as untam-
able. The trainer sought to ride the
beast The beast destroyed the trainer.
For six years Cam as he was called
broke broncos for the KEN County
Land company. This corporation was
Weighted with the possession of a
string of beasts whose prime qualities
seemed to be the ability to make
whalebone of their backs and artillery
of their heels. Physically they were
fine animals, sleek, fat and clean, with
their glossy hides filled with spirits as
volatile as any you might get out Of
vial. But they had never been rid
den by any one, and some of them were
turning seven years old. 1t seemed a
crime to kill such animals. and yet
for lack of subsection they were COM
pletely without utility and their own
ership was worse than that of white
elephants.
One day Cam" Halfway entered
the Office of the concern in Bakersfield
and asked employment. The young
man wore Butcher boots spurred with
brass and carried a riders whip
Can you break horses?" asked the
manager.
Gould break steers if need be-" an
swered Cam"
''You are the man who is most de-
sired in this county," replied the Of
fetal; "the job is here waiting for
you"
So Cam" was listed on the COM
pany's pay roll and henceforth became
one of the interesting figures of the
state. His exploits in the reduction of
the Land company animals spread from
the nucleus of KEN county as far as
horse flesh is admired and the daring
of the Western trainer is understood.
Calls came for his services from Ari-
IONA, from Colorado and Montana His
name caused wonder wherever valuable
animals were useless and wasteful to
their owners through never having
been taught the supremacy of human
control.
Among the cowboys he was an espe-
cial pet, and many was the novice
whom Cam" taught to circle the lariat
above his head and strike 1t in a great
tangle of curves through the air, COM
ing down with the loop about the neck
or hoof of some refractory beast. In
deed, when Halfway started his oper-
ations upon wild horse, his first per-
Torrance was to rope it.
When introduced to the band of the
Land company's animals, he asked to
be shown the most refractory of all
the beasts. A large black, shiny fell
low with white eye and a high head
was pointed out to him. The trainer
approached him riding a favorite pony