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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
SECRECY IN M/NIRc.

There is a tendency all over the world
which makes fraud a possibility. Much
of the litigation among mining men in all
sections of the country grows out of a
suppression of details, to a knowledge
of which parties in interest are entitled.
1t is doubtful whether the profits which
some realize out of this system COM
pensate for the losses which the many
suffer.
Aside from the ordinary precautions of
business life there seems to be no legiti-
mate reason why a halo of mystery
should be thrown aroun mining opera
tions. In the long run a great deal more
in the development of properties could
investors be assured that no information
concerning their properties would be
! withheld from them. But such ,assur-
seldom observed.
Thousands upcn thousands of dollars
of eastern money have been invested in
Montana properties, which have been
manipulated by managers and boards of
directors without an intelligent account
ing. The abuses that can grow up under
a system of secrecy are infinite. There
is no limit to them. In many cases the
facts are withheld from stockholders by
managers anxious to retrieve mistakes,
hoping against hope that additional in
vestments may atone for past misfor-
tunes. Like the peculating cashier, they
get in deeper and deeper, until the clos
ing down of the mine becomes a onfes-
sion Of guilt.
Too often. however, base designs lie
behind the management of mining prop
critics, ana the stockholders, unable TO
get any light on the situation, are
worked to a finish before the true stu
alton dawns upon them. A universal
sentiment against secrecy in mining
would prevent Il great deal Of litigation
ana certainly protect the pocket-books
Of thousands of men who invest in min
ing enterprises II coed faith.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
Rfusf The 1os 7fR.

The efforts Of the democratic press to
turn back the tide of patriotic ferver that
is always inspired by our flag in war, and
discount the spirit that carries it to vic
tory on the field Of battle, finds a timely
rebuke in the columns of the Mobile Reg
lister. That newspaper says:
If the fashion prevails of bewailing our
nations effort to maintain the dignity of
it's flag in the face of the enemy, we will
have to revise the sayings Of those who
once We're national heroes. and ask our
children to study them in the following
shape:
GIVE up the ship.'-LaWrence.
BE sure you are right, then apologize
for it.'-Davy Crockett.
We have met the enemy and ours are
theirs."-Oliver Hazard Perry.
wait until you see the whites of theil
eyes, boys; then run."-Andrew Jackson
Don't hold the fort; I am running
w. T. Sherman.
Damn the torpedoes; take a sneak
David Glasgow Farragut.
Il propose to get out of this line If il
axes all summer.'-U. $. Grant
Their stands Jackson like a stone
| wall, but he is a fool to do it.'-Genera
Lee.
when you are ready, Gridley, yol
| may Skedaddle.'-DaWey.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

state senator discovered this strange
custom. So one evening. while await
ing the arrival of his chieftain, he notice.
ed on which hook the coat was hung.
he took it off, hung it on another. hook.
and substituted his own coat, with the
result that the jurist was fooled and the
senator got the cigars. But that would
not nave been so bad had it not hap
pened on this particular night. The
democratic chieftain was anxious to dis
cover who 1T was who kept him supplied
with so fine a brand of cigars. For the
purpose OF ascertaining, some of his
friends made note of the absentees each
night. OF course, if a man wasn't there
he could not have put the cigars in the
coat.
by this process of elimination on this
particular night but two members were
left unde suspicion. One of these was
the eminent jurist, and on that evening
the democratic leader found no cigars
IN ms pocket, thus relieving the jurist
or suspicion. The other membe under
suspicion was not there at all, SO it was
decided that he must be it,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

The democratic Galveston News says:
"One thing he (~Aguinaldo) should be in
formed of particularly. and that is that
most of the talk made in this country
against expansion) is made for political
effect, and is in no way sincere. He
should be informed that, ven if the DEM
ocrats won and had possession Of both
branches of congress and the presidency,
no man of the successful party would
dare suggest the recall of the American
troops till the war is at an end. and ended
by the surrender of Aguinaldo and his
brigands, or by their abandoning their
arms. He should be told that the spirit
of Americanism at this time will not ad-
NIT of dickering With him as long as he
| carries a weapon. He should be told the
truth, and that is that after the war is
ended congress will lave the adjustment
of the future of the Philippine people, and
that at present it looks as if they would
have to become part of the American ma
ton under such rules and regulations as
! the American people may lay down."
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
CROkER's CIGARS.

New York Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean,:
At the Hoffman House yesterday they
We're talking Of a scandal in Richard
Cookers democratic club. 1t appears
that shortly after the elevation of one
Of the eminent @jurists of Tammany hall
to 9 seat in one Of the minor courts this
gentleman thought it would be a kind
and delicate thing to do to supply to
Richard Croker ! sufficient number of
cigars for his daily consumption. There
after, whenever opportunity offered, he
slipped a handful of nerfectos into the
pocket Of the democratic leader and said
nothing about it. Mr.. Croker, of course.
was very much surprised when he put his
hand in his pocket to find a lot of cigars
but the story runs that he was never
able to catch the man who put them
there. When Mi. Croker became a daily
visitor at the democratic club, and it
was his custom to take off his overcoat
and hang it on a certain peg every night,
he found a pocket Of the coat full of ci-
gars when he put it on.
According to the story, an eminent
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
MILLIONAIRE TROUBLED.

New York Journal: The trial of mill
Iionaires keep increasing all the time.
Now comes William Rockefeller with the
assertion that rude persons have been
looking in the windows of his house at
Observation-Disclosures, much to
the annoyance Of himself and his SER
wants. For a time he contemplated
closing the park about his palace to Wis
itors, but in the goodness of his heart he
has compromised. A large sign was
placed in the northern roadway, near the
mansion. Saturday night. 1t reads:
please don't pass in front OF the
house,
There is no apparent restraint on those
who are willing to pass back of the house,
but from the rear the view of the fine
furniture and thousand-dollar frescOeS
and paintings is lacking. Induisitiva
people passing back of the house are liz
danger of getting hit in the eye with a
tureen of soup if they venture to gaze in
the kitchen.
Bicyciists have worried Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter, 100. He says that wheelmen and
M~heelWomen have entered his grounds,
rode over the lawns. tried to make hurd-
les of the flower beds, and scared his pet
animals. Signs barring bicycles and
keeping all visitors to the roadways and
sidewalks adorn the estate these days.
1t appears that Mr.. Rockefeller likes to
have people come and ook him owe but
he objects to the hoi polloi getting on in
innate terms.
The estate swarms with gray squirrals,
which are so tame that they allow them
selves to be picked up and caressed like
kittens. Mr.. Rockefeller believes that
his visitors have taken advantage of the
trusting squirrels by picking them up
and carrying them away. He has issued
orders to his servants that any person
seen trying to decoy a squirrel, or end his
life with anything from d club to a shot
gum, snail be arrested Immediately and
prosecuted to the full extent of the lGNN.
People who do not know Mr.. Rookie
Teller and go up to visit HIM are not go
ing to have such a good time next sum-
mer as they have had heretofore.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

that caused widespread comment. While
the law prohibits an assessment. the right
to contribute funds voluntarily can neith-
er be denied nor abridged. Under demo-
cratic rule the solicitation of funds be-
came so persistent as to practically
amount to ar assessment, and the evil
dent intention of beating around the law
was a notorious feature of the Cleveland
regime.
But while the democracy has practiced
a system of holding up it's o~ffice-holders.
as we'll as coercing laboring men n
making their opportunity to earn their
daily bread contingent upon their voting
the ticket and no questions asked. that
party sets up a terrible howl because
forsooth. it is reported that federal en-
ployes in Ohio ave made voluntary con-
tributions to the fund from which the
expenses Of campaign speakers are being
paid. The eyes of virtuous democratic
newspapers, that wink and blink in APP
kASNo q IN WV oi9 49, -
the polls and compelled to vote the demo-
cratic ticket or starve, and when bourbon
Doodle is scattered broadcast to corrupt
the suffering and the weak, are rolled up
in horror when a federal ofice-holder in
Ohio makes a voluntary contribution to
the legitimate expenses of the state cam
paign.
With a multi-millionaire candidate for
governor in the Buckeye state, with a
corruption FUND perhaps never equailed
in the history of this country. the demo-
Gratis are making a campaign OF the most
d~emoralizing character. To Montanians,
who know what a campaign of coercion
and corruption means, the situation in
Ohio is one that indicates a great deal
to the future of this country. 1t will be
a triumph of Doodle or a triumph Of vir-
tue.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
mi BANKRUPTCY Law.

The prospect that the federal bank
opposition in the neXt session Of con
gress, calls forth the statement that the
national department Of justice will give
that law its strong commendation. 1t
that the law has done much to facilitate
business ana relieve distress.
Thousands of highly educated men met
with disaster during the panic of 1898,
motion, through circumstances over
which they had no control. For such
men to see the accumulations of a life
time swept away was bad enough, but
they We're condemned to penal servitude
for the balance of their days as a pun
ishment for mistakes that We're not their
own. Hungry creditors stood ready to
attempted to again rise in the world.
BY no system of business management
could they escape the remorsele:s hand
of the executor of the courts Judgment
the ruins of the old.
The bankruptcy law alone afforded a
medium Of escape. It gave them an OPP
portunity to again exercise their trained
energies in business hannel and reap
the fruits of industry in the rising tide
of national prosperity. Thousands of
first-class but unfortunate business men
! AVE profted by that law, and in their
new growth, as factors in the progress
of the community in which they live,
they nave added to the welfare of all.
| But for its beneficent provisions such
men would be held down in subordinate
! positions and The world would cease to
profit by their business training and ex-
| perience. 1t is an ordeal from which
, sensitive men shrink, yet it oftentimes
becomes a duty which they owe to those
dependent upon them and the community
at large.
Creditors seldom suffer from the OPP
efdllOuS VI lHis law, iiasiHuoH os oiiu
| tons would prevent them from realizing
! on their investments as a rule did the
broken business man refuse to a ad-
! vantage of the law. The existence of a
bankrupt law will necessarily readjust
the system of credits and place them on
| a better basis, SO that no one suffers in
the end from the workings of this relief
measure. 1t is not likely that congress
will do more than make some necessary
amendments to the law to prevent its
| misuse by dishonest men.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

One million salmon eggs have been
transported from Oregon to Australia.
When i~ncubated the question will arise
whether they are natives of the United
States or Great Britain. The world is
certainly progressing when fish open, up
a new country through a steamship line,
instead of navigating in the old way.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

Though the full quota of volunteers
asked for by the government was Sc
cured some time ago., the opportunity TO
Porto Rico or in Cuba, is still open.
Thousands Of democratic editors who
know Just how to bring the war in Luzon
to a close will continue to remain at
home.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
n ONO CAMPAIGN.

There never has been a time when fed
eral office-holders did not make voluntary
contributions to a political campaign, it
being their right to do SO. During the
administration Of Cleveland funds were
solicited from employees of the govern
ment from ocean to ocean, to an extent
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

AS Admiral Dewey is to marry Mrs.
Hazen, a distant relative of John r. Nc
Lean, democratic candidate for governor
of Ohio, it is presumed that the bourbon
organs will start him in again as a can
didate for the presidency.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
CENTURIES-OLD WOOD

Inat "ood VIII stand the passing oil
.sn'uiies as Wen as metal is proved by
TX unedrthlns near the Nile of some
Egyptian boats nearly 5000 wears old
which are in good condition.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

Governor Smiths Thanksgiving proc
lamation is awaited with feverish anxi-
ETY.. He will make the effort of his life to
please God and the Amalgamated Cop
per company.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

Though most men justify matrimony on
the grounds that it is not good for man to
be alone, Dewey can hardly plead isola>
ton as an excuse.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

AS it was necessary last fall for some
men to vote the democratic ticket to hold
a job, it may be necessary for some men
to yell anti-expansion this fall in order
to get a job.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

In the interest of practical education,
feud districts in the Kentucky mountains,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31

to study life in the wilds. If wise, they
will first visit the museum and practice
on the chuteS.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
LANGUAGE WITH NO GRAMMAR

me Malay language is spoken by NOR,
than 100000 people. 1t is said to b.
easy to learn, as it has almost no gram
MAJ
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07

The will of the late Luther M.
Shaffer was entered on record at the
office of the clerk of the county
court on Tuesday. In it he says all
his debts shall be paid. He wills his
watch and chain and miscellaneous
library to Philip Shaffer, the eldest
son of his brother, Jos. H. Shaffer;
500 for monument to be erected fol
Mary, the daughter of Jos. H. Shaffer
He gives his sister, Rose Shaffer, al
clothes and furniture in his posses
sion. He bequeaths all the remain.
der to Jos. H. Shaffer, as executor oil
his will without bond, and requests
that he pay semi-annually to Rose
Shaffer alif the interests and rents OF
the estate, during her life, and at her
death all the property to be equally
divided among the children of his
brother, Jos. H. Shaffer
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07
Obituary..

On Tuesday, December II. Lucy
Stuckey. wife of c. N. Stuckey, aged
2s years, 10 months and 9 days, died
at her home. She leaves husband
and four children and many friends to
mourn her loss. Her death was sur
prise to the people. She was appar-
emily in good health until last Thurs
day morning. and then her death was
not expected until few hours before
she died. Do not weep dear husband,
the Savior needed another Jewel for
his crown, so he babe His angel come
down to earth to find one. He came
and looking saw your treasure; here
is befttiug gem for my Master
crown He said. one rare and beautiful
50 with scarcely nom ent's warning
He bore her off and now she sparkles
there. AS you stand by her grave re-
member that it only contains the
casket. Lift the eye of faith heaven
ward and there you will see your
treasure among the many that adorn
the diadem of Him who said BLESSED
are the dead who die in the Lord from
henceforth they rest from their labors
and their works do follow them
The funeral sermon was delivered
in the U. B. church by Rev. G. w
Slower. Interment by the side of her
little son who was buried two DAYS
before in the cemetery at this place.
You need not dig it very wide,
Nor dig it very deep.
The grave in which to hide,
My Lucy, gone to sleep.
But dig it where the sun will shine.
Upon it all the day,
And birds and blossom all combine,
To drive the gloom away.
How slow the days will come and go,
Now Lucy's gone away,
But God will love her best | know,
Although weep today
n. F. W.
Jones Spring.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07
Died in HedgesyiIle.

Mr. George William Shaffer, an
aged and respected citizen of Hedges.
vile, died of paralysis on Tuesday
night at his home, IN that place. He
has been in declining health tor the
past year and in the early tall received
a stroke of paralysis, followed later
on by several other strokes, which re-
suited in his death.
Mr.. Shaffer was born in Darkes-
vile in the year 1914 and while a
young man moved to Hedgesville and
engaged in the wagon making bust
ness until the past few years, when
on account of old age and declining
health, he lived a retired life. He
was in his S4th year He was the
Oldest son of Geo. and Margaret
Shaffer, and the brother OF Mr.. Luther
M. Shaffer whose funeral he attended
in this city last Saturday. He leaves
two brothers and two sisters: Mr..
Joseph H., and Miss Rose Shaffer. of
this city; Mr.. David NJ. Shaffer, Of
this county, aud Mrs. Elizabeth
Davis. Of Ohio. The funeral took
place in Hedgesville yesterday.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07
Held for the Grand Jury.

The trial of Edw Ridout and VIM.
Brown, the colored men who took
part in the shooting scrap in "Africa"
on Monday of last week, an account
of which was given in the Herald,
took place before Justice Byers on
Tuesday. Their case was to have
been heard on Tuesday of last week.
but Ridout, on account of injuries re-
ceived in the fight, was not able to at
tend the trial apd it was postponed
until this Tuesday. The Justice,
after hearing the evidence, said that
they evidently shot with intent to
kill and he would therefore remand
them to Jail until the action of the
next grand jury. They each gave a
bond of $500 to appear when needed.
Prosecuting Attorney Pitzer appear ed
for the State and H. H. Emmert fol
Brown. Ridout had no lawyer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07

AT the regular meeting OF the City
Band on Monday night the following
officers were elected: President, p.
c. Curtis; vice president, c. A. Mantz,
secretary, B. F. Dooley; treasurer, c.
A Young; director, Prof. Fred Lus-
comb. The band has decided to hold
a fair in the Central Opera House
during February. A concert will also
be given in the First M. f. church
the latter part of this month by the
Faculty of Wilson College of Cham
bersburg. The band has put the
price Of admission at rs cents to
everybody, and the members will
soon wait upon you with tickets.
Let everybody go and help the boys
along.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07

Miss Fannie Trump Seibert, wife Of
MIR. Ellis Seibert, died suddenly alter
few hours illness, of heart disease,
at her home at Vanclevesyille, Mon
day morning, at 1880 o'clock. She
had been in apparent good health un-
til Sunday night when she was taken
suddenly i'll and kept growing worse
until death resulted. She is the
daughter of Mr. Augustus Trump, of
Kearneysville, and neice of Rev. G. S.
Trump, of this place. A husband
and young son survive her The
funeral services were held "Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock in the Re-
formed church at Kearneysville. In.
torment was at Shspherdstown. Rev.
G. G. Everhart, of Shepherdstowu,
assisted by Rev. c. S. Trump, of this
city, conducted the services.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07
ADDITIONAL PERSONALS.

Mr.. Hunter Riddle, Of Chambers
burg. spent Monday with relatives in
this city.
Mrs. Peter Shriver, OF North Queen
street. has returned from her visit to
Cum berland.
Mr.. Stuart Stalnaker and sister,
Elizabeth, have returned to school at
. Morgantown.
Miss Helen Files and Miss Stillwell,
Of near Kcarney sville. were visitors
to Martinshufg o. Monday.
Miss Sue NJ Iomlsll has gone on
an extended visit 10 her brother, Mr..
II. j. Homrich, at Huntington.
Miss Bessie Lamon has returned to
her duties at the office Of the u. S.
Fish Commission at Washington.
Mrs. Sophia Herr and daughter,
Lena, of Charlestown, formerly Of this
city, were the guests Of Mr.. David
We'll, on Wednesday.
Mr.. 9. =. Trump. who has been in
Kentucky for several weeks came
home to attend the funeral Of his
! sister, Mrs. Ellis Seibert.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07
Robbed the Grave,

A startling incident, of which Mr..
John Oliver, of Philadelphia. was the
subject. is lrrated by him as follows:
II was in most dreadful condition
My skin was almost yellow. eyes sunk
en-, tongue coated, pain continually in
back and sides, no appetite gradually
growing weaker day by day. Three
physicians had given me up. For
tunately. friend advised trying Elec-
trio Bitters. and to my great Joy and
surprise the first bottle made decided
improvement. / continued their use
for three weeks. and am now well
man. / know they saved my life. and
robbed the grave of another victim !"
No one should fail to try them Only
so cents per bottle, at Matthaei's Phar-
macy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07
How's Thisl

We, offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
FL. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, O..
We the undersigned. have known
F. ]. Cheney for the last IS years.
and believe him perfectly honorable,
in all business transactions and finan--
cially able to carry out any obliga-
tons made by their firm.
West & TRUAx. Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, O.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists. Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Price. 7sc. per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07

Messrs. Herbert l.. Alexander,
Alex. Clohan and c. w. Boyer left
on Tuesday night for New York, in
response to summons by the Judge
Of the United States Court for the
Southern district OF New York, to
testify in behalf Of the United States
in case against parties connected
with the bogus Interior Fire Insur-
ance Company. which claimed to
have It's Office in this city.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-01-07

Mrs. Susanna Runkle departed this
life on Monday morning, at 3 o'clock
at her home, 22r Pennsylvania Ave.
after an illness of several days of the
grip, aged GO years, She leaves a
husband, Mr. John j. Runkle, two
daughters and one son. The funeral
took place on Wednesday, at O'Clock
fromlthe United Brethren church and
the interment was in Green Hill.