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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
FOR BUILDING A CUL VERT
Anaconda Company Asks the
City to Pay It 5000.
WILL ENTER A PROTEST
Trades and Labor Assembly Object to
Lease the Auditorium to Heath.
City Will Not Get Much From
Delinquent Tax Sales.

The lumber department of the Ana
conda company submitted a petition to
the city clerk yesterday which will be
presented TO the council at tonight
meeting, asking to be reimbursed for
expenses voluntarily incurred in the
construction of a culvert in the alley
east of Arizona street, very mucn-
needed improvement. Some time ago
the residents of the vicinity petition
ed the council for the culvert, but the
petition was unfavorably act on, and
as the water from melting SHOWS and
storms caused great inconvenience and
considerable damage. the company vol
unteered to put in she culvert, trusting
to the council to reimburse it when the
benefits became apparent as they now
have. The document reads:
February 27, 1S9e-The Honorable
Mayor and City Council, Butte, Mont
Gentlemen: The consideration of your
honcrab BILE body is most respectfully re-
quoted by your petitioner to the Veri-
fed claim attached, amounting to
S96664. The claim covers an eXpendi-
ture for material and labor furnished
Tor Il closed cuvert commencing at the
Northern Pacific tracks in the alley be-
tween Arizona and Oregon avenues.
thence TO the B., A. & P. tracks, a dist
ance of 362 feet. The culvert is con-
structed of SKIS fir being four feet in
the clear. The bottom of the culvert
IS framed and covered with a flooring
of four-inch fir planks firmly nailed
with 40d spikes. The top and sides are
bolted together with ss-inch bolts. Your
petitioner being DESTROYS of making
some permanent Improvement largely
beneficial to the City, found it necessary
to initiate some movement for the i'm
mediate and permanent care of the
large volume of water that was flow
ing from the Northern Pacific culvert
into the alley and thence over the prop
erty of your petitioner. From the stand
point of permanency, your petitioner
could find but one solution of the prob
lem-that being the immediate con-
struction of the closed cuvert which
was undertaken and completed by your
petitioner some time in November, 1898.
The immediate property damaged by
this unlimited flow of water is located
in block 4, Central addition of the city
of Butte, the ownership of which is
vested solely in your petitioner.
Your petitioner feels justified in the
assurance chat the locality in question
oughfares of our city in a short period
Of time In view of the fact that your
petitioner is in no way responsible for
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

San Francisco, Feb. 2S.-Mrs. Cordelia
Botkin, convicted of murder and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. has not yet
gene to the penitentiary. The Chronicle
says: pending the completion of the bill
of exceptions by her attorney, George H.
knight her case is covered by different
stays. Al first 20 days were granted, lasT
week 10 days were added to that ana
Judge Cook will be asked for stay until
the appeal is perfected. which will make
the woman secure until the supreme court
decides upon an appeal, and it may be
that the supreme court of the United
States will have the last say"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
A BAD BOY.
Lawrence Borden a Fit Subject for the
Reform School.

Lawrence Borden Fit Subject for the
Reform School. 49,.
Lawrence Borden, a 14-year-old boy,
was bound over to the district court
yesterday by Justice Bliss of South
Butte, who certified to the higher court
that the lad was a fit subject for the re-
form school. Young Borden was arrest
ed on the night of Feb. for stealing a
case Of succotash from in front of Bow
mans grocery store at South Butte. For
some time the Bowmans had been
greatly annoyed by the theving opera
tons of boys, and on this night a trap
was set. A case of succotash was left
outside the door and the store people
then laid in wait. Some boys, of whom
Borden was one, soon came along and
he promptly lugged off the succotash.
but did not get far before he was over
taken. 1t was decided to take action
looking to his being sent to the reform
school, which terminated in his being
bound over yesterday.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
Unwarranted Arrest.

e. ]. Marks, carpenter. was arrest
ed yesterday charged with stealing d
diamond worth $40 from the residence
of E. E. Hensley at IA South Jackson
street. Marks was doing some work at
the Hensley house Monday when the
diamond was missed, and believing he
took it, the family had him arrested,
but it appears the arrest was unwar-
ranted, as he was subsequently released
at Hensleys request.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
For Stealing a Cart.

Two men giving the names of E. c.
Leach and William Berelt were arrest
ed yesterday charged with stealing a
cart belonging to a Mrs. Mullan. A
horse and cart We're taken, but the
horse came back. A complaint charg
ing petit larceny was filed against the
men in Justice Smiths court at South
Butte
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
SUSPECTED OF BURGLARY.
James Watson Arrested on Belief That
He Went Through Mullins House.

Detective Murphy yesterday arrested
James Watson, alias Burke, an ex-
convict, on suspicion of being the man
who went through the house of E. C.
Mullin few nights ago. Watson an
swers the description furnished by a
boy who saw man enter the house.
When asked by Detective Murphy yes
terday what he was doing for a living
since he left Deer Lodge, short time
ago, Watson said he was soliciting for
a number of business houses. but was
unable to give their names. He will be
held pending further investigation.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
Will Sail Il Race.

Montreal, Feb. 2S.-Tle Royal st. Law
renee Yacht club has accepted chal-
lenge of the White Bear club of ST. Paul
to sail match races. the best three out
of five. on or about June II, between the
Dominion and one from the White Bear
clubs last years boats for trophy
which Is to be put I'D by the Royal st.
Lawrence Yacht club.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
Contract LaboreTs.

New York. Feb. 2S.--Fifty-three Spanish
miners. who arrived on the Umbria Sun
day, destined for the West, have been or
dered deported. 1t is asserted that they
came under contract to work for a
wealthy Spaniard at Boise City.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

Paris of To- day-the handsomest pre-
MUM book ever ofiered-now ready for
delivery upon payment of $40 in ad-
vance for one years subscription to
The Standard. Can be obtained at
Standard office in Butte. Anaconda.
Missoula or Great Falls.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

l wish to tender the members of Butte
lodge No. 1, Scandinavian Brotherhood,
the employees of the Blue Jay mine and
all others my heartfelt thanks to those
who kindly assisted me during the ILL
ness of my husband, William Anderson.
Mrs. Lena Anderson.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

Frank Britton, thu proponent of the will
of A. c. White, decreased yesterday filed
his answer to the contest of Mrs. Rose
White. He denies that the value of the
estate is $1,000. and says it is not more
than $4,000, and that there are legitimate
Gains against the estate amounting to
s.. 700
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
Shades of Meaning.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
The Growler-Confound these newspa-
perst Why can't they say a man was
paralyzed instead of stricken with par
alystE?
The Bibbler-Because the meaning is
totally otherwise.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

New York. Feb. 2S.-Daniel l.. G. Fro
bisher, well-known trotting horse
writer and authority, is dead in this city,
aged 60 years.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

Halifax. N. S., Feb. 2S.-Messrs. Rios
and Rivera the Filipino commissioners
have sailed on the steamer California for
Liverpool.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

Judge Clancy held Il short session of
court yesterday and vacated the settings
in the cases of the Eclipse Stove company
against P. H. Regan. j. Roller against j.
Fred Loeber william Il. Benham against
the Standard Publishing company, and
Kate Clarity agains. t1e Inter Mountain
Publishing company. The case of W. II.
Stokes against Charles Fisher ct al. was
dismissed for want If prosecution, and
the case of w. A. Clark against Silas F.
King was ordered removed to the United
States court
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

received orders, in anticipation of the
stamps being placed on sale, for a consd-
cradle portion of his supply, one person
having sent $50 for 10 sets.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

London, Feb. 2S.-The Daily Mail this
morning announces the breakup of the
transatlantic liner combine. owing to
American liner managers having reduced
iirst-class fares to $50 and second-class to
S35. 1t is rumored, according to the same
authorities, that the White Star Steam
ship company will reduce rates to even
lower figures and that a keen rate war
will result. -aR
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

Do you want to buy or sell Boston
& Montana. Butte & Boston or Parrot
stocks: We receive quotations from
Boston every 80 minutes. Thompson
Investment company.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

From the results thus far in the sale
of property for delinquent city taxes,
it does not apear that the city will de-
rive a very large amount of revenue
from the sale. The sale was commenced
Monday morning by City Treasurer Nc
Carthy and about half the list has been
gone through. Out of all the pieces of
property offered for sale, but q have
been purchased by other parties than
the city, all the rest having been bid in
for the city. The total the city will
realize from the purchases made so far,
is s340 out of a total of something like
$4,000 delinquent taxes that were due
at the time the sale started. The sale
will be continued to-day.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

All the new magazines just received
at the postoffice news stand.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

The Trades and Labor assembly are
going to make a vigorous kick against
the council granting the proposition of
H. E. Heath to lease the Auditorium.
Yesterday Phil Corcoran, editor of the
Rocky Mountain Celt. called on City
Clerk Holland and informed him the
Trades and Labor assembly had, a 2
recent meeting. decided to enter pro-
test. Mr. Corcoran stated that the as
sembly had adopted resolutions against
the granting of the proposal and had
appointed committee to look after the
matter with the council AS member
of that committee, Mr.. Corcoran called
to inquire what were the proper steps
for the committee to take to present
their protest to the council. He was
informed the light and building com
mittee would meet to-day to consider
the proposition, and rhe proper course
for those wishing to protest was to ap-
pear before the committee.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01

the origin of the cause that made the
construction of the culvert a positive
and immediate necessity, your petition
er prays for relief and most respect
fully requests some action on the par
of your honorable body tending toward
an investigation of the character of
the work performed and the allowance
of the claim herewith attached. Yours
respectfully,
"A. c. NJ. Co. Lumber Department.
GEORGE F. HALLA, Manager
Accompanying the petition is Neri-
fed bill for 1866 g.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10
WOMAN'S WORK.
She Is Made to Feel That Only Men
Do Work That COun ts in the
Worlds Affairs.

1t is unreasonable to expect that
man, with his purely masculine concep-
ton of things, can ever fully appreci-
ate woman's work in the home, any
more than woman can be expected to
understand fully n mans work in the
outer world. But so far women have
acquired truer conception of mems
work than men have of woInen's work
l firmly believe that if men were more
appreciatlve of Women's work in the
home, and regarded housewifery as a
profession, and Il responsible one. de-
serving of the highest respect, and re-
qulring quite as much brain and edu-
cation as any masculine profession,
there would be fewer women looking
for broader fields of work and more re-
sponsible duties. Men have made won.
en- feel too keenly that it is what man
does; that it is his profession which
moves the world, and that the work
which woman does in her home is
while necessary, yet hardly to be com
pared with mans achievements. 1t is
this holding up the greater Importance
of the work of the outside world which
has driven many an ambitious woman
into that world to become a part of
1t, and thus acquire position of more
apparent Importance. Not given rec
ognition in their natural work, women
have gone out and tried work that is
unnatural to them-Edward W. Box.
in Ladies' Home Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10
THE LOUNGING HABIT.
Easily Acquired by Children md
Injurious to the Spinal
Column.

The habit of sitting in n lounging po-
sition is very bad one. yet it is one
into which children and young people
are apt to fall. Many mysterious cases
of spinal disease may be traced to the
practice of lounging in q chair with the
spine curved in an unnatural position.
The old-fashioned school seats were
often so stiffly shaped that in order to
obtain any comfortable posture the
child was compelled to assume certain
lounging attitude. This old school seat
was therefore responsible for many
cases of curvature of the spine. The
hard, upright-backed school chair of
old times is now generally superseded
by chair with a comfortable seat slop-
ing slightly backward, and the school
desk is arranged at the proper distance
from the floor. The school chair there
fore offers no temptation to the child
to assume a position that invites spinal
disease. Not only does the position of
the habitual lounger produce contin-
ual strain on one side of the spine. with
corresponding depressions on the 9TH
er, but it also gives rise to various nerv-
Gus difficulties and to affections of the
brain. One of the indications of the
approach of that dread disease, which
will slowly transform the slender. erect
figure of the young girl into that of a
deformed humpback, is the lounging
habit. 1t is also one of the causes of
the disease, which entails with its de-
formity a life of the most excruciating
suffering. A habitually incorrect sit
ting position has frequently been the
entire cause of the change from a
healthy, robust girl to a chronic in
valid. Young, indolent people easily
fall into the lazy habit of half lolling
in a chair or any other place where they
are seated. The position is unnatural,
but it is very difficult to persuade young
people who are inclined to easy" WAYS
that it is so.
There is a great deal of wisdom in
| doing everything that you do thorough
ly. No one can rest in a halfway man
ner. The only satisfactory rest is re-
ceived when the body is in fully re-
| cumbent position, and this is the only
| natural position for person in health
| to rest in. Children should be watched
| from their earliest childhood No dis
ease is more stealthy in its beginnings
| than spinal disease. The little boy that
mopes when he should be playing with
| his mates, who lounges when he should
be exercising as all healthy boys delight
to exercise. by running and jumping OF
in other athletic ways, is too often suf
fering from the first symptoms of some
insidious disease. which will finally
make him helpless cripple. The warn
| ing in this matter cannot come too soon
When disease of the spine is fully de-
| veloped it is often too late to offer any
| remedy.-N. Y. Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10
A NEGRO WINS A SUIT.
George Dining. Who Had His House
Burned by White Men, Gets Judg-
ment Against Them.

Louisville, Ky, May IA jury of
representative Kentucky farmers in
the federal district court here yester-
day returned verdict in favor of
George Dinning, the negro who has
been suing the mob that fired upon
him and burned his home and one of
whom he killed. He was awarded $3O,-
900 damages, the full amount he sued
for. The defendants were all white
men, but they possess no property and
have already announced their inten-
tion of going to Jail ten days and then
will secure their release by taking the
1nsolvent debtors oath. The mob
went to Dinning's house in Franklin
county in January, 1897. They warned
him to leave and fred upon him. He
fired back at them and killed farmer
named John Conn, who was leading
them. For this he was tried and re-
ceived a sentence of two years in the
penitentiary, but was at once par
doned by Gov. Bradley and then
brought the $4,000 suit.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10
THE LEAD OUTPUT.
Missouri and Kansas Take the First Posi-.
tion Among the Lead Pro-
ducing States.

Washington, May 7.-Some impressive
figures, showing the position of Mis-
souri, and Kansas among the lead pro-
ducing states, were obtained yesterday:
During the year 1898 Missouri smelters pro-
duced from ore raised in Missouri and in Kansas
4O,3S6 net tons Of pig lead, Kansas smelters
turned out ,465 net tons, while Iowa made 795
tons Besides this the large silver lead smelters
purchased ores in Missouri Kansas Wisconsin
and Illinois; the lead contents of the Missouri
and Kansas ores treated were 10, ,3OS net tons,
while Wisconsin is credited with 1,11S net
TONS and Illinois with 200 net tors. The whole
group of states, therefore, made a total tonnage
OF pig lead Of 54.341 net tons in 1893. OF this
total q 444 tons were produced by the four large
plants in southeast Missouri the ST. Joseph,
Central. Mine La Motto and Desloge, at their
own smelling works. An additional quantity
was smelted by plants in the st. Louis district
The participation of Missouri in the district of
which Joplin, Mo-, and Galena, Kan, are the
centers cannot be determined, because they are
drawn upon both by local and distant reduc-
tion works, which do not trace the origin
CLOSELY,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10
Mana Fable.

Once upon time man insanely con-
ceived it were spring, and laid aside his
winter underwear.
The next day it was very cold, and the
man. venturing abroad. fell through a
coal hole in the sidewalk, whereupon he
cursed the weather
Had IL not turned cold.' he ex-
claimed, nobody would have had occa-
sion to open his coal hole!"
He did not reflect. seemingly, that if
he had retained his fiannels suitable for
The season, these would have rendered
him so large that he couldn't fall
through coal hole.
This fable teaches that men are ex-
reedingly unreasonable, al times.-De-
troit Journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10
TREES THAT GROW BREAD.
Butter, Milk, TaIIOw and Soap Also
the Products of Forest
MOnarchs.

The bread-fruit tree of Ceylon is very
remarkable. Its fruit is baked and
eaten as we eat bread, and is equally
good and nutritious. In Barbutu, South
America, is tree which by piercing
the trunk produces milk with which the
inhabitants feed their children. In the
interior of Africa is tree which pro-
duces excellent butter. 1t resembles
the American oak, and its fruit, from
which the butter is prepared, is not
unlike the olive. Park, the great tray-
eler, declared that the butter surpassed
any made in England from cows milk.
At Sierra Leone is the cream-fruit tree.
the fruit of which is quite agreeable in
taste. At Table Bay, near the Cape
of Good Hope, is small tree the ber-
ries of which make excellent candles.
1t is also found in the Azores. The veg
etable tallow tree also grows in Sumat-
ra, in Algeria and in China. In the is
land of Chusan large quantities of oil
and tallow are extracted from its fruit,
which is gathered in November or De-
cember, when the tree has lost all it's
leaves. The bark of tree in China pro-
duces beautiful soap. Trees of the
sapindus or soap-berry order also grow
in the north of Africa. They are amaz-
ingly prolific, and their fruit contains
about 3S per cent. of saponin.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS,

A PAPAL bull proclaims holy jubi
lee for the year 1900.
A BLOODY free-for-all fight occurred
at Norton, KY, between Jim Bowie,
Arch Combs, Noah Fally, his brother
John and three or four other men who
were at the house of a man named Cox,
drinking and playing cards. They
fought for several minutes, when it
was discovered that one man had been
killed, two others fatally injured and
three seriously hurt.
THE Chicago Chronicle stated that
makers of steel fence wire who are
outside the trust met in Chicago for
the purpose of forming a combin alton
and erecting plant at some point
within the Indiana gas belt. The
companies number IA and were COM
PEELED to get together in order to com
pete successfully with the steel and
wire trust.
CRACKsMEN blew open the safe in the
Standard Oil company's office at St.
Joseph, Mo-, the other night and par
tally wrecked the brick building. Sew
eral hundred dollars and valuable pa
pers were taken. Dynamite was used
and window glass in surrounding build
ings was shattered.
SAN FERNANDO was set on fire and
then evacuated by the Filipino rebels
on the 5th. Gen. Macarthur then oc-
cupied the burning town. Gen. Law
ton captured over 1900 bushels of
rice and 265 tons of sugar at Balinag.
THE street railway strikers and sym
in, n,,l,,
mite to stop the running of cars on the
night of the 5th and four cars were
derailed. One man was seriously in
| jured and several others hurt.
JUDGE MCMAsTER, at Indianapolis.
Ind, has instructed the secretary of
the Order of the Iron Hall to pay the
final dividend-one-fifth of five per
cent. This will close the receivership
which has existed seven years and
which involved the collection and dis
tribution of S2,O0O,O00. OF the 63. 600
members throughout the country 40, 900
proved their claims. The total dividend
has been 35 Is per cent.
THE war department was informed
that the transport Sheridan left Ma
gasaki on the 4th on her way to San
Francisco with sick and wounded SOL
diers from the Philippines
THE final organization of the Rubber
Goods Manufacturing company has
been completed, dispatch from New
York stated. The authorized capital of
the company is S25, 600 of seven per
cent. cumulative preferred stock and
| SIS. 600, 900 of common stock.
THE business failures in the United
| States for the week ended the 5th num-
bered 164, according to Bradstreet's &
commercial report, against 1s4 in the
corresponding week a year ago.
| THE Association of American Physi.
clans convened at Washington the Sd.
THE double hanging of William
| Strather and Charles Winston took
place at Washington on the 5th. Each
| of the victims killed woman because
of jealousy.
A FIRE of unknown origin destroyed
Charles Bachrach's clothing store at
Philadelphia and before the flames
| were subdued about Is other buildings,
| principally small dwellings in the vi
| cinity, were badly damaged. The. en-
tire loss was estimated at $15O. 200.