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II LGER'S name again: this time
in association with the name of
! Gage They have it now that
Gage and Alger are out. 1t appears that
Alger took the name of Gage in vain
In defending his alliance with Cover
nor Pingree the secretary of war re-
ferred to Secretary Cages Independent
course toward the president in regard
to proposed currency legislation. He
did this in a statement for publication
He claimed for himself the same free
dom of independent action in political
matters that the secretary of the treas
ury had taken. Mr. Gage and his
friends saw in this statement a covert
reflection upon the secretary and a be-
trayal of administration affairs. They
even claimed that the assertions Of
Secretary Alger were not strictly ac-
curate.
This is the testimony Of the Washing
ton correspondent of one of the most
ohequious administration organs in the
land. 1t is pretty well known that Al
ger and Gage have never heartily
agreed: Alger now goes SO far as to say
that Gage Is at the head OF a conspir-
acy that contemplates a war-secretary
change in the cabinet; and they do say
that. having heard this, Gage remarked
that the Pingree incident would prompt
the president TO ask Alger to retire.
Nobody believes that President Nc
kinney will ever ask Alger to quit the
tE Iii Of
man for the place. Besides, somehow,
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In the Best of Humor.

Double Proof.-"Do you believe in
heredity, Mrs. SIMPSON,"
'Indeed, | do every mean trait Bobby
has l can trace right back to his father.
Does his father believe in heredity?'
Yes; he traces Bobby's faults all back
to me."-Chicago Record.
Aunt Sophia-And is Tommy good 1T
tie boy at school?
Tommy--Yes, auntie.
Aunt Sophia--And why is Tommy good
little boy?
Tommy-Cause it's better fun to see the
other boys get a lickin' than to get one
yourself.-Boston Transcript.
She-When are you going to give me the
money to buy that new dress?
He-Next week.
"That's what YOU said last week"
Yes, and that's what l say now, and
am going to say next week. amt the
kind of a man who says one thing one
week and another thing next week Tit
Bits.
Deacon Johnson-Do you fink you kood
support NAH daughter eff you married
her?
Jim Jackson-Suttunly.
Deacon Johnson-Hab you ebber seen
her eat?
Jim Jackson-Suttunly.
Deacon Johnson--Hab you ebber seen
her eat when nobody was watchih her?-
What to Eat.
Weary Wnlie-The Lord is purity good
to the human race, even to you and me.
Wandering Mke-Td like Ter TO know
how.
Weary Wnle-well. for instant. in
maxim us so that we ken swalef our
beer down. S'pose we had to go to the
exertion of swallerin up. just like horse
does water?-Star Of Hope.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07
One Chinese wall and Another.

From the Omaha Bee.
1t is announced that the famous great
wall of China is to be torn down. Just
what good can be accomplished by the de-
struction of this famous work is not
stated. In these days it is useless as a
military defense. but stands as a gigantic
monument to tell what persistent industry
can accomplish. The wall which China
needs to tear down is that of superstitious
exclusiveness which makes progress an
impossibility. gr'W
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Innovations Nav Be Expected.

From the Lafayette Journal.
A department for the Co.onies, such as
has been suggested, has very mon
archial sound, but 1t is to be remembered
that we have made rapid progress away
from our original ideas Of government.
When the bill of rights is considered bun
combe, the Declaration of Independence a
rank fraud and the constitution back
number, there is little reason for offering
objection to any further innovations on
the part of the administration.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07

State and national conventions, speak
ing for the respective parties, prepare
platform planks thanking soldiers and
sailors for instance, for their service
in the Spanish war. No issue is thus
presented. And often, when national
conventions publish their platforms,
they really do not know which plank
is to furnish the campaigns living is
sue In 1880, months after the repub-
lican national convention, it was cur
rent belief that Garfield was about to
lose New York and probably the presi-
dency. A little more than three weeks
before the election General Hancock,
the rival candidate, made an awk-
ward remark about the tariff Instantly
this was seized upon and worked to
the limit" and what was thus accom-
pllshed undoubtedly saved Garfield.
Not longer ago than 1896, the national
convention which nominated Mr.. Nc
Kinley made a desperate effort to
force issues that would keep the silver
question in the background, and failed
utterly in the attempt. The people
ventons fail to put forward the right
ones, the people make them just the
same.
The trouble with the trusts, as an
issue, is that both of the national con-
ventons will denounce them, and thus
there will not be an issue presenting
the essential two well-defined sides. 1t
ing the trusts is growing. 1t is true
that, unless some of the biggest of
them totter and fall to pieces within
a year-as the Standard believes some
of them will-they will be even more
formidable in the autumn of 1900 than
they are in the summer of 1899. 1t
is also true that what has been aptly
described as the mushroom growth Of
the trusts is largely the product of
the present administration. But the
| republicans will mount the antitrust
stumps and harangue the voters with
as much zeal as If they were honest in
their declarations against the trust
monster; just as republican campaign
ers persuade thousands of shallow
pate men that the hope of silver was
in the republican party. Why, only
a few years ago right in Granite, in
our own state, Thomas B. Reed. cam
paigning for Mr.. Carter, said: MY
fellow citizens, l am silver's friend and
silvers interests are safest in the re-
publican party" And there were
grown men, voting citizens, even in
Granite, who actually believed this!
Undoubtedly, as the net result of a
trust discussion, this country's democ-
racy would get much the best of it,
but be the platform planks what they
may or their order what you please,
the fact remains that the country's
voting millions will have a clear-cut
issue next year. Silver will be the is
sue in 1900 All the contriving and
hedging and evasion of these days and
of the coming months will go for
! naught. Free coinage will be at the
| front. The republicans fear it; and
ocrats of 1896 dread it; and that's an
| other good sign. 1t will come: and
| when the people, Cheered rather than
| discouraged by the results scored three
the old-standard trust, they will be
I dealing directly with the arch trust.
| the pioneer trust, the parent trust, the
| most devastating trust of them all.
%
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"Tummy's" Derby Day Dinner Set.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
The silver dinner service used at the
dinner given by the Prince of Wales.
in accordance with an old custom, on
the evening of Derby day. is worth
100000 and Is a masterpiece of the
silversmith's art. The guests on this
occasion number AZ and the service Is
equal to company and the menu,
which Is the finest that can be devised
by the princes chef. Only one feature
is singularly absent from the royal
board. No finger bowls are ever al
lowed on the table.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07
The People Themselves to Blame.

From the Buffalo Enquirer.
We have no sympathy with persons who
complain and beg sympathy when they
have the remedy for the their troubles in
their own hands The remedy for trusts
Is in the hands of the masses of the peo-
pie whom men like Mr.. Havemeyer plum
der. As long as the people are too lazy.
ignorant and weak TO use their remedy it
is best for them to be plundered, and you
may depend upon it they will be plum
dered
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which Madrid wants information will
doubtless get answer in the sequel to
the action which our own government
intends presently to take. The setting
up of territorial government in Porto
Rico will draw out declarations of in
tentfnn
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Paying q High-Priced Piper.

From the New York World.
The treasury experts reckon that the
new internal revenue taxes levied to meet
the cost Of war will yield about $40 900
during the next fiscal year And it VIII
require every dollar of this revenue added
to regular receipts. to carry the country
through the year without deficit Ihat
is to say, although the war with Spain
ended nearly a year ago, Mr.. Mckinley's
war in the Philippines will cose us $780,
100000 year for an indefinite time to
come
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Public Criticism and Free Speech.

From the Springfield, Mass, Republican.
1t is a waste of time to attempt to ST.
lence the anti-imperialists by this con-
tinued cry of treason. Minds which are
highly sensitive to ethical considerations
simply obey the law of their being in OPP
posing what they conceive to be wrong
wherever it may be found. 1t is impossi-
BILE for them to conceal their sympathy
with right, as they understand it, Denun-
citation only stiffens them in their attitude
/. and they will stand straight, with heads
: barred to the blast, though the heavens
fall.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07
AIcer Between Two stools.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t looks as if Secretary Alger had got
himself into a hole. He cannot continue
his political partnership with Pingree
without offending the president after that
Pingree offensive declaration. He cannot
now break with Pingree to please the
president without forfeiting all hope of
the senatorship. He is in danger of falling
between the Mckinley and Pingree stools
and hurting himself seriously.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07

Alger evidently has some sort Of mys-
FERROUS hold on the president and feels
sure that he will never be put out. Pub
lie opinion has done its best to force
Alger out of the cabinet and has failed
lamentably. If Gage proposes to tackle
the job it will interest the public to see
what success he has.
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New York O-.ce--4s Tribune Building.
Chicago Office--469 The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
Eastern Representatives.
Washington Bureau-1,4 AIS G St, N. w.
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From the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Ambassador Choate was nearly scared
to death when he found himself likely to
rank with Joe Miller as an author.
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The Standard has branch offices at
Butte Missoula and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plication
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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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A clock is being constructed for Liver
pool street station in London. The inte-
rlor of its case could allow five persons to
dine comfortably.
The value of bicycles owned in Maine is
1924 APO This is only $1,000 less than the
value of the entire street railway proper
ties of the state.
The population of the South African Re-
public consists of s., 1000 Beers, $1,000 other
whites, called Uitlanders, and 100000 KAT
frs and Zulus.
OF the 1,600, 900, 600 people who constitute
the population of the entire world about
l,400,O 600 are represented In the peace
conference at The Hague.
Hawaii will import 1000 japanese labor
ers this year. This will increase the jap
anese and Chinese population to about
$780, as compared with $1,000 Hawaiian
natives and 5000 Americans.
About s65, 100000 of insolvent indebted
ness has been wiped out or discharged
since the new bankruptcy law went into
effect. Most Of this Indebtedness was of
long standing and practically uncollecti-
Bile.
The Paris fire department has recently
been provided with an electric wagon,
which will carry II persons, In addition to
supply of ropes and ladders. The ve-
hlcle was recently tested with a full load
of passengers and equipment, and sue
ceeded in maintaining speed of Is miles
per hour.
According to the London Shoe and
leather Record, the Yankee shoe is stead
lily making Roadway in the favor of the
English wearers, the imports of American
footwear for the ten months ending April
30 last into England amounting in round
figures to 100000, as compared with G49,-
600 for the same period during the pre-
YiouS year.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07

OF $4,000 children in Edinbure
schools, 10000 are connected with II
Band of Hope.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07

The population of the South African Re
public consists of 5000 Beers, $1,000 othe
whites. called Uitlanders, and 100000 Kaf
frs and Zulus.
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Minor Matters.

clock is being constructed for Liver
pool street station in London. The inte-
rlor of its case could allow five persons to
dine comfortably.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07

The value of bicycles owned in Maine Il
1924, APO This is only $1,000 less than thu
value of the entire street railway proper
ties of the state.
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Last year the value Of the stone
quarried in this country Is given al
$3S, 270,354.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07

Lumbermen at Portland, Ore, ar
now shipping 100000 feet of lumbe
to Northern China.
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OF the 1000, OO0 600 people who constitu
the population of the entire world abo
l,40o000, COO are represented In the pea
conference at The Hague.
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Muscatel grapes have advanced in
price in California from Sc to $40 per
ton.
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Hawaii will import 1000 Japanese labor
ers this year. This will increase the Jap
anesa and Chinese population to about
$1,000, as compared with $1,000 Hawaiian
natives and 5000 Americans
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Postage free for the United States, Can
ada and Mexico. Elsewhere
postage added.
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Main Ofice-Standard Block, Anaconda.
TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
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Business Office ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I
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The gross expenses Of the state of New
York in the year 1899 will, 1t Is computed,
amount to $50 900, 600, of which nearly 10
per cent. will be necessary to pay the de-
ficits of departments which exceeded in
1898 or in previous years the appropria-
tions made for them.
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Lumber to the value of 100000
annually used in Jerusalem, much
it for orange boxes.
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A pet thrush owned by New York mar
sang so long and loudly in the early
morning that formal complaint was en-
tered before a magistrate. The latter Or
dered the bird to be kept in doors and
the cage covered with a dark cloth until
a reasonable hour in the morning.
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Cornsta1ks continue to look up. They
yield cellulose worth 500 a ton, for stop
ping holes in battleships fine cardboard
and paper, the best foundation for dyna-
mite, a patent cattle food and superior
glue But it is said that $50, 900, 900 tons of
cornstalks still go to waste every year in
this country
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In 1856 the Erie canal carried to tide
water 1.4S9,000 tons of vegetable food
in 1897 it carried but $4,000 tons.
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THE ANACONDA STANDARD

STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Publishers and Proprietors.
Printed Every Day in the Year.
Entered at the postoffice al Anaconda as
second class mail matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-18

. -, .. Almost simultaneously the
crashing Of glass was heard on the secoho No9l
of the hotel and the curtains were seen ~ 00 d"
flames .. ho
Instort,v there was panic in the street pe-
low Women shrieked as they ran from the
noiqbborhood of the hotel and as the hfe was
coon N snread with ominous rapidly, the street
became filed with an excited mass u pe'P'0
shouting for fire engines ana heip'
In the first few moments the utmost coiiius'o"
nrAvailed Every man, woman anu
seemed to 20 literally mad. AS people appear" az
tho windows Of the hotel. appealing by Pa'he''
ard all too eloquent gestures for ald' the N"o"'
odco ir.uitiyelv fell upon the crowd that escape
had been cut off from the upper hoors'
screamed and tainted, while men who forced
their way toward the doors of the hoteI iii'e".
on rescue were met by frightened throng OF
noorlo living from the burning building.
CROWDS RUSH TO THE SCENE
The panic was added to by the surging toward
the scene of the fire of thousands OF people WIN
wore gathered along the avenue In either ureo-
ton For blocks the crowd was so densey
hacked that women who had tainted rom tne
tension Of feeling under which they ia0o'e0
were suppor ted they stood
60 ouicklv did tho thoroughfare become
|
arrived only few minutes after the alarm
was turned in were greatly hampered in
! their efforts to reach the fire. Engines ana
ladder trucks which came late In response 10
other alarms. were even more seriously impeded'
| Not only Fifth-ave but the sides streets were
so compactly filed that it was with the ut"'os'
difficulty passageway was formed
ROOFS AND WINDOWS FILLED.
In fact. the sghtseors themselves made re-
,narkable sight Aside from the multiiudes IN
the streets every window which commanded a
| ,,eyv of the fire had occupants who looked with
awe and in many instances hysterical emotion
unon the incidents Of horror and death which
followed quickly one upon another as the flames
ate their way floor above floor.
| AS far down as the Waidorf-Astoria. at Thlr-
| tv-fourth-st the roofs Of the houses on ooth
sides Of the avenue were covered with people.
Tho same was true of the houses I'm the norther-
ly direction as far as the Plaza.
II is almost a certainty that only for the ef-
| forts Of the police a great many lives would
| have been lost when the walls OF IN" hotel teli'
| Recognizing the unusual conditions that were 20
| he coped with, Chief DeVery ordered OUT the
| reserves from fifteen surrounding precincts
| Even with this force on hand the police had al
they could do to keep the crowds at safe as
| lance and at times 1t was necessary 10 PACK
| nersuason with the club. In many instances
| the police were obliged to resort TO Nigor-
Gus measures TO make lane Tor Ue
| passage OF the ambulances with their loads OF
burned and injured.
While these scenes taking place IN the
streets the fire had enveloped the whole build
ms TERROR IN THE HOTEL
Although the first engines arrived within a
very few moments after the alarm was sounded
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removed TO another place. Her phys'c'a"' 49,
Harlan Simon. thinks she will recover. .o,,od
An old man who was cripple, was LES. 90
IN the fourth floor by Captain Emil H. ra'. ,rha
Company L. 57th Regiment. L. ?. -, he
crippled man had been made unconsclo1' ~
smoke. and was burned about the heau'
HE HEARD AN EXPLOSION
Mr. Hartman the manager OF the ho'a"
House. said last evening to reporter -
.tor,,y ofter the fire in the Windsor started
man and his daughter applied 10 MIN io'
rooms They were much excited and sald they
nod beep looking at rooms in the Wihosoi
they had walked to the elevator on the seconu
door when the fire broke out The flames n,,t
so rapidly that they had to De ca Iiore only
tbroueh The windows. although they were Un -
- second floor and the fire had startvu
onIv minute or two before the ma" aaon n",
that that he heard an explosion, wn'''
80 ,,' co,nc from outside OF the building. -, NJ
1obn clifford twenty-five years OLD OF 40.
etG Fast Forty-eighth-st.. who Is an assistant
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HOW RUIN WAS WROUGHT.
Confined from first page.

ber IN safety NJ the buckingham Hotel, az Fifth
ave and Fiftieth-st
Tho greatest confusion reigned in the avenue
and tho streets about the hotel until late IN the
evening While the fire was In progress the
oronuo and thc streets were given over to the
Fire Denartment and 10 the ambulances. when
canoe from every hospital in the city. The
daods of the frcmen and their amateur as
s,s,onts were heroic, and thousands OF the
watching helpless crowd cheered them on IL
was all over in a little more than an hour, how
orsr and there was nothing left to do but pour
water on the ruins which were too hot to allow
, soorch FIR the missing whose bodies were sup
posed TO he lying there
I,ter in The evening came the throngs VINO
had friends or relatives staying at the hotel
and who were clamoring for news of the saiety
of their friends and loved ones. little after
G o'clock the fire was controlled, but at that
hour there was little left of the Windsor Hotel
hnt smoking rubbish and the partially standing
walls on the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh-st
sides.
MISS GOULDS KINDNESS.
Az soon as II became evident that many were
dead and injured Miss Helen Gould threw open
her house which stands at the northeast corner
Of Fifth-ave. and Forty-seventhst.. Just across
from the hotel for the benefit OF those VINO
were hurt In few minutes the house had be-
come n temporary hospital. where the injured
could he taken until the ambuances could carry
them to the hospitals. When part OF the
Forty seventh-st wall fell out into the street II
looked for n few minutes as If Miss Gould
house vould take fire. and orders were given
for everybody to leave it. The fire patrol began
N carry out valuable paintings and furniture
among tho pictures being a portrait OF Jay
Could But the firemen soon had the flames
undcr control. and Miss Gould's house was not
appreclably injured.
Chief Bonner said that the hotel had proved
ver,table fire trap. It was built in accordance
with the regulations Of the Department years
ago. no doubt. hut the manner In which the
flames licked II up left no room for doubt as
10 the main cause Of the frightful disaster
The hotel was equipped with hose ana
! hvdrants and pumps equal in force TO six OF
tho most powerful of the fire engines OF the
CITY. but there was no time 10 make use or
them. and II Is doubtful if they would have
been Of any use in any case.