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A Steel Conthine-

New York May 1.-The Times says:
The rumors of an immense combination
of steel interests are practically con-
tirmed by John w. Gates. president of
the American Steel and Wire company,
who returned from a European trip on
Saturday. The combination, unless the
present plans fail, will be composed
of the big concerns of the country and
will have a capitalization of between
100000, 900 and $500, 900, 900 The propos-
ed combination is yet far from COM
plete in point of detail, but the pres
ence in this city of the representatives.
of the greatest interests of the United
States leads Mr.. Gates to say that in
all probability the next few days will
develop something tangible.
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CHANGES WILL Be MADE
County Commissioners Will I'M
prove the New Jail.
DISCUSSED THE QUESTION
No Decision Was Taken at Their Meet
ing Yesterday-The Board Will De-
eide To-Day-Several Bills
Ordered Paid.

The board of county commissioners
met yesterday in special session, the
three members being present. The OBJ
ject of the meeting was to consider sew
eral contemplated changes to be made
in the building of the cells in the jail
at the new court house. The question
was discussed at length, but the board
did not act on the matter yesterday.
They will decide on the changes to-
day.
The board ordered that the amount of
$2,506.94, due Dolan p Hamill on the
estimate of tie court house for the
month of April. be paid. The estimate
is as follows: Sixteen thousand feet of
stone cutting at 40 cents, S640; 1896
feet of sandstone settings at Is cents.
S44490; to setting of granite, 500; los
$40 bricks in wall, less cost of bricks,
81, 56444; window frames and setting
same. 5000: total, $2.949.34.
Under the building contract. Dolan
& Hamill receive So per cent of the
total, which is $2,506.94, and the archi
tect. II. NJ Patterson, receives S501l
for the supervision.
1t was ordered by the board that the
county surveyor be paid for his SER
vices at the rate of S1.400 a year for
seven months, commencing April l,
1899. w. f. Pinegar's salary as county
surveyor for two months was ordered
paid, the amount being $216.65.
Several monthly poor bills We're aud
tied and ordered paid and the board adj
jOurned until this morning.
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Wool Auction Sales.

London, May 1.-The wool auction sales
opened to-day with a large attendance of
buyers. The offerings numbered 1l323
bales, including a fine show of Queens
land and New South Wales merinos, prn-
clpally greasy. The continental buyers
were eager to secure these goods and they
entered into strong competition with the
home trade, which stimulated the advance,
which was most pronounced.
Fine Well-grown and a small supply of
secured sold briskly; crossbreds were well
represented with the finer grades showing
an advance of 10 per cent, and medium
selling "a per cent lower. The offerings
of this stock We're largely taken by York
shire. a small selection of Cape of Good
Hope and Natal sold quickly at lOml5c per
cent. advance The trade was well rep
resented except Americans. The bidding
throughout the sale was very active.
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A GRAND BALL.
Deer Lodge Society Present in Crowds at
the May Day Ball.

the May Day Ball.
Special Dispatch I'd the Standard.
Deer Lodge. May 2.-The May day
concert and ball, given last night by
the Citizens band was one Of the
marked successes Of the season socially
and financially, and was very largely
attended. After the concert, which
lasted for about two hours, dancing
commenced and continued until early
morning, and all who participated in
the dance seemed 10 be full of mirth
and jollity and dstefnlined to get their
moneys worth Of What is generally I'M
5derstood to be the last dance to be hcld
around. i was indeed one of the
good old-tme dances" The supper
was furnished by the Ladies' guild of
the Episcopal church and every good
thing Imaginable was set before the
guests. The edibles We're contributed
by the ladies of our town and such
cookery was never eXcelled and seldom
3df ever, equaled. And as to quantity
the parable of the loaves and fishes
was again exemplified, for after feeding
everyone who came, they had more left
than when they began.
I Quite a number of people from out
side communities were present, and cv-
3erybody seemed to be out for good
time, and it looked as though none we're
disappointed.
J. H. Lawton, a railroad man from
Spokane, went through here on Sunday
nights overland for Kansas City to at
tend the meeting of railroad men to be
held in that place soon.
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ANACONDA news.
DEER LODGE IS BOOMING
Considerable Work Is Being
Done by the Northern Pacific.
ON THE MONTANA UNION
Large Force OF Laborers Brought From
Garrison to the Dempsey Creek
Hill-The Business Men Are
Right in 1t.
ON THE MONTANA UNION

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Deer Lodge, May 2.--Last Sunday
was busy day on the Montana Union
branch of the Northern Pacific. upon
which line improvements of great mag
nitude were commenced more than two
weeks ago A large force of laborers
were taken from Garrison, where they
are making extensive repairs, to the
Dempsey creek hill for the purpose of
assisting the gang there in moving the
track from its old bed into the new cut
which had just been completed. A mile
or more of track was moved and relaii
at distance of about II feet east of
its former bed and trains began to i'm
mediately run over the new grade,
which will hereafter be exclusively
used, and is a much lighter pull than
the old one, in climbing which heavy
trains were frequently stalled. Fifty
additional railroad laborers are expect
ed here to-day from Spokane and will
be at once put to work on the Montana
Union branch, swelling the number to
200 or more, and it is said they will be
kept at work all summer. There is also
work to be done by the big steam shovel
which will keep it busy for two months
The work to be done on this line the
present summer will cost. it is esti-
mated, between 100000 and $3.50 900
Deer Lodge business men are also reap
ing some benefit from the increased
number Of laborers at work in this vi
cinity. 1t is said leading grocery
firm yesterday sold $500 worth of goods
to the Dempsey creek gang.
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The Con Mcyey Act.

Wheeling, w. Va, May oscar
Gardner the Omaha Kid" in order
to save his brother, Eddie. of this city,
from being knocked out by Jack Nc
Clelland of Pittsburg at the Metro
politan club, did the Con McVey act
in the final round of 20-round con-
test. The lads weighed in at 124
pounds and the fighting was fast and
clever. Eddie Gardeners blocking has
great endurance keeping him on his
feet until the goth round. He was grog-
gy in the 10Th, and in the Goth could
have stayed the limit, as there was
only one minute and Is seconds to
fight. McClelland would have gotten
the decision, but Oscar feared the beat
ing Eddie was taking might have fatal
results. McCleland is to meet Oscar
within two weeks at the Lenox Ath-
letic club New York.
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Insurance Commission

Washington, May 1.-The royal COM
mission on insurance appointed by the
Prussian minister of the interior to
visit the United States and settle the
long pending and veXatious contro-
Nersy over admitting life insurance
companies to do business in Germany
and German companies to do business
in the United States, has arrived here.
The members of the commission, Herr
knebodelbritz and Marshall Won Bic
bernstein. paid their respects 10 the Ger
man ambassador to-day, and accom-
panied by him were presented to Sec
rotary Hay.
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Strikes in Cleveland,

Cleveland, O., May There were
several strikes here to-day. Two hun
dred laborcrs struck for an eight-hour
day and $3.50. Before noon they mad
secured what they asked for and re-
furned to work.
Two hundred plasterers also struck
for So day for eight hours. About so
hOd-carriers went out on a demand for
an advance of from $3.50 to 81 a day.
Seventy-tiVe structural iron workers
also struck for 80 cents an hour and an
eight-hour day. There were no disturb
ances Of any kind.
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win Wed a Swedish Count.

Des Moines. Iowa, May 2.-Extensive
preparations have peen made for the cele-
hrations of the marriage in this city this
evening of Count Alex Carl Wachtmeister
secretary of the Swedish vice consul of
Chicago. and Miss Beulah Cooper Hubbell,
daughter of F. NJ. Hubbell of Des MoneS.
The wedding will be attended by 80 of the
relatives and intimate friends of the fam
lily. The ceremony will take place at 1870
and at s o clock a reception will be held
to which several hundred Des Moines
friends will be invited
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THE COUNTYS FINANCES
County Treasurer Twohy Files
His Report for April.
BALANCE OF $78,328.8O
A Reduction of More Than 81 900 In the
Treasury During the Month-The
Amount on Hand for the Court
House Fund Is Large.

County Treasurer P. D. Twohy yester-
day filed with County Clerk Martin his
report for the month of April. 1t shows
that the balance in the treasury on April
was SS6, II, and that on April 80 it had
been reduced to S7S,32S. 80. The court house
fund shows a balance on hand on April
so of s57, 1850
Following is the full report:
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Deer Lodge to Anaconda.

Any resident of Deer Lodge who is
affected with defective vision and poor
eye sight, will be allowed his railroad
fare to Anaconda if he purchases a
pair of our perfect eye glasses All ex-
aminatons of the eye are free. Cas-
sdy, expert ophthalmic optician, Mon
tana hotel.
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When Nature

Needs assistance it may be best to rem
der it promptly. but one should remem-
Der to use even the most perfect RENE
dies only when needed. The best and
most simple and gentle remedy is the
Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co.
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Chicago Man Is Pastor.

Chicago, May ITO representatives of
the Chicago diocese of the Protestant
Episcopal church belongs the honor of
placing the first church of that dcnomna-
ton in the islands of the West Indies,
which have recently come into the con-
troll of the United States. Churches will
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MEETING OF THE AlERTS.
mt. Tucker Unanimously Elected Manager


mt. Tucker Unanimously Elected Manager
of the Club.
"A meeting of the Alert baseball club
of this city was held in the parlors of
the Leland last evening. Eight of the
members were present. Mr.. Tucker
was unanimously elected manager of
the club for the ensuing season. Mr.
Tucker made a brief speech thank
ing the players for the Kindness they
had shown him. On motion of Mr.
Grafton vote of thanks was unani-
mously rendered Captain Leonard for
his ability as a "rustler" in regard to
getting up the team and keeping it
together. A practice game will be
played next Sunday at Athletic field
with the Anaconda team.
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Live stock.

Chicago. May 2,--Cattle-The cattle mar
ket slow to-day. with prices on the
down grade. Fancy lots sold at $5.40u
$50; choice steers, $5.05mo.35; medium.
81 5an4 Is: stockers and feeders, So. S0m3 49,
beef steers. SiG4.50: cows and heifers, 80
Ntt.25: bulls. $3.60G4l0: Western fed
steers, 81 .20dt5. 20; Texas steers, $3.90m4 30;
calves. $4I6. 70.
Hogs--There was afairly active demand
for hogs at yesterdays decline. Fair to
choice. SO. 75u3 80; heavy packers. S3.550
So. 72l5 mixed $3.6513.sO; butchers, $'.6jGt
3.S5: light grades, $S.65M3.S5; pigs, 50 30tt
so
Sheep--There was an active demand for
sheep at previous prices; Colorado wooded
lambs. $5.S5G6; clipped lambs, S5M5. 90
culls, s4.50a4.75: spring lambs, $sG12 per
100 pounds; yearlings, $5.l0dD5. 25; sheep,
S3.50n5.15: a great many fed Westerns
bought I.T5G5.1j.
Receipts-Cattle, $500; hogs, 1900;
sheep, 1000.
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Washington, May 2.-To-day's state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $26l, 223,
Gil; gold reserve S243 $50, 15I.
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We are located in Anaconda perma-
nently. Cassidy. expert Ophthalmic
optician, Montana hotel
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-03

Squirting eyes corrected by our per.
feet fitting glasses. Cassidy, ophthal-
mic optician, Montana hotel.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-03

Our glasses are ground to fit the eye
and not the eye made to fit the glasses.
Cassidy, optician. Montana hotel.
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Can you read at night with artificial
light? If not. have your eyes exam
ined. Cassidy, ophthalmic optician,
Montana hotel. ~
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Special sale on all trimmed hats to-
day, Monday and Tuesday at the Ana
conda Millinery Parlors, 416 E. Park.
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Treasury Statement,

Eyes examined free Cassidy, eye
specialist, Montana hotel.
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Sporting goods dirt cheap at L. A
Kings.
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Eyes examined free. Cassidy, eye
specialist, Montana hotel.
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We are located in Anaconda perma-
nently. Cassidy, expert ophthalmiC
optiCian, Montana hotel.
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evening. The note, after asking for in
formation regarding the American pris-
oners in General Luna's hands, CON
cluded with the message that he (Gen-
eral MacArthur) would be pleased to
meet General Luna.
Major Shields and Lieutenant Hayne
found a span of railroad bridge a mile
from st. Thomas broken.
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Yorktown Men Safe.
Manila. May 1.-The first authentic
regarding Lieut.. J. c. Gil
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Cross eyes Strengthened by our cor
rect and proper fitting glasses. Cas-
sidy, expert optician.
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Headaches and nervousness cured by
properly fitted glasses. Cassidy, oph-
thalmic optician, Montana hotel.
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If your distant vision is not good,
have your eyes examined. Cassidy,
ophthalmic optician, Montana hotel.
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If your distant vision is not good,
have your eyes. examined. Cassidy,
ophthalmc optician, Montana hotel.
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New wheels from S25 up at Wrights
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A man who was unable to give his
name was arrested last evening by
Officers Jack White and Frank OBrien
charged with drunkenness.
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The numerous friends of Barney Nc
Ginley will be grieved to learn that
his condition last evening was very
serious and that he was failing rap
idly.
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Mrs. D. f. keleher and son, Artie
left yesterday for their home at Black
foot, Idaho. They will remain there for
the summer months.
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Fraternal Union of America calico
ball at Turner hall May 16. Tickets
ST.. Margaret theateT orchestra.
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Harvard's Race.

e view of the forecasts that had been
given out, Yale's defeat in yester-
days university race is the more
surprising. The pull over the New
London course, as described this morn
ing, must have been a beautiful spec
tacle-there was no guessing what the
result would be until the rival crews
were well advanced over the last mile
of the course. The prediction had been
that Yale would win; very nearly all
of the prophecies We're to that effect,
the report being that the Yale crew
was made up of the finest possible ma
terial and that it was in better form
than Harvard's. You never can tell"
Yesterdays race brought about the
old-time rivalry with which the veter-
ans in beat-raeing are familiar. Nearly
fifty years ago the struggle between
crews of Yale and Harvard began.
During the fifties these rivals met fire.
quently on New England waters. There
was a lapse during part of the civil
war days, but the contests were re-
sumed in 1864 and they have been an
annual incident, with few Interruptions,
until now. In 1871 the so-called inter-
university races began; these, for a
series of years, brought Yale and Har-
| ward into competition with crews from
other schools. Later on the inter-col-
| legiate races We're the chief attraction.
| Last year and in 1897 Cornell was in
| the race with Yale and Harvard, and
| in both races Cornell won. This year
| the two old-time rivals had it out be-
| tween themselves and Harvard was
winner in a race which, as described in
the press dispatches, must have been of
extreme interest from the start.
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Not Next Year.

@ GENTLY Governor Roosevelt
~ made a trip across several of
" the middle-west states. He was
received everywhere with unbounded
enthusiasm. Vast assemblages of peo-
pie went wild over fim-his experience
was altogether unlike that of any for
mer New York governor who has start
ed out on his travels. Teddy" Roose-
welt travels on his military record, and
it is a good one: but there are those
who see in these popular demonstra
tons the signs of a Roosevelt presiden-
tial possibility in 1900.
Events make Governor Roosevelt SIM
| ply an impossibility, when it comes to
making up the list of those who by any
chance may figure in next years presi-
Dental gossip. The republican policy
| for the next twelvemonth will be pre-
cisely what Mr.. Mark Hanna orders it
to be-the course of republican politics
will not depart by hair from that
which he DEGREES. He is thoroughly
the master of the party--it does not
dare to depart from his orders. If at
any time between now and the meeting
! of the national republican convention
next year Plat and Quay and a lot of
| the western bosses were to combine
| against Hanna that would make no
odds-single-h anded he could down
| them all, if William Mckinley lives.
| Hanna proposes a nomination for a
second term for Mckinley. and, if they
wanted to try it on, the other republic
| can bosses with more or less of national
| fame couldn't stop it.
MIR. Hanna has slated Mckinley, and
! even if, for any imaginable reason, Mr..
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VIVID PICTURE OF CASTELAR,.
How the Famous Spaniard Appeared
just Before Addressing the Cortes.

How the Famous Spaniard Appeared
Just Before Addressing the Cortes.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Stage fright as nervousness in a
| person who is to make public address
has come to be known, is not confined
to those whose experience in this line
is limited. When Spain was a repub-
lie Don CASTELAR,, the president, was
noted to be the finest orator in the Iber
ian peninsula. Yet he never made a
speech without suffering extreme nerv
BUSINESS and confusion just before com
mencing it.
Don Castelar's friend, the Italian Ed
| monde De Anicis, in his Spain and
the Spaniards," has thus graphically
described him as he appeared before
the cortes:
"On the day he is to speak
the president arranges matters so that
his turn comes when the tribunes are
crowded and all the deputies in their
places. His newspapers announce his
speech the evening before, SO that the
ladies may procure tickets.
Before speaking he is restless and can
not keep quiet one instant. He enters
the chamber, leaves it, re-enters, goes
out again, wanders through the corri-
doris, goes into the library and turns
| over the leaves of a book; rushes into
the cafe to take a glass of water, seems
will not know how to put the words to-
gether; that he will be laughed at or
Kissed; not a single lucid idea of his
speech remains in his head-he has
confused and forgotten everything.
How is your pulse?' his friend asks
smilingly. When the solemn moment
arrives he takes his place with bowed
head trembling and pallid as a man
| condemned to death, who is resigned to
losing in single day all the glory &C
quired with SO many years of fatigue.
He gives a glance around him and
says, 'Senores.' He is saved! His cour-
age returns. His mind grows clear and
his speech comes back to him like
forgotten air He speaks by
the hour and not single deputy leaves
the chamber not a person moves in the
tribunes, not a voice interrupts him;
not even when he breaks the regula-
lions has the president sufficient cour-
age to interrupt HIM. He displays at
his ease the picture of the republic
clothed in white and crowned with
roses and the monarchists do not dare
protest, because, so clothed, they, too,
| find it beautiful CASTELAR, is master of
the assembly; he thunders, lightens
| sothes, RACES, CLEANS like a firework,
makes his auditors smile, calls forth
| shouts of enthusiasm and goes away
| with his head in a whirl.''
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Personal Mention.

In his younger days Emperor Franz
loser rose at a. m. in summer, put ne
now sleeps until a. m.
Kudyard Kipling has been assured of his
immortality by Reproduction in wax for
the Madame Eussaud exhibitin in London
John Walter of the London Times left
as a legacy to his daughter one of the
advertising columns of the paper. 1t is
reported that so far the column has
brought her a steady income of $3.50 a
day.
Edgar D. Crawford, who was recently
admitted to the bar at Atlanta, Ca, is
the youngest lawyer in that state, If not
in the country. He is not quite II years
old, but was recently graduated with
honors from the law school OF Mercer
university
The doubt which has been expressed
about the middle initial of General Grant s
name does not apply to U. S. Grant, Sd.
who has been chosen a member of the
Northwestern university's faculty. His
name is Ulysses Sherman.
In the second week of June Miss Helen
Gould received 600 begging letters, in
which the total amount asked for was
over s1,0OO,000.
Joseph Jefferson is a great tea drinker
and has lately been warned by his ply
sicians to give up the habit lest he should
imperil his health, which since his illness
of last winter. continues very poor.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dean Howels, ac-
cording to a recent story. had discus
sion as to the words "lunch" and "lunch-
con- Mrs. Howells championing the lat
ter word. Her husband appealed to a die
tionary and read the quotation there given
supporting the use of ''lunch." From
what author is that taken?" asked Mrs.
Howells, why, I declare, from w. d.
Hcwells!' oh" replied the authors wife,
laughing, hes no authority"