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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-14
LOCAL NOTES.

ben Hager returned Friday night
from a trip to st. Paul.
-Livingston's new sewerage system
will only cost about $4,000.
Miss Dora Gruwell has gone to
Helena for a few weeks visit.
Sunday was the birthday Of Abra.
ham Lincoln, the emancipation.
Remember the concert at the opera
house Saturday night: Tickets are now
on sale.
Geo. Towne ct Bridger was in the
city the latter part of last week for a
couple Of days.
F. A. Stein, a jeweler of Miles
City. was in Billings last night on his
way to Red Lodge.
Congressman ELECT A. J. Campbell
passed through the city Friday on his
way to Washington.
w. A. Talmage of Red Lodge was
in the city last night en- route home
from an eastern trip.
III. Keiser and w. B. Hill Of Crow
Agency are looking after business mat
tiers in this city today.
Cold weather freezes up most
everything and not even local news is
excluded from the list.
If you would show your appreoia-
tion Of local musical talent, attend the
concert Saturday night.
Geo. Gordon, of the lumber firm Of
Gordon Bros. Of Livingston, was in the
city on business Saturday.
Chris Carstens, the new proprietor
OF the hotel at Columbus. was in Bill
ings yesterday on business.
Conductor Hammond of the Bur-
lington is taking a layoff this week, be-
ing somewhat under the weather.
M. @. Morris, the new proprietor
of the Billings Times, left Saturday
night on a business trip to Helena.
IN. +. Trask Of Lavina is the proud
daddy of a bouncing boy baby, born
to Mrs. Trask in this city yesterday.
-As Linooln's birthday is a national
holiday, the banks and postofice closed
up shop yesterday and had an outing.
The various building enterprises
about the city have been greatly de-
1ayed by the continued cold weather.
DIR. w. 0. Allen, the Billings den
fist, is in Big Timber. He will visit
Columbus professionally on his way
back. \
If you love music attend the con-
cert at the opera house Saturday night.
Get your seats now at Iceberg, Holmes
& Calhoun's.
Allan Farrell, Vigo Iceberg and s.
g. Reynolds returned this morning
from q couple Of days sojourn at Hunt
er's Hot Springs.
ii. H. Profit, a woll-known citizen
OF Livingston, has come to Billings for
We purpose of organizing a lodge of
Medern Woodmen.
-Vhe Ladies' Aid society Of the Con-
gregata0nal church will meet in regular
session q the home OF Mxs. J. r. Goss
on tonorrav afternoon.
Sister Nseodora. the sister superior
u ST. Vinoelit's hospital. left Friday
niRnt Tor Anaconda in the interests OF
the institusion in this city.
-E. W. Griffin Of Butte was in tho
oaty Yesterday GU hasiness. Mr.. Griffin
- manager OF the lumber department Of
the Anaconda Mining eompsny.
Hon. A. H. Haboook has hsen son.
nned TO bis hone for u weak or tep days
pAss with III attack Of neuralgia. He
II sllaAa hahtav SoLu- ..I -v -
again.
-ghs marriage AZ Mr.. 0sosss I.
nsvsns and 1tns Tesste rinoh viii osks
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-14

Dyspepsia can be cured by using
Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets. One little
Tablet will give immediate relief or
money refunded. Sold in handsome tin
boxes at rs cents. Sold by Chapple
Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-14
SoRTHHRN PACIFIC TRAINS.

WEST BOUND.
ARRIVES. DEPARTS.
Mail No. 1 500 p. m. $40 p. m.
EAST BOUND.
ARRIVES. DEPARTS.
Mail No. 2. 500 a. m. $40 a. m.
RED LODGE BRANCH.
ARRIVES. DEPARTS
Accommodation -. .7:1O p. m. 700 a. m.
Daily Except Sunday.
GEBO, ,BRIDGER q CARBON BRANCH.
ARRIVES. DEPARTS.
Accommodation ;. y. 600 p. n. 800 a. m.
Daily except Sunday.
n. N. KENNEDY, Agent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-14
TRAINS.
BILLINGS

General Delivery 1870 a. m. to 100 p. m.
Sundays 80. 800 a. m. to 1890 a. m.
Money Order Dept. $50 a. m. to $50 p. m.
NAIL CLOSES.
Train No. Western /. /. ....... .7:45 p. m.
Train No. 2-Eastern .. 7:45 a. m.
Train No. 1l-Red Lodge, Mont,
and Big Horn county, Wyo.....6:30 a. m.
Great Falls stage. -. Gas a. m.
, L.. f. BABCOCK. Postmaster.
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AT WORK.

Force an Entrance to Toole s. vauglan's
store-Frig htened Away.
Burglars are no respecters Of weather
and SO have begun to ply their art in
this city again. Sunday night, or
rather Monday morning, between the
hours of IL and / O'clock, a burglar or
burglars forced an entrance to the
grocery store Of Toole & Van CHAN.
One Of the lower panels Of the door was
knocked in with an x and here the
burglar entered. OF course he visited
the money till and in trying to open it
rang the bell. This aroused r. Kirk,
a clerk who sleeps IN the rear Of the
store. He arose, but by this time Mr..
Burglar commenced to get leary and
made a hurried exit. AS he was going
ont through the opening made ID the
door Kirk took a shot at hin, bnt
missed his man. Although Kirk fol-
lowed and stepped outside the door he
could see nothing Of the burglar. just
what the burglar secured is hard to
tell, as he might have taken various
PARTICLES without the same being pissed.
Suspects Arrested./
Marshal Jack Bond ~lastnight arrest
ed four men charging Them with vag-
rancy. The mel had looms in the Sa-
varesy building, butAeemed to have no
means Of support and when arrested
their rooms were we'll supplied with
groceries. A couple Of watches were
found besides, and one of the men,,
named Davie, answering a fair do scrip-
'tion Of the burglar who entered Tocle
& Vaughan's store Sunday night, the
whole quartette were locked up as
suspects. Davie will have an examina-
tion before Justice Fraser this after
noon.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-14
SNOWATILLA

Is the finest preparation that can be used for
chapped hands, sun-burns, wind-burns OF frost.
bites. It is cooling, healing and refreshing to
the irritated skin. It is not greasy. It IS in.
stantly absorbed by the skin. Gloves may be.
worn Immediately after using. The finest
cream for general toilet use. Sold by
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-14
Suspects Arrestedx

A SHOOTING AT MussELsH4 IL.
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84-2.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
AN ACCOUNTABLE SUGGESTION.

One of the members Of the Legisla-
ture says:
ST think an act ought to be passed
now providing that at the elections an
elector shall go to the polls alone and
receive from an election officer the
ticket which he puts in the box; the
election Office not to be required to tell
him how to mark his ticket. This will
leave the election officer free to help
white men and not help negroes"
But be not deceived. Any one with
intelligence enough to read between
the lines can see that this, being inter
preted is: This will leave the election
officer free to help men Of his own par
ty and refuse aiG to men Of other par
ties. IT North Carolina is to have such
a law let us Icy again say that this
a land of liberty. But we have too
much confidence in the present General
Assembly to believe that such a law
will be made.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

to employ them in public work which
could not be undertaken with free Ia
Dor by a of the excessive cost.
An appropriation of $50 600 was made
and rock crushers erected IN the prison
grounds, which during the last year
turned out 100, 900 tons of crushed
rock. This was sold to the counties
and cities at Is cents per ton. The
proposition in Tennessee is, however, to
have the State furnish this material
free. In California the railroads real
izing that with construction OF good
roads tributary to their lines, increased
business would come to them, have
given very low rates Of transporta
ton for the material. This general
plan has been very successful and has
led to the construction of many miles
of macadamized roads and road i'm.
provement. The subject, generally, OF
utilizing convict labor in the construc
ton and improvement of State roads
is attracting considerable attention IN
various States, and is believed to pre-
sent a solution to the road problem
and at the same time stop labor agita'
ton against convict labor for manu-
featuring purposes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
POLITICAL INcoNGRU1rIRs.

The Washington correspondent Of a
prominent Western newspaper notes
som9 very interesting changes that are
taking place in the political woruld.
He calls attention to the fact that
Andrew Carnegie, plutocrat. and DR..
Parkhurst, puritan, have joined hands
in opposition to Imperialism; that o
81. P. Belmont, the millionaire New
York clubman, has started a weekly
newspaper advocating the income tax
that President Mckinley has been
preaching the gospel of peaca and good
will between the South and the North,
and has worn a Confederate badge;
that Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
once a subscriber to the doctrine that
the constitution with slavery in it was
"a covenant with hell" now boldly
proclaims that the downfall Of the re-
public will date from the inauguration
of William Mckinley to the Presi
dency that General Joe Wheeler, one
of the few surviving lieutenant gen
erals Of the Confederacy and a life
long Democrat, declares that the c0un
try owes a debt of gratitude to Nc
Kinlay, which can only be discharged
by ~electing him to a second term in the
White House.
All this sounds very nice but the
campaign Of 1900 will doub less prove
that npithnr the millnniI1m nor tho ora
OF good feeling has yet arrived.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
COFFEE AND TaA ADULTERA-
TIO%.

The North Carolina Agricultural Ex
pertinent Station as before noted in
these columns has instituted an investi
cation of the food supplies for sale in
the State, with O view to ascertaining
the extent to which adulteration il
p~racticed.
The second bulletin of the series re
lates to Coffee and Tea, and is the re,
suit of the work OF Director w. A.
Withers and Mr.. G. 8. Traps, assistant
chemist. The samples were purchased
in the open market.
Twenty samples of coffee were ex
smined and seven, representing thirty
five per cent, were found adulterated.
LoWn's Capital, Star and another
without a name, were found excessive,
ly glazed; Red Seal, Hero, and Crescent
Smith Bros) were found to contain
excessive amounts Of coffee screenings,
and Number Twelve was found exces-
siveiy glazsd and to contain also an ex.
cessive amount of screenings.
Ali cheap coffees examined were
glaz2d. No high priced coffee was
found adultereted. Purchasers are ad,
vised to beware of coffee which has nc
brand and to which the rooster or i'm,
porter is ashamed to afix his name.
Nine samples Of tea were examined
and four, Ga forty four per cent, were
found faced with black lead or Prus
sian clue, viz Royal Pekin (mixedl,
Austin & CO.'S black, Austin & Co. g
green, and Gunpowder (green). The
facing is not luxurious to health, but
makes tie tea appear better than it
really is and such q practice is to be
condemned.
Some legislation is needed to protect
consumers from these impositions.
Can't our State Legislature do some
thing9
The bulletin contains sixteen q
carefully prepared and tabulated, and
may be obtained by any one, free of
charge, by application to the Director
of the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, Raleigh, N. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

duce some crop, diversity, exo,rfm,.,
in a small way, with untried cron.
curteil your fertilizer expenses. ~
mixing your OWL chemicals and saw!
and taking better care of your hom1s
made or barn yard manure. You will
be in better position to put in practico
your reforms than you would be viii
out the concert Of action necessary :,
make such reforms general. As ~
agricultural people we possess proot
possibilities in our South land. Poo.;
bilities that no other section eni,v,
and that I fear we fail to fully ann.
ciate. If we do, we are at least sIon
to grasp the situation-each man nro
fering to think and act independents
rather than in concert. Failing To ~
cognize that in "Union there !,
strength" and in division there il
weakness.
Ii the Alliance was as strong todev
as when it met the cotton bagpir"
trust, it could break the plow comb
nation in a short time, and make It
quite interesting to any of the Others
that dared antagonize it. But it is mt
as strong now as it was then. Tbi,
brings me back to the beginning of tbi,
article. Is it's loss of members due to
mistakes3 If so let the remedy be an
piled with a determination to commit
them no more. FraternalIy,
Z. b. PARKER 8. B, A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM.

1t ia now a question among sincere
reformers ga to what ia the best policy
to pursue for future action-whether
the naE1e of the Peoples party should
be abandoned or whether an attempt
should be made to re organize under
the name of the Peoples party. 1t
occurs to us that the time has come for
re organization under a new mann and
in some respects under new leadership.
Whatever purse is pursued the fact
remains that the work OF organizing
the reform forces as they were organ
lied in 1892 must begin anew and many
difficulties will be encountered. Prob
ably the greatest difficulty in marshal
ing the reform forces under a new ban
ner will be to get a leadership in which
the people can place implit confidence.
Our Home (Pop.)
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
SUBSCRIBERS, NOTICE!

If you have paid money on subecrip.
ton for which you failed to get credit,
and perhaps have been dunned, do not
get mad and say we try to hold you re,
sponsible for our mistakes. If there
are mistakes, they were made unin.
te~ntionally for it is next to impossible
to correct dates on several thousand
labels without making some errors.
Therefore, we hope subscribers will ex.
cuse these error and simply call our
attention to them. Write us before
February 1st, stating for what sum
sent we failed to give you credit, and
proper credit will be given at once.
After that date, in order to have mis-.
takes corrected, we must be reminded
of them within one month at most
after money is sent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
NE K WEE

We received last Thursday, from
Manila, Philippine Islands, an ms rue
tive and interesting letter from a North
Carolina boy, Randall 81 Russell, who
is in the 18jh Regiment, Regular Infan
try United States Army, now stationed
there. He writes entertainingly of
what he saw and experienced both in
the Hawaiian and Philippine islands;
in fact, he gives the beat brief descrip
ton of Uncle Sans new territories
we have yet read. The letter was
mailed December 1, 1898, and did not
reach US, as we have SAID, till January
u, 1899. proving that the Filipinos
are rather distant neighbors. This let
ter will appear next week. We will
also publish at that time a thoughtful
letter by a cotton grower, signed,
Common Sense" and a very instrue
tive paper on spraying.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
LET rHR PEOPLE SPEAK.

How nicely the initiative and re-
ferendum would fit in now that the
question of Imperialism is about to be
decided before the people have an op-
portunity of voting on the position.
Very t%ruthfully does Harper's Weekly
say:
THE right to judge and determine
upon a proposition to change the very
character of the republic ought not to
be denied to the people, if there is any
Significance or any reality at all in
popular government.
"Mor cover, whether expansion will
be beneficial OF il jurious to us, it in
wolves a very wide departure from the
traditional principles of the republic
and a change in our form of govern
ment, including radical amendments Of
the Constitution. Even the expansion
lists themselves frankly admit that the
new colonies must be governed outside
of the Constitution, and that the re
straints imposed upon Congress for
the protection Of the rights and liber
ties of our citiz9ns will not apply to the
people of the new colonies.
"a subject OF this Importance is es
sentiaIly one for the consideration and
decision of the people, because it is
constitutional in it's nature. There are
certain subjects on which the politi-
clans ought always to seek the man.
date of the people, and this is one Of
them"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
Q GOOD ROADS.

The subject of good roads is receiv
ing increasing attention in various SEC
tions Of the country. One State nc
sooner has a good roads organization
meeting which outlines work for road
improvement than another State takes
the matter up and proposes is meth
DDS and plans. The recent action OF
the Tennessee Industrial League in ap
pointing a representative commission
to the take matter under consideration,
sho US the interest which this subject
has awakened there. At the present
time most of the roeds of Tennessee
are 10 a pretty bad way. No Whittier
has yet arisen to pen q Mud Bound, :"
but during a considerable portion of
the year in the milder States, where
the ground is not solidly frozen
through the winter weather, the sub,
jest for such a poem is much in evi
dence, and if faithful the writer would
show many farmers as helpless and
isolated as the Quaker poet pictures
the actors in Snow Bound" Ten.
nessee hopes to secure some State road
legislation which will give her better
highways, and there is also a PROPOSE
ton on foot 10 make g radical change
in the control of convict labor, with
reference to the problem of road build.
ing. At the present time the convict
labor is rented out to manufacturers.
thus competing with free labor, max
ing the ma ufacturers rich, bat work
ing a hardship upon honest labor. It
ia proposed to taxa this labor sWav
from manufacturers and place it on
road work. The long term convicts
would be kept upon work of preparing
the material for the roads, and the
short term men would be worked on
the roads themselves. It is further
proposed that the State shall furnish
the material to be used in the road
making. A plan along this line has
been for several years in operation in
California and also in a few counties
in this State with apparently very
8 satisfactory results. 1t was claimed in
California that the maintenance of
~convicts in comparative idlenees at
the expense of taxpayers of the State
was not a proper system to pursue.
AZ the same time to bring this class of
labor in direct competition with free
labor was undesirable. It was, there
fore, decided by the legislature in 1895
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
A GOOD WINTER DAYS WORK

You can hardly make a better use of
one of these cold winter days than by
taking copies Of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and getting some new SUBJ
scribers for it. Remember for 8 yearly
subscribers to THE Pro GREssIvE FAR
MER we give you 6 months subscription
to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, the Prac-
tical Farmer or the twice,a week De
troit Free Press, or for 8 new subscrib,
ers a years subscription to any Of
these papers. We want to get 5 new
subscribers in every school district be-
fore February 7Eh.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE

We have no objection whatever to
cutting Jim Young's name out of the
corner stone of the white Blind Institu-
tion, but we do think it is bad, very
bad taste to tske out the names of all
the white directors also and insert in
stead the anne of the members Of the
old board, simply because they be
longed to a certain political party.
Toe building planned by the old board
was, we are informed, totally different
from the one which the new board
decided to build and did build. 1t
would have been much better to have
simply removed the corner stone and
put instead a plain stone with no
names. That is, if our information is
correct and we believe it is. Perhaps
this act may yet be re considered.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
WILL THY STOP TO THINK

The Des Moines, Ia, Farmer takes q
rather unique view of the condition OF
cotton growers and cotton growing
here in the South. In a recent issue it
says:
I'VE see it stated that a large per
cent. Of the cotton, in some places a.
high as thirty, will not be gathered be,
cause it does not pay to gather it at
four cents per pound. the ruling price.
When we come to think, none Of us
could make half wages at that were
the crop presented to us fully grown as
a free gift, in the field. 1t is a good
thing for the South that a crisis has
come. AL extremes, either high or
low, culminete In a crisis. Then farm
ers stop to think. Southern farmers
will have to put their brains to work
and grow and teach the negroes to
grow something that pays better than
cotton. There will be much hardship
and sUf5ring, many bankruptcies, as
there was when the crisis in wheat
growing Torced Gne armer or north
eastern Iowa to milk COVE, or when
soil exhaustion drove the Western
farmer to grass, or when the collapse
of boom prices for pedigrees forced
breeders to look after individual merit,
but the final result will be improve
ment in conditions. Many Of as have
to butt the outside of our heads against
the stone wall before we will use the
inside"
Yes, a crisis is often a good thing and
if anything will teach our farmers the
need of organization, it seams that the
continued starvation prices for cotton
would do 80. And yet the outlook is
not encouraging. The farmer still
kisses the rod that smites him, aud
seems to do so willingly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
LET 1T PASS.

In the state platforms of the Demo
cratic and Populist parties last year
we're planks condemning the removal
by corporations Of suits or cases from
State to Federal courts. A remedy for
this great evil is found in a bill which
Senator Hajrston of Davie has intro
duced in State Legislature. We
regret that We have not room to pub
lish the bill in full this week, but we
shall keep Jul readers informed as to
its progress, and hope it will become a
law.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

A member Of the Montana LegisIa
ture recently testified before the in
vestigating committee that in the Sen
atorial contest between Clark and
DAILY, he had been approached by
Clark's managers and that $50, 600 to
purchase votes was placed in a sealed
package. In proof the package was
placed on the Speakers desk, and
when opened was found to contain
thirty 81 600 bills. This goes to show
that our Legislature made no mistake
in endorsing the plan for the election
of United States Senators by popular
vote.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
THE THINKERS.

Richmond Times, Oem): The
ridiculously small vote p0lled in most
of the Southern States in the late cleo.
tion is a matter that must engage the
serious attention of the people of this
section. In the State of South Caro-
lima the whole vote cast for Ellerbe was
only %, 1925, which is about one fourth
Of the white vote Of the State. In
Louisiana the total vote cast was 49,
296 against 2Q6 354 in the election Of
1895. In Virginia the the total vote
cast was 173 .365 against 274 84I in 1896.
The reason for this ia plain. There is
no minority party in the South to be
reckoned with and people will not
trouble themselves to go out and vote
when they know that the election of
the party candidate is a foregone con-
clueion. 1t requires opposition always
to bring out tie vote and this sort Of
Indifference is full of danger to our in,
situations. In our form of government
political parties r necessary and in
order to the best results there must be
a strong minority party to hold the
majority party in check.
We believe that one of the greatest
needs in the South today isa strong
minority party and there would be
such a party but for the peculiar COZ
ditions.