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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
SPORTING NEWS
The Baseball Season Opened
Yesterday at Lake Park.
CORN FORTHS DEFEATED
The Senior Players Will Meet This Week
and Organize-Good Local Mater
ial-High School Club Defeated
Yesterday in Butte.

The weather yesterday was very I'M
favorable for the opening of the base
ball season in Anaconda, but notwith-
standing this fact, the Pastimes and
Corn Forths met in their scheduled
game and played out their full nine
innings.
1t was very interesting contest, but
it was plainly evident from the start
that the Corn Forths were not of the
Pastimes' strength, and they We're de-
feated by score of 10 to 6. The feature
of the game was the pitching of Sanzer
of the Pastimes.
The members of the victorious club
were: Davis, catcher; Sanzer, pitcher;
Johnson, first base; Smith, second base;
Burch, third base; Casey, short stop;
Stafford, left field: Shurshing, center
field; Nolan, right field.
The senior bal players who are now
in the city We're greatly disappointed
yesterday afternoon, owing to the ter
rife wind which blew all day and
which prevented them from turning out
for practice. 1t is very important for
baseball men to get out and get the
stiffness out of themselves before the
season opens, but the indications for
this year are that very little practice
will be INDUCED in, as by the time the
weather does get settled and warm, it
will then be the time to play the real
thing and the misplays and muffs will
then be a great loss to ones team.
1t was rumored in baseball circles last
evening that meeting would be held
some time this week for the purpose of
forming a club.
AS far as good ball players are con-
I 49,
in Anaconda to enable good manager
to put on the field as good a team as
ever represented Anaconda, and one
that at the end of the season would
make all the local ball cranks go crazy
with joy. The stories that are going
the rounds that such good local players
as Burton would play in Helena are all
more or less ''pipy." Old Burt will
stick to Anaconda as long as there are
mitts bats and balls in the town.
| The players who are now in town are
all very good men. There are. for in
stance, Bert Storey, the rough rider,
who cannot be beaten behind the bat:
Tommy Lloyd, who madesa reputation
in Helena; James McHaIe, whom
everybody knows; Lynch, Long and
King, the great pitching trio: the IA
! nous Doc Emerson, Kicoyne and last,
but not least, Clark, who will surely
play with the local nine. With the
| above players in a team, other ball
| players have no time to go to sleep.
| The Anaconda football fans will be
surprised to learn that the High School
| team was defeated yesterday in Butte
| by the Reliance club. 1t will be sur
| prise because it was not believed that
| the Butte boys could win a game from
| our local boys. The score was IL to 6.
| Captain George Lapoint could not be
seen last evening and consequently it
could not be learned how the play
| came IN,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Taught the Herring to Live on Dry Land

Here is an extraordinary story, and
one which persons of skeptical turn
of mind will naturally refuse to believe
Yet it comes from no less an authority
than the dignified and conservative
Journal des Dehats:
There lives near Christania a dstin-
guished Scandinavian naturalist named
Dahl, who is noted for his advocacy of
the Darwinan theory of evolution He
caught a herring the other day and
straightway resolved to use this fish to
prove the truth of the doctrine of eve
luton. He believes firmly in the the
Dry, but of what use is theory unless it
can be proved by practice?
So Professor Dahl shut the herring
up in an aquarium and then, little by
little, diminished the supply of water
a fish out of water is popularity sup
posed to be the most disconnected thing
in existence. but this wonderful her
ring soon proved Itself an exception to
the rule. True, at first when it saw
the water was disappearing. it ap-
peared worried, but it quickly adapted
itself to the changed conditions and
thus was very soon metamorpI0sed
into an amphibiOus animal.
Delighted at his success, it's master
then placed it on ground entirely dr.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
GO ON STRIKE FOR MORE PIE
Railroad Laborers Demand and Get Pas
try Three Times Day.

try Three Times Day.
From the New York Press
1t was the queerest strike I ever
heard about" said the railroad man. 1T
took place in Michigan some years ago,
The manager of a railroad out there
had to put a lot of men at work clean
ing up certain tract of timber land,
There being no boarding houses handy,
it was found necessary to feed the
members of the gang
10 do this it was, of course, necas-
sary to establish a boarding house, and
the railroad authorities had one started
up at once, placing it in charge of a
competent and experienced man. But
there was trouble right away. All the
men struck inside of a week, and the
manager fastened to ask if they We're
dissatisfied with their wages or their
hours. The answer was prompt and
explicit. The wages and hours We're
satisfactory, and so was their general
treatment: their trouble was in the
boarding house. where they got pie only
once a day. They wanted mince pie
three times-at breakfast, dinner and
supper-and they proposed to have it.
The manager FASTENED to take counsel
with the boarding house man.
Give 'em all the pie they want,' was
the managers order. If one piece isn't
enough, give 'em another. Sweeten it
well, too. They want it and We'll give
it to them
This suited the boarding house man
down to the ground. Sugar is a good
deal cheaper than meat, and mince pie
is one of the, least expensive foods
known to the cook. After that there
was no trouble whatever with that
gang of men,"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

The Northern Pacific railway is the
only line operating the double daily
train service between Butte and ST.
Paul. Trains run solid via Butte, which
enables both first and second class pas
sengers to make the trip to St. Paul
without change; to Chicago, st. Louis
and all intermediate points with only
one change: New York Boston and all
New England points with two changes
Union depots at st. Paul and Chicago.
Trains leave Butte daily at 1:35 D. m.
and 9:05 p. m. For full particulars call
upon or address w. H. Merriman, act
ing general agent, Butte, Mont. New
city ticket office, northwest corner of
Park and Main street.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
ANACONDA NEWS.
STOLEN At T.. THE DANCE
Wholesale Theft of Chinaware
at the Charity Ball.
SILVER WAS ALSO TAKEN
Bold Thieves Operated on the Principle
That Charity Begins at Home-Police
Are on the Trail of the Perpe-
traitors of the Outrage.

The grand charity ball of last Friday
evening was characterized by the
greatest wholesale and mysterious rob-
berry which has ever been entrusted to
the police authorities for them to solve.
The robbery was a wholesale one for
the reason that the goods taken were
all of great value. and it was a mys
FERROUS one because the crowd was so
large that it is well-nigh impossible
for the authorities to find any trace
of the thieves.
The robbery occurred during the early
hours of the morning while the dane
ing was at its height. but the largest
quantity of the goods We're taken at
the conclusion of the ball when the
people We're very anxious to get home.
The articles stolen consisted of rich
silverware. valuable Chinaware, richly
embroidered napkins, flowers, sacks of
sugar, etc
The chinaware was the property of
Mrs. Theo. Ehret of Main street. She
had brought it to the hall in the aft
ernoon to help decorate the large lodge
room, in which the lunch was served
during the evening. In the morning.
after the large crowd had filed out of
the building. Mrs. Ehret entered the
lodge room and was greatly surprised
to find that her china had been taken
off the tables. She at first thought that
some of the other ladies had put it
away for safekeeping, but after in
quirieS had been made it was learned
that none of the ladies had seen any
thing Of the china, nor had they seen
anybody take it.
AS for the silverware and the other
articles, they were the property of some
of the ladies who had been given tables
to wait upon. There Were also several
sacks of sugar, which were to have
been used for the manufacture of ice
cream. that were taken away.
The total value of the stolen goods is
not yet known.
Mrs. Ehret was seen last evening by
a Standard reporter and she was great
ly surprised that the affair should have
been made public. When asked what
she intended to do about the matter,
she answered:
TT has been decided to-day that a
meeting of the Catholic Ladies' Aid So
ciety take place some time this week
and then Weashall& see what action we
shall take."F 4 #Es S#E#Ft
The Burlington route runs a through
sleeper from Anaconda to Omaha, St.
Joseph and st. Louis without change.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Chessmen of Ancient Times.

Probably the oldest chessmen known to
exist are an almost complete set which
is preserved in the East Indian museum,
London. They were eXcavated about 80
years ago on the site of the city of Brah-
munabad. in Sind, which was destroyed
by an earthquake in the eighth century.
They are black and white made of ivory
and ebony, turned and plain in character,
without ornament. The kings and queens
are about three inches high, the pawns
one inch and the other pieces of iterme-
diaA heights. Fragments of a chess
board of the same material We're found
with them.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Industry of the Busy Bee.

Bees. according to a statistician, must,
in order to collect pound of clover hon.
ey deprive 81 900 GLOVER blossoms of their
nectar To do this the So, 900 flowers must
be visited by an aggregate of 3,750OO0 bees,
or, in other words.sto collect his pound of
honey, one bee must make 3,750,0o0 trips
from and to the hive. As bees are known
to fly for miles in quest of suitable fields
of opera ton It is clear that a single ounce
of honey represents millions of miles of
travel .,.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

The most momentous events in con-
tenoprary history are.noW occurring in
the Philippines. 81 They, mark a new
stage of vast Importance in the deFel-
onrnent of America and of civilization,
and as such are comman ling foremost
attention throughout the foreign world.
Military men everywhere are impressed
by the magnificent demonstration CT
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
When In Butte lunch at Sherman's.
A Correction.

The interview with w NJ Kelly,
which was published a few days ago,
quoted this gentleman as saying that
he was well acquainted with Lieuten-
ant Monaghan, who was recently killed
in Apia. This was an error, as the gen
tleman to whom Captain Kelly referred
to was James Butler.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Notice.

A meeting, of the@ members of the
charity bali association will be held
at A. O. H. han this, Monday, after
noon at 80 o'clock, All committees
are requested to make their final re-
morris. MRS. ]. E. YOUNG.
President Charity Ball.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
Not Used to 1t.

From the New York Evening Journal
CatCher-What makes the umpire
look SO down in the mouth?
PitCher-NobOuy has called him a
thief for three or four days, and ne
feels lonesome.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
A. o. L, W. Notice.

Anaconda lodge No. %, A. o. L. w,
will meet al Friendship hall, No. 2lS
West Commercial avenue, on Tuesday,
April IS, and will meet at that hall
every Tuesday thereafter
D. G SCOTT NJ w
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Pay your subscription to the Ana
conda Standard for one year in advance
and secure the handsome premium,
paris of To-Day"
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Hats.

Sole agents for the celebrated Gordon
soft and stiff hats
$685.. J. II. STRAIN & co.
Park avenue and Chestnut,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
ABOUT THE CITY.
Bicycles repaired at Greig's.
: Verberk1noes, optical specialist

Bicycles repaired at Greig's.
~ Verberkmoes, optical specialist.
Fresh cut flowers daily at Greig's.
Tietjen's Record cigars are the best
For stylish hats go to Miss Walkers
J. NJ. Simpson, attorney, IA Durston
block.
Professor Aker's assemblies Monday
evening.
@ Dr. Cranson of Deer Lodge is spend
ing few days in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs H J. Sherman of San
Francisco are at the Leland.
A good thing is always initiated, but
never equaled-the broiler 25-cent din
sner.
. The celebrated Anaconda bottled beer
for sale by the Copper City Commercial
company.
For Rent-Large hall in Standard
building one night each week. Inquire
at Standard office.
The famous Anaconda bottled beer
for sale by the Copper City Commercial
company.
Nj Every sufferer from female troubles
#can obtain relief by calling on DR..
Hager's agent, 213 Oak street.
VS."
Miss O'Donohoe, who has been i'll for
some time, has so far recovered as to
be able to leave the hospital.
Something better has happened: that
25 cent dinner at the Buffet. 1t cannot
positively be equaed. A. Fortier.
A good thing is always initiated, but
the smoothest article in the bunch is
that 25-cent dinner at the BROILER.
Miss Maud LacoX of BoZeman is Wis
iting in the city, and is the guest of her
brother Frank LacoX at the Leland.
Subscriptions to the Weekly Exam
iner can be left at the Montana hotel
office. Official receipts will be prompt
1y mailed.
Notice-All persons indebted to Losee
& Maxwell are requested to call and
settle up. Office at L. A Kings store,
Jos Main street.
The funeral services of Mrs. NJ j.
Sheets will be held to-day at > o'clock
p. m. a the Methodist church. The
body will be inferred in the cemetery
south of the city.
MIR. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick, who
have been spending few days in the
ci1y, will return to their home in Wash
ingtop aulch to-day.
Mrs ]. A. Chaplin. wife of Rev. J. A.
Chaplin of Beaver Crossing, Neb., will
arrive in the city this morning to at
tend the funeral of her daughter, the
late Mrs. NJ. ]. Sheets.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

The funeral services of Mrs NJ ].
Sheets will be held to-day at o'clock
y. m. at the Methodist church. The
body will be inferred in the cemetery
south of the city.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Special sale on So and s. trimmed hats
Wednesday and Thursday. NJ. FO'Don-
nell, 416 E. Park ave.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

MIR. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick, who
have been spending a few days in the
ci,y', will return to their home in Wash
ington eulch to-day.
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Double Train Service

for, 81
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Mrs. ]. A. Chaplin. wife Of Rev. J. A.
Chaplin of Beaver Crossing, Neb., will
arrive in the city this morning to at
tend the funeral of her daughter, the
late Mrs NJ. ]. Sheets.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Some of the stars move with a We
locity of so miles second
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Notice-All persons indebted to Losee
& Maxwell are requested to call and
settle up. Office at L. A. Kings store,
Jos Main street
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

The Burlington route runs a through
sleeper from Anaconda to Omaha, st.
Joseph and ST. Louis without change.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Miss Maud LacoX of Bozeman is Wis
iting in the city, and is the guest of her
brother, Frank LacoX, at the Leland
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Subscriptions to the Weekly Exam
iner can be left at the Montana hotel
office. Official receipts will be prompt
" mailed,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

A good thing is always initiated, but
the smoothest article in the bunch is
that 25-cent dinner at the BROILER.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Something better has happened that
o5 cent dinner at the Buffet. 1t cannot
positively be equaled. A. Fortier.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Miss O'Donohoe, who has been i'll for
some time. has so far recovered as to
be able to leave the hospital.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

A good thing is always initiated, but
never equaled-the broiler 25-cent din
mo
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Sherman of San
Francisco are at the Leland.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

u DR.. Cranson of Deer Lodge is spend
ing few days in the city.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

The celebrated Anaconda bottled beer
for sale by the Copper City Commercial
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

II. Every sufferer from female troubles
can obtain relief by calling on Dr.
Hager's agent, 213 Oak street.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-17
ETTRICKS IN BAD SHAPE.
FactoriC Idle. People short of supplies
and Pneumonia Epidemic.

ETTRICKs. VA. Feb. l6.-Special-
The Appomattox river is frozen over
locking down all the head gates for inc
different factories and mifs, and in con-
sequence the mills have been standing
idle for q week with no prospect II their
starting up before next week at best,
and the laboring families are Ia urgent
need OF fuel aud supplies.
To make bad matters worse. there
seems TO be an epidemic of % species Of
pneumonia i'm the two towns which al
most battles medical skill, and Is killing
people by the wholesale. The under
takers are kept busy all the time
Mr.. Jim Burnett had a child about
three years old 10 catch on IRE from an
open CRATE and burn 20 death during the
SNOW storm.
Mr.. Bob Pettiway. q young man from
Sussex county. who was working I'm the
new trunk factory In Petersburg, died
Of pneumonia at the Ettricks Hotel
Monday
Mr.. Charlie Walker got his index fin
ger cut of at Stewards trunk factory
Just before the plant shut down for the
cold snap.
Mrs Susan Williams. OF Ettericks. fell
from the icy steps Of her home and
broke her rib yesterday.
II one can find little WOOL anywhere
it sells for seven dollars 4 cord
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-17
PLENTY OF MONEY IN BANK.
The Cold Weather Has Played Havoc
With che Birds.

FREDERIC NsBURG, VA, Feb To-
speclal-The public schools of the city
resumed to-day. after having been closed
since last Friday on account OF the
weather
There Is more money In the banks here
10 the credit of individual deoositors
and a greater amount offering for loans
on real estate By building associations
and individuals than for years past.
showing a healthy condition OF the gen.
cral financial situation.
The deep snow and cold weather have
played havoc with game IN this section
many partridges and other birds, rab-
bits. etc. having been found either
frozen or starved TO death. Many farm
ers have been trying 10 feed the part
ridges by clearing the snow Away IN
spots aud scattering grain. Cattle and
other stock have been cared for. the
losses being confined mainly TO small
nies and young lambs number OF
which have been frozen to death
The largest snow drifts on many or
the public roads in the surrounding coun-
ties are being cut through by the conn-
trv people and mails are now beginning
IN reach tho rural post Offices.
Mr.. r. J. Cain. respected mechanic.
was badly burned about the face yey
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-17
CONTINGENCIES OF THE STORM.
Soldiers for Manila SnOwbound at
CharIottesyIlle,

CHARLOTTESVILLE VA, Feb Ia
special-Mrs. Susie Wilson, daughter Of
the late Professor John b. Minor, the
distinguished law professor OF the Uni
versity of Virginia, has been visiting her
brother, Professor Raleigh c. Minor, and
other relatives In this place.
A telegram was received Saturday an
nouncing the illness oil Mr.. Wilson, in
New Jersey, and MIS- Wilson prepared
TO 20 10 her husband but the Dnzzard
blocked travel north Of this city, and
though Mrs. Wilson took the nrst train
going North, al this writing, 10 has not
gotten beyond the blockade at Bloom S.
near Manassas. A telegram announces
Mr.. Wilson's death.
on the same train is the Rev. william
McGhee, Of Kentucky, who is on the way
10 cuba. where he expects TO take up
the work of q missionary. The steamer
he expected 10 sail on was 20 depart
from New York Yesterday. He Is broth
er-in-law OF j. y. and w. ". Waddeu,
Of this city. On the same train, too, a
little child died before reaching this city.
Its parents are Porto Ricans en- route TO
New York.
Yesterday Mr. w. 4. Landlord fell from
his sleigh and sprained his back, Mr..
Bon Jones. of Wheeling W. Va, brother
or MS. j. T.. JaAtnohi "a NA+o ~ 80
on the ice and broke his les. Mrs. b. Il.
NcGlone. ~ Gotham, fell and broke her
arm. Miss Resale Riyes broke her COL
lar-bone In q fan.
A number OF soiuiers. said TO be des-
lined Tor Manila. are snow bound here.
Many Of them wear the badge OF the
Red Cross.
Many sheds collapsed under the snow
and valuable hacks and other vehicles
we're broken.
A telegram has been received here
from Gainesville Tex. announcing the
death OF Mr. Bernard Tacl. n son OF the
late Captain $. NJ. Teel. of this county.
Within two weeks the death Of another
son Of Captain Teel. Lewis Tel. occur
red in Indian Territory.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-17
MERCHANTS TAX.
Roanoke VIII Lose Largely by Recent
SnIrcmc Court DccislOn.

Suf RENE Aouit i'ff'>ibh
LEXINGTON. VA. Fen. l6.-Sgeeiai -
Under the recent decision Of the supreme
Court Of Appeals OF Virginia, that me
counties had DO right 20 levy tax upon
the capital invested Dy merchants q
ING business where the state made ih'n
nay a license Tux and thc city ~ 'oNh
required tie same license tax me county
Of Rockhmdge viii lose Dy this decision
Stil123 in taxes loried by the commits
sloners 81 revenue OF the various districts
The assessors books how that amount 'i
capital taxed is S23if50
Mr.. John Carmichael has issued CARDS
u invitation 10 the marriage Of her
daughter Miss Laura Tucker Caruiiea
ael 10 Ar oliver Perry Afford Jr -
Lexington. Ky. The ceremony 70 ,aks
place iu Grace Memorial church al hair
past o'clock tuesday evening. February
.Sth.
Mrs Elisha Bryan. aged eighty-one
years. died ui The residence Of her son.
Mr. VIM. l.. Bryan. ot Fairfield. yester-
day Her husband who died scvera! years
80 VAS ono of the noted old ironmasisrs
when charcoal furnaces were In vogue
4 company OF twenty-five gentlemen
living. In and around Lexington have pur-
chased Of the firm ~ Tracey and Remeiy
OF Ohio. importer N percheron and
French coach stock one % their best
Percheron Norm horses for breeding
purposes. The ff,s, four years old
tnI weighs 1. -0l nlnn. ii 81 consider
id one Of the finest llr-r ever brought
a. ROckbridge county
The recent cold spell mace guard du,y
very severe at the Virginia Military In
stitute and the sentinels were sdaccf 30
one after taps