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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-10-12

Someone should tell the newspaper
boys who are running that story about
Mckinley riding up to st. Peters gate
ON Bryan's back and Pete saying,
"good boy Bill: tie your aes and come
in,'' that the thing has whiskers, very,
very gray WHISPERS; that it was told
during the Grant. Greeley campaign,
and that it has been claimed by every
editor who ever slupg pencil on Ameri-
can soil.-Hannah Moon.
E NJ. Andrews OF Co. B lives at Wal
halla-be stopped over to the reception
the guest of H. E. Payne and he's glad
he did. Ed left this morning for his
home in company with Ed j. Husband,
another Walhalla member. BY this time
they know how it feels to be received
twice. Tho Foresters took Andrews IN
h@ad-and il it was not for the gold
badge the Odd Fellows at home gave
Husband, Ed would have the neatest,
incest Co. B gold badge the Foresters
ever gave anybody. It makes the boys
feel grand to know they are appre-
ciated-and jWalhalla-is proud too
Fargo Forum.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-10-12

Published every Thursday morning at Lang
don. Cavalier county, North Dakota.
Entered at the post Office at Langdon rs mail
matter of the second class.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-10-12

champagne
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-10-12

E. SHERwIN, Assistant.
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Free Hair Dressing,

Some one said once that you could get
almost anything for nothing in New York
This was brought practically to my notice
a few days ago, said a writer in the New
York Herald, as I was going up town on
Third avenue. I passed a barber shop
which displayed this strange sign:
Ladies hair dressing done free every
afternoon from l to O'clock"
As it was past I was prompted to by
curiosity to go in and investigate. I
found the ladies hairdressing parlor
neat. cosy place. with a number of
chairs standing in front of a long mirror,
which covered one side of tie room.
l was fortunate enough to find a sub
1ect in the chair who was having her hair
dressed. She was a middle-aged, thick
handed, respectable looking woman, who
was going to the inevitable bal Doing
her hair was nice looking little woman,
the head of the hairdressing establish
ment, had gathered around the chair were
half dozen white-coated young men,
watching the process of the work, and
occasionally giving assistance. And that
is how the apprentice or student in hair
dressing gains his experience, and the
clever women who are in touch with the
trick get their hair dressed for nothing.
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SECTIONALISM IS DEAD.
The G. A. II. Post Has Received a Letter
From General Evans.

Great Falls, March 22.-Some time
ago Captain w. H. Stafford, adjutant of
the local Grand Army post, wrote to Gen.
eral Clement A. Evans at Atlanta, Ga,
commander of the Confederate Veteran
association, informing him of the ia It
that three confederate veterans had
been buried here by the grand army
and explaining the intention of the post
to erect a soldiers monument. In re-
ply the general writes the following
extremely generous and broad-minded
letter:
Atlanta, Ca, March 17.-My Dear
Comrade: Letters like that which you
sent me are passing between the SOL
diers who yet remain as representa-
tives of the two great armies which
bravely fought in the sixties. We mu-
tually revere our dead. They We're our
comrades ON many a hard march and
in many a desperate fight. The world
learned, through the exhibited valor Of
such men, to respect our great coun-
try.
Our Southern soldiers appreciate all
such attentions as you have been pay
ing to the graves of confederates, and
our trust is that ere long the resting
places of all those gallant men will be
suitably designated and cared for. I
was present a year or two ago, when,
on the Southern memorial day in Geor-
gia, April 26, the graves of the eonfed-
crate and union soldiers were at the
same time honored with flowers from
the hands of men, women and children
of the South.
Let us do away with sectionalism.
The prejudices of sections are unworthy
of a great and noble people, such as we
Americans are. 1t would crafty me
very much if you can send me the
names, company, regiment, etc, of the
three confederates buried in the High
land cemetery. With the highest re-
spect 1 am your fellow countryman,
CLEMENT A. EVANS.
Major General Commanding Georgia
Division, U. C. W
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NElHART NOTES.

The people of Neihart celebrated Ct
Patrick's day very quietly. There was
a dance in the evening and another
over at the sister camp of Barker, while
many from either camp went to Sand
Coulee to help the people there cele-
brate the birthday of the Irish saint.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Oriet are happy
and proud over the birth to them on
Wednesday of heavy boy baby.
J. T. Arlington and D. L. S. Barker
of Great Falls, both of whom are in
terested in the Big Seven mine, spent
a few days in Neihart this week.
Mr.. and Mrs VIII Cook are the glad
parents of a girl baby born on Tues
day morning.
The ladies of the Methodist church
have prepared a very pleasant pro-
gramme for their basket social TO be
held on Thursday evening al the \. O.
U. W. hall.
A deed has been given by p. T.
Sweeney and wife to L. S. Mcclure of
San Diego, Cal, which conveys to the
latter all right to the use of the water
in Belt creek above the town of Mel
hart. 1t is believed that this is the
first step taken toward the securing
of a concentration for this town. Ad-
ditional reports are to the effect that
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Remarkable Variety Shown In the APP.
pIications at an Exchange.

I'd like to write verses to order"
said a little woman the other day, TAX
ing her stand in front of the desk of the
manager of an exchange for woman's
work
"Hey:" questioned the manager. look
ing up from the letter she was read
ing.
II said I'd like to write verses to or
der-for birthday parties, luncheons
and dinners, the little woman repeat
ed. MY husband is sick and the doc
little break in her voice, he'll always
be an invalid, so I've got to earn some
money to take care of him and help ed
ucate our children"
And you wish to write verses?" The
manager was puzzled. well, you see
we are not a publishing house nor
a.
"Oh, yes, I know; but you don't I'M
derstand l don't write poetry-only
rhymes and doggerel. The kind one
sends with birthday presents or puts
on a luncheon card. That's what I want
to do. l have been doing it all my life
for my friends for nothing: just when
ever they wanted anything of that kind
earn money l thought you might find
some persons who were willing to pay
for them. l can do them on any sub
ject and bring in any popularity or
characteristic they want"
The manager was about to reply
when a woman who had been seated in
the office got up and came forward.
She's just the one / want she said
hurriedly, her cheeks pink from excite
ment. My daughter is going TO have
valentine luncheon next week and
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He HAS STRUCK II RICH
Mclaughlin Has Rich Claim on
Swift Current.
A LETTER FROM JACKSON
Gold Struck on the Frazer Below Tote
jaime Cache - He Will Return
to Edmonton About the
First OF May.

Great Falls, March GA mora de-
tailed statement of the gold found by
the party of Major George B. McLauga-
lin Is contained in a letter written by
Frank jackson, member of the par
ty, to his wife, who It present is living
at Edmonton. The letter is dated at the
same place, Swift Current, B. c., as
that written by Major Mclaughlin and
recently printed in the Standard. In it
he says: Il am very glad to be able to
send you a few lines to let you know
1 am well. and think ! have struck it
all right. Last fall when here I told
Evans and Price Ia couple of Ameri-
cans whom jackson met at the pass last
season when he was with ,McEvoy's ex.
ploration party, about finding good col
ors on this stream, and not having time
to prospect it myself. they said they
would give me half if they found any
thing. They let Fred Holiday of Ross
land and some others in on it, and then
had a wrangle among themselves, each
wanting to record the discovery, and as
placer claim hos to be recorded three
days after locatiSh, things were tied up,
as they would not hold a meeting to
elect a recorder among themselves. 1t
was, therefore, a surprise to them
when, on December eth. they heard the
bells of Jackson's pack train coming
down the Fraser on the ice. After find
ing out how things were, they all agreed
that I had the best right to the discovery
claim, as it comprises 10000 square
feet and the others only 100 feet So l
got the discovery claim and called it the
Drummer. Then we held a meeting and
elected a recorder I have been sinking
a shaft to bedrock and am down about
Is feet. The boys say this ought to
pay from $50 to $40 a day to the man,
and they have panned out dirt that ran
from good colors to so cents to the pan.
I am going down the Fraser, about 10
miles below Tete jaime Cache, as there
is a new stampede there, two men,
Heath and Fulton having struck gold
in a gulch down there. l don't know
how rich it is.
There is a good deal of snow on the
Swift Current and Fraser, but not
much on Cranberry lake, where I have
the horses. Price gave me five tons of
hay he and Evans put up last fall, as
their horses do not need it. The man
that carries this letter-Jack Evans
and l separate at Tete jaime Cache on
February Sth, Evans to reach the rail-
road about Beaver in u days. taking his
grub and blankets on his back, l going
down the Fraser river about 10 to 100
miles with a toboggan. ] will be in
Edmonton at least by the first Of
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two weeks later is her birthday and I'm

two weeks later is her birthday and I'm
thinking of giving her a dinner I'd
like verses for both of these entertain
ments and some original ideas. if you
have those for sale too she added,
looking timidly at the little woman.
Yes, I can give you ideas about IA
vors and decorations if that is what
you want"
Then suppose you go over there"
said the manager, indicating the chairs
against the wall, land talk it over with
Mrs. Blank. She is one of our regular
patrons and if she gives you work and
you do 1t to her satisfaction, then you
VIII pay our registration fee and a per
cent. of the amount made on your first
order. What is it you Wish?' turning
to the next applicant.
II want work. l come from the coun-
try. and I'm very handy with my
hands"
The girl was healthy and strong look
ing. though she didn't have too much
confidence in her own abilities appar-
emily.
You can sew?"
We'll, not much" she admitted, IN
willingly. You see, l was raised on a
farm and used to help father. l can
chop wood milk
Can you saw and handle tools?" The
manager looked as one who had re-
ceived an inspiration.
'Oh, yes the girl replied, as if 1t was
the most ordinary of womanly accom-
piishments.
Then you are the very one l am
looking for. Here is letter from a lady
who wishes some one to teach her two
little boys how to use carpenters TOOLS
She's been to me twice, and now here's
her letter"
Then she turned the letter and the
girl over to an assistant.
I'm fond of pets" said the next ap-
plicant who was young girl, land I
want to get orders for washing cats"
washing them." the manager ex-
claimed.
Yes" replied the girl Cats have to
be washed, and l want to wash 'em. I
never heard of any one doing such
thing, but that's the very reason I
should be able to get orders from per-
sons who have pet cats and who don't
know how or care to wash them"
You are quite right about that" said
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A GREAT SUCCESS.
Sand Coulee's Celebration Was n Brilliant
Affair,


Great Falls. March 22-According to
the reports from those who attended
the recent celebration at Sand Coulee
it was a great affair. Everybody had
good time and the day met with every
proper observance. In the evening
there was a public programme followed
by dance, which lasted until late the
next morning. The exercises of the
evening We're as follows:
Selection, "Old Ireland" Sand Coulee
band; song, selected, Martin Donlan;
song, Mr.. Johnson, Turn Me Loose"
Albert Thompson; song, Pauline" Miss
Marie Gillen; song, did You Ever See
McGinnis Down the Street." Hugh LAT
ferty; march, Correcting to Bangor"
Neihart Free Coinage band: dance,
double clog, Lafferty brothers; song. Sc
lected, Joseph Hathorn; song, selected,
D. J. Jones: song, selected. Miss Isa-
belle Smith: song, I've Scratched You
Off Ma List" Dan Lafferty; song Sc
lected, Albert Thompson; song, select
ed. Miss Hilda Johnson; overture. "Liv-
ing Pictures Neihart Free Coinage
band; song, Pat McCann's Wedding
Night Hugh Lafferty; musical trio
Thompson and sons; duet, selected
Miss Isabelle Smith and D. J, Jones;
song, Somebody's Sister," William
Gillen; song, selected. John McCliment:
Irish sketch, Lafferty brothers: bari
tone solo, Execution" John Highly,
accompanied by Sand Coulee band.
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ing for silence. Her immediate neighbors
followed suit. but the tinkle-tin ran
on regularly as ever. 1t grew unbeara-
Bile. Melba sang on, but every one listen
ed to the mysterious underCurrent in
which there was no harmony, and only
veXatiOn People rose, peered under
chairs, glared at the walls, the door, the
ceiling each other. A buzz of whispers
spread over the room. On the platform
n figure of reproachful curiosity stood
Media. While the extraordinary music
still galOped on the search commenced
chairs were upset, boards tapped, pockets
examined tpon nursery chair, which
played Il household air when sat upon,
squeezed a stout and delciously uncon-
cerned old lady. The chair was removed
and the concert resumed
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I have been afflicted with rheuma tsm
for fourteen years and nothing seemed
to give any relief. I was able to be
around all the time, but constantly suf-
fering. I had tried everything I could
hear of and at last was told to try
ChamberIains Pain Balm, which I did,
and was Immediately relieved and in
short time cured. I am happy to say
that it has not since returned. Josh.
Edgar. Germantown, Cal. For sale by
druggists.
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the concentrator will be put up this
spring by MIR. Mcclure and his asso-
ciates, which includes R. S. Ford of
Great Falls and other owners of the
Diamond r. property.
The people of Monarch have organic
ed a literary society and are now de-
batting the burning questions of the
time. At its last meeting the discussion
was upon the question of forming an
Anglo-Saxon alliance, and the society
decided it would be without benefit to
this nation.
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the manager. 1T is so far as I know
an untried field. and there seems a
chance for success. Last week girl
came in who wanted ITO exercise dogs,
and before the week ended gave her
as many orders as she could possibly
attend to. She is ford of dogs and ac-
customed to out-of- door exercise. SO she
finds her work not only pays we'll, but
is congenial. New York Sur.
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Madame Melba's Rival.

An amusing story is going the rounds
about a recent concert given by Madame
Meiba at the house of a fashionable host
ess in New York. Hardly had she com
menced her song when a strange, slvery
mechanical rival made itself heard. The
shocked hostess turned her head Scowi-
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Paris of To-day-the handsomest pre-
mum book ever ofered-now ready for
delivery upon payment of $40 In aI-
vance for one years subscription 20
The Standard Can be obtained at
Standard office in Butte, Anaconda.
Missoula or Great Falls.
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You must register in order to vote.
The fact that you registered last fall
or year ago will not permit you to
vote at the coming election. You
must register again.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-28
STANDARD OIL COPPER.

Boston News Bureau: The report of
the closing down of Standard Oil copper
operations at Michipicotten island, on the
north shore of Lake Superior, should be
taken with a grain of salt.
The Standard Oil company is beginning
to see the mistake it has made in stimu-
lating the promotion of small copper min
ing companies and has not only, we be-
lieves discountenanced any more Elm
river deals, but has probably seen light
upon the general copper situation.
Any well-pOsted person could have
earlier concluded that it didn't pay, with
millions invested in Amalgamated cop
per. to start scores Of little copper mines,
stimulating other copper mining COM
panles to production, and making the en-
tire manufacturing world reluctant to
pay the present high prices for copper
But when the Standard Oil people were
promoting Elm river, etc., they expected
the public to take the Amalgamated. The
Standard Oil plunging in the copper field
has been about as foolish as anything
connected with modern financial OPERA
tons. But the Amalgamated fasco has
sDbered them. +sl-.t jim tDl."
It is difficult to get men in the present
state or the labor market TO go into a
Canadian wilderness at a reasonable
price, and the prospect is that if a CaIu-
met q Hecla We're underground on the
Mlcnlplcotten island, it could only be de-
veloped IN time to be of great disadvan-
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AT BASIN.

Lieutenant Governor Spriggs was in
the city for a few hours today. In speak
ing or mining operations at Basin the
governor said to the Helena Herald:
without doub the Hope is one Of the
biggest properties in the state today. We
are now down eco feet, and, as soon az
more machinery can be added we will go
down to 1000 feet. We have not vet
struck shipping ore. cut we have an i'm
mense body of low grade. refractory ore.
me average value is about IS per ton.
To work this ore at even the Smallest
possible profit a smelling plant should
be erected at the mine and all labor and
transportation of ore reduced to the min
mum by the introduction of electric
machinery and automatic appliances
throughout the mine. Such a plant as
tnls the Katie people are now building.
lhey VIII nave a most improved concen-
traitor and snelter Of 900 tons capacity
per lay when completed.
The Hope and Katie mines are both
on the same vein and adjoin each other.
Our underground workings are now close
to the Katie's. The vein is the largest
true assure vet developed in the west.
Il mas an average width Of 26 feet be-
tween beautiful walls from the surface
to the 6OO-foot level. Both mines are
luentlcal IN character, and the amount Of
ore locked up in these properties is almost
beyond the comprehension Of man.
WINE We are steadliy sinking in the
Hope, looking for richer ore, the Katie
people are going ahead with the erection
Of their big smelter and figuring out the
cheapest way to york the ore. In this
way we are cooperating with the one
end in view, that of developing the vein
TO a great depth and working the ore
with a net saving of 20 or Is cents a ton.
If this small amount can be saved thare
Is millions of wealth in these properties.
It Will surely be accomplished in time.
ton" ~ N'"
Governor Spriggs and his associates
properties in Deer Lodge county, whare
they have a large force of men doing de-
~velOpment work. VT.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-28
THE BIG CIRCUS
RinglingS' Show is Worth
Going to See.
SOME OF THE FEATURES
A Multitude Attended the Afternoon
Sh0w--Will Be Repeated
Tonight.
f.s ttr ID

Ringling's circus captured the crowd
today. and in Butte a crowd is a multi
tude. The morning hours of the day
were bright with sunshine, and early the
streets were packed with a mass of
jostling, good humored humanity, intent
on getting all the pleasure out of the day
and the days events that was possible.
The show is a good one, from the parade
to the finale, and thousands of people
went to see it this afternoon, and as
many in all probability will go tonight
and enjoy the tinsel and glitter and SPAN
giles and red lemonade and all those fea-
lures which go with the kind of a show
that brings back to the Did the joys Of
childhood.
Broadway vas damned when the big
parade moved along that thoroughfare.
The parade is a show in itself, fin de
steele and UP to date. The equipment is
bright and new, and there is nothing
which savors Of last season. At the
head of the column rode Albert A. Ring
forts Of a lifetime have been directed
toward the upbuilding of the big show.
He was followed by a procession of at
tractive features a mile in, length, in
Guiding six bands, one mounted, a chime
Of bells, open barred cages of wild beasts,
a herd of camels, elephant artillery, a
troop OF lancers, equestrians galore,
clowns in abundance, Mother Goose
floats, drawn by Shetland ponies; a
troupe of japanese jugglers, a dozen trick
elephants, who marched along with pom
derous solemnity, the trunk of each
curled around the tail of his predecessor,
tho no - do or-1,, :~1- ,,.Al- 49, -,
which a circus is not a circus-the steam
calliOpe.
The show began at 2:3O this afternoon
and was visited by a throng of people.
The ambition of the Ringlings is to beat
the record made by the Barnum & Bailey
aggregation. and many who went this
afternoon will say that the Ringlings out
class Barnum's in point of merit.
The show is a three-ring affair, but
one does not have to break his neck to
see 1t AN. as the acts are given in dupli-
cate; for example, there are three bare
back riders. n in each ring, and the
same arrangement applies. to every fea-
lure or the show. There are p clowns,
many OF them very clever, and they sue
coed in making much fun. Fol- an hour
before the performance opens, while the
crowd IS collecting in the seats, an ex-
cellent military band of 30 pieces. under
effective leadership, gave a good concert.
OBrlens 6l-horse act is a marvel, and
excited much favorable and
Lockhart's trained elephants were a rev
elatlon. The big, ponderous brutes en-
tered into the spirit of the occasion and
had fun amongst themselves. They stood
on their heads and kicked their heels in.
the air in apparent delight.
In the menagerie there are % magnii-
cent eiephants, a fine cage of lions, two
splendid tigers, a big hippopotamus. 10
camels, a zebra, bears, and many other
ANIMALS too numerous to mention. The
show is we'll worth going to see and will
be repeated this evening.
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taee to the Amalgamated Copper COM

tage to the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany.
That Michipicotten island has been a
failure In its underground copper show
ing, we don't for a moment believe. The
place to look for the real underground
fafur in the Standard Oil operations is
in the Arcadian.
We have it from pretty good authority
that the Michipicotten option was awaited
OF long before the date of it's expiration,
and unnecessary title to the property was
taken by Standard Oil interests only a
short time before a shutdown is or
dered.
With aluminium now rivaling copper in
power transmission: with the large wire
manufacturers of the country telling the
electric railways to hold off from buy
ing wire. with diminished foreign con
mpt and a general protest from in
dustrlal interests against the present alb
normal copper market. the Standard Oil
copper people appear to have seen the
handwriting on the wall and suddenly re-
versed the lever.
Instead of expanding in Arizona, Mon
tana, Michigan and Canada the Standard
On people are shutting down smelters
and mines, stopping copper promotions
and in general reversing-the policy which
seemed to have been SO loudly proclaimed
a few weeks ago. -