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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Two Americans Murdered,

New Orleans. La, Dec. 13.-It was re-
ported here last night from an appa-
rently reliable source that two Aneri-
cans on Monday in San Pedro, Spanish
Honduras, were shot and killed, the same
town where Frank Pears was murdered.
The killing. as reported. was of u par
ticularly aggravated type. As the story
reached this city, Captain Jack Imboden
and William Gold We're in their room at
San Pedro wEen a native of prominence
walked uD to the door and without the
least provocation opened fire. Captain
ImbOden was shot once and Gold was
shot three times. Both men died within
a short While after the shooting. The
shooting occurred last Monday and news
of it was brought to this city by the
steamship BreakWater. IT there was
any old trouble behind the killing moth
ing could be learned of it. Captain I'M
boden was the son of the late Genera
mboden of Virginia, who was a noted
confederate leader, Inc who was at one
time the agricultural commissioners of
his state. He has been a resident of
Spanish Honduras for a number of years,
being largely interested in mining. Moth
ing is known of Gold. What has been
lone with the man who did the killing
could not be learned.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
of Samoa, when That convention Is ratf-
fed by the senate. When the Samoan

of Samoa, when that convention Is rati-
fled by the senate. When the Samoan
islands finally pass under the sover-
eighty of the United States they will be
governed, as in the case of Guam, by a
naval officer, with the rank of governor,
who will be furnished with a flagship
and attached to the Pacific station. h
Abarenda, under the of Com
mander B. #. Tilley. is now in the har-
Dor of Page Pago, where a coaling sta
ton is being established, and he will
probably be the first governor of Tutuila
and the adjacent islands transferred to
this government. AS the natives are
well disposed, no trouble is expected in
the extension of American government
to their stands.
1t is said that Herr Won Holleben has
taken advantage of his calls at the state
department to ask respecting the cor
rectness of the report that negotiations
We're on foot for the acquisition of the
Danish West Indies by the United States.
AS has been stated, nothing official has
passed between the United States and
Denmark on this subject, and the Ger
man ambassador so understands. Ger
many's interest in the matter lies, it is
stated, in the fact that she is ~endeavor-
ing to purchase territory from Denmark.
AT present Germany has not a foot of
territory in the American hemisphere,
and the islands of the West Indies, now
belonging to Denmark. would make a
site for ar admirable coaling station fol
her avy Rather than see the Berlin
government acquire the islands the
United States would probably prefer tC
purchase them, and in any event serious
objection would undoubtedly be made
to the transfer of the territory to Ger
MANY.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Alaskan Demands.

Chicago, Dec. 13.-J. G. Price of Skag-
way, Alaska. the delegate chosen to lay
before congress the results of the con-
vention at Juneau last October, is at the
Palmer house. He was formerly a resi-
dent of Iowa.
1.-The convention was a thoroughly rep
r~esentative body" Mr.. Price said. the
so delegates coming from all parts of
the territory. 1t decided 10 ask congress
for two additional district Judges, a dele
gate to congress-, probate Judges, having
also jurisdiction in certain civil ond
criminal cases: commissioners, having
jurisdiction of justices of the peaee; and
magistrates with like power for incor-
porated cities and oWn educational
facilities for the White children of the
district, a civil code AMI civil procedure,
a~mendments to the criminal code and
general incorporation laws. An extern
sion to the district of the homestead,
timber, stone and coal laws, With Eio-
visions for special individual surveys an!
notifications in the mineral land laws
also will be asked. The greatest need is
for more judges. We have now the same
laws as in 1884, when we a a white pop
ulation of only about 5000"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
NOTUCE TO PHYSICIANS.

Notice is hereby given that the Board
of County Commissioners of Silver Bow
county, Montana, invites sealed propo-
sails from resident practicing physicians
of said county, for the furnishing of med
ical attendance and treatment to the de-
pendent poor of said county and to the
inmates of the county Jail. for the year
commencing January l. 1900, and ending
December 81, 1900; proposals to include
the entire cost medical, surgical and
hospital Treatment: also to include the
treatment of all infectious and contagi-
Gus diseases of said dependent poor and
inmates of the county Jail.
Bids must be addressed to J. f. Moran.
clerk of the board of county commits
sioners, and filed with the county clerk
not later than Wednesday. December y.
1899, At 10 O'Clock a. m. The board re-
serves the right to reject any and all bids.
J.. E. MORAN.
County Clerk.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
4 PACIFIC CABLE
VIII be Built by the United
States Government.
THE ROUTE IS SURVEYED
And a Bill For Its Construction Has
Been Introduced in Congress-
Private Companies Not to be AL
lowed in the Scheme.

New York, Dec. ia special to the
Tribune from Washington says: The
nayal project for a Pacific cable connect
ing San Francisco With Honolulu, Guam
and the Philippines, gives greater prom
Use of practicability than other plans
suggested to congress for facilitating
commercial and military communication
in that ocean and the bill embodying its
features and authorizing its co%nstruc-
ton and maintenance, which has been
introduced by Senator Hale, is likely to
become a law.
The only cable surveys of a route across
the Pacific have been made by the navy
and they have enabled the ava author
tiles to count the cost of the enterprise
and it's feasibility With confident accu-
racy. The army scheme for Il cable to
remain always a military line has been
planned wholly on theoretical considera-
| tons, e~mbodying a mid-ocean station
IN a coral reef frequently submerged
each year in the stormy season.
The private cable D. which
have been rivals in seeking government
aid have made no surveys and their pro-
jects have savored strongly of s%pecula-
ton at government expense. The prin-
cipal private company asks congress tc
give it a charter and guarantee a subsidy
of $500, 900 annually for 20 years. Dur
ing that period it offers to carry gov
eminent messages free and thereafter
will charge the government one-half com
mercial rates. Under this plan the gov
eminent would pay out 5000, 900 and ir
the end the would have the
cable and would sell it to England, Ger
many, Russia or Japan.
The naval project calls for a SIC, 900.
900 plant including submarine lines, sta.
tions and equipment, to he laid by regu-
lar naval vessels and to be delivered
when completed to the postmaster gen
eral, who will manage, operate and main.
tain the service in the same manner as
the postal system, with a single regard
for the public interest.
The Tribune on Nov. 10, published the
official chart of the surveys made across
the Pacific by the L. S. s. Nero, with ar
account of the great work performed
by that vessel and now presents the leg
islative proposition in it's entirety. II
explanation of the appropriation called
for, it is said by Rear Admiral Bradford
who has had charge of the matter tina
81, 600, 900 is estimated as the cost of main
tenance for the first year, after which
the postotlice department could pay tn
expenses out of the receipts.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Horse Transport Ready.

. San Francisco, Dec. 13.-The horse
transport Victoria has finished loading
horses and mules for Manila. If the
bar is smooth she will sail to sea today.
Nc orders have yet been received for
the Flintshire and Westchester, both of
which are fitted out as horse transports.
Captain Barneson has received orders
from Washington to dispatch ,he rams
port Grant to Manila OH Sunday with
the Forty-eighth infantry, the last regi-
ment now under orders to go to the
Philippines. The Zealandia and City of
Para have been discharged from the
transport service.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
General Ferrer0 Dead.

New York, Dec. 13.-Major Gen. Edward
Ferrero is dead at his home In this city,
aged GS years. He was born in Spain.
of Italian parents. In 1861 he raised the
Thifty-ifth New York regiment called
the shepard rifles" of which he was
made colonel. He led a brigade in Burn
sides expedition to Roanoke island. where
his regiment took the first fortified re-
doubt captured during the war.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Was Instantly Killed.

Tacoma, Wash, Dec. 13.-John Nelson
was instantly killed while at work in the
st. Paul and Tacoma mill last night. A
piece of lumber flew back over the saws,
striking Nelson Just above the heart.
from the effect OF which he died a few
minute later. He was unmarried and
had worked at the mill for eight years.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Work For Statehood.

Chicago. Dee. Ex-Governor M. A.
Otero of New Mexico, and Solomon Luna.
republican national committeeman, from
the territory, were at the Great North
ern yesterday Ell route to washington.
Both say an effort will be made to bring
about the admission of New Mexico dur
ing the present session of congress, and
both are hopeful it will be accomplished.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Given Up For Lost.

San Francisco, Dec. 13.-The French
shin. Louis Pasteur, now out 131 avs
from Limerick for this port, is believed
to have been lost, and % ner cent re-
insurance is offered on her. She is known
to have been in a fearful storm with the
shin Blanca, which was lost.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Government OF Samoa.

New York, Dec. ia special to the
Herald from Washington says: Ar
rangements are being perfected by Sec
rotary Hay, Lord Pauncefote and Herr
Won Holleben for the execution of the
provisions of the treaty for the partition
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Sale
PriCeS..

Maple Syrup. finest made, gallon el.t
Whole zoe Fish. Is ~pounds........ l'o
Orange Lemon and Citron Peel. 2U
Cinnamon, Pepper and Mustard.. ~
3 packages Breakfast Cocoa...... 5o
8 pounds Bankers Mocha and Java
\OfIee... i. . -. :. -. .''' Ao
/ pint bottle Catsup, 1oc. quarts. 20
. cans California Grapes or Plums 70
White Potatoes, $40, red. . -. L.
New Orleans Table Molasses. gals. 20
Onion per hundred... -. 3. +. -. l.6
Flour per SACK. i. .. ........6o TO 40
Fancy Bread Flour, per sack...... l.o
Fair Bread Flour. per sack. .... 80
40 bars Laundry SOAP. -. -. -. 1V
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
GREAT LIBRARIES AT PEkIN.

The great libraries of Pekin contain
volumes of books numbered by the hum
dreds Of thousands. In the archives
of the government are still to be fOund
the ancient predictions of eclipses made
with great accuracy, together with works
on astronomy, which show a fair knoWl-
edge of hat interesting science.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

MONEY TO LADY OR GENTLEMEN
canvassers. We offer liberal cash com
missions for subscriptions to the De
signer,' the handsomest and most pop
ular Fashio Magazine. Easy, pro1ita-
BILE work. For terms and sample opy
apply to Standard Fashion Co., 80 West
Fourteenth ST., New York, N. Y.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
TAILOR

s. B. BROWN, THE ARTISTIC TAI
lor, has opened up shop at 1888 South
Main street, where he is prepared to
make latest style suits UP to order.
Prices within reach OF all. Work
guaranteed. See him before going
e,s.w he re, 1873 Main street.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Probably Arrived.

Portland, Ore. Dec. 13.-Four square,
Triggers were reported off the Columbia
last evening, and il is thought n
of the them is the ship st. Enoch. from
Panama for his port. She took on a
pilot November II and has not since been
seen.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
Target Practice.

San Francisco, Dec. 13.-The battleship
Iowa and the cruiser Philadelphia will
sail today for the south coast. The
cruiser Albemarle will meet them at
Magdalena bay and there will be u
month of target practice.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

WANTED-MEN TO LEARN BARBER
trade. Ony two months required to
complete. Will pay $500 weekly when
competent. Have 500 positions open
Jan. 18th. Come now and prepare for
these places. No expense to learn IL
you will work for us. Catalogue mail
ed free. Moler Barber College. Mime
apOlis, Mimi.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

WANTED AT ONCE-A RELIABLE
working woman to assist with care of
block in exchange for rent of furnished
housekeeping roolnS. Apply PIT West
Galena Street.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
MPlGNMEN r.

spare time a day can make IS weekly
for use at home: nothing to sell. Send
self-addressed envelope for free sample.
Manhattan F.. M. Co., 101 Bee1Nman
street, New York.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

IN THE EXACT SCIENCE OF PALM
istry Madame Dewitt Is an adept.
Magnetic healing is recognized as an
advanced mode of relieving pain and
curing disease without the aid OF drugs.
Removed from the Butte hotel to 21S
West Park.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
DUN

FOUND--A BLACK SILK SCARF, ON
West Granite. Owner can ave same
by identifying it n paying fol
this ad:
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
MONEY TO LOAN

MONEY TO LOAN-ON REAL ESTATE
security at 10 per cent. Also non
to loan on chattels. Chas. l.. Smith,
% West Granite street.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

WANTED-GiRL WANTED TO DO
general house work. Apply at this office.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
HAS YOUR ADVERTISEMENT OF

WANTED-A Hired Gl-A Drssmakar-A NuwN-AC Cook o. Waiter-A Por
anteey you al answer
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

FOR SALE-FURNITURE OF FOUR
room house. good as new; also house
for rent will sell very reasonable;
reason, leaving the city. Inquire at AS
East Park street.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

WANTED SITUATION by A GEN
eral repair man; blacksmith and
Wasonm2>er; ho~rse-shoeing. Address
V. 2. w, Inter Mountain.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

nor SALE BITTER ROOT VALLEY.
Nh 1O--l6O ac:es; all fenced: 100 acres
under cultivation: 20 acres Ii. saleable
imher A l water right: orchard of coo
bearing trees: also small fruit, rs acres
seeded to hay: a two-story, six-room
dwelling, good barn M out buildings,
ona and one-half miles from own and
good school. No. 1880 acres. : miles
from depot, 4 miles from town, all
fenced. rood water right. 200 acres un-
der cultivation. 10 ccres meadow. can
cultivate 900 acres. 20 acres timber.
small bearing orchard. log house and
barn. Price 1900. 4 bargain. en-
oufre of Ravallt County Abstract Co.
Hamilton. Mont.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

FOR SALE CHEAP-FIRST CLASS
lodging house, electric lights, steam
heat, good as new. Mrs. Ella Elphi-
son, 121 Main street, Anaconda.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

PARTY WANTS TO RENT A 1o1,c-
ing house or buy one on monthly nav.
ments. Address s. T. A., Inter Noun
tain.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

WANTED-ALL KINDS OF CAST OEE
clothing bought. is South Wyrrninp
street. Mail orders promptly attended,
Charles q. Smith.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

FOR SALE-FINE BUFFALO ROBE
Address, care this office.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

FOR LEASE = NINETEEN ROOM
lodging house furnished connlete, oan-
trail location. Jackcon g. Cny ~ ~
West Granite.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

GOOD MICH COW FOR SALE. NO. -
Harrison street, Meaderville. M.
Bently.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

NINETEEN-ROOM LODGING HOUSE,
brick, one block of Main and Park
electric light, bath; $500 if sold at once
A snap. Room 80, Silver Bow block
S. NJ. Wade.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

fiEADuARTERS FOR MASQUERADE
Costumes, 1O5 West Granite.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

HOUSES AND LOTS, ALL SIZES AND
prices, in all parts of the city. If you
want to buy, call at Room so, Silver
Bow block. S. NJ. Wade.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

TEN-ROOM BOARDING HOUSE, 10
boarders, rent only $50, good location;
a bargain; 1915. S. NJ. Wade, Room so,
Silver Bow block.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13

FOR SALE-A SALOON, GOOD LOCA-
ton. Inquire at Copper State Saloon.
sos South Arizona.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS

Try BECK WiTH'S RESTAURANT, Al
west Park; European plan; meals at
oil hours.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-29
CURIOUS BEuOARS.

Cloverport has had her share Of unique
mendicants during the past few weeks.
One Of the queerest characters was a
fellow who was in town last Saturday.
He registered at a local hotel as "Peg
Leg Jack, from Everywhere"
Like the man in the song, he had a
wooden leg, and it was bis boast that he
never rode in a side door Pullman or
battered back door for hand.out dur,
ing his long career as a tramp.
Peg Leg Jack said to group OF inter-
ested listeners that he had been in and
had piled his vocation in every country
on the globe. He is proud Of being an
American and said that only in this
country is mendicsncy made a fine art.
He claims that the tricks of European
beggars are old and chestnutty.
Jack had imbibed freely Of the juice
Of the forbidden fruit and being master
craftsman, and proud of the fact, he re-
vealed trade secrets that in his normal
condition he would guard as the apple Of
his eye. He showed his listeners how
he could produce an artificial burn on
his arm, shown that TO the average man,
would excite his sympathy and divorce
him from a coin or two as a practical
manifestation of his feeling. He also
simulated paralysis and made himself
seem a most pltiable object OF charity.
He pulled out "phony" rings and
spectscles and explained how he palned
them of as the real thing on the jays and
"gazabo's," and made them pay in many
cases a 1000 per cent more than they
were worth for the articles.
In conclusion "P,g Leg Jack" said /:
"Tm the sickest duck that ever happen
ed and always travel with a wad that
is furnished me by the suckers that are
born every minute"
The other day a whole family of
beggars struck town. 1t consisted of a
man, his wife and two children, the
latter were eight and seven years old re-
spectivelY.
The man was loaded down with
blankets and comforts; the woman had
just enough clothes on her person and
in her bundle to flag a hand car the
eldest child carried tin coffee pot and
some blankets and the youngest child
was loaded down with an iron skillet
almost as big as herself and with a
varied assortment of TIM ware.
The family marched through town in
single file and excited the curiosity OF
all.
In reply to some questions put to the
man by the reporter, he said they had
walked all the way from Arcola, ILL.,,
aud were on their way to Virginia.
They averaged twenty miles day ami
intended to walk every foot. The man
was degenerate and had the the hope
less, broken spirited look OF a half
starved dog. The woman had the bold,
stolid stare common TO the lower classes
OF humanity and seemed utterly indiffer-
ent to her condition.
The children looked old beyond their
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-29

years. The tragedy of their lives had
crushed out the joyOusness and b loyancy
Of youth and they personiird the apathy
born OF hopeless misery They we're
little old women and looking into the
depths of their blue, owl ike ewes, one
could see they we're on n m tie
terms with sorrow and iroubl' n y
that they lad knowledge Of evil at a
time when nature intended that tn, y
should possess the ignorance that is
blsp.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-29
A STRANGE FIND.

A correspondent for the Hancock Clar-
ion, writing from Trasher's School house
says: A most remarkable arch @ illogical
find was made by Messrs. Clarence and
John Emmick ON their land at Emmick's
landing last week. 1t consists Of abouta
dozen cistern shaped pits, from one and
half to four feet in diameter and OF un-
known depth. These pits are situated
along the second bank Of the river and
about twelve feet below the present sur.
face Of the ground, They were uncover
ed by the late high water The walls
are OF reddish-blsck cement and have
the appearance of having been burned
from the inside Their arrangement is
in a straight line about a hundred feet
in length, some Of them being only few
inches apart. The walls are about two
inches thick, and as they stand they re.
semble large jugs partly covered with
earth.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-29
RAIN OF PLUnS.

Clarence sterret in his paper says !:
Readers OF the Clarion will remember
about this time last year, as well as the
year before, mention was made of plums
falling on a small spot Of ground on the
Jack Ritchey farm Ave miles from town,
on the Patesville road. They fell again
last week in exactly the same spot-a
space not larger than room, for the
third consecutive year. Nowhere else in
the neighborhood is any to be found and
the neiGhbors are beginning to think the
spot bewitched. They always come in a
rain storm, at the same time Of the year,
and more wonderful than all else, exactly
on the same spot.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-29

stomach hut he was as unyielding as iron
The next feature OF the performance
was the sticking Of pins through the
boys ears. Those who watched the
boys countenance saw a face that was as
mobls As that Of the Sphinx No ex'
preston OF pain or interest could be dis
cerned. Il was as stolid "a marble.
The performance was concluded by
the father making passes behind the
boys back. Ia obedience TO the mes
meric Influence the boy became rigid,
fell back into the arms Of his father, and
was put in a post-hypnOtic state.
DR.. Simons was standing near and the
reporter Inquired
"What do you think Of IL, Doctor p
THAT boy was mesmerizsd or he is
the most cOnsummate actor / ever saw"
was the reply.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-29
CAUGHT A WHITE COON.

Messrs. Allie Cooper and John Parton
caught white coon while out hunting
near their residence at Rockville, in this
county, a short time ago. The animal is
now on exhibition at the museum Of Mr..
]. T. Smith, Jr., Fordsville. There are
several albinOs in this section. Here in
Cloverport the people have noticed a
white English sparrow flying about for
the past two years. In the Webster
neighborhood a white quail has been
seen on various occasions by hunters.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-29
LAST OF THE TRAPPERs.

Henry Tompson, an aged and respected
colored citizen, Of Irvington, is the last Of
the race of trappers left in this section. He
is now in the neighborhood Of Stithton'
Hardin county, trapping foxes, skunks
and otter. Henry knows the language
Of the beasts Of the fl 4lds and the fowls
ofthe air. The denizens Of e Id and fen
have heard OF Henry and have such fear
of his proves as a minTod that it inter-
feres with his success.
He says: "If de varmints didn't know
me go we'll dey wouldn't hide out wen 1
come into dere kentry. Den 1 could
ketch DEM"