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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23

this confession to the front in the next
trial. with a view to justifying the or
ig!nal conviction of Dreyfus rather than
to secure a second verdict of guilt.
circumstances have done much to re-
lieve Dreyfus of the stain upon his honor,
and seldom has the persecution of a man
awakened such widespread interest
throughout the world. Few will believe
in the possibility Of producing evidence
at the second trial that will besm,ircl, the
unhappy victim of French Injustice. But
the world is full of surprises. and those
who have tried the case at a distance
ana announced a verdict Of acquittal will
feel Inundated and grieved should the
statement relative to the confession of the
German officer %unhappily prove true.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
SIZE OF THE OCEAN.

An observant man once remarked that
most men seem to be as ignorant about
the Size of the sea as they are Of the
distance between the heavenly planets.
Here are q few facts: The Pacific covers
6S,OoO,O 900 miles; the Atlantic, 80, 900, 900,
and the Indian ocean,. Arctic and Antar-
tic. 42,O0O, COO. To stow away the, contents
OF the Pacific it would be necessary to fill
a tank one mile long, one mile wide and
one mile deep every day for 440 years.
Put in figures, the Pacific holds in weight
JAS. OOO, DOC, coo, 900. 0O0. GOO tons. The Allan
tic averages a depth Of not quite three
miles. It's waters weigh 325. 000, 900. 600, 000,-
600 tons. and a tank to contain it would
have each Of it's sides 43O miles long. The
figures of the other oceans are in the
same startling proportions. 1t would
take all the sea water in the world =, 000,-
GEO years to flow oven Niagara. A tank to
hold it would have to measure nearly
1000 miles long each Of it's sides.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
BUTTE AND BINGHAM COpPET,
MINING co.

The 1000 shares of treasury stock Of
the Butte & Bingham Copper
of Bingham, Utah, is selling rapidly
and this block is nearly closed out. The
next block will positively be placed at Is
cents per share, and it may be placed at
% cents per share. Don't miss this OPP
p~ortunity to make money. This stock is
positively the best buy we nave Offered
on the market this year. Five dollars will
buy 100 shares, s25 will buy 500 shares.
Call or address. w. II. Nichols, secre-
tary and mining broker for the
No. West Broadway, Butte, Mont. p. O.
box ASS.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
MISCELLANEOUS,
REAL ROMANCE.

Behind the brief notice, published to-
day., of the marriage of w. B. Wilcox,
the wealthy leather merchant of No. ~
Spruce street. to Miss Ida Denis. there
lies such a story OF unselfish devotion to
duty and such a romance as is rarely to
be found in real life, says the New York
Dispatch.
Eight years g Ida Denis, the bride
of yesterday. was surrounded by all
the comforts of a prosperous and happy
home in his city.
Then, in a day, came disaster. The
father disappeared. the home was aban-
doned, and the worse thar widowed
mother. with her two daughters, remov-
ed to a little New Jersey town where,
without money, the burden of life was
taken up again.
Ida and her sister struggled brayely to
find work enough to sopport the little
household. but in vain. Finally, almost in
despair, Ida came back to New York and
calling upon w. B. Wilcox. an old friend
of her father. asked him if HI could help
her to find employment.
Through his efforts she secured a place
as attendant in a doctors office, and by
the most rigid economy undertook to save
$loo from her meaSer wages to be given
as q present to her mother.
Unknown to Ida, Mr.. Wilcox kept him
self informed about her progress, and
when she had boarded $40 he one day
visited her, abruptly told her to go to
college at his expense. and to keep the
$40. In place Of it, Mr.. Wilcox sent money
to the mother himself.
Ida was graduated from college with
honors a few days ago. and of all her
classmates none was given more beautiful
flowers thar she received from her bene-
FACTOR and lover. the wealthy merchant.
Mr.. Wilcox and Ida We're married yes.
terday, and the wedding dress of the
bride was bought With the so she hac
caved by her heroic self-denial so Ions
ago,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
A NEW CABINET OFFICER.

The Geographic advices of the Inter
Mountain tody indicate thai steps will
be taken to create a new department in
the presidents cabinet. which will have
charge of the colonial affairs and the for
eign commerce of the government. Hav-
ing added Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines to our possessions, with Gu
ban affairs Under the direction of our
government, and annexation among the
possibilities, a new cabinet officer, en-
trusted with the duty of looking after for
eign affairs, seems necessary.
1t will be more economical to entrust
such matters to a new department in the
presidents cabinet than to distribute the
work and responsibility among the de-
partments already burdened with affairs
of state. The interior department.. upon
which the greatest burden of work Gre
ated by our new possessions would ma
turally fall, cannot widen it's sphere with
safety to the local interests it has in
charge. The theory of a division of re-
sponsibility, which led up to the original
creation of the several cabinet offices, was
a sound one, and there can b. no alid
objection to their increase when new con-
ditions demand it.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
THE SCHOOL OF NATURE,

Oh, but he was a wreck! His clothing
was tied on in spots, there was a weeks
growth of beard upon his face, and the
dirt was sticking to his cuticle in patches.
He looked about him aimless!y and in a
vacant way let his eyes linger upon a
small knot of newsboys who conversed to-
Sether at times. cycling him furtively.
Finally one of the boys went over and
talked with him, and they were engaged
in animated conversation. Once the
mans hand covered the pit of his stom-
ach. then went into his pocket, then
waved in 9 majestic manner, as he drew
himself up in a dignified fashion. He
was telling a long and interesting story,
for the face of the boy looked Interest,"
ed. Then the little newsboy came back
to his companions, and there was a con-
sultation. A number of grimy hands
went into trouser pockets. and the boy
who had been spokesman clutched a num-
Der of pennies in his little fist. Then he
went to the man, where he stood near the
drugstore at First Avenue south and
Washington.
Here, pardner.' came the little voice,
husky with calling his wares. ''You's !,
hard luck, an we feels fer you, we does >,
The little fist opened and a number of
pennies dropped into the large, dirty
palm. The face of the man frightened
and with a Chesterfieldian wave of the
hand at the boys he sailed across the
street to a restaurant.
a woman who had been watching the
act: what was the matter with the
MANI" she asked.
He's in hard luck, he is was the re-
ply. "He was rich, Onct, an had his
horses and dogs. an was a swell bloke:
but he dropped it all on a oman and went
broke. Us kids know When a fellow is
hard hit, we does. an we has hearts, We
has, an can feel fer de unfortOonate."
Are you not afraid that he will buy
beer with the money! asked the woman.
mo, ma'am. He'll stow away grub
with it. He's square, he is. JIM. one of
our boys, he remembers when he used to
flip a quarter to newsies fer a paper, an
his story is all right. I bet he wished he
| had those quarters now"
The urchin Joined his comrades and the
circumstances went out of their minds;
! but it showed that the Minneapolis news
bow has some school where he learns
manliness. Perhaps it is in the gallery
of his favorite theater.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
TIE CASE NOT D

While public sentiment the world over
fus, and the belief is general that no ser
ious effort will be made to convict him
on his second trial, it is quite likely that
some surprises are in store. Those who
have championed the cause of the perse-
cuted Jew believe that he was convicted
on evidence of the most f1imsy character,
have of late been held up for the execra-
ton of the world.
The general fact that in military affairs
the Utmost secrecy is ofttimes necessary
seems to have been overlooked by those
interested in the honest administration
of Justice in this celebrated case. It is
by no means impossible that the strong
est evidence that lead up to the derank-
ing of Dreyfus has never been guessed
at by the populace, much less made pub
lie.
The statement now emanates from high
military sources that the real cause Of
conviction was the confession made SUBJ
rosa by a gentleman of prominence in the
military affairs of Germany. The fact
that the party to whom Deryfus is sup
posed to have betrayed the secrets Of
the French government made a confess
sion was not permitted to reach the pub
lie a lest complications might arise
that would subject the relations of the
two nations to a strain which would
threaten war, SO it is said by a man prom-
inent in military circles. 1t is the in
tention Of the military utkorities to drag
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A
CHRONIC.

Tom Young, an old miner who had been
shut in on the Yukon for years, had a
claim staked on Hunkers' Creek. One
day he wandered into q saloon where a
bathing-nymph chrome was tackled to the
wall. He was greatly struck with the
colors. and. as lie had no money, he Offer
ed his claim for the picture. Jim Nor
rison, the bartender. was working for
wages, and he accepted the offer. He has
just refused $685. coo for the claim, and
Young is working for him. He still has
the chrome, and calls it his $50, coo
beauty
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23

The end Of the Larkin case is said to be
in sight, provided = telescope is used.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
FIRE AT WEDDING CEREMONIES.

Fire is an essential in some wedding
celebrations. In Persia the service is
read in front of the fire. In Nicaragua
the priest, taking the couple each by the
little finger, leads them to an apartment
where a fire is lighted, and there in
structs the bride in her duties, extinguieh-
ing it by way of conclusion. In Japan
the woman kindles a torch, and the BRIDE
groom lights one from it, the playthings
of the wife being burnt Their and there.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23

for the Philippines. We trust
that every effort will be made to induce
the editor Of the Anaconda Standard and
the editor of the Helena Independent to
remain at home and continue their work
of saving the country. They can't be
spared at present, and If the Inter Noun
tain has said anything that makes them
feel as if they wanted to go Off and die,
a. writ Of replevin will be issued and we
vii! take 1t all back.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
RAPID

Pollak, a. Vienna engineer, is said to
have invented a telegraph instrument
that will transmit messages over a single
wire at a speed of 1000 words a minute.
The Wheatstone automatic instrument
will transmit at a speed of 600 words a
minute. but even such a high speed is
seldom required.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23

lined up against fusion and in favor Of
giving the democratic appetite plenty Of
a solitary newspaper of that faith was left
clinging to the shattered policy of 1895.
All the emphatic reservations of the
Bryan campaign that lin union there is
strength were forgotten. The divinely
inspired appetite Of the democracy vas
supreme.
1t is unnecessary, in this connection, ia
tuals came in sight. The blood and hair
and teeth and dandruff, and other evil
dences of the perishability of mundane
things, that We're scattered over the
democratic pie-counter have their place
in history. Suffice it to say. that during
that interesting period the Anaconda
Standard prepared itself for the support
of a single-standard democrat for the
senate by declaring editorially, the day
before the voting in the joint assembly
began. that the free coinage ratio of 16
to ! was immaterial-that the ratio Of
value between gold and silver must be de-
tcrmined by the worlds exchanges. This
declaration was a perfectly natural one
to emanate from the democratic press,
which lac r%epudiated the policy of CO.
onpyafinp and made trOner3tiVp q n1ln
that had given 5000, 600 votes to the sill
yer cause in 1896 outside the ranks of the
democratic party.
Six months have passed away since the
recognized leader of the democratic press
in this state publicly abandoned the free
coinage ratio of 16 to 1, yet not a single
democratic in this state-not
one-has been faithful enough to the
cause of silver to take issue with the Ana
conda Standard. Not one Of them has
attacked that paper for having given to
the country at large the impression that
the democrats of Montana are trying t,
let go the free coinage issue.
- AoS oSNA RSSAS AouASA
over the Goals On other propositions. The
Helena Independent has attacked it from
time to time on propositions,
n even the Butte Miner occasionally
nerves itself UP to a point where it is
willing to give the public a chance to see
that the Standard isn't afraid of it. But
the Inter Mountain alone promptly took
issue with it on the question Of the ratio
and censured it for striking a fatal blow
at the free coinage cause.
1t is said that silence gives consent, and
insofar as the democratic press Of this
state are concerned the effort of the
Standard to spread the Information
broadcast that this great silver COM
monwealth is willing to waive the ratio, is
perfectly satisfactory. Had it not been
so, the democratic papers-the alleged
silver papers-would have come to the
rescue Of Is to / against the assaults Of
the leading organ Of that party. Not one
Of them has said that the Standard was
January, 1898, that the fixing of the ratio
of values between gold and silver must be
left to the worlds exchanges.
Before the Helena Independent again
says that the Inter Mountain has been
trying to persuade the democrats to
abandon silver, would it not be we'll for
it to grope around awhile among late pO-
litical facts in the history of Montana in
its earnest search for a persuader?
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23
UNCLE'S PECULIARITIES.

Mr.. Sfint-Wiat kind of a present did
your rich Uncle Haycroft give Benny? =.
Mrs. Slint-He gave him q spinnipp
top.
MI. Sfint-Just like him. If he makes
q present to even a little boy it's some-
thing with a string to it.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23

The Helena Independent has filed a de
murrer in the Whiteside libel case. and
asked for a change of venue. The board
of directors of that paper do not want to
take an outing unless sure of an inning.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-23

, Governor Pingree has joined forces with
latter to the senate will follow. The
democratic press will now renew it's
"beefing."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-18

Bell Telephone Stock Has n Sensational
Rise In Boston.


Officers Of the American Telephone and Tel
egraph Company OF this city said yesterday
that they knew nothing about n telegraphed
report from Boston that the American Bell
Telephone Company was TO be merged Into the
American Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. John Il. Hudson Is President OF both
companies and he is In Boston. The Amerl-
can Telephone Contrary has a capital stock OF
S2O,O0O,OO and Is the long-distance end ot
the Bell Telephone business.
According to the Boston adyices the object
OF the company. when IL was formed. was not
only TO build long distance lines, but to take IN
all Of the sub-com panies. This plan. tle al
vices said. was now maturing. ana Dell stock-
holders would be asked to.acoept shares OF the
American Telephone Company In exchange
for their Boil shares on O satisfactory BASIS;
After this was adjusted all the stockhulder OF
the suh;companies, especially where me amer
can Bell Company now owns u controllihE lnS
terest, will have offered to them the stock OF
the American Telephone Company upon an
eirDing basis In exchange for. their stock IN
the sub-companies. In companies where tho
American Bell Company does not own q ma
jcrity interest II will purchase the, control; 50
as to bring about a grand consolidation OF all
lnterests.
The Boston adviees stated that there had
been q sensational advance in the stock, OF the
American Bell COMPANY on the Stock EX-
change there. In the opening dealings the
stock went up 10 points. in as many minutes,
touching S31O. There was a further advance
later. with. the. closing quotations SOLD nld.
$40 asked, The previous nigh record was
$500 in 1892. the stock afterward declining to
S203 in February. 1894. and later TO S23S III
the ante-Spanish war scare last March.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-18
MIYOR CHAMPIONS PEDDLERs.
Meanwhile the Police Keep ArrestinE Those
Who hive No Pun with the Alderman.

Meanwhile the Police Keep ArrestinE Those
Who Have No Pull with the Alderman.
A number Of east side peddlers protested to
the Mayor Yesterday about the unjust manner
in which they we're treated by the police. The
Mayor Immediately wrote this letter to Presi-
dent York of the Police Board:
"A committee of tho New York Pcddlers' AS
sociatlon has just called on nue. and made q
statement in reference to arbitrary arrests
and unjustiflable interference with them in the
pursuit of their trade of peddling on the streets.
From the statements made IL would seem that
not only a wrong hut an outrage has been per
petratcd by the police of the precinct in which
are Ridge. RiHington and Houston streets, and
| desire that you give these gentlemen a re-
%spectful hearing and sift this matter to the
bottom"
The. ordinance fixing the license fee for ped
dlers has been held up in the Municipal As
semblv for nearly n year. An arrangement
was made some time ago. however, by which
the peddlers could obtain permits from the
City Clerk to do business until the new license
ordinance Is passed. Each applicant must
have the Endorsement Of the Alderman of his
district before he can get a permit to peddle.
MANY who cannot obtain these permits on a,c-
count Of political reasons are arrested by the
police OF the east side as soon as they attempt
to do business.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-18
Dinner of the American Irish Historical
society.

The American Irish Historical Society will
hold its second annual dinner at Sherry'4 to-
morrow night. Speeches will be- made by the
Hon. William Adoo. Gen J, II. OBcirur, Arch
deacon Cyrus Il. Brady Of Philadelphia. DR..
Thomas Adds Emmett, the Hon. NJ o Bri"u,
the Hon. Thomas j, Gargan Of Boston, the Rev.
j. j. Mccoy OF Chicopee. Mass, and Joseph
Smith Of Lowell. Mass. Thedinner is IN charge
of j. d. Crimmins. Francis {. Truycrs and
Thomas Il. Iawl"r.
The society was organized i'm Boston two
years ago with the object of exploiting the part
played by Irish people in American history
II Is neither SeCtarlan nor religious and has
already ii memLerslipO Of moro than uthousanl.
Gov. Roosevelt, Edward \ Mosslcy Of Wash
ington, James jeffrey Roche. John &. Iiuuinn
OF New Hampshirc the ltcy, 6Gc3rgc ", Pen
Carolina, Thomas DUNE English, cN-Ooy.
HASTINGS Of PcngsyiNauia. eX- ConEressmau
WeadOck Of Michigan. ex-senator Walsh If
Georgia. Col. o'Brlon Nlo1Tr Of West Virginia,
Joseph !. Daly. aud the Hon Thomas VI. Waller
OF Conn cticut are among the members.
GOV. Roosevelt will entertain tho society at a
reception on Friday afternoon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-18
4%G2ROMOTIONS CONTESTED.
POLICE BOARD WaRNED NOT TO
PAY SALARIES TO THESE MEN.

Civil Service Reform Association Say Tam
many's Fhvors Have Been Distributed
uIeEnIly-Gov. Roosevelt Consulted
Devery's Name May DO On List Later.
While the Police Board was in session yes
terdny n messenger from the Civil Service Re-
form Association arrived and served notice
upon Commissioners Hess. the Treasurer of
he board. that he would be held personally re-
sponslble for tho amount Of the salaries OF
every man promoted in the Police Depa rtnent
since Jan. l. 1893. IL no paid Thorn on next
pay day. When Mr.. Hess had recovered sum-
ciently 10 hold the paper steady. no read this:
"HoA. Jacob 4. Hess. 7red,urtr Board @ Police.
Ntto York city.
DEAR SIR: Tho Civil Service Reform Asso-
citation respectfully represents that the fol-
owing officers are holding positions in tho
Department Of Police, to which they have been
appointed In violation OF tho constitutions
and statutory provisions regulating the meth
cd Of appolntment and promotion in the civil
gerVipp.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-18
ELIuIN.4TING THE HORSE CAR.
Application for Leave to Change Power or
tho Astoria Ferry Line.

Application for Leave to Change Power on
tho Astoria Ferry Line.
The Metropolitan Street Railway Company
and the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Rail-
road Company applied to tho State Board Of
Railroad Commissioners. at a meeting held at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday, for permis-
sion to use either electricity furnished by an
underground current or by electric storage
batteries or motors supplied with. compressed
air as motive power for lines in the following
streets and avenues: From Lexington avenue.
along Ninety-siXth street. to First avenue ::
along to Ninety-third street; TO Avenue 4, to n
point near the Astoria Ferry; also upon Third
street and Fourth street, between West Broad
way and Wooster street. The board referred
the application TO its inspectors and engineers
for a report.
Eighty-flfth street. between Madison and Fifth
avenues. objected to a proposed change from
horse power to electricity on the line through
that street. They said that the change would
require & inches more OF the street. and that
there was not room now for leo wagons or
coal agons between tracks and curb.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-18
BRETERs MUST PAY VAR TIx.
Can't Pass 1t On to Retailers to Whom They
Had Made n Previous Contract Price.

Had Made n Previous Contract Price.
Justice McAdam of the Supreme Court said
yesterday apropos of a case before him that the
war tax OF 81 a barrel on beer is in law pay
able by the brewers, and that they cannot pass
it on 10 retailers with whom they had con-
tracts antedating the tax TO supply beer az a
fixed price. In practice the brewers buy the
revenue stamps and afix them. add 81 a bar
rel to the price of the beer to the retailer. de-
manl the reueal of the war tax al an oppres-
sive burden and call on the retailers to vote the
Democratic ticket.
But Saloon Keeper Martin Matthews thought
he had a case against bis brewers, the William
H.. Frank Brewing Company. He had a con-
tract with them under which they were to
supply him with all the beer he wanted at So
a barrel. When the war tax came along the
brewers made the price 81. Matthews paid, he
says, under protest. aud because il he hadn't
paid he wouldn't have got any beer, Then he
sued. under his contract. to get back the extra
81 a barrel. Justice McAdam says he lost his
chance when he paid at all. The Justice says:
True. the plaintiff said he made the pay
ments under protest. but this did not make
them COMPULSORY. and they cannot now be re-
covered"
There was no compulsion in law and the
words under protest have no magical force
and do not establish com pulsion. Matthews
should have refused to pay the tax and then II
he had not got the beer AT the price set in the
original agreement he should have sued for
breach OF contract.