Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04
Trouble Between Two COur-
tries Not Settled.
DlSRAELI WAS TR1cKSTER
Proven By Letters Written 70 Sir
Robert Peel--American Girls
Are Popular in London.

London, Feb. 4-(Copyrighted, 1898, by
the Associated Press).-Queen Victoria
is to return to Windsor from Osborne on
Tuesday neXt and will receive the new
United States ambassador, Mr.. Joseph H.
Choate, who will present his credentials
before her majesty starts for the Rivera.
Mr.. Choate's reputation as a wit and a
bright after dinner speaker has preceded
him. The newspapers are full of his
witty sayings and the stories credited to
him., some true, but mostly typographical.
In fact, from the mement he sets foot on
British soil, Mr.. Choate will be expected
to coruscate like a brilliant.
The Duke of Marlborough went to Os-
borne on Thursday and was introduced
and kissed hands" on his appointment
as paymaster general. He has also been
sworn in as a privy councillor.
The Duchess of Marlborough is becom-
Ing very active in small public functions.
She is to open a bazaar at Hackney next
Thursday in aid of the teachers orphan
age site. These kindly acts greatly pro-
mote her popularity as they entail some
thing more than mere attendance. 1t
means a handsome contribution to the
funds.
T~hequestion of the hour is the stringent
order of the police prohibiting empty
cabs from entering the Strand, Bond
street and other busy thoroughfares and
compelling them to wait in the cab
stands. Every American visitor in Lon
don remembers the endless procession of
lettering cabs popularity known as "craw-
1ers' rendering it almost impossible for
foot passengers to cross the roadways and
leading to incessant congestion of traffic.
The cab drivers and the cab owners are
now up in arms and are d~enouncing the
police for their alleged tyranny taking
the ground that it means ruin for them.
They have been holding mass meetings
to protest against the action of the po-
lice authorities. Already about 1000 cabs
have been withdrawn from the streets,
although the regulation has only been in
force a few days.
An alleged interview with the French
minister of marine, M. Lockroy, publish
ed in a Rome paper, has created consid-
cradle stir in some quarters in London
as it is heidi to show that France has in
noWise buried the Ratchet, but is deter
mined to attack Great Britain at the first
opportunity. People here, however, can
hardly credit the veracity of the inter-
view in which Mr.. Lockroy begins by
describing the British naval organiza-
ton as being "all humbug' and saying:
1.-THE English have only the brutal force
of numbers" The minister of marine
is also quoted as declaring that wal with
Great Britain is inevitable and he is said
to have added in consequence: Let Eng
land continue to contract big warships.
Our naval programme is steel plated,
powerful, swift cruisers, torpedo boat de-
stroyers and submarine boats" The Brit
fish newspapers have apparently taken
the utterances seriously and are urging
the government to reply ito words with
deeds"
The French menaces seem to accord
with confidential information to the eff
feet that military and naval circles her e