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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
Destroyed by Fire.

Great Falls. Feb. 14-Fire has de-
stroyed the old Combination saloon
Building at Belt. The fire originated in
the back room and had gained much
Roadway before it was discovered. For
a time it looked like the entire group
of buildings on the east side of the
street and in the center of which was
located the burning building would be
destroyed. The A. c. M. company vol
unteer fire department responded
promptly to the alarm and performed
most excellent service, adjoining build
ings sustaining little or no damage
The burned building was occupied by
William Heikka as a saloon, and he
lost the greater part of his stock, prob
ably amounting to $500 in cash A hun
dred and fifty dollars was taken unin-
jured from the bar after the fire was
under control. Mr.. Richardson's loss
on the building and bar fixtures is es-
timated at $3.50, with $3.50 insurance.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
GarCia's Faithful Servant,

General Garcia" says the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Record,
had an aged colored servant who was
born a slave upon his fathers planta-
ton and was brought up with him from
childhood. The old negro had followed
him in all his wars and had shared his
prison cells and sat beside his bed when
the general breathed his last. Every
time his master groaned he would groan
also and the death which came to the
one will not let the other linger much
longer. The faithful servant does not
care to live now. His interest in life
Is gone and no one would be surprised
if he died of grief within short time"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
VALLEY COUNTY.

Mr.. and Mrs o. S. Cutting announce
the birth TO them of a boy baby.
Mrs. Mae Willis of Havre is spending
the week with friends in Glasgow.
James Greenan left Glasgow the first
of the week for visit to his old home
in Iowa.
Clark Gregg and his wife of Poplar
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Hun
ter of GLASGOW
James MEDIUM has gone East for a
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
STATE OF OHIO. CRY OF TOLEDO, 6.


FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he Is the
senior partner of the firm of f. j. CHENEY & Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo County and
State aforesaid and that said company will pay
the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case Of Cstarrh that cannot be cured
by the use Of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1886.
~ A. w. GLEASON
} NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. Send for testim onials free.
F.. CHENEY Il CO., Toledo o.
Sold by Druggists 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
Aged Woman Rides n Bicycle,

Probably the oldest living bcyclist is wo man
in County Essex, England, aged SO, who is an
adept rider and whose sprightiness is astonis h..
ing. Most people could enjoy health until very
old age If they took proper precautions to pre-
vent diseases of the digestive organs by taking
an occasional dose of Hostetters stomach Bi t.
tiers. Even after dyspepsia. Indigestion bilious
ness and constipation have secured foothold
and become chronic the Bitters will afford
speedy relief
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

Paris of To-day-the handsomest pre-
MUM book ever of1ered-now ready for
delivery upon payment of $40 in ad-
vance for one years subscription to
Inc Standard. Can be obtained at
Standard office in Butte. Anaconda,
Missoula or Great Falls.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

Paris of To-day-the handsomest pre-
MUM book ever offered--now ready for
delivery upon payment Of SO in ad-
vance for one years subscription to
the Standard. Can be obtained at
Standard office in Butte, Anaconda,
Missoula or Great Falls.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

ed and stamped as required by the
United States internal revenue law, and
paying to the credit of the Union Pa
cif1c Railroad company at the time Of
such deposit the sum of So per- share.
The privilege of making such exchange
is subject to termination at any time
without notice. The Mercantile Trust
company will receive and hold for de-
positors certificates Of the Union Pa
cific Railroad company for the new
stock, and will issue to depositors tenn
porary receipts exchangeable for such
stock certificates when the same are
listed on the New York stock exchange.
The Union Pacific has purchased
$4,000 tons of steel rails for use the
coming summer. The first consignment
has arrived at Omaha. The rails are
of three grades, 70 pounds, so pounds
and 80 pounds the latter being espe
cially heavy for Western road, and
intended for use on the toughest places
of the Wyoming division. In lineal
distance, the new purchase is equal to
about 200 miles and will replace 60
pound rails. This makes total out
lay of about 100000 in rails by the
Union Pacific this year.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

leave for Chinook We insure these
good people a cordial reception and
shall be delighted to welcome them to
Montana citizenship.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

Following are the earnings of the
Burlington s, Northern railroad: 1898,
$1s3, 51619; 1897, $1S4,943.17. The taxes
for the two years are IS, 199.49 and
S5.54S.33.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

President Burt has authorized the
statement that the Union Pacific will
not shorten it's line in Wyoming the
coming summer as reported.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

An interesting pamphlet on California
has just been issued by the passenger
department Of the Burlington
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
Still Another Dresser

Handsome birdseye maple, with
extra large heveIed plate mirror,
full serpcntine shaped front.
French legs. dra wers finished same
inside as outside, hand polished
case. Regular price, $4,000; priced
a 500 50 TO induce cold weather
buying.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

The Great Northern has doubled the
price of it's stock-stock that year
ago brought $50 now is bringing 300.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
Look at This Picture Of Dresser

No. 19S-An elegant piece of furni-
ture, beautifully carved, in solid
oak, stands on French legs, has
patent casters, 30X24-ineh heveled
warm weather at SIS. Priced at 50,
to induce cold weather buying.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
Another Dresser

No. 19T--(fheval style, with large
bevel plate mirrors, pretty frame,
nicely carved. worth SIG. Priced to
induce cold weather buying at 50. TO.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15

Following is the official proposition
to Short Line stockholders made in a
circular letter from the Mercantile
Trust company of New York, which is
negotiating the absorption. of that road
by the Union Pacific:
Holders of stock of the Oregon Short
Line Railroad company may exchange
their shares for shares of the increased
common capital stock of the Union Pa
eific Railroad company, share for share,
by depositing with the Mercantile
Trust company, No. 120 Broadway, New
York city, their certificates, duly in
dorsed in blank and witnessed or prov
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19
A YOUTHFUL TOBACCO CHEWER.

A YOUTHFUL TOBACCO CHEWER.-
DR.. Miller, of the St. Louis City dis
pensary, and other attaches of that in
stitution, were astounded Friday TO
come across four-year-old girl patient
chewing tobacco. Their astonisbment
was shared by the mother of the vic
tim. The youthful chewer was little
Elsie Randall, who lives near Clayton,
and it was an accident that led to the
discovery. Elsie had the misfortune
to fall over a tub and strike the side OF
her face against bucket, inficting a
long cut. The mother bandaged the
wound as best she could, and then
boarding a Car with the child, brought
her to the city for treatment. She no.
ticed on the way that Elsie was chew
ing something, but supposed that it
was gum or some similar preparation.
At the dispeusary the child was placed
on the operating table while DR.. Miller
put five stitches in the wound. Once
or twice she turned her head to the
side of the table to spit on the floor.
After turning it back the quid Of TO-
bacco got too far down in her throai
and gagged her. Dr.. Miller turned
her head over to relieve her throat and
she spit out the quid of tobacco on the
floor before the astonished physician
and mother.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19
THE WIDOWS NAME.

Is it correct for woman to retain
her husbands given name on her cards
after his death t? The question seems
to be disputed one. Women who
stand as arbiters in matters of good
form, divide on it. A book on usages
of New York society says: "A wild
ow may, for social purposes only, con-
tinue to use the name she bore as u
wife, custom permitting this usage sim
ply because it is painful to erase name
that was given to woman by one
who is gone but not forgotten. Eti'
quette overlooks such liberty unless
the widow has a married son who
bears the same name as his father did,
in which case he is no longer a junior.
and the card that his mother prefers
to keep, by right belongs to his wife
In such an instance, the older woman
adds ST. to her engraved name. il
there are two widows having the same
card, or claiming it, the younger one
relieves the elder of an explanatory
abbreviation by courteously adding
sJr.' to her own"
Most writer's on social usage confirm
this opinion, yet there seems to be
reason on the side of those who retain
the husbands name. Custom has, af
ter all, strong voice in the decision
of such matters, and custom has de-
creed that the widows of noted mer
may retain the full married name
But have not the widows of men moi
noted the same privilege?
Many a shopkeeper will confess
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19
THE YAQUlS Of MEXICO.
Habits of the Shy People Who Are Now In
Rebellion Again.


The Yaquis, with whom Mexico is
now fighting, are people who have
long resisted civilization and persis-
tently sought to exclude from their
mountain Businesses the whites, and
especially the officials of the Mexican
government. Especially grievous to
the Yaquis is the Mexican law requir-
ing all men to wear trousers. When
the Yaquis visit a civilized village to
sell their rude pottery, their woven
mats and the few other things they
manufacture, they do not put on their
trousers until they are about to enter
the corporate limits, and on their
Journey home they take off their hated
garments as soon as they are clear OF
the village and put them in little bum
dies on top of their heads.
At ordinary times the Yaquis are
reserved and exclusive rather than
hostile. They sometimes desert their
villages at the approach of strangers,
leaving behind them nothing that can
give aid or comfort to the invaders.
When the attempt is made to penetrate
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19

No GHOSTS COULD Fool HIM.-A
naval officer who held civil employ
ment at Rhode Island during the
American War of Independence and
who was of a remarkably spare, skele'
tonlike figure, was stopped by senti'
mel late one night on his return from a
visit and shut up in the sentry box
the soldier declaring that he should
remain there until his officer came his
rounds at II o'clock.
"My good fellow" said Mr.. W, 81
have told you who 1 am, and | really
think you ought to take my word"
cit will not do," replied the soldier
sI am by no means satisfied"
Then taking from his pocket quar-,
ter of dollar and presenting it, "WilI
that satisfy you ?"
"Why, yes; 1 think it will"
"And now that I am released, pray
tell me why you detained me at your
post?"
81 apprehended you," said the sol
dier, "as a deserter from the church
yard"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19

JUST WHAT THEY WERE.-A bicy'
cling party was pursuing its leisurely
way along a delightful country road
the other day, when they came to
particularly well-kept kitchen garden
A patch of the most interesting grow
ing things ran beside the fence for
distance of 40 feet. There were in
Vulnerable stalks bearing aloft globes
of 20 different exquisite shades o.
grayish green and grayish purple
which were so striking that the party
dismounted with one accord.
allow decorative !" said one of the
men.
"What lovely color!" said one ol
girls.
"They would do to paint!" said the
artist.
"Won't you please tell US what
those beautiful things are ?" asked the
girl.
The farmer glanced around in amaze,
ment and then simply said, (which p
"Why, those lovely things growing
along the fence. I never saw anything
like them"
A plying smile spread slowly over
the gardeners features.
"Them?" he answered with little
chuckle. "Them's onions gone to
seed"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19
WHAT IS IN THE DOSSIER.
A Paris Editor Describes the Mass Of Doc
uments In Evidence.

A Paris Editor Describes the Mass of Doc
uments In Evidence.
Francis de Pressense, editor of LIE
Temps, sends the following to the New
York Journal
"The dossier is a collection of docu-
ments supposed to bear upon the Drey-
fus case. 1t consists of two parts
military and diplomatic.
"It is composed of about 900 differ
ent papers. Of these 700 are wholly
unimportant. There are many letters
from women retailing gossip. These
women are either personal friends of
army officers or their mistresses.
Their chatter is of no consequence.
1t is something like this: 4 met a
woman, who met another woman, who
heard another woman say she knew a
woman who dreamed that Dreyfus
had relations with the German en-
bassy.'
"None but men blinded by class
prejudice could think of putting such
silly letters in the dossier. In point of
fact, some of the higher officers are not
only prejudiced; but ignorant. The
intellectual weakness of Boisdeffre and
Mercier was the laughing stock of the
army before attention was called OF
by the Dreyfus case.
"Of the 200 serious papers some are
reports of more or less consequence.
There are some forgeries in the dossier.
The reason for secrecy does not arise
from anything the dossier contains re-
gardiug Dreyfus. 1t is because certain
documents or letters mention scan
dal in which Schwarzkoppen, the Ger
man military attache, and Panizzardi,
the Italian military attache, are alleged
to be concerned. The Countess De
MINISTER'S name is also connected with
that of another we'll known woman OF
Paris.
"Revelations of this nature, even if
we'll founded, would not bring on a
war with either Germany or Italy.
"The present examination is not
defnitive. 1t is for the purpose of
separating the documents pertaining to
Dreyfus from others. There will then
be public examination of the former; /;
but names, the mention of which
might give offence, will not be uttered.
Such is Gallifet's order.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19

to numerous embarrassing situations
where Josephine Brown, or some other
woman, sends for a bill of goods to
be charged to account, and the books
disclose accounts with Mrs. Joseph,
Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Walter, and Mrs.
John Brown but none at all with Mrs.
Josephine Brown. 1t thus seems not
only courtesy and good form, but prac-
tical, good sense for woman to give
her husbands name in all such busi-
ness letters, and in all affairs where
she is interested, and of which the
world at large must know.
On the other hand one can easily
recall a dozen or more married women
in even a small community who have
an independent life in literature or
art. who have constantly signed their
personal given name, Should such
women give the husbands name in
writing business letters ? The woman
whose name is as we'll known in busi-
ness circles as her husbands, should
certainly be exempt; but even then the
exemption carries with 1t a certain
egotism which it may not be we'll to
assume.
With custom and common sense for
precedent and guidance, the widow
of today will drop her husbands given
name or retain it, as best suits her own
ideas but the wife or widow will be
careful to use it where there is ques.
ton of identity involved, or one OF
business recognition.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19

HE DIDN'T BITE.-''I never can tell
a story and have it come out all right,
said a little woman plaintively the
other day.
"I thought I had good one not
long ago. I was walking and heard
one street boy say to another, 'Oh,
you 60 buy 10 cents worth of potash
tWhat for p says No. 2. Fer 10 cents,
yelled the other, and ran off giggling.
II thought it was pretty good, and
I'd try it on Charley at supper. But
when told him to 60 buy 10 cents
worth of potash he never said a word,
and I knew another joke had fell fiat
and kept still. But the worst was
later. He puten his hat and vanished
after supper, coming back in a minute
with little parcel, that he handed to
me.
"'What is that p asked.
"'Why, the potash you said you
wanted answered he, and nearly
had Mysteries on the spot. Did you
ever hear of anything so awful?
won't ever try to get OF anything
funny again."
And the little woman sighed as she
walked away.-Plain Dealer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19
Humorous department.

WERE SLIGHTLY MIXED. "A young
married couple who recently went to
housekeeping on Clyborn avenue, had
Just enough money to buy the neces-
sary furniture. They had not sufi-
cient cash to invest in notices and
pictures. The young wife is handy
with the brush but has considerable
vet to learn in books. She made an
effort to supply the deficiency in mot.
toes for the wall by working at odd
times on plain cardboard with water
colors. Here are some of the notices
that now adorn the Clayborn avenue
home:
"a Stitch In Time is the Noblest
Work of God"
"What is Home Without Fool and
His Money" ?"
"People Who Live In Glass Houses
Flock Together"
"Birds of a Feather Gather No
Moss"
"Honesty is the Thief of Time"
"He Who Fights and Runs Away
Gets the Worm"
"If In Union There is Strength,
Then IT'S Folly to be WISE" .
"Procrastination is'but Skin Deep"
"The Sword Amt In it With the
Pen"
"How Sharper Than a serpent's
Child it is to Have Thankless
Tooth"
"Early to Bed and Early to Rise is
as Bad as Fire."
"He That Goes a Borrowing Makes
a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.
"Great Oaks Should Keep Near the
Shores" =.
ECONOMY Never Did Run Smooth"
elise the Rod and Save the JAM"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19

their mountain retreats, then the va
uuis take measures of resistance bu
even in this case they often do no more
than block the paths by which the
strangers must advance.
A New Yorker who attempted to
penetrate into a part of the Yaqul
country some years ago met with these
tactics. AS he and his companion ap
preached Ysqui village at the foot
of the mountains, they could see the
natives scurrying off through the brush
When the travellers reached the vii
lage they found it empty. Even the
food and some of the utensils had been
carried off. The little thatched huts
with earthen floor, standing in the
midst of small bean patches, contained
nothing to excite the cupidity of the
least civilized visitor.
No violence was offered to the ex.
plorers but as they began to ascend
the mountains they found evidence OF
the peculiar resistance of the Yaquis.
Great rocks and trees were thrown
across the narrow trail. From time TO
time they could see the Yaquis peep
ing out at them from behind a distant
rock, or in the act of throwing OBJ
structions across the trail. The resist
ance became 80 determined and effec.
tive at the end of two days that the
explorers turned their backs upon the
mountain heights and retreated to the
valley, watched narrowly by the va
quis.
Much of the Yaqui country is alto
gether unknown to the civilized Mexi'
cans and has never been surveyed by
the government engineers. There are
extravagant traditions of mineral
wealth in these unexplored lands, and
one belief current in Mexico is that the
Yaqui country hides the ruins of an
ancient and splendid capital. This
city, according to tradition, occupies q
mountain height not to be approached
save by trails which the Yaquis jeal-
ously guard against intrusion.
The only strangers with whom the
Yaquis are on friendly terms are stray
members of the murderous Apache In
dian tribe. Apaches outlawed from
United States territory have found an
asylum in the Yaqui country. They
are likely to prove effective aids to the
Yaquis in the present war.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19

The ELDERS INsPIRATION.-At the
close of forenoon session Of minis
terial conference, in announcing the
opening subject for the afternoon, the
presiding officer said:
"Elder H will present paper on
The Devil.
Then he added earnestly:
"Please be prompt in attendance,
for Brother H has carefully pre-
pared paper, and is full of his subject" d"
And The Homiletic Review says
that it was some minutes before the
presiding officer could understand the
laughter which followed his remark.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19
TOADS WELCOME IN HIS GARDEN.
Long Island Farmer Finds That They Are
Protection to the Crops.

Protection to the Crops.
MANY farmers on Long Island appre-
ciate for the first time this summer
that it pays to encourage the presence
of toads in their vegetable gardens.
Housewives in the suburbs, too, are
beginning to welcome them in their
cellars, as two or three toads in cellar
can dispose of insects more effectively
than all the patent insect destroyers
in the market. A Long Island farmer,
who once had a prejudice against
toads, admitted, in talking about the
matter last week, that he was under a
great debt of gratitude to the toads.
"Half-a-dozen of the little hoppers
in garden" he says, "do wonders in
the way of exterminating insects.
Once believed that the toads did the
crops harm, and I killed them. Now
l know better. was induced to study
their habits by an acquaintance who is
something of a naturalist, and who
took me to task for killing the little
creatures. found that I was waging
war against my best friends. I en-
couraged them in my garden, and
since then they have saved me many
hundreds of dollars. A few small in
sects are supposed, rightly or wrongly ly,
to be beneficial to plants, and these the
toads are accused Of eating; but the
vast number of injurious insects they
destroy overbalances this hundred
fold. The toads begin to get fat in
the fall, and when the winter comes
on they hibernate, coming out again
late in the spring when the worms and
insects begin to appear. Some of the
toads I have recognized for several
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19

years by peculiar markings, and I be:
iieve they have some intelligence, and
can be tanned, though have never
tried to tame one. There is one thing
I can say, however. They have the
freedom of my cellar, garden and fields
as they carry Oh their good work
among the crops"