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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22

criticism is satisfied to take a slap at
Sampson and let it go at that. He
adorned his magazine article with
charts: the Washington Post remarks
that "as a chart-maker Sampson is
several miles behind the procession"
In other instances proofs are produc
ed wherewith to show that Sampson
bears false witness. For instance, the
Philadelphia Times furnishes chart tes-
timony. Admiral Simpsons Century
charts purported to show the position
of the Brooklyn in the engagement of
July 9, as supporting the assertion that
Admiral Schley's vessel was not so
close to the enemy as others Of the
fleet. The Times reproducing these
charts side by side with the official
chart of the board appointed to deter
mine this question, makes out the case
that the Sampson article has misrep-
resented the position of the Brooklyn
in every instance.
The more these naval commanders
fight on paper. the worse they are off
and the more weary the public is of their
pickering One or the other of two
or three high-ranking naval officers is
an armor-plated liar-that is the sum
and substance of all the accurate in
formation the public has.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
Personal Paragraphs.

Colonel Funston, who recently distin-
guished himself with the 18th Kansas, is
one of the lightest men in the army. He
weighs but SO pounds
General Arthur Macarthur was one of
the boy heroes of the civil war, was deco
rated with medal al IS and year later
was IN command of a lighting regiment.
The Seattle Alaska Geographical socie-
ty, of which Admiral Dewey has long
been honorary president, will hereafter
hold its annual meeting on May /, in hon
or of the battle Of Manila.
-
The contributions to the fund for the
support of the family of Warren Guion,
the elevator man at the Windsor hotel
who lost his life by taking his elevator up
for "one more trip" in the hope of saving
another load Of women and children, now
amounts to about $4,000.
Rev. John l.. DUDE of Incwadi, Umko-
mas valley, Natal, who renowned his
rights to the chieftaincy of Zulu tribe
to become a Congregationalst minister,
has sailed for his native country, where
he will take up the work of missionary,
for which he has been fitting himself in
the United States for three years. He will
Tomaso Salvni. the Italian tragedian
acted the other night in Florence in aid of
charity. He appeared in the chara cter
of the youthful David, his son. Gustavo
Salvlni, playing the more celebrated part
of Saul. This he did at the special re-
quest of his father. The veteran actor
was called before the curtain five or six
times at the termination of each act and
was enthusiastically applauded.
An item is going the rounds to the eff
feet that the Sultan of Turkey eats moth
ing that has not first been tasted by his
cup bearer and, according to Turkish ct
iquette, no other parsonage may perform
this preliminary. One evening the cup
bearer was called away and did not return
until late next day. Consequently the i'm
perial dinner was deferred for five hours.
Since then the cup bearer has had to taste
the sultan's dishes a day in advance and
then seal them up.
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s~TWO or three days ago this page
of the Standard remarked that
no good and considera BILE harm
is apt to be the net product of recent
contributions to current magazine lit
erature, in partisan description of the
naval battle in front of Santiago
The biased testimony given by Ad-
miral Sampson. in his contribution to
the June Century was mentioned as a
case in point. That article has given
the critics a fresh start and made
sharper than ever the antagonism
which the prolonged discussion of the
Santiago engagement has evoked. The
newspaper discussion of the Sampson
Century article is almost limitless in
quantity and, at times, it is very Sc
we're.
In many instances this newspaper
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~ TREET cars are running on O,

& TREET cars are running on one
~ line in New York city this week
with compressed air as a motive
power The New York Herald of Mon
day says the preliminary experiments
on Sunday We're more than successful.
The cars run with great smoothness
and the starting and stopping are free
from any suggestion of jar or jerk
Each car is described as an ''independ-
ent air operated locomotive" The
power is supplied from compressed air
tanks carried under the seats, the
mechanism consisting of four-cylinder
compound engine by which the axes
are revolved. The dimensions of the
COMPRISING engine are enormous 1t
is of the vertical type and is said to be
by far the largest machine of its kind
in the world. 1t has a horse power of
1000 against the 400 exerted by the air
COMPRISING engine in use in Paris,
which comes next in size. Between and
below the cylinders is a great fly wheel
with diameter of twenty-five feet and
weighing sixty tons, the periphery of
which revolves at the speed of one mile
a minute.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
Extra Session Talk.

1HERE is one more SEQUEL to the
jefferson dinners and the con-
sequent revival of silver talk,
TO be added to those already mention
! ed; several of the Washington CORE
! spondents are giving it out that Presi-
! dent Mckinley is seriously considering
| the matter of an extra ordinary session
of congress.
The gossip takes this shape: Recent
| callers at the white house report that
| they have been sounded on the ques
ton as to what the political effect of
a special session probably would be.
They say that they are led to infer
that the president will summon con-
gress about the first of October at the
latest, and probably as early as the
first week in September.
The Washington gossip touching this
matter is to the effect that an extra
session will deal with three pressing
problems The first of these relates to
the currency, the second to the Phil
ippines, the third to the new colonies.
The president and his advisers are rep
resented to be of the opinion that the
silver issue, as shown in recent dem
onstrations, is as formidable as ever.
They are convinced that the republican
party must face the music, have pol
icy, assert it and let the leaven begin
its work at once. it being the admins
trations theory that legislation drag
| ging along into next summer will avail
nothing for the goldstandard advo-
Gates in the campaign of 1900.
OF course, the report soon to be made
| by the Philippine commission, the eX-
| igencies in Porto Rico and in the
Hawaiian islands and the pressing
questions arising as the result of mil
itary occupation in Cuba-all these will
be the plea for the proposed session,
| but the real purpose is to furnish the
administration with an opportunity to
atone for its evasive policy in the mat
ter of the currency question, it appear
! ing now that President Mckinley
guessed it wrong when he guessed that
| the policy Of keeping still would cause
! the agitation for free coinage to die
| out.
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Attachment for 100000.

New York, April 21.-The sheriff has
served an attachment against the Mon
terey & Fresno Railroad company of Cal
ifornia and Alfred Walker Jones of Pa
cifc Grove, Cal, for 100000 in favor of
George Eckhard. which was obtained by
Philip Carpenter on the ground Of nom
residence. Ii is an assigned claim from
Henry Finley and Fred e. Pettingill for
services in procuring an underwater for
an issue of bonds to the amount of 81, 900,
600 of the railroad company.
1t was stated that they obtained Ed
ward A. Wood of Greenwich, Conn, as
such underwater who was accepted by
the railroad company, and were to get 10
per cent commission out of the total
bond issue. The attachment was served
on the Knickerbocker Trust company.
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~ IR THOMAS Upton is a ye

* IR THOMAS Upton is a very
~ different type of man from l-cld
Dunraven. He has expressed
perfect confidence in the fairness and
craftsmanship of the American yachts
man. His yacht by the time she makes
her first run will have cost him $75 900.
After the race, whether she wins or
loses, she will he worth only a frac-
ton as much. She Is built expressly
for the coming contest and will be
named either the Shamrock or the erin.
The American yacht will bear :he name
of Columbia. 1t has been agreed to hold
the race in October, when there will
be a chance of a sitter breeze than
earlier in the season. Every ross ible
precaution is to be taken to prevent
excursion steamers from hamperng the
movements of the competing yachts.
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GENERAL IN PETTlCOATS
Woman Who Commands an Army in the
Transyaa1.
From the Chicago Chronicle

From the Chicago Chronicle
Mrs. Joubert wife of General Joubert
commander in chief of the Transvaal
forces, may be truthfully styled "a gener-
al in petticoats" She has accompanied
her husband in all the wars he has I'M
dertaken. Her CHEEKY face, almost HID
den from view under the folds of huge
black cappie has become such familiar
sight with the burghers that the incon-
gruity of one woman walking in and out
among an armed force of several thous-
and men seems to be a commonplace.
From the days of her earliest childhood
Mrs. Joubert has been used to wac's
alarms. She can load and fire a gun with
almost as much skill as "Slim piet' (An-
glice Clever Pet'D and on many occa-
sions has shown the greatest courage.
1t is not generally known that it was to
Mrs. Joubert that the great defeat of
the English at Majuba was greatly due.
The general considered the position unas
sailable. but Mrs. Joubert, her eyes afire
with patriotism, urged the attack. even
tually conquering the scruples of her hus-
result is known.
Mrs. Joubert's last appearance at a war
occurred during the recent Matagoland
campaign at the extreme north of the
TransVaal An artillery burgher and ma
tive force of nearly 10000 men was dis
patched to the front to subdue the rebel
chief MPefu, entrenched in a series of
rocky Businesses, backed by the Limpopo.
Notwithstanding what was feared would
be the bloody nature of the war, the heat
more than 100 degrees in the shade-and
the fever, the plucky woman Joined the
general a week or two after his arrival
at the Hoofd Lager, accompanied only
by two or three little Kaffir maids.
Finding General Joubert in an anything
but comfortable tent. she routed him out,
erected a tent of her own and installed
him amid all the comforts of home. What
was more, she reconstructed the general S
mess arrangements and cooked his meals
with her own hands. The wife of the
commanding general peelng potatoes was
an ordinary sight any day during the
campaign.
On one occasion during the war the
news came into camp that the general had
been taken i'll 30 miles away in the midst
of a country full of hostile natives and
deadly with malaria. Without hesitation
Mrs, Joubert made preparations TO go and
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
Clause Two.

NV 'i stones nominate" "a"a' e Of Boss
Quay was made not necessar-
tiy to seat Quay but as guaranty of
the good faith wherewith the governors
clique will attempt to force the election
OF quay in an extra session of the
Pennsylvania legislature
Governor Stone announces that he
names Quay for the office of senator
under the authority of clause two Ct
section three in article one of the con-
stitution of the United States. That
is clause of the constitution that has
been patiently exploited. Hours and
days have been spent by the mem
bers of the senate in the study and ex-
pounding of it. Gifted men have ap-
Piled history, precedent, philology,
grammar, law, logic and personal pre-
JUDGE in the effort to construe the
clause this way or that.
In one or two notable instances this
senate argument was not drawn along
partisan lines-when Mr.. Nantes case
was up, under his appointment by Gov
ernor Richards, the best features in the
discussion of the case We're brought out
by men whom the politics of Mr. Man
tie did not influence. At that time. in
deed, some of the most scholarly talk
ever heard in the senate, in the ex-
pounding of constitutional law, was
brought to public attention.
The off-hand reading of the clause
in question seems to make its intention
clear enough. but it was found to have
a wealth of disputation stored up in its
brief lines. 1t reads thus: IF vacan-
cies happen by resignation, or other
wise, during the recess of the lcgisla-
ture of any state. the executive thereof
may make temporary appointment IN
til the next meeting of the Legislature,
which shall then fill such vacancies"
The result of the long and pa ;ient
discussion of this clause of the ccrsti-
tuition was that Mr.. Mantle was rot
admitted. The case has passed as a
precedent; it was applied 20 Cortett.
the applicant from Oregon, under ar-
pointment by the governor of that
state; it has been accepted rs the rule
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
The Size of 1t.

10ERHAPs General Otis guesses it
right when he tells the authori-
ties at Washington that thirty
Thousand men will do the work in the
Philippines. This country will be in
luck if this estimate proves to be the
right one. 1t is to be remembered,
however, that General Lawton who,
like Otis, is on the ground and getting
an active share in the fighting, is re-
puted to be the authority for the state
ment that hundred thousand soldiers
will be needed to pacify the islands
General Lawton probably has soldiers
enough to force a march from one end
of the archipelago to the other-the
trouble arises in providing garrisons
for the country thus traversed.
Recent operations furnish illustra ton
on this point. General Lawton's COM
mand was in the Santa Cruz district
The Filipinos improved the opportunity
to concentrate near Pasig, at the north
ern end of the lake, where they We're
threatening his communications. Gen
eral Otis found it wise to recall the
Lawton forces. This movement may
or may not have been what military
people would call a retreat, but the
withdrawal of the Lawton forces is not
we'll calculated to promote the Nc
Knley policy which is, by force to
teach the Flipinos an object les
SON."
Recently the Standard quoted from
a letter written by a resident of Mon
tana who is now doing service of high
grade in connection with the move
letter made prominent the fact which
recent operations have brought to
practical demonstration-our troops. as
they advance, must garrison the dis
tricts they subdue. OF course, a civil
ian's Judgment on that point is nothing
better than a worthless guess. At the
same time, there is wide gap between
the thirty thousand maximum marked
by General Otis and the hundred thou
sand total mentioned by General Law
ton.
Not many months ago, as Is well re-
membered. the assertion given out with
much assurance in military circles at
Washington, was that five thousand
soldiers would do the work in the Phil
ippines. After time, this limit was
raised to fifteen thousand, then it was
lifted to eighteen or twenty-now it
is thirty thousand, on the testimony
of General Otis-and it is likely to roll
right along, and always higher
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
Wreck of the PlutOn.

Santiago. April 21.-The wreck of the
Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Pluton,
which was sunk in the great battle
that resulted in the destruction of Ad-
miral Cerveras fleet, was discovered
yesterday about three miles from Moro
castle in eight fathoms of water. 1t
was found by divers from the Yankton,
who made thorough inspection. find
ing the hull lying on the port side and
with no indication of having been
struck by a heavy shell, as was origin
ally reported. The vessel, however, is
badly stove in and literally riddled by
siX-pounders.
Brigadier General F. D. Grant ar
rived here to-day with his staff on
board the United States transport Nc
PherSOn
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Cheers for Dewey and Snn .rhlin.

New York, April 21.-Captain J. B.
Coughlin and his officers of the United
States cruiser Raleigh We're entertained
at the Union League club tonight. The
dining room was handsomely decorated
with American and British flags. Pres-
dent Iclihu Root presided and after a
speech of welcome called for three
cheers for Admiral Dewey. They were
given so that the building seemed to
throb in sympathy.
Three cheers followed for Captain
Coughlin. Almost greater than either
were the shouts of approval when
President Root called for three cheers
for 1.-THE men behind the guns" Cap
tain Coughlin was called up to speak.
He accepted, he said, all the good things
that have been said about him and his
men as meant for Admiral Dewey.
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IN states where legislatures have faie

to elect. This fact. of course, is not
final. It is within the power nf the
senate to ignore the precedent and es-
tablish a new Interpretation of the
clause in question.
However, more likely II IS shat the
Quay people in Pennsylvania are Plan
ming an extra session in the belief shat
there is prestige in the course pursued
by the governor and that the jury'S &C.
for his election in regular form.
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Current Comment.
Trusts Making for Free Trade.

From the Louisville Cuurier-Journal.
Trusts are the direct and baleful out
growth of the high protective tariff sys-
tenn of custom house taxation, which has
glutted the home market and shut us
out from foreign markets that geograph-
ically belong to us, thus by artificial pro-
cess of contraction forcing an artificial
relief in combinations 10 limit production
and enhance prices. In the end it will
find its solution In free trade come in
through the open door
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22

IN some regiments that took part in
the Spanish war twenty-five per
cent. of the men are applicants for
pensions, and in a few the proportion
is even greater. In one regiment $50
men ask pensions and in another 342.
Exposure and the diseases peculiar to
a tropical climate, aggravated by the
rotten beef served as rations, wrecked
the health Of many a strong man and
the demand for pensions in a majority
of the cases is doubtless just. The gov
had bought the best of food for it's
soldiers. The pension sharks hunting
for fees have years of activity before
them.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
Bunkoinc Uncle Sam.

From the Boston Herald.
Uncle Sam is regarded by the world.
and generally with good reason, as well
able to take care of himself in trade,
but certainly when he was giving away
$13,o0O0O0 to the Hawaiians in order to OBJ
tain them as customer for some $4,000 900
worth of goods he was engaged in very
remarkable transaction. utterly unworthy
of his reputation for astuteness.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
Now for Justice.

From the Washington Times.
We are glad that peace has come for an
other reason. The president can now find
no excuse for not setting his foot upon
and crushing the miscreants with or with
out shoulder straps who have poisoned
and murdered American soldiers, and who
f1aunt the evidences Of their consequent
ill-gotten wealth in the faces of the
American people
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
Fatally Burned.

New Castle, Colo, April 21.-William
Harris and John Tell We're fatally
burned late this afternoon by an explo-
sion OF gas in the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company's mine. The mine is con-
siderably damaged. This mine had
been closed nearly all winter on account
Of d fire, which necessitated the food
ing of the workings.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
I F the Thirteenth Minnesota regimen

I F the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment
isn't permitted to come home from
Manila before long. there will be
some hot Minnesota people and some
still hotter Minnesota soldier boys The
regiment unanimously desires to return
and declares that its retention at Ma
Mia is illegal. The Minnesota press
cannot posses sits soul in patience any
longer. The st. Paul Globe declares
that "the period Of debarkation must
not be delayed. The point has now
been reached when appeal must be
made, not to any disposition on the
part of the administration at Wash
ington to avoid the consequences of its
violation of the terms of these mems
enlistment, nor to any disposition on
its part to do voluntarily what it has so
long delayed and avoided doing: but
to the absolute constitutional principle
that our citizens shall not be wrong
fully restrained Of their liberties by any
power, state or national. We are not
as yet living under an autocracy, and
there Is no power, civil or military,
which can be allowed with impunity
to infringe on these mems dearest civil
rights"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-22
~ HE trial of Mrs, George, the slay-
er of SaXton, Mrs. McKinley's

~ HE trial of Mrs, George, the slay-
er of SaXton, Mrs. McKinley's
brother, is becoming a long
drawn-out affair." and the prosecution
seems to be pushing the case with I'M
due vigor. There is said to be a no
ton among some of President McKin-
ley's friends that to convict Mrs.
George of murder will whitewash Sax
tons memory. Mrs. George is far from
being a good woman, that's clear
enough. but Saxton was responsible for
her fall. She was living with her hus-
band and helping him support the fam
lily with her needle. SaXton alienated
her from her husband and their child
rem by the use of money and the bland
ishments with which he had been sue
cessful with other women. 1t is not
disputed that Saxton broke up the fam
lily. and there is an unwritten law that
he who invades the home shall die
SaXton got his deserts Mrs. Georges
punishment should be of the most NOM
inal character.
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Pm the Hands of the jury.

Charleston, S. c., April 21.-The Lake
City lynching case was given to the
jury in Judge Brawleys court at AS
o'clock this afternoon. Judge Brawley,
in delivering his charge to the jury,
shed tears when referring to the hor-
ror of the crime and the outrage of the
law and shame incurred by the people
of Lake City.
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Twenty Millions Paid for Trouble,

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Notwithstanding the carefully censored
dispatches from Manila and the reports
of continued successes over the insurgents,
it is evident that the situation there is
not what the administration would like
it to be, and that we have bought no little
trouble with the 500, 900 paid to Spain
for the Philippines.
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Pennsylvania,s Humiliation.

From the Pittsburg Post.
1t is remarkable spectacle-eXSenator
Quay fguratively in the dock of the Grim
inal court at Philadelphia answering an
indictment of conspiracy to make way
with state funds and at the same time
leading in the ballot for United States
senator in joint convention of the Penn
sylvania legislature. The old states cup
Is full to running over
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Chicago Offlce-469 The Rookery.
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Sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
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TO ADVERTIS ERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers bona fide paid circulation.
Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that of any other newspaper pub
lished in the state of Montana. Advertis-
ling contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee.