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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18

The social life of Anaconda during
the past week has been extremely gay,
as there have been 1uncheons, card
parties, informal teas and many other
gatherings that have kept the ladies
more than active. While it is charm
ing to have innumerable affairs going
on during the week, crowding as many
in as possible, and a pretty custom to
give parties Of all kinds in honor of
visiting guests and as farewells to
those about to go away, there is some
thing rather sad in gathering together
in so much gayety with those who have
lived for years in the city and know
that it is in the nature of goodbye"
but the many events of the past week
will long be remembered by those who
We're present to enjoy them. The de-
parture of Mr.. and Mrs Francis Eu-
gene Sergeant from Anaconda marks a
day of regret for their many friends
who have known them during the years
of their residence in the city. They
formerly resided in Butte, coming to
Anaconda a few years later, and have
been guests at the Montana all during
their stay in the city, and have innu-
merable friends who most heartily wish
them happiness in their Eastern home,
but who will miss them greatly. Dur
l,9e a. 10y isit III fAtldcoliua sue
@ "ol' nlhis "ho nope 70
d NJ iei asail' III .i.eir illla5t. MI.
left Friday afternoon and will spend
Sunday in Salt Lake. from there they
so to Denver for day, thence to Chi
sasp, Inolitieai. Quepec ana Vlclnlty Tor
~ ,n nit VI 'iie summer iiiolitiis.
~ ~ I'LL ulsuaS noo,i tilere was one OF
me taples ~ .he alhlhs room OF the
-dotirdl i +t linen n, ila9 olnerent air
a a,l IL man siie otier taples' II was
ny o,le 9et asl,ie Ior Tue hotel idales'
VIZ nau d SUI VI leehioh before sep
afaLlhs lor an INDEFINITE period At
sacn ptae 81. N5s cara bearing the
Ia natile o. tle laos VINO should SIT there
ile Celitti lieee Vi PINK roses was eN-
sleitieiS plst,s anu uaintY; Luhcheon
,,t a1 serFEu rpi etSht' ihcludlng MRS.
eli I II; DeHItt ana MISS Rumley
"a rou't NJ Ms r. frances eugene Saf-
Sedht' MISS f1afNeS' MISS ring Mrs.
James r. speiman, MIS- George w.
iesS Il'iuS anu NIT. T., T., moore.
Mls' NIltai' n. DeWllt OF BUTTE
ealie uNeI 70 Ahaeolda on thursday
IIofiilss 10 attend the party given by
Mrs. narsSan' ana MISS Harvey that
e cs one was the guest OF Mrs.
iepiS e w. iHeS nolds AT the Montana
.. lnS iiel s'a9 ~ Tue Guy she re-
~ isu ~ ru''e IlelflS evening:
,,. rs tr''id beHe huh1leF OF Butte
go ua II, t1i'1 5 fueSaaS morning
a.Iu was ''he sdesL OF MRS. George w.
~ .io'as a. Llle montana during the
meeh, returning 10 her nome Friday
MI, niis I,,,,,. 1
r ,.;S;.F iDuf anu OF ihlllpsburg
@as q Nis'tor III me city Tor several
,ra,Ss.,, uui ms ile pdst week. she left
I,:ts e''r,aS i"i 'he coast, thehce
- 49,, 10 - 70. ~
,.i.i+ar, iae NJ " Butte was a
sI;oi, $780, -. ii NC, : IHaS.
us = ai ,alil.oil Was l,le guest OF Miss
anan;, a. uii'iei "' tiie montana sunday
eEenhs.
,a WI - "a Dnis.ol gave most
e,aI sains 49, ,,, hooh euGnre party on
p a. 1,if fft a u nome on the
iIei " ll'ii anu HICKORY streets III
Me 7s ~ ,iSon MrS. feGk ana
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
to the brilliant wedding two evenings

to the brilliant wedding two evenings
later.
Miss Ward of Helena is the guest
of Mrs. Fayettes Harrington.
Mrs Otto Heinze and son, Otto, left
Thursday for their New York home.
Mrs. Maurice Eisenberg and children
visited Missoula friends last week.
Ellis P. Passmore and bride have
returned from Kentucky.
Miss Maud Mcguire spent a week
with friends in Twin Bridges.
Mrs. Samuel Roberts and son left
last night on an extended trip through
the New England states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
TO DISCOURAGE LYNCHING
Indiana May Make Cities and Coun-
ties Financially Responsible.

Wabash, Ind, Jan. 5.-Under the super
vision of Governor Mount, attorney Cen
era1 Ketcham is drafting bill which will
be introduced in the legislature and which
the state authorities will induStriOuSly eX-
ert themselves to have enacted into law
for the suppression of the mob spirit
which in certain sections of the common
wealth has run riot.
The governor has concluded that it is fu-
tile to attempt to secure convictions of
entail if not prominent, in their COM
munities, by local juries, and it is impos-
sible to invoke state aid in season to pre-
vent lynchings:
civil code a statute modelled after the
laws in force in Ohio and Kansas, making
a city liable in damages to the prisoner
who is injured by a mob while in the
custody of a peace officer, or to the rela-
tiVes of q prisoner who suffers death at
a mob's hands when the lynching happens
in an incorporated town or city.
When the crime is perpetrated in the
country the county may be made defend
ant in the damage suit.
may be recovered for death or disability
is s. 900, but in Kansas there is no limit.
The bad feature of the Kansas law is
that the defense may introduce proof of
of damages. Attorney General Ketcham
would omit this and fix the maximum sum
recoverable at 5000.
The theory of Mr. Ketcham and the
governor is that men of means are gener-
ally conspicuous in mObs, and that if they
through damage suits against the city or
county, for the share they take in the
lynching they viii discourage rather than
encourage the practice.
that the bill will become law as it is
framed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
IDAHO GOLD FEVER.
Big Mine Sale - Claim Jumpers in
Codville Reservation.

Spokane, Wn., Jan. 5.-The big Buff
falo group OF claims in Buffalo Hump.
the now famous mining district in Ida
no county, Idaho,, was sold yesterday,
and as a consequence the district is
af1ame with enthusiasm.
Sam Silverman, the well known min
ing promoter, representing the Spokane
capitalists secured a bond on this pro-
perty for $450,000. He is given 80 days
to make the first payment of 10 per
cent and the other payments to be made
in rapid succession. Three months ago
Captain Delamar offered $500 900 for the
property, but the offer was refused, be-
cause the payments were unsatisfac-
tory. It is believd this is the largest
price ever paid for an undeveloped min
ing claim.
Intense excitemnt prevails at Repub-
lie mining camp, on the Codville reser-
walton, because of an attempt at whole
sale claim jumping yesterday. It has
been reported that large mum Der of min
ing claims at Republic would revert to
the government on the first of the year,
because of failure of the 1ocators to
comply with the law relative to doing the
necessary assessment work. A crowd of
jumpers had gathered at Republic, and
all day yesterday they were securing
the district jumping claims. Several
shooting affrays have been reported. The
miners at the camp threaten to run the
jumpers out of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
WILL PENSION EMPLOYEES.
Endowment Fund of 100000 Set
Apart by New York House.

New York, Jan 5.-The Siegel-Cooper
company will announce to its employees to-
morrow that the president of the concern,
Henry Siegel, has set apart an endowment
fund of 100000 for the purpose of pen
sioning for life such employees as have
served ten years or more and have proved
themselves worthy. This endowment
fund is protected by a life insurance pol
icy of $500, 600 which Mr.. Siegel has taken
out. The amount is payable at the death
of Mr.. Siege1 or at the maturity OF the
policy, January 1, 1913.
This announcement was made TO the
employees of the store as a New ear
gift from Mr.. Siegel and in the nature or
q surprise. Each employee will be pre-
sented also with a life insurance po1cy
for 81 ,O00 the premium of which has peen
paid for the first year by the Siegel-Coo-
During the lifetime of Mr.. SiegeI the
pension fund is to be in his hands ana 70
remain under his sole charge and control
Upon his death upon the maturity OF
the policy the fund is to pass into the
hands of a board of trustees. to be ad-
ministered according to lines already form
ulated in the rough by Mr.. SiegeL A board
consisting of all the heads of departments
of the store shall award the pensions. The
ten years term of service to constitute an
employee one worthy of pension Is to
count from today -
All male and female employees, after
having served ten years, are to have PEN
sions if permanently disabled and inca
in cases of permanent disability pensions
are not to be awarded until male en-
ployes have reached the age Of 90 and fe-
males the age of 40 years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
NETWORKS CONVICT LABOR
Labor Leaders Express Themselves
AGAINST the Contract Svsten.

New York, Jan. 5.-The legislative
committee appointed to investigate the
employment of inmates of state prisons
conferred with labor leaders today. Sug-
gestions were made by Henry White,
general secretary of the United Gar
ment Workers Of America; John T.Law-
renee, of the Clothing Cutters union;
Michael Kelly, secretary of District As
sembly No. 49, K. of L., and William F.
Long, president of the photographers
union. After the conference r. J. Muir
ply a member of the legislative COM
mittee, said:
1.-THE labor leaders are friendly to the
existing state of affairs and are opposed
to the Introduction of the contract sys-
tenn. The contract system is in opera
ton in the Albany. Onondaga and Erie
county penitentiaries, but will be abol-
ished early in January. Mr.. White of the
United Garment Workers of America,
is in favor OF employing the prisoners
on farm products and the making Of
roads,"
John F. Brennan made this sugges-
ton: ''It would be an excellent idea to
take the convicts to the state reserva
ton in the Adirondacks, establish them
in camps and set them at work laying
out parks and homes for the poor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
KANSAS REUNION.
Residents of Rocky Ford, Colorado
Assemble and Talk Over Old Times

Rocky Ford, Col, jan. 5.-The annual
reunion of the former citizens of Kansas
attracted 200 people to Odd Fellows hall
New Years day. The drop curtain of the
stage was covered with two large banners,
one reading: kansas Jayhawkers," with
a suntiower at each end. The other con-
tanned a picture of grasshopper eight
feet long. the work of D. W, Barkley, Jr.,
a student in the Denver high school. I'M
derneath both was a miniature wagon on
one side Of which was kansas or Bust"
on the other, ''Busted-Back to Wife's
People, A. B. Wallis delivered the prfn-
cfpal address, dwelling in growing lam
guage on the marvellous growth and enter
prise of Kansas, the conclusion, however,
being that a better state had been found.
An original song was sung by the as
semblage, in which the advantages of the
Rocky Ford country were strongly pre-
sented. A splendid dinner was served, the
many baskets left over being sent to the
poor. The following officers were elect
ed: F. Y. Haucl, president: S. s. Bailey,
vice president; John WATSON. secretary;
J. w. Lawton, treasurer; Miss Annie S.
Burr, register. The name of the organ
ization is the Kansas Historical and Social
society, to hold annual reunions on Janu-
airy / of each year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
Egvptian Dancing in Eevpt.

The genuine native dancing girls per-
form in the little cafes that abound in
the Arabian quarter These places are
usually small, and about thirty men
squatted around the seats that line the
walls make a full house. Here the
Arabs come to smoke and drink coffee
and hear the music, while in the center
of the cafe the dancing girls perform.
The places are filed with the smoke of
the nargileh and cigarettes, and the
dreamy natives who lounge along the
walls puff everlastingly on, barely
noticing the girls who are waving and
swaying in the sinuous undulations of
the dance to the time of a groggy TOM
tom and the mellow drone of a reed
whistle. The dance is about the same
as the one seen at the Worlds Fair in
Chicago, Invested of most Of it's Of
fensive trimmings. There it was de-
signed to startle and shock and come
up to western notions of Oriental de-
pravity, while here on it's native heath
it is simply a dance that is as old as the
country itself, and to those who have
been accustomed to it through gem
erations of familiarity it is probably as
tame as the quadrille. 1t is only the
dance prepared for the tourist that dis
gusts you and makes you think that
the Orient should be raided.-Chicago
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
Prices of Alaskan Goods Sail Up.

The sudden, quiet closing of the Yu-
kon early in November precipitated the
winter stampede over the ice for "out-
side" A sudden descent of the Their
mometer to 80 and A below brought the
running ice together and locked it fast
for the winter. My advices are that
times are decidedly dull in the Klondike
commercially dull. at any rate. The
dealers in food-stuffs are the only
tradesmen making much more than
their rent, and they are doing business
under protest The miners : G Il0t fancy
the high prices charged. and have OBJ
jected vigorously to certain provision
corners" In fact, the men I'D the
creeks have declared a boycott on GER
tain of the merchants whose prices
scared into the blue upon the closing
of the river. Conee at ii doiis.i d pound
is an example of the staple prices. But
in mining the OUTLOOK is promising for
a successful winter campaign. The
preparations for extensive operations
on large scale are particularly notice
able on Bonanza and Ell Dorado creeks.
Dawson has been building up steadily
and will soon have its articles of incor-
poration from the British authorities
San Francisco Wave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
Public Questions in England.

International rather than domestic
questions seem likely to occupy the
public mind in England during the next
twelvemonth. The majority possessed
by the Conservatives in the house of
commons is SO overwhelming that their
control of the government cannot be
shaken before 1901 at the earliest. Even
if neutral personality like that of Sir
H. Campbell Zimmerman be selected
for the leadership of the Liberal oppo-
sition in the commons, the feud between
the friends of Sir William Vernon Har-
court and the supporters of Lord Rose
berry will continue, and their agree
ment upon a common programme can
be hardly looked for. The British peo-
pie seem now to be convinced, although,
not long ago, they entertained some
doubts upon the subject, that, under
Lord Salisbury's government, England
will maintain her prestige abroad, and
that England's navy will undergo an
expansion SO rapid and extensive as
will make it, at no distant date, a
match for all other fleets likely to be
combined against it, state of things
which existed in the early years of the
present century.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05

the american girl that she isn't even
keeping up with the procession.
Feminine architects, farmers, plumbers,
bankers, chemists, contractors and gar
deners are, apparently. drug on the
English market.
Woman divers are more discoura ging,
but there is a. woman diver in Portland,
Me-, and all loyal Americans would be
willing to bet that she can dive further
than her English rivals. Perhaps, too,
there are American feminine cab drivers,
and pilots, and letter carriers. If not,
the oversight can be easily rectified. There
was a time when thirtymile tramp
would have terrified any woman not born
and bred in England, when an American
girl knew as little about horse as about
a rhfnoceros, and when sailing a boat was
an accomplishment rare enough even
among American men. But that's all
changed. Fair golfers are in excellent
training for letter carrying. Anyone Of
the New York belle who loses her mill
lions can utilize her cat-boat experience
and triumps in securing a pilots place:
really too slow for American young wo-
men, unless they. were able to tool tam
dens or four-in-hand teams before the
cab.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
NIAGARA SHIP CANAL.
The Report Submitted to Congress by
the Board of Survey.

Washington, Jan. 5.-The board of en-
80 submitted to the secretary of war
report which was today presented to con-
rection of the board has been confined to
the, following, special investigation:
The control Of the level of Lake Erie;
wego- Oneida Mohawk route; the st. Law
renee amplain route. A measurement
made and determination of the slopes in
the Niagara river secured. Two routes
ship canal around de RiaePaTa F Fails. one
leaving the Niagara river at Tonawanda,
passing short distance west of Lockport
other leaving. the Niagara river at La
Sale, five miles below Tonawanda.. and
below the falls and rapids.
These surveys were completed between
ton of diamond drill. borings, which are
still in progress a lock sites. These Dor
ings will probably be completed in two
yeys between deepwater in Lake Erie and
deepwater in Lake Ontario, small surveys
the Niagara river and at Olcott harbor.
The Oswego-Oneida-M Mohawk route is the
deepwater in Lake Ontario in front of Os-
Was{ Tro1 an9 the TINS on ave. TIT of TO
line has been completed with the exception
wego river and explorations with the dia-
mond drill at sites of locks and dams.
completed within three months. The ST.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS route, connecting
low the outlet of Lake Ontario with deep
water in the Hudson below Albany, was
also surveyed with the exception of a few
miles in the vicinity of Massena. N. Y,
and certain sections of Lake Francis and
Lake Cham1Plain and borings in the Hud,
probably be completed in two months. A
small amount is asked to continue the sur
nitted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
At EQUALITY COLONY.
Something About the Socialist Settle
ment in the State of Washington.

After long elaboration the state OF
Washington was selected by the col
onization department as the one IN
which this plan could best be carried
out. The sparsenesS of it's population,
the mildness Of it's climate, the wealth
of it's natural resources, the lberality
of it's laws, and its situation as a coast
state, seemed to offer just the combina-
ton desired; and in the fall of 1897 the
first pioneers reached the colony site,
consisting at that time of $50 acres OF
meadow, marsh and woodland in the
northwestern part of the state, about
two miles from deep water on Belling-
ham Bay
The land was purchased and paid for,
as was also a little later an adjoining
tract of 100 acres; and a third tract of
the same extent, consisting of mag
nificent timber land, was turned in as
membership fee by one of the cOlOniStS.
The title deeds are held in trust by the
officers of the national organization.
Only a portion of the land was cleared,
and the pioneers lived for the first few
months in log houses and tents among
the StumpS and trees, in a very prim-
tive manner. The mildnesS of the
climate, however, prevented this mode
of life from being much of a hardship,
and by the time spring had come, more
substantial buildings were ready for the
new arrivals.
There are now about ESQ people on the
ground, 100 adults and 80 minors. There
are a dozen buildings, including
school house, two large apartment
houses, g. dining hall seating 120 per-
sons at one time, a bakery with a ca
pacity of hundreds of loaves of bread
a day, and a barn of huge proportions
for storing the large quantities Of hay
and grain that they expect to raise on
their rich land. AS fast as material can
be turned out from the new saw mill,
each family will have a house by itself,
selected and built in the order of ar
rival, on the beautiful townsite over
looking Bellingham Bay.
The work of clearing has been car
ried steadily forward, and this summer
the colonists supplied themselves with
nearly everything used on the tables.
There were beans, peas of phenomenal
size, cabbage, caulifower, potatoes, car
rots, ETC., from the garden, milk from
the cows, and the fishing squad in their
sloop Progress kept this large family
we'll supplied with fish. The surround
ing woods furnish berries, which the
children picked. During the summer
the herd of cows was not large enough
to supply the tables with butter, but a
sufficient reinforcement was expected
before fall.-Helen J. Wescott in the
Manhattan (Kan.) Industrialist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
DTsQUIsITION ON KISSING.
How Different Nations Manage It
The Much Kissed Crown Princess
of Greece.

In France there are thousands of OPP
portunities for plentiful kissing. Broth
ers kiss sisters, husband wives, friends
each other 1t would even be thought
prudish should a young lady refuse to
offer her cheek for a kiss to a friend Of
the family on his departure or return
after long absence. In England kiss
ing among members of a family is less
common. Men never kiss one another.
Still more restrained are they in Scot
land, where woman would consider it
beneath her dignity If she kissed her
grown up sons, and mothers are SPAR
ing of caresses even for their little boys.
In northern lands the kiss is reserved
exclusively for love, probably for the
reason that people there always kiss the
mouth, which gives to this expression
of affection the character of great init
macy. 1t is comprehensive under such
circumstances that young girls should
braveIy defend their rosy lips against
the attacks of bold cousins, and the
stealing of a kiss should be looked upon
by the law as a punishable offense, for
which a fine is imposed. The definition
of a kiss by a Chinese is interesting. A
mandarn who Travelled in the west for
the purpose of learning the European
customs was greatly perplexed in trying
to explain kiss-a thing unknown in
his country. 1.-THE kiss" he writes, sis
an act of courtesy, consisting in bring
ing the lips of one person into contact
with the chin of another, whereby
sound is produced"
kissing, however is not a privilege
reserved exclusively to love; there are
occasions when it is prescribed by court
etiquette On the occasion of the Crown
Prince of Greece's wedding the bride,
Princess Sophie of Prussia, the Kaiser's
sister, was obliged to bestow no less
than a hundred and fifty kisses. The
king of Greece received three kisses, so
did his queen, SO did the Empress Fred
erick and the king and queen of Dem
mark and Kaiser Wilhelm and the en-
press, while all the princes and prin-
cesses present received one kiss apiece.
The poor crown princess on leaving the
church must have had all the kissing
she wanted and can have had few kisses
left for the wedding journey.
Kisses have played a part in politics,
too for the duchess of Devonshire
bought votes with them, and the Gordon
Highlanders were recruited by a OUCH
ess of Gordon, who offered a. kiss to the
men who would not take the kings
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AlIgemeine lei
tung.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-05
Mrs. McKinlev's Gown.

President Mckinley was in an especially
happy frame of mind upon the occasion of
his first New Year reception at the White
House. Mrs. Mckinley was radiant and
extremely pretty in a gown of soft pearl
white satin, the trained skirt trimmed
with three ruffies of white chiffon, the
woke of the same material. with handsome
garniture of point lace. About her throat
she wore an exceedingly handsome neck
lace of pearls, while the same ornamen rs
with diamonds also trimmed the bodice,
and the combs in her Drettily arranged
fIatr were IucruSU6u with diamonds. Mrs
Mckinley had cordial greeting and
wishes for Happy New Year for each
one who passed before the line.-Chicago
Tribune Correspondence