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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-08

90 RIEFLY the Standard referred
~ yesterday to the death of Rob
ert Bonner who, withal, was one
pt the most interesting men of his day
land generation. Born in Ireland. as
Mas told yesterday in the Standard
INT. Bonner's boyhood found him learn
tng the printers trade in Hartford.
He was thrifty; when he was twenty
six years old he bought the New York
Ledger for song. That is to say, he
paid $500 for the property, which really
was about as much as it was worth at
the time.
The Ledger had been an Indifferent
publication. In Mr.. Bonner's owner
ship it lost its identity, as far as Its
name was concerned. 1t was started as
a commercial newspaper, intended
chiefly to report matters in the business
and trade world, and thus it was ap-
propriately christened the Ledger. The
paper was a tagging, unimportant,
dropping bit of property when, in 1850,
Mr.. Bonner purchased it. At first he
continued it as the organ of dry stat
tstics, duh figures, prosy dealings or
business reports, and the Ledger show
ed no signs of growth.
Gradually, however, Mr. Bonner add
ed spicy features, not in the way Of
news, but with miscellany, stories and
romance. In the end the Ledger was
revolutioniZed. 1t never undertook to
be a newspaper; it was the weekly or
gan of continued stories and of fiction
of certain sort. 1t became easily the
aeader in its line; it was the most wide
ly circulated publication in the United
States. Compared with to-day's yellow
output in the daily or weekly field, the
Ledger, in its palmiest days, was meek
and prosaic and featureless. Yet it held
she yellow field in the late tifties and
through the sixties. 1t was called SEN
sational and it was earnestly de-
nounced as the organ of bad influences.
1t was excluded from many conserva-
tive homes.
Those who did not go so far as to de-
nounce the Ledgers pages, freighted
with continued stories, as immoral,
condemned ''the trash" and warned the
young against it. In truth, no indie
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Kentucky's Part.

you will notice that the predictions
" of democratic defeat in Ken
lucky, at the coming state cleo
ton, adorn almost exclusively the COL
umns of republican newspapers. These
organs feel very sure that, at the time
of the election, the Kentucky demo-
Gratis will not have recovered from the
rivalry and the bad feeling engendered
at the recent state convention
This sort of prophecy will pass for
what it is worth. Meanwhile in the
way of prediction, the testimony of
Mr.. Henry Watterson's newspaper,
published in Kentucky, is pretty good
to go by---it is quite as valuable as the
prophecies of republican newspapers
published in New England or Ohio. Mr.
Watterson's Courier-Journal says that
the democratic ticket will sweep Ken
lucky fore and aft" In addition, the
statement is: TT will draw to it the
young manhood of Kentucky. 1t will
reunite the party in the state, and will
open to the democrats of the nation a
prospect and a. hope not hitherto con-
ceived by many of u.s."
We are to remember that Watterson
opposed the election of Bryan and
waged an effective campaign against
free silver, which was, perhaps, the de-
termining influence in placing the cleo
toral votes of Kentucky in the repub-
lican column. Bryan. by close mar
gin, lost Kentucky in 1896
Place alongside this talk of the Cour-
ier-Journal the recent remark of Con-
gresham Kerr of Kentucky, who says:
THE Chicago platform may be modified
in some respects, but it will be modified
If at all, by the friends of Bryan and of
silver and not by their enemies. The
majority of the democratic party will
! write that PLATFORM he adds, land the
| majority is for silver and Bryan" The
platform recently adopted by the demo-
Gratis of Kentucky is outspoken for free
coinage and for BRYAN.
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Who Is Responsible?

90 oLITIcs is put into the Philip
pine war by the orators who,
speaking for the administration
have set up the claim that if congress
had voted the military, standing-army
scheme demanded last winter by the
president, there would have been plenty
of soldiers to send to Manila.
This sentiment found expression in
the recent speech of a cabinet member,
Postmaster General Smith, who said to
an Omaha audience that the malignant
opposition to the annexation of the
Philippines was strong enough at the
last session of the Fifty-fifth congress-
not only to delay the ratification of the
treaty and to encourage the insurrec-
ton, but to enact an ema sculated army
bill which crippled the power of sup
pressing it. If congress had been really
patriotic, it would not have refused to
reorganize the military establishment
last winter so that it would be ade-
quate for needs such as now exist.
AS to the facts, there have been dur
ing all these months plenty of soldiers
in this country's regular army whom
the president could have dispatched to
the Philippines. Besides, by last
springs legislation the president has
complete authority to enlist more regi-
ments of men than he proposes even
now to send to Manila. The truth is
that the president is now enlisting SOL
diers whom he might have enlisted
months ago; and it is not true that he
was crippled" by the acts of congress
AS for the politics. the recent con-
gress may not have been really pa
triotic''-this cabinet officer informs us
that it was not. Well, it was a repub-
lican congress; 1t had a good working
republican majority in the two houses
Postmaster Smith should ad-
dress his charge of lack of patriotism
to conspicuous republicans who man.
fully braved the administration sur
render to militarism. The list of these
republicans includes some of the most
eminent names in the history of the
times in which we live.
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TO ADVERTISERS.
SATURDAY, JULY S, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.


% Y the testimony of the interview
I'D printed yesterday morning in
the Standard Senator Carter is
bne OF the gentlemen who are satisfied
that the right way to get at the trust
Huestion, so as to deal with it effect
hally, is to have a certain sort of leg
aslatfon. That is to say Mr. Carter
books for the remedy through legisla-
fion rather than through political con-
MENTIONS and he suggests the need of
AN amendment to the federal constitu-
fion that will permit action.
This isn't the view held by men
who recently have been doing a good
IDEAL of the talking for the republican
party. They declare that the thing for
fhe next republican national conven-
Ition to do is to go full length against
the trusts, denounce them on general
principles, cover up the tracks of the
hrust-breeding policy of the Mckinley
administration, and silence the out
spoken takers like republican Sena tor
chandler who say that the burden for
fhe trusts lies on the republican party.
lt may be that the Carter view will
prevail and that the republican con-
vention of next year will promulgate
a solemn suggestion for an amendment
TO the constitution. Even if this plan
were to prevail, the trusts, at the pace
FMcKinleyism has developed them,
could simply eat the republic UP before
the slow process of constitution tink-
ering had accomplished its work.
Be that as it may, the democrats are
lwilling that the republicans shall
adopt the Carter policy-that will suit
democracy well. Silver will be the cen
trial issue next year but the democrats
will declare vigorously against the
trusts, in the belief that there are laws
enough and codes enough already in
(which an effective remedy against
Trust encroachments can be found.
THUS far, in an earnest fight against
evils that threaten, the American peo-
sole have always found a way. Mr..
Carriers way is all too slow.
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n fECEssITY is not always the
| IN mother of invention. Sometimes
pure, unalloyed genius holds the
maternal relation. Mr.. Benjamin Gold
berg of New York, formerly United
States consul to Jerusalem, has been
addressing his attention to the problem
| of preventing accidents from steamer
collisions at sea. He says he has solved
1t and if steamers are equipped with his
appliances they have only to run into
one another to bounce away like rub
Der balls. AS the New York Herald
understands it, Mr.. Goldberg proposes
to equip vessels with an armor of rub
Der mating, on which is placed a series
OF pneumatic rubber balls, strung on
seven strand steel cables.
when two vessels come into collision,
instead of tearing up plates, wrenching
out rivets and making things disagree
able for the passengers, they take a
gentle carrom over the green cloth of
ocean and pursue their ways to the
substantial cushions formed by distant
shores. There won't be half the shock
SApeiiellceu ny Two couples pumping
into each other during a waltz. In fact,
Mr.. Goldberg's invention carries a sug-
sestion which might be utilized for the
benefit of walters in a crowded ball
room. To run into somebody full tilt
and to find oneself bounding away in a
buoyant and cork-like manner must BE-
a sensation full of novelty and charm
So, too, in the case of two vessels at
sea. Mr.. Goldberg says he has been at
work on his invention for six years and
he considers it one Of the sweetest
boons conferred upon humanity in
dogs age. If the owners of ocean
liners do not avail themselves of it vol
UNFAIRLY, they should be compelled to
equip their vessels with Goldberg's
safety belt by law. Collisions at sea
will then be not only harmless, but
a positive pleasure, one Of the delights
of ocean travel.
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cent line ever found space on the
Ledger's pages. The quality of the
literature might well be called into
question; perhaps there was no great
mental gain for the thousands who
from week to week waited impatiently
for the next installment of Ned Bunt-
lin or Fanny Fern or Mrs South
worth or Sylvanus Cobb. Mr.. Bonner
met his critics. He became intensely
sensational when he added to his edi
torial staff, as regular or occasional
contributors, Mrs. Sigourney, James
Parton, Edward Everett, Henry Ward
Beecher, Horace Greeley, DR.. John
Hall, SAKE, Prentice and others.
The Ledger was a bright and shining
success in those days-it filled a field
that does not now exist. 1t made
fortune for Mr.. Bonner, and one of it's
distinctions was that 1t gradually re-
duced its space set apart for adver-
tisers until at length it carried no ad-
vertising. In comparison, the New
York Ledger is to-day a tradition, al
though you find it on sale at the news
stands, but almost lost in the mass of
later-day popular literature. Years ago
Mr.. Bonner gave the Ledger property
to his sons
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The Body Found.

Hamilton, July deputy Sheriff
Ewart of Stevensville telephoned Sher-
if Chaffln tonight about o'clock that
John Bennett and Al Moon, two resi-
dents of that section, had found the
body of Andrew Nelson, the missing
Swede, for whose doing away with Mel
son Peterson is being held here under
suspicion. The body was found this af-
ternoon about half way up st. Mary's
peak, on the west side of the river, OPP
posite 'Stevensville. Deputy Ewart tel
ephoned that the body was covered
with about foot of clay but says
nothing about any wounds on it. Sher-
iff Chaffin and County Attorney Baker
have just left for Stevensville after
telephoning Ewart to place a guard
over the body where it lies. An inquest
will be held tomorrow morning before
Justice Sedgwick, Coroner Adair being
up the country on an outing. Peter
son is in jail at Hamilton.
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MORE RECRUITS.
A Thousand Men a Week for tho New
Regiments


New York, July THE work of re-
cruiting men to fill up the regiments in
the Philippines to the maximum of 1928
men to company is going on in New
YORK, the main station in this city be-
ing at Third avenue and Ninth street
and in charge of Major Whitney, who
has been detailed from the 9th infantry
for this service. All recruits from sta
tons round about. such as Providence,
Bridgeport, Danville, Yonkers and like
places come to this main station for
their equipment, except arms.
1t is estimated that the quota re-
CURED is being filled at the rate of from
1000 to 1,200 a week. Were it not for
the extremely rigid physical examina-
ton enforced by the war department, it
would be possible to do the work much
more rapidly, but the authorities at
Washington. on account of the climatic
and other conditions which these troops
Will be called upon to face, insist on the
regulation physical requirements being
filled to the letter. AS an instance. ut
this main station, about IS men a day
are being enlisted. but with modifica-
tons in the physical requirements this
number could be easily increased to so.
On Thursday a company of go was sent
to San Francisco to be forwarded to
Manila, and from now on men will be
sent forward as rapidly as possible.
While recruiting stations have been
opened at various points throughout
all the eastern states, the large major
ity of the men required are being fur
nished by New York and Pennsylvania.
Most of these will go to the infantry,
although for all the other arms of the
service men are being recruited as well.
No particular Instructions have been
received from Washington lately, ex-
cept to get all the infantry recruits
possible up to July 10, and this is ia
ken to mean that on that date the re-
cruiting for the volunteer forces is like
ly to begin.
More men than the dispatches indi-
Gated are likely to be required. 1t is
known that not so many of the volun-
teers now at Manila can be counted on
for re-enlistment as was previously
supposed At first General Otis thought
he could make up three regiments
from those willing to re-enlist from
the volunteer forces about to return
home. but later information develops
that he has organized only two skel-
eton regiments, and the term skeleton
in some quarters is taken to mean that
only the officers and very few of the
men have consented to remain. 1t is
not believed that the authorities at
Washington will agree to General Otis
plan of filing the ranks of these regi-
ments with friendly natives, as too
little is known of the characteristics
OF the natives to guarantee the sue
cess of such a scheme
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ANACONDA NEWS
ROBBED THE BARRACKS.
Sneak Thieves Steal the Money OF Saliva
ton Army officers.

SheaA AhheveS Steal the "oheS VI S"isa-
tion Army officers.
Sneak thieves last evening entered
the apartments of Lieutenants Langel
and Tracy at the Salvation Army bar
racks, while services were being heid
in the front part of the building. The
thieves stole about SIS in cash-all the
money the two young girl officers had,
ana also stole some papers OF value
only 10 the owners. Entrace was ef-
fected by prying a window open with
an axe.
The robbery was not discovered until
about 1890 o'clock, after the meeting.
The terrified girls blew police whis-
tie and Officer ingalls, responded. 1t
is believed the robbery was committed
by two young hoodlums who have been
annoying Lieutenants Langel and
Tracy lately. These young men have
followed the officers about when they
We're on their War Cry selling tours,
nave frightened them at night by rap
ping on and shaking their door and in
other ways have made themselves OBJ
noxious.
IT'S shame the way they have
treated the girls" said an indignant
woman who lives next door to the bar
RACKS. They are a pair of the incest
ana pest girls you ever saw; as hard
working and industrious as they can
be. It's little enough they get, and
to rob them Is dirty trick. Most of
the money was that which they were
saving to pay rent with. Those hood
lums have scared them so they are
afraid to stay here nights. Only the
other night they were so frightened
they went out and got room at
lodging house"
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BISHOPS WIT SiLENcED HIM.
Lawyer Who Tried to Be Funny With the
Parson Got Squelched.
outh's Conpanion.

From the Youths Companion.
Many anecdotes were told Of Bishop
Williams of Connecticut after his
death, for the good bishop was as well
known for his love Of fun as for his
earnest piety.
At a meeting of the bishops a meas
ure was proposed and explained by it's
originator, but with such incoherence
that nobody understood it. A second
clear, but only darkened it. When he
had finished Bishop Benjamin Smith
of Kentucky tried to explain the ques-
ton, and also the explanations. Feel
ing that he had failed, he said:
Bishop Williams smiles. What has
he to say about it ?"
only this" said the old bishop,
that the mess of Benjamin was found
to be greater than the mess of any Of
his brethren
THE humor of DR.. Williams" says
a friend, was always present and
ready like the flash of sunlight. 1t had
one popularity, it never scorched or
left a scar behind
At an assemblage of noted men a
year or two ago a lawyer who con-
ducts the legal business of a great
railway system tried to guy the par
SON. by malicious quizZing. At last he
said: why don't you get these rail-
way managers to give you a pass over
their roads, bishop? You can pay for
it by giving them entrance tickets into
heaven"
"Oh, no." gently replied the bishop,
II would not part them so far from
their counsel in the other world"
The laugh was general, and the law
yer concluded to ''let the parson
alone"
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Water Is Eeceding.

ST. Louis, July "A Post-Dispatch spe-
cial from Dallas says Chief Lineman
Wyrick of the Postal Telegraph company
has just returned to Dallas from Sealey,
which is at the northern edge of the
flooded district. Wyrick says the Brazos
river has fallen eight inches during the
past "a hours. and that while the highest
estimates of the loss of life may have
been somewhat exaggerated, still the
number is large and cannot be definitely
known for several days. Everything is
in a state of Generalization and confu-
sion. On the Dewey side of the Brazos
a mile and a half of the katy" track
is washed away, while at least five miles
is under water and in such condition that
reconstruction is necessary. Relief meas
ures are now under way but there are
still hundreds of people in a perilous po-
sition.
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The New Omcers.

Washington, July THE president
to-day brought before the cabinet the
plan for offering the provisional army.
The decision to appoint colonies and
lieutenant colonies of the volunteer
regiments from among regular army
officers who served during the Span
ish war and the volunteer officers from
among 5those who served in the volun-
teer army with credit or distinction
was heartily approved by the members
of the cabinet. The records of the vol
unteer officers are to be carefully look
ed to- in the selection of officers below
the rank of lieutenant colonel. Gen
eral matters were also discussed in a
desultary way, among them the ques-
ton of tariff duties in our new pos
sessions.
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- HE unwillingness of the volun

~ HE unwillingness of the rolun-
teers in Luzon to re-enlist is
not due to any lack of patriot
ism or of courage. They have demon
strated their Willingness to fight at the
drop of the hat, to swim streams and
cross bridges under fire, to chase the
enemy into jungles, to 10 anything and
everything that the exigencies of the
occasion demanded. But they are tired
out. The WEAKNESS of the flesh is sup
plemented by perturbation of spirit.
They are tired of the manner in which
the war has been conducted; they fear
similar mismanagement in the future.
The administration purposes to give
Otis some 10000 men. The Detroit Tri-
bune calls attention to the fact that
lat least two generals now serving in
the Philippines have expressed the
opinion that 100000 men would be
needed. and others have asserted that
1900 would be conservative estimate.
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The administration seems to prefer the
policy of sending too few men to one
of sending too many. This may be
good politics; but we doubt it. 1t GER
tainly is not wise generalship." The
volunteers on the ground at Manila
realize the mistakes that have been
made and that are likely to be repeat
ed. They have had enough and want to
come home
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EAGLES TO PICNIC.
Sunday, July 16, the Date Set for Their
Big Outing.

sunday. July 16, will be g. memorable
day in the history of Mountain View
park. On that day the park will be
turned over to the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, and from reports received from
the eyries in different parts of the state
it will truly be a gathering of the
fiocks.
The F. o. E. never do anything by
halves, and those who attend are guar
anteed a day of sport and amusement
that will be long remembered.
Feathers will surely fly. A programme
both unique and pleasing has been pre-
pared and valuable prizes will be given
for all events. Two games of baseball
will be played. The B., A. & p will
run excursions from Butte for rate
of 81 for the round trip and the fare
from Anaconda will be 25 cents for the
round trip.
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Western Tennis Meet.

Chicago, July The Western cham
pionship tennis tournament, which is
to open tomorrow afternoon al the
courts of the Kenwood Country club,
promises to be one of the biggest tennis
meets. ever held in the West. Secre-
tary j. p. Gardner of the Western Ten
mis- association said to-day that already
so entries had been received, and he eX-
poets many more. Nearly all of the
cracks in the West have signified their
intention to enter
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In declaring that the pops won't fuse
any longer with the democrats, Chair
man Rankin of the populist national
central committee doubtless takes cog
nizance of the fact that there aren't
any pops to fuse.
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tense. The Testimony showed there was
a conspiracy on the part of Luna and
other officers to kill Aguinaldo and
make Luna dictator. Luna's death
seems to have strengthened Aguinaldo's
leadership for a time. Luna's support
ers are now outwardly loyal to Aguin-
aldo
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Il didn't say he was a federal en-
ploye'
Il understood you to say he was a
departmental clerk"
He is. He has a charge of the but
ton counter in Wholeblock's depart
ment store"
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Mr.. Beasley says it has been his prac-
tice to carry thousand dollar bills on
his person. The people of Montana will
make note of Mr.. Beasley's statement
and will discount the note.
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With all that money on him, the won
der is that besides being strung UP in
effigy, Mr. Beasley was not held I'D in
person.
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The Henley regatta managers should
also award a prize for the best solution
of the reports published in this country
under Henley Thames date. Pos
sibly a man might get at their meaning
with the aid of a jimmy.
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A Sausage Effect.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
They say that President McKin-
ley's trousers are creased only from the
knee down"
That must give 'em a sausage eff
feet"
Sausage effect"
Yes. Below-knee."
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Iuna's Slayers Free.

Manila, July 7.-7:30 p. m.-The trial
at Cabunatuan of the slayers of Gen
eral Luna, the Filipino leader who was
assassinated by the guard of Aguin-
aldo's residence, is ended. The accused
were acquitted on the ground of self de-
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Good fellowship prevails in the con-
vention of the National Editorial asso-
ciation-plenty of proofs of it are be-
ing pulled.