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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-12

can genius and money behind it, will not
eventually be brought up to the high plane
of popularity now occupied by the Gu
ban, If not elevated above it. The latle.
wild. rugged strawberry of the New Eng
land meadows is thought by many to
posses an aroma and piquant flavor never
equaled by any of the gorgeous berries
developed out of it by horticulturist, but
its selling qualities are nowhere in COM
parison-they are simply nothing. Some
years ago the American taste ran strong
ly in favor of champagne, which the willy
Europeans, knowing the national prefer
ence, had slowed and doctored with cog
nae. viellesseur and spirit of potatoes to
develop the lying sparkle. But of late a
more educated taste is setting i'm, which
chooses the far richer 'still wines" And
it may be the privilege of Florida to assist
in educating in favor of a less fiery and
heady tobacco than that grown in the
rank atmosphere of the tropical island.
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charged. but she was convicted and
fined $40. She left the court room with
the air of one who had had a pretty
hard day of it,
Judge Sullivan had a long list of
other cases to engage his attention
during the day. The case of w. H.
Winters, charged with violating the
health ordinance, was continued to
Friday. o. Proulx, charged with VIC
lating the health ordinance, was fined
$40 and sentence was suspended. The
case of Hugh Harris, similarly charged,
took the same course. j. Colwell, for
breaking the shutter of Galena street
dive, was fined S. for malicious mis-
chief. Lottie Short. Ida Brown and
Alice Jackson, three of Belle Rhodes
proteges who got hilariously drunk
and made an exhibition of themselves
on the streets Monday morning, were
fined SIC each for disturbance.
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She WAS UP AGAINST IT.
Got Drunk While Celebrating q
Touch Down.
EDITH SOMMERS FINED
Was Arrested for RobbinR q Verdant
Visitor and Paid $50 Into the
City Treasury-The Po-
lice Roundup.

Edith Sommers the notorious Ga
lena street woman known by that
name, was literally up against it in
the police court yesterday. Following
her arrest Sunday morning for robbing
Tom Brown, a verdant visitor from
Anaconda, she was rearrested the
same day after being released on
bonds, for creating a disturbance by
getting her friends hilariously drunk
while celebrating the touch down.
For the two arrests she had to an
swer to Judge Sullivan yesterday. She
was convicted in both cases and re-
CURED to pay a fine of $50 in the one
and $40 in the other.
There being but the unsupported
word of the man that the woman rob-
bed him of $54 to support a more Sc
riouS charge, she was prosecuted for
maintaining house of prostitution,
that being the customary method of
Furnishing the women who are accused
of robbing visitors to their resorts.
The woman had employed Burt Marsh
to defend her, and his line of defense
was a determined and persistent ef-
fort to show that she was being perse-
cuted by being charged with prosti"
tuition when she was really arrested
for robbery. He represented that the
woman had paid the customary fine
imposed on such women monthly for
being permitted to remain on the row
and do business, and took the position
that she had nominally paid a license
and therefore could not be arrested for
prostitution again for month.
City Attorney Lamb maintained that
for every day the woman conducted a
disorderly house she was guilty of a
separate offense and whether or not she
had paid the regular fee required of
her, concerning which he had no in
formation, cut no figure in the case,
as such practice had no authority
of law. Several policemen testified for
the city and told of the character of
the house the defendant conducts. On
cross examination Marsh attempted to
bring out confession that the arrest
was made because the woman was ac-
cused of robbery and not because she
was maintaining a disorderly house.
His questions along this line were re-
peatedly ruled out, but were as re-
peatedly reverted to, and when the wo-
man took the stand in her own de-
tense her lawyer got the evidence in,
even over the objections of Mr.. Lamb
and the rulings of the court sustain
ing him. During his argument Marsh
became so objectionable in his allu-
sions that Mr.. Lamb felt called upon
to appeal to the court to place some
bounds upon his remarks.
Judge Sullivan found the woman
guilty and fined her $50. In the second
complaint against the Sommers wo-
man she was charged with frequenting
saloons. together with May Lewis and
Kittie Woods, who assisted her in eel
ebrating. The other women were dis
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From Sea to Sea.
Let there be no misunderstanding
about the matter: / love this people,
and if any contemptuous criticism has
to be done I will do it myself. My heart
has gone out to them beyond all othar
peoples, and for the life of me 1 cannot
tell why. They are bleedingraw at the
edges, almost more conceited than the
English, vulgar with massive vulgar
ity which is as though the Pyramids
We're coated with Christmas cake sugar
works. Cocksure they are. lawless, and
as casual as they are cocksure, but l
love them.
I admit everything. Their govern
ments provisional. their laws the no.
tion of the moment; their railways are
made of hairpins and match sticks, and
most of their good luck lives in their
woods and mines and rivers, and not in
their brains; but for all that, they lie
the biggest, finest and best people on
the surface of the globe! Just you wait
a hundred years and see how they'll be-
have when they've had the screw put
on them and have forgotten a few Of
the patriarchal teachings of the late
Mr.. George Washington. Wait till the
Anglo American- German-Jew-them mar
of the future-is properly equipped
He'll have just the least little kink in
his hair now and again: he'll carry the
English lungs above the Teuton feet
that can walk forever, and he will wave
long. thin, bony Yankee hands with the
big blue veins on the wrist from one
end of the earth to the other.
He'll be the finest writer, poet and
dramatist. specially dramatist that the
world as it recollects itself has ever
seen. BY virtue of his Jew blood, just
a little little drop, he'll be a musician
and a painter. too. At present there is
too much balcony and too little Romeo
in the life plays of his fellow citizens
Later on, when the proportion is ad-
iusted and he sees the possibilities OF
his land, he will produce things that
will make the effete east stare. He will
also be a complex and highly composite
administrator. There is nothing known
to man that he will not be, and his
country will sway the world with one
foot as a man tits a Seesaw plank! Yor
wait and see. Sixty million people
chiefly of English instincts, who are
trained from youth to believe that moth
ing is impossible, don't stink through
the centuries like Russian peasantry
They are bound to leave their mari
somewhere, and don't you forget it,
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ters. The value of the time thus saved
cannot be figured out, but ii is consid-
cradle. This means also a saving of
life and limb, for in spite of all precau-
tons there will be accidents at gate
crossings. This elevating has cost the
road eight millions of dollars, which.
a Az per cent, is an annual charge Of
s360,000 and yet the investment. large
as it is. is profitable one for the road.
There will be no more damage suits.
The services of an army of watchmen
can be dispensed with and in addition
better train service can be secured. AS
a result of elevation the Northwestern
is putting on more suburban trains and
is running them at a higher rate Of
speed. As a consequence ii will do
more suburban business and add to it's
profits from carrying passengers. Thus
track elevation is a double blessing. 1t
benefits a railroad and all who travel
on the streets the road crosses. Nor
should it be forgotten that a large part
of the eight millions was paid out as
wages to men who would otherwise
have found 1t hard to get employment.
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BEST TOBACCO FOR MoNAacHs.
Choicest Cuban Leaf Is Exported to Eu-
rope for Royalty's Use.


rope for Royalty's Use.
None of the choicest quality of Cuban
tobacco is imported into the United
States. 1t is said that there are only two
farms in the whole of Cuba that develop
the very choicest quality of tobacco and
all of this is sent to Europe for the ex-
elusive use of the monarchs and nobility
of that continent. Soil varies in Cuba. if
such thing is possible, more than it does
in Florida, but the climate is less change
able than here. 1t Is stated that the best
tobacco in the island grows in sandy
lands, like those of F>lorida-an encourag
ing fact--though most of the Cuban soils
are clay. The facts in regard to the pine
apple soils of Cuba are also encouraging
to Florida growers. The best soils for this
fruit are sandy and at least two-thirds
of the pineapples heretofore exported from
Havana have been grown upon a sandy
tract about 10 miles long and from two to
five miles wide. There is another and still
smaller tract suitable for pineapples lit
tie farther from Havana. In short, first
class pineapple and tobacco land is more
limited in Cuba than in Florida.
1t may be well to explain here that the
celebrated Vuelta Abajo (speak Vwel-tah
Ab-ah-ho) tobacco is not named from any
particular locality The words denote
"the lower circuit, or round trip arising
from the former habit of the governor of
making round trip through that section,
the western, or lower, end of the island.
I'm like manner Vuelta Arriba (Ar-ree-vah)
denotes 1.-The upper circuit" the eastern
end of the island. and no good tobacco is
grown in that section. Fortunately Flor
ida can and does produce first-class to-
bacco in both her upper and lower cir
cults. both in west and south Florida. 1t
is the part of candor and of true CONNER
cial policy well to admit that Florida
tobacco is not at present equal to the
Cuban. This is true under the present
autocratic sway of masculine fashion. but
the reverse may be true in a decade, just
as the equally capricious goddess of femi-
nine fashion decreed a change from the
fabrics made of the stiff, lustrous English
woods to the soft, dull manufactures of
French and American merino.
In the first place, the Cuban tobacco is
grown in the cool, dry season, the winter
of the almanac. while most of the Florida
crop is developed under the frequent and
heavy showers of the rainy season Sec
ond, there is something in soil or atmos-
phere, at present underlined and perhaps
undefinable, which gives a flavor and a
sharp tongue-biting quality to the Cuban
leaf which is not equally pronounced in
the Florida product.
During the winter in Cuba the worm
does not trouble the plant as it does in
the summer in Florida. But 1t does not
follow that Florida tobacco, with Ameri-
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BUTTE NEWS.
he FOUND THEM GUILTY
Judge Sullivan Says Junk Shop
Keepers Are Robbers.
NOTICE OF APPEAL GIVEN
City Attorney Lamb Determined to
Break Up the Practice-It En-
courages Small Boys
to Steal.
NOTICE OF APPEAL GIVEN

Two cases were tried in the police
court yesterday which contained more
than the usual amount of interest at
taching to police court cases, for two
reasons-one being that the cases were
the result of a new policy inaugural
ed by City Attorney Z. NJ. Lamb. the
purpose of which is to discourage
pawnbrokers and junk dealers in the
practice of buying stolen goods from
boys, and the other that Judge Sulli-
van was called upon to pass upon the
legality of a city ordinance. The cases
We're those in which Mrs. Fannie Cor
don and NJ. Schott and the Blumpkin
Junk company were arrested last week
for buying junk of boys under the age
of is years. For months the authori-
ties have experienced a vast amount
of trouble from boys stealing brass
and copper parts of machinery, copper
wire, iron castings, etc, from the mines,
Smelters, railroads and electric light
company, which, when run down, have
always been found to have been sold
TO junk dealers, but until Mr.. Lamb
came into office, no one seemed to hit
upon the proper method of striking at
the root of the evil by securing the
punishment of those responsible for en-
couraging the young vandals to do the
stealing.
Several efforts were made in this di-
rection by arresting junk dealers for
receiving stolen property, knowing it
to have been stolen, but they always
managed to get clear by proving ignor-
ance of the fact that the stuff was
stolen.
When the situation was called to the
attention of Mr.. Lamb he looked up the
ordinances and found one that he
thought would serve the purpose. 1t
is an ordinance passed some years ago
TO regulate the business of pawnbro-
kers, second hand dealers and junk
shops and prohibits such dealers from
buying any article except old rags
from minors under the age of Is years
of age. 1t was decided henceforth to
prosecute people engaged in the bust
nesses mentioned who buy stuff from
boys under this ordinance.
The first cases to come up were those
yesterday. Attorney I. c. Bachelor
appeared for two of the defendants,
Mrs. Gordon and Schott, and Attorney
M. l.. Wines for the Blumpkin Junk
company. while Mr.. Lamb represent
ed the city. The cases We're defended
on wholly disimilar lines, but a con-
viction was secured in both cases and
appeals taken. "
was first tried. Mathew Reese and
Fred Garland, two boys who stated
that they were IA years of age, testi-
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HELD A BRIEF SESSION i
A Meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation.
THE VAUDEVILLE SCHOOL
Work Will Not Be Begun Right AWAY
Certified Checks Returned-An
Offer OF Pens Routine
Matters.

The board of education met in reru-
lar session last night, and while IT was
a brief one, the session developed then
PROBABILITY that work on the proposed
Walkerville school house will not beg, n
at very early date. The board held
an executive session and later notified
the clerk to return the certified checks
rendered with the bids for excavating
for the Walkerville building. 1t was
intimated that if the board should con-
clude to build, it would readvertise for
bids for the excavation So there the
Walkerville building matter rests,
me building committee by its chair
man, Mr.. Lane, reported in substance
as follows:
That inasmuch as there have been
Observation-Disclosures with reference TO
the time limit of completing the new
Aluminium street school house. the com
mlttee recommends that the bids sub
mltted last week be rejected and that
the clerk be instructed to readvertise
Tor bids in pursuance of modified speci-
ncatlons: that the time limit be los
DAYS from the date of signing the con-
tract the bids to be in the hands of
the clerk by o'clock next Tuesday
evening, said bids to be accompanied
by certified check. The report was
adopted.
A communication was received from
an agent for an improved pen, offering
to furnish the district with $50 gross
for 5000 The district is now paying 40
cents gross for the pens in use Re-
ferred.
A communication regarding the in
surance policy on a Walkeryille school
house was referred
communication was received from
| the city clerk calling attention to the
| necessity of sidewalk at the Atlantic
school house site. Referred.
| Mr.. McC. White suggested that SUI
| perintendent Hendricks had called his
| attention to the necessity of more guns
| for drill purposes of the cadets and
| moved that the clerk be instructed to
| communicate with the adjutant gen
| eral of Montana with reference to Sc
| curing 100 additional guns. Carried.
| On motion of Mr.. Giard, the clerk was
| instructed to notify the several agents
| Of furniture houses in the city and
I neighborhood to have in their bids for
| furnishing desks by next Tuesday
night. Samples of desks are also re-
| quired.
Bills amounting to $40 so were ordered
paid.
The report of the clerk showed cash
| in the general fund, on hand June &c.
amounting to $6.674.79 in the building
| fund, s29, 001 IS; bills outstanding, $53.40.
| At one time this year there were out
standing warrants aggregating $4,000.
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SOME ANIMALS CAN CALCULATE.
Russian Experimentor Declares That
They Can Count Correctly.
From, ha Iprlop Mail

Russian Experimentor Declares That
They Can Count Correctly.
From the London Mail
Most people have seen performing
animals in circuses and music halls
who are apparently accomplished
mathematician. Performances of this
sort, however, are of little scientific
trickery generally involved in them. A
secret sign from the impressario to the
animal frequently proves the sole eX-
PLANTATION of its apparent cleverness
Dr. Timof1eff is Russian doctor, who
has made exhaustive experiments in
animal intelligence. Parrots, he says,
can count up to four and he has extend
ed these Investigations to other birds,
dogs, cats and horses. He concludes
that crows can count up to TO- dogs to
"a, cats only to six but horses carry off
the palm as calculators.
In a village of the government of
Pokow DR.. Timofeff studied a horse be-
longing to peasant and found that the
horse always stopped at the end of it's
Goth furrow. 1t did not stop when tired,
but only after every 20 burrows. 1t was
so exact about this that it's master
reckoned the number of burrows that
he had made by the number of times
that the horse halted. The animal
counted for the man. One day this ply
the 22nd verst one of the horses hitched
to the troika "a three-horsed carriage)
stopped suddenly. The driver got down
from his seat, gave some proVender 70
the horse and drove on.
This horse had been trained by its
master when very young to get food at
every Is versts. There can be no doubt
that the horse kept count by the posts
along the road. 1t had made mistake
this time of three versts, but it was not
it's fault Along the road there were
three other posts besides the telegraph
posts which looked very much like
Them Hence the error of three versts.
This same horse was accustomed to
get it's food in a stable near which the
town clock rang at noon. DR.. 1imof1eff
himself saw the horse prick up its ears
and listen. but droop its head dissatis-
fed when less than IL strokes sounded.
On the contrary, it manifested all kinds
Of satisfaction when 1t heard the 18th
stroke of the bell, neighing for its
provender.
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Crystal Springs is the best pleasure
resort near Butte. only five miles from
town. Finest bicycle road in Silver
Bow county. Electric fountain display
every evening. Boating on lake; mod
ern improved plunge and private baths
in connection. Excellent cafe and bar
Service strictly first-class. Open night
and day. Give us a call.
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From the Chicago Tribune.
The Northwestern road has elevated
fifteen miles of track. By so doing it
has done away with $50 grade crossings.
This means a saving of time by pedes-
trians, street car passengers and teams
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You should call at the Butte Opti-
cal Company. rooms and s, Owsley,
and have your eyes examined by the
dark room method. Examina ton free.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-12

Messrs. Dolman and Jameson have
established a law office in the Column
bia block. Telephone No 81.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-12

Dr. Hagen Burger has resumed prac-
tice at As West Park street.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-12

Tan, cholocate and OK blood shoes at
your own price. Tassel1's 25 w. Park
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-12

California Cafe is the best place to
eat in Butte.
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Track Elevation in Chicago

Special rates to families at Pipestone
springs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-30
WILL KEEP 1T TO THE FRONT,
Mr. Bryan, In Kansas City Interview, Say:
Silver Will Not BE eRelegated-State-
ment Regarding His Wealth.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 27.-William
j. Bryan was in Kansas City several
hours Saturday morning. He came from
Upton, Mo-, where he made a speech
for Judge Shackleford, democratic can
didate to succeed r. p. Bland in con-
gress. Regarding politics Mr.. Bryan
said:
shall continue to discuss silver There was
a story from Des MoineS, Ia, recently that
was putting silver in the background 1 am
not / will not. L was incorrectly reported
Silver will be placed alongside of the other
great issues and it will be given its due share
of consideration. 1 stand by the Chicago demo-
cratic platform.
When u new baby is born in household the
parents do not expel the other children. Be-
cause the democratic party is making a fight on
Imperialism, militarism and trusts is no reason
why we should send from our household the
older child. We should gather ali these chill
dren into our arms and fight for them.
Recently James Creelman, writing
from Lincoln to a New York newspaper,
had something to say about Mr.. Bryan IS
wealth. Mr.. Creelman wrote, so Mr..
Bryan says, that Mr.. Bryan was worth
about $4,000 1t appeared in print
that Mr.. Bryan is worth $3.50, 900 and
the republican organs all over the
country have been making political
capital out of the story. He said the
statement that he was worth about
S25. 900 was true.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-30
NOW A FARMERS TRUST.
One Organized at Topeka, With a Capital
of S2O,OOO,OOO, to Control Prices of
Mississippi Valley Products.

Topeka. Kan, Aug. 27.-Several
prominent farmers and business men
of this place have organized the Farm
ers' Federation of the Mississippi Val
ley, with capital stock of $50. 900, OOO
The purpose of the trust is to control
the price of farm products of the Mis-
sissippi valley and especially of the
enormous corn crop of Kansas. The
farmers trust will establish ware
houses and maintain agents at Cincin-
natl, st. Louis and Chicago, where the
members grain will be marketed. The
cities having the warehouses are to be-
come outlets for the grain and products
'of the middle and western states. 1t
is believed here among conservative
business men that the scheme will sue
ceed.
Walter N. Allen is back of the scheme.
Mr.. Allen proposes to make every
farmer a member of the federation by
the payment of 81 and then start the
scheme by the issuance of debenture
bonds instead of stock certificates. He
holds that the plan of issuing deben-
ture bonds solves the problem of double
liability, which. he says, would other
wise be a drawback in starting the
movement.