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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27
Alleged H%ighWayman Would
Have Proved an Alibi.
QUINN NOT so FORTUNATE
He Changes His Plea to One OF
Guilty--Rlchard Baker
Discharged

At the request of the county attorney,
Judge Clancy discharged w. G. Bell from
custody this morning. Bell was arrested
along about the first Of the month on
suspicion of having been Ryan's part
ncr at the time the latter compelled w. G.
Lloyd to stand and deliver. When first
taken in out of the cold his identifica-
ton was positive" but since then the
officials and others have had a doubt.
When Mr.. Connolly asked for his release
this morning he stated that there was
no evidence to connect him with the
crime. Besides, Bell could establish an
alibi.
The motion for Bells discharge was
made in writing, and after it had been
read MI. Connolly called the attention
Of the court to the case of Samuel
Phillips, who is now in the county jail
as a supposed murderer.
1--WE have two men," said he, that
positively identify Phillips as the man
they saw hanging around Whisky gulch
AT the time Schwade was killed, and yet
the records of the city of Spokane show
that Phillips was working in Spokane
at the very time the murder was com
mitted."
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27

James r. Sovereign has resigned q
editor of the Idaho State Tribune, tn
official organ of the Western Federated
of Miners.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27
THE News In BRIEF

Godfrey Lavell is erecting a big saw
mill at st. Regis.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27

John r. Bordeaux has instituted suit
for divorce against his wife Ella, the
grounds alleged in the complaint being
deSertiOn.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27

"A special from Ontario, Ore, says the
stage from Burns yesterday brought to
Ontario W. men who were arrested by
the authorities of Burn for completely
in the recent train robbery at Winnie
mucca. The lei were heavily ironed and
turned over there to Sheriff Thatcher and
his deputy from Winnemucca and taken
back. One of the men is named Shaw.
The name of the other is not known.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27

Finest crownbridge work. DR.. WiX.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27

News was received in Billings yester-
day of a double shooting and suicide at
Columbus, a village 40 miles west of Bill
ings. Ernest Theolecke, a butcher, shot
his employer, Albert Carleton, with a 81
caliber revolver, the bullet passing clear
through his neck, but missing the jugular
artery and the spinal column, Carleton
dropped and Theolecke, thinking he was
dead, rushed over to the house of Garlic
tons mother, Mrs. Hill. He raped at the
door, which was opened by Mrs. Hill. He
shot at her, but missed her. She shut the
door in his face, when he fired two shots
through the door, one of which struck
Mrs. Hill in the groin. The Wounds of
Carleton and Mrs. Hill, while very
serious, are not regarded by the surgeon
as necessarily fatal.
Theolecke hen turned the pistol to his
right temple and fired, the bullet passing
through his skull. He dropped dead. He
was about so years old. He had been dis
charged by Carleton the previous day for
drinking. He borrowed the pistol from
Constable Calhoun on the plea that he
was going to butcher hogs and wanted to
shoot them. He appeared then perfectly
collected, but went over Immediately and
shot Carleton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
Joy of Finding Himself No Coward,

George Redpath, sergeant in the
rough riders, whose home is just across
the Kansas line in Oklahoma, writes
as follows from Santiago: CATER that
first days battle was over I was the
happiest man on the soil of Cuba.
don't mind telling you that had half
notion that I was coward. I had
taken the place of sergeant and I
knew it would be awful if I ran away.
didn't think would run away, but
1 did have sneaking notion that I
might show the white feather some
way. When the bullets first began to
come whizz-z-z, wbizz-z-z, PUNK, I
tell you my heart went up into my
throat, but I grit my teeth, gave yell
and charged right along with the rest
of the boys. The scare was over in a
minute, and I believe / can go into
the next battle and joke like some of
the boys did in this one, for I know
now that 1 have nerve enough to stay" 5"
kansas City Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
A REFORMED GIANT,
Once He WAS Eight Feet Tall and Wicked;
Now He is Shorter and breaches.

Once He WAS Eight Feet Tall and Wicked
Now He Is Shorter and breaches.
The Rev. Charles Kesterson was
born in Hancock County, Tennessee,
seventy-three years ago. His father was
one of the early pioneers, and his
mother was member of the tribe OF
the famous Malungeons, who compose
nearly the entire population of Han
cock County now.
The Rev. Mr.. Kesterson is no or.
binary man. He is one of the tallest
men in Tennessee, perhaps in America.
His height is seven feet eight inches,
though he claims that when in the
prime of manhood he was over eight
feet tall. His weight is 800 pounds.
Years ago, when Hancock County
was not so thickly populated as it is
now with men of education, and when
lawlessness was at its height, the Rev.
Mr.. Kesterson was the terror of that
part of the country Brought up more
than 100 miles from city OF any note
he never heard the whistle of a loco
motive or saw the iron monsters till q
year or so ago, when he went to Knox
vile, Tenn. The Rev. Mr.. Kesterson,
it is claimed by many of his neigh
bors, has killed at least seven men.
The old preacher denies this; he ac-
knowledges the errors of his youth,
but says that he never has killed that
many. AS to the number of men that
have bit the dust at his hand he is
silent.
About thirty years ago he joined the
Baptist Church and began preaching.
Until he reformed he ran moonshine
still IN Walkers Ridge, and woe be.
tide the revenue officer that dared
molest him. In fact, it is said that nc
revenue officer ever bothered him
much, he was SO we'll known, and they
knew his deadly aim. Now, however,
since his conversion, a change has
come over him. He does everything
that he can to break up lawlessness,
and is "death" on the moonshiners.
When not preaching in the different
school-houses he farms. He works
hard, though getting along in years,
gives his money to the poor and needy,
and lives a happy life. Though old
in years, he would not be taken for a
man over fifty. He is an inveterate
chewer and smoker. For seventy
three years this old man has lived in
"single blessedness.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
Insanity Increasing in England.

Insanity is still on the increase in
England and Wales. The returns for
last year show an advance of 2697 in
the number of officially-known luna'
tics as compared with 1896, the in
crease in 1896 over 1895 having been
2919. The total number of officially.
known lunatics at the beginning Of
1898 was 101,972. While in 1859 the
total Of officially y-known lunatics was
aS, 762, which meant that the number
per million of the population was
1867, in 1898 the aggregate total Of
officially-known lunatics had increased
to 101, ,972, or number per million Of
the population of 324S.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
CURIOUS FACTS.

An English penny changes hands
1875, 900 times in the course of life.
The death rate of the world is about
sixty-seven a minute, and the birth
rate seventy a minute.
A regularly organized system of
relieving poverty has been in vogue
in China for more than 1000 years.
1t is said that in some of the farm
ing districts of China pigs are har-
messed to small wagons and made to
draw them.
Two volcanoes in Iceland were not
long since advertised for sale in a
Copenhagen paper. The price asked
was about $500.
Food is served in a London Eng
land) restaurant on electrically heated
plates, so that the guests can eat
leisurely and have the viands warm.
A Kansas man is the owner of a
floral freak in the shape of geranium
plant that is more than twelve feet
high. 1t grew nine feet in one season.
The Oldest sailing craft in the world
IS the so-called Gokstad ship, Viking
vessel, which was discovered in a
sepulchral mound on the shores of
Christiania ford. 1t is thousand
years old.
No thistles grew in Australia till a
Scotsman planted some seeds out of
love for his country. 1t was very
natural but foolish deed, as now the
thistle has multiplied into millions,
and gives great deal of trouble.
A process has been discovered by
which sails for vessels of all kinds can
be made out of paper pulp, and it is
claimed that they serve quite as well
as canvas, and are very much cheaper.
They swell and flap in the wind like
the genuine, old-fashioned article, and
are supposed to be untearable.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
Specially Farming.

The one trouble with farmers who
are not inclined to think that mixed
farming pays, and who drift into
speciality farming, is that they fail to
go about it in the right way. Specially
farming does not mean the growing
of single crop, nor yet the special
growing of half dozen or more crops
on small scale, but rather the ex-
penditure of ones full time, thought
and money on several crops in the
same line. To make speciality farm
ing profitable one must first ascertain
what the soil and himself are best
fitted for, and having determined
that, push the enterprise year after
year through good and bad seasons.
Ii poultry keeping is decided on as
the enterprise producing the best re-
suits, work all branches of it, egg
production and raising broilers,
roasters and capons, but dc. not make
the mistake of trying at the same
time to become breeder of fancy
stock.
Ii the farm seems best suited for
raising fruit and your inclinations are
strong in. that direction, plan for sue
cessive crops beginning with straw
berries and ending with late orchard
fruits. The same with grains and
vegetables. Dairying and fruit grow
ing do not go well together, neither
do trucking or poultry raising. Go
into speciality farming on the plan
the dry goods merchant stocks his
store. He has goods for all seasons
in his line, but he does not handle
-four and pork or hay and grain with
his dry goods. Speciality farming on
the lines indicated invariably pays a
profit one year with another.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
Adulterated Buffers,

An English expert has ascertained
that the reputed Normandy and Brit
tany buffers have been found to con-
tain as much as forty per cent. of mar
garine. 1t has been ascertained, in
the time of two years, that of imports
of butter in England, ten per cent. OF
the Dutch, nineteen per cent. of the
German, five of the Norwegian, two of
the Danish, and seven of the Russian
were adulterated.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
EUGENE AT CoMPIEGNE.
Rarely Beautiful and Fascinating
Woman In Her Prime.

Rarely Beautiful and Fascinating
Woman In Her Prime.
Much has been said and written
about this beautiful and fascinating
woman, but, however great the praises
bestowed, they have never, to my
mind, been exaggerated, says the Corn
hill Magazine. 1t would be sossible,
no doubt, to find more perfectly fault
less features, even more beautiful eyes
and complexion, but l have never seen
the woman who united so many per-
fections. The creamy luster of the
skin, the expression of those tender
and sympathetic eyes, the radiant
smile, the glorious mass of quite gold
en- hair, the slope of the graceful shoul-
ders, all these charms, enhanced by a
toilet as exquisite as Partisan taste
could conceive, united to make per-
fection that seemed to eclipse and ut
terly to destroy the beauty of every
other woman present, although there
were many celebrities of all nations
present who were famed, and justly
famed, for the gifts that Venus had be-
slowed upon them. But yet the en-
press was not just now what the
French call en- beaute. for the event
so deeply interesting to France, so i'm
portant to the imperial pair concerned.
was not very far distant, and great
care was needed, although the imperial
lady herself somewhat pooh-poohed
many extra precautions; at any rate.
she never allowed herself to show or
prOfessed to feel any unusual fatigue.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23

Count Rocco Dianovitch has made
the getting into prison the chief busi-
ness of his life for thirty-four of the
forty seven years he has lived, for the
purpose of gathering information for
book he is anxious to write on the
utject. AT thirteen he left his home
and went into Prussia, where he was
arrested for trespassing and sent to
prison for three months, working at
chair making. From that time to this
he has never been free from the de-
sire to continue his prison explora.
tions. From thirteen till he was
twenty he was in and out of more than
twenty prisons in Belgium, Prussia,
Poland and Russia. His first expert
ence of gaol life in England was in
Liverpool, which was one of the worst
he was ever in, filled with drunken
sailors from all over the world. He
stayed there six days, when he paid
his fine and got out, the first time he
failed to serve his sentence. Then he
went to Ireland, France, Spain, Italy,
Greece and Turkey, then to Egypt,
where the gaols are the worst in the
world except Australia; next to India
and Japan, and then to America,
where he remained for more than q
year, spending most of his time in
gaols and penitentIaries. Tit Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23

From st. Petersburg come poor ac
counts of the health of the Empires.
of Russia. Very little is said about 1t
as the Tsar greatly objects to all ref
erences to the subject; but, as a mat
ter of fact, there has been cause fol-
some anxiety about the empress for
some time past. She has never been
very robust, and the attack Of meas
les from which she suffered early in
the winter has left her painfully weak.
An English visitor, writing from Rus
sia, says: "The Tsaritza looks so fra
gile that it seems scarcely possible
that she can be the mother of the two
exceedingly fat babies to whom she is
so passionately devoted"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23

1t is difficult to get people TO under
stand that trees can die from drowning
just as animals can. Trees feed pri-
marily by the roots, but there must be
certain amount of oxygen in the soil
to enable them to make use of the
food. Standing water prevents the ac-
ton of life-giving oxygen. A Bos-
ton correspondent refers to two large
horse chestnuts which were moved
last spring with the greatest skill, but
they died.
In the fall an examination was made
and the holes were found to be full of
water within one foot of the surface of
the ground. The holes were really
fower-pots without the necessary
holes in the bottom to allow the water
to escape. There can be no better
lesson in gardening than to be con-
tinually Remembering why it is neces-
sary to have hole in hower-pot. -
Meehan's Monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23

Almost all farmers and orchardists
have, at one time OF another, realized
the needs of something to protect trees
from the ravages of insects. There
are many sorts of tree destroyers that
crawl up the tree trunks, and if they
can be headed off, little damage can be
done. A suggestion has been offered
that tree protectors be made of iron or
tile. These are constructed in two
sections and provided with grooves to
hold either band of wire or wide,
flat hoop of metal, which, when tight
ly drawn will hold the halves firmly
together. The tops of these protec-
tors should be trough shaped and into
this trough kerosene, tar or other prep
arations offensive to these marauders
may be placed. The guards can re-
main around the trees during the sea-
son when insect depredations are most
to be dreaded, then put away for safe
keeping until the following year. 1t
is believed by those who have made
some very simple experiments in this
direction, that IRON guards can be fur
nished at cost that will not be op-
pressive to farmers when their advan-
tages are taken into account.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
Selecting Corn Seed.

The yield of corn is dependent in no
small degree on the quality of the
seed, which should be selected before
the corn is cut, having regard to the
size and character of the stalk as well
as to the ripeness and type of the ear,
When the season is especially favor
able for thoroughly maturing the ears.
enough seed to last at least two years
should be gathered, completely dried
out before the frost, and stored in n
warm, dry place. A difference OF
eleven per cent. in the yield of dry
matter on two adjacent acres was noted
in favor of the crop grown from well
ripened seed over the yield from seed
grown in a wet, cold season. -Michi-
gan Experiment Station.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23

Bismarck's first medal was from the
Pomeranian Landtag for having saved
life at the risk of his own. His
groom was thrown by the stumbling
of his horse into rivers swift cur
rent, and was about drowning when
Bismarck jumped in to save him. The
man, in an insanity of fright, pinioned
his ,rescuer in his arms. Bismarck,
seeing he could not loosen the death
grip above water, divei, thus forcing
him to release his hold. Then, seiz-
ing the now helpless fellow with one
arm and swimming with the other. he
took him safely to the bank.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
al Feel Like n New Person."
Mrs. GEO. LEACH,

Mrs. GEO. LEACH,
1909 Belle St., Alton, ILL.,, writes:
Before l began to take your Vege-
table Compound l was great sufferer
from womb trouble. Menses would ap-
pear two and three times in month,
causing me to be so weak could not
stand. Icould neither sleep nor eat, and
looked so badly my friends hardly
knew me.
81 took doctors medicine but did not
derive much benefit from it. My drug
gist gave me one of your little books,
and after reading it L decided to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. 1 feel like a new person
would not give your Compound for all
the doctors medicine in the world.
can not praise it enough"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

My Steed-Catching Cold-An-Alterna
-Strategy-Her Complaint-Children
Ways-More Than Likely-End of n
RoInance-The Cheerful Presence, Etc.
He never cares for food at all,
But likes a little grease;
The hallway is his fav'rite STALL
He stables there In peace.
He'd run week, rather think,
And never feel pain;
He'd neither eat, nor sleep wink
Butt can't stand the strain.
He only has one dread complaint,
But that one makes me weep;
carpet-tack will make him faint,
A habby, punctured heap!
Ii "Dick" lived now he would not cry,
"My kingdom for a horse"
Else folks would say, "The ancient guy
He means bike, of course"
L. A. W. Bulletin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
To Renovate an Apple Orchard.

Put in three times as many sheep as
can live ON the pasturage and feed
wheat bran. They scatter this added
fertility all over the orchard and thus
feed it and they do well themselves.
They eat every apple that falls, worms
and all, keep the grass eaten within
half inch Of the surface and as aresult
the sod is constantly growing better
and the orchard improving. To pre-
vent their harming the bark, rub with
herd soap three feet from the ground.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
The Flavor of Eggs,

1t has been thoroughly established
that the flavor of eggs depends much
on the food the hens have. 1t has been
found that if they are near slaughter
yard and eat large quantities of raw
meat, the yolk is of dark color and
strong flavor. If large quantities of
milk are fed, the yolk is pale and the
egg watery and insipid to the taste.
When allowed to eat much fish the
taste is oily in flavor Any diet fed
exclusively is easily detected in the
flavor of the egg. A mixed diet gives
the most satisfactory results.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23
BLUFFED THE BAD MAN.
An Episode of Camp Life at Tampa Whi ch
Showed a Civilians Pluck.

l
| Showed a Civilians Pluck.
At Tampa, while the troops were
| gathering to go to the West Indies,
some very rough men were assembled
from all parts of the country. Among
them was desperate belonging to a
volunteer regiment from the West.
The man yearned to terrify the na-
tives with an exhibition of what he
would have them regard as genuine
wild Western manners. He obtained
leave OF absence one evening, and
with thirty -eight-calibre regulation
revolver swung at his belt, started in
on the principal street of the town to
give his exhibition.
He went into a drug store which
was filed with young volunteers from
Eastern States, who, having pros
pect of remaining a few weeks in
camp, were buying brushes, combs,
soap, tooth-powder and other articles
which they had been unable to trans
port in their railroad journey. The
rutfian proceeded to make himself as
disagreeable as possible.
eff there's anything that hate, :" he
said, ''it's private soldier that sets
out to be dude"
No one paid attention, and he then
addressed himself to one of the men.
'Now L suppose" he said, 'that
you think you're mighty fine, with
your curly hair and your necktie?"
The volunteer became angry, and
two or three of his fellows stepped
forward An atiray was imminent,
and an affray between armed men
would be serious thing. The store
was in charge of young clerk of
eighteen or twenty years. From be-
hind the counter, he or Tered the dis
turber to leave the store. The man
Immediately grew furious.
"Heyw he shouted, 'Do you
know, there, who 20 IRE talkin' to?
Why, I'm Poncho Jim, from New
Mexico, an I'm bad man, and I don t
stand no"
He had made q motion toward the
big revolver in his belt when the
young fellow stepped from behind the
counter. He had on thin summer
sack-coat, with side pockets. Both
his hands were in these pockets, and
they seemed to be holding there some
articles which looked through the
cloth like the muzzles of Derringers.
These were pointed straight at the
desperate.
''Put up your hands, said the clerk.
The man hesitated.
"Put them up, L say!" the clerk re-
peated, taking a step nearer Slowly
the rutfian raised his hands, until they
were we'll up in the air.
"Now some of you take that pistol
out of the holster" he said to the
volunteers. Two of them obeyed him,
and the pistol was laid down on the
counter.
''Now you tell me your regiment
and company, and the name of your
captain, said the clerk to the desper-
ado. He obeyed.
"Thats all right" said the clerk,
"Now get right out of here, this in
stant-keep your hands up, say!-
and I'll send your revolver to your
captain. Get out, now'
The man obeyed, and when he was
out of the door, the drug clerk took
his hands out of his pockets. There
was nothing in them. He had been
thrusting his thumbs forward in such
a way as to make them look, under
the cloth of the pockets, like the muz-
zles of revolvers. He had been play
ing game of pure ''bluff" with the
rutfian, but having GOODNESS and cour-
age, while the other had simply bru-
tality, he had easily won.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-23

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
We, the undersigned, have known +. j. Che
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fectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
ton m de by their firm.
WEST G. TRuAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo.
Ohio
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Druggists, Toledo, Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
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by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best