Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-06
Setting Apart a Day For
General Thanksgiving
ISSUED BY GOVERNOR
Fire in Kansas City Causes a Very
Heavy LOss--Latest Bits of News
Received From South Africa--An
Important Suit.

Helena, Nov. Ex-Governor Smith has
issued the following Thanksgiving proc
lamation:
"A beautiful custom of THIS country.
that by its age has almost attained the
dignity of law, requires that at least one
day in each year be devoted to prayer
and Thanksgiving to Almighty God VINO
watches over the destinies and nations OF
men. There is a hallowed memory that
always attends the return of this day to
the elder people and a joyous holiday for
the children. On this day we are prone
to recall our W childhood with all its
sweet recollections. as we gathered
around the table spread with all the deli
cacies the home could afford.
The people of Montana have much for
which they should be thankful. Not
withstarding the seasons were somewhat
irregular, the earth has produced boun-
teously, and our herds and fochs have
been mostly spared to us. The treasures
of earth continue in ever Increasing
quantities. Our people have enjoyed good
health. and those whom We sent away
to war and who We're absent from us on
last Thanksgiving day, with few eNcep-
tions, LAY been returned to their homes
and our state in good health. For these
and manifold other blessings. we should
be thankful to the Divine Creator, who
holds US in the hollow of His hand.
The president of the United States
has designated Thursday. the Both day of
November, 1899, as the day of prayer II
thanksgiving and in conformity there
with /. Robert f. Smith, governor of the
state OF Montana. request that each and
every person and all people IN our COM
monwealth on said day desist from their
regular work and employment as far as
possible, and. assembling together in
their respective places of worship, en-
gage in reading the word of God and in
prayer and thanksgiving.
I'm order to enable all to take part
as far as possible. l do declare and pro-
claim the said Goth day of November a
legal holiday"
Kansas City. Mo, Nov. 5.-Half a mil
lion dollars worth of property was de-
stroyed after midnight by fire that start
ed in Jones Bros big department store
on Sixth and Main streets and spread to
half a block of other buildings on Main
and Walnut streets. The aggregate in
u1ance is estimated at $375. 000. The
heaviest losers are Jones Bros, who esti-
mate their stock, which was totally de-
stroyed, as worth $500, coo. The insurance
carried by this firm amounted to 80 per
cent of the loss. 1t was the most de-
structive fire that has ever visited the
uptown business district. The other
heavy losers are: Jones building, 56l
Main street, owned by w. G. Lobenstein,
New York, SEC, 0G0; Jones annex. 557 Main
street, owned by Majors Investment
CoIllldlly, blo.oVU, TIuillDOlul DullQllS.
owned by w. c.. Lobenstein, $40, 900; l..
Nj. Enrich, stock of dry goods, $15. 900; NJ.
q. Quinn, groceries. $2o 900; st. James
hotel, $4,000; the Flava Shoe mpany
the Annex drug store and other stores
suffered minor losses.
Manila, Nov. 6.-1O:15 a. m.-TWo col
umns of General MacArthur's division
yesterday took Magaling, about six miles
northeast of Angeles. Colonel Smith.
with two battalions of the Seventeent,
infantry, two guns of the Sixth artillery
and a body of engineers, advanced from
Angeles. Major O'Brien with ~ battal-
ion of the Seventeenth infantry and two
troops of the Fourth cavalry. moved
from Calulut. Colonel Smith killed II in
surgents, wounded 12S and captured 80,
as we'll as taking a lot of insurgent trans
portation. Major O'Bren killed 40 insur-
gents. wounded many and took u pris-
oners. The Americans had IL men
wounded.
London. Nov. Ga dispatch to the
Daily Mail from kukurman. British Be
chuanaland, dated November 2, says:
Three hundred ~Bechuanaland Beers have
joined Commandant De Lacey's force,
which has gone to Kimberley, leaving
only 200 men at Vryburg. G.. w. Stevens,
describing for the Mail the affair at Mich
olson's Mex, says: THE Beers shot mag
niticently. The moment Il Britisher
raised MS mead to see where the enemy
were, he instantly fell back with a bullet
in it. On the other hand. after the en-
gasement, the Beers acted with the
greatest kindness to the wo,3aded and
u~nWounded. They spent the afternoon
singing hymns, and they had reason to
be doWncast, for they lost many men,
Tacoma, Wash, Nov. "a Spokane
special says: The Northern Pacific has
brought suit against fifteen leading Spo-
kane citizens to recover land along it's
track, granted by congress in the act
under which the Northern Pacific was
organized. The railway contends thai it
is entitled to 200 feet of land on each side
of its track wherever it was laid through
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