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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1899-06-15
ORDINANCE No. 81.
An ordinance for the apportionment oil
the funds of the City of Mont

An ordinance for the apportionment OF
the funds of the City of Mont
pelier Idaho.
Being the annual apportionment bill
for the said City for the year 1909.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and City
Council of the City Of Montpelier,
Idaho.
SEC. 1. That all moneys coming
into the City Treasurer from taxation,
licenses, fines, forfeitures, penalties and
any and all sources whatever shall be
and the same are hereby distributed
into three funds designated as follows
to- wit;
1 The Contingent fund
2. The General Improvement fund
and
B. The Incidental Fund
The said funds are hereby created
and established for the reception Of the
said revenues.
SEC. 2. That for the fiscal year end
ing with the first Tuesday in May. 1900
the city revenues and incomes for this
period having been estimated to amount
to the sum of 5000 90, the said City
revenues, incomes and moneys arising
from taxes, licenses, fines, forfeitures,
penalties and from any and all sources
htltlI NO anu bEC uoI6DN
and divided as follows, to-wit:
CONTINGENT FUND
First: The Contingent Fund the sum
of eleven hundred and forty dollars,
for the purpose of paying the salaries Of
the various officers of said city.
GENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND.
Second: To the General Improve.
ment Fund the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars, for the purpose of paying the
expenses of constructing improving and
repairing the streets avenues, alleys
and highways of said city and making
improvements of any kind of public
nature. ordered by the Mayor and City
Council of said city.
INCIDENTAL FUND,
Third To the Incidental Fund the
sum Of two hundred and ninty dollars
for the payment of the ordinary in
cidental and extraordinary expenses Of
the said City Government.
SEC g. That all ordinancesG and parts
of ordinances in conflict with this ordi-
nance are hereby repealed.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1899-06-15

First: The Contingent Fund the sum
of eleven hundred and forty dollars,
for the purpose of paying the salaries Of
the various officers of said city.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1899-06-15
Repairing aud Cleaning a Specially,

The above firm having the 2Ist day of
Nov. 1893, bought out Chas. Schmid,
Merchant Tailor, ask your patronage in
the future.
The evening times., 1899-03-17
The RcadN Revolver.

! They take their campaigns like their
| baths at Hot Springs in Arkansas. hot. As
result of the mayoralty fight up to date.
| there are five dead men. as follows: Thorn
| as Toler. chief of police; J. E. Hart a
city detective; Thomas F. Goslee, a police
sergeant; John Williams, son of the sher-
! iff, and Louis Hinkle the disinterested
| driver of beer wagon who did not get
out of the way when the shooting began.
| Besides these, Ed. Spears may die from
| his wounds. It appears to have been the
result of the active and pernicious parti-
| sRnship of the city police and the sher-
ifs force. on different sides, in the mu-
nicipal election. The factions met in the
street and began shooting without giving
time for the removal of on-combatants.
Nearly all the dead men leave large fami-
lies.
Back of the election controversy is the
baleful habit so general in the South Of
carrying deadly weapons and the popular
faIlacy that it is honorable and manly and
necessary that all disputes should be set
tied by violence. The social and political
conditions of the South and the impulsive
nature of the Southern man offer an ex-
planation if not an excuse for these fire.
qucnt tragedies. The close of the war left
that section in a sad state and the evident
intention Of Northern legislators TO i'm
pose intolerable restrictions on the white
people, as shown in the Civil Rights meas
ure, seemed to the South to warrant yio-
lent resistance. The young acquired tire
idea that a pistol was as necessary as anv
other article of apparel and the tempta-
tions to use it were frequent.
The trouble about such things is that
they cannot be regulated and controlled
The Whitecaps, for example, were organ
lied to promote justice and virtue, but in
eyitabiy they became an instrument of
personal revenge. When men carry guns
and have been taught there is but one way
of defending their honor-by killing any
who insult them-guns will be pulled and
used in every quarrel, no matter how triv-
ial. Crusades against the carrying of dead
ly weapons have been started many times
in the South, and they have made some
headway, but unless the people can be
made to see the ruinous consequences can
be taught that the evil of the custom ex-.
ceeds all the possible good, il cannot be
The evening times., 1899-03-17
PuIp. Reef. md Carter.

AIger is in Montreal, and the guest of
Sir William Van Horne, President of the
Pulp Company. Alger is a director in the
corporation II is hardly necessary to OBJ
serve that the relations of the Secretary
of War 10 this great and philanthropic or
ganization may explain certain things that
the American public have been purturbed
about The consensus of evidence before
the Beef Enquiry Court is to the effect that
the contents of the falsely called roast
beef" tins issued 10 the army were simply
pulp.
II would be interesting to learn how
far this fact may have a bearing upon
things which il would be madness to as
sumo do not give Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Nc
Kinley great deal of concern IN their
pleasant retirement in Georgia, where tho
sweet sea breezes blow into their noses
from the waters which Captain Carter did
so much to make known to the public at
large In this connection. il would be un
kind TO remind the American people that, il
the execution of Carter's sentence is held
up few weeks longer, the statute of
| limitations will prevent the Government
from proceeding against the contractors
who are popularity believed to have shared
| in his liberal treatment of Government
| funds
The evening times., 1899-03-17
4 tbristian Science Tale.

That We have not known the full pos
sibilities OF Christian Science appears from
an appalling tale that comes from London.
Unless a certain woman can be found and
induced TO stop the absent treatment" Of
a patient. there will be an amazing addi-
tion to the human freak market. 1t is
this way. \ credulous man met with an
accident which left one leg shorter than
the other. He also met with Christian
Science healer. a woman, which proves TO
be more serious than the first accident.
She promised TO make the short leg grow.
Hardly had she demonstrated her remark
able power before she announced that she
was called out of She assured the
patient, however, that she could be quite
as effective with absent treatments. She
was and is Ii is obvious that the treat
ments did not cease when the sick limb
reached the length of the other, for il
continued 10 grow. The woman probably
underestimated her own qualities. She is
somewhere, the place unknown, still treat
ing for shortness a leg that is now fully
three inches longer than the well one.
Enquiries quietly pursued by the victim
and his friends did not result in the find
ing of the woman. Then he employed a
private detective agency, but without sue
cess. He advertised in the agony columns
of the Times, imploring the healer to
reverse or cease her treatments. Now his
appeal is published in all the leading
newspapers of Europe, but so far 10 no
purpose. He is in a desperate state of
mind as he watches the daily extension OF
the Wretched member. but can think of no
eXpedient to stop its progress. II has
been suggested that he employ another
healer to work on the well leg in order to
keep the two of equal length, but he is
not prepared TO look like a man on stills.
This painful case suggests still more Sc
rious possibilities. We do not know
whether the consent of a person is neces-
sary to success in Christian Science. If
not, the resources of the malicious healer
are shocking. She could give absent treat
ments 10 a nose, for example. and continue
until II resembIed the trunk of an elephant
She could fix her baleful thoughts on the
ears OF victim and madden him with the
fair large ears of a donkey Indeed
there is no limit to the powers of the
Christian Science healer-eXcept that she
cannot cure a ease CT ear-sightedness or
any other visible defect about which there
could be no humbug
The evening times., 1899-03-17
The DoIau Charges.

When the statement of Thomas f. Do
Ian, made under oath, was published, The
Times expressed the opinion that il ap-
peared to be truthful 1t had an honest
ring in every sentence. Dolan had been for
ten years the superintendent of the kill
ing department of Armour's packing
house and had taken part in the abomina-
bic and criminal proceedings he described.
He declared that he was moved solely by a
patriotic desire 10 save our soldiers from
murder through diseased meat, to expose
The methods by which beef unfit for hu-
man consumption was placed on the mar
ket. The Times asserted that his affi-
davit made it the duty of the Government
TO prosecute the packers and every official
of the War Department, whose business if
was to protect the army from the effects
of such a ration and the Treasury from
robbery. Subsequently the statement of
Dolan was strengthened by that of
former Illinois State official, who was
charged with preventing the killing and
sale of diseased meat, and by that of an
employe OF another establishment.
1t was urged by The Times that the Gov
ernment should at once take possession of
Mr.. Dolan, warning the Department of
Justice that efforts would surely be made
10 buy him of, kidknap him. or otherwise
dispose of him, if his story was true. Yet
no step was taken by the authorities. 1t
appears that the packers were not so idle.
Report was made of the visit of an alleged
Armour agent to Dolan's home. Now comes
another affidavit from Dolan and one from
his wife in which il is said that a second
agent of the packing company called upon
him with the offer of FIVE thousand dollars
cash and trip to Paris, including all ex
penses, during the sittings of the Board of
Enquiry; that under the advice of his
lawyer, James J. Irwin. he accepted three
Thousand dollars in the presence of his
wife who deposited the same in bank as
appears from the certificate of deposit. the
remaining TWO thousand to be paid when
the arrangement should be completed. The
name of the agent is Charles Z. Todd He
prepared an affidavit, which Dolan was in
structsd by his lawyer to execute, contra
The evening times., 1899-03-17

dieting the former statement, on which
the balance of the sum was paid to him.
While the attempt to bribe Dolan TO
commit perjury is not positive proof or
the truth of his first affidavit, it goes lar
TO substantiate it. If, as the Armours
affirmed, the charges were groundless, they
would hardly pay FIVE thousand dollars in
cash and bear the expenses of Journey
to Europe for retraction. 1t is possible.
OF course, that the person who paid the
money is not an Armour agent, but nobody
will doubt that he was. AS far as known,
there is ne person who has interest enough
in the prosecution of the Armours to go
10 the expense and run the risks of bribins
a man TO make out case against them.
At this moment the Government mas
every reason TO believe that among the
beef rations served to our soldiers was
diseased meat prepared and sold by Ar
mours: that the officials of the Bureau OF
Animal Industry were tricked and the IN
spectors deceived. and that an effort has
been made TO silence the most important
witness Surely that is ground enough for
the beginning of an enquiry.
The evening times., 1899-03-17
An Unnece..ary Scare
(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer

lrToul tHe cleveland ram Dealer
There is many and many a good story told of
the scariness exhibited by people who are in any
way exposed to contagious diseases bur this
smallpox story beats any that l have ever heard
yet.
1t comes from a suburban town, where a
smallpox scare has ragged hercely for some days.
and a young woman is the heroine
She Is popular young woman, and one day the
brother OF one of the victims of the disease
thought that he would like to talk to her.
OF course. call prohibited. but as there
were telephones in both houses he thought he
saw way out of Iris difficulty. and proceeded
forthwith to ring her up.
As it happened, she herself answered the tele-
phone bell, and the accustomed ''Hellos'' were
exchanged But no sooner did she comprehend
just who it that was trying to talk to her
than she forthwith seized with panic and
rang of. The young astonished, nat
urally, but understood few moments later when
his bell rang, and he found the Young woman
ready TO offer explanations and apologies
1t appeared that sie had been frightened at
his voice, but wishiU o. talk to him. had rung
up her family phvse aud consulted him on
the advissbilty 0t Y conversations.
Being by that woe assured that there was
no danger, and tina, shs eculd talk all day with
out having the dreadful germs hop along the
wires and into her ear. she recovered her COM
postre and called mp the young man again, en-
joying the conversation TO the utmost.
The evening times., 1899-03-17
FRIDAY. MARCH. Il, 1899.
Two Jefferson Dinners.

That the feast on Jeffersons Birthday Of
the Democratic Club of New York is not
10 be a national affair is full OF signiG
.cance. 1t is asserted by those VINO know,
that the intention was TO make Of it a
memorable spread. Here were to meet all
the real and pretended Democrats of ma
1ioDal fame in order TO give TO the club an
Importance in the Empire State that could
he used for the benefit of its president or
anybody il might choose TO favor in Demo
cratic conventions. As a feeler, an inyi-
tatiOn was sent TO Mr.. Bryan some time
ago. His reply was a blow 10 the hopes
Of The club. Since Mr.. Bryan insisted on
knowing whether the president OF the con-
oern was really Democrat before accept
ing. il became evident that neither he nor
any of The men who had fought so hard for
the success of the party in the last cleo
lion could be induced TO attend. There
was only one means OF escape from the ex-
posture OF the failure if the club persisted
IN giving the feast This was to announce
hat il was for New York Democrats only
Mr.. o. Ii. r. Belmont gave il all away.
however by resigning from the invitation
tbuhiticc Oh the GFDuHQ llal ne mad eN-
pected il TO be a national Democratic din
ner and could not waste his energies on
merely local politicians.
The significance OF the thing is in the
fact that prominent Democrats outside Of
New York viii not go to the dinner of a
Democratic club that is not known 10 be
loyal to the platform declared by the last
National ConG Gention. Not Mr.. Bryan alone.
but all others who were urged TO be rres-
ent. are evidently resolved not 10 coun-
tenance a professedly Democratic society
whose president is unable 10 say without
hesitation that the principles of the Chi
cago platform are his own. 1t was hoped
that by saying all Democrats, regardless of
their attitude toward that platform. could
celebrate in memory of Thomas jefferson.
and that questions as to the platform could
be left TO the party councils invitations
would be accepted; but ii wouldn't work.
More than this, there are New York
Democrats Of prominence whose absence
would be noteworthy, who feel exactly as
Mr.. BRYAN does-that unless this society
is thoroughly in harmony with the platform
adopted in Chicago they cannot take part
IN its function. If the dollar-a-plate din
ner affair that is announced to take place
on the same memorable day is to be con-
Quoted under the banner of the true De-
mocracy it Will dwarf the BelshaZZarlike
feast of Mr.. Croker's club. which is as it
should be-
The evening times., 1899-03-17
SEEING BREAKERS AHEAD.
Reed and Roosevelt Shadows Loon,
Up at ThOmaSviIe.

Thomasville, Ga. March lT-Senator
Hanna declares that he is not expecting
any more guests at his home here. but
other Republican leaders are coming to
Thomasville he said: oh some of them
may drop in This is the season for visit
ors in ThomasvilIe.'
A package of registered mail addressed
10 Secretary Alger was received here yes
terday afternoon, which is taken to mean
that Mr Alger is 10 join the Hanna PARTY
soon.
Vice President Hobart is amused at the
talk of his being left off the Republican
ticket OF next year. and he is apparently
not worrying about his political future
Those who have discussed politics with
Senator Hanna and Mr. Hobart say that
there Is perfect harmony between the Pres
ldent and Vice President and that the
talk of Mckinley deposing Hobart is idle
The attitude of Speaker Reed and Gov
ernor Roosevelt is giving Mr. Mckinley
and Mr.. Hanna more concern just at this
time than anything else. The Speaker and
the governor are regarded as stumbling
blocks for Mckinley. and il is said here
that the efforts of the Presidents CAM
paign managers will be TO placate Reed
and Roosevelt and demand the nomination
Vi ndFHoHy TICKET consisting or Nc
Kinley and Hobart
The President is almost certain to visit
Jekyll Island as the guest OF the club, and
II is possible that any conference that is
to be held may take place there The
President will possibly go to Jekyll on
Friday of next week to spend one day.
The idea is widespread that there will
be chance meeting of Republican Lead
ers in the South. but no one in authority
will fix time or place for such a meet
ing.
The evening times., 1899-03-17
Feeding Mr.. Reed.
(From the Rseoklyn Eagle }


The dinner to Speakee Reed at a hotel in Man
haitian last night has been duplicated by the
same men at least ones fortnight for six or
eight years at Washington. 1t has been the habit
of these men to have the Speaker as their guest
or for the Speaker to have them as his guests
at terrapin paradise in the Capital City. I'm
der no circumstances could any of the people
present be personally detached from the Speaker,
and several OF them, like Mr.. Bennett, and Mr..
Sherman, and Mr.. Fischer anh Commissioner
buell., could, under circumstances be poiit.
ieally detached from Mr.. Platt Mr.. Belden. who
was the host of the occasion, is a venerable
politician who has retired from public life. He
OWNS big hotel in Manhattan and lives in IT
when he Is not at Syracuse. Presumably as the
owner of hotel in Manhattan he thought II
opportune to bring together a. few men who
have met scores of times in Washington under
similar circumstance The emily trouble was that
he brought them together in borough the jour.
nalism OF which knows less about the personal
relations OF politics and politicians than the
people OF Hades know about the north pole.
Hence simple social gathering was magniaed
into ga great political event."
The evening times., 1899-03-17
How to Judge whisky.
From the Chicago Journal,

FROM the thicago Journal)
One OF the best Judges of whisky in Chicago
is man who never drinks it. He is Cant. ,Jo-
seph E. G. Ryan. formerly of the Seventh.
Captain Ryan is whisky expert He can tell
almost to day the age of any sample submit
ted to him. Give him few drops of whisky,
and lie can tell YOU the brand, the distiller.
where it was n,ade, when. and detect adultera-
tion, ii there is any. Blend two or three kinds
of whisky, and he can tell the blend
And he never tastes it, being strictly temper
ate i'll all his habits.
1t is all told by the smell. Captain Ryan's
nose is a very sensitive organ, and he has train
ed it with the utmost care.
Smelling is by far the most satisfactory meth
cd of testing" he says. IF man has great
deal TO sample, and tastes each kind, he soon
gets so that he cannot distinguish one from the
other. The sense of taste becomes blunted and
he loses all the. fine distinctions
''On the other hand, the more a man uses his
nose the more acute the sense of smell becomes.
and he is Able TO detect the slightest difference
between samples
The evening times., 1899-03-17
Not Obserx.ut

From the Chicago News)
The old man in the shaggy overcoat mentioned
something about Kansas in his talk and the
Bostonian leaned over toward him and asked:
did you say YOU were from Kansas!'
mo; but jest come from there
''Then want to ask you few questions How
times out that wayY'
q Dunno
rs money plenty tight?"
Cant say
but don't you know how the farmers are
feeling?''
mo"
@Is business good bad in the towns?''
q didn't ask anybody
''You-you not observing man." said
the Bostonian.
NO. guess not. I went out to Kansas to
widder l used to know, and to ask her to
marry me- ! got to her house at 5 O'Clock in
the afternoon. | asked her to have me- and she
said she wouldn't, and at $3.50 was on my way
back. didn't see no crops ask about good
times bad. The State of Kansas may be hold
in reg'Iar Fourth Of July over good times,
everybody may be goin' to the poorhouse. All
know about it is that I'm an old fool fur
spendin' $50 to run arter Kansas widder when
l could hey married q New Hampshire gal fur
IL shillin'sv'
The evening times., 1899-03-17
SHIPS HoPELEssLY OVERDUE.
Outward-BOund Vessels From Balti-
more Given Up as Lost.

Baltimore, March 1.-Two vessels, a
British tramp steamer and a Norwegian
sailing ship. bound from Baltimore for for
eign ports. are missing, and have been Civ
en- up as lost. The steamer Is the Oberon.
which left port January %. in command of
Captain Lesley, with about 1900 tons of
general merchandise, for Antwerp She
carried about twenty men. Nothing has
been heard of her since she left port. 1t
is only known that she was out in the
February hurricanes. She registered !, I65
tons.
The sailing ship overdue is the Prince
Edward. an iron vessel. hailing from Chris
tinia. Norway. She left port July 12, with
cargo of coal. for the United States war
ships at Honolulu. She should have made
the voyage within five months. but has
been at sea nine months. The ship carried
about twenty hands. She has been posted
at Lloyds in London as missing. She was
formerly the British steamer Somerset
shire.
Another overdue vessel is the three
masted schooner, James W. Bigelow. She
left Jacksonville, Fla, January .. with
lumber for Providence and is over IA month
overdue She registers 524 tons
The evening times., 1899-03-17
DIED IN A SNoWsToRM.
Discovery of Ofmsted's Body Clears
In Il Mystery

Tarrytown, n. Y, March 1.-THE body
of Miles w. Olmsted has been found in a
heap of snow in Mrs. Worthington Rae's
yard. Olmsted had been missing since De-
cember %. He was the son OF Cyrus and
Emma Olmsted. When a boy he was hit in
the head with stone, which caused him
to be irresponsible at times.
On the evening he was last seen alive a
snowstorm was raging and he started to
walk from Elmsford to ArdsIey at its
height. While two men were walking on
Mrs. Rae's place last night they came
across his stripped body in a snowbank
His clothes were found two hundred feet
away. From appearances he had taken off
his clothing and then lay down to sleep
There We're so many snowstorms this
winter that the body had remained hidden.
Crows. however, had been at work and the
features were scarcely recognizable.
After young 6lmsted disappeared his
mother collapsed from grief and died in a
short time, it is believed of broken heart.
The evening times., 1899-03-17
LIVE STOCK IN BAD SHAPE.
Cattle in Poor Condition shipped for
Chicago.

indianapolis, Ind. March 1.-THE Indi-
ana Live Stock Sanitary Commission met
yesterday, and NJ. s. Claypool, president of
the commission, made report relative to
livestock receipts at Evansville, destined
for the Chicago market which may have
an important bearing on the Miles beef
controversy.
These cattle were forwarded from Green
vile. Ala, and reached Terre Haute where
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
refused 10 receive them. They were sent
back 10 Evansville and turned into the
general stock yards. Some were oxen
which had seen long service under the
yoke, their necks being calloused. Others
had sores disgusting TO the sight
All were poor, old. and tough Several
were over twenty years old, and Claypool
caused photographs to be taken, which
We're forwarded TO General Miles.