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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
JONES As 4 JONAS.

Only a few short months ago the mayor
few things to the history Of our times
under the name of Jones, was %applauded
by the democratic press as a we'll defined
spark from the fire of genius-a man
whose future was being i%ncubated by
political friction and whose name was
about to the time-honored
process Of laundering down the ages.
Jones was a man who could be elected
mayor of Toledo without reference to the
machinery of political parties, and he
had a way of saying things about the re-
publicans that tickled the democrats
nightly, and they foresaw a" brilliant
future for a man who could do that and
still be mayor Of Toledo. @ 5#
But a change has been wrought in the
fabric of their dreams. Jones has come
out as an Independent candidate for the
governorship of Ohio. With the exceD-
ton Of the money question, he represents
the Fundamental principles Of pobulism
n will cut deeply into the strength. Of
the democracy of that state. 1t is in the
plans of the democratic party Of Ohio to
nominate John r. Mclean, a bloated
monopolist and millionaire, for governor,
and then make a vigorous fight against
monopolies, combines of capital, and
everything else which their standard
bearer stands for. In this way the demo-
cratic leaders hope to lay the founda-
tons for McLean's nomination for the
vice-presidency next year. But Jones
the immutable, omnipresent, irrepressi-
BILE ~Jones-steps into the ring with his
hook baited for a~nti-monopoly votes, and
the democrats are in a state Of political
bewilderment.
Every argument made by the democ-
racy in support of the platform they in
tended to adopt will help Jones, for Jones
is supposed to be honest, though rich,
and in that respect will fit the fine pro-
LESSONS of a platform much better than
John Mclean, who is a schemer in both
politics and finance from away back
The earnestness with which the latter
seeks the nomination arouses a well-de-
fined suspicion that he is playing for
next years developments, and the in
trusion of Jones. who is likely to receive
every vote which the democracy can sue
coed in DETECTING from the republican
party, falls like a wet blanket upon JEFF
fersonian hopes. In the meantime the
republicans are all in line and working
hand in hand for victory. and unless
some unforeseen contingency arises their
success at the polls seems certain.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
Second Judicial District of the State of
Montana, in II for Silver Bow County.
In the matter of the estate of p. A.
Largey, deceased.
w. F. Cobban having filed his petition
herein praying for an order authorizing
and directing Lulu F.. Largely, as admin
istratrix of the estate of said deceased,
to execute and deliver a deed of convey
ance under a certain agreement hereto
fore executed by order of this court for
the sale of certain real estate of said de-
cedent for the purposes therein set forth.
1t is therefore ordered by the judge of
said court that all persons interested in
the estate of said deceased appear be-
fore the said district court on Saturday,
the 23d day of September, A. d. 1899, at 2
o'clock p. m. of said day, at the court
room of said district court, at the court
house in the said county of Silver Bow,
to show cause why an order should not
be made granting said petitioner the re-
lief prayed for in said petition, together
with such other and further order in the
premises as shall be necessary.
1t is further ordered that a copy Of this
order be published at least four successive
weeks in the Inter Mountain, a newspa-
per printed and published in the said
county of Silver Bow, at least once in
each week, and that a copy of this order
be served upon Lulu f. Largely, admins
tratrix of the estate of said u. A. Largely.
deceased, at least 80 days before the said
day of hearing.
Dated this 10Th day of August. A. D.
1899.
WILLIAM CLANCY.
District Judge.
C. D.. TILLINGHAST,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
MISCELLANEOUS,
M~ASTODON'S SKELETON

New York Special to Chicago Tribune:
The Skeleton of a mastodon has been
found on the farm of Frederick w.
Schaefer. about a mile and q half west
OF NeWburgh. Workmen digging a
trench first unearthed a rib 40 inches in
length. A search for the remainder of
the skeleton was then begun. A portion
OF the vertebrate found measures 10
inches in diameter. The jaw bone which
is almost intact, at the base measures %
inches n is 81 inches long by 4 in diam
eter. Toward the point Of the jaw are
two smaller teeth, one of which was re-
moved and weighs two pounds and four
ounces. The tusks are 25 inches in diam
eter, and eight feet long.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
FR0M THE EASTERN PRESS.

1t is amusing to see the democratic
newspapers of Montana going to the
press of New England for their argu-
ments as to The "unpopularity'' of the
wal in the Philippines. Most of the oppo-
sition to American occupancy of the
Philippines originated in New England.
The leading minds of that section are not
blind to the fact that the policy of expan-
sion will inevitably lead to the growth of
on the Pacific ocean until a
point is reached in the International
trade of the country when our western
coast line will rival the present import
ance of our Atlantic shores.
With the commercial and Industrial ac-
tivity Of the west, growing out of the poll
icy Of expansion. will come an increase
in our population that will make us polit-
ically independent of the east. The New
Englander foresees a loss of political.
commercial, Industrial and financial pres
tige in his dealings with the great west.
He realizes that the time is ~con.i1&.
under the new order of things, VIII
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28

Ostensibly their regrets are based on the
fear that a policy OF assassination may
prove inimical to the interests of the
country, but, as a matter of fact, did
safety of the Filipino leader would give
them great u~neasiness.
While it is in keeping with the plans
and purposes Of the copperhead move
ment in this country to impute all man.
ner Of s%candalous designs to the admin
istration, every intelligent citizen knows
that his government never has given its
approval to the assassination of a foe,
/ and never will adopt such a repugnant
policy in the treatment of an enemy. A
political party hat was ~magnanimous
| enough, when in control Of all branches
the confederate leaders and permit the
copperheads of the civil val to live in
peace, is not going to reverse it's history
Of humanity and mercy by employing
assassins to hun down democracy's field
agent in the Philippines.
The imputation that the president
would resort to such ar extreme in deal
ing with Aguinaldo is an insult to the
American people, and apprehension has
answer before the bar of public opinion.
From the inception of the wal in the
Philippines the democratic press have
teemed with alleged acts of cruelty on
the part of the federal troops, and lurid
tales of wanton murder, afterwards
found to be wholly false, were rehashed
with great gusto by our Jeffersonian
contemporaries. At the same time re-
ports of treachery and barbarous treat
ment of prisoners. on the part of the Fill
pfnos. We're discredited by democratic
newspapers. Aguinaldo was given the
benefit of every doubt, while the officers
in command of the federal troops We're
not.
The spirit manifested by the so-called
anti-imperialists in this country is as
ugly and vicious as that shown by their
prototypes in the long ago. when the
union of the states was in issue and a
divided country among the possibilities
of the day. These men are making the
mistake of their lives, and they will dis
cover when they go before the people
with scandal upon their tongues and dis
loyalty in their hearts tina the fires of
patriotism are burning brightly upon the
political battlefields of the nation, and
that Old Glory has not lost her lustre in
the vicissitudes of war.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
ANTI MPER!ALiS7Ic HLSEHOODS.

The democratic newspapers are again
holding up their hands in holy horror.
They have heard-or claim to have heard,
which answers every purpose SO far as
they are concerned-that the president of
one to assassinate Aguinaldo. Having
invented this precious tale, they deplore
the murderous tendency of the chief ex-
eeutive and express the hope that the
sumor may prove to be unfounded:
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
west will be emancpated from the east,

west will be emancipated from the east
and when laws favorable to the develop
ment of western resources can be enacted
in the halls Of congress. Irrigation of
the arid lands. the mining Of silver, the
utilization of waterways in manufac-
turing enterprises, and a thousand and
one advantages which can now be only
dreamed Of will in time become possible
under beneficient laws due to the growth
in population which the policy of expan-
sion will give to the west.
Little wonder that the Boston Herald
and other New England newspapers look
upon the war as unpopular. From the
days when the country lying west of the
Mississippi river was a bowling wilder
ness New England influences have fought
the development Of the west. They have
placed every possible barrier in the way
Of a movement that promised to trans
fer the center of population toward the
setting sun and correspondingly weaken
their hold upon the legislative forces, of
the nation.
Expansion is doing for the west what
the ordinary purse of events would not
AVE brought about in a century of prog
resist is laying the foundations for a
growth in population that will make it
the dominant factor in the affairs of the
nation. In the end. all parts of the
country will profit from the progressive
trend Of affairs, the east as well as the
west, but New England shrinks from the
likelihood that its political sovereignty
is about to be merged into the universal
welfare of the nation. A great deal will
be heard from that quarter in the near
future in protest of American occupancy
of the Philippines.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
A QUESTION or FACT.

In referring to the silver question his
the following statements:
The specious pretext for getting back
into the goldbug fold put forth by some
of the sO-called silver-republican news
papers of the state, that the democratic
party has abandoned the silver issue, has
received occasional attention at the
hands of the Standard. The plea never
had a shadow of foundation, no intelli-
gent man ever seriously believed that it
had. and it's fallacious character has been
completely exposed both by the logic of
argument and the logic of events.
With all of the foregoing the Inter
Mountain takes issue. The assumption
that the position taken by the silver re-
publicans is a "specious pretext" is alb
solutely false-their arguments as to the
retreat of the democracy from the free
coinage issue of 1896 are absolutely true.
The unsupported statement of the Stand
ard that such arguments are fallacious
in character amounts to nothing in de-
fault of any evidence to that effect-its
| declaration that they have been 'com-
pletely exposed is untrue.
The Standard itself has gone on record
in favor of the position taken by the
gold men that the ratio of value between
silver and gold should be regulated by
the worlds exchanges-a position that
destroys the free coinage ratio and
makes free coinage an impossibility. The
Standard is the leading democratic news
paper in thiss state, with the exception of
the Butte Miner-it is the accredited
political exponent of democratic doc
trines as practiced and understood i IN
Northumberland no democratic organ has
taken issue with the orthodoxy of it's
ratio.
Knowing that free coinage is impossi-
BILE without an established ratio, and that
no ratio can be established with values
regulated by the worlds exchanges, the
Standard has the immaculate gall to as
sert that it is in favor of silver" What
does 1t mean Dy DelnS IN IaEOr OF silver
, and not being in favor of the free coin
age of silver and gold at the ratio of 16
to /, by the Independent action of this
nation? The silver republicans are quite
willing to be governed by 1.-THE logic of
argument and the logic of events" and
are willing to offer the Standard itself in
evidence of the rectitude of the position
they have taken relative to the hypoc-
risy Of the democratic leadership on the
silver question.
| Not only have the democratic leaders
in Montana triled with the free coinage
! issue, and done all within their power to
discredit the movement, while protesting
to be it's friend, but they have done
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
PACKING HOUSES.

New York Tribune: While it NAV he
true. as all the parties in interest protest.
that no combination of meat packing
concerns for the purpose of doing away
with competition is. intended, but only
that an agreement that settlements must
be made weekly (the so-called seven-day
rule) has been entered into. the first
move, to the creation of a trust is about
to be made. The price. of meats Of all
kinds is at once to be advanced to the
consumer, n the reader of this article
will probably within the coming week
be called upon to pay at least two cents
a pound more for all that he or she NAV
consume. There is a scarcity of cattle in
the west and at the same time there is
an increased demand. it is said.
1t may be of interest to take a passaep
glance at the processes by which steers.
pigs n lambs are converted into fit
product for immediate consumption. The
principal distributing center in this coun-
try is Chicago, where the stock yards oc-
cupy over a squar mile of the city's
ground. Through these yards, the records
show, in q calendar year 1852, 1876 cattle,
3,6O6, 404 sheep and $500, sos hogs have
passed. So rigid is the government in
spection that no animal not sound in
health is received.
The procedure in one great packing
house is the. procedure in all, and in one
of the largest the bullocks are slaugh-
tered at the rate of a hundr an hour,
an interval of only 40 minutes elapsing
between the death blow and the ranging
of the sides in the refrigerating rooms.
One rkm cleaves the backbone
lengthwise: another cuts off the tail,
while others still clean the carcass with
brushes and hot water. The bullocks'
sides are then hung on hooks, each de-
pending from it's own wheel, which slides
easily along the overhead rail. The sides,
so hanging, weigh 81 per cent. of the steer
on the hoOf. After they have hung As
hours loading time arrives, and with it
the necessity of cutting the beef accord
ing to it's destination. At the car doors
the cutters. with long knives, wait, and
| with unerring stroke divide the sides
into quarters as the destination calls for
Boston, three ribs; New York, one rib,
etc.
The hogs meet their death at the rate
of 100 an nou-. Suspended from a sliding
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
MY BUSINESS

Is to save you money on groceries. but
has any one told you how cheap I sell
other goods?
l BOCLle Ink .............s s'...... s.... nc
2 Packages of Envelopes ............... SC
/ Dozen Lead Pencils ,1Oc
l COuee Mill ......'....... ..............5Oc
/ Lunch Basket ............... .........1 5c
y Dozen Clothes Pins ................ csc
/ Clothes Line ............ ............1O c
/ Large Granite Wash Basin .......,,2 CSC
Crimp Bottom Lamp Chimneys ........ Sc
Chamber Pals ............. ........... CSC
1 Bottle Sewing Machine Oil ...........1O
Splendid Gil Cans Il gall Csc
Is No. S Copper Bottom Boilers, eacn. .S5c
/ 12-Quart Tin Pail .............. ...... Csc
/ Kitchen Saw, best .4Oc
] Kitchen Cleaver, best steel 35c
&c Boxes Matches ,25c
2 Boxes Shoe Backing ............... Sc
: uhACiS, ............ &c
1 Scale. weighs up to SO pounds .25c
l Pair Porpoise Shoe acers......,,.. &c
6 Packages Washing Powder ..........25
l Mop Stick ............ ............ ....I5c
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
STONE

A lifeboat made of pumice stone ha.
been tested. 1t continued to float will
a load even when full of water.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-28
THOSE DRUG STORE LIGHTS.

The Moors of Arabia and Spain were
the first to display colored globes in
chemists windows.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-15
CAPTAIN GRAHAM Is
ENTIRELY INDICATED
HE is ADMITTED TO BE AN
IDEAL SON-IN- LAW.
Acquitted of ths Charge of Attempt
ing to Parboil His Aged
Mother-in-Law.

ALAMEDA, July A.-Captain Daniel
Graham, who has been made famous from
Siskiyou to San Diego as the only man
on record who had nerve enough to defy
his 1nother-n-law, has been vindicated.
The charge of parboiling the old lady,
which has been hanging over the aged
captains head for some weeks, has been
swept away and he has been purged of
any such heinous offense. This morning
Captain Graham was martyr; this even
ing he is a hero. He is more-he has been
elevated to the high plane of being a
perfect son-in-law.
All this decided change in the trend Of
affairs was brought about by Mrs. Mar
garet Wall, the mother-in-law, who told
Judge st. Sure when she applied for a
warrant, that she had been parboiled by
the captain and subjected to the further
indiglity Of being drenched by a well
directed stream from the garden hose.
The captains trial took place this morn
ing before Recorder st. Sure and jury.
Many celebrities occupied the jury box.
Edward Bell, who has gained worldwide
fame as the being from whom sprung a
luxuriant crop Of purple whiskers, was
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-15
WORKING ON TRANSPORTS.
Boiler-Makers Are Compelled t.
Work for the Government on
Overtime

The attention of the Labor Council was
called to the complaint of the boilermak-
ers who are employed by the United
States Government on the army trans
ports in this port, the allegations being
that the men are forced to work nine
hours day. A communication has been
forwarded to the authorities in Washing
ton setting forth this infringement.
The following delegates were seated:
Cigarmakers, Fred Westcott, J. Gassner
and Phil Davis; boilermakers, j. j. Ryan
eabinetmakers, 1; n. VezIno, Frank
mixers, l.. Butschger.
A committee consisting of o. NJ. Rob
erts, j. w. Lamott and W. Gon were ap-
pointed to aid the ironworkers in their
are being. sent into this city.
The following names were placed in
nomination for the variUUs offices In the
Council. The election will take place at
the next meeting:
President. Fred Westcott, A. Dugan. J. w.
Lamott; vice presidents. E. L. Clapp P. ].
Deitz; recording secretary. Ed Rosenberg;
financial secretary c. H. Park; treasurer.
executive committee, w H. Goff, Phil Davis,
F. E. Eggleston, Ed Rosenberg. August Item.
J. F. McAuliff. A: Koenig; organizing com
mittee, A. r. Andree, Henry Meyer, W. H.
islative, W. ]. Macarthur, j. r. McAuliff. C.
H. Parker. ]. K. Phillips. Charles Schubert
and J. Gassler' trustees. P ] Deitz. H. Meyer.
Phil Brown and W. ]. Macarthur.
It was reported that the first-class ship
joiners at Mare Island navy yard had re-
ceived a cut of "a cents day in their
wages.
Complaint was made of the shipping of
two landsmen on the steamer south Coast
schooner Vance against their will. The
matter will be investigated by the Sail
ors' Union.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-15
ANITA BYRNE WAS INSANE.
Coroner's Jury Says She Was Tempo
rarily Deranged When She
Killed Herself

The Coroner's jury yesterday returned
verdict to the effect that Anita Byrne
committed suicide while temporarily in
sane. Several witnesses were examined
during the day and the drift of their tes-
timony was to the effect that the mental
afflicton of the deceased was caused
chiefly by domestic worries, and not by
the rigors of the cast-iron rules under
which she worked as an operator in the
office of the telephone company.
Frank Seavers testified that the state
ment made by Mrs. F. L. Perkins, that he
and Miss Byrne had frequently reported
for duty at the Sutter street office of the
company in an intoxicated condition was
false, and that he had procured the dis
charge of Mrs. Perkins for violating the
rules of the office. Acting Superintendent
B. F. Lehigh and State Labor Commits
sioner Fitzgerald testified as to the treat
ment of its employees by the telephone
company, and Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Byrne,
the parents of the young woman testified
that she had worried considerably over
the illness of her sister.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-15
RISKED HIS LIFE TO
SAVE A DROWNING BOY

OAKLAND, July 1.-John Simpson, a
lumberman whose sixty-five years of
active life have left him gray-haired and
bent performed an act of heroism yes
terday that would do credit to one many
years his junior. Willie Miller, a 10-year-
old BOY residing on Fourth street, while
street, lost his balance and fell into the
estuary.
His screams for help attracted Simp-
else in the vicinity TO rescue the drowning
boy the aged lumberman leaped into the
water, reaching the boy just as he was
succeeded in landing the lad safely and
was ,oudly cheered by the throng that
had gathered at the wharf. The lumber
from drowning.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-15
SONS OF VETERANS
MUSTER IN LADIES
ORGANIZATION OF A NEW Lo-
CAL MILITARY SOCIETY.
The Wives and Daughters of United
States Veterans Band Together
for Friendship, Loyalty
and Charity.

Last Tuesday evening new society was
organized in this city in Red Mems build
ng on Post street. It is to be known as
Aid No 8 of the Ladies' Aid Society, an
organization which is quite large in the
East The organization is the official
auxiliary of the Sons Of Veterans and is
composed OF wives and daughters of vet
Grams. 1t is strictly patriotic organiza-
ton, with principles and objects similar
10 those Of the Sons of Veterans. The
aew aid was mustered in by the officers
Of Fair Oaks Camp No. 15, and is the
third in the State of California No.
being at Los Angeles and No. 2 at Pasa-
lena. The society in this city was insti-
iUted with thirty members, but the char
Ter was not closed, as 1t is expected that
1t the next meeting twenty-five more will
be mustered in. The mastering officer
was Captain Frank r. Handley, detailed
Tor that purpose by Mrs. E. H. P. Davis
Of Washington D.. c., the national preSi-
dent. He conducted the ceremony in a
most satisfactory manner, making i'm
pressive the lessons of friendship, loyalty
and charity.
In recognition of services rendered in the
organization of the aid, Mrs; Laura j.
president The other officers are Miss
Lillian NJ. Hembrie, president; Mrs: Julia
Duhem. vice president; Miss Lou watson
Jecretary; Miss Lulu Ellis, treasurer; Mrs.
Laura Z. George, chaplain; Miss Mae
Dunn, right guide; Miss Anna Watson,
eft guide; Miss Emma Boltz, sentinel;
and Mrs. D. B. Plymire, trustees. Mrs;
Hembrie, the president, is well qualified
or her new position, having been presi-
lent Of her college fraternity and of sew
sral literary societies. Many Of the mem
oers for a year or more maintained an
organization in this city called the Ladies
If Fair Oaks, and had charge of the social
functions of the Sons Of Veterans in this
jurisdiction.
The mastering in was witnessed by
about forty of the Sons of Veterans, the
Division of California being represented
2y Harry T. Moore, division commander;
". z. Lawrence, quartermaster, and
-ouncilmen A. Weinert and w. E. Bart
EFT.
Past Captain Frank r. Handley of the
Sons of Veterans, Fair Oaks Camp, has
been appointed aid-de-camp on the staff
If the COMMUNICATIVE chief and assigned
o duty in connection with recruiting and
This is the first time that q member Of