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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-11
Short Line
Southern and Best Route
to the East and West.
Dining Cars, Pullman Palace and Tourist
SlceperS Via salt Lake and Denver.

"a LEAVE BUTTE
!" For the East AMI West..
-. FIRST DAY OUT
~ Arrive Ogden, Utah, con-
Meeting with the Union
Pacific. Denver e. Rio
G:ands. and Southern
Pacific.
SECOND DAY OUT
Arrive Denver, Colo,
Queen City OF the West.
SECOND DAY OUT
Arrive Omaha. Neb.
- THIRD DAY OUT
Arrive Chicago. only one
change Of cars from
Butte Eat Ogden).
- SECOND DAY OUT
u" Arrive San Francisco,
eta. A~t,.actOp oar raSorvo tiops
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-11

Mr.. O. NJ. Best, a prominent business
man of this city, is spending a few week
at the Ogden springs for he benefit o
his health.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-11

The last dance Of the season will be Civ
en- by Prof. Shilling at h Dart Opere
house, Friday evening, May IL. Music b,
the Dillon orchestra Admission, gentle
men 81 100.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-11
DILLON N VS..
(The Inter Mountain will contain all To-
cal News OF Dillon, delivered prompt
~ to subscribers on Arrival
of Evening Train.)

oA AAlS
~ to Subscribers N Arrival
of Evening Train.)
;. The ladies Of st. James church are maxi
ing preparation for an Ice cream n
strawberry festival, to be given at the st.
restaurant Friday evening, May IL,
at $3.50 O'Clock. Strawberries and cream
rs cents.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. ].
Mulany died yesterday morning. after a
long illness and was buried today, at 2
o'clock from the Catholic church.
Mrs. Lawrence Sellstrom and c hildren,
who have been visiting in Lima for the
past two weeks, returned HON Tuesday y.
Miss Pearl Pace was called to Lima
Tuesday evening by a telegram announc-
ing the serious illness of the infant child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Garrison.
A number of buildings have been NOV
ed. and a gang of men are grading for the
much needed side track which is to be put
in at the north end of town. by the Ore
gon Short Line railroad company.
The normal class Of 80 have met and
organized with a membership Of eleven.
this being the first number to graduate
from the Montana State Normal under
the organization of a class.
The infant child of Mr.. II Mrs. Stoll
died yesterday morning at their nome a
few miles out of the city and was buried
todava at 2 o'clock at Argenta.
Arbor day was observed in an appro-
pirate manner by the children of the nil.
Ion public school. Several of the classes
went picnicing while the rest observed
the day with planting trees.
Mr.. o. M. Best, a prominent business
man of this city, is spending a few weeks
at the Ogden springs for the benefit OF
his health.
The last dance of the season will be CIV
! en- by Prof. Shilling at the Dart Opera
house, Friday evening, May IL, Music by
the Dillon orchestra Admission, gentle
men 81 90.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

n mass Of testimony not TO be brushed
aside. II is possible that the war de-
partment was imposed upon by the
meat contractors but it is not sup
possible that all these officers and men,
constituting the brains of the de-
cisive military campaign of the war,
are concertcdly lying. Neither Is II
Miles fault that the meat was poor.
Cunning for his scalp will not strike
at the root OF the trouble.
OF course the president regrets keen
ly as do all his friends these outcrop-
pings of scandal and ill-feeling in the
military service. The public has its
own ideas as to the responsible cause
OF the major part of this friction; but
regardless of any personal prejudices
here is a matter calling for thorough
investigation. Alger, Miles, Mckinley,
congress and everybody else ought to
be Of one mind as to the need of going
to the bottom of this beef scandal and
determining beyond any question who
the guilty persons are.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03
Election Contests.

The bill Of Senator Vaughn bearing
on election contests is received with
favor by the press of the state. 1t
represents an admitted necessity in
legislation.
It provides, as our readers will re-
CALL that witnesses in contests whose
votes are shown to be illegal shall re-
ceive no fees or mileage, and it speci-
fies that in contested elections of presi-
dent or additional law judges and of
county, borough township, municipal
officers or school directors or school
controllers, if the contestant or con-
testants fail to establish his or their
right to the office to which he or they
claimed to have been elected, the petit
TONERS and each and every one of them
shall be Jointly and severaly liable
for all the costs and the same may
be collected as debts of like amount
are by law collectable, or payment
therefore may be enforced by attach
ment. ThiG provision has been objected
to on the ground that contest might
be begun in good faith and yet end in
failure; but even so the petitioners
should pay the costs. Their mistaken
good faith should not be charged upon
the public
No law can he framed with reference
to contests which might not in some
rare case work conceivable hardship;
hut the aim Of legislation should be
the greatest good for the greatest
number, and this principle is the basis
of the public's cry for relief from
speculative election contests. 1t is safe
and just to lay down the rule that q
defeated candidate who contests and is
beaten should, either personally ol
through his indorscrs, bear the expense
of his failure TO win. To ask the COM
munity to bear 1t is to put d premium
on contest speculation and to invite
continuous annoyance and expense
No county in the state knows this bet
ter than Lackawanna.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03
The business Outlook in Cuba.

Uncle Sam has not been in control Of
cuba for more than a month, and in
that time many veXing problems have
arisen to create disturbance on the sur
face OF affairs, yet the information at
hand tells of a very perceptible i'm
provement in the business conditions
Of the island, and of course this is only
the beginning. Charles NJ. Pepper, per-
haps the best qualified of the Ameri-
can correspondents now in Cuba, de-
votes q recent letter to this subject
and gives report which, while not
overdrawn, is certainly cheering.
Mr.. Pepper sees no portents of
boom in the American sense; the pow
erty of the masses of the people, the
consumers, forbids this until such time
as normal conditions re-appear. Meth
er are there large fortunes to be
picked up by strolling Americans off
hand. Business customs in Cuba are
exceedingly conservative. Business is
on a cash basis: proprietors of stores
pay cash when buying stocks and eX-
pect to receive it when making sales.
Moreover, there is little or no cutting
of prices: when a merchant cannot see
profit there is no sale. 1t will, in
Mr.. Peppers judgment, take time to
change these customs and until they
are changed Americans striving to do
business in Cuba must be willing to
conform to some extent to native ways.
Yet despite these drawbacks he finds
that a great deal more attention is now
being paid by the people of Cuba, the
| better classes, to business problems
| than was true three months ago, and
| correspondinSly less to politics. Bright
Cubans are looking about for trade or
| investment opportunities, and this sign
| impresses Mr.. Pepper favorably. He
| discovers, also, that a good field is
| open to American bankers who are
| willing to loan money on crop mort
| cages and be content with an average
interest rate of or per cent, as
| against 10 to 20 per cent. charged by
| Spanish bankers prior to the revolu-
| ton.
With the disbandment of the insur-
gent troops capital is expected to be
released in unusual abundance, and
prohigate nature, plus a little work,
will do the rest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03
It Must Be Probed.

1t is announced In a number of news
papers close to the administration that
the president is being urged by Secre-
tary Alger to discipline General Miles
for making public evidence bearing on
the unfitness of the prepared meats
supplied last summer to the army The
discipline sought is trial by court mar
tial. 1t is also said that the enemies
OF Miles want the president to remove
him from the command Of the army.
What truth there is in these reports
we do not know. If Miles has broken
any military rules he should not be
more exempt from punishment than
any other soldier, for discipline is fully
as essential among generals as among
subordinates.
But If his offense consists simply in
making public important information
which his opponents We're trying to
conceal, the president will be likely
to pay little heed TO their requests.
On the face of the case the man "a
discipline is not Nelson a. Miles but
the person, whoever he may be, re-
sponslble for trying to feed the army
on unfit beef. Miles has published
reports from thirty different officers
and over eighty civilians which sus-
tain his assertions as to the unsavory
character OF this meat These reports
represent, we believe, every regiment
and almost every company at Santiago
and in Porto Rico, and they constitute
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

A conservative estimate places the
cost of the senatorial deadlock at Har-
risburg to the principals alone for ho-
a day, not to mention the thousand
and one extras" which contribute TO
the excitement of politics. The cost TO
the state has not been estimated but 1t
is VIGOROUSLY heavy. It is a big price
to pay for John WanamaEers vindic-
tiVpnpsS
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03
A War for the Extension of Civilizt
tion,

A War for the Extension of Civiliza-
tion.
1.-THE more closely We subject the
matter to analysis, the more closely we
perceive that we have been waging a
war not of conquest, but of civilization.
There are two ways of neutralizing its
normal results and of repudiating it's
animating principles. One of these is
to employ the methods which we have
succeeded in destroying; the other is
to drop the whole enterprise in it's state
of incompletion and to confess our err
ror in having undertaken it. Equally
with the so-called imperialists'-if any
really exist-the 'anti-imperialists' Of
fend the principles upon which the
United States has thus far acted. That
principle has been expressed as the
right and duty Of our government in
the name of humanity, in the name of
civilization to enforce the end Of strife
and to secure rule of justice.
ITO abandon in critical moment the
populations emancipated from the sover-
eighty of Spain may seem more re-
spectacle than to exploit them; but
neither the one nor the other is in har-
mony with the conception of national
duty which inspired the prosecution Of
the war. There are only three possible
positions to be taken upon the ques-
tion of our proper relation to the late
colonies Of Spain; Q) That Spain had
right to exploit them, and. since
hDNn nAfaatal
succeeded to that right; C2) that Spain
was wrong in the treatment of her col
onies, but that we had no right to inter-
/ ferei and, go that Spain was wrong to
an extent that justified our interfer-
ence and our substitution of a better
order. Those who accept the last pos
! ition must admit that our duty has not
been fully performed until we have
! substituted a better order than we
/ found-in truth, the best order that we
| are able to secure.
! Having invoked humanity and
! civilization as the watch words of the
! war, they now clearly prescribe our
/ task in imposing peace. The current
course Of events has been described
by its enemies as imperialism and by
/ its friends as expansion but neither
Of these terms quite accurately meets
the case. The purpose OF our govern
ment has not been the subjection OF
foreign people for the sake Of empire
nor the enlargement Of our territorial
limits for the sake Of expansion. Both
of these words imperfectly express the
situation, and, thus far at least, are moi
true to history. A more fitting phrase
to designate the aims and achievements
OF the nation is, perhaps, the extension
of civilization; for it expresses the mo,
tive and controlling principle Of tho
war and of the treaty by which, wheI
ratified, it is TO be concluded. ."-Assis
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03
Bright Republican Prospects.

In notable contrast with the turbu-
lcnce which characterized the recent
Democratic city convention and which
has left sores impossible to he healed,
the situation on the Republican side
was and is serene. The primaries Of
fcred an open chance and their result
has been oheerfully acqulesced in.
The ticket nominated under the Craw-
ford county system by good luck hap
pens to be well distributed geographic
,ally and evenly apportioned in other
respects. It is well calculated to poll
the party strength and make inroads
on the enemy.
Captain Moir for mayor has been for
many years before the people in the
capacity of councilman and his Of
ficial record is opCn for examination.
Thomas r. Brooks for city treasurer Is
a popular representative Of the younger
element Of the party. a thorough busi-
ness man ard StaunCh good fellow
whom the Democrats cannot hope to
beat Fred j. Widmayer for controller
needs no introduction to Scrantonians
AFTER ms lfSl rate HulllllhStTdtlon VI
that office from 1898 to 1896. Morris
ana Shires for school directors are eH-
perienCed ana trustworthy students Of
school problems and their Republican
ism is beyond challenge. Jones, Rims
land and Fowler for assessors are a
trio measuring up TO every require
mcnt and their election is assured
Tho ticket as 2 whole is greatly aided
by the general consciousness that
Scranton has been under Democratic
control long enough. 1t matters not
who were responsible for foisting the
present malodorous administration
upon the city, the thing to do now is
TO correct the misfortune as quickly
and as thoroughly as possible.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

The Federated Womens clubs Of
Pekin, H., have adopted resolutions
asking the legislatures to suppress the
use of pictures of women as advertise
ments. The resolutions are directed
more particularly to the manufactur-
ers of cigarettes, liquor dealers, and
advertisers of the class that intro
duce high art in calling the attention
of the public to their wares. No OBJ
lection seems to have been made to
the faces of women who have been
cured by the various patent medicines
In most instances the society probably
believes these portraits incapable of
exciting other interest than that of
speculation as to what the subject
must have been before taking"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

General Miles continues to insist that
certain Chicago meat packers have
discovered the principal lost art of the
ancient Egyptians. The manner in
which the general has met all efforts
at bluff on part of the embalmers Is
another proof of excellent generalship
in providing an ample supply of am
munition before going into a fight.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

Mayor-JAMES MOIR.
Treasurer-THOMAS II. BROOKS.
Controller-F. ]. WIDMAYER.
School Directors 49, JOHN COURIER
MORRIS. GEORGE II. SHIRES.
Assessors-GW1LYM JONES. PHILIP
RINSLAND, G. S. FOWLER.
Election Day-FebruaTy Il.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast: 416 a. m, for Friday,
February g. 1899.
IL 6 E1

" ~
child born on this day will notice
that many persons experience the great
est difficulty in preventing the moss from
collecting upon proud ancestral name.
When the boys of the Thirteenth re-
turn there is no question that all will
join in the chorus indicating that there'll
be thermal temperature in the ancient
municipality this evening""
1t begins to look as though many
of the coming mem at Harrisburg had
engaged passage on the slow freight
Bllssful ignorance is often better than
the knowledge that prompts one to at
tempt brush whiskers from the moving
buzZ-saw.
Time can be more prolltably spent in a
graveyard vault than in the society of a
man who has lost faith in woman.
Ajacchus' Advice
DO not waste time setting woodchuck
traps during the coming six weeks.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

Henri Watterson is not at all dis
couraged by the little drawbacks en-
countered in his effort to boom Ad-
miral Dewey as the Democratic candi-
date for president He proposes, if
Admiral Dewey will not join the Dem
ocracy, that the Democracy shall join
Dewey.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

The Democratic senators who think
opposition TO the peace treaty is good
politics will discover their mistake
when too late.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

The case of Mrs. Nermule, the fair
Phlladelphian who has recently gained
notoriety in New York courts, reads
like modern paper-bound romance
turned wrong end on. Mrs. Vermule
when a maiden of &c soorned the suit of
a rich man who had been selected by
her mother as a husband for her, and
ran away with pennlless Romeo who
had the bearing of the sad young man
who rescues the heroine of ten-cent
drama from the villain who is about
to foreclose the mortgage on her faith
ers farm. The young husband did not
prove to be prince In disguise. In
fact he had no relatives connected with
any Of the important trusts in this or
any other country. After brief we'd
ded existence the husband has disap-
peared and the wife, known as Mrs.
Nermule, is in Jail for swlndling. This
Is romance in real life that senti-
mental girls will do well to study.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

The boss OF the repair department in Massachusetts
watch factory says Il used to be good deal Of ath
lee and was in the habit Of taking lots of out of door
exercise but since I've been shut up in this shop began
to have terrible bilious headaches. still did Joy
occasional bout boxing but after few lively rounds
tendency to get sick as can be to take
sion of me- The exercise appeared to struP the bile
the day would have cracking good headache,
druggist recommended to try Ripans Tabues
possible He said they seemed to be the latest
all for stomach troubles. Well, he just hit it. have
used more than IS cents worth, but exercise
much please and don't knowwhat bilious headache
means any more"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

When the president dealt with Cen
eral Gomz directly through an author
lid agent an understanding on disputed
points was reached easily and immedi-
ately. Ii should be lesson.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

duced much mischief have already m
jured the United states in the eyes OF
the world, and II successful in prevents
ing ratification next Monday would do
an amount OF harm to our standing as
nation, TO our relations with other pow
ers, to the people of the philippine ISL
ands, and to our vast 1ourlshing business
interests, which IT, would be hard to es-
innate or measure.
o
The senate Of the United States is the
most powerful single chamber In any
representative government in the world.
It's adjustment Is the only thing In the
constitution which cannot be changed ex-
cept with the assent of every state.
Amendments may come and go, but they
cannot change the representation OF the
states In the senate. Nothing but a COM
pete revolution can touch that great pro-
vision. The combination of legislative
and executive powers carries the author
tty of the senate into every branch or
the government and by the mistakes and
shortsightedness of the house of repre-
sentatives the legislative powers OF the
senate have increased and multiplied.
Foremost among the great powers con-
ferred upon the senate is that which
associates it with the executive in the
making OF treaties. with the memory of
days when the influence of French minis
ters was felt strongly, and, perhaps, cor
ruptly, in the continental congress fresh
In their minds, the trainers of the con-
stltuttOn made two-thirdS vote OF the
senate necessary to the ratification of a
treaty. Uppermost in the thoughts of
men whose politics had been part of those
or Europe was the desire to guard as
strenuously as possible against the peril
of entangling alliances and dishonorlng
agreements brought about by foreign In
fluence and foreign corruption. To us
such reasoning seems impossible. In 1887
1t was real and valid But in this effort
to protect the United States from foreign
intrigue the trainers of the constitution
involved themselves in a strange con-
tradiCtion. They gave to a majority of
congress the power to declare war, and
they enabled one-third of the senate to
prevent peace and continue a war once
entered upon. 1t probably never oc-
CURED to the trainers of the constitution
that one-third of any senate could ever
be found to refuse to ratify treaty of
peace in opposition TO the wishes of the
country, of the president, and of the ma
jority of both houses. Such proposition
would have been deemed by them too
monstrous and too fantastic to be con-
sidered as a serious objection to the pur-
poses they were seeking to carry out.
| They would rot have believed, IL the idea
had been suggested to them, that such
an abuse of the treatymaking power OF
the senate could ever be attempted; yet
| the wisest of men cannot foresee every
| possibility Of human nature, and 1t Is
| that very abuse of the treaty-making
| power of the senate which menaces the
| country today.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03

Cuban soldiers evidently do not be-
lieve in cheap labor.