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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21
FAR NORTH FARMING.
Trapper Swift Has Made His Home at
Jasper Pass.


Great Falls, Nov 2o.-Ex-Indian
Ascent George B. Mclaughlin of Great
Falls, whose unexpected return to life
at Edmonton. as announced by the
Bulletin a few days ago, pleased his
many friends in this city, gives an In
teresting account of farming in the
frozen North as carried on by an
American trapper named Swift, who
has made his home in Jasper pass, near
Tete jaime Cache, for several years past.
The farming is the farthest north Of
any yet attempted in that region, and
as will be seen everything is of a very
primitive character. Swift is located
~ miles within the pass beyond the
site of the Jasper house and four miles
this side of the site of the old Henry
mouse. He has about 16 acres under
cultivation, fenced in two fields, and
his crop this year is about 400 bushels
OF wheat and GO sacks of potatoes, be-
sides turnips, carrots, radishes and 4
little barley. The grain and roots are
all of good quality. His only imported
implement is a pillow; his harrow is
home made, and in place of a wagon
he. uses a home made sled. He has
built mill in which to grind the pro-
duce of his farm. The grinding ap-
paratus is imported and Is on the prin-
ciple of an exaggerated coffee mill. He
has taken out a ditch and built a water
wheel, by which he secures power TO
make his mill grind at the rate OF
about 100 pounds a day. The wheat is
of good sample, and is red iife. Swift
has both horses and cattle. He winters
them chiefly on hay and straw, but
the horses can frequently rustic for
themselves all winter in the pass.
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build certain extensions next year
THAT is not In my province" he re-
piled, "and even II 1 had knowledge of
any such thing I would not feel at lib
erty to talk about it."
Mr.. Eustis said the trip so far had
been most delightful one. "The
fresh, bracing mountain air up here is
like a tonic to us and makes US feel
like jumping up and kicking our heels
together" said he.
Mr.. Eustis has been with the c., B. &
Q. for % years and has been general
passenger agent for IL years. In fact
every man in the party may be said
to have grown up in the service of the
road.
1t had been expected that j. Francis
of Omaha, general passenger agent of
the Burlington, would be with the
party, but he has gone to the coast by
the way of Denver.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Miss Craven's Statement of the Condition
of Cascade SCHOOLS.

Great Falls, Nov. 20.-The annual re-
port of Miss Ina Craven, county super
intendent of schools fer Cascade coun-
ty, has been filed with State Superin-
tendent Carleton for the school year
ending Aug. l, 1899. and Is of particular
interest at the present time, when the
matter of schools is being so greatly
before the public eye. In Cascade coun-
ty there are S.1S5 children between the
ages of s and 81. and 2,943 under the age
of years. Between the ges of IA and
Is the number is 2,541, of whom SS2 are
in Great Falls, 261 in Sand Coulee, $40
in Belt, III in Nefhart and the rest in
tended public school for the required
time and 33 received private instruction
for that period, leaving l per cent who
did not comply with the compulsory
education law. OF the 5,1S5 Of school
age 3,S54 attended school. In the vari-
Gus school libraries there are 21S2 vol
umes, valued at s1.S19, Belt leading with
books. valued at $1,000. The school
buildings and sites in the county are
valued at s230,1O5, Of which s1s9,700 is
credited to the Great Falls district. The
receipts Of cash for the year were
Sill, 40, from sources as follows: APP
portioned, $40204.S5: balance on hand,
$12S7l65; special tax, s4S,733.16; land
sales, $500; other sources, $9.S63.30.
The revenue on the number who real
~ attended school was 500 per capita;
on those of school age. 1884 In Great
Falls district the revenue was $65.612.24,
about $4,000 Of which was raised by
special tax. The money expended dur
ing the year was Sill 233.49 as follows:
Teachers wages. se2,94665 libraries,
S61.S7; school apparatus, $s1S.3S; build
ings and repairs, s7O76.3o; incidentals,
s14,5s3s0: interest. s11, 1905 balance on
hand Aug. 81, $14,51o.74.
An interesting thing is the teachers
column. In the county were employed
III. of whom 81 were women ard "a men
The salaries averaged $52.10 for women
and s65.S1 for the men. The highest
average was in Great Falls, Sand Cou-
lie and Neihart coming next and Belt
leading the country districts in which
the general salary was $50 per month.
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again for Manila. where he expects to

again for Manila, where he expects to
engage in business.
Tuesday night last Dr. and Mrs. An
thony gave a farewell party to few of
their intimate friends, and the latter
took advantage of the occasion to pre-
sent the doctor and his estimable wife
a beautiful set of cut glassware as a
token Of the esteem in which they were
held and a slight remembrance of the
happy past spent in congenial associa-
ton. The evening was devoted to pro-
gressiva high five and resulted in Mrs.
Schuttler and James Dowlan winning
the honors-a pair of beautiful stat
uttes for the former and a box of per-
fectos for the latter. j. w. Schmidt
and Mrs. r. D. Cole were the other ex-
treme. After the games most de-
licious luncheon of sandwiches, coffee,
chocolate, ice cream and cake was
served. AS the guests were about to
depart DIR. Anthony made a neat
speech. expressing his sincere regret at
leaving his old friends and the scene
of many pleasant memories. Farewells
and God-speeds were then taken and
the guests departed. Those present
were: Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Cole, f. w.
c. Whyte. J. Dowlan. ]. w. Schmidt,
J. II. Sheridan, T. E. Healey, j. H.
Diclsey, A. kreiger, G. Blair, G. r. X.
Vidal and Mrs. schuttler Mrs. Meibach
of Monarch, J. ]. Kinney and J. w,
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ARE NOT cREES PROPER
Great Falls Indians Are OF Greatly
Mixed Brands.
THEY WANT A RESERVE
Asked for Hcns in the Cyprus Hills,
Their Old stamping Ground.
Their Petition Was
Turned Down.

Great Falls, Nov. 2o.-The band of
Cree Indians who have camped on the
west side all summer and apparently
will camp there for several summers
unless removed by Uncle Sans officials
or a kindly providence, gives local in
terest to the efforts that are being made
looking to their removal to the Cana
dian side of the line, where they belong.
correspondent of the River Press,
writing from Medicine Hat, Canada, on
the subject, says that as matter Of
fact the homeless nomads who are In
Montana and termed Cree refugees are
not Crees proper. They are a mixed
tribe-part Cree and part Assinniboine-
remnant of the Little Poplar and Big
Bear bands who, before the advent Of
the Canadian Pacific, were domici1ed in
the Cypress Hills, their hunting
grounds extending south to Milk river
and adjoining those of their kindred,
the Assinniboines of Fort Belknap.
About the time the front of the c. P. r.
construction arrived at Maple Creek
these tribes had a reserve on Piapot
Creek, called after the chief of that
name. Partly for molesting the rail
way COHtTdcloFS anu parity ROT SeUQlnS
war parties to raid into Montana, they
were transferred to Eastern reserves.
They never became rseonciled to their
new homes and started wandering over
the country, keeping up their migratory
habits to this day.
At the time of the incoming of the
present Laurfer government Big Bear,
the head Okima, of the tribe. handed IN
a petition to one of the cabinet minis
ters who was passing through Medicine
Hat. requesting that his people be
granted reserve on their old stamp
ing ground In the Cypress Hills. The
minister promised to hand the petition
in to the proper department and to see
that the applicants had their grievances
properly presented to the government
But no further action was taken in the
matter, Now 1t appears that if the
Canadian government could be induced
to comply with the wishes of these peo-
pie in this matter and assign them a
reserve in a section of the country that
has been their habitat since the memory
Of the white man runneth not to the
contrary 1T would settle the question
for all time. If the Crees had a man
like James Bird Grinnell to pow WOW
for them, their cause would be as good
as won. The Canadian government is
responsible for the welfare Of these
people and should see to it that they
are gathered in, their grievances iii
CURED into and if they have not re-
ceived square deal the wrong should
be rect1fied as soon as possible.
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Excellent Headway,

Great Falls. Nov. 2O-Peter Erickson
came in Thursday from the Middleforlz,
where Fred Dan.elson and co-partners
the Grendal mines, saws the Naihart
Herald. They have eight men at work
and are making excellent headway So
far as development of the mines is
concerned. Mr.. Erickson saws the
mines are showing up well under devel
opment, and predicts the greatest boom
in that quarter that the Belt mount
aims have ever seen. The copper depos-
Its of the Middle Fork are all right.
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Held for Manslnuchter.

Great Falls, Nov. 20.-John Zupan-
chlch, the Austrian who killed Frank
Mahar in Boston Heights few weeks
ago and was afterwards arrested at
Missoula, will answer to the charge Of
mansiaughter before the district court,
that being the decision of Judge SAT-
ford in the case to-day. Owing to the
conflicting testimony in the case ana
the inability OF the witnesses 10 speak
English or understand the questions
put to them by the interpreters. it
would be well nigh Impossible to make
a stronger case than that of man
slaughter against him, and the line OF
self defense will evidently be the one
relied upon by his attorneys to carry
him through.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21

let's We're carried off. The thieves were
evidently alarmed away by the dog,
or had as much as they could carry.
as they left about an equal number in
the hen coop. This is the third raid
on the west side. Frank Bigman and
another party were visited last
week. Just how long business Of this
kind is to be kept up does not appear.
out some of these mornings there will
be a man for breakfast In the neigh
borhood of some Great Falls hen house,
and it won't be the owner of the hens
either
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21
ChamberIain's Pain Balm Cures Others,
Why Not You:

My wife has been using Chamber
lain's Pain Balm with good results,
for a lame shoulder that has panied
her continually for nine years. We
have tried all kinds of medicines and
doctors without receiving any benefit
from any of them. One day we saw
an advertisement of this medicine and
thought of trying it, which we did with
the best of satisfaction. She has used
only one bottle and her shoulder Is al
most well. Adolph L. Millett, Man
chester, N. H.
Used by British Soldiers in Africa.
Capt c. G. Dennison is well known
all over Africa as commander of the
forces that captured the famous rebel
Galishe. Under date of Nov. L. 1897,
from Vryburg, Bechuanaland, he
writes: Before starting on the last
campaign l bought quantity of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which / used myself when
troubled with bowel complaint, and
had given to my men, and in every case
It proved most beneficial"
Not u Surprise.
1T will not be a. surprise to any who
are at all familiar with the good quail
ties of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
to know that people everywhere take
pleasure in relating their experience
In the use of that splendid medicine
and in telling of the benefit they have
received from it, of bad colds it has
cured, of threatened attacks of pneu-
monia it has averted and of the chill
dren it has saved from attacks of Group
and whooping cough. 1t is grand,
good medicine. For sale by all drug
gists.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21

Horses also winter on Prairie creek on
the Athabasca, some distance this side
of the pass. Also at Yellowhead lake
In the pass. but on the other side of
the summit. Also at Camp mountain
on Canoe river about 80 miles south
east OF the Cache. Mr.. McLaughlin
was 90 days in coming from Tete jaime
Cache to Edmonton
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21
Another Chicken Raid.

Great Falls, Nov. 20.--The chicken
thief is still doing business. Last
night again the chicken coop of James
Greedy, on the west side, was visited
and % fine bred Plymouth Rock pull
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21
His First Sermon.

Great Falls, Nov. 20--ESuperintendent
w. w. Van Orsdel of the North Mon
tana Mission NJ. E. church preached
the first gospel sermon heard at Mel
hart, in August Of 1882 There was
then no Montana conference, and the
reverend gentleman was a missionary
to the far West. The Herald has a
record of growth of the church he rep
resents in North Montana covering 1--WE
years from 1894 to 1899. which win
doubtless be interesting to our readers.
While considering the comparison be-
tween those years 1t must be consid-
cred that excepting possibly the last
two they have been hard years for
any, enterprise, and that progress gem
orally in Montana has not been marked.
we present tabulated report show
mission:
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day contained the announcement that
the Great Northern railway has agreed
to pay the special school tax levied in
that district. provided the other tax
payers pay the amount. The large TAX
payers Of the district outside OF the
Great Northern have already agreed to
pay their portion and a large number
OF the smaller taxpayers have already
paid their amounts into the treasury
If the proposition is carried out 1t viii
insure the keeping of the Kaltspell
schools open for the full term.
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Great Nerthera Will Paw,

Great Falls, Nov. 20.-The Kalispell
1nterlake that arrived in the city to-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21

Judge D. F. Smith of Kalispeu passed
through Great Falls yesterday on his
way home from Helena.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

IF conditions at the Calvert convict
camp are one half as bad as they we're
painted by the returned ex-convict
Morris they are terrible disgrace to
the state of Texas. The system of
leasing all classes of penitentiary pris-
oners to the owners of coal mines is
bsrbaroas enough at best, and ought
to have been abandoned long ago in
the interest2 of common humanity and
public decency. But If the system is
persisted in there ought at least be an
accompanying system of effective state
control and inspection. The word "tor-
ture" does not sound right when ap-
piled to the treatment accorded to citi-
zens of Texas, no matter if they are
guilty of some infraction of the laws.
It Is time the ''convict camp" were
abolished.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

gle France is having with her army
leads Americans to reflect upon the ut
ter absence in our history OF
anything like reign OF
militarism. The people feared
it once, long ago, when the order OF
the Cincinnati was founded, but that
WAS the first and the last time tina
there was really serious fear express
ed that the army would become too
powerful. We cannot call the mouth
ings of Bryan and his friends concern
ing what they are pleased to call ''mili-
tsrism" the expression of a serious fear.
1t is merely another big word to con-
jure with and roll under the tongue
when addressing audiences who have
not paid much attention to history or
economics, but would like to learn and
are easily misled by sophistry If cloth
ed in high sounding language.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28
AS TO "pUBLIC UTILITIES"
Points From the Recent DellVeranCe
of the Supreme Court of MlChi-
Dan.

Portland Oregonian.
The decision of the Michigan su.
preme court in the Detroit street rail.
way case is a valuable contribution tC
public discussion on all the phases Of
the subject to which it relates. The
full opinion occupies about five news
paper columns, more than half the
space being devoted to the question OF
state aid for internal improvements. A
few paragraphs describing the charac.
ter of public utilities, though too long
to be copied entire, are of great inter
est and may be much abbreviated.
The attorneys for the Pingree COM
mission had argued that 1t was as much
in the power of cities to construct and
operate street railways as it was to own
and maintain parks, waterworks, fire
department and similar municipal ap-
purtenances. The court admitted that
it was difficult to draw an exact line as
to what city government may or may
not do. But there can be no doubt of
the power of q municipality in regard
to the matters cited. The rule seemed
to be that the city might be interested
in improvements absolutely necessary
for the public health and safety.
An adequate supply of water is need
ed as protection against fire. In other
respects there can be no matter of
supply of pure and wholesome water
should be ample for the use of every
citizen. But IS the population becomes
greater and more compact the ability
of individuals to supply their own
wants diminishes. A few of the strong
er or wealthier might procure their
own supplies, but kthe great majority
would be compelled to go destitute It
becomes matter of absolute public
necessity that the municipal govern
meut should furnish the supply for all.
Drains and sewers are needed in the
interest OF the pnblic health. Lighted
streets tend to the prevention of crime
and are necessary to the safety of per-
ment is necessary to save private and
public property from loss through ex-
tensive conhagration. Parks, as re-
sorts where young and old may enjoy
fresh air and as places of recreation,
are q public necessity. The law of
necessity is the origin of the police
powers of municipal and state govern
ments. The state, or the municipality
BY the authority of the state, may do
that which is necessary for the health,
comfort ana safety of the public.
It Is difficult to see where these de-
of public utilities fall to ap-
ply to methods of street-car trausporta-
ion. The Michigan court does not
leny that such may be the case. The
decision is based on the ground that
he Detroit commission plan contem-
plated the city ownership of street-car
ines extending beyond the city limits
Ind connecting with lines from other
parts of the state, making a general
ystem of passenger transporta-
ion.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

THE French government removed
the man who was near the head of the
army because he had made some re-
marks rejecting on the governmat
which were deemedsto be contrary to
discipline and to indicate the existence
of conspiracy. The government, it
is said, took this means of demonstrate
ing its strength, and it's determination
that the army should remain subser-
Went to the civil powers. The strug-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

GEN. OTIS has already established q
provisional government in the island
of Negros, in which the natives will
have considerable power and authority.
The permanent government of the
islands OF course rests with congress,
and the military authorities will for
the present administer the government
through civil appointees. The ex-
pertinent in native self government
will be watched - it'll interest.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28
ADVERTISING RATES.

Rates of advertising in the Daily or Weekly
HERALD will be made known upon appltca-
ton at the business Office. Those who pre-
fer can have a representative of the business
department. call upon them, who will quote
prices.and make contracts for space Gall
telephone No. 115
Classified advertisements or locals, ten
10) cents per line for first insertion and FIVE
o. cents for each additional insertion.
Special rates upon sfive hundred 900 or one
thousand Q000) lines of local, to be used in
one month, will be furnished upon applica-
ton.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

THOSE fifty thousand dollar gifts of
Andrew Carnegie's are dropping all
around US. One lit in Fort Worth
and another in San Diego. Why
don't the good people of Ell Paso get
together and do something to justify
the coming of one of the birds this way
and then go out and sprinkle salt on
it's tail? Carnegie, like heaven, helps
those that help themselves.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

SIR WILFRED LAURJER has had to
explain over and over again what he
meant by using the word "war" in con-
nection with the boundary dispute be-
tween Canada and the United States.
He has been called to account for his
utterance on both sides the water, and
he has taken pains to let it be known
that he used the word in an 'sacadem-
ic"-which is to say, a ''Pickwickian'
sense. Canadian politicians and
statesmen do not give their endorse
ment to the apparently bel1igerent ut
terance of the premier, nor do the
newspapers hail the statement with
glee, but there is an undercurrent of
feeling noticeable that Canada feels
the game wherein England is
trying to maintain her pres
emit highly satisfactory relations
with the United States, and that her
independence and nationality are Sc
riously threatened by the apparent de-
termination of England to sacrifice not
only territory of Canada, but. most of
all, her pride, to the spirit of justice,
concord, and reason. The United
States has not made any unreasonable
demands. Our position is founded on
su bstantial grounds. We mean to
stand firm, and will not recede step
from the position we have assumed.
England realizes that we havs the best
Of the argument, and that she would
have far more to lose than we if there
should be clash. Canada will not be
allowed to stand between US.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

ENGLAND and the United States own
half the ships on the oceans OF the
world. The United States owns
the Pacific ocean, which is
really an inland lake, while England
has about as mucn, divided up into
little oceans. We own the Atlantic
jointly, SO it looks as if we have the
thing grabbed.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28
Mexican Mineral Belt.

The only direct route to the rich
mining regions of Eastern Sonora
and Western chihuahua is via the
Sierra Madre line, and Casas Gran
des. Trains leave Ciudad Juarez at
1925 daily except Sundays.
J. T. LOGAN,
Genl. Traffic Agent
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28
BY CARRIER.

The Daily HERALD is delivered by carrier
In Ell Paso, Texas, Juarez. Mexico. and at the
FL Paso smelling works. at fifteen cents Q5c)
per week. or sixty cents (60c) per month.
Subscribers failing to get the HERALD re-
gularly or promptly should call at the Office
or telephone No. 115. All complaints will re-
ceive prompt attention.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

OUR fellows in the Philippines are
still swimming after the natives, the
officers ahead, pistol in hand, sword in
teeth. Is it any wonder that the west
is great, with such men for pioneer
stock?
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

TO ADVERTISERS.
In order:to insure proper changes in adver-
Using, copy forsame.should be at the busi-
ness office not lat er than'1O a. In.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28
Pure Hygieuic Ice.

Made from distilled water. Ask
your family physician or druggist as to
purity and healthfulness of our ice,
Telephone No. IA
Ell PASO ICE & REFRIGERATOR Co
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

THAT phrase nothing to arbitrste"
seems like q harmless remark, but it
creates more hard feeling than demo-
cratic convention.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28

IN the republics to the south of us
the people rule in truth. They have
to. Their presidents do not last long
enough to learn how.