Arizona republican., 1899-12-29
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 The British government for the Straits Settlements will probably be the model for the government the United States will erect in the Philip
 pines. Senator Lodge, chairman of the Philippine committee, has already un- dertaken the task of adapting the Brit ish scheme to the conditions likely to prevail in the islands when the insur- rection is put down. The Massachusetts senator has had talk with the presi- dent, who is inclined to believe that the Straits Settlements plan is about as good as any that has been brought to his notice. The president Is anxious to have a plan of government ready against the time when normal condi- tions in the islands are restored.
 The Straits Settlements government consists of a governor appointed by the crown and two councils-an eXecu- tive and legislative-in each of which the home government has the control ling power. The executive council con- sits of the general commanding the troops the colonial secretary, attorney general, treasurer, the auditor general and three resident councillors, pracu- cally a cabinet modelled according to the American idea. The legislative council consists of ten officials and seven unofficial members. The official members hold office by virtue of the places they fill in the civil establish ment. Of the unofficial members, five are nominated by the crown and two by the chambers of commerce of Singa- pore and Penang and confirmed by the crown.
 Senator Lodge became interested in the Straits Settlements scheme of gov ernment last summer while crossing the ocean. En route he met E. Spencer Pratt. recently American consul at Singapore who told him how easily Britain governs the Malays in the Straits Settlements. He suggested that a suitable adaptation could be made for the Philippine islands. Mir. Lodge took up the suggestion and, now that he.is at the head of the senate Philip pine committee, his vacation studies have become exceedingly valuable to him. The scheme will probably be to give each large island a governor and council of its own, with county govern
 
 zon and Negros are divided. These provinces are larger than the average counties in the central west, but, if necessary, 1t will be easy for the island government to cut them up. Whether there will be a governor general at Ma nila in his scheme the senator has not yet decided, but there probably will be.
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 r,oort focoipofiDc hIISi- ness under the sum- said Joseph H. Keep of Spokane, Wash, to a New York Tribune reporter. "Once the fe- yer of it gets into a mans bones, he never lets go until advancing years, death, or, in some few cases, the actual making of a strike, puts an end to his labors as a prospector. The stories CT some of the finds and the fortunes made thereby are really wonderful. For instance, take that of Harry Baire and Dutch Jake, who are running a vari- ety house in Spokane today. Together they grubstaked N. s. Kellogg and Phil O'Rourke to a miners outfit, and a man named Peck staked them to jackass. The tales differ as to how the discovery was actually made. The iackass, in any event got lost, and one story is to the effect that when found he was paving the earth and had un- covered the mines. The other and more probable story is that in hunting for the iackass they came across the out crop of these mines that are today the greatest lead mines in the world; or rather lead mine, since they have been consolidated. Kellogg, however, all lowed the time for filing the record of the location to elapse, and then he ana O'Rourke located anew, calling one the Bunker Hill and the other the O'Sulll- van mine. They tried to freeze out Peck, who had grubstaked them to the jackass, and Peck brought suit, claim ing that he was entitled to an interest in the mines. Peck won his suit, and the decision handed down by the court in his favor is famous throughout the west. It reads something as follows: 'Inasmuch as the jackass, "PhiP' O'Rourke and N. s. Kellogg discovered the Bunker Hill and O'Sullivan mines, we find that the plaintiff is entitled to the proportion belonging to the jack ass The defendants compromised with Peck for sSO,OOO, and later sold the mines for s7OO,OOO, and today they are worth millions. To his honor it is held in memory in the west that Kellogg retired the jackass from further work. and he lived to a good and fat old age, grazing on the finest meadow lands of Oregon, at a monthly expense of $2O to Kellogg"
 The Louisville Courier Journal gives and the other anti-eXpan- sionists a body blow in the following: Stick a pin here. The men who are making the most noise denouncing the United States for leaving its conti- mental shores to preserve peace and protect life and property in the islands of the Pacific, which the fortunes and of war have placed in our hands are the same men who with equal noise demand that the United States shall leave its continental shores to meddle in a war in far South Africa and gratuitously insult a friendly pow CT by taking sides with it's opponents. They denounce the United States for