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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
TRUSTS AND CONSULTATIONS.
vast Load of Inflated Capital and 1t
Threatens II Crash.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The term trust is to-day popularity
used Tor corporate consolidation under
the charters of New Jersey and other
states with loose company acts.
10 these consultations the Press has
| maze no objection because they We're
consultations. For years this journal
mas steadily combated the idea that
puoilc interests Were put in peril by
uniting many concerns under one man
agement. On the contrary, we have re-
peatedly pointed out that lower prices
ana higher wages as in railroads, often
follow this step
II is not consolidation. but overcapi-
tailzatlon which is the chief peril of
these mergers. In all. in Is months,
there has been placed on the public
market shares in these enterprises to
the amount Of $2.770000,000 This does
not represent value. The sales and quo
tations of the common stock prove this.
rms vast load of inflated capital is an
attempt to take advantage of period
OF eXtraVagant speculation to sell to the
pupllc mills and factories which by no
possibility could be sold to individuals
The water in these capitalizations
pretgures the same receiverships and
bankruptcies as the water in rail
roads organized. projected and built
from 1865 to 1890. The bonds would
have paid for many of these lines. The
stock was water. So, now, the pre-
ferred' stock in these capitalizations
represents all the real value. The "com-
mon" is mere pure water
Imitation like this can only end in col
lapse. Let any accident or incident
check public confidence and a crash
will come. Nothing can prevent it.
This will be accelerated and aggravated
because the cOrporatf, law under which
these companies are organized gives
shareholders no rights. no remedies, no
reports and no protection. These con-
solicitations are often desirable. Their
overcapitalization is always wrong, and
this the Press has attacked.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
He Made an Undue Display of Bills.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
An insurance man whose home is in
kenwood could tell good story on him
sell if he should see fit, but his natural
modesty forbids, If reluctance in this case
can be called modesty He is in that
branch of the insurance business where
agents make trips through the country,
calling on men IN EVERY walk of life, ex-
planning the merits of their particular
company and pointing out the faults of
very other company. He has one grave
fault, and that is an insane desire to at
tract attention. and this same fault was
his undoing. If he was on the stage he
would keep one eye on the gallery, and if
he was on a ball nine it would be his de-
sire to be at the bat continuously
Before starting on his last trip he drift
ed into a La Sale street bank, where his
brother is high in authority. and while
there cashed check for goodly amount
to cover his expenses As he was about to
leave he saw a sheet composed of $40
bills lying on the cashiers table. The bills
had just come from the sub-treasury and
were uncut, awaiting signatures. Chances
for a grand stand play of enormous pro-
portions fitted through his brain and be-
fore he left the bank he had exchanged his
brown, wrinkled bills for sheet of I'M
cut tens, duly signed and stamped
In the course of his travels he stopped in
Clinton, ILL.,. where he spent several hours
AS he asked for a ticket for Champaign at
the depot window he found that he had
no small change, and. even though the
time was not suspicious, he drew out his
sheet of tens and pair of scissors, with
which he clipped off nice crisp bill The
ticket seller looked on in amazement but
accepted the bill. As there were a few
minutes wanting before train time the
hired vassal of the railroad company de-
termined on a bold play, with the intent
to capture this brazen passer of. as he
supposed, counterfeit money. So he dis
patched the telegraph messenger to call
the police force.
The police force was carving his initials
in Il baggage truck, but responded cu'ck-
ly to the call. An artistic arrest was fol-
lowed by forced march down the main
street which was enjoyed more by the
junior population of the town than by the
writer of policies. REPRESENTATIONS were
useless and it was only after a night in a
vermin-infested calaboose, in company
with grain thief and plain drunk, that
the insurance man could get banker to
pronounce the money he had passed as
genuine.
He carries silver now.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
WAY TO CURE 4 HUSBAND.
Plaster Cast Breaks the Matrimonial
Bonds.


Bonds.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
A story travels over the sea from
Paris of a young lawyer named Ger
vais, who has been practicing law in
the French capital for about two years
He comes from Marseilles, where his
parents are personages of considerab Bile
property, who are bent upon his marry
ing into the family of an old friend,
where there Is more property. This ar
rangement was distasteful to young
Gervais, who, while in England last
summer married bright English girl
and returned with her to Paris. Owing
to the property that the young man ex-
pected to inherit the marriage was kept
a profound secret. The English wife 10
said to have made an admirable help
mate. and little by little she cured him
OF his bad habits--cured him Of all ex-
cept one. He still continued on certain
occasions to drink too much. Recently
his friends brought him home in an I'M
conscious condition. This was the
young wifes opportunity She had him
put to bed and placed one Of his limbs
in surgical bands, having first plastered
1t up as If it had been painfully broken
and surgically set. When the man came
to his senses he found his wife at his
bedside prepared to nurse him through
the supposed inevitable fever. Re-
morse came in abundance, and at the
end of the week the wife was about to
confess her trick when her mother-in-
law arrived on the scene from Mar
settles. She discharged the supposed
nurse and packed her boy off to the
hospital. There an examination was
made and the trick revealed. His wife's
action. not considering her good intent,
SO incensed the young man that he
made a full confession of the secret
marriage and to his mother and prom
Use to secure divorce from the per
fidious Anglaise." The ''perfidious Ang-
laise' has returned TO her mother in
Dover. The young man has left Paris
with his mother for Marseilles.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
Transferred to Russia.

Washington, March 2S.--Mr. Chin Pom
Ye, the minister from Corea at Wash
ington, has been transferred to Russia,
France and Austria. His successor as
minister plenipotentiary and envoy ex-
traordinary to the United States will
be Whan Young Min. He has already
been designated for this mission, and
will arrive here in a few months, posi-
bly, in June. Minister Yes new mission
is an important one, and he will direct
the diplomatic affairs of Corea in all Of
the three countries named, dividing his
time between St. Petersburg, Paris and
Vienna, though he will doubtless re-
main most of the time at Paris Mr.. Ye
will be accompanied by Mrs. Ye and
their two sons.
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month nor more than six months or by

month nor more than six months, or by
both fine and Imprisonment. and the
owners, managers. editors, publishers
and engravers are all and each made
liable for the publication.
The signature law provides that all
articles referring to individuals and
which may tend to injure or
degrade them or subject them
to ridicule or make them objects of con-
tempt must be signed by the true name
of the writer. The truth or falsity of
the statements made in such article
does not alter this requirement. Tele-
graphic dispatches are by special pro-
vision exempt from the terms of the
laws. The penalty for violation of the
law is $1,000 and inducements are held
out to informers to aid the authorities
in enforcing it's provisions. The law was
passed the day the legislature ad-
journed. Both these laws are largely
the outcome of the senatorial contest
which was characterized by unusual
bitterness. The anti-cartoon bill was de-
feated once by the senate, but on the
morning after its defeat a vicious car
feature of one of the senatorial candi-
dates appeared in a newspaper and the
bill was promptly recalled and passed
The bill therefore was passed not on
account of its merits but out of spirit
of revenge. Test cases will be brought
and the constitutionality of each act
will be determined by the courts.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
More Issues"
evenings Inter Mountain is a
! profound and edifying study of

~ COLUMN of comment in last
n evenings Inter Mountain is a
! profound and edifying study of
what the Granite street organ styles
the value of defeat" That is timely
study for the Inter Mountain. 1t can
enjoy the ideal features of defeat this
week. next week it will revel in the
realities. Manifestly the Inter Mountain
is a philosopher.
But the cutest thing in yesterdays
Inter Mountain is its solemn announce
ment that the republicans have set a
wholesome example for all the state,
by ''burying the Ratchet" What is the
fact? The Inter Mountains party
summed up its energies for the cur
rent season by adopting a platform-it
put no ticket in the field.
The solid contents of this platform
include forty per cent. of preamble and
sixty per cent. in bitter arraignment
of the republicans who did not remain
loyal to Mr.. Mantle in the senatorial
fight. Since not one republican remained
loyal to Mr.. Mantle, the scope of the
Inter Mountains platform may easily
be estimated.
By the testimony of its platform the
Inter Mountain did, indeed, bury the
Ratchet this spring-it buried it right
in the middle of the vital part of the
republican party in Montana.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
Rank Humbues Still Thrive,

From the Springfield Republican.
We sometimes speak of this as a
skeptical age, and laugh hugely over
the stories of medieval charlatans
who bamboozled the public. but it is
doubtful whether the era of Jernegan,
Of Hooley and the Kelly motor has any
reason to boast of its sagacity. 1t is
safe to say that if there We're any
money in squaring the circle the process
would be the basis of a stock company
to-day. 1t is rather curious indeed to
see how the world has moved from it's
incredulous position of so years ago
Science is sometimes spoken Of as I'M
settling belief: 1t is just to say that it
has shaken the foundations of unbelief.
Twentyfiv years ago the idea of a fly
ing machine was invariably ridiculed :;
its eternal impossbility was regarded
as demonstrated.
To-day vast fortunes are being spent
in the effort to make a practicable air
ship. Then the medieval notion of
the transmutation of metals would have
been scoffed at by the most ignorant
Now Professor Emmens has merely to
cite a few mysterious chemical "analo-
gies" and put his claims in the Sunday
papers to lind thousands of fairly we'll
educated readers ready to believe that
silver has been made into gold. A
process for extracting gold from sea
water was no less entlcfng, and, on the
whole. the time seems ripe for carrying
out DR.. SWiftS project for extracting
sunshine from cucumbers. In the pOpu-
lar mind there is sort of awe of the
astonishing achievements of recent sci
ence and difficulty in drawing the line
between the possible and the impossible.
IF We can see through Opaque bodies,
hear music across the continent, bottle
up the voices of our dear friends, tele-
graph without wires and light rooms
without visible connections why not
make things go of themselves?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
HE, Illinois legislature is consid-

~ HE Illinois Legislature is consid-
ering number of proposals
for repairing the present Lin
coin monument at Springfield, or instead
of erecting an entirely new one. Gov
ernor Tanner thinks that the present
monument should be repaired and sug-
gests an appropriation of 100000 for
the purpose. A legislative committee,
however. has recommended that the
present site, two miles from Springfield.
be abandoned, new site chosen in the
city near the capitol building and a
monument erected costing 100000. And
opposed to both these propositions is the
demand from Chicago that the tomb of
that city and a great monument built
there which would rival the Grant
mausoleum in New York city. Any of
these propositions if carried out would
by the Philadelphia Press that the
friends of any one of them are likely
to defeat all the others. The country Is
not so much interested as to where the
Lincoln monument shall be as it is to
have a structure worthy of the subject.
If Illinois will not comply with this de-
mand there ought to be some way for
the nation to step in and put an end
to the disgraceful situation at the tomb
of one of its greatest presidents.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

From the Philadelphia Times.

FROM the Philadelpha Times.
Reed seems to be strong enough to
command the speakership at the organ
ization of the next house without max
ing terms with anybody. and that's just
the way he likes to win the position
If he went into the chair by arrange
ment or compromise he. wouldn't be
master of the house and If he can't be
master of the house he wouldn't want
to be speaker There's certainly a rift
in the Reed lutte on the Mckinley issue,
and the fact that the president went to
the coast where he knew Reed was a
visitor, and returned without more than
formal hand-shake and hasty good
bye. proves that there isn't anything
like harmony in chunks between them
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
I N view of the Windsor hotel fire,
a bill has been introduced in the

IN view of the Windsor hotel fire,
a bill has been introduced in the
New York legislature providing for
fire escape in each room of a hotel
The trouble with laws of this charac-
ter is that they are either ignored or
are of such an indefinite character that
they are easily evaded Some hotel
keepers believe that they are comply
ing with the law when they provide
their six or seven story rooms with
small rope down which a guest is ex-
pected to slide in case of fire or take
the chances of being burned to death.
That many hotels in the country are
mere fire traps will not be disputed
and in case of a disastrous fire many
lives would undoubtedly be lost. Every
legislature, in view of this fact, would
be justified in enacting a stringent fire
escape law and in providing for it's
rigid enforcement.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
, HERE is a bill before the Illinois

legislature providing that for
the punishment of men con-
victed of wife beating, the cat-o'-nine-
tails is to be administered in public.
Some of the Chicago papers commend
the proposed law on the ground that
statistics show that the effect of similar
laws elsewhere have greatly diminished
the class of crimes to which the cat
o'-nine-tails' punishment applies. Others
regard it as restoration of barbarism
The advocates of the whipping post. in
sist that it is the most certain deter
rent for certain classes of hardened
criminals, as it not only means the physi-
cal pains for themselves, which they
have made others suffer, but also makes
them become objects of scorn and con-
tempt in the eyes of their own class.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
Total Failure.

Chester, VT, March 2S.-The maple
sugar harvest in Vermont is believed to
be a total failure this year. and If the
worst fears OF the sugar makers are
realized the industry will be crippled for
many years to come. The sugar
orchards were stripped of leaves last
summer by an army of caterpillars and
this spring the trees are found to be
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
~ HE states whose legislatures may

~ HE states whose legislatures may
sit regardless of the flight of
time, there being no constitu
tional limitation as to the length of
their sessions. are Connecticut Illinois,
Iowa. Maine Massachusetts, Michigan,
Mississippi. New Hampshire, New Jer-
sey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Texas, Vermont and
Wisconsin. The length of the legisla-
tive session in all the other states,
is limited by the constitutions of those
states, the favorite limit being sixty
days The shortest life given the ses-
sion of any state legislature is forty
days, in Oregon and Wyoming. West
Virginia limits hers to forty-five DAYS.
Alabama, Georgia and Kansas restrict
theirs to fifty days. Tennessee gives
hers seventytlve day session. Col
orado, Maryland, Minnesota and Vir-
sinia extend theirs TO ninety days.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

From the Omaha Bee.
Those who are trying to boom Roose-
Welt for vice president should take a reef
in their enthusiasm and remember that
the Rough Rider is not ready for political
cmbamment just yet.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
A Friend of o'Connells.

Indianapolis. Ind, March 2S.-Michael
Shea died in this city tonight at the
advanced age of 11S years. He was born
in Ireland in 1871, and was friend of
Daniel O'Connell Shea was married
when he was 5S years of age and has
children over 60 years of age.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
Current Comment.


From the Brooklyn Eagle.
If Dewey does come home, John Wat
son should succeed him. John Watson is
the only man in the navy whose qualif-
cations duplicate or equal those of George
Dewey-eXcept John Walker and he is on
the retired list.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
Never BOX Nor Pull tn, Eor,.

The reason blow on the ear may do ir-
reparabie injury is that the air. being
driven suddenly and violently against the
drum of the ear, might rupture the MEM
brane and cause incurable deafness. The
ears should never be pulled nor medd,ed
with in any way except to wash them in
the gentlest manner, the oriffce being
cleansed with the fold of the wash cloth
rolled into little cone
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

Missouri gives the longest session of
any state that sets limit at all--120
days. The legislatures of the remain
ing fifteen states and of all the terri
tories that have legislatures have their
sessions placed at sixty days.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
7 F DIOGENES were alive to-day he

IF DIOGENES We're alive to-day he
might be successful in his quest for
an honest man, by taking the first
train to San Francisco. The Chronicle
of that city tells how recently a sum of
money amounting almost to $4,000 was
picked up in the streets there To the
man who found it this represented a
fortune. To the man who had lost it
the losing had been sudden reduction
to perjury. The finder could easily
have retained it, and if a person of or
binary discretion have kept the fact
concealed. However. he did nothing
of the kind. AS soon as he saw on ad-
vertisement announcing the ownership
he sought out the owner and. restored
the property, refusing even to accept
reward. There is honor, occasionally,
even among San Franciscoans.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

Seattle, March 2S.-President ]. D.
Farrell of the Pacific Coast company
said tonight that the removal of the
general office of the Pacific coast
steamship company from San Francis
co to this city was not contemplated
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
Some complaint is made that General
Eagan is still in the army register. 1t
isn't as bad though, as it would be if he
were still in the commissary department.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

New York Office--4S Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
Sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
Washington Bureau-1415 G ST., N. w.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
They Must Draw the Line.

From the ST. Paul Globe.
II the Cubans ever expect to get into
our class they must quit stabling their
horses and COWS In their houses
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

the army beef supply furnished last sum-
mer, they would like the investigation to
stop before its disclosures are such as to
bring on nausea.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

From the Portland Oregonian
The beef inquiry is getting to be really
sickening. While the people are inter-
ested in getting at the truth in regard to
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
The Same Old Burden.

From the Topeka Capital
The white mans burden that is wearing
most heavily on the minds of our neigh
bors in Missouri is the bill before the leg
islature providing for an increased tax on
beer
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
There doesn't appear to have been any
great anxiety to secure the pen with
which the queen regent signed the peace
treaty.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

All general business letters and CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

The Standard has branch offices at
Butte. Missoua and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plication
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29
Latest Name for Americans.

new word applied to Americans is
'quinophagists," Indicating that they con-
sumo more quiniue than any other people
in the world.
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Daily and Sunday one year. $40 90
Daily and Sunday, six months ...... 500
Daily and Sunday, three months. 800
Daily and Sunday, one month. 100
Sunday. one year ..................... 200
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Main Ofice-Standard Block, Anaconda.
TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
Business Office Observation-Disclosures. No. /
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Postage free for the United States, Can
ada and Mexico. Elsewhere
postage added.
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~ UTTES municipal campaign is
I'D moving forward along its leg
itimate lines, so far as the par
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Entered at the postotfice at Anaconda a!
second class mail matter.