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The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
Glorious News.

Come from DR.. D. B. Cargile, of
Washita, I. T. He writes: -Four bot
ties of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs.
Brewer of scrofula, which had caused
her great suffering for years. Terri
BILE sores would break out on her head
and face, and the best doctors could
give no help; but her cure is complete
and her health is excellent" This
shows wha thousands have proved, tina,
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eczma, letter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils
and running sores. It stimulates liver,
kidney and bowels, expels poisons
helps digestion, builds up the strength
Only SO cents. Sold by Bitter Root
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Mgr.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
District Court Proceedings.

In the case of C. L. Allen VS.. ]. w.
Reeley the jury found for Allen in the
sum of $3.50.
John Bennett VS. Thomas Campbell,
jury found for the plaintiff in the sum
of thirty dollars and judgment was en-
tered against Campbell.
w. ]. Kennedy VS.. Ravalli county.
This case was submitted to the court
by the respective counsel on a sworn
statement of facts and taken under
advisement.
In the case of Vim. Courtenay VS..
]. L. Humble the jury found for the
plaintiff in the span of $2l3.75. Cour-
tenay is Miles City sheep broker and
brought suit for commission claimed
to be due on il sale of sheep.
r. L. Perkins vs.. w. G. Stuart; suit
to recover amount of note for Sis,
which had been jointly endorsed by
Perkins aud Stuart, and which Perkins
paid and claimed Stuart had agreed to
pay all Of if endorsers were required
to satisfy. Judgment for plaintiff tor
half the amount ana interest.
The court examined the bonds ot
the county commissioners and approx.
ed those of Commissioners Johnson and
Gleason and ordered that Commission.
er Rawlins furnish new bond on
account of Sam Lucas, one of the sur
tiles, having left the state.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
CORVALLIS.

Special correspondence 10 the Western News
Mrs. J. L. Humble, who has been at
a Battle Creek, Mich, sanitarlum,
returned Tuesday evening after an
absence of about four months.
Mr.. J. L. Humble went to Missoula
yesterday.
Mrs. Gold who has been quite ill is
reported as convalescing.
Miss Ida Reavis, of Hamilton, is
visiting friends in Corvallis.
Rev. J. O. Reavis. of Hamilton, was
visitor in our little hamlet on Tues.
day.
Mrs. ]. L. EVERY, who has been
quite i'll at her home for several days,
is rapidly convalescing.
Mrs. Anna Moreland, of Grantsda!e,
was visitor in Corvallis several days
last week.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
FLORENCE.

Special Correspondence to the Western News.
FLoRENcE, MARCH 5, 19oO.-J. d.
Wasson, of Kendall's mill, went to
Missoula Friday. Mrs. Wasson and
children who have been visiting in
Missoula for some time past, returned
with him.
Mrs. Joe Appolonio, of Victor, was
a passenger from Missoula Friday
night where she has been in the hos
pital for some time. Her many friends
will be glad to know that she is rapid
ly regaining her health.
John Brechbill, the popular and eff
ticient millwright, has just about COM
pleted a fine lathmill at Kendall's mill.
w. J. Ball and Ed Nation were seen
on our streets Sunday.
Joe Ferrel, IF Kendall's mill. made
a flying visit to Hamilton the first OF
last week.
Miss Angie Smith, one of Florence,
most beautiful and popular young la.
dies, will leave tomorrow morning f, I
Los Angeles, CAL, where she will visit
friends for some time. While we will
all miss der here we wish her pleas
ant sojourn III sunny California.
Mrs. John Voss had the misfortune
to run nail through her foot Sunday.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
A Life And Death Fight.

Mr.. w. A. Hines of Manchester, Ia,
writing of his almost miraculous es-
cape from death, says:"Exposure after
measles induced serious lung trouble,
which ended in Consumption. had
frequent hemorrhages and coughed
night and day. All my doctors SAID
must die. Then began to use DR..
Kings New discovery for consumption
which completely cured me. would
not be without it even if it cost $500
a bottle. Hundreds have used it on my
recommendation and all say it never
fails to cure Throat, Chest and Lung
troubles. Irregular size Soc and S1.00.
Trial bottles free at The Bitter Root
Drug Co.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
Ranch For Sale.

For Sale-o0 acres improved land,
under cultivation and has first class
water right an, erie title, three
m les north of Hamilton; farming
tools, machinery, ct lone team horsea |,
e Will sci a bargain for cash. /.
Call on or address,
w. v. MCINTOSH,
Corvallis, Mont
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
OF the Honorable Board Of County
Commissioners Of Ravalli County
Montaha.

Hamilton, Mont, Feb. 2sth. 1900.
The board of county commissioners
of Ravalli county, Montana, met in
special session, pursuant to call, at 9
O'Clock a. m. tor the purpose of can
vassing the returns and declaring the
result of the election on the propose
ton of borrowing the sum Of $4,000
for the purpose of building a court
house.
The following officers were present:
James r. Rawlins and w. E. Gleason,
commissioners, and Howard D. Smart,
county clerk.
The official election returns of the
county were orened and duly canvass
ed as required by law, showing the to-
.al number of votes cast in the
county at the special election held in
the .codnty on Feb. Goth, 1900, and the
proposition voted upon with the total
number of votes cast for and against
same; as shown by the official poll
books and tally sheets of the respect
i've precincts within the county; with
the following findings, towit:
First. Total number of votes cast
in the county. 662. 4
C>coud Tho vote h,, n roc;u =. ,.,, :.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
HUGHES CREEK.

Special Correspondent to the Western News.
Many are the theories advanced as
to the source of the Hughes Creek
gold. It may have been washed from
some ledge or lodges on the summit
which is always logical supposition.
Again, there is every evidence of the
glaciers, which in one of their rushes
during the prehistoric ages, might
have deposited some of the gold from
+, the Artic country. Volcanic action is
another possibility, to account for the
presence of the yellow metal.
However. it is not how it got there
but how it is to be taken out and away
that is agitating the minds of the
mine owners in that locality today and
the problem seems in a fair way to be
| solved.
Nv
Beginning at the head of the creek
we find a neat little cabin with "Chas.
Daily, Prop marked on the door-at
least 1t should be there if it is not, for
Mr.. Daily has spent the greater part
of two summers delving deep among
the gravel and boulders, looking ever
for the placer miners foothold-bed-
rock. Charley had to go deep. too,
but he finally got it, and when he be-
| gins his cross-cutting in the spring
the pay streak is sure to be there.
! w
| The first tributary is Emmett Creek,
and here we find Milton Hammond
esconsed with a company of euterprls-
ing Darbyites-claiming nearly this
entire creek. They expect to begin
operations immediately the spring
opens, and have already found very
good pay.
! ~
Lake Creek is monopolized by par
ty of Hamiltonians, numbering eight
of our best citizens. All they lack is
little more enterprise-for there is
every evidence that development will
show up mint of gold.
NV
Perhaps the greatest test of what the
country is worth has been wrought by
the Wood Placer Mining Company.
Beginning at the mouth of Lake Creek
this company owns six miles of the
! Hughes Greek bed and by their extern
sive working have managed to estab-
lish an enviable reputation. They
were offered large price for their
works last fall but were wise enough
to realize that they had d bank Of their
own, and refused to sell.
Heating, Ort & Malloy have done
more, considering the amount of terri
tory their claims cover than any other
outfit on the creek. Last year they
were handicapped by having to do a
great quantity of ''dead work" such
as putting in dam, changing the
bed of the creek, ETC., but now that
these necessary features are accom-
plished. the real work of taking out
gold will begin with the spring OPEN
ing. In fact even now Jack Ort is
known as the only man OH Hughes
Creek who always has few dollars
tucked safely away in a tobacco sack
pouch, while Charley Malloy has a
pocket full of nuggets as proof that
he knows where there are more-aud
Charley's honest "Jes so," convinces
everyone that he is not bluffing.
/ ~
Tom Sheriff. is below Ward, and the
fact that he had a heaping saucer full
of yellow nuggets when he left for
Hamilton last November is s1ficien,
to show what he has ac, om ,,lishe :.
/ "a
| On the South Fork of Hughes Greek
we find the MILAN Bros. They have
been working all winter and have jus,
found good pay dirt. They have sixty
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07

On the South Fork of Hughes Creek
we find the MILAN Bros. They have
been working all winter and have just
found good pay dirt. They have sixty
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07

otdt6 OF montana =,
County of Ravalli
We, the undersigned, Board Of Coun-
ty Commissioners of Ravalli county,
Montana. having duly convassed all
of the returns of the election returns
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BROAo QuININE TABLErs
All druggists refund the money if it fails to
cure, /. W. GROVES signature on every box
SOC,
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07

Tom Sheriff. is below Ward, and the
fact that he had heaping saucer full
of yellow nuggets when he left for
Hamilton last November Is s,fficieu,
to show what he has ac, om ,,lishe
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
THREE FIREMEN KILLED.
At a Fire in New York a Floor Col
lapses Carrying Five Men to Base
ment-Two Rescued Alive.

New York, March 26.-Through the
breaking down of the first floor in the
factory building at 213 and 215 East
Forty-fourth street, which was totally
destroyed by fire Saturday, three fire.
men were killed and two injured. The
men were precipitated into the base
ment, in which was about six feet of
water, and pinned under the debris. 1t
is supposed they were drowned.
The dead: William j. Smith, Peter
F. Bowen, Foreman John j. Grady.
The injured: Fireman Kuchs, Capt.
William Clark.
The accident which caused the death
of the men occurred two hours after
the fire had been put out. The men,
with about IS others, were engaged in
washing down the walls on the first
floor, on which were stored tons of
machinery, tin, heavy timbers and pig
lead. The great weight on the floor
made it give way and the men went
down into the basement, in which was
about six feet of water.
The police estimate the loss at $780,
600
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
WAS BURIED ALIVE.
Body Exhumed Near Philadelphia
Gives Evidence That Life Was Not
Extinct When Placed in Grave.

Philadelphia, March 26.-At Null
lica Hill, n. j.. near here, the startling
discovery has been made that boy
was buried alive. An undertaken was
eXhuming bodies of the members of the
Smitzer family, who lived at Mullica
Hill about 25 years ago, for final burial
in this city. One coffin contained the
skeleton of a boy, and its condition bore
evidences of an awful struggle, after
the supposedly dead body had been
buried. The bones of the legs were
drawn up and the arms were extended
across the face. The glass of the cas-
ket which hau been above the boys
head was broken. The position of the
body and the condition of the coffin in
dicated that the victim of a horrible
mistake had died in terrible agony.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

were here to go into that legislative hall
and If necessary clean out those fellows"
what fellows?"
"The democrats, enough to make a ma
jority on our side"
The answer created a sensation in the
courtroom
Golden said he was In the executive
building on the day before the shooting
He met Caleb Powers in Gov. Taylor's
ante-room. Powers asked him to go to
Louisville that day. He told John Powers
he was going to Louisville with Caleb Pow
ers. During lengthy argument over
technical point, Golden became i'll and
court was adjourned to 1880 o'clock.
Sensations of Afternoon.
Golden resumed his testimony at the
afternoon session. He said John Powers
and a black-red mustached man had u
talk concerning the closing of Secretary
Powers office during the latter's absence.
II had my back turned" said Golden,
"but when 1 turned l saw John Powers
give the key to the man. John Powers
said to me: 'Goebel is going OF be killed
this morning. l said: This must not be
done He said: Don't get excited 1
gave that man the wrong key. 1 said:
We must go and see Caleb John Pow
ers saw him. l didn't"
COombs to XIII GOebeI.
"Did you have any talk with Caleb or
John Powers about Dick Coombs?"
mo; but they had two negroes there to
kill Goebel John Powers told me so.
They were Hockersmtih and Dick Coombs.
I saw Dick Coombs at the drug store near
the depot every morning for a week or
so previous to the shooting. Coombs.
talking to a man named Wallace in my
presence, said:
Cd him, I know him as far as can
see him and can kill him as far as can
see him.
''He was talking of Goebel. This con-
versation was in the adjutatnt generals
Office
'On Tuesday did you meet Caleb and
John Powers?" asked Attorney Campbell.
duplicates Taylor.
"Yes, did. I saw them in Caleb's office
I got a letter from Brakeman that morn
ing asking me to come to Louisville.
Caleb said he was going with me, but
said he might want me to go to the noun
tains. He was talking to Walter Day and
Gov. Taylor. r. ]. Howard, of Harlan
county, came up, and he talked to Tay-
lor. He insisted on Taylor calling out the
militia. Taylor said: My God, you peo-
pie must do something first adding: Il
can get the militia quick enough. You
fellows must act first By that under
stood we fellows must raise a riot in the
senate chamber. Goebel was there. AS
told you this morning, we would clean out
enough of that legislature there to make
it our way
'What do you mean by that?'
ooh, kill them.
"After Taylor was through talking I
urged Powers to get the train with me,
as it was due. I learned that Senator Goe-
bel had been shot at La Grange. We con-
tinued on to. Louisville. 1 do not know
why Mr.. Powers went to Louisville. Both
John and Caleb Powers were along. We
left Frankfort that afternoon and went
directly to the statehouse. never saw Mr..
Powers again that day."
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
No Cause for Alarm.

San Francisco, March 26.-The board
of trade and other commercial organi-
cations of this city propose to call a
meeting for the purpose of refuting
sensational reports regarding the bu-
bonic plague which, it is asserted, have
injuriously affected business interests.
There is no plague scare here, and, de-
spite the opinion expressed by the
board of health, the statement is posi-
lively made that not single case of
that disease has been discovered in
Chinatown.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

Among the wounded soldiers who
arrived at Southampton the other day
from South Africa was Private
O'Leary, whose case was remarkable.
He was shot in the head during the
battle of Colenso. The bullet lodged
in his brain, rendering him speech
less, sightless and paralyzed. His
life was despaired of, but Sir William
MacCormac, president of the Royal
College of Surgeons, who was acting
as volunteer surgeon with the British
army in South Africa, removed por-
ton of the wounded mans brain, ex-
tracted the bullet, and O'Leary has
since practically recovered.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
MOB TRIUMPHS.
Troops Withdrawn from EmpOria,
Va, and the Lynching of the
Negro Follows.

Richmond, Va, March 26. - The
troops left Emporia for Richmond at
1925. The mob organized and the ne.
gro Cotton was hanged to tree in the
courthouse yard at 12:45. His body was
then riddled with bullets. The attempt
to lynch the white tramp failed.
Richmond, Va, March 26.-The ne
groes sof Greensville have lynched
O'Grady, the white man who was with
Cotton, the negro, when he killed Saun.
ders and Walton. Cotton was lynched
earlier in the day by mob of white
men.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

Over 100 miles of beach has been
prospected at Cape Nome, Alaska, and
yet no man may say where the golden
sands begin or end. The formation
Of this beach country is precisely the
same as that of the ''bogs" in Ireland
and Scotland. It is called the ''Tun-
dra." All along the surface is the
marsh, filled with matted moss, which
the Scotch and Irish call peat, and
which may be dried and used for fuel,
an important matter where timber
Is so difficult of access.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
DiSturbers Sentenced.

Fort De France, March &c (Via Hay.
tian Cable).-The persons arrested dur.
ing the last disturbances here, charged
with unlawfully interfering with the
right Of labor at La Soudan, have beer
sentenced by the correctional tribunal
of Fort De france to terms varying
from one year to six months in prison.
Those arrested at Trois Rivieres were
all sentenced to six months imprison.
ment
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

So rigorous is the news censorship
in South Africa that one might easily
believe Lord Roberts has adopted the
plan chosen by Gen. Moltke during
the Franco-Prussian war. The gen.
eral one morning sent for well
known English correspondent and
said: 'Mr. Blank, on such and such
day the German army will make
such and such movement. If this
appears in the paper you represent
you will at once be shot!" The corre-
spondent took the hint.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

NJ. Picard, commissioner general of
the 1900 exhibition, has been informed
by the president of the jewelry Sec
ton that an enormous diamond from
Kimberley will be exhibited in the
iewelry pavilion. The stone was
found shortly before the war. 1t has
been insured for So, 100000, and will be
exhibited in a show case guarded by
tour policemen. The new diamond
Is said to be finer than the Regent,
the Shah, the Grand Mogul and the
famous Koh-i-noor.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
Women Register.

Cleveland, o., March 26.-More than
5000 women registered in Cleveland
Friday in order to be eligible to vote
for director of schools at the spring
election The indications were that
fully as many more would register Sat.
urday. Heretofore the number OF
women voters has been confined to a
few hundred. The unusually heavy reg
istration by the women is the result OF
agitation in favor of keeping the public
schools out of politics.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
Body Found in Ruins.

Philadelphia, March &c. = The body
of Charles Warren was found Satur-
day in the ruins of the building at 1913
South Eleventh street, which was
wrecked on Thursday by an explosion
of fashlight powder in T. H. McCollin
& Co.'s blue print plant on the fourth
floor. This makes two killed by the
explosion. Warren was in the employ
of Z. III. McCollin & Co., and had been
missing since the calamity. The body
was discovered Saturday under mass
of debris
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
Held as an Outlaw.

San Francisco, March 26. The mill
tary authorities at Manila have pris-
oner who will be sent to this country
shortly if his identity can be estab-
lished. He is believed TO be "Bill'
Redman, the notorious outlaw who is
accused of several murders, and who
escaped from the rough riders when
recognized by a comrade. In 1893 he
was accused of numbering Mrs
Shoemaker in Kansas City. The pris-
oner denies his guilt.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

American capital is very much in
evidence in Mexico, and has been for
some years, but not until a few weeks
ago has any American ever had any
voice in the government of the City
of Mexico, where large part of
American capital is centered. The
last elected to the city council is
George Braniff, son of Thomas Bran
if, reputed to be the wealthiest
American in the republic of Mexico.
The Yankee councilman is but IS
years of age, and is a large dealer in
machinery. He was placed by the
president of the council at the head
of the committee of coaches.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
Killed by Cave-In.

Pittsburgh, Pa, March 26.-One man.
was killed ami five injured by cave-in
at Whitehall tunnel, on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, ten miles south of this
city. The men were engaged at ex-
cavating, when the timbers gave way
and buried them under the debris. All
were taken out alive, but one man died
a few minutes later.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
At n Stan DIS till.

Washington, March &c. = Inquiry
here bears out the statement credited
to Ambassador White, at Berlin, that
nothing is going on about the German
American commission. The truth is,
as before intimated by the officials,
here. that all of the negotiations re-
specting reciprocity have come to an
absolute halt.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

The care that the watches of rail-
way men receive is shown in the reg
ulations recently adopted by west
ern railway for its employees. Seven
teen -jeweled watches are required,
They must be inspected every three
months and must be submitted to the
inspector once a week for registra-
ton. No employe is permitted to set
his watch or to change it's movements
unless it should chance to run down,
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
Artists Good Fortune.

Reno, New, March 26.-J. B. Schweit-
zer, a young artist of this place, has
fallen heir to fortune of about $780,
600, beQueathed to him by his uncle.
John Bryan Griffith, who recently died
in India
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
Want tn RESIGN.

Copenhagen, March 26.-The Danish
cabinet have iEtimated to the king their
desire to resign, owing to the attitude
of the folkething (the lower house of
parliament) regarding the govern
ment's taxation proposals, but the min
listers will remain in office until the end
of the parliamentary session.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
On His Way to Syria.

New York, March 26.-Dr. Walter NJ.
Fleming, imperial potentate of the
Order of the Mobiles of the Mystic.
Shrine in the United States, will sail at.
once for London on his way to Syria,
where a convention of the order is to-
be held in the spring.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

A porcelain factory in Graefenthal,
Germany, has received an order from
England for 5000 dozen figures repre-
senting wounded British soldier,
with bandaged head, standing up
erect, gun in hand, ready to face the
approaching enemy despite his
wounds. A second order is for num-
ber of British sailors standing by
their guns pointed at the enemy.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30

Judging from the reports of the
registrar general of New Zealand,
that fine martial race, the Maoris, is
going the way of all aborigines
whose country has been colonized by
the whites. They may not become alb
solutely extinct for few more de-
cades, but their doom is sealed.
Among the causes officially assigned
for the thinning of their numbers
are the high infantile mortality re-
sulting from improper food, exposure
and the want of ordinary care, con-
stitutions debilitated by past de-
bauchery, and the belief in native
doctors and the neglect of the sick.
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
More Shops Give In.

Cleveland, O., March 26. = 1t was an
nounced at the headquarters of the
striking machinists that in all 10 con-
Germs had granted the demand for a
nine-hour day with ten hours pay. At
these shops the men have resumed
work
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
MIMI

Boys in Nebraska carry, when hunt
ing, coil of hose about an inch in
diameter, which they pay out down a
rabbit hole until the bottom is reach
ed, meanwhile drawing the mouth of
a sack over the hole. A cheerful
shout down the hose brings the rab-
bit out at his best pace, plump into
the sack
The Ely miner., 1900-03-30
Visit Jacksonville.

Jacksonville, Fla, March &c. - Ad.
miral and Mrs. Dewey reached Jack.
sonville at ten o'clock a. M, and were
met by reception committee. The
guests were taken to the Windsor ho.
tel, where the public reception was
held from II to 12 After luncheon at
the Windsor military reception was
given at the armory. The party left at
two D. m. for ST. Augustine.