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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06
A New Outburst of Folly.

The Globe-Democrat is deter
mined to fight Missouri in every
mean and slanderous way. 1t
says Illinois has increased in
population and wealth much
faster than Missouri because
the former is republican and
the latter democratic. But it
shows that the population of
Missouri outside the big city has
increased as fast, yes, at a
greater ratio than Illinois out
side of Chicago.
Now here is a damaging fact
for the Globe Democrats theory
that democracy causes Missouri
to lag behind. st. Louis is
and has for more than ten years
been republican, while Chicago
has been democratic most all
the time; yet democratic Chica
go has i creased three or foLr
times as fast as republican ST.
Louis, Again rural Missouri is
democratic while rural Illinois
is republican; yet democratic
rural Missouri has inCrea Sed
faster than republican rural
Illinois. Thus, if politics las
anything to do with increase Of
population, democracy is most
favorable. So much for the
Globes new outburst of politi,
cal..-Shelbiua Democrat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06

nth plenty of good places for
the "sons of somebodies, and
the Government must meet the
proposition of fortifying our
colonial outposts in the Philip
pines In the Ladrones, in Hawaii
and in Porto Rico. Here too,
will be plenty of pie for ia.
vored contractors.
Thanksgiving day Mrs. Anna
Byrd Averell went into a drug
store and asked for a headache
tablet. A clerk handed her a
tablet which she supposed was
what she asked for. When she
reached the place where she
was to visit that day she took
the tablet and in an instant
realized that that a mistake
had been made in the medicine.
The drug store was telephoned
and it was found that mercu
~ tablet had been given her.
-Four doctors worked with here
for some time to save her life.
Saturday morning she was still
alive. She lives inlcarrollton
aud a druggist there madeSthe
mistake
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06
Horses Wanted!

l will be at Monroe City, Mo.
Friday December Z, 1900 at
Spalding & Haydens Stable to
buy Horses, Mares and Mules
suitable for the Eastern and
Southern market. From to 8
years old, weighing from 900 TO
1900 pounds; must be in good
flesh and ready for market.
Will pay good prices for
Chunks and Drafts that will
weigh from 1900 to 1900 if they
are fat.
If you have a nice horse or a
good pair show them to me as
they are my kind.
A. @. SPALDING.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06
Huntin gtOn
mistake

Miss Martha Glascock spent Satur
day and Sunday with her friend, Mrs.
o. w. Colgate, of Monroe City.
Prof. Hodge Forman, of Hannibal,
was here last week hunting quails with
B. A. McElroy and William Fahy.
Mrs. Dixie Carpenter is no b ter at
this writing. Mrs. Carpen sr has
been very low with typhoid fever for
the past two months.
r. p. Shaw has sold his fine stock
farm north of town to Chris Lehn-
banct, of West Ely. Mr.. Shaw will
locate in California.
Edward Below, who is attending
the Union College at Quincy. came
home to eat Thanksgiving turkey with
the home folk.
j. A. Bieloh's family will leave
shortly for TeXacana, Arkansas,
where Mr.. Bieloh is connected with a
lumber company.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06

Webster Davis will deliver
forty lectures on the South
African cause for a lecture
Bureau and for same is to re
ceiVe $4,000.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06

No danger of getting an in
ferior grade of Perfumes. We
only handle the celebrated
Scion Palmers finest made.
RANEY & SAUNDERS.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06
Opening of Congress,


personification of serenity, Pres
ident Mckinley is arranging a
programme for Congress under
conditions that are uueXampled
in the history of the United
States.
More power to influence legis.
lation no President ever had
since Lincoln.
The opening of this session of
Congress, which will end with
the first term of Mckinley, has
much about it to suggest the &C
tual beginning of the second
term without waiting for the in
auguration on March 4.
The first President to di-
rectly succeed himself since
Grant in 1872. Mr.. Mckinley
and his party associates intend
to interpret the verdict at the
polls on November 6, as an en-.
dOrsement and a mandate and
they are preparing TO obey the
mandate" at home and abroad.
McKinley's second term to all
intents and purposes has begun.
He is stronger than ever in his
control of the Government ma.
chinery.
Mr.. Mckinley has taken the
country through the door of CO.
lonial expansion. He stands
now ready to lead it into what
his friends fondly term the
golden era" 1t is likely to be
Il golden era for the goal rath-
er than for the sheep. 81
Washington to night is liter
ally over.run with lobbyists, at
torneys, secret agents and out
spoken men of money, all in
triguing for Il share ia the
wealth that the President is
preparing to pour out of his
cornnCopia of plenty. They
call it by different terms, but
"slices of pork and FINGERS of
pie" are the favorite express
ions.
A light Rip Van Wrinkle sleep
er, who dozed off January /,
1898 and awakened say last
week, could scarcely realize
what had happened to the in
term, so complete has been the
transformation He would find
the country at peace just as it
was when he went to sleep. He
would discover that the ex-
penses of the Government,
which were 1855, 773, 159 in 1887.
the last year before the war
had leaped to S487,713,761 in
1900. He would observe that
the total revenues, which in
1897 were $347721,705 had
sprung up. under the stimulus
of the war tax to 1857, 240, 851,
The whole membership of
Congress, from Senator Frye
and Senator Hanna down to the
youngest member of the House
are excited over the ship sub.
sldy bill. The motive is that |
American freight shall be car
ried in American ships, but it is
the prize money that challenges
attention. 1t is Il matter of
$50, 900, 900 spread over ten
years III the Iate of 100000
per aInum. Such a descent of
ship ownes mas there been that
the prime object, the encour-
aging of American ship building
has been lost sight of, and for.
eign built ships in anticipation
of the passage of the bill, are
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06

The finest perfumes and the
neatest packages at.
WOODS Drug Store.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06

Col. r. E. Lear continues to
improve.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06
DON'T Be DUPED

There have been placed upon the market
several cheap reprints of an obsolete edition
of Websters Dictionary" They are being
offered under various names at low price
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06
Worthless

repri",a are very misleading; for instance,
they Trc advertised 10 he the substantial
equivalent uf IL hipicr-priccd book, when in
reality, 50 far Ms We know and bc!iCV" they
ire all, frOm : to II,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06
Long Since Obsolete.

The Supplement az 10000 sO-cnllCd "ueH
words" which some of these books aye udVcr-
tised to contain wns compiled by tt gentle
man who died over forty years ago, und was
additions are probably of more or les al.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21
NIXON CHARGES /.
FORMER CLERK
WITH PERJURY.

A complaint charging Phil Sanchagrin
with the crime Of perjury was issued by
the county attorney today and filed in
ustice Nichols court late this after
noon.
The charge against the defendant was
made by S. M. Nixon, in whose employ
as a clerk Sanchagrin had been up to
few months ago. Last fall Mr.. Nixon
suspected Sanchagrin of having stolen a
lot Of goods from the store he was con-
Quoting on East Park street, and had
his room searched. In the room were
goods valued at $107, which Mr.. Nixon
identified as some that had been taken
from the store. A charge Of grand lar
ceny was then made against Sanchagrin,
but it afterwards transpired that in
order to prove the charge 1t would be
necessary to show by testimony that as
much as $50 worth of the goods had been
stolen at one time. This could not be
done and the complaint was dismissed.
Shortly afterwards Mr.. Nixon brought
a civil suit against Sanchagrin in Justice
Smiths court to recover judgment for
the value of the goods. Following this,
Sanchagrin expressed valuable ring to
one Edith Fuller, a colored woman, re-
siding at Lewistown, IdahO the ring be-
ing intended as Christmas present to
her. Nixon heard of it and attached the
ring while 1t was in the possession of the
Northern Pacific Express company. San
chagrin claimed that the property be-
longed to the woman, and commenced
proceedings to prevent Nixon from get
ting it. On the witness stand he swore
the woman had sent him by registered
letter 500 with which to purchase it, and
as a result Of his testimony he won the
fall. Since then Mr.. Nixon has ascer-
tained from both the postoffice at Lewis
todn and the postoff1ce here that no such
letter was ever mailed or received, and
the perjury charge is the result.
Mr.. Nixon is also in possession of other
information concerning the Fuller wo-
man and Sanchagrin and has 1t in black
and white.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21
A REJ0INDER TO
''AN0THER CLERK, j"
To the Inter Mountain:

Would request few lines of your VAL
liable space. to reply to an article in last
evenings paper. signed Another Clerk"
and written py a Second Hand Dealer
on East Park street. In the first place.
he mentions the fact that ninety per
cent of his customers told htm they were
opposed to the six O'Clock closing move-
ment must beg to take issue with
the gentleman in this statement, for af-
ter my experience with the purchasing
public Of Butte, I cannot believe that
even ten per cent of the customers of
any house are opposed to this movemen. t
l am employed by the Good Luck Shoe
and Clothing Co., and since this agita-
tlon has been started. I have spoken to
a great many of our customers about It.
and with the execution of two. every one
of them has said they were in favor
of the movement and nopes we will get
it; and even of these two. one Of them
afterwards told me that he had some-
what changed his views, for when he
first spoke to me he had no idea that
the movement would meet with such uni.
versal approval
In regard to the cut in wages, I de.
sire to state only this: between the time
of the introduction and passage of the
resolution in the Clerks union, in the
largest department. store in the city. the
manager OF the grocery department told
the assistant manager that while he per-
sonally was in favor of the movement,
and hoped it would pass. stiNl the salar-
les of the men would be cut to the
minimum union wages, and he would
like to see him (the assistant manager)
to so state the case to the clerks. Not
withstandlng this bluff-and we believe
1t to be bluff-every clerk in that gro.
Gerry department came up to the meet.
ing and In secret ballot voted to sup.
port the resolution.
In regard to the wages, I desire to say.
minimum union wages In Butte for
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21

clerks is eighty dollars per month, and
II clerk receives ninety or one hundred
dollars, 1t is because his abilities and
services to his employer are worth that
amount, and not because he works SC
many hours per day: nor does his em-
p oyer pay him the extra ten or twenty
dollars per month from philaHthropic
motives, but because he cannot get equal
ability and service for less than that
amount
The argument that woman must take
care of her babies during the day and
must make her purchases during the
evening, while her husband, home from
q hard days labor, administers soothing
syrup to the children, is too ridiculous to
entertain; but would only ask who Is
to take care of the children Of the poor
woman who must stand behind the coun-
ter the whole day, and evening too the
man who works day shift all the time.
has every Saturday evening, or the even
ing preceding legal holiday, in which
to make his purchases. In the course OF
a year this amounts to 24O hours. and
who is the man-except employees OF
stores-who spends 10 per cent of that
time In the stores, even If he has moth
ing else to do?
In regard to opposition to committees
from labor Orga nfzatiOns, / desire to say
that the merchants who have signed the
3 O'Clock closing agreement have done so
cheerfully and willingly; there has been
no coercion or force.
The Clerks Union is composed OF
ladies and gentlemen, every one of them,
and II any merchant who is opposed to
this movement SO desires he may appear
before that organization, and l will
guarantee him courteous treatment and
a respectful hearing; and if he can show
us that we are working any hardship on
MIN, we are perfectly willing to recede
from our position; but as long as we feel
that we are right, and that we work no
hardship on anyone, we propose to go
ahead in movement which we feel will
vastly better our condition.
In regard to the party who wrote the
article in last evenings Inter ountain,
he is not clerk, nor does he employ
any. AS merchant he is keeping his
store open until 10 and II o'clock every
evening, and all day Sunday, and he can
scarcely be expected to favor any change
for the elevation of mankind. Yours
truly, LOUIS I. HARRIS.
The Inter Mountain received another
answer to Another Clerk signed IAN
ex-Store Slave" The communication was
not accompanied by the authors name
necessary as an evidence of good faith),
and is not published.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21
LOCAL BRIEFS
Fisher, Tailor. 10 s. Main street.
DR.. Reed. Dentist. 115 North Main.
Cl1tan RraS nianoa and arrana 21Q n

Fisher, Tailor. 10 s. Main street.
DR.. Reed. Dentist. lis North Main.
Orton Bros. pianos and organs 21s N.
Main.
Digest of Montana Reports, Evans
Book store.
j. G. Bates. tuner. Montana Music
company. Tel. 5o4.
Will trade labor of any kind for Butte
property. SO West Granite.
Try Philadelphia Famous Scrappie sold
at all grocery stores and markets
S. NJ. Wade has moved to SO North
Main. Room 6, Real Estate and money to
loan.
Chemicals and assayers' supplies. Fair
Drug and Assay Supply company, 11S
! Eas. Park street.
, Butte Stove Repair company for AK
lures and Home Comfort ranges. Phone
629. 2l6 2. Park.
Remember the old soldiers of 1851 mill
tary ball Feb. %, Miners Union hall.
Admission soc. Ladies free.
New brand of Fresh oysters, some
thing new. Served only at Sherman's
Cafe.
Try meal without meat at the Battle
Creek Sanitarium Health-food Restau-
rant, Sc East Broadway.
Office of Macdonald & Lynch, removed
from No. 81 East Park street to d. Gold
berg ticket office, No. q North Main.
The Knights and Ladies of Security
will give a card party at Frost's hall,
South Butte, on February 10. Members
please bring cake.
Mrs. Godfrey who has been sick for two
or three weeks is up again and will at
tend the social dance at her hall tonight;
also on class nights, Monday and Friday
hereafter. -. IL -
We have a whisky made by William
Patterson. Jr., of Louisville, KY, in 1892.
It's not advertised as thoroughly as
some brands, but is perfect in strength.
flavor and purity. 81 a gallon. Montana
Liquor Co.
Joseph G. Hoar and Miss Clara Tor
renee were united in marriage by Judge
Clancy at o'clock last evening, the
ceremony being performed in the Judges
chambers at the court house. Mr.. Hoar
is an expert on mines; his bride is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Tor.
renee.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21
LEVERE- -0GLESBY
MATCH WILL BE
A LIVELY AFFAIR.

The much heralded event between
Chester Levere of this city and William
Oglesby of Helena, will be pulled off to-
night under the auspices of the Butte
Athletic association. The contest is for
% rounds with soft gloves. and it prom
ises to be a very c,ever and lively exri.
bttion.
The men have signed articles to enter
the ring weighing 1873 pounds They
weighed in at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
and the difference between them is only
fractional
Ogaesby has shade the best of it In
helghth and reach. He is about one
inch taller than his opponent. He has
fought innumeraible battles ana has
never gone down to defeat. He is a
great favorlte in Helena and q large
contingent of Helena sports are In the
city prepared ITO back the clever Helena
fighter.
Levere has been in the city several
months and has fought two or three
contests before the local cluo, and always
with credit to himself. He has even a
better record than Oglesby in that he
has fought more than thirty contests
winning every one of them and newer
fighting a draw.
Prior to the principal event there will
De preliminary event of more than orr
dinary interest
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21
The Shooting Was Done In Self
Defense.
CANNON THE AGGRESSOR
He Had Been Drinking and Quarreled
Over Change For a Five
Dollar Bill.

Joseph Cannon was shot and instantly
killed by John Kehoe in the saloon at the
corner Of Galena and Main streets at
about 1920 o'clock this afternoon. Kehoe,
who is one of the proprietors of the
place, was on duty tending bar when
Cannon came in and ordered drink.
Cannon was somewhat under the intlu-
ence of liquor at the time. He gave
Kehoe fve-dolar bill, and when Kehoe
gave him back his change Cannon pro-
tested, claiming that the bill he had
given him was ten dollars. Kehoe
opened the drawer and showed him the
five-dollar BILL but this did not convince
him.
Cannon then left the place, returning
in a few minutes with an officer. He
told the officer that kehoe had robbed
him, and that he had brought him there
to make Kehoe refund the money
Kehoe again opened the till and showed
the officer the bill over which the trouble
had arisen, and made satisfactory ex-
panation. The officer then left the place.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21
r. I. BOatman Talks of Boom
in the Market.
FOR ENGLISH CAVALRY
Agents After American HOrSeS-.PriceS
Have Trebled in Two
Years.

"Like every other product of the west
horsefiesh is advancing" said Robert T.
Boatrnan to an Inter Mountain reporter
today. Mr.. Boatman deals extensively
in horses. He is horse broker and is the
western manager for Kansas City Com
mission house which handles thousands
Of animals annually. Mr. Boatman
spends much of his time in Montana. He
owns big horse ranch in the southern
part of the state, and last year bought for
his house between 1000 and 5000 Montana
range horses. He keeps his finger on the
pulse Of the horse market and knows
what he is talking about.
THE improvement is not due to the
general prosperity of the west, but be-
j cause horses are in demand. A horse
/ that could not be sold for S. two years
! ago now commands all the way from SIS
, to $40, or more. I refer to unbroken range
F! horses of medium weight. Those who
could not sell two years ago are content,
now that they were forced to keep their
horses, which have advanced in value
several hundred per cent. This improve
ment is one which make the horse own
ers inclined to give the man who writes
| the bicycle and automobile jokes at the
i expense of the horse. the horse laugh.
"Yearings are now commanding bet
ter price than grown horses did a few
years ago. The improvement is due en-.
tirely to legitimate demand. In the years
Of depression the horsemen paid no atten-
ton to breeding, and the percentage of
increase fell off. Then, on, the other hand
I there has been a big demand for cavalry
horses. Agents of European govern
ments, attracted by the low priced Amer
lean horses, have come to this country to
purchase their mounts, and thousands of
the crack troopers of Europe ride Ameri-
can bred animals have in my pocket a
letter from an agent of England, who
wishes to buy Montana horses for cav
airy purposes He expects to buy several
thousand.
! "All these things have mad a desirab e
effect. The overplus has been weeded OUT
with the result that the prices have ad-
vanced three or four times what thew
We're in the days of depression, and they
Will Keep advancing until they have
reached something like their mark in the
old days. believe this is good time to
Duy horses, and that is just what I am
DOING for myself, because believe the
advance in the price of horseflesh during
the next two years will be something
phenomenal"
! Mr.. Boatman has letter from Butte
man who wants to buy a herd of 1000
horses. Eastern inquiries, particularly
Tor farm animals are numerous and Mr..
Boatman recently shipped several car
loads to Iowa.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21
Another Display Of Force on
Washington Placer.
TO GET REINFORCEMENTS
Smeltermen Drive Out Invaders, But
Position is Recaptured-N0
BlOOdShed.

The contest over the ownership OF the
Washington placer, which has been oc-
cupying" the attention. Of the honorable
secretary of the interior and the district
court, resulted last night in a display of
physical force between two forces of
men supposedly representing the Mon
tana Ore Purchasing company and the
Butte & Boston Mining company. There
was much maneuverlng of the respective
forces, and several volleys Of loud talk
We're exchanged, but fortunately no one
was injured.
The Washington placer is, or was sit
uated near the mouth Of Park canyon,
east of Meadervil!e. A short time ago
George Gemmel relocated it as the Tam
arack quartz lode. and contested the
issuance of a patent to the ground to
the Butte & Boston people on the ground
that the representation was faulty. Gem
mel took possession until a temporary
restraining order was issued by Judge
Clancy, at the instance of the Butte &
Boston company, prohibiting him from
working on the Tamarack shift.
The Butte & Boston company own the
ground Immediately east of the Wash
ington, or Tamarack. 1t is known as
the Wilson placer. Several days ago a
Butte q Boston 0HlplOyo UoSdH SlHkIH6 d
shaft between the two properties. Last
night force of men, representing un-
known persons, appeared on the scene in
force and began work on the Tamarack
shaft.
When the Butte & Boston men at work
on the Wilson claim realized that the
Washington had been invaded they wig
wagged the information to the Butte &
Boston smelter. Apparently some one
was watching for the signal, and in re-
sponse large force of men, probably so,
left the shelter and marched to the Will
son shaft. With this heavy reinforce
merit the men at work on the Wilson
charged ON the force which had taken
possession of the Tamarack and drove
them from the claim. The Tamarack
men retreated to a safe distance, when
they did q little signaling o0l their own
account. The signals We're answered by
a large force Of men who came from the
hills east of the claim. Reinforced, they
advanced gon the Tamarack, drove the
Butte & Boston men out, and took pos
session, and at a late hour this after
noon9were still holding the fort.
The Butte & Boston force then with
drew from the locality and marched on
some Heinze claims situated about half
a mile from the Tamarack, and drove
Captain Terry Lennon and his force of
mensaway. Lennon and his men went to
the Heihze smelter on their return with
a strong army, and the Butte & Boston
force retreated, leaving the Heinze men
in possession.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-21
PERSONALS,

T.. w. Vest. the partly gentleman who
wears the title Of general western mani
ager for the Majestic Range company of
st. Louis, is in the city. He Is fresh
from tn Pacific coast. During his stay
in Seattle he sold shipload Of ranges
for transportation to Nome City and the
Klondike.
Pat Mullins came up from Salt Lake
this afternoon. He says his mine down
there is showing up as well as ever.
Gen. J. A. Browne came up from Mel
rose today.
H. c. Wood. H. f. Hershey. N. D. Por-
ter and w. r. Young are registered at
the Butte from Idaho.
Albert MetZel, prominent young
stockman OF Madison county, is in the
city.
HI. H. Armsted, Jr., ID. w. Simpson, N.
F.. Bartholomew, George w. Corbin and
j. w. COrbin, all of New York. are regis
tered at the Butte.