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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03
NOTICE.

All stores will be closed all day on tho
Fourth Of July. On July 8 the stores may
remain open until 10 p. m.
(Signed) BUTTE CLERKS UNION.
CHAS. LANNIN, Pres,
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Sewing machines TOR rent. by week or
month. National Undertaking co1a-
pany. u East Quarts.
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Kansas City. July 3.-The second days
session of the Monetary league began in
the Auditorium today with a light attend
ance. B. II. Heath of North Carolina read
a paper in which he denounced Imperialism
and militarism and advocated the nomi-
nation of Bryan and Towne. Gen. A. j.
Warner of Ohio discussed the currency bill
passed by the last congress-.
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LOST-BUNCH OF KEYS WITH AN
ivory tab attached. Return to Slem-
Ons & LaWlor's Office.
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SEATS CLARK'S MEN
IN The CONVENTION
Continued from Page One.)

carry any western state with the silver
issue in the background" said Delegate
]. D.. Medill, of Washington today. I'VE
depend on our fusion allies for party sue
cess in the west n anything else than a
fiat declaration for free coinage would
not be listened to. This is practically the
unanimous sentiment of the delegation"
The Washington delegation held a eau
u today and elected Thomas Maloney
chairman and w. H. Dunphy national
committeeman. o. G. Ellis was chosen
as member of the committee on resolu-
tons. The delegates decided to support
]. Hamilton Lewis for vice presi-
dent and National Committeeman Dun
ply will place him in nomination
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

New York, July 3.-The search for bodies
of persons who persisted in the fire at the
North German Lloyd c~ompany's piers in
Hoboken was resumed today. Up to the
stoppage of work late last night 81 bodies
had been recovered.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

st. Louis. July 3.-The 20 striking street
car men who We're arrested at the time Of
the trouble in front of the posse barracks
on Washington avenue, June 10, when
deputy sheriffs shot and killed several Of
their companions, have been indicted by
the grand jury. Each is held on three
counts, all of which practically cover the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03
OFF WORLDS WIRE
Condensed Items Of Interest From
Every Part of the Globe.

Brisbane, Australia, July 3.-From one
and a half to three inches of rain has
fallen over the whole drought stricken por-
ton of the colony of Queensland. 1t is still
raining heavily and the drought has been
completely broken up.
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TRI-PARTY CONFERENCE,

A conference of the three political par
ties was held at the Kansas City club to-
day. From the democratic party there
were Jones Of Arka Tillman of
South Carolina, Croker of New York,
Johnson Of Kansas. From The populists
there were Crimson Of Nebraska, Weaver
of Iowa, Pettigrew of South Dakota, Allen
Of Nebraska, and Heitfield of Idaho and
of the silver republicans there were Tell
err of Colorado, Dubois of Idaho, New
lands of Nevada. There We're other rep
resentatives of the different parties pres
ent. The object of &1e meeting was to
form the basis of an agreement between
the three allied parties as to a vice presi-
Dental candidate.
The Michigan delegation this morning
announced itself as favorable to Towne
for vice president.
James Kerr, secretary Of International
congressional committee and former
Congressman Mitchler returned from
their visit to Lincoln this morning. Their
mission was fruitless.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

Denver, Colo, July ga dispatch from
New York announces that at a meeting Of
the Colorado & Midland road, held yester-
day, Frank E. umbull was elected presi-
dent.
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Washington, July 3.-The treasury bureau
of merchant marine states that for the
calendar year of 1900 the tonnage officially
numbered, added to the United States mer-
chant mare, amounted to All. 034 gross tons.
About 5000 tons of Hawaiian vessels and
less than 1000 tons of Orto Rican shipping
We're admitted to American registry.
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Chicago, July ga special to the Tribune
from Washington says: Secretary Wilson
has appointed DR.. William c. Stubs Of
New Orleans as a special agent to Hawaii
and soil conditions, with a view of estab-
fishing a number of government expert
will spend July and August in travelling
over the country and studying its re-
sources. 1t is hoped to greatly increase the
amount OF exports from the. islands.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

Washington, July 3.-Mr. Espinosa, con-
sui general of Colombia at New York.
had a conference with Secretary Hay. The
consul general emphatically denies the ac-
curacy of the stories which report the
surrectionists are making great Roadway
in Colombia. He says that the dispatches
of Saturdays date declaring that Carta-
gena and ~aranquilla are in possession of
the government forces and have been all
along are correct.
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THEY QUERY MR.. BRYAN.

CINCICNVNAI II E4SV I1tI11N'
The conference between the leaders OF
the democratic, populist and silver re-
publicans today resulted practically in
q, decision to incorporate a specific dec
for the free coinage of silver at
the ratio Of 16 to 1 in the democratic
No agreement was reached IN
tho vice presidency,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11
Pirates of the Straits of Ma
gellan.

In the track of multiplying
American commerce with the
far east-their bolduess grow
ing with the number of the ships
that pass, and holding the door,
way from the Atlantic to the
Pacific-ls pirate tribe as
treacherous and cruel as the
worst of the roVers who sailed
the Spanish main. Worse, in
deed, they are than the Malay
marauders of the Oriental seas.
They find their shield in dark
ness, yet fire is their most pc,
tent weapon, says the New
York Herald.
Mariners who have stunned
the wild waters that meet at
Cape Horn and sought Il more
peaceful passa sc from ocean to
ocean through the straits of
Magellan for more than a gear
have been bringing to San Fran
cisco wild tales of savage cut
threats and robbers. More like
the yarns of the forecastle than
narratives of truth they have
sounded.
Dark brown men, with matted
hair, ard armed with huge
spears and knives, lights that
fitted about in dark caves and
on the face of the waters like
the willo.the. wisp in the bog,
have been the visions that vigi.
liant lookouts have reported.
Men disappearing from decks
where they had been set to
watch, and with them all that
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11
u Happened in a Drug Store.

zone day last winter lady came to my drug
store and asked for brand ofcough medicine
Grandin. the popular druggist of Ontario. N,
Y she was disappointed and wanted to
know what cough preparation could recon-.
mend, / said TO her that could freely recon-
mend Chamberlain's Cough Romede and that
she could take bottle OF the remedy and after
giving II fair trial If she did not find 1t worth
refund the price paid, In the course of day
or two the lady came back in company with
friend in need OF cough medicine and edvis-
Remedy, consider hat u very good recon-
mendation for the remedy" The remedy owes
It's great popularity and extensive sale In a
large measore to the personal recommendation
of people who have been cured by its use. For
sale by o Wood aud Raney 4 Saunders:
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11
williams Dream.

w
Mark.
How now, your majesty? Your eyes
are red
AS plume that waves DER circus
horses head,
And swollen rs if you had had 60
In squard arena with iistic foe.
Your face is drawn and feverlshly
hot,
What maieth you 50 ratified and dis
traught;
Mac:
'Twas but dream, and yet twas such
dream,
So vivid ia its pictures did it seem,
That after waking yet it seemed to be
But half vision, half reality.
MethOught | sat upon II throne of
gold,
It's metal seat uucomiortably cold
And round me, clad in golden armor,
and
With golden spear grasped firmly in
eachh and,
Were warlike men with features stern
andhard
Who seemed to form my royal body
guard,
At frequent intervals gay courtiers
came
Before the throne, and with Il low
salaam
Would hand me tidings from the fields
of war
And bloody conquest in the lands
afar
Where hero soldiers sent 10y my COM
mauds
BY force Of arms are snatching from
the hands
OF patriot men the flags of liberty
And crushing souls that struggle to
be free.
You should stood behind me, and
when | would feel
a sense of INDIGESTION o Ter me steal,
A conscience-shiver born of guilty
fear,
You'd stop and softly whisper in
mine ear
OF growing power that would some
day place
Our country foremost in the conquest
race
Until we owned the earth, and it
would ring
With laundering plaudits for the
Yankee king,
And all the earthly nations bow the
knee
In humble suppliance to You and me.
And then methought a heavy mist, as
'twere
A yap'ry curtain hanging in the air,
Rose slowly upward and mine eyes
did fail
On piteous scenes that did my soul
appal.
Brave soldiers lying meath hot
uOpic suns.
Unwillingly their thin hands grasping
guns,
And strewn around were new-dug
treuched graves
In which were tumbIed scores of
CHASTITY braves,
FIX.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11

to hour, covered at night and
blown to flame in the morning.
When the father hands the ca
noe to the son the fire goes with
it, and from generation to gen.
Grafton these fires have been
kept alight, until Terra del
Fuego has become known as
THE Land of Fire"
The flames can be smothered
when deed is to be done in the
dark, and as shecan protect the
Goals. But when signaling is
to be done or secrecy is to he
thrust aside, the light flashes
out from these canoes until
they become veritable fireflies
of the water.
No other people would live
where they do. There are set
Elements along the coast where
ships can get coal and supplies
and where whalerS make their
headquarters. But these DIRE
only outposts of commerce.
None of the inhabitants care to
venture into the country be-
yond, and the Feugans hold un.
disputed sway in the valleys,
covered with forest growth,
and in the mountains, where
hardy brush and trees vainly
try to cover the lodges of rock.
The winding channel of the
straits and sometimes the sea
itself furnished them place for
range for their craft of logs.
How many of them there are no
white man knows, but when the
channel, leaving Sandy Point,
ends its southwark course and
turns to the northwest, they
are found, and almost to the
mountains that guard the en-
trance to the Pacific their canoe
fires can be seen burning.
Tales have come of a white
leader in this savage fold-one
in whose veins flows the blood
of Caucasian, but who has turn
ed his mind to savagery and led
his companions to more cruel
work than they had ever thought
of doing.
BLACK Pedro" Spaniard,
once a trader of the coast, but
murderer and outlaw, is known
from one end to the other of the
straits. Sometimes he ap-
proaches the ships of the white
men and remembers his Spanish
again, and sometimes his long
matted beard has been seen
among those who have sought
to Stay and steal in the night.
He, it is believed, is now lead
ing the new pirates in desperate
attacks, and the mariners hope
for the time when a gunboat
will go down among the saw
age Fuegans and blow their
leader and a few score of them
out of the water as a warning
to their feliows.-Kansas City
Times.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11
Pryor Paragraphs.

Good listners often make
good sermons.
No preacher 81 big enough to
eclipse the Son of Righteous
ness. Don't try it. You will
surely fail.
If we would live for Christ
we must first live in Christ.
The mere contemplation of a
final escape from the contamin-
ating influence of sin and all Its
dire consequence is quite 4
stimulating incentive to devote
our lives to Gods service.
The man who is instrumental
in the hands of God in planting
a church of Christ on a destitute
field has done a work of inesti.
mable value for that community
and is a benefactor.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11

When you have no appetite. do not relish
your food and feel dull after eating you may
know that you need dose of Chamberlain's
stomomach and Liver Tablets. Price. % cents,
Samples free at b. o, Woods drug store,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11

{ Il
/ full nights in the still waters
under the shadow of the noun
tains that line the straits.
Mixed in with these tales,
too, have been others of more
dire import A CHILEAN gun
boat, armed with modern guns
and bearing modern search.
light, was mysterlously set atire
there not more than year ago
and all the members of the crew
were slain. Some of the bodies
found afterward bore evidence
to the work of man in this ca.
tastrophe.
Schooners and ships have
disappeared in late years after
leaving Sandy Point, in the
straits, and after having been
at anchor further along under
the hills. and partly burned
hulks have been reported to
indicate how they have met
their fate. Even big steamships
have narrowly escaped similar
fortune, for burning brands have
been thrown into port holes
while the crews were asleep,
and when the men have rushed
to fight the flames on another
part of the ship wild men of the
woods have appeared and at
tackled them, from behind, and,
besides loss of property, left
death and wounds as a remem-
brance.
dynamite johnny" O'Brien,
pilot of a score of daring fill
clustering expeditions in the
days when the Cubans were re-
ceiving arms from the United
States wherewith to continue
their fight against Spain, learn
ed to respect the terrors of the
straits a few weeks ago. He
entered the sheltered waters in
the steamer Dolphin, noted old
boat of New York waters, on
his way to San Francisco.
When he was at Sandy Point,
after entering the straits, he
was warned to beware of perils
further along, and an accident
and delay to his vessel nitro
duced him to them. One dark
night when the lookout was
vigilant, he saw lights glimmer
all about the ship, but far away,
He could detect nothing in
the water alongside, but sud
denly 4 burning board was
thrown on the deck and it was
found that another had been
thrown into port hole. Fire
started in both places. and
while one part of the crew was
engaged in fighting the other
part had its energies fully en-
ployed in beating off score of
invaders who were hurrylng to
the side of the ship in craft
whose progress could be locat-
ed by the lights they bore.
The invaders were beaten off
and then modern appliances
we've used to protect the ship.
All the iron railing in it was
connected with the dynamos in
the engine rooms, and a sharp
cry the next night told of a dis.
covery by a savage of the cur
rent which protected the vessel
until it was ready to proceed.
The schooner Carrier Dove
recently arrived in Seattle af-
ter a journey in which the crew
suffered hardship for lack of
food, supplements the tale of
pirates. The vessel had an &C.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11
savages at the same time.

IL Is the Fuegan lnuldnS VINO
are responsible for these terrors
of the only doorway 10 the east
pending the construction of the
Nicaragua canal. In the bleak
mountains and valleys of Terra
del Fuego aud on the islands
that stretch along the west, cut
up by scores of channels, they
have lived as far back as the
memory of marine extends.
1t was not so many years ago
that they were still unacquaint-
ed with the white men and that
the white men were unacquaint.
ed with them. In the olden
times mariners would now and
then see a canoe hurrying across
some channel or catch a glimpse
of moving light on the waters
at night, or an arrow would
come abroad a small craft as a
sign of hostility.
But the people were seldom
seen, except by those who might
be shipwrecked on the islands,
and they never lived to tell
about their discoveries. Sci
entists went there to study the
phenomena of nature and tried
to learn about the denizens of
the place. But they found they
would best approach one of the
tribesmen with a gun ready to
shoot and keep a sentinel over
their camps at night, at the
same time being ready always
to use a gun TO aid in defense.
They could get no information
from the Indians.
Civilization. however, finally
came to the tribesmen in one
way. Some of the holder ones
found they could venture out to
the ships that came through
and could appeal to the gen.
erosity of the white men so eff
fectively as to get food and
trunket, of which they had
never known before.
With their success others ven
tured, and now no ship can cast
anchor in the coves west of
Sandy Point without being sur
rounded in daylight by canoes
filled with disheveled brown
warriors and their squaws, all
crying out plaintively, Yam
mer schooner" 1t is a plea for
bread, or beads, or money, or
anything else that could take
the eye or untutored man.
Woe TO the mariner who lets
the motley crew send represen-
tatives on board his ship, for
when the night comes he will
receive a visiting card in the
shape of fire-brand that will
show him his visitors have used
their eyes we'll and have learn
ed W hat is the most vulnerable
part of his craft. And be he
ever so generous, he will find
plenty of others added to his
first visiter ready to Chamber
up the side of his vessel and add
whatever is loose to the store
of articles gained by gift.
1t is in the crudest of crafts
that these pirates of the end of
the nineteenth century ply their
trade. Logs burned out in the
fashion known to the Indian,
whether he lives in Alaska or
holds the last of land on the
point of Cape Horn, bear the
Fuegans through the water.
They are ugly craft, but their
crews can shoot them through
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11

Rev. M. L. McReynolds has
raised some big potatoes. He
told us of one that weighed two
pounds and measured 81 inches
in length and St in circumfer
ence. When asked why not
bring it to the Office so people
could see it? He replied, why
that potato will make us a mess.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-11
E. E. WEBB.
,

Money is made in selling goods at good prices
and IL takes "A fisrt class auctiOneer TO DO that,
Give me the work and IL is done as the people
ofthe state of Illinois will know. | have sold
many thousand of dollars worth of goods across
the river, Enquire at the DEMOCRAT office.
2-27
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-31
A Dogs Life.

Brownies, Jones married rich
wife; but he leads dogs life.
Smith Is that SO?
Brown Yes; he doesn't do blessed
thing but lay around the house and 90
out for an airing between meals.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-31
REFUSES TO BE AN EXHIBIT.

Woman Who Saved Train VIII Not
Visit Paris as Freak.
Marion, Ind, May 2S.--Miss Jennie
Creek, the heroine of Mill Grove, who
tagged the Chicago and New York
limited on the Pennsylvania railroad
during the worlds fair and saved 300
passengers from being dashed to
death through burning bridge, and
was made a member of the Legion of
Honor of France for her heroism, has
refused to accept the offer to go to the
exposition at Paris as guest of honor.
on the scheme being worked by man
in this city. A sixteen page souvenir,
containing a reproduction of her pho
tograph at the age of 10 and is, fac
smile of medal presented to her by
the French government and member
ship to the Legion of Honor, was being
printed and was to be sold at 81 copy
to the public Miss Creek says she will
go as a guest of the Pennsylvania
railroad and the Legion of Honor or
in some other dignified way, but not
as subject of charity of the public or
freak.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-31
BIG BATTLE EXPECTED.
English and Beers May Clash at Laine's

$50 -sA. s.AA>.e A'ocis ANsy NASH at AalnE'S
Mex.
London, May 29.-Lord Roberts has
10000 infantry, 10000 horse and $50
guns moving on Johannesburg and
Pretoria, through parched and de-
serted country. Several correspondents
wire the London papers that there are
100000 foreigners in the Boer ranks,
but this is hardly creditable The in
dications are that pitched battle is
imminent at Laing's mex, where Gen.
Butler faces the Beers, reinforced and
seemingly determined, with an esti-
mated strength of from 5000 to 10000
men. The reinforcements include a
large party of Lady brand and fresh
commands from Pretoria.
Maseru, Basutoland, May 20. -Four
squadrons of colonials captured $50
Beers, with ten wagons of grain, near
Ficksburg, where they also captured
a Maxim constructed by local in
ventor.
Barkly West, May 30. is reported
that the Beers have reoccupied Kuru-
man and that large laagers are located
at Rietfontein and Daniels kuil.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-31
GELS FUNDs For UNIVERSITY
Archbishop Keane Successful in Raisin.
r. Money for Catholic school.

ArcaDlshop Aeane Successful In Raising
Money for Catholic school.
Washington, D. c., May s2S.-Arch-
bishop Keane Of the Catholic uniyer-
sity here. who was commissioned by
Pope Leo XIII. to visit the various
sees of this country, and make per-
sonal appeals in its behalf, has been
quite successful up to date in the mat
ter of raising the required million doll
lars with which to endow chairs at the
institution and facilitate its work. He
has just finished tour through the
sees of st. Louis, Kansas City, Chica-
go and Milwaukee, from which about
one-fifth of the sum needed has been
realized. At Chicago, he says that a
public spirited Catholic, who is a
member of the university board of,
trustees, gave him $4,000 condition.
ally, which will enable the directors Of
the institution to found number of
new scholarships at the next session.
Archbishop Keane speaks hopefully OF:
the university. The archbishop ex-:
poets to continue his tour through,
other sections of the west and gradu-.
ally cover all the bishoprics which he
has not already visited.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-31
OUR BUD EFT OF FUN.
SOME GOOD JOKES. ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED.
lust Like Her Father or the Story Of
Burning Love Affalr selling stale
News Consolatfon In Grief soms-
thing Wrong.
yu,t Llke Her Father.

Il
The wooing had progressed splen-H
didly. It had even progressed to a
point where she had been won that is,
Iostensibly won. II she proved to be a
truthful girl, she would in time be his
wife: II she were not truthful well,
no man wants a wife who is not truth.
full. That's the way some men console
themselves when they fall to marry.
But she seemed to be truthful, and
as he drew her closer to him he whis-3
pered:
And when we are married, dearest,
we will have the happiest home in all
the wide, wide worldtr
Yes. George she replied.
There can never be harsh word
in our home.
mo, George.
And when I come home tired and
worn out with work at the office and
the worries Of business you'll be kind
to me?"
Y-e-s, George
Il knew you would. You'll soothe
me and put me in better humor?'
Y-e-e-s; but / say, George!'
Yes, dearest. p
"Why shouldn't you do little OF
this yourself? 2"
Why, darling
Yes, that's all right. But to come
right down to business, as papa says
why shouldn't you also be kind to me
when things go wrong? don't want
to do it all, you know. You're not
looking for private nurse, are your
Why, Mabel?'' Vs.
when the cook leaves Unexpectedly
to go to the bedside of her second cou-
sin, you might be just a triae consid-
crate, you know
How strangely you talk, pet."'
"Well, they say I'm papa's girl, you
know, and I notice when any one tries
to make a bargain with him he gem
orally gets some stipulation. to his
own interest put in, just as a precau-
ton"
George and Mabel have now been
married exactly five years and three
months, and at the moment of going
to press have never had a single quar-
rel! Tit Bits.