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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
Brave Men Fall.

Victims to stomach, liver and kidney
trouble as we'll as women, and all fee
the results in loss Of appetite, poison in
the blood, backache, nervousness, head.
ache and tired, ~listless, rundown feeling
But there's no need to feel like that. j
w. Gardner, Of Idaville, Ind, says: "Elec'
trio Bitters are just the thing for a man
when he-don't care whether he lives OF
dies. It gave me Q strength and good
appetite. I can now eat anything and
have a new lease on life." Only SO cents
at Chapple's Drug Store. Every bottle
guaranteed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
WILL TAKE UP ALL CLAIMS.
State Will Cancel All Old and New Law
Bounty Claims.

For the first time since 1899 the
state will take up all outstanding
bounty claims. The state board of
examiners has decided tt cancel all
claims with the cash that will be
available as soon as all the counties
have made returns for their Novem-
Der and December collections of taxes.
Of the new law claims there re-
mains unpaid SO, 1872, and under the
old law there is still outstanding
Sal, $50, making a total Of unpaid
claims $40, 97a.
The total amount of claims filed to
November 80, 1900, under the new
law amounted to $414, 997, of which
$4O4, 584 had been paid, and ~, O21
was disallowed, making the total
claims allowed and disallowed $406,
6O5.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
SHEEP FEEDING.

Fergus County Argus: From Com
missioner Slayton we learn that fully
100, 900 head of sheep will he
feed this winter on the Yellowstone,
within twenty miles of Billings,
The shortage of hay and the poor
feed Oh the ranges, together with the
immense crops of alfalfa raised in
the above valley, make such a DISPOSE
tion of the bands advisable. Some
growers this side of the Musselshell
have driven part of their bands to the
Yellowstone for that purpose, among
them being Mr.. D. F. Slayton. AL
falfa seems to be raised with great
success i'll the Yellowstone valley,
where large irrigation bitches
guarantee two or three crops every
year. 1t is constantly growing in
favor among stockmen and should
be given greater attention in this
section. One stockman in this
county harvested three crops this
year and a Jourth was fully six inches
high when cold weather checked its
further growth.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
NEW DEPARTMENT STORE.
Reported That Lee Eisenberg Has Rented
Gruwell's Building for That Purpose.

II is reported that Lee Eisenberg
will soon re-embark in business in
Billings with a large department store
and has rented the new building to be
erected by q. o. Gruwell at the cor
ner of Montana avenue and Twenty
ninth street. Mr.. Eisenberg went
east a few weeks ago for the purpose,
it is said, of completing arrangements
for the establishment of the store, and
has not yet returned. When ques-
toned yesterday afternoon by The
Gazette representative, Mr.. Gruwell,
owner of the building, said that Mr..
Eisenberg had not rented it, but it is
known, however, that the latter has
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
70 RELIEVE ri
Plan to Hold Executions at penitentiary
Favored by Attorney General.

Fi0H W Hoiu EAeCutiOsss at PeHlteHtldty
Favored by Attorney General.
The Montana Sheriffs' association.
which holds Its annual meeting In
Helena soon after the first Of the year,
Is interested in the. proposed law pro.
viding for the holding of all hang.
iiigs In Montana at the state peni-
tenitary rather than in county jails.
Aside from any pecuniary consid
eration--and 10 IL an important inno-
walton, as executions invariably prove
expensive to the county-the moral
side OF the question is regarded rs an
important one. The state boards of
charities and correction of other states
have in many cases recommended that
all executions take place in a special
ly set apart section Of the state peni-
Tertiary. Many states have adopted
the plan, including New York and
some Of the most thickly peopled
states in the union.
ut is a move in the right direc-
ton, says Attorney General Nolan,
"and Montana should get in the process
sion. The tendency all over the coun-
try is to hold executions in the state
penitentiary rather than in the county
jails.
II believe that Immediately after a
man is convicted of a capital crime
he should be taken to the penitentiary
and detained until he is finally dis
posed of. This would obviate any
public spectacle and save a large sum
OF money TO the county in every case.
LAS a matter of expense il would
be a great saving, as the death watch
from the time of sentence until the
law is executed often falls quite heav-
lily on the county. At least the death
watch entails a much greater expense
than would be occasioned by detention
in the state penitentiary.
1.-THE agencies for execution at the
state penitentiary would be of a re1-
manent character, and the advantages
are more than twofold. In different
counties executions take place at con-
siderable expense. The instrument
t~alities Of death are procured at con-
siderable expense. An execution is
not an every day occurrence, and
therefore special preparations must be
made where it is III charge of the
county.
1T is the policy of law that execu-
tons be private and not public. 1t is
intended that they be effected with as
little friction to the public mind as
possible. There is a morbid and
sickly sentiment that manifests it.
self whenever a human being is called
upon to pay the death penalty. 1 do
not think it conducive to public
morals that persons who are so con-
stituted as to gloat over an exhibition
where a human being bangles at the
end Of a rope, should have their ap-
petites or morbid curiosity appeased
through witnessing such a spectacle
as often occurs at a public execution.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
MERCANTILE DEAL AT LAUREL.
Camp Mercantile Company Buys Out
I. w. Gardner.

E. B. Camp, of the Camp Mercan-
tile company, and j. W. Gardner,
another enterprising business man of
Laurel, were in Billings yesterday
completing a deal whereby the latter
sells his stock of goods and buildings
and transfers his lease on the school
land to the Camp Mercantile company.
Possession is to be given at once,
w%hereupon the new owners will pro-
coed to dispose of the stock. The
buildings will be removed to the north
side of the town. The deal amounted
to about $40, 600.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
D OF HAY BURNED.
Ranch Of w. O. Parker Visited by the
Fire Fiend.

Fire visited the ranch of W. @.
Parker, county commissioner-elcc t,
west of Billings n few miles. Friday
night. destroying about 10 tons of
alfalfa hay. The fire was discovered
by the ranch help on their return
from a visit to the city. but II had
gained such Roadway that nothing
could be done to stay ITS progress,
and all efforts were turned toward
saving the out-buildings, which were
close by, with success. How the fire
originated is a mystery. The loss il
about $3.50,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18

A Union Is Formed Under Bylaws of
Western Federation of Labor.
The BARRIERS Of Billings have organ-
lied a union under the bylaws Of the
Western Federation Of Labor, starting
with a membership Of II, which it is
expected will be increased to Is or 20
shortly. The following officers We're
elected:
President-W. E. Atkinson.
Vice-President-Louis Kircheis..
Treasurer. J. C%ovington.
Secretary-Harry Delaney.
Guide-R. B. Brooks.
Trustees-W. H. Mcdonald, jeff
Davis and D. K. Barnett.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
c. r. MERRY ARRESTED.
North Dakota Men Want Him for Securs
ing Money finder False Pretences.

ing Money Under False Pretences.
Tuesday afternoon g. r. Merry was
arrested In Glendive by Sheriff Aiken
on the advice of Sheriff kono Of
Dickinson.
The charge is obtaining money
under false pretenses, the amount be-
ing 1856. The complaint was sworn
out by Frank Lisll.
The facts in The cnse are substant-
tally these: Last spring, in April, @.
+. Merry went to the Twin Cities,
Chicago and other eastern points on
one Of his periodical scheming tours.
He drew drafts on the First National
bank of Dickinson and the First Ma
tional bank Of Mandan, in which
banks he had no deposits or credit
whatever. He had a slight acquaint.
ance with G. F. Bowlby, manager of
a big st. Paul clothing house, and
succeeded in obtaining 1915 from the
gentleman OH worthless paper. AS
soon as Mr.. Bowlby found that he had
been swindled he had G. +. Merry ar.
rested on Il criminal charge. For n
week or ten days Merry schemed to
get the thing fixed up, but without
success. Finally he managed to slip
away from the authorities and came
home. where he succeeded in inducing
Frank Lish, James G. Saunders and
l.. A. simpson to sign a note jointly
with him at the bank, enabling him to
raise 1856 with which to fix his st.
Paul sclape. Merry made all sorts of
promises and gave these gentlemen a
mortgage III property which he did
snot own and never had owned.
The past summer and fall G. +. has
been working a fine graft in Montana,
1.-The Equitable Tax Association of
America dept. OF Montana)," being
the name Of the organization under
which he has been collecting annual
dues at ~ per head. This is supposed
to be the same kind of a graft he
had in North Dakota two OF three
years ago. The organization origi-
mated with Merry, who collected ST.
per acknowledgements he could find
people willing to bite-and pocketed
the proceeds.
If reports are true, Merry has been
a pretty thigh roller , in Montana
the past season, which would indicate
that suckers were numerous.
A short time ago Merry came home
for a few days. He vas not seen very
much around town and it was suspect
ed that he was preparing to leave
Dickinson altogether, but not quite SO
soon as Wednesday night, when he
started west again.
The Press understands that G. f.
Merry has never attempted to straight
ell up with Messrs. Lish, Saunders
and Simpson, and the chances are
that he will get the full extent of the
law this time. ,
Sheriff Kono went to Glendive Fri
day morning, it being understood that
Merry would return without requisi-
ton pers.-Dickinson IN. d. Press.
G. F. Merry will be remembered by
manv Of the business men of Billings,
having succeeded last summer in
fleeing a number of them out of ~
each on his Equitable Tax association
scheme. Last fall he spent some time
in Billings doing missionary work for
the democratic party of Montana.
He was generally considered a high
roller and a "deadbeat' in this city
after his first visit here.
. - --rr----a
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
MORE N FILED.
Coroner and Sherin-Elect Give Bonds for
$1,000 and $4,000 Respectively.

Two more bonds of county officers
elect were filed with the county clerk
and recorder Thursday.
DR.. James Chapple, coroner, gives a
bond in the sun of So, 900 with H.
W. Rowley, A. L. Bacbock, Henry
Terrell and W. @. Selbrede as
sureties.
The bond of Geo. w. Hubbard,
sheriff is for $4,000 with g. o. Cru
well, JEFF Brewer, Henry Terrell, John
D. Losekamp and Joseph A Parque
sureties.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18

, Special Rate to Hunters Ho, Springs
The Northern Pacific railway offers
the people of Montana special round
trip rates to Hunters Hot Springs to
enable them to enjoy the fine mineral,
hot water baths at that point. These
springs are situated at Springdale,
nineteen miles east of Livingston.
The site is a beautiful one and the
medicinal properties of the waters are
equal to those found anywhere.
A special eight-day ticket, good for
roud trip fare to Springdale and for
twenty-one meals, seven nights lodging
and bathing privileges at the springs.
will be sold as follows:
Hamilton, $27.
Missoula, $25.
Philipsburg, 1924.
Marysville, $21.
Deer Lodge, $22.
Pony, $l9.
Norris, $40.
Winston, $19.
Townsend, $40.
Lombard, $18.
Custer, $40.
Forsyth, $22. $780,.
Miles City, 1874. rs.
Glendive, $27.
A three-day ticket, including fare to
Springdale and return, six meals, two
nights lodging and bathing privileges
will be sold from points and at rates
named below:
Butte, $40.
Helena, $40.
Bozeman, $6.
Chestnut, So.
Bridger, SO.
Carbon, 50.
Red Lodge, $40.
Billings, SO. S5.
Call on Northern Pacific railway
general agents at Butte or Helena or
On local agents at points named.
Chas. S. Fee, G. p. A.,
37-tf. ST. Paul, Mimi.
$3.50 Reward.
For evidence that will convict any
person Or persons for breaking down
my fences. leaving gates open and let
ting stock out or or driving any Of my
stock from any of my fields. stock
branded GP connected.
lO4.tf George Pirrie.
-..
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals for constructing
plank sidewalks in the City of Billings
for one year from the letting of contract
will be received by the undersigned up
to 8 p. m. on Tuesday, December Is,
1900.
Specifications may be had at the office
of the city clerk or of the street com
missioner.
The council reserves the right to re-
iect any or all. bids.
BY order of the city council.
Dated, Billings, Montana, December
10, 1900. j. B. HEREFORD,
67-2 City Clerk.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
For Sale or Trade

The Columbus restaurant. Rents the
year around. Clear title. Address
Daniel Nice, Columbus, or Ed Canty,,
Billings, Montana. $40
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18
GENERAL PORTER DEAD.

Pomfret, Conn.,, Dec. 15-John AID
Olson Porter died a few minutes be
fore 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-27
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Arthur s Littlefield of R0ckland.
was admitted to practice in the United
States district court, Wednesday, on
the motion of George f. Bird
Petitions in bankruptcy have been
filed by James Il. Harmon. Saco; Eu-
gene S. Pendexter. Portland; William
s. James. Gardiner: Mariner a. Will
cox. Portland; Charles d. Lawrence,
Madison.
The Grand Trunk Railroad will build
coal pockets at Portland with a capac-
ity of $500 tons of coal a day. They
will be used by the Dominion Coal Co,
and it is estimated that 100000 tons Of
coal will be brought there every sea-
son. The pockets will cost from $780,
900 to $125, 900. according to the loca-
ton.
The Androscoggin county Republican
committee met IN Auburn, Wednesday,
To plan for the coming campaign. 1t
was decided to formally open the cam
paign in Androscoggin county on Aug.
20. There will be a preliminary rally
at Livermore Falls, on Aug. 10. The
addresses will be by Congressman
Littletcld and others.
At the meeting of the directors of
the Bar Harbor Fair Association held
| at the office of T.. s. Clark at Bar Har-
Dor. Tuesday. Gen. Edward Morrell
who at the first talk about the fair
and horse show offered to donate the
sum of $500 annually for term of five
years. generously Offered to give the
entire sum, $500, this year, in order
that they might make the necessary
changes about the grounds, this sea-
son.
So far, no arrests have been made
as a result of the stabbing affair on
CampobeIlo. After the fight, Moores
laid on the beach insensible for a
number of hours and was found in a
| severely bruised and battered condi-
ton, early Monday morning, by Yer
non Brown, who took Moores to his
home in Lubec. Batson says he has
satisfaction and apparently intends to
let the affair rest as it is.
A meeting of the Frontier Steamboat
Co. was held in the office of Charles
l.. Deming, treasurer of the company
at Calais. Tuesday. and a new com
pany was virtually organized out of
| the old one. the capital stock Of the
| corporation being placed at $4,000 1t
was also voted to purchase a new
| Steamer Immediately, and it will prob
ably be done before the next meeting.
which will probably be held in about
two weeks.
| John Matson, "a, Finn. and mar
| ried, was fatally injured at the Long
| Cove granite quarry at Rockland,
Wednesday afternoon. A boiler,
| weighing 500 pounds, fell from the
bluff above, struck him on the head
and shoulders. breaking his back. Mat
SON was known at the quarry as No.
3. DIR. Bartlett of Tenants Harbor,
and Dr. Spear of Rockland, We're sum-
moned. but the man was beyond their
, assistance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-27
Recipe Tor Ice Makinu.

/ Any housewife by following the new re-
cipe just discovered will be able to make
ice easily. This new ice is cheap and
quickly prepared, being composed of a
kind of ammonia salt. With it, ice cream
may be frozen in few minutes So many
wonderful improvements are being dis
covered that it brings into prominence
any institution that remains unchanged.
Such an example is Hostetter's Stomach
Ritters. the well known remedy for weak
stomachs Fifty years has seen no change
in it.. While many limitations have risen
and fallen. this excellent medicine has
remained unchanged-and as a cure for
indigestion, constipation. dyspepsia and
biliousness. 1t is unequalled. See that our
PRIVATE Revenue Stamp covers the neck
of the bottle. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-27
No Franchise for The Negroes.

North Carolina will hold its state
election. next week, and one of the
matters to come before the people of
the state is a proposed amendment to
the constitution the admitted object Of
which is to deprive the negroes of the
suffrage. 1t is akin to those recently
adopted in Louisiana, Mississippi and
South Carolina, and makes "constitu-
tional" what has hitherto been done
mainly by force and intimidation.
Under the thin pretense of an educa-
whites. most of the cOlored population
is excluded from participation in the
elections. Here is the exact wording
of the proposed North Carolina amend
ment
Every person presenting himself for
registration shall be able to read and
write any section of the Constitution
in the English language Before he
shall be entitled to vote he shall have
paid on or before the list day of May
of the year in which he proposes to
vote, his poll tax for the previous year.
But no male person who was. on jan
uary l. 1867. or at any time prior there
to, entitled to vote. under the laws of
any state of,the Enited States wherein
he then resided. and no lineal descend
ant of any such person shall be denied
the right to register and vote at any
election ins this State by, reason OF his
failure to possess the Educational qfaf-
ifications herein described"
Throughout the state the Democrats
are arming themselves and organizing
the notorious bands of RED Shirts"
which terrorized the state, few years
ago. They PROPOSE to Garry the
amendment, anyway. and II the poor
colored voter attempts to stand up for
his privileges as guaranteed him by the
United States constitution shis life is in
serious dangers TINS is a case of gov
eminent without the consent of the
governed" of which the Kansas City
platform has no mention. This is the
manner in which the South is kept
solid for the Democracy, until it would
r -
/ cast its electmHAryotel for Aguinaldo pr
Prince Tuan as quickly as for Bryan,
if they were nominated by that party.
And by these methods the, South haF
/ h electoral vote and a representa- ton
in Congress all out of proportion to the
tvotes it casts. working a gross injustice
| to the rest of the country. The South
must have a care or it will go too far
in this matter of Merchandising the
negro voter There is limit to the
national patience as that section, in its
political bigotry, has discovered in the
lpast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-27
IN the Maine shipyards.

The revival Of shipbuilding on the
are all proud and something that is an
| important factor in the prosperity Of
our State All along our shore the
shipyards are busy places. Not for
years have so many men been en-
ployed, so many yards active, and so
many craft on the stocks as this sum-
the year there We're launched from
Maine yards, vessels to the net reg
istered tonnage of 2O,771. There are
how under construction 1880 tons of
vessels which will be launched before
the end Vof the year. While most of
these vessels now building are schoon-
ers for the coastwise trade, two are
barges and five are United States war
vessels. TwoNare square ringers for
the foreign trade. il
The Boston Journal, always an active
and consistent. friend of American
fshipping, in commenting upon the work
being done on the Maine coast. points
out the fact that instead of being proof,
as hasty superficial observers might
conclude, that the American merchant
marine needed no protection and en-
enlargement, this activity in Maine
shipyards is proof that the merchant
marine does need protection for the
only branch of which is now unprotect-
ed-the deep-water, overseas carrying.
AL but two Of the merchant vessels in
the Maine shipyards are being built pri
marily for a protected industry-fort the
coastwise trade from one American
port to another, including now Porto
wage, subsidized foreign vessels are
absolutely excluded by federal law.
This ocean carrying is prosperous. 1t
always has been prosperous. 1t always
will be SO long as the present prudent,
patriotic policy is maintained But
when you step beyond the protected
cOdStWlSe tTdue anu survey lIe ui-
protected foreign trade open to the
cheap ships and the subsidized ships of
all the world, you find that American
shipbuiding is we'll nigh at stand
still.
The two solitary ships that are be-
ing built in Maine for anything than
coastwise service are two steel sailing
vessels for the export oil trade, in the
Sewall yard at Bath. These ships-and
mark we'll the fact and its significance
are being built for a great merchant
who believes with all his heart and
soul in the substituting of the American
marine. and believes, moreover, that
Senator Frye's great bill to accomplish
this will be enacted at the next session
of Congress, just as his big ships are
being put afioat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-27


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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-27

A farmer in Clay county, Ia, has a
bin containing about 500 bushels of
wheat. About month ago he pro-
posed to market the grain. but on go
ing to the bin he discovered that a hen
had established her nest on the wheat,
was setting there and that to remove
the grain would break her up" He
decided not to disturb her, but wait
until she came off with the chicks. In
the meantime the price of wheat ad-
Yanced until the farmer discovered he
had gained over 800 by allowing the
hen to sit ii out.