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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03
AS 70 RES0lvYsONs.


During the campaign the Inter Noun
tain gave the facts relative to the reso-
buttons which the Daily men prepared for
Introduction in the city convention, and
challenged denial of the truth of the
statements made.
The Standard kept quiet.
But today-after the election is over
that paper makes the silly statement. by
way of a counter-irritant. that the Inter
Mountain prepared resolutions for the
republican convention which werc req
jected. I1J
We brand the statement as a lie and
challenge the Standard to prove what 1t
says. ot 4 .
The Inter Mountain will wager $500
the same $500 which the Standard refused
to cover in the Raleigh Hotel Incident
that no resolutions were prepared by the
Inter Mountain, or any of it's force, for
submission to the republican city conven1
ton, or to any committee of that body. III
Will the Standard deny that a.. DAILY
man prepared resolutions censuring
Clark, with a view to having them ofter5
ed in the democratic city convention il
occasion presented itself?
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

The results Of yesterday will be sum-
married. and laid before the senate COM
mittee merely to show that Senator Clark
stands at the head of the column politi-
cally in his own city. While he was
lampooned and abused by his party one
year ago, before the evidence was, In, no
is the case closed han his party
under the leadership of the senator's own
paper-reverses itself and comes out and
makes an harmonious fight for victory!
III the meantime the Standard is rubbing
it's chin and doing a heap of desultory
thinking.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

Having been licked Ito a fare-you-weN"
by the Clark democrats, and forced to
give the lie to all it's former accusations
against that wing of its party, the Stand
ard is in a decidedly ugly mood. It now
promises to use Mr.. Mantle as a target
for a political slopjar like the Standard
must have a target. This morning it
froths at the mouth, like a vicious pup
that has been kicked off the sidewalk.
Beaten at every turn in ther road it
awoke to a realization that all it has Sc
cured out OF democratic 'harmony,"'w which
compelled it to get down on its marrow
bones to w. A. Clark, are two aldermen
and the contempt Of self-respecting
public.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

The democrats OF Butte polled their
full vote yesterday. II the republicans
had done likewise the results at the polls
would have been different. The vote fell
about 800 short of the registration, many
republicans feeling that the fight was q
useless one. With the full republican
vote out, Butte is a republican city.
Until the republicans learn that the only
way to reform democratic campaign
methods is to reform hat party out OF
power, by going to the polls and voting.
only partial victories will be attained.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03
AN 1MPRov1sED TELEPHONE.

I'VE have a class of telephones in
Texas said a gentleman from Fort
Worth to a New Orleans Times Demo-
crat reporter. that never give rise to
any trouble about rates. I refer to the
borbed wire lines that have lately receiv-
ed a good e a of attention in the papers.
The first one I eve saw in operation
was installed on the ranch of Colonel
Macon G.. Cooper. on the Colorado river.
southwest of Brownsville. Colonel
Cooper has a big tract at that point. and
his wire fences aggregate IS miles in
length. Some years g one Of his cow
boys. q young man named Elliston, who
had been educated In q chronological
school at Philadelphia, told the colonel
he could use h barbed wire fences
for q telephone service between the ranch
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03
~ HEkEMA.

In Helena the republicans elected their
entire municipal ticket, with the excep-
ton of one alderman.
Had the democrats made their fight
purely on local issues they would have
elected their candidate for mayo beyond
a doubt.
But when they adopted a platform q
yard long. covering the national issues Of
the forthcoming campaign, they forced
the republicans to stand together, despite
the widespread opposition to the republi-
can nominee on local questions.
Had the democrats been victorious they
would have claimed it as a victory-not
for one candidate for mayor over an
other, on questions Of local concern to
the city-but for Bryan, anti-expansion.
and all the other odds and ends that may
figure in the national campaign.
The republicans did not wish to put
Helena on record as a strictly democratic
town, as an endorsement of the demo-
cratic platform would have done hence
those who would have otherwise voted!
AGAINST the regular republican nominee.
smothered their personal objections e
what they believed to be the ~largerinter-
ests Of their party. M
Hundreds Of republicans who would
have voted for the democratic nominee
for mayor, on a platform dealing with, 10
cal issues alone, refused to also vote. Tor
Bryan and anti-expansion and the other
'isms'' of that party.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

How gladly the Standard would drop
the Clark case If it could find a good place
to let 60. 1t Is desperately anxious to
take up the silver question, which it repu-
dated on the 9th of January, 1899, when
it declared that the ratio was immaterial
to the restoration Of silver, and that the
relative values of the precious metals
were fixed by the worlds exchanges.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

The Anaconda Standard fired into the
rear Of our boys when they We're strug-
Cling for victory in the Philippines, using
all the grape and canister which a VIC
ious and virulent copperhead sheet could
command. No wonder Mr.. Nantes ref
erence to maintaining the dignity of the
nation and the honor of the flag set its
wheels in motion.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

Occasionally the Standard has IN eye
ippine question this morning is entitled
"A Feeble Defense One has only to
read it to confirm the suggestion convey
ed in its title. 1t is certainly feeble
enough to sustain that papers reputation
for paresis.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

Congressman Campbell, the leader of
the Anaconda wing Of the democratic
party, will AVE his biography given be-
fore the senate committee in a few days,
in suitable shape for publication In the
Standard. -
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03
SIGNALS PHOTOGRAPHIC.

Experiments made by Harry Price Of
Brockley, England, have proved that
wireless IS telegraph signals can be photo
graphed.
The stations were the top of st. Marks
church, Brockley. nj the top of Aske's
boys school at Telegraph hill. Hatcham.
Photographs were taken of the currents.
showing the difference between the dot
and dash system of the Morse alphabet.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

The Standard has never denied that
Charlie Towne, chairman of the silver re-
publican party, was Under democratic
pay; or that Charlie Hartman tried to
throw the party in 1898 for a considera-
ton from the Anaconda wing of the
democratic party.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

In speaking of the city election the
Standard Y There was no disor-
der" No; even the democratic feud
showed only a few pimples here and
there. There were only three hospital
calls.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

Instead of feeling good the next day,
the Standard gives evidence of being
more wormy than ever. Is it possible
that Harmony slipped a cog in the
wrong place?
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

Was it the publication Of the Campbell
letters yesterday that 'roiled" the
whilom placidity of the Anaconda Stand
ard?
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

The old saying-money makes tn
Mayo go-was illustrated IN the 1ourt
ward yesterday.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

In the face of a strong combination be
tween the democrats and the populists
the republicans of Walkerville made
gallant fight.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

Great Falls seems to be strictly In 1t
The republicans of that city have theil
fighting clothes on.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03

that half thu candidates elected are re.
publicans. The Butte Miner. at the
head of the Butte democracy. made q
much better showing.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31

| Shark" whose "bOwsprit and rudder
| got tangled sometimes or possibly 1t
was mere eoullition of autocracy.
Anyhow our district commissioners
out of off ial comfy ordered all dogs
muzzled und then there was the place
which Bob-Ingersoll-sai to
pay and no pitch hot. There Is tenn
porary inju notion out restraining the
poupdmsster from Interfering with
one particular pup snd be holds that it
doesn't apply to any other, while the
rest of US think it does, though our
views don't go. Meanwhile au I'M
muzzled dog on the streets does well TO
carry his tail between his legs and
look as meek as Chinaman mixed up
with vigilance COMMITTEES. The
owners are not looking meek how
ever.
Also, we are electing delegates to
the two conventions. Washington al
ways sends delegates and we concen-
trats into their selection all the enthu-
siasm which you others spread over the
whole campaign. As we have no votes
in Washington, every resident being
theoretically citizen OF state, we
have to take it out in picking delegates
to the big conventions. We pack OR
little conventions and row over the re-
cords of our candidates and have gor-
geous time generally.
Then we are all agitated abou the
side on which q street car ought to
stop. The electrics stop only at street
crossings and one-third of US think
they should stop at the near side, one
third are aiamantine in the belief that
Providence ordained them to stop on
the far side, and the rest OF us wish
they would pick out some one side and
adhere to it. Last week the district
commissioners by y strictly party vote
decided on the far side: six months
ago, ditto-d ditto, the near side: twelve
months ago, ditto-ditto, the far side;
somewhere on the hIndside of that
date. ditto ditto, the near side. 1t is
little kaleidoscope. Whichever eide
1 happen to go to, is always the wrong
one-at least the motor man thinks go
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31

slant application of our laws. They
will prooobly get it. Beverage was
sch eduled for q speech on the tariff
side of the proposition till he heard
from Indiana aud prud emily postponed
1t. The Porto Ricans have delegations
here working forfree trade and expect
all sorts of blissful results when they
get 1t; sky raining larks and free suits
of clothes growing on every bush.
Which will be as it will be. If the
islanders get inside our custom lines
it will be good thing for them a
very good thing ultimately but not
so much so right away. In the first
place it will take money to run the
government of the island and if this
doesn't come from customs 1t will
come from taxes. Secondly, free trade
means that our internal revenue laws
must be applied and this will kick up
rumpus down there. AT present,
the annual license for q distillery is
only about 81 so and the Portoriqueno
has ali the freedom the most hardened
moonshiner could ask in regard to
making the local variety of rum.
"White Eye" is not pleasing bever
age but it is eminently satisfying and
no end cheap-at present. The tobac-
conist also goes on his way rejoicing
unfettered by restrictions. All of
which considered, the Porto Ricaus
may not rejoice as much as they ex-
pect in American laws, nor will we
find it easy to put our system into ac-
tion instantsneously.
Meanwhile, your esteemed oontem-
porary. the Congressional Record, is
working overtime keeping up with the
debates. Between what appears in its
pages and what the press news people
deem worth while sending you, there
is something Of q gap. There always
Is a gap, but it is larger than usual this
time. Everybod is talking but no.
body is saying much that amounts to
a anything. The situation is turbid and
while it will probably soon suddenly
clarity and precipitate some decision
en- the matter, it hasn't yet.
The most interesting side issue In
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31

congress now is the running fight be-
tween Pitchfork Tillman of South
Carolina and Senator Spooner of Wis
consin. When Tillman became SEN
ator he ripped the world-old traditions
of senatorial courtesy wide open.
There is nothing whatever the matter
with Tillman's lungs-anybod in con-
gress will testify to that-and he has
had large experience of the you're
another" style of debate in South
Carolina politics. Add to these quail
f1cations keen, rough wit
and bonn b-proof self pos
session and the com bination is hard
one to run up against. Tillma1 has
managed to get the staid old senate
positively terrorized. Wherefore there
was day of rejoicing when Spooner
started after him. Spooner is pretty
adequate proposition himself and he
doesn't approve of reigns of terror.
The little passages of srms which now
occur daily--in fact whenever Tillman
starts in to talk about anything-were
rather one sided at first, but they are
hOs INV. 1ACy ORC ouCie O0g"CCh q
rapier and pitchfork. The pitchfork
had the advantage at first. but the
rapier is beginning to reach and draw
blood. Tillman actually sat down in
confusion last Wednesday for the first
time in history. Whereupon. the
senators all adjourned for drink of
spollinaris.
We non-political Washingtonians
have On assorted lot of grievances of
our own which transcend Porto Rico
in our own estimation. First and chief
among ten thousand is the
dog question. The agricultural de-
partment in it's unspeskable wisdom
opened it's oracplar mouth last Decem-
Der and announced that the dog days
were upon Us and it WAS expedient to
muzzle all dogs. Just why it did wss
not and is not apparent. Possibly the
chief clerk or whoever secretes wisdom
for the department, happened to pull
off too many sheets OF his calendar and
got December and July mixed up like
the man in the "Hunting OF the
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31

and he whizzes past me with a wave of
the hand to the other side
of the road. Then Ire
cite my prayers, and go to
the other side aud wait. After awhile
another car comes. It's motorman is
working under the old practice or the
new practice Or some giddy practice of
his own not yet classified and he waves
me somewhere else and buzzes onward
likewise. Whereupon 1 do it all over
again two or three times till l get tired.
Then borrow g bicycle.
d. OF
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Wash-
ingtor political people are still In
state OF fermens over Porto Rico and
even the approaching campaign is
subordinate in interest to our four
square llt.le island. Parentheticauy,
it may be remarked, our photographers
are finding that the wonderfully sym
metrical shape of the island, as we see
IL on the maps, represents simple lazi-
ness on the part of the Spanish
geographers. AS matter of fact,
Porto Rico ia crooked and twisted aud
generally corrugated in its coast line
much as other islands are. Capes
have been found jutting out 30 and 40
miles to ses, in places where no cspes
should have been by Spanish maps.
All of which no doubt in its time has
cause much objurgation to seamen
using aforesaid maps. Harbors are
turning up in unexpected places and
Gil sorts of things being found. One
fisherman in temporary burst OF
gratitude, for a small favor, piloted
the navy people into a landlocked little
gem of hsrbor which, could 1t be
transferred to the Texas coast, would
solve your deep water outlet probe IN.
AS far as the records 60, the Spaniards
had never heard OF it.
What Is going to be the outcome of
the row In congress over the Island
gets me: 1 don't know and can't
guess. Expediency and reason point to
a tariff, aud gradual change OF laws,
but the people all over the country are
absolute free trade and in
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31
WASHINGTON

An Effort To Bridge the Gaps In
Porto Rican NeWs-Some Little
Problems That Will Confront
the observation-disclosures
Tits With Spooner End In Grief
For Observation-Disclosures
Have Woes OF Their Own, Three
Of Which Are pdthetiCally Re
cited
The age-herald., 1900-12-06
ALABAMA RIVERS APPROPRIATIONS
 DEEMED NECESSARY BY MR. GAGE

Washington, December 5.-(Special.)-In the secretary of treasury's estimate of the necessary appropriations are the following:
 For Alabama internal revenue district salaries, s1S,OOO.
 To complete building at Anniston, $25,O00
 For a steel steamer for Mobile ship canal to attend lighthouses, $40,00O.
 Improving Black Warrior river by com pleting lock and dam number four, Tusca- loosa, s1e0, 900.
 Improving Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama and Mississippi, by con- tinuing improvement of Warrior river be- low Tuscaloosa by completion of three locks and dams, $240,0O0.
 For improvement of Coosa river, at first by continuing improvement between Rome and E. T. Va. and Ga. R. R. bridge in Ala
The age-herald., 1900-12-06

bama, s450OOO; and second, for continuing improvement below Wetumpka and E. T. Va. and Ga. bridge, sS5, 900.
 For improving Alabama river, by continu- ing improvement and for maintenance, s2O,- OO0
 For improving Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama and Mississippi, for main- taining improvement of Warrior river from mouth to Tuscaloosa, $150,000
 Continuing improvement of Tombigbee river from mouth to Demopolis, Ala, and for maintainance, $2OO,0O0.
 For maintaining improvement of Tombig- bee river from Demopolis, Ala, to Colum- bus, Miss, s1000O
 For maintaining improvement of Tom bigbee river from Fulton to Columbus, $4OOO
 For maintaining improvement of Tombig-
The age-herald., 1900-12-06
THIRTY. TWO ENTOMED MEN CRAWL
 ON HANDS, AND KNEES ID SAFETY
By Shmp Fortunate Circumstance a Terrible Mine Disaster
 Was AVsrbd at Nayaug CO|Eey Near Scranbn

vacancies below the grade of colonel could be filled from the list of volunteer officers and declaring it to be the purpose of the act. to place volunteer officers commiss- toned since April 19, 1S98 upon the same footing with officers of the regular army.
 "I should say," responded MT. Hull, ito appoint volunteer officers to the grade of major would do a great injustice to regu- lar army officers who have served twenty or twenty-five years in the army"
 Sensation of the Day.
 The sensation of the day occurred when MT. Sulzer who had charge of the time on the Democratic side, yielded an hour to MT Mccall, Republican, of Massachusetts. This was the first intimation the House had that the Massachusetts member was to oppose the bill. Members who had retired to the cloak roms licked back into their seats and keen interest was shown in his remarks.
 There were no demonstrations through out MT. McCalls speech, but when he fin- ished the Democrats gave him a rousing round of applause.
 When general debate was closed and the bill was read for amendment under the e-minute rule MT. Hepburn offered the following amendment:
 Provided, that any vacancy of the quar- termasters department may be filled by appointment from civil life.'
 MT. Hepburn made this amendment the basis of some severe criticism of the Shafter expedition before Santiago. The scandals which existed in the quartermas- ter's branch of the service on that occa- sion, he said, might have been obviated if competent men from civil life had been in charge. Mir Hull defended the quarter masters department, saying that when the war broke out the quartermaster' depart ment was Inadequate to the task as a re- suit of the refusal of Congress to do its duty years ago. Without acting on the amendment the House at 5:10 p. m. ad- journed.
The age-herald., 1900-12-06
DooRkEEPER OF HOUSE GALLERY

common schools, stating that nothing could ground that 1t was taking money from the be more beneficial to the children than drained teachers to instruct them
 Mir Bankhead of Madison was another of the bright young members making a maid en speech to the bill. He is the son of Con- gressmam Bankhead of the sixth district, and the law partner of Congressman Rich ardson of the eighth district MT. Bankhead spoke In opposition to the Bulger amend ment, and his argument placed him in the front rank with the House debaters. MT. Bankhead said that the only hope for ed- ucation in Alabama was to first prepare the teachers for their work He was first of all friend to the children attending the public schools in the State, and he be- lieved he was befriending them best In ad- vocating better training schools.
 MT. Screws of Montgomery spoke against the amendment, and in favor of the bill as reported. He believed 1t, with one ex- ception, the most meritorious bill that had
The age-herald., 1900-12-06
LAWYER SHOT AND
 KILLED 4 MINISTER
Sensational Affair in Huntington, W. Va, Between pr, WohI
 and E. !. Stokes.

Huntington, w. Va, December 4-The Rev. MT. Wohl, pastor of the First Presby- terian Church, was shot and instantly killed this afternoon by S. D. Stokes, prominent lawyer. Both men are well also shot, but not fatally injured.
 Stokes and Wohl met and quarreled as a result of cartoon illustrating the evil in sensational sermon preached last Sun day. Calling Stokes near Wohl advanced upon him with drawn revolver and shot, seriously woundng Stokes, who, as he fell, drew his revolver and fired upon Wohl. killing him instantly. Stokes surrendered.
The age-herald., 1900-12-06
MT. Buluer's Speech.

MT. Bulger of Ta1lapoosa was recognized and again spoke In support of his amend ment. MT. Bulger said he would get down to cold facts, and he read from the report of the president of the Troy school, which he said showed an enrolment in the school for the session of 1S9S-99 of 5S4 and only 165 of these were being prepared for teach CTS. MT. Bankhead interrupted the speaker to read from letter by President Shackel- ford of the Trop school, which was to the effect that there were 196 pupils enrolled in the collegiate department, and of these 155 had signed a pledge to teach at least two years in the public schools of the State
 Mir. Bulger said it appeared strange that
The age-herald., 1900-12-06
The Galleries Were Crowded
 with Interested Women.
JEFFERSON MEN HAVE A TILT
Bill Providing for Employment of Stenographer by the Solicitor of Jefferson County Brought Out
 the Debate.

Age-H Herald Bureau, Hotel Clancy, Montgomery, December 5.-(SpeciaL)-Th lower House of the General Assembly of Alabama consumed the entire time of the morning session in a discussion of the Sem ate bill equalizing the appropriation for the normal schools in Alabama.
 It was the first heated debate of the session, members becoming at times scath- ing in their reference of one to the other. The bill was finally passed by a vote of 5S to 34.
 The bill seeks to make an appropriation for the normal schools at Florence Troy, Lexington and Jacksonville allowing each $7,500 per annum.
 As unfinished business the chair an- nounced the question to be on the adoption of the Bulger amendment to make the ap- propriation 5000 for each school.
 MT. Gunnels of Calhoun gained recog- hilton and made plea against the amend ment. He cited the urgent need for better teachers in the State, and said it was far more important to sustain suitable schools for training teachers than for the other professions. It was the time the Repre- sentative from Calhoun had attempted speech from the floor of the House. and he showed himself fully capable to uphold his side of the question. MT. Gunnels has served two years as chief clerk in the of- flee of the State Superintendent of Educa- tion, and his knowledge of the State school system and needs served him to good pur- pose in his argument.
 Was Rather Severe.
 He was rather severe in his criticism of the members opposing the bill upon the