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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07

Dick McGillvary, mayor of Driscoll, at
the head of American gulrh, after a
4three-days' visit to Deer Lodge friends,
returned home today. Driscoll is the
name of the new town where is located
the rich gold mine in which he and Alex
Brown of Deer Lodge are largely inter-
ested. He says the mine is still improv-
ing.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07

James Fox, jr., came over from his
ranch in the Big Hole basin last We'd
nesday. He came on horseback by way
of French gulch. and says there's not
near as much snow as usual On the di-
vide, II wagon and team having just
come over ahead of him.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07

Joseph G. Steele, who for the past sew
eral weeks had BEEN serving as watch
mar al the Rippingale sawmi4A. north
west of Garrison, arrived home last Fri
day evening. having gotten through
with the job.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07

J.. G.. Tucker, who mas been employed
at the Emery mine. was brought down
from that camp last Thursday suffering
from typhoid pneumonia, and is now
with his wife at the home of his fathers
in-law, City Marshal Tom Stuart, a very
sick young man.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07

Bill Adams has given UP the idea OF
building a "colored church" in Deer
Lodge, for which he was recently taking
up a collection. Billy says as he is the
only colcred man in town. he hardly
think; the colored population sufficient
o keep it up. He says, too. that relig-
iously and socially he's all right, but
financially Use busted"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07

r. C.. Irvine, John Burch and John
Matheson have filed their nominations
as candidates for road supervisors in the
Deer Lodge road district. Although we
see no record Of his nomination being
filed, we understand N. P. Evans is alse
a candidate.
Iron County register., 1900-05-10
A THRIFTY CABINET.
MckinIey's Advisers Are Letting No
Chance for Personal Profit
Escape.

The members of the Mckinley cabl-
net are affording the people of the
United States splendid examples of
thrift which many of them would be
glad to follow if the opportunities
were not monopolized by the admin
istration. Secretary Root is the latest
to carry out the policy of thrift" ;"
A special to the New York World
says:
Secretary Root has already grant
ed one of the most valuable franchises.
Without waiting for congress to legis-
late he has permitted the San Juan
Steamship company, of New York, to
construct 3O0foot pier in the harbor
of San Juan. This pier is admittedly
an obstruction to navigation. 1t has
resulted in narrowing the channel to
such an extent that all vessels have to
be turned in by tug. Previous to the
erection of the pier, vessels could &c
about under their own steam.
"The concession granted by Mr..
Root is one which the Marquis Esper-
ANA endeavored to secure from the
Spanish government. He was Span
lard of wealth and influence, and ex-
erted both to secure the concession
from the Spanish government. His
applications were always denied on
the ground that such a pier would be
an obstruction to navigation.
''Secretary Roots action will prob
ably be reviewed by the executive
council after it is organized, but as it
will be the creature of the president
there is little likelihood of any action
being taken"
Iron County register., 1900-05-10
THE POPPIES.


They rode into battle at break of the day,
With sashes and sabers and gonfaIons gay,
The clashing of harness, the flashing of
Steel
The beat of the drum and the trumpet's
loud peal,
Not a heart nor an eye but was merry and
bright
And the poppies were white.
All crumpled and silken and snowy they
In tangle of grasses, starred over with
dew.
But the wheels of the cannon above them
were rolled,
The hoofs of the horses struck deep in the
mold,
And trampled and tattered at fall of the
Were the poppies OF white.
They lay in the meadow distilling their
sleep
Till the soldiers were wrapped in a slumber
so deep
That the call of the bugle would never un-
close
To visions of glory their lids of repose.
Ihe mist drew veil DER the brows of the
dead
And the poppies were red.
Both scabbards and sabers have crum5led
to dust,
And roses have bloomed from the bay
onet's rust,
But unbleached by the sun, and uncleansed
By the rain,
me crimson of blood must forever remain
On the blossoms that over the battlefield
spread,
For the poppies are red.
-Ainna Irving, in The Smart Set.
Iron County register., 1900-05-10


Overhead the branches of the trees
join hands ABOVE the stream, in some
places spreading downward so sowIy
that men are forced to crawl under
then on all-fours. The track is a mere
thread of running water passing
through tunnel of greenery, and as
each slow mile is traversed the size
of the path shrinlls and the stream is
diminished in volume. The sun, which
now is soaring high above the forest,
is powerless to warm the dank at
mosphere in this natural vault, says
Blackwood.
Shortly after midday halt is
called, and the white men and their
followers seat themselves on powders,
with their drenched legs drawn up
out of reach of the running water,
and wait for the struggling baggage
bearers to arrive. \ busy search is
made in every fold of each mans
clothes for lurking leeches, and the
brown or green creatures, with their
bodies erect and their pointed tips
waving inquiringly in every direction,
are hacked to pieces with wood knives
or are shriveled up forever by a drop
of tobacco juice. Here and there on
brown leg, or showing dimly
through coarse trousers, smudge of
dirty red leaves sure traces of leech
which has feaSted heartily.
Iron County register., 1900-05-10

no business has been done in the ser>Se
for the last two weeks. The democrats
are waiting for distinct assurances
that the subsidy bin win not be
brought up. If that is given and n def
mite schedule agreed upon, the big ap-
preparation bills and the Spooner Phil
ippine control measure viii be disposed
of in time for adjournment by the mid
die of June
1t all rests with Senator Hanna and
his friends. They win have to make mp
their minds very promptly il they ara
to have an early adjournment
The Idaho Mining TrOubles-
The investigation of the Idaho min
ing troubles by the house committee
on military affairs is nearing a close
The actual facts disclosed show .
worse state of affairs than were sug-
gested by the resolution of investiga-
ton. It appears that in Idaho the
state and military authorities con-
spired to evade and disregard the laws
of the state and the constitution of the
United States in order to enforce what
is known as the permit" system
That is, no man could obtain work
or stay in the country unless on
a written permit from certain officials.
The soldiers have been used to enforce
this regulation. The attempt of the
United States military and Idaho state
authorities to divide responsibility and
evade rebuke only increases the gravity
of the offense.
ID A
Iron County register., 1900-05-10
IT'S NEW ASPECT.
The Money Question Will be a Vital
Issue in the Coming Conn
paign.

One of the vital issues of this cam.
paign will be the money issue. The
republican party, after shrieking for
years about the dangers of an imag-
mary "50-cent" dollar made of silver.
has benevolently given the national
banks a rag" dollar which costs moth
ing, and pays them two per cent in
terest yearly on every dollar of the
hundreds of millions. that they may
lend them to the people at from six
TO ten per cent. interest. This is a pig
thing for the banks. In order to ac-
complish this, as Willis J. Abbott saws
in an article in the Chicago Times
Herald, the republican party has aban-
doned the time-honored principle
which has animated all administra-
tions of the United States--name1y,
that the national debt is a menace to
national prosperity, and should be
done away with as rapidly as reve-
nues will permit.
We have come now to the English
idea that a national debt is ma
tional blessing, and in order that the
banks may at all times control abso-
lutely the paper money of our nation
the Mckinley administration has ar
ranged to extend to bonds. which are
about to mature, for 80 years. The re-
publicans will plead that in so extend
ing them they have reduced the inter-
est, but when the short time the out
staining bonds have to run and the
high premiums they bear are taken
into consideration the refunding OPP
Grafton is seen to be a positive loss,
besides operating to establish the poll
icy of debt perpetuation.
This issue offered by the republic
ans, this clearly expressed purpose to
destroy the greenbacks and to suhsti-
tute for them money controlled by the
national banks, and issued to the
banks by the government practically
without charge, is an issue which the
democratic party may well accept.
Changing conditions. due in part to
the greatly increased discoveries of
gold, and in part to the fact that the
present personnel of the senate offers
no promise for immediate action, may
result in a less vigorous pressing of
the free silver issue in this cam
paign. yet none the less the orators
of the people viii reaffirm and stand
by the historic doctrine of bimetallism
and will attack republican currency
legislation. both for the special and
unusual privileges it grants to the ma
tional banks and for its effort to rivet
the gold standard forever upon the
nation.-Illinois State Register.
Iron County register., 1900-05-10
ADOLPH PATTERSON
QUAY AND HANNA.
Another Instance of the Truth Of the
Adage ..When ROgues Fan
OUT Etc.

A variety of old saws and modern
instances have vindicated the true al
age that when rogues fall out honest
men get their due.
Matt Quay and that other boss. the
gentleman from Ohio, are at swords
points now. Four years ago they were
hand in glove, and Mckinley smiled
upon their friendship. Matt Quay had
reason to believe in the political rsla-
tions that existed between them ard
their common friend. to believe that
were he in danger of losing his seat
Mark Hanna would rally to his de-
fense. Naturally, he did not look for
any act of perfidy. But, having ex-
perienced the full weight of Hanna's
ingratitude, Quay now devotes him
self with all the earnestnesS of his ua-
ture to the attainment of personal re-
venge. How best to strike at Mark
has been his close study and he was
not long in discovering a method by
which he might at once feed fat his
grudge and serve the public.
Quay's motive is not high nor hon
orable, but he was educated in the
school of the practical politician. and
il he can at once strike down his dear
est foe and at the same time eireum-
vent a foe of the public he calls him
self happy.
Though denied a seat in the senate.
Mr.. Quay is not without some of his
old-time potency. He retains enough
of it at least to place a stumbling
block in the way of Mark Hanna
-
service is to secure the passage Of
what has become known as the Hanna
subsidy shipping bill, a really inde-
fensible scheme legalizing the lOotiEg
of the treasury and doing il under
false pretenses.
It is said that Quay win make il
his business to see that this bill is not
brought up at this session nor passed
This will be the first real service that
the Pennsylvania viii have rendered.
yet it will be doubtful IL he thereby
secure revenge upon Hanna and Me-
Kinley, for if the subsidy bill, with Al
it's atrocity, is not in the preside eut'aI
canvass a load will be lifted from Me
Kinley in not being under any scrt
of compulsion to defend that whIsk
never occurred.
To seek revenge for a real or mag
mary injury is to Quay as boundeT \
duty as it is for Sicilian to fight 0tt
a vendetta to the bitter end. Before
the Pennsylvania is through with
the selfish and grasping boss of Ohio.
who himself retains his seat on very
unsubstantial grounds, he viii be
sorry that he did not stick TO pre-
serving the traditional honor aEong
thieves, for the honest citizens of the
United States will be spared costly
inexcusable raid upon the national eX-
cheuuer.-Chicago Chronicle.
Iron County register., 1900-05-10
PRESS COMMENTS.

Senator Hanna says he ''doesn' t
care whether you call it expansion OF
Imperialism, it's destiny, anyhow" ="
That destiny theory should prove very
consoling to him when the November
returns come inst. Louis Republic.
1t has now reached point where
American manufactures can success
fully compete for trade the world over.
What is the further need of high pro-
tective tariff? The protection we need
is law that will protect the laboring
man from the infant industries.-Pe-
oria rald-Transcript.
Mark Hanna declared in his
speech to the Ohio convention that his
party was confronted with new issues
thrown like tangle-grass in its path
way by the democrats" If Mark Han
ma will reason about it he will find that
the "tanglefoot" policy of the repub-
licans has made the new issues.-St.
Louis Republic.
Senator Hoar in his great speech
on the Philippine question quoted Pres
ident Mckinley against President Nc
Kinley Of course, that was to be ex-
pected The presidents ''best hold'' is
getting on both sides of every leading
public question. His public policy is
regulated on the plan of a celebrated
coon trap.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The law says: Thou shalt not
steal a horse" and the punishment is
confinement in the penitentiary. The
law says: Thou shalt not form a
trust" and the punishment is confine-
Inent in the penitentiary. But if man
steals horse they hound him with
bloodhounds; IL he organizes a trust
they give him banquet.-W. J. Bryan.
Iron County register., 1900-05-10
NOT A DEMAGOGUE.
Mr.. Bryan AdhereS Firmly 40 tbs Fo'
sitiOn He Assumed
In IS0R.

Democratic politicians and critics
high in authority and influence have
urged MIR. Bryan to abandon the sill
YER question or at least relegate II 20
the rear. 1t has been pointed ont 20
him that it is not and cannot be the
vital issue of the coming camPaign.
and that with a republican senate
pledged to the single gold standard
the agitation at this juncture is futile
and inexpedient. Mr.. Bryan has been
told many times that his firm al
hesion to the principal doctrine of the
80 campaign will cost him many
votes. But he refuses to stray one
inch from his convictions. even
though they may interfere with his
campaign. And his position. certain
ly n noble one. is also perfectly sound
and logical. Briefly, it is this: The
Men above the Dollar. The immedi-
ate problems that demand solution
are the trusts and imperialism Mr..
Bryan maintains that Imperialism IS
the offspring of the trusts and that
the money trust is the father of them
all.
In a presidential campaign there >
DOund 10 De more tnan one ES@@~r
Sometimes an issue is so great, 50
Overwhelming in its necessities that
it forces all others to the background
but this does not by any means imply
retirement or the abandonment of any
cause that has it's foundations in the
interests of the common people The
democratic party is not party OF one
idea.
Mr.. Bryan, having espoused just
cause, does not abandon it merely mp
on the ground of expediency. or 20 fur-
ther personal ambition Herein he
differs from Mr.. Mckinley; and here
in is one great secret of his hold On
the masses. Mr.. Mckinley has net
the same hold because he is the erea-
ture of political expedieney and per-
sonal ambition. 1t is better TO have
a statesman in the white house than
a politieian.-Los Angeles Herald
The action of the senate ON the
Quay case vas a narrow escape The
whole country has reason to be thank
Iron County register., 1900-05-10

The action of the senate ON the
QUAY case vas a narrow escape The
whole country has reason to be thank-
l.-Philadelphia Record.
Iron County register., 1900-05-10
Three TroubIesome CIients.

Says an old bachelor lawyer: The
three most troublesome clients / ever
had were young lady who wanted to
marry, a woman who wanted divorce
and a spinster who didn't know what
she wanted. d.".Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register., 1900-05-10
No Respecter of Trusts.

The Chicago Record, speaking with
the confident tone of one who has been
there, says: ''It would probably be
all up with the banana trust if it should
ever step on q peel"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26

place of ordinary human beings who
concern themselves very little about
the colossal ghost generally supposed
to be the islands only inhabitant, and
the report to the English government
just made by their governor shows ex-
actly like those of the folks dwelling
in places less tragically famous. For
instance, the revenues of the island
last year were e9,152, a decidedly
comfortable sum; but, alas, the ex-
penditures amounted to G12,349, and
that is an excess of outgo not COM
Portable at all. The governor says,
however, that the bad balance was due
to some extraordinary drains upon the
islands resources, and that he antici-
pates substantial surplus for the cur
rent year. A recent increase of the
garrison and extensive improvements
now making by the colonial and impe-
rial authorities assure the immediate
prosperity of the islanders st. Helena
has no public debt, but is paying off
by small annual installments a nom
interest bearing grant of $4,000 made
by parliament in 1871. The imports.
chiefly foodstuffs and building mater
rails, amounted last year to e62,9S5,
ana the exports, almost wholly pota-
toes, e4,391. Lacemaking has been in
troduced among the girls of the island
with great success, and the governor
is experimenting with the manufacture
of brick and tile. The whalers have
now entirely deserted st. Helena, the
few ships engaged in that industry
keeping far to the north or south. The
total population of the island Is 4543.
The governor hopes that winter Wis
itors from England may be tempted
by the salubrity of the climate TO try
st. Helena, which is superior, he says,
in some respects to that of Ma
deira and the Canary islands He
says the people as a whole compare
favorably with the English agricultural
population. With few exceptions all
can read and write, and the language
70 spoken with greater purity than in
many districts at home. AS a rule, the
people are happy and contented, with
little crime among them, and much
kindness in helping each other. Stran-
gers 80 greatly impressed with the
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
SPANISH WAR DOGS RECLAIMED FOR UNCLE SAM

aggregate value of the 1900 horses
shown in the Oval during the week
was $1,000,000. The expense to the
owners in exhibiting these horses can
not be exactly estimated, but the
amount can be placed safely at half a
million, says Leslies. For their week
of finery and frolic the 600 society peo-
pie who sat in the Gardens 100 boxes
spent 81 100000, an average of more
than 81 500 for each individual. The
200, 900 people who passed through the
gate during the week spent another
81 100000, an average of So each per-
son. Here is total of s9,500,O0O spent
in honor. of the horse. Can the most
sanguine automobilist imagine the
American public spending even third
Of this amount on an automobile show?
Moreover, the management gave $780,
900 in prizes; and the special prizes
given by outsiders amounted to $4,000
more. The sale of boxes brought $780,
900, the highest price for single box
being $3.50, paid by o. II. p. Belmont.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
Native Grasses.

It is acknowledged that there is no
country in the world so rich in the
number and variety of useful grasses
and forage plants as the United States.
The Investigations of the Division OF
Agrostology have demonstrated that
the country abounds In native species
adapted TO nearly every variety OF SOIL
and climate and to almost every re-
Quirement. There are upland and low
land varieties, there are woodland and
prairie species, there are kinds which
exist only in the humid regions along
the coast. and there are others which
thrive in the arid regions OF the in
terror. Some are productive nay
grasses or afford abundant grazing,
while others again are valuable for
fixing drifting sands or retaining i'm
poverished or waste lands. There are
decorative species for the garden or
lawn, and not few are useful In the
arts and manufacture. Grasses are
chiefly important however, as food
plants for all kinds of stock, yielding
beef. mutton, and other animal prod
ucts, which are a source OF great
wealth to the country, and their in
vestigation along these lines is a most
useful and essentially practical work
of this department. The fine quality
of the forage afforded by the native
grasses of our vast cattle ranges is a
matter of worldwide comment; the
perpetuation and Improvement of the
most valuable sorts are matters OF ex-
IRENE importance, and these may well
be the subject of practical scientific in
vestigations at our hands.-Report
Dept. of Agriculture.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
The Result of Too Much Pathos.

"One day." says Jean Francois Raj
faelli, "Daudet was arguing a point
that on the stage it is a mistake to
insist too strongly on any one form
of sentiment, whatever it may be-.
Listen said he. i recall a little in
cident which may serve to illustrate
my meaning: A woman dressed in
black one day entered an omnibus in
which l happened to be. She was in
deep mourning and her countenance
was So worn, so contracted, so fur
rowed with grief that her neighbor
could not refrain from asking what
terrible sorrow it could be that had
thus left its marks upon her. Where
upon the woman, amid the sympathet-
ic attention of all the little world in
the omnibus, including the conductor,
who did nothing but blow his nose so
as to hide his tears, told how she had
lost first one child and within a very
few days another. Every one pitied
her greatly, but when she proceeded
with many tears to tell of the death of
a third child her hearers were some
what less moved, and finally, when
she launched into a long account of
the loss of a fourth-devoured by a
crocodile on the banks of the Nile
every one in the omnibus burst out
laughing New Lippincott.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26

ship of the Spanish admiral in the
great sea fight. Montojo selected this
vessel, doubtless, because of its re-
markable efficiency. The Isla de Cuba,
although a gunboat in size, carried an
admirable battery of four 4.7-inch Hon
toria breechloading guns, four six
pound Quick-frers, two three-pounders
and two machine guns. These Hon
toria rifles are nominally more power
full than our own, and of the quick-tire
type. They should have been able to
do great execution, but the Isla de
the terribly accurate and deadly fire
of the Americans. In a very few min
utes Montojo saw that he would be
sunk where he lay, and, slipping his
anchors, which had been buoyed, he
sought shelter at the pier of the navy
yard, a few hundred yards away. But
even here, protected by the solid walls
of the wharf, the awful American fire
found him out and smothered his bat
terry fire. Montojo himself was wound
ed in the left leg by an iron splinter,
and his son, a lieutenant, was struck
by a fragment of shell. Signaling his
captains, "Scuttle and abandon your
ships" Montojo ordered the seacocks
of the Isla de Cuba to be opened, and
slowly the beautiful vessel settled to
the bottom of the bay.
For hours after flames inextinguish-
able swept the upper works of the
Spanish vessels, for the water was
shoal where they lay and most of them
were not entirely submerged. When
the woodwork of the decks and super
structure had been consumed and the
heated steel plates had cooled the
American officers made an eager exam