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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-09
EsE NEW II A

Twill Soon Be Here with Its Fuss and
Fireworks.
The New Years festival Of the Chi.
nese, said to be the most complete holt
day season kept by any nation Of the
earth, ia celebrated wherever a single
Chinaman Is found, whether in Pekin
or New York. There are a number Of
Celestials in Billings and they will OBJ
serve the event in great style. It il a
movable festival, falling any date be-
tween Jan. 81 and Feb. 10. and this
year occurs January 81. Preparations
for the great holiday begin weeks be-
forehand. The accumulated dirt Of
many months disappears ms if by magic.
Even the Chinaman himself passes
through the cleaning process, washing
his clothes and bathing his person
the latter being a great event III the
lives Of a few, since it occurs but once
a year!
Buildings Of every description are
deliberately decorated. Flowers are in
great demand, the favorite being the
Chinese narcissus. The prospects of
happiness for the year is belived to be
in proportion to the number of flower
stalks produced from a single bulb.
During the closing days Of the old
year Chinese streets present a busy and
animated scene. Shops are thronged
with customers, eagerly laying in large
quantities OF food, clothing and New
Years gifts, Debtors and creditors are
seen %hurrying to and fro, underwriting
to settle their accounts, for according
to a most commendable custom all
debts must be paid; or settled in some
satisfactory manner, before the New
Year dawns. To meet these liabilities
shopkeerers offer their goods at un-
heard of .prices, and families frequently
part with odd pieces Of bric.a-brac.
curious relics and valuable ornaments
for a sum pitifully small. No dis.
grace is equal to being found on New
Years morning with an unpaid debt.
On the other hand. the creditor who
fails to collect his debts at this time
may not press them again for many
months. He therefore pursues his
debtor far into the night, continuing
search into the New Years day il
necessary. This he may do il he car
ries a lighted lantern to indicate that
he is still engaged in last nights bust.
ness and has not discovered that the
day has dawned.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-09
PRESIDENT COMING WEST.

Will Fake the Northern Pacific and Re
turn Via Salt Lake.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Anaconda Standard, under date of Jan.
], says:
Again it is announced that the presi.
dent will pay his long belated journey
to the Rocky Mountain states. This
time the promise il made in connection
with the intention of the president to
be present at the launching Of the Ohio
at San Francisco in the spring. He
has assured the western senators that
he will 90 west by way Of the Northern
Pacific, stopping at Halena, Butte and
other Montana cities. Ills present i'll
tention is to return by way of Salt
Lake, Cheyenne and Denver, thus car.
rying into effect the purpose to visit
each of these cities. which he has had
since the first year Of his administra.
ton. There have been SO many disap.
pointments in the matter that it is per.
haps not safe to predict with certainty
that the journey will be made ut this
time. But the president is very desir.
GUS Of seeing the Ohio launched, and to
carry into effect his longtime pledge
to visit the Rocky mountain cities dur.
ing his administration, and will n
doubtedly exert every effort to make
tho trip.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-09
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1900.
A CLUB.

The republicans Of Butte are the first
in the state this year to take steps to
organize q republican club. At n
largely attended meeting at the offices
of Hon, Charles r. Leonard last Friday
night, the matter was enthusiastically
discussed. Mr.. W. f. Tallant. chair.
maj Of the meeting, stated that forty
lists were being circulated for the sig
natures of prospective members and
only a few lists had been returned 70
him, The lists in his possession, he
stated, contained 2l0 signatures. lie
was satisfied that this was but Il starter.
He proposed to make the invitation tC
Join the club a broad one, making eligi.
BILE for membership all who endorsed
the policy Of the republican party. Mr..
Leonard and others addressed the meet.
ing and it was decided that a mass
meeting fol- the purpose Of organizing.
to be called by the county central CON-.
mittee, would be held in about two
weeks.
The republicans of Silver Bow are
early in the field and evidently propose
to redeem that county. But they have
inaugurated the work none too soon.
and their example should be followed
by the republicans Of every county in
the state-especially by those Of Vel.
lowstone county. a good strong re-
publican club should be organized here
as soon as possible. This county. which,
il naturally republican. can be wheeled
into line again next fall with the
proper kind OF work. Let it be started
in every town in the county without
delay.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-09
"OUR LOST TITLE"

The above is the heading of a lead
ing editorial in last Fridays Anaconda
Standard of which the following is the
first paragraph:
Perhaps the most deplorable result OF
Mr.. Mckinley's course in the Philip.
pines is the fact that so long as it Is tC
be regarded as our national policy it Is
impossible for the United States to
stand before tie world as the champion
Of freedom and equal rights among
men, which through a century Of time
was the browning glory Of the republic.
That Is only a sample Of the unpatri.
otio-yes, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF the
Standard, Still that newspaper is in
dignant when the term copporhead is
applied to people Of its class; our me.
tropolitan contemporary fairly grows
black in the face with rage whenever
their patriotism ia questioned. Free.
dom and equal rights" indeed! Agui.
naldo, 1t is we'll known, would be a die
tator II his rebellion had succeeded !;
his form Of government" gives him
practically absolute power. Besides,
the rebellion is endorsed by only a
small per cent of the natives Of the
Philippines: the islands contain over
thirty different races Of people, all OF
whom speak n different dialect. While
IT is true that the Tagalos, who are the
only race in rebellion are the most
numerous, only Il few of them have
been engaged in the war, and a very
large proportion of the inhabitants of
the Philippines are friendly to the
United States and perfectly willing for
this country to exercise sovereignty over
the islands.
The Standard is aware of all these
facts, but it never + refers to them in its
editorials. Knowing that most of its
readers have little or no knowledge
about these things, it makes it appear
that all the natives of the P%hilippines
are fighting for elderly" when only
a few rebels are waging a war to make
an adyenturer a dictator over a handful
OF s~emi-sayages, Yet, for the purpose
OF criticising President Mckinley and
endeavoring to make the republican
party appear in the light of depressing
the Filipinos, the Standard treats them
~ the equals of its own readers in the
hope of making political capital, 1t is
an insult to that newspapers constitu.
enoy, In the first place, 1t Is un-Ameri-
eau, unjust and untrue,
The standard ought to be ashamed OF
adopting sneh TACTICS; 1t should be
aboss ~psaetiaing such raak deception,
u IL just such utteranees AZ that quoted
above that IL prolongiag the rebellion;
s;..s newspapers q the stripe Of the
Standard ara responsible tor thu saeri.
Of hundreds af human lives.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-09

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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-09
NOTHING SMALL ABOUT RED LODGE

The Picket Puts IL In First Place, Ahead
of Butte.
During the year just usherod into OBJ
livion over S32s, 900 were nut into
building improvements in Billings, saws
the Red Lodge Picket. This is a pret.
ty good record for a small city and
shows that Coulson's cousin il keeping
pace with the march of prosperity and
gives promise of taking its place some
day with such thriving, pulsating
cities AZ Red Lodge and Butte.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-09
III st. Paul, was u Sunday visitor in
this western metropolis.

There is a likelihood Of the twenty
four hour clock system becoming the
official standard the world over. The
European railroads are using it with
satisfactory results and it may soon
reach this country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
DELANEY CALLS A HALT
On sthe y0IIey of SenseIess Abuse
Fired at Dewey.

Colonel L. R. Delaney Of this city is
rapidly gathering about him a coterie Of
citizens who are for Dewey for president.
Those who have recently joined him are
Don Porter, Mike Sutton and Walter
Innes 1t is also said that VIII Church
is for Dewey but when seen by a report
er last night Mr.. Church declined to
talk.
Colonel Delaney said last night: at
Dewey. Hasn't a man who can command
a fleet as much right to run for presf-
dent as a lawyer from Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, or anywhere else? Can you find any
thing in the constitution which says that
because a man floats on water that he
is ineligible to the presidency? I cannot
lead myself to believe that when men
ordinarily aspire to the presidency, they
do so in spite of their wives. L rather
suspect their wives encourage them. 1t
is a burning shame the way Dewey is
being abused. and I for one, resent it as
an American citizen. The chief cause for
these attacks on Dewey is the assump-
ton that sailor cannot be president
Why not? Why hasn't a sailor as much
right as a landlubber to run for presi-
dent? Three-fourths of the earth's sur
face IS water and a sailor has as much
right on this earth as a landsman who
never saw a bigger body of water than
Doc Shulas' Halstead duck pond I am
still for Dewey and I intend to remain
for him
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
A LIFE COMPANION


With thousands of people in this elm
ate catarrh is a constant and life long
companion; it gets better at times, hut
each year becomes gradually deeper
seated and after a time the individual
resigns himself TO it as a necessary evil.
Catarrh cures are almost as numerous
as catarrh sufferers. but are nearly all so
inconvenient and ineffective as to render
their use a nuisance nearly as annoying
as catarrh itself
It would seem at first glance that
catarrh being a disease of the mucous
membrane that salves, sprays, ETC.. being
applied directly TO the membranes would
be the most rational method but this
has proven not to be true.
The mucous membrane is made and re-
paired from the blood and catarrh is a
blood disorder, and a remedy to be per-
manent must act on the blood and when
purified from catarrhal poison the secre-
tons from the mucous membrane will
become natural and healthy.
There are a number of excellent in
ternal remedies for catarrh, but probably
the best and certainly the safest is a new
remedy composed of Eucalyptol, Hydras-
specifics. This remedy is in tablet form,
pleasant to the taste and sold by drug
gists under name of Stuarts Catarrh
Tablets and anyone suffering from
catarrh may use these tablets with alb
solute assurance that they contain no
cocaine nor poisonous minerals what
ever.
a leading druggist in Cleveland, speak
ing Of catarrh cures, says: Il have sold
various catarrh cures for years. but have
never sold any which gave such general
satisfaction as Stuarts Catarrh Tablets.
They contain in pleasant, concentrated
form al the best and latest catarrh
remedies and catarrh sufferers. who have
used douches, sprays and saves, have
been astonIshed az the quick relief ard
permanent results obtained after a
weeks use of Stuart's Catarrh Tablets e"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
TO DECIDE A TIE
Paramount College TO Debate
With Winfield.
IN ANNUAL CONTEST
Debate TO Occur in Crawford
Theatre Friday Night.

Wichita people who are interested in
college affairs are anxiously waiting for
the coming intercollegiate debate which
will occur in this city on next Friday
night. This is to be the third annual de-
bate between the Southwest Kansas COL
lege of Winfield and Paramount college
Of this city, and it will be doubly inter
esting owing to the fact that Winfield
secured the decision in the first debate
and Paramount in the oneof last year.
The debating teams Of the respective col
ieges win discuss a question which is at
tracing the attention Of the entire world
at present and it is stated as follows:
Resolved, That Great Britain is justi-
fed in her present war in the Trans
wal"
The Paramount people have the affirma-
tive on this question, and while this may
not be the popular side of the question
an this vicinity, yet the members of the
debating team are working hard to sus-
tain the reputation Of Wichita and her
fine educational institution-Fairmoun
at on time in the history of western col
leges has debating been as popular as at
the present time and it seems to be TAX
ing the place Of the usual oratorical con-
tests. Winfield has been represented in
the State Olatorical Union, but the inter
est this year in such lines seems to be
centered in the coming debate in this city.
Their team has been doing much hard
work on the question to be discussed and
.g,os.,
on the 18th. The opera house has been
secured for the occasion and should be
crowded to its utmost capacity. The
Winfield de5aters are Messrs. Huddelson
and Bernham and Miss Mary Jones. The
Fairmount team is composed of Messrs.
Harold Morrison and Chas. c. Isely and
Miss Anna Jones. There seems to be no
question but what Paramount college is
rapidly coming to the front as an educa-
tional institution and Wichita people
should be generous in supporting her de-
baters
The visitors viii arrive in the city in
special car and Wichita on that evening
will be turned over to college people and
college yells The average business man
in the rush and worry of every day life
forgets his college days and college
pranks, but the coming of the collegians
viii recall them.
The judges chosen for the debate are as
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
WOLFF DENIES II
Says Midland viii Not be
Sold to the Frisco.
DELAY OF NEW LINE
Wichita and Southern Promo
tiers Wait for Developments.

Receiver A L. Wolff OF the Kansas
Midland denies the report that his road
will be sold to the Frisco. A few weeks
ago ruulor was started that the Frisco
had an option on the road and intended
to purchase it. The Frisco has been op-
Grating the Midland for some time and
this lent credence to the story.
The officials Of the Wichita Southern,
the new road which is proposed from this
city to Texarkana, also understood thaa
this deal was on and decided to post
pone further action regarding the build
ing of the line until the story was veri-
fed.
Mr.. Wolff, however, in a letter to B. F.
Dunn of this city denies the story in toto,
and said that nothing ofthe kind would
happen. He said that the Midland would
continue to be an Independent line al
though it might be operated by the FRS
co under the lease now in force
The denial of the story will doubtless
have the effect of urging the construction
of the Wichita Southern. That there is
a need Of an Independent line south from
'4A-S 10y 1AO OiiC NO4AISSs anu Du1lHSaS
men hope that the Wichita Southern will
at once make arrangements to COM
mence active construction work at the
earliest possible moment.
While the Midland is a short line yet 1t
is quite an important one. and does a
heavy local business between Wichita and
Ellsworth. It's extension south would be
a good thing. It has been reported sew
eral times that Receiver Wolff had in
terested capitalists in Holland to this
purpose. Either the building of the
Wichita Southern or the extension Of the
Kansas Midland would answer the same
purpose
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
DESERVES 1T.
Remarkable Success Of New Trea,
ment for Piles

ment for Piles
For many years it has been supposed
that the only absolutely sure cure for
| piles was by surgical operation, but the
| danger to life and the pain and expense
has been SO great that many thousands
suffer for years rather than submit to
this last resort; or they seek the tempo
rary relief in the many remedies claimed
to relieve piles and rectal troubles, salves
| ointments and similar simple remedies
which give only slight and very tempo
rary relief
new preparation which IS painless
and harmless, but which affords irnme-
date relief and in many cases COM
plete cure in a very short time. is sold
by druggists under the name of Pyramid
Pile Cure
1t is in suppository form, used at night,
and its regular use has cured thousands
of obstinate, long standing cases, and it
seems to be equally effective in all the
various forms of piles, whether itching.
bleeding or protruding.
The Pyramid Pile Cure aTays the in
nation and intolerable itching, reduces
the tumors, and its stringent properties
cause the enlarged blood vessels to con-
tract ITO normal, healthy condition.
A Baltimore gentleman relates his ex-
perience with the Pyramid Pile Cure In
these words:
1T affords me unusual pleasure to add
my endorsement to those of others rela-
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by fellow salesman of the Pyramid
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1 cheerfully send this for publication If
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wish you would send me one of your lit
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desire to show it to some friends"
Any pile sufferer may use the Pyra
mid with certainty that it will give in
slant relief and regular use a permanent
cure, and the stuIl further certainty that
it contains no cocaine, morphine or
metallic or mineral poisons.
Al druggists sell Pyramid Pile Cure. so
cents for full sized treatment
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
WHAT STEELE SAID OF BARNES
Governor of Oklahoma Declared
That the Governor Had Warming

Governor Barnes of Oklahoma was in
the city yesterday. He said he was not
being interviewed, and when asked about
the latast investigation in Washington
against him, declared that he was used
to being investigated and could stand it
The governor looks in the gest Of
health. The fact that he had a slight
attack Of grip this last week led to the
report that he was very i'll at his home
in Guthrie
Speaking Of the attack whichs have
always been among the privileges en-
jiyed by governors Of Oklahoma, Gov
ernor Barnes says that ex-governor
Steele Of Oklahoma now an Indiana con-
gresham, recently said: "Well. I have
no sympathy for Barnes. He knew what
I had to stand and had fair warning. I
was the first governor ard didn't know
what was before me"
The Kismet club wiz give the last dance
of the season in Sedgwicb Music hall,
April 20
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
GETS A NEW ENGINE
Increase OF Business Necessita6es
One.

Increase OF business NeceSSitaGes
One.
Owing to the increase of business a
new 240-horse power engine has been in
stalled at the Dold Packing company's
plant. The old engine was inadequate
for the work and its power will now be
concentrated on the ice plant, the ca
pacity of which will thereby be increased
sixty tons per day. The new engine has
a cylinder 22x47 inches. 1t is 81 feet in
length all over and IS feet in widtnsacross
the fiywleel. 1t is fitted with a centrifugal
governor and automatic cut-offs. The
entire engine weighs twenty-three tons,
while the fywheel alone weighs fourteen
tons. The fywheel is 16 feet in diameter
with a S-foot face. An excavation feet
deep has been made for the foundation
Over fifty barrels of the best Portland
cement and $1,000 best Humboldt brick
will be used in constructing the founda-
ton, more than an enough to build an
ordinary house.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
WHEN TRAVELLING

Whether on pleasure bent or business,
take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of
Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and ef-
fectually on the kidneys, liver and bow
els, preventing fevers, headaches, and
other forms Of sickness. For sale in 30
cent bottles by all leading druggists.
Manufactured by the California Fig
Svr1ID Co. only
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
INSTRUCTED FOR LONG
BARTON County Republicans Endors
for Long

The county convention of Republicans
In Barton county yesterday. held to Sc
lect delegates to the state and congress
sional conventions. instructed the con-
gressional delegation for Long and en-
dorsed entire Republican administration
Miss Marie Horner went to Newton Sat
urday morning to visit Miss Olive GIazie
over Sunday.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
HUMPHREYS

follows: Professor Carl Cooper, Newton
Attorney Harry Woods and Professor
Butcher, Wellington.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-23

Yesterday was an eventful and a very miserable day. In fact the
Eather could scarcely have been worse, if there had been a especial eff
in that direction, and a a result the events for which great prepar-
sons had been made, much money spent, and which involved though,
be and earnest endeavor, we're marred so very seriously a to result In
sversal disappointment.
Many thousands of strangers-cerainy twenty thousand at least
Ned the city, but these were a S a handful when compared with the vast
long which would have come had the sun been bright and the ground
4. Those who braved the steady downpour of rain the first half of the
! and the heavy snow of the later hours were a sadly bedraggled null
.ide when night fell, and those from out of town certainly, in very many
.tances, carried home with them the possibilities of numerous ills as
/ i as a liberal amount of the soil of West Virginia.
The Admirals first appearance during the day was when he made his
to the Loan Exhibition, about halfpast eleven o'clock. After lunch
/ he conferred with members of thu general Committee as to the advis-
Of abandoning the parade, but when it wa decided to go O. with
/ programme he cheerfuly took his place in line, to the great satisfac-
of the people. Later he was at the Carroll Club Auditorium, where
! public exercises were held, the use o. the big grand stand being an i'm
ibility. He left for the east at IL: 25 this morning over the B & o.
A full account of the many events of the day is given below.