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Adjourned to p. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

AFTERNOON SESSION.
Board reassembled at 2 p. m. All
members present.
Ordered thai contract be entered into
with Q Il Prescott for the county print |
ing and publishing for one year from
Marcn 10, 1901, at legal rates, excepting
books which shall be furnished at ten
per cent over cost prices. Bond to be
furnished in sum OF $1,000.
Petition was presented asking for the
appointment OF Walter Dolson as Justice
Of the Peace, Marlas township to fill
vacancy. Petition granted and appoint
ment ordered.
Board then authorized the sheriff to
employ deputy at Allyn and one at
Cut Bank, from March l5, 1901, at a
salary OF fifty dollars per month each.
Adjourned to 10a. u. March 6.
THIRD DAY..
Board met at 10 a. IN. All members
present.
Claim of Montana Land and Water
Co, for rebate Of taxes on certain tracts
Of land, was disallowed.
CE Trescott presented contract for
printing and publishing for one year
from Marcn 10, 1901, accompanied by
bond in the sum of two thousand dol
lars, with VIM Bruce and Thomas Brooks
as sureties. Bond approved and con-
trace signed.
Ordered that county officers requiring
any official printing or publishing shall
obtain an order for same from the county
clerk.
Board then checked receipt OF Treas
urer John s Gordon to ex-reasurer Il
Il England, for county funds on hand at
the close OF business Marcn ,, 1901,
amounting to 527l1362. Same was
found correct, and final report OF Fl Z
England, outgoing county treasurer vas
tnen approved and ordered filed.
Board then proceeded to audit claims
against county. Warrants were ordered
ia pay ment OF those allowed.
Following claims were disallowed
Il 0 Barlow meals fer judges and
clerks of election seven dollars, as not a
proper charge against the county,
VIM Miller salary dep sheriff Jan tc
Jan L, 1901 ten dollars, dep shF Leech
having drawn pay for same period.
Adjourned p. m.
} AFTERNOON SESSION.
Board reassembled at 2 p. m. Al
members present, and proceeded to visit
and inspect the county jail, same being
found in good condition
Report Of Jno W Shields, county sur
veyor, for period from Dec /, 1900 tc
January 6, 1901, was then examined, ap
proved and ordered fled.
Board resumed auditing Of clam.
! against county, and warrants were OF
dered in payment OF those allowed.
i. Claim Of Cnas D Phemister, for buma
Of r Vidal 500 was disallowel as no
being proper Charge against Seton
q county
Adjourned to 10 c. n. March I.
81 FOURTH DhY.
March I, 1901 Board met al 10 q. n
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8 one hundred dollars.
" 10 twenty five dollars.
g IL twenty five dollars.

Ordered, that consideration OF all road
petitions ard other road matters be laid
over to June regular meeting
Ordered, that boundaries Of Dupuyer
and Marias townships are hereby chang
ed as follows: All that portion Of town
ship 27 north. ranges 1, 2, 5, and west.
lying Forth of line drawn due west
from the northeast corner OF section %
township u n range l W, townships Is
and % north and the south half Of town
ship 81 north, all in ranges 1. 2, and 4
west, now forming part OF Marias town
|ship, are taken from said Marias town
ship and arnexed to and made part OF
Dupuyer township.
Board then appointed John Devine,
of Pondera, to the Office Of Justice Of the
peace, Dapuyer township.
| Adjourned to 2 p. N.
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PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings Of the Board Of County
Commissioners Of Teton County
Montana Regular March Term 1901


CHor4 Az, Montana, March !, 1901.
Board net in regular March session,
at the Office of the county clerk, at 10 a.
a.. Present, Chairman @ 3 Perkins,
Com'r. Wm NJ Foster, and the clerk.
Minutes Of regular december meeting,
and OF special meeting OF January Z, 1901,
were read and approved.
Board proceeded to examine reports
of County and township officers for the
quarter ending Feb. %, 1901. The fol
lowing were approved and ordered filed.
AC Warner, county clerk. Report Of
warrants issued in payment OF salaries
OF county officers, amounting to 81, 450.99
on the contingent fund, and 31,06666 on
general fund.
40 Warner, county clerk. Report Of
official fees collected, amounting to sos
GO. with treasurer's receipts for same.
Sterling Mcdonald, clerk district
court. Report Of official fees collected
and pail to treasurer, amounting to
a7745.
VIM D Hagen, Sheriff. Report of Off
cial fees collected Cor portion OF quarter,
amounting TO $1,000, with treasurer's 8
receipt for same.
Geo G Taylor, Sheriff. Report Of ofli-
cial fees collected for part Of quarter,
amounting to 8l3.00, with treasurer'a
receipt for same.
VIM D HagoI, Sheriff. Repsrt Of jail
hoardeps for part Of quarter. Warrant
ordered for expenses incurred.
Geo c Taylor, Sheriff. Report of jail
boarderg for part Of quarter. Warrant
ordered for expense incurred
DA Penry, Assessor. Final report
showing collections of $500. Specia
road tax, aLd SLIGO special poor tax
an paid 70 troagurer, less ten per cen'
expenses Of collection. Clerk authorized
to close +. Peary's account ii accord
anco with report.
MD Cooger, Jastice Of peace Chotear
township Report Of criminal actions
for part OF r1er. Warrant ordered
for costs incauad.
Geo G Tay jor Justice of the peace
Dupuyer town zip. Report Of crimina
actions for pat of quarter. Warran
ordered for e. incurred.
j Ju Bouchor, Justice Of the peace ST
Mary's towraNp Report OF crimina
actions for quarter ending Nov. 80, 1906
Warrants ordered for costs incnrred.
VIM Dawes, Justice Of the peace
Marias township. Report as acting cor
oner, of inquest held On body OF Johl
Brester. Warrants ordered for cost
incurred.
A0,aaAa3 10 p.m,
,3ef&G NOON SESSION.
BoaE3 raaeaambled at , 2. IN. sam
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AFIERNooN SESSION.

Board reassembled at 2 p. IN. Present.
Commissioners Nj Counelly and VIM NJ
Foster, and the clerk. In the absence Of
Chairman Perkins. Commissioners Foster
was chosen chairman pro TEN.
Board then appointed Geo w Walker,
OF Cut Bank, Justice OF the peace for
Marias township.
Proposition was submitted by trustees
ef school Aistrict No l, FOR the e55ao
lishment OF county free hlgh scnoUl at
Choteau, the county seat OF Ieson %,
under the provisions OF the couuCy free
high school act of March 8, 1919 Same
was approved and ordered flied, ana the
following order was made by tAa ooard
1t is hereby ordered that gne PROPOSE
tion OF the board oil trustees OF sc4ool
district number one OF Teton county,
Montana, Tor the establishment OF a
county free high school at Cnoteau, the
county seat OF said county, DO and the
same is hereby accepted oy the Board of
commissioners Of Yeton county. Non
tana. and in accordance Herewith and
the provisions of the County Free High
school aef Of March 5, 1S93 SAID county
Free High School for Teyon county Is,
hereby ordered established at Cnoteau,
the county seat OF said Teton county,
! Montana.
Board then audited accounts OF its
members, and ordered Warrants drawn
in payment.
The regular March term OF tae BOARD
was then adjourned sine die.
/ List OF warrants allowed will be pub
lished next week.
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The following county warrants, having
remained uncallea for for over one year,
were then cancelled.
no 357 Dec Il 1899 Sam Erickson gen
eral fund five dollars.
no 374 Dec IL 1859 A Anderson gen
eral fund one dollar and a half
No 100 Dec II 1899 w L Laughlin
road fond five dollars.
No 123 Dec IL 1899 G f Norris eight
dollars.
No l28 Dec II R Farnsworth seven
dollars.
No 1856 Dec II 1889 Wm Mahoney two
dollars,
Ordered that treasurer transfer $4,000
from the general fund to the Contingent
fund.
Adjourned to 10a. IN. March 5.
SECOND DAY.
March 5, 1901. Board met at 10 a. M.
Present Chairman G 3 Perkins, Com
missioners M Connolly, VIM II Foster,
and the clerk.
Petition was presented by G R ScoGin
asking FOR rebate of taxes on 1,l80 head
OF stock sheep, being number over asses
sed to him. After due consideration,
petition was granted and warrant order
ed for amount OF county taxes overpaid.
Ordered, that a deputy be allowed the
county assessor for the months OF April
May and June, 19ol, at a, salary Of SO
per isaonth.
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Contractors poor house report Of VIM
Bruce, showing five inmates carod for
during quarter, was approved and or
dered filed.
Reports of Argus Bruce and Ed Boil
rud, road supervisors, were approved
and warrants ordered for expenses in
Cured.
Report Of Fl T England, county treas
urer, for period from Dec. l, 1900 to and
including March. 2, 1901, was considered.
Treasurer's list of licenses issued was
compared with stubs of license books
and found correct.
Lists OF warrants paid were compared
with county clerks books, found correct,
and warrants were cancelled as follows;
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j, B. r1cCULLOn,

Expert Optician and Eye Specialist.
Graduate Of the Chicago Opthalmic
College. % years experience in re-.
fraction.
Glasses correctly fitted for all defects Of
the eyes known to the profession.
Granulated sore eyes cured by
painless method. Free examinations.
Office 500 End Avenne South, 2 blocks
south of Hotel; Grand GREAT.
FALLS, Mont.
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Total

Treasrrer's report, was then checked
against county clerks ledger. balances
were found as follows:
The Washington times., 1901-07-17
PITY THE POOR.

Many uncharitable persons have repre-
sented Uncle Russell Sage as man OF
exceeding parsimony; in fact, the most
contiguous man in New York. 1t trans
pires that he wears the conventional
si9S suit of clothes. not from choice, but
from necessity. When the assessor made
a tentative estimate of s1000,000 against
the reputed master of 500 O00, 900, Uncle
Russ shrieked and begged so hard that he
was left off with an assessment of 800, 900.
Pierpont Morgan, it seems, has been
doing business on wind Those billion
dollar combines, of coal mines. railroads.
and steamship lines have been created by
a man whose fortune in personal prop
erty. he says, is not more than 100000
Chauncey Depew estimates his at S2o,OO0
and Seth Low, that pure and noble re-
former, hasn't a red cent to bless himself
with The Goulds have had so much
trouble in keeping Count Bonfs head
above water that they, too. are almost
on the town. Mr.. Rockefeller, OF Stan
dard Oil fame. and Carnegie, who is toss
ing wads of millions at cities and public
institutions as carelessly as 4 Kentucky
farmer elects tobacco juice at bumSie
bees. are put down for a million each
year in England. and who burned up
S., coo on the turf at Newmarket last
week allows his name on the assessment
roll for the first time and the figure Is
S255, coo. Perhaps Richard felt sorry for
the struggling millionaires and billionaires
and came into the game ont OF sheer pity
for them.-chicagO Journal.
The Washington times., 1901-07-17
The Dynamite Gun Abandoned.

On the recommendation of the Board
Of Ordnance and Fertilization, the War
Department has decided to abandon the
dynamite guns which have been made
part of the land defences of New York
and San Francisco 1t is stated that ex-
haustive tests have demonstrated that
the dynamite guns are not as effective
as powder guns of the same calibre and
range. while they are infinitely more
difficult to keep in order, and are un-
necessarily dangerous to handle.
The department decision Is commend
able. and if Secretary Long has an
ounce of independence in his compost
ton he will second the action of his
Cabinet colleague and save tie navy
from the Hanna -Gathmann dynamite
gun, with which it is threatened. The
weapons of this class with which the
army has been saddled have cost the
Government half million dollars and
now they go to the scrap heap. and
properly so. How much will be spent
on the Gathmann confection before it
shall meet the same fate is matter for
conjecture. But as it is not approved
by artillery experts apparently, and
seems to be heartily feared by naval
officers who might be called upon to
serve on vessels armed with it, the
chances ought to be good that it will not
be finally adopted. There is flercely
strong political pull behind it, how
ever.
The Washington times., 1901-07-17

that two thirds of the Beers lighting
strength has been worn away by con-
stant attrition. Whether the force stiii
under arms is fourteen thousand or
twenty Thousand, it is exceedingly small
compared with the two hundred ana
fifty thousand under Lord Kitchener,
and the question is simply one of now
long the Beers can avoid complete ex-
termination. They never could afford
to sustain heavy losses. Still less can
they do So now. A loss of thousand
men at this time would be of sraver
import to them than was the capture of
Cronjes army. Evidently they know
this, and hence 1t is seldom that they
show fight in even so large force as
one thousand men.
All in all it is a most marvellous
struggle. Future generations will be
loath to credit the historians statement
that few thousand burghers in South
Africa for so long maintained strug-
gle which actually strained the re-
sources of tie British Empire both in
men and money.
The Washington times., 1901-07-17
Poison Ivy.

Most country people know what
poison ivy is like. and carefully avoid
it if they do not happen to be immune
1t is curious fact that while some per-
sons can handle the leaves or even
chew them and suffer not the slightest
inconvenience. others cannot touch the
plant. or even pass along the road
where II grows, without being poisoned
in the most violent manner. This ex-
perience is not a joke to the sufferer
There have been people who have died
of it.
1t seems rather strange that with all
the trouble which this vine has caused
some attempt has not been made to root
it out. The reason probably is that the
people who are not poisoned have not
troubled themselves about 1t, and those
who were gave IL a wide berth and al
lowed it to grow. But at any rate, no
one should go into the country without
knowing what this vine looks like, and
keeping lockout for its presence in the
vicinity, especially If there be children
In the family. 1t Is anything but pleas
ant on hot summer day, to discover
that ones children have been poisoned
with this noxious stuff. and must be
watched, doctored. ard amused for two
or three days at least. until the effect
passes off.
The vine is something like Virginia
creeper. except that it has but three
leaflets to spray, while the creeper
has FIVE. If more accurate description
is needed, any botanical work or ency-
clopedia will furnish it, and in addition
to this. the farmers of almost any local
ity know poison ivy either by ex-
perience or reputation. and will cheer
fully point it out to any enquirer. 1t is
a small precaution to take, but it may
save much discomfort and possibly a
serious illness.
The Washington times., 1901-07-17
A STARVING NAVY.

Uncle Sam is not the only creditor that
has recently realized something from the
Sultan of Turkey. According to a des-
patch from Berlin the Turkish cruiser
Jsmir has for the last twelve months been
lying at anchor in Kiel Harbor. She was
unable to leave because the captain had
incurred debts for food and other neces-
stiles and had no money with which to
pay them. During the last month the
crew were almost threatened with star
vation. the tradesmen refusing to supply
any further food for the cruiser TIL there
was some guarantee that the bills would
be paid. This state OF affairs was called
to the Kaisers attention during his stay at
kiel. and he promptly notified the ,rurkish
Government that it must take immediate
steps in the matter. Orders soon came
for the Jsmir to return 10 Constantinople
and with the order We're sufficient funds
to pay up all the debts and supply the
cruiser with food for her return voyage.
Evidently the position of commander on a
Turkish cruiser is not an altogether de-
sirable one.-Boston Herald.
The Washington times., 1901-07-17
The Patronage scandal.

The report, just published. of a COM
mittee of the National Civil Service Re-
form League, upon the methods which
obtain in appointing. removing, and
paying the employees of the House of
Representatives, makes interesting If
not very pleasant reading. 1t has long
been known in general way that many
abuses pervaded the department, but
this report clearly shows that the situa-
ton is far worse than had been sup
posed.
The. employees of the House constitute
but small proportion of the entire
governmental force in this city. the
number on the rolls Investigated being
only three hundred and fifty-seven.
These positions are not governed by
civil service rules, but are controlled
absolutely by the House. This is done
by combinations through which the
principal officers of the House-the Ser
geant-at-Arms. Chief Clerk, Postmas-
Ter. and Doorkeeper-are selected These
officers then divide up the patronage Of
their respective offices so as TO provide
for the friends of the Congressman '. no
belong to the dominant party. Some
times, in fact, we may say all the time.
the positions are notnumerous enough
20 go around. and the manner in which
the roll is manipulated in order that 1t
may meet the requirements of the sit
uation would be funny If it were not so
infamous.
1t appears that men are carried upon
the rolls who render no service what
ever, who do not even come to Wash
ington to draw their pay, but receive
their checks regularly by mail Some
are upon the rolls in one capacity, while
whatever service they may perform
comes under an entirely different class
OF work, and the pay is either greater
or less than the official appointment
calls for, according 70 the circumstances
to he met. The House telegrapher, for
example. has never touched a key, but
Is assigned to sinecure in the House
Library, for which he draws a salary of
The Washington times., 1901-07-17
The Boers. Strength and Losses.

Seldom If ever in modern warfare has
complete annihilation of the male
adults of suitable age and physique for
military service.
In our own civil war the fighting
strength of the South was so far ex-
hausted that in the closing months of
the struggle the Confederacy was no
longer able to muster armies capable of
meeting the Union forces in the field
with any chance of success. But the
male population of the South had not
been exterminated in a military sense
by death. disability, or capture There
were still many thousands of white men
in that section capable of bearing aims,
and had the conditions favored and the
circumstances demanded The continu-
ance OF guerrilla warfare, there were
men enough south of the Potomac and
the Ohio to maintain 1t for a long time
And yet the South made one of the most
determined and tenacious struggles of
modern times.
In South Africa, though, 1t looks as il
the British would only be able fully to
triumph by killing, disabling, captur-
ing, or otherwise putting permanently
out of action the entire Boer population
of fighting age and sex. While it is
not apparent upon the face of the situa-
tion that much progress has been made
toward the ending of the war, an ex-
animation of the figures showing the
total strength that the Beers were able
primarily to muster what REINFORCE
ments they probably have received, and
what their losses have been, seems to
furnish some ground for the British
hope that The Beers will not be able to
fight much longer.
AT the outset ii was estimated that
the two Republics could furnish about
fifty thousand fighting men, and this
estimate is still accepted as approx
mately correct. 1t is believed that from
first TO last the Beers have been re-en-
forced from Cape Colony and Natal
and by foreigners. to the extent of
about fifteen thousand men, swelling
the total force TO sixty-five thousand
OF these the British claim that more
than fifty thousand have in various
ways been disposed OF, and that the to-
tai force now under arms cannot exceed
fourteen thousand men.
There is much room for error in these
figures. but there is no reason TO doubt
The Washington times., 1901-07-17

| twelve hundred dollars year, while his
substitute. who actually does the work,
is paid nine hundred dollars, which sum
! is drawn from the appropriation for
horse and wagon hire.
Another man is upon the roll as a
page. but, as he cannot read. he will not
do in that position, so he is employed
driving a House wagon. The explana-
ton is given that the man had to be
provided for in some way. The necessi-
ties of the service did not require it. but
the necessities of some Congressman
did
Without overstepping the limits of
journalistic propriety it is hard fitting
ly to characterize a Congressman who
finds it necessary thus to provide at the
public expense for his illiterate friends.
We shall not try to.
The specific instances of abuses given
by the report are too numerous to be
mentioned in detail. They are of great
variety. and in a private business en-
terprise any one of them would lead to
the instant dismissal of every subordi-
nate instrumental in making the ap-
pointment or guilty of the misfeasance
In some cases the employees themselves
have been subjected to forced contribu-
tions in order to provide for supernum-
eraries, and the situation as disclosed is
nothing less than national shame.
As matters now stand, this is one of
the branches of the public service in
which it is the most difficult to work
tIA nrrca
may be they are to be laid at the door
of the House itself-that is to say, they
are the work of the dominating ma
jority There is no authority anywhere
else to investigate the affairs of the
House. and in this case so many mem
bers are involved that it is very diff
cult to make full exposure or apply a
remedy.
AS already intimated, the Civil Ser
vice Committee based its report chiefly
on that of the Moody Committee of the
House. But this latter committee,
while showing up many abuses. care
fully withheld the names of members
who were especially culpable, and it re-
quires no particular acuteness of mind
to enable one to see why this was done.
The committee of the Civil Service
League regretfully adverts to this omis-
sion, and in another part of its report
declares that the distribution of the
House patronage involves pecuiation of
no higher dignity than petty larceny.
Rather mournfully the committee ex-
presses doubt whether honest legisla-
ton can be had at the hands of Con-
gressmen who are thus plundering the
Treasury or a small pocket-picking
scale.
1t is a severe arraignment, but not
undeserved. Anything more conrempti-
bly, little and mean than the bier niai
scramble for the disposition of TIE ap-
pointments Under the control of the
House it would be difficult, indeed, to
imagine. An improvement in the per-
sonnel of the House membership would,
of course, tend to better condition of
! things, but the only full and complete
remedy is to place the entire patronage
under rigid civil service rules. and al
low the employees 10 hold their positions
wholly independent of Congressional
favoritism.
The Washington times., 1901-07-17
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

A fresh and beautiful suggestion may
still be lingering in dusky woods whence
the ear of native composer will draw
it to develop into an American national
anthem. 1t ought to be redolent of woods
and lakes, of cataracts and rivers. of
glacier and mountain, of canyon and
prairie. 1t ought to scar TO heaven as
the eagle scars. 1t should throb with
the throat of American song birds.
The diapason of oceans and the stateli-
ness of pine forests should pervade its
major and minor. Ii should be devout,
for the American nation is devout at
heart. 1t should proclaim democracy,
not kings. II should be eloquent of free
dom. and it should flow like sunshine
over the faces of children.-Chicago
Chronicle