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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02
LESSONS THROWN AWAY"

Under the above heading the Butte
Miner hastens to endorse a recent
statement contained in Bryan's Com
moner and takes occasion to use it as
the text for a sermon to the laboring
men. The Commoner sagely remarks
that if the laboring men were as un-
animous on election day as they are
when a strike is ordered they could
remedy their grievances without a
strike and without loss of employ
ment.
The sermon the Minor breaches
from its text is rather a peculiar one,
holding that If the laboring men had
listened to the advise Of the organs
and the Miner in 1896 and again last
fall the strikes which are now on in
some parts of the country would have
no place in history. To this assertion
The Gazette and no doubt the strikers
themselves willingly and readily sub
scribe. Had the democratic party sue
ceeded in 90 and again last fall the
plants where the strikes are would
probably now be rusting away, mere
heaps Of idle and decaying machin-
cry and the men who are now out
temporarily would be among the army
of tramps and beggars which was
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

The faith of the Nebraskan who is
engaged in bombarding the heavens in
order to compel them to yield a por-
ton of the moisture they contain and
for which they have no urgent need,
is only equaled in sublimity by that
of the Michigan Christian scientist
who fired a revolver bullet into the
place where his brain should have
been just to prove the. correctness
OF his belief that human agencies had
no power over his body. He has
n advantage, however, over the
Michigander; he will probably live to
explain why his experiment failed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02
THEY LEFT HAPPY.

Notwithstanding the vigorous PRO.
tests and objections they made to the
state board of equalization against
any advance in the assessments of
their respective companies, the repre-
sentatives of the railroads who were
at Helena a few days ago have all
left feeling unusually happy and high
ly pleased with the results of their
efforts. They have gone to other
states to appear before similar boards
and again make pleas and protests
and only hope that they may meet
with gentlemen equally complacent
and obliging in the other places they
expect to visit. Before leaving Hell
nj they admitted that they got off
much easier than they had expected,
and that the increase ordered by the
board was much less than they
thought it would be.
Well should they be pleased and
leave ina pleasant frame of mind.
They, better than anyone else, know
that the valuation placed by the board
upon the property of their respective
companies is far below what 1t should
be and does not represent more than
= small fraction Of its actual worth,
While NE citizens Of the state are
compelled to pay dollar for dollar.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

The Choteau county officials are
credited with the intention Of starving
out the Curry gang and bringing them
to justice. While the good intentions
of the aforesaid officials are not to be
doubted, the eloquence> with which the
gentlemen composing the gang are
capable Of investing the latest product
of the Colt and Winchester companies
and make them successful pleaders
for almost anything they may want,
renders it extremely uncertain
whether the attempt will prove pro.
ductive of the results desired.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

itself with making the paltry increase
noted. Some day the people Of the
state will grow tired of this way of
doing things and such a strong and
insistent demand will be made for a
revision of the constitution that it
cannot be ignored. When that time
comes the railroads., the same as the
small fellow, will have to pay taxes
upon what may be considered as about
the full value Of the property owned
by them.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

With the dismal failure made by
his admirers in Ohio to organize a
democratic party d~istinctively Bryan
esque and the southerners clamoring
for Schley to head the democratic
ticket in the next presidential cleo
ton, the gentleman from the Platte
must begin to realize that he is not
quite in as great demand as he may
have imagined and that he probably
would incur no undue risk rel he to
give that bond Of which he spoke q
few days ago.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

Although they may not hope to win
any of the prizes, those whose names
were drawn from the box after the
last of the homesteads in the Okla
homa lottery had been awarded. have
the consolation Of knowing that the
government will give them certificates
showing that they played the game
and were sports enough to take q
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

over running the country when Cleve-
lands last term was drawing to a
close, only the army would be much
larger, as it would have been receiy-
ing recruits during the years that
have interviewed since then.
Sin 1885," says the Miner, ssthe
democratic party relied largely upon
the labor vote to win it's fight against
the plutocratic influences that domin-
ated the republican party.
The great disappointment came from
the east. The result there proved the
labor vote was cast for the party Of
the trusts to a large extent. Four
years passed and the conditions which
justified the hopes of the democracy
in 1896 were intensified. Meanwhile
the men of the east and parts of the
middle west who rely upon their daily
labor had several object lessons that
should have taught them something.
From the result last fall one is justi-
fed in believing the lessons were
thrown away"
The words used by the democratic
speakers and editors to induce the
working men of the east and middle
west to vote fer their party were in
deed thrown away. The working men
had received object lessons, it is true,
but not within the period claimed by
the Miner. They were learned some
years before, during the years when
instead of strikes for the recognition
of a sentiment, as the strike of the
Amalgamated association largely is,
and for higher. pay, men were strik-
ing against a reduction of wages al
ready so low that to cut them further
would reduce the n to the stage
of beggary; the period of soup houses
and closed factories and enforced idle
ness. It raj because of those object
lessons that the laboring men in 1896
and again last fall disappointed the
democratic party and refused to be
taken in by any talk against pluto
Gratis and plutocracy. It is true that
men are striking now and have struck
since the reinstatement of the repub-
lican party into national control, but
the difference between those strikes
and the n that took place when
the democratic party was in power is
that nov men are striking for higher
pay and formerly they struck against
reductions. The remedy employed is
the same, but the causes leading to
it's application are vastly different.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

Now it is said that Captain Schley
is showing a strong inclination to out
talk Sampson and there are those who
think and say that it would have been
indicative of great wisdom on his part
had he followed the example of his
illustrious father and given an exhi-
bition of a man with his mouth closed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

The distinguished medical authori-
ties who are predicting that bubonic
plague will "sweep the American
continent" evidently made their asser-
lions before they had learned Of the
new broom trust.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

While Byran is moi exactly running
after a third nomination, he is still
not SO set against being a candidate
again that he is willing to enter into
a bond not to play the part of a
Glouster, should the time for the per-
Torrance of the act ever arrive.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

chance. This may be poor c~onsola-
ton, but it is better than the exper-
fence Of the average lottery player,
who usually gets no more than a
loud and contemptous hawhaw from
the managers after they have secured
his money.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1901.
WHEREIN BILLINGS LEADS.

While all forms of property must be
considered and reckoned at their ap-
proximate if not actual value in any
attempt to arrive at a fair and just
conclusion as to the wealth of a com
munity, the truest index to communal
wealth and prosperity is contained in
the figures showing the deposits in
banks. They indicates the reserve,
the wealth laid by to be drawn upon
in case of emergency and the safe
guard against possible future contin-
gencies. AS they are large or small
SO do they show the strength or weak
ness of this reserve wealth and guide
the statistician in the compilation of
his data which in turn are to be the
guide of the investor, the statesman
and all others who have interest in
such matters.
Accepting this theory as correct,
the showing made by Billings in the
matter of this reserve form of wealth
is, perhaps, the best and most graft
flying of any city of the same size in
the country. Although less than a
quarter of a century old and in the
center of a country as yet sparsely
settled and the sources of its possible
wealth and increment barely touched.
yet the deposits in the three banks
of the city aggregate at this data not
less than a million and a half dollars.
OF this large amount probably less
than one-fourth is subject to check.
the balance being in the form of inns
deposits, drawing the usual rate of
interest paid by the banks In this
may be able TO make a beIIar showing
when it comes to the matter Of wealth.
represented by real estate than does
this city, 1T would be difficult to- find
Ven among cities m1ch cider and
greater in population one that can
approach Billings in it's possession OF
ready money and the ability of it's
citizens to promptly and easily meet
all of their obligations.
OF course, the reason for this is
not hard to find. The principal in
dustries of the community and the
surrounding coutry are such that they
possess the peculiar facility of offer
ding speedy returns on the original
Investments, while the earning cap
acity of money is much greater than
in almost any part of the land. The
inducements held out here to the
investor are particularly great, while
the risk of loss and failure is reduced
to the minimum. Then the men who
have invested are possessed of more
than ordinary business capacity and
shrewdness and conduct their affairs
on lines approved by the best business
sense and judgment. All these facts
conspire to make Billings the most
energetic, prosperous and thrifty city
of it's size in the state and the west.
With advancing time the opportunities
for investment and the greater needs
of the country will open other avenues
of wealth and the pace now set will
probably be maintained indefinitely,
and the results ACQUIRING to all will
more than justify the faith which it's
citizens and friends now pin to Bill
ings.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

With Montana's junior United
States senator giving pink teas in
Osborne house and awakening the
echoes Of the venerable pile with the
stirring notes of "The Star Spangled
Banner" the American conquest of
England may be said to have been
completed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

Judging from the start it made, the
progressive democratic party of Ohio
will not be able to distance the par
ent organization and the two will
probably finish with the republican
party in it's usual, relative position.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02

Taking advantage Of the opportun-
ity, the broom trust is preparing to
make a clean sweep of things.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02
PRAISE FROM ENEMY.

Another witness has appeared for
Schley. The distinguished gentleman
who has come to his assistance was
the captain Of one of the vessels sunk
by the admiral during the little fracas
off the harbor Of Santiago, Captain
Diaz Moreu, who commanded the
Cristobal Colon until she surrendered.
to the Brooklyn, miles away from
where the first shot was fred at her.
He designatesa as absurd and unmanly
the charges of cowardice now being
made against Schley and declares that
the cruiser from which the admiral
commanded the battle was in the
thickest of the fight and was the
first to engage the Spanish fleet and
among the last to cease firing, after
the Spanish vessels had been sunk
OF disabled. Captain Moreu says
that so closely did the Brooklyn press
his ship that nothing remained for
him to do, except to run ashore.
He makes the statement not out of
friendship for Schley, whom he de-
clares he does not know, but simply
as a matter of justice and with the
desire to prevent wrong being done
to an innocent man unjustly accused.
If Captain Moreu could be summoned
to appear before the naval court of
inquiry, along with some of the other
Spanish officers, the chances are that
Sampson would wish he had never
opened his mouth and that he had
taken Historian Maclay's proofs when
they were submitted to him and
thrown them into the fire.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02
mo. s.097.J
Report Of the Condition
National Bank,
AT BILLINGS.
BILLINGS.

It the State of Montana, at the close of
business July is, 1901.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-02
Bills Payable, including certificates
of deposit for money borrowed.
DEPOSITS.

DEPOSITS.
May Z, 1895. .e210,88a 81 July II, 1896. .4a4l,O16 %
May I. 1898. SAILS % June %. 1897. 623.904 q
Nay Il, 1897. 2ok06s Is June .. 1900. 700.01S 81
Daily camera., 1901-04-19
]hpgBOdieSFOI0
Al Comp F|01CeS
THREE BODIES FOUND.
Bair's St,I Ia the Snow and Oiiver Sellers
stu Lives. -

BARS sun In the Snow aud Onver Sellers
Stn Lives. -
While bucking snow at Frances,
twenty four miles west OF Boulder and
one mile east of Ward, two locomotives
of the c. & N. railroad we'e engu!fed in
a snowslide at ago yesterday afternoon
and carried 100 fee, down a precipi,ous
gorge With them went the snow pillow
and they found lodgment on the switch
by the Big Five tunnel. 400 feet down
the hill An avalanche Of snow and
rock covered the engines and four of the
crew, burylng the human and mechanl.
cal mass beneath hundreds OF tons OF
these materials.
w. ]. HANNAH. s.. married.
J. NJ. MILNER, 80, married.
E.B. FITZGERALD, 20, single.
w. H. BAlR, IS. married.
The three married men have families
residing in Boulder and the city is in
mourning for them.
Hannah was engineer, Miner and
Fitzgerald fremen and Bair brakeman.
Engineer James Marks was dug out
from beneath the tank Of the ear engine
after an hours hard digging and was
found alive. One arm was broken and
an iron rod had penetrated one OF his
feet He will recover
Manager CulbeE,son started his only
available engine from Boulder at 7
o'clock last evening to bring back the
survivors and the bodies recovered. A
(tontinued on Second Page)
Daily camera., 1901-04-19
All BeQ|d ROWeI
Yell 0| E|dO|0
MRS. CRANE POSITIVE.
Woman In tho House Says She Saw the
Defendants Shoot.

Woman In tho House Says She Saw the
Defendants Shoot.
Myrtle Bailey was one Of the best wit.
nesses for the prosecution in the Bailey
case. She is a "a year old girl and an
intelligent miss. She was positive she
heard John Rowell announce his name
when her murdered uncle asked, "Who
is there?' and she swore she saw Defend
ant Mitchell near tie door when her
uncle opened it on that fateful Sunday
evening. You say you think you heard
John Roxell," insnuated the oily Mir
Esteb. 81 said know saw him." said
cute and cocksure little Miss Bailey.
Her testimony made great impression
on the Jury and Mr. Es;eb let 60 of her
as though she were red ho, poker.
Mrs Laura Crane was the main wit.
ness in the Bailey case this morning.
She was N. B. Bailey's housekeeper and
corrobora,ed Ill Of Austin Bailey's state
ments. She was positive she siw all the
defendants about the house on the night
of the shooting save Mickey o Hay. She
located them with precision and told
how the light shone and OF Austin
Bailey's shadow en- the window curtain.
After the fire began she ran 10 the we'll
for water. Rowell lold her not to 60 up
on the roof 10 pu, out the FIRE. She said
she was going. Rowel! said he would
"shoo. the first son who
wen, up there" A, this the Eldora
woman laughed. The idea of calling
Mrs Crane son was too
preposterous She ddn, lcok it and
Cora Bailey laughed outrigh, and some
of the other women tossed their heads
and their fine millinery became perfec,
wave Of costly lace and feathers. MI
Es,eb didn't make great deal cut OF
Mrs Cranes Cross examination, though
he is almos: inexhaus,ible in resource
and Interrogation points.
Charles Sheahan testified ,ha. be saw
all the defendants down town ,ha, after.
noon and heard them discuss the hang.
ing Of N. B. Bailey.
Cecil Crane, li:ile girl, was piayir
cards in the Bailey house when the mot
called. She saw her uncle 60 10 tie
door, saw Mitchell outside and lstei
heard Rowell yell, CLOSE in on them
boys, close in
A long haired man named Cudahy
mined this winter with Martin Wolff in
Russell Iu.ch. VOLTS name there was
Wilson. Later Wolff told him that be
wanted TO sell ore to get money to &c
back 10 Boulder county and stand trial
Cudahy was former member OF the
legislature from Ouray county. He
weighs several hundred pounds.
Daily camera., 1901-04-19
COLORADO'S PROTEST.

State. Attorney General Won't Permit
Railroad Consolidation
Denver, April Io-Attorney General
Post today said be would 60 into the
courts 10 protect agains, the consolida.
ton OF the Rio Grande, Midland and
Colorado & Southern roads. He says
such a consolidation would render min
ing a hazardous business. He relies on
this provision Of the constitution OF Colo
RADIO!
mo railroad corporation or lessees or
or managers thereof, shall conso!ida e its
stock. rroperty or franchise with any
o:her railroad company owning or having
under its control parallel or competing
line"
General Pos, says there is no doubt OF
the lllegali.y OF the proposed deal
Daily camera., 1901-04-19
EXIT GUGGENHEIMS.

Pueblo April Io-The Guggenhe; m
Philadelphia smelter today filed a deed
for one dollar consideration to tie
Am erican Smelling and Refining com
pany OF its works here. This leaves tn.
trust with no opposition Of consequence.
Daily camera., 1901-04-19

Dyer's Real Estate Agency.
Home property, farm property or busi-
ess opportunities. investments Of all
characters. Gamer, block.
Daily camera., 1901-04-19
WOMAN'S AWFUL DEED.

PofS0na HusbAnd and Eight Children to
Marry Another Man
Evansville, ILL.,, April Io-Mrs Chris
Island was arrested today, charged with
poisoning her husband and eight chill
dren. One died last night in awful
agony and the others are in terrible
condition. She wanted to marry young
man. Women of the town threaten to
lynch the woman.
Daily camera., 1901-04-19
ORMAN'S VETO.

Denver. April Io-Governor Orma n
has vetoed the bill taxing liquor sold on
dining cars. He says it is covered by
another bill.
Daily camera., 1901-04-19
DEATH TO SCALPERS.

Albany. April to-The legislature to.
day passed the anti scalping law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25
SAMPSON SEEKS TO IGNORE MERIT In NAVY
IN ORDER TO RECOGNIZE SOCIAL POSITION.

Washington. Feb. 25.-If anything
were needed to intensity the hatred of
his enemies and strengthen their ar
guments against him, Admiral Samp-
son has furnished it. He has vetoed
the application of Charles Morgan. a
gallant gunner on the cruiser New
York, for the position of ensign in the
navy on the ground that he is not tit
ted by birth for the social standing
such position would give him.
In the correspondence on the sub
lect. Gunner Charles Morgan writes
to Sampson from the United States
torpedo station, Newport, under date
of Feb. Is, in which he says: The
new bin whereby six gunners are to
be commissioned ensigns tempts me to
write to you, trusting you win par
don the liberty take in doing so. As
1 served on the flagship New York
during your command of the fleet. you
viii know whether my abilities. what
ever they may be, are of such merit as
to warrant me in filling the position OF
ensign. I would say here that /
never use tobacco or liquor in any
form. If. in your estimation, l am
worthy Of this position, should be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25
Routine Work in-Conrress.

Washington. Feb. -. = The senate
Saturday passed the bill which releases
the appropriation of $5.000,000 for the
exposition at st. Louis in 1903. Be
fore the bill passed amendments We're
adopted closing the exposition on Sun
day. Morgan got the Nicaragua canal
bill up, but it was soon displaced by
the fortifcations bill, which. with the
army appropriations, consumed the re-
mainder of the session except at the
close when eulogies were pronounced
on the late Representative Heffecker.
of Delaware; Wise. of Virginia, and
DAILY, of New Jersey.
The house adopted resolution to in
vestigate the pay of its employees as
result of the condition of affairs un-
earthed last week. The bill to in
crease the efficiency of the revenue
cutter service was debated, but no ac-
tion was taken. Several of the appro-
priation bills were sent to conference
Tribute We're paid to the memories of
the late Representatives Clarke. of
New Hampshire, and Shaw, of New
York
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25
MISSION COMMITTEES
FOR YEAR ARE NAMED.

President C. w. Foss, of the Union
Mission, has appointed committees
for the year as follows:
Finance-Mrs. E. w. Hurst, Mrs.
J. III. Wilson, II. d. Blakemore.
Legal. K. Scott, G. B. Marshall,
w. l.. Ludolph.
House-Dr. j. Z. Comegys, DIR. E..
Bradford, Miss Dena Ramser.
Kindergarten-Mr II. S. Cable,
Mrs. j. j. Worker. Mrs. j. Rosenfield.
Press-F. G. Young, Mrs. H. d.
Blakemore. Mrs. l.. Simon.
Circle-Mrs. Henry Curtis, Mrs. NJ.
Z. Sweeney, Mrs. G. G. Carter.
Entertainment-M j. II. Wilson,
Mrs. Z. D. Sweeney, Mrs. w. B. Fer
guson.
Visiting-Mrs. Mary Metzgar, Mrs.
A. Mosenfelder, Mira. j. Kirsch.
Sunday School-Mrs. w. H. Gest,
Miss Ramser, Miss Yeager.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25

Iy agreed unau some form OF reiarIons
should be drawn up showing the
gratitude of Cuba to the United States,
but these relations. they also agreed,
must be in conformity with the views
of the people of Cuba and must NOT
endanger the sovereignty of the repub-
Ire. The right of the United States to
intervene for the preservation of peace
and the establishment and mainten-
ance of naval stations by the Amerf-
cans were considered dangerous to Gu
ban sovereignty, and on these two
questions the difficulty hinged.
''It is understood that the committee
was agreeable TO accepting the pro-
vision of the treaty of Paris with refer
ence TO the former clause, giving the
United States the right to intervene,
however, only when the republics SOW
ereignty is endangered or the govern
ment is incompetent to preserve peace.
A compromise was suggested with ref
erence to the question of naval sta
tions. providing that it be agreed that
the United States be allowed to fortify
and occupy forts in time of war the
same as at the Dry Tortugas.'