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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
Bryan's Downfall.

The turning down of Bryan in the
Ohio democratic convention is the po-
litical sensation of the day. No man
who ever ran for the presidency of the
United States ever received such con.
temptuous treatment of state convea-
ton of his own party. Not only was
resolution indorsing him rejected by
vote of 944 to 6. but his picture was
trampled upon and smashed to flinders.
Even the national platform upon which
Bryan made his campaign was repu>
diated-the platform which enunciatetl
the cardinal doctrines of democracy.
Widespread decentralization in demo-
cratic circles must inevitably follow the
action of the Buckeye democrats. Bryan
himself is silent. There is nothing for
him to say. His reasonable utterances.
his abuse of the agencies of law and
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12

There was reward for his apprehen-
sion and the man johnson shared the
reward. 1t was the duty of the officials
to take cognizance OF Johnson's story.
but as for Johnson-well, as one OF his
race said: "There is too much John
son In this town." There is something
so desp1cable about an informer that
true men always hold him an contempt
There is no crime that is SO black as the
man, who, in order to save himself from
punishment. informs upon his accom-
plice, and blacker still is the heart of the
man who Informs for the hope of reward.
Healy ds a bad man, he deserves to be
in custody; he Is safer in Jail than else
where. but what he Is is not under con-
sideration, but what johnson did Ne
groes are loyal and faithful race
Disloyalty is uncommon and traitors
among the colored people are a rarity
Is it any wonder that the act of Johnson
is looked upon with loathing by the COL
ored residents of Mtssoula? Healy,
mean and low as he is, and vile and
wicked as he may be. even If he stand
convicted of hundred crimes, is not
so thoroughly depraved and SO damna-
I bly, contemplate as Arthur johnson. the
informer. who betrayed a man for a
few pieces of silver.-Missoulian.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
Billings Mayor Wants Her.
ness Horses To Have a. Show

will be some big purses and the racing
is bound to be good. Come down and see
what can be done in the way of encour-
aging home talent, and putting up card
that will please all race goers.
1.-The wool market is opening finely at
Billings. yesterdays top sale having been
at Is is cents, the highest yet paid in
the state this year. For a time early
in the season, it was feared that 10
cents would beboutthmali sg.niloniB -:
cents would be about the limit for
Montana wool. But from present indi-
cations, I believe that we shall see 10
cents pound for good quality of our
wool. 1t is very encouraging to the sheep
men.
while wool may not be quite so high
in price this year as it was in 1900, the
sheep men have Jared better, because
the open winter left their flocks almost
unframed. OF ordinary hard winters, the
loss may be 10 to 20 per cent Better
little lower price, and a full crop of wool
and lambs.
"A new industry is being projected in
Billings, which ought to succeed from the
start. 1t is a tanners, to work up all the
hides and skins that have heretofore
been shipped east for almost nothing, or
thrown away altogether. Thousands of
calfskins, sheep pelts, wolf skins, and
all the small product Of the country,
could be worked up into good leather,
where they are now practically WORTH
less. Shen there are the larger hides, of
course. Hides are heavy, bulky product,
and the freight rates to, and from the
east are high, while the labor neces-
sary to prepare them for market is not
considerable. While there is great diff
ference in the cost Of labor between the
east and wect, the freight rates would
overbalance that, and leave the advan-
tage with US. At any rate. the local cap
italists are going to put their money into
the venture, and 1t is almost sure to
pay big from the start.
1.-The Parmley Billings library dedica-
ton has been postponed until Septem-
Der. Not quite all the work Is done, and
everything will be spick and span be-
fore we dedicate the place. Many OF the
citizens are making liberal donations OF
books and we will start out with IL
| brary list that would surprise the aver
age reader. Miss Collins; the librarian,
is now at work making out the cata-
logues It may be that the library will
be used somewhat before the formal
opening, which is still two months in the
| future"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
BRIGHT IDEAS OF
MONTANA EDITORS
To Fit the Crime.

Since the recent robbery of the Great
Northern train some of the newspapers
of the northwest are agtating the adj
Visibility of following the example Of
some of the western and southwestern
states, which have enacted laws making
train robbery a capital offense The
suggestion seems to meet with favor
able reception from the Montana papers
that have taken up the matter, and were
the legislature to meet within reason
able time no doubt bill for such law
would be presented. Experience has
demonstrated the restraining effects of
such law by the decrease in that par
ticular species of crime in the states
where the law is in force, and where
prior to its adoption train robberes
We're Of comparatively frequent OCCUR
renee. It is argued for such law that
train robbery is a form of crime that
may involve murder in it's commission,
in fact, the chances are that murder will
accompany it, and the victim is usually
some innocent passenger or the faithful
guardian Of property entrusted to his
care. Men who are desperate enough to
deliberately stop train for the purpose
Of robbery are also desperate enough
not to let the matter Of taking human
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their undertaking.
| The Tacoma Ledger is one of the
! newspapers which has devoted space to
| a discussion of the Wagner hold-up, and
! says: 1.-THE bandits in Montana are 1e.
ported to have made considerable haul
and a large reward is offered for them,
dead or alive. The size of the haul, how
ever, is of little concern. The losing
company is we'll able to stand this. The
point at issue is the right of the Ameri-
can citizen to cross the land of his birth
without having cut-throat stop him,
threaten his life, and perhaps take it.
The men who rob trains are assassins.
They deserve no other treatment than
that given the footpad who Stays on the
highway
The plane on which the Tacoma news
paper considers the question is, perhaps,
a higher one than is usually advanced
by those who advocate hanging for train
robbers, but it does not detract fro the
strength of the argument for such a
law. On the contrary, it gives it addi-
| tional force and is another reason why
the severest penalty possible should be
imposed as punishment for those guilty
| of the crime.-Billings Gazette.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12

Mayor w. B. George. the efficient head
of the city government Of Billings, is in
the city this week, to attend the races,
and watch the performance of some of
his own harness horses, which are en-
tered in the various events.
1T seems to me, said the mayor, that
some of the newspapers do not give quite
the attention to the harness races that
they might. Nearly all the PAGERS and
trotters are Montana product, and should
be encouraged for that reason if for no
other. Billings alone has sent thirteen
horses to the Butte track, and several
others are expected within a few days.
The horsemen have taken a good deal of
care and spent thousands of dollars to
improve the quality Of driving horses in
Montana, and there are horses in the
state that can put up any number OF
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
HlDE-BOUND EASTERN ROADS
They Limit Pan-American Tickets to
a Month-It's an Unpopular
Mova

IF the eastern railroads would agree
to a sixty-day limit for tickets to the
Buffalo exposition" said W. r. Mesh,
ticket agent for the Great Northern,
"the western roads could sell good
many more tickets. and the eastern lines
i6ould also reap a bountiful harvest from
western travellers.
pa Few westerners go east for the sole
purpose of visiting the exposition, most
Of them intending to take it in as side
ISSUE but making visit to Washing
ton or New York, or the old home or
friends scattered through the east, the
principal object. Thirty days from Butte
does not give long enough time to do all
their visiting. SO they put of the trip
With sixty days limit. they could visit
all over the east, and have plenty OF
time. They would get their through
tickets, then pay local rates, which are
almost double the through rate. to their
visiting places from Chicago or Buff
falo. and the eastern roads would get
their own price for all these important
side trips, which in almost every case
would be much more than their proper
ton of the through ticket. But the hide
bound fasteners will not give IN, SO the
people stay at home.
cit may be that the western roads
will soon issue sixty-day ticket as Tar
as Chicago, and with a thirty day ticket
from these, one could do quite bit OF
visiting. It would give almost week
more east of Chicago, and would be the
salvation for the western roads In the
way of excursionists."
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12

News from New York is to the effect
that Colonel Sanders has undergone an
other operation, this time with most
hopeful results. Every good citizen OF
the state who respects the old war horse
for his courage and his loyalty to con-
viction will rejoice to know that he has
a new lease Of life, and will predict for
him a future of much usefulness.
Colonel Sanders was republican when
it required self-sacrifice and much work
without possible reward to be one. He, or
ganized and led his party and proclaimsd
it's principles at a time when nearly all
other men We're democrats of so bitter
kind that his very life was in danger.
He has never changed. never faltere I,
never compromised with the enemy.
That his remaining years should be
spent in peace and comfort and that h.,
should be honored by his friends for
his constant devotion to principle is but
his just due.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12

order, his pessimism and arrogance, his
denial Of the nations wonderful pros
perity, his impracticable and crazy no.
tions of government and his demagogue
appeals to the worst passions Of the
people have finally eliminated in a re-
volt which will strip him of every ves-
tige of power. For eight years he has
dominated democracy with an iron hand,
but his doom is sealed. The verdict OF
the people last fall ought to have been
sufficient to cause his voluntary retire.
ment, but as he did not take the Iain
hint conveyed by the elections. 1t sbe-
came necessary for his own party ins lone
of the great states Of the Union Dub
licly to insult and ignore him.
And it remains for the Anacdhda
Standard to indorse the work by Eek
pressing belief that the ticket ndni-
mated at Columbus yesterday will c&rry
the state. 1t is evident that Bryan has
lost cast with the independent denoc-
racy of Montana.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12

the one held in Butte the first week in
September. That will be the start Of the
school year, and all the teachers OF the
city will attend, making a pretty good
number in all.
Perhaps it is not known to all that
the county institupte Is made a part of
the regular school year, and that the
teachers are paid for that as they are
for their regular teaching work. II they
miss day they miss days pay. That
insures good attendance everytime.
1T is far better system, to my mind,
than the one in vogue in some of the
eastern states. where the institute IL
held for three or four weeks in the middle
OF the summer, and attendance is one
of the conditions necessary in getting q
certificate. It breaks up a teachers sum-
mer vacation, and is expensive, too.
Where teachers get only $25 to $50 for
country schools and $40 is about the
highest for the city schools, it is pretty
much of an imposition to ask them to
spend so long time and so much Of
their hard-earned wages in institute
work.
Montana may we'll be proud OF her
school system, and the quality OF the
teachers who serve in her public schools.
There are none better anywhere"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12

do their duty as republicans. The office
seekers are the servants, not the bosses,
of the people. Whenever they become
arrogant or neglectful of duty. or seek
to dictate where they should obey, the
people may be trusted in their conven-
lions to lay them on the shelf. The
American system of popular government
provides all the machinery to enable the
people to accomplish that result when
ever their chosen servants prove recre-
ant, dishonest or officious. The republic
cans of Montana of the rank and
file lack neither the courage nor the
intelligence to use that machinery
when necessary. They do their own
thinking. and can tell a hawk from a
handsaw without any advice from self
appointed guardians, either in or out OF
the party. This being true, it is all the
more deplorable to observe that a couple
of petty offices are made the subject of
acrimonious criticism which can only
create dissension and endanger party
success. That may be the object of the
critics.
The security of property, the equality
of citizenship, the states good name,
justice in the courts, the confidence OF
capital and the prosperity of labor, al
demand the triumph of the republican
cause in Montana next fall. The state
must be redeemed from democratic
misrule for the vindication of its
decent citizenship and the repudia-
demagogism and anarchy which scored
victory at the polls last fall and at
one time threatened the very direst re-
suits to every legitimate interest of the
commonwealth.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
4 new LINE OF RAILROAD
An Artery Of Iron Will Be Built to
the Heart Of Northern
MontAna.

.The cities Of Great Falls and Billings
will be connected by railroad before
Egreat while if all the indications now OBJ
tservable are ACT unreliable" said D. G.
kSymes of Lewiston at the Thornton this
morning. when Senator Paris Gibson
fwas in the east short time ago he met
III. ]. Hill and received assurances that
1.-THE road would be built soon. The Sena-
/ tor wrote a communication to the Great
Falls Tribune stating that he had Sc
cured his information from the very
highest authority that could be had and
that the road would be built very soon.
Naturally this pleased the people of
Great Falls and Billings and the resi-
dents of both these places have reason to
be gratified.
| "Mr. Hill wants a short line from
northern Montana to the middle and
southwestern states. He wants to con-
meet these various lines of road so that
traffic can be handler in the most econo-
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
A MAGNIFICENT Gift.

The gift of Andrew Carnegie to the
city of Great Falls is, considering the
size of the town, magnificent one; and
it is to be hoped that the conditions
necessary to secure the money will be
carried out as soon as possible. When
one comes to think of 1t, lie is magni-
ficent gift on the part of Mr.. Carnegie
in more ways than one. Here is a little
western city, of which Mr.. Carnegie had
probably never heard before receiving
the letter regarding library here, and
yet out of his wealth is willing to part
with this sum which would be an i'm
mense one to most of us, for the pur-
pose of providMg the people with ia
cilities for lettering themselves intel
lectually and in other ways. No praise
can be too high for this mans goodness,
and it Is to be hoped that every one in
the city of Great Falls will be willing to
accept this gift as freely as it has
been offered.
That Mr.. Carnegie is a rich man is
the result of his own efforts. but, I'M
like most rich men, h els willing to d.
vide his money with his fellow men, who
have been less fortunate than he. Sarely
such a man as this is entitled to the
commentator of every one. There are
few rich men who have had the grace
to recognize, as Mr.. Carnegie has, that
they are merely the pOssessors of wealth
for a short time, and that great riches
have been put into their hands not for
the sake of themselves but to be used
for the benefit OF the balance of the COM
munity. The people of Great Falls will
always have q warm spot in their hearts
for Andrew Carnegie.-Great Falls
Leader.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12

mical manner, and without loss Of time.
The future supply of lumber for the larg-
err part of the United States Is to come
from Montana and the coast region. In
time great deal Of lumber may come
from Alaska. Mr.. Hill intends that his
roads shall handle the bulk Of this busi-
ness. In order that they may do it sue
cessfully in competition with the Canadian
Pacific and the southern roads, he must
be able to beat them in rates. That can
only be done by shortening the haul to
the lowest point. One very important
market for this lumber is to be Kansas,
Nebraska Missouri and other adjacent
states. Mr.. Hill cannot reach them adj
vantageously under present conditions.
He proposes to improve these conditions.
He has already purchaser the Great Falls
& Canada, and his construction Of a road
to Billings will be a continuation of that
road to connect with the Burlington,
making a direct through route to the
southwest.
There are other local conditions that
invite the construction of the road in
question. Fergus county is one of the
wealthiest counties in the state. There
Is no richer agricultural or stock county.
and it's mines are developing rapidly.
There is at present no railroad in the
county, One would hurry the develop
ment of these resources. Their develop
ment would make lucrative traffic for
railroad. Mr.. Hill has undoubtedly taxi
en- these local conditions into considera-
ton in determining to build road. They
add to the main incentive, which Is un-
doubtedly to enable him to handle
through traffic economically.
"This announcement means much to
Great Falls. 1t means that hope which
has for many years buoyed up the peo-
pie of this city is about to be realized.
1t means that the growth is to be more
rapid in the next few years than it has
been at any time in the past. and it
means the building up of the surrounding
country to keep pace with the city,
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
The Alice.

A Salt Lake mining man who writes on
the letter head Of the mining stock ex-
change of that city has written to a
friend in Butte a letter inquring why
Alice stock is selling at so cents and the
letter has been turned over to the Inter
Mountain mining department for an an
swer. We cannot answer the question
and must refer it to General Manager
Buzzo who will probably decline to say
a word. At so cents per share the Alice
figures only 100000, there being 100000
shares issued. OF course that is a
ridiculous proposition as we do not be-
ieve 100000 would buy the property.
There are many millions of dollars worth
Of both base and oxidized ores in the
Alice which modern methods of treat
rlent will some day render profitable.
Besides there are bright men who believe
that underlying the great bodies of low
grade silver ores in the Alice and Magma
Charta. still larger deposits of copper
will be found. That, however, is one of
the problems of the future for nothing
is so unfathomable as the secrets of
mother earth beyond what the eye can
see and the tapeline measure. There
may be copper below the silver or gold or
iron or nothing. Yet there are copper
values which invite deeper explora ton.
Low quotations of Alice stock prove
nothing. There is probably very little
on the market We advise the Salt Lake
man who seeks information to make in
Quiries at the company's office in Salt
Lake or write to Captain Buzzo, or better
still, come to Butte and inspect the prop
erty himself. That is better than asking
q newspaper opinion, for this newspaper,
like others, is always in favor of home
enterprises and always predicts their
success. The only certain thing about
the Alice is the honesty of it's manage
ment. For 25 years the Alice company
has transacted it's business with this
community in an upright and honorable
manner. 1t never missed a pay day. 1t
always gave square deal to the leasers
and tributers whose ores it bought for
treatmen 1t was the pioneer among
the deep mines of Butte and solved the
1t gave to the district such men as
Marcus Daily, Patrick Clark William z.
Hall and Captain Buzzo, all big men in
the mining world. Its relations with
organized labor have always been friend
ly and peaceful. The old days in Walk
erville when 80 stamps We're dropping
and dividends were regular, when the
Alice band and the Alice hospital and
library We're lourishing and when Walk
clville was the republican stronghold of
the county-those days will never be for
gotten by the old residents of the "burg
on the hill" 1t is quiet up there now,
but the Alice compony still holds II
valuable claims there and there is "some-
thing doing now which gives promise of
rcrewed activity.
The Salt Lake man who wonders why
Alice stock is quoted at so cents may
yet see it quoted at So
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
The Party Welfare.

The Inter Mountain regrets to observe
poraries are wasting time and space in
railing about a few petty appointments.
because of personal dissatisfaction with
the appointees or personal dislike of
their indorsers. This is free country,
and free speech is it's greatest privilege.
Yet party harmony and party triumph
are paramount to individual interest or
individual grievance. Party triumph
means material prosperity to all the
people as the result of party legislation
federal offices affects only the men who
get the plums and those who sought
but did not get them. For instance, a
republican tariff law means in this state
the prosperity of all the wool-growers
and cattle-raisers. all the coal and lead
miners, all the growers of protected
farm products-thousands of good citi-
gems in all. But if in quarreling abou.
some petty office and dividing the party
on personal issues we create bitterness
feat, not only do We lose control of the
odices at issue, but we injure, and per-
haps, ruin. the business Of thousands of
good republicans engaged in the pro,
tected industries and dependent wholly
on republican legislation for a decent
livelihood. Ninety-nine men out of a
hundred engaged in productive pursuits
and needing tariff protection do not join
the republican party in order that Ger,
tain men may have Office. but to insul
such legislation and such government e.
win best protect their material an
terests. It makes little difference tt
them who hold the offices, SO long as
such men are competent and honest and
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12

good races. But If there Is no induce
ment for the breeders to go on with THE
evolution of the range cayuse into a
shapely, speedy roadster, the industry
is going to anguish. The harness horse
should be given little more of a show
than has been done here in Butte. At
home, the harness races are more popu-
lar than the running, and we have some
pretty good runners, too.
Billings is going to have a race met,
beginning about the goth of September,
and lasting for a week or more. There
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-12
BUTTE's SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
He's Back From the Bitter Root
Tanned and Refreshed in
HEALTH

Prof. r. G. Young, superintendent
of the Butte public schools. is home from
a three-weeks' visit over In the Bitter
Root valley. where Mrs. Young's parents
live, and where she is still spending the
summer The worthy professor is so
Drowned by his outdoor life that his
friends would scarcely recognize him.
Rustic life seems to agree with him.
though it has reduced his avoirdupois.
but given in its place a lot of seasoned
muscles that would play havoc with even
Butte pupil rebels against teachers
authority.
II shall probably do no work in any
of the county institutes of the state until