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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29
K COMMON FOLKs.

The Hague, Jan. 25-A formal deed
signed by Queen Wilhelmina and
Duke Henry declaring their desire to
be married was filed at town hall to-
day. The royal bans will be read for
the first time January ~.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29
CRUISER FOR LA GUIRA.

Washington, Jan 25-Under special
orders from the navy department. the
cruiser Lancaster left st. Vincent,
West Indies, yesterday for La Guira.
The gunboat Scorpion arrived at Curaco
from La Guira yesterday.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29
IN RIGHT

Salem, Ore, Jan. 25-The senate
today passed a bill providing that the
people shall be given the right to ex-
press by ballot at their regular state
elections their choice for United
States senator.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29

ence and congratulation. Adjourn
men Of parliament will follow until
February IA, when there is a possibil-
ity that the king will appear in person
to outline the Legislative programme.
However, this is a matter that still
remains uncertain.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29
ANOTHER MONTREAL IRE

Montreal, Jan. 25-The stores of D.
A. Mcpherson, A. J. johnson and
Nicholas Pitt burned today. Loss
$3.50, 900. MCPHERSON is said to have
controlled the bulk of the cheese in
Canada.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29
HARD ON TAMANY.
London Papers Make Caustic Remarks
Concerning Famous Organization.

London, Jan. 25-The Globe this
evening, reviewing American SYM
pathy with Great Britain upon the
death Of Queen Victoria, adds, refer
ring to the refusal Of MayorsVan Wyck
of New York to lower the flag v
the city hall: "The solitary excep-
ton to this attitude of sypmathy and
respect is to be regarded rather as a
matter Of congratulation than of re-
greet. It was a high compliment that
the memory Of Great Britain and the
queen should be unsullied by any rec
ignition on the part of Tammany hall
and its creatures"
The St. James Gazette says that
Van Wyck $50 grossly misrepresented
the general feelings of America as tt
refuse to show i'll New York official
respect to the memory of Queen Vic
toria, which his c%ountrymen are every
where showing and by all means in
their power displaying to the world"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29
A PATRIOTIC OFFICIAL.
Howe's Scheme for Disposing Of Elk.
cessive Fees.

New York, Jan. 25-James r
Howe. register Of Kings county, who
some time ago declared that the fees
to which the incumbent of his Office is
by law entitled were excessive and
said that he would not apply them to
his w use, today issued a statement
outlining his disposition with regard
to these fees.
His proposition is to erect in Brook
Ign a statue to George Washington.
The entire cost Of the statue will be
betrayed by Howe.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29
QUESSEs AT PROVISIONS OF WILL.
Believed that Edward Gets No Share {
Late Queens Private Fortune.

Late Queens Private Fortune.
New York, Jan. 25-A dispatch
from Cowes says: Queen Victoria's
will vas opened and examined yester-
day by the duly constituted author
tiles. Nothing will ever be made
public officially as to the provisions of
the instrument or the amount of her
private fortune
1t is generally supposed that this
preliminary inspection was made in
order to follow exactly her majesty's
directions regarding her funeral. 1t
is known that the queen made a will
early in her reign. which was repeat
eddy altered and added to as children
and grandchildren were born and as
her estates rapidly advanced in value.
This proceeded until 1896, when her
majesty decided to have an entirely
new document drawn and with great
personal care this was accomplished.
Those in a position to make any sort
of a guess as to the provisions Of the
will declare that the Princess Beatrice,
widow of Prince Henry of Battenburg,
will be the principal beneficiary. She
is the governor of the isle of Wight
and will probably inherit Osborne
house and the whole estate surround
ing it. Then the duke of Connaught
and his sons, who have been great
favorites with Victoria, will receive a
large portion of the fortune. The
duke will probably become the owner
of Balmoral and the Scottish prop
erty. The grandchildren who are ex-
pected to receive the largest requests
are the two children of Victoria's
youngest son, the former duke Of
Albany. The queens second daugh-
ter, Princess Christian, of Schleswig-
Holstein, is not rich, and it is expect
ed that she and her four children will
be literally provided for.
Edward VII, who will be amply
provided for by the country, and the
duke of York, lwho comes into the
duchy Of Cornwall, will probably not
share in the late queens private for
tune.
Estimates made by the best informed
persons in the financial field, place
the value Of Queen Vicuoria's private
fortune at something between $780,
600, 900 and $50, 900, 900.
Parliament upon her accession
granted her 81, 925, 900 a year. That
sum-, it was estimated, would main
tain the royal establishment and leave
the sovereign $500, 900 for pocket
money or personal expenses. Since
the death of Albert, the prince con-
sort, it is estimated her majesty has
saved $3.50, 600 a year of this sum-.
This money, together with the in
crement, has been invested under the
best advice that' London, the financial
center of the world, could supply.
Added to it and accommodating each
year is the sum Of 81, 800, 900, the
private fortune of the prince oonsort,
which was bequeathed to the queen.
She was also the legatee of many ad-
miring subjects, one Of them deciding
ST.. 500, 900.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29
Halls FROM BUTTE.
Michael Delaney Falls Easy Victim
to Sharper.

Chicago, Jan. 25-Michael Delaney,
a ranch owner living near Butte,
Mont, reported to the police today
that he had been victimized out of a
certified check for 81, 500 by a man
whose acquaintance he formed a week
ago in New York. The sharper repre-
sented himself to Delaney as a Chi
cago mining broker and induced De-
laney to give him the check to be
cashed at a bank.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-29

your he d.
ache. Sold by Chapple Drug Go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
MURDERED BY A SQUIRE
PREACHER wAYLAID BY A JUSTICE
OF THE PEACE AND SHOT.
Latter Had Been Expelled from
Church and the Minister Charged
Him with Lying.

BROOKSIDE, Ala, Dec. S.-The Rev. j.
w. Bradford. Methodist minister at this
place, was shot by r. d. Coffman, justice
of the peace, this afternoon at o'clock,
and died two hours later. Coffman was
standing in Bradfords doorway and fired
two shots, both talsing effect in the head
There were no witnesses to the tragedy.
The Rev. Mr.. Bradford had returned here
as the Methodist minister for another year.
While at Sunday school this morning the
Rev. Mr. Bradford called attention to this
fact and remarked that he hoped all the
relations between himself and his con-
gregation would be pleasant. adding. it is
alleged. that their relations would be pleas
ant If they could stop such men as Coff-
man from lying about him and the church.
Coffman was once member of the Rev.
Mr.. Bradford's Church, but had been ex-
PEELED on some charge, and for this reason
there had been some bitter feeling between
him and Bradford.
Coffman Immediately after the shooting
surrendered 10 Deputy Sheriff Armstrong.
A warrant has been sworn out before JUS
tice j. L. Sellers. charging Coffman with
murder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
Mrs. ConISIin Reads Pape-.

Governor Durbin was followed by Mrs.
Conklin, who told OF the work atsthe In
diana Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
at KnightstOwn and how the boys and girls
were cared for and prepared for after life.
She said:
The Indiana Soldiers and Sailfrs Or
Dhans Home occupies a unique position in
the group OF benevolent institution. Of the
State. Ii Is not a pOOrhOuse. n Is not A
reformatory: IL is not prison: IL + not a
house for iudigent children; but IL was
tablished soon after the close OF Che war
for the UniCn as a home where the orphans
and the chi dren OF unfortunate soldiers OF
that war ate reared. educated and taught
to work. aad now. thirty-siX yeafs after
the close Of the war. more than SIX hun
dred children are still annually Gated for.
This is an. astonishing fact. but. N the
principles upon which the home was estab-
lished We're. right In the beginning they
are still right for never was there greater
need for caring for the children OF she Net-
Grams now grown old. than there ie az the
present time
The management OF the home Il living
up 10 the requirements OF the laws OF the
State. not only In their efforts 90 educate
and train the child. but by surrounding IL
with mo-al and Christian atmosphere
that I'm a great measure compelssstes for
the loss OF THAT highest OF earthly bless
lngs-the influence OF Christian parents and
home.
The new child coming into the home Is
made 10 feel that IL n among frien,ts. and
that for the present az least. II ha4 found
"A refuge. which IL may look upon
home. strong effort Is made 20 fo:ter the
family spirit and strengthen the files OF
close association. To this end, chilhren OF
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
NATIVES or MINDANAO.
They Dress Like Turks and Each Has
from One tn Thirty wives.
Journal.

Special 20 the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind. Dec. S.-One of the
several Wayne county boys in the Philip
pine service Is Lawrence Phelps. of Foun-
tain City. He has written many interest
ing letters home 10 his mother The fol-
lowing extracts are taken from the last
received. which was dated Colto BALTIC
Mindanao. Z. l.:
We have just landed. and I think this
Is the prettiest place We have ever been
stationed. We were transferred here on
the United States transport Buford and
ran on the mud ten miles from land where
We were stuck for over a week
The people here are much like Turks
food. dress ard habits In general Each
native has from one To thirty-four wives
the ordinary woman being worth about 20
pesetas. or SO In gold. They have their
own laws. and so far the United States has
not disturbed them. They all wear big
long knives. and the lower class carry
spears. One tribe carries guns Every
IN combat. The tribe that wins takes the
'vomen and cattle and everything worth
anything belonging TO the losers. then the
latter fail back 10 grow stronger, and so
on Although these surrounding tribes
have trouble among themselves. they never
trouble
THE rainy season Is not bad here We
are not Tar from BOrneO. and only about
q three days sail from Australia.
Coffee grOTs here in abundance and
rubber Is another important product while
much gold Is 20 be mined and cattle raising
- auite profitable. l think this is the rich
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.
Court to which All Labor Disputes
Must BE Referred.

SYDNEY, y. s. w, Dec. S.-By the pas
sage of the Industrial arbitration bill the
government has placed on the statute
books a law the working of which will ex-
cite interest throughout the whole world.
This bill not only compels reference of all
disputes between employers and employees
to a competent court. with power to enforce
it's orders and awards, but makes a strike
or a lockout. before or pending such rel
erence, a misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine or imprisonment. The court which
will pass on these disputes is 10 be pre-
sided over by judge of the Supreme
Court, and will have more extensive pow
ers including the power TO declare stand
ard wage and TO direct that. other things
being equal, an employer shall give prefer
ence to unionists over nonunion laborers
There is no appeal from the decisions OF
this court.
The arbitration bill passed the legislative
council of New South Wales Dec. ..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
CHIEF MOORE'S REPORT
YEARS WORK OF THE UNITED
STATES WEATHER BUREAU.
improvements i'm Wireless Telegra-
ice to PARKWAY Places.

WASHINGTON, Dec S.-The annual re-
port of Prof. Willis Moore, chief of the
United States Weather Bureau, says that
substantial improvements have been made
during the past year in the Weather Bu-
reau system of wireless telegraphy. Such
progress has been made by the government
experimenters that, with no interference by
private systems, stations can be success
fully operated over at least 80 miles OF
coast line and are now in operation along
the Virginia and North Carolina coasts,
and soon will be instituted between the
FarralIone islands and teh main land and
Tatosh island and the main land on the
Pacific coast. The system of selective
telegraphy he regards as well demon
strated theoretically, but has not been
fully tested in practice.
The report says: "A system Of merit and
discipline has been gradually developed in
the Weather Bureau which not only con-
forms to the letter OF the civil-service
law, but carries its spirit to a logical con-
clusion. The system compels each employe
or official to work out his own official sal
vation 1t is fair to all; it enables honest
and efficient persons to work themselves
upward; it contributes to a high standard
O
public office and il holds back those of
mediocre attainments or of slothful
habits"
An important extension of the forecast
work of the bureau was made during the
year whereby meteorological reports from
certain points in the British isles, the con-
tipent of Europe and from the Azores are
transmitted to Washington, and with other
stations from Nassau, Bermuda and Turks
island are regularly published on the
Wea ther maps, together with forecasts of
the wind and the state OF the weather for
the first three days out OF steamers bound
eastward In a number of instances when
storms Of marked strength were passing
eastward off the American coast, forecasts
of the weather which probably would be eX-
perienced by steamers leaving European
ports westward bound were ca bled To Eng
land. Fog predictions also were issued
Reports from steamers show that these
forecasts and other special warnings have
been verified.
The lines of work pursued in previous
years by the climate and crop service of
the Weather Bureau were continued, and
extensions and improvements made wher-
ever possible. The cotton region service has
been extended into Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory, and arrangements have
been made for beginning a similar work in
wheat service. Prof Moore points with
pride to the complete system the Weather
Bureau has for the accurate and complete
collection and dissemination of crop in
formation, having large number Of paid
employees and volunteer obversers and 1900
persons reporting weekly to central points
on the effect OF weather upon crops in
their respective localities.
The distribution OF forecasts by rural free
delivery has become decidedly popular and
there are an aggregate OF nearly 1900 fam
lies in the farming districts being supplied
with the latest weather predictions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
WONDERFUL NATURAL CAVE.
Ii Contains "a River with n Cataract
and Once Was Inhabited.

BUTTE, Mont. Dec. S.-A new and won
derful natural cave, believed 10 be one oil
the largest known. has just been dlscoV-
cred in the canon of the Jefferson. on the
line of the Northern Pacific Railway about
fifty miles east OF Butte. An exploration
party from Butte spent several days in the
cave. going over an area Of ten miles, TO
a depth Of nearly one thousand feet.
large river, with a catract Of about one
hundred feet was explored for distance
of several miles without discovering its
source or outlet A few articles OF stone
and copper utensils and some bones. be-
Heved TO be human bones, were found
in one Of the large apartments Of the cave.
There were other evidences that at some
time in a prehistoric period the cave was
inhabited 1t is believed an earthquake
closed the entrance 10 the cave and killed
its inhabitants. The formations of stalac-
tite and other natural decorations through
out the cave are most beautiful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
The Home for the Children of Dead
Soldiers and sailors at
knightstown.
GOVERNOR DURBIN PRESIDES
4 GREAT ADMIRER OF THE WORK
OF THE ORGANIZATION.
Addresses Also Made by R..vs. Me-
serve, Haines and keIIogs and
Amos W. Butler.

The disagreeable weather last sight pre-
vented many who are interested in charity
work frons attending the annual meeting OF
the Charity Organization Society at En-
glishs Opera House. Much regret was ex-
pressed because OF the inability bf Super
intendent A. J. Graham. of the Indiana
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans home, TO
be present to deliver an address, but his
place on the programme was welt filled by
Mrs. Julia 5: Conkln. OF Westfield. a MEN,
Der Of tho board of trustees Of the home.
The Rev. Joshua Stansfield. pasttr OF Me-
ridian-street Methodist Church. twas also
unable TO be present. and the subject Our
Citys Outside Care of Neglected Children"
which was assigned TO him, was ably dis
cussed by. Amos w. Butler, SECRETARY OF
the State Board OF Charities. The meet
ing was presided over by Governor Durbin.
The opening prayer was offerec by the
Rev. J. Cumming Smith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
NELLIE CROPsEY NOT FOUND.
River Dragged Again for the Body of
the Missing Girl.

ELIZABETH CITY, y. c., Dec. S.-The
opinion still prevails here that Nellie Crop
sey has been either abducted or murdered
The Pasquotank river was dragged to-day
more systematically than ever. but with
out securing a trace OF the missing girl
The search for Miss CrOpsey will continue
without any abatement OF energy. Chief
Of Police Dawson returned here to-day
from Norfolk. whittier he went 20 inves-
tlgate "A report that the girl had been seen
in Norfolk and had taken steamer there
tor Baltimore. He says young woman
answering the description OF Miss CrOpsey
did leave Norfolk for Baltimore. but in
his opinion sne was not Nellie Cropsey. A
report reached here to-day from Whining
ton, ~. G. that the girl had been located
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09
BERRY HOWARD IN JAIL.
Kentuckian Who Is Charged with
Completely in GOebers Murder.

FRANKFORT, Ky, Dec. S.-Sheriff
Broughton, of Bell county, accompanied by
three deputies, arrived here to-day, having
in charge Berry Howard. of Bell county
who was indicted for completely in the
murder of William Goebel, and who has
been a fugitive more than a year. He
turned his prisoner over to Jailer Law
renee. Of this county. and Howard was as
signed quarters in the jail with Caleb Pow
ers and James Howard, a relative, charged
with the same crime. Howard protests his
innocence. and says he became a fugitive
in the mountain section only because he did
not want 10 lie in jail here. He will ask
for an immediate hearing, and If this Is
denied will demand release on bond. How
ard represented the counties OF Bell, Har-
LAM Perry and Leslie In the General AS
sembly in 1891. 1892 and 1893 as a Democrat,
when GOebel represented Kenton county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09

ment OF our independence has been the
greatest commercial expansion in the
world. Contrast the benefcent results
which have flown from that separation
with the results already borne by the at
tempt 10 annex fOrciby the Transvaal and
the still graVer results foreshadOWed by it.
Disaster to the English people lies not
in the defeat of this enterprise, but in its
success. If the South African republics
We're subdued and the last Boer disarmed,
the men and women now in captivity must
be returned to the soil. To maintain au-
thority over these people, resentful dis
saushed, accustomed TO bearing arms,
would require the maintenance of a huge
army, and such an army could not be
maintined without establishing compulsory
military service in Great Britain. The es-
tablishment Of compulsory service would
be the ruin of the British Constitution.
The name of England might remain to dis
tinguish a political division of the earth's
surface, but not 10 describe country of
constitutional freedom.
The conquest Of the TTansvaal, while
ii might be dangerous to the burghers,
would be fatal 10 England. The people who
have the greatest interest of all in the
defeat of English arms the people of
England. They can be saved from this
peril. Civilization cannot be delivered from
this cloud which darkens its horizon if the
conscience of the English people be awak-
ened. To do this the most effective means
is 10 show them that the people of this
country does not sympathize with the
scheme of conquest which the English
government has undertaken.
providence has so ordered events that
the President of the United States can
compose this bitter quarrel. 1t is an ex-
traordnary opportunity offered to an
traordinary man. 1t would not be neces-
sary to draw the sword TO make any
threat of armed Intervention, or to take
an unfriendly attitude. One word spoken
to the English ambassador or in the hear
ing of the English nation would restore
peace, establish justice, secure liberty to
these burghers, promote enormously the
prosperity of the human race and bring
immeasureable glory to the American. IA
ton. VIII that word be spoken? NewT in
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