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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06

If all the wool growers of the state
displayed the same interest in the in
dustry which characterizes the Hon.
T. G. Power, president of the state
board of sheep commissioners, that
branch of Montana's diversity of in
~terests would probably be on a much
better footing than it now enjoys. To
him is due the active efforts now
making throughout the state to form
associations of wool growers and
those allied win the business. At
Great Falls he organized the newly
formed association of f1ockmasters Of
the northern part of the state and
when his labors were competed there
visited this city and took an active
part in the formation of the Central
Montana Wool Growers association.
Thoroughly ~conversant with the bust
ness of sheep raising and knowing all
the wants and requirements Of those
engaged in it, he is a wise counsellor
and a safe, conservative advisor.
Coupled with this is the ability to
perform an almost impossible amount
of work and the power to Undue 9th
ers with bis spirit of enthusiasm and
progress, as has been shown at the
recent meetings held in this city and
at Great Falls. BY adopting his sug-
gestions and acting on his advice, the
fockmasters of the state will speedily
have the satisfaction Of seeing their
industry on a much better footing and
with the returns greatly augmented.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06

of the party in %furthering' some of the
pet measures of the emperor, which
assistance he could not have hoped to
secure without making the conces-
sions contained in his tariff. bill. Ger
many does not wish to lose the
friendship of Russia, even, though she
may be Indifferent as to the United
States, which she is not, and as the
schedule on grain and other commod-
tiles of which Russia is a large export
er to Germany will practically shutou
those imports, the German governs
ment is not anxious that the bill shall
be enacted and for that very reason
the measure has been endowed with
all it's severity.
The Gazette may be over ~sanguine,
but it believes that it takes the right
view of the case and does not feel
any of the alarm which seemingly is
entertained by some Of the newspap-
ers of the country as to the effects
of the new German tariff on the ex-
ports of the United States.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06

come Wnen Chey try to start up these
idle mills. They declare, however,
that they will make the attempt and
with just as much haste as is posi-
BILE.
Pittsburg, Aug.3-.It will be a fight
to the finish. No quarter will be given
We are prepared to spend all the
money and time necessary to wipe
out the Amalgamated association in
all of our mills"
This was the message that came
over the wires from New York to
local officials of the United States
Steel corporation this afternoon.
The officials were waiting long af-
ter the usual Saturday afternoon
closing time to get word from the
conference in New York between the
executive board of the Amalgamat4d
association and the general officers
of the big trust. Two messages came.
The first stated that the confer
ence between the workers and Nor
gan had adjourned after receiving his
ultimate decision in the matters in
dispute. Word also came that when
this last conference broke up Nor
gan was e to leave the conference
room looking very much excited and
angry.
The executive board of the Anal
gamated association then went into
executive session stating that they
would notify Mr.. Morgan by 4 O'clock
in the afternoon of their decision.
An hour before this time, a second
message came to Pittsburg, announc-
ing to the officials here that the eX-
ecutive board had decided that they
would not accept Mr.. Mofgan's terms.
The second message contained the
statement above.
Some of the officials heard the mes
sage with misgivings. Others with
unconcealed satisfaction. One of the
officials left the office declaring that
he was glad of 1t. The fight would
surely be carried to a finish and the
corporation would once and for all
be freed from the influence of the
union men.
At headquarters of the A~malgamat-
ed association there was no one
about. All the executive officers being
in New York at this time. No one
was present to look after the inter-
ests of the strikers here pending
their return. Organizer Flynn Of the
American Federation of Labor was
about the headquarters during the
morning and one Or two of the strik-
ing workers, but they only remained
a short time. Intense interest was
shown by the men. The only remark
heard among the strikers who we're
about was that President Shaifer had
temperized with the trust officials too
long.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06
NO REAL DANGER.

1t would seem as though the alarm
which is pretended to be felt in GER
tain parts of our own country in re-
gard to the proposed new tariff which
has been submitted to the bundles
rath of Germany is entirely unneces-
sary. While it is true that in many
respects the measure aims seriously at
the exporters of America, but little
likelihood apparently exists that the
bill of the chancellor will become a
law in it's present form. The duties
imposed on many articles are practic-
ally p%rohibitory and because of this
feature the bill will meet with strong
opposition from every party represent
ed in the German legislative body,
except the agrarians, for whose spec
ial benefit it has been drawn. Were
a. tariff schedule such as the chan
cellor submits to be adopted by the
budesrath the prices of many of the
commodities and necessaries of life
in Germany would become so high
that they would be beyond the reach
of all except the wealthy. This the
chancellor knows and as has been re-
peatedly sabled from Berlin he has no
hope or desire that the bill will be
given the force of a law. While chan
cellor, he is also a politician and not
above the ways which politicians
occasionally adopt to accomplish a
certain purpose. He is aware of the
unreasonable demands of the agrar-
ians and yielding to them to the ex-
tent he has in his proposed tariff law
takes that means of rendering them
harmless for a long time to come,
we'll knowing that the bill will never
become a law as now drafted. At the
same time he secures the assistance
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06
OVER AT BUTTE

Just to show that it is not depend
ent Upon the altitudinous flights of the
thermometer to maintain it's reputa-
ton as a warm number" Butte is
now the storm center of a high grade
scandal in which one of it's district
court judges figures prominently and
unenviably.
Judge Harvey, who presides over
one of the departments of the district
court of Silver Bow county, is charged
in a number of affidavits filed with the
clerk with having been unduly friend
ly to n of the contestants in a rec
ent piece of litigation decided by him
and against the other fellow. Alleged
copies of letters said to have passed
between him and a woman in the en-
ploy of the successful litigant are
made part of the exhibit submitted in
substantiation of the charge of unfair
ness. The alleged letters are of the
gushing, tender sort usually supposed
to pass between members of the oppo-
site sex when their acquaintance has
passed the formal stage and the feel
ing entertained toward each other is
no longer platonic. Not only do
those said to have been written by
the fair admirer of the judicial gen
tleman breath of the passion that
poets love to write about and glorify,
but they also contain hints of substan-
tial reward If he but see fit to decide
as the writer of the alleged epistles
intimates the case should be decided.
AS if the charges made were not
strong enough to show undue influ-
ence' the makers of the affidavits,
submitted in support of a motion for
an extension of time in which to move
for a new trial, further charge that his
honor was intoxicated during a part
of the time that the case was in hear
ing before him. The names of sew
eral witnesses are given whom the
movers say they are ready to have
sworn at the proper time to prove the
charge of i~ntoxication.
The alleged letters and charges
against the judge are printed in full
in the local newspapers and furnish
decidedly racy reading for those who
like the sensational in literature and
can maintain normal temperatures
during these excessively hot days, for
Ada Yields an Ella Wheeler Wilcox
stylus and she let off the brakes when
she wrote to her dearest"
1t is but fair to the judge to say
that he denies all the charges and de-
clares the letters, or rather copies, to
be forgeries and asserts his ability to
disprove all the allegations and clear
himself of the suspicion now attach
ing to him. 3
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06

tor was a resident of Montana during
the years when the Wilson bill was
in effect he must certainly still re-
member the conditions which then
prevailed in the sheep industry in
this state. Wool sold at prices so
low that every pound disposed of
meant a loss to the producer, and the
1ockmasters sought by every means
possible to rid themselves Of their
holdings. Some did manage to get
out of the business, through the kind
assistance of banks and other mort
gagees, while others, who were not
cess of nature to decrease their focks.
AS soon as the election of Mckinley
vas assured an instantaneous change
vas apparent. Men who had
money left at once took steps tt &C
quire new herds or sought to increase
those they still possessed, while
those who had lost theirs and were
in debt beside contented themselves
with taking advantage of the prosper
ity that came to all topaythe balances
they owed to banks and others of
whom they had borrowed in flush
times which existed before even a
modified form Of DR.. Frees panacea
had brought them into bankruptcy.
While all recognize the immmeas-
ureable benefits an isthmian canal
would confer upon this country, opin-
ion is divided as to the wisdom of a
fortified canal. Many and potent argu-
ments can be advanced against a forti-
fed canal. Better, perhaps, would be
a canal free to all nations at all times,
except in the event of a war between
this nation and some foreign powers
when this government should possess
the authority to close the canal to such
power. A fortified canal would mean
immense cost and expense to the
United States without any proportion
ate benefits ACQUIRING. Modern naval
architecture and modern gunnery
would make it a comparatively easy
matter for a hostile nation to close
the canal by w%recking portions of it'll
and thus depriving us of it's use and
compelling the subsequent expense of
r%eopening it and placing it in service
able condition ice more.
On only one proposition is the doc
tor to be endorsed: That is govern
mental construction and maintenance
Of an adequate irrigation system for
the arid west. His other arguments
are those of a man in opposition to
the political party in control of the
national government and must be con-
sidered as such.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06
A COURTS

Judge Knowles and the attorney
general of the United States, and in
cidentally the United States attorney
for Montana, do not seem to be CT one
mind in the matter of prosecuting
some of the men arrested recently on
indictments returned in the judges
court against a number of men in
western Montana charged with frauds
in connection with timber land entries
and transfers. Last Friday his honor
was startled by a motion from the
United States attorney to dismiss the
indictments returned against Chaun-
.cey Griswold and Albert Jemison, two
Missoula county men. The attorney
said that he made the motion to nolle
pros. the cases against the two at the
direction of the attorney general. To
this the court replied that he doubted
the right of the attorney general to
make such a motion, where upon
Attorney Rodgers informed the court
he would make the motion as United
States attorney. Thereupon it was
granted, but not before Judge Knowles
had delivered himself of some rather
strong language in regard to the mat
ter. He designated the motion as
"reprehensible" and said he consid-
cred Griswold one of the most guilty
of the many against whom indictments
had been found in his court in connec
ton with the case in question, saying
that. he believed Griswold to be the
one who had instigated the crimes
charged and should be prosecuted. He
Further gave it as his opinion that if
the government intended to use Girls
void as a witness for the prosecution
it would initiate against the govern
ment's case.
After the adjournment of court
Judge Knowles spoke to several re-
porters and declared that orders had
been received from Washington not to
arrest Griswold and Jemison, but the
order for their arrest had already been
given and they were arrested and
hauled into court. The fact that Judge
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06
FIGHT IS ON,

What hopes may have been enter
tanned for an amicable settlement of
the great labor dispute which has dis
rupted the friendly relations hitherto
existing between the steel trust and
it's employees, seemingly might as we'll
be dismissed as impossible of fruition.
At last accounts the negotiations
which have been in progress for sew
eral weeks had reached a stage where
all further efforts at Cancellation were
useless and both sides to the contro-
versy had withdrawn and declared wal
to a finish. The steel magnates a
they are prepared to spend all the time
and money necessary to wipe out the
.Amalgamated association, while the
members of that organization have
picked up the gauntlet and declare
that if oyertures for peace are ever
made they must come from the other
side. With the lines thus firmly drawn
and both sides firm and determined,
the public should prepare itself for
a long, fierce struggle in which organ
lied capital representing millions is
arrayed against n of the most pow
erful and wealthy labor unions in the
world. Directly and indirectly the
strike will affect several hundred
thousand workingmen, and as on all
such occasions much suffering and
sorrow will come to the innocent.
Whether the strikers will be able, as
they declare they are, to bring the
trust to terms remains to be seen and
idle thousands having the support and
sympathy of countless thousands en-
ployed in all parts of the country to
accept what it has to give is also a
question that can only be settled by
the progress of times.
Viewed from any standpoint that
may be taken, the situation is an un-
fortunate one. It's immediate effects
are bound to be deplorable and the
indirect effects on the peace and pros
perity of the entire country will prove
no less so. 1t is to be hoped that
some way may yet be found out Of the
difficulty, but whatever the outcome,
it is the earnest wish of everybody that
lawlessness and disorder may not be-
come one of the attendant evils of this
gigantic struggle now fairly on and
that it's history will be devoid of some
of the features which have made con
spicuous similar troubles in the past
in the same regions.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06

Knowles, usually temperate and con-
sentative of speech, made the remarks
attributed to him in court and subse-
quently while off the bench will con-
vince many people OF the state that a
mistake has been made in releasing
the two men and all further proceed
ings in the case will be regarded with
more or less suspicion, especially by
those who personally know the Judge
and his rugged honesty and high re-
gard for the law and all it stands for.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06
STRIKERS ARRESTED.
Warrants for Twenty-Seven Sworn
Out. Some in Jail.

WWellsville, Aug. 3-This was the
most exciting day since the strike
began. A riot at an early hour this
morning around a boarding house
kept by a mill worker named Phil.
lips, in which non-union men are quar-
tered, was followed shortly after noon
by the proprietor of the house swear
ing out a warrant charging ~ of the
members of the Amalgamated asso-
citation with riot. Organizer Evans
name is included in the affidavit and
on the list handed by Phillips to the
mayor, Edward Price, Richard Rum
baugh, William and Elmer Moore,
Charles Peth, Frank Adams, Jay
Davis and District Organizer Geo.
Evans have been placed under arrest.
Adams and Evans were released on
$500 bonds to appear at preliminary
hearing to be held on August IA. The
remainder are still in jail but the
Amalgamated association leaders are
working hard to secure bail for them
but so far without success. The in
formations were made by Phillips at
the request Of the American Sheet
Steel company.
Sheriff Morgan. of this county has
two deputies on the ground tonight
to assist the local police in maintain.
ing order.
Mrs. Phillips was see by reporters
and told a very disconnected story of
the affair. She mentioned that the
yard a full of men armed with
clubs, knives and reyolvers and CON
tradicted herself several times in her
story of the men under arrest. She
says non of the men are sleeping at
her house but have lunches put up
there.
~Amalgamated association leaders saw
they will employ the best legal tai
ent obtainable to defend the men. A
majority of the strikers have not yet
returned from the picnic, which was
attended by a large number, but tele-
phone advices say that if the men are
not released by midnight the men at
the picnic say they will tear down
the jail and release them.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06
WOOL GROWERS ORGANIZE.

The organization of f1ockmasters
perfected in this city last Thursday
evening further evidences the progress
sive spirit of the men engaged in the
sheep industry in this part of the
state and is but an exemplication of
the modern tendency to organization
which prevails among all those en-
gagged in occupations where individual
effort can be strengthened and made
more effective by organized co-opera-
ton. Such organizations can but be
productive of great good and increased
benefits to those who hold membership
in them. Individual effort, no matter
how energetically directed, is incap-
able of accomplishing the results
which are bound to follow concerted
action of many along the same lines.
Evidence of this is furnished in the
success which has attended almost
every association ever perfected,
whether it's object be to increase the
pleasures of those who are it's mem
bers, or whether organization is eff
fected for the purpose of enhancing
the material welfare of those who
subscribe to it's articles.
AS was well stated at the meeting
presided over by Senator Power, the
sheep business heretofore has been
conducted in a careless, hap-hazard
manner, each fockmaster doing what
he considered to be the best for him
self at the time being, regardless of
what the future consequences of his
action might be. The men devoted
to the business of cattle raising long
ago learned to appreciate the benefits
to be derived by successful organiza-
ton of it's followers and have built
up one of the strongest associations
representative of a particular branch
of industry to be found anywhere in
the country. The results have more
than justified the wisdom of those
who took the initiative in p%erfecting
the present organization and the bene-
fits that have been derived by it's
members and are constantly being de-
rived are too many to need specifica-
ton. Greater security of property,
enactment of legislation calculated to
advance the interests of the livestock
business of the state, better shipping
facilities and more reasonable railroad
rates on stock shipped to market and
on the stock imported to replenish
the ranges are among some of the re-
suits which have been accomplished
by the eattlemen since they inaugu-
rated a system of collective effort to
replace individual endeavor. No rea-
son exists why the sheepmen cannot
bring about the same happy condi-
tions as applying to their business,
and if the newly organized Central
Montana Wool Growers association so
wills the time is not far distant when
1t will be one of the dominating fac
tors in everything pertaining to the
sheep industry in the territory en-
braced by its membership. Unre.
served cooperation with the other
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06
in THE MARTs OF TRADE.
Record Showing Days Commercial
and Financial Fluctuations.
Live Stock.

Chicago, Aug. Cattle: Receipts
500, mostly Texans, direct to killers.
Market dull, steady. Good to prime
steers, $.50@6.00; poor to medium,
$4.40@5.25; stockers and feeders,
S2.25@4.25; cows, $2.75@4.60; heifers
$2.25@4.4O; Gamers, $1.50@2.25;
Texas fed steers, $3@4.50.
Sheep-Receipts 1900. Dull. Lambs
dull; many common sheep and lambs
being carried over. Choice wethers,
$3.75@4.0O; lair to choice mixed.
$3.25@3.5O; western sheep. $3.50
3.65; yearlings, $3.75@4.25; western
lambs, $4.25@5.l5.
New York Money.
New York, Aug. 3-Money on call
nominal, no loans.
Prime mercantile paper Az 5 per
cent.
Bar silver 5SM.
Quick shoe repairing. Postofice
basement 6-tf
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06
Kept From Work.

Wellsville, O., Aug. 3-Strikers pre-
vented %non-union men from going to
work in the mills today by surround
ing the boarding house where six men
live and preventing egress.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-06

Quick shoe repairing. P~ostofice
basement 6-tf
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-05-15
SHOULD BURN THE TOPS.

The man, company or corporation
who will cut down trees for lumber
and leave the tops and limbs on the
ground unburned to catch during the
dry season and burn out his neigh
bore for miles around is not doing
the right thing. On Swamp creek
there are miles of tree tops that will
make a very hot fire some time this
summer. and will destroy great deal
of live stock besides. The parties
who are responsible for these tree
tops should at least burn a firebreak
around their lands so they will not
burn up their neighbors or destroy a
vast amount of timber on the public
domain. The superintendent of the
forest reserve should visit this section
and see that "A destructive fire is pre-
vented. There are also several quar-
ter sections of land cut under the per-
NIT system that will make raging fire
when fire happens to reach it. IAN
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure" -Plainsman
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-05-15
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

West: G. J. Donovan, s. Keith, j.
M. Henry, d. Goldstein, Spokane; A.
=. Wilkinson, Helena; A. w. Merri-
field, Pleasant Valley; c. p. Stewart
and wife, Chicago; Jno, Cowell, R. M.
Craven, Libby Greek; M. Ravens,
Philadelphia; Virgil J. Harris. Allyn;
Mrs. M. T. Neidenhofen, Miss Maude
Talbot, Miss Dode Talbot, Columbia
Falls; J. E. Wells and wife, w. A.
Powell, Minneapolis; H. Mckenzie,
Duluth.
Kalispell: w. ]. Westcott, w. B.
Smalling, D. Cameron, Great Falls; r.
Clausen, Egan; J. A. Pike, A. +. Web
ster. Creston; Harry Fisher, Prescott,
WASH; Geo. +. Follmer, Seattle; Al
Martin, Cut Bank; Jno. Martell, Taco
ma; S. II. Thornton, Troy. Mont.