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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
Give LITTLE NEWS
Late Dispatches from South
Africa Convey But Scant
Information.

London, Dec. 29-Tonight's cable
dispatches from South Africa add
little or nothing to the information
concerning the situation, though the
general trend of events seems to show
that the British are regaining the
ground recently lost.
A special from Naauwpoort, dated
December %, reports that Colonel de
Lisle defeated Hertzog, Is miles west
of De Aar, capturing a number of
wagons and releasing the prisoners
captured at Phillipstown.
Lieutenant Colonel Greenfell forced
back Kritzenger towards Venterstadt.
Both commanders are in desperate
plight and will probably never recross
the Orange river.
A St. Anderton dispatch, dated
December %, says it is estimated that
1000 Beers were engaged in the opera
tions in North Natal, hoping to break
the British line of communication.
This plan failed and the Beers were
driven off in each case with more or
less loss, their casualties in the last
day OF two numbering so, while the
British casualties were slight. From
Carnavor under yesterdays date
comes a dispatch saying that the Beers
occupied Vosburg, December ~, in
force and were reported to be moving
on Carnavor, where martial law has
been proclaimed.
Loyal field comets and farmers
have assured the authorities that they
will remain loyal and will suppress
disloyalty. Il is creditably reported,
according to a dispatch from New
Castle, December 20, that Louis Botha
has informed !Commandant Spruighit
that Kruger has sent word that the
burghers must lay down their arms
or continue fighting OH their W &C
count, as no support from Europe can
be expected.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
IDEA INTO PRACTICE
Harmsworth Will Show What
Twentieth Century Paper
Should Be.

New York, Dec. 29-Alfred Harms
worth, editor and proprietor of the
London Daily Mail, has consented to
take charge, for one day only, of the
New York World next Monday to il
lustrate his ideas of what a twentieth
century newspaper should be.
Tuesdays edition of the World will
be under Harmsworth's sole direction
new in form, in size, style and con-
tents.
1t is said that Joeph Pulitzer per-
sonally offered to give $40, 900 to any
charity Harmsworth designated, if
Harmsworth could successfully illus
trate his novel ideas of twentieth
century journalism, which he has ex-
pressed in recent magazine articles
and newspaper interviews. This in
vitation, it is said, was accepted by
Harmsworth.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
LEADERS WE'RE ABSENT.

St. Louis, Dec. s9--At the general
conference of middle Of the road popu-
lists which was held here today,
neither Barker nor Donnelly was pres
emit. The future policy of the party
was discussed and a committee ap-
pointed to prepare an address on the
desirablity Of organizing union reform
parties.
A resolution introduced by Chair
mar Jos. Parker of Kentucky was
adopted which will submit to a vote
of the party the proposition to change
the name OF the peoples party" to
"populist party and to effect several
minor reforms in the platforms adopt
ed at Cincinnati and Omaha relative
to government ownership of public
utilities. It denounces confiscation
of property and physical revolution
and calls upon the populist of the
country to unite for a renewed strug-
gle four years hence.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
THEIR RECORD FOR ONE DAY
Two Kansas Cities Report Long List of Assaults
and Robberies in Which All the
Victims Are Females.

teer posse searched the bottoms
thoroughly all the afternoon deter
mined to reach the mar if he could be
found. At nightfall he had not been
captured. The girl will ecove
In Egerton, a suburb of Kansas
City, Kan, a woman CARRIED in black
threw carbolic acid in 14-year-old
Eleanor Baras' face, severely burning
her cheeks and forehead. No cause of
the assault is apparent and no clue to
the m has been found. The
story was not circulated until today,
when it caused much excitement in
Egerton. The girl had gone to the
street car line to meet her mother.
Within a few days three women
have been held up on this side Of the
river and attacked by highwaymeIl.
One Of the victims, Mrs. Mary Bolder,
is in the hospital with a broken skull.
She 10 unconscious and cannot recover.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01

Kansas City, Dec. 29-Three women
held up by highwaymen, one of whom
is dying from injuries received, a girl
attacked by an acid thrower and
another girl assaulted, is the record of
crime in the two Kansas Cities for
the past "a hours.
A lynching may follow the capture
of the rapist.
At noon today a white man enticed
Ethel Campbell, the 8-year-old daugh-
ter of a former deputy marshal, from
her home in the bottoms and before
making his escape nearly choked her
to death to prevent an outcry being
made.
The girl, half unconscious, was
found by a fisherman in ar isolated
place near the river and taken to the
city physicians Office. There she
recovered sufficiently to give a de-
scription Of her assaulan.. A volun-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
HEAVY LONDON FAILURE.
Big Concern Drags Down Number of
r.. Small Ones.

London, Dec. 29-The failure Of
the London and Globe finance corpora
tion caused a big furry in the West
Australasian stock exchange today
and a number of smaller concerns
went under the hammer. Marquis
Dufferin, former governor general of
Canada, is at the head of the corpora.
ton. The failures involve 20 mem
bers Of the stock exchange.
This is generally regarded in the
mining market as the blacklist day
since the Barring failure. The crisis
did not extend to other markets,
though Americans were slightly affect
ed, as some of the failed firms were
interested in these securities.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
LOOKING UP NEW THRONE.

London, Dec. 2B-Private advices
from the province Of Shan ST say,
wires the Shanghai correspondent of
the Standard. that while the court was
sojourning at Tai Yuen Flu, the en-
press dowager secretly appointed a
new emperor, with the title Of Tung
Hsu.
He is a 15-year old boy, who was
taken to Sian Flu in the imperial yell
low chair. This explains the permits
sion given to Emperor Kwang Su to
return to Pekin.
Emperor Kwang Su has notified the
reform party that he is returning to
the capital and will need their assist
ance.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01

Earl LIS condition is impsoved. 1t
is a fact that he has not appeared out
of doors since he was first taken ill.
His friends say they believe he will
not completely and think that
another commissioner must be ap-
pointed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
WILL LAST YEARS.

Rome, Dec. 28-Major Grower
Botha. brother of Commandment Gen.
eral Louis Botha, has arrived in Rome
on his way to The Hague. He carries
dispatches for Kruger. In the course
of an interview here today he said the
war in South Africa would last for
years, that Steyn had planned the in
vasion of Cape Colony and that the
revolt of the Afrikanders was certain.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
DECIDES TO ACCEPT.

Shanghai, Dec. 29-Chinese papers
here state that the court has decided
to accept the conditions of the pow
ers and this report is gaining c%redence,
but nothing has yet been officially
announced. It is asserted that the
emperor has ordered the immediate
decapitation of Yu Hsien, formerly
governor of Shansi, who was previous
" degraded and banished.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
CONSIDER TERMS HARSH.

Washington, Dec. 28-The Chinese
legation here is without information
on the report that the emperor does
not approve the demands submitted
by the powers, but the view has pre-
vailed in Chinese quarters that the
terms submitted are too harsh.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
DE WET HELD BACK.

Capetown, Dec. 28-General De
Vets attempt to break through the
south has been frustrated and he is
now reported to be at Senekal with a
large commando, holding the country
between Fecksburg, Senekal and Win
burg. Eastern parties of invading
Beers are being constantly harrassed
and driven back towards the Orange
river.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
WASHINGTON KNOWS NOTHING
OF NEW RULER.
POWERS LIKELY TO OBJECT
Improbable That They Will Permit
Further Interference from
Empress Dowager.

Washington. Dec. 29-No word has
been received here confirming the re
port that the dowager empress has
selected a new emperor. Some
months ago the empress dowager des-
ignated a young son of Prince Tuan as
the successor of Kwang Su.
Although the name given in the
dispatches as that of the new success
scr differs from that named by the en-
press dowage1 sometime ago, they Say
he is one and the same, as the inn
perial names refer to THE dynasties
and change on the appointment to the
throne of Kwang Su being different
from the name he bore before he as
cended the throne.
Should the change be confirmed it
would doubtless be regarded by the
powers as a high handed act, and one
not likely to be countenanced. In the
present condition of affairs such pro-
cedure by the empress dowager would
be an offense against China, as we'll
as the powers.
Under the ancient system Of China
the emperor is able to name his sue
cessor, at times going outside of the
imperial family, although under the
present dynasty it has been the custom
to designate the son and heir as sue
cessor, or in the absence Of a son to
select a member of the imperial fam
lily. Kwang Su is a nephew of a for
mer emperor, who had no sons and
designated his youthful nephew to
succeed him. But in the recent dis
turbed conditions of the empire an
cient usages appear to have been lost
sight of, and III September, 1898, the
empress dowager executed a coup
d'etat and took the reins of govern
ment in her own hands, practically
%<lisplacing the emperor.
Later the empress dowager named a
young son of Prince Tuan as successor
to the throne and now according to
press dispatches, the empress dowager
has displaced the emperor with a new
successor. The previous acts of the
empress dowager have not been such
as would permit intervention by the
powers, although the emperor has
made appeals to Great Britain and
other countries to uphold his ancient
prerogatives. But with the powers
operating in China it is not likely
that they will permit further exercise
Of the empress dowager's influence,
particularly if it take the obnoxious
form Of seeking to confer power on a
son of Prince Tuan, the chief oon-
spirator in the boxer disturbance.
Besides the specific demands made
by the powers on China, it is we'll
known that the governments and their
ministers at Pekin have for some
time been considering means of I've
coming the sinister anti-foreign inf1u-
ence of the empress dowager by ex
Guiding her from Pekin and from all
further participation i'll the govern
mental affairs of China.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
HE WANTS ENTR

Middletown, N. Y, Dec. 29-It is
reported at Goschen that Frank Rookie
Teller, a brother of j. D. Rockefeller,
is negotiating for the purchase of
John R.. Gentry, 2:O0h, for his stock
ranch at Wichita, Kans. Gentry is
owned by E. H. Hartman.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
COSTLY SORTIE.

London, Dec. 29-Kitchener reports
that the Beers made an attack on the
baggage column at Greylingstad. A
company made a sortie and drove off
the enemy, but had two officers
wounded, eight men killed, ~ wound
ed and 20 missing.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
WAS FAILURE E

Denver, Dec. 29-S. w. Hubbick,
said to be a stock dealer of Omaha,
shot at his wife, slightly wounding
her, and then turned his weapon upon
himself with fatal effect, at No. l434
Champa street. tonight. The couple
were married ON Christmas day. 1t
is not known what prompted the deed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
MAN DIES.

Denver, Dec. ga special to the
News from Albuquerque, N. NJ, says
Charles D. Almy, formerly a we'll
known newspaper man Of Chicago
died there today Of pneumonia.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
K~IMBERLEY's HARD LOT.

Chaddock, Cape Colony, Dec. 90
Kimberley is almost isolated by the
Boer raiders. No'mails have reached
it since December 10, and food is held
at famine prices.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
TOWN D SCORCHED.

Hunter, N. D, Dec. 29-Fire early
this morning DESTROYED the main bust
ness block of the town, only one mer-
camille firm, Gale & Duffery, escape
loss. The damage is between $50, OOO
and $75, 900.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
FLOUR GOES UP.

Chicago, Dec. 29-May wheat IS
2 cents and Minneapolis reports said
the millers had advanced -four 10
cents
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
VIEW U

Philadelphia, Dec. 29-It is said a
combination is being negotiated to
control the steel tube market with a
capital of $3.50, 600, 600.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
A SOAking Rain Fell.

Saturday night the best rain which
this county has had for weeks and
months fell. While it was accompa-
MED by rather an exciting electrical
display there was little wind and 50
far as known no damage was done.
The rain was steady downpour and
lasted several hours and the dry earth
drank it in greedily. In addition to
the great benefit to the crops, to past
ure and to hot humanity, reports from
several sections say the rain made
water in the stock ponds, which will
relieve stockmen of the necessity of
hauling water at great expense and
loss of time. A few Weeks ago it was
predicted there would not be 1000
bushels of corn raised in the county,
but since the showers reports have inn
proved and after this last rain the sur
prise will he that so much corn has
been raised.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
Plenty of Teachers Here.

There seems to be an impression
away from Allen county that there is
a need of more teachers in this county.
Miss Omstead says half a dozen from
other states attended the Normal here
and she is daily approached by per-
sons from away who say they UNDER
stand there are not enough teachers
here to care for all the schools. AS a
matter of fact there are more than
enough home teachers to supply the
demand and while Miss Olmstead
holds down her position she says she
intends to patronize home industry,
a sentiment which will be generally
applauded over the county.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
James Dickey Dead.

James Dickey, an old lsoldier who
made his home at 2l8 north Buckeye
for several years, died about o'clock
last Friday. He was close to sew
enty years old and has been i'll for
about ten days with severe bowel
trouble. He leaves a wife and several
married children. The remains were
taken to Geneva. where he lived
for many years, and the funeral SER
vices were cOnlu,tel there. H was
member of McCook Post, G.. a. r.,
good citizen and his death will be
learned with regret by all who knew
h i'm.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09

The City Real Estate and Trust Comp
any has fled suit against j. L. Skin
ner for farm rent. Skinner rented the
southeast quarter of 3l-23-l9 east of
Carlyle of the company for the years
1900 and 1901, and paid no rents, they
say, In 1900, so the papers on file
say, he raised crops worth $1,000 and
so far in 1901 he has raised So, 900
worth of crops. The rent terms called
for a third grain rent, and so the
company wants 81 900 for each year.
The general impression will be that
the southeast quarter of 3l-23-l9 is a
pretty tolerably good hunk of soil.
The trust company is a Kansas City
organization.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
The Kansas Gas Field.

The REGISTER has already men,
toned the coming report of State
Labor Commissioner w. L. a. John
son. The Topeka Capital says it is
nearing completion and it is sure to
call wider attention TO the Importance
of lola as manufacturing point. In
reviewing the report the Capital says:
The oil and gas fields of Kansas
cover about $50 square miles and com
prise Bourbon, Linn, Allen, Neosho,
Wilson, Elk, Montgomery and Chau-
tauqua counties. More than 100 wells $
have been drilled in this district, the
average depth of which is 900 feet.
The average output ranges from two
TO twelve million feet OF gas every
twenty -four hours. Mr.. Johnson, in
his report, says:
'The great value of natural gas as
a fuel in manufacturing has become a
matter of great concern to our coal
producing counties. A comparison
of heat units in the two articles of
iuSl SupNo tluN uNpitg OhOuoduu CuDlC
feet of gas equals in heat one ton of
coal. 1t is estimated that 100 or more
manufacturing concerns in Allen
county are using gas for fuel. Chem
ical analysis of the Kansas gas shows
it to be superior in quality to the gas
found in eastern states. The lola
Portland cement plant uses gas for
fuel. The plant manufactures 5000
barrels of cement day and employees
400 men. The output for year is
1895, 900 barrels, which If loaded into
cars. would make a train seventy-two
miles long.
'The six smelters in the district
which have reported to this office,
employed 1,l23 men during 1899 and
last year they furnished employment
to 1888. The value of the raw ma
ter:al produced by these plants for
1899 was $6S, 900 and for 1900 it
amounted to Sl54,2 The value Of
the manufactured product 80 for Is
amounted to 80, s79, 352 and for 1900 to
s3,4l,7l2.
The: value of the manufactured
products of the brick plants Of the
district reporting was 300, 900 for tie
year 1909 and 1853, 600 for 1900.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
Death of Olive Martin.

Miss Olive Martin died Thursday
evening at O'Clock after lingering
illness. at the home tf Mrs. Joe Ross,
with whom she has lived for year or
more. The funeral was held from
the United Brethren church Saturday
afternoon, Rev. John Maclean officiat-
ing. Miss Martin was but nineteen
years old. She was born at Pleasan-
ton but has lived in lola most of her
life. Apparently full of life and vigor
she has suffered for years from a
seemingly incurable stomach trouble,
and for the past year has been an in
valid.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
JUICE FOR YOURSELF
Which is Better-Tiy an Experiment
or Profit by an lola
Citizens Experience

Something new is an experiment.
Must be proved to be as represented.
The statement OF II manufacturer is not con-
vincing proof OF merit.
But the endorsement OF friends is.
Now supposng you had bad back.
A Lame, Weak or Aching one.
Would yoA experiment on IL?
You will read OF many so-called cures. {. =.
Endor scd by strangers from far-away
places.
It's different when the endorsement comes
from home
Easy to prove local testimony
Home endorsement is the proof that backs
every box OF Doan's Kidney Pills.
Read this case;
Mr.. j. Eshbaugh, Lather, of 324
Buckeye street, says: "Ten years
ago pain developed in the small of
my back and it gradually got worse.
Each successive attack was, more Sc
we're than it's predecessors and resist
ed all my efforts to check, let alone
cure. The contraction of a slight cold
or an extra strain on the muscles of
the back always aggravated it. Fin
ally there was dull aching in my
back continually. went to C. b.
Spencer a. Co.'S drug store for Doan's
Kidney Pills and took a course of the
treatment. 1t cured. To say l en-
dorse the preparation feebly expresses
my opinion of it..
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no substitute.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
And Old Man is Vile.

The cement plant is nice prospect
good to look upon, and the only blem-
ish is the Office gang. Not that they
are not as good as most men, but men
are mean. When one of the office
gang falls into the tolls they grind
more industriously on him than the
machinery grinds clinker. Mr.. Ward
is the latest amusement. Ward, it
seems, was informed in a letter from
a lady friend that he was "S6' so far
as she was concerned. She put it
daintily, on scented paper, not in the
remotest way limiting at anger. He
was Sc, that was all, and sheisn't fond
of figures. So far all was we'll. But
that note fell into the hands of tie
gang and they have been riding Ward
a pace that kills. de has contracted
with local factory to keep the gang
in cigars for month and yet they do
not seem satisfied. The moral is
obvious; When you join the cement
company's Office force eschew girls.
Ask any of the gang, they have all
been bounded, and they will agree.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
Fortune Smiles on These

Now that the strain is over and all
the returns in it is interesting to look
over the list of those lola people
whose hopes were fulfilled, on whom
Fortune deigned to cast her tickle
smile. There is nothing in the appear
ance of the prize winners to show why
the jade smiled on them but it is better
to be born lucky than handsome any
day. That is what the losers are say
ing.
The complete list of lola winners of
Kiowa farms shows that lola got her
snare and then some. 1t was esti-
mated that about eight farms would
be her proper share, but nearly twice
that many fell this way, AS near as
the REGISTER can figure, the following
men won:
G. A. Savage, j. H. Clendennin,
Lester II. Hackara, John II. Anderson,
j. w. Kimberling,IS. X. Ton s, George
Wilhite, Herbert Goshorn, Erastus
Hall, John Hart, Brock Reed, A. G.
Bishop, W. H. Mccullough, j. S.
Turner and Jas. A. Trine. Fifteen
men won out.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
Vacancy in CITY Council.

Somehow the honor of being a
member of the city council don't hold
people in town as it should. When
they get ready to go they pull out
without the least conjunction and
leave a yawning abyss in the ranks of
the dads. The latest withdrawal is
w. r. Creighton, councilman from
the fourth ward. So far as is known
he has not rendered his resignation,
but the REGISTER understands that
he has located in the new country.
This means that he will resign and so
there will be an opening for some pat
riot who is willing to step into the
harness and put into practice some of
the benefcent reforms which he is
now busily engaged in advocating on
the street. There are scores of men
in the ward who can give the council
pointers on running the city, and some
of these should volunteer.
The Iola register., 1901-08-09
The CoIoneI's Answer.

Lieut.. Col. Hugh L. Scott, of the
United States volunteers, formerly
captain of the Seventh cavalry, is
known in the army as an officer who
probably knows more about Indian
sign language than any other living
man. At one time Col. Scott made a
standing offer of 81 to any redslkin
who could show him a sign used by
any tribe which he did not know.
The colonel is also peculiarly absent
minded, a fact which was emphasized
at his marriage few years ago, As
he stood at the altar with his bride,
the officiating clergyman asked him
the usual question as to taking the
woman beside him to be his wife.
The colonel placed two fingers upon
his left eyebrow. After an embar-
RAISING pause the clergyman repeat
ed the question, and again the two
fingers went solemnly to the left
eyebrow 1t was not until the best
man poked the bridegroom in the
ribs that he came back to earth and
articula ted "Yes. IN, Y. sun.