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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-12
ASKED TO WITHDRAW OBJECTIONS.
Billings and Sheridan Citizens Telegraph
to Representative Mondell.

A delegation of prominent citizens
and business men of Billings went tc
Sheridan. Wyo., Friday to have con.
ference with the citizens of that place
in regard to the opposition of Repre-.
sentative Mondell of Wyoming on the
Grow Indian treaty bill, the particu.
lars Of which have already been pub.
lished in The Gazette.
The conference with the Sheridan
people resulted in learning that they
had nothing whatever to do with Mr..
Mondell's opposition, and but very
few knew of the opposition. The
Sheridan people showed the Billings
delegation that their hearts were in
the right place by sending Mr.. Mon
dell a dispatch to the effect that they
were not averse to the bill as it had
been introduced.
The Billings delegation, which in
oluded Paul Mccormick, J.. E. Ed
wards, Mayor Yegen, P. B. Moss, H.
W. Rowley, G. 0. Gruwell, W. B.
George, F. B. Connolly, H. G. Will
Jams and Il. B. Segur, returned yes
te1day morning. A meeting Of several
business men was held in the Billings
club yesterday afternoon, and a mes
sage was sent to Senator Thos. II.
Carter urging him to use all means in
his power to have the opposition to
the bill in the house withdraw their
objections. A message was also sent
Mr.. Mondell stating that the Sheri-
dan people were not averse to the bill,
and requesting him to withdraw his
objections.
Mr.. Mondell's' objections were based
on the fact that no arrangements have
been made i'll the treaty to secure
right-of-way for irrigating bitches
across the unceded portion of the res
ervation on the Big Horn river to the
coded portion.
Mr.. Cannon, chairman of the house
committee on appropriations, has
offered what will probably be con-
sidered the strongest objection in the
eyes of the east. and gives the bill a
black eye, characterizing it as a
scheme to bunco the government out
of 81, 100, DOC.
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METHoD1sTs TO MEET.
Ninth Session of District Conference Will
Be Held at BOzeman.

The ninth session of the Bozeman
district conference Of the Methodist
church will be held in Bozeman March
l3 to II. inclusive. The conference
will begin Tuesday evening, March
10, with services in the Methodist
church, conducted by Rev. G.. H.
Feese, followed by an address
Twentieth Century Chistian Citizen
ship" delivered by F. NJ. Byam, and
ending with a reception to the Epworth
League workers and others. Wednes-
day, March 10, will be Epworth
League day; Thursday, Sunday school
day and Friday, Saturday and Sunday
will be given up to the general work
and exercises of the district confer
ence.
Montana is divided into two dis
trict conferences, that of Bozeman
and Helena, and these conferences
meet annually in mt of the several
cities of the district. The general
conference of the Methodist church of
Montana only meets once in four
years. The coming conference will
probably be we'll attended by delegates
from every Epworth League in the
district, as we'll as by every minister
of the denomination. President
Thomas Van Sooy and Financial Agent
L. H. Michel, of the Montana Wes-
leyan university, will be present to as
sist in the conference and represent
the interest of the university. Rev.
I. B. Ford, D. D., of Eugene, Ore,
and presiding elder Of the Eugene DIS
trict of the Oregon conference, has
been secured to deliver a series of lee
lures to preachers. The arrangements
for the conference are under the
charge of Rev. Henry A. James, pre-
siding elder, Rev. George q. Feese.
pastor, and Rev. George D. King.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-12
ASKS PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
Mr.. Stull Hints That All Is Not as It
Should Be at Insane Asylum.

Representative G. 9. Stull Of thit
county, who has introduced a bill pro.
viding for the erection of a building
and the maintenance Of the states
insane patients, and was also instru.
mental in having a special commit.
tee appointed from among the mem.
bers of the house to investigate the
conduct of the state insane asylum,
which is run under contract, has adj
dressed the committee a letter, asking
that the following subjects be gone
into in the Investigation:
"Have they a warden to each seven
male patients and one to each five fe-
male patients as required in modern
institutions? Are the attendants bona
ide, or are they employees of the hotel ?
"Is there a woman physician and if
there is not, why not?
"Have male attendants ever been
called upon to assist in dressing and
undressing female patients?
care the female patients given
baths separately and was there ever a
time when there was no lock on the
bathroom door?
Have insane patients ever leen
sent to points distant from the insti-
tuition, without attendants, to work ?
Are able-bodied patients ever de-
luded with the belief that they are on
the payroll and required to perform
hard manual labor in that belief?
"Are patients ever employed by the
day in the bayfield,?
"Are patients ever buried in graves
containing water, and wrapped in
wOrn-out comforters that are replaced
at the expense Of the state?
Are burials ever conducted by in
sane mon unaccompa1ied by attend
ants?
"Are patients allowed to visit a
saloon nearby, and was a patient who
got drunk eve assaulted by the
'bouncer' of the institution?
Were two patients ever burned at
the institution through the carelessness
of the Attendants?
"Was the institution ever threatened
with a damage suit for maltreatment
OF a patient who was afterward a COM
missioned officer in the Philippine
campaign?
"Was there a time when one warden
had the sole care of eighteen female
patients, except for the assistance CIV
en- her occasionally by the male
warden?
IF the contractors can afford large
OUTLAWS, why cannot the state save
money by caring for it's own insane?
would the members of the com
mittee like to have their insane
friends, if they had any, cared for by
the week?'
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-12
CHINESE HIGH A
Their New Year Comes on St. Valen-
tines Day.

New Years day for the Chinese ma
tion will come February ID, St. Val
entine's day. According to the Chi
nese mode of reckoning time, this
world is now in the twenty-fou1
thousandth year Of it's existence.
1t is a peculiar fact that a Chinaman
never gets SO far away from his native
land, or lives SC long in a foreign
country, that he forgets to celebrate
the advent of the new year. AS with
most other countries, the Chinese
manner of celebrating this event is
based upon their religious belief.
However, as their religion differs as
widely as possible from that of other
nations, the eannual celebration is
looked upon by many outsiders as a
period of universal insanity among the
Chinese people. Residents of cities
having within their limits but a small
number of Celestials are not as a rule
aware of the fact that a celebration is
carried on under their very noses the
14th of every February. 1t is, never
theless, but it is done so quietly that
no attention is attracted. In instan-
ces OF this kind the observance con-
sists mainly of religious doings, and
conservation to their gods, which are
not often seen by nations of a country
other than China.
In the larger Chinese colonies the
New Years orgies are carried on to an
almost inconceivable extent. Fire
works, the pride of the Chinaman, are
consumed by the wagon load. For
eign and native Liquors are drunk to
add zest to the performances. Fights,
grOtesque dances, wild, unearthly
yells and the horrible sound of Chi
nese musical instruments unite to
form a species of noise, by no means
to be despised. Such scenes as these
are witnessed by the visitor to China
town on Chinese New Years eve.
They are followed the next day by a.
%quietness which would hardly be ex-
pected. The Cinnamon finish the
celebration by taking a good, long hit
at the pipe and awake the day after
fully convinced that they have fol-
lowed strictly the teachings of Con-
%fucious.
In 1884 the Chinese part of Seattle
was in such an uproar as to almost
create a riot. Many other instances Of
the kind have happened III the United
States. New Years day to the Chi
nese is what the Fourth of July is 10
the American, only with greater vigor
and with slight variations in the
method of commemoration.
At this period of the year the Chi
nese habitations all undergo a kind of
due largely to the burn
ing Of incense and sacricfies to the
idols and gods to be found in every
one of their places of abode.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-12
COURT OF ARBITRATION
August Body Ready to Consid-
er International Disputes.
WORLDS HIGHEST TRIBUNAL.

buna1 Issued by the State Depart
ment-Members Have Been Appoint
ed by Fifteen Nations. Embracing
All the Maritime Powers.
The permanent court Of arbitration
provided for by the convention signed
at The Hague on July %. 1899, is now
ready to consider any international dis
pute that may be presented. Easily
the highest tribunal in the world, with
the most numerous and eminent bench
Of any u ever projected. this single
fruition Of the cars peace conference
has just been completely organized for
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-12

The regular county examination for
teachers will be held at my Office in the
court house Friday, February Is, 1901,
beginning at 8 q. m. and continuing on
Saturday, February 16.
84 Marguerite NJ. Strang,
County Superintendent of Sch ools
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-12
GREATDISCOVERYIN DAKOTA
Earth Which Is Found In but Few
Places In America

Earth Which Is Found In but Few
Places In America.
A new material will soon be placed
among the rare things mined from the
Black Hills. Fuller's >earth is a valua-
BILE material, found in but few places
in America. The finest quality is found
In England, which is practically the
worlds supply. Recently a large de-
post Of this material has been found
in the Black Hills, and it most closely
resembles that found in England of
any deposit in America, says the Bos-
ton Transcript.
The fuller's earth of the Black Hills
contains from 60 to Is per cent silica,
with from Is to 25 per cent water
after being sun dried. The fuller's
earth Of the hills is generally found in
shallow basins covered by a few feet
of surface soil. Below this is a layer
Of plastic clay from 2 to 6 feet thick,
and they layers of fuller's earth from
2 to II feet thick everything a bed of
sand. Fuller's earth is dug out and
allowed to remain in the sun, where
it u%ndergoes a certain amount of
bleaching, turning from a greenish col
or to a creamy white and losing about
so per cent of it's weight.
The United States produces a con-
siderable amount of fuller's earth,
something like 10000 tons a year. The
discovery Of a superior grade Of the
earth in the Black Hills will mean, in
a short time, the adding of another
raw material to the already long list
found in the hills.
Eastern parties are negotiating for
the deposit of limestone, called by
some alabaster, that has been found
In Custer county. The stone is found
in a 30 foot ledge. and when it is quar-
ried it is soft enough to be cut into any
shape desired. After being exposed to
the air it becomes hard and takes a
beautiful polish. The quarry is being
opened by two Deadwood men.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-12

Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. HEREFORD delight
fully entertained another party of
friends Wednesday evening at domino
whist. At the conclusion Of the card
playing delicious refreshments were
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auite safe.

She-Have you any stra wberries3
Dealer-Yes'm. Here they are-$1.5O
per box.
She-Goodness! They're miserable
looking and so green!
Deaier-l know. ma'am, but there
amt enough in a box to do you any
arm.-Philadelphia Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08
anna, ~~- ~'~Ts
IKEA BEAU les.
Among the Women of Cash
t-.i mere, India.

Many of the women OF India. and esq
pecially those of Cashmere, are beauti-
full. In typical Hindu beauty the skin
is just dark enough to give rich,
soft appearance 10 the complex
ion, says a London journal The
features are regular, the eyes mild and
black and shaded by long silkon lashcs,
the hands and feet are small and well
formed, the demeanor Is modest, he
manner is gentle. the voice low and
sweet.S There are fiue-luoking women
among the middle class Hiudus, $ well
as among the upper ten, and even
among the lower class the faces are
often very pleasing. Many a Hindu
woman who has perhaps, little pre-
tensions 10 beauty of face, has, never
theless, the step and carriage of a
princess, and if one is not too fastid.
ious about perfection Of eyes and
mouth and nose her figure as she wa ks
down the street with her load on her
head is truly beautiful sight.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08
USE OF PRIVATE CARS.
Many Handsome Railway Coaches
Are Now Owned by Men Not
NiliionnircS.


Private railway cars have always
been associated I'm tie popular mind
with great Wealth. but plan has been
developed which makes it possible for
even vaudeville actor or business
man in ordinary circumstances, -rauy-
body else reasonably well to do, who
wishes to make a display or to enjoy
the luxury of travel, TO own a private
car built according to his own specl-
fcatons, according to the Worlds
Work.
\ car-reftting company in New York
city buys old Pullman coaches, tears
the inside furnishings out and refits
them according 20 the wishes OF its
customers. Whatever kind of private
car man may wish he may order
parlors, handsomely carpeted sitting
rooms, dining rooms, sleeping COM
partments, smoking rooms-all with
equipment more or less perfect &C
cording as the price And cars are
refitted in this way and sold for prices
varying from 81 800 to $4,000.
Very handsome and serviceable cars
have been built from the old "casta-
ways" and the man Of moderate means
can travel privately and comfortably
In a home of his own. 1t is an interest
ing evidence Of American manufactur-
ing thrift and Of the growth Of wealth.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08

General Superintendent Clarke, OF
the Lackawana railroad, made the an
nouncement at Scranton, Pa, the
other night that his road, in the
course of few months. will be oper-
ated by telephone, ms cad of by tele-
graph, as at present, at saw ng of
about 60 per cent. in the hire of tele-
graph operators. He says that the
telephone system has been placed on
the Morris and Essex branch, where
its use has been successful, and that
it is being put in as quickly as pos
sible on the Scranton branch. First
the telephone system will be giver
a thorough trial on the branch lines
and il it proves successful there will
come into general use on the mar,
line from New York 10 Buffalo, tota.-
y a,tpersedirg the telegraph.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08
Mr.WIREWEED'S
RSIS NCY
BY Hattie Whitney.
CCORDING to her established GU
Copyright, 1901, by authors syndieate.)

A CCORDING to her established GUS
|A tom, Miss Selma Snowbell went
but upon her front porch to get a
breath of air and see how things
ooked, before beginning her break
fast preparations.
1t was a crystal morning in early
Dune, and brisk breeze, the trailed-
bff end OF an overnight gale tapped
Miss Selina's bingham gown, and
would have tossed her tresses, had
they not been wound up tightly in
The shape of good-sized biscuit, and
Spiked in place by several large hair
bins. Though spare of flesh, Miss
Selma was not bony; furthermore,
she was erect as a maple, and as neat
Ind bright as new calico.
"What a wind!" she protested, as
her apron sailed up like a kite; at
must have showered in the night,
BOO; everything's dripping-and if
there amt my sweet honeysuckle
vine blown as fiat as a founder"
Miss Selma punched up her skirt
one ldbt, anu ShI pIith aliiilpll
Down her front steps, mincing ginger
|y on the tips of her neat toes
Through the wet grass, to where the
vine had been torn loose from its
|trellis, and lay trailing on the
ground.
Nothing but f1imsy little picket
fence separated Miss Selna's front
yard from her neighbor's, and on the
|other side of it her neighbor was
standing, baslling in the sunshine
that came tumhling over the wet
world, making all the shrubs and
grass tips where the rain beads hung
look as if they had been powdered
with little diamond stars.
Miss Selma half whirled about to-
wards her steps, then spun back
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piled, they had heard 1t without firing.
over and over again. But Gordon and
the girl had never heard it.
Moved by the expectancy of oil
about them, they reused from their
bitter reveries to listen.
There was two farmers" the old
preacher began, checking off each
statement against his horny palm.
'There was tao farmers that started
out to farm on sheers, each man to
put his sheer of tae seed and do his
sheer of the work, and they were to
divide the crap. Well. brethren, hit
worked fine. They made a good crap.
Then comes the dividin'. They divided
the hay all right, and the pertaters
all right, and they divided the corn all
right, but when they come to the
shucks they fit. And that's hit, breth-
rem; that is what we alls falls out
about: that's what drives peace out of
our settlement and makes us bitter
and hard-the shucks."
Gordon's eyes were still on the
preacher. but what he saw were end
less aisles of sweet-scented pines
with early afternoon shadows drop
ping short and dark among them
and a woman's fair face stiffening be-
meath the cut of his cruel civil'ties.
And what had il all been about? An
lima ginary attribute of an imaginary
character A heroine in one of his
love stories that she had criticised.
Shucks? Less than shucks. He
looked down at the girl. She was star
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08
nv DEAR oLD-FASHiONED WIFE.

|hs never rustled doyn the street
il In silks and draperies fine.
The gave no champagne supper-
With claret. cakes and wine,
dear hons Loving creature.
A golden spot in life
Fho made life worth the living.
My dear old ia shioned wife.
| he wasn't up in classics,
In pomp, In pride or STYLE
but she always had a welcome,
| With her sweet, old-fashioned smile
md those sweet songs she used to sing
| I'd give one-haif my life
70 hear the silvery voice of
My dear, uld-fashioned wife.
|n circles high and lofty,
Shed been quite out of place,
But In her own home circle
She reigned with queenly grace.
Dhe made Of home an Eden
Devoid of hate and strife,
IND sowed the seeds of love to bloom,
My dear, old-fashioned wife.
Perhaps when down the stream I've sped,
Till reach that sunset shore,
knd cross the great divide of life,
Where time shall be no more,
Then wandering long the river bank,
Where reigns eternal life
III meet, If have faithful been,
My dear. old-fas hioned wife
IF. Jay Gould, in Minneapolis House
keeper.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08
TOO MUCH FAULTY ENGLISH,
People Have Grown Careless i'm Their
Rhetoric and Make Many
Errors,

The books of rhetoric used to tell
us that the great qualities of style were
perspicuity, energy and elegance, ,or
clearness, force and grace, and that a
a means toward these and for other
reasons it was important TO be con.
else. to avoid needless words. Wheth-
er they no longer teach thus, or their
pupils disregard their Instructions
you can scarcely read a page or a col.
umn anywhere without meeting words
that add nothing to others with which
they are Immediately connected, says
Frederick NJ. Bird, in Literary Era
Thus:
Thought to himself How else
should he think? If he thought aloud
you would have to say SO. Either he
"sad to mself"-which is another
way of putting it-or he simply
Thought"
Nodded his head. If ne had node i
his legs or his elbows the cause would
be more notable. lie mi4h. pro, eriy
"shake his head" for he could shake
otheg things, but in the present state
of language one can nod no other part
of himself or of creation than his
head.
Together with. RI John went t.
town with his wife they went togeth.
err; if they went together he wa
necessarily with her.
Month Of May, summer season. etc
Everybody knows that May is o
month and summer season.
Rose up. IF people were in the habit
of rising down, or if II were possible
to do so, this would not be tautolog.
ical.
1t will not do TO say that these speci.
mems abound in the best writer's, and
ire therefore justifiable. They are net
the best writer's when they write IL
this way through pure carelessness
for they know better. Homer some.
times mods, but his noddng did -Hot
produce the 'Iliad" We want o fol.
ow the best writers in their excel.
encies, not in their errors.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08
ITALY,S Discomfort.
Strikes on the Farms Caused by Poor
Pay. Poo- Food and Socialist
Agitation,

From the 18th Of June to the 18th
of July the wheat, rye and barley har-
vests are in progress in Italy and the
socialists are taking this critical time
in the agricultural industry to spread
the gospel Of disecntcrt against the
conditions Of labor, wages and taxa
ton II is feared that large farmers
will be ruined by strikes among farm
laborrrS. On an average two strikes
a day have occurred in Italy since
February, the movement affecting all
trades and classes of working men.
At any moment il is feared that a
spark might kindle 'conhagration.
The socialist leaders plead for peace
full means for lettering the conditions
Of labor, but the Italian people are
inaammab,e and they are notorious
~ underpaid and underfed, They are
so largely in the ma iority that they
hold the remedy in their own hands,
if they would but use their power in
diligently and toward a definite end.
But the mass Of the people are miser-
ably ignorant as well as poor, and feel
doubly helpless and impotent. They
have only brute strength and lives to
throw away in fruitless revolution.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08
File on AIIIuntor,s Teeth

A remarkable operation was per-
formed by a dozen Keepers on 13-foot
alligator which is kept in the Bronx
roo at New York. The alligator. which
is a powerful animal, showed signs Of
ferceness for some time. He wound
up one morning by killing an eight-foot
companion in the same tank. Then il
was decided that the big ones teeth
should be cut. \ rope with a sling
was lowered over his head and drawn
taut; the tail was similarly treated.
Each one Of the legs was mex. secured
in like manner. BY patience and re-
peated trials lasso was got into the
ponderous jaw. The alligator gave a
bite and the rope parted like thread.
Thes wire rope was secured. Thiq
was finally got into place.
Sticks were pried between the jaws
to keep them from clashing together.
Thus held, the reptile lay helpless and
the work of saving off some of the
longest and most dangerous teeth was
soon accomplished.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-08-08

1t is some consolation to us poor
'commoners" of America to know that
we don't have to do some things which
to, says the Buffa,o Times. When Ear!
Russell appeared at the bar of the
house of lords to answer to a charge
of bigamy, he made many obeisances"
and upon reaching the bar sank to his
knees and remained there until the
lord high chancellor told him to rise"
Imagine an American citizen, no mat
ter what his offense, humiliating him
self in that manner!