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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-06
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-06
OBITUARY..

MRS. TILLIE A. SPENCER, wife of
Rev. David Spencer ID. D., pastor of
the Blakely Baptist church, died yes
terday afternoon at 4 o'clock at her
home in Blakely. She had been i'll
since last October. hut for the past two
weeks a great sufferer. She was born
in this state, near Philadelphia, in
which city she married Rev. DR.
Spencer. September II, 1862 and had
been his loyal helpmate up to the pres
ent time She was we'll known in this
city, where her husband was pastor for
nearly ten years. and host of friends
will mourn her departure. She was the
sister of Rev. w. F. Hellings, y. D.,
formerly of this city. An estimable
Christian lady, Of fine social life, de-
votedly interested in church work, and
a strong friend of the young. Her
death is felt very keenly by her be-
reaved husband ami son, J. Arlington
Spencer, who survive her. as well as
wide circle of true and loving friends.
The funeral services will be held in
the Blakely Baptist church on Sunday
afternoon at o'clock. Her remains
will he taken on the evening train TO
Philadelphia, where interment will take
place on Monday in the LeverinGton
cemetery by the side of her daughter.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-06
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66S3. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-06
Popular
Saturday Sales

Another batch of choice and seasouabe offerings
will be on sale tomorrow Saturday. morning The
qualities selected strictly frst-class but if you
want lower priced goods don't go away with the idea
that we do not have them
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-06

Walter, the infant son of Mr., and Mrs,
Patrick Phillips, of Diamond avenue,
died yesterday morning, after a few
days illness, The funeral will take
place this afternoon at 2,30 o'clock.
Interment will be made in the Cathe-
dral cemetery.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-06
JOHN KEARNEY.-A telegram was

JOHN KEARNEY.--A telegram was
received here, Thursday, announcing
the death of John Kearney, of Prospect
avenue and Orchard street, in Mexico
City. Mex, whittier he went eighteen
months ago, with Former City Engi-
neer L. F. Blewitt to work on the big
sewer of which Mr.. Blewitt is the con-
tractor. The message which was sent
by Mr.. Blewitt contained only the an
nouncement of the death and burial.
The deceased was a plumber by trade
ald prominent in politics. He was
once a candidate for select council from
his ward.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
A CRY OF ALARM.

Evidence accumulates that the copper
producers who a few months ago affected
to estimate as of little value the i'm
mense benefits conferred upon them have
at last concluded to dismount from their
high horse and listen to reason. For n
year the attitude of producers Of the
Lake district has been out of reason.
Profiting daily by the high prices maln-
tanned by Montana copper interests, they
nevertheless refused to yield point,
even when it was plain they stood in
their own light by refusing. The incl
dents of the last few weeks have con-
WINGED Lake mine operators that turn
about is considered fair play in the West.
and that there are breakers ahead. The
treatment accorded the Lake copper pro-
ducers has been more than generous.
They have met with fair trea tment while
returning a species Of ingratitude which
their own good business sense must have
condemned. Every leaser in Montana
has profited by the high price Of the
red metal while it has been maintained.
The sustained price has been the life of
every copper camp in the state, and small
owners may be pardoned if they enter
tain a feeling Of resentment against those
responsible for the present decline. AS
straw showing which way the wind is
blowing on the Upper Peninsula the fol-
lowing from the Mining Gazette of
Houghton, Mich. is interesting:
I'VE are given the tip that important
developments in the copper war may be
expected Thursday. This may be; we
shall see what we shall see, but there is
no uncertainty about what we shall see
if it comes down to a square battle be-
tween the mines of the Lake copper dis
trict and of Montana. The Western
mines, with their shal1ower workings
and their by-products of the precious
metals, will whip us clear out of our
boots. The thing must be looked square
ly in the face; self deception will not do
in crisis such as that which now con-
fronts the Lake producers. Every lake
mining man who has made the tour of
the Western copper districts has come
home with the same story that if it
comes to square fight between the ma
tive copper mines of the Lake and
the copper ore mines of the Butte dis
trict, with their gold and silver values,
we are whipped before we fairly get into
the fight. For that reason the Mining
Gazette echoes the sentiment of the Ma
tive Copper Times which wants no war
of producers, as such fight cannot but
result in injury to all concerned and to
the whole copper trade and hopes that
business methods and common sense will
govern producers during 1902"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
the PRESS CLUB BANQUET.

Tonight members of the City Press
club of Butte will gather around the
banquet board and amid mutual felicita-
tion upon the happy lot of each the old
year will be hidden adieu and the new
given q rousing welcome. The press
gang, in INDUCING in annual festivity
is merely giving evidence of the fact
that it's members are alive and not at
all cast down by the grave problems
existence requires them to face. AS
factors in the busy life of the state, the
fully. Into the remotest part of the
country the news has gone that Mon
tanas newspapers, taken as whole, are
several hundred per cent better than
those of any other part of the world.
The superiority of the daily and weekly
papers of the state is accounted for, of
course, by the fact that the Montana
public will have none but the best, but
somehow the workers in the journalistic
treadmills of Butte have conceived the
notion that they are entitled to some
credit for delivering the goods, and are
accordingly somewhat pulled up over
the successful ending of the years work
upon which they are to put the finishing
touches tonight. So it is down on the
bills that tonight the Press club will
meet to eat it's own food, throw its own
bouquets and toast it's own friends,
greeting the new year with open arms
Elaborate plans are laid for the future.
If the Press club does not overshoot the
mark it will be in time an organization
measuring up in every respect with the
publications upon which it's members are
employed. To make the club as much
superior to similar organizations as
Montana newspapers rank above others
printed elsewhere is the somewhat am
bilious undertaking of its promoters, and
there seems to be no good reason why
they should not succeed.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31

From the current discussions Of the
subject of car shortage in the technical
railroad journals we are led to conclude
that the trouble lies not 10 much in the
actual scarcity OF cars as from the fact
that all the cars are not kept constantly
employed in carrying moving freight.
Through some defect in management or
system, cars get lost or side-tracked with
undischarged freight, and are thus not
at the point where they are most needed
at the time they are most needed. One
reason why cars are not unloaded and
returned as promptly as they might be-
as we gather from the same technical
Journals. is because their use is charged
for on the mileage instead Of on the per
diem basis. 1t is patent even to one
who Is not a railroad man that If the
use OF car is charged for on the basis
OF the number of miles run, no charges
accumulate while it is lying side
tracked. Hence there is no haste to re-
turn 1t. But IL the charge were on the
per diem basis. every days delay would
pile up expense against the delinquent
road, and there would naturally be a
great hustle to discharge the fa'efght and
get the car back to the road from which
1t was borrowed or to transfer the lease
TO some other road, or to use 1t for new
freight.
1t is quite probable that there are
nearly enough cars in the country to do
the business OF the country IL they ara
kept actively and continuously EMPLOYED.
The railroad authorities should look to
this.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
AN ACUTE SITUATION
minneapolis Tribune. !

Never before In the history of this
country, so far as our recollection ex-
tends. has there been such a universal
complaint Of car shortage. 1t has be-
come so extensive that tt touches every
line OF business from the smallest to the
greatest, and its effects in large way
are shown by the shutting down OF a
number of Touring mills In Minneapolis
from sheer inability of the millers to yet
wheat delivered as they needed 1t. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Schwab, the situation III
the iron trade is even more critical.
$3.OOO.0O0 worth Of finished products are
piled up In the yards of the Carnegie
companies at Homestead and DuQuesne
waiting for cars to deliver the goods to
purchasers. Many mills in the Pitts-
burg district are shut down for the same
reason. 10
1t is hard to account for this state
or things upon any ordinary hypothesis
1t Is true that the business of the rail-
roads for several years past has strained
the capacity of their rolling stock. but
they have been constantly adding to
this rolling stock. They have been ham,
pered by no lack of capital and from
time to time we have been advised in
the Geographic dispatches Of the enor-
nous orders they have given for new
cars and locomotives. The probability
is that they have aimed to make their
rolling stock keep pace with their in
crease OF business. and it is very strange
II they have not succeeded in this. as
they have succeeded in most of their
other undertakings.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
PERSONAL.

Count Tolstoi consumed five years in
gathering the historical material for
War and Peace" and the preliminary
writings from which the book sprang
are now in the Rumjanzoff museum,
Moscow.
Phya Akharaj the new Siamese min
lister, who has just arrived in Wash
lngton, was educated at the Oxford Uni
versity England. At the time of his
appointment he was assistant secretary
OF state in Siam, and this is his first
diplomatic Office.
-
General Shattuc of Ohio chairman of
the committee on immigration and abor
OF the house of representatives, has long
been proud of his taste in fancy waist
coats, solitaire diamonds and flarng era
watts, all of which adorn his expansive
front.
Mrs. Edwin B. Grossman, a daughter
of Edwin Booth, the actor, is living in
Chicago, in the only property that the
actor owned in that city at the time of
will filed in that city in order to complete
a chain of titles to it's possession.
-
Senator Kittredge of South Dakota
was the other day accosted by a boy
with: IAN the mornin' papers," ''Give
me a Congressional Record said Mr..
Kittredge. The boy regarded him with a
look of scorn and replied: you gets
them at the capitol for nothin'.''
-
Elliott Hunt Pendleton, the new presi-
dent of the Associated Harvard clubs
while at college was president of the
Hasty Pudding club and editor of ''The
Crimson" He is a lawyer and nephew
of the late Senator Pendieton of Obi I
and resides in Cincinnati.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
LIVINGSTON'S NEW YEAR
Livingston Post.]

No year has been born since Living
ston knew life which brings so much of
promise to the people of the city. This
youngster, nineteen hundred and two,
comes to Livingston laden with bright
horoscopes. It brings an era of pros
perity and growth to the town. 1t car
ries in it's strong young arms gift OF
much Observation-Disclosures health and
energy.
The old year, which will end up it's
career of usefulness next Wednesday,
has been kind to Livingston. 1t has left
a history which will form a pleasing re-
Prospect During it's twelvemOnth the
city has builded more than in any pre-
vious ten years. It's business life has
been stimulated and rejuvenated. Its
streets have been adorned with enduring
piles of brick and stone. Its volume of
trade has grown greatly in proportion.
It's industries have been added to in
many ways. The Northern Pacific rail-
way has built a great structure, de-
signed to bring to Livingston a small
army of those who earn their living in
the sweat of their faces-the class which
makes the world habitable and enjoy
able. The trade arteries of the city have
been enlivened by an infusion of new
blood in the shape of an increased pay
roll of the railway, from whence the city
iraws the greater part of it's sustenance.
Everybody has shared in the general
prosperity of the town. The taxes have
been paid, the mortgages have been
thrown into the fire. the business man
and the laborer alike have had plenty
If the good things of earth. and all has
, been exceedingly well.
With such a record to leave behind.
the old year dies with an honored name.
The new comes promising to eclipse the
old. Enterprise of far greater magni-
tude than any at present existing here
are looking at Livingston with favor.
Mighty influences of which many people
In the city have no knowledge are being
.xerted to bring to the town an enter
prise which will make Livingston the
Butte of Eastern Montana. No definite
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31

promises are being made. for the reason
that nothing is certain in this life but
death and taxes. But, just the same, the
prospects are excellent. providing moth
ing now unforeseen comes to pass.
Livingston should have passed the
period of petty disputes and small prac-
tees. There is a great deal more to life
than an effort to circumvent your neigh
Dor in his plans for business or pleasure.
A long pull, strong pull and pull to-
gether is the thing that is needed to
make Livingston the best town in East
ern Montana.
There is work to be done. The re-
sources and advantages of the city must
be advertised. The press of the town
will do it's share, never fear, but it must
have the cooperation Of all who would
see Livingston prosper. First, support
the press in it's efforts. and then get out
and do something on your own hook.
Talk it up. Say something about the
town every time you get chance. Argue
with your friends who live elsewhere.
Show them that Livingston, by all rules
of computation, is the best town in the
state. Above all, don't KNOCK" Make
it point never to say anything that
could be construed as pessimism. Don't
be gloomy or misanthropic. Don't say
you are afraid things won't go right.
When you hear that tt is expected that
a new enterprise is about to come to
Livingston. don't say: 'fOh, don't be-
lieve there's anything in it,
The Post wouldn't give this sort of adj
vice il it didn't think 1t was needed.
When the news came that the shops
were to be enlarged. the Post heard such
comments as these: We've heard that
for the last 10 years. Why don't they
build them If they're going to-" When
1t was given out that the depot was go
ing to be built. We heard these same pes
simists. these hver-complainted COM
planners. make the same statements.
Don't do it. Look at the bright side Of
things, and when you meet your neigh
Dor next Wednesday morning gee that
you feel it when you say to him:
"A Happy New Yearl"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
BUTTE CURRENT NOTES.

| Orion Bros.-Pianos and organs.
Ed Passmore is building a handsome
residence on West Mercury street.
All smokers novelties at half price at
| Christie & Legs.
A marriage license was issued yester-
| day to Alex j. ellis and Florence Mac
Donald Of Butte.
j. G. Bates. tuner. Montana Music Co..
119 N. Main st. Tel. 5O4.
Mrs Eugene s. French of the internal
revenue service is in the city. and will
check up the books OF the local revenue
office.
DR.. Hansen, surgeon and specialist, Sill
Yer Bow block. X-ray examinations.
The plumbers resumed work at the IL
brary building. and the contractors ex-
pect to have the new reading room in the
basement completed in a few days. The
work has been delayed.
All the January magazines at the p.
0. News Stand. 81 w. Park.
Bowling. pool. billiards, Thornton
hotel basement. Finest alley and par
lors.
We are the agents Of the Hall Safe
Co.; large safes made to order, smaller
sizes carried in stock. Montana Liquor
company.
Thomas Davidson has filed an answer
in the divorce suit brought by his wife.
Ida Davidson, and IN 1t he denies that
he ever treated her cruelty.
The record for 1901 has been million
week Of Harvard cigars. What shall
the harvest be" in 1902? Happy New
Year to you all.
Articles of Incorporation Of the Mon
tana and Wyoming Telephone company
have been filed with the secretary Of
state. The incorporators are Billings and
Red Lodge men. The new company is
capitalized at $4,000.
In the suit of Sarah Alice Corr against
J. w. S. Corr for divorce on the ground
of failure to provide the defendant has
filed an answer in which he alleges that
the plaintiff deserted him some time ago,
prior to which he supported her.
Let the new leaf you turn over be the
Harvard cigar. The leaf is all Havana
filler, and the make is American union
labor.
Kate Rooney, a hayward girl Of 15 was
arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff
Quinn on the complaint of her mother,
MIS-. JoHn Rooney. ana was taken TO
Helena and incarcerated in the Home OF
the Good Shepherd last night by Deputy
Sheriff Pelletier.
At a meeting of the Hotel and Res
taurant Employees union, No. 2, last
night. the following ol.-cers were elected
to hold office for six months: President
Thomas H. Foley; vice president, Harry
Legalla; recording secretary, William E.
financial
treasurer. Frank Moore; trustees, Will
liam Worth, Jack Conley and Jess Brom-
ley; judge. Jess Bromley: judge advo-
cate. Ed Harvey; clerk of the court,
AID. Popejoy; delegates to Silver Bow
Trades and Labor assembly. F. w. Gro
min, William Fostell. p. j. Kane; alter
mates, A. Simons, V. Post, Ed. Harvey;
sick committee, V. Post, F. W. Cronin
sergeant at arms, Ed. Harvey.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
Tnt NEW YEAR.

Today at midnight will be ushesed in
a new year. The change in the calendar
will be made time for taking a retro
spective glance over the twelve months
that have gone into history since 1901
began. Taking account of the COCA
record of the year now closing. Montana
has no cause for any feeling but glad
ness 1t is true that what has been
chronicled in the press from day to day
does not make a record Of unmixed
blessings. But by these signs 1t IS not
safe to judge. The best evidence OF the
years progress is not found In the exclt-
ing happenings which make material Tor
ephemeral sensation. 1t is by slow ana
gradual processes that the state de-
wealth upon its upward way. A splen-
didly organized state government has
been brought out of the comparative
chaos of pioneer days, industrial achieve
ments have given the state fame abroad,
and every institution that makes for en-
during greatness rests upon nrm
foundation. 1t is impossible to point OUT
or enumerate the most valuable con-
tributions made to the states advance
ment during the past year. 1t is known
that a year ago all was we'll with Mon
tana; today all is better, and the states
confident citizens incline to ascrloe the
superlative degree to the conditions
which surround them as the Old year
comes to an end. Certain it is that not
in all this country's length and breadth
is there a state in which such abundant
reward is given honest effort; where
fairer women or more warm-hearted men
are found; where friendships wear
longer or dollar comes easier The old
days of the border, the pioneer times.
are passing away. The result of the
splendid work of the states founders is
a great heritage. In the year into which
Montana is entering there will be I'M
usual successes to record and few fail
ures to bewail. Individual good fortune
and the well-being Of others will I'LL
every Montanan's cup Of joy to overflow
ing. Should any fail. there will be those
more fortunate ready with assistance.
Life in Montana during 1902 will be
better worth living than any previous
year in its history no matter from What
point of view the estimate is made.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31

The remarkable reserve and self-pos-
session Uncle Sam exhibits when in COM
pany with other notables is accounted
for by the possession of remarkable
gold reserve which makes him the envy
Of every nation on earth.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
Faint Heart, Etc.
Baltimore American

The young volunteer officer made IA
NOUS short while ago through his love
affairs has been refused commission
in the regular army because he Tilted his
sweetheart. Uncle Sam is too gallant to
allow such things with impunity. Per-
haps. too, he is shrewd enough to dis
trust the bravery Of a man who doesn't
deserve the fair.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31

Near Kalispell the other day a freight
car loaded with cigarettes fell down an
embankment 500 feet high. AS might be
surmised, the car was smashed into
matchWood when it lit.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31

The news that a 14-year-old Butte boy
has been put in Jail for hitting pedes-
trian back of the ear with SNOWFALL
shows how superficial is the holiday res
olution to allow children to be happy.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31
Everything Free.
minneapolis Tribune.)

minneapolis Tribune.)
There is nothing small about the Wis
consin State Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry when it comes to public inn
provements at the governments expense.
It favors the isthmian canal a ship
canal connecting the Mississippi and
great lakes, and free rural mail delivery
ad lib,
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31

1t is predicted that the habit of talk
ing too much will be less noticeable in
naval and military circles during the
coming year
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31

The widow of the late Benjamin Har-
rison bases her claim to an annuity on
the fact that she married an ex-presi-
dent She never lived in the White
house and is in no sense proper object
of national bounty.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-31

China's large purchases of powder have
started the rumor that the Celestial en-
pire will engage in war. It is probable
that preparations for Chinese new year
have been wrongly interpreted.