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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
1000 TONS 4 DAY
ErvCGER MINES WILL BE DOOMED
TINS YEAR.
RAISE SHOTGUN QUARANTINE
WAS Most Effective in Protecting
Billings from snallpox-Texas
Cattlemen Coming North.
RAISE SHOTGUN QUARANTINE
Billings. Mont, April 10


T. p. Mcdonald of Bridger was in the
city Tuesday. Mr.. Mcdonald announced
tl..u he had resigned as manager Of the
Er.dger Coal company. ard tlat the
RESIGNATION was to so into effect at once.
vhen he will be succeeded By H. K.
Cocker of St. Paul. Mr. Cocker was at
one time connected With the Sand Coulee
coal mines, and has had extensive eX-
per ience in the operation of coai mines.
Extensive improvements will be begun t
once and prosecuted with the utmost
dispatch until the output of the mines
reaches 1000 tons per day. Mr.. Nc
Donald did not make known his future
c,'il Sc. but it is thought that he intends
to go over into Wyoming. where he re-
Gently purchased a large tract of coal
lands situated on the head waters of
GoOseberry creek. tributary of the Big
Horn river, and 80 miles southwest of
N"cteetse. 1t is said that he paid $50. Doc
for the land acting as agent for w. A.
CLARK of Butte, and will now superintend
the development of coal mines on the
land.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

election day The testimony developed
the fact that the majority of them fell
lers'' over there, as they We're termed.
were working for the election of Day.the
labor candidate for alderman. and the
supporters of Paige. the democratic cam
ddate did not like it very we'll. With
view to lessening Days chances of cleo
ton a fight was started in the polling
booth, the object being to give some OF
the Paige hackers an opportunity to de-
stroy the ballots. The proposed ballot
destruction scheme failed but the fight
was decided success.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
ONE FEUDIST THE LESS.

Sneedvlle. Ky. April 13.-The dead
body of Evan Bledsaw, a feudst, was
found today sitting in an upright posi-
ton against a tree. with the hand tightly
graspins his rifle. He had been shot
fl ON the rear. 1t is believed he had
been decoyed to the desolate spot in
the hope of capturing the man who
killed his father. Bledsaw killed John
NJ. Tate. but it is not believed the Tates
killed Bledsaw. He had been dead
several days when found. ,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
PUBLIC IS EXCLUDED.

Timothy Clifford, aged % years, is be-
ing given a preliminary hearing in JUS
tice Arnolds court this afternoon on a
charge of criminal assault preferred by
Annie keefe, aged II years. Miss Keefe
alleges that on October 25 of last year
Clifford enticed her to a secluded spot
at the. rear of the Parker lodging house
and assaulted her. Owing to the ma
ture of the testimony the public is not
permitted to be present.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
D RU ~ K EN- NE s 8
Drug and Cigarette Habits
Cured

No confinement. no publicity. no eb-
rupt shutting off of either liquor or
opium. The Only treatment adopted ty
the United States government for US.
in national and state homes TO. soldiers
and sailors.
The only Kelley institute in the state
All others claiming to use Kelley rene:
dies are frauds and imitators.
Ladies treated as privately as at their
own hone.
For terms and literature address THE
KELLEY INSTITUTE. 164 East South
First street. or Lock Box 80. Salt LAKE.
City. Utah.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
CRESCEUS AND THE ABBOTT.

Toledo, Ohio. April 13.-George K.
ketcham of this city has succeeded ia
getting another match race for his
champion rrotting stallion Cres1eus, 2'Cf
for purse of $4,000 and side bet of
$4,000 Cresceus will meet The ABB OF
on the track Of the Brighton Beach
Racing association during the week of
August 49, The bet has been posted
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
REPORT DISCREDITED.
Al to the Inter Mountain.

Special to the Inter Mountain.
San Francisco. Calf. April 13-Report
of marriage Of Senator Clark and the lady
reported engaged to him is generally dis
credited here. Believed to have no foun-
dat on.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

FOUR-ROOM HOUSE $500 AND
water in good order. No. .lS South
Montana street. See our place or x.
IS %, West Granite street. W. w.
Chapman.
FOR RENT-FU FINISHED FRONT
room. Modern. 5i3 North Main.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
AMERICAN DOCTOR DIES.

Berlin, April Is. = Dr. Block of San
Francisco. who has been studying in the
Berlin clinics, died here last night of
scarlet fever. His body will be sent
home.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

Hazel Collins, an inmate of one of the
houses of i'll repuie, committed suicide
by shooting herself in the head with a
revolver, about o'clock Sunday morn
irr 1t IS supposed that she had tired
of the life she was leading as she had
s,me time previously attempted suicide
by taking some antiseptc ablets, Civ
in:s that as her reason then.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

John Johnson, sOn-in-law of Mrs.
Henry Holling, died at the lodging house
of the latter Wednesday of consumption
from which disease he had been suffer-
Ing for some time, have come to this
country last fall FOR the benefit of his
health. The deceased leaves wife and
several children.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

Al. Filson, editCr of the Billings News,
was united in marriage Tuesday fore
aeon to Miss Sarah Singleton of ST. Jo-
sorh, Mo. The bride elect arrived in
Billings Monday from her southern
itn1e. The wedding ceremony took place
in the parlors of the Cottage Inn, being
performed by Rev. w. D. Clark. Mr and
Mrs. F.lson have gene to housekeeping
in the residence of w. j. Scott
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

The shotgun quarantine" has been
raised from the Yellowstone wagon
bridge and the Northern Pacific railroad
bridge. after a careful investigation by
the county commissioners. into the small
poX situation at the various camps, and
finding that the disease was fast dsap-
pearing. This quarantine. which was es-
tablished about a month ago. is believe
to have been the means of keeping out
and stamping out the disease in Bill
in@s
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

The boys of the high school have or
ganized an athletic association and are
getting ready to have a field day some
time during the coming month. The
forenoon will be occupied in tennis play
ing after which the boys will repair to
the fair grounds, where they will have
contests of running. jumping. vaulting,
etc The boys are taking great inter-
est in the sports and some of them are
developing exceptional. skill.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
RAISE THE QUARANTINE.
Hotel Full of Boarder: Will Have
Cause for Rejoicing.
Red Lodge, Mont. April L.

Red Lodge Mont. April 10.
Special to the Inter Mountain.
Byron ST. Clair. aged 40 years. died at
his home here Thursday Afternoon at
O'Clock. Deceased had lived here about
Il years and was we'll known and had
host of friends. He was city marshal
in 1897 and 1898. since when he has
held the position of weighmaster for the
Rocky Fork Coal company, last Saturday
noon when he was taken with pneumonia
and died in five days. He was member
of the Woodman of the World and car
rled $2,OO0 insurance. He leaves a wife
and three children to mourn the loss of
a kind husband and father. The flu
neral takes place Saturday at O'Clock
p. m.
Glenn Alden. aged six years. eldest son
of F. H. Alden, cashier of the Meyer 4
Chapman bank, died Thursday evening
about II O'Clock of spinal meningitis. He
was only sick one day. At this writing
the youngest boy. aged two years, is
down with the same complaint, and not
expected TO live.
The two smallpox patients that were
discovered in the Central hotel March 81,
and Immediately removed to the pest
house. are about we'll and will soon be
| discharged. The hotel, with thirty board
! erS has been under strict quarantine
! ever since. There have been no symp-
| toms of any one else coming down and
the board of health talk, of fumisatins
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

Mr.. T. w Day of Great Falls and Mrs
Cora Green of keosauqua, Iowa, were
married in this city Wednesday, Rev
w. d. Clark officiating. The couple lief
on the afternoon train for Great Falls
which place will be their future home
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
BILLINGS news.

were not found, and it is thought they
have been stolen.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

AS soon as the new board of trustees
of the Billings school district organ
ize they will turn their attention to the
matter of the new south side school
building. The board will endeavor to
have the work begun in plenty of time
so as to have the building completed in
time for the beginning of the new school
term next fall. The building will in
all probability be identical with the one
erected on the north side last year, and
such being the case, the old plans can be
used. In addition to the new building,
the board will also eXperd several thou
sand dollars in completing the one on
the north side. When these two buildings
ere completed. Billings Will have school
facilities that will rank with any of those
in the state.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

the premises again and raising the quar-
antine on the 14th or 18th.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

Rev. Gessner, the new rector for ST.
Luke's church. accompanied by his fam
lily, reached Billings Friday to reside
here. Rev. Gessner comes from Everett,
Washington. and will conduct his first
services at st. Luhe's church on Sun
da.-.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

Oliver w. Stewart. chairman of the
pr ohibition national committee, delivered
a very entertaining and instructive ad-
dress on the subject of 'Christian C.ti-
enship.' in the court house Sunday
evening to a large audience
The plans fer the new addition to the
Methodist church and the other improve
ments have arrived and bids are now be-
ing asked for doing the work.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

IL. F. Clement has returned from his
sheep ranch on the the Flatwillow. in
Fergus county. He says that the range
Is very dry in that section. very little
snow having fallen there. Mr.. Clement
says that horse rustlsrs are apparently
operating on the Flatwillow. While at
the ranch. his men rounded I'D several
head of brood mares which had fine colts
at their sides last fall, but the colts
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

Frank Clarke, alias Jim Boyd"
Well known man of Billings. was ar
rested Monday on the complaint of Jeff
z. Brewer, who alleges that Clarke took
ten sacks of oats belonging to him. A
search was made by Mr.. Brewer. for the
missing property, when he discovered
that it was gone. and following the
tracks of a wagon around his barn. he
came to Clarke's Place where he found
the oats. When arrested Clarke denied
Ownership Of the cats, but offered no
explanation for the grain being found
On his place His preliminary hearing
va! take place April 10. During the
same night the oats disappeared. two
sets of harness belonging to a fre:ghter,
-NAre also stolen, together with a pair
of gloves. The gloves were found in a
Wagon on Clarke's place
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21
Fond of -
- the Weed

The effect of tobacco smoking upon
the intellect has been exhaustively
discussed by physicians and others,
and the position taken by some that
it is absurd to allege that smoking is
Supplying to the faculties seems to be
fortified by a mass of evidence, and in
this connection it may not be amiss to
consider some admittedly great literary
minds. Goethe hated tobacco, and
Heinrich Heine shared the same dis
like Balzac. Victor Hugo and Dumas
did not smoke but Alfred de Musset,
Eugene Sue. Nine. George Sand"
Merimee and Paul de Saint Victor
were ardent users of the weed. Spen-
Ger in the Fairy Queen calls it divine
tobacco" William Lilly, Queen Eliza
beth's court poet, speaks of the holy
herb Nicotian;" Byron's name for it
is sublime tobacco" Thackeray sings
Meanwhile I will smoke every can
lister and tipple my ale in the shade"
Thomas Bailey Aldrich says, Il lounge
and blow white rings of smoke"
James Russell Lowell had written
an ode of thanks to Charles Eliot Nor
ton for certain CIGARS" and calls it
tobacco, sacred herb" Charles Lamb
was willing for thy sake, Tobacco, 1
would do anything but die Delight
full Charles Kingsley's eulogium of
| smoking is well known and has been
largely quoted. Tom Hood of the
Song of the Shirt" says: Some sigh
for this or that, my wishes don't go
far. The world may wag at will. So
1 have my cigar" Lord Tennyson was
an fnveterate smoker and so was
Thomas Carlyle. The story of Tenny-
son calling on Carlyle one evening and
sitting in solemn silence smoking for
| hours is well known. Man Alfred, -
| said Carlyle, as he showed the poet
| laureate out. I'VE have ha'en a graund
| NIGHT Come back again soon" Car
lyle, like Tennyson, did not care for a
cigar, but kept pipe in his mouth
most of his waking hours, and Thack-
cray, like Burns, loved to get away by
himself and enjoy the flavor of a rank
pipe. James Payn, the novelist, can
not remember the time when he did
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21
Can Not Starve in Turkey.

No government, however, corrupt
selfish, venal, eXtravagant, and exact
ing, can bring a population to starva.
ton in land like Turkey. Grape.
vines run all over the houses. The
Turkish vineyards are incompatible
The poor Turk takes little trouble
about his agricultural implements. His
pillow is much like that which NOAH
must have used, for it is simply a Ions
piece of wood, with a yoke of oxen al
one end of it and a single handle al
the other. With this the rayah jusI
scratches the soil. The crops are usu.
ally magnificent, but the waste is i'm.
mense. Thousands of sheep flourish
on the vast pasture lands of the wide
valleys in Turkey. Yet the people dc
not eat voraciously of animal food
They only need little lamb or mutton
to shred into fragments, that they may
stew it with rice into the delicious
dish called "pilaff." The Turks relish
their glorious watermelons They car
cohtentedly live as approximate vege-
tarfans. No nation is at so little ex-
pense for dietetic commodities.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21
Select Their Own CoM7s
Some Such Customers Drive Very
Close Barga n.

The undertaken nodded in friendly
manner. You look healthy enough"
he said. Ct am healthy" laughed the
caller. "Ah!' said he. Then you
didn't come to pick out coffin for
yourself?" Hardly" was this startled
reply. do people come here for that
purpose?' Lots of en- said he. "A
good many more people pick
out their own collins now
than when 1 first started in
business. Then it was a novelty
for a man to come in and ask to be
shown a comfortable coffin that would
fit him, but now such requests are
common. Often people in seemingly
good health undertake such g. quest
They seem to regard the selection Of
a casket of equal importance to the
making of a will, and do not deem it
advisable to wait until sickness comes
before making preparations for the in
evitable. / have on my book now no
fewer than two score commissions to
provide prospective customers with a
certain style of coffin whenever it may
be needed. These collins are always
chosen with strict attention to detail
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21

uraL The horse has been taught TO be-
lieve the din of battle to be Quiss
meaningless and without results When
in actual warfare he sees horses and
men around him shattered and life
less, there is nothing to suggest to
him that that same din of battle and
death are in any way connected, and
the report of firearms, consequently.
for him has no terrors whatever The
whistling of bullets and the screaming
Of shells unknown, of course, at the
maneuvers at home while insig-
nificant details to the horse, are sadly
full of meaning to the man, and often
enough dc our soldiers envy the ignor-
ance of the horse-the Ignorance
which is bliss. "-Philadeiphia Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21

Since 1895 the Grand Army has lost
a little over SO, 900 in numbers. This.
however, measures only approximately
the loss by death among the members
Of the order, and it does not take into
account the deaths among those who
never joined the Grand Army. Prob
ably not more than one-third OF those
who fought in the war have been en-
rolled among the boys in blue. The
deaths among the latter have been in
as large, if not larger, proportion, and
it is consequently within the truth to
say that during the last seven years
10000 veterans have Joined the gran
army il the beyond. The next seven
years is likely to see still greater in
roads. The increasing age of those
who remain and their growing infirmi-
ties must make great gaps in the
Grand Army membership, and among
the unenrolled veterans The fading
of the army is steady and sure, and
soon only a remnant of those who
fought TO save the union will be left to
tell the story.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21

in material and trimming, and some
of the future occupants drive pretty
close bargain for their last house.
This haggling seems fearfully bad
form in persons who will be all over
and done for when the commodity in
question is brought into requis1tion.
and one cannot help but wonder why
they don't wait and let their survivors
attend to the scrapping. But not all
the people the purchase of whose cof-
fins is personally conducted come to
me. Occasionally 1 go to them, and
1 am no longer surprised to receive
summons to bring my samples to in
valids who are unable to leave the
house but are unwilling to trust the
final disposition of their bodies to
their friends. There are some who go
a step beyond the selection OF a COT
fin-who buy it outright and store 1t
away in their own home As a rule
all these ultra particular people are
willing to trust to the honesty Of the
undertaken, and the fraternity honors
the confidence by fulfilling to the
minutest detail their ante-mortem in
structions."-New York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21

For six miles through the forest in
Hancock and Wood counties, Ohio
may be seen a wide .swath through the
tree tops. the once open space being
grown thick with smaller timber 1t
tells the story of Gen. Hull and the
army that blazed its way north to Fort
Meigs in the war of 1912. On several
farms near Findlay are still found Sec
tions of the old corduroy roadway
built of the tree trunks that were fellod
to gain a passage for the army. The
logs are well preserved and are found
from two to five feet under the soil 1t
was at the close of that memorable
campaign that Col. Findlay camped on
the south side of Blanchard's Fork OF
the Auglaize and established the old
stockade fort named after him, Fort
Findlay.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21
Men and Women
Who We're Par
tial to Tobacco

not smoke Mark Twain at the age OF
80 used to smoke 800 cigars a month.
George Augusta Sala bears emphatic
testimony in favor of smoking. THE
allegation" he says, las to smoking
Supplying a mans faculties, or blunt
ing his energy, 1 take to be mainly
nonsense" oliver Wendell Holmes
says of the meerschaum pipe: He
who inhales its vapors takes a thou
sand whiffs in single breath; and
one cannot touch it without awakening
the old joys that hang around it, as
the smell of flowers clings to the
dresses of the daughters of the house
of Farina."
1t has been said that James Russell
Lowell used a number of ordinary
pipes in succession and lay each aside
after it had been fairly well smoked
down. Later he would gather the
''dottels," or, as some smokers call
them, the heels" from some half
dozen of these pipes and cram them
into an enormous tube and have a
real smoke as he expressed it. An
other distinguished Harvard professor
once "swore off, for six months and
kept strictly to his self-imposed obli-
CATION He remarked, at the end of
the time, when he resumed smoking,
that his appetite had been good, he
had slept well and his health generally
had not suffered, but" he said, Il
afterwards he smoked like chimney.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21
BUFFALO" JONES.
ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE FIGURES
IN THE WEST.
Gained NatIona: Reputation a Buff
falo Observation-Disclosures in Political
Life-First Republican, Then a
Populist.
Especial Letter.)

Buffalo" Jones is dead. The great
est friend the dumb brutes ever had
has left them and in a few years the
name of c. ]. Jones will be forgotten.
He was one of the most unique charac-
tiers in Kansas, the home of great
men and Freaks Buffalo Jones
was known from one end of the coun-
try to the other, and a complete story
of his life would outrival any book of
fiction yet published. Early in his
youth he cultivated a benign feeling
for dumb brutes. and his sympathy
was not without it's reward, for his
animal friends seemed to understand
his affection for them and eagerly re-
sponded to it, He domesticated a
number of buffalo, using them for ag
ricultural purposes and demonstrating
that they had utility other than that
found in their pelts. His appeals for
the dumb race, however, were in vain,
and he lived to see the great family
pass away under his very eyes.
A Unique Career.
C. J. Jones was born in TazeweH
county, I'LL, and was II years old. He
received first-class education in the
Illinois State Normal school and for a
time was a student in Wesleyan uni
versity. After leaving school he went
to Kansas, settling in Troy, at that
time one of the oldest communities in
the state. He lived quietly here for a
time, then became restless and with a
crowd of spectators started for west
ern Kansas. They located at Garden
City, and in one night a town of 1900
Inhabitants sprung up. Jones was
chief boomer. He built a business
block and was the first man to test
the raising of crops in the desert by
means of irrigation.
The prefix Buffalo was tackled to
Jones name fifteen years ago. In the
early part of 1886 he organized buff
falo hunt at Garden City in which
about fifteen citizens participated
The hunt lasted five days and the
hunters killed six buffalo and captured
fourteen calves. The young animals
were taken to Jones farm. near Gar
den City and he began the propagation
of the American buffalo. He could not