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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
Beers SHOOT PRISONERS
ALSO ACCUSED OF NUMBERING
ENEMYS WOUNDED.
Kitchner Complains to Botha and
Styne Of the Reported
Outrages.

London, Aug. 28-A dispatch from
Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, Aug.
25, says: Sworn evidence has been
brought to my notice by General Ell
lott that on June 6, Lieut.. Maurice
of the New South Wales artillery and
Privates Harvey and Blunt, were shot
down after surrendering at Graspen
near Reitz. / have forwarded to
Steyn and Botha copies Of thes state
ment."
The war Office has telegraphed to
Lord Kitchener as follows:
I'VE understand that you have not
yet received satisfactory assurances
respecting the murder of our wound
de at Vlakfontein. In view of occur
FENCES referred to in your telegram
Of August rs, we are of the opinion
that you should notify by proclama-
ton that members of any commando
by which such ar outrage is commit
ted. who may be captured and after
trial proved to have been present on
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far endured without amendment but
it is apprehended now that if the
action Of France is carried out to the
each of the other signatory powers
will feel obliged in self protection to
disregard the agreement and press
upon Turkey the vast financial and
other claims that have accumulated
in the past quarter of a century with
a result of disrupting the present
Turkish government.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
WILL RETURN TO pEK|N
CHINESE COURT ANNOUNCES
THAT INTENTION.
Will Move Unostentatiously and
Has Forbidden Preparations for
Receptions Along Road.

Pekin, Aug. 28-An edict has been
received announcing that it is the
intention of the court to return I'M
ostentatiously to Pekin. Their mai
estes will give 100, 900 taels as fare
well contributions to the distressed
people of Singa-Fu and the suffering
districts. The edict forbids any
preparations being made for the
court receptions along the roads that
will be followed through the prov
inces Of Shanhi, Honanan and Chill.
All the expenses of the journey will
be paid by the imperial exchequer.
This is unusual, but accords with the
suggestion recently made by Sir
Robert Hart, director of the imperial
maritime customs.
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Read the Following Recommendations from Leading Montana stockmen:

Miles City, Mont, Feby. IL, 1901.
F. B. Dennie & Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
Gentlemen: l have heard so man.
of the large stock-growers who are
using your brand of %strychnine or wolf
poison speak of it SO highly, and after
careful inquiry satisfying myself that
it is the only poison on the market
worthy of recommendation, l wish to
ask you if you will not thoroughly
advertise it that ali will use the same
and soon do away with this greatest
of all pests to st~ockgrowers.
You should have a big sale for it I
am fully convinced, and l am positive
if you will make it's superior quality
known all will use it. l have heard
enough to satisfy me that it is worthy
of endorsement by all who are inter-
ested in the welfare of the stock
grower. Your respectively
w D. SMITH,
Stock Inspector for Montana.
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Aged Miner Kidnapped.

Seattle, Aug. 27-Edward Mortimer.
a miner 68 years of age, is the center
of a story emanating from Dawson,
where he is said to have been kid
mapped and lowered into a deep shaft
on Trestle creek, II miles from Daw-
son. His cdptors demanded 5000 as
the price of release, but on being told
he had no money, left him apparently
to perish. After u hours of effort
the old man succeeded in climbing
to the surface of the shaft and wan
dering eight miles, found a canoe
which brought him to Dawson where
he claimed police protection.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
Strikes a Rich n

Il was troubled for several years
with chronic indigestion and nervous
debility" writes F. L. Green, of Ian.
caster, N. H. mo remedy helped me
until l began using Electric Bitters,
which did me more good than all the
medicine | ever used. They also kept
my wife in excellent health for years.
She says Electric Bitters are just
splendid for female troubles; that
they are a grand tonic and invigor-
ator for weak, u down women. No
other medicine can take it's place in
our family" Try them. Only SOC.
Satisfaction guaranteed by Chapple
Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
RECOGNIZED BY TELEGRAPHER
Ascending Cattle King Seen BY an
Operator.

Abilene, Kas., Aug. 27-Grant Gill
lette, the cattle king who fled to Mex
leo over two years ago, owing cattle
men v a million dollars, is believ-
ed to have been in the United States
recently, travelling in disguise. Ben
Cooper, a telegraph operator former
ly of Abilene, and who knew Gillette
well, says that during the land rush
ct Anadarko, Gillette handed him a
message signed in an assumed name,
to be sent to Woodbine, Kas. the
plunger's old home. He recognized
Gillette, he says, but when he called
him by name, the excattle king hur-
ried away and he could find no further
trace of him. Gillette was supposed
to be in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he
was believed to be in the cattle bust
ness.
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Billings, Montana, Feby. IA, 1901.
r. B. Dennie & Co, Minneapolis, MINI.
Gentlemen: After using a large
quantity of your %strychnine or wolf
qoison, and giving it a most thorough
test we are pleased to say that it is
the best and cheapest poison we have
ever used, and we hope that you will
make it's true worth known to all
stockgrowers.
Experience teaches us that it is
cheaper to use the best poison, as this
has proven itself to be at any price,
than the ordinary grades as a gift.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30

Fort McGinnis, Mont, Sept. 20, 1900.
F. B. Donnie & Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
Gentlemen: | herewith enclose
check for $4,000 for 40oz. s%trychnine
which l purchased from your agent,
r. d. Derby, this spring.
After giving the same a most
thorough test l am pleased to say
that it is the best s%trychnine that I
have seen in twenty years. Ny men
and wolfers nave had most excellent
results by constant use of the same.
Mr.. Lindsey, n of my men got 81
wolves with three bottles and their
.carcasses were found all the way
from six to n hundred feet from the
bait.
l heartily recommend this strychnine
to all stockmen, and hope that you will
push the sale Of it, as the wolf is one
of the greatest pests to the stock
grower, and for me l have found this
a most practical method of Kidding my
range of the same, and if it is good for
me it must be good for others. Next
l expect to place an order for a
larger quantity. Very respectfully,
OSCAR STEPHENS.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
BOYS FOUND
BIG MONEY
THREE PACKAGES OF MOULDY
BANK NOTES.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
Bills Will Require Expert Exami-
nation to Determine Their
Denomination.

Omaha, Aug. 28-Three boys play
ing in a lumber yard at Ninth and
Farnum streets today, found three
packages of paper money, national
bank notes, thought to amount to
from $4,000 to $4,000. The packages
are badly crusted with mold from ex-
posture to the weather and they will
require expert examination TO deter
mine the denominations of the bills.
The boys who found the money did
not realize the value of their find and
turned over the packages to a local
attorney who was passing at the
time. On examination he found they
had the wax seal of the First Ma
tional bank, to which institution he
at once proceeded. At the bank it
was said that no such packages had
been lost but it was learned that the
Pacific Express company had lost in
the past six years two such packages,
each containing several thousand dol
lars and having a wrapper on which
was the seal of the First National
bank. George Archibald, a driver for
the Pacific Express company was rob-
bed of a package containing $4,000
about three years ago. He was ar
rested and tried for the robbery but
was acquitted. He recently brought
suit for $4,000 damages for defama-
ton of character but lost the case.
Six years ago a 5000 package dis.
appeared but the Office employee later
committed suicide and wrote the ex-
press company acknowledging the
theft and telling where the money
was hidden. A large amount of it
was recovered. The express company
will investigate the matter, and if
there is a reasonable cause for doing
SO, the company will claim the
money.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
END OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
Washington Official Circles Look for
Disrupting.

Washington, Aug. Pit is feared
in official circles here that the with
drawal of the French ambassador
from Constantinople marks the dis
solution of the concert of European
powers under which the integrity of
Turkey was guaranteed. By the treaty
Of Berlin all the great powers of Eu-
rope subscribed to an agreement to re
frain from any act that would tend to
the destruction of the Ottoman en-
pire. This action was taken to fore
stall what we're conceived to be the
designs Of Russia to seize on Turkish
territory and Russia herself was led
to subscribe to the agreement by force
Of circumstances. Although several
times severely strained. notably by
such events - the last war between
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USELESS.
Unless Backed BY Power and Will to
4 Enforce.

London, Aug. 27-An editorial in the
Times today, on the South African
situation, reflects the cold facts which
followed the optimistic hopes is to
the effect OF Lord Kitchener's procla-
gre news from the front, the Times
says:
1t is quite clear that if we want an
end of the wal we must strike hard
and often. Proclamations and block
houses r. all very well, and may be
useful, but the experience of the
Spaniards has. shown that the most
serious proclamation is of little use,
without plenty OF horses and men. $
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
ACTED UNDER INSTRUCTIONS.
M. Constans Was Recalled BY Foreign
Minister.

Paris, Aug. pa semi-oficial note
has been issued announcing that the
Porte not having carried out it's under
takings with regard to the disputed
questions between the French and the
Ottoman governments. NJ. Constans,
French ambassador, acting under in
structions from the foreign minister
of France left Constantinople August
t26, the date manner in his last com
munication to the Porte on the sub.
ject.
An arrangement had been affected
August II, and it's terms drafted b.
the Ottoman foreign minister, for the
approval of the sultan, who promised
Constans that the text should be hand
ed to him August Is. M. Constans tel
egraphed to Paris August 10 that none
of the promises had been fulfilled and
that Delabors, foreign affairs minister,
August Is telegraphed M. Constans
that, in view of these fragrant disre-
gard of the undertakings, the negotia-
lions could no longer be continued
and requested M. Constans to inform
the Porte that he had received orders
to leave Constantinople.
On August % M. Constans commune
Gated with the Porte fixing August 26
as the date for his departure; and as
the engagements were still unkept, n.
Constans left Constantinople Aug. 26.
With the departure CT n. Constans,
the relations between France ana
Turkey may be regarded as broken Off.
Munir Bey, the Turkish ambassador
to France has been telegraphed not
to return to Paris.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
The RUPTURE
FINALLY CAME
FRENCH MINISTER TIRED OF
SULTANS DALLYING.
MORE THAN WORDS WANTED
France Will Probably Wait for the
Sublime Port to Make
Mex tMove.
MORE THAN WORDS WANTED

Paris, Aug. 27-The correspondent
of the Associated Press was informed
today from the best source that the
departure of M. Constans from Con-
tantamont to a partial rupture of
Franco-Turkish relations. Munir Bey,
who is in Switzerland, will be inform
ed as set forth in the semi-oficial
note issued this morning that the
French government does not desire
him to return to Paris.
The current affairs of the two en-
bassys can be carried on by the
charges d'affairs, but all negotiations
Of a political nature will be entirely
suspended until the sultan yields to
the French demands. The French
government holds that the sultan has
broken his word. He had promised
full payment of the long standing in
IDENTITIES to the French of II, 900, 900
francs. but to the end of last week de-
clined to pay the full amount and Of
fered a reduced sum which was re-
fused by M. Constans who waited I'M
til yesterday and then departed. The
sultan made a final attempt to induce
him to stay. M. Constans had left
Therapia on board the Vautour, for
STEAMBOAT, where he was to take the
Orient express. A court chamberlain
arrived at STEAMBOAT post haste from
the sultan, begging M. Constans to re-
turn to Therapia and promising that
everything would be satisfactorily set
tied. M. Constans declined to return,
declaring the time for promises was
past and that it was for the sultan to
fulfill his undertakings.
The French government will take
no further steps in the matter but will
wait for the sultan to move. 1t is
thought the sultan will not allow the
present situation to last very long.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30

Through the months of June and
July our baby was teething and took
a running off of the bowels and sick
ness of the stomach" says O. p. M.
Holiday, of Deming, Ind. His bowels
would move from five to eight times a
day . I had a bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
in the house and gave him four drops
in a teaspoonful Of water and he got
better ct once" For sale by Chapple
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
DAMAGE SUITS COMMENCED.
Against Navigation Company in Con.
nection With Islander Disaster.

Seattle, Aug. 28-Nearly two score
of cases against the Canadian Pacific
Navigation company in connection
with the wreck of the steamer Is
lander have been instituted for dam
ages by loss of life, property and in
juries. The cases will be presented
in the United States court which
proved to have jurisdiction. The
cases involve only those who were
citizens Or natives Of the United
States.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30

Billings, Mont, Feby. Is, 1901.
F. B. Dennie & Co., Wholesale Grocers,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Dear Sirs: After using forty ounces
of your strychnine or wolf poison this
fall and winter, we take great pleasure
in saying that it is the best poison we
have ever seen or used. We get more
wolves and coyotes with an ounce
bottle Of it than we generally get with
a dozen of the common grades.
When all stockmen realize that this
poison is all that is claimed for it,
and use it as we will continue to do,
we will then have less wolves to CON
tend with. We hope you will advertise
this poison and push the sale of it as
the wolf question is a problem which
we all have to deal with alike.
Yours, respectfully,
JAS. r. HAYNIE,
Foreman, Hysham Cattle Company.
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whether they actually committed the
deed or not, that the leader of the
commando will be sentenced to death
and that the other members will be
punished with death or less penalty
according to the degree of completely
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30

my baby was terribly sick with the
d~iarrhoea," says j. H. Doak, of Will
Iiams, Oregon. I'VE were unable to
cure him with doctors assistance,
and as a lag. resort we tried Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. I am happy to say it gave
immediate relief and a complete cure.n
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
Hanna Will Stump.

Cleveland, o., Aug. PIT is an
nounced authoratively that much of
Senator Hanna's time during the state
campaign will be spent on the stump
and especially attention be given to
close counties.
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Shawmut, Mont, Nov. 2. 1906

Shawmut, Mont, Nov. 2, 1900.
F. B. Dennie 4 Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
Gentlemen: Enclosed please find
check for strychnine bought of your
agent this spring. We have used every
brand of strychnine we could get for
years with poor results, but am glad
to say that this has proven highly
satisfactory. We have gotten as high
as t%wenty-four grey wolves with one
ounce of the strychnine, and the best
feature of it is they are found close to
the bait.
Kindly forward us a pound of the
strychnine at once, by mail.
Yours truly.
ELMER E. CRAWFORD,
Manager Bloomington L. & L. S. Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30

We will continue to use this brand.
as we believe it will do more to ex-
terminate the wolf than any ether
method known to us and we hope that
all others will do the same.
Very respectfully yours.
CUSTER CATTLE COMPANY.
BY Paul Mccormick, Pres.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
UNDER STATE SUPERVISION.

Pays 5 Per cent on savings depos.
its. interest compounded quarterly.
Pays 6 rer cent on time certificates
of deposit, not subject to check.
Issues savings certificates on build
ing and, loan plan with definite time
of maturity and definite payments.
Loans money on real estate to be
repaid on monthly installments run
ming from one to ten years, to suit
borrower.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30

and was beginning to think that the tror-
Bile would run into consumption. / didn't
take any stock in patent medicines, but
somehow or other l tried Acker's English
Remedy. One bottle did the business for
mc-knocked that cough out completely
and it has never coine back again. There is
never a day passes that I don't say q good
word about this wonderful medicine. l al
most forgot to say that / am stronger and
feshier now, since taking the remedy, than
| was before the cough began. I write this
letter voluntarily and cheerfully and am
glad to do it, (Signed) CHRIS. HUMBLE,
Saloon-keeper, Pocatello, Idaho.
Sold at 25c.. Soc. and 81 a bottle, throughout
the United States and Canada; and in Eng
land, at Is. 3D., 2s. 3D., as. Cd. Ifyou arenot
satisfied after buying, return the bottle to
your druggist, and get your money back.
We authorize the above guarautse.
u. II. HOOKER q CO., Propfietors, New York.
For sale by Chapple Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
D FOR GUNS.
Sultan Will Fight Rather Than Yield
to France.

Vienna, Aug. 28-The Tageblatt to-
day publishes correspondence from
Constantinople which says the sultan
will go to war rather than yield to
the demands of the French. He is
studying plans of defense and has Or
dered 800 guns from Germany.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
Trustees.

Trustees.
Lee Mantle, president; Chas.
Schatzlein, viee-president; Frank w.
Haskins, treasurer; A. B. Clements.
secretary; Charles r. Leonard, F..
Aug. Heinze, Henry Mueller, James H.
Monteath.
FRED H. FOSTER, Local lent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30
Knockout Drops

- am a saloon-keeper, and used to think
that rock and rye, or Whisksy and quinine
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-30

WCiC plOpCl lCll1- =,
edies for coughs
and colds. Most
of my a%cquaint-
ances wert of the G
same opinion. IS
N Q W I k w 81
somethingatleast .
a thousand times =
bstter. It is Ack,
English Remedy
Coughs and Colds.
good while ago I be-
to cough and found
then that rock and
was no good, Igot VIC
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-12-26
No More Gloves for Soldiers.

1t is announced that the French army
will soon be deprived of gloves from
motives of economoy. Each Of the oOO.-
600 soldiers receives two pairs year,
and each pair costs frame % centimes.
But the inhabitants of Mort, who live
by the manufacture of these gloves, are
protesting vigorously against the pro-
posed measure. -Four thousand people
will be thrown out of work should Gen
eral Andre persist in introducing the
reform. Needless to say. every pioupiou
will hail it with delight. The glove.
or rather the absence of it. has been
the cause of more punishment than all
the rest of the catalogue of military
offenses.-Paris Correspondence Pail
Mall Gazette.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-12-26

PROF. PICKERING. posed. And start.
ling revelation is the fact that the photo
graphs of the spectrum Of streak
Of lightning. showing that 1t Is
made up of lines belonging to chemical
elements which seem to be split up into
still more elementary substances. pre-
sents a remarkable resemblance with
the spectrum of Nova, the new star In
Perseus. There, too. the spectral lines
Of hydrogen appear curOusly different
from their ordinary appearance. ana
both in intensity and position bear
close resemblance to what they show
in the spectrum of lightning. What re-
lation can there be between the vast
glowing air of that distant star. too dis
tant to be measured, presumably ablaZe
from center to circumference with in
tense heat-a conflagration extensive
enough to involve many such worlds as
ours In destruction-an the cool air
that enwraps our little planet and carries
the clouds and rains that make the
earth inhabitable. Nova was discovered
only a year ago, and the mightiest ex-
plosion of lightning Is insignificant as
compared with an outburst such as that
which produces new star. and yet
both phenomena-the lightning from
summer cloud and the gigantic out
break Of power that caused an extin-
guished sun in Perseus to burst again
into fame-produce similar effect.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-12-26
A Forgotten Ora fl.

1t was probably known to nearly
every Roman citizen how the mortar
rich cemented the stones Of their
Blu. '.ngs was made-just ms 1t Is
known to the majority of people that
the principal ingredient of English
mortar is street scrapings. But, the
knowledge being general, nobody wrote
1t down, and in time, as the Romans
shifted their building upon slaves and
foreigners, the recipe of their mortar
was lost. So far it has not been dis
covered. though the secret of 1t would
be immensely valuable for the cement
outlasts the very stones which 1t joins
London Mail.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-12-26
RUSS HOUSE. Of San Francisco,

under the experienced management of J..
8. Young 4 Sons. has lately been extern.
sivelv altered and reconstructed in every
department, At q cost of $4,000, neither
pains nor money being spared in making
it . first-class, up to-date, home-like hotel.
The House is tire.proof and thoroughly
equipped throughout with all the modern
convei,ences in vogue at the present time
in hotels. This established house is finely
located in the very heart-center of busi-
ness and hotel portion Of the city. They
are noted for the excellence of the table
they set. Their dining-room has now one
of the finest interiors of any hotel dining.
room in the state. Their service through.
ont il tirst.claSS.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-12-26
He Knew Better.

At school In Kent an inspector was
examining class Of children in arith-
metic, when the inspector asked the fol.
lowing question:
Now, John. supposing l gave you
two rabbits and another kind friend
gave you one more, how many would
you have?'
JOhn-Four, sir.
Inspector-NO. my boy, two and one
don't make four.
John (quickly)-Please, sir, I've got
one old lop-eared EN- at home.-London
Spare Moments.