davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-12
FANNY PRovosT's ESTATE.
Value Of the Property Is Fixed al
$500.

The appraisers in the estate of Fannie
Provost. deceased, have fixed the value
of the property of the estate at the sum
of $500.
The appraisers are Joseph Maietti, H.
A. Godin and Oscar Rasett, and they
filed their inventory and appraisement
in the estate in the district court to-
day.
The estate consists of certain land on
Wyoming street, upon which there are
two frame houses, and the furniture in
the houses. The houses are at 216 218
and 220 South Wyoming street.
The value of the real estate is set at
$4,000 and the furniture at $500. The
estate owns one-third interest in this
property.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-12
Two Sheriffs Visit Butte.

Two sheriffs from outside counties were
visitors to Butte today. They reached
here last night by train. They were
Sheriff Hand of Carbon county and Sher-
III Shaw of Fergus county, and they
brought four prisoners for the peniten-
tiary with them. The prisoners were
locked up in the county Jail last night
and the sheriffs took them down to Deer
Lodge this morning. The prisoners were
all young men, and were sentenced to
do time for different offenses
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-12
FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
Portland Murderers Who Confess Will
Probably Hang.
(By Associated Press.)

(By Associated Press.)
Portland, Ore, Dec. 12-Jack Wade and
w. H. Dalton have ebeen found guilty Of
murder in the first degree for killing
James B. Morrow November Fl.
Dalton was found guilty yesterday by
jury and Wade, who pleaded guilty to
murder, was arraigned today before
Judge Frazer in the state circuit court.
After Wade's confession had been read
and the testimony Of one witness heard
the judge pronounced him guilty OF MUIR
der in the first degree.
The date for sentence was not set.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-12
NINE LOTS INVOLVED.
Suit Brought Over Them to Quiet
Title.

Title.
A suit to clear the titles to nine lots
in the Park City addition of Butte was
brought in the district court today by
George w. Andrews against Mrs. Lulu
F. Largely, Lulu McGinn, M. s. Largely
and Lulu F. Largely as the guardian Of
Creighton Largely and Mary Montana
Largely,
The complaint says that the plaintiff
owns the lots in fee simple, and that
the plaintiff is informed and believes
and therefore alleges that the defend
ants claim some estate or interest in the
lots by reason of conveyances made to
them by the county treasurer following
tax sales of the lots for delinquent taxes.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-12
Mrs. Bonine's Trial.
(By Associated Press

(By Associated Press)
Washington. Dec. 12.-The concluding
arguments in the trial of Mrs. Bonine,
charged with murder. were continued
today. The case probably Vill go to the
jury tomorrow.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-12

strawberry plants and milkweed and got
straw berries and cream"
Then they had a drink.-New York
Tribune,
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-12
COPPER MINING QUOTATIONS

Especial to Inter Mounta!n)
Boston, Mass, Dec. lathe copper
mining shares closed today as follows
Amalgamated $ 66.12
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-12

Shortly after Defendant Barnaman left
the court room yesterday afternoon and
his bond of $500 was declared forfeited
by the court he returned and took seat
in the rear of the room. but Constable
Cosgrove. who had a new warrant for
him. placed him under arrest and has
had him in custody since then. 1t is ex-
pected that new bond will be fixed M
this evening and his release secured.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11

The usual idea that a drowning man
is stretching out his hands for aid or
Catching at straws" is not altogether
satisfactory. A possible explanation
has lately been suggested, and this
supposes that the drowning man, los
ing all his acquired habits and even
some of those inherited from more re-
cent parents, in his terror goes back
to the instructive movements Of his
arboreal ancestors, and the movements
Of a drowning man are those Of a
frightened ape, seeking safety by
clinging to the nearest tree.
The movement is certainly instinc-
tive, for it can only be eliminated by
considerable training and voluntary
efforts, and yet 1t is fatal to the indi-
vidual, for the specific gravity of no
human body is so nearly that of water
that the removal OF the arms from the
supporting fluid at ono sinks the face
beneath the surface. In cases of So
called Cramps" the victim, often a
highly-trained swimmer, generally
throws up the hands, but these cases
are probably due to heart failure, and
a similar movement takes place on
land when the subject receives a fatal
heart wound; and it is even n com
mon expression of shock or astonlsh-
ment. The ordinary movements of
walking or running would keep a
mans face above water, but these
curious climbing movements of both
hands and feet made floating impossi-
BILE and are responsible for many
deaths by drowning.-Cincinnati En-
Quirer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
,SURPLUS
l.2fess Will Be Called Upon to
Prevent Further Increases.
Over 100000 Has Accumulated at
washington- Abolition of War Tsxes
One of the Proposed Remedies.

Washington. D. C.-With a stock of
gold in excess of $3.50, 10000 in the
Treasury, Inclusive of the redemption
fund of S15O,O00,0 900. and steadily in
creasing, with the surplus accumulat-
ing at a rate that promises just now to
show an excess of receipts over expen-
dltures for the year of possibly more
than $70,000,00O, Notwithstanding the
reduction of Internal Revenue taxes
effected last winter, and with nearly
$109. 100000 Of money side-tracked into
Government repositories to keep IL
from getting out of the reach of bust
ness men who need 1t, members of
Congress who will have the response.
bility of applying n remedy or rene
dies are discussing the outlook with in.
terest.
Opinions differ rs to the ACCESSIBILITY
of abolishing all the war taxes imposed
in 1893. A River and Harbor bill of
considerable proportions viii take up
some of the surplus, but not of this
year. A canal acros the isthmus will
be expensive, but 1t is admitted that 1t
it will not be a very heavy expense at
once. The concern of the Treasury is
to have some plan put in operation
by Congress that will release to the
country the excessive acumulations
that from time to time embarrass the
business world.
Secretary Gage has done what he
could to keep down the surplus by pur-
chasing bonds and by dlvertlng from
the Treasury funds that otherwise
would have gone there, but these ex.
pedients do not fully answer the needs
of the country in the way of making
money accessible TO the uses of com
merce. Until Congress meets there
will be no other ways than these he
has already tried to accomplish the
desired object.
Another plan which Senator Cullom
heartily approves Is to reduce taxation
without Interfering with the tariff.
This, of course, restricts the reduction
to internal taxes. The Senator fears
n large surplus as a temptation to
regard large sums of money lndiffer-
emily, and as calculated to cultivate
a tendency of dishonesty in expendi-
lures.
1t is the impression at the Treasury
that the limit has been reached in di-
verting Government funds to National
banks, although APPLICATIONS are being
daily received from banks that are
prepared to qualify, to accept them
by deposits of bonds for security.
The uniform reply Is that 1t is not in
tended to increase the deposits at this
time.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
Personal Mention.

Secretary of the Treasury Gage has
gone West for his vacation.
Andrew Carnegie is giving $50 Or
sans to churches in Scotland.
King Edward has invited Emperor
William to visit Great Britain.
Count Won Buelow, the German In
perial Chancellor, has accepted hon
orary membership in the Bremen Sing
ing Society.
Winston Churchill, the author, has
been appointed a member Of the New
Hampshire Commission for the st.
Louis Exposition.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian play
wright, is improving in health.
President Roosevelt belongs TO sew
eral scientific clubs at the capital.
For many years he has been a mem
Der of the National Geographical So
ciety. His exploits in Switzerland
gained him membership in the Alpine
Club of London.
Governor Stanley, Of Kansas, has
withdrawn his offer to give silver cups
to all triplets born in that State dur
ing his administration. After having
purchased twenty sets of cups he de-
cided that he would have to call a
halt owing to the expense Of tls.
scheme,
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Charles Hartzell, of Colorado. was
appointed Secretary of Porto Rico.
Spirits made in the United States
can be exported to Manila under the
same regulations as to any foreign
country.
Filipinos, excited by the Balanziga
massacre, are showing disaffection at
many points.
Large demonstrations were held In
Havana and other Cuban towns to
show Cuba's gratitude to the United
States.
The military in the Philippines re
fused to recognize n writ of habeas
corpus emanatlng from a civil court.
Major Foote, of the Ninth Regi-
ment, said that Captain Council was
fully warned. and had taken precau-
lions against the massacre at Balan-
olga, In Samar. P. l..
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11

In addressing the electors of a GER
tain parliamentary division, one of the
candidates, who had had to put up
with a good deal of heckling, told a
good story OF an Irish election.
A speaker, he said, at a certain
meeting was continually interrupted
by a diminutive but learned-looking
young man in spectacles.
The chairman, a burly son Of Erin,
appealed for order, and promised that
when the candidate had finished his
speech he-the chairman-would per-
sonally attend to questions"
Accordingly. when the candidate sat
down the chairman rose and re-
marked:
"Now, thin, would inny gintleman
be afther asking qu~estions?'
Up rose the interrupter. Slowly he
mounted the steps of the platform,
where he was met by a terrific blow
straight from the shoulder of the burly
chairman, which took him %squarely
between the eyes.
As the young man picked himself up
halfway down the hall he heard the
chairman calmly ask:
would inny other gintleman be
afther asking quistionsF'-Tit-Bits.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11

Lord Roberts distributed medals to
the troops which served in South
Africa, and in q speech refuted the at
tacks of the press upon the Govern
ment.
Northern Japan was visited by
heavy gales, wrecking 400 fishing
boats. Twelve boats. with total crews
Of seventy-four, are missing,
The inquest in the disaster to h
torpedo boat destroyer Cobra resulted
In a verdict that it was due to the
unexpected buckling of the vessel,
which was too lightly built.
In medieval phrases the Earl Mar
shall of England issued rules for dress
for the coming coronation.
The Portuguese general elections re-
suited in a large majority for the Gov
eminent.
London papers are calling for the
exnulsIon of Anarchists from England.
Violent storms prevailed along the
Atlantic coast OF Europe ana IN the
Interior. ON the Portuguese coast d
fishing vessel f~oundered ana nineteen
men were drowned.
German ironmasters called Il secret
conference in Berlin to consider the
acute industrial situation.
Naples, Genoa and Palermo are the
only Italian ports from which emlgra-
tion will hereafter be permitted.
Efforts are being made to secure The
release OF 5000 British soldiers who
are confined i'll jails for various Of
fences in South Africa.
The Lord Chancellor Of England ex-
pressed himself as opposed to the re-
uuction of Irish representation
The United States Legation at Con
stantinople, Turkey, asserted there
was proof of completely OF the Mace
doniau Committee in the KIDNAPPING
of Miss Stone.
A former Portuguese Consul-Gen'
eral at Pretoria wrote a pamphlet on
tha administration OF South Africa
nreyious 10 the Boer war, showing
that the British Government was kept
informed OF the Boer preparations IOf
war.
Rudyard kipling wrote n letter de-
elaring that the recent appointments
of Sir Redvers Butler ana SIR Evelyn
Wood haul back the British army 10
the old ruts.
The Kaiser paid all Prince Chun's
bills while he was in Germany,
preparations for Il Carlist uprising
on tha French border of Spain We're
said 10 be nearly completed.
In the Nova Scotia provincial cleo
tons the Liberals carried every eoun-
ty in the province except Cumberland
Where one Conservative was elected.
King Christian opened the Danish
Rirsdag in person, but In the speech
from the throne no mention was maue
of the proposal to sell the Danish Wes'
Indies to the United States.
II is feared in Great Britain that
cancer has developed in King Ed
wards throat.
n British imports for the min months
of 1901 show an increase of $~26,3oo,oo.
over 1900, and exports a decrease Of
S45, 100000.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11

A square foot Of the best Persian
rug is worth about $40, and it takes a
single weaver tweuty-three days to
complete this portion. This allows the
weaver about A cents per day for her
wool and her labor; but three-tourths
of this amount goes to pay for the
wool; only IL cents per day is left
for the weaver.
The wages of the producer of the
inferior article is somewhat better. A
square foot OF an inferior rug is sold
for about sixty cents, and the time
required for weaving it is but two
days, thus allowing the weaver thirty
cent? per day for her wool and labor.
She uses inferior wool, washes but
little of it, and pays only a nominal
sum for a cheap dye, The framework
of her loom costs comparatively lit
tie, as the rug it produces Is from
twenty to thirty times the size of the
superior rug, Thus it appears that in
the long run the inferior weaver is
better paid than the one who fatigucs
her brain with her efforts to produce
a rug of the best quality.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
Trees spit by Ground Cracking.

Ashe County has the strangest phe-
nomenon yet reported rs Il supposed
result Of the continuous rains. On
Phoenix Mountain crowds have been
gathering for several days to see the
openings in the sides Of the noun
tain. There are three of these open
lngs varying in width from two to
nine feet and Of a depth Of from two
to six feet. There are no slides of
earth at the points, but a sharp dlyi-
sion of the soil and the rocks imbedded
therein. The dead trees which are
lying on the surface are dragged 10
one side of the opening or left span
ming them. Surangest of all, the trees
which were growing at the place Of
The cracks in the earth are split nj
.he bottom aud now span the open-
ing in the earth, one-half the tree on
one side and the other half upon the
other. Where the edge of Il + Just
touched the point of division in the
earth that edge is shaved OF and the
tree left standing. Charlotte Daily
Observer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
Minor NJ ention.

New South Wales has $4,000 miles
Of wire netting as a fence protection
against rabbits.
During the Italian army m%anoeuvres
experiments were made with IN arm
ored automobile.
-Four immense searchlights and zoe
incandescent lights will be turned OIL
the Yosemite Falls.
On ordinance has been adopted by
the Town Council of Yorkville, s. O..
making 1t a misdemeanor for any per
son 10 be seen staggering on the
streets of that town.
What is said to be the first factory
for the manufacture Of oXalic acid is
being built near Cheboygan, Mich.
Senator Clark, of Montana, will es
tablish near Meeteese, Wyo., the larg
est coal mining camp in the West.
Captain Oswald Ames, the tallest
man in the British Army, who was
a conspicuous figure in Queen Vic
toria's Diamond Jubilee procession,
has been married to Miss Cecil, o
cousin of the Marquis of Exeter.
The Society of American Wars is
raising funds for the erection in San
Francisco of q monument to John
Paul Jones.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11

Three persons were drowned at Muir
freesboro, Ark, while crossing the
Missouri River in q leaky boat.
Burglar rified the residence of Claus
Spreckels. the sugar king. in San Fran
cisco, Cal, securing $4,000 in jewelry.
In n free fight on an excursion train
near Dallas, Tex, n negro was killed
and two fatally wounded.
For the first time In six years the
Republicans carried Indianapolis, Ind,
electing q Mayor and a full city ticket.
Murder in the first degree was the
verdict given against Bud Taylor. at
Kansas City, Mo-, for killing his sweet
heart.
Former City Clerk A. W. Miller, of
Sandusky, Ohio, who disappeared In
February last, leaving q shortage OF
$4,000 In his accounts. was appre-
hended in Havana, Cuba.
Detective Montgomery. of the Santa
Fe Railroad, was assassinated at his
home at Winfield. Kan.
Seven indictments were found at
Lemars, Iowa, against T. +. Ward, for
mer Vice-President of the Lemars Ma
tfonal Bank, for embezzlement and
fraudulent entries.
Masked men broke into the jail at
Huntingdon. Tenn, and shot to death
Walter McClennon, colored, held for
assaulting a white man.
John Wyatt Turner. of Rock Hill,
Ala, assistant instructor in the textile
department of the Georgia School OF
Technology, committed suicide.
SEQ Ann nnn T NnI TIrtrct npI-nrtnO
the entire country, is being formed
by ]. p. Morgan and ]. d. Rockefeller.
Governor N. o. Murphy took the in
itial step in the fight for Arizona's
Statehood in calling a Territorial Con
vention to be held in Phoenix on Oc-
tober &c.
Herman r. Pegg, an expert account
ant and prominent citizen of Utica,
4aitt4a suicide by
Worry over financial matters deranged
Mr.. Pegg's mind and led to his u
eide.
Bills making anarchy and b teach
ing of anarchy capital offences were
prepared by the Hudson County IN.
~ Bar Association, to lay before the
New Jersey Legislature.
The present officials of Massachu-
sets were renominated by the Repub-
lican State Convention.
General George w. Getty, who
served in the Mexican and Civil Wars,
died at Forest Glen, Md.
The cold weather interfered seri-
ously with the gayety at the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo.
The expected strike of Fail River,
Mass, spinners was postponed for a
fortnight.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
POSTAL RECEIPTS INCREASED.
Deficit For Last Year is 81 500. 600 Smaller
- Than Year Before.

d Washington, D. C.-Henry A. Castle.
auditor for the Postofice Department,
has closed the books of the postal SER
vice for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1901. The years business is shown
to be as follows:
Receipts, S11, 631, 1893; expenditures,
S|115,554,921; net deficit %Gncluding
losses by fire, etc. S3,9S1 ,521.
The deficit is about 81, 100000 small
er than for the preceding year. Ow-
ing to the extension of rural free de-
livery and other augmented appropria-
tons IL every department, the ex-
penses of the service were SS,200,000
greater than the preceding year. The
receipts increased S9,250,000.
The sun total of monetary %transac-
tons of the Postofiice Department, in
Guiding postal receipts and revenues
and money orders issued and paid,
foots up for the fiscal year 1901 $685.
359,577, an increase of nearly SS9,000,-
900 over the preceding fiscal year.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
Il

Three persons were drowned at Muir
freesboro, Ark. while crossing the
Missouri River in q leaky boat.
Burglar rifed the residence Of Claus
the sugar king. in San Fran
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
WOMAN IN PRISON AS A MAN.



Lincoln, Neb.-Almost a year ago
a beardless youth, giving the name of
Burt Martin, was received at the State
prison on a two years sentence for
stealing cattle in Keyapaha County.
Through Martins cellmate the authors
ties nave just learned that the sup
posed man is a woman, although when
received he said he was married
and the father of two children.
The convict confesses now that her
real name is Lena, and she says she
donned mems clothing when a girl of
fourteen. Her father deserted his
family and she was compelled to mas
querade as a boy to get paying labor
in a new country. She is tall and I'M
calmly and her figure is without FEM
mime curves. Her chest is fiat and
her hips narrow, facts th~at-enabled
her to pass the careless scrutiny of
the receiving officer. Her feet and
hands are small, but her features are
coarse and Infeminine.
The girl, she is but twenty, feels no
chagriT over her unmasking. She
asked for a woman's garb at once,
however. and it was given her.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
MARTIAL LAW IN CAPE COLONY
1t is Proclaimed in the Few District.
Hitherto Exempted.

Cape Town, South Africa,-The Ga
zette proclaims martial law in the dis,
tricts of Cape Town, Wynberg, Sim
on's Town, Port Elizabeth and East
London.
The proclamation is the outcome of
the recent visit of the Premier OF Cape
Colony, Sir John Gordon Sprigg, and
the Under Secretary of Native Affairs
in South Africa, j. Rose lines, to the
British High Commissioner, Lord Mil
ner.
1t places under military control the
few points in Cape Colony hitherto ex'
empted, and the constitution, there
fore, is now suspended owe the entire
colony. The action taken probably
foreshadows the beginning of vigor-
Gus measures, which those or the spot
are understood to believe necessary tc
end the war.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11
TORONTO STUDENT A SUICIDE
College Greek Letter Society Had Sent
to Him a Mock Threat of Death.

Toronto, Ont.-George Gibbons, aged
twenty, a student at Toronto Univer-
sity and a son Of ]. G. Gibbons, of
London, Ont. blew his head off with
a rife at Bridge House.
He had recently been initiated into
a Greek secret society in connection
with the college, and a letter found on
the floor babe him attend another
meeting at Z o'clock p. IN. under pen
atty of death. When he failed to ap-
pear the jokers went to his room and
found him dead on the floor.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11

eLENTy OF ORANGES THIS YEAR.
rhe Florida Crop viii BE About 1,1o0,-
o Boxes.

Jacksonville, Fla.-The orange sea-
son in Florida has begun. 1t is figured
by Steven Powers, Secretary of the
State Agricultural Society, that 1,100,-
600 boxes will cover the crop. The
rehabilitation of the orange industry
in Florida since the fatal freeze of
1893 has shown more progress In the
past year than in the five years previ-
Gus.
Secretary Powers says: This year
the trees have made a wonderful
growth. The crop is fine and there
is widespread encouragement. Prob
ably 100000 trees We're sold last win
ter, largely for planting in Florida.
There Is little fear of any effective
West Indian competitor. The Florida
orange, backed by American viii and
energy, cannot be displaced."
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11

Goodwin Smith, OF New York, suggests
with which those around them are not
familiar. The communing of their
hearts are with the scenes OF the past
, and the companions Of other years
who have long ago passed away. Low
er and friends have been taken from
them, and their acquaintance laid in
darkness. The forms they admired
and loved are gone, the eyes that
looked into theirs with the tenderest
affection are sightless, and the voices
that cheered and stirred their souls
have long since been silent. Theil
early world of hope and joy has be-
come a desolation, and they sit in 81
lence contemplating the ruin that has
been wrought. They are
"Only waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown
to pass on to The reunion that awaits
them and the glad greetings of those
they love. Who would not do what
he can to cheer the loneliness of the
aged. to smooth their pathway and
comfort them in their declining years?
-Churchman.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-11

There has been continued improve
ment in trade in nearly all parts of
the country. Activity in distributing
lines has been quickened by cooler
weather, which has stimulated demand
at retail. The industrial situation has
continued strong. and mills and fac
tories are generally well supplied with
orders, which will insure their active
operation for the remainder of the
season,