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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
GERMANY WATCHES UNCLE SAM.
State Department Receives Comment
on Island Administration.
(By Associated Pres

Washington, Nov. 21-The German
view of American administration in the
Philippines is set out in a circular re-
Gently issued by the German central
bureau for the preparation Of commercial
treaties, a copy of which has been for
warded to the state department by
Deputy Consul General Hanquer at
Frankfort under date of October 26.
Consul Hanquer says that the German
press has watched our movements in our
new possessions with an eye inclined to
be critical, but no voice has been raised
as to the beneficial change in the Philip
pines under American rule.
The circular says: Although the pa
oificatIon OF the Philippine archipelago
has not yet been established, the ae-
counts of it's economic development are
SO favorable that it cannot be too
strongly urged upon German exporters
to give particular attention to this grosp
of islands. The testimony cannot De
withheld that the American administra-
ton of affairs in the Philippines, so far
as economic benefits are concerned, HIS
already achieved great success.
IN 1896. which was the last year Or
peacefulness while under Spanish ruih,
the imports reached $2S. 800, 900. The *
ports were $33, 600 (Mexican) in value.
Under American rule the imports in
crea sed in 1899 to $40. 100000, and in 1900
to $751;, 500, 600 (Mexican). and the exports
to $aS, SOC, 900 and So. 400. 900 respectively.
Military supplies are not included in
these figures.
For German interests it is essential
to know whether exports from the United
States will receive preferential treat
ment, and it is noteworthy that the tariff
schedule proposed by the United States
commissioner In Manila retains the press
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
Reduce Elevation sierras Divide

Truckee, CAL, Nov. 21.-That the
Southern Pacific is determined to reduce
the elevation Of it's present high line
over the Sierras from Truckee to Colfax
is evidenced by the fact that a party of
engineers have taken the field to run
preliminaries for cut off. including a
tunnel. They are now at work ON a
new line to begin at Bonner Lake, with
the intention of coming out at the Yuba
river near Cisco. BY the new tunnel.
the line will be reduced eight miles and
the elevation reduced 1000 feet. The tun-
mel will have to be six miles in length.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21

irc steam hung in a dense. sun ocatlns
cloud over the debris. amidst which the
agonizing cries of the injured ana dying
enginenen could be heard. The heavy
Pullman and composite cars damned the
dining and baggage cars upon the heated
pile of debris. carrying deatat to the am
ing car crews and setting the cars on nre
From the meager details OF the scenes
gathered from the passengers. 1t IS
learned that the sleeping cars. with one
or two exceptions, suffered slightly. and
as result the passengers were afforded
comparative immunity from injury. SO
far as learned. only three passengers suf-
ferei injury of a serious character. the
terrible results of the wreck being con-
fined almost entirely to the train crews
and the employees of the dining car serv-
ice.
Relief Train Made Up.
AS soon as news Of the wreck reached
Needles which is the division headquar-
tiers of the west end. relief train was
made up.and. attended by a number of
physicians from that point. was hurried
to tho scene. AS quickly as possible the
injured were placed aboard and started
west for Los Angeles. passing through
Needles this afternoon. The run from
Needles will require about seven or eight
hours, Wnlcn WOULD ring lne NlCtlnS OF
the wreck here about midnight.
AT Santa Fe headquarters in Los An
geles it was stated that the blame had
not been definitely fixed. but from all APP
pearances it rests with the crew Of the
west bound train. Had they stopped at
Franconia and allowed the east-bound
train to reach there, as the orders are
said to have read. there would have been
no wreck. For some reason yet to be
learned. however. they came on at full
speed. The west-bound limited carried
full passenger list from Eastern cities,
but it appears none were injured.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
Boston Buys Famous Portrait.
lRX SSOcia ted PrasS

New York, Nov. 21.-The Boston Mu-
scum of Fine Arts has just purchased,
for 100000, from r. J. Blakeslee, of the
Blakeslee galleries. this city, the impor-
tant Franz Halls Portrait of a Wom-
an" 1t is undoubtedly one of the hes.
OF the few genuine examples OF Franz
Halls in this country. The Dimensions
OF the portrait are 40 inches by so
inches. 1t was probably painted about
1850. Originally it was one of the treas-
ures of the Duke of Buckilgham's col
lection.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
Physicians Kept Busy.

The engineer was taken out alive, b1t
is not expected to recover. 4
Every physician in Telluride was surf>
moned to The mine an dali were kept
busy attending those of the rescued Wild
were overcome with gas, +
Seventeen of the % bodies found were
on the seventh level. Between IS and
80 men We're working on the ninth level,
and this has not yet been explored on
account of the smoke and the danger of
suffOcation.
A. L. Collins and B. B. Lawrence, man.
ayers of the company. are both absent,
the former being in New Mexico and the
latter in New York. -
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21

The pelagic catch Of the British seal
ing fleet in 1901 was about two-thirds
that of 1900, and the British Columbia
newspapers express alarm at the antici-
pated early extinction of the Pribyloff
seal herd.
The salmon in Alaskan waters in the
year 1901 will exceed 1900, 900 cases, an
increase of about 25 per cent over that
Of the year 1900,
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
Mammoth London Building.

New York. Nov. 21.-f'urther particu-
lars are published in regard to the cree
ton of the mammoth office building in
the Strand, says the London correspond
ent Of the Tribune. Frederic b. Esler,
the New York promoter of the scheme,
says that the sum of 10000 have
been set aside in the estimate for dec
Grating the interior of the dome by the
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
Grant Strikers Terms.
INV A SSOcia rod procc

San Francisco, Nov. 21.-Two more
machine shops and a foundry have
granted the terms of the striking iron
workers. These are Meese and Gott-
fried, the California Machine Works
and Kennard & Barry, foundrymen.
They have all agreed to pay an increase
of Pc cents an hour in wages to their
employees to make up for the reduction
in hours.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21

greatest artists OF the day. The struc-
ture will be known as. the Victorian
building. and If the authorities approve
the syndicate's proposal building opera
lions Will be started about January /.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
War Veteran Marries.
Try Associated Press !

New York, Nov. 2l.--Announcement is
made that Major Daniel Madden, a vet
cram of the civil war and retired from
the United States army. has just mar
ried Miss Grace II. ". Page of Cincin-
natl, the ceremony being performed at
the Reformed church on Fifth avenue.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
Scene of Confusion,

A scene of awful confusion followed
the crash. The massive engines were
piled up in an indescribable mass of
broken and twisted steel, while the scald-
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21

emit feature of equal rates ON all impor-
tations hitherto from the United States
Or other countries"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
SEVERAL HUNDRED IMPRISONED
IN sUFFoCATING TUNNELS.
TWENTY-FIVE BODIES RESCUED
Smuggler- Union Mine in the Tellurik1s
District of Colorado the Scene of
all Appalling Disaster--Fire
and Smoke.
(By Associated Press.)

Telluride, Colo, Nov 2,.-Nearly 10 a
hundred men were probably suffocatsd
in the Smuggler- Union mine in Marshal
basin yesterday. as the result of a THE
which consumed the buildings of the
Bullion tunnel. Twenty-Five are known
to be dead. and scores of others aresE
the mine workings. either sutfocated or
seeking safety in remote parts of the
mine until the place is cleared of foul
gases and smoke.
Fire broke out in the tramway bunk
house at the mouth OF the Bullion tunnel.
the principal opening from which the
property is worked and spread rapidly
to the boiler and engine house ana
blacksmith s.:op. The tramway terminal.
with its great ore bins. ana several
smaller buildings We're soon wrapped in
flames.
4 strong draft drew the smoke from
the burning buildings directly into the
tunnel. and the miles of drifts. upraises
and slopes connet ting with it began to
fill rapidly with the smoke.
Mine vas Forgotten.
In the excitement trying to control the
fire in the outside buildings the mine
was forgotten. and when the situation
was realized the workings were rapidly
filing with dense smoke
At this time the buildings about the
entrance to the tunnel were all aelaze
and nothing could be done TO stop the
smoke going in. AS soon as 1t was pos
sible great bodies of rock were blown
down into the tunnel mouth and the
opening stopped, but not until the work
| ;p,r lad, nd
ing its way through the shafts to the
surface. mile or more up the mountain
from the tunnel.
The day shift, some 200 men, had gone
into the mine and reached their stations
before the fire started. 1t is known that
some of the men escaped through the
old Sheridan tunnel, and also through
the Old Union workings but they are
thought to have been but small part
of the force in the mine. ~
The Smuggler- Union is the largest
mine in the Telluride district The out put
being about two-thirds of the total from
the camp. 1t is owned by New York and
Boston capitalists.
Twenty-Five Dead. '..r.''
It was 1 p. m. before the first body
was taken out, ana at o'clock 's2
bodies had been recovered. These have
all been identified as follows:
AUGUST JAANTl, ....,.... - ,.,+,s..,..
Girls MAXI.
WILLIAM WAKEFIELD,
WILLIAM JONES.
FRANK JADRA.
GUS SUNDBERG
ANTON ELI,
THOMAS BEGIGIN,
JOE NELSON.
MARK STARK.
SORRY BARkLEY, time boss
HUGH j. O'NEILL,
ALLEN HENDERSON.
TORTENOR kNOS. shift boss,
JOHN PETERSON, z
WILLIAM GRAHAM.
MARL JADRA, -
OBITA REBATTA, r.
JOHN &. LOSSON,
L. DAI.HNSTRON.
JOHN AHONE, =.
ALEXANDER SOLOMAN i.
JAMES SUNSTROM
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-02-21
ALL COMING.

The fourth annual convention Of the
National Live Stock Association at
Salt Lake promises to be the largest
and most interesting gathering Of
stockmen ever held in this country.
Salt Lake City is going to cover itself
with glory in the manner in which the
visitors will be entertained. The con-
vention will be held in the Assembly
hall Of the Mormon church and a grand
concert will be rendered the delegates
and visitors in the Tabernacle on the
first evening. The programme Of the
entertainment committee contemplates
events for each evening of the conven-
ton and after the convention a%djourns,
there are excursions to the mines and
elsewhere. Colorado is going to send
a large delegation and the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad will run a special
train, leaving Denver Sunday, January
10, which will reach Salt Lake City
the next day in time for the committee
meetings. The fare for the round trip
will be SIS from Denver, Colorado
Springs or Pueblo and one fare from
other points in the state. Those con-
templating going should engage sleep
ing car accommodations at once. Write
to s. X. Hooper, general passenger
agent, Denver, or see any Rio Grande
ticket agent. 1t will be a delightful
midwinter trip, and no stockman who
is interested in the industry can ef-
ford not to attend the meeting.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-02-21
BECCAR KINGS.
Levy Tribute Upon Rich and POOR and
Ara Obeyed with Alacrity. v

Levy Tribute Upon Rich and POOR and
Ara Obeyed with AIacrity. v
II you want to grow rich in China
become the head of a guild of beg
gars, thieves or lepers, says the Lon
don Express. Nankin, Pekin and Tien-
tsin are the headquarters of the most
powerful of these guilds, and their
rulers are wealthy and respected. The
king" of a clan Of Chinese vagabonds
OF these classes derives his income
from a tribute rendered him by his
wretched subjects, and also levles o
sort of blackmail on traders and mer-
chants by undertaking to keep their
shops, stores and houses free from the
particular pests which he controls
From these two sources he realizes q
large income and Is enabled to live in
a large houses and keep up great style
In his mode of life. Each clan has Q
particular district of the city given
members are forbidden to stray. Hor.
rible self-multilations are practiced by
the beggars of China In order thai
their deformities may excite compass.
sion and lead to profit. II you see Q
blind a soliciting aims in a Chinese
street 1t is ten to one that he has him.
self destroyed his sight. On certain
days the beggars go about in gangs OF
from fifty to $50. On these occasions
shopkeepers are only too glad to COM
ply with the kings" demands for
blackmail In order that his subjects
may be kept out of their shops. A
king of Chinese thieves knows every
thing that goes on in his district. He
knows who committed certain thefts
and where the stolen property is. He.
like his brother of the beggars, has a
double source of income. A large per-
eentage OF the profits made by his sub
jects is claimed by him and woe betide
them II they attempt to cheat the au-
tocrat. And II a foreigner Is robbed
he generally can, by paying the king"
a certain sum. recover his property.
Property stolen from Cinnamon Is
never brought back. Every Chinese
city has a leper house outside its gates
and mcst of them have two or more.
As in the cases of the bezgars and
thieves, there is an executive head.
called the king" of the lepers, who
controls all lepers and makes rules
and compacts, which must be observed.
These unfortunates are numerous
throughout the empire. When in the
first stage OF the disease they are
brought to the leper houses. Good
care is taken of them as long as their
relatives can meet the demands of the
king" But no matter how wealthy
their families may be the king" evil
IDENTIFY drains them of every penny.
and both the leper and his relatives
often have to turn beggars. The poorer
lepers are assigned to miserable. un-
clean huts, providing poor shelter
against bad weather.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-02-21

TN every county of the civilized world
1 the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
are known. .Sot only do they minister
tothe spiritual and intellectual needs of
the charges committed to their care,
but they also minister to their bodily
needs.
With so many children to take care of
and to protectfrom climate and disease.
these wise and prudent Sisters have
found Peruna a never-failing safeguard.
Columbus. o., July 10, 1900.
The Peruna Medicine Co.. City:
Gentlemen-"A number of years ago
our attention was called to DIR. Hart
mans Peruna, and since then we have
used it with wonderful results for grip.
coughs, colds, apd catarrhal diseases of
the head and stomach.
For grip and winter catarrh espe-
cially it has been of great service to the
inmates of this institution. Sisters OF
the Good Shepherd.
The following letter is from Con-
gresham Meekison, Of Napoleon. Ohio:
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-02-21
Eocs In PrisOncr'S Coll.

John Bunch, a pioneer citizen OF
Macon county. Missouri, is suing thu
town of La Plata for injuries alleged
have been received while in the Gala
boose at that pace last August. He
was arrested for some trivial cause
and found on being locked up that he
had for cellmates an active and ex-
c~eedingly indignant hive of bees. Tho
insects regarded him as an intruder
and stung him severely during his Fix
hours OF confinement.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-02-21
In Locust Time.
BY ELIZABETH NJ. GILMER.

BY ELIZABETH NJ. GILMER.
Copyright, 1900: Daily Story Pub. Coz
You will starve,' said my aunt,
with melancholy conviction.
II love him." l replied, irrelevantly.
Love-" observed my aunt. philo-
s%ophically, lis an admirable sauce,
but a poor substitute for the main
dish of life"
Il love him." | repeated, as II that
were the only argument that mattered.
Unfortunately" said my aunt,
lone can't live on love, no matter
how i'limitable. 1t isn't legal tender
with the butcher and baker and can
dlestick maker"
yet it's the only coin that will buy
happiness" l answered, softly.
Hes nothing but a poor artist"
my aunt added disparagingly.
HE had a picture hung on the line
at the exhibition last spring." l put
in hopefully.
81 wish he had been hanged HIM
SELF" exclaimed my aunt with vicious
energy.
1t wasn't the first time that we had
discussed Arthur Farnum. Indeed, for
the past three months-eyer since i
had elected to throw myself away on
a penniless artist" as my aunt put 1t
1T seemed to me that we had con-
versed on no other topic. My aunt
the two score years between us lay all
that life had taught her, and that |
had still to learn. To me, for instance.
life without love was life robbed of all
the glory that made. 1t worth living,
while she chung tenaciously to the be-
lief that one could get on very COM
fortably without love. provided ones
establishment was beyond criticism.
and ones frocks from Paris.
Yet, in spite of all her worldliness,
my aunt had been all that was kind
and tender to me. She had given me
all the affection and the only home
had ever known. My parents had
died when / was a mere baby. My
two sisters, much older than myself,
were married to grasping and selfish
men, who, in the division OF my faith
er's small estate, had ruthlessly pos
sessed themselves of the lions share,
leaving to me nothing but the old
homestead, & tumble-down old South
ern mansion house, surrounded by :
few poor acres. | must have been
forlorn, indeed. but that my aunt,
struck with the tawny gold Of my
hair and n certain childish grace. tool,
a fancy to me, and carried me back
to her rich Northern home, where
grew up surrounded BY every luxury
that wealth and generosity could give.
II she looked for me to make a wealthy
and brilliant match. and take my
place in hat fashionable society SO
dear to her own ambitious heart. it
was no unnatural, o more than she
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-02-21
THERE IS NO DEATH.

The sunlight glitters keen and bright.
Where. miles away,
Lies stretching 10 my dazzled sight
A luminous belt. a misty light.
Beyond the dark pine bluffs and wastes
OF sandy gray.
The tremulous shadow of the sea,
Against its ground
or silvery light, rock, hill and tree,
Still as a picture. clear and free.
With varying outline mark the coast
for miles around
I draw a freer BREATH seem
Like all I see
Waves in the sun-the white winged
CLEAN
OF sea birds In the slanting beam
And far off sails which fit before the
south wind free.
So when times veil shall fall asunder
The soul may 10Y
No fearful change, nor sudden wonder,
Nor sink the weight of mystery under,
But with the upward rise. and with the
vastness grow.
And all we shrink from now may seem
No new revealing:
Familiar as our childhood's stream,
Or pleasant memory of a dream
The loved and cherished past upon the
new life stealing.
John Greenleaf Whittier.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-02-21
Two nerses from QUEEN.

The queen herself has on two oeca
sions at least, been called upen to pay
horseshoe rent quittance" similar to
that which the city corporation rem
ders to the Crown each year. Oakham,
in Rutland. posses a unique and pc
culiar privilege. by virtue of which
any peer of the realm passing within
The precincts of the manor las to pay
tribute In the form of a horseshoe.
and If he refuses he is Obliged u give
money, which the bailiff is empowered
TO take by force. Strictly speaking,
the shoe should come from one of his
own horses, but the alternative OF
payment in hard cash Is usually chos-
en-. the money being devoted to pur.
chasing ornamental horseshoes tc
decorate the castle walls. Many OF
these articles, including two from
her majesty. given when rhe visited
the county. first as Princess Victoria
and again some flve-and-twenty years
ago, and one apiece from Queen Eliza
beth and George IV.-Lohdoa Tele-
graph.
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time vas just beginning to carpet the
land when we went to it, and in that
miracle not even the rambling old
house, with its falling pillars and
weed-choked drives could seem any
thing but beautiful.
1t had been a stately old colonial
mansion in its palmy days, known far
and wide as The Locusts," from the
trees hat lined its broad n and
formed a grove about the house.
Long neglected and unpruned young
sappiings had sprung up everywhere,
-encroaching year by year upon the un-
titled acres until the house stood vir-
tually in the midst of a vast locust
thicket. 1t was now in full bloom,
and from every twig depended great
snowy plumes, that waved in the soft
spring breeze and made the air heavy
with their perfume.
From the moment of our arrival
Arthur began to improve, and it was
while he was in the first flush of re-
painted his famous picture, Spring
and into it he somehow put some OF
that riotous joy in mere living we all
feel when we have been down to the
doors of death, and are recovering. and
every breath brings with it the thrill
of returning strength. The picture
was very simple. Just the figure of q
woman standing amidst the tender
green OF the trees, with upstretched
arms, and all about her the white,
white rain of locust blooms, and on
her face the ireffable glory of youth
and love-that look that never comes
but once in a lifetime, when the
springtime of the heart meets the
springtime of the year..
When the picture was done Arthur
sent it to the exposition, where, as
you remember, it was the sensation of
the year and sold for what seemed to
us a little fortune Better still, it at
tracted the attention of al old college
friend of whom Arthur had lost sight,
and who, coming South on business,
dropped off to make us a little visit.
He was a shrewd man OF affairs, and
when he saw u locust thicket, he
fairly gasped with surprise.
1T is a little gold NINE" he said,
where did you get it?" and | told him
of how the worthless old acres had
been allotted me in the division
of the family estate, when l was a
baby and had nc one to look out for
interests, and how they had been
left to grow up as they would.
Well" he said, with a grim smilA,
1.-The wicked sisters don't always sue
coed in doing Cinderella, you may re-
member, after all, and YOU barren
acres have grown into a fortune" and
so indeed they had. Our business
friend sold our locust forest to a rail-
read company, and WI have long been
back in the city, where we have a
charming home. and where Arthur is
winning the recognition his talent de-
serves.
He is now engaged in painting my
aunt's portrait. and that-from my
aunt-is equivalent to a melodramatic
blessing, with tears.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-02-21
sc ood Religious Bibie."

An old shell-back sailor. ~incapaci-
tated for sea duty by age and long
years of rough service, was recently
appointed sexton of the chapel at the
Naval Academy. The bureau of equip
ment and supplies at the navy depart
ment in Washington furnishes books
as well rs coal and salt horse" to the
sailors, and the new sexton applied
there for a Bible. There We're plenty
of them in the pews of the chapel, but
he wanted one for his personal use.
and specified in his application that
it should be "a good religious Bible"
Correspondence Chicago Record.