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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15
HIGH-PRicED ATTRACTION.

While Butte seems perfectly willing
to subscribe handsomely toward a fund
for a Montana exhibit at the st. Louis
exposition, at least so it's newspapers
declare, it shows a remarkable reluct-
ancy to go into it's pocket and produce
the trif1ing sum of $4,000, which the
national mining congress demands as
the price for holding it's session there,
sometime next year. The. congress
has a high opinion of itself and of the
honor it bestows upon any community
in which it meets, for that reason it
manifests the %proverbial Missouri
trait of taking nothing for granted and
insists that the town which wants
this honor must "show money"
Some of the Butteites consider the
honor Of entertaining the gentlemen
who e gold-rimmed spectacles and
show diplomas from "Hoodlebug," as
as the old-time prospector called the
famous German seat of learning, well
worth the price demanded and are
trying hard to raise it. But there are
others who consider the sum a little
too large and fail to see where the
compromising benefit would come in.
The county commissioners and the
city council have both been appealed
to for appropriations, but have de-
clined. Both urge legal objection to
such a step, while the municipal body
also advances another cogent reason
for refusing by stating that the city
is too darned hard up to vote any of
it's funds for the purpose of enter
tanning visitors. Then the newspapers
of the big mining camp do not boil
over with enthusiasm and the gentle
men who have been appointed a COM
mittee to raise the money say so in
plain language, in fact they hold them
responsible for the apparent indiffer-
ence if not antagonism which the av-
erage citizen of the town displays in
regard to the matter.
Commenting on the situation, the
Anaconda Standard declares it cannot
see why the congress should set so
high a price upon the entertainment
it gives and hints that it should play
at popular prices" when it would be
assured of a heartier welcome in the
cities where it makes it's annual
stands.
Among some Of the items of expense
which the congress submits as a rea-
son for the large bonus it demands
is the salary of its secretary, $1,000
a year, and this it asks the Putteites
to pay. Next it asks $1,000 for rent,
and the remaining $1,000 is considered
no more than what should be cxpend-
ed to see it through in good shape"
whatever that means.
1t is safe to say that Butte will man.
age to raise the required amount, but
it will not be done, except by hard
labor and the exercising of consider
able hypnotic power by the men who
have taken the job upon themselves
of collecting if. .....
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15
OUTLOOK.

Chicago Record-Herald: AS a result
of Tuesdays elections the democrats
will gain one United States senator
from Kentucky and probably another
from Maryland, but they have no
u for national rejoicing. If the
south has swung back with some ap-
pearance of renewed loyalty the more
significant returns from the north are
most discouraging. The great repub-
lican pluralities Of Iowa, Ohio and
Massachusetts, the republican gain in
Nebraska, the persistence with which
that former democratic state, New
Jersey, now adheres to the republican
column prove that the democratic
strength is still wanting where it is
most needed.
The continued prosperity of the
country under a republican admins
tration explains the situation in part,
and probably the democrats lost much
more than they won last year by their
paramount issue of Imperialism be-
cause the people r always disposed
to back the government in a foreign
war or in a war for the retention of
territory legitimately acquired. But
the first great handicap was the Chi
cago platform of 1896, and it's ruinous
influence may be discovered in every
campaign since.
If the stars in their courses are
not fighting against the party the
the treasury statistics are, and they
are more eficacious than any purely
political agency. The vivid oratory
of an army of stump speakers, the
rhetorical pleas of partisan newspa-
pers have not a 1.-THE of the eloquence
of the figures which utterly discredit
the free silver propaganda. Instead
of that cruel financial stringency
which was predicted we have today
an unprecedented supply of money,
the largest per capita circulation on
record.
A restoration of confidence in dem
ocratic leadership is impossible under
the circumstances. People who have
an antipathy for the republican party
and who cannot support it with any
enthusiasm are driven to it by the
incontrovertible monetary facts. The
democracy will never reclaim them
until it has reclaimed itself and re-
pudiated the once powerful faction
which has made it ridiculous by
prophecies that were refuted by events
almost as SOC as they were uttered.
The injury is so deep that it could
not be healed Immediately W by a
complete revolution in the control Of
the party. but some such radical
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15
NEW CATTLE DISEASE.
Many Cattle Dying-Live Stock Com
mission Issue Bulletin,

Springfield, Ills, Nov. 14.-During
the past few days many reports have
been received by the board of live
stock commissioners regarding a new
and fatal disease among cattle which
has caused many deaths. A bulletin
issued by the board today declares it
Corn Stalk Disease" The commits
sioners believe that the disease is
caused by a poisonous fungus on corn
stalks.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15

Yellowstone Journal: This is a
season of the year for activity of the
National Live Stock association. Al
ways during the period Immediately
preceding the converting of congress
the association springs some impend-
ing calamity upon the country, that
is only to be escaped by a change in
the national land laws that will per-
nit of the wholesale occupancy of the
public domain by the range interest
to the exclusion of the settler. The
national association IS an uncapitaliz-
ed trust that meets periodically and
with the aid of %garrulous speakers and
portentuous resolutions %endeavors to
make the country believe that it is a
real association and that it really
transacts business. This to the end
that. it's endorsement may have some
weight with congress and that it may
by force of it's nerve and insistency
induce the range stockgrowers to be-
llOSC SA1oC l y i Wo1 Mig Al ILSlk
est and so secure their individual sup
port in the way of personal appeals
to members of congress to further
some of the schemes of the associa-
ton. These have been various in
times past but the great and lasting
one is the one referred to as looking
to the control of the public domain.
Whether this be obtained by lease, or
grant, or scripping, or any other as
yet unexplained method. it ean but
one thing and that is the shutting
out of the settler, and that no pro-
gressive portion of the west will stand
for, even though the range interest
be the only of the locality
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15

as is the case here. There is always
some hypocritical plea made in the
support of this contemplated outrage.
This year it is based on the alleged
growing scarcity of beef, the higher
prices consequent on this condition
and the fear (?) that if existing condi-
tions are not remedied and speedily
too, the poorer classes must go with
out beef; and one reckless adherent
of the association has been so foolish
as to say to the publis press that set
Element of the range, country should
be %repressed for the reason the it was
hampering the growth Of the great
~rangestock interests. Doubtless it
would be easier and pleasanter for the
large owners to have no interference
of settlers with their rights" and for
many years they have enjoyed this
immunity, but here as elsewhere these
rights conferred only by custom have
given away to the actual and specific
rights guaranteed by the government
to the settler, and this is as it should
be, for the evident reason that the ul-
innate policy of the government is
settlement of the public domain, the
accomplishment of which lies wholly
with the settler. If the national live
stock association could have it's way,
the nation would still rejoice in the
possession of the "Great American
Desert" Of forty years ago. and all of
the magnificent history of the great
west would still be unwritten. There
is no quarrel in any of the range coun-
try between settlers and range cattle
wne and it is not the purpose of
this discussion to make it appear that
there is. Custom and neighborhood
agreement is equal to the task of adj
justing any difference that may arise,
or any curtailment of previous privi-
leges by reason of the incoming of a
new neighbor, and things move along
without undue friction, but the ma
jority of men running cattle on the
ranges of Montana today are settlers;
men who live on the range and whose
families live there too. They are the
broad and deep foundation of the new
state we are building and we want
more OF them. If there was any dan
ger, however remote of the schemes
of the national live stock association
as to the range country, getting a
favorable hearing in congress, there
would be a blast of trumpets along the
whole line from Texas to the Cana
dian line, calling the citizens to arms,
but as it is the congressman who
would openly favor a monopoly of the
range country to the exclusion of the
settler, Dr. any abridgement of the
settlers existing rights, must be some
one who had previously arrived at a
determination to retire to private life.
Still it is just as we'll to note the per-
sistency of this national association in
keeping itself before the uninitiated
as a thing of some consequence in this
busy world.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15
RANGE AND THE SETTLER.

New York, November 5.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15

cause of the west and is preparing to
submit to congress, as part of his
forthcoming message, his views on the
situation and will urge that something
shall be done by it at the coming SEES
sion. Having himself lived on the
great plains of the country west OF
the Missouri and by actual experience
and observation become familiar with
the conditions there obtaining, he is
the first president who can talk intel
ligently and knowingly of the subject
that he will recommend. Like the
people of the west he considers the
matter of retaining the unproductive
lands a national duty and will so urge
upon congress.
Recently he has had conferences
with Professor Mead, the irrigation
expert of the department Of agricul-
ture, and has also arranged for con-
ferences with some of the western
senators, particularly with Senator
Warren of Wyoming, who is a recog-
nized authority on the subject and
one of the ablest advocates of national
assistance in irrigation. This move
on the part of the president has given
new hope to all who are interested
in the successor the movement which
the little group of senators and repre-
sentatives of the Rocky Mountain
states inaugurated many years ago
and for the success Of which they
have been struggling in the most he
roic tanner They realize with his
influence sexerted on their side they
will no longer be denied the recogni-
ton for which they have been con-
tending and that the eastern men will
pay heed to the advice and recommen-
dations of one Of their own num-
Der when they would remain deaf to
all the arguments a western man or
set of men could advance.
But the entire reliance for success
o1lOulu AOC NC p1oSCu upOA CuO plCol-
dent, for great as his influence and
power undoubtedly are, they can be
strengthened by such assistance as
the people of the territory mostly in
terested can give. An intlligent ex-
position Of the things which have
been accomplished through private en-
terprise along the line for which
national aid is sought would be a ma
terial factor in adding to the argu-
ments and recommendations Of the
president. To the thinking, studious
mar nothing appeals more strongly
than facts. Figures are the most po-
tent of arguments and they should
be supplied in abundance as proof of
the claims which have been set forth
by the irrigatiOnists. Probably no
community Of the many in which irri-
cation by private means has wrought
the wonders that must be credited to
it can make as good a showing in this
regard as Billings and the territory
adJacenC 10 IL on the
west. The labor and trouble required
in compiling effective and valuable
statistics are to be considered as moth
ing compared with the possible good
that may result from their submits
sion. Other communities may be re-
lied upon to do the same thing, and
although separately and individually
the figures submitted may appear
small and Insignificant; yet when TAX
en- as a whole they will present such
al array of figures and data that no
fair minded and reasonable man can
ignore and the influence they are
bound to WELD can be but for good.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15
Wreckaae Seen.

Belfast, Nov. 14.-From wreckage
seen in Belfast Tough today it is sup
posed that the Seton collier White
Abbey has been lost and her crew
of nine drowned.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27
THE FRISKY WOLVERINE.
Has of Late Been Terrorfzing the People of Chssoygan Coun- <
 fy, Michigan.

When he is shut up in a nice clean cage behind iron bars the wolverine is an interesting animal, but if the stories which come from about Long lake are true he does not improve upon closer acquaintance, says the Grand Rapids tMich.) Herald. The people up in that region are having their troubles with the frisky ani- mals, and would prefer to study their habits from the safe side of the cage. The wolverines in that section, so the story runs, have appeared in large numbers and are playing all sorts of tricks with the local inhabitants. Car cajou, as the Indians and trappers of is sly fellow, and likes to enter their cabins, destroying or carrying away their household goods, but now he has come down to civilization and is making merry at the expense of the palefaces.
 The wolverines about Long lake are not only killing the pigs and small animals, but have so terrorized the people in that vicinity that they dare not stir out after dark without being armed. This may be very interesting to animal lovers like Mir. Seton Thompson. but the Long lake people fail to see where the fun comes in, and are bit doubtful whether the term Wolverine, as applied to Michi- gan people, is in the nature of com pliment.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

EDITOR SHULrz, of the Prospect, voices the feelings of all those inter ested in Arizona's progress when he condemns the sensationaiarticle on the killing and burial Of Tom Burns near Mammoth, published ia the San Fran cisco Examiner of late date. The statements given were utterly false and slanderous as the Prospect says, and were injurious to the territory, accounts of such barbarism, certainly tending to turn back capital and peo- pie from our borders. During our twenty years residence in Arizona" Editor Shultz further says, five have seen this harm done us many times by some newspaper report of deviltry that existed only in the imagination of the writer" A home also for twenty years in the territory entities the writer of this to add testimony to the Prospects protest against such journal. ism, and in favor of the law-abidiag kindly people of Arizona.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

UNDOUBTEDLY the first work in irrigation which the government should undertake is the construction of dam on the Gila River at San Carlos. in Arizona. because this im- provement would not only bring under cul- tivation large area of arid land for the use of white settlers. but would also relieve Indians. who are now in a starving condi- tion because the water upon which they have been dependent for centuries has been diverted by white settlers above them. ,fhis improvement would be not oaly strik- ing object lesson of the advantage of irriga- tlon on large scale, but also an act of mercy and justice.-lLos Angeles Times Editorial, Feb. 12 1901.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For great many years doctors pro- nounced it local disease, and pre- scribed local remedies, and by con stantly failing to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be constitu- tional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Halls Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, Ohio. is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to teaspoonful. It acts direct ly on the blood and mucous surface of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address
 F.J. CHENEY & O., Toledo, Ohio.
 Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

Once again has Mark Twain's jump ing frog of Calaveras" been left in the shade. At Albany, Mo, several chil- dren were feeding pet frog some pieces of dynamite in the cellar of their home, when large tool chest fell on the frog, exploding the dynamite it had swallowed, killing one child, seri- ously injuring two other people, and wrecking the house. Now, wouldn't that story jar any one-even Joe Null hatton ?-fLos Angeles Times.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

In his address in St. Louis Mr. Bryan exalted the weekly newspapers over the city dailies, giving it IS his opinion that their editorial columns were more reliable and more likely to represent the honest sentiments and opinions of the writers, as the identity of the ccantry editor is generally known, and be has more time in which to study his subject and form mature judgment, while the writer for the city daily must write on the spur of the moment, and few if any of his readers know who he is, or whether he writes what he believes or merely what he is paid for writing.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

TIE all-pervading topic is still the heat, or rather the all-pervading heat is the topic. Variety is given the subject, after discussing the home article, by telling how much worse it is in other places. Dispatches from many of the large Eastern cities. all through the states of the central valleys and middle Rocky mountain regions of our own country, from Russia and England tell of phenom- enal heat, unparalleled drought and all records for hot weather broken. Hut the worst features of 1t are the many fatalities and prostrations, espe- cially among the old, the poor, and the weak. Of this we have so little in Ariz- ona, that we should be thankful, and the rainy season is here now and the right time of year for rainy season is surely in July and August. Reports from nearly all portions of the territory tell of rains with every prospect of por~ to follow.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

CHICAGO comes in at the head once more and Hearst's newspapers have had worldwide advertising in the "trip around the world" undertaken by the boy from Chicago, the boy from New York and the boy from San Fran cisco. The Chicago boy, Charles Cecil Fitzmorris won the race, reaching Chicago last Saturday at 6:55 a. ID. Dashing from the train, he bounded up the station steps and sprsng into the automobile awaiting him and reaching the American office escorted by an inn mense crowd, he jumped the tape mak- ing his trip of 20,545 miles in exactly 60 days 13 hours 29 minutes and 42 and 4-5 seconds. Jules verne's most in- teresting book of "Around the World in Eighty Days" can now be laid on the shelf, for the history of Fitzmorris' journey breaks even the imaginary rec ord by nearly twenty days.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

TIE scare-heads and big type calling attention in the newspapers to the scandal about Captain Strong and Lad y Hope have been original and various. The one which read Strong Hope might have well read on that many had a strong hope we were done with such stories and minute descriptions of the actions of such people. As some read CTS will hunt out these items anyway there seems no necessity of calling the attention of others by display line: and capital letters.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27
ELEVEN BILLIONS.
timate of the Metallic Honey of the World

An increase of more than 100 per cent in the money of the world in less than a generation is an exhibit of the annual report of the director of the mint Nearly the whole of this increase is in metallic money and much the larger portion is in gold. The total stock re- ported in 1873 was about S4.600, 900, ,o00- More than half of this was in paper money. not fully covered by the metal lie reserve. The situation at the begin ming of 1900 showed total monetary stock of about sl1, ,eo0, ,O0o, ,Oo0, of which only little more than one-fourth was in uncovered paper money, says the Philadelphia Times.
 Director Roberts finds that, while tho money supply of the world has in- creased about s7,000,O00,000, the in crease in gold money since 1873 has been about 8 500, 100000; in. silver. about S2, TOO, 900, 900, and in uncovered paper money only about s65O. 100000.
 4 large proportion of the increase in gold has taken place within the short space of seven years. while the quantity of silver money, which was at its max imum of about s4,250, 100000 at the be- ginning of 1896, has since been some what reduced by the retirement of sil- yer by Germany and it's retirement in other countries. The conditions of 1893 showed total monetary supply Of about s1O 100000. .OOo. which has since been increased by about si.100, 100000. About s94o. 900, 900 of this increase has been in gold money.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27

THEEE are conventions and con gresses galore in these days, held for all obleets and on many subjects, but the one just adjourned in London has a pathetic note lacking in any other. Think of a congress called the inter- national tuberculosis congress, at which the United States, Canada and nearly all the countries of Europe were represented. Much information was exchanged on ways and means for stamping out the disease. The latest discoveries were considered and all the cures for the malady discussed. The significance and importance of such s meeting is very great and at the sam, time mournful when it shows the awfu increase of the dread disease.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-27
BLACK AND TAN.
Casual Meeting witk n Citizen Who Wore Shoes That Were Thus
 Cross-Matched.

Clearly it was not the paying of a freak bet, but freak of fortune, that had compelled this man to wear the shoes he had on. which were one black and the other tan. Nor did they match in shape and size much closer than they did in color; but they were a close pair in dilapidation, and (thought the man approached by the wearer Of this cross matched footgear), if that tan shoe could be blackened they d do; they'd do better. anyhow. There was place in town, he knew, where they did that sort of thing; that is. where they changed tan shoes to black, and he told the man with the odd shoes where this was. as nearly as he could remember. giving him, at the same time. a sum sufficient to enable him to get the shoes thus mated up in color; not much was re- quired. because there was here only half Q pair to be treated, says the New York Sun.
 Clearly the man with the shoes was pleased. Despite his seeming lack of pecuniarv resources. as idenced not alone by his odd shoes buf by various other corroborative indications about him. he w;,s not an uncheerful person. but the receii.S Of the money made him more cheerful still. As to whether he would actually devote the money thus | obtained to having that tan shoe made black. however. or whether. more or less careless of his personal appear ance. he would spend it for something else likely to give him greater meas ure of immediate enjoyment. the giver of it found himself unable-with cer- tainty-to determine.