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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30
TWO MEN DIE IN EFFORT TO
SAVE HELPLESS.
MANY FIREMEN INJURED
Explosion in Photographic Supply
Store Starts Disastrous
Blaze.

Louisville. July 27-In a fire, which
early this morning destroyed the
property of the Badgely-Graham
Photographs Supply company, Max
Belovitch, a cigar maker, and Police
man James Purdan were urned to
death, in an effort to rescue women
and children who occupied rooms
above the supply room. Shortly be-
fore midnight a terrific explosion
awoke everybody in the neighborhood
and among the first to reach the
street in front of the building was
Max Belovitich a cigar maker, living
across the street. Hardly had the
first explosion died away, when he
dashed up the side. stairs in answer
to a woman's screams. About the
time he reached the second floor he
must have fallen for when picked up
only a few minutes afterwards his
right side was burned to a crisp. Po-
lice Officer James Purden was found
On the third floor suffocated and sew
eral firemen were taken from the
ruins, some of whom will probably die.
Among the seriously injured firemen
are:
Assistant Fire Chief John ]. Tully,
probably fatally. Capt. Tim Sheepam,
No. 2 company, badly hurt.
Barney Nottingham, No. 2 COM
pany, ladderman, may die. S. Brown,
No. 2 company, probably fatally. ].
Hutin, No. 2 company and Mark
Swain No. 2 company may die. Chas.
Kellar, No. 2 company, may die.
All of the physicians in charge of
injured firemen say that while their
conditions is by no means beyond
hope, there is little encouragement.
1t is reported that six or seven
lives were lost in the fire, but this
cannot be verified at this hour. Sew
eral are reported missing and may be
dead. The fire spread with such
rapidity that even the fire fighters
were nonplussed. When the first
crash came there was nothing but
smoke, but in a moment afterward
the place was a .veritable fire trap
from floor to roof.
The loss is about $500, 900; insur-
ance unknown.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30
STAFF ANNOUNCED.
Spanish-American War Veteran Off.
ers for Montana.

Rev. G. C. Stull has received an
official communication from G. F.
Lloyd of Butte, department COM
mander Of the spanish-American war
veteran organization of Montana, an
nouncing his staff as follows:
Senior vice commander-Lieuten-
ant Colonel Byron H. Cook, Butte
Junior vice commander-Captain
D'Gay Stivers, Butte.
Assistant quartermaster general
Louis Vandenhook, Bozeman.
Assistant inspector general-Lieut.
III. V. Baily, Billings.
Assistant surgeon generalization
F. ]. Adams, Great Falls.
Judge advocate. K. Cheadle,
Lewistown.
Chaplain-Captain G.. C. Stull.
Council of administrations. G.
Heilig, Butte; Lloyd R. Hood, Boze-
man; J.. B. HEREFORD, Billings, and H.
e. Vroom, Butte.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30
kiTcHENER's SUCCESSOR.
Rumor Now Says It Will Be General
Lyttieton.

London, July 29-It is freely
rumored that General Lyttleton will
succeed Lord Kitchener as command
err in chief of the British forces in
South Africa, but Kitchener, it may
be assumed, will not be recalled until
the end of the war is at least actual
ly in sight, so that Lyttleton's task
will be more passive and administra-
tive than belligerent. General Lyt-
Teton did good work under General
Butler in the early days of the war,
but Forester Walker and Lord Me
thuen are both senior to him. Neither
of these men, are, however, likely to
be appointed, and it must be said in
favor of the choice of Lyttleton that
he has already distinguished himself
in civil life. When private secretary
to his uncle, Gladstone, he was re-
garded as a man with a future. He
has expressed himself in public as
sanguine of a satisfactory settlement
OF the South African question in the
long run, and he sees no reason why
Br;ton and Boer should not live peace
ably side by side.
This is the proper spirit in which
to approach the situation, but the man
to whom is really confided the task
of solving the final problem is Sir Al
fred Minor, and he is we'll aware of
the difficulty Of the task awaiting
him OF his return to South Africa.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
OF the Board Of County Commission
ers, Yellowstone County.
Eleventh Day.

Billings, Montana, July 26, 1901.
The board met pursuant to adjourn
ment at 8 o'clock a. M, there were
present w. o. Parker, chairman, Pat
Lavelle and S. K. Deverill.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
The board proceeded with the ex-
animation IF the assessment book.
The clerk was directed to deduct
from the assessment Of Yegen Bros.
% acres in Sec. 8, TIP. 1 S., R. 26 E..
$500, error in acreage.
The board adjourned until 2 O'Clock
p. m.
Afternoon Session.
The board met pursuant to adjourn.
ment at 2 O'Clock p. M, all members
being present.
The board proceeded with the ex
animation of the assessment book.
The board being of the opinion that
for the reasons hereinafter stated the
following additional assessments or
increased valuations shoull be en-.
tered on the assessment book, set the
7th day of August for the consider;
alton thereof and directed the clerk
to at once notify all persons inter.
ested, by letter, of the proposed action
of the board.
S. E. Wimsett, ranch improvements
$500, valuation too low; Yegen Bros.
lots l, q, and 8, block 8, Yegen's Sec
ond addition, $50, escaped assessment:
Ida L. Camp, lots l to Is, block 4, $50,
and lot l, block 8, East Laurel, $50,
escaped assessment; NJ. & M. l.. & l.
Co., lots 81 to "a, block POI, Billings,
$50, escaped assessment.
The board adjourned until July ~,
at 9 O'Clock a. m.
Twelfth Day.
Billings, Montana, July q, 1901.
The board met pursuant to adjourn.
ment at 8 O'Clock a. M, there were
present w. o. Parker, chairman, Pat
Lavelle and s. X. Deverill.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
The board proceeded with the tx
animation of the assessment book.
At noon the board adjourned until
2 o'clock p. m.
Afternoon Session.
The board met pursuant to adjourn
ment at 2 O'Clock p. M, all members
being present.
The board proceeded with the ex-
animation of the assessment book.
The board being of the opinion that
for the reasons hereinafter stated, the
following additional assessments or
increased valuations should be en-
tered on the assessment book, set the
7th day of August for the considera-
ton thereof and directed the clerk to
at once notify all persons interested,
by letter. of the proposed action of
the board:
A. L. Babcock Hardware Co., goods,
wares and mdse, $4,000, valuation too
low; Corwin Brothers, goods, wares
and mdse., $500, valuation too low;
Chapple Drug Co, goods, wares and
mdse., $500, fixtures, 500, valuation
too low; Holmes & Calhoun, goods,
wares and mdse, $500, fixtures. 800,
valuation too low; Williams & Baxter,
goods. wares and mdse, $4,000. valu-
alton too low; f. B. Connolly, goods,
wares and mdse., $1,000, improve
ments, $500, valuation too low; Dom
ovan-McC ormick Co. goods. wares
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30
CANNOT REACH A VERDICT.
Jury in Ellis Glenn Case Unable to
Agree.

Parkersburg, July 29-The jury in
The Ellis Glenn case is still out. They
broughtinto court Monday morn
ing after spending Sunday in the Gus
tody of the jailer and Immediately
went into deliberation. At noon they
asked for instructions and at 8
o'clock notified the court of their fail
ure to reach an agreement. The court
gave them additional instructions
and sent them back to the jury room
and at 4:30 they again notified the
court that they could not agree. They
we're then excused until Tuesday. It
a understood that they stand 10 for
acQuittal and two for conviction.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30
ALASKA ATTORNEY TELLS
THINGS ABOUT MOVES.
D|sM|ssEs COURT CLERK
Aud Will Have a Grand Jury to
Suit His Own
Pleasure.

the Journal from Seattle says: cal
bert Fink, a Nome attorney for the
Pioneer Mining company, opposing
Judge Noyes, has arrived in Seattle.
He gives his side Of the story to the
Times and has much to say of the re-
moval of Mr.. Borchsenius. Fink, who
of course, gives the mining company's
side only, says Judge Noyes is en-
%deavoring to have all of the men who
have taken prominent part in oppos-
ing him or Receiver Mckenzie or
others, indicted by a federal grand
jury fraudulently drawn for that pur-
pose,' because Clerk .Borchsenius
would not, at the request of the court,
report the names of the men reported
to him by Judge Noyes for that pur-
pose, Judge Noyes, Fink says, asked
for his resignation and that being
refused removed him and appointed
Clerk Steele in his stead. Mr.. Fink
said to the Times: Judge Noyes is
playing a desperate game, as of a
man who knows that he is. in the
last ditch and must risk all in order
to save himself. He is determined to
indict all of the men who have taken
a prominent part in opposing him.
''In order to do this he has attempt
ed to pack a grand jury to be drawn
for the July term of court by having
the clerk of the court report as drawn
in the regular way a list of names to
be furnished tothe clerk by him, Judge
Noyes. This Clerk Borchsenius re-
fused absolutely to do and after re-
questing him twice to do so, Judge
Noyes requested his resignation,
B%orchsenius refused to resign and
was %thereupon removed.
son July II, Judge Noyes told
Borchsenius that he would indict At
torney Mettson if the latter returned
to Nome. Mettson is the attorney
for the Pioneer Mining company who
led the fight against Noyes and Nc
Kenzie. He arrived on the Nome
City and on the same day Judge
Noyes wrote to the clerk a letter ask
ing him to resign.
Later, in a talk Judge Moves stat
ed to Borchsenius that the latter had
been and honest, faithful and efficient
clerk Of the court and that he had no
wish to injure him, but that he was
compelled to remove him by a COM
bination of circumstances over which
he had no control. He then stated
that If he, Noyes, could help him,
~Borchsenius, in any way he would be
glad to do so.
"The judge then said that it would
soon be time to draw the grand jury
for the July term of court and as there
was likely to be comment caused on
account of the change Of clerks imme-
diately prior to the drawing he, Noyes,
desired B~orchsenius to be present al
the time of the drawing to add his
approval to the regularity of the pro-
ceedings. Borchsenius refused pos
itively to accede- to the judges re-
quest. This is as the matter stood
left ;"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30
Treid In Vain.

Paris, July 29-Dumont made an
other vain trial Of his balloon today.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30
IN THE MARTs OF TRADE.
Record Showing Days Commercial
and Financial Fluctuations.
Live Sack.

Live 0tCCk.
Chicago, July 29-Cattle: Receipts
21,000, including 400 Texans. Active
and stronger to 20 cents higher. Good
to prime steers $5.35@6.2O; poor to
medium, s4.25@5.4o; stockers and
feeders, s2.5O@4.45; cows, $2.75@
4.s0;. heifers, $2.65 OATS; bulls, 1925
@4.s5; Gamers, s1.50@2.5O; calves,
s2.50@5.25. Texas steers S3@425.
Sheep-Receipts 10000. Sheep
steady. Lambs steady. Choice weth-
ers, s3.S0@4.25; fair to choice mixed,
$3.25@3.75; western sheep, $3.25@4;
yearlings, $4@4.35; native lambs, SO
@5.40; western lambs, $4.4O@5.4O.
New York Money.
New York, July 29-Money on call
steady at 2@2h per cent; last loan
2 per cent.
copanions, Quinto Carello and Lami,
cent.
Fer silver 57as.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30

Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Exchange
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-30

Regular Banking in all its Branches.
Safe Deposit Bones Rented.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-23
IMPROVED CANE HANDLING.

HILO. September 1S.-The Waiakea
Mill Company has adopted mainland
improved methods of loading cane on
the cars from a suggestion caught by
Ronald Kennedy on a plantation near
New Orleans. The new method com
prises a shovel similar to that used on
a dredger and operated by gasoline
machine. This equipment, aided by
two men picks up the piles of cane from
the ground and deposits them in the
cars for transportation to the mill. The
cane being picked from the ground more
or less dirt is taken up at the same
time and c. c. Kennedy is now on a
trip to the coast for the purpose of hay-
ing an equipment devised and made
that will lift the cane direct from the
dump carts to the cars and eliminate
the dirt at the same time reducing the
handling.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-23

tracks run through the land as well as
the Olaa Company's flume j. l.. Osmer
has been appointed manager and has
already commenced the field work. The
actual land now owned by the company
consists of 200 acres, one half OF which
is cleared and the other forest land.
Cane will be planted on the cleared land
before the end of the month.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-23

Fine Book and Commercial Printing
at the Star Office.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-23
NEW PLANTATION A KEEAU,

HILO, September 1S.-A new PLAN
tation on a small scale, has been started
under the title of the Keeau Land ana
Planting Co, capitalized at $4,000, the
land being owned in fee simple. There
is little of the stock left for subscription
and the stockholders are much encour-
aged in their enterprise by the good
showing made on the adjoining lands OF
the Olaa Plantation. The company eN-
poets to have some four hundred acres
of land in cane by the end of the first
year. The cane viii be ground at the
Olaa Sugar Company's mill and trans
ported by the Hilo Railroad whose
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-23
ABB SOP.
". G. IRWIN & CO., LTD.

VIM. G. Irwin. President and Manager
CLAUS Spreckels. First Vice-Pres!de1
w III. Giffard. Second Vice-President
IA II. Whitney, Jr. Sec'y and Treasurer
G2eo, ]. Ross. Auditor
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-23
TANDEM ON MAUI.

WAILUKU, Maui, September 2l-The
latest attraction at Paia for the lovers
of the equine race, is a Tandem team of
thorough breds owned by DR.. w. e.
McConkey. The doctor says that Tan
dem is the proper thing for his long
drives over the rough and rugged roads
of Maui.-Maui News.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
TALE OF A SEA MONSTER.
The Terrible Thing Was Scnly and
About 0 Feet Long.

The Terrible Thing Was scnly and
About o Feet Long.
"About four bells in the morning
watch I noticed a large object about
four miles off the starboard bow raj
the introduction to the tale Of a phe-
witnessed by Third officer II.
G. Story. Of the British steamship
Claverhill, in the Red Sea. latitude 20
North, longitude 40 East. Capt. Scott.
of The Claverhill, says the third mates
character is good. Mr.. Story once had
been an editor in England. The steam
.r is at the foot of Oliver street.
ut appeared to be a string of whales
moving at a great rate across our
bow" continued the sailorman thus
vouched for. Judge of my surprise
when saw the string of whales resolve
itself into one huge monster. Through
the glasses I could see distinctly a fiat
and pointed head like that Of a colossal
cobra. Its color was grayish-black. Its
body appeared to be covered with barn
acles, and it passed rapidly across u
bow half a mile away, leaving an oily
wake. IT disappeared q mile off the
port bow, presently blowing abeam
and steering directly for the ship.
GAS its head was raised I could see
that its throat was whitish with gills.
1t was scaly, and I Judged 1t to be
about 300 feet long. The back had a
dorsal fin. When within q quarter of q
mile the monster dived, raising its tall
twenty feet in the air, and disappeared.
we were all 81 excited that we could
not eat our OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
safc1v Of ocean Travel.

The comparative. one might almost
say absolute, security Of ocean travel
could not be better illustrated than In
the latest trips of the Atlantic liners.
A storm ragged, the %ferceness Of which
passes all memory, and yet every ship
came in. They were late. of course. all
Of them, but they came in. Every one
of them had been battered with count
less tons Of water, hurled with Inn
measurable force. and time and again
the mighty liners were tossed like
corks upon the waves. But they con-
quered triumphantly. Fasteners were
torn from the decks. and even propel-
Ter blades were lost, but they plowed
steadily forward. There was a diminu-
ton Of speed, but they went IN. That
wonderful machine, the essence of pow
err, known as the Atlantic liner. is u
perior to the tempest. The mind Of
man subhdues, II not directs, the ele.
ments.-Marine Review.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
THE clNouE r
blood of Hardy Mariners Remains In

Channel Fishermen.
How many Of us can name offhand
Che five ports to which the d%estinies
charter Of Edward I. these five hamlets
In Kent and Sussex which had consti-
tuted themselves the defenders of the
sea at its narrowest point within sight
of a hostile shore? Walmer castle, We
know, is the residence Of the lord
warden, and Deal, with its castles and
towers, is promptly set down by nine
readers out of ten as of the ports,
which, of course, it is not. Sandwich,
Hythe, Dover, Romney and Hastings
were the quintet which in Anglo-Saxon
times linked themselves together to re-
pei the invader. And a turbulent time
they had of it. Never a winter night
but those good folks must lie abed
with the thought of the trumpet's
call that might at any moment sum-
mon them on to the black face of the
channel to hurl back the invader from
their shores. Sieges and sacking they
had in plenty, and heavy were the
payments exacted. Thus, in 1887, the
Frenchmen, driven from Sandwich, de-
scended upon Rye with t%hirty-fve
ships and thirty-two galleys and de-
vastated the little town set upon that
hill, from which the tide has gone out
never to return. The Cirque Ports
squadron was quickly manned, the
clumsy sails caught a fair wind, and
in a trice Master Frenchman was scud-
ding home with the Sussex boys close
at his heels. Into the harbor of Bou-
logne they followed the foe, set fire to
the town and polished off the job by
hanging twelve captains of the Offend
ing fleet. These were not the days of
Hague conferences and peace commit
tees, and a blow begot a blow. The
tale is not spoiled by remembering
that ten years later the Frenchmen
crept or to the coast one night, and,
lighting their torches on the beach,
managed to burn down fifty-two houses
in Rye and ninety-four houses in Win
chelsea. Life in one of these ports
was an exhilarating experience, and
even to-day some Of the bone and blood
Of those hardy mariners remains in
those channel fishermen who are ready
in any gale that blows to face the
Goodwin sands in a bookshelf of a life
boat.-The Pail Mall Magazine.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
She saw Her Husband

"A number of returned officers from
South Africa recently attended an ex-
hibition Of moving pictures in London,
when in one of the South African
scenes they recognized an cficer
friend. The wife Of the officer, on be-
ing told Of this, wrote to the manager
and asked that this picture might be
put on on a certain evening, when she
would purposely journey from Glas-
gov. She had not zen her husband
for over a year, but at last observed
him in a group-on the screen at :
cinematograDh.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
In Doubt.

II always go to Henrietta" said Mr..
Meekton, when anything is puzzling
my mind. But a doubt has recently
arisen which I don't quite know how
to express"
aren't you happy?"
"of course I am happy. At least. /
assume so. But I don't feel inclined
to act the way other people do when
they are happy, and sometimes I al
most think that I've have had more fun
IL I were not married. But I can't
make sure. I can't go to Henrietta and
ask her whether, IL she had been in my
place, she would have married herself.
1t doesn't sound ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ingtOn Star.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
CHAPTER XIV.

November was half gone, and the
chill breath Of winter was in the air,
before Beatrice, weak and wan,
emerged from the mists Of fever and
delirium which had made the passing
weeks IN utter blank.
Notwithstanding Miss Lorrimer's fiat
regarding her, her yes wonderingly
opened on the same scene on which
they wonderingly closed.
Where vas she, and who were the
friends who had watched beside her?
Gradually all that occurred came
back to her, until the moment of leav-
ing Madame Clair's house.
From then IN all was a blank. She
had, indeed, fallen in a swoon beneath
the horses feet, and had been wholly
unconscious of her peril.
But when, at last, she was permitted
to exchange her bed for the couch,
Sister Mary asked her, me morning, il
she would see the master Of the house.
She bowed her head in assent then,
resting YEARLY on her pillow, she closed
her eyes and sought to overcome the
deadly faintness of fear stealing ver
her.
Whom was she to see?
Could 1t be that Randolph Chester
had followed her, and, taking advant-
age. of her helpless Inconsistencies,
again. had made himself the arbiter Of
her fate? Better had she been left to
die in the streets than this!
The door opened.
MAY I enter?" asked a voice, in q
gentle courtesy-a voice both strange
and unfamiliar to her ear.
The blood surged back to her heart
in almost an ecstacy Of relief. She lift
ed the heavily-fringed lids and looked
at him who spoke.
He was a stranger to her-a man
young and handsome-but the Sister
had spoken Of. him as the master Of
the house.
"You may. indeed, come I'M" she an-
swered. How heavy a debt Of graft
tude I owe you! Oh, will you not tell
me how it happened that I am here and
with strangers. who yet have proven
kinder than friends?"
""Yous are strong enough to hear
about it," he asked, taking the little
white hand n moment in his own,
then seating himself in an armchair
drawn close beside her couch.
81 feel quite strong" she answered,
land my brain is tired with ceaseless
wonderment." ~.
TT was this ! feared" he replied:
''but; first let me introduce myself"
And drawing from his pocket his card
case, he took from It one Of his cards
and laid It ont;her lap.
She glanced at the name. It, too.
was strange to her. ss.&
In a very.few words he told the story
OF the accident. y
aInasmuch az was It's unhappy
cause, however innocent. he conelud::
ed, 4 coxld do no less than retrieve Il