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The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

him. The men who are interested in
bringing In Japanese are just as greatly
interested in importing the cheap labor
of any other country. The Inter Noun
tain publishes on another page an in
terview with Daniel Mcdonald, president
of the Western Labor Union. taken
from a Denver newspaper. 1t is stated
that during the past three years more
than $4,000 japanese have landed on the
Pacific coast and secured employment
where American laborers were forhAerly
working. The process OF wedding out
this undesirable class of citizens anu
erecting barriers against the race cam
not begin too soon. The attitude Of
President Roosevelt upon this subje It
ought 10 meet with praise in the meet
ing of every union in the country. ANA
il doubtless WILL ,rts,
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
NEW IMMIGRATION LAWS.

The demand for a re-enactment of the
Geary exclusion act comes from the peo-
pie. Selfish interest of pecuniary ma
ture prompts opposition to the law.
That there is need for laws that will
close the ports against Chinese and
Japanese nobody doubts. The recent
statistics of the immigration bureau
show that arrivals OF foreigners are
double what they were few years ago.
The prosperity which has prevailed in
the United States and the impoverished
condition of workingmen abroad has re-
suited in the largest immigration known
in years. There is a ready welcome for
good citizens in every portion of the
country, and to the native of foreign
nation with the capacity for exercising
the rights Of an American citizen there
will always be an opening. But the an
ardhist. the incompetent and the depend
ent are coming in such numbers that the
laxity Of the immigration laws Is a
menace to American workingmen. The
foreign laborer's first act is to underbid
the American wageworker. The pros.
perity which the American laboring mar
has assisted u building up belongs te
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
the DAILY FUND.

The subscriptions for the Daily mono-
ment fund are as liberal as they are
spontaneous. The total so far illus
trates the generous and publc-spir al
character of the people and their, dis
position to recognize the results of Mr..
Daly's great industrial achievements.
Many a man who duriag the life of Mr..
DAILY opposed him in politics is willing
to subscribe to the fund to build him a
monument to perpetuate his name. No
man in Montana ever accomplished so
much in opening mines and ATTRACTING
capital to the state as did Mr.. Daily.
1t is with pleasure that the Inter
Mountain complies with the suggestion
of the monument committee to open a
subscription book and print the names
of the subscribers, to the end that every
giver to the fund may receive proper
credit Subscribers may leave money
personally or send it by postoffice order,
check or draft. Receipts Will be
promptly returned, and the amounts and
names published prior to the transmits
sion of the subscriptions to the treasurer
of the fund. Mr.. Thomas Hodgens. at the
State Savings bank.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT BUREAU.
City of Butte Will Establish Ore
Probably.

The judiciary committee of the city
council has passed resolution to intro
duce in the council an ordinance pro-
viding for the establishment of a free
employment agency in the city.
The law gives the city council the
power to create and operate a free enl-
L!oynent agency, and the Introduction
of the ordinance will be made in re-
sponse to a request preferred by the
labor unions of the city.
At a meeting of the committee, among
whose members are Aldermen Kroger,
Mayo. Mcconnell and Dempsey, repre-
sentatives of the Silver Bow Trades and
LABOR Union. the Workingmen's Union.
the Women's Protective Union and the
Building Trades Council presented the
request a
TIE labor representatives made the re-
quest on the ground that the private
employment agencies, or some of them,
were committing abuses, imposing suf-
fering and hardship upon the laboring
people who used them to obtain en-
ploynent.
1t was alleged that some of the agen-
cies We're in collusion with restaurant
employees. with whom they divided fees,
the agent charging Mattresses 81 for DO
sitions and the restaurant keepers dis
charging them in three or four days, in
that way doing a good business in Sc
curing fees.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
PERSONAL.

John T. Athey. a Great Falls citizen is
looking after business matters here to-
day.
J. A. Coleman. an Anaconda resident,
is numbered with the outsiders in Butte
today.
L. j. Price. Dillon business man. is
calling on his Butte business friends
today.
E. H. Metcalf and wife. whose home
is in Missoula. are calling on their
friends here today.
DIR. p. s. Mussigbrod. who halls from
Garnet, is visiting with his professional
brothers here today.
c. c. Adkins. a well-known business
man of Norris. is shaking hands with
old friends here today.
]. Z. Morse. who lives in Dillon and
who was formerly mayor of that city, is
here on business today.
Mrs. Lizzie Ray and Miss Lille Ray
who live in Great Falls, are visiting
friends in Butte today. =,
DIR. J. w. May and G. w. Gordon.
Billings residents. are greeting their
Butte friends here today.
c. 1. Davis, who halls from Buckeye,
is finding commercial errands to take
up his attention here today.
Charles T. Perry is numbered among
the citizens of the Capital City who are
spending the day in Butte.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

Andrew Carnegie has decided to spend
a portion of his vast fortune to establish
a home for aged telegraphers. This act
of generosity will appeal to the public
more than the previous donations of MIR.
Carnegie. The scheme to provide for
the comfort of aged employees may not
possess the utilitarian spirit that is found
in projects to establish libraries, but it
will strike the public as an example OF
humanitarian spirit that is good: to see.
Members of organized bodies inN labor
circles who have antagonized the library
donations will admit that Mr.. Carnegie
is on the right track at last r.s
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
WASHINGTON SOCIAL LIFE.
Wives and Daughters of congressman
Lost in the Shuttle.

While there are S8 senators, with their
families in Washington during the sea-
son. less than 20 enter into the SOCIAL
life of the capital to any appreclaole
degree. Among those who occupy prom
inent homes here. to which they have
returned in the last week, are Senator
Elkins of West Virginia, Hanna and
Foraker of Ohio, Wetmore of Rhode ISL
and, HaWley of Connecticut, Mcmillan
of Michigan, Hale of Maine, Fairbanks
of Indiana, Jones Of Nevada, Quay CT
Pennsylvania and Lodge of Massachu-
setts.
Among the members of the lower
house, it is a conspicuous fact that this
year the percentage who will take houses
and participate In the seasons social
happenings is much lower than ever be-
fore. While many prominent and dis
tinguished representatives and their
families are to be found among the
boarding houses and hotels. it is only
the householders who entertain great
deal that become popular and are much
sought after Much misapprehension ex-
lists in regard to the distinction await
ing the wives and daughters of congress-
men when they come to Washington.
To a prominent woman ana social leader
in her own town or city, the disappOint-
ment is very keen when she finds her
self among 800 of the same rank and
whirl of Washington society.
Only the energetic. ambitious, mag
netic woman or girl of this set. who
will enter the social arena and cleave
a way to popularity by the utmost
diplomacy and tact, can attain the goal
which every woman of the world longs
fora place in society. While there are
some few Of this kind to be met In a
WaA>s~gton winter. they are not nu-
merous' anu unfortunately are becoming
less so. The mhn>naire merchant prin-
cess of the middle wes'- ,s crowding the
wife or daughter of ne...,ar of CON
gress almost off the social stag Min.
neapolis Tribune.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN CASH
PRIZES.

We have placed in front of our office
at No. East Broadway. a large lump
of anthracite coal, which was shipped
from the Pennsylvania coal fields to the
Omaha exposition, where 1t was placed
on exhibition the entire period of the
exposition. This enormous lump of
coal has attracted much attention
and comment by the public as to its
weight that we have decided to have a
guessing contest on the weight of it
under the following conditions:
Each person buying one ton of coal
from US between December s, 1901, and
February Is, 1902, will be entitled to one
guess on it's weight. On February Is we
will weigh 1t in public. and to the per-
son who has guessed closest to its weight
we will pay $50 in gold; to the person
guessing second-closest we will pay SIS,
and to the person guessing third closest
we will pay SIS.
Remember. you get as many guesses
as you buy tons of coal or cords of wood
and that we sell every kind of coal in
the Butte market at the same prices as
other dealers.
CITIZENS COAL COMPANY.
Phone 538. No. East Broadway.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

w. Patten taken at the trial OF to
divorce suit in Judge Clancy's court.
At its conclusion the justice decided
to admit the notes In evidence
When the hearing was resumed t,day
the prosecution objected to Jesse b.
Roote and w. A. Clark, Jr, acting as
associate counsel for the state and 1t
resulted in the dismissal OF the action
There are four other cases of siu.i-
lar nature pending. one aHairs: VIII
liam Ross. one against T.. a. Sisley. one
against Mrs. Bordeaux and the other
against Charles l.. Bornaman.. but they
are all to be dismissed By the county
attorney for the reason that the allega-
tions of those who swore to the com.
plants were not laid before the prose-
cutting attorney or someone connected
with the office before the complaints
were issued. The hearings in all Of the
cases are set for tomorrow afternoon,
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
RISKY MINING BUSINESS.

Gilded fortune in the form Of mining
ventures will probably never cease to at
tract those who are looking for an easy
road and a short cut to wealth. Men
persist in taking capital out of busi-
ness in which they are thoroughly posted
and risking it in mining ventures of
which they are evidently ignorant Moth
ing but a streak of the sort of luck
which occasionally favors the novice in
speculative ventures in such cases can
stave off disaster. The San Francisco
Chronicle reads a sermon on this sub
ject in recent issue that hits the nail
squarely on the head.
Mining is a business which requires
special qualifications and special expert
ence, like any other calling. to insure
success, is the sage observation of the
Frisco paper. 1T is true that the in
experienced have occasionally succeeded
in it while men long seasoned in mining
experience have failed in it. But the
same thing can be said of other kinds OF
business. Nevertheless few people have
the rashness to enter deliberately into a
llieTcdnllle venture Wllcn they know
nothing about and trust to the element
of luck solely for success. Why should
success be expected under such condi-
tions in mining? The percentage of sue
cesses among those following mining
understandingly is quite as large as it
is in any other business. Mining Is safe
| enough il the man who follows it will
adhere to the same rules in conducting
| it that he would Spply in carrying on
some other business in which expert
knowledge is essential"
The bad repute that has been given
the mining business arises principally
from the amplitude of object lesson.
| pointing out the dangers of the pursuit
BY having the qualifca tions for success:
in mining, good results can generally b.
| secured; but, coming to the business
without experience Is as hazardous as
embarking upon an ocean voyage with.
out chart or compass and will Just a!
surely land the reckless adventurer upor
! the rocks
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
TO FORM BALL LEAGUE.
Delegates From Utah and Montana
Cities Meet Here ~

For the purpose of taking the initial
steps towards forming the Northwest
ern league delegates from Salt Lake,
Helena, Great Falls, Pocatello and
Butte are meeting at the Finen hotel
this afternoon to discuss baseball
]. c. Leary Of Salt Lake says the Utah
cities are in favor of combination be-
ing formed with the Montana towns.
He declares that Ogden and Salt Lake
are going to have professional baseball
teams whether the Northwestern league
is formed or not.
It is thought more desirable for Butte
and Helena to enter the Northwestern
league than for them to go into tine Pa
cifc combination, because the distance
to the cities that will be in the former
are shorter.
This afternoon the delegates discussed
the matter of forming the league. and at
meeting to be held at Salt Lake about
the middle Of this month more definite
arrangements will be made.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
JnE PRICE OF COPPER.

Unbelief in the reported sales OF cop
per a. a figure below the market price
appears to be general. Nor do those
best informed upon the copper situation
give credence to prophecies which fore
cast a change In the metal quotations
soon. Mining men and others familiar
with metal market conditions have
talked freely concerning the markets
future. A few days ago John Stanton.
the well-known copper statistician. was
interviewed upon the copper market
condition by an Eastern paper.
II know nothing of the reported cut
in the price of refined copper. and have
heard of none which has been sold under
II cents per pound" said Mr.. Stanton
during the course of the interview.
"There is nothing. in my opinion. to
warrant any cut at the present time. 1
do not put much faith in the reports
that antitrust legislation is to be en-
poyed to block the efforts of the ANAL
gamated Copper company to straighten
out the copper situation. There is as
much strength to the present copper
market as to the market of the recent
past, and l see no motive for a change
in quotations..
While entire harmony does not prevail
among the larger copper mining con-
Germs there is an evident disposition on
the part CT all who are interested in
maEt aiming the price of the red metal
to give due credit to the company that
has kept up the price, and thus pre-
vented disastrous consequences to host
of smaller companies. In the Houghton
Mining Gazette. an official of the Calu-
met & Hecla Mining company makes IA
significant statement
We have sold over 1000 tons Of cop
per this month at not less than 16& cents
per pound" said the official during his
remarks upon the present state of the
market. ut seems to me that during
the past month consumers have been
buying of the Amalgamated interests
and paying Amalgamated prices, because
they could not get copper anywhere else.
Until very recently We have not had any
copper that we could deliver.
Ies, it is good plan to maintain
stability in the market for copper, that
is. to the extent Of preventing wild f1uc-
tuations in prices. The Calumet & Hecia
has always tried to do this. The Anal
gamated people, however. seem to be
doing the same thing by keeping the
price up. This keeps lot of mines in
business that. under normal conditions
would be bankrupt We don't like the
idea of having bankrupt concerns for
competitors
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

American coal is popular in Europe.
The demand is SO large that foreign
orders cannot be filled. If all the recent
orders We're taken care of it would mean
the immediate shipment of not less than
10000 tons. Advices from foreign ports
are to the effect that the cargoes alrea dy
landed have proved so successful in ad-
vertising the American mine product
that orders are coming almost daily.
The freight to France is now $237 per
ton and the selling price $612. At this
rate the widest market ever offered for
American coal is being opened in Europe
and American push and energy is taking
quick advantage Of the change.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

An Immigrant is now in the Long
Island College hospital under orders to
return to the country from whence ne
came. He Is 81 resident of England
and is afflicted with tuberculosis, and,
steps have been taken in the immi-
grants behalf, and every test applied to
the act excluding consumptives AS the
matter stands. however, the consumptive
Is barred, and must return home. This
wise provision of the immigration law.
deporting all immigrants not physically
capable of being citizens, is generally
approved
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

1t may be said to the credit of Chief
of Police Reynolds that he has compelled
certain grafters and panel workers to
leave the city. In this policy he should
have the support of all good citizens,
but he can accomplish little without the
cooperation of the city council, and
particularly of the police committee. Ha
should be given more power over the
police force. He should be backed up
by the police court. He should be en-
powered to discontinue the disgraceful
practice of finins unfortunate women
s. per month. City Treasurer Calkins
states that the fines collected are all
covered into the city treasury. but the
fact remains that the scheme is one D.
ineNcusable persecution and comprc-
mise with crime. The. mayor might ac-
complish much by more vigorous par
ticipation in police affairs and seeing
that every department is administered
upon a basis that leaves 10 room or ex>
cuse for derelictiCn or wrong doing on
the part of any Official, high or low.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
Bordeaux Case Exceptions.

Judge Clancy this morning signed and
settled the hill of exceptions of Mrs.
bordeaux in the Bordeaux case, taken by
her from Judge Ciancy's order allowing
her only $1,000 for counsel fees and $325
for a stenograrher's rekortr of the trial.
Mrs. BOrdeaux's counsel wanted 5000
for fees. and other MONEY for expenses.
The defendant was dissatifiad and ex-
cepted to the order and the bill of ex-
ceptions represented the objections. An
appeal from the order will be taken to
the supreme court 1t is understood.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
BRIGHT IDEAS OF MONTANA EDITORS

WI Ting Fang doesn't like the Aneri-
tlame him for that. BY exploiting his
popularity in this country they seem to
have cost him his job. and maybe will
be the unconscious means of making him
lCse his head. Even a philosophical Chi
naman doesn't like to lose those things.
Great Falls Tribune.
Slowly but surely the fact is being
recognised that the irrigation and rec
lamation of the arid lands of the West
is the most important problem before
the American people. The secretary of
the interior recommended that the con-
struction of a canal to divert the wa
ters of ST. Mary's lake into Milk river
be commenced at once. Such work
would be of incalculable benefit to all
MonSana.-Havre Eagle.
Ever since it began to he a subject of
editorial comment in the press of the
nation. the idea was strongly prevalent
that the message was to be a reflex Of
Teddy" as the country has known him:
clear headed but at the same time 'red
headed" and stoutly assertive of himself
tut instead the curtain Is pulled back
and-we find the president; explicit
Cogent. forceful at times, but always
temperate in expression and without a
trace OF the "jingO" that so much was
covertly expected of by men looking for
ISSUES. Yellowstone Journal.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
woMAN's CLUB MEETING.
Mrs. Haskell and Other Speakers Ad-
dress Club.

At meeting of the Woman's club
Of Butte yesterday some excellent ad-
dresses and papers We're listened to by
the members of the club.
. Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell addressed
the club on Direct Legislation" and
Mrs. Green Majors and Mrs. Charles
Heilbronner talked on other interesting
subjects.
The Holy City, was effective sung
by Sam Mayer, accompanied by Miss
Mazel on the piano. The session was a
most interesting and entertaining one,
social and domestic science having the
floor.
Mrs. Haskell's talk on the initiative
and referendum was something new to
most of her hearers. and it proved a
fascinating theme to them. The sub
ject was very we'll handled,
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

More than So, 900 900 in gold has passed
through the assay office at Seattle in
the last four years. This amount of the
yellow metal has been taken from the
mines in Alaska, and there was a vast
sum taken out which was not accounted
for in this way. Despite what has been
said about booming the north country
and the disappointments of those who
have tried and failed there. the figures
telling of the annual gold output are in
opiring
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
THURSDAY, DECEMBER S, 1901.

The intelligent laboring men of the
West find generous encouragemens IN
the presidents message 1T treats OF
the very subjects in which they are most
vitally interested and its assurances are
the more welcome because they are made
on behalf of the party in power which
alone can carry them into practical
effect A minority party, no matter
how solicitous it might be for reform.
could accomplish nothing. and support
of it's candidates and policies would be
useless. 1t is the party which not only
favors reform but can execute its prom
ises that the honest workers of the
country should support. Such is the re-
publican party. The president knows
the West, and his influence with con-
gress in political sympathy with him
must afford the best guaranty Of legis-
lation on behalf of the common people.
who. after all. are the best people. and
the nations backbone. The men Of the
West have asked of the government at
Washington:
The exclusion of Chinese.
Aid to irrigation.
A Pacific cable.
The regulation of trusts.
The restriction of undesirable immgra-
ton
A cabinet representative of labor and
commerce.
Expansion Of Western trade.
These are the subjects upon which the
worllingmen Of the West most desire
legislation. The republican party is
pledged to such measures as will meet
the popular demand. No other party
has the power or the inclination to do
so. 1t is plain, therefore. that the best
interests OF every toiler in the land re-
quire that he lose no time in giving his
allegiance and his support to the re-
publican party.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05
FIRST MEETING OF CREDITORS.

In the District Court of the United
states, District of Montana.
In the matter OF Charles Burns, bank
rupt.
Notice Is hereby given that on the
goth day of November. A. D. 1901, the
said Charles Burns was duly adjudged
bankrupt, and that the first meeting of
creditors will be held at the Court Of
Bankruptcy. No. 40 West Park street.
Butte. Montana. on the 18th day Of De-
cember. A. d. 1901, at 3 o'clock p. m.
at which time the creditors may appear,
prove their claims. elect a trustee. exam
ine the bankrupt. and transact such
other business as may properly come be-
fore the meeting.
THOMPSON CAMPBELL,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
|. Dated December !. 1901. seIr
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

The small number of soldiers landed to
protect the interests of the United
States in Colombia was grossly made
quate to the task they had in hand if
the power of the government had not
been behind them. No nsurgent nor
supporter of the regular government
lifted a weapon against the haG of this
country, because he knew the result
of such hard ihood would be swift and
condign punishment. ~
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

The present approximate price of
silver is 55 cents per ounce fine. During
corresponding period of last month the
price was approximately g. cents China
and India purchases have fallen off, and
in response to the market condition the
white lnetar has taken a drop.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-05

Under the decisions of the supreme
court of the United States. rates
charged by interstate railways are sub
ject to official review, investigation and
reduction whenever they exceed a figure
unwarranted by the invested capital
is found impossible to get state officials
to act against the newly organized COM
hipa