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MONDAY, APRIL q, 1901.
FOOL OR kNAVE.

VSO3 VII 6NbNUV6s
Aguinaldo, whose light has failed, is
either fool or a charlatan, and the
extravaganza of buffoonery is appar.
ent in the text of his manifesto
which is as follows:
Lessons taught with full meaning
and which have recently come to my
knowledge, suggest with irresistible
force that complete termination OF
hostilities and lasting peace are abso
lutely essential to the welfare of the
Philippine islands.
''Filipinos have never faltered in
following the path pointed out by
their fortitude and courage. The
time has come. however, in which
they find their advance along this
path impeded by an irresistible force
presenting to them the cause of peace
AiS S0uSC los OCcA JOylulIy emUIdC'
ed by majority of my fellow country.
men, who have already united around
the glorious sovereign banner OF the
United States. In this banner they
repose trust and believe that under its
protection the Filipino people will at.
tain all promised liberties which they
are beginning to enjoy. The country
has declared Enthusiastically in favor of
peace. So be it.
Il proclaim to the world that can
not refuse to heed the voice of my
people longing for peace nor the lam
entations of thousands of families
yearning to see their dear ones en-
joying liberty and the promised gen.
crosby Of the great American nation.
by acknowledging and accepting
sovereignty of the United States
throughout the Philippine archipelago
as I now do and without any reserva.
ton whatsoever. l believe that am
serving thee, my beloved country.
May happiness be thine"
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monument in honor of Commodore
Matthew c.. Perry upon her own soil.
Fifty years ago the port of Japan
| was closed against the western world
IN. when Commodore Perry under.
t,.ok to enter japanese waters he was
politely told to keep out. But the
American sailor was not to be dis.
missed in this peremptory fashion. He
carried a letter of introduction from
the president of the United States to
the emperor of Japan and he was de-
termined tohave the American govern
ment treated with proper respect, no
matter what might happen. So on be.
ing told that the emperor was not
specially anxious to see him he became
all the more anxious to see the emper-
or, as he desired to teach him lesson
in courtesy which he was not apt to
forget. To make the story short,
Commodore Perry succeeded without
much difficulty in entering Japanese
WdIClS, anu AO AOI oAAy AOANVu tAV
emperor to accept the honor of his &C.
quaintance but he gave Japan just the
shaking up she needed to start her
upon the highway of progress.
Following this visit from Commo-
dore Perry Japan began to modify her
policies and to mend her ways. She
found that she was gaining nothing
and losing much by playing III mart
of the hermit, and che saw that it was
largely to her interests to cu'tivae
friendly relations with the world
around her. She was not long in re-
alizing the wisdom Of this change IT
front. Almost from the start her in.
dustrial enterprises began to take on
new life and to hustle with prosperity
and vigor. Her people began to throw
off their oriental torpidity and their
dislike for foreigners. One innovation
followed close upon the heels Of an.
other and today Japan is the most
alert and progressive power Of the
east. She recognizes the debt Of
gratitude which she owes to Comm'>
dore Perry and she is not tardy in
showing her appreciation.
From present indications the monu'
ment to Commodore Perry will be
ready for unwilling some time this
summer.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-22
CLARK AND THE THUGS.

1t seems that Miss Hattie Rose
Laube is not the only danger which
threatens Mr.. Whitewashed Andrews
Clark. The Partisan thugs having
heard that he carries Thousand dollar
bills around in his vest pockets and
not having a legislative vote with
which to lure the Doodle to them.
selves, they waylaid the Montana
Croesus as he was returning to his
hotel in the "wee sma" hours, and
attempted to "go through" him. Their
scheme was in fair way to succeed,
for they had his financial majesty on
the ground and were about to go at.
ter the greenbacks when, the story
goes, Marloupiot. a dirty and disrept
able looking nighthawk, who was
driving aimlessly nearby, fastened to
the rescue. Maroupiot, was prompt
ly sandbagged and rendered uaconsci
GUS, but his Intervention gave his
dollarship chance to regain his feet
Then two Of the thugs ran away. Then
Clark's ability as knocker came into
play and he promptly floored the third
assailant with a blow on the mouth
which made him spit out his teeth.
Clark then drove the unconscious cab
by to his hotel and summoned medica
aid. The cabby was soon resuscitat
ed and has now been made Clark's
chum and personal body guard, will
all he wants to eat and drink. Thu.
was it that the Paris thugs lost tn,
Doodle. Before they try the tricl
again they should get few pointer
from some late Montana legislator
and then fix up transom on improy
ed lines,
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-22

Some of our people are inclined ia
be discouraged over the report that
the Northern road will not be built
from Kalispell this year, but from
Jennings. There is no reason tc
feel that way. because Kalispell will
benefit directly from that new road
even from Jennings, in more ways
than one. Every merchant in this
city will derive revenue from Jeu
nings camp, which will increase in
proportion to the population of the
junction point. Kalispell will always
be the metropolis and when anything
is wanted, here is where the people Of
the county will come.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-22

After scarcely three months of wed
ded bliss, Wilhelmina and her duke
are said to have had a serious dis.
agreement about money matters. The
duke wants Wilhelmina to pay his
debts. contracted prior to their mar
riage and Wilhelmina says she needs
all her money to buy hosiery and
gloves. The creditors have formed
a syndicate and intend to negotiate
the Dukes debts on the Amsterdam
stock exchange. If Wilhelmina per
sits in her refusal to pungle up, the
syndicate are likely to find negotia
tons rather slow.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-22

JAPAN TO HONOR PERRY.
Japan is preparing to commemorate
her modern awakening by erecting =
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establishments and wrote series n
articles giving observations of his
trip.
When he returned to his home q
flee he suggested to the president o!
the company the ACCESSIBILITY Of estab-
fishing free library and reading room
for the use of the employees.
A large room was set apart in the
Eagle building and library establish.
ed Standard books were purchased
and a very substantial nucleus of a
library was started. It was then ar
ranged that all books coming to the
paper for review should go into this
library, as we'll as magazines and
weekly periodicals.
The library has now been in opera.
ton about a year and there are over
1000 volumes on its shelves. The books
are carefully catalogued and these
catalogues are distributed among all
the employees of the paper. Not only
do the men and women and boys and
girls of the establishment have the
use of these books, but also members
of their families as we'll.
There are on an average of forty
books day taken out Whenever
books are sought whic.. are not in the
library they are Immediately bought
and placed on the shelves.
Every department OF the paper pat
ronizes the library and the boys in the
composing room have exactly the same
privileges and the same advantages
as the editor-in-chief. The president OF
re company. the editors of the paper
and the heads of the various depart
ments use the library in the same
manner as the other employees Of the
establishment. There are no favor.
ties and no exceptions.
The experiment has proven very
successful. It has helped to create
and maintain "a fine spirit throughout
the entire establishment. In may cases
owing to the intelligent suggestions
of the librarian, young men have start
ed on systematic course of reading.
On account of the tastes of the read.
er as shown in the demand for a GER
tain class of literature, employees have
been used to better advantage and
have been shifted about, so that the
round man would get into the round
hole. There has been no philanthro-
py in this work and no intention of
establishing charity or benevolent
institution.
The management of the paper be-
lieves that it is just as essential to the
growth and success of the establish.
ment as the care of the sanitary ar,
engagements. The men and women
who patronize the library become bet
ter educated, and it necessarily follows
that the better educated they are ths
better they will do the work that i:
required of them.
In this time of Carnegie's magnifi
cent gifts and the revival of bool
reading, the Eagle is very glad to b.
one of the pioneers among the publish
ing houses to establish for it's peopl.
a free circulating library
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ANOTHER FREE LIBRARY.

A little over a year ago, said Her.
bert F. Gunnison. business manager
of the Brooklyn Eagle, in an address
before the Get Together club, one
Of the editorial writer's on the Eagle
anxious to study the social conditions
among large industries in this country
and to ind out at first hand what EN-
ployers were doing for the benefit Of
their employees, visited several large
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-22
NOTICE.

have sold my business in the EN-
ployment company in order to devot
my entire time to real estate and 10
eating. Anyone wishing to buy or sci
land or timber will save money b
calling on me at the city egineer'
once, In the Ford Block.
GEORGE w. BUSH.
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A promising feature of the new road
to the coal fields is that it will cheap.
en- the rates for coal in this valley
and give us a much better quality at
a lesser price.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-22
Look At This.

Don't you need a new spring suit
l have a fine line of imported and
domestic novelties for spring and
summer trade. Come in and see my
stock, and let me make you spring
suit w. L. Smith.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-22

We have a large line of the lates
styles in Ladies' and Children's Fine
Shoes, and prices the lowest at the
New York Store.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-05

in other prisons. He had been able to-
escape from the grim confines of his
prison house and had been traced by.
blOodhounds and brought back to serve
his time. His hand was turned against
organized society. To him human life
was a pawn in the desperate game of
existence. He was made the cellmate
Of Clinton Dotson. and together the two
men devised a scheme in which treach-
cry, murder, forgery and all the villain
Gus craft of experienced criminals would
be called into play. The plot was ar
ranged, perfected, and upon McArthur's
release from prison was carried out.
Then justice took the trail of Macarthur,
followed him from place to place, caught
and arraigned him and finally brought
him to the gallows. A few days later
Clinton Dotson, in prison for the term
of his natural life, was taken from jail
and tried, convicted and sentenced to
hang-a principal in the murder of his
father.
James Macarthur has apparently the
vicious and the humane mixed in his
composition in a strain that leaves him
partly good and wholly bad-a human
paradox When he killed Dotson he had
three days start of the officers Of the
law. This period elapsed before the
body of the old man was found cold in
death on the floor of his cabin. Me-
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cruel and reckless crimes all proclaim
him a character which the world can
easily spare. The trial that sent him to
the gallOws disclosed a chapter of crim-
inal history that will linger long in the
memory of those who followed the evil.
dence.
A Remarkable Case.
Without exaggeration this was one of
the most remarkable cases ever brought
before jury in Montana. James Flem
ing, also known as James Macarthur. end
Clinton DOtsOn were accused of the muir
der OF Oliver Dotson, in Washington
gulch, Powell county, February 10, 1901.
Washington gulch is an old placer
mining camp where placer mining has
been carried on for about thirty years.
1t is situated at the upper part of Ne
vada valley and about fifteen miles north
of Avon, on the Northern Pacific rail-
road. But few men reside in this camp,
but what few are there are old men,
who have generally lived in the gulch
for over thirty years; old men. who came
there in an early day from far different
parts of the world, from Ireland, Scot
land and England and other parts of
the globe, men who, while they have the
characteristics of men who have long
lived in old placer mining camps. are
the soul of honor and truthfulness. They
are mentioned because they furnished
much of the important testimony in the
case.
In order to properly. explain this case
it is necessary to go back few years
and bring forward another crime. One
of the old placer miners who had lived
for many years in that neighborhood
was an old man by the name of Edgene
Cullinane. He lived in American gulch.
about three miles east of Washing ION
gulch. He was murdered in the summer
Of 1899, and the circumstances of his
murder aid in explaining the murder
of Oliver Dotson.
oliver Dotson. Called Captain Dotson.
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wH.TRIeeETT
ASST PROSECUTION

arthur had means of travelling on trains
known only to those who have led the
life of a tramp and an outcast, and could
easily have made his way to place so
far remote from the scene of his crime
that he might never have been captured.
But with the same perverseness that
led him to break the law, and time after
time return to the penitentiary, Nc
Arthur remained near the scene OF his
crime. A friend of McArthur's. named
Berry, lived in Missoula county. There
was comely daughter in the Berry
family, and an attachment had sprung
up between Macarthur and the girl be-
fore he went to prison. The mutual at
tachment still existed when the gates
swung open to allow Macarthur to go
free. When he killed DOtsOn he doubt
less meant to escape from the state by
the shortest possible route. but he per-
suaded himself that he might tempt fate
and delight his wayward heart by visit
to the Berry ranch on his way out of the
state. 1t was while at the home of the
Berrys, lingering when his cautious in
stincts told him that he should be gone.
that Macarthur was captured.
The plot and incidents OF the career
Of Macarthur make story as checkered
and strange as can be told in words.
His life and wanderings, his trials and
penalties, his vicious associates and
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written letter for the Inter Mountain
which you can publish, that is all I
have to say. Yes, I know my brothers
Will from Lisbon, S. D., and John from
Butte are here. have not seen them
yet. I expect them tonight. l will not
say how 1 will die, wait and see; they
say they will let me make a statement
at the scaffold. I will then say what
want"
Fleming grew confidential with Sheriff
Mcmahon and Undersheriff Dee last
night and told them he had a wife and
two daughters, one aged Is and the other
IA, in South Dakota. He said they never
wanted while he had anything. why
once" continued Fleming, II held man
up in Helena and took $400 from him and
expressed every cent OF it to my family,
going broke myself, that's the kind of a
man 1 was to my folks. Fleming also
told Sheriff McMahon that he had been
expecting Jones OF the Curry gang which
held up and robbed the Great Northern
at Malta to come with pas and break
him out of Jail. He admitted asking
many persons for poison and said he
might yet cheat the gallows.
Sheriff Mcmahon stated that he had
frequently received word of plots to
elIllcT llDGTdtc T lCHllH6 VI put AS0"S a.
his disposal for ending his life. He said
he felt satisfied, however. that the death
watel composed Of Charles Aspling at
night, and former Mayor H. G. Walton
of Butte during the day would be able
to take care of that part of the matter
| and see that the law took it's course.
During the morning Fleming was visited
| by his spiritual advisers. the Rev.
Phelan of this place. and Rev. Aiken of
| Philipsburg. They will be with him to-
| night and again tomorrow morning,
when Fleming will receive the last sacra-
ment.
Story Of the Crime.
The story of the crime for which
James Macarthur hangs tomorrow reads
like the creation of the fertile mind of
| a novelist Without establishment and
! told in a plain, straightforward way,
! the tale is weird and enchanting. A sue
cession of crimes lead up to McArthur's $
doom. Clinton Dotson, for whom Nc
Arthur committed the murder which
brought him to the gallows. was party
to the killing of Eugene Cullinane in
| Washington gulch, near Anaconda, In
1899. After a chase half way across the
state, Dotson and Ellis Persinger were
captured with incriminating evidence Of
a circumstantial nature upon them, and
were tried and sent to the penitentiary.
Dotson went to prison for life and was
thrown in the company Of hardened in
mates of the Deer Lodge institution
who were not less murderous at heart
than he.
| It was in the penitentiary that Clinton
| Dotson first met James Macarthur. The
latter had served time in Deer Lodge and
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-05
WORDS DENY GUILT.
Macarthur Makes Final Statement---He Will
Go to His Death BrayeIy---A|I Pre-
pdrdtionS Are Complete.

tention to a new feather pillow on his
bunk and said he was willing to give it
up to any one who wanted it.
Fleming's attention was called to
statement in a morning paper to the eff
feet that he treated death as a joke.
He became slightly angered, losing con-
troll of himself for moment and re-
vealed his true feelings.
could I regard death as a joke" he
asked. could any man; it is serious
thing; I am going to met my Maker
because people want me to. I am inno-
cent of the crime for which my life
must pay the penalty but who cares?
Some day the world will know of my
innocence; my friends will attend to
that and unless they do hope it will
be given as much publicity as the story
of crime for which I must hang. I have
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was about IS years Of age. In an early
daE he was a steamboat captain. run.
nh|g up and down the Mississippi river.
Later he drifted into South Dakota,
where he lived for many years. and was
there known as peculiar though strong
character. He raised large family.
ami part Of that family was Clinton
DotsOn, son, born beneath an evil
star about fifty years ago.
Old man Oliver Dotson came to Ameri.
can gulch five or six years ago, and up
to the time of his death was engaged in
placer mining. He and his law.
Edward Cachelin, We're quietly living in
American gulch in the summer of 1899.
engaged together in mining. Edward
Cachelin lives now at Spearfish. $. d.
He is a man of the very highest honor.
and during his absence last summer
from his home in Dakota the people
there elected him to a high and respon-
sible office.
Two Desperate Men.
While Oliver Gotson and Cachelin were
living in American Gulch in 1899, Clinton
DOtson, a son of Oliver Dotson. appeared
upon the scene bringing Win him Oliver
Benson, a grandson of Oliver Dotson-
These two, Clinton Dotson and Oliver
Benson, remained in American gulch for
sever al weeks, wien they left with a span
of small horses and a wagon. going to
Helena. A few days after they left, Eu.
gene Cullinane was found to have been
foully murdered. A few days after this
Clinton Dotson, Oliver Benson. and a
man fy the name of Ellis Peisih2er were
arrested near Bozeman, having the same
team and wagon viii h Clinion Dotson
had taken with him froah American
guloh and at the time they We're arfeste@
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-05
LAST STATEMENT OF McAhrHUR ALIAS FLEMING.

STATEMENT OF McAhrHUR ALIAS FLEMING
Inter Mountain was given to
Of Lodge
lasta uhorized OF condemned
public wish to read these
will be found about this awful
thankful for is that
my The public must know
by and sold through this court But
those who falsely against me- Even Miner
falsehood that he to- and
hope life this EARTH for
wiuc a judgment day for ALL
am 10
Of justice
that has fastened
II brother VIII not to let two
my Ask them all to keep the
news my bless all forever
DeerL JAIL Sept. g. JAMES FLEMING"
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Continued on Page Four1
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-19

| greater part of her life in Its suburbs. She is almost equally familiar also with | New York city, in the vicinity of which she has spent many years. From child 1 hood Mrs. Cheever has been a fluent | writer of verse and prose fiction. With in the last twenty years she has writ ten about twelve hundred short stories for different newspapers, religious and secular, brief editorials of a much greater number and twelve books. Mrs. Laura E. Richards, whose "Geoffrey Strong" is among the holiday publications of Dana Estes & Co.,, has written in all thirty boI1s, and her read CTS are now in their second generation. Her previous stories have sold more than half million copies.
 Leslie's Monthly announces that 1t will celebrate the twenty fifth anni- versary of it's birth by publishing special number of one hundred and six ey-eight pages, lavishly illustrated, both in colors and black and white. This number will be likewise notable by reason of it's contributions; the opening chapters of new novel by the author of Richard Yea and Nay" "The Race for the Poles" descriptive article by 4NduoGIl, anu d ilutuDGI OL OluSl lSd- lures which make this ten-cent maga- zine worth many times its price.
 Those who rail at current literature as morbid find fresh fuel for their flames in the animal stories so preva- lent to-day. There is some reason for the attack, for if Adam had read half a dozen of these stories at random be- fore he came into the animal world, he must have supposed the life of fish, fowl and brute melancholy in the ex- treme and always ending in tragedy. It is pleasant to. see that O. G. D. Rob- erts, who gave the original impetus to the whole subject, has recognized that in the struggle for survival, the Attest at least do survive and enjoy them selves. His story of the great owl in Leslie's Monthly for November is proof positive of this, and 1t certainly reads truer than any animal story we have seen.