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The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10
Old NOT KNOW THE GRASS.
New York Children Who Had Never
fem tho Country.

se IN tho Country.
Its grass!"
mo, faint grass"
what is 1t, then?"
Its lawn. know it's lawn, because
you can walk on it,"
This discussion took place between
two fresh air boys upon their arrival
In the country short time ago. 1t Is
difficult to believe that there Is liv-
Ing child who does not know grass
when he sees 1t; and yet 1t Is true.
speaking conservatively, that there are
hundreds, II not thousands. Of children
living in the city who have never spent
= day in the country In their lives.
To them the word country has a
vague meaning. It's a glorious place.
Somewhat like heaven in their imagin.
ations. They get IDEAS Of it from Their
mothers and the missionaries who talk
to them about 1t. They hear that there
are big, big trees and green grass and
cows, whatever they may be-the ami
mails from which the milk they drink is
obtained. Then there are horses, OF
course. and chickens running about,
and in some places in the country the
people have pet rabbits. And then
there are streams to paddle In. whose
waters have rich. golden tint as they
flow over the round stones. And there
are hills. ever so high, higher than any
OF the houses In the city, and one can
see blue lakes and rivers flowing
through the valleys from their tops,
where the children may have an oppor-
tunity to go II they will be good. I'M
agine the vagueness Of the meaning Of
the word country" In the mind OF a
child who, from experience. doesn't
know mountain from q riveri
Another yOungster In the party with
the boys who were discussing the
grass. when he got an opportunity
knelt down on the ground, kissed the
grass and then got down and rolled
on it-New York Tribune.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10
WIll Bur, ON.

General Manager Kruttschmitt, Of
the Southern Pacific Compan1. who
has just returned from an extended
inspection trip over the line from San
Francisco to New Orleans. has an
nounced that al Of the company's To-
comotives will be equipped for the
burning of oil instead Of coal as ex-
peditiously AZ possible. To that end
storage tanks with . capacity Of So.
900 barrels each will be erected at
Oakland, Fresno, Mendocino and
other points south and east on the
line. ~
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10
LOG CABINS OF
LINCOLN AND DAVIS.

In the "Old Plantation" a feature of
the Midway at the Pan-American Elk
position, there are ON exhibition two
log cabins. One is the house In which
Abraham Lincoln was born. The other
Is the howell In which jeff Davis, Presi-
lent Of the Confederacy. first saw the
pie who flock to see these quaint relics
few know the vicissitudes Of the cabins
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10
Town Lots Il $4,000 Each.

.. A. Kjos. q local merchant of
Lewiston, Idaho, completed the pur-
the consideration being $13.5O0-Mr.
Kjos also paying street grade as
sessment tax, making the total con-
sideration $4,000. A handsome three
story brick store building will be
erected on the corner next spring to
cost @65, 900.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10
New RaIlroed In Eastern Oregon

New Rallroad In Eastern Oregon
Articles Of incorporation have been
granted to L. K. Moore, J. B. Hos
ford Ind ]. o. Elrod, to construct q
line Of railroad from Arlington on
the Columbia River, due south, to Con-
don, county seat OF Gillian County.
The capital stock 10 $4,000 divided
into shares Of 500 each. The right
of-way Il being obtained a. fast as
surveyed. The line win be forty miles
long.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10

Alfonso Albania
months United
Of
being Cuba
n
Mendoza
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10
Conaps 81 Italian f.lta...

The total population Of Italy is az
449, 754. That Of Rome Ii 1900; Ma
pies. 563. 721; Milan, 491. 400: Turin,
$50, $50; Palermo. 31O.852: Genoa. 2S4..
500: Florence. 2O4.02O.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10

You can always tell the shortcaks -
its strawberry mark.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
SOUVENIR OF TEXAS REPUBLIC.

Boston Transcript: The president
had some very interesting experiences
in Texas, of which the story is found
only in the local press. Thus at Hous-
ton an aged lady pressed through the
throng that lined the streets to the
presidents carriage and placed in his
hands a faded banner. She was rec
ognized only by a few of the older
of the onlookers as Mrs. Arson Jones,
the widow OF the last president of the
republic of Texas. The faded flag
was that of Texas when an indepen-
dent republic, which she had treas
ured since the death of her husband
in 1858. President Mckinley re-
ceived the flag gratefully and grace
fully. If Mrs. Jones shared the sen
timents OF her husband her act may
be considered as the final recognition
of the inevitable, since Arson Jones
was bitterly opposed 70 the annexa-
ton of Texas to the United States,
for ne' believed that the Lone Star
republic was capable of going alone"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
ARE NOT CONSISTENT.

K%alispell Bee: 1t i'll becomes labor
unions to talk about the coercion and
tyranny of capital in the face of such
occurrences as the one which took
place at Great Falls a few days ago.
An electrician employed at the Bos.
ton & Montana smelter declined to
join the union, and as a result he was
surrounded by a mob of 200 other en-.
ployes who intended by force, VIC
lence and coercion to make him quit
work. Of course the %non-union man
quit, but what a terrific howl the
unions would have raised had the COM
pany decided to discharge all en-
ployes who refused to renounce the
union. If there is any difference be.
tween an employer refusing to coun-
tenance union men and a union re-
fusing to c~ountenance a non-uniOn
man. it is not apparent to the naked
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
THAT EUROPEAN ALLIANCE.

The talk Of a European alliance
aimed against the continued encroach-
ment of American trade is causing
no uneasiness to the officials at Wash
ington. and the same may be said, in
regard to the men and corporations
who would be most affected by such
a combination. While the cable dis
patches have been filled with reports
of what Germany and Austria intend
ed doing in that direction, it is a no.
ticeable fact that none of the Auleri-
can representatives at foreign CAPT
tails has made report to the state
department that any negotiations are
under way having such a combination
as their object. David J. Hill, VINO
is acting secretary of state, has, per
haps, the most correct view of the
situation that has as yet found it's
way into print. He treats the entire
matter in a humorous way, ascribiug
the report to a certain element in
Germany which is anxious to arouse
the a%grarians and bring them into
line in support of the government.
Going further, he points out that a
trade combination with government
consent is an impossibility, as each
nation that might be approached to
enter into an alliance would immedi-
ately attempt to ecu the ear of
the trade in it's chief manufacture for
it's own objects, thus blocking an ALI
ance before it had ever formed
Mr.. Hill is no doubt correct in his
conclusion and looks at the matter
from the right point of view. But
aside from this there are other reas'
ons which may be advanced as going
to show the unlikelihood of any such
combination as we have heard Of SC
much in recent days. The European
nations which seem to fear American
competition the most are the very
ones who can the least get along with
out American trade. They find 4 mar
ket for their surplus goods on this
side of the ocean and at fair prices
while at the same time they must
look to this country for a large
amount of the raw materials that en-
ter into their manufactures, not tc
say anything of the food stuffs fol
which they are compelled to come tt
us. Even were lhey to make the ex
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21

Americans from participation in their
markets they would speedily find that
they are not the only ones who can
take measures calculated to curtail
Importation Of foreign goods. This
much has been admitted by the very
ones who have begun the agitation
against American competition and was
one of the very reasons advanced by
them that something should be done
by the European nations to check the
growing commercial power of this ma
ton. They are well enough %acquaint-
ed with American character and
American determination to know that
retaliation would be resorted to the
moment any attempt were made to
exclude American goods from Euro
pean markets. They know that we
would not be idle while they were
conspiring against lis and that the
results in the end would rebound to
their own injury.
No doubt some OF the rabid Ameri-
can baiters Of Europe would like to
see contamination of some such ALI
ance as has been exploited of late,
but they are not blind to the danger
to their own countries which would
result therefrom and will be slow to
carry it into actual effect, much as
they may talk and agitate.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
GREAT AND UNITED PEOPLE.

Philadelphia Ledger: President
Mckinley summed up a large measure
of truth in a few words when he said
in his speech at Los Angeles:
There are more men and women
loving our flag today than " loved
it before, and there is more respect
paid to it at home and abroad than
ever before"
We are one nation at home, and
the demonstration that has accompa-
MED the presidents tour from the
north, through the south, and seems
to have reached it's height on the Pa
cific coast, shows that our people are
united in loyalty, and the statement
that there are more who love the old
flag now than ever before is capable
of mathematical demonstration. We
are a great nation because we are q
united people.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21

AS has often been asserted, the
possibilities of gain may always be
relied upon to tempt men into COM
petition with the strongest combina-
lions Of capital. Just now a number
of Chicago men are preparing to
buck" the steel trust. A combina-
ton of capital representing something
like two hundred millions of dollars
is preparing to organize in antagon-
ism to Morgan's gigantic corporation.
The concerns to be gathered in are
the Colorado Fuel ana Iron company,
the Pennsylvania Steel company and
the Tennessee Coal and Iron compa.
ny. The aggregate capital of these
companies which occupy diverse and
non-competitive fielus, is given as
$~135,0OO,000 and have been sought by
the Morgan combination, but for some
reason the attempts were unsuccess-
full and now the Chicagoans are en-
ueavoring to accomplish a combina-
ton of them to enter the field as &C.
tive competitors of the United States
Steel corporation. The prospects of
success are salt to be very good and
the prediction is made that the prac-
teal monopoly which the Morgan COM
pany is enjoying in it's particular field
will soon be over.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
earl of Yarmouth

The earl of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that an always suggests bloaters-
has received judgment against the
New York Telegraph for defamation
of character, the Telegraph having
published some remarks anent the
titled gentleman to which he took eX-
ceptions, but he is still far from hav-
ing the benefit of the $4,000 which
the jury awarded him. The newspa-
per has given notice of an appeal, and
says it will continue to appeal until
the court of last resort has passed
upon the law points involved. Mean
time the New York papers are specu-
lating as to which side has received
the more advertising out of the mat
ter. On the stand the earl admitted
that he had no profitable theatrical
engagement; was short Of coin and
with no prospect of speedily getting
any, as the stony hearted managers
evinced no great desire to engage
him. The fact is that Yarmouth has
nothing, except his title, to recon-
mend him as an actor and for some
time he has been down on his uppers,
his value as a drawing card having
constantly deprecated from the first
night that Charles Frohman saw fit
to give him a trial. With the adver-
Using he received through the trial
he may now be able to secure some
sort of an engagement. if nothing
o than as a freak in some dime
museum.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
GANG is AFTER SMEAD.

Judging from the reports received
from that section, Agent Smead of
the Flathead Indian agency is the lat
est victim of the affidavit makers and
the fellows, who to hide their own
ineficiency and incompetency, are
continually fomenting trouble for
others also employed by the depart
ment or under it's jurisdiction and
control.
It is said that chief Carlos and
five other members or the tribe have
started for Washington to lay before
the Indian department charges
against Smead and demand his remov.
al on the grounu of mismanagement.
They allege that he is interested in
several stores on the reservation and
that for the purpose of forcing the
Indians to trade at them has institut-
ed and maintained a rigid quaran-
tine for weeks past on the alleged
ground that smallpox exists on the
reservation. The emmissaries of the
parties really behind the Indians claim
that no C u exists for a quaran-
tine, as only two cases of the disease
have made their appearance on the
reservation and they nav been iso.
lated and placed beyond all possibili.
ty of causing a spread of the disease.
Mr.. Smead denies the charge, of
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
SOURS ON FUSION.

After carefully studying the matter
and giving it long and serious thought,
the Butte Miner has arrived at the
conclusion that the time has come
when the democratic party must cut
loose from all fusion and go it alone,
the same as it did before the song OF
the tempter was heard and the par
ty became a mere prefix to the popu-
lists. Two national campaigns. says
the Miner, have shown that demo-
cracy hitched to populism is weak
ened, rather than strengthened. AS
an instance of the individual strength
of the democratic party, when unin-
numbered by extraneous burdens, the
Miner cites the success of the party
in the recent city election held at
Butte. The Miner does not want to
take the credit for the suggestion
that the time has come when fusion
shall no longer be tolerated, for it
says that from democratic sources all
over the country comes the express
sion of opinion that the party should
cut loose from the populists or any
other political organization and in
the future do it's fighting alone and
on strictly party lines. In view of the
undivided and enthusiastic support
which the paper has given him in
the past, the Miners article must
be interpreted as a notice to William
Jennings Bryan that henceforth he
need not look to it for any words of
comfort or cheer; that the parting of
the ways has come and that if he
insists on talking and advocating fus'
ion he will do so at the peril of los
ing it's support. AS the gentleman
very recently announced his unalter
able intention to preach and practice
fusion he will probably accept the
Miners ultimatum as a notice to get
out of the party and train with some
other gang. But what about the sill
yer republicans?
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21

Towne having been put in the way
where it seems he is to make a good
ly sun of money from oil lands in
Texas, 1t may be expected that Bryan
will soon lind himself deserted by an
other of his erstwhile devote. and en-
thusiastlc followers, and another voice
which has been heard in denuncia-
ton Of the p%lutocrat and money lend
it will be in another strain. One by
one the men who have been exalting
the honor that attends poverty and
attuning their voices in praise of the
man who has not the wnerewithal to
buy the foaming schooner so that he
may partake of the free lunch accom-
paniment are seeing the folly of their
former position and are s%crambling a
mignty scramble SO as to get into the
way OF the money devil and be de-
voured by him. Like Pettigrew,
Jones n some OF the others who
until recently have been inveighing
| against the power of the monied class
and groaning al what they were
| pleased to deslgna.e the oppression OF
the poor, Towne is beginning to hedge
and soon may be relied upon never to
be heard again in his specially.
| Verify, this is the age of the octopus,
for none of those who have been
classed as of the elect seem to be
able to escape it's grasp.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21

pledged it to the performance of
something vicious, illegal and PERM
cious. The pledge has been kept and
the people at large Are beginning to
reap the fruit in dlssention, discon-
tent, loss of business, idleness and the
ever-present danger of violence and
destruction of property. Glass legis-
lation is wrong in principle and is al
ways bound to result in trouble more
or less serious.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
NORTH CAROLlNA'5 HOLIDAY.

Yesterday the people of North Car
while although only locally observed,
yet marks the anniversary of an event
of Importance enough to give it a place
in the history Of the nation, as it was
in reality the forerunner Of the great
est of all American holidays, the glor-
ious Fourth of July. May 20, 1775,
theh people of Mechlenburg county,
North Carolina, through a committee
formulated the first declaration of
independence made on American soil.
At a gathering of patriots at Char
lotte resolutions were adopted declar-
ing the dissolution of the bonds
which existed between the British
crown and the colonists and absoly-
ing the people of Mechlenburg coun-
ty from all allegiance to Great Britain
and declaring that England cannot
be considered hereafter as holding n
rights, privileges or immunities
amongst u.s." The declaration of in
dependence which we celebrate with
so much enthusiasm and noise was
not formally adopted until over a year
later.
AS is to be supposed the people of
North Carolina and especially those
of Mechlenburg county are proud of
the historical event and they never
allow a year to pass without properly
celebrating it's anniversary. They may
go a little too far in claiming that
the declaration of independence which
they celebrate really t~ranscends that
of the year later, but the fact remains
that the declaration of Mechlenburs
was'+he first formal notice Great Brit
ain received from any portion of its
thirteen American colonies that its
sovereignty would no longer be rec
ognized: The nearest thing to ap
proach it until the declaration of in
dependence drawn up by Thomas JET
ferson and adopted by the delegate:
from all the colonies, was the actor
or MASSACHUSETTS colony, In LIZA, call
ing a general congress. But while
the Mechlenburgers considered them
selves free and independent, the col
onies continued to recognize the soy
ereignty of Great Britain and az sumet
no rights in conflict with that sover
eighty until after the action of thu
joint congress. 1t is true the declara
ton had no weight and was not rec
ognized by the colony of which thu
revolutionary county formed a part
yet it voiced the spirit of the colo
nists generally and who knows, bu'
what it stimulated the o impor
tant declaration made the FOLLOWING
year.
The ne0nle of North Carolina an(
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21

M~echlenburg. do right to observe May
20 as a holiday and they would be un-
worthy descendants and ~ccess of
those hardy men who assembled at
Charlotte on that day and defiied the
power of the crown and laid the foun-
dalton for that larger and greater
declaration of independence which a
nation celebrates.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
A BOZEMAN ARGUMENT.

The name in which otherwise
fair minded and intelligent men allow
political prejudice and bias to warp
their Judgment n AUS them to
make assertions which in others, es-
pecially if arguing from the opposite
side of the question involved, they
would speedily resent as silly and un-
fair, is really remarkable. An in
stance of this kind comes under the
Observation Of The Gazette in an
editorial contained in the last issue
Of the Bozeman Chronicle, IN unus-
ually able and honest publication.
The Chronicle is democratic and con-
%seQuently feels ~ to .e it's duty to do
and say all in it's power to discredit
the republican party and strengthen
IFS own side of the political fence.
The article in question was on the
subject Of WOOL. a staple of which
the people of Gallatin county know
not very much and in which they
are probably still less interested,
as theirs is not a wool growing com
munity, but it suggested a theme for
an article to Brother Boles. In the
preceding issue of his paper he had
taken a fall out of the Presbyterians
on the matter of their creed and the
alleged disingenuousness of the revis'
i%onists, and being still in fighting
mood, started to make it warm for
his political opponents. After com.
pairing the prices of the staple for
several years and showing how they
had alternately risen and fallen he
made the startling declaration that the
president is responsible for the low
prices that prevail. Realizing that the
bare statement might not be accepted
by some people without a measure Of
proof to bear it out, he boldly charged
the president with keeping down the
price so that the trusts might make
more profit. For some reason he die
not go into details the proposition
merited and refused utterly to show
how the president can affect the
prices of wool and how he Uses hi:
power as chief magistrate of the ma
ton to force the grower into accept
ing an arbitrary price he may fix
regardless of the law of supply AM
demand.
Probably some of the Chronicle
Missouri constituency will accept tn
statement as correct, simply becaus'
made by a democratic newspaper, bu
the large majority Of those who rea'
the article will not be satisfied witt
the correctness of Brother Boles
reasoning and will ask for a revision
They may even have absorbe'
enough of the propensity of their Mis-
souri, neighbors for demanding proc
that they may say with them, "shoN
me-" The syllogism by which tn
Chronicle probably arrived at it's COZ
clusion is: mckinley is president; /
a republican,; the price of wool is no
SO high as it has been; there ar
trusts and as the trusts are suppose
to be dominated by men in sympath
with the republican party, cons
quently he has issued secret order
that the price of wool shall not b
permitted to go above a certai
amount. The reasoning is clear an
anybody can see that Mckinley is t
blame because wool is not selling fC
as much as it did last year."