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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-23
NOT OUT OF The RUT
MIDDLE OVER THE CARLISLE
MINE STILL UNSETTLED.
W0RKMEN WILL GET MONEY
The Chances Are, However, That It
will Not Be Paid Before January
lone Man Offers to Assume
! Responsibility.
Development

The Butte-Anaconda Development
company has struck a snag in its at
tempt to explore the interior of the
Carlisle mining claim north of Columbia
Garden, and the proba bihties are that it
will not be able to get the obstruction out
OF the way before the first payment of
$4,000 on the bond becomes due, which will
he January l.
The Carlisle is owned by John L.
Lloyd. but a few months ago that gem
tleman gave w. D. Thornton a lease ana
bond on it for $4,000.
Then Hr. Thornton gave the Butte
Anaconda company a bond on it for $780,
O00 on which the first payment of 5000 is
to be made January I.
When the company first began opera
tions on the mine numerous persons sub
ecrbed for stock in it. but have failed to
take the shares and pay the money
Consequently the company has no funds
TO either make the first payment on the
bond or pay the workmen their wages.
which amount to about $1,000.
! Desperate Effort Made.
Last week a desperate effort was made
by some of the officers of the company
to get those who had subscribed for
shares to pay up. but it was of no avail.
r. A. Bell Of Helena. president of the
company, bought 10000 shares Of the
stock as starter when the company
was first organized, but a few days ago
he returned 10000 other shares with the
statement that he had not bought them,
but had taken them to sell.
He also said he did not intend to put
up another dollar towards the develop
n,ent of the property or the payment Of
the bond.
1t is claimed that there were $1,000
shares subscribed for and not taken.
Some of the officers state that if these
shares had been paid for as per agree
4nent there would be sufficient money in
the treasury to make the first payment
ON the bond and settle with the work
men.
One Man May Control
There is a movement on foot now to
throw the property into the hands of
one man, but whether it can be made to
stick remains to be demonstrated. This
fact is made clear by the following let
ter, copy Of which Attorneys Staple
ton & Stapleton mailed to each of the
stockholders Saturday evening:
1T is evident now that the Butte-Ana-
Fonda Development company is in bad
shape and cannot hope to make the first
payment on the bond on the Carlisle lode
claim. The company is also indebted to
the men for work to the amount of about
1920.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-23
POPULAR PRICE, PLEASE ALL.
Grand Opera House Well Filled to W.T.
ness 1.-THE Lottery OF Life

John Mcguire. the veteran manager oi
the Grand opera house. seems TO nav {
struck a popular chord when he decided
RI radnce the price of seats at his play
house. This was demonstrated yester-
oav afternoon and last evening. when
the place was we'll filled with Butte
people who are devoted to the theater
THE Lottery of Life story of New
York was the piece presented by Johh
$. Lindsay and a competent company.
The play is five-act comedy. and not
for a single minute did the interest of
the audience lag. The cast contains the
usual villain, the typical tough man of
a great city, the Would-be sport. and
all the other cha IA cters that go to make
a play of this kind. and it is but fair to
say that each and every part was re-
markably we'll sustained.
OF course. some of the characters are
a trifie overdrawn Gin what play are they
not), but in spite of that the audience
was we'll pleased and it seems more than
likely that the Grand opera house will
be Well filled during the engagement of
the company. which will continue all
the present week, including the usual
matinees.
A feature of the play yesterday was the
appearance in the second act of Joseph
Adams. a double-voiced vocalist, who
won prolonged appla use from the audi
ence. Another feature was the appear
ance of the celebrated Catalni brothers.
in their wonderful feats.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-23
COURTS BUSY DAY
JUDGE M'CLERNAN HEARS MANY
..s PROBATE MATTERS. 4
80.
MAKES DEGREES IN ESTATES
s :
Appoints Administrators and Settles
Accounts - Widower Adninistrat-
Fl
ing on Wife's Estate Regrets
He Has No Children.

Judge McClernan was occupied today
with probate and estate matters. Tfand
transacted considerable business of an
interesting character. A good many or
ders were made in different estates and
hearings had. Nj A
Public Administrator Collins 4 was
granted letters of administration il The
estate of Henry Klever. deceased. Kleyer,
died on December {, and he left> five
horses, 25 or 30 cords of wood, SIS in
cash, a cabin on somebody else's ground,
two sleighs. lumber wagon, harness,
II bales of hay, three sacks of oats aid
as many of bran, ~ of the value, of $1S4.
Final Hearing Set.
The final settlement of administrators
account and the distribution of the resi-
due in the estate of Christopher Kiss
berger, deceased. was set for January s..
An order to show cause in the estate
of W. S. Fogan, deceased, was continued
till tomorrow.
Ben Annear and j. H. Williams, guar
dams of Grace Nankivil, an incompetent,
were granted leave to invest $1,000 for
the benefit of Mrs. Nankivil's four minor
children. Mrs. Nankivil is in the state
insane asylum, and the children are
distributed among the homes of relatives
and friends. the petition for the order
said.
The estate consists of $4,000 from the
estate of the children's father William
| Nankivil. deceased. and house and lot
| in Walkerville. There are $557 in APP
| proved claims against the estate, and the
| guardians wanted to take these us and
! to expend $25 a month for the support of
the children, which was allowed. ~ =
| Husband Is Made Administrators,
| Charles A. Anderson, husband of Mrs.
Hannah Anderson, deceased, was made
! administrator of the estate of the latter,
and his bond was fixed at $780, Mr.. An
| derson testified that his wife had told
him. before her death, that she had no
relatives beside him. The estate consists
of house and lot in South Butte, bring
| ing in $40 a month income.
DEGREES setting the final account Hf1hl
| administrator and distributing the tstet}
| were made in the estate of Mrs. Hannah
Morrison, deceased. Mr.. Morrison. the
| administrator, testified that $500 was re-
ceived in the estate and that there was
| a balance for distribution Of $194
| ibid the deceased leave any children"
the court asked. -, :
mo; wish she had" the widOwer
| answered. and the orders We're made.
"A motion to vacate an order dismissfns
the appeal in the case Of maggie and
Jennie Lowe against ]. w. Hartman
was heard and taken under advisement
Attorney Lippincott represented Kari
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-23
WONDERFUL CHANGE.
COLUMBIA FALLS Is EXpERIENC.
ING QUITE A BOOM.
BUSINESS HOUSES RENTED
Great Northern Cutoff From jennings
Will Shorten the Distance and
Materially Lessen the
Grade.
Especial to Inter Mountain.)

Especial to Inter Mountain.)
Columbia Falls, Dec. 23.--Ten days ago
any person arriving in Columbia Falls
docking for a business room would have
been run over by owners of vacant store
rooms who were DESTROYS to rent.
During the past week there has been
a wonderful change in the condition of
affairs. Now parties wishing business
locations are arriving on almost every
train and it is safe to say that before
the new year everything will have been
rented.
AS is usual when there approaches the
construction of any important railway
work, the first to arrive are liquor deal
ers, who always seem to be able to get
an early tip on where contractors will
move their men and outfits. and as a
consequence they are on the ground
first.
A number Of rooms have been rented
to saloon men and one firm has not only
rented but is converting a room into a
concert hall. t.+
Engineers Are Cross Questioning. !,
Two contractors have arrived with
their outfits and it seems an assured fact
that in a comparatively short time work
will commence on the building of cut
of running west from this point to a
few miles north of Jennings, where it
will intersect the Jennings branch.
Engineers are rapidly completing the
cross-section work on its line and con-
tractors are said to be figuring on the
work.
From inside sources it is learned that
work on the Jennings branch will soon
be abandoned for the year and all the
men and outfits moved to this point to
be ready to commence work in the
spring.
Columbia Falls has apparently been
sleeping for number of years. but it
Is now more than probable that a new
era has commenced.
The new branch is a cutoff and will
shorten the running time of transcon-
tinental trains, lessen wear and tear and
consumption of fuel by no means small
item. The grade. which Is said to be
almost perfect, will do all this.
The present route runs to the south
west from Columbia Falls to Kalispe!l
and then northwest to Jennings. and Is
| about 16 miles shorter than the new
route. but as there are a number of ex-
tremely heavy grades the time lost Il
much greater than the new line.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-23

man. and q judgment was taken against
the latter in a lower court for failing to
appeary>and defend the suit. Hartman
appealed and the appeal was set for
hearing before Judge McClernan few
days ago.
Hartman failed to be represented by
his attorney again, and the appeal was
dismissed. When Mr.. Lippncott was
arguing for reinstatement today the
court said: II don't know that you ever
appear 1t doesn't seem so.''
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-23
Severe Frosts and Fog.

London, Dec. 23.-The inland counties
are suffering from severe frosts. Several
instances are reported of dwellers in
exposed localities having frozen to
death. Foggy weather prevails along the
coasts and in the channel. Traffic at the
mouth of the Thames has been stopped
by the fog.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-23

Merritt-A man shouldn't bother
woman by talking business.
Cora-That's right, dear. II you mean
business go talk to papa.-January
smart Set.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-23
Superfuous

Superfuous.
Maude-Do you know why C;1p;d
doesn't wear any clothes?
Claude-l suppose it's because he's.
such a warm baby.-January Smart Set.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
Told in a Few Lines.

StaYdard Oil people are gobbling up the
Texa| oil lands.
Reported that brigands tortured a
Frenrh priest in Thibib.
Pennsylvania viii appropriate 100000
for the ST. Louis exposition.
In many parts Of Europe river and
canal routes are legally regarded as high
ways,
Sea fowl almost exterminated along the
Louisiana coast and protective measures
are being taken.
1t Is estimated that since the war be-
gan $1,000 natives have been killed in
the Philippine Islands.
New York, with a total population Of
$500, GOO. expends in police salaries alone
more than S10,0O0,000 annually.
Texas House voted down a resolution
lauding Gen. Funston for his capture OF
Aguinaldo. The vote stood IS TO sc.
The first United States naval coaling
station to be established on foreign sol
has just been completed at Pichalinq ii
at the extreme lower end OF Lower Cali.
fornia, Mexico.
The torpedo boat destroyer Goldsbor-
I ougN. recently finished At Portland, Ore
attained speed Of 30.S4 knots over a
measured .1iie al Seattle.
The body 81 murdered babe was
found in the hallway Of the Wilhel:nina
a fashionable apartment house on Mich
( olas avenue. New York
The Spanish navy Is now among the
smallest % the sea powers Of the world
AT one time. more than a century ago, il
was among the greatest
An ordinance Is pending in Cincinnati
I for the establishment Of thee floating
public bath houses along the river. The
houses are TO be bu.it and maintSiped by
] tie ctr,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
DISASTER BY FLOODS
VAST DAMAGE DONE BY STORM
IN THE EAST.
Departing Winter Gives Final Blast
Which Reaches from Canada to South
Carolina Two Feet of Snow Falls
in Ohio.

Ohio. Pennsylvania. the Vireinias
Kentucky and other Southern States
were rayaged by the storm king Friday
and Saturday. Such disastrous state
of affairs has not been experienced IN
twenty years.
Business was at q standstill, mines,
factories and streets were flooded, wires
were Frustrated in every direction, fire
alarm and electric light service was Grip
pied, bridges were washed away, street
cars were abandoned ana railway trains
were stalled all over the country. In
cities along the rivers the inhabitants
fastened to places of safety, leaving their
property to appease the fury OF the
floods. Enormous damage was done by
the snow and rain, which fell continuous
~ for almost two days. High winds add
ed to the general destruction.
The floods in the rivers at Pittsburg re-
ceded after intlcting damage estimated
at between 100000 and $3,00O,000,
and throwing out of employment $4,000
workingmen. While there have been
greater floods there, there was never one
that caused so much financial loss and
discomfort. On the Fort Wayne the
worst trouble was a snow blockade be-
tween Salem and MassillOn, Ohio. This
began Saturday morning and tied up the
road in twenty-four hours. At 8 o'clock
Sunday morning the track was cleared
and trains began moving. The same
trouble kept the Cleveland trains of the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie late, five trains
having been blockaded at Window, near
Leavittsburg, for twenty-five hours. This
snowfall did not extend east of Newcas-
tie, but at Youngstown, Ohio, it was
two feet deep, and the drifting in the
cuts north of that city were up to loco
motive headlights.
Big landslides occurred on the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie, the Baltimore and
Ohio at Soho. on the Panhandle, on the
south side, the Bessemer at several
points, and the Allegheny Valley near
Franklin, Pa. The slide at Soho was $50
feet long, and it required fourteen hours
work to clear one track.
At Skobo, between Monaco and Ali
quippa, the Lake Erie received its most
serious landslide. One hundred feet of
the west bound track was carried fifty
feet down the steep bank, the whole face
of the bank slipping down into the river.
On the lines of the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio to Wheeling great
damage is reported, and both lines were
tied up for several hours. Five miles of
the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie
tracks were either under water or mud.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
BANDITS HOLD UP A TRAIN.
Masked Robbers Loot Express Car in
Arkansas Canebrake.

Masked Robbers Loot Express Car in
Arkansas Canebrake.
Six masked robbers. held up the ex-
press train of the Choetaw, Oklahoma
and Gulf Railroad which left Memphis
Monday night, the scene of the hold-up
being lonely spot four miles west of
the Iron Mountain crossing, beyond the
Arkansas line. The express messenger
and the porter were shot and the strong
box of the Wells-Fargo Express Com
pany looted. The booty was $4,000 it
is reported.
The train was a heavy one, and every
car was filed with passengers. The ex-
press company usually carries heavy
consignment of gold on this line, and the
robbers seemed we'll informed of the
fact. When the train reached the de-
serted spot the bandits, who had board
ed the rear car at the Iron Mountain
crossing, passed through the coaches and
met the messenger, G. T. Meader, just
as he was entering the express car. The
messenger had time to fire only one shot
before he was overpOwered and the weap-
on he had always carried for just such
occasions taken from him. He was beat
en- into Inconsistencies before he gave
up the fight Three of the robbers at
tended to the express car while the 9th
ers stood guard over Conductor Nelson
and. Engineer Johnson. None of the
passengers was molested.
The bandits stopped the train and pull
ed the engine and the express car 300
feet ahead of the coaches, and, blowing
up the safe with giant powder, secured
all TIE valuables in the car and escaped.
Word was sent to the convict camp at
Hubert, Ark. three miles from the
scene of the hold-up and bloodhounds
we-e set on the trail of the bandits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
WORST EVER KNOWN.
Never Before Was the Ohio Valley
Flooded So Late in the >eason.

Flooded So Late in the easOn.
For several days the Ohio river has
been a torrent of mud and water, and 1t
reached the height of ffty-two feet. 1t
has never before been so high this late
in the spring Hundreds of farmers along
the Ohio and the Licking will probably
be left destitute as a result of the floods.
The conditions up-country are no less Sc
rious than those which confront the resi-
dents of the large towns. Crops have
been destroyed and the losses will amount
to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The
torrent was given added fury by rains
and snow and it was feared the record
of seventy-one feet and three-fourths
inch. the mark reached by the river in
1884, would be exceeded. In 1897 and
in 1898 there were serious floods. At
that time the river reached height of
sixty-one feet at Cincinnati.
At Cincinnati the floods that have been
sweeping down the Ohio valley raised the
river two feet above the danger line and
the town was filed with the gravest fear
it has known for a decade. In seventy
nine of the city's churches members of
all denominations assembled TO pray for
divine aid in the crisis that seemed TO be
at hand.
The present food is the worst that has
ever been known so late in the spring.
The first week in April, 1886, the river
reached % feet 8 inches in Cincinnati
and that was the highest water ever
known so late in the spring. There has
been no food in the Ohio valley since
March. 1895. and this one will do much
moro damage now than il would have
done one or two months ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
I'M 7I>E{.lHELL

The amount of water flowing out of the
Nile is sixteen times that of the Thames.
The Roman roads, according to their
Importance, were from s to 30 feet in
width.
Three deserters from the navy were ar
rested, Corning, Y. Y. Government pays
$50 reward for each deserter.
Tom L. Johnson, Cleveland, has sued
the Leader for libel. 1t printed an aft
davit saying that A. Hubbell had been
given $500 for influencing voters in John
sons behalf.
According to a Beaumont, Texas, dis
latch, S1.250,000 was paid by an Eastern
sy udieate for the property of the Texas
Western Oil Company, formerly the
Southwestern Oil Company of Corsicana.
A b; nd Of rufians at Basic, Switzer-
land, armed with scissors, rushed through
the streets of that town recently, cutting
off the hanging plaits of all the women
they met. Some of them have been ar
rested, and heavy damages are claimed
for personal Disagreement"
The State flower of Texas IS TO be the
blue-bonnet, or buffalo clover. a wild
mower WHICH grows ii TIE greatest pro-
fusion over the whole State, at times Gov
ering many acres with q carpet Of blue.
It is. seen in masses, a most effective
blossom. The blue-bonnet grows about 4
foot high.
Hiram Cronk, the last male pensioner
of the war of 1912. still lives and draws
his pension in the town Of Ava. nine
miles from BOonville, Oneida County, y.
Y. He was born in Frankfort. Herkimer
County. y. T.. April %. 1860. and in
September, 1914. he enlisted in what was
then called the mass militia.
American Flour Manufacturing Com
pany Of Vinelani, y. J., has been in
corporated with 81, 10000 capital for the
making Of -four from sweet potatoes.
Capt. ". z. Horton e the United
States army has received 4 colonial dee
Grafton frCm the French government for
finding the remains of a French noble
man, killed by Filipinos.
In the Grodno and Yolin districts Of
Russia there are about ten small Roer
farm colonies. numbering from four hun
dred 20 I've hundred inhabitants all 1old
They were founded in 1920 by. emigranrs
from Holland. and the method Of living
is precisely the same as that Of their
relatives II South Africa.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
VESSEL FOR ARCTIC.
PLANS FOR A UNIQUE ExPLOR-
ING STEAMER.
ship in Which Captain Bernier Will
Make Five Year Polar Voyage Is to
Be Peculiarly Fitted Out = Gunner
Morgan Wants Divorce.

Plans are COMPLETED for the cOnstruc-
ton of the vessel to be built at Nancou-
yer, b. c., for Captain Joseph Bernier
who intends starting on a north polar ex-
pedition, to be absent five years. The
vessel will cost $4,000. ). b. Tyrrell,
Canadian explorer, will accompany Ber-
Bief. The new vessel will be unique in
some respects. 1t will have a perpen-
dicular double stern-pOst rudder to per
NIT of unshipping the rudder or propeller
at any time. She will also have a flush
deck, so as to avoid frequent flooding OF
the forward deck. She will have three
masts, with a sail area of 1000 square
feet, her rig resembling that of a three
masted tOpsail schooner. The masts will
be about 100 feet high, but the tOpmasts
are made to take down, reducing the
length to sixty feet when needed. The
vessel will be provisiOned for five years
voyage with crew of fourteen. includ-
ing a surveyor. astronomer, geolOgist, BIZ
Dlographist, artist, pinot grapher and doc
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
CHICAGO TO LIVERPOOL.
Steamship Northwestern Begins Jour
ney to the English Port.


Buffalo, Montreal, Sidney, Cape Bre-
ton, Liverpool, England. This was the
itinerary mapped out by the owners of
the steamship Northwestern, which sail
ed Wednesday from Chicago on its long
voyage across the Atlantic-the first
steamer, clearing from the port of Chi
cago, to carry the products of the West
to the markets of the Eastern hemi-
sphere. No formal ceremony, other than
the regulations imposed by the United
States government, marked the departure
of the vessel which is to link Chicago
by direct line with the ports of the old
world.
Harvesting machinery and Chicago pro-
visions are included in the first cargo Of
the Northwestern. The ship also carried
about $4,000 bushels of grain for Buffalo.
This was to act as ballast for the lake
trip. and it's unloading at Buffalo Light
ened the steamer sufficiently to let it pass
down the St Lawrence canals. At Mon
treal the place Of the grain was taken
by other freight, and the steamer sailed
for Liverpool with full cargo. The yes
sci was expected TO reach Liverpool in
twenty days after leaving Chicago.
Whether the saving in handling charges
will Offset the heavy expenses incurred
in the navigation of the new route to the
ocean is not yet known.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
BOYS LISTEN TO ROOSEVELT.
Vice President Tells Them About Kill
ing Mountain Lions,


Stick TO your work, boys. You owe
K to yourselves to use what is in you.
Never give up. If you do you'll sink, be-
cause you deserve it. Act square by 9th
ers, as you expect them TO act square by
you. Never do anything cruel to small
er boy or a girl. The brave man is al
ways tender and kindly toward others.
Boys, in life it should be as in a football
game, don't play foul. but hit the line
as hard as you know now" Thus spoke
Theodore Roosevelt, Nice-President OF
the United States, TO seventy-fve home
less boys in the West Side Boys Home
in New York. Roosevelt's father was
one of the founders of the home. The
fice-President told the boys how he shot
mountain lions in the West. The boys
eyes were like saucers. The mountain
liens are like some men," said Roosevelt.
They have bad regulations, but they re
not so bad as they are painted. The
hunting dogs would follow trail for
hours and hours. There's perseverance
for you! The fighting dogs would climb
the trees after the lions The lions would
knock the dogs to the ground, whack. The
dogs shook themselves and climbed the
tree again. There's pluck for you"