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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01

certain claims of the First National
bank, also of Miles City, held against
the bankrupt firm Of McIntire &. Mid
dleton. The claims objected to ag-
gregate about $4,000 and objection
to their allowance is made on the
ground that the bank occupies the
position Of a preferred creditor and
should surrender the money it has
received from the bankrupts before
being permitted to share in any divi-
dends that may be declared for the
benefit of the creditors of the bank
rupt firm. Pending disposition of
this contest no action will be taken
jim the matter of the other preferred
Creditors, of whom there are about %.
The London, Ont, Free Press of
September "a contains an account of
the death from wounds received in
a fight with Beers of Lieutenant
George M. Skirving of the Imperial
yeomanry. Deceased was a brother
of A. F. Skirving, for the past foul
years a resident of this city, and en-
listed in the S%trathcona Horse when
that famous organization left Canada
for service in South Africa. He COM
manded the Moffatt relief expedition
which in 1899 spent nearly five
months in the wilderness searching
for a party of miners lost on the
peace and Mackenzie rivers route to
tie Klondike. Through the influence
Ct Lord Strathcona he received a
commission in the regiment to which
he belonged when he died.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01
FOR NEXT SPRING..
Northwestern Roads Planning
Boom immigration Movement.

Boom immigration Movement.
Northwestern roads, soys a st.
Pcrl paper, r commencing the i'm
migration campaign preliminary to
next springs movement which, it is
expected, will make a high water
mark for many years to come. Pres
ent plans include the sending of sew
elal first class immigration men into
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illirois, Iowa
and possibly farther southwest. The
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
will pay special attention to immigra-
ton for Washington, Oregon and
Montana in addition to their regular
work, while the Soc will send a very
large number of people into the Da-
kotas.
The number of ~prcspectors who are
Investigating the territory along the
SEQ both in North and South Dakota
is very large. Representatives, from
various states sent out by prospec-
tive colonies or land syndicates have
been numerous in the last three
weeks. Aided by the good crop this
year immigration into the northwest
is partly carried along by the good
words of these advance agents and of
people who have become settlers in
the northwestern states within the
past few years. Syndicates which
made large purchases CT land in the
northwest last spring are making i'm
m%igrations plans of their own.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01
WINGED BY A POLICEMAN
OFFICER DULIN FIRES THREE
SHOTS AT A MAN.
Tryed the s%printing Game and
Would Not Stop When Com
manded to Do So.

The numerous thefts from the
trains of late caused an order to be
Issued by Chief Warner to the mem
bers of the police force to keep a
sha.p lookout abort the ri,ht trains
ard depot platform. Last night on
the arrival of the train from the west
Officer Dulin saw a man making off
with a light ove1coat on his arm that
judging from the mans appearance
and the rest of his clothing, was in
strange company. The officer stopped
him and made some inquiries Ct him.
He claimed to have just come from
Livingston, but Wnen the officer ask.
ed him if he had paid his fare, said
he rode the rods. This looked more
suspicious than ever, for the police
man could not e how a man could
manage to ride the rods with a light
overcoat on his arm, from Living
ston to Billings without getting the
garment soiled or dusty. He asked
the man to accompany him into the
day coach, which the fellow started
to do. But when the officer, who was
in the lead, mounted the platform his
man took to his heels. The officer
was after him almost Instantly.
To the command of step he paid no
attention and Policeman Dulin got
out his gun End fired three shots. He
says he did not try to hit him with
the first, but as the man did not
slacken his pace, tried to get him in
the legs, and at the third shot sue
ceeded.
A crowd soon gatherer lea the fire
hell where the man fell, attracted by
the shots, and the man was carried
to the Office of DR.. Armstrong where
it was found that a bullet had taken
effect in the leg between the knee and
ankle. He gave the name Of John
Brown.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01
SELLS NEW BERRY.
Agent Works Smooth Game On Car
bon County Ranchers.

A fakir has been travelling through
Carbon county taking orders for a
new kind of berry which he dubs the
"Artic berry" To induce the giving
of orders he has a bottle containing
an alleged sample of the berry, that
he claims was raised near Eozeman
and is the result of crosses between
various wild and domestic berries.
In color the fruit he exhibits resem-
bles an orange and is about three
times the size of the biggest straw
berry ever seen in this latitude.
Several parties to whom he tried
to sell plants became suspicious and
wrote to the experiment station of
the agricultural college asking for in
formation concerning the valuable
berry. Professor B~lankenship, botan-
list of the college, wrote to the Red
Lodge Picket as folloys:
"Now, while the gentleman peddling
the berry in question may be the
agent Of a responsible nursery and in
PRODUCING some useful fruit under a
mistaken impression of its origin, we
can positively affirm that any man
knowingly making such statements
as those attributed to him by our
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01

ton, he missed his grip" which con-
tanned a valuable lot of machinist's
tools. He returned to the city and re-
ported his loss to the police. Search
for the missing valise was instituted
and yesterday morning Sergeant Tay-
lor found it hidden under one of the
warehouses near the depot. Nothing
vas missing from it's contents, the
thief evidently having left it there
while awaiting a favorable time to
make away with it.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01
LIBRARY DEDICATION.
Programme of Exercises Arranged for
This Afternoon.

Today the Parmley Billings Memoir
ial library will be FORMALLY dedicated
and turned over tJ the city. Mr..
Frederick Billings TIE donor, and Mr..
and Mrs. Kilner, tie former one of
the trustees CT the Bill rgs estate,
will arrive from tie cast this morn
ing on the North Coast Lin tied" and
will be the guestsI Of the city during
their stay, which, will be no longer
than until tomorrow morning, when
they will leave fir the wesa
The programme Of the formal ex-
ercises will take b'-ce this afternoon
at the opera house. The doors will
be opened at 2 o'clock and the exer-
cises will begin half ar hour later.
Following is the programme:
Music-Orchest4a. ..
Address-Judge J. r. Goss.
Presentation Of deed of gift-Fred-
erick Billings.
Acceptance-Mayor w. B. George.
Selection-Billings Quartette.
Address-Dr. james Reid, Presi-
dert of the Montana Agricultural col
lege.
Selection-Billirgs Q%uartette.
Address-Hon. w. F. Sanders.
Observation-Disclosures.
IL the evening q reception will be
rendered in the library to Mr.. Billings
ard Mr.. and Mrs. Kilner, aId which
will last from 1880 to $50 o'clock.
All citizens and visitors in the city
are cordially invited to attend both
the exercises and reception.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01
GOT IT BACK.
Thieves Steal Valuable vaIise From
Traveller.

Of late a number of thefts of valises
and other property have been report
ed by passengers stopping at the
Northern Pacific depot. The larcen-
les are committed by the many hobos
and tramps who hang about the sta
ton and enter the cars while the oc-
cupants are out on the platform.
Last Sunday night P. ]. Lenehan Of
Butte arrived from the west and left
the car long enough to enable him to
get a cup of coffee at the depot lunch
counter. When his train reached
Huntley, where he intended to change
cars and go south over the Burling-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01

correspondent from your section is
a fraud and subject to prosecution
under the laws of the state. There
is to my knowledge no plant known
in horticulture or botany as the Artic
Berry and none of the books on the
subject available make any reference
to it. Moreover, any cross between
such different plants as the buckle
berry and wild cherry or the straw
berry is scientifically impossible, and
the fact that the plants are to be de-
livered in the fall, instead of the
spring, as is here customary, is itself
suspicious. We are unable to find
that any of these remarkable plants
are grown in this vicinity, although
they seem to have been sold in some
parts of this and the Madison valleys.
I'VE hope the gentleman in ques-
ton will kindly forward some of the
plants to this station at the usual
price and, if they prove as represent
ed, we will endesvor to make known
his name to fame as we'll as the
plant so remarkably derived. Other
wi1e, we would be glad if some inno-
cent purchaser will fcrward us sam
pies, that we may he able to deter
mine what is being sold under this
namo and warn the public against
what d to be a plausible fake"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01

From Sundays Daily Gazette.
I. D. ODonnell has returned from
his visit to Lake basin.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-01

Calling cards at Gazette office.
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
OLD CASE AGAIN DECIDED.
Bonds Tor Private Purposes Not
Made Valid by Legislation.
SUCH BONDS DECLARED VOID.

ST. Louis, April ia legislature
cannot make private purpose pub
lie purpose by its mere fat, is one of
the main points in opinion handed
down by the United States court of
appeals The case that of w s.
Dodge against the township of Mission,
Shawnee county, Kans-, appealed from
the United States district court of
Kansas by Dodge The action
brought by him on coupons cut from
township bonds issued under an act of
the Kansas legislature to encourage
the erection of mills and the manafac-
ture of sugar and syrup of sorgh um
cane, an authorizing townships and
cities of the second and third class to
subscribe for stock in such sugar fac
tories and to vote bonds for this pur-
pose Under the act, every company
receiving the benefit of the bonds
required to retain 10 cents from the
purchase price of every ton of cane,
and pay it over to the treasurer CT the
township, to be applied in the payment
of these bonds The act declared that
all mills receiving such aid were public
mills and should manufacture the
sugar syrup for customers who
furnished cane, and that they might
charge a toll for this manufacture.
Under this act the township of Mission
issued thirty bonds at $500 each
September 16, 1890 OF these, Dodge
bought twenty-five. and payment was
refused the coupons. He brought
suit, and to his allegations a demurrer
was fled and sustained, that they
were insufficient in law to uphold his
case.
The appellate court affirmed this
decision, and in the opinion, said:
1.-The promotion Of the construction
and operation of mills and factories to
manufacture sorghum cane in to sugar
and syrup is pirate and not public
purpose The power of a legislature
to levy authorize the levy of a tax
and to create AID authorize the crea-
| ton of a public debt to be paid by
taxation is limited to its exercise for a
public purpose.
Township bonds issued for this
purpose, and the act of March /, 1889,
authorizing tn cir issue, are beyond the
power of the legislature and the town
ship and are void
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
The American Proposition.

Washington, April 16.-There is rea-
son to believe that the kernel of the
American proposition touching the
distribution of the indemnity funds
between the powers is found in a sug-
gestion that the allotment be made
npon the basis of the number of troops
actually employed by each power in
the relief of the 1egationers. By this
scheme the forces brought into China
since the occupation of Pelxin are dis
regarded as being entirely unnecessary
to secure any lawful and unanimously
desired end On this basis Great
Britain would rank first, Japan next,
and the United States third, and so on.
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
Large Canning Plant Burned.

Oakland, Cal. April 16.-Hunt Bros
company's fruit canning plant at Hay
wards is totally destroyed by fire The
company's boarding house, SIS cottages
75 of which were owned by the com
pany, the plant. fruit warehouse and
1000 cases of fruit were DESTROYED
Six fruit cars were also consumed
Many families We're rendered home
less The loss will exceed S125, 600.
The factory was being put in shape for
the fruit canning season, opening May
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
wants Negro Burners Arrested.

Leavenworth, April 16--A1fred
Alexander, father of Fred Alexander,
the negro who was burned at the stake
for the alleged assault and murder of
Miss Carrie Forbes and for the assa ult
on Miss Roth, has filed information
with the county attorney against a
number of those participating in the
burning and asks for a warrant for
their arrest upon the charge of muir
der Before issuing the warrant the
county attorney will examine witnesses
under the recent new law
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

Limerick, Ireland, April 16.-Mr.
John DAILY, mayor of Limerick, in the
course of address to a meeting here
said his recent visit to Chicago con
vinced him that tIrish-Americans would
contribute nothing to the fund of the
party seeking the freedom of Ireland
through the parliamentary agitation.
He declared that it would not be de-
sirable to pin faith to constitutional
agitation at a time when EngIand-s
power trembled in the balance
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
Young American.

Paris, April 16.-Among the Boer
prisoners who recently arrived in
Lisbon from Marques. was a young
American. Mr.. Randolph Martinsen,
who described himself as a son of the
president of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad He was captured by
the British, but released as an Ameri-
can, on promising not to fight again
subsequently he arrested in
Lourenzo Marques at the request of
the British authorities under suspicion
of being agent He had resigned a
position in the U. S. army.
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
Ki1Ied By . s1iaing Damp.

Cripple Creek, Col, April 11.-News
has reached here that the family of
James Smith consisting of the father
and mother and four children. We're in
stantly killed IN their home by the sill
ding of the huge dump of the Granite
mine The Smith residence was 1oca-
ted just below the base of the dump.
The SHOWS had softened the dump so
that the top suddenly slid down, crush
ing the house. Hundreds of men
worked digging away the dirt and
rock. but it is not thought posi- BILE
that any of the victims will be found
alive
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
Kansas WIZ Sue Colorado.

Denver, Col. April 16.-Governor
Orman has received dispatch from
Washington, informing him that the
state of Kansas has asked permission
of the United States supreme court to
begin a suit in equity against the state
of Colorado in order to secure more of
the waters of the Arkansas river for
irrigation purposes The governor
will ask the attorney general to inves,
tiDate
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
NTtss Gonla.a NAM

Hiawatha, April 16.-Hiawatha has
Boys Club. Its object is to help boys
to get started right in life. One of the
women who is interested in the club
wrote to Helen Gould asking her to
contribute something for the club.
Miss Gould replied that, owing to the
many requests she received for money
she would be unable to give anything
printed blank was also sent giving
the analysis of the mail received by
Miss Gould in one week She receiveS
1903 letters
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
AMERICAN BEEFExcLUDED.
A Sequel the EnjoInfng OF shIprnsns of
Horses and Mules.


Horses and Mules.
Washington, April 13.-The depart
ment of agriculture has received dis
patch from Swift & Co.. of Chicago
announcing that they have been
advised that the English government
has excluded all beef except home bred
from the British army contract. This.
it is stated, is to be effective June
next
Swift & Co. ask the agricultural de-
partment for any assistance it can
render 1t is pointed out that the
action of the British government is
severe blow to American beef and
cattle producers, and means nos
alone and loss in government trade.
but it is feared it will serve very ma
terially toward melting prejudice on
the part of the people of Great Britain
against the beef and cattle of this
country.
No official information of this re-
ported contemplated move has reached
the department., according to stats
taken, however. looking to acquiring
to get
To demonstrate the Importance of
the move now said to be contem plated
it is. pointed out that the value of
exports of live animals to Great Britain
amounts to $40, 900, 900, while the total
of animal products exported from the
United States to Great Britain is stated
to be, in round numbers, 5000, 900, 900.
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
Canal Nexotiations Re-openea

London, April 16--Negotiations on
the Hay-Pauncefote abrogation of the
Clayton -Bulwer treaty are progressing.
though they have not yet passed the
tentative stage A representative of
the Associated Press has been informed
that they are being conducted on a
quid pro quo basis, and that no other
method of abrogation would be con-
sidered by the British government
The foreign office hopes that a settle
ment satisfactory to both the United
States and Great Britain will be ar
rived at before congress is reconyened
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

Cleveland, April 13--Mayor Tom l..
johnson has declared war gam blers
and gambling in this city. and has had
notice served on keepers of gambling
houses that they must close them.
Similar instructions to the police Off
cia1s have been issued regarding dives
and disorderly saloons. Uniformed
officers will be stationed at the en-
trance to these places, and the names
of all visitors taken
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

Atlanta, Ga, April 1.-THE famous
Ol<efenokee swamp in South Georgia
has been sold to George IIebard x Sons,
of Michigan The consideration, it is
understood, is S175, 900. The swamp
contains 1000 acres and its cireum-
ference is 137 miles The swamp, it is
said, was purchased for its standing
timber and, after it is cleared, the
land will be devoted to the cultivation
of sugar cane and cotton.
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
wilhelm Resigns one dignity.

Berlin, April 16.-Infiuenced by the
protests of the Evangelical church
council and the Catholic bishops, EN-
Peror William has withdrawn from the
great hall of the blind asylum at Wus-
terhausen the Masoic portraits repre-
senting the Empress as St. Elizabeth
and himself as the saints husband
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

The recent expedition of Messrs
MacIver and Wilkin in Algeria has
thrown light upon the prehistoric con-
nection between Libya and Egypt, says
the Youth Companion Resemb1ancea
Of pottery are regarded as establish
ing the fact that the ancestors of the
modern Berbers had close relations
with prehistoric Egypt. The explorers
say the Berbers are essentially a white
race and are the true representatives
of white Libyans pictured in the old
Egyptian wall paintings
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

The ancestors of the civilized natives
OF Formosa are immigrants from
China, who brought with them the Gus
tom of paying religious respect and
reverence to ideographs- These For
mosans call any piece of paper con-
tanning writing by the dignified name
of sacred remains and venerate it
as some superstitious Japanese people
venerate the cards symbo1izing deities
which are called Etofuda.''
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
R,se of President Greats,ns.r.

J. L. Greatsinger, who has just been
elected president of the Brooklyn Rap
i'd Transit Company, is a conspicuous
specimen of the self-made man. He
began life clerk in hardware store
in E1mira, N. Y, and later became
fireman on switch engine in that
city Since then he has served in
all sorts of railroad capacities Before
going to Brooklyn he was president of
the Minnesota Iron Company.
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
NIule Case Decided.

New Orleans, April 16--Judge Par
1ange in the United States superior
court handed down a decision dismiss
ing the suit brought by the Boer
represen atives here to prevent the
shipment of mules and horses out of
New Orleans to the British army in
South Africa. The decision is a lengthy
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.
The wife aud MOther-in-Law of Mr..
Charles KEYS.


Charles Keys.
CLARISSA, Mimi, April Is, Cspe-
ciaL mo family in this vicinity is
better known or more universally re-
spected than Mr.. Charles Keys, the
local School Teacher, and his estima-
BILE wife, and mother-in-1aw. For a
long time Mrs Keys has been in ill
health. Recently, however, she has
found a cure for her ailments in Dodd's
Kidney Pills.
4 cannot speak too highly of
Dodd's Kidney Pills, of what they
have done for me- said Mrs. Keys.
My life was miserable, my back
always ached, also my head. I was
troubled with Neuralgia in the head
and face and suffered extreme pain.
but thanks to DOdd's Kidney Pills. all
those aches and pains have vanished
like the morning dew and it now
seems that life is worth living. 1 con-
slider Dodd's Kidney Pills a God-send
to suffering humanity They may
rightly be named the Elixir of Youth
While speaking of my own case
and the wonderful benefit I have re-
ceived. 1 might also add, that my
mother, who is now old lady of
"A years and who lives with me. has
been troubled more OF less, with aches
and pains, is natural with one of
her advanced age. When she saw
what Dodd's Kidney Pills had done for
me- Sn0 commenced TO use CneIn ner-
self, and she says that they have done
her more good than any other Tnedi-
cine she has ever tried
This testimony is given in the
hope that others who may be af-
ficted as we were. may see and read
it, and be benefited by it
What Mrs Keys states in her letter
can be verified by reference to any of
her many friends in this neighbor-
hood Dodd's Kidney Pills have al
ready a wonderful reputation in Todd
County.
Nothing has ever cured Rright'S
Disease, Diabetes or Dropsy but Dodd's
Kidney Pills
The wisdom of one generation some
turns ont 4a -. tho foJlx- of fhe
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

Which lies south of Haiti in the Car
fbDean sea, and can be sighted from the
decks of vessels passing from New
York to the isthmus-was the only
o1tIving possession of the United
States until we acquired Porto Rico
and the Philippines.
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

alton. The suffering I endured pen.
cannot describe 1 was treated by
one of our most prominent physicians
here for five months, and found myself
getting worse instead of better. AZ
the end Of the fifth month he told me
that 1 had better go to the hospital
ss My sister advised me to try your
Vegetable Compound, as it cured her
of backache. I did SO, and took iE
faithfully, and am now cured OF my
trouble, and in perfect health, many
thanks to your medicine cannot
praise it enough, and would recon-
mend it to all who suffer from any
female weakness - Mrs. a. s. Ball.
461 Orchard St, New Haven, Conn
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
To Remove Grease Spots.

For removing grease spots. take
equal parts of strong ammonia, water,
ether and alcohol. To prevent the ring
forming about the cleaned spot. rub
with a cloth slightly dampened with
the same solution. In other words,
rub out the ring. If the cloth is too
wet, it will only make another one
Peoples Home Journal
The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

The firSt White child born on the
island of Manhattan is said to have
been Jean Vigne, who saw the
light in 1914. DR.. John T. Nag1e, chief
of the municipal statistics bureau, will
make this prominent in his forthcom-
ing annual report The confederation
of this interesting historical episode
comes from the memoirs of Jasper
Banker and Peter Sluyter, Labadist
missionaries who in 1879 visited Man
haitian island, saw Vigne then 65 years
old, heard his story and satisfied
themselves that it was true.