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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-03-05
FIVE MINERS KILLED
Accidental Discharge of Blast
Causes Disaster in Mis-
souri, Mine.

Joplin, Mo-, March Alive . men
were killed and two others seriously
injured in a mine accident in the
Engleside zinc mine in Center Valley,
eight miles east Of Joplin, today.
Seven men were IN the ground cutting
a drift from the main shaft. The five
men killed were confined in the drift
and the other two were in the shaft.
Early this morning two shots had
been fred, but the whole charge
failed to explode. This afternoon
while a box OF powder was sent down
into the mines inc of the men acct
IDENTIFY discharged unexpectedly the
shot and the box of powder was set
off, resulting in the terrible destruo-
ton.
A man at the surface of the mine as
thrown so feet into the air.
Center Valley is al isolated place
and details are not yet obtainable.
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United States to withdraw it's control
over Cuba at this time. He is on
record as saying only a few days ago
that if the American soldiers were
withdrawn from the island now he
would follow and seek an abiding
place elsewhere. The general is out
spoken in his opinion concerning the
unfitness of the Cubans at this stage
to govern themselves. He says an
arohy and revolution would follow
upon the heels Of American evacua-
tion of the island and that we would
again be compelled to invade it, this
time for our own protection and not
to drive out a foreign foe. It is be-
cause he loves Cuba and is chiefly
concerned for its welfare and happi-
ness that he is opposed to American
evacuation and surrender of control
at the present time. General Gomez
knows the Cubans better, perhaps,
than they know themselves and he
desires that they be protected against
themselves.
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IS NOTHING NEW.

It being something that is accom-
plished and now one of the laws of the
land it is, perhaps, a work of superero-
cation to say anything concerning the
Spooner resolution, but as the anti-ad-
ministration press may be relied upon
to continue Illuminating screeds
against the measure. it may not be
amiss to offer q remark or two in a
passing way. Although held up as
something SC closely trenching on i'm
perialism and absolutism as to obliter-
ate the line of distinction between a
republic and an absolute monarchy,
the fact is that the resolution is al
most identical with that introduced
by John Randolph and under which
President Jefferson governed the ter
ritorv embraced in the Louisiana pur-
chase. The Randolph resolution was
drafted and submitted at the instance
Of Jefferson and conferred upon him
the same power as is conferred upon
President Mckinley by the Srooner
resolution. 1t should be remembered
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that at that time the democrats were
in control of both houses of congress
and it is therefore but just to say that;
the resolution was purely a democratic
measure. Why it should be wrong for
a republican congresses almost one hun
dred years later to adopt a similar
resolution providing for the govern
ment of new territory is something
that, perhaps, some of the democrats
of today car explain. If they attempt
to do so, however, they will be forced
to acknowledge that all they have said
during the past few years in respect to
Jefferson was for effect only and that
he was not the model American they
have been trying to make the people
believe. Either this or they must be
honest and admit that they simply op-
pose the Spooner resolution and its
adoption because it happens repetition
Of the Jefferson policy is by republic
cans and that no matter how right it
may have been originally Wien adopted
the policy of a democratic admins
t%ration, it becomes unpatriouic and
imperialistic in it's application by a
republican administration.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1901.
MAYOR YEGEN'S STATEMENT.

Mayor Yegen in a published card
takes occasion to find fault with the
article which appeared in The Gazette
a few days ago criticising the board of
health for the manner in which that
body has been handling the smallpox
cases that have occurred in the city
this winter. As far as this paper is
concerned it cannot see wherein the
mayor has any cause of complaint.
The article to which he takes excep-
ton in nowise referred to him and
was not intended to apply to him per-
sonally or officially. 1t simply criti-
cised the board Of health for it's care
l~essness and in support of that criti-
cism cited a case of the night before
to prove that the charge was borne out
by the facts. So far as the mayors
animadversions of Mr.. Donovan are
concerned they also do not seem to be
justified. Mr.. Donovan, when he
claimed that it would take a micros-
cope to discover the board of health,
probably spoke, from observation.
But as the gentleman no doubt is
amply able to care for himself The
Gazette will refrain from further re-
marks with respect to him. 1t will
repeat it's former charge that the board
of health has not been as attentive to
the discharge Of it's duties as it should
be and as the gravity Of the situation
would seem to require. The removal
of the patient complained Of by The
Gazette, under the circumstances in
which it was effected, has not been de-
MED and of itself stands as a condem-
nation of the boards methods. Mayor
Yegen is also informed that it was
not Mr.. Becker, but The Gazette that
criticised the board.
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REPEALS A LAW.

Senator Tillman is happy. The
pension bill in which he was interest
cd has\been signed by the president.
A few days ago, relates the Wash
ington Post, MI. Tillman swore be-
fore Almighty God that he would not
let any pension bill pass the senate
until his own particular measure had
been acted upon. He had a constit-
uent down in South Carolina, named
jim Thomas, who fought in the Mex
lean war. He was a brave man, be-
yond adoubt, for he climbed the hill of
Chepultepec and helped to pull down
the Mexican colors and raise the
American flag. In another battle he
had his arm shot off. He got his
pension, but having in 1851 given aid
and comfort to the confederate cause,
his allowance was cut off. The SEN
ate agreed to repension him, but the
house held up the bill. That is, the
holding up process lasted until Mr..
Tillman delivered his ultimatum, and
then the bill was PASSED. Now pension
bills go through the senate as if they
we're creased.
lit sometimes pays" says Mr..
Tillman, "to show your teeth"
But the end is not yet, for the pas
sage of the bill is virtually a repeal of
the Law which debars a Mexican vet
eran from receiving a pension because
he sympathized with the confederate
cause. And there are thousands in the
| south.
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NO T SESSION.

The opinion expressed that the presi-
dent would veto the army appropria-
tion bill because Of his objection to
the Hoar amendment to the Spooner
amendment was, after all, erroneous.
Although not as acceptable as it
would have been without the Hoar
attachment, the president and cabinet
officers have expressed themselves as
we'll pleased with the situation re-
sulting from the passage of the bill, a
fact demonstrated by the prompt man
ner in which the president attached
his signature to the measure. The
Hoar prohibition of the granting of
franchises in the islands has weakened
the Spooner measure to a certain ex-
tent, but not fatally. The principal
objection to the Hoar amendment is
that it may give the Filipinos encour.
agement to continue their useless
struggle as holding out the hope that
eventually this government may re.
cede from its determination to hold
the islands and give them the same de.
gree of autonomy guaranteed to Cuba
at the time Intervention was made il
behalf of that island. In time, how
ever, they will be made to understand
that despite the amendment their pc
sition and that of Cuba are entirely
different and they will cease their op
position to the government that ha,
acquired rightful sovereignty owe:
them.
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CONSUMPTION BREEDING SKIRTS.

The fact that consumption is respon-
sible for one-ffth of the deaths in
Canada and that the percentage is CIV
ing evidence of becoming greater is
accusing our neighbors across the
border not little uneasiness and CON
Germ. The government has taken up
the matter and recently a tuberculosis
congress was held at Ottawa, which
was attended by all the prominent
physicians Of the dominion. After Civ
ing the question the prominence be-
slowed by their learned consideration
the members arrived at the conclusion
that the long skirts worn by women
were responsible for thousands of
deaths f.om consumption annually.
They declared that the draperies acted
as ~scavengers, which pick up and
cherish tuberculosis germs that de-
velop in the households. Not only the
microbes of consumption, but the
sputa of all diseases, the filth and
muck, the elusive germs that infest
public halls and hotels, the long
skirts, they asserted, appropriated and
sheltered until ripe to do their deadly
business.
Coming from authority so high,
there is no appeal from the condemna.
ton Of the long skirt and the woman
who eschews the nuisance and con.
fines herself to the more convenient
and clearly short skirt, Q SO much
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1t will no doubt afford unbounded
satisfaction to the Hon. w. A. Clark
to know that he has the cordial sup
port of the Butte Miner and that no
matter what Mr.. Knapp, Mr.. Heinze
or Mr.. Chandler may think or say,
the Miner proposes to stand by him.
Another source Of qualification must
be the unqualified and unstinted
manner in which that newspaper ex-
presses it's confidence in him as a
statesman, man and patriot. In view
of that rare exhibition of complete
and limitless faith Mr.. Clark should
do everything in his power to make
his term one Of brilliancy and patri-
otto endeavor. Even if after a time
he may grow tired of the onerous
duties a seat in the senate imposes and
feel like taking a day off, he should
not give way to that desire, but pitch
in with renewed vigor and determine
ton. The reputation of the Miner is
at stake and for the sake Of his Butte
champion he may afford to be wholly
unselfsh. 1t isn't every newspaper
that would care to hazard it's good
name and standing by giving such
high testimonials to one untried.
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ventiOn.

For unanimity, enthusiasm and
vigor the roasting which Admiral
Sampson is receiving from the press of
the country because of his action in
the case of Gunner Morgan excels any
thing ever before attempted in the
same line. If the drawing room
fighter is a subscriber to a press clip
ping bureau he need not concern him
self regarding the matter of dur
ing the years he may spend after being
placed on the retired list. With the
mercury at the bottom of the bulb he
can transform the circumambient to
the temperature of the place where the
fires are said never to go out by simp-
ly opening his sorapbook at the pages
containing some of the press com
,ments OH himself made in the closing
days of February and the opening ones
of March of the year Of grace 1901.
Even the explanation of his sister that
"Will" is not just exactly right ment-
ally does not tend to lessen the severity
of the criticism directed at him, al
though the explanation is, no doubt,
true. The letter to Secretary Long is
evidence that the author of it is either
a cad or an ass, who should be gagged,
bound and placed under restraint.
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A HOLE IN THE WALL.

New York Tribune: Trade records
are being smashed at a rafting pace.
That Of last year, in Jour foreign COM
MERGE, far surpassed that of the year
before, and will in turn no doubt be
far surpassed by that Of this year. All
over the world, wherever there is an
open door, the United States is forging
ahead Of all competitors, to their con-
s%ternation and dismay. The note
worthy circumstance is that this is so
under the Mckinley administration
and the Dingley tariff. How often
have we been assured that protection
was the insuperable obstacle to
success in foreign trade.
That benighted and barbarous sys-
tenn, we are told, was a veritable Chi
nese wall about us, equally shutting
out foreign goods from the markets of
the world. Yet incomparably the
greatest expansion of American foreign
trade, especially in exports from this
country, is occurring under the %stiffest
protectionist system we have had. It
is very puzzling. For, of course, the
Cobdenite apostles of sweetness and
light must have told the truth about
our Chinese wall. Unless, indeed,
there is a hole in the wall somewhere.
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during days that were fraught with
the greatest danger to the repblic,
when the very life and existence of
the nation were threatened. Tried in
various capacities, he was always
found equal to anything required of
him and his name will remain coupled
with those Of the men who rendered
the country its greatest service in
times when such service was needed
most. AS attorney general, secretary
of state and seantor he gave undisputed
evidence of his mental greatness and
his thorough equipment for public
life. AS a lawyer he was recognized
among the eminent ~jurists Of the land
and one whose opinion at all times
was authority. Enfeebled by age and
weakened by illness, the closing years
of his life were spent in complete re-
tirement and it was only occasionally
that his name was heard in public.
But during the time of his activity
and when still possessed of the wonder
full faculties and talents with which
nature had so generously endowed
him but few Americans enjoyed great
or prominence or more distinguished
regard than he.
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OF HAY.

A Washington correspondent writes
that it is authoritatively announced
that Secretary Hay is really DESTROYS
of being relieved of the portfolio of
secretary of safe and that it is extrem-
ely doubtful whether he can be in
duced to serve during the presidents
second term. Hay is quoted as saying
that he feels it due to himself to lay
aside the burdens of public office and
retire to private pursuits. He says
his health is such that he does not feel
justified in attempting to continue the
discharge of the onerous duties Of
secretry Of state any longer than to the
end of his present term. The presi-
dent, as is we'll known, is anxious
that Hay should remain as a member
of his new cabinet and is still hope
full that he may be able to induce him
to reconsider his resolution to retire.
Should he fail it is SAID he has already
decided upon a successor in the person
of Ambassador Choate.
Notwithstanding the criticisms that
he has been subjected to by the anti
administrtionists, Secretary Hay has
made an able cabinet officer and dis
charged the delicate and complex
duties of secretary of state with dis
tinguished success. Throughout the
Chinese and other questions that have
arisen during his incumbency he has
shown himself to lie an able diplo-
matist and possessed of a mind fruit
full of and guided by excel
lent Judgment. Through his skill and
sagacity this nation won many diplo-
matte victories and advantages i'm
possible of achievment by n with a
mind less clear and of less training in
the school of diplomacy. To him is
due the credit for the success of the
"open door, policy in the far east and
it was also he who opened communi-
cation with the American minister at
Pekin when all other nations having
representatives there had given up hope
Of aver hearing aught from their
beleagured and imprisoned plenipo-
tentiaries until such time as their
armies could cut their way from the
coast to the Chinese capital. This one
achievement caused him to be admired
and eDvied by every European foreign
Office and gave further demonstration
of the resoucrefulness Of the Ameri
can mind when it sets itself to the
task of accomplishing a purpose. He
may be classed with the ablest men
who have filled the position of head
of the state department since the day
of its creation.
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CATTLE MEN TO ORGANIZE.

Omaha Bee: Men who are inter-
ested in the range cattle industry OF
the west are just now preparing for
the convention which meets at Denver
next week, the object Of which is to
form an association to be composed ex-
clusively of cattle men. The necessity
for this action has gradually been
forced upon them, until it has finally
come to be considered almost absolute
~ necessary to the preservation of
their interests.
1t is not only the competition for
the range urged upon the cattle man
by the sheep owner that has compelled
the proposed action. All the various
r~amifications of the cattle business
converge now at a point which indi-
Gates the necessity for close association
and concerted action. Many local and
state associations exist, scattered all
over the west, but there is no central
body which can provide for the COM
mon interests of all. It is to remedy
this condition that the new association
is planned.
While much has been said of the
conflict between the sheep men and the
cattle men, there are other things to
be settled of equal Importance to all.
In the very outset, the encroachment
of agriculture on the free range goes
on year after year, until the once Inn
itless pastures on which the herds
roamed in freedom have dwindled
down to a narrow remnant. There is
still much land left which is unfit for
agricultural purposes, but it is not
sufficiently adapted to grazing to sup
port the great herds for beef furnished
by American growers. Here is one of
the first things that will engage the at
tention of the new association. How
to conserve the range will not be an
sassy question: 10 duSWoT. AuOtu0I
point which has received much local
consideration by the individual asso-
Citations, but on which no general &C.
tion has been taken, is the matter of
seeding the exhausted range, to the
end that it's grasses may be restored.
In this work the efforts of the united
cattle men will have to be supplement-
ed by the general government, for the
undertaking is too large for private
enterprise. The cattle men are also
interested in the preservation of the
water supply, and must secure among
themselves an adjustment of mutual
rights in this regard.
These are only a few of the leading
points which will come before the
Denver gathering. Nebraska, as one OF
the great stock-raising states of the
west, is vitality concerned in the
affairs of the proposed association and
should be we'll represented at the con
ventiOn.
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by American women, receives an en-
dorsement for good sense of which
she may feel proud. Once the long
skirt was popular on this side and
when women began adopting the short
walking skirt they had to u the
gauntlet of stupid criticism from the
old fogyish conservatism which stig-
matized the innovation as immodest.
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1t can hardly be charged that Gen.
eral Gomez is not loyal to Cuba or
that he has grown Indifferent to that
liberty for which he fought so long,
vet he is one of those who believes
aud a y it would be wrong for the
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COLD CURE

for colds in the head, chest, throat or
any portion of the body, breaks up a
cold in "a hours without interruption
to work. Will prevent colds if taken
when first symptoms appear. Price 25
cents. Sold by Holmes & Calhoun.
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REDUCTION.

REVENUE REDUCTION.
Omaha Bees The revenue reduction
bill finally agreed upon is OH the whole
a satisfactory measure, though it is not
to be expected that all interests will
be pleased with it. The tobacco and
beer interests, for example, do not get
as much relief from taxation as was
provided for in the senate bill. but
they have no reasonable ground for
complaint, since public opinion was
largely against any reduction of the
taxes on beer and tobacco. The chief
issue between the two houses was in
regard to the treatment Of these inter-
ests, resulting in a compromise.
The provisions of the measure that
will be most widely approved are those
repeating the taxes on bank checks,
certificates of deposit, money orders,
express receipts, telegraph and tele-
phone messages. These affect a great
number of people and if not generally
burdensome are more or less annoying.
The house conferees secured a triumph
IN having the tax repealed on all kinds
of insurance, the senate conferees
receding on all senate amendments.
It was apprehended when the bill was
sent to conference that an agreement
could not be reached, such was the
feeling Of resentment on the part of
the house at the radical action of the
senate in entirely recasting the bill
but the republican conferees-Messrs.
Aldrich and Allison on the part Of the
senate and Messrs. Payne and Dalzell
on the part of the house-evinced a
proper appreciation of the demands of
the public and of the interests of the
party and the measure agreed upon
encountered no opposition in either
house.
The estimated reduction Of revenue
under the bill, which will go into
effect at the beginning of the next
fiscal year, July J., is $41, 900, 900.
This is $11, 900, 900 in excess of the
amount recommended by the president
and secretary of the treasury as a safe
reduction, but it is not too large if the
next congress does not very materially
increase the expenditures Of the gov
eminent, which it is not likely to do
unless conditions arise imperatively
requiring it. There is nov a large
cash balance in the treasury and there
will be a considerable surplus at the
end of the current fiscal year. Assum-
ing existing conditions of business to
continue without important change
and no new demands upon the govern
mentarise, it can be confidently expect
ed that the surplus at the close of the
next fiscal year, June 80, 1902, will be
nearly as large as for the present year.
At all events there is every reason to
expect that the revenues of the govern
ment will be ample, if expenditures are
kept within conservative bounds, after
the reduction now provided for goes
into effect.
The republican party has fulfilled it's
promise to reduce the war taxes as
soon as it was found practicable to do
so. The reduction is less than the OPP
position to that party profess to be-
lieve should have been made, but it is
as much as prudence and safety dictate
at present. 1t is possible that the next
congress will find it expedient to make
a still further reduction, but it would
have been unwise at this time to cut
off more than $41, 900, 900 of revenue.
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WE GATHER.

Washington, March 4-Montana:
Continued cold, fair Tuesday; north
westerly winds. Wednesday fair.
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BY the death of Senator Evarts is
removed another of the figures promi-
nent on the stage of American politics