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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
RECOMMENDATIONS THE PRESI-
DENT WILL MAKE.
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
Document Said to Be Conservative
Regarding Cuban Affairs-Draft
Submitted to Senators.

Washington, Nov. 13.-President
Roosevelt, before leaving Washington,
submitted a draft of his annual mes
sage to several senators. Among
them were Senators Spooner and Gull
lom. On reliable authority it is said
that Mr.. Roosevelt will recommend a
tariff commission to investigate com
mercial and economic conditions and
consult various interests relative to
changing existing schedules.
That is about as far as the presi-
dent will go or the tariff. He will
follow the same lines is to dealing
with trusts that were announced in
his speeches. Publicity of earnings
and detailed information as to issues
of stock.
The presidents message will not
be radical, but framed on conservative
lines. He will again recommend the
bill of Senator Nelson to establish a
new department of commerce. Bust
ness interests generally are cautious
now, and there has been a period of
decided dullness since election. This
is due to the uncertainty on what
congress will do with pending reci-
procity treaties. Senator Cullom will
press the several treaties, including
the new Cuban reciprocity treaty. 1t
it believed the Cuban question can be
quietly adjusted without further par
ty wrangle, although Henry T. Oxnard
the beet sugar man, will have head
quarters in Washington for the pur-
pose of looking after that interest.
The new treaty will not contain
any of the Objectionable features that
were embodied in the ways and means
committee bill which, by the way, is
still pending in the senate finance
committee.
Senator Spooner refuses to talk
about the political situation in Wis
consin, but he seems content in the
belief that he will be reelected in
spite of Governor La Foulette's oppo-
sition.
Senator Dubois Of Idaho says that
the irrigation bill passed by the last
congress is responsible for heavy re-
publican gains in the far west. He
says the people give Roosevelt and the
republicans full credit for passing the
bill.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
PIPER ASSAULTED HER.
James Van Hamm Complains Against
Fellow Brakeman.

Missoula, Nov. 12.-James Van
Hamm, a brakeman on the Montana
division, tonight made complaint to
the officers that William Piper, an
other brakeman, had criminally as
saulted Van Hamm's 14-year-old
daughter. An attempt was at once
made to locate Piper, but he escaped
on No. 5, the delayed westbound Bur-
lington train. kilograms were sent
to the train conductor and officers
down the line and he vas caught at
Thompson Falls. Deputy Sheriff Nc
Cormick left for there tonight.
Van Hamm says that he had just
come in from a trip and was met at
the station by his daughter, who said
that while she was crossing the va
cant lot between Spruce and Railroad
streets on her way to meet her father
she met Piper who threw her down
and choked her telling her that ii
she screamed he would kill her. This
was between 6 and Z O'Clock, and
though it was dark, it is strange that
nobody heard or saw the affair.
Piper must have u away from the
scene of the assault to the station,
for he was seen to take the train just
as it was leaving. He is well known
here, having been on the road for
several years.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Items Taken from Acting Superin-
tendent's Annual Report.

According to the opinion of Major
Pitcher, acting superintendent of the
Yellowstone National park, the bears
which form a part of the attractions
the nations big playground has to Of
fer are really harmless as long Is they
are left alone and kept in a perfectly
wild state. When petted and fed, as
most of them are by hotel employees
and tourists, he says they lose their
fear of human beings, cause great
damage to property and become dan
gerous to those who attempt to tritle
with them.
The major also predicts that there
will be a great increase in every
species Of large game in the park
throughout the season and seems to
doubt the reports continually being
heard of the wanton destruction by
poachers of elk, deer and other game.
He recommends that the government
add the black cock and capercailZie,
game birds of northern Europe, to the
native birds now in the park, believ-
ing that their Introduction could be
successfully made.
For the better protection of the
park, both as to the animals that
make their homes there and to lessen
the danger of timber fires, the major
advises that two more troops of cav
airy be stationed at Fort Yellowstone,
making it a squadron post. He thinks
if this is done that the efficiency OF
the force would be materially improv-
ed if the troops were taken from two
regiments.
Only two forest fires occurred in
the park during the year now drawing
to a close and neither did much dam
age.
The total number Of tourists regis
tered last summer was 13,433.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
SHOOTS ACCUSED VAN
Jury Acquits Prisoner When Aceus.
ina Witness Takes a Shot.

Amigo, Wis, Nov. 13.-When Thos.
Grignon saw the man he accused &C
quilted of the charge he had preferred,
that of assaulting Mrs. Grignon, in
the municipal court, he took the law
into his own hands and fired a shot
at the prisoner, George Huykes, as
the latter was leaving the court room.
Huykes was shot in the arm, but
will Grignon was seized and
placed in Jail. :
Huykes had been on trial and Orig
non had testified against him. 1t was
not known that Grignon was armed,
although he had threatened the prls-
oner.
When the verdict of acquittal was
pronounced Grignon became very
much enraged and followed Huykes
as the latter was leaving.
Near the door of the courtroom ne
suddenly drew a revolver and before
he could be restrained, fired. He was
about to shoot again when cour OF
icials seized him.
The shooting created a panic IN
the courtroom, which was crowded at
the time.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
AS
BAD AS PELEE
VOLCANO SANTA MARIA IN
ERUPTION.
FOUR TOWNS DESTROYED
Steamship Newport Brings Tidings
of Disturbances in
Guatemala.

San Francisco, Nov. 13.-The steam
ship Newport, from Panama, brings
additional details of the recent erup-
ton Of Mount Santa Maria, in Guate-
mala. According to the officers Of the
Newport, the destruction Of life and
property has been immense. The ne
Under Seven Feet of Debris.
The coffee plantations in the dis
tricts of Costa Cuca, Chuva, Reforma,
Palmar, Costa Grande and KolhutZ
have been buried seven feet deep in
volcanic ashes and debris. Thousands
Of cattle have been destroyed and the
loss of human life is thought to have
been appalling.
When the Newport was at Champer-
leo the officers found the people of
that port in a panic-stricken turmoil.
The steamship Acupolice, bound
south, arrived at Champerico while
the Newport was there, and carried to
San Jose de Guatemala, all passen-
gers that could crawl aboard.
Details from the scene Of the great
est damage were hard to get. Kock,
Hagalnan & Co. offered $4,000 to any
pSiSCIt ludL WOulu 81 I L N1A
mar plantation in Costa Cuca and
bring them some news of conditions
there. When the Newport sailed this
offer was still standing, no man hav-
ing been found who dared to go into
the ash-covered interior.
President Cabrera has resorted to
the most vigorous means to prevent
particulars of the extent of the dam
age from reaching the outside world.
All kilograms and cable messages are
strictly censored and the people most
interested in the afflicted section are
finding the greatest difficulty in get
ting the most meager information.
Were Totally Destroyed.
The Newport brings news OF the to-
tai destruction of the towns OF Pal
mar, San Felipe and Coatepec. These
places are completely buried in de-
bris from Santa Maria. Rethalhulu,
MaZanango and Queseltanango have
so far escaped with little damage.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
WAS DONE QUICKLY.
Northern Pacific and switchmen
Promptly at an Understanding.


An amicable understanding has
been arrived at between the Northern
Pacific and it's switchmen. ; The com
mittee of the latter's union, which
has been at st. Paul to take up the
matter Of the increase in wages ask
ed by the union, has returned to the
west and reports having been sue
cessful in every respect.
An advance in wages of 2h cents
per hour was asked and this was
granted, as were also some other con-
cessions and rulings of a material
and important nature. A pleasing
feature of the conference, the COM
mittee reports, was the dispatch with
which the business of the conference
was disposed of. While it usually
takes from 80 to so days for a COM
mittee to carry through an appeal,
the switchmen received all they ask
ed and the conference closed in two
weeks.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
MINERS SIDE OF THE CASE
PRESIDENT MITCHELL COLLECT
ING THE EVIDENCE.
District Presidentand Delegation of
Expert Miners Pay Visit
to Headquarters.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Nov. 13.-There
was a busy time at miners headquar-
tiers today. President Mitchell was
holding conferences all day with dele
cations of miners, his lawyers n
members of the executive boards OF
the United Mine Workers. The case
of the miners, as it will be submitted
to the arbitration commission, which
will meet at Scranton Friday, was
gone over carefully by the executive
heads of the miners union. The at
torneys and the expert miners who
were summoned here especially for
that purpose took part. District Pres
ident Fahey, with a delegation of 10
miners from qShamokin, arrived in
town at noon. Their testimony as to
the condition Of mining in their re-
gion was taken down by the lawyers
and afterwards submitted to Mr..
Mitchell in behalf of the miners in
yoluminCus and covers every possible
point that may be raised when the
commission sits.
President Mitchell and his official
family will "break up house. tomor-
row and remove to Scranton. The
chief officer of the miners has made
his Headquarters in Wilkesbarre since
May 10. He will now make his head
quarters in Scranton, and remain
there until the commission completes
it's work, when he will return to ma
tional headquarters at Indianapolis.
President Mitchell and the other
executive officers of the miners MO
declined to discuss the reply OF the
president of the coal-carrying road to
the statement filed in behalf OF the
miners. .
Mayor E. E. Schmitz of San Fran
cisco, and w. j. Hughes, congress.
man-elect from the Sixth district OF
New Jersey, called on Mr.. Mitchell
today. The visitors said they called
to pay their respects. Mayor Schmitz
inquired as to labor conditions in gen
eral in the coal regions, and left town
this afternoon, loaded with statistics
which President Mitchell gave him.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
PYRAMID PEAK PARTY RETURN
WITHOUT TIDlNGs.
EGAN'S COUSIN HAS THEORY
His Idea Is That Superintendent Was
Mistaken for Deer and Shot by
Some Hunter.

K%alispell, Nov. 13.-G. F. Egan, a
cousin of Superintendent B. F. Egan,
is extremely vigorous in his arraign-
ment of those who might have done
most to hasten the search for the
missing superintendent. Mr.. Egan has
been at Bolton almost continuously
since his cousin disappeared, and has
gone carefully into the case. He says
the press reports are absolutely true,
and takes the ground that if Egan
was shot he did not do it himself acct
dentally, but had been shot by some
One.
A party of Superintendent Egan's
friends from Breckenridge, Mimi, are
now at Bolton, and are going over ev-
cry detail regarding Egan's myster.
ious disappearance. They will remain
at Bolton until the problem is solved.
A party of 10 old-timers in the dis
trict will go out from Bolton tomor-
row. They are employed by the Great
Northern, and Will remain out 10 days
and make a vigorous search in the
neighborhood of Lake Five, near
which place it is now believed Mr..
Egan must be. The theory that Egan
wandered back in the hills has been
abandoned. The belief now is that
he either broke a leg and froze to
death or shot himself accidentally, or
was mistaken for a deer and shot by
some hunter. The last idea is given
much weight.
The 10 is rapidly melting, and a
continuance of warm winds for a day
will greatly assist the search. The
10 men sent out by the railroad COM
pany will most likely find the missing
man or his body. The daily reports
will be watched anxiously by the rail-
road men over the entire Great North
ern system.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
REBATE OF TWENTY PER CENT
NOT ENOUGH.
CONDITIONS HAVE CHANGED
Special Commissioner to Be Sent
to Cuba to In
v~estigate.

Washington, Nov. 13.-An import
ant conference bearing on the SUBJ
ject of the Cuban reciprocity treaty
was held at the war department TO-
day, the participants being Secretary
Hay, Secretary Root and General
Tasker Bliss. The latter was called
into conference at Secretary Hays
suggestion because of his expert
knowledge of the existing Cuban tar
if.
Before the conference at the war
department Secretary Hay had talk
ed on this subject with Senator Gull
lom, chairman of the senate commit
tee on foreign relations, and also
with Senior Quesada, the Cuban min
lister here. Senior Quesada was not
able to submit to Secretary Hay the
draft of the reciprocity treaty which
has been under consideration SO long
by the authorities at Havana as the
document has not left that place.
So officially the United States gov
eminent continues in ignorance of
the extent and character of the
changes, if any, which President Pal
ma may desire to make in the treaty.
In other than official sources there
has developed pretty clearly the dis
position of the Cuban president in this
matter. The cardinal objection of
President Palma to the treaty as it
stands, is the insufficient rebate of
20 per cent proposed to be allowed on
Cuban imports into the United States,
and Secretary Hays purpose is to
ascertain, if possible, how far he can
yield in that matter and still be able
to count on the support Of congress
next session when the treaty is sub
mitted.
So far, his advices do not favor any
increase of the rebates, and, indeed,
he has been assured by some persons
with whom he has talked that under
no conditions would congress con-
sent tO any substantial increase of
this rebate.
/. It is understood that the 'Cubans,
too, are entirely unwilling to accept
any small increase. In the face of a
great shortage in the European crop
and a rapidly rising market they have
acquired confidence in their ability
to get along for an indefinite period of
time without reciprocity with the
United States, and so it is understood
they are showing an Indifference i'll
the prosecution of the treaty nego-
tiations which is serving in turn to
simulate the efforts of our w ne
gotiations.
President Palma makes the point
that conditions have changed in Cuba
so that whereas the 20 per cent re-
bate might have served when it was
first proposed, it would at present at
ford so little relief as not to warrant
the sacrifice of Cuban revenues that
would be involved in it's acceptance.
= Secretary Hay has determined to
clear up that Joint. and to that end,
after talking with Secretary Root to-
day, it was decided that General Bliss
should be sent at once to Cuba to
maize a personal investigation of the
industrial situation and the fiscal pos
sibilities of the island. So it is i'm
probable that, pending his return from
Cuba, the state department can ad-
vance the treaty negotiations in any
way.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
RuelEs ARE NOW MADE.
Artificial Stone Is a 9eauty-Prices
Likely to &c Down.

Paris, Nov. 13.-The value of rubies
is threatened with a decline owing to
the perfection to which the manufac-
ture of artificial rubies has been late
ly brought. Hitherto artificial rubies
could be made that were on a super.
fetal examination apparently real. Elk
animation with the microscope, how
ever, revealed flaws and imperfec-
tons, but the academy of sciences to-
day examined specimens of artificial
stones manufactured by M. Verneuil,
which the members declared were SUI
perb in color and equal in purity and
b%rilliance to the genuine rubies. The
process of production, which is part
ly by means of the blow pipe, is COM
p~aratively not costly.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
LEGlsLAToR-ELEcT INELIGIBLE,
jefferson County Man Had Not Cain
ed a Residence.

Boulder, Nov. 13.-The republicans
of Jefferson county are considerably
agitated over the election of Duncan
Mcdonald of Alhambra to the legls-
lature. Mcdonald, it seems, will not
be eligible to take his seat, not hav-
ing been a resident of the county tho
required IL months. Mr.. Mcdonald
came to the county last April.
There is considerable talk here as
to the probable outcome. The govern
or having no appointive power, there
would be nothing left to do but call
a special election, which would mean
an additional expense to the county
Of several thousand dollars.
Mr.. Mcdonald is proprietor of the
Springs hotel at Alhambra, and was
until recently a resident of Helena.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
FOUND IN POSSESSION OF SWEET
HEARTS SISTER,.
WAS PRESENT FROM PERRY
Circumstances Now Point to CoIored
Boy as Murderer Of Miss
McPhee.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 13.-The po-
lice spent today investigating the past
life and movements of George l.. o.
Perry, the young negro who yester-
day, upon the release of Alan G.
Mason, was charged with the murder
of Miss Clara A. Morton at Waverly.
Tonight the Somerville police found
Perry's sweetheart, and after persua-
sion got her to exhibit whatever jew
elry she had received from Perry.
Among the trinkets was a gold chain
which was Immediately recognized as
having belonged to Miss McPhee.
Private marks on the chain proved
the Identification and the jeweler who
sold it to Miss McPhee later describ-
ed his own marks upon it. The chain
had been given by Perry's sweetheart
to her sister. "@
The officers next secured letters
written by Perry to his sweetheart
and one to her sister. and in the lat
ter missive there is reference to a
chain and the injunction not to say a
word about it. When Miss McPhee
was in the hospital during a lucid mo-
ment, she asked: Where is , my
chain?" At the time there was All
abrasion on her neck caused by the
forcible tightening of a chain there.
AS it was not pawned in this vicinity
no clew to the murder was secured
in this way. The police refuse to give
tie names of the girls.
All of Perry's clothes were taken
from him today because an officer
thought he detected a bloody spot OH
a shirt sleeve. Perry admitted the
spot of blood, saying that he had had
a bleeding tooth. Tonight all the
negro's clothing at his home was seiz.
ed. Some of these, especially a coat,
has stains which look like blood.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
Asleep Annie Flames.

Breaking into a. blazing home. some
firemen lately dragged the sleeping in
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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
FOXY CANE SUGAR GAME.
Rumor That Havemeyer Has
Bought Beet Sugar Factories.

New York, Nov. 13.-The American
Sugar Refining company has closed
deals for important beet sugar o n
Germs in Michigan and the belief is
strongly entertained in some quar-
tiers hat the Havemeyer company has
practically corralled all the important
independent beet sugar plants of the
country outside of the American Beet
Sugar company and is therefore in a
position to oppose beet sugar and
keep cane refined sugar out of any
forced cutting that may be precipitat-
ed in the beet sugar trade. The beet
sugar people decline to discuss the
extent to which western beet sugar
may be offered in the market but init
mate that entirely too much has been
made of the matter.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
REPUBLICAN COUNTED OUT.
Granite County %canvassing Board
Throw Out a Precinct.

Philipsburg, Nov. 13.-The commits
sioners, sitting as a board. of can
vassers, threw out the returns from
Quigley precinct, thereby giving the
election to the democratic candidate
for senator. In the Quigley precinct
there, we're 10 votes for DR.. Power,
the republican candidate, and four for
Durham, the democratic candidate.
The reason alleged for ejecting the
entire vote of the precinct was that,
throuch an error, the number of bal
lots end the number of names on the
poll list did not correspond. AS
counted Durham, democrat, gets 405
votes for state senator and DR.. Power,
republican, 3S9.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
Will Be Tried at Forsyth.

The trial of four men on the
charge of illegal registration in Rose
bud county, which was set for hear
ing at Grow agency next Tuesday
has been transferred by stipulation to
a Mstice of the peace at Forsyth. The
hearing will take place November %,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
Luck in Thirteen.

BY sending 13 miles VIM. Splrey OF
Walton Furnace, VT. got a box OF
Bucklen's Arnica Salve that wholly
cured a horrible fever sore on his leg,
Nothing else could, Positively cures
bruises, felons, ulcers, .eruptions, hollis,
burns, corns and piles. Only 2oc'
Guaranteed by Chapple Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
KILLED A DEPUTY SHERIFF.
Crime Was the Outgrowth of a PoIiti-
cal Feud in Kentucky,

Cincinnati, Nov. 13.-During a fight
in Covington, KY, last night, Deputy
Sheriffs Nicholas Botkin and John
McInery were shot by Policeman
Robert Brown. Botkin died today.
McInery, who is, a brother OF the sher-
if of Kenton county, will cover
The shooting al the outgrowth of a
political feud.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
BLACK DUCKS.
Hundreds Of Birds Overcome in Min
nesota Blizzard,

Sleepy Eye, Mimi, Nov. 13.-Hun-
dreds of black ducks, driven south by
the northern blizzard encountered a
driving sleet here Sunday night. In
Leavenworth township, six miles
south, many of them fell to the ground
exhausted. They soon froze fast and
they became an easy prey to the farm
ers who gathered them in by sack
fuls. Several hundred were captured,
the numbers varying from 20 to $50.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
Whiskeu Tax Invalid

Jefferson City, Mo-, Nov. 13.-Judge
Sherwood in an opinion in the SUI
preme court. sitting en- banc today,
declared unconstitutional the state
whiskey tax law.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18
Thjnu They Have Him in New York.

New York, Nov. ia negro, about
20 years of age, giving the name OF
Thomas jenkins, was arrested here
tonight after snatching a pocketbook
from a woman in the street. The po-
lice say he tallies with the description
of a negro said to have been seen in
the vicinity of the place where Miss
McPhee and Miss Morton were MUIR
dered.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-18

ST. IOHN'S HEADACHE CURE
vii eure your headache. Sold by
Chapnle Drug &C.
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Money to loan on city and farm
property. T. J. Bouton. 55-tf