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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-18
WEATHER COLD AND CLEAR AT.
TER STORM.
New SETTLERS SUFFERED
Railroads Busy Clearing Tracks Of
Immense Drifts and Opening
Up Traffic.


zard which has ragged over the Da.
kotas and Manitoba since last Friday
subsidized today and the weather is
generally fair but intensely cold, the
thermometer ranging from 10 to 20
below zero.
With the subsistence of the storm
the railroads are beginning with en-
ergy to get main lines open for traf-
fic and immense rotary snow plows
and gangs of men with picks and
shovels are attacking the mountains
of snow that block the tracks.
The Great Northern has succeeded
in opening it's line as far west as
Churches Ferry and the road is ex-
pected to be clear as far as Minot by
morning. This will open an avenue of
escape for the trans-continental trains
on that road which have been showed
in at Minot since Friday night. If all
goes well the coast trains that should
have arrived in St. Paul last Saturday
morning will get here sometime on
Wednesday.
The Northern Pacific expect to have
it's road open again by tomorrow, and
the through strains that have been
showed in at Mandan in the west and
Fargo in the east will be restarted
upon their journeys.
nptc ole 10
open the Manitoba division of both
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific, but it will be several days be-
fore traffic can resume normal move
ment.
While reports so far have been
meager and many remote points have
not been heard from, it is the general
belief that not more than eight or 10
people perished throughout the storm
swept region. A family of four is re-
ported to have perished near Minot
and two of three others are said to
have been frozen to death in different
localities.
The loss of stock is hard to esti-
mate Reports from Dickinson repre-
sents the loss at from 25 to 80 per cent
while rumor puts it in other localities
at much higher figure. 1t will be
several days before any definite in
formation in this regard can be obtain
ed.
There has been a good deal of suf-
fering among new settlers, many of
whom arrived but recently and were
ill-prepared to stand the severe wealth
er. Relief committees of the older
inhabitants have taken charge of this
matter and are doing their best to al
leviate the distress of new corners.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-18
WEAVERS STILL OUT,
Tough Granted Increased PAY They
Refuse to Work.

Fall River, March 17.-As the tex
tile operatives of this city had been
granted 10 per cent advance in
wages, taking effect today, every mill
but one, the Sangamore, started up
full today. The weavers were granted
10 per cent increase with the rest,
but as the question for which they
have been fighting for the past 10
weeks, the length of cuts, was not set
tied, the members of the weavers as
sociation refused to return to work.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-18
Big Trotting Event.

Hartsford. Conn, March 17.-The
announcement was made today that
the trotting match between Thomas
w. Lawson's Boralma, 2:O7, and E. E.
Smithers' Lord Derby, 2:061a. for 500
900 side will be decided at Oak Park
Mr.. Smithers and Lawson have ac-
cepted the offer of 60 per cent made
by the track.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-18
SHOT AN OUTSIDER.
Newsboy Killed BY Stray Bullet From
Gamblers Gun.

Creston, Iowa, March 17.-As a re-
suit of gambling quarrel, John Jack
son has a dangerous knife wound in
his left hip. A stray bullet from Rob-
inson's gun killed S. Ollie Ohlschatger,
a newsboy, not involved in the quar-
rel.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-18
Treasury Balance.

Washington, March 17.-Today's
statement of the treasury shows an
available cash balance of $175, $685.
113; gold, $92,664,47S.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
Gift From Francis Joseph.

The Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria has forwarded generous gift to
the Mexican songstress Concha Men
dez, who recently celebrated her 8Oth
birthday. At the time when the un-
fortunate Emperor Macmillan reigned
Concha Mendez was the idol of Mexico.
The emperor himself and the Empress
Charlotte frequently gave her tokens OF
remembrance, and the empress on one
occasion presented her with a costly
bracelet. Later, after the emperor had
been shot at Queretaro and the en-
press became insane, the fanatic pub
lie at the theater one night asked Con-
cha MendeZ to sing certain song
which contained the vilest accusations
against the dead ruler and his unhappy
spouse. But the courageous songstress
stepped forward and, with flaming eyes
said: ''No, will not Witty the dead
and the. unhappy. You did but your
duties as soldiers to iberate your coun-
try, but you cannot force me to heap
offense on the helpless woman whose
gift I am still wearing A hush fell
upon the house, and the mob desisted
from their demand. It is this episode
which the emperor remembers now in
honoring the old songstress. -Vienna
Correspond nce London Mail.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
THE UNBIDDEN GUEST

Take it as one will, there is some.
thing impressive in the danger or
demise of royalty. We mortals have
bullded up and exalted the worldly
fabric of our existence as high as we
can. We have constructed outposts
and redoubts and inner and outer
walls, and keep and sanctuary, and
some of us have placed high up and
over and above all a king.
And now there comes a time for the
glorification of this brave work, when
the king shall take his place upon his
throne, and his lords and vassa1s and
people throughout half the world shall
rejoice. There shall be great pomp
and gorgeousness, and ancient rite
and ceremonial, and revelry and feast
ing.
In magnificent old cathedral the
rich light shall simmer and reflect
on innumerable jewels, and on gar
ments Of cloth of gold and ermine,
and here shall be assem- oiled the pride
and pomp,~and chivalry OF great
nation to do honor and homage to
their sovereign lord.
Suddenly, in the midst of all the
gaudy preparation there comes an
unbidden guest, guest that enters
the royal palace with the same nien
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
HAWK AND CROWS FIGHT

drive at him and in a short time the
ground under the tree was strewn
with feathers.
The hawk, fought with bill and
claws, while the crows used only their
bills. The fight became so not that
the hawk was compelled to leave the
tree, and, being too exhausted to fly,
sank to the ground. There he made
final stand, and the battle was an
interesting one, passengers on the
Emory Grove cars being among the
spectators. First one crow and then
another would give the hawk a dig
with his bill and then Jump back to
escape the savage plunges of the
hawk.
The hawk fought as long as he
could stand on his feet. Even while
lying on his side or back he kept up
the struggle. The crows, however,
were relentless and kept pecking
away until their adversary fell dead.
Then they flew off considerable dis.
lance and patched up their cuts and
bruises as best they could. Not a
single one of their number was killed.
New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
Cigars for Crowned Heads.

Making cigars for princes and po-
tentates and crowned heads is great
business in Havana. 1t is good ad-
vertising feature. It gives the cigar
makers a prestige which they cannot.
get in any other way. King Edward
has his cigars specially made. All the
cigars that. are made for crowned
heads by: Cuban manufacturers are
bought by the: men; they are made.
for, and scrupulous care is exercised
in the matter: The only men who
ever get any Of these, cigars either
get them on orders from royal per-
sonagess or they get them; as guests
of the royalty a particular kind Of
stobaccoais used in the manufacture Of
these cigars. Take the case, for IN
stance, of the car, OF Russia. Cigars
that are made for him ares branded
with the Russian coat Of arms. and
he buys all the cigars the factory can
make out Of the material and ii the
way specified by his order.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
NEW USES FOR ALCOHOL.
European Governments Experimen

Europe an Governments Experiment.
r. ing in Many Ways.
+, No innovation in European automo-
bile, practice within the last year or
two has attained such Importance as
the trial of alcohol in the place OF
gasoline. The attempt to effect a
substitute has been stimulated by,
if it did not originate in, two potent
forces. = One is the desire OF the for
,eign farmers to- find a use, for the
superintendent: and cheap spirit man
ufactured from sugar beet refuse and
from potatoes The other is the ag-
excessively helpful attitude assumed
by the French and German govern"
ments. Several exhibitions have been
held within the last few months to
illustrate the many practical applica-
lions which can be made of alcohol,
and in France two months ago anselab-
crate series Of tests was made, under
the auspices Of the minister of agri-
culture, to show its special fitness for
propelling vehicles. BY the French It
Isl customary to 5emp loy q mixture OF
alcohol and gaso line,, and not the lat
ter alone because the gasoline engine
can then be- retained with little mod
|ifcation. IN Germ any an effort is b be
ing made: to perfect q motor king
on the same general #princip pie xp 10
sion but different enough ins detatlls
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04

Druid Hill Park, near Superintend-
ent CasselPs residence, was the scene
on Sunday of one Of the fiercest bat
ties ever fought between crows on
the one side and large chicken hawk
on the other, and, perhaps, the only
battle of its kind in which the hawk
suffered defeat, says the Baltimore
Sum-
1t is a well-known fact that the re-
stations between hawks and crows have
been strained perhaps since creation,
hawks neglecting no opportunity to
destroy young crows before they leave
the nests. Representatives of the
two species of birds rarely meet with
out a battle. They usually fight in
midair. This is no doubt the reason
why the hawk has won so many VIC
tories.
Fully twelve or fifteen crows took
part in Sundays battle. The hawk
was attacked in midair while lowering
over a crows nest. The onslaught
made him furious and he retaliated
by .swooping down on the tree in
which the nest was built. The crows
were determined to drive off the
enemy and made a systematic and
concerted onslaught on the intruder.
First one and then another would
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04

Of authority that he does the poorest
howell in the land. Vain all the elab-
orately constructed outposts and re-
doubts, and inner and outer walls,
and keep and sanctuary. Not all the
armed force of all the world, not all
its pride and pomp and chivalry can
hinder one jot the advance of the
intruder, writes Frederic V. Collins
in the Washington Times. He passes
all the imposing barriers that sur
round the king, in one disdainful step,
and 10! the sovereign lord who Is
about to ascend his throne amid the
obeisances of his mobiles and the plau-
dts of his people, lies stricken and
helpless, and envying, perhaps, the
humblest peasant who has health and
strength.
And so, however, reluctantly, we
acknowledge this grand work Of hui
man vanity, a "baseless fabric" And
we recall the lines of the greatest OF
poets:
We are such stuff as dreams are made
of
And our little lives are rounded by 8
sleep.
Force is at best a fearful thing, even
in righteous cause.-Schiller.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04

3borhood, was the hoodlum of the
neighborhood. And that h by was
thrown up to me morning, noon and
night. i never did anything aDsolu-
tely vicious or wrong, but T. was sim
ply a tough kid, at the head of all
the boyish deviltry going on and never
out of mischief. o.. s~.,- ..
r That fellow was a marvel of all
that was goody-goody in boy. He
never got into mischief. He never
got in trouble with his folks. He was
the whole thing as to tidiness, pune
tuality at school, lesson-learning and
all that sort of thing. &c. of course,
he was thrown at ms head constantly.
My mother and all of my sisters every
time l got into some sort of a scrape
that required a whaling would wind
it all up by asking me why couldn' t
be like little So-and-so, naming that
fellow. Naturally grew to hate. him.
couldn't help hating him.
I longed to kick the daylignts out of
him, but I was solemnly assured that
if l ever did so would be put in a
reform school and that scared me.
But I woke up and went 70 bed hat
ing that model boy
well, now he's a booze bum and
he braces me on the public street for
a dollar. Time is a pretty hot old
boy, isn't he? But I'd rather give all
the money 1 have on earth to build a
Mormon church than ever hand that
ex-model boy one cent"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
HATED Cd EI Boy

Nc. As well known business man was
standing at a street corner talking
with a friend the other afternoon,
when a seedy looking chap, with a
bloated %countenance and a whining
voice, approached and tackled the
business man for the loan. OF a dollar.
The business man gruff1y declined the
shabby chaps appeal and told him to
be on his way in a canter. =. s..
= This rather puzzled the COMPANION
OF the business man, who knew that
the latter was of an extremely cnari-
table and open-handed disposition
man who rarely resisted the appeal
OF the commonest street beggar and
VINO made it a point never to turn
down an appeal for financial aid from
unfortunate friends of former days.
-. Inc business man chewed in silence
on the end of his cigar for a while
and then he said:
You no doubt think it odd that I
sent that fellow, whom you could see
hhe" me by my first name, on his
way with such sIddennes and asper-
lty. SO might as well put you right
in the matter. That fellow IS the only
man In the world that actually hate
and despise and l marvel at his gall
for bracing me for as much as SHOE
string. And I'll tell you why I despise
MIN We two are Of exactly the same
age and we were brought up together
In this town in tho samo po;obhor
hood. He was the model OF the neigh.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
NOT A SUCCESSFUL DIP.
Bald-Headed Man Did Not Appreciate
BARRIERS Offer,

6aIo-Headed Man Did Not Appreciate
BARRIERS Offer.
A drOll incident occurred at a re-
cent church bazaar. The vicar of a
certain parish invited each of his par
ishioners to contribute something for
monster lucky tub" and, as may
be surmised, the prizes unearthed by
the enthusiastic clippers" were of
distinctly unique order.
On one evening Of the festival
pompous old gentleman-his Uranium
was as destitute of hair as a billiard
ball-strutted up, paid his three-pence,
and, after carefully adjusting his eye
glass, plunged his hand down to the
bottom of the tub.
A large crowd assembled round him,
all very anxious to get a peep at his
prize.
His chagrin may be easily imagined
when he found he had drawn an en-
velope containing local hairdresser's
business card, upon which was in
scribed:
Zone free haircut and shampoo.
The card had been contributed in
good faith by an impecunious, albeit
witty, wielder of the razor.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
DYING IN AN ALMSHOUSE.
Pathetic Fate of Grandson of Robert
Sutton, the Inventor.

FaIneItC r ate OF 0FanQSOn OF Ro0ert
sFuIton, the Inventor.
Rich in ancestry and poor in the
worlds goods is the condition OF
Palmer Fulton, grandson of Robert
Fulton, who launched the first steam
boat on the Hudson river in 1907 A
few days since this unfortunate de-
scendant of the great inventor was
found dying from starvation in a
howell in Shelby, small village near
Bucyrus, O., and much against his will
was taken to the Richland county
almshouse. Fulton is a quiet, unas-
Stunning middle-aged man, having been
employed at the Shelby tube factory
for the last seven years, but constant
sickness has made him a destitute.
His uncle, Joseph, died recently in
New York, and he has been Investigate
ing the disposition of the fortune, but
his efforts only met with failure.
He has brother residing at West
Salem, O., but forbears revealing to
him his miserable condition, and will
| allow the almshouse to hide his mis-
fortunes.-Utica Globe.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
Logic OF THE s ABBATH.
Writer in AinsIee,s Pleads for One 9
m g, E9ss] Day of Rest. - zE:

81: 5s + 7 s .zaF$ , f Day Of Rest.
AS a psycho logist, IT believe in the
Sabbath day One day ii. seven should
be kept holy from work and sacred to
mans primitive paradise Of leisure. I
am no Puritan. pietist or even Sab
batharian in any severe = sense, but
hold that this is one of the greatest of
all human institutions and that the
command to keep it as a day of. rest
ls written in our physiological con-
stltutions. If need be, it may be kept
IN sleep, mans great restorer. Mon
day our nerves and brain must be re-
sfreshed, and we must start "a new
weekly rhythm on a higher plane than
we closed the old one. The mental
scenery must be changed. The BROOD
er's overthought must have enlarged
our plans and given us both momen-
tum and direction. What form the
rest cure should take differs perhaps
for each person. I go to church, but
my neighbor should perhaps spend the
day in the fields, with children, in
music, in books, but for all there
should be peace, tranquility, repose,
surcease Of worry and relaxation. In
no land should the Sabbath be so hal
lowed as in this land of hustle, ten
sion and Americanitis. &C. Stanley
Hall, in Ainslee's.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
Knew What They Were.

DR.. Henry Van Dyke tells the fol-
lowing story:
A well-known professor of literature
ct an American university was talking
with his wife one morning at: the
breakfast table about the relative
merits of prose and verse as forms Of
expression. His two children, Walter
and Maud, aged seven and six, respec-
lively, were sitting quietly and ap.
parently paying no attention to the
conversation, when all at once the lit
tie girl looked up inquiringly and
said:
Papa, what are proes, anyway"
Before the father had time to an
swer the boy spoke up, with a supe-
riOr smile:
prose? Don't you know what
prose are? Why, they're those little
animals that go around without feet"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
A Name to Coniure With,

Writing to the Indian Telegraph, a
Bengalese correspondent says,
''The great ability of his highness,
Maharajah Chandra Sham aere Jung
Bahadur' Rama, prime minister and
marshal of Nepal, as the supreme ruler
of such an Independent territory, may
be well estimated by the fact that the
emperor of China has lately been
pleased to confer on his highness, the
rare title of Thunglling .pimmakokung-
mang:shang.' * =s,: ,1t@ zsz:>l-
The maharajah's cognomen & is now now
probably his highness Chandra Sham
sshere' Jung Bahadur Rama ;, Thung.
ling pimmako kung-maug-shang. =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
Soudan OPENING for Trade

IT The Soudan is shortly to be thrown
open for trade and agricultural pur-
poses, and ALREADY hum reds OF Greeks
are around Khartoum eager to snap
up the choice pieces of land whicl1
they will sell later to the leisurely
Briton. Tor energetic young men
with 2 little capita j there are endless
|5possib ilities in the country, which pos
sesses 9 healthy climate. During last
winter grants OF twenty-five acres Of
land around Kharto nm were made. to
persons showing they had sufficient
capital for building purposes.-Ion.
tdon EXPRESS. .ss go
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04
-: - Vi g.: - - - -,iil 4 : p
Water Will Crush WO,.f

If a piece Of timber be submerged
deeply enough in water OF unlimited
depth, it. will be crushed under the
pressure of the water. -New York sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04

a dentist finds work for his Il own
teeth BY priving other people o1
theirs sf &. 81, 3sE 5ss.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04

Usually when you want your UNI
brella it is not here, but over there.
to burn pure alcohol. The problem has
not been fully worked out, nor, for
that matter, is the economy of alco-
hol fully ascertained. Enough is
known on this point, however, and also
as to it's efficiency, to make it q for
midable rival of gasoline in countries
where there is no revenue tax on veg
etable spirit.-New York Tribune.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04

A. ma AT never poorer tor the quas-
tons 10 asks. u. Is ss.s 1,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-04

Force is at best fearful thing, even
in a righteous cause-Schiller.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

phone companies to make reports for
taxation purposes direct to the execu-
tive council instead of to the state au-
ditor was offered.
The senate and house library com
mittees in joint session decided to re
port for passage the bill transferring
the travelling library to the state libra
ry commission. The insurance com
mittee of the senate had under consid
Grafton yesterday the proposition tc
create an insurance department and
relieve the state auditor of this labor
1t lis expected that the committee will
draft and report bill along this line
Both branches adjourned over te
Monday on account of Washington.
birthday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
WHERE is HARPER's BILL?
Senators Inquiring for Biennial EIec
tjons Measure.

llOIIS "SoSOiS'
Des Moines. Feb. 22.-There is a
good deal of talk about the upper body
of the legislature as to what has be-
come of the biennial elections bill,
which was referred to the senate judi
ciary committee one week ago. At
that time the bill was taken up as a
special order, having been recommends
ed for passage by the senate commit
tee on constitutional amendments and
suffrage. Senator Molesberry was in
clined to pick flaws in the bill and
wanted it sent to the judiciary COM
mittee where it could have careful
consideration of it's legal characters,
tics.
After considerable discussion OF the
matter. Senator Harper, the author
consented to it's reference, with the
understanding that it should not lose
Its precedence as a special order. Ihe
senate judiciary committee of which
the chairman is friendly to the bill. a
once referred it to a subcommittee
consisting of Hubbard, Blanchard
Molesberry and Porter, and this com
mittee is understood to have stated
that it would report the bill back thu
| following Monday. Nothing, however
mas been heard of it since.
An effort will be made to get thu
bill out of the subcommittee, thu
members of which are friendly to TIL
measure except Senator Molesberry
whose chief objection seems to b.
that its provisions might not have bee
carefully enough drawn. The judiciar
committee as whole will undoubted
ly report the measure to the senat
favorably, and it is expected to max
few, if any changes.
The reference to the judiciary con
mittee is generally regarded as
mere formality. The friends of tn
bill, however, are anxious to get it on
of the committee and on the foo
: again, so that there will be no turtle
delay, inasmuch as it is desired t
reach vote on it in the upper bod
, and get it before the lower house a
soon as possible.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
Rock Island Route Excursions.

Cheap one-waY settlers tickets via
c., R. l. & P. to points in the north
west will be on sale during March and
April, 1902, to Billings, Salt Lake, Og.
den, Butte, Helena, Spokane, Umatilla,
Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Van.
couver. For full and complete infor,
nation regarding stop-overs and rates
to all points, call on or address w. S.
Parker, ticket agent. Union Depot.