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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-01-15
TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL.
Official Resolutions as Passed at the
Meeting Last Week.

A delegation was appointed last No
vember by the local labor union to
wait upon the Miners union in order
to ask them to act in harmony with
the local union and draw up resolu.
tons whereby a Trades and Labor
Council should be established. Reso.
lutions were adopted to the effect that
each union should elect delegates to
meet in Lewistown and form such
board and in compliance with which
resolutions a meeting Of delegates took
place in Lewistown last week, which
resulted in the formation of a Trades
and Labor Council for Fergus county.
The officers elected are as follows:
President, ]. II. Bailey of Lewis.
town; vice president, j. J. Lewis of
Maiden; secretary and treasurer, A.
T. Harvey of Lewistown. and an ex-
ecutive board composed of VIM. Stod-
dard, Chas. Z. Long and A. T. Harvey.
Robert Hendry of Gilt Edge, j. j.
Lewis of Maiden. and Arthur Harvey
OF L~ewistown, addressed the meeting
and instructions were given to the sec.
rotary to forward a communication to
our congressman al Washington ask
ing them on behalf of the organization
t. use their influence to secure the
enactment OF the Chinese Exclusion
bill and also to give their support TO
the passage of a law prohibiting the
landing on III shores Of that undesir-
able element which has become a men.
ace to good government.
The following resolutions were
adopted before adjournment:
Whereas, the delegates OF organic.
ed labor in convention assembled,
view the many ills besetting divided
and unorganized labor, therefore, we
are
Resolved, to unite the various bod.
les OF organized labor under one head
that they may act as a unit for the
maintenance and protection of those
God-given and inalienable rights with
which every human being is born and
which no man has a right to abridge
And for those rights we stand united
to act with justice. equality and fra
ternity toward all mankind.
Resolved. That this organization
shall be known as the Trades and La
Dor Council of Fergus County. Mont
I shall be the aim OF this organiza
ton to use all honorable mean t.
maintain friendly relations betwee.
organized labor and their employers
and endeavor by arbitration and con
citation to settle such differences a.
may arise between them. and thu
make strikes unnecessary. Our mot
to shall be IAN injury to n Is thu
concern of all" We, the delegates o
organized labor. In this. the first con
vention. OF the Trades and Labo
Council, earnestly request all uniol
, men to patronize only those who han
die union made goods and employ un
ion labor. II shall be the object o
this organization to labor at all time
for the enactment OF such Legislation
az will tend to promote the welfare o
the working man and secure for hin
a just share Of the product of his toll
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-01-15
Plum Creek Properties.

l. NJ. Hobcnsack and John LauXhayo
secured an interest in a promising
group OF claims situated on Plum
creek in the North Moccasin. The
prospects were owned by Dave Ware.
ham. Chas. Souter. William Cruise and
William Peters. and the two gentle.
men who have obtained an interest
have bought out william Peters and
the half interest OF William Cruise.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-01-15
The Oreuon.

A deal was consummated last week
Whereby William Baird disposed Of his
half interest in the Oregon claim In
the North Moccasln TO Wright d
Wright for a cash consideration oil
$500. The Jake Miller interests in
this claim were purchased a short
time ago by the same firm. who nov
in conjunction with George Wiedeman
and James Weaver, control the prop
eTty.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-01-15
The Orc Grand.

A small but promising claim situat-
ed north of the Abbey property in the
North Moccasin is the Orc Grand,
which was located by its present own
er, William Smith. Exploration work
on the claim has developed the fact
that II is a continuation of the sedi-
mentary deposits of the Allis & Dahl
property, lately purchased by the Alb.
hey people. 1t is located on the cy.
anide belt of the North Moccasin and
though only a small amount of sur.
face work has been accomplished so
Tar the results have been very salts
factory.
Iron Mines on Willow Creek.
While in town this week Ed. Morris
of Utica mentioned that ]. ]. Hill,
the railroad magnate, had patented
several iron claims at the head of
Willow creek. a the line Of the old
Burlington survey.
The mineral on this property is very
plentiful and according to Mr.. Morris
large masses of iron ore can be read
lily found on the surface, while the
main lead Is a thirty foot vein OF ore
which gives considerable value in
gold. Some coal land has also beer
-.
patented by Mr.. Hill in that vicinity
and there is every possibility of the
properties being developed with the
advent of a railroad.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-01-15

The ARGUS job department Is ON
plete. We have spared neither expen-
sc nor effort to secure the best line Of
paper stock and the newest, nobbiest
line of type faces. We have the men,
the machinery and the material to do
fine work and do it promptly. All we
ask is a trial.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-01-15

An advertisement placed in the AR.
GUS never fails to bring response.
Prove il for yourself.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-01-15

Good work always costs a little
more than the other kind, but II 10 the
kind that pays. We make a speciality
Of nice Job work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
Prominent Boer who Was Charged
with Four Murders, Train Wreck
ing and Cruelty to British.
MISSED SCHEEPER'S FAT
AND WILL BE WELL TREATED AS AN
ORDINARY PRISONER OF WAR.
Troopers story of the savagery of
Australian Carbineers - BOer
Casualties i'm Two Fights.

LONDON, April IA dispatch from Lord
Kitchener. dated Pretoria, says Command
ant Kritzinger, who was captured by Cen
eral French at Hanover road, Cape Colony,
Dec II last, and who has been tried by
court-martial on the charge of having
committed four murders. in addition to
train-wrecking and cruelty to prisoners,
has been acquitted and is being well treated
as an ordinary prisoner of war.
Lord Kitchener reports that the Boer
casualties during the engagements Of
March 81 and April 1 were, at the lowest
estimate, thirty men killed and eighty
wounded. Commandant Erasmus was
killed near Boshof, Orange River Colony,
April 8.
A former trooper of the Bushveldt Carl
bineers, who has returned to Liverpool, is
quoted as saying that the convicted Aus
tralian officers belonging TO that corps,
since disbanded, murdered from thirty-five
to forty persons. AS an instance of their
cold-bloodedness, the trooper relates how
three Dutch children, two boys ten and
twelve years of age, respectively, and their
little sister, arrived at the carbineers'
camp to surrender, in order to be given
food. The girl and one Of the boys were
wounded. The uninjured boy took his little
brother on his back and was carrying him
off when a second shot killed both boys.
The girl died shortly afterwards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
STEAD AND RHODES.
Their Friendship Was Not Broken by
Differences rs to the War.

LONDON. April THE fact that w. t
Stead's name was not among the executors
of Cecil Rhodess will has given rise to
some comment. for it was generally under
stood he was closely associated with those
designated 10 carry out Mr.. Rhodes's as
pirations. In order to dispel any misappre-
tensions. B. A Hawkesley. who was coun-
sci for Mr.. Rhodes, declares in an open
letter that the removal OF Mr.. Stead's name
was not in any way due 10 differences on
the subject of the South African war, but
are from other causes. quite appreciated by
Mr.. Stead, and which did honor alike TO
both men.
In the far back days" writes Mr..
Hawkesley, when Mr.. Stead eXpounded
the common interests of the English-speak-
ing peoples. his acquaintance was sought
by Mr. Rhodes; the mountaineering
ripened into close intimacy and continued
10 the last. Mr.. Rhodes recognized in Mr.
Stead one who thought he did. and who
had the marvellous gift of enabling him to
ciothe with literary charm the ideas they
both held dear AS Mr. Rhodes frequently
said To me and others. including Mr.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
Indiana Conference VIII he Presided
Over by Bishop Bowman.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, Ind. April THE fiftieth
session of the Indiana Conference of the
Evangelical Association will be held in the
German Evangelical Church in South Bend,
beginning on April 10. Bishop Thomas
Bowman, of Chicago, will preside. The
Rev. ]. H. Evans, of Fort Wayne, is sec
rotary, and the Rev. l.. j. Ehrhardt of
Ceina, o., and the Rev. T. Finkbeiner of
this place. are the assistant secretaries.
This session is a jubilee session, it being
fifty years since the first conference was
organized. Special jubilee services will be
held on Thursday night. A suitable pro-
gramme has been prepared. In 1852 the con-
ference was organized with thirteen min
listers and 12S5 lay members. and now the
conference numbers seventy ministers i'm
active work fifty-eigh, in the local relation
with a lay membership of about 105O0.
During this time there were over 81, 900
conversions over 5000 accessiOnS: many
of these moved into Western conferences
and many united with other churches where
the Evangelical Association has no
churches.
About /. 400 members have died since 1852
and $50 men received leave 10 preach; $50
were ordained as deacons $50 as elders,
eighteen in the active work, thirty-three In
the local relation. The conference has 100
organized societies. 145 Sunday schools. 152
churches valued at S3J0.700; fOrty-seven
parsonages valued at S6O150. and other
property valued at $4,000 This includes
the lakewood Park camp ground on Wawa-
see lake which is worth over $4,000 Dur
ing these years over $4,000 was given for
the missionary cause. There are $500
church periodicals read by the conference
membership aside from Sunday-schOol lit
erature. Each night during the conference
week there will be German and English
preaching in the three South Bend Evan
gelicaI churches. Editors G.. Henmiler. of
the Christian -Bctschafter; S. =. Spreng of
the Evangelical Messenger, and l.. H. Sea-
ger. of the 5. 5. Literature. of Cleveland,
o. and ]. II. Lamb. publishing agent of the
Evangelical house at Cleveland, and the
Rev. George Johnson, treasurer of the
Northwestern College at Naperville ILL.,.
and others will be present and preach in
uarini1s churches ON Sunday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
General DeIarey,s Charges.

AMSTERDAM, April THE Boer bureau
here has published a report which was sent
last January by General Delarey to Mr.
Kruger, and which is countersigned by
Ignatius Ferreira. the acting states attor-
ney. This report contains numerous stories
of alleged British atrocities, and is sup
ported by afiidavits Besides the general
accusations of placing women screens
around the British camps, as a result of
which practice many women are said to
have been killed, General Delarey gives
specific instances, with names and dates of
the killing of wounded prisoners and
women. He complains that, owing to Lord
Methuen's persecution, his own wife, with
six children, has been wandering on the
veldt for the past year. General Delarey
complains also that his mother. aged
eighty-three years. was driven into Klerks-
dorp. after her cattle had been stolen and
her house burned.
Van der Nerve, late mining commissioner
of the Rand, now fighting under Delarey
appends a further list of atrocities com
mitted on women and children TO the report
of General Delarey.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
No News Concerning Negotiations.

LONDON, April THE House of Com
mons reassembled to-day after the Easter
recess. An early opportunity was taken
to press the government for information on
the subject of the peace negotiations in
South Africa, but the government leader,
A. J. BalfOur, declared the ministers had
nothing in that connection TO impart to the
House.
Answering a question about the General
Butler controversy, the war secretary, Mr..
Brodrick, said that in view of the state
ment of General Butler it had been decided
TO publish all the letters and dispatches
relating to the Spion kOp engagement for
warded to the War Office by Lord Roberts.
The order forbidding General Butler to
publish the documents would not, however,
be rescinded.
Mr.. Balfour refused to grant facilities for
the discussion of the motion. made by John
Redmond. the Irish Nationalist leader, CEN
surfing the speaker, William Court Gulley,
in connection with the suspension of John
Dillon.
In correspondence between Mr.. Balfour
and General Butler, recently published, the
former contended that General Butler was
in chief command at the battle of SpiOn
kop, which resulted most disastrously TO
the British, while the general denied this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
Kruger Invited to Chicago.

CHICAGO, April Mayor Carter II.
Harrison to-day forwarded to Paul Kruger.
at The Hague, through Montagu White.
special Boer envoy, this invitation to visit
Chicago:
"Sir-In compliance with the unanimous
wish expressed by the City Council of
Chicago in a resolution the 18th day of
March, 1902, L have the honor to invite YOU
sir to visit the cityof Chicago as its guest
a the earliest date compatible with your
duties and engagements and to extend to
you the freedom of the city on the occasion
of your visit"
Accompanying the invitation is the reso-
luton, preceded by a long preamble ex-
pressing sympathy for the Boer cause and
deploring the long continuation of HOSTILE
ties The invitation and resolution are
elegantly engrossed on vellum and bound
in seal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
METHODISTS AT MARION
NORTH INDIANA CONFERENCE TO
CONVENE THERE TODAY.
Statistical Report of Past Year and
Apportionment of Funds-Evan-
geIicaI Conference Meeting.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
MARION. Ind. April THE annual ses-
sion of the North Indiana Methodist
Conference will begin in this city to-mor-
row afternoon All the arrangements for
the reception of 800 visitors expected have
been made. and already the ministers and
their wives are arriving in the city. The
attendance at this conference promises TO
be a record-breaker. Bishop Joyce. who
will have charge of the conference, will
arrive on Wednesday morning. Evangelists
Ostrom and Hills will have charge of all
devotional meetings. DR.. Gunsaulus, OF
Chicago, will lecture at the Indiana Thea
ter on Friday night, and from the present
demands the house will be more than
packed. The appointment of the ministers
for the coming year will take place on
Tuesday morning of next week. There are
257 members in the conference and twenty
one probationers, making total of 25S.
The total amount raised by the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society in the confer
ence year was sS.913; raised by the Women's
Home Missionary Society, SS.75Ss5
The appointments of benevolences for
the present year are: Episcopal fund. ss1 Ga;
conference claimants, $1,000; missions. S74.-
Aid Society, $4,000; De Pauw University,
$1,000; children's day. s. 100; Sunday school
Union, 500; American Bible Society, $500;
sustenation, 5000; dependent preachers,
$7O22.
A statistical report Of the six districts
In the conference shows the following
Practitioners, 5000; loss from last year. SS1;
full members, 3S.S25; increase, PIC; local
preachers, $50; loss. 4; deaths, 672; increase,
80; number of children baptized, 706; in
crease. 81; adults baptized 200; increase.
$50: number of Sunday schools, 46S: in
crease. 4; officers and teachers 1866; in
crease, IS; pupils, 1914; increase, 1,12l;
number of parsonages, 161; paid for build
ing churches and parsonages. $29.SO9; in
crease, SIS, 937; paid on old Indebtedness on
church property, $S9, 1892; increase, $3.50: pres
ent indebtedness on church property, SIPS
2SS; increase 81, 1863; raised for pastors sup
port, Sl65,527; support of presiding elders,
$40. 1859; support of bishops, $1.195; total
ministerial support. S176.711; expenses of
sessions. $S7.SO4; Sunday schools $lS,947;
raised for missions. SIS. 1853: church extern
sion, $2,465; Sunday School Union, S375;
Tract Society, 1865; Freedmen's Aid, $2.275;
education, $3.7SS; American Bible Society,
81. S64: total benevolent collections. 81. $50;
for conference claimants, $5,115; episcopal,
81 1897; sustenation, $S6l.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
PRINCELY LAW vIOLATORs.
Henry of Prussia, Wife and the Grand
Duke of Russia Halted.

BERLIN, April Prince and Princess
Henry. who are visiting the Grand Duke
of Hesse. have been doing a good deal
of bicycle riding in the environs of Darn
stadt. the capital of the duchy.
While out bicycling last Friday with the
Grand Duke on the Heidelberg road. the
prince. the princess and their host left the
muddy wagon way for a footpath where
the bicycling was easier. Riding on this
foOtway is forbidden by the police regula-
tons They had proceeded but n short way
when a policeman jumped out from a hedge
and shouted Haiti 'Dismountr' The
royal party Obeyed this command and the
grand duke was sharply questioned by the
policeman, who held bulky notebook in
his hand. The duke, who is the reigning
sovereign of the duchy. replied that he
was the Grand Duke OF Hesse ana named
his companions as Prince and Princess
Henry of Prussia. The policeman calmly
requested details for their Identification.
When all three members of the party had
answered him satisfactorily he permitted
them to proceed. saying that, according
TO the regulations, he would report the
matter at headquarters 1t is likely that
the usual fine of marks will be collected
from the royal bicyclers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
VIII Not Yield to Agrarians.

BERLIN, April 7.-Count Won Posadows-
ky-wehner. the imperial secretary of state
for the interior, returned to Berlin to-
night from tour of the principal courts
of the empire. The purpose of the trip was
to gather the views of the various state
governments on the tariff question 1t
appears that, without exception these
governments support the position of
the imperial government against yield
ing further to the Agrarian demands
for higher duties on grain. The
Ministry, at the reassembling of the
tariff committee tomorrow, will con-
sequently be in a position to enforce its
will against the majority i'm favor of higher
grain duties. 1t is believed the Agrarians
will have to accept the governments views
or otherwise the tariff bill will be lost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
Strike of Cotton Mill Hands.

AUGUSTA, Ga, April flight hundred
hands employed in the King cotton mills
here went On strike this morning for 10
per cent. increase in wages. The strike
is being conducted from Fall River by one
of the national officers Of the Textile
Workers Association. All other mills in
this district will continue to run until
Tuesday night. If by that time the trouble
in the King mill is not settled the Manu-
facturers' Association will close every mill
in Augusta, Aiken, Vaucluse, Graniteville,
Warrenville, Bath Langley and Clear
Water, throwing 10000 people out of en-
ployment. The strikers claim they will win
in two weeks, because they waited until
all mills had large rush orders on hand.
The mill owners deny this. The best of or
der prevails.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
Persia's Shah to Visit Berlin.

BERLIN, April 7.-Official circles here
confirm the report that the Shah of Persia
will visit Berlin in May and will pay his
respects to Emperor William. The Shah is
going to Contrexeville, France, for his
health and inquired Of the authorities at
Berlin whether his visit would be accept
able to his Majesty, who answered affirm
atively The visit was designed to take
place last summer, but was postponed
owing TO the mourning for the late dowager
Empress Frederick. The Shah probably will
come to Berlin by way of st. Petersburg.
So far as Germany is concerned, the visit
is devoid of political significance. The Of
f1cials here repudiate the assertions in the
British press that Germany is endeavoring
to establish her influence in Persia between
the British and Russian rivalries in that
country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
Will CONTINUE STRIKE
INDIANAPOLIS AGREEMENT REPU-
DATED BY COAL MINERS.
Meeting at Dubois, Pa, Yesterday at
which Ii Was Determined Not
to Return to Work.

DUBOIS, Pa, April 1.-The district Of
ficers of the United Mine Workers and
delegates from the mines of the Rochester
and Pittsbury Coal and Iron Company to-
day rejected the Indianapolis agreement.
reached last Friday by their national ex-
ecutive board and General Manager Robin
son. of the Rochester and Pittsburg Com
pany. The conferences to-day between the
district officers, the delegates and Mr.. Rob
inson took place at Punxsutawney, the
first session being held in the morning,
when Mr.. Robinson submitted the Indian
apolis agreement as follows:
Work to be resumed on the same basis
of price for mining and day labor and
conditions as existed at the beginning of
the last scale year, except that at Eleanora
the miners shall push cars one way in all
rooms that are now or may hereafter be
equipped with iron rails, otherwise pres
ent conditions Of mule haulage to continue,
and at the Florence mines cars to be han
died, both mule and electric, by pushing
one way, except in such places now work
ing and equipped for electric haulage. The
present condition of pushing cars TO con-
tinue until such rooms are exhausted or
worked out, after which the cars during
the present scale year will be hauled one
way and pushed one way, as customary
after regular mule haulage"
This the miners refuse to accept, and
another conference was held during the
afternoon. Mr.. Robinson stated he had no
further offer to make. The miners refused
absolutely to accept this agreement and
insisted on nothing less than the Altoona
scale which is in effect that mules must
be placed in all mines where possible TO
haul cars The conference therefore ad-
journed and the strike goes on, with no i'm
mediate prospects of a settlement. The
district officers say that General Manager
Robinson must come to them the next
time for a settlement. Depression has ev-
erywhere in the region taken the place
of the good cheer that was manifested on
the announcement from Indianapolis, Sat-
urday morning, of settlement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-08
Prosperous Year at EIwood.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, April The close of
the conference year at the First NJ. E
Church in this city was the occasion of
one of the greatest services in the history
of the church. over 500 people participating
in the communion service. During the past
year $4,000 church has been completed
rs persons received into full membership
and sixty admitted proba ton. The Of
fetal board has requested the officials of
the North Indiana Conference. which will
n eet at Marion this week. to return the
Rev. ]. a. Beatty 10 this charge. He has
been here three years