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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
HOLDS FIRST PLACE.
Billings Continues Its Lead for Tri-
State Bowling Prize.

Anaconda and Missoula failed to
pit teams against the All-Americans
and at the conclusion of their games
with Butte the professionals left the
state on their way to the coast. This
allowed Billings to remain in the lead
and it's team the acknowledged cham.
pions of the state. 1t also did more
it permitted the local boWlers to
stand first in the competition for the
tri-state prize hung up by an eastern
sporting goods house, they having
made the highest score in two of the
three competing states, Minnesota,
Montana and Iowa, which have so far
played.
Iowa will play the All-Americans
on their way back to the east and
this will give the bowlers of that
state a decided advantage over those
of Montana and Minnesota, as they
will have two full months more in
which to practice and get into shape
than the others had. The managers
of the professionals while here said
that Billings did not have much to be
afraid of in Iowa. While there were
plenty of teams in that state, it had
really but two that might be con-
sidered as good, one at Boone and the
other at Dubuque.
The failure of either one of the two
Butte teams to top the score of Bill
ings, while gratifying to the local
players was, nevertheless, a source
of regret to them. Unless it turns
out that their W score remains un-
beaten in the trio of states for which
the prize is offered they would pre-
fer that Butte had beaten them, as
this would have increased the
chances of the prize coming to Mon
tana. If they cannot win it they
would like to have seen it go to some
other team in the state. AS matters
now stand upon their record solely
stands the chance of it's coming to
Montana.
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COLOMBIA ANGERED BY RECENT
POLICY OF u. S.
OBJECT TO INTERFERENCE
Present Treaty May Me Terminated
by Either Country After Twelve
Months Notice.

Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 3.-There
is said to be great indignation among
the residents of the isthmus owing to
the Colombian governments instruc-
tions to Minister Concha at Washing.
ton to suspend Indefinitely the canal
treaty negotiations.
IL is reported that the authorities
in Bogota are determined TO break
off the negotiations altogether be-
cause of the United States recent pol
icy in restraining the transportation
of Colombian tr),!,s Or the Panama.
railroad.
The United States marines, it is an
serted, have not hampered the Colon
bian government. On the contrary,
the Americans by protecting transit
on the isthmus are declared to have
hindered General Herrera from attack
ing Colon and Panama and indirectly
aided the government which would
have been defeated after Aqua Dulce
fell but for the landing of the Ameri-
man marines.
Many of the Colombians believe
that the United States contemplates
a permanent occupation of the
isthmus.
A fight occurred Wednesday at Pan
ANA between American marines and
some Colombian troops while the lat
ter were removing ammunition that
had been received from England. A
Colombian officer was wounded. The
troops were driven off. The govern
ment will ask for the withdrawal of
the American guard.
The rate of exchange in some parts
Of Colombia is 1900 per cent. Trade
is crippled.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
THE TREATY OF 1886
May Be Terminated by Twelve
Months Notice.

months NOTICE..
Washington, Nov. I'm the discus.
sion of the diplomatic complications
attending our relations with Colon.
bia, which now treatens to upset the
best laid plans of a century for an
isthmian canal, it should not be for.
gotten that the treaty of 1916 may DE
terminated on IL months notice of
either party. 1t was originally negc.
tiated for 20 years, and after that pc
riod was run by common consent.
In 1885, in the first Cleveland ad-
ministration, the United States sent
a thousand men to the isthmus to
keep the transit open and to main
tain Colombian sovereignty under the
terms Of the treaty of 1876. It ap-
pears to have done this spontaneous
ly, at the instance doubtless of the
New York interests in the Panama
Railroad company; when the Colon
bian minister called on Secretary
Bayard, and learned the purpose Of
the movement, he was entirely salts
fed and wrote out a memorandum
the next day of his understanding of
the conversation. This appears
among the published documents of
the state department.
The state of Panama would like to
come into the United States, but is
probably not strong enough to get up
an instruction which could be rec
ognized by this government as valid,
after the Hawaiian precedent. Co.
lombia is by it's constitution not al
lowed to ALLEVIATE territory, and it's
people are now so insanely jealous
of the United States that it is not be-
lieved that any sum of money would
be sufficient to induce it to sell the
state of Panama, or at least that part
of it from the canal strip to the Costa
Rican boundary. This is what the
United States ought to have. 1t is
said that the present Colombian min
lister in Washington never saw the
salt water till he started on his mis-
sion to the United States, and that he
does not in any sense represent the
commercial interests of Colombia,
much less of Panama. The country
is n of the most w%retchedly govern
ed of all South America, and any one
having to deal with it becomes dis
gusted with the spectacle of worth
~lessness and dishonesty presented.
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BUBONIC PLAGUE,
1t Is Becoming More Frequent in
San Francisco.

Washington, NOV. 3.-Bubonic
plague, according to the official re-
ports of the marine hospital service,
is increasing at an alarming rate at
San Francisco. The officials of the
service are aprehensive that unless
the authorities at San Francisco re-
sort to strong measures to stamp out
the plague it may spread with dis
astrous results. During the ten months
of this year So cases of bubonic
plague have been located in Cali
fornia. each cas proving fatal. The
startling phase of the situation is that
during the first six months of this
year there were only six cases, the
last four months having developed
20.
The climatic and sanitary condi-
tions at San Francisco are favorable
to the health authorities in the work
of stamping out the plague.
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DOMINION TO LOOK AFTER THEM
Passage of kilograms Between Pre-
mier Robin and Minister Sifton.

Ottawa, Ont, Nov. 4.-Premier Ro-
bin of Manitoba has telegraphed Cliff
ford Sifton, minister of the interior,
to prevent the Dukhobors from en-
tering Manitoba, because they would
have to be treated as lunatics and
criminals, and the. province has no
means of doing this. He wanted a
guarantee against financial loss.
Mr.. Sifton replied that the domin-
ion officials were looking after the
Dukhobors' and there was no reason
to believe that they would do harm to
any one but themselves. He did not,
therefore, see any need to guarantee
against loss, and stated that if Pre-
mier Robin interfered with the do
minion officers he would do so on his
own responsibility.
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present feeling of the religious IA.
natics.
HIGH LIFE MURDERER.
Story That Is Likely to Agitate Bay
State Society.

Boston, Nov. 4.-The police are
searching for a man with a mania for
cruelty beating defenseless omen
a member of a great firm whose bus
mess is as widely known as any 9TH
er in the United States. The man
they believe to be the murderer of
two women and the vicious assailant
of a number of other ~defenseless ones
who have been attacked, brutality
dubbed and frightened almost to the
verge of insanity. All of the attacks
and assaults have occurred since the
middle of June. Clara Morton, the
latest victim, died last night. The
man for whom the police are looking
is a member of an old bay state fam
lily.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
A Policeman's Testimony.

j. N. Patterson, night policeman of
Nashau, Ia, writes: Last winter |
had a bad cold on my lungs and tried
at least a half dozen advertised cough
medicines and had treatment from
two physicians without getting any
benefit. A friend recommended Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar and two-thirds
OF a bottle cured me. l consider it
the greatest cough medicine in the
world" Sold by Holmes & Rixon.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
DUkHOBORS GO BAREFoOTED
ON THEIR MARCH.
CLEAN FIELDS FOR FOOD
Manitoban Government Undecided
How to Act in the Emergency
Confronting It.

Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 3.-A special
dispatch from Yorkton says The
Dukhobor situation here shows little
change. Soda biscuits and apples are
the chief articles of diet of the wo-
men and children, most of whom show
signs of semi-starvation. The sick
refuse attendance, saying that God
will take car of them. The govern
ment has erected a Latrine for those
whose consciences will allow them
to avail themselves of other than
natural conditions.
Reports from the rabble marching
on Manitoba show that nine-tenths of
them have cast aside their boots and
are travelling ~barefooted. Rosebushes
are not plentiful on the route they
are taking and they find few roseap-
pies to appease their hunger. The
northwest mounted police have TAX
en- charge of two wagon loads of rub
Der boots, socks, shirts and freize
coats dotted by the roadway. Watches
and pocketknives have also been cast
aside.
A later report is to the effect that
and waded into the lake. Fortunately
and waded into the lake. fortunately
last nights rain and frost were not
too heavy and the sun shines brightly
on them today. This affords much re-
lief here, as the chances of crossing
the Manitoba boundary before the frost
freezes them are improving every
hour and the exodus from the terri
tories to Manitoba will relieve the
slender of the territories of
the heavy charge of maintaining them.
The Dukhobors were foisted on the
territories because Manitobans object
ed to their location on the reserves
originally selected for them and the
minister of the interior, represent
ing a Manitoba constituency, heark-
ened to objections raised and put
them all west of range 20.
These people have never conformed
to the laws of the territories and with
the c%onnivance of the northwest gov
eminent have been kept exempt from
local taxation either for roads or
schools, except in the case of three
or four villages, in the Devils Lake
school district, which forced them to
pay taxes by Selling their chattels,
notwithstanding the fact that the at
torney general of the territories and
the immigration commissioner en-
deavored to prevent the collection.
Having yielded nothing to the pub
lie revenues, it seems unfair that any
cost of maintaining them in their
lunacy should be borne by the North
west Territory. Should they once
cross the Manitoba boundary the mat
ter will assume a new aspect. What
action the government will take is
not yet known.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07

w. A. Heron of Finch, Ark, writes:
81 wish to report that Foley's Kidney
Cure has cured a terrible case of kid
ney and bladder trouble that two
doctors had given up" Sold by Hol-
mes & Rixon.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07

Chicago Tribune: 81 notice." re-
marked the doctor, "you chew your
~victuals a long time"
Eyes," said the professor, 81 grind
slowly, but l grind exceedingly small"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
For Sale and Rent.

Ten mich cows and "a tons of wild
hay for sale. Two hunderd acres of
pasture for rent. Apply to M. Flanni-
gan, Billings, Mont. 48-3-SW-2 ;.
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Homeseekers' Excursion

to eastern points for 1902, will leave
Chicago over the Nickel Plate road,
November II, ~ and 10. For particu-
lars and sleeping car accommodations,
address John Y. Callahan, General
Agent, 113 Adams street, Chi
cago. 50-3-54-1
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
Taken Up.

Last June. one heifer calf, branded
above left shoulder with Lazy X.
Owner can get above by paying pas
ture and ad. notice. Apply at ranch.
MRS. COLWELL.
51-2-55-1 Billings. Mont.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07

Chicago Post: How rich is hep
well, he's a good deal richer than
he would be if he gave proper con-
sideration to the existence of a con-
science fund"
The National tribune., 1902-10-02

the Northwest, and Ohio was born a free
State. 1t is due to this historical fact,
more than to any other cause, that Ohio
men have done so much to shape the
course of the Republic for the last half
century. In 1850 the State had more than
a million and n half of people, and stood
at the high-water mark of material de-
yelopment in the former half of the coun-
try's first century.
1t was the freest community in the
world. The Indian had been pushed far
on into the land of the setting sun, the
people had been Joined by rail with their
brethren in the East; almost every re-
ligion on the face of the earth, from
Joseph Smiths Mormonism to George
Fox's Quakerism, fourished in this men
tai soil. The image of such a thing as
witch or a negro Oyerseer was unknown.
The great Southern corn fields and West
ern wheat fields blossomed and ripened
into harvests that made America the
worlds granary. The long and tortuous
course of the Ohio, dotted with sails and
steamboats,, made grand highway of COM
merce, as did also the noble lake on the
north. in politics, these were the plain,
simple, honest, picturesque days Of Will
lam Henry Harrison, William Allen. Ben
jamin +. Wade and Benjamin Ewing, in
terrupted by the strenuous notes Of Joshua
r. Giddings and others-the days when
yard Of politics was as honest and
genuine wool as the homespun that COW
cred the backs Of these sturdy and en-
bryonically great people.
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
News From Winners.

A good many winners are reporting, but
most of them are just in time to be too
late for this weeks paper. Plenty Of re-
ports next week. We hope to see many
contestants in Washington next week, and
will try to make their visit pleasant one.
Herman e. Buck, Canisteo, N. Y, win
ner Of 10th prize reports as follows:
"Born in town Of Pennington, Wash
ington Co., Wis, in 1S47; entered the
army as a private in Co. X, 18th N. Y,
in 1862; discharged for disability in 1868
at Franklin, La. Have resided in Can
isteo, Steuben Co., N. Y, since 1870. Dur
ing the last 18 years have been engaged
in retailing boots and shoes. Am a men,
ber Of the G. A. r. and Past Post Com
a member of the Masonic Order;
a Republican, and admirer of President
Roosevelt; a lover of the old 1ag. and a
reader Of The National Tribune. Hope
to become better shot at the bulls-eye."
Comrade w. r. Black, New Trenton,
Ind, winner Of 62d prize, reports as fol-
lows:
II am truly glad to learn that my name
appears among the winners, and thank
you very much. Keep up the guessing
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
WASHINGTON O., THURSDAY

1t was necessary on march to stop
every hour or two, unhitch the animals.
and let them wallow in some slough or
creek, and if this could not be done, water
had to be'brought in buckets and thrown
over their heads and backs. Their skins
baked in the sun and cracked, until they
had the patterns of an alligator hide. II
not refreshed in this way, they finally re-
fused to go another step, and often lay
down and died. l have seen one lie down
within a hundred yards of water, die and
all because a wagonmaster knew better
than his drivers whether or not the ami
mails could stand the crowding any longer.
Nights they We're turned loose in camp,
and generally after their supper of rice
straw they lay down and switched flies
with their stumpy tails, but occasionally
they went prospecting for food or water.
Ii was not altogether pleasant in the mid
die of the night to be awakened by some
thing poking me in the ribs and discover
it to be loud breathing carabaO investi-
eating to see if l was something good to
eat.
There was no difficulty in getting the
carabaos to cross rivers, for they swan
them like ducks, each with his Chinese
driver perched upon his back and directing
him with pull of the rope to right or left.
1t was much of a mystery to me how the
drivers conveyed their wishes to these dull
and plodding beasts, having merely small
rope attached to their horns, but / learned
that when they wanted the animal to turn
to the left they Topped the rope on the left
side Of the spine, and on the right side for
a turn in the opposite direction. This
made an economy of language that would
have been very valuable had anything the
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
A Woman with q VIII.
(SucceSs.l

A few years ago, Miss Rosa Weiss was
poor, but also ambitious; now, she is an
Md, and has a lucrative practice She
asked her brother to send her to college.
He told her that he could not afford to do
that, but, giving her five cents, jestingly
said to her, go ON thatw She saw won
derful possibilities in that nickel. With
it she bought yard Of calico from which
she made sunbonnet. Selling the sun
bonnet for 5 cents, she bought material
for bonnets and aprons. In this way sew
eral dollars were realized. Her brother,
pleased with her thriftiness, gave her
some land, which she planted to sweet
potatoes, cultivating it with the assistance
of small boy. The products Of the first
year brought her $40. Later, she enter
ed State educational institution where
she remained until she graduated with
honor. During the course, she received
some assistance from an aid society, all
of which was repaid. Miss Weiss entered
the medical college at Baltimore, Md,
where she paid her tuition by nursing, and
was graduated from there with honor. She
is now practicing physician in Meridian,
Miss, near her former home, and her in-
come is good one.
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
Ohio's First Century.

Ohio will celebrate, in November, her
first centenary since her request for ad-
mission as a State. Her hundred years
record is one Of progress and advance
rnent, and her influence in the Union is
fittingly described by David f. st. Clair,
in the October Success. The following
reference to the power Of Ohio is taken
from Mr. st. Clair's article:
The preponderating influence Of Ohio
has, of course, grown out of the civil war
and its settlement. From 17S5 to 1877,
Mannaseh Cutler, Of Massachusetts, Ia
bored in the Continental Congress to Sc
cure charter for the "Ohio Company" to
make a settlement in the Northwestern
Territory, from the whole of which negro
slavery should be excluded. Mr.. Jefferson
at first held that slavery should be permit
ted in this Territory till 1900, and then
forever excluded. He finally, however,
yielded to Mr.. Cutler, and, in 1877, a
charter was granted by Congress to Rufus
Putnam and 46 other New England veter-
ans of the Revolutionary War as the "Ohio
Company" These men and their families,
in April, 17SS, after long and trying
journey across Connecticut, New York,
and Pennsylvania, reached an island in the
Ohio River in their descent Of that stream,
pitched their tents, broke ground, and call
ed the place Marietta, in honor of Marie
Antoinette. This was the first permanent
settlement of Ohio and of the Northwest
ern Territory, and its prosperity forever
headed off the institution of slavery from
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
Tho Vast Earnings Of Fishermen.
(Success.)

The total harvest Of sea fish sold at
Gloucester and Boston, which are the
principal markets, during the past year,
officially reported, amounted to 162,21S,-
G21 pounds, worth 81, 1856, ,1O2, of which
the Newfoundland hanks produced some
thing more than 65,000, 600 pounds, while
the grounds off the New England coast
yielded nearly 97,OOO,OO0 pounds. There
were 3,731 fares s(smack loads), brought
to Boston. OF these 203 came from the
eastern banks. At Gloucester, S,782
fares" were landed, Of which 66S were
from the eastern hanks. On the Pacific
coast, the catch amounted to 217,965, 1856
pounds, the value Of which was $6,27S, ,639.
The capital invested there amounted to
nearly $13, 100000 and 10000 people found
employment in the business. For the sake
Of comparison. it may be worth telling
that the fresh-water lakes. which Uncle
Sam also cultivates, yielded 113.72S,O40
pounds of fish, worth $2,611 ,4S2, while
the Mississippi and its tributaries pro-
duced 81, ,713,4 ,402 pounds, valued at ST.
1872. To sum 1t up, the principal fish
fields Of the United States produced, in
one year, for the market, the extraordi-
nary amount Of 58S, $40 pounds of
edible fish, for which the fishermen re-
ceived more than $15,000,O00. This does
not include the run Of shad, or any fish
brought directly to New York City and
other ports south; nor does it include the
quantities taken in local waters and con-
sumed in the villages and smaller cities.
Neither does 1t include the shell-fsh.
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
CHINESE DRIVERS.

said been worth saving.
CHINESE DRIVERS.
We had Chinese for drivers, both cart
aad animal generally being the property of
the driver, and contracted to the Quarter
masters Department at a daily price.
Whenever an animal died or was killed
in service, as occasionally happened, the
officer in command of the detachment it
was serving gave the driver a certificate
to that effect, or else, as we did in some
Of our companies, foraged him a new bull,
and generally better one. We did so
much foragirg of this kind that at one
time had six instead of the two supplied
me officially, besides little pony and cart
which l used as q "hurry-up wagon" In
this l packed the blanket rolls of my
Lieutenant and myself, also a kettle for
coffee and my supply of food. The man
in charge had orders to keep close to the
column, no matter how far behind the
wagon train might fall. A few minutes
after we halted for noon rest this cart
would generally come rushing up, and soon
there was hot coffee for the whole COM
pany. Also at night, whether there was a
full meal or not, there was always coffee,
except the few times when we were cut
off entirely from the transport.
The Filipinos hated the Chinese, and it
was not safe for one of these drivers to
go beyond the limits Of the camp. A Chi
nese boy of about II, whom 1 had taken
into the field as personal servant, disap-
peared one day while we were in camp as
railroad guard at Marilao, and a few days
later his body was found hacked to pieces
in hut about mile from camp. Another
Chinaman was badly boloed within a few
yards Of camp the night we were in the
mountains near Antipolo. Both Of these
deeds were done by the "peaceable inhabi-
tants" living in the vicinity-the amigos"
that gave US so much trouble. Familiar
with Cinnamon as we Of the Pacific Coast
were, and accustomed to talk to them in
''pidgin English" it seemed queer indeed
to have them resent being called "John"
and be perfectly satisfied with "Chino,"
the Spanish word for Chinaman. 1t was
also funny to hear them speak Spanish.
II Chinaman's English is laughable, his
Spanish Is irresistible. Our head driver
we called "Puede," because OF his frequent
use Of that word, which means capable or