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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-11-26
REAL WORTH COUNTS.

II we were to examine a list Of men
who have left their mark on the world
we should find that, as rule, it is not
composed of these who were brilliant
in youth, or who gave great promise
at the outset of their careers, but rath-
er Of the plodding young men who, IL
they have not da2zled by their bril-
liancy, have had the power of days
work In them, who could stay by a
task until it was done, and well done;
who have had grit, persistence, common
sense and honesty.
1t Is the steady exercise of these Or
dlnary, h0mely virtues, united with av-
verage ability. rather than decep.
tive display of more snowy qualities
in youth, that enables man TO achieve
greatly and honorably. So, If we were
to attempt to make forecast Of the
successful men Of the future, we
should not look for them among the
ranks of the smart boys, those who
think they know it ALL" and are anxi.
GUS to win by short route.-Criterion.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-11-26
A CHALLENGE.

A CHALLENGE.
The Central Akrons challenge the
Grays or the East End Tigers for a
game tomorrow or Saturday on the
West Hall grounds for the 1S0-pound
championship of the city.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11

Very few of the great captains of labor
in the busy hive where for years
he was a prominent figure have ever
enjoyed the confidence and love Of
,huse under them as he did and it
was because of the mutua! regard
and trust that existed between en-
ployer and employee that he was en-
abled to make the success of the prop
critics in his care that he did and.
place them among the foremost of
their kind in the world.
While all may deplore his death.
the grief which finds place in many
hearts today is nowhere deeper or
more profound than that which fills
the minds of the humble toi,ers whose
chief he has been and who recall with
loving thoughts the deeds of kind
ness and the words Of sympathy he
had for all when trouble and sorrow
weighed them down.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
take UP the irrigation bill when the

take up the irrigation bill when the
pending measure is out Of the way
gives encouraging promise that some
thing will be done in the way OF leg
islating upon this important matter at
the present session. The measure in
troduced by Senator Hansorou;;h is
the one framed by the senators and
representatives of TIE states having
arid lands and it will doubtless unter-
go radical amendments. Il consider
able opposition to it in its present
form being already shown. However,
it's consideration will bring the ques-
ton fully before the country and in
vite the thorough public discussion Of
it which is to be desired. Interest in
the subject is undated in the west,
no other topic taking precedence Of
it in the attention of the people of the
arid land states. Among the indica-
tions of this is the fact that the gov
ernor of Utah proposes to call a o II
ference of the practical irrigators Of
that state to discuss the proposed leg
is%lation. There appears to be a pref
ty general feeling of confidence that
the present congress will do some
thing for promoting the reclamation Of
the arid regions.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
WANT NO MORE RATIoNs
RED MEN WOULD LIKE TO TRAEE4
LAND FOR CATTLE. 4
Fort Peck indians En- Route to Wash
ington to Persuade Govern
ment to Swap.

st. Paul, Feb. 1O.-A delegation of
Sioux and Assinaboine Indians from
the Fort Peck, Montana, reservation
passed through st. Paul tonight, en-
route to Washington. The party in
cludes Chiefs John Long Dog, Bear
Fighter and Chester Arthur. Through
an interpreter Chief Long Dog said:
I'VE shall ask the government to take
half of our reservation and open it
for settlement. We want cattle in
exchange for IL land, that we may
improve our ranches and grow in
wealth.
I'VE want no more government
rations except for our old men and
squaws, and for the disabled. We are
men and car work; I've need no help.
If ave give up half of our reservation
we shall still have a tract 20 miles
long and 40 miles wide. Our land is
good; IL we could turn it into cattle
we would soon become wealthy"
There are about 1900 Indians on
the reservation.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
TOO MUCH.

Notwithstanding the experience of
ssheir chief there are some army Of
ficers who, it seems, cannot resist the
temptation to air their opinions and
like the parrot talk too-much.""
Major Hunter of the Fifteenth cavalry
is the latest to disregard the i%njunc-
ton relative to putting a guard on his
mouth and, of course, has got himself
into trouble. No matter if he did
think he was telling only the truth and
that the criticism he made of the man.
ner in which the army is managed
was but just and deserved, he has put
his foot into it and the usual or
der from the secretary of war asking
him for an explanation has reached
him. 1t matter not that what he said
may have the element of truth in it,
or. that it was an expression of opin-
ion privately made, the fact remains
that he is charged with having said
his superiors have got through with
him. The tale bearer was around and
the major is in for it. If he had made
his application a little more general
and had included among the aereated
gentlemen of whom he spoke some of
higher rank than colonel he would
still probably have not been mistaken
to an alarming extent, for he is not the
only one who shares in the judgment
he expressed relative to the merits of
some of those who were in command
ing positions during the war with
Spain. Whether it would have made
his Offense more heinOus The Gazette
is not well enough informed concern
ing military laws to say.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
IRRIGATION NEXT.

Omaha Bee: The irrigation bill
will be taken up for consideration in
the United States senate as Don as
the Philippine tariff bill is disposed of,
which should be within a week, though
it is of course quite impossible to say
when the democrats will permit a
vote to be taken upon thai measure.
Their opposition is purely partisan
and political, none of them having in
realyity any concern for the Fflipinos,
but it is a subject upon which trey
can discourse to an almost unlimited
extent and they may be expected to
fully improve the opportunity to do
SO. Everybody understands, how
ever that the only interest the demo
Gratis have in the Filipinos is what
they can make in the way of political
capital.
The fact of the senate agreeing to
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
LABOR OPPOSES.

Great Falls Tribune: Organized
labor. voiced by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
Of Labor, will do it's utmost to defeat
the bill passed by the senate to create
a department of commerce and labor.
The objection of the labor organiza-
ton is based on the claim that the
present bill subordinates labor to a
secondary place. What the unions
want is a department Of labor with a
secretary of labor in the cabinet. They
contend that under the proposed law
labor would not ever have so good a
pendent bureau of the government.
Speaking of the matter Mr.. Gompers
said:
"The bill in it's present form subor-
dinates the present department of
labor far below what it is now. The
labor men of this country hope to see
a department of labor whose head
shall be a member of the presidents
cabinet and whose Office will deal only
with the workingman, and his inter-
ests. The present bill will place the
department of labor under the denomi-
nation of the politicians. That is just
what we want to avoid. We want a
department which will be representa-
tive of our interests and not one in
which the great questions of labor will
be mixed up with those of half a dozen
conflicting bureaus. 1t would be far
better to leave the department of la
Dor as it is"
lit is difficult to understand the i'm
p%ortance of the objections urged by
Mr.. Gompers. Just why the labor
interests should be more undeG the
denomination of politicians with a
cabinet member called secretary of
commerce and labor, than with one
called secretary of labor is not plain.
Nor can we see why the position of
labor is lowered by being changed
from a bureau to a cabinet place, even
though it only has half of that cabinet
place.
The only logical objection we can
see to the two being classed together
is that commerce and labor do not al
ways harmonic in their interests.
but that objection Mr.. Gompers does
not bring up.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
THOMAS COUCH.

From San Francisco has come the
news of the death of a man who con-
tributed as much toward giving Mon
tan it's rank as a mining state as any
of those whose names are, perhaps.
better known. Because unlike they
he did no use the power delegated to
him for his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, but
employed it in furtherance of the in
terests of those who were his employ
ers. he was less widely known in a
certain way than some of the others
in charge Of the huge corporations
that have made Butte in particular the
great mining camp it is. But for all
that he was a power in his time and
welded an influence that had to te
reckoned with when mems ambitions
prompted them into essaying m
thing beyond the achievement of sue
cess in the sphere of their legitimate
endeavor. The influence that was his
was ever directed toward a better.
ment of the states public affairs and
the power he commanded was always
employed in the interest Of what he
considered right and just.
Thomas Couch was a politician, but
not of the small kind. He had ambi-
tions greater than the mere gratifica-
ton of personal desire, and the honor
and success which comes to those who
attain to the dignity of holding public
office never appealed to him. He would
rather be the maker of kings than be
a king himself. Always an aggressive
and hard fighter, yet he ever conduct
ed his warfare openly and never re-
sorted to the underhanded methods
of the mar of smaller mind and even
his enemies respected him for his
honesty and candor. The blows he
struck were sometimes hard ones,
but they were always delivered openly
and came straight from the shoulder.
Like all fighters of that kind he never
complained when he was struck, but
sought to return in kind and
when the excitement of contest was
over resentment had no place in his
heart, which was too big and generous
to harbor ought that savored of de.
ceit or rancor toward those who had
opposed him. In private life he was
generous and kindly disposed toward
all with whom he. came in contact
The army of employees under his cora
mand were loyal and devoted to him
He gained their confidence by being
honest and fair with them in all his
any of them his was the first hand
stretched forth in succor and aid
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
A DUTY.

Great Falls Tribune: According to
Benton Fremont lies bedridden in
that city, comparatively poor, living
alone with her daughter. Mrs. Ere
mont is in receipt of a small pension
from the government, but that, the dis
patch tells us, has all been eaten up
by recent illness, and she is now in
dire straits.
The government of the United
States cannot allow a woman who was
SO intimately connected with two of
this country's great servants to be
in want, and something should be
done for her relief in the way of an
enlarged pension. if the story told is
true.
John C. Fremont was a young lieu
tenant in the army when he met Jes-
sic, daughter of Thomas H. Benton,
the senator from Missouri and one of
tional life. The girl was 16, young
Fremont 26. They became engaged,
but the youth Of the maiden caused
her parents to object to the match,
| and Senator Benton, to separate the
lovers, sent the lieutenant away to
! the frontier, at that time marked by
! the river Des Moines.
Young Fremont returned within a
year, and in October, 1S41, he secretly
married his loyal little sweetheart. All
the world loves a lover, and when the
story came out there was all kinds of
| sympathy for the pair, who, however,
were quickly separated. Fremont be-
ing sent by the war department to
take charge of an expedition for the
exploration of the Rocky mountains.
Fremont's success on that expedi.
ton gave to him the name of path
finder" 1t gave him a fame that ex.
tended all over the country, and it
eventually led to his nomination fol
the presidency by the republicans
Subsequent exploration through the
ROCKY region auueu 10 lAd'
fame, and his career in California is
one of the most romantic in Americas
history.
Now Jessie Fremont. in her 18th
year, the one living figure of thai
picturesque period in American his
tory, is dying in poverty. Can the
American people afford to let her con
tinue in want of anything that viii
make her last years comfortable?
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
SENATE PASSES PENSION AP-
PREPARATIONS.
HOUSE FINISHES ANOTHER
Executive, Legislative and Judiciary
Measure Carries $25, III ,969-A
Slight Increase.

Washington, Feb. THE Philip
pine tariff bill was taken up early in
the senate today. The session was
notably quiet. Mr.. Turner of Wash
ington delivered a carefully prepared
speech on the general Philippine ques-
ton and had not concluded when the
bill was laid aside for the day. He
discussed only the legal and constitu-
eminent and control of the Philippine
archipelago by the United States.
After the adoption Of only minor
amendments, the pension a%ppropria-
ton bill was passed early in the ses-
sion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
D PAYS S
Novel Procedure in North Dakota Su-
preme Court.

Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 1O,-Before
Clerk Hoskins of the supreme court a
novel procedure will be begun tomor-
row, for the taxation of costs against
Judge w. S. Lauder, this being the
first time in the history of legal pro-
ceedings in the northwest that costs
have been taxed against a district
judge in a legal action. Senator p.
]. McCumber and Attorney Freeks of
Wahpeton brought mandamus pro-
ceedings against Judge Lauder and
the supreme court directed him to
call another judge to try cases which,
it was alleged, he refused TO try. The
supreme court also ordered that the
defendant be taxed with the costs CT
the action and it is to determine these
costs that tomorrows proceedings are
to be held.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11

Among other great newspapers Of
the country, The Gazette has been ia
vored with an invitation to attend the
banquet to be given by the New York
er Stats Zeitung in honor of H. R.
H., Prince Henry of Prussia, in New
York City on the evening of February
26. Press of business will probably
necessitate the sending of regrets.
much as The Gazette might like to
meet the gentleman who is to be the
guest of honor on that occasion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
HAWLEY ON NEWSPAPERS.

Minneapolis Journal: General Joe
Hawley, replying the other day to Sen
ator Bacon's advocacy of his resolu,
ton to print a special edition of the
Congressional Record for popular
reading at a reduced price, said as to
Senator Bacon's observation that the
newspapers could not afford to present
more than a brief synopsis. that they
could afford it and could print full
congressional proceedings just as thet
did in former years. He was in favor
of a return to the old custom, to keep
the people informed as to what is go
ing on in congress-.
General Hawley is a newspaper man
himself, and, judging from his further
remarks, he would like to see the
newspapers print several columns of
press report Of the proceedings. There
was a time when the old blanket
sheets joyfully printed as high as from
five to fifteen columns of Associated
Press reports. giving votes on nearly
every measure in detail and includ-
ing a large amount of matter which
few people read or cared to read.
Telegraph editors had to keep on a
severe tension to effect the lettering
of the m~ultitudinous segments Of
house and senate proceedings SO that
they would reach the proper destina-
ton in the composing room. Every
thing had to give way to the telegraph
ed congressional proceedings. Matter,
really important, was crowded out by
the telegraphed insipidity of the ora
tory of the Smiths and Joneses in
house and senate.
What a present day special newspa-
attractive and informing way in a
quarter-column dispatch about the do
ings of congress, then stretched it's
slow length through a column or more.
Important news. outside of the talk
of congress-, had to wait and was u.s.
ually boiled down to the lowest read
able point. When the blanket folios
began to give way to the quartos in
the latter seventies, it occurred to
progressive newspaper managers that
they were parting with too much val
liable space for the exploitation of
congress-, and the amplification of
special telegraph service began and
was properly appreciated by the pub,
lie, who found a grateful change in
the p~erusal of special dispatches
which enabled them at once to get a
clear understanding of what congress
had done the day before or upon the
same day. There are many people
who only care to read the portion OF
congressional proceedings which,
touch upon a subject in which they are
interested. They let the rest go. The
public cannot be compelled or per
suaded to read and study the Congress
sional Record if they do not want it
Senators and representatives supply
to their constituents all the copies
of the Record they want. Few people
will pay for a publication which they
can get free from their representa-
tives in congress. 1t is entirely i'm
probable that General Hawley will
ever be gratified by witnessing a re
turn to the old custom if giving VI
three-fourths of the news space O.
t daily newspapers to full reports O.
: congressional proceedings.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11

The Gazette hastens to extend its
congratulations to the good people Of
Miles City on the happy news they
have received relative to the decision
of the board of military posts to
recommend Fort heogh for retention
as one of the permanent military es-
Establishments of the country. The in
formation Of the boards recommends
ton comes from the commanding gen.
eral of the army and may be accepted
as correct and the doubts and fears
which have filled the minds of the
Milesians should now be put at rest
While the rehabilitating of Fort Keogh
is of first Importance to Miles City and
the portion of the Yellowstone valley
imediately tributary thereto, it means
much also to other parts of eastern
Montana, and particularly the entire
Yellowstone valley, for with a large
army post permanently located at that
point a good demand for much that is
raised in the valley will naturally al
ways exist and the farmers and ranch
ers will have the satisfaction of know
ing that much of their produce and
many of their horses and cattle may
be disposed of there and always at
fair prices. The information given to
Senator Gibson in General Miles let
ter is good news to everybody in Vel
lowstone as we'll as Custer county.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
House..

Washington, Feb. 1.-The house to-
day passed the executive, legislative
and judiciary bill, the second of reg
ular supply bills. AS passed it car
ries s25, III 1863, which is $503,721 in
of the current law. Only two
amendments of Importance were
adopted. One provides for a commits
sion to redistrict the legislative dis
tricts of Oklahoma. and the other au-.
thorises the president in his discre-
ton to extend civil service to cover
the temporary clerical force employed
on account of the war with Spain.
There are about 1880 of these
clerks still in the service. By the
terms of the amendment the presi-
dent must place all or none of them
under. civil service.
Washington. Feb. S.-The house to-
day devoted an hour to the transact
ton of minor business, and the re-
mainder of the day to eulogies on the
life and public service of late Repre-
sentative Burke of Texas.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
TOTE FAIR, GENTLEMEN.

st. Paul Dispatch: The fight on
oleomargarine is transferred from the
committee on agriculture to the house
by the report of the majority bill
which is a duplicate Of the Gfoht bill.
The minority report the Wadsworth
bill. Singularly the advocates of each
pretend to reach the same end. the
elimination of possible fraud in the
sale Of oleomargarine and the pro-
lection of the consumer. With that
purpose the Dispatch is andrhas been
in entire sympathy. 1t believes tina.
justice both to the producers and con
sumers of butter requires this. The
only question is as to how it a be
done in a way and by methods that
are fair and honest, hat conceal no
Interior purpose, and that will be most
effective in accomplishing their ends.
VIGOROUSLY makers Of butter and
oleomargarine use coloring matter, SO
as to give their products the sem
blance of butter made when COWS feed
on fresh pastures. For a fact, if not
a well-known one, butter made during
eight months of the year shades elf
from rich yellow of June to white in
December. We can see no objection
to the use of coloring matter, provided
it be harmless, in butter made in the
dryer or colder months. 1t merely
makes the butter more attractive tc
the eye and misleads no one. Nor
can we see any reasonable objection
to like use by makers of the substi-
tute. If it is fair for one it is fair for
the other. We do protest against
the use of coloring matter derived
from analine, and which is a rank
poison, and we note with some sur
prise that there has been nowhere
legislation against it's use, nor Of
fetal effort to prevent it under gen
eral laws.
But little or no effort is made to
disguise the real purpose of the
Grout bill, which taxes ole~omargarine
in which coloring matter is used 10
cents a pound. 1t is to compel it to
be sold Gin the white or rather the
gray, relying upon the popular taste
for yellow to prevent it's sale entirely,
The protection of the is lost
sight of in the real motive. With
any movement having for it's purpose
to make use of the power of law to
crush out a competing industry we
can have no sympathy, whether it be
making butter or making shoddy
Both are legitimate, honest and use
full industries. If the sole purpose is
to guard the consumer then the minor
ity bill does it amply, fairly and hon
estly. 1t requires oleomargarine tc
be put up in pound prints and thai
each print must have impressed into
it in large letters the word oleomar
garine. No one could be misled, fol
notice of the nature of the article
would confront him when buying it
Candidly, if butter cannot stand com
petition with oleomargarine made ant
sold under such conditions then there
must be something radically wrong
with butter.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11

While loudly resenting the Inter
Mountains imputation that the demo-
Gratis in a friendly way are doing all
in their power to u a rumpus in
the republican party Of the state, the
Butte Miner shows a very strange
the family dispute and is not slow in
patting one of the combatants on the
back and yelling sick en-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
LOW RATES NORTHWEST.
Via Burlington Route.

To Billings, Mont ............$15.50
To Cody, .Wyo .............. 1915
To Helena and Butte .......... 1000
To Spokane, Wash ............ 20, so
To Portland. Tacoma, Seattle
and Rossland, B. C........... $500
Above rates will be in effect everA
day in March and April from Missouri
river terminals and from nearly all
stations on B. & M. r. r.
A wonderful opportunity to visit the
northwest.
The Big Horn basin of Wyoming is
a country CT great and now
undeveloped. 1t has just been made
accessible by a new line of the Bur-
lington Route, and presents many at
fractions to the homeseeker..
Folder on Big Horn basin free on
request.
For tickets, rates, or additional in
formation apply to nearest agent, Bur
lington Route, or write to
j. FRANCIS,
General Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Neb.