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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
DEATH OF A GENIUS.

In the life and career of Thomas
Mast are furnished a striking example
what genius and talent can accom-
plish when directed in the channels
thai make for good. Although he was
no politicians himself and never as
PRED to be placed in a position where
ne might use the power of office to
bring about the reforms he believed
were necessary to save the people of
Nv York from the continued thievery
and ~debauchery of the notorious
Tweed gang, yet to him probably more
than to any n else were they in
dehted. for the final downfall of. that
cOterie of rascals and robbers. With
his Incompatible skill he cartooned
events and personages week after
week in the publication by which he
was employed and his pictures were
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
AND MORE.

Philadelphia Record: MIR. j. p.
Morgan is said to have taken a suite
of rooms in Washington. Mr.. Theo-
dore Roosevelt had previously taken
a house there, and Newspaper Row
is confident that there will be a strug-
gle between the two distinguished gen
tlsmen to procure, or to prevent, con-
gressional action on trusts. Mr..
Roosevelt wants less water and more
light in and about the trusts, and Mr..
Morgan does not want congress to
regulate the amount of either. 1t
should be a good winter in Washing
ten for statesmen who enjoy fine
dinners.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED.

Omaha Bee: Negotiations with Co.
lombia have beer resumed and the re-
assuring statement is made that a
treaty may be ready for submission
to the senate before the holiday re-
cess. 1t is said that the secretary Of
state will confer with senators and
representatives in congress before
closing the negotiations, from which
conditions have been introduced in
the treaty, involving concessions not
contemplated in the protocol which was
the basis OF the Spooner bill under
which the administration is proceed
ing.
At all events it is made apparent
that the Colombian government is de-
sirous to come to terms and that it's
attitude was misrepresented by the
minister whom it recalled. 1t indeed
seemed strange, when the negotia-
lions came to a halt, that the govern
ment of Colombia should have adopt
ed an attitude of obstruction after
having so strongly expressed the de-
sire to have the United States COM
rlete the Panama canal. and equally
surprising that it should seek to de-
feat a project which if carried out
will be in the highest degree benef-
cial to that country. 1t will give Co.
lombia much needed financial aid and
very greatly improve material con-
ditions there, or at any rate in the
state of Panama. If Colombia should
allow the United States to build
the canal and this country secured
Nicaragua route, the result would
be the effacement of Panama and
Colon from the map, so far as COM
goes.
Our government is driving no hard
bargain in this matter. 1t proposes to
pay the French company all that it's
property is commercially worth, while
all it's asks of Colombia is complete
security for it's investment, not likely
to be less than $3.50, OOO, 900. There
is nothing unfair or unreasonable in
terms and conditions of the Unit
ed States.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
BUT 1T PAYS,

Detroit Free Press: AS a rule the
officeholder works more hours for less
money than almost any other private
in the great army of the employed.
For every hour that he spends in the
performance of his public duties he
must spend at least another hour in
is elected by the people he must begin
his work for denomination as soon
as he is elected. If he holds a sub
ordinate position he must retain his
influence in his precinct or his SER
vices will not be in demand at the
city hall. 1t is hard work and expen-
sive work and the glory of it all is
sadly furnished.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
REAL TREASON, sab.

Springfield Republican: Ex-Secre-
tary John G. Carlisle has, it is report
certain Virginia negroes, should their
case questioning the validity of the
new Virginia constitution in it's ex-
cluson of colored men from the suf-
frage reach the United States SUI
preme court. That so distinguished
a southern democrat as Carlisle should
offer to appear for the negro in such
a case is causing something like a
sensation in the south.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
DOING HoNoRs IN STYLE,

New York Tribune: Americas big
gest fleet in it's history is quietly as
sembling in the Caribbean, not with
any hostile intentions toward any
body, but to give a ceremonial greet
ing to a few foreign war ships as
sembled on account of the softness of
the winter climate there. There is
nothing like being polite and doing
the honors of American waters in a
grand style worthy of our visitors
and of ourselves, as we'll as of the
eagle which roosts above all the evo-
buttons with an %uncurtained eye of
observation which takes in all their
details.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12

more potent than words. He made
corruption so odious and the work
OF the plunderers SO apparent that he
finally aroused the storm of indigna-
ton that resulted in the flight of the
head of the malodorous band and his
subsequent q, est and Imprisonment.
With Iensil alone he rendered the
city the greatest service that had
ever been rendered it and was instru-
mental in causing it to have a clean,
honest government for several years
thereafter.
When the country was wrought up
over what was termed "ceasarism'' a
simple little picture by the great
Mast settled the matter for all time
and those who were intent upon ele-
waiting a favorite war hero and
great general to heights not in accord
with the popular mind we're only too
glad to subside and the last of
"ceasarism" had been heard. In the
memorable campaign between Grant
and Greeley, Nast's 'stinging pencil
was the one factor that caused more
real shame and modification to the
venerable editor of the New York
Tribune than all the rest that were
used against him. Some of the car
toons that came from it were little
short of brutal and indecent and the
claim has been made that the lam
pooning he received from the famous
c%artoonist was not in a small meas
ure responsible for fastening Gree
ley's death, which sad event followed
shortly after the election in which he
was defeated for the presidency. Even
the strongest admirers of Mast ad-
mitted that in his zeal to subserve !
the interests of the republican party
and his employers he permitted him
self to go too far and that had he
been less bitter and indicative in his
work he would still have rendered
exceptional service to both.
Soon after the election referred to
Mast for some reason that the public
never learned lost favor with the
Harpers, by whom he was employed,
and none of his cartoons found place
n the pages of their weekly, although
still under contract with them. He
pictures as before, but they
were not printed. Finally he left the
irm and then spent sometime travel
ng over the country lecturing and
exhibitions of skill with the
pencil. Subsequently he dropped al
most altogether out of sight and was
lot much heard of until appointed by
President Roosevelt to the consulate
1t Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he died
Sunday.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
ONE FOR BEEF TRUST.

Washington Post: Probably no
man who pays SO much for his beef.
steak that he feels he is guilty Of ex-
travagance every time he buys a por-
terhouse will admit that the beef trust
can give any good reason for exist
ing, except that it persists in doing
so. We are inclined to view every
doughty trust buster" as a cham
pion of the plain people and an eco
nomic hero. We could view the ag-
gressions of the vast combinations of
capital with equanimity so long as
they confined their operations to MAX
ing steel rails, or carried terror to the
other side of the Atlantic by the
Wanted American INVASION" But it
is different when the American cit
izen is forced to pay as much for a
lump of liver as he used to expend for
a juicy sirloin.
But the fact remains that the beef
trust can be accused of one public
spirited deed, although, perhaps, the
motive was not purely philanthropic.
Ever since the settlement of Ne
braska and Kansas these states have
been afflicted with lean years in crops
and favored by others equally fat. But
the trouble was hat during the lean
years, when the hot winds had scorch-
ed the fields and destroyed the crops,
the farmers disposed of their stock at
famine prices, gave away their cattle
Or allowed them to starve. If bounte-
GUS crops came in the following year
they found the price of corn so low
that they burned it for fuel, and the
sum realized On one-half the product
would not build a good crib around
the other half. To feed the corn to
stock was out of the question, for the
output of five acres would not buy a
calf. This state of affairs resulted in
poverty and populism.
Here is where the beef trust came
to the front. Three or four years ago
the Armours and their brethren in the
business offered to sell cattle on cred
it to farmers who gave evidence of
having sufficient ability to feed them.
A mortgage was taken on the cattle,
which were to be delivered at the
stock yards at Omaha and Kansas
City when fattened. The farmer ran
risk. and his investment was mere
ly the corn he could not sell. The beef
trust likewise ran no risk, barring
exceptional dishonesty on the part of
the farmber.
In this way the farmers west of the
Missouri river have been aided in
playing the lean years against the fat
years. 1t is responsible for much of
the prosperity for which the republi-
party has taken ample credit.
Populism has practically died out
and largely on account of the beef
trust,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
KEEP 1T INvloLATE.

Kansas City Star: One of the
things in this changing world that
ought to be preserved inviolate
against the touch Of innovation is
apple pie. Properly constructed, with
am ingenious regard for hygiene and
for pleasing taste, an apple pie is the
very apothesis of cookery and no
token of modern degeneracy is more
mournfully apparent than the great
scarcity of the sort of intelligence
and discrimination necessary to the
production of apple pie, pure and un-
defled and devested of all adjuncts
and appurtances which vitiate the
palate and impair the digestion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
INCREASED

Minneapolis Journal: Some appre-
hension has been created in certain
circles by the rise in our imports.
We have been proceeding for a mum.
Der of years on a constantly increas-
ing export showing, our exports in
creasing more rapidly than our i'm
ports. just now the tendency is the
other way; our imports are increas-
ing, and in some lines our exports are
falling off. This has given rise to an
apprehension that we have passed the
crest of the prosperity wave, and may
look for less prosperous times. This
superficial 1t is shown that manu-
%facturers' materials constitute a large
part of the increase of imports. The
New York Ffnancier calls attention
to the fact that from 1890 to 1892 the
imports Of manufacturers materials
have increased 60 per cent, while all
other importations have increased 8
per cent. The treasury figures for
the first nine months of 1902 show
that the importations of manufacture
ers' materials formed 46.39 per cent
OF the total, a larger proportion than
for any preceding similar period.
1t certainly is no calamity that we
should be importing material for
manufacture to supply constant local
demand. We are importing iron, buk
it is because we do not produce irop1
fast enough to supply the mills. We
made 5000, 900 tons of pig iron last
but~even this was not enough to
supply the demand, so we enlarged
the import to some extent.
Assuredly while consumption is
still so far ahead of production, as it
is in most lines in this country to-
day, there is no occasion for appre-
hension as to- the permanency of good
times. We may do foolish things;
stock speculation has gone beyond
the limit of prudence and good sense
temporarily; but the depression in
speculative circles does not affect the
general condition; the people are al
most universally prosperous.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
TEAM SELECTED.
Who Will Play Butte for
Championship.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.

From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
If they do not succumb to the rat
ties" as a result of the chatting they
may expect from the a%dherents of the
Butteites when they line up
next Saturday at the Smoky City to
contest for the state championship,
the members Of the Billings team
should be able to set a new mark for
ambitious bowlers to look up to. The
continued practice games have been
ended and the choice has narrowed
down to five men who will attempt
to maintain the supremacy of the
Magic City when it comes to pushing
the lignumvitae. Last night the Sc
lection was made, although it had
been evident for sometime before as
to who would compose the quintette,
three for the team and two substi-
tutes.
Those who have Deen picked out
as the winners are Tschudy, Sherman,
D0AACAo LII Ot1CA, Will ElllOIL, IL the
latter returns in time to accompany
the others, who will leave for Butte
Friday morning. The first three
named will constitute the team prop
er, while the other two will be the
Subs
In a practice game last night
Tschudy, Ovren and Daniels made a
total of 2,806 pins, beating the score
made against the All-Americans in
the game Won by the locals from that
combination by GA pins. The total
in that game was 2,742, a notch that
proved too high for the men from
Butte when they subseq uently went
against the professionals.
Sherman, who was selected dele
gate to represent the Magic City club
at the state meeting of clubs to be
held at Butte today for the purpose
of organizing a league, left for that
place yesterday and will remain the
rest Of the week.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12

1t may be considered as possible,
but all must admit that it is very i'm
probable that Venezuela will refuse to
comply with the demands of Great
Britain and Germany when the war
ships of the latter powers appea on
its coast. The fiery little republic
has been given to understand that the
Monroe doctrine will not be applied
in its behalf in order to enable it
to escape payment of what are con
sldered just debts, only so far as to
prevent any permanent occupation of
any territory belonging to it. Know
ing that it need not rely upon the
United States, Venezuela will prob
ably continue its present attitude Of
defiance until the moment when it
considers that further resistance may
be dangerous, when it will yield, if not
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
OLD WOUNDS HEALED.

Philadelphia Record: General
Grants prayer, LET us have peace"
has been more than answered. There
is restored amity between the north
and south, as we'll as restored peace.
The latest manifestation of the COM
pleteness of reunion is the movement
Of confederate veterans to erect a
monument to General Grant in Rich
mond, Va.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12

IT late reports are to be accepted as
reliable, the distinguished Mr.. J.. Pier
pont Morgan has discovered a way of
circumventing those who would in
terfere with his pet scheme of merg-
ing various industries and interests
without at the same time detracting
in any manner from the effectiveness
OF his combines. Thanks to his i'm
mense wealth, much of it made by
showing the less acute how the thing
should be done, he does not need to
depend upon others to furnish the re-
CURED money for financing the mer-
gers he may have in mind for the fu-
ture. He has it himself and proposes
to use it. Having a little idle time
On hand, he has set about to secure
control of all the anthracite mines
OF Pennsylvania and will buy them
outright. He may thus become a
monopolist, but nobody can say that
he is at the head of a trust and there
will be no %"holding companies"
against which states and individuals
may bring suit for their dissolution.
Mr.. Morgan evidently is not afraid of
legislation or else thinks he has hit
upon a plan that renders him immune
to the operations of the trust swat
tiers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
BRAKEMAN KILLED AT TUNNEL
Was No Witness to Accident and De-
tails Are Unknown.

Livingston, Dec. 81. H. O'Kelley
a brakeman, was instantly killed al
pthe west end Of Muir tunnel about {
o'clock this afternoon. He was struck
by passenger train No. 1. The par.
ticulars of the accident are unknown.
There was no witness to the occur.
renee even the engineer and fireman
OF engine No. 1 being ignorant Of the
the fatality.
The dead man was breaking behind
for Conductor Hamilton, in charge of
freight train 81, eastbound. The
train stopped at the west end of the
tunnel to wait for No. /. just as the
passenger train was about due, Con-
ductor Hamilton asked O'Kelley to go
out and let off the brakes. A few
seconds after O'Kelly left the caboose.
Conductor Hamilton started, out to
help him. A few a lengths from the
caboose Conductor Hamilton stumbled
upon the body of his brakeman. Blood
was flowing from a wound in his head.
There were no other marks upon the
body. A hole through the unfortunate
mans cap showed where the fatal
blow had struck him. With the aid
of the engineer and fireman from the
helper on No. 1, the body was carried
into the caboose and every effort made
to resuscitate the brakeman. Their
efforts, however, proved entirely flu
tile.
1t is presumed that O'Kelly stumbl-
ed just as the passenger train reach
ed him and that the corner of the
pilot struck him and knocked him
of the wheels.
The remains were brought to this
city on No. 81, but will be taken to
Gallatin county tonight for a cor
oner's investigation.
The dead man had been braking
only three weeks. He was formerly
a member of a bridge crew. He was
years of age and unmarried.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12

The men who want the state to
adopt the initiative and referendum
are determined not to give up without
n more effort. Governor Toole is
to be petitioned to embody in his
forthcoming message to the legisla-
lure a recommendation to thst body
that it make provisions for a special
election to be held sometime mex
lall at which the matter of direct leg
Station is to be submitted to the vot-
ers OF the state. The governor may
comply with the request and he may
not, but whatever he may do it is not
likely that the people of the state will
vote for the adoption of the pet theory
OF a lot of dreamers. The absurdity
OF that kind of legislation has been
so often and clearly shown that the
only wonder is that someone should
still be found who advocates it.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
To Crush the Ladrones.

Manila, Dec. S.-Preparatory to an
aggressive campaign against the la
drones in the Rial, province of LII
zon, General Davis has ordered zones
OF concentration. The lands will be
titled during the day and the people
will retire within the zones at night.
A strong force of constabulary will
be used against the bandits.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
OF COURSE, NOT.

Indianapolis Journal: When Pres
ident Roosevelt wrote of Americans
as men with iron in their blood he
could not have intended to. include
those little Americans who distrust
the ability of the people to solve great
and difficult problems. He did not
refer to calamityites and pessimists.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12

Money to loan on city and farm
property. T. J.. Bouton. 55-tf
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12

gracefully, still it will yield and the
two nations now awaiting a reply to
their ultimatums will be paid the
Arizona republican., 1902-11-29
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE SISKIYOU COPPER COMPANY.

Know All Men by These Presents, That we. the undersigned, D. F. Gala han, s. s. Wright, w. F. Falls, F. E. Gauthier. J. F. Beasom, D. E. Marchus, and Fred Leibly. have this day volun- tarily associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Ari- zona, and do hereby make, execute and adopt the following articles of incor- poration:
 Article I. The name of said corpora ton hereby formed shall be Siskiyou Copper Company. and its principal place of transacting business shall be and is Phoenix, Maricopa county, Ter ritory of Arizona, with branch office at the City and County of San Fran cisco. State of California. and at such other places as may be determined by the board of directors. Regular and special meetings of the directors and stockholders may be held, and any and
Arizona republican., 1902-11-29
BUSINESS CHANGES
@ SON
Real Estate and Investments
 No. Il North First Ave,

In the District Court of the Third Ju- dicial District, Territory of Arizona, in and for Maricopa County.
 Phoenix National Bank a corpora- ticn, plaintiff, vs. w H. Beardsley and H. L. Mercy, defendants.
 Action brought in the district court of the Third Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for Mari copa county, and the complaint filed in said Maricopa county, in the office of the clerk Of said district court Alias"
 In the name of the Territory of Ari- zona, to W. H. Beardsley and H. L. Mercy, defendants, greeting: You are hereby summoned and required to ap- pear in an action brought against you by the above named plaintiff, in the district court of the Third Judicial Dis trict of the Territory of Arizona, in and for the county Of Maricopa, and answer the complaint therein filed with the clerk of this said court, at Phoe- nix, in said county. within twenty days after the service upon you of this sum- mons, if servedin this said county or in all other cases within thirty days thereafter, the times above mentioned being exclusive of the day of service, or judgment by default will be taken against you.
 Given under my hand and seal of the district court of the Third Judicial Dis trict of the territory of Arizona, in and for Maricopa county, this 18th day of October. A. D.. 1902.
 (Seal) ELIAS F. DUNLEVY,
 Clerk of Said District Court.
 NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Arizona republican., 1902-11-29

Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, speaking on the present tendencies of American literature, says: Future types of American fic- tion will undoubtedly be affected strongly by the universal democratic movement. Democratic art insists upon the divine qualities in the life of the ordinary man. The marvellous epic of the settlement of the western half of the continent still waits an adequate reciter. The romance of labor, of traf- fic, of politics, in our strangely com posite civilization has been perceived by few writers, but how much is still to be told!"
Arizona republican., 1902-11-29
LOST AND FOUND

 LOST-Friday afternoon, near Jeffer- son street. boys reefer sailor coat; brass anchor buttons. Finder leave at this office and receive reward. ESTRAY-Came to my ranch on the Cave Creek road about October 18th last, one bull calf. probably eight months old, ear marked with crop and slit in each ear; color red with white spot on each flank. J. A. R. Irvine.
 LOST-Waterman fountain pen; large size. Finder please leave at this office and receive reward of $2. FOUND-George Richards. the driver of "Oakswood." yesterday found on Center street a valua ble- lady's jacket which the owner can have by proving property at this office and paying charges.