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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-09
PHYSICIAN USES GUN TO RESIST
ARREST.
TURNS WEAPON ON HIMSELF
With Fatal Result When He Sees
There Is No Possibility
Of Escape.

Los Angeles, CAL, May Sin a
fierce battle with detectives, late this
afternoon DR.. e. w. Aldrich of Chi
cago was killed, and City Detective
Hawley seriously wounded. The fight
occurred at the offices of DR.. Aldrich
in the Hotel Savoy, at Fourth and
Broadway. Captain of Detectives
Bradish, City Detective Hawley, a
Chicago officer and a reporter went to
Aldrich's Office to serve requisiticn
papers which the governor had grant
ed on the request of the governor Of
Illinois for the return Of Aldrich to
Chicago, where he was wanted to
answer to the charges Of perjury and
bigamy.
When the officers entered the room,
Detective Hawley Immediately began
reading the document. Aldrich stood
in the doorway of his private office,
and ais soon as he realized the purport
of the paper he returned and seized
a pistol off his desk, but before he
could level it at the officers he was
seized by Bradish and Hawley. In
the scuff1e A1drich placed the revolver
to Hawley's back and fired. The bull
let entered below the shoulder blade
and imbedded itself in the muscles
Shaking off the officers, Aldrich
rushed into his private office. locked
the door, seized a rifle and began fir
ing through the glass door. One Of
the bullets barely missed the reporter,
and others imbedded themselves in
the door. Bradish fired through the
door, the bullet. striking Aldrich two
inches below the navel, perforating
the bowels. Realizing that he was
cornered, Aldrich placed the muzzle
of the rifle to his nostrils and pulled
the trigger. The bullet entered the
brain. He died instantly. His self
inflicted wound left not a trace.
Not much is known of Aldrich in
this city. He came here some time
ago and opened sumptuously furnish
ed Offices in the Hotel Savoy. where
he apparently had conducted a suc-
cessfu1 business.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-09
Upton TO RECEIVE A TITLE.
King Wants to Make Him a Peer, But
Salisbury Demure.

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London, May 5:-There is said to be
serious trouble between King Edward
and Lord Salisbury concerning the
title to be conferred On Sir Thomas
Upton at the coronation. The king
wants to make him a peer, but Sails
bury holds, it is reported, that it
would be unprecedented and that a
baronetcy is the highest title he
should get. The principal members
of the kings encourage are against
Lipton's being ennobled, urging that
elevation to the house of lords should
come by degrees, especially as Upton
has no prior claims. It is said that il
the king has his way Upton will, take
the title of Baron Osidge, after his
country seat.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-09
Buck Herd.

I am now prepared to take care Of
any number Of bucks for the season.
One Dollar per head, April / to Dec. 1;
25c extra for shearing and hauling
wool to city. w. H. CLANTON,
km28 Billings.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-09

Quick, reliable shoe repairing. Post
office basement. TAFT
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
FAVORABLE RESPONSE RE-
QUESTED.

Mr.. Shaw, the Secretary of the
Treasury, asks Congress to stop the
coinage of the silver dollar, and il is
to be hoped that his request will be
granted. The North and East will not
take 1t. and as the government thinks
it must unload some of the coins some-
where, 1t dumps them on the South on
the plea that the farmers want them
to use in paying their hands at cot
ton picking time. It may be that the
negro cotton piekers prefer them to
paper money. but it is certain that
people living in the towns and cities
do not. Nobody ia the towns wants
to carry more than one or two of them
at time. particularly in warm
weather.
But what is the use of coming any
more of them when they cannot be
forced into circulation? Their coinage
is going on at the rate of 81, SOC, 900 a
month, and there is enough silver in
the treasury to make IS, 500 900 dsllars.
The amount already coined is $55e, 900
900, and nearly the whole of it is piled
up in the vaults of the treasury. There
are of course silver certificates in cir
culation representing this silver money,
but that is no reason why any more
of the dollars should be coined. In
view of the efforts that Mexico is
about to make to get on a gold basis
and the fact that we shall have to put
the Philippines on a gold basis, it may
become a question at no great distance
in the future whether we can continue
to maintain our burden of silver money
on a parity with gold
If we must coin more silver then
let the silver We now have in the
treasury be gradually coined into sub
sidiary silver coins. There is pretty
nearly always a demand for dimes.
quarters and halves. In view Of the
fact that the commercial value of the
silver in silver dollar has dropped to
about SO cents not much is heard from
the advocates of the free and indie
pendent coinage of silver at the ratio
of l6 to l, or any other ratio.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
SUGAR SENATORS COMING ROUND.

The beet sugar senators who were
among those hostile at the last session
of Congress to reciprocity with Cuba
the granting of reduction of 20 per
cent. in the tariff on Cuban sugar-now
announce that they will offer no sur-
Their opposition to the proposed reduc-
ton. Does this mean that they have
come to the conclusion that further
opposition would be useless. or do they
think there is now but little prospect
in the near future of reciprocity with
Cuba?
The Cubans are not now so anxious
for reciprocity with this country as
they were last winter. Only a few
days ago President Palma was quoted
as saying that Cubans would hardly
be satisfied now with anything less
than a reduction of 25 per cent. With
in the last year the price of sugar has
improved so much that the Cuban sug-
ar planters are able to market their
sugar in Europe and this country at a
profit.
But these sugar senators have an
there is a commercial treaty between
this country and Cuba steps will be
taken, in all probability, to negotiate
a political treaty, in which the Platt
amendment will be incorporated. The
negotiation of such a treaty will re-
quire considerable time, as there is
much opposition in Cuba to that
amendment.
Then, If the commercial treaty
should be brought to the front again,
there are likely to be differences be-
twsen the House and the Senate as to
the part the House is to play in the
ratification of such treaties, since they
involve revenue. There is a fair pros
pect therefore that it will be quite a
long time before the beet sugar ques-
ton will become a factor in negotia-
tons between this country and Cuba
There seems to be ground for saying
that when this country failed to make
a commercial treaty with Cuba last
wintes 1t lost its opportunity for get
ting control of the trade of Cuba at
disposed to regard themselves as being
under some obligations to us. That
feeling seems to be gradually dlsap-
pearing. The disposition of the Cubans
now seems to be to get the best terms
out of us they can.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08

OF the departed glory of Medford
rum, once a staple production in his
state, Senator Hoar tells pointed an
ecdote which certain friends of his are
welcome to employ at their pleasure.
says the Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune. In village not
far from Medford. so the Senator S
story goes, there lived a well to do far
mer who was called on once a week to
contribute half a dollar to less for
tunate neighbor for celebration ON Sum-
day. Year in and year out the familiar
appeal for the so cents was repeated
and granted. AT last the old farmer
tired of the waste of money which, as
he well knew. went directly into the
profits of the manufacturers of Med
ford rum. SO he demonstrated with the
bibulous friend.
Don't you think you might celebrate
sufficiently on quarter?" he inquired
one Saturday.
Well" said the bounty seeker judi
ciously 81 suppose yer might keep
Sunday on that after a fashion. but
hoW?"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
ANOTHER MORGAN DEALT

No one is able to form an opinion,
from what rs appearing in the dis
patches. whether or not a sincere eff
fort is being made to settle outside of
the commission the differences between
the miners and operators in the anthra-
cite coal region. There is APP
parentIy an effort to keep the public
in the dark. Week before last efforts
were made to bring about a settlement
Independently of the commission, but
they came to nothing because, it was
said, of the opposition of the independ-
ent operators. Again last week there
were reports that there was strong
movement in the direction of COM
promise. One<geport-a report that
seemed to be well founded-was that J.
Pierpont Morgan was using all his in
fiuence to take the whole subject out
of the hands of the commission, and
effect settlement directly between the
operators and the miners. Saturday
it was stated in our dispatches, on the
authority of MIR. Wayne Macveagh.
who is understood to represent Mr.
Morgan. that ii had been finally de-
cided by all the parties in interest, that
1t would be the wiser course to let the
issues be settled by the commission,
though he let it be inferred that a set
Element might be made when each side
had about presented all it's testimony
There is authority for the statement
that a syndicate has been formed, of
which Mr.. Morgan is the chief factor
to purchase the properties of the in
dependent operators, thus giving the
coal railroads absolute control of all
the anthracite coal mines. The price
asked by the Independent operators is
said to be $780, 900, 900. Probably that is
about twice the actual value OF the
mines of the Independent operators, but
the coal roads could afford to pay them
that much for a monopoly.
With no disturbing factors in the
ownership of the mines it would not be
a difficult matter for the coal roads to
gradually raise the price of coal until
1t was high enough to yield a good
profit on their coal mine investments.
even though they had to pay the in
creased wages demanded by the min
ers. 1t is very probable that before a
settlement is reached, whether through
the efforts of the commission or other
wise, the independent operators will
cease to be factors in the coal situa-
ton.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
ARBOR DAY.

The Governor of Georgia has named
Dec. 9, next Tuesday, as Arbor Day
in the state. The idea seems to be to
get as many school teachers and school
children as may be possible interested
in the planting of trees. There is
every reason why the teachers and the
children should become tree-pianters.
There are few school house grounds
that could not be improved by the ju-
dicious placing of trees that would in
the course of few years grow to be
ornaments to the surroundings Would
1t not be a good idea for us to observe
an Arbor Day in Savannah? We want
more trees, not only in the school house
grounds, but in the streets as well.
There is no city in the country that
has more and finer trees than Savan-
nah; still we have not enough. on
many of the streets there are long
spaces in which no tree fiourishes. Such
spaces ought to be filed. And they
could be filled with beautiful trees at
practically nominal cost. IL we were
to observe Arbor Day, each property
owner planting trees in front of his
lots, 1t would not be long before all
Of the unsightly gaps would be filled
in and the city would be made much
more beautiful.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
LILLY WHITES" BECOMING AZ
GRESsIVE. o.


If what Senator Psitchard of North
Carolina says is founded in fact, the
white Republicans of that state have
no intention of abandoning their pur-
pose of making the Republican party
there a white mans party. The recent
utterance of the President to the effect
that it was his intention to recognize
negroes in making his appointments
wherever he could find negroes of fit
ness and merit, does not seem to have
changed the purpose of the North
Carolina Republicans in the least.
There is an impression that the ad-
ministration has endeavored to check
what is known as the Lilly White"
movement in North Carolina and other
Southern states. because it promises
to make complications at the next Re-
publican National Convention, and has
offered Senator Pritchard a federal
tudgeship with the hope that he would
fall in with the administration views,
but if this is so. the facts are not
given out authoritatively.
GotHdLOI IllAIiAIO 10 OdL III al III
terview in which he asserts that as
soon as the people of his state become
satisfied that the negro is out of poll
tics to stay, there will be movement
to the Republican party that will sur
prise other sections of the country. 1t
is his opinion that the state will be-
come Republican by a very considera-
BILE majority.
The arguments by which Senator
Pritchard reaches this conclusion are
not by any means unanswerable. 1t is
probably true that there is a large
white element in the mountain coun-
ties of North Carolina which has been
voting the Democratic ticket, and in
future will act with the Republican
party. 1t has always been Republican,
but against the negro, and for that
reason has refused to vote the Repub-
lican ticket.
1t is very doubtful, however, if there
is any good reason for the statement of
Senator Pritchard that the state will
soon be sending Republican senators
anu representatives 10 washington ana
Republican electors to the electoral col
lege. He over-estimates the percent
age of the white vote that will go to
the Republican party. There are many
white men in each one of the South
ern states that have been. to a GER
tain extent, in sympathy with the Re-
publican party, but have voted the
Democratic ticket because they were
afraid of negro domination. These men
may, and doubtless, will join the Lilly
White" movement in the states in
which the right to vote has been prac-
tically taken from the negro. but we
shall be very much mistaken If they
prove to be sufficiently numerous to
take any one of the Southern states
into the Republican party. Issues may
arise in the course of a few years
that will draw a large white vote to
the Republican party in those states in
the South in which there is discrimi-
nation against the negro in the matter
of the franchise. but such issues are
not yet in sight
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08

Rev. Mr.. Dickie pastor of the
American church in Berlin, has sailed
for the United States to secure libra
ry and other things for the new church
which is completing at a cost of $780,
900.
in the course of his prayer the 9TH
er morning Chaplain Couden of the
House besought the divine blessing on
the Department of Justice" Congress-
man Shattuc of Ohio said: THE chap
lain probably meant to say the SUI
preme Court, or else he remembered
that the Attorney General is from
Pennsylvania and needs all the help
he can get"
Maria Schemmer, a ST. Louis wo-
man. unable to read or write, died
there the other day, leaving an estate
vahed at 100000. Her principal heirs
are William II. Udrich, living near
Racien, Wis, and Edward w. Meyer
of st. Louis. Miss Schemmer signed
her will with an *" but it is duly at
tested and has been admitted to pro-
bate without question.
In speaking on the ACCESSIBILITY of
curtailing the study of the dead lam
guages, subject now interesting edu-
Gators in Great Britain, Prof. Kirkpat-
rick of the chair of history in the
University of Edinburgh is quoted as
saying: indispensable as the study of
Latin once was in higher education,
that of ones own language and other
modern tongues has now become more
so.''
Bishop Partridge of Japan Journey
ed all the way to New York city in
order to take part in the missionary
conference of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. In doing so he furnished ex-
traordinary proof of the perfection of
modern transportation facilities. He
wrote to a relative in Brooklyn giving
details and itinerary Of his trip, which
was to be as fast as he could possibly
make 1t. The Bishop crossed 5000 miles
of water and 5000 of land, arriving in
the Grand Central station, New York,
exactly at the minute named in his
letter from Japan.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
BRIGHT BITS.

AT the Club.-Caller-"Is Mr.. Win
merton in?" Butler-"I think he is, sir;
but l can't say just how much, as the
game is not over Baltimore Ameri-
can.
-Janftor.-"You can't occupy this
fat Would be- Tenant-"Why not?
We have only nine dogs "Oh, all
right. L thought you had children"
Life.
Mrs. Loveydevey (gushingly-"I
never exoress a wish that 1 do not
know Fred will gratify'' Mrs. Cutting
(sweetly)-'That is where you are
clever. Judge.
-Biggs.-"It strikes me that the
fool-killer is neglecting his business. F"
Diggs-"He's kept pretty busy l sup
pose, but YOU might send him your
address. Chicago Daily News.
-Dicer.-"They tell me Fred has
been playing the races" l<nickleby-
NE thought he was: but ii turned out
that the fellows at the races were
working Fred. Boston Transcript.
u think I know" said the anna
teur gunner, after his fifth straight
miss, why those birds are called
ducks Whats that, sir?" in
Quired the guide. Because they duck
out of the way every time a fellow
shoots. "-Philadelphia Press.
The Housing Problem.-First lady
They tell me that Corporation
hooses is to be awfu' chape-twa room
an kitchen for twelve poun' ten. Bit
they're to haze nae bath. Second lady
Mae bath! Ma, an whit are we
to do dae VII DOR s?"-Glasgow
Evening Times.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Northumberland Friendly Society,"
Fourth District Citizens Club.
Special Notice-Eost, ]. p. Merrihew
Christmas, 19o2-Sternberg & Co.
Why Worry Yourself-Lindsay &
Morgan.
Exchange a Dime for Health Sub
lime-Shuptrines Pharmacy.
Proposals Wanted-For Construction
of Steel Tank at Fort Screvsn, Tybee
Island.
Pure Foods-Force.
Silver Polish-The Gorham Company
Biscuit-Undeeda Biscuit.
Amusements-Rose Coghlan. at
Theater, To-day and Tonight; How
ard Kyle at Theater, Dec. 10.
Auction Sales-Old Hoss Sale. Gen.
trail of Georgia Railway.
Medical-Dr. Hathaway; Castoria-
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08

''Some people know" he began IN
an insinuating tone, says the Los An
geles Herald. ''act very much like
hoodoo."
who do?' asked his indignant and
suspicious friend.
Yes, that's what said, hoodoo."
well, answer my Question-Who
do?"
You stupendous ass. that's what ]
said-Hoodoo! hoodoo! hoodoo!"
You hopeless, gibbering idiot, that's
what I'm asking you. Who do? Who
do? Who do?"
At last their friends found them
locked in deadly embrace, chewing
each others ears. and long before the
attempt at explanation was completed
each had been placed tenderly in a
heavily padded apartment.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
Art and the Cabinet.

With the value Of the discussion on
the subject of bear hunting in the
cabinet has come another spicy topic,
with the point of the joke all on Secre-
tary Hitchcock, says the New York
Tribune. The duties of the Secretary
of the Interior are somewhat haZy
and ill-defined In the minds of the ma
jority of people. The corresponding
range of subjects referred to Secretary
Hitchcock is somewhat astounding. He
aff1rms, however, that the limit was
passed the other day when he received
the following request through the mail:
"Will you please give the names and
addresses of three or more art stu
dents, where they want a woman with
a perfect form to pose as modeI?"
THAT seems clearly to belong to the
Secretary of the Exterior" was Mr..
Hitchcock's dry comment.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08
CURRENT COMMENT,

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
(Dem.) says: I'm the history of man.
kind there has, perhaps. never been a
piece of legislation fought as this ca
nal legislation is being fought Bill
lions of dollars are united to defeat it.
Both national parties have declared
for it; but such is the power of money
that Congress seems pow erless to act"
The Albany IN. Y, Argus Dem. J
says The ship subsidy jobbers are
iubilant over a public letter of Secre-
tary Shaw, in which he openly and
avowedly urges upon Congress the en-
actment of the subsidy scheme. So
high an official of government as the
head of the Treasury Department
ought to be in better business than
aiding an indefensible raid on the
treasury
The Brooklyn Eagle Dsm.) says:
1.-THE question now is, Did Alton b.
Parker injure his running power for
the presidency by not taking his
chances on the governorship in 1902
The late John j. ingalls,, in poem,
declared Opportunity TO be "a friend
that knocks on a mans door only once.
and not being told to enter passes
on, not coming that way again. Friends
who told the judge that the way TO
the White House was through the
executive mansion, at Albany, told 10
him the truth"
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
Und) says; III the ocean-earrying
business Is promising enough not
merely 20 attract large amounts sof
American capital, as in the case OF the
Morgan combination. but 70 invite a
great Imitation of is capital, IL can
hardly claim the need OF government
gio, and any effort 20 obtain such helm
borders close upon the impudent. The
employment % the taxing powers ~
the American government 20 tufp
money from fhe pockets - the peopie
lnfo me Golfers ~ an iunated Nora
Trust cgnuoi b. made popular. ana fas
itrpppiirnn party ~ fepfesenfed Ia
Warrington y beEinsiaE ~ reaJlze the
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