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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-05-21

tlemen are well known to the public
generally and especially to the pat.
rons Of the Office, as very capable
and hard working officials and their
re-appointment is received with salts.
faction throughout the district.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-05-21

Officers of the Independent Order
of Redmen announce that at the next
meeting, Friday. May, 23rd. nomina
tons for officers will be made, on the
Both inst. The regular election will
occur and installation ceremonies will
be held on June 9Th. Every member
of the lodge is requested to attend
these meetings.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-05-21

Educate Your Bowels with Csscareta
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-05-21
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DEVOTED TO THE LARGE AND SMALL +
I NEWS OF THE MINING CAMPS d
OF FERGUS COUNTY. +

OF FERGUS COUNTY.

again last week, after being thorough.
ly repaired and o~verhauled. Five ad
ditional teaching tanks were placed
in operation and a patent ore convey.
or placed in working order. At pres.
ent considerable difficulty is being
experienced with a portion of the out.
put of the mines, owing to its extreme.
ly moist state. which prevents its be
ing put through the rolls with sue
cess. The mill is still running, how.
ever. and the difficulty will in all
probability be obviated by the intro.
duction of drying screens .
Copperopoiis Property.
II. l.. Elton, of the Home Copper
Mining company, has taken a bond on
the Copper Duke mine at Copperop.
oils, and is making arrangements to
put a force of men to work. We are
not informed as to the conditions of
the bond since the instrument has
not as yet been put on record. It is
reported that a $4,000 bond has been
executed by a Michigan syndicate to
the Martinsdale Sheep company for
the extension of the Copper Duke
mining claim at Copperopolis, AMI
that the claim is to be prospected by
means of diamond drills. The syndi.
cate in question is operating in the
Lake Superior copper regions and are
experienced mining people.-Western
Mining World.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-05-21
Moccasin Mining Co.

North Moccasin Mining co.
Arrangements have been made and
the necessary work completed for the
procuring of a patent to claims be-
longing to the North Moccasin Min
ing Co. with the obtaining of which
the whole property of the company il
the North Moccasin will have beer
patented.
Kendall Chronicle: Work in the
is progressing favorably.
Last week a cleanup was made and
the result was four bars of bullion.
Their approximate value was $4,000.
Sinking the shaft, below the open cut.
was discontinued a short time ago,
and a drift started northwest to cut
the ore body. This drift is in about
80 feet, with good indications in the
face.
Kendall Chronicle: 1--WE are now
cyaniding, and everything is being put
in good shape" is the report made by
Superintendent Lang of the Kendall
mill. Yesterday eight Of the tanks
we're full, which means that about
twelve hundred tons of ore have been
crushed. The causes of the delay In
running the mill continuously are be-
ing overcome, and it will not be long
ere the whole plant is in perfect ap-
Grafton.
Burke & Sweeney Properties.
p. T. Sweeney is in the city and
states that a deal is in the process of
consummation whereby the Burke e
Sweeney properties at Yogo will
change hands, being acquired by the
Mcclure interests, consisting of l.. s.
and C. d. Mcclure, Paul FUSE and
David Jankower. A bond was taken
on the property by the McLures about
is months ago, for $4,000. which has
been taken up during the past two
weeks. Several men have been de-
veloping the property for some time
past and as soon as the deal is conf
pleted a much larger force of men
will be put to work.
New Year Mines.
The mill on the property of the
New Year Mines Co. was started up
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
A STARTLING INNOVATION.
Charleston Society News Finds It's
Wav Into Print

The most surprising piece of news from
the old city of Charleston Is the innovation
in society affairs there said a South Caro-
lima man.
ANY one who knows aught Of Charleston
society, Its history, Its traditions and Its
customs, knows first Of all that nothing is
rated so entirely improper as the mention
in newspaper of any social function. Not
even marriages are excepted, and for gen
erations people have lived and moved and
had their entertainments and their we'd
dings and their children's weddings In
Charleston, and their names have never ap-
peared in the newspapers-not even when
they died, unless they were men. To pub
lish anything, even a personal about wo-
man. has been contrary to the Charleston
standard. Responsibility, therefore, has
been a sure preventative Of publicity No
matter how delightfully."- one might enter
tain the regular herd must not hear of 1t
through the press This sentiment has
been respected by the newspapers, and con-
sequenuy the Charleston field has been
most delightful one for newspaper men.
THE world has often been told about the
eXclusiveness of Charleston society and the
inviolable rules by which IL is governed.
The situation has not been exaggerated
and up to the opening Of the exposition the
old standards prevailed as strictly as ever.
But the eXposition-an enterprise In which
all classes are concerned for the good of
Charleston-with it's numerous functions
has been something Of a levefer and things
nave Deen zone ana people ADMITTED to So
ciety' that have caused the 'clingers' to
hold up their hands in horror at the rise Of
the Climbers
at is this innate refinement, this shrink
ing from public notoriety, which distin-
guishes some southern society from the So
ciety of other sections, of thedcountry, and
in no part Of the south has this time-hon-
ored southern popularity been more pro-
nounced than in Charleston. IT is as much
the part of charm Of the Charleston peo-
pie as the quaint old gable end houses and
their gardens Of old-fashioned flowers are
part of the citys attrativeness.
"A Charleston newspaper has broken into
the time-honored custom, however, and has
begun to publish two columns daily about
social S1 matters giving lots Of space to the
newspaper in the city still Continues to
leave out social items
Already there are said to be some kicks;
one or two families Of the very bluest blood
have requested that their affairs be never
mentioned in the new department, but, on
the whole the innovation takes better than
one would have expected. and there is little
reason to believe that 1t will ever be dis
continued on account of such opposition"
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gether. Men, women and children come
out from the villages to tend the little rice
fields they have engaged to work. No one
lives on his fields, and the farmers, rule,
have their homes in the villages At reap
ing time you will see the same gangs at
work, and at tho close of the day the roads
are filed with women and men, each carry
ing home his share Of the harvest. The
man usually has the larger load, and If he
is thrifty he may have a half dozen Sheayes
or bundles of unthreshed rice, each about
a foot in diameter.
The harvest scenes are interesting. The
rice grows just like wheat, but it is not cut
with reaper and mower, or even with a
cradle or sickle. 1t is clipped off, stalk by
stalk, with little knife which Is held In the
palm Of the hand. The harvester takes q
stalk of rice between his fingers and presses
1t against the knife, thus cutting 1t off. He
then cuts another stalk the same way, and
thus goes on until his sheaf is of the right
size. The rice grows to about the height Of
our wheat, but 1t is cut of half way up In
order that the sheaves may be shorter, and
so that 1t may be the more easily stored
and threshed. ..
The threshing is done by pulling the heads
Of the rice through saw-toothed knives and
by treading 1t out with the feet. / saw
some threshing grounds where men were
jumping up and down upon the straw to
thresh out the grain and others where they
were driving water buffaloes about over IL.
In Panay there are threshing platforms
high above the ground, upon which the men
and women tread out the rice. and where
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10 a roadway IN summer. but I assembled il
shortly after a food in early spring, and for
three-fourths Of the distance l COM
PEELED to wade up stream. the water at
times reaching the tops of my waist-high
rubber boots Here and there are a few
scattered log houses, and a picturesque
mOuntaineer, with a muttered "howdy," oc
CasiOnally slOuches along through the wa
ter on some long-suffering horse. No signs
Of civilization or wealth are seen. except as
they are suggested in the rich seams OF
coal that crop out here and there and the
pine timber that covers the sides and tops
Of the hills.
At the end Of fourteen miles I reached
primitive grist mill turned by the waters
OF the creek 1t was an indication that Is
land Castle. the home of Devil Anse, was
not far off.
The mill is not much to boast Of GER
tainly. Every timber in it bears the rude
mark of the mOuntaineers AK, the only
implement, apparently, that used in
throwing together this little tumble of logs
and planks with their serene contempt for
the reinements IF lathe and plane.
Through the open spaces between the
boards a boy could be seen lowering about
the hopper, where a thin stream OF meal
answered TO the noisy numbering of tho
wheel plunging about in the icy waters be-
low. II was a pleasing idyl to stumble
upon after a dag Of hard travel, and
stood in the water looking at 1t with I'M
concealed satisfaction. Presently. from
right over my head II seemed. came the
challenge Of a rough. hearty voice:
Il want that dawgr
1 looked up. and shall never forget the
figure standing on the cliff above me. II
was a man Of middle age, dressed in an old
hunters coat, with a seaman's oilskin cap
on his head, a doubie-headed ak his
shoulder and a gun slung under his arm.
But the large, piercing eyes. even at that
distance, and the tangle of brown black
beard and hair were what riveted my at
tention and proclaimed the identity of the
man. There could be mistake; 1T was
Devil Anse" Hatfield, the man of many
murders and a lifelong feud. His sudden
greeting left no opportunity to Introduce
myself. So met his demand for my dog
In kind.
Calling "Devil Anse's" Bluff.
You can't have him, Mr.. Hatfield. but !
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size OF wheat during my stay in western
Luzon, and there is no doubt of gold ex-
listing in the northern mountains. There
are number of Californians and Colorado
men who are now prospecting in Mindanao,
and some of these claim to have made
money.
Sugar Plantations.
believe that greater fortunes can be
made out of lands and especially sugar
lands During my stay in the Sandwich
Islands and Java 1 visited some of the big
sugar estates. They are operated with
enormous capital and have mills costing
hundreds of thousands Of dollars. The
land is fortified and thoroughly titled and
with these methods the plantations are
profitable. The sugar lands of the Philip
pines are also profitable, but they are man.
aged in the most wasteful manner. l visit
ed one mill near Porac, the motive power
of which was great water wheel thirty
feet in diameter. The cane was hauled in
from the fields in rude carts with water
buffaloes and water ground 1t. The juice
was boiled in great iron kettles which rest
ed on furnace or flue dug out of the
ground. The molasses was then drained
off and the sugar allowed to granulate in
clay jars. There was waste everywhere,
and notwithstanding this the profits were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
IN FEUDAL AMER|CA
Trying to Bring About a
Reconciliation.
FIGHTING F FAMILIES
EATFIELDS WILL, BUT THE Nc
CoYS WILL NOT STOP.
Two States Involved in This War
That Has Kept UP for
Twenty Years.
FIGHTING F FAMILIES
Copyright, 1902


Written for The Evening Star by Clifford Smy the
PIKEVlLLE, Kentucky. April 4, 1902
When civilization took up its westward
march century ago it skipped a strip Of
country on the border line between West
Virginia and Kentucky. The hardy noun
taineers then living there were descendants
of some of the best Virginia families, who
forgot in the transplanting to establish
with their homes the schools and churches
their forefathers had considered all i'm
portant. That IS why We have today a
feudal America In the heart of an educated
and progressive cOuntry-a region which
has not changed materially save for the
gradual degeneration Of its inhabitants
since It's first settlement by the whites.
One day-now twenty years past-two
neighbors quarreled over some pigs; three
members of one family shot one of the
other, and that day began a feud which has
not yet ended Dozens of detectives and
total strangers who have attempted to stop
the warfare have lost their lives here, and
when the writer proposed making trip to
see Devil Anse," the head of the Hat
fields. in his island CASTLE all his friends
united in protest against such venture.
AS for penetrating on foot and alone the
wilderness Of Island creek, where this re-
dOubtable family has is stronghold, such
a trip. l was warned repeatedly, could end
IN nothing but disaster, and l was urged
not TO attempt it. Being a stranger, the
Hatfields would take me for a detective,
and like some others who had similarly
veutured. 1 would mysteriously disappear.
Other considerations. however, rendered the
undertaking imperative, and as l set out, &C
COmpanied by my dog. large bloodhound,
to explore the notorious little stream to its
source, eighteen miles back in the noun
tains.
Travelling in a Stream.
Travelling afoot in creek might seem un-
natural in any section outside of West Vir-
GINA But in the southern part of this state
a.. roads are creeks. the road builder hay-
ing found 1t simpler to utilize the water
ways provided by nature rather than cut
roads through the mountains.
Island creek may bear some semblance
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him S11 600, and that he never expects to
get it back.
Money in Mines.

Money in Mines.
I should like to see our geological sur
vey send out prospectors to the different
parts of the Philippines. Nearly every is
land has great mineral wealth. There are
deposits of iron, coal, lead, copper, silver
and gold. In northern Luzon there are
copper mines which were worked before
Magellan discovered the Philippines and
the natives are getting copper out of them
today There are lead deposits In Cebu and
silver on the Island of Martinique. I was
told of an iron mountain which exists not
far from Manila, and one Of our army off,
GERS, a civil engineer, described to me \
gold deposit which he discovered near San
Mateo, within ten miles Of the city limits.
He had been making Typographical sur
vey when he came upon a strip Of country
filed with Jumps Of what he thought was
pyrites. He filled his bag with the Jumps
and took them to one Of the warships. and
had them assayed. They ran from twelve
to fourteen ounces Of gold to the ton. He
says the Jumps were picked from a strip
about three miles wide and ten miles long.
He told me that he had staked out claims
for himself and friends upon II, and that
he eventually expected to raise capital and
develop the property. II he Is correct, that
region may turn out to be gold camp sim
liar to Mercur, south Of Salt Lake.
There are also rich gold mines in Min
danao. was shown gold grains about the
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eXterminate each other, the Hatfields max
ing raids for this purpose into Kentucky,
the McCoys into West Virginia, From the
beginning the two states have taken sides
in the trouble Each successive governor
of West Virginia refusing to hand over the
Hatfields to the Kentucky authorities, while
the McCoys have found like protection at
the hands of the neutrality-suspicious.
Thus, when any member of either of the
warning factions is brought to justice it
must be through the efforts of some prt-
vate detective, working for reward and
kidnapping his victim and bringing him in
to the state here the indictment against
him is drawn. There has been no dearth of
detectives engaged in this occupation and
despite their efforts fresh murders are
every now and then committed. But the
original feud is slowly dying out.
I've been in many a tight corner and
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Logan to see you"
The silence that followed this was far
from comfortable. The old man never
moved a muscle, While those terrible fasci-
mating eyes of his seemed to be eating
out the very heart of my mystery" Devil
Anse" is, of course, perpetually on the
watch for detectives, and my reply startled
him. 1t took some little time to gain his
confidence after this. However, 1 had let
ters from two of his personal friends, each
ar ex-governor Of West Virginia, and a
show of these finally prevailed on him to
come down and meet me. After l had
read him the letters his keen, hawk-like
eyes never leaving mine during the opera
ton, he expressed great satisfaction,
greeted me most cordially, and shouldering
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hide in the woods, supporting himself and
his large family by bear hunting and bee
raising. together with little farming in
summer. The best part of his land has
long ago disappeared, and he estimates
that $4,000 would hardly recover what he
has lost in law suits and sacrifice of prop
erty since the feud started.
II must always be difficult for an out
slider to get a rational idea of the story of
the feud except in the vaguest way. First,
there were couple of hogs, then a woman
then an election, a quarrel, and a murder
BY this time the feud with its growing
list of bloodthirsty killings and implacable
revenge. fairly launched.
After the first murder, that of Ellison
Hatfield by three McCoys twenty years
ago, the two families organized themselves
into armed bands that were under oath to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
Foreign Doctors In London.
From the Lancet.

From the Lancet.
According to the recently issued census
returns. there are 16e male and female
foreign physicians. surgeons and general
practitioners located in London. OF these
there are male and / female Russians. !
male Russian Pole, male and 3 female
Swedes, male Norwegians, male Danes.
male Dutch, male Belgian, II male
French, 80 male and 1 female Germans, 2
male Austrians, 8 male Swiss, male SPAN
iards, / male Portuguese, II male and j
female Italians. 2 male Greeks. male
Turks. male Japanese, / male Asiatic and
63 male Americana
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the strong winds enable them the more
easily to get rid OF the chsn.
There are few grains which require so
much labor as rice. Every stalk has TO be
grown in a seed bed and then set out sepa-
rately In the muddy fields. The fields are
hooded again and again. The stalks are
harvested as have described and the rice
threshed. After this the hulls have TO be
pounded from the stalks in mortars. so that
altogether every grain costs much work.
In raising rice on the shares, the first
crop goes to the tenant. In the second the
tenant gets half, and in the third only one
fourth. The crop is always divided in the
sheaf the hulling and threshing being
extra. The hulling is done by women in
morars, and the threshing is at home In
stead OF at the mills. The poor often have
to borrow tc put In their crops. They pay
an interest rate in kind of as much as 100
per cent. A man Will loan his money on
consideration OF so many arobas Of rice 10
be delivered at harvest time He can go 10
the fields and get his interest; this Is so
much that 1t takes the profit, and the rice
Insurers thus keep the country poor.
Cocoanut Plantations.
There is one investment in the Philippines
that requires but little hard work. This is
raising cocoanuts. The cocoa palm grows
on all the islands. but some places better
than others. On the Island OF Jolo there
are magnificent cocoanuts. and on Mlnda-
mao there are millions Of fine trees. Tho
seven years each yields about a score OF
large nuts every month. The nuts are al
lowed TO drop OF themselves. They are then
picked up. husked and the meat taken out
and dried After drying the cocoanut meat
is known as copra, and is ready for ship
ment TO Europe or the United States. About
10000 tons of this stun were sent abroad in
1897. and the probability is that the ship
ments will shortly be many times this
amount. The planters figure that every
cocoanut tree should yield net profit Of
one dollar a year. and as you can put a
large number OF trees on a small area a
good cocoanut plantation means a fortune.
/ know of some men who have plantations
of 5000 trees or more, and who are rich
from cocoanuts.
The Golden Rope.
I have already spoken OF the money IN
hemp. This is the most wonderful crop
OF the Philippines. 1t brings to the islands
about s1S,0Oo.0oo every year. and Il forms
the money crops of some OF the largest OF
the Philippine states. There is an enOr-
nous profit in the business; but, neverthe-
less there are undeveloped hemp lands.
and crops could easily be quadrupled. The
lands which are under cultivation sell for
high prices. but near them are other lands
which can be gotten for a song, which need
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great. With modern machinery they should
be increased at least four-fold.
1 met a planter near Angeles who is
making S25 900 worth of sugar every year.
He made $1,000 out of his rice crop, and all
his farming is done on the shares, the la
borers receiving half. He told me that he
found this was the best way to get good
work and that although he could hire men
for S25 per year it paid him better TO let
them work on the shares.
1t was on that estate that 1 saw them
planting sugar. Two men were blowing
with carabaos and behind them came a
crowd of women and girls dropping the
cane The soil was a little sandy, but 1t
was as black as your boots and very rich.
The cane was cut into pieces about six
inches long and laid in the burrows, so
that 1t made pipes of cane from one end
of the field to the other. The women are
paid for their work according to the
amount they drop, the girls receiving
about ten cents day.
There are many plantations in the valley
from Manila to Dagupan. The crop grows
well in other parts of Luzon and in all the
northern islands, and there is no doubt but
that plantations would thrive in Mindanao
and the Sulu archipelago.
Valuable Rice Lands.
Rice is the wheat of the Philippines. 1t
is the food of the people, and 1 saw rice
plantations everywhere. Nevertheless the
islands are often short of rice, and import
1t to the amount of hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
In Java the mountains are terraced and
rice grows far up their slopes, the water
being led from one field to another by irri-
cation works. In the Philippines the most
of the rice lands are in the valleys, and
they are worked after rude methods. The
farming is largely done on the shares. and
for this reason you see hundreds in the
fields at planting time all working to-
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On the Contrary.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Specialist-''The trouble with you is that
your joints don't articulate we'll"
Victim of heumatism-''Dont they? II
move this elbow joint you can hear it a
block away"