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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-23

DIR. M. NJ. Marshall, rector of Christ
church, will preach for DR.. l. Nick. Pit
tenger at the morning service in the
Church of the Good Shepherd. DR.. Pit
teDger was Unexpectedly called out OF
town.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-19

1t is very natural that the kaiser
should manifest signs of displeasure
at the criticisms of his army which
some of the American and British
officers who witnessed the maneuvers
have seen At to make. No man likes
to hear the guest whom he has en-
tertained adversely ~criticise his es-
Enlistment, even though that criti-
cism may be honest and we'll merited.
Regard for the %proprieties should sug-
gest Observation-Disclosures in instances
OF that kind, nj matter how strong
the temptation to say how much bet
ter such things are at home. It is
possible, though, that those who are
said to have incurred Wilhelm's dis
pleasure have not been guilty Of any
Improperly and that their positions
give them the right to speak their
minds. but it is safe to remark that
they will lever again be invited to a
similar display, much less made the
guests of honor.
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A A 7 MISFORTUNE.

Although bad enough as they were,
the latest reports from the western
part Of Washington, where forest fires
have been raging for days.. must
cause a thrill OF horror to all who
read them. Not only has property Of
almost ~incalculable value been de-
stroyed, but, as is now learned, hui
man life has been exacted by the
moloch which is sweeping over that
part of the country. While 1t is as
yet impossible to give the exact num-
Der of those who have persisted in the
flames that are devastating one Of
the most valuable timber regions
which still remain, enough has been
told to make it very evident that it
will be large.
In addition to killing outright many
persons, the flames have also caused
suffering and sorrow to count
less others who have seen the oppor-
tunity fer providing against the win
ter near at hand taken away from
them. Among those who will suffer
the most are the new arrivals who
have found fruitful fields for the ap-
plication of their energy and skill in
the branches of industry that have
been practically wiped out in many
intsantces. Willing to toll and labor
that they might gain a foothold, the
avenues of employment upon which
they have been dependent are in many
instances destroyed and they find
themselves with only gloomy pros
poets in place of the bright outlook
which only so lately they viewed with
pleasure and confidence.
With an army Of men thrown out of
employment, valuable industries de-
stroyed or sadly crippled, homes de-
vastated and the grim spectre death
lowering over many of it's towns, all
because of the terrible CONGREGATIONS
now raging there, western Washing
ton is indeed entitled to the sympathy
of all people to whom the sorrows
and misfcrtunes of others appeal.
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Why THEY ARE SCARCE.

New York World: The prosperity
of the western farmers has had in
Mr.. Bryan's state lamentable conse-
quences in a great scarcity of teach
:ers. The Nebraska state superin-
tendent of education explains:
"The lack is confined to the agri-
cultural regions where $25 or $50 a
month is paid for nine-month terms.
A look at the stacks of wheat in the
fields and the great masses of corn is
sufficient explanation. The farmers
sons and daughters don't need the
money and they will not teach. No
one teaches a country school unless
he needs the money"
This cynical statement is doubtless
true of localities other than western
Nebraska, but the truth is a lamenta-
BILE one to face. A community that
offers So a day to harvest hands and
$25 a month to those who teach its
children has a poor idea of appor.
tioning the proceeds of prosperity.
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The fact that he has taken to having

The fact that he has taken to having
heart to heart" talks with his sub
jects and breaches the dignity CT Ia
Dor and the certainty of recompensc
of honest toll may be accepted as evil
dence of the fact that the czar is not
so busy lodging the nihilists but what
he can find time to read the reports
of the. speeches made by President
Roosevelt. In his advice, however,
he differs most markedly from the
president in that he urges the com
mon people to listen to their local
nobility. The only nobility to which
the president advises his people to
listen is that of their own best i'm
pulses and the promptings of con
science. If they do this he feels Ger.
tain that they cannot go very far
wrong.
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Editorial commentator of Mrs.
Roosevelt fer refusing to meet the
Russian grand duke is unnecessary.
In declining to be a hostess to him
and to break bread with him under
her own roof she but pursued the
course that every right minded and
pure American woman would have
pursued and because Of the snub she
administered to the aristocratic roue
she is receiving the merited praise of
all who hold womanly virtue in es-
TEEN and have regard for the sanctity
of home. Simply because he happen
ed to be a titled foreigner gave him
no more right to exemption from the
punishment visited upon men of his
class than though he had been only an
ordinary plebian of our own country.
A libertine and rake is no better be
cause he happens to be able to boast
of the possession of a title and 'sblue
blood" F.
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line with his party in Iowa demon.
strates the correctness OF the sup
position. The d%eclination of the
speaAer, coming as it does at the
same time with the announcement
that at the conference at Oyster Bay
it was decided tina. there shall be no
tariff revision undertaken at the com
ing session OF congress-, seemingly
complexities the political situation in
Iowa and there is no absolute GER
tainty that the district which for
eleven successive terms returned
Dave" Henderson to congress-, the
last time to be elected speaker of
the house, will not vary the usual
order Of things and elect a democrat.
Uncle Horace" Boies is a very popu-
lar and a very strong man in the
monkey wrench" district. But
whether the republicans OF the dis
trict are strongly enough welded to
their ideas of tariff reform to elect
a pronounced free trader and a dem.
ocrat of the Bryan stripe remains. to
be seen. It does not seem likely.
It is possible that Mr.. Henderson
does not place so liberal a construc-
ton upon the tariff plank in the plat
form adopted by the party In his
state as does Secretary Shaw, also
an Iowan. The secretary Of the treas
ury believes the plank to be sufficient
ly general for all the republicans Of
their state to stand upon and that It
no occasion for dispute.
The plank which it is believed
the withdrawal of Henderson
is as follows:
I'VE favor any modification of the
schedules that may be required
to prevent their affording shelter to
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A THIN DISGUISE
WASHINGTON STAR ON DEMO-
CRATIC TRUST POLICY.
Remedy Suggested Merely Entering
Wedge for Establishment of
Ultimate Free Trade.

Washington, Sept. 17.-Representa-
tive Clayton of Alabama is feeling
good over the democratic outlook on
the trust question, and in onxersa
ton with the newspaper men in Wash
ington he has said that President
Roosevelt was hurting himself and
the republicans by his trust speeches,
made recently in New England. eve
don't want him to stop" remarks Mr..
Clayton cheerfully. Everybody
knows that in politics the democratic
party is the only one which repre-
sents the things for which he con-
tends in his speeches."
Nj. Clayton is an optimist, as every
democrat should be when on a stump
ing tour. The more optimistic the
better. But the public should be care
full to listen to his remarks with dis
elimination. The stumper has his
uses, but they rarely are these of a
reasoner, as is proven by Mr.. Clay
tons case
A reply has been made to Mr.. Clay
ton in the Washington Star, which in
| discussing his interview said in part:
"After the campaign is Owe MI.
Clayton will be able to see two things.
The first thing is that Mr.. Roosevelt
is not injuring his chances for nomi-
nation at all by anything he is say
ing on~the trust question. To the ex-
tent that his deliverances are unwel-
come in real trust circles he will profit
if the actual facts are spread before
the people. If his chances were slen-
der he could afford to speak twice on
the subject to where he is TO- speak
ing once. But as matters stand to-
day he has no competitor for his
party's presidential nomination two
years hence. The trusts have not
made him, and they connot break
him. He is his party's leader by a
fiat higher than theirs.
''The second thing Mr.. Clayton will
discover is that voters of Independent
proclivities are weighing both parties
in the balance on the trust question.
The republican policy as suggested
seems slow. It is insisted that the
| present antitrust law is inadequate,
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1902.
p~isPLEAsuRE JUSTIFIED.

While many may agree with hin
in his estimate OF the character anl
ability of the president, not many will
be found who are willing to give the
Rev. DR.. Washburn Of Christ Episcopal
church of Washington credit for hav'
ing used the best taste and judgment
on the occasion of his memorial ser
mon last Sunday. It was eminently
fitting and proper that he should
eulogize President Mckinley and to
the extent of his ability pay tribute
tothe memory Of that gallant soldier,
able statesman. and patriotic presi-
dent, but when he attempted to go
further and speak Of his az
he did. with Mr.. Roosevelt occupying
a pew in the church and one of his
listeners, he went too far. No matter
what he may think of Mr.. Roosevelt
and the high esteem in which he holds
him, both as man and the nations
executive. the time and place were
inappropriate. for the expression of
sentiments and opinions such as he
voiced.
Acquaintance with the man Of whom
he was speaking should have caused
him to know better than to utter the
fulsome praise of him he did, especial
lyawhen MI. Roosevelt was seated be-
fore him and on such a time and oc-
casion. Whatever his worst enc
mics may say of him, none dares &C
cuse the president Of being suscepti-
BILE to 1attery or counting commenda-
ton and praise. His very nature is
antagonistic to everything of that
sort and no wonder is it that he
should have manifested displeasure
while listening to his reverend laudi-
tor. Whatever he has done or may
do in the future will be prompted only
by a desire to discharge his duty to
the nation as he sees and understands
it and not with any thought of gain
ing fulsome praise or high sounding
plaudit, such as DR.. Washburn saw fit
to bestow upon him.
But it has become almost %proverbial
that whenever ministers of the gospel
attempt to leave the field with which
they are familiar and venture into
the domain of politics they prove only
poor workmen and make bungles that
all but themselves must see. DR..
than of the others who have essayed
it.
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At last a judge mas been found to
make a ruling that must be welcomed
by the prosecuting attorneys all over
the land. He has rendered a judicial
definition Of what constitutes a prize
fight and SO clearly diherentiates be-
tween mere contests" and the genu-
inc article that it should be easy for
those whose duty it is to enforce the
law to be able to decide If certain
events call for interference on their
part or if they are justified in allow
ing them to proceed. Judge Barker
of the criminal division of the Louis;
Vile court holds that any hight at
which the winner gets something, be
it little or great, in the form of q belt,
money, title or stake is q prizefight
and az such the participants are
ameuable to the law. Were Judge
Baker on the Montana bench it is
very likely that many of the alleged
Contests" which are now permitted
to take place because Of the dnability
of county attorneys to distinguish be
tween prizeffghts and 'sparring
matches" would probably not furnish
SO much Of the news sent out from
many Of the towns and cities.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-19
COWBOY KILLED.
Fatally injured by Upsetting Of Mess
Wagon. H

way -& ENA LL MAE#
Fort Benton, Sept. H.-Jeff War
rem, a well known cowboy of this sec
ton, was killed pear here yesterday
morning. He has been driving the
mess wagon of the Shonkin roundup,
and at Smith coulee, about six miles
from here, this morning, the road was
very slippery, owning to last nights
rain, and the horses started to run
down hill, when the wagon was upset
and the driver thrown to the ground
with a force that caused internal in
jurfes which resulted in his death.
His injuries were not considered
dangerous until about an hour after
the accident, when he was seized
with such severe pains that 1t was
thought best to bring him here Tor
medical attention. The physicians
were unable to do anything for him
and he died about three hours after
the accident.
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HAYS AS AUTHOR.
Secretary Of State Issues Decidedly
Popular Book.

~ 700 4W mNI ~SSNs ME Hr H
There appears to be an unual de-
mand in Montana this year for copies
of the election law that Secretary
Of State Hays compiled from the laws
upon the. statutes, a y the Helena
Herald. He has sent out all of the
copies he had and still receives many
requests for more copies.
Mr.. Hays said today that he had
$500 printed. He sent a large num-
Der to the clerks and recorders of
the different counties for the use of
registration agents and election
judges and mailed copies to many
citizens who sent requests, for them.
I'VE. are all out" said Secretary
Hays today, in response to an inquiry
for a number of copies. Il received
q requisition from Butte yesterday for.
1875 copies but l am unable to fill it."
In the absence of a legislative APP
preparation the secretary does not
feel like having any more copies print
ed, although there is a steady demand
tor them.
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WITHDRAWAL OF HENDERSON.

Believing that he is no longer in
accord, SO far as the tariff is concern
ed, with the members of his party in
Iowa and the district he has SO long
represented in congress, Speaker
Henderson has decided not to be a
candidate for reelection this fall, not
withstanding that his nomination was
made by reclamation. His refusal to
run, based upon the ground given by
him, must be accepted as ~evidencing
the strong conviction that seems to
animate the members of his party in
his state and district that the time
has come for a revision Of the tariff,
especially insofar as such revision is
hoped to affect trusts and monopolies.
Whether the party is right Or wheth-
er the stand taken by the speaker is
correct is an open question. OF the
sincerity of both there can be no
doubt.
In this movement to secure a revi-
sion of the tariff the speaker pro-
fesses to see a leaning in the direc-
ton Of acceptance of the democratic
theory of a nominal tariff, one totally
deprived of any and all protective
features. Unlike his party in Iowa
he does not believe that the results
aimed at a be accomplished by the
manner of treatment proposed. While
he is not a friend of the trusts, he
thinks it would be a poor plan to at.
tempt to control them by throwing
open the markets of the country to
the products of foreign trusts and
thereby injure or crush the industries
of our W country. He does not be
Heve that trusts should be killed by
the adoption of free trade, for by sc
doing he believes all our Industries
whether controlled by trusts or not
will be made to suffer.
Henderson has always been a
straight-out republican and thorough.
~ devoted to the policy of protection
and is understood to have been oppos
ed to the suggestion advanced for a
revision Of the tarif along genera.
lines, on articles controlled by the
trusts. The fact that he is out Of
~ HL-
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pnsce BAKING POWDER Co.
CtscAa0.
PYTHlAN A D
Officers Elected znd Next Place Of
Meeting Selected.

A2 ii. 3Vg.-h EHu bHFEltt .+l
Officers Elertsd znd Next Place Of
Meeting Selected.
Missou1a, Sept. 1.-THE grand
lodge Of the Montana Knights of
Pythias today elected the following
officers:
Grand Chancellor-sam. r. White
of Butte.
Grand Vice Gl1aneellnr-J. H. Ow-
ings of Deer Lodge.
Grand Prelate-George r. Milburn
of Miles City.
Grand Keeper Of Records and Seals
Jacob Loeb OF Helena, (re-elected)
Grand Master OF. the Exchequer-E.
H. Talcott OF, Livingston,. (reselected)
Grand Inner GNard-A NJ. Yoder Of
Butte.
Grand Outer Guard-A G. Yule of
Big Timber.
Grand Trustees-W D. Wood Ct
Pony, Charles Wegner Of Great Falls
and George T. Sanderson Of Havre.
Wood and Wegner being reelected.
The next convention will be held
in Butte n-September next.
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and that in some manner it should be

and that in some banner it should be
strengthened. A constitutional
amendment is proposed, but that calls
for time, not to mention the other
difficulties in the way The only dem
ocratic policy suggested is the putting
Of trust-madeE articles on the free
list, and that Is simply q thinly dis
guised form Of striking at protection
as the national policy. Now il 1t at all
likely that the people are ready to
give up protection as ., policy? Are
not its benefits too conspicuouslY in
evidence just now to make any such
proposition acceptable? Trusts can
not, successfully, be made q stalking
horse for free trade" \
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WHO OWNS THE COURT?

Chicago Chronicle: Senator Clark
declares that Mr.. Heinze must not
be allowed to cwn the supreme court
CT Montana. : Mr.. Heinze is. equally
firm in his demand that Senator Clark
shall not own the supreme court OF
Montana. In this, situation there
seems to be some reason to look for a
surprising and unprecedented condi-
ton of affairs in which nobody shall
own the supreme court of Montana.
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While Grand Chief Clark is free in
his assurances that the organization
of railroad men of which he is the
head has no intention or desire to in.
augurate the colossal strike of which
so much has been heard of late, he
acknowledges that a probable demand
for an increase will be made by the
members and that if absolutely nee
essary there will be something that
some people might designate by that
appellation. He hopes there will be
no necessity of a strike, but if one is
forced upon them, he intimates the
men will undertake it.
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If the announcement that "Scckless
jerry" has emigrated to New Mexico
for the purpose of breaking into poll
tics is true, the effort to attain state
hood which the people of the territory
have been making for a number of
years will probably be permitted to
lapse for a while. The people of New
Mexico can stand a great deal, as
they have shown repeatedly, but Jerry
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RELIEF URGENTLY NEEDED.
Navajo Tribe Of Indians Faced b
Starvation.

Los Angeles, Sept. 17.-Frederick
1. Monser of San Francisco, the sci
enlist and lecturer, has returned from
a six weeks exploration and collec-
ton trip among the Navajo, Moqui
and Pueblo Indians Of Arizona. Mr..
Monser states that the Navajo tribe,
number about 10000 men, women and
children, is rapidly approaching the
starvation point and that unless
speedy and substantial aid is render.
ed them, fearful distress and great
loss of life will result. Continued
drouth and the barren country in
which the Indians live, he says, have
brought the Navajos to their present
condition.
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DOES THIS SETTLE 1T.

Springfield lMass.) Republican
lind.): Thirteen democratic state
conventions thus far this year have
refused to reafirm the Kansas City
platform, while fourteen have reafim-
ed it. But these figures amount to
very little. The next democratic ma
tional convention will get out a new
platform that will not indorse "16 to
IT,. and that is the main point.
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FRENCH NOT PLEASED WITH
PELLETAN SPEECH.
AuM|uATING PART COMING
Dread Of Apologies and Explanations
to Other Powers That Must
BE Made.

Paris, Sept. 1.-THE Figaro this
morning condemns the speech Of the
minister Of marine, M. Pelletan, at
Bizerta, Tunis, which 1t says in an
other mouth would have been laugh
able, and in the mouth Of the minister
is i~ntolerable, and continues:
AS the head Of the navy, M. Pei
letan's place is in the ministry of
marine, not at banquets. II he is not
conscious. the president Of the coun-
Gil should, remind him of this. His
repeating that he remains in office,
will convince everybody that he is
unworthy to continue in the ministry.
His speech is not a newspaper arti-
Gle. He has compromised the govern
ment and country Fortunately M.
Delcasse is there to repair the mis-
chief, but this must not become the
foreign minister's daily Occupation. It
is not for this we have a minister Of
foreign affairs"
y The Gaulois asks wondeTingly what
opinion the powers will have OF France
when they her minister Of marine
casting. defiance 1t Europe. They
would ask themselves II M. Pelletan
is not the mouthpiece Of the govern
ment. If the government does net I'M
load itself OF him This unloading"
says the Ganlois, will not be SO hui
initiating az explanations and apol-
ogies."
The Intransegeant, this. morning,
says it is i'm q position to assert that
as a result of. tine protests Of the Ital-
ian ambassador to France, Count Di
Vergano, to- M. Delcasse, a telegram
containing strong representations or
the subject of his speech at Ajacdio,
has been sent to M. Pelletan by the
premier.
This is borne out by the report CT a
speech made by NJ. Pefletan at a ban
quet in Bizerta last night, in which
the minister declares that some times
words were attributed to him which
he had not pronounced. t'Thus in
Corsica said M. Pe1letan, II spoke
Of italy and at once, by one OF the
Italophf1es Of. France, vas reported as
taking an aggressive attitude towards
that country
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is expecting too much Of their for
b~earance and patience when he sets
about planning for the governorship
in the event Of their admission. Even
the announcement that he is likely to
be a candidate for delegate this fall
may cause some Of the New Mexicans
to have thoughts of a hostile nature.
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SUGGESTION BY r
Recommends That Next Yacht Race
2 Be in August.

Glasgow, Sept. 17.-Sir Thomas Lip
toms challenge for a race for the
Americas cup next year consists of a
four-line note, ending with Sir
Thomos' expression of his centre sat
isfaction in all respects with the adj
mirable arrangements of the New
York Yacht club on past occasions"
Sir Thomas suggests that the race
take place early in the season, start
ing between the middle and end of
August.
A reliable informant says the Sham
rock III. will probably be a large edi-
ton of we'll known yacht which has
been very successful during the past
season.