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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
A KEEPING ONLY.
Mrs. Grady Explains Why She Took
the Diamonds.

the Diamonds.
Butte, Mont, April 9.-The mystery
surrounding the alleged robbery of
Mrs. Emma Proutex, of $500 worth
of diamonds OF Sunday by Mrs. Min
ME Grady, who took her out driving,
is deepening. Mrs. Grady first denied
that she was out with Mrs. Proutex.
She has changed that story and re-
stored the diamonds.
She says she left Mrs. Proutex in
t~oxicated in the buggy in the road
Sunday, where the latter was found
unconscious, and took her diamonds
and walked into Butte, four miles, to
save her from robbery. She says she
and Mrs. Proutex were out for a time
and that she gave Mrs. Proutex some
headache tablets with morphine in
them for rheumatism. They drank
several. hot WHISTLES at a road house
after that.
When found, Mrs. Proutex said that
Mrs. Grady asked her to 60 driving
and to wear her diamonds and best
clothes. She is slowly recovering
from the drug she took. She accuses
Mrs. Grady Of drugging and robbing
her. The police say that Mrs. Grady's
husband and son both died suddenly
within two years and hints that they
wer poisoned. Both are said to have
been insured. Their deaths are being
investigated.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
CRACK BowLERs COMING.
AII-American Team Starting Out on a
Tour Of the West.

Dayton, Ohio, April 1O.-The ALL
American Bowling team, made up of
crack rollers from New York, Chicago
and one other city located in the mid
die west, will visit all bowling centers
west of the Mississippi river to the
Pacific coast. The tour, which will be-
gin about October 1, will be arranged
and managed by Sam Karpf, secretary
Of the American Bowling congress.
Stops of from two to six days will be
made at st. Paul, Minneapolis, Butte,
Seattle, Tacoma, Sacramento, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Ell
Paso, Denver, Pueblo. Colorado
Springs, Lincoln, Omaha, Des Moines,
Dubuque, Kansas City and st. Louis.
Three diamond-studded trophies will
be awarded to the team of three max
ing the best showing against the All.
Americans.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
ARE SELLING BoER FARMS
cENTRATIoN CAMPS.
Fighters Must Pay Expenses Incur
red on Account Of Their Women
w" and Children.

London, April 1O.-Through cont
mental channels, the Boer emissaries
in London are dispatching messages
to South Africa informing the burgher
leaders of the British sale of Boer
farms to pay for the maintenance Of
the and children in the con-
centration camps.
The entire cabinet agrees with Mr..
Chamberlain, the colonial secretary,
that such sales were legaliZed by
Lord Kitchener's September proclama-
ton, but the Beers call the sale "con-
fiscation," and declare that persistence
in such a policy will add another to
the many elements that tend to make
the burghers irreconcilable.
The Beers argue that the British
hold the women and children prison
ers, and that they are therefore sub
ject to the rule of war which imposes
on captcrs the obligation of maintain
ing captives. They also urge that
before selling the farms the British
converted them into deserts and re-
duced values to a fraction of what
they were originally.
Mr.. Chamberlain denies that the
Boer women and children have the
status of prisoners Of war, asserting
that the British took charge of them
from humane considerations and now
maintain them in order to prevent
their starvation on the veldt. He
therefore holds that the British have
a clear right to compel the fighting
burghers as far as possible to pay for
their support.
The more uncompromising Beers in
Europe are eager to spread the facts
concerning the sales of farms among
the commands in the belief that they
can in this way stave off indefinitely
the possibility of peace on the basis
of the incorporation of the republics
in the empire.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
SPANISH LAW CANNOT PROHIBIT
PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY.
SANTIAGO IGLEsIAS' TRIAL
Public Prosecutor Sustained and
Strengthened Argument Of the De.
Tense and Asked for Dismissal.

San Juan, P. r., April 1O.-The SUI
preme court of Porto Rico yesterday
heard the appeal of Santiago Iglesias,
president of the Federation Of Work
men of Porto Rico, who was sentenced
December IL last to three years, four
months and eight days Imprisonment
on charge Of conspiring to raise the
price of labor in Porto Rico.
The public prosecutor, to the sur
prise of the throng in the courtroom,
sustained and strengthened the argu-
ment of the defense. He said the APP
peal was well taken, put in no evil
dence for the prosecution. and practi-
cally asked the court to dismiss the
case. a.@
Attorney General Harlan yesterday,
before the trial, sent a long letter to
the public prosecutor, expressing his
views. He said: II understand the
court attached criminal responsible
ity to mere participation in cpnnec-
ton with subsequent acts of violence
in a meeting at which nothing was
done further than to resolve to make
a demand for higher wages. The
records only show in explanation of
the sentence of three years, four
months and eight days, that Iglesias
is, or that he was, the founder of a
society adjudged illegal.
"The Judgment of the district
court" Attorney General Harlan also
said, "has the character, in it's effec-
tive result, of abridgement of personal
liberty. The right to assemble peace
fully to better the social condition is
purely fundamental. If any Spanish
law in Porto Rico impairs this right,
it has become a nullity with the
change Of sovereignty, in my judg-
ment."
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15

morgue and placed beside the remains
OF Miss J%ennett, who had also been
murdered but a few hours previous.
At the station, Jones was examined
as to his relations with the Haywood
family. He said his home is in Lin
coin, Neb., where he has a wife and
three children. He said he first be-
came acquainted with the Haywood
family five years ago, when he went
n day to mend a gasoline stove for
them. He has been boarding there
siEce last February.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
Miller Makes Confession.

Detroit, April 11.-Prof. James M.
Miller, at IL O'Clock, confessed to com
hitting the murder of Carrie M. Jen-
nett.
After being in the sweat box one
hour and twenty minutes, Miller broke
down and confessed to the crime. AS
sistant Prosecutor Merriam and three
officers were present.
Miller said that he had illicit rela-
lions with the girl and was RESPONSE
BILE for her condition. He stated he
offered to send Miss Jennett to a hos
pital, but she refused to go, insisting
that he leave his family and go to some
other city with her. This he would
not do.
Wednesday night, when she started
from home for the lodge meeting, he
had an engagement with the girl and
intended to kill her.
He took the Ratchet that was found
by the officers yesterday in his kitchen
with him. He secreted this on Seventh
street on his way to the meeting.
When he left the lodge rooms, he
secured the Ratchet again and pro-
ceeded to the corner pf Fourteenth
and Warren avenues, where he met
Miss Jennett. They walked over to
Thirteenth street and out to where the
killing was done.
Miller says they sat down on the
sidewalk and talked for a while, the
girl urging him to abandon his family
and leave the city with her. He then
whipped out the Ratchet and struck
her in the head. (
When asked why he had mutilated
her so, Miller said he had no recollec-
ton of anything after the first blow
until he found himself wiping the
blood off his Ratchet on the grass in
the vacant lot.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
ARRESTED FOR sEDITloN.
Editor Of Freedom, a Manila Publica-
ton, Is in Trouble.

Manila, April 1O.-Excitement pre-
walls here on account of the arrest of
the editor and proprietor of Freedom,
a local publication, who is charged
with sedition in publishing recently
an article from an American periodi-
cal to which the editor of Freedom
agreed. He also added remarks of
his own, censuring the United States
commissions rule and saying that
when it started in July last every pa
per in the city upheld it, since which
time they had all dropped by the way
side, as they would not support arbi-
trary government, especially when
evidence of carpetbagging and rumors
Of graft were too thick to be pleas
ant
The main charges made were that
in many cases the Filipino Office
holders are rascals and that the com
mission has exalted to the highest
positions Filipinos who are notorious
ly corrupt.
The editors OF tn" volcano ais
have been arrested on a suit Of the
government for demanding the re-
moval of the judge who recently tried
Senior Valdez (the editor of a local
Spanish paper, who vas fined 1000
pesetas for libeling the Filipino mem
bers of the commission) and who is
now trying the editor of Freedom un-
der the sedition law.
These proceedings have aroused the
entire press of Manila and its repre-
sentatives met today and resolved to
send a committee to the commission
ers to argue against the injustice of
the proceedings. The meeting also
determined to send a cable message
to President Roosevelt urging him to
take steps to- prevent the commission
from using the sedition law in such
cases, to prove lese majestic against
editors. The meeting, which was en-.
thusiastic, was also largely attended
by lawyers, doctors and Others.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
Aliens DISTINGUISHED,

Victoria, B. c., April "a bill has
passed the provincial legislature pro-
hibiting aliens from voting at NUM-
cipal elections. Heretofore, in the
province. aliens owning real estate
have been permitted to vote at all
municipal elections and in some in
stances their vote had quite a bearing
the result, there being many hold
ers of real estate who have not been
naturalized.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
All Were Saved.

misery from bronchitis" writes J.. H.
Johnston, of Broughton, Ga. that Of
ten I was unable to work. Then, when
everything else failed, l was wholly
cured by DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. My wife suffered
intensely from asthma, till it cured
her, and all our experience goes to
show it is the best Group medicine
in the world" A trial will convince
you it's u~nrivaled for throat and lung
diseases. Guaranteed bottles SOC and
$1.0O. Trial bottles free at Chapple
Drug Co.'S.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
Theory of Suicide Generally Accepted

Theory Of Suicide Generally Accepted
Butte, April 10.-Andrew A. Erkas,
a Finlander, about 35 years of age,
was found dead in bed in his cabin at
6 Lincoln avenue, Meaderville, yester-
day afternoon about 4 o'colck, death
having evidently resulted from two
ugly wounds in his head. Considerable
mystery surrounds the case, though
the friends and neighbors Of the man
look upon it as suicide. There are
no surrounding circumstances which
indicate foul play, especially as
Erkas is not known to have had an
enemy. He was unmarried.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
DISAGREE WITH MILES.

schofield and Merritt Support the
War Department Bill.
Washington, April 10.-Lieutenant-
General Schofield, retired, today made
an argument before the senate COM
mittee on military affairs in support
of the war department bill for the
creation of a general staff and the con-
solidation of the supply departments
OF the army, saying this was in the
interest of both economy and eff
cheney.
General Merritt, retired, who also
was present, Endorsed all that General
Schofield said.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
Dedicated to Roosevelt.

New York, April 10.-A1fred Austin,
the poet laureate, dedicates the Amer
ican edition of his forthcoming volume
OF poems to President Roosevelt. says
a London dispatch to the American
and Journal. The volume will contain
q preface dedicated to the American
people. 4
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
AIMING AT ENGLAND.
The Ultimate Object of the Russifica
ton Process in Finland.

ton Process in Finland.
Christiania, April 9.-Writing anony-
mously to Verdens Gang, a distinguish
military authority explains that
Russia's action in Finland is based
on military necessity. The Russians,
he says, will go no further in the de-
.struction of Finish institutions than
is necessary to make the country a
safe operating ground for a strong
army destined to guard the great
canal Russia intends to build from
st. Petersburg to the White sea in
order to be able to hit England in a
future war.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
Buck Herd.

I am now prepared to take are Of
any number of bucks for the season.
One Dollar per head, April / to Dec 1;
25c extra sfor shearing and hauling
wool to city. W. H. CLANTON,
km28 Billings.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
MEXICAN
Diaz to Resign and Limantour to Sue
coed Him. 4

t coed Him.
Monterey, Mex, April 9.-It is stat
ed here on high government official
authority that President Diaz will Sc
cure a vacation of six months from
congress and leave about June 1 for
Europe and resign the presidency
about the end f the vacation period
President Diaz has large financial in
terests in France to which he will
give his personal attention. Wher
he does resign the presidency he will
probably be succeeded by Jose Ives
Limantour, now secretary of the treas
ury.,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15

Quick. reliable shoe repairing. Post.
ONCE basement. TIT
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15

Lost.
At the coal banks, n large bay
horse branded on left thigh.
one white faced y sorrel pony
branded n on right thigh, with
split airs. Both had on halters when
lost. Will give $40 for their recovery.
T. J. JELLISON,
93-9 Billings, Montana.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15

Letter Presses for Sale.
Two good letter presses tor sale at q
bargain. J..
d-sw.tf Gazette Once.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-11
shfpptnw Memoranda.

Baltimore, July 10.-Arrived, schoon-
ers Harold C. Beecher, Fernandina;
William C. Tanner. Port Tampa; Sarah
E. Douglass, Tarpun Bay; Orlando V,
Wooten. Savannah.
Sailed, steamer Itasca, Savannah.
Philadelphia, July 1O.-Arrived
schooner S. B. Marts, Savannah.
New York, July 1O.-Arrived. steam
er City of Savannah, Savannah.
Memel. July ARRIVED, Linwood,
Port Tampa.
Villa Real, July S.-Sailed. Glen
wood, Charleston.
Charleston, July 10.-Arrived, steam
er Arapahoe. Kemble, New York and
proceeded for Jacksonville; Navahoe
Johnson, New York.
Sailed, brig John McDermott, Tooker,
New York; schooner ]. c. Strawbridge,
Coombs, New York; schooner yacht FL
nina (Br), Shaw, New York.
Fernandina, Fla, July 10.-Arrived
steamer Iris, New York; barkentine
DAME Reed. Mitchell, New York;
schooner Andrew Adams, Adams, San
Juan.
Brunswick, Ca. July 1O.-Arrived
schooner Lucy A. Davis, Bangor.
Port Tampa. Fla, July 10.-Arrived
steamer Peareth (Br). Mckenzie, Coat
zacoalcos; steamers Ferndene (Br)
Jones, Philadelphia; Mascutte, Smith
Key West and returned.
Sailed, steamer Gracia (Span), Luz
zarago, Pensacola.
Pensacola, Fla, July 10.-Arrived
steamer Alberto Treves QtaD. Cor
nelia, Baltimore.
Cleared. steamers Aragonia (Br)
Forst, Antwerp and Norkoping and
sailed: Lesseaux (Br), Ferry, Ship ISL
and; Leonora (Span) Bustinza, Liver
pool; tug Echo. for Jucaro: schooners
Georgia, Scott Cayman; John Francis,
Cardsen. Havana
. Sailed. steamer Hesleyside (Br), Nc
Kie, Greenock.
Brunswick, Ga, July 9.-Arrived
schooners Josephine Ellicott. Ray, Bos-
ton: Laura NJ Lunt. Moody, Boston;
Mary Manning. Burr. Philadelphia;
Lizzie B. Wiley, Rivers. New York.
Sailed, schooners Sedgwick Hager-
ty; Melissa A. Wiley. Hart; R. Bow
ers, Young.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-11
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
AFFAIRS OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.

An Omcer of the Company Claims Its
Troubles VIII BE Fixed and Its OPP
eratiOns Resumed MortaIity
Among Senmen During May-Mat-
ters of Interest to Shippers ana
Mariners.
Company is to resume it's operations
shortly. according to Mr.. Percy Had
don, an officer of the company, who
has been active all along in the con-
duct of it's affairs. What will be done
Mr.. Haddon declined to state, but he
expressed confidence that the present
trouble is only temporary, and that
operations will be resumed as soon as
time is had to relieve the company of
its present entanglements.
Mr.. Haddon was instrumental in Sc
curing for his company a liberal share
of the upriver patronage, which he
feels he can hold If its operations are
continued. He was on Bay street yes
terday in the interest of it's affairs,
and expects soon to have things ad-
justed. Mr.. Haddon has his own ideas
about how the present stir was crea-
ted, but he is not doing any talking.
He and his associates worked faith
fully to put the business upon a solid
basis, and the fact it has been shaken
it not due to their lack of industry.
OF course the matter is regarded in
a purely business light by those instru-
mental in having the company put into
the hands of receivers. What they
wanted was a settlement of their ac-
counts. and had this been done receiv-
ers would not be in possession of the
property. The matter comes up for d
further hearing tomorrow, when it is
said the present owners will insist that
the boats be operated in the interest of
themselves and their creditors. For
some time they have been lying idle at
their docks, and everything has been
shipped out by the Southern Transpor-
tation Company's line.
The return of deaths of seamen re-
ported to the registrar general of ship
ping and seamen during the month of
May, 1902, is to hand, and shows a to-
tai of 397 deaths, says the Liverpool
Journal of Commerce. These were
caused principally as follows: Drown
ed, 10; lost in missing ships, 1858;
chest affections, %; heart diseases, IL;
enteric and dysentery, 8; beri-beri 7;
malaria. 8; brain disorder, apoplexy
and cholera, each; smallpox, palsy
paralysis and yellow fever, / EACH "a
died from the result of accidents, of
which two fell from aloft two fell
down ships holds. three were suffcated
, and two were killed by an explosion on
, a naphtha-laden vessel; one seaman is
reported missing, supposed drowned at
Antwerp, another was accidentally
wounded; one died from liberation re-
Sulting from vaccination. Is died of
various diseases; 10 no cause was as
signed of death; and no fewer than 8
committed Cor supposedly suicide. This
| is the largest number of suicides
| among seamen that has probably ever
| been recorded in one month. The
missing list is unduly swelled. as it
| includes the crews of the Huronian
' and Basuto.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-11
Murphy a. CO.., stock Letter

New York, July 10.-The stock mar
ket to-day enjoyed considerable de-
gree of activity and it was evident
throughout the session that a specula-
tive contest of some magnitude was
under way. Considerable depression
was effected about noon, but in late
dealings decided change took place
in the temper of the speculation There
was no adverse news to account for
the early attack which was made on
prices, and part of the decline was
credited to the theory of liquidation on
the part of a large Western interest,
taken with view to strengthening it.
self in the matter of the Chicago COR
ner in corn. 1t will be noted by some OBJ
servers, however, that there was raid
ing on the part of an organized bear
clique which had been centering opera
lions for some time past against United
States Steel. The failure of litigation
against United States Steel corporation
to affect seriously the price of the COM
pany's stock was apparently the first
obstacle made in the bear clique in
causing anything approaching democrat
ization of the market. Steels at no
time were more than a shade under
last nights close. They rallied sharp
ly in late dealings on Increased activ-
ity; Sugar advanced half at the start,
but on continued talk of the alleged
seriousness of new federal competition.
the price was depressed 23s per cent.
Around the low figures of the day the
buying became aggressive, and on an
attempt to cover shorts in last half
hour the price rapidly advanced per
cent. Missouri Pacific opened a shade
higher, declined 1 per cent, but in the
afternoon on much larger dealings, the
price recovered over per cent. New
York Central scored a gain of 3 per
cent. The late bull demonstrations in
Sugar and the Gould leader Influenced
the general late recovery, and the mar
ket closed strong and active.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-11
THREW UP THE SPONGE.
Counsel for Plaintiff in Damage snit
Dismissed His Case.

The. case of j. A. Drayton. colored,
against the Savannah. Thunderbolt
and Isle of Hope Railway Company,
was tried in the City Court yesterday.
At the conclusion of the evidence Col.
p. w. Meldrim, of counsel for the
plaintiff, dismissed the case.
Drayton sued for $1,000 damages, for
personal injuries and modification of
spirit he claimed to have suffered
through being forcibly elected from a
street car by the conductor. He al
legged that Bryant, the conductor, had
become angered by his refusal to pay
his fare a second time and had not
only forcibly elected him from the car,
but had numerically beaten him aft
erwards.
The plaintiff did not show up in
court nor did any of his witnesses,
and Col Meldrim was compelled to
make use of the witnesses for the de-
PENDANT to make out his case. These
witnesses failed to answer the pur-
pose, for they swore that Drayton had
been insolent and profane and that
after the conductor had fired him from
the car they engaged in a fight, in
which Drayton had got much the
worse of it, On this showing Col
Meldrim dismissed his case. Osborne
& Lawrence appeared for the defend
ant.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-11
BOILERS and ENGINES
Cut meats firm; picked bellies, 11R@

Cut meats firm picked bellies, 11H@
12Ac.
Lard steady; Western steamed, 81. 40;
July closed, s11. AZ. nominal: refined
firm; continent, S11 so; South Amer
lean, $12 90; compound S1s0S1Ac.
Pork firm; family s2075Q21 80.
TalloW steady.
Rice firm.
Sugar-Raw steady; fair refining,
. 1850; centrifugal. sc test, 8 5-16c;
molasses sugar, 25sc; refined steady.
Coffee-Spot Rio quiet: No. 7, in
voice, SIC; mild quiet; Cordova, so
11Rc. Coffee futures opened steady,
unchanged, owing to better cables than
generally looked for. Shorts We're buy
ers on the initial call, and in fact pref
ty much all day. There was also an
active demand from Wall street COM
mission houses The undertone was
firm soon after call. prices gaining 5
to 10 points. Later in the day there was
a reaction due to realizing. Closed,
net unchanged to points higher. To-
tai sales $500 bags.
Butter slightly easier; creamery 1917
@21&c; do factory. 16@1Sc; state dairy,
17E@21c.
Cheese quiet; small white and coll
ored, fancy. 10@10Ac.
Eggs steady; state and Pennsylvania
20@2115c; Southwestern, 1515@17hc.
Potatoes steady; new Southern
prime, s2.oOG2.5O.
Peanuts steady; fancy handpicked,
5@5Ac; other domestic. 31a65c.
Cabbage easy; Long Island, per 100,
$2.OO@3.OO.