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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

Although elected as a democrat and
still recognized as such by the mem
bers Of that party and the opposition,
Secretary of State Hays is not averse
to giving a little information to the
incoming legislature that if acted up
on he believes will result in a mater
ial saving to the state annually. He
points out in his report that there
are really more clerks employed by
some of the state officers than there
is need for. 1t is his opinion that m
clerk would be ample to perform the
services O performed by three men,
those who are drawing pay for doing
the clerical work required by the
board of equalization, board of par
dons, board of prison commissioners
and board of commissioners of the in
sane. By %effecting such a consolida-
ton he says a saving of $2,700 a year
could be made. If report is to be de-
pended upon there are many other
clerkships at the capitol that could
be abolished without materially i'm
pairing the service rendered the pub
lie or working the men retained un-
duly hard.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
SCHOOL UNlONESM.

Minneapolis Tribune: The variety
of curious results of the aff1iation OF
the Chicago Teachers association
with the American Federation of La
Dor provokes frequent return to the
subject. 1t was a matter of course
that the Labor Federation would as
sert jurisdiction over questions CON
nected with the employment and pay
of teachers. 1t does this for it's other
constituent unions. Not to do it for
the teachers would be to neglect the
very purpose of it's being.
But. it appears that the assertion Of
jurisdiction is going much farther
than this. 1t is going to extend to
the matter taught in the public
schools. The Labor Federation in
Chicago has under consideration a
resolution, introduced after it had re-
ceived the Teachers association, ap-
pointing a committee to investigate
the public schools to ascertain what
is taught in them obnoxious to trades
unionism. 1t does not appear against
what particular teaching this inquiry
is directed at present; unless it be
some of the elementary principles OF
the old political economy, as taught
in school text books.
1t. would. be different if the small
majority in the New Orleans meeting
against adoption by the federation OF
the socialist platform had been re-
versed. Then the teaching in the pub,
lie schools of the constitution and
laws of the United States would have
been obnoxious to trades unionism,
since socialism is obnoxious to these
That contingency may occur next
year with a gain of 500 socialist votes
in a total of nearly 5000.
This illustrates some possible con
sequences of the assertion by the La
Dor Federation of the right to revise
the course of teaching in the public
schools, on the grounds that the teach
ers are members of it's body. OF
course objection to any obnoxious
teaching might be enforced by a strike
of teachers, in which the strikers
would be supported by assessments
on all the affiliated unions, and per
haps by a general sympathetic strike
The whole country is under some
obligation to Chicago for this clear
demonstration of where a step like
that taken there is likely to lead.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
JUST LIKE BRYAN

Chicago Chronicle: Our ebullient
fellow citizen, the sultan of Bacolod,
has broken loose again with the dec.
laration that Americans are Hogs who
eat hogs. OF curse our fellow citi'
zen will have to be brought back to
the reservation, but the fluency of his
vituperative vocabulary indicates that
even if he be retired from the sultan
business there is still a useful career
open to him. He can come to the
mother country and edit a reform pa
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

! control of the army transport business
from Pacific ports to Manila, and with
that basis establish a new line OF
steamers from Seattle to the Philip
pines. They believe that if they can
secure a monopoly of the government
transportation business they will have
obtained what in effect is a subsidy
and will have taken a long step in
the direction of establishing a profit
able steamship line to Manila. Mr..
Hill looks a little further; he figures
that the natural development of the
business between the United States
and the Philippines will be over his
railroad system to the coast and there
by make him the gamer in two direc-
lions.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

ed consolidation. They have also
said that when first preached, the
subject of consolidating the different
institutions was regarded with con
siderable favor by a majority of the
members of the board they believing
that such a step would best serve the
interests of the institutions and the
state.
The meeting at which the report
was to be submitted and action taken
thereon began at Helena yesterday.
So far nothing has been a%scertained
to show whether the predicted re-
port adversely to consolidation was
submitted, or whether if submitted it
was %favorably or unfavorably acted
upon.
No matter what arguments could
have originally been advanced in ia
O of the consolidation, the time it
seems has passed when such a step
could be taken with propriety. No
doubt many things could be said
favorable to the proposition, and
many also against it, but it is now
toe late to attempt to undo that which
has been done. The different insti-
tutions have been located at great x
pense and at even greater expense
have been brought up to their pres
ent state Of high efficiency. To at
tempt to consolidate them now would
involve the expenditure of more non
ey than the people would be willing
to spend for a purpose promising no
better returns than are held out by
the possible benefits that would &C
crue from the consolidation.
Even though should the board re-
port favorably, it is exceedingly doubt
full whether the people of the state
would submit to- the change recon-
mended without registering an earn
est and emphatic protest Liberal as
they are in all things pertaining to
they are not extravagantly
liberal, particularly when it can be
shown that the benefits expected will
no greater than would come from
a change of the kind it has been pro-
posed to- make.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
K MOST KIDS"

Baltimore American: Canada does
rot take kindly to the proposition to
establish a navy from which Great
Britain could recruit it's own. Some
how or other, the colonies are begin
ming to grow FESTIVE under the COM
plimentary insinuation that the chill
dren of the empire are too dutiful
to let their old mother work, and that
the latter will fondly allow them to
assume as much of her burden as she
cam get them to accept.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

Probably after obtaining a glimpse
of the size of the fleet Uncle Sam has
assembled in the Caribbean sea and
noticing that so far as efficiency is
concerned the old gentleman's sea
fighters have not refrigerated since
the little argument with Spain, some
of the European powers may have de-
cided that the present is not the most
favorable time for attempting any
thing in the way of knocking holes in
to the Monroe doctrine. The fact
that several of the powers suspected
the most CT entertaining designs of
that kind have ordered some Of their
, own vessels into that neighborhood
to take notes may be taken as indi-
eating a willingness to learn some
! thing more before doing anything
likely to be considered as overt or
tending to strengthen the suspicion
the primary object of the maneuvres
which Admiral Dewey is now direct
ing is to drill and exercise in the
art of naval war. The showing OF
what may be expected from the Unit
ed States in case the matter should
ever be brought to an actual test is
only secondary. Still it is believed
that the moral results will not be
among the least that may be credited
to the game of war now in progress
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
The Secretive SeminoIes.

Mrs. Moore Wilson, who made a.
study of the subject, says: From
the best %obtainable sources there
were in the year 1859 only III In
dams left in Florida. In 1880, by ae-
tual count, as reported by the Smith
sonian institute, the Seminoles OF
Florida numbered 2Os. According to
data gotten from the Indians them
selves, the tribe today 1S96) numbers
nearly 6OO.' To this we must add
that in 1884 the senate
on Indian affairs asked the question
of three Floridians supposed to be
most fully capable of giving the facts.
| One answered $50, one 200, and one
800. The census o. 1900 guesses the
number at about 500.
The truth is no white man knows.
! The Indians carefully conceal such
knowledge as they think might be
useful to the government in any at
tempt at removal, and it is mainly
for this reason that they refuse an
allowance, which must be preceded
| by a count. They have no confidence
in the good faith or good intentions
of either the state or nation-they
remember thai no treaty has been
kept, no promise regarded, and they
prefer to remain hidden so far as they
may. A few white men have gained
their confidence, but these imbibe the
| distrust of the Indian, as they prefer
the ways of the uncivilized to our
| progress.-Jacksonville Times-UniOn.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

If those merchants and others who
have wares to sell who still affect to
believe that there is nothing in ad-
vertising," especially in the newspa-
pers, will drop a line to Mr.. J. NJ.
Campbell, the general advertising
agent of the Rock Island Railroad
company, he will probably assure
them to the contrary. He declares
that newspaper advertising pays and
as an evidence of his faith calls at
tention to the fact hat he has adver,
tisements in no fewer than 500 pa,
pers west and southwest of Chicago,
and the most Of them dailies, at that.
The Santa Fe road is another that be.
lieyes in liberal newspaper advertis,
ing. On one occasion it place an adver.
tisement in 1,50O papers, all at one
time, and ran it for a month. The re.
suits that accrued far exceeded those
received from the expenditure of the
same amount of money in any other
way.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

Coming from a man of his years,
knowledge, experience and wisdom
the advice of Senator Cullom to the
president concerning the action to be
taken in regard to the Panama canal
is surprising, to say the least. He
would have the nation simply ignore
Colombia and proceed with the con-
struction of the canal, after having
paid the French company the $4O,-
900 900 it asks for it's rights and fran
chises, and by the right of might es-
tablish itself there regardless OF the
wishes of the stubborn little so-called
republic to the south of us. 1t is very
evident that the Illinois statesman
is evoluting into. a sure enough imper-
ialist and wants the United States to
do as Russia, Germany or some OF the
other European countries would DO
were they situated as we are. Just
how he figures it that this government
has full authority to build the canal
as soon as it obtains title from the
Panama Canal company does not ap-
pear so very clear, especially as the
United States in the act authorizing
construction of the canal specifically
comedies the sovereignty of Colombia
over the strip of land it is proposed to
utilize.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
u IN

Portland Oregonian: Minister WI
among other good things in his good
bye speech, said that the age of de-
ception on the part of the diplomat
is gone Freely interpreted, this
means that the modern diplomat is no
sent abroad to lie for his country
Perhaps a large part of the generous
and friendly estimation in which Min
lister WI is held in this country is
due to his practice of this new order
of things in diplomacy.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
A M~lScHlEvoUS NOTION.

Chicago Chronicles: Pension Com
missioner Ware DEGREES that women
clerks who get married must resign
their places, maintaining that when a
oma marries she should be support
ed by her husband. This doctrine
will be deemed mischievous and rev
lutionary by a very numerous class
of citizens who hold-and exemplify-
the theory that a woman who gets
married should expect to support her
husband.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

If the majority in congress will only
bear in mind and act upon the re-
mark of President Roosevelt in regard
to the manner in which the people
are likely to be Influenced in the next
campaign by the work done by con-
gress in the meantime, no fears need
be entertained as to what the verdict
will be in 1904. Promises are good
enough as a beginning, but it takes
something in the direction Of sub
the people that due regard has been
paid to their interests.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

If Chicago dispatches are to be be-
lieved the merger of the packing
houses has not been absolutely abaE-
doned. AS soon as the packers cut
loose from the banking house that had
agreed to underwrite the enterprise
and asked Morgan to do it the thing
was as good as done, it is said. MI.
Morgan may not be exactly a hog, but
he seemingly knows when a good
thing is to be made out of something
in which the animal figures.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
NO ROYAL ROAD IN SIGHT,.

Boston Globe. An interesting light
on the subject Of government owner
ship of railways comes from Victoria,
Australia, where the 10000 employees
of the government railway, defeated
in an attempt to elect legislators who
would raise their pay and shorten
their hours, are threatening to strike.
Evidently there is no royal road to
industrial peace,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
U"NklNDEsT CUT OF ALL.

Boston Transcript: The most IN
decision of the state Of Nebraska to
invest 100000 of it's school fund in
Massachusetts gold bonds. Times
have changed wonderfully in Nebras-
ka and elsewhere since 1896, and Ne
braska has changed with them, being
making investments on the gold stand
ard basis.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
NONE TO RETRIEVE.

Indianapolis News: We O have
a coast defense gun that will fire a
%projectile twenty-one miles. Shoot
ing at that range must be a good deal
like shooting around a corner One
would think, too, that considerable
difficulty would be experienced in re-
trieving the game when the shots
were effective.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

Directly James j.. Hill is opposed to
ship subsidies, but indirectly he
thinks they are very proper, and just
now is actively engaged in a job,
which, if he lands it, will make him
the beneficiary of what in reality
amounts to a good, fat annual subsidy.
He and his associates in the Pacific
steamship business are planning to get
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

Mr.. Hill offers to carry all the sol
oilers the government may want to
send to the Philippines at $25 a man.
But he finds it Improbable to carry
the people of Montana from Chicago
to their homes for any such amount.
and the soldiers are not carried in
cattle Or fiat cars, either.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

AS they contemplate the freight
bills they have to pay and then read
that jim Hill has offered to carry gov
eminent freight from Chicago to
Manila at 40 cents a hundred, the ship
pers of Montana will probably look for
some one to explain things inconnec-
ton with transportation which at
present are not very clear to them.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
A CHANGE.

Detroit Free Press: A good deal
of fun has been made of General j. G.
Breckenridge's eloquent compliments
to his brother officers; but it is re-
lief now and then to find somebody in
the war department who is not try
ing to work an embalmed beef pedal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

John Bull now probably knows how
to %sympathize with the other old gen.
tlemen who at different times have
bought gold bricks. But Dom Paul
in the role of the vender is a happy re-
lief from the usual type of the indi-
vidual who works the game.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
OF COURSE NOT.

Washington Post: OF course, there
is nothing selfish in Mr.. Bryan's dis
covery that the weekly newspaper
has taken the place of the daily as a
mold for public opinion. In fact, Mr..
Bryan is about the only real unselflsh
person striving for the center OF the
stage these days.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

The minority in congress will prob
ably soon have an opportunity to show
it's sincerity in the matter of it's I'm
compromising enmity to the trusts.
The indications are that there will be
something doing in that direction
before long.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05

The Gazette appreciates the honor
and compliment the Big Horn County
News pays it by republishing some
of it's editorials, but that appreciation
would not be lessened in any way
were its contemporary to use an oc-
casional credit mark.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
DR.PRICES
c''1 an Baking Powder

Each time the United States Government
has officially tested the baking powders
the report has shown DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder to be of superlative
lcavcning strength, free from alum, abso-
lutely pure and wholesome.
This IS gratifying, for Dr.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder is depended upon by nil
lions Of people to raise their daily bread.
NoTE.-Theset Government inquiries also
developed tire fact that there are many
PRICE BAKING Powoe6 20 mixtures upon te market made in rni-
CHICAGO nlon OF baking powder, but containing
alum OF other Caustic acid, whose USE 10
food is dangerous
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
at the Billings Postotf1ce as Second
Glass Matter.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER S, 1902.

Were it not for his record, some
people might incline to the assump-
ton that Colonel Mosby is talking
just a trife too much and that his
list of achievements will probably
fall far short of his promises.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-05
PASSING OF THE DIVINE.

Chicago Chronicle: The divine
ratio does not appear to be playing
to very good business in the Philip
pines either.
The broad ax., 1902-11-15
HUMPING THR DER.
Oas q ths H@t TkriIIiaE Expsrs-
eaSss which Bofam tie Hunter
- BtE GaRa.

sJmplng 3 deer" - Q highly-at-
traetivs phrase, quite apt 70 make
q tingling in the back hair Of the
tenderfOot who hears it for the first
time. il g. also intensely natisfac-
tory 20 the chap who always has e..
shave before WOoing nature, says Out
ing. You may, indeed, get q good
shot On this way, and II - generally
the only way 10 zee the grandest Of
all the sights Of the WOods-deer
running through q windfall. To see
the glossy curves Of fur curl over the
lofty logs that lie piled on each other
IN boundless confusion Il well worth
a trip TO the woods, while for him
who loves the rife e. I do, more for
what cannot be done with IL than to=
what can, there 10 no such target
elsewhere. But for the tyro who is
dying to get that first deer jumping
q deer" generally means out Of sight
and out Of hearing both. For the
deer that goes on to lie down after
feeding does not go TO sleep, but 70
ruminate and take life easy.
Once in a great while one falls into
a dozs, but almost alWaya' the head
Is well erect and all senses keen for
danger. And even IL one - in doze
It may slip away without your sus-
pecting its existence, for sleep dead
ems little Of the senses Of this wary
animal. The man who wouldn't
shoot such an innocent creature as =
deer" should by all means see one
getting out Of heavy windfall, while
the man who loves game that can
get away can here find the attraction
OF the woods at its climax
The broad ax., 1902-11-15
CIGAR ma CHEESE
8lnElhaR HaPDsniag A PGEis shOD
WhdsA PFssipitatsa . RsmaEk-
able Battle.

Ihere was an extraordinary occur
renee recently in a eheesemOnger'B
shop Ia the Avenue Parmentier, Paris,
relates Pearson's Weekly. One Of the
bridesmaids customers, who had in
Vited Eve friends TO dinner, had pur-
chased g large cheese, and when it
was cut into the stump Of q half
smoked cigar was found in the mid
die. The host and his guests marched
round in q body to the eheesemonger
TO demand an explanation and the
return Of the money or the substitu-
ton Of another cheese, but the trades
man refused all three propositions,
and even suggested that they ought
to be satisfied, as they had not only
the cheese, but half q cigar a. well.
One Of the guests then threatened
20 report the cheesemonger for sell
ing tobacco without permission. High
words followed, and at length the
customer picked up the offending
cheese and hurled IL with correct
aim at the dealers head. A regular
battle ensued. The shOpkeeper was
backed up by his wife and three as
sistants and the customer by his
friends. The counter was piled with
eheeses of various kinds, and these
were converted at once into missiles,
while the butter also came in handy.
The uproar attracted the attention OF
a policeman, who .rrived just a.
large Dutch cheese crashed through
the window and caught him on the
chest. When the officer had recoV-
cred his breath he separated the COM
batants and took them to the police
station, where they were discharged
With q caution.
The broad ax., 1902-11-15

Certificates Of death are not docu-
ments where one usually seeks for
humor, but there is frequently to be
found N them much Of the uneon-
sciOus variety, says PearH0n's Week
". Here, for instance, il how the
cause Of death Il stated In the case
Of q sEborer: died from injuries
received through a bull aecidentaIlv
lneeling on his chest" The conaid-
Grafton shown for the feelings Of the
bull il a hne touch. and suggests
grave questions on the moral respOn-
Eibilfty Of the lower animals. Again,
q man Is stated TO have died sfrom
the effects Of injuries received after
being run over By q railroad train
in motion, owing to q misunderstand-
ing between deceased and an engine
driver" This description Of . rather
ordinary railway casualty b excel
lent; II, too, f. so tender toward the
feelings Of the living.
The broad ax., 1902-11-15
AMERICAN SURGERY PRAISED
HLEh T-ibuts Pad Our Doctors 81
AsdIsal Mea By the Late Pro- 4,
fasoR VIrohOvE. ~

The late Prof. VirehOyy, the eminent
German physician and scientist, had
a high notion Of American doctors
and American medical scientists gen
orally, reports the Chicago Inter
Ocean. When interviewed some time
ago the professor said, in the course
Of instrumentation, thatEeveral young
medical studentA from the United
States had passed through his hands
whose attachments were certainly on
q very high level and whose bright
ness and alertness could not be ex-
celled-
II have great sdrniration Of Amer
lean surgery" he added. The men in
America are as good as any we have
here in Europe and in some depart
ments they are better. lido notthink,
though, that the American specialists
are as good as the best men in London,
Paris, Berlin and Vienna, but they are
making big strides. No penurious
spirit rules the United States. Every
thing is on q large, liberal scale, and
the splendid university endOwments
there are bound to tell in the near
future. The American laboratories
are exeellently equipped and the stu
dents have enormous advantages over
those who study at some Of the IN
adequately equipped schOOla IN
Europe"