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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
HOW IT WILL HELP.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Irrriga-
ton will aid the country in one par
ticular which is not commonly kept
in mind. At the present moment
there is a strong drift of American
farmers across the line into Canada.
James j.. Hill, of the Great Northern
railroad, estimates that 10000 set
tiers were carried by the Northern
railway lines between January 1, 1902,
and the beginning of June. AS he
figures, $1,000 Of these have located
west Of North Dakota's western bound
ary-in Montana, Idaho, Washington
and, Oregon-and $4,000 have gone in
to Manitoba
The drift across the international
boundary has been under way for a
year or two, according to indications,
but it is in far larger volume now
than at any previous time. The loss
of these $4,000 settlers in the first
five months of 1902 is something
which ought to attract a little atten-
tAOA AlOAA CA4C SOuAt1y. luCoC pCl.
sons evidently suppose that they will
have advantages across the line which
they cannot get on our side. OF
course, one of the reasons why the
country has not been able to hold
them is that the quantity of cheap
and fertile lands is getting smaller
with great rapidity.
Theoretically, there are many hun
dreds of millions of acres of govern
ment land still to be had in the Unit
ed States, but most of this is in the
arid region, and it cannot be utilized
in any important degree for agricul-
tural purposes except by irrigation.
Private enterprise has done much ir-
rigating in the past 20 years, but it
can not do much more in that direc-
ton at the present time. The states
would be willing to do this, perhaps,
if the government would give them the
lands, but even the states could not
do it as easily and satisfactorily as
could the national government. There
are in the arid section of the country,
which extends from the Tooth merid-
ian onward to the Cascade mountains
somewhere about 10000, 900 acres
which can be rendered highly produc-
tive by irrigation. Let us make u
wild lands SO attractive that no Amer
lean farmers will cross the line to
locate.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
A JUST PROVISION.

Leslie's Weekly: The leading news
papers of the country will be interest
ed in the fact that the contract for
the construction Of the Brooklyn part
of the great rapid transit system of
New York distinctly provides that
no portion of Brooklyn tunnel or it's
cars shall be used for advertising pur-
poses. The alert Brooklyn newspa-
pers have g to it that their inter-
ests in this matter were carefully
safeguarded. They have shown great
er diligence and common sense than
the newspapers of the borough Of
Manhattan and Of many others of our
large cities. The Troy Times, in it's
thoughtful comment on this fact says
and we commend it's utterance to
the attention Of the press generally
that this prohibition is significant
because it indicates the growth of
the conviction that the proper place
for advertising is in the newspapers
and not on street bill-boards or the
walls Of conveyances. The opinion
is gaining force that there is essen
tial injustice in permitting owners of
franchises for the purpose of public
conveyance to turn their vehicles or
routes into advertising mediums and
thus to encroach upon a function to-
ward which the publishers Of periodi-
Gals have contributed much time and
effort and to the use of which they
are legitimately entitled"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

While admitting that the democrats
of Carbon county are no different in
respect to the lack of harmony with
in their ranks than the rest of their
party throughout the country, the
Chronicle declares that if they can
only come together, something it
seems to consider doubtful, they will
sweep all before them and >modestly
requests those Of the other counties
in the state to keep their eyes on
them. The Chronicle says there must
be harmony and it is bound to have
it, eve if it must fight for it. The
Picket is cruel enough to say that
the recent meeting of the central COM
mittee, which the Chronicle made the
occasion Of one of it's characteristic
editorials, was but the Inauguration
of the %obsequies and that the funeral
threatens to be disgraced by the evil
doings of a "Heinze heller" whom it
declares has just come to the front as
a democrat, and that the job is al
ready put up.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
PROFITABLE ADVERTISING.

Louisville Courier-Journal: The
manager of a Detroit food company
says that, wishing to create a de-
mand quickly for his goods, he decid-
ed advertise only in city dailies.
"Sampling had been oyerdone; dem
onstration served only to feed peo-
pie who visit a store; billboards were
worthless, for the people we wished
to reach were newspaper readers"
The results of his newspaper adver-
Using were eve better than he had
anticipated. 'The daily newspaper"
he says, "is an ever growing force,
and has practically killed all other
means of advertising. Even for
reaching the farmers it is better than
any other agency. This is especially
true in regions where rural free de-
livery has SO greatly extended the
circulation of the city daily among
the farmers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

If the democrats really insist on
making trusts" the issue they should
be accommodated. Perhaps the first
thing they will try to tell us about
those concerns is how such great and
noble men as Lewis Nixon and Con-
gresham Gable came to be mixed up
with them. Nixon, who tried to re-
form Tammany and gave up the job.
and is treasurer of the, democratic
congressional committee, is the gen
ius who is responsible for the organi-
zation of the ship trust, and Cable,
chairman of the democratic congress
sional committee, is one of the di-
rectors of the Rock Island ''reorgani-
zation." With two such prominent
gentlemen SO prominently connect
ed with such prominent trusts, right
in their own party, it is but reason
able to suppose that the democrats
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
eUTcHERED BRANDED CALVES.
storekeeper and Two Cowboys Ar.
rested by Stock Inspector.

sS0SS0 ~ 0kVSN buoPSStVUs a
Great Falls, Aug. 17.-John B. Lea,
stock inspector for Teton and Flat
head counties, is in the city and re-
ports the arrest, upon a charge of
grand larceny, OF Herman w. Krause,
proprietor Of the hotel, shearing
pens, saloon and general store at Pom
dera, Teton county. It is alleged that
Krause, who was for several years
in business at Cascade, this county,
entered into a conspiracy with James
Creighton and Joe hamilton, cow
boys, in furtherance of which they
stole calves from the range and de-
livered them to Krause. Creighton
and Hamilton were caught in the act
of butchering a branded calf, alleg-
ed to have been stolen, and it is charg-
ed that in Krause's meat house were
found several veals, with branded
hides, that had been stolen by Hamil-
ton and Creighton. 1t is commended
that Krause knew the owners of the
brands and knew that neither Hamil-
ton nor Creighton had any calves or
any legal e of securing any.
Krause has given bail of $1,000 for
his appearance in the district court,
and the other two men are in the
county Jail at Choteau, awaiting ar
raignment upon September {.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
is DOING IT ALL.

One of The Gazette's democratic
contemporaries takes occasion to re-
print a portion of General Miles ut
terance regarding the Philippine
problem and the magnitude of the
question it involves, not overlooking
that part in which he declared that
.'the final solution must be one in
which the honor and integrity of the
government shall be preserved and
maintained beyond any peradven-
ture."
Just what point the paper reprint.
ing the excerpt tries to make out of
it as regards the republican party or
the administration is not clear to
be seen. BY it's every act the ad-
m~inistration is trying to carry out the
very things that General Miles says
shall be done. The honor and integ-
rity of the government are preserved
at every step and going still further
it is also doing what the general fur
thermore declared should and must
be done in ordering that full and inn
partial justice must be accorded to
the 10000, 900 people who are now at
our mercy and whose present veal
and future destiny depend upon a ma
ton that is strong and whose people
are true"
If our democratic friend has any
administration. in the Philippines it
should read Major Maginnis' inter
view on the subject and if then still
not satisfied shoulds see him person
ally and ask such questions as it
might think pertinent and to the point.
He will no doubt be glad to answer
them all.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

1t will soon be time for the Lake
George fellows to get together again
and formulate another screed to the
president protesting against further
aggressive action by the army against
the Moros, as the latest news from
Manila may be taken IS Indicating
a renewal=of activities and that some
more good" natives will join those
who have gone before. The treacher-
Gus and savage attack on the outpost
of the Twenty-seventh regiment will
undoubtedly be followed by a~determ-
ined movement against the islanders
responsible for it. Bacolod may be
set down as another Filipino town
that will be given a taste of war.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

In view of the fact that the Chicago
police for a number of days past have
been engaged in putting several per-
sons through the "sweatbox" in order
to extort testimony from them to be
used in a murder case which has been
brought to their notice, some of the
newspapers of the country have TAX
en- occasion to give their opinion of
such treatment of persons who are
not suspected of crime, but only of
knowing something the authorities are
DESTROYS of finding out. According to
the dispatches at least one man has
been mentally tortured until he has
reached the verge of complete mental
and physical collapse and the newspa-
pers are wondering if any admissions
extorted from him are to be consider
ed as competent evidence when the
case finally comes to trial. 1t cannot
be said what the Chicago courts will
do in the case under consideration,
but it is on record that n court, in
New York City, has ruled on the ques-
ton so far as itself is concerned. 1t
has declined to consider such testi-
mony and also has forbidden recourse
to the "sweatbox" for the purpose
of obtaining evidence, holding such a
method is barbarous and unfair to
witnesses.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
An RIVER.

st. Paul Dispatch: The Missouri
river is to be left to it's own devices.
The United States government, hav-
ing spent a large portion of the gov
ernmental fortune in trying to make
of that stream a navigable river, and,
having been baffled season after sea-
son by insidious creeping and reced-
ing, will now give up the effort. This
is the official announcement. That
branch of the Mississippi which is
necessary in order to maintain the
assertion that America has the long
est navigable stream in the world
Or was it simply the longest stream,
that u Biographies grandly said,
will be abandoned to the devices of
its own water god?"
Back to the Wilderness will be
the cry of this Big Muddy. The
stream made historical by the expe-
dition of Lewis and Clark, the stream
made romantic by the Mandans, the
stream made domestic by the early
settlers, this river has bafled all eff
forts that have been expended to civ
ilize it. Rushing from it's home in
the mountains; creeping lazily across
the plains, conquering the very Father
of Waters himself when the two great
waterways meet at ST. Louis, the Mis-
souri, is yet a willful child of
and entirely u~namenable to the adj
vantages of civilization. Always it
hears the cry of the wilderness, al
ways it wishes it's own will. The
place where it flows one summer,
next spring time sees it no longer.
1t is a nomad among well-cultivated
rivers. It never has permitted to it.
self the harness. 1t has refused to
be bound by the mechanism of civili-
cation. Looking harmless as it
orawled lazily along, it has swallowed
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

The city council of Hamilton is ap-
preciative of the honor conferred up-
on that city by the Montana State
Press association in selecting 1t as
the place for holding the forthcom-
ing meetinf of the asso-
citation. 1t has issued to every news
paper man of the state a Autographed
tender ofsthe freedom of the city. DUR
ing the life of the meeting, which is
to be four days. The tender will be
remembered and it is safe to say that
all Of the boys who attend the meet
ing will take their permit along in
order to have it handy in case of
emergency. All do not confine them
selves exclusively to buttermilk for
in%SDiratiOn.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
Battle With Outlaws.

P%endleton, Ore, Aug. 16.-Sheriff
Taylor and a posse CT six men are
engaged in a battel at a barn north of
Athena with two robbers, who held
up several men at Freewater Thurs
day night. Deputy Scott Ritchie has
been wounded in the thigh and is ~
ing behind a mound, unable to escape
the range Of the ROBBERS guns if he
should move. The last report is that
the robbers, under cover of darkness,
had succeeded in stealing horses from
the posse and escaping.
No means Of communication is near
err than nine miles, and further news
is not obtainable.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
CuBA'S TIT FOR TAT.

st. Paul Dispatch: Minister Squires
informs the state department that
Cuba has increased duties on certain
imports to a maximum ranging from
II to 1888 per cent, the former that on
hats, the latter that on corn. Beef,
mutton and hams get SO per cent, but
ter 70 per cent, pork products, wheat
-four, rice, eggs, beans, peas, onions
and tomatoes get a tax of 100 per cent,
and corn 1913 per cent. If these rates
are imposed solely to raise necessary
revenue, they are too high. They dis
courage consumption. They ignore
the fundamental principle of a rev
enue tax, the lowest tax that will
yield the largest revenue.
We may assume that they are both
retaliatory and protective. They re-
taliate upon the insurgents for their
devotion to our sugar beet and beet
sugar. If we will have no decrease
Of shelter for the beet Cuba will have
none for u corn. True Cuba does
not raise much corn, but then, neither
do we raise much beets. Corn is
Cuba's infant, as the beet is ours.
Our insurgents justified their insur-
rection on the ground that the beet
is the only thing our farmers raise
that gets much assistance. So the
Cubans strike back at our farmers
with heavy rates on farm products.
They "see" the beet and ""go it" sew
eral "better."
Another phase of the subject is the
motive for this excessive increase.
We may assume that the Cuban junta,
now directing the government, learn
ed lessons in tariff making while d.
decting the revolt from New York.
They learned that the rates of the
Dingley act were made very much
higher than needed even for protec.
tive purposes in order that, under
the reciprocity clause, there would
be a good margin for trading stock.
The action of Cuba seems to indicate
that Cubans have learned some Of
our tricks Of self-government.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
Suicides Body Sent Home.

Sheridan, Wyo., Aug. 1.-THE body
OF Charles Preller, who committed
suicide in this city last evening by
shooting himself through the heart,
was shipped to Miles City, his former
home. He was 20 years of age and
was the son of well-to-do parents, who
reside on a ranch near Miles City.
He was recently married and it. is
presumed that domestic troubles
were the cause of his act.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
A WARNING To KNOCKERS.

Chicago Chronicle: Gentlemen
who contemplate legal proceedings
against combinations of vested inter-
ests will make a note of the fact
that Peter Power, VINO sought to in
terfere with the philanthropic opera
lions of James J. Hills Northern Sc
curities company, has himself been
sentenced to Jail for thirty days by
the federal judge before whom he
brought the suit. This will teach
a~narchistic disturbers of values not
to NEEDLE with the doings of those
whom the Lord has set to rule over
them.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

OF course, nobody expected any
thing else than that the Elks Of Mon
tana would carry off the prize for
good looks. All Montana men are
good looking and when they are
Elks and arrayed as were the mem
bers of the delegation that attend
ed the grand lodge they become sim
ply irresistible. While the dispatches
are silent on the point, it goes with.
out saying that the dignified and
courtly as we'll as handsome gentle
men who went from Billings were
we'll UP to the front when the Mon
tana column caught the eyes ct the
committee and that to their presence
was due in no small measure the sue
cess of the whole delegation.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
EEM TO BE FINAL.

Unpleasant as it may be for some
CT us, the statement made by the
distinguished gentleman at Great
Falls a few days ago that there will
be no more railroad building in Mon
tana, at least not for sometime to
come, may be accepted as authorita-
tive. In fact it must be regarded
as even more worthy of credence
than the usual most reliable source
from which q newspaper anxious to
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

The lengthy editorials that have
appeared. in a number of newspapers
concerning the death of Charles Fair
and wife as the result of in accident
to their automobile could be condens-
ed into much less space than they
have occupied. It was simply a case
of a weak-minded man with more
money than he knew what to do with.
The moral some Of the papers are try
ing to draw is too far fetched. Fair
had % money than brains and like
many another man similarly unfortu-
nate he has paid the penalty.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

General Donovan took a notion to
take a run over to Butte a day or two
ago., not Just then being needed at
the capital. Feeling that he wanted
to smoke he went into a cigar store
to supply the want. Now it is said
that every slot machine in that wick
ed city has temporarily gone out of
business. If the attorney general had
been taken with a sudden desire to;
"buck the tiger" it is barely possi-
BILE that other devices than the slot
machines would be temporarily, under
an eclipse, for they do say that there
is some gambling going on up that
way.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
Horses Struck by Lightning.

Miles City. Aug. 17.-News comes
from Terry that Frank Hartzell has
had six horses killed by lightning
while punched in his pasture. He
had just caught a pair to drive to
Terry and lightning struck the others
soon after he left the field.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
THE BILLINGS

are in a position where they can learn
all about them and viii give the rest
of the country the benefit of their
knowledge.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19

Bryan makes it unanimous. He
says he will not be a candidate in
1904.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-03-19
Sir BOYLE ROche's Bulls.


Sir Boyle Roche was the father of
"bulls." 1t was he that asserted that
1.-THE best way to avoid danger is to
meet 1t plump" At another time In
conveying a warm invitation to a
friend he remarked, Il hope, my lord,
II ever you come within mile of my
house that you'll stay there all night"
He may have been the fool Of the
Grattan parliament, but there was a
great deal of native shrewdness hidden
away behind all his foolishness. To
Curran when the latter once exclaimed
in the midst of debate that he need
ed aid from no one and could be
guardian of his own honor" Sir Boyle
instantly interjected his sarcastic con-
gratuationS to the honorable member
on his possession of a sinecure. But
possibly the gem of his rhetoric was
the picture which he conjured up on
one occasion to bring home to his hear
ers the cXcpSses of the French revolu-
tionary moi:
Here perhaps. sir. the murderOus
marshal law men NIarseilleise) would
break in. cut us to mincemeat and
throw our bleeding heads on that table
to stare us in the face."-London Ex-
press.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-03-19

mo, thanks" said the sad faced
man when he was asked to join a coll
vivial party. "The fact is don't drink
Found / couldn't afford it, so l swore
of. A number of years ago l lived in
the west. was doing we'll and had a
bank account that was proud Of. See
Ing chance to double my money, |
decided to draw 1t out. The day was a
warm one, and, becoming thirsty, |
stopped to take a glass of something
cool. l didn't waste more than five
minutes and was soon in the line at
the paying teller's window. The party
ahead of me received his money, and
was showing my check through the
window when the teller pulled it down
and announced that the bank had sus-
pended payment. believe that the re-
ceiver declared a dividend year or so
later, but the amount was so small
that l never bothered to collect mine.
1t was pretty expensive drink for
me-"
do understand, sah," said Ken
tuckian who was present. ''that you
took that drink aloneT .......
"Certainly." 'r@A~9sjss
ut was the judgment Of heaven,
sah," remarked the Kentuckian sol.
emnly.-Detroit Free Press
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-03-19
Sheriff's Sale.

The 70 lowing personal property
having been levied upon by me on the
25th day of January, A. D. 1902, upon
an execution in favor. OF John W..
Nichols VS. Mrs M. G. Mcleod, and
the same remaining unsatistied, l will
on the Both day Of April, A. D. 1902,
in the highway, in front OF the resi-
dence occupied by the said Mrs. M. g..
Mcleod, in South Barre Village, in
the Town of Barre, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash,
at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon, four
pigs, two COWS, and SO much of a GER
tain parcel OF real estate as may be
necessary to satisfy said execution with
the costs and charges Of the officer
thereon, which is founded and des-
cribed as follows:
Being ten acres of land in the Viii
lage Of South Barre, in the Town of
Barre, described as follows:
Being the same land decided to the
said Eta Mcleod by George J.
Towne, by his deed of warranty, bear
ing date Of the 9th day of May, A. d.
1896, and recorded in book l. page
1877, of the Land Records of the Town
of Barre; commencing at the north
east corner of land formerly conveyed
to said Mcleod by George j, rowne,
in said village, south three hundred
and forty degrees, easterly, four hum
dred and forty-tiye feet to stake,
thence, turning and running souther-
ly forty four degrees, west, six hun
dred and forty-tive feet, thence, turn.
ing and running north twenty-five de
greeS, west seven hundred and thirty
five feet, thence north sixty-four de-
grees and forty-four minutes, east,
ninety-nine feet, thence, north twen-
ty-nine degrees. west fifty eight feet,
to the northwesterly corner OF lands
formerly described; and a more per-
feet description of said property is
found in Book /, page 1874, of the
Land Records, to be found in the
Town Clerks Office in the said Town
of Barre.
Dated at the City OF Barre, in the
County of Washington, this 25th day
of February, A. D. 1902.
Attest: G. W. NICHOLS,
Deputy Sheriff.