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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
FLAX SIMPLY LIED.
Alleged Burlington Robber Proves a
Professional Confessor.

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 24.-The sheriff,
county prosecutor and ether county
authorities admit that they have been
the victims of a professional confess
sor. They were certain they had in
custody n Of the ROBBERS who held
up the Portland express on the Bur-
lington railrcad 10 days ago near
this city. He gave the name of John
Flax and delivered himself of an al
legged confession in which he impli-
Gated Pat Grove.
Now the prisoner asserts that his
sole knowledge of the robbery was
CLEANED from the newspaper accounts,
that he was in Kansas the night of the
robbery and gives a detailed state
ment If his wanderings prior to his
arrest, which the authorities have al
ready verified in part.
He admits that he has confessed
to many other crimes in western
cities.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
A Parsons Noble Act.

II want all the world to know"
writes Rev. G. ]. Budlong of Ashaway,
r. l., "wnat a thoroughly good and
reliable medicine I found in Electric
Bitters. They cured me of jaundice
and liver troubles that had caused
me great suffering for many years.
For a genuine, a%ll-around cure they
excel anything l ever saw" Electric
Bitters are the surprise of all for their
wonderful work in liver, kidney and
stomach troubles. Don't fail to try
them. Only SOC. Satisfaction is guar
anteed by Chapple DruS go.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
THREE TERRITORIES EXPECT TO
BE ADMITTED.
HOUSE GOES REPUBLICAN
New Phase in Speakership Contest
Quay and Plat for John
CaIzell.

Washington, Oct. 24.-Three new
states will be created by congress
during the short session the coming
winter.
The territorial bill for the admis-
sion of Oklahoma, Arizona and New
| Mexico is the unfinished business on
the calendar of the senate, and before
the adjournment on the LIST day Of
July last Senator Quay had secured
an order that this bill should be TAX
en- up soon after the reassembling of
that body.
Hon. Dennis Flynn, former terri
torial representative from Oklahoma,
is in Washington this week looking
after some departmental business.
He will be one of the first senator's
from the new state when il is estab-
lished. Speaking Of the prospects he
said:
'The only thing we have to look out
for is the possible election of a demo-
cratic house of representatives. Should
the opposition by chance happen to
carry the house I doubt very much if
the statehood bill would pass this win
ter.
1T would ~disarrange present plans,
and the democrats would want to have
the glory themselves of initiating the
new states into the union. Our people
are alive to the situation and there is
more activity in the campaign at
home and in the adjoining territories
than l have seen elsewhere in the
campaign. have been up in New
England making speeches. and must
say that it is very hard to get up
any enthusiasm.
Il hardly know what it means. 1t
is true that the mill hands are all
working full time, the people are
prosperous, but at the same time who
can account for the apathy? Regis
tration in Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts is away below the average,
and l am told that the apathy is just
as strong on one side as the other.
1t is possible that the democrats may
gain a few members from the east,
but we are looking to the west to
send a solid republican representa-
ton"
Secretary TayIor's Views.
wisconsin need cause no appre-
hension. in republican circles" said
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Horace A. Taylor today.
LA Roulette will be elected and
the legislature will be as strongly re-
publican and more so according to
my estimate as any WI have had for
years. Senator Spconer will, of course,
be elected, and no other man is talk
ed of. Mr.. Spooner held his peace and
exhibited his practical judgment dur
ing the first few weeks after the state
convention when there was a great
hue and. cry raised about detection
within the party ranks. He is a pow
err in the state as he is in the senate
and without any effort on his part,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
ANTHRACITE OPERATORS ARE
PLANNING CLOSE MONOPOLY
DEALERS WILL HAVE TO GO
Country Is to Be Divided Into Dis
tricts and Agents of Trust
Appointed.

DOSCOL, OCC. uc lnu1CdtAO4o
are that the coal dealers in all parts
of the United States are to be driven
out of business. In this connection
the Boston Advertiser, a %conserva-
tive newspaper, prints the following:
The anthracite coal operators, after
resumption of work and the settle
ment of the labor troubles, are going
to make the coal business as close a
monopoly as the oil business now is.
The anthracite men will do this on
practically the same lines as the
Standard Oil people have followed, ex-
cept that there is no competition to
be crushed out. as in the oil trade.
The operators will have selling agents
who will no longer be Independent
business firms, but will be little more
than clerks of the Pennsylvania com-
panies. They will sell coal only on
such terms as the trust fixes before
hand.
A leading local coal dealer, d~issatis-
fed with a demand that all orders of
ccal must be accompanied with a
promise to pay within 80 days of the
time the order was sent, was SO dis
pleased that he said that the only
thing left for him to do would be to
sell out.
do you mean it," he was asked by
tho ror~0r1yfofiy-o of Tho nrnrou
vania coal road over which his sup
plies were shipped.
81 certainly do" he said sharply.
Then an agent will wait on you
as soon as you return home and will
pay you any reasonable price," he
was told.
The agent reached the mans place
almost as quickly as the nan himself
did. An agreement was being drawn
up when a hitch came owe the ques-
ton of the sale of the good will"
"We won't pay for that" said the
agent, because it is only a question
of time when every outsider must
either come in as an agent of the trust
merely a selling agent-or get out
of business. The good will is not
yours to sell, or it will not be in a
SNORT Time.
'That is a pretty good bluff" said
the coal dealer, aghast.
SIT is not all a bluff" returned the
other, with ~unconcern. ut is a sim
pie statement of fact. The company
will not pay for your good will be-
cause they do not al for your firm
name. 1t is the business which they
themselves control, or will soon con
trol as soon as their plans are put
in operation, and it will not be for
you, but for them, to say whether you
will or will not have any coal to sell
in this place.
when these plans work out" the
agent explained. "the country will be
divided into districts, each district
having one selling agent responsible
to the main selling agent of the COM
pany; no order for more territory will
be filled unless it comes from the
agent in charge of that particular
district. If the company does not
pick your firm out for it's agency, it
will simply mean that you will have
to go out of business"
The conference ended and the deal
er is still trying to find a customer
for his business. He finds, however,
that other dealers have had intima-
ton of the same kind.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
PERSONA NON. CRATE.
Turkey Will Not Permit Miss Stone
to Land.

Boston, Oct. 24.-The American
board. in view of the hint that the sui
tan Of Turkey would regard Miss Ell
len Stone, the ransomed missionary,
as persona non grata and refuse her
permission to land in his dominions,
will probably not assign her to her
old field work in Macedonia. Rev. E.
E. Strong, of the board, said:
"We are making no arrangements
toward sending Miss Stone again to
Macedonia, or anywhere in Turkey.
We know that she would net be well
coined by the authorities."~
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28

ators continue to claim that the presi-
dent not only used unnecessary harsh
ness in roping them, but that he need
net have employed SO hot a branding
iron.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
New Electrical signal Clock.

James O. Lyman Of Waterbury,
Conn.,, superintendent Of the Standard
Electric Time company, has just in
vented a new electric signal clock
which is intended, says the jewelers.
Circular. Weekly, to operate bells and
signals on factories, schools or other
buildings.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
AN INVENTIVE PRIEsT.~

Father Lapore Will Enter Flying Ma
chine Competition.
Denver, Oct. 24.-Father Felix NJ
Lepore, pastor of Mount Carmel Ital.
ian church, is the inventor of a flying
machine, which has attracted the at
tenticn of eastern capitalists. who
have promised to advance 100000 for
it's construction.
Father Lepore is one of three in.
ventors to enter the contest for the
prize of $250,00O offered by Metz OF
] ondon. Eng, fer the airship which
gives the best results. He saws his
eirship can attain a speed of 100 miles
per hour and can be made bullet.
proof.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
Shropshire Sheep.

Thirty head of registered Shrop-
shire bucks, ranging in age from two
to six years old. Price $3.50 per head.
inspection invited.
G. J. DE BOOR.
37-tf M~usselsheli. Mont.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28

A writer in the Medical Times adv
Gates on sanitary grounds the subs
tuition of aluminium tablets for pap
bank bills.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
Favorite Gem of the Fan.

The ''touch of green" has extended
to the jewelry. The emerald is the
favorite gem of the fall season.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
Automobiles In Demand.

Every one of the large automobile
factories is far behind its orders.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
CANNOT BE CITIZENS.
Washington Su~reme Court Rules Ad
verseLy to japanese.

Olympia. Wash, Oct. 24.-The SUI
preme court has decided that a Jap
anese cannot become a citizen of the
United States. The point came up di-
rectly in the matter of the admission
of a young Japanese lawyer to the
bar of this state, the law making cit
izenship a qualification for admission.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28

the legislative candidates now rum
ming are all solid Spooner men. |
believe there will be quite a full vote
in the Badger state for an off year"
Evening star., 1902-05-29
MonopolieS of Two Kinds.

1t Is proposed among the leaders OF the
striking coal miners to attack the operators
under the common law and the Sherman
antitrust law as having formed combina-
ton in restraint o, trade and IN monopoly
OF one of the necessities OF life. Probably
as strong a case could be made out against
the operators, who have acted In this and
other strikes unquestionably as unit as
against the beef trust, now under injunc-
tion. But. on the other hand. the coal mine
owners could with equal reason cite both
the common and the antitrust laws against
the strikers. who have constituted virtual
trust in labor by refusing not only to work
for their employers but TO allow others to
take their places. The antitrust argument
works both ways.
Public sentiment has never strongly sup
ported the labor unions in their contention
of right to prevent substitutes from taking
the places of strikers. Practically all of
the trouble which has arisen in the big
cities during the past fifty years as a re-
suit of tabor differences has been caused
by inslstence upon this doctrine. The many
street car strikes which have led to rioting
and loss of life have been marked con-
spicuously by this issue. The vital essen
tials of monopoly or attempted monopoly
are present in practically every such con-
flct.
The case OF the workingman who is will
ing to work. but who cannot owing to the
interference Of the union, and that of the
pierchant who is willing to forego a part
Of his profits In order to sell to his Gus
toners. but who cannot buy his supplies
from the trust. are precisely parallel. The
chief complaint against the beef trust, after
the artificial raise of price. is that the un-
dsnseiiing merchants are boyeotted by the
tfqst and driven out Of business. The very
ptfsons Who clamor most loudly for an ap-
plication Of the law to prevent such actions
Evening star., 1902-05-29

a similar undertaking. They will not work
for certain wages or under certain condi-
tions or supervisors. and they refuse to al
low others to work in their stead.
The picket stationed by the union and the
blacklist prepared by the trust to prevent
under-selling are both denominations in the
eyes of fair minded persons This conclusion
does not excuse the coal trust in its re-
sistance of the reasonable demands of the
miners. When in the days to come the
courts have power to enforce arbitration
agreements the public will be guarded
against the evil effects of the greed of both
capitalists and workers. Meanwhile it
would perhaps be wholesome if one or the
other or both of the contestants in this
present issue were to appeal to the law to
define the rights of each. If the law could
reduce the ability of both the unions and
of the trusts to preeipitate strike and SO
to increase the prices of necessities the con-
suming public would have a chance to Sc
cure something like justice.
Evening star., 1902-05-29
The Earthquake Bueaboo.

The persistence with which the interests
antagonistic to the selection of the Mica
ragua route for the isthmian canal have
pressed their attack upon that route since
the eruption of Mount Pelee discloses a set
tied purpose to work the earthquake argu-
ment for all it is worth. They have stead
tasty ignored the report of the canal COM
mission, which declared thai despite the
fact that there have been twice as many
earthquakes in Panama as in Nicaragua
the records must be regarded as showing in
the two cases practically an equal degree
OF exposure to the earth's dangers. They
have furthermore ignored the fact that the
commission distinctly declared that the
danger in both cases was In itself negli-
gible, and that il 1t were considered as pro-
hibitive so should the elemental dangers
which confront all other large engineering
enterprises, such as fires in the cities and
the conyulsions of the storm forces.
Throughout the propag ganda aimed osten-
sibly at Nicaragua on the basis of the
earthquakes and the volcanoes the insinua-
ton runs that Panama Is by far the safer
route. This is sometimes stated positively.
sometimes limited. But the main burden of
the charge is aimed at the security Of the
canal If constructed on the Nicaragua line.
There Is Io assurance that il the sincere
canal advocates. to whom selection of a
route is merely matter Of the wisest prac-
teal choice, were to admit the Nicaraguau
dangers and agree to the Panama PROPOSE
ton these same influences would not then
be found clamorins against the Panama
Evening star., 1902-05-29
The Anacostia Improvement.

The agreement of the conferees on the
river and harbor bill, with the item for the
Improvement of the Anacostia river in
cludcd. ensures that a start will be made
during the present working season on this
ICug delayed plan. There are few pending
projects for which the community has wait
ed SO many years, and which have never
thelcss meant so much to its welfare and
it's health. The AnacOstia needed improve
ment when the Potomac was reclaimed
from the mud Had the work then under
taken on the western side of the city been
extended TO the eastern side there is no es-
timatiug how much sickness would have
been saved the people and employees in the
public service whose duty keeps them on
the banks of the Anacostia.
1t has been a long, hard fight to persuade
Congress to provide thus for the reciama-
ton of the river from the encroachiug de-
posits Its own interests have seriously suf~
fcred. Having built up a great gun foundry
at what has become virtually the head of
navigation on the Anacostid, the Navy De-
rartment has found itself at times unable
to gain access to it from the sea. Only with
great difficulty have it's tugs been able to
navigate to the Wharves. Warshfps have
been virtually cut off from connection with
the naval station at the governments $ capi-
tai. This anomaly has at length wrought
. its lesson iii the form of the item which
appropriates approximately one-tenth of
the total estimate for the first stroke on
the great project.
The work thus started will not OF course
complete the improvement of the Anacos-
tia. Coupled with the comprehensive park
project is a plan for the transformation of
the upper AnaCostia into a water park,
with Iagoons lakes and channels, but not
suitable for navigation. This is to be
evolved later. The work to be done below
the bridge. however. is TO be in general
harmony with this more aesthetic but equal
II beneficial improvement in the upper
stretches of the river. II IS TO be hoped
that some financial arrangement will soon
be perfected whereby the government and
the District can proceed with the latter
project.
Senator Mcmillan who as member Of the
Commerce committee of the Senate has
been the special champion of the national
improyeIne ut begun by the appropriation on
the river and harbor bill, is also deeply in
terested in the sem-Tati0ual sem-local de
velOpment on sanitary and aesthetic lines
Of the upper Anacostia; and the community
with congratulations upon what has been
accomplished Will tender him its best
wishes for equal success in both projects.
Evening star., 1902-05-29
Upheava

The present cold weather Is ascribed by
some people to the eruptions in the West
Indies. Probably for many months to come
those commissions of nature VIII be credited
with all the Ills to which this half of the
world may fall heir. II the crops fail in
the west, the eruptions will be blamed on
the score OF a disturbance of atmospheric
conditions, perhaps the dissemination OF
impalpable, Notwithstanding dust. If the
rivers leap their bounds and destroy prop
erty or dry and check Industry and COM
merce some mysterious influence will be
traced 10 the volcanoes or to the internal
disturbances of which the volcanoes are
only the outward evidence If the criminal
records show a pronounced Increase theo-
ries will not be lacking that the spouting
forth of lava and gases by Pelee and Sou
friere started currents and waves evily
affecting the human mind. Thus far there
Is no reason TO attribute the high prices of
beef and coal to the volcanoes Nor, of
course, can the volcanoes be considered as
the effect of the trusts. But forces are in
operation in this country which, un-
checked or failing to vent themselves In a
safe manner, are likely to cause an eruption
which viii establish very direct connec-
ton between the trusts and a gigantic and
destructive upheayaI
Evening star., 1902-05-29
,oute as exposed to great seismic dangers

route as exposed to great seismic dangers.
The truth is that the canal must neces-
sarily, II constructed at all, be cut through
region of the earth more or less subject
to disturbances. The canal commission has
found the degree of danger to be slight.
The risk is no greater than that attendant
upon the running of railroad trains through
the cyclone belt in the western states.
Scores of lives have been lost there and
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth Of
property destroyed along the lines of COM
munfcation in those states Yet the rail-
road magnates, the very men who are now
holding up hands in horror at the idea of
building the Nicaraguan canal, continue to
lay down tracks in that zone of danger
They complacently face the prospect of
overturned trains, uprooted tracks, deyas-
tated lands. suddenly dried water courses,
and proceed with their constructions. More
over, il the instances of trains wrecked and
lives and property lost by reason of land
slides In various parts of the country are
reckoned, 1t will be readily seen that the
earthquake argument is feeble indeed. If
the canal plan is abandoned because of this
possible element of danger, logical extern
sion of the idea would prohibit the con-
structio or operation of a single mile Of
railroad track where there is any record
either of a landslide or cyclone.
Evening star., 1902-05-29
Same Old Stories.

When Adam courted Eve. they say
With certain jests they whiled the hours
OF blissful Incidence away
Amid the zephyrs and the flowers.
And Noah would those stories tell
Unto his sons, when it grew dark,
The gloomy tedium to dispeI
Which sometimes settled DER the ark
And round full many campfire bright
Those yarns have sent merry thrill
They were recited with delight
AT Troy and likewise Bunker Hill.
And now the congressman comes out
And cons them DER with guileIess glee.
And scatters them around about
And all is blythe as blythe can be-
Evening star., 1902-05-29
Ohio and Kansas.

The republicans of Ohio and Kansas gave
| pretty good exhibitions yesterday of har-
| mony. They ought to cultivate the article.
| Il Is a mighty good thing to have in the
| house during election times. A warm and
| very important contest is approaching, and
| every vote will count. Control of the next
| House will mean much. If the republicans
| secure it their problem for 1904 will be
| very much simplified. If the democrats Sc
| cure it large degree of order in their or
| GaniZation will take the place of the lusty
| state of chaos now existing, and the dem
ocratic nomination for President two years
| hence will be worth going after. In every
sense therefore the two parties are now on
the skirmish line of the next presidential
election. aHd every foot of ground is worth
fighting for.
The cordial Endorsement of Mr. Roosevelt
by both conventions was expected by every
| nan of experience the country over. Yarns
which represented Mr.. Hanna in the one
state and Mr.. Burton in the other loaded
for bar" and as bent on discharging their
weapons, misled nobody. The situation Is
so plain that he who runs may read. Mr..
Roosevelt is in office, and is executing poll
cies to which his party was committed be-
fore he became its national leader. Sound
money, protection expansion are all safe
| in his hands. The differences that have
| arisen between him and certain republican
| leaders relate in the main to patronage, but
| so far none is acrimonious. The day has
| gone by, fortunately for the country, when
local leader can make tour of his state
| elciting sympathy and securing support by
| exhibiting a sore toe.
| The Ohio platform makes no mention of
the isthmian canal question. 1t is un-
| fortunate omission. The Senate appears to
| be on the eve of taking up the question.
1t was a good time therefore for the Ohio
republicans under Mr.. Hanna's leadership
to renew their support of the canal project.
But they either overlooked ignored it.
VIII Mr.. Hanna make this good in the
Senate next week? He is classed as a
friend of the Panama route. Is he for Pan
ANA? Or would he be satisfied, as some
other senators would be. to see the canal
question fail at this session? It is q good
time to go frankly on record respecting a
matter about which the people through both
political parties have declared themselves
so faV0rlbly