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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-04-05

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to four lambs, the combined weight
of WHICH was fourteen pounds.
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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
FEARED THAT IT WILL DO GREAT
DAMAGE.
MAY SWEEP MISSOURI VALLEY
Water Has Been Piling Up Behind
Gorge Above Chamberlain, South
Dakota-Ferry BOAT Stranded
in Mid-Stream.
(By Associated Press.)

Sioux City, Iowa. March l9.--The for
nation of huge Ice gorge IN the Mis-
souri, river imperils thousands of dol
lars worth of property In this vicinity.
Early on Sunday morning the rive,
suddenly ceased running until the water
was but two feet deep Mt Chamberlain,
$. d., and 80 sudden was the fall that ~
ferry boat was stranded In mdsiream.
The great stream is stlll running. but
not more than a creek.
Couriers sent up the river TO find thu
trouble reported that n great Ice gorge
had formed at Little Bend. 60 miles above
Chamberlain, $. ID.
For 90 hours the water has piIing 10
behind this obstruction, and there IL now
enough water collected to sweep the Mis-
souri, valley In n food that viii cause
disastrous loss
In all the records of the government
engineers office nothing like this has
occurred. In the great flood OF 1851 2
counties were flooded by an Ice gorge
and escaped the dam To make good
sized river.
Between Chamberlain and Little Bend
there are enough tributary creeks TO
supply all the water now running In this
city 250 miles from the gorge by river
The water has fallen three feet within
"A hours.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
MANY SENTENCED TO PRISON
UNTIL MONEY Is PAID.
LOWER COURT WAS UPHELD
Case From Kentucky Carried to Court
of Last Resort Where It Was
Decided That Money Must
Be Paid.
(By Associated Press.)

Louisville, KY, March 19.-Life Inn
w. T. Nugent a member of the bank
rupt dry goods firm of Il. IL. Nugent
and company, unless he can produce
$14, 400, which he and his friends says Is
not in his possession.
When the house, which Is one of the
oldest in the city, failed two years ago,
1t was charged before the assignment
was made that W. II. Nugent, son of
the proprietor, had disposed of a large
part of the stock to other houses for
$14, 400
This money did not figure in the as
signment, but Nugent asserted that 1t
had been spent in the payment of his
fathers debts. He, however, produced
no receipts.
At the instance of creditors, the son
was tried In the federal court. Judge
Evans ruled that he must pay over the
money or go to Jail for contempt of
court until he did. Attorneys for Nu-
gent got him out on $4,000 bonds pend
ing an appeal.
The circuit court of appeals reversed
Judge Evans decision, but the supreme
court of the United States sustained
him.
Nugent then made a plea for a new
hearing which is now denied.
The argument for the defendant was
that to put him In Jail meant virtually
imprisonment for debt.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
| GENERAL OTIS TESTIFYING BE-
FORE COMMITTEE.
EXPLAINS CAPTURE OF lL0IL0
He Was Instructed From Washington
Not to Submit to the Dual Occu-
patton of Manufacturing
the Details.
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, March 19.--General OTIS
.sAtinued his testimony before the sem
aiJ committee today. Referring to his or
der of September 3, 1898. directing the
withdrawal of the insurgent troops out
side the defences of Manila, General Otis
explained that commission from Aguin-
aldo's cabinet visited him. In the dis
cusslon which followed he said they did
not mention the fact that the towns i'm
mediately adjacent to Manila were not
portion of the city.
lie classed as ridiculous Aguinaldo's IS
request to receive "a portion of the north
ern part of Manila occupied by the Span
iards In trade for something in the
southern part of the city held by the In
curgents.
General Otis said he did not give the
insurgents actual permission to occupy
the bockhouses which Aguinaldo
claimed had been given. What ne said
was:
II don't care anything aboat the
blockhouses; we are not going 20 take
possession of them"
General Otis said that Aguinaldo had
demanded of General Merritt the right
to occupy the palace and to make APP
po'ntments in the civil government which
caused General Merritt to cable Wash
ington for Instructions The reply was
that there must be no dual occupation
of Manila
General Otis then detailed the crcum-
stances attending the capture of Jloilo
the offer of the Spanish General Rios to
hold the place against the insurgents
pending the arrival of United States
troops and the capture OF the town by
the Visayans before the arrival OF the
United States troops.
Aguinaldo, he said, was overjoyed
When he learned that the detachment
had been sent out because he fAguin-
aldo declared that the first shot would
be fired at Iloiio which would bring on
war between the United States and the
insurgent forces.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF POST
MASTER CoYNE.
REIMBURSED FOR STAMPS
Protection Of the President
Spooner Replied to
Bacon.
CBy Associated prsss)


Washington March 19.-Soon after the
senate convened today house bill for
the re ief of r. H. Coyne. pos master OF
Chicago, was favorably reported by Mr..
Mason, chairman OF the committee on
posto.iices and poftroa;s. and passed.
Postmaster Coyne from the loss OF $I4,-
60 the value Of stamps stolen by bur
glars on october 10. 1901
After the passage of some mino' bills,
the nate resumed consideration of the
bill fer the protection OF the president.
Mr.. Spooner OF Wisconsin addressed the
senat' in support OF the measure, deal
Ing especially with the legal and const
tutional questions involved.
Replying to the argument OF Mr..
Bacon, Mr.. Spooner sal | II a no, fol-
low that because under the act of Ed
ward III as iassination Of the king of
England o attempted ASA .sinnton o.
the king was treason, that the assas.
sinat)n OF the pr, sident OF the United
states was treason.
An assault Oh the president however.
was a crime against the gjvernment, ana
he did not think the government was
disabled by the const!tut on from pun
ishing II as crime
by It's very nature il WAS an ira.dious
as aut upon the sovereignty OF the
| Unned States, Whatever might be Its
| motive.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
oGDEN's FORMER MAYOR.
He Gets a Decision Against the City
for the Sum Asked.
CBy Associated Press J

Salt Lake, Utah, March l9.--The state
supreme court has reversed the judg-
ment In the case of Former Mayor John
A. Boyle of Ogden, who sued for and
recovered half of his salary as mayor,
which had been reduced by the council
ordinance.
Mr. Boyle was elected In November,
1897. During the campaign he advocated
retrenchment and declared he was Will
ing to have the salary OF the mayor cut
in two.
Immediately after Mr.. Boyle's election
new salary ordinance was passed by
the council, fixing the mayors salary at
$500. the former salary having been
$1,000.
The ordinance was disapproved by
Mayor Boyle, amended, repassed and
then approved. At the conclusion of
his term, however, Mayor Boyle sued
the city for the remainder Of his salary
had It remained at the $1,000 figure.
The supreme court in reversing the
ruling OF the lower court which de-
clared for Boyle, holds that the latter
had publicly favored reduction In sal
aries and had approved an ordinance
providing for such reduction and that
judgment therefore could not stand.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
CREW WAS RESCUED.
Spanish Ship Went to Pieces on the
Shoals Off Cape Lookout.
(By Associated Press.l

Wilmington, N. c., March 19,-The
United States revenue cutter Algonquin
arrived at Moorehead City last night
with Captain Garry and a crew of 27
men rescued from the Spanish steamship
Ea, of Bilbao.
The Ea sailed from Fernandina, Fla,
March l3, for New York, with a cargo
of rosin and phosphates. When off Cape
Lookout shoals on March 16, she went
aground and high seas and brisk south
east to northeast winds prevented the
life saving crews from going to her as
sistance.
The steamer broke In two yesterday
morning and Is total wreck
By the efforts Of the life-saping crew
and the revenue cutter, the cr,w of the
Ia was at the last moment, taken on,
after having been without food for two
days.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
JOSEPH F. GILL CAPTURED BY
AUSTRALIAN BUSHMEN.
HELD A CAPTIVE FOR YEARS
Philippines Where He Is Wounded
Wife Marries Again, Think
ing Him Dead
(By Associated Press.)

New York, March 19.--After IL years
Imprisonment among the Bushmen of
Australia, Joseph f. Gill, son of the late
Thomas Gill, a well known Brooklyn
manufacturer, has been heard from by
his family, who had mourned him as
dead. Gill left home in 1886, and In 1893,
his wife, believing him dead, married
again.
On August Is, 1886, Joseph Il. Gill
sailed from New York for Australia,
where he had extensive mining interests.
The mines were situated about 500 miles
from Sydney and Gill expected to be gone
two or three years. He left behind
him wife and two children, boys ::
and years, respectively.
For two years letters were received
regularly. His mining interests were
prospering and he hoped soon to re-
turn to the United States he wrote in
his last letter. A period in which no
tidings were received from Mr.. Gill fol-
lowed and then came letter from the
American consul at Sydney stating that
Joseph r. Gill, wealthy mine operator,
and four companions had been ambushed
and killed by Australian Bushmen, In
Australia, not far from the mines which
the Brooklyn man controlled.
This was the last heard from Giu un-
til the news of his Imprisonment, which
has just been received.
II came In the form of letter to In
spector Mclaughlin of the Brooklyn po-
lice. The letter was dated Dagupan,
Northern Luzon, Philippine islands.
Writes a Letter.
The letter, which was written In No
vember, 1901 was addressed to the chief
of police of Brooklyn. 1t was as fol-
lows:
I'm 1886, / left my home in Brooklyn
for Australia, where / was held q cap
tive in the interior by Bushmen until
two years ago. / then came to these
islands and entered the campaign with
Maccabee scouts. Prior to Aguinaldo s
capture, l was severely wounded and ]
am afraid am cripple for life. I am
now making my way back to Sydney
Australia, to my wife and children.
II do not know II my dear mother Is
dead, but would be glad to know her
address II she Is alive, or my brothers.
/ shall be in Sydney by the time you
receive this letter. Please address me
in care of United States consul at Sgd
ney"
The Brooklyn police had little difficulty
In finding Mrs. Gill's mother.
Gable messages were at once sent to
Gill at Sydney No details have as yet
been received concerning Gills impriI.
onment among the Bushmen who MUIR
dered his four companions. After his
escape Gill is said to have attempted to
secure information concerning his fam
lily.
The private detective whom he is said
to have employed, reported that his
wife was dead and soon afterwards Gill
married a Sydney woman.
Gills love of adventure led to his en-
listment in the Philippine service.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
BURNING OF THE PHOENIX PIER
ON TUESDAY WAS A DISAS-
TROUS AFFAIR.
FIRE WAS NOT INcENDIARy
Loss in Money Above One and One
Half Millions-Loss Of Life Will
Never Be Known-Several
Injured.
(By Associated Press.l

New York, March 19.-No estimate
could be made today OF the loss of life
In the fire that started last night on
the Phoenix line pier I'm Hoboken, and
It was thought the number of dead would
never be known. Ii was learned today
that Fireman Thomas Cooney of the
fire boat David A. Body fell off his
boat last night and was drowned.
Patrick Hussey, a longshoreman. who
was burned while trying to escape from
the pier, died today from the effects of
his injuries.
Chief Engineer Scott of the British
Queen, who was supposed to have per-
ished in the fire, walked into a Hoboken
hotel today.
He was badly burned about the face,
and said he had had a dreadful expert
ence. DR.. Helfer, the health officer OF
Hoboken. says that all the men of the
British Queen have been accounted for.
Besides Hussey. four longshoremen
were taken to st. Marys hospital and
are now under treatment there. All were
more or less burned
Some We're Drowned.
Some Of the longshoremen who saved
themselves by swimming ashore say
they saw 20 or 80 men leap into the river.
Although some of those who jumped into
the water were picked up by tugs, II is
feared that "a number sank before they
could be reached by the rescuers.
The British Queen has been beached
off Communipaw in the upper bay
The Cinnamon who fed from the
steamship Heathburn when that vessel
was endangered by flames and who were
captured by United States customs Off
GERS, were returned to their ship today
The Chinese were arrested In order to
prevent a possible violation of the Chi
nese exclusion act.
Superintendent Mason Of the Phoenix
line said he did not thinr that 81 $50 COT
would cover the loss by fire. The British
| Queen was worth $800,O00 and there was
a great quantity Of valuable merchandise
on the vessel, on the piers and on light.
ers that were destroyed.
It Was Not Incsndiary.
! There was rumor today that the fire
was of ncendiary origin, hut Mr.. Masor
said he was positive there was no truth
! In it, He said he thought the blaz,
started In n quantity OF Belgian wicker
baskets on the Phoenix pier that had
! been unloaded from the British Queen.
He said the fire spread in an incredi-
| bly, short time over the outer end oi
the pier. The British Queen was soor
ablaze, and the men on board had Il
| leap into the water to save their lives
The lines by which the vessel was
moored to the pier were burned away
and it was then feared that she might
| float against some of the docks lower
! down the river and set them on fire.
In spite of the intense heat given out
| by the burning steamer, a tug ran ir
| under her stern and made line fast
| to her rudder. Lines were then passed
! from several other tugs to the first one
| and in that way the big steamship was
| hauled out into the stream.
The ruins of the pier were still smold.
| ering today.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
COME FIRST ON LIST.
Republican Steering Committee OF Sem
ate Fixes Order of Business.


Washington. March 19.-The republican
steering committee Of the senate yes
terday decided 10 give the first place In
the order Of business In the senate. after
disposing of the pending business, to the
oleomarga,1ne bill and to allow IT to be
followed by the Chinese exclusion bin.
The committee discussed the question
Of giving the NIearauguan canal bill
third place on the calendar, but decided
not to act on that question inasmuch as
1t Is considered probable that the dis
cusslon OF the elcomargarine bill and the
Chinese bll Will consume time.
The war revenue repeal bill, like ap-
preparation bills, is Of privileged char
acter, and can be taken at any time
after being reported
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
Evans Denies the Rumor.
(I3y Associated Press. }

(By Associated Press.)
Washington. March 19.--Commisson y
of Pensions Evans today was shown a
dispatch from Birmingham, Ala, to the
effect that special from Chattanooga,
Tenn, stated that close personal friends
there of Pension Commissioner Henry
Clay Evans claim to have information
that President Roosevelt will make him
secretary of the interior.
"There is absolutely no foundation 70,
the report" said Mr.. Evans "ani !
would be glad to have the Associated
Press deny it."
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
ENGLISH DIVORCE COURT.
Countess De La Ware Seeks and Sc
cures Separation.
(By Associated Press.)

London, March 19.-The divorce court
today granted the Countess DE la Ware
a decree providing for the restitution of
her conjugal rights. The case was not
defended
Counsel for the countess told how the
De la Wares visited South Africa In 1899
and returned in 1900. since when their
relations had been most unhappy. Last
June the respondent left the family man
sion and had not since lived with his
wife.
The Countess De la Ware Is a daugh.
ter OF Lord Brassey. She was born In
1872. Earl De la Warre was prominent in
Hooley company promotions, which
caused financial sensations in London
some years ago. He was born In 1869.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
POLITICAL BANQUET TONIGHT.
White Sulphur Springs Republicans
Will Meet and Organize.
Especial to Inter Mountaln.)

White Sulphur. Springs March 19.-
The republicans of this section will
gather around the festal board tonight
to toast their common political per9ua-
sions in champagne and partake OF an
elaborate banquet at the Springs hotel.
After the banquet they will collectively
organize as a political factor.
All republicans, 1t IL announced, viii
be admitted TO the banquet upon sg1ng
the constitution, but democrats must be
naturalized and, denouncing democracy,
swear allegiance to the faith before they
may enter the festal precincts and par
take Of the nectar and ambrosia which
Is to be sanctlfed as the sacrament TO
republicanism.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
COURTS OF EQUITY HAVE NO
POWER TO ENJOIN WORKNIEN

restrain Anthony Wilson and other Of
iicers of local Knights of or
ganization and branch of Il = ted
Garment Workers of America % that
pty from pushing boycott 9
The supreme court holds III 8 the
labor unions of the state are - per-
mltted to tell the story of the ~ ongs,
OF their supposed wrongs by 2 d OF
mouth or with pen and print q en-
deavor to get other persons tc :: them
by all possible means In securl dress
of such wrongs, free speech Is ed
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
Government Control of Railways.

New York, March IA. G. Hepburn,
president OF the Chase National
bank, in an annual address delivered be-
fore the Academy OF Political Science
said there seemed to be growing de-
rnand on the part of the public eor gov
ernment control of various industries
such as railways, telegraphs, etc, and
he declared the trend in industry 10 be
toward such control.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
MRS. Melville
ON THE STAND
IN HUNTER CASE
DEFENDANTS DAUGHTER GIVES
TESTIMONY AGAINST HER
FATHER TODAY.
BROUGHT IN ON A STRETCHER
She Was Unable to Walk But Told
Substantially the Same Story She
Told at the Preliminary
Examination.
BROUGHT IN ON A STRETCHER
fsnecial TO Inter MountninO

Philipsburg, March l9.-Mrs. George
Melville, daughter of the accused In the
hunter murder trial. was carried into
court this morning on a stretcher 20 give
her testimony In the case.
She was very weak. but answered
questions promptly and testified SUBJ
lstantially the same as at the justice
court proceedings.
She stated that her father returned
from the hunt in which he had left with
Waldridge, and. offering no explana-
ton. burned his clothes, which were
bloody and also those of his companion
that were left I'm the camping outfit
{ She Is still on the stand. and the eX-
citement of the spectators was intense.
+ The courtroom has been jammed TO It's
doors all day and the corridors are full.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
VIRGINIA CITY NEWS.
City Council Considers Some Important
Propositions.
Especial to Inter Mountain.

ISpttIHI 10 InIer MOuntaIn)
Virginia City, March 19.-At a meeting
OF the city council iast night $175 was
appropriated for the purchase Of new
scenery for the Auditorium theater In the
city hall.
An application was received from b. c.
Van Buren OF Idaho for an exclusive
franchise, covering n period Of 80 years,
for an electric light plant. The PROPOSE
ton was discussed at length. An ex-
elusive franchise was denied, but the
council Is favorable to the granting of
simply franchise and further corrc-
spondeDce will be had before the matter
IL settled.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19

BASEBALL MANAGER DEAD.
Thomas E. Burns Died at the Home OF
President Powers.
(By Associated Press.)

Wy 1NbSUCIdNCU ItbS'I
New York, March 19.-Thomas II
Burns, manager of the Jersey City Base
ball club, was found dead In bed today
at the home of p. T. Powers president OF
the Eastern league. Death was due to
heart disease.
Burns was member of the Chicago
National League club during the period
in which that organization won the
championship several years in success
sion.
Afterwards he was manager and player
for the Pittsburg National League club
for two years In 1900 he managed the
Eastern League club of Springfield,
Mass.
He was a member of the baseball or
ganization which made a tour of the
world.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
CHINESE REBELS DEFEAT
THE ARMY UNDER GENERAL MA

The imperial troops have been de-
feated at Sex Shing, in Kwang Tung
province, and at Popak in Kwang 81
province.
In Yuan Nan province the rebels hold
the town and district of Foo Chuen. 20
miles northwest OF the prefectural town
of Yum Nan.
They also have captured the town of
Liu Chou, in Kwang 81 province and
the town Of Yung Ming, Kwei Chou
province.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
(By Associated Press.)

Jefferson City, Mo-, March 19.--In the
supreme court sitting en- banc today. an
opinion was handed down declaring that
courts of equity have no power to en-
Join labor organizations from enforcing
boycotts on corporations.
The opinion, rendered by Judge Sher-
wood, affirmed the judgment OF Il lower
court which had refused the application
OF the Max Il Haas Jeans Clothing COM
pany of st. Louis for an injunction to
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
viii Feed london Poor.
tBy Associated Press.)

Wy Ef"7V'IHlFH 7 TVb51
London March 19.--Half a million Of
Londons poor win be the guests Of King
Edward during coronation week. His
majesty notified the mayors Of the me-
tropolis today that the sum of 100000
was placed at their disposal, and he in
Vited them to make the necessary arr
rangements to entertain the very poor
to the number Of 100000 at a dinner in
celebration OF his coronation.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
LIVINGSTON SNOW STORM. =
Four Inches Fell and Tt Is Still Con-
I'll tinuing.
Especial to Inter MountaIno

Especial to Inter Mountain.)
Livingston March 19.-It lis stlll snow.
ing here, the storm having commenced
early last night.
Nearly four inches Of snow fell during
the night, and indications are that ths
storm viii keep up for some hours yet.
1t is very cold but quiet, the heavy
winds having died out with the begin
ming of the snowfall.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-03-19
Coming to st. Louis.
iBy Associated Press,

Paris, March 1S.-M. Santos Dumont
today accepted an invitation from the
officials of the st. Louis exposition to
go to st. Louis, assist the authorities in
the organization Of the proposed balloon
contest and select site on which to
erect balloon shed for himself. The
aeronaut will sail for New York on the
steamer Deutschland April 4. He will
not take balloon with him.