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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-09
Trustees.

Lee Mantle, president; Chas-
Schatzlein. viee-president; Frank w.
Haskins, treasurer; A. B. Clements.
secretary; Charles R. Leonard, =.
Aug. Heinze, Henry Mueller, James H.
Monteath.
FRED H. FOSTER. Local A"ant
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-09
Third Day.


The board met pursuant to ad-
ut 10 o'clock a. NJ; there
were present w. o. Parker, chair
man; S. K. Deverill, c. M. Jacobs and
Nat. G. Carwile, clerk.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
The following reports were approx
ed and filed:
F. L. Mann, j. p, Billings township
for year ending November 80.
James Chapple, coroner inquests
over bodies Of j. A. Campbell, An
dreas Lundwall and John p. Mcbride.
The following bills were allowed
and warrants ordered drawn:
Geo. w. Hubbard, sheriff's
mileage .......... :. ....$oA'.oo
Holmes & Rixon, sundries =. 27.75
P, H. Smith, transporting small
pox patient . . 49,. $500. 500
]. j. Mccormick, coroner's juror 800
J. A. Parque, supplies for pest
house . 49,. ...... 1880
Louisa Fairchild, rebate taxes 900
H. M. Allen & Co., sidewalk
block SO . -. .:...... 56.4O
Billings Water Power Co., water
and lights for quarter 80. 1928
Ben Trenholm, drayage, &C
count court house -. -. 800
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company, telephone rent :. 54.OC
e. S. Jackson, constable fees 139.4O
Henry Thorsen, mileage ]. P.
court 80. ;. -. -. o.Vo
H. j. Calhoun, juror j. P. court l.5O
Calhoun & Adams, team for
county commissions 80. :. $50
Vale & Potter, mileage j. p.
court ...... 49,. 49,. .... oo.oV
H, L. A. Bates, excess valuation 1.5O
Jobn Staffek. coroner's Juror 1890
Billings State bank, services on
tax roll 80. $500
P. H. Smith, rebate special poor
LAX 80. -"N
Columbus Mercantile company,
supplies for Mrs. HARRISON 5000
Billings Water Power company
water for poor 80. -. . 2.5O
D. E. Boykin, care OIL poor +. 500
Cliff Lindsey, county physician
for quarter ~. 49,. $500. $500
J.. H. Calhoun, road viewer :. 300
John Todd, road viewer -. 300
| Chas. O'Donnell, road viewer 800
| A. G. Logan, road viewer, -. 800
| VIM. Parkinson, account roads 800
j. P. Lavelle, road work, No. 6 1890
W G. Hinshaw, road word, No.
3. ~. -. $50. -. 1900
s T Homie. road work $50. 1900
Gus Seipp. O a supplies -. 1885
Wilson Storm, rebate, special
road tax $500. -. 1'oo
Chas. E. Green, road work, No.
6 49,. -. . :. $500
Thos. M. Triol, road work, dis
trict No. 6 ............. :. 9I.ol
C. Capien, road work district
No - 80. $500
jeff Brewer, teams account
roads -. -. 80. $500. o'o'
Ole Paulson, rebate special
road tax 80. -. -. -. Z.o'
H. M. Allen & Co., lumber for
ROADS -. . ...s ...... 'o'''
H. M. Allen & Co., lumber for
roads 49,. $50. $50. 2S3. 6;
IT. S. Clark, road work ...... 10
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
STEEL PLATE POOL TO MEET

meeting of the Steel Plate Pool is to be held
to-day at the Waldorf-Astoria for the purpose OF
considering the price situation. Several of the
independent companies are desirous of having the
minimum price of plates advanced from the present
figure Of 81 q hundred pounds, but the United
States Steel Corporation is understood be op-
posed 10 the proposition IL is unlikely that change
VIII be made. Plates now selling al from s.
TO - ton above 80 minimum.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN BONDS


RAILROAD BONDS.-Market irregular Total
sales amounted in par value to $3273,O00 against
81 327 900 on Tuesday The heaviest dealings were
in the Atchison adjustment As Chesapeake and Ohio
4Ibs Chicago. Burlington and Quincy As. Green
Bay and Western debenture Bs, Kansas City South
ern 3s Missouri, Kansas and Texas second As
Northern Pacific 3s. Reading general As. St Louis
Southwestern frsts Southern Pacific As Union Pa
cific first and convertible As Wabash debenture Bs
and Wheeling and Lake Erie first Is. Colorado Fuel
and Iron convertible IS. Consolidated Tobacco is
and Standard Rope and Twine 6s and incomes were
also active.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
bankers. posted rates were:

DOMESTIC EXCHANGE.-New-O w-Orleans - ON
mercaI 75caS1 discount: bank. 81 premium san
FranCisCO-Sight, 171zc; telegraph, 2oc boS'o" AZ
Chicago-5Oc premium. ChaTleston-buylhS' Pd'
selling lac premium Cincinnati-Between nanks'
25c discount: over the counter. SOC premium 81
I.ouis-Par Minneapolis-75c premium savannah
Buying, 75C discount per $1,000 seIhns' ''c pre-
MUM.
BANK CLEARINGs - New-York - Exchanges.
s9I S4S 10; balances s1IO14593 Chicago-EXchanses
$2S5O0 800; balances 81 S.2OS Boston-Exchanges'
S23.5l257s; balances sl,s7O,S63. Philadelphia-Ex-
changes, s23O14S25 balances, $3,i7is11 Baltimore
Exchanges s.. SO1. .572. balances, So9l,lSS
FOREIGN MONEY MARKET.-Call money in
London 2r2d2A per cent; open market discount
for short bills 21l-l6@2a4 per cent; long os'
211-16d22. per cent. Berlin discount rate, per
cent for three months bills and ia per cent for
short bills. Berlin exchange on London I" marks
40 pfennigs. Paris exchange on London, % francs
1912 centlmes. Paris discount rate, 17s per cent
FOREIGN SECCRITI ES.-Britsh consoS Tor
money. 95ls; for the account. 95ls; Spanish Is IN
London 7Ss French rentes, l0l francs ~ centlmes'
THE SILVER MARKET.-Bar silver, 5llbc; Mex
lean silver dollars Hzc. Bar silver in London
closed 235sd.
GOLD PREMIUM.-In Madrid 37.i5 Lisbon, p;
Buenos Ayres. 1850; Rome, 1872
GOVERNMENT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. receipts
reported from Washington, H,Go9GO; internal reVe-
nue. receipts S793297: miscellaneous receipts Sio5-
437; total receipts for the day, S226o si' eNpeiu
lures 2165!OOO Receipts for the month to date,
So 842 25: expenditures $2l 100000; excess of re-
ceipts. 81 1925. Receipts for the yea TO date
s4S6 56O544 expenditures $49,S65OO; excess OF re-
ceipts $6 695 oil National bank notes received Tor
redemption. $il7,l5
SUB-TREASURY-Th Sub-Treasury was debtor
at the Clearing House $i6I,22i
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
ARRESTED 1900 CHILDREN.
CHICAGos MAYOR WARNS POLICE THAT
WHOLESALE JUVENILE CAPTURES
MUST CEASE

Chicago. May 14-Whoesale arrests OF children
and their Imprisonment in police stations for trivial
offences have been ordered stopped by Mayor Har-
rison. The order given TO Chief OF Police
ONeill and carries out suggestions made by judge
r. :. Tufhill. Of the Juvenile Court
According 10 Superintendent Bodine OF the De-
partment OF Compulsory Education, seventeen thou
sand children under the age OF sixteen We're ar
rested IN Chicago last year. large proportion of
whom were exposed to the contamnating influences
Of the cellTooms of police stations. The Mayors
attention was called the law which makes il
Illegal TO detain child under twelve years of age
N 4 police station or confne under sixteen in
the same building with adult prisoners
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
OUTSIDE SECURITIES.

There more activity shown in the market Ior
outside securities. and larger number of secur'eS
figured in the transactions than any day during 'no
last week. While a few issues showed fracuohSi
losses the majority of the list showed advances
There strength shown in few of the less
active issues. especially Havana Commercial, Wnlch
advanced about per cent for the common on nsht
transactions selling up Is. while the preferre1
advanced II per cent over the last bid. sellins UP
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
TRANs,sIBERIAN R4ILR04D NEARLY Doyr

WILL BE READY FOR GENERAL TRAFFIC THE
LATTER PART OF THIS YEAR.
Seattle. May 1.-THE trans Siberian Railway 10
completed except the opening of tunnel one
and haif miles long, and will be ready for gen
eral traffic the latter part of this year accord
ins 20 george Janson. a construction engineer on
me road Mr.. Janson has arrived here from the
Far East, and is on bis way TO ST Petersbnrp ~
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
CITIL SERTICE DEcLeLON-

Albany May IL (Special).-The State Civil Service
Commission on the advice of Attorney General
Davies to-day rendered decision that transfer
tax clerks IN the offices Of the surrogates OF the
counties of Albany Duchess Oneida Onondapa
Monroe Suffolk. Ulster and Westchester are nor
in the classified service Of the State and therafore
subject only 70 local regulations
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
HONEY AND EXCHANGE.

MoNEh MARkET-Money rates as quoted fol-
low money on call opened at per cent; highest
per cent; lowest per cent: last loan nar .or,
close per cent; ruling rate 51a per cent Time
money was quoted at per cent for thirty to sixty
Gays, e'2 per cent for four months and 4 per cent
LOT "Ne anu SIX months. Commercial paper was
quoted at 4is per cent for stxty 70 ninet,' aa,rs
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
FR0sT CAUSES DAMAGE TO .FRryT

Hoosick Falls. n. Y. May H-There was another
heavy frost .ast night In the Hoosick Valley the
mercury falling 20 degrees above zero II
brought damage to buGs and blossoms of
cnsrry and apple trees. A heavy white frost is re-
Iorfeo IN lower Vermont and the BerGs. Ires and
iTuit growers fear the apple crop may be ruined
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15

Several lawsuits have occurred in Russia on ac-
count of errors made In the valuation of Russian
money weights and measures The Imperial Sen
ate to which appeals were made. has declared that
it cannot be expected that peasant from Samar-
kand the Fergan. for instance, should possess
knowledge OF all the weights and measures in the
whole world, and the law cannot make exceptions
in those cases. 1t is the duty of the foreign seller
or buyer To inform himself about the neurology
or the forwarding or receiving country. If misun-
derstandings occur, the imperial tribunals cannot
but decide in favor Of the people Of the country
AT the same time. the Russian Minister Of Posts
and Telegraphs has decided that circulars postal
cards. ETC. destined for the interior OF Russia
bear precise indications of the districts. provinces
etc and must be written in the Russian language
Mhat would they say. adds the ministerial circular
II we directed to Congo NeW-iuinea letters
bearing the address written in Russian? These
letters would be destroyed This is what will be
done in the empire with undecpherable letters.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
STOCK VALUES HIGHER.
COMlIISSION TRADING LIGHT
e UNION PACIFIC IN DEMAND-MONEY
RATES EASIER.
STOCKS.

Closing prices Yesterday Of the principal active
securities and net changes from Tuesdays quo
tafi inrns N,er
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15

This question Of the sanitary condition of live
stock has also been agitated lately between the
government of Uruguay and the American Consul
Montevdeo The South American Journal" of
London, says that publication had been made of
correspondence exchanged by this consul and Senior
Rodriguez Diez. Director of the Department Of Live
Stock and Agriculture relative to the question of
Carbuncle infected hides. Last year the United
States took 7l50S7 hides from Uruguay. the value
So COS and 10000 have already been exported
this year. The American Consul called attention
the Importance of not interrupting this
and of the immediate cremation of in
fected animal The Uruguayan official though ad-
mitting the Importance of the matter. replied
rather eVasively. declining to admit that the in
fected hides which were the origin Of the trouble
could have come from Uruguay. In 1892, he says
no cases of carbuncIe were known in the country
and all the hides exported to the United States
above suspicion, as the inferior class, known
'epidcmia," =" do not come to this market.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15

4h65 per cent for choice four and six months siH-
gle names and 51a per cent for others
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.-Market weak Aoeudi
closing rates follow
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15

Another commercial difficulty between the Argen-
tine Republic and England likely 10 be settled in
the near future. II relates TO the expectation of
live stock, which has been considerably embar-
rassed for some years account of the exag-
gerated and often false rumors about the preva-
ence of disease among the cattle IN Great Britain
well as in Argentina. quite recently a cable
dispatch stated that in the House of Commons a
member while expressing his hope for a suita BILE
arrangement between the two countries in these
times of scarcity of meat in the United Kingdom
indicated also on what bases such an arrangement
could be concluded.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
BOSTON EDISON co. INCREASES STOCK.

Boston May 1.-THE stockholders Of the Edison
Electric Illuminating Company. Of Boston at
special meeting TO-DAY voted 10 increase the cap
rectors to sell five parcels of real estate owned
by the company and not needed in the business
The issue will provide s. 100000 and il is made
To capitalize expenditures this year of H0eOo. ror
extensions and improvements; to provide So000
for machinery and to secure funds for the build
ing OF new 5000 horse power station IN S'u'
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
TRADE AND FINANCE ABROAD.

American exporters TO tho Argentine Republic
will he benefited. well other foreign mer-
chants and manufacturers. by the success recently
obtained by the British Government in its negotia-
tion for a change in recent decree Of the Buenos
Ayres custom house authorities The latter had
proclaimed on December 81. 1901 regulation
which required that not only the country from
which tho goods exported TO the Argentine Re
public came. but also the name Of the place Of
manufacture, should be given in the declaration.
The British Minister at Buenos Ayres in
Sructed to try to obtain the suspension abolition
of the regulation. The obnoxious decree has been
repealed, and in CONSEQUENCE shippers Argentina
are only required To give the country of origin upon
the bill Of ladinE.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-15
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS.

Actual sales-J-Closing- Shares
iOpen High Low. Fin Bid. Ask. Sold.
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
PHILLIPS HOLDS THE
BATTING HONORS

brilliant work in the individual contests
at the national championships held in
Buffalo last January have stamped him
as one OF Ohio's most consistent and
careful ten-pin rollers.
In the United Bowling League OF c.
lumbus last season Selbach averaged iSl
pins in fifty-six games. His delivery is
graceful and certain to attract consid-
cradle attention among the many new
bowlers now spring:ng up in the West.
Selbach is a member of the champion
South Side team of Columbus, which has
the reputation of winning more cham
pionships than any other team In the
state.
The trip will give the bowlers of 'te
most remote bowling centers an opor-
tunity to study the various deliveries
used by these cracks.
The bowlers in various cities to be
visited will be offered valuable prizes
so as to discover which cities have the
best players. The prizes are open to all
teams and will go to the one making the
best showing in a single series, which
Is to consist of five games.
II is very likely that the tourists Will
play a set Of games in this city with
picked "all Washington" team, and
the games If arranged will be played at
the new Palace alleys, the management
of which has offered them for such set
of contests.
The team is very strong and will COM
pare very favorably with the best of
similar organizations and should win a
majority of its games. Its players have
an average of 1S1 for sixty games.
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
NICKNAMES FOR STOCKS.
How Wall Street Bulls and Bears. Call
For Them.

The practice OF employing ridiculous
nicknames for stocks has become more
general in the last year than in the his
tory OF the exchange" remarked MIR. A.
r. Hawley. a Wall Street broker. the
other day. The average man would
think some brokers' Offices annexes to
lunatic asylums should he venture in
on a vusy day.
For instance, he would hear: Buy a
hundred Gold Feet" which means to
purchase 100 shares of Colorado Fuel.
This stocks recent rapid decline after
being widely tipped to rise caused sorry
bulls to to nickname II. the ticker abb
breviation being CT.
Another customer calls out; Sell
those 200 "Old Woman at the market
He wants to get rid OF his Ontario and
Western stock The ticker sign 'OW'
is responsible for this term.
Buy 500 Little Sows" refers to
Few traders think of mentioning
Amalgamated Copper except as Cop
4" On the Banks is supposed to mean
Wabash.
Buy Tom Cat is an order to
purchase Tennessee Coal and Iron. Its
treacherous movements gained for it
this cognomen.
"'"Pretty Paul. wants cracker
is the term used by traders in Chicago,
Milwaukee, and st. Paul. when the stock
is dull.
Katy comes high say the bears in
referring to Missouri, Kansas, and Tex
as. shown as KIT on the tape, and
Were you caught in the fall of
"Rocks?'' has reference to a decline
in Chicago, Rock Island. and Pacific.
popularity called Rock Island.
Get me out of the Soup means
to sell Southern Pacific.
.qow much are "Smelts" today
does not have reference to fish. but to
the stocks of the American Smelling
Company.
And so you might go down the en-
tire list. not forgetting Mop the pop
ular designation for Missouri Pacific. -
New York Times.
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
NICKNAMES OF
PROMINENT PEOPLE
FOOTPAD ON THE PORCH.
Moorestown Man Robbed in Wild West
Style.

MOORESTOWN, y. j., Aug. 10.-John
+. Cox. one of the best known residents
of the town, was sitting on the porch
of his handsome home, with his family.
last night. when he was suddenly con-
fronted with a cleaning pistol. Back OF
the pistol was a well-dressed young
man, who said:
q want your money and your watch.
Give up"
While the members of his family
screamed and fed. Mr.. Cox decided that
the pistol had the best of the situation.
and he turned over his gold timepiece
and all the money he had in his clothes.
which is said to have been consider
able
Hastily sticking the booty in his
pocket, the young man backed slowly on
the porch and disappeared in a bit OF
woods not far from the Cox home. An
alarm was speedily given, but all trace
of the footpad was lost. Mr.. Cox de-
scribes him as man OF perhaps tweu-
ty-fve years OF age, of slender build,
smooth shaven, dressed in mixed gray
suit and straw hat.
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
GALL AMERICAN" B0WLERS.
Crack Team Will Make Tour Which
Nav Include fiis City.

Arrangements have been completed
for the trip through the Midi and
Far West by the "All American" team
of bowlers which will begin about Oc-
tober /. under the management of Sam
Karpf.
The team will be composed of Voor-
heis. of New York; AL Selbach, captain
of the Baltimore American League team !;
Ernest Peterson. of Chicago, and Phil
Wolf. of Brooklyn.
Although comparatively new hand at
the sport, there is probably no bowler
who is better known and has a larger
host OF friends than Ar Selbach. and
for this reason has been selected cap
tain OF the team. Selbach halls from
Columbus. Ohio. and his splendid work
in tournaments in that city during the
last two years, in conjunction with his
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
Boy Cured OF Collie After Physicians
Treatment Had Failed.

Ny boy. when four years old, was taken with
collie and cramps in his stomach. sent for the
doctor and he injected morphine. but the child
kept getting worse. ! then gave him half
teaspoonful Of Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera
and Darrhoea Remedy and in half an hour
he was sleeping and soon recoyered-F. l..
wilkins. Shell Lake. Wis. Mr.. wilkins is book.
keeper for the Shell Lake Lumber Co. For
sale by Henry Evans, wholesale and retail,
022 Street, and all druggists.
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
AMATEUR BASEBALL.

The Columbias defeated the Alham-
bras Saturday by the score of IL to 4.
The pitching of J. A. Symanoskie, who
allowed but three scattered hits. and the
fielding OF Quantrille at short, both OF
The Columbia team. were the features.
The Columbias have won forty-one
games out of fortyeight this season.
Teams averaging eighteen TO twenty
years can arrange contest by addressing
r. II. Quantrillc, 800 Ninth Street north E
east
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
OPIUM EATER IS
HAPPY In HAWAII
Nowhere Else Is Its Sale So
Unrestricted.
EVIL IS ON THE INCREASE
But Few Chinese in Territory That Are
Not in Possession Of the Drug-Prom-
inent Citizens Make Money by Snug
gling-Consul Wei Pin in Trouble.

HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 22.-Hawaii
is paradise for the opium eater. No
where else is its sale so unrestricted or
its use so widespread. The recent
charges preferred against Chinese Con-
sui Wei Pin of engaging in wholesale
opium smuggling. and the report that
opium was being sent here billed as
stationery has started an investigation,
which shows that the drug is used here
in almost unlimited quantities.
When the custom Offices were taken
over by the United States it was recog-
nized that the laws of the smaller re-
public as to prohibiting the importation
of opium could no longer be enforced.
and the drug was allowed to enter upon
payment of the high duty assessed under
the tariff act. Then the importers ran
against a snag in the local law. which
made II a crime to have opium in pos
session. Purchasers of the drug were
arrested by the police until test was
brought. and it was declared unconsti-
tutional by the courts
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
LOANS OF $40

AND UPWARD or FURNITURE AND
PIANOS. al lowest rates and en- the day you
sppiy. We are loanlng on the Building and
Loan Association plan, which makes tie COS;
Of carrying loans much less than you pay else
where and allows you to pay il OF IN auy
sized notes -ou desiIe, running from on. -
tyehe months. II yoa have loan with some
othe, company we will pay i. of and advance
you more money II desired. Rates cheerfuliy
s,yen. anu no cost to you unless Ioaa is u>adr
4 ali ard get rates From. room. first honr
NATIONAL MORTGAGE LOAN CO.,
626 y St n W.
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
Dipped in Cement.

After being dipped in the cement
again the ball is ready for covering.
The covers are alum-tanned horse
hide. which is as soft and fine as the
test white kid. For the best balls only
eighteen covers could be got out of one
hide. as only the choicest parts can b.,
used
The hide is first knee -staked. That is,
It is stretched backward and forward
over a knee-hish stake by a strong boy
till it Will stretch no more. The cutting
is done by machinery. The cover is in
two pieces each the shape OF the figure
g. A machine cuts out these pieces and
perforates them, ready for sewing. These
machines are wonderfully accurate and
very rapid.
The balls are placed for covering in
campers OF wood and the covers are
fastened frs; with brass staples. and
then with strong cotton thread of the
best quality. 1t takes about ffteeu min
utes TO sew the cover on a ball. This
requires considerable muscle. and only
men are employed on the work
Rough on the Seams.
The ball is still rough on the seams.
II is rolled by hand and few hours
later by machinery. whence 1t emerges
the completed article, ready for packing
and selling.
The market for basebaIls is entirely
in this country, with the exception of
small recent demand that has developed
In Cuba ard the Philippines. During
the Boxer uprising in China quite
number OF balls were exported there for
the use of the American troops.
The whole process OF making a ball
takes just thirty minutes, and 1t often
happens that the life on the diamond is
no longer. The professional leagues usu-
ally put in play during a game from
four to six new balls. which are never
again used except for practice. ANA
teurs put in play two, three or four
balls. according 10 their wealth. Where
all the old balls go is question that
has never been solved. but several mil
lion disappear every season. When the
winter comes on the seasons output has
gone
The Washington times., 1902-08-11
Money Loaned salaried People,

Retail merchants. teamsters. boarding houses,
without security: largest business in i2 prin-
cipal cities ToLMAN. Room l0i. $50 '5th It.
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