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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-09

The Woman's Protective union Of
Butte decide to accept the 10 hour day.
George Mitchell, and Anaconda
.smeltermar, was killed and robbed
near Spokane, Wash.
Oscar Hayden and Roy Lambert,
alias Jack Holmes, two horsethieves
wanted in Fergus county were arrested
in Bozeman Friday.
Helena ball team beat the Elliston
team on the 4th, carrying off a SIS
athletic sports of the day.
Mrs. E. S. Bogart of Kalispe11, who
brought suit for divorce and $3.50. 90
alimonv, which was granted, now
wants the decree amended, applying
for IS, $50 90 additional alimony.
The Northern Pioneers association
is the name under which new organ
Hation is flying. Only those who
came to Montana before January l,
1873, are eligible to membership. Was
organized at Great Falls Friday with
membership of SO.
A Butte policeman gets gay with
two young ladies, one of whom is an
alderman's daughter gets to interview
the mayor and is handed a suspension,
but makes quiet plea to the ladies
and is forgiven, and through the inter-
xention of the father sreinstated
Anaconda last week threw 1000 men
out of employment at that place, and
caused the shutting down of the Anal
gamated mines in Butte that ship their
ore to the Washoe, thus causing about
1000 miners to be laid off until such
time as the Washoe plant is connected
with the big flue, which has been
erected at Anaconda for the purpose of
carrying the smoke away from the
Deer Lodge valley. 1t is reported that
the mines and smelter will be opened
about September l.
An incident occurred at one Of our
country schools the other day which
goes to show that the average youth
knows no such word as impossible. A
class IN arithmetic was wrestling with
substitution and the teacher was ex-
planning that the thing subtracted
must be the same kind or denomina-
ton as the hing subtracted from.
She said you cannot take 5 peaches
from apples; 5 lemons from oranges,
etc, when up went a hand from a boy
in the class. what is it Johnnie?"
said the teacher. please can't YOU
take quarts of milk from cows?"
And the teacher collapsed. Chouteau
Montana.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
HIS THE HIGHEST COURT.
And Colorado Judge Was Well Able
to Prove II.

And Colorado Judge Was Well Able
to Prove It.
In Colorado is small town, which
has the distinction of being away up
above Cripple Creek, as well as 49,
200 feet above sea level.
In the month of May, not many
years since, they carried the mail
to this town on snow shoes, a dis
lance of $50 miles. So you see, it is
Of some Importance.
1t would be important if for no
other reason than that it boasts a
Justice of the Peace, and he is as
important as any other functionary of
his class. However, he has a lot of
solid horse sense.
A suit was to be tried before him,
and one of the parties stirred the
community from center to circum-
pass" by sending off and importing a
lawyer.
That case dragged itself out to an
unprecedented length-and the popu-
lace had never dreamed that law was
so full of objections and exceptions,
LAOlAOhoy PLObColo, anu
the like, as that lawyer proved it to
be. He was to them another wonder
of the world.
But there was one thing he couldn't
prolong, and that was the prompt.
crisp, decisive, Judgment for the
plaintiff" that his Honor snapped
out as soon as the trial was fairly
over, and almost before.
well, SIR" said the lawyer, in
tones of superiority, I'VE will have
to take this case to a higher court"
you can't do that, mister" replied
the magistrate.
And why not, pray?"
There amt no higher court, sir
This court is thirteen thousand two
hundred feet above the level of the
sea, strand I'll have you distinctly
understand, sir, that it is the highest
court in all this broad land, SIR
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Whole once Force Killed.

Minneapolis, April 27.-Eight men
ard two women were killed by the ex-
plosion at the plant of the Northwest
ern Star Oil company. The eleven in
clude President w. n. Davis, the own
er, the general manager, cashier, book
keeper, clerk, stenographer, foreman
and laborers. The explosion came
without an instant's warning, and a
second after the conclusion the walls
had been thrown down and the entire
structure was n mass of flames. Not
person in the Office escaped alive.
Five worlSmen engaged on the second
floor were thrown twenty feet into the
air, and these were the only persons
who escaped. They climbed through
the debris and are now at the city hos
Uital
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
RUSSIA BENT ON HOLDING II
Determined to Acquire Permanent
Sovereignty in Manchuria.
IN DEFIANCE OF TREATIES.

Washington. April e5.--Minister Con-
ger, from Pelsin, has cabled to Secre-
tary Hay synopsis of the demands
made upon China by Russia respecting
control of Manchuria.
The political impression here is that
the Russian action is distinct breach
of faith with the Uniced States The
Russian government pledged itself
three times formally and the docu-
ments are on record that the open door
should be maintained in Manchuria
and Russian troops would be with
drawn as soon as peace was restored.
Finally the latter promise took the
shape of treaty stipulation. 1t was
provided that the evacuation should
take place within three distinct peri
DDS. The last Russian soldier should
have quit Manchuria on the sth of this
month, according to that treaty.
Officials declare that there is no dam
ger of war with Russia over this incl
dent The government of the United
oAdCCS LIDS ESCOIuCo us luceiS VI WudO
should be done in Manchuria, and as
the result of Secretary Hays projected
conference with the president, it is
probable that further remonstrance
will be added. But it is anticipated
that Russia will for the time being at
least aHay foreign oppositson, or at
least that of the United States, by car
rying out its pledge as to the ''open
door, There will be no additional
treaty ports in Manchuria if Russia
succeeds in this last move.
An official of the government. well
informed regarding Chinese affairs,
says that the step taken by Russia is
one for which she has been preparing
for number of years. Extraordinary
as it may seem, he says that there
seems to be no way of preventing the
| contamination of Russia's plan. He
had no doubt that Russia would event
ually apply the Russian tariff to the
new territory, in which case the Uni
ted States would endeavor to sell the
Russians raw material for manufacture
in place of the finished products which
now go to that part of China.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Eree.Lecture Incidents.

One dreary night last January, in
one of the New York free public lee
lures, Mr.. A. J. Talley presented views
of Florence in a public school in East
Twenty-Seventh street. To the fourth
story hall had climbed a weather
beaten old Italian whose features kin
died as scene after scene swept the
canvas. When the Baptistry was
shown the old man whispered: 81
ba'tized there" and added with a
sigh: 'Ah, 1 no see Firenze again!"
Pictures of Niagara are much the
most admired in the round of those
which illustrate Mr.. L. H. Tasker's lee
ture on 1.-The Great Lakes" One night
at Cooper Union, as Mr.. Tasker threw
on the screen a picture of Sault Ste.
Marie, he told us that steamer passes
through its canal every seven minutes,
night and day, during the season of
navigation. On my row sat burly
chap, grimy. with coal dust. His COM
ment, loud as a stage aside" was
"Hully gee!"
1t is usual, when lecture suggests
inquiry, to invite questions. 1 have
known Mr.. T. B. Collins to be kept
almost another sixty minutes busily
answering the queries of the keen
witted Jewish lads who had seen his
experiments at the University Settle
ment hall, at Eldridge and Rivington
streets.-George lie in Worlds Work.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
mich Exapreration.

Washington, April 24.-Postmaster
General Payne, in discussing reports
of attempts interfere with the investi-
CATION of the affairs of the postoffiee
department said there had been only
one member of either house of congress
who had shown to him any particular
interest in the investigation. This was
a senator who he did not name, and
who had asked that he be given an
opportunity to be heard by the post
master general if anything were done
with the person in the department in
whom he was interested. Mr.. Payne
said there was great deal of exagger-
alton in some of the reports regarding
the investigation, and that the fourth
assistant postmaster general was
making "a very careful investigation
along business lines.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
stree. Car Barn Consumed.

Wichita, April 21.-Shortly after
midnight and after all cars had entered
the street car barn, the barn took
fire from some unknown cause and was
burned down. There were eight sum-
mer cars on the south track, each fully
equipped and nearly ready to start for
the summers business. All of these
were burned or damaged to such an
extent that they cannot be used this
year. These cars are worth about
three thousand dollar, each. There
were five other summer cars, but the
motors had been taken off and the
damage to them will not be so very
heavy. Every car in the barn was
damaged beyond use. Supt. Morrison
stated that the total damage would
amount to something over thirty thou
sand dollars
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Extremes of Racial Eeuds.

A recent writer on the Macedonian
situation gives this picture of the
feuds existing there: THE struggle
for racial supremacy between SIav
and HELENE, struggle as old as the
hills, is here identified with and en-
Filtered by the religious strife which
RACES between the followers of the
Bulgarian exarch and those of the
Greek patriarch-the schismatic and
the orthodox parties. This animosity
pervades and poisons all the relations
of life, private. no less than public. A
Greek will on no account speak to or
shake hands with Bulgar. Nor will
a Bulgar patronize shop kept by a
Greek The antipathy between the
two nationalities amounts almost to
physical repugnance. 1t far exceeds
any feeling of enmity that either of
them may entertain toward the Turk,
who had ground them both to the
dust during five centuries Of the most
unmitigated oppression imaginable"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
RAILROADS WITHOUT BONDS.
Indian Territory Has s.s41 Miles of Road
with NO Bonus

Muslsogee, ]. T., April 23.-Indian
Territory will not be burdened with
railroad aid bonds when it becomes
state. 1t will have the railroads and
will owe nothing for having secured
them. 1t doesn't take aid bonds to get
a railroad in this country. 1t 1t did,
there would be no railroads. for there
is no provision of law under which
such bonds can be issued. On the
other hand, there is a law against it.
But the railroads are coming in here
lust the same. In no state in the
Union is there such a rapid develop
ment of railroads at present as is going
on in this territory. All of the West
ern roads have their eyes on the Indian
country and many of them are getting
in here with as many lines as possible
At the present time Indian Territory
has 2,s41 miles of railroad built and in
process of construction. OF this, about
1900 miles are. now in operation. Fully
1000 miles of new line are now pro-
jected, which are reasonably certain to
be built. In this calculation all pa
per" roads are eliminated.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
The Eisher's Bow.

Ny life is like a stroll upon the beach.
AS near the oceans edge as I can go;
My tardy steps its waves sometimes
o'erreach.
Sometimes stay to let them overflow
My sole employment is. and scrupulous
care,
To place my gain beyond the reach of
tides
Each smoother pebble. and each shell
more rare,
Which Ocean kindly to my hand con-
fides.
have but few companions on the shore;
They scorn the strand who sail upon the
sea:
Yet oft I think the ocean they've sailed
DER
Is deeper known upon the strand to me-
The middle sea contains no crimson
dulse,
Its deeper waves cast up no pearls to
view;
Along the shore my hand is on its pulse,
And 1 converse with many ship
wrecked crew.
Henry d. Thoreau.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30

hunting for some new devilment in
which to make ducks and brakes of
it all. l was the hottest-headed fool
of them all and soon found that 1
had not only established an unen-
viable reputation for wildness, but
that / had run dangerously near the
end of my tether-things had arrived
at a stage where I could no longer
hold my own with the fellows-so 1
made up my mind to pull up stakes
and go to one of the colonies with the
remainder"
He sat gloomily silent for a mo-
ment, apparently lost in a retrospect
anything but pleasant An impatient
"Oh, go on. Dick. please go on" from
the girl brought him back to the pres
ent again
"Just before l sailed for Australia
the day before. l thi nix it was
Margrave came to me an said: See
mere. old chap. I'm in a devil of q
cole; need two thousai d pounds the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Whims of the Docs.

Dogs have queer whims," said a
woman who had three. THAT little
fellow is coward, but it is always
something very funny that makes him
afraid. Watch, now" said she, and
said contemporary "Pooh," Inn
mediately the dogs tail went down
between his legs, and he skunk up
stairs to hide under the bed. Now,
watch Ted over there" she said. 81
think he's making altogether too much
noise, don't you? Well stop him."
Then she tied handkerchief loosely
around one of the dogs legs, and he
dropped in limp heap on the floor
and stayed there until the handker-
chief was removed. do you want to
go to walk, Waggles?" she said to the
third little dog. Away bounded the
dog upstairs, but he was down again
in a minute with a red pincushion in
his mouth.
81 don't know how he learned that
trick" said his mistress, but every
time ask him that question he darts
for my room and brings down that red
cushion"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
His Wish Granted.

A would-be playwright, who gener-
ally goes in for serious" drama. hand
ed manuscript to George Tyler re-
Gently, describing it as modern COM
edy. A day or two ago he dropped
into Mr.. Tyler's Office to inquire as to
the fate of his effort Mr.. Tyler ad-
mitted that he had read the play, and
then added:
$50 you're going to turn humorist.
chr
The authors face reflected his dis
gust as ne answered:
God save me from ever being a
humorist,"
HE has," was Tyler's laconic re-
mark as he handed over the alleged
comedy.-New York Times.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
TOUCHING woop.n
Superstition That People Do Not
Easily OutnroM

Superstition That People Do Not
Easily outgrow.
81 haven't had the grip" says the
man in the restaurant. Then with
queer little grin, half sheepish, half
bravado, he raps his knuckles sharp
ly an the bare wood of the table.
It's a universal superstition. People
do not outgrow it. The man who calls
out "unberufen" after such a boast
does not mean to echo peasant SUI
perstition; it is a species of second
nature grown out of the old heather
notion, common in all lands, that it is
not well to attract the attention of the
gods to conspicuous good luck.
In many continental European COM
munities it is considered bad luck to
praise the beauty of a child. The
strange does not win gratitude but
the reverse, by saying, What pretty
baby!" Even the most loving mother
may under the circumstances respond
by scowling and calling the child
brat.
In Japan a similar feeling survives
in rule of politeness. It is not
seemly to refer to ones possessions or
family in terms complimentary. MY
disgracefully squalid home,' my
stupid son" are expressions more po-
lite to native than to foreign ears
Among modern Mohammedan tribes
the Koranic law against making
craven images" survives in super
stitious fear of pictures of the human
form or face. A camera secretes a
"djinn," or evil spirit; the person pos
sessing mans picture has power
over his soul-these are variants of
the picture-fear.
Tempting fate" is an expression
that hanks back to the old decisions.
TOO good to last" is another. The
truth is, of course. that good luck
brings more good luck, bad luck brings
more bad luck-not the reverse
New York World.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Boxers Suppressed.

Washington, April 22.-Minister Con-
ger reports TO the state department
from Picking under date of March 12
that an attempt was made i'll the dis
trict of Yutien, about 100 miles west
of Pekin, 10 reorganize the Boxer
movement, but it was promptly sup
pressed by the energetic action of the
viceroy, the famous Yuan Shin Hi,
who stood like rock against the Box
ers in 1900. Several Boxers are to be
beheaded and their heads exhibite
where the organization started. Mr..
Conger says only such prompt and Sc
we're measures will prevent similar or
CARNATIONS in other localities.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Insurance Companies Win.

Topeka, April 23.-An important de-
cision was rendered by the district
court here denying an injunction
against fifty-six fire insurance COM
ground that they were violating the
antitrust act. Recently the state
brought action under the antitrust
law against these companies, charging
that they were parties to a trust to
control the cost of rates of insurance.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
May Get Relief.

Minneapolis, April 27.-The latest
development in the flour mill situation
is the announcement that the interstate
commerce commission will investigate
the discrimination against -four in IA
vor OF wheat in freight tariffs which
resulted in the total suspension of the
flour manufacturing industry of the
northwest. Millers look upon the an
nouncement as the forerunner of re-
lief, while the transportation company
seems displeased that the commission
is to interfere,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30

hole"
it, got a receipt for it and sailed the
next day.
For eight years in Australia 1 got
no word from the home folks, but
thought that the letters had gone
astray, as was far up country, and
finally 1 went back to England with
nice little pile and a big longing for
the society of my own kind again.
God, what homecoming it was. Not
a welcome; black looks, yelled insin-
uations everywhere. One day 1 asked
a chap who had refused my hand,
graves trouble had been the worst
sort-low-down, dishonorable treat
ment of woman we all
knew-conduct no gentleman could
ever forgive. 1 had paid the
money with my own check-I had
left the country the next day-and he
cad that he is-let me bear the
shame Of it also came out to New
York and met you. love you, dar-
ling, and you shall judge. Shall we
go back to England and straighten
things out? It shall be as you say,
little woman"
But, Dick, think what it would
mean to that other woman and those
children-Oh. 1 couldn't, dear-and
yet,when I think of how you have suf-
fered, 1 could do anything; dear, dear
Dick"
She buried her face in her hands
for a moment, and the man watched
her eagerly, anxiously.
Dick, there is just one thing in
the world 1 have always wanted more
even than to go home; and that is to
marry hero. Well stay here, dear,
and you shall forget the pain and the
hurt in my love."-Vivian Clare How
ard in Chicago Examiner.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
A Recuper.tlre Ho.pIt.,

Washington. April a1.-With the APP
proval of the war department General
Davis, commanding the division of the
Philippines, has arranged for the erec-
ton of large modern hospital and
recuperative station in the mountains
of the Philippines near Mariveles, at
an elevation of about 1000 feet. He
has detailed Lieutenant ]. A Wood
ruff. of the engineer corps. and Cap
tain C. c. Mccullough, assistant sur
geon, TO select suitable site. and plaus
for the work viii soon be completed
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Twenty-Five childr.n.

Atehison, KS, April 22.-In Osborne
county there were two funerals, sepa-
rated by only few days, the dead
being husband and wife. William
Waterman was born in England in
1880 and was married to Emma Sam
blair when he was 10 years old and she
Is Within the next thirty years %
children came. They emigrated to the
United States in 1880. Mr.. Walseman
was reared a Catholic. but in his old
age be became Baptist and preached
often to country congregations.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
War shin On. of Coat

Honolulu, April 24.-Tae coal strike
in British Columbia is responsible for
the non-arrival of shipment of $500
tons of coal for the use of British war
ships stationed here. The Amphritrite
has appealed to the local naval station
to give her 1000 tons to enable her to
make the return trip to Hong Kong,
towing the torpedo boat destroyers due
there from Esquimault. The naval
station wired to the navy department
at Washington for permission to grant
the request.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
ron.r.n r.tailr Hnrt-

Los Angeles, Cali, April 2L-E- w.
Benedict. an attorney of Topeka. Kas..
was probably fatally injured oy a
street car on broadway.
Mr.. Benedict was driving AN auto
mobile when a heavy electric car of
the Redondo line struck the vehicle,
dragging it nearly a hundred feet
When the electric car was finally
stopped Benedict was lying on the
street with his right side terribly
crushed. The limb was ampututed
below the knee.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
worl. on P.nb.nd,e I.in..

Wellington, April ga resurvey- of
the Santa Fe Panhandle extension has
been completed from Amarillo, Texas,
to this point 1t will follow the pres
emit roadbed for the most part, but
curves will be Strengthened and heavy
grades eliminated. An entirely new
route has been chosen across the CHM
AKRON and North Canadian in Wood
ward county, okla, to avoid the steep
grades and sharp curves of Tucker
Hills The road will be rebuilt so as
to be fit for heavy traffic.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Choctaw. Are Baptist.

Atolka, /. T., April 2l.-Tal1en as a
tionality on earth than The full blood
Choctaw Indians. OF course, there are
some mean and unsodly Indians
among them-in fact, a large number.
But the per cent compared to the whole
number is less than that of many other
people. Every little settlement has it's
church. The crude church buildings
are almost as numerous as the little
red school houses in Kansas. Many of
the churches are used as school houses.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30

worst sort Of a way and not another
sou can l raise on the estate. I've
got to have it, or there1l be a scandal
that will break the matters heart;
help me out, for Gods sake
"Margrave's mother had been aw-
fully good to me when was lonely
little chap at Eton-used to have me
down for the holidays, and all that,
you know-so the upshot of it all was
that l promised to let him have the
two thou.-and it was just half of
what 1 had left-and further, he got
me to promise to take the check to
the party he was rowing with. took
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
Our Metric system.

An amusing feature of the present
controversy concerning the metric sys-
TEN, in which one party holds to the
yard and pound as consecrated Anglo
Saxon standards. is that the United
States fundamental legal standards of
length and mass are the meter and the
kilogram, respectively. and not the
yard and pound. The yard is legally
expressed as the s.6o0-s-9S7th part of
a meter.