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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
SOME ART STATISTICS
s Daily Messenger.

From the Paris Daily Messenger
A return has lust been published in cOnnec-
ton with the importation of works or art INTO
the United Kingdom showing that France 10
responsible for the chief supply. During the
year tgsgl the United Kingdom imported "pict-
ures and drawings by hand" (aS the revenue
authorities describe them) to the total de claIed
value OF f.}.- rs. No less than t1O6,JOc or TINS
amount came from France in J9l0 items, the
next countries in order being Holland, tbI. 100,
and Belgium fJ4 30 In these days Of false
sstiaras's and dubious Corots and DaubiSnys,
one may make a shTeWd guess that the thriving
manufacture of ''OId masters is responsible Tor
no little of this special branch of trade The in-
ports of works Of art other than pictures were
valued at f2S7 100 France again heading the llst
with RIB 994 The exports tot3Iled t-oo,tOt Tor
pictures France taking 80. HI.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
IMPORTANT ART BOOK.
From The London Chronicle.

From The London Chronicle
An important art book is announced BY
Messrs. ChattO. The subject OF it is Mr.. James
OrTOck. the well known artist. collector and
COnnOisseur The choicest of his art treasures
will be shown in nearly eighty phOtOgrdv urs
plates, and many other illustrations. This gal
Iery will include pictures by great English mas
tiers like Constable. which have never been
graved before. Mr.. OrrOck has also been col
lectOr of Chippendale and Sheraton furniture
and Of Nankin china Thus the book. which is
to be in two volumes, and limited TO five hun
dred sets. will touch art on many sides. In il
Mr.. Byron Weber is Boswell to Mr.. Orrocks
memories.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
TILE VESSEL.

With hands that faltered not nor sWerved
God fashioned. at the end of day,
A vessel from the lifeleSs clay
Tall shapely. clean and surely curved
The older vessels watching cried:
shall not the unresting fingers tire
OF torturing fresh clay with fire
To empty forms of earthen pride.
Too many mouths already fill
This narrow house, and parchng acne
With thirst life's water cannot Stake.
Why fashions he another still
ITO fret and jostle in the throng,
DuIl-wrought in one unchanging mould!
But God remembered dreams OF OLD,
And brimmed il with the wine of song.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
soap BOILER AND MONT BLANC.

From The Pail Mall Gazette
The latest failure to ascend Mont Blanc is
interesting. The heroes OF the story are Ger
man students with whom the primary difficulty
OF the enterprise was that of finding the money
to pay for IT. a happy thought struck them
and they called upon a Berlin soap boiler 10
make a proposal IL he. on his part. would
finance the expedition. they on theirs would
placard the mountain from base TO summit VII n
the posters with which he advertised his wares.
The soap boiler liked the idea. and the bargain
was duly struck Happily. however. the COM
munal authorities at ChamOnix got wind OF the
proposal. and the German students on
their way, leaving trunk full OF conascated
posters behind them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
IN COVEN4NTTNG DAYS.
The Life of the Famous Marques
of ArgyH.

THE GREAT MARQUES. Life and Times OF
Archibald Eighth Earl and First tand only
Marques of Argyll O6J7-1e6D. BY John VIII
cock b. y. illustrated. SvO PIP. xiii. 80.
Charles Scribner's Sons
In endeavoring to rehabilitate the memory of
Archibald Campbell. Marques of Argyll, MI
Willcock has undertaken what many will deem
an exceedingly difficult task This noted leader
of the Covenanters has come down in history
under a cloud and there are not wanting those
who insist that in him were found personified
weakness and guile. cowardice and treachery,
bloodthirstiness and hypocrisy Undoubtedly
the fact that the age in which he lived was an
age of extreme partsanship will explain to a
certain extent the obviously distorted pictures
of the Marques appearing in contemporary ac-
counts of his career. just it will serve to
vitiate these glowing narratives OF the day
wherein he is depicted a martyr to a great
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27
AMERICANS ARE HELD.
GautemaIan Government Refused to
Give Them Passports.

San Francisco, March 25.-Eleven
passengers booked at San Juan de
Guatemala on the Kosmos liner The
ben, which has arrived from Central
American ports, were detained, as the
government would not give them their
passports.
Colonel Clemens, who joined the
vessel at Valparaiso, mysteriously dis
appeared during the run up the coast.
He once held commission in the
French artillery, but for the last five
years has been drilling and organic
ing Peruvian recruits. At Corinto he
heard of the impending war between
two Central American states and left
the vessel to visit San Jose de Guate-
mala. He has not been heard from
since. His baggage is on the Theben.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27

| take up a course in banking, upon
which she was to work during her
leisure hours.
| Yesterday afternoon Young says he
went to the postoffice to talk with
Dowdell. He knew his daughter and
Dowdell had been keeping company
for some time and the young man had
visited the ranch at Ovando. He says
spoke to him. He requested an inter-
view but was told by Dowdell that he
could not leave the Office till o'clock.
Young was admitted to the rear of
the Office and after talking the mat
ter over for while finally induced
Dowdell to accompany him to the ho-
tel. There he says he talked with
the young man in fatherly manner
and asked him to do what was right.
He says Dowdell asserted that it
was all plot concocted to catch him.
Young then asked him to take him to
his daughter and Dowdell said he
knew nothing of the girls where
abouts. BY this time they had reach
ed the room on the third floor of the
hotel and Young says he had about
exhausted his patience He told Dow
,iell that a smooth oily city man
should have more principle than to
trap a country girl as he characteriZ-
ed his daughter.
Loses His Temper.
When Dowdell refused to accede to
his request Young says he lost his
temper entirely and does not remem-
ber what happened. He does not know
where his daughter is and believes
Dowdell to be the only one who does
know
The knife with which the cutting
was done is large clasp knife with
a blade about four inches long. Young
purchased the knife in Missoula yes
terday morning. He says he bought
it for skinning cattle and game.
Mrs. Gillen, with whom the missing
girl roomed since last October, does
not know where the girl went, but be-
lieves she heard something said about
going to Butte. during the conversa-
tion between the girl and the man on
the night before Bessie's disappear
ance.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27
INDIANS BODY FOUND
Remains Badly Bruised and Nearly
Stripped of Clothing.

Kipp, March 25-Joseph Fast-Buf
falo-Horse has been found dead il
Oliver Sanderville's field under very
suspicious circumstances. He hat
been missing for some time, and, al
though vigorous search was made fol
days. he was only recently found.
Two weeks ago last Saturday, Oliver
Sanderville sent Joe Head-Carrier anG
Barney Calf-Foot to Dupuyer with q
wagon for some provisions, another
young fellow named Day Rider accom-
panying them on horseback. It was
known that they met Fast-Buffalo
Horse in town, and that he left there
with them for home, and when asked
what had become of him they said
they had not seen him since
When the body was found it was
seen to be badly bruised, and Major
Monteath, with DR.. Martin, drove over
to the place. The body laid at the
bottom of a small coulee partly in the
"~SSA ~ q opA ing "A lew luCuGS Ol
snow had recently fallen, but it did
not wholly conceal a narrow furrow
coming down the slope, as if some
thing had been dragged there. Brooms
were secured, the new snow swept
away, and the fact that the body
had been dragged to the place was
plainly evident. The tracks of two
men were found in this trail, one hav-
ing worn boots or shoes, the other
moccasins. The three young men
who had been with him were at once
arrested, separately confined, and have
been put through the sweating pro-
cess. Their stories of that nights
experience differ considerably, but as
yet they have admitted nothing that
really duplicates them.
They say IN substance that when
they arrived at Dupuyer they met
Joe observation-disclosures in a saloon,
that he had three bottles of whisky
and was pretty drunk. They all start
ed home as soon as the provisions
were put up, and stopped on the way
at the Rutherford ranch, where they
had supper. After leaving there Fast
Buffalo-Horse, who was then riding in
the wagon, got on the fight and John
Head Carrier and Barney Calf-Foot,
took turns setting on him and holding
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27

has received a dispatch from San Do
mingo, confirming yesterdays advices
OF the Associated Press, saying that
two revolutionary generals have taken
possession of that city and adding
that President Vasquez has been ex-
PEELED. The dispatch is brief, owing
to the revolutionists having cut the
wires but the officials here construe
it as meaning that President VasQuez's
government has been overthrown.
No information has been received
at the foreign Office regarding the re-
ported revolution in Nicaragua.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27
D0WDELL HAS CHANCE FOR LIFE,
Wounded Man Though Dangerously Cut rlay Re
cover-Assailant Expresses Regret
Daughter Starts Home.

, hands. Young told him he had killed
Dowdell and was going to give him
self up to the officers.
Jackson rushed past him and into
the room, where he found Dowdell
lying on the bed propped up on one
elbow. Blood from the wounds in the
abdomen streamed through his cloth
ing and soaked the bed covers. A
trail Of blood led from the bed to the
door and another back to the bed. On
the knob of the door was more blood,
indicating that Dowdell, when attack
ed had endeavored to escape from
the room but could not on account Of
it's having been locked by Young.
When Jackson entered the room
Dowdell sat up on the side of the bed
and said: MY God, I'm murdered;
get doctor!" Jackson returned to
the office to call doctor.
In the meantime Young had passed
out of the hotel and meeting G. L..
Burrill on the street told him he had
killed man and wanted to give him
self up. With Burrill he started in
search of an officer and on Main
street. near the hotel, they met Sher-
iff Thompson and Undersheriff Ster-
ling, to whom Young surrendered. He
was taken to the county jail by I'm
dersheriff Sterling.
Young says he came to Missoula
Monday night in answer to a letter
he received from Mrs. c. Gillen of
South Missoula with whom his daugh-
ter had roomed while attending the
Garden City Commercial college, Mrs.
Gillen had written him letter tell
ing him that his daughter had left
Missoula and intimated that the girl
had been wronged.
Yesterday morning he went to the
Gillen home and was told that the girl
had left Thursday without telling the
woman with whom she roomed where
she was going. Mrs. Gillen had heard
her crying in her room the night be-
fore her departure. There was a
man in the room with the girl at the
time, whom she believed to be Dow
dell.
After his conversation with Mrs.
Gillen, Young went to the business
college, but could learn nothing there
of the whereabouts of his daughter.
Professor Reitz informed him that he
considered the girl one of his model
pupils and that the night before she
left she had made arrangements to
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27
Drowned in Arkansas Flood.

Memphis. Tenn, March 25.-J. R.
Hood, an employe of an Arkansas saw
mill, returned from the flooded dis
trict of Arkansas today, and reports
that, while at Gavin, station on the
Frisco railroad, Saturday afternoon,
he saw skiff containing four drum
mers and two negroes swept under a
railroad bridge by the swift current.
the six occupants were drowned. Mr..
Hood does not know the names of the
travelling men, but says they had en-
across the submerged district to
Mound City, Ark.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27

, est on loans from the government;
that untenanted farms and grazing
lands will be sold to neighboring ten.
ants, and that three commissioners
will supervise the sales. The advance
to the tenants, through the provisions
of the land bill, are limited to $4,000
in the congested districts and $4,000
elsewhere. The bill will become ef
fective November 1.
Mr.. Wyndham said $3.50, ,OOO
could safely be advanced on Irish
land, but he thought the scheme
would not involve $500,000,0O0.
The Irish secretary explained that
while the maximum charge on the
English treasury would not exceed
$1,975,000 in a single year, the reduc.
ton in the cost of the administration
Of Ireland would amount to $2,25O, 900.
1t will be called guaranteed ~ per
cent stocks and will be unredeemable
for 80 years.
. w Auh0AA AOuOICu IL JllC POVO,
100000 of the stock would be needed.
1t would be issued at the rate of $685.
100000 yearly for the first three years,
and afterwards possibly in larger
sums.
In addition to this the government
proposed free grant of 100000, 900,
to be raised by additions to the stock,
the interest and sinking fund of which
will be borne by the treasury, and
the maximum annual charge will not
exceed $1,950,OOO.
Against this charge on the British
treasury the Irish government pro-
poses forthwith to commence reduc-
tons in the cost of administration
amounting to $2,15O,OOO per annum.
Proceeding Mr.. Wyndham~ dealt with
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27
HIS GOVERNMENT IN SAN DO
MlNGo ovERTHRoWN.
He Has A WARSA|P LEFT
Minister of War Surrenders and
Other Officers Seek Refuge in
American Consulate.

San Domingo, Republic of Santo Do
mingo. March 25.-Quiet has been re
stored in this city by the warships in
port.
The minister of war, Senor Pichar.
do, has surrendered to the revolutions
lists and the minister of posts and
telegraphs, Senior Castillo, has join
ed the foreign minister, Senor San
chez, in seeking refuge at the United
States consulate.
The inhabitants of the villages
around this city are Joining in the
revolutionary movement. No news
is obtainable from the southern and
northern parts of the island.
There was severe fighting yester-
day at La Vega, but the result is not
known
If the north and south refuse to
join in the revolutionary movement
the situation may become more seri-
Gus than it is. Commerce is at a
standstill and there is considerable
anxiety as to the future.
A. warship is going to San Pedro
de. Macoris to the eastward of this
city, in order to compel it to surren-
der.
The warship Presidente,. which is
off the northern coast of the island.
is in the possession of President Vas
quez.
Paris, March 25lThe foreign office
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27

the points of the bill which contain a
bewildering mass of figures, showing
how advances would be made and the
terms Of repayment; but it seems in
the main to be on the lines laid down
ty the land conference report and
will be satisfactory to landlords and
tenants. In the course of his speech,
which was punctuated with cheers,
Mr. Wyndham said the lords of Ire.
land were being ruined financially and
that the tenants were being ruined
morally and the taxpayers of England
were paying 100000 per annum to the
land commission and $7,OOO,OOO to
Irish police. which large force was
needed to deal with the irregularities
growing out of the land question.
"Is it surprising, under these cir
cumstances," said the secretary, ''if
the landlords and tenants came to-
gether?"
Mr.. Wyndham did not think any
recondite or yelled reasons need be
looked for. Past experiences show
the state incurred no risk in giving
such aid. From the taxpayers view
point, it was stated that aid for the
land purchase was safe commercial
transaction. BY the aid of the state
$4,000 tenants have already bought
their holdings and the state had not
lost a half penny.
Mr.. Wyndham also said that the
number of anomalies which had to
be dealt with rendered the work most
embarrassing, complicated and very
difficult to present to the house in an
ineligible manner. The state Of
things in some parts Of Ireland was
such as could scarcely be believed in
England
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27
IRISH LAND BILL INTRODUCED
Wyndham Unfods His Plan for the Purchase of Their
Holdings by Tenants.

London, March 25.-The Irish secre.
tary, Mr.. Wyndham, introduced the
governments long anticipated Irish
land bill in the house of commons to-
day. 1t proposes free grant of $780,
100000 for the purposes of the bill.
The keen interest felt in. this new
legislation, which it is hoped will pro-
mote peace and contentment in Ire
land. was evidenced by the crowded
house.
The peers gallery and the distin-
guished strangers gallery were fill
ed. and there has not been such a
gathering of members of parliament
since the opening of the session.
Michael Davitt, the father of the
Land League, celebrated his fifty
seventh birthday by re-entering the
house for the first time since lie rcas-
Led 10 nc q member in order to he ar
the chief secretary for Ireland unfold
els planS.
NJ. W!ndham, who was heartily
cheercd when he rose to speak an
nounced at the outset that the gov
ernment thought cash aid was nee
essary for the fulfillment of the pro-
posed scheme, but it attached greater
Importance to the credit operation
than to the cash operation. He then
unfolded the scheme which provides
for advances of money for the pur-
chase of land by the tenants. The
advances will be in the shape of cash
and not of stock, but in order to en-
able the cash to be raised new stock
is to be fioated.
The Irish land bill provides that
tenants shall pay 3A per cent inter-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27
GETS HIS REWARD.
e. e. Clark is Chosen Assistant tc
Secretary corteIyou.

Washington, March 25.-President
Roosevelt has decided to appoint as
assistant secretary of the department
of commerce and labor Edgar E. Clark
OF Cedar Rapids, chief of the Brother
hood of Railway Conductors, and one
of the members Of the anthracite coal
strike commission
Judge George Gray, president ;f the
strike commission, recomm e1.aed Mr..
Clark to. the president as one of the
best executive officers he had ever
come in contact with, and said that
some Of the most important work of
the investigation of the coal strike
had been done by him. The other
members of the commission also com.
mended Mr.. Clark's worth, and Pres
ident Roosevelt was gratified because
the recommendations harmonized
with his own opinions, formed last
summer, when he met Mr.. Clark at
Chattanooga and heard him speak to
the railway mems convention.
There has been desire to select an
assistant secretary who would repre-
sent organized labor, as the depart
ment is to represent labor as we'll as
commerce. Mr.. Clark represents or
ganized labor, and he is also recon-
mended as most efficient executive
officer to aid Secretary Cortelyou in
organizing the new department.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27

him down, while one of them drove
the team. At the gap, however, they
claim that he became unmanageable,
and breaking loose from the one who
was holding him, jumped out of the
wagon, mounted his horse, and rode
away on the back trail Day Rider.
who was also mounted, followed him
a short way but was unable to over
take him. That, they claim, was the
last that any of them ever saw of
him.
The body was found to be pretty
badly bruised. The neck was broken.
we'll stretched out, and there were
marks on it as if it had been encircled
by two lariets. The forehead and
face were bruised, the arms also. as
| if they had been struck while he at
tempted to shield his face The shirt
sleeves were torn off, and the overalls
he wore had slipped down and were
in bunch at the heels, the left ankle
was broken and turned completely
around, and the heel on the boot of
that foot bore red dent, as if it had
been caught in the spokes of wagon
| wheel.
The dead mans horse was found
outside of the field, and mile from
the body. While some of the bruises
could have been caused by falling
from the animal, the rope creases
around the throat cannot be accounted
for in that way
Young Fast-Buffalo- Horse was the
handsomest man on the reservation:
his companions of that night were all
married, and were, it is claimed, all
very jealous of him.
significant fact is that his over
coat and silk handkerchief have lust
been found in the house OF Calf-Foot,
Barney Calf-Foot's father.
Major Monteath has sent for a de-
tective to help unravel the case.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-27
PREVENTED HOTEL FIRE.
Rare Presence of Mind Displayed by
Representative Macginnis.
Especial to The Gazette.l

Especial to The Gazette
Butte, March 26-Representative
Macginnis, one of the Silver Bow
county members of the legislature.
played the part of hero at the Butte
hotel last night. In a room occupied
by his mother coal oil lamp explod-
ed and the young representative pre-
vented conflagration by seizing the
burning lamp and casting it into the
street. The lamp fell upon the head
of hack-driver and relieved the driv-
er of most of his hair.