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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19
SOUTHERN STOCK LOWER.
Panhandle Steers Sell for Less Than
Last Year.

Captain w. Hirst got in yesterday
from Pecos City, Tex, where he ar
ranged for the shipment of a string
of cattle north, says the Drovers' Tele-
anywhere from two to three weeks
late in the Panhandle this spring,
but this fact win not retara the move
ment of stock to the north and west.
Cattle shipments are now being
made down there with pleasing regu-
larity,' says the captain, "and look
for them to continue pretty brisk until
June. The movement viii hold up
well along into that month. but the
last of May will see the bulk of Pan
handle stock put OF northern pastures.
1t is more a question of cars than
anything else that is prolonging the
movement. The roads are doing all
they can, but shippers are compelled
to wait two or three weeks before
their orders for cars are filled. 1t
seems W ulC lHdl VIC olO l
car shortage this summer and fall,
! unless something should happen to
restrict the movement of cattle and
| sheep in the west.
"Some big strings of cattle will
leave the Panhandle within the next
| ten days and it looks as If the run
to the northwest and to Kansas and
| Oklahoma will be larger than was
| expected. Cresswell & Day are pre-
pairing to send a big string of cattle
to Canada. Conner Bros. will shortly
| ship 100 cars of steers and cows from
| Marathon to Stair, canada. H. M.
| Stonebreaker will move 800 cars to
pastures in Beaver county, Oklahoma,
and Ashe Bros. are about ready to
| ship 100 cars from Pecos City to
| Pierre, s. D.
"The cattle trade in the Panhandle
| seems to be in a remarkably healthy
condition this spring, in spite of the
lower trend of prices. Steers are
about 50 to So per head lower this
season than they were last year. Two
year-olds are ranging from $40 to $22
per head, while last year they cost
$21 to 1924 per head.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19
sHEEPsAEARERs TO HOLD MA
TIoNAL CONVENTION.
BUTTE THE MEET|NCPLACE
Executive Committee Decides to Call
AssembIage Of Delegates for
Next Mont.

AS reported from there it seems
to be definitely settled that the next
national convention OF sheepshearers
will take place at Butte. Although
the date thereof has not been decided,
it will be sometime next month, about
the goth. ~
A meeting of the executive con
mittee Of the Hand and Machine Sheep
Shearers' National union was held
there last Friday. Those in atten-
dance were, w. e. Cole, T. Aiken,
James Lynch, M. Dwyer, J.. G. Bechel
and M. Hajvingric, all OF whom were
from Rawlins, Wyo., the present head
quarters of the union. After some dis
cussion a resolution was adopted au-
thorizing each member of the union
to act as an organizer, as it is the
intention to strengthen the organiza-
ton in all parts OF the country where
shearing is done. The hope was ex-
pressed that the union would double
it's membership within the next six
months.
Another decision arrived at by the
committee was that each local union,
or 'shed," as the lame of subordl-
nate bodies appears to be, was enti-
tied to one delegate for every 10 mem
bers. AS soon as the delegates snail
have been elected the exact date for
holding the annual convention will
be fixed.
Comparatively New Body.
/ The Sheep Shearers' union is a COM
paratively new labor organization,
having been formed only about a year
ago. At first its members included
| only a few outside of Montana, but it
is said to have grown rapidly, until
it now has members in almost every
one of the western states and also In
some of the eastern states.
Because of the fact that shearers
are required to move from one part
of the country to another,
following up the shearing sea-
son as it progresses from south
to north, they are unable to hold reg
ular meetings. But Notwithstanding
this they manage to keep in tolerably
close touch with one another, particu-
larly as regards matters pertaining
to the union.
1t is very evident that the union
has a healthy treasury or expects to
have one soon, as the executive CONS
mittee fixed the bond of the secretary
treasurer, Clarence Smith, at 5 $1,000.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

the entertainment of the president, it
seems that the people desire to have
assurance that none of the none
will go toward defraying the cost OF
Mayor Mullins dinner. If that as
uranc is forthcoming money will
begin to roll in, but not until then.
millions for bunting and fireworks,
but not one cent for a dinner" seems
to be the cry up that way.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

While their own latitude of speech
may have become greatly curtailed
the moment Governor Pennypacker
attached his signature to the Grady
Salus bill, the editors OF Pennsylvania
have the satisfaction afforded in the
knowledge that the provisions of the
law do not extend beyond the confines
of the keystone state. Elsewhere the
governor and those responsible for
the framing and passage of the law
will continue to be the subjects OF
occasional paragraphs written during
spare moments and to fill space not
otherwise appropriated. The mails
still circulate in Pennsylvania as be-
fore and others than the Pennsylvania
newspapers employ %cartoonists and
writer's. Then on top of this, the
courts have not yet had an Opportun-
ity to pass on the law, although this
will not be long coming. There is
such a thing as a constitutional guar
antee OF the freedom OF the press
and the Grady-Salus bill appears to
be dangerously near trenching upon
that guarantee.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

In all that has been said and writ
ten about the candidacy of Cleveland
the two-thirds rule of democracy
seems to have been overlooked. That
rule OF democratic conventions has
v been repealed and it is not be
be conceived that Mr.. Morgan. Mr..
Hill, John Stuart Mills Neill, the New
York Sun OF any OF the others who
have been generous with their contri-
buttons of gas with which to initiate
the boom of the man whom they pro-
TESS to admire above n other are
so warped by their friendship and
admiration as to believe he can Sc
cure the necessary vote in the O
vention to give him the nomination.
Anyway, the tidal wave" that it was
said was slowly, but surely advancing
over the country is already giving
signs of receding and as the rainy
season reaches nearer the end the
wave continues to grow smaller. In
another month it will be only a mem
DRY, another victim of premature
birth. Then it will be Senator Cor
mans turn.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

WILL DECIDE sooN.
Speedy Action Promised by the State
Arid Land GARD.

Secretary of State George M. Hays
and State Engineer John w. Wade
of the Carey land act board have re-
turned from Billings, where the men,
bers OF the board made a preliminary
investigation in Yellowstone county
with a view to ascertaining what could
be done towards carrying out the
provisions of the Carey act, says the
Independent.
No definite steps were taken, al
though the members of the board
consulted freely with residents OF the
county who express anxiety to have
something done towards reclaiming
some of the vast extent of arid land
in the Yellowstone valley.
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany owns a great deal of land in
that vicinity. 1t is believed that in
the zeal future some arrangement can
be made for the construction OF a
canal about 40 miles long to divert the
waters of the Yellowstone river west
of Billings to a tract of about $4,000
acres of land. Such an enterprise
would involve an outloy of at least
S25O,OO0. The state is in no position
to undertake such an enterprise and
1t can only be accomplished by out
side capital.
Seattle Men Interested.
Some Seattle capitalists, who have
operated successfully along this line
of effort in the country near Spokane,
are interesting themselves in the pro-
ject.
Another meeting of the board will
be held during the coming week, when
the project will be further discussed.
So long as the canal is built the peO-
pie of Yellowstone county are not
particular who does it. They are
anxious to have more settlers locate
there and will lend cordial aid to any
concern that will undertake the vast
enterprise.
About half of the $4,000 acres avail
able for a canal is owned by the rail
road company. The state will have
to prove up on the land before it can
claim it under the Carey act. This
means that the state will have to con-
duct water to the land.
1t is expected some definite action
will be taken by the board at its next
meeting.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19
SHOULD LOOK FOR THEMSELVES
SUGGESTION from Pat LavelIe to Rural
Taxpayers.

Taxpayers.
In the last issue of the Tri-County
News appears a letter from the Hon
orable Pat Lavelle in regard to the
matter of the building Of a new court
house. 1t is a plain statement of a
condition that exists and coming from
the source it does should have much
weight with those to whom it is par
ticularly addressed. Says Mr.. La
velle:
"In talking with some Of the lax
peyers of the country districts I find
many who are not we'll informed on
the court house proposition. l think
if the county officials will take the
pains to show the taxpayers of the
rural districts the unsafe condition
of the vaults in which the county rec
ords are kept that it will be ali any
enlightened taxpayer will need to con-
vince him that he should vote and
work for a new court house.
II would suggest that every taxpay-
err who goes to Billings make it a
point to examine the matter for him
self.
eff ever a county needed a new
court house, | believe that Yellow
STONE county iS nnpo
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19
North Real Estate, Loan & Title Co.
buy; sell and exchange property. tt
A Sure Thing.

1t is said that nothing is sure e.
cept death and taxes, but that is not
altogether true. DR.. ning's New Dis
covery for Consumption is a sure cure
for all lung and throat troubles. Thou
sands can testify to that. Mrs. G. b.
VanMetre OF Shepherdtown, w. Va,
saws: Il had a severe case of bron-
chitis and for a yea tried everything
| heard of, but got no relief. One
bottle of DIR. Kings New Discovery
then cured me absolutely" It's infal-
lible for Group, whooping cough, grip,
pneumonia and consumption. Try 1t.
It's guaranteed by Chapple Drug Co.,
druggists. Trial bottles free. Regular
sizes soc, $1.OO.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

Notwithstanding the good times he
has been having, the president seem
ingly has not overlooked his appoint
ment with Cuba and proposes to give
congress another opportunity to do
it's share in the programme outlined
many months ago. When he returns
to Washington he will be in excel
lent physical and mental condition
to engage in a catch-as-catch-can with
congress, which he will have on the
mat in November. When the Cuban
reciprocity business is disposed of he
will invite another setto with the rep
re~sentatives and senators on the Phil
ippine tariff matter. Extra sessions
may be annoying to those who are re-
quired to attend them, but they seem
to be absolutely necessary at times.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

1t is very evident that the British
admiralty is a firm believer in the
beauties of a policy of naval disarma-
ment, so long as application of it is
not sought to be made at home. The
distinguished gentlemen who are en-
trusted with the duty of maintaining
his majesty's fighting fleet at a fail
degree of efficiency are free to admit
that they have no objection to offer
against any discontinuance by France
or Russia of activity in their respec.
tive navy yards, but they see no rea.
son why England should not continue
to turn out warships at about the
usual rate.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

Since the case of the salt trust at
San Francisco it becomes decidedly
interesting to speculate on the next
picture of Mr.. Knox as a policeman
with which Mr.. Opper will endeavor
to amuse the audience.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

II Carnegie insists on talking about
Canada and its future as he did some
days Ago in a London interview he
will probably have to look to others
than the Canadians to assist him in
his laudable desire to die a poor man.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

A. H. West, pupil of the late E. S.
jacobson, would like a limited num-
Der CT pupils on violin. Piano tuning.
Violins repaired. Bows rehaired.
Room % Gruwell building. Tele-
phone 165m.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

Possibly the Sherman law is posses
sed of all the defects attributed to
it by democratic editors, but in spite
of this it seems to be effective enough
to cover the cases of about every trust
or combination to which it has been
applied. Inocuous as it is said to be,
it still has sufficient force and effect
to cause the salt trust to plead guilty
under an arraignment in compliance
with it's provisions and to pay the
fine imposed. 1t is beginning to look
as though the endorsement OF the law
given by the United States circuit
court at st. Louis was something more
than a mere formality and that for
something supposed to be dead and
imperative the old statute is capable
of causing a great deal of trouble and
worry to certain persons and institu-
tions that have heretofore presumed
to hold themselves superior to it.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

Buy your town lots from North Real
Estate, Loan & Title Co. Low prices
and easy terms. 195-tf
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19
TUESDAY, NAV 10, 1908.
POWERS Of

AS invoked at Omaha and Denver
a wider and more expansive field
seems to have been opened for appli-
cation of the power of the injunction,
and viewed from it's latest involvement
there appears to be no limit to the
uses and purposes to which it may be
APPLIED. No matter what the ultimate
effects and consequences may be, the
~nupopularity which has hitherto at
tached to government by injunction"
in certain quarters will probably be
greatly lessened from now on and
those who have been loudest in their
denunciation of those court orders will
probably be as quick to avail them
selves OF them as have been the other
fellows. 1t took discontinued and
dissatisfied workingmen sometime to
learn that they may secure injunc-
tions with the same ease and facility
as the employers, but at last having
learned the fact they may be relied
upon to do something in the enjoining
line themselves whenever they con-
slider the circumstances and situation
warrant it. II labor organizations
can be inhibited from striking it seems
to be no more than just that having
successfully struck before an order
of ENJOYMENT may be served that
they should have the right of pro-
lection from interference from the
ones against whom they are on strike.
Granting injunctions to strikers must
be accepted by all as another proof
of the assertion that the courts are
open to all who may fancy them
selves laboring under a grievance.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

Perfectly willing to become con
tributors to the popular subscription
it is purposed to raise at Butte for
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19

ST. JOHNS coue- CURE win
,ure -ovr cough. So6 ny ChapDie
Drug Gu
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19
Reward.

Reward.
l will pay IS for return of one blue
iron gray mare, 3 years old, with run
ming A brand on left shoulder.
3-tf FRENCHY, Billings, Mont.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-19
Wanted.

Wanted.
To buy bounty CLAIMS. at once
front room over w. B. Ten Eyck's,
Montana avenue.
eStf DIR. CLIFF LINDSEY.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-12

ting herself down through the beams while
holding her brother in her arms.
General Clay was always peculiar. and he
wrote Cor the children to be brought to
White Hall, where he placed them in the
care OF shepherdess to be raised.
CHILD WIFE RULED.
The 14-year-old girl ruled White Hall dur.
ing her short stay there as firmly as Genera
Clay had ruled the place before she came
and after she left.
In September, 1887. General Clay divorced
the girl, who had fallen in love with Riley
Brock and gave her home in Pinkard. in
Woodford County.
General Clay fancied that his life was
being sought by some secret foe.
He said "the vendetta was after him,
and he filled his house with bowie knives
and guns.
On the upper floor he has two field pieces
and these protruded through the windows
overlooking the approach to the mansion.
silently out where they have stood for
years.
1t was not until Doctors Thomas S. Bui-
lock of Louisville and Walter o. Bullock
of Lexington were summoned to White Hal
that stranger was allowed to enter the
now tottering old house.
The sight that met their eyes was one
Of misery.
In a large bedroom. the paper is falling
off the walls. Cobwebs were clinging to tn,
corners and to the tops Of the pictures. and
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-12

new industry in the country Of cutting dia-
monds.
The total Importation Of diamonds and
ending with May. amounts to over 1900. :
600 in value. and as the figures for the
month Of May alone were about 5000. 900. II
is evident that the June figures will bring
the grand total of diamonds and other preci-
Gus stones up to a full s3o,0 900 for the fs.
cal year ending June 80. 1903.
This is the largest importation of dia-
monds and other precious stones ever
shown in a single year of our commerce
Prior to 1857 the total had seldom II ever
reached 100000 per annum: from 1887 to
is sns tSta 81 grad1aly moved upward until
$1,000 in 1881 100000 in 1885 81. 600 in
1886 and s., 5o0,O 900 in the fiscal year 1897
,s an 1889 the total increased to 500 900 In
I5vZ to S23O0o.0O0 and in 1903 will be fully $50.
0Ooooo. making the total for the year just
ended not only more than in any previous
year, but 90 per cent in excess Of 1901 double
the figures of 1899 and more than six times
the average during the period 1Ss4-97.
The diamonds imported are divided by the
groups. VIZ: diamonds uncut, including
miners. glazers and engravers. not set, !"
and diamonds cut. but not set"
nine,s Vain aze OF d n.n uncut including
months ending with May. has grown from
s2.5o0.0o0 in 1898. to 10000 900 in 1903, while
from 100000 in 1898 to S1l,0OO0O0 in 1903.
these figures being In each case for the
period of eleven months.
This inference. that the cutting of dia-
monds is becoming an important industry
in the United States which is suggested by
the rapid increase in the importation Of UNI
cut diamonds, Is strengthened by the fact
that the census statistics of "lapidary
work" show that the total value of pro-
duction of lapidary work in 1900 was over
s.. $4,000. against less that 100000 in 1880.
and that the value of the materials rsed in
this work In 1900 was over y. 100000 against
less than $25o.00o In 1880.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-12

see in the street do not seem to be taken
up with what others are doing II man
crosses the street here he does not seem to
be caring whether somebody else will get
run over or not: he goes along minding his
own business, to his destination, slowly. it
is true. but going there.
Nobody seems to be hurried here. The
business man. therefore, not only has time
for his business. but time to see his friends
and to attend to the social side Of life as
WELL
IN New York. IL one send IN his card to
a business man he considers himself lucky
to get ten hurried minutes 1t is question,
to my mind. whether it Is not better and
more sensible to live at a forty-mile than
at the sixty-mile gait which We maintain
on the other side.
THE stranger who lands in Broadway
may not have any idea in his mind as to
what he wishes to do. In five minutes he
is in spite of himself, part Of that mighty.
restless throng. hurrying along. anxious
to keep up with the rest. Here one saunters
along. and the only people who are in a
hurry are those in cabs
Mr. Vreeland is looking forward with con-
siderable pleasure to his visit to Holland,
as his ancestors came from that country.
After short trip there he will visit Brus-
sells and Paris
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-12

Lexington. KY. July u-Because OF con-
ditions existing forty years ago. General
Cassius Narcellus Clay. at. one time con-
sidered the greatest man in Kentucky, has
lived ostracized from his family all this
time. Last week General Clay was taken
to court and the management of his affairs
placed In other hands on the ground that
he II not capable of taking care of himself
or his estate.
When General Clay was recalled from the
court Of st. Petersburg. where he was for
years the honored Minister of the United
States. he brought to America with him a
Russian woman, and a son, Launey Clay,
was born to them in a farmhouse at his
country mansion. White Hall. General
Clay's family rebelled because of the pres
ence OF this woman. Mrs. Clay, who was a
Miss warield. secured divorce. She
would not 90 to court for alimony, but was
allowed Q large portion OF the property by
General Clay.
From the day that General Clay and the
Russian woman came to Kentucky the do
mestic affairs Of the great man became I'M
pleasant, and they have increased until he
now finds himself an outcast.
It was on November 9. 1894, that General
Clay, after nearly thirty years of solitude,
married Dora Richardson, domestic in his
kitchen. The girl was about IA years old.
Her home was at Valley View. in Madison
County. and she hau performed an act of
heroism by saving the life of herself and
little brother on a railroad trestle by let
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-12
ON CEtS.5IZk5
lZAESEZLN5 CHI.
FHON HIS LH7E5T
RHCTCGRHRH.

there were dust and dirt every where.
Skillets we're scattered about the hearth,
chairs were broken and worn and scattered
about in confusion.
Large revolvers lying at the head of the
bed and tho huge bolts on the doors added
to the weird aspect.
In this place the once famous duelist and
statesman lay on a bed, his eyes fixed upon
the door, Questions asked him were
answered in monosyllables and with unwill-
ingness.
He declared that he was the victim Of the
greed OF his children. who sought to keep
his child wife, Dora, away from him and
to get his property. why can't they be
patient?" said the sorrowing old man.
They will not have much longer to walt
have always commended would live to be
100 years old. and 1 am going to do It.
II tell you I am going to live one CEN
fury"
General Clays eyes gave twinkle Of in
telligence at the thought
WOULD HAVE WIFE RETURN.
He was told that he was laboring under a
wrong impression; that his children wanted
to make his life comfortable. and to be with
| him and see to his every want.
The old time heat from being crossed
| flashed over him and he stormed out that
| his relatives were in the vendetta and want
| ed his life blood.
Relapsing from the angry spell. his face
liehtened up and took on the simple child
ish look.