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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10
NEW JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
Planning to Create Several in East.
ern Montana.

From Fridays Daily Gazette.
A move was quietly inaugurated in
the city a few days ago which has as
it's object the creation of a new ju-
dicial district in this part of the state.
The promoters of the scheme con-
template taking Yellowstone county
out of the Seventh judicial district
and detaching Carbon county from
the Sixth district and making a jul
dicial district out of the two counties.
Sounded on the proposition, Sen
ator Meyer of Carbon county stated
some time ago that the people of his
county would not look with favor
upon a legislative which
would deprive them of Judge Henry,
the presiding judge of the Sixth dis
trict.
While realizing that at times Judge
Loud of the Seventh district, compris-
ing the counties of Yellowstone, Rose
bud, Custer and Dawson, has more
business than he can we'll handle, the
people OF Yellowstone would not take
kindly to a measure which would leg
islate Judge Loud out of Office in this
county.
In connection with proposed leg
i~slation relative to the creation of a
new judicial district the matter of
making Fergus and Yellowstone n
district has also been preached, but
the latter scheme is not deemed ex-
pedient from any point of view for
the reason that no railway connection
exists between the two counties.
Counting on the possibility that the
people could agree to the formation
of a district out of Carbon and Yellow
stone the matter of the selection of a
judge. to preside has also been dis
cussed. Attorney Johnston of this
city was asked if he would accept the
appointment. if rendered by Governor
Toole, in the event that the district
were created by the present ~legisla-
ture. Mr.. Johnston is said to have
replied that he could not we'll say
that he would accept appointment to
an office which depended entirely up
on this legislature t o create. He also
is credited with saying that he would
not turn his hand toward doing anv-
thing in the way of creating the dis
trict for the reason that the people of
the county in which he is engaged in
practice might think that he did so
to create for himself the place now
SO ably filled by Judge Loud.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10
kNIeHTLY VISITORS.
Many Are Expected to Be Here To-
morrow.

Many Are Expected to Be Here To-
morrow.
From Fridays Daily Gazette.
Tomorrow the knights of Pythias
will be in control of the town. There
will be waving plumes, flashing
swords, a splendor of snowy uniforms
and exchanges of knightly %courtesies
such as prevailed in the olden times,
when knighthood was at it's glory and
all who wore not it's emblems were
not of the valiant and brave. Knights
from almost every city and town in
the state are expected and with them
will come men who are high in the
councils of the order and upon whom
it has bestowed it's greatest honors.
Almost every n of the grand officers
will be here and with them will be
others who have been honored in the
past and the gathering of the men
whose symbol is the. triangle will be
the largest ever witnessed in eastern
Montana.
The officers and the visitors from
the lodges to the west will arrive on
the North Coast Limited and will be
met at the depot by a delegation of
the local Pythians, headed by the
band, and escorted to the castle hall,
where they will be formally welcom-
ed. Weather permitting, they will be
driven about the city and entertained
in different ways during the day. In
the evening they will again be under
the escort of the local lodge and con-
Quoted to the lodge room, where the
serious work of the occasion will be
done. The famous Butte floor team,
consisting of IS men, will have charge
of the limitations to be conducted and
will confer different ranks on three
candidates. Afterward a banquet will
take place.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10
ST. JOHNS COUGH CURE win
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Drug g.
ProposaIs.-U. s. Department OF

ProposaIs.-U. s. Department of
Agriculture, Office of the Secretary,
Washington, d. c., January 10, 1907
Sealed proposals will be received by
the Secretary of Agriculture until
noon, Wednesday,, February 10, 1903,
for the erection of a two-story and
cellar frame building and stable for
the Weather Bureau, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, on the reserva-
ton in Yellowstone Park, Wyo., in
accordance with plans and specifica-
lions which may be obtained from the
Observer, Weather Bureau, Helena,
Mont, and at the office of the Chief of
the Weather Bureau, Washington, D.
c.. Bids must be sealed and Endorsed
on envelope, Proposal for Weather
Bureau Building, Yellowstone Park,
Wyo.," and addressed to the Secretary
of Agriculture, Washington, D. c..
The Department reserves the right to
reject any or all bids. f-3-6-10
JAMES WILSON, Secretary.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10
THE WAR.
Government Takes Co%gnizance of H.
legal Fencing in Montana.

Taking the letter received by the
register and receiver of the land office
at Miles City as a notice Of the inten-
lions of the interior department it is
very evident that the war On the IL
legal fencers which is waging in the
southwest is to be soon carried into
this state. The letter is as follows:
Department of the Interior, General
Land Office, Washington, D. c., Jan.
20, 19O3.-Register and Receiver,
Miles City, Mont: The act of Feb
ruary %, 1885, (23 Stat, 321), en-
titled can Act to prevent unlawful
occupancy of the public lands" ex-
pressly prohibits fencing OF vacant
public lands and it is the aim of the
land department to open up all vacant
public lands to the general public as
o as possible.
People who live in the region where
unlawful fences are maintained, gen.
orally know all about them, and 1t is
presumed that the local land omcefs
know as much of the condition OF the
public lands in their district as prl-
vate individuals.
1t is your duty 10 aid the depart
ment in protecting the public domain,
not only as to fraudulent land entries,
but also timber trespass and unlaW-
full fencing matters, and when sach
cases come to your knowledge, you
will promptly place them in the hanas
of a special agent for investigation,
advising this Office of your action.
Yours respectfully.
BINGER HERMANN,
Commissioner.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10
AIR BRAKES
WORKED BAD
TRAINMEN AND PASSENGERS
BATTLE WITH TUNNEL GAS.

Tacoma, Wash, Feb. 6.-The lives
of 200 passengers were endangered
last night when the eastbound Great
Northern overland train became stuck
in Cascade tunnel. The train was
held in the tunnel for an hour and 35
minues on account of an accident to
air brakes.
The train was two-thirds of the
way through the tunnel when the air
was suddenly turned on and the train
held as fast as though chisled from
the rocky walls above.
The crews of both engines, togeth-
err with other trainmen and many pas
sengers, were overcome by the gas,
which was so heavy that it extinguish-
ed the lights in the cars.
The gas was caused by the smoke
from the locomotives, which remains
in the tunnel from lack of good venti-
lation when trains are passing
through. A passenger named John
ADDOLL appreciated Lue SlIudLlOA Uct-
ter than the others. While the pas
sengers all about him were falling un-
conscious, Abbott made his way to the
locomotive.
He found both train crews lying un-
conscious. entirely overcome by gas.
With much effort he succeeded in
starting the air pump and releasing
the air brakes. He then backed the
train through to the west end of the
tunnel, it being all down grade, and
ran it safely onto the switch at the
tunnel entrance. The conductor,
brakeman and two lady passengers
were still unconscious when the train
passed through Wenatchee seven
hours after the accident happened.
No lives were lost, but for Abbott's
heroic action all on the train might
have been overcome and probably
died in the course of another hour.
The TUNE" is two miles long and has
given much trouble from the same
cause since it was first opened.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10
CONGRESS- PLAN FOR OPENING
CROW RESERVATION.
MAXIMUM PRICE FOR LAND.
Opposition Insists on Board of An.
praisers Appointed by In
terror Departm ent.

From Saturdays Daily Gazette.
\ The matter of opening the northern
part of the Grow Indian reservation
to settlement was the subject of in
terest discussed last night at a specia,
meeting of the Billings Commercial
club.
During the afternoon Secretary
White received a long telegram from
Senator Clark at Washington stating
that the opponents of the bill, after
numerous conferences had consented
to but n plan to- open the reserva-
ton. This proposed that all lands
within the proposed ceded strip
should be placed in the hands of a
board of appraisers appointed by the
interior department and that the max
imum valuation of the lands be plac-
ed at SIS per acre. The plan further
provides that the homestead laws
shall be effective relative to the set
Element of the lands and that with
a person desires to go upon any of
the land to settle he must first make
application to the board of apprais-
ers, who will fix the price of the land
selected, but not to exceed SIS an acre,
as already stated.
The committee to whom was refer
ed the telegram from Senator Clark
did not take kindly to the plan pro-
posed, but they. did not think it right
that Senator Clark and his colleagues
in congress from this state should be
to any extent hampered by the peo-
pie in this section of the state and adj
joining the reservation. According
to their desire to aid the Montana
delegation all they possibly can at
this stage of the proceedings, the COM
mittee sent a telegram to Senator
Clark asking him to get the best deal
he could and secure the passage of
the bill if possible at this session of
congress.
The committee did suggest, howev-
err, taht in the appointment Of ap-
p~raisers that Montana people be Sc
lected to fill those positions. The
committee deemed this provision ex-
tremely desirable for the eason that
it is believed that Montana pe1pla
are better able to judge the value of
the lands. 1t was also suggested to
Senator Clark that such safeguards
should be thrown around the bill so
that the lands termed as grazing in
the proposed coded strip cannot be
bought up by large grazing syndi-
Gates to the detriment of the actual
settler.
In deciding to assent to- the form of
the bill proposed to secure the open
ing of the reservation the committee
went on the theory that any plan to
secure the desired end is better than
a delay for an indefinite period.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10
kNiGHTLY
Pythians from Many Places Attend
ing the Reunion.

M VNSSIbO
ing the Reunion.
From Saturdays Daily Gazette.
seven lodges have representatives
at the reunion of Pythians which i,
holding here today. They are Ivan
hoe. Damon, Oswego, Silver Bow
Mount Powell, Big Timber and
Crusader. OF course, all are the
guests OF Rathbone lodge, No. %, Thu
grand officers in attendance are Sam
uel Il. White, grand chancellor com
mander, Butte; Colonel James Duane
colonel of the Uniform rank. Ana
conda, and G. r. Milburn, grand pre-.
late, Miles City.
Most of the visitors arrived on the
belated Burlington train from the
west and were met at the station by
the members of Rathbone lodge. who
with the band, acted as an escort and
conducted their guests to their castle
hall, where the strangers registered
and after a few minutes had been
spent in i%ntroductions Acting Mayor
Berky made a formal address of well
come to the visiting knights and as.
sured them that the city was theirs
and If they wanted anything that was
not in sight to ask for it and it would
be given to them.
At tho nnna1,ciNr 30 NJ, noS1.x.-
speech a communication was read
from the secretary of the Billings
club extending the hospitality of the
club to the visitors and asking them
to make themselves at home there.
A movement now began on the Grand
hotel, where dinners was served, after
which the knights from the outside
were taken in charge by their Bill
ings brethren and are being enter
tanned by them until this evening.
Tonight a regular lodge session will
be held and the famous floor team
from Butte will have charge of the
work of iniating three candidates,
upon each of whom one rank will be
conferred. A banquet will close the
reunion.
The visitors whose names are ill.,
scribed on the register of Rathbone
lodge are as follows:
George r. Milburn, Crusader, No.
Z, Miles City.
j. E. Sheridan, s. F. Simonson, II.
G Allen, A. G.. Hatch, H. Nicholson,
J. 7. Parker, G. H. Howard, w. Chris
tie, O. B. Nevin, J. G. harrington, J.
P. Kusey, Edward Adams, B. M.
Mjelde, j. F. Simmons, F. o. Maer-
dian, A. A. Cavone, L. P. Tintinger,
J. W. Geiger, Dick Budd, John Blake,
R. A. Maerdian, A. G. Yule, D. j. Wal
board, Big Timber, No. 25.
S. R White, D. A. Todd, r. C. Hart.
A. B. Ayers, Ivanhoe, No. 5.
Harry Blumkin, G.. G. Fitschen, E.
Muller, l.. L. Harris, G. o. Cady, w.
P. Bramble, Damon, No. 1.
J. H. Vogel, Silver Bow, No. Al.
James Doull, Oswego, No. 4.
Colonel James Duane, Mount
Powell, No. 43.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10
A $4,000 Fire.

Alton, ILL.,, Feb. 6.-Fire last night
destroyed the Western academy at
Upper Alton, causing a loss of $780,
900.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10

ST. Johns HEADACHE CURE
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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
BARON HAYAsHI GRAr1F1ED.
Believes That Russo-Japanese Peace
Treaty Will Be SIGNED Soon

LONDON, Dec. 2.-The japanese
Minister, Baron Hayashi, speaking of
the Paris dispatch announcing an
agreement between Russia and Japan.
said:
THAT is splendid news. l have wait
ed long time in the hope of hearing
it. With the basis reached, it will only
be a short time before the treaty is
signed. The whole difficulty so far has
been to, arrive at basis satisfactory
to both nations"
Regarding the suggested arbitration
Of the difficulties between Japan and
Russia, Baron Hayashi remarked:
mo such proposition has been mem
toned to me and 1 doubt If the Man
churian question could be settled by
that method. The Hague court appears
to me to exist more for the purpose of
interpreting knotty points of existing
treaties than for dealing with such a
territorial question as Manchuria''
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
CRISIS IS ONLY DELAYED.
Russia and Japan Put Aside Vexing
Questions for the Present.

ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. Enquiry
has been made at the Foreign Office
respecting the announcement from
Paris that a basis of agreement be-
tween Russia and Japan had been
reached. 1t was impossible to obtain
any confirmation beyond the statement
that a mutual desire for peace exists,
to which both negotiants have ex-
pressed adherence With this end in
view they have both decided tempor-
ariIv to put aside questions whose de-
cjsiCn. on account of the position of
each. is found to be impracticable.
The negotiations, so far as Russia is
concerned, are confined to delimiting
the rights of railroad, telegraph etc,
of each in Korea. Japan holds in abey-
ance the Manchurian questions, con-
cerning which Russia declines to treat.
on the ground that they are matters
between her and China, until she as
certains whether satisfactory arrange
.ments are reachable regarding Korea.
Russia contends that Japan's treaty
rights in Manchuria were secured from
china and stand on the same footing
as those of the United States and the
other powers.
Russia's reply to the latest Japanese
proposition is still unsent. When it
is framed it will not be in the nature
of an uItimatum, but it may lead to
counter-proposals. It is possible that
the end may be a new Russo Japanese
treaty covering Korea
Regarding the suggestion that the
United States may ask Russia to sub
NIT the question of the evacuation Of
Manchuria to The Hague tribunal, it is
pointed out at the Foreign Office and
in diplomatic circles that, political is
sues being involved. 1t is impracticable
and would be unprecedented TO leave
them to the decision of a judicial tri-
bunal.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
REVOLUTION was .MT1p.
Steamer City Of Para in Port at the
Outbreak in Panama.

The Pacific Mail Company's steam
ship City Of Para, which arrived, yes
terday, was at Panama, when the Hnvo-
luton of November 3 took place. Ito
those aboard the ship the AFFAIR twas
decidedly. mild. and but for the EVEN.
ing's hilarious celebration, sounds OF
which were waited on the night breeze.
there was little evidence to .ten of
ColOmbia's loss or Of the birth Of a
new republic. The Bogota contributed
the only suggestion Of trouble and but
for the dust that marked the landing
place of the two shells she fred even
her shooting might have been in the
nature of a salute. 1t was learned
later that the flying fragments Of shell
had killed two Chinese.
The officers of the Para, in com
mon with many others, had a pretty
good idea Of the impending change.
None Of them were ashore after the
revolution, however. and the liner.
brought no passengers from Panama,
so that the knowledge Of those on the.
Para Of events subsequent to the
change Of administration was obtained
largely from what they read in the
San Francisco newspapers. picked UP
as the steamship came along the coast.
General Cerreosi. Minister from the
new republic to Costa Rdca, was a pas
senger on the City Of Para as far as.
his new post
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
WANTS LESS RIGID
MEASURES IN ARMY

BERLIN, Dec. 2.-Eugene Richter,
leader of the Radical party, has de-
cided to interpellate Count Won Bu-
low, the imperial German Chancellor,
regarding the maltreatment of private
soldiers by their officers. He will ask
the Chancellor to see what legislative
and administrative measures can be
adopted to more evenly counteract the
abuses of their authority OF officers of
the army, which was demonstrated in
a number of recent cases before the
military courts. Herr Richter will
fortify his Interpolation by the state
ment that the known cases of the
abuse of private soldiers have caused
grave apprehension among the people
and have detracted from the good
name of the German army.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
BERL1N's HOPEFUL VIEW.
Believes War Will Be Averted by the
Course of Great Britain.

BERLIN, Dec. 2-Dispatches in
dicating the extreme tension of the
Russo-Japanese situation almost mo-
nopolized the attention of the German
press and official world yesterday and
to-day the danger of war was regarded
as greater than ever. But this feeling
was changed by the receipt of the an
nouncement from Paris that a basis of
settlement had been reached. This
made the financiers hopeful and prices
on the Boerse opened strong. Later a
tide Of alarming dispatches quickly re-
versed the favorable sentiment and
stopped the trading absolutely.
Official circles take a more hopeful
view Of the situation than the public.
The hope that war will be averted is
based, to a large extent, on the belief
that Great Britain will not earnestly
support Japan. According to this Off
cial view Great Britain's present policy
is based on a desire to keep Russia en-
gagged until Lord Curzon, the viceroy of
India, has completed his tour Of the
Persian Gulf and while the forward
movement of the British in Thibet is in
progress.
The Washington dispatches regarding
the possibility of an American sugges-
ton that The Hague court arbitrate
the question Of Manchurian evacuation
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
FIRE DESTROYS
BIC UNIVERSITY
Walls Are All That Re-
main Of OttaWa's
Great School.

OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 2-The Ottawa
University. one of the largest educa-
tional institutions in Canada, was de-
stroyed by fire early to-day. The loss is
estimated at $500, 900, with insurance at
5000, ,O0O All of the 450 students escaped.
Three priests were forced to jump from
upper windows and were badly hurt.
They are Fathers Boyon. Fullham and
McGuerty.
Father McGuerty probably is fatally
hurt. One of the domestics is missing
and probably perished in the flames.
and another was so seriously burned
that she probably will die. The missing
woman, a Miss Davis, was last seen on
the fourth floor.
The fire started at o'clock, while
most of the students were at breakfast.
These escaped easily. A number who
were still abed had to take to the fire
escapes in their night clothes or jump
into blankets held out by the firemen.
The fire escapes were all on one side
of the structure and those who slept
on the other side could not reach them.
They had to jump, some from the
fourth and fifth stories. Several stu
dents were injured, but no one was
seriously hurt. Two of the priests,
however. were seriously injured, and
Father McGuerty is not expected to live.
He was on the first story. He could
not reach the fire escape and was forced
to Jump. He fell on a veranda, land
ing on his shoulder and afterward
rolled to the ground, striking on his
head.
Father Folham. who was on the
fourth floor leaped into a blanket and
sustained injuries to his side, but will
recover. Father Boyon was burned
on the head and arms, but not serious
lv injured. An old woman, a servant,
Jumped from the fifth story and was
badly hurt. S. Harvey. student from
brunswick. Me-, awoke only when his
bed was on fire. He sprang to the
window and, climbing outside, hung to
the sill for fifteen minutes, when he
was taken down safely by the firemen.
student named Cullen jumped from
the fourth story with his glasses on
and his face was cut. Miss Dupues'
a domestic, was badly injured. The
students lost all their effects.
The fire is supposed to have resulted
from a burning cigarette. A library OF
20 900 volumes was destroyed.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

A DMIRAL SCHLEY, one of the foremost
notable heroes of the Nineteenth Century. A
name that starts terror in the heart of every Span
lard. A man of steady nerve, clear head un-
daunted courage and prompt decision.
Approached by friend recently his opinion
was asked as to the efficacy of Peruna, the ma
tional catarrh remedy Without the slightest hes
itation he, gave this remedy his endorsement 1t
appeared on later conversation that Peruna has
been used in his family, where it is favorite
remedy.
Such endorsements serve to indicate the won
derful hold that Peruna has upon the minds of the
American people. 1t is out of the question that
SO great and famous man as Admiral Schley
could have any other reason for giving his en-
dorsement to Peruna than his positive conviction
that the remedy is all that he says it is.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
fisk Your Druggist for free Peeruna almanac for 1904

any suggestions with which he may
have been charged by the Colombian
Government looking to a settlement Of
the dispute between. Colombia and Pan.
anna Secretary Hay viii give cour-
teous reception to General Reyes. but
it is clear that. in the view OF the
Administration the steps taken as to
Panama cannot be retraced, and It fol-
lows that, Panama being in sovereign
possession of the right Of way OF the
canal, there can be no negotiations
with Colombia looking to the acquisi-
ton from her of any right to the canal
strip.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Battelship Maine Is Crippled.

WASHINGTON, Dec. I'm conse-
quence Of certain defects in the ma
chinery Of the battleship Maine Secre-
tary Moody has decided to withdraw
that vessel from blockade duty on the
Caribbean coast of the isthmus OF Pan
anna in order that the necessary repairs
may be made at the New York navy
yard This action. however, will not
reduce the number Of warships on duty
on that station, as the Maine will not
leave Colon until after the arrival OF
the supply ship Culgoa, which is ex-
pected to arrive about the 9Th inst.