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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
SMITH DENIES IT.
Says Smoot Has Not and Never Had
Second Wife.

Salt Lake, Utah, Feb. 26.-President
Joseph Smith Of the Mormon church
was shown by the Associated Press
correspondent a copy of the polygamy
charges brought against Senator-elect
Smoot by Rev. Leilitch.
81 wish to deny in the most en-
phatic TERMS said President Smith,
that there is any truth in these
charges. Mr.. Smoot has only n wife
and never has had another either be-
fore or after Utah entered the union.
There is no such record of plural
marriages kept in the temple, there
fore there can be no such record of
Mr.. Shoots plural marriage as charg-
ed by the Rev. MI. Leilitch. l wish to
repeat, the Mormon Church does not
now sanction plural marriages, nor
has it since Utah entered the union.
The charges against Mr.. Smoot are
absolutely false"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
THREATS BY GEN. BOOTH.
He Might Tur" Criminals Loose on
the Rich.

Boston, Feb. 26.-In his address at
the fremont Temple last evening, at
which Governor Bates presided, Gen
eral William Booth of the Salvation
Army startled his hearers with the
following:
I'VE have in our shelter at this
time more than 10 1000 criminals, and
if the rich do not give us enough funds
to carry on our work, we will turn
loose the $4,000 men and give them
the addresses of these rich.
"The trouble with the ministers Of
the different churches continued
General Booth, sis that they say SO
little of heaven and hell. The minis
ter should give talks on the Salvation
Army and advocate it's broad politics
and principals and take up collections
and send us money. The work of the
Army does not represent any fad in
religion but a religion based on the
original laws of God. The Army has
a method of it's W and that is to
preach Christianity where there is no
religion and to bring those to Christ
who have no church."
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
KILLED FIVE WOMEN
Knapp COnfeSses to that Number of
nurders- Fears Lynching.

ly assaulted women and killed some OF
them. He said he met the Littleman
child in the lumber yard and choked
her to death when she made an out.
cry.
Il went into a room with the Eckert
girl" he said, land she cried.
strangled her with a towel and hurried
from the house.
Il was mad at my wife, Jennie Con-
ners Knapp, when | killed her. We
were Walking along Liberty street.
I sat her down under the bridge and
choked her to death. | deny that 1
poisoned her. l never told any one
l did. After she was dead l threw the
body into the canal.
Ida Gebbard l killed, but my mem
DRY is not clear as to what l did. l
cannot tell you what made me kill
these people. l could not help it. Sim
ply a desire to kill. l I'm sorry for
my crimes, but now l hope they will
be easy with me-"
After the confession a formal
charge of murder in the first degree
was filed.
Attorney E. C. Tenney of Cincinnati
was allowed to see Knapp and told
him to make no further statement.
Fears Being L%ynched.
Knapp was surprised that his peo-
pie had secured a lawyer for him.
Knapp talks much of the Pearl Bryan
murder and is afraid of being lynch
ed. Despite assurances of no danger
of lynching he is %frighted and does not
want to be taken from the county
Jail.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03

(First Publication Feb. 6, 1903.-6)
Department of the Interior, Land
Office at Lewistown, Montana, January
~, 19O3.-Notice is hereby given that
the following-named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim. and
that said proof will be made before
Fred w. Handel, United States Com
missioner, at Musselshell, Montana,
on Friday, March 20, 1908. viz:
FRANK LANG,
who made II. e. No. 1884 for the WIZ
SWA, SEM SWM, SWA Sc "A Sec.
%, township s north, range 25 east,
M. M.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence up
ON and cultivation CT said land, viz:
S. H. Erwin, of Roundup, Montana:
Hugh Crowell. CT Roundup, Montana;
Magnus Lindstrand, of Elso, Mon
tana: John LasEa. Of ESQ Montana.
EDWARD BRASSEY, Register.
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First Publication Feb. q, 1904
Contest Notice.

Department of the Interior, Uni. ed
States Land Office, Bozeman, Nom
tana, February 10, 1903.
A sufficient contest affidavit having
been filed in this Office by Patrick
Quinn, contestant against homestead
entry No. 1885, made March Is, 1901,
for NASWA, SEA SWA and SWA
SEA, section 10, township l S., range
20 E., M. P. NJ, by William A. Whit
lock, contestee, in which it is alleged
that said William A. Whitlock has not
at any time since June 10, 1902, lived
on said land, and has abandoned IT
for more than six months past; and
that he has not lived upon or cultivat-
ed said tract as required by law. And
that his said alleged absence from
said land has not been due to his en-
ployment in the army, navy or ma
rine corps of the United States in
time of war; said parties are hereby
notified to appear, respond and oHer
evidence touching said allegation at
10 o'clock a. m. on April 10, 1903, be-
fore l.. Whitney, U. S. Commissioner
at Joliet, Montana, and that final
hearing will be held at 10 o'clock a.
m. on April 81, 1903, before the regis
ter and receiver at the United States
land office in Bozeman, Montana.
The said contestant having, in a
proper affidavit, filed February H.
1908. set forth facts which show that
after due diligence personal service
of this notice can not be made. 1t IS
hereby ordered and directed thai such
notice be given by due and proper
publication.
M. r. WILSON. Register.
A. ]. Easall, Receiver.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
BLAZE SWEEPS CINCINNATI

the flames were shooting up. How he
made his way he does not know, but
by some instinct he found the stair
way leading to the roof. Upon reach
ing the roof he fell over som hing and
was stunned. When he recovered the
flames were shooting through the
roof. He crawled to the edge, but the
iiremen in the street did not notice
him. He shouted himself hoarse. He
took his cuff and wrote on it: Il
am On the roof, nearly dead from gas.
JONES'
He threw it to the ground and a re-
porter picked it up and located the
figure of a mar standing outlined in
the sparks.
Jones crept along the edge to the
ear of the building and there waited
for the firenen, who placed a ladder
acrcss the alley from the telephone
exchange building. Jones was carried
down and taken to the hospital.
The eight girls in the telephone ex.
change building across the alley from
the burning Pike building were bad
ly frightened, as the clouds of smoke
rolled about the building. The ex-
| change rooms are on the top floor
OF a six-story building. For two hours
they pluckily stuck to their posts.
| When the flames were blazing in their
vrin n uyc @fhov yyora nrdoTcd ont Inv tho
firemen. Later, however, they return
ed to their calls and when the large
day force of girls came on duty they
| ~fearlessly went to the sixth floor for
duty, although the fire ragged all
around them.
The Pike theatre building was total
ly destroyed by fire in 1866, and it
narrowly escaped destruction on
March 80, 1902, when there was a per-
Torrance in progress, but no lives
were lost in any of the fires. The
scenery and costumes used by the
Pike stock company during the season
I which closed last Saturday night, val
ued at 10000, were stored in the
opera house.
The loss of the Henrietta Crosman
company, which has been at the Pike
this week is over double that of the
Pike stock company. The ~Seasongood
building adjoining, a six-story struc-
) ture, was occupied by the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern railroad on the
first floor. and by numerous other
tenants. including Richter & Philips,
wholesale jewelers.. Their loss is very
large. Among the losers are: Afr
lists John Ward DunsmOre, Rena de
Camp, Elizabeth C. Eckstein and C.
A. Murer. whose studios were lost,
with many valuable pictures.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
BEE TAYLoR's ARGUMENT.
She Tells the Court All About the
Right Of Free Speech.

Washington, Feb. 26.-After many
postponements, arguments in the case
of Rebecca ]. Taylor VS.. the secretary
Of war were being begun before JUS
tice Bingham in the supreme court of
the District OF Columbia today. Miss
Taylor appeared in her own behalf
and the fact that she was to argue
her own case attracted a crowd of
male and a few female lawyers who,t
with the spectators, crowded the large
court room. Miss Taylor had her
argument in typewriter form.
1t comprised about 60 pages and she
supplemented it from time to time
by reading from volumes Of decisions
which covered the desk at her side.
She made argument on the constitu-
tional right of free speech and a free
press. According to the lawyers her
argument was rambling but well de-
livered. There were nc sensational
features. The hearing will extend
over tomorrow.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03

Hamilton, Ohio, Feb. 26.-Alfred
Knapp, the Indianapolis man arrested
yesterday, who confessed to the muir.
der of his third wife, today made a
full confession of five murders
Among them is that of Ida Gibhart,
the West indianapolis girl, who was
found murdered in a stable July 3,
1895.
Knapp's confession, which was
sworn to before Mayor Bosch, is as
follows:
ION January p, 1894, I killed Emma
Littleman in a lumber yard in Gest
street, Cincinnati; on August 1, 1894,
| killed May Eckert in Walnut stree, ,
opposite the Y. M. C. A. in Cincin-
natl; August Z, 1894, l killed my wife,
Jennie Corners Knapp, under the
Calan bridge, in Liberty street, Gin
cinnati, and threw her body in the
canal. In indianapolis, in July, 1895,
| killed Ida Gibhart; or December %,
1902, | killed my wife, Anna Knapp,
at No. 339 South Fourth street, in
Hamilton, and threw her body into
the river out by Lindenwald. This is
the truth.
81 make this statement by my own
free will and not by the request of
any officer or anyone else.
(Signed) "ALBERI KNAPP
Sworn to before me this 26th day
of February, 1908. (Signed)
G. E. BOSCH, Mayor.
Mad When He Killed Her.
After his confession Albert w.
Knapp admitted that he had repeated
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
HOSPITALS ARE FULL.
Epidemic Of Grip Has Reached an
Alarming Stage.

N'oIsnstuS 0So8Ss
New York, Feb. 26.-Crowded to it's
utmost capacity, Bellevue hospital is
hardly able to care for it's patients.
An epidemic Of grip has brought the
number of patients in the institution
up to 9O2.
When the limit had been reached,
in order to turn nc one away, attend
ants made efforts to set up spring
mattresses as temporary beds, and ev-
cry inch of available space was used
in this way.
So serious has the epidemic of grip
in Brooklyn become, that the health
department has sent out a special
warning to all keepers and janitors
of public buildings %instructing them
to use extraordinary car in keeping
the buildings properly ventilated.
Corps of inspectors and their assist
ants have started in to disinfect all
the court rooms in the borough. This
treatment may be extended to the
school houses.
Twelve deaths from the grip were
reported last week. Since January
there have been 46 deaths from the
disease in Brooklyn, which the health
officials consider an alarming record,
in view of the fact that only So deaths
from grip occurred in the IL months
in 1902.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03

The Kankakee building which is dag
onally across the street from the Sea-
songood building and Pike opera
house. and is occupied by the West
ern Union, the Associated Press, the
Big Four and other offices, was threat
ened and all the wires of the Western
Union for hours were indanger. 1t
was not until after daylight that the
fire vas got under control and the
danger OF a general c~onflagration was
believed to be over.
AS it is known that about 20 people
were asleep in the Pike building, there
were at first reports that several
lives had been lost, but non OF these
reports have been confirmed. There
were very many narrow escapes.
Night Waterman John Agin and Matt
Corretson and Harry Richardson saw
ed six lives by entering the building
and forcing their way through the
smoke and rescuing dodgers. Five
men were asleep IN the rear room OF
the Pike building, when they were
! rescued by having their door broken
in. They were: John Mulvern, B.
| w. Zeigler, H. C. Story, J. F. McDon-
aid and w. C. Askner. All escaped
in their night clothes. Agin, Rich
ardson and Garretson proceeded
| through the building, giving the alarm
to all until they had to be helped out
| themselves Captain Genlen, head OF
a Deceive bureau, who was asleep
on the third floor, was awakened and
| escaped in his night clothes. He lost
| all the records of his Office. Nothing
was saved from the upper floors.
AS there are over 400 losers it is
impossible at present to estimate the
total loss. The fire was still burning
at 9 O'Clock, with little prospects OF
control in the territory bounded by
| Vine, Walnut, Fourth and Baker
streets, and the loss was then estimat'
ed at over $3.OO0.000
John Keenan,, night Waterman OF
the American Book company, was
caught by falling walls and fatally in
jured.
The escape of Will Jones, the well
known Cincinnati actor, just before
the roof of the burning building fell,
and his rescue, half dead, from the
top of the building, was a thrllilne
one. Jones' presence of mind, which
led him to throw his cuff into the
| street below and thus make his where'
abouts known, saved his life. When
! the fire broke out Jones was asleep
in the studio of an artist friend on
the fourth floor. Awakened suddenly,
he was blinded and s~uffocated by the
; smoke. Outside in the great air-snai'
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
JUSl FRIENDLY WARNING
REDMOND PROPOSES AMEND
MENT TO ADDRESS.
Declares Any Attempt to JuggIe Fig
ures vii Ruin Whole Pro-
posed Scheme.

London, Feb. 26.-The Irish leader,
John Redmond, in the house of com
mons today moved an amendment to
the address in reply to the speech
from the throne on the subject of the
Irish land question. Mr.. Redmond's
speech was most conciliatory. He said
the amendment was not intended as
a hostile demonstration against the
government, but as "a friendly a
ing" to the ministers that he and his
friends believed the government was
engaged in framing a great measure
of justice and appeasement for Ire
land, which, in the words of the kings
speech, would complete the abolition
of the dual ownership of land All
he wanted was an assurance from the
chief secretary for Ireland that the
government was engaged in an hon
est attempt to solve the problem on
the lines suggested by the representa-
tives at the recent land conference,
which, the speaker added, offered an
~uneXampled opportunity to end the
agrarian troubles and conflicts be-
tween classes in Ireland.
Mr.. Redmond pointed out that the
bill proposed in conference was i'm
possible without state aid. and warned
the government if there was any at
tempt, by the juggling of figures, to
make the tenant bear the whole bur
den Of the transference of the land 1t
would be vigorously opposed and the
whole scheme would be ruined. The
state. he asserted, must supply the
difference between the amoun the
tenant could afford to pay and thai
which the landlord could afford tt
take.
Mr.. Wyndham, in replying, declined
to commit himself to any wholesale
official approval of the land confer
erce report, which, he said avoided
or skirted many considerations which
must be taken into account. TIL
work of the conference, however, coult
Hardly be eliminated. 1t showed tina
a majority of the landlords and ten
ants were ready and willing to max
concessions. The secretary conclud
cd with expressing the hope that tn
shirt of GOOD sense and good will an
mating the report would be emulate
by the house in it's consideration O
the fortht om.ng measure. which woul
make it impossible for Ireland to la
the social foundations upon winch
was alone POSSIBLE to real the fabri
of healthy national life.
Mr.. Redmond eventually Withdrew
his amendment.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
APOSTLE PRACTICES POLYGAMY

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Bur-
TVS. chairman of the senate COM
pittee on privileges and elections to-
DAY presented TO the senate a protest
signed by the Rev. j. l.. Leilitch in
the case of Senator-elect Reed Smoot
Of Utah, urging that Mr.. Smoot shall
not be permitted to take his seal in
the senate. Mr.. Leilitch is in charge
of Methodist missions in Utah, and re-
sides in Salt Lake City. He is in
Washington az the representative Of
the ministers association Of Salt
Lake. His statement is sworn to-.
Mr.. Leilitch declares that Smoot is
a polygamist and now has a plural
wife, although he deems it %inexpedi-
ent to give her maiden name at this
time. His charge on this point is as
follows:
THAT the said Reed Smoot is a
polygamist and that since the admis-
sion of Utah into the union Of states
he, although then and there having a
legal wife, married a plural wife in
the state of Utah, in violation of the
laws and compacts herein before de-
scribed and since such plural or
polygamous marriage the said Reed
Smoot has lived and cohabitated with
both his legal wife and his plural wife
in the state of Utah and elsewhere,
as occasioned offered, and that the
only record of such plural marriage is
the secret record made and kept by
the authorities of the Church of Jesus
Christ or Latter Day Saints, which
secret record is in the exclusive GUS
tody and control of the first presi-
dency and the quorum of the Twelve
Apostles of the said church, of which
the said Reed Smoot is one, and is
beyond the control or power of the
protestants. Your protestant respect
fully asks that the senate of the Unit
ed States or it's committee compel the
first quorum of the Twelve Apostles
and the said Reed Smoot to produce
such secret record for the cOnSldera-
ton of the senate. Your protestant
says that he is advised by counsel
that it is inexpedient at this time to
give further particulars concerning
such plural marriage and it's results
or the place in which it was solemniz-
ed or the maiden name of the plural
wife"
Mr.. Leilitch also asserts that pres
ident Joseph F. Smith, the president
of the Mormon church, is living in
open polygamy and has had a child
born to him by his plural wife as late
as 1885," and also that president
Lorenzo Snow lived and died in the
practice of polygamy and polygamous
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
BOY SUICIDES.
Concluded He Would Rather Die
Than Attend School.
quarters.
Especial to The Gazette.

Especial to The Gazette.
Livingston, Feb. 27.-David Wilcott.
a lad of this city and son of the ian.
ltor OF n of the public school build
lngs, shot himself with a % caliber
CUR here today. The boy for some
time past protested against going to
school and for this his father. threat,
ened to punish him. He secured the
weapon and went to the banks of the
Yellowstone and shot himself. He is
yet alive but little hope is entertain.
ed for his recovery.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
Teachers Examination.

The regular teachers examination
will be held in the court room. Bill.
ings, Mont, beginning Friday. Febru-
airy q. at . a. m. and continuing on
Saturday, February 2S, 1903.
MARGUERITE M. STRANG.
Sl.6 County Superintendent
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
Wanted.

Wanted.
To buy bounty CLAIMS. At omc
front room over w B. Ten Eyck's
Montana avenue.
sStf DIR. CLIFF LINDSEY.
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Killed by the Senate.

Especial to The Gazette.l
Helena. Feb. 27.-The senate today
killed the initiative and referendum
measure passed by the house. The
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03
Wanted.

Ranch for rent. Address C. A., Ca
Zette office. Sig
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County Superintendent.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-03-28
AN OVATION TO MISS ALICE.
The Prcsiden.'s Daughter the Re
Ciricnt of Lavish Attention
by the Porto Ntcanx.

San Juan. Porto Rico. March 25.-
There was grand reception at the
theater here Tuesday evening. under
the auspices of the citizens commit
tee, in honor of Miss Alice Roosevelt,
following an elaborate display of fire.
works on the plaza, which lasted un-
til ten o'clock and was witnessed by
Miss Roosevelt. who received tre-
men,lous ovation from the people
gathered on the plaza and on the
roofs Of the houses. One of these
pieces, representing President Roose-
velt. was 25 feet high. The interior of
the theater was decorated profusely
and displayed the word ''Welcome'
formed of electric lights. Miss Roose-
welt spent two hours shaking hands.
She left for the interior Wednesday
accompanied by Gov. Hunt, Mrs. and
Miss Elizabeth Hunt Thomas Hunt the
governors brother, and Mrs. Thomas
Hunt; Miss Beatrice Buck, the gov
ernor's ward, and Secretary Bliss. The
party will be away four days and will
visit Cayey, Ponce, Mayaguez and the
intermediate towns as well as the
principal sugar estates. The inhabit-
ants of Ponce have planned big re-
! ception for Miss Roosevelt.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-03-28
FIRE IN EAST, ST. LOUIS, ILL.
An Early Morning Blaze that DAM
aked Property to the Extent 2
Of About $2O,O3O. 81.

St. Louis, March 25.-In the base
ment of a~shoe shop occupied by Au-
gust Mute, corner of Collinsville and
Missouri avenues, East st. Louis, H.,
an incipient blaze which was discov-
cred shortly after midnight. was
famed into flames, which for time
threatened destruction of the entire
business block.
Detachments from the fire depart
ment Of st. Louis arrived on the scene
shortly after / 80 a. m. and the IRE
was prevented from causing serious
damage to the Boston store, next
door, and the Christian restaurant.
The damage, it is thought, will not
exceed $40, 900. The origin Of the hre
il not known.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-03-28
THE FIRST INTIMATION.

First Public Inti naa ton that Sir Hec-
tor Was in Trouble.
London, March 25.-According to
dispatch received Tuesday, from
Colombo, Ceylon, charges of the most
serious nature have been brought
against Ma aj.-Gen. Sir Hector Mac
Donald, commanding the British
forces in Ceylon, in consequence of
which the governor of that island, Sir
Joseph West Ridgeway, has been au-
thorized to convene a court-martial
to try Gen. Macdonald.
The latter, when the charges were
filed some time ago, went to England
to confer with his friends and SUI
stood he will return and face the
charges, which, it is alleged, are
based on immoral acts.
The publication of the above dis
patch created a profound sensation,
as Gen. Macdonald was regarded as
one of Britain's great soldiers. He
rose from the ranks in the Gordon
| Highlanders to his commanding pO-
i sition, and the service shows no more
honorable war record than that of
Macdonald, while few officers possess
| harder won decorations. He was ex-
tremely popular in the army and in
civil life.
| While the army officials and many
of his brother officers were aware
that changes were pending against
| Gen. Macdonald, no intimation OF
their nature leaked out until the din
ner of the officers of a Highland regi
ment. March 21. at which Macdonald
was not present.
Lord Roberts, the commander-in
chief, paid tribute in a speech on that
occasion to the Highland officers who
had served with distinction, but hi
| did not mention Macdonald.
This attracted considerable notice
and the sensation was increased wheI
another speaker, who was not aware
of the facts in the case. lauded Mac
Donald as typical Highland soldier
and found that his remarks were re
ceived in cold silence by the majorit.
of the officers present.
Gen. Macdonald, it is announced
left England for the continent SOM
days ago, and it was understood tha
he was returning to Ceylon under tn
advice of Lord Roberts, after hearin:
MacDonald's version of the charges.