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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20

The local market for spots closed and UNCHANGED
ni41hng upland is quoted I275c. midEIine c;IF -
-ac sales were s25 bales 70 spinuers Southern sn0t
markets were telsEraphed follows: Wilmington ana
Noble nominal Baltimore nominal. unchanged al "a
Galveston steady. unchanged l2sc: Savannah -ier
unesa1e=d ar l2'< Augusta nominal. unchanged a.
lar norfolk steady unchanged l2lzc ST. T0uis -ge
Unchanged. al 1910; Ne-oreaas steady uncha1rss A.
1880. sales. 500 bales. 81
Receipts ~ the ports and interior points TO-DAY RIM,
L--.- VIII he same day last week and as- 20.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20

Lackawanna Railroad.
Leave New York foot Barclay and Christopher stS-
s. A M-FOr BinghamtOn and Syracuse
80 90 A. M.-For Buffalo. Chicago and St Louis
II P M-Pocono Mountain Special
P. M.-For Buffalo and Chicago
I NJ Scranton and Plymouth.
IS 10 p. M.-FOr Buffalo and Chicago
IS AZ p. M.-Utca, Oswego. ithaca. Buffalo
- 90 A N-For Chicago-SeepsTs open P. N.
Tickets at 16T 429 1883 Broadway, y Y 33S Fulton
St Brooklyn. "Daliy. Except Sunday. xThursdaYs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
THE STATE OF TRADE.

Buffalo Aug I9-FLOUR firm. WHEAT-spring de
nand light: No l Northern spot carloads orsred 81 -
z. winter firm for red easy for white; NO red soc
No white SIC asked CORN, quiet and easy No corn
5Ta579.c. OATS weak and lower; No white ds51G
No . mixed 35c BARLEY and RYE, nothing doing
CANAL FREIGHTS steady.
Chicago Aug 19.-Ths leading futures ranged as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
ROYAL BLUE LINE.

sIaly. TDaily. except sunday SUNDAY
Oflces. Ferry. Asror House.
167 26l 1890 1884 Broadway. Is2 5th Av. IS unlon
So1iara West l53 East 125th 273 ST.
columbus Ave New Court S., S48. SEQ Button
81 Frooklyu. $50 Broadway. williamsburg New York
Transfer Co calls checks baggage 20 destination
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
NAVAL STORES.

The market for spirits turpentne steady but IN
changed ruled firm Tar was STEADY 10 nri-
We quote:
TAR-Pne bbls. 50 20; oil bills 81 50q$4 go - 20
ROSIN-Comuloa good strained 81 9oGS-: D -
81 G5; r 50 =; G g % II s. 60; s. TO- b. 50 %
STOCK on HAND.
Rosn 10 I9 pkss
Spirits rurpeutIne.
90 . o
wilmington. Aug. 1g-spirits turpentlne-Nothing DO
bbls. ROsin--Nothing doing receipts
q bbs. Crude tu-pentine hrm 81 20 g p ana 80 %
receipts firm. 81 e. receipts. % bbIs
Savannah aug; 1e-rurpentLne nrm. s. z6 receipts
LOGS hhls; sales. LIZ: exports $40 quoted; a b g.
X s. o. NJ SO G5 n 81 Is: " G So 30 u, 50 so.
Charleston Aug Ig-Turpentine nominal Rosin steady
Quoted A j. Q. and Z. 81 65 z. 81 TO- G. 81 500
H 81 y; / s. 20; X. s. S.; NJ s. 50. n. So o5' G.
IS 20: " w Sc 90
New-orleans. Aug. 1s.Recepts: Rosin so bbls; tur-
Mexico, rosin, 200 bbls.
London Aug OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4Os l015d Rosin
American strained. IS 41sd, fine. 9s-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20

COFFEE CAELES-EIO-Cofee market firm No Z
Rio 3Ss25 exchange y 5-a2-. receipts. 2looo bags.
United States. 5000 bags cleared for
Europe. 1000 bags. stock 69eo 600 bags sANT0s-
Coffee market strong, GOO average santos 5SVs@'
BIRG-Clfee market opened 1l@A pig higher;
a. 2.gN J. 14Niz pig higher; sales,
i co. bags. HAvRE-Cofee market opened steady, I
= franc higher L ~ unchanged; at quiet
January, = franc soWer; other months Unchanged al
q IN IN "a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
HEW YORK. ONTlRIO 3 WESTERa BY.
LEHICH VALLEY.
Foot Of West sd COFtaadt and Desbrosses &C

Tickets and Pullman accommodations ls
80 - sSh Az Union sggATe West rs Columbus
s. Brooklyn n J. Ir&sAfer Co vii ea Tor cheek hz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
stlcal position OF Brazilian cof1ee IS as fol-

CCTTON-Trading cotton continues along the narrow
i1eE recently The market opened steady
advance Of points decline Of . points the
declines being August and SepteUber while the later
positions az points higher. The declines
due realizing while the other positions sustained
b. The steady cables and continued talk OF too much rain
Sc Of belt and Of damage by boil weeviL
A. the start however there was little demand from any
weather. aside from continued rains IN the
eastern het and Texas. vas generally favorable ana
later English cables denoted declining tendency abroad
ms brought about realizing by recent buyers and az the
end OF rhe minutes September showed a
loss o. points with other months from 1d3
lower dull and neglected during entire
session. sold high l23 Doc, low Il 25c
closed DC. around 10 sc for September how
ever the clique became aggressive and their sup
the contingent. which
continued a small scale during the balance
During the afternoon there
Gr-l--E- due realizing. and the market finally
Hrfle OF the best. The close dull prices
point higher 20 points lower. declines being
the positions. while only January showed any
advance. Sales We're estimated at 1900 bales Two
thousand hundred bales OF cotton
from Liverpool tis morning. and curious coincidence
goo bales were SHIPPED from here 70 that market
bales ~ Ie crop cotton received the
ports comparing with about $50 bales during the
day ast and the continued backwardness the
new eroP movement iE q course. sustaining factor
Eew-Nark sales, which have become
trr7rc-1t, amounted - 925 bales, all spinners
The range Of contract prices il the market to-day
as follows,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD


Chicago, Pittsburg. -l-1o ut LII 1T
Chica1o 55pm Diner.
PitdsburE. Cleveland S5Spm- 3 4Opm- l1ultd
sEF5fftsburE LImfted". 6.55pm- 700pm. Buffet
Cincinnati, Louis. - 10 - is Sleeper
Louis. 80 2Jan- 80 3Jan- Diner
Louis. 55pm. O0pul BuHeg
Norfolk S5pu- = lOJpu- DlnsE-
TDAiy. sunday s51ndAy only
Cfices. IG7. 2GI 43i 100 broadway. Aston Hous~s
linton square W ssI Grand St y Y, Ss3 Flton 81,
T3rok vu south Ferry Liberty ST. BaEgago checke1
Froun hotel or residence destination
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20

Receipts OF b-eadstufs interior points thousands
last three cphers 600 omitted. -four bbls grain BUSH
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05

If the proposition to issue bonds
for a new court house and Jail is sue.
cessful it will mean the expenditure
of a large sum of money among the
mechanics, laborers and other work
men Of the county. To disburse about
$4,000 in a community Of the size OF
Billings means the addition Of a con.
siderable amount to the circulating
medium and all will receive a pro-
portion of the benefit of it's expendi-
ture. If the laboring men of the city
consult their own interests they will
lend a deaf ear to the arguments and
pleadings of those who are opposing
the contemplated improvements and
vote for the bonds.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05

Their cession would ont only materi-
ally help the community, but the in
terests of the Indians themselves de-
mand that this be- done. They have
more land than they need or desire
and are eager to sell in order that
they may derive the money needed
to place them on a self-supporting
basis and thus be prepared against
the day that is inevitably coming
when the government will cas- to
contribute to their maintenance and
they must care for themselves or
starve.
Even if all cannot agree in detail
with the gentleman whose ideas The
Gazette prints today, certainly all will
agree with him as to the Importance
of taking speedy action in the matter
and the folly that would be commit
ted we're the question to be permit
ted to again lapse until the closing
days of congress. The earlier some
thing is done to shape a policy in
this regard is second only in import
ance to earnest and continued effort
thereafter.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05
EIGHTEEN WEARS OLD.

This number of The Gazette marks
the nineteenth year upon which it is
entering, making it the Oldest news
paper, but one, in the Yellowstone
valley. During the eighteen years
that have passed since the first is
sue of The Gazette made it's appear
ance, a long time in the life of a news
paper, although reckoned as time it.
self goes, but q mere span in existence,
many changes have occurred in
persons and surroundings and only
then. From a struggling and strug-
Cling little village Billings has grown
in Importance until it is now n of
the leading cities of the state and one
of the most promising in the north
west. AS the town progressed so The
Gazette has progressed and prospered,
ever extending it's sphere of infiu-
ence and usefulness, until it has be-
come one of the recognized institu-
tions of the territory in which it is
published. While striving to be dis
tinctly a local newspaper, yet it has
a subscription list that covers not
only almost every county in eastern
Montana, but extende into adjoin-
ing states and is a welcome visitor
IN homes far removed from the city
in which it makes it's appearance.
Grateful for the encouragement and
support given it in the past, The Ga
zette enters upon it's new year with
every determination to be worthy OF
the same generous patronage hitherto
accorded it and will strive harder than
ever TO be worthy of the good will
and esteem of it's friends and the
public.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05

1t would be indeed strange if any
of the men who have been compelled
to do service as jurors would be found
voting against an issue Of bonds for
the construction of a new court house.
BY experience they have learned what
an lily ventilated, unsanitary and dis
graceful affair the present court house
is. 1t is a menace to the health and
comfort of all who are compelled
to occupy it and should be suffered
to exist only long enough to enable
a new one to be built.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05
ANOTHER HOPE SHATTERED.

Because of his alleged friendliness
to the workingmen and the manner
in which he interpreted the law in
every case brought before him in
which the wage workers have been
interested, the democrats have been
exploiting the possible candidacy OF
Judge Parker on every occasion that
the presidency has been mentioned.
BY making appeals of this kind the
newspapers of the party have hoped
to create a sentiment in favor of the
New York jurist that they believed
would be productive of a demand for
his nomination so strong that it could
not be ignored. But it seems that
they have had too much confidence in
the man. He is not the ~unalterable
and answering friend of the toilers
that he has been painted. A few days
ago he joined in an opinion delivered
by the New York court of appeals.
the highest tribunal in that state, in
which the eight-hour law passed by
the legislature of that commonwealth
is declared to be unconstitutional.
The case in which the decision was
rendered was one brought to test the
validity of the law which prohibits
public contractors from working their
men more than eight hours a day.
Thus is another democratic POSSIBLE
ity" shattered and the party of low
wages and unrestricted competition
with the pauper labor of the older
world countries will have to look else
working VOTE"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05
IN r
High School Teacher Released by
Board Of Education.

Because she failed to comply with
the school law requiring all teachers
of public schools in the state to have
certificates, Miss Straub, who has
been one of the teachers in the high
school, has been released by the board
of education. This action was taken
at a special meeting held last Friday
evening, when the teachers committee
which had investigated the matter
made it's report and recommended that
the lady be dismissed.
Miss Straub was engaged last year
coming here from Eugene, Ore. She
made application to the state board
of education for a state certificate
but, it is said, applied too late to have
the matter passed upon by that body
and according to her statement she
was given to understand that she
would be permitted to teach until next
month, when the board will have
another meeting. Meantime she failed
to comply with the law requiring all
applicants for positions of teachers
to submit to an examination before
the superintendent Of schools in the
county in which they desire to teach
although it is claimed that she once
did make an effort to pass such ex-
animation, but quit before it could
be concluded and never returned. I'm
der the law it became the duty OF the
superintendent to report the case to
the trustees and the same law made
it mandatory upon that body to dis
miss Miss Straub.
No attempt will be made by the
board to fill the vacancy caused by
the enforced retirement of the lady,
as the present semester is too near
it's end to justify tle employment OF
another teacher.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05
AN UNWORTHY OPPOSITION.

BY the time when another month
shall have passed the people of Yellow
stene county will have given expires.
sicE to their wishes in regard to the
erection of a M court house and
Jail to take the places OF the old struc-
lures now doing service in that ca.
Why it should be SO is diff
cult to understand, but for all that
there is considerable opposition and
unless the friends of improvement
and progress take an interest in the
matter and make their influence felt,
the proposition of issuing bonds is
likely to be defeated.
AS The Gazette has stated On a
previous occasion the desire to defeat
the bonds, is cherished by a small fac
ton who are animated by a selfish
and petty motive and who are wholly
disregardant of the wishes and best
interests Of the majority. They are
totally Indifferent to the needs of
the people and the Importance of those
needs and in order that they may at
tain their ends are willing to go to
almost any extreme. They may resort
to specious argument to make con-
verts to their side, but if their state
ments are analysed and their words
carefully weighed the Interior motives
underlying them will become apparent.
Yellowstone county needs and
should have a new court house and
Jail. Anyone c%onversant with the
situation will admit it. The two struc-
lures. that are now serving the people
for that purpose are no longer ade-
quate. They are ramshackle, dc
shacks and totally unfit for the use to
which they are put. The court house
is too small to accommodate the diff
ferent county Offices, while the jail
is unsafe and merely a pretense for
a building in which to house the many
desperate men who from time to time
are confined there. Both should be
replaced by new and modern build
ings.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05

1t is now in order for the newspa-
pers of democratic proclivities to make
another assault on government by
Injunction" Judge Knowles of the
federal district court for Montana has
granted the petition of the Western
Union company to enjoin the men
and boys of Butte who would interfere
with it's business in that place. The
injunction is only temporary; but dur
ing it's life the parties to whom it is
directed must not throw any more
stones or rotten eggs or intimidate
"scabs," or in any other way inter-
fere with the company or any of it's
employees when engaged in the dis
charge of their obligations TO the
company.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05

From a gentleman who has been
in close touch with some OF the men
connected with the irrigation bureau
of the department of the interior The
Gazette learned a few days ago that
in. all probability the government
would soon undertake something IN
the way of extensive irrigation pro-
iects in the Yellowstone valley. AS
related by him the proposition is to
take bitches from the Yellowstone
and reclaim the region between tne
present termini of the canals ALREADY
constructed and the mouth OF the
river. At the time he received MS
information matters were still in an
embryonic condition, but it was be-
lieved that they would assume tangi-
bility in the near future.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05
The Facts in the Case.
Communicated

Owing to the fact that she was mis-
informed as to the date on which the
applications for state certificates
were due, Miss Straub's application
arrived two days too late to be acted
upon at the December meeting OF the
| state board.
The statement, already made, that
Miss Straub had been notified twice
before she took the examination was
incorrect. The fact is that she was
moi notified and that she had no init
nation that such a course was neces-
sary, until the day before the exami-
nation which took place April "a and
Is, when she was told that it would
be necessary for her to take the ex-
animation upon the following day.
Since she had been allowed to teach
until that time on the strength of her
credentials, although two examina-
tions had been given since her permit
expired, and since she had been as
sured by State Superintendent WEIGH
that she would be granted a state
certificate in June, Miss Straub, know
ing that other teachers had been al
lowed to teach on exactly the same
conditions, felt that the demand made
of her was unjust and therefore re-
fused to take the examination, stating
~ %Lo n =, tiron fhof che would
hand in her resignation at once, if
such action were desired.
Having been prevailed upon, or the
second day, to take the examinations,
in order to avoid complications, Miss
straub attempted to do SO, but was
unable to complete the work in what
remained of the allotted time, and
therefore was not granted a certificate.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05

for leave to bring an action against
A. X. Wick and Belle Wick, defend
ants wife. The motion was granted
and an order was entered restraining
both defendants from transferring or
further incumbering in any way their
interest in the property involved in
the proceedings.
Saturday afternoon the attention OF
the court and a jury was occupied with
the case Of Link & Carter VS.. j. G.
Sherman. This was an action brought
by the plaintiffs for the purpose Of
recovering the sum of 1898, which
they claim was due them by defendant
for drawing plans and. preparing spec
ifications for a dwelling and for super
intending construction Of a foundation.
Payment was resisted on the ground
that when the plans were submitted
to contractors 1t vas found that the
building contemplated could not be
erected for the price stipulated and
guaranteed by the architects, namely
4 1000. Defendant admitted that he
owed plaintiffs $3.50 and previous to
the trial had rendered that amount
to them. An action in the Justices
court resulted in a verdict for a
smaller sum and an appeal was taken.
The jury found for the plaintiff in the
amount admitted by the defendant in
his ~pleadings.
A jury was empannelled yesterday
morning to try the case of F. w.
Schauer VS.. the Italian Ditch company,
an action for damages and injunction.
The complaint was filed last October
and on the 18th of that month Judge
Loud. in chambers at Miles City, grant
ed an alternative writ OF mandate.
Schauer, who owns a ranch q Few
miles west Of Laurel, alleges that be-
cause Of neglect on the part OF the
officers Of the defendant company
water from it's ditch last summer
overlooked his land and ruined a five
acre tract OF alfalfa, causing him dam
ages to the extent of $215, and also
that Is tons Of alfalfa hay were
damaged because Of the same reason,
thereby i~nflicting another loss Of 500.
Judgment is demanded for $315 and
costs Of action and the court is pray
ed to issue a perpetual injunction
against the defendant, restraining it
for all time from permitting its over
flow waters to run onto PLAINTIFF
land. The case was still in hearing
this forenoon. n
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05
NEW PLAN SUGGESTED.

1t is doubtful whether any possible
national legislation so much inter-
ests the people of Yellowstone county
and this particular portion of the
state as any action congress may take
in reference to the opening OF a
part of the Grow Indian reservation
because nothing that the legislative
body of the nation could do would so
closely and intimately affect them. For
this reason the subject of the possible
cession of the lands now held and
owned by the Indians of that tribe
is one that is always uppermost in
the minds OF a majority and anybody
who has anything to offer that is cal
culated to hasten fruition of the long
cherished hope is always certain of
a hearing, especially when such sug-
gestion combines practicability and
feasibility.
Elsewhere in this issue of The Ga
! zette appears an article containing
the views and opinions of one of the
most prominent citizens of Billings
and eastern Montana, one who has
been closely identified with every
movement instituted in the direction
of securing to settlement that part
OF the reservation not necessary to
the support tsnd maintenance of the
Crows. The suggestions he offers are
new and will probably strike all as
about the most feasible ones that have
been made, as they are calculated to
overcome the objections urged in con.
gress-the expenditure of any of the
national funds for the purchase of In
dian lands and the subsequent offer
ing of those lands under the provis-
ions of the homestead law. OF
course, it would be preferable were
congress otherwise minded, but so
long as it appears impossible to have
the reservation opened under the old
conditions it behooves those most in
terested to make the best of the sit
uation and put forth their efforts for
the evolvement of an idea and plan
likely to meet with the least objec.
ton from congress and yet secure
those lands to settlement. Under
some such scheme as is proposed by
the gentleman in his interview the In,
dians would receive payment for their
lands at a fair and equitable valuation
and no expense would be entailed up
on the government, except, possibly
the small amount involved in making
surveys and paying the appraisers.
Should some one else have a plan
that would to him seem more prob
able of success it is to be hoped that
he will give the benefit of it to the
people. II is absolutely necessary fol
the future welfare and prosperity OF
Billings and the surrounding terri
tory that the useless lands of the
Grows be opened and placed on the
FF6skSthe ear|iest possible date,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-05

Notice has been received by the
Custer Cattle company of it's success
as a bidder for supplying the Crow
and Cheyenne Indians with beef for
the year beginning July 1, next. The
contract awarded calls for the deliv-
cry, on the hoof, of COG, 900 pounds
of beef at the Grow agency ana 80O,-
900 pounds at the Cheyenne agency.
The price TO be paid is 3k cents per
pound.