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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-09
THE TOWN AFFAIRS
Report of the Town Council Of
of the Town of Forsyth,
August 1904 to March 1905
(By Courtesy of J. B. Collins.)

Forsyth as municipality is now
seven months old. That incorporation
has proven a success, Will be denied
by no one. The present Town Council
before turning the management of town
affairs over to its successors, desires
to briefly recount its labors and to
present to the citizens of Forsyth re-
port of the trust confided to it.
It's first meeting was held in the
open air in front of J. e. Choissser's
place of business, no quarters for
meeting having as yet been secured.
The meeting was called to order by
Mayor c. B. Taber, and Alderman d.
J. Muri acted as Clerk. The following
aldermen answered to the roll call:
c. w. Bailey and w. M. Martin of the
first ward; d. J. Muri and B. Blum of
the second ward. Alderman d. J.
Muir was duly elected President of the
Council, aud the Mayor announced the
following appointments:
For Town Attorney, John c. Lyndes;
for Town Clerk and Urea surer, J. b.
Collins; for Police Judge, H. h.
Marcyes; for Town Marshall, O. O.
Billie. Mr.. Lyndes served as Town
Attorney till January 1905, when he
resigned and F. V. H. Collins, Esq,
was appointed. Mr.. J. B. Collins de-
clined the appointment of Town Clerk
and Treasurer, and Alderman G. w.
Bailey was appointed Clerk, and E. F.
Meyerhotf, Town Treasurer. Mr..
Billie served as Town Marshall till
January 1905, when he resigned and
Mr.. D. J. Smith was appointed.
Thus organized, the new city govern
ment started onits career, handicapped
with no funds in the treasury, with M
record books, in fact with none of tn,
essentials necessary to conduct its
affairs; but all these obstacles were
in time, overcome, and the Council
proceeded in the work before it. Being
actively supported by the citizens ant
assured of their cooperation in al
things having for their object the bet
terment and advancement of the tow,
and all it's residents, the Council ha
met with no obstacles and has bee
able to accomplish much that otherwis
would have been difficult to attain.
Cross walks have been placed wher
most needed, sidewalks have been lai
and repaired, and further ones cor
templated in the near future. So ia
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-09

The initial number of the Yellow
stone Monitor reached our exchange
table last week with the customary
request to exchange, which invitation
we gladly accept. The Monitor teens
with news of the county of Dawson and
city of Glendive; its advertising pat
ronage is all that could be expected
and, in fact, better than that enjoyed
by the average country newspaper. If
the Monitor maintains the patronage
and continues to publish as newsy a
paper as is the initial number, it will
become a factor in newspaperdom in
Montana, regardless of the fact that it
is one of three papers now published at
&lendive. The policy of the paper
will be strictly independent.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-09

A man passed through Kansas the
other day bearing the inscriptions:
Colorado and irrigation. Kansas and
stagnation, populistic administration
and damnation. I'm going to my
wife's relation, and make no demon
stratlon " This man and others with
his affection ought to come to Montana
where there is no stagnation, and a
man with education can engage in
speculation, bring along his wife's
relation, have good times and free sal
walton, with no danger of starvation.
This is worth considerations Won
derland,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-09

Governor Hanly of Indiana says he
will never appoint a man to office who
drinks. 1t is fortunate for the Demo-
Gratis that Hanly is a Republican,
Helena Daily Record.
AS the Republicans have long since
joined the funnel club they will, of
course, be exempt from the governors
manifesto.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-09

as possible the streets have been kept
in good condition and the alleys and
rear yards have been given close at
tention and in the main, have been
we'll kept.
The sanitary condition of the city
has received the watchful care and
consideration of the Council, who, aided
by the city and county boards of health
and the libera lity of the Board of
County Commissioners, succeeded in
keeping out the appearance of smallpox
that had become epidemic in our neigh
boring cities, so that not single case
appeared in our midst.
The Council, however, would take
this opportunity of cautonng the resi-
dents of the city not to be lax in the
care of their property. A general
cleaning up should be inaugurated as
soon as the frost is out of the ground
and the opportunity presents itself for
an overhauling of all yards and prop
erty abutting on streets and alleys.
The Town asentered into contract
with the Electric Light Co. whereby
it rents eight street arc lights at
monthly rental of $40 per light The
business portion of the town is now
well lighted, as is a greater portion of
the resident part of the town. AS nee
essty arises and it is deemed wise and
best, additional lights may be placed
where needed, at satisfactory rates.
Through the vigilance of the Town
Marshall and the Night Watchman,
aided wherever necessary by the Sher-
ifs office. good order has been main
tanned, day and night The lawless
and rough element of society has been
kept on the move and not allowed to
remain here.
The most cordial and friendly rela-
tons exist between the Town and
County authorities, which in no small
measure accounts for the success of the
town administration, both being imbued
with the same idea of carrying out and
enforcing the laws as made by the
people, with the intent that good order
may prevail and that the people may
rest in the quiet and peaceful posses
sion of their rights, enjoying that full
liberty of thought and expression COM
patable with good government.
In con clusion the Council submits
the following report of receipts and ex-
penditures from August, 1904 to March
4th, 1905.
RECEIPTS
FROM Licenses. ..............S $50. 81
! FROM ines. ....,........,... 14So. ~
From Pound Fees. .. 0C
From Dog Tax. 65.OC
From Expenses Electric Light
Election, refunded 5000
From County taxes, 1904. 80. 1909. g.
Total S;1OO <
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-09

Leave orders for the celebrated Red
Lodge coal at the Bert Coleman s. Co.
store, at Thompson's or at my resi-
dence. Nj. NJ. Austin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
Current and the Compass.

From the New York Sun
Even a steam dredge has pride and is
therefore unwilling to admit that it de-
posted itself voluntarily on the shores of
Long Island. At any rate the captain OF
the government dredge which went aground
a day or two ago on Jones bar has de-
clared that he was carried thither by
strong current setting toward the beach
and by a compass which had one or two
points of undetermined error. These two,
the current and the treacherous compass.
are old familiar friends of stranded skip
pers. For many years that deadly current
which drives vessels toward the south
beach of Long Island has been famed in
nautical song and story. Curiously enough.
there are shippers and shippers who forget
all about 1t TIL they hear the keels grating
In the sand, and then they remember that
every one knows that perfidious stream
which sets men toward Shinnecock or Fro
Island.
And there is the fallible compass, too
Every navigator knows that the compass
Is subject to the seductions Of neighboring
steel and iron. and that only In a few
places on the earth does It point to geo.
graphical north anyhow. But somehow
there are still captains who do not recall
these facts till they have gone aground
Then these captains are swift to confess
that their compasses were not telling them
the truth. which Is the same as admitting
that they did not know whittier they were
steering. But current or no current, COM
pass or no compass. there Is a friend who
never deceives the mariner. and who can
be trusted implicitly In the approach to
Sandy Hook from all quarters OF thu sea
That friend Is the lead line. When a cap
tain goes ashore on the Long Island or New
Jersey beach. 1t is usually because he has
forgotten to make systematic use OF the
lead. and strangely enough he never ac-
cuses that instrument Of ineffciency when
he Is publishing his excuses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
Falls Church News.
Special Correspondence OF The Star

EArr q /,rYr,D1rr -
nonC1' va June x, 100.
"A speclai meeting OF the town council was
held Tuesday night The clerk stated that
Messrs. w. N lynch ana w IT 49,,
uho u,.ro .,o...a -. No""i.
.,s., ,"'' "eeh at the general
eiec'ioh ior councllmen, TO NIL vacancies in
the council, had qualified. Upon roll call
the following members wera no+ad ,r.,.,..
Messra tJilIior 1I,.. r,,,,
t.u AhuS'' H'iiisoii' him-
Da"' No"iah ana Lynch Messrs. Birge,
thompson. Crump and Drummer were abb
sent, but all came later Mr. Bfrre ones.
toned the RIGHT ~ Mas,r. nyo,
Iynot o.. "iah anu
IA ZIG oouheii anu ciaimeo
the councii alone could fill the two vacan-
being considered members
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ing former act;ons ~ H. oo,no,I ~ 80,
cases that the chartar rrow,anJ . II. siiliiai
cl could onlv An vacanoias ,,n.u IN. .na. couI
election bw tha 1901. 80 nv e1 tne annual
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menced on tha,r ta,,,ua ~. VI vice cuni
thev are NOW ,na,hara - st re- oaon, ano that
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
Trespass by Telephone.
From the philadelphia Ledger.

rom tue IuilaueipuIa SAuSer
The invention of new machinery, devices,
processes. Is continually bringing up new
questions Of law, puzzling judges. lawyers
and laymen. The trolley brought It's prob
lens; the submarines. when they are used
for commercial purposes. will undoubtedly
pose the lawma kers: the power OF modern
guns on men-of-war has made obsolete the
old three-miie rule as to the limit OF terri
torial waters; and when the balloon shall
become a passenger vehicle what wisdom
Will frame the rules of the road or the law
OF trespassf Just now the law relating to
the telephone is OF interest What consti-
tutss breach Of the peace by 'phone7
Judge Brady OF Kansas City has Just de-
cided such case which. by reason OF it,
roranttc connection. appeals to all. Wal
ter Clark had proposed to a maiden and
had been rejected. He renewed his propos-
ais over the telephone: called up the fair
one several times. and was turned down."
Hc was not dismayed. but called" in tho
morning and In the afternoon and in the
dewy eve, and sometimes at night The
doors may be barred and a rejected sutton
kept out, but how Is the telephone to be
guarded? Judge Brady took these ques-
tons under consideration and ruled that
after a girl had rejected q man she had
the fnalienabie right ITO have him stay re-
Jected." and that the use OF the telephone
could and should be classed as a style of
importantly amounting to breach OF tho
peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
FOREIGN BANK BUSINESS.

LONDON. June 22.-The weekly state
ment of the Bank OF England shows the
following changes: Total reserve Increased
fIs3OO0; circulation decreased 10000: bull
lion increased fT43, $50: other securities in
creased fuOO0O: other deposits increa sed
f6IS.oOc: public deposits Increased f724 900:
notes reserve increased fs6i 900: government
securities unchanged. The proportion of
the banks reserve to liability this week Ia
51.@ per cent as compared with 5O9l Der
cent last week
The rate OF discount OF the Bank of Eng
land remains unchanged today at 2h per
cent.
BERLIN. June 22.-Exchange on London
- marks Al pfenngs for checks Discount
rates. short bills. 2ss per cent: three months,
per cent.
PARIS. June 22-The weekly statement
OF the Bank of France shows the following
changes: Notes in circulation decreased 81. :
l23.OOO francs: treasury accounts current In
creased 45,775OO0 francs: general accounts
current increased 20. 575 900 francs; gold In
hand decreased s.625 900 francs bills dis
counted Increased 4.500. 600 francs.
Three per cent rentes 9S francr l7L CEN
times for the account. Exchange on Lon
- francs IS confines for checks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
improvements at Naples.
From the London Tfmes.

The Duke of Andria. a membar y. A..
Italian senate and president of the society
known as Pro-Napoli. writes from p,a,,.
Vittorla Z, Naples: About a fortnight 400
some passengers on their way from E.evnt
oy the Orient line landing at NapIes On a
very wet day, complained severely of the
inconvenience and trouble met with dur
ing the inspection Of their baggage. am
informed that many. highly incensed. said
tney would advise their friends at home
to abstain from visiting Naples
Permit me to state that many i'm prove
ments are being carried out on the pier. and
by next season all the above lamented IN
conveniences will be completely removed.
and passengers will be able to land under
cover. IT will perhaps be OF some use TO
your readers. tourists especially, to be in
formed That our society under the name Of
fFo-NapoH, was instituted in 1893 for the
purpose Of supplying travellers gratuitously
with all Information and assistance. as we'll
as promoting economical and sanitary i'm
provements designed to remove what gen.
very often causes them to shorten their
stay ana carry back very bad opinion Of
Naples and its Inhabitants
The efforts OF our society have I'M to
the present been most successful. and we
have not the least doubt that gradually its
patient and difficult tasks will be fully
realised. The Pro-Napoli Society published
In 1900 pamphlet. containing its program
for advocating all important improvements
which Naples had right to claim, and al
most all OF its suggestions have lately been
adopted by the government and the NUM-
cipaiity. At present our COM
mittee Ii giving its attention to checking
the abuses. reported by the Messrs Cook
relating to guides and porters on the sum-
nit OF vesuvius. which are most annoying
to strangers. and doubtless such intolerate
nuisances will in future be avoided"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
REVIVAL OF AsIAT1o PRESTIGE.
Swing of the Pendulum Of Ascendancy
Between East and West

Between East and West.
From the New York Sun.
1t is now more than twenty-three hundred
years since Herodotus expounded to the as
sembled Greeks his celebrated theory that
the cardinal fact in history was the inter-
action Of Asia and Europe the pendulum of
ascendancy swinging now to the east and
now to the west From the fall Of Troy
to the memorable land and sea fight at
Mykale he depicted many a vicissitude. but
of course ne could not foresee that the
grandsons Of the men who heard him would
witness the destruction Of the Persian en-
pire by Alexander and the penetration OF
India by the Macedonian phaianx. As HIT
tie could the western peoples, which in the
nineteenth century despoiled and insulted
China and wrenched open the gates Of
Japan. have expected that in the course Of
few decades a far eastern nation would
exhibit degree of military and naval ef-
hciency unsurpassed. II eQualed in the nn-
mails Of mankind.
Had our memories been more tenacious
none OF us would have taken for granted.
as most of US have, that Asia was beyond
the hope Of resurrection. doomed to perma-
nent prostra alton under the European heel.
Such. undoubtedly was the delusion in
which the eastern subjects of the Roman
empire long abided. although such defeats
as those of Crassus ard Valerian ought to
have excited deep misgivings. Everybody
imagined that the oriental wave had spent
itself when Hannibal was routed at Zama.
and nobody could have anticipated that.
from the second half OF the seventh to near
the close Of the seventeenth century, Ell
rope would be haunted with the dread Of
Astatic invasion and conquest. Yet more
than thousand years were to elapse from
the seizure Of Roman Syria by successor
of Mohammed to SObieskfs repulse OF the
Turks from before the walls of Vienna. OF
all Aryan countries Russia had least rea-
son to arrogate an innate superiority over
the Turanian stock The grand dukes OF
Muscovy had been paying tribute for two
centuries to the Mongol rulers OF the Golden
Horn when the Turks took Constantinople.
and some three and half centuries more
were to elapse before the Russians regained
control of the Crimea. Even China in the
seventeenth century. when the Manchu dy-
nasty was young. drove Muscovite pioneers
and merchants out of Manchuria and forced
them by treaty to retire behind the Amur
river. History, therefore. will but repeat
itself when Russia submits to similar boun-
dares at the command Of the Japanese.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
'Spoon-Bill" Idiots.
From the London Telegraph

The late Prof. Laycock of Edinburgh
University used to divide idiots into two
classes-poverty idiots and luxury idiots.
The former were characterized by physical
dcformity and the latter by refined and del
!cate configuration. small heads and great
prominence OF the central region Of the
race The luxury idiots. whom he traced to
Incidence and self-indulgence through many
generations with breeding in-and-in. he
called also 'spoon-bill' idiots, and used to
point out that they were of the type repre-
scented as aristocratic noodles. There was
less breeding in-and-in among the upper
classes than there used to be. but he HIM
self did not doubt that exemption for q
number of generations from any particiPa-
ton in the struggle for existence, with high
Feeding and effeminacy. tended to induce
mental weakness Of special type.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
THE MOROCCAN ISSUE
ANSWER OF FRANCE TO THE GER
MAN NOTE EXPECTED.

BERLIN. June 22-France's answer to
the German note on the Morocco question
has not yet reached the foreign Office. but
1t Is expected that Ambassador Bihourd
will present 1t in the course of the after
noon. The foreign office only knows the
contents through press reports. and MAIN
tains complete silence concerning the sit
uation as left by Frances answer.
The impression made here Is that tthe
answer does not promote an understanding
between France and Germany. but the for
eign Office here does not abandon the hope
Of an adjustment of the differences In a
manner satisfactory to Germany.
Tranquility at Paris.
PARIS. June o. $50 p.m.-Official cir
cles here observe the outward appearance
OF entire tranquility over the FrancO-Ger-
man negotiations. but an undercurrent Of
considerable anxiety prevails relative to
Germany's answer to the French note.
This Is somewhat intensified by publica-
tions purporting to give Germany's inten-
ton to insist that the Moroccan confer
ence be not tramme!ed by specific limita--
lions upon Its scope.
Nothing however. has yet been received
from official sources indicating that such
Is the purpose of Germany. and Premier
Rouvier's associates maintain that AS his
note Is couched In calm. cOnciliatory
tone. there IL reason to expect that Ger
many will answer him in similar spirit
of Cancellation.
However. a considerable element in par
liamentary circles shows much so,citude
regarding the outcome of the negotiations.
Reports from the frontier continue to
show marked military activity and feel
ing Of unrest among the people living
along the border. The influential press. evil
IDENTIFY In accordance with the wishes of
the government. refrains from discussing
the military aspect. asserting that the ne
gotiations. while in a delicate stage. con-
tinue normal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
PATENT OFFICE PRINTING.
Contracts Awarded for the Photo
photographic Work.

The Secretary Of the Interior has ap-
proved the award OF contracts for the
photo-!ithographic work of the patent office
in four separate items. The award of the
contract for the gazette was made several
weeks ago to the Sackett-Wtlhelms Com
pany of New York. The other three Items
were let under a Reimbursement for bids.
the report of the committee appointed to
receive tne bids having been made yester-
day afternoon. All the the successful bid
ders were local firms. The work and
amount o. bids. with names OF successful
bidders. follow: Glass A. A. B. Graham
Company, S1O,772.J0; Glass B. Columbia
Paragraph Company, $1S.630; Glass G. the
Norris-Peters Company. $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
IT'S Graduates at Ann Arbor.

ANN ARBOR. Mich. June 22-At this
sixty-first annual commencement OF the Uni.
versity of Michigan today degrees were con-
ferred on 776 graduate students. divided as
follows among the different departments;
Literary. $40; engineering. SO: medical. 81;
law. pit: pharmacy. 81; dental. SO; homeO-
pathic medical, IL.
The commencement Grafton was delivered
by Henry s. Pritchett, president of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology. His
subject was: Shall the University Become
a Business OrganiZa tion?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22

An Ohio manufacturer tells this story OF
Mark Hanna. The senator often walked
through his mill. examining this and that.
One day while on such tour he heard a
boy say: II wish had Hannas money and
he was In the poorhouse." The senator
smiled grinly and on returning to his ONCE
sent for the boy. 80 you wish you had
my money and was in the poorhouse. chr
he said. "Now supposing you had your
wish. what would you do?" The youngster.
one OF the ready-witted Irish variety, said
with droll grin: We'll. guess I'd get you
out Of the poorhouse. the first thing" This
adroi, answer brought the lad an increase
Of pay the next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
Talking Locomotives.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.


Six short toots are sent forth by the
locomotive every morning as my train
passes Cynwyd," said a suburbanite. II
asked the engineer yesterday what those
toots meant. and he told me they were
conversation he was holding with his
wife
He said he lived at Cynwyd. in a cot
tage near the railroad. and each morninr
as he passed his home he told his wife what
time he would return that night UsuaIiy
he returned at 6-hence the six short toots
X 1t was .. there were five toots. and 90
on.
He said there were lots OF engineers
and hremen who could talk with the
whistle by means Of signal codes OF their
own devfsing. He said there were even
some men who, using the teiegraphic code
OF shorts and longs. q toot for q tick. could
say anything the pen or tongue could
say"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
Cornell Graduation Exercises.

ITHACA, N. Y. June 22.-The thirty-sev.
enth annual commencement OF Cornell Unit
versity was held in the armory today be-
fore the largest throng OF visitors In the
history OF the institution. First degrees
were conferred upon Gil students In this
different courses. and sixty-seven advance
degrees were conferred upon others. Pres
ident Jacob Gould Schurman delivered his
annual address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-22
Colgate University Degrees.

HAMILTON. N. Y, June 22.-Co!gate
University conferred the following honor
airy degrees today: Doctor Of divinity. Rev.
William Woodbury. Pratt OF Philadelphia
and Rev William Blocker Matteson OF Red
Bank. n. j.. doctor of laws. President
Abraham Coles Osborn. DID,. OF Benedict
College, Columbia, 8. G.