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The independent., 1905-08-24

Every man owes 1t To himself and
his family to master trade or pro-
fession. Read the display advertise
ment of the six Morse Schools of
Telegraphy, in this issue and learn
how easily a young man or lady may
learn telegraphy and be assured a
position.
BY imperial ukase Vice Admiral
Kruger has been placed on the retired
list. Commander Gazevitch of the
battleship Georgi Podiadonostz, and
the commander of the transport Prout,
on both of which vessels mutinies oc-
CURED recently have also been re-
tired.
The independent., 1905-08-24
DO YOU WANT A PIANO?

Here is bargain. A new piano
never taken out of shop. worth $3.50.
We have it in part payment of adj
vertising contract. It cost us $3.50.
We will sell the same at discount
of 25 per cent.
Write or call on
The independent., 1905-08-24
che.p Lands In tho South 8 soushwes

For homes or investment. Timber coal, farm
ing and grazing lands, large or small tracts
easy terms. List of land bargains free. Ad-
dress, 10. "A. PARKER. Louisville. KY.
The independent., 1905-08-24

znn Central Kansas farms Reasonable
OvJvJ You can't INSIST where corn wheat
oats, and alfalfa. all grow well:
abundance of good water; fine stock country,
BARGAINS:- 400 acres, finely improved, $50
acres alfalfa and bluegrass $40 per acre. 220
acres well improved: fine spring: timber: some
bottom 20 acres alfalfa; Price $4,000 90. 80 acres
all smooth; small improvements: wen located:
t2100O Write US for good descriptions on these
farms and lists Garrison and Studebaker, Flor
ence, Kansas; also offceS at Salina and Min
neapeliE.
The independent., 1905-08-24

Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 21.--Tht
Independent this evening contains tht
following letter on the pass question
To the Republicans of Hall County
The independent., 1905-08-24
TRUTH ABOUT PASS
SEATTLE MAN SHOWS WHY THEY
ARE BRIDES
Those Who Use Them Are Placed
Under Obligation to Railways by
a Law of Human Nature-Case Of
Lord Bacon


Seattle, Wash, Aug. 19.-John E.
Humphriess in his address before the
University Community club, spoke as
follows concerning Railroad Passes
and Corruption"
Corruption in public Office, graft
and bribery are eating out the morals
of the people. When | came to the
territory Of Washington the constitu-
tional convention was in session.
had prepared provision to put into
the constitution prohibiting public of.
ficers from accepting passes from
transportation companies. / forwarded
the provision to Senator Trustin p.
Dyer, member of the constitutional
convention. The provision provided
that any public officer accepting a
pass from transportation company
should forfeit his office.
drastic PTonlpbtIOHS
The members of the constitutional
convention, all of them with passes
in their pockets, placed the provision
in the constitution, with an amend
ment that the legislature could pass
laws to place the provision into ef-
feet; but finally the legislature of
1905 enacted statute prohibiting the
use of passes When the freehOlders'
committee for forming the charter OF
Seattle was in session, a provision
was placed in the charter of the city
of Seattle prohibiting any member OF
the city government or public officer
from accepting or riding upon passes.
1t was provided that any member
violating the charter provision should
forfeit his office and forfeit all the
salary collected by them. have been
told that numbers of the city officials
for years have been accepting passes;
they have been using them; they
have become slaves and servants of
the great octopus.
Story of Lord Bacon
When Lord Bacon was upon the
bench of the high court of England
he accepted from litigants twenty
three different presents. He was
impeached for bribery and corruption
in Office He defended upon the
ground that he had decided the cases
according to- law and the facts, and
was not influenced by the presents
received; but it was determined that
1t was contrary to human nature for
man to accept a valuable present
from another and not be influenced
by that present. He was convicted,
given severe punishment and a fine
of 100000, Imprisonment and Danish
ment from court forever. The law of
human nature is the same today. No
member of congress, no senator of
the United States, no member of the
city council, no officer, state or mu-
nicipal government, can accept passes
from transportation companies with
out weakening his moral fiber.
Costly Congressman
The mileage allowed to some sena-
tors and some congressman, some
years, amounts to the enormous sum
of twenty-four hundred dollars. Trans
pcrtation companies furnish free
transportation to the senators and
congressman. They accept it, they
use it, and then put in their claim
for mileage, and put the mileage in
their pockets. They know and feel,
when they do it, that the transporta-
tion companies have handed over to
them twantv-foI1r hundred dollars.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
The News of the Week

The authorities at Hamburg declare
there are no new cases of cholera in
Hamburg and they believe the further
spread of the disease is impossible.
Information has reached London
from Sofia that 800 Bulgarian-Mace-
DOMAIN insurgents, followers OF Boris
Sarafoff, have left Sofia and are ex'
pected to raid Turkish territory.
The fire which broke out at Adrano-
pie Saturday ragged until Sunday, oW-
ing to lack of water. The greater part
of each of the six quarters of the city
was destroyed and the damage is esti
mated at 100000.
The international Law association
met at Christiania last week at the No
bel institute, There were forty foreign
delegates in attendance, including Ce-
phas Brainerd of New York, B. F..
Trueblood of Boston and James Cros-
by of Garnarville. Iowa.
St. Andrews university at Glasgow
on Oct. II will confer the honorary
degree of doctor of law on Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie, Whitelaw Reid, Charlie
magne Tower and Bishop Potter Of
New York, and Nicholas Murray But
Ter, president of Columbia university.
A bomb exploded with terrific force
on the marine parade at Barcelona,
Spain, which was thronged with hol-
iday crowd. A panic followed and the
air was rent with the shrieks and
groans of the fifty or sixty victims, in
Guiding one woman killed and five per-
sons mOrtally wounded. The perpe-
traitor of the outrage has not been
found.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
Washington.


Nearly one million names are on the
pension rolls of the United States, &C
cording to the annual report OF Col
Vespasian Warner, commissioner fof
pensions. Over $125,0OO,O00 are paid
out in pensions annually.
Consul General Rogers at Shanghai
cabled the state department that the
position there as to anti-American boy
colt was improving. The officials OF
the state department have come to the
conclusion that the boycott has prac-
tically exhausted itself, the Chinese
merchants finding that they them
selves were the principal losers.
The secretary of agriculture has is
sued an order revoking in part the or
der issued last March by which quar-
antine was placed again Far Western
states on account of the prevalence
of scabies among cattle in those states.
The secretary's revocation applies to
the states of Oregon and Washington,
to the eastern part of Kansas, the
western part of Colorado and parts of
Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and New
Mexico.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
Accidental Happenings.

Fire at Calumet Mich, destroyed
the manual training building of the
Calumet high school and the Misco.
waubik club house. Loss, 100000.
Five persons were injured and a
score of others were shaken up in
rear-end collision on the Rockford &
Freeport interurban railroad near
Winnebago, Ill.,
BY the explosion of a peanut rooster
at Evansville, Ind, at labor picnic
Fred Dillman, aged nine years, was
instantly killed and Vincent Ameroso
was probably fatally injured.
John H. Talem, son of B. H. Talem.
assayer in charge of the United States
assay Office at Helena, is dead on the
Cascade ranch from injuries sustained
while rounding up cattle. His horse
fell on him and he never regained con.
seriousness.
Four young women, two of whom
were returning from their fathers fu-
river at Hudson, N. Y, when the
small pleasure steamer Young Amerl-
ca was run down and sunk by the fer.
ry boat George H. Power.
Lightning struck barn on Floyd
SPARKS ranch on Clear creek, Carbon
county, Mont, and rendered four chill
dren, who were playing in the barn
unconscious. Ray Seaborough's
clothes and shoes were torn from his
body and he was severely bruised, but
may live.
Fire has completely destroyed the
Odd Fellows Orphan home, located
just south of Mason City, Iowa. No
loss of life has been discovered. The
inmates were mostly children and
aged persons, between 400 and 500 in
number. The loss is estimated at be,
tween $4,000 and $4,000
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
SPANISH WAR VETS ELECT,
Mai. Miller Is Commander-NextR Re.
union in Washington.

union IN washington.
Milwaukee, Sept. 1870 far as the
business to come before the second
annual encampment of the United
Spanish War veterans is concerned
the reunion is at an end. Yesterday
was busy day and most of the ques-
tons to come before the delegates for
deliberation were disposed of. With
the selection of a meeting place for
next years reunion and the election
of officers the work of the gathering
was practically finished. The contest
for cOmmander-in-chie was a spirited
one and resulted in the election of
Maj. Charles R. Miller of Cleveland
His opponent, Gen. George o. Noulton
of Chicago, was beaten by narrow
margin. Maj. Miller, who is a cousin
of the late president Mckinley, is a
leading lawyer of Cleveland For
senior vice commander, Mai. John M.
Harland of Buffalo was elected and
Capt. E. E. Kirk of California was
chosen as junior vice commander.
Washington, whose claims for the
next reunion were put forward by
Capt J. Walter Mitchell of that city,
was chosen over San Francisco.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
Boy ScaIded to Death,

Eveleth, Mimi, Sept. 10. - Dominic,
Beluscci, a seven-year-old boy living at
the home of James Maria, died Tues.
day noon of scalds which he received
Sunday noon. During the absence OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Maria he lodged under
a pan of hot water, which a twelve.
year-old girl was carrying, and upset
it on his head, neck and shoulders
His mother died last winter, and since
that time he and a brother have been
living with the Maria family.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
General.

The Mexican Power company of
New Jersey, capital $10,000,000 has
been organized.
Application has been made for the
appointment of a receiver for the First
National bank of Oxford, Ohio.
Harry Cooley was struck by North
Western passenger train in the yards
at Eagle Grove, Iowa. and killed.
The Philadelphia Traction company
has declared a semiannual dividend
Of 50 per share, payable Oct. 2, the
books to close Sept. 8.
The sixth annual convention of the
chief car inspectors and car foremen
of the railroads of the United States
opened at Cleveland, with an attend
ance of 200 delegates.
William B. Gill, aged fifty-nine for
merly district superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
died at his home in Cheltenham,
suburb.
Thomas Fitchie, ex-commissioner OF
immigration of the port of New York
and the original Mckinley man" of
Kings county, is dead at his home in
Brooklyn. He was seventy-two years
old.
Francis B. Stevens, a member OF
the we'll known Stevens family of Ho-
boken and grandson of the late Com
modore Stevens, committed suicide by
shooting at his home, THE Cottage"
at Westbury, l.. l.
Adam Bryant of Marion, one of the
best known hOrsemen in the state, was
taken to hospital at Cedar Rapids
to undergo an operation for cancer. AS
the physicians were administering
ether, Bryant died of hemorrhage Of
the brain.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
RUNAWAY ENGINE KILLS.
Heavy Machine Gets Beyond Control
and Runs Over Man.

Winona, Mimi, Sept 10. - Crushed
to death beneath the wheels of,
traction engine was the horrible death
of Ludwig Larson, farmer residing
near Pigeon Falls, Wis, this week, &C
cording to a report which reached
here yesterday. The engine was
about to be attached to the thresher
and moved to another setting. 1t had
to be backed down a slight enevation
to make the connection. Mr.. Lawson
was holding the tongue of the thresh-
er and was about to attach it to the
engine, when control of the engine
was lost. The heavy machine backed
down upon him before he could get
out of the way, throwing him to the
ground. One of the wheels passed
over his body, crushing his hips and
abdomen.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
PFIsTER SUES AccusERs.
Milwaukee Capitalist Brings Suit Tor
100000 DAMAGES.

SoOO,UuO Odmd9SS.
), Milwaukee, Sept. 10.-On charges OF
conspiracy, Charles F. Pfister, the
millionaire capitalist, banker and
newspaper owner of this city, began
suit yesterday for 100000 damages
against District Attorney Francis E.
McGovern, Assistant District Attorney
Henry F. Cochems, Special District
Attorney Guy D. Golf. and others, the
three officials above being named in
the complaint in their official capac
ity. The complaint recites that for
some years there has been strenu-
Gus political contest between the two
factions of the Republican party in
Wisconsin, and that the defendants in
the suit are members of the faction
arrayed against Mr.. Pfister. The COM
plant is direct result of the recent
indictment of .Pfster by the grand
jury in connection with funds of the
Wisconsin Rendering company. The.
complaint alleges that the charge
upon which he was indicted "is un--
true and false in every particular"
AS result of the indictments there.
are pending in the courts suits
brought by Mr.. Pfster for damages
aggregating $750,000.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
THE SO-CALLED ARROGANCE OF
SWEDEN MAY LEAD TO SERl-
Gus DEVELOPMENTS.
WANT THE TROOPS M0BILlZED
SWEDISH PAPERS DEMAND THE
MOBILIZATION OF SEVENTY
THOUSAND TROOPS.

Christiania, Sept. 10.-With the re-
turn yesterday from Karlstad of the
Norwegian commissioners sent to
discuss with the commissioners OF
Sweden the question of dissolution OF
the union, decided sense of uneasl-
ness prevails, and this is accentuated
by the complete silence observed in
official circles regarding the progress
of the negotiations. Even in the most
pacific circles the situation is looked
upon as having an element of danger
and the prevailing nervousness has
been increased by the tone of the
Swedish newspapers, which are now
calling upon the government to mo-
Billie 10000 troops, at the same time
pointing out that Norway is only able
to command 5000 troops. While the
Swedish Riksdag Demanded
that the "fortresses recently erected
be no longer maintained" the Swed-
ish newspapers insist that the forti-
fications of the old fortresses of Fred
Kristen and Kongsvinger shall be de-
stroyed No suggestion could be made
which would more deeply wound the
national pride of the Norwegians.
Kongsvinger is thirty miles from the
frontier and holds a commanding po-
sition for the defense of Christiania,
the richest section of Norway, while
the corresponding zone in Sweden, it
is pointed out, is "unimportant and
has never been fortified
Responsible people here say the ar.
rogant tone by the Swedish press, un.
less it is modified, is likely to lead to
serious developments.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
Foreign.

Two women, supposed to be Ameri-
cans, fell over a precipice near Orta
and were killed.
The town council of Maikop, Russia,
has decided to name a street in honor
Of President Roosevelt.
The eruption of the ancient crater in
the island of Stromboli, near Sicily,
continues to cause anxiety.
The shah of Persia arrived at Peter
hof recently. He was met at the sta
ton by Emperor Nicholas, several of
the grand dukes and Count Lamsdorf
Nippon Yusen Kaisha Japanese
steamship company, through the Jap
anese consul at Glasgow, is placing
contracts for eighteen liners with
shipbuilding firms.
The Simla correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail says it is rumored that
Viceroy CurzOn, who recently resigned
may stay in India until March in order
to entertain the prince and princess of
Wales.
King Oscar has conferred the honor
of knighthood of the order of the Roy
al Order of Vasa upon B. Lowensten
of Memphis, Tenn. Mr.. Lowenstein
has been constant visitor to Sweden
| for twelve years.
1t is rumored at Mexico City that on
| the expiration two years hence OF
the charter of the present public bene
! fetal lottery it will not be renewed
and that probably all lotteries will
then be prohibited.
| AS a result of the investigation OF
Count de BrazZa, the African explorer
into the charges of brutality against
natives of the French Congo, the gov
eminent announced that the two chic
colonial functionaries, NM. Gaud ant
Toque, have been sentenced to five
years Imprisonment The charge.
include compelling the natives to ca
a dish made of the flesh of dead rela
tives and also exploding cartrides in
serted in the bodies vi the natives.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
ST. PAUL DAY A HUMMER.
Attendance Is $4,000, Making 1t Sec
ond LARGEST Day of the Fair.

Attendance Is $4,000, Making 1t Sec,
ond Largest Day of the Fair.
st. Paul, Sept. 10.-There were at
least $4,000 people on the fair grounds
yesterday, st. Paul day at the fair.
This is the estimated attendance, and
President Cosgrove says that when
the official figures are prepared they
will bear out the estimate. 1t was the
second largest day of the fair this
year, so far as attendance is con-
cerned, and right up with the record
of any day of prior fairs.
With an attendance of $4,000 vest
terday, the total attendance at tho
fair for the first five days of the week
has been 250,613. This is far in ex-
cess of the record of any prior year
for the first five days, and considera-
bly, in excess of the best weeks rec.
ord.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
Crimes and Criminals.

A negro named Bees was lynched
by a mob near the Leake plantation
at Rosetta, Miss. The negro was
charged with criminal assault on
white girl.
In a dispute at Belleville, H., be-
tween Henry c. LOnk, saloonkeeper,
and John Trappe, over 10 cents. Lonk
was shot dead. The police are search
ing for Trappe.
E. B. Ewing, claiming to be a
brother-in-law of former Senator Cock
rell of Missouri, shot himself through
in few minutes.
r. D. Chase, alias Russell, formerly
of Cherokee, Iowa, shot and killed AL
lie Watson of Tonopah, New, and then
fired a bullet int ohis own brain, in
tlicting fatal wound.
1t has developed at Cincinnati that
fOrgeries of pay checks on the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern railroad
are more extensive than was first sup
posed, reports being that the aggre-
gate amount will reach $4,000.
Ralph Holden of Union City, Mich,
shot twice at his wife, twice at his
wife's sister-in-law, Mrs. Byron w.
Bray, and then attempted suicide. Mrs.
Holden will probably die. Mrs. Bray
was not dangerously wounded. Family
troubles are assigned as the cause.
A petition from his neighbors that
he be allowed to harvest his tobacco
crop has resulted in the pardon by
Acting Governor Davidson of Henry
Rutter of Ferryville, Wis, sentenced
to the county Jail for assault and bat
terry. He had served half of his time.
Paul Langren, foreman of the Mil
Waukee worsted mills, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by a bur-
glar. The burglar had forced open a
window of the Langen home with a
garden spade and was about to take
his departure from the house when
Mr. Langen grappled with him and the
shooting followed. The burglar'is still
at large.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
SEQUOYAH CHARTER READY.
Constitutional Convention of Proposed
State Adiourns.

Muskogee, Ind. T., Sept. TO- - The
constitutional convention of the pro-
posed State of Sequoyah completed
it's work at noon yesterday and adj
journed. The constitution as a whole
was adopted by a unanimous vote,
after several amendments, more or
less important, were made The con-
vention adopted an appeal to congress
asking that the tribal schools which
cease to exist after March 4, 1906, be
cared for by the national government
until the state government shall have
been established.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
LOOKS LIKE MURDER.
New York Editor Found Suffering
From Various Injuries.

New York, Sept. 10. = Jacob H.
Thompson. an exchange editor of the
New York Times, was found uncon-
scious and apparently dying from the
effects of fractured skull, stab
wound and strangulation, in his room
at the st. James hotel in Forty-ffth
street. The police believe murder was
attempted. The coroner, after an ex-
animation of Mr.. Thompson's apart
ments, said that it would have been
possible for his injuries to be inflicted
by falling after he had been stricken
with apoplexy.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
IGNORE ANONYMOUS CHARGES.

Scandal Rumor Circulated in La
Crosse Will Not Be Investigated.
La Crosse, Wis.,, Sept. 1O-Secretary
Lucius G. Colman of the board of po
lice and fire commissioners announces
that the charges against Chief of Po-
lice H. H. Byrne, conveyed in an
anonymous letter which was circu-
lated throughout the city, will not be
recognized nor investigated by the
made by the police department in con-
nection with the letter, but the real
author of the attack is still unknown
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
coNGER TO GO TO CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles to Be Home of the For.
mer Ambassador.

Chihuahua, Mex. Sept. 10.-J. W.
Conger of this city is authority FOR
the statement that his brother, E. H.
Conger, who recently resigned his
position as ambassador to Mexico, will
soon move to Los Angeles, Cal, where
he will make his home. He says that
Mr.. Conger will engage in business in
Los Angeles.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14

Railway companies are beginning to
Abolish the age limit in hiring men to
work for them. They have found,
oddly enough. that some of their EN-.
ployes become more valuable as they
grow older.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14

A Chicago man and his wife have
found their way into the divorce court
because both wanted to occupy one
chair. Before they were married one
chair would have been-but isn't it
strange that few words by preach.
er should make such a difference.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14
Safe Blown to Bits,

Prairie du Chen, Wis, Sept 10. -,
Burglars blew open the safe in C. H..
Upham's general store at De Soto and
secured small amount of cash The
charge blew the safe to pieces. Four.
suspects are being pursued,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14

Iniunctions have been secured to re
strain ROSTERS fr~n growing. dogs
from barking and the tolling of bells
and the footing of locomotive whistles
at night in Mount Vernon, n. Y Why
are the Mount Vernon cats thus ia.
VOred?
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14

While sympathizing with Mark
Twain in his sufferings from the Gout,
it mitigates ones distress of mind to
some extent to remember that Mark
must have had good time willie he
was getting it.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14

Well, Jupiter has got another moon
This makes the seventh. There is a
race between him and Saturn now.
One more and they will be even.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14

Statistics show that 400 900, OOL
Havana" cigars were manufactured
in the United States last year. Some
thing good-and cheap-must be pro
vided for campaign smoking and cleo
ton bets.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-14

Another aeronaut has succeeded in
giving an entirely superfuous demon
stration of the truth that the law OF
gravity is still working.