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New-York tribune., 1905-06-24

racal onlciaI Record.-The following official record
from the weather Bureau shows the changes in the
.onerature for the twenty-four hours in com
parison with the corresponding date Of last year;
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
PREVENTS A PANIC.
Exciting Incident at the Grand Opera
House In Butte.

Exciting Incident at the Grand Opera
House In Butte.
Butte, March 1.-The GOODNESS and
l1esence of mind of Manager Barbour
and the attaches of the Grand opera
house, aided by the police, prevented
what might have been a panic at the
theater tonight, shortly before 10
o'clock, but as it was the house was
emptied quickly and the audience be.
Aaved with the utmost order. Smoke
coming into the theater led the man.
agement to believe that a fire was
sm0ldering, either in the house or
close to it, and this surmise turned
out to be correct.
A slight blaze was discovered by
the fire department in the basement
west of the theater, but it did no dam.
age and no loss to anyone will result.
The street became crowded with peo-
pie, but the police maintained perfect
order and handled the crowd we'll.
AS soon as the smoke became no.
ticeable back on the stage, Manager
Barbour telephoned police headquar-
tiers and Chief Mulholland, Detectives
Murphy, White and Byrne, as we'll as
several officers, at once responded.
Manager Barbour came in front of
the curtain and. announced that he
had had trouble with the officers and
asked the people to leave the house
quietly and quickly as possible. He
warned them against crowding and
said there was no danger. The Off
GERS kept the crowd in line and the
house was emptied in an astonishing
ly short space of time.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
The Panama Canal.

To dig or talk about the Panama
canal, that seems to be the question.
The engineer is inclined to dig, while
the commission is credited in some
quarters with policy of mastery in
activity.
To be sure there are other ques-
tons besides the one of digging.
there is the question of lock or a
3ra-level canal. and there is the prob
lem of the Chagres river. This 1T
tie stream, which in ordinary circum-
stances would not engage the attel
ton of board of aldermen, is stump
ing the whole United States congress,
tesides the engineers of two heInis
pheres. 1t is gentle tropical stream
which has been known to go as dry
IS Maine for months, and then accum-
ulate head of twenty-six feet in six
ours. So it has to be considered, es
lccially as it meanders through the
canal right-Ofway.
The first American plan was for a
lock canal. In this plan the Chagres
was to be impounded with a dam and
made into lake through which the
ships would lazily float on their short
route to the Pacific. The engineers
Of this plan also thought of a sea-level
ditch, and then they believed they
would have to make it big enough to
receive the flow of the river. Now
The engineers think sea-level canal
can be built and the river turned off
through a fvemile tunnel into the
Pacific ocean. II this is to be done
the great problem is to ind solid bot
tom for a dam to shut the river from
its natural course.
These are some of the things that
ere being considered, and which are
causing the delay in the work. But
there is something doing. The course
ID the canal contains one piece of high
ground known as the Culebra cut.
There is vast mass of solid material
to be taken out here and forwarded
/" the sea by rail. 1t is estimated
tlat it will take two years longer to
do this excavation than to finish all
the rest of the canal. So while the
commission celebrates the coolies are
digging in Culebra and the work may
come out even after all
The commission will probably be
reduced in numbers and increased in
efficiency by the present congress
The engineer will then have a freer
hand and business will be booming
on the sthmus.-Minneapol Journal
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15

not hope to satisfy this class. II it raj
lies the moderates to the support OF
the government it will be satisfied.
Following is the text Of the re-
script:
True to the ancient customs Of the
Russian people of the expression of
its feelings to the throne in the days
of JOY or sorrow, for the fatherland,
the nobility, zemstvo assemblies, COM
mercial associations and peasant COM
munities have offered from all parts
of Russia congratulations on the birth
Of the heir to the throne, with express
sions of willingness to sacrifice their
fortunes for the successful termina-
ton Of the war, and to devote all their
strength to the establishment of order
in the state. In my own name, and
that Of her majesty, l order you to
convey to them our hearty thanks for
the expression Of their loyal feeling,
which. in the present very grave time,
is the more pleasing as an expression
Of their willingness, at my call, to CO.
operate in the successful execution OF
reforms announced by me and is en-
tirely in accordance with the wishes
Of my heart.
my desire is to maintain the full
fillment of my intentions for the well
fare of my people by means Of the
cooperation of the government with
experienced forces of the community,
and continuing the work of my crown
ed ancestors to retain the prestige of
the Russian nation undiminished and
to maintain order therein. I am re-
solved henceforth, with the help of
God, to convene the worthiest men
possessing the confidence of the peo-
pie and elected by them to partici-
pate in the elaboration and cOnsidera-
ton of the legislative measures. TAX
ing into consideration the peculiar
circumstances of the fatherland, the
multiplicity of it's races. and, in GER
tain parts of the country, the weak
development of citizenship, Russian
rulers in their wisdom instituted re-
forms in accordance with their require
ments, but only in legal sequence, at
the same time considering the con-
tinuation of firm historical ties with
the past as a pledge for the durabil-
ity and stability of the present.
"In undertaking these reforms, |
am convinced that the local needs and
experience OF life, and the well weigh
ed and sincere speech Of those elect
ed, will insure fruitfulness to legisla-
ton for the benefit of the people.
At the same time | foresee all the COM
plexity and difficulty presented in the
elaboration of this form, while pre-
serving absolutely the immutability
of the fundamental laws Of the en-
pire.
81 have confidence in your long ad-
ministrative experience, and value
your tranquil assurance in approba-
ton Of a special conference to meet
under your presidency to consider
means to accomplish this, my will.
May God bless this good begin
ming. May God help you successfully
to secure the welfare of the people
confieded to me by God.
NICHOLAS"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
TREES PLANTED At NIGHT.

More Likely to Live Than II Trans
planted In the Daytime.
1t was long since obs-. we'd that bud
ding trees when transplanted in the
evening and Immediately and copious-
~ watered were much more likely to
thrive than those that had been moved
In the day, says the Philadelphia Rec.
ord. But this knowledge did not lead
to any well defined theory on the SUBJ
1ect until the experiments OF M. Rene
Rounault. French expert, proved be-
yond a doubt that distinctly benef1c-
ial results could be gained by trans
planting wholly at nign,.
Being called upon to transplant q
large tract toward the end of May,
1903. M. Rounault determined to work
at night, and in order to be sure that
he made no mistake he transplanted
a Holland linden, which had been in
his own nursery for five years, at 10
o'clock at night. He carefully watered
the tree, and the branches which bore
buds were freely moistened. The lin
den did not appear to suher from this
transplanting and continued to grow
normally without showing any signs
OF weakness. Encouraged by this
success, M. Rounault performed the
work of transportation entirely in'the
nighttime. The results were excel
lent, only two trees dying, though
the choice of the species was ex-
tremely wide.
Trees should not be transplanted
while their buds are too tender, and
the work should be done between 10
o'clock p. m. and o'clock a. m. 1t
is desirable that the roots should be
covered with earth which has for sew
eral days been exposed to the effects
OF air and light. This should be set
tied by copious watering, which forces
the earth between the roots, and not
by pressure with the feet. For fif-
teen days boughs and leaves should
be Sprinkled
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
A Dinner Invitation.

After hearty meal dose of Ko-
dol Dyspepsia cure will prevent an
attack of Indigestion. Kodol is a
thorough digestant and a guaranteed
cure for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Gas
on the stomach, Sour Risings, Bad
Breath and all stomach troubles. n.
Watkins, Lesbus. KY, says: Il can
testify to the efficiency of Kodol in
the cure of Stomach Trouble. was
afflicted with Stomach Trouble for
nnteen years and have taken six bot
ties Of your Kodol Dyspepsia cure,
which entirely cured me. The six bot
ties were worth $1,000 to me-" no.
dol Dyspepsia Cure will digest any
quantity of all the wholesome food
you want to eat while your stomach
takes a rest-recuperates and grows
strong. This wonderful preparation
is justly entitled to all of it's many
remarkable cures. Sold nv L. G. Viii.
son, Lewistwon & Kendall. De.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
A Grewsome Foresnadowino.

A grewsome foreshadowing, of
which the subject was himself the pro-
jector, is referred to by Dickens in a
letter from Boston to Lord Lytton.
At dinner party given by DR.. Web
ster, professor of chemistry at Har-
ward, while the wine was going it's
rounds, the host in a whimsical hu-
NOR ordered the lights to be extin-
guished and a bowl of burning min
erals to be brought in to afford the
company the novel entertainment of
seeing how CHASTITY they looked by its
light. Each guest was hooking horror
stricken at his neighbor when Web
ster was seen bending over the phos-
phorescent bowl with rope round his
neck, Stimulating with CHASTITY realism
the aspect of hanged man. Within
a year of this weird fooling the un.
happy wretch had the hangman'
moose in deadly earnest round his
neck for murder.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
Obstinacy of the insane.

Leroy M. Taylor, of Washington
who devoted many years to the study
of insanity, used to say that the in
vincible obstinacy of insanity was
wh"+ interested him most in connec-
ton with the subject. He once knew
an insane chemist who insisted that
he was dead. DR.. Taylor argued long
and ably, and finally said: "Now,
you as a chemist know that if you are
dead you cannot bleed. Will you let
me cut you slightly by way of ex-
periment?" The monomaniac agreed,
and, of course, when an incision was
made in his arm blood flowed instant
ly. There" said DR.. Taylor, that
proves that you are not dead" ooh,
no." was the confident reply, ut mere
ly shows that dead men can bleed
New York Tribune.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
A Cold in the Head

Is simply mild form of catarrh.
Use that which cleanses and heals the
diseased membrane. Bunsen's Ca
tarrh Cure is the remedy. It cures ca
tarrh easily and pleasantly, contains
no mercury or other injurious drug. 1t
Is quickly absorbed, gives instant re-
lief and opens and cleanses the nasal
passages. Regular size box SOC. Ask
your druggist, Wilson & McKechnie,
for free sample and pamphlet telling
about catarrh. Be.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
Killing Prairie SQUIRRELS.

Now is the time to make prepare.
tons to destroy the prairie squirrels
The damage done by the pests on
inany farms is yet very noticeable
In order to make the work of EXTERN
mating them more effective, every
farmer and ranchman should take a
hand at the business in the early
spring time. Prof. Ladd, of the North
Dakota experiment station, suggests,
as the result of his experience, a
formula for preparation for destroy
ing the pocket gophers, and l think
1t would be one of me best that can be
had for the squirrels. 1t is as fol.
lows:
Bring one quart of vinegar to boil
ing, add one ounce of strychnine, stir
with stick until fully dissolved and
then add six quarts of hot water. Pour
this on twenty pounds of wheat or
corn and allow to stand for about
eighteen hours, or until the solution
j entirely absorbed; but the mass
rust be frequently stirred vigorously
So that it will become uniformly satur-
ated with the poison. The grain
should now be spread out to dry,
where it cannot be reached by ami
malls or children. for you have high
~ pOloOuOuS grain.
Now dissolve six pounds of sugar
in six quarts of water and boil until
enc gallon remains, and then allow to
cool. When cold add one tablespoon
OF anise Oil (can be had at any drug
store). You now have thick syrup
which should be poured over the near
IL dry poisoned grain and the whole
stirred so as to cover each grain with
y layer of syrup Allow the grain to
thoroughly dry, stirring so as to pre-
vent its sticking in a mass. The Cd
or or anise oil is very attractive to
the gopher and each kernel should
| contain enough poison to destroy a
gopher. This sugar coated grain can
| nc used at any time, but great care
| should be taken to prevent any pos
Sible poisoning of birds or animals.
a little of this grain buried near each
Sopher burrow will be pretty sure to
| attract and destroy it's victim"
Ii is evident that when use is made
Of the above remedy. care must be
taken not to allow other animals to
| eat the treated grain, hence it can
not be applied on the ground to which
poultry has access.
Now this is scientific preparation
and probably equal to anything of the
kind that can be had. But it is a we'll
brown fact that the Montana SOUR.
,els are not nearly as shy as the
pocket gophers. and in the early
spring time will eat almost anything
that you don't want them to. even the
collar from your coat if you throw it
down at the end of the field and give
them a chance at 1t. So would sug-
eest that for squirrels the first treat
ment of the grain is all that is need
ed. and the sugar coating and anise
can be omitted. Also, the eighth or
oEe-fourth of the amount of the form.
lila is all one person would need to
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
ENcAMPMENr At DILLON.
~0"'"a"oer Blake, Of the Grand Army,
Issues Orders.

commander Blake, Of the Grand Army,
Issues Orders.
Helena, March 9.-Henry N. Blake.
commander OF the Grand Army Of the
republic OF Montana, has issued gen
eral orders No. Z. relative to the 21st
annual encampment Of the Grand
Army In this state, which viii take
place this month. The Women's Re.
i!eI Corps will convene at the same
time. The general orders are as fol.
lows: ~ w.
The twenty-hrst annu al encamp.
ment Of the department Of Montana.
Grand Army of the Republic. viii be
held in Dillon on March % and "a.
1905. Encampment will convene on
March % at II a. m.
headquarters will be closed at
Helena on Monday, Marcn ~, and op-
ened at the Metlen hotel, Dillon, on
Tuesday. March 20, at 9 d. M, where
all delegates and comrades should re-
port and register.
The following comrades are here.
by appointed as a committee on Gre
dentials:
John 8. Axtell. c. M. O.; Comrades
J. B. Yearnin and Josephus Rich, of
Steadman post, No. 8. Tney will meet
at headquarters at 10 a. N.
The council Of administration will
meet at headquarters at $3.50 a. M,
to examine and audit the books and
records OF the assistant adjustant gen.
eral and the assistant Quartermaster
general, and to transact any other de.
partment business.
The commander Of Steadman post
will detail comrades to act as officer
Of the day, officer of the guard and
sentinel. during the session of the en.
campment, and who will report for
duty to the assistant adjutant general
at $3.50 a. M, March %.
THE railroads have made a rate
OF one and one-half fare, based upon
an attendance of fifty"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

With local applications, as they can
not reach the seat Of the disease.
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional
disease, and in order to cure it you
must take internal remedies. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not
quack medicine. 1t was prescribed
by one of the best physicians in this
country for years and is a regular
prescription. 1t is composed of the
best tonics known, combined with the
best blood purifiers, acting directly on
the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results
in curing Catarrh. Send for testimon-
ials free.
F. J. CHENEY G. CO., Props,
Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
War Is Less Deadly.

1t is curious and paradoxical
thing that the improvement in arms
has actually made war less and not
more destructive, and that in these
days of magazine rifles. Maxims and
far-reaching, quick-fring cannon the
slaughter is much less than in the
older days of muskets, of bows and
arrows, and Of hand-to-hand conflict.
And not only this, the wars of today
are mercifully much shorter and thus
less sanguinary than they were in
centuries that are gone, says a writ
er in Tit Bits.
Under the old primitive conditions
OF fighting. when gun powder was I'M
known, wars drifted on for genera
tons, even for centuries. For a hun.
dred years almost without intermis'
sion England waged war with Scotland,
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
Kidneys Cured Free.

Anyone suffering with kidney or
bladder trouble can get absolutely
free, one full size box of DeBell's Kid
ney pills. These pills are for sale by
Wilson & McKechnie, and to introduce
them the manufacturers will accept
this coupon for full retail price in the
purchase of one box. Cut out and send
to G. w. Beggs, Sons & Co., Chicago,
ILL., Be,
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
BY the Tonic Route.

The pills that act as a tonic, and not
as drastic purge, are DeWitt's Lit
tie Early Risers. They cure Head
ache, Constipation, Biliousness, etc.
Early Risers are small, easy to take
and easy to act-a safe pill. Mack
Hamilton, hotel clerk at Valley City,
N. D., says: 1.-TWO bottles cured me of
chronic constipation" Sold by l.. G.
Wilson, Lewistown & Kendall. De.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
Ploaean4 .nd H.rynIese

AeAnG ana t1SruSess
Oont drug the stomach to cure .
cough. Ono Minute cough Cure cuts
me mucous. draws the inflammation out
OF the throat, lungs and bronchial
tuoes, heals. soothes and cures. A
quick cure for Group and Whooptng
Cough. One Minute Cough Cure re-
!ieves cough In one minute because
1t acts hrst on the mucous membrane
right where the cough troubles-in
the throat or deep-seated on the
lungs. Sold by L. G. Wilson, Lewis
town & Kendall. De.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
Treaty With San Domingo.

Washington, March 9.-The senate
committee on foreign relations today
agreed to report favorably the SantO
Domingo treaty, as amended. The
vote was on party lines, every Repub-
lican voting for the treaty and every
Democrat voting against it. All the
members of the committee were pres
ent and the vote stood:
For the treaty-Cullom, Frye, Lodge,
Clark (Wyo.), Foraker, Spooner and
Kean.
Against the treaty-Morgan, Bacon,
Money, Clark MONTY and McCreary.
There is one vacancy on the COM
mittee caused by the election of Sen
ator Fairbanks to the vice presidency
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15
Asthma and Bronchitis

Can be quickly relieved and abso-
lutely cured in an amazing short space
of time by the use of Bunsen's Pine
Tar Cough Honey Persons suffering
with these terrible diseases should
give it trial and watch results. Small
bottle 25c; large bottle SOC. Sold and
warranted by Wilson & McKechnie. Be
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15

use. About one teaspoonful OF the
o'soned grain dropped into fresh
- used squirrel hole, so that stock
s"uiu not get at it. would likely pc
ABOUT tne best way to use it.. Get
Your str3chnine at once and be In the
fusn WIN your neighbors.
RANCHER.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15

From these figures it seems clear
that the Improvements in death-deal-
ing weapons have certainly led to a
diminished slaughter in war, result
which was long ago predicted by ex-
perts, the reason being that with long
range and accurate firearms the fight
ing must necessarily be at cores
pondingly greater distances.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15

For job work In any line, neatly
executed, call on the Argus Job office.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-03-15

years war, and, later. the seven years
war are epochs in military history.
The American rebellion, though
fought with muzzle-lOading guns, last
ed only four years; year later Prus-
STA brought Austria to her knees in
seven short weeks, and generation
ago crushed the power of France in
eight months. The United States on
ly took ninety days to thrash Spain,
and even the late war in South Afri-
ca, though it. covered over two and
half years, would lave been con-
sidered absurdly short in the days Of
Crecy and Agincourt.
Then look for a moment at the ter.
rible slaughter in the old days, when
men met in hand-to-hand conflict and
quarter was neither asked nor given.
In the battle of Chalons, fought A.
D. 451, between Attila, King of the
Huns, and the Roman legions under
Aetius, not fewer than 100000 men
were slain, indeed, the number Of
killed has been placed as high as 300,-
900. At Hastings 10000 men fell,
small though the numbers engaged
were small compared with those in
modern battles. At the Metaurus Has
drubal's Carthaginians were practical
ly annihilated. At Aquae Sextiae and
Vercellae the hordes of Cimbri and
Teutons were completely exterminat-
ed by Marius; hundred years later
10000 Romans were wiped out by
Arminius in Teutoberg Forest, and
$4,000 Roman citizens of the Greek
cities were slain in single day by
the soldiers of Mithridates. At Crecy
there fell 1900 French knights, 1,400
genLlemen and 1000 men-at-arms, be-
sides 10000 of inferior rank; 10000
men were killed at Agincourt and A.
900 were taken prisoners, and about
10000 men, too, were slain out of the
10000 who fought at Flodden, while
out of the 100000 men engaged in
the fierce and sanguinary battle of
Towton $4,000 are computed to have
fallen in the battle and pursuit.
In these old-time battles, where the
weapons were bows and arrows,
swords and battle-axes, and where no
lied on to kill at a distance of more
than few hundred yards, the mortal
ity frequently rose to one in every
IiICC VI lOuI uSHIcIS cuSdSeu, anu
sometimes exceeded this enormous
percentage; whereas in modern bat
ties, with weapons far more deadly,
proportion of one in twenty is rare
ly reached
At Alma the casualties were fifty
four per 1000, or, roughly, one to 1876;
at Inkerman they were one in TWEEN
ty; at Sedan, one in sixty; at Grave
lotte. one in Ill, and at Waterloo,
one in twenty-One. In the Crimean
war it took S9,O00,00O shots to kill $780,
600 men-742 shots to dispatch one
man; and at Gibraltar 25S,387 shot
and shell found only 1,341 human tar
gets, and of these many were only
wounded. During the Franco-German
war one fighter was disabled by ev-
cry 254 shots.