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this city, and although not at
tended by fatal results it is deplor-
able. Last Friday at their resi-
dence out on Hoback St., Mr.. and
Mrs. Ingram became involved in
an alteration in which. Mrs. In
gram claims her husband used her
violently and struck her, which,
as we understand, she intended
to resent with a gun, the parties
going to close quarters, and when
the smoke of battle had cleared
away James Ingram came out of II
with a guBshot wound in the hand.
Mrs. Ingram made it for the Po-
lice Station to have him arrested
for assault, and he applied for a
warrant for her for the shooting.
She was arrested and released on
bond to the amount Of $50, w.
R. Dorsey and B. +. Hooper as her
bondsmen.
Mrs. Ingram is one of TIE lead
inc lights of the local four hundred
and the affair has created a great
deal Of comment.
Her friends. however, claim that
she was entirely justified in the
premises that her husband had
outraged her, and in many ways,
bv his treatment of her.
The concensus Of opinion is
that the whole affair was based on
a fit of probably unfounded jeal-
ousy on the part of Ingram.
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day by that Order, with Masonic
honors. Peace be to his ashes.
ihs Presidents Message

The message of Presiden'
Roosevelt to Congress last Tues
day Of course attracts the usuaI
interest that all utterances of our
strenuous Chief Executive usually
do, along with the other questions
discussed he exhaustively sets forth
the evils Of lynch laws and mobs,
and while he at length discusses
this phase, he fails to in any way
to Congress remedy; it is
more Of a lay sermon as to the
attitude that our section should be
to the other; using extreme pre-
caution so as to not offend either.
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Helena, 7Honfana, FrlaaJ, Drcem5c, !, 1900.

and wounded, but he crawled into
a ditch and literally lay low for
the duputy sheriff, finally putting
him out Of action with wound
in the thigh. One other man be
shot in the leg. No one else cared
to enter the dispute, and the troop
er started for the hospital, bleed
ing profusely. He met his COM
rades streaming into town, armed
and angry, and the blood on his
trousers maddened them. They
wrecked the saloon where the
trouble started; beat the proprie-
tor into jelly; put a number of
bad men on the sick list; started
a score for Mexico with balls at
their heels and gave the sheriff
the worst hour of his life.
When the town had been tanned
General Shatter appeared on the
scene, calm but profane, and
rounded the soldiers up and into
the garrison. The wires to Wash
lngton were hot next day, but the
administration refused to get ex-
cited, and ORDERED the pblegmatic
Shatter to investigate and report.
He began by examining the
wounded trooper, whom he repri-
manded for bad shooting for
wounding, not killing, his man
and ended by declaring that Eagle
Pass, not Fort Duncan, was to
blame. The incident closed when.
Captain McNalIy and his rangers
70 le into Eagle Pass and removed
a nice bunch of scoundrels to San
Antonio for such Justice as Texas
usually dispenses to bandits and
murlerers. A new sheriff came
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could not be dlshonorably dis
honorably discharged without a
trial, then, surely, there ought to
have been trial.
Secretary Taft quibbles. His
sophistry, issued officially, does no
credit to his name and fame as a
jurist. The truth seems to be
that he, himself, wanted the dis
charge proceedings halted, that he
was summarily overruled by the
President, that he has since been
inventing an excuse for the Exec
utive's action, and that he has
evolved a mighty lame one.
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and we often have wished for an
ingalls, who would hang Ben Till
mans hide on the fence, as was the
tall sycamore from the Wabash
Voorhees,, but now comes a CLEAN
OF hope in the persons of Senator
Penrose and ] B. Foraker, who, on
the very fist day of the session
have attempted to see that JUS
tice is done the innocent mem
bers of the three discharged
companies of the 18TH Infantry.
We shall watch with much interest
the outcome Of this matter in Con-
gress, having an abiding faith that
right will yet prevail.
The discredited and defeated
County Attorney of Silver Bow
County attended to the duties of
his office with the same spirit that
his hatred and antipathy prompted
him in declaring his intention to
prosecute the Colored Elks for so
vile a crime as wearing the insig-
mia of their fraternity, He per-
haps would not have been repu-
dated by the people at the polls.
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in at the next election and Uncle
Sans uniform was insulted no
more at Eagle Pass.-Standard.
Dad" Bennett No More

One of the characters in and
around Helena has succumbed to
the Grim Reaper who in his rounds
excuses no man, on Saturday,
after a short illness of about two
hours.
To the casual observer it could
be seen that for some time Dad,
as he was familiarly called by his
friends and acquaintances, had
been in failing health, and that,
coupled with his old age, was re-
sponsible for his death.
lie was well and favorably
known during a residence Of many
years in his city, being man who
attended strictly to his own affairs
hale and we'll met, he was particu-
larly liked by the young element;
always ready to pass a joke, and
entered into their sports and pas
times as if he were one OF them.
He was best known as an uncom-
promising Democrat, and at no
time used any hesitancy in decIar-
ing his fealty to those principles.
A product Of antc5ellum days, he
had no advantages to secure even
the rudiments of an education,
although he could read. Years
back he was a member Of the
Helena Police Force. At the time
of his death he was a member o.
the r. J. Fletcher 10 dse, \. f.
and A. NJ, and was buried Tues
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The PIaindealer Would Like 70
Know the Reason Why

That annually tragedy follows a
ball?
There is no scarcity of patriots to
serve their Commonwealth at the
coming Assembly?
There were so many inquiries as to
the last weeks issue of this paper2
Some of the Helena merchants who
receive fair portion of the colored
trade are too narrow to advertise in
this mediumP
Box Party No. 2 never came off, as
the one last Sunday evening week?
The Autumn Leaf Club is three
members shy?
A former Helenite, but who now
resides in Butte is so sore at Helena?
Billy Gancy the Butte midget did
not make good?
short Fenter saws he would like
to make Helena, but he has got on
too much speed?
After election politicians bob up
for recognition when they were never
known to turn hand for the party's
success?
Some of our readers claim they do
not receive their Daper when thew
doP
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FREE LIST SUSPENDED

FREE LIST SUSPENDED
In order that some of our sub
scribers may be easy of concience
who deny receiving the paper al
though postman says they do, and
in to relieve further embarrassment
either on their part orours; COM
mencing our next issue we will
drop from our list all of those who
have failed to pay up making them
donation of past service.
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EXCUSE FOR The
president. AND A
FLINSY ONE
50 Says the Anaconda Standard


In all probability the public will
not regard the remarks of Secre-
tary Taft, quoted this morning, as
convincing, in their application to
the Brownsville affair. Mr.. Taft
draws distinction between a dis
honorable discharge and discharge
without honor. That is technical.
However there is much in the
military service that is technical,
so that the public will accept the
distinction pointed out by Secre-
tary Taft, to the eff etthat a dis
honorable discharge andk d s.
tcharge without honor are two sep
crate and distinct things.
That, however, will not make
the critics of the Presidents
course a whit the mop willing to
accept the sophistry to which,
later on in his comment, Secretary
Taft plainly commits himself.
He says that the discharge in the
pending case, without honor, is
merely the ending of a contract
and separation from the service
under the right reserved in the
statute for the protection of the
government" aud that it cannot
be asserted that the soldiers in the
Twenty-ffth were discharged in
dishonor, the list including men
who, Secretary Taft himself clear
ly admits, may be innocent and,
as well, ignorant as to who the
guilty ones are.
Now, if these soldiers in the
Twenty-ffth deserved discharge a
all surely they deserved dishonor
ably discharge. Else, why were
they discharged at all? The
Brownsville affair involved rio
and murder Why should the
Secretary of War, in an apologize
way, feel compelled to admit tha
the participants in it were dis
charged without honor, but no
dshonorably? If the Secretary
proves anything he proves toe
much; he admits that, whereas the
offenders were dismissed, they
we're not dismissed in dishonol
from the Army of the United
States. The Secretary reasons il
circle. The guilty ought to have
been dishonorably dismissed, i
: at all.
The truth seems to be that the
government, with all its police anc
detective paraphernalia, was moi
able, at the drop OF the hat, to hno
the guilty. Instead of waiting, SC
that clear inquiry could be pa,
tiently pursued, the President i'm.
pulsively put the whole lot out Of
the service, and now, by the logic
of his Secretary of War, or the
lack of it, the conclusion must be
that the President discharged the
guilty. not, technically, NTH dis
honor, yet he discharged in dis
honor. by every practical test, a
number of wholly innocent men,
their innocence, or at any rate,
their probable innocence, being
openly admitted by the President
and by the Secretary of War. If,
as the Secretary says, the guilty
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Nothing in 1t

Periodically a wall from some
,boao white man who seeks noto-
!, tv BY opposing the Negro comes
Iortb. this time from some obscure
uould-be statesman in Oregon
Mo is going to introduce a bill to
uohibit Negroes from wearing the
'hsignia of the fraternity to which
lkey belong, viz The |. B. O. Of
Il of The World. 1t would be
list as reasonable proposition to
ssy we are going to legislate SO
Nat the Negroes cannot have the
name OF the Deity written upon
tker literature emanating from the
.Arious branches of the Church of
6od. This matter has gone the
Runds of the Courts of New
Fork, the decision Of the New
FORK Supreme Court being a sig
ral victory for the Colored Elks
They are infringing in no way on
be rights and precepts of the
B. P. 0. of E., they are the |. B
r. 0. of the w., different in name
nost assuredly. AS to the ritual
nd how they came into possession
81 it, we are not prepared to say
but we are reliably informed that
they came by it legitimately, and
afe entirely within their rights.
When it comes to fraternal or
ganizatonS there is where the col
ored brother shines, he wants the
best of everything, and in this re-
spect has always been known tc
get it. And if the Elks is al or
ganlzation having for its object
lhe spreading abroad of brotherly
lpve, charity. and also, occasion
ally with pomp and splendor come
put in public. There is no way to
weep the Colored brother from but
nng in. 1t is SO all along the line
ffnce Hall brought Masonry from
England and initiated the dusky
erOther into the mysteries thereof
he only legally constituted Grand
lodge of Odd Fellows in this
country, we are informed, is the
y y. .. Of 0. F., colored organ
44llon' and the Knights Of Pythias
some regularly constituted, includ-
iS North America, South Amer
4 ana Asia as well; so after all
e'e IS nothing in the spas
'iOulc efforts of those who seek
p0'Orleiy in opposing his fraternaI
"O.non. We apprehend that the
Onlng assembly will enact nc
''IN laws on the the statute books
t. sne behest of the followers o.
",nah' Vardaman, Jeff Davis
~ !, on the contrary, will applaud
nose who will emulate the
ln''ples Of SO grand and lofty an
Sanlzation as the E.ks.
"F'ss and Foraker to the Fro. t
NO' since the days of ingalls,
's We had in the L. S. Serate a
uOer that might be called a
''n'h friend of a struggling race.
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so>E TEXAN HELLHOLEs

Neither the Country nor Presi-
dent Roosevelt has heard the last
of the discharge of the colored
troops. The negroes side of the
case is being prepared with great
care and will be presented to the
President in due form. The Dem
ocratic leaders in Congress will
certainly take the matter up and
make the most of it. 1t is estl-
mated that, if the President had
issued his famous order twenty
four hours earlier-that is to say,
one day before election-at least
twenty-five Of the successful Re-
publicun candidates for Congress
would have been defeated. In
Representative Longworth's dis
trict, for instance, there are 5000
negro voters, and Longworth's ma
jority was only 1920.
Assuredly there are to sides toI
the story. One man who has
been on the spot, investigating the
case at first hand AYERS that there
was undoubtedly a conspiracy in
Brownsville to get rid of the col
ored troops somehow,-anyhow.
Old army officers who have been
in command in that part of Texas
characterize Brownsville and other
"River" towns as little hellholes,
full of dangerous criminals of
almost every sort. The Browns
Vile shooting has had many Prece-
dents. Other presidents have had
parallel incidents brought to their
attention, and have given small
heed to them What especially
rolled Brownsville this time was
that, reversing the usual order Of
things in such cases, the "nlgger@
proved the better man of the two,
and potted the Texan.
In a letter to the New York
Evening Post an old officer tells Of
a personal experience in one Of
these Texan hellholes. In 1871
he says, Fort Duncan, Tex, stu
ated at Eagle Pass, was garrisoned
by a troop of the Eighth Cavalry
and two companies of the Twenty
fourth Infantry (black), and was
commanded by the late General
.Shafter, then Lieut.-C olonel OF
the Twenty fourth. Eagle Pass
was a tough, frontier town, and a.
headquarters for cattle thieves,
smugglrrs, gamblers, desperadoes'
and the riffraff of the Mexican
border. A popular pastime OF It's.
viva .ious burghers was the insult
mo and assaulting of soldiers from
the garrison. One day a trooper
was openly and coarscly insulted
by a deputy sheriff, and a gang Of
disgeputabIe followers. The troop
or knocked the deputy sheriff
down, and would have been mur
dered for it hal not some armed
soldiers come along and protected
him. The deputy sheriff threat
ened to shoot the trooper at sight.
The trooper, with more spunk
than prudence, ran to the Fort,
got a c4rbine and belt full Of
ammunition, and returned. He
was fired upon from dark corner
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PEACE !
.PROSPERITY!! !!
.UNION!!!

# the coming Assembly wishes
enact law which will forever
|c.ive the gratitude of our best
tizenship, make it a felony for
! excuse of man who is so de-
aided as to live off the shame of
|prostitute.
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MRS. ingram GETS
HOSTILE:
SHOOTS HER HUSBAND, JAS.
INGRAM
Another shooting atfray has
takenlplace among our people IN
KEEP At CONGRESS TILL DISABLE
TIES ARE RlEE|NIlAED RlEE|NI

Let MS TANNER at tile doors Of Congress arfkh
that same relentless be,yistcncy a0fh 7ohfch the
G7cud of tie Souklcrn generals 70ho had fought to
dlst,pv their country hammered at Congress until
their alsa6l1lties had been ,em0oed. And IN the
end aoc shall 701n and restore these SoIerS at least
these 7yho haze net been Guilty of an 06ensc a0hlrh
cgcn at tie 7,o1sf, had ctfenuatzng circumstances
connected aoith ii, 10 Hen full rights and stature
as american ciflsenS-W H Tf0ttcr.
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ii Communications to The Montana
p.iodesler, 10 South Main Street
Helena, Montana.
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.,.d as second-class matter April IL,
-. Post Office at Helena, Montana,
=. Act Of Congress of March ;, 1879.
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BUTTE NOTES
The Memorial Services Held by the
COIored EIks at Butte

COIored Elks at Butte
Sunday evening at the A. NJ. e.
Church in Butte THE PLAINDEALER
representative attended the Annual
Memorial Services which are con-
Quoted the 1st Sunday in Decembe
every year as a solemn token of re-
membrance of those who have crossed
to the Great Beyond during the pre-
ceeding II months. The church was
tastefully decorated and the services
we're very beautiful indeed.
The following is the program rend-
cred on last Sunday evening:
Hymn; For our dedarted COM
rades. Elks' Ouartette
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,,ioo 8, 90 per year, Strictly in Ad-
D''. Advertising Rates on Application.
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and Foraker to the Fro. [
NV no' since the days of Ingalls,
~, - We had in the L. S. Serate a
suOer that might be called a
''n friend of struggling race,
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IN VIITANA PLAINDEALER.
,oJ weekly by The Montana
O''' PIaindealer Company.

mass EDITOR.
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DoXology Benediction
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-01
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

TIMER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, 1873.
\, nited states Land Office, Lewiston. Idaho,
May 70, 1906. Notice is hereby given that in
compliance with the provisions of the act of
1tohgress OF June 3, 1873, entitled "An act for
me me sale OF timber lands in the States OF Cali
lorna oregon, Nevada and Washington Terri
ssQry' as extended to all the Public Land
states by act OF August 4, 1892
NELs G. NELSON.
OF Park, County of Latah. State of Idaho has
ms ga, Gay Med in this Office his sworn statement
~ i'st LOT the purchase Of the lot 5, sec o.
ioI z, sec Y, and ~ nw4 sec %, tn 80 n range
W. "a m, ana VIII offer proof to show that the
s@iu sought Is more valuable for its timber or
s.Vne IMAM LOT agricultural purposes. and to
G f1 nd his claim to said land before IT, s.
N ral ~. Oi1ce at Lewiston, Idaho, on Thursday
nd ny names as witnesses: Alfred G. Arnold,
D Va,ni L. wheeler, John f. Chapman, Charles
r nl,gei, al OF Lewiston, Idaho ANY and all
persons claiming adversely the above-describ-
th lahas are requested to file their claims in
1906. n ~ - ~ !. ~ NY my . 81 august
aug D. Register
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FOLLOWING TIE FLAG.

When our soldiers went to Cuba and
the Philippines, health was the most
important consideration. Willis 7. Nor.
gan, retired Commissary Sergeant L. S.
A., of Rural Route. l, Concord, n H.,
years in the Philippines, and being sub
covery for Consumption, which kept me
in perfect health. And now, in New
Hampshire, we find it the best medicine
in the world for coughs, colds, bronchial
troubles and all lung diseases. Guaran-
teed at Johnson's drug store. Price SOC
and 81. Trial bottle free.
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cooper 6 Fildes, Owners.
Troy, Idaho.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

United states Land Office; Lewiston, Idaho
NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the
TACT, ;. p Mcfarland has made anniicati6n 70
select under the act OF June 1, 1897 the follow
ing described tract of land, to-wit: Mel sci.
Oh secuon 49, nw14 nel4 and swl4 sell sec IS in
Up y Il range e b m. Protests and contests
against the allowances of such selection on
tne ground that said land or any portion there
OF is more valuable for mineral than for 49,;
cultural or other purpose will be received bv
shis once during the tendency of the THIRTY
na!s publcatlon and noted for report to the
honorable Commissioner Of the General Land
June 1-29. 80 p -
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TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 2 1875



Lewiston, Idaho, May %, 1907. Notice is boro.
by given that in compliance with the provis.
ions l 9i the act OF Congress Of June g. ISIS en-
tltlel An act for the sale of timber lands in
IN, une states OF California, Oregon, Nevada and
Washington Territory" rs extended To ali tbe
pubic land states by act of August 4, 1892,
MARET HAKANSON
Of Nora, county OF Latah, State of Idaho has
TINS day iiled inthis Office her sworn Statement
40 SNe Tor the purchase of the sci swi: ~ sci
sec u ana sWi swl of section % in tp Al north
i ~ % m ana viii offer proof to show that tho
ia al sought Is more valuable for its timber or
stone than for agricultural purposes and ~ os
iabllsh her claim 10 said land before The pea
lister ana Receiver at Lewiston Idaho ON ~, Us
u .iits the q day of August, 1906 He names es
M v,li one +. Biorkiund: John Hoelnnd !.
n9 henslrom; all of Anderson. Idabo. and
rel hakanson. Nora. Idaho. ANY and aii n ra,.'
i Ian canning adversely the above-described
nt ele requested To- file their claims i'm this
once on or before said p day of August iaoe
June l-Aug 3. - PAN p ~ II,
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PERCH.

weight 1885, a Percheron and
Black awk-Morgan, will make
the season at Troy, at the Day
Livery Barn. These stations
have many colts throughout
this section, and we invite those
having mares to serve to see
them.
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| am in Iine...

For anything in confectionery and bak-
cry goods; also ice cream phosphates, ice
cream sodas and all other soft drinks
Everything strictly first class. No cards
or gambling devices used to sell my
goood.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-01
Prince "

Is a dapple grey Percheron, six
years old and weighs 100
pounds. Prince, together with
his mate,
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MARET HAKANsON

IT PAYS TO TRADE IN TROY.
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Cafes Place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-12
CONFERENCE MEETS TODAY.
Prominent Men and Officials VIII Dis
cuss immigration.

Nashville, November n.--Tomorrow tire
second annual immigration and Quaran-
tine conference assemblies here, its ses-
sons to continue through Wednesday.
Several United States senators and gov
errors of states are on the programme,
and the attendance will include, besides
men prominently identified with the
souths interests, government officials and
visitors from eastern states.
Last year the conference paid especial
attention to the quarantine system I'M
migration will be an absorbing topic. In
his call for the meeting, the chairman,
Gov. John I. Cox of Tennessee, states
that its purpose is to consider methods
and ways and means for obtaining a de-
sirable class of immigrants for states of
the south; to confer and devise plans for
the protection of the south against I'M
desirable immigrants; to discuss the gem
eral labor supply and situation throughout
the south, with a view of suggesting REM
edial legislation where needed and OF a
uniform tendency that will improve the
efficiency of labor in all fields and 10
consider measures for increasing the in
terests in, and better attendance on tech
meal, agricultural and trade schools and
review the results of the present educa-
tional system for negroes with suggestion
of remedies where shown to be needed
Tomorrow's programme includes the
names Of Governor Cox. Governor Blancn-
ard of Louisiana Governor Hayward Of
South Carolina, Robert l.. Taylor demo-
cratic nominee for United States senator
from Tennessee; NJ. V. Richards of the
Southern railroad, j. c. Hemphill of the
Charleston News and Courier and V. w.
Grubbs of Greenville, Tex.