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The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
Gives China
~$12,OOO,OOO

Sir Chentung Liang Chepp r
ambassador, who is in Boston ess
visit, has made the FOLLOWING a On
ment: STATE
II shall make public the contsr..
an official note which l received Of
Secretary Root, which shows ron
than anything else can the remo. Io,'er
high of justice which the runuly
States has used in all the deaIino ui'ea
China. You remember that sfto- WIN
Boxer troubles China agreed n Tue
indemnity of $24, 400, 778.s1 on al
count of the losses suffered h. az
United States government, as wou us
for personal property lost by ber IA
zen during the Boxer Campaign EaN
years ago your government was oo
enouh to promise me that when ~
time arrived, as a token of siroa-0
friendship for China, the original s'
ure of the indemnity would be re,;aas
True to the promise of the execrt;~'
officers, | received a note from SeCro
tatry Root last Saturday, saving thS.
the president directed him to saw -
his next message that he womb -
pleased to recommend that China ho I.
lieved of all obligation in excess az nv
final revised accounts of the indemnit-
which he'd been set al $I1, 1855. 492 go
That, as you can see, will save Chin.
over $12, 900 900 and also an in arrest
of 4 per cent.
"You can not emphasize too stronU,v
my great admiration for the fair shirt
which has always characterized the
dealings of the United States with NV
country. This final action is another
monument to Americas high sense Of
justice and | feel called upon to saw
not because | am the retiring ambassa.
dor, that personally, | feel that Amer.
lea is one of China's strongest friends. u
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21

William Dwyer-Eighteen months in
the ~penitantiary and to pay a fine of
800; also eight months in Jail.
Clarence W. Robnett-Eight months
in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of
800.
George Kester-Eight months in the
county Jail and to pay a $1,000 fine.
William E. Kettenbach - f i g h {
months in the county Jail and to pay a
$1,000 fine.
The sentences were imposed on
Dwyer andRobnett for conviction of
subordination Of perjury at last falls
term Of the court in connection with il
legal timber deals in the Clearwater
country. Dryer is a timber cruiser
and Robnett is a ~bookkeeper in the
Lewiston National bank. Kettenbach
IL president and Hester is cashier of
the Lewiston National bank. They
were charged with conspiracy TO de-
fraud the government Of timber lands.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
MRS. WONG YUE CHINESE.
Sister Of Mrs. Howard Gould Gives
Up All Rights.

Up Al hl9Hts'
Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Of San Fran
cisco, sister of Mrs. Howard Gould, Is
no longer an American citizen.
She voluntarily relinquished her
rights as a native born Californian
recently to become as much as posi-
bic an a%ll-around Chinese, like her
husband. The records Of the local
Chinese bureau are lacking in cases
similar to that Of Mrs. Wong Sun Yue.
She will be subject to the laws Of
China when she chooses to visit that
country and when she comes home she
will be subject to the regulations OF
the immigration and restriction laws.
Mrs. Yue, who renounces her citizen
ship to become a Chinese merchant,
said: CAS- a Chinese merchant many
paths are open to me which have been
closed before. l have become a mem
Der Of the tailoring firm called the
Quong Yuen. It's the dragon for me
instead of the Stars and Stripes"
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
CONSOLIDATED SUGAR COS.
Idaho, Utah and Western Idaho
in the Merge.

Salt Lake City, Utah, June 19.-
Thomas R. Cutler, general manager of
the Utah Sugar company, the Idaho
Sugar company and the Western Idaho
Sugar company, announces that the
eastern stockholders in the three cor.
porations have approved the plans for
their consolidation. 1t is proposed to
merge the companies under the name
of the Idaho Sugar company. issue
81, 1000, 900 preferred and $1,000, 900 of
common stock and exchange for old
stock on the following basis: Utah
Sugar preferred, SO a share: Idaho
Sugar preferred, 81 a share, and West
ern Idaho Sugar preferred, $3.50 a
share.
After this distribution there will re.
main 81, 100000 of the amalgamated
stock, which will be put into the treas
ury for Improvements. A part of ii
will be used to pay for a new factory
at Payette, Idaho.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Governor Hughes of New YORK hSS
signed the New York city recount Dlll
providing for a recount and recanVaSs
by judicial process of the ballots Cas'
for mayor at the last election in Ne"
York.
Barring hot winds, Washington wiz
produce this year 800, 90, O0U bushels :,
wheat, according to the latest repoiu
after a trip through the wheat be!ls u
the state of Washington and ldano,
Not only do the growers expect a De
crops, but also high prices for 'Hen zen
grain. Seventy-cent wheat TINS ian
would mean $21 900, 900 10 the eas'eiD
Washington wheat ranchers.
The Gath annual reunion OF the ass
citation of Washington pioneers Is
session in Seattle this weekly with neai'
two hundred persons ia attendance.
Josephine Verella, aged 10 years, -
Pasco was drowned in the Column
river last Tuesday. The engine IN nS
bota broke and the boat drittea ans
struck the bridge pier and she W.
thrown out.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
MONTANA ITEMS

Fred Nelson and Hugh Butcher have
been arrested at Chester on the
charge of stealing a quantity of stamp
ed envelopes from a wrecked Great
Northern train. The package is said
to have contained postal supplies for
the Spokane postofice.
The secretary of the interior has
restored $4,000 acres to settlement
withdrawn for the Sun river irrigation
project in Montana June II, 1902, and
116,4S0 acres withdrawn under other
statutes for the same project; also
267,00 acres withdrawn for the lower
Yellowstone project. The lands were
withdrawn that engineers might ascer-
tain what portions might be brought
under water from government canals,
and are restored now that all available
portions have been learned.
Brakeman Thomas T. Pearson was
killed at Libby on the Great Northern
recently by falling between the cars as
he was stepping from a car of poles
to a boxcar ahead. He slipped and fell
to the rail, being cut in two at the
hips, and lived only 35 minutes. He
was about q years old.
The Lewis and Clark district court
will soon be called upon to hear the
trial of a suit involving mining prop
erty of the estimated value of $780,
600.
A visit was made Sunday to Fort
Missoula by Major General A. W.
Greedy of Chicago.
The question as to where the divis-
ion point between Great Falls and
Billings on the Billings & Northern
will be located has been settled. A
tract of land, comprising about 100
acres, five miles south of Garneill to
use for that purpose. has been pur'
chased.
According to one of the officials OF
the Billings & Northern railroad, who
has just returned from a tour OF In
spection of the line, the work of con
struction is now proceeding in a salts
factory manner, and nearly thirty
miles of steel have been laid.
Extensive arrangements are being
made by the Billings council and the
trustees of the chamber of commerce
for the visit of Secretary of the IN
terror James r. Garfield, which will &c
made June 26, the day when the lot
terry for the Huntley lands will begin
A deal is pending for the sale u
Peter larson the millionaire railr0aq
contractor, of a tract of land at sixth
avenue and Ewing street, which VIII
be donated by him to the city OF Her
ena for a library site, Andrew Car
negie having announced he would give
the money for the building. :,
Missoula was spared a cooks ana
walters strike by the employers grant
ing the demand for a ten-hour Day
The hotels were not affected, as inc
employees were already working ten
hours.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A Santa Fee train was wrecked near
Earl, a small station 90 miles east of
Trinidad, Colorado, last Monday. Quite
a number of persons were injured SER
iously. Seven coaches left the rails
and the smoking car was smashed to
sp' inters. Traffic was delayed for ~
hours.
Darwin p. Kinsley has been elected
president of the New York Life Insur-
ance company to succeed A. L. Orr.
Harlowton, Montana, was practical
ly destroyed by fire last Monday night.
Little Margaret Wheeler, living at
Harrison, Idaho, was killed by being
hit by a freight train.
a verdict of justifable homicide was
returned by the coroner's jury sitting
at Butte, Mont. upon the body of w.
II. Garrity, a miner, who was shot and
killed by his wife recently. Clarity
was chasing his wife and baby with a
razor when killed.
Several prostrations are reported
from Chicago and New York since last
Monday.
A man named Black was killed in a
quarrel so miles inland from Helena,
Montana.
Further advices regarding the rebel
lion in South China have been receiv-
ed state that sun Vat Sen, who for
years has been organizing an anti-dy-
nastic movement in China, left Toxic
a few weeks ago before and is reported
leading tine revolutionists near Swallow,
having taken the field May %, and
opened operations by attacking the
walled city of Wang Kong, which was
easily captured, and all officials were
killed.
The government troops on the island
of Manow were attacked on May %
and defeated, the revolutionists then
marching upon Cha Chow, which also
fell into their hands, and all the off,
cials were promptly killed. Thousands
of refugees fled I Swallow, where for
eign warships assembled to protect the
city. The rebels carry banners inscrib
ed National army of Central Flow
cry Kingdom, under General Issimo
Sun Vat Sen, " and. following the ex-
ample set by the Tai Pings, they are
posting notices that any of their fol-
lowers who offer violence or death to
people who do not oppose them will be
summarily killed, and that arms and
accourtrements will be given 10 all.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
Hartman is Out.

The agreement between the HART.
man interests and the Rock Island
company, entered into in 1904 for the
control Of the Chicago & Alton rail
road, has been abrogated by mutual
consent, according to an authoritative
announcement made recently. In the
future. 1t was state, the Chicago &
Alton stockholders will manage the
property. Under the agreement which
has just been abrogated the Rock
Island company and the Hartman in
terests alternately controlled the Chi
cago & Alton, the Rock Island com
pany being in control one year and
the Hartman interests the next. The
plan would have expired in 1914.
The termination of this plan is said
to be without prejudice L either
party. The Chicago & Alton officials
explained that It was simply an in
stance of letting stockholders manage
their own affairs. IT was felt that this
policy would best subserve the in.
terests Of the stockholders. There is
to be no change, according to the Chi
cago & Alton officials, in the policy
OF the road. which has been managed
by the Rock Island under the joint con.
troll agreement since last September.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21

Newport News, Va, June 1S.-Clad
IN full naval uniforms and with faces
and hands fearfully mutilated, the
bodies of Midshipmen P. H. Field.
Virginia, class of 1906; W. H.. Steven
son, North Carolina, class of 1906
and +, 2. Holcomb of Delaware, class
OF 1907, were found in Chesapeake bsv
Monday. The one drowned in the
launch was that of a Fireman West
phaI. The bodies of three m~idshipmen
ana tour seamen are still missing. The
TACT that the bodies found today had
drifted II miles from the scene of the
tragedy gives rise to a fear that ALI
OF the bodies will never be found.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
ONE BODY AND LAUNCH FOUND
No Apparel Found to Show Presence
of Missing Midshipmen.

'''N~iFtiiNils
Secretary Metcalf has received a
long message from Admiral Berry.
commanding the Norfolk navy yard,
saying that the M~innesota's launch
had been raised to the surface and
the body of n fireman found. The
search for the other bodies is being
continued.
There was no trace of any of the
six midshipmen or the other four sea-
men who were said to have been on
board.
Washington-Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf has received a report saying
that the board which is investigating
the drowning of midshipmen and
sailors in Hampton Roads recently
Will find that the lauLeh was cut in
two by a wire cable towline. The sec
rotary said that he will wait for the
formal report before announcing the
details.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
II. E. Weigel Suicides.

Petaluma, Cal, June 19.-"Now III
take a nice, long sleep" remarked
Harry f. Weigel getting out Of a bar.
Der chair at the Petaluma hotel. He
went to his room, drank the contents
OF a two-ounce bottle Of laudanum and
died before a doctor could be sum.
moned. Weigel came here nine weeks
ago from Seattle and had been drink.
ing heavily.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
Storms Cut off Black Hills.

Deadwood, S. D., June 1.-THE
BLACK Hills have recently been cut of
from communication with the outside
world since June u. A rain and hail
storm lasting six hours washed out
railroad bridges and tracks n des.
troyed telegraph wires. Three peo-
pie are known to have lost their
lives.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
SUBWAY is RUNNING BUILDING
Cracks Begin to Show In New York
Courthouse.

Cracks Begin TO Show In New York
Courthouse.
New York's $4,000, 900 criminal court
building is in danger of collapse, and
Public Works Commissioner Thomp.
son has appointed a committee Of en-.
gineers to suggest means Of making
it safe. The subway runs close to
the foundations and the structure has
been sinking gradually since it was
opened. The officials admit 1t has
settled four inches.
New cracks we're discovered recently
in the marble work Of the interior,
and the action Of the commissioner
was taken at the request Of judges
and lawyers.
The site on which the building
stands was once a pond.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
FEDERAL JOBS IN NORTHWEST.
Changes In Postoffice and Other
Biz DEPARTMENTS.

c. NJ. Denniston has been appointed
a guard in the Washington national
forest, Yakima section.
Carrie l.. Stanyer has been named
as postmistress at Henderson, Mis-
soula county, Mont. Joseph Johnson
has been appointed postmaster at
Pennington, Teton county, Montana,
vice c. c. Davidson, resigned.
Fred Shirley of Spokane, j.. E.
Morelock of Seattle, L. R. Foley Of
Wenatchee, julius Ambrosch of Spo-
kane, w. f. De Lance of Auburn, c.
E. Vinton of Spokane, Harper Pullman
of Plat, P. enge of Dayton have been
appointed railway mail clerks.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
MAYORSCHMITZ,JAIL
San FRANCISCGS Chief RE-
MANDED TO SHERIFFS CARE.
He Must Stay in Jail by Order of the
Judqe-Mayor Pleads Press Of Work
Attorney Langdon Insists Defend
ant Appears Before Court as Would
Any Ordinary Citizen.

San Francisco-"No bail for Eugene
E. Schmitz," the convicted mayor OF
San Francisco, was the ruling made
by Judge Frank H. Dunno, in the ap-
~plication made by the mayors counsel
that he be given his liberty under
bond pending sentence, which court
will pronounce on June q.
Judge Dunno adopted as his own he
stand Of the prosecution that in the
eyes of the law the mayor is no diff
ferent from any other prisoner on
whom a jury has set the brand of
felony.
Judge Dunno then called the sheriff
before him and said that Schmitz was
not to be allowed his liberty, but was
to be confined in Jail unless upon or
ders of court.
Former Judge j. G. Campbell, the
mayors chief counsel, made the formal
motion for the admittance Of his client
to bail on the strength Of an affidavit
in which the mayor says that by rea-
son Of having been compelled to give
almost his whole time and attention to
his trial for the last four weeks, pub
lie business requiring his attention has
been delayed, and there is nov a large
amount Of it pending and undetermin-
ed and requiring his immediate atten-
ton.
Schmitz "Ordinary Citizen"
District Attorney Langdon, in a
brief speech, opposed the motion for
bail. He said that Schmitz, convicted
Of a felony, appeared before court, not
as a mayor of San Francisco, but as
an ordinary citizen, and possessing no
extraordinary rights. In a counter at,
fdavit, which he read, he denied the
allegations of the mayor as to public
matters requiring the personal atten-
ton of the mayor.
Mr.. Langdon reminded the court that
as the San Francisco charter provides
that $50 long as the mayor is tenn
porarily unable to perform his duties,
a member of the board shall be chosen
president pro TEN. to act as mayor"
1t was not necessary that Schmitz
should perform any of the duties speci-
fed in his affidavit.
Mayor Schmitz sat without the be-
trayal Of any emotion during these
proceedings.
Later Report.
Acting under instructions from Dis
trict Attorney w. H. Langdon, the
board of supervisors adopted a resolu-
ton declaring Mayor Schmitz temper
arily unable to perform his official
duties, and appointed Supervisor j. l..
Gallagher acting mayor. Those in
charge of the bribery graft prosecution
are by this o placed in actual con.
troll of the municipal situation. 1t is
the plan of the prosecution forces to
ask for the resignation in a few days
of some n of the eighteen supervisors.
The first act of the reform y if
the prosecution s program is carried
out, will be to demand the resignation
of practically the entire Schmitz adj
minstration, whose places will be filed
with reform agents.
Unless disturbed by the courts the
nePw regime will endure until next
January, the time for the induction of
officers to be chosen at the municipal
election next November.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21

Many a man who spurns tooaccC
this world will need a smoking Ja'
in the next.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
ASK HELP FROM PRESIDENT.
Chicago Board Of Trade Is Worried
by Action Of T~elegraphers.

The Chicago board of trade has ap.
pealed to President Roosevelt and
Robert c. Clowery, president of the
Western Union, to avert the threaten.
ed strike of telegraphers.
Business interests of the entire coun.
try forsee paralysis of interstate com.
merce in a gigantic operators strike,
and wish to prevent such a disaster.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21

Some men are so addicted to tauto-
logy as even to marry a second time
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
GUILTY, AS CHARGED
IS The VERDICT OF TIMBER
GRADERS In IDAHO.
w. =. Kettenbaek, G. II. Hester and
w. Dwyer Charged With Conspiracy
on Five Counts, Guilty Of Two-Vic-
tory for Proseeution-cases Will Be
Carried to u. S. Court Of Appeals.

Moscow, Idaho, June 17.-William
F. Kettenbacb, George H. Kester and
William Dryer, the first named the
Lewiston bankers, charged with con.
spiracy to defraud the government in
timber land entries, were found guilty
on two Of the counts in the federal
court Sunday evening and acquitted on
the remaining counts. The jury sud
denly reached a verdict at 8 O'Clock,
after ia Tag deliberated 81 hours.
Each OF the three Defendants was
charged with conspiracy on five
counts, each representing a quarter OF
section of land, the tracts being Sc
cured at an average price Of $500 each.
The particular counts under which
they were convicted are believed to
be counts 3 and 4 the first n being
known as the Charles Carey count,
the second as the Guy L. Wilson count.
The jury reached a verdict shortly
before bedtime, the bainf notifying
the court officials, who instructed
them to report Immediately at the
courtroom.
At 8:45 o'clock the jury filed slowly
into the box, with the exception Of j.
w. Robinson, who was carried on a
cot, his aged form covered with blan-
kets, his head being swathed in ban
dages, which completely covered his
snow-white hair and beard. Judge
DIETRICH assembled the bench and or
dered a poll Of the jury. In low tones
he inquired II the jury had reached a
verdict, and was informed they had.
Taking the closely written document,
he scanned its contents in asboluate
silence. Addressing the spectators,
Judge DIETRICH requested that no dem
o%nstrations be made when the verdict
was read.
The verdict is considered a victory
for the prosecution in almost every
particular. The stubbornly fought case
has occupied four weeks.
No indication was made by attor-
neys for the defense as to the likeli-
hood Of appeal, but it is considered
certain the Ease will be carried at
least to the United States court Of ap-
peals.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21
The Specific Charges.

Guy L. Wilson. upon whose testi-
mony n Of the verdicts of guilty was
reached, was the first witness called
In the case. He said on the witness
stand that Dwyer promised him $3.50
for filing On a timber claim and that
he drove through the desired land with
Dwyer at the latter's expense. He filed
on 1t some time later, as Dwyer told
him that the land was not yet ready
for occupancy. At the time of the IA
nous lineup in front Of the Lewiston
land office, Wilson testified that he
was unable to be present and that
Dwyer hired a boy to substitute for
him. The witness also said that Dwyer
coached him on the answers he should
make at the land office and gave him
his fling fee and $411 to pay on final
proof. After deciding the land to Ket-
tenbach and Kester he received a
check for $l3S.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-21

Every defeat develops a lot of new
excuses.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

sANED by the purrlnS surf OF tha
AdriatIc and the Mediterranean
lies a sun bathed peninsula whose
name through the years has been
single term to indicate delightful
life; whose pleasant valleys and re-
sponsive hills have given to the world
a profusion of epicurean gifts-the oil,
the wine, the fig; whose cities have cast
an influence over the art. -ousic and
romance Of the world. A lano, in fac,.
that all the world that had seen, loved;
ana all that had not. longed TO see and
love.
But while the orb OF day. caressed
lovingly this daughter OF the Adriatic.
and made her life joyous. it had. like
the sailor who sees many lands, another
sweetheart far away, where civilized
man had never trod. BY the side of the
gentle Pacific lay this. other garlanded
flove Of Orion. She was sister to the
zine wreathed peninsula of'the' Adriatic
The same gentle breath OF summer was
there, othe same purring surf in cove
and inlet. the same soft touch eff that
sun so proriscuous lin its ,amours, the
same rich valleys and fruitful hills.
where the vine and the olive and the
fig could riot in luxurious growth Only
here was not the spade of the husband
man. The fruitful soil lay waiting 10
give its treasures TO those who would
come to seek them. The jealous sun
had this love to itself
Then the gold rush of IA AMI
the early SOS and the fiocking of the
caravans and the caravels of the earth
10 this remote paradise began. These
newcomers Sound handful of Span
iards who had pecked at the agricul-
turaI riches and were living. each man
with enough OF the prolific soil to sus-
tain q million
Then IT was that these two balmy
lands first learned their affinity. They
were sisters and each was prompt 20
extend gifts TO the other. Italy sent
her people with the leeds of her gar
dens. the cuttings of orchards and vine
yards. She sent the influence of her
century nurtured wealth of art and
music AND romance TO ennoble the spirit