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Fergus County Democrat., 1907-10-08
A TERRIFIC SLUMP
in BARNES.KING
UNFAVORABLE REPORT BY
PRESIDENT GILLIE CAUSES
STOCK TO TUMBLE.
Butte, Oct. 2.-Barnes-K King sold on
the local mining exchange today at
rs cents. 1t once sold at $3.50.
Anaconda Standard.

Anaconda Standard.
The Barnes King Development
company bubble has burst, and sew
eral thousand stockholders in Butte
and elsewhere have rudely been
brought to realize that they are
victims, one and all. 1t is claimed
in Butte by friends of the promo ers
that they were also victims, and that
the character of the Barnes King
mines was not known to them until
after the first payment had been
made on the property by the new
company. For long time there
have been ugly reports in circulation
about the former management of the
company and the fotation. To
answer some of these i'll reports,
John c. Lalor, former president of
the company, prepared statement
which appeared in the Standard
August 4, in which the conditions
at the property were presented in
very inviting manner, and which said
that there lis now in the treasury
about $275,OO0, which is ample to
provide for further development and
equipment and new additions to the
milling plant, SO that hereafter profits
can be used for dividends"
About that time number of dis
satisfied stockholders insisted on the
election of new board of directors
and managers and John Gillie, gen
eral superintendent Of the Amalga-
mated mines, was selected to accept
the presidency, and Charles w. Good
ale, general manager of the Boston
q Montana company. was elected vice
president. Mr.. Gillie and Mr.. Good
ale have just completed an exhaustive
examination of the Barnes King
mines, spending nearly a week there,
and they have joined in an official
report to the stockholders, which
was made public last evening. Rum
ors Of what the report would con
tain were out on Monday, and re-
suited in rush to unload stock, and
the price quickly fell from 81 per
share to 81 cents, at which latter
price sales were made in Butte.
Many thousand shares were thrown
on the market in New York, and
probably as many more in Boston,
and thousands of shares more are
listed for sale.
The Barnes King Development
company was capitalized for $2,OOO,-
600 in 100000 shares at SIS each, and
IN the underwriting every share was
offered by the promoters and great
lv versubscribed. Butte alone sub
Fergus County Democrat., 1907-10-08

but the tonnage is small and the
pillars canot be mined until the San
tiago ore chute is exhausted, as that
ore must be extracted through these
workings.
"A large amount of unnecessary
and expensive machinery and sup
plies has been purchased, and are at
the property, including two air COM
pressors, with electric motors, As
tons of mine rails, 20 complete air
drills and 10 large tram cars. Also,
during the year, the company oper-
ated sawmill on its timber holdings
in the Judith mountains, IL miles
distant, and cut exceeding 100000
feet of lumber, principally one-inch
boards. This lumber is now being
hauled for storage at the mines on
the timber. Should the property de-
velop to the extent of requiring a new
reduction plant, this lumber will be
available.
"The above statements briefly COW
er the present conditions of the prop
erty, but might convey to stockhold-
ers a more unfavorable view of the
future than is intended. The prop
erty has a considerable prospective
value, and the money in the treasury
of the company, about $26O,OOO, will
furnish sufficient fund thoroughly
to test the property, and it is the in
tention of the management to pursue
such development to the fullest econ
omical extent There are several
portions of the ground which have
not received the attention which they
deserve up to the present time, and
on the northerly trend Of the largest
ore body on the property diamond
drill is already at work. In this To-
cality it is proposed to drill six ad-
ditional holes. Another promising
prospect is situated upon the Rawley
Fraction, and work has already been
started to explore the extent of ore
in that claim. There are other
places on the property that will war
rant prospecting, and this will be
taken up as soon as the character
of the work to be done can be de-
cided upon.
George r. McGee assumed the To-
cal management of the property,
commencing September l, 1907, and
the work is now under his direct sup
ervision. We can assure the stock
holders of an earnest and honest de-
velopment Of the property from this
date.
BARNES-KING DEVELOP
MENT COMPANY.
JOHN GILLIE, President.
c w. GOODALE, Vice President.
Fergus County Democrat., 1907-10-08

Court: The State of Montana
against James Sherman, Defendant
James Sherman, stand up. An in
formation was filed against you in
the District Court of the Tenth Ju-
dicial District of the State of Mon
tana, in and for Fergus County, in
January, 1906. TO that information
you pleaded not guilty. You were
tried to jury of that county and
by them convicted and sentenced to
life in the penitentiary. Upon ap-
peal to the Supreme Court it was
directed that new trial should be
given you, which has been done. You
have been tried to jury of Meagher
county and have been found guilty
of manslaughter and the penalty
fixed at five years in the state peni-
tertiary. Have you any reason to
give at this time why sentence should
not now be passed upon you?
Answer: | think not, no sir.
Court: Your case is the most
peculiar one that has ever come
under the observation of this Court,
and the Court will pass no opinion
upon it. The trial has been ex-
haustive. Every fact that tended to
illustrate the case has been admit
ted by the Court You have had as
good jury as | have ever seen in
my life; jury composed of honest,
conscientious men, who have striven
with all their intelligence to do JUS
tice in the case. The Court hardly
needs to say that this verdict is not
rational one; it is, as the Court is
informed, the result of compromise
If you are guilty at all, you ought to
be confined in the penitentiary for
the term Of your natural lift. If you
are not guilty, you should have been
let go. But as result of a COM
promise you have been found guilty
of manslaughter and the penalty
fixed at FIVE years The Court has
only to say that he hopes that in
these five years the mystery sur
rounding this case may be cleared
up. That there is one, no person
who knows the case can possibly
doubt. 1t is the sentence of the
Court that you be remanded to the
custody of the Sheriff of Meagher
county, State of Montana, and be by
him conveyed to the city Of Deer
Lodge, and there delivered to the
authorities of the state penitentiary.
therein to remain at hard labor and
in close confinement for the term Of
five years Stand down. This Court
now stands adjourned for the term.
Fergus County Democrat., 1907-10-08
BARNES-KING DEVELOP
MENT COMPANY.
JOHN GILLIE, President.
G w. GOODALE, Vice President
Notice.

Office Of the County Treasurer of
Fergus Comfy, Montana, Lewistown,
Montana, October z, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that taxes
on real and personal property for the
year 1907, are now due and payable
at the office Of the county treasurer,
in the city of Lewistown, Fergus
county, Montana. If not paid prior
to E o'clock p M. November 80,
1907, a penalty of 10 per cent will be
added thereto, according to law.
F. P. CHANDLER,
Treasurer of Fergus County, Mon
tana.
Fergus County Democrat., 1907-10-08

Copper Belle Mining stock at 10c
per share is the best thing you evet
bought. Don't forget this, neighbor.
If you want it buy now. It won't
last long at this price. See ad at
bottom of last page.
Fergus County Democrat., 1907-10-08
SHERMAN GETS
OFF EASY

Continued from page y.
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The Perkins Family
Have Their Troubles
Why the Head Of the Family Did
Not Exchange an Old Piano
Fer New One.

Copyright 1896; by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l
"A mr.. AND MRS. PERKINS had
IA got seated for the evening
N and were seemingly content
and happy when she looked
UP from her book and quered:
MIR. Perkins. would it put you out
very much if l were to ask you a ques-
tom"
"Why, dear, you may ask me ten
thousand"
And you won't he veXed:"
Nothing you could say would vex
me. Proceed"
We'll. one day last May. when we
were sitting on the front steps, spoke
to you about the piano. Do you re-
member
Il do, my dear, and | have the evil
dence right here in my pocket. My
memorandum book says it was on the
18th day at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
1t was beautiful day. What you said
TO me about the piano was;
1t is forty years old.
1T is old fashioned.
cit has straight legs.
There are seven broken keys.
The pedals are out of order.
1t whcc2es like an old horse.
Everybody makes fun of it.
Cant you turn it in toward a new
one%
Those were your observations. Mrs.
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A Progressive Ace,

Pierre de Campo, who was calcimin-
ing the Brady kitchen, was so excess
lively Slow that his discouraged en-
ployers began to fear that the deliber-
ate Frcnchman meant to end his days
under their roof
DO you think" asked Mrs. Brady
desperately, that you'll be done by )
o'clock, so we can cook dinner"
Madame" replied Pierre, pausing
to gesticulate with his brush, maybe
you have hear SOM Poop say dat dis
ees de age of progress. Oui, madame.
eet eeS de age of too moch progress
Evairew'ere hon dose states of Amer
lea dere ees too moch Jury. Jury.
'urry. Evairew'ere Get ees Make
'aste. make 'aste" Dere ees no rip
pose-no tame for do noting good
Evairew'cre | am come wit ma pail,
ma brush, ma scaffold, Get ees not
Pierre, how good you can do dose
york; but Pierre, how queek you ees
got trough Parbleu! Biffore a man
ees get one leg cen hees hovairhall
sombod' ees hask heem, Say. meester
how soon you go vay| "-Youth's Com
panion
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curatcly recorded here. and have you
anything to add to Them at this mo
ment?"
Well, l wanted to call your atten-
ton to the fact that September had
come and gone"
Il acknowledge it,"
And the Old piano stands there yet
in the parIor"
Acknowledged again"
And, so far as | know, no steps
have been taken to replace it with a
new one"
Not step, Mrs. Perkins, and l am
now prepared to reason the case with
you. have been expecting to reason
it with you for the last month-in fact
| was hoping you would speak to me
about it this very evening"
'Well, | have spoken"
''iou see, my dear" began Mr. Per
kins, as he drew long breath I'VE
must begin ut the beginning, Neither
Of us is musician. We have neither
son nor daughter to play. We might
just as well have Il corn shrilcr in the
parlor for all the use we could make
of it. If we had thou and dollar
piano, what good would it Go u.s."
why, | play, and you know | do
and have praised me-" replied Mrs
Perkins in an injured tone.
My dear woman, let us look facts
in the face. You drum on the piano.
You howl an accompaniment. You roll
your eyes. You hump your shoulders.
At various times have said that you
played beautifully. | did 1t to keep
you playing and have revenge on the
neighbors."
How dare you talk to me that
way?"
Come, now. he reasonable. You
never took music lesson in your life,
did you?'
"No, but what of thatT
you can't sing any more than a
crow"
"But II can't
Il don't revert to these things to hui
initiate you, Mrs. Perkins, but simply
to clear the ground for start 1t is
husbands business to praise his
wife's playing even if it gives him
toothache. The cold fact is that nei-
Their Of us can play or sing. Therefore,
Of what use is thousand dollar piano?
You will answer that one would look
nice In the parlor. | agree with you,
but when you have Il $1,000 piano you
must have $500 rug to 20 with IT.
also new p1rlor suit"
But there are several neighbors who
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Bunny Travcrs was not Il bad fellow.
On the contrary, everybody liked him.
and everybody said il was too bad that
he had money and had spent six
months in London to learn the ways of
an ass. One day when the subject Of
the up to date girl was on the carpet
Bunny listened for awhile with a bored
air and then observed:
ITS all theory. She cawn't be found,
We knaw. They are the same old Ian
gushing lot, just Il lot OF gurlS. with
their giggle and twadd!e and waiting
for proposal. AS | may have remark
ed before. they bore me-bore me
dweadfully. WEAKLY, | think | shall
have to cut the whole lot of them
Among those who regarded Bunny as
an asinine good fellow was Burt Gal
braith, the young partner in a down
town brokerage firm. lie had a wife
and home on the north shore of Long
Island. and his sister Nettie lived with
them. AS he listened to Bunny's obser-
vatlons Il smile lowered around his
mouth and that night when he got
home he said to the sister:
Say, Net, we've got a Teller in the
Clipper club that needs humping. and
he needs it bad. am going to invite
him down to stay for a week"
"What for?' was asked.
80 that you can bump him. He
doesn't believe there's an up to date
girl in America"
Bunny baked little when invited
down to the island home. He was Mt
last prevailed upon, however, and one
Monday afternoon he was safely land
ed at RavenSreSt Half an hour later
Miss Nettie was dressed for Il spin in
her brothers auto and informed the
visitor that twenty mile ride was on
the cards. If it woull bore him. Why
Not in the least me deah %url.
rawther fawncy the thing. donchcr
knaw, or think I should if there was
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HANG ON HERE, AND WE SHALL EE BLOWN
ASHORE"

any speed in it, If you can assure me
of twenty miles an hour shall he posi-
lively chawmed."
He was quietly assured. and after the
machine got well started he found the
assurance well founded. Bunny began
TO get nervous after the speed exceeded
fifteen miles an hour, but he managed
to restrain himself until it had reached
twenty-five Then his hat blew off, his
hair stood up and there was culver
to his voice as he turned to the girl
and said:
"Oh, now. | thought we came out
TO see the landscape. doncher knaw.'
Farmers began to yell, dogs to bark
and drivers of teams to draw out to
the fences as the speed was raised to
thirty miles an hour and Bunny Ira
vers confessed to himself that for the
first time in two years he wasn't bored
The pace went to thirty-five and then
to forty, aud lie finally judged that ii
had gone to a hundred and the auto
was flying above the trees. Then it
slackened as they entered a village
and the girl steered the machine up one
street and down another and finally
halted before the Office of justice of
the peace. A benign looking old gen
tleman came out and the girl handed
him So.
"Now, then. what's all this?' asked
Bunny as Miss Nettie was turning the
machine about.
"Oh. whenever | exceed the speed
limit stop and pay a fine They don't
have to arrest me and have witnesses
and trial. Saves time and carries
out the letter of the law, you know.
Little invention Of my own, and I am
thinking Of taking out a patent I'll
try for a mile minute going back"
Bunny groaned. TO his utter amaze
ment, he was not in the least bored
On the contrary, he was anxious to
suggest that Miss Nettie accept check
for 81 900 for the benefit of charity and
allow him to walk home Before he
could state the case however, tho
machine was under way. When they
reached home the girl found a bundle
of clothes in the seat beside her After
awhile Bunny Travers emerged from
the bundle and said that he was
changed man.
An hour after breakfast next morn
ing when Bunny had finished his cigar
his entertainer asked him If he wouldn't
like TO have bout with the fols. He
smiled incredulously, but she asked
him to follow her to the billiard room
and these produced a pair of foils.
Hcrc WINS his opportunity to get even
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Recently a city editor in Ottumwa
la. was informed by phone at a late
hour that prominent citizen had
died suddenly. Calling one of the
reportorial staff, the city editor in,
structed him hurriedly, and the young
man shot out of the office on double
quick. Some twenty minutes later he
returned, and as he fastened to the
corner where his typewriter stood the
city editor asked him.
well, what about IT,"
"Oh, nothing" said the young man
as he began making the keys rattle,
only as Mr.. Blank was walking along
the street he says, I'm going to die,
and he leaned up against the fence
and made good. Judge.
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can play and sing" protested Mrs. Per-

can play and sing" protested Mrs. Per-
kins.
Il haven't the slightest doubt of it,
Mrs. Perkins. There are several neigh
bors who can wear your hats and
shoes, but are you going TO keep hats
and shoes for the neighbors? Suppose,
however, that we went ahead and got
a new piano. Do you know that piano
playing makes women round shoulder
ed and weak chested and c0nsump-
tive?"
Il never heard that it did and don't
believe it,"
Il could give you medical statistics
by the CARLOAD. Within the last ten
years paralysis of the arms has be-
come so common that the doctors at
tribute 1T to piano playing. There are
hundreds of instances where young
ladies have lost the use of both arms
for a year. If we had piano
couldn't run the risk of your losing the
use of your arms. How. then. could
you longer hug me? How prepare the
meals and make the bed:"
you are simply trying to twist out
of it, just as you always do said
Mrs. Perkins, with her eyes full OF
tears.
MY dear. | am no twister. | am
simply logician and a philosopher |
reason things TO Il conclusion. We
cannot afford a $1,000 piano. and on
top of it $500 rug, a $3.50 parlor suit
and five or six paintings costing 500
apiece. All that capital would be shut
up in cold parlor for the winter If
put into ice for next season it might
be doubled. And there's another
thing
"Oh, you can be finding excuses for
a week to come"
This is no excuse, but a fact That
old straight legged, broken keyed piano
belonged to my first wife. Don't jump
up and grow red in the face. for I'm
not hitting at You. The first time
called to see her, when We were both
young people, She was playing on that
piano. She was pounding. She was
bowling. Her eyes were rolling heav-
onward. fell in love with her at
once"
Il won't stay" declared Mrs Per
kins as she stamped her foot on the
floor.
Just a moment. my dear She con
tinued to pound and howl all through
our engagement she brought the old
piano along when we We're married
Every day and every evening ii was
pound and howl | talked to her of the
risks she ran, but she was self wil!pd
She finally began to fade. The doctor
said she lasted year longer than he
expected, but she went with Il rush
when she did 20. She had been pound
ing and bowling one evening and the
reighbors had telephoned for the po-
Zee and all the dogs for Il mile around
were barking, when | observed sud
den change come over her, and she fell
off the piano stool and was dead in a
moment. She never opened her eyes
or spoke. There's my case. Mrs. Per
kins, and
Il say you are Il dodger and
twister" exclaimed Mrs. Perkins as
she gave a sniff of contempt and walk
IL stflly out of the room.
Mir Perkins stopped to scratch his
ankle and then Strengthened up to
scratch his nose and then smiled and
said to himself:
But, then, don't a married man have
to beg NJ. QUAD.
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MATTHEWS & HAMILL,
Successors to Charles A. Tower,
General Fire Insurance,
D.

FOR SALE-A f good strong
mules, suited to any purpose. Apply
to Glade View Stock Farm, Oakland,
Nd
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Books That iielped.

What books have helped you most?"
asked the sincere and serious young
woman
Il can't recall all of EN-" answered
Mr.. CumroX. but they were mostly
stories with love and fighting in them.
You See was in the book selling bust
ness when l began to get prosperous"
Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-02-28

Lawyer examining witnessJ-Do you
know the man who formerly owned
this gun?
Witness-Yes, sir.
Lawyer-Is he in the courtroom?
Witness-No, sir.
Lawyer Where is he?
Witness-I don't know.
Lawyer When and where did you
MIN last:
v tncss Six months ago-at his flu
al Detroit Tribune
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REAL ESTATE BARGAINS
I offer for sale


FARM OF 147 ACRES miles from Oakland; good
Groom House. plenty of water; so acres cleared;
about rs of grass Orchards, bearing; over Is
Of White Oak Timber; R. F. D. mail service
COTTAGE OF ROOMS for sale at Mt Lake Park
HOUSE LOT Oak Street Oakland, for sale or
rent. House of rooms-Lot 5oxI5o feet, with
Stable and all necessary Outbuildings.
FOUR VERY DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS situated
Liberty Street, in Oakland. Also 3 DWELLING
HOUSES on Liberty Street, with good and all
necessary outbuildngs.
HOUSE LOT on Wilson Street. House of 10 rooms;
good water. Lot $50 feet front. Best Outbuildings
in Oakland.
A VERY GOOD FARM mile from Oakland-al under
fence containing 81 acres about rs under cultiva-
ton; fine Orchards, and about IN in small
Fruit Houses, very good Well and failing
Spring. very desirable place for Truck and Poultry
Farming Can be bought at low price just
have for sale IS of the very best Building Lots in the
which will sell for cash-or S. down and IS
per month.
$50 ACRES OF VALUABLE COAL LAND situated less
than miles of Oakland which be bought at a
great bargain. The surface would make fine farming
land. This land is well watered with and
several good springs
~ MORE CHOICE BUILDING LOTS at S. down and
S. per month
If you cash for your Real Estate, Real Estate
for your cash let me hear from you.
av-For further particulars call address
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Land for Sale.

We have for sale the following valus-
bic tracts of land
One Military Lot of so acres, a small
portion Of which is under cultivation.
All good land, and every acre tillable.
Watered by several good springs and
never failing small run Contains
some good timber. One-half mile
from R. r. siding, and one and one
half miles from Oakland.
Also part of two Military Lots contain
ing about 30 acres. This property is
directly East of Oakland, on the South
side Of the B. & o. R. r. siding on the
North side CT tracks. Contains valu-
able grazing land, portion of which
is in cultivation. Valuable r. r. 'front.'
age.
Also 10 acres suitable for building sites
Just East of Oakland on the North side OF the
Oakland and Mt. Lake Park road.
For further Information, address
THE H. WEBER & SONS CO.,
o-tf Oakland, Nd.
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Explosive.

The Count-Ha'e you asked for re
rich young lady's hand yet?
Tue Duke-Yes, and think light
ming must have struck the telephone.
The Count--Ah! Maybe the wires
are crossed.
The Duke-SO. | think it is her IA
Their who IS crossed Chicago News.
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The world Is better nowadays
Than fifty years ago,
| know, and there are many ways
That give me cause TO know.
Aye, though you pick a score of flaws
Since twoscore years and ten,
i say tits better now-because
You were not IN it then.
Cleveland Leader.
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His Specially.

Yes" said Bradley, I'm in this
bowling match and you can depend I'll
give a good account of myself"
YES, when you tell about it after
ward you'll make it sound all right
Philadelphia Press