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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-01-11
committees ARE NAMED
House Votes Down Investigation of Butte
Police Department.,.BiIIs introduced.

I BY Miller Of Park. relative to the
drawing of jurors; also relative to the
employment of assistants in the Of
fee of the attorney-general
! BY MacAuley, relative to the regis
tration of electors.
By Corbis, making effective the
initiative and referendum law; also
regulating the salaries of deputies
in the Office of auditors of counties
of the first class.
More House Committees.
Speaker King announced some
more standing committees as follows:
| Judiciary: Scallon, Marshall, Gray,
Weed, Duncan, Miller Of Park, Moore,
| Swindlehurst and Maxwell.
Mines and mining: McManus,
Farmer, Blewett, Allen, Kroger,
Seidler, Duncan, William and Powers.
Township and counties: Brownlee,
Morris, Crafty, Maxwell, Thompson of
Fergus, Brewster, Cummings, Duncan
and Cato.
Education: Miller of Park, Blake,
Shaw Cutler, Whiteside, Leighton,
Thompson Of Fergus, Hyndman and
Cluston
Irrigation and water rights: Decker,
Farmer, Griffin, Miller of Park,
O'Connor, Whiteside, Beckwith, Cam
eron and Cummings.
Affairs of cities: Wendell, Golf,
Macauley, Wilder, Warren, Morgan,
English, Scallon and swindlehurst.
Printing: Shaw, Morgan, Har-
bordt, Bennett and Duncan.
Engrossment: Gray, Patton, Man
chester, Sherman and Moore.
Enrolment: Hardin, Bennett,
Powers, Warren and Logan.
Insurance.: Weed, Cameron, Swim
dlehurst, Cutler, Whiteside, Hardin,
Seidler.
Cummings, Decker, Thompson of Fer
gus, Towers, Potter, Tompson, Max
well and Gray.
In the Senate.
The senate rules committee today
reported rules for the session. These
are the Eighth session rules, with few
exceptions. Wherever the Eighth
session rules do not apply Reeds rules
will be invoked. Long attempted to
have Cushings manual adopted in
stead of Reeds rules, but failed.
Notices of senate bills:
BY White, to prohibit free railroad
transportation; to reimburse M. S.
Gum $4,000 for argument in school
bond validity case; amending the code
in regard to disqualification of judges.
BY Mcdonnell, creating the Thir-
teenth Judicial district, to include
Yellowstone and Carbon counties.
BY Albright, relating to recording
mining claims on public lands.
BY Edwards, legalizing outstanding
warrants Of counties issued to build
bridges and roads
BY Amin, creating the Thirteenth
Judicial district, Yellowstone and
Rosebud same as bill introduced in
house by Morris.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-01-11
TROUBLE FOR KANSAS ROADS.

Interstate Commission to Begin In
quiry at Wichita Next Month.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 1O.-It was an
nounced here today that when the in
terstate commerce commission sits at
Wichita, Kan, February 4, it will con-
slider complaints against the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Missouri
Pacific and other western railroads
regarding the giving Of rebates and
unjust determinations against GER
tain shippers and will receive testi-
mony in cases growing out of these
complaints.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-01-11

changes. If" he said, "lne increase
OF drunkenness continues in the army
at the present rate it may become a
very serious matter in preventing men
from enlisting in the army"
He said the anti-canteen law was
doing the reverse of what had been
intended.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-01-11
REVOLUTION BREWING.
Small Number Of Natives on Frontier
Anxious for Scrap.

h f. * r
New York, Jan. 70.-The following
cablegram from President Bonilla Of
Honduras, descriptive of the revolu-
tionary movement, was today made
public by Consul General Fernandez,
of Honduras.
"The revolutionary movement which
has been brewing for some time has
not taken proportions of any char
acter, but is confined to a small nur !,
ber of dissatisfied people who are now
at the frontier under the command Of
D. Guillerez and is confronted by SUI
perior forces. The government Is
strong with numerous and well sup
piled army
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-01-11
MoDlzETT. EFT AL ACQUITTED.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 10.-The jury in
the case of A. r. Modizett, H. G. Dale
and w. G. smoot, charged with con-
spiracy to defraud the government Of
the title to about $4,000 acres Of land
in western Nebraska, by means of
illegal homestead entries, this after
noon brought in verdict Of acquitta1.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-01-11

Washington, Jan. 10.-Members OF
the California delegation, in discuss
ing the intention of the Japanese to
abandon the proposed trip of the train.
ing squadron to the Pacific coast, on
account of the anti-Japanese agita.
tion, expressed the opinion that San
Francisco would have extended a
welcome to the fleet.
Il think" said Representative Kahn
that I know the people o. California
well enough to say that the mass OF
the population would resent any harm
that might be done to the Mikado's
seamen, should they visit San Fran
cisco. 1t may be possible that the
Japanese consul at San Francisco has
advised his government that perhaps
it would be advisable not to allow the
squadron to visit the Pacific coast
until the school controversy has been
settled. While the people Of Califor-
mia are opposed to the wholesale i'm,
portation of Japanese coolies, we re
spect the rights of the Japanese who
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-01-11
MONTANA WEATHER.

Snow Friday: colder In east portion;
Saturday warmer.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-01-11

Toxic, Jan. 1O.-The Japanese gov.
ernment has decided that on the &C,
count Of the anti-Japanese agitation
on the Pacific coast the training
squadron will not visit the Pacific
coast, but will go as far as the 99th
meridian only.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
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plucky effort to prevent the disease from spelling his diplomatic career has won the keen sympathy of Wash ington people.
 The baron hurried across the water as soon as congress adjourned last spring and subjected himself to a heroic course of treatment at health resorts. From these places he went to the German Spas for the help they could give him. Reports that have reached this country. however, are to the effect that he has no more than held his own. The disfigurement con tinues. His friends here, then, felt no little apprehension when they saw notice that Baron and Baroness Speck von Sternburg had been com handed to take breakfast with the kaiser. Sure enough within a day or two after the ambassador was the guest of his ruler a German paper which frequently has the right tip on court affairs published a report that Sternburg would be recalled This was denied very mildly, indeed, by officials of the German foreign of flee They stated that there was no intention to recall Sternburg "at present." or words to that effect.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10

tity could not be hauled to supply the grates. This condition was overcome by painting the sandstone with a coat of white lead. Each year this has been repeated, until there is a layer more than quarter of an inch in thick. ness on the walls.
 Last year, instead of putting on an. other coat of white lead a chemical preparation was used to cleanse the walls. This caused the paint to crack and in many places peel of, making the building unsightly.
 The painters are now engaged in scraping off the centurys accumuJa- tion of white lead. When this Is done the building will receive several coats of fresh paint The work will require several months.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
TRAGIC FATE BLICHTS LIFE OF AMBASSADOR

TT is the irony of fate that at the | height of his career, with no blemish on his reputation. and through no fault of his own, Baron Speck von Sternburg, should German ambassador, should stand upon the brink of diplomatic and social oblivion. But such is the tragic fact. A cancerous growth, ter ribly disfiguring the ambassadors face, has apparently ruined beyond repair a career full of promise and the social prospects of his beautiful American wife, and it is understood here that Germany will send another ambassador some time within the next six months.
 The baron caught this infection of the face, the nature of which physi clans do not seem to understand clearly, during his service for the kaiser in India, and within the last year it has developed in the hideous fashion peculiar to such attacks. spreading we'll over one side of his face. He has. however, made brave fight from the start, appealing to the foremost medical authorities of this country and Europe for aid. and his
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
MEN BUSY CLEANING AND. PAINTING WHITE HOUSE

IT HE White House will be spick and span, on the outside as we'll as in side. when the presidential family re- turns from Oyster Bay next fall Twenty painters are now at work on the old building.
 The White House is constructed of Virginia sandstone, which is exceed ingly porous. Mrs. Adams, the first mistress of the presidents house, as it was then called, complained bitter. ly to her friends of the coldness and dampness of the building during her first winter there. There were no stoves or other heating apparatus ex. cebt the large grates in the executive residence then. and the roads were so muddy that wood in sufficient Quau-
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
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 This State Fair voting Contest is belng taken up by several papers in each Congressional District and one State Fair Queen will be elect ed from each of the seven Congress sional Districts in the State of Ar. kansas.
 The total number of votes from this paper and all other papers ii Seventh Congressional District will be sent to the standing committee of the Arkansas Federation of Wo mans Clubs directly after Septem Der the seventh and at a specia meeting of this committee these votes will be audited and the sue cessful candidate will be announced at once.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
Good Enouqh for tho Doo.

Bobby's mother was often distressed by her small sons lapses from correct speech. all the more because his re- ports from school were always so good. Bobby" she said. plaintively, one day. why do you keep telling Major to set up when you know sit up Is what you should say?" "Oh. we'll. mother" Bobby answered hasti. ly. "of course have lots of grammar. but don't like to waste 1t on Major when he doesn't know the difference, being . dog. Youths Companion.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
Each to His Trade.

I'm more useful than you are," boasted the collie. "Yes?" replied the bulldog You don't say?' Yes. You should see me go for the sheep when they start to run away" Well, just wait until some tramps come along here and when they start to run away watch me go for the calves"
 Rhyme-Often substitute for poetry, and an antithesis to reason.
 Scandal-The tattle of fools and malignants who judge of their neigh bors by themselves.
 Spinster--An unprotected female, and, of course, fine subject for ex- erciSing the courage of towards and the wit of the witless
 Tinder-A thin rag. such. for in- stance. as the dresses of modern fe- males, intended to catch the sparks, " raise flame" and light up a match"
 Vanity-Another word for the whole fleeting pageant of human existence.
 Ugliness-An advantageous stimu- lus for the mind, that 1t may make up for the deficiencies of the body.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10

Rev. Edgar M. Thompson has been elected rector of the Church of the Intercession. Stevens Point, Wis.
 The Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New York. has for its new pastor Rev. Charles Aked of Liverpool, Eng. land.
 Rabbi s. M. Reich has been unani- mously reelected for further term by the Reform congregation of Port Gibson, Miss.
 The programme of the meetings at the Y. P. c. U. national convention in Boston next month will probably at- tract great crowd of people
 The woman who marries a man to reform him shouldn't let him know 1t. In making thing go as far as pos sible be careful not to stretch the truth
 The picture of many thirty-cent man reposes in thirty-dollar gilt frame
 A doting mother may claim that her children are as good as pie. but lots of people don't like pie.
 We should all do unto others as we would have others do unto us, but we generally wait for them to do 1t first
 HERALD BLASTS.
 Little men are those who are base ly content.
 A mans wallet is no measure of his churchmanship.
 Tn the will of God" Is peace, and, if you mean it, power.
 It is not mans religion, but his piety. that hurts or heals.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
Speakino of Fathers.

Two kids had been engaged in . heated argument over the respective merits of their sires. when Johnnie clinched his argument with the fol- lowing: Huh. that's nothing! My father was in the army. and once. when he was standing on @ hill beside a cannon. a war came up the hill, and he fired the cannon and killed the whole war."-Judge's Library.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
kEI h
The Southwest Arkansas South paw does Wonderful Work in
 Little Rock Yesterday.
PITCHED TWO sHUT.ouT GAMES
And not Man Reached Third in Safety; Nor did He Secure Base on Balls. Struck Out Two Men in the
 Last Inning.

Little Rock, July 10.-Putting the kibosh to two ridiculous the ories at the same time, Rube Keith, Finn's collegian twirler, waded into the Pirates yesterday with wonderful effect blanking them twice without apparently extending himself, incidentally gaining recognition as one of the leading twirlers of the league. Despite the alleged fact that ladies day is supposed to hoodoo the home club and the further alleged fact that the Colts refus- ed to support Keith, Shreveport fell twice victim to the southpaw, aided in wonderful fashion by practically errorless support. The score of the first game was 6 to o and the second 1 to 0.
 The big twirler was superb. In the eighteen innings he allow ed ten bingles, several of them of the scratch variety; did not issue base on balls; hit one batsman, and more than all else, he did not allow a Pirate to reach third base in safety. When the second game was ended he had worked twenty-seven innings against the Shreveport team without the Pirates scoring. He had every thing, anc frequent use of his fast ball aided him in striking out fifteen men in the two games, ten of the whiffs coming in the curtain raiser.
 RESULTS YESTERDAY.
 Little Rock 6, Shreveport O.. (tirSt game.)
 Little Rock 1, Shreveport O, (second game
 New Orleans 1, Memphis |, @ innings, darkness.)
 Montgomery 6, Nashville ,, first game)
 Montgomery 1, Nashville s, (second game.)
 Atlanta Birmingham rain. GAMES TODAY.
 Shreveport at Little Rock. Memphis at New Orleans.
 Nashville at Montgomery
 Birmingham at Atlanta.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
CHURCH AND CLERGY.

Rev. Edgar M. Thompson has been elected rector of the Church of the Intercession. Stevens Point, Wis.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-07-10
Hope.

Woman is naturally more hopeful than man." began the moralist. Yes" interrupted the plain man. There's my wife, for instance; every time she has had occasion to buy fish since we started housekeeping she has asked her dealer if they were fresh, hoping, suppose, that some day he'll say no"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-23
METHODISTS BOLT
At CHURCH UNION
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 22.-An act Of
union, by which the Congregational,
United Brethren and Methodist Prot
estant churches of fourteen states are
fused into one religious organization. to
be known as the United churches, was
consummated here last night by a
general conference of delegates from
the churches.
The final vote on the polity re-
port was taken after a strenuous ses-
sion, in which the Methodist Protest
ant delegates from Louisiana and Mis-
sississippi bolted the conference and
refused to have anything to do with
the union as planned.
The secession of the southern dele
gates comes as a complete surprise. 1t
was brought about by r. H. NJ. Wat
son. editor of the Christian Standard
of Uriel, Miss.
"In no place does the report mention
sanctifcation subsequent upon regen-
eration," said Mr.. Watson. I'VE
PrOtestants of the south do not care to
enter into any organization which
might take from us our old and estab-
lshed creed, and this is what the re-
port practically does"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-23
ATTORNEY HENEY THINKS
THE SUPERVISORS WILL
"BEHAVE" FROM NOW ON
BY Associated press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. March eve
don't want TO remove the supervisors,
announced Francis j. Heney yesterday
every supervisor that appeared before
the grand jury told everything he
knew about graft in this city. With
the evidence we hold over them they
viii be good.
"If we forced the removal Of the
present supervisors Schmitz, who has
the power to make appointments to till
vacancies. would appoint another
board over which we have no control,
and the members would be free to work
out their own ends.
IF the people will only be patient
and give us one week we will not only
get the big ones that we have prom
ised to, but the people will find a
great change for the better I'm the
present board. 1t will begin with it's
own accord by wedding out all the
small grafters on the city's payroll"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-23
SIGH OF RELIEF
HEARD WHEN FLOOD
WATERS SUBSlDE
BY Associated Press.

SACRAMENTO, March ga sigh Of
relief went up from the down-river dis
tricts, all the way from Courtland to
Isleton, tonight when Sherman and
Twitchell island went under and the
water began to fall above lessening
the strain on the levees. All points
reported the water both in the river
and in the overflow as dropping and
the dispatches received by the Union
were of a most optimistic nature.
The belief was generally expressed
that the worst is now over: that the
levees not already broken will hold;
that the districts not already flooded
are safe, and that the river will soon
subside to it's normal stage.
While the river was falling rapidly
late tonight 1t was at down-riVer points
still from one to two feet higher than
ever before known and all places where
levees are at all likely TO break are
more zealously guarded than ever, now
that there is every hope OF saving the
lands thus far successfully protected
Farther south, however, conditions
are far different with the fertile acres
of Big Sherman and Twitchel islands
under several feet of water. There are
many breaks i'm the levees of both
islands, they have been rapidly flooded
and the flood waters are now rushing
over rich farming lands.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-23
ATTORNEYS BELIEVE
STENOGRAPHER WILL
GIVE FULL DETAILS S
By Assoelated Press.

By Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, March 22.-Repre-
sentatives of the prosecution declared
this morning that Miss Nellie Smith,
steHographer of the law firm of
Thomas. Gerstle, Frick q Beedy pro-
moters of the Home Telephone COM
pany viii tell all she knows to the
grand jury, and that her story Will
round out the evidence required to
enable the grand jury to return true
bills against the men who bought the
mayor and the board OF supervisors in
the interests OF this rival telephone
scheme.
So far Miss Smith has proved a recall
citrant witness. Twice she has been
before the inquisitOrial body, and both
times she evaded the interrogations put
to her by Francis j. Heney.
But neither Heney nor Langdon nor
Burns has any fear of her continuing
IN this course. They know positively
what Miss Smith knows and have
brought her to realize the folly Of
pleading ignorance or lapse of memory.
Miss Smith viii be a witness before
the grand jury again tomorrow morn
ing.
Ruef was visited this morning by an
agent of a real estate firm, through
whom be made arrangements for dis
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-23
BIG TUNNEL PROJECT
RECEIVES DEATH BLOW
BY Associated press.

BY Associated Press.
LONDON, March 22-The revived
project of tunneling the English chan
mel received it's death blow, at least
for a long time 'to come, by the an
nouncement in parliament yesterday
of the governments well considered de-
cision against the enterprise. Premier
Campbell -Bannerman, in the house of
commons, and the carl of Carew, in the
house of lords. made identical an
nouncements to this effect, which were
re-echoed and reapproYed by Mr.. Bal
four the opposition leader I'm the lower
house, and Lord Lansdowne in the up
per house.
1t is understood that the bill viii be
withdrawn.
The premier said: even If the mill
tary dangers could be completely
guarded against there would be a feel
ing Of insecurity. leading to constant
demands for increased naval and milf
tary expenditures and creating a feel
ing Of alarm injurious to the country's
commercial and political interests
which would not be compensated for
by advantages OF the tunnel"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-23
PLAN TO PREVENT
STRIKES APPROVED
By Associated Press.

BOSTON, March eat the closing
sessions of it's annual convention, the
National Metal Trades association to-
day urged preparations TO give national
scope to President Roosevelt's new
movement for prevention of strikes.
In speech concerning the use which
the president has decided to put the
$4,000 Nobel peace fund recently
awarded to him, James w. Vanncleaye
of st. Louis, president Of the National
Association of Manufacturers, calls up
on all employers in the country to sup
port the presidents plan.
In passing the act establishing the
organization known as the foundation
for the promotion OF Industrial peace" "
said VanncleaVe, 1.-The recent congress
bestowed upon people Of the United
States a working force which viii have
an immeasurable power TO establish
peace in all the industries Of the cOun-
try"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-23
NEW GOVERNMENT
FOR CANAL ZONE
Attempt Made to Bring Harmony in
Narrow Strip of Land in Which
the United States Is
Interested
Bv Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March Exchanges
in the local government in the canal
zone. which will abolish all the munich
pal governments now in existence and
result in the harmonizing of various
parts of the zone, are to become erect
i've April Is.
President Roosevelt has signed orders
providing for wholesale changes, and
Richard Rogers, general counsel for the
isthmian canal commission, will go to
the zone with Secretary Taft and re-
main there for some time to assist in
reorganizing the government.
The five municipal governments in the
canal zone will be replaced by four adj
ministrative districts which will be un-
der the direction of the canal commits
sioners. Under the old organization
the five municipal governments were
in control of the officers named by the
commission and not elected by the peo-
pie.
Consequently the abolition of the mu-
inequalities will not in any way limit
the voice of the people in the govern
ment, but will make it possible for the
commission to give the various admins
trative districts ordinances and regu-
lations which are in harmony.
The municipal governments were
tOund 10 De WnOlly unsatisfactory anu
all officers are convinced that the new
plan will be far more satisfactory.
The executive orders will authorize
legal marriages to be made upon the
canal zone by any minister of the gos-
pei Another order will modify the
penal code so as to remove defects
found in the original code.
1t is estimated that the total saving
to the United States under the reor-
ganized government in the zone will be
about 100000 year.