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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-05
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Of the Board II County Commission
ers Of Yellowstone County, Mon
tana. Regular June Term.
Second Day.

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The minutes OF the previous day
were read and duly approved.
The following bills were audited.
and allowed in amounts named:s
Claimant. Nature Of claim. Amt.
j. Is. Herford. mileage 65850
Is ! p,a+ar &C. j. N
oios'' iepaifs :.... 5s o.oV
y. a. 80 sf fraEa, mileage 1880
Ambros Lavell, witness fees,
justice court 81. 1.5O
VIM. Balenger. witness fees.
Justice court 81 ... 10 w
Frank Gordon. repairs 24.4O
Jos. Mcconnell. coroner Juror
fees ........... 1.50
First National bank. defend.
ing prisoner. account as.
signed 1000
First National bank. services
bailiff, account assigned 800
G. o. Powers. rubber stamp. 40
Harry Ballard. witness fees
Justice court 70
K II. Parish. labor. iail and
court house $500
First National hank. coroner
Juror fees. account assigned. g5o
First National bank, defend
ing prisoner. account as
signed 5000
First National bank. services
bailiff. account assigned 83 10
Chapple Drug Co. supplies
for jail 1115
Yegen Bros, Inc, supplies 21.35
Chas. b. Dawson, board Of
prisoners . . 1000
Chas. e. Dawson. telephone
tolls ..... . 2,7O Es
|Chas. 81. Dawson, transport.
Ing prisoners 1900
Mrs. H. Brown, witness fees,
justice court 1.50
Billings Grain Il Fuel Co,
coal for Jail 5O.72
Best Steam Laundry, laundry 5.45
Mary Rockefeller, witness fees,
justice court ........ 1.5O y
Billings Hardware Co., sup
plies, court house 1000
County of Custer, expense Of
W. A. Allen case ... 1 ,184.30
j B. Herford, mileage, etc. 1880
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Nursery Co., trees. 17.DO
Montana Nursery Co., trees. $500 T.
W. "A. Longley, salary, board
OF ed. examiners 91.80
III. M. Brayton, salary, board
of ed. examiners !. 5O.40
Fist National bank, defend
ing prisoner, account as
signed ........ 81. 90
Geo. Settler, supplies, court
mousse ............ ....... LOU
M. M. Strang, visiting schools CABS
Russell Lumber Co., coal,
court house 1910
II. L.. Mann. acting coroner
fees 1000
First National bank, examin.
ing physician, account as
signed 1000
Fred H. Hathhorn, codes 1000 I.
s.pH, Mendenhall. Justice fees 64.50
Nv. a.. Odds, care Of poor $500
j. N. purcell & o., supplies
for poor $500
Billings Coal & Ice Co., coal
for poor 2.75
Yegen Bros. Inc. supplies for
poor 5000
Bert ralgo. mileage &c.,. $3.50
Bert Talgo. constable fees 1910
Yegen Bros. INC. supplies for
poor $50
Yegen BROS. Inc .~sunnlfes FOR
poor 5000
Yegen Bros, Inc, supplies for
moo 11.45
". III. Donovan. supplies for
poor 1000
peter peroe. salary. county
physician. account assigned 10000 /.
.1ennie Hart. care Of moor. 1900
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-05

Mr.. Bryan is among the number who
cannot consistently sing Maryland,
MY Maryland
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-05
A PRESS NJ

The authorities of Laporte refuse to
believe the confession Of young Mr..
s'Truelson," which indicates again that
there is little in names.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-05

It is to be hoped that CHIP Taft
will meet with a better fate at Chi
cago, than that which befell his friend,
Publicity BILL" in congress.-Helena
Independent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-05

George s. Nixon, senator from Ne
vada. has a ranch Of $4,000 acres in
Wyoming under fence and a farm OF
5000 acres In Nevada.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-05

Congress having adjourned 1t is now
time to repair fences.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
Buy That Ground Now!
A total Of S1e,aOO.OOO!

A total OF SIS, 3O0,OO0i
This is the figure, certified to the
Senate by the District Commission
ers, as the probable cost of buying
the property between Pennsylvania
avenue and the Mall. 1t conforms
with that already published in these
columns and calculated from the
: assessors returns, except that it al
lows also for good viii in some
business properties. machinery on
which little or no salvage would be
obtained, and other similar items
The problem is now specifically
before Congress. Eventually all this
tground is almost certain to be
bought for Government use. 1t is
the most available. the most con-
venient, the most important in the
development of the National Capt.
tai.
The fund required is not large
by the only measure which needs
be regarded The judgment Of the
people and their means are both
up to it. And it viii never be a
cent cheaper. On the contrary, the
rate Of advance, according to the
actual sales made in the past ten
years, has been about 100000 a
year.
Leave out of the question, for a
moment, the plain, store-counter,
good business Of building homes for
the executive departments instead
of spotting them all over the Dis
trict in rented quarters. Leave out
of the question the nations pride.
+ Just consider these two facts:
That this property is almost GER
tain to be bought by the Govern
fment, and that it is rising every
year in price.
What would the people Of the
United States who elect Congress
require of it If they knew the stu
alton? There isn't a member of
either house who can doubt it
would be this:
'Buy that ground. And buy it
fnow."
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

Spring wouldn't really be here until
the new hats had been voted that
tribute. And. equally of course, they
are expensive. Isn't it one of the
first maxims of business that the
good things cost money?
But we wish that maybe, Just as
a possibility, without any hint of
criticism in the matter at all, they
had not been altogether so big.
They might have been Chat is to
say there is a vague sort of a hope
that they might have been) cheaper.
And it is certain that for Mere Man,
TO whom, strange as it seems, the
hat is only an accessory, a sort of
webbing frame, there would have
been less difficulty in seeing the
fair picture it is intended to set off.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
The Sorrows of Milwaukee.

The town of Milwaukee, metropO-
lis of Wisconsin, capital emeritus of
German-America, and headquarters
of the universal beer supply, is liza
bic to be compelled to secede from
this Federal Union and set up as a
free city after the fashion of the
Middle-Age German cities of the
Hanseatic federation. And, if
worst come to wOrst-the omission
to write it ''wurst" ought to be ae-
counted in this connection mark of
especial merit-the rest of the
country should let Milwaukee go
in peace, with a benediction.
For the truth is that Wisconsin is
getting in line with the prohibition
movement which has made such
marvellous progress in the South
and Middle West in recent years.
Wisconsin, supposed to be the Glib
raltar of beer, the certain patron Of
liberalism, and the last refuge of
opposition to sUmptuary regulation,
is marching right along in step with
the arid procession which includes
most of the South, and is fast gath
ering in the Middle West and the
nearer Northwest. tt is declared
that southern and southwest Wis
consin are fast going dry, while the
N RI af
into line. Between last years cleo
tons and this there has been a
revolution of sentiment in favor of
the dry movement, which is de-
scribed as the most remarkable
that has been observed in any State
since the prohibitionists began to
sweep things before them.
1t is explained that the Wisconsin
movement, however, is not an anti
liquor movement. The Germans and
the Scandinaviaus alike-once re-
garded as absolutely committed to
personal liberty as a policy toward
the liquor question-are becoming
converts to the movement. But 1T is
rather an anti-saloon than an anti
liquor movement. The use of
liquor by those who want to use it
is not so much objected TO as is the
saloon as an institution.
The same appears to be true of
the anti-liquOr movement in many
other parts of the country. It viii
not do to say that the race ques-
ton in the South forced prohibition
on that section, and that where
there is no race question there
is no prohibition question. The fact
is that prohibition is a very live
issue in counties, cities, and States
all over the North. where the race
question is unheard OF.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
The New Spring Hats.

The sun has arisen on the Spring
Opening" The Church may lift a
joyous carol at Easter, the boy sIyly
jingle the marbles in his pocket or
ring his bat on the pavement. the
business men breathe the new air
ever so deep; but Spring (for wom-
ankind) is the Opening"
We have looked some of those
5"openings" through. They are ex-
tremely interesting. Miles after
miles of new and beautiful stock
are displayed; the man buyer can
put his hand anywhere upon things
she needs at prices within his need;
and there are beautiful flowers
tstanding about so picturesquely
that Mere Man has to look sharp
or knock them over with his clumsy
feet.
From outside signs, however,
Lovely Woman has her chief in
lterest in the new hats. They are
worth it. To the masculine view,
they belong in the museum right
now, without waiting for age to
make them strange. They are
strange enough already.
We measured some of them. There
was one-"A Chip just the love
iliest thing!"-that wouldn't drop
into a barrel any way we tried it.
Another was twice the diameter of
a last years sailor" and that
seemed big enough. A third took
the prize as a disappearing trick,
for the crown outside was a
foot wide and when you turned it
over it wouldn't have held a pint
of peanuts, to say nothing of the
average woman's intellect. One
looked like some stage fire on a
wire mat. Another was the old IA
miliar white Wings, They Never
Grow Weary'-"'picture music at
about SO a note. And so on. As
DIR. johnson once said: Before
them reason IS stunned, conjecture
IS speeches., and even fancy hest
tates."
OF course, they are simply the
lovehest things in the world"
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
As Broad as It's Long.

Mr.. Gardner, chairman of the
House subcommittee on District
appropriation bill:
"The District police force must
co7er practically the whole Dis
trict. That is a territory wholly
disprOportionate to the number of
people in Washington But the
present cost of the system is large
when compared with the number of
people in Washington. Therefore,
the committee has decided to rec
Commend no additional policemen"
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
CITIZENS ORGANIZE
At COLONIAL BEACH

At the meeting OF the Colonial Beach
Citizens Association, held Friday night,
the following officers were installed, to
serve for The ensuing year: Joseph
Dierken, president; George g. Whit
more. vice president; w A. Cooper, sec
retaryj Louis Hartig, treasurer.
The constitution having been ap-
proved the following committees, au-
thorized thereby. were appointed:
Committee on membership. H. E
DickhOut. John \. Seller, W J. TASTE;
committee on transportation, w. H.
Fisher. W. o. MeaIey. r H Wood /:
committee on press, publicity and print
ing, G. S Whimore, J. :. Hogan, w.
s Cullen; committee on lights. side
walks and streets. John Rupert. John
Martin, c A. Emme; committee on
sewers AMI water. D. S. Williamson.
Geo. c. VOneib, c. T. Umhau; com
ulittee On FIRE and police regulations.
Louis H-rtig, Harry Hull, J. r Haislip:
committee on mail, telegraph and tele-
phone facilities, W. A. Cooper George
T. shannon, F. G. Isel; conn fttee on
health, DR.. Jos. Pospisiel, D. F. r.
Repetti. T A Burns.
Alr, Fitzgerald. the editor Of the Co.
loniaI Beach PAPER, spoke concerning
matters OF interest TO the permanent
residents OF the beach as well as the
CCttagers- he dwelt particularly upon
the efforts being made by the Business
Mems Association Of Colonial Beach
10 secure better transportation fsciI-
tiles. Harbor Master Sutton also spoke
on matters Of general interest.
Three new members were elected.
after which the meeting adjourned to
meet May 1 in St Joseph's Hall, Fifth
and II streets northwest
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

It is reported that the Interstate Com
merce Commission will be given SUPER
vision of the Washington street car
lines. Excellent idea It would also be
well to turn over to the commission
the Newfoundland fisheries question,
the Alaska seal dispute, the Manchuria
sovereignty problem, negotiations with
Castro, construction Of the canal, repre-
scntation Of this country at The Hague.
enforcement Of the pure food law, re-
vision Of the currency system. and two
or three other minor matters which
seem 10 be requiring attention Just now.
Keep 'em busy.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
The Winner
w. T. Fitzherbert,
The Newton

Ho, all We people who can sing,
Come listen to my lay,
And learn the dangers of the
spring
That now beset thy way.
The signs of spring are fading
fast,
The spring itself we see;
Embryo poets blow their BLAST
And hope to blow that V"
The crocus blossoms in the glades,
The trees begin to shoot;
The grass is sharp'ning up its
blades;
The owls begin TO boot.
The peppers tuning up his Tyre;
Mosquitoes whet their bills;
The "cowslips" in the meadow
mire,
And "rushes" on the hills.
The flowers each a pistiI has,
And ev'ry rose a thorn,
While dandy lions" in the grass
Just make our lives forlorn.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
Taft Statement.

Against this the Taft press bureau
CunomciaD put out the following state
ment:
Secretary TG1r Will receive at least
from eighteen to tWenty-thTee votes IN
the Massachusetts delegation, the op-
position virtually conceding the lower
estimate to be a conservative one. The
hope is held out, however, that. IN
willing to head a minority in the Chi
cago convention. Senator Crane viii &C
cede to the wishes of the majority and
acQuiesce in the casting of the thirty
two votes from the Bay State for the
Secretary Of War
Indications are also at hand that
Idaho may now be safely reckoned IN
the Taft column, and that Maine is in
a particularly agreeable frame Of mind.
The New York primaries have shown
that the Taft sentiment in the Empire
State easily assures the Ohio man of
its support IN the event that the can
didacy of Governor Hughes should
strike an impasse. It was also made
clear, in the course Of the week. that
California's entire delegation VIII be
committed to the candidacy of Secre-
tary Taft
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
WOMAN IS ACCUSED
OF NUMBERING NAN

CHICAGO. April 4-Grace St. Clair,
twenty-six years old. alias Grace Young,
is under arrest, charged with having
robbed and murdered George Porter, a
rich real estate broker, who died IN
a resort March p. 1907
A convict in the Joliet penitentiary
says the woman told him she put
strychnine IN Porter's beer and after
ward robbed him OF S$76. The young
woman said her real name IS Helen c.
Young, and that her parents live in
Saginaw, Mich.
The body OF Porter may be exhumed
for an examination.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
MARINE BAND ORCHESTRA
GIVES CONCERT MONDAY

A concert viii be given at the United
States Marine Barracks on Monday az
ternoon. az O'Clock, by the Marine
Band and Orchestra
The program viii be:
March. Thomas Jefferson" Santelmann
Overture, william Tell $500. ROssfnf
(a) Revere, ~Nymphalin'' --..--.- Sousa
OBJ Caprice, La COquette". $500. Sousa
Waltz. The Bachelors -SanteImanD
Grand Fantasia, -'HanssI and
OreLGl 1900 ------.- t1urlpe rdinctZ
ParaPhrase. las GOlondrinas''
klugescheid
March, "OId Comrades -Teike
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

trict than are other American cities
which have been spending from actual
records in the aggregate 10000 a
month IN this way for some time.
Need Of Directors.
There are many people who do not
believe IN paying salaries for play
ground directors or IN having anyone
IN charge This IS a natural first
thought in the matter There are many
cities IN this country which began with
ms point Of view but there IS not q
city which has found IL possible or
desirable 70 maintain Fairgrounds in
tnis way Such grounds always tan
INTO the hands OF buIIies and young
toushs who mOnOpOlize The facilities
onsred and furnish the worst possible
model for the other children 70 follow.
A playground with a competent or
ganizer Offers high-grade physical
training at the same time that II
teaches. through imitation and example
and Royalties inspired BY composition.
all the social and civic virtues. Wash
ington is today paying teachers IN its
Fairgrounds less than any other city
OF its size in America The plsy lead
Chicago receive S1.OCO & year, those in
the south park system S.10O = year
The Boston pays $500 q year The
women teachers in the municipal play
grounds OF New York receive $50 and
the men teachers receive SO per month.
Directors IN school Fairgrounds Of New
York receive from SO 70 Sl2O a month.
Teachers in the Fairgrounds Of Phil
81
month The Fairgrounds OF Pittsburs
are maintained for a half day only
and the teachers receive from so 10
$lz5 month The Fairgrounds OF Bal
tinaore are maintained for a half day
only and the teachers receive from
SIS 10 SO a month
Pay Here Small.
Directors in the Fairgrounds Of
Washington receive from IS 70 50 a
month for a fun days work. in a
climate and under conditions which are
much more e1Chausting than those ex-
listing in any other city. Pittsburs
aims TO furnish q teacher for every
fifty children, New York furnishes a
teacher for every seventy children.
while in washington the teachers often
nave ~ CA44l4ACn 70 LOOK dALEL-
There Is no city I think which has
found It practical 70 maintain its play
grounds without teachers, or II IL Ia.
they have always been subject 70 seri-
Gus criticism This IS not theory. It is
the result OF twenty years OF expert
enoe throughout the country
From ten years experience as a teach
er and as q specialist In psychology and
ethics and over q years experience as
a settlement worker. venture the opin-
for that the training in health and
strength and character which comes
through a well directed playground IS Of
as high an order and IS az least as sue
cessful as that which cones from any
other educational institution. Il we
spend 1900. 900 IN the training OF the
childEen's heads. II surely is not too
much TO spend $4,000 in the training Of
their bodies and souls.
HENRY s. CURTIS
Supervisor OF Fairgrounds.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
AN ACTUAL FACT.

A very young child was saying his
prayers at the bedside in hts grand
fathers house The grandfather anx-
iOus TO hear the boy, stood at the room
door. which was sufficiently open for
him 10 SEQ and hear the child After the
usual asking, God 70 bless his parents. -
the child arrived God bless rrandrna.
and grandpa" At the mention Of the
last-named the boys eye catching sight
Of his grandfather he stopped. and
pointing his little finger, said There
lie isi"-Exchange.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
CURIOUS HoRSESHoES.

In Iceland horses are shod with
sleeps horn, while in the Sudan they
are shod with camelS slIin.
A German not long ago invented a
horseshoe Of paper. prepared by satl1r-
ating with oil, turpeEtine and other
ingredients Thin layers OF such paper
are glued to the hoOf till the reuuisfsS
thickness is attained The shoes thus
made are said to be durable and i'm.
penetrable by moisture.-London
Globe.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
REFLECTIONS.

Gain has oft with treacherous hopes
led men TO ruin.-Sophocles.
The thief doth fear each bush an Of
Acknowledgements
Seldom is q smooth tongue without a
sting behind.-Irish.
Experience keeps a dear school, but
fools will learn in no Other.-Latin-
Some people are so eXactims that
when opportunity knocks they want
her 70 send in an engr 4ved card--Cht-
cage Record Herald
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

The ardor Of the denial which Mr.. Cor
nelius N Bliss enters TO the suggestion
that maybe the Republican campaign
fund got that $4,000 campaign contribu-
ton Of the Metropolitan railroad is such
as to Justify a suspicion that he Is pro
testing too much.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

There is a Bible story which is well
worth reading by certain politicians Just
at this time. 1t is the story Of the fine
and cheerful revenge which Samson ac-
quired when he leaned against the cen
trail pillar of the temple and brought
the whole thing down. Puzzle: Find
the Samson in the Ohio Republican
tennle.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05
w. T. FatzheYbeYt Wins
The Spring Poem Contest
And VIII Get IS Praze

spring poem contest that excited widespread interest
but the whom the prize has been awarded to have COM
bined the elements that proclaim If the best
Following few poems that pretty nearly capturing the
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

Horrible suspicionl Maybe the Tom
Watson national committee got that
$4,000 campaign contribution from the
Metropolitan.
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

And now even the charge that Mr.
Bryan is a Populist, rather than a
Democrat, is spoiled. The Populists
have repudiated him
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

that he will be here early this week
possibly today-and it is known that he
is strongly disposed 10 take up the
Southern management for the oppOsi-
ton to TAFT If he does, there may
yet be something doing.
Tic anti-Taft compilation CT delegate
strength yesterday follows:
The Washington times., 1908-04-05

If she gets s1OOO0.OOO and divorce de-
cree, Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt will doubt
less be able 20 console herself,