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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-20

hearts and with unfailng belief that these
requests will be answered. These letters
go into the mails and what ultimate dis
position to make of the childish re-
quests becomes a problem which has long
worried gray-haired men at the head of
affairs in Washington. The President
of the United States and the Postmaster
General are two men who have been
laboring with the problem for two years
and still it is but partially solved.
In the course of the regular disposition
Of such letters as those from the children
they find their way to the dead letter
Office. At various post Offices through
out the country distributing clerks have
stamped them fictitious address and
they have been ground through the regu-
Tar course taken by all such letters. At
the dead letter office they are denied any
sentimental treatment and are either re-
turned To the writer when the addresses
are given. or destroyed. This latter is, of
course, the fate of the vast majority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-20
BY IRWIN S. COBB.

rs the open season
on after dinner
speakers. all right.
said the Hotel
Clerk to his friend
the House Detec-
tive.
"Wot makes you
think so?" said the
House Detective.
Look for your
self. said the Ho-
tel Clerk.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-02-14
VALUABLE FOR COUGHS AND

w. w. Gray,4 an attorney at Wen
atchee, Wash, says: Il have used
Chamberlain Cough Remedy in my
family for colds and Group with good
results. / aim to always keep thfs
remedy in the house." Sold by all
druggists.
NOTICE TO SHEEP MEN AND no
RANCHERs.
Do you need any straight ears Of
lumber? Can mix saw dast, fence
posts. slabs or anything in the lumber
line. Get in with a neighbor or two,
II you can't use one alone. Gussenko-
ven has everything you need and can
put It in one car.
Cast your lamps on those fifteen
one dollar bills in the Hub window.
They are yours if you dress well
for the masquerade ball Feb. 22nd.
NOTICE OF SALE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
undersigned will, up to 500 o'clock
p. NJ, Of Monday, March 2, 1908, at
his office in the skylstead block,
Hayre, Montana, receive sealed bids
for the purchase Of lots numbered -
and IA in block number ~, and lots
numbered 6 and in block numbered
10, Original Townsite Of Hayre, Mon
tana.
The City Council reserves tie
right to reiect#any or all bids. BY
order OF the City Council.
CHAs. A. ROSE. !
City Clerk.
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Happily public sentiment is under
going rapid metamorphosing and the
acts of men are being subjected to
rigid scrutiny oftlmes a hype. Cit
ical one.
When We contrast the spirit of toll
erance with which official short COM
ings were once viewed w tn the
jealous scrutiny to which tn -ir eve y
act is now subjected by the uns lack-
led press, grand juries and maya zine
writer's, surely We may flatter our
selves that we have made soue plo-
gress-may ere long be able to man
age public business without wat ng
or stealing the invested capital
Every now and then tne leading
magazines contain articles by we
known authors making strong pl,as
for railway consolidation. These hire
lings Of plutocracy show whe.e our
present system is weak and vast eful
and urge that the service Wou be
much more economical and sat stact-
DRY If all our American railways were
owned and CONTROLLED by one great
company. These writer's must know
that If railway consolidation is ever
carried to the lengths to which they
urge-and defend with sunanswe. able
logic--the government and not vast
private corporation will be the owner
and manager. Evrey argument that
they advance in support Of consol da
ton in the hands of private owners
will apply with equal force or great
or, to consolidation in the hands of
the government.
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The Smell TING
SITUATION IN MONTANA

1t seems sometimes as though
trust was born every hour. They are
vampires that suck the life blood of
nations. They are hydra headed
monsters that ruthlessly throttle COM
petition. They are heart ess harpies
that hound to ruin the honest tot er,
that drive him from mine, mill and
factory in order to control prices
This Is an age Of trusts, an age of
blackness and darkness for the small
capitalist .,and for the masses, a night
in which the star of hope will not
rise.
Take for instance, the American
Smelling and Refining Co. The
Rockafellers recently secured the con-
troll Of this company, crowding the
Guggenheims into the fence and TAX
ing the pole. Smelling prices imme-
diately doubled and trepled at all
their plants over the entire west.
The East Helena Smelter is one of the
tenticles Of this octapus. A few
months ago they were sme,ting ores
for $500 to $500 a ton. When the
Rockafel1ars secured control prices
shot up to the neighborhood OF $1,000
ton. AS result every small mine
owner, lesser and prospector in six
or seven central counties Of Montana
who had previously shipped his ores
to the East Helena smelter had to
throw up his hands and quit AS
result convention was held in Hell
eDa Of the independent mine owners
of the state. Enthusiasm waxed high.
Fervent speeches were worked off,
everybody resoluted and whereased,
and the reports went out to the ends
Of the land that a new independent
smelter would Immediately be built
somewhere close to Helena. The fu-
ture will demonstrate whether the
Helena convention was full Of sound
and fury signiiying nothing or was
the clear Mccoy. The American
Smelling and Refining interests and
the Amalgamated crowd are closely
allied. The very school children of
Helena know that the Amalgamated
Copper Co. owns 81 per cent of the
Helena Record and when We see the
amazing spectacle Of Doc Langstrum
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and the rest OF the Record gang
sweating blood and breaking tnei gal
luses for an independent SINE ter it
looks as if there was a something
sphacelated in Denmark and that
rigid investigation would disclose q
robust Ethiopian in the cordwood.
what would you think if |. Parker
Veasy Of Great Falls should rend the
heavens with the praises OF rival
line through Montana to the Graf
Northern. Now there We're scor S
of earnest sincere, determined, almost
desperate men composing that Hele-
ma convention men who will stand for
precious little double dealing and If
they find that the leading men max
ing up the committees they appointed
to 60 on with the work deliver them
into the hands Of their e1em es,
hades will be to pay and the bank
broke. To borrow from Tom Pa ne,
These are times to try mems
souls,
The latest move op the part Of
the smelter barons to pour Ii tie
kerosene on the troubled waters has
been a reduction Of smelling rat Is
down to a point almost equal to the
old Guggenheim scale. This of course
is only temporary ruse to fool the
public and to kill off independent
smelter sentiment. Once killed off the
screws will be put to the public again
little at time until gradually the
rates will get up to such a point that
the smelter trust will hog it all In
Guiding the opportunity to purchase
good idle mining property at their
own figures
A little Of the old spirit Of the Wig
ilantes, Of forty Years ago put into
this movement and applied to the
first traitor in the ranks might help
some.
Another meeting of the indepen-
dent mine owners will be held in Hell
ena next Monday and 1t promises to
be one Of the biggest gatherings in
the history Of the state.
Here is hoping that all the spies
and heelers OF the smelter trust il
any there be in the convention will
be routed and sent ki-yi-ing under
cover and that the true purpose and
interest Of the founders of the move
ment will be realized. Such CON
summation will be blessing to the
present as Well as unborn generations.
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Even their pleas that such consol
idation would furnish a safe invest
ment for surplus American capital
cannot but suggest that such invest
ment would be safer and less liable
to sudden depreciation If invested
in government bonds, than in the
stock Of a vast private corporation.
II the government should ever de-
! sire to purchase and operate the
railways It could issue fifty or a
hundred year, bonds bearing ia low
rate of interest which would readily
exchange for railway stock at fair
| valuation.
Thus could the transfer of the roads
from private to public ownership be
made without any great financial jar
and the consolidation for which
these writer's plead be realized
Every now, and then some Captain
Of Industry or big gun in the finan-
cial world startles the country with a
long interview advocating radical re-
forms for the benefit of the peo-
pie About twice year, Henry Clews
gets off the reservation and bitterly
tomahawks Wall street and its
methods.
These high finance hyenas are
simply talking through their hats. II
they believed their own statements
they would not be chewing the rag
through public prints, The plain
truth is they read the signs of the
times Alright; they realize that
government ownership has simply got
to come sooner or latter, even though
it's arrival throw the earth out Of its
orbit. Worn out with battling the
anti-railway sentiment they are pre-
pairing to yield gracefuIiy-and make
what they can by the change.
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that much discussed and desired de-.
sideratunl, the elimination Of the
railways from the sphere Of sta 9
and national politics where tn y
have SO long been SO terrible and
potent factor for evil
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-02-14

F'oey's Orino Laxative is a new re
n:edy, IN Improvement on the L.. ativ-
es of former years as it does not
grippe or nasueate and is pleasant to
take It is guaranteed Beckstead
Drug CO,
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The two principal objections urged
to government ownership and cont
rol are that the purchase would en-
tail a heavy financial burden upon the
people and that the railway service
would degenerate into vast polit-
ical machine and be used by the DOM
inant political party to perpetuate
its power. Whether the railways
are owned by private corporations or
the public, the people must support
theul ..-
That is cinch 1t is simply ques-
ton OF whether it Is cheaper to
purchase Or pay rent
Many thousands Of people are EN-
ployed in the postal service and they
have not yet degenerated into po-
litical poems.
| The political party that would at,
| tempt to use the postal employees oil
this nation as its property and vote
them like cattle would be wiped
from the map of the world Are tn,
boys in the ranks Of the snakes
and 'stingers" any more susceptible
to degeneracy into political machin
than the postal employees Certainl
not,
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y
There has been great progress maze
since the days of Adam Sm4tn; cor
siderable since Prof. F. A. WatAer
penned his scathing critic SIN of AM
efican methods. The th 0 EN- tat
"a political office is a public trust
has long been promulgated no. VIII
out effect.
Grating off Of the public by lub-
lie officials has long ben re ar ed
as a matter of course, SO eth ng o
be expected. Really The publ has
felt something like contempt for the
man who had the oppor unity to
plumber it and neglected to do So
vaguely wondered whether he be de-
ficient in common sense and thr #
or salivated with self righteousness.
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Under some such arrangement as
the foregoing it might be possible
for the government to operate the
railways more satisfactorily than at
present; to greatly reduce trans
portation charges-all of which would
go into the pockets of S5,o00.o0O PEG
ple-and at the same time secure
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-02-14

The question boiled this Can tae
the present prices or as ooa
giving the great masses squa1er deal
at cost to the treasury?
statecraft that the
United constitute the most important
in curl industrial political and social wellbeng
Transportation facilities
the Without rapid transit tn
tuted would quickly fall like
house Of cards could not be Kept intact decade Before the oeveo2
railway systems the wisest American statesman horse
laughed Northwest could long be held
several petty pnps and the
United States like Europe resoun with the tramp OF armed
We do trust the delivery Of mail matter to private enterprise;
highways private
important infinitely functionthat
ALL but that could be &c ty improved without material increase
this question
in this of the most important with which the United
States and
Transportation charges an tax upon American pro-
crushing
duty promoting welfare this
tax IL possible at least equalze it.
Smith economist declared that servants of
Of the most negligent master better
as Well as one of the most per
pcacous and impartial Of modern economists
tal disadvantage
admits that the rule
failure
contradict the hopeless in
capacity of the enterprises Prof Walker in
Inmates elsewhere that Adam Smiths
manage require country
like Germany systematic admnra-
ton of public but
the fu literal truth of Adam Smiths declaration
try with its civil service based in
Not Very encouraging indeed remember that most
writer's on finance and Industry practically
same views regarding
Certainly it the American railways and
Their enormous obbe to be used
their own
When remember that the amount OF collected yearly by the
municipal
paid into the Golfers railways than fold
exceeds the the American products
including
the management of the party in
Still were we'll to remember the evils we suffer under the present m
the "
whole satisfactorily managed by
than has transportation service by
Sam has succeeded with the
postal business by virtue of the monopoly he enjoys
Then might he not also make of the carrying trade if al
lowed monopoz it? Private enterprise able to deal
with it satisfactorily literally government federal
state or municipal or all these combined
prevent
tons The Standard Oil would not find itself before Judge Lands guilty
1900 violations cough $4,000
indictment higher
@
ownership
production the banking
had keeps fyersh of unrest fear
national
banking would advise the old method This
former establishes conference.-the prime requisite of adewhch TIT
TO the
managed
government that
We goVe:hheI
millions
then and in nesectng the quality and condition
with destruction
doab
enEa1
cies
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Is Government Ownership 6be Proper
Solution of 6he Transportation Problem?

battle with the ttan OF
strong
control railroads OF the
The itself this Can te
as good
giving the masses squarer oea
treasury?
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collected
railroads vastly federal
municipal
the
the agricultural
including live stock and fbe well hesitate them
the management of the
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delivery enterprise
while business the improve
important funconhat
Of transportation
Private enterprise affords infinitely better
ALL could be improved without material
rapidly
conviction be
this conrovone Of the United
States 0
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Transportation constitute
duion the
Clearly government
tax IL possible equaize t'
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-23
PARASOLS FOR MEN.
New Fashions Observed at Recent
Race Meeting in ENGLAND.

New Fashions Observed at Recent
Race Meeting in England.
Rumor has ii hat mere man is
about to take a leaf out of woman's
book, and at the risk OF ridicule pro-
tect his head from the rays of the
summer sun with the parasol.
The rumor is confirmed by some
West end s~hopkeepers. who profess
to have done a good business in the
last few days in sunshades specially
designed for mans use. The shades
are, of course, not the elaborate arti-
Gle used by the lady of fashion, but
the plain, unadorned specimen often
used by man in tropical countries.
At some of the recent race meetings
a few well dressed men have been
bold enough to start the fashion, and
at Ascot a gentleman having Dor
rowed a pretty shade from a fair COM
panion was not ashamed to take ad-
vantage of it.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-23
PUTS TORCH TO
THREE ELEVATORS
Structures at CooperstOwn,
N. D., Are Reduced to Ashes
in Early Morning Blaze.
ACT laid TO UNKNOWN FItND

Cooperstown, N. d., July 19.-Three
elevators of the Monarch, Cargill and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS companies
were burned In a fire which was dis
covered at 3:45 yesterday morning.
There is no doubt that a firebug is
responsible. The loss will total over
$4,000.
One fire started at one end of the
elevator yards and another at the
other end, 700 feet distant. Several
times the Great Western elevator
caught fire. but the blaze was put out.
The electric light plant was in dan.
ger, but was saved.
Fire Engine Goes Wrong.
While the fire was raging the worst
something happened to the fire en-
CINE, and it was feared the light plant
would go, but the fax mill owners
came to the rescue and saved the
plant with a fine stream of water.
There were 5000 bushels of grain
In the Hammer elevator and a less
pose of the irebug in destroying the
elevators cannot be determined. The
Hammer Elevator company will re-
build at once, and the other two com
panies will have new elevators in time
to handle the grain this fall.
Accused of Burning His Store.
Fond du Lac, Wis, July Is. -- On
complaint of State Fire Marshal T,
NJ. Purtell, Isaac Rosenblatt, manager
and part owner of the Fair store, one
of the largest dry goods stores in
Fond du Lac, was arrested on the
charge of arson yesterday. 1t is al
legged that he set fire to his store on
the morning of July 10.
When Rosenblatt was arraigned in
court he waived examination, and the
case was adjourned till July "a. Bal
was fixed at $1,000. The loss on the
stock in the Fair store is said to have
been about $22, 1000, covered by insur
ance.
1t was said shortly after the fire
that Rosenblatt said that he was in
the store about fifteen minutes be
fore the fire was discovered.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-23
a Lake of Oil,

Five miles south and west of Glenn
pool, Tusla, on the Korndorrer lease,
the Prairie Oil and Gas company has
drilled in, at a depth of 2,340 feet, a
well of high-grade oil, offsetting an
other big we'll at the same depth pro-
ducing the same grade o fol-. This
strike is remarkable in that both
these wells are at least 500 feet deep
er than wells in the Glenn pool and
reveal entirely NV sand, with every
indication that the entire country
thereabout is underlaid with a lake
of high-grade oil at a depth until now
never discovered. Il is possible that
many, if not all, wells in the Creek
oil fields will in time be drilled to the
new sand.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-23
HIRED HEAoeEAR FOR WEDDING.
How a Veteran Silk Hatmaker Would
Retain Some Of His Trade.

Retain Some Of His Trade.
In a little shop near Clements Inn
there lives a veteran hatmaker of 90
summers who hopes that the day of
the top hat will come again this year.
Piled against the panes of the win
dow fronting Hougton street are rows
of silk hats of varying shapes and
degrees of glossiness. In front two
handbi Is, bearing the imprint of an
old-itme printer of Bouverie street,
announce that Christopher Clarke has
for sale a variety of silk hats, ranging
in price from As. Cd. to los. Cd. each.
On a circular board hung over The
door. il is stated, that silk hats may
be hired for wediings and funerals"
TRADE is nothing like what it was"
he confiGed yesterday to a member
OF our staff. and orders for silk hats
are lot nearly so plentiful as they
were when | started in the business in
1884. A aood hat doesn't wear out
every day, and it can be remade quite
eIUa. to neW.'
The len-ing of hats, he adHad, is
rot a very important or luL-4tive
branch of the business, and it was
only adopted three or four years ago
TO assisl III retaining some of the
trade tlat was Shipping away. One
shining lie; day is charged Tor he
lian Of a smart dp-to-dale hat tor use
al a wedding or UIner social function.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-23
DROPPED COFFEE
Gains 20 Pounds on Postum.

A physician of Wash, D. c., says of
his coffee experience:
For years | suffered with periodical
headaches which grew more frequent
NIntil they became almost constant. So
y were were they that sometimes was
most frantic. | was sallow, consti-
lated, irritable, sleepless; my men,
r was poor, l trembled and my
thoughts were often confused.
MY wife, in her wisdom, believed
coffee was responsible for these ills
and urged me to drop it. ] tried many
times to do SO, but was it's slave.
Finally Wife bought a package Of
Postum, and persuaded me to try it, but
she made it same as ordinary coffee
and l was disguised with the taste.
Il make his emphatic because i fear
many others have had the same eXpe-
rience.) She was distressed at her
failure and we carefully read the d.
rections, made it right, boiled it full
Is minutes after boiling commenced,
and with good cream and sugar, I
liked tit invigorated and seemed to
nourish me.
This was about a year ago. Now l
have NJ headaches, am not sallow,
sleeplessness and ~irritability are gone,
my brain clear and my head steady.
l have gained 20 lbs. and feel ! I'm a
new man.
81 do not hesitate to give Postum
due credit. or course dropping coffee
was the main thing, but | had dropped
1t before, using chocolate, cocoa and
other things to no purpose.
Postum not only seemed to act as
an invigorant, but as an article OF
n~ourishment, giving me the needed
p~hosphates and albumens. This is no
imaginary tale. 1t a be substanti-
ated by my wife and her sister, who
both changed to Postum and are
hearty women Of about 20.
Il write this for the information and
encouragement Of others, and with a
feeling of gratitude to the inventor OF
Postum"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to Well
ville," in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-23
KILLS TWO AND SELF.
Triple Tragedy in Milwaukee Is Laid
to Jealousy.

to Jealousy.
Milwaukee, Wis. July 19.-William
Hill, a barber at the soldiers home,
last night killed himself after he had
killed Mrs. Kimball, said to have been
his wife, though known under the
name of a former husband, and Joe
Bittner. who was instantly killed as
he tried TO escape from a fusillade of
bullets fred at another man. Hill, it
Is said, was Jealous Of a man who Mira.
Kimball told him was her son, and
Bittner was killed when Hill tried to
kill this nan known as Albert Diller.
In firing at Diller Hill probably fatal
" wounded an unknown Austrian
known as John, who had only been in
America four days. The shooting took
place in the lowest part of the city
and followed a long separation be-
tween Mrs. Kimball and Hill. All of
the three who were killed died in
~stantly.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-23
ACID is THROWN IN GIRLS FACE.
Mrs. Florence Hutchins, 1~9-year-old
MINNEAPOLIS Widow, Victim.

Minneapolis, July 19.-An unknown
assailant beat Mrs. Florence Hutchins,
a nineteen-year-old widow, into mcon-
seriousness AMI threw carbolic acid
into her eyes and W. her face in her
room at an early hour yesterday
morning. The woman's eyesight prob
ably will be saved, but her injuries
are serious.
Every effort was made to find some
trace of the assailant, but no clue has
heen discovered tending to disclose
the identity of the man or the motive
for the crime.