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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
GASOLINE EXPLOSION
IS FATAL
FIVE ARE KNOWN TO HAVE PER
IsHED IN FIRE FOLLOWING
THE ACCIDENT.

st. Paul. July 3I.-An explosion from
gasoline, followed by fire. in a four
story building on West Third street
today is known to have caused the
death of five persons. two children, a
woman and two men, and the injury
OF four men and three women. The
police think that four persons are still
in the ruins. The dead:
ROAM BOUSKA, years old.
MRS. GAGNON, so years old.
a child. supposed to be Clifford
Gamble. 3 years old.
Two men, unidentified.
Seriously injured: Joseph Gagnon,
81 years old, and Emanuel Forester
Mrs Gamble. mother of Clifford
Gamble: Arnold Kuhle, president of the
Kuhle Manufacturing company, and a
young man named McCauley are
thought to be still in the ruins. 1t
was Kuhles fatal invention, a gasoline
machine to fill automobiles. that caused
the explosion. He and gGCauley were
experimenting with the machine when
the explosion Occurred. The building
was WRECKED. windows across the
street were broken and the central
police station and the building adjoin
ing We're set on fire
The property loss was small.
Chief of Police O'Conner suffered
an irreparabie loss In the destruction
OF his private rogue's gallery of 10000
pictures.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
4 Plea

At the seasons hats | shall not rail,
Nor call them grotesque nor strange;
My optimism shall still prevail.
Next season the styles may change.
l do not mind fifteen yards of lace.
Twelve feathers, and one big wreath;
But, oh, | dread tn see the face
That perhaps may be hid beneath,
I've seen brave hats of a noble size.
That rested ON shoulders square;
And | have hoped the wearer had
rougish eyes.
And curly golden hair.
And when | lookei-wcll never mind
that,
But this boon | would fain heseech:
Pray, fashion. ordain that peach-bas-
ket hat
Shall only be worn by peach.
Carolyn Wells in Harper's Weekly
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
CHINESE OFFICIAL
IS KILLED
THE CONSUL AT NEW YORK, Or.
LUX WING. is SHOT IN
BACK BY cHINAMAH.

New York, July 3i.-Dr. LUX Wing,
chinese consul at New York, a grad
uate q Lehigh and Yale universities.
and who married an American girl
ID years ago. was mortally wounded
at his office on the fifth floor of No.
Is Broadway this afternoon by Chi
naman who gives contradictory re-
ports of himself in pidgen English,
and died in st. Gregory's hospital to-
night. DIR. Wing was shot In the back
with revolver. The bullet, enter
ing below the shoulder blades, lodged
in the lower lobe of the left lung.
Mrs. Wing. who is i'll herself. was
driven to the hospital in time to be
at the bedside. Her husband rec
ognized her and smiled. but at no
time was he strong enough to make
an anse-mortem statement.
Michael Mcdonald who for - years
has been special Waterman at the
Chinese consulate. identified the MUIR
derer tonight as Wong Bow Cheung.
who, he says. was formerly steward
on the United States battleship Indi-
ana. The man himself, who was first
thought 10 be japanese, gave his
name to the police as Matuda Young.
and said he lived at No. 1915 Button
wood street. Philadelphia. though un-
til recently he had been employed as
cook at Galen Hail. an Atlantic City
hotel. He came to New York only
yesterday. He Is understood and crop
haired and wears American clothes.
No rational motive for the murder
has developed. Mcdonald says he be
lieves the man Is insane. Nobody
witnessed the shooting. The assassin
was arrested.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
BUTTE men ARE HERE
TO PURCHASE LAND

Charles Mack and Harry o'Gorman.
proprietors of the Finlen hotel in
Butte. and NJ. J. Walsh, a prominent
undertaken of the same city. are in
Missoula for the purpose of purchas-
ing some of the Garden Citys real
estate. Mr.. Walsh was here some days
ago and was So impressed with the
future of the city that he secured
several lots on the south side of the
city. Yesterday he returned with the
hotel men and they are negotiating
through L. T.. Mofritt, the well-known
real estate man, for the purchase of
additional ground
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01

Last night the new Illuminated sign
of the Missoula Chamber of Com
merce was put into
BRIGHT commission. and its
BEAMS bright RAYS illuminated
the street i'm great
shape. The sign Is great improve
ment and In the result of the COM
blned talents of Secretary Erfcrt and
pinxit Curran. There Is nobody who
can see who should miss the way to
the chamber of commerce now that
the big sign Is working: 1t tells its
story In blazing glory and invites all
who would know something about
Missoula and the Bitter Root to come
and be enlightened. The outward
srlendor of the sign IL but mere
suggestion Of the Illuminating power
that lies within when there are mat
ters under discussion which relate to
the good of Missoula These days
there are many who are finding this
out: the chamber Is doing land
office business. II Is good to see the
crowds that go up to the rooms for
information and enlightenment. There
is something doing all the time up
there. something for the good of the
city.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
Draw
PIPES
INSTRUMENTS OF RECORD

The following instruments were filed
III the office at the county clerk yester-
day.
ueed-John Deffebach to 4 NJ. Os-
borne. lot Il. block -. naIv's addition.
Deed-J"hn neffehach 10 George T.
Biackier, lot IL, block 81. Days addi-
ton.
Desd-E, {. Collins to \. L. I.ihbev.
east half of lot II and all Of lot Is.
block 40, School addition.
Deed-The Central Realty company
tn Il. r. Willis. lot {, block 80. Days
addition.
Deed-T. Ethel to the Big Blackfoot
Milling company. lots ! and s, block
81. Rayalli addition
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
LEAVES HOSPITAL.

Mrs. w. d. kendrick. wife of Cor
oner Kendrick. who has been in St
Patrick.s hospital for the last three
weeks. having been operated on for
appendicitis. was yesterday permitted
to leave the institution, as she has
completely recovered her health.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01

For the Bitter Root and for Missoula
for these two and inseparable points.
u. V. Bean and his
BEAMS boosting are working
LIGHT night and day. The val
liant Bitter Rooter is
plugging his best plugs
and Is sending folks up the valley by
hundreds. They get interested when
they hear Bean talk and they want
In see the valley that he talks about.
Yesterday afternoon MIR. Bean had IA
visitor that surprised him. He was
giving one of his inimitable lectures
when his brother in law, Judge Lam
ernux Of Wisconsin. arrived and
Joined the audience. The lecture was
at once and there was some
tall visiting done for while. Today
Mr.. Bean and the judge viii go up
To Hamilton.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
LoNG-LoST COUSIN.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Wilbur of Cripple
Creek arrived in MissoC.a yesterday to
register for the reservation opening.
Mr.. and Mrs Wilbur will be the
guests for a couple of days of Mr..
Wilbur's cousin. r. II. Wilbur of this
city, whom they have not seen for Is
years.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
New Oinino Room.

In future the Missoula hotel dining
room will be open from a. m. TO
p. m. The management has spar J
no expense Ia make 1t one of the neat
est aud hsst places In the city.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01

Alderman Crawford Of the First ward
was the recipient of congratulations
last night and he gath
FIRST cred them in as fast as
Z WARD they came. The why OF
II was young alder
man, whose recorded weight was 10 IL
/ pounds. and who declared himself as
soon as he arrived in the city in favor
of street improvements and fewer 20
iicemen. In matters of city admins
tration the lads father was disLl.s..l
to differ with him somewhat. but he
didn't enter into any extended argu-
ment with the little fellow, but Yield
ed point for the time and came
down town To break the news. Every
thing went well until the proud father
announced the wegkt-10 i-2 pounds.
as already duly stated and recorded.
Then it was that some mean man in
the crowd made the unkind assertion
that the baby had been weighed on
the ice scales. The alderman denied
the allegation, asserting that the
weight was on the square. And the
crowd took another cigar apiece.
One of the fixed attractions of Mis-
soula, which can be depended on. come
rain. come sun. Is the
a SAD smile of Rosie"
SMILE Whether the owner of
This illuminating smile
Is on shift and dealing out not cakes
In two-bit stacks or whether he saun-
tiers UP the street In his off hours
his smile is working and 1T makes
Rosie" good to look at. Hence there
was amazement amongst the friends
he appeared on the streets minus the
smile. There was wonder and there
was speculation; the conclusion was
that Rosie had been touched. And
II was the Regular Customer who an
preached Rosie and sought an ex-
PLANTATION. Rosie" solved tho mys-
terry. He led his friend ,~stround to
Donohue's window on Higgins avenue
and silently pointssd to a suit of
clothes In the window. bearing a price
mark Of thef bargain sale. Then
Rosie pobS,ed to his own suit: it
was sef,lica OF the one In the win
aow Ynd he had bought IL the night
peLyre the sale opened, paying just
lSsice the amount that the tag called
for. That was all, and Rosie" failed
to find, any consolation in the fact
that the fable taught that there are
some bargain sales that offer real bar
gains.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
BEAMS
LIGHT

Yesterday afternoon Frank Simnns had
one of the times of his life. lie en-
hHened and entertained
BRA" the crowd on Higgins
PIPES avenue and Main street
with concert by the
piper whose Scotch music captured
the audiences at the Grand all the
week and who had such Il crowd to
hear his outdoor performance as
blocked the streets for time. IL was
great music and it made things lively
for the time the pipes We're droning
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
Of the country bring news of similar
improvements in conditions.
Carlists Active.

Cerebere, Spanish frontier.
July Gl.-Spanish refugees arriving
here say the Carlsts are attempting
to take over the leadership of the
movement in Catalonia and that Don
Jaime is expected to place himself at
the head of the rebellion.
The refugees explained that the Cat
alonians, who are the most Industrious
people in Spain. have long complained
that they We're cXorhttantly taxed
for the benefit of other regions and
that the discomfort is deep seated.
They say the Catalonians have not
shown opposition to the war i'm Mo-
rocco. but only To what they regard
as AN expedition for the benefit OF
private interests. which entails the
useless expenditure of life and in
creased taxation.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
NotIre.

On and after the 18th day of Au
gust the master plumbers at Missoula
viii figure only with recognized archi-
tsCtS and ON uerS.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01
A SON..

There was born yesterday morning
to Mrs. Charles f. Avery a son. whose
arrival has caused much genuine hap
piaess. Congratulations are due to
the father and mother
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01

san Sebastian. Spain. July 81. by
way of the French frontier.-An au-
thuritative parsonage declared tonight
that 10 courts martial sat continuous
ly throughout Thursday and Friday
and that the number of revolutionists
condemned and shot is estimated at
100 About 3.00o reyolutionists were
killed or wounded by machine guns or
rifle fire.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01

MISSOULIAN WANT ADS
BRING QUICK RESULTS.
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03

As will be seen by the above, the COM
mittee used $500 worth of stamps dur
ing the campaign. getting copies of the
poll books comes in for $685. The pub
lie meetings cost $62 20, the ones here
amounting to $32 SO, with $500 for
Platte Center, Sc IS for Lindsay, 81 %
for Monroe, Tarnov, IS so, and SIP 20
for the various school house meetings
Auto hire, livery. getting ont the vote
and hireing workers the committee paid
Sl12OO. About $50 of this was spent
prior to election taking local speakers to
the meetings in autos or rigs, and $40
more for getting out the vote and work.
ers in Columbus on election day. For
stationery and printing the bills amount
ed to $74 10, of which $500 was paid to
the Journal and S45.25 to the Tribune
Signs and banners cost $l7.25; advert,s-
ing. S2982, telephone and telegraph.
$3.50. Distributing bills, s1OO; cards
and express, $3.50, and small indebted
ness of the Taft club S2.5l, was also paid.
To meet these expenses Sl15OO was
contributed by candidates and local re-
publicans, and just before election the
state committee sent Chairman Dickin-
son $500 to be placed in the various pre-
cincts in the county to pay for workers
aud get out the vote. This accounts for
all funds handled by the committee dur
ing the campaign, and they still have
balance on hand of S3O.O7
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03
WHY They Quit the Farm.

One farm hand has learned the
cause of so many sons and daughters
and wellmeaRing. reliable farm hands
leaving the beautiful farm and cOun-
try and going to the city. A lack Of
order and system on the farm and too
long hours for day are what is driv-
ing the best minds from the farm to
the city and shop, he says. What can
we expect of a hand, or the farmers
wife and her posterity. in the way of
Intellectual development when they
get out of their beds at $3.50 in the
morning and work from that time I'M
til eight or nine p. M? And no at
tention paid to the sanitary conditions
of the home and necessary conven-
fences on the farm for doing the
farm work with the least labor and
time.-NOrwich CONN Record.
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03

of to deny it, and then get caught.
Compared to the real apostles of cor
ruption in congress, Tillman is an
honest man, even if he is q loud and
vulgar brute. But for several years
he has been doing not much of any.
thing but rave and rant about how
mean Roosevelt is and how good he il,
and how they shoot the niggers in
South Carolina. A man who puts in
all his time calling other people names
ought to be careful what he does him
SELF Moreover, just on general prin.
ciples, any man like Tillman, who is
noisy and vulgar and seems to be
always trying to convince people that
he is not a gentleman, and especially
any man who makes false charges
against other men, will stand watching
himself Men are honest because they
have some opinion of themselves and
some regard for the rights of others.
For the same reason men are courteous
and gentlemanly. The wild and woody
statesman who likes to shock people,
and who is so honest that it hurts him
and he can't keep from telling about
it, is a sort of contradiction in terms.
1t is a safe bet that while congress
is accusing the president of everything
it can think of and much more than
it can prove, the president has not told
10 per cent of what he knows and
could abundantly prove about the
members of congress. They call him
reckless and malicious, but they know
themselves that he is the one who has
been charitable and has only fought
back in selfdefense.
incidentally, three Nebraska mem.
bers of the house, Messrs. Kinkaid,
Norris and Pollard, are to be COM
mended for being square enough and
having enough sense of the ridiculous
to refuse to vote with the majority of
representatives in their solemn COM
edy of "laying the presidents message
on the table" SCOTS Bluff Star.
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03
Wanted the PainkiIIee

Whenever two-year-old Rutland
bumped his inquisitive head or bruised
his adventurous body a bottle Of some
good old-fashiOned lotion was brought
out and some of its soothing contents
applied to the injured part. Recently
Rutland received his first spanking. an
experience which was to him totally
new. strange and mystifying. About
all he understood of it was that 1t
hurt and Immediately after being al
lowed to wriggle on of the maternal
knee he toddled toward the shelf on
which stood his old friend. the bottle.
and with hands appraised cried implor-
ingly:
"Botty. botty, give Wuland botty
twick."-Kansas City Times.
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03
A LEADING Question.

Superintendent McLaren of San
Franchises system of public parks was
inspecting the work of restoring Union
square to it's former beauty, now that
the little st. Francis has been re-
moved.
I'm for heavin' this un out; it's a
bum little bush," remarked a garden
er with a brogue.
(Which one?" inquired McLaren
you don't mean this beautiful little
Scotch heather? All it needs is more
water and it will grow as tall as you
are"
you're not SO tall yourself, Mr.. Nc
Laren."
Not extraordinarily So"
II say, Mr.. McLaren," reflected the
gardener, thoughtfully, did you ever
try water yourself?"-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03
Their Marks,

"The seal or signet ring" said a
jeweler, "once had a very practical
use. In the Middle Ages, when no.
body but the priests could write, men
stamped documents with their signet
rings, as the illiterate now make their
marks.
"The signet rings of noblemen bore
the owners crest or arms. The rings
Of merchants bore intricate mono
grams, trademark or the like. There
are certain old continental firms that
preserve in cabinets the seal rings
worn by their founders-rings whose
seals are inscribed with the trade.
marks still in use."
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03
A Fairy Story Of To-Day.

They were going to the theater. He
had reached home at $3.50 o'clock, and
an hour later was ready to start
There was just time to reach the play
house by eight. She had had nothing
to do all afternoon except to dress.
yet 1t was 81 when she came from
her room with her hat and coat on
Il am afraid we shall be late," she
said.
You look so lovely" he replied.
kissing her, that it would have been
worth waiting another hour for you"
No. they were not bride and bride
groom. They had been married ten
years. But what is the use of telling
you any more? AS you can see by
this sample, you wouldn't believe 1t,
anyway.
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03

When laboring men ask for an in
crease in wages they are usually told
that they are receiving all that the
corporation they work for can afford
to pay. When Office holders ask for
an increase in salary, congress and
legislatures hasten to comply with the
demand. At present there seems to
be united effort on the part of law
yers to secure an increase in salaries
where gentlemen ofthe legal profession
are the benefciaries. At the election
last fall the people of Nebraska went
on record as favoring the-amendment
to the constitution providing for four
additional supreme court judges. That
decision rendered at the polls carried
with it increased pay for the members
of the court above mentioned. The
district judges interpreted the verdict
of the people to mean that they also
favored additional salary for district
judges. and with that thought in mind
the lawyers in the legislature. who
hope some day to reach the district
bench, are agitating the question of
increasing the salary paid to district
Judges, and in addition to this want
the people taxed to pay the hotel bills
and travelling expenses of the judges.
Two-thirds of the judges now on the
district bench are receiving more for
the work they do than they ever earn
ed practicing at the bar. The fact of
the matter is there are already too
many judges for the work there is to
perform, and it would be in harmony
with the desire of the people to reduce
the number, and give those who re-
main an opportunity to earn their
salary.
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03
6uryino Cables in River Bed.

It seems odd that telegraph and
telephone companies should be forced
to bury their cables in the bed of a
large river, yet this became necessary
in places along the Ohio during the
recent drought.
The river was so low that boys
could and did play ball in the very
channel bed, and the exposure left the
telephone cables entirely unprotected
To avoid a repetition Of the incident.
therefore, the companies have dug
trenches in the river bed, in which the
cables have been securely covered
Marine Journal
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03

Half century or more ago when
Preston Brooks, representative in con.
gress from South Carolina, sneaked up
behind Charles Sumner and beat him
into insensibility with a club, while
friends of the coward stood by with
pistols to prevent interference, the act
was applauded throughout Brooks
state as q brave and daring deed.
Brooks, in order to secure vindication,
resigned his seat, and asked for vote
of confidence from his district, and
was triumphantly reelected. The
vote of confidence by the legislature of
South Carolina extended to Senator
Tillman after his attack on President
Roosevelt, is in harmony with the SEN
timent South Carolina exhibited after
the murderous assault upon Sumner.
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03
Not That Color.

Willie lost his pet dog and was much
distressed. He spent his time search
ing for it. and so often did he run into
the house crying. Come quick: there's
Ffdo! I saw him." the family grew
somewhat dubious.
One day Willie rushed in more excit.
cd than usual. Mamma, mammal" he
cried. I've seen Ffdo! I've seen Fido!"
"Oh. no; I guess not" replied the
patient mother. 1T must have been
your Imagination"
Willie looked at her, much az.
grieved. WELL" he said Indignantly,
Il guess my Imagination isn't white
behind"
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03

MI. Bryan opposes the acceptance
of Mr.. Carnegie's pension fund. As
Mr.. Bryan will not become q benefi-
ciary from Mr.. Carnegie's iberality he
= not in . position to raise . personal
objection. People to whom Mr.. Car
neeie offers his money have Is moral
and legal right to accept it Is Mr..
Bryan did the money given to him by
M. Bennett
The Columbus journal., 1909-02-03
SAME OLD SCREAM.

There is another Reform paper;
send in your subscription. 1t is La.
Follette's Weekly, published at Madi-
son, Wisconsin, at one dollar per.
We have just looked over a copy.
It's the same old scream.
How tired most people are becoming
of this Reform screaming, for the
reason that the people are not entitled
to many of the changes demanded. 1t
is easy to demand that the railroads
carry passengers at a cent a mile, but
how about the rights of those who own
stock in the railroads? Haven't they
the same right to fair return on their
investments that you have to a fair
return on your investments? A man
who demands rights for himself he is
not willing to grant others, is not
honest.
When we think of reform screaming,
we think of the Oklahoma woman who
visited the Kansas penitentiary, where
Oklahoma prisoners were kept on con-
tract. This woman claimed that an
Oklahoma prisoner had been given the
"water treatment" until he died in
great agony. She gave his name.
Investigation of the records showed
that no such prisoner had ever been in
the penitentiary; nothing had ever
occurred at the institution to warrant
such a charge. The Oklahoma woman
was urged to present her testimony.
"Our poor boys are being murdered"
she screamed to the investigating COM
mittee, "but you men laugh at me
when I demand justice. 1 will meet
you at heavens gate with my tes-
timony"
"But we would like it now," said
one of the Mean Men Of. D. Coburn
was the Mean Man, and there is not q
better man alive.)
But this foolish woman continued
to froth at the mouth about "Our poor
boys" So the Kansas authorities de-
handed that Oklahoma take its "poor
boys" and clear out with them. And
now the "poor boys" of Oklahoma are
being herded in tents and county jai's
in their own state, and we'll bet they
miss the steam heat to which they
have been accustomed.
What came of the investigation of
this screaming reformer? Nothing,
except big bill of costs for the bur.
dened taxpayers to settle.
Reform, real reform, like poetry, is
popular, and as result there is dis
gushing food of imitation.-Exchange.