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The enterprise., 1911-03-09
GRAFT is ALLEGED IN BUTTE.
Grand Jury is Ordered to Probe Acts
Of City and County Officials.

Butte.-A sensation was sprung
when District Judge Donlan ordered
the grand jury to probe alleged graft
among county and city officials in
response to a request from the Silver
Bow Bar Association. The lawyers
declared that action was imperative
as a measure to increase the conf.
dence of the public in their servants.
Graft rumors are flying about the
city so thickly they could no longer be
ignored and the situation must be
cleared, according to ]. B. Rott, presi-
dent of the Bar Association, who pre-
sented the petition which is indorsed
by numerous prominent citizens Of
Butte. The jury will sit in course Of
a months time.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
THOUSANDS DIE OF FAMINE
MILLION WILL PERISH BEFORE
FIRST CROP IS HARVESTED.
Plague Carrying OF 200 Daily, and
the People Are Help
less.

Pekin, China, March 3.-Famine and
the plague are sweeping over China.
The known deaths from the plague
number 10000 and, according to the
official statistics, the death rate aver
ages 200 daily. But the officials have
little knowledge of the conditions In
the interior, or, If they have, they are
not permitting the facts to be known.
There are few or no foreigners in the
interior and conditions there for this
reason are not attracting much public
attention. 1t is impossible even to
estimate the number of deaths. DR..
Samuel Cochrane, an American who Is
engaged in the work of relief, writes:
"One million people will die before
the first crop is harvested. This will
be scanty, because the people have not
the strength to till the soil, and no
animals remain for plowing."
The Chinese are directing their ef-
forts to control the plague chiefly
along the railways and frontiers, for
political reasons. Since the recent
Russian request for permission to
cross the border and quarantine Chin
ese towns along the Amur, China has
been attempting to check the plague
along that frontier, but the Russian
legation says that this has been done
ineffectively, because there are no doc
tors there who are familiar with mod.
ern methods of sanitation.
Foreigners Mistrusted.
Local authorities, including the po-
lice and soldiers, in former epidemlcs
left the people to die; now they do not
care or do not know how to maintain
adequate sanitary measures. AL
though the central government has
issued explicit orders and many OF
them, both supplies and funds are
lacking. Japanese and Russians have
both offered assistance, but only in
few places have these offers been .ac-
cepted, the Chinese not liking to re-
ceive favors from foreigners, whose
political motives they distrust.
Physicians engaged in combating
the disease are of the opinion that
warm weather will kill the germs, al
though this may bring only a tenn.
porary respite. If the plague were OF
the bubonic type, the summer heat
would serve to augment it, bubonic be-
ing conveyed by fleas, rats and other
vermin, which thrive in warm atmos-
pheric conditions.
The pneumonia type, on the other
hand, is transmitted through the res
piratory apparatus, and as a conse
uuence when the Chinese emerge from
their winter quarters into the open air
they will escape much contamination
It is said by the medical authorities
that such an epidemic as the present
one, which is entirely pneumonia, has
not visited the world since the middle
ages.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
BuTTZ is APPOINTED JUDGE.
Minnewaukan Man Named to Act In
Place Of Cowan, Impeached.

Bismarck, N. D., March Ex-Governor
Burke appointed G. w. Buttz OF Min
newauken to act as judge in the Sec.
ond judicial district until the deter
mination by the senate sitting as a
trial body on the Impeachment Of
Judge John Cowan. The statutes pro-
vide that in cases of impeachment the
senate, after articles are filed, shall
cause a copy to be served on the de-
fendant and he shall then have at
least 20 days notice, and in the in
terim the governor shall appoint a
suitable person to act in his stead. In
case the findings of the senate are
against Cowan the present appointee
will likely hold the position until the
next regular election.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
NEWS OF MONTANA
Important Happenings Of the
Week Briefly Told.
MONTANA ELECTS SENATOR.
Henry L. Meyers, Democrat, Chosen
Ending Long Deadlock.

Helena. - Henry l.. Meyers, Dem.
ocrat, of Ravalli county, was elect.
ed United States senator to succeed
lative ballot.
A continuous joint session of seven
and half hours was held by the legis.
lature, 81 ballots being taken. Myers
name was not mentioned until the last
ballot, on which he received all the
Democratic votes. He had not been
an avowed candidate.
Henry L. Myers was born Oct. 9,
1862 at Bonneville, Mo-, where he be-
gan his scholastic training in the pub
lie schools and finished at an academy.
He worked on his fathers farm, taught
school, became newspaper man and
finally a lawyer.
He was admitted to practice in the
supreme court of Missouri and prac.
ticed for some time at Bonneville and
West Plains.
In 1898 Mr.. Myers came to Mon
tana. locating at Hamilton, where he
opened a law office, and later entered
into partnership with Robert A.
O'Hara.
Mr.. Myers was elected county attor.
ney in Ravalli county in 1894 and re-
elected in 1896. In 1898 he was elect.
ed state senator.
Mr.. Myers was the author of senate
bills requiring courts to instruct juries
before argument of counsel and of
other important judicial matters. Lat
er he was elected district judge.
Judge Myers is prominent in Mason
ic circles and is identified with num-
ber of other fraternal and social ord.
ers.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Montana Pioneer Found Dead.

Butte.-P. H. Poindexter, aged 90,
veteran live stock magnate of the
northwest and the oldest pioneer of
southern Montana, was found dead in
bed at his ranch home near Dillon.
Mr.. Poindexter drove overland to
Montana and in 1856 organized the
Poindexter &. Orr Live Stock Com.
pany, which today is the largest com.
pany of it's kind in Montana, it's hold
ings embrace 10000 acres and it's cat
tie numbers thousands of head. Mr..
Poindexter was affiliated with large
number of orders and was prominent
in state Masonic circles, being former
high priest of the grand lodge.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
WORLD STRIKE is THREATENED.
International Seamen's Congress to
Meet in Antwerp.

Antwerp, March 3.-The Information.
al Seamen's congress, which threatens
to advocate a general strike through
out the world at the time of the coron.
alton of King George unless ship
owners satisfy their demands, will
open here Monday.
The men include in their demands a
unification of wages, the cessation of
the use of a rubber stamp on the wrist
by doctors as proof of medical examin.
alton, better food and quarters and the
abolition of shipping masters.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
WifeIy sollcltude.

Appealing to the police to find her
husband, who went to work and had
not returned home at eight o'clock.
but requesting that the officers neith-
sr arrest nor talk cross" to him, .
woman left note In the hands Of
Patrolman Hickerson at Sixth and Ed.
mond streets containing Information
concerning the missing husband.
The note in addition to giving a dc.
scription of the missing man read
that the wife was worried nearly sick
because 1t was the first time that he
had done this"
II don't want you to arrest him."
continued the note. "Tell the police
to please not talk cross to him."-St
Joseph Gazette.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE RE.
MOVES LAST VESTlGE
OF DOUBT.
DEMOCRATS ARE RELIED UPON
Taft Determined Not to Be Thwarted
In Effort for Recjprocity.-May
Set Date Earlier Than
April 4.

Washington, March g. The last
vestige of doubt that there will be
an extraordinary session Of congress
called by President Taft to consider
the Canadian reciprocity agreement in
the now practically certain event of
the failure of that measure In the
present congress, disappeared when it
became known that Republican lead
ers had been summoned to the White
house for a consultation.
"The die is cast" said one Of the
Republican senators after returning to
the capital. "Mr Taft has decided
that there must be an extra session
and that he will call it earlier than
April d."
Democratic leaders wanted a month
in which to get ready for a special
session and President Taft was in
clined to accede to their wishes. 1t
became known, however, that the Re.
publicans favored an earlier gather
ing if there was no way to avoid COM
ing back. Mr.. Taft would be guided,
it was said, by the wishes of the Re-
publicans. 1t was announced that a
conference would be held on the sub
ject probably Monday to decide upon
date. March 20 was the date talked
about at the capitol.
There was feeling of confidence
among friends of Canadian agreement
that the Democratic house would pass
the bill within week after the con-
vening of the special session. 1t was
suggested that Representative Nc
Calls name would not be carried on
the new committee on ways and
means would claim the right to report
the measure and take charge of it on
the floor.
Extra Session Talk Changes.
There was an impression also that
the senate would not delay action for
more than month. The theory was
based upon the argument thas the Re-
publican senate would expedite busi-
ness so as to be ready to adjourn be-
fore the Democratic house could SUBJ
NIT general program for tariff re-
vision and the hope that under such
a condition of affairs the Democrats
would be willing to postpone their
tariff revision plans until next winter
when they would be better prepared
to proceed. However this opinion was
founded only On theory. Anything
might happen, the leaders said.
Leaders On both sides of the house
regarded an extra session as inevit.
able. Republican whip John w.
Dwight of New York, who all along
has believed that way would be
found to avoid an extra session, con.
fessed his belief that an extra session
was unavoidable. Mr. Underwood of
Alabama, who will be chairman of the
tariff-making ways and means commit.
tee of the next congress, thought it
doubtful that the senate would dis.
pose of the appropriation bills. He
regarded an extra session as certain.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Millionaire Ends Own Life.

Chicago, March 3.-Fred K. Maus,
millionaire director of the Scully Steel
& Iron Company, shot and killed him.
self at his home. The body was found
when the police, called by Maus' serv.
ants, broke open the door of his bed
room and found the body in chair,
a revolver clutched in the right hand.
He had fired bullet into his brain
over the left eye. Maus is believed
by friends to have beel. tempora rily
insane with grief over the death OF
his wife.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Robert McAIpine Is Dead,

Marinette, Wis.,, March 3.-Robert
McAlpine, q former resident of Mar.
inette, builder Of the Park paper mill
plant here and widely known as a
paper manufacturer, died, at the home
of his son Charles, in South Bend
Ind, from stroke of paralysis. Mr..
McAlpine was "a years old.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Given 40 Years in Prison.

Kansas City, March 3-Any Spauld'
ing, notorious as daylight robber'
was sentenced to 40 years in prison
by Judge Ralph S. Latshaw. His
crime was robbing house of jewels
valued at $110. The sentence is the
heaviest ever inflicted here for rob,
berry. Spaulding is about 45 years old
He has spent 25 years of his life IN
prison.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09

It Is possible to have too much of Z
good thing. The dog with the shortest
tail runs the least danger Of having
tin cans tied to it.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Successful Life Work.

HE has achieved success who has
lived we'll. laughed often, and loved
much; who has gained the respect Of
Intelligent men and the love Of little
children; who has filled his niche
and accomplished his task; who left
the world better than he found 1t,
whether by an improved poppy, .
perfect poem or a rescued soul; who
has never lacked appreciation Of
earth's beauty or failed to express It,
who has always looked for the best
n others, and given the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration; whose
memory q benediction." n."-President
Schurman.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
LEAPS DOWN MINE SHAFT.

Spectacular Death courted BY Dss.
perate Miner.
Butte.-Investigation into what Of,
ficers believed at first to be a case of
murder. resolved itself into what is
regarded as unparalleled in dizzy leapf
taken by suicides. A body identified
as that Of Thomas Hendrickson, from
papers in the mans pockets, was
found in the bottom of Parrot mine
shaft. 2,100 feet underground, and it
was thought he had been murdered
and his body thrown into the shaft,
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
DEITz SEEKING CONTINUANCE.
Cameron Dam Defender May Effect
Delay in Trial.

Hayward, Wis, March 3.-John
Deitz of Cameron dam fame reached
here with his son, Leslie, to ask for
a continuance of the case against him.
He has so far been unable to see Dis
trict Attorney Williams or the clerk
of the court, both being out of town.
Deitz and his son have gone on to
their home at Cameron.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Gotham Bank Gets Norton.

New York, March 3.-It has been
learned on the best authority that
Charles D. Norton, whose resignation
as secretary to President Taft has
been announced, will assume the du-
ties of vice-president of the First
National Bank here at an early date.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
New Billiard Record.

London, March 3.-George Gray, the
Australian billiardist, made a new
worlds record at English billiards
with a run of 1,438, in an unfinished
match at Southampton. The forme,
record of 1,240 was held by Roberts.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
"wEEDING PROCESS" IS BEGUN.
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
Retrenches in Montana.

Butte.-As a measure of retrench.
ment incident to the adverse rate de-
cision the Chicago, Milwaukee and
Puget Sound laid off Is men in Mon
tana in the operating department, with
the announcement that the wedding
process was to continue.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Personal

Prominent physicians and edu-
Gators met in Chicago at conference
under the auspices of the American
Medical association to discuss vital
problems of the medical profession.
Bob Jones and John Veazy, negroes,
charged with the murder of white
men, were taken from the Warrenton
(Ga.) Jail by mob and lynched. The
negroes were strung to the limbs of
a tree on the outskirts of the town
and their bodies were riddled with
bullets.
Governor Maklakoff has begun a
widespread expulsion of the Jews
from the province of Tchernigov, a
government in Little Russia.
James B. Speed, probably Louis
ville's (Ky.) wealthiest citizen, is crit
ically i'll of complication of diseases
at his home in that city.
John Hays Hammond has been Sc.
lected to represent President Taft as
special ambassador at the coronation
of King George V.
William G.. Irwin, father Of Miss
Helen Irwin, who was married to Tenn
pleton Crocker at San Francisco, pre-.
sented his daughter with $1.000.0o0 IN
bonds as wedding Eft.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Giants Drop First Game.

Marlin, Tex, March 3.-The speed
of the young pitchers, Hendricks and
Jenkins, was too much for the regulars
of the New York National league and
they were beaten their first time out
by score of to 2.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Dubuque Plumbers Strike.

Dubuque, Iowa, March 3.-The de-
termination of employing timers and
plumbers to conduct an open shop re-
suited in walkout. Fifty men laid
down their tools.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
A girl Is always sure ner latest love
is the real thing.

Druggists everywhere sell Garfield Tea,
the Herb laxative. It acts as gentle aid
to Nature.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
ADVANTAGES.

"You must have found the arctic cir
Gle very unpleasant"
eyes," replied the arctic explorer;
''but it has its advantages. The eli
mate is disagreeable, but the people
aren't always worrying you about
proofs"
The enterprise., 1911-03-09

Sympathy sometimes means sitting
in a car and passing out soft words to
lame folk.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review Of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All Parts Of
- the Globe-Latest Home and For
el0n Items.
Washington

The United States senate, by a vote
of 46 to 40, declared Senator Lorimer
of Illinois was entitled to his seat In
the upper house of congress-, and
thereby voted down the resolution of
Senator Beveridge of Indiana declar-
ing his seat vacant on the ground that
money was used to purchase num-
ber of the votes given the Chicagoan
In the Illinois legislature May 26, 1909.
The senate committee ON foreign
relations ordered favorable report
on the treaty with Honduras relative
to the settlement of the financial
troubles of that republic and the pro-
lection Of the Morgan interests.
President Taft sent to the senate
the name of Representative Henry S.
Boutell of Illinois for the post of
envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Portugal, in place
of Henry T. Gage, resigned on account
of illness.
viding for statehood for the former
territory was ratified in the house by
unanimous vote and amid cheer
ing.
BY vote of 54 to 33, two.thirds not
voting in the affirmative, as required
for constitutional amendments, the
United States senate defeated the
resolution for the direct election of
United States senators.
The house at Washington passed
the Mann bill extending the scope OF
the public health aud marine hospital
service and changing its name to the
public health service.
President Taft, by inference, was
charged with using his appointive
power to intimidate members of con-
gress by Senator Jonathan Bourne, in
a speech delivered in the senate. I'm
til recent trouble over an Oregon ap-
pointment, Senator Bourne was the
intimate friend and golfing companion
of the chief executive and the speech
took the senate by surprise.
The Hobson bill to prevent the dis
closure of national defense secrets,
which has passed the house, was
passed by the senate without discus
sion.
Without any recommendation what
ever the finance committee ordered
the Mccall bill, which is designed to
carry out the Canadian reciprocity
agreement, reported to the United
States senate. The vote against a
recommendation was to 6, and to re-
port it without recommendation the
vote was unanimous.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09


candidates for mayor Of Chicago at
the election to be held April 1. The
bitterest primary election fight In the
history of Chicago ended with the
selection Of the above standard bear
ers. One man was shot dead, several
others were shot and stabbed, more
or less seriously, and small riots oc-
CURED during the course Of the vot.
ing.
The Minnesota house has passed a
bill providing for the abolishment of
capital punishment In that state.
After binding and gagging M. NJ.
the express messenger
two armed and masked bandits held
up the express car on the Iron Noun.
tain road inside the city limits Of
st. Louis. They took money box
from the safe and several packages
and made their escape. 1t Is believed
the robbers obtained a fortune.
If not more than English women, in
the opinion of DR.. John D. Quacken.
bos Of New York, who has made
study of the question.
r. w. Hollenbeak, formerly a men,
ber Of the Iowa legislature from
Adair county, was struck by Rock
Island train in driving across the
track at Casey, la. He was killed in.
stantly.
Rud Brandenburg, twenty-one years
old, shot and killed his stepfather,
Claus Muenter, at Davenport, Ia, after
being told by his mother that Muen-
ter had abused her.
Anna Bertha Grunspan, who Is
suing William English Walling for
100000 for breach of promise at New
York, collapsed on the witness stand
on cross-examination when counsel
for the defense asked her if she knew
certain men and women in the court.
room who are to appear for the de.
fense.
Mysterious robbery of through fast
express train No. 13 on the Erie rail-
road while 1t was running at top
speed between New York and Chicago
is being investigated by secret serv-
ice men Of the Wells-Fargo Express
company, which operates the express
service on that railroad.
The vast fortune left by Winfield
Scott Stratton, the Colorado mining
king, is claimed by a woman, who
says Stratton married her in Texas
81 years ago, took $4,000 of her
money and disappeared.
No less a sartorial authority than
President Taft has introduced the lat
est in red neckwear. The chief execu-
tive recently appeared with tie of
more gorgeous hue than Champ
Clark's.
The immense holdings of the Colo
RADIO Fuel C Iron company in Las
Animas county, Colorado are attack
ed in suit filed by Attorney General
Wickersham in the federal court here.
About $500 acres of the most valus
able coal lands in the state, estimated
to be worth $3,000,00o, are involved.
Hymns sung into phonograph by
William Henry Taxon of Ovid, Mich,
two years ago, when he was SS years
old, were heard by the mourners at
his funeral.
Using plain city water as an anaes-
thetic, Dr. Joseph F. Saphir, attending
surgeon of the Peoples hospital, in
New York, has performed more than
100 operations recently.
Pei Chuanlintze, about fifty miles
north of Hardin, is being ravaged bv
the plague. Deaths there are report
ed to number 1000 daily. This dis.
ease is raging at Kirin. Hulanchen.
opposite Harbin, and Bodune, 100
miles southeast of the Manchurian
capital. Bread riots have occurred
the stricken district.
Sporting
Johnny Coulon won the decision
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Not a Lucrative

Not a Lucrative Job.
Frlend-So your friend has left coli
lege. What Is he in?
Pater-Debt.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Sporting

Johnny Coulon won the decision
over frankie Conley at New Orleans
at the end of the twentieth round,
thus retaining the title of bantam
weight champion.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Domestic

Joseph G. Robin, the fallen New
York banker, pleaded guilty to an in
dictment charging him with the lar
ceny of $4,000 from the Washington
Savings bank, of which he was for.
merly president. Seven indictments
against him remain. He was remand
ed to the Tombs until March 27, when
he will be sentenced.
In family quarrel at Rockdale,
Ind, Edward Loos, aged fifty years,
was shot and killed by his brother-in-
law, Glen Hollowell. The latter de-
clares he shot in self-defense.
Eighty Dutch farmers and their
families arrived in New York aboard
the liner Noordam on their way to
Iowa and North Dakota, the advance
guard of seven or eight thousand
farmers who will leave Holland with
in the next few weeks to take up land
in the western United States.
The federal grand jury at New
4OIh City uuo UCSuIl OH 1uVGStlSdIlOu
of the meat packers. The inquiry, it
is said involves the same companies
and individuals as those indicted in
New Jersey about a year ago, but who
have never been brought to trial.
Mrs. Ryde shryock Booth, known
as the most beautiful woman in Balti-
more, has been granted divorce
from her husband, Gen. Alfred r.
Booth, who lost his fortune through
the bankruptcy of A. Booth G. Co., the
so-called fish trust.
John Mitchell, formerly head OF the
United Mine Workers of America, and
lately chairman of the Natiol.41 Civic
federation. made public at New York
city his resignation Of his office and
membership in the latter organiza-
kion.
The enterprise., 1911-03-09
Malta Enterprise.

The Malta Enterprise Pub. Co., Inc
M. T. OSGOOD, Manager and Editor
MALTA, MONT