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P U B L IS H E D W E E K L Y BY

JOHN M. YR00MAN, Editor and Proprietor. HALSEY R. VATSON. Business Manager.

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LEWISTOWN, MONT., June 21. 1905.

If the czar of Russia has lost some of his conceit it will greatly improve the prospects of peace.

Grover Cleveland was determined to be president again if it was of noth­ing more than an insurance company.

Richard the Third, on Bosworth field, offered his kingdom for a horse. Norway would doubtless give a horse for the right kind of a king.

Lillian Russell has written a mag­azine article on “How to Keep Hus­bands.” She kept her several hus­bands guessing while she had them.

The Japanese gunners have proved themselves excellent marksmen, but there are a few boys in the American navy that cannot be beaten at target practice.

The orange production of California amounts to about $18,000,000 in value, and the gold production to about $17,- 000,000. California’s great sources of wealth are slightly yellow, evidently.

If Grover Cleveland can infuse some of his old-time notions of honesty into the management of the Equitable Life Assurance association he will have the thanks of policy holders all over the United States.

What would India be without a plague. It is said the people are dy­ing there at the rate of 50,000 a week. In 1903 the deaths front the plague numbered 700,000. while the death roll last year exceeded 1.000,000.

In deference to other towns in the county Lewistown will not celebrate the Fourth of July this year. It hopes to celebrate an abundant harvest by having a record breaking fair next September, to which the whole coun­tv is invited.

place for holding the peace confer ence is regarded as a concession to Japan, which was opposed to meeting in a European city. The location may have a good deal to do in determining the result of the conference. While President Roosevelt will not interfere in the deliberations of the commission his desire for peace and a just and amicable settlement of all difference will have greater effect at short range than a message flashed across the ocean. The president’s influence will be felt by the representatives of both powers.

According to a recent telegram from Honolulu, the Chinese government is going to resort to drastic measures in retaliation against our exclusion policy. It says that the government at Pekin will issue orders against the purchase of American goods and that the death penalty will be inflicted for a violation of the order. As a fur­ther mark of disapproval the govern­ment will require that all Americans who enter China be fumigated and they will be charged $5 a head for the process. At Canton the boycott against American manufacturers is al­ready being felt and in conformity with the retaliation campaign it is becoming more difficult for American investors to secure a foothold. Evi­dently the Chinese have their necks bowed and they are riot such dullards that they cannot see an opening to deliver some telling blows for our rigid exclusion laws. China is prov­ing a great field for American exploi­tation and our trade with the empire is growing by leaps and bounds. It remains to be seen what effect such barbarous methods of retaliation are going to have. It may be necessary to modify our exclusion laws to some extent.

A merchant of Boise, Idaho, while removing a bunch of bananas from a shipment received from Costa Rica, uncovered a young boa constrictor measuring four feet and seven inches in length. Several shipments of this kind would enable him to go into the shew business.

Governor Hanley, of Indiana, dur­ing the five months he has been in office has caused considerable change in the moral tone of the state. He has made it a rule that no man who drinks shall be appointed to office, and his appointees have extended the rule to those whom they, in turn, choose.

The old settlers over on the coast do not look with favor on the propo­sition to erect a monument to Chief Joseph. A soldier who fought him Bays he was no hero, but a cowardly murderer, and cites instances to prove his charge. No doubt there are graves Of white men in the sound country more deserving of monuments.

Some of the great trunk railroads are annihilating time with their swift­running trains. A mile in 35 seconds is going some. There is scarcely any doubt but a mile a minute will be the average time made by the leading railroads of the country in a few years, and this, too, without increas­ing the danger of accidents and loss of human lives.

Say! How much did Woutgomery Maid donate to the Fourth of July celebration this year? Do Rears, Soe- buck & Co. pay a special school tax in this district? Did Ciegel, Sooper & Co. sign the subscribtion list when Uncle Billy got liurt in the mine? Be­fore you send a money order for that cheap-john shirt or lawn-mower, just answer in your mind the above ques­tions and then ask yourself where you should buy your supplies. It’s not a question of cheapness, although actual figures will demonstrate that usually the home merchant sells and delivers his wares at prices that com­pare favorably with the mail order houses. And then the satisfaction of seeing and handling the goods before letting loose of the dough is worth something; and, too, what joy there is in giving the home merchant a personal, heart to heart roast when you imagine you have a kick coming. The sarcastic letter is a hollow mock­ery compared to this and the mail or­der house dosen't care a snap for it. They have got your money and you have the goods, whethei they are sat­isfactory or not. If our merchants sell the stuff you need, trade with them.—Belt Valley Times.

Notwithstanding the protest of King Oscar against the action of Norway in severing its union with Sweden, there is little likelihood of any change of sentiment or purpose on the part of the former for an Independent govern­ment. What the nature of that gov­ernment will be is yet to be determin­ed. Norway is not opposed to a king if he be of the right sort, but there are kings and kings. The Norwegians love King Oscar for his many noble attributes of mind and heart. He is an ideal ruler and far different from some of the Regenerates who have occupied the thrones of Europe. He has grandly maintained the prestige and high standing of the house of Bernadottes. He is a man of many personal charms, is a poet, painter, musician, linguist and orator. In fact he is of too much account to be a king. But Norway’s grievance along commercial and economical lines and her statesmen believe that the progress and best inierests of the people demand a separate government.

us without cost, and so did the Oregon country, comprising the present states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming. Through (conquest and the payment of $18,250,000 to Mexico we obtained the present states of California, Nevada, Utah, the territory of Arizona—ex­cept below the Gila river—and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyom­ing. For the region south of the Gila we paid $10,000,000 to Mexico. For Alaska we paid $7,200,000 to Russia. The gold alone which we got from Alaska in 1904, not counting the coal, fish, fur, lumber or other things, amounted to oyer $10,000,000. In its products Alaska has paid for itself thirty times over since we bought it.

The states and territories in the contiguous part of the United States, for which we paid $48,250,000, repre­sent a wealth in tangible property to­day of about $30,000,000,000. Uncle Sam has been by far the most exten­sive land speculator whom the world has seen, and he has likewise been the most successful. The Philippine deal will turn out to be a characteris­tically good investment in the finan­cial sense.—Leslie’s Weekly.

ANOTHER HERO GONE.In the death of Colonel William Col-

vill, at Minneapolis last week, anoth­er hero of the civil war has passed away at the age of 75. Col. Colvill had the distinction of leading the First Minnesota regiment in the famous charge at Gettysburg, in which Hon. Martin Maginnis of this state took conspicuous part. History does not record a greater feat of daring or one of greater moment to an army in a perilous position. On this eventful day the First Minnesota, with its ranks decimated by losses on other fields, stood lined up for any call that might be made upon them. There was a de­pression or vacant space vacated by General Sickles which the enemy was quick to observe and had commenced a flanking movement. Suddenly the peerless Hancock rode up, with a sin­gle aid, and called out: "What regi­ment is this?” “First Minnesota,” re­turned Colonel Colvill, who was at their head. “Charge those troops!” shouted Hancock, pointing at the on­coming confederates. Without a mo­ment's hesitation the Minnesota regi­ment, a handful of 262 men, charged the whole rebel army. The fire with which it was received was terrible, and inside of a few minutes 215 of their number lay dead or wounded on the field. Colonel Colvill and every field officer were among the injured or slain. The former was wounded in the shoulder and foot, being maimed for life. But the charge accomplished the purpose desired, the holding of the enemy in check until re-inforce- ments could be brought up.

The charge was not an accident of war or ill advised. Gen. Hancock, in a tribute to Col. Colvill and his regi­ment afterwards, said:

“There is no more gallant deed re corded in history. I ordered these men there because I saw I must gain five minutes’ time. Reinforcements were coming on the run. but I knew that before they could reach the threatened point the Confederates, un­less checked, would seize the position. I would have ordered that regiment in if I had known that every man would be killed. It had to be done, and I was glad to find such a gallant body of men as the First Minnesota at liand, willing to make the terrible sacrifice that the occasion demanded.”

Col. Colvill had left his home near Red Wing, Minnesota, the day before his death to attend a reunion of his regiment at Minneapolis, on the 13th inst. He went to the soliders’ home cheerful and happy in anticipation of the pleasures of the following day, when he would meet his old comrades and retell the story of that eventful day at Gettysburg. But it was not to be. His spirit had taken its flight during the night, death being due to heart failure. Many Were the tears of the grizzled veterans as they look­ed upon the peaceful face of their in­trepid leader, cold in death.

, ! The remains were interred by theone the policy of which, must, owing I We of those of his wlfe at Cannonî!..ü ”” C°mJ.iti0ns' be. at variance j FaUB Minne80ta, and Major Magin-

Norway s | njg was among those to pay eloquent tribute to his splendid courage as a soldier and his worth as a citizen.

with that of Sweden. In determination to sever the relations I she seems to lie supported by the I masses of both countries, which would indicate the folly of any attempt on the part of King Oscar to prevent the secession by a resort to force.

President Roosevelt is receiving the praise of the press and the potentates of all Europe in his successful efforts to get Russia and Japan to agree to peace proposals. It is one thing to get the beligerents together and quite an­other to have them agree upon terms. If the president is successful in the latter he will have accomplished something in the interest of peace and humanity that will add greatly to his fame as a doer of things.

Scarcely a day passes that the news is not brought of a frightful automo­bile accident somewhere in the United States. Last week a horseless vehic­le containing five persons plunged in­to the Chicago river at Rush street, ♦he drawbridge being open for the passage of a vessel. Two persons lost their lives in this accident. Strin­gent laws for regulating their speed should be passed in every state to the end that the public, as well as those who seek pleasure in the “red ; devils” may have some measure of' protection.

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UNCLE SAM’S PROFITABLE SPEC­ULATIONS.

In the Philippines, as in all its oth­er land deals, the United States made a good bargain. The census of the Philippines .just published, shows that the forests in the islands, in which there are 747 varieties of woods, are worth about $3,000,000,000, or double ; those of the states of Oregon and ' Washington, which are especially j strong in that particular asset. Then there are great deposits of coal iron and lead, and there are many indi­cations of gold and silver, all of which represent a wealth of several billions more. The Philippines cost us $20,- 000,000, in the lump sum which we paid to Spain. Possibly the military and naval expenditures on account of the islands cost us $400,000,000 or $500,000,000. But even it these figures were quadrupled we would still be gainers in that speculation, in a mon­el ary sense.

The Louisiana region, extending from the Mississippi to the Rocky mountains and the Sabine river, cost us $15,o0n,000, which we paid to France. We gave $5.0oo,o00 to Spain for Florida, which comprised not only I he present slate of that name, but t h e lower en-.ls of Alabama and Mis­s is s ipp i and most of the eastern pro- j jection of Louisiana. Texas came to

DUNNE’S BIG CONTRACT.In the Chicago election last spring

municipal ownership of the street rail­way lines was the dominant question Both parties favored the proposition but had different plans and ideas as to the best method of bringing it about. The Democrats, under the lead of Judge Dunne, took the radi

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cal view, and declared in favor of im- mediate ownership by buying out the operating companies. The Republi­cans did not advocate hasty action but favored taking up the matter grad­ually by getting possession of the traction lines as fast as their fran­chises expired. Judge Dunne won ov­er Mr. Harlan, his Republican oppo­nent for mayor, and soon after elec­tion commenced the plan to make his campaign promises good. Almost his first step was to secure the advice of Mr. James Dalrymple, of Glasgow, Scotland, who is authority on public utilities of this character. Mr. Dalrym­ple made a special visit to Chicago and spent several weeks studying the conditions in that city and the pros­pects of success in putting Mr. Dunne’s policy into effect. The Record-Her­ald, in a recent editorial, does not give a very encouraging account of how the Scotchman was impressed with the outlook, it says:

“Mr. James Dalrymple came, saw, made some common sense remarks and departed. Probably the common sense remarks were not altogether ac­ceptable to our immediate municipal ownership radicals, including the mayor, who telegraphed for him, but we are quite ready to agree that the man has justified his mission.

“It was a good thing to have him here for the exposition he gave of the way In which municipal business is conducted in his own city. Glascow has been proclaimed a failure by au­thorities like Mr. Yerkes and exalted to the skies by impulsive enthusiasts like the mayor. Correct estimates were difficult to arrive at amid the confusion of such a selfish and ill- informed controversy, and Mry Dal­rymple has supplanted guesswork with convictions. This he has been able to do because his conduct in a rather trying situation was such as to in­spire confidence. By as much as he was a disappointment as the central, or next to the central, figure in a grand stand play by so much did he commend himself to people of ration­al minds. Self-contained, energetic, businesslike and sincere, he exempli­fied a fine combination of traits that is not infrequent in the Scotch char­acter and compelled respect for his opinions. We have no doubt whatever that what he says of Glasgow Is true and that municipal operation of street railways under the Glasgow manage­ment is a genuine success.

“But he went straight to the differ­ences between Glasgow and Chicago and realized immediately all the doubts of conservative Americans about our preparedness for such ven­tures here. The political aspect of the question seemed fairly to, appal him, while the merit system, which is our chief means of protection against the spoils, did not strike him favorably. He intimated, as spoils politicians have done, that it was a hindrance to business methods, and he actually meant business, though business other than the spoils troubles them so little.

“Very significant also was his in­sistence on the fact that Glasgow was able to start in a clear field with no puzzling franchise complications, and certainly the lesson of his comment is that we should move slowly toward municipal operation and as rapidly as we may toward good government and a complete change from our partisan scheme of municipal politics. In oth­er words, it merely enforces the old moral with which we are so familiar. The political, reform is the condition precedent to the expansion of the city’s activities, and if Mayor Dunne is very much in earnest he may pos­sibly prepare the way for municipal operation by giving us an excellent administration.”

1905.

CHE rain of the last few weeks has

materially changed the condi­tions of Montana, and the pre­

sent outlook has never been more en­couraging. We have one of the strong­est lines of of Haying Machinery ever put on sale in Fergus County, consit- ing of the smallest article to the moat complete stacking outfits on the market. We have all sizes of Mowers and Bakes, both in Milwaukee and McCormick. We also have a full stock of Steel Track, Wood Track, and Cable Hay Carriers

with all the necessary appliances for same, including the cable. Oar line of Horae Forks consists of Single, Doable and Triple Harpoon, as well as Grapple and Jackson forks, which are two of the very best sold. We have made an es­pecial effort to study the requirements of the farmers of Central Montana for Hay Tools for this year., and believe our efforts have been awarded with suc­cess. A more complete line cannot be found, and we solicit your enquiries and orders for anything in the hay field. Come and see us and make your wants known.

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ABOUT THE LIBRARY.Are we to have the Carnegie library

building? This is now the momentous question before the people of Lew­istown. The status of the situation will be found in an interview with Frank E. Smith, who was instrumen­tal in securing an offer of $10,000 from Mr. Carnegie. The conditions of his gift are well known. The steel king furnishes the money for the building when our citizens have procured the site. The selection of a site has been made and with donations by the own ers there remains the sum of $1,600 to be raised by subscriptions or taxa­tion to secure a title to the property. How will it be done?

It goes without saying that every­body in Lewistown wants the library and would regret to see the oppor tunity pass by unimproved, and if the amount necessary to purchase the lots could be raised by taxation it would equalize the expense and prove no hardship to anyone

The business men of Lewistown are not lacking in public spirit and are noted for their generosity, but there are frequent and strong demands up-

them and they feel that in this matter, where the whole public is in­terested and the amount to be raised a considerable sum, all should share in raising the fund. It is too often the case that the burden of such an undertaking falls upon a very few.

However, as Mr. Smith says, there is some doubt about the power to raise the money by taxation, as there also is about Mr. Carnegie’s offer holding good a sufficient length to time to get the money in that way if posisble. A delay until next spring in commenc­ing work on the building would be immaterial if nothing was risked as regards Mr. Carnegie's offer. This could be determined by communicat­ing with him.

This matter has been dragging along some time and it would seem that if anything is to be done to secure the library building it should be done at once. That is, some definite plan of action determined upon. Certainly it would not be creditable to Lewistown to let Mr. Carnegie's generous offer go by default.

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WALCOTT IN MONTANA.

Director of United State. Geological Survev will Make Tour.

Helena. June 14.— D irector CharlesD. Walcott of the United S tates geo- _____logical survey arrived in Helena to- ; the projects yet, but expects to spend

ily will camp in that section for about a month and Mr. Walcott will make a tour of the state. He comes to Mon­tana authorized by the secretary of the interior to make an official in­spection of the irrigation projects un­der way in Montana under the provis­ions of the national reclamation act. He will not only inspect those for which contracts have been let or bids asked., but also those for which pre­l im in a r y surveys are now being made. Mr. Wolcott has not visited any of

day. Mr. Walcott is accompanied by ; a full month later in the work of his family and he will only be in Hel-, investigation and be able to make a ena a day or so. when he will go up ( complete report to the secretary of into the Flathead country. His fam- ; the interior.

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