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The Butte Inter Mountain
VOL. XXL NO. 64
Fair Tonight and Tomorrow.
BUTTE, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5. 1901.
Stationary
erature Thursday.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ELECTED PRESI
DENT OF THE WESTERN
IF
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED THANKING JAMES MAHER FOR HIS SER
VICES AS SECRETARY TREASURER—LABOR PARTY WILL
1 4 CUT SOME FIGURE IN POLITICS HEREAFTER..
* (By Associated Press.)
Denver, June 5.—The Western Labor
union yesterday elected officers as fol
lows:
President, Daniel McDonald, Butte,
Mont-; vice president, J. C. McLemore,
Lead, S. D.; secretary treasurer, Clar
ence Smith, Wallace, Idaho; executive
hoard, Roady Kenehan of Denver, F. J.
Polled of Butte, F. W. Walton, of
Wallace, Idaho, F. W. Cronin of Butte,
ROese Davis of Red Lodge, Mont.
It was decided to hold next year's
meeting In Denver, the date to be
agreed upon later.
The federation adopted by a nearly
unanimous vote the resolutions sent
over from the Western Labor union
convention in favor of organising a po
litical labor party. It was determined
that the federation should have an at
torney retained by the year, and his ap
pointment was left to the executive
board. , It was also decided that the
members of the executive board coula
act as an auditing committee and exam
ine whatever bills they liked.
The following resolutions were passed
commendatory to the secretary treas
urer, James Maher, of Butte, who has
done good service for the order for five
years past:
"Whereas, Brother James Maher, the
honored secretary-treasurer of the
Western Federation of Miners, Is com
pelled to lay down official position in
the federation because of his having
been elected treasurer of Silver Bov/
county, Montana and
"Whereas, Brother Maher has been a
faithful and honest secretary-treasurer
of the federation for the past five years,
being re-elected at each succeeding an
nual convention without opposition, and
that hts loss in thlB position will be re
gretted by all the members of the
federation; therefore, be It
"Resolved, By the ninth annual con
vention of the Western Feredation of
CHILD KILLERS
SOUTHERN COTTON FACTORIES
DEADLY AS JUGGERNAUT.
BABIES WORK IN THE MILLS.
*■^3, Listless Children in 'Place of the
Once Rosy-Cheeked Youths From the
Farms of the South—A Fearful Price
to Pay for Industrial Development—
Northern Capitalists Indicted.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 5.—Direct responsi
bility for the trouble existing In south
ern mills is charged by an English wo
man, who has been Investigating tin
subject for Samuel Gompers, to capital
ists and mill owpers In New York and
other northern cities. The woman is
Mrs. Irene A. Ashby, and she recently
visited Alabama and other southern
states on a tour of investigation. In
speaking of her experience before the
Social Reform club, she said:
"I found that in many mills In Ala
bama and Georgia one-half of the oper
atives were children, and In some cases
the percentage ran as low as. 6 or 7.
Their ages ranged from 5 to 12, and of
course beyond.
"The mill owners and proprietors said
in extenuation that they had taken thase
people from their little farms, where
they were living in conditions of the
utmost poverty, and brought them to
gether in communities and made out of
them an industrious people. But the
children I saw living bn the little farms
had bright cheeks and round limbs,
while those I saw in the mills were hag
gard and wan.
Tampered With the Laws.
"Having seen these conditions as they
exist today throughout the south, I went
to the capital of Alabama, and, with
others, tried to get bills through the
legislature prohibiting the employment
of children In these mills. We learned
that all had been cut and dried before
us. We had the bill introduced. In an
swer they put up the manager of a mill
entirely controlled by northern labor, a
mill that had moved to the south from
the heart of New England.
"There also was before the legislature
a northern man. In rebuttal he spoke
of the lace curtains in the windows of
his operatives, of their neat houses, but
never a word of child labor. The bill
was defeated. We learned later that it
Is the truth that the new south is de
pending upon the capital of the north
to bring about the Industrial develop
ment and boom that has been so long
Impending.
"In defeating the bill, they cried: 'Do
nothing that is going to hurt the indus
trial development of the south!* Tbs
north has said to the south: 'We wl'.l
bring our capital, but you must allow
us to take advantage of the labor move
ment as we find it. We must have your
child labor.' So the dividends are built
up out of the sacrificed lives of babies.
There are men living here who are
known in the north as philanthropists,
bnt who earn their Incomes through the
employment of babies in their southern
Miners that we express our sincere re
gret at thus being compelled to lose
the valuable services of Brother Maher.
But we heartily congratulate Brother
Maher on his elevation to such a public
trust and extend our best wishes for his
future success In private as well as
public character. And be it further
"Resolved, That we congratulate the
citizens of Silver Row county, Montana,
on securing such an honest, faithful and
upright man a a Brother Maher for coun
ty treasurer, as we feel confident that
he will prove his personal worth in his
new position as he has so well done as
an official of the Western Feredation
of Miners. (Signed)
JOHN ICELLEY,
V. ST. JOHN.
THOS. SULLIVAN,
H. REINHART,
JAS. LAYTON."
The resolutions will be engrossed.
daniel McDonald.
TIE UP ALL THE C OAL MINES.
British Miners Justified in Their Pro
test Against the Tax on
Coal Imports.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 6.—Secretary James
J. Low of the National Miners' Federa
tion of Great Britain, has arrived here
from Glasgow. He is on his way to
Scranton on business connected with the
federation and will return home io a few
days. In speaking of the export f jty of
a shilling a ton on British coal, he criti
cized the tax and said that the miners
would be perfectly Justified In taking
drastic steps even to a national Jermina
tion of mining operations. He continued:
"The workmen generally in various
districts show that they are strongly In
favor of taxing the mining royalties on
the tofal production of the country, say
200,000,0000 tons of coal produced year by
year. This really belongs to the nation
and if this were done at least four times
the maximum duty on the exported ton
nage would be obtained.
"As to the wage aspect of the case, the
men declare that the cutting of prices in
the foreign trade has in the past done
much to reduce the scale in the home
market and In this way the tax would
eventually have to be borne by the
workers. A decrease In the coal exports
—which have been swelling so In recent
times—would certainly also ensue and a
large augumentation would be made to
the labor ranks of the men thrown Idle
by the increased demand for the ship
ping varieties." '
NO EXPOR T OF A NTIQUITIES
Mexico Will Not Allow Foreigners to
Buy Curios and Belies of Her
Former Greatness.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 5.—The Mexican gov
ernment has declined to permit purchas
ed antiquities for the museum of natural
history in this city to be taken from the
country.
Marshall H. Saville, the assistant cura,
tor of the museum, dug many specimens
In Mexico and according to the museum's
contract with the government it was en
titled to a sample of each of the dupli
cate specimens. They were many other
antiquities which Mr. Saville purchased
and these were left at Mexico City,
pending the granting of permission
to take them out of the country.
Mr. Saville said when interviewed:
"Why, the Mexican government should
do this l am at a loss to understand. I
imagine the new minister has exceeded
his authority, for when I left I received
assurances that permission had been
granted .for the antiquities to be taken
out of the country and It is only our con
tract which allows to them to do It.
"There were no ideals among the col
lection, only pieces of pottery and stone.
Ot course I purchased many specimens
that I believed would be of value, and
It is these I understand that- are held. But
I do not think there will be any difficulty
in getting them to the museum. The
matter will be settled without much
trouble. I can do nothing as yet for I am
going back to Mexico in September and
the matter can real until I get on the
ground."
Booth la How a Maaon.
(By Associated Preaa)
New York, June 5.—Gen. Ballington
Booth, of the Volunteers of America,
has been Initiated Into the mysteries of
Masonry In the lodge at Montclair,
New Jsaaey.
Stallling Developements In the
Honolulu Bribery Investigation.
RESIGNATION OF JUDGE HUMPHREYS DEMANDED BY THE LAW
YERS—SENSATIONAL CHARGEE MADE—NEWSPAPER MEN CON
NECTED WITH THE AFFAIR—XT IS NOW A POIITICAL ROW
—EDITOR INDICTED FOR PERJURY.
(Correspondence of the Associated Press)
Honolulu, May 28, via San Francisco,;
June 5.-A strange stage of affairs re
plete with sensations that have deeply
sirred Honolulu has grown out of the
investigations of the grand jury sum
moned by Circuit JJudge Mumphreys to
investigate the charges of bribery in the
legislature.
Last Saturday three of the best known
lawyers of Honolulu—General A- S.
Hartwell, W. A. Kinney and S. M. Bal
lou—were sentenced to thirty days In. jail
for contempt of court by Judge Humph
reys, but before they reached the prison
all were released by pardon of Acting
Governor Henry E. Cooper.
The • sentences were on account of an
affidavit which the attorneys attempted
to .read and file in Humphrey's court to
show, on motion for a change of venue,
the judge's personal bias against Editor
Smith of the Advertiser, who was indict
ed by the grand jury for perjury. In the
storm raised by these proceedings, the
grand jury's investigations of the bri
bery charges have been lost, but the jury
is still in session and is believed to be
getting close to some bribery.
The affidavit which the introduction
was adjudged to be contempt was sworn
to by Smith and presented in court by
Hartwell, Kinney and Ballou. It pur
ported to relate facts showing the pe>
sonal relations of Smith and the judge
and told of the offer the latter made to
Smith of a position as editor of the
Honolulu Republican, in which Humph
reys is a stock holder, which Offer was
rejected. When the attorney reached a
statement that the defendannt's relation
with the Judge had enabled him to be
come acquainted with his "inordinate
ambition," and his "personal w-eak
nesses"the court interrupted the reading
and ordered the three attorneys who of
fered the document to answer for con
tempt.
After hearing their cases he ruled
that, the document had been filed for
the purpose of bringing into the case
extraneous matter, slanderous and false
and of a political nature with a view to
impending and obstructing justice and
bringing the court Into contempt and
he sentenced each of the attorneys to
thirty days In jail.
Hartwell was formerly representative
of the Hawaiian government at Wash
ington and is a veteran attorney of
Hawaii and others with him have long
been prominent in Island affairs and
the sentences created much excitement.
Acting Governor Cooper's pardon
reached the high sheriff before the at
torneys had been placed In Jail and they
were released. Cooper's act Is de
nounced on the one hand as executive
Interference with the judiciary and as
destructive of the power of the first cir
James G. Blaine Weds Martha Hichborn
MARTHA HICHBORN.
Washington, June 5.—Mias Martha
Hichborn, daughter of Rear Admiral
Hichborn, was married to James G.
Blaine, youngest son of the late Mala#
statesman, today at the residence of her
parents. A small gathering of Imme
diate relatives and friends witnessed
the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Blaine will
sail on Thursday for Europe, to be gone
three months. They will reside In New
York.
CHEERING NEWS FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE INVALID.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 5.—The brightest
bulletin issued by the attending physi
cians regarding Mrs. McKinley since her
return to Washington was given out to
day after their consultation- It reported
that her general condition was somewhat
improved but It was remarked that tt
held nothing definite of the future.
Mrs. McKinley has been unable as yet
to take solid food, although it has not
been neceseary to resort to heart stlmâ-i
lants like nltro glycerine since her rfc
turn to Washington. Brandy is ad min 1s
e
cuit court to enforce its processes and
on the other hand, it is warmly com
mended as releasing three highly re
spectable lawyers from it is claimed was
an unreasonable sentence.
Local sentiment runs high and the
affair is generally referred to as a po
litical row. The Star and the Adver
tiser bitterly assail Judge Humphreys
as a politician on the bench and de
nounce his sentence as having been the
result of personal vindictiveness while
the Bulletin and the Republican as
vigorously defend his course and attack
Cooper, declaring that his pardons
were for "members of the missionary
fing."
The Advertiser says that the grand
jury is packed for political ends and It
has published an affidavit signed by its
business manager. A. W. Pearson say
ing that Oscar Lewis, bailiff of Humph
reys court who is well known as a shop
ping master in many Pacific coast ports,
offered to "pack a trial jury for the
Smith perjury case in consideration of
being assisted to get a saloon license
for a water front saloon.
This publication was followed by
Humphreys calling for Lewis' resigna
tion as bailiff.
Tiie foundation for the reports of
bribery in the legislature has suddenly
been revealed by Jacob Cooper, a man
v.ho Wanted a railroad franchise and
who is the'client whose name L. A.
Thurston refused to reveal to the grand
jury. Thurston was under sentence for
'contempt for so refusing but the state
ment of his client released him.
He was not confined as the supreme
court had issued a writ of habeas corpus
ar.d had not decided the case. Cooper
swears that he was asked by three dif
ferent members of the house to pay
money for their efforts in behalf of his
bill to secure as a franchise for his rail
read. He has been before the grand jury
aie! it is stated has told the grand jury
the names of three representatives who
solicited the bribes, and a report of the
grand jury is awaited with much inter
est.
A petition was circulated in Honolulu
among lawyers today asking for the re
mnval of Judge Humphreys. It was cir
culated by L. A. Thurston and received
the signatui'es of most of the members
of the local bar. Tomorrow a meeting
cf the Hawaiian Bar Association will be
)\.a and a resolution against Humph
reys will be presented. It is expected
tnat there will be a lively discussion.
A strike of Japanese laborers on the
Oahu railway took place on the 25th. The
men were being paid $1.15 per day and
struck for $1.25.
About one hundred men walked out
but their places were quickly filled and
there was little trouble.
JAME8 G. BLAINE.
Miss Hichborn Is one of the society
leaders of Washington and has been
very popular in the army and navy set.
She is a beautiful and talented girl. Mr.
Blaine Is a lawyer, and is said to favor
his father in a genial and winning per
sonality, as well as in ability. He is a
member of a leading legal firm in New
York, having little Inclination towards
politics.
JWred. Raw egg and chicken broth are
now her food.
After the physicians had gone this
morning the president, accompanied by
Congressman Taylor of Ohio who repre
sents Mr. McKinley's home district in the
lower house, went out for a stroll.
Drs. Sternberg, Johnston and Rixey
were in consultation at the White House
about half an hour this forenoon after
which the following bulletin was given
out:
•Mrs. McKinley's physicians report
that she had a very comfortable night
>and that her general condition is some
what improved."
INDRF; GARIE9IE SAYS THE
UNliEO SMS WILL PfiO
TECT EUCLID.
MILLIONAIRE SAYS TIME IS COMING WHEN CONTINENTAL POW
ERS WILL COMBINE TO SMASH GREAT BRITAIN—WE
MUST STEF IN AND SAY "DON'T."
(By Associated Press.)
London, June 4.—"Mark my words,"
said Andrew Carnegie tonight to a rep
resentative of the Associated Press, "the
time is coming when the continental
powers will combine to smash up this
little island of Great Britain. When
that happens she will have to turn to the
United States for help. I feel certain it
will not be refused. The United States
will step and say 'Don't.' They will act
just as Great Britain In the Spanlsh
American war. What she did then was
great and It la not half realized yet."
, Mr. Carnegie gave utterance to these
sentiments In the Langhelm hotel, Lon
don, where iho had arrived from Scotland
for fKe chamber of commerce gathering.
Until tonight he had steadfastly refused
to be interviewd. Resuming the topic of
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
OUR MONU MENT T O VICTORIA
A Movement to Build an Appropriate
American Memorial to the
Good Queen.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 5. —There Is talk, says
the Tribune dispatch from London, about
an effort to raise money for a American
memorial to Queen Victoria along the
roadway of the Mall. A committee can
easily be formed of the delegates attend
ing the chamber of commerce dinner to
night which will manage the matter In a
most satisfactory way. They are in a
right mood for taking up the scheme and
making the weight of their millions felt
in bringing about good feeling between
American and England.
The reception tendered last night by
Mr. Choate to the delegates of th New
York chamber of commerce, drew a
crowd of celebrities to Carlton House
Terrace. Leaders of the bar, finance, di
plomacy and politics attended to do hon
or to the Americans. Lord Lnnsdowne,
the foreign secretary, as the chief rep
resentative of the British government,
J. Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie,
and Maitre Labor!, the distinguished
French advocate, were centres of admir
ing groups throughout the evening.
ALL CLAMO RING FO R FREEDOM.
American Muleteers Who Joined the
Boers, Got Captured, and Now
Are Prisoners of War.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 5.—Consul General
Stowe, at Capetown, is overwhelmed
with work growing out of the Be r war
and Is particularly beset by inquiries
from friends and relatives of Americans
who have drifted into the country and
became Involved in the war. Most of the
letters he receives relate to American
boys who went to Capetown as mule
teers and drifted in eieher the Boer or
British army. Many of these are now
piisoners of war. clamoring for freedom,
and nearly all are without money.
Mr. Stowe says:
"I want to assure friends thaf'the men
who are at the prison camps, (Simons
town, Durban, St. Helena and Ceylon),
are well cared for and actually fare, as
compared with the British soldier, much
better."
The consul finds further trouble in the
ptevalence of the plague, which retards
mails and closes railway lines.
ROOM FOR BOTH COUNTRIES
American and British Manufacturers
Need Not Go to War Over
Spheres of Influence.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 5.—A dispatch to the
Tribune says respecting th» delegates of
the New York chamber of commerce In
London, regarding their wealth. The fig
ures of the London papers add weight to
their disclaimers that there can be any
critical contest between the two countries
respecting the control of foreign mar
kets, and support the conclusion that as
there is room enough in Asia for Eng
land and Russia, so also Anglo-Saxon
energy does not require two worlds of
good feeling in consequence of the visit
of the American delegates and their sen
sible comments upon industrial rivalries.
On Their Way Home.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington. June 3.—The war depart-*
ment has been iqforamed that the
transport Thomas has arrived at Naga
saki on her way to San Francisco with
volunteer troops from the Philippines.
Anglo-American relations, Mr. Carne
gie said:
"I believe in the community of the
English-speaking races, by which I mean
that the Americans and British are now
closer than ever before. Could you get
a better Instance than the visit of the
delegates of the New York Chamber of
Commerce to Windsor last Saturday. I
suggested It and King Edward took up
the Idea thoroughly. It was a fitting
commencement of the new reign. I
know how deeply King Edward is inter
ested In the United States. I have
known this since the time, years ago
when I drove him on a locomotive in the
United States, which, by the wav, he did
not forget when we met under different
conditions."
"The idea that the visit of our dele
gats to Windsor can be In any way con
strued as King Edward's recognition of
American commercial superiority is all
nonsense. The king Is full of tact and
friendship for our country."
"Do you think," Mr. Carnegie was
asked, "that British enternrise can be
sufficiently stimulated to meet American
competition?"
"Oh, they can't compete with us," Mr.
Carnegie replied with a smile.
"Would you advise the British people
to place their faith in combinations?"
asked the interviewer.
"I'm out of business," responded Mr.
Carnegie, "and I know nothing about
combinations."
When questioned regarding his recent
gift to the universities of Scotland, he
said:
"Everything will be settled in every
way satisfactory to both parties. The
High school officials and myself arc still
having conferences to arrange matters."
When asked if he contemplated furth
er gifts, he replied in the negative, add
ing: "I Have quite enough on my hands
Tor the present. When this matter has
been settled there will be time enough
to think of something else."
FKLMIST ITIM
DULUTH WOMAN WAS FRIGHT
ENED TO DEATH.
NO REAL MALADY APPARENT.
But She Believed Their Predictions and
Died Within the Thirty Days They
Allowed Her to Live—Strange Case
in Which Superstition Made the Pre
dictions Come True.
(By Associated Press.)
Duluth, Minn., • June 5.—Mrs. C. J.
West, aged 34, wife of C. J. West of the
Duluth Iron and Metal company, while
in Chicago about six weeks ago, visited
a palmist with a party of friends, and
was startled to be Informed that she
had but 30 days to live. She laughed
the matter off and made light of the
prediction, but evidently it made con
siderable impression upon her.
After a visit of two weeks to Chicago,
Mrs. West, with her friends went to a
small town across the Indiana border,
where a party was given in her honor.
One of the ladies with whom Mrs. West
had been playing cards proposed to tell
her fortune. Again the fateful predic
tion was made that Mrs. West had but
two weeks more of life.
Two days later Mrs. West complained
of feeling 111, and returned to her home
in Duluth. Eminent physicians were
gathered In consultation, but despite
their best efforts she died last Thurs
day—the last day of the fateful two
weeks.
The doctors in attendance upon Mrs.
West say that the fortune telling un
doubtedly exerted an influence to pro
duce the woman's death.
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