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BUTTE, MONTANA, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 10. 1901.
Cloudy arrow.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MISER TO
INTERFERE
QUEEN WILHELMINA VISITS
WILLIAM TO PLEAD FOR
COUNTRYMEN.
Mrs. Botha Gone to Ask Kruger to
Make Any Terms Possible, But Do
It Quick—Stop the War and
Save ehe Brave But Futile
• Boers From Their Fate.
(By Associated Press.)
Berlin, June 10—The Kleine Journal to
day prints a dispatch from The Hague
saying that Queen Wilhelmina's recent
visit here was meant to obtain Emperor
William's assistance to end the Souch
African war, both the zweibund and the
drelbund being willing to do so through
The Hague arbitration court, and that
Emperor William consented and rhe
court began work thereon. The dispatch
has created a sensation here.
The Associated Press has just ob
tained the following statement from the
foreign office, which is authorized by
Count von Buelow, the imperial chan
cellor:
"Neither Great Britain, France or
Russia approached Germany to partici
pate in any action aiming at ending the
South African war. Germany has all
along distinguished between offering her
good offices and intervention. To render
her good offices would be possible if both
parties to the war required it, but it will
be remembered that Great Britain only
Joined The Hague conference on condi
tion that the Boer states were excluded.
There is no doubt that Mr. Kruger,
who is a serious statesman, came to Eu
rope to obtain the good offices of several
of the powers to end the war, but there
is no doubt that Great Britain does not
want their good offices. At least it is
true that since the South African war
began Great Britain has never
either in writing or verbally, confiden
tially or officially broached such an idea.
The Boer side has now formally asked
The Hague arbitration court to lend its
aid to end the war somehow, and that
the court has held a session regarding
the matter, but that, of course, is en
tirely different from any serious step.s
to end the war."
Word comes frqjn London that Mr9.
Botha starts Wednesday for The Hague,
where Mr. Kruger has been summoned
to attend a conference of the Boer
agents in Europe and the United States
to consider the report Mrs. Botha has
brought from her husband, in which he
advises Mr. Kruger, as the constitu
. tlonal head of the Transvaal, to sue for
peace and the best terms obtainable.
MODERN W OODMEN IN CAMP
National Convention at St. Paul—
Thousands of Uniformed Wood
cutters Pouring Into the City
(By Associated Press.)
St. Paul, June 10.—Delegates to the
head camp of Modern Woodmen of
America, which opens its session here
tomorrow, are pouring In on every
train.. Marching uniformed men filled
the streets early in the day and Camp
Northcott, where the uniform Wood
men are located, Is rapidly filling up.
Caucuses of 629 delegates representing
SI states to be held tonight will practi
cally settle in advance the election of
officers, except the board of'' auditors.
There will be no opposition to the re
election of head consul Northcott, nor
head, clerk Hawes. R. R. Smith, of
Missouri, is certain to be head banker.
President of thh boaTd of auditors, C.
N. Port, of Wisconsin, is the only one
reasonably sure of election and there is
a hot war between a dozen candidates
for the remaining places on the board.
AMERICAN STEEL FOR GREAT
RAILROAD ACROSS THE ANDES
Rush Orders for Engines, Cars, Rails
and Bridges—Tribute to American
Locomotives in India From One
Who Knows — England's
Unfair and Ridiculous
War on Our Products.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 10.—Shipments of
cal's, locomotives, rails and steel for
railroad bridges to Ecuador have com
menced* in enormous quantities. The
heavy orders are from the South
American railway which is being built
across the Andes from the port of Gua
yaquil to Quito, the capital, about 300
mités. As more than a hundred miles of
this road running through a new land
has now been put in active operation
and forty miles additional soon to be
opened, the railroad has placed rush or
ders with American manufacturers for
large amounts of steel rails, bridges and
cars.
The Carnegie plant has begun a ship
ment of 40,000 tons of steel rails. Two
sixty-five ton locomotives, equipped
with drivers for mountain grades, have
also been started.
The American Bridge Co. is under
contract to rush 20,000 tons of steel
bridge material. A car company has
begun shipments on a contract for *00
fiat, box and stock cars, and a Wilming
ton firm is building passenger coaches,
parlor oars and a directors car for the
Mr Qhartea wann,
of the
GHARLEY CLARK KNOCKS THAT $1,000,000
CHECK DREAM HIGHER
THAN A KITE.
He Swings His Little Mal
let and Comes Down
With a Bang on the
Rumor That Mabel
Foster Is Going to
Get a Windfall, and
He Says He Knows
What He Is Talking
About, Too.
CHARLES W. CLARK.
The Young Man Also
Brands the Gossip
About a Contest for
the Senator's Seat as
"Hot Air" — Story
Comes From Persons
Who Are Inspired
— Just a Sensational
Exaggeration.
Charles W. Clark returned from the
east last night in Iconoclastic mood. He
took his little mallet out this morning
and lcnocTTed two stories which have
been in circulation since his departure
into the middle of next week and seri
ously impaired the usefulness of a third.
He wasn't angry, but he was earnest;
he meant business, and he wanted it
known.
"How about that story to the effect
thaï my father intends to make Miss
Foster a wedding gift of a million dol
lars, eh?" he queried. "Weil, there's
nothing to it. As to whether there will
be a gift or not, I don't care - to speakT
that's a private matter—but I know'
what I am talking about when I say the
million dollar gift story is a fake."
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X THE DEATH OF %
X SIR WALTER BESANT. %
X X
X (By Associated Press.) X
X London, June 10.—Sir William X
X Walter Besant, the novelist, died X
X yesterday at his residence at X
X Hampstead after a fortnight's X
5* sickness from Influenza. He was X
X born in 1836. Besant was to have X
X attended the Atlantic Union din- X
X ner to-night and propose the ,X
X toast to "English Speaking Com- X
X munitles." • X
X X
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Good Job for a Son-in-law.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 10.—The vacancies
on the staff of Lieutenant General
Miles, commander of the army caused
by the death of Lieutenant Francis L.
Michier and the transfer to the in
spector general's department of Lieu
tenant Colonel H. K. Bailey, have been
filled by the assignment of Lieutenant
Colonel Samuel Reber to duty as mili
tary secretary and the assignment of
Lieutenant Colonel M. Maus to duty as
aide de camp. Colonel Reber is General
Miles' son-in-law.
Kruger at Highliversom.
(By Associated Press-)
The Hague, June 10.—Mr. Kruger and
Dr. Leyds arrived here today. They
drove from the railroad station at
Highliversom junction in a closed car
riage and are staying at the residence
of Mr. Wolmarans, one of the Boer
peace envoys.
Stern Shot Himself.
iBy Associated Press.)
Hamburg, Bavaria, June 10.—Louis
Stefn, the commercial agent here of the
United States, shot himself today in the
pubic gardens near town.
Grand Trunk Railway company of
Canada, who was controller general of
the national debt office of Great Britain
from 1879 until 1894 and finance minister
to Egypt from 1877 to 1879, Is in this city,
having just completed his annual in
spection of the Grand Trunk railway
system In Canada and in the United
States. In an interview with a reporter
regarding American and British loco
motives in India and elsewhere, Sir
Charles said:
"Yes, I have read the strictures of Sir
Alfred Hickman on the contracts by
Indian railway companies with Ameri
can firms. I have read also the state
ments of Lord George Hamilton, secre
tary of state of India, in reply. My
opinion is that Sir Alfred Hickman wffl
be informed that tile British government
placed the contracts for locomotives
for .American firms, because it believed
them to be the best. That's all."
A dispatch to the Tribune from Lon
don says:
The Mall continues its campaign
against American engines, and has been
making inquiries of various railway
engineers at home and abroad, for some
endorsements of the statements by the
chairman and superintendent of the
Midland railway regarding the alleged
unsatisfactory working of locomotives
built In the United States. Any favor
able comments have been suppressed
and this morning the statement of a
French engineer ts given to the effect
that American engines are too costly
and not adapted to Fraaok grade*.
"NEITHER DID I MAKE BIG MONEY PLAYING THE RACES IN NEW
YORK, AND I CANT UNDERSTAND HOW THESE YARNS ORIGIN
ATE," HE DECLARES, AND MR. CLARK KNOCKED THESE
STORIES INTO A COCKED HAT.
"So they say I've been making big
east, do they?" Here Mr. Clark paused
and smiled before he answered his own
question.
"Well, I can't understand how these
yarns originate. If a man makes one
winning the public is immediately led to
believe that he is wagering sums that
would startle a Croesus. I have made
no big winnings while east, nor have I
at Any time, while on the trip, lost an
The Tight to Prevent the
Consolidation of Butte's
Big Copper Mines
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X (Special to Inter. Mountain.) X
X Boston, June 10.—Clarence H. Venner, who has brought suit X
X against the Amalgamated Copper 1 company, temporarily enjoining X
X the proposed. absorption of the .Butte & Boston and Boston & X
X • Montana companies, gives the reasons for bringing the litigation: X
X "We have, as owners of Boston & Montana stock, deposited with X
> Kidder, Peabody & Co., brought suit in the supreme court of Massa- X
X chusetts against that firm, and the Amalgamated Copper company \
X to enjoin the sale and transfer of Boston & Montana and Butte & X
X Boston mining stocks to the Amalgamated company, under the plan X
X proposed i the supplemental circulars issued by Kidder, Peabody & X
X Co. under date of May 27. X
X "We claim, among other things, that the plan of May 27 is a de- X
X parture from, and in violation of, the depositing agreement of April X
X 15; that said depositing agreement cannot be changed without our X
X consent; that Kidder, Peabody & Co. are our agents and trustees, X
X and are in duty bound to protect our interests. X
X "That they have undertaken to act as agents and trustees for X
X- the Butte & Boston stockholders, and also as agents of the Anialga- X
X mated company is inconsistent, incompatible and in conflict with X
X their duties and obligations as agents and trustees for the Montana X
X depositing stockholders. X
X "That a proposition to saddle ..the 200.000 shares of Butte & Boston X
X stock on the Amalgamated company in exchange for 200,000 shares of X
X Amalgamated company stock of a present value of $22,400,000 is con- X
X trav to eauity and good concience, and an injury to the Montana X
X stockholders whose shares are in tlhe keeping of Kiddr, Peabody & Co., X
X and will depreciate the shares of the Amalgamated company, which the X
X Montana depositing stockholders expect to become owners of it they X
X elect to take Amalgamated shares in exchange for Montana shares. X
X "The Butte & Boston property J3 not worth exceeding $2,500,000 and X
X is subject to a bonded debt of about $2,000,000. X
X "According to the sworn statements of the officers of the Butte X
X & Boston the entire value of the Butte property does not exceed about X
X $4,000,000 and a large majority of the sharea of the Butte & Boston is X
X owned by the directors of the Aljîalgamated company. X
X "If the scheme to make the Amalgamated company pay in Amalga- X
X mated shares the value of $22AUMA0 for the Butte property is carried X
X out. certain officers and directors^ of the Amalgamated company will X
X make large gains and profits at Abe expense of the Montana share- X
X holders who expect to become Apal ramated shareholders. Kidder, X
X Peabody & Co. have not disclosed, and upon proper application have X
X refused to disclose, the exact terms of the offer which they have made X
X on behalf of Montana stockholders to the Amalgamated Copper coin- X
X pany and while acting as our ggents and trustees Kidder, Peabody X
X & Co. will receive a large unreasonable and unlawful compensation X
5* from the Amalgamated Conner company.'* X
X In another interview, Mr. Venncr says: X
X "I am no man's dummy In this car« and stand in my own shoes X
X as a stockholder of the Boston ft Montana company, who believes X
X his rights are being prejudiced. .1 represent nobody but myself. X
X "What I objected to particularly was the attempt to saddle upon X
X the stockholders of the Boston & Montana company, in their new X
X capacity as stockholders of the Amalgamated company, the Butte & X
X Boston company at an enormous pft< • solely in the interest of a co'.erie X
X of men who alone would benefit by U." X
X In the suit brought to restrain the consolidation the plaintiffs X
X claim that they are the owners of to shares of Boston & Montana X
X stock and that if the consolidation is carried out the value of this X
X stock will be seriously impaired, They claim that the offer to ex- X
X change Amalgamated stock on tb* stockholders of the Butte & Bos- X
X ton stock is grossly unfair to the -. ockholders of the Boston & Mon- X
X tana company. Under the terms of the circular, in the neighborhood X
X of $24,000,000 is to be paid- fOr the stock of a company which the X
X plaintiffs claim is not worth any more than $2,500,000. X
X The directors of the Amalgamai«*! company, the bill states, own X
X 100,000 shares at least of the stock of the Butte ft Boston company X
X acquired at an average price <of |15 per share, and they are seeking to X
V» get a large return for the money Invested at the expense of the Bos- X
X ton ft Montana stockholders. X
X It is claimed, also, that the Butte & Boston company has a bond- X
X ed indebtedness of $1,500,000 and a floating debt of $500,000. X
X Reference is also made to a report that the company was sold X
X under foreclosure February 1, 1897, for $1,000,000. X
SC The court Is asked to restrain Kid 1er, Peabody ft Co. from deliver- X
X ing the shares of the stock o4 the Boston ft Montana company de- X
X posited with them to the Amrigamated company. Judge Knowlton, X
X of the supreme court, Issued an ord. r of notice, returnable Tuesday X
X when the defendants will be asked to show cause why a temporary X
X Injunction should not be grant eÄ. X
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appreciable amount. In fact, I have
ployed the races very little while in the
east.''
la reply to a question as to whether
the talk about congesting Senator
Clark's seat has a foundation in fact,
his son replied that he thought there
was little reason to believe a contest will
fivult. He is confident that the story
Is being circulated, by persons ad
dicted to sensationalism and exaggera
tion. He expressed himself as confident
that if there is a contest to his father's
seat it will not amount to anything.
Mr. Clark has been on a tour of the
east for several months. He was accom
panied hy Mrs. Cai'k. They both return
to Butte much improved in genera)
health.
Mr. Clark will take up his father's po
litical affairs and in case there is a con
test for the Senator's seat the son is
sure to take an Important part in the
fight.
Senator Cark is expected to arrive in
Butte Saturday evening to attend the
wedding of W. A. Jr., and Miss Mable
Foster, which is set for June 19. The
marriage license was issued to-day.
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X BLACKLIST OF X
X EMPLOYES LEGAL. X
X X
X (By Associated Press.) X
X Chicago, June 10.—Judge Water- X
X man sitting in the circuit court X
X announced a decision that the X
X blacklisting of a number of gills X
X by stockyards firms was legal. X
X Several hundred of the girls X
X struck last February, and the X
X firms, affected refused to take X
X them back. The case will be ap- X
X pealed at once. Jg
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Duel to the Death.
(By Associated Press.)
Newport, Ohio, June 10.—James Ham
ilton, desiring to obtain proof against
his wife in a divorce proceeding, took a
witness and watched her house Satur
day night two miles north of this place.
At 2 a. m. he saw Robert Are y appear
at a, rear door of the house. An en
counter followed. Hamilton was shot
and killed and Arey then shot himself
and died last night.
(By Associated Press.)
London, June 10.—Lord Kitchener, in
a dispatch from Pretoria under today's
date, says the number of Boers killed,
imprisoned or surrendered during the
last month totals 2.670. From June 1 to
June 9 twenty-six Boers weree killed,
four a week Were wounded, 49 were
made prisoners and 33 surrender and 651
rifles. 115,550 rounds of ammunition, 120
wagons and 4.000 horses were captured.
Not Fitzhugh Lee.
Manila, June 10: 6:15—The officer nam
ed Lee who was killed, not wounded, In
the recent battle with the insurgents at
Lipa, province of Batangas, was Lieuten
ant Lee of the Engineers, not Lieutenant
Fitzhugh Lee Jr., as previously cabled,
withdraw for a year.'*
EUROPE
Fear United Sta-tes Commercial Supre
macy in the South and Combine to
Break Up the Pan-American
Congress This Year—May
Succeed in Making
Serious Trouble.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 10.—Keen American
observers of foreign diplomacy and com
merce put an entirely new construction
upon the struggle between South
American republics which threatens to
wreck the approaching Pan-American
Congress to be held in the City of
Mexico.
They say that behind the dispute be
tween Peru and Bolivia, on one hand,
and Chili on the other, over the arbitra
tion of the Tacna and Arica disputes,
are the machinations of European
diplomats and European business inter
ests. Europe does not want the Pan
American Congress to be a success.
While the United States Is engaged in
an effort to capture the markets of
Europe, all Europe is busy in a race for
the markets of South America. Europe
is increasing its export trade with Ven
ezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chill.
Anything that brings close unification
between the United States and the Cen
tral and South American countries is
bound to lead to closer trade relations.
An American who Is closely in touch
with the purpose and scope of the Pan
America Congress says that European
influences have been busy trying to in
4 :
FEARED HE
KNEW THAT DEATH AWAITED
HIM IN FATAL MARRIAGE TO
LULU PRINCE.
Mrs. Kennedy Able to Come Into Court
Today After Her Hysterical Out
break of Saturday—Prosecution
Making but a Strong Case
Against the Prisoner.
(By Associated Press.)
Kansas City, June 10.—Lulu Princa
Kennedy had recovered sufficiently from
her breakdown of Saturday to sit in court
this morning and her trial for the mur
der of Phillip II. Kennedy was resumed.
The prisoner was pale and appeared en
tirely worn out.
It was only with great effort that sha
kept her eyes open, suffering apparent
ly from the extreme weakness or the ef
fects of sedatives given to produce sleep.
Attorney Neaiing for the defense ex
pressed the 'ear that she would not ba
able to continue the strain for any length
of time.
The first witness produced today by the
state were examined in an effort to prove
that the conspiracy to kill Kennedy was
hatched and carried out by the woman's
father, two brothers and herself.
Jack Caldwell testified to a conversa
tion with Will Prince on the day follow
ing his sister's marriage at the court
house to Kennedy, at which ceremony
Will Prince and his father were present.
Will had related the scene at the court
house to witness and toid of Kennedy's
saying, when friends congratulated him:
"I will not be a live man three weeks
from today." Prince had retorted: "Will,
you have prolonged your life by this
marriage.
Prince had also admitted to witness
that the marriage had been forced upon
Kennedy. Then, later, when Prince and
his father had called at Kennedy's office
and tiled to collect $40 for Mrs. Ken
nedy's board. Will Prince related to the
witness, Kennedy had run out of the of
fice. He practically admitted that he
and his father were armed at the time
and that Kennedy was "under the
shadow of a gun." Kennedy had been
married but a month when he was killed.
Saturday it was adduced Bert Prince had
forecasted the murder.
A newspaper reporter told of Mrs.
Kennedy, and her brother Will come to
his office after the marriage. Mrs. Ken
nedy wanted Kennedy "roasted" in the
paper, and Will had said that the mar
riage was forced to prevent Kennedy
marrying another woman.
E. .1. Curtis testified to a conversation
with C. W. Prince, the father, after the
marriage. Prince had said:
"I was not going to let this man jilt
my daughter. If things don't go right,
you will nave r. good deal more sensa
tional things to write about."
Prince had mistaken Curtis for a re
porter.
Tlie witness testified to seeing Mrs.
Kennedy and Will Prince going in the
direction of Kennedy's office on tha
afternoon of the murder.
Elizabeth Jackman told of the two
boarding a car for down town, and of
Will Prince requesting his sis! I to do
something. Witness did not catch Will's
words but heard her answer: "All light;
I will."
It is the theory of the state that
Prince furnished the prisoner the re
volver with which she killed Kennedy,
ami accompanied her to near the scene
of the killing, nerving her to the point
of committing the crime.
Jure the republics to hold aiuof fruen the
congress.
Tlie Idea put forth by foreign agents
has permeated all South America that
the United States seek to control the
politics ofthe various countries, and is
holding the Pan-American exposition
and projecting the Pan-American con
gress for the purpose of making South
America appear as the tail to the North
American kite.
Tlie statement has also been made to
tlfe war and state departments that in
much the same way have the difficulties
of the United Suites been increased in
Cuba.
A gentleman who has spent much time
In Havana says that foreign consul*
there are in much closer touch with ln
liuential elements in the constitutional
convention that the Americans, and
have been very successful in sowing sus
picion and discord. The PRn-Americ.atl
exposition in Buffalo is a direct menace
to the trade of European countries. It
threatens foreign trade and if it were
followed by a Pan-American congress
which would establish arbitration, then
the United States would be in a position
to restore her failing trade In South
America.
Duke Is at Auckland. •
CM y Associated Press.)
Auckland. N. June 10.—The British
steamer Ophir, v. ith the duke and duch
ess of Cornwall and York ou board, ar
lived here at nom tolay.