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BUTTE, MONTANA, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 14. 1901.
Amalgamated Company Scores Brilliant Victory Over An
Injunction
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 14.—Vice Chancellor Stevens, sitting In New York to-day, denied the application for an injunction
to restrain the Amalgamated Copper Mining company from purchasing the Butte & Boston and Boston & Montana
companies* He also required the plaintiffs in the action to file a bond of $20,000 on appeal. „
As the case now stands the Amalgamated is free to carry out its plan of consolidation. So far, no application
for an appeal has been made, though it may be done later.
The case was well fought in the court, but the chancellor believed that the law was on the side of the company,
and rendered his decision accordingly.
Mr. Llndabury, counsel for the defendants, claimed that the company had already lost $5,000,000 from delay in the
case, the properties which it was proposed to buy having increased in value to that amount, through speculative inter
est. The plaintiffs made the plea that the interests of the minority stockholders were being jeopardized by the pro
posed action in taking over the new properties. Their side of the case was well presented.
REBEL CAILLES READY TO GIVE
UP HIS GUNS AND TRY TO BE GOOD
Will Surrender the Last of His Force
in Three Days—Many Captives at
Lipa, Batangas Province—De
serters Do Deadly Work
in a Battle With the
Americans.
(By Associated Press.)
Manila, June 14.— Caille, the insur
gent leader in Lagun province, has be
come more humble and now intimates
his wltllngness to surtender a hundred
guns to General Sumner tomorrow at
Santa Cruz, and to give up the re
mainder in three days.
Colonel Rolonas, with five officers and
GOVERNMENT UPHOLDS
LCOMIS IN ALL HIS ACTS
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the effect that Charge d'Affaires X
W. W. Russell, of the American X
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notify the Venezuelan govern- X
merit that the United States had X
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Minister X
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the various questions pending X
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what is claimed to be an authori- X
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been discovered that he deviated
from them in a single instance.
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carefully reviewed and examined,
the most complete satisfaction
was expressed as to his course.
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Five Men Convicted of a Murder Com
mitted by an Organized Gang of
Blacks Known as the "Knights
of Archer" Are Dropped to
Eternity at Sylvania,
Georgia.
(By Associated Press.)
Sylvania, Ga., June 14.—Arnold
Augustus, Andrew Davis, Richard
Sanders, William Hudson and Samuel
Baldwin, negroes, were executed in the
yard of the county jail of Scriven coun
ty today.
The drop fell at 12:20. The necks of
four were broken by the fall. The fifth
flied of strangulation. The negroes bore
well up. They sang at. the jail and after
wards marched between a squ /i of sol
diers to the scaffold.
Here they made a short talk and re
ceived spiritual consolation. They t'hen
drank lemonade furnished by the
sheriff and thanked him for his kind
ness to them.
None of the negroes said he was inno
cent of the - crime for which the men
met death.
Thèse five negroes were convicted of a
murder committed under an alleged
criminal conspiracy by an organized
band of blacks known as "Knights of
the Archer," the motto of the organiza
tion, it is said, being "Death to the
Whites."
The murder for which the men died
was but the culmination of a long series
of crimes. It is common report that the
charter of this oathbound organization
was signed in blood, and the leader, An
drew McKinney, assembled his band
only at night, when he swore them with
solemn rites to secrecy and deeds of
death and robbery.
On a night in October, 1889, Milton
Mears, a constable of Screven county:
Fllmore Herrington and Capt. Jesse
Wade started out from Sylvania to serve
a warrant for the arrest of Joe Sunders,
a young negro, wanted for a trivial of
fense.
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the cruiser Wiljas and other vessels. The flames
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also destroyed several military warehouses filled
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41 rifles, has surrendered at Lipa, Ba
tangas province.
The recent battle with the insurgents
at Lipa in which Lieutenant Springer
was killed and Captain Wilhelm and
Lieutenant Lee was mortally wounded,
was begun by the Americans. The dis
proportionate number of officers hit is
said to be chargeable to the fact that
there were several deserters from the
Americans with the rebels, and they
chose the officers as their targets.
The island of Panay is being ravaged
by rinderpest and so great is the havoc
caused by the disease that the natives
are hauling carts to Iloilo.
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IN THE WEST
BADEN FIDE
Flames Destroy the Mineral Springs
Inn at West Baden, Ind., Causing
a Loss of Half* a Million Dollars
—Patrons of the Place Are
Forced to Flee in Haste
From the Approach
ing Blaze.
West Bader., Ind., June 14.—The Min
eral Springs hotel was destroyed by fire
early today.
The Are broke out at 1 a. m. in the
bake shop. It burned rapidly, and be
fore 3 o'clock the large frame building
had been consumed. The loss is $500,000,
insurance, $100,000.
Two hundred and twenty-five guests
were registered at the hotel last night.
All of them escaped uninjured. Most of
them lost their effects. The guests were
transferred to French Lick, and nearly
all left for their homes on the morning
trains.
Tracy Griffin, Colored, Is Legally Exe
cuted at Brunswick, Ga., for Hav
ing Killed a Passenger Train
Conductor Who Was Try
ing to Shield Him
From Danger.
No sooner had they reached his house
than a fusilade came from the cracks
between the logs of the cabin and from
a thicket of dwarf trees close by, and
the three men fell desperately wounded.
Captain Wade managed to crawl to his
buggy and make his way to Sylvania,
where he told of the shooting. Herring
ton and Mears were literally shot to
pieces. The murderers escaped, but one
after another five were arrested and
placed in Jail here. These were the men
who met death today.
Brunswick, Ga., June 14.—Tracey Grif
fin, colored, was hanged here today for
the murder in October last of R. Martin
Lattimer, a passenger conductor on the
Southern railway. The conductor was
killed for ordering the negro to come in
side tthe car from the platform while the
train was in motion.
NEW YORK CLEAR ING HOUSE
Handles a Larger Volume of Cash Dur
ing May Than the London
Branch.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 14.—The chamber of
commerce has made public its 43rd an
nual report. Much attention was given
to the question of state and municipal
taxation. The report shows the trans
actions of the New York clearing house
during the last few months and says:
"For the last three years the exchanges
of the New York clearing house were
very much in excess of those ®f the
London clearing house. The exchanges
at the London house for the last month
were $43,546,000,000; at the New York
kcuse they were $52,634,201,857."
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WOODMEN WILL CAMP
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
(By Associated Press.)
St. Paul, Minn., June 14.—The next convention
of Modern Woodmen of America goes to Indian
apolis, Ind., In 1903. A resolution was adopted
by the head camp of the Modern Woodmen of
America empowering the executive council to
place the place of the next meeting, if acceptable
railroad rates cannot be secured to Indianapolis.
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FORGED INTER MOUNTAIN CONTEST COU
PONS HAS LANDED ONE
MAN IN JAIL.
The Rivalry for those trips to the
Buffalo Exposition Grows so
Keen that "Crooks" Turn
Ambitions into Dollars
D. K. Walton was arrested this fore
noon by Chief of Police James Reynoidi
anci placed in the city jail, charged witS
selling forged coupons made in imitation
of the coupons used in the voting con
test conducted by the Inter Mountain.
Yesterday notice was given in the.
paper that forged coupons had been dis
covered in the counting room of this
paper as the coupons were being count
ed. Suspicion was directed toward Wa>
ton by a message sent from the Ana
conda office of the Inter Mountain, and
a close watch was kept upon him until
this forenoon, when, he attempted to
dispose of a.number of the forged cou
pons. He was .thrown in jail, and his
rA o"n '•* the Southern hotel searched by
the officers, who discovered sufficient
evidence of his guilt to. implicate, the
prime movers in the. scheme of forgery.
In Wallen's room were found several,
buregu drawers filled with scraps of
paper which had been Jeft after he had
clipped the coupons.
When Walton was taken to jail lie
broke down completely and confessed
everything, saying he had been made the
instrument of the men who .forged the
coupons and he directed the officers to
the place where the work had been done.
He named the printing establishment on
West Broadway, formerly known as the
Heilbronner printing plant, now conduct
pie's Publishing company, as the place
where the faked coupons had been made
and said the engravers in charge of 'the
establishment had prepared the plates
from which the fakes had been printed
He said he had known the men In
charge of the place for the past month
and had been a frequent caller there and
he had taken the precaution to have the
D. K. WALTON.
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Organized Labor to Ask l/orms Along Economic and
Soci Lines.
(Special to Into" Mountain.) '» •.
An anti-compulsory insurance law.
An effective mechanics' lien law.
Compulsory license law for barbers, plumbers, stationary engineer and skilled crafts.
The initiative and referendum.
Denver, June 14.—The above are the measures which President Carman say organized labor will ask the
fourteenth general assembly to enact into laws for the benefit of the laboring people of Colorado.
"Organized labor has had a great year," said President H. E. Carman, "and next year will be greater."
President Carman will devote his entire time to organization of locals affiliated with the State Federation.
He has Just returned from the State Federation convention at Leadville, which was largely attended, and took
up rame important matters in regard to labor. On Monday Mr. Carman will go to Pueblo to meet the mine workers of
district 15 in their annual convention. The district comprises Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.
fake coupons sent out to him by a boy
when He bought and paid for them. He
admitted all that the officers charged him
with and in his nervous anxiety to free
himself from the toiis of the law he
wove a net about himself and the men
who had conceived the flimsy scheme of
crime until sufficient evidence was ob
tained to make out a faultless case
against the entire gang.
As soon as Walton had finished his
confession to the officers a search war
iant was secured in Judge Arnold's court
end the Chief of Police entered the print
ing establishment on West Broadway
conducted by Brouse with the intention
of searching the place. The proprietor
admitted that he had prepared the plates
and coupons as charged by Walton. He
said he was perfectly willing to give up
ihe plates and turned these incriminat
mg evidences over to the officer. Brouse
made no bones about his connection with
the affair and gave the officer no trouble
m locating the evidence he was search
mg for.
!*- He resisted when told that every plate
i- e had used in the process of faking the
coupons would be taken away, and of
fered to destroy a portion of those he
had on hand. Chief Reynolds had d.f
f* rent views upon the matter, however,
and picked up the little blocks of wool
and metal which had been used in the
printing and walked out of the place on
his way to the office of the county at
torney.
Warrants were issued at 3 o'clock this
afternoon charging D. K. Walton and
Arthur Brouse with the crime of forgery.
Both city and county did quick work
in the case and the case against the men
is as plain as has ever been brought
into the courts of Silver Bow county.
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NO MORE BULLETINS OF
MBS. McXINLEY'S CONDITION.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 14. — Mrs. McKinley's
physicians held their usual consultation this
f»r -noon and decided to discontinue to issue
bulletins. It is said her condition continues to
Improve, and the doctors consider it useless to
give out a bulletin each day.
Should her condition grow worse, the bulletins
will be resumed.
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BUTTE MAN FINDS LONG LOST SISTER
WHILE ATTENDING BIG CONVENTION
Charles Wilson, After a Separation of
Fifteen Long Years from a Dear
Relative, Locates Her in Minne
apolis, Minn., Where He Goes
to Attend the Convention of
the Modern Woodmen.
After a separation of fifteen years, dur
ing which time each mourned the other
asffl dead, Charles Wilson, of this city,
and his sister, Mrs. H. Allen of Min
neapolis.
Mr. Wilson is connected with the
Schatzlain Paint company of this city,
and went to St. Paul to attend the con
vention of the Modern Woodmen, of
which order he is a member.
Fifteen years ago Mr. Wilson enlisted
'n the regular army, from Minnesota. His
n 1 v near and dear relative was a young
-•isier w hom he left in charge of friends
f she famdy.
The fortunes of war took him to dis
tant parts, and after awhile letters,
which he had been accustomed to receive
from his sister, ceased coming, and as his
letters remained unanswered, he began
to fear for the worst.
After remaining in the regular army
for a number of years he was honoraably
discharged, and when the Spanish war
broke.out agaain he again enlisted and
found himself in active service.
Upon returning to the states he settled
in Montana and set inquiries on foot with
the hope of finding his s;ister whom he
had not seen for fourteen years.
He sent photograaphs and descriptions
of her. to different parts of the country,
the only trace of her being found at
KKansas CCity, where she lived a few
years ago, and finally he gave up the
quest, believing she was dead.
Upon arriving in St. Paul, the first of
the week, Mr. Wilson met an old friend
of the family, and in exchanging notes,
he told the latter of his long search for
his sfflisfflter, and of his great grief at
being unable to find her.
Imagine his astonishment and delight
when his friend told him that his sister
was a resident of Minneapolis, and that
he had seen her on one of the streets of
1AT STATESMEN THINK OF THE
The Turbulent Islanders Have Accept
ed the Inevitable, and Now Can
Work Their Own Political Sal
vation—Annexation Finds
Little Fa vor in the Eyes
of the Best Inform
ed Americans.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 14.—The Washington
correspondent of the Times has inter
viewed members of the senate and house
upon the future of Cuba by the adop
tion of the Platt amendment by the con
stitutional convention with the follow
ing results:
Representative Hepburn of Iowa ex
pressed gratification at the action of the
Cuban convention, but he has grave
doubts about the success of the people
in undertaking to govern themselves.
"I should like to see every political tie
between the United Stales and Cuba
severed," he said, "but 1 realize that we
will be obliged to exercise some sort of
supervision over the island. In my
opinion, the Cubans are not capable of
self government and my prediction is
that in 12 months the Cubans will be
at each others throats. Then, perhaps
we will be forced to intervene.
"I should regard it as a great misfor
tune If the United gtates should ever
annex the island with its turbulent peo
ple. Guerilla warfare against our au
thority would go in the island and it
would cost us much in blood and treas
ure to suppress it. I remember that the
United States enlisted 31,000 men to put
down the Indians in Florida and when
they were finally rounded up there were
exactly 71 of them. The situation in th*?
Philippines is different. We can take
control of all the larger cities and towns
and let the natives learn gradually with
the lapse of years that obedience to
our authority is to their interest.
"To go back to Cuba. We must bear
in mind that these people we have been
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THE NEGBO LYNCHING
WILL NOT TAKE PLACE.
Shreveport. La., June 14.—The threatened
wholesale lynching of the negroes under arrest
at Kennebec for the murder of John Gray Foster,
on the Foster plantation, Wednesday, has not
taken place.
Posses are still scouring the country in search
of Prince Edwards, who shot Foster. The excite
ment is diminishing, but if Edwards is caught he
will be dealt with summarily.
the Mill City only a few weeks ago.
The news was almost too good for be
lief, hut as his friend was sure he was
right they started for Minneapolis in
search of the long lost sister,-and after
making some inquiries she was located
at Hennepin avenue, near the West ho
tel, where she is conducting an apart
ment house of furnished flats.
Mr. Wilson called at the house, osten*
sibly in quest of rooms, and in response
to a summons his sister appeared in per
son, looking more mature, but not so
greatly changed in the intervening years.
The recognition was mutual, and so
was the joy.
ANARCHISTS MAKE
ROYALTY A TARGET
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New York, June 14.—Wooden
dummies wearing metal chest
protectors and representing
the crow ned despots of Europe
ai a to be »• l up in Liberty Park,
Hid ge wood. L. I„ next Sunday
foi anarchists to shoot at. This
occasion i.l >e the grand ï i
nual love an a the anarchists
of Greater New Tork. i-ihann
Most will he :t> r»hat. O'- Pat
ron and honorai. u . - . The
anarchists a year ago parte es
olutions declaring that the war
which they had made upon capi
tal and power had not met with
success. So they organized them
selves into a rille club and
bought the wooden dummies.
They say there are anonymous
dummies, but it is undersitood
that they stand for the czar of
Russia, the German emperor and
other agents of power.
Six hundred anarchists have
promised to attend and blaze
away at the wooden tyrants.
Herr Most, it is understood, will
be one of the sharp shooters.
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dealing with are children, and I ant
afraid they are pretty bad children, just
as little qualified to govern themselves
as so many youngsters."
Senator Cockrell says that Cuba must
be dealt with deliberately, and not cut
loose unprepared to stand alone.
"I believe that things will run along
smoothly now," said the senator. "The
Cubans did tlie right thing in accept
ing the amendment, and this govern
ment will deal fairly with them. Alt
that was needed was a thorough under
standing, and that has been reached,
with the result that they have accepted
our terms. Of course, we cannot imme
diately withdraw from the island. No
reasonable person expects that, and
there is no authority to whom we could
turn over the government.
"The next step, and one which it i3
absolutely necessary to take, is for the
convention to pass election laws, fixing
a date for the election of a president and
other officers of the government, as pro
vided for in the constitution. Under thi3
law the military government will cad
an election, and when all the machinery
of government is organized we will turn
over the affairs of government to them,
but not until then. This will requira
some time, how long I cannot say, hut
it will, I believe, be done within reason
able limitation."
Senator Burrows was pleased at the
action of the Cuban constitutional cun
vent ion in accepting the Platt amend
ment.
"This act." he said, "ought to lead to
speedy and desirable results. It ought
to be followed by Cuban independence
and a home government. There will
soon be nothing in the way of an estab
lishment of a republic in Cuba. The re
public of Cuba will shortly be one of th®
nations of the earth. We are now fulflü
ing our promises to Cuba and to the na
tions of the world."
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