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The Butte Inter Mountain.
VOL. XXI. NO. 94 Possibly Showers Tonight and Friday.
BUTTE, MONTANA. THURSDAY EVENING. JULY 11. 1901.
Cooler in Centr fi on tana.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
RICH FIND
OF NUGGETS
TWO MINERS TAKE TEN POUNDS
OF GOLD FROM CLAIM
NEAR HELENA.
PROPERTY FOR WHICH THEY
PAID $500 YIELDS $2,000
IN SHORT ORDER.
I (Special to Inter Mountain.)
Helena, July 11.—Miller and Burk have
Struck a pocket of ten pounds of gold
nuggets in a shaft on Greenhorn gulch,
from which the late John W. Beahm had
taken $7,000. They bought the claim from
Beahm's administrator for $500 as there
was no sign of more ore and no defined
lead.
County Assessments Returned.
(Special to Inter Mountain.)
Helena July 11.—The following assess
ment returns were received today: Cho
teau, real, $1,409,485; personal, $3,634,093;
total, $5,043,578; increase $172,104. Fergus,
real, $2,220,346; personal, $3,656,123; total,
$5,876,469; increase, $5,358,874. Meagher,
real, $1,544,658; personal, $1,842,153; total,
$3,386,811; increase $127,261. Dawson, real,
$567,143; personal, $1,931,096; total $2,498,
229; decrease, $51.050.
Rushing Work at Canyon Ferry.
1 (Special to Inter Mountain.)
Helena July 11.—Four of six new water
wheels at the Canyon Ferry dam which
will supply power for the Butte mines
and smelters are in place and the other
two are being placed. Dynamos are on
the way from the east and all the ma
chinery will be placed as fast as possible,
the rock foundations being ready. A
hundred men are setting poles from the
dam to Boulder and have reached East
Helena. A pole line has already been
built from Boulder to Butte.
FOUND DE AD IN HIS ROOM
Secretary of the Spokane Chamber of
Commerce Expires While
Alone.
(By Associated Press.)
Spokane, Wash., July 11.—Robert H.
Greeley, secretary of the Spokane Cham
ber of Commerce, was found dead in his
room in Temple Court this morning.
Secretary Greeley had been missing
since Sunday. This morning his room
was forced open by President Olmstead
and others and the dead body of Mr.
Greeley was found on the lounge. '
It is believed death resulted from heart
trouble, as did the death of Secretary
Easson, who died while conducting a
Chamber of Commerce excursion to
Lewiston two years ago.
IRON TRADE NOW AT FLOOD TIDE
MANUFACTURERS OF THE COUNTRY LOOK FOR VALUES TO RE
CEDE A TRIFLE IN NEAR FUTURE.
!" (By Associated Press.)
New York, July 11.—Discussing con
ditions in the iron and steel trades, the
Iron Age says:
Our monthly blast furnace statistics
show there has been a decline in the
weekly capacity of the coke and an
thracite furnaces from 306,991 tons on
June 1 to 303,793 tons on July 1, while
the stocks of pig iron in the hands of
the merchant furnaces declined from
333,813 tons on June 1, to 327,761 tons on
July 1. In other words, production and
consumption nearly balanced.
From all quarters comes confirmatory
evidence that the consumption is phe
nomenal. Thus a leading official of the
United States Steel corporation reports
that that concern is producing steel in
gots at a rate which makes an output
®f 10,000,000 tons likely this yegr.
While statistically the situation is
sound, there is throughout an uncer
tainty and an ill-defined feeling that we
FilENGK WIR FOOTING LESS FIRM
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, July 11.—'The naval expenditure
Of France for 1902 is officially proposed
to be $62,420,000, which at first sight
eeemed to be $3,100,000 less than in 1901,
but if it is taken into account that the
cost of maintaining the marine infantry
and artillery, amounting to about $5,
400,000, has been transferred from the
navy to the ministers of war and the
colonies, it is found that the money that
France intends to spend upon the navy
during 1902 is really $2,300,000 in excess
of the naval exepenses of the current
year.
It is a matter of serious consideration
for the French people vvhether they are
not spending upon their navy more than
their national resources warrant.
France has now piled up a debt involv
ing an annual charge for interest of
■nearly $200,000,000, or, in other words,
every man, woman and child in France
has now to pay $5 per annum for inter
est on the national debt.
The army costs the country $132,000,
000 a year and the total expenditure for
1902 is officially proposed to be $720,000
000. Moreover, reflections upon the
French census cause renewed uneasi
ness. Last March the population in
round numbers was 36,800,000, being an
Increase of only 330,000 since 1890, and
DEFEAT FO R IMPER IAL TROOPS
Allied Villagers Society Wins a De
cided Victory Forty Miles From
Pao Ting Fu.
(By Associated Press.)
Pekin, July 11.—The imperial troops
under General Lui Pen Yuen have been
defeated by the Allied Villagers' society
at Atchi Chou, 40 miles southeast of Pao
Ting Fu.
The magistrate of the district arrived
In Pekin and has asked Li Hung Chang
to dispatch a thousand reinforcements
under Colonel Chiagn from Le Chien Fu,
where there are 2,000 Shan Tung troop9
waiting permission of the allies to come
to Pekin.
The French, who stopped these troops
at Le Chien Fu several weeks ago, have
now agreed that they can enter any of
the districts in the province of Chi Li.
IRON MQLD ERS M AY STRIKE
Manufacturers* Offer Is Rejected and
Trouble Far-Reaching Is Likely
to Follow.
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, July 11.—The executive board
of the iron molders' union has refused
to accept the offer of the manufacturais.
This was the final proposition, and it is
believed a strike will result, which may
assume national proportions, as the
agreement between the International
Iron Molders of America and the Na
tional Foundrymen's association depends
upon the outcome of the Chicago diffi
culty.
Unhappy Lover Kills Himself.
(By Associated Press.)
Seattle, Wash., July 11.—Neil J.
Beaton killed himself with carbolic aci 1
because a young girl with whom he ha I
fallen in love declined to reciprocate nia
affection.
LIST OF DEAD
STEADILY GROWING
Twenty Lives Lost in the Chicago &
Alton Wreck Yester
day.
Several of the Injured, Now in Hos
pitals, May Not Re
cover.
(By Associated Press.)
Kansas City, Mo., July 11.—Up to noon
today two more victims of yesterday col
lision on the Chicago & Alton railway
near Morton, Mo., had succumbed to
their injuries, making the total dead
twenty.
Most of the other injured are resting
easily, but in the ease of half a dozen
of the patients the outcome may not be
known for another 24 hours.
At the office of the superintendent of
the Chicago & Alton in this city it is
stated that no additional bodies have
been found in the wreck.
are on the top of the tide, and that we
may see slowly receding values.
In some departments deliveries* are be
coming prominent, premiums have disap
peared and there is more disposition to
hunt for business. In other, notably in
the wire trade, however, the growing
tonnage of the Independent mills is be
ginning to tell, wire rods are being of
fered more freely on the basis of $31
Pitts,burg, new sellers, small though they
be, coming into the markets.
It is believed a good deal of the wire
nail capacity under construction will
soon be available. In May it was esti
mated that out of the 30,000 kegs daily
requirements, 10,000 kegs could be cov
ered by outside mills. The latter figure
will be much enlarged before sixty days
have passed.
The feeling in the trade is that the
difference between the Amalgamated As
sociation and the Union mills of the
United States Steel corporation will be
promptly settled.
even this meagre result is mostly ac
counted for by Paris and Sts suburbs,
where the increase has been 292,000, due
principally to foreign imigration, so that
in the rest of France the population has
been augmented by only 38,000 during
the last five years.
Under these conditions M. Jaurès, so
cialist leader, and many advanced
thinkers among the radicals and radical
socialists hold that it is impossible for
France to have at the same time a navy
and army of the first rank, simply be
cause she has not the resources of men
and —-----to maintain both.
WESTERN RAILROAD MEN ARE IN CONFERENCE
(By Associated Press.)
San Francisco, July 11.—An important
conference between the traffic officials
of the Southern Pacific and the Oregon
Railway ft Navigation company will be
held at the general offices of the South
ern Pacific in this city during the next
four days.
The conference will begin this after
noon. B. F. Campbell, traffic manager
of the Oregon Railway ft Navigation
company, arrived from Portland yester
day, and was joined today by A. L.
Craig, general agent of the company. C.
H. Markham, general freight and pas
Disciples of Do wie Are D renched By Firemen
MEMBERS OF THE SECT INVADE EVANSTON, ILL, AND MANY
PERSONS ARE HURT IN A FIGHT.
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X (By Associated Press.) X
X Evanston, 111., July 11. —When zeveral Dowieites were preaching on X
X the street here last night they Were beset by members of the fire X
X department, who turned the hose upon them and then caused their X
X arrest. X
X During the row that preceded the arrests the following persons X
X were severely injured: Overseer J, G. Speicher, cut on shoulder; W. O. X
X Demiuq, head cut; Elizabeth Van Horn, back injured; B. F. Morris, cut X
X over eye; Caroline Hartmand, cut diver the eye and shoulder sprained; X
X F. A. Graves, face cut; O. C. Kibby, cut about head; Norris Van Horn, X
X badly hurt from blows on head an I body; Mrs. Jennie Plank, back and X
X shoulders hurt. . X
X When the Dowieites who had been arrested by the police reached X
X the court room they broke out into song, in spite of their plight, and X
X continued shouting their exhortations so ihat those who had collected X
X on the outside could hear them. Overseers Piper and Speicher were X
X put under bonds to insure their appearance on July 17. X
X Corporation Counsel Paden. upon whose advice Mayor Paden acted X
X when he directed the hose to be turned on the Dowieites, says: X
X "The Dowieites were arrested not because they came here to \
X preach, but because they blocked one of the streets with their meeting X
X and refused to move on when told to do so. They clearly violated a city X
X ordinance." ^
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Democrats of Ohio Denounce Bryan
(By Associated Press.)
Columbus O., July 11.—William Jen
nings Bryan, late democratic candidate
for president of the United States,, was
given a severe blow by the democratic
convention which nominated a state
ticket here yesterday.
In an alleged stampede "for principles
rather than men." the most striking turn
of the convention was on Bryan. The
most bitter things were said of his lead
ership, when it was declared that his
name should not be mentioned and that
there should be no reference to either of
the national platforms on which he made
his campaigns.
After this plan had been agreed on, one
of the 21 members of the platform com
mittee offered a minority report reaffirm
ing the Kansas City platform and ex
pressing confidence in Bryan, and he re
ceived only six votes out of 950 delegates
on his substitute for the platform pre
amble.
A few moments after the platform
was adopted one of these six delegates
called attention to the fact that the
pictures of other democrats -.were dis
EARL OF ROSEBERY AND DÖC2ESS OF ALBANY TO WED
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X (By Associated Press.) %
X London. July 11.—The announcement of the betrothal of the X
X Duchess of Albany and the Earl of Rosebery is not unexpected. X
X The widowed duchess and the bereaved earl would have been mar- X
X ried long ago. had not the queen declined to countenance the union. X
X So strongly did her majesty insist, that in the 17 years that have X
X elapsed since the death of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the X
X duchess has avoided society and devoted her life to the rearing of her X
X son and daughter. In the midst of her studies, her schemes for char- X
X ity and social arrangements, she became interested in the earl. She X
X made a mild attempt to win the queen over to consent to the mar- X
X riage. The queen would not hear of it. and as the duchess was de- X
X pendent upon an allowance made through her mother-in-law's will, X
X and did not wish to offend her, she resigned herself to the inevi- X
X table. All i s easy now, as the Prince of Wales, the present king, X
X was always on terms of the closest intimacy with the Earl of X
X Rosebery.
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To Absorb Cotton Oil Mills
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company Increases Its Capital St'ck to $50
000,000 and Will Buy Up Southern Plant'
(•By Associated Press.)
New York, July- 11.—A special meeting
of the stockholders of the Virginia-Caro
lina Chemical company has been called
for the near future at Jersey City to act
upon a resolution of the directors pro
viding for an increase of $26,000 in au
thorized capital of that corporation, thus
making the total capital $50,000,000.
This action is a result of the current
plans of the company in securing cotton
oil properties with a view of the com
pany in securing supplies of cotton seed
meal from which the ammoniates are de
rived. ,
A circular sent to the stockholders by
the directors sets forth that the company
has been figuring a long time on some
plan by which it could secure the am
moniates, of which it consumes about
$2,000,000 worth annually, in the most
economical manner
It is pointed out that the quantity of
ammoniates alone would justify the com
pany in going into the cotton seed busi
ness, but aside from that it is, when
Britons Retreat From Boers.
London, July 11.—A yeomanry trooper,
in a letter describing the Vlackfontein
affair. May 28 (when the garrison of
Vlackfontein, on the Johannesburg rail
way, had 14 men put out of action by
senger agent of the Southern Pacifie
lines in Oregon, is also here from the
north.
The purpose of the gathering is not
entirely clear, and it has provoked many
disquieting rumors concerning possible
changes in the coast agencies. Incident
ally, thé officials of the two lines will
discuss a number of matters pertaining'
to the east-bound soldier traffic, the Ep
worth League movement and other mat
ters of mutual interest concerning freight
and passenger traffic.
There has been much talk of late that
the new relationship established between
the Southern Pacific, Unton Pacific, Ore
played in the hall and none of Bryan as
heretofore.
He started to carry a small banner
with Bryan's picture on it to the plat
form. The aisles were ordered cleared
and the picture did not reach its des
tination.
It was trampled under foot and spoiled
diving the wijd demonstration when
Kilbourne was escorted into the hall.
Members of the committee on reso
lutions say that over one hour was spent
in efforts to strike the word "salable"
out of the plank on railway taxation,
and several hours in denouncing the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms and
the leader who stood on them.
The ticket placed in nomination is as
follows:
Govenor—James Kilbourne.
Ueutenant governor—Anthony How
ells.
Judge of supreme court—Joseph Hidy.
Clerk of the supreme court—Harry R.
Young.
Attorney general—M. B. McCarthy.
Treasurer of state— R. P. Alshire.
Member of board of public works—
■lames B. Holman.
'properly conducted, intrinsically a pro
liiable business and would have the fur
ther advantage of placing the company
more closely in touch with the fertilizer
trade.
It is for the purpose of buying up es
tablished cotton mills or establishing new
ones that the capital stock of the com
pany is to be increased to fifty millions.
'I be Fnited States Oil company was re
cently incorporated under New Jersey
laws with $12,000,000 capital stock. Pre
sumably this concern will be turned over
to the Virginia-Carolina Chemical com
pany.
Great Zinc Company Reorganized.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, July 11.—Plans for a re-or
^anization of the International Zinc
company, a $1,000,000 concern which went
into receivership several months since,
have been practically completed. A new
company will be incorporated with a
capital of $150,000.
the Boers under General Delarney), adds I
that the British,' the night after that I
light, discovering that the Boers were j
surrounding their camp, were obliged to
retreat, leaving their tents standing and !
their wounded behind them. I
gon Railway & Navigation company and
Oregon Short Line might make it ad
visable in the estimation of the traffic
Officials of the several lines to bring about
a consolidation of agencies throughout
the country. It has even been suggested
that the Union Pacific and the Oregon
Railway ft Navigation agencies In this
might be closed, or at least be brought
under the domination and control of the
Southern Pacific. This was a matter,
however, ' on which Traffic Manager
Campbell professed to be entirely ig
norant.
According to recent dispatches from
Portland there is likely to be a consoli
PEACE IN FREIGHT | JATI0N
Western Roads Agree tf ^ j Cutting
After Agreement Wi chison,
Topeka & bar a.
(By Associated ^ is.)
New York, July 11.- .• the recent
meeting of the directors of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railway in this city
it was announced that the Atchison
management had decided to withdraw
its reduced rates for freight, which was
listed to take effect July 15.
The withdrawal of the reduced rate, it
was said, had been decided upon in the
interests of peace, it being understood
that other western railroads would stop
rate cutting.
One of the directors of the Atchison
said, as he was leaving the meeting:
"We understood the question of freight
rates is to be settled at a meeting of the
Western Trunk Line Freight associa
tion in Chicago, Friday. We never re
garded the question as serious here."
NO CHANCE FOR ARBITRATION
Attempt to Settle the Strike of the Ma
chinists of the Country Results
in Failure.
New York, July 11.—It has been de
cided by R. M. Easty, secretary of the
National Civic Federation, who has been
here for several days trying to arbitrât»
the strike of the machinists, that all at
tempts at settling the strike through the
federation are useless.
He has left New York, and before he
went away he expressed regret that his
efforts to bring about a settlement had
to be abandoned.
At the headquartrs of the National
Metal Trades association it was said
that it was now too late for arbitration,
and that employers all over the country
were getting all the men they wanted.
Secretary Devins has received advices
from business centers all over the coun
try saying the strike was breaking up.
Between 300 and 400 strikers had re
turned to work at Peneca Falls, N. Y.
At the works of the Newburgh Ice Ma
chine and Engine company, Newburgh,
strikers were applying for work.
LINE IS DRAWN
AT LABOR UNIONS
Steel Combine Willing to Sign Amal
gamated Scale, But Will Go
No Further.
Declines to Make Any Change in the
System of Operating
Plants.
(By Associated Press.)
Pittsburg, July 11.—It is authoritative
ly stated that the steel combine offered
at the conference today to sign the amal
gamated scale for all the plants and
make the wages uniform but declined to
unionize the plants operated as non
union for years. Trustee Morgan of the
Amalgamated Association said the pro
position would not he accepted.
FAMILY HAS INCORPORATED ITSELF
HEIRS OF A RICH MAN RESOLVE THEMSELVES INTO AN IN
VESTMENT COMPANY.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, July 11.—The Hyde family
of Plainfield, N. J., has incorporated it
self.
Hereafter the $3,000,000 estate left liy
Charles llyde will he known as the Un
ion County investment, with his widow,
his four sons and his daughter a« the
six stockholders. There will be a paid
up capital of $300,000, the wife owning
565 shares and the five children 487
shares each, each worth $100 par.
Mr. Hyde died June 12 last. He be
queathed his large estate to his widow,
Elizabeth Keppler Hyde; his four sons,
Dorsey W. Hyde, Francis Delacy Hyde,
Lewis K. Hyde and Charles Hyde, Jr.,
and his only daughter, Miss Edith Hyde.
Much of the estate is in land around
Plainfield, as well as oil wells and build
ing property at Titusville, Pa., where
Mr. Hyde laid the foundations of his
fortune. Besides this he owned two
HOME FOR LEPERS IN MONTANA
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, July 11.—The surgeon
general of the marine hospital service
Is, not ready to publish the results thus
far obtained under his direction in the
attempt to enumerate the known eases
of leprosy ir. the United States, for the
returns are far from complete.
Sufficient material has already
secured, however, by the experts who
have been investigating for the last two
years *° indicate that there aie at least
one ^«usand lepers in this, country,
m ost of them immigrants from abroad,
been ]
dation of Southern Pacific, Union Pa
cific and Oregon Railway & Navigation
interests in the northwest. Richard
Koehler, manager of the Southern Pa
cific lines in Oregon, is expected to re
tire shortly, and it is expected the lines
will be added to the Pacific system of
the company under the management of
J. H. Herbert, or else that A. L. Mohler,
of the Oregon Railway & Navigation,
will be given the management of the
consolidated Harriman system in Ore
gon, in which event C. H. Markham will
be tendered the position of general
freight agent of the lines under Mr.
Mohler.
MAKING THE
LAST STAND
GREAT NORTHERN TRAIN ROB
BERS PREPARING FOR A BAT
TLE WITH THE OFFICERS.
DESPERADOES UNDER GUARD
OF SEVEN MEN, WITH REIN
FORCEMENTS COMING.
(Special to Inter Mountain.)
Helena, July 11.—Seven or eight men,
members of a sheriff's posse, are guard
ing the Great Northern train robbers,
who have been run to earth at People's
creek, south of the Little Rockies, ac
cording to a message received here,
awaiting reinforcements, now on the
way.
As soon as these reinforcements arrive
an advance upon the robbers will he
made.
A message from Malta says Sheriff
Griffith, accompanied by 40 well armed
men, left that place this afternoon to
join a posse headed by Sheriff Benner of
Great Falls, near where the outlaws are
being guarded.
Nearly every man in each of the two
posses is an experienced frontiersman,
and if the train robbers are not cap
tured it will be because they have means
of escape of which nothing is known at
the present time.
It is known that the robbers crossed
the Missouri river not far from Peek
agency, Montana, Monday evening, and
that they were riding fresh horses, se
cured either from relays, provided in ad
vance, or by theft from the ranges which
they passed.
From the vicinity of the Belknap agen
cy they headed south and are in a sec
tion of country where they can make
good time, but still not be far from the
security of the mountains.
This information seems to indicate that
the robbers have some other haven in
sight than the Hole-in-the-Wall country,
having gotten east of that section.
Sunstrokes in London.
(By Associated Press.)
London, July 11.—This was the hottest
day recorded during the present year
in London. At noon the thermometer
registered 85 degrees in the shade and
123 in the sun. There were many cases
of sunstroke.
Run on Big Bank.
(By Associated Press.)
Cleveland, July 11.—The run on the
United Banking and Savings company
which began yesterday was continued to
day. Ail demands were promptly met
and the officials declared they were pre
pared for any emergency.
banks in Titusville and numerous rail
way shares, including practically all of
the New Orleans & Northwestern rail
way. To charity he left $100,000.
Miss Hyde, who has hitherto devot
ed herself to society, now becomes a
director in this family corporation. It
is chartered to deal in stocks, bonds and
mortgages, convey real estate and invest
in gas, water and railway securities.
Young Francis Delaeey Hyde, a gradu
ate of Yale, is named as president of the
company, and his brother, Lewis, is sec
retary. Both now live in Titusville.
For the present the only transactions
will he in the sale of lots around Plain
field. The corporation is the first of the
kind in New Jersey. There have been
several in New York.
The late Mr. Hyde was nearly 80 years
of age when he died. He retired from
active business in 1869, when he left
Titusville to live in Plainfield.
and to warrant starting recommenda
tions to congress for their segregation.
The commission, consisting of Surgeon
J. H. White, chairman, and Passed As
sistant Surgeons G. T. Vaughan and
M. J. Rosenau, have been working under
congressional authority since 1899.
They sent circular letters to physicians,
health officers, hospital superintendents
ami others in six hundred localities, cov
ering the entire country, asking for re
ports and information regarding leprosy
patients. Eight thousand circulars have
been sent out and only two thousand
replies have been received.
From these 277 lepers have been locat
ed and their names and addresses obtain
ed. About one hundred are known to live
in New Orleans, many of whom are well
to-do persons of good families. In New
York seven cases have been reported.
In San Francisco fifteen cases are known
and twelve are confined In the pest
house.
Owing to the fact that three-fourths of
the circulars have brought no replies,
especially from suspicious districts, the
authorities estimate that only about one
fourth of the cases of leprosy have been
reported.
The commission \*ill almost certainly
recommend to congress in its forthcom
ing preliminary report that national
lazarettos be established in several parts
of the country—one, perhaps at New Or
leans. one in New York, «nd another in
Minnesota or Montana.