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The Butte Inter Mountain.
vol. xxi. no. no
Fair Tonight and Wednesday.
BUTTE. MONTANA. TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 30. 1901.
Weather Somewhat Warmer. PRICE FIVE CENTS
HOMESTEADS
THE STAKES
PARTICIPANTS IN THE GOVERN
MENT LAND LOTTERY AS
EAGER AS EVER.
TWO THOUSAND QUARTER SEC
TIONS AWARDED TODAY. AS
AGAINST 1,000 MONDAY.
HUNDREDS OF MEN SLEEP ON
THE HILLS, IN ORDER TO BE
ON HAND EARLY.
(By Associated Press.)
E L RENO, O. T., July 30.—Today's
scenes about the lottery platform
were a repetition of those of yes
terday.
During the night the crowds had been
swelled by several thousand eager peo
ple who had flocked to town in prairie
schooners or on trains.
Many persons slept again on the hill
sides, to be on hand early. When the
second day's drawing commenced It was
estimated that more than 30,000 people
•were on hand.
Yesterday's drawing had given to 1,000
homesteaders the privilege of selecting
the best thousand claims in the reserva
tion.
Tills left 12,000 claims and 166,000 ap
plicants. Yet great good nature pre
vailed and almost everybody appeared
hopeful.
It was decided to draw 2,000 names
from the wheels today, 1,000 each from
the Ei Reno and the Lawton land dis
tricts.
The drawing was started promptly
end the envelopes were taken from the
wheels at a rapid rate.
Fight on Franchise Taxation.
(Special to Inter Mountain.)
Helena, July 30.—The state board of
equalization today heard arguments
from railroad men on the taxation of
franchises. The constitution provides
that franchises be taxed, but the rail
road men claimed their value had bean
included hitherto in the aggregate valu
ation of the roads, and that if assessed
separately a proportionate reduction
should be made in the valuation of the
roadbeds.
• The board will probably reach a con
clusion late this afternoon.
Detective Kills a murderer.
tBy Associated Press.)
Houston, Tex., July 30.— J. T. Vaughan
a money lender today shot Patrolman
William Weiss. Vaughan was later mor
tally wounded by a detective.
Price of All Kinds of Brooms Is Advanced
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, July 30.—Prices on all classes
of brooms were advanced at a meeting
of the brush and broom manufacturers
of the United States, held at the Palmer
house this afternoon. The broom trust
Is forced to charge the dealers more be.
cause of the advance in broom corn.
The factories that are not represented
by an agent are bound by an agreement
to accept any changes in prices that the
meeting sees fit to impose. That ths
prices in brooms—not only brooms used
■by housewives, but whisk broon-.fi and
brushes—will go up is an acknowledged
fact, and the advance ranges all the
way from 25 to 50 cents a dozen.
BIG AS A DICTIONARY
Briefs in the Boland B. Mollneux Mur
der Case Are How Being
Prepared.
documents Will Hake a Volume of
Nearly Thirty-five Hundred
Pages.
(By Associated Press.)
Albany, N. Y„ July 29.—Chief Justice
Parker and the members of the court
of appeals are now at work upon the
printed case, and the fate of Rolan I B.
Mo'ineux, charg'd with causing th- death
of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams, will short
ly be decided.
The judges expect they will lose the
greater portion of their summer vaca
tions, inasmuch as the documents make
a volume of 3,405 pages, the size of Web
ster's unabridged dictionary, and it will
be necessary to consider the points in
volved between now and Sept. 30, when
the court reconvenes.
PROPOSED CANAL STRIKES A SNAG
f (By Associated Press.)
N EW YORK. July 30.—Lieut. C. W. Raymond of the United States board
of engineers on deep waterways has written to the superintendent of the
maritime association, Mr. Smith, in connection with the lakes to foreign
ports. He says In part:
"If a 21-foot ship canal is constructed from the lakes to the sea. In connec
tion with the plans and estimates of the board of engineers on deep waterways,
It would undoubtedly be better for the state of New York to transfer the Erie
canal to the federal government.
"A ship canal cannot be constructed along the route proposed by our board
without interfering with the existing Erie canal. The views of the board were
required by congress as to the comparative advantages of two canals, having
I depths of 21 and 30 feet respectively.
"The question whether It is desirable for the United States to construct
a deep waterway from the lakes to the Atlantic was not submitted to the
j board and the board has not expressed a direct opinion thereon."
No Fear of Plague In America
Health Officer of the Fort of New York Declares the
People Here Are in No Danger.
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(By Associated Press.)
N EW YORK, July 3d.—The possibility of the
spread of bubonic plague throughout the
American continent having been discussed
as a probability by Dr. Walter Kempster of Mil
waukee, Wis., has brought out adverse opinions
from a number of New York physicians.
They condemn the view of Dr. Kemster as an
alarmist, though the fact that he spent a long
time abroad studying the origin and spread of
plagues, under the Harrison administration, gives
added weight to his statement to the effect that
there is danger under existing sanitary conditions,
unless immediate measures are taken to stamp
it out.
Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer of the port, said
that while the plague might be destructive to
people in India, the conditions were different here.
Dr. Doty declared he had no fear whatever of
the plague gaining any foothold here.
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DRIVER TO SUICIDE BY SCORN OF FOES
(By Associated Press.)
N EW lORK, July 30.—George McCabe, 46 years old,
committed suicide this morning by cutting his throat.
Members of the man's family say McCabe was driv
en to desperation by the Jeers of his fellow workmen at
the Worthinghouse hydraulic works in Brooklyn, where a
strike has been in progress. McCabe went out with the
strikers early in May, but returned to work July 18. As
a result It Is said he was reviled by men and women, and
his neighbors would have nothing to do with him. Even
the children hooted him as he passed.
PORT OF $AN FRANCISCO IS GL0SED BY STRIKE
(By Associated Press.)
S AN FRANCISCO, July 30—The la
bor troubles in this city reached
their culmination late last night,
when the City Front Federation ordered
a general strike on the docks of San
Francisco, Oakland, Mission Rock and
Port Costa and in the city of San Fran
cisco, to go Into effect this morning.
The resolution 'to strike, which received
the unanimous endorsement of every
delegate to the federation, was short,but
its effect will be to cause a temporary
paralysis of the shipping business of San
Francisco such as has not been known
before. It reads as given above.
The meeting of the federation was a
long one and there was much heated ar
gument before the resolution came to a
vote. Then every delegate present vot
ed in favor of the strike. The follow
ing 14 unions were represented, compris
ing all the workers on the water front:
Sailors Union of the Pacific, four local
unions of longshoremen', marine firemen,
brotherhood of teamsters, ship and
steamboat union, warehousemen, ship
clerks, pile drivers and bridge builders,
hoisting engineers, steam and hot water
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PRESIDENT W. B. LEEDS.
Head of the American Tin Plate
Association, Wlu Has Been Prom
inent During the Strike.
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Sixteen copies of this book were print
ed. Each judge received a copy and the
remaining copies were locked in the court
of appeals library.
Titled Englishman Visiting America.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, July 30.—Lord Stavordale,
eldest son of the Earl of Ilchester, to
which title he is the heir apparent, has
arrived in New York and will make a
tour of the United States.
Brussels Deputies In a Riot
(By Associated Press.)
Brussels. July 30.—The Socialist mem
bers of the chambers of deputies cre
ated a disturbance in the house this
morning, during which the "Interna
tional" was sung to the accompaniment
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The full membership of the City Front Federation refuses to work
at the docks of San Francisco, Oakland, Port Costa and Mission. The
steamers Bonita and Walla Walla, with mail and passengers, now in
the stream, will be allowed to go to sea.—Resolution by labor unions.
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fitters and coal teamsters.
This action, which Is a direct outcome
of the lockout of the teamsters, will
have for its Immediate effect the ces
sation of all labor in and around the
great docks of the city about San Fran
cisco bay. The Sand Teamsters Union
and the Oakland Teamsters Union also
ordered a strike.
This will make a total of over 25,000
union workmen who have stopped their
labor since the middle of May last, di
vided as follows: City Front federation,
comprising 14 organizations, 15,000; ma
chinists and iron workers, 7,000; cooks
and waiters 1,500; sand teamsters, 600;
Oakland teamsters, 1,000; 'total number of
men out 25,100. The tie-up will be com
plete if the plans of the labor unions are
GREAT STEEL STRIKE ENDED
CONFERENCE OF EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYES NOW BEING HELD
TO ARRANGE FINAL DETAILS.
(By Associated Press.) i
Pittsburg, July 30.—That the great stee||
strike would be declared off before the
close of the day was the general impres
sion here today. A feeling of exultation
was manifested among the manufactur
ers as well as the strikers.
The general executive board of the
Amalgamated association met at 9:40
o'clock. Those present were: President
Shafer, Secretary John Williams, Assist
ant Secretary Tighe, David Reese, vie»
president district No. 1; Walter Larkin
vice president district No. 2, of Wheeling;
Chas. H. Davis, vice president of district
No. 3 of Newport, Ky.; W. C. Davis, vice
president district No. 4, of South Chi
cago; Clem Jarvis, vice president district
No. 5, of Anderson, Ind. ; John F. Ward,
vice president, district No. 7 of Birming
ham, Ala.; John C. Chappell, vice presi
dent disttict No. 8, New Castle, Pa.;
John W. Quinn, vice president district
Newspaper Han Fasaes Away.
(By Associated Press.)
Milwaukee, July 30.—George H. Yencw
lne.one of the best known newspaper men
in the west, died suddenly last night,
aged 46 years.
of slamed desk lids. Taking exception to
the refusal of the president of the cham
ber, M. de Sadeler, to put a motion for
adjournment, a section of deputies be
gan a noisy demonstration which mads
it impossible for the president to main
tain order. The din was terrific and the
disorder culminated in the socialists and
loftist lustily shouting the revolutionary
song mentioned.
STRANGE EPPERSON CASE.
--r—
Lannigan and Leonard Wert Put oh
Trial Before Judge O'Connor
Today.
The two men named Lannigan and
Leonard who took Lucy Epperson out
of the Warm Springs insane asylum on
the Fourth of July, were put on trial in
the court of Judge O'Connor this after
noon on a charge of showing a woman
cruel and unkind treatment. The men
got Mrs. Epperson into their custody
through an order authorising the insane
RAIN SAVES
THE CROPS
HEAVY DOWNPOUR IN NEBRASKA
AND IOWA COMES IN TIME TO
HELP COR IV AND WHEAT.
PRODUCTION THIS YEAR WILL,
IT IS NOW BELIEVED, EQUAL
THAT OF 1900.
(By Associated Press.)
Omaha, July 30.--This morning a
heavy rain fell here for over an hour.
Reports from various parts of the state
say that the late corn has received great
benefit. Farmers along the Ft. Paul &
Omaha road expect 'that with a few more
such rains the corn crop will equal that
of last year.
Des Moines, July 10.—Half an inch of
rain fell during the night in the northern
part of Iowa. The condition of the corn
crop Is considerably improved In that
section. Throughout the Des Moines
valley, running across the central part
of the state, there was a trace of rain.
Crisp! Shows Slight Gain.
Naples, July 30.—According to the bul
letin Issued this morning the slight im
provement noted yesterday in the con
dition of Signor Crispi has been main
tained.
successful.
They hope to stop the loading and even
to prevent the moving of ships that are
now almost ready for departure. Unless
tiie proprietors and managers are able to
secure sufficient non-union help to load
and man their vessels, the strike will
practically mean the closing of the port
and the suspension of business in the
vholesale and manufacturing districts of
»San Francisco and Oakland. The ferry
boats are not affected by the strike.
Union men employed on them will not be
called out and local travel and freight
transfer will not be disturbed.
When the news of the action of the
federation was sent to the various head
quarters of the unions interested it was
greeted with tumultuous cheering, show
No. of Granite City, 111.; Elias Jenkins,
Youngstown, O. ; John H. Morgan of
Cambridge, Ohio, and John Pierce of
Pittsburg, national trustees
Immediately after the committee had
filed into the room the doois were locked
and a sentinel placed outside. Previous
to the meeting all efforts to get an ev
aression from the officials as to the pro
liable outcome were unsuccessful. Secre
tary Williams stated that they had all
been pledged to secrecy.
When the committee assembled, Presi
dent Shafer placed before it the terms
upon which the United States Steel Cor
poration will settle the strike and the
concessions the Amalgamated officials
agreed to make when in conference with
J. P. Morgan last Saturday. A long dis
cussion then ensuer.
President Shafer said the entire after
noon would be taken up in discussing
the proposition and it would probably be
late before a decision was reached.
General Wood Beaches New York.
New York, July 30.—General Leonard
Wood, military governor of Cuba, ac
companied by Mrs. Wood and their
ihree children, arrived here today on the
steamer Morro Castle from Havana.
Non-Unionists Fire On Labor
(By Associated Press.)
San Francisco, July 30.—Two non
union teamsters fired into a body of
strikers today and wounded one man.
nut seriously. The shooters were ar
rested. They claim they were in danger
nf losing their lives and fired in self
defense. Most of the trouble that has
occurred so far has been caused by
hoodlum non-strikers.
asylum authorities to turn her over to
them, and they brought her to Butte
and placed her in a lodging house, where
it is alleged they kept her for two or
three days and nights. The cruelty and
unkind treatment which thçy are accused
of is alleged to have taken place during
this time.
A charge of criminal assault was placed
against the men at first, but it was re
duced to the one upon which they were
brought to trial yesterday. The case has
mysterious features, and they will be
investigated at the trial, which was go
ing on this afternoon.
At the conclusion of the hearing the
Senator Clark Seeks Royal House
Montana Han Reported to Be Negotiating for Osborne
House, Place Where Queen Victoria Died.
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X (By Associated Press.) X
X ■ ONDON, July 30.—Osborne House, on ^ Isle X
2 of Wight, a favorite summer res „e of X
* the late Queen Victoria, and the r ^ where X
X she died, may come into the posses of an X
X American. King Edward wants to id of it X
X because of its inaccessibility and bp e it costs X
X $60,000 annually to keep it up. ■ X
X William Waldorf Astor is said to have offered X
X to pay any price the king might fix, desiring to X
X present the famous royal residence to his daugh- X
X ter when she marries, but it was found that X
X under Queen Victoria's will the king is only given X
X a life title to the palace. It is now reported that X
X Mr. Astor wishes to lease the property. X
X Senator William A. Clark of Butte, Montana, X
X Is reported to have written to the king about the X
X matter. Charles T. Yerkes is also reported to be X
X a big bidder. X
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GOVERNMENT PAYS LONG-OVERDUE BILL
(By Associated Tress.)
N EW YORK, July 30.—After waiting 39 years for a
settlement of his accounts as a soldier in the war
between the states Edward Knott, a veteran of White
Plains, N. Y., lias received a check for $25 from the quar
termaster's department. The amount is the exact sum due
him as retained pay when he was mustered out of the
Fourth New Jersey volunteers in 1862. No interest was al
lowed by the government. The money was retained by the
paymaster to offset any clothing account that might be
charged against him in the quartermaster's department.
ing that all of the organizations were in
accord with the order for a strike.
Members of the Employers association
state that they have fully considered the
cost of the strike and are prepared to
meet it. The steamship managers will
hold a meeting today to consider their
course. They are not members of the
Employers association, but will act in
harmony with it. They express the
opinion that they will bé able to move
ocean going vessels, but will not disclose
their plans.
The industrial conciliation committee
of the municipal league made strenuous
efforts yesterday to avert the threatened
strike, but without avail. Two meetings
were held in the mayor's office. At the
second meeting a statement from the
Employers association's attorney, em
bodied in a report by Mayor Phelan, was
read and approved as the best they had
to offer the dissatisfied. No concessions
to the strikers and other union men in
terested were contained in it. At the
meetings of the City Front federation
and unions at night the report did not
receive serious consideration.
French Authors Will Sue American Pirates
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PRESIDENT C. M. SCHWAB.
k"
Active Head of the United States
Steel Company, Who Has Waged
Battle with the Unions,
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St. Louis Millionaire Dies.
St. Louis, July 30.—Information has
been received in a telegram from Balti
more, Md., of the death there today of
uol. John A. O'Day of Springfield, Mo.,
from the effects of paralysis. He was
a millionaire.
Ex-Chief Justice in Trouble.
Whatcom, Wash..July 30.—Elman Scott
ex-chief justice of the Washington
sup; erne court, has been arrested on a
charge of having assaulted Minna Schaf
fer, aged 15 years.
men were discharged. Judge O'Connor
stated that he could not find grounds to
hold them under the evidence offered.
CHANCE FOR GERMAN WAR DOGS
(By Associated Press.)
W ASHINGTON. July 30.—The arrest of Colonel Abel Me-.-lllo and the at
tack upon the German flag by the Colombian authorities of Cartagena
on board the Hamburg-American steamer have awakened interest in
the state department and among the Spanish-American legations, the sup
position being that the German emperor will undertake to »all the Colombian
authorities to account.
Had the Allegheny been under any other than the German flag, in any
other than a South American port, the incident would be regarded as unworthy
of notice, for the principles of international law governing the status of a
merchant vessel in port are too well recognized by maritime nations to at
tract much attention.
The extra-territoriality of a national warship is usually respected, but a
foreign merchant vessel of whatever nationality is subject to the laws of any
port she happens to visit and cannot afford a refuge for a citizen of her own
nationality, not to mention a citizen of the nation in whose jurisdiction the
vessel is temporarily found.
The United States has never failed to enforce this principle in her own
ports.
SWINDLERS
AT WORK
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO $2,000,000
POOL FOR DEAL IN SEPTEM
BER CORN ASKED FOR.
UNITED STATES AUTHORITIES
WARNED BY "CORN KING"
PHILLIPS OF CHICAGO.
COUNTRY FLOODED WITH CIR
CULARS SENT OUT BY A
MAN IN NEW YORK.
(By Associated Press.)
C " HICAGO, July 30.—George H. Phil
lips, the "corn king," today reports
to the postal authorities his dis
covery of an alleged attempt at a gigan
tic swindle. The country, Mr. Phillips
told Inspector Stuart, has been flooded
with circulars from New York asking
for subscriptions to a $2,000,000 fictitious
pool for a deal in September corn.
Prisoners Escape From Jail.
(By Associated Press.)
Toledo, O., July 30.—When the turnkey
entered the county Jail this morning
with the prisoners' breakfast he was
held up at the muzzle of two revolvers,
and locked in a cell. John Blown, alias
"Topeka Joe," Thomas Keegan and Jas,
Stewart, held for robbery of the West
Toledo postofflee, and David Morgan, a
local prisoner, then marched out of Jail
and so far have not been cought.
Suicide Because of Debts.
Boise, July 30.—Worry over debts drove
R. Eckstein, a cigar dealer at Weiser, to
commit suicide.
HIS REPUTA TION W AS INJURED
Young Han Sues His Guardian for
Causing His Arrest—Happened
in Hissoula.
Reuben Goldwater, through his guard
ian, H. Goldwater, has brought an ac
tion against A. Bernheim for having
caused his arrest and confinement In a
jail at Missoula, demanding judgment
against the defendant for $5,000.
In his complaint he alleges that he is
less than 21 years old and that H. Gold
water Is his guardian; that July 20, 1901,
at Missoula. Bernheim, wickedly, mali
ciously and falsely procured his arrest
and had him held in jail two days, thug
preventing him from attending to hlg
business or returning to his home In this
city; that by such imprisonment he was
greatly disgraced, humiliated and dam
aged in reputation and feeling's, the
extent of the damage being 5,000.
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, July 30.—Of late there have
been a number of disputes among
French authors and American managers
and actors over the question of royalties.
A meeting arranged by M. Gustav
Roger, general representative of the So
ciety of Authors, Dramatists and Com
posers, has just been held, attended by
Mm. Jean Kichepln, Roger, Elizabeth
Marbury and A. H. Hummell, the New
York lawyer. As the result of the meet
ing a plan of action was mapped out
under which lawsuits will be brought
Immediately in the American courts for
the payment of royalties due on certain
plays and to secure the rights of French
authors to their creations when pro
duce! in the United States.
NOT A GUILTY MAN
William Lewis Gray, Held for Murder
of May Fosburgh, Likely to Be
Set Free.
Detectives Convinced That the Pris
oner Had Nothing- to Do With
the Crime.
(By Associated Press.)
New York. July 30.—William R. Hazen,
employed by the Fosburgh family to
hunt down the murderer of May Fos
I'urgb. gives it as his opinion, after
careful investigation, that William Lewis
Gray, now detained here by the authori
ties, is not the man wanted.
Gray said the story lie told the woman
was false and he did it merely to make
an impression on the police. Gray is
still in custody.