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The Butte Intee Mountain.
VOL. XXI. NO. 113
BÜTTE, MONTANA. FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 2. 1901.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TROUBLED BY HIS HEART
KIMBERLE Y CA N'T SERVE
Admirai Explains His 'Reason for 'Requesting to *Be
TaKfin From the Schley Court of Inquiry, and
In Granting His Request Secretary Long TaK.es Oc
casion to "Pay the Aged Sea Fighter a Compliment.
~ r ' (By Associated Press.)
W ASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The navy
department did not announce
today the successor to Admiral
Kimberley on the Schley court of Inquiry.
The following correspondence with Ad
miral Kimberley relative to the latter's
declination has been made public:
"West Newton, Mass., July 29, 1901.—
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of precept of a court of In
quiry wlhlch is to convene on the 12th ot
September in which I am named as a
member. I regret to have to request that
my name be detached from said duty ow
ing to disability from weak heart and its
attending complication, being under med
ical treatment for the same. Much to my
mortification, this is the first department
order that I am unable to honor during
a navy life of 55 years.
"I am very respectfully. Your obedient
servant,
L. A. KIMBERLEY, Rear Admiral, U.
S. N.
"John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy.
Washington, D. C.
"Navy Department, Washington, D. C.,
August 1, 1901.—Sir: The department is
In receipt of your letter of the 29th ex
pressing regret on your part on being
obliged to ask that you may be detached
from the duty of serving on the court of
inquiry convened the 12th of September
next. The department learns with regret
that you are suffering from a weak heart
and its attending complications for which
you are under medical treatment. Such
being the case the department is reluc
tantly compelled to grant your request.
"Let me hasten to assure you that there
Is no cause for mortification at this In
cident. On the contrary, it affords an
opportunity of which the department
gladly avails Itself to congratulate you
for a record so loyal to the service. More
. over, this record amply justifies the wis
dom of the secretary of the navy in as
signing to you the grave and conspicuous
duty of serving upon the court.
"Permit me to express the hope that
your health will continue to improve so
that in future«hould a less arduous duty
be required of you you may be fully able
to respond,
ery respectfully,
"F. W. HACKKTT, Acting Secretary.
"Rear Admiral L. A. Kimberley, U. S. N.
(Ret) West Newton, Mass.
LICHTS AND SHADOWS OF ONE DAY IN THE WIDE WORLD.
(By Associated Press.)
N EW YORK, Aug 2.—The announce-
ment of the approaching marriage
of Solomon Berliner of this city,
United States consul at Teneriffe,
Canary Islands, and Miss Jennie Otten-
burg of Washington, has brought to
light an interesting romance. Mr. Ber-
liner received in his mail one day at
Teneriffe a letter from Miss Ottenburg,
a student at Columbian university,
Washington, asking that he save her
such used postage stamps as came to
the consulate. The tone of the letter
brought about a regular correspondence
between the consul and school girl. A
few weeks before leaving the Spanish
Island possession" for America Mr. Ber-
liner wrote for and received the picture
of his correspondent. During his vaca-
tion he visited Washington, and the an-
Burden Lightened By Death
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L ONDON, Aug. 2—The effect of the death of Lady Hilda Broderick on
the quarel between the newspapers and the secretary of state for
war is explained as follows:
The secretary of war has been exposed to general criticism ter lack of
tact In dealing with the press. Even the Dally Mail is now moved by gener
ous impulses, since death has suddenly darkened his home.
Lady Hilda Broderick was an accomplished woman, with a large circle of
devoted frihedö in London society. While her husband was a plodding of
ficial and a politician, with an unsatiuble appetite tor public work, she was
a welcome guest in country houses, and he often accompanied her against his
will.
Her death has occurred after a short Illness, due to blood poisoning. It is
charitable to conclude that Mr. Broderick's recent errors of judgment have
been caused by domestic anxiety and distraction.
NOT A RIYAL OF THE SOGAR TRUST
(By Associated Press.)
N EW YORK, Aug. 2.—The backers
of rhe new refinery being erected
at Edgewater, near Fort Lee, N.
J , on the shores of the Hudson river,
opposite the tomb of Gen. Grant, are
Robert Crooks & Oo„ among the largest.
Importers of refined sugars In this mar
Howerev, the fact that Robert Crooks
A- Co. have been identified with the for
eign sugars is not a factor in the new
company's policy, as the firm will
merely act as agents for the new re
finery. E. H. Latng of Crooks & Co.
rnys the new company will be known as
the Knickerbocker Sugar Refining com
pany.
The refinery is to a large extent a
western enterprise, a number of west
ern wholesale grocers and merchants,
operating under a New Jersey charter,
being Interested In the company. Geo.
K. Ross of Cleveland, O., will probably
lx- offered the presidency and be the of
ficial head of the new company. Mr.
Ross Is president of the Ross A Sprague
Co., wholesale grocers of Cleveland.
The George H. Newhall Engineering
company of Philadelphia, which will
supervise the erection of this plant,
built tbe Arbuckle refinery, also the Na
tional of Yonkers, the McCahn of Phil
adelphia, and the United States of Cam
STATE WAN TS ONL Y THE BEST
Bids for Fum.ture for the Capital Are
Opened by the Furnishing
Board.
(Special to Inter Mountain.)
Helena, Mont., Aug. 2.—The state fur
nishing board is today examining de
signs for furniture for the capitol from
six bidders, and may let the contract
before the day is over.
It has set aside $37,000 of an appropri
ation for furniture and will be guided
as much by the merit of the designs
and the quality of the work as by the
price in the letting, of the contract.
A week from today bids for frescoing
will be opened by the capitol commis
sion and it is expected there will be
fifteen bids at least, judging from the
number of firms corresponding about the
work.
The board has set aside $25,000 for this
and has notified the bidders It will be
guided solely by the character of the
designs and by the color scheme, the
object being to get the best work pos
sible for that sum.
COMING TO EXAMIN E HOLLAND
Queen Wilhelmina Will Send a Dele
gation to Inspect the Submarine
Boat.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 2.-Captain Tromp,
foreign representative of Cramps, has
received a cablegram from Holland, in
forming him that Queen Wilhelmina has
ordered the secretary of marine of Hol
land to send a detail to the LTnited
States to examine and report on the sub
marine boat Holland.
Land Lottery Is Ended.
(By Associated Press.)
El Reno, O. T., Aug. 2.—After the
lost of the 13,000 names were drawn
from the wheels last night the great
boxes containing the 150,000 names of
unlucky applicants were taken to the
school house, where the work of draw
ing was continued, but no record other
than numbering the envelopes and
notifying the owner of name therein was
made. The closing scene w'as unmarked
by any demonstration.
nouncement of the engagement has fol
lowed as a sequel.
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Hard Blows for Teachers. X '
(By Associated Press.)
Berkeley, Cal., Aug. 2.—At the closing
session of the summer school at the Uni
versity of California James Earl Rus
sell, dean of the teachers' college and
professor of history and education at
Columbia university, strjick some hard
blows at the teaching profession. He
called teachers the most narrow' and
bigoted set of people on earth. He said
they were pusillanimous and cringing,
and accused them of being unprepared
for the work they were to do. The hall
was filled with teachers attending the
summer school, and the professor's pack
ages of unpleasant truths were well re
den, N. J. The capac-tiy of the refinery
will be 1,500 barrels daily.
The men interested in the plant say
they will have a distributing outlet of
their own for 50 per cent of output. It
Is not the intention of the concerns
idetlfied with the refinery to enter into
competition with anybody.
BRAVE SEAMEN
RISK THEIR OWN UVES
IN AN ENDEAVOR*TO
RESCUE COMRADES
(By Associated Press.)
S AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.—Seven
men from the disabled transport
Lennox, bound from Manila to this
port, who were picked up in a small boat
off Fledras Blancas lighthouse and
brought to this city by the steamer
George Loomis, tell a story of a broken
shaft, dearth of provisions and the drift
ing of the helpless ship in the current
that sets down the coast.
The men are Third Mate J. Spratt, J.
Lee. Frank West, P. T. Flaherty and
James P. Scanlon, ex-sailors and men
CORN KING'S FIRM WILL RESUME BUSINESS MONDAY
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WAR TO THE END
(By Associated Press.)
P ITTSBURG, Aug. 2.—The situation
In the Amalgamated steel strike
today is anything but favorable
to an amicable adjustment of the dis
pute between the association and the
United States Steel corporation.
The reported refusal of the steel com
pany officials to enter into another con
ference, if adhered to, leaves only two
ways open to the Amalgamated associa
tion.
One is to order the striking workmen
back to work under the best terms ob
tainable and the other is to proceed with
the strike, in the hope of involving all
the union men employed in the constitu
ent concerns of the United States Steel
corporation.
The first course certainly holds little
promise for the workmen, since the
strike has abrogated all the union scales
in force before the trouble started, leav
ing them entirely at the mercy of the
manufacturers.
The second course means a struggle
to the death for the association, as the
announcement has been made on good
authority that the mill will be started
next week with non-union men if the
strikers do not resume work.
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End of Strike Is Near
S AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.—An early
settlement of, the trouble between j
the Employers' association and the ,
City Front federation now seems prob- ,
able and an early end of the strike is ;
anticipated.
Labor leaders and prominent mer
chants are alike hopeful that tomorrow
at the latest will see peace restored and
thbt on Monday the striking workingmen !
will return to their former employment. ;
Mayor Phelan has in his possession a j
letter from the City Front federation, I
ceived. He spoke of himself as of the
teaching profession.
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Spaniard Defends Schley.
(By Associated Press.)
Madrid, Aug. 2. —Lieut. Enrique
Câpres, formerly governor of Santiago
de Cuba, who was on board the Spanish
cruiserVlzcaya during the battle of San-,
tiago. In an attempt to escape with the
city records and treasure of Santiago,
in an interview regarding Admiral
Schley, said:
"I was on the bridge of the Vizcaya
and saw the fight. I saw the Brooklyn,
and from an excellent position observe.!
the movements. The Brooklyn attacked
us, and it is ridiculous to say she kept
too far away or stayed out of the fight.
There cannot have been cowardice where
the ship engaged three others. Eye wit
nesses of the battle are dying off, and
It is better to finally settle the question
now while enough witnesses are living."
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American. Enterprise in Germany.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 2. —The American shoe
manufacturer who has stirred up feel
ing in Vienna by his attempt to estab
lish a number of American shoe shops
in that city is Julius Barthman of New
York. Barthman formerly kept a shoe
store in Broad street, Newark, but was
burned out a year ago. Last winter he
went to Europe, and on his return said
there were limitless opportunities for
American shoes in Austria, and that he
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[EW YORK, Aug. 2.—Daniel Frohman, who has Just returned X
from Europe, has departed from his usual custom in engaging X
Kubelik, a violinist. It la explained that Mr. Frohman heard X
36 while abroad that Kubelik was disengaged and in Russia, where he X
X was held for military service. Mr. Frohman negotiated his release and X
X after paying a bonus succeeded in getting him. He will appear in X
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of-war's-men; David Rankin of New Jer
sey, a government clerk returning from
Manila, and F. L. Rose, a reporter, form
erly connected with the Manila Freedom.
They constituted a volunteer crew that
put off from the transport in search of
assistance. On the Lennox are 17 cabin
and 45 second class passengers, nearly
all of whom are discharged sailors and
a Chinese crew of 30 men. There are no
women on board.
Third Mate Spratt and his companions
tell the same story. One of them saidu .
"The Lennox left Manila June 27 an4
Nagasaki July 5. On the afternoon of
July 25 the shaft broke within three feet
of the propeller, making » great noia%
The executive board went into ses
sion at 10 o'clock this fiiorning, with
James Nutt, secretary of the labor
bureau of the Republic Iron and Steel
company, and Joseph Bishop, secretary
of the Ohio board of arbitration, were
present.
It is reported that the final effort of
the Amalgamated association will be to
bring every influence to bear towards
arranging for another conference with
the company officials.
It is said that before a general strike
is ordered the officers of the United
States Steel corporation will be fully in
formed of the intention of the Atnal
gamated officers if more favorable terms
are not promptly presented for the con
sideration of the board. A reasonable
time will be given before'the extreme
measures are resorted to by the associa
tion.
It seems almost certain that if the re
quest of the Amalgamated association
for another conference is refused, the
strike will be extended to all the plants
controled by the big steel corporation
where the Amalgamated association has
a foothold, and that it will be the mint
bitter struggle between capital and labor
over seen in this country.
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asking for more light upon certain fea
tures of the terms of peace upon which
the employers insist. This letter was
laid before the Employers' asociation to
day.
Numerou conferences have been held
and it is expected by many of those in
terested, that ah understanding will be
reached, before night. Whatever deci
sion may be reached will not directly
affect the striking iron workers, who are
not included in the City Front federation
f unions.
intended to open a number of American
shoe stores in Vienna and afterward in
other cities of Austria and Germany.
Mr. Barthman had capital, but also in
terested others in his project. He re
turned to Vienna and sent orders to this
country for large consignments of shoes.
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Boer War Proving Costly.
(By Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 2. —In the house of com
mons Lord Stanley, financial secretary
of the war office, replying to a question,
said the cost of the war in South Africa
from April to July was £35,750,000, partly
chargeable against the deficit of last
year. The actual cost in July was
L 1,250,000 weekly. The statement was
greeted with ironical cheers. The chan
< ellor of the exchequer. Sir Michael
Hieks-Beach, said if the war continuel
at the same cost for the next three
months it would necessitate spending
the whole of the reserve he had pro
vided for financing the third quartets
but he had reason to hope that this
would not be necessary.
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Famous Editor Passing Away.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 2. —A report was
brought over on the Deutschland that
K. Lawrence Godkin, formerly editor of
the Evening Post, and famous for his
philiipics against local political organ
izations, is dying of Bright's disease in
a little London suburb. Mr. Godkin has
done little active editorial work for
tut the quick shutting off of the engines
prevented any damage to the vessel.
There was a calm at the time and things
looked bad.
"The members of the Chinese crew
were helpless, but we old sailors fixed up
a jury rig, but under It the vessel made
Title or no progress. For nearly a week
we looked in vain for assistance, mean
while drifting to the southward and in
toward the coast.
"What made it really serious was the
shortage of provisions. Capt. Williamson
asked the Chinese crew to man a small
boat and attempt to reach the coast. The
Chinese refused and the chief officer
, .une to us sailors and asked for a vol
ROOSEVELT HA', PRAISE
FOR MF'/ilF COLORADO
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Vice President the Me ifeature of the Quarto Centen
nial Celebration ^ . Colorado Springs, Where He
Pays a High Ti. ute to the Pioneers Who Blazed
the Way for the Civilization That Now Marks West.
(By Associated Press.)
C OLORADO SPRINGS, COL., Aug.
2. —The principal feature of the
Colorado quarto-centennial cele
bration in this city today was an ad
dress by Vice President Theodore
Roosevelt on "The Growth of the West
During the Last Quarter of a Century."
On his arrival this morning Colonel
Roosevelt was welcomed by Governor
Orman and staff, war veterans, school
children and many others. At 10 o'clock
he was escorted to North Park where
he spoke in the open air to an assembly
of 10,000 people. He said in part:
"This anniversary, which marks the
completion by Colorado of her first quar
ter century of statehood, is of interest
not only to her, not only to her sisters,
the states of the Rocky Mountain re
gion, but to our whole country. With
tlie exception of the admission to state
hood of California no other event em
phasized in such dramatic fashion the
full meaning of the growth of our coun
try as did the incoming of Colorado.
"You, the men of Colorado, and above
all. the older among those whom I am
r.ow addressing, have been engaged in
doing the great typical work of our peo
ple. Save only the preservation of the
union itself, no other task has been so
important as the conquest and settle
ment of the west.
"This conquest and settlement has
been the stupendous feat of our race
for the century that has just closed. It
stands supreme among all such feats.
The same kind of thing has been in
Australia and Canada, but upon a less
important scale; while the Russian ad
\ance in Siberia has been incomparably
slower.
"In all the history of mankind there
is nothing that quite parallels the way
in which our pe pie ha e filled a vacant
continent with self-governing common
wealths, knit into one nation. And of
ail this marvelous history perhaps the
most wonderful portion is that which
deals with the way in which the Pa
cific coast and the Rocky mountains
were settled.
"There was scant room for the coward
and the weakling in the ranks of the
adventurous frontiersman; the pioneer
settlers who first broke up the wild
prairie soil, who first hewed their way
into the primeval forest: who guided
their white-topped wagons across the
nearly three years, when he left New
York and went to live in Connecticut.
His health failed him several months
ago and he went abroad for recupera
tion.
Colored Family Lynched.
(By Associated Press.)
Carrollton, Miss., Aug. 2.—The brutal
murder of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Taliferro
on the night of July 30 led last night to
the lynching of Betsie McGray, her son,
Belfleld McGray, and her daughter, Ida.
McGray, all colored. A mob, composed
of 500 white citizens of Carroll county,
marched to the jail, took the keys from
Jailer Duke, proceeded to the McGrays'
cell, bound them by the neck and hands
and then carried them to the corporate
limits of the town, where they hanged
them to a tree and riddled their bodies
with bullets. Ida McGray confessed
New Life for the Old Camp
(By Associated Press.)
S ALT LAKE, UTAH, Aug. 2.—Within a short time the Manhattan
Mining & Smelting company, with a capital of not less than $12,o00,000,
will be formed either under the laws of Colorado or New Jersey to
take over the 67 properties owned by the Pioche Consolidated company in
Lincoln county, Nevada, and enough others to run the total up to 100 differ
ent groups of claims, together with hoisting works, smelters, pumping plants
and the electric light and water systems of Pioche.
The great undertaking, which calls for the payment of $1,000,000 within the
next 18 months, has been launched by A. B. Lewis, a weI1 *^°f n Beav *£
county operator, and with unlimited New York capital, associated in the work
of reclaiming the once famous camp, which has in tbe past produced over
$200,000,000, will begin within the next weeks.
In fact, work has already been started at several p oints, __
OUTLOOK IS DARK FOR VENEZUELA
(By Associated Press.)
P ORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD,
Aug. 2.—Venezuela is again on
the eve of a revolution, and not
only is that unfortunate republic ap
proaching a state of civil war, but seri
ous complications will, in all probability,
unteer crew. Twenty minutes later we
were off in a boat and were given a good
send-off.
"We took two kegs of water, two tins
of corned beef and a box of hardtack.
The boat was rigged with a sail, but
there was no wind and until we were
picked up by the Loomis,12 hours later,
we were at the oars and had come with
in sight of Piedras Blancas light."
It is expected the government tug
Slocum, which was at once sent in search
of the Lennox, will find the transport some
time today, close to Santa Barbara chan
nel. She was 180 miles south of this city
and 40 miles at sea when the small boat
left her.
endless leagues of Indian-hunted deso
lation, and explored every remote moun
tain chain in the restless quest for
metal wealth.
"Behind them came the men who com
pleted the work they had thoroughly be
gun; who drove the great railroad sys
tems over plain and desert and mountain
pass; who stocked the teeming ranches,
and under irrigation saw the bright
green of the alfalfa and the yellow of
the golden stubble supplant the gray
of the sage-brush desert; who have
built great populous cities, cities in
which every art and science of civiliza
tion are carried to their highest point,
on tracts which when the nineteenth
century had passed its meridian were
still known only to the grim trappers
•and hunters and the red lords of the
wilderness with whom they waged
eternal war.
"Such is the record of which we are
so proud. It is a record of men who
greatly dared and greatly did; a record
of wanderings wider and more danger-
ous than those of the Vikings; a record
of endless feats of arms, of victory,
after victory in the ceaseless strife
waged against wild man and wild na-
ture. The winning of the west was the
great epic feat in the history of our
race."
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Change in the Charge. • H
(Special to Inter Mountain.)
Anaconda, Aug. 2.—Through an under-
standing with County Attorney Duffy
the charge of horse stealing against
Charles Irvine was, this afternoon, with-
drawn and a charge of larceny as bailee
substituted. The animal which Irvine
sold to Metzell was given into his pos-
session by C. W. iMcKeen, his cousin, the
owner, hence Attorney Duffy was will-
ing to reduce the charge from a peniten-
tiary offense. Ir\ ine pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to six months in the coun-
ty jail. Irvine admits the stealing of $45
in cash from McKeen, and will be
brought to acount for that.
Robbery Charge Dismissed. '
Anaconda, Aug. 2.— C. M. Heffey, Will-
iam Kincaid and Frank Scully, charged
with having robbed the Buffet restau-
rant recently, were today discharged
from custody, the evidence against then!
not being strong enough to warrant
their being bound over.
knowledge of the murder, and stated
that her mother and brother helped com
mit the ctime. She further implicated
others, who will probably meet a like
fate. Betsie McGray refused to maka
any statement.
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Loving Cup for Eagles Leader.
New York, Aug. 2.—The Fraternal
Order of Eagles of New York has pre
sented the grand president, Del Carey
Smith of Spokane, with a silver loving
cup. The presentation took place at a
banquet last 'night. President Smith,
who was elected grand president at tha
convention of the Eagles in May last
at San Francisco, is making a general
tour of the eastern eyries. He said that
although the order had its birth in the
far west and is less than five years old,
there are upwards of 100,000 members
enrolled.
arise between the governments of Vene
zuela and Colombia. President Castro,
while facing the uprising against his
own authority, is also accused of fur
thering directly the revolution against
the Colombia government.
Arms, ammunition and other acces
sories of war have been quietly smug
gled into Venezuela through the water
ways of the republic, and the first en
gagement is expected to be the signal
for uprisings in several widely sepa
rated districts. Gen. Castro is expected
to again assert his power by placing a
strict censorship on all telegraphic dis
patches from that country, as well as
by ordering a close scrutiny of all mail
matter passing through the general
postoffice in Cera cas.
To add to the seriousness of the situ
ai ion in Venezuela itself. It Is well
known that in the adjoining republic of
Colombia a strong feeling of resent
ment against the Castro government ex
ists, on account of what Is considered a
seiious breach of international law on
the- part of Venezuela for its alleged
recognition of, if not actual assistance,
the revolutionary party of Colombia.
It is even said that the Venesuelan
government has winked at, if not ac
tually assisted, the Colombian revolu
licuists with articles of war.