The Butte inter mountain. [volume], November 12, 1903, Page 5, Image 5

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INSPECTOR BYRNE
ON THE DISASTER
STATE OFFICIAL LOATH TO DISCUSS
FATAL ACCIDENT AT KEAR
SARGE MINE.
IT MAY NEVER BE KNOWN
Exactly What Caused Some of the Fa
talities Is Not Stated-Byrne Had
Warned the Alder People.
John Byrne, state mining inspector, ar
lived in Butte last night from Virginia
City where he spent three or four days
looking into the disaster at the Kearsarge
mine last week which caused the death of
eight employes of the Alder Mining com
pany, including Superintendent Robert
Turner. The mine inspector was a witness
before the coroner's juries that looked into
the cause of the deaths and spent some time
examining the mine on his own account.
Mr. Byrne was not disposed today to
talk freely for publication about the cause
of the affair. He contended at the inquest
that the company had been technically neg
ligent in maintaining the blacksmith and
boiler house at the mouth of the tunnel.
Caused Fatalities.
The burning of this building furnished
the smoke and gas which asphyxiated four
of the miners who were at work in a drift
leading from the winze, and perhaps indi
rectly caused the death of Superintendent
Turner and three others of a rescue party
who were seeking to reach them by means
of the Apex shaft.
The Alder company had expected to do
away with the tunnel house in a few days,
as soon as they had completed driving a
new shaft. The mine inspector had warned
them to exercise unusual precaution against
the very thing that happened-a fire and
the smoke being drawn through the tun
nel.
May Never Be Known.
Mr. Byrne says it will probably never be
known what caused the deaths of Super
intendent Turner and the three others of
the rescue party. The generally accepted
theory is that they were descending the
Apex shaft, an adjoining mine, when the
last man to go down, Aubie, a top man
who had been working on the excavation
for the mill, lost his balance and falling,
knocked those below him to their deaths.
Auble was unaccustomed to mining and
may have lost his balance in descending
the ladder. Another theory is that all of
the men became overcome by the smoke
and gas which had penetrated to the Apex
shaft through the connecting workings.
The deplorable affair is regretted by no
one more than the state mine inspector
who was personally acquainted with some
of the men. lie says it was about the
worst mining disaster that ever occurred
in Montana with the excepti8n of the one
that occurred at the Anaconda a number
of years ago and one about the same time
at the Hope mine at Basin.
Millard Feels It.
W. M. Millard, one of the officers of the
Alder company, feels terribly wrought up
over the loss of Superintendent Turner
and the other men. It is said the com
pany will show a liberal spirit in making
provisions for the families of the victims
of the disaster.
"Superintendent Turner was an able
man, about the best in his line in Mon
tana, and his death will be a loss to the
company," said Mr. Byrne. "He was the
first to introduce the cyanide process in
Montana. I consider him one of the best
gold men in the West. He was a man of
great energy, full of life and nerve, as was
shown by his heroic action in hurrying to
the rescue without waiting to consider the
danger of going down the Apex shaft. It
was a very deplorable accident and I re
gret it as much as any one."
If you have a bad cola you need a good
reliable medicine like Chamberlain's
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and to allay the irritation and inflammation
of the throat and lungs. The soothing
and healing properties of this remedy and
the quick cures which it effects make it
a favorite everywhere. For sale by Pax
son & Rockefeller, Newbro Drug Co.,
Christie & Leys, Newton Bros.
PADDY RODGERS GOES FREE
Last Charge Against Him Has Been For
mally Dismissed.
Paddy Rodgers has finally succeeded :n
getting free. The last charge against hi.n
was dismissed this morning.
When Judge McClernan's court opened,
Attorney William Newton, on behalf of
Rodgers, requested the court to dismiss
the charge of assault in the second degree
against Rodgers. This was the charge
preferred against Paddy for assisting in
the jail break.
It was thought the charge had already
been dismissed, but the records did not
show it. The court granted the request
and Paddy is now free to enjoy himself
unmolested.
FARMERS ARE IN SESSION
Yellowstone County Institute Is Meeting
in Big Timber.
RPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN.
Billings, Nov. la.-The farmers of Yel
lowstone county are holding an annual in
stitute here today in the courthouse. There
are quite a number of the ranchers of the
locality present. The session was called
to order by Hon. I. D. O'Donnell of this
city. Professors Lindfield, Harkness and
Fisher of the agricultural college are pres
ent and taking part in the proceedings,
each speaking upon a pertinent subject.
The institute will probably be in session
tomorrow.
B. & M. TRAIN LEAVES RAILS
SPECIAL TO THIE INTIER MOUNTAIN,.
Billings, Nov. ia,-A Burlington switch
engine and three cars left the track while
switching in the B. & M,. yards here this
morning. No one was injured and the
damage was not large.
Small Fire in Billings.
SPECIAL TO TIHE INTER MOUNTAIN.
Burlington, Nov. i..-The fire depart
ment was called out at 9:45 o'clock this
morning to fight a blaze in the Elk hotel.
The fire was found in the furnace room
and was soon extinguished, before over
$150 damage had been done,
Married in Billings.
SPECIAL 'T TO TE INTER MOUNTAIX.
Billings, Nov. is.-Marvin Clark of
Bozeman and Rose Nicholson of St. Paul
were married here last night by Rev. Mr.
Miller. They will reside in Bozeman.
I ' Warm Numbers for Friday's Seiinj Wq
It Pays to Trade at Hennessy's. See These Goods and You'll SaySo
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RCOA¢T3 short of work and need protection at a minimum cost.
O RAINT
Os R Men's $15 to $18 Overcoats for $10
~ c About 100, well made, of black and blue kersey and gray, black
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. and good trimmings. Great bargains at $10.00.
Men's $20 to $22.50 Overcoats for $15 Men's $25 Winter Overcoats for $20
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Half Hose at I5c Neckwear at IOc Nightshirts at $1.50 Nightshirts at $1.00
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25c values for 15c. nants of rich silks used by the best in pink, blue and1 dove colorings; hand- tra well made with military collar. $1.50
aBuck Gloves at $1.00 mlkers. Values 25e to ,3,c. Price 10c. soitely Irinulned. $2.01) values $1.,50. values for $1.00.
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ERICKSON PLEADS
GUILTY TO CHARGE
FINED $20 IN BUTTE POLICE COURT
FOR HAVING WEAPON CON
CEALED ON HIM.
MRS. TRAINOR IS IN JAIL
Taxed $10 on Disturbance Charge, She
Is Unable to Pay and Is Committed
to a Cell in Bastile.
Fred Erickson pleaded guilty to the
charge of carrying concealed weapons this
morning in Judge Boyle's court and was
fined $2o. The fine was paid.
Erickson is a recent arrival in Butte.
Yesterday the officers saw the gun in his
pocket and promptly arrested him.
The police are making an effort to dis
courage the carrying of guns and a num
ber of arrests have been made during the
past week or two.
Mrs. Trainor, charged with causing a
disturbance in a West Galena street lodg
ing house, was fined $io this morning.
The fine was not paid and she was conm
mitted to jail.
When arrested Mrs. Trainor was throw
ing cuspidors and pieces of bric-a-brac
about the house.
ELKS TO SLAUGHTER
LOCAL LODGE WILL INITIATE THE
SHERIFF AND SEVERAL OTH
ERS THIS EVENING.
The Elks will have a little jollification
tonight. Several candidates will be sup
plied with antlers, among them Sheriff
Jack Quinn. The genial sheriff is an all
around good fellow, and what the jolly
herd will do to him will be a shame to tell.
To say that he will be all lit up would
but half tell the story.
Tom Kilgallan, the exalted ruler of the
lodge, says that thes will be nothing
overlooked to make the affair a complete
success from the viewpoint of the lodge
members.
JUST "TO MENTION IN PASSING"
Cram's Atlas of the World, :go3 edition, with
handsome up-to-date map of Montana, is given
free to Inter Mountain subscribers who pay
f7.ao for one year in advance, The special Goo
vote coupon is also included.
Jones' Dairy Farm Sausage at P. J.
Brophy's.
BILL TO OPEN OUR
PORTS TO REPUBLIC
PAYNE SENDS IN THE MEASURE
CALCULATED TO MAKE CUBAN
RECIPROCITY EFFECTIVE.
SENATE TALKS ON MR. SMOOT
Discusses Seating or Unseating of the
,Man From Utah-Ways and Means
Committee Announced.
(Continued from Page ()ne.)
convention is in force no sugar importe:l
from the republic of Cuba, and being the
product of soil or industry of the republic
of Cuba, shall be admitted into the United
States at a reduction of duty greater than
ao per centum of the rates of duty thereon
as provided by the tariff act of the
United States approved July 24, t897, and
no sugar the product of any other foreign
country shall be admitted by treaty or
convention into the United States while
this convention is in force, at a lower rate
of duty than that provided by the tariff
act of the United States approved July a4,
1897, and, provided further, that nothing
herein contained shall be held or con
strued as an admission on the part of the
house of representatives that customs
duties can be changed otherwise than by
an act of congress, originating in said
house.
Sec. 2. That so long as said convention
shall remain in force, the laws and regu
lations adopted, or that may be adopted,
by the United States to protect the reve
nues and prevent fraud in the declarations
and proofs that the articles of merchan
dise to which said convention may apply
are the products of manufacture of the re
public of Cuba, shall not impose any addi
tional charge or fees therefor on the arti
cles imported, excepting the consular fees
established, or which may be established,
by the United States for issuing shipping
documents, which fees shall not be higher
than those charged on the shipments of
similar merchandise from any other na
tion whatsoever; that articles of the re
public of Cuba shall receive on their im
portation into the ports of the United
Et4tes treatment equal to that which
similar articles of the United States shall
receive on their importation into the ports
of the republic of Cuba; that any tax or
charge that may be imposed by the na
tional or local authorities of the United
States upon the articles of merchandise of
the republic of Cuba, embraced in the arti
cles of said convention subsequent to said
importation and prior to their entering
into consumption into the United States
shall be imposed and collected without dis
cri inaltiot n uponi like articles whel, .nsoei ver
imported.
Mr. I'ayte introduced the hill to make
fleltive tlih ( tnliln reciprocity rotivecntill
which, witllhout objection, was read by title
and refrred to the co lllmmitte o ways andil
Mr. I'aynle ha;vingl moved to a:djoulrll,
Mr. Williams (Miss.), intquired if lie was
really to announe: thlie program of the nma
jority.
Mr. Payne said a meeting of the ways
anld tlealns commlittee would be called to
miiorrow anld he hop)ed to report the bill to
the house toimorrow.
Adjourned.
Ways and Means.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 12.-- Vhen the
house imet today the speaker announlllced
the ways and means committee as fol
lows:
Republicans-Messrs. Payne, New York;
I)alzell, Pennsylvania; (;rosvenor, Ohio;
'I'awney, Minnesota; McCall, Massachu
setts; Babcock, Wisconsin ; Metcalf, Cal
ifornia; hill, Connecticut; Iloutelle, Illi
nois; Watson, Indiana; Curtis, Kansas.
)Democrats--Messrs. Williams, Missis
sippi; Robertson, Louisiana; Swanson,
Virginia; McClellan, New York; Cooper,
Texas; Clark, Missouri.
Chairman Payne of the ways and mteans
commnittee will call that committee to
gether tomorrow to consider the Cuban
bill.
Discuss Reed Smoot.
\Vashington, 1). C., Nov. Is.--Iunmeli
atuely upon assembling today the senate
plunged into a discussion of the question
of the eligibility of Mr. Reed Smoot of
Utah to a seat in the senate. The de
bate grew out of the remarks made yester
lday by Mr. hoar saying that petitions
bearing upon Mr. Smoot's case were as
much out of place as would similar pe
titions to the supreme court of the United
States lie in the interest of any case bIe
,fore that tribunal. Mr. Dulois (Idaho)
took issue today with Mr. Iloar's remark
and presented his views in connection with
the petitions for Mr. Smoot's expulsion,
which were presented by himself.
After announcing the fact that his views
differ from those of Mr. Iloar as to the
propriety of the petitions on this subject,
Mr. Dubois proceeded:
"I contend," he said, "that these vari
ous objections of Christian men and wo
men have a right to petition the senate
and maintain their duty to do so. Of
course, we all appreciate that this is a
judicial question, which must lie deter
mined by the facts, but it is not an idle
question and it is properly before the
senate. It is the same question that was
involved in the case of the polygamous
Roberts, for wltose unseating by the house
of representatives many petitions were
filed. All the petitioners ask is that we
study the case carefully before passing
upon it, They know what they are doing.
They represent the moral thought of the
country and should not be discouraged.
They scarcely expect to influence our
votes, but it is to be hoped that the peti
tiol will at least have the effect of caus
'Contnued on Page Nino.)
NORTHERN PACIFIC
SECURES A DECREE
EJECTMENT ENTERED IN THE CASE
BROUGHT BY RAILWAY VERSUS
AN ALLEGED SQUATTER.
GINSBERGER ACTS AS LAWYER
But His Legal Procedures Are a Trifle
Irregular-Defendant Allows It to
Go by by Default.
The Nortlhern I'Pacific Railroad company won
an ejecment suit in Judge Jlarney'. coult this
morning. The defendant in the suit was Mrs.
Pat MclAvy, a wonlan lsquatter uplon tie rail
road land in the terminal grounds IIto tile CUml.
pany in this city.
'hii is cine of tihe ejectment cases in which
Albert tGinsb-rger acted as rllounsel for the
defendantls, although not a practicing attorney.
TI'he other rase wasl that of Pat McAvoy, whoin
the railroad brought suit igallnst to oubt ifroIt
sitilar propert y.
Gots by Default.
;inshciger preparetd the answers for thie d..
fendlnts, andt lie "alieged, denied, admitted
and demurred" altogether, which caused lthe
answers to be stricken. County Attolrney
Peter Ilreen was called into the cas'es by the
defendants, but, evidently, Mrs. McAvoy had
no sufficient dlefense to the suit, for she let it
go by default tloday.
Attorney I. 1'. Sallnders appeared for the
railroad, and informed the court that a default
had been entered against the defendant, and
asked to be allowed to make proofs. 'The court
granted the request.
T'lhen Mr. Sanders was sworn and stated to
the court that he had records with him which
showed that the land occupied by Mrs. Mc
Avoy's cabin had been condemned for the
benefit of tile Montana railroad and transferred
by it to the Northern Pacific road, and that
the latter's litle was a matter of record.
Decree Entered.
lie also said he had maps that showed that
the cabin of the defendant was within the rail.
road's land, and that he had examined the
ground himself and knew It was there. Upon
these proofs, a decree of ejectment against
Mrs. McAvoy was entered by the court.
Mr. Sanders expressed regret that Attorney
Gin.,berger did not appear and defend the sult.
Well Governed.
"You claim to have a well-governed
city I"
"I should say so," answered the machine
politician. "Nobody dares do anything
without permission from the boss."
Washington Star.
ON HIS BAQUE
An artist disposed of a plaque
For quite a respectable staque;
He drank soaiiething red
That went to his head
And they carried him home in a haque I
-Milwaukee Sentinel.
NINE PRISONERS OF
OUT OF TOWN JAILS
SIX MEN BROUGHT HERE FROM
BEAVERHEAD BASTILE WHILE IT
IS BEING COMPLETED.
SHERIFF BENNER HAS THREE
Cascade County Official Here En Route
to Penitentiary-What the Tran
sients Are Charged With.
The county jail was the temporary har
bor today for nine prisoners from other
counties. Six of them belong in Beaver
head county and were lodged in the has
tile of Sheriff Quinn by Sheriff Gist of
Dillon. The other three are bound for the
state prison, and were being taken through
llutte on their way to Deer Lodge by
Sheriff Ilenner of Great Falls.
The six prisoners of Sheriff Gist were
brought here from Virginia City, where
they had been kept temporarily for awhile,
pending the erection of a jail at Dillon.
The old jail at the latter city was torn
down to make room for the new one, so
there ha' been no place of secure confine
ment for prisoners charged with felonies in
that town for a time.
Prisoners and Chargee.
The prisoners are George Polick, charged
with murder; Dan Nichols, charged with
horse stealing; Bert Phillips and Jim
Toney, charged with forgery, and John
Kane, John Murphy and Russell McBride,
charged with grand larceny. Toney is a
colored man.
Sheriff Gist is taking his men to Dillon
for trial, the district court having set their
trials for Monday next. In the meantime
the prisoners will be kept here in the Sil
ver Bow county jail.
New Beaverhead Jail.
It is said that the Dillon jail will be a
fine structure when completed, but in the
interim there is some inconvenience ex
perienced in caring for the prisoners of
the county charged with felony.
The prisoners brought in by Sheriff Ben
ner and bound for the state prison will be
taken out this afternoon.
He Was Next.
"Neow, Silas," said Mrs. Hoppergrass,
as the old man was about to depart for
the city, "don't yew go and squander
yewr money on none uv them games uv
chance."
"Don't yew worry 'bout me, Hanner,'"
replied the horny-handed son of toil. "Ef
I dew enny gamblin' I'll hunt up one uv
them air sure-thing games what yer resi
erbout."-Chicago News,