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I~I~RP"'ENT : fbe Kal of eesstb arnee qý, hue,.O'ý Dotespli 1 SM tle aNe aTINsat let Pub. a * of t h ebsiaie** *5 ede of leeagalse dshlvssp u" memslv. I.t~aý r ee. g ese, S~l5 emamnahstloas mot etarasable aa* l peatae is saelesed. 21 MAlL. S(tlaeledlns larnidl pi >a *.. " 1....'.01 00 *h rlatag Ba.de l six months...... 500 p(tudla4ia fadaul three. eathe.... 200 y (eselests eadai per reer........ g 00 sallp (eselaidlea0Uadei per moath...... 7 Usadap .ely [in advaneel per year......... 21 Weekly fin advagee oalyb pe pesr......... 10 wily by esaler, per week, tares iseea.. s HELENA. MONT., JAN. 2`i 1801. Al'Montanlans abroad will always find Tear DArtv lNDrnzreDENT en filo at their favorit, botels: Fifth Aveanu and Metropolitan. New fork. Grand Pacific. Chieasao Went, Minneapo. Us Blaldwin and lalsuo, Pisa Francisco; 83t. Nicholas and McDermott, lutte; Leland, hotel, sprlaeld.i. IL _ _ SALAMIKA OPF t4) N1 1 CIfltIAlS.A The Farmers' alliance means buil ness. The recent election demonstrated the strength of thi movemont in a way that it is not too much to believe sur prised even its promoters, and their sub sequent action proves without a doubt that they moan to make their influence a power in the land. Their most recent action will secure an amount of support from moderate men of all parties, In some of the states which have ranged themselves -under the alliance banner, meetings have been held under the auspices of that body to protest against the extravagant salaries that are some times paid to county officials and against the fee system in toto. The alliance would reduce the salaries of county officials to a maximum of $1,200 per annum and, as we have said, abolish the o fee system altogether. On the advisability of the latter change there will be little controversy. Payment by fee is almost of necessity unjust. There are certainly very few instanoes in which that method produces ti satisfactory results for all concerned. The official who is receiving $10,000 to it 12,000 per annum for the performance l of county work is draining the pockets of the ratepayers and rendering them very unsatisfactory compensation for that amount of money. We do not mean that his work is of necessity faulty in k the slightest degree, but what we assert is that the sums we have spoken of are h a ridiculous figure for such work, how, w ever well it may be done. In the oppo site extreme, there is no alight tempta- w tieon to tampering with public funds, when the compensation is thoroughly inadequate for the duties that have to be performed. It is almost an inevi table result of such failure to meet the responsibilities of an office that the men who are willing to undertake its duties are unfit for the position. Any attempt, however, to fix an iron clad maximum salary, whether $1,200 per annum or any other sum, is utterly out of the question. The payment of every workman ought to depend upon the amount of work he has to perform s and the responsibility it entails. It T would not be consistent, for example, s that the county clerk of Meagher shou'd m receive the same salary as the county m clerk of Lewis and Clarke, with much heavier duties to perform and greater responsibility attaching to his oflico. fic The alliance would do well to reconsider g< this part of their schedule. It is all of right to abolish the fee system with its as lottery chances, and it is all right to do si sway with exorbitant salaries. But we ,annot afford to be penny-wise and pound-foolish. We want our public oI work well done, and we must pay for it. e0 We do not wish men to make a fortune 4C )ut of two terms of oflice, but we must in have a salary high enough to attract thy right man to the right place. What we need is a sliding scale of salaries for out county oficials. We might take for ; )ase the rateable value and the popula m ,ion of each county, and by making our estimates on this plan, we should secure not and equitable payment for the labor fur county officials have to do and the 'esponsibility they have to bear, and at III he same time we should raise the " tandard of our ofhice holders. M'KIINLEY TO THlE (t)NTRCAR Icc r Notwithstanding tce predictiona of a bose who excused the high prices onn i ailed by the McKinley law (in the fround that it would cause a revivicl of toc unsinesa in the pcrotected indcictriece, the icc cutlook in the iron trade is snytlhcng in nut promiaing. (Generiti Manager.Jamecc d' Wt. Swank, of the American Iron and to 3teel association, gives this as his opin- t'h on: it The iron trade of this country starts oil a cadly at the beginning of the new year. at Ihe South Chicago steel plant of the flli tots Steel company baa been closed- lice 'urnace owners of the Shteccangeo and Mn- o toning vslleya threaten to hank ocr blow tic rat their furnaces if oak,, prices and 'reight rates are not further reduced, cc Ihrest which means as niuch as anything c mlss that the demand for pi iron has faileica aff, the strike of the coal miners in the ttirminccham district c'ictiinues, and tic, leadency to blow nut fu-ncccea in lice dis- -,c rich has not been ohecked. all of which di means that orders for Alsh~acns pig iron are tc) not now pressing heavily ucpcon the tmakeric4 The same law that was to lcieverct all pr this was to benefit tice w'.lcicrccicge cai; wi ployed in the business 'if makcrcg ni;o at and steel. How it has ecicceedud will Ii; of noticed in the further remarks of thu wc same unquestiontic aicthcrity: lie Pricesa of nearly all iron and ateel prod- tr oats are weak, and a general reduction in th wages seems to be inevitable. ii) Perhaps time, Moses 'if j';crncalisnc of whom Russell Hfarrisc~n diScco,-rilot somewhere in the bulilrcahes along iEast i river can show by parallel obituary rules tic that Swank is wrong. p REED's coinage ComDmittee is ics solid hi against free silver as it was last year. ci The petirement of Conger, of Iowa, frouc th the chairmanship left iukkcamn, cof Ohio, at the head of the cotamittceo. st Wickham, instead of being for free IP1 cemasge, is against it; so are seven other meanbees of the committee. (July four inembers favor reporting the bill as it a, asine fronm the senate. 'The friends of al tree eolasqe i PVkbea determined alfert . ` i' o the commit' -I sado got it but with Reed in the e4ft W43 to throttle debate and take a WIMI eavantage, islM a iparent that a, ean uphill ight. ,, Tea Enginering No te it geet lad review of eleetrilol die couses the using of eiaettl@ o '.' place of the steam locomotives on our trunk railways. It does not shoe thse opinion of some electrial enthusiasts, that the day is near at hand when steam will be superseded. It admits that it may be fairly concluded that an electric railway, built and operated primarily for passenger traffic In i location where the advantages it offers will be appre elated, has much to commend it to the favorable notice of engineers and in vestors. Sich lrcutions exist in the viminity of many of our larger cities, and between some of those which lie nearest eash other. Bletween New York and J'hiladelphia, for instance, a railway which would dispatob through express trains every hour or half hour, making the run in 80 minutes, with all the gdin in comfort whlch an electric railway makes possible, would have at least a lighting chance of financial success. But the electric motor would fail to meet the requirements of railroads handling a great volume of freight, f especially in the matter of switching at stations and yards. This would have to be done by independent storage bat tory motors, or steam locomotives at ter. minals or important yards, but what to do with all the minor stations, where the necessary switching is now done by the engines of local freight trains, t would be a difficult problem. The fact that there are 4,016 switching locomo tives in the United States to 15,140 a freight locomotives, shows that this matter of handling cars about yards and on sidings is not to be lightly passed t evor by the believers in electric traction I 'or all classes of service. i The News concludes, therefore, that it will be a long time before we have any I ong line of road on which the only mo ive power will be the electric motor. Has some one whipped Tux INDEpssnEwr nto silence, or was it all a bluf?-Inter r, fountain. el Neither. Warned by the offensive a coddling of the Inter Mountain and he daily Russell Harrison it has re rained from a course that tended to w reep up strife. If the editor of the I d, I. had been at the hub the past week ie would have seen that the situation is vas working itself out all right and that tr thlrp INiEPrlENnrir knew just what it o vae about. ti -- v= o As proof that the McKinley bill is a rood thing republican organs cite the a eport that, notwithstanding the tax, hampagno has declined in price from sc C3.:;0 to $3a iiquart. This moves the few York Evening Post to remark: This would be cheering news to the vestern farmers if true. (Give a farmer uis evening bottle of champagne at three at lollars and he does not care anything of bout the price of binding twine." or at READ the democratic propositions and to ay if they are not fair, just and right. PC "hey are creditable to the common At' ense and the patriotism of the men who rake the offer and the people will re- c member them with gratitude. Ye no Tuir men from Silver Bow who sacri- Do co personal ambitions for the public to ood deserve the thanks and gratitude Ni f all good citizens. Much has been th eked of them and their concession has di een most generous. eq to 'TIn appearance of gold-bug press vi pinions adverse to free coinage in la very issue of the daily Russell Harri- th on suggests that the father of his son it, being stiffened up to a presidential CU eto. of in Wr congratulate the Butte Miner on o s patriotic stand for a fair compro-. , lise. thi ArMowr, but not quite. s Caring a Cold. W To get rid of a cold, says The Ladies' loice Journal. send to the druggist for a fixture containing sulphate of atropia one ari hundred and fortieth of a grain; hi. siphate of qlairiuc two grains, and Fowl- sti n's solution. live drops, to each dose. Tlake *** dose once iii twor hours for three or four 'riues, or until the tbroat begins to feel iimhtly dry, If this dues not eiitireiy re eve the .svimrioms. repeat thre treatment Lie next day. Copy this prescription care uilly. arid ass it with r'rre as srime of the agredienis are iroisorrumrr. There is coI) ringer an acing it if it directions are, allowed star-thy. liefurre gr ~ng tii bed take wariri irthi. 'lie next u nirinrrg sponigi Lie body rapidly with tepid ws\hr, rubbiing Shard until tire bloird circurlrres riuiclkly nd (lie skin is in glow. 'lake .\ ire exirr ice than usual, and rio nrot si in a hot Nt urum with the windows strut. Nai te(ca puorif ii of cream of tartirn in a tui~blerful fwater and drink it during tire dary. If rurre is constipation take a gentle laxatIve, it as rhubarb pill. it is very important thst l1 the avenues or the burly frir carrying off Pt 'aste urn ter ehrrrrlr iii wide open. (ruurrsialpli ii, rthe Vear .-e00., Wirre lire unrmrrrried wirmenr rf the year Citir whritrhrr vrung rir eold, will errjory the - ignity and iirdeperrdence rof the bahinollor of >-day, says Edward Bellamy in 'Ihi Ladies' so [rrrrr .Jorurasl for Verbrusry, the insolent at rrerajerity at present enjoyed by lire hitter ill Ihrvr passed inte, sairltary, if sad, hr lhiiwe. No lornger profiting by the efrect o I tin' pressure of economic necessity apuiro I 'oireu, to make hirm indispensable, but di-- da cndent etilasively upon his intrinsic iii sir 'irtirrns, rirstead of bicing able to raurnirm re frstirdirrij airs of ii sultan surreruaded . a y languishing ireawatles, he will Ire frrtun te if he riri secure by his nrerits tire sutiler trone. In the year 2tA no man. whether ,ver or husbaind, may hope to win the, a. rvor of rmard ror wife save by desert. While, tie poet. jurrtly apprehending the ideal 'roprieties, lias always persisted in repre- ' inting mian at the feet of woman, worrirsih is been, in fact, tire dependent and pien- ii ionr-r of mrar. Nationalisni will justify er he post sad satisfy thre eternal Iltnssa o~f hirics by bniringing him tri Iis rmarrow-bones sC a earneit. Ilut. indeedl, wi. aray be sires 's hat iii the year Jim(1 he will riced nu, com.I- e rulesirn tir assurae that rittitude. Itri Is Bularey a Pirate? Mr. E. L. (Godkinr, in the Fshruary Damnm ar of lbs Feoru, undertakes to prrove that lie expedisrina to relieve Emana was elearly 5 'Al of Suheab Do W pedItlowoIhi en f born of tihe ml, ° out the enfloot gte ries, owing to the been regarded as M by satirised ustles e1vena abett fgop Godkin espressse the for Stanley's seorap saand enebpeý ad approves of his soanddt of the t is its legal obaerate only t a ltl aIes. Other artlles that will she Pebruary Forum ares "The I. plus." by Senastr Carlisle; ofh Changed Condition.," by ' Pf Welch; "The Goveament the nbans," by Hiram Pries; a blograical y by Prof. Gildersleve, of the bbug 5fkins aniveraity, and hall a doszs other days. .JtTT1Now ABOUT TOWN. Sampeon Line, of this speaty, has been appointed a notsry ' public by Gower nor 1ole. Wadeworth Post G, A. A. will bold its 'egular meeting to-night at Webster ball to Park avenue., Epbriam V. Terley and Martha Cewper, it Helena, were married last eveiagi by toy. D. BI. Prio. While Montana is now enjoylas May reathes a plentiful fall of bow would not is objectionable. Charles Milner, of Helens, was married o Miss Mamie MoDonnell, of Billings, at )astle on January 1. A location notice was filed with the coun jr clerk yesterda~y of the Midnight lode, in fi nindsrcby W. C. Lewis. Judge Henry, of Livingston, presided in be distrist court yesterday on some cases n which Judge Hant was counsel before its election, An ozidlied silver hairpin was picked up a Main street yesterday, The owner can are it by calling at Tirs InotPEwasw ounting room. A number of school boys were out play ng base ball yesterday afternoon on the eat side. It begins to look as though win rr is going to blow by Montana. A Rodney street grocery man was driving horse yesterday that should have been in is hands of a doctor instead of working. ; was compelled to hobble along on three ins, Marriage licences were granted by the Istriot court yesterday to E, F. Turley and lartha Cowper of Helenas Frank (I, Lin in, of Marysville, and Minnie Rothe, of f isconsin. The Order of the Iron Hall will hold a ablie installation of officers this evening, he ceremony will take place in the lodge toms in the A. 0. IT. W. ball in the Par sen block at eight p. m. Invitation is by ird. According to reports there is a large field t action in Helens for the society for Pre sution of Cruelty to Animals. A concern hi.b has about thirty horses, It is said, men't half feed them and requires a great sal of work from them. A peculiar freak of nature came into es tence yesterday. It is a calf without a it and can be seen at Platt & McComas' ,rral. When Mr. McComas' little boy w the freak, he accused his father of out fg the tail off and began crying. The it is a full-bred Jersey. The telegraph announces that the Equit sle Insurance company is about to wind its affairs. This should not be con anded with the Equitable Life Ansurance ciety, of which Major H. T. Burke is gen al agent for Montana. The other is a Are surance concern. Higher Edusation in Montans. A member of the faculty of Montana liversity said yesterday: "the facilities tared for education in our midst are in easing in a measure which is commend tle. A study of the work performed in e various schools will show that Helena $t .senses as complete provisions for the in motion of youth as the most favored lo lity can claim. This is true as regards GL r public school system. It is true con ruing other enterprises in our midst, I At nture to say that many persons, even in r city, do not know the efforts that are be t forth to inaugurate and perpetuate en rprises for the highest education of youth. or does the world outside realize the fact at in our young commonwealth the foun tions have already been laid for instite- C ine, which in their fullest scope will nal the best in the work which they con rnplate. The Board of Trade in their Uit to the Montana university srhoed true atiments when they brought to the know Ige of the public the work going on in m is youthful but grand school for higher truing. 'this week Mr. ?ayne, a eon of H. Payne, L. L. D., fotmer president of Fi iie Wesleyan university,now the secretary the Board of Educationat New York,pasa q through Helena on his way west, visit. this university and said that there was t to his knowledge a similar institution ,re elegantly finished and furnished for e comfort and happiness of its pupils." Re When down town go to the New Englanl sh.oe Be ,re, and look over the iharasins if yot dont't tat to buy now. ion will then know where to whens yea do. ,roeut cl'arine cale thi month, at New Fng- As vi shosorI lot ain street (oui hear a native or Greenlal tell te pry of her lire at JEncore hail tisosnght. 7* 9IONEY TO LOAN an, prepa'ed to make bane prompt iy on improved Property * sn Csty of kHelena, and i RANCHES IN MONTANA. Sdelays. Vonris alwane on band. (Correc. U pondence solicited. H. B. PALMER, oom l'5 Merchant. Nat. Bank ilasiding. f lortgage Notes Purchasod. LiIAI IICMMONFS- N TilE Is~iwtcgt' c rt ft t ir jdiriald '0tries of ih*s, t t'A. tkosspt. 5ssue, i plainortiff. co.n Jeep L~ewi Ln the state of Malotaisa seeads ersire tou ttor ,,vs nmed dsftio~lntinogh Anfr owarot l"are lmanrstd reixiiir ton atbirnah ina cttoa £ andisforth mrntf he alsd. oinerl plaitif t .1 wt ~r'1 tacks oupatnwr the *7lotarst rauno~ af vernal wita filed v'hatttfyo,, ai Ci v sl .0d o thist -o un t titi whiA it, ;l*,k. 24 Rooms on Main St., pm 29 looms on Main St., $200 per me 5 Rooms on Main St., S TO per mo AIl centrally located, light ana well ventilated. In new buildings. 2 Stores on Main near Broadway. Very Low Rent on Long Lease. Also Stores, Basements, Apart ments, Single Rooms and Dwell ings in all parts of the city at rea sonable rentals. APPLY TO 1VALLACE & THORNBURGH, First Nat. Bank Building. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Representative in Coagrase-T. H. Carte., State OCleers. Governor -Joaepb Tool., He'sa. Lieutenant-.ovornor-J. H. Richards. Datte. Shcretary .d¶,tats--Loose ltotwltt. Helena. Attorney-gineral-Henri J. Haskel, Helena. fist treeenrer-Iiichard 0. Hickman, Helen. tawt auditor-Edwin A. Ksnney, He enr huperon'endeat of public isutmation-JobaGeWn. non, Rolena. Umsited States Judliaary. Judge or United States district court-Hrave Kn..wies, dutte. Clerk of United States district couert-George W. Sproule, Helena. Edited States Land O~lee.. HMELEA. Resister-B. A. Swiggett. llacetrer-George IL k rqntn Fedister-id. F. Ferri,. Receiver-John T. Crlin. rILrs crTw. Register-Sam. Gordon. Receiver-A. I. Campbell. MISOt7LA, Register Reoeiver-John B. Catlin. LZWzevog. registar-S W. (ook. Receiver-C. A. Burg. Supreme Court. Chief jn'tise-Htenry N. Rsake: Htelena. Aseociae juaetices-W~llsm H. DeWile Butte. Edgar H. Hlarwod BiDiU~n*gý Cifkaof supreme court-William J.aennedy, Judges of Dietriet Ceart. First dustrkt W. H. Snt, Helena Seon alan t-J J. aelt~eas.Ht. Third dl, treet -D. U. Dure" , Deer,~ otth ilisti*te-C. 5 Ner.hall, t er Pipith dletrict-T. 3 Galbraithi Dilks. SII.zt itstrlct-Prauh Heiij. Lilvingston. ýSefnin dlatrlct--tieouge 1.. Mllburn. Milers (Styr kigbtb district- C. Ht. hienton, tiret Fails. stat.se stitutians. Pe witeUs ar-Locaed new treer Lodge. wders. Thomas cTaoue; contractors, CoWley ip Mc TTguer In are sylum-Located at Warm Iprwgsundeg deee re of Dre. Muuigbred as.d ithele. United CStt Of .ers Marshal -WillWa'u F. Foray. Cen Ledge. Suýrv~eyor genm r ci 4lieorge tL HEton, tHelena. Dstrt attorneiy - O. D. FAreed. setene. United orate.e raom selonsc-J. W. Klaele , H~e.ena. lnternal revenue collector- J. Ht. Mile. t:nifted St nee a eaay uinks -W, D. Vtbeeler. r@Atmsster, kleleus-C.. D. turtle. Lewis and Clarke Coventy O~aers. Coanty comminlsioners--I W. Knight, V. D, Jtd enian. Helens; A. J. Burns. Marga'vllle. fb'rllt -C. B. Jef srle. Helena 'it a ser'-li P'. I srdea. He r a Cow sand recoid., -John M. T nikonr Helena. Suriey 'r it. F. N.4sh. Helens Sioue t 'adent or sehools-Mtue C. L. Tormb5, Hleina C~orona, fii. M. Bookman. Hleis a. IAssesear- (Ipsyre Walker. Helena. Csrk of di~treitcourt-Joan limo. H~ea Balmn City Offleers Msger-Donald Bradford. rodse maglstrate-~J ti. Menders. Chynosal-LJ.Crorin. Tseasurer-el. Yolk. Citety clei k and attorney-H. 13 Smimth Street e' .mmieslnere-johan Birady. loedn of Trude. FP iet-H. U- Parches. VlepESlds William Math. Uese--ebest C Walher Tasee-.H. Klefewbanedt. C A tee mb iWl be drasedV to 1.. 0. C Meips, L7- suc ether buearn es rpl c Uei.,siwed . MemleS.l Jas. ann IS. RoM. e -mmo OUR Annual Clearance SALE Will Begin in a Few Days. Watch this space for An nouncements. GANS & KLEIN.