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TFhe Billings Gazette.
SEM I-V WEE KLY.
VOL. XV. BILLINGS, YELLOWSTONE COUNTY, MONTANA, PRI IAY, SEIPTEMBER 29, 1899 NO. 46
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SMITH'S
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"-VIW"*. P, IS ***
TO BE MUSTEREDI) (OU'T
Montana Volunteers Will Leave
Uncle Sam's Service on
October 17.
TO RETURN IN A BODY
T'o Miotannia. (omiingl by WVlty of
lOgden lWill lReceivte Algfust
Paly Today.
Siiu Francisco, Sept. 2i.--Capt. E.
R. (Jhrismann , Twentieth infantry, and
Lient. C. R. Hurdy Sixth infantry
were today ussigned to muster out the
Montana volunteers and in orders issu
od this afternoon Captain Chrismnu
deflnitely makes Oct. 17 the date of
mustering out. He has made an order
calling for oun 9fflner and five clerks
fromn each battalion to be on duty at
four in the afternoon of each day and
has called for physical blanks and
company records as a preliminary.
The men will receive their August
pay in three days. At the date of
mustering out they will be paid for
September part of October and two
months' additional and travel pay
averaging $75 to each man.
It is stated that the regiment wll re.
turn in a body on two trains going via
Ogden and leaving here Oct. 17 or 18.
MaJor Duncan who missed the
steamer Zealandla at Cavite has arriv.
ed on the City of Para. He took a
steamer to Hong Kong caught a French
liner to Kobe and took the railroad to
Nagasaki arriving just in time to catch
the Paru there. His arrival in camp
was hailed with great demonstration.
Capt. Louis P. Sanders was the only
officer of the regiment who declared on
his effects and he today paid $44 duty
on silks and curios which the customs
officers received with regret. While
the treasury department has fulfilled
the letter of the law it has been lenient
ly disposed toward returning soldiers..
Pralise frolln MlcArthur.
San Franocsco, Sept. 26,-The fol.
lowing circular just issued at the pre
sidlo by colonel Kessler explains itself:
"Headquarters First Montana In
fantry U. S. V., Cavite, Philippine Is.
lands, Aug. 8,.-In reply from a tele.
gram from these headquarters, the fol
lowing was received and I wish to pub-.
lish for the information of all members
of this command
"Ban Fernando Aug. 18,--To Colonel
Kessler First Montana Oavite-In reply
to your exceedingly agreeable message
just received my staff joins me in send.
ing cordial greetings and Godspeed to
the commanding officers and enlisted
men of the First Montana infantry.
We all join in the hope that all mem
bers of the regiment may realise their
most sanguine expectations upon ar
rival home as they have certainly earn
ed a right to the gratitude of their state
and nation by their brilliant and faith
ful service in the Philippines.
"Mligned Arthur MacArthur,
"Major General U. S. A. Command.
ing Second Division Eighth Corps."
'By Order of Colonel Kessler,
"W. B. Knowltou,
First Lieutenant and Adjutant, First
Montana Infantry, U. S, V."
AN AMIhNIN( N TOVY.
N"er "MItaken. Will Halppen" at the Olpera
Houo. Next Week.
The successful comedy, "Mistakes
Will Happen," will be the attraction
at the opera house Oct. 4th, and is said
to tell a most amusing story. More
than this, if some of the most critical
sonmen in the country is to be believed,
It tells it extremely well. An actor
and his newly-wed wife, a threatical
manager who loathes married people
and will not have thenm in his company,
a boarding house keeper, who is a stick
ler for propriety, a very English coach.
a.an, a plumber, a newly-imported
)erman maid.servant and an eminuent
ly respectable elderly gentleman, who
is given to literary pursuits, and his
ounag wife, who has a great desire to
shlue as an amateur aotresa, are the
component parts. That they have beau
eaoeediugly well mixed by the author
goes without saying. He has handled
his subject very cleverly and has turn.
id out a comedy whichb annot fail to
please the moat captlous, "Mistakes
Pill Happea" is under the direollto of
Jaoob Filt, and be has given the
pomedy a most elaborate prodaotion,
tbe boding male part is played by
bharles Dickson, as oleve a oomediea
s_ there i oa tbe stage at the premat
ime, and the balaue of the eoman
Is made up of M ood lmn.Iainj ta.
sat as it bar beesn psible to aobtal.
Voael and lastrUlanlatl Maske
Mrs. I A. Msheaw, tacser of
maile i nstrmeatal, veoal, herom!
al Moi lous b tulale IseeIadel beao
Ewaet..eihth saOeet. illsW. MIstO
NO MORK$ VARIETY THESATERI.
The ('iunty Treasunrer Asks a Hslg Liconse
and They Shut Itp Sthop.
Variety theaters and councert halls
have had their day in Billings, and no
regrets are heard that they are to be
no more. A sadden quietus 'has: been
placed on the two variety halls, which
have been running in full blast in this
oity, by a notice from th.1e bunty treas
urer stating ti at the toe law exacted
a license of tr a th from each one
or they mlus clo up shop. A dyne.
mite homib 'a in the t halls them
selves could ot have caused greater
dismay to e proprietors thnn those
notices. It was a new one to them and
when such a thing could have gone into
effect was beyond their knowledge, but
there is just where, tho trouble coni:es
in. The law which aunsed all the
trouble to the proprrietors wia passed
tt the session of the Montauni ltgisnture
in 1817, and rroads its follows:
House Bill No. ;7. An nat to ar ndlltl
Section 40)12 of article 2, coapter 171,
political code of ,louttina, relating to
linenses. Be it rntcted by the legisla
tive iasstuibly of the state of Montaun:
Section 1. That section 40612, article
2, Iolitical Code of Morltioa, re tinu
to licenses be. and the samne i ereby
amended to read as follo . Section
4062: Licenses must, obtaltined for
the purposes herein er named, for
which the a uny triere er must require
payment as llow . 1.1. Iuch proprir.
tor of a bills rd, oul or bagatelle table
not kept exoa u ely for family use, for
each table $ per quarter, and for a
bowling elle $11) per quarter for each
alley; but no licenso must be granited
for a term less than three months. 2.
The manager or lessee of every theater
(not a variety or concert theater) five
iollars per day for each day upon
which a performance or performanuces
ire held, or in lieu thereof a monthly
license of twenty five dollars; for each
variety or concert theater, whether an
admittance fee is charged or not,
*,va~'e.fiva tnllanva nr* Innrnh.
Approved March 4, n187.
Frank Savaresy has already disconu
tinued his v ariety theate ind his actors
and actreess have ,fownu, He does
not like it 4littlt, but says he can.
not contiun ~s bow business and pay
snob a license. W. J. Bennett has also
st pped his show.
S'hbee W. L. Ramsey has become
oounty treasurer there bas been a de
cided change in the matter of collect.
lng licenses. The receipts of the offie
from licenses have greatly increased
and it can only be accounted for by two
facts,. First, the treasurer is no re
specter of persons and is making every.
one come to time who should pay a
license. Second, the new business
houses which have started up the past
few months. Tbe ,great increase in
licenses collected has been done through
the first ohanpol. Every person who
conducts any kind of busines in this
city is required to pay a license and
should expect to do so, County Treas
urer Ramsey has as many personal
friends as any man in Billings, yet he
is treating those friends exactly as he
does those who are not acquainted with
him or that he can class his friends
they are made to pay their license.
Some people take the notices of license
due as a personal insult, seeming to
forget that Mr. Rasmsey was elected to
faithfully discharge the dutles of his
office, and say that they have never
paid them before. It is not right for
these people to expect others to paty
taxes and licenses and themselves be
allowed to go without doing so. The
laws were made for the people to obey
and yet, how often they are disobeyed
by people who do not pay their taxes
because there has happened to he a lou.
lent county treasurer who would not
attempt to force collention, County
Tresaurer Raumey, through his efficient
deputy, Mrs. Hammsey, will be found a
fearless officer. All persons who are
required to pay a license will either do
so or be sued by the county attoruey,
The county treasurer does not wish to
be thought of as acting in a mercenary
manner in this matter, bat thinks that
if a few are made to pay a linense all
should. Aud he is right.
5514 I5 A I'IGAVH,
"ellowetone the Only County Whluh H#s
Peaehes to Mtlhlll,
Gee, M. Hays returned last night
from Missounala, where he has been in
sttendanoe on the national irrigation
songrere, says the Helena Heeald. Mr,
Rays pronounces the attendance a erp.
resnntative one, 100 people from fiteen
tate and territories being present,
hise papers read have been esaefully
prepaed and were instnrutive and oom.
preheanlve,
The ag.ioultural exhibits of Musaoula
and Ravalli onutieslir, Hays pro.
aonooe wondelel, anld they crested a
great deal of oommeot among the dole.
HaIes froE Oihel stlatee mlt of whom
bad no .onep tioa of MonlaNa's pro,
ieotivellan, a while the neaolise
mentioned had a smalkable display of
Weuig and vegetaoble of all k.eds, it
remaiaed for Yellowateaeon wan to
elsW th onl pe. esd ai slbitilon,
M. Nrae Is peparedlo give bis aM.
aslits, f 1reasaar, the psaekb
iv. noie alt le souls moth yaletp
that bays bees semdeuead by New
kM8Ina..,
THe PRFSIDENT'S [RIP
He Will Visit South Dakota and
Minnesota to Greet Return
ing Volunteers.
SCHLEY IS WILLING
'To Ae'eep'jit ('ommanitnd of Solth Atlantil
slalllhronl Senators of the
i'iet oln I'olitihal O)utlook.i
M l' hil (' Or, l. lhqnl ', t 're h' (JR', ,T tr,.
Washington, Sept. 25. --Proeident
McKiuley has promised to visit Aber
hllon, South Dakota, and Sioux City,
Towbl, after he goes to St. Paul and
Minneapolis, where he will be over
October 12, to receive the Minnesotn
voluuteters on their returu from the
Philippines. He expects to go to aUles.
burg, Ill., on the 7th of October, and
in Chicago from the 8th to the Ilth,
unless the celebration scheduled for
the 10th in that city is abandoned,
He was compelled to decline the press
ing invitation extended by Senator Fair
unkslr to attend the reuniou of the Blue
itld the Gray, to be hold at Evansville,
und., from the o1 to the 18th.
While the enemies of the administra
tion were seeking to make it appear
that Rear Admiral Sobley was being
slighted by being offered the command
of the South Atlantic squadron, that
officer called on President McKinley
and expressed his perfect willinguess
to accept the commtand, and also so.
cepted an invitation to attend the state
linner to be given by the president in
honor of Admiral Dewey, Admiral
Schley requested the president, if it
could be dope without interfering with
plans already made, to attach his old
flgaship,the Brooklyn, to the South At
lantic squadron, and the request will
probably be granted,
No special importance is attached to
the granting permission by General
Oti for two Filipino officers to go to
Manila to negotiate for the surrender
of the few American prisoners in the
hands of the Filipinos. It is merely
an incident, and will not interfere in
the slightest degree with the prepara
tions which are being made to whip
the Filipinos into submission just as
soon as the weather will allow aggres
sive military operations to begin.
Senator Davis of Minnesota, chair
man of the senate committee on foreign
relations, is in Washlngton. He says
Minnesota never was so prosperous,
and that a goodly portion of the citi
zens of the state will turn out to wel
come President Molinley, who has
been such a powerful factor In bring
ing about general prosperity, when he
goes to Minneapolis and St. Paul, next
month. He also said that the anti's
were so few in the state that the senti
ment was practically unanimous in sup
port of the Philippine policy of presil
oent McKinley.
Senator Warren of Wyoming passed
through Washington, on his way to
Boston, but stopped long enough to say
that the gdbd times prevalent all
through that section had completely
knocked out Bryanlsm in the west. Of
the political outlook he said: "In my
judgment, McKinley will get the dele
gates of all the western states and the
eletoral votes of nearly all of them.
dounot believe that Bryan could pos.
sibly win on any issue. The republi.
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can majority will be much larger in
1900 than it was in 1896. The senti
ment regarding the Philippines is prac
tically all one way. The peoplejevery
where favor expansion. The policy of
the president to prosecute the war with
more vigor than ever is especially in
dorsed.'
Representative Dico, who, as chair
man of the republican state committee,
will have charge of the Ohio campaign,
stopped ii Washington long enough,
last week, to say of the outlook: "We
are quiet satisfied with the political
situation in Ohio. We are convinced
that we shall carry the state for the re
publican ticket by an exceedingly large
majority. We have not done much
talking so far, but we have been steady
at work mapping out the campaign and
organizing the party throughout the
state. I am sure we have got the party
machinery in as good shape today as it
hIes ever been during the last thirty
years. Republicans in every county
are alive to their duty and they will
perform it in the November election to
the high satisfaction of the people of
Ohio. I believe that there is now no
friction anywhere in the party, and I
am couvinced that we shall elect our
candidate for governor, Judge Nash,"
T'he Bryan-or-bust democrats are
more than ever convinced that McLean
means to throw Bryan down if he can,
The statement, seemingly correct, that
McLean had personally requested
Bryann not to take the stump in Ohio,
hecanse he feared that his presence
would result in making the silver queso
tion too prominent in the oampaigp,
has intensified their belief in McLean's
trnacherous intentions.
Sersator Heitfleld of Idaho, now in
Washington, said: "Fifty per cent of
the silver republicans in my state who
went out of the party several years ago
have come hack, and I believe that
more of them will come in right along.
Many are coming back on account of
the administration's expansion policy,
refusing to go with the democrats on
that issue."
GORTON'S MINSTHELS.
Give a Splendid Performancee, Appreelated
by a Large Audience.
One of the most pleasing entertain
ments of the opera season was the ap.
pearance of the Gorton minstrels in
this city last night. The Gortons
visited Billings a year ago and won
many friends by their clean and splen
did show. A large audience greeted
their appearance again last night and
the minstrels kept every one in almost
one continuous uproar of laughter.
The vocal music by the soloist and
Crescent City quartette was fine and
called forth repeated encores. The
jokes, with but few exceptions, were
new and did not fail to birung down the
house. One of the features most ap
preciated was the musical comedy ac
ting of Gorton and Lee. These gentle
men are artists and their playing on
the cornet, baritone and trombone
borns, the chimes, slejgh bells and
Philippine bamboo sticks, merited the
applause they received. DeWitt Cooke
did some good work with the Indian
clubs, Jere Sanford, the celebrated
whistler, is a wonder, The last num
ber on the programme was the gro
tesque acrobatic work of comedians
Mullen and Vonder. They did some
extremely difficult work and received
encore after encore. Throughout the
entire performance Gorton's celebrated
cornet orchestra discoursed some ex
dellent music.
Admiral Dewey arrived in New York
Tuesday morning in his flagship, the
Olympia, His arrival was two days
ahead of time, not being expected until
yesterday.