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K NOTHINO, BUT DIAMONDOS ROBBERS BREAK OPEN TRUNKS OF JEWELRY SALESMAN. WANTED ONLY COSTLYICEMS Watches and Ordinary Jewelry Not Molested-One Man Arrested On Suspicion. One of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated in Montana took place Saturday at Glendive between 1 and 5 a. m. at the Northern Pacific com pany's depot. Two iron-bound trunks belonging to C. B. Clausen, traveling salesman for S. S. Clausen & Co., wholesale manufacturing jewelers of Minneapolis, Minn., who arrived in Glendive from the east the evening before at 7 o'clock, were removed from the baggage room through a window. They were dropped to the ground about five feet below the plat form, broken open and riffed of their most valuable contents.' A bag of unmounted diamonds and between three and four hundred mounted rings in solid gold settings were the articles of value missed by Mr. Clausen, who, from a hasty inventory, stated that the loss would run from ten to twenty thousand dollars. The robbers over looked a tray containing 54 diamonds in one of the trunks and took nothing else, leaving all the watches and other contents, but tossed them about pro miscuously when in search of the dia monds. The robbery was an unusually bold one, when it is considered that in the second story of the station there were three dispatchers and one operator at work, and the express agent, D. H. Driscoll, slept in an adjoining room, within 15 feet of the truck on which the trunks were left. The robbers forced the window of the baggage room with a pinch bar, or similar in. strument, and removed the trunks to the porch adjoining the station. There, after the robbery, they were seen by the porter of the station, John Saddler, who noticed them while looking out of the second story window at 7 o'clock. He informed the express agent, and together they.went and ex amined the trunks and removed them to the express office. The robbery was undoubtedly com mitted as the westbound train was in the depot at 4 o'clock, as at that hour the express agent is busy attending the train and is absent from his office for at least 20 minutes. That the rob bery was committed by professionals is evident from the fact that they knew which trunks contained the jewelry, and it is also evident that more than one man was concerned in the act, as the trunks weighed 2510 pounds apiece. Sheriff John Kennedy and Deputy George Twible have ar rested Jimmy McCarty, a prize fighter. who has been acting suspiciously. THE RAILROAD MERGER. President Hill Not Disturbed By Op position. New York, Jan. 20.-James J. Hill arrived here today from an extended trip through the west. He said he was not at all disturbed over the op position developed against the forma tion of the Northern Securities com pany and was satisfied with the de cision of the supreme court to hear the case. Asked if he had found any change in the sentiment in the west toward the merger of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern com • panies he replied: "Discussion of the project has rendered a clearer notion to many of those who were at fiitst violently opposed to the formation of the holding company. As the people discussed it, much of the doubt re garding its benefit to the west was removed. "I am content to leave the verdicts to the people. I have always found that when there was a question of right and wrong to be decided, or a question of the results of a certain action between a benefit or a future detriment determined, the majority will always be right." Mr. Hill referred to the story of a great steamship merger in which his name was mentioned withAthat of J. P, Morgan. "It is. news to me," he said, "for I have never discussed it nor had I heard of the consolidation until I read Ibout it.". The story as it was printed appeared to me to be so ridiculous I.. did not pay any attentiop to it" 7 n.allny Buried in Ruins. tadt Jan. 20.-Smithfield ILax c llapsed today, burying maay es. Ten bodies have iteen trom the runs alreadr. Man IrLs * Gagglie onee. ANOTHER-MERGER. Four Roads Will Try "Community of Interest" Plan. Chicago, Jan. 20.-The Inter-Ocean tomorrow will say: "Negotiations are in progress for the operation under a 'community of interest' plan of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Evans ville & Terra Haute; Chicago, Indian apolis & Louisville (Monon route) and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroads. Ultimately a consolidation of the companies is planned, but for a time all four will retain their cor poration identity. NO WORD FROM CONDOR. Missing British Sloop of War Long Overdue. Victoria, B. C., Jan. 20.-Alarm is now felt for the warship Condor, for yesterday's mail advices received at San Francisco from Honolulu and thence telegraphed to the naval office here by the British consul, contained no word of the missing yvarship at the islands up to January 10, 39 days from the time the sloop, of war sail ed from Esquimalt bound to Hono lulu at which point she was due ac cording to her schedule, on Decem ber 13. USED MAILS TO DEFRAUD CHICAGO BROKER ARRESTED IN NEW YORY. Secured $40,000 From People Who Thought They Could Get Some thing for Nothing. New York, Jan. 20.-Herbert R. Ful ton was arrested here today by Police Inspector Walter S. Mayer of Chicago and arraigned on a charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. He pleaded not guilty and said he would return to Chicago without requisi tion papers. Inspector Mayer said Fulton was wanted in connection with operations of the firm of Fred E. Parker & Co., brokers, who in September, 1901, open ed an office on LaSalle street, Chicago, and advertised that $25 and upward invested with us will earn from 30 to 40 per cent monthly. According to Mayer Parker disappeared in De cember, having learned the author ities were investigating. The in spector claims the firm took in $40,-1 000 during the short time it was in business. EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE UNPROTECTED LAMPS IGNITE AC CUMULATED GAS. Six Miners Killed and Several Injured -Mine Now a Mass of Flames. Walsenburg, Colo., Jan. 20.-A cour ier has just reached here from Pictou, a coal mining camp, located three miles from Walsenburg, bringing the news that a terrible explosion occur red in one of the mines operated by the Colorado Fuel & Iron company at that place this morning, in which six men were instantly killed and several injured, many of them, perhaps, fatal ly. The mine immediately caught fire and is now a seething furnace. Among the dead are Frank Marquis, son of a well known business man of this city and Harry Phipps, a brother of Superintendent Phipps of the Proc tor mines. The explosion was caused by a large amount of gas which had accumulated in the mine during the night. At 5 o'clock this morning a number of min ers entered one of the chambers in which the gas had accumulated. The men had unprotected lambs, and a terrible explosion followed. WILL OBEY SUPOENAS. Railroad Magnates Will Appear Be fore Commission. Chicago, Jan. 20.-James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman have decided to obey the subpoenas of the inter-state com merce commission to be present at the hearing which will begin here next Friday, with a view to ascertaining what effect the community of inter ests is having upon rates. The commission sprung a surprise today by placing with Marshal Ames a bundle of supoenas directed against railroad traffic managers and grain men, several of the pdpers were serv ed today. Weather Forecast. Washington, Jan. 20.-Montana: Fair Tuesday and Wednesday; varia ble winds. SFirst National Bank OF BILLINGS, MONTANA. PAID-UP CAPITAL - - $150,000 SURPLUS. - - - 10,000 P. B. Moss, President. M. A. ARNOLD, Cashier. S. G. REYNOLDS, Assistant Cashier. tDIRECTORS G. W. WOODSON, P. B. Moss, Jos. ZIMMERMAN, S M. A. ARNOLD. S. G. REYNOLDS. Transact a General Banding Business.--Collectlons Promptly Made and Remitted For )~ ~l c~·lk ~ ---~·6^l- . ~-... ~ -~---~~ DEMOCRATS OPPOSE BILL Commerce Committee Vote to Take Up Ship Subsidy Measure. Washington, Jan. 17.-The commit tee on commerce today authorized a favorable report on Senator Frye's ship subsidy bill. The report will be made by Senator Frye. The democratic members of the committee voted against the report ing of the bill. They also voted solidly for a motion offered by Sen ator Mallory to strike out the general subsidy provision of the bill. The com mittee made several amendments to the bill. The most important were: Allowing mail carrying vessels under the bill to be either iron or steel in stead of steel only as originally pro vided and another reducing to 1,000 gross registered tons the vessels re ceiving a bounty under the bill. The bill prepared by Senator Frye was read to the committee. It says the purpose of the bill is to establish the maritime supremacy of the Unit ed States in trade with Asia and in the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribbean sea, to establish thoroughly trade be tween the United States and South American republics and to give the United States a respestable repre sentation on the North Atlantic. The claim is made that all these results will be accomplished within 10 years. The report also asserts that the bill will so extend'ship building from as to transfer in time from abroad to the United States the center of that in dustry as the centers of other indus tries recently have been transferred and also that it will give to the United States a measure of maritime inde pendence corresponding to our indus trial and agricultural independence. MILLION TO FIGHT DISEASE Edward VII. wIIll Use Cassel' Gift For Consumptiord Sanitarium. Sir Ernest Cassel has given to King Edward $1,000,000 to be expended un der his majesty's direction for the erection of a sanitarium for consump tives, says a London. dispatch to the New York Evening Journal. It is un derstood that Sir Ernest Cassel was persuaded to this great philanthropic deed by his daughter, Maude, who is the wife of Mr. Wilfred Ashley. King Edward has always manifested the deepest sympathy with the crusade against consumption. For carrying out Sir Ernest Cassel's purpose his majesty has appointed an advisory committee consisting of Sir William Broadbent, Sir Richard Doug lass Powell, Sir Francis Laking, Sir Felix Semon, Sir Hermann Weber and Dr. C. Theodore Williams, with Dr. Horton Smith and Dr. John Broadbent as honorary secretaries. The sanitarium is intended to ac commodate a hundred patients, fifty male and fifty female. Of the total number of beds eighty-eight will be re served for persons who can pay only a small amount toward the cost of treat ment, while twelve will be set apart for well to do sufferers. Three prizes of $:,500, $1,000 and $500 respectively have been offered for the best essays on and plans for the construction of the sanitarium, and the advisory committee will be guided by the result of this competition in the execution of his majesty's wishes. The competition is open to medical men of all nationalities. Sir William Henry Broadbent said that it was intended to employ the open air treatment for consumptives, the success of which, he declared, was now absolutely established. He be lieves the sanitarium will be within easy distance of London. Sir Ernest (':'.s.el is one of London's Vaccinate Your Cattle PARKE, DAVIS 4 CO.'S BLACKLEGOIDS (Blackleg Vaccine Pill WILL POSITIVELY PROTECT THEM FROM BLACKLEG. Our BlacKlegolds afford the simplet, saest, surweet method of vaoccnation. No filtering is necessary, no measuring, no mixing. Each Blacklegolid I an exact dos4, and It quickly and easally adminlatered with our Blacklegold Injector. While still marketing our "Blackleg Vaccine Improved," we recommed. the 'e of our Blaoklegolds because of their abeo lute amouracy of dosage and their ease of administra tion. Ask your druggist for them and you will get s vaccine that I. reliable, a vaccine that has stood Seery t,. .. Write us for literature-free on requet. PARKE, DAVIS 4 CO., Detroit, Mich. ,,u,. ,.a . ,"-'- "''-"-- " merchant princes, with a town house in Grosvenor square and a country seat. Dalby Hall, near Felton Mow bray, the fox hunting headquarters il Leicestershire county. He is very wealthy and on the recent marriage of his daughter to Mr. Wilfred Ashley made her a settlement which common report said would assure her an annual income of many thousands of pounds, while ultimately her inheritance will amount to £13,000,000. Sir Ernest is said to be one of the three cleverest men in the city. He is very popular on the turf and has many horses in training. He has a big place near,Newmarket called Moulton Pad docks, nhich he bought from Lord Ge rard, paying something like $200,000 for it. King Edward, then Prince of Wales.' attended his daughter's wed ding, which took place the first week of last year. CHICAGO A FRENCH CENTER Parisian Annet Promised For Dr. Harper's University. "Chicago will be the future French center of America. We will be closer to Paris than New York. and we will have the Paris atmosphere in chunks." So spoke Charles Henrotin of the Alliance Francais, which has succeed ed in bringing a French school to Chi cago. This school is to be affiliated with the Chicago university and is to be started off with $1,000,000 by M. Robert Lebaudy of Paris, who conducts the French sugar trust. "We are highly pleased over the se lection of Chicago." said President Harper of the Chicago university to a reporter of the New York World. "The school is just what we want. M. Le baudy has been deeply impressed with the business acumen bf the Americans. Our commercial expansion set him thinking. The result is that he has de cided to establish a school here where 'oung Frenchmen, while pursuing their studies, can absorb some of the ener gy and ideas of Americans." M. Emil Ridel, who was sent to make the selection of the site, said Chicago was the most American city. The mis sion of M. Lazarre Weiller, who has been sent to the United States by the French minister of commerce, is to study the conditions here and deter mine as nearly as possible the curric ulum and line of study to be followed by the French students. M. Weiller also W'pects that his visit will aid him in deciding from which classes of soci ety the government should select the students. Sixty scholarships will be provided by the French government, and all ex penses of students will be paid. A French library of 10.000 volumes is to be part of the equipment. FIRST LADY DEVISES A COAT Mrs. Roosevelt's New .Dinner Wrap Receive, Fashion's Approval. Already has Mrs. Roosevelt's revolu tion int fashions received approval. In a word, acting in concert with the la dies of the cabinet. Mrs. Roosevelt has decided ulpon a newV dinner wrap, ac cording to a dispatch from New York to the 'Philadelphia P'ress. It is designed to be worn at table and is quite appro priate with a decollete gown. Mrs. Donald McLean said: "I'm not so sure that such a new de parture can be ma(le a general fashi,n, but the idea is all right." Here is a description of the coat: Ma terial. satin brocade, liberty silk, crepe de chine or taffeta; lining, soft quilted silk, fleece or satin; trimming, lace, os trich feathers, marabout, chiffon, er mine, jet or steel; collar cut low and ruffled with lace or chiffon; shape, dol man effect cut In at the back, vith very loose sleeves to the elbow; length midway between the waist and knees. Cat Bone For Poultry,. Green cut bone is the greatest egg producer and stimulant known. Never use moldy or sour bones, and feed moderately TO ENTERTAIN PRINCE HENRY PROGRAMME APPROVED BY EM PEROR AND HIS BROTHER. THE PLACES TO BE VISITED Include Chicago, Milwaukee, Boston and Niagara Falls Besides At, tending Launching. Berlin, Jan. 20.-Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, while in the United States, will visit Chicago, Milwaukee, Niagara Falls anu Boston. These pints are embraced in the itinerary which has been cabled here by Dr.l Holleben, the German ambassador at Washington. T'his programme was submitted to Emperor William and Prince Henry today and has been ap proved by them.. Its general outline is as follows: February 22-Arrival of the prince and hip suite at New York. February 23-Official welcome by the representative of President Roosevelt, the governor of the state of New York. February 24-Launching of the em peror's yacht at Shooter Island and dinner to be given by Prince Henry. February 25-Reception in honor of Prince Henry. A dinner in his honor to be given by the mayor of New York and if consistent with these functions, a reception by the press club. February 26-The prince and his party will proceed to Washington, where the prince will reside at the German embassy; will exchange calls with the president and be entertained at dinner at the white house. February 27-Official receptions and visits and a dinner at the German, embassy. February 28-The prince and his party will start for Chicago. The apportionment of the prince'.; time between Chicago, Milwaukee, Niagara Falls and Boston has not yet been precisely made. CUBAN POSTAL FRAUD CASE Havana, Jan. 17.-The cross exam ination of Estes G. Rathbone, eiedi rector of posts of Cuba, at today's session of the court which is trying the charges growing out of the Cuban postoffice frauds, brought out no new facts. t. F. W. Neeley was called and examined by the fiscal. Neeley said that he received his appointment from Washington and that Rathbone had made him chief of the finance bureau of the Cuban posts department after the organization of the Cuban postal service, he said that when stamps were burned, a certain amount was re served for collectors but that he did not know how many, and that after the sales to collectors fell off he gave the surcharged stamps to Senor Moya, a Cuban stamp clerk in the Havana postoffice, instructing Moya to sell them. He asserted he took the money arising from these sales and put it in the vault. Neeley made no record of these stamps, nor did Moya make out a requisition for them. Neeley denied having any interest in the Cowan Printing company of Muncie, Indiana, and said that he had not received $3,000 as commission from the lock box company that put in the lock boxes in the Havana post office. He explained that this com pany was the lowest bidder for that work. Neeley was confron:ed with Reeves who reiterated his statement that Neeley gave him $4,600 before teav ing to make the books tally. Neeley answered that this was not so and said that he was with an employe of the postoffice at the hour named by Reeves in his statement. At the re quest of Neeley's counsel this em ploye will be summoned to testify. Havana, Jan. 18.-When the trial of the cases resulting in the Cuban post office fraud was resumed in the Au dencia court today the cross examina tion of C. F. W. Neeley, ex-chief of the bureau of finance, was continued. Neeley said that his "OK" on bills under miscellaneous account only signified that the goods had been r'e ceived. None of Rathbone's private bills for receptions given at El Cerro, Havana, the witness said, were paid from the postal funds. Neeley denied telling C. M. Rich, his first assistant, that he (Neeley) had saved Rathbone $5,000 by including his private ac counts in those of the postal depart ment. He also denied that he had entered into conspiracy with Reeves and Rathbone to defraud by issuing duplicate warrants. He said that all the warrants were drawn on Reeves' office. They might have been cashed in the postofimce or in a bank. Neeley was confronted with Reeves three times. He maintained perfect composure and .evaded no questions, explaining all the transactions clear 'y and giviig Reeves the lie direct. Will Accept the Ransom. Constantinople, - Jan. 20.-United States.Minister John G. A. Laishman says the brigands who abducted Miss Ellen M. Stone and Mine. Tsilka, Sep tember 3, 1901, have agreed to accept the amount of ransom raised by sub scription. The place of payment is now the only question. Priest and Converts Murdered. Pekin, Jan. 20.-A French priest named Julien and two Chinese con verts have been murdered at a vil lage in the North of Kwang Si prov flice. Chinese officials assert the mur ders were committed by robbers and were not a result of anti-Christian demonstration. KIPLING'S WAR POEM. British Nation Rebuked For Its Self Complacency. FOREIGN INVASION HINTED AT. "Do Ye Wait For Spnttered Shrap nel Ere Ye Learn [low a Gun Is Lald'f" Asks the Anut:or--Demand Made of the People That They' Re main Active and Alert. Kipling's new poem, "The Island ers," which was printed in full in the London Times the ether morning, is copyrighted both in Great Britain and the United States and therefore cannot be published in extenso in either coun try except by the owners of the copy right. In brief, it is a rebuke to Eng lishmen for not having a larger, more formidable and more enthusiastic army. The poet declares that every man should be taught to bear arms and hints at the danger of foreign in vasion. The poem opens with a rebuke to British self complAcency, in the course of which is written: Fenced by your careful fathers, Ringed by your leaden seas, Long did ye wake in quiet And long lie down at ease Till ye said of strife, What is it? Of the sword, It is far from our ken Till ye made a sport of your shrunken hosts And a toy of your armed men. The poet draws a picture of Britain before the Boearwar and sneers at the fact that ablebt diHe Englanders re mained at home when the first call came, while street boys and colonials were sent to the front, while the moth er country presented them with "com fits" and "pictures" to help them harry her foes: And ye vaunted your fathomless power. And ye flaunted ; our i.on pride, Ere ye fawned on the young-r nations For the men who mould shour and ride. Then ye returned to your trinkets,. Then ye contented your souls With the flanneled fools at the wickets Or the muddled oafs at the goals. Given to strong delusion, VWholly believing a lie, Ye saw that the land lay fenceless And yet let the months go by, Waiting some easy wonder, Hoping some saving sign. Idle, openly idle, In the lee of the forespent line Idle except for your boasting, And what id your boasting worth If ye grudge a year of service To the loudliest line on earth? Ancient, effortless, ordered, Cycle on cycle set. Life so long untroubled That ye who inherit forget. For England was not the work of chance or moments. It was not made with the mountains; It is not one with the deep. Men. not gods, devised it; Men. not gods, must keep. The poet then warns his countrymen against invasion. "Do ye- wait." he ceies. "for spattered shrapnel ere ye learn how a gun is laid?" And he asks whether the rabll:bit will war with E1nglred's f.emntn ni- "the red deer horen: them for hi.ir." and then, when invat:rs come Wll ye pray them or preach them or print Ihem Cr ballot them hark from your shore? W:! y'our vworkmer. i;'sue a mandate A::d bid them s:r.:e no more? Will ye rise and dethrone your rulers Pecause ye were Idle. both Pric'e by insolene. c rcs;', nrl. Indolence pur'ged by hrllh? No, he continues, the salvation of England is to be found in her men trained to the use of arms, and he de mands of the people that they remain active and alert until "each inan born in the island be broke to the matter of war," then fear of foes will have sub sided in the growing consciousness of actual might. The race will be re generated "when men, not children or servants," shall be "tempered and taught to the end Cleansed of servile panic, Slow to dread or despise, Humble, because of knowledge, Mighty by sacrifice. . ";rzy rroieCsor. An unusual incident occurred the oth er day at the University of Budapest. A confirmed lunatic from the local asylum appeared in charge of his keep er and asked to be allowed to pass his examination. He found examination work quite congenial, passed very suc cessfully and returned to his asylum again with his diploma as a professor. Strayed or Stolen. From the Conway ranch, four miles from Billings, three horses branded thus: X on lefe shoulder; also one bay mare branded thus on right shoulder. A reward of five dol lars each will be paid ,or said horses delivered at my ranch on Clarke's Fork, three mitles from Laurel. 78-S U. . CRAIG.