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GAe WORLD of SPORT And the team with the best pitchers, other things being equal, is going to win.—Cleveland Press. Walsh, White, Smith, Owen, Al trock, Manuel—why, indeed, should not the White Sox be leading the American league in the race for the flag? Connie Mack has Plank, Bender, Schlitzer, Vickers and a few more, but it bothers the old "fox" to pick four pitchers for four consecutive games. "In my opinion Hal Chase is ol little value to Elberfield this sum mer," remarks a St. Louis rooter. "Hal is so good that the other Yankees cannot keep up with him. The Sox play a steady sort of game, field finely right along, get re markable results from their few hits, play inside ball with the best, and have a set of pitchers who arc just now working superbly. The Naps have six good pitchers in Joss, Liebhardt, Check, Berger, Thielman and Rhoades. If all ot them haid the ambition of the White Sox sextet, the Cleveland team might be in first place today. "Chance is the same star day in and day out. Then Frank will hit and run the bases with the best ot them. It makes me tired to read about Chase being the king. He's a good man, a star. But Chance is hi. complete superior doing everything." "A big, lumbersome chap like An derson or Hickman would be of fai more use to him Chase is too fast, both mentally and physically. When he really hustles he has all his team mates up in the air. The New York team would be better off without him." By playing magnificent ball, De troit continues to hold her lead in the American league but St. Louis is also plugging right along and is but a couple of games behind the am bitious boys from Michigan. It prom ises to be a battle royal with the chances in favor of Detroit on ac count of her wonderful sluggers, Cobb, Rossman, Crwafond and Schaef er. The Sox have raised their percent age of games won to a notch which, if maintained for the rest of the sea son, will win the bunting. The minions of Comiskey and Fielder Jones have averaged three victories out of every five games amd this is about good enough. It has proved nearly sufficient to win in past years and this season tihe race is closer than ever. The National league is, this season, putting up an even closer and more exciting race than the American. Pittsburg is still in the lead but is crowded by New York who finally succeeded in crowding Chicago back into third place. But three games separate the first and third teams and a bunch of double headers might change the entire standing in one day. In the meanwhile, Philadelphia is coming right along amd might yet be a material factor in the pennant race of the old major organization. ATTEMPTS TO EXTORT MONEY FROM HOBSON C. J. JONES' EFFORTS TO GET EASY MONES PROVES UN SUCCESSFUL. From present indications, the ef forts of C. J. Jones to get a little easy money is likely to have about the usual ending, the penitentiary for Mr. Jones. Jones is now in jail and the state has a good case against him. Thar the case can be yet further strength ened is the opinion of the county au thorities. Wanted Two Thousand. Along toward the end of June, Mr. S. S. Hobson, president of the Bank of Fergus County and one of the wealthiest men in the county, received a letter signed "Black Hand," and de manding that the banker leave $2,000 in a cabin located about a mile west of the city. Mr. Hobson told only his attorney and one or two intimate friends of the receipt of the letter. He im mediately wired for a detective and it would appear that he made a mis take in doing this instead of giving the case into the hands of Sheriff Martin at the beginning. The de tective came over from Helena and put in some time here, watching the cabin and working on other phase of the case. But he was not smooth enough for the black hand artist who The Detroit catchers are charged with only one passed ball. The best batting team in the league would comprise Mullin, Warner, Rossman, Dolohanty, Turner, Lord, Stone, D. Sullivan and Cobb. Elberfield's pitching force includes Ohesbro, Newton, Lake, Glade, Doyle amd one or two others, but of the lot Chesbro is the only veteran and the only reliable man. "Yes, and speaking about first base men, it's a joke to class any of them with Frank Chance," says a second rooter. "A first baseman should be reliable. Chase is brilliant, but er ratic. Detroit has a first degree satellite in Bill Donovan and some brilliant auxiliaries in Mullin, Willet and Kil lian, but the cluster looks dim when put along side the White Sox lumi naries. Of the Red Sox twirlers only old Cy himself is absolutely dependable. How immensely McGuire's team would be strengthened were Pruitt as reliable as White; Cicotte a» Owen; or Morgan as Walsh. Cantillon has a sterling group of mtrhers in Hughes, Keeley, Smith Johnson, Tannehill, Falkcnberg, Cates, and the rest, but even these are not to be spoken of above a whisper with Comiskey's bunch in point of reliability. How about St. Louis with Powell. Howell, Pelty, Graham, Bailey, Wad dell and Dineen? Not to be com pared with the Chicago bunch for a moment, and inferior, in all prob ability, to Cleveland's staff, with less fielding perfection and batting strength behind them. It is admitted by baseball men of high and low degree that the club with the pitchers stands far and away the best chance in a grueling race. What, then, have the other clubs to offer against the five sea soned twirlers and the sensational young recruit, Manuel, on Comiskey's staff. Chris F. Wall, of Toledo, Ohio, secretary-treasurer of the Boody House Hotel company, announces that Roger Bresnahan. the great catcher of the New York National league baseball club, will retire from the game for good at the end of the present season. Bresnahan is a stock holder in the company and desires to devote his entire time to his com mercial enterprises here. A feature of the season in both big leagues is the remarkably large num ber of pitchers that have been used. In half of the American league games up to the first of June a change of twirlers was necessary. The propor tion of games in the National league for the same length of time in which a change of pitchers has been made is still greater, being fully a third more than contests in which no change in the pitchers was made. There have been all the way from three to seven pitchers to a game. The man who has to keep record of ficially of pitchers' wins and losses has a mammoth and intricate task on his hands. kept in perfect touch with the Pink erton. On the date set by the letter for the delivery of the money, a bundle of old papers was left in the cabii, but this ruse only had the effect ot bringing a second and more threaten ing letter from the would-be extor tionist. Former City Marshall J. C. Bebb, kept watch at the premises for several days but, being unable to dis cover anything, gave up the job and it was then that Mr. Hobson placed the matter in the hands of Sheriff Martin. Watches Day and Night. The sheriff immediately devised a plan for keeping the cabin under surveillance day and night. He and two of his deputies worked one shift of eight hours each every day. They used the utmost precaution in going to and leaving their hiding place, which commanded a good view of the cabin. Jones Is Arrested. Martin got his man about 8:30 o'clock Tuesday evening just as he was being relieved, after vvatchin„ for several hours, by Deputy Biglen. As Martin was getting ready to leave, a man came along with a gun under his arms, making for the cabin. With out any preliminaries, Martin stop pad him and asked the fellow what he was going to the cabin for. The fellow replied that he was merely go ing down to the creek to take a bath. This story did not "listen" very good to the sheriff who placed the man, who said his name was Jones, under arrest. Jones, it appears, has been working ever since he came here from Ne braska two months ago, on one of Mr. Hobson's ranches which is lo cated a mile or two west of this city and leased by Nick Welter. The let ters were written with an indelible pencil and it is said that a search of | ever seen the ground any harder than at this time Are you not experiencing considerable difficulty in plowing with the plow which you are using? Do you know that the ROTARY DUTCHMAN DISC PLOW works perfectly in ground so hard that other plows will not enter the soil? This is not merely idle talk on our part but we can point you to dozens of farmers who will bear out this assertion. Therefore it is not necessary for you to discontinue plowing your land owing to the unprecedented drouth, for by purchasing the above plow from us you can continue plowing now with as good success as in early spring. We carry this plow in two, three and four furrow sizes. Come in and see us, or write for particulars. JUDITH HARDWARE CO. The Home of all People Who Think of of up his name with the attempted extortion. A young man with whom Jones was closeted on the Sunday prior to writ ing the second letter, was arrested but soon convinced the officers that he was not connected with the affair. Jones was arraigned before Justice Brassey Friday morning and entered a plea of not guilty. His preliminary hearing was set for 2 o'clock yester day afternoon, but was postponed and set for next Saturday afternoon at the same hour. The first letter to Mr. Hobson was as follows: Lewistown, June 28. Mr. S. S. Hobson, Dear Sir: On June 30, Tuesday, at 9 o'clock p. m., you take two thousand dollars and leave it in the northwest corner of the old log house standing on the old Wm. Hall ranch, about one mile west of town. It now belongs to you, and do not return there for two weeks after. Providing this is not done w< have your days numbered from June 30, or if you ever menchion this to any one else one of us will get you. This money will be returned to you in the same way in the near future, providing there is nothing said. BLACK HAND. The second letter received by the well known banker was of a decided ly threatening nature. It reads: S. S. Hobson: On Monday night, Aug. 3, you take the amount as you were told to in our other letter, only half of it in gold, $1,000, and put it in the same place as the other should have been. We cannot use your dam newspaper and don't you menchion it to any one this time. And we will not forgive you for anything if wt find any one there when we go and don't get the money it will be all day with you. We mean biz and will not monkey with you anv more. We were there several times before and found you had a man there. We could have gotten him very easv bu* you are the guy we want, and if you don't come across—you know the rest. You had better let your friends alone in a case of this kind, for they make it the worse for you. If you had let them alone before and done as your own interest told you you would never have heard from us again, but if you don't do it it will soon be all day with you. Hoping we have given you warning we will expect you to do as we say. BLACK HAND. AGED SALON IS DEAD. Senator W. B. Allison, of Iowa, Passes Away at Dubuque Home. Dubuque, Iowa. Aug. 4.—United States Senator William. B Allison died of heart failure at 1:40 p. m. to day. The death of Senator Allison re moves from the senate a man who for more than a quarter of a century has been one of its most prominent members. He had served continuous ly since 1873, and for the greater part of his term of services he was recog nized as one of the most influential members of that body. As chairman of the committee on appropriations much of the final legislation passed through his hands. He had not been in good health for some time and this fact had given rise to some specu lation whether he would be a candi date for re-election, his term expiring arch 3, 1909. Mr. Allison was born at Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829, and removed to Iowa in 1857. He served as a mem ber of the house of representatives, 38th, 39tK 40th and 41st congresses, prior to his election to the senate. The cause of death was heart fail ure. The end came as the result a serious sinking spell due to pros tatic enlargement, complicated with kidney disease and during a period of unconsciousness which lasted since Saturday afternoon. Two weeks ago the aged senator left his home in the city to escape the heat. He went to the home of Mrs. Fannie Stout, a friend of the family living on the Ashbury road a few miles from the city. For a few days his condition seemed to improve but he later began to grow worse. Medical advisers urged that an oper ation be performed to relieve the prostatic enlargement which was bringing his condition to a crisis. This morning the senator was brought to his home in this city, soon afterwards relapsing into a condition of almost unconsciousness.' With brief spells, when he recognized those about him, he remained in this condi tion until death came to Ks relief at 1:33 p. m. News of the serious illness of the senator was kept from the public as much as possible and his death came as a sudden and almost totally unex pected shock to his friends. There have been no arrangements for the funeral as yet. WHEN PUTNAM WAS YOUNG. Well Known Wool Buyer a Brave Deputy Sheriff in the Wild West. Great Falls Leader: Most people Montana and other northwestern states who are acquainted with the genial dean of the Great Falls wool exchange, F. H. Putnam, of the Bos ton firm of Hecht, Liebman & Co., are under the impression that Mr. Putnam is a thoroughly eastern man and that he has always been a most ardent consumer of the Boston bean. Such, however, is not the case and many, who consider themselves west eners, will be surprised to learn that Mr. Putnam was once a wild and wooly westerners in the days when the west was in its wildest and wooliest. Few realize that there was a time when Mr. Putnam traveled around with a couple of 6-shooters strapped to his side and devoted his time as western deputy sheriff in preserving the peace of a mining camp, but it true, nevertheless, and even today "Put" was in a tight fix with a gun conveniently situated in his hindmost pocket, he would no doubt draw and bring down his man without batting an eye. Mr. Putnam has been knocking around this big country quite a con siderable in the 50 years of his exis tence and he has not spent it all dealing in wool, either. The west knew him before he went into that business and he had made and lost a fortune before he began figure the grease and shrinkage fleeces. It was in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Old Mexico that Put nam spent the early days of his man hood and he was there for a number of years engaged in mining. When he was 21 years of age he was deputy sheriff in Nevada and his ex periences about some of those early day mining camps would prove vesting reading it he would only tell them. The other day while sitting in the Park hotel conversing with a news paper man, Mr. Putnam picked up of which magazine upon the cover ' was pictured a real bad man mount ; ed upon a saddle horse and carrying a Winchester, evidently looking for trouble. "If that fellow had ever met i 'Billy, the Kid,' his finish would have been real sudden." said Mr. Putnam, of, " 'Billy, the Kid,' was one of the quickest and most accurate shots of of a ever saw, and I knew him when he was nothing but a kid around his father's mine in Nevada. Many time have I seen him throw a little cartridge into the air and stand with his hand at his side until he saw turn in the air and then descend. As quick as a flash he would jerk out his gun and would put two or three bullets through it before it reached tihe ground. He was 24 years old when he got his finish and up to that time he could count a man for ever> year of his life." The Democrat Supply Department has now in stock a complete line blank books. Inks. Democrat Supply Dept. a is if It. tr in a ex in the a for the Look Here! I F YOU WANT A NICE cool kitchen these warm days come to our store and select one of those new. Perfection and while here look over our complete line of re frigerators. Let us also show you our Elwell Cabinets—the best made Lewistown Furniture Company "If you don't buy of ua we both lose money." he his a it As out old of Who Says YOU Can'tEam More? 9 You can earn more than you are earn* ing now—much more—and still more as the years go by. Legitimate salaries to specially trained men run into large figures, and there will never be a time when you cannot earn more if you make yourself north more. 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