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Daily Inter Mountai k. VOL. XIX. NO. 2 24 EUTTE, MONTANA. FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 29. 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS 20 cWILL DOIT AT J.H.Leyson's! Annual Clearance Sale 221 N. HAIN ST. DO WHAT? ; Just as much as 35c would do last < week, and 35c last week would do ' > more here than any place in Butte. Sterling Silver Handled Curling Irons........ Rolling Blotters..... Shoe Horns.......... .....Now 20C % Darning Balls........ .....Now 20 C X Cuticle Knives....... .....Now 20C Nail Brushes......... Button Hooks........ .....Now 202 X Nail Files............ .....Now 2oc T The above are only a few hints of actual reductions made, without regard to cost, in order that our annual clearance sale shall really make a clearance. f!_ _ $ $ $ t I For One Dollar... and «S j ! 2? A great variety of useful _____ _ Ç ornamental articles for Christ- ÿ If m mas presents are displayed in jp our North window. The line consists of ^ Dressintr nanirii»-#» in !{.; *^ ress,n S basest lanicure | Sets, Hand Decorated ^ (p China Pimiro V à figures, V a ses, ^ I packages. I Any Single Package Etc., and a O-reat va ri«»- 5 gt * auu 8 re «l VdrlC* ÿJ £ f V nf Pprfnmpc J n $ l y Hertu mes I n mlic^ Z 5 hj ^ ^ 5^ •S; $ ijf ÿ äf Ù IFINLEN-MGDIN DRUG CO. , Successors to Parchen-O'Acheue). ^ ^ 32 North Main Strset, Butte ON SATURDAY!; We will p.esent each Lady Customer with a Handsome Sou venir. i| Sliced Peaches syrup) per can Ritter's 1 pound cans of jam 2 cans Old Plantation Molasses, peron« can ......................... cUC Walnuts (this year's crop, per pound 20c Walnuts (this year's crop), per im pound ...................... IUC :;$i.25l quart Old Kentucky Whisky, Per^j QQ Live and Dressed Poultry, fruit and vegetables in season. j i - )! PS (In heavy ftp Z an.............. 2ÖC nd cans of jam A f* ▼ 2fr J Shaw's Pure Malt Skey, per$i nr 1 ouart .................... $1.25 1 ! Canadian Rve uerihi 1 . «»a .. R .r*:...rr$i.60j; McBriar's Cedar Brook, prfri nr ylibOj J A. H. TURNER. I Tel. 33 3 - 349 S. Hain St. j Orders Promptly Delivered THE ARMY IS ENTHUSIASTIC Over the Appointment of Generals Lord Roberts and Kitchener. FREE STÜTERS ARE DISSATISFIED With Actions of President Kruger and flany of Them will Fight No More»"London War Office SUDDlieS a ** Few Short Bulletins""Natal News Is Very Scarce Little Damage Is Done. "Ladysmith Continues To Be Romharded Blit " - London, Dec. 29.—Dispatches from all parts of South Africa emphasize the great enthusiasm among the troops and public occasioned by the appointments of Generals Roberts and Kitchener. The announcement that the former will have supreme command and that the latter will be chief of staff has largely dis pelled the depression in Cape Colony caused by recent reverses, while the sol diers anticipate everything front the presence of "Bobs.' Advices from Capetown, dated Decem ber 24, say an investigation shows that the reported disaffection among the Dutch in Victoria district has been over drawn. The farmers, it is pointed out. are mostly landowners and will not risk the loss of their farms by rising. A dispatch from Lorenzo Marquez, dated December 23, says a curious story is current emanating from Roer sources that Matt Steyn, brother of the president of the Orange Free State, and S00 Free Staters have definitely refused to con tinue the war. Steyn, acting as spokos ! man of the party, is reported to have j told the president that he was only au thorized to intervene in the interest of lid not feel that they were hound by nis "un warrantable conduct," especially as they . , peaco ' an, l that the burgher? ? ran tlie risk of confiscation of their ! p, ' opel ty ' a,ld they sim Ply desired to he . permitted to farm in peace and proposed i to Immediately return to their farms. '■ Sil p ' hai-,es Howard Vincent, member I of Parliament and colonel of the queen ! i Westminster volunteers, has been ,, n . | ; I to coniman<1 Infantry di v;- j Sion of the city of London imperial ; regiment. j 1 The text of Colonel Baden Powdl's I proclamation to the burçhers oesiee- | ; ing Mafeking. the gist of which has al . j ; ready been cabled, comes from J.nurenzo I Marquez today. After asserting that i the republic cannot hope for foreign m-I tervenlion, and pretending to relate thc| exact attitude of all the Euttpean pow ers, including Emperor 7,'i'liain, who. the colonel said, fully sympathizes with " ' ' " ' Dispatch From Ladysmith England. Baden Powell ntakos the ex traotdinary statement that the Ameri can government has warned others of her intention to side with England ; should any of them interfere. , A war office dispatch from Rad- n Powell, dated December 12, after an nouncing that Lady Sarah Wilson had arrived safe and well at Mafeking, adds 1 that bombardment and musketry fire; continues daily on all sides, and that the health and spirits of the garrison are . very satisfactory. 1 Pietermaritzburg, Dec. 27.—A dispatch from Ladysmith dated Dec. 22 says: The Boers have mounted another howitzer' . .... .. » , , , ^^ d a lhe RO! ' tie of th * i tfle migade. b,le tbe >' us nightly wjth senroh lights and bombard the place daily they show no of assaulting the town. They probably think they can starve us out, but we have plenty of provisions. | on Surprise hill, replacing the gun cap The total casualties sinee the siege began ■ ---- - - are seventy men killed and 276 wounded. Tbe Real Losers. __ XT v T New York. Dee. 29,-It non appear« l ^ at l ^ e ^ rm that had the largest ship ^^ n the tliree vessels of which the cargoes , were recently seized by British author!- I ^tions to the state department as have j , „ . . , : ties, is an English ooncern-Arthur Mty I & Co., ot Bristol, which has a large branch office in this city. The firm had on board the three ships which were i seized-the Maria the Masitonit and the Beatrice—about 2^,000 bags of ftour con- ! signed to Lorenzo Marques. The agent J here will not say whether the Hour was intended for ultimate sn.pmeut from Lor- , fcnzo Marques to the Transvaal, but he has not at present made any représenta tinns In thp sstül» n«s hav^ most oif the other firms, which had goods seized. The manifests of the three vessels show that they carried the usual class of goods a..,.., k ..... : / , it/ imnni'i't f a ' a ports, although W»»I ♦ . Vi " a a ,n .V C V , lars r 1 ■ ' Vi- 11 t ; l<ltlJ admitted by the ' Ä lt T Ä , S Ve b ? n . tended for the Bnfr« 1 2*™ £ " a ? ln ' ! H, e , V A member of one , him declared that there was a very large local trade in Lorenzo Marques. | I he consignments to Delagoa bay were | all shipped at the consignees risk a ltd ! r.V.ni t . here £° re - c Iaim da-mages ; b the American firms for non-delivery, fhe steamship owners are also protected : ii,°. n i!r, S Ju 1l , ö r damagfe suits - as a clause 1 the shipping agreements provides that 1 uicy are not responsible for "unforeseen 1 events. In spite of this, It is stated that a tatge proportion of the goods shipped to bifW it r iVfWh« Ma, ' ou . es pald for d. rote it left this country. The uncer- j tainty in every direction consequent ou ! tlie war made shipping concerns in America careful and most of them refits; d to transact business except on "Cash be tore delivery" terms. 1 The people in Delagoa bay are. there fore, the real sufferers, particularly as that city is now full of refugees from the ransvaa 1 and prices for everything have gone up. . NEWS FROM FRONT, WAR OFFICE Snppr.IES A FEW DAILY BITI.I.ETINS—TREATY WITH GERMANY. It ■vt • v 1 . t-. , . P " * ol 'k, Dec. 29.—A dispatch to t lio Tribune from London says: The Anglo-I German agreement rpmuln« o t Ber'iï il ok al ... . . * ' 1 * v ' 1 / s torsion hav been C!Uashed b > r oflielal denial. All " <dl info, 'med diplomats are convinced, * 10 " f ' r ' tllat Germany will enlarge her f ' ol,l "ial possessions in some quarter at end 1 * 1 '' " ar ani ' have a free fdle it in the future It is n „, considered orobable that! Lord .Salisbury has consented to the sale! 'of Goa, Macao and Daman to Germany | but the future of iht> East African pos nut doubt aT th with the cieïmân" aniWssador ^a'b-'.ar a*-o Th German emperor and Mr. chamberlain are known to have held a prolonged con sultation at Windsor castle a few weeks ago, and by the process of exclusion the diplomats have reached the conclusion j that East Africa was the subject which! interested them. ! 11 may be premature or unsafe to; carry out these arrangements at tires- I cut, in view of the Russian reprisals in! Herat and of French intrigues in Mo-' rocco, htit the shrewdest observers in b diplomatic circles forecast th" ultimate aa occupation of Delagna X»ay by Great so Britain and the enlargement of Germany in East Africa southward toward Earn- ; besi. The German disclosure is prob- j ably tr"o to that extent, but has been overloaded. The Ihitish government is embar rassed without doubt liv the Portuguese , loafs trading on a large scale with the Transvaal. While the Bntish anny does not have a free P a . ssa ? e through Portugie se territory lbe r ** ûn ^ v ' aal on the shortest line mar( *h to Pretoria, the Boers them- h receiving Kuropean recruits neu t ra lity, whi>-h a,ld nd,ital ! y st, fi' es through Lorenzo Marques. This back door would , . .. t-. , , ... ,* >e closed if Delagoa bay were either under . British or Boer jurisdiction, but it ro mains open under a neutrality which is useful to trading and double dealing. t * It is evidently inconvenient for the Brit- " ish government to carry out any pre al . ranged s ,. hc . mf , „ itll Portugal and Germany. Tlu* Berne arbitration award not be made tor three month«, and tthat nt.iüLt' 1 " nnantlal dealing,^,. and"neutral rights in war time are sub with Portugal. More over, Lord Salisbury cannot be, eager to challenge Russia to seize Herat by the occupation of Delagoa bay. ! Meanwhile the right of search at sea [ awkward precedents for England her- l R0 lf. which is: dependent upon i.. orted f 00( | supplies in peace and in war. The American proposa! for exempting private property from seizure was not [adopted even by The Hague congress, «..a .......<___i „v,... ...... ...... ....1. L~ ject to the decision of prize courts, as to j what constitutes contraband of war. t This is the theoretical ICngiish view of the case. Ilut in practice the prize i courts at Durban arc not likely to rub ! that food stuffs arc contraband of war. although there is a warrant for it in HrUtsli seizures and confiscation of rice during other periods of hostilities. The war office continues to supply its daily bulletin of news from the front, Natal alone being excluded from its scope. The man in the street is spared the necessity of reading many columns of belated and confused dispatches from news agencies and special correspond ents. He will see at a glance this morn ing that Haden-Powell was safe on De cember 12; that neither Gataere nor French has met with any fresh adven tures. and that Methuen holds his ground at Modder river, exchanging gun fire with the enemy and constantly re connoitcring with his cavalry brigade. The Bqers have been challenging Gen eral Methuen to renew the fighting. The war office bulletins are also gaining in variety. Today's includes reference to a heavy rainfall. This is a. close ap proach to the weather report. There is also something like a market report. General Methuen has established a inar ! ket at Modder river, where tea and other i dry groceries are exchanged for milk ! and vegetables. ! This bulletin helps to dispel appre I henslon respecting General Methuen's ability to keep communication open be hind him, for there is a direct reference to a. t econnoissance north and west of Enslin. There are few press dispatches from this quarter, but the war office supplies ! 1 inforr ' ,ation that is indefinite and re- | assuring. Rumors of important news assuring. Rumors of important news from General Methuen were current to , ''in^Nntaî'fho censorship is again oper- j frit ating closely and only minor camp incl- j"' j dents come through. The London press, i having at last discovered that General j Wartvn is with General Buffer, is as- j suming that the battle will speedily be ■ renewed on the Tugela. Every Lndy smith casualty list reinforces the moral . that the issue cannot come too quickly. Today's record includes seven deaths from typhoid fever. The gloomy views which several journals express today do j not appear to be warranted by the corn paratlve strength of the two armies. | RI partum 1 sirengtn or me rwo armies Q enera | Buffer, when reinforced by th< , bulk ot Warren's division, will have cer ' tcvinlv 28.000 men, exclusive of General . White's field force. ! There are more British soldiers than 1 He , Boers on lhe Tugela. and now that a si .,„ e has an . lve <i at Capetown i | there i'- no lack of guns of long range. el,1 | f British generalship be equal to the i ! crisis, the relief of Ladysmith ought to; ; b e the natural consequence of British i superiority in numbers and artillery, 1 : bravely and warily as the Boers will contest the passage of the river and! 1 hold their scientific lines of defense. ! 1 Ex-ITemier Escombe's death in Natal f is greatly regretted by South Africans 1 cd in London, He was a strong .imperialist or, '«•><* »«:•' f>t t'ecil Rhodes. He was re- 'was j garded 1 as a practical statesman, wno'„ ! was destined to work out the eonfedera tion scheme of South Africa after the war and as Mr. Rhodes' natural sm '.essor in the English leadership, 1 __ Kruger's Gold Tax Law. 1 ] __ Pretoria. D c. 25.—Gen. Bchalkbrrgcr, reports under date of Dee. 23 that trains are now running to Colenso, indieating I , , ... . , „ f . „ ! that the Boers have built a connection , around Ladysmith. I Gen. Cronje reports from Modd.r river December 24th that the Boers captured ' . . . ,, . ,, two British forts at Kurumnn. Dec. 11. . It is rumored Methuen's l.ig naval gun ha ...... ......— ~......-■----- exploded. T , h ® Trunsvttal government has pro- for mulgfdti-cl a new sold tax law by whien bne individuals and companifs working their also own mims an* taxed thirty per cent of the output, whil e mints worked by the into govehiment will pay fifty per cent. Sits | pendtM mines will pay thirty per cent on infif their probable output calculated on ihr e moriths' woiking. Reducing works will f, n pay thirty per cent of tlieir net profits. '* * the The law is retroactive to O.-P 10 . Heavy Finns: Heard. m j t he w I Capetown. Dec. 29.—A dispatch fro Cradock reports heavy firing in tin dire tion of Stormbcrg. It is supposed this on peeps] with Gataere's attempt to mninunicatlon with the Indue colliers. No Change No!ed. ivonen - j ! I T ,, ,, . ,, , . . . —°, nd ' n ' Dec ' *' 9—A tlis P a ''''i r-. iv d b S' the " office dated Capetown Ik c. 28, aa >'s there is no change in the situ so far as Generals Gataere and French ar<; concerned. ; --- j !Wiif,4ar/se J ItIUJ VlCl Ca JdllCU. j n to ■- had °n and a —, - (he 1 nit efforts e<f De-tective Fitzgerald of :his city. "Ni, k" Hayworth, the brutal mur- ! derer of a watchman in Lavton Divk ' . . s time h*. .*, \ was ' 9 \ R ha ar ,ast ble. h en appi bended. He i\as arrested to day in a lumber camp on lhe Wood river, San Francisco, Dec. 29.—Through Oregon, after making a desperate resist ance-to Sheriff Abbott, who had 'traveled . . » -, . . , 'Tkiintlrocls of miles to secure him. The ci'inie for which Hayworth is wanted is t * lf> Kl 11 inar of a man named Mitchell, who " as employed as a watchman In a hard vva,-e »tore in I^ayton. He had two ac complices, I.ouis Reavis and James Ste Priens, \v ho a re s up^osed to be in this ^n*d -aÄÄÄ'ÄÄ P!llgepald> who located the aroused man. 'was j. ef .,.; VP $i_000 reward offered by the Turk rado stale of I'tah. British Warships There. •'■ ' , _ ^ l- Francisco, Dec. 29.—The steamer ^uralcoa from Gun vamas brings news that ' the British raen-of-wir Ph* a c ant, Trader, \Va";*spr:u* »nd Teams worein Magdalena 1 bay w't -r she l.*f. that part, but w--r® all ed nr.-i.-tring to sai L~ 1 " ail for A-.apulco on Dec. [A. jof 1 11!t <d States Senator \V. A. Clark told hint thitt lilt tvotilti pay ror votes for Wm «(»if as senator, bias recanted. A signed latement is in the hands of Mr. Clark's Admits That His Testimony Was False. IN THE WELLCOME CASE His Family Was Starving and He Accepted $400 tD Give His Evi dence- Rev. Warren is in Trouble in Helena. Helena, .Mont.. Dec. 29.—Zachary T. Ca son. a lawyer of Butte, who testified In tile Wellcome disbarment case that frit ' n,jK in «'"'*>•>* »a»'* his evidence j"' ls untruthful and that lie gave it for,® $4fK). tha t liis family was starving and that he had to have the money. Cason expressses regret at the wrong done and hopes tills retraction may offset it some what, , 1 ' " ' 4 * ■ " :ln i ' n , who was chap htin of The house last winter and who swore in the Wellcome case that Clark in effect mid him lie would give a friend of .Warren's moitev for ids vote has come to RI . I( . r . <'ha, gvs of tippling, immoral con •harges, but returned hi» is a minister to his presiding now out of the <md retention-of money .'elle! >d tor tlte church were tiled against Warren and he refused to defend himself, He denied tin eredentiiais , ' el,1 ' ,r and """ <JlU t,f tlle preaching business. -------- a P1v/*V* LIlCjvIlllC lijCl VYFCCRCll, _ ,, . . ,, Q "»«•• P)e ' • the Ch-yennc f lyer on the I mon Pacific railroad crash cd into the Boulder valley train at Bright - or, O<4o„ art! this morning. Ope man 'was killed ami fourteen persons injured f,,]I..w s • KillPil -W'inti.Id Randleman, exptoss messenger, Denver, body iburmd to a crisp. Passengers Injured— 15. S. I looker, c Min, Iowa. Mrs. Margaret Young, Mansfield, Mo. Sig Hurst, banker, Brighton, Colo. F. V. Davis, travelling' salesman, Den ver, Colo. \y. Tompkins, travelling salesman, Kansas City, Mo. V; '' a Wyoming. Mrs. AI i 'L 'a 1111 a, Laramie, Wyoming, Fn ,, L;1WS brak.-iimn, Denver. Micha. 1 Regan, section foreman. Titos. .McGovern, section foreman. J " hn ''«'«'.ly John Carrington, Frank .Su.jn, Jerry Klamny, emiiloyoe.«. Tlu . valley train left Denver « little late this morning and as usual stopped at Brighton which is the junction for the Boulder ValleyJino from the main bne lo v *lu-> « an Fhe t'hcyenne liver also left Denver late and coming into Brighton in the earlv morning dusk, ran into 'Git rear end of the Boulder train, telescoipin or three cars and d r.iil infif the passenger locomotive. Se'-tion gangs from Denver yards and half a dnz f, n pa.-'sengers occupied the Boulder train, '* * u ' rnap an d baggage ear and smok- r of the flyer w.-re burned. Mrs. Young was m :i t he w rrt take ■hair car with six children. •hiklren were hurt. The brought to Denver about noon and 1 to the hospitals. 'Gondtletor MrAi lister of the Boulder Valley train was [crazed by the accident. lie att- nipt-d to jump into the burning wreckage and 1 had to lie forcibly restrained. None id' j wound» 1 ! I Mountain Fort Taken. Washington, Dec. 29.—General Otis cables to the war department today its follows: "Manila. Dec. 29.—Colonel T.noli- tt, with his regiment, two battnlions of the Forty-sixth (Colonel Schuyler), one bat talion of the Forty-fifth (Colonel Dnrsf), and one company of the Twenty-seventh infantry, two guns (Captain Vainleu sen), attacked the enemy, 600 strong, on a mountain stronghold beyond Mont Alban, northeast of San Mateo. A large number were killed and wounded and 24 taken prisoner. Lockett captured one cannon, 40 rifles, 20,000 rounds o r a in mu nit ion, 500 pounds of powder, arsenal fortifications, all food supplies and eon siderahle other property. This captured point is located on a mountain trail and was formerly supposed to be imprégna ble. Our casualties, Lieutenant iCnîow. Eleventh cavalry, and five enlist» d men wounded, mostly slight; Private .Matson, Forty-fifth infantry, drowned. Head End Collision. Palmer Lake, Colo., Dec. 29.—A j ! ' j do , , ^n*d a Santa Fe fi eight train had a head- ; ssar»"!£ & 'was killed and Engineers Leavitt and Turk being seriously Injured. No pass rado Midland passenger train northbound engers were injurld . The cause ot the collision is not yet known. ^ ^ the-Hinckley.'"heiress' to^ severaV* miUion dollars ieft by her father, Thomas Blythe, which were awarded to her after protract Was Quietly Married. San Francisco. Dec. 29.—Florence Biy ed litigation, has been quietly married to A. Moore, Jr., deputy attorney general this state. Hennessys S» lO 20 27 20 20 er as go Closing Out Several Lines of Fine Cloth and Plush Capes At Bargain Prices Relieving You've had time to recuperate 11 youl Cm istmas shopping and the ^ a •' festivities of that day. we offer some magnificent values in Women's Gar meats, a fitting send-off for the closing days of 1899. 24 inches long, lined with serge high Storni collar, and down front trimmed "1th Angora fur; sizes 36 to 44 inches. CLOTH CAPES BLACK BOtTCT.E CLOTH CÄPES $6.50 and $7.50 Values Only $3.95 each BLACK BOT tel. E CX-OTH CAPES— Extra heavy weight, 24 and 27 inches (long, lined with heavy serge, large storm collar and front of cape trimmed with Angora fur; sizes 36 to 44 inches. $■0.00 and $12.00 Values Only $6.75 each A LARGE LOT ODD CAPES—Made of fine Boucle, Plush, Beaver Cloth etc. Length 22 to 27 inches. Some are trimmed 'with fur, others with jet and (narrow braid. Some of these Capes are very choice. 1 The $13.50 quality for $ S.75 $15,00 quality for $ 9.75 $18.50 quality for $11.50 $20.00 quality for $13.00 $23.00 quality for $13.93 PLUSH CAPES PETJSH CAPES. GOOD QFALITY— Lined with serge, length 22 inches, high storm collar and front of cape trimmed with Angora fur; sizes 34 to 42 inches. $0.50 and $7.50 Values Only $4.75 each T'l.USH GABES —Same style as the tbove, but 27~trvehes in length,, lined with serge, high storm collar and front of cape trimmed with Angora fur; sizes 36 to 44 inches. $10.00 and $12.00 Values Only $6.75 each REAVER CLOTH GAPES—Extra heavy weight, in black only; linings of heavy serge, storm collar and front of cape trimmed with Angora fur. Tlv-se Capes are able warm and strictly serv al! sizes, 36 to 42 inches. $10.00 and $12.00 Values Only $6.75 each VL -Î7V At Half Price Some 50 or 60 Trimmed Hats, large and small shapes, with trimmings ul' wings, plumes, velvet, etc., worth from $6.50 :o $10 each, and there's quite a bunch of [pretty Pattern Hats, too. These all go at half price. \\ r e have just opened up a lot of Jersey s*ä,-«-»• , r mi r generally of the higher grade, and there 'are no two of the Waists alike. JERSEY WAISTS These are merely a sample line of the latest fad sent to us with the expectation of receiving a general order. Colors, red. navy blue and black; sizes, 34, 36 and 33 inches. Prices from $4 to $18.30 each. AT HENNESSY'S Butte, Montana.