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VOL. I. NO. 15.
KALISPELL, MONTANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1900.
FIVE CENTS
NO TIDINGS YET
From the Relief Column on the
Way to Pekin.
CENSOR RESPONSIBLE.
Horrible Story of Massacre of Christians
by Imperial Troops.—English
Women Murdered.
Special to the Bee.
London, Aug. 2, 3:40 a. m.—No word
comes this morning regarding the for
tunes of the comparatively small body
of troops believed to be forging their way
toward Pekin. The silence is probably
duo to diligent censorship rather than to
any lack of developments.
The Tien Tsin correspondent of the
Standard says: "A heartrending letter
has been received from the Japanese
legation, dated July 22, stating that only
25 cartridges per man are left, with only
sufficient food for five days, and that it
is feared the legation will succumb with
in a week." General Gasellee, says this
correspondent, was strongly opposed to
an advance but he was overruled by the
other commanders and influenced by
Washington's orders to General Chaffee,
"To proceed without an instants delay.
From Shanghai the Daily Express
has received confirmation of the reported
murder of fifty missionaries in the prov
ince of Shanshi, with the additional
information that eight English women
were dragged out of the mission build
ings by a Chinese mob who beheaded
them in the streets of Chuchou.
Shanghai, July 2.—An imperial edict
announces the receipt of an official tele
gram, the Tsung Li Yamcn asserting that
the ministers were all well on July 30
and that vegetables, fruits and other
supplies had been sent to the legations
on several occasions. According to ca
blegrams from Chee Foo it is announced
that imperial troops, advancing to oppose
the relief forces, have completely wiped
out a Christiun town near Pekin, killing
five foreign priests and 10,000 native
Christians._
CRUSHED UNDER A CAR.
A Utile Girl Meets Frightful Death in
Bntte.
Special to tlio Boo.
Butte, Aug. 2.—Little Aileen Moran
met with a frightful and sudden death
. yesterday morning shortly after 9 o'clock.
She ran under a moving street car on
Utah avenue and her frail little body
was mangled beneath the trucks. Con
ductor Frank Hannaman was in charge
of the car, which was going down to the
depot, and M. L. Mustard was motorman.
On the front platform with the motor
man were Police Officer W. Walsh and
Conductor Will Hoskins, who was not
at that time on duty, but merely taking
a ride to a point on Utah avenue. Just
below the junction of Arizona avenue
the car stopped to let off a passenger.
On the right of the car stood a wagon
and team of horses. The motorman
started on signal by the conductor but
before he had gone 40 feet he hastily ap
plied the brakes and the car soon came
to a standstill, but not before the life
had been crushed out of a little girl who
had darted out from behind the wagon.
The motorman did not see the child
until it was too late. Mr. Hoskins and
Officer Walsh saw the little girl at the
moment the motorman did and Hoskins
sprang to the ground in an effort to save
the child, but his horoism nearly cost
him his own life as the child was under
the slowly revolving wheels when he
reached it. Both motorman and con
ductor are charged with manslaughter
and are out on bonds. The coroner's
jury fails to fix responsibility for the
death. __
WALKED OUT.
Batte Telephon« Conitmcton Ordered to
Quit Work.
Special to the Bee.
Butte, Aug. 2.—On Tuesday morning
the entire force of employes of the con
struction department of the Bell Tele
phone company in Butte walked out.
The withdrawal of employes from the
service of the company resulted from an
order of the local union of the United
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
based on the fact that the Belle Tele
phone company continued in its employ
ment men who were refused membership
in the local union. _
MURDERED IN MISSOULA.
Loale R ad dig a n Foully Mmrdered for Hie
Money.
Missoula, July 31.—The dead body of
Louie Raddigan, a well-knnwn character
of this city, was found this morning on
a bar in the Missoula river near the
Orchard Homes addition. Alvie Tooms,
the son of a ranchman who lives on the
opposite side of the river, made the dis
covery. He saw tne body lying in the
sand and forded the stream to investi
gate. He reported his gruesome find to
E. R. Kilburn, who notified the coroner.
Raddigan received some money Satur
doy from a land deal, and he was last
seen Saturday night after he had made
known to some of his friends that he
had received this sum—about 875. He
said that he intended to deposit a part
of the money so as to have something
for winter. Several of his friends recall
having seen him Saturday night, and
some of them think that they saw him
in the early morning hours of Sunday,
but since then nobody remembers hav
ing seen him alive.
Special to the Bee.
Missoula, Ang- 2.—There is no doubt
in the minds of those w r ho have heard
the evidence that County Attorney Den
ny has collected that Louie Raddigan
was foully murdered, and that the mur
der was committed for the little sum of
money the old fellow was known to have.
County Attorney Denny has discovered
proof which he considers positive that
Raddigan was struck on the head with a
stone, and that the murderer afterwards
threw the body over the railing of Hig
gins avenue bridge into the river and
the swift current boro the body down
the stream to tho bar where it was dis
covered Tuesday morning. Mr. Denny
is positive of this, and tho evidence
seems to show that the murder was com
mitted on the bridge.
PROF. SANDERS RETIRED.
The Vote Against Him Stood Six to
Four.
Special to the Bee.
Dillon, Aug. 2.—Prof. Sanders was yes
terday deposed as president of the state
normal school at Dillon by the state
board of education, by a vote of six to
four. The action was taken yesterday
morning at a special meeting of the
board and the vote on the question of
confirming his re-election by the local
board for the school was as follows
Nays—Governor Robert Smith, Judge
McConnell, Attorney General C. B. Nolan,
Judge Melton, J. D. Hendricks and Ü. F.
Goddard. Ayes—State Superintendent
A. E. Carlton, Prof. J. M. Hamilton, C
B. Garrett and O. P. Chisholm.
It was stated by a member of the board
last evening that it was not so much a
question of Prof. Sanders' ability or com
potency to fill the position of president
of the normal school as the recognized
necessity of making a change for the
good of the school, because of tho oppo
sition to him anc' „he dissension of the
local board.
Helena, Aug. 2.—Governor Smith will
call for the resignations of tho members
of the local board of the state normal
school. It is understood that the gov
ernor has decided to do this in the light
of the developments at the special meet
ing of the state board of education held
at Dillon. There is said to be friction
in the board, and this is assigned as one
of the reasons why President Sanders
could not get along with the board and
it was deemed advisable not to retain
him.
SPEEDILY - SETTLED.
Great Northern Firemen will Have Tlielr
Troubles Adjusted.
Special to the Bee.
Butte, Aug. 2.—It appears that the
grievance of the Great Northern firemen
which Grand Master Sargent is consid
ering and trying to adjust with railroad
offiicials, is not of a serious nature and
will most likely be speedily settled. They
relate to work of men on tho big engines.
A fireman on a standard engine gets
82.30 for 100 miles, and a fireman on the
largest is allowed but 82.50. There are
several complaints, one of which is that
firemen find considerable trouble in get
ting a sufficient supply of fuel.
Capt. Frank E. Green In Butte.
Special to the Bee.
Butte, Aug. 2.—Capt. Frank E. Green
collector of internal revenue in four
ports on Luzon, formerly provost mar
shal of Cavite and previously of the
Kalispell company of volunteers of the
First Montana in the Philippines, arrived
in the city yesterday, Capt. Green is on
furlough and will visit friends in Mon
tana, after which he will visit his wife in
Grand Forks, then he will proceed east
and take passage on transport Kilpat
rick, which is being fitted out for China
and the Philippines. He says that the
insurrection is about over in the islands.
There are 500 garrisons on that island,
and he believes that few troops will be
removed to China. However, he said
that it was possible that his company,
the Eleventh Cavalry, might be trans
ferred to China.
Forest Fires. Still Raging.
Special to the Bee.
Missoula, Aug. 2.—Supt. Collins of the
forest reserve says he received a brief
report yesterday from Supervisor Mosier
which states that the fires in the Swan
lake country are still burning and that
the Indians are still causing trouble.
There are more Indians still coming into
the forest reserve in which fires are
starting.
SHAH OF PERSIA
Narrowly Escapes the Fate of
Humbert.
RECEIVED A WARNING
Which He Disregarded—Assassin Hesitated
and Shah Escaped Nothing Known
of Assailant's Connections.
Special to the Bee.
Paris, Aug. 2. Mustaf Nasreddin, shah
of Persia, who lias been a visitor at the
exposition since Saturday as the guest
of France, narrowly escaped an assassin's
bullet. It had been arranged for him to
visit Sevres and see the national i»ttery
works, und it was just after he had left
the palace on his way to the Seine to go
on hoard a yacht placed at his disposal
for the trip, that the attempt upon his
life was made. Only live minutes before
tho pistol was placed at his breast he
was the recipient 'of a letter which
warned him that his life was in danger.
It said: "Today you will meet the same
fate as Humbert." In no wise discon
certed, the shah handed the letter to an
officer on guard and gave orders for the
carriage to start. The gates of the pal
ace were thrown open and as the mon
arch emerged a man dressed in the ordi
nary clothing of a Paris workman darted
forward from below two automobiles,
where he was hidden, and rushed toward
the imperial carriage, overthrowing a
bicycle policeman, who rolled under the
feet of the horses. In an instant he was
on the carriage steps, holding the door
open with his left hand. With his right
he pushed the ■ 'lver toward the breast
of the shah, lie seemed to hesitate for
a moment as though undecided how to
act. This hesitation saved the Persian
monarch's life, for before ho could pull
tho trigger u strong hand grasped his
wrist and wrenched it so that tho weapon
dropped harmlessly to the bottom of the
landau. Up to midnight nothing re
garding the would-be assassin or his
connections had been learned that was
not known within half an hour after his
arrest. He maintains absolute silence.
THE BEE IS WILLING.
The Libby News may settle the
question of the Bee's circulation
and advertising by reference to
the books in this office. The Bee
is willing to place its books at the
disposal of any unbiased commit
tee of advertisers if the News will
do the same.
JOHNSON WILL PROTEST
Against tile Pardon Granted J. M. Mc
Donald.
Special to the Beo.
Helena, Aug. 2.—When the state board
of pardons comes to consider the pardon
granted by tho governor to J. M. Me
Donald, sent up for life from Yellow
stone county for murder in tho second
degree for killing Moran in Billings in
1895, the case in which the Clark press
bureau claimed that tho would-be sentt
tor was a prominent figure, it will have
a formidable protest to meet. This came
to the state board today from County
Attorney Johnson of Yellowstone county.
He was not county attorney at the time
of the trial, but was a spectator, and be
came familiar with the case. He says
no reasonable man who followed the
trial could form any other opinion than
that McDonald was justly convicted and
so serving a righteous sentence. He
says that the facts have been grossly
misrepresented to the governor.
Will Have to Hang.
Special to the Bee.
Helena, Aug. 2.—Dan Lucey will have
to hang for the murder of Patrick Regan
near Butte, two years ago, unless Gover
nor Smith sees fit to interfere, as his case
is no longer in the courts of Montana
The supreme court passed upon the mo
tion made three days ago by Lucey's
counsel for a rehearing of the case. The
court announced that it would deny the
motion. This removes the last hope that
may have been entertained that the
court might consent to hear additional
arguments upon a motion for a new trial,
which the court recently refused.
Murderer as Bondsman.
Special to the Bee.
Butte, Aug. 2.—Thomas Pooley, the
man who murdered his own daughter
and her husband, was today justified on
a'8250 bail-bond for J. E. Clifford, who
was in the county jail under a charge of
grand larceny. Pooley 's wife also went
on the bond, and after Judge Clancy
had accepted them as sureties, Pooley
went back to his cell in jail and Clifford
was given his liberty.
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Statu* of Oateopatli* a* Drflnrd It)- the
Attorney General.
Attorney General Nolan, in reply to a
question respecting the status of osteo
paths submitted by E, K. Cheadlo, city
attorney of Lewistown, says:
"An osteopath in practicing his call
ing is liable for the payment of a license.
An osteopath, I believe, is amenable to
the medical law of this state, and could
be prevented from engaging in the prac
tice of osteopathy unless a license was
secured from the medical board. The
fact, 'however, that such a license is
not secured does not relieve the practi
tioner from complying with the pro
visions of the license law."
The attorney general also, writing to
the same attorney, says that in his opin
ion cities cannot pass a valid ordinance
permitting tho confiscation of weapons
or other property taken from city prison
in
MUST HAVE A LICENSE.
Weekly Crop Bulletin.
Helena, July 31.—Tho weather during
the past week was very warm, followed
on the 2Gth by showers and eooler
weather in all parts of the state. The
rain was equally distributed as to quan
tity; most of tho reports received say
there was not a sufficient amount of rain
to be of any benefit. At Havre there
was an excessive rain, 0.70 inch having
fallen in 23 minutes and over one inch
altogether. The weather has been bene
ficial to harvesters. The hay crop is
over half harvested at present; in many
places grato is being harvested and
threshingH^^|ommenco Aug. 1st to Gth
Early fruits, such as apples and pears,
are being picked for market, The water
in the streams is becoming more scarce
each week and cattle tire compelled to
travel long distances for water. Forest
fires are numerous and many ranges
have suffered great damages from prairie
fires."
WARNINGS AVERE GIVEN
Of tile Intended A**ns*tnatlun of Iliim
liert of Italy.
Monza, July 31. -The body of King
Humbert, dressed in black, lies today on
the bed ordinarily used by him. Around
the massive candelubra, holding burning
tapers at the foot and Load of the bed,
are flowers placed by Queen Margherita,
who passed the long hours of the night,
in prayer by tho bed on which the body
lies. Father Bignami, tho court chap
lain, is in immediate charge of the bier.
The cardinal archbishop of Milan has
ordered a requiem mass in all the
churches in his diocese. Enormous num
bers of telegrams of regret and condol
once continue to arrive, including tncs
sages from the most illustrious families
in Romo.
Signor Saracao, tho premier, on his
arrival at tho royal villa to tender his
condolences to Queen Margherita, had
an impressive audience lasting half an
hour. All tho royal princes, tho queen
of Portugal and the Duke of Oporto
have arrived here.
Bressi was born in Prato in 18G9. He
was denounced in 1895 as a dangerous
rioter and deserted to tho island of Pan
tellari in 189G. Ho was liberated under
the amnesty of the battle of Adowa and
in 1897 went to the United States.
Queen Margherito bus invited Verdi
to compose a requiem mass and if ho de
dines Mas cogni will bo commissioned
As tho facts develop it is seen that
warnings of the crime were given, and
much indignution is felt at the failure
of the police to take better precautions,
Signo Saracao questioned a number of
witnesses of the crime. General Prince
Vagla, Knig Humbert's premier aide do
camp, testified that the shots were fired
in such quick succession that ho had
not time to protect the king.
A magistrate examined Bressi, who
was sullen and defiant, replying "I did
not kill Humbert, I killed tho king."
Ho admitted that he was in Monza
park the previous day with a lady, and
angrily protested that what he had done
was not a crime but an act of justice.
Among the persons arrested at Prato
is a woman named Teresa Brugnoli, said
to have been the mistress of the assassin
Alles for Information.
Special to tho Bee.
Helena, Aug. 2 - The attorney general
today received a letter from Miss Evelyn
Kennedy, a practicing attorney of Miles
City, asking if she is eligible to hold the
position of county attorney. She writes
that she has been assured of election if
she consen ts to run. _
Timber In Danger.
Special to the Bee.
Anaconda, Aug. 2.— Fierce forest fires
are raging eight miles south of tho city.
The fire thus far is confined to dead tim
ber, but unless rain comes soon, will
communicate to valuable standing timber
and the loss will be immense.
Huallpox Expensive.
Butte, Aug. 2.—County Clerk Moran
yesterday made out an account of small
pox bills the county has paid since the
beginning of the recent epidemic last
October, showing the total costs up to
date has been 819,507.92.
TOURIST MISSING
Has Been Lost Since Last
Monday.
NO TRACE OF HIM
And It Is Feared He May Have Stumbled
Into a Geyser of Boilfng
Mud.
Special to tin- Hoe. ,
Livingston, Aug. 2.—Another day has
gone by and still there has been found
no trace of J. R. Piper, the man who
wandered away from the Fountain hotel
in tho national park last Monday even
ing. Searching parties consisting of sol
diers, stage drivers, hotel employes and
tourists have scoured the country in tho
vicinity of the Fountain hotel since
Tuesday morning, but they have been
unable to discover any trace of the miss
ing man. It seems as if the earth had
opened and swallowed him, and iudood
it is not unlikely that ho has stumbled
blindly into one of tho many pools or
bottomless cauldrons of seething mud
that are so numerous in tho midway
geyser basin. Piper wtts a tourist.
THE BEE'S PREMIUM.
A very meritorious book. - Libby
News, jC jt j* j*
The Laudanum Route.
Special to tho Boo.
Anaconda, Aug. 2. Tessio Lcland, a
woman of the town, took txvo ounces of
laudanum with suicidal intent and died
24 hours later. Despondency was the
cause.
Wool Mar lift.
Special to the Bee.
Billings, Aug. 2.—Two hundred and
thirty thousand pounds of wool was sold
today. The highest price paid was 15%.
Montauu Baseball.
Special to tho Boo.
Anaconda, Aug. 2.—Thursday's ball
games: Helena 15, Anaconda 1G; Great
Falls 11, Butte 1G.
FEELS CERTAIN A BOUT IT.
Probabilities hit That the Foreigners are
Safe.
Washington, July 31.—Doubt has
given way to a feeling akin to certainty
that legationers ot Pekin and the gallant
marines who managed to reach the Chi
nese capital just in tho nick of time
were not only alive on July 22, hut in all
probability, are still alive and likely to
remain so until they aro released front
their state of siege. Tho officials here
feel certain that the attack by tho Chi
nese on the legations will not be re
newed. They are convinced that the
counsels of tho viceroys in tho great
southern and central provinces and the
advice of Li Hung Chang have had ef
fect and that whoever is still in power
in Pekin, whether Emperor Kwang Hsu,
tho empress, Ching, Princo Tuan or
others, has been made to see the noces
sity of preserving tho legations.
Tho officials here, while anxious that
the move on Pekin should begin at once,
do not attach crodonco to tho rumor
mentioned by General Chaffee that tho
forward march would begin today. There
are two reasons for their incredulity. In
the first place, Chaffeo's force, his splen
did cavalry and his battulion of artillery
aro exactly what are needed to strength
en a weak spot in tho international col
umn. In tho second place (and informa
tion on this point conics through Euro
pean channels), some of the foreign com
manders are still of the opinion that
they cannot Ijegin the campaign before
the last week in August at the earliest.
Tho United States government has not
acceded to this view, and is relaxing no
effort to bring ubout u change of plans
on this point. But our representations
have been met by tho almost unanswer
able argument that the decision of this
important question properly should be
left to the military commanders on the
spot, who must bear the responsibility
for the outcome of the expedition.
HE RAILED AWAY.
The Apostle of Boodle Ha* Gone to Eu
rope to Escape "De Gang."
Butte, July 30.—The news that W. A.
Clark has really and truly sailed for
Europe has beon a source of bitter dis
appointment in this city today, and not
only in this city, but doubtless in many
places throughout the state. There
have been people from various parts of
the state here waiting to see Mr. Clark
during the past week and they would
not believe that he was really going to
Europe to be gone two months when
there is so much to lie attended to here.
It is an open secret thut Mr. Clark
fled the country to get away front the
politicians and others who are hounding
hint until he cannot get a moment's
peace. East or west, in Montana, New
\ ork, Arizona, California, it was all the
sttnie; he could not keep out of the way
those who had important business
with him or who thought they had. It
lias been getting worse with the months.
Some of tho old specters of a wicked
past would still persist in rising up and
haunting him whenever ho thought
there was a chance for rest. Then, in
•iddition, there were those who were
looking for the future and who had to
l>o taken care of for the coming cam
paign. They all can do Clark good, or
say they can, and they must have per
sonal interviews.
Of course, Clark has plenty of agents
here and several of them have authority
to transact business. But the people
who come to Butte and who are here do
not like to do business with the agents
as well as with Clark personally. Thero
is a growing suspicion, amounting now
almost to a conviction, that a good deal
is lost by tho necessity of a middle man's
profit. The retail dealers in the state at
large as well as in tho city can do infin
itely better, so far as they are personally
concerned, by diroet dealing with head
quarters than with tho agents. It is
absolutely known that much has "stuck"
in the past and there is no reason for
the hope that thero will bo an improve
ment in this regard in the future,
Tho people are pretty well on to the
disappointed ones, both those living in
the city and those who aro haunting
Butte with their presence, The agents
are busy with those men, but much dis
satisfaction is expressed.
Meanwhile Clark can not oven ho
reached by letter. Ho is going to be se
cluded in Europe, and only such mail
will bo forwarded to him as has been
properly censored by his confidential
agents here. It looks as though busi
ness will be dono with the agents after
all,
OVERLOOKED THEM.
W. A. Clark, Friend of Labor, Forget*
III* Madison Comity Employes.
Butte, Aug. 1—The miners employed
in the Mayflower mine in Madison coun
ty, W. A. Clark's rich gold property, aro
still working 1U hours a day, according
to the statement made yesterday by a
man who had just returned from a trip
to that district, and tho mon aro pretty
sore over the fact that the great "friend"
of labor bad overlooked them in his dis
tribution of loving demonstration. Soon
after Clark had been compelled to grant
an eight-hour day in Jerome his miners
in the Mayflower made a representation
to an agent of tho "senator" that tho
proper thing to do would bo to extend
his love to the Mayflower. They were
stood off with tho promise that the
"senator" would visit the mino soon and
would then doubtless grant all that tho
men demanded. It would also give him
another chaneo to make a speech to tho
miners and tell them how much ho loved
them, and huve his tearful utterances
sent out by his press bureau.
The chagrin of tho men can therefore
bo imagined when they learned that
Clark had overlooked them entirely and
had sailed for Europe,where he could
not ho reached by any more such peti
tions as were presented to him by the
men at Jerome. The Mayflower miners
will therefore probably continue to work
10 hours u day.
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THE DIFFERENCE.
Fifteen Hundred lu INDU— One Million
In 1000.
From tho New York Sun: The demo
cratic national campaigners on their visit
to Now York, it is said, are to hunt up
tho Hon. James J. Coogan, President of
tho borough of Manhattan, and ask him
for that contribution of 8100,000, which
Col. Coogan promised several weeks
before the Kansas City convention. Tho
democratic campaigners are also on tho
lookout for Senator William A. Clark of
Montana, who, it was announced, is to
sail for Europe on Saturday. Senator
Clark's delegation was seated at Kansas
City. It was said then that Mr. Clark
was to contribute to the democratic
national campaign fund 81,000,000. It
was ascertained lust night that in 189G
Mr. Clark gave the committee only 81500.
Ex-Gov. Stone said that the campaign
had not really opened yet, and that he
did not believe it necessary to speculate
on events until the campaign was fairly
under way.
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"Is your father going to be back soon? |
asked the stranger.
"I dunno," answered the small boy in
leather clothes, who stood at the door of
a Crimson Gulch dwelling. "Pap has a
putty good hoss. but so has some of the
folks on the Vigilance Committee. I
reckon I'd figure on pap's gettin' home
in about twenty minutes or never."—
Washington Star.