The Kalispell Bee.
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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1902.
DP TO THE CHINAMEN
The systematic but thorough move
ment against the Chinese chop
houses in Kalispell, also the with
drawal of patronage by labor union
men and their friends from all in
stitutions where Chinamen are em
ployed to the detriment of white la
bor, has met with marked success.
It was previously asserted that no
w'hite restaurant could compete with
the Chinaman on the same terms,
and that two-bit meals could not be
satisfactorily served in the city or as
plentiful rations be delivered for the
price as those same Chinamen were
giving. This has, however, been dis
proved by actual experience, and in
the four months of activity against
the Chinese other white restaurants
have sprung up and flourished and the
Chinamen see their patronage gradu
ally but surely lessening. But two
restaurants were able to struggle
against the Chinese competition un
til the union took the matter in hand,
and now it is up to the Chinamen.
The prime support of one of these
chop houses is from railroad em
ployes, who insist that they cannot
get their money's worth elsewhere,
but some of them have experimented
elsewhere, and are now satisfied with
the exchange and better pleased to
eat at neat tables, clean and ar
ranged in some taste, and be waited
upon by fresh looking, deft fingered
girls or tidy young men than have
John shout the jargon of "loast beef,
loast leal, boilee clabbage" in their
ears and have the stuff shot out to
them on a greasy cloth, or none at
all. And there is satisfaction in it,
even if the cut of meat is a little
smaller or the pie cut closer. It is
ciean, and you know it is good and
was cooked by a white man, and that
is worth a good deal. There is no ex
cuse now for any union man or union
sympathizer to eat with the China
men or where they are employed, as
the following are among the places
open to union patronage: Hotel Na
tional, The Dover, The Gem Coffee
House, The Cosmopolitan, White Res
taurant, C Dugas, Employment Office
Restaurant, and perhaps other small
places which do not employ China
men in any capacity. The labor union
has accomplished considerable in this
direction and that with very little
friction, and hopes pretty soon to
have the Chinamen completely out of
the game in Kalispell.
STRENUOUS LIFE IN TEXAS
The bold, bad cowboy of yellow
journalism, the fierce train robber of
me northwest and the long and short
man of many Butte holdups, is out
classed, outrivaled and paralyzed
eternally, as is the record of crime
in any one day in this zoite by the
tough element of El Paso, Texas.
There was certainly something doin'
among the lower class population
along this section of the border last
Thursday.
Lon Brown killed a Mexican sheep
herder with a rifle. Jose Perez killed
Maria Guadaloupe at a ball. A de
mented soldier terrprized a boarding
house with a rapid fire gun, but was
captured by strategy before he killed
anyone. Teodora Gamboa fatally
stabbed Juan Madrid at a dance.
Tom Hogan was shot by an unknown
man in a saloon. Jim Crow was ar
rested today, charged with knocking
John Graham in the head with an
axe and placing his body on a rail
road track.
Following so closely upon Mr.
Bryan's absolute withdrawal as a
presidential candiate, the r.ews that
he has gone to Cuba is nortentious.
He will attend the inauguration of
President Palma, the first chief ex
ecutive of the Cuban republic under
the new regime and study conditions
in the West Indies.
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LEADS TO THE PENITENTIARY
That Judge Harney of Butte has
some peculiarities on the bench is
admitted, but he certainly takes the
right stand in regard to the indis
criminate sentencing of wild young
sters to the reform school for pranks
which arise from association or lack
of discipline. The judge holds rightly
that a boy sent to the reform school
has a blemish on his name which
years may not erase. And how true
it may soon become apparent in
Montana that the reform school is
but preparatory scnool for the peni
tentiary. Boys, neimer vicious nor
criminal are there thrown into daily
contact with older companions who,
through the age limit have escaped
the penitentiary for a t.me and sent
to the juvenile school, fully prepared
to contaminate the younger lads with
whom they are thrown. Too much
carefulness cannot be observed by
the bench in sentencing youngsters
to the shameful penalty of reforming
at this institution, for "once a con
vict always a convict" holds good in
this case. Many of the boys who in
the short existence of this state in
stitution at Miles City have served
their time have turned to the crimi
nal classes for aid and comfort and
have made more than one appear
ance in police courts for minor of
fenses and no doubt, several have
found their way through criminal
channels to the pen. There have been
a few, a very few, who have not
drifted into criminal intimacies since
their release, but usually they were
boys of misfortune when they were
thrust into the state's custody by re
calcitrant parents or guardians and
really benefited by the instruction
and discipline received at the school.
The experience being hurtful to the
subsequent career of the boys, how
much more harm may result from
branding wayward girls with this
badge of dishonor, a term in the re
form school? Following the career
of at least a dozen who have had
time service, usually for immorality,
one finds that even in the probation
ary period they have returned to the
slums of Butte and Helena or be
come street walkers in their home
towns. The girl who has once dark
ened the gates of the reformatory
carries a life long blemish. Many of
the inmates of the female ward are
young children, hardly in their teens,
and they make confidants of the way
ward girls, who, at 16 or 18 years,
have been taken from houses of pros
titution and sent to the reform school
—to reform? Well, hardly. A girl
who has reveled in the slums and
become thoroughly contaminated, as
many of the older ones bear record,
is a hard subject to reform.
The system of mixing the young
ones of either sex with those who
have become outcasts from choice is
all wrong and bears its bitter fruit.
How much better would it be to
practically separate the sheep from
the goats and under different systems
bring the younger ones up to a reali
zation of moral rights and wrongs
and discipline those others who have
already partaken of the forbidden
fruit.
IN DEFERENCE TO MRS. CATT
A strenuous campaign for woman
suffrage is to be carried on in the
Montana legislature this coming ses
sion. which accounts for the pres
ence of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt at
Helena just now, and she has en
listed a number of Capital City ladies
in the cause. In the west woman
suffrage seems to have an easier vic
tory than in the effete east, Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and Idaho having
successively yielded to the demands
of the feminine politicians, but Mon
tana has yet refused to come into
the enemy's camp. As a premium
on wedlock, giving the married man
two votes for one of his less fortu
nate or unfortunate brethren as the
case may be, an amendment to the
state constitution giving women in
Montana the same rights to the bal
lot men have may meet with more
favor than it has previously. At two
or three sessions of the legislature a
suffrage lobby of the golden haired
sistern have endeavored to have a
bill passed submitting this constitu
tional amendment to the voters, but
the bill has always failed of passage.
Individually, the sweet voiced sirens
of the lobby have met with great suc
cess with the grave and reverend
senators and the less punctilious
members of the house, but their eas
ily obtained promises have for some
cause failed to make good, and the
required two-thirds majority is still
a long way off. There are so many
men, and women, too, that cannot
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say no, and mean it, that an assur
ance of assent is not worth much as
a political asset. The campaign
might be made on a platform of mar
ried men only for the legislature, and
then again the ladies may find their
trust misplaced, as some of the mar
ried men being too familiar with fem
inine traits may think too long over
the proposition and not favor pre
senting their wives with the grand
prerogative of voting just like a man.
On the whole, a scheme of campaign
looking to the advancement of bach
elors, with a lingering desire to be
loved for self alone, to legislative
honors, might . accomplish more for
the cause, as they certainly could be
easily persuaded to labor for love, if
not for the love of labor, and the bill
for equal suffrage should pass unani
mously. All of this under the proviso
that young bachelorà are elected
without entanglement, and, further,
that the lobby must consist of eligi
ble young ladies, those with golden
hair hanging closely to the spine pre
ferred.
Porto Rico as an Object Lesson.
The record of the revival of indus
tries and prosperity in Porto Rico
since the inauguration of free trade
between the island and the states is
both marvellous and instructive. We
are now buying from Porto Ricans
three times more of their products
than the average in the five years
preceding the Spanish war and sell
ing them five times more than the
annual average of their purchases
from us during the same period. Our
exports to them will amount for the
fiscal year to about $10,000,000 and
our imports to about $7,000,000.
The Porto Ricans are buying from
us every variety of merchandise
needed to fully rehabilitate their
country and improve their domestic
conditions on the line of American
models and customs. Their staple
industries have been revived and are
promising a most extraordinary agri
cultural and mechanical development.
From that dreary and impoverished
period which succeeded the hurri
cane of August, 1899, and the imposi
tion of the Foraker tariff taxes the
beautiful island has leaped into leaf
and flower and fruit as by the magic
of an East Indian illusionist.
The people of Porto Rico are a sin
gularly docile and industrious popu
lation. They are susceptible of quick
development along ambitious lines.
They never succumbed to the cal
loused galley slave feelings of the
Cubans and they have always had a
higher sense of the importance of
civilization and culture than the colo
nists around them in the islands dom
inated by the English, the French
and the Danes, or independently con
trolled by the San Domingans and
the Haytiens.
When the Americans occupied the
islands the Porto Ricans were fran
tic with joy and golden expectations.
Although their enthusiasm was sub
jected to severe trials in the reorgan
ization period to which we have al-'
luded, now it is rampant again, as
work is plenty, wages increased,
prices of their products doubled and
quadrupled and they begin to see and
feel the splendors of American free
dom.
There is no more beautiful patch
of ground on the globe than the com
pact 4,000 square miles of Porto Rico.
From the height of El Yunke one
looks down upon Eden. And now
that Americanism is making it pulse
and produce and prosper like an or
chard of apples of gold. Porto Rico
is becoming the envy of her neigh
bors. The people of the islands
about, as Jamaica and the Lesser An
tilles, are getting an object lesson in
Porto Rico's prosperity that bids fair
to bring them, sooner or later, to beg
for reiease from continental owner
ship and incorporation with the great
almoner republic of North America.
For Sale—One 12 and one 8 foot
Aeromotor wind mill. Also drug
stock. Flowering shrubs and nursery
stock. D. J. Plume.
Go to the Flathead Abstract com
pany at 20 Second street east for ab
stracts of title. Incorporated capital,
$5,OOu.
A Real Selfish Man.
"The meanest man,'' said an enthu
siast^ woman cyclist last Sunday,
"that lives in Flathead is the selfish
creature who owns a part of the Still
water river and the pretty road that
skirts the east side from Lebert &
Burn's mill. We had planned such
a nice ride along that road, and lo!
and behold we had just got started
when we ran up against a locked
gate and a sign, 'no fisning or tres
passing on these premises,' and so,
of course, we had to turn about and
hike up the hill. The lower road is
fine wheeling and a shady, delightful
spot for a rest, and the party was
very much provoked. That Mr. An
derson must be awful mean to want
all the scenery and even forbid fish
ing in a public stream, but he ought
to know that his gate and sign are
hateful and will not bring any joy to
him if the Sunday strollers are an
authority. Isn't he just too mean,"
and the young lady gave her wheel
an impatient kick as she sped around
the corner without ringing the bell.
The "McKibbin" Leads-Others Follow
TUB
McKibbin
Is the Leading Hat in St.
Paul and Minneapolis and
for no other reason than the
fact that it is the BEST and
NOBBIEST HAT on the
market for the money
75 Styles
To Select From
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;my father'wearsv
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Made
TUB
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Is an honest UNION-MADE
HAT, manufactured by
reliable workmen
Prices from $1.00 to $3.00
and..... '
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KALISPELL'S
DEPARTMENT STORE
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Company in the World
Local Agents:
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Leave your money with
the Local Agents
A dancing class will be formed at
the Opera house next Tuesday even
ing, May 13. Chester's orchestra will
furnish the music. Will have four
ladies and four gentlemen teachers.
Everybody invited.
Wanted—Every woman in Kalispell
a"d vicinity to read Wilson's adver
tisement elsewhere in this issue.
SUIT
SALE
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MONDAY MAY 12
SKIRT
SALE
BEGINS THE
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Tailor-Made
Suits
Lot No. 1, Values $35.00
to $45.00 Sale Price____
Lot No. 2. Values $23,50
to $28.50 Sale Price...
Lot No. 3, Values $17.50
to $22.50 Sale Price...
Lot No. 4, Values $13.50
to $16.50 Sale Price...
Lot No. 5, Values $9.50 to
$12-50 Sale Price.......
$28.50
18.50
13.50
10.50
6.50
at... WILSON'S
Consisting of Ladies' Tailor-cMade Suits, Dress Skirts,
Walking Skirts, Satin and Silk Waists and cMillinery, to
continue two weeks, ending Saturday May 24th
We haïe decided to make a tremendous reduction in prices
on these goods to reduce our large stock, and will sell at
following prices (Alterations Free of Charge):
Dress and Walking
Skirts
Lot No. 1, Values $19.50 « I C 1C
to $27.50 Sale Price.....4' | 0. / 0
Lot No. 2, Values $11.50 to O 1C
$16.50 Sale Price.......... 0,10
Lot No. 3, Values $7.50 to C 1C
$10.50 Sale Price.......... 0,10
Lot No. 4, Values $4.50 to O 1C
$6,50 Sale Price........... 0.1 0
Lot No. 5, Values $2.75 to IOC
$4.25 Sale Price .......... I . J J
MILLINERY 33 1-3 PER CENT. DISCOUNT.
Satin and Silk Waists
Lot No. 1. Values 812.50 to 816.50 Ç Q 0 C
Sale Price....................
Lot No. 2. Values 89.50 to 812.00 C 1 0 C
Sale Price....................4>/.Z0
Lot No. 3. Values 87.50 to 89.00 ffC *)C
Sale Price....................$3.ZD
Lot No. 4. Values 84 50 to 87.00 COOK
Sale Price....................4>O.ZO
Do not put off attending this sale but
come early and secure First Choice.
We are sure we can please you.
CORRECT
STYLES
and
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WAIST
SALE...
NEW YORK STORE
MILLINERY
SALE
D. A. STOCKING
Watchmaker Jeweler
and Optician ... Ktt
Graduate optician
We engrave. We carry a complete line of
Ladies' and Gent's Watches, Clocks, Jew
el y : also a good stock of Flat and Hol
low Ware, which we would be pleased to
give you prices on.
D. A. STOCKING.
My black Percheron stallion, begin
ning April 28, will be at Montford,
on east side, the first three days of
each week, and the last three he will
be at Cunningham's barn in Kalispell.
E. A. Walker.
For sale—A new American water
wuell, 43 horse power. Address L,
Bee Office.
FLATHEAD
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STAGE LINE
Three trips a week between Kalispell and the
Northern I'acifiic Railway, on
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
and FRIDAY
Leave Kalispell at 5:00 a. m. Steamer leaves
Demersville at 6:00 a. m.
Stage line between foot of lake and Selish
(Ravalli) connects with steamer and Northern
Pacific trains.
Passengers for Kalispell should reach Selish
on Sunday. Tuesday or Thursday.
Good accommodations on the line. Hotel at
Selish (Ravalli) conducted by Mrs. John
Whightman.
Fare, $7.00 - Trunks Extra
Leave orders at Weightman's Livery. Kalispell