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\< __ spent Sunday in Whitehall. _‘ Mr. and Mrs. L, D. Tinsley spent Sunday at Pipestone Springs. Miss Dora’ Ruegamer spent Sat: urday and Sunday in Whitehall. - + Mrs, Lena Pine ends ae hall Sunday from North Boulder. ‘Mise Jennie “Van Rocklin, of Alder, is the guest of Miss Elma Cran. 8 _Mr, and Mrs, John Flaherty, of Cold Springs, were in Whitehall Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D, McFadden were passengers on the Sunday ex- cursion to Alder. Mrs. J. C. Wolverton returned home Saturday after several weeks visit in Oregon. fans Quite a number from Whitehall attended the dance at Parrot last}. Friday evening. _ Dan McPherson and children made a short visit in Whitehall Saturday and Sunday. Miss Ruby Andrews is helping 3 H. 8. McFadden im his confection- er ery store for a few daye, a Mrs, D. 8. Williams is enjoying _ °... a visit from her mother and her niece from Wisconsin.: Dan McPherson and family and _.~ ---Miss Dora-Ruegamer went to Alder ’ on the excursion Sunday. — Mr. Alderson, of Bozeman, is visiting at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. 8. Hammond. Rev. ‘Tike, of Sheridan, held Episcopal sérvices in the Christian church Monday evening, Chester McUall returned Friday 8 from an extended visit through the -.,. East. He took his position at the | **,@epot Monday. a Mrs. Ray Houghton and little ' ~~ daughter are visiting at the home Es of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Newkirk * 6n the South Boulder. Miss Eugenia Woods entertained a number of Jittle girls at the home of her grandmother, Mrs, L. ©. Pace, last Saturday afternoon: e N. D. Root and H.S, McFadden: a accompanied by their families x spent Sunday at the Jefferson 4 river on the Tebay: ranch. When they returned in the evening they hed a fibe string of fish. Mrs, W. M. Hurlbart, Miss Irene y Hurlburt, Mr, and Mrs... Needham and Sherman Calley made up a party who went to Mammoth Wed. nesday for the purpose of camping and fishing for a few days. iin __ ar teen eee , The Whitehall ball team play in a Pony tomorrow., A. J. McKay was a business yisitor to Butte this week. —-MrsA.-A; Marsh and-son are visit= ing in Rochester this week. . A new boy is reported at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lovelace of » bes n, who has been visiting with relatives; returned to her home in Bozeman Monday. Mrs. Katherine Fergus is back from R & pleasant visit at Whiting & Alex- , ander’s ranch‘on South Boulder. W. W. Beeman, after a vacation of a > month in Pleasant~Valley, is again ce at his desk with the J. V. T. company. fe Mec Kay & Carmichael Co. are hay- ing the partition taken out of their store and extending the shelving ~to the bavk. , ~~ ; Badly Tortured, » Acase came to light that for per: fistent and wnmerciful torture has perhaps never been equaled. Joe Golobick” of Colusa, Calif, Writes, ss ey “For 15 years I endured insuffer- ‘able pain from Rheumatism awd nothing releaved me though I tried verything known. I eame across Bitters and it’s the greatest licine 6 earth for that trouble, ow bottle sof it completely releaved * Just as; gootl for my Kl , troubles | and Onily 500: oe: ae ee ¥ 8 on Sed 3 fe How Two Japanese Spies Met Their Fate. ~ |PAGED DEATH WITH HEROISM. — UMicers of the General Stat! Won Ad- miration and Pity of Their Execcu- ‘thoners — Requested Their Dying Gift Be Used For the Poor ‘Wound- e@ Among Their Enemigs. I have received from a Russian sailor tecently returned from Harbin some hitherto unpublished details of the exe- eution of the two Japanese spies ar- rested by some Cossacks as they were about to blow up a bridge on the Man- churian railroad, writes M.-Praydine tn Le Petit Temps. ; My informant is a young man who was severely wounded during the first bombardment of Port Arthur. He ob- tained permission to go to Italy to con- valesce from his wound, but before his departure he made*n.short stay with some officers, relations of his, at-Har- bin, where he arrived just at the ‘time when the Japanese were prrested, tak- en in the act, condemned and executed. “You were present at the execution of the two Japanese? I asked him. “Alns! I saw. them die,” answered tie young sailor. l And ns I looked at him with aston- ishment he hastened to add: “Do not take me for an anarchist, I am, on the contrary, an ardent patriot, and I eagerly longed for the war with Japan. <1 longed to see the Japanese exterminated, and I desired that we might be able to dictate terms of peace to them at Tokyo. - But, like all my comrades, on seeing those two Japan- ese officers die by the bullets ,of our soldiers, courageously sacrificing their Itves for their country, I could not but think their execution cruel.” “Were you present at the trial?” “I saw the two spies arrested; I was present at the trial and at the execu- tion. I can give you all the details of it, for the dreadful spectacle haunts me and I cannot forget it.” And in half an hour the wounded officer, pausing only when the pain of his right knee, wounded by the burst- ing of a Japanese shell and from which the splinters had not yet been removed, ‘became too keen, narrated to me the following events: : “I can give my testimony that, when the two prisoners were brought into the little_room of the Chinese fansa, trausformed into a courtroom by the Harbin council of war, both the judges and the public—the latter composed, al- most_exclusively.of officers—could not avoid manifesting openly their enthusi- astic admiration for them, “And, indeed, those men were actu- ated by the most noble sentiments. They had resolved, as patriots, to make use of nny means to assure victory to their side, and, as soldiers, under su- perior_orders, they went to meet cer- tain-death. trial took the ordinary corse, The arguments on either side offered nothing of interest, the pris- oners having loudly, and not without patriotic pride, assumed the resporisi- bility of the crime of which they were accused. They gave their names and their titles without the slightest tremor of the voice; “*Tchomo Jokoka, forty-four years of age, colonel of the general staff-gradu- fied with honors from the military high school of Jecdo,’ said the elder of the prisoners, a ehort stout man, with a strong face ““Telako Jokkl, thirty-one years of age. vaptain, attached to the general TE FANT TS COMPTON, WO was taller and more slender in figure than ‘the other, with angular features and a very dark complexion, casting a slight- ly disdninful glance arvyud the court- rout. “ ‘Buddhist! he—added,_after-a—mo- ment's.sHence. “‘*Aml you, colonel,’ asked the presi- dent of the eounctl; ‘you are of the snine rveiigion as your fellow prisoner? “'No, president, I ain a Christian.’ And observing the astonishment pro- duced on every one by thie declaration he bastened to add: ‘ “*But I am a true Japanese, born of Japanese parents. Only in my youth I was captivated by the gentle teachings of Christ and 1 became a convert to Lutheranism.’ “Colonel Jokoka spoke English, and it was a subject of King Edward, an employee of the Russo-Chinese bank, who translated to the court the decla- rations of the prisoner. Captain Jokki was interrogated by means of a Chi- nese interpreter. The accused were shown the explosiye materials which had been found upon them. They did not attempt to defend themselves or to deny -In any particular the statements of the Cossacks who had arrested them, The interpreters translated to the pris- -onors the military prosecutor's speech, asking the punishment of death by hanging. “I watched the countenances of the two men, and I could not observe in them the slightest Indication of fear. The counsel of the two Japancse asked that the sentence of death shotld be commuted to imprisonment with hard labor, the accused wen-having made a r* as it it bad concerned sons. i. “The was to be executed on the iw morning at 1. o'clock. All that was waitedfor was a dispatch from General Kuropatkin confirming it. The telegram arrived promptly... The generalissimo approved the condemna- tion, but spared the Japanese officers wa i .| the humiliation of the scaffold “and granted them the grace of being shot, according them a soldier's death. . ‘ “I was present when the ¢ommand- ant read to the prisoners General Kuro- patkin’s order. ‘It is well,’ responded Colonel Jokoka. ‘I am ready.’ The captain said nothing. His expression, that became every moment more dis- dainful, showed his indifference to the. manner of p ent reserved for him. Colonel Jokoka asked permission to write to his family, then he em- braced the captain. : “*I die more tranquil than you, colonel,’ said the latter. ‘ “Why do you say that? “‘T have fulfilled my duty to my country and to the deity. You have done yours to your country only.’ “*What do you mean, captain?. “‘I have reflected a good deal on what you have said to me about Chris- tianity. You are always vaunting its superiority. Well, I think you are not in accord with ‘Christ, while I have nothing to reproach myself with,’ . “‘Perliaps you are right, captain. And I, I have a favor to ask of you. Give me your authorization to perform the first truly Christian-act which it has been given. me to perform during my life. You know I have a number of Chinese bank notes, to the value in all of about a thousand Russian rubles. Well, I desire to send this money to the commandant, to be given to the Russian Reise for the poor wound- ed among ou? enemies.’Do you consent to this gift?’ Jokki reflected for am in- stant. J “‘T have always had a great affection for you, colonel, and if it will give you pleasure I am quite willing that you should give this.money.to-our-enemies.’ “When the commandant came for the prisoners Colonél' Jokoka gave him a bundle of white bank notes with red signs, saying: : \ “*There are here about a thotisand rubles, and we beg you to give them to the Russian Red Cross.’ “‘But would it not be better for me to selid this money to your families? — “‘Oh, no!’ cried both the condemned men together. ‘The mikado will not forget our wives and children,’ “‘Do not refuse us this satisfaction,’ said Jokoka. ‘Distribute this money among the Russian wounded.’ i “The commandant again urged the officers to let all they should lenve be- lind them be bent to Japan, ~Jgisisienp- peared to hesitate for a moment. He looked at his companion in-mistertune, who reiterated his desire to make this compensation for the evil he liad done on this earth, and the captain ‘bent his head in acquiescence with the wish of his brother in.arms, The Russian ¢om- mandant yielded and asked the two Japanese if there | was anything” in which he could be of service to them. “‘T should like to have a bath, if it were possible,’ sald the Buddhist. ‘Af- ter that we chall be at your orders:* “A bathroom being an object of lux- ury unknown at Harbin, the command- ant. caused tubs of water to be brought, and ordered the sentinels to—go one side, so that the unfortunate men might be able to pefform their ablutions at their ease. “The want of a bathtub was. felt muah more. keenly by the Buddhist than by’ the Christian colonel, whose desive was to see a priest before going to execution. As there was no Lutheran pastor the-chaplain of the regiment Was sent to him, The colonel begged the priest to read to him the sermon on the mount. “The chaplain read in Slav, and Jokoka followed the text-in his Japanese Bible, which they had left him-in-prison.—When they-eame to. words ‘For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?’ he closed the book, folded his hands and cast down his eyes for a moment, while his lips moved, “ ‘Jokki,’ he said, ‘you are right; you will die more tranquilly than I, for I have never felt more keenly nh now how little in accordance my life has been with the teachings of Jesus.’ “The vehicle which was to convey the two men to the place of execution was already waiting. The two Jap- anese officers arrived at the place of ex- decution, impassive as ever. ~Still, could be seen that thé colonel was @ prey to painful reflection. Both of them lighted cigarettes and asked that they should not be bound to the stakes. ! The commandant took two handke farther particulars chiefs from his pocket and handed | ly of twenty large pages, has no su- Perior as a thoroughly practial an baip fal publication for the farme every member of pal , anc ‘the Publishers are determined one it a cireulation unequaled by any pa- per of its class in the United States.| Knowing that every en up-to-date farmer always reads his own local weekly newspaper, The New-York Tribune Farmer hus made an exceedingly liberal arrangement which enables us to offer the two pa: |pers at so low a price that no farmer can afford to lose the opportunity. The price pf The New-York Tribune. Farmer is) $1.00 a year and “The Basin Progress”. is $2.00 a year, but both papers will be sent for a full year if-you foward $2.00 to “The Bastin Prooress, Basin, Montana. Send your name and address to The New York Tribune Farmer, New- York City, and a speciman ¢opv of that paper will be mailed to you ’ You can smoke it in the house, -or any old place, and the only trouble you will have is tod keep your friends from taking them away’ from you. The Modern Flora cigar. zs ee renee a Reduced Rates to Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition. 4 Great Northern Railway will sell on Tuesday of each week, May 10th to Oct. 25th, aud on June 9th, 10th and 11th,-good going ten davs from date of sale, final return limit ninety days from date of sale, but act later than Dec. 31st, $47.50-for-the round }—— ‘trip. “Eor further particulars, call on or address Geo. N. Osborne, Agent. | Basin, in the center of the grea Cataract district. Notice:— Any one interested in the organization or reorganization of a Sunday school in his or her commun- ity, or desiring to form Home Classes, he o° she would do well to correspond with Edwin M. 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