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1001.Dgit, IOU ANI ttaitimit • An Independent weekly newspaper published ev- ery Wetniotielay morning and devoted to the record - lag of the news and the development of the reaourceis of Jefferson county. SUBSCHIPTIO$, $2 a. Year, In Advance. „ • WILL KIINNSOY. gotrea AND Ranstroaroa PROF Ertal 0 NA C.1 RDS. • THOMAS JONES, .A.TTOR NE\ AI' Office in the Parchen & Mortis biotic. BOULDSH ISTTIRSON Comm J -MONTANA COWAN Is PARKER, 01001/11 and COMILLORI IT Lilt, Boulder, - - Montt's. Will practice in all the courts of Montana Te itory. Geo. F. COWAN. M. H. PARKER. w. L. HAY, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. °dice in the Court-Howie, BOULDER, : MONTANA. G iro. D. GREENE. • ATTORNEY -AT -LAW. Office in the Bach, Cory fe * Co. Block, BOULOIR. Jerralenott CoutiTY. MotrrAsA T A. LEIGHTON, E. D., .L • PH YSICI A N AND Sflter EON, BOULDER, MONTANA. Attlee in the Jefferson Comity Bauk • PHYSICIAN TO BOULDER HOT SPRINGS LEAVE ORDERS AT VIE LIVERY STABLES E. TIME: .tfL.154 - M. I. PLE'rCHEit.-M. D. PHYSICIAN wen SORGION, BortDER, MONTANA. IlHal'Onloe and refildenee--South of Boulder river, - 614 W M. TREACY, M. D., Phypticinatmuted Slorzeon, HELENA. : MONTANA. D1L W. M. BULLARD, ----Favours:1as AND SURGEON - WICK , MONTANA. D R. A. B. .11011ERTSON. DENTAL SUltfl ..ON. All Dental work done in a thorough neurone etsmi attlialetclion guaranteed. Gee ldmicistered and Teeth Intracted Without Pain. Office Over Jefferson County Bank, Boulder, M. T. sonery mErrisors. r h of Pee-BoULDElt IldHaiE, NO. 19. MEETS • every Tuesday night at I. 0. (1. T. hall. Mem- bers of sister lodges are conliallyjnvited to attend. F 5. WoLPEHT, C. C. Wm. Moms's, K. «(Ii. at M. el A. R.-4. B. ble:PHERSON POST NO. 13 holds lir a its regular 'stop -firm on the last Friday evening of each n lllll th nt the I. 0. T. hall, in Moulder. Comrades visiting in this vicinity are in- vited to camp with us WILL KENNEDY, Poet Con llll antler. Goo. F. BOwAs, Adjimuit. B ANE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY. BOULDIR. MONTANA. w. e GAF ENE)\ D. »NEILL, - P. C. IIHRENDES, DO A GENERAL I'RMIDENT. VICE-PRES. CASHIER. oa as i ag 1 la «es at. EXCIL.A.NO•PI SOLD On all the Principal Cities of the Woirld. COLLECTION£4 WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION THE AGE - • - BOULDER., MONT.. Entered at the United State\ Postoffice of Boulder Valley, Montana Territory, Ha second.clase mail matter. The circulation of Tits Aga this week il 556 copies. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1889. position on this question, it is fair to infer that he was not defeated because of the stand he took in this matter, and it will hardly be out , of place to present the 'question more' clearly be- fore the people for general discuseioti. The law at present in regar l to the right of suffrage provides, among other thing's, that any foreign -born male person - who haadeclared his in- tention to become a citizen of the United States and who Is been a res- ident of the Territory for six months shall be entitled to vote. THE AGE doei not believe this is agood plan and hopes that the new. Constitution will provide that ‚ every person acquiring the right toNote hereafter must be a full citizen of the United States. - It would not have the law retroactive, but would elow foreign -born resi- dente who had .acquired the rightoof suffrage at the time of the adoption -of - 'the Conetitution to retain the right. Nearly every one who witches and studies the elections. throughout the country will confess that most of the States have been too liberal in confer- ring the right of suffrage on fereign- born, residents, and that the honor of American citizenship lias been lowered .thereby.' ..Tó see the crowds of men just landed in the •eountry who are given their first papers merely to se- cure their votes, makes the honest, in- telligent citizen lose all pride in his cit- izenship.. Such a system is au evitas well as a disgrace; an evil which is threatening to undermine the whole political system of the epublic. Were the iintnigrants who *come to this' coifntry the best educated and the most intelligent of • their own lands, most of them would still require more than six months to become properly imbued with the true spirit as well as letter of our institutions se as to make thoroughly reliable citizens: When it hi considered' that the great majority of the immigrants are comparatively uneducated, many of them ignorant, an'd\but few of them having any con- ception of the right spirit of political self-government, it will be readily seen that to place the ballot in their hands in six months after they have landed is placing in them a dangerous * power which may be used, ignorantly or otherwise, to the detriment of the Reptiblie. Even those who cOrtle from the Re- publics of the Old World have it -dif- ferent idea of political self-goveruMent from that on which the great Ameri- can Republic is based, and can not be- come in si¡ months full 7 fiedged Amer- ican citizens. Certainly those e0ming from monarchical governmenta, more or less despotic, are still less qualified for citizenship in so brief a period. It is to be hoped that the Constitutional Convention will give due consideration to this very important question. AMONG the new papers of Montana are the Livingston Post, published by Mr. Whelply, and the Deer Lodge Tribune, published by Crosson Bros. ' Both are eight-colemn folios, issued weekly, neatly printed, and promise to become important factors in Montana affairs.' Politically, the Post is Re- publican and the Tribune Democratic. THE AGE extends the hand of fellow- ship and trusta that both papers will live long and prosper—but not at the 1 expense of old friends.' • THE ELECTORAL PRIVILEGE. . The Jefferson county independent Candidate for the Constitutional Con- vention stated in his pronunciamento that.he favored limiting the right of of suffrage in the State of Montana» male citizens of the United States or those who had declared thfir intention to become such at the/time of the adoption of the Constitution. As no newspaper and few people seemed to recognize one of, the ,imprtant feat- ures in the independent candidate's THE NEW ELECTION LAW. In this issue of THE. AGE will be found the full text of the new election law enacted at the recent session of the Legislature of Montana and em- bracing the main features of the Aus- tralian system of conducting elections. It merits a careful perusal on the part of every voter in order that the elec- tion next fall may be conducted prop- erly,aittl lawfully and — alat - the system may be given a fair trial. There is no doubt but a reform is needed in electoral matters in the 'United States, and a system which promises so much and has, been so succesaful in other countries should receive every en- couragement in its initial efforts here. The great features of the system are the printing and distributing of the ballots at the public expense, and the requirement of the elector to Mark his ballot in secret. and to cast it imme- diately,thereafter without letting any' person Belo* it has been marked.: Under the old system the printing . of tickets and their distribution atee polls was attended with considerable expense, and.throtigh this expense and the expense of having one or more representatives at each eolling-place, the electors generally have practically [ been limited to the choice of one of two party nominees. The result is that manipulation of political conventions has become almost a 'science and the „people have very . little to say as to wtio shall serve 'them`, pis rule pre- vailing from the higheAt positions to almost the Very lowest. Under the new system the name 'of every *nomi- nee for an office will be printed upon the mime ticket, and each elector will take' that ticket and deliberately and in perfect secrecy will make the selec- tion of his choke for any position. To secure a place on that official ticket à candidate may receive a nomination at the hands of any organized conven- tion, and the convention maratepre- tent- an old party or a new party -or a party in embryo; or a candidate for a State office may be nominated by one hundred electors signing a paper so nominating him, while ten electors are eufficieat to nominate a candidate for a countY office, and suet) candidates will have their names printed on the official ballot on the same footing as convention nominees, If this system does not break thé power -of the party machines, it will he because the people' like to be ruled instead of to rule. In which ease there is nothing more to be said. - By the use of the official ballot only, which the eleetórreceives when he is ready to vote, and 'which he marks in secret and with the knowledge that no one can know how lie voteii except from hie own lips, the elector is re- lieved from that unlawful intimidation and unjust influence which has become the bane of the country through the mistaken idea that an employer pays for the soul as well as the ly of his employé. Bribery, al • be indi- rectly prevented, for bribers will not dare to trust with a úecret ballot the men whom they can tribe, and so the oCcupation of the vote -buyer will be almost destroyed. AS vote -buying is generally the incentive to fraudulent voting, the now system will to a large extent indirectly, destroy the latter ev T iL he . feature of booths or compart- ments for the marking of the ballots probably caused more opposition to the measure in its earlier stages than other single feature. This was owing to the idea held by many persons that the booths or compartmente would be elaborate structures involving a heavy expense to the counties in their con- struction. Knowledge is dissipating this objection. A few hundred feet of lumber and a few hours' work will be all that is necessary to make, the com- partments for the largest frecincts. In the villages and Country precincts where the elections are usually held in the public sChool-houses, a rail or pole along one side of a row of desks Will form a guard-rail and a movable black- board or a screen of any -kind or a flag or a curtain will be enough to make the booth. If the polls are held in a private residence, a line stretched from chair to chair and a curtain or screen furnish all the necessary requirements. In precincts having less . than twenty- five registered voters, no booths are required. Before the election and after nomi- nations have been made, THE AGE will publish a sample ticket, with instruc- tions how to vote and such other in- formation as may be deemed neces- sary. In the meantime THE Aar will be pleased to hear from its readers in regard to any point which may seem dark or doubtful, and if the question can not be otherwise satisfactorily set - tied, an appeal will be made to the proper judicial authorities for a solu- tion of the problem. THE ELKHORN BRANCH. [Helena Independent, May 25th.' From present indications it vaaild appear that Jefferson county will get a large share 'of the railroad building of Ohl year. Work has already start- ed On the Butte -Gallatin branch and hundreds of men who have been idle ployment. -A dispatch last week stated that. the Elkhorn branch would be constructed. this year, and this re- port is verified, as it is understood that ,$he new line, which will be twenty miles in length, is to be relocated at once and that a surveying party has already been made up lately.\ . MISSOURI VALLEY NEWS. [Townsend Tranchant.] W. IL Pankey starts this week for - Galesburgh,• Ill., 'upon an extended visit to the home of hi a youth. Longwerthy and Richards, home - men from Benton, are in the Crow Creek valley buying „range horses. They pay 'from $20 to $35, taking the whole band. Radersburg .intends celehrate the glorious Fourth in her usual 'vigorous style. Picnics, horse and foot -races, fireworks, and ball in the evening. Carpenter Bros. bave been seen red. • John Andersen, of the Crow Creek valley, has returned from Pennsyl- vania, bringii with him his bride. Mr. B. M has purchased the half interest of John Lutz in' the 17p/tz and Clemens iron mine • near Lone Mountain; consideration $1,250. The mine has the a¡ipearttece of be- ing valuable property. A rich strike is reported in .the Park mine, ind it is stated that the bonders will take the mine on the 28th inst. Shaw, Giilogly and Comer may be congratulated upon cash re- turns for their years of toil. They retain valuable adjacent mines. Mr. Anthony Sharp, of the -upper valley, married on Sunday last to Miss Flynn, sistet of his brother Jeffs wife and just. from the east. A most agreeable acquisition to the valley is that of Miss Clara M. Ray- mond, niece of Henry Raymond, of Bedford, who arrived here a fortnight ago from Erie Co., Pe., and who is teaching school at Radersburg. She is one of' those intelligent, indepen- dent young women Who are rarely met; and braught with her the high- est recommendations for scholarship and school mánagement. THE CRESCENT. [Montana Mining Review, Helena.) News Comes down from the Crescent mine, located in Jefferson eotinty. a short distance southwest of the Peer- less Jennie, that a strike of very good ore has just been made ia thé shaft now being sunk on that property. This mine is now being - worked under bond, which will expire on the first day of July, and if the perty con- tinues to show up as well it is now doing there culty about the bond being taken up. e„. tn. a No. 2 -helena and Butte 'Express' from Butte and The lode e is a large one, can be plainly the south. 023 p. to. No. 6 -Marysville Express, 10.00 a. nt. traced by its croppings for a long dis- TItAINA uerawr rung UELKNA. No. 4 -St, Paul Atlantic Express'. for St. Paul and tance, and if money and careful management characterize operations there, the Crescent should prove a veri- table bonanza. LOCATING NUMEROUS CLAIMS. [Homer Mining Index. • In view of the fact that in many localities the development of mines and other industries is retarded and paralyzed by the common custom of miners locating a large number of claims which they can not improve or develop, but thus bar the way against those who might be able and willing to benefit the whole region by bringing to production some one of the many, \claims and thus bring the camp into prominence and turn a tide of business into its borders, it might be 'well for miners in each district to limit the number of claims one party or cotn- pany should hold without security. DISPOSING'. *OF THE SURPLUS. [Reckville (Ind.) Tribune.) The • popularity of the schemes for blowing in the public money shows 1 the evil of indirect taxation. Imagine I a Board of County, Commissioners - passing. acts t,o raise taxes and increase euenses—and then imagine the vigor with which the said Board would be kicked Out of office. INDIGESTION'S 'WORST FORM. vera moot ai -e mg em [Harper's' Pentr. I \Hello Moses, wot's de matter wid ye?\ \Indigestion.\ \How's dat?\ ` \Hain% nuthin* RAILROADS. 2:142 L ighp VIA THE Nowrmiiner PACIFIC Railroad. The. .30132.iza.« Cia,r et AND Great Eitiort Line to 1 4 :astern Cities.. 2150 The Shortest Route lo CHICAGO AND ALL POINTS EAST. And the only THROUGH CAR LINE. Lew Rat«. Quid time, Through Cars, Pullman Palace Sleepers PACI . Fir TIMETABLE, The following is the time of the arrivals. and de- partures of trams on the Northern Pacific at Helena by tlw latest schedule which toua effect March 31st: AliXTVALB AT RILIJINA No. I -Through West -bound Limited ....... .......3dOp m No. 2 -Through East -bound Limited 7:10 Out \ 5. -Butte, :discoid*, and Helena Expreat..-12:05 pm \ 10-ltlarytiville Passenger 10:10 am \ 20 -Rimini Aceommodation ....... .5:00 pm \17 -.Wickes. Boulder, and Calvin Paw 1005p an DIPARTURND TROY InnintA. No. 1 - 2 -Through West -hound Limited 4:05p m 2 -Through East -hound Limited 7.15 pm \ T-Heletia,Butte.and Nlitisoula Expreas 8:00 a m \ 9 -Marysville Passenger 4:15pos \l9 -Rimini Accommodation 8:15am \ IS -Wickes, Boulder. and Calvin Pam 4:15pm . A. D. EDGAR, General Agent, C. S. FEE, Helena, Montana. Gen. Puss. and Ticket Agent, St. Paul. TH F MONTANA CENTRAL AND . e, in -vv -_A_ -y The NEW AND POPI:LAR SHOliT LINE Between \ Helena. Wiekes, Boulder. Butte, Marynville, St. Paul, 31inutepolir, Chicago, and all pointa East. Now open for Passenger e frattle with Solid Through Trains Daily between BUTTE. HELENA AND Sr. PAUL. Palace S:eépag Cars. kiviriOns Waing Cars. Naga:Scan Day 'lad Ase Sleeping Cars Por Second -dad Pureugers Tin' attention of the People of Jefferson county in especially railed to the feet that by the Montana ' ' Central railroad they can reaelt helena be - manu. each they, have nearly six hours for the tninsaction of their InnehectIa in the city, and on the way honer in the eve g can get a fine 'copper in the magnifieent dining roaches of this ('weepany. Me sure to answer the call of the porter: ddiapper Is Now ReadT lathe Dining Cart , * Safety. Comfort, and Courtesy for All Our Patrons. Following( is the tune of arrival and departure of trains at Helena on tke new schedule, taking effect Deeembcr 10. bow: TR.\ INM ARRIVE AT Hra.ENA, will probably be no difft- south, 11.25 a. tn. No. 4-Eit. Paul Atlantic Ex. from Bete and the No. 3 --Montana Pacific Express from feit. Yawl and the east, 11.33 a. m. No. 3-Montanit Pacific Express, for Butte end the etaith, 5.10 p. m. No. 1 -Helena and Butte Express, for Butte and the south, 8.25 a. on. No. 5-Mary5ville F.xpresa, 3.40 p. in. Noe. Sand 4 connect at Butte with Union Pacific and carry Union Pacific Pocatello sleeper be- tween Helena and Butte. For further information call on or addrese; any sgent of this company, or P. P. SHELBY, General Manager. U. P. BENTON. Tray, Pass. Met, Helena. F i Cit1L77Ft. 1\Ttp - vv - lEitatear. fatereneere mute for Tacoma. Portland, and San Franeisco elm peas through Port Townsend anti Seattle. Free col-. \obits leepem nin through wit) t change or delay. Instante to the Paelfle eriamt is genie as by other lines. Sul prices of tickets are Hoe and ten dollars lees. Take the Seattle route. n For further informatiom, maps, rates, and publiete , fligeB0 ; Mow in regard to the remainss of the n four „W¡ Staten, writ4trreepply to F. I. WietTNET, ileti'l Passe. and Ticket Aril_ Si. P.. M. A tl, st. Prod. Minn South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, N% ashington. On Eel - wintry 22, lgrai, the rresitient signed the bill creating South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, tout Washington States of the Cation. sotrs - DAxot.t.-,-The great Prairie State, to which the St. Paul, Mi .... rations & Manitoba Railway haw three tnain linei., reaching Ellendale, Aberdeen, Huron, Watertown, and Sioux Falls. Go to South Dakota ria the St. Paul, Minneapolis .St Manitoba Railway and pass through Mt. Paul and Minneapolis en route. NORTH DAKOTA.—Where is grown the No. 1 Hard Scotch Fife Wheat; whose healthful climate nurtures the most vigorous and brainy civilization on earth' where single ‚tomtits raise more wheat, oats, and . bailey than entire Staten; the eoll of whore fertile prairies is richer than the collet* of the Nile; where the Turtle Mountain, 3iinot, and Devils Lake land distriets invite the hoineseeker to secure a free honte. Magnificent daily train service to Fargo, Grand Forks, Grafton, Devils Lake, Bottineau, and all other intportant pointa. MONTANA, TUN GOLDEN.-Treastires in her mines of precious metals; wealth in her 4,000.000 head of live Mock; profit in her fertile fields, producing a larger yield of crops than any other State or Territory; the richest et ..... try per inhabitant on earth; where pros- , perity is universal; whir), line the best-paid labor In I the world; a balmy winter climate, caused by warm winds; from the Pacific. The St. Paul. •Nlinneapolim & Slanitoba Railway ifilhe only ntilrosad panning through s continuone agricultural country from St. Pant and Mi .... eapolis to the Rocky Mountain& it ‚runs through the great reservation of 18,000e00 acre' of land, free to settlers, in the Milk River valley. Wood, water, and coal in abundance; no irrigation reouireel; the only line passing through Great Falls, with its 1,000,000 horse-power cataracts, immense testl veins, and surrounding farming country of free, lands; through 'Helena. the capital city and commer- cial center of Montana, and Butte, the richest mining camp on earth. to San Francisco by the Columbia rivet Vallee. Portland, and Shasta mute, or Ogden, Utah, to California pointe. - liernember this is the only line running 'lining ears, sleeping ears. and free colonist sleepers °ells own from Mt. Paul and Minn,. apolie to Great Falls, Helena, and Butte. It is also the shortest line to Butte. WAsHINGToN.-Theenuntry of tall timber,indented by Puget So ..... 1, the 51editernmeati ut the Paeitle. Do mut forget that the St. Paul. Minneapolis At Mani- toba Railway is the only line which offers, a choice of\ three routes o the Pater meet. The Manitoba -Pa- cific natte is the only line by which
