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W E E K L Y E D I T I O N . VO L . I . NO. 8. COLUM BIA FA L L S , M ON T A NA, JU L Y 4, 1903. LITE m u BREVITIES CULLED FROM DI8PATCHE8 OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE88. A Review of Happening* In Both Eaetern and Weatem Hemispheres Durlpft the Past Week-National, Historical, Political and Personal Event* Tersely Told. BIr Thomas Upton, the challenger for the America's cup, lunched with President Roosevelt at the While House recently. Clarence English of Nebraska City, Neb/,'and ‘Battling\ Nelson of Chi cago fought Xt -round* to a draw in Kansas City, Mo, recently. Nlck%3urley of Seattle knocked out Joe Choynakl In the second round cehtly at Dawson. Choynskl announces this evening that he will never light Again.. preat Northern officials predict a result of the great wheat crop all former traffic records will be broken in the northwest next year. Conditions are good everywhere. Range men praise the cattle Industry. Frederick James J3afley, naval store keeper at Esqulmait, near Victoria, C.. was murdered recently at the naval -yard by Alfred J. H. Frith, a Subordi nate, who shot and killed him. Frith has been arrested and has confessed. Two men are dead and five are se riously injured as a result of a headon collision that occurred In the yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee ft 8L Paul railway in Des Moines, Iowa, between an accommodation train and a freight train drawn by two engines. At Santa Crus, Cal., recently an ex plosion occulted in the department of the Black powder works, causing the roof to be blo wn up. The machinery and walls were left intact About 1600 pounds of powder exploded. Fortu nately the employes were at Innch. Hill's hand in the Erie management is shown by the record _ of earnings beating all other anthraelte roads. The May net Increase is over $600,000 and the 11 months’ net increase is $2,000.- 000 greater than the previous years, al though there was a six jnontha' strike The supreinaconnW'ie! held the Adams law, passed at the last session of the legislature, to be con stitutional. The law la a temperance measure and provides for the abolition of saloons in all towns having a pop ulation of 6000 or under upon a sub mission of the question to popular vote. There are only eight towns in that state that are exempt from Its opera tion. President Roosevelt's homecoming for the summer was made the occa sion of a fete at Oyster Bay. L. I. HU reception was notable for its en thusiastic/cordiality and likewUe fer its vigor. Thd latter quality was due to the slight fractional difference among the townspeople, the result be ing that the president was accorded a double reception. Great Interest's shown in the report by the British consul general at Can ton of a heavy Idem and for American flour anjong emigrants returning frpm the United States to China, mostly re ceived via the Pacific coast Last year the record was 86,000,000 pounds ahead of the previous year. J. B. Horan, a new brakeman on the high line at the Morrissey colliery, B. C., met with a fatal accident re cently. He attempted to jump from thd. donkey engine while It was in mo tion and, missing his footing, fell in front of the wheela The engine passed over him, cutting off one leg and breaking the other. New York real estate assessments this year amount to $4,730,000,000, Increase of $1,400,000,000 over last year. The personal assessment is $678, 000,000, an Increase of $163,000,000. The total. Increase in assessment val ues is $1,563,000,000. The estimated tax rate this year is »i,40, against $2.27 last year. MONTANA 8QUIB8. Mrs. Della Klrk\was eftmerated of the murder of William Nemo by a coroner's Jury at Anaconda. Mrs. Joseph A. Brown, wife of Gen eral Brown of Melrose, died recently at Salt Lake, under the scalpel. The following*candidates have suc cessfully passed their mental examina tion as midshipmen: P. O. Griffiths, California; Charles Hoe, Montana. Butte has developed two more inven tors. They are Peter Eddy and George Pascoe. Their invention is a band- scrubbing brush with a pomace atone back. One of the most sensational and oold blooded murders in Butte for some time occurred in Moadowvllle recently, when Deputy Sheriff Joseph G. Lassarl was shot and killed by Salvator Fran- ctscbl. Both men are Italian. Harvey Logan, the Montana train robber, under sentence o f 20 years' Im prisonment, escaped from the Knox county, Tenn., Jail recently. While his guard's back was turned Logan threw a wire over his head and las soed him, tying him tight to the bars of the cage, then made his escape. David Prosser Is dead, aged 82. He had been a resident of Helena 23 years. eons and a daughter survive. Pi'oaser had been a Mason more than 60 years. It is officially announced by the pro moters of the Butte Jockey club, a branch of the western racing circuit, that the proposed meets of 40 at Butte and 30 days at Anaconda had declared off because of the re fusal of the pool rooms to close dur ing the meet \The greatat in the world: I have wn the biggest copper plant ever built and feel that my trip has not been in vain.” This was the declara tion of Junsuke Iijima, manager of the Ashio copper mines of Japan after he critically examined the great Washoe plant at Anaconda. Superintendent John T. Morrow hps resigned from the Boston ft Montana company. The smelts rmen, 1000 strong, tendered him a banquet Mr. Mowbw goes to Arizona to assume charge of the Queen Copper company’s properties. Ole Thorson, a veteran of the Span ish-American war, in which'he served as a-private in the First Montana vol unteer infantry, was shot and killed mistook Thorson for % bear and killed him instantly. Mine Burning. Denver, July 3.—rA special from Han na, Wyo., says: The startling Information has been received from an experienced miner and fire fighter who penetrated\ the mine to the 16th level, that the work ings below the 17th level are a mass of flames, and where a few hours ago it was believed the rescuers would reach the bodies of the entombed min ers not later than tomorrow noon, it now appears the flames will add horror to the already terrible calamity and that the victims will be burned. Rainstorm In New York. New York, July 1.—New York and vicinity, as well as other parts of the. country, were flooded by a downpour of rain, during which. In the course of a few hours, about half as much water fell as in the prolonged period of wet weather this month. The storm was accompanied by thunder and lightning and several- conspicuous spots were struck by bolts. w w. Missoula 8wimmer Drowned. Missoula. Mont., July 2.—While practicing for a Fourth of July swim ming race in the river Bill Martin, an expert swimmer, went down before a bridge full of spectators and was drowned. The body has not been re covered. The drowning occurred in the center of the river, near the Hig- gln avenue bridge. Lives Lost In the Nlkomekl. Vancouver, B. C., July 1.—While bathing in the Nlkomekl river near Mud bay, B. C., Walter Combs, aged 19, and Ethel Miller, aged 17, were drowned. Neither could swim and both were swept away by the waters, now unusually swift and deep from spring freshets. The bodies were subsequently recovered. Best In ths World. Chicago, July 3.—Trustees of Rush Medical college have succeeded in rais ing a fund of $1,000,000, which will be tendered to the trustees of the Uni versity of Chicago, thus assuring the gift of $6,000,000 promised by John D. Rockefeller and the construction in Chicago of the most magnificent medi cal institution in the world. Fought a Draw._ San Francisco, July 2.—The Han- lon-Yanger go at the Mechanics' pa vilion ended in a draw at'the end of the 20th round. Referee Eddtp Smith being unable to choose a winner be tween the game little featherweights. The flgljt was one of the fiercest ever seen in this dty. Fences to Come Down. Portland, Ore., July 3.—Edward Dixon, special agent of the interior de partment, left Portland a few days ago for Warner valley, in Lake county, to enforce an order of the department to remove fences and buildings of set tlers who h»ve lived there 17 years. 8pokane Telephone Girls Strike. Spokane, July 2.—Angered by the forcement of rules forbidding the phone operators Jo dispense with neck ribbons or to wear their hair low on hot days, 80 phone girls are on strike. They demand recognition of the union. Montana Farmer Shot. F. Teasale, a Brldger rancher, was shot and killed by an unknown man at the ranch of John Ames, near here. The tramp, who is in custody, re fuses to tell, his name Wearing monlcles, the latest fashion for ladies, a craze recently started in Paris by ladies of the Servian colony. Is extending to London. EXPL08ION OF FIREDAMP IN’ COAL MINE AT HANNA. 8cores of People Injured and Vast Amount of Property Destroyed— Mine Did Not Fire—Coal Mines Are the Beet on Union Pacific 8y»tem— Explosion Heard Many Mile* Away. Omaha,' Neb, July 2.—A special from Hanna, Wyo.. says: An explosion of firedamp In mine No. 1 of the Union Pacific Coal company ha* snuffed out the lives of 234 men. Injured scores of others and caused the destruction of a vast amount of prop erty. The mine was not fired, as stated the early reports, but the explosion is terrific and completely shattered the timbers of the main shaft and num erous entrances, filled the workings with debris and those of the miners that were not killed outright by the explosion were buried alive. The explosion was heard for many miles around and attracted from the adjoining settlement Huge timbers and railroad iron were hurled from the mouth of the shaft a distance of 200 and 300 feet Superintendent E. S. Brooks and a large force of men went to work with a will to remove the debris from the shaft and reach the entombed miners. Their progress into the mine was blocked by the foul gases and several times they were forced to return to the surface. All day the rescuing par ty worked, the force being Increased from time to time by the arrival of ranchmen and others from nearby set tlements and by those of a relief train sent out from Rawlins. Few Came Out Allva. During the afternoon 46 men were taken out alive. Many were uncon scious and had to be carried from the workings. Some were injured, but none fatally. Several are in a critical condition, but it is believed all will recover. Two hundred and eighty-two men rent down in the mine in the morn- THE SILKTLAG A fourth of July Episode. have been accounted for. Of this ber two are dead. - j , It was some tl—« »ftor the exj’IO*,on — - — ----- ---- — *rai man was brought to the surface. He > u fol- lowed by others until 1 o'clock, when the last were brought out ' The rescuers were, unable U pene. trate further into the mine unth *4. ditional openings had been maae >a permit fresh air to reach the lower levels and clear •away the foul gases. Horses and scrapers were put at work hauling debris away from the shaft and cars were pushed down the in cline, loaded and hauled back up the tipple and dumped. The work is pro gressing slowly, owing to the narrow space in which the rescuers are com pelled to operate, but by daylight the mine should be opened sufficiently to permit of deep explorations and* the resque of the dead bodies. Some of the miners that escaped said they saw 20 dead bodies in en try No. 17. They reported that many of the men were crazed by the ex plosion and ran hither and thither 4n the mine. Many of these could have escaped, but they lay down, buried their faces in their hands.and gave up the fight • Of the 234 dead, about 175 were mar ried, and leave large families. About Finlanders, 50 were colored and the balance were Americans. Mines 8aid to Be Good Ones. The Hanna mines are among the best on the Union Pacific system, be ing established In 1878. The town was named for Senator Mark Hanna, as he was a member of the Union Pacific Coal company. Mine No. 1 is practically a new prop erty. It*has 26 entries, 15 miles of workings and a main incline shaft of one and one half miles in length. The mine has been recognized as a danger ous one for some time oh account of the large amount of gas, but the sys tem of ventilation has been so good that an accident was not anticipated. Killed City Marshal. Cqptralla, Wash, July 2.—A man named Smith shot and killed City Marshal John Pearsons. Smith came to the city a week ago and cooked in the kitchen of the Harbor hotel for a couple of daya He acted like a crazy man and was dismissed. City Mar shal Shields and Deputy Pearsons were asked to arrest him. Shields re fused, but left Parsons to watcif him. During the evening Smith asked Par sons out of Jhe hotel and commenced firing. Parsons returned the fire, and there was a fusllade of shots on upper Tower avenue. About 200 yards from the hotel Smith fired the fatal shot. Parsons dy ing instantly. Both men had emptied their revol vers at the first firing. M. W. Savage, owner of Dan Patch and Directum, recently purchased by him has refused an offer of $92,000 for the two horses. W. W. Gentry made the oner. , ___ Mrs. Lowry that -should consider, under any dr ees, the possibility of telling flag. But as she recalled her Ith her young- grandson .on that dng after return from the r, the boy’s greeting an old at ereff vine-sheltered porch, i’a Insinuation In regard shabby appearance kept ig agaln and again to Mrs. Low- id, Would not the boy, perhaps, similar impression? Youth has so ce with shabbiness In its eld- little comprehension of senti- s knew that her managing neighbor r hesitate to make ths steri le exigencies of the situation i to make the porch see of a new a necessity. And the remembered, A uneasiness, that Fred had spoken * * \ ' elng a most prac- ____________ _ words seemed to 1 have the ring of boyish approval, lered If her grandson would not doting old woman to refuse ee’s generous offer for the With the money realised by her ac- ceptance of that offer, not only could aha replace her well-worn gown, but she eaiftl' have the cottage painted, and alsq In other ways make their little home msk agreeable to Fred's young eyes. la ths light of frank neighborly critl- elsm. she knew she would stand convict ed 'of a “great piece of sentimental fool- lshneaa\ in not accepting the offer. Just as. In that effulgent searchlight, the al ready stood guilty through not having prSeesd her claims for a widow's pan- sled- Sometimes she wished that, year* agS, aha had mad* the application. Though email, the addition of that quar terly pay to their modest Income wogld have enabled Fred to spend at least a portion of hit vacations at home. As It whs, ths last three summers had seen Fled engaged In the most uncongenial aid tiresome of employments. She did nit want him to take again that hard tap through the lumber country, where ■Shod houses were far apart, and where the country school director* war* not at all likely to eae the necessity for replac- kafc well-worn desks with the new that Fred was trying to sell. Yea, Could make up her mind to part he flag—and no one bat herself how dearly she loved that old flag ‘ ' avoid the labor of that prob- Budi to the old lady** mind __ aho stood in her old-faahlooad garden, with Its wealth of hollyhocks, aasflowere, verbenas and flowers of* a bygone day. He* boy, her Fred, was rolling the mow- er over the little patch of well-kept lawn. Looking up from her garden she discov ered her nearest neighbor, Mrs. Patter son, completely engrossed in the domes tic task of shelling peas, and she stroll ed slowly over to join her. As she turn ed the corner of her neighbor's brick cottage, she conld'hear the sound of the hard peas striking on the bottom of a pan, as musical to her ears as an April shower on their iron roof. , \Oh Mrs. Patterson,\ she said, seat ing herself on the lower step* of the porch, \yon'ce at your Fourth o’ July peas, I see. I’ll do mine- In the morning. Plenty o' time, before the exercises.” little ahead of time. homely labor. \Our committee will have Its hands full to-morrow. We take charge of the lunch. By the way, the other members have asked me to renew our offer for your beautiful silk flafc.” “It seems like sacrilege to even handle that flag,\ Mrs. Lowry answered, her voice perceptibly saddened. “I never take It from the box except to place it in a new one, when the old one's worn out. I’ve taken such good car* of It—” “ And we'll take Just as good,” Mrs. Patterson Interposed with businesslike alacrity. She scooped out the contacts of a large fat pea-pod with great vigor as she continued: \ItTi never be taken out but for the Fourth of July and for visits of the President, If one ever comes to this sleepy little town. I don't think you ought to let a good chance like this go by. Mrs. Lowry.” “I do need the money,\ -the other said. There was no emphasis In her tone, and h{r eyes were dreamy: though to Mrs. Patterson they seemed to fasten them selves on the latter's crisp lawn flounce* that peeped from beneath the etlff Straightness of an ample white apron. “I'D tell you what I know from long ' mce,\ said Mrs. Patterson, mout her lipa self-complaesBtl* *Tt paya to dress; and more *0 a of life than any other. I toll you, Mr*. Lowry, you with that young grandson of yours around—I hop* you won’t think I’m meddlin'—but I toll you, you really do need a new dress for visitin’ and church, and such things. If 1 had a nice boy like Fred around my house I don’t know but what I think It’d pay invest In a grenadine, over silk 1 tiou.” ' i t might pay you,” Mrs. Lowry spoke with some mild and unoffending acerbity. \When you make up your mind to a thing, that’s the end; but with me it’s only ths beginning of another change of mind. But on* thing, I have always up *► toU. time been firm about, that's that flag. I made It”—Mrs. Lowry'* voice ■^^tV.aT-rr.r“ ,h: Captain, and, though It never waved over a battlefield, hi* dying fingers han dled It.” __ JJyen the matter-of-fact Mrs. Patter- Son stopped at her work and caught her breath with a prolonged aigh. The other said, as if In a dream, “You’ve often heard that old story from the soldier* who cam* back.” Mrs. Lowry arose, and stood silent a moment. The pea-shelling operation continued, but the grating, and clicking of the lawn mower, next door, suddenly ceased. As suddenly, Mrs. Patterson spoke sharply, leaning far out from her chair: \Does that grandson of yours know of the splendid offer we’ve made you for that flagf “I haven’t told him yet,” « 'Well, just tell him when you go back.” Mrs. Patterson commanded. \He'll look at It In a sensible light. I know the boy well enough for that He's no dreamer. The ladles and I ’ll be over after the flag at 9 o’clock.\ Dusk was falling as Mrs. Lowry walk ed slowly around the graveled path. And as she swung back her own gate, the squeaking noise that she seldom noticed jarred her unpleasantly. The long han- -dle of the mower was lying half a< her path and the open doorway was merely an oblong of empty darkness. The old lady stepped out on the lawn to see If there was a light In the Boy’s bay- window. She could Just make, out two heads that seemed to be on a level mov ing across the muslin curtain. 8h* had left her neighbor's with the Intent to find ont at once in just what light her grandson would see the sacri fice of the endeared memento. The com mittee had certainly-offered k sum out of all proportion to its intrinsic worth. Though it Was made of sillt and in almost perfect condition* it was the association that had Inspired a veritable crusade among the ladies representing local pat riotism for the purpose of obtaining it for the Blairsfllle Woman’s Relief Corps. The company of which Captain Lowry had been chosen captain by acclamation w‘as organized here, and the popularity he gained in camp and in action was a sentiment shared by the soldiers with their wives at home and had com* to dwell hazily even In the consciousness of the more romantic of the old soldiers' daughters. And so it Is not a matter of surprise that Captkin'Lowry’s flag made by his wife’s own loving 'fingers should be coveted by every member of the corps. Mrs. Lowry recalled with a faint smile how much more successful the neigh boring town of Kittanning had been in securing mementos of the company or ganized there. They had one or two well-rusted swords, several battered cap*, and a few framed eommlssionj\ and hon orable discharges With ths Governor’s signature* having paled almost to ex tinction: and if the Blalrsvllle corps could but get possession of the gorgeous silk flag, 'It could snap a metaphorical finger at Ita rival’s war relics. ”My husband nsed to say,” thought Mrs. Lowry, “that everything had a humorous side.\ She groped her way through the looms, seeking a match and wondering why Fred had not taken time to Ught the hall lamp. In 4 little while she was standing on a chair gently lifting a large flat box from the top shelf of a cup board. She thought she would spread the flag over the backs of several chairs, and after her sob’s visitor had gone ahe tfand Fred would have It out between them whether or not she was hopelessly foolish, as Mrs. Patterson had more than once declared with great candor to cling so tenaciously to a few yards of red, white and blue silk. As the flag, thrown over the chairs, as It was, shimmered in the lamp glow,, it began to simulate the pall of a some what elongated bier to Mrs. Lowry's annoyed and saddened spirit It was . but the work of a second to spread it ; j She noticed the noise of a door opening and imagined the steps of two ypung men coming along the hall. But whan they had reached the door and she lifted her tired eyes, not'taking her chin from the palm of her hand where It seemed to n**t listlessly, she saw the man was not young and a stranger. \Well mother,” Fred always address ed his grandmother thus, \the Seventy- eighth is what Mr. McCoy has come to talk to you about.” “Yes, Mrs. Lowry. I ’m looking up the records of my old regiment I’m a pen sion lawyer.” \Mr. McCoy was In the Seventy- eighth,” explained Fred, boyishly con- acioua that he bad with a word put the older people on an amicable footing. Mrs. Lowry's -face brightened as though some soft light had been thrown across it. Her eye* wandered affection ately to her grandson, and then back the lawyer. •And perhaps you knew my husband?” she askej). \Every. man in the regiment Mrs. Lowry, knew your husband, at least by reputation. For gallant aervlce and a willing life to bia country. It Is toe least our government can do to offer yon a quarterly pension and all the back money that is coming to you.” The old lady clasped her thta fingers nervously and said with excitement In her broken voice: \I never Intended to aak. It seemed like mockery to claim a reward ----- ” ”1 told Mr. McCoy,” the boy broka In, “that It would be hard to make you be lieve a pension was not a bonus put on patriotism.” Mr. McCoy slowly unbuttoned his coat and took a file of papers from bis pocket ’Here are the papers,” be said, “re lating to yonr husband's record, and alro the application blanks. All we want now are two witnesses.’’ ** \I never intended ----- \ ahr Interrupt ed absent-mindedly, thinking that .with the back pay there would be no necessity for parting srith the flag. Fred could have his vacation. She looked across at the boy. She thought of .how bravely he had worked his way through college, never taking more than a week's holiday through the lolag sultry summers. She noticed for the first time that a>me of the roundness of his cheek had disap peared. She eonld save him the weary journey through the lumber country; la her mind'* eye, she saw the endless, dusty country road; an occasional hous* on either aide atretched before her, and ahe pictured the boy's noonday fatigue. AmPaa her mind flew along In the Imag inary heat. Mrs. Patterson's voice cam* in through the open window like a cool breeze springing up unexpectedly. She was saying loudly enough for Mis. Low ry to hear: “W* can hang It just abov* the alcove.\ “It’s very kind.” Mrs. Lowry said quickly, “to take so much trouble. I * think I would like to have you enter my name in the widow’s list And I’ll aak my friend* to be witnesses—aod the dear old flag,” ahe said under her breatk, kneeling down to smooth out a wrinkly . “Ill never sell yon, never; but I ’U Ien4 » Fourth of July ion to Ban Frsto
