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Se Petiape es “TE MONTANA SUNLIGHT. i PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY WL. Rickard & ee sURscRIPTION PRICE One Year ceprenabiy © in adyvance).. Six Months .. Three Months . ADV ERTISING RATES. Display—One Dollar per inch per month. Locals—Ten Cents per line first insertion; five cents per ng 98 each subscquent Ir insertion. ~ NOTICE All communications intended for publica- tion tn this paper must bear the signature of the author; way to the waste basket. a Eatered at the Postoftice at Whitehall, Mont., as Second-class Matter. ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1902. The strike situation in the au- thracite coal regions has reached otherwise theywill find their, Montana Mention. w. D. Wann; formerly one of Madison county’s most prominent pioneers died in New York city re- cently. W. D. Stoner, a traveling man well known in Montana,committed 5| suicide at his rooms at Great Falls on the 28th ult., by a revolver shot in the head. ‘ Vegetable and fruitgrowers of Western Montanae-organized-a—un- ion at Missoula, Saturday, and Charles Coleman was elected pres- ident, and George White secre- tary. Fred Bishir, a ranchman living about’ 25- miles. from Livingston, was shot and killed by David Brockus, his hired man, Saturday. The quarrel grew out of Mrs. Brockus being late with break fast. the critical point, as the following order of General Gobin, issued a week ago seems to indicate; “It is very evident from the recent conduct of the riotous ele- ments in this section that the con- servative attitude with which the troops have heretofore borne in- sults has been misunderstood, and has encouraged this element to re- peated assaults on the men in the preformance of their military duty. Thisean no longer continue, and I have personally informed the chief burgess of Lansford and Tamaqua, and directed the infor- mation to be furnished to the au- thorities of Summit Hill and Coal- dale, that the troops will no longer submit to insults or violence from any source. You are therefore directed to arrest any person use- ing insulting language, epithets or violence toward the troops while in the discharge of their duty. have such parties arrested and taken to your guardhouse for fut- ure disposal. ‘In moving troops place reli- able, competent and skilled marks- man on the flank of the command, and arm your file closers with guns, and instruct them that in case of attack upon the column by stones or missiles, where the at- tacking party cannot be reached, the men thus selected shall care- fully note the man attacking the column, and, being certain of his man,fire without any further or- der. For the execution of this duty select none but reliable men, who will make no mistake. “On a general mob, if resisted, use your bayoncts and butts vigor- ously, if at all possible, before resorting to volley firing.”’ The tendency of this order is to excite the striking miners, and unless a settlement of the trouble Friday night a six-horse stage coach belonging to the Yellowstone Park ‘Transportation Co., with thirteen passergers on the way from Mammoth Hot Springs to Gardiner, rolled over a thirty-foot embankment, and all the passen- gers were badly shaken up and bruised, and one seriously. On the 27th ult. Ambrose Cahill, living about eight miles from Virginia city, was climbing onto a load of hay: to drive off the field when the gin .pole broke and he fell between the horses, who be- came frightened and ran dragging him, some three hundred yards, breaking his neck and bruising him terribly. The burning of a fuse in the switchboard in the dynamo room of the Montana Ore Purchasing company at Anaconda on the 28th destroyed the concentrator causing a loss of more than $100,000, throwing nearly 700 men out of employment. There was an in- suranee of $60,000 on building and machifery. It is reported that the deal for the development of the gold prop- erty near Bald Butte, discovered recently by Green Austin of Marysville, is now practically completed, and that the Montana Mining company, limited, of Marysville, will shortly become of English capital. G. F. Deletraz of Fort Benton, after forty years of life in Mon- tana,has decided to go to Louisiana to spend his few remaining days. He is 78 years. old and in feeble health. He went west 51 years ago to San Francisco, and came to Montena in 1864. He was the first one to take upland and secure is speedily reached the struggle | will grow more bitter; and how it/ will end no one can safely predict. The rumor that the strike is to be settled is offset by the state- ment of President Mitchell that] timbered structure which occu- he knows nothing about a settle- ment, and has had no communpica- tion with operators or others on the subject. The Central Labor! union of Philadelphia unani-| mously adopted, on Sunday,a reso- hition denouncing Gen. Gobin for issucing the order, and requesting Gov. “Stone to revoke Gobin’s cominission, and the civil author- ities are asked to have him indicted for “‘threatening the lives of the citizens of the state.” The official call for the Labor party's state convention has been issued and the meeting will be held in Helena on the 26th inst. Jefferson county is entitled to title in the vicinity of Fort Benton. The shafthouse and ore bins of the Alice mine at Walkerville’ were destroyed by fire early Sun- day morning. The shafthouse was pied an area of some 30,000 square feet and contained valuable ma- chinery. The loss is estimated at from $50,000 to $75,000. The or- igin of the fire is unknown. Complaints are sent from the cattle shippers of North Dakota and Montana to the Great North- ern and Northern Pacific because the companies do not supply near- ly as many cars for shipping pur- poses ‘as are required. Especially does this condition apply along the lines of the Northern Pacific, including the Yellowstone division, and west. David Carey, a miner and milk ranchman who live near Butte, eight delegates. The central eommittee recomnends the follow- ing: “That. the platform of the state Labor party indorse |the initiative committed suicide on a Northern Pacific train just as it was pulling into the station at Billings Satur- day evening. ~Despondency led to the commission of the deed, and referendum. “That a constitutional amend- ment - embracing “the , eight-hour law be adopted. “That household goods not to exceed the value of $300 be exempt from taxation. “The committee also recomend- ed the incorporation in the party platform of a plank favoring the enactment of an employers’ Jia- bility law.’’ “Vd “like to know why they call this train a ‘limited, >” said a! disgusted passenger; .“‘I dont see any thing liniited about it.” “You don’t,’’ laughed the engin- eer. ‘‘Well it’s. limited to ten niles an hour.’’—Boston Journal. a The little busy bee goes forth — a exultation just. wegen sweets for alll he’s ant fears no sugar trust. and the story isa sad one. With a wife and four children dependent upon him, Carey had not pros- pered. His milk ranch had been unprofitable, and he was in straitened circumstances. — He, with his six-year-old daughter, had started on a trip to Algona, Iowa, the owner and backed’by all kinds}. Life on a Green Mountain Top. Whatever road you travel in the remote New England town of Nor- ton you are in the woods. Odca- sionally you come on a little farm in a stony clearing, but the dimin- utive fields are soon passed, and then the interminable forest closes in again. A narrow-gauge railroad touches the eastern border of the town, yet it does not affect the town life perceptibly, for it winds through a deep valley a thousand feet below the level of the scat- tered homes, and the highway that climbs up from the valley is a zig- zag of the steepest sort, which the mountain folk themselves avoid when they can. This road gullies badly in rains, and now arid then portions of the bank on one side or the other slide down into the wheel tracks, bringing with them a clump of trees and bushes that have to be cut away before the road is passable. ° If you go westerly over the range,on whose top lies the town, you find another railroad and the large man- ufacturing yillage of Milldale, but it is a long distance thither, and the descent from the uplands: is almost, as violently steep as that on the east. Norton township contains no vil- lage. It has not even a store. The postoffice is in a farm-house, and there are three mails a week. The butcher, the baker, and the grocer make no rounds, and most of the trading is done at Milldale; yet the hard journey to the valley is un- dertaken so seldom that whoever drives down is pretty sure to be entrusted with many errands by the neighbors. The town hall at Norton is in the heart of the woods, hemmed in on every side, and there is no other building in sight. A mile farther on is the church, on the borders of a considerable open that forms the domain of a lone farm-house just over a ridge out of sight. Norton's wealth, such. as it is, depends almost entirely on forest craft; and the chief factor in de- termining the worth of a farm is the character of _ its . woodland. Spruce is the most valuable timber, with fir—or “‘balsam,”’ as it is called—pine, and hemlock follow- ing after. There is plenty of beech and maple, but the price hard wood brings hardly repays the expense of getting it out. As for cordwood, large towns are too far distant to allow its profitable marketing. Of the crops that can be grown, pota- toes seem best adapted to the mountain soil, but the ground is rough and inclined to bogginess. Worst of all, it is full of stones, and though vast quantities are carted off and dumped out‘of the way or made into stone walls, the plow every year brings up more. In “accord with the mountain’s most flourishing industry, saw- mills occur at intervals on every vigorous | stream—weather-worn, unpainted structures, with a great pen-stock bringing water from the dam above, and round about them a chaos of logs, piles of boards, slabs, saw-dust, and rubbish. Here and there on the Norton hill-tops can be found grass-grown “|mounds and excavations, accom- panied perhaps by the wreck of an old stone chimney, showing where once had’ been a home; yet enough houses have been built to replace those that have gone. The town has not decreased in_ popula- tion, as have most rural towns in New England. It was settled late —barely a hundred years ago— and it has never passed the pioneer stage. It is still a backwoods town,and continues, fig in the past, largely dependent on its forest in- dustries. When the woodlands are exhausted, as it seems proba- ble they will be soon, grazing and dairying may in some form be found profitable; but it is not un- hkely that a considerable fraction of inhabitants will seek some more favored section. ee 8 Weekly. his former home, in response to a letter saying that his sister, who had been injured in a railroad collision, was in a critical con- dition and that his aged father was becoming helpless. His troubles. preyed upon his mind until he was impelled to commit the act that plunged his family into the ‘deepest grief. Bertha Carey, Algona, he pined it to the ghild’s dress, Colt’s’ revolver into his mouth. later. Taking a tag and writing there- on “Inez Carey, 6 years old; to Iowa,” and while she was asleep he fired a bullet from a 45-caliber Death’ resulted two or three hours Virginia’s Natural Bridge. Virginia wants the government to buy its natural bridge. H. D. Flood of the Tenth Virginia dis- trict, inttoduced in congress a bill providing for the purchase by the national government of the great bridge and adjacent lands, which it is proposed shall be tonyerted in- to a national park. Washington, when a surveyor, visited it and carved his name ona rock near where a rustic bench now affords a resting place for vis- itors. Close to the name of Wash- ington are those ef Marshall, Mon- roe, Clay, Burton, Jackson, Van Buren and Sam Houston. News Nuggets. Mrs. ‘Vincent, of ‘Clarksville, Tex. -barned to death, “Sunday, trying to Kindle the fire with ker* osene. An ineendiary fire destroyed 20 business houses in Livingston, Tex., Friday, cntailing a loss of $135,000. Congressman R. (. De Graffen- reid, of the Tenth Texas district, D. C., last Friday. Fourteen thousand workers of various tradés are on strike in Florence, Italy, and the city is bor- dering on a state of anarchy. Wm. E. Clark of Easton, Pa., a conductor, was caught under his trolley car,which jumped the track, and crushed to death, Saturday. An electric headlight for rail- way locomotives, which not only illuminates. the track but also throws a searchlight straight up in the air, is a recent vention which has been’ 'pnt to practical use. ° At the grand circuit meeting at Narragansett park, Providence, R. 1., Friday, Dan Patch, E. M. Stur- ges’s great pacing stallion, made an exhibition mile in 1:59}. Star Pointer 1s the only other horse that has beaten two minutes. The German government will not relax the decrees against for- eign cattle, notwithstanding nu- merous appeals to that effect and the fact that the present prices of meat’ almost prevent its being eaten by working people, Carlyle D. Graham swam the rapids of Niagara fiver, Sunday, and went ashore unharmed near Lewiston. He entered the water about one mile below the falls and passed through the rough water above and below the whirl- pool, Thomas H. Reynolds, for twenty- three years an employe of the Western Union Telegraph com- pany, committed suicide by shoot- ing,on the 27th ult. He left severat letters in which he assigned as the cause, a fear of approaching insanity. He leaves a widow and several children. James W. Cameron, millionaire and president of the Cream City Sash & door company was stricken with heart disease while riding with Mrs. Jolin’ T. Post, a well known society women, Friday, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died before he could be taken from the carriage. After his day’s work Carey Whit- field of Corinth,Miss., returned to find his wife dead, his house locked and_ the windows barred. On en- tering the house he found her lying in a pool of blood, _ her head almost severed from her body. Bloodhounds are after the murderer. Secretary Shaw’s suggestion that the national banks take out addi- tional amounts of.circulating notes with a view to meeting any de- mands that may be needed in the movement of erops™has met the approval of those institutions, and thus far $15,000,000 of additional notes have been ordered printed for their use in addition to the reg- ular demands for bank notes. Wm. Haffner, of Trempeleau, Wis., died recently as a result of eating fifty roasting ears. He had an especial liking for green corn and at dinner ate twenty-four cars. For the evening meal he disposed of fifteen more ears. He was awakened during the night by an intense craving for more corn and rising, proceeded to devour eleven more ears. In the morning when the wife awoke she found her hus- band dead at her side, he having apparently died in great agony. (anemia The Northern Pacific has issued a bulletin announcing the exten- sion of the passenger run out of Billings to Missoula instead of to Butte and Helena Y are now operated. The new schedule pro- vides for another crew on each of the runs and gives the crews a lay- over at Missoula of from fifty to fifty-six hours at the end of each round trip. In the bird line, Darby has three curiosities often heard of but seldom seen. Two of them are whiteblackbirds and the third a white crow. The crow is a nestling of this season, but is ful- ly developed. From tip of beak to point of claw it is white as snow, a perfect albino among crows. died- of -apoplexy at Washington, } Our Exchange Table, {Madisonian, Aug. 28.] Thomas Ryan was arrested Tuesday at noon by Sheriff Hill on @ state warrant charging him with having taken away $125 from Jack Ryan’s— saloon at Laurin. Sheriff Hill found his man asleep in a wagon bed. He had gone to Sheridan where he had spent a few dollars. ' He had none of the to Virginia City was absolutely intoxicated. © The prisoner pro- tested that he never touched a cent of the missing $125; that he had been in Butte. Sheriff Hill]! searched the man/and sueceeded in finding only .$4.65 in cash on his person, M. B. Davis and Charles L. Grove of Virginia City and Messrs. - George P. Dodge of Denver, Colorado, are the owners of amine which is a combination of iron and manganese—40 per cent manganese. Messrs: Davis and Grove are the discoverers, The people of the Great Falls steel plant say there is manganese in Jeffersontounty. Mr. Davis said he had thouglit Madison county deposit the first in the state, The Madison county manganese looks like vast ledges in the ground which can be mined with little difficulty, the vein being 36 to 52”feet deep. Two Flags Float Over It. The most curious postoffice in America is the one which stands in Beebe Plain, atown half in Ver- mont and half in the province of Quebec, Canada. The old post- office was built about seventy- five years ago exactly on the line between the United States and Canada, so that it stands in two countries and: serves in the postal service of two nations. The cellar of the building connects the two countries and some years ago, when the postoffice was a general store, whiskey was known to be sold in one country and delivered into another without ever having gone out from under the roof of the old structure. This combination postoffice is now beingrun by parent and child, the father being postmaster for Canadian Quebec and the daugh- ter postmistress for Vermont. Standing in front of this strange postoffice is a large post, which marks the boundary line, and it is said that one time a man who wanted to get a roadway to his premises moved this post, and many thousands of dollars and no little time was spent to establish the exact line again, Until a short time ago a very peculiar postofficé was used in Argyllshire, England. It 1s situated in the lonely hills be- tween Drimmin and Barr, three miles from any habitation, and consisted of a simple. slit ina rock, closed up-by a nicely fitting stone. When any letters arrived -at Drimmin: for the district of Barr they were conveyed to the rock by the first shepherd or crofter going so far. Haying been dropped in and the slit reclosed, they were left until a shepherd or crofter from the other side hap- pened to come along, when they were taken up and delivered at their destination. No letter was ever known to be lost at this prim- itive postoffice. At Burra, Shet- land, an old tin canister, made water-tight with newspapers and pitch, was once picked up on the shore. It contained ten letters, with the correct cash postage. With these was also a Jetter for the finder, urgently requesting the posting of’ the accompanying missives, as they: were important business communications. After the letters had been carefully dried they “were at once posted to their destinations, which they reached without further adventure.—New York Herald. Has « Big Buffalo Herd. Roaming in absolute freedom in the beautiful Flathead valley, on the Flathead Indian reservation, Montana, is the largest herd of Buffalo on the continent. ‘The noble animals have practically all the freedom that was theirs in the} days when they were nionarchs of the plains. This herd is the prop- erty of a half-breed of mixed In- dian and Mexican blood named Pablo, whose home is on the reser- vation and who is reported to be worth $2,500,000. -He does not look it in his suit of citizens clothes, broad-brimmed hat and blanket, but he 16 a8 shrewd a ranchman as is to be found’ on the western plains and he has increased his Goverment. alottment of cattle ‘land lands until he has amassed a great fortune. He has two houses, one. on the reservation and. the other in a dreary little shipping town of Selish, on the Northern Pacific railroad. : Pablo owns 100,000 head of cattle and takes a justifiable pride in them, but he especially glories in his herd of Buffalo, which num- bers 180. Pablo’s regards for his buffalo, is intense. He is not not sella single specimen. He of the old free tife he loved and loves still. He has a fellow feel- ing fer bison because, like his own race, they haye been driven from their old ranges. So he has gath- ered together all that he could get and bas placed them on the mag- nificent range at the outlet cof Flathead lake. Saved Brother’s Life. A Saturday special to the Hel- ena Daily Record says: Friday morning last as the daily passenger froni Great Falls came argund the sharp curve at the Queens switch, at Neihart, Louis Sell, a boy of abovt six years of age -was playing with other child- ren near the track, when in some way his foot got caught inthe frog of the switch and was held there firmly. His sister, Clara, who is about 10 years of age, without loosing a moment, began to unlace the shoe. Engineer James Rodgers, ebserving some- thing wrong, blew the danger sig- nal, Just as the train was within 100 feet of the boy the little girl pulled her brother away, leaving the shoe to be crushed a moment later by the train. Shrinkage of the Sun. Sir Robert Ball, the eminent as- tronomer, says that the sun is shrinking. It is a well-known fact, he explains, that most things in cooling. become smaller; a poker, for example, is shorter when it is cold than when it is hot. The sun, too, must obey this fandamental law, and must therefore be getting smaller. If we could measure its diameter on two successive days we should find that it had decreased by nine inches—that is to say, it is twenty years. In view of this anxious lest the sun should not last their titme. Such 000 miles in diamcter, and it will duced to 858,000. ( . U7 Y » keeping them for profit and will loves them because they are a part |“: but he was too close to.stop. | shrinking at the rate of, roughly, | five feet a week, ora mile in every | shrinkage some people might feel | anxiety, | however, is groundless, Sir Robert | Ball assures us, for the sun is 860,-| y Whitehall, Mont 5 Yoonchiaach Maths. ioc Saas second Sunday; and 11:00 a, m. on the fourth. Pieasant Valley—First and third Sunday. Preaching at 3:00 p, m. |‘ CHRISTIAN—B. 1, KLINE, PASTOR. Whitohall—second and fourth Sunday in a m. and $00 pm, — nee ier font and togrth Satie at3:00p. m,— ‘Third. ath m, pesunlé ¢ Valley—Third‘Sunday. Preaching ats F. H. Negley, (Successor to Neglesy & Rutland) Drug gist Watches,’ Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware. Paints and Wall Paper. Mail Orders Promptly Filled. a Wurrenatn - = -° Montana. 1EFFERSON HOUSE | Wes. McCall, Prop. Meals 35 Cents, Lodgings 50 Cents. * This house is newly opened, and no effort is spared to make its guests comfortable and welcome. * Accommodations for Transients. Room and Board by Day or Week. 26 Rooms, large, bright and newly fitted up. | « | SPECIAL RATES to patrons by week or month. ~ WHITEHALL, MONT. os take 40,000 years for it to be re-| Q) om Op. oH) i) My, the month. Preaching at 11008. m. and 8:00 | ‘»m. Bible school, 10:00 4.\m.; Mission Band, . 3:00 p. m.; Y.P. 8. C. E., phage he a8 » . . * « SEES i SSS SS SS SSS SS FFF ¢ U @ R. W, NOBLE, J. H. WYETH, H. B. WYETH, % (7) hres. aud Manager. Vice President. 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