The Argus-Farmer from Lewistown, Montana • 7

COLONEL BOTKIN DEAD. Former Lieutenant Governor of Mon- tana Dies in New York. Washington, Nov. Alexander C. Botkin, chairman of the commission to revise the criminal laws of the United States, died at ten minutes to one o'clock today.

He was at his desk one week ago last Friday evening for the last time. He was taken seriously ill Sunday night and has been gradually sinking from that time. He was removed to the University hospital this morning for special treatment which it was hoped might give relief. He died while being prepared for the operation. (The end came peacefully and he was conscious to the last.

Mrs. Botkin was with him when he died. Senator Carter had been in the room a short time previous and will take charge of the funeral arrangements. Miss Clarie Botkin is in the city but was not at the hospital when Judge Botkin died. Alexander C.

Botkin was born in Madison, Wisconsin, October 13, 1842. His parents, Alexander and Jane Sinclair Botkin, were natives of Kentucky and Scotland, respectively. Receiving his elementary education in the public schools of Wisconsin and graduating from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1859 Mr. Botkin attended the law department of the Univer'sty of Albany, N. and graduated therefrom in 1866.

From 1868 to 1878 Mr. Botkin was engaged in journalism on the Chicago Times and Milwaukee Sentinel, and in 1878 he was appointed by President Hayes as United States Marshal for Montana, becoming a resident of the territory in that year. He was commissioned in 1882 and the same yeaf was the nominee of the republican party for delegate in congress, but was defeated by the democratic candidate, Major Martin Maginnis. Upon retirement from his federal office in 1885, Mr. Botkin entered upon the practice of law in Helena, his partner being the late Theodore Shedd.

From 1887 to 1890 Mr. Botkin served the city of Helena as city attorney. In 1892 Mr. Botkin was the candidate of his party for lieutenant governor. He was elected and served four years.

He received the republican nomination for the governorship at the close of his term but was defeated. In 1897 Mr. Botkin was appointed by President McKinley as a member of the commission for the revision of the criminal and penal laws of the United States, and in 1896 he was chosen chairman of the commission. By virtue of subsequent acts of congress the commission prepared a system of jsij WILSON WOOD HEATER there is no occasion to remove a quantity of heavy ashes. The Hot Blast Down-Draft consumes every particle of burnable material in the wood so that when the fire has burned out only a very small quantity of fine particles remains in the stove to represent the impurities in the fuel, which would not ignite.

A piece of few chips and a stick of wood will enable you to have a roaring fire in ten minutes, which may be maintained 36 hours. Owing to tne scientific construction, the Down-Draft burns all the fuel, the Wilson saves one-half your fuel bill. Thanksgiving gr Thursday, November 30, sr 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 imiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiaiuuuuiuiuumauii luuummmui You have got your turkey. Come in and buy one of the nicest CARVING SETS on the market. We make a specialty of them in price and quality from now until Thanksgiving.

And you want to buy a HOME COMFORT RANGE to roast the turkey completely, and you can only buy it at Fergus County Hardware Co. codes for Alaska and revised the laws relating to the organization, jurisdiction and practice of the federal courts. This commission has practically concluded its work, and the report of the body is to be submitted during the coming session of congress. In 1872 Mr. Botkin married Miss Harriet E.

Sherman of Milwaukee. Twc hildren, a daughter and a son, survive. The daughter is in Washington, while the son lives in St. Paul. In Montana the professional career of Mr.

Botkin was marked with signal success. Throughout the state he was widely known, and had drawn to him during his years of residence in Montana a very large number of devotee friends. In the political affairs of the state he always manifested a lively interest and wielded great influence. Professionally he stood high among the members of the bar, being recognized as an authority on abstruse questions involving the exact knowledge of the intricacies of practice. THE FADED GARDEN.

There is some chemistry in the atmosphere of Montana which embalms the verdure which it kills. In your flower garden the pansy stands a froxen emblem of the disfranchised royalty of sorrow. There is among the leaves the trees a metallic, muffled clangor like the sound of kettle drums above the grave of a gallant soldier. Summer is dead, but Nature is frozen. The leaves are green in death.

There is no other place in the world where the elements so conspire to cheat the senses. Winter came a few days ago, but the glamour of summer lingers upon the dead cheek of Nature. In other latitudes the rose leaf pales and becomes anaemic in the gradual breath of the destroyer. Here the frost seizes and crystalizes the rose and the sweet pea bloom, and the radiance of them mocks us from behind the brittle window of the ice. You see a luminous chrysanthemum.

You pluck a heap of chrome ashes and the perfume of it is as the odor of a dusty and deserted house. The frozen gardens of Montana are like the dead children of whom we mourn with joy for the deliverence from the harshness and the bitterness of the winter of maturity. The destiny of the rose, dead in all the brilliancy of its youth, is symbollic of the virgin cered in wedding splendor. It is young "Juliet in the tomb, love beautiful and bale in death, yet suggestive of the glory and ease of young possession of peace which age cankers and vice Independent. Lewistown Hide Fur Co.

pay Minneapolis prices, less freight, for hides, pelts and furs. Call and see us or write for prices. -i New management, everything Cottage new Except the Liquors Saloon and they are old and of JOHN KENNEDY Proprietor. the very We carry the finest line of cigars in Lewistown. Come and see us.

THE PALACE -MEAT MARKET he pi ace to get the best of meat and provision r. have always the best the market affords. Everything in the provision line fresh and new. We need your business, you need our goods. Come in and see us we think we can please you.

THONE 74 Palace Meat SLATER Props. DAVID IIILGER E. O. EITSENEURG Hilger The Pioneer Real Estate and Live Stock Commission Agents Land Office Attorneys Conveyancing and Life, Accident and Fire suranee Agency. LAND SCRIP FOR ISSALE Phone 81 LEWISTOWN, MONTANA Banking by Is easy, convenient and safe.

Your presence is not required. Send your money by post office order, express money order, draft, or check, or if currency, by registered letter. Upon arrival we will mail you receipt. This completes the transaction and checks may be drawn at once. Your Fortune's Foundation Begins with a bank account.

A bank account with us will add to your own independence; increase your prosperity and teaches system and economy In the home. Uncle Sam's messengers are safe and a dollar goes astray. Don't wait for a large sum to begin with. Commence at is an easy matter. Safety for Yaur Money.

Convenienc3 in Your Business Paying by Check Strengthens Your Credit Affords an absolute protection as a receipt; tabulates your expenditures and puts you on a footing with the most experienced business men of the country. Liberality Tempered with conservetivism typifies the policy of this bank. First National Bank sf Lewistswn Corner Fifth Avenue and Main Street, Lewistown, Montana. Absolutely the Best Coal in the count) entered to any pa 'the city in any Quantity. BLACK DIAMOND COAL COMPANY Bring inTrialO Telephone No, 9 Office corner 4th and Main ARCHIE HARRIGAIN.

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4.00 p. 1.20 p. 8.35 p. L1.00 p. via the Chicago, Paul Railway Three of these are electric lighted; all of them thoroughly equipped.

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