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THE BILLINGS GAZETTE. Tuesday, July 24, 1900 WITHOUT COMMENT. SAVED BY PLUG OF TOBACCO. NEW FIREPROOF DOCKS. The Appetite of a Goat Is envied by all whose stomach and liver are out of order.

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Mills, the pioneer brick and stone contractor. A business career of a dozen years in Billings Get My Estimates. F. S. MILLS AAAAAAAAAA AAA AAAA I Make Harness 5 and Saddles 1 I 4 know this, of course, but this is a gentle reminder that a man does not go to 4 the grocery store for treatment when he is bodily ill.

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Ten Eyck Billings, Mont. TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT Out of the Old and Into the New 1 It Improves with Age ft Speaks fori Itself I IK fit 8 nmr Secretary of the Chinese Le gation at London Is Very Optimistic. Asserts That Communication With Pekin Will Shortly Be Opened. ARE HIDING THE SITUATION Believed the Dispatches and Edicts Are Nothing But Subterfuges. Report From Shanghai That Empress and Court Are Leaving Pekin.

London, July 23. Sir Cheh Le Feng, the Chinese minister in England, took the unusual step of paying a Sunday call at the foreign office. As Lord Salis bury was absent the visit was without special result, but its importance may be gathered from an interview with the secretary of the Chinese legation, Sir Halliday Macartney, in which the lega tion officials seem to have assumed to some respect personal responsibility. Sir Halliday said that communication would soou be reopened with Pekin and that the messages from Sir Claude MacDonald and the other ministers might be expected at any minute. He hoped the trouble would soon be over, as the Chinse government was doing its utmost to overcome the difficulty and control the lawless element.

In his opinion the Americans had taken the most common sense view of the situation and he insisted that China ought not to be misjudged. Against the supposition that Li Hung Chang had anything but a sincere pacific object in view he protested warmly, asserting that all stories about the Perfidy and Treachery of Karl Li "were absolutely baseless. With regard to the prospects in the Southern provinces the secretary admitted that there might be small outbreaks, but he said there could bj nothing serious and that Europeans would be quite safe in treaty ports. The long silence he explained as "due probably to the rebels, who have cut the wires and blocked the roads." Thus, according to the secretary of the legation, a few days more should bring a solution of the great mystery. Nevertheless no one in England believes that the alleged dispatches and edicts are anything but subterfuges to hide the real situation as long as possible and to avert retribution by sowing discord among the powers.

From Shanghai comes the report that the empress dowager and court are moving to IIsiau-Fu, in the province of Shan Si, to which large stores of rice are being sent, and that, when these arrangements are completed the remaining viceroys will declare against foreigners. THOROUGHLY JFRIGHTENEQ. Chinese Official Have Their Eyes Opened by the Fall of Tien Tsin. London, July "8. The Shanghai correspondent of The Daily Mail declares that the Chinese officials are thoroughly frightened by the fall of Tien Tsin and desire to open negotiations.

Therefore, he continues, "although all are aware of the horrible Pekin massacres, every official down to the humblest retainer has been sworn to secrecy upon the penalty of wholesale executions, should the details If ak out. They hope if the powers once begin negotiations to stop the military operations that matters might cool down. There is the usual crop of Shanghai rumors at hand. One is that Prince Tuan has been abducted and the empress dowager is again supreme. Another is that the notorious Eang Yei, president of the board of war, has been appointed viceroy of Canton.

The Tien Tsin correspondent of The Daily News says the allies have issued a proclamation announcing that they are not fighting China, but only the rebels who have been guilty of attacks upon the foreigners. COALITION IN CHINA. -Active Diplomatic Negotiations Proceeding Between the Powers. New York, July 23. A dispatch to The Journal and Advertiser from London says: Active diplomatic negotiations are "proceeding between the powers regarding a coalition against China.

English and American foreign offices are arranging a close accord on the question of partition. These two governments probably will declare openly against it Itw days. Numerous dispatches are passing between Hay and Salisbury with the idea of the two countries forming identical policies. Incidentally a curious side light is cast on English diplomacy in this matter. China's attack on Siberia, it is claimed in English diplomatic circles, was caused by the sudden change in the attitude of Russia, who is now making overtures to the powers of a most cordial and conciliatory nature.

REMEY TOJTHE RESCUE. Be Is Instrncted to Save Minister Conger at All Hazards. Washington, July 23. Secretary Long has sent imperative orders to Admiral Remey to rescue Conger at all hazards. Admiral Remey was informed that Conger was alive on the 18th.

Enough is known of Remey to know that he will make a desperate attempt. Itevri of his movements will be anxiously locked for. WILLSOO Copy of the Chinese Edict Brought to the British Foreign Office. London, July 23. Sir Chih Chen Loh Feng Loh, the Chinese minister to Great Britain, visited the foreign office and communicated what purported to be an imperial edict giving assurances that on July 18 all the foreign minis ters at Pekin, except Baron von Ket- teler, were safe and sound, under the protection of the imperial oourt.

The Chinese luinister did not see the British minister of foreign affairs, Lord Salis bury. The alleged edict was received without comment. The correspondent of the Associated Press has the highest authority for saying that not the slightest credence is attached by the British government to this latest statement, and that the government is also quite suable to understand the credence which is accorded at Washington to Minister Conger's message to the state department there. Lord Salisbury, according to this authority, is convinced of the truth of the original reports of the massacre of the foreigners at Pekin. CONTINUES TO SPREAD.

Boxer Rebellion Has Broken Out In Several More Provinces. New York, July 23 A dispatch to The Journal and Advertiser from Shanghai says: The Boxer rebellion is spreading to the northwest to Shansi, Shensi and Kausu provinces and southwest to the province of Hanan. In conjunction with Tung Fun Kiaug's forces the Boxers have endeavored to recover their lost ground in Shan Tung province where the Boxer movement originated and was forced by Yuh Sien, then governor, but since transferred to Shensi. The Boxers suffered a severe reverse on July 8 from Yuen Shien and Tan-goa, on the border of Shensi adjoining Shan Tung. The Boxers intended overrunning Shan Tung and crossing the Yellow river in Tang Shu.

All provinces south of Yellow river are so far undisturbed. The provinces affected are Chihli, Shensi, Shansi, Honau, Kansu and Shan Tung, the last two only slightly. BOYCOTTING CHINESE. Chicago Laundryuien Report a Remark able Falling Off in Trade. Chicago, July 23.

The Chinese popu lation of Chicago is perturbed over the reports from the various parts of the city, that because of Caucasian antipathy aroused by the trouble in the Celestial empire, a boycott has literally been instituted against Chinese laundries and truck farms. Wu Sung Let, a banker in Chinatown and probably the richest Mongolian in the city, says four laundries have been forced to suspend business during the past week and Chinese laundrymen generally report a falling off of 50 per cent in their busi ness. WILSON GOING TO CHINA. Has Keen Relieved From Duty in Cuba by His Own Request. Washington, July 23.

Favorable action has been taken upon the applica tion of Brigadier General James H. Wilson, U. S. for active service in China. An order was issued during the day relieving him from duty in command of the department of Matan-zas, and Santa Clara, Cuba, and directing him to proceed without delay to Taku, China, and report to Major uen- eral A.

R. Chaffee, U. S. commanding the military forces in China, for assignment to the command of one of the brigades of his division. ORDERED TO CHINA.

War Department Announces a List of Staff Officers. Washington, July 23. The war department has announced the names of the following officers who have been ordered to report to Major General Chaffee for duty on his staff: Lieutenant Colonel Heistand, assistant adjutant general; Colonel Humphries, assistant quartermaster general; Major Gallagher, commissary; Lieutenant Colonel Dickman, Twenty-sixth U. S. Major Muir, Thirty-sixth U.

S. Major Stephenson, surgeon; Captain Crozier, ordnance department. Will Remain at Hong Kong. Hong Kong, July 23. The second Indian brigade has been ordered to remain here.

The British first class battleship Goliah and two Indian trans ports with troops have arrived off Hong Kong. YELLOW FEVER SERUM. Patients Treated With the Remdy Progressing Favorably. Vera Cruz, July 28. The first patient treated with the yellow fever serum by the young Brazilian experimenter, Dr.

Bellinzaghi, now is fully convalescent. Other patients treated are progressing favorably. There is intense interest in the experiments and every facility is afforded the doctor. Patients very low with the black vomit have been treated and the effect of the serum is marvelous, astonishing old physicians here. COLON HELD BY REBELS.

So Reports the Captain of a German Vessel. Kingston, Jamaica, July 23. Cap tain Moler of the German steamer Flandria, which has arrived here from Colombia, reports that the government troops entered Colon from Panama on Aug. 15, the latter city having fallen into the hands of the rebels. He also asserts that Colon is now in the hands of the rebels, having been easily taken July 16 without a fight.

Scale Will Moon He Adjusted. Pittsburg, July 23. By a large majority vote of the amalgamated association members they will insist on the Republic Iron and Steel company signing the scale for the new base rate of 5.50 per tou for puddling. The American Tin Plate workers'have voted to give discretionary powers to their committee, and it is probable the tin plate nuale will soon be adjusted. New York Hot's Remarkable Expert ence Whil Klahtina the Boers.

A good many people protest against smoking and lay that it is injurious, but Corporal John Trusttum of the Royal Horse artillery, a New York boy who went out to South Africa to fight the Boers, will always swear by it for the reason that a plug of tobacco saved his life at the battle of Kllpkraal, near Bloemfontein, on May 3. John Trusttum resided with his mar ried sister, Mrs. Vogt, in New York. He has a roaming disposition and could not rest in New York when the Boer war began. He longed for an opportunity to see the fighting in South Africa, and accordingly he went to England, joined the Horse artillery and went out fired with the ambition of serving under Lord Roberts.

He went through several bloody engagements and came out scathless until the attack on Klipkraal, May 3, when be was leading a galloping Maxim battery up the hill, says the New York Journal. On arriving at the summit the Boers opened fire and, as Trusttum graphically describes in his letter, "it looked like a sheet of flame. Men fell on every side. My horse was shot in seven places and died instantly. As I fell with him I felt a sharp pain in my right thigh and knew that I had been shot.

"I lay on the ground for three hours in great pain, because I could not extricate myself from under the horse, and the loss of blood made me feel faint. Later on an ambulance came along and conveyed me to the hospital at Bloemfontein. When the surgeon examined my wound, he found the Mauser bullet had struck a plug of tobacco in my breeches pocket, which had broken its force and probably saved my life, as the surgeon said the bullet would have struck my thigh bone in a slanting direction and gone up into my abdomen, giving me a mortal wound. "1 am very happy and comfortable here in the hospital. The bullet has been extracted, and in two weeks I hope to be up at the front to get some more fun before it is all over.

A soldier's life is not worth living without fighting." The family of the plucky young soldier arc. of course, very proud of him, but they want him to come home and promise in the future he can smoke in the parlor or any other old place. Corporal Trusttum is only 21 years of age. He bears an excellent character and has been promoted rapidly. He is ambitious and will have-the South African medal for valor in action and possibly further promotion.

NEW SCHOOL FIRE ESCAPE. Pnplls Slide to Safety Down a Spiral Steel Shoot. The newest fire escape is an ingenious apparatus being built for a school in Louisville. The inventor has made a rather startling adaptation of the law of gravitation, as he proposes to slide the pupils Jike meal sacks from the roof to the ground in a spiral shoot The apparatus is composed of a great steel cylinder, six feet in diameter, built against the side of the school-house, says the New York Journal. In the interior of the cylinder a spiral, open shoot constructed, semicircular in shape and sufficiently deep to prevent a body from falling over the sides.

Automatic doors communicate with a platform at each story. The pupil is drilled to seat himself in the shoot and slide easily and quickly to the ground. It is claimed that 150 persons can escape from a building in three minutes by means of this novel contrivance. The inventor is a German named August Dauber. He was working in a flour mill in Germany in 1885 where a similar shoot was used to slide sacks of flour to the ground.

The descent was so easy and rapid that the mill hands came to use the shoot in preference to the stairs. This gave Dauber the idea of adapting this method for a quick and easy escape from a building in case of fire. NEW MORPHINE HABITCURE. Few Drops of a Powerful Vegetable OH Remove All Desire For Drua. Great Interest has been aroused in medical circles in Germany by the discovery by Dr.

Otto Emmerich of Baden-Baden of a specific against morphine poisoning and that peculiar form of disorder known by physicians as morphinism us. The increasing use of morphine among a considerable section of society has been exciting much attention, and medical men have been unable to prescribe any efficient remedy. It Is claimed, according to a Berlin dispatch to the New York Journal, for Dr. Emmerich's discovery that It has proved Infallible In the numerous cases In which it has been applied. It Is a distilled vegetable oil of Intense acidity, two or three drops of which are taken Internally dally.

After a cure, extending from three to six weeks, patients acquire an Intense loathing for the morphine needle. Big- American Refrigerator at Paris, One of the American exhibits at the Paris exposition which are attracting tremendous crowds is a huge octagonal refrigerator now shown in the agricultural building, says the New York World. Europe has never suspected the use we make of refrigerators. Here meat Is killed from day to day. and It Is Impossible to preserve eggs and butter.

Therefore the great American icebox excites much wonder. It is constructed of plate glass on all sides, and all kinds of food are artistically displayed. The whole refrigerator, though as big as a house, revolves on a pivot, so that Its contents are completely Ihown to every bystander every few minutes. Well Known Architect's Plau For a Great System. TENEMENTS ABOVE THE PIEES.

Joseph M. Hneton Claims His Plan, If Carried Oat, Wald Be of Great Benefit to the Poor He Advocates a Water Front of Stone, In "Which Danger From Fire Would Be Eliminated. Joseph M. Huston, the well known Philadelphia architect, has had copyrighted plans for a system of fireproof docks, which docks, if substituted for Inflammable wooden piers how In use, would eliminate, he says, all danger from such terrible fires as that which devastated Hoboken's water front, killed hundreds of people and destroyed millions of dollars' worth of shipping. More than that, his system provides for the housing of millions of persons in big tenements built upon the docks and for cold storage and other warehouses under the tenements, says the Philadelphia Press.

He says these noncombustible docks could be built at a cost comparatively low and that by their use the value of water front property in the groat seaboard cities would be tremendously increased, chiefly because of the model tenement houses to be built on the docks, while the change from the slums to the water front would be a godsend to great numbers of poor people. The buildings would have electric elevators and ample skylights and The company organized to handle this big scheme has already sent its plans to Mr. Schwab of the North German Lloyd Steamship company, which suffered such great loss at the Hobo-ken fire. Mr. Huston has also been in consultation with some of the leaders in New York's municipal affairs.

Including officials directly concerned in managing New York's water front property. This property is leased to the shipping interests by the city, and, including the water front along the East and North rivers, in the borough of Brooklyn, as well as Manhattan, isf enormous value. Mr. Huston looks forward to the time when fireproof decks will sheathe the water frontage not only of New York, but of Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans and all the seaboard and lake cities of the United States. He has recently been around the world, and he paid particular attention to the docks in various ports.

He says nearly all the big seaboard cities of Europe are ahead of our own cities In this respect, inasmuch as they use durable, fireproof construction throughout. Southampton and Liverpool, for instance, lave splendid piers, away ahead of the timber affairs at which ships are docked in America. Even along the Nile are docks that would make our flimsy timber piling look mean and dangerous. "In Venice," said Mr. Hurton the other afternoon, "the people live in structures built directly along the canals.

My plan, If it were carried out, would work a great change in the method of housing poor people in great cities like New York and Philadelphia. It provides for big tenements of steel, fireproof construction based upon the docks themselves. The docks would have a foundation of heavy pile work, upon which they would be built up of granite and concrete. Upon them would rise the buildings, with open dock room between, where vessels could discharge cargo Into spaces left for cold storage and ordinary storehouses. These storage warehouses would be on floors opposite the vessels, underneath the tenements.

"The tenements would have plenty of light and air, they would be absolutely safe and fireproof, and they would accommodate thousands who now suffer In the slums. On top of them esplanades could be arranged. My plans provide not only for the building of such tenements, but great structures for business purposes could take their place." The Chinese Trouble. Who that has studied the past history and who knows of the things the Chinese have, brought forth in matters of art. letters, statecraft and religion can say that the Celestial empire is fit only to be parceled out among our superior selves? No intelligent American at least will take this stand, says Harper's Weekly.

He is more likely to adhere to the sentiments expressed by Lord Charles Beresford in his Informing and prophetic monograph, "The Break Up of China," that all that is needed In the emergency which exists and which he predicted are honesty of purpose and a determination on the part of the powers to preserve the integrity of the Chinese empire. Lord Charles has little hope of the powers outside of those dominated by the Anglo-Saxon Idea, however, for he goes on to say, "Investigations on the spot have convinced me that the maintenance of the Chinese empfre is essential to the honor as well as the interests of the Anglo-Saxon race, and I hope that when the British and Ameri-cau people are acquainted with the facts as a whole they will be similarly convinced." New Theater Curtains. Aluminium has jiist been employed for the construction of a new fireproof surtaln to be used In theaters, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The curtain Is GO wide .74 feet high. Is coin posed of aluminium sheets one-twelfth of nn Inch thick and weighs 4,000 oouuUs.

On Kverv Bottle Of Shiloh's Consumption Cure is this guarantee: "All we ask of you is to use two-thirds of the contents of this bottle faithfully, then if you can say you are not benefited return the bottle to your druggist and he may refund the price paid." Price 25 cts. and 11.00. Sold by Chappie Drug Co. The Old Reliable In the rear M. Hunnihan's Saloon, South 87th St.

Billings Restaurant REGULAR MEALS, SHORT ORDERS. THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS. GIVE US A CALL. BILLINGS SUMMER GARDEN 2S12 ail Himtsoti An. Commencing at 8 o'clock sharp.

A Admission, 10. 15 25c. First Publication July 10, 1900-4-t ALIAS SUMMONS. TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF the seventh Judicial District of the State of Montana, in and fur the County of Yellowstone. Adelheid Siebert, plaintiff, vs.

Will iam a. sieoert, defendant. alias SUMMONS. The State of Montana sends greeting to the above named defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the clerk of this court, and to file your answer and serve a copy theieof upon the plaintiff's at torney within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be'taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the com plaint. The said action is brought by plain tiff to secure a decree of this court dis solving the bonds of matrimony that now exist between plaintiff and defendant, on the grouud and for the reason that for mora than one year last pant, and ever cilice plaintiff's marriage to defendant, defendant has failed, neglected and refused to provide plaintiff with the common necessaries of life, because of defendant's idleness, proflig acy and dissipation and for the further purpose of having plaintiff's maiden name, Adelheid Schindeler, restored to her.

Witness my band and the seal of said court his ninth day of July 1900. (Seal.) T. A. WILLIAMS, Clerk. V.

M. Johnston, Attorney for Plaintiff. First Publication July 17, 1900. -4-t Certificate of Co-Partnership. STATE OF MONTANA, County of Yellowstone.

ss. We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we are parters, transacting business in the state of Montana, at the City of Billings, in the County of Yellowstone, under the firm name and style of Hogue, Robinson Company; that the names in full of all members of said partnership are, O. D. Hogue, W. A.

Robinson and Richard Eirk; and tbat all of said partners reside at Billings, Yellowstone county, Mon tana. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hauas this 21st day of June, 1900. O. D. Hogue, Residing at Billings, Montana.

W. A. Robinson, Residing at Billings, Montana. Richard Kirk, Residing at Billings, Montana. STATE OF MONTANA, County ot Yellowstone ss.

On this 21st day of June. A. D. 1900, before me, W. M.

Johnston, a notary public in aud for Yellowstone county, Montana, personally appeared O. D. Hogue, W. A. Robinson and Richard Kirk, known to me to be the same persons whose names aro subscribed to the above certificate of co-partnership, and who acknowledged to me that they executed the same.

Iu Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my band and seal of effice the day and year in this certificate first above written. (Seal.) W. M. Johnston, Notary Public in and for Yellowstone County Montana. zo as.

co. ElUlU le Sew Daisy I The Finest Appointed Bar and Club Rooms in Billings. i 2 VAItE POTTER, Props Montana Avenue, Billings, Montana. UNDER STATE SUPERVISION. Pnva nAr pnt, nn Knincrs TiAnnBita.

Si -i i Interest comDOunded Quarterly. Pays 7 per cent on Time Certificates of Deposit, not subject to check. Issues Savings Certificates on Build, ing and Loan Plan with definite time of maturity and definite payments. Loans Money on Real Estate to be repaid in monthly installments running from ONE to TEN YEARS, to suit borrower. Trustees Lee Mantle, president; Chas.

Scbatzlein.vice president; Fayette Harrington, treasurer; Chas. R. Leonard, attorney; A. B. Clements, secretary; Aug.

Heinze, Henry Mueller, Frank Haskins, James H. Monteath. FRED H. FOSTER, local agent. TIME TABLE, Billings, Mont.

LINCOLN, KANSAS CITY, OMAHA, ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO. SAN FRANCISCO ST. JOSEPH, DENVER, SALT LAKE, and all points east, south and west, Trains Arrive and Depart as Follows: No. 42.

Passenger, daily, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Omaha, Lincoln, Denver, California, Col- orado and Texas points. Leave 11:20 p. No.

41. Passenger, daily from above points. Arrive a.m No. 46. Freight, daily, Sheridan and intermedial points.

Leave 10:00 a.m. No. 4.1. Freight, daily, from Sheridan and intermediate points. Arrive Sleeping, dining and reclining chair cars (seats free) on through trains Tickets sold and baggage checked to any point in the United States or Canada.

For information, maps, tables and tickets call on or address J. L. Harrington, Agent, H. B. Segur, General Agent, Bill ings, Mont, or j.

Francis, General Passenger Agent, Utnaba. Neb. he.