Show Z I 1 OUR FLAG on tys common pages hilgh up on tho roll of fame the story of old alory burns in deathless words of dianie it Is the old red white and blue proud em bieni of the free it Is tile flag that floats above our land of liberty sutton A rm a the tha star spangled ll banner annor la Is generally taken for granted ono one seldom henra hears its wiy why and chert fora called in question with its every display in city and ba hamlet on tur rot and hall comes a lit hi tie discus discussion slon us as to its history and development it transpires that the american flag is like tile tho human species a thing ot of evolution this Is so indeed with the insignia of ac most countries coun tiles not bubly ubly of england whose hag flag began withold with old king Eg egberts borts dragon upon which was incorporated tho the three norman lions of 0 william the conqueror when edward III as aired to the crown of france he added the flour do ae ils james I 1 dispensed with both and adopted st georges cross and finally in 1801 tho the lion and tho the corn began their long fight for the crown which has haa since contin aed on canvas in every latitude of the world tho the colon colonies los of course lived under tho the british hag flag in 1680 the flag of new england was white charged with st georges cross in red surmounted with tho the crown in tho the center way was inscribed jacobus ilex while manhattan was in possession ol of tha clio dutch the ships waved a lag flag on which was ti beaver the then insignia of the now new netherlands 1707 colonies adopted the union jack ol of great britain this was formed by a combination of st andrews and st sac Go georges orges crosses and of course was typical of the fact that the two coun tries had become ono one when queen elizabeth died and tho the scottish kins king succeeded to the english throne at tho the time ot of our revolt from dr british I 1 t authority tho the union waclowas Jac jack lowas waa in general use usually bearing some patriotic motto or of which liberty and union was tho tha favorite directly after tho the battle of lexington a now flag was improvised with the motto of the state of connecticut viz qui trans luet this soon gave way to regimental colors each being distinctive finc tive in shade at bunker hill a blue flag fing was chosen to designate new england troops the first sign we seo see of union in the colonial army this flag had st georgoa georges cross in one corner it was growing beautifully less leas within our limits and soon afterwards disappeared when gen putnum putnam displayed a red banner on prospect hill with the tha motto an appeal to heaven the colony of massachusetts chu sent out cruisers in the tha spring supplying each with a white hag flag on which was waa wa a painted a green alno tree when armed vessels were wera commissioned la in washington they were furnIs furnished lied with flags or 0 similar kind to col william moultrie le of south carolina Is due the lionor honor of raising the first republican flag it had a white crescent on a blue ground this was unfurled on the east bastion of the fortress in charleston harbor juno 28 1773 while on the opposite side waved the flag called the great union which had first been raised by washington at cambridge june 14 1777 the continental congress realizing the inappropriateness ot of longer using british colors resolved that the flag of the 13 united states be 13 stripes alternate red and white that the union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation stel stol lation tho the first national flag after this pat tern was made by a mrs ross roas a lady of philadelphia she had some distinguished men to assist her among whom were benjamin franklin and gen joseph reed we are not informed whether these men appointed by congress tor for the purpose used the thimble needle and thread that the lady herself employed from her general character it Is probable that mrs airs ross rosa declined to let them boss the J job ob and proceeded in her own way the 13 stars stara of the flag of 0 1777 were arranged in a circle although there hero was waa no officially prescribed form in 1794 after the admission of vermont and kentucky into tho the union tilon ti it was resolved by congress that from and after may 1 1795 the flag of the tha united states bo be 15 stripes alternate red and white that the union be 16 15 stars white in a blue field no provision was made b by v this act for future futura alterations nor were any changes made till 1818 although a number of now new states were admitted meanwhile into the union on april 4 of that year a bill embodying tho the suggestions of capt samuel 0 areld who recommended the reduction of the stripes to the original 13 and the adoption of stars equal to the number of the states formed into one large star and a now new star to bo be added on the fourth of july next succeeding the admission of each new state was ap proved by president monroe and tha flag thus established was att afterward erward hoisted on the hall ball of representatives NORTH NORTHWEST WE S T NOTES tho tha twenty eighth conven convention convente tl on of the montana state christian association was hold in billings last week montana was tho the last state in the union to hold its ito democratic state convention to elect delegates to denver twice within ton days daya the caroe carne yle gle library at rono reno nevada has been robbed about 15 being taken from the money money drawer C D ri of portland was choson chosen second vice president of the trav elers elera protective association at att tho the milwaukee meeting the eight year cearold old daughter of mrs samuel stevenson was burned to death at carson city nov her dwa catching fire from a firecracker joseph wallace was killed by a train two miles west of laurel mont trainmen say the man was sleeping on tho the track his head pillowed billowed pill owed on a rail 1 egbert smith aged 41 years one of 0 tho the best known mining engineers in Arac america rica died at his homo home in colorado springs last week death came as a result of an illness contracted in mexico last winter tho the body of IG year old harry sir SIC ford who mysteriously disappeared from rono reno nevada has been found tit over fifteen miles from where he was supposed to have gone bathing in nn an irrigating ditch boycott of oregon hops hope and barley worth annually Is threat enod ened by the brewers because of th stand for prohibition taken by most of the counties of that state according to a prominent california brewer the isthmian canal commission has discontinued the purchasing agency at tacoma wash and hat haa transferred the work which consisted principally in the inspection 01 ol lumber to an army engineer at seat beat tie A defective rail caused the wreck ing of a passenger train near garry town mont and engineer J J mullen en was instantly killed fireman george W was seriously injured but it Is believed he ha will recover the directors of the montana independent telephone company nt at a 11 meeting held in butte elected officers for the year one change was made W 11 hall of butte being elected as aa vice president to succeed P B D moss of billings after scarcely three hours of dellb oration atlon er a jury at butto butte acquitted john sutherland of the charge of first degree murder in the killing of J L kerr november 7 last this wal wa Sut herlands second trial sutherland struck kerr with a brick mayor taylor a mine superintend ent anti and ad B W priest an ex constable lied died at goldfield last week within three hours of each other as a result of a desperate street duel with pis pie in which the two men almost rid died one another taylor charged priest with trying to break up lih hn home henry weber a prominent manint operator and society leader one of tha th pioneers of goldfield has been sen aen fenced to serve seven years in tha th state penitentiary weber was con evicted of embezzling belonging to the doctor mining company ol of wonder of which he was president den and nd manager 1 fifty years ago on juno june 27 the lit no band of georgians known a as LS th green russell party pitched camp oil OB cherry creek where denver stands after a wearisome journey across thi th plains and later they built the first cabin on the site of the city the th event was commemorated last weel by a celebration of the pioneers the two year old son of mr air ani mrs tony was run over by a runaway team in butte and instantly killed the hoofs of the dorsee crushed in the skull of tho the child the th runaway was started by small boyt boys exploding firecrackers near the horses miss leonora pearce convicted at denver of having obtained a valuable ring from mrs harriet crows an aged blind widow by palming herself oft off as a spiritualist capable of restoring sight was sentenced to serve three to four years in the colorado penitentiary two destructive fires in colorado started by careless campers have destroyed timber valued at the alres occurred in the western part of at jefferson county and the extreme northern central part of park county the iho latter being known as mount evans district the tha andy hempel brokerage corn coni pan pany the pioneer mining brokerage firm in reno was sold last week to J W longley E D B cushman and B F all of tonopah To nev whore they are arc prominent in business circles the company will be reorganized and cap zed at james B E steele 6 en route from je rome ariz to boston mass became violently insane on a santa fe train at trinidad colo and was removed to the county jail ilia his brain Is supposed to 0 o have become affected by the high altitude pt raton mountain avei which the train passed john michael daly a page in the th first territorial legislature of mon tana cana la Is dead mr air daly was waa BO 50 yean of ago age and was waa born in chicago lit H lived in helena the most of his life and during the past twenty ye years arshad had been heavily interested in properties near helena J W scott employed as by the salt lake railway company al dry lako station twenty nine miles east of las vegas nevada shot and killed joseph webb at dry lake because webb refused to move oil off the premises of the company when or on tiered dered to do so co by scott |