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Show TROUBLE BREEDING AT $SS ANACONDA SiMEIngS WASHINGTON. Doc. n.Aftffw? hearing nt tho White-' house todaitii which the representatives of theJltJ? conda Copper company prcscntcd'fciKl sido of tho controversy over thffti struction of the forests and vegety,'.Pn at Anaconda against which tho ''( oi ors had complained to him, PreaCTx U Roosevelt declared that tho onlySW enco ho would exerciso in restrain Ik the department of justice from prajfcjfci ing with an injunction suit againjLtjt Coppor company would bo to malli'jnp investigation to ascertain whethfcuts. practical mothod is possiblo i6v& extraction from tho fumes of thettajilJ. tors tho poisonous substances of are doing great damage. tSisip Tho president will send an cxpKW Ducktown, Tenn.. to invcstigateSgfi.T oral smelters located there, on whffaU-f is claimed appliances aro in'i which extract tho sulphur and arV.f from the fumes at a profit. If thf ,?rf vestigation proves tho praciicabilfl-a'1j? tho appliances, which were plaftjlS tho smelters after a decision biTt2)l supremo court obtained by tho.jt-of tho.jt-of Georgia against the comparisfjji-y president will order the dcpartmisMi'M justice to proceed with an injuitiaJ M suit. acl, klKA "BUTTE, Mont. (Pollock triM)lSj prossions of indignation are hearjrSxt every side regarding tho attempts omR by a certain few to get the I ru'o States government to take a hMR the Washoo smoke case. It is iu 4)ft known fact that, in recent veai ,-3 damage has amounted to little' 1 ranchers, and, as far as damago ; rj:! government is concerned, there i y-f'l enough timber of value within ai: jjjig of twenty miles of Anaconda ta t,aSo rant bringing tho suit. The M hKj company has over $18,000,000 in in their plant, while the assessed' i-'?iTe ation of the entire Doer Lodge 'r p'Hl is not over .800,000. I jSaiS BUTTE. Mont., Dec o. A i from Washington to the Inter-Moi says that ' at the conference a -'It" White house today, tho presidon John D. Ryan that he means to "Sj every smeltor in Amorica whose i f.2 injure tho forests, unless mean bo found to make sulphur smoke t -nous to vegetable Hie. He mea the smelters at Anaconda and at Helena. Mr. Ryan secured a trt action, until investigation can ha? ji Hi. with a viow of rendering tho frnna rmi nocuous. This is believed to deli tion some weeks, if not months. ? H 5 . |