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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-08-27
THE RIVER PRESS.

A fearful disease has made its appear
nee among the cattle of Wasco county,
Oregon, believed to be what is known as
''black leg.n There have been many
deaths and the disease continues to
spread. 1t seems to battle the skill of
the most experienced veterinary sur
geons. Great app~rehenslOns are felt
among s.ockraisers of that region.
At Mingusville there were loaded on
the 10Th for shipment eastward by the
Northern Pacific So cars of cattle be-
longing to DoWnes u Allen. The
Northern Pacific delivered yesterday at
Minnesota transfer Is cars of cattle to
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
bound to Chicago. The Omaha line
received for the same destination rs cars
of cattle forwarded by the Northern
Pacific.
J. M. Hannaiord. general freight
agent OF the Northern Pacific, informs a
Wyoming stock association that all stock
cars hereafter built for the road will be
provided with suspension car trucks.
The Westinghouse break has been put
on 900 Of the company's freight cars
and will, Mr.. Hannaford says, be put on
the stock cars also as OOn as the rates for
hauling stock increases sufficiently to
justify the expenditure.
The w~oolgrowers of Montana will hold
a convention in Helena during fair
week. 1t is to be hoped that every sheep
mar in the territory will be present, as
matters of great importance will be
brought before the convention. In
order to properly protect their interests
the wool growers should act in concert.
Sheep raising in Montana is but in it's
infancy, and the day is not far distant
when the wool industry of the west
will be king. 1t is even 0 impossible
for the east to compete with the west in
raising wool. What must be done to
make any business a success is to find
the way to do it we'll, at the least cost.
Let there be a general attendance at the
convention and every question pertain
ing to wool growing fully discussed
Herald.
w. p. Turner, Jr., was in town Fri
day and paid the RIVER PRESS a pleas
ant call. He has just returned from
making a delivery of twenty thorough
bred bulls to Messrs. Downes & Allen,
whose ranch is on the Little Porcupine,
about fifty miles this side of Glendive.
The animals were delivered at Flat
Willow creek. They were very much
pleased with their purchase. MI. Tur-
ner saw a lot of horses at Granville
Stuart's ranch which had been taken
from the horse thieves, among them
two belonging to the mounted police.
Every owner of horses in that locality
keeps herders with them day and night.
It is talked of down there that about
twenty of the horse thieves have been
killed, although they acknowledge
nothing. Mr.. Turner left for his ranch
on the Marias Yesterday.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-08-27
Sheep and Cattle.

We are informed by good authority
that cattle and sheep of this section
never looked better at this time of the
year. The grass crop is splendid and
the late heavy rains have brought the
crops out in excellent shape, especially
on the uplands. Tue grass will keep
green till late, afording good p%asturage.
and the result will be, fat cattle and
sheep this fall to withstand, if it should
come, a severe winter.
The light crop of wool the past season
will be counterbalanced next year by an
unusually heavy clip, as at present it has
an excellent start.
We are also informed that wool can be
raised and sold at Is cts per 10. with a
good, fair income on investments, by
careful management, good breeding, and
provided ranches, in the shape OF hay
and sheds.
There is no reason why sheep men
should be discouraged as the present
depression is equally proportioned
among the various industries.-Argus.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-08-27
STOCK NOTES.

The fall roundup of the Shonkin asso-
citation will probably commence next
week.
There will be a meeting of the Shon-
kin Stock association on Saturday even
ing next.
Leading Texas stockmen freely ac-
knowledge that Montana, as a stock
country, is superior to the Lone Star
state.
E. S. Newman is moving the stock on
his Nebraska ranch to his ranch OH
Tongue river, Montana. He also owns
a ranch in New Mexico.
Running cattle on a properly stocked
range is a profitable business. Running
them on an o~ver-crOWded range is dan
gerous, and leads to bankruptcy.
Three thousand head of cattle were
shipped from Montreal to England in
the four months ending the I'd instant,
an increase over last year of nearly two
thousand.
M Newman Bros, of Miles City, Mont,
sent 500 head OF cattle east last week
from the Union stock yards. This COM
cattle this seasons
The Eastern Montana LIVE Stock
association is in iourishiug condition,
as evidenced by its roll of membership.
This numbers n, with an ownership Of
cattle amounting to 400, 900.
+. T.. Driskill, Of Austin, Texas, has
1,5OO head of cattle on the road to Chica-
go from his ranch on the headwaters of
the Little Missouri. He expects to mar
ket 1000 beeves this season.
Carpenter & Robinson, of Chicago,
whose range is on the Rosebud, in Mon
tana, shipped east yesterday 500 head of
cattle, a majority of which were COWS.
They will market about 1900 head of
cattle this season.
Mr.. B. S. Clark, on his recent trip,
purchased 1000 sheep from Henry Nc
Donald and 5000 from the Sage Creek
Sheep Co. They will be driven to their
new range on the Teton and Muddy,
about ten miles above the agency cross
ing.
A herd of about 1000 cattle, beside a
small band of horses, went through
Livingston on the 18th. They belong
to Scott g. Co., of Custer county, and
have been two months on the trail from
Idaho. They are being driven to lower
Yellowstone range.
TIL excitement over the Texas cattle
I. er has about died out, and confidence
is being again restored to trade. Re-
ceipts on the 10Th at Chicago were sixty
cars Of cattle from Montana. Shipments
were sixty cars of cattle to Chicago, one
car of horses to Emerson, and four cars
of stock to Miles City.
IL. III. Hamilton and A. Ell. Barney,
of the Sage Greek Sheep company, are
in town. These gentlemen are now Oh
their way to Eagle Rock, Idaho, where
they will purchase a band Of 1000 sheep
to drive TO their range on Sage creek.
The distance is about $40 miles, and
eve weeks will l,e occupied in MAX
ing the drive.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-08-27
Important Cattle Shipments.

MONTREAL, August IF. R. Sing
ham, a Canadian cattle shipper, received
the agency OF Frewen Bros. of Wyoming
and Montana, who own a quarter of a
million head Of cattle in those territories,
all of which will be brought here for
shipment by the Canadian Pacific when
the government gives consent to bring
the cattle through by this route. The
alleged transit Of American cattle alone
will net Sc, O00, 900 per annum, and there
will be an outlay Of half that amount in
Canada for fodder, while the stock is in
transit. Singham says the route via the
than via New York or any other Allan
tic port to Liverpool from Montana.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-08-27
English Capital in Cattle Ranches.

Within the past six m lis about
$1,000, 900 has been invested / purchas-
ing stock ranches in Montal4.. I,y eastern
capitalists. This money came mainly
from New York City. During a visit
and talk among the capitalists we find
that there is a great disposition to in
vest money in western lands, and es-
pecially in the cattle business. Perhaps
capitalists are getting sick of Wall street
securities. But by far the greatest am
cunt Of money invested in American
cattle growing is by Englishmen. They
practically control the cattle trade.
Within the past five years stock raising
has increased largely, and there is about
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-08-27

five times the amountof capital invested
in it now that there was then.-Inter-
Mnuntai A
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

WHILE We have not approved the
fusion on presidential electors in this
state, it is decidedly amusing to set such
men as General Connor and Jim Laird
laundering down upon the fusionists and
denouncing them ao political by brids. No
less a man than James G. Blaine went
clear to West Virginia few days ago to
endorse fusion between republicans and
greenbackers or anti-monopolists. Gene
raj Connor was elected to the state senate
two years ago by fusion Of democrats
and anti monopolists, and he was elected
president OF the state senate by the same
elements in fusion. That is a good re-
cord for General Connor if he had only
remained true to the principles which he
professed instead of going back and fus-
ing with the monopolists TO elect rail-
road attorney to congress. AS to Jim
Laird he would fuse with the devil if he
copld only get there by so doing.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
IT WAS very fortunate thing for the
democrats that Bill Paxton has horse
A Point for the Pig.
New England Farmer.

New England Farmer.
Professor j. w. Sanborn, of the Mis-
souri, State Agricultural college, is con,
stantly making experiments in feeding
animals, and gives the public the results,
as far as determined, in the form of bull.
letins. Bulletin No. 10 shows the value
of shipstutf as compared with corn and
corn meal for feeding pigs. His expert
ments show that although corn meal is a
better feed than whole corn for pigs, yet
when the oostof carrying to mill and pay
ing roll ia reokoned in there is very little
il any gain to the western farmer from
grinding his corn. He also finds that
shipstutf (the waste of the Touring mill
is worth far more for pig food than most
western farmers have been willing to be.
lieve. In late trial about ninety -four
pounds of shipstuf gave the same gain In
growth that was made from 100 pounds OF
corn meal, and the professor says thar
this accords with the experiments made
by him for the past six years. He ad.
vises western farmers to feed more OF
their wheat wastes, instead of senaing II
off to eastern feeders, who find it one OF
the cheapest forms in which to purchase
fertility for their farms.
The Professor further. .6nds that corn
fed TO steers will not produce more than
half the meat that it will when fed t.
pigs But as our people are not grea 6
eaters, we must learn to fe our swine
in way that will give more muscle and
less lard. BY exposing sections of the
carcasses of pigs fed upon corn and upon
sbipstutf. he found that the latter sho ~od
a very much better quality Of meat. The
conclusion to be drawn il that a mixtur.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

In some of the states, especially in the
south, very heavy tax is imposed upon
commercial travellers in the various towns
which they visit. 1t is now proposed to
abolish this tax in Georgia in order to
extend commercial intercourse, and the
leading papers of that state are all out
spoken in their denunciation OF the re.
striction policy which has 80 long pre-.
vailed. Under the present system, visi-
tors at hotels are said to be subjected to
annoying espionage by officers who are
anxious to find out whether they are
commercial travellers so that the tax Can
be collected from them.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
LITERARY NOTES.

An American traveller in Roumania found
"The luck of Roaring Camp" on bookstall
and another familiar book, "Bordeiulu Unku'
lub Tom de Mees Kharriet Beecher Stove, u
recognized with difficulty as "Uncle Toms
Cabin"
General Beauregard, in his article on the
Battle of Bull Run, in the November Cen
tury gives the reason why Q Confederate VIC
toty at Bull Run was not followed up by an al
tack on Washington. Ho also discusses his
personal relations with Mr. Davis, and criti
cises, with much plaiuness of speach, the sub
sequent conduct OF the war on the Confederate
side.
A very suggestive article on National
Health and Work, +" is to appear 10 the Sep
tember Popular Silence Monthly. The writer
Sir james Paget, shows that the aggregate
loss of working time due to preventable sick
ness among the workers OF a tion is enor
nous, and he says that. although the sanitary
work nov being done Is excellent, there is need
of more ambition for national health.
Our educational methods have been growing
in system and severity, If not in perfection
for many years: and the demands upon the
pupil have constantly inrre sed, until the ne
cessitiss for grading have become imperative
~ the pecularities Of the individual are al
most entirely ignored, II would seem impos
sible to carry this further, and any change
now must be in some other direction. AT this
crisis one of the brightest and most fearless
of American writer's comes forward with a
strong argument against the whole system a
protest against the grading and cramminp
that takes SO much of the vitality out of the
education we ara ei,ing to the r,sing genera
tion Edward Everett Hale In the Novem
Der number of the North American Review
makes plea for "Half.time in Schools
witch every parent and every school bo,r
ought to consider serious y. The
old question, 'Where are we,
q, where drifting?" was never more forcibly
sugge, te an 10y another article ia the same
number that in which Pr fe.sor Gillian dis
cuaes "rhe Afri AN Problem" The facts
that gives as to the increase OF the negroes
In the United States I eir peculiar situati n
a di,posi.i ion, and tn pr''blem they will
4 ayest consideration. The other articles in
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

THE speech of James &. Blaine at Ft.
Wayne was masterly effort, and is moi
equalled by any other that he has made
during this campaign. Itwas full of vigor,
patriotism and sound sense, and struck
right home to the heart of every man who
wishes to see his country prosper. This
speech should be read by every man In
this country. It cannot help making
many votes for the republican party. Mr..
Blaine struck the key note of the cam.
paign in this speech. 1t is fghtagainst
the solid south and their northern allies.
The "Plumed Knight" has lost none
of his old fire and vigor, and
such speeches as he made at Fort Wayne
will make many vote for the republican
party. In answer to the reproach, on
the part of some persons, that his stump
ing the country is inconsistent with the
dignity of presidential candidate, Mr..
Blaine said that he was not pleading his
own personal cause, but the cause of the
American people, the cause of the Amer.
ican farmers, manufacturers, mechanics,
and labor, against the world. This is
the sentiment that meets with popular
approval, and we venture that the state
of Indiana will endorse 1t with a good
round republican majority in November,
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

THE Lincoln papers are raising their
hands In holy horror because Omahal
grand jurors are indicting the city
officials as fast as they can get evidence
against them showing crookedness in
Office. Why this action should be re.
garded by the Lincoln press as proof Of q
bad state of morals is something We can't
understand. It certainly shows very
healthy condition of affairs when officia
corruption is hunted down and punished,
as is being done in Omaha. If the grand
jury In Lincoln would do its duty, tina,
city would be likely to lose the presencs
of quite q number of its citizens for q
term Of years.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
OMAHA DAILY REE WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER p 1884

of corn or corn.meal and wheat wastes Is
far better for pig feeding than corn or
corn meal alone, the exclusive use of
which is detrimental to a vigorous and
healthy muscular development, propucing
pig easily subject to disease, distasteful
to our patrons and more costly than is
is necessary. We might add to this that
another experimenter has found that the
same amount of feed given to poultry
will produce twice as much meat and
eggs in weight ss if given to swine. This
would make poultry four times more
profitable as consumers of grain than
steers
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

other needed improvements around the
new courthouse. The proposition to
sell the property will be voted upon at
the coming election, and 1t no doubt will
be carried. In view of this fact the
city council ought to Immediately consid-
err the matter and make arrangements
for the purchase, as these lots are need
ed by the city for city hall bnilding,
while money is needed for the new court
hntian
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

Now that County Attorney Gown has
given his opinion that the county really
owns tke.old courthouse property, and can
sell it and give perfect title, the queS.
ton now arises how the city shall raise the
money necessary for its purchase. The
property is valued by the county com
nissioners at $500 at the very least.
1t is intended by the commissioners to
use the proceeds from the sale of these
lots TO build retaining wall and to make
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
over


Here are over 100000 acres of land
leased to fourteen persons. Does any
one of them expect to settle upon this
land and improve it ? And yet we hear
the campaign orators prating about the
great principles of republicanism, and
calling upon farmers and business men
to rally to the support of the republican
state ticket made up in part of men who
connived at this school land robbery,
and of men who were nominated by the
aid of the land-grabbers and spectators
who are growing rich out of the patri-
moiV of the school children of Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
scHooL.LAND SHARKS.

The more we learn about the infamies
of the achoollandring themore enormous
they become. There Is a tripartile part
nership at Lincoln, as we are informed,
consisting of young Mr.. Baum, real
estate sharp, Mr.. Thompson, b. & M.
employe, and Mr.. Knight, clerk in the
capitol, who secured one block of school
lands, embracing about $4,000 acres,
which they transferred to a
New York firm for bonus of $50, ,0OO,
and one.seventh Of their interest
is reserved for some person un-
known, presumably Glenn Kendall
In Custer county half section of school
lands was leased on an appraisement of
80. so per acre, but $4,000 acres were
disposed of at an appraisement of sew
enty.five cents an acre; $4,000 acres
were appraised at fifty cents an acre, and
6, 400 at twenty-five cents an acre. In
other words, nearly 20, 900 acres in Gus
ter county have been leased for twenty.
five years at an average appraisement of
fraction over sixty cents an acre, from
which the state gets at six per cent all
the way from one and half to three
and q half cents an acre per year, and no
taxes. Was there ever a more shameless
robbery The following statement shows
the amount of lands leased since the 1st
of June, in blocks of 1000 acres and
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

CLEVELAND, October 2l.-The official can
vass of votes for judge of the Sixth state judi
cial circuit, embracing the counties of Cuyaho-
ga, Summit, Erie, Huron, Loran, Lucas, Me-
dina, Ottawa and Sandusky, is as fellows:
Total vote, Baldwin, repu olican, 59,464; Up.
son, republican, 50 1852; Haynes, republican,
59,9Ol; Kline. democrat, SO, 552; Stratton,
democrat, 81, 1858: Gawer, democrat, $3.50;
Stewart, prohibltonist. l,502.
The republican candidates have, in the nine
counties an avera Q plurality of over 5000.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

KING HUMBERT, of Italy, stilll--con-
tinues to add to his fame as philanthro-
phist. A subscription had already been
started of small sums to coin gold medals
in honor of King Humbert, when the
prefect of Naples received an intimation
that by the kings order the money should
be distributed among the cholera suf-
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

PRESIDENT ARTHUR does not propose
to take any action in regard to the ap-
pointment of commissioner of the labor
statistics bureau until after tho meeting
of congress. Meantime the number of
applicants for the position is rapidly in
creasing. There are already fifteen ap-
plicants, and the returns are not yet all
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

WHY does Mr.. Patrick f. Egan, the
avowed enemy of landlordism and
landgrabbing, advertise large tracts of
school land for sale and lease in an Irish
American paper, but carefully omit all
reference to these lands in his real estate
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

THF campaign poet laureate is the &C.
MUS who wrote the following lines: '"The
bells will ring out in tower and steeple,
or Benjamin Butler, the man for tho
people,"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

JOHN KELLY says that Cleveland ought
to get 40, 900 plurality in New York city,
but that it would not be safe to estimate
that it will be over $4,000. Mr.. Kelly
admits that 80, 900 plurality in New York
city will not elect Mr.. Cleveland in the
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

ATTACKING General Van Wyck, as the
Lincoln Journal and the Hastings Ga.
sette'J Journal are doing, does not exon
crate jim Laird. If every word which
they say against Van Wyck was true, it
would still fail to be good reason why
the people of the Second district should
continue to be misrepresented.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

THE tightness of money SO noticeable in
all the states that are not doubtful in
the present campaign, may be ascribed
to the fact that they have contributed
argely to the campaign fund in the
doubtful states.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

MIR. LAiRDs home organ says that
"Senator Van Wyck has been throwing
stones at Mr.. Laird and Mr.. Ls. friend 8
are heaving huge ro ks at the New York
Nebraska senator" Keep right on with
your rocks. Van Wyck will survive,
but some of those rocks may rebound
and hurt somebody in Laird's camp.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

THE moss-backs were out in full force
last night in the democratic parade.
They are still voting for General jack
aon
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

IF the three indicted councilmen are
convicted it Will prove that they were
very cheap men.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22

CLEVELAND is having hard time with
women and cranks.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-22
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