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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-01-16
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This can be done only by increasing
The volume OF traffic. The question Is as
simple as raising given amount OF
money by taxation The more dollars
worth Of property taxed the lower the
rate. of taxation will be and the greater
number Of tons carried the lower tho
rate OF transportation will be. This Is
one of the main reasons why We are so
anxious to develop the enormous through
business that Is rapidly growing up along
our lines. Every ton of new business
that We bring contributes it's proportion
Of net revenue and enables us to reduce
the rate Of transportation on our local
business. The interstate business on our
lines in North Dakota to-day constitutes
10 per cent of the whole and still you
enjoy all the facilities furnished, both
passenger and freight, with the increased
number of trains necessary to handle
this business. every one of which is an
additional accommodation to you.
1T will be thrty-two years next March
since ! first saw the Red River Valley.
At that time there was not single house
ON the west side OF the Red river from
the Bois de Sioux to Pembina. During
the past twenty years all of my time
and effort has been given to building
up the Northwest and no part of the
Northwest has given me more satisfac-
ton or is giving me more satisfaction to-
day than North Dakota. It's growth in
the paSL mas Decn HlaFVelOuS. Inc IFSL
years In all new countries are marked
by hardship and self-denial, but during
the past few years you are getting the
regard of your labor; people are coming
into the state by thousands, the value
of your land has advanced and will adj
vance beyond your reasonable eXpecta.
tons and ! hope that together your
property and our property will work side
by side and shoulder to shoulder to carry
forward the best interests of North Da-
kota No man, no hundred men in your
state, represent the same interest in your
welfare that it is my good fortune to
represent and l hope in the future that
with better methods of cultivation and
more knowledge of what is required,
your condition may be constantly i'm
proved and if your condition is improved,
ours will certainly share it with you.
AS the volume OF traffic Increases our
rates will be reduced.
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. Remember that whatever helps .
q you helps the railroad. and what q
q ever hurts or restricts your growth .
Q restricts the growth of the rail- q
q road serving you. We will always y
. prosper together or be poor to- .
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-01-16
) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

This has already been done in the East
to the extent that throughout all of New
England the hundreds of original railway
corporations are now mostly consolidated
into three or four, and the people are
better off than ever before. Twenty-Five
years ago it was supposed that competi-
ton was necessary to reduce rates.
think we have shown in the Northwest
that, without competition, rates have
been reduced faster than anywhere else
in this country
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Reductions in rates of transportation
must be made with the greatest care in
order 70 avoid unfair discrimination
against persons or localities. A reduction
in the rates Of the whole country of 10
cents for moving a ton of freight 100 miles
would make n reduction of over S15O,OOo-
600 on the traffic handled during The past
year, and would wipe out a large part of
the income of the railroads
General Railroad Conditions.
The conditions of the general railroad
situation in the United States at the pres
ent time are hardly understood: For the
year ending June so, 1890, the number OF
tons carried one mile by all the railroads
was 76, 207, O0O. 900 ton miles; in 1900 it was
141 GOO. 100000 as shown by the intersta..
commerce commission reports. In 1901 a
safe estimate will bring this to 40. OOO-
100000 tons carried one mile, an increase
Of 120 per cent liz eleven years. During
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-01-16

= To-day the farmers can ship their
. grain from the Red river valley to 4
. the Twin Cities and the Head of the 4
. Lakes at from Is to 20 per cent 4
. lower rates than farmers living in 4
. the Des Moines valley and Western 1
. Iowa, where there are many lines, 9
Q can ship to Chicago. the same dis Z
= lance.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-01-16

q In 1880 the average rates on grain q
q from the Red river valley to Duluth q
= were from % cents to 81 cents per 4
= hundred; to-day they are from IA q
q cents to IL cents per hundred, or q
q about one-half the rates of twenty q
q years ago. The rates on coal and q
q lumber have been reduced in the q
= same DrOpOrtion 4
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-01-16

"
= There has recently been an at q
. tempt to show that we have no inter- q
= est in building up the prosperity of .
= the people Of your state and of the q
. Northwest II we did not do every q
= thing in our power to build you up q
= we would be false to our best inter q
= ests. Our object in acquiring the q
= Burlington, jointly with the North q
. ern Pacific railway, was to insure Q
= an outlet to the best markets for Q
. the grain. live stock and lumber of Q
. the Northern lines. and to increase q
. the volume Of our traffic. to the end .
. that We might at all times be able .
q to establish the lowest rates and Q
q most favorable conditions under .
= which the traffic must be carried .
>>> q 90 . . 80 >>>>>>
The Burlington, with Its own rails
reaches Chicago. Peoria. Rock Island.
Davenport. Quincy. Alton, Hannibal, st.
Louis, st. Joseph, Kansas City, Des
Moines. Omaha and Denver, and then
connects with the main arteries Of traf-
tic of the whole country.
Assuming that the line Of the Burling-
ton had not been constructed and that
the Great Northern and Northern Pacific
jointly had raised the money and were
engaged in the construction Of 1t. would
there be anything to meet the dis
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4 The public must always bear In Q
o mind that Il bankrupt road cannot q
q furnish good service The railroad q
q must be able to furnish the service 4,
q demanded from it at fair and rea- Q
q sonable rates. The problem we .
o have had to solve has been how to q
& reduce the cost of operation so that q
= We can furnish transportation at q
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-01-16

q
q Much is being said about the com .
q bination between railroads, and that q
q the country for it's prosperity must .
= rely upon a continuance of competi- 4
q ton. The law of the survival of q
q the fittest must inevitably end such 9
q competition as exists by the de- 4
q struction of the weaker by the .
q stronger 4
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. Remember that whatever helps .
q you helps the railroad. and what .
q ever hurts or restricts your growth q
. restricts the growth of the rail- q
. road serving you. We will always -
q prosper together or be poor to- q
q gether. .
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
Asm;l)ork Dsailn Griha,rs
MONDAY. DECEMBER Il. 1902.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN=The British cruiser Charybdls
and the German cruiser Nineta- on SaturudH
afternoon. failing TO get satisfaction az the
hands of the local authorities for the acts OF
mob which had seized the British merchant
steamer Topaze and hauled down its nag poh-
fsrded the fort at Puerto Cahello, NenezueIa'
the fort replied to the fire. but was soon sllenceo-
- Non-union laborers are working undel
military protection Marseilles, where the
strike is believed to be collapsing- -= Amer
Scan orders for coal and iron continue to be
placed the English market on a large scale
DOMESTIC-Assuranc has been given TO
enenlbers OF Congress that the Anglo-Iernlan
difficulty with Venezuela will be settled by arol-
1ration. and that it viii go to The Hague court;
no excitement caused in Washington by
the news that Puerto Cabello had been bonn
Eharded The new Pacific cable was safely
handed at San Francisco. being named in honor
of the late John " Mackay by the daughter of
the Governor of California; the first message
was sent to the cableship. which started for
Honolulu. - The Reading Railroad Com
pany started 1900 tons of coal for the big
Eastern cities - II was reported that the
heaviest December snow III ten years had lalleh
sn the neighborhOod Of Kingston and that Ice
hvss making fast - Five railroad employees
Nyere killed in wreck near Bucklin, Mo
CITY-Many streets were cleared of snow de-
spite the fact that the Street Cleaning Depart
snent had to depend exclusively on Its own
saouipment - Much coal which had been
delayed by the storm was brought into the city
for delivery The funeral of Mrs. Sarah
Ann Waters was held. - Father Ducey Sc
verely attacked the immoral drama in a sermon
avn girl accused a colored woman of choking
her. rubbing pepper in her eyes robblng her and
leaving her unconscious IN the snow -
woman's viii directed her executors to sell her
diamonds and, with the proceeds, purchase
communion service for church. ~ While
passengers were on the West Mount Vernon
station platform thieves looted the safe of over
500. -E watchman, single handed, fought
fire which destroyed the New-Dorp Beach
Hotel - The man who has painted several
OF the cup defenders caught one Of his employees
who fell from staging at A C Bostw1cks
house; both were injured - Tammany al
dermen VIII meet to-day to decide upon their
stand toward the Pennsylvania Railroad tun-
mel; the Central Federated Union again decided
oppose the franchise. - The St Paul, Lu-
cania, Touraine Minnetonka and other steam
srs arrived late reporting unusual storms. -
Wealthy residents of Hawthorne Beach, Conn,
had officers stop priZefight there
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Increasing cloudiness. followed by snow. The
temperature yesterday: Highest, % degrees;
lowest. ID degrees.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION.

President SchurTnan's denuDciation Of 'the
'palpable pOltrOonery and cowardice of the MEM
'bers Of the American Congress- for their failure
TO establish the gold standard in the Philippines
at the last session is somewhat excited and
orerdrawn. but there can be no doubt that such
action would have been highly desirable then
and is highly desirable now. 1t is an extremely
difficult thing 10 put important piece of legis-
lation through Congress- particularly when
few men in the Senate are determined in op-
position and nothing is TO be gained by setting
down towards or poltroons either those who
want reform which they do not succeed in
securing in liz entirety or those who, however
mistaken. oppose it. President Scburman will
do more good to a cause which deserves TO be
successful by the of argument than by the
use Of epithet.
The Tribune earnestly urged upon the last
session of Congress both the establishment of
The gold standard in the Philippines and the
fixing of a much lower rate of duties on i'm
ports from the archipelago than was agreed
,rpon- Events of the last few months have
shown more clearly than ever the need of those
measures. The recent fall in the price of silver
was not foreseen when Congress had the mat
ter under consideration. so there was a certain
excuse fer those who feared disturbance from
would come by leaving things as they were until
normal conditions in the islands were more
nearly restored. The decline of silver how
ever, has resulted in great loss both TO the
Philippine treasury and the private purses of
The people The evident tendency of the whole
commercial world is clearly toward the gold
standard Even the nations that were supposed
TO be the strongholds of silver are planning to
abandon their old policy, and it must he clear
10 everybody that the countries which continue
adherence TO the discredited system viii suffer
Increasingly through their persistence When
they see they must now do the loss en-
tailed the Philippines by neglect to reform
the monetary system, Congressman will be with
out excuse IL they fail promptly to respond at
This session TO the appeal of the Philippine Com
mission for necessary legislation
Not only should the gold standard be estab-
lished, but the duties on Philippine goods should
he lowered to 25 per cent Of the Dingley rates.
The present impost of 75 per cent of those rates
IS altogether too high. 1t gives proper en-
couragement to Philippine commerce and indus
try. the prosperity of which is better insur-
Of internal peace than an expensive army
In turn 1T limits the absorption by the Filipinos
OF American goods. The duties should be as
low as the revenue requirements to the sup
ply of which they are devoted viii allow The
impost is likewise useful for inspection pur
poses and to prevent evasion of our revenue
laws by foreign merchants taking advantage Of
the "open door" privilege to enter the United
States b. way of Manila 1t should. however
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15

he low enough to stimulate the closest trade
relations between the United States and Ihe
Philippines on terms amply profitable TO INC
Filipnos.
Both of these reforms are recommended ny
the Ph;''npine Commission 1t is the pou3
estabIfsne r Congress for the administrator
of the islands. and it is entitled to the fuilest
support of Congress Above all, it is eniitleu
TO have its requests passed upon in the spirit
in which they are made, and without preJudlce
of home politics. No matter what congress
men may think about opening the tarin que'-
tion or about the lingering claims oil silver III
the mining States, their duty is to pass Iof Tue
PhiIippines the laws which the Philippines iieeu
We have established the doctrine that 1he III
ands should be ruled as q thing apart, aecol"
ing to their needs. and we should act Oh 1t ioi
their sake and our own.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15

General Abbot makes careful estimate of the
amount of water needed for lockaSe, leaking
gates power for electric lights and operating
canal gates and other contingencies. He is thus
convinced that there is water enough for the
greatest traffic which can be anticipated for
centuries. There win be more than is neces-
sary even in the dry season. For that period
about two hundred and fifty million cubic metres
onght to be stored, threefifths of it behind the
Alhajuela dam and two-fifths at Bohio.
In addition to holding more than half of the
reserve water. the upper reservoir will 81 con
troll the flow of the river that mischievous cur
rents will be averted at the point where the
stream first acts as feeder. Some silt will be
deposited of course and little dredging will
be requisite But the solid matter carried in
suspension by the Chagres is only about one
third as abundant as that in the San Juan at
Sabalos by actual measurement Far less
trouble from sediment is TO be expected there,
therefore than along the Nicaragua route
General Abbot believes that the superiority OF
its water supply alone iustities choosing the
Panama route in preference to the other.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
THE CH4GRES RIVER.

If aIy one cherishes the least doubt about the
suitability of the Cha gres River to the needs of
the Panama Canal he would do well to read
General II. l.. Abbot's article In THE Engineer
ing Magazine" for December. No living man
is better qualified by engineering ability special
knowledge of the Panama route or high per
sonal character TO speak authoritatively on this
subject. His treatment thereof has exceptional
value.
General Abbot devotes much space to the his
tory Of the freshets and floods along the stream
which will furnish the water for the canal, and
which for several miles will be Identical with it,
Adequate information is lacking in regard to
the food of 1870 but there is reason to believe
that it was but little more serious than that Of
1890 On the latter occasion, at Gamboa, near
the junction Of the river with the proposed
canal, the river rose twenty-five feet In seven
teen hours and subsidized twenty-one feet in
twenty-three hours. This is the most sudden
and violent oscillation of which there is any
record and the statement effectually spoiIs the
story of fifty-two foot rise in two hours told
before Senate committee in Washington two
winters ago In its introduction to General
Abbots paper The Engineering Magazine" says
editorially that the Chagres belongs to class
of streams that are less formidable than others
which engineers have already learned to con-
trol 1t is not so eccentric as the Black and
Warrior rivers, in Alabama. General Abbot
himself declares that the Chagres is not
menace hut, properly regulated, will prove
''friend"
Nor need there he any fear as to the ade-
quacy of the water supply during the dry season
of four months, which begins with January
Since the plan Of having two storage reservoirs
-one at Alhajuela, near the source of the
stream. and the other down at Bohio-was
adopted it has been found practicable to lower
the height of the proposed dam at the latter
site from eighty-iye to seventy feet above sea
level. BY thus diminishing the head or
pressure the chance of loss by filtration through
7, the soil along the lower valley is correspond
| ingly reduced. Careful observation shows that
| during the dry season the outflow at Bohio is
! greater than the recent rainfall. 1t thus ap-
/ pears that the soil in the upper basin, above
the level of the proposed Bohio dam, acts as
sponge and retains water for months Obvi-
ously this could not be so IL there were any bad
| leaks in the underlying rocks further down
| stream. Moreover, records for the last twenty
| years Indicate that of late there has been a
| minimum Of precipitation, and that in the next
decade the amount will Increase perceptibly
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
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IS1r- -rTIt Ia--Th Mocklrlg tSlro
SfSS srfvyAy TUEATRE-s-The silver Silppsr-
S-.erSte-S-rs-A Chinese EoneyfnoeIl
CRITERION THEATRE-S:l''--Ih caNai'et-
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f-SaTTfTFENTII STREET THEATRE ne reec's oe
reRPif-F TIfEATRE-S:20-The stuopurilnefs u
70 rfettS s THE ATRE-S.15-TIe Cardinal .,,
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tltSasL sSssS - ri acF s.2oAlt Heidelberg
itIIfT-Js'sIIG a m. 1880 p. m-continuous Fei
xr,ztee9KEERBocKER teE I1Rg THEATRE-s:i5-The Altar OF
Friendship. .-.->,-,, ,-L-ss,,nas Festival
SQUARE G-AiAi't11N-o Si'i'7e'
md Street Carnival
rSTSrSS SQUARE THEATRE-S:la-- -anuItsi
~ IA sTTaN THEATRFj-S-Mary Of Mag1Hia,
SgzzTpopOr TTA IN OPERA HOUSE-S-La bohelI-
S1TPP Az HILL, THEATRE-2-S-The streets VI wv
-t,,T SyoY THEATRE -s.2o-carrots and Country
- H5otaty THE ATFFc-Caused tonight
n ESTnTl. .s-Cnntinuous Performance a. 7,ro5,ov
Observation-Disclosures postponen W "'
,,r,oHToE.s 9~E ~ rttfsATRE-Vaueerile
NICHOLAS SKATING RINk-Skatink-
S-rC-TORI A-s.l5-The Eternal City
srT.aCTypS TIEATEES-SSt- SIlSIs-
WEST END THEATRE-S-Ihe WIG hose
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
PERSONAL.

Rumor has 1t that NJ. lie Bargy. the well known
actor, may be included among the newly created
Knights of the Order Of the Legion of Honor
January l. He has tust returned with Nine. Bar
tet from a very successful tournee in Spain and
sastic welcome from their comrades of the Com
edie Francaise.
Miss Florence Hayward. who has been appointed
Special Commissioner of the St Louis Exhibition
to Europe, is said to be the first woman who has
been appointed to such important post. She was
born in w-Mexico. and has lived in st. Louis
since her childhood, though she was for several
years resident in this country correspondent of
one or more American newspapers
The Rev. E. S. Ufford. formerly Of Whitman
sett Mass. is In California, and will leave for
the Philippines the first of the year. He left Hol-
yoke about two months ago. and has been on an
evangelistic tour across the Continent. He intends
going around the world. When exhorting to
Christian life Mr.. Ufford has him. by way of
illustration the paraphernalia of life saving. in
cluding two life lines that have service in
actually saving twenty men in wrecks off Nan
tasket Beach. Mr. Unord is well known as the
author of Throw Out the Lifeline" the hymn
which he sings while handling the apparatus. A
visit to a life saving station in 1885 inspired the
song that became popular six years later. AS
the transport which is take Mr. Ufford to Manila
swings off the dock. ne viii sing the familiar
salvation song which has made him celebrated
Mr. George Riddle be heard at Memorial
Hall, Brooklyn on December 15 and %. in a read
ing OF The Tempest and other works. and the
opportunity OF hearing him should be improved,
for he is a sympathetic reader and he gives capi-
entertainment.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
RJV4LS AT BAT AND BASE.

Expectation now runs high that next season
there will be two competing baseball clubs OF
professional players in the Borough OF Man
haitian. and that the emulation between them
will insure lively and interesting contests and
high standard of skill and achievement.
In recent years NEWCOMERS have walked
softly and shamefacedly when the long list OF
the failures and defeats of the local nine was
talked about. The lovers of the sport between
the Battery and The Bronx may perhaps now
look ahead with confidence to a better state of
things more creditabe scores and every other
element of fine play worthy of metropolitan
S,Ipnort
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
FIRE MAKES FIFTY HOMELESS.

Bowdonham Me. Dec 1I-Fire made a big gap
In the business part OF this village early to-day.
the buildings DESTROYED including a hotel. four
blocks and eight dwelling houses. Families whose
aggregate membership is fifty lost their homes.
The total losses will be so9000 with about 5000
insurance. In the blocks burned were the town
offices, the Masonic, Grand Army. Modern Wood
men and Grange halls and drug store. The town
records saved but the fraternal orders lost
all their property. Many people were frost bitten
in going through the to places of safety after
their homes were fire.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
FAIR TO AID BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL.

The annual fair and festival in aid of Beth
Israel Hospital which will open at Madison Square
sent the work of about two thousand volunteers.
Governor Odell will formally open the fair. while
the head of each municipal department is expected
to attend 1t is hoped to raise $4,000 to relieve the
suffering of and children of the East Side.
Half of this sum is subscribed and gifts represent
ing s5 900 have also been received
The patronesses of the fair are
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
BRYAN GOING TO MEXICO.

TO THE TRIBUNE.l
Austin Tex. Dec. I.-Colonel W. j. Bryan will
arrive here next Friday his way TO Mexico. He
will remain here a few days the guest OF E. NJ.
House 1t is said that his object in visiting Mex
this time Is to investigate the financial situa
ton In that country and personally to study the
effect of the great decline In the price of silver.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15

The detestable assassin who killed a helpless
woman in Philadelphia in the most cowardly
manner is dead of the wounds which he inflicted
upon himself If every murderer took his own
life he would add second crime to his first,
but he would save the taxpayers considerable
expense Murder trials cost great deal of
money especially in big cities.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15

Mrs. E. III. Balfour.
Senator W. A Clark. Of
Montana
Mile La Chapeile-
Nine Nordica Dome.
c. =. Drummond.
Mr. and Mrs. G.. W. Hoad-
ley.
Miss Hoadley.
Edmond Kelly.
James Henry Mergentime.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15

While fuel of all kinds is quoted at present
figures it will be a waste of breath to ask the
woodman to spare that tree.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
BIG VALUE.

When after lingering years he had
The maid his longing told,
And won her quick consent, he said,
You're worth your weight In gold
That's giving me high value. dear"
She said, with look elate.
For as you must admit. 1t was
An awful lengthy watt
-(RiChmond DiSpat