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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Law Makers Have Passes.

HELENA, Jan. S.-There is cons;d-
cradle Indignation on the part of mem.
bers of the legisl ature who Yesterday
received from the Northern Pacific
railway 60-day passes. 1t has hereto
fore been the custom of this railway
to give each member an annual, but
this has not been followed out this
year.
AS a result, the legislators put their
heads together this morning and de.
cided to resent the curtaiment of the
customary privilege by sending their
compllmentaries back to the railway
without comment. Thus far 50 mem
bers have expressed willingness to
follow this course. Even the holdover
senators did not fare differently from
the newly elected ones at the hands of
the Northern Pacific, and it is said
there Will be even greater strinyency
IN TRIP passes than ever before known
at session of the legis lature.
The Great Northern followed its
usual policy in giving all members
annual passes.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Charges Against Striking Miners.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.-Chairman
Gray was unable to attend today's
session of the strike commission be.
cause OF slight illness. and in his
absence, Brigadier General Wilson
acted as chairman, Counsel for the
non'union men opened the proceedings
by presenting the indictments and
pleas OF certain guilty union men for
acts OF lawlessness and showed that
members of the Miners union invar-
lably became their bondsmen.
Rev. Carl Hauser, a Lutheran mir.
lister of Freeland, said when he was
called upon to ofticiate at the funeral
OF non.uniOn man in the Panther
creek valley, he experienced the great
est difficulty in procuring pallbearers.
When the body was taken from the
house, Rev. Hauser said the strikers
yelled "scab' and spat upon the COT
lin. Some of them made such rem arks
as, "1t's q shame to bury 'scab;'
throw him to the dogs.''
Max Kiesleth, another employe of
Coke Brothers, also told of having
been assaulted. Counsel for the non.
union men then called John Mitchell
to the stand and asked him if he knew
William Dettrey, who was yesterday
elected president of the union in the
Seventh district. Mr.. Mitchell re.
piled in the affirm alive, and then coun.
sci called John Sherman of Neurem-
borg, Dettrey's home town. Sherman
testified that he heard Dettrey say
tn at anybody who worked during the
strike ought to have their throat cut.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
The Big Livestock Convention.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan.-What
promised to be the greatest gathering
OF stOckmen ever held in this country
will be on here tomorrow morning.
when President John W. Springer
calls to order the sixth annual conven.
tion of the National Live Stock asso.
citation. All day today and far into
the night delegates and visitors pour.
ed into the city.
In the four days OF the convention,
business of Importance to the stock in
dustry will be considered. It is ex-
pected that action that will urge con.
gress to pass measures which the as
sociation caused to be introduced will
be taken. Among the measures are
the Grosevnor "anti-shoddy" bill and
bill providing for a classified cen.
sus OF live stock and agricultural sta.
tistics. A resolution amending the
shipping laws by extending the limit
for unloading live stock from % to 40
hours, q resolution providing for the
improvement in breeding of horses for
general purpose use and the amend.
ment of the Elkins' bill to amend the
interstate commerce act so as to give
the commission power to enforce it's
orders and DEGREES.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
THEY WANT COAL.
Victims OF Fuel Famine Will Appeal to
President for Relief.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1l.-A national con.
vention at Washington for the pur.
pose of impressing upon President
Roosevelt the urgent need for relief
for the stringency of the coal situa.
tion was decided on yesterday at a
conference in the Grand Pacific hotel.
The call for the gathering will prob.
ably be issued by Mayor Maybury of
Detroit, acting as chairman of the
permanent committee of the Detroit
coal convention. 1t was this commits
tee which agreed on the necessity for
a national meeting at the capital.
There was much divergence of opin.
ion at first as to the most effective
method to be pursued to obtain relief
from the present prices of coal. The
proposal to "move on Washington in
body finally prevailed, it being
agreed that the enforcement of existing
laws offered adequate means of relief.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. u.-Be.
cause there was a coal famine in the
city. a large number of citizens of
Arcola held up coal train OF 30 cars
on the Illinois Central railroad as it
was passing through the town this af-
ternoon and uncoupled the engine and
refused to allow the cars to proceed
further, despite the efforts of the
trainmen, aided by the local police.
AT late hour tonight the cars were
still in Arcola. The citizens are will
ing to pay the value of the fuel, but
are determined to have it.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 1.-THE coal
famine in Kansas is taking on a more
serious aspect. Dealers in Topeka
announced today that they were prac-
tically out of coal, with no immediate
chance OF getting more. The state re-
form school has only two days sup.
ply left. Two manufacturing con.
Germs were compelled to close down
this morning on account of lack of
fuel. In many towns of Kansas and
western Missouri fuel of any kind
cannot be had and everything com.
bustible is being burned-fruit and
shade trees, old buildings, sidewalks
and fences.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Discussed the Coal DUTY.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-Today the
senate again discussed the Vest reso.
luton requesting the finance committee
to report on removing duty on anthra-
cite coal, and Mr.. Aldrich replied to
some of the criticisms of Mr.. Vest
made last Tuesday. Mr.. Aldrich in.
sisted that the resolution will not &C.
complish the result desired and tn at
it infringed on constitutions al rights of
the people in respect to revenue. Mr..
Aldrich said that democratic senate
voted to put duty of 40 cents on co al
in 1894 and that they favored free co al
in the tariff bill.
Mr.. Vest, in reply, said that the 40
cents duty on coal was the result of a
"hold-up' by few democratic sena.
tors. To confirm his assertion tn at
Mr.. Dingley had made the statement
that the Dingley rates were placed
high in order to negotiate reciprocity
treaties, Mr.. Vest read letter ad-
dressed to him by the editor of the
Philadelphia Bulletin, in which the
writer declared that Mr.. Dingley ad-
mltted this to one OF his Washington
CORES pondents.
Mr.. Aldrich expressed his disbelief
IN the statement and feclingly referred
to Mr.. Dingley's services to his state
and country and paid high tribute to
his character. The Dingley bill he re.
garded as "great, magnificent and
muniticent gift to the American people
in the cause of protection and pros
perity.' The resolution finally went
over until the next legial ali We day
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Slick SWindlers Arrested.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.-The po-
lice have arrested Clarence Rein of
New Orleans, accused of swindling the
Western Union Telegraph company
out of about $4,000, with the assis-
tance of Andrew Houser, now awaiting
trial in New Orleans. Rein was in the
employ of the telegraph company and
the pair, it is alleged, operated extern
sivel y with the telegraph money orders
OF the Fruit Dispatch company, their
method being to raise transfers of
cash so that they could deliver the
sum to offices it was consigned to and
still retain margin for themselves.
Rein. who comes of an influential
southern family, freely admits his
guilt and expresses his qualification
nat the chase is ended.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Wight Have Seized Treasure,

NEW YORK Jau. l0.-1f President
Mckinley had not forbidden il, Gen.
Adna K. Cn,tf.e admitted in an ad.
dress at the Hamilton club in Brook
lyn, where he was the guest of honor
at a dinner in commemoration of the
birthday of Alexander Hamilton, he
would have seized treasure worth $780,
100000 when he was in command of
the American troops in China.
He knew exactly the location OF this
treasure in the forbidden city and had
planned to take possession of it, he
said, when the president vetoed the
proposition. 1t was his intention to
hold out any amount that might be
settled upon as a proper indemnity,
and return the remainder to the Chi
nese government.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Cold wave Causes Distress,

OMAHA, Jan. ll.-Today was the
coolest of the season. One degree be-
low zero was registered this morning
and tonight the thermometer is still
there, with maximum for the day OF
four degrees above. The cold wave
extends throughout Nebraska and
parts of Iowa and South Dakota.
Valentine reports severe weather,
Davenport three below, Huron two be-
low and Bism arck eight below, with
clear weather at all points.
w. II. Beckett, a prominent lawyer
of Omaha, was found on the roadside,
five miles west of the city early today,
frozen to death. Beckett had been for
several days travelling in the country
and had fallen exhausted, where he was
found by a dairyman.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Coal for the Poor.

CHICAGO, Jan. 9.--In view of the
scarcity OF coal and to alleviate the
suffering among the poor, Swift &
GO. today announced that they would
60 into the coal business, not only in
Chicago, but in other cities where the
firm has plant. The firm has a con.
tract for the whole output of mine
and has been selling coal at cost to its
employees. Having, more coal than
they require, the surplus is to be
placed at the disposal of the poor
NO one can obtain more than bushel
at time. The price will be: One
bushel, ~ cents: half a bushel, 10
cents; one peck, 5 cents.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Candidates for Matrimony.

KoKoMo, Ind, Jan. 9.-Three months
ago j. r. Walters, former resident
OF this city, wrote from his home at
Rugby, n. D., that there were 500
bachelors in that neighborhood want
Ing wives. The letter was published
IN kokomo paper, and as result
nearly 100 girls wrote Mr.. Walters Of
fering themselves as wives for the
lonely bachelors. Individual cores
pondence resulted and as a result
forty-eight Howard county girls are
getting ready for the journey to Rug.
BY 70 wed the farmers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Fcastcd On Horse Meat,

BERLIN, Jan. S.-Six hundred neo-
pie sat down tonight to the most re-
mari able banquet that ever has been
given in Berlin. The dishes consisted
entirely of horse meat and were served
in various forms. The society for the
prevention of cruelty to amin ais issued
the Invitations to the dinner which
was given for the purpose of demon
strating the nourishing and palatab}e
quailtles or horse meat, thereby caus-
ing Increased consumption of meat
ana ready IN market for old horses,
This would prevent from working
poor animals to death as we'll fed
specimens would bring good prices
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

The bill of fare tonight consisted of
horse soup, picked horse tongue, FL
let of horse and roast horse. All of
the dishes were nicely prepared and
were greatly relished: The presiding
officer of the society, Privy Councillor
Won Seofeld, said 10000 horses had
been eaten in Berlin last year and
that he hoped for large increase in
the future. Many prominent members
OF the reichstag and the city council
were present at the banquet.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
To Reduce Railroad Expenses.

CHICAGO, Jan. l0.-General man.
ayers OF all western roads have lust
agreed upon plan to effect a great
reduction in operating expenses to
offset the increase in the price of rail.
way supplies and labor. The plan is
to reduce the speed of freight trains
about 70 per cent, so that fewer but
longer trains can be hauled, thereby
reducing the cost of transportation
per ton mile. There will be a small
saving in wages, because in the re-
duction in the number of trains, but
this is an incidental saving, and is
not one of the chief objects aimed at
by the managers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
TO Illustrate Irrigation Methods.

ONTARIO, CAL, Jan. S.-The hydro.
graphic bureau of the geological sur.
vey has been looking over the irriga.
tlon systems of the west for model
to be set up at the exposition in ST..
Louis next year to Illustrate the prac.
tlce of irrigation and has decided to
reproduce on miniature scale the
plant OF the Ontario system. The St.
Anthony river will be shown with its
electric plants and its waters passing
on to irrig alton orch ards. The county
supervisors have agreed to aid the
expense of the project.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Suffering From Coal Famine.

TOLEDO, O., Jan. 8-A physici an s
certificate of illness in a family is
now required before the local dealers
will sell coal to would-be purchasers.
DULUTH, Mimi, Jan. S.-Duluth is
in the throes of an anthracite coal
famine. Local dealers today an
nounced that not a ton of it will now
be sold for less than SO so. They de-
clare that the blame is not theirs, at.
tributing it to the railroads which.
they say, have not furnished an ade-
quate number of cars to transport the
supply to the head of the lakes. Only
few companies have anthracite for
sale
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
TWO ANTITRUST BILLS.
Measures Designed to Protect Public
Against Oppressive Combinations.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-Two anti.
trust bills prepared by Attorney Gen.
eral Knox were introduced in the
house today by Representative Jen.
kins. ch hartman of the judiciary COM
mittee. These bills are said to REPRE-.
sent the views of the administrat alton
on the question, being along the lines
OF the suggestions contained in Mr..
Knox's letter to Senator Hoar and
Mr.. Little6eld.
The first of the bills amends the
Sherman antitrust law, to strengthen
and perfect it to meet the views of the
attorney general, the chief feature be-
ing provision that it shall be unla
full for any person to offer, grant or
give, or solicit, accept or receive, any
rebate, concession or service in re-
spect or transportation of any prop
erty in interstate and foreign com.
merce whereby such property is
transported at less rate than
that named in the published tar.
ltf OF the carrier, a fine of $4,000
being provided, and that the circuit
courts of the United States are invest.
ed with jurisdiction to prevent and
restrain such rebates.
The second bill provides for the ap.
pointment of commission to carry
out the provisions of the Sherman
act, as it is proposed to have it
amended. 1t is provided that the
commission shall be bipartisan af-
fair, but the bill as introduced leaves
blank the number of commissioners to
be appointed, length of service and
the compens alton they are to receive.
The commission is TO have secre-
tary, and neither secretary nor COM
missioners are to engage in any cor.
porate business while holding office.
The bill confers upon the commission.
ers powers somewhat similar, though
much stronger, than those possessed
by the interstate commerce commits
sion.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Bold Chicago Bandits.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1l.-In the south.
western outskirts of the city, near the
drainage canal, five armed bandits
held up and robbed seven mem bers of
the crews of five different railroad ads
today. The robberies occurred on
what is known as the Belt line, be-
tween Twenty-sixth and Thirtv-first
streets w atches and money were
takvu from most of the victims. The
total amount of money is said to be
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Gorcd Bya Bull.

E. PASO, Tex, Jan. 1l.-Five thou
san spectators today witnessed bull
tgi il Juarez, which resulted in fatal
injp' jo- TO Francisco Matillero, who
is u'u- on the continent as a ban.
der: tour'tifths of the audience
wer Amcricans. An enormous bull
pin -4 Matillero to the ground. MANY
mel ".",: overcome and tainted. Ma.
tillero as carried from the grounds
witt hot" legs broken and in a dying
cOrJiljun.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Every Bottle OF OfChamberlain'S Cough
kemedN Warranted.

we guarantee every bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy and will re-
tund the money to anyone who is not
satisfied after using two thirds of the
contents; This is the best remedy in
the world for La grippe, coughs, colds,
Group and whooping cough and is
pleasant and safe to take. 1t prevents
any tendency of cold to result in
pneumonia. For sale by D. G. Lock-
wood, druggist.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Oregon Congressman Dead.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ll.-Represen-
tative Thomas Ii. Tongue, of the first
conyres sional district of Oregon, died
suddenly at his residence in this city
at o'clock this afternoon of heart
failure following an attack of dyspep.
sia.
\ congressional committee will be
appointed tomorrow to escort the re-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

mains to their last resting place. Mr..
Tongue who was in the 59th year Of
his age, was lawyer by profession,
was prominent in Oregon republican
politics, and had served in the 55th.
56th and 57th congresses and had been
elected to the 58th congress,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-04
TESTING LAW AT HOME.

A weN known attorney stated yesterS
sasw that ne knew af NO reason why q
ssss against the County law eaanot
tas rnade M within . week. One meth
81 OF bringing tho question to issue
aould be for any citizen who felt that
the County law would aggrieve him
to fiie q bill IN equity for an Injunction
against certain named County officers
who are threatening to take action on
the 4th day of January. the date on
which the act goes into effect. The
grounds Of the Injunction would be
that the County officers would take
this action Illegally.
It Is not necessary that man should
wait until he is injured before he can
file a bill. He has the right to file
bill before the injury has happened
for the express purpose of preventing
its happening. Consequently it is not
necessary to wait until the County Act
goes into effect before action can be
taken to test its validity.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-04

Colonel Pope, Of bicycle fame. re.
Gently said iSat the first essential to
business sussc..... is advertising; that
the second essential was "big adver.
Using; and the third. digger adj
yertiang"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-04
KEEP cool.
rrhe oficlal and Commercial record !.

Honolulu is still somewhat of a
country town. One of the character
istics of small and isolated communi
ties is to get very much excited in a
very short time over matters OF, no
great permanent Importance. Just at
present we have evolved fever tenn
perature OF 105 deg, and it is still rising,
over what is going to be done about
the County Law. ,c
The local Supreme Court has decided
that one provision of the law is invalid.
1t is argued that, by parity of
reasoning, all the rest of it is INVALID.
Upon this as a text numerous sermons
predicting disaster are being preached.
The disasters predicted range all the
way from the fear that a policeman
and the calling Of special session of
the legislature as a GROWING act
which will complete our undoing.
The advice Of the Record is to Keep
Cool"
There is nothing to get excited about.
The question is a plain business one,
to be settled in a plain business way.
There are several methods of pro-
cedure advocated. Others may be
evolved.
When problems arise among business
men, involving varied interests and
some technical law points, what is
usually done is to appoint committee
to consider the question in all it's
phases. which committee comprises
both business men and lawyers
Let such committee, to consist Of
six persons, be appointed by the Plant
ers' Association. the Chamber of Com
merce and the Merchants Association,
two from each.
Let this COMMITTEES take legal advice
from two OF the best lawyers in town
as to what een be done about securing
an early test OF the law In the courts.
Let them also consult q. s. District
Attorney Breckona, who drew the law,
the Governor and the Attorney Cen
eral
Such o committee will. under sush
conditions. evolve Q plan OF action.
Invoking the aid of Congress In
our purely local affairs should be
q step to be taken only as last resort
We do not want to establish reputa-
ton for helplessness that will arise to
plague US when we really need help.
In the probable event that Congress
does not re-enact our County Law. we
will have to depend upon solving the
problem ourselves. The earlier we be-
gin to solve it the better Meanwhile,
Keep Cool"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-04

war for independence, and the setback
in 1900 was caused by severe drought
in the autumn of 1899
The differences in the value of Gu
ba's sugar exports have had some re-
lation, of course, to the size of the
crops, but they have been occasioned
mainly by the fluctuations in the
worlds price of sugar, and also to
some extent by changes in the United
States tariffs. AS from so to 80 per
cent OF the Cuban sugar export goes
to the United States, the tariff rates
of this country are obviously of much
greater concern to Cuba than the tariff
rates of any other country. The fol-
lowing table shows the Cuban sugar
crop and the Cuban sugar exports to
the United States, by fiscal years,
since 1898:
EXPORTS OF SUGAR FROM CUBA
TO THE UNITED STATES.
Year ending Crop. Exported to u. S.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-04

Referring to these figures, the sharp
falling off in production in 1871 was
due to damage by hurricanes. The eff
fects of the unsuccessful Ten Years
war are seen in the small figures for
1876. 1877, and 1878. The poor returns
along in the early eighties were also
chargeable partly to the bad after
effects of that war and also in some
instances to bad weather. The ire
mendous decrease in 1896, 1897 and
1898 was due, of course, to the recent
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-04
Year ending
June 30.

DfdWiA III 1peil 1lOiIi tHS IcScI We
stock.
It will be seen that while the
amounts of sugar exported by Cuba to
the United States in 1893 and 1895 were
almost exactly equal, the value of the
1895 export was only about two-thirds
that of the 1893 export; also that both
the amounts and values of the exports
decreased greatly after 1895 until very
recently. These decreases are attrib-
utable in part to the interference of
the war with Industrial occupations,
but in the main to the fall in the
worlds price of sugar since 1895, and in
part to the discontinuance of the re-
ciprocal agreement of 1891, by which
Cuban sugar was admitted into the
United States free of duty until 1894,
which agreement undoubtedly and nat,
urally stimulated Cuban exports of
sugar to this country in 1892, 1898 and
1894.
Similar effects have been produced
by these causes upon the amounts and
values of Cuban tobacco exports.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-04

Mr.. Morgan has been eliminated
from the steel trust by Mr.. Rockefei-
Ter, who has reached out and deprived
him of s12,oOo,O0 or SO. Nobody wor-
ships at the Morgan shrine now.
Rockefeller. who will be worth two
billions OF dollars If he lives ten years
longer, has an undisputed primacy in
Wall street. 49,