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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Alaska Wants Population.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l.-Governor
Brady, of Alaska, in his annual re
port to the secretary of the interior,
urges provision for Alaska's repre-
sentation by a delegate in congress,
and says Alaska's prime needs are
pioneers and homestead settlers. He
urges the extension of the homestead
law. Governor Brady says that
those who have travelled through the
territory this year are certain that
Alaska today has a smaller white
population than it had in 1900, and
that it is migratory. In view Of these
facts the governor depreciates agita-
tion for change of the government
of Alaska from district TO territorial,
though aspiring to statehood when
Alaska fills with a desirable popula-
tion. He asks what reason can there
be for requesting congress to organize
an expensive system Of government
that will plunge the Alaskans into
debt aud all manner of excesses, in.
volving taxation to its utmost limits.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Murderer Breaks Jail.

SPOKANE, Dec. l.-A special to
the Chronicle states that Ernest CASH
ell, sentenced to death for murder,
made daring and successful attempt
to escape from the mounted police
barracks at Calgary, N. W. T., last
night. When his cell was searched
Cashel pulled two revolvers on the
three guards and ordered them into
the cell just vacated.
He locked the door and demanded
the keys for his shackles, which he
unlocked. He then made his escape
from the building. John Cashel, a
brother of the murderer, who visited
the barracks lin the afternoon, has
been arrested on suspicion OF having
furnished Ernest with the revolvers.
Cashel was to have been hanged Tues
day next.
VANCOUVER, b. c., Dec. ll.-News
has been received from the department
of justice that if Ernest Cashel, the
murderer who escaped from Calgary
yesterday, is not captured before De.
cember Is, for which date his execu.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Preparing for National Convention.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE repub.
lican national committee today at the
Arlington hotel began its initial meet
ing preparatory to the presidential
campaign of 1904. The committee,
which was called to order by Chair
man Hanna, represented every state
and territory, either by the regular
member or by proxy, except Hawaii.
The principal business to be trans
acted is the selection of the time and
place for holding the next republican
nationa convention. Neither of these
questions was discussed at the meet
ing today.
Representative Dixon conferred with
Senator Hanna at the Arlington hotel
last night, at which time the chairman
of the national committee gave the
Montana member his credentials as
proxy, Mr.. Mcleod having found it
incOnvenient to attend the sessions of
the committee. It is evident th at the
committee will resolve itself into an
unmistakab! bic Roosevelt demonstra.
ton, which friends of the administra-
tion expect will silence all opposition
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Refused to Toast the Flag.

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-William D.
O'Brien, POSTMASTER at the banquet
of contractors and builders at the
Auditorium hotel, has refused to toast
the American flag as an emblem of
liberty.
"Why, the emblem of liberty is a
farce" he cried, ''when men are shot
down in the streets because they are
trying to earn living; when we are
afraid to assert our rights for fear
some labor organization will oppose
US"
Contractor William Grace of Chi
cago declared that he was tired of be-
ing told what to do by Gompers and
Mitchell and other labor leaders. Mr..
Grace declared that the running of the
United States mail cars without police
protection during the recent strike
had made him think that his rights
and the rights Of every American citi-
zen were just as sacred as the mail
cars,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
President Will Attend Exposition.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-David r..
Francis, president of the Louisiana a
Purchase exposition: VIM. H. Thorn
son, treasurer, and D. M. Houser,
proprietor of the St. Louis Globe.
Democrat, accompanied by Represent
ative Bartholdt, called on the presi-
dent today and invited him to visit
St. Louis during0the' progress of the
exposition and to present medals to
the winners in the Olympia games and
other similar contests to be held at
the time. The president promised to
take the invitation under considera-
ton. He will attendi1the exposition,
but the date of his visit has not yet
been SET
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Strikers Buying Arms.

TRINIDAD, Colo, Dec. l0.-Many
Italian and Sicilian strikers are in
town today buying revolvers and am
munition and making threats of fur
ther assaults on the employees of the
coal companies. The attack at Ber-
wind yesterday it develops, was pre-
cipitated by Italian and Sicilian wo-
men, who also participated in the
shooting.
The United Mine Workers have
completed arrangements to open a
depot in this city tor stributing sup.
plies to the strikers in surrounding
camps. 1t is feared that conflicts be-.
tween the strikers and camp guards
may occur at any time.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Land Officials Under Suspicion.

W WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-Incidental
to the general investigation being
conducted by the interior department
into the land frauds in the west, an
inquiry is being made of the records
of the general land Office in Washing.
ton by inspectors detailed for that
purpose. Their inquiries are in con-
nection with charges that employees of
the Office have given advance informa a.
tion of lands to be set aside for forest
reserv ations, whereby opportunities
are afforded speculators to take up
lands in the territory to be reserved.
Secretary Hitchcock will not make
any detailed statement as to the scope
of the inquiry to be made, confning
himself to the general statement that
an investigation of the local offices
along the lines indicated is under way
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Washington News Notes.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE house
committee on appropriations today
authorized a favorable report on the
pension appropri alton bill. 1t carries
a total of sl3S, $50, 100, which is g.
100000 less than the estimates submit
ted. The bill carries $l,697, 500 less
last year.
A state department estimate of Sl,-
OOO, 900 to continue the effective demar-
cation and mapping of the bound ary
line between the United States and
Canada, along the 49th parallel west
of the summit of the Rocky noun
tains, was transmitted to the house
today by the treasury department.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
LAW MAKERS ADJOURN.
Special Session Of Montana Legislature
Is Now a Closed Incident.

HELENA, Dec. 1.-THE second ex-
traordinary session of the legislature
adjourned shortly after noon today.
There was very little to be done in
either house.
In the senate a resolution offered
by Kennedy expressing regret at the
absence Of Senator Kohrs OF Powell
county was adopted. Senate joint
memorial relative to the withdrawal
OF public lands, for which the house
had passed substitute, was inde6n-
itely postponed by the sen ate on mo-
tion of Sen ator Ralston, its author.
He said the thing had been so badly
garbled by the changes that it might
as we'll be allowed to die.
The last house bill to be passed was
that making an appropriation of
81, 200 for a stenographer in the office
OF the state superintendent of public
instruction. Governor Toole signed
the two bills which were finished up
today, thus approving every measure
acted on at the extra session.
There were eight bills introduced in
the house. and of that ber, three
were identical measures, all relating
to the submission of constitutional
amendment on the child labor law and
the eight-hour law. A substitute for
these three bills was passed.
FThorn +lrno t,,l; ;o; ~
troduced in the house, two being sub
stitutes presented by the judiciary
committee, one of these amending the
law relating to the disqualification of
judges, and the other amending the
law relating to change of venue in
civil actions. The third judicial bill
was introduced by MacGinniss, and
sought to amend the law relating to
the power Of the supreme court in
equity cases. The first two have be-
come laws, while the MacGinniss bill
was killed in the house.
-Four bills were introduced in the
senate and of that number, two, be-
came laws. One was the Hoffman bill
relating to the powers of the supreme
court in equity cases, and the other
was the Mayer bill, providing for the
payment Of costs where there was a
change of venue.
State Auditor j. H. Calderhead has
prepared figures which show that the
per diem and mileage of the senate
and house, including clerk hire,
amounts to $12,08l. 40. The president
of the senate and speaker of the house
each draw $40 a day for their services,
while the senator's and representatives
each receive Sc day. AS the appro-
priation for the expenses of the special
session was only $4,000, the expenses
will just about eat up the appropri-
alton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Mrs. Culver Gets Divorce.

New YORK, Dec. l0.-Mrs. Everett
Mallory Culver, daughter of Senator
William A. Clark, of Montana, was
granted divorce from her husband,
Dr.. E. NJ. Culver, today by Justice
Maddox, of the supreme court. The
justice in rendering the decree, said
that the papers in the case would be
filed away under the rule of the su-
preme court by which no one except
those directly Interested in the case
may have access to them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Made a Long Overland Trip.

TACOMA, WASH, Dec. Ok. w.
Jones and his son-inlaw, G. F.. Car
YER, with their families, arrived
here yesterday in an immigrant
wagon, after pleasure and sightsee.
ing trip of five months. Their former
Blackfoot river in Lewis and Clarke
county, Mont. Their caravan started
from Helena about the middle of July
and they have actually travelled l,500
miles. Jones and Carver have pur-
chased property in Tacoma and will
engage in fruit raising. They were
stockmen in Montana.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
SIGNED DY THE GOVERNOR.
NJ Measures Passed by Legislature Are Re-
luctanaly Approved by Executive.

HELENA, Dec. 10.-At 2:20 O'Clock
this afternoon the house practically
completed the work the legislature was
called to accomplish. At that hour it
passed Meyers senate bill, providing
for taxing costs in removed cases.
This is the the third and last of what
are generally known as the fair trial
bills. The bill was recommended for
passage after brief debate. II was
then passed by the house under sus-
pension of the rules.
The house bill appropriating $1,000
to pay the salary of stenographer
for the superintendent of public iu-
structiOn was passed.
The extraordinary session of the.
Eighth legislative assembly will come
to an end tomorrow. All of the legis
lation which the session was called
to consider has been acted upon, and
there remains but a small amount Of
routine work to conclude the business.
Three of the judiciary bills are now
Au"o. ACv dtc Vic CIlduSC VI Vous
ue, the ratification of judges and
giving the supreme court the power to
review the facts in equity cases. Late
this afternoon the governor turned
these bills over to the secretary Of
state with his signature.
The Meyer bill to tax the costs in
change of venue cases has not yet
reached the governor, but in a mes
sage to the house transmitting the
substitute for house bill No. 2 with
his approval, the governor announced
that he would approve all of the bills
passed by the legislature and specified
in his call.
The governor has also approved the
bill providing for the submission to
the people of constitutional amend.
ment making the child labor law and
the eight.hour law part of the con-
stitution. He also approved the ap-
propri alton bill.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
National Committee Chooses Chicago as
the Place and June 2l as the Date.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The repub-
lican national convention will be held
in Chicago beginning at noon on June
Il next. The republican national
committee arrived at this conclusion
today and adjourned subject to call.
Pittsburg and St. Louis we're rivals
OF Chicago for the convention. Each
city was we'll represented in oratory
before the committee and each also
had cash offers to make. Pittsburg
offered sl0o, 200, Chicago $4,000 and
a hall, and St. Louis $4,000 and a
hall. The vote stood 43 for Chicago,
7 for Pittsburg and for St. Louis.
A resolution was adopted prescrib.
ing that the convention should be held
in the exact language of the call Of
1900, giving the states four delegates
at large and two delegates for each
congressional district, and to the ter.
ritories six delegates each. Delegates
must be selected prior to May q.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The deci-
sion of the national committee to have
the national convention meet on June
2l created considerable talk about the
capitol as to the probable date of the
adjournment of congress, and the fact
developed that there has already been
more or less exchange of views among
the leaders of the senate and the house
on the question. The opinion is quite
general among them that it will be
possible to conclude the work of the
session by June p. Repu blican SEN
ators are trying to secure an agree
ment with the house to adjourn for
Christmas on next Friday. The treat
les will not be taken up until after the
holiday recess.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Another Street Car Riot.

CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-In a riot today,
growing out of the recent strike of the
Chicago City railway, a car was
wrecked by mob Of union sympathiz
ers, who furiously attacked a non
union conductor and motorman, badly
injuring both. The crew of the car
escaped into nearby building, where
they were guarded by the police. The
riot occurred on the Halsted street
line near Archer avenue. 1t was
caused by the refusal of woman to
pay fare to conductor who did not
wear a union button.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
lie Robbed the Sheriff,

GALENA, Kas., Dec. 13.-Ch aries
Rain, sheriff of Cherokee county, was
held up and robbed today in the depot
at Bailey Springs, Kansas, by Clar.
ence Cunningham, an escaped prisoner
from the Columbia, Mo-, Jail, after he
had placed Cunningham under arrest.
Rain was relieved of his watch, re.
volver and money. Cunningham and
a companion then robbed the station
agent, took a team of horses and q
buggy from livery stable aud es-
caped
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Senator Clark on Sick List,

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-United States
Senator Clark. of Montana, who has
twice been operated on for a diseased
condition of the ear and adjacent
bony tissue, was tonight, according to
his physicians, resting easy, his gen.
eral condition being egarded as satis-
factory and an early recovery being
looked for. Senator Clark probably
will be able to leave his bed in about
three weeks, unless unlocked for com.
plications intervene.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Makes Camphor From Turpentine.

DES MONIES, Dec. l0.--Professor
Charles F. Kinney of Drake univer.
sity, and two advanced students of
chemistry in that institution, have
discovered a method of manuf acturing
camphor which will reduce the price
from IS cents to Is cents pound.
The process consists Of the distillation
of turpentine and oxalic acid. The
equipment will be protected at once
by patent. The principle cannot be
protected in that way, and Professor
Kinney understands that experiments
for the manufacture of artificial cam
phor have been made in the east.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Want Pensions for Workinpmcn,

KNOXVILLE, Dec. l2.-The Tennes-
see state labor convention, in session
here today. passed a resolution ask.
ing congress to pass law granting a
pension of sl2 a month to every work
ingman who shall have reached the
age OF TO years and have earned less
than 81, 900 year. The law is to be
modelled along the lines of the New
Zealand pension law for laborers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Bold Bandit Was Roped.

NEW YORK, Dec. lO.-After having
attempted to rob the First National
bank of Hoboken in broad daylight,
in true western style, Frank Stone,
youth of 10, whose home is in Youngs-
town, Ohio, sprang into the Hudson
river today when followed by a great
crowd, and would have made his es.
cape had not tugboat man thrown
lasso about his neck and hauled him
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Better Than Il ElaAtpr.

A piece of flannel dampened with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound
on the affected parts is better thar
plaster for lame back and for pains
in the side or chest. Pain Balm has
no superior as a liniment for the re-
lief OF deep-seated, muscular and rheu-
matte pains. For sale by D. G. Lock.
wood, druggist.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Want Another Appropriation.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l0.-A report
was current today that the Louisiana
Exposition Purchase company would
ask congress for another appropri.
alton amounting to $4,000, 900 to carry
out to completion plans contemplated
by the company.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16
Denied the Right to Work.

STOCKTON, Cal, Dec. 10.-Armed
with clubs, mob of about 80 strikers
from the Royal mine at Hudson held
up about 10 would-be miners who
were under armed escort, early yes.
terd ay morning near Milton. marched
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16

them down the track about mile and
ordered them out of the vicinity. The
order, backed by the brandishing of
clubs and forcible language, was
obeyed in haste. The men had been
employed in San Francisco to take
the places of the strikers. Another
crowd of imported laborers is expect
ed there and more trouble is expected.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16

tion is set, he cannot subseq be
hanged, as he will be then dead to the
law. The minister OF justice has tele-
graphed to the chief justice OF the
Northwest Territory to reprieve Cash
Ell for four weeks, so that if the muir.
derer is captured another date for the
execution NAV be set,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-15
MINOR MATTERS.


Popes health is good
Crime county. Texas. went dry.
tor3 Roberts wH visit United States
Ia August
Hunt eoaHly. Texas. voted against
special read tax
Mans n4uyes persisted By a typhon
iu Cochin Chiua-
Fg"~hItluoolsts carried Fanuiu coun-
v Texas ty about 1890 majority.
Slntou Tex shipped her Hrst car
lead OF saterweious for 1898 on the
l.,b
The Niterbo uen. -four mites south
OF Sp3ndletop- ts giving out neariy 300
barrels OF ola daily
a tract % land has been sold h the
Jennings La oii field for also. 900. Pur-
chase vas lt1.o50 acres
J. a faster wss shot and killed at
Meanwhile. I r. O. j faster. the dead
mans son, was arrested
About $50 nnemen employed In Louis
Vile. Ky. by the Cumberland TeIe-
phone company. have struck.
The Sour Lake National bank OF Sour
Lake. Tex, capital stock $4,000. has
been authorized TO do business.
Sixteen strikers. alleged to have VIC
lated an injunction. were dnel sic each
al Chicago oy Judge Holconth.
Ex-PresideBt Cleveland has written
q san Antonio friend that he Toes not
contemplate a southwestern tour.
George Was~om was struck by a
train between Richmond and Rosen-
berg. Tex, and his skull fractured.
In a fight al East ST. Louis. Ill. over
an alleged attempt to cut an embank
meut one Of the naval reserves was
Killed.
Mrs wash Miley. charged with the
alleged killing OF Bob Skilern in Ma
~COgdoches county. Texas. has been
placed under $1,000 bond.
James II. Harden. a prominent h!m-
Der man. having Offices at New York
New orleans. Galveston and Little
Rock died at Portland Me.
Grain and seed warehouse OF .. S.
Gay. at Winchester. KY. burned 1t
contained the largest stock OF bluegrass
IN the world. Loss 100000.
Jack OBeefe OF Chicago. and Jimmy
Brett OF san Francisco. fought twenty
rounds Go a draw in the presence of
| 10000 people at Butte, Mont
Claiming hat James Black. "a white
man. had insulted the wife OF Charles
Blue. "a negro, at st. Joseph. No. the
/ lated choked the former 10 death.
Rector Johnson OF St Pauts Episco-
nal church. San Antonio. has resigned
lie viii have charge OF st. Peters
n. II F.warmn a. Fafm
J.. N. Payne suieided on 8 train near
lafayette. Ca. exploding a stick OF
dynamite Hls body was frightfaiiy
mangied and the rear end OF the coach
| blown out
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-15
is SERIOUS.
FL Pase Is Threatened with "a Torrent
fro white spur.

FL Paso Is Threatened with "a Torrent
fro = white spur.
FL Paso, June 15-The Rio Grande
river continues to rise and the situa .
ton is serious.
At one point the water at out a cav
ity ten feet long, but 1t was filled with
sand bags.
Below the city the river tore away
ali Instructions and entered its old
channel which was abandoned when
the CUTOFF was built three years ago
10 ~straighten the stream. a guard
against future overflow.
Late last evening the chief Of police
received a telephone message from
John Miller, a merchant AMI ranChmau
at White Spur, eight miles above town.
stating n "a the river had gotten he
hind the levee and formed "a lake five
miles square and quite deep.
This was rising and threatening tc
sweep away the levee and come down
upon II Paso with "a rush.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-15
fCCWAHpLY GRIM !


shesaa uleA aaA wis shes wis Rrs.
parfps = Retire.
Victoria Tex. June 1s-Juat - shar-
III Heck and his wife we're preparing
70 retire Saturday night some unkncwa
person shot a pistol from the outside.
Ths bullet passed through the iadys
left forearm. breaking b. bones,
passed through the flesh Of her left
limb near the hip and entered Sheriff
Hsss breast Just below the nipple and
hen ranged upward. The sheriff was
lying on the bed and his wife was sit
ting beside him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heck are resting fairly
well They have been married only
about three weeks. Mrs. Heck was a
Miss Nicely of Cisco. Mr.. Heck Is a
popular and fearless officer. having
served the city as marshal for several
terms. and was last fall elected sher-
III. EX-Deputy Marshal shaw was sd-
rested and placed under $1,000 bond. He
stoutly maintains his innocence.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-15
CAUTION

We
This Id not . gentle word-bzlt
whan vou think how lisbIe veu -
not to purchase the only remedy AZ
veraal1v known and . remedy thA
has had the largest sale OF any
medicine in the world since 1865 f.
the cure and treatment Of Cansum
ton and Throat and Lung troubfs
without losing its great popularity
all these years, you viii be thankful
wecalled your attention to Boschee's
German Syrup. There are Sc many
ordinary cough remedies made by
druggists and others that are cheap
and good for light colds perhaps,
but for severe Coughs, Bronchitis,
Croup-and especially Cor Cd@sump-
ton, where there Is difficult lexpec-
toration and coughing during the
nights and mornings, there is no
thing like German Syrup. The .
cent size has just been introduced
this year. Regular size 10 GENTS.
at b. w. Fearis. d&T2