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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
May Settle Strike.

CHICAGO, May 16.-Although no
facts have transpired t. fully warrant
the prediction, it is asserted both
by members OF the Employers asso.
citation and by the conservative ele.
ment in the ranks of the teamsters
that the present strike will soon be
called of.
Mayor Dunno has served notice on
the strike leaders that q spread of the
strike would probably mean the call.
ing out of the military. Mayor Dunno
talked plainly Of the possibility of
the police being unable to preserve
peace In case anything approaching a
general strike occurred, attended as
1t would be by q renewal of rioting
and violence on a larger scale than
heretofore.
The officials Of the Liverymen's I'm.
ion were also called into the mayors
ot1ce and informed that any cabmau
who refused to deliver passengers to
the stores under the union ban would
be promptly deprived of the city IL
cense under which he operated.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
Railroad Rates Increased.

WASHINGTON, May l6.-Prof. E. P.
Ripley, of Harvard, a railway expert.
was before the senate committee on
interstate commerce yesterday and ad.
vocated the enactment Of legislation
to cure existing evils in the railway
business. He agreed with previous
witnesses that the present law was
ample to prevent secret rebates and
determinations, but maintained that
there were existing abuses systematic.
ally practiced by railroads that can.
not be reached by the law. He charged
railroads with having steadily in.
creased rates by the subtle classi6ca-
ton OF freights, and argues that all
safeguards to protect the shippers
against extortion had disappeared.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
How to Behave at the pOstOffice.

a Montana postmaster has posted
this notice in his office: mo letters
will be delivered until received. If
you don't get a letter or paper on the
day you expect it, have the postmaster
look through all the boxes and in the
cellar also. 1t ought to be there
somewhere, and he likes to look for it
just to please You. If your friends
don't write, curse the postmaster, he
is to blame. If he tells you there is no
mai for you, put on Il grieved eX-
preston and say, there ought to be
some He is probably hiding your
mail for the pleasure of having you
call for 1t two or three times a day.
Ask him to look again.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
HILL OBJECTS TO CANAL.

The Panama canal is a childis
piece OF business, according to Jane
j. Hill. Mr.. Hill has been calling O.
Secretary Taft at Washington. an
alleviating that massive statesman
monotonous job by imparting to hin
large chunks of inform alton as to tn
folly of the government in undertaking
the big ditch. So says the Washing
ton correspondent of the St. Pau
Pioneer Press, which is so friendly
with the Great Northern's presiden'
that it may be deemed to quote hin
correctly.
Briefly. President Hills disclosure
to the secretary is this: The canal,
he says, will profit the American peo.
pie nothing, because as soon as it is
built the transcontinental lines will
put ocean to ocean rail rates below
the all water route rates. Mr.. Hill
expects that the country will then rise
in its wrath and revile the government
for its iiiocy in spending a vast sum
OF money on the waterway.
If MIR. Hill has given utterauce to
such q s~tatement-and it is moi Out of
keeping with much that he has been
saying before commissions and other
public bodies-then it would seem that
he has overreached himself by furnish
ing the advocates of the canal with
their best argument for its immediate
construction. If the railroads can
stand such a shave on their rates, we
may accept Mr.. Hill as trustworthy
authority for believing the canal will
be a general public benefit.
The intern ational waterway will, of
course, have other uses: its strategic
value In war and in preventing war
alone will so far to Justify the expen-
diture: but many far.sighted students
OF transportation have long urged
Ina: its most valuable function would
be as a regulator OF freight rates be.
tween h oceans and between the gulf
and the Pacific. OF course, no one
expects that it will put the railways
out OF business, but it has been ex.
pected. and now We have the assurance
OF Mr.. Hill that it may rightly be ex-
pected, to do away with the extortion
which results from the present combi-
nation among the roads. The sooner
the canal Is dug the better.-SpOkes.
mar Review.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
THE PRIVATE CAR MONOPOLY,
Witness Tells Senate Committee AbOu
Contracts With Railroads

WASHINGTON. May 16.-Before the
senate committee or Interstate com.
merce, which is Investigating rail.
roads, President George r. Robbins,
of the Armour car lines. today ad.
mitted that the company had 20 or 30
exclusive contracts with railroads for
fruit transportation business, aud
acknowledged a monopoly Of that
traffic in parts of the west and south.
Wherever these exclusive contracts
applied, he admitted, producers and
shippers of fruit had TO accept the
rates laid down by the Armours. He
c claimed that his company was a priv.
ate one, and therefore no. subject to
the interstate commerce law.
These exclusive contracts, MIR. Rob-
bins said, were generally priv ate cor.
tracts, though they we're exhibited
when requested. He asserted that the
Armours do not get any advantage
over other shippers in these cars. Re.
plying to Chairman Elkins, the wit.
less said that his company did not
want to be subject to the interstate
laws.
Mr.. Robbins denied that the Ar.
mours were interested in any fruit
companies in California, or that the
Armours had a monopoly for the
transportation of California fruits:
acknowledging, however, that his com.
pany had u monopoly of the fruit
transportation in the Pere Marquette
region and in Georgia aud Florida.
The Armours, he admitted, had ex.
elusive contracts with all the south
Atlantic coast railways, exclusive
contracts in east Tennessee and on
certain roads in Missouri, Arkansas
and OF the Southern Pacific road.
The Santa Fee was a competing line
in the fruit business in California.
Fruit producers and shippers on these
exclusive lines had to accept the rates
OF the Armour company, but Mr.. Rob.
bins said they satisfied 50 per cent. of
the shippers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24

the found alton, the potent factor IL
all civilization. A reasonable and
fair return must be allowed unde,
government control for services rem.
dered and values received, whethe.
the same are rendered by railroads,
packing house plants, private car
lines, or what not. But when these
pertain to necessities and constitute
monopoly, even If not a trust, there
must be some responsible and Impair.
tial power to regulate them and say
what is a reasonable and fair return,
and what constitutes value. Who can
better say this, 80 far as railroads
are concerned, and all matters per.
tanning to interstate commerce, than
the interstate commerce commission
itself-a commission already Organi.
zed and already familiar with these
subjects:
This commission should, in my
opinion, fix railroad rates, regulate
the service, and make this rate and
service apply equally to all. This is
what we need and what we demand,
and this is what Is fair and right to
all. Small, poor and individual ship
pers cannot afford to litigate with
powerful corporations to determine
what Is a fair and reasonable rate.
II the rate is fixed too low, the rail.
roads can easily show it and have it
corrected. As said by Mr.. Sam h.
Cowan, the able and efficient attorney
for the Cattle Raisers' Association,
of Texas, and in his address before
that association March -, 1905, ga
short and simple amendment to the
present law comforting the power on
the commission to fix a lawful and In
Its Judgment, a proper rate, in lieu of
the one which it finds to be unreasou.
able, or otherwise unlawful, is mani
testify the thing to do"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
Grand Jury Seeks Information

CHICAGO, May l6.-An attemp, was
made at today's session of the federal
grand jury, which is Investigating the
affairs of the beef packers, to show
that the cattle buyers. the packing
concerns and certain commission men
me, each morning and agreed upon
the prices to be paid for livestock dur
ing the day. Evidence along this line
vas sought from c. Is. Vannorman,
head of the Vannorman Commission
company, and S. +. Ingersoll. of lto-
senbaum Bros, Il commission concern,
who were on the stand all afternoon.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
How Farmers Built q Railroad

In a recent number of Worlds
Work appeared an interesting article
giving 40 account of how the farmers
Of Ramsey county, North Dakota,
built a railroad without the aid oil
outside Or borrowed capital.
These farmers hauled their grain
often a distance of twenty-five miles
to DEVILS Lake. the county sc at,
through which the Great Northern
railway passed. 1t kept the farmers
hauling grain all winter. They asked
James j. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railway, to build a branch
line from DEVILS Lake up through
their section. Mr.. Hill said he could
not build. Six of the largest farmers
met at a schoolhouse. One of them
was Joseph Kelley, who owned 900
acres of land, and who hauled his
wheat fifteen miles to DEVILS Lake.
Mr.. Kelly said: 'If the Great North.
ern won't build, we will build" And
the farmers built a railroad twenty
five miles long.
They asked every farmer who hauled
grain to DEVILS Lake to subscribe.
Some subscribed S25: others $500.
They raised $4,000. They sent a
farmer to Duluth to buy ties, another
to St. Paul to buy old rails. A land
promoter was building a small branch
line out of DEVILS Lake to the south,
and they got him to ~surveysthe road,
They hired section hands to lay the
track. But they needed more money.
They bought land along the line and
laid out three towns, sold the lots and
used the money to buy an old engine,
a day coach, and four box cars from
the Great Northern.
Then the road was started. 1t will
stop for any farmer at any place.
Last year, the road made its expenses:
it hauled 60, 900 bushels of wheat.
This year, with the railroad at hand,
the farmers planted more wheat and
the road will haul 1000, 900 bushels.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
New Laws In Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, May l7.-GOveruor
Deneen has signed the anti.mob law
bill introduced by Edward d. Green.
colored. member from the First dis
,rict, Cook county. 1t provides for
vacation by proclamation of the sher.
if 5 Office when that official allows a
prisoner to be taken from him and
lynched, and provides a fine OF $1,000
for participation in a ~lynching mob.
Another bill signed by the governor
provides for local option in cities and
towns.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
Mcnaccd By Floods.

DIES MONIES. May I6.-Residents OF
the lowland r repairing the levee:
along the Des Moines river to fore,
stall any break of the rapidly rising
river, which showed u rise of nearly
two feet last night. The territory
threatened was submerged two years
ago and thousands Of families driven
out.
NORFOLK, Neb., May Ii. There
was a further rise of five inches last
night Of the already swollen Elkhorn
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
WOULD CONTROL CORPORATIONS.

The relations between the American
stock grower and what he termed
"American monopoly" were discuss.
ed at the recent meeting of st0ckmen
at Denver by Col. w. E. Hughes,
president of the Continental Land and
Cattle company, who expressed the
opinion that individual effort is dis.
couraged by unequal competition with
the immense resources and superior
advantages enjoyed by corporations.
The latter, he declared, being the crea-
lures of legislative enactment, should
be subject to the control of their
Col. Hughes were to this effect:
A monopoly is where the monopo
lizers are the only dealers. Don't you
find when you go to any of the great
centers-Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas
City, Omaha or St. Joe-with your
cattle, sheep or hogs, as the case may
be, that you are not in the deal: Don't
you find Il monopoly: Don't you,
nine times out of ten, have to take the
first price offered, or do worse: If
you hold over for the next days mark.
ct, are you not wOrsted nine times out
OF ten: If you first stop at Kansas
City and conclude to try further, and
go on to Chicago or St. Louis, don't
you find YOUR Kansas City offer has
gone on before you, and don't you
find the SAME dealer, the same mouo-
poly:
My friends, these corporate mono
poles are of modern growth. No.
where do they exist, nowhere are they
created as in these United States. The
laws creating corporations in all our
states are much too lax. The little
st2te of New Jersey alone has turned
loose enough of these corporate pri-
vateers, with their pirate crews. TO
control all commercial seas. 1t is
said the corporate fees for their crea.
ton in New Jersey pays all the state
taxes.
1 Nui oPloSCO W tlc ptll-
ciple OF government control. | am OF
the old American school in politics
do not believe it is the province O,
government to help or hurt any body
All we ask of government in protec.
ton. a government in this case ha,
brought the hurt, she should now
bring to help. AS we have said. i,
was government that created these
corporations, endowed them with lif,
and immortality, and now that the
government has created these cor,
pOratiOns. given them the rights o.
natural persons, allowed them ,e
grasp and monopolize the publ,
utilities, the very neces aries of life.
it needs must protect us from them
This it a do now only by regulating
and controlling them. Understand. |
am not advocating agrarianism OF
any disregard of the rights of prop
erty. l am we'll aware that a prope,
regard for property rights must b,
held sacred. Such regard has beer
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues Its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
ROOdlcrS Get New Trial.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, May To-
The eases Of Charles f. Kelly and
Charles Gutke. convicted of boodliug
in the St. Louis municipal assembly.
We're today reversed and remanded by
the supreme court on the ground that
informations on which the men were
indicted were not properly verified.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24

river here, flooding the eastside and
causing q general exodus of families
from that part Of the city. Eight
families were imprisoned by the r
rounding waters today and It was
necess airy to rescue them with boats.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24

Parties wishing TO purchase live
stock will find some attractive offer.
lngs in our advertising columns,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-08-04
OF Ignite.
The Coal Is Said to Produce More
Gas Than Any Other Kind
Tested SO Far.

M. N. Campbell, of the coal test
ing department of the U. S. Geo.
logical Survey, is in the city Mr..
Campbell conducted the tests at
the st. Louis Exposition last year,
and SO successful were they that a
larger appropriation has been made
to continue them. Interest is now
being centered in the utilization
of North Dakota Ignite. Espec-
tally we'll did the Ignite from this
state show up in producing gas, a
car load from Williston averaged
1873 units, and actually reached 200.
Producer gas from ordinary highly
carbonized fuels averaged but lao
units. There were but twenty-four
samples tested and they covered all
kinds Of coal, including the Texas
Ignite. Mr.. Campbell has secured
another car from Williston and left
for Wilton to get a carload from
there for all official test from that
region.-Fargo Forum.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-08-04
TEACHERS WAGES.

Through the untiring efforts Of
State Superintendent Stockwell
and other prominent educators of
the state the Legislature last winter
passed d law which gives to the
holders of second grade certificates
the minimum wages of $45 per
month. The argument advanced
by Supt. Stockwell in favor of the
law was that persons holding the
qualifications sufficient to secure a
second grade certificate were able
to earn $45 per month in other pro-
fessions or callings. The law went
into effect the first Of the month,
and now Superintendent Stockwell
is calling the attention of teachers
throughout the state to it's opera
ton. He also serves notice on all
teachers who write for certificates
in the August examination that a
standard of eighty-five per cent will
be necessary to secure a second
grade certificate, and seventy-fve
per cent for Il third grade. Thus
this new law to increase the wages
of holders of second grade certifi-
Gates will also increase the standard
of excellence necessary to secur
such certificate, and our schools
will be taught by better educated
and better trained teachers.-Ex.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-08-04
Alias Contest Notice.
Department of the Interior,
United States Land Office, Mine
North Dakota. .Jn1v ~. 1GnS.

Department Of the Interior,
North Dakota, July q, 1906.
A sufficient contest affidavit having been fled
in this office by Charley N. Weber contestant,
against homestead entry No. 1929, made Oct.
%, 1902, for swA section "a, township149 n: range
86w. by John Hanson Contestee, in which it Is
alleged that said contestee has wholly aban-
doned said tract Of land for q period Of more
than six months since making said entry and
next prior to date hereof and is still abandon
ing the same; that he has wholly failed to es-
tablish his residence on his land or to make
any improvements thereon; and that said al
legged absence from the said land was not due
to his employment in the army. navy or merinel
corps of the United States as q private SOLDIER
officer, seaman or marine during the war with
Spain or during any other war in which the
United States may be engaged; said parties are
hereby notified to appear, respond and offer
evidence touvhing said allegation at 10 O'Clock
q. m. on September 10, 1905, before the Register
and Receiver at the United States Land Office
in Minot, N. D..
The said contestant having, in q proper afa-
davit filed July 8, 1906, set forth facts which
show that after due diligence, personal service
of this notice cannot be made, it is hereby or
dered and directed that such notice be give
by due and proper publication.
T. Z. Fox, Receiver.
Johnson 4 Nestos, Attorneys, 7-2S
for contestant, MinOt, N. D.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-08-04
ALIAS CONTEST NOTICE.

O0pdItuu0uGO VI tu0 1utorlOT, 4 fN.aa.
United states Land Office, Minot, N. D., July
q, 1905.
Asufiicient contest affidavit having been filed
in this office by Greges Larson contestant,
against homestead entry No. 1928, made Oct.
2s, lso2, for the EM Nwh and EN ssWsA section
II, township 149 n. range IS W., by Andrew An
derson contestee, in which it is alleged that
said contestee has wholly abandoned said
tract of land for more than six months since
making said entry and next prior to date here
has wholly failed to establish q residence on
his land or to make any Improvements thereon;
and that said alleged absence from the said
land was not due to his employment in the
army, navy or marine corps: Of the United
marine during the war with Spain or during
any other war in which the United States may
be engaged; said parties are hereby notified to
appear, respond and offer evidence touching
said allegation at 10 o'clock a. m /. on Septem-
Der Is, 1905. before the Register and Receiver at
The said contestant having ina proper afi-
davit filed July 8, 1905, set forth facts which
show that after due diligence personal service
of this notice cannot be made, it is hereby or
dered and directed that such notice be given
by due and proper publication.
I. T.. Fox, Receiver.
johnson & Nestos, Attorneys for contestant,
MinOt, N. D.. 7.28
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-08-04
Some New Laws.
The following laws went into eff

The following laws went into eff
feet July lst:-
Sales under chattel mortgage may
be made on any day of the week.
Previous to that date such sales
could be only made on Saturday.
A petition for druggists permit
must be signed by 500 Of the rep
utable freeholders having the quail
iication Of electors Of the town,v vii
lage or township, and 500 of the
reputable women over p years of
age. This is a reduction in the
number of signatures required.
All personal property taxes shall
become due upon the first day Of
December in each and every yearfor
which tax is levied, and become de-
linquent on the first day of March
next after they become due.
A recorded real estate mortgage
must be discharged on the record
by the Register of Deeds having
custody thereof, Oh the certificate
of discharge signed by the mort
gagee, his executors, administrat-
ors, etc., properly acknowledged or
proved and certified, being pre-
scented.
It shall be unlawful for any per-
son to practice optometry in the
state Of North Dakota unless he
shall first have obtained a certificate
of registration. This law shoulG
effectually wind up the vocation of
the peripatetic "eye specialists"
who sell twenty-five cents worth of
spectacle lenses for several dollars.
The school board shall grade sal
aries for teachers for the district in
accordance with the grade Of GER
tifcate, and no teacher holding a.
certificate Of alower grade shall re-
ceive q salary equal to or in excess
Of that paid to a teacher holding a
certificate Of . higher grade in the
same district. And no secondgrade
teacher shall receive less than $45.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-08-04
Notice for Publication.

Notice is hereby, given that the following
named settler has fled notice of his intention
to make final proof in support Of his claim, and
johnson, a u. S. Commissioner, District Of
North Dakota, at his office at Washburn, n.
D., on September 4, 1905, viz:
1888, dated Sept. Is, 1900.
for the west half Of the southwest quarter and
south hall of the northwest quarter of section
"a, township AS, range 81.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
I. q. Brewster, N. w. solenberger, John
Wagner and 7. NJ. Wogaman, all of Hancock,
1928 NJ, H. Jewell, Register.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-08-04
Notice for Publication.

Department Of the Interior,
Land Office at Bismarck, N. D., June IA. 1905.
Notice is hereby, given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
that said proof will be made before E. A. Lamb
County Judge, at Washburn, N. D.. on Aug. 2,
1905, viz:
for the Eh SWA and VIZ SEX Of section %,
township l45 n. range 70 W.
He names the following witnesses to prove
Of said land, viz:
Wasyl Kanski, Nick Hariluk, Jawdoha
Bakiak and Zeman Zelap of Wilton, N. D.
6-23 NJ. II. Jewell, Register.