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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
GRATING IN IRRIGATION WORK.

There is a disposition on the part of
a certain class of individuals in every
community in which the government
proposes to make expenditures for
public Improvement to hold up the
work by making unreasonable and ex.
tortionate demands for damages OF
property. Civic pride, il it exists at
all in the bosoms Of these individuals,
Is entirely subordinated to the desire
to graft. Frequently the demands of
property holders are SO enormous as
to necessitate the abandonment of
plans for the construction Of buildings
and works urgently needed by the
community, and which when com.
pleted would greatly enhance the value
of the property of the grafters them.
selves.
This is said to be one of the serious
obstacles which confronts the engiu.
GERS of the reclamation service in al.
most every section which they selected
as u feasible point for constructing ir.
rigation works. AZ 500 as there is
an indication that the government is
likely to begin operations, property,
especially any that it may be neces.
sary for the government to acquire,
suddenly assumes u high valuation.
Lands wanted for reservoir sites, sage
brush land, waterless, rough and here.
toforc practically worthless, in the
eyes of the owner acquire Il value
equal to OF in excess of the best lands
in the neighborhood.
In n cas- unimproved lands which
have been held for prices ranging frou
s. to $40 per acre, with few sales, haC
a price of $50 per acre placed on then
by the owners as soon as the fact be
came patent that they would be needed
by the government. OF course the
reclamation service will not permi
such Il holdup, and unless the owner:
Indicate a disposition to treat the gov
ernment fairly, the project will not b.
completed. There are too many OPP
portunities in other sections for III,
government to consent TO pay eNorbi
tant prices for property, and the soon
er this fact IS recognized the nor,
rapid will be the progress of the worl
of cons,ruction.-ln,er Mountain.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29

held in contempt, and justly so, by the
large majority OF the people of the
state. The license will be good for a
mans entire family under the age of
Is years. If there is a boy who 10 ff.
teen and a half, he, also will be re-
quired to pungle the dollar for the
maintenance of Scott and his deputies
before batting a hook with a grass.
hopper aud tempting a fish with it. If
a man and the younger members Of
his family become separated on a fish
ing trip and the game warden happens
onto n of them who doesn't have the
license, that one is liable to arrest:
and If the man of the house happens
to leave town with the license in his
inside pocket, his boys must not go
fishing in the meantime, under pen atty
Of arrest by some of SCOTS sleuths.
The pena atty for violation is from S25
to 500 fine or from 30 to 80 days in
the county Jail. And a Montana man
who has a guest for the summer
months must put up $25 before that
guest will be allowed to hunt or fish
within the confines of the state, or
else subject him to a fine of from $50
to $500 and a year in the ~penitentiary.
A man who comes to Montana with
the intention of remaining must not
fish or hunt here for six months unless
he pays the nonresident tax of S25.
1t is such q fool law that brings all
law into contempt. No liberty loving
American citizen can have anything
but contempt for such a law and it is
safe to say there is not a jury in the
state that would convict a man for
violation OF it. The law ought to be
violated-hagrantly, persistently and
unanimously. There is not a scintilla
of reason, sense or justice to support
it. A wealthy mar may come from the
east to Montana, go into the Yellow
stone park just across the line from
Gardiner, and fish all summer without
protest: but the Gardiner citizen who
fishes a few rods away from the east.
erner. on the Montana side of the line,
is liable to fall a victim of Scott or
his deputies. Under such a law the
warden and his deputies are Ii.
able to become as unpopular in Mon.
as the process erver in Ireland.
The law is a piece of utterly senseless
and foolish legislation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Refuse Gift From Rockefeller.

BOsTON, March 2l.-Congregatiou.
al ministers representing Boston and
various sections Of New England have
forwarded to the American board OF
commissioners for foreign missions a
protest against the acceptance by the
board of a gift of 100000 from John
d. Rockefeller.
The petition, which was prepared by
a committee chosen at a meeting Of
the c~lergymen. protests against the
acceptance of the gift on the ground
that the Standard Oil company, Of
which Mr.. Rockefeller is president.
islands before the public under re-
peated and recent formidable indict-
meuts in specific terms for methods
which are morally iniquitous and So
cially destructive and that 1.-The ac-
ceptance of such u gift involves the
constituents of the board in a relation
implying honor toward the donor and
subjects the board to the cnaree of
ignoriug the moral issues involved"
In conclusion the protes. says:
I'VE, the undersigned. therefore pro.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Weather Signs.

If the chickweed and scarlet pimper-
mel extend their tiny petals, rain may
not be expected for a few hours, say
a writer. Bees work with redoubled
energy just before a rain. If the flies
are unusually persistent either in the
house or around the stock there is
rain in the air. The cricket sings at
the approach Of cold weather. SOUR.
rels store a large supply of nuts, the
husks of corn are unusually thick aud
the buds of deciduous trees have q
frmer protecting coat il a severe win.
ter is at hand. If the poplar or quak.
ing asp leaves turn up the under side
rain will soon follow.
If the camphor bottle becomes roiIy
1t is going to storm. When it clears
settled weather may be expected. This
idea has seemingly been utilized in the
manufacture of barometers. The main
trouble is, they seldom foretell the
change until about the time it arrives.
Last, but not least, the rheumatics
can always tell in their bones when a
storm is approaching, and of this
representation the o~ctogenarian Of
today is as firm an advocate as were
his forefathers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
AN UNPOPULAR LAW.

1t is called a fool law. There are
those who can add a word by way Of
emphasis. The game law passed by
the recent legislature is referred to.
Resident hunters and fishermen are re-
quired to pay 81 for Il license before
permitted to kill a duck Or catch Il
trout. Perhaps objection to the law
would not have been SO pronounced
had the license been confined to hunt
ers alone, but the idea of everyone
who casts q line having to pay 4 dol
lar for the privilege grinds. The Liv.
ingston Enterprise is rather emphatic
in its denunciation of the law, express.
ing itself in this manner:
The law was passed so that there
will be enough money to pay a lot Of
lazy and inefficient game wardens for
doing nothing that benefits any one.
1t is likely that the law will be a dead
letter, for although the salaries of the
game wardens from Scott down de.
pend upon it's enforcement, it will be
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Found An Old Relic.

BROOKLYN, N. ", March 22.-The
old ship found buried deep under
Joralcmon street, through which ,un-
mel workers are digging a shaft, was
Il British man Of war. 1t was a mem-
Der of the fleet which lay in the har-
Dor during Lord Howe's occupation
Of the city.
Crippled one day in a storm it was
caught in the fierce tides which raced
along under the Brooklyn heights and
thrown high upon the beach at the
foot of Joralemon street. No attempt
was made to tloat it again and 1t re.
NAMED sinking in the sand.
Long before the shore was built ont
to make Furman street, it had disap.
peared from sight, TO be brought back
to the high, of day aud the memory Of
mar only by the work on the East
river tunnel.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Car Nicholas and Ills Court.

Car Nicholas, his court and the
Russian autocracy are vividly pic
tured by Perceval Gibbon in what
Ais Russia, in the April McCIure's.
Pcrceval Gibbon is Il St. Petersburg
correspondent, aud. has a first hand
acquaintance with his subject. and
the gift of Il trenchant, powerful pen.
His strong narrative carries Il shock
to the American mind. 1t deals with
Il state of society that is almost in
conceivable because it is so far out.
side of our experience. Nicholas, as
Mr.. Gibbon has seen him, is Il pitia.
bic, sorrow.stirring figure. Little,
scared, fooled he calls him, 'bliud,
ineffective, and hysterical:" and as Il
correspondent this writer has had IN
usual opportunities of getting at the
mar beneath the official etigy. The
truth of his estimate cannot be dou bted.
1t is the composite OF the opinions Of
unofficial ST. Petersburg.
The grand dukes and the dead weight
of rotten autocracy they represent are
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
kentucky's Fighting ParsOn.

Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
tells of a good old Methodist minister
in his state in the pioneer days who
was a muscular Christian"
Zone day" says the senator, "after
the parson had found it necessary to
administer tistic punishment to sew.
eral young toughs who persisted in
disturbing the meeting at one OF the
churches which he served, n of his
flock, noted as something of a hard
hitter himself. got up in the meeting
and said:
1T is a solemn duty of this here
congregation to stand by Parsor
Johnson. He does not seek trouble,
but he will not show the white feather
when trouble is forced in his way.
believe that, unrestrained by divine
grace, Parson johnson can whip any
man in kentucky. The Lord is with
him. Let US pray"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Trouble in Mormon Church.

SALT LAKE, March 22.-Chas. A..
Sm%urthwaite, who is in process of
accommodation from the Mormon
church because Of his alleged apos-
tasy in critizing the acts OF President
Joseph Smith, as charged by his
teacher, H. H. Goddard, today filed
charges with the bishop of his ward
in Ogden against Godd ard, charging
the latter with living with two wives
and having children by them, con.
trary to the revelation known as the
"manifesto,' and contrary to the
laws Of the state.
This is the first time a direct charge
Of violation of ecclesiastical and state
laws in the matter of polygamy has
ever been preferred by a momber of
the church, and the incident is re-
garded as significant: as the case, if
brought to trial in the bishops court,
will force the church to declare its
position on the question OF polygam-
Gus cohabitatiou.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Texas StOckmeu Meet.

FORT WORTH, March 2l.-The ninth
annual convention of the Texas Cattle
Kaisers' association was called to or
der by president w. w. Turney Of Ell
Paso. Mayor Il. j. Powell welcomed
the visitors. for whom response was
made by II. D. Gage of Pecos. After
these formalities were concluded the
report of the executive committee was
read. This showed the last year had
been one of activity for the associa.
ton and that it had been PARTICULAR
efficient in the prevention of cattle
thefts.
Markets and their extension, irriga-
ton, benefits to be derived from i'm.
%provement of cattle, and the co.rela.
ton Of the agricultural and live stock
industries we're the subjects of papers
and addresses presented during the
day.
Owing to the many matters of i'm.
pOrtance to be discussed the present
meeting is expected to be the most i'm.
portant eve held by the association.
The beef trust investigation will be OK.
haustively discussed, and the associa-
ton will also consider and act upon
the subjects of interstate commerce
regulation and better railway service.
The attend auce is unusually large and
thoroughly representative of the great
est industry of the Lone Star state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
spotted Fever In New York.

NEW lORk, March $50 danger
GUS is the epidemic Of cerebro spinal
meningitis, Or spotted fever, in the
poorer sections Of the city hat the
health department officials \ alarmed
and say extraordinary steps must be
taken to stamp it out.
But what handicaps them in their
work. is the fact, admitted by them,
that physicians. while knowing it is a
germ disease. do not know how to
treat it successfully. Last year there
were len deaths in the city from the
disease. and the year before there
were only 2.l. Last week the number
of deaths vas IS. The number in the
corresponding Wees last year was
only eleven.
The health commissioner has asked
for an appropriation TO employ en-
perts 20 make an Investigation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
FIFTY BURNED TO DEATH.
Boiler Explosion Causes Horrible Disaster
In BrOcktOn Factory.

BRoCKTON, Mass. March 30
Within an hour after the 600 or more
employees at the f. B. Grover shoe
factory had begun work today a boiler
blew up in the factory engine-room,
wrecking a section of the building and
starting a fire that destroyed the
building and spread to other build.
ings near by. The factory, a large
four'story wooden structure, was in
ashes within an hour. The flames ex.
tended to several dwellings and to the
Dahlbor block, across the street from
the Grover factory.
The greatest difficulty was expert.
enced in ascertaiuing the number of
dead and injured, owing TO the fact
that an L of the factory in which some
company hands were At work was al
most completely wrecked and many of
the men and women had no chance to
escape.
The remains of 50 persons have been
recovered from the ruins of the fac
tory. Seven bodies have been identi.
fed, but only three or four positively.
Fifty.three persons are known to be
still missing, the names of 81 of whom
have been obtained. Many others are
reported missing, but it is considered
possible that some are at their homes
in neighboring towns. At this hour
253 survivors have been accounted
for. The estimates of the dead range
from so to so, and of the injured from
30 to 100. Many persons not serious.
ly hurt went to their homes and did
not report their injuries.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Affecting Whites On Reservations.

HELENA, March 20.-''It is an es.
tablished principle Of law that white
people living upon reservations en-
braced within the bound aries of a
county must pay taxes upon their pro.
perty, including taxes for school pur-
poses, and such children therefore
have the right to attend the public
schools of such county. And it there
fore follows that where parents of
children are liable to taxation for
school purposes and their children
are entitled to the privileges of at.
tending school, that all such children
should be enumer ated in the school
census in the district in which they re.
side and that the district is entitled to
its share of the school moneys as
shown by such census. However, the
above opinion applies only to child
rem of white parents and of such In
disns as have severed their tribal re.
liations."
This constitutes the essence of an
opinion prepared by Attorney Cen
eral Galen in response to a letter from
p. l. Cole, county attorney of Tetor
county, who desired to know If child,
rem living on the Blackfeet Indiar
reser v alton should be included in the
school census, in order, if so, that the
county might receive its per capita
| apportioument thereon.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Many Homes Are Flooded.

WHEELING w. Va, March 2l.-The
Ohio river this morning was 80 feet
above low water and was rising at
the rate Of four inches an hour. 1t is
reported that the damage to property
will be immense. Within so miles Of
here 10000 homes are inund ated (.
Railroads are tied up and all the
mills are closed.
PI1TTsBCRG, March q. Another
and greater food threatens this Sec
ton. For "a hours, heavy rains have
been falling all over the country
drained by the Monongahela and its
tributaries and reports received today
show that all the streams are rising
rapidly.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29

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, 1905-03-29
treated succinctly and with equal

treated succlnctIy Q with equal
power.
"They are the blanket that smothers
the struggling flame of civilization.
these grand dukes, the tombstone that
holds down the coftined soil of Rus.
sia." The story is portentious in Its
tone, so great and so cruel are the
sufferings Of the people. 1t gives an
understanding of the horrors of the
revenge that is perhaps even now be.
ing taken.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29

test against any action BY which our
church may ever seem to be compro.
missed, and We plead with the officers
OF the board TO decline the gift, or to
return it If it has been accepted"
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-18

the senate we're almost balanced.
Warren showed that he dared not
stand for his convictions against q
majority OF his party.
This man from q n%eighboring west
ern state admits that he believes New
Mexico should be admitted as a sep
arate state. He knows there Is a
close fight on. Many OF his republi.
ran associates. and all OF the western
men with one or two exceptions win
have manhood and decency enough
TO vote for the separate admission Of
this territory. Warren will be brand
cd all over the west as a poltroon and
a weak coward. II he does violence to
his convictions and votes against JUS
,tice to this territory because an east
ern faction Of his party happens to
want him to.
We have always heard that Warren
was an honest and an able man, but
II he repeats his course of last year,
he will find few westerners who can be
made to believe II.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-18
TIE RATIONAL TREATMENT.

The American Tuberculosis exhi-
bition held III New York ? couple OF
weers ago. aud which attracted the
attention Of the whole nation, served
to establish once more the claims Of
the southwest from a climatic stand.
point. The leading physicians. without
exception, laid much stress upon the
Importance Of rest. good food and un'
limited quantities Of the best air and
sunshine II the treatment Of the dis
ease, and assrsats many. 81 them IN
pressed the importance Of altitude ~
we'll. The general sediment auons
the large Aumber ot physlcians yhP
attended wsys that Whit "a m
could be accomplished IN Any clihaSh
which furnished the maximum Of sun.
shine and dry aif WI The best and
1t wal considered a.. advantage 4
these conditions could be obtained at
Z reasonable. elevation.
So great was the impression made
upon the asssmblase By, the exhibits
from the west that a number OF east.
ern doctors made arrangements %
leave for this section to study the
climatic conditions and to observe the
results that were being obtained In
the southwestern sanitariums.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-18
TAXATION IN Nsw MEXICO.

H.TFe 80 .&tAAA - 49,
The. New Mexican hopss that the
WASHINGTON Post misguided Judge "A.
EAt Freeman when It makes him say;
axakion under the present admins.
4tAttq4 hn tecorpera oher3es epeyd9n
endurance: and this too While the
government Of the United States 10
paying In the neighborhpod Of ona,half
Of our legitimate expenses Of govern
ment" New Mexico and It's people
have dealt very kindly with Judge
Freeman, they have hon0red him ana
shown their appreciation Of his ability
and services In a number Of ways. The
Judge will hardly deny that his taxes
for 1905 are certainly not higher. III
dollars and cents that he would have
to pay had he remained In his native
state OF TENNESSEE! nor that some Of
the big cattle outfits In the lower Pc
cos Valley would have to whack up
much more handsomely In other COM
mOnwealths than they do In New Mex.
leo. He a scarcely have overlooked
the recent census bulletin which
showed that the railroad lines In New
Mexico are assessed less than ten per
cent ON their commercial value al.
though the assessed valuation In
other states. including Tennessee,
ranges from 40 to 100 per cent and
faxes must be paid accordingly. nor
will Judge Freeman deny that the
valuation Of other property In this
Territory Is less than 0ne-third on the
average of It's true value and that the
per capita expenses OF the Territory
Of New Mexico are less than the per
capita exepnses OF the state Of Pen
nsylvania. or the state Of Colorado, OF
the state Of Tennessee. Why should
the Judge therefore growl about taxes,
which certainly do not rest heavily
upon him personally or upon any of
his friends.--New Mexican.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-18
the WEST.

Papers which come Ia our exchange
table from the north and south. from
the east and ~ own west reiterate
that the sentiment OF the east Is toe
much against the west To permit oi
justice being done W. on any question,
They point out that western men arr
left on the important committees. that
western states cannot secure q fair
share Of the appropriations, and refer
To many instances OF discrimination
against the west. The east admits II
and many OF the papers say frankly
that the policy OF the east Is opposed
to that OF the west and that II Is self
preservation that actuates the eastern
members.
But western men have after all
shown a great deal Of aptitude In hold.
Ing their own. The east opposed the
reclamation service, yet the west no
cured that ~benihcent legislation.
There are always some men among
the eastern memebers who may be de.
pended upon to do justice regardless
OF sectional considerations. ASS the
years 90 on. Il will become easier FOR
western Iicn- 70 fuve their way. THE
population, u shifting rapidly west.
ward. me center VIII soon be west
Of the Mississippi The far eaate rn
states have reached the limit of their
growth and are struggling desperate.
" to hold their own. The great wesf
has already commenced Its develope.
ment. The vast trade with the Orient
Ii IA IT. infancy. the resources Of the
states and territories OF To west are
wholly embryonic. Where one acre
Of land 10 cultivated today. by the
application Of scientific methods OF
cultivation and the conservation of
Dur waters. nifty may be cultivated
tomorrow. The mines, the forests. the
commercial .apd climatic r~esourcss.of
the west are still undeyeloped.
Even unto the slow brain Of the
farmer who clings to the rocky New
England hillside = beginning to pen.
citrate the news Of the land Of promise
whore opportunity and expansion and
wealth are offered. A rotton borough
like Rhode Island now denies Justice
to the west end Affects = superiority
that would be disgusting II It were
not amusing. The day ii not FAR dis.
ant when the great states Of the west
will exert their influence and will re.
fuse to allow such insignincent strips
of territory an equal voice In the gov.
ornment with themselvAs. There ID
nothing palmer to him who will OBJ
serve the signs Of the times than the
,~tcrdnnCiss ,tLstF are itx.ung To-. ~
rapid upbuiiding Of the west.