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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
MONTANA NEWS BR1EfLETS.
A budget Of Readable ShOrt Items o
Various Parts OF the state.

HELENA, Aug. 22.-The state has
filed in the district court at Great
Falls its appeal 70 the cast OF the state
against James s. Keerl, the appeal
being taken from the order OF Judge
Leslie directing the jury to find keerl
not guilty of the charge of murder in
the first degree.
BILLINGS, Aug. 22.-Edward Fra
ser, Of the firm of Fraser Bros, has
returned from a trip to Meagher coun.
ty where he contracted for 100, 600
pounds Of next years wool clip. He
expects to leave soon on a long trip
throughout the state when he will close
more contracts.
HELENA, Aug. 22.-The state board
OF examiners met in regular session
today, and after a somewhat pro-
longed meeting allowed bills for sup.
plies furnished all state institutions
and capital officials, as we'll as bills
for their maintenance. The principal
items we're Sl3, PA. IS for the care of
the insane, and S7,63S.63 for the care
Of the prisoners at the Deer Lodge
p~enitentiary.
LEWIsTOWN, Aug, 22.-The term of
the district court just closed has been
an unusually long and busy one In
addition to the numerous civil cases
OF importance that have been tried, and
the several parties convicted of minor
fenced to the peniteutiary, five for de.
predations on the range. one for as.
sault in the second degree, and one
for grand larceny.
FORSYTH, Aug. 22.-George Laazot,
reports an attempt to hold him up
Sunday evening as he was returning
home from town. He had purchased
a bottle OF beer in the Choisser sa-
loon, which he was carrying home.
and when near the railroad track three
men stopped him and told him to hold
up his hands. He struck one of the
men with the bottle, knocking him
down. The other two started after
him and he struck one and made his
escape. The aft air was reported to
the officers but the men could NOT be
found.
BUTTE, Aug. 22.-Coroner Eyan
and a jury this afternoon began the
official inquiry into the causes leading
to the disaster at the crossing of the
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific tracks and
Utah avenue, ia which eight persons
lost their lives Sunday night. Many
witnesses have been summoned, and
the fullest investiga alton possible will
be given the tragedy in an effort to
fix the responsibility for it. Coroner
Egan said this afternoon that the in.
quest might continue several days.
The courtroom late this afternoon was
crowded with interested spectators,
many of whom were relatives and
friends of the dead. No deaths occur.
red today among the remaining VIC
Tins of the collision, and all of the
injured, with the possible exception
of Gussie Hauft, will undoubtedly re.
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HELENA, Aug. 24.-With a plant
representing ar investment Of approx.
imately $4,000 and with a capacity
double that of the plan, that was de.
stroyed by tire some months ago, the
soap manufacturing concern of G. r.
Perry X Co. has risen from the ashes
and will in a short time be in full
operation with q of the most COM
plets plants of the kind in the north
west. The concern is running now
with a force as large as the plant will
permit. but the install alton of addi.
tional machinery will make it posi-.
BILE for the company to place on the
market an output larger perhaps than
was ever dreamed of By the founder
OF the factory.
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Notice Of Probate Of viii.

In the matter of the estate Of Eli Jarvis. de
1t is hereby ordered that Thursday, the 3lsi
Cay of August, 1905, at 10 O'Clock n. IN. of sale
day, at the cour, room Of said court, at Fort Ben
ton, in the county OF Chouteau, ,e, and the same
is hereby, appointed the time for proving til.
last will and testament of Eli Jarvis, deceased,
letters ~te>'amentary and any person interested
may appear and contest the said will, and may
file objections in writing to the granting of let
ters testanentary TO said petitioner.
1t is further ordered, that notice be- given there
of by the clerk of said court by publication no,
less than ten days before sad 3lst day of August,
1903, in the River Press, Il newspaper printed and
published in SAID Chouteau county.
Dated August 18th, 1907.
CIAS. II. BOYLE,
,.,,, Clerk of District Court.
S|"I BY HARRY G. SMITH,
Deputy Clerk
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Notice to Creditors,

Estate of Murdoch l. Graham, deceased.
Notice lie hereby given by the undersigned
admir- lstrator of the estate of Murdoch l..
Graham, deceased, to the creditors OF, and all per
sons having claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within
four months after the first publication of this
notice to the said administrator at the cfice
IF the clerk of the district court, Fort Benton,
Chouteau county, Montana.
DONALD GRAHAM,
Administrator of the estate of Murdoch L.
Graham, deceased.
Dated August 4, 1908.
First publication, Angnst B, 1905.
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Public IL Aroused,

Inc public is aroused to a kuowl-
eose OF the curative merits of that
.reat medicinal tonic. Electric Bitters,
Tor sick stomach, liver and Kidneys.
Mary Il. Walters, of 546 St. Clair
Ave. Columbus, Ohio, writes: ''For
seseral months l was given up to die.
l hao fever and ague, my nerves were
wrecked: l could not sleep, and my
stomach was SO weak from useless
doctors drugs that l could not eat.
Soon after beginning t. take Electric
bltters | obtained relief, aud 10 a
short time | was entirely cured.''
Guaranteed at w. j. Minar's drug
store: price soc.
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Horses Stroyed,

Strsyed from Willow Lake on or about April
Let, one bay mare branded n on left jaw, IS
on left hip and rs (monogrAm) vented: also one
light bay mare branded n on left jaw and half
n on LETT shoulder Tr and has year ing colt =,
mare branded n on left jaw and III mono.
gran) on on right shoulder, and has y~eariing colt
at foot branded n on left jaw. Twenty dollare
wsrd for information that will lead to their re.
covery. Address David Ross, Woolcheeter r. O.,
ASA, N. w. +.
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The Railroad Assessment.

According to an announcement made
by the state board of equalization,
ChOuteau county stands at the head
of the list in the matter of railroad
property subject to taxation. The
board has completed the railroad as
sessment for the year, the figures be-
ing practically the same as those for
1904:
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Notice to Contractors.

Bids will be received up to tie hour of noon
on saturday. september ,, 1908, tor building q
frame school house on the Teton for School Dis
trict No. :. Plans and specifications for the
building can he seen At the River Press Office
The right is reserved TO reje,t any or all bids,
Bids may he addressed to
ED. CNAPPELL, Fort Benton, Mont.
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Notice Of Dissolution.

Notice is hereby given that the partnership
heretofore existing between Albert {. Wolfe
and Samuel W. Aiken in the sheep business in
the Sweet Grass hills. Chouteau county, Mont.
is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Albert
c.. Wolfe paying all bills contracted by the firm
up until August l, 1905.
ALBERT G. WOLFE.
SAMUEL W. AIKEN.
Gold Butte, Mont, August |, 1905.
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Dissolution Of Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the partnership
heretofore existing between Claude f. Emhle.
ton and John j. .McGraw, under the firm name
or Emnleton n McGraw, has been dissolved by
mutual consent. MIR. Mctiraw will collect all
accounts and pay all liabilities of the late firm.
CLAUDE f. EMBLE ron.
Holm / MrIRAX
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Bucks for Sale,

Three hundred yearling bucks for sale at my
ranch near Chester, Mont. The mothers of these
bucks shear eleven pounds of wool and their
sires are very choice Ohio delaine rams. Price
very reasonable. Address A. K. Prescott, Hell
ena, or Jno. c. TAYLOR, Chester, Mont.
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showed that during the fiscal year
JUST ended $4,000 in benefits have
oeen paid out. Many applications for
membership we're received. and the
oroer was found to be in an exceed.
lngIy prosperous condition.
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Cattle for Sale.

About one hundred head of cattle, more or less
including about ffty steers. yeariings up to five
year-olds. Also about thirty head of horses
Will cell to suit buyer. III health is cause o
selling. j. +. MCGUIRE,
Fort Benton. Mont.
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To Whom it May Concern.

Parties who take up or ride horses branded
QE without permission of the undersigned will
be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
ID. NJ, FRlELDS.
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Bulls for Sale.

Nine head of registered Hereford bulls for sale
at $50 per head for choice. For particulars ad.
dress II. c. POWER II BRO, Ltd.
Fort Benton. Mont,
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Several articles Of household furniture for sale.
For particulars apply to
MRS. GEO. II. TAYLOR, Fort Benton,
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Ranch for Rent.

Ranch for rent on the Shonkin. Good feed and
plenty Of water. Address X, care of River
Press.
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Position as Aousekeeper.
Furniture for Sale,

wanted a position as housekeerer in q sma
famlly. Address p. care of River Press.
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The total railroad assessment last
year vas Sll4, 639 less than the above,
the increase being due to the construc-
ton of q few additional miles of track.
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NO., IN a motor boat about Septem-
Der ), and make the trip to the head
of navigation with hunting excursions
en- route.
srom Fridays Daily
Mrs. J. F. Sullivan left today on "a
v!sit with friends at Cascade.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Kinread and
Miss Anna Clink, of the Marias, are
among the visitors in town.
Mrs. D. G. Browne and Miss Ward
retained yesterday from a visit at the
Baker ranch or Highwood.
Mrs. n. Z. Chemidlin returned this
morning from Butte, where she has
been visiting with relatives for the
past ten days.
Arthur Shaw, a sheep buyer of Yer.
nou, Michigan, arrived in the city this
morning and is looking ove the local
mutton market.
II is reported that al extensive tim.
Der fire has been raging in the Bear
Paw mountains the past two or three
DAYS, causing considerable damage.
Among the instruments recorded to.
day in the county clerks Office is a
deed for about 81 acres of state land
20 J. w. Taylor, OF Harlem. The
tract is about three miles west of that
town.
The Press., 1905-06-14
A Queen,s Cola Cure.

'You have a cold, eh?" said the phy- sician. well, suppose I give you the same prescription that Queen El1za- beth usedT'
 He took down an ancient folio.
 'Dr. William Bulleyn's prescription for a cold, which Queen Elizabeth used all her life, was this," he said.
 Takes nutmegges, the root called dornike, which the apothecaries have; setwall, gatangall, mastike, long pep per, the bark of pomecitrone, of melon, of sage, hazel, marjorum, dill, spik- hard, wood of aloes, cubebe, cardamon (called graynes of paradise), lavender, peniroyalls, the bone of hart's heart grated, cut and stamped, and beat your spices grossly in a mortar. Put in ambergrice and musk, of each half a dram. Distil this in a simple aqua vitae, made with strong ale, in a ser pentine. To tell the virtue of this water against cold, phlegme, dropsy, heaviness of mind, coming of melan- choly, cannot we'll at the present, for it is too great"-Philadelph Bulletin.
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A Good En0f Rule.

Hearing that large boot and shoe establishment was giving away a present of a foot rule with every pair of boots or shoes it sold, a man told his wife about the bargain and said that as her shoes were nearly done he would give her money to buy a new pair if she gave him the foot rule when she came back, as he wanted to sell it and so get back part of the money paid for the shoes. His wife went to the shop and after a great deal of trouble got pair to please her. As she was leaving the shopman gave her a small box, which, he said, contained a foot rule. She went home delighted with her bargain and, seeing her hus- band at the door, gave him the box. When he opened 1t he found, to his dis gust, instead of the foot rule he want ed, slip of paper on which was writ ten, Avoid tight shoes"
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lzed that she must not run the risk of constant meetings The Branhams were sailing on Saturday. Why not go with them?
 At the thought she started up, her blood whirling through her veins in the old fashion. That would be tit for tat. On her last day of respite he should see her name on the list of out going passengers. Then perhaps he would regret that he had passed her with nothing but a perfunctory lifting of the hat. A lively ringing of tele- phone bells, a scurrying back and forth of passengers, and the thing was accomplished.
 It was Friday night Her trunks had gone to the pier, and in her dis mantled room she battled with tho lassitude that follows a whirl of feel ing. She was dull, emotionless, ex- hausted. The quarrel, her flight, life itself, had ceased to matter, and she dropped into a chair. It was then that her eyes fell upon the sampler.
 The small mottled square of brown canvas, with it's fading letters, had in some way escaped her attention until now and remained pinned against the wall. For an appreciable time she stared at its alphabet and figures, its stiff tree, its astonishingly alert birds, and at last at the inscription that al ways held a pensive interest for her, Amy Castle, aged eight years, 18OS." More than once she had dreamed of that name. Who was Amy Castle? The sampler had been found in chest of inherited stuff, and no one could recall the owner. The small hands that had wrought those bedimmed figures were now dust, but what had come to them before the last resigned folding? Had Amy, too, loved and suffered and lost? Had her woman's pride smiled out on the world from a face drawn with pain? Tragedy or comedy, 1t mattered little now. All that remain ed of her passing was this small, mot tied sampler. This was what 1t all came to in the end-this-
 With a swift, eloquent gesture she arose and literally flew along the cor ridor to the telephone. Quick, Cen tral, quickv she was urging a moment later "It's-it's a matter of life and deathp'
 But all she could say when she got her number was a broken "Oh, Don aldP'
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The GlOamlnG.

The "gloaming' Is by origin akin to gloom. The root idea Is to look covert ly from beneath the brows not with full open eyes, and so the gloaming is that time of day when the sun, sinking below the horizon, shines obscurely un- der the advancing shades of night. as eyes may gleam dimly from lowering broWs.
 Byron, the poet, wrote, "As gloam- Ing, the Scottish word for twilight, has been recommended by many literary men and particularly by pr. Moore in bis letters to Burns, have ventured to use 1t on account of its harmony"
 The evening star is called the 'gloam- ing' star in Scotland, and LowelPs ''The snow had begun in the gloam- ing" and Hogg's "'Twixt the gloaming and the mirk, when the kye come hame," are familiar instances of it's use
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Drinking Hot Water.

There are four classes of persons who should not drink large quantities of hot water: First, people who have irritability of the heart Hot water will cause palpitat1on of the heart in such cases. Second, persons with di- lated stomachs. Third, persons af- flicted with sour stomachs. Fourth, persons who have soreness of the stom- ach or pain induced by light pressure These rules are not for those who take hot water simply to relieve thirst, but as a means of washing out the stom- ach. Hot water will relieve thirst bet ter than cold water and for that pur- pose Is not to be condemned. But hot water is an excitant and in cases in which irritation of the stomach exists should be avoided.
The Press., 1905-06-14
Fourteenth Century Life.

In the fourteenth century people lived in mud huts, with a rough door and no chimney. It was not till a cen tury later that the erection of a chim- ney was considered more than an in- dulgence in luxury, a fire commonly being built against the mud plastered wall of the hut and the smoke escap- ing through the roof. All furniture was of wood. Most persons slept on straw pallets, with a log of wood for a pillow. Even the nobility had no glass in the windows during this time Cleanliness was not a characteristic of the people, and Thomas a'Becket was considered more than necessarily nice because he had the floor of his house strewn with fresh straw each day.
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The Doctor I'm the Duel.

A medical man in France was asked to be present at a duel in his profes- sional capacity. He got up early, trav- eled some miles, 'damed" the swords and ministered to his client, who was slightly wounded. When both honor and wound were healed he looked for his fees and sent in bill for $10. The patient replied through his wife, who wrote: ''I am told that between men there is a question of delicacy which forbids even the slightest appearance of trade in such a matter. Neither the doctors nor the seconds are brought on the ground for money. If you persist in your claim I shall, to my great re- gret, be obliged to leave to others the duty of settling this nne point with You." -
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What I. the Meaning of .svulgars"

Sir Walter Scott's daughter once spoke in his hearing of something she could not endure because 1t was vul- gar. My dear," replied her father, you speak like very young lady. Do you know, after all, the meaning of this word 'vulgarY It is only common. Nothing that is common, except wick edness, can deserve to be spoken of with contempt. When you have lived to my years you will be disposed to agree with me in thanking God that nothing really worth having or caring about in this world is uncommon."- Lockhart's life of Scott"
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Rice Ra a Snnnriflc.

'If people would eat plenty of rice they would not need drugs to make them sleep" said a New York drug clerk, pausing for a moment in put ting up sleeping potion for a wo- man. There is much said about rice as strengthening food, but few Amer jeans know that it has soporiflc pow CTS. If properly cooked 1t has. Rice should be washed many times until the water no longer appears milky. It should then be soaked a few hours, salted and boiled rapidly about thirty minutes. When cooked In this way 1t can be eaten each day with relish, and the person who eats 1t sleeps well and dreams not at all"
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THIRTY YEARS AGO.
rItems of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty years ago.l
June IT, 1875.


 Sunday was cold day for June, and Sunday night brought frost that did considerable damage in many places.
 H. E. Robbins, the photographer in the Oronoco hall rooms, has bought the restaurant and confectionery busi- ness of F. H. Shaffer in Commercial block.
 Rawitser Bros. are about to erect more tenements at Staffordville to ac- commodate the increased force of en- ployes that their enlarged business requires.
 A movement is about to be made to raise funds to repair the spring house and pump It is useles to do this if the place is to be given up, as it has been in the past, to be a gathering place for loafers.
 The gale in some sections which accompanied the storm of the 7Ih inst, in Mansfield demolished barn 4Ox5O feet, belonging to Sheppard Stearns, and 30 trees, one four feet ill diameter, were torn up by the roots or blown over.
 The Valley mill (cotton warps) at Stafford Hollow has suspended work to wait for better times. The Phoe- nix mill at Hydeville is also holding up to await sales of manufactured goods on hand. It is reported that the Orcuttville mill will also slow up or stop soon.
 Born. Stafford Hollow, 11th, a son to Henry Cummings.
 In Westford, 7th, a son to Peter Platt; Sth, a son to G. E. s. Amidon.
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FUND A CURE DYsPRPoIA --Mrs. & Lindsay, of Fort William, Ontario, C nada, who has suff red quite a number of yeals from dys1 epsia and gr. at pains in the stomach, was advised by her drug gist to take Chamb. rlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. She did SD md says, Il find that they have done me great deal of good have never had any suf- fering since I began using them" If troubled with dyspepsia or indigestion why vt take th' se Tablets, get we'll and stay well? For sale by E. K Taf'. H. F. Cady, Stafford; G.. Hall, Jr X Co , Willington.
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JUST WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD Do - MT. J. T. Barber of IrwiDvillr, Ga a. ways keeps bcttle of Cfamherlain's Colic, Cholera and DiarrhGa Re nedy at hand ready for instant use. Attacks of collie, cholera morbus and dlarrhNa come on so suddenly that there Is no time to hunt doctor or go to the store for med icine. MT. Barber says: II have tried Chamberlain's Collie Cholera and Dlar- rhe Remedy, which Is one of the best medicines ever saw. keep bottle of it in my room, ga have lad several at- tacks of collie, and 1t has proved to be the hest medicine I ever used." Sold by H. F. Cady, E K Taft. Stafford; c. Hall, Jr., & Co.,, South Willington.
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make you irritable; you can't sleep, you are unable to quietly and calmly perform your daily tasks or care for your children.
 The relation of the nerves and gen arative organs in women is so close khRt nine-tenths of the nervous pros tration, nervous debility, the blues, nleeplessness And nervous irritability arise from some derangement of the organism which makes her woman. Fits of depression or restlessness and irritability. Spirits easily affected. so that one minute she laughs, the next minute weeps. Pain in the ovarles and between the shoulders. Loss of voice; nervous dyspepsia. A tendency to cry at the least provocation. All this points to nervous prostratlon.
 Nothing will relieve this distressing condition and prevent months of pros tration and suffering so surely as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
 Mrs. NJ. E. Shotwen, of 1O3 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, writes:
 al cannot express the wonderful relief l have experienced by taking Lydia k. Ink hams Vegetable Compound suffered for a long time with nervous prostraton, back, ache, headache, loss of appetite. could not sleep and would walk the floor almost every night.
 "I had three doctors and got no better, and life was a burden. I was advised to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it has worked wonders for me.
 am a well woman, my nervousness IS all gone and my friends say look ten years younger"
 Will not the volumes of letters from women made strong by Lydia k. Pink hams Vegetable Compound convince all women of its virtues? Surely you cannot wish to remain sick and weak and discouraged, exhausted each day, when you can be as easily cured as other women.
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Sick wives and Daughters,

You have often seem them with pale fact s. poor appetite, h, ad and back ache, symptoms common to the sex. Fathers and mothers lose no time in curing Dr.
 David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Rondout. N Y. It will cost only one dollar and Is much cheaper than sickness. Write t. Dl. David Kennedy's Sonc, Rondout, N. Y., for a free sample bot Ato 9
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The laxative effeft of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets Is SO agree able and so natural that you do not realize 1t Is the effect Of medicine For sale by E. K. Taft, H. F Cadv, Staffol d j; G. Hall, Jr., X Co.,, South Willir g on.