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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20
BEEF TRUSTS TRIALS BEGIN.
Packers Unable to Secure Further DELAY
BY InterpOsing Teehnicalities.

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-The last prelim.
mary to the trial of the beef trust
cases began here today before Federal
Judge Humphreys. The issues to be
tried were on ten special pleas raised
by the packers and which must be set.
tied by a jury trial before the action
is taken OF the indictments.
Attorney John S. Miller, acting for
the packers, demanded without quail.
fcation that the charges against Sam.
uel A. McRoberts, Of Armour & Co.,
one OF the defendants be dismissed at
once. District Attorney Morrison ad.
mitted that Mr.. McRoberts had testi.
fed before the grand jury which re.
turned the indictments. Attorney
Miller declared that in view of that
fact, although the defendant had en-
tered special pleas, under the law Nc.
Roberts must be discharged.
Judge Humphrey said that he under.
stood the law to be as stated by Mr..
Miller, w%hereupon the district attor.
ney entered q nolle posequi, dismis.
sing the case against McRoberts.
James r. Garfield, corporation com.
missioner, upon whose testimony most
of the governments case depends, was
among those In the court room. He
was subpoenaed to tell what he did
while investig ating the aft air, and
whether under that investiga alton the
defendan were promised immunity in
their case.
The attorneys for the defendan INT de
manded for their clients a separate
trial in each case, and Attorney Mil.
Ter spoke at length on the rights Of
the defend ants to such trials. He was
interrupted by Judge Humphreys, who
asked:
I'm cas of two p~ostofice burglaries
we would order them to stand trial to.
gether, would We not?"
"Yes your honor" replied Mr.. Mil.
Ter.
Other attorneys for the packers
made lengthy arguments for separate
trials and District Attorney Morrison
objected for the government. The de.
bate finally subsidized into conference
and II was agreed that the defend ants
would stand trial together. The sc.
lection OF a jury will begin tomorrow.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20
Congressional Proceedings.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The house
will dispose OF the statehood question
before the holiday recess, according
to the plan formulated today. The
precise manner in which statehood is
to be granted to four territories will
be set forth in what is known a. the
Hamilton bill. giving statehood to
Arizona and New Mexico as one state,
and to Oklahoma and the Indian Ter
ritory as another. The bill embodies
the minor particulars agreed upon by
the conference committees of the two
houses at the last session of congress.
Representative Bonynge (Colo.) J,
has introduced q bill fixing a head tax
OF $40 on immigrants and using this
money to defray the expense OF reduce
ing immigration. He also introduced
q bill to enable President Roosevelt
to call an International conference to
secure an agreement for the interna.
tional regulation Of immigration.
The emergency appropriation bill to
provide the isthmian canal commits.
sion with funds to carry on the con.
struction OF the Panama canal will
contain no general legislation. This
was decided by the senate committee
on appropriations at a meeting last
ing all day, and at which it was
agreed to report the measure appro.
priating sll, O00, 900, the amount named
by the house bill.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20
Butter BY The Yard.

From time immemorial in Cam.
brige, q town noted for its university,
the dairymen roll the butter 90 as to
form q long stick weighing q pound,
which they sell in slices as II it were
sausage, says Lee Petit Parisien. In
the markets the butter merchants do
not need to use either weights or
scales. A simple glance is sufficient
for these merchants, accustomed to
the time honored practice. A very
neat cnt with the knife divides the yard
into halves, quarters or eighths very
exactly. And 1t appears that the Gus.
toner ia never given short measure.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20

the holder of the bonds; but who ia
the debtor: The attorney general
holds that a state institution 10 not an
entity that al occupy the position OF
q debtor, and that the only party to
which the creditor a apply is the
state.
If this contention is good law. the
attorney general holds that the various
bond issues, aggregating some $780,
600, are a debt against the state, an
amount far in excess of the amount
permitted by Sec. 2, Article XIII. of
the state constitution, which says:
Sec. 2. The legisl alive assembly
shall not in any manner create any
debt except BY law which shall be ir.
r~epealable until the indebtedness
therein provided for shall have been
full paid or discharged: such law
shall specify the purpose to which the
funds so raised shall be applied and
provide for the levy of a tax sufficient
to pay the interest on, and extinguish
the principal of such debt within the
time limited by such law for the pay
ment thereof; but no debt or liability
shall be created which shall singly,
or In the aggregate with any existing
debt or liability, exceed the sum of
one hundred thousand dollars $780,.
OO0) except in q OF war, to repel
invasion or suppress insurrection,
unless the law authorizing the same
shall have been submitted to the peo.
pie at q general election and shall
have received a majority of the votes
cast for and against it at such cleo.
ton.
The way out of these peculiar and
embarrassing complications is not
to the mind Of a layman, and
the conclusion reached by the supreme
court, after due consideration, is anx-
awaited.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20
o For WOrkmen.

DENVER, Dec. 12.-Announcemeut
of q bonus to be paid next year to la.
borers In the Colorado plants of the
American Smelling and Refining com.
pany for "faithful, continued and eff.
ficient service" was made today by
Franklin G~uerterman, general mana.
ger Of the company. The bonus IL to
be five per cent. OF the annual earn.
ines of employees who work not less
than 322 full shifts during the year.
and, according to the compauy's esti.
mate, will increase it's annual dis.
bursements for labor in this state over
o1OO, 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20
A DECEPTIVE RATE BILL,

According to dispatches from Wash
ington, several members Of congress
are seeking fame or infamy by the in
PRODUCTION of railroad rate regulation
bills of more or less merit. The list
OF proposed laws upon this subject in
cludes the revised Esch.Townsend bill:
q measure that is fathered by Repre-
sentative Hepburn, Of Iowa; q bill in
PRODUCED by Senator Foraker, Of Ohio:
one proposed by Senator Tillman, Of
South Carolina, and several others in
prospect.
Some of these rate bills are said to be
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20

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, 1905-12-20
"Prints All the News"

II any reader of the RIVER PRESS
considers it worthy of recommend alton
to friends, the favor will be very high.
ly appreciated by its publishers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
A NEW SHIFTER
Assistance for the Seaboard's Whsexy
Little Yard Engine.

To ease the strain ON the nerves of
First Ward citizens and to
facilitate shifting in the yards, the
Seaboard Air Line has bought another
engine to the local yards to assist the
wheezy little jerk-water affair which
has been a source of annoyance. Wher
the coughs and hoarse whispers of the
little dinky became unbearable, one OF
the residents swOre out a warrant
against the railroad. That was three
weeks ago. The matter was reported
to Captain E. Berkeley, the supelif
tendent, who made a visit here, as
companied by a master mechanic. The
master mechanic made an examina-
ton and pronounced the engine over
worked.
Captain Berkeley at once telegraph
ed for an assistant for the diligent.
Industrious little dinky and ordered
the yard force to treat it with more
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
LARGE STILLS CAPTURED
The Rcscnuers Made Big Capture.
Illicit Plants About Five Miles West
of Durham.

The revenue officers went on a raid
for blockade stills yesterday and cap
tured two of the largest ever captur-
ed IN this county. The two illicit plants
were side By side on. a branch six
miles west of Durham, the small
branch being thu dividing line that
separated the two plants.
Officers Pool, Jordan and another
officer were in the raiding compan-
The officers stole a march on the peo-
pie about Durham and left from West
Durham. No one here knew of the raad
until after it was made.
Full details of the raid could not
be learned, as the W officers left for
Raleigh before they could be seen by
the reporters, IN tact, they boarded
the train at West Durham and went
through here on their return TO Ra-
leigh.
The stills were rot in operation at
the time of the raid. SO it is learned.
They were each other and had
been in operation but a short willie
before, probably night before last. The
condition of the plant and surroun l.
tItS tcfIItOis SuOHcu ludt tlGTS ihI
been considerable work done.
In addition to capturing the TWO
large "coppers" the officers captured
considerable other stuff. There We're
some fifteen fermenters cut down and
a total of 1,150 gallons Of beer were
poured out.
This is the largest capture ever made
in Durham county in one day, ccr-
tainly the largest SO far as stills are
concerned. More beer has been pour
ed out at smaller plants but at his
twin plant the beer had been worked
UP to a considerable extent when the
officers reached there.
The capture Of these two stills made
four captures in that section of tie
world in the recent past.-Durham
Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
EXPLOSION IN POWDER MILLS
Four Men Were Killed and a Greal
Amount of Damage Done.

Troy, N. Y. March 2S.-Three men
were killed outright and another so
badly injured that he died a few hours
later by an explosion at the Sehaghti-
coke Powder Mills near this city today.
The men killed were:
James White and Charles Colburn,
of Hazardsville, Conn, and James
Sprague and Albert Bartlett, the latter
being new empolyes. The men were at
work in the corning mill when the ex-
plosion occurred and the cause is not
known.
The bodies of three of the victims
were blown to fragments. The fourth
victim, white, was found 800 feet away
alive but he could lot cov 1t is
a remarkable fact that M fire
among the buildings succeeded the
explosion. The explosion caused
great amount of damage to windows il
Valley Falls and Schaghticoke, ant
shock was plainly felt in this city. III,
buildings destroyed were PRACTICAL.
new, having replaced those blown III
May 10th last year at which time twt
employees were killed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
Secretary Hay.

There is scarcely a doubt that Secre-
tary of State John Hay, who sailed last
week for Europe, is in a precarlous
state of health, and there is a report
that before leaving he gave in his res
ignation, which the President accept
ed reluctantly. Ills breakdown is the
result of oyer-Work. and the country
would regret to know that it is Of such
serious character as to suggest the per-
manent retirement of MI. Hay from
the public service. Great and delicate
international questions have arisen
during his incumbency of the premier
ship and he has handled them with sig
nal skill and Judgment. There has
been practically no criticism of linn
except recently in connection with the
proposed San Domingo protocol, and
the public will be quite willing to &C
cept the assurance of his friends that
by reason of the state of his health
he was not personally responsible for
those negotiations nor for the utter
ances imputed to him in connection
with them. He has been the most pop
ular member of the administration, en-
joying in a marked degree the respect
and confidence of the country, which
will hope that he will return we'll and
resume his duties as secretary Of state.
Charlotte Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
NEW TURN TO DURHAM ROW
The City Fathers in Contemporaries
tice Pritcffard Issues a Rule Return
able April 1st-He. Also. Removes
the CAGE { the Federal Court.

Asheyille, March 25.-Major w. A.
Guthrie, of Durham, and Vice President
Andrews, of the Southern Railway, ap-
peare6 before Judge Pritchard OF the
United States circuit court, here today,
asking that the case of the city OF Dur
ham VS. the Southern Railway Counpa-
ny and the North Carolina Railway be
removed to the United States court foc
the EASTERN district Of North Carolina.
The petition was granted by Judge
Pritchard, and an order signed enEDv-
ing the case. Judge Pritehard also, is
sued an order or rule, directing J. F.
Freeland, mayor of Durham; w. J.
Christian, w. H. Proctor, L. G. ChSe,
J.. d. Pridgen, T. D. Fuller, @ E.
Rawles and w. J. Holloway, members
of the board of aldermen, and john
Sprunt Hill, to appear before him here
on April LIST and show aus why they
shoIld not be- attached for contempt
in violation of an order al the circHit
court for the eastern district of North
Carolina.
The rule for contempt IS based upon
the alleged violation by the Durham
municipal authorities Of the compfo-
mise agreement reached FL 1903, in the
circuit court of appeals by which the
North Carolina Railroad granted GER
tain privileges on Peabody street.-a3e-
cial to Charlotte Observer
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31

The Niagara power grab bills 1T
Albany are a group of measures such
as could never pass IN honest legisla-
ture.
The bills aim at the seizure and
destruction of Niagara Falls, a price
less natural asset Of the state; at tie
creation of a trust monopoly beside
which existing power and electric cor
porations will be pigmies: at the licens.
ing of this new corporate monster TO
exercise almost unlimited powers for
the condemnation of private proper
ty dn any city of the state in order
to establish its plants and rights oi
way.
Certainly Governor Higgins can veto
these bills. He could not do otherwise
under his oath of affce. But no ex
ecutive act can absolve legislators who
give the measures a carrying vote
New York World.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
DEFENDING WASHINGTON
President Commended for His Atfi-
tudc OF location of Public BtrfId-
ings.

President Roosevelt is to be COM
mended for 5Fe stand he has taken in
opposing Speaker Canon in the mat
ter of the location of public buildizsgs
in Washington. The Speaker of the
House of Representatives may be. an
estimable gentleman and on certain
lines OF expenditure a good economist.
ont he is seriously wanting in due and
proper appreciation of the means by
which the CAPITAL of this nation NAV
be made a beautiful city. There are
a few cities In this world which, in
CONSCIENCE OF the artistic engineering
skill shown i'm their upbuilding deserve
the name Of beautiful cities. The great
majority Of places where there are
concentrations of people are ugly
cities. chiefly because knowledge and
coed taste, and the power to apply,
these, have not been shown in their
development Washington is q city
which naturally possesses great posi-
bilities in the way Of municipal 1ttracA
TONS. 1t couf9 be made to be the most
beautiful city in the world. and ~
doubtedly if the work of constructing
public buildings is carried on upon
the so-called Mcmillan Improvement
plan, which represents the result of
long, patient. and well-informed effort
this greatly desired result would be at
least approximately secured. But now
comes q man like Speaker Cannon.
''drest in q little brief authority" who
for the purpose OF carrying out certain
crude notions which he entertains
would appear to propose either to
block this entire plan of DEVELOPMENT
or else so distort it as to make its final
accomplishment impossible except as
the result of tearing down a great deal
tina has been built up- We believe
that President Roosevelt is entirely i'm
III right. and is deserving Of the u
qualified support Of the American Deo-
| ole in taking the ground that the work
of adding permanent improvements tn
our National Capital must be carried
on only under the advice of the ATTEST
| experts that the nation possesses. and
/ that the representatives for the time
hing OF the American people have In
his respect a grave responsibility
thrown upon them of seeing that 80
far as they are concerned they 10 not
transmit to posterity. as the result 81
their actions. an ugly and distorted
Capital -City.-Boston Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
a POLITICAL FAILURE
Yerkes and Dixon Threw the Fat I'm
tilc Fire at the Greensboro Banquet

The banquet given by the Tar Heel
club at Greensboro last week was q
marked success as a banquet, and
proper honor was shown the distin-
guished guests present.
From a Democratic point of view.
the banquet was also entirely satisfae-
tory. There are some weakened
Democrats hereabouts, who are strIy-
ing hard to find an excuse to get into
the Republican party, and some of
them were hopeful that the Tar Hes:
clubs banquet would make the way
easier for them, but such seems not to
have been the case. The incorporate
u~tterancesn of some of the speakers set
the hair on some of these fellows and
made the way more difficult then ever.
Speaking of his matter, the Green's
boro Record says:
1T was given out OH the side tina.
the primary object of the Tar Heel
banquet the other night was to cater
to weakened Democrats-or seduce
them from their allegiance. Perhaps
but it did not work 1t brings up
what the old ignorant blacksmith said
$50 many ways to be a fool, a mai
can not miss them ALL" 1t starts off
all right and a number of Democrats
were present. Mr.. Fairbanks speech
was on the right line and was well
calculated to make Democrats feel
very kindly toward him, but Mr..
Yerkes had not been posted; neither
had Mr.. Dixon, for both made speech
es hat caused the blood to boil, and
ii any Democrats ever had a notion
of weakening, the speeches of these
gentlemen were of the rabid, bitter
wards with a vim. The talks of these
gentlemen were o fthe rabid, bitter
sort-just such speeches as were made
in reconstruction days.
So, whatever the object from a pc
litical standpoint, it was a failure and
the Democrats would not mind having
another like event pulled Off."-Char-
lotte News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
FROGS NOT POULTRY
Farmer Shaw Made a Mistake in Ask.
ing Higher Duty.

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw will
suffer in his agricultural reputation
when the history is written of a de-
cision just reached by the board OF
customs appraisers in New York. The
secretary has committed the unpard-
enable offense of confOunding frogs
legs-and Canadian frogs legs at that
with food barnyard poultry.
Some time ago the matter was put
up to- Secretary Shaw. Canadian
frogs legs were invading the territory
of the American frog-leg c%ulturist. Il
have the remedy" Quoth Secretary
Shaw. Frogs lay eggs just as mg
hens lay eggs in faraway Iowa. The;
have long hind legs. They are, there
fore, poultry. In my Darwinian minds
eye | can see how they lost their
feathers and their front legs failed to
develop into wings.
Poultry pays a duty of five cents
a pound. That will stop the deluge
of Canadian frogs legs.
So Secretary Shaw clapper on the
duty. But the importers of frogs legs
objected. They strenuously maintain
ed that though frogs laid eggs they
We're no more poultry than are rattle
snakes or sturgeon. They were amaZ-
ed that Farmer Shaw should make
such a mistake.
The board agreed with the import
ers. Frogs legs, according to the
board, are 'unenumerated and amman
ufactured articles and pay a duty Of
but 10 per cent. ad valorum. 1t can
be proved by the tariff act that frogs
legs are ''unenumerated' and by See
rotary Shaw even that they are ~El-
Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
ACID IN ALE
A Boston Brewery Company Fined foi
Such AduIteration.

The Massachusetts Breweries Com
pany was fined $1,000 by Judge Holm.
es in Superior court today after the
company, through it's attorney, Robert
A. Jordan, had entered a plea OF gull
ty to the charge of selling ale adulter-
ated with a substance injurious to
health. The fine was paid at once.
The case was based on the charge
that ale manufactured by the company
was adulterated with sulphurous acid.
DR.. Charles Harrington, secretary OF
the state board of health. made the
investigation and his findings were re
ported to the district attorney. The
Indictment of the company on two
counts followed, and the fine imposed
today was the sun of fines on each
of these counts.-Boston Dispatch.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
an poRTAN DECISION
Georgia Supreme Court Makes a KuI.
ing on the Liabilities Of stockhoid-

Atlanta, Ga, March 28.-The ST.
preme court of Georgia today render
ed an important decision regarding the
liabilities of stockholders. 1t holds. in
Allen VS.. Grant. that a subscriber TO
capital stock in a corporation becomes
a participant in a trust fund for The
benefit of creditors of the corporation
and is liable for the full or par value
of his stock. IL he has paid less than
par value for the stock. he is liable for
the difference between what he paid
and par. The decision also holds that
this responsibility attaches TO the
~trausferee of such stock where he
knows thai full value has not Dee
paid to the corporation. In other
words, the full paid par value OF the
stock becomes a trust fund for The
benefit Of creditors to which they have
the right to look for protection OF their
interests. 1t is also declared that a
trustee in bankruptcy has the right
to sue for the amount of the consoii-
dated claims of all creditors.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
Slump IN NAPOLEON RELICS
Sale of a Collection for a Very SfsalI
Sum.

For one of the most important col
lections of Napoleonic relics watch
have come under the hammer only 80
guineas was given at Christi's rooms
yesterday.
1t covered his whole career, starting
with a silver satuette of the First
Consul and ending with a lock Of his
hair and the death mask taken at st.
Helena. There were miniatures of the
great Corsican himself, of his son, tie
Inflated King of Rome, of Deslree
Beauharnais, Marie Louise. Nine. Bon
aparIe. medals, crosses of the Legion
of Honor, Waterloo relics and a rem
nant of the flag in which his coffin wos
wrapped. with spllnters of the coffin il
self.-Lcndon Mail.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31

Ii Minister Dawson should succeed
in arranging with the foreign credit
ors for the temporary appointment OF
an American fiscal agent for Santo
Domingo;
If Dominican insurrectionists should
dispute the authority of the fiscal
agent;
If the administration should under
take to protect the fiscal agent;
II the United States Senate should
resent the administrations indirect
method Of carrying out the unrati6ed
Dawson-Sanchez protocol
How would President Roosevelt get
ont Of the hole in which he had put
himself?-NeW York World.