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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
Vest Pocket Brewery.
Butte NJ

A Rhinelander, Wis. chemist has
discovered a process for the manufac.
ture OF tablet beer and there is moth.
ing left to desire. We have many
branches of tablet food and drink, but
beer was wanting. Now is the void
filled and the JOY of the explorer, the
soldier, the total abstinence advocate
a nd the picnicker is complete. The
e xtract Of the Wisconsin chemist con-
tains. according to his announcement,
an alkaloid from hops with $500 times
the strength of the crude article and
the active principle of malt with II, 200
times the strength of the common pro.
duct of the best barley. With these
ingredients is produced a tablet that
on contact with water produces in.
simultaneously a beverage containing
3. per cent. alcohol, which is all there
ID in the best of beer. A single ounce
will make $50 schOOners or about 30
gallons, of pure beer, and it Is thought
the extract may be so cheaply put up
that one may have beer in the home
Or anywhere else at the rate Of about
1000 glasses for a dollar.
OF course the brewers are pooh.
pooling the invention. They declare
such an extract, were its deriv alton
possible, would produce q tlat.tasting
liquid quite unlike beer and utterly
unstable. But we have milk tablets
that sustain life for athletes, mea,
tablets that keep invalids alive, and
effervescing lemon and other extracts
that make delightful drinks. Surely
man must not suffer for his sins tina,
the beer tablet is denied him. The
brewers cannot hope to obstruct the
march of progress. To hold the mar
ket they must get in and manufacture
beer tablets as we'll as the ''loose'
article.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21

ia comparatively slight, but 1t happens
to come at just the growing season of
the crops, and the soil ia so wonder.
fully retentive of moisture as we'll as
pr ductive that from Is to 30 bushels
of wheat per acre, and other crops in
proportion, can be raised on as little
as IL or Is inches of rainfall, which
in eastern states would not suffice to
half way mature a crop. The ''dry
farm experts state that there are at
lie ast one hundred million acres of
and distributed throughout the west.
ern states, in some places in very con-
siderable tracts and in other sections
in small patches, where the climatic
conditions are such that the lands will
yield crops as good as the average
farm lands of the Mississippi valley.
This class of development by better
cult alton of the soil, in connection
with the introduction by the govern.
ment OF foreign plants specially adapt.
ed to American arid land conditions,
and further joined by the great agri-
cultural development under national
irrig alton will cause in the next 10
years q mighty transform alton in the
vnst
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
photographers May strike.

ST. PAUL, June l2.-Diss abstraction
expressed among the l, 100 telegraph
operators on the lines of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific may
cause "a general walk-out as the result
Of a conference between the manage.
meut of the roads and II. b. Perham,
national president OF the Orde OF
Railway photographers. 1t is estimated
by members of the union that the sit
ua,ion is so grave that there would be
no surprise if a fight We're i~uaugurated
agains, both the Great Northern and
the Northern Pacific.
The Joint general committee OF the
telc-raphers of these two roads has
been in session for the past few days
arranging for some definite move in
case Of u disagreement between the
general managers OF the two roads.
The issues a, stake on both the roads
are the old questions Of the wage
! scale and over time pay.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
Brief and Pertinent.

The Iowa doctors may not look as
wise after they cut OF their w~hiskcrs,
but they will charge lust as much a.
before.
President Roosevelt doubtless re-
grets that international etiquette will
no, permit him to congratulate Ad-
mirul Togo on the success, of his bear
hunt.
All young married women should
be able to make bread, says a writer
on domestic economy. Most Of them
are, but their husbands are not al
ways able to eat it.
1t is understood that Mrs. Lease
former husband. who runs a drug store
ut Wichita, is still dazcd by the repor'
that she allowed two men to intimldat
and silence her in her own house.
American surgeons are naturally
surprised Il, the statement of a Berllt
surgeon that they use the knife too
much. There are still quite Il number
of people in this country who hav,
not been carved.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21

ry and this plant have saved Senator
Clark nearly $500 900. The operation
of the decorative marble, wood and
plaster factories at Ravenswood, Long
Island, has also resulted in q great
saving.
The recent purchase of the Henry.
Bonnard bronze factory in this city
was undertaken by Senator Clark
more as a means of expediting work
upon the house than for any other
reason. The bronze work is to be a
feature Of the house when completed,
including as 1t does many of the larg-
est pieces eve constructed in this city.
Because a press OF other work made
it impossible for the foundry to turn
out the work as rapidly as Senator
Clark wished it, the purchase of the
entire plant was decided upon by him
so that it could be exclusively devoted
to his work.
The fact that Senator Clark has,
by the purchase of these different
plants, held down the expense attend
ing the building OF his house must not
be allowed to convey any misleading
ideas as to its cost.
The term economy in its generally
accepted use is a MISSIONER when APP
piled to the Clark house. Not ever
Mr.. Hull. of the firm Of Lord, Hewlett
X Hull, designers of the house,dares fix
with any degree of confidence the date
Of its completion, and its total cost is
q matter yet in the realm of specula.
ton. The estimated cost when the
work was begun six years ago was
81, 500 900. Now the actual cost will
probably soar to the $4,000, 900 mark,
if not higher. Just what figure will
be reached i, not yet known.
When done, the house will include
many Interesting and unusual APP
poiutmeuts. There will be a swimming
pool, a s,atuary hall and a picture
gallery having a moving stage so ar
ranged that it can be raised or lowered
by electric power, converting the gal.
lery when desired into a private thea
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
Gcttyshurg Veteran Dead.

MINNEAPOLIS, June Ii. - COlone,
William Colville, of Red Wing,
Mimi, who led the famous charge Of
the First Minnesota regiment at the
battle of Gettysburg, vas found dead
IN bed today at the Minneapolis sol
diers' home here. He was to partici'
pate in the celebration of the reunion
of the regiment today. He was ::
years old.
The First Minnesota, commanded
by Colonel Colville in the latter par
Of the war was the first regiment Of
fered for the civil At Gettys
burg 264 men were in a historic charge
Forty-three returned alive and unin
jured. Colonel Colville. who led wa
wounded seven times.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
Municipal Corruption In Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, June 13.-Amid the
the cry Of ''thieves" and ''crooks,'
and under the protection of a squad
Of police, the councils committee on
street railways today referred to the
city solicitor. for bis opinion as to
their legality, four bills repeating
ordinances granting street cat COM.
panies the right to use ITO miles Of
streets to lay tracks without requiring
any compensation for the franchises.
The meeting was in all respects as
sens ational and as stormy as that
held by the committee on finances
some weeks ago, when the gas lease
was under consideration. The IRE.
pealers'' we're introduced at the in.
stancelof Mayor Weaver, and the &C.
ton OF the committee today is the first
setback the mayor has received since
the inauguration Of his reform move.
ment, which began with the fight on
the gas lease.
Another sens alton today in the pc.
litical situation is the arrest of Frank
II. Crave, select councilman from the
Thirty fourth ward, on the charge of
violating his councilmanic oath, BY
being interested In city contracts,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
SENATOR CL.ARk'S MANSION.

The mansion that is being built in
New York by Senator w. n. Clark is
one of the sight, Of the big metropolis.
1t towers high above the surrounding
structures and is of q style OF arehi-
lecture that differs from all other man
sions built by m~illionaires who have
made a display of wealth in that direc-
ton. Some time = an extended crit
icism of Clark's mansion appeared in
Golfers Weekly, and now comes the
New York Tribune with this sketch Of
the Montana millionaire's house build
ing experiences:
new home at 9Th ave. and 18th street,
New York. has been in process of con-
struction since 1898, and Is not finished
yet. has been driven to an extremely
unusual though apparently etfertiv,
course, both TO protect himself aGain,,
extortious of mechanics and to insur,
the completion of his house with rea.
sonablu speed. One after another Sen
ator Clark has purchased in quieh
succession six big plants %produciu-
materials used in the work Oh hi,
house. These purchases include a BIZ
granite quarry plant at Bangor, Me.
u marble working plant, a wood work
ing factory aud a decorative plaster
plant ut R~avenswood, Long Island
and the Hcnry-l5onuard bronze fouu
dry in Manhattan.
Senator Clark'e eyes Were upeue,
to what he might expect IN the con
struction of his house when a grant,
company, with whom a $500, 900 con
tract had previously been signed
raised its figures to 100000. on III,
the ground that alterations in Ii,
plans entailed greater expense to tn,
quarry. Senator Clark had au,ici
pated some such move, aud before tn,
astonished contractors fairly realize,
what had happened he had purchase,
a white marble quarry of his OWL.
Possessing a quarry. the OWNERSHIP
of a finishing plant became necessary
and an excellent n was quickly pur
chased. 1t is estimated that the guar
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
IMMIGRATION FROM THE WEST.

1t Is the opinion of j. W. Pace, edi'
tor of the Montana Stockman aud
Farmer, that most of the future immi'
grafton to this state will come from
the west. Mr.. Pace has been making
q our of the Pacific coast country and
riyes the result of his observations to
this effect:
Montana's immigration will come
largely from the Pacific coast, and
especially from the class of people,
who, following the rush, will find that
the intermediate country offers as
good or better fields for human effort,
with as large a reward for activity.
l asked q railroad man on the train
a mar who had lived in Milwaukee for
a Der of years. what had been his
general idea of Montana. He had ex.
pressed amazement at the agricultural
development that he saw in the Vel.
lowstone and in the Gallatin valleys.
He said he had accepted the general
supposition among easterners that
Montana had just two resources-miu.
ing and grazing. He could not say
just how he received the impression,
but he had it firmly.
We Of Montana cannot quite under.
stand why the eastern mar should be
carrying such an impression of our
state. We do feel that we don't de.
serve the reputation, and the question
is now how to correct these impress.
sions in the eastern mind. There is
not a question that they are damaging
to our material progress. The absurd
stories that have been written abou,
Montana and the Irregularities" of q
small percentage of the people are al
the bottom of such ideas as the Wis
cOnsin railroad a seemed to have,
Montana has never concentrated
any effort towards immigration. The
homeseeker could buy u ticket tC
Seattle or TO Portland for s. NOR.
than he could to Montana points, and
as he got an eight hundred mile ride
for s., he just went on to the coast.
He may have started out with the
idea that Montana was his destina.
ton, but after a talk with the eastern
railroad agent and the offer of a very
cheap ride to the coast, he concluded
to 90. He finds that the coast people
are looking for him and that prices OF
land have enhanced-mostly through
his having awaited himself of the 8;
ticket from Montana outoward tn,
salt water. But he is going to take
look around and then start east agar
and look carefully as he goes. Tn,
tide of immigration is rolling east
ward through Oregon and Washing
ton. Most every nan who has settled
In eastern or central Washington
during the past few years came tc
Portland or TO Seattle-because the
ride was cheap. Then he drifted back
toward the east and found the lanG
that he had passed by to be what hi
wanted for home making. Therefore
Montana will get her new settlers
from the west-they will come her.
first and then drift back. They viii
be poorer several hundred dollars be
fore they get finally settled-but that
all in a life time and Il part of the eX
pense of a home hunter.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal tire atment 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, 1905-06-21
secures Patent Tor PioW

WASHINGTON. June l5.-Jesse Trip.
lett, Of Cascade. Montana, was today
awarded letters patent on his NE"
pillow. Triplet, spent years IN s1uoy
and experiment, on his invention,
which he thinks is far the most effect
i've agricultural implement OF its kind
IN the world.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
THE OHIO SITUATION.

F. M. Mccartney, Chairman of the
Ohio State Executive Committee OF
the Prohibition party, in view OF the
denomination of Herrick for governor
by the Republicans and of the char
acter of Pattison, prospective Demo
cratic candidate, wired the Democrat
lie state convention that if 1t would
nominate Pattison and adopt pro-
hibition platform, 100000 Prohibition
lists will join you to wipe out the Re-
publican party and it's license system
off the state platform" OF course he
did not expect the latter to be doLe
and was not disappointed. Their
platform is silent on the saloon issue
and having nominated Pattison to
catch the church and temperance vote,
named brewer for his running mate
to hold the other fellows.
The Anti-Saloon League is making
"a desperate effort to defeat Herrick
and elect Pattison and had earnestly
appealed to the Prohibitionists to
name no one against Pattison. 1t
looked for while as though this
policy might be pursued but when
Pattison lodged courteous but plain
open letter from Chairman Mccartney
appealing to him to declare that he
would take stand against the saloon
in his campaign, Pattison sentiment
declined in our ranks and at the State
Prohibition convention, held on the
list inst, full ticket was unanimously
nominated. 1t is headed by Prof. Aaron
S. Watkins, of the Ohio Northern
University.
Now let the battle rage.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
Pith of the Press

Defender: When we American people
get the sense to close the gin mill door,
hard and fast and forever, then we will
make the discovery, and some of us with
surprise, that that closing was fully as
never entered that door as of the man
who spent most of his time inside it.
The People:-The Prohibition party is
the ablest as well as the cleanest politi-
lieve this, ask the Republican and Dem
ocratic politicians.
Baptist and Reflector: You may preach
until your head is gray, and you may
cameps, you may adopt all the temper
ance reports and pass all the temperance
resolutions you please in your Associa-
lions and Conventions But the saloon
keepers care nothing for all that so long
as you will walk up to the polls on cleo
ton day and vote for their men for office.
In fact, they rather like it.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
Brief and Brainy

1t is the Monday to Saturday license
that makes the Sunday Saloon.-H. B.
Milward in Hot Truth.
I would rather live a quiet, obscure life,
but I am in politics until the rumshop
is killed and our homes made safe or I
am dead.-Hon. Alonzo E. Wilson, I'LL
nois.
IT hope we may live to see the day
when our temperance people will dare
to vote as they talk and believe and when
they will discard the idea that by voting
with whisky parties they will get tenn
perance legislation" So writes Mr.. Hans
Engberg, a Cambridge banker.
The only safe rule is, that if law
is on the statute books it must be OBJ
served. If a law is Objectionable it
should be repealed, not ignored. We
need reform in the administration Of the
law more than anything else.-Governor
Folk before Kentucky Bar Association.
The drunkard there! Is he responsible?
the dram seller! Is he accountable?
Behold on his mirrored walls those beau
tifully framed documents of authority
and protection. The state there! But
she turns to her voters-"These are my
witnesses. I simply obey their voice.
The power lies in the ballot Henry
G: scholberg, representing Minnesota, in
his grafton at the Central Intercollegiate
Contest at Lincoln, Neb.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01

parties? Would they not rather be
likely to lose a substantially equal
number from their ranks, thus leaving
the moral character of each in statu
quo? Is there a single case on record
where such withdrawal was the
cause of a lower moral tone in the
character of the party chiefly affect
ed? Surely there is no reason here
why any enemy of the saloon should
continue in a party which constantly
misrepresents him on the saloon issue
in order to save his vote.
X x X
A third use of an American ballot
embody them in law and secure the
execution of such law.
What reform is proposed by either
of the other parties which citizen
casting his ballot always for the pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic would by
so doing deprive himself of fastening
for any new or better thing. To vote
with either is to vote that all things
shall continue as they have been from
the beginning and to rob ones self of
the privilege of aiding to enthrone the
highest and most practical political
thought of the nation in our day-the
prohibition of the saloon.
x X X
It is not the Prohibitionist, then,
who throws his vote away. It is
rather he who, hating the saloon with
an utter hatred, continues to give the
support of his ballot to a party which
ignores or deliberately delays this is
sue, which receives and sometimes So
licits campaign funds from "the
trade" and which habitually uses the
saloon, saloonkeepers and saloon poll
ticians to further it's ends and per-
petua & it's power.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
Tit for Tat

The legal status of the saloonkeeper
is pure and honorable, and all the ranting
and raving of his enemies cannot de-
prive him of this standing-Both Sides.
What worries you then? Is it be-
cause you feel the saloonkeeper's need
of something beside pure and honor
able' legal status? Or is it because
you fear he may lose even this? We
appreciate your endorsement of our
position that "ranting and raving"-
even resolving and praying-cannot
deprive the liquor traffic of it's legal
standing. It's enemies must hurl their
votes at it's head. And they are get
ting at it.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
THEY OWN TWO PARTIES.

The brewers, assembled in national
convention at Washington, resolved to
continue and strengthen their "impar-
tisan" position. Prohibitionists would
pursue the same policy if there were
two great parties in the land ready to
do their will. AS it is, they are build
ing up one party out of the six or sixty
which, in it's platform declarations, in
the character and record of it's candi-
dates and in it's legislative measures
and administration shall reflect the
views of the great and growing num-
bers of citizens who at heart desire
the humiliation of the saloon more
than any other political reform but
who habitually vote for everything
under the skies in preference to it.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
SALOON IN
WORD AND ALONE
As.s formerly Sec
tionaY Y. p.
BENEFITS OF "PURE" LIQUOR.

The State Diary and Food Com
mission is having hard time in find
ing samples of whisky that can be
called impure under the state law.
Of the sixteen samples analysed re-
Gently all were found up to the legal
standard. So all these stories about
the hellishness of the saloon are mere
ly the rawlings of Prohibition fanatics.
Nobody is going wrong through drink
or if any are it doesn't matter. Ii
quor inspires holy thoughts and high
endeavors and the moral atmosphere
of the saloon is as pure as that of the
prayer-meeting.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01

For some time the whisky Demo
Gratis of Venango county, Pa, have been
drifting into the Republican camp and
the temperance Democrats have been
coming to the Prohibition party.
Something like this is certain to oc-
cur wherever the Prohibition party
does business as in hustling Venango.
The new alignment is coming. Press
the battle!
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
Editorial
THAT BILL.

We enclosed big bunch of bills
with our July paper. Thanks TO
those who have RENTED promptly!
If YOU have not done so, we re-
gret it. We need the money to-
day. You have no idea how much
time and money are required to
send out bills. If you do not then
remit, but compel us to repeat this
again and again, you put burden
upon us that we are CERTAIN you
We cannot question the good in
tentions of our subscribers, But
we would like to sell few bushels
of good intentions for cash, which
is the only commodity our printers,
clerks and landlord will accept for
their services. If you can pay the
little amount you owe us, will you
not do so at once?
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
DOESN'T EVEN "HELP SOME"

The business world IS awakening
to the fact that commercially and
socially there is a vast difference be-
tween the man who earns his bread
by the sweat of his brow and the one
who earns his beer by the sweat of
his frau Recently in st. Paul wom-
an was found starved to death, her
three children covered in part with
rags, her husband in drunken stupor
in the middle of the one room that
belied the sweet word home. The
butcher is beginning to notice that
starving women consume no beef
steaks; the dry-goods man is beginning
to comprehend that ragged children
make no business for his yard-stick.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
LET'S BE FAIR.

"The Anti-Saloon League co-operates
with the Republican party" So says
the Patriot Phalanx of Indiana. That
the League is sometimes - perhaps
often-used by Republican politicians
to pull their chestnuts out of the fire
we do not doubt. But we would sup
pose a good supply of nerve would be
necessary to enable our contemporary
to make the above declaration just
across the line from state in which
the League is putting forth the most
strenuous effort of it's history to de-
feat the Republican candidate for
governor, who was nominated by
reclamation
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01

During the last year the National
Liquor Protective Bureau has printed
over 100000 pieces of literature. 1t
asks for $4,000 for the coming year.
1t says, Never before in the history
of the trade has there been a greater
necessity, numerically speaking, than
there is now for active and continued
cooperation. There never was a time
when we were faced by matters Of
such vital importance as today, and
we can only make successful fight
for justice and fair play by united eff
fort" This is joy for Prohibitionists
neither are we so slow as we might
be in the circulation of literature.