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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Big Mining Deal In Fergus.

LEW1sTOWN, Sept. 2l.--The mem.
bers of the Fergus family, owning the
great Fergus tract of 1850 acres ex.
tending northeast of Kendall, have
sold all the underground rights and
such surface rights as may be neces.
sary for dumps, mill sites, etc., to the
Fergus Gold Mining company of Chi.
cago for s2,999, $50. AS soon as the
trans action was closed up a meeting
OF the company was held and the fol-
lowing officers and directors were
elected: H. NJ. Rae, president: A. S.
Wright, vice president: David Hilger,
secretary: George j. Bach, treasurer,
and John A. Drake and w. H. Fer.
gus complete the directorate.
The l,50O.foot diamond drill that
has been employed on the Drake
properties at Gilt Edge was moved to
the Fergus tract today and tomorrow
will be in operation. This company
expects to strike the great Kendall
blanket vein on the flat, and if sue.
cessful will have one of the biggest
cyanide propositions in the world.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Want Government Jobs.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-''From the
first of last January up to June 81, P"
said an official Of the civil service
committee, $50, 900 applications were
filed 10y men and women seeking ap-
poiutmen.s IN the government service,
aud vf this number about $4,000 took
the examin alton. AS a rule, some.
thing like lO per cent. Of the people,
who file applications fail to take the
examination.
The idea that some people have
that there is but slim chance to get
into the government service through
the medium of competitive examina.
tion Is contrary TO our statistics.
Nearly one.half. or more accurately
speaking, 35 per cent. Of the appli.
cants who pass the examina alton are
appointed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Burbank Refutcs Hercdity Theory

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.-At q
dinner given recently by the state
board OF trade to Luther Burbank, the
horticulturist, he delivered a speech
which is noteworthy as containing q
hat contradiction of the evolutionists
that heredity plays more important
part in the development of character
than environment. Among the i'm
portant things which he said he had
learned to study and know by the
study of plant life were these:
''There is no doubt that If a chile
with vicious temper be placed in ar
environment of peace and quiet the
temper will change. Put boy of gen
tie white parents among Indians and
he will grow up like an Indian. LIE,
a child born of criminal parents have
a setting of morality and decency, and
the chances are that he will not grow
into a criminal, but to an uprigh,
man. -.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
AN UNWILLING CONTRIBUTOR.
defeated Democratic Politician Questions
President Of Insurance Company.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-In an open
letter to President John A. Mccall of
the New York Life Insurance com.
pany, Franklin Leonard Jr.. a defeat.
ed democratic candidate for congress
in the Seventeenth district of this city,
today asked MIR. Mccall how much Of
his money paid on life insurance
policy had been used to defeat him.
MIR. Leonard's letter was prompted
by President McCall's statement be.
fore the Legislative investig ating com.
mittee that he had ordered a contribu.
ton of about S4s, 900 to the republican
national campaign fund in 1904. The
letter follows:
Dear Sir: Last year l held poll.
cy amounting to s2O,O0O In the New
York Life Insurance company and
paid the yearly premium. At the same
time was nomin ated for congress by
the democratic party in the Seven.
teenth district. This was y close and
doubtful district and you will doubt.
less admit that large sums from the
republican campaign fund were ex.
pended in the district. Personal
am satisfied that these funds helped
materially to bring about my defeat.
81 would particularly like to know
how much of my money paid to your
company in trust for my little family,
after my death, together with the funds
OF more than $4,000 other democrats
and friends who cast their votes for
me in the Seventeenth district, was
used to bring about my defeat and to
defeat the will of those voters.
~ venture the opinion that even my
republican opponents would hardly
advocate the use of my funds and the
funds Of thousands of other policy
holders in this manner"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
JAPS OPPOSE RATIFICATION.
Present Memorials Declaring Conditions
Of Pence IRE Illuminating.

TOXIC, Sept. 22.-The number of di-
ferent individuals and associations
objectins to the conditions of the peace
treaty and asking that its ratification
be refused, exceeds ~. The most con.
spicuOus Of these is an address signed
by six profa, sor- of the Imperial uni
versity, one \of whom recently was
placed on th retired list owing to a
strongly worded anti.peace thesis, Of
which he was the author.
The memorial OF the professors, as
published. strongly urges the necessi.
ty Of refusing the ratification of the
treaty of peace recently concluded,
which it condemns as entirely annull-
ing the purpose of the war. as stated
in the declaration of hostilities. 1t
also states the existence of indisputa.
BILE reasons for the refusal OF ra,itica-
tion, as the treaty Is deemed to be
pregnant with elements of humiliation
and future danger to the interests Of
the nation.
1t has trans pired that. notwi.h-,anL-
ing Premier ka,sura'- assurance to
the editors. there exists clause OF
the peace treaty by which Japan
agrees not IL forif. the Strait OF
Soya. Iu,ense indignation is felt over
this concession among influential
men, by whom it Is deemed the great.
est humiliation Japan has ever suffer.
ed, as a restriction Is thus placed on
her territorial liberty. Some 60 so
far as to say ,;at the indignation is
uubearable ard is the blackest record
10 the history uf the country.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Western Union Must Pay,

ST. PAUL, Sept. %. The state su-
preme court decided in favor of the
state today in the suit of the State of
Minnesota against the Western Union
Telegraph company. 1t was suit TO
collect taxes on valuation of the
company's property in the amount of
81 900. 900.
This valuation is based on an as.
sessment upon the company's fran.
chi>e. The company resisted the taxa
ton of its franchise claiming that the
state constitution did not give that
right. The court holds that franchises
OF all kinds, although intangible, are
taxable
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Freight Wreck In Tunnel.

TACOMA, Sept. pa wreck in the
center OF the two-mile Northern Pa.
ciac tunnel through the Cascade noun.
tains occurred at o'clock this morn.
ing. Eight freight cars loaded with
wheat leaped from the tract on &C.
count OF broken rail and were
crushed into bits. No one was hurt,
but great difficulty was had in pulling
the rear Of the train out of the tunnel,
where the smoke was sitting. A pas.
senger train from Spokane passed
through the tunnel about ten minutes
before the wreck. Travel through the
tunnel will be abandoned at least sew.
eral hours.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
To Improve Wheat.

BERKELEY, CAL, Sept. 22.-H. F.
Blanchard, an expert from the agri-
cultural department at Washington,
arrived at the university today and a,
once began the work of assisting Pro.
fessor G.. w. Shaw in conducting ex.
periments designed to increase the
gluten In California wheat. Mr.. Blan'
chard will work at the experiment sta
tions and will represent the govern
ment, while Professor Shaw represents
the state in the experiments made.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Clark Gave Worthless Checks.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2l.-Charles
w. Clark, son of United States Sena.
tor w. A. Clark of Montana, has
been sued in the superior court here
for s6, 44O, on account of two checks
which he gave at Jerome, Ariz., and
which was not cashed because, as al.
legged, he had no funds in the bank on
which they were drawn. One check,
dated April "a, 1904, was for $1,000,
and the other, dated May s, 1904, was
for 50. 4lO, both being given to James
PeltOp.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Many Arson Cases Suspected

CHICAGO, Sept. 2l.-Twenty.three
arson cases, including two attempted
murders and involving fraudulent in.
surance claims amounting to many
thousands of dollars will be made the
subject of sweeping investigation by
the grand jury.
The inquiry began yesterday. One
effect of the investigation will be a
recommend alton that an arson board
be established which will keep a rec.
ord of fires reported to the insurance
companies. These greatly exceed
those reported to the fire department.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
PACKERS PAY PENALTY.
Plead Guilty to Accepting Rebates and
are Fined $4,000.

CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-Four officials
of the Schwartzchild 4 Sulzberger
Packing company of Chicago were
fined an aggregate of S25, 900 by Judge
Humphrey in the United States district
court here today. The fines followed
a plea of guilty to indictments charg.
ing conspiracy to accept railroad re.
bates. The defend ants were Samuel
We'll of New York, vice president Of
the company: B. s. Cusey. traffic man.
ager: Vance D. Skipworth and Chess
E. Todd, assistant traffic managers.
Mr.. We'll was fined go, 900, the other
three s., 900 each.
Attorney General Moody, while in
Chicago recently, was apprised Of the
condition of Vice President We'll, and
it is said agreed to accept the plea OF
guilty, with the understanding tha,
the Jail provision OF the law under
which the indictment was returned
should be waived and merely fine
imposed. The same concession was
made in the case of the other three de.
PENDANTS.
The four defend ants were charged
with an unlawful combin alton and
agreeing to solicit rebates for the
Schwatzchild & Sulzberger company
from the Michigan Central Railroad
company, the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific, the Grand Trunk Western, the
Lehigh Valley Railway company, the
Boston & Maine railroad company
and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad com.
pany. The charges were made tha,
the defendants conspired with each
other in presenting superior claim.
for damages, which were in reality
claims for rebates.
The plea made today does not il
any way affect the charge of interfer
ence with the government witnesses il
q previous Indictment returned
against Cusey and other Schw artz
child & Sulzberger men.
Attorney Morrison expects to hav'
the cases of the packers under indict
ment for violations of the Sherma,
antitrust law brought up for fna
hearing on October 2. He expects tt
get the dilatory pleas out of court b!
that time.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27

most able orator in the lower house.,
and the chief Of police of Cienfuegos,
during conflict between the two po-
litlcal parties, the Liberals and Mod.
crates.
Acting on the advice Of Senator
Frias, the government this evening
sent atrain Of five cars loaded with
rural guards. the largest number Of
whom are destined for Cienfueeoes, /,
while others will be distributed in
Matanzas and Santa Clara, where ad-
vices received by the government In.
dicate serious trouble may occur q
any time. The train also carries ar.
tillery, and the troops are supplied
with Ii 900 rounds Of ammunition.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Echo Of Kid Curry Gang.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2l.-Laura Bull.
lion, who was sent to the peuitentiary
for passing unsigned bank notes
stolen from Great Northern train at
Wagner, Mont, on July 3, 1901, At
the time OF the Kid Curry holdup, was
released today aud is now trying to
secure Communication of the sentence
OF Ben Fitzpatrick. who was convicted
of having unsigned bank notes, stolen
In the same raid, in his possession
and who was also sentenced to the
Missouri penitentiary. Fitzpatrick
was the woman's lover and it was
through her the detectives located
him.
Fitzpatrick is not thought to have
been concerned in the robbery, but
was a member of the Kid Curry gang
that committed it, and 1t was through
him the others attempted to dispose Of
a portion of the $4,000 of unsigned
bank notes which they had secured.
The robbery was engineered by Kid
Curry, or Harvey Logan, the latter
being his right name, Kid Louga.
baugh and man named Jones.
Lonabaugh, so far as is known, has
never been caught, although at first it
was thought Fitzpatrick was he. Jones
was killed in Texas while resisting
arrest and Logan was captured at
Knoxville, Tenn. The latter escaped
in mysterious manner after sentence
had been passed upon him.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Crank at Sycamore Hill,

OYSTER BAY, Sept. pa man re.
fu.ing to give his name. said he had
walked from Brooklyn to see the pres
ident. He approached Sagatuore Hill
this morning and told the guards that
he came to receive the $4,000 which
the New York Life Insurance company
had given the republican committee.
He laid he had decided to assume the
office of secretary Of agriculture.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27

Another recommend alton will be that
insurance adjusters be required to
take out an annual license. There are
about POO of these adjusters and some
of them are believed to be in collusion
with the incendi aries.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
Political War In Cuba.

HAVANA, Sept. %. - Official dis
patches received this afternoon from
Cienfuegos announced the killing OF
Congressman Enrique Villuendas.
leader of the Liberal party. and the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27

The WEEKLY RIVER PRESS isa good
newspaper to send away to your friends
in the east. 1t will save you the trou.
BILE of writing letters
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fifty million figure; II has stacked up
gold in its treasury, has created
great merchant marine, has captured
growing share Of European commerce,
has already outmarshaled commercinl
America on the Pacific. has crowded
its cities with roaring factories, ma
has given costly and triumphant equip
ment to its aggressive fleets and regi-
ments. And II has accomplished all
this out of the profit OF harvests
Cleaned from a farm area scarcely
large enough TO afford storage room
for the agricultural machinery In use
In the United States"
Could there bc n more striking proof
OF the oft-quoted words OF David Starr
Jordan, that
stability OF national character goes
with firmness Of foot-hold on the
soil"
Comparison Of hreas.
Now compare Japan and Its devel.
opment with the possibilities OF devel'
opncnt In the Middle West.
The area OF all the islands compris.
| Ing the Empire OF Japan is LAT, ,0N
square miles: of this only 1900
square miles Is available for agricult
ure, for every available acre In thai
country Is cultivated.
| The total combined nrea OF Wlscon
sin. Illinois and Indiana IL 148.3Gt
square miles, and II Ia safe to say tha
considerably more than half OF thii
area-probably more than two thirds
IL capable OF as close cultivation
md OF sustaining ns dense n popula
tion per squire mile as the cultivated
area OF Japan.
The water with which to irrignte !
now runs to waste. The water whicl
Chicago turns Into her drainage canal
instcnd OF producing Rgricult 'ra
wealth by irrlgntinR the lands Of I'LL
noIs. produces law suits with st. Loui
because II runs to waste past tina
city to the Gulf Of Mexico.
The time will come when irriEatet
agriculture In the Middle West VII
absorb every drop OF water fallini
within that territory.
And when the irrigation canals an
the irrigated farms Of the MiddI
West will dry MP the Ohio and tn
Atinsissippi rivers. just a. irriga tiol
In the Weat has dried up TulAre LAX
In California. and V rapidly ozytng u
~ Great oalt LAks 4 UAAs u
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tlon. to the disregard and neglect OF
the vastly more important problem OF
building men at home, and creating Il
citizenship which will be an enduring
national foundation forever, and en-
larging our home markets, which will
be unaffected by any foreign complica-
tions or trade disturbances.
The attention of our people Of late
has been so much absorbed by the
problems of our export trade, that we
overlook the fact that the United
States today manufactures annually n
product aggrcgating in total value the
combined manufactured product OF
the three other greatest manufactur-
Ing nations of the world. England.
France and Germany. and We con-
sumo ninety-two per cent OF our entire
annually manufactured products at
home.
Create Farm Homes.
And II every farm in the United
States were cut In two. and Il new
home created on It 80 that the number
OF farm homes, and the capital In
vested In. and labor devoted TO ngri
culture throughout the entire United
States. were thus doubled. the result
would be nm enlargement Of our popu
lntion. our home market for manu-
| incturcS, anu our power ns nntlon
almost beyond the power OF the imag
ina;ion to picture to the mind.
1t is to the development Of Its vas
agricultural resources and the creation
Of a closely settled population OF far
merp and gardeners, who will cult
| vate the soil by the most intcnslv,
methods, that the Middle West mus
look II II In to achieve It's full destin!
10 wealth. power and population.
The resources OF the great tcrrltor.
extending westward from the crest o
the Allegheny Mountains TO the on
hundredth mcridinn-thc edge Of tn
arid rcgion--and from the sources o
the Mississippi River on the north 4
Its outlet TO the Gulf on the south. ar
no largely agricultural that It offer
the ideal section Of the earth for tn
development of a nation along tn
lines OF Japanese development, witt
Z prepondenting rural population.
There n no other section Of tn
worlds surface where latent agrlcul
tural resources Of such inexhau auatibl
richneea and extent W practically IN
1sve,soe1
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Ton from Japan has not yet been
learned, and when President RoOse-
velt fails 30 see it,and demands only
more battle ships, as the lesson Of the
great nea fight which has just been
fought, be unfortunately diverts the
minds Of tile people of this country
from facts Of supreme and oyershad-
owing Importance, whicn should be
burned Into the public mind as by a
stroke Of lightning from every victory
won by the Japanese.
That lesson Is the profoundly i'm
portant fact that the japanese man.
the unit of her national strength, Is
the product of mode of life and an
environment which combines the
physical strength which comes only
from the rural life-from living next
to nature-with the mental activity
and keenness which come from con-
stant contact with his fellowmen-the
community life.
A Nation Of Gardeners.
The japanese are not nation Of
farmers. az we understand the word
They are a nation Of gardeners
There 10 neither isolation nor conges-
ti0n in their life. They dwell, the
great majority of them. not Ill great
cities, but In closely settled rural COM
munities. The ranch and the tene
ment are alike foreign to. the life Of
the Japanese.
The greatprinciple that mustcontrol
our own national development hence
forth Ii that the land shall be subdi-
vided into the smallest tracts from
which one mans labor will sustain
family In comfort. and that every
child. boy or girl, In the public schools
should be so trained In those schools
that II will know how to till such n
tract of land for livelihood.
In other words, let us reproduce In
this country the conditions SO well
described in an article from the Book
lovers Magazine for August, 1904.
from which we quote the following
while Japan is cannonadingit Its way
to rank with Christian powers as
The daily tribune., 1905-11-24

Guilty in the way of it is mere Gus
tom or habit, easily modified.
The terms of school of all CITY
schools should be changed. There
should be a short winter term. dur
ing which the time should be given to
instruction from the books and In
handicraft within doors.
There should be summer term OF
equal length during which the schools
would be transferred to the suburbs,
and work in summer school gardens.
The children should be taken back
and forth to these summer school gar
dens at public expense, as they are
now taken to and from the consoli-
dated rural schools on the trolley
lines in some of the New England
states.
The vacation, which would not need
be SO long, should be divided between n
spring vacation and a fall vacation,
intervening between the winter city
erm and the country summer term OF
each school.
Building a Strong Citizenship.
OF course, many will hold up their
hands and say this is impossible.
England finds it impossible. as the
result of her system Of great landed
estates, to provide her people with
homes on the land. and in conse-
quence her ruin as nation is only a
question of comparatively brief
time.
Japan, on the contrary, put forth
her hand and solved the very problem
which, to England. seems impossible,
and behold the results in her strength
and power as a nation.
1t Is only question with us, as a
people, whether we will follow the
lead of Japan, and profit by her les
sons, or follow the lead of England
AND share in her eventual ruin
The influences which are destroying
England are at work steadily and in.
sidiously in this nation, and though
1t will take longer for them to work
our ruin, 1T is sure to come if we do
not hnd way to root the great
majority of our people to the land in
homes of their own, as Japan has
done, and as we can do, unless we
are as blind and as impotent in deal
ing with cur national problems as
seems to be the fate of England.
IN the carrying out of this great
patriotic purpose of building strong
citizenship by building rural homes
on the land, we are. at the same
time, doing that which will create
the greatest possible commercial
prosperity, and develop to the high
est attainable point, not only the re-
sources of the Middle West, but of
our entire country.
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nor military equipment, nor manu-.
featuring skill. Western nations will
fail fully to grasp the secret Of the
dynamic intensity of Japan today, and
will dangerously underestimate the
formida be possibilities OF the Greater
Japan--the Dai Nippon-of tomorrow,
until they begin to study seriously the
agricultural triumphs Of that empire.
For japan, more scientifically than
any other nation, past or present, has
perfected the art of sending the roots
OF its civilization enduringly into the
soil.
Progressive experts Of high author
ity throughout the Occident now ad-
nit that in all the annals of agri-
culture there is nothing that ever ap-
preached the scientific skill Of Sunrise
husbandry. Patient diligence, with
knowledge of the chemistry OF soil and
the physiology Of plants. have yielded
results that have astounded the most
advanced agriculturlsts In Western
nations"
The Safe Foundation.
The creation OF the conditions above
described under which the people OF a
nation are rooted to the soil In homes
Of their own on the land, Is not only
good craftsmanship and the highest
patriotism. but it is the only safe foun-
dalton for an enduring national
structure.
To ignore and neglect this founda-
ton while we build battleships, equip
armies and annex Islands and dig
Isthmian canals, is as fatal mistake
as It would be to build a twenty-story
skyscraper In Chicago without any
foundation but the mud of Lake
Michigan
We need not muster out our armies.
nor dismantle our hattleships nor
evacuate the Philippines, nor stop
work on the IsthmiaE Canal, but the
fact remains. as clear as the sun from
an unclouded sky Mt monday, that the
attention of our people as nation Is
rlveted on our naval and military af-
fairs and sch mes of foreign exploita-