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Peonage Agent'Wiu Suffer.

New YORK, Oct. 19.-The case Of
S. S. Swartz, who was arrested on
July p, charged with peonage, will be
brought before the federal grand jury
here when Assistant United States
District Attorney Clarence Houghton
will produce his witnesses, chief
among them being Mrs. Mary Grace
Quakenbos, an attorney, who made the
complaint that caused the arrest Of
Swartz.
Swartz ran an employment agency
and was charged with enticing thou
sands of young men to go south under
false pretenses to turpentine camps in
the swamps of Florida, lumber mills,
copper coal and phosphate mines.
Numbers Of them escaped and returned
to their homes in the north, full of
fever and broken in health.
When Swartz was held in $4,000
bail on July p, Mrs. Quackenbos de.
cided to 60 south and investig ate
matters personally. In seven weeks
trip she visited the camps mentioned
in the evidence against Swartz, saw
the peonage system in operation and
returned, suffering from fever, but
with forty.seven aftidavits.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Land Grabber Is Dead.

LINCOLN, H., Oct. Is. - William
Scully, formerly Lord Scully, of Lon.
don, England, died in London yester-
day. He was peer until 1900, when
he became citizen of the United
States and resided in Washington, d.
c. His fortune is estima ated at about
$50. 900, 900. including POO, 900 acres of
land in Illinois, Kansas and Nebras-
ka. His first land was bought in Lo.
gan county, Livingston and Canga.
mon counties, this state, and the re-
mainder in Kansas and Nebraska.
William Scully was the son OF Doris
Scully, prominent in the Irish emanci-
patton cause and the first IRISH student
in 200 years to be admitted to Trinity
college, Cambridge. He studied law in
Dublin Office, later, upon the passage
OF the corn law, in 1864, selling his es-
tate and coming to Illinois. Travel.
ing through the country on horseback
he commenced to invest in land, and
by urging progressive farming, con.
tinued to acquire property up to the
time OF his death.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
May Harness Mississippi.

kEOKUK, Iowa, Oct. l7.-Hugh L..
Cooper, the Wall street engineer who
solved the problem of how to harness
the waters of Niagara and who drew
the plans which make it possible to
accomplish that greatest of all feats
in the line OF electrical development,
proposes to build dam 5000 feet
long across the the Mississippi river
at keokuk at the foot of what is known
as the Des Moines rapids.
The great Niagara Falls proposition
wac SO enormous that for q time the
country laughed and said that it was
not possible to control the mighty
forces there SO as to get POO, 900 horse.
power for commercial purposes. But
when the worlds greatest dam here is
completed, an immense power.house
l, ,s63 feet long will contain ~ immense
generators with capacity of 4,5OO
horsepower each, or a maximum ca
pacity of 2ll 800, to be utilized in OPP
Grating the industrials' wheels in many
cities.
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hands. During this period our daily
payroll will average $1,000. The ex-
pense for labor incident to the erection
of the factory has been $780, 900.
Zone feature OF the industry which
has not yet appeared to all farmers,
is the food value of the beet pulp,
which is the residue after the sugar
has been extracted. This pulp has
proved exceedingly valuable for stock
feeding in northern Colorado, where
thousands of sheep are fattened an.
nually. The demand for this feed In
that locality is far greater than the
possible supply. It is claimed by
these stockmen that the food value Of
one ton OF pulp is equal to 81 so worth
OF corn or alfalfa. This pulp will be
sold to feeders at 40 cents per ton.
"In regard to the disposition OF the
sugar, it will be sold at the nearest
markets, as 1t is not business prop.
osition to ship it farther than can be
helped. understand that the popu.
lation Of Montana is about 800, 1000,
and will say that the yearly output Of
sugar OF the Billings factory will be
sufficient to supply twice the popula-
tion for the came length OF time. As
to bi-products, there will be none. All
will be converted into granulated su.
gar
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Held Up For Water.

CHICAGO, Oct. lS.-A dispatch to
The Record.Herald from Los Angeles
says: Passengers on the Los Angeles
Limited of the Salt Lake railroad who
arrives in Los Angeles yesterday told
of q prospector who stopped q train
running 40 miles an hour in the Mo.
jave deser by tagging it with his hat,
to secure water for himself and the
burros. The train crew supplied them
all by the bucketful as quickly as pos
sible and started the Limited on its
way again.
An old Nevada law allows deser,
travellers who are in distress to stop
trains and demand water, and com.
pels train crews to provide the needed
refreshments, still holds. The old
prospector knew it, and so die the en-.
gineer.
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Guilty Of PeOnage,

HELENA, Ark. Oct. l6.-After an
all night deliberation, jury this
morning awarded Adeliue Witt S625
and Marion Emmons $1,000 against
Thomas Musgrave for Imprisonment
on plantation. The two young
women were employed by Musgrave in
St. Louis to be "companions" for his
wife. He took them to log hut on a
plantation near here and held them
prisoners. There were no other white
men there. The prisoners finally es-
capped and came here. They told tales
OF frighttul treatment and brutality
on the part OF their ADD Each
sued for $4,000.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
FIERCE STORM IN UTAH.
Great Property Loss Caused BY High
Wind and SnOwstOrm.

SALT LAKE, Oct. 22.-For the past
- hours the city and vicinity has been
swept BY wind storm of unparalleled
severity. In addition to serious in.
jury to many persons, the property
loss over large area has been gen.
eral, with general prostration Of
telegraphic communication. Property
losses heard from will amount to over
$3.50, 900.
The burning OF the Utah packing
plant, north of the city, which oc-
Cured last night, is the most serious
single loss. The building had just
been completed at q cost OF 800, 900,
and was to have been put into use in
few days. This plant, which was
erected by western men, was to have
opposed the large packing interests Of
| the east.
The greatest sufferers from the storm
were Capt. William G. Calhoou and
Driver Fred Culbranson. of the fire
department. They were caught under
a falling tree as they were driving to
a fire. Captain Calhoon had both
legs broken and Culbranson was in.
jured internally.
OGDEN, Oct. ol.-One man was killed
and $4,000 worth of property was
destroyed by deadly wind storm
which swept over this section last night
and today. William Gibbs, while
laboring to save his barn from des.
tructiou. was struck by a flying plank
and killed. The Catholic church has
sustained damages that will run into
many thousands of dollars. The
trains between Ogden and Salt Lake
have been stalled since early morn
ing.
DENVER, Oct. LIN Colorado the
storm extended TO the western slope.
10 .he valley around Buena Vista the
snow stands two feet deep on the level
and in the mountains throughout the
state the snow varies from two to five
feet in depth. Twenty two inches of
snow had fallen at Florence by night
fall.
Ia northern Colorado the snow is 20
low the storm, a considerable loss will
result to the crops. Wyoming re-.
ports general storm, which has
played havoc with wire communica.
; ton and is interrupting traffic.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Another Gct-Rich-Quick Concern.

CHICAGO, October l9.-Postottice in.
spectors yesterday raided the Office
of the Daily Market Forecast, 43s
Marquette building, which advertised
inside information on how "million.
aires were made over night" a fraud
order was issued against the concern,
and H. c. Collins, alias Harris Gates.
was arrested.
1t is charged that The Daily Market
Forecast held out alluring pros poets
to persons wishing to invest from s.
to $50 for The Daily Repu blican. 1t
promised to furnish tips Oh big moves
wich are "soon to come" in Wall
street and the board of trade. a sam.
pie of the literature which the people
say Collins sent through the mails is;
"Millionaires will be created over
night, so if you are at all inclined to.
ward the fascin ating and profitable
art OF speculation why not get il
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Cannon Pursued BY Policeman.

NEW YORK, Oct. ia dispatch to
The World from Philadelphia says
that Speaker Cannon and Congress.
man McCreary made a whirlwind tour
OF Philadelphia last night. All went
we'll until after nine-m,le trip to
Germantown had been ma le ir fifteen
minutes. The speaker car hau barely
stopped when a prespirlug bic. Gle po-
licem "a. who lad been ia pu"- in. ar
rived.
~ Ou are all arrested. -ai, the Of.
iicer, but Mr.. Cannon was hurried iu.
to the hall and some one explained to
the policeman. The chauffeur wa. no.
titled that he was under arrest and
would have to appear before a magi>
trate in the morning.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
HURRICANE SWEEPS CUBA.
Towns on Florida Coast Also suffer Dam
age From Storm.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 1S.-The tropi.
cal hurricane which swept over Cuba
breaking cable communication, passed
on to the southern and eastern coasts
OF Florida early today, cutting Off
communication south of jacksonville
and flooding various places in its
course. 1t is tonight apparently safe
away from the land.
The storm swept with terrific force,
but its path was hardly more than 20
miles in width. 1t ragged last night in
Havana, leveling all the wires in that
neighborhood, and passed over the
west end of Cuba, with the wind blow
ing at least 20 miles an hour. The
weather bureau tonight announced
that the storm has evidently passed
northeastward through the Florida
straits and is now over the Atlantic,
some distance east of the Georgia
coast.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 1S.-A
severe storm has been blowing today
on the east coast of Florida, but the
wires went down early in thecday and
it has been impossible to obtain de.
tails. Just before the wires failed the
operator at Miami reported an unus-
ually high tide, with water two feet
deep in the street. At St. Augustine
the tide was the highest in 10 years
and streets along the bay front were
inundated.
NEW YORK, Oct. l9.-The cable
operator at Havana late last night re.
ported q cyclone. Late the Havana
operator told Key West that the
storm had increased in fury, and that
the storm was leveling the inland
wires leading from the cable house.
Then followed an entire break in tele.
graphic communication. It is more
than likely that the storm has caused
damage in Havana and vicinity.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Messenger and Money Missing.

NEW YORK, Oct. lS.-No trace has
yet been found of John Gunther, the
messenger of the Lafayette Trust com.
pany, Of Jersey City, who disappeared
Monday with $4,000 worth of checks
and 1876 in gold. which he was directed
to carry to a bank. Late yesterday
the checks were returned to the bank
by express, but Gunther and the gold
are still! missing.
\ remarkable feature of the case is
that Gunther delivered to the First
National bank S12, 900 in bills on Mon
day morning. The bank officials, who
think Gunther 10 the victim Of foul
play, say he could just as easily have
made off with the sl2, 900 as the 1876.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Could Not Rene mbcr Marriage.

CHICAGO, Oct. lS.-Arrested on q
charge of wife abandonment, Felix
Rybsky, a young inventor, today told
the police remarkable story of be.
ing forced into what he termed a
"voodoo" marriage with woman 20
years his senior, who, be says, hypno-
tized him and kept him in her power.
"She had me under the influence
from the day I met her three years
ago." Rybsky declared. "She cast q
spell over me and made me fall off the
root once and break nearly every bone
in my body. have not the slightest
recollection of marry ing her,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Suit For Campaign Funds.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 1S.-An account
ing for the sum of $40, l02 alleged to
be the amount OF the republican cam.
paign fund last year in this city. was
demanded in suit filed today by
Louis H. keutzr a former city EN-.
ploye, who says be contributed Sl56 to
the fund. The petition asks for an
accounting and for the distribution
among the contributors of Sl4O, ,OOO
believed to have been on hand after
the campaign expenses were paid.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
OIL. TKl ST Is GUILTY,
An Ohio Grand jury Returns Verdict
Against the STANDARD Oil Company.

FlNDLAl, Ohio, Oct. ls.-The Stand
ard Oil corporation has been found
guilty by jury in the district court
here OF maintaining and operating a
trust in this state. The jurt found
that the corporation had violated the
antitrust laws of Ohio in that it owns
the Buckeye Pipe Line company aud
the Manhattan Refining company, cor.
porations which under the laws were
supposed to be competing corpora.
tions.
The jury found incidentally that the
stock of both is owned by the Stand.
ard Oil company, of New Jersey, and
that the officers of the two local cor.
porations were given proxies for large
blocks of stock in their companies and
directed how to vote the stock by Off.
cials of the trust.
This is the first case in all the prose.
cutions against the trust where it has
been convicted of violating the law, by
jury. There have been many indict.
ments and many decisions pronounc
ing various undertakings of the cor.
poration as those Of a trust, but it re.
mained for the Ohio jury to bring the
first conviction.
Fines of from $50 to $1,000 may be
imposed upon the corporation in each
count, and the charter OF the corpora
tion, which gives it the right to dc
business in this state may be forfeited
All the attorneys for the corporation
except Judge Troupe left the city yes
terday confident that the jury woulc
fail to agree.
NEW YORK, Oct. l9.-The legal de-
partment of the Stands ard Oil com
pany has given out the following state
ment:
"The verdict in Findlay against the
Standard Oil company carries with II
a single fine of from $50 to $1,000
which is the maximum according tc
the law under the information on which
the suit was brought. The defendau
lawyers in the case are taking imme
diate steps for appeal, which, before
final adjudication, may pass through
three courts, namely, the court of com
mon pleas, the circuit court and the
supreme court of Ohio. They feel con
fident of securing a reversal on mani
fold errors in the trial just con
cluded."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24

court of the United States next Mon.
day and ask that mandate be issued
for the execution of sentence in the
case of former Senator Burton, of
Kansas, whose prison sentence was
affirmed yesterday by the supreme
court The delay IN asking for issu.
ance Of mandate is to enable Mr..
Burton to conclude his business ar.
rangements,
The manda ate will be placed in the
hands Of the United States marsha al
for the eastern district of Missouri,
who will serve it on MIR. Burton, who
then will be placed in prison to begin
his six months sentence.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
For Mckinley Memorial.

CANTON, o., October 1S.-Secretary
Hartzell of the Mckinley Nation al
Memorial association, today gave out
statement showing total contribu.
tions of 1856, ,564, to which should be
added interest on investments and
bank deposits. and profits on invest
ments to the sum OF S74,062, making
the total of receipts s63O,627. OF this
sum there has been expended s17S, 1856,
leaving on hand the sum of S45l, 74O.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Many naturalization Frauds.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. l9.-WhOlesale
naturalization frauds in the Hennepin
county districts courts have been dis
covered. The evidence as been turned
over to United States authorities and
62 warrants have been issued. Moses
Winthrop, a we'll known democratic
politician, has already been arrested
and bound over to await the action of
the federal grand jury.
1t is said that large numbers of fnr.
eigners have periured themselves in
taking out their second papers in
overstating the time they have been in
this country for the purpose of max.
ing voters of them.
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right aud help yourself to few slices
OF the melons that are to be cut:
"Opportunity will arise wherefrom
the wide awake speculator can make
$1,000 on an investment of 800 or
100000 on an investment of $1,000" "
The literature was sent to c. A. De.
laney of Chicago. He invested but re.
ceived no returns and finally com.
planned to Postoffice Inspector Stuart.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
ArmOur's GeacrOus Gift.

CHICAGO, Oct. Isl ames j. Hill q
recent address at recent banquet OF
the Chicago Commercial association
impressing the necessity of "keeping
the Boy on the Farm has been re.
sponsible for an annual donation of
So. 900 by J. Ogden Armour. through
the International Livestock associa-
ton, for scholarships to be competed
for by the state agricultural colleges
at the livestock shows.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Good Jobs On the Isthmus.

WASHINGTON, Oct. ls.-It was de-
cided at the conference between the
president and Secretary Taft at the
white house today to appoint a gov.
ernor as we'll as an American minister
for Panama, although the names OF
the persons selected have not yet been
announced. Secretary Taft will not
accompany the president on his trip
to the isthmus.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Terrible Work Of storm.

NEW YORK, Oct. l9.-The Evening
Telegram prints dispatch from Ha-
vana reporting that more than one
hundred persons are dead from the
cyclone there. The cruiser Brooklyn
was torn from her moorings and
thrown upon the shore. The Evening
kilograms special is as follows:
Over one hundred are dead from the
worst cyclone which has ever visited
this city. The whole American feet
was menaced and the cruiser Brooklyn
was torn from her moorings aud
thrown upon the shore. More than
100 tents in Camp Columbian have
been blown to atoms, houses unroofed
and one trooper fatally hurt.
Fortun ately, the storm gave every
body half an hours warning and
when the blast arrived the marines on
shore had sought shelter in the war;
ships. All but the Brooklyn rode out
the storm. These ships include the
Minneapolis, Texas, Denver and
Prairie.
When the tempest reached its high.
est point. buildings were shaken as
by an earthquake, street cars were
carried from their tracks, windows
blown in like paper and roofs and
doors swept away. Several of the
smaller houses we're blown from their
found dations and wrecked. These were
situated IN the poorer quarters and
were causes OF 20 many deaths among
atives.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Fire shoulders Six Months.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. l9.--Fire de.
stroyed an uninsured stock of pianos
valued at $4,000 in the storerooms Of
Kohl x Chase, the owners, at Bush
and Franklin streets, at 1870 this
morning. The blaze is attributed by
the fire department to debris believed
to have been smouldering since the
site was swept by fire April 20.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
To Redistrict the Military.

WASHINGTON, Oct. ls.-The presi.
dent has decided to rearrange the mill.
tary divisions, making Chicago the
headquarters of the northern division
under command Of Major General
Greeley. and St. Louis the headquar.
tiers OF the southwestern division, un.
der command of Brigadier Gener al
FupS>On
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-24
Burton Will Serve sentence.

WASHINGTON, Oct. ls.-Solicitor
General Hoyt, Of the department OF
Justice, will appear before the supreme
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Quarrel Between King and
Kaiser Grows in Bitterness
The Two Great Monarch Are Now Playing Chess With All
Europe for the Chessboard.

his hot temper to say indiscreet things, des-
ignated King Edward in conversation which
was overheard by half dozen or more
persons as an ''unredeemable rake" and a
profligate son who had not abandoned his
profiigacy after ascending the throne. The
kaiser also referred to the incongrulty be-
tween Puritan England and her pleasure
loving monarch, and remarked that the
ruler CT the British empire ought above
everything to be remarkably careful in re-
gard to his private life and morals.
The kaiser, however, did not confine him
self to criticisms of King Edwards morals
and of his fondness for the fair sex. He
also criticised the character of several of
King Edwards chosen personal friends. He
stated that King Edward had remarkable
preference for plebeian and democratic
company, whereas his duty as monarch
required him to limit his circle of friends
to aristocrats and high-born personages-
A monarch could, of course, meet plebeians
on friendly terms at special and occasional
times but it was mistake for king to
choose his principal friends from any but
the very highest circles of society. The
kaiser referred especially to King Edwards
close personal friendship with Sir Thomas
Upton. and said on one occasion, II cannot
understand how my uncle can confer his
personal amity on that low-born tea trader
and shopkeeper." When Sir Thomas Upton
attended the Kiel regatta in 1904 on board
the steam yacht Erin the kaiser refused to
receive him and sent him none of the invi-
tations which were literally distributed
among all the other English visitors of dis
tinction. King Edward, who had previously