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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
To Save Coal and OIL Lands.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-Chargiug
that the oil and coal trusts are fast
getting control OF the public lands
which bear these products. and that
when they have done so, their mo-
nopolies will be complete, Senator La
Toilette introduced a resolution look.
ing to the withdrawal from entry OF
all coal. Ignite or oil producing
lands, and the formation by the in.
terror department of a plan for their
most effective and economical develop.
ment. Though the resolution does
not use the words, 1t hints strongly at
the idea OF government operation of
these great properties.
Senator La Follette's resolution
promptly brought two or three sena.
tors to their feet. Senator Hans
brough, OF North Dakota, begged
that, as it was matter of great i'm.
portance, the senator Introducing it
give at least days notice before ad-
dressing the senate on it. TO this La
Toilette replied that he desired as
soon as convenient to speak, but would
be glad to give the notice requested.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Washington News Notes.

WAsHINGTON, June 2l.-The house
this afternoon defeated the resolution
for constitutional amendment fixing
the terms of representatives at four
years and providing that United
States sen ators be elected by q direct
vote Of the people.
A bill Of great Importance, both to
the railroads and travelling public,
was passed today by the house under
suspension OF rules. regarding check.
ing Of baggage BY common carriers.
The bill compels common carriers en-.
gagged in interstate commerce to check
baggage to its destination on trans.
portation offered whether in form of
ticket on one line and a mileage or
other ticket on another line, to the
destination Of the baggage.
The space in front OF the speakers
desk in the house today resembled q
small section of delicatessen store
and a corner grocery, with cereals,
jams, jellies, tins of peas, tomatoes,
corn, bottles of whisky and wine, i'm
ported liquors and other eatables and
drinkables scattered over the tables.
To complete the picture, there were
standard scales with weights, a gradu.
ate and funnel. These were used to
demonstrate the contention of the ma.
jority of the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce that pure food
bill is necessary for the protection Of
the people.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
NOrway's King Is Crowned.

TRoNDHJEM, Norway, June 22.-The
festivities, which began here with the
arrival OF King Haakon VII. and
Queen Maud on Tuesday, reached their
most brilliant culmin alton today in
the crowning of the king in the ancient
cathedral, which has seen the corona.
tion OF a long line of rulers of Sweden
and Norway.
Troudhjem was founded in the tenth
century, but it is not a very large city
according to American standard: it
has population Of only about 10000
and it may be imagined that the sud.
den influx OF the many thousands of
visitors, attracted by the coron alton
from all parts of the world, severely
taxed the ability OF the city to &C.
commod ate the visitors. For nearly
q week every hotel and tavern was
crowded to its full capacity and hun.
dreds of private citizens found it pro.
fitable to open their houses to the visi.
tors who were unable to find accom-
mod alton, in the public hostelries.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
For Presidents Travelling Expenses.

WASHINGTON, Juue 22.-The op.
position to the committee amendment
to the sundry civil! bill. appropriating
$4,000 annually for the payment OF
the travelling expenses OF the presi.
dent, which was begun by Senator
McLaurin. resulted today in the with.
drawal Of the amendment by Sen ator
Hale. in charge Of the bill, and sub.
seQuent passage of the independent
bill, providing practically for the
same appropriation, which was re-
Gently passed by the house OF repre-.
sentatives. The bill, as passed, reads
as follows:
THAT hereafter there may be ex.
pended, for or on account of the trav-
cling expenses of the president of the
United States, such sum as congress
may appropriate from time to time,
not exceeding s25, 900 per annum, such
sum, when appropriated, to be ex.
pended in the discretion OF the presi.
dent and accounted for on his certifi.
cate solely.
"There is hereby appropriated, out
OF any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for the pur.
poses authorized by this act, for the
fiscal year 1907, the sum of S25 ,0OO."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Senator Plat Accused.

CHICAGO, June 4.-What purports
to be proof that she is the legal wife
OF United States SEN ator Thomas G.
Plat. in the shape of an alleged mar
riage certificate dated Nov. 8, 1901.
has been turned over to her attorueys
by Mrs. Mae Catherine Wood, and q
suit to establish the validity of the
contract will soou be filed.
The latest and most sens alton al
chapter to the ENHANCEMENT which
stirred Washington and New York
political circles and in which Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
were named by the woman as being
against her, will be laid in New York
state and Colon, Mich, the home OF
Mrs. Wood, where suits will be filed
simultaneously.
According to Mrs. Wood, the mar.
riage OF Senate Plat to Mrs. Lillian
Thompson Janeway, three years ago,
will be contested as unlawful and she
will make claim to her rights a. the
legal spouse OF the octogenarian sena-
tor from New York, producing wit.
esses who will testify as to the cor.
rectness of her claim.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Enormous Meat Exports.

WASHINGTON. June 21.-Exports of
meat products from the United States
in the eleven months OF the fiscal year
ended with May 81, aggregated over
S1S0, 600, 900 in value according to a
report issued by the department of
commerce and labor. These figures
for eleven months, says the report,
show larger expectation of meats
and meat products than in the cores.
ponding period Of any other year in
the history of the export trade and an
increase OF practically sixty per cent.
when compared with the correspond
ing period of 1896.
The increase occurs in all the prin.
cipal products, but is especially no.
ticeable in lard, oleomargarine oil,
salted pork, fresh beef and fresh pork.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
President Will Visit Panama.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-President
Roosevelt will visit the Isthmus Of
Panama to make q personal invest.
cation OF the construction work on the
Panama canal. This announcement
was made at the white house today by
Secretary Loeb. 1t is expected that
the presideat will leave in October or
early in November. He will be absent
about three weeks. The trip, it is be-
lieved, will be made on one2of the big
cruisers Of the navy. None OF the de.
tails have been worked out beyond q
bare decision to make the trip. It is
likely that the president Twill be &C.
companied by Secretary Taft and
Commissioner Shonts, of the Panama
canal commission.
The president has desired to inspect
the route of the canal for some time.
and make himself perfectly familiar
with the great undertaking. He will.
be able to spend at least a week in the
zone, and In that time he will familiar.
ize himself with the situation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Defending Disgraced Senator.

TOPEKA, June %. - Friends Of
former Senator Joseph Ralph Burton.
who recently was convicted OF prac.
ticing law before one of the depart.
ments while member OF the United
States senate and sentenced to serve q
term of six months in Jail and to pay
a fine of $500, are now formulating
plans for strong effort to secure the
presidents clemency.
The petition which is to be sub.
mitted. it is believed, will suggest
that, while the former senator may
have been technically guilty as
charged, his acts had no felonious
motives behind them. It will be further
pointed out that Burton, without de.
lay, resigned his position in the ser.
ate.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
steel Trust fOrhidS Graft.

NEW YORK, June 22.-The United
States Steel corporation has sent out
az order to its vast army Of employees
forbidding any officer or employe Of
any company owned or controlled by
the Steel corporation, under pain Of
instant dismissal, TO accept any gift,
whether it be for Christmas, a wed.
ding. birthday, or any other pretext'
coming from any person or corpora
tion doing business with subsidiary
companies of the corporation or the
corpor alton itself.
Officers and employees are forbidden
to accept stock in any such concern
as a reward for services rendered or
to be rendered. aud the ownership of
such stock will have to be executed to
the directors. This order is the out
growth of the disclosures made in the
investigati by the< interstate com.
nerce commission uu railroads.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Pure Food Bill In House,

WASHINGTON, Jnne 22.-Speaker
Cannon, in announcing that the house
was in committee of the whole today
for the further consideration of the
pure food bill, was so emphatic in his
demand with the gavel that the head
flew of and rolled among the clerks at
the speakers table.
After the approval of the journal
the house at once plunged into debate
on the pure food bill, Mr.. Adamsou,
of Georgia, opening the debate in op.
position to certain features Of the bill.
Mr.. Adamson did not mean to say
that all food legislation was vicious,
but he emphatically stated that such
was true of some legislation contained
in the bill.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Will Punish Land Frauds.

WASHINGTON, June 2l.-A good
deal OF indignation is expressed at the
interior department in consequence of
the receipt of inform alton from Wyom.
ing that Henry G. Weare, who was in
November, 1905, indicted for the ille-
gal fencing for eight years, of 150, 1000
acres Of government land, worth at
current lease prices at least $1,000 q
year, who wac arraigned for trial be-
fore the Wyoming United States dis.
trict court during the May term and
pleaded guilty, was sentenced by the
Judge to one day in Jail and fine OF
$500. The light sentence was said to
be due to the recommendations of
United States Attorney Burke.
The indignation over this travesty
on justice is fully shared by Secretary
Hitchcock, who has brought the case
to the attention of the attorney gener-
al, and the district attorney has been
called upon to explain his action in
the natter.
This case and others where parties
were let off with purely nominal fines,
and costs which amounted to less than
one-fourth of what it cost to take one
of the witnesses TO Cheyenne, is hav.
ing very discouraging effect upon
the officers of the interior department
who have worked 80 zealously to se-
cure evidence to convict those who are
engaged in perpetrating frauds upon
the government.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
No Passes For Public Officials.

WASHINGTON, June 2l.-An under.
standing was reached by the conferees
On the rate bill tonight, which, it is
predicted, will result in a complete
agreement being reached tomorrow.
The pass provision, as tentatively
agreed on, will prohibit the issuance
or acceptance of passes to officers of
the national government, officers of
state governments, Of municipalities,
counties and townships. This is the
entire prohibition, the railroads being
left to use their discretion as to the
issuance OF passes to persons not in.
cluded in the above enumeration.
Members of congress are included as
officers of the national government.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
The Fourth In Panama.

WASHINGTON, June 21.-Employes
OF the isthmian canal commission on
the canal zone will have regular old.
fashinoned Fourth of July celebration
in Panama. Special excursions are
to run to Panama from all points
along the canal for the accommoda a.
tion OF persons desiring to attend the
exercises.
Money has been raised by popular
subscription among the canal employees
on the isthmus and in Washington for
fireworks, and Governor Magoon and
others prominent on the isthmus will
make addresses and lend their assist.
auce in making the day q memorable
one.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
House Passes Rate Bill.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-The house
by vote OF PIG to adopted the con-
ference report on the railro ad rate bill
today. Mr.. Hepburn, ,!of Iowa, chair.
man OF the interstate and foreign com!
merce committee Of the house and
chairman of the conferees on the bill.
called up the conference report imme.
dtately after the passage OF the pure
food bill. He asked that the report
be considered at once instead OF going
over for printing until Monday. Ex-
planning the sleeping car and anti.
pass amendments, he stated that the
sleeping car provision remains in the
bill, while the anti.pass amendments
have been modified so as to apply only
to the federal, state and territorial Of
ficers, officials Of the postoffice depart
ment in certain particulars being ex-
empt.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
REBATERS ARE PUNISHED
Heavy Fines For Corporation aud Prison
Sentence For Brokers.

KANSAS CITY, June 22.-In the
United States district court here today
Judge Mcpherson of Red Oak, Iowa,
passed sentence upon the seven de.
PENDANTS recently convicted in this
city OF making concessions and accept
ing and conspiring to accept rebates
on shipments. Judgments in the ma.
ture OF fines were assessed, as follows:
Swift & Co., Cudshy Packing com.
pany, the Armour Packing company,
Nelson Morris 4 Co., the Chicago,
Burlington 4 Quincy railway, $4,000
each, George L. Thomas, of New
York, was fined $1,000 and sentenced
to four months in the penitentiary,
and L. B. Taggart, of New York, was
fined $4,000 and sentenced to three
months in the penitentiary.
The fine OF sl5,O 200 assessed against
the Burlington covered all four
counts, the aggregate amount Of the
fines in the seven cases totalling SS5,.
600. Appeals were filed in each case
and stay of execution was granted
until June 90.
George L. Thomas. of New York
city. a freight broker. and his cont.
dental clerk, L. b. Taggart, whose
case was the first to be tried, were con.
victed Of securing rebates from rail.
ways on shipments from New York to
St. Louis and Kansas City dry goods
concerns. At their trial several prom.
inent merchants who admitted they
had signed contracts with Taggart,
testified to receiving at various times
sums OF money from mysterious
sources. Many thousands of dollars
were thus received and some of the
witnesses admitted the likelihood Of it
having come from Thomas. The ex.
treme penalty is $1,000 fine and two
years imprisonment.
The Armour Packing company,
Swift Il Co., Cudahy & Co., and the
Nelson Morris Packing company were
tried jointly and convicted OF the
charge OF accepting concessions from
the Burlington railroad. in conuec.
tion with connecting lines, on packing
house products for export via New
York.
The Burlington railroad company
was convicted on four counts of grant
ing concessions to the packing com.
panies OF Armour, Swift, Cudahy and
Nelson Morris. The extreme penalty
provided in the cases OF the packers
and the Burlington is fine Of $2O. 900
on each count, but no in risormert.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
ROOsevelt and Tillmau.

WASHINGTON, June 22.-There is q
prospect that before the end OF the
Roosevelt administration, the presi.
dent and Senator Tillman Of South
Carolina will shake hands and make
up. Recent remarks made by each OF
them indicate that no bad feeling
would be displayed il the two should
happen to come face to face.
II like Sen ator Tillman," said the
president to Senator Gallinger the
other day when the latter called at the
white house on matter in which the
South Carolinian was interested. "He
couldn't do anything TO make me mad
any more"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Awards Dredge Contracts.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-The 18TH
milan canal commissioners today
awarded the contract OF the two sea.
going dredges to the Maryland Steel
company of Baltimore, the lowest
American bidder at the bid of S262, 900
each.
The lowest bidder was VIM. Simon
OF Scotland, but the award to the
Baltimore concern was made by rea-
con OF the recent act of congress that
all purchases for the Isthmiau canal
should be confined to products OF the
United States except where it was
shown that American bids were un-
reasonable and extortionate.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
EQ uul Rates For All.

ST PAUL. June ~ President
S.ickney Of the Chicago Grea. West.
ern railway today formally announced
that the Chicago Great Western
would stop the practice Of granting
the "grain elev ator rebate."
"The net rates. said Mr.. Strickuey,
twill be the present rates, less 1t cents
per hundred weight, SO the actual
rates will be the same as before, and
the rate will be the same for Peavey
& Co. and for the Trans. Mississippi
Grain company, who received this 1t
cent rebate, as to any body else. This
Is the law, and the law must be
obeyed."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27

Interstate commerce. The attorney
general, however, gives notice that,
In all probability, should the investi-
CATION he is still making justify it, he
will bring further action against the
Standard Oil company under the
terms OF the Sherman antitrust law,
and also will take steps to insure
against the continuance, on the part of
the company, of discrimin alton in
trade and transportation. not now .
subject Of prosecution under existing
law, but especially provided against
in the pending rate bill.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
FOR A LOCK CANAL.
Senate Finally Decides CpOn Plans For
Panama Project.

WASHINGTON, June 21.-The sen ate
lost no time today beginning its con.
sideration Of the sea level Panama
canal bill with view to taking final
vote on the measure before adjourn.
ment for the day. The first speech on
the subject was made by Senate Gull
lom in opposition to the sea level
canal bill on the ground of both ex-
pense and practicability. He con-
tended that the president has authori.
ty under the Spooner act to construct
lock canal.
Senators Scott and Foraker an
nounced their intention to vote for the
lock canal, saying that they were
hopeful that at some time in the future
the canal would be deepened to the
level of tide water. Mr.. Foraker said
that he was not entirely persuaded,
but that he had decided to follow the
lead Of those who have the greatest
responsibility-the president, the sec.
retary of war and Engineer Stevens.
The debate was closed by Senator
Kittredge in advocacy Of the sea level
plan. In reply to the objection to
that type Of canal he quoted number
of engineers to the effect that it could
be completed within ten or twelve
years, not more than two or three
years in excess of the time required
for lock canal.
When the hour arrived for taking
the vote, Senator Hopkins offered his
substitute providing for lock canal.
Senator Kittredge moved to lay the
substitute on the table, but the motion
was lost, 81 to 36. The substitute was
then agreed to without division. 1t is
as follows:
That lock canal be constructed
across the isthmus of Panama con.
Meeting the waters of the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans of the type proposed by
the minority OF the board of consult
ing engineers created by order of the
president, dated June "a, 1905. in pur.
suance of an act entitled ian act to
provide for the construction of q canal
connecting the waters of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans" approved June
%, 1902.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Rich Cargo From Alaska.

SEATTLE, June 2l.-The steamers
City of Seattle and City of Spokane,
OF the Pacific Coast Steamship com.
pany, arrived here bringing with
them nearly two million dollars in
gold Decides seventy thousand dollars
worth of furs.
The Dolphin, of the Alaska Steam.
ship company, is scheduled to arrive
Thursday with over million dollars
in gold on board. This makes the
second large shipment OF gold into
Seattle and it is predicted that a
steay influx Of gold will occur from
now on.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
After the Fertilizer Trust.

WASHINGTON, June 2l.-The fer.
tilizer trust will be investigated by the
department OF justice on the charge OF
violating the Sherman antitrust law.
In making this attack the administra.
tion is assailing combination that,
il extent OF its capital, is bigger than
the Stand ard Oil corporation.
The enormous amount Of Sl0O, ,OOO, 900
is the approximate sum represented by
the combined concerns in the fertilizer
trust. In the gigantic fertilizer com.
b:ne are allied a large number of
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Won't Arbitrate.

SAN FRANCISCO, June %. - The
Sailors union is willing to accept
arbitratio of the water front labor
troubles, but the United Shipping and
Transportation association is not.
The United Shipping and Trans
portatiou association has not only
not replied to Mayor Schmitz's COM
munication, but Manager w. S.
Pearce Of the Pacific Coast Steamship
company stated today that the men
must accept the terms offered by his
company within ten days or stay out
altogether.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Will Prosecute standard Oil.

WASHINGTON, June 22.-Forma al an
nouucemeut Of the purpose of the gov
ernment to prosecute the Standard Oil
company was made today by Attorney
General Moody.
1t appears from this statement, that
the proceedings, in the first instance,
will be had under the terms of the Ell.
kin> law, which prohibits rebates in
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Senator benson Has a Snap.

WASHINGTON, June 2l.-Sena ator
Benson, of Kansas, has struck soft
thing. 1t is hardly possible that he
will see more than a week of service
before adjournment. but for that week
he will draw approximately S4,075.
His mileage will run close to $1,000;
his salary, $1,000, and he is entitled
to $75 for stationery. He has been
made chairman of a new committee,
and will control 81, l,0S9 in patronage.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Cast Too Many Votes.

PORTLAND, June 22.-The grand
Jury which has been investig atiug
election frauds in this county today
returned six indictments and addi.
tional indictments are expected to
follow. The alleged frauds occurred
in Sellwood precinct. where it is
claimed several hundred more votes
were cast then there are registered
voters in that precinct. Arrests will
follow.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
What u Horse Can Draw,

A horse can draw on the worst
kind OF earth road about four times
as much a. he can carry on his back.
On a good macad amized road he can
pull ten times as much, on a wood
paved one, - times a. much, and on
metal. = times q. much.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
schools In Canal Zone.

WASHINGTON. June 24.-Twenty.
three public schools, with an attend.
ance of l,12s and with % teachers,
have been established in the canal
zone by the various municipalities.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27

under the direction OF the canal zone
government. Five of the six muuici.
palities have adopted compulsory
laws and we'll attended schools are
developing rapidly in q country that
knew nothing of free schools before
the establishment Of the canal zone
government
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27

other corporations Thirty.one cor.
porations in all are made defend ants
in the indictment, and % individuals
aud firms. There are six counts in
the indictment. 1t is declared the eft.
feet of the prosecution is already
manifested in the dropping Of the price
of fertilizer from % to 90 a tor.