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The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23

counted by the old pioneers Of North
ern California In the early days
Charlie could easily travel nifty miles
between sunrise and sunset through
unexplored. wild country. following the
Indian trails.
In 1870 he took up his abode with
his people just outside OF Ukiah In
later years he lived first at one end
and then another of the various ranch
erias that are on the outskirts OF the
town But it mattered not where he,
chose to stop. for the best waz al all
times his. as he did not hesitate to back
his power as chief with the might of
his iron muscles. On every possible
occasion he exercised his authority, and
demanded unauesfioning obedience
from his tribe Not only In Indian fes-
tivities, but on gala days in town.
Charlie was prominent personage,
his enormous figure looming aspicu-
ously among the crowds.
Always great orator and dancer. ON
public holidays and at big joIIincations
he delighted TO display his skin before
the admiring white man But in the
last years Of his life he positively re-
fused TO perform unless first introduced
by Robert Hutchinson, the man in
charge OF the Ukiah Morgue, and
whom the Yokayias regard as q big
medicine chief Charlies last appear-
ance was at the Fourth OF July cele-
bration, wnere. despite his great age.
the old, chief danced, karbed in the Fan
tastic costume of his race. for two
M -
1ernance displayed little or no fatigue.
although the day was intensely hot and
the dance had Involved great physical
exertion-
Posed as Wild Indian.
Thousands Of sightseers who attend
ed the Midwinter Fair in 1888 remem-
Der Squealing Charlie as the wild In
dian" The giant chief, dressed in OUT
landish fashion, was inclosed in a big
iron cage.where he howled and growled
for the edincation Of those who had
paid the admission fee. A funny story
is told or how the willy fmpostor came
dangerously near TO exposure. One day
when crowd OF spectators stood In
awed silence watching the strange
creature young woman, resident Of
Ukiah drew near the bars Of the "a ce
and at once recognized the big brave.
Charlie saw her growing srnile and
knowing her to be from his home <e,pn
at once began series OF leaps and
frantic rushes until he was very close
TO her. Between howls. and twistinrs
he managed 70 whisper NO give me
way and the girl. wiser and very
much amused, went silently on and out
OF the tent.
Charles career was more eventfui
even than those Of Cooper's heroes He
was a hard drsnker and the Indians OF
his tribe viii boastfully inform you
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23
A Ghted Youth.

You consider Mr.. Bliggins clsverr'
Tes,- answered Miss Cayenne.
But he never says anything"
No; he - clever enough to foresse
that what he might say would prob
ably not be clever. And that n vary
Pick -Me-Up.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23
Not M. 10 Give.

Teacher-Wh2t's that you have IN
ycur mouth. Tommy?
Hoy-Chewin' gum. miss
Teacher-Let me have i'll
Boy-Tain't nina niss. Biux Per-
kinz give ne lend Nv IT,
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23
Made More ralk.

Intimate Friend-You sang that op-
cratic selection wretched1y. Why
didn't you try simpler NUMBER
Aspiring yocaiist-Bec4use rd rath-
ar have people say I failed on a clas-
sicai piece than 70 say sang q simple
ballad sweetlE-Sk<tchy Bits
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23
anxious for New Remedy.

We have discovered the mosquito
cure. and I undsrStard that the dis
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23

y the outskirts OF the town of
Ukiah. IN the place sacred TO
j the Indian dead. there is new
mound OF freshly packed earth.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23

q ~ HHY do philosophers spend their
A time treating OF distant evils?
/" We're tIousandth part OF the
time devoted to Browning en-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
ROOScvclt Will Not Run.

PEORIA. Illinois, July 3o.-An an.
nouncement from President Roosevelt
that he will not be a candid ate for a
third term vas received here today by
a Mrs. Kinney, sent by Secretary
Loeb. The tex. Of the letter follows:
"Dear Madam:-Your letter of re.
cent date has been received and
thank you in the presidents beha!i
for calling attention to the inclosed
clipping. | would say, however, tina,
the president has nothing to add to
the statement issued after his election
in 1904. His decision a. announced
q: that time is irrevocable.'
This expression from the president
was called forth by an editorial in TIE
Peoria Herald.Trauscript, which wat
called to the attention of the president
through Mrs. Kinney, wife OF
prominent Peoria politician. The
editorial a in the form of an appea,
to the president to accept the thire
term.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
Hitchcock Holds Up Fee.

WASHINGTON, July 3O.-Secretary
OF the Interior Hitchcock today filed
his answer to the rule recently issued
against himself and the treasurer Of
the United States to enjoin payment Of
$3.50, 600 fees to Finkelberg. Nagel n
Co., OF St. Louis, and Edward Smith,
Of Vinita, l. r., in the case of Frank
j. Boudinot, a Cherokee Indian. Sec
rotary Hitchcock denies the jurisdic-
tion Of the court on the ground that
the attorneys to whom the fee was to
have been paid have not been made
parties to the suit and further that
Boudinot's interest ia that fee, as a
member Of the tribe of Indians, will
amount to only g., which is below the
p%ecuniary medium of the courts iuris.
dictiOn.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
Funeral Of q Giant.

CHICAGO. july ga dispatch from
Anderson. Ind &. says: Five hundred
people were attracted 20 Anderson
cemetery yesterday by the burial Of
Joseph Rocecap. a farmer and the
heavies, man 10 MADISON county. Mr..
R"c-:ap weighed 400 pounds. rs
coffin wa three feet vide. .wen,y-s;x
inches deep and seven feet long. No
hears c"uiG carry j. ard a wagon
xa- a.-u a. "a funeral car. Ten men
were required to carry the coffin
and >.x'e-n m-u to lower it into the
grave. Mr.. Rndecap died of cerebral
embo,i.m. He va. 81 years old.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
broken OFF hOr

Appendicitis is increasing in this
country, which promises another pros.
porous year for the surgeons and the
u~ndertakers.
Senator Bailey calls Mr.. Roosevelt
"a man OF clay" and Chancellor
Day calls him an anarchist" An
anarchist is not usually a man Of
clay. He is a man OF beer and blood
especially beer.
"What ie q peek.a.boo waist. any.
how?' asks the editor of the Ports.
mouth, Ohio, Star. The peek.a {. boo,
you angelic innocent, Is q female gar
ment. a considerable portion of which
isn't.
Cauada's new blue law is almost as
irOn.bOund as those of Puritan days
when a man who walked through his
fields on the Sabbath was compelled
to walk reverently-unless a bull got
after him.
II was lately discovered that five
women at Washington, d. c., are
still drawing pensions as widows of
soldiers who served in the war of the
revolution, which ended I'D years
ago. These old widows must be work.
it on the relay system to last so we'll.
The Kansas movement to make shir,
tails an inch longer in order to in
crease the demand for cotton is purely
an ~altruistic one. Kansas grows some
cotton in the southern tier Of counties,
but 1t Is in no sense 4 cotton state,
As a matter of reciprocity the south
ern planters ought to eat an extrs
biscuit or two al breakfast in order te
boost the price of wheat.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
Hill Plans Big Canal.

WASHINGTON, July 30.-An official
report issued by the department Of
commerce and labor today states that
James j. Hill, the head of the Great
Northern and other railroads., has
about completed plans for the coz.
struction OF a canal TO connect the
great, lakes with Lake Winnipeg in
Canada. He is now pstructipg a
Canadian railroad, and has a line tf
steamers on the Pacific and boat lines
on the great lakes which can be made
Of valuable use to such a canal. Tie
cana! as projected will follow the
chain of small lakes from Lake Huron
northwest through the Lake of the
Woods to Lake Winnipeg and up the
Winnipeg river TO the city of that
name, the starting point Of the Hill.
Canadian system of railroads.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
RUSSIANS MAY REVOLT.
Members Of Parliament Issue Manifest,
Against the Government.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 3O.-The ! b.
lie prosecutor has started PROCEEDINGS
aga!ns. the members of the lower
house of parliament who signed the
Viborg manifesto. A manifesto TO
the peas ants of Russia has been issued
in the joint names of all the various
labor, socialist and revolution AIRY or.
CARNATIONS. This manifesto declare.
tina: the hopes reposed in the lower
house Of parliament have been blasted
by the diabolical designs OF the crowd
of grand dukes, courtiers and wealthy
land proprietors assembled around
the emperor, whose only purpose can
be the maintainence OF their power over
the people. By dispensing the elec.e d
represen. atives Of the people and ar
resting and imprisoning them, the
government has declared on the "a.
ton q war. and q struggle is begin.
ming in which rivers Of blood will flow
and for which the criminal govern.
ment is responsible. The people mus.
not spare the government.
The manifesto further .he
government of %betraying the fatherlard
by invoking the aid Of German and
Austrian troops. The people are,
therefore, urged to remove the local
authority everywhere, to replace them
by men elected by themselves and to
confscate all state funds. The troops
also must conform o the orders Of
those elected by the people. The work.
men 10 the towns, the p%easantry and
all toilers must, in conjunction with
the troops, seize on liberty and take
the land which the government has
denied them. The land thus possessed
must be handed I'VE to the popularity
elected representatives. pending the
elaboration OF the new land law.
The manifesto calls for elections on
the basis Of universal suffrage AID
with the words:
"Down with the government and the
empire. Long live the dear and free
Russian people,
The charge under which the signers
of the manifesto will be brought 10
trial is violation of article 129 of the
criminal court, which provides for
''attempts to overthrow the existing
government"
This is virtually high treason, and
the maximum pen atty il hard labor in
the mines.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
THIS COUNTRY OF OURS.

Revised figures announced by tede-
raj officials give the information tina.
over !, 100, 900 immigrants arrived in
the United States during the past
fiscal year, a number which equals
about one.fourth Of the entire popula-
ton OF the country at the time the
first census was taken in 1890. Some
OF the lessons taught by the desire OF
residents of other countries TO make
their home in the United States are
suggested by Goodwin's Weekly in
these remarks:
More than q million immigrants
landed on our shores during the fiscal
year that closed June 30th. II is a
natter Of e%xultation, at the same time
q matter of apprehension. How
magnificent and superior 10 opportuni.
ties to all others must be a land to
which the eyes Of the worlds oppressed
perpetually turn. But what DISPOSE.
ton is to be made of the host after a
few years more: The lands are pretty
we'll occupied. Uncle Sam is rich, but
he cannot any more give Us all a
farm. At the same time, an anoma-
lous state OF affairs exists. Despite
all our workers, despite this host from
the old world, there is a great scarcity
Of farm hands to secure the crops in
the old west states and TO build the
railroads now under way.
There should be q new and in,elli.
gent adjustment Of this matter. A
great labor union in New York with
close connections with labor unions
in the western states, an arrangement
with the railroads, and If necessary a
contract system through which immi-
grants arriving in New York might be
transported west, and then their trans.
portation to be a lien upon their
wages until the money should be re-
turned at, say 81 per week.
But how our country must seem to
foreign nations. We send them bread
and meat and textiles and fruit in
quantities SO vast that they mount up
into the millions every week, and on
the other hand we receive and absorb
q host Of people from their midst an
nually equal to double the numbers of
the grand army that Napoleon started
on his Russian campaign with.
The statesmen of Europe must see
that it would be stubborn work to Z
gage ia war with our country, that
from their own shores receives an.
nually enough able.bodied men I o
make an army of quite 200, 600 men.
Then u food products amount to
1000 millions OF dollars annually.
Our mineral products TO as much
more: our textiles to three hundred
millions, and the products from our
factories TO four hundred millions
more.
We lead the world in bread and
meat, 10 cotton, IN fruit, 10 steel, in
copper, and in gold and silver and
charities.
This seems to be a pretty good
country-good enough to claim the
love and devotion of all her children
and new reverence every year for her
flag.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01

10 Poland, came TO America in 1870,
setting al Buffalo, N. Y, where she
married Ferdinand Reese.
10 1872, when Napoleon and an
army Of 200, 900 Invaded Russia, she
saw the French emperor. On her
death bed she recalled wildly the cir.
cums!ances OF mis- visit ~ Volgravitz,
when he devastated. She, among
others, escaped by fleeing into the
woods.
She attributed her long lie to her
simple method of living. She had two
meals OF corn bread and black coffee
daily.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01

HELENA, July 26.-After Angus, l
the Helena assay Office will accept
silver in gold deposits when it does
not exceed the proportion OF one part
in ten. Heretofore the proportion &C.
ceptable was not in excess Of one in
30, and mining men and companies
engaged in the mining of gold and
silver have been compelled to ship
much of their product east. They will
be pleased with the change.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01

told agonies for four years, and tried
different physicians and all kinds of ONT.
ments. 1could walk only with crutches.
1t is sixteen months ago since I began
using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for
my limb and foot. The first two
months the Cuticura Remedies did not
seem to work, but l kept on using them
both. In two weeks afterwards ! saw q
change in my limb. Then l began using
Cuticura Soap and Ointment often dur
ing the day and kept it up for seven
months, when my limb was healed up
just the same as If l never had trouble.
ut is eight months now since l
stopped using Cuticura Remedies, the
best on Gods earth. l am working
at the present day, after five years
of suffering. The cost of Cuticura
Ointment and Soap was only Sc;
but the doctors bills were more like
5000. You can publish my name and
refer any one to write to me about
Cuticura Remedies. l will answer all
letters if postage is enclosed. John NJ.
Lloyd. us S. Arch Ave., Alliance, Ohio,
June p, 1906"
Complete External and Internal Treatment for every
Humor, from Pimples to S~crofula, from Infancy to Age,
vent, soc. ttn form Of Chocolate Coated pills Csc. per vial
Of GOV, may be had Of all druggists. 4 single set often cures.
Potter Drug 4 Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston. .
e6-Mailea Free, How to Cure Skin AID Blood AunoEs'"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
Fat Years.


All present signs indicate that there
will be q good increase in the contents
OF the national basket this year.
Wheat. corn, cotton tobacco, all
promise abundant yield. There is
activity in all lines Of industry.
Wages are high and show q tendency
to rise rather than fall. The Gun OF
prosperity continues to shine with un.
lessened radiance. Out of this abuud.
ance many will get much and all will
get something.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
Lived In Three Centuries.

LA PORTE, Ind, July 29.-Mrs. Fer
dinaud Reese, the olde., womar ia
Indiana, died here today aged IL:
years. According to documents IN
her possession she was born in Vol
grazi,z, Poland, in 1904, add, after
marrying and buryipg two husbands
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
prints All the News

IT any reader of the RIVER PRESS
considers it worthy Of recommendation
to friends, the favor will be very high.
~ appreciated by its publishers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01

who had charge OF me
was trying to sew up
the side of my foot,
but with no success.
When he found out
that wouldn't work,
he began trying to
heal the wound with
all kinds of ointment.
until at last my whole
foot and way up
above my calf was
nothing but proud
flesh. / suffered IN.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
SUFFERED AG0N|ES
FOR FOUR YEARS
Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh
Tried Different Physicians and
All Kinds Of 0intments INN Could
Walk Only With Clutches = Ohio
Man Says:
"CUTICURA REMEDIES
THE BEST ON EARTH"

I'm the year 1899 the side Of my
right foot was cut off from the little
toe down to the heel. and the physician
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-11-28
WOULDN' Be
HEN PICKED

1t might have been, but it WASH t
with A. P. Stowe, a well to do
business man Of Spokane, who this
morning brought an action for d.
vorce against his wife, Laura. He
recited long list of troubles con-
tanning allegations that she tried
to hen-pack him. He refused to be
hen-pecked. This created domes-
tic strife as the outcome of which
Laura called him names in front
of friends which caused him great
mental anguish and Laura's hasty
flight to Oklahoma City, where she
writes that she won't come hack.
He doesn't say he's glad she S
gone but applied for divorce with
alacrity. They weer married in
1903 and there are no children.
Another unhappy husband is D.
D. Custer. He don't say much IN
his complaint for divorce other
than that Josie has sought another
cline. They were married a year
ago. No children.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-11-28
MOUNTED POLICE ORDER
WORKS RANK INJUSTICE

horse and was sent home. Law
son, the colored policeman, was
kept on duty on the excuse that he
had no horse strong enough to
carry him. Pixies excuses were
not considered.
A now John don't know what
to do. He can't hold his job with
out a horse and he can't buy a
horse.
When the mounted police or
dinance was passed 1t was under
stood that this addition to the
force would be new men and that
the old officers would be left I'M
disturbed. But it is the old men
that are being put to extra ex-
pense.
From many quarters the mount
ed police provision is regarded as
vehicle the head of the depart
ment is using to get rid of men
he doesn't like. However that may
be, in Pixies case it seems to i'm
pose a condition for which there is
no justification nor necessity.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-11-28
ADDING EVIDENCE
OF INSANITY

The first witness called by the
defense in the Sloane trial this
morning was Lizzie Winston, one
of the Brownies addition friends of
Sidney. She stated that she had
known Sidney practically most of
his life. She always thought him
a little unbalanced but as he grew
Older she came to the conclusion
that he was altogether insane. Her
testimony remained mistaken af-
ter a rigid cross-examination by
Deputy Prosecutor Pugh.
Miss Ricardo Wheatley, another
Brownies addition girl, was the
next witness called. She said she
had known Sidney quite intimately
because he was the chum of her
chum's brother. She said Sidney
talked like a fanatic and she no.
ticed a blank expression about his
eyes. He couldn't play cards cor.
rectly and at times would throw
down his hand, go to the window
and stare vacantly out.
One time Sidney told her of a
magnificent mansion he was go
ing to build Of granite on his
fathers ranch. He was also going
to buy a 5000 automobile. He
talked so much about his father
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-11-28

IN SPOKANE

Earl Mitchell arrested on a
charge of vagrancy, last night con-
fessed to Captain Coverly at the
police station that he is none other
than Earl Lewis Smith, deserter
from the United States navy. and
wanted on charge of numbering
a Chinaman. The crime was COM
mitted more than year ago at
Shanghai. Government warships
weer in Chinese waters at the time
and Smiths deed threatened Sc
rious international complications
Following the murder Smith es-
capped on a British trader and went
to Australia. From theer he
shipped to Seattle. He began a
life of dissipation, finally going to
Goldfield, New. He had some luck
there in the mines but was rest
less and went to New Orleans. He
was always fearful of capture and
kept moving from place to place.
l. wv httho dSo ilC w 40 oil lNoICt
in this city just on general prin-
ciples and held for investigation.
Malcolm Hayward, private detec-
tive, remembered the description
of Smith and last night when he
and Captain Coverly took the pris-
oner into the chiefs private
office for the purpose Of compar-
ing him with the description he
confessed to being the man want
ed. His upper front teeth were
knocked out in his battle with the
Chinaman.
Smith says he was drinking and
gambling with a lot of Cinnamon
and white men at the time of the
murder He and the Chinaman
fought with knives and he kicked
his victim to death. There is a
$500 reward for Smith. -.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-11-28

That the new regulation estab-
fishing a mounted police corps is
working hardship on several
officers selected for that duty is
demonstrated in the case of Pa.
trolman John Pike. He has been
on the force for years and is well
liked. But his wife's sickness for
three months or more has taxed
Johns resources and he finds him.
self unable to buy and maintain
the horse required when he was
detailed for mounted service. He
told Chief Waller that he would
ride anything the city would pro-
vide. but that h ecould not fur
nish the horse himself at this time.
He has been paying for a home
and there are plenty OF other eX-
penses besides this and sickness
to absorb a policemans salary.
But the chief was memorable and
Pike was laid off with several
others.
Last night he appeared without
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-11-28
PRINTERS REFUSE TO WORK ON ANY OTHER
DAILY IN CITY EXCEPT THE SPOKANE PRESS
STILL DEMANDS INQUIRY

"The charge being made by a
member of your honorable body
in his official capacity against the
city engineer (also an OtficiaD, re
quires an official investigation
and that the city council at spe
cial meeting to be appointed, pass
upon the truth or falsity of said
charges by resolution.
81 request this investigation
not for the purpose of censurine
Mr.. Pratt, If the charges are
proven false, but to demonstrate
to the public that they have not
been defrauded and that | am not
untitled to hold important engi
neering positions, official or other
wise, where honesty ability and
integrity are essential require
mentS.
''If Mr.. Pratt has evidence OF
false estimates by the engineer
and that there is some $4,000
that cannot be accounted for, he
owes it to the public to prosecute
the guilty parties. If he does not
prove the charges he has made
he is certainly guilty Of having de
ceived the public and slandering
an official"