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view declares, the Western Fedora.
ton would be regarded by citizens
"as an outlaw organization" and the
Louisville Courier.Journal calls upon
the authorities to "'search out every
member of the band and prosecute
him mercilessly."
Colorado has probably suffered
more that any other state from the
alleged crimes of the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners, and in looking
over the newspapers OF that state we
tind that most of them are not pre-
judging the case, but anxiously await.
ing the outcome of the trial. "What
the people desire more than anything
else Is that the truth relating to the
horrible crimes ia Colorado and in
Idaho shall be made known" says
the Pueblo-Chieftain.
The Denver Republican, which
seems to have tried and condemned
the leaders of the miners federation,
holds them responsible for a good
many of the crimes 10 Colorado, and
declares that they attempted to ''es.
tablish the will of the association as
the law of every mining camp in the
Rocky Mountains" To quote:
The last act in the terrible tragedy
OF Colorado's attempt to maintain its
authority against the conspiracy of
the Western Federation of Miners to
rule in Cripple Creek, Telluride and
other mining districts has been begun.
The conspiracy of murder, by which
some members of the federation hoped
to re-establish their power and to
wreak vengeance upon judges and
other officials who maintained the law,
has been exposed, and it now remains
to be determined what punishment
shall be assessed against the conspir.
atOrs.
1.-The Western Federationsof Miners
Is a conspiracy against the freedom of
every nan to work when he sees proper
to do so and al attempt to establish
the will Of the association as the law
of every mining camp in the Rocky
mountains. The Cripple strike was
called for the purpose of forcing re-.
cognition of the authority of the west.
ern federation and in no sense to i'm
prove the condition of the men who
were at that time working in the mines
of the district. Because it failed in
this particular, murder was resorted
to as q means of intimidating working
men and their employers, and later
for the purpose of furnishing the Off.
cials and others who maintained the
dignity of the state and enforced the
law"
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certain degree of unconscious humor
10 the %moralizing of a man of figures
when he takes up the subject of a pen.
sion and puts the system on trial from
the standpoint of what 1t costs the
country. The simple fact that there
would be no country but for the heroic
self-s %acrifice of the pensioners and
their fellow soldiers.who fell in battle
or have passed away since the war, is
not considered BY these mathemati.
clans with a narrow range of vision.
They look forward with dismay to the
probable number of pensioners who
will survive twenty years from now,
and mention the millions in money
that must still be paid with a sad
shake of the head over the steady ex.
penditure. But suppose that the
Union had been destroyed. How then
would the account stand as a matter
Of dollars and cents? These same
statisticians can reel off the colossal
record of the growth of the United
States since the close of the civil war.
They know that this country has be.
come the richest Of nations, aud that
its present wealth exceeds one hun.
dren billions. If the matter is to be
stated 10 figures, give both sides. The
truth Is that there is something
higher than money in tbs preservation
of the United States, and something
higher than money in the duty and
privilege of seeing that the men called
upon by the government to save it
from disruption are not neglected and
forgotten as old age comes upon them.
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Peculiar and Pertinent.

Only one couple in over 1000 live
to celebrate their diamond wedding.
About $4,000 people are on the
sea. either as passengers or seamen,
every day in the year.
A village of the bronze age has
been found near Domodossola, Italy.
1t had apparently been burned.
Beautiful vases, bracelets and lance
heads have been discovered.
Experts calculate that Irish Dogs
are capable Of turning out SO, ,OOC
tons OF fuel a year for 1000 years,
and at the present prices this would
realize $50, 900, 600 a year.
Sunday in Heligoland begins on
Saturday at 6 p. tn, when the church
bell is tolled, and continues till the
same hour on Sunday. Formerly no
vessel could leave port between these
hours.
The worlds smallest inhabited is.
land is that on which Eddystone light
house, In the English channel, stands,
for at low water it is only 30 feet in
diameter. At high water the base OF
the lighthouse, which has a diamete,
of only q little over % feet, is com
pletely covered by water.
Measuring p inches in q direct line
and % following the curve, the tooth
Of an extinct African q%uadruped has
been brought from Abyssinia by Bar
on Maurice de Rothschild.
The wettest place in the world is
said to be C%herrapunji, in Assam.
Its average rainfall for the last ter
years has been nearly 81 feet. Mex,
to this come the environs of Bombay,
with some q feet annually, though
the single station Of Debunduscha in
Kamerun has had for several years
an average Of "a feet, chiefly in cum.
mer.
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WALLACE TALKS OF CANAL.
Expert Engineer Gives His Views Regard
ing Panama Project.

WASHINGTON, March 2O.-John F.
Wallace, formerly chief engineer of
the isthmian canal commission, toda az
testified before the sen ate committee
on in,eroceauic anals on the type of
the canal to be constructed across the
isthmus. He was asked to state HE
views and prefaced his examination
with a general statement, which in
part follows:
Mr.. Wallace, in advocating an ap.
p~roxima.ely straight sea level canal,
of ample width and depth, Us the best
type, urged that any other plan which
places restrictions upon the probable
permaneucy of the canal itself as we'll
as upon the speed and the size and
number OF vessels passing through it,
must render the canal far less valua.
BILE: that the deterrent factors in this
connection are relative time and cost,
and that in approaching the discus.
sion the question of how much money
the American people supposedly are
willing to invest in the canal and how
much time they are willing to wait for
its proper accomplishment should be
considered. He said that judged by
the capitalization and dividends now
paid upon the stock of the Suez canal,
it is apparent that the rates charged
for transit through it are excessive
and that thus material saving would
be offered by the Panama
route.
Assuming that the present tonnage
through Suez, of say 10000, 600 ton.
per year, would pass through thu
Panama canal, even at a dollar a ton
there would be-" he said, ''an ap
proximate income of $40, 600. 600, which
is sufficient to justify an expenditur,
Of $500, 900, 0OO.'
The latter figure he deemed ample Il
constructs the canal at a sea level. Al
to the additional time involved, Mr.
Wallace predicted that upon u basi:
"of reasonable energy and the use o
proper business methods of admins
tration, a sea.level canal can be full,
completed in ten or to be entirely safe
say twelve years, and a lock canal
even il only 60 feet above sea level
would require only three years less.'
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Miners Fear SnOwsltdcs.

DENVER, March 2O.--Owing to the
fear of snowslides all mines in the
neighborhood of Silverton, Colo.,
have been closed and 5000 miners
have fled to Silverton for safety. Six.
teen men have been crushed or suffo-
Gated to death by the avalaaches In
that district in the last three days,
and the property loss is estimated at
$500, 900. AS the railroad between
Silverton and Durango Is blockaded,
Silverton is now facing a famine.
a train which had been four days
on the road reached Crested Butte,
the terminus of the branch OF the Den.
YER X Rio Grande, running north
from Gunnison, last night, all the
snowbound passengers, it is said have
been rescued without undergoing spe'
cial hardships.
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LABOR LEADERS ON TRIAL.

The sensational allegations against
labor leaders, in connection with the
murder Of former Governor Steunen-
berg, of Idaho, have become u matter
of national interest. a confession
made by one of the murder suspects
resulted in the arrest OF several labor
union officials. who are said to have
been members Of an inner circle that
planned murders and other lawless
acts, and the guilt or innocence of
these men is now a subject upon which
public opinion is divided.
1.-THE confession is u recital OF as
hideous u story as the annals OF crime
have ever produced says the Louis
Vile Courier-Journal, which regards
the confession as the truth. since many
of the details have been verified by the
police. even to the finding OF bombs
in the places described. AS Il result
of this confession William ID. Hay
wood, secretary treasurer Of the fed
Grafton of miners: Charles II. Meyer,
president, and George a. Pettibone Of
the same union, have been arrested IT
Denver aud taken to Boise City
Idaho, to stand trial. The union il
reported to be determined to fight tn
case to the end.
Many Of the papers are reserved il
their discussion Of these arrests, fear
ing to prejudice the case, yet they ar
loud in the denunciation OF such act
of violence. "a very few such occur
rences," says the New York Globe
''would cause a popular uprising ant
sweep the country clean Of uniOnisn
for many years to come,' and tn
Portland Oresonian remarks that 81
is now a fight between :every .Ameri
a citizen who believes in right, JUS
tice and freedom aud the tieuds who,
with bomb, stilletto aud pistol, seek &c
make it impossible for any America,
citizen to enjoy these blessings" |
conviction should follow, the Spo
kane, Washington, Spokesmau.Re
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Bold ROtter Escapes.

OAKLAND, Cal, March 2O.--Chased
and surrounded by q crowd of several
hundred persons, who cornered him in
q pile Of empty piano and drygoods
boxes, u young, we'll dressed man,
who had only u few minutes before
robbed a grocer, John Il. Tucker, Of
$500 today, fought his way through
the crowd and escaped.
The robbery occurred at West Sixth
and Hope streets in the business Sec
ton OF the city, and was a bold affair.
The man entered fuckers store and
grabbed u sack containing the cash.
He succeeded in escaping through the
door. with Tucker in close pursuit.
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DIXON DOES GOOD WORK.
Secretary Hitchcock Decides To Begt
Work On Sun River Project.

WASHINGTON, March 2O.-Secre.
tary Hitchcock this afternoon signed
an official order authorizing the ex-
penditure of half a million dollars for
immediate construction of the Sun
river irrigation project.
When the Montana delegation was
here a month ago the department
promised them $3.50, 600 for the work.
Afterwards, on account of a lack of
funds the order was revoked and the
engineers we're ordered elsewhere.
kilograms and letters Of protest were
sent from Great Falls to Congressman
Dixon and he Immediately took the
matter up with the president and Sec
rotary Hitchcock, who still adhered to
his position that there was no money
available.
Congressman Dixon then went to
work Cd the theory that more money
would be available from receipts for
the present fiscal year than were indi.
Gated by former estimates. Tabu.
lated figures of the land Office receipts
for the first seven months of the fiscal
year showed gross receipts that indi-
Gated a million dollars in excess of the
estimates. On the showing made, Sec.
rotary Hitchcock this morning gave
official approval to the order setting
aside half a million dollars instead q
$3.50, 900 first promised and afterward
revoked. Construction work has been
ordered begun Immediately.
This is probably the most important
and successful work accomplished by
Congressman Dixon during his whole
congressional service and he is re.
ceiving congratulations from all west.
ern members of congress.
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Offisinl Had Big Srutt.

KANSAS CITY, March 2:.-John +.
Steele, for two years agent in Kansas
City, Kansas, of a brewing company,
testified in the Gibson custer hearing
in that city today that for many
months he had paid James $. Gibson.
county attorney, s. Il month for each
..ioint" or illicit saloon owned by the
brewery in Kansas City. Kansas. AS a
of immunity from prosecu-
ton. Steele also testified ,ha, Gibson
demanded S. Il month. but on a COM
promise reduced the amount TO s..
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1913, 221 less than the modified esti.
mates Of the p~ostofice department.
This amount exceeds the appropria-
ton for 1906 by s10,351, 755.
Legislation for freeing the mails of
heavy matter and for gaining infer.
nation to reclassify mail is included
in the bill. One provision appropia.
ates $500 to pay freight on all
supplies for the service. These sup
plies are to be Withdrawn from the
mails Immediately preceding the
weighing period.
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Moody Appears Against Packers.

OI1ASA1OS NldfCIl AJ.--kAtLOru0y 1eus
eral William H. Moody commenced
the closing arguments for the govern.
ment today in the hearing of the i'm
munity pleas advanced by the pack.
ers. The court room was packed to
the doors by local attorneys, anxious
to hear the argument Of the attorney
general. In opening his argument he
declared mat the eyes of the whole
people of the United States were d.
rected to the court room i'm which the
present hearing is being held, and as.
serted that the government of the
United States is far too much in
earnest in the present case to pursue,
as the attorneys for the packers have
intimated 1t is pursuing, a s~enseless
creation of the law. He declared that
il wrong had been committed the gov
ernment was seeking the punishment,
NOT OF q corporation. but of the living,
breathing human beings who com.
mitted the wrongs. The government
and the people of the United States,
he declared, will be satisfied with
nothing less than that. He declared
that his appearance at the bar OF the
court was unusual and almost un.
~precedented, but the law gave him the
right to appear, and after much de-
lber alton he believed it to be his duty
to appear. The justification for his
at, he said, would be f~oundInot only
in the Importance of the present case,
but in the fact that if immunity be
conferred upon the defend ants on the
ground upon which it has been claim
ed, it would overthrow the legal in.
terpretatiOns of the government for
almost 20 years. and would especially
cripple the government in its attempts
to enforce the laws of thesland.
CHICAGO, March 20. Attorney Cen
eral Moody resumed his argument in
the packers case today. He began
by citing . number of authorities in
support of the position maintained by
the government.
"A person cannot be compelled to
appear as q witness before any tri-
buual and in order to be compelled,
he must be a witness before some tri.
bunal under compulsion of the law
he said. "To give discriminating evi.
deuce against himself the compulsion
must be exercised over his claim OF
exemption. The substitute by which
the privilege of any may be supplanted
must be co.eXtensive with the privilege
which it supplants. 1t need not be
more"
The attorney general argued at con.
siderable length on the contention
that in order to obtain immunity a
witness must claim it under oath aud
while on the witness stand. He de.
clarsd that none Of the defend ants in
the present case had done this and
that therefore claims for immunity
couli no, be seriously considered by
the court.
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This baak solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security.
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues It's own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bends
and warrants.
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OUR BIG PENSION ROLL.

The annual pension appropriation
bill passed by congress recently, Is
the subject of criticism by a writer in
Golfers Weekly, who claims that the
amount it carries, Sl39, 600. 600, is more
than twice the annual expenditures of
France, Germany, Austria Hungary
and Great Britain combined. Austria.
Hungary spends On her standing army
of 300, I'll men and her pension sys.
tenn together less than half as much as
We spend for pensions alone. Yet this
years pension bill is not exceptional.
Our expenditures in that line have re.
NAMED practically stationary for fiji.
teen years. Every year it has been
predicted that the next year would find
US going down hill, but although pen.
sioners drop off the rolls at the rate
of $4,000 annually, there are always
so, 900 new ones to take their places.
MIR. Gardner, Of Michigan, who had
charge of the bill in the house. showed
that. Judging by the analogy OF past
wars we are now paying five pensions
on account Of the revolution, which
ended l23 years ago, there will be 60
pensioners of the civil war in the year
1889. That Is to say, II u child born
after the close Of h war grew up n
had q child at the age of %, and that
child should have another child at the
same age, and that child should have
another child, and that child should
have another, the last child would
have time to grow up and pay taxes
for pensions on account Of u war that
had ended before his great-great-
grandfather was born.
The civil war was estimated. TO have
cost about $4,000, 900, 900, and MIR.
Gardner predicts that before the &c.
counts are closed we shall have paid
an amount equal to the first cost in
pensions. Already We have spent 3d.
Dbl, ll4,57S on that count. There are
now Spanish war veterans on
the pension roll than the entire num-
Der of Skaters army in Cuba. In
. tuut "ut tlClS "StC o'S NCuVAS
wounds, $3.50 from all causes, includ.
I ing disease, and 9,37S casualties OF
!, every description. There have already
, been filed 69,6S7 applications for pen
sions on account of that war-more
e than two-thirds as many as were filed
in the same length Of time after the
l civil war, in which owe sever times
: as many men fought fifteen times as
long. with the loss of over fifty times
as many lives-aud it is estimated
. that in twenty.siN years from o the
number of Spanish war pensioners
! will exceed $4,000. or about four
. times the number of men that ever
heard Il Spanish bullet. At that time
We expect TO have all told about hal
-. Il million pensioners, even if we have
I. no more wars in the interval. Foreign
critics who accuse us of bellicOsc de
, signs do not realize how heavily ".
are bonded to keep the peace.
f An able defense of big expenditures
j.. for pensions is made by the Globe
Democrat, which says: There Is ;
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IMPORTANT ANTITRUST DECISION.

The appearance of Attorney Gen
eral Moody in the trial OF the beef
packers case in Chicago, and his
able argument against their plea Of
immunity from prosecution, should
convince the public that the federal
authorities are using every endeavo,
20 break up the beef combine. The
latter is putting up a streng fight,
and is doing everything possible to
prevent conviction, but the govern.
mens attorneys are certainly doing
all that could be expected of them In
the matter.
Two decisions recently rendered by
the supreme court of the United States
have an important bearing upon the
claim of immunity which is made by
the defendant in the packers trial.
The nature of these decisions is ex-
planned in these comments by the
Globe.Democrat:
President Roosevelt Is said to be
particularly we'll pleased by the de-
cision of the supreme court in the to.
bacco and paper trust cases. He
ought to be. His warfare on the
combines is greatly strengthened by
this ruling. Justice Brown, who
prepared the decision, says in effect
that the right of a person under the
fifth amendment to the federal con-
stitutiOn to refuse TO incriminate him.
self vas never intended to shield
some third person who might be at
tackled by his testimony. "As the
combination Of conspiracies," he
adds. "provided against by the Sher.
man antitrust act can ordinarily be
proved only by the testimony OF par.
ties thereto, in the person of their
agents or employees, the privilege
claimed would nullify the whole act
of congress- The decision also pro.
claims that the fourth amendment OF
the constitution does not protect a
corporation In refusing to produce its
books. Corporations must produce
their books and other documents
when ordered to do so by the courts.
Although the decision directly az
fected only the tobacco and the paper
trust cases, it will apply to all the
combines and to all corporations of
any sort. The government is pushing
q case now ia Chicago against the
packers. Other suits against the COM
bines are in prospect. In all these
its hands will be strengthened by the
decision just rendered. In some re.
spects the trial of the beef packers
now under way is the most import.
ant of all the cases against the trusts
which have been brought by the
government. The mou Of money
involved on the side of the defendants
is the greatest yer concerned in any
suit before a United States court. All
the resources for defense which cash
and experience a furnish are Vt the
service of the packers. They have the
best legal talent which money can buy.
They have the incentive to make them
put up the hardest fight which 10 pos.
sible. Defeat for them will mean
heavy fines and terms Of imprison-
ment. A long and tiercely contested
fight is in prospect. On the result OF
this suit will depend the issue In many
other cases against the trust magnates
which are still to be waged by the
government.
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Notice Of Special Election.

Notice is hereby given that . special election
will be held In the county Of ChOuteau, state of
for the purpose of submitting to the qualified
electors thereof the question Of adopting in said
county of Chouteau the provisions Of the law
Of the people, az provided in chapter "a. of acts
of 1905.
Said special election will be held from the
hour of s O'Clock a. m, until the hour of 4 O'Clock
?. m. VI the said 18th day of April. 1905, in the
following places in the various precincts of the
county. unl0aa otherwise nrOYi1ad for:
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Rig Postoffisc Appropriation.

WASHINGTON, March 20. The
committee on p%ostotices and
roads reported the postotiice APP
propriatiou bill to the house today.
provides for an expenditure OF
.l9l 3.3,4>4 for the fiscal year 1907. or
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w. G. CONRAD, Pres.
JAMES T. STANFORD,
Vice-Pres. and Manager.
A. T.. SCHWTNGEL,
Cashier.
OMAR J. MALCOLM,
Asst. Cashier.
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Conrad Banking
COMPANY,
GREAT FALLS, MONT
U~nincorporAted.)

PAID UP CAPITAL. 90 q
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY OOO. 900
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There will be no new registration for this epe
cial election. All qualified electors are entitled
to vote in the precinct in which they were regis
tered for tae general election of 1901.
W. r. LEFT,
Clerk and Recorder, Ch4uteau County, Mont
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The WEEKLY RIVER PRESS lisa good
newspaper to send away to your friends
IN the east. 1t will save Won the trou.
BILE Of writing letters
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