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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
san Francisco Relief Work,

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.-Thomas
Magee, chairman of the lands and
building committee OF the San Fran
cisco Relief and Red Cross funds cor.
poration has, with the formal sane
tiou OF the latter, announced what his
committee intends to do toward build.
ing homes for San Frauciscans who
were burned out or advancing them
cash for that purpose.
His announcement involves four dis.
tiact propositions, aggreg ating s3,.
100000. One sets aside $500, 900 to be
used in sums of $500, the latter being
the amount to be given to the owner
of a lot as bonus toward paying for
new home.
The sum of $500, 900 is to be used
to build cottages, two.story dwellings
and fats. These are to be sold on the
installment plan, on easy terms.
The third proposition is to spend
900, 900 for home for aged and in
firm people on the almshouse tract.
The fourth proposition involves the
use OF $500, 900 in loans to owners OF
tenants for building purposes.
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Railroads and Ticket Scalpers.

ST. PAUL, Aug. 3.-Six railroads,
with terminals in St. Paul, Mime apo.
lis and Duluth, were granted temporary
injuuctious until August % restrain.
ing all ticket scalpers in these cities
from selling railroad tickets. This
holds of all speculation during the
Grand Army encampment at Mime.
apolis during the week of August II.
OMAHA. Aug. 3.--Answering nine
suits in the federal court, in which the
Union Pacific and other railro ads are
seeking to restrain the brokers from
further dealings in railroad transpor-
tation at reduced rates, affid avits have
been filed by the brokers charging the
roads with themselves conspiring with
the defend ants in the business which
they seek to enjoin. 1t is alleged the
roads have not only furnished tickets
to the brokers to sell at reduced rates,
10 order to get the business away from
competitors. but that they have ia
many instances assisted the brokers
to handle the tickets by furnishing
them railroad stamps and in other
ways.
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Trusts Invade Panama,

WASHINGTON. Aug. 3-Provisiou
trusts and comb;n atious in the 18th.
mtan canal zone have succeeded in
increasing the price of meats, vegeta.
bles and fruits more than $50 per cent.
and forced the isthm;aa canal com.
mission to pass resolution .. u re.
cent meeting enabling its agents to
buy supplies in the open market, and
without advertising for bids.
Mem oers of the commission say
they discovered that all the dealers in
provisions who have surticien. capital
to furnish the oouu required of bid.
ders on supplies had pooled their in.
terests and corae-ed the contra acts for
all vegetables ana meats required for
commission hote:. and messes. The
com bin alton was in position to de.
mand prohi oit.ve prices, and the com.
mission was forced to ch ange its meth.
DDS and thus enable small dealers and
producers to compete for the busi.
ness.
A. a safeguard the com mission res.
o!ution provides that no more than
$500 worth of supplies Is to be bought
q day in open market, without asking
for bids. This limits the purch ases
IN open market to necessary prOvi-
siOls
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The SkOshOne Land Ora wing.

LANDER, Wyo.. Aug. 4.-Hans Ber-
lin. OF Laramie, Wyo., drew number
one here today in the lottery of Sho-
shone Indian reservation homeste ads.
Toe drawing of names began at 9
O'Clock and is proceeding:rapidly.
The drawing was in charge of Com.
missioner General Richards of the
general land office, with Major M artin
M aginnis, of Helena, Mont, and Col.
w. K. Schnitger, OF Cheyenne. Wyo.,
as referees.
Hans Berlin, of Laramie, Wyo..
who drew number one, will have first
choice OF all the homesteads offered.
The statement has been made tn at this
privilege is worth Sl5, 900 to the lucky
holder. 1t is also said that any num-
Der up to twenty is worth anywhere
from % 900 to $4,000.
Other names drawn up to No. Is
were: No. 8. James A. Morrow, Lew
ist0wn, Mont, No. II. William St.
Clair, Butte, Mont.
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Millions Escaped Taxes.

CHICAGO, Aug. An increase in
the assessment valuations of Chic ago
estates running into the millions may
be made by the board of review as the
result of information filed with that
body yesterday by Corporation Coun.
sci j. Hamilton Lewis.
The result OF several weeks investi-
CATION carried on secretly BY experts
in the employ OF the corpor alton coun.
sci was laid before the board with two
specific recommend ations. One is at
millions of dollars be added to the
present assessed valuations OF the
property. The other Is that back
taxes be imposed in nearly $50 cases.
The board is also requested to call be.
fore it representatives OF fifty wealthy
estates to show cause why they should
not Immediately be assessed for taxes
alleged to have been evaded in past
years. The names presented to the
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board by Mr.. Lewis include those of
many of Chicago's most prominent
finsnciers, business men, bankers and
leaders in civic and social Fairs.
Three Hundred Were Drowned.

CARTEaENA, Spain, Aug. 5.-A ter
riole marine disaster occurred last
evening off Cape Palos. The Italian
steamship Sirio from Genoa for Bar
celona, Cadiz, Montevideo and Buenos
Ayres, with about 500 persons on
board, was wrecked of Hormigos is-
land. Three hundred immigraots,
most OF them Italians and spauiards,
we're drowned. The captain Of the
steamer committed suicide.
The condition of the survivors 10
most deplorable. They have lost
everything and are without money.
food or clothing. The maritime au-
thorities OF Cartegena have dispatched
q tug to the scene carrying relief sup
plies. The building of circus aud q
poor house are being used a. tenn.
porary quarters for the survivors.
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Direct Primary In Illinois.

CHICAGO, Aug. 4,--F'or the first time
in the history Of Illinois all the pri.
maries of all the parties were held on
the same day and the voters were
given an opportunity to express their
preferences through their ballots for
candidates from United States senator
to sheriff. The new primary law
passed by the legislature last spring
was given its first trial and gave gen.
eral satisfaction. In the tempestuous
districts 10 Chicago the vote was
large, but in districts where there were
no local contests apathy was mani.
tested by the voters, and in three sec.
tions the vote was so light that it
pulled the total for the city to slightly
more than l2O, 600 out of total regis.
tration Of 375,000.
The greatest interest In the election
centered In the vote for United States
senator and for that OF repu blican rep.
resentative in the Second and Sixth
districts, located in Chicago. The
voters cast their ballots for three can.
didates for United States senator
Shelby NJ. Cullom, Ex-Governor
Richard Yates and William c. Web
ster. The democrats had no caudi.
dates for United States senator
Today's vote for United States sen.
ator was merely au expression of pref
erence, and is not binding on the mem.
bers of the legislature. In Chicago
Senator Cullom received nearly twice
as many votes as former Governor
Yates, and from scattered returns
throughout the state the indications
are that he will carry the state by a
handsome majority. The total vote
cast in the city was: Cullom, 36, 783:
Yates, Il 1897: Webster, 1871.
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COnvisted Of LandIFrauds,

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. "A jury in
Judge Hunts United States circuit
court tonight returned q verdict of
guilty in the case of Hamilton II. Hen.
bricks, indicted Feb. 8, 1905, in con-
nection with the land frauds in this
state. Specifically Hendricks was
charged with a violation;lof sect;cn
5'395, revised statutes, withlsuborning
George w. Hank to commit perjury
in giving testimony before a federal
grand jury in connection with Hawks
homestead entry, and accusing Hen
bricks of similar otfense in the mat
ter OF the homestead entry:Iof Clyde
Brown. At the time otsSthe crime
Hendricks was United States commis.
sioner at Fossil, Ore.
Willard N. Jones, member of the
Oregon legislature of 1903, wealthy
contractor and timber dealer, was to-
day sentenced by JudgejlWilliam H.
Hunt in the United Stases|circuit court
to serve one year'ss imprisonment in
the government prison on McNeill's
island aud pay finei of $1,000. He
was convictedof conspiracy to defraud
the government in October of last
year.
Thaddeus Stevenss Potter q we'll
known politician and lawyer, who was
tried and convicted jointly with Jones,
was sentenced to serve! six months in
the Multnomah county Jail and to pay
q fine of $500. Potter was the lesser
Of the two offenders aud was shown
lenieucy by Judge Hunt.
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Will Welcome Bryan.

NEW YORK. Aug. AT q meeting
Of the executive committee of the W. j.
Bryan reception committee today it
was decided to issue reserved seat
tickets to Madison Square Garden,
where Mr.. Bryan is to deliver his ad.
dress. Madison Square Garden has
a seating capacity of 1900. Lewis
Nixon reported that about 1000 prom
inent democrats from all parts OF the
country have been invited. The ques-
tion of whether any reserved seat tick
cts at all should be issued was dis.
cussed at some length, but the sugges.
tion of the finance committee that the
whole house be ticketed prevailed.
Alexander Troup, treasurer, reported
that the expense of the reception would
be not less than $4,000.
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Tie Loaned Public Money.

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 3.-Examiners
Poulsou and Raley filed their report
OF the examination of the Summit
county treasury with Probate Judge
Pardee today. 1t shows that there is
deficit in the treasury of 1912, asa.
The examiners say this deficit was
1892, l54 at the time the examination
was begun. but that since then a large
amount OF borrowed money has been
returned. The report says that a
large part of the loans are unsecured
and tha. a considerable part of the
securities representing loans of the
public funds are renewals OF obliga.
t:ous taken by former treasurers and
carried Oy the present treasurer, Fred
L. Smith.
Treasurer Smith declares that the
vault in the court house is unsafe to
keep public funds ia and th q. the cost
of his bonds is SO high and salary so
low, that be had to loan money to
keep ahead.
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Doctor Presents Big Claim.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Dr. Frank Bill
lings, who attended to Marshall Field
in his last illness, today presented a
claim against the estate for S25, 900 for
services. As he attended Mr.. Field
but seven days, it is believed to be the
largest fee charged by q physician in
the United States, where no surgical
operation was performed. There is
no likelihood, it is said, of the claim
being collected. DR.. Janeway of New
York, who also attended Mr.. Field,
has not presented his claim. There is
no reference made in the statement
fled for expenses during the physi.
clans stay in New York, and it is
supposed these are included in the bills
rendered by the management Of the
hotel at which Mr.. Field died.
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Enormous Wheat CronA

KANSAS City, Aug. 5.-The wheat
crop OF Kansas has turned out far be-
yond the expectations Of anyone who
attempted, prior to harvest, to make
estimates of the output. The thresh.
Ing has now gone far enough to iudi-
cate that the state has raised about
W, 1000 bushels of wheat, or 49,.
00O, 900 bushels more than in 1905, and
with one exception the largest crop
that Kansas ever produced.
Indeed, the final returns may raise
the estimate above the crop of 1903.
which, as reported by Secretary Co.
burn, was 94,00o,000 bushels. The
government estimate Of the Kansas
crop this year was $1,000, 900 bushels.
Some phenomenal yields are re-
ported In nearly every county in the
state. Many fields produced 40 to SO
bushels to the acre, and there are few
counties that do not report some fields
yielding 80 bushels or more. While
the largest yields are in the eastern
'half OF the state, where the acreage is
not large, some of the biggest wheat
counties produced an average of 1s to
20 bushels.
Reports from other territory are not
as complete as from Kansas. but the
probabilities are that Oklahoma has
about 1900, 900 bus shells more aud Me-
braska 5000, 900 less than last year.
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Lumber Trust Is Alarmed.

SAN t'RANIsCO, Aug. 3.-lt is stated
on good authority that there will be
60 further raises in lumber prices un.
til the investig alton into the so.called
lumber trust has been completed by
United States District Attorney Dew.
lin. The advance schedule of prices
for August has been cancelled by the
Lum Der Manufacturers association
and prices will remain as they were
last month. 1t is even said that m any
of the retailers are selling lumber at
two dollars a thousand below the rates
fixed by the San Francisco Retail
Lum 1ermen 3 association.
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A Western Packing Plant.

ST. PAUL, Aug. 2.-Is was learned
definitely late today from St. Paul
business men that Armour 4 Co., Of
Chicago, through their agents, have
paid down about $4,000 as option
money for the purchase OF q large
tract of land near the Minnesota
Transfer company's yards. lying in
the northwest part of St. Paul and
partly in Minneapolis, for the purpose
of building proposed s!aughtering
plant.
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Dakota Towns On Rollers.

GREGORY, S. D., Aug. 3.-Tuesda ~
vas moving day for the town of Dali
las. in the new Rosebud county. In
the morning of that day the $50 in.
hao!tants Of the town arose and ate
breakfast. Next morning they had
breakfast in the same homes, but in
the town Of Gregory. The houses, in
the meantime, had been put on rollers
aud dragged across the prairies three
miles to Gregory, with families troop.
log after.
These town moving incidents are
considered trivial matters in South
Dakota. Whenever the people do not
like their location they select new
spot. hitch on the horses and resume
business the next day in the new place.
Gae OF these towns on wheels IL
Ge* des, in Charles Mix county. The
extension of the Milwaukee, * St.
Pau! railroad passed it by. and the
400 residents decided tha, if the rail.
road wouldn't come IT, them they
would go to the railroad.
Accordingly, they carted their town
80 miles to the northwest, and, with
the advantage of railroad facilities, it
has grown into one Of the best towns
in South Dakota.
The same problem confronted the
people of Dallas. When the North.
western railroad decided to extend
from Bones.eel into the Rosebud res
ervation, opened to settlement two
years ago, Dallas and Gregory were
rival bidders for the line.
Gregory won not only the railro ad
bu: the shops as we'll. The Dallas
stockholders held q meeting and de.
cided to follow the railroad. Accord
ingly, the two towns were merged uu.
der the name OF Gregory, which is al
ready the largest town west of Bone
steel. This will make 1t bigger than
Bonesteel itself.
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Meat Prices Advance

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Buyers of por.
terhouse steak, lamb chops and other
cuts of meat are finding their butcher
bills larger than ever. The average
price of the best cuts has risen nearly
ten per cent. in the last two months.
Retail dealers blame the consumer
for the increase and declare tn at while
he is loudly calling for por.erhouse
and the like. they are forced to sell
favored portions CT the carcasses for
song.
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Nef and that the money was equally
divided between the two.
According to the testimony the con.
tract provided that q certain amount
should be paid by the county for the
removal of each body from the Gene.
terry. Conover dug up the cemetery
and had human bones piled up in
small heaps. These he called hum an
body and collected the amount stipu.
lated in the contract. The investiga-
tion showed that Conover received
warrants for the remova, OF nearly
,, 500 more bodies than had been in.
TERED in the Cemetery.
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Delinquent Insurance Companies.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. To-day
Insurance Commissioner Wolf pre-
pared notice to the president aud
directors of the Fireman's Fund In
surance company of San Francisco,
to the effec: that these companies have
but four weeks to IN axe good their def.
ciencies in the matter of the policies
outstanding and If they do not attend
to 1t within that time, Attorney Gen.
eral Webb was instructed to bring
proceedings to revoke the licenses of
the companies that do business in Cal.
ifornia.
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RAILROAD RATES REDUCED.
New Schedule Of Freight Charges to Mon.
tana Points Is Announced.

BUTTE, Aug. 5. Announcement
we're made yesterday BY the Oregon
Short Line, Northern Pacific and
Great Northern Railroad companies
regarding reductions in freight rates,
effective August Is, that will mean the
saving OF thousands of dollars to the
merch ants of every Montana city, ap.
proximately 10 per cent. being saved
the merchants on class goods. The
reduction on carload lots is slightly
less than on class shipments.
Butte being the main distributing
point for Montana, the change will be
especially important to Butte mer-
chants. All railroads entering the
state have agreed upon the same re-.
ductions. The new schedule, which
affects shipments from Missouri river
common points. is taken as an iudica.
tion BY railroad men here that similar
reductions will be made in rates from
Utah. Colorado, San Francisco and
Portland. The tariffs containing the
changes have not yet been received,
only the advance sheets being sent on.
When the tariffs arrive it may be at
other changes will be announced.
They will, however, be of minor i'm
portance, the main reductions being
contained in the statements issued yes
terday.
The local or intra.state rates are
given horizontal reduction of about
10 per cent, aud this applies to all
classes OF freight. The through rates,
or from the eastern termin ais of the
roads to Montana common points, are
reduced as follows:
First class from - so to 1925
Second class from S2.15 to Sl.9o
Third class from 81. IS to 81 5S
Fourth class from 81 50 to 81 35.
Fifth class from 81. 25 to Sl.l3
Class A from 81 Is to Glib
Class B from 81 TO 80 cents.
Glass c from 80 cents to 80 cents.
Glass D from Is cents to 55 cents.
Glass E from IS cents to As cents.
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Judge Hunt Is Defendant.

NEW YORK, Aug. Hobart Baird,
who once published newspaper in
San Juan, p. r., has sued eight of the
highest American officials in the is.
land, including the present governor
and his predecessor, for 900, 900 dam.
ages in the supreme court in Brooklyn.
He charges them with having wrecked
his paper, ruined his reputation and
forced him out of the island. Bird is
now practicing law in this city. The
defendants named in the complaint in.
clude w. h. Hunt, former governor,
now a federal Judge in Montana.
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THE RIGHTfTO WORK.
New York Court Says Labor Legislation
Iuvades Constitutional Rights.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-The state law
Of New York restricting labor by
women aud children to 10 hours day
and 80 hours a week in factories was
declared today by Justice Olmstead in
q decisioo handed down in the court
Of special sessions to be an unwar.
ranted invasion OF constitutions al
rights. The ruling was concurred in
by Justices Mexican and Deuel..
Judge Olmstead declared that the law
was class legislation. Justice Olm.
stead said ia his decision:
ITO labor and employ labor are in.
herent and inslienable rights OF our
citizens and cannot be taken away in
whole or in part unless upon the broad
ground of public good, which must be
apparent and cannot be predicated up.
on legislative dictum.
ut may be stated as . we'll settled
legal proposition that the right to la.
Dor and contract for that labor is both
liberty and property right: when,
therefore, the Legislature enacts q
statute such as that under considera.
tion, 1t must be admitted that it has
in:ringed, in the enactment, the rights
which are very clearly accorded by
the constitution to the individual citi.
zen. The people therefore are called
upon to justify this invasion and there
is but one plea in justification: that
the statute was enacted to protect the
comfort, welfare and safety of the
whole people, and the individual must
suffer this curtailment Of his granted
rights in the interest Of the common
good.
'The present constitution of the
state of New York was adopted in 1894
and became effective January /, 1895.
All of the rights which an adult pos
sessed at that time were confirmed by
the document. One of these rights
certainly was the right to contract for
labor and to work when and where
che or he pleased without reference to
the position of the hands upon the
dial Of the clock"
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A BIG BANK FAILURE.
Chicago Concern Besieged BY Hundreds
Of Angry DepositOrs.

CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-With deficit in
Its accounts estimated at close to q
million dollars and with the where.
abouts Of two Of its highest official
unknown to the authorities, the Mil.
waukee Avenue State bank. one of the
largest outlying banks in the city, was
closed today by State Ex amiuer c. C.
Jones.
The first intim alton Of trouble was
the appearance at the bank of twenty
policemen, who had been dispatched
to prevent anticipated disorders. the
police department having been notified
that an officer of the bank had ab.
seconded. Suspicious of depositors
were aroused by the sight of police.
men stationed in front of the bank,
and In short time large numbers OF
those who had money in the bank ap.
peared and demanded their deposits.
AT one time the run assumed the pro.
portions Of riot, but the turbulence
OF the crowd were finally quelled by
the police.
The failure was responsible for the
death Of one of the depositors, and led
to the suicide Of another man who, q
month ago, had placed his earnings
OF q lifetime in the institution for safe.
keeping. In the excitement following
the announcement OF the failure, ]. G.
Wiser. an official Of the ROya al
League, who had on deposit In the
bank funds of that organization, fell
dead Of heart failure. Henry Koepke,
. small grocer, on hearing that the
bank had suspended payment, went to
the rear OF his store and shot himself.
He died few minutes later, while be.
ing taken to the hospital.
The capital stock is $3.50, 900 and the
surplus $3.50, 900. OF the -, 900, 900 de.
posits, q large part, it is said, is the
earnings of working people. Presi-
dent Steusland IL at present in St.
Paul. Henry Henry herring, cashier
OF the bank. is missing and warrant
charging embezzlement has been sworn
out. At the same time State Banl,
Examiner Jones issued q statement to
the effect that the whereabouts of three
officers Of the bank are unknown te
him and that the bank is without q,
official head.
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Desecrated Bodies Of Dead.

BUFFALO, Aug. 2.-John w. Neff,
former auditor of Erie county, was
convicted at Warsaw this morning of
grand larceny. He was accused of
stealing s33, 900 of the public funds in
connection with a contract for the re-.
moval of bodies from a cemetery here.
Neff worked in connection with Ro.
land Conover, q contr actor, who has
already been convicted OF grand lar.
ceny and who is awaiting sentence.
Couover testified to theifact that false
warrants were drawn and issued b.