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NELL REPORT PUBLISHED.

After some consideration of the wis
dom of publishing the Neill report and
yielding to the public clamor of all
sections Of the country for a knowl-
edge of its contents, the President
sent message to Congress transmit
ting it for the consideration of the
national legislature. The story as
told by the Neill report shows revolt
ing conditions in a number of the
packing houses and in many cases
upholds all of the stories told in the
Sinclair novel. The Neill committee
did not consider affidavits of wit
nesses to any great extent in arriv-
ing at is conclusions, but paid more
attention rather to conditions as wit
messed by the three members of the
committee. The message of President
Roosevelt that submitted the report
characterized the conditions found by
the investigators as ''revolting" and
urged immediate legislation Gin the
interests Of health and decency." He
not only recommends the passage Of
the so-called Beveridge amendment to
the agricultural appropriation bill but
threatens to destroy the foreign bust
ness of the packers should congress
fail to provide for federal inspection
of meats at all stages of preparation.
In the event of such failure, the Presi-
dent says that he will oe compelled
to order that inspection labels and
certificates on canned products shall
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Senator Beveridge presented a rad
eal amendment to the agricultural ap-
preparation bill the other day which
was passed promptly. Back of the
ease and celerity with which this ac-
ton was accomplished is story. 1t
is an interesting one too, for it shows
how the President for once, at least,
was able to hold the big stick over the
Senate, and the great packing inter
ests and forced the amendment with
which he was in accord.
The rider that was tackled on to the
$7,S00,000 appropriation bill in the
Senate at the last moment without
discussion, provides for the same sort
of an inspection of meats for home
consumption that is provided. for those
which are sent abroad. 1t will cost
the great packing house industry sew
eral million dollars each year, for
they will have to pay for the inspec-
ton. When the question came up be-
fore Congress as to who should as
sumo the expense of this work the
packing house lobby objected stren-
uously to putting up any money for it,
Notwithstanding the fact that some
months ago when there was an in
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out scandal if it can be, but with
scandal if it must. He recognized that
there were many innocent interests
which would be severely damaged by
the publication of this report What
he was after principally was results
for the future.
There is another peculiar feature
which is having some weight in the
ease with which the inspection law
gets past what would ordinarily be an
almost insurmountable barrier. 1t
seems that Mr.. Sinclair is writing an
other book. 1t will be more damaging
than the Jungle. 1t is to be an expose
of the whole packing business from
the report of the "Embalmed Beef
Commission" down to the present time
and the combination of official docu-
ments and statements of eye wit
nesses. When this book appears the
packers are very anxious 20 be able
to say that the practices alluded to
therein are a thing of the past "and
that no such conditions can exist un-
der the present Government inspec-
ton
The new act provides an inspection
that does not stop at the gate of the
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to know the facts, would seem to in
dicate that but little additional dam
age to anybody could be accomplished
through the publication of the report.
GOVERNMENT HOLDS TRUMP
CARDS.
Commenting on the question of the
constitutionality of the amendment if
it should become law, in that it in
terferes with state rights, a prominent
Government official remarked that in
any event the packers could be forced
to terms. They are very anxious over
their great foreign meat trade and
this is largely dependent upon Govern
ment inspection of carcasses. Abroad
the Government inspection tag is
looked upon as guarantee, and with
out it foreign meat trade would suffer
inestimably. Should the packers re-
fuse to allow the Government to in
spect food for home consumption, the
Government could in its turn refuse
to inspect meats for export.
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Signals on Rural MaiEBoxes.

The Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General has issueu an order providing
that after July 1 next, rural delivery
carriers, when making their trips, will
visit and examine only those boxes for
which they have mail for delivery and
those on which the signals are dis
played to indicate that there is mail
for dispatch.
Those patrons who are now main
tanning mail boxes on which there are
no signals will be required to procure
some sort of device which will serve
as signal to carriers.
By this new arrangement it is eX-
pected that the delivery and collection
of mail along rural free delivery
routes will be greatly facilitated.
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The fact that the meat consumption
entered vitally into every home,
coupled with the terrible charges,
made not only in the Jungle" but
through many other credible sources,
has aroused a state of public senti-
ment which is akin to revolutionary.
On the whole, in the face of an in
tensely suspicious public, an aroused
Congress and determined President,
the beef trust is now up against the
fight of its life. While the President
intended to use his private report as
club to force legislation, and to with
hold its publication unless it was
found necessary to bring the packers
to terms, the overwhelming current
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packing house, but follows the animal
through all departments until it
reaches the can or the cooler.
There is some antagonism presented
to the bill in the House, on the
grounds of constitutionallity and other
excuses, but if any actual opposition
should develop it will mean a thor
ough hearing in committee on both
sides of the question and it is pre-
sumed that this is about the last thing
the packers actually desire.
Seldom, if ever, has the public been
more aroused over any public question.
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CAUSED PACKERS PLIGHT.
Interview with Author of the Now
Famous "JungIe Expose OF Meat
Packing Methods.

Upton Sinclair, the author of the
Jungle which has in reality started
the entire packing house scandal, is an
advocate of municipal slaughter
houses. He believes that this is the
only effective solution of the problem,
although he says that the Beveridge
amendment is good so far as it goes.
Interviewed recently, he said, '"There
is no doubt that this amendment will
become a law; but a few months
after its enactment it will be forgotten
and former conditions will be resumed
1 say former conditions, because the
Chicago packers have cleaned up
house and are now able to make a
show Of virtue which they never pos
sessed, but it is impossible for them
to conceal the fact thai : ,ey have sent
out millions of cans of 'potted chicken
made of bob, or day-old veal, millions
of cans of roast beef made of COW
udders and gristle, and that all this
vast output has been treated with
chemicals to conceal putrefaction
and to preserve the stuff sold under
false name.
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not be used hereafter" Without these
labels the products will be excluded
from European markets.
One on the Professor.

Prof. Barrett Wendell, of Harvard,
lightened with an anecdote an English
lecture.
There was a certain instructor" he
said, "who was always impressing up
on his students the need of perspicuity.
"a young man came to him one day
to get back an essay that had been
submitted.
"'A very good essay said the in
structor, as he returned the paper,
but Mr.. Smith, you should lite al
Amador ledger., 1906-07-06

Some will tell you there is no good paint any
Others that there no good painters. Both
statements are incorrect The trouble is, years ago
you could scarcely 90 wrong in painting. for there was
little paint used but pure white lead and oil. Nowadays
there almost many alleged paints as there
rival dealers to sell them, and as many so-caIIed
white leads which not white lead, as there are pro-
pretary paints.
Yet good white lead and jnseed oil paint is as
good as it ever was-and better. If you are in real
earnest about getting paint which will look we'll and
las-the good old kind of other days-et tell you
about our pure white lead.
Booklet O" free.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-06

In the Bank Of England there are
ingots of silver that have been there
since the seventeeth century.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-06

cITo Permanently Cured No fits nervousness after
ri . first days use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Re-
storer. Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise
DR.. K Il. KLINE, Ltd 93l Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa
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GOVERNMENT SLAUGHTER
HOUSES IN EUROPE.

"Every slaughter house in England,
Germany, and Belgium is owned by
the government. There is no chance
to graft, because the slaughter of cat
tie and the sale of meat is distinct and
separate. The government kills for
anybody, and charges so much a head.
Twelve samples are cut from each
animal and subjected to microscopic
examination. If the meat is unhealth-
full it is condemned and destroyed
The slaughter houses are as cleanly as
modern hospitals, and not to be COM
pared in any way with the filthy
shambles we endure here.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

VALUABLE SCARF PINS absolutely protected
by our patented thief proof Simplex Pin Guard y
Ask dealer or send 25 cents to-day for gold plated
sample. b. Rypinski, 1E2 West 105th Street. New
York.
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ways so that the most ignorant per-
son can understand every word you
saw
The young man looked up anx-
iously.
"'What part of my essay was not
clear to you, professor? he asked"
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promise to be good in the future, but
do not make a public scandal of this
matter"
FOR A STRICT INSPECTION LAW.
The President is reported to have
inspection law will be passed, with
Amador ledger., 1906-07-06

WE WANT A HUSTLING AGENT in your town
for the only automatic shears the sheerCqt Shears
same day received. Novelty Shear Co.. 1s4 La Sale
St. Chicago, Ill.
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BOOK-KEEPERS-Keep out Of trouble. Remove
blots and incorrect entries without scratching Our
terms to Agents. b. A. Ink Eradicator Co., 1850
washington Ave-, New York
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REAL ESTATE.

20 ACRE TRACTS CHOICEST fruit and farm land
ION the Gulf Coast highlands in Alabama) for S5O
cash and A5 monJny ,nsLaments of $1U each (n 6per
cent?. crops pay SO 10 SzoU acre year. kemark
ably healthful. send for booklet. Evington Land
Co., ls4 La sale st., Chicago LII.
WANTED: WICHITA PROPERTY Iand. r
@ souInwest Kansas. What have you for sale7 % %
years years @ Dnying and selling Kansas dirt Choice s11
az near 0aruen City $500. Write E. l. Spencer
1Io ,: lawrence Ave, Wichita, Kansas. .
CALIFORNIA coI,oN1z ,r,o,r ,.Nns ~.
Of 1000 to 1000 acres low prices sss ters: iaSas
on sartS so abundance Of water best climate
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COUNTRY PROPERTY oNLY-EyFRyWEERE
Farms residences, hotels stores, etc. Cafalo0
frse 70 intending buyers. Owners wishing to sefi
Building. New York ' wa A-iois
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WANTED: Amateur photographs suitable for
art and advertising subjects Mail print and price
r. Lawrence Company, ga Wabash Ave, Chicago,
Ill.
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BUSINESS EQUIPMENT.

-CALIGRAPH TYPEWRITER $1,000 Remington.
Yost, Densmore & Jewett, $500 each. Electric
disc pSonoeranh cbean d,son new ria m
o. Hacker, 2 Park Pl.. N Y
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LADIES' APPAREL.

SHIRT WAIST HOLDER EXTRAORDINARY
keeps waist & down all around: no pins or hooks to
and ask for white or black. Felix Corset CO., 13l
Prince St., New York.
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POINTS OF BEvERIDGE MEAT
INSPECTION BILL.

Provides for rigid postmortem in
spection of all cattle, swine, sheep,
and goats killed for human consump.
ton. All meats found healthful shall
be tagged, and all meat found un-
healthful shall be destroyed.
All slaughterers anG packers and
all others engaged in preparation Of
meat products must admit inspectors
to all parts of their establishments.
All canning, rendering, salting, and
packing products are included, and
any products treated with dyes or
deleterious chemicals or presevatives
shall be condemned.
All establishments must be main
tanned in sanitary manner, accord
ing to rules and regulations prescribed
by the Secretary of Agriculture.
After January 1, 1907, no railroad or
any other common carrier can trans
port any meat product not inspected
or passed, and no ship with such
articles on board shall be given clear
ance papers, nor can any common
carrier transport any meat product
that is prepared in an establishment
where specified sanitary conditions do
not prevail.
All canned, potted, or canvased
meat products shall be labeled as in
spected and passed and shall not be
offered for sale until so labeled.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.
MALE HELP WANTED.

IF YOU HAVE retail experience and want to 90
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HAfGOODS, suite l4o, 3O5 oJ9 broadway, N. Y.
WANTED: A hundred Firemen and Brakemen on
different railroads. Age ~ TO 3O, good sight and
nearing. Experience unnecessary. Firemen $40
monthly, become Engineers and earn 500. Brake
men S7O monthly, become Conductors and earn $3.50.
Posltlons awaiting competent men. Send stamps for
partculars. Name position preferred. Railway
association, Room 65. 2H Monroe Street, Brooklyn
Amador ledger., 1906-07-06

statesmen TO SELL the largest line of souvenir
most cards in the country. Also large line of adver
tising fans. Excellent side line Good Commission
and Prompt Settlement. Alfred Holman, Pub
fisher 2l0 flearhorn ST Chicago Ill
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ANSWERING A HOWL.

GAS an additional precaution against
graft, it is provided that the loss in
cident to condemnation shall fall on
the breeder or seller of the cattle and
not to the buyer. This compels the
cattle breeder to care for his stock
in scientific and sanitary manner
That answers the violent protests of
the Western cattlemen, who were
forced by the beef trust to inundate
President Roosevelt with kilograms of
objection to the Beveridge bill, until
it was discovered that the making pub
lie of the Reynolds-Neill report would
work more damage to the business of
canning dyed bob veal and selling it
as chicken.
'The opposition to the bill was not
because the packers feared it would
interfere with their fraudulent prac-
tees, but because it would impose up
on them tax Of 100000 a year, to
pay for the inspection, which is moth
ing more or less than advertisement
for their bogus goods in foreign
countries.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-06

MEN & BOYS WANTED to learn the Plumbing
niors earn from $3 to 81 per day. With months
experience outside you can join the Union and de-
Plumbing School, 163 W. 18th ST., New York.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
japan Faces Famine.

NEW YORK, March 23.-The New
York state branch of the America an
Red Cross today issued statement 5
to the famine conditions in Japan.
'The famine in Japan, the statement
says, (which has been considered for
some time moderately serious, is now
known, as the result of reliable priv ate
advices received by the New York
state Red Cross, to be one of the most
terrible starvation emergencies of
modern times.
"The failure of the rice crop, whicn
was believed to be limited to certain
places only in the northern provinces,
has been found to be general through.
out the entire community and conserv-
alive estimates place the number of
starving Japanese from 100000 to l..
100000 persons. For this there is 10
relief In sight until next Octob ber, when
a new harvest will be available. The
sum of SIG, ,00O. 900 will be required 10
save the japanese country people,"
A special meeting of the Japanese
famine committee has been called for
Monday. The committee is now con.
sidering whether it is wise TO under.
take the collection and trans sportation
OF food as we'll as money.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
Twenty Thousand Miles Of Track.

CHICAGO, March 22.-The present
year promises to be a rem ark able one
for railway construction. According
to The Railway Age, there are now
under way 1904 miles Of new roads,
and what are termed ''live projects, "
provide for the building of 8, 433lmiles
more.
AT the opening of 1905 the record
showed about $500 miles of road un.
der construction, and almost 5000 of
this was completed during the year.
1t is stated that two.thirds of the en-.
tire mileage now under way is being
built by hirty.eight companies-an
average of 23l miles per company.
For several years the southwest has
been the center of the greatest railway
activity, but this year the center has
shifted In part to the northwest and
the west. The large projects include
the St. Paul 1880 mile Pacific coast
extension from Evarts, the Western
Pacific OF the Goulds from Salt Lake
TO San Francisco, 937 miles: the Den.
yer Northwestern & Pacific from Sui.
pur Springs. Colo. to Salt Lake, $40
miles, and the various extensions of
the Hill and Hartman systems, the
former with 74S miles aud the latter
with 546 miles.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
Finding Jobs For Old Men.

CHICAGO, March 23.-The Anti.Age
Limit league believes that it has
solved the problem of the men who
are unable to obtain employment in
Chicago because they have passed
the "age limit II plans now under
way are successful, such men are to
be sent in great numbers to colonies
in Canada and Florida, where they
will become the ministers, school
teachers, or the business men of the
newly created towns.
Negotiations are now being carried
on by James F. Downey, president of
the league, with the managers of three
colonization projects, one of which
owns land in northwestern Canada
another tract three and q half miles
from Tampa, Florida, and a third an
area on the eastern coast of Florida
Towns are to be created here by mar.
ties OF colonists, and here the old
men, ostracised at home, will begin
life anew. ."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
StathOOd Bill Goes to Senate.

WASHINGTON, March q. - The
statehood bill was taken from the
speakers table in the house today,
placed in the hands of three selected
conferees, and . request made of the
senate for a conference on the dis.
agreeing votes of the two houses.
This action was not accepted without
many words and votes. It was de-.
veloped at once, however, that there
were votes enough to carry out the
program of the leaders. Then fol.
lowed 40 minutes of fiery speeches,
some of which provoked much amuse.
ment among the large attendance of
members and the crowded galleries.
Then came the final vote on the adop.
tion of the rule, which It's members
approved and 1856 opposed.
When the statehood bill was re-.
ceived from the house Senator Bev.
eridge, chairman of the territories,
moved that the senate insist on it's
amendments and agree to the request
for conference. Senator Foraker
moved to amend his motion to pro.
vide that the senate, instead of the
vice president, appoint the conferees.
The adoption of Senator Foraker's
motion would allow the opponents of
joint statehood to name the confeeres.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
Many Miners Missing.

FA1RMoNT, W. Va, March 22.-Ten
men are known to be dead, 25 injured
and from 25 to IS missing and believed
to be dead, as the result of an explo-
sion of gas in the shaft of the Century
Coal company at Century, a email
mining town situated SO miles south of
Fairmont, on the Bellengton and
Buckhannon branch of the Baltimore
4 Ohio railroad. The explosion took
place at 4:3O o'clock this afternoon,
but owing to the telephone wires being
put out of commission by the high
winds OF today, details are lacking.
and the names of the victims, six Of
whom are known to be foreigners,
were not secured at a late hour TO-.
night.
The Century mine, which is owned
by Shaw Brothers of Baltimore, is
one of the largest independent cor.
porations in West Virginia. Over 250
men are employed daily in the shaft,
and had the explosion been an hour
earlier the loss of life would have
been appalling. AS it was, there
were but few remaining in the shaft,
the main body of the miners having
quit work for the day.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
Range Trouble In Oregon.

PORTLAND. March % An Oregon.
ian special from Salem. Ore, states
that. according to u letter written by
Governor Chamberlain to Preslden,
Roosevelt. -eriou. trouble is brewing
between the sheepmeu OF Oregon and
ashirg,on. The letter states tn at
three'4uariers OF tina; part of the
Weuaha Il forest reserve located in Ore.
gon has been allotted to Washington
sheep rai-er.. while Oregon men are
given ouly one-quar'er.
On the other hauu 10 Oreyou sheep.
man Is given any uf III range ia ,ha,
part OF the reserve located il, Wash.
ingtou.
Governor Cham ber!aiu eay- he il
Informed that at meating of sheep.
men and woolgrowers held at Walla
Walla, Dec. Is, last, a committee uf
sheepmen was allowed to allot the
range and that as Washington sheep.
men predominated on the committee
they took practically everything.
The governor in his letter charges
that G. NJ. Schmltz, chief ranger of the
reserve and Chief Forester Schiller of
Washington, have all their interests
In the state OF Washington and that
both federal officers allowed the allot-
ment to stand. The letter asserts that
many of the Washington sheep are af.
fected with "scabies" which will be
brought into Oregon, and because of
the fact that the sheep will be on gov.
ernment range, the state authorities
are poweress to do anything in the
way OF ins pection. The governor asks
that the president order that an in
vestig alton be made.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
Long List of Shipwrecks.

BOsTON, March %. - Eighty.five
lives were lost, and SO ships were
wrecked along the coast of New Eng.
land, and the maritime provinces dur.
ing the past winter. While the season
up to the present month was compare.
lively mild on shore, at sea it was one
of extreme severity, particularly in
waters Off the provinces. OF the yes.
sells wrecked - were sailing craft.
Nine steamships and eight barges
complete the list.
Ships flying the British flag lead
those of other nations with a loss of
p craft, against II of American reg.
lister. There is also sprinkling of
Norwegian, German and Swedish yes.
sells. The worst disaster was the
laundering OF the steamer British
King, off Sable island, on March II,
when it is estimated that at least Is,
and possibly %, lost their lives. The
correct figures will probably never be
known, as several men enrolled as
members of the crew are said to have
deserted before the ship sailed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
SnOwbouud Passengers Rescued.

DURANGO, Colo, March 22.-The
snow blockade, which has existed un-
interruptedly on the southern line of
the Denver & Rio Grande since the
1lth of March, was broken today by
the arrival of the through train from
Denver. Blockade conditions on the
Rio Grande Southern and on the
Silverton branch of the Denver & Rio
Grande remain unchanged, and train
service between Durango and Tellu-
ride will not be restored for several
days.
After being snowbound for II days
on the lofty summit of Cumbres Pass,
at the crest of the San Juan range, so
miles from the nearest town. a train
load of 80 passengers arrived in AL.
amo.a in the heart of the San Luis
valley. The train left Durango March
10 and after it became stalled the snow
continued falling day after day until
it lay on the level higher than the
smokestacks of the locomotive. Rail.
road employees carried provisions TO
the imprisoned passengers by climbing
the mountain on suowshoes, and they