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and one of his men appeared on the beach lhey
were panc-stricken, and finding their boat gone,
began Yelling to the camp for some one to come
over to their rescue. The noise attracted Eph,
for he came out of the bushes at tremendous
pace and made directly for the men.
The mighty hunter fired one shot, which kicked
I'D a shower of sand the beach, then dropped
the weapon and dived headong into the water, Tor
all the world like huge frog, and began swimming
for the boat The other man had gone for good
into the woods. For than an hour old Eph
Law at full length the sandy beach, drying his
shaggy hide while alternately he picked at the
flour paste that covered his body and watched the
mighty hunter in his frantic efforts to attract the
attention of the camp. Two three times the
bear walked out few feet into the water though he
contemplated joining his friend for boat ride, but
each time changed his mind and went back
Even if the miners had been in haste to fly to
the rescue, it would have been simply impossible
all this time for the whole thing uproar
iously funny that they helpless from laughter,
especially when the bear made his feints to board
the boat while the vaorous hunter in it alone
and without arms At each sally of the
bear the hunter who had been anxious to come
up with a real grizzly" grew fairly frantic, and
twice he seemed on the point of jumping into the
water to try and swim the lake.
1t was late in the evening when several of
the men rowed over to save what was left of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

of any civilized race. There is, of course. a diff
ference in ability among individual Indians in the
of language. there is among persons who
speak the written tongues. Nevertheless it is safe
to say that the most ignorant among Indians if he
is of a sound mind and able to converse at all,
will have larger vocabulary than the average
man of Enghsh-speakng peoples.
Notwithstanding its lack of grammar and logic,
| know of no language absolutely accurate in it's
powers of description the Dakota. The Sioux
has a word for every act, physical and mental,
which within the range of his experience a
word which by possibility be mistaken in
its meaning. Thus in the rendering of the verbs
to break and to cut the words used describe the
exact nature of the act. For instance, in the use
of the verb kSa which means to break off or sep
arate ytksa signifies to break off in any manner.
ydkSd to bite off, Pdksa to break off BY pushing
HdkSd to break off with the foot kdkSa to cut off
with or Ratchet b0kSd to shoot off or punch
Off, bdkSa to off with a knife or bone
saw
In the COnJugatiOn of this verb kSd four hundred
and twenty separate words required, and it is
safe to say that there an intelligent Dakota
child OF ten years but each in its right
place. There several other verbs in common
use which are about equally vOluminous in their
infected forms. The reader will be easily able to
see that the formation of such language requires
an immense vocabulary. and that the average
Dakota, far from being ptied for his poverty of
words is rather to be enved for the power of mem
DRY which enables him to master his own volurni-
tongue.
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rearing UP at the window of the room, for
cling two big paws through it. Glass, frame and
all came down with great crash There
a roar from the window, and in the instant
the candles blew from the violence of the wind
coming in at the open space where the window
had been, and the company was left in the dark,
not only literally, but from the viewpoint of what
was to happen next. The miners had had only the
briefest look at the white-robed, black-faced APP
partition, and before the candles could be lighted
again he had disappeared in his white vestnents
into the snow-covered landscape The dogs
the specter and began to yelp and whine with fear
adding still to the panic, and while pandemonium
loose, shouting and swearing, dogs howl
ing and yelping, the white-robed figure came once
into view IN the long ray of light from the
window, and every a different thing.
though all agreed afterward that there long
white garment black hood and a low deep grOwl
To make matters worse confounded, the Chinese
cook, who had been sleeping in another of the
tents, came with a bound through the broken
window, landed in a heap the floor, actually
white with fear, and set up series of yells that
were uncanny beyond description. In a jargon
such no human had ever listened TO before
he began telling how while he was asleep his tent
had been torn from above him by monster
with long white body black head, long red
tongue that had swept across his face, and steam
pouring out of it's mouth.
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everyone in camp had been victim first last
of the intensely practical Joking of that villanous
old bear, and it is highly probable that he would
not have been longer tolerated but for the fact
that in all his escapades no one had received
even a scratch at his hands, and he seemed to be
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the gallant party. The hunt
er in the boat was nearly
frozen with his wetting and
the fright, and it took much
coaXing 10 prevail upon the
other men to come down
from their perches in the top
most branches of the tallest
hemlocks in the neighborhood.
1t was a much chastened
hunting party that left the
camp the next day for home,
and a much reduced one in
point of baggage. There was
little badgering of the un-
Terminates. however. because
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a matter of fact, the vocabulary of
the average Indian, among such high
ly organized tribes as the Sioux.
Cheyennes and Nez Perces. is far in
excess of that of the average man
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Evidently old Eph was
somewhat wrought up him
self, for the next morning his
tracks were found all over the
camp in a fashion that told
of his gallOping at a great
rate, dragging his train be-
hind him when he was not
falling over it. Nothing of a
movable nature was missed
in his wild career-tents,
caches, Lighthouses, and a mis-
cellaneOuS assortment of camp
equipment being mixed up IN
a hOpelessly tangled mass.
IOllV EDh would have
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ceased to be live joke after that nights doings.
if he had not been discreet he Jolly.
He disappeared completely for several weeks. and
when he showed up again everybody had got
the affair and all were glad to see him, his fame
meanwhile having grown to marvellous proportions.
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\ NE who knows the American
J Indian from intimate associa-
ton, and who speaks the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
Congressman Wants It Straight.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-''As a tenn.
perance man." Representative Rich.
ardson, of Alabama, wants his whisky
straight" In the debate on the pure
food bill in the house he took up the
consideration OF "straight" as against
''rectifed" whisky, and favored hav.
ing the rectified product so indicated.
Along these lines he said that, "as a
temperance man." he believed pure
whisky. unadulterated and genuine,
guaranteed by the government a.
such, would promote temperance, as
the people of France thought tina,
pure wines would promote it in their
nation.
II was Mr.. Richardson's opinion
that the spurious connections, the adul'
terated stuff in the country "puts the
very devil into men and results ir
murder, and the breaking up of fam,
lilies"
"lf a man offers to sell me a com
modify he ought to be required to stat.
what is in it," he continued. "If h,
Is going to sell me a keg of New Or
leans molasses, and three.fourths OF /
is glucose, he ought to be required Il
state it on the label of the barrel, O,
on the Jug"
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power of the gun itself not only to
check the recoil, but to reload and fire
the piece. 1t has been estimated that
with every one.pound gun an energy
Of so pounds to the square inch is ex'
pended, Of which only a little more
tn Ian six pounds is used in firing the
projectile. All the rest is waste.
Mr.. McLean's device to use this
waste is what is known as a ''gas
nuzzle" to be fastened on the forward
end OF the gun. In effect it takes up
the power of the waste gases and ex-
erts a forward pulling force as the
p%rojectile passes out. The doctor also
planned to use some of the gases to
reload and fire the gun, and up 10 a
tube directly under the barrel he has a
simple little engine that does this
work. AS q consequence, all recoil
absorbing devices are eliminated, the
gun is just SO much lighter, is always
fixed on the target and the one.pouud
rapid firing piece can send something
like two shots q minute.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
Uncle sam Scores Again.
Butte Evening News,

Butte Evening News.
Down IN Kansas City a federal Judge
took a pot shot at a covey Of railroad
and beef trust birds who have beer
fatteniug on the ubiquitous rebate sys'
TEN, and landing the whole covey. 1,
is q source of considerable satisfac.
ton to the general public familiar
with the nefarious operations of the
Chicago packers to see such names as
Armour, Cudahy, Swift and Morris
among those convicted in the United
States court for violation of the laws
against receiving rebates.
One can almost see the smile creep
over the face OF Governor LaFollette
when he called OF the president to ex.
change Fluctuations on the fact that his
old antagonist, the Burlington, was
among those whom the court was able
to reach. La Toilette, next to Presi.
dent Roosevelt, stands as the mos,
prominent and able leader of the 6gh,
against rebates. He knew what re.
bates meant, for no state has suffered
more from the vicious rebate than has
Wisconsin.
From figures recently compiled by
Ray Stannard Baker, it is shown that
during the period from 1897 to 1908
illegal rebates were paid to shippers
in Wisconsin for freight amounting to
S., lis, 7s9.1s, and for passengers s972,.
66l. 20.
Naturally against these figures one
cannot help comparing the insignif
canoe of today's fines, but Judge Nc
Pherson didn't stop with fines. Two
Of the gentlemen involved in these
charges will spend q term behind the
bars. That will be sure to act as a
deterrent, for corporation managers
and agents have q healthy horror OF
prison sentences, and while they are
ready to take all kinds of chances in
the violation Of laws when the punish
ment means the mere writing of a
check, they will hesitate when they
a%pprehend that it means prison and
disgrace.
1t is a splendid indication of the
new order of aft airs-the Roosevelt
regime in industrial history-when
corporations, like individuals, find
that they r amenable to the laws OF
the country-that they are the gov
erned, not the governors of this re.
public.
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of the old school, Roosevelt il of the
new school intensified.

f Of the old school, Roosevelt il of the
new school intensified.
But If the Courier-Journal has kept
an ear to the ground since Mr.. Roose.
welt succeeded to the presidency, 1t
must have noted the fact that com.
paratively little Of the discomfort with
his radicalism and general rapidly of
the pace comes from the democratic
side of the party line. The acts,
utterances, and characteristics Of the
president that are least popular
with conserv alive republicans are the
source of his ~unexampled popularity
with democrats. In the campaign of
1904, shortly before election, a prom
inent democrat politician of West Vir.
ginia said in the Office of the Post, in
reply to an inquiry a. to how his state
was going: "For Roosevelt beyond
any doubt" He went on to say, in
substance. that the dissatisfaction Of
conservative republicans was more
than Offset by the admir- alton of dem
ocrats, especially the young men Of
the party. The result showed that
this democratic diagnosis was correct.
The fact that Mr.. Bryan is growing
in favor with democrats who are
classed Is conservatives is an indica.
ton of the immensely of the change in
public sentiment during the past year.
Should the movement continue at the
present rate, Organism and old fogy.
ism will be Synonymous before long.
II tabasco u we're to supplant
coffee as the breakfast table beverage,
the change would parallel the transit
in democratic sentiment. But Presi.
dent Roosevelt Is not going to run
away with or from his party. And
there are yet a good many democrats
of the Cleveland brand who cannot be
induced to indulge in the tabasco style
of politics. Post.
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THE ROOSEVELT PACE.

"A review Of President Roosevelt's
career in Washington" says a repub-
lican organ, "shows that the man who
may be chosen to succeed him will
have q swift pace to live up to-"
WhereupOn the Louisville Courier.
Journal remarks.that ut does not seem
to have occurred to the reviewer that
there are many people in the United
States of America who believe that a
most desirable successor to President
Roosevelt would be one whose DOM
mating purpose would be not to live
up to the Roosevelt pace"
1t may be that there are many people
in this happy land OF freedom to
whom the rapidity of ''the Roosevelt
pace" is disquieting, who would pre-
fer, in the head of our government,
something more Of the calm, quiet
conservatism that characterized the
course of nearly all OF President
Roosevelt's predecessors. Not infre-
Quently one may hear a mild protest
against the greatness of the change
between the old times and the new.
The contrast between Mckinley and
his immediate successor is, indeed
striking, but this implies no disre.
spect to either. Mckinley IA a type
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
How To BE Healthy.

In this day OF germs and bacilli
those who pay attention to the advice
SO freely given must surely starve,
says an exchange. For instance:
Drink water and get typhoid fever.
Drink milk and get tuberculosis.
Drink whisky and get jimjams. Eat
soup and get Bright's Disease. Ea,
meat and encourage apoplexy. Ea,
oysters and acquire toxaemia. Ea,
vegetables and weaken the system. Ea,
dessert and take paresis. Drink coffee
and nervous p%rostration results,
Drink wine and get the govt. In
order to be perfectly healthy eat moth
ing, drink nothing, and before breath
ing be sure the air is perfectly ster'
ilized. In this way and this alone are
you SURE Of good health.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
Congressman Bede Is FacetiOus.

Dies MONIES, June 2s -Congress.
mar j. Adam Bede of Minnesota,
who is in Des Moines, said yesterda az
that he believes the meat.inspection
bill to be unconstitutional. 1--WE have
no more right to 60 into a Chicago
packing house," said he, land tell it's
managers how to run their business
than we have to waltz into the kitchen
OF a Des Moines woman and tell her
how to boil her cabbage. The packers
want the inspection however, and so
1 don't suppose the constitutionality
of the law will be questioned. The
people are getting SO that If they have
a pain in their stomachs they run to
congress for their medicine"
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Improving Rapid Fire Gun.

NEW York, June 26.-Iu the Ninth
regiment armory, in West Fourteenth
street, there is on exhibition a rapid.
fire gun known as ''fool proof" be-
cause its inventor thinks it is impos.
sible TO put it out OF order. I. has
another unusual feature, in that the
gases from the exploding powder are
not only used to propel the proiec.ile
but are also used to overcome the
Kick OF the piece. The inventor of the
gun Is an Iowa ply sician, S. n. Nc.
Lean.
hitherto expensive and heavy ma.
e%hinery has been employed to take W
this recoil. Water chambers. oil
chambers and springs are among the
devices, but no one has utilized the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
Montana Men Get Plums.

WASHINGTON. June 26.-The after
of Montana appointments which for
various reasons have been hanging
fire several months was brought to a
successful conclusion today by the
president sending to the senate again
the nomination of E. A. W%instanley
of Missoula for reappointment as re.
ceiver OF public moneys at Missoula.
John F. Cone of Hamilton, who was
said to have been a strong candidat
for the receivership, was nominated
surveyor general of Montana. Daniel
Arms was renomina ted for register OF
the land Office at Missoula. There is
little doubt of confirmatio by the sen.
ate,
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railroads, aud the evenue from fr. ieh,
has increased to 81. 1886, O2O, OPS a wear
which is three times as large a. the
passenger revenue.
Twenty-Five years ago very little at.
teution vas given t o wha, j. now
known a. the fast mail service. TWEEN.
ty years ago there were only two fast
mail trains leaving Chicago every
morning, where now there are four.
teen. All these fast mail trains are
run, As a rule, at a higher speed than
passenger trains.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
SunflOWer Philosophy

When q woman has a ''vOice' and
belongs to church, look our for
squalls.
An Atchisou man is so worthless
that only candidates for Office will
speak to him.
Tough women are enthusiastic with
each other, but a tough man tries to
associate with men better than he is.
Some people are enthusiastic in rec
~ommending medicines. We have neve
yet had occasion to speak we'll OF any
medicine.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04

This bank 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 Its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid OF time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
Rainlnaker Gets $4,000.

VICTORIA, B. c., June 27.-Rain'
maker Hatfield and the members of the
Yukon council who agreed to give him
S10,0 600 on condition that he secure q
downpour OF rain for washing up the
Klondyke creeks have the laugh on
members Of the opposition at Ottawa
who numerically scored Hatfield and
ridiculed the contract made.
The council sends out news from
Dawson to the effect that heavy rain
has fallen since Hatfield began his ex.
periments. The people attribute the
downpour to Hatfield's work.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
Washington News Notes.

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-A bill was
passed today by the house, restricting
the right Of entry under the desert
land law to surveyed lands, and linn
ting the right to take an assignment
to qualified entrymen.
President Roosevelt, with 4 desire
to recognize the interests Of orgaui.
zed labor, may appoint f. +. Clark
OF the Order of Railway Conductors
OF America to q place on the inter.
state commerce commission. Clark is
Il personal friend Of the president and
was q member of the commission ap'
pointed in 1902 to determine the is.
sues involved in the strike of the u Il
thracite coal mines.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
About DIRECT PRIMARIES
Some Ut the Requirements of New I.aw
Deserve Attention.

IN order to prevent any oversight in
complying with the provisions of the
direct primary law. Chairman 1.ea
Mantle. OF the republican state com.
mittee, has advised county clerks As
to a few matters tina, require their at.
%tention. Among the provisions men.
toned BY Mr.. Mantle are the follow.
ing:
Al least sixty days before the time
OF holding such September primary.
the county clerk of each county shall
prepare a notice in writing desiRnat.
Ing the offices for which candid ates
are to be nomin ated Al such primary.
INC shall publish the same once in
each week for four consecutive weeks
In some newspaper Of general circula.
ton In said county.
AT least twenty days before the Sep.
TENDER primary each county clerk
shall prepare sample official ballots,
placing thereon, alphabetically, under
the appropriate title Of each office and
party design ated, the names of all
candidates to be voted for in his u
ty for whom nomination papers have
been filed. Each sample ballot shall
be printed upon tinted or colored pa.
per and shall contain no blank en-.
dorsement or certificate.
Such clerk shall forthwith submit
the ticket of each party to the county
chairman thereof and mail a copy to
each candidate for whom nomination
papers have been filed with him as re.
qu'red by this act, to his postoftice ad.
dress, as given in such nomination
paper, and shall post a copy OF each
sample ballot in a conspicuous place
in his Office.
On the tenth day before such pri.
mary the county clerk shall correct
any errors or omissions in the bal.
lots, cause the same to be printed and
distributed as required by law in the
case of ballots for the general cleo.
tions, except that the number of bal.
lots to be furnished to each precinct,
for each political party, shall be one
and one-half times the number of votes
cast thereat for the candid ate for con-
gress OF such political party in the
last preceding election.
The county canvass of the returns
OF the September primaries shall be
made by the same officers and in the
same ann provided by the law for
the canvass of the returns of q No.
vember election. The canvassers
shall meet and canvass such returns
at 10 O'Clock on the Friday following
the September primary. Their re-
turns shall contain the whole number
Of votes for each candidate of each 20.
litical party. and a duplicate shall be
delivered to the chairman of the coun.
ty committee of each party.
County conventions OF each party
shall be held in each county after the
September primary election, for the
purpose OF electing delegates to attend
a state convention OF the party; adopt
ing resolutions regarding the policies
and principles OF the party; electing q
county central committee of the party
and a chairman thereof: and perform
ing such other duties as may be au.
thorized by party usage and custom
and not in conflict with law. The
membership OF such county convention
shall consist OF the delegates elected
at the September primary hereinbe.
fore provided for.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04

HELENA, June 27.-Nelson Henault,
4 half breed Blackfeet Indian. was
sentenced to sixty days in Jail and
fined 800 by Judge Hunt under a plea
of guilty OF selling liquor on the res.
ervation. Heuault's attorney, +. w.
Mettler, stated to the court that his
client had already been confined in
Jail for five months awaiting trial and
asked the court for clemency because
Of this fact.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04

W. G. CONRAD, Pres.
JAMES T. STANFORD,
Vice.Pres. and Manager,
A. E. SCHWINGEL.
Cashier.
OMAR j. MALCOLM,
Asst. Cashier.
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Conrad Banking
COMPANY,
GREAT FALLS MONT
(Unincorporated.)

FAID UP CAP1TAL...."......"$ 100, 900
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. 2 600. 600
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TRANSLATES 4 GENERAL
BANKING BUSINESS.

Local Securities q Speciality.
Interest Allowed on Time Deposits
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