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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
MONTANA IN CONGRESS.
Proposed Legislation That Affects
Residents Of This State.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Il. Senator
Dixon has introduced bill amending
the act opening the Flathead reserva.
ton by providing for the construction
OF irrigation systems within the limits
of the reservation for the use of the
Indians. The proceeds of the sale Of
reserv alton lands are to be used for
this purpose, under the direction of
the secretary of the interior. One-half
the money remaining after the con-
struction of the irrigati system is
to be expended by the secretary in the
purchase of livestock, implements,
etc., for the Indians, and the remain
ing half is to be paid to the Indians
and those holding tribal rights.
Congressman Pray took up with
Senator Carter this morning the mat.
ter of setting land contest cases to be
heard before the registers and receiv-
ers of the land Office instead of before
the nearest United States commits
sioner. Together the representatives
OF Montana will present this question
to the commissioner general of the
land office.
Pray and Carter are also working
with General Mackenzie, chief of the
army engineers, with reference to the
Improvement of the Missouri and Yel-
lowstone rivers. Congressman Pray
will prepare bill when he has Sc.
cured all the data necessary to cover
the necessities of the case.
Senator Dixon this morning intro
duced bill before the SEN ate: provid.
ing for federal building for the city
of Missoula to cost $3.50, 900.
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Over a Million Immigrants.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l5.-Immigra.
tion to America during the year end
ing June 30, 1907, was vastly greater
than in any previous year of the his.
tory of the United States, according
to the annual report of Frank p.
Sargent, commissioner general Of i'm.
migration and natur aliz alton, which
was made public today. OF this great
flood OF immigration, Mr.. Sargent
says:
IAN army of l,298,5l3 souls have
come, drawn here by the free institu.
tions and the marvellous prosperity OF
our country-the chance here afforded
every honest toiler to gain livelihood
by the sweat of his brow or the exer.
else of his intelligence-surpassing in
numbers the records of all preceding
years"
The immigration for 1907 exceeded
that for 1906 by 1916 and that for
1903 by 858, 1856.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Arkansas Senator In Eruption.

WASHINGTON, Dec. n.-In the sen.
ate today Senator Davis, of Arkansas,
newcomer in the senate, delivered a
sizzling speech, lambasting President
Roosevelt, Rockefeller and the entire
Wall street list of celebrities. He
criticized the presidents annual
salary, placing it at $4,000, saying
that the president does not need this
amount to live on. He ridiculed the
antitrust policy of the administra alton
and challenged the republicans before
hin to name trust that the president
had even "tamed.
"a prison sentence staring Rookie
feller in the face will make him law
abiding citizen and nothing else
WILL, he shouted to his hearers. He
stigmatized the Wall street spectators
as thieves and robbers and charged
them with precipitating the panic.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Amalgamated Was Losing Money.

BUTTE, Dec. 12.-John Gillie, gen.
eral superintendent and manager of
the Amalgamsted Copper company,
returned home today from New York,
where he was called to attend q meet.
ing of the board of directors of the
company last Saturday.
Mr.. Gillie today gave some further
details of the conditions which led to
the order confning Amalga
operations to the Boston 4 Montana
group of properties. Under the plan
in operation since curtailment became
necessary because Of the slump in the
price OF copper, the Amalgmated Cop
per company was losing about $780,
600 month. 1t was impossible to
maintain the Washoe works at one
fourth its capacity and not lose heavi-
", and it became q question of clos
ing down all of the mines of the COM
pany in Bntte or operating the Bos-
ton Montana properties and smelter at
full capacity.
After Mr.. Gillie had presented the
facts, the directors decided to close
down the great plant at Anaconda,
whiSh was losing money under the ex-
listing conditions, on the Boston &
Montana.
"We would work all our mines at
the present price if there
were demand for our products, -
said Mr.. Gillie. "All of our COM
panies, working about % per cent of
their normal forces, were producing
between 1000 900 and 5000 600 pounds
of copper and losing, IN aggreg ate,
about $3.50, 900 month. Conseq uent-
ly we switched an the business TO the
Boston Il Montana mines and smelter,
which will operate now at small
! prnE
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Democrats Are Pleased.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Members
of the democratic national committee,
who are here, were among the most
interested of the readers of the an
nouncement that President Roosevelt
had reiterated his determination not
to accept another nomin alton for the
presidency and while most of them
were reserved in their comment, it
was evident that they saw in it a fav.
orable omen for their party. Several
of them were frank enough to express
the opinion that President Roosevelt
could poll larger democratic vote
than any other candidate.
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Troops Will Preserve Order.

WASHINGTON, Dec. u.-Presiden
Roosevelt today named federal COM
mission to visit Goldfield and investi.
gate conditions there. The commits.
sion will start Immediately and will
report personally to him. The fol.
lowing order was sent to the comm an
der of the troops at Goldfield late this
afternoon at the direction of the pres
ident:
Troops were not sent to take part
with either side in purely industrial
dispute 80 long as it is kept within
the bounds of law and order. They
are neither for nor against the strik.
ers or employers. They are there to
prevent riot, violence and disorder.
Under and in accordance with the
constitution and laws of the land, no
man will be interfered with so long
as he conducts himself in u peaceful
and orderly manner"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Seventy Land Fraud Cases.

DENVER, Dec. l3.--One of the most
sens ational criminal proceedings in
the history Of Colorado is expected to
be inaugurated next Monday, which is
the date set for the beginning of the
Colorado land fraud cases in the
United States district court here.
Seventy men were indicted last sum.
mer for alleged land frauds, and many
additions are expected to be made to
the list in the near future.
Many men of prominence are alleged
to have been involved in the schemes
to defraud the government. Joseph
A. Walker, federal secret service
agent who was sent to Colorado to
investigate the alleged frauds, was
recently murdered near Durango. and
is thought to have been the victim of
the ''land grabbers," who feared tn at
he knew "too much"
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TROOPS WILL REMAIN.
General Funston Believes Their Pres.
ence At Goldfield Is Necessary.

GOLDFIELD, Dec. 13.-After having
met and conferred with many citizens
Of Goldfeld today, General Funston
stated tonight that he is finding con-
ditions worse than he had anticipated.
1.-THE possibilities of serious trouble
growing out OF the difference between
the Mine owners association and the
miners" he said, "are greater than
my anticipation previous to my coming
to Goldfeld.
81 have just telegraphed q second
report to Washington, which is based
upon the inform alton gathered today
l do not believe the governor will de-
clare martial law At once, as no ser.
ious trouble has as yet occurred.
"As to the matter Of patrolling the
vicinity of the mines and the streets
of the city with the regulars, that is a
procedure that may become necess ary
at any hour"
The statement of General Funston
tonight settles effectively the question
of withdrawal of the troops from
Goldfeld. Neither General Funston
nor Governor Sparks will yield to the
pressure that has been brought to in.
duce them to favor the withdrawal oi
troops before the arrival of the labor
commission from Washington.
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Miners Want Protection.

GoLDFlELD, Dec. l5.--Today a dele
cation from the American FEEDER alton
of Labor called upon General Funs-
ton, who is continuing his investiga-
tion of conditions here with q view of
determining the need for the presence
of federal troops in Goldfeld.
"rhese gentleman made the most
remark able statement l have yet
heard" said General Funston in an
interview with the representative of
the Associated Press. "Their state.
ment is that for months, they lived in
constant fear. They have considered
it necessary for their self protection
to go armed at all times1 and have
been compelled to avoid personal
contact with members of the Western
Federation of Miners, in order to
prevent serious trouble. This condi-
tion of affairs, they have told me,
obtained until the arrival of the
United States troops, since when the
conditions have greatly been
changed"
General Funston stated that he con-
sidered this statement of conditions
came from men who have been in Q
better position to know the real situa-
tion than any others who have talked
to him since his arrival.
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Lumber Dealers Complain.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Il.-In a com.
plant filed with the interstate CON-
mercc commission the kalispell Lum-
Der company and other lumber con.
Germs of Montana allege that the Great
Northern and 500 Line railroads 5
have made an unjust, illegal and dis
crimina atory advance in the rates on
manufacturing lumber from points in
Montana to points in other states.
The complaint declares the great
Northern Railway company is the
owner Of the John O'Brien Lum Der
company, which operates large mills
in the tlathead district in competition
with the complaints and that 1T is
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Pass 80 far ahead of his time that the
miners laughed at him as a crazy.
headed fool.
DISCUSSES LAND LAWS.
Former Secretary Of Interior Says
They Should Be Revised.

CHICAGO, Dec. 14.-At q banquet Of
the commercial club tonight, Ethah
Allen Hitchcock, former secretary Of
the interior, delivered an address
covering the organic alton and work
OF the department of the interior. He
narrated in general way all that
had been accomplished by the depart
ment since its inception, covering his
own administration. He detailed the
problems which the president is COM
PEELED to meet from time to time, and
said:
"1f the laws are unjust and oppres-
sive, the answer has been, and still
is, to amend or repeal them. II the
people fail to exercise their rights and
duties at the primaries, they cannot
complain If politicians, thinking only
of their political debts, resort to
methods and accomplish results which
the patrio would either regard with
contempt or Indignantly expose.
"Just SO long as government officers
wear the collar of those to whom they
are indebted for their nomination and
appointment, just so long will we h have
land frauds by perjury, illegal fenc.
ing OF the public domain to:the exclu-
sion of the pioneerihome.builder, and
the speculative CRATER, ready and
eager to rob the nations ward of their
rightful inheritance.
Before beginning his formal ad.
dress, Mr.. Hitchcock briefly discussed
the public land laws, declaring they
are too numerous aud imperatively
need revision. He particularly urged
immediate repeal of the timber and
stone act and the desert land act.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Cooper Must Serve Sentence.

HELENA, Dec. l6.--Frank d. Cooper
former county commissioner of Cas-
cade county, prominent stockraiser
of Cascade, twice convicted of the un-
lawful fencing of the public domain,
must serve fifteen days in the county
Jail and pay $500 fine. The appeal
which Mr.. Cooper took from the judg-
ment of the federal court of this dis.
trict to the circuit court of appeals at
San Francisco has been dismissed. on
motion OF the defend ant, and as soon
a. the mandate is received from the
clerk of the circuit court of appeals,
Mr.. Cooper will be taken into custody
to serve his Jail term.
The first time Mr.. Cooper was indict.
ed he pleaded guilty and was given q
nominal sentence. After his convic.
tion the second time, more severe
penalty was imposed, the court taking
into consideration the fact that it was
his second offense. The sentence Mr..
Cooper must serve is the heaviest
ever imposed in Montana for the un-
lawfnl fencing of public lands.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Counterfeiter Makes Novel Defense

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Herman Hem,
who made silver half dollars SO we'll
that only experts could distinguish
his product from that Of the mint, was
sentenced yesterday TO six years at
Sing Sing prison ana to pay the gov
ernment $3.50 in real money. HEM 5
method was to melt up a Mexican sill
yer dollar and remnld the bullion into
cOunterfeits of United States 50-ceut
pieces.
The cOunterfeiter calmly admitted
having made the coins and set up the
defense that his money was as good
as the governments and that conse-
quently no one had been defrauded.
He was making money, he said, with
which to build an air ship, as he was
certain that he had solved the prob.
lem of aerial navigation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Railroad Laws In Court.

MADISON, Wis, Dec. 13.-The state
supreme court today declared the
Wisconsin sleeping car law unconsti.
tutiOnal. The decision declares the
law is not a valid exercise of the po,
lice powers of the state: that it leaves
the occupant of the lower berth to de-
eide whether the upper berth shall be
closed or open, instead of absolutely
requiring an unoccupied berth to be
closed.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 13. - Judge
Smith Mcpherson, in the United
States district court, has issued an
order temporarily restraining the
Missouri state board of warehouse
and railway commissioners and At
torney General Hadley from putting
into effect the new law reducing ex-
press rates.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Great Graft In Chicago.

CHICAGO, Dec. l2.--Far.reaching
effects of the great snow storm of J an
uary, 1905, were uncovered last night
by the city civil service commission
The most interesting phenomena dis
covered was that 100 street laborers
are still employed by the city for the
removal of that remarkable snow fall
According to the records those lOO
emergency laborers were pegging
away at the snow all though the cam
paign for the election of Mayor Ed
ward F. Dunno aud all though his
administration. Curiously enough,
the number OF men required for the re.
moval of snow rose to 1900 in July.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18

mines Nos. & and today. Until Mr..
Paul concludes his investigation, all
other work at the mines has been
suspended. Explorations were stop
ped last night, at which time q total
OF 32O bodies had been recovered.
The result of the house census TAX
en- by the company shows that 33S men
are missing, which leaves Is bodies in
the mine, according to the company's
estimate. In addition, however, .
number Of contr actors and men hired
by the contractors are believed to
have been In the mines when the ex.
pfosion occurred.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
ROOSEVELT STANDS PAT
President Declares He Will Not Ac-
cept Another Nomination.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1l.-President
Roosevelt will not be a candidate for
third term. All doubt on this point
was tonight dispelled by the statement
at the White house that Mr.. Roose-
velt still adheres to the declar alton of
renunciation made the night of the
election three years ago. In the state
ment issued tonight, President Roose-
velt says he has not changed, and
shall not change the decision deliv.
cred to the American people In 1905.
It appears that President Roosevelt
had been awaiting the call for the re.
publican national convention to af-
ford the proper opportunity for max
ing his position clear and unmistaka-
BILE, thus leaving the field clear for
Fairbanks, Taft, Cannon, Knox,
Foraker and other active or receptive
candidates for the republican nomin-
alton. The presidents statement fol.
lows:
''On the night after election I made
the following statement:
" 4 am deeply sensible of the honor
done me by the American people in
thus expressing their confidence in
what l have done and have tried to
do. I appreciate to the full the SOL
emn responsibility this confidence i'm
poses upon me and l shall do all that
in my power lies not to forfeit it. On
the 4th of March, next, I shall have
served three and half years and
these three and half years consti.
tute my first term. The wise custom
which limits the president to two terms
regards the substance, and not the
form, and under no circumstances will
be candidate for or accept another
nomin ation.'
II have not changed, and shall not
change, the decision thus announced. :"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18

sought by means OF the increased rates
upon said railroad to depress, check
and hinder the business Of your pc.
titioners.
1t is further alleged that the advance
in rates was due to combin alton
and conspiracy Of the defends ant lines
and that, If permitted to be exacted,
will do irreparable damage to the bus.
mess of the compl aiming companies.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Will Resist Big Fine.

CHICAGO, Dec. l4.-The bill of ex.
ceptions in the appeal of the Stand ard
Oil company OF Indiana from the fine
Of 800, 100000 was today signed by
Judge Lands and was later filed in
the court of appeals. 1t is expected
that the entire record in the case will
be filed within a few weeks and q
hearing had upon the appeal within q
shor, time.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Would Benefit Homesteaders.

WASHINGTON. Dec. l2.-The com.
mittee on public lands of the senate
today gave favorable consider alton to
Senator Hansbrough's bill allowing
homestead entrymen to be absent from
their lands during four winter months
of each year, the time not to be sub.
tracted from the period required by
law to perfect homesteads.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
War On Mail Order House.

DEs MONIES, Dec. l2.-Sears, Roe
buck & Co., the Chicago mail order
house, has been indicted for fraudu-
lent use of the mails. 1t is alleged
that the company has misrepresented
articles listed in its catalogue. The
Retail Grocers' association Is behind
the iuvestig alton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18

MISSOULA, Dec. l2.-JOhn B. Cat.
lin, chief clerk to allotting agent,
Major Rankin, on the Flathead reser-
walton, reports that Major Rankin
will finish the work of allotting the In
dians their lands by January l. This
will be good news to many who are
anxiously awaiting the opening OF the
reserv alton. There are about 2,400
Indians to receive from 80 to l60 acres
each, and these have the pick of the
land on the reserve. There are many
thousands of acres of excellent lands
to be thrown open, and it is hoped
the opening will not be delayed longer
than the coming year.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
Recover $40 Bodies.

MONoNGAH, w. ", Dec. l3.-State
Mine Inspector Paul OF West Virginia,
is making a thorough examination of
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10 W.. 2nd ST.

II shall remind YOU of that when
We are IN England together
That will never. be, Aipan dear, un-
less my father is free
She repeated it again and again
Her manner of speaking had now be.
come that of one who understood that
this was a last farewell
You cannot help U.S." she said,
why should you suffer because we
must. In England there's a great
future before you as Mr.. Gessner's
adopted son. | shall never hear Of
1t, but shall be proud because
know the world will talk about you.
That will be something to take with
me, dear, something they can never
rob me Of, whatever happens. When
you remember who Lois was, say shs
Is thinking Of you in Russia far away.
They cannot separate us. dear Alban,
while We love-"
He had no word to answer this and
could but harp again upon all the
promise of his fine resolution When
the matter-of-tact official came to find
him. Lois was close in his embrace
and there were tears Of regret in his
| eyes
! Continued in Next Issue,)
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you the permission, Lois 2"
ITO back to London and marry An
ma Gessner. Won't you do that,
Alban?"
"You konw that l shall never do
So"
There was time when you would
not have said that, my dear"
He was greatly troubled, for the &C
cusation was very just. The impossi-
bility of mixing the whole truth plain
to her had stared him in the face since
the moment of her pathetic confession
when he met her on the barge. I'm
possible to say to her. IT had an ideal
and pursued it, looking to the right
and left for the figure of the vision
and suffering it TO escape me all the
time" This he could not tell her or
even hint at. The lie cried for n
hearing, and the lie was detestable TO
him.
There was time, yes, Lois he
said, turning his face from her, ri am
| ashamed to remember it now, since
you have spoken. If you love me, you
would understand what all the wond-
ers Of Mr.. Gessner's house meant to
poor devil brought up as I had been.
| 1t was another world with strange
people everywhere I thought they
were more than human and found
them just like the rest of us. Oh,
that's the truth of it, and know It
now. Our preachers are always
calling upon the rich to do fine things
for the poor, but the rich man is deaf
as often as not because some little
punny thing in their own lives is din
ming in their ears and will shut out
all other sounds. know that it must
be so. The man who has millions
doesn't think about humanity at all
He wages war upon trifles, his money
books are his library, he has blindet
himself by reading them and lost his
outlook upon the world l thought il
would all be so different, and ther
somebody touches me upon Slt
shoulder and l look up and see thai
my vision is no vision at all, and tina,
the true heart Of it is my own all tht
time Can you understand that. Lots
is 1t hidden from you also?"
1T is not hidden, Alban. it is Just az
said it would be-"
Il should never have loved you less
whatever you had DONE
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CHAPTER XVII.
The Prison Yard.


The great gates of the prison yard
rolled back to admit the carriage in
which Alban had been driven from the
hotel, and Gordon of aight-backed
officials Immediately surrounded it..
Early as the hour was, the meanest
servant whom Zaniloff commanded
had work to do and we'll understood
the urgency Of his task. The night
had been one long story Of plot and
counterpart; of Reyolutionaries flee
Ing from street to street, Cossacks
galloping upon their heels, houses
awakened and doors beaten down, the
screams and cries of women, the
savage anger of men. And all this,
not upon the famous avenues which
knew little OF the new emeute, but
down in the narrow alleys of the old
city where bullying gables hid the
sight from clear heaven OF stars AMI
the crazy caves had husbanded the
cries.
There had been civil battle fought
and many were the prisoners. Not a
cell about that great yard but had moi
its batch Of ragged, shivering wretches
whose backs were still bloody, whose
wounds were still unbound. The
quadrangle itself served, as Gas
sack joculsrly remarked, for the over
flow meeting. Here you might pre-
ceive many types of men-students
still defiant, stage lawyers given TIC
the parley, ragged vermin of the
slums gathering their rags close about