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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
May Affect All Western Rates.

SPOKANE, Jan. lS.--In concluding
the Spokane end of the hearing in the
application of this city for improved
freight rates, Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Charles A. Prouty
ruled that further testimony would be
taken in Portland, Monday, April 10,
and in so ruling said that the case
was of so much importance that its
scope extended far beyond Spok ane.
He said that every community in the
mountain districts of the western part
of the | Hlled States from Spokane to
the Mexican border was facing the
same problem. He told of going to
Denver last week to hear evidence in
cases that were exactly similar.
The complainants in the present
case have contended from the begin
ming that when a railroad begins to
pay expenses to terminal points pat.
rons along the road should be bene.
fitted by proportionate lower rates.
From figures of merchandise coming
to Spokane and shipped through Spo'
kane, attorneys for the complainants
will learn the quantity of goods
shipped to terminal points. The com
mission also directed that the rail
roads furnish information regarding
the territory in the east from which
goods are shipped. This inform atior
regarding distances will show thu
mileage charge made by the railro az
companies.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23

cobblestones. As result, the detec.
tives of Chicago and San Francisco
were notified to try to discover who
stole the silks and filled the box with
rocks.
George Bechthol, the driver who de.
livered the box, was taken into
custody last night and locked up at
the police station. He denied that he
had any knowledge of the substitution.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
Beat Slot Machines.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Jan. l8.-Two
hundred men employed in the Glazier
stove factory at Chelsea and headed
by State Treasurer Glazier, who is
president OF the village, raided the
eight saloons of this town at noon
and smashed and burned 10 slot ma.
chimes. Mr.. Glazier carried q sledge
himself and led in the destruction Of
the gambling devices.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
Congressman Want More Pay.

WASHINGTON, Jan. lS.-By a vote
OF 1873 to 95 the house today voted tn at
the salaries Of senator's, representa-
tives and the delegates from Porto
Rico, Hawaii and Alaska be increased
to 81, 800 per year, after March 4, 1907,
and fixing the salaries of the vice
president, speaker and members of
the cabinet at sl2, 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
Merchants Receive Rocks.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. l6.-Instead
of receiving half ton OF silk goods
from Chicago valued at several hum
dred dollars, Livingston Bros, mer-
chants of this city, received large
drygoods box yesterday containing
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
NEW TELEPHONE FACILITIES.

The efforts OF the Home Telephone
Company to establish itself in the
suburbs of Providence, and their at
tempts during the past few months
to obtain franchise by circulating pc
titions and otherwise, have awakened
the Providence Telephone Company
to a realizing sense of the competi-
tion which may confront them; and
they have decided to check i'm a
measure if possible, such competition
by an advance movement along tho
line of the villages located on the
banks of the WoonasquatuckCt river.
During the past week number of
men have been at work setting poles
and stringing wires at different points
between Lymansville and Georgia
Vile in order To connect with the
new exchange which will soon be
ready for operation in Herbert Fen.
ncr's new block at Centerdalo. The
industrial growth of this locality is
extremely healthy and promises am
pie return for such outlays rs are
now being made.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
A TWELVE POUND FOX.

To inform Graniteville readers that
their crack shot. Rufus Harris. had
bagged another fox might cause but
little surprise, as Mr.. Harris feats
in the hunting realm, besides being
delight TO himself. as we'll as a
source of qualification to those fort
unate neighbors, who are the wearers
of furS which he has captured, has
reflected some agreeable notoriety
upon the Graniteville neighborhood.
As general rule Rhode Island foxes
seldom weigh more than ten OF
eleven pounds, but this Christmas
Mr.. Harris had the unusual pleasure
of presenting his wife with a fur mum
made of the coat of a twelve pound
r"d fox, the largest specimen of rey-
nard ever captured by him, which he
shot a few days previously in the
wilds OF North Providence. This
makes the third laurel of the season
the others being obtained over the
Smithfield line.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
MANTON

Albert l.. Remington, son of A. +.
Remington of this place, who Is con
nccted with the Fetchcll Mfg. Co. of
Philadelphia has been promoted to
the position Of boss-dyer of the es-
tablishment where he is employed.
Rev Austin Z. Finley of Worcester.
an evangelist of great power and i'm
prcssivcncss, will begin, on Monday
evening, a three weeks series of evan
glst services. at the Church OF
Christ, junction of Gladstone ana
MantOn avenues. The meetings will
be held at 1880 p. m. and all are cor
daily invited TO attend. Mr.. Finldy
previous TO his pastorato AZ Worces-
ter was engaged In work at Lexing-
ton, Ky.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coffin of Man.
ton, were the guests Sunday OF his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Cof-
fin, of Johnston.
Owing ia the efficiency of its new
chef. Miss Esther Bates, the Manton
restaurant is achieving something OF
"a DClmOnicOn reputation among To-
cal patrons.
James Flynn of Olneyvile, has
taken position at Swindclls drug
store
Herbert G. Calof purchased of Vim.
VI. Brown, December II. 1906. 46
house lots ON the Enterprise plat TO-.
gothor with a house, Darn. and three
and SO acres Of land within 200 feet
Of the corner Of Gladstone and Fruit
Hill avenues. The latter piece would
make an excellent place for small
poultry farm as there is ample room
for lOeO hens.
January 3, 1907 the same party
purchased OF Pardon T. Brown, the
sixteen remaining lots on the Elisha
.. Angel plat on Klondike street. II
ne puts the same push into selling
this property that he has into the
three last plats that he bought near
Olncyville, he will have the lots all
sold by July l. 1907.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
POTTERSVILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. William Howard ol
Foster Center, entertained Miss Eve
lyn Phillips, a few days last week.
Mrs. Eva Parker and Mr.. Chauncl
PAL ker visited at her brothers, MI
Hiram Woods, Sunday
Mrs. Frank Harris spent Saturday
with her sister at Rockland.
Mrs. Hiram Wood and family spen'
Sunday and Monday with Mrs. Eva
Parker.
Miss Mamie Cole has been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Sarah TyIei
OF Taunton
Mrs. Hannah Damon is visiting rel
atiyes here.
several from this place attended tho
oyster supper at Mrs. Whitman 5
Saturday 4 good time was reported
school will commence next Mondal
Jan. II. Miss Jacques has resign~
her mother being in poor health.
substitute from the State Normal
School will take her place.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
GRANITENILLE

Henry Nugent has commenced the
erection of cottage on land in the
rear Of his residence.
Parties on Douglas avenue purchas-
ed this week of Rufus Harris "A large
quantity Of wood.
Gideon w. Carter of Danielson, Ct,
arrived Monday as the guest OF his
son. George A. Carter.
Several from this place will attend
the theater party al the Providence
Opera House the middle of the month,
under the auspices Of the Providence
First Light Infantry Regiment.
\ number of new dwellings, TO be
erected, it is said, by the overseers of
the Benn Mill, are To be erected on
the street north of DR.. Barnard's of
flee.
Mrs. Morris of Fitchburg, Mass. Wis
tied at Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rushton S
last week.
Peter Miller, for several years a
resident of Philadelphia, has moved
to his old home here.
w stakes have been placed at in
tervals along the Centerdale dam 10
mitigate the roar and jar caused by
the foaming torrent.
y. S. Jencks has sold his hsh mar
ket at Grcystone TO Mrs. James wal
lace.
Clinton Barnard returned to Colby
College Monday, after spending the
vacation with his parents, DR.. and
Mrs. Barnard uf this place.
Mrs. George Mowry of Pine liill is
i'll.
Residents of the community were
greatly shocked to hear Of the untlme-
lv death of Arthur II. Adams, which
occurred Monday morning at Peck $
Corners, Darlington, near Crescent
Park. where he was electrocuted by a
live electric feed wire of the Suburban
line. Mr.. Adams was a member ol a
repair gang employed by the Rhode
Island Company, which had been or
dcrcd TO change the wires from one
sci of poles TO a new set, after the
last car for the night had been over
the route. Before starting to WORK
the foreman of the gang had telc-
phoncd to the power house 10 nave
the power shut off. Adams approached
the wire under the impression that II
was dead. The wire proved to be
alive and the lineman was frightfully
burned as a result. Death came al
most instantaneously The funeral
services were held at St. Albans
church Wednesday afternoon. Burial
was i'm the cemetery near the Adams
residence. Deceased was aged 70
wears and was one of the best liked
young men in the locality where he
resided. He was son of Abner f. and
/ Annie Adams.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
POCASSET

Tho Pocasset school opened Monday
after the holidays with an enrolment
Of - scholars. The work Of the schOoI
under the supervision of Mrs. Mauo
Warman Of Providence, includes sew
on grades. The pupils are most!
Italian children. which renders tho
task og imparting instruction "A rather
difficult one. There are decided evi
darces Of progress. however. as The
children In many instances are unusn.
aIly bright and the instructress has q
haupy faculty Of interesting them in
their studies. A few days before
Christmas little italian boy arrived
at Pocasset from his native land and
h. rs nov reading with the scholars IN
the first grado 10 q manner pbich y
-.r1e what surprising At peil - gra'i
evinE 20 his teacher.
lame. p. Fisk o. Providence IA
visitor al the Waterman farm az
Pocasest on Monday.
Walter Potter. who resides AZ th'
ITsha farm. vas ill thia vucL.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
FOSTER CENTER

a special meeting OF the Towp
Council was held at the town clerks
Office Wednesday, to take some ac-
tion in regard to the restraining Of
dogs. as IL IL reported that q mad
dog has been through this town and
bitten several dogs.
The schools opened this week with
the same teachers In charge at last
term, viz: Stephen A. Douglas at
Foster Center; Miss Efile Curtis at
Howard Hill and Mrs. Alderbert Bar
den ut Cranberry Hill.
Mrs. Rufus Howard, who has been
detained In the house with severe
cold. Is much better and able ~ be
out of town on Wednesday.
Mss Bertha Cook was the guest Of
"A freud on Howard Hi over Wed
nesday
Hiram Wood. who was reported
seriously Ill last week, IL rapidly I'm
proving and able to be out doors IN
pleasant weather.
Elmer and George Hopkins havo
recently sold the West View Raxm"
To Edward T. Simpson Of Providence.
Mrs. Lydia H. Place WAS 10 this
village on Tuesday.
Hiram Sayles and wife were enter.
tanned by Mrs. Sayies sister. Mrs. !.
The many friends OF Or. Lester &
Hill were Interested TO hear OF ths
recent announcement OF tho engage
ment Of his daughter. Miss Lena HilI,
to DR.. Alfred w. Love, OF Plaineeld.
n. j. DR.. Hill Is resident OF Broad
street, Providence. but spends hrs va
cations at his farm at Foster. where
he has wide circle Of acquaintaaces-
Miss Hill is a graduate OF the Wo-
mans College Of Brown University
and Is well known in society.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
HARMONY

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Conan have
returned home.
Mrs Julian Austin aud daughter
of Grcouvllo, spent Sunday at Mrs.
cid Smiths
Mr. D. W. Steere Of Providence.
called on friends IN Harmony this
week
Mr. Jaquos OF Greenville has nnish-
DJ shingling Mr. stceres house, on
thc %cw Idea Farm.
Gid Smith is still working in Pos-
ter.
Mrs. G.. a. Young has been enter.
tanning company from Foster, and
also some from Maine.
Mrs. Henry Tcrrnaut is under Or.
Harris care
Mrs. g. ". Browns little daughter,
EHoll is sick with bronchial ,rouble.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
THORNTON

II Is said that there are tweaty
seven cases OF contagious diseases In
this section.
pendictis at the Rhode Island Hos
pltal
William Gorton has moved into The
Simmons Mansion.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Robert Barks, whs
were recently married, are residing
on Book street.
Charles Wayte has moved into tho
tional chapel.
Thornton farmer recently lost
quite a bunch OF fancy bred fsvIs,
from the depredations Of ben thstvsB.
Mr. Jordan is understood to b tho
new manager Of the CoSDefStfvs
store.
william virgins has eltsrod the
employ Of William Humphvye.
The Chinese lsundrymAa Of this
place has removed 10 Boston.
X. d. Brown OF Peacedaie. spent
Sunday wwith Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Dalton.
Samuel Belts has removed his dsS
business 10 Taylor's Block.
Signor G. Gambopi and ftmIly are
soon 20 sail for Italy.
The attendance al the Thorntoo
schools has dropped or nearly ose
hart, on account of scarlet fever.
The little son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
George Greaves, was christened On
Sunday ~ the Church of the Holy
Nativity.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
SOUTH SCITUATE

The family OF Arthur Bates have
removed from Wilbur Hollow, 10
Rocsllud in one of the Joslin Mfg.
TO- tpupmeuts
Frank Capwcll has purchased Dan
IrI R.mingtons farm at Wilbur Hol'
low.
Harry Perkins family, who have all
boon quite sick. have about recover
o.
The oyster supper al George Wilt
,1Iu'e on Saturday night. given bT the
r. y. Society OF the Old Bsttey church
was an unusual success. About twelve
dollars was netted for the society and
tho Young people enjoyed social
time afterVsrds.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11
CREENVILLE

Rev. G. B Cutler is supplying the
pulpit at the Granitcville church Sun
day mornings.
Rev H. G. Bennett conducted the
funeral Of Arthur Adams at Granite
vile ON Wednesday.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11

Dear Sir:--Some time since was trou-
bled with blotches coming ont 90 my breast
Of serofulous character, and my geo1d
system SEEMED 10 ,. ou, of ord~. vss
induced TO try DR.. David Kensedy's Pew
lie Remedy. The hrr bstsle drove the
eruption away and feel better every v~y.
II is splendid blood aedicihe. --IIenry s.
Eidrot.re, Rochester, ~. Y.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Four State legislatures have recently
passed laws taxing bachelors for renaains
ing single. z i.ssTa ,l-5s-5s
The famous battleship Oregon, few
years ago the pride of the Navy. Is now,
relegated to second class, and viii have
to be rernodeled to retain that position
The fearful strain in firing big gun.
makes the'iife of a. battisship. OF few
years duration. sFS-l9 n s
Secretary-of-War Taft has authorized
the Superintendent of West Point
Academy to take the entire corps of
cadets to the jamestown Exposition.
The date for the trip has been left to
the discretion of the superintendent and
will be announced later.
"Be sure your sins will find you out. u
is our warning to speakeasy proprietors.
Nineteen persons were indicted in Mid
dlesex last week for the illegal sale OF
liquor and there are more to follows
they say, and the evidence is convince
ing. -Southside Seminal. o.sl
The uses of and discoveries connect
ed with electricity are fast multiply
ing. A photograph in Germany -ha.
been reproduced on this side of tn,
ocean by telegraph. A professor ma
invented wireless telephone, by whicl
persons 25 miles apart can convers,
without the use of wires.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-02-22
A PLEASING ACT.

Almost simultaneous with publication
recently of Capt. Squires' generous act
came the following. So far as is pub
licly known these are the only two in
stances of like generosity on record.
General M. w. Sheafe, of Watertown,
South Dakota, Union veteran in the
Civil war, has sent to Captain j. Pres
ton Moore, commandant of Lee-Jack-
son Camp of Confederate Veterans, of
Lexington, Va, draft for $l8, drawn
to the order of NJ w. Sheafe, by the
pension agency at Milwaukee, and as
signed by him to j. p Moore. The
draft is the quarterly payment of a
service pension of $72, granted General
Sheafe by the pension office. He ex-
plains in his letter to Captain Moore
that he desires the donation to be used
for the benefit of some needy Confeder-
ate veteran, and further says that a
similar draft may be expected once in
three months. General Sheafe served
in the United States Army when ayouth,
and saw active service as an officer
during the Spanish War, holding the
rank of general. Two years ago he
visited Lexington, where he had a son
at Washington and Lee University, and
while there attended the dinner to the
Confederate veterans on January 10Th.
He was so impressed with the occasion
that this practical manifestation is
made.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-02-22

at first, but the project considered
soberly seems practical enough, ana
certainly Is "a consummation devoutly
TO be wished" The work of gradine
began Sept. 1 near LaPorte, Ind.
AS the new road VIII be an air line.
with few curves. the route SURVEYED
Is 16O miles shorter than the PennsyI-
vania Short Line, and go miles
shorter than the Lake Shore and
New York Central, each of which runs
trains covering the distance in eighteen
hours. Taking into consideration the
shorter route OF the Air Line. this IL
equivalent TO a fourteen-hour service.
With low grades, q straight track ana
no grade crossings, the seventy-fve
niles an Aour average necessary to a
ten-hour service ought easily TO be
maintained. Even on the first class
steam roads of today ninety miles an
hour is not uncommon for short dis
tanceS.
The Scientific American of Feb. 1S,
1908, speaking editorially of the New
York Central experiment, says, ''The
success OF this installation, of which
there can be no doubt whatever, marks
the first step in the gradual subsu-
tuition of tho electric for the steam
locomotive in the operation OF long dis
tance express trains" The Chicago
New York project may be regarded tho
second step.
Mr.. Sprague himself says that speed
Is n matter OF finance" what then
VIII determine the future7" he asks.
Chiefly the financial factor, as It must
the future Of any other great industrial
problem. When savings In operation
and the increased return for traffic
VIII more than pay a fair dividend on
money invested for electrical equip
ment, will trunk lines be operated by
electricity"
Professor Charles p. Steinmetz, one
or the greatest authorities on cleo
tricity, is quoted as saying, There Is
no limit to the speed that may be de-
veloped In electric traction-that is,
there is no limit up to 15O or 200 miles
an hour. Higher speed than that the
car wheels could not stand They
would fy TO pieces from centrifugal
force. Not only can n speed of 100
miles an hour be maintained on
train equipped with electricity, but in
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-02-22

ried twenty-siX passengers, at a maxi
mum speed Of thirty miles an hour.
The first electric car TO be operated
regularly In the United States was In
stalled by Deft on the Hamden branch
OF the Baltimore Union Passenger
hallway in August, 1856. That
was barely twenty years ago. So
great as the skepticism OF the public
ana railway men generally that the con-
tract urder which the road was built
Withheld payment one year SO That it
might be determined whether the cars
would run. NO one but knave or
q fool would undertake such thing"
said well known scientist at the
time. Scientists sometimes have trouble
Keeping mp with the procession. About
the same time small cars were oper-
ated by Van Derpoele at South Bend,
Ind, followed by other small roads in
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-02-22
THE VALUE OF RlGETEOIjsNFsSI

And he said, Oh let not heAI,ord h
angry, and VIII Speakib but this -o3,ea'
Peradventure ten shall he found, tbere5
Ano de said, VIII not DESTROY n fo,
tens sake. .--Genesis xviii. g.
1t was early in the history of the hu-
man race that the Creator took this
occasion to let the world know how high
a value He sets upon a righteous man.
Sodom was the most wicked city in all
the world and its men were given In
brutal sins; but for all that, the Lord
told His servant Abraham that if ten
righteous men could be found within
the gates, for their sake He would
spare it; and if ten such men could have
been found, even Sodom had been saved
from the downpour of birthstone and
fire.
Are righteous men of less value in
this generation? Are they not the
saviors of every city. Can we have
a decent city without righteous
citizens in control? Can we have de-
slrable progress and permanent success
without such leadership?
We may have great wealth, but it is
righteousness that exalteth a nation:
without which there can be no genuine
prosperity. The richest asset of anv
nation is character, and national char
acter is but the concrete expression of
the character of individual citizens.
These are trite sayings, but it seems
to us that they are timely reminders in
Richmond BY the effort of citizens
who gave their time, talents ndheart to
the work, fund of S226, 600 has been
subscribed to erect Y. M. c. A. build
ing. The money has been provided for
In advance, and when the building is
done the association will have a clear til
tie, free from incombrance. It will he
monument to righteousness. 1t will
be an institution to promote righteous
ness among the people, and especially
TO train our young men in the paths of
righteousness and give them a righteous
spirit. 1t will be an inspiration to every
youth. 1t will be an incentive to good
living and good works. 1t will give
tone to public morality, and moral tone
to business. 1t will be part and parcel
OF our public school system, and it will
educate the heart as well as the head
and the hand.
is 1t not worthy the effort and the
money? The Times-Dispatch believes
that it is the best investment of the
kind Richmond has ever made.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-02-22
FROM HORSE CAR
TO THE TROLLEY
Story of the Wonderful De-
velopment in Electric
Traction During the
Past Twenty
Years.
PASSING G? STEAM TRACTION
Gradual Elimination or Distance
Through the Development OF
the Electric locomotive
Chicago to New
York i'm Ten
Hours.

During the summer OF 1887, there
appeared in the New York sun the
following facctious news item:
They tried an electric car on
Fourth avenue yesterday. 1t created
TN amount of surprise and consterna-
ton from Third st. to One Hundred
md Seventeenth st. that was some
thing like that caused by the first
steamboat on the Hudson. Small boys
yelled "dynamiter' and "ratsr' and
nade similar appreciative remarks un-
I'll they were hoarse. Newly appointed
policemen debated arresting it, but
went no further. The car horses
which were net on the other track
kicked without exception, as was