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Sentence Sermons.

The hot-headed often get cold feet.
The honest task does not fear the
knOcker.
1t doesn't take many bracers to
make a binder.
Jump at a conclusion and you will
find confusion.
Oily words easily gush from rocky
and barren hearts.
You a not prove your grit by
throwing sand into the worlds sores.
The things you look at in private
determine what you look like in pub.
lie.
The man who has brains back of his
forehead never needs to bother as to
how the front of it looks.
Benares, the sacred city OF India, is
visited annually by nearly 1900, O0(
pilgrims.
A jeweler, no matter how dishonest,
would not steal the jewels in a watch,
for they are valueless; they cost only
a few cents apiece. In antique watches
the jewels were often costly.
If you a keep sweet in a world
where selishness is turning men sour
you are doing more towards its en-
riching than all the silver mines of al
the ages.-Chicago Tribune.
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Miners May Perish.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Jan. 3O.-It
was stated this morning that of 300
men In the Stuart mines in Fayette
county, where an explosion of dust
occurred yesterday afternoon, it is not
believed any will be taken out alive.
the force Of the explosion being so
terrific as to wreck the entire inner
workings.
So far the cage In the mine has been
lowered 400 feet, or within $50 feet OF
the bottom. Repairing will have to
be done before the cage can be let en-.
tirely down. The Stuart company has
already received 60 coffins and has
ordered more. 1t it is thought that
the mine is on fire, but this cannot be
determined until later. The heat and
smoke from the shaft is intense. and
the men could not be reached for q
day or so even If the shaft was ir
working order.
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heavy loads: and of train crews work.
ing extremely long hours without rest,
although making only ordinary mile.
age" Cases in which it took twenty
days or more to move loaded trains
two hundred and fifty miles were com.
o The irritating lack of cars has
caused, in many localities, a move.
ment to penalize railroads which fail
to furnish cars to shippers when re.
Quested. The suggestion usually takes
the form of a "reciprocal de~murrage"
bill to be introduced in the state leg.
islatures. This bill provides for fin
ing the railroad ten dollars a day for
each failure to deliver a cat which has
been asked for.
The failure of the roads to do the
business for which they exist can
hardly be ascribed to a lack of CAPT.
tai for improvements. They have
been pouring out securities to the limit
of their credit, but unfortunat ely most
Of their paper seems to have been is.
sued for the purpose of buying each
other up rather than for equipping
themselves to carry more freight and
passengers. The money it cost the
Union Pacific to get Stuyvesant Fish
out of the Illinois Central would have
hauled a lot of Nebraska wheat to
markell
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Many Miners Entombed.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Jan. 29.-At
least so or 60 persons are dead as a
result of an explosion in the Stewart
mine, near Fayetteville, Fayette coun'
ty, to night. According to the latest
reports received, the death list may
total IS. The explosion was caused
by dust.
Every effort is being made to reach
the entombed men, but there is little
hope that any of them 10 alive. A,
the time of the explosion, about two
hundred men were in the shaft. OF
the unknown dead, 50 are whites and
10 are negroes. In addition, a mum
Der of white Americans have taker
employment at the mine so recently
that their names are not known te
their fellow workmen.
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America Imports Coal.

OMAHA, Jan. %. - The Hartman
roads are buying coal in Australia
and shipping it to the United States
for use in their locomotives. The
coal costs the railroad $40 per ton at
the docks in Australia and by the time
San Francisco is reached the cost has
become enormous.
But so scarce are freight cars and
motive power on the Hartman system
thatit is warranted in paying this price
rather than in taking the cars and en-
gines from general traffic and devoting
them to coal business.
Out in Wyoming, two great coal
camps of the Northern Pacific are at
a s%tandstill. Fire at the CHAMBERLAIN
mines prevents work at that place and
the No. l mine at Rock Springs is
closed because of lack of machinery.
The railroad is short nearly 1000 tons
daily from that field alone.
Several steamers are en- route from
Australia now with bituminous coal
for the Hartman system, and the i'm
portation will continue until the coal
famine is over.
VICTORIA, B. c., Jan. 29.-Owing
to coal shortage in British Columbia,
the steamer Rockingham is bringing
full coal cargo from Japan for Tread
we'll island mines, which formerly were
supplied from Comox. The mines
have been shut down owing to cal
shortage.
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Big Livestock Losses.

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 3O.-An Ore.
gonian special from L~ewistown, Ida,
says that cattle and sheep are perish.
ing by the hundreds in the Salmon
river country, to the south of Lewis
town, as a result of the prolonged cold
spell which has been intensified by a
two-foOt snowfall which covered the
prairies in this section.
The fall Of snow several weeks ago
made grazing poor and this last storm
makes grazing impossible and starva-
ton is carrying off the cattle in large
numbers.
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migration and Industrial bureau and
such director shall hold Office for the
period of one year.
On the call of the governor the said
directors shall meet within thirty days
after their appointment at the state
capitol building and at such a meeting
shall organize by electing a president,
secretary and such other officers as
may be deemed necessary. They may
adopt such rules and regulations, not
inconsistent with this law, as in their
Judgment may be calculated to con-
tribute to the advancement of the pur.
poses IN this act indicated. At such
meeting they shall elect an executive
committee, not exceeding five in mum.
Der, to which executive committee
shall be entrusted the active manage
ment of the bureau, subject to the law
and such general rules and regula.
tons not inconsistent Herewith as the
board of directors may promulg ate.
Thereafter the board of directors shall
meet once annually at the call of the
president, and at some date before the
first day of January and the first day
of April. The executive committee
may be selected in whole or in part
from persons other than members OF
the board of directors.
To carry out the provisions this act
and to enable counties to receive the
benefits of the Montana Immigration
and Industrial bureau, the county
commissioners of the various counties
may make an appropriation from the
general fund of their county for the
preparation. printing and delivery to
the state bureau of any special adver.
Using matter that they may deem best,
and the amount Of money which said
commissioners may appropriate for
such purpose, shall be as follows:
Counties of the first class, not to ex.
coed $500: counties of the second
class, not to exceed $1,000; counties Of
the third class, not to exceed 81 500;
and counties below the third class no,
to exceed 81, 200.
The county commissioners of the
various counties may appropriate
money for the specific purpose and
within the limits prescribed in sector
IL of this act, only upon petition,
signed by not less than $50 bona fidt
taxpayers in counties of the first elias.
and 100 taxpayers in counties OF Other
classes. The county commissioner:
shall, in making such appropriation
state specifically the purpose for which
the same is made.
There is hereby appropriated out o
any moneys in the hands of the stat
treasurer, not otherwise appropriated
the sum of $25, 600 for the year 1907
and the sum of $25 900 for the year o
1908, and said money shall be PLACED
to the credit of the Montana lmmigra
ton and Industrial bureau by the stat
treasurer and by him held and pai'
out under and in accordance with tn,
provisions of this act.
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Quick Work BY Dixon.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Congress
has passed . resolution authorizing
the secretary Of a to sell, for three
months, straw, hay and grain from
the stores at Fort AssinnibOine, tC
prevent loss of cattle and sheep from
starr alton.
AT S:l5 yesterday, Representative
Dixon read q telegram from Repre-
sentative.elect Pray. asking the secre'
tary Of war to authorize the command
AM at the fort to loan feed for 2O,Oot
cattle in the vicinity of the fort. Dix
on Immediately drew a resolution
which was passed at 4:45. He took i
to Senator Carter this morning anl
the senate passed the same this after
noon.
This is a new record for such legis
lation. The stores are to be sold a
their cost to the government.
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LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.

If Representative Gray's apportion-
ment bill, which vas reported fav.
orably in the Legislature by the house
committee on apportionment, becomes
alaw, the next house of representatives
will contain seventy members instead
OF seventy-three, as at present. The
apportionment is based upon the cen.
u of 1900, n member being allowed
for every 1900 population or fraction
above 1900. A county having $500
popul alton in 1900 is entitled to two
members. The entire apportionment
was based on that proportion. The
old and the new apportionment fol.
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lOLaA

1t will be seen that Broadwater,
Deer Lodge, Granite. Jefferson, Lewis
and Clark, Madison and Meagher are
reduced, and Carbon, Cascade, Chou
teau and Yellowstone increased.
Il X
the senate, is one by Senator j.. l..
Truscott, of Valley county, which
fixes the liability of railroads for
killing and manning livestock on
their rights of way. This bill pro-
vides that railroads shall maintain
good and legal fence on either Or
both sides of their tracks, and cattle
guards at all crossings, such guards
as neither cattle nor other stock al
cross.
Ia case railroads fail to obey this
provision Of the bill they must pay a
fair market price for all cattle or other
stock killed or injured by their cars
or engines, unless the stock was killed
or injured on account of the negligence
of the owner OF person having In
charge. Nothing in the bill is to
prevent owners of stock from ecover.
ing damages from railroads for stock
killed or MANNED at spurs, sidings,
Us or turntables.
Marshall's bill which provides for a
change in the levy Of the tax for the
livestock funds, is being talked about
considerably. Under the present law
the tax for the bounty fund, the stock
inspection fund. the sheep inspection
fund and the stock and sheep indem'
nifty funds, has been levied solely up.
on livestock. Colonel Marshall's bill
provides for a levy of ~six.tenths OF q
mill upon all the taxable property o.
the state. The assessment OF 1906
made the bounty fund SlOO, 900; the
stock inspection and detective, S29,
99l .26; the sheep inspection and in
demnity, 80, 7O5 "a: the stock indem
nifty, So, 452.S2 The general levy pro
vided by the Marshall bill will create
q revenue approximately equal t.
these figures. 1t is probable that som'
changes will be made in the bill be
fore it is passed. One Of the change
suggested is that the revenue from
this tax be applied to meet the ex
penses of the enforcement of the fsl
and game law, the understanding be
ing that the legislature will combin
the offices OF county stock inspecto
and county game warden. and vii
make this an elective Office.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
OUR O~VERWORkED RAILROADS

The inability OF railroads to handle
the transportation business of the
country, and the frightful loss of life
caused by accidents on American rail-
roads, are the subject of an interest.
ing article by a writer in Golfers
Weekly, who says the figures of the
interstate commerce commission show
that 9 1903 persons were killed and &c..
COS injured on American railroads In
1905. OF these 6SS were killed and T.
433 wounded in collisions. These So
called accidents were almost oil pre-.
ventable. Most of the other kinds OF
accidents were preventable, too, but
practically all collisions could have
been avoided. They were due to dis
regard of the rules laid down to en-
sure safety, and this disrega ard was
due to the effort to make one man, one
locomotive, one car and n mile Of
track do the work Of two. The presi.
dent talks of the danger Of rae sui.
eide because not enough babies are
born, but of those that have been born
and brought up with infinite pains to
be of service to the state, We have al
lowed the railroads to kill 1862 and
cripple 1854, 7l7-more than the whole
population of q city as large as San
Fraucisco-in five years.
Some Of the railroad %potentates
questioned by the commission took a
view Of the situation that was almos,
tragic in its gloomy intensity. Presi'
dent Hill, Of the Great Northern. de.
clared that the roads rs q whole had
mot kept in sight of the country'I
growth" He thought We were against
q stone wall 80 high that nobody car
see the top Of 1t. He observed thai
while the freight movement OF thu
country had increased by ITO per cent
between 1895 and 1905. the increase IL
facilities in the same decade had beer
only 20 per cent. For the next tiv,
years MIR. Hill put the absolutely nee
essary increase TO catch up with tn,
business at $1,000 miles of track
which would cost Is, SOC, 900. 900. or 81,
lOO, 900, 900 . year. Even that he con
sidered too little. and yet it was NOR,
money than he believed the Unite.
States could raise.
The commissions Investigator,
agreed with him on the latter point
Int they called attention To severa
possible means to make better use o
the present facilities. They mentioned
} cases Of ''loaded cars standing from
two to twenty days at the points o
origin: Of empty cars lost in congestet
terminals or lying unused, sometimes
in solid trains, for equal lengths o
time: of engines broken down from
overwork: of trains torn in two b.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security.
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal ire tment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct or all principal American and
European cities, and issues Its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on 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, 1907-02-06
Blackfeet Bill Passed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The senate
passed a bill today to survey and al.
lot the lands of the Blackfeet Indian
reserv alton, in Montana. In calling
up the measure, Senator Clark OF
Montana, remarked tbs t the presideu,
had vetoed the a. last year. He
said that he believed that the bill in
its present form would meet the presi-
dents approval. 1t was then passed.
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Terms Of Court, 1907

CHOUTEAU COUNTY.
Tuesday, March 10.
Tuesday, June Is.
Tuesday, October %.
VALLEY COUNTY.
Tuesday, February II.
Tuesday, May IA.
Tuesday, September 10.
Tuesday, November 10.
TETON COUNTY.
Monday, April 8.
Monday, August 5.
Monday, November 1.
Peculiar and Pertinent.
Things are not sanctifed by taking
out their sweetness.
Unless you lay out your work your
work will lay you out.
While sympathy waits for SECOND
selfishness gets the floor.
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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.)

PAID UP CAP1TAL..............S 100000
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY 600, 900
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1t will be seer that Broadwater,
Deer Lodge, Granite. Jefferson, Lewis
and Clark, Madison and Meagher are
reduced, and Carbon, Cascade, Chou
teau and Yellowstone increased.
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Local Securities a Speciality.
Interest Allowed on TINE Deposits
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-02

without bringing any permanent prosperity
to the towns they make SO lively and pros
porous for a season.
Three or four miners, working on the bar.
rem and rocky slopes above the little camp OF
Quartz City, had found some very rich pieces
OF ore assaying a wonderful amount of silver
to the ton, but ton of the ore had not yet
been found when the boom began, and peo-
pie came pouring into the camp at the rate
OF hundred or more day.
Poor, forlorn Ted Deane had come with the
Others only he had come as they had not, In
the boot of the stage coach.
he had worked his way slowly from one of
the Eastern States, leaving behind him a
father who was Indifferent as to what became
OF him, and step-mother who was glad to
see him go, simply because she didn't want
him around"
He had wandered in an aimless way toward
the West, without any definite idea of what
the country was like, or what he was to do
when he reached it.
He did not think he could be much unhap-
pier anywhere than he was at home, nor that
he would be likely to meet with people more
indifferent to his welfare than his own few
taken, although he had had pretty hard
| time of it ever since he left home.
But he was a very plucky. boy, not easily
discouraged, and of hopeful nature. He
had perfect confidence in his ability to take
| care of himself, and was ready to begin his
Col Sci Ill liiC III very sHidll anu nuInDie
way.
Washing dishes in the hotel at Quartz City
was certainly an humble and not very profit
able occupation, but it gave him food and
shelter until he could ''look around a little"
| Two weeks after his arrival, the great boom
reached its height, and the gulches and slopes
around Quartz City were alive with eager
and excited miners searching for the rich veins
supposed to be hidden away in the secret re
cesses of the mountains.
A good many rich bits of ore were found
here and there on the numerous claims laid
out, but in none OF them were continuous
veins found, although the old and experienced
miners felt confident that such veins existed
/! if they could only be found.
The miners became less hopeful of "strik
ing it rich," as the summer wore away, and
began leaving Quartz City for more promising
camps
Texas Jim, one of the first comers, left one
morning in July:
Ted was standing on the hotel steps wher
jim, boisterous and rolicking as he always
was bade goodbye to "the boys" and mount
ed his restless little broncho to ride away.
! Turning toward Ted, Jim said:
"By-by, sonny I'd give you a quarter i
I wasn't about dead-broke; but I'll tell yor
what, Ted, III make you an out-and-out pres
ent Of all the mines I've got here. Yes, sir
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you can have the hull caboodle of them. You
hear that, gents?' he said, with nod to the
dozen or two miners standing near. I've
made this here kid present of every mine
I've got in this county"
"It's a good thing he don't have to pay
taxes on 'em, Jim," said one of the men, with
a laugh
."Pll give We chaw of terbacker for the lot
OF en-, bub," said TALL lank wag known as
"Grinning joe"
Ted declined this munifcent offer, and
turned away with new ideas of his import
ance in the world. Somehow the ownership
of even such worthless pieces of property as
these abandoned mining claims created in
ance.
He knew the location of several of the
claims, for he had gone up to them on errands
for Texas Jim several times.
There was one not far from the hotel called
the Bonny Belle, in which Texas Jim had
driven a tunnel thirty or forty feet deep in
length, and then deserted it as worthless.
The day after Jim's departure, the dish
washer at the hotel was missing
Reckon he's skipped to greener pasters;," !"
has Think I'll light out myself soon, if
things don't brighten here. The boy was a
right decent sort of little chap, and hope
he'll have good luck, wherever he is"
| But Ted had not skipped farther than the
from Quartz City.
| With an old pick, wheelbarrow and shovel
that he had found in different deserted cabins,
he was digging away manfully in the tun-
mel, developing his property" as he ex-
pressed it.
The miners at work around him soon found
him out, and, in spirit of fun, and lKindli-
ness combined, urged him on:
CHATS right, my boy," said Grinning Joe,
his bulky form half closing the mouth of the
tunnel, one day. ''Peg away, and you'll git
there some day Struck boulder, hey? Well,
I'll stop on my way down from my own claim
and blast her out for ycu. How you off for
grub?"
Ted slept in little shelter of hemlock
boughs at the mouth of the tunnel, and
cooked his own scanty meals of bacon and
biscuits.
The miners sometimes stopped and helped
him over hard places, as Grinning Joe pro-
posed doing, and when his little store of
sgrub" ran out, they supplied him from their
own not very abundant supply.
"Minins all luck, anyhow" said Bill Baker,
one of the 'Forty-niners, as he and several
their camp fire one night, with occasional
gances toward thin, blue column of smoke
coming up through the. pines half mile
distant, indicating Ted's campfire. Eyes,
sir, gents minin's reglar lot'ry, and that
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there little kid is as apt to draw prize p as
anybody, blessed if he amt! And I'd jist
like ter see him come across a good find,
blamed if wouldn't. He's plucky, he is, and
he deserves all he'll find in that old Bonny
Belle and more, too"
While this conversation was going on, led
was on his knees before the last load of gravel
and rocks he had wheeled out that day. 1t
did not look like the gravel and rocks ne had
been taking out for the past three weeks
The sun was not quite down, and he was
kneeling before the little heap while his coffee
was boiling. As he knelt, scraping piece
OF ore with his knife, two men, strangers to
him, came out of the pines nearby and ap-
preached him.
They were low-browed, surly and evi-look-
ing fellows but Ted paid little heed to their
appearance as they came near.
Hello, bub!" one of them said. What
you doing
"Oh, Pm mining!' repied Ted, careessly.
Finding anything?"
"No, think not'
One of the men dropped to his knees beside
Ted and began examining the contents of
the wheelbarrow. Suddenly he glanced up
at his companion, with knowing look, and
he, too, knelt and picked up handful of
gravel.
''Did you say you fetched this out of the
tunnel today?" he asked
Eyes, " replied Ted. "You reckon it's worth
anything?"
Who owns this claim?" the man asked,
ignoring Ted's question.
"I do"
"You?"
eyes, sir, it's mine"
"Whered you get it?"
''Texas Jim gave it to me-"
"How'd that happen?"
Ted, in few words, gave them little ac-
count of himself, and told them how the
claim had come into his possession, when, to
his infinite amazement, one of the men point
ed toward the darkening and gloomy gulch be-
low and said:
'Weli, look here, young feller you want
to light out of here about as quick as you
ever lit out of any place in your life!"
"I-I-what for?" gasped Ted.
That's for us to know and you to find
out. Gitl"
"I-L-what--"
"Git, l say!"
"But the claims mine, and"
"If you amt out O. sight in three minutes,
I'll put bullet through you," said the man,
promptly drawing his revolver.
Alone, taken wholly by surprise, and ut
tery helpless Ted stood paling and trembling
for half minute, when the other man said:
1T don't know, but it'd be good idea to
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