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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Clark Bought the Mine.

SHosHONE, Wyo., May "A deal
has been closed whereby former Sen.
ator w. A. Clark of Butte, Montana.
has purchased the williamsburg
mines at Copper mountain for 81, 900, :
600. The representatives of Senator
Clark had just made an offer of $500, :
900 when rich strike was made in
the Falls mine, one of the group. They
promptly turned down the offer and
demanded $1,000. 900. This PROPOSE.
tion, it is said, on excellent authority,
was acceded to.
The WILLIAMSBURG group of mines
are said to be among the most valua-
BILE in Wyoming, and although the
price was doubled Senator Clark g
Representatives did not hesitate to
take in the property. Work on the
mines has been principally develop.
ment in character, but the properties
have made showing that has at.
tracted capital.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Land Frauds In Washington.

SEATTLE, May 2.-Six secret oper.
atives are working in western Wash
ington unearthing a series of land
frauds that are declared to be more
astounding in their far.reachlng char.
acter than the discoveries made in
Oregon or California.
A secret service operative in the
confidence of President Roosevelt has
just been sent to this coast to take
charge of the work and to assemble
the evidence that has been accumulat.
ed for presentation to special officers
of the department of justice. 1t is de.
clared by high government authori.
ty that when all the timber fraud evi.
dence has been assem- bled, F. J. Heney
will be asked to come here and dupli-
cate his success in convicting the land
thieves of Oregon.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
More Artillery Posts Needed.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Incident TO
the separation of the field and coast
artillery, according to an act of the
last congress. there has been de-
veloped the pressing need of ample
and spacious posts ia the eastern part
of the United States, for the assem-.
bling and training of the field artillery
which the experience of the Russo
japanese and Boer wars has deter.
mined to be the very backbone OF the
army. This arm of service must be
greatly increased and brought to the
highest efficiency, if the army of the
United States is to keep step with the
armies, not only of Europe, but of the
Orient.
To meet the necessity of ample res
erv ations, for muster and drill OF
these forces, Secretary Taft will urge
upon congress at its next session, the
urgency of procuring the necessary
lands. There are already some excel
lent artillery posts in the middle west
but none east of the Mississippi river.
This is most serious omission, in the
view OF the general staff, which feels
that posts should be established in the
east regardless of the fact that the
land is much more expensive than
upon the western prairies.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Will Be a Long Trial.

BOISE, May 2.-Men connected with
the case say it will take at least a
month to get jury to try w. D.
Haywood and that the Jury, when Sc
cured, will have to spend from two to
II months away from home. There
will be no further postponement OF the
trial. 1t is admitted that the trial will
occupy at least several months, in all
probability four. The evidence has
cost q quarter of a million dollars.
This city is rapidly filling up with
strangers coming to attend the trial.
Although the case will not be called
until May 8, fifty deputy sheriffs have
been sworn in. 1t is believed that
more than this number of detectives
will be employed on both sides.
The offices of the attorneys for the
prosecution will be guarded day and
night. Extra guards are constantly
on duty at the Jail. The public is not
excited, but determined feeling ex-
lists here that the prisoners must have
a trial and that justice will not be
thwarted by show Of violence.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Ex-Secretary Shaw Predicts War.

WORCESTER, Mass, May 3.-In .
speech last night at the annual dinner
of the Worcester Board of Trade Les.
lie NJ. Shaw, former secretary of the
treasury, declared war for the control
Of the Pacific was inevitable.
II do not wish to pose as pro.
phet.' he said, "but do you suppose
the Pacific will always be Q peaceful
ocean? God grant that it may. We
have not collier, transport, powder
or supplies to last for forty eight
hours. Other nations have. There
are many ships in the merchant SER
vice of foreign countries which are
under contract to leave the path OF
commerce at q moments notice to en-.
ter that Of war. We have not one
such as these.
"Some day, as sure as Auglo-Saxon
blood runs red, there is to be an aw.
full war. There are two nations th at
can contest for the Pacific and this
war will be settled at an awful COST
Mr.. Shaw appealed to business men
to take q business interest in govern.
mental aft airs.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Montana Man Loses Job.

WASHINGTON, May =. Commis-
sioner Ballinger, of the gener al
land Office today took radical action in
discharging Geo. B. Ogden, Of Mont. =,
William E. V ak, OF Maryland, Wood
ford D. Harlan, of this city and J ames
J. Barnes, of Michigan because they
had confessed that they accepted
money corruptly from private citi.
zens to give out official inform alton
pertaining to the business of the Of.
fee. They had admitted that they
sold inform alton to hyde, Benson and
Dimond, who are now under indict-
ment for alleged land frauds of enor-
nous extent in Oregon, California,
Arizona and other states involving
hundreds of thousands of acres.
These men had made their disclosures
in connection with the trial of ex.Com.
missioner Binger Hermann and other
defendants in the land fraud trials,
telling what they had received, and
swearing on the witness stand as to
the details of their illicit trans actions
with the alleged land looters.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Labor Men and Roosevelt.

NEW YORK, May g When the
Meyer. r.Heywood matter was brought
up at q meeting of the Central Feder-
ated union unexpected sentiment in
President Roosevelt's favor was mani.
tested. The union represents more
than 100, 900 workers of this city. While
speeches against Roosevelt were m ade,
he had numerous defenders. The 90.
cialist mem bers were bitter against
the president, and ex.Assemblyman
Sam Prince said they were using the
Meyer Haywood case to spread their
own propaganda.
Herman Robinson, general organ.
izer of the American Federation Of
Labor, said he objected to any demon.
str alton to condemn President Roose.
welt, and all that the trades union
asked for Meyer aud Haywood was a
fair trial. Robinson declared the pa.
rade next Saturday would not repre-.
sent org anized labor.
Timothy Healy OF stationery firm
resolutely supported Roosevelt, and
said the whole movement is to boost a
poltica! party. Ex.Assemblyma an
Tom Rock said Roosevelt had always
been friend of labor. Ephraim X auf-
man of the clothing cutters union
said Roosevelt might make mistakes,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
To Survey 6lackfeet Reserve.

WASHINGTON, May 4. - Commis-
sioner Ballinger said today that mem.
bers Of the geological survey will
start work this summer prepar atory
to the opening of the Blackfeet Indian
reserv alton, in northwestern Montana.
Fifty surveyors will work simultan-
eously, but the work may not be CONF
pleted before the summer of 1908.
The allOtments to the Indians will
not be made until the survey ia
finished, and this may consume
another summer. The lands remain.
ing unalloted must then be classified
and the non.mineral lands appraised
by u commission appointed by the
president.
The lands will be classified as agri-
cultural lands Of the first class, agri.
cultural lands Of the second class,
grazing lands, timber lands and min
eral lands.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Will Return to Work.

VANCOUVER, B. c., May "a spe.
cial dispatch from Fernie, says: 1t
is unofficially reported today that the
miners have voted to return to work.
The result of the vote will be made
public later. The agreement, about
which so much has been said during
the controversy, practically means
the acceptance OF the closed shop
principle.
The general opinion among the
business community here ia that the
men should get what they have de.
manded. the cost OF living having SO
much increased in recent years. 1t is
considered also kthat the railroad
companies pay too little for their
coal. The Crows Nest Pass Coal
company supplies the Great Northern
at 81 80 per ton, and the Intern alton al
Coal & Coax company supplies the
Canadian Pacific at $l.6 per ton. II
is conceded that at these prices the
men cannot be reasonably remuner-
ated.
Under the proposed contract the
miners were to get advanced rates OF
payment on certain classes of work
and in some cases the rates were to
remain unaltered. There were to be
no reductions.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
viii Open Land to Settlement.

OMAHA, May 3.-The government
has decided definitely to proceed with
the Huntley project of opening 10000
acres Of government land for settle.
ment near Billings, Montana. by lot.
terry or the drawing system. The ex.
act date has not been fixed, but it will
be about June 30 or July |. This will
be about the first government land
ever thrown open for settlement where
water for irri alton is Immediately
available. L. W. Wakely, general
passenger agent of the Burlington,
said:
"The land will b, within fifteen
miles G the 81 900, 900 sugar bee: fac
tory at Billings. Townsi,:. will be
established and land within two miles
OF towns will be allotted in forty acre
tracts and more than two miles will be
allotted in eighty acre tracts. The ex-
pense to the man drawing will he
about $2l an acre and it will be worth
from S75 to 800 In year, or at once.
"Should he draw forty or eighty
acre lot he must pay one tenth down,
or So for his pro rata to the govern.
ment for expenses of irrig alton, 81 for
the Indians and 80 cents for the ex.
penses of mainten ance, which makes
S4.6O for the first year for each acre. u
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Bathing Suits Too Loud.

NEW YORK, May "A deleg alton
from the Rockaway Beach Taxpayers
association called upon Arthur j..
O'Keefe, first deputy police commits
sioner. in Brooklyn, this afternoon to
ask the police to act as censors of
bathing suits worn by women during
the coming summer. Attorney George
w. Titcomb, who acted as spokesman
for the party, declared that for the
past few years the cloud" costumes of
some women bathers had become q
disgrace to the beach.
Many women, he said, put onsi bath.
ing suits with no intention of going in
the water. Instead they promenaded
through the business streets of Rock.
away and were usually to be seen in
ice cream saloons. They wore high
skirts, low-cut waists and openwork
stockings. These displays drew un'
desirable people to Rockaway.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
To Investigate Shippers.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-The inter-
state commerce commission has
started an investigation into charges
that hundreds of shippers throughout
the United States, engaged in various
lines of business, have been guilty of
underbiIling and under weighing COM
modities in violation OF the provisions
OF the new railroad rate act. AS re-
suit an order has been made that the
books of the shippers shall be accessi-
BILE at all times to agents OF the CON-
mission. II thus will be brought home
to shippers tha the railroad rate act
regulates their oper ations as much as
it does those of the railroads.
Cnderbilling, or underweighing
shipment offered in interstate com.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
Land Grabbers Sentenced.

PORTLAND, May 4.--Former State
Senator Frank p. Mays and w. N.
Jones were sentenced by Federal Judge
Hunt of Helena, Montana, for connec-
tion with land fraud cases of eastern
Oregon.
Mays punishment is $4,000 fine
and four months In the Multnomah
county Jail, and that of Jones is g., 900
aud eight months in the county Jail.
Mays sentence was stayed until No.
vember, in order TO clear the record
to permit the case going before the
United States court of appeals.
The sentences of Hamilton II. Hen
bricks, Charles a. Watson and Geo.
d. Barnard implicated In the same
case went over until September, be.
cause of the objections, by the govern
m"n' tn the manner ia which the de-
fenaautS' bill OF exceptions was pre-.
pared. The defendant in this case
were convicted OF attempting to de-.
fraad the government.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
A Thrilling Ride.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa. May 3.-Con'
ductor Hoxsie of this division OF the
Milwaukee had a strange experience
On Saturday. After going five or six
miles out OF Calmar his train passed
a section crew which made wild dem.
onstratious. The train was stopped
and Engineer Swanson found a 4-year
old boy who was hanging on to the
cowcatcher for dear life. He had rid.
den six miles at the rate of about a
mile minute, as it is down grade
from Calmar to Jackson Junction.
y, the latter point he was left with
the agent and sent back to Calmar to
his frantic mother on the next train.
When found, the little fellow was
laughing and had enjoyed his ride
hugely.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08

the country, produced a profound sen.
8 alton. Its effect upon the people of
this vicinity was startling. Every
one realized that it was no ordinary
crime, as the method employed indi.
Gated a measure of deliberation and
vindictiveness not often witnessed.
There were theories of all kinds, but
the minds Of the people generally ran
back to the time in 1899 when the VIC
tim, then serving rs governor, laid an
iron hand upon the situation in the
Occur d'Alenes and brought down up
on himself denunci ations of . vast
number OF people. While he had al
ways been supported by what may be
designated as the business interests of
the state, the miners generally were
incensed against him.
On Jan. 2 man calling himself
Thomas Hogan was arrested. he had
been suspected from the 6rst, having
been hanging about with no apparent
business. A few days later he was
identified as Harry Orchard, man
who had figured in the Cripple Creek
disturbances and was in the COeur
d'Alenes in 1899.
A preliminary examin alton was held
Jan. 1915, and Orchard was held with.
out bail on the charge oflhaving com.
mitted the murder. For safe keeping
he was lodged ir the penitentiary.
There he was visited by James Nc
Parland. the WIDELY known detective
in charge OF the western branch OF the
Pinkerton agency. Orchard made to
MCFARLAND what is said to be con.
fession. This serves as the basis Of
the case worked up against the officers
Of the Western Federation. =.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08

merce is punishable by fine or impris.
onment or both. In the case of two
oil companies doing business in North
Carolina strong evidence was obt tained
that railroad companies were de.
frauded out of comparatively large
sums by the underweighing Of ship.
ments. The evidence contained in this
connection has been forw arded to the
department of justice and proceedings
are about to be instituted against the
two concerns involved.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
GARFIELD GETS BUSY.
New Secretary Of Interior Changes
Methods Of His Department.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The most
radical reorganization of any branch
of the government service ever under
taken in time Of peace is on the eve OF
completion by Secretary Garfield. of
the interior department. Divisions
have been abolished, new methods In.
augurated, land officials removed, and
other measures taken to make the de.
partment a modern business machine.
The action is of prime Importance
to practically the entire body of the
American people. The annual ex.
penditures of the interior department
approximate over $3.50, 000, 900. Almost
1,OOO, 900 veterans and dependents of
various wars in which the United
States has been engaged look to it for
their pensions. 1t is the protector of
public lands, the authority response
BILE for the uplifting of the Indians
and their defense from spoliation. 1t
has charge of all the territories except
those in the far Pacific. and lays the
needs of the millions of their inh abit-
ants before the president and con.
gress.
It issues something like $4,000 pat.
ents and trade marks annually. 1t
makes geologic, topographic, and
photographic surveys Of the United
States, and prepares the official maps
and charts of the country, which are
of the greatest Importance to the set.
Element of boundary questions. 1t
investigates and reports upon the out.
put of the mineral products of the
country, which now have attained the
enormous value of 81, 600, 900, 900 an.
nually. 1t is engaged in irrigation,
spending more than 81, 900, 900 month
in reclaiming land which will be of
immense crop value to the country.
The reorg ganization of the interior
department which Secretary Garfield
has made is in line with recommeda a.
tions su omitted to the president by the
Keep department commission. This
commission, of which Secretary Car
field was member, instituted a
thorough investig alton of the interior
department., as of all other depart
ments in Washington, and made the
most damaging report about the con.
ditions therein. There was absolutely
no reflection cast upon Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, who retired as secretary
on March 4, but on the other hand at
tention was called to the remarkab bic
work he had done in purifying a SER
vice which had become honeycombed
with inefficiency and fraud.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
TARIFF TROUBLES.
France Will impose a Prohibitive
Rate Against American Products.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-The refusal
Of the French government to accept as
sufficient for import purposes the tag
OF the agricultural department affixed
to fresh meats has convinced the state
that an effort must be
made to reach q general agreement
with France to govern mutual trade
relations.
Consul General Mason at Paris has
called the department. attention to q
measure now pending before the
French chamber, increasing by more
than 400 per cent. the tariff duties on
American cottonseed oil, practically
the prohibitive rate. Another French
proposition, to which Mr.. Mason calls
attention, would without doubt COM
pletely wipe out the hourishing and
growing American shoe trade with
Fra nee, for it purposes an increase
of duty of 60 per cent.
There are indications Of q purpose
similarly to increase the duties on
American grains and flours and other
agricultural products, and further in.
dications that general pressure is to
be brought to bear on America by the
majority of the continental powers, to
secure special tariff concessions as
the price OF admission to their own
ports of American products.
In view Of the failure of congress to
assent to any Of the proposed recipro.
city treaties to which the state depart
ment has committed itself 10 principle,
the officers are embarrassed in mark.
ing out course of action that will
prevent general tariff war.
PARIS, May ). - The Associated
Press is able to announce author.
itatively that France will welcome any
action by .the United States looking
to the creation of a joint tariff COM
mission similar to the one which sat
at Berlin with view of reaching a
mutually satisfactory basis of settle.
ment of questions in dispute. The
present French government strongly
favors regime of reciprocal conces-
sions, but at the same time it appre-
ciates the strength of the demand OF
the French protectionists in favor OF
higher duties.
In order to avoid drifting into a
tariff war, therefore, the governmen,
considers the time opportune for rep
resentatives OF the two sides to meet
| and consider the entire subject.
The French government feels CRATE
full for the manner in which the w ash
ington government has arranged tc
expedite settlement of the compl ain
with regard to the valu alton of porce
lain shipments at New York aud ir
return the foreign Office is doing wha
it can to prevent the application .
the customs administration's s rejection
of the new form of meat certificate un
der the American pure food law.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08

but his heart and sympathies were all
right.
CHICAGO, May 2.-The Chicago la.
Dor leaderr have decided to abandon
the plan to file articles of impe eachment
against President Roosevelt. The
legal committee has advised them it
would be "worse than useless to at
tempt to proceed against the president
at q time when the senate is filled with
his political associates and depen'
deuts.'
Instead of impeachment resolutions
the meetings of 10, 900 workingmen last
night adopted an open letter criticising
the president and pledging their sup
part to Meyer, Haywood and Petit
bone. Eight thousand members were
given "undesirable citizens buttons.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-08
IDAHO MURDER TRIALS.
Labor Union Officials Charged With
Completely In Cowardiy Crime.

BOISE. May 4.-William u. Hey.
wood, secretary and treasurer OF the
Western Federation of Miners, will,
on Thursday next, be placed on trial,
charged with the murder of ex.Gover.
nor Steunenberg OF this state. In all,
four men are ia custody charged with
the same offense. They are Will.
liam D. Heywood, Charles 81. Meyer,
the president OF the Western Fedora
tion of Miners: George A. Pettibone,
q former member OF the executive
board Of the same org aniz alton, and
Harry Orchard, a member of the
miners feder alton. OF these men,
Orchard, it is alleged, has made q
confession, in which he admits that
he killed the former governor. and it
is alleged that he duplicates the other
men under arrest, together with
others, as being accomplices before
the act.
Orchards 8 confession has never fully
been made public, but it is known
that it contains an alleged admission
Of participation in nearly thirty mur.
ders, and that Orchard charges Hey
wood, Mover and Pettibone with hav.
ing induced him to commit the crimes
and having paid him in money an
agreed sum for each. 1t Is alleged
that Orchards confession has been
amply confirmed: that he will 60 upon
the stand aud freely repeat it, with
the full knowledge that when his turn
comes for trial he will be convicted
and executed. II is said that he will
make q clean breast of his past, and
he is quoted as saying that he desires
to clean up the whole thing 'before
am executed" The states prosecu.
tors believe they can corroborate the
confession in all its important as.
poets. l, is alleged that Pettibone
was au exper, on explosives, and tn at
he, Meyer aud Haywood jointly
plotted the crimes.
Few murder cases in this country
have attracted such wide attention.
Intense interest was aroused in the
case on the announcement of the arrest
of the federation leaders, and that in
terest has Intensified as time has
passed. The subj act as been so vide.
" di,cusse aud the lines between
the ndherents of the two sides have
been 50 sharply drawn, that the case
has assumed national Importance.
Frank Steuuen berg was assassin at
ed at the gate of his home at Caldwell,
Canyon county, at o'clock on the
evening OF December 30, 1905. AS he
opened the gate a bomb. attached to
it by wire was exploded and he was
hurled some 10 feet into the yard. His
right side was fearfully mangled, and
he died 10 a few minutes after being
carried into the house. AS was after
ward learned from the man who con
fessed to having set it, the bomb con
tanned 10 pounds of giant powder. Or
the powder, caps were placed, an(
over all was q mixture of sugar an(
potash. The exploding agency was ,
bottle Of sulphuric acid, SO adjusted
that when the gate opened the wir'
pulled the cork To which it was at
tached. This caused nstantaneou
combustion, which exploded the dread
full engine of death.
The assassination caused wild ex
citement, and the news. flashed owe