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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-25
MONTANA IN CONGRESS-,
Matters That Affect Treasure State
Are Receiving Attention.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l.. - Senator
Dixon today introduced a bill appro-
priating $1,000 for a survey of a five-
foot water channel from the city of
kalispell to the mouth of Flathead
river: also bills for acquiring sites
for public buildings at Bozeman, Bill
lings and Kalispell.
Committees in the ate we're an.
nounced today. Senator Carter is
chairman OF organization and ex.
penditures of the executive depart.
ments: also q member of the census
irrigation, postofices, District OF Co.
lumbia and foreign relations.
Senator Dixon is chairman of the
committee on the examination of the
several branches of civil service, and
a member of public lands. Indian at.
fairs, Indian depred atoms, standard
OF weights and measures and expendi.
lures In the interior department.
Senator Carter has introduced q
bill providing for the opening of the
Fort Keogh military reservation ir
Custer county, Montana, to settlement
and for other purposes. The measure
was twice read and referred to the
committee on public lands.
Senator Carter has introduced q
bill to authorize the secretary of war
to acquire a water supply for Fort
William Henry Harrison. near Hell.
ena. and for other purposes. 1t was
read twice and referred TO the com
mittee or military affairs. The bill
follows:
That the secretary Of war is hereby
authorized and directed to acquire by
purchase, condemnation, or otherwise,
an adequate water supply, with neces
sary land and right of way for pipes,
intake, watershed, and reservoirs fol
Fort William Henry Harrison ir
Montana and to construct the neces.
sary water system to make the water
thus acquired available for use on
the reservation at a cost not to exceed
in all 500, 900.
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grain it is fed to livestock and thus
''the starch Of corn becomes the fat
OF hogs and the finish of the steer
This years crop vas not so large as
last years but the average price was
20 per cent. higher than the average
of the past five years. Mr.. Wilson
states that eight such corn crops as
the last one would pay for duplic ating
every mile Of steam railroad in the
United States, with terminals, rolling
stock and all property.
While the wheat crop was five per
cent. less than in 1906 the price was
81 per cent. higher, which left a gain
in the general result after marketing.
An almost e q ational gain was made
10 alfalfa hay during the past year,
the crop being worth 800, 900, 900.
And as yet the cultivation Of alfalfa
In this country Is an industry that is
almost in its infancy. 1t is a most
wonderful crop, for. as the secretary
points out, it not only yields several
cuttings of most nutritious hay during
q season. but actually enriches the
ground by drawing nitrogen out Of
the air. Surely there ia no exaggera.
ton in the claim that has been so
frequently set forth, that the farmer
is the real king of finance in this
cOuptrv
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Labor Unions Enjoined.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l7.-Of far
reaching Importance to labor and
business interest throughout the u
try was the decision announced today
by Justice Gould of the equity court
of the District of Columbia, enioining
the America Federation of Labor,
with its membership of 1000 900 or
more, from boycotting the Buck Stove
* Range company in "unfair' and
"we don't p~aronize' lists, and the de-
cision arraigns the actions of the fed.
GRAFTON as an illegal conspiracy.
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RICHES FROM THE SOIL.

Reports of the department of agri-
culture deal with figures of such mag
nitude that the average mind is dazed
by mere abstract specul alton upon the
wealth involved. 1t is customary for
the secretary of agriculture to issue
his annual report at this season of the
year when the work of the farmer is
over aud he has time to pause and
take account of profit and loss. This
year the farmer has no loss to com
pute, for he is rich far beyond his
expectations Of u few months ago,
says the Spokesman-lseview He may
sit back calm and serene aud contem-
plate the panic as one not involved
or not vitality interested, for his mil.
lions are at his back and his cribs,
barns and granaries are full.
According to Secretary Wilson, the
first half Of the year tire atcned crop
destruction and the outlook through
out the agricultural sections was
gloomy. The very last day was ex-
hausted that could be withheld from
crop growth, and thereafter every day
meant a loss or a saving of $50, 900,
600 to the farmers of the country.
Five Of such days would have bull,
the Panama canal or robbed the coun.
try Of $3.50, 900, 600. Good fortune was
on the side of the farmer. The crop.
were saved. The past season ha.
witnessed the greatest addition to GU,
national wealth from the farms eyel
known. The previous high record
was in 1906, but the year 1907 passe,
this record by S657, 900 900.
Estimates of the agricultural de
partment place the aggregate value o
the products of the soil for the pas
season at s7,4l2, O0O, 000-tigures tina
are truly astounding. Corn led il
farm crops, and although compare
lively little corr is Sent abroad a
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1.-THE Queens Christmas Card"

Queen Alexandra has not given up
her interest In behalf OF the unemploy-
ed. Last Christmas she sanctioned Il
unique plan to raise more funds for
them. This was in the shape Of the
issue Of a Christmas book, consisting
Of poems, stories, sketches, drawings
and music, which was entitled THE
Queens Christmas Card Alrcrnon
Charles S~winhurnc, Alfred Austin, the
poet laureate; Thomas Hardy, Marie
Corelli, Hall tajnc, George Meredith,
Arthur Wing rincro, Sir Laurence
Alma'Tadcna, Edwin \. Abbey. vii
liam Holman Hunt, Sir Edward John
Poynter and Sir Edward Elrir are
among the host of those Who contrib
utcd. The production of the hook was
practically gratuituuS. 1t sold for
half Il crown. AMI the proceeds were
devoted (" the queen uu"m7lnycd
fund.
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a bank, but kept the bills under his
pillow. Yesterday he amused himself
by setting fire to them and watching
them burn. He succumbed to heart
disease soon afterw ard.
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~ROOSEVELT'S

What will now become of the insist.
ent "third. termers'' who so sadly mis-
judged the will power of the man with
the square jaw and the emphatic chin
who lives in the White house down at
Washington. Surely the game is up
with them now, for he has repeated
his declaration of election night Of
1904 and added to it that he has not
changed his mind about it, in any
respect whatever. Without a doubt
many of these "third term boomers
were enthusiastic admirers of the
president who really wanted him to
have another term, but there is also
no room for doubt that others of them
we're intent on a scheme to force q
nomination upon him and then as a
candidate hold him up to the scorn
of the people as a shutting prevarica.
tor or a man % weak to have the
courage Of his earlier convictions: q
man who had wilfully played q game
for renomiu alton, or who could not
withstand the nattery of his false or
fool friends.
To the level.headed and fair.minded
people Of the country-and thank
heaven they are largely in the major
ity in both parties-the attitude of the
president On this question must com.
mand unqualified admiration. He
stands even frmer than Caesar, who
''thrice refused a crown" only to
yield to the wiles Of hattery and 90
down to his death leaving a career
that exacted nothing at the hands OF
his followers but abject apology for it.
While it is no doubt true that no
man can step into Presidents Roose-
velt's place and fill it as he is filing
it, there is perhaps more Of wisdom in
Washington's injunction against a
third term, than the ordinary thinker
has granted for it. The immense
power of consolidat ed wealth that we
have been brought so intimately ac-
quaiuted with Of recent years, might
easily operate to engraft an autocracy
upon the country if the reins Of gov
were in its grasp and the
country Indifferent regarding third
terms Granted twelve years of one
dynasty and In that time a found alton
might be laid for a ~throne-and for a
revolution. But we as a country have
been through that once and there is
no reason why a repetition of it should
be courtcd. There are many no doubt
who would rather live under a benevo-
lent and uplifting monarchy, such as
might suporvene under "Theodore H.
thar be subjected to the injustice, the
worry and the turmoil, that our SUI
perluous independence now puts
upon us, but Theodores are few and
not immortal.
AS for the immediate future, let us
hope that congress will be patriotic
enough in this section to quit playing
politics and do the things that each
member knows ought to be done and
SO trim up the ship of state that Who
ever takes the helm from ''Tcddy's"
hands will be able to steer IA safe
course by the charts that his eXplora-
lions and soundings of the past four
or five years have demonstrated to be
reliable. We cannot hope to get Il
second Roosevelt but of his possible
successors those most prominently
mentioned are true and honest and in
fact the very making Of "a president
makes a man OF him. -Iellowstonc
journal.
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He Had Money To Burn.

CHICAGO, Dec. IA dispatch to
The Record-lIeraId from Marion.
ohio says: John Gordon, a farmer
Of this county, burned $40, 600 in bills
yesterday, IA short time before he died
Gordon was s. years old and in the
last few weeks had grown childish.
He had s,eadfastly refused TO put
the $40, 600. the savings Of years. into
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-25

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal reatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and Issues Its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
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Sheriff's Sale.

efts, defendant.
To be sold at sherih's sale on the 10th day of
January, 1903, at 2 O'Clock p. m, at the front door
OF the court house. all the right, title and inter-
est OF James H. Roberts in and to the following
described property: Lots number eighteen ana
twenty in block number A, and lots number eev-
All In the townsite of Chinook, and standing on
the records of Chouteau county In the name of
James H. Roberts.
Dated Fort Benton, Mont, Dec. Is, 1907.
FRANK MCDONALD, Sheriff.
By Geo. WACKIRLIN. Deputy,
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The River Press.

Subscribe now for the WEEKLY Rlv-
Err PRESS. Send it to 1.-THE old folks
az home
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wANDAMERE FROM THE cHUTEs.

The gentlemen will go to Boston to-
morrow or Tuesday, and sail on We'd
nesday's steamer.
Elders Josephs and Hammond have
returned from Long Island. Elder Cot
tam, who has been in Trenton, Harris
burg, New Jersey. New Brunswick, and
other places about that district, has
come back, supposedly for only a short
time.
r.. c. Easton was another of this
weeks Boston visitors. Today he is
entertaining his nephew. Mr.. Burgess
Young, who js making a very brief
stay. Mr.. Young came down from
Canada.
The McQuarries are looking forward
TO the morrow, when they expect their
son Dan home. He has passed the
mental examination at college in In
dianapolis, and will bring hi. own in
ttdiigence as to the rest of it.
Former missionaries here will be glad
TO know that the latest convert was
baptized yesterday, under more favor
able conditions than usual. Some
body's heart has melted for the boat
ing club on one Hundred and Thirty
eighth street opened its doors and the
paptism occurred under It's suddenly
friendly roof.
The children of the mission had a
pleasant party the other day. Miss
Lyla McQuarrie was hostess at a birth
day party. "A dreary place this world
would be were there no little children
I'm it The party was for fifteen OF
sixteen school girl friends. md the
principal thing about II, even above the
good time, was the interesting fact
that everybody invited, came. and q
royal time they all got out of the
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Nephi L. Morris leave
next Wednesday via Washington. Pres
ident and Mrs. McQuarrie will give an
informal party for them tomorrow
night, when IL is expected that Mr.,
Easton, in honor of his old friends. will
sing and sing and sing to their and our
hearts content. JANET.
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accompanied by Elder j. Sidney Tan
ner, who lives in Payson.
on Friday Miss Ida Savage accom-
panied the Eccles party to Boston and
Sharon. she will return to New York
within the week. Mrs. and Miss Eccles
are now on their journey homeward
There has been considerable regis
tered mail stolen lately in New York.
Philadelphia too has suffered some. And
among those affected was Mr.. Horace
Merrill, studying at the jefferson Medi-
cal college, MI Merrill was somewhat
delayed by the nom appearance of u $3.50
draft. which the bank had forward
ed. He left for home last Wednesday.
Miss Salie Fisher and her mother
spent the week touring New Jersey in
an automobile with friends.
During the week Mrs. and Miss Vida
Eccles entertained Mrs. Farley. Mrs.
Herrick and Miss Savage at luncheon:
and at the Willie Collier ma tinees. The
Eccles We're registered at the Hotel
Aston.
MIR, and Mrs. Frank Gillespie have
been of the number who have made
Miss Ida SaVages week In New York
loves Salt Lake and Salt Lakers, and
Utah people generally, he thinks the
finest in : the world. so some of his
friends here inform us. He asked a
hundred questions about his friends out
home. He first met Mrs. Gillespie, who
is native of Williamsburg, Penn, in
Old Mexico. 1t was In this place that
Mr.. Gillespie met the painful acci-
dent that probably home folks have not
yet heard of His leg was caught in
am elevator and every bone in the ankle
fractured. Surgeons advised amputa-
ton, but Mr.. Gillespie refused to con-
sent. During the very strenuous opera
ton of bone setting, he declined an
aneSthetlc for fear they might
cut the limb OF in spite OF him. While
convalescing he met the lady he made
his wife. They were married in Au-
gust, and spent the winter In Bermuda.
Mr.. Gillespie has built up a good bust
ness IN realty and Investments. His
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LIQUOR AND LAW.
Governors of Many States Write Concerning Temperance
Legislation.
l empsrance
Legislation.

drawn in 1905, This increase Is said to
be fairly representative OF the average
Increase from year 10 year. and of the
PROPORTION OF intOxicaiss consumed.
The Increase in the face OF prohibitory
laws Is not eSplainable from the data
at hand.
ARKANSAS GOING DRY"
Arkansas is rapidly becoming one Of
the great prohibition states. Today the
sale OF intoxlcants is absolutely pro-
hlbted in rs of the n counties. Seven
years ago there We're A. wet counties.
There is q general local option law.
Where tho sale OF liquor has been au-
thori2ed II maA be by petition prOhib-
tied within three miles OF any church
on school.
GOVERNOR BUTCHERS VIEWS.
Gov. Henry a. Buchtel. OF Colorado,
writes; we have recently passed "A
very fine local option law, which makes
II possible for us 10 create anti-saloon
territory with this new law we shall
be able 10 make All our agricultural
counties absolutely dry. We have many
towns where liquor is not sold except
"- u q" sold foiTuptitiOusly. OF course
We have continual growth OF the
temperance sentiment I'm this state, as
there is In every state"
TEMPERANCE IN GEORGIA.
Local option prevails In Georgia. with
high licenses in several cities, ranging
from $500 TO $1,000 In two counties the
licenEe IL 100000, which, OF course,
means that there Is no chance TO wet
whistle within their boundarlese. There
Is no whisky sold IN 1875 out OF the 1877
counties OF The state, Gov. Terrell
writes that the decreased sale Of intOx-
tcants has not decreased the revenues,
but has very Ierceptibly improved the
moral tone In the prohibition territory.
WHAT GOV. CUMMINGS SAYS.
Coy. Cummings. OF Iowa the formu-
lhtor Of the Iowa idea" In tariff mat
ters, writes concerning temperance IN
Iowa; "our regulation il known az tho
mulct law, which, while not licensing
she sale ~ lntoxicants, bars prosecu-
Iion provided the tax is paid and the
provisions Of the law are complied with.
This law allows the citizens OF a com
munlty 10 decide whether intoalcants
shall be sold, requiring a statement ~
poneAHf With '1fs-f~-s ,ra"+ riir~T -
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- =, AsHINGTON. d. c.. July o.
N/ Virginia has law that pro-
w hibits the sale OF HAIR ek~
'ept where there is police pro-
lection. and anywhere else that the peo-
pie vote for local option. This makes
nine-tenths of the area of the state
dry. Tennessee has only four towns,
ana cities In all It's borders where whis-'
Ky can be bought al retail. And even
Kentucky. with Its ancient and honor
able reputation far the making. dispen-
sing and drinking OF good liquor, has
stopped its sale IN all but % OF it's ll9
counties.
These facts are SO striking that they
led the wrlted TO Investigate the sub
ject In all the states, 10 ascertain how
far reaching the temperance movement
is, ana its effect upon the morals and
finances OF the different states. This
has been not as a temperance advo-
cate not as a dcVOtee OF the cup that
cheers, but with AS much Of that cold,
calm neutrality of the upright Judge"
as he could command. The governors
Df the various states We're asked to FUR
nish information as To the status OF the
movement or to designate some one who
could give unbiased Information. These
replies form the basis OF most Inter
ostng study showing as they do that in
rapidly growing sentiment IN favor Of
the restriction or prohibition OF the sale
of lntoNicants. In most OF the states
absolute prohibition prevails In many
counties, The local option idea has
been a striking feature Of the develop
mcnt OF the temperance movement,
Only week or more ago charlotles-
vile tho seat Of the University OF VIZ
ginla, aud town of some 1000 inhab-
itnnts, went dry"
The movement 10 prohibit the sale Of
intoxicating liquors appears stronger in
the southern states than In any other
section. through Kansas and other
western States make strong fhowings,
Yet the remarkable fact remains that
the internal revenue bureau here has
figures which show that there has been
no falling OF In the amount OF intoxl-
canig used despite the growth Of the
temperance sentiment and laws prohib-
lting their sale. The amount of tax
paid spirits withdrawn from distilleries
and bonded warehouses for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1906, was l22.6lf,-
9iS gallons, which was about seven
'-'''' 'r7"'nq lrrrp then that with
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cess, did not do much TO mend the ma
tcrial fortunes OF this house, which has
been n loser from the start II WAS
opened by the Shubertx with an Eng
fish version of "zaptenstrelch." but this
did no great things and q long series OF
failures has followed including cyril
Maudes venture with "Shore Acres"
and that OF the American management
with Mrs. Temples Telegram"
Meanwhile II looks as II the returning
taste for nelodrana In London had he
gun to strike American managers al
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........,:.s.s.,:............:..:..:...,....:.

Snecial Correspondence,
EW YORK. June 3O,-Miss June
N Mathis and her mother are at
Y 200 W. Eighty-eighth street.
where Miss Mathis viii rest
quietly until August. when 'Brewster's
Millions ccenS.
Elder J. j. Larson, president Of the
New England states mission, left yes
terday for his home in Cleveland. Utah,
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ABRAnAM LINCOLN

was man who. against All odds, at
tained the highest honor u man could get
IN the United states, BILLIARDS. lior0-
hound Syrup has attained a place, never
equalled by any other Ike remedy II iB
a sure cure Tor Coughs. Colds. Bronchitis
Influenza ana all Pulmonary diseases
Every mother should keep eupplied With
this wonderful cough medicine.
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Ask your grocer 10 send you Royal
Bread. 1t is made IN clean bakery
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ELInU CALL.
Voice Trainer

Pupil OF Minetti. Graduate Of Peabody
Conservatory OF Music Studio above
Beesey Music Co. Voices tested free.
daily from y n p NJ
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HUGH w. DO UGALL.


Teacher OF Voice Building and Artistic
Singing. Pupil OF Helnemann, Berlin, ana
Bouhy Paris. 6l2 Templeton Bldg Ben
phone 4372
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SQUIRE cooP.

Pupil OF Godowsky and Busoni !.
Plano 'Coaching IN Vocal Repertoire
Studio Deseret National Bank Bldg.
ROOTS ~ and ~.
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NEWSPAPER MAKES DRY
COUNTY.

Tho power Of the press has been well
eXempllhed IN Oklahoma, where a whole
county was made dry by one news
paper The law requires that notice
OF application for license shall be pub
lished IN a newspaper In the county
where the whisky n Ia be- sold. The
Newspaper refused 10 print the notice
and the county IN dry. Thirty sigma
lures are required on petitions for H.
cense I'm incorporated towns Two
thirds majority ~ froeholderS IN a
township must sign petition In order
10 secure license in rural commune
ties.
Governor Chamberlain writes that
four OF the % counties IN Oregon arc
dry. with partial prohibition IN other
counties, and that there has been a
growth OF temperance sentiment.
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c. d. scHETTLER.

COZ Templeton,
Cello Pupil Of Anton hokkng aud jacques
Van Licr Berlin. S0lolst az
Nuremberg and New YORK.
Conventions Instructor of Cello, GUITAR,
Mandolin and Banjo.
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GEO. CARELESS.
Professor of Music,

Lessons In Voice Training Violin, Piano.
Cabinet Organ, Harmony and Sight Read
Ing. orders may be left az Fergus Coal
tcr's Music store.
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~ =, AsHINGTON. d. c.. July D.
NV Virginia has "A law that pro-
w hibts the sale OF liqN'r ek~
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EMMA RAMSEY NORRIS.

Pupil of Corell, Berlin and Arohanbaud.
Paris.
GO West list North. Phone 26ss-S.
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IDA r. DAVIS

Teacher of Violin,
Best of references. Studio 6lb-sls-6l7
Templeton sid
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mo SICIANS'
DIRECTORY.
NJ NE. AMANDA SWENSON
Teacher Vocal Music.

The Old Italian School
The GARCIA Method.
Studio, Clayton Music Store. 100 Main ST
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Pupil Of schmnal, Jonas, Jediczka ana
Scharwenka, Organist OF the Tabernacle
PIANO, THEORY AND ORGAN,
Both Phones. studio clayton Hall,
Pupils should apply mornings before 10.