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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-24

They are to dig a canal from Massa.
chusetts bay to the Atlantic ocean.
Boston should protest. II will give the
Spanish feet a route for a flank nov
ment.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-24

It 1t not 80 much his old debts that
bother Count Boni-the Goulds may
take care q: them-but the deuce OF
1t Is he finds 1t so hard to make any
new ones.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-24

II food prices continue to soar, how.
asks the New York Herald. will the
men who tell us how to be happy
and healthful on 10 cents a day." make
q living?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Officials Must Pay Fare.

GALVESTON, July 3l.-The attorney
general has ruled that the new Texas
anti.pass law does not except the
members of the state railroad com.
mission nor any other officer of the
commission. This means that the
state will have to pay out $50, 900 or
more for transportation for the com.
missioners and the engineers and au.
ditors on their inspection tours OF the
state railroads.
Most Of this inspection is done by
special train, and the commission must
pay the regular 81 a train mile for
this service. AS the new law forbids
the railroads accepting anything but
cash for transportation, the commits.
siouers will have to pay the money
out Of their own pockets and then be
reimbursed by the state through the
regular channels.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Peculiar and Pertinent.

Japan gets 1888, 200 recruits yearly
for her regular army.
The tunnel which will eventually
connect Sicily with Italy will be near.
ly nine miles long.
Among the household Of the Chin.
ese emperor are 30 physicians, IS as
trologers, IS cooks, 80 priests.
1t is now possible to hear and see
plants grow. In the apparatus of two
Germans the growing plant is con-
nected with a disk having in its center
an indicator which moves visibly and
regularly, and this movement, magni.
fed fifty times over a scale, shows the
progress in growth.
The natives Of the Sandwich is.
lands estimate women by their weight.
The Chinese require them to have de.
formed feet and black teeth. A girl
must be tattooed sky blue and wear a
nose ring to satisfy a South Sea is.
lander. Certain African princes re-
quire their brides to have their teeth
filed into the resemblance of a;saw.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
IFame's Pathway.

Dr.. Harry Fielding Reid, professor
of geological physics in the John
Hopkins university, has sailed for
Rome as the representative of the
United States at the annual meeting
of the International Seismographic
association.
The old Indian chief Geronimo has
written his autobiography and in
spite OF some objections on the part
OF the al department President
Roosevelt has given the editor, S. NJ.
Barrett, superintendent of schools in
Lawton, Okla, permission to 60 on
with the publishing Of it. BY Geroni.
mos express wish the book is dedi-
Gated to the president, among other
reasons because he is ''chief OF a
great people,"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Great Strike Averted.

ST. PAUL, July 30.-A settlement OF
the difficulties has been effected with
the Northern Pacific carmen, thereby
avoiding the threatened strike of the
5000 carmen. A committee of seven.
teen representing the carmen have
been holding conferences for eight
weeks, but the session was adjourned
today, owing to an agreement being
reached with the railroad. The com.
mittee had been holding 5000 men in
readiness to walk out.
Demands we're made for an increase
OF Is per n in pay and a closed
shop. The men we're not granted
either OF their demands, but compro.
misses we're effected which were salts
factory to. both sides. The men were
granted approximately q S per cent
increase in pay and certain conditions
in the shop which they desired, al.
though the railroad company made
provision to protect non-union men
employed in their shops.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Duck Farms In China.

There are more ducks in China than
in all the rest of the world. China,
liter ally, IL white with these birds,
and day and night the country re-
sounds with their metallic and scorn.
full voices. Children herd ducks on
every road, on every pond, on every
farm, on every lake, on every river.
There is no back yard without . its
duck house. There is no boat, little
or great, without its duck quarters.
Even in the cities of China ducks
abound. They dodge between the
coolies legs. They fit squawking out
of the way OF the horses. Their in.
dignant quack will not unseldom
drown the roar OF urban commerce.
All over the land there are duck
Matching establishments, many OF
them Of q capacity huge enough to
produce so, 900 young ducks every
year. Duck among the Chinese is
the staple delicscy. It is salted and
smoked like ham or beef.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Violating Anti Pass Law

WASHINGTON, July 30.-Recently
informatio was received by the inter-
state commerce commission that GER.
tain western and southern railroads
were engaged in alleged violations OF
the rate law by issuing passes to per-
IONS not entitled to them under the
law. In the case of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway system, the
information was specific, the allega-
ton being that officials of that system
were issuing passes to so.called
"bondsmen." An order therefore has
been promulgated by the commission
requiring the officials of the system
to answer the charges made and to
state the ground on which such action
is justified.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
HOLDUP MAN CONFESSES.
Prisoner Admits Connection With
Recent Train Robbery.

BUTTE, July 3l.-George Towers,
who was arrested July 20 on q charge
OF disturbance and sent to the county
jail TO serve . sentence of ten days,
this morning made q partial COMES.
sion to Sheriff Henderson and Detec-
tive George Parlin, in which he not
only duplicates himself in the holdup
OF the North Coast Limited train on
the Northern Pacific near Butte, May
7 last. but has given the officers posi-
tive proof Of the other men concerned
In the robbery and murder Of Engi-
neer Frank Glow, who vas wantonly
shot down by the robbers.
Towers resisted the persistent sweat.
Ing OF the officers for several days,
but this morning he gave up, and
while trying hard to shield himself he
told the officers q story which they be-
lieve is in part true. Towers told
Sheriff Henderson and Detective Par.
lin, together with two newspaper men.
that Joseph Gordon and q man whom
he knew as Dutch came to his room at
South Montana street and made prep.
a%rations for some crime, which he now
states was none other than the hold
ing up of the Limited train, which re.
suited in the murder of Engineer
Glow.
Sheriff Henderson, Officers Parlin,
White and Lynch have located Gordon
in Oregon. They are keeping the name
OF the place secret until they have sent
q man there to identity Gordon. He
is said to have enlisted as a soldier
In one of the barracks located in that
state.
Fireman Thomas Sullivan, who was
wounded at the time Engineer Glow
was shot when commanded to bring
the train to a standstill, is quite posi-
tive that Towers was one Of the two
men who participated in the holdup,
while other persons who are in pos
session of good descriptions Of the
men have no doubt OF Towers being
one OF the parties.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Taft Boom Is Launched.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 3l.-The fol.
lowing is the resolution iudorsiug
VIM. Taft for the presidency. which
was passed yesterday by the state
central committee Of the republican
party:
1--WE believe that the great majority
of the people of Ohio, convinced of
the high character, great ability and
distinguished services Of Secretary
Taft, indorse his candidacy for the
presidency, and further,
I'VE declare that the republicans of
Ohio overwhelmingly desire that the
name Of William Howard Taft be pre-.
scented to the nation as Ohio's candi.
date for president, and tina, the repub.
licans of other states are invited to
cooperate with the republicans of
Ohio to secure his nomination in
1905
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07

who claim to be among the sub.
merged. But this is neither here nor
there; its cuts no more important fig
ure than to a~ccentuate the demand for
a change in jury selection. We have
not improved on the English system.
We could learn much from Germany.
England and Germany railroad few.
er men to prison than we do and turn
loose fewer men deserving punishment.
1t is q loud cry that the best men
escape jury duty, and they do, but
who is responsible for it If not the
lawmakers, among whom attorneys
play no inconspicuous part? Do away
with the useless statute and return to
the common law, adorned the most for
being unadorned. Cut out the fancy
dances and return to the square four.
Return to first principles and there
wouldn't be 80 much complaint about
unfair trials and miscarriages OF jus.
tice. Repeal half or more Of the laws
and we would have better laws; their
enforcement would be easier and the
people would be more lsw.abiding, be-
cause they would know more law. The
Montana codes could be condensed in.
to q thin volume and much improved
thereby. The criminal code 10 said to
be especially cumbersome. The same
can be said of the criminal statutes of
other states, when in fact there should
be Q general law, and that could be
had without in any way infringing
upon states rights. Our jury system
is full of blow holes. Why not get
new armor?-Missoulian.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
War On Mail Order Houses.

CHICAGO, July 31.-War has been
declared on the great mail-order
houses Of Chicago and other cities by
the 500. 900 retail merchants Of the
west. In one of the most striking
economic movements this country ever
has known, the small dealers are
fighting, as they say, for their lives.
In this life or death struggle, job
bers and manufacturers also are in.
volved with retail merchants. An or.
gained attack on the mail-order in.
stitution is to be made by the Home
Trade League of America, which has
existed for several months in the
Monadnock building, largely as q
publicity bureau, but which is shortly
TO incorporate and institute a more
systematic and aggressive campaign
against the mail-order houses through
Q board of t%wenty.one managers with
. vice.president and advisory commit
tee of ten members from each state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Skiddo For The Dizzy Waltz.

Our young people who indulge in
the dizzy walt, will hear with interest
that the heads of New York society
have declared that ''sitting OUT a
walt will be more fashionable from
now on than dancing. The ''sitting
OUT embodies the same position as
d aucing-the only difference is that
you sit, instead OF dance. The mans
arm is around the girls waist,
while he holds her right. Her lef,
hand is placed on his shoulder, while
her head rests lovingly on his bosom,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07

and all they have to do is to sit and
listen TO the music. Now that is
something like it. We have. always
regarded it quite a nuisance to gallop
a mile or two to get a hug or two. A
room full of people sitting around on
sofas hugging to music is more to our
notion. This' will give the old rheu-
IN aticky brethren a good chance to
waltz. Most men waltz not for the
dance, bu, for the position, and while
many q an may lose his appetite for
dancing, he has to get powerful old
before he loses his appetite for hug
ging q pretty girl.-Red Lodge Picket.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Butte Miners Furnish Bail.

BOISE, July 50.-Formal applica-
ton was made in the district court to-
day to have Geo. A. Pettibone admit.
ted to bail. The motion was submitted
without argument and was promptly
denied by Judge Wood.
1t was announced that a bond for
Charles H. Meyer would be ready by
noon today. 1t is signed by Timothy
Reagan, president of the First Ma.
tional bank Of Boise. The bond is
guaranteed by $4,000 on deposit by
the Butte, Montana, local of the West.
eru Federation Of Miners.
The bond for Meyer, given in this
unique way. was suggested by Attor'
ney Peter Breen of Butte, Montana,
who mas been associated with the de,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
AFTER POWDER COMBINE,
Suit Commenced Against CORPORA.
lions BY Federal Authorities.

WASHINGTON. July 3O.-The gov.
eminent today filed ir the United
states circuit court at Wilmington,
Del, a petition against the Dupont
fowder company of New Jersey and
other corporations aud II individ.
uals connected with the corporations,
which are made defend ants in the pc.
tltion. The petition relates that all of
the defendsn are engaged in inter.
state trade and commerce in gun pow.
der and other high explosives, and
are violating the act of July 2, 1899,
known IS the Sherman antitrust law.
1t seeks to prevent aud restr ain the
unlawful existing agreements, con-
tracts, combinations aud conspiracies
In restraint of such trade and com.
MERGE, and to dissolve the existing
monopolies therein.
The court is asked to determine
whether public interests will be better
served by the appointment Of receivers
to take possession Of the property OF
the alleged trust with q view of bring.
ing about conditions in trade and
commerce that will be harmonious
with the law. The prayer in this re.
spect ia identical with that in the so.
called tobacco trust petition.
1t is stated in the petition that 10
1872 all except three of the concerns
selling high explosives in the United
States organized with the object OF
regulating prices at which such com.
modities should be sold and of driving
the other corporations out Of business
by unfair competitive methods. In
1891, q new agreement was entered
into with the object Of preventing new
manufacturers from engaging in the
powder business.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
OUR JURY SYSTEM.

Trial by jury affords greater pro.
lection to innocent men accused OF
crime, insures more adequate punish.
ment for the guilty, and in many ways
is the superior system in use in Grim
inal Jurisprudence. Occasionally,
when there has been some gross mis-.
carriage Of justice, men become clam.
orous in demanding Establishment Of
the jury, and the substitution of the
judge or judges. The jury will never
be abolished and should not be, but
here in America we have got to strip
the system of a lot of statutory tlub.
dubbery and see how it looks in the
altogether.
Under our system of jury selection
there is a premium on ignorance and
a reflection upon intelligence. Too
many things disqualify. Too many
good men are excused and too many
excuse are accepted from good men.
ga fairly intelligent jury is a most
insulting phrase, but most ]appropri-
ate. 1t is applied to men who are, as
q rule, selected in important cases for
what they don't know. Men are re.
jected for displaying symptoms Of in
telligence. Why . man shoru of un'
derstanding by the legal shears should
be considered all wool and q yard
wide after the exhibition is owe Ia one
of those things no fellow can find out,
For instance, all persons connected
with the Haywood defense now say
that he received q fair trial and are
loud in their praise of the jury they
so heartily condemned. There Is not
a socialistic publication which com
mented upon this case during it:
progress. and none was silent, but
claimed that the jury, as we'll as the
court, represented the c%apitalisti(
class. The documents r IN file &c
prove this assertion, and had Hey
wood been convicted they would have
been exhibited by the same persons
who now hide them, to prove their
prescience. 10 assert all along tina,
the defendant was not receiving a fair
trial was honest belief. To assert now
that he received a fair trial is dam
nable hypocrisy on the part OF those
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
New Automobile Records.

FARGO, N. D., July 30.-Barney
Olddeld opened the Fargo Interstate
fair by breaking two automobile rec.
ords on . half-mile track, going the
first mile Of q three.mile race in l:l5i
and the three miles in $751;. His mile
record beat that made by himself at
Winnipeg ten days ago by four and a
half seconds and his three.mile rec.
ord beat that of his Winnipeg record
by Is seconds.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment 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 OF 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, 1907-08-07
A Government Wireless System.

NEW YORK, July 30.-The United
States government has let a contract
to the United Sta:es Steel corporation
for transmission towers which are to
be utilized for wireless telegraph serv-
ice in Alaska. The government in
tends to have a chain of the towers
erected along the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts and on the Gulf of Mexico.
The towers will be 176 feet high.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
ORY LAND FARMING.

"o0e "o
manifested by the public alton Of bull
letins by officials of the agricultural
college, discussion of the subject at
farmers institutes, and newspaper ar.
ticles contributed by advocates of the
new system Of agriculture. Among
the latter is one by Paris Gibson, q
we'll known resident Of Cascade coun-
ty, who maintains that the success of
dry farming in other parts Of the so.
called arid region should encourage
efforts along similar lines in this part
Of the northwest.
In urging that a fair test Of the new
system be made, MIR. Gibson says the
results OF dry farming already OBJ.
tanned in Colorado. Wyoming, the
Columbia basin and during the recent
drought in many parts of Montana,
should satisfy any person who is not
a determined disbeliever that q very
large part of Montana's non-irriga BILE
lands will be sub.divided into homes
for q great population of farmers who
will successfully cultiva ate the soil I'M.
der methods adapted to semi.arid con.
d%itions. This is especially foreshad-
owed by the farmers of Colorado,
where already hundreds of steam
plows are turning over soil that q few
years ago, but few persons believed
would ever be disturbed by the pillow.
Referring to the variation of rain.
fall in different localities, and pre-
dieting a tide of immigration to the
northwest, Mr.. Gibson says:
III a map showing the altitude and
the rainfall of different parts Of Mon.
tana could be prepared, it would re.
move much OF the prejudice that now
exists as to farming without irriga.
ton. The government map giving the
rainfall in some twenty.eight counties
Of the Columbia basin, shows a varia.
ton of from $50 inches to %. SO inches,
the rainfall being much less than Ia
inches in seventeen widely separated
localities. The farmer who lives near
Pasco, where the rainfall is less than
six inches and who irrigates his land,
would, without a knowledge OF other
localities, consider dry farming an
absurdity anywhere in the Columbia
basin. And so in this great state, the
farmer in Beaverhead or Deer Lodge
counties cannot, from his experience
there, form a correct estimate Of what
the farmer can do in another part OF
the state.
Farming without an irrig alton
ditch in Montana would have been
much farther advanced but for the de-
termined efforts OF many persons to
decry it, thus turning immigration &c
other parts Of the far west. These
persons, for y time, have also done
much to retard an advance in lane
values, and especially the value o
productive but uon.irrig ated farms
But the tide OF western immigration ii
ceaseless and, in spite OF opposition
where the hand of welcome should b,
given, it will cover Montana as it ha'
covered Minnesota, the Dakotas, Kan
sas and Nebraska. Millions Of PEG
pie, many of whom are now homeless
will surely occupy the lands Of thi
rich semi-arid west If the policy o
preserving the public domain for &C
tual settlers, advocated by Jackson
Benton and Cleveland, and SO wisel,
and intelligeutly adhered to b.
Roosevelt, shall prevail
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
MONTANA COAL FIELDS.

The general belief that the coal re-
ource Of Montana are of vast extent
is confirmed by information given in
q bulletin issued by the United States
geological survey. The quality of
some of the deposits is said to be in.
ferior, q process of briquetting being
necessary to make the product desir.
able 90 fuel, but most of the Montaus
coal fields have an output that pro
misses to supply the local demand.
The coal mining industry in Mon.
tsna has, according to the records,
just entered the second quarter century
Of its history. So far as known, the
first coal produced in the state, or the
territory as it was then, was mined in
1880, in which year the production
amounted to 224 tons. Reports com.
piled by the geological survey show q
total output of nearly two million
tons last year. with an ated
mine value of about %, $50, 600.
The number Of men employed in the
coal mines of Montana increased from
2,181 in 1905 to 2,374 In 1906, the aver.
age number Of working days being
the same (243) in both years. The
average production per man in 1906
was 764.4 short tons, against 1887 in
1905. and the average daily produce
ton per man was 3.15 tons in 1906
against BIO tons in 1905.
The area of Montana underlain by
coal beds Is estimate at $4,000 square
miles. The Goals vary in character
from Ignite to b%ituminous, some of
the latter being fair coking Goals, and
the producing area lies in somewhat
widely separated fields. In the Bull
mountain field, northeast of Billings,
where a considerable amount of pros.
pecting and development work has
been done, the coal is Ignite in char.
acter. In the Clark Fork field, which
is partly in the southwestern portion
of Yellowstone and the northe astern
part Of Sweetgrass county and extends
southwark through Carbon county
the coal is Ignite and 10 not now
worked to any large extent.
The Rocky Fork field in Carbon
county, contains five different beds OF
coal, varying in thickness from four
feet to seven feet nine inches. All OF
this coal is between Ignite and bitum-
nous in character and is said to be
excellent steam and domestic fuel.
The Yellowstone field and the Trail
creek field are located in Park and
Gallatin counties, and cover the op.
erations in and around Bozeman and
Livingston. The Cinnabar field Is a
small area lying just north of the
Yellowstone National park, and ives,
of these are the West Gallatin and
Ruby valley fields, which have not yet
been greatly developed.
Other areas are the Toston, Smith
river, and Belt or Great Falls fields.
the last mentioned being the most i'm.
portant. Some of the largest mines in
the state are those It Cottonwood, in
Cascade county. Carbon county
which ranks second in Importance,
produced q little less than one-third
OF the total output In 1906.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07

tense. The Butte local of the Western
Federation Of Miners is the richest in
The organization, and Mr.. Breen said
carries a deposit of 800, 900 o sl4O.-
OO constantly in the bank. Arrange.
ments were made by wire by Mr.. Breen
to have the Butte union make s25 900
subject to draft by the First Nations al
bank of Boise.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07

Water right blanks-on.y correct
form published-for sale at the RIVER
PRESS Office.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07

W. G. CONRAD, Pres.
JAMES T. STANFORD,
Vice-Pres. and Manager.
A. E. SCHWINGEL,
Cashier.
OMAR J. MALCOLM,
Asst. Cashier.