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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
Objects TO Belknae indian Lean.

WASHINGTON, } an. 2S - Senator
Carter's bill appropriating S25 ,O0C to
enable the Indians Oh the Fort Bel
KNAPP reservation to raise sugar beets
and other crops came before the
senate today, but went owe On objec-
tlon by Senator Gallinger. Gallinger
did not think the government would be
reimbursed by the Indians, whom he
termed ''destitute.' Carter said the
proposition was very meritorioIs and
that the indians woald repay.
Senator Smoot said the Indians in
Utah had been made progressive
farmers through this policy and had
turned back the money advanced by
the government on this account, and
that the Indians would repay the
money in this case. Gallingec per.
sisted in his objec.ion and the bill.
went over.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
Will Benefit Settlers.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Hepburn recently introduced a bill
providing that, upon the expiration
of five years from date of entry upon
government projects where %entrymen
have complied with the provisions Of
the reclamation law, they be granted
patent and be discharged from further
liability of residence.
Senator Ankeny. chairman of the
irrigation committee, has been advised
that it will not be necessary to legisla ate
along these lines, in view of the fact
that very soon a circular to this effect
will be issued by the reclamation serv-
ice. The effect will be to release an
eutryman from payment of charges
for operation which cannot be a-tici-
pated in advance, but later he vii, be
charged on the actual cost of opera
ton and maintenance. The committee,
therefore, decided to take no action
on the bill.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
An Old Custom Revived.

The custom of crying "Police!" which
had been virtually abandoned because
1t seemed futile, will be revived by
the experience Of John McAllister.
Mr.. McAllister was held up the 9th
er night a Dc Baliviere and Delmar
avenues. In the excitement of the as
sault he forgot that no one cries "Po-
lice" any more, and he revived the
custom with lusty lungs.
Faith in the resort will be greatly
strengthened by what happened. a
policeman was within easy hearing. he
ran in the right direction, Mr.. Meal
lister was rescued, AMI one Of the high
waymen was captured.
George Bernard Shaw has a little
saying which is better philosophy than
our American habit of being without
faith in so many things. 1t is this
"You never can tcll."-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
FINANCIAL ~STRlNGENCY,"

There was eve much in the life
and character of John L. Sullivan,
former champion pugilist and now a
hero of the vaudeville stage, emitting
him to be pointed out to the youth of
the land as q model worthy of emula-
ton, but in his vigorous fashion he
has recently been declaiming on the
financial situation in a way that ex-
cites admiration. Here is a little
sermon from the one-time slugger:
"lt makes me tired to hear folks
talking about the financial situation.
Half the people who stand around
talking about 'stringency' and 'situ-
alton, and such like things, only do it
because they like the sound of the
words. Half of them never heard the
word 'stringency' before and they
think it's smart to be heard talkin'
about it. think I've been knockin'
around this world long enough to
know hard times when l see'em, and
want t. tell you, young Teller, there
amt nothin' to it. It's just a case of
a few robbers down in Wall street
tryin' to hog all the money and fallin'
down in the attempt. That's all there's
to this 'stringency' bunc. Then
there's a bunch of sore-hcad fellers
that thought they'd take a rap at my
friend, President Roosevelt, an bit
off more'n they could chew. There's
a man for your money or any honest
man's-that same Roosevelt. I'm q
democrat, born in Boston-but Pm
for Roosevelt. He amt afraid OF
them Wall street guys, and when he
says the people are goin' to get s
square deal the people are goin' t(
get it, see: This country is all right
The people are prosperous mt
happy
Those who know John l.. best can
easily imagine that his language wa
even a little more forceful than her.
quoted, but some of his words woult
not look we'll in print. The idea h.
conveys is, however, a sound one
The "stringency" talk may be carried
altogether too far by the people witt
jump to an extreme view Of the situa
tion.-SpOkesman Review.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
Longest Fence in the World.

After five years work Australia's
great transcontinental rabbit, proof
fence has been completed. Its length
is 2,O36 miles, and the cost of its cree
ton has been nearly $l,25O,OO O 1t is
furnished at intervals of five miles
with systems of traps, in which hun.
dreds of rabbits are captured and de.
stroyed daily. On the eastern side OF
the fence the rabbits are teeming and
vegetation is almost completely alb.
sent. Inside the barrier there appears
as vet no trace Of their presence.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
CARE OF EX-PRESIDENTS.

According to a recent dispatch from
w ashington, congress may respond
to the suggestion made by Mr.. Clcve.
land in a magazine article in which
he favored pensions for eX.prcsidents
of the United States. Mr.. Cleveland
disclaimed any personal interest in
the matter as IA former president, stat
ing that his financial are
sufficient for his needs, but intimated
that such provision might be neces-
sary in other cases.
The proposed new departure is the
subject Of adverse comment by some OF
the eastern newspapers, one Of which
contends that it is a theory and not q
condition which confronts the people
when u president retires to private
life, for not since the civil war have
any of the circumstances on which
Mr.. Cleveland bases his argument for
pensions obtained. Mr.. Mckinley
probably had a more modest fortune
than any other man who has been
elected president since Lincoln's day,
but if he had lived to complete his
term of Office Mckinley would not
have been in financial straits, eve
according TO the stand ard argued by
Mr.. Cleveland.
The theory that an expression,
takes with him out of the White house
Il deposit of delegated dignity which
must be maintained by a style of liv.
ing on the scale Of his official incum'
bency is uudemocratic in conception
In these days any mar with sufficient
ability to fill the office Of prcsiden'
should, when he r%etires. have no difi
Guilty in making a living commensur
ate with the dignity he acquired whel
elected or can possibly take with hin
when he steps down and out.
1t is the glory of our institutions
theoretica ally at least, that a p~residen
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
When Mansfield Couldn't Act.

Augusta Van Bicnc, writing on Rich
ard Mansfield, says that ''many years
ago the actor was in II of the small
'Pinafore' companies. He played Sir
Joseph Porter. and l vas the musical
director. We lived together. and our
Joint salary amounted to about $50 a
week. We were rehcarSing 'p%inafore,'
and Mansfield could never please or
satisfy the stage manager, the late
Richard Barker. After trying a scene
through ever so many times poor
Mansfield lost his nerve and said.
please, Mr.. Barker. do leave me alone.
l shall be all right. l have to act the
part. not YOU Act! said Barker
Act! Great heavens. man, you'll never
net as long as you live!'"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
Civilization by Sunflower.

Our Kansas sunflower is said to be
Invading the deserts of New Mexico
and Arizona. With the advent of the
Kansas sunflower come rains and
clouds and crops. 1t has taken fifty
years for the Kansas suntlowcr to
o the desert. ascend the mountains
and lift its joyous head in midsummer
bloom on the other side Of the divide.
Wherever goes civilization in the
bounding, booming, blooming west
there goes the Kansas %sunilower. the
precursor of all there is in life worth
Observation-Disclosures Republican,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
Her Hundredweiuht of Coin.

Near .Ahogill. Ballymena, an old wo~
man was knocked down and killed
instantly by a dray. When the police
inspected the wretched dwelling in
which the old creature lived they found
1t almost packed to the door with
branches of trees and wood for the
winters fuel. Further search reveal
ed a hoard Of money. Two large buck
cts and a tin trunk We're full to over
flowing with all kinds of current coin
rs we'll as a bigger wooden box and
about a dozen mugs, and when the
whole Of the money was collected and
put into scales the total weight was
considerably in excess Of a hundred
weight. The woman leaves no rcla-
tivcs so far as is known.-St. James
Gazette.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
The Hottest Spot.

One who WAS asked to name the hot
would hardly guess that it is in Alas
ka. but Professor Jaggar of the MaSSa-
chusetts Institute of Technology. who
has just returned from there. says il
Is Perry island. off the Alaska coast.
1t was created only 4 year or two a2o
Ivy volcanic action and is right hot
from the griddlc. Its surface is still
soft. but hardening rapidly.-Youth's
Communion.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
ChapIain's Prayer Applauded.

WASHINGTON, Ian. 29.-The house,
usually SO digniiied during open
prayer, today broke into applause
when Chaplain Couden delivered his
supple alton in these words: sob,
Lord, deliver us, we beseech thee, from
the jigo, the demagogue, the bigot and
all other undesirable citizens. Give
us instead the patriot, the states.
mar and the broad.minded, generous.
hearted manly men. ma thy kingdom
may come and thy will be done on
earth as il heaven. for Christ's sake,
amen.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
MONTANA FREIGHT RATES.

Some day. perhaps, the merchants
of Montana will establish a precedent
celebrate the advent OF lower rail-
road freight rates on merchandise
consigned to them, says the Anacond a
Standard. Storekeepers in Montana
during the pioneer days of the terri
tory got into the habit of paying high
rates, because they had to pay them.
Missouri river transportation as far
up as Fort Benton, the head OF navi-
cation, and bull teams from Corinne,
Utah, we're the only means of bringing
freight into the territory. and the
merchants as we'll as the consumers
accepted the conditions as q matter Of
course, as we'll as of fact.
Everybody said that just as soon as
the railroad came through, the rates
would be lower, snd they were, some.
what. The Utah and Northern from
Ogden drove the bull team and the
mule outfit off the highways. and the
railroads only competing line vas q
string Of little steamboats, up the Mis-.
souri,. The Northern Pacific came
along in 1883 and the old Missouri
began to allow itself to fill with mud;
then the Great Northern pushed
through the state, after which the
Missouri river was tout of it" as far
as freight business to Montana was
concerned.
The two through lines from the east
and the Utah & Northern, subsequent
ly absorbed and it's guage widened by
the Oregon Short Line, from the south,
attended to Montana's needs, If not
its. wants, in the way Of freight trans.
p~ortation. Still the rates remained
conspiciously high, and the merchants
wondered If they should ever obtain
relief. The Burlington ran q stringer
up into this part of the world and
then the merchants settled back in the
tirmconviction that freight rates would
certainly begin to tumble: yet the
rates remained up, like the proverbial
brick.
Business mems associations were
organized in several cities and they
discussed the high tariff and cussed
the railroads. They met in joint ses-
sions aud discussed and cussed some
more: still the rates wouldn't come
down. A railway commission was
appointed by the Legislature and the
merchants thought they saw good
things ahead. But it was all merely
an optical illusion-the rates persist,
emily remained up.
The Chicago, Milwaukee * St. Pau
hallway company, seeing how well
the other roads were faring in Mon
tana, began o push out this way, ani
now its roadbed through this state i
nearly ready for the rails. The mcr
chants are hoping that the new roat
will be the means of bringing abou
Il material reduction in freight rates
The Northwestern, it is coniidentl,
predicted in some quarters, will com
through Montana. 1t is general,
hoped that it will, and that man,
more roads will build through thi
state.
Perhaps. after all, real, out-and-ou,
genuine, w~cll-meaning competition vii
bring about the reduction ia freigt
rates for which the merchants of MOI
tana have been waiting patiently owe
since Hugh kirkendall and Tom Powe
ran lines OF freight wagons into Nor
tana more than forty years ago.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05

The following good story is going
the rounds: A travelling man picked
up a five dollar piece of script. issued
by q bank during the recent panic,
glanced at it q minute and remarked,
swell, I have no objection to them
taking In God We Trust off the sill.
rel coin, but If they had only put 4
Know That My Redeemer Liveth' on
this thing I would feel q whole lot
aafor
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05
Decides Against Stockmen.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, } an. 2s.--The
Missouri supreme court has decided
that the law requiring that free trans.
p%ortation be given to shippers with
each carload of livestock by the rail.
roads of this state /, unconstitutional.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-05

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security.
p-ompt and careful attention, ana the
raost liberal treatment. consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues lss own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, coanty, city and school bonds
and warrants.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-26
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

F0RF7GN-Russian officials are confident
that Germany will ultimately accept the pro
rosal Of q conference of the powers 10 settle
sII-1e normal conditions after the visit OF the
feet a few sailors were missing from the amer
scan 1arshirs on their departure, but most OF
Yhe-n were found and will follow the warships
on the -yarkton. --- The Duke Of the ADTuzZl
visited Queen Dowager MaTgherit2; he appeared
=downcast on his return 10 Turin @-= Adylces
from Saskatchewan reported another death IN
the recen: snowstorrn, and expressed fears that
many hundreds had persisted - General
elections VIII be held IN Canaua lo-udS lAi0
Liberal government is expected TO remain IN
power with a smaller majority IN Parliament
g. The Fornosan Railway S34 miles long:
70 he Americans were sentenced to LnpTtson-
rnent for robbing passengers on French trains.
- The bubonio plague IS reported TO be IN
creasing al TerCeiTa, Azores
DoNESTIC-Governor Hughes spent the day
-3n Albany conducting much official business
"A letter from President Roosevelt To a
member Of the brotherhood Of Railroad Train
men made public at Washington shows William
H Taft a true friend Of workingnlen-= ---
Fresiden HYDE OF Bowdoin College denounced
The, CORPORATION laws OF Maine. 80 Superior
C'onrt Judges =. a. Morrison and John Hender-
son denied al Philadelphia any knowledge OF the
alleged ArcFbold letters read by w r Hearst;
Ex-Governor William A Stone ana supreme
Court Justice John P Elkin made similar denals
II Pittsburg. == Charles Joseph Magness,
alias Charles T. HartlOve. who married the
daughter Of the late Senator German, OF Mary
land was taken aboard the receiving ship Ian
caster at Philadelphia, charged with desertion
from the United States navy. - Rabbi
Fleischer and the Rev. DR.. Johnson, of Boston,
defended William H. Taft against attacks made
because Of his religious views - An IN
creased demand for subsidiary silver coinage
was noted IL Washington as an evidence Of re-
turning prosperity
. CTTy-Judge Taft reached New York. -
Bryan arrived in town, the guest of Nathan
Straus- - Answering the questions Of their
export agent dozen manufacturing firms ia
vored the election OF Taft, and said il would
hasten the return Of prosperity. - The Cen
tral Federated Union adopted a resolution IN
0orsing a Conpers circular which supported
Bryan and all the Democratic candidates, but
not until many Of the delegates had left the hall
3n disgust - Timothy L Woodruff said If
Chanler were elected Governor Tammany would
loot the state as IL was looting the city. =-
The German Independence committee gave q re-
cep1ion for Thomas /. Hisgen at the Hotel Aston.
s. The New York Navy Yard was crowded
with warShips and the dTvdocks We're giving
trouble - Il was said that the larger vessels
entering the harbor might do so through the
Ambrose Channel soon. == Il was announced
that the Rev DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst had re-
signed the presidency Of the Society for the
Prevention Of Crime.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Showers. The temperature yesterday: High
est, 20 degrees; lowest, ga
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-26

q confined space They feel a great longing 10 60
to the upper air, combined with consurnihs 10
sire for one last long sip Of clear. cold water
officials prepared the virus and spread II II his
A few. days after eating 1t the rats began Iheir
tostling rush to the surface, and each morning
when stations opened the corpses OF SCORES
Of rodents were found.
Here is a doctor. who says you mustn't eat
when you're worried -.
you amt gcln to get anything to eat7'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Professor David Gordon Lyon. Hollis professor
of divinity and curator OF the Semitic Museum at
Harvard University, who has returned from an
archaeological expedition to Samaria, reports the
finding OF specimens OF Greek and Roman pottery
In what is supposed to be a temple erected by
Herod the Great The site where the discoveries
made IS near the modern village OF Seba5ti-
yeh, and is marked by cluster Of standing col
The results OF the summer campaign are
regarded gratifying Ample provision has been
made by Jacob H SchiT, Of New York, who en-
dowed Harvard with the funds to carry the work
on for three or four years. for taking up the work
Of excavation anew next spring, about the end OF
April, at the close OF the rainy in the Holy
Land It is expected that Professor George
Reisner. OF Harvard. in whose the permit
for excavation stands. will be IN charge.
Mr.. Stub (reading advertisementl-I see the
Lives of the Hunted advertised down at the
Oo Mrs s' stu6b@'i4ves of the Hunted"7 Gracious
Mr. suSb6h some Sscheo d1rn leap
presume-Chicago News.
In speaking of the fact that the Rev. DR.. Emil
G. Hrsch asked TO deliver the prayer at the
dinner given for Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Bryan by the
Chicago Commercial Association, 1.-THE American
Israelite'' says that to those who look below the
surface this selection had deep significance II
not Isolated case. and similar ones DE
coming quite common" says THE Israelite," add
ing: 1T is easily evident that the rivalry and
consequent friction between the Roman Catholic
and the Protestant churches is continuously in
creasng and growing more strenuous. By asking
a rabbi to of1ciate neither OF the rivals can feel
that the other has been preferred and If not quite
satisfied cannot very well complain"
What would you do dear, II were to dieT'
asked Mrs. barley, tondIy.
II don't know" replied barley, thoughtfuly;
which is your choice-burial crenation?' -Il-
lustrated Bits
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-26
mR. TAFTs SERVICE TO LABOR.

g. President Roosevelts letter to Mr.. P. II.
Grace. OF the Brotherhood Of Railroad Train
men made public this morning, takes up, among
other things. highly Interesting and important
part OF Mr. Taft's record on the bench as it
affected labor. While Mr.. Taft has boldly met
the attacks upon him, q less courageous man
would have omitted 10 cover the whole ground
and confined himself TO recalling the Nara
more case TO which Mr.. Roosevelt refers In
that case Judge Taft reversed previous de
cisions, which seemed to him unjust and cruel,
and laid down the law, in what has since be-
come leading case, in accordance with the
dictates Of justice, thus securing to labor a
right which had been denied.
In that case the plaintiff had been injured in
tie employment Of q railroad because OF the
railroads failure TO provide certain safety de-
vices required by law. The injured empoye
got verdict from the jury, which was ap-
peaied on the ground that the plaintiff knew Of
the railroads failure TO obey the law and still
kept at work, and that thus he contracted to
take the chances Of being injured. Up 20 that
Tine the controlling case under circumstances
Of this sort was one decided by the New York
Court OF Appeals. wherein it was held that an
employe voluntarily assumed the risks and
could not recover damages If he worked for an
employer who failed TO make such provisions
for his safety as the law required. That old
decision was based upon the individualistic no.
ton that employees are perfectly free agents,
that risks assumed by them with knowledge are
always voluntarily assumed, and that conse-
ouently they are left without a cause Of action
IN case OF injury, though the law is broken. 1t
is a convenient theory. which has made every
Interference by the state III the protection OF
certain classes Of employees difficult which has
stood in the Way Of labor legislation affecting
rg,gT ,r1,g
emplifed ia al important recent decision ia
this state regarding a statute affecting the
hours of female employment Judge Tafts fine
sense OF justice showed him at once the fallacy
Of * He declined 10 be governed by the New
York precedent and his decision ever since has
had powerful effect IN securing to laborers the
protection which the laws were designed 10 give
them Moreover, If has been ratified by the
legislative action OF Congress and by that Of