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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-03
Polk County Observer

Have you learned to write it "l9O8Y
Gee the big can of Turkish figs al
Loughary's.
r. D Brown, for Abstracts. Notary
public; typewriting.
Get some Malaga Grapes out OF that
big barrel at Loughary's.
For the best cigars and freshest
candies. call on Horace Webster.
Popcorn, candy, nuts, dates, figs,
lottuce. celery, etc. at Loughary's.
Miss Bertha Collins millinery store
Mill he closed until March /. 1-2-2t
R,ot lob printing at the Observer
office in Dallas and the News offlce In
Falls City.
Money of private parties to loan at
ner cent on well-improved farms.
SHELLEY & EAKIN.
Mans and women's g clothing cleaned
and pressed, at Bartlett's near depot.
Mutual phone AL.
Patronize the new barber shop on
Main street. T. W. Reel, the proprietor,
guarantees frst-class work.
Born, Wednesday January l, to Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Holmes, son.
Miss Evelyn Wood, of Salem, is Wis
it;po at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. +. J.
Coad,
H.R WinsIow, Of Spring Valley,
was in Dallas, Wednesday, on busi-
ness.
RAYMOND Peterson returned Tues
day evening from a two weeks visit
in Corvallis.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Monk went to Port
land, Wednesday, for an indefinite
stay in that city.
James Simonton and family, Of
Carlton, are visiting at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Simonton.
County School Superintendent Fl. @.
Seymour returned yesterday from a
short business visit in Portland.
County Clerk E. M. Smith issued
lcenee to wed to Harry B. Kuntz and
Elizabeth @. Mendenhall this week.
Miss Annie Reed, of Portland, Wis
tied at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Monk, during the first part Of this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Y. Morrison returned
to their home in Portland yesterday,
after two weeks visit with relatives
in Dallas.
Mrs. A. L. Simpson has returned to
her home in Albany, after a weeks
visit at the home Of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs B. H. Pillar.
Miss Ella Carpenter returned to
Portland, Wednesday, after weeks
vacation visit at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Carpenter.
IA Riggs, proprietor of the Mon
mouth skating rink, was in Dallas,
Tuesday, and attended the masked
carnival given at the Colosseum.
Mrs. L. R. Hadley, who has been
visiting at the home of her parents,
Rev. and Mrs. M. J. Ballantyne,
returned to her home in Dayton
yesterday.
M. NJ. Ellis called at the OBSERVER
office yesterday morning and left some
ripe tomatoes which he had picked |
from his garden on the first day of
January. The tomatoes are we'll
ripened, and are perfectly sound-a
most convincing proof Of the mildness
Of the winter weather in Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-03
How's Thisy

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward fo9
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall $ Catarrh Cure.
T J. CHENEY g. CO., Props, Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known F. J. Che
ney for the last ID years, and believe him per-
tectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
.ions made by their firm.
WEST TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
WALDINe, KINEAN g. MARVIN, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally ,actiAg
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by aO
Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the BEST
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-03

Advice to Mothers: Don't let your
children waste away. Keep them
strong and healthy during the winter
with HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
1t is the greatest tonic for children.
Pure and harmless, does the greatest
good. S5c, Tea or Tablets. Belt &
Cherrington.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-03

John-"What kind of tea do you
like bestp" Priscilla-"Go tees, some,
but Rocky Mountain Tea best" John
-"Why HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea bestI" Priscilla-"It speaks for
itself, john" makes lovely COM
plexions. Belt & Oherrington.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-03
TO BE HELD AT

Dallas, Polk County, Ore.
January Is, 16 and II, 1908
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-03

1t fills the arteries with rich, red
blood, makes new flesh, and healthy
men, women and children. Nothing
can take it's place; no remedy has done
SO much good as HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. 35c, Tea or Tablets.
Belt & Cherrington.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
GIGANTIC TlMEPlECE.
Worlds Biggest Clock to Be In New
York Skyscrapcr.

Worlds Biggest Clock to Be In New
York Skyscraper.
When the tower of the Metropolitan
completed. New York will have what
undoubtedly will be the largest clock
in the world. says the New York Her
aid. That distinction has belonged for
many years to big Ben in Westmin-
ster abbey, London, the dial Of which
is Twenty-Five and one-half feet in df-
ametcr. while that of the Metropolitan
building clock will be twenty-five.
1t will be a clock suitable in every
way to be a part Of the tallest perma-
nent structure in tie world, as the new
tower will be. The tower will be for
ty-eight stories, G5S feet above the
street, and the clock will occupy part
Of the twenty-fifth. twenty-sixth and
twenty-seventh floors. The middle OF
the dial will be $40 feet above the
street.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
dial will be a little more than halfway
between the street and the top Of the
tower, it will be far above all sur
rounding buildings. 1t will be fifty
feet higher than the Flatiron building
The immense size Of the clock will
make 1t easy to tell the time from {
great distance. The letters on the dia
will be four feet high, and the hand:
will be twelve feet long.
No clock has been ordered for tn,
building yet, and it Is not known jus
low 1t will be run. Some Of the lar
gest clocks are run by electricity, Will
some of the newer ones use com
pressed air.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
Orchard Pleads Guilty.

CALDWELL, Ida, March lO.-Harry
Orchard this morning, before Judge
Fremont Wood, in the district court,
was allowed to withdraw his former
plea of not guilty entered at his first
arrangement by order OF the court
when he stood mute, and entered
another plea of guilty to the charge
of murder in the first degree, as charg-
ed in the indictment.
Judge Wood will sentence Orchard
on March Is. Orchard pleaded guilty
to having killed former Governor
S~teunenberg by the explosion Of a
dynamite bomb at the side g ate Of his
residence here early in the evening OF
December 80, 1905.
He was arrested for the crime or
J January 2 and in February confessed
that he was hired to kill Steunenberg
by William D. Haywood, secretary;
Charles H. Meyer, president, and
George A. Pettibone, honorary mem
Der of the Western Federation o
Miners. Haywood and Pettibone wer'
tried in Boise and set free. The cas-
against Meyer was dismissed.
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Orders Affecting Montana.

WASHINGTON, March 10. nm Secre-
tary Taft today signed an order for
the abandonment of the military post
known as Fort Keogh, Montana. The
post is not needed for the accommoda.
ton of the troops in that section.
Secretary of the Interior fairfield
told the Montana senators today that
an order would soon be Issued restor.
ing to entry all the lands heretofore
withdrawn from entry i. connection
with the lower Yellowstone irrigation
project, which will not Se reclaimed
by the canals of the system, as shown
by the completed surveys of the rec.
lamation department. These lands
are in the extreme eastern part of the
state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
THE SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY.

One of the benefits derived from the
sugar beet industry in eastern Mon
tana is indicated in these remarks by
the Billings Gazette of recent date:
The sugar beet industry has just
passed through its second season in
the Yellowstone valley. The success
which has been attained in the culture
of sugar beets has demonstrated that
the country adjacent to Billings is
especially adapted to beet raising.
Already the sugar beet industry has
become a most important factor in the
development OF the district tributary
to Billings.
This country is still in the early
courses of its development. What we
need is more people who can make
homes and make a good living on
small tracts Of land. The raising of
sugar beets %insures that the farmer
will secure from the ground the utmost
wealth per acre that it is possible to
obtain by agriculture. We raised
alfalfa and fed stock in the valley be-
fore the sugar factory was built, aud
we could have continued to do so: but
had the sugar beet industry not been
started here the increase in business
and population would undoubtedly
have been much slower.
The foreigners who have been
brought here to work in the beet
fields are a thrifty class. They are
gradually buying small farms and
building homes. They are all farm
ers, skilled in producing all that is
possible on the land. The sugar com,
pany is bringing in several trains o
them every year. Thus is the bee
sugar industry increasing the popula
tion and the business of this commun
ity. 1t is settling in the valley hun
dreds of families, all on small tracts
The greatest prosperity of any com
munity is to be found in small farms
such as these men will own, cultivated
and improved for intensive farming
and not in a series of large ranches
In the work of colonizing this sec
ton and assisting in the development
of eastern Montana every possible as
sistance should be given the owner
of the sugar factory.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
AN ELECTION PRIMER
Pertinent Points About Om. Election
Machinery For Nev Vote,y and Old
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

When did the Democratic party first appear in national poiticsi
Under its present name the party first appeared in 1923, when
Andrew Jackson was elected president as the party candidate. The
Democratic party, however, so far as its chief principles go, dates
from the beginning of the republic.
Who is regarded as the party's founder'
Thomas Jefferson. When the constitution of the United States
was under discussion in convention the opposing theories of Thomas
Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton constituted the principal difference
of opinion. Jefferson and his adherents leaned far toward local self
government, while Hamilton and his faction stood for a strong cen
traGzed government. In after years the Jefersonian theories became
crystallized into what was called at first the Republican party, later
the Republican, Democratic party and finally the Democratic party.
The present Republican party, then, is entirely distinct from tho
one Of Jefersons time7
Entirely so. 1t is descended, through the Wing party, from the
Hamitonian or Federaist party, which took the opposite view to that
of Jefferson.
What presidents has the Democracy elected?
Thomas Jefferson twice, James Madison twice, James Monroe
twice, John Quincy Adams, Andrew jackson twice, Martin Van
Buren,, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Grover
Cleveland twice.
What is the Democratic partys position as to tariff?
1t stands for a low tariff or a tariff for revenue only.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
A Farmers Quick Repartee.

A story 10 told of Rutherford b.
Hayes that while attending school at
Kenyon college he was In the habit Of
taking daily walks in the country.
These trips were shared by two init
mate companions who were of q fun
loving disposition, which frequently
got them into trouble.
On one occasion they more than met
their match in repartee in an old far
mer whom they met on the highway.
The long white beard OF the farmer
gave him a patriarchal appearance,
and while he was approaching the
students they arranged to give him a
"jollying,' which eventually termin.
ated in the discount ture of the youths
One Of them dotted his hat with
great respect as he said: "Good
morning Father Abraham"
The second saluted the farmer and
said: Good morning, Father Isaac
Hayes, not to be outdoue in polite
ness, extended his hand as he said
Good morning, Father Jacob"
Ignoring the outstretched hand O
Hayes, the farmer replied; you ar,
mistaken in the man. | am neither
! Abraham, Isaac nor } Jacob, bu, Saul
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
New Supplies For Soldiers.

WASHINGTON, March lO.-The re.
cen order which supplies to an army
recruit upon enlistment q full list of
toilet articles has run the gauntlet of
judicial construction and has been
sustained. AS a result this is what
the enlisted man gets in addition to his
regular outfit: Razor, brushes for
hair, teeth, shaving and shoes, comb,
polish for black and tan shoes, two
towels, toilet soap. whisk broom and
last, but not least, n "house wife,
The house wife is expected to be a
neat little case containing thread
needle, buttons and patches.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
JUDICIAL

Another instance of the protection
afforded to criminals by legal techni.
c~alities appears in a dispatch from
San Francisco, which says Eugene T..
Schmitz, former mayor of that city,
has been released from Jail through a
decision rendered by the supreme
court Of California. Schmitz was tried
and convicted on charges of grating
from French restaurant keepers, by
threats OF refusing them liquor IL
censes, and has been in Jail for sew
eral months.
The decision of the court which
gives liberty to Schmitz, is based
upon alleged and apparently unim.
portant defects in the indictment. The
court, after diligent search for legal
technicalities, finds there is absence OF
proof that Schmitz was mayor Of San
Francisco at the time of the alleged
eXtortion, and that he was in a posi-
ton to eXtort money from the persons
named. The court also discovers that
the injury suffered by the victims OF
the graft was not described as an
''unlawful' injury, q defect that ap'
pears to assume Importance in the
judicial mind.
This decision in the case of Schmit;
is said to apply also to the charges
against Ruef, the political boss as
ISOLATED with the mayor in severa
grating schemes, and who entered
plea of guilty. Both of them viii
have temporary liberty on bail, unit
further proceedings are taken by tn
prosecution.
There may be excellent reasons TO
requiring strict compliance with a
formalities in such matters, but to tn
mind OF the layman undue importanc
is attached to trivial technicalities
especially in cases that affect defeni
ants of wealth and influence. The a
legged defects in the indictment .
SchmitZ and Ruef look like judici;
jugglery with the law, a very I'll
splitting OF hairs that is repugnant
citizens who desire the proper al
effective administration of justice.
The guilt of these grafters was {
tablished by evidence in court, and
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
Prison Is An Opium Den.

LINCOLN, March lO.-The Nebraska
penitentiary is not a reform atory, but
a huge opium den, according TO DR..
II. f. Gritfen, prison surgeon, in q
report to Governor Sheldon, made
public last night.
DR.. Griffeu, who was formerly con.
uected with Blackwell's Island prison
and Bellevue hospital, New York, re-
ports that of the 42l prisoners con-
fined in the institution there are be.
tween 100 and $50 addicted to the NOR
| phine habit, and that morphine is be-
ing regularly supplied to the prisoners
by outside persons, whose identity Is
unknown.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
FOR LARGER HOMESTEADS,
Measure Favored BY Western Men Is
Now Before Congress.

WASHINGTON, March 1O.-Repre-
sentative Mondell of Wyoming, chair.
man OF the public lands commission,
today introduced a bill providing for
enlarged homesteads, the provisions
OF which have been agreed on by the
general committee of western senators
and representatives. The bill is a
composite of the Smoot and Dixon
bills in the senate and the Mondell
bill In the house.
1t enlarges the homestead unit from
16O to 32O acres of non.irrigable, non.
timbered land: provides that a home.
stead entrymau under the present
homestead act may enter additional
lands to bring his homestead holdings
up to 32O acres; requires GUILTY. alton
Of one-eighth of the entry after the
second year and one quarter after the
third year. continuously for the re-
mainder of the Eve years required for
perfection of entry,
The secretary of the interior is given
the discretion, If lack of water for
domestic purposes makes continuous
residence upon the lands q hardship,
to accept proof of residence in the
vicinity of the lands entered as equiv
alent to actual entry upon the land
itself; recurring the entryman to show
good faith by cultivation of such ad-
ditional area, not exceeding one.half
OF the entire entry, as may be pre-
scribed by the secretary.
Favorable report viii, be made upon
the bill by the house public lands
committee, but it is not certain that it
will have the support o: the secretary
of the interior. whose department is
known to be opposed to. any general
proposition at this time Of charging
ho~mesteads.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
BISON BACK ON PRAIRIE.
Former Inmates Of New York Zoo Do
ina Well In Oklahoma.

ing We'll In OkIdnoma
Uncle Sans herd of fifteen buffa-
Ices, which were taken from the New
York geological gardens to the Wichi-
ia national forest, oklahoma, in the
early fall, are doing we'll in their new
home, according to advices which have
been received at Washington from the
supervisors headquarters at Cache.
Since leaving New York the herd has
celebrated the birth OF two fine buff
falo calves, one of which has been
named Hornaday, after the name Of
the director of the New York gardens
which gave them to the government,
and the other oklahoma, after the new
state which was also just born after
the herds arrival.
Keeper Frank Rush, an old western
COW puncher and experienced buffalo
man, who has handled the herd since
it was taken from New York, says
that alfalfa hay has put his charges
in fine shape and that the big prairie
beasts are again thriving in their ma
tive land. The buffaloes have an 5000
acre fenced park in the Wichita for
est, In which they al charge and
snort. During the winter the animals
will be fed alfalfa hay and protected
from the weather and disease in a
number of large shelter sheds which
have been built in the Enclosure. In
the spring they will be let out to roam
over the Wichita range, and gradually
they will be encouraged to rustic fol
themselves, an instinct they have par
TALLY lost through years of domestica
ton In city parks. Government ex
perts figure that in time they will re
gain the prowess Of their forefathers
who We're kings of the plains before
civilization made it's march westward.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
The River Press.
P..vlished every Wednesday, Morning
bv the RiUer Press Publish
ing Company.
BENEFITS ARE GENERAL.

No wiser legislation was ever en-
acted tn an that which, under the name
of the national reclamation law, was
so vigorously opposed and prevented
for many years from becoming a law.
But those who came to scoff remained
to pray, so 10 speak, as the benefits
of the operation of this law are seen.
The work of reclamation has now
been given q trial for several years.
Large tracts of land have been re-
claimed, still larger projects are un-
der way, and there has been no raid
upon the national treasury for pay
ment of the expenses. 1t is evident,
under the wise provisions of the law
that the great benefits that must &C.
crue to the people of the country
through reclamation will be equally
distributed and that they will come
without any raid upon the treasury;
in fact that in the endless chain that
is created they will pay for themselves
in the end.
Under the law the money received
from the unclaimed lands will be put
in use to reclaim still other tracts,
and so ad infnitum. The law com.
pels the secretary Of the interior $50
far as the same may be practicable
and subject to the existence OF feast.
BILE irrigation projects to expend the
major portion of the funds arising
from the sale of public lands within
each state and territory for the benefit
OF the arid and semi.arid lands within
the limits of such state or territory"
Experience shows in the short time
that active operations have been car.
ried on under the law, that reclaimed
lands will 10 only pay for the cost of
reclamation, but will furnish funds
for the reel am alton Of other tracts.
AS 70 the benefits that will follow the
reclamation and settlement of the mil.
lions of acres of arid lands in the
west, whereby they become productive
and give homes and prosperous live.
lihoods to thousa nds of families, they
are general. The manufacturers of
the east and the business men Of all
parts Of the country will share in the
gains of these prosperous people,
while the increase of the taxable
property of the states and territories
will tighten the burdens of taxation
for all.
This year forty million dollars will
be available for the reclamation SER
vice in completing the vast projects
which have been commenced in the
west aud southwest. OF this Montana
receives over three million dollars
the largest amount apportioned to an!
state except Idaho. The benefits tC
the state from the expenditures O
such sums-which will be available
from year to year as the reclaimed
lands are purchased and settled upon
cannot be over-estinlated, in giving
work to thousands of men and teams
and more than that in making posi-
Bile the coming Of thousands of famil
les all OF whom will be prosperous
producers, consumers and taxpayers
Helena Record.
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is proper that they suffer the penalty.
Justice may be delayed by the 9
cent decision which releases them from
Jail, but 1t Is hoped the other indict-
ments that are pending against them
will have q more satisfactory result.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18

HELENA, March l2.-David Frat,
of Billings, former president of the
state board of stock commissioners,
and a wealthy cattleman, pleaded
guilty to the illegal fencing of 7,6lS
acres of land in the federal court to-
day, and was sentenced to serve Is
hours in jail and 10 pay Il fine of $3.50.
Fine Book and JOB Printing a spe.
cialty at the RIVER PRESS office.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18

BILLINGS, March lO.-l. Harrison
of Livingston has filed suit for dam.
ages in the sum of So 900 against the
Northiru Pacific Railway company on
accouut Of the killing of her husband
Edward j. Harrison, who met his
death in a collision FIVE miles west OF
this city last June.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18

the son of Kish, who was sent out to
seek his fathers asses, but, 10. l
have found three of them.'