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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28

for number of weeks. He will hear
several important equity cases, in
cluding that of the Butterick Publish.
ing company of New York against
several Montana labor unions, in.
volving an alleged boycott.
KAL1sPELL, April 24.-At meeting
of the chamber of commerce it was
decided to offer prizes for the best
display of apples and produce at the
fair this fall. A prize of 800 will be
given for the best box Of apples. The
apples are to be packed at the time of
the fair and opened and judged April
l, 1910. The premium for the best
display of produce will be $3.50.
HELENA, April 24.-Matt W. Alder.
son, the we'll known mining man, who
is in the city today from his mine
near Marysville, reports that the
snow is from three to four feet
deep on the level in that region.
Old timers say that the snow is now
deeper for this season of the year in
the mountains than they have ever
known it to be before. A number OF
mining men who desire to begin work
on their properties have been hindered
from so doing because of the deep
snow.
BILLINGS, April 24.-As result Of
drinking quart of whiskey Edward
Noonan, known here as Eddie "Good
Boy" died at the ranch of Sam Filler,
eight miles west of Billings this after
noon. Noonan was working for Filler
and was left in the kitchen last night
while his employer went out of doors
to do some work. A quart bottle of
whiskey was sitting on the shelf and
Noonan drank all of it. He sank into
drunken stupor a few minutes after.
ward and died without recovering
consciousness.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28
Reverses Order Of Withdrawal,

WASHINGTON, April 2l.-Secretary
Ballinger is rapidly reversing the
policy OF his predecessors in reference
to Its tieup of public lands in further.
ance of the so.called conserv atiion
policy. 1t became known today that
during the close of Garfield's term in
the interior department several million
acres of land were Withdrawn to "con.
serve river resources. Ballinger
holds there is no authority of the law
for such Withdrawals, and has re.
stored l,170,000 acres to settlement
and entry, including $1,000 acres
along the Flathead river, and $50, 1000
acres along the Missouri river in
Montana.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28
ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA.
Distinguished American Visitor Re-
ceives Hearty Welcome.

MoMBAsA, British East Africa,
April 22.-Theodore Roosevelt ar.
rived here last evening on board the
steamer Admiral. The first word of
the sight of the ship brought crowds
to vantage points, where they might
catch glimpse OF the distinguished
visitor. The Admiral came slowly up
to the harbor, and it was dark when
the ex.president, accompanied by his
son and the captain made a landing.
Mr.. Roosevelt and the members of
his party left here on q special train
this afternoon for Kapiti Plains sta.
tion, whence they will be conveyed to
the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease for
their first shooting trip. The party is
accompanied by F. j. Jackson, acting
governor of the protectorate.
Before leaving, Mr.. Roosevelt tele.
graphed to King Edward, thanking
him for the message of greeting read
by Mr.. Jackson at the dinner given in
Mr.. Roosevelt's honor at the Nom bas a
club last night.
The party will probably remain at
the ranch for one week, making it the
base for shooting expeditions, and
then move on to Nairobi.
Mr.. Roosevelt, his son, Kermit, Ed
mund Heller, F. G. Selouis and r. F..
Cunningham, the general manager of
the expedition, were entertained at
dinner last night by the members of
the Nom basa club. The acting gov.
ernor of the protectorate. F. j. Jack
son, in proposing the health of Mr..
Roosevelt, read the following tele.
garm from King Edward:
81 bid you hearty welcome to
British East Africa, and l trust you
will have a pleasant time and meet
with every success -
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28

working in the industry, Mr.. Pray
gave an illuminating mass of statistics
comparing the wages in Montana with
those In Australia, New Zealand, Ar
gentina and Cape Colony. "Whether
for skilled or unskilled labor, the
wages OF those on the Montana sheep
ranches are higher than anywhere in
the world" he said. Shearers average
80 q day; herders $40 a month and
board; ranch help s35 q month and
board; cooks, $50 q month and board
all including lodging. He thought it
doubtful If there was any other indus.
try that could "make better showing
In behalf OF Its employees" On the
other hand in Australia and New
Zealand wages averaged s17 a month
for herders; S cents head for shear.
ing against 9 cents in Montana; 26
cents per head the cost of running
sheep year. as against sl.31 in
Montana. In Argentina Mr.. Pray
said the herders received Sl5 monthly
wages; 1t costs cents to shear one
sheep and 80 cents a year to run one
sheep a year. In Cape Colony the
wages were about the same and the
cost per head per year Sc cents, be.
cause of incre ased land values.
Mr.. Pray saw no reason for placing
hides on the free list, saying the pres
ent duty of 15 per cent was deserved
protection to the industry of this
country. Shoe, harness and leather
goods manufacturers and tanners
would be the benefciaries of the re-
duced rates, all of which have pro.
lection in the bill ranging from to
30 per cent, and be considered it
ample justice to cattle raisers that
they should have some degree OF pro.
lection.
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RIVAL RAILROADS CLASH.
Lively Contest For Right Of Way In
FIathead County.

KAL1sPELL, April 20. The struggle
between the Puget Sound and Great
Northern engineers to secure the best
available route through the canyon
on the North Fork above Coram is
becoming intense. No expense is
spared on either line and every
available man is grabbed up by one
or the other of the outfits and put to
w,rk. New crews are constantly
a'riving and it is now estimated that
nearly 200 men are at work in the
vicinity.
During the week the Great Northern
crews at work on the line south from
Somers we're called off and sent into
the North Fork territory. Saturday
the two remaining crews received tele-
graphic orders to strike camp and
proceed with all haste into the con-
tested country and report to the
engineer in charge there. The Mil.
waukee has been making a strong
campaign and has kept a force of
shovelers ahead of the instruments
clearing away the heavy snow and
were fast gaining an advantage in
position over the Hill forces. The
crew withdrawn from the reservation
work are now under suspension orders
to prepare for two months more work
there and it is believed that as soon
as the North Fork situ alton is salts
factorily in hand the men will be put
back on the reserv alton line.
Following the recording of several
deeds to right of way by Great North.
ern and Milwaukee officers today for
right of way in Northfork Gap for
proposed railroad north from
Kalispell to the Candian line, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
Railway company, through its at
toney, D. F. Smith, stole march
on it's competitors tonight, and at just
II o'clock Clerk of the Court Sam D.
McNeely made night rush trip to
the court house to file condemnation
proceedings on score of land owners
in the most important pass on the
Northfork of Flathead.
Many deeds were recorded by each
company for small tracts today, but
the Milwaukee evidently thought the
deed business was too slow under ex.
listing circumstances. An idea of the
Importance of getting first can be had
from the fact that the Milwaukee to-
day paid 81, 800 for right of way
through one unimproved claim of 100
acrea
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28

HELENA, April 22.-The attorney
general, in an opinion to S. P. Will.
son, county attorney of Deer Lodge,
advises him that in no case is a sheriff
warranted in charging more than 10
cents for each mile actually travelled,
whether on civil or criminal business.
Any sheriff who charges more than 10
cents per mile ''may render himself
liable to the various sections of the
statute fixing penalties and imposing
damages for the collection of excessive
fees,'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28
Montana Cattle For Alaska.

BUTTE, April 24.-Seven hundred
cattle which are now being driven
from the Big Hole country to Mill
Creek, near Anaconda, will be shipped
west over the Northern Pacific bound
for the interior of Alaska, where they
will be killed for beef. The cattle
have been purchased by Henry Wsech.
ter, of Seattle, one ofthe pioneer cattle
buyers of the northwest. who, in the
past few years has shipped thousands
of head of cattle into Alaska to
supply the butcher shops of that re.
gion.
From Seattle the cattle will be
shipped to the southern terminus of
the White Pass railroad, and from
there taken inland as far as may be
by rail. There will remain even then,
in some instance long drives overland
before some of the beeves reach their
destination. as the 700 will be divided
among different parts of the country.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28

this city. The firm, which has an Of
fee in Paris, is said to have acted as
a clearing house in this country for
American dressm akers all over the
country, who received the goods go
smuggled by the payment of Is per
cent instead of copper cent in customs
duties. 1t is understood prosecutions
have been instituted against these
dressmakers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28
Smuggling Conspiracy Exposed.

New YORK, April 2l.-The smuggl-
ing operations which have been con-
Quoted at the port of New York by
means of trunks left on the steamship
piers until they could be relieved with
out detection are now alleged to have
been carried on by firm of importers
OF silk and dressmakers supplies OF
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28

The WEEKLY RIVER PRESS is &C cd
newspaper to send away to your friends
in the east. 1t will save you the trou-
BILE OF writing letters
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Fine Book and Job Printing q spe-
Cialtv at the RIVER PRESS Office.
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AttOrney Oeneral Galen, accompanied
by two members Of the advisory build.
ing committee, A. P. Curtin and E. c.
Day, have returned from an inspection
of state capitol buildings at Frank.
fort, KY, St. Paul, Madison. Wis.,,
Pierre. S. u. and Indianapolis, Ind.
Monday the board will meet to receive
bids for the half million dollar bond
issue, and to discuss the selection OF
an architect to prepare plans for the
addition to the Montana state capitol.
BUTTE, April "a. - At least 300
Butte persons, and perhaps 1000,
have been swindled out of sums rang
ing from $40 to $50, by confidence men
representing themselves as agents OF
big corporations endeavoring to sc.
cure government timber lands. Spe-
cial Agent Hamilton Wright, of the
United States general land Office, ar.
rived In Butte this morning after
making thorough investiga alton of
the smooth scheme which has cost
Butte and Anaconda in the neighbor.
hood of $50, 600, and which includes
among its victims men of every walk
in life.
HELENA, April 2l.-Judge Bean Of
Idaho will arrive in Helena May 6,
unless present plans miscarry, to sit
instead OF Judge Hunt, who goes to
the appellate court at San Francisco
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The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-11-20
LET Us GIVE THANKS.

In accordance with time-honored custom,
President Taft and Governor Crothers have
issued their respective procIsmations recon-
mending that next Thursday be celebrated as
a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and by
virtue of the proclamation of the Governor
the day will be a legal holiday.
So we'll established has Thanksgiving Day
become in the popular estimation that it is
probable thatit would be celebrated much the
same, even without the sanction of those high
10 official authority. The chief effect of the
fiat of the Governor is to establish legal holi-
day and thus stop the wheels of business and
give more persons chance to pay visits or eat
big dinners at home, when they might other
wise content themselves with lunchroom fare
or ''snack" carried in the pocket. The prepa-
ration for the annual holiday is always begun
long in advance of the proclamation, and even
should the President forget or ignore his duty
in the matter the housewives of the country
and others interested in the feast would doubt
less simply vote him "a mean old thing" and
go on with the turkey just the same.
Many individuals will feel but little cause
for Joy or feasting on the coming Thanksgiv-
ing Day; in some families there is mourning
that can not at once be comforted because of
the loss of relatives, friends or earthly goods
or honors, but the festival is for the whole
people, and as people we have cause TO re-
joice. If any should doubt this, let them COM
pare our position today with that of those
devoted pioneers who set apart the first Thanks
giving. That life had been spared to them
among the perils of the wilderness and that
enemies had given a respite and the earth and
the chase had yielded enough to furnish bare
subsistence for the coming winter was sufi-
Gent cause for them to spend day in solemn
thanksgiving, for the feast that accompanied
the prayers was doubtless meagre enough. If
a handful of exiles on an inhospitable shore
could find plenty Of reason for praise to the
Creator, how much more should the citizens Of
the mightiest and richest nation on earth,
blessed with bounteous crops, freedom from
pestilence, all the appliances of a wonderful
civilization and profound peace, attend divine
service next Thursday morning and with
mind, heart and voice render TIE Deum ac-
ceptable to the Great Protector. And may onr
readers, one and all, have much individual
reason to be thankful, and may they thor
oughly enjoy the feast after service.
The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-11-20

Rev. J. FRED. HEIssE. for the past three
years editor of the Baltimore Methodist, the
official organ of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the field covered by the Baltimore
Conference, last week officially announced that
he had severed his connection with that paper
DR.. Heisse. in making the announcement,
stated that he wished to make it perfectly clear
that his resignation was not attended by any
friction in the board or management of the
paper, but was due entirely to the fact that
his other church duties were so numerous that
he could not devote to the editing of the paper
the time it deserved. Rev. Charles NJ. Levister,
who has been associated with DR.. Heisse, has
taken charge of the editorial columns of the
Methodist, and the business management of
the paper has been assumed by Mr.. W. v.
Guthrie.
The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-11-20
OUR SHEET ANCHOR.

Mr.. James ]. Hill the railroad king of the
Northwest, who some time ago urged that the
farmers of this country raise more wheat to
obviate a predicted scarcity of breadstuffs.
came out this week in another interview in
which he asserts that the country is in danger
because of the extravagant habits of the people.
People are buying many luxuries. he says.
and he points out that the beginning Of the
decline OF all the great nations of the past was
marked by just such indulgence.
Mr.. Hill is not gifted with the power to fore
tell future events, but he is an able business
man of long and great experience, and what
he says is worthy of serious consideration.
There are many other things which be did not
mention and which seem to point to the same
conclusion he has reached in references to ex-
travagance. One of these conditions is illus
trated in the person and career of Mr.. Hill
himself, and that is the rapid accumulation OF
large fortunes and the immense sggregations
of capital through which one man or few
men are able to control the destinies OF thous-
ands of their fellows. This, also. it might be
said, has been premonitory symptom of the
fall of nations, and is so well-recognized as
such symptom that it furnished inspiration
for the poet who wrote:
Ill fares the land. to fastening ills prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Another feature which has seemed to sig
nalize the zenith of glory and power in ma
tions might be termed the good roads STAGE"
The completion of great systems of good roads
connecting distant parts of empires has usually
been coincident with marked demarcation
between the classes and the masses, for such
enterprises have been made possible by the ac-
cumulations of wealth in the hands of those
who use the roads and the lack of it in the
hands OF those who build them. this condition,
of course making labor cheap and plentiful.
The good roads stage has passed its beginning
in this country, but it may be urged that with
us it is not the result of cheap wages, but of
improved machinery. Those who are build
ing our roads are not slaves or serfs, but en-
fortably paid laborers.
We are unquestionably living at a pretty
fast pace, and if other conditions were the
same as in nations which have lost their great
ness we might with some force assume that
our period of senility was beginning. But Mr.
Hill reckons without one powerful factor that
did not exist in Babylon, Egypt, Assyra.
Greece, Rome or Spain before their glory de-
parted, and that is our public school system.
Where men are educated they can not be made
slaves and until they have practically reached
this condition this country can not fall. OPP
preston and monopoly may become apparent
and flourish for awhile and rob men of the
right of equal opportunity; extravaganza may
improverish generation, but the Intelligence
OF nation of educated freemen may be trus-
ted to right all economical evils in good time.
And if some spend money in automobiles,
costly food, fine clothes, theatre tickets and
travel, some other people who need the money
get the benefit of it, don't they?
The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-11-20

ONE OF the most sickening coal mine dis
asters that this country has ever heard of &C.
Cured at Cherry, ILL.,, last Sunday, when be-
tween three and four hundred men and boys
were entombed in the st. Paul mine. All
efforts to reach them have thus far failed and
it is believed that all are dead. 1t is said the
accident was caused by the carelessness of some
men who failed to observe the ordinary rules
of the mine.
The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-11-20
HOPE For TIE .p1KERs.,

1t will be gratifying to the many users of the
Hartford turnpike to learn that the County
Commissioners have instructed the various
supervisors through whose territory the road
passes from Parkville to the Hartford county
line, to put it in good condition. This thor
oughfare has for some time been in the position
OF being abandoned by the owning company
and not accepted by the county-a sort of mo
mans land"-and taxpayers who had TO drive
over it felt that they had substantial grievance
1t is stated that the County Commissioners had
agreed that if the State Road Commission
would adopt policy Of taking over all the
pixies as rapidly as possible the county would
keep the outlying portions in repair until the
State got ready to improve them for their full
length within the county. Residents along
other roads in the same plight will probably
sit up and take notice of the aid promised the
Hartford road
The position of the County Commissioners
in regard to these abandoned turnpikes has
truly been difficult one. They were besought
on one side by the residents, who felt that they
ought to have passable roads in return for their
taxes, but on the other hand the United Rail-
ways Company claimed the right of franchise
in the beds of all these pixies for laying tracks,
this condition also applying to roads like the
York pike, which has not been condemned
but which the Railways Company is willing to
turn over to the county or State. The Com
missioners naturally did not feel like expend-
ing public money upon thoroughfares which
were either in whole or in part owned by a
corporation.
The attitude of the people of this county
toward the United Railways Company should
not be antagonistic, for that corporation has
done wonders toward the development of the
suburban sections and its management shows
a disposition to be as accommodating as q
natural desire to earn dividends will permit
but nevertheless, taking laymans view of
the matter, we think the attitude of the Rail-
ways Company in regard to the turnpikes
controlled by it has been little unreasonable.
We can understand why the franchise for track
already constructed should not be permitted to
lapse, but it does not seem exactly equitable
that a right not awaited of should be permitted
to stand after the ownership or control of the
granting company has been extinguished.
When turnpike company ceases to exist or
forfeits its right to collect toll by abandoning
its road all subsidiary and unused franchises
should lapse.