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The San Francisco call., 1909-02-09

A. CAMERON & co.
MOVED TO PERMANENT LOCATION
ia MARKET. ST. MAGEE BUILDING
Opposite The Call
Room 30l-Phone Douglas 4S79.
Where best bargains are found in hotels apart
nent and lodging houses, fats.
SWELL. corner near Powell and Ellis: es rooms:
reasonable rent; 80 private baths; well fur. /;
strictly modern; bargain see u.s.
GRAND Sc room PA room apart house
close in; cheap rent; elegantly fur; clearing
$3.50 to $3.50 month; part down.
ELEGANI-New ~ a A AZ room house close in;
best snap in city; only $500.
S55o-Is rooms apts.; this bargain for few
days only; rent $50; (Bc 573).
s9o9-is rooms; sunny corner; rent SIS; 4
rooms rented for offices, $50. (BC 542).
81. .6Oo-29 rooms; rent 500; bldg; $7O0
down; balance easy terms (BC 197).
GEO. w AOSIlN. lole broadway. Oakland
on ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS SACRIFICE
20 light, large, airy rooms; modern: COR: all 1
floor; cost 5000 to fur. year ago; rent So
Tm.; receipts 5000 mo-; most desirable, cleanest
house in ). F.: no reasonable offer refused ::
$500 cash, balance time See KREDO 81 3D.
WELL paying. 10 room rooming house very
cheap $225 cash required. balance time: must
be sold by Wednesday. 1852 OFarrell st. mr.
Fillmore.
FREIGHT FORWARDING
JUDsoN FREIGHT FORWARDING co.
Reduced rates for shipping household goods any
where west to everywhere east. 4th and Market
sts room 2oG Pacific bldg: phone kearny 1879.
BILL COLLECTING
THE ULDALL ADJUSTMENT co. win collect
Your bad bills on percentage. no matter where
located how bad; remit promptly. Room
3D. Mechanics Bank bldg. cor. Market Mason
COLLECTIONS everywhere. liens attachments
CHAS. H. NORRIS. 37S Monadnock building
ALL bills and promissory notes promptly collect
ed. FRED J. SCHMIDT. Market Noe 18th
BUILDERS AND Contractors
BRICKwoRk in all its branches; best rates NJ
V M0WBRAY. 1909 Deyisadero: West 702l
ROOFING
LEAKY roofs made water tight. Eagle Roofing
%: 392 Melropolis bank buldg.: Kearny 1864
PRINTING
JAL-UM-STEIN Printing Co.. 5l4 Turk ST., bet.
Lsrkin and Polk; tel. Franklin 1896.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Fiji islanders Sugar Cane Dance.

A very curious and exceedingly clev-
er dance may be witnessed in Fiji call
ed by the natives 1.-The sugar cane
meke," or sugar cane dance. 1t rep
resents the growth Of the sugar cane
In the first figure the dancers squat
low on the ground, shake their heads,
shut their eyes and murmur slowly
and softly an unintelligible sentence.
Gradually they all stand up together,
growing taller and taller, and as they
grow" they wave their arms and
tremble all over from ankle to head,
like the tall, tasseled cane waving in
the wind, and still they keep on chant
ing louder and louder. The last fig
ure represents a series Of combats
meant to symbolic the exactions Of
the chiefs, who compel the "kaisi,"
willing and unwilling, to come and cut
their crops.-London Standard.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
THE CASE.

Exception to the comments of the
River Press regarding the Gompers
contempt case is taken by p. Nj. Alb.
bolt, of Logan, Mont, general secre.
tary and treasurer of a division of
the Order of Railroad Photographers,
who assumes that the leaders of union
labor have been unjustly treated. In
a communication addressed to this
newspaper, MIR. Abbott says:
"Samuel Gompers, as president:
John Mitchell, as vice president: and
Secretary Morrison, officials of the
largest labor union in the world, the
American Federation of Labor. have
spent years of their lives in an en-
deavor to uplift downtrodden human.
ity and better the conditions and hap
piness of hundreds of thousands of
the laboring and poorer class of PEG.
pie in the United States. The better
and improved sanitary conditions
surrounding labor in the congested
centers and in the work shops of all
our cities, the safeguarding of human
lives in our mines and the restriction
of child labor in portions of the
United States, regardless of anything
else accomplished, stand as striking
testimonials to the work and endeavor
for the betterment of humanity on the
part of these gentlemen"
With this tribute to the work &C.
complished by these labor union lead.
ers, the River Press cordially agrees.
but It must insist that their record in
this connection does not give them
license to violatethe law or defy the
courts. The trouble in which they
are at present involved will be better
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Many Face Starvation.

LONDON, Jan. 4.-The Daily Tele-
graphs correspondent at Reggie says
that the conditions of life and the
scenes there are so unbearable that
several of the newspaper correspon-
dents have refused to stay. He him
self al so hungry, he declares, that
he sought desperately for a morsel of
bread, but being unable to find any,
was glad to pick lemon rinds from the
mud and eat them. The correspondent
says he witnessed desperate struggles
where the military was protecting the
municipal assessor in distributing
food to the famished people. Lean
oxen, horses and asses were tut up
with the bayonets of the soldiers and
no sooner was a piece of flesh, still
warm, received by the people than it
was torn to pieces by their eager
teeth,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
The Prosperous Northwest.
Minneapolis journal.

MInHcHpOllb JOuruHI.
1t is probably conserv alive to sug.
gest $40, DOC, 600 as the total of cash re-
ceived at their home stations by the
farmers in Minnesota, North Dakota
and South Dakota since Aug. l from
the sales of farm products. Out of
this total the farmer will pay his
years expense of farming, interest
and i%ncidentals, and in thousands of
instances place a deposit to surplus.
Here is a great stream of money
flowing steadily into the pockets of
the Northwest farmer. 1t will con.
tinue to flow in that direction until
next July: but long before that time
a return stream will flow back to the
jobbing houses, the factories and the
retailers. 1t will serve to continue
conditions Of growing prosperity in
the northwest. Where Is there another
section of the country favored more
highly?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
MAGIC GLASS.
A Curious Mirror That May Be Made
Transparent.


One of the most curious inventions
Of this age is what is called platinized
glass. A piece of glass is coated with
an exceedingly thin layer Of a liquid
charged with platinum and then raised
to a red heat. The platinum becomes
united to the glass in such a way as
to form an odd kind Of mirror.
The glass has not really lost its
transparency, and yet If one places it
against a wall and looks at i he sees
his image as in an ordinary looking
glass. But when light is allowed to
come through the glass from the other
side, as when it is placed in a window,
It appears perfectly transparent. like
ordinary glass.
By constructing a window of plati-
nized glass n could stand close be-
hind the panes in an unilluminated
room and behold clearly everything
going IN outside, while passersby look
ing at the window would behold only
q fine mirror or set of mirrors in which
their own figures would be reflected,
while the person inside remained in
visible.
In France various tricks have been
contrived with the aid of this glass.
In one a person, seeing what appears
to be an ordinary mirror, approaches
1t to gaze upon himself. A sudden
change in the mechanism sends light
through the glass from the back,
whereupon it instantly becomes trans
parent, and the startled spectator finds
himself confronted by some grotesque
figure that had been hidden behind the
magic glass.-New York Tribune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
understood from this statement of

understood from this statement of
facts:
A manufacturing concern in St.
Louis of which Mr.. James W. Van
Cleave, president of the National
Employers association, is president
employs an average of $50 men,. OF
these about ten per cent are metal
polishers, who have a union. which
union demanded that the ten-hour day
be reduced to nine hours. AS the
metal polishers worked by the piece,
there was no complaint that the COM
pany was overworking them. and on
the other hand the union did not de.
mand ten hours pay for nine hours
work. There was no dissatisfaction
whatever beyond the matter of the
reduction of hours. The metal pol.
ishers to the number of 46 out of $50
employees, or only about one out of
sixteen, struck.
Their ''quarrel" was taken up by the
American Federation of Labor, and
Mr.. Gompers, as the head of the or
%ganization, together with his asso-
ciates in the publication of the Fed.
erationist, the official organ, posted
the St. Louis concern as ''unfair to
labor" etc. The company got an in.
junction restraining the labor leaders
from injuring its business by this
boycott, and it was this Injunction
which was repeatedly, fagrantly and
deiantly violated. For this violation,
or. rather, series of violations, Mr.
Gompers, Mr.. Mitchell and Mr.. Nor
rison were sentenced to Jail for con
tempt of court. This is the so-called
"judge made" law which proved the
interests Of q concern employing $50
men of whom only about ten per cent.
we're involved in the original trouble.
The entire matter is simply a
fight for the boycott, and If the cor.
ditions were reversed-if q firm per.
sisted in using q "blacklist" against
certain workmen when forbidden to do
so by the courts, and was punished
for contemplate present defenders
of Mr.. Gompers would approve the
punishment given such offender.
: Labor unions have had, and will
continue to have, occasion to appeal
to the courts for redress of alleged
wrongs, and should not deny that
privilege to others.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
SPEED LAWS OF 1916.
Coaches Going Nine Miles an Hour
Frightened the English.

~ WV p'sS es ssSSs
Frightened the English.
The cutlery daily growing louder in
England against the excessive speed of
motor cars lends interest to the fol-
lowing passage from the Annual Regis
ter for 1916:
A new coach was started in the
spring to run to Brighton, a distance
Of fifty-two miles, in six hours. = = =
This, however, became alarming, par
ticularly in the populous neighborhood
Of Newington, through which it passed,
and the parish officers there caused in
formation to be laid against the driv-
ers for driving f%uriously on the public
road 10 IS to endanger the lives Of his
majesty's subjects.
The result of this is to be read in
Mansard's parliamentary Reports"
June 10, 1916.
The attorney general moved for
leave to bring in a bill the object of
which was the protection Of the lives
and limbs Of his majesty's subjects by
correcting the enormous abuses of
stagecoach drivers. Within these few
days 1t would be hardly credible what
a number of applications he had re-
ceived on this subject.
Some accounts were enough to freeze
one with horror. A gentleman Of We
racity had informed him that on Tues
day, May 21, at $50, the Trafalgar
and Regulator coaches set off from
Manchester and got to Liverpool at
500, doing this journay in two hours
fifty minutes, at the rate Of twelve
miles an hour.-New York Sun.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Ambulance Field Examination.

Scene-Hamilton South Haugh; SOL
der supposed to have been wounded
is brought to surgeons tent by bear
ers. Bearer reporting)-Severe scalp
wound. sir, accompanied with insensi-
bility. Surgeon-Well, what have you
done? Bearer-Dressed the wound, sir,
and gave him a little whisky and wa
ter. Surgeon-Whisky and water! How
did you expect an insensible man to
swallow that? Bearer-He aXed fort,
sir.-London Illustrated Bits.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
The Darkest Hour,

The provcrb which tells us that 1.-THE
darkest hour is that before dawn" is
inaccurate, for light increases in the
morning as gradually as it decreases
in the evening. The saying should be
''the coolest hour" etc, which is per-
fectly true and is owing to causes
connected with the deposit of dew.
Honrfrosts, too, usually take place
just before daylight and are an addi-
tional cause Of the peculiar chilliness
of this time.-London Scraps.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
The Salt In the Sea.

a scientist has calculated, after ex-
tensive tests of the density and salt
ness Of the ocean in all parts Of the
world, that there is the equivalent Of
3,0o1 $40 cubic geographical miles of
common salt in all the known seas.
This is more than five times the mass
Of the mountains in the entire Alpine
range.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6, 1909.
IT WAS A GOOD YEAR..

A review of the past twelve months
entities the year 1908 to be classed as
. good year in Montana and other
parts of the United States. Following
q financial furry that assumed the
proportions of q panic in many local.
tiles, the recovery to normal business
conditions was continuous throughout
the year, and at its close the prospects
for q busy and satisfactory a. in
all lines of industry are excellent.
The people of northern Montana,
especially, have cause for gratifica.
ton over their experiences the past
year. While climatic conditions were
not quite 80 favorable as in q few for
mer seasons of big grain and forage
crops, they were rewarded with fair
returns for their thrift and industry
and have escaped the distress and
misfortune that have overtaken com.
munities in other parts of the u
try.
The most unfortuna ate incident in
northern Montana the past year was
the record. breaking flood in certain
localities the early part of June, which
destroyed q vast amount of property
and caused crop failures in part of
the submerged districts. Such q visi.
tation will probably never again hap
pen in the lifetime Of the present gen.
Grafton, and while the property loss
was heavy it was not ruinous to most
of the citizens who were affected.
They will continue to do business at
the old stand, and exercise those
qualities of grit and determination
that invariably win out under such
circumstances.
The owners of northern Montana
focks and herds have reason to re-
gard 1908 as a good year-not quite
30 good, possibly, as the best in their
experience, but much better than many
others. Range conditions have been
favorable in most respects, the market
prices of beef, mutton, and wool have
been at a remunerative figure, and
stockmen generally have enjoyed a
fair degree of prosperity.
One of the important incidents that
will make 1908 a red.letter year in the
history of northern Montana, is the
commencement of work on the govern
ment irrigation project in the Milk
river valley. The beneficent results
that will follow from this undertaking
are beyond comprehension, and it's
progress will be a subject of personal
interest to every resident of this part
of the state.
The year 1908 closed with evidences
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS conditions
in all parts of northern Montana.
The population of this section of the
state is steadily increasing; new bust.
ness enterprises have been encouraged
by the success enjoyed by the estab-
lished institutions; the schools and
churches receive generous support
from the community; there is an al
most unanimous respect for the law,
and q determin alton that all offenders
must be brought to justice. These
features of good citizenship that have
made themselves conspicuous in nor
thern Montana during the past year,
form an excellent advertisement for
this part of the Treasure state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Tricks of the Trade,

Buyers of patent leather should look
out for skins in which holes have been
neatly covered with Il piece of thin
paper which is vanished over, the I'M
finished side being puttied up with a
mixture of glue and leather dust
Shoe Manufacturers Monthly. 4
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Genius.

AS diamond cuts diamond and one
hone smooths a second, all parts Of
intellect are whetstones to each other.
and genius, which is but the result
Of their mutual sharpening, is char
acter too.-Alfred Tennyson.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
A Con,narison.

In a certain store there is a salesman
named Green. Small Clarence learned
his name and said, "Say, Mr.. Green.
there's a man living two doors from us
who has a name the same color as
yours"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Nor "Ihc Iona Grecn."

Hicks--They say that the blind can
distinguish colors by the sense Of
touch. Wicks-That's nothing. One
doesn't have to be blind to feel blue
Boston Transcript.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
The Resemblance,

"rhe buckwheat cakes at my board
ing house always remind me Of a base
ball game"
"HOw so?'
"The batter doesn't always make a
hit."-Puck.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06

For the noblest man that lives there
Still remains a confict.-Garfeld.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06

Water right blsnks-only correct
form published--fcr sale at the RIVER
PRESS office.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
EQUALITY FOR MEN

Tt may be that the democratic narty is dreaming when it talks Of Justice to the consumer and mercy to the poor. Aye. 1t may be that the fight is a lifelong one for democracy and for me, and we may be hopeles' Emmet asked that his epitaph be writ ten after Ireland was free. Hamilcar took his two sons and swore them on the altar forever 10 fight the ambi' tions of Rome. Ireland will be free some day. America will be relieved from the throttling grasp Of greed some day. My cOuntrymen, as look upon those people who were shelter less in the great city Of New York thought of the dreams which men have dreamed-ot Bunyan who dream ed in colorS of the sunset of Christian and Faithful: ofRousseau. who dream ed of equality; Of Jefferson who had dreams of a republic of equal rights tc all and special privileges to none but it seemed to me dark. dark and hard to hope for equality be- tween men until they found it in the grave. looked again on those chill ed and restless sleeping and some times teebly grooming ghostlike forms and thought of Browniug's lines;
 God in his heaven; alrs we'll with the world
 But 1t seemed to me as l looked. all is not well with the world. We will dream still of a better world and. as God would have us, We will work to destroy the dragon Of all-conquer. ing greed and still keep up the strug- gle for equality among men and Q Qual rights to all mankind. d."-Speech made by Congressman Hardy of Tex as in the House of Representatives.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
Earninq His Pay.

Earning His Pay. The freak legislator
 Is now in the land. Al cooking mp law
 He k taking hand, On doctors and druggists Or theater seats. On playing the races Or cleaning the streets. He thinks it his province To regulate speed Of autos and widows And trains and, Indeed, All moving arranCementS By engine or sail From flying machines To the waltz of the snail. His hammer he trims
 For the fellow who treats, For taverus he measures The length OC the sheets. At football In anger
 He waves his biz stick And tells how the players The pigskin shall kick. He spies the old bachelor So happy and free And says 10 himself
 This should cost him fee" And so he provides. ThouCh the wight may have tried And failed In the effort To cop out a bride.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES

Regular meetings of Skagway Aerie No. %, FIaternal Order of Eagles first and third Wednesdays in each month, in their hall on Fifth Avenue, at S:30 D. 10. sharp.
 All members are requested to be present and visiting brothers are in. yited to attend.
 HENRY A. RHODE, Worthy Pres.
 J. NJ. Keller, Worthy Secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

What section of the United States could boast Of two more beautiful days than Saturday and Sunday? And vet the prevailing impression in the states is that Alaska is a bleak and barren waste.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
LADIES OF THE MAccABEEs.

Regular reviews of Hive No. 2, La dies of the MacCabees will be held the first and third Tuesdays in the month at s D. m. sharp, in their hall on Sixth avenue.
 All visiting members are cordially invited.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

A New Yorker enlisted in the navy seven times and deserted each time. He has been sentenced to ten years in prison thereby getting his just de- strts at last.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

However beautiful the cloak grant ed 10 you by the King may be, your own coarse dress is better, and how ever delicious the food Of the rich may be. a piece Of bread from your own table is better.-Sadi.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
FULL QUART MEASURE

old Famous Cedar Brook Bourbon
 Bottled in Bond, we'll Aged in wood, from the Renowned McBraycr Dis t;llery. Full Quart $l5O, at the Pack Train. tf
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

Big Salmon, ice still holding firm; Yukon Crossing, no change since last report; Selkirk, ice broken and jam med; Coffee Creek, ice solid; Ste, wart, ice solid; Dawson. no change since last report.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

There was q rural atmosphere a. bout Moore's wharf Saturday. Six hundred sheep. three hundred cattle. and about five hundred chickens ar rived on boats during the day.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE
 ORDER OF ELKS.

Regular meetings of Skagway Lodge. No. 43l, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, every Thurs day at s D. m. sharp, in their hall on Sixth Avenue.
 FRED. CALLARMAN, Sccy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
Barometer 29. S4. Cloudy and South wind

From this date on, the interior weather report will be discontinued, and in place of the temperature, the condition of the river will be given as far as it is possible to obtain it.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
FREE AND ACCEPTED MASoNs

Regular meetings Of White Pass Lodge, No. l13, Free and Accepted MasoGs, second and fourth Fridays of each month, at s p. ID. sharp, at Ma sonic hall, 225 Fourth avenue.
 Sojourning and visiting members are requested to meet with us.
 A. r. DRAPES Sccy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
DIRECTORY OF FRATERNAL SOCIETIES
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD.

Regular meetings of Camp Skag- way, No. 1, every Tuesday at S:GO o'clock sharp, in A. B. hall, Broad way.
 Visiting brothers are cordially in- yited.
 J. NJ. Keller, A. c. r. J. Rosenberg, A. R.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

My days are switter than a weay' CTS shuttle and are spent without hope-Job. Chapter 7-6.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
BRING YOUR OWN JUG.

Mount Vernon Rye and Belmont Bourbon direct from bond at whole sale price by the gallon. The Mas cot, phone e. Delivery free.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

There were three murders in Seat tie last Friday. And some people say Friday isn't unlucky.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

The generality of people are unselfSh when their own way k thrust upon them by generous friends.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
Home rule for Alaska.
ATTAINMENT.

WY YE sigh for things we scarce hope 10 gain AA/ And which. if all our own. would w give no peace.
 We Vainly toll and struggle to
 release To knowledge natures secrets. We com plain That 'tis not siven us 10 break some chain. To scale some peak. to win some golden fleece. To do some mighty deed whose light shall cease Only when moons no longer wax and wane. Iris thus we empty all the springs of life To lose the blessing at our very hand. For faith and love- with glory as of sun. Hume the path of peace through every strife. No work is futile that is nobly planned. No deed Is little it but greatly done.
 Edward Robeson Taylor.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

When man Is the limit himself he fails to understand when he has reach e1 1t so far as other people are con cerned.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

Not all kind of expensive things are rellshed by the climber. Being sick, for instance. Is expensive.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-10

You can borrow money and with 1t buy friends. but they will not always loan you the money to pay 1t back.