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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Big Deal In Sheep Ranches.

RAwL1Ns, Wyo., July 29.-One of
the biggest deals in sheep and sheep
ranch property ever made in Wyom.
ing was closed few days ago when
Rawlins sheepmen, organized under
the name of the Cullen Sheep com
pany, purchased about 10000 sheep,
decided land, ranches, stores and other
property from the Cosgriff Bros. of
Rawlins. Fort Steele, Cheyenne and
Salt Lake City. The price was not
made public, but it is said more than
half million dollars changed hands.
The deal includes general merchan
disc stores at Walcott, Fort Steele
and other towns. The Cosgriffs own
q controlling interest in banks at
Cheyenne. Rawlins, Rock Springs.
and other towns in Wyoming. Salt
Lake City and other towns in Utah.
It is not known whether the Cosgriffs
retirement from the sheep
business or not. They are among the
pioneers in the business in this state,
having driven sheep into Wyoming
from Colorado many years ago.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

accompanied by Lieut.. Benjamin D.
Foulers of the army signal corps, he
not only surpassed the speed require.
ments of his contract with the gov.
ernment, but accomplished the most
difficult and daring flight ever planned
for . heavier. .th an.air flying machine.
Incidentally he broke oil speed rec.
records over . measured course. His
speed was more than AZ miles an hour.
He made the ten.mile.dight In IA min.
utes and AZ seconds. He went up
nearly 50 feet in his first crossing of
the valley Of the Four Mile run and
his average altitude was about 200
feet.
The Wright brothers vii! receive
$4,000 for their aeroplane. 5000 OF
which is the bonus for excess speed
over the contr act requirements.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Helena Man Accused.

HELENA, July 27.-An inform alton
charging Stony HancockI with bur.
glary was filed in the district court
today and Hancock's bond was fixed
at 81 200. Hancock was arrested the
other day on a charge of shooting at
the watchman at the Whitlach. Union
mill near this city and his bail, which
was at first fixed at $500, was re.
duced later to $1,000. In filing the
new inform alton, County Attorney
Hepner said that he believed that II
Hancock was held on only 1000 bail
he would get out OF the country and
he wanted it increased.
There is q report to the effect that
the robbing of the plates of gold mills
in this vicinity has been going on for
some time and that regularly or.
ganized gang has been engaged in the
business. One man suspected of be-
ing engaged in the business has left
for parts unknown. The sheriff's Of
fcers are said to have information
which will lead to the laying bare OF
the plot and the names of those in
volved. According to statements
which are said to have been made by
one of the people who is acquainted
with the operations of the gang, it
has cleaned up more than 81, 900 in 60
daVs.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Successful Airship Test.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-The world 4
aeroplane record for two men, as to
both time and distance, was broken
this morning in q beautiful flight OF
one hour, IL minutes and 40 seconds
upward OF fifty miles, and at speed
averaging 40 miles an hour, by Orville
Wright, at Fort Meyer, with Lieut..
Frank P. Lshm of the army signal
corps as passenger.
The cheering which heralded the
setting of q new mark in the conquest
of the air was led BY President Taft
in person, who had sat an intensely
interested spectator throughout the
flight. This success was all.importaut
to the Wrights. in that it completed the
fret of two crucial tests of their ma.
chine imposed on them by the United
States government-the so.called zen.
durance test" which required them to
remain one hour continuously in the
air with one passenger.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
BOOSTING FOR NORTHWEST.
Big immigration Work Undertaken
BY New Agency.

CHICAGO, July 28.-Commercial In
terests of the northwestern states-
Washington, Oregon. Idaho. Mon.
tans. Wyoming and Utsh-are com.
bining for . big immigration work,
such as has sent 500, 900 people from
the United States to Canada, but
with the added force Of . continuous
exhibit of the products of those states
on the ground floor OF one of the bus.
lest streets of this city. Among those
who will serve on the advisory board
of this Organization are Darius MIL
ler, general traffic director Of the Bur.
lington system, Louis W. Hill, presi.
dent of the Great Northern railway, q
United States senator and the exec.
utives of several states.
General exploitation of the north
west at this time is regarded by the
men interested, including railroad
men, as particularly timely. A great
immigration from the middle states ia
beginning again and spreading east
ward. To stimulate this immigr alton
and direct it toward the northwest
will be the main function of the board
OF information, the exhibits and the
lecture bureaus which will be opened
here.
General work for the whole north
west and not one community or local.
itv must be undertaken in this aggres.
sive way If much headway is going to
be made" said one of the officials of
the new organization, the Northwest
Opportunity league. settles and
even states cannot undertake the
work on q scale and with breadth
that will make it of maximum effec.
tiveness and value. Considering their
expenditures and efforts and under.
taking direct representation through
this league the great phase of the ex.
ploitation will be done and done on a
scale no one community can under
take.'
1t has been ascertained that IS per
cont of the inquiries concerning the
west now originate in Chicago or Vi
ciuity or center there. Exhibits of
natural products of the southwest
have been established in a small way
and have done much to interest the
land.hungry or city.weary in that re-
giOn.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Tart Will Visit State Fair.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-Presiden,
Taft will visit Helena on his western
trip on Tuesday, September %. Sen
ator Carter invited him to the Mon
tana capital and the president gladly
accepted, saying he would spend the
afternoon of September % in Helena
This will include an auto ride through
the city and trip to the fair grounds
where he will make few remarks.
The president has left the arrange
ments for the reception and transfer
of his car from Butte to Garrison via
Helena with Carter. The plan is to
leave Butte at noon, September 28
reaching Helena at 2:30 and leaving
in the evening in time to catch the
1880 train out OF Butte.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Western Senator's Protest.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The west.
ern senators, including Carter and
Dixon, are in open revolt against free
hides, and If hides are made free will
vote against the entire conference re.
port. The westerners have been hold
ing daily meetings and constantly
consulting with the conferees and the
president and urging q hide duty.
Already their contention has resulted
in reducing the leather duty from 20
to. S per cent, harness from 40 to 20
per cent and shoes from 25 to 10 per
cent.
Rather than listen to q five-day
speech by Sen ator Heybur the con.
ference committee this afternoon re-
stored the senate rate of q cents q
pound on lead bullion. eyburn, &C.
companied by Smoot, was given a
hearing by the conference committee
this afternoon, and during the hear.
ing Hepburn asserted that if this
schedule was reduced to 2 cents he
would speak for five days in opposi-
tion to the bill. After Hey burn had
retired the committee decided to re.
store the one.eighth of a cent which
previously had been cut Off.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
TARIFF BILL COMPLETED.
Work Of Conference Committee vii
Be Submitted to Congress.

Work Of Conference Committee Will
Be Submitted to Congress.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-As q final
act of caution the tariff conferees as.
sembed early today and reviewed their
work. They desired to make certain
that in the confusion attending the
last days of the sessions, mistakes had
not crept into the report. No errors
we're discovered except few that did
not affect rates. These were correct.
ed easily and before noon it was an.
nounced that the Payne.Aldrich bill
was in shape for its second voyage
through the house and senate, this
time in the form Of q conference
report.
Halted by the land ate Of President
Taft, the conferees were compelled to
turn back and revise their rates on
lumber and gloves. Hides will be
free, and the rates on shoes and other
leather products reduced.
When the conferees fixed the lumber
and gloves rates yesterday by shsd.
ing slightly the highter rates on each,
they were 80 certain that the president
would consent to the arrangement
that notices we're sent to democrtic
conferees to be present at 10 o'clock
today to approve or disapprove of
the report.
The president had other ideas of
at the rates should be, however, and
he expressed them forcibly in a letter.
he said lumber should not be more
than S1.25 per thousand feet, for
rough, with the differentials fixed by
the senate on finished lumber. He de-
clared also that senate rates on glovee,
which are the same as the Dingley
rates and much less than the house
rates, would have to be agreed to in
order to obtain his Endorsement.
The president also specified that
hides must go on the free list and the
house rates on boots and shoes and
other leathar manufactures NUT be re-
duced. Hosiery, too, he thought,
should be reduced below the house
rates, which were advanced lover the
Dingley duties.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
ADOPTED TARIFF REPORT.
Work Of Conference Committee Ac.
cepted BY House.

WASHINGTON, July 3l.-The house
today adopted the conference report
on the tariff bill, 1875 to 1873. The re.
publicans shrieked in their delight
over the final outcome, and Chairman
Payne was the central figure of an ad.
miring and congratulatory crowd OF
colleague. Twenty repu blicans voted
against the report and two democrats
for it.
The day opened with what appeared
to be part of an organized dllibuster
against the conference report when
Mr.. Mondell of Wyoming demanded
the reading of the lengthy document
This proceeded for about an hour and
half when, with about two.thirds
remaining to oe read, Mr.. Mondell
permitted the debate to 60 on.
Chairman Payne defended the re.
port and appealed to his republican
colleagues to support it, prophesying
at the same time that when the bill
was enacted into the law it would
meet with the approval of the country.
Mr.. Clark, minority leader, and
many of his colleagues denounced the
bill and chastised the republicans for
failing, as they alleged, to revise
the tariff downward and thus keep
their party pledges.
Minority Leader Clark suggested
that boots, shoes and harness were
not put on the free list, while hides
had been.
"The New England gang" he said
with some warmth, "has no more
right to a tariff on boots, shoes and
harness than other people have on
hides. That is the God Almighty's
truth about this N atter.''
"We have revised the tariff and
taken off unnecessary duties" said
Mr.. Payne, ''not all along the line
generally, but in our revision of the
tariff we have revised the tariff down.
ward and yet we have held the scales
80 evenly that we have done no injury
to any person or any industry in the
United States"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
RUSH FOR INDIAN LANDS.
Prizes In Land Lotteries Will Be
Comparatively Few.

SOmpdTdliVeiy rev.
SPOKANE, July $3.50 great is the
rush of applicants for Indian reserva.
tion lands to be drawn Aug. 9, that
land department officials Yesterday
placed an order for so, 900 more regis
tration blanks, $1,000 soldiers powers
of attorney, and 10000 colored en-
velopes.
With little more than half the time
for registration passed. Superin-
tendent Witten has received 1866
applications for Kalispell lands, 25,.
22O for the Spokane reservation, and
57,079 for the Occur d'Alene, the total
being 14S, 1855. 1t Is figured that there
are about 6,400 homesteads available
on these three reserv ations. BY to-
night 1t is believed even the record of
the Oklahoma reservation will have
been broken.
Twenty-nine out of every 30 appli-
cants for homesteads on the Spokane,
Flathead and Occur d'Alene Indian
reserv atlons, will not even be given q
number by the government, so great
is the run for lands. Supt. James
Witten announces that the land de.
partment will draw just,i9, 500 names
out of the huge heaps;of applicants,
it being estimated that even this will
be thrice the number of good home.
steads actually available for location
on the three reserv ations.
On August 8, 9, and 10 the little
girls who have been chosen will draw
5000 names for the Occur d'Alene re-
serve; on August IL, 13 and IA they
will draw the 5000 names for the Flat
head reserve and on August 16 they
will draw 500 names for the Spokane
reserve.
The drawing for the lands will take
place in full view of the pu blic at
Occur d'Alene, Idaho. A platform
3Ox4O feet, enclosed with wire netting,
will be erected in an open place in
the heart of the town. Superintend-
ent Witten, Assistant Superintendent
Seth, Special Agent Elston, the three
little girls who will draw the numbers
and newspaper reporters will be al.
lowed to enter the enclosure. As the
envelopes are drawn by the girls. the
applications will be opened by govern
ment officials and handed to Superin.
tendent Witten, who will announce
the names of the winners.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Funds For Reclamation.

PORTLAND, Ore, July 30.-"There
are two places for every dollar avail
able for reclamation work during the
calendar year l9l0." said F. 81. New.
ell, director Of the reclams alton ser.
vice, who reached Portland today.
'That is the reason why q confer
euce has been arranged between the
supervising engineers of the entire re-
clam alton field and Secretary of the
Interior Ballinger, which will be held
in Portland next Monday. At the same
time the demands of the different di.
visions for funds will be considered
and an apportioument made of the re-
clamation fund where it will accom-.
plish the best results"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Must Not Bleach Flour.

LARAMIE, Wyo., July %. The
western millers who continue to bleach
-four will invite the seizure OF their
products by federal inspectors who
were made known here today through
q letter received by State Food Com
missioner Burke from Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson. The impression
has grown among western millers,
said Mr.. Burke, that the government
would content itself with two or three
test cases and until decision Of the
supreme court no more seizuees OF
bleached -four would be made.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Crops Damaged BY Storm.

BUTTE, July 25,-Reports from cen.
trail, western and southern Montana
tell Of heavy rain and hailstorms.
Alfalfa is blown down in the fields Of
Besverhesd valley with considerable
damage resulting, although the dry
farm crops are being benefited. The
heaviest rainfall in July in years in
Deer Lodge county for the past 48
hours has ruined much of the hay
crop that had been cut and not yet
stacked. Near Gregson Springs hail
did considerable damage to crops.
Heavy rains and hail in Jefferson
county have damaged crops in that
section. the hail being exceptionally
severe near Wickes and Corbin.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Suit On Wool Contract.

BILLINGS, July 29.-For the pur.
pose of recovering damages in the
sum Of s707. so, which he declares was
lost to him on account of the fact that
O.J. Langhus failed to deliver to him
his wool clip as he says he, had con-
tracted for, Dave Stewart OF Big Tim
ber, has filed an action in court. The
complaint relates that Langhus signed
a contract to sell and deliver his wool
to Stewart at 20 cents pound and
that he failed to do this, although 800
had been paid to bind the bargain.
After the contract was made it is said
the price of wool went to "a cents and
as the clip weighed ALSO pounds,
Stewart says he was damaged to the
extent of the sum mentioned.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Taft Pleased With Tariff Bill,

WASHINGTON, July 30.-Presiden,
TAFT expressed himself today "a
pleased with the tariff bill as it was
agreed to by the conference last even.
ing. 1t is known he was not entirely
satisfied with all of the bill and be
told several of his callers that i,
would be q mira il q bill could be
designed that would please every
body.
The president said there are great
many things about the bill that he
was delighted to have part in and
that he would be equally delighted to
sign and defend the measure in its
finished state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Girls Must Not Ride Astride.

ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. LIN future
women will not be permitted to ride
astride in Georgia, II q bill introduced
today by Sem ator Wright of Stewart
county becomes law. The bill pro-
vides that no girl over IL years of age
shall be permitted to ride astride upon
the public highway or in any other
public place, upon any horse, mule,
ass, or other animal.
Violation Is punishable by fine and
imprisonment. Wright is a physician,
and says the bill is indorsed by the
doctors of Georgia, who claim that
riding astride is injurious to women.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Minnesota Bars Cigarettes.

ST. PAUL, July 3l.-Today was q
bargain day for cigarette smokers
throughout Minnesota. At midnight
tonight the anti.cig arctic law passed
by the last legislature becomes effec.
tive and dealers were anxious to get
rid OF their stock before the measure
becomes operative. The new law pro.
hibits the sale or giving away Of
cigarettes or the paper used in max.
ing them for sale. It exempts jobbers
who do an interstate business.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

employment at once. He also swore
out warrants yesterday for the arrest
OF Mr.. and Mrs. L. 1. Brewer and for
Mrs. Oscar Templeton, for having
left their children locked In the house
alone.
GREAT FALLS, July 30.-It is au.
nounced that in the Sun river govern
ment irrig alton project engineers have
determined that they can divert Ger
tain Of the headwaters of the Flathead
river, now flowing toward the Pacific
ocean, into the headwaters of Sun river,
causing them to aow toward the gulf
of Mexico. The carrying through Of
this plan will considerably increase
the amount Of land that can be irri.
gated by Sun river waters.
BILLINGS, July H.-Mrs. May Per.
cival, . trained nurse, died at .
hospital at noon today from the effects
of fall from an elevator in the Sta
pleton block At 8 o'clock this morn
ing. The woman got into the elev ator
and started the machinery. She be.
came frightened when the cage started
and tried to jump out, but was caught
and crushed, falling to the floor.
Both legs were broken and her head
was also crushed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Sun River Lands Restored.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The inter
ior department has ordered the res
toration of 19, 200 acres of land with
drawn from settlement on account o.
the Sun river irrigation project. l,
will be subject to entry after Novem
Der Is.
The president has issued an order
directing the sale of several thousand
feet of dead and fallen timber on th,
Flathead and Tongue river reserva
tions. The proceeds will 60 to tn
Indians.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Larger Homesteads In Montana.

WASHINGTON, July q. - Frank
Pierce, acting secretary Of the inter-
ior, today designated 23,04O acres
more land as coming within the en-
larged homestead act in Montana.
making the total to date 1880, $50
acres designated in Montana.
Over 2l3,000 acres of Montana land
Withdrawn from the public domain by
the Roosevelt administration to pre-.
vent grabbing by the alleged water
power trust was today thrown open to
entry by the interior department, and
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
$4,000 For Airship.

WASHINGTON, July 80. - Orville
Wright this evening attained the
zenith of hard-earned success. In a
ten.mile cross country flight in the
famous aeroplane built by himself
and lis elder brother, Wilbur, and
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

10 subject to entry In the middle of
November. This includes lands with.
drawn in connection with the lower
Yellowstone irrig gation project and
lao, 900 acres formerly reserved under
the Musselshell project.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

Parties wishing to purchase live
stock will find some attractive offer
ings in our advertising columns.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-19
GOOD ROADS THE BEST
OF ADVERTISEMENTS
Bv R. R. L'HoMMEDIEU

A motorist of San Francisco, who has
recently returned from Kansas City,
tells a very interesting story of the en-
thusiasm Of the citizens OF that place
over good roads. The story is new to
the west, but has been retold many
times through eastern papers, giving
Kansas City an amount of publicity
that. if bought in dollars and cents,
would cost more than the community
would care to spend for such pur
pose. The motorist in question had
to6red over from Topeka, wishing to
see the place made prominent this year
by the turning point in the Glidden
tour. The party, as it stopped at the
hotel, were asked if they did not want
to take a spin over part of the 261
miles of boulevards and rock roads in
Kansas City and Jackson county In
fact, at every turn. they were met with
this question. The roads proved that
the citizens of Kansas City might well
be proud of them. and in this connec-
tion of affairs there is a moral for San
Francisco to consider.
Californians are great for promotion.
Literature is sent east telling of the
glories of the climate. its advanta Ses
as winter resort, but yet the fact is
overlooked that after the tourist
reaches the coast he is unable to move
from place to place except by the aid
of the railroad. The railroad is fast
ceasing TO be pleasure conveyance,
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-19
How to Reduce Fat Without
Drums. Diet or Exercise

After the summer is past and there
are no more hot, stuffy days. this is the
time when fat people should be think
Ing about reducing their weight and
should stop making the fat that is such
a burden to them. The best way and
the easiest way is the one about which
so much has been said and written this
past year. This way is the Marmola
way. The famous Marmola Prescrip
ton has been prepared in tablet form.
These little tablets contain nothing but
the elements that go to change the
things which produce fat into good,
strong blood. nerves. tissues and bone
More than this, these tablets absorb
aud remove the fat remaining at the
rate of from IL to 10 ounces per day.
You must not confuse Marmola Tablets
with harmful patent drugs and hurt
full reducing methods. These ia blets go
into your stomach Just like the food
you eat They build up the juices of
the digestive organs and correct these
Juices so that they produce no more
fat They are harmless, yet thousands
of men and women all over this land
today are of firm figures and normal
size because of these little tablets.
This is why every druggist everywhere
carries them in stock and will sell
them 10 you. II your druggist does
not have them. or you would rather
send 75 cts. the price of case, to The
Marmola Company. Dept. 246. Detroit
Mich. they will send them TO you at
once in plain package, postage paid.