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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03
NORRIS IS PRESIDENT.
Governor Of Montana Elected Chic
Of Dry Farming Congress.


Of Dry Farming Congress.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. M.-Edwin
L. Norris, governor of Montana, was
this morning named by the nominat-
ing committee to be president
of the Trans-Missouri Dry Farm.
ing congress for the ensuing year, and
the nomination was unanimously
ratified by the congress. This selection
makes it practically certain that the
next years. congress will be held at
Billings, Mont.
Alfred Atkinson, agronomist at the
Montana experiment station, Boze.
man, Mont, addressed the congress
today on "Dry Farming Summer
Fallow." He said:
"As permanent feature, the sum-
mer fallow has not held its place on
we'll managed farms in the humid re-
gions. The experiments of Lawes and
Gilbert of the Rothamsted experiment
station in England show that there is
consider able loss by the teaching of
plant food as it becomes available on
the uncropped field.
'"With the absence of teaching on
the dry farm because of the light rain
fall, 1t would seem to many that the
summer fallow will have a permanent
place on these farms.
"Advantages-The objection to this
particular practice comes because of
the loss of the crop, and the destruc-
tion of the humus content by the oxid-
izing of the organic matter in the soil.
This process long continued will re-
duce the nitrogen and moisture hold.
ing capacity of the soils most serious
ly, it is believed.
"Advantages-The chief advantage
is from moisture that was accumulated
during the season, which is of use for
the succeeding crop. Investig ations
made by the Montana experiment sta
tion during the season of 1907 and
1908 show that the accumulated mois-
ture contributed to the high yields of
the succeeding year only indirectly.
"The real reason for the increased
yields is because of the increased
availability of the plant food in the
soil brought about in the season when
the moisture is not demanded by q
crop. This indicates the necessity of
providing for this activity and allow.
ing moisture for the plant food
bacterial activities on the soil. The
summer fallow can only be dispensed
with in the dry farm system when it is
replaced by some intertilled crop that
is economical in the use of moisture.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

HELENA, February 27. - Coroner
Flaherty has returned from Wolf
creek, where he held an inquest over
the body of the man who was
drowned while crossing Prickly Pear
creek. 1t was learned he was Gus
Swanson, who came to Montana last
December from Erie, Penn. Swanson
was employed on the Great Northern
cutoff in Prickly Pear canyon when
drowned.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

came In, smiled as he scanned their
faces while the roll call of the Jurors
was made and continued to smile
when the decision was read BY the
clerk.
MIssOULA, Feb. %. - To avenge
himself on the husband of the woman
for whose wronging be had just com.
pleted dve-year term in the peniten.
tiary. Joseph Brown today shot and
killed Robert Gilruth, while the lat.
ter, accompanied by bis brother,
was walking along the road near
Chickerman's mill, six miles west of
Lolo, Mont. Brown was arrested in
Missoula few hours later, and the
brother of the slain man was held in
custody as Q witness.
GLEND1vE, Feb. 28.-While barn
fire, supposed to have been of incen-
diary origin, was raging in this city
Robert Moore was arrested, charged
with having set it, and had the crowd
been able to lay hands on him q
lynching probably would have fol.
lowed. It is alleged Moore was
seen leaving the barn just few min.
utes before the fire was discovered.
The fire is the latest OF several dur.
Ing the past few weeks, all of which
are thought to have been set.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03
DRY FARM CONGRESS.
Advocates Of New Method Of Agri.
culture Meet In Convention.

culture Meet In Convention.
CHEYENNE, Feb. 23.-With more
than 600 delega ates present and with
hundreds more to arrive on belated
and snowbound trains, the third
Trans.Missouri Dry Farming con.
gress opened its sessions at the Capt.
tai avenue theater here this morning.
The sessions will continue three days
aud it is confidently expected that
lring that time work of the utmost
Importance and benefit to the semi. arid
regions of the country will be accom-.
p!ished.
a blanket of snow more than foot
deep greeted the delegates arriving in
Cheyenne, as natures assura ance that
dry farming was partly misnomer
in Wyoming. The streets of Cheyenne
are elaborately decorated in honor of
the visitors aud program of enter
tainment for every evening of the
three days. session has been arranged.
J. T. Burns, secretary of the con.
gress, stated today that there now are
1875 members of the congress and that
the present session will probably re-
suit in an increase of 500 more. The
largest deleg alton thus far to arrive
is from Billings, which is making a
strong fight for the next congress. 1t
is also likely that the next congress
will be held in the late summer or
early fall on account of the chances
of bad weather and the difficulty of
securing representative exhibits of
dry farming crops when sessions are
held at the time of year at present in
vogue.
G. A. Martin of Ell Paso, Texas,
one of the delegates named by the
governor of that state, spoke on "Dry
Farming in West Texas" and re.
ferred incidentally to the progress of
the work not only in west Texas, but
in New Mexico, declaring that the two
were so indissolubly connected that
to talk of one, meant to discuss the
other.
He opened by referring to the "scien-
tific soil culture" of the Indians or
prehistoric periods in his region as
proof that, while the method is new to
the American farmer it is probably
older in its successful application in
that region than any other of the con.
tinent. He said in northern Mexico,
where the Tarahuamari Indians of the
present raise bountiful crops on the
tablelands on a rainfall of from nine
to Is inches, there are ample evidence
that dry farming wasscarried on sue.
cessfully by race of men of whose
doings history records nothing. The
same applies to the eastern section of
New Mexico, he declared, all along
the line of the present Ell Paso &
Southwestern railroad, where ruins
of ancient pueblos hundreds of miles
from any water save the wells at mod.
crate depths from which the stock and
households are supplied, show plenti-
full evidence of farming carried on by
race of people who Inhabited the
country before the Red Man came.
Getting down to the subject at hand,
he told of the success of numerous
pioneers in the dry farming industry
in the vicinity of Ell Paso east and west
Texas across the famous Staked
Plains, and north in New Mexico for
hundreds of miles.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

The men at the time sworesthey would
get even with Koller.
HELENA, Feb. 27.-Suit for S15, 900
damages is demanded from the United
Missouri River PowerScompany in an
action filed today by Roger Hoag.
land, father of Mortimer Hoagland, =,
who was drowned July 13, 1907, while
working on the old Lake Hauser am.
1t is charged that the young mans
death was caused by some of his fell
low laborers prying loose the end of
the plank on which Hoagland was
sitting over the water, precipitating
him into the river where he was
drowned.
GREAT FALLS, February 27.-Henry
Rheams, the third of the youthful
bandits to be placed on trial incon-
nection with the holding up of the
Shelby train near the western limits
of Great Falls last May, was last
evening found guilty by jury Of
murder in the first degree, his punish
ment being fixed at Imprisonment in
the state prison for the term of his
natural life. Rheams received the
verdict with an air of the utmost un-
concern. He smiled when the jury
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

Fine Book and Job Printing q spe.
cialty at the RIVER PRESS Office.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
RICH ORES IN THE CHANBLAR'


 After years of toll and travel during which he has traversed the bleak fastnesses of northern Alaska from one corner to another, S. J. Marsh Commissioner of the chandlar and enc of the hardest pioneers of Alas ka. is in Fairbanks en route to Wash ington and New York armed with the spells of the hunt for treasure and bearing the evidences of what he con tends will make the greatest quartz camp in Alaska.
 He has ores, rich ores, that fairly glisten with the stuff for which men sell their souls. And back in the wilds of the country surrounding Chandlar Lake he says there are 5000 tons more of the same stuff in sight only waiting the completion of the
 
 Government trail and the importa- tion of machinery to take 1t out.
 On the heads of Biz and Little Squaw Creeks just to the north of and adjacent to Chandler Lake, in a country that some years ago spoke to Marsh of quartz possibilities, has been found a mineralized zone in which have been encountered six dis tiuct vein systems with distinct lodes in place each carrying free gold in commercial quantities.
 This zone as now indefinitely known, is seven miles long and three
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

blows ar the last produce the desired effect. If the board Is bent edgewise, so that much force is required. probably he will start the nall in the upper edge, pointing very sharply downward. Again. two nails driven in board at different angles will hold 1t in place much more firmly than the same nails would If they were driven at right angles with the face of the board.
 Did you ever notice that in driving a nail in very hard wood one man will do 1t successfully, while another sue ceeds only in doubling the nall up be- fore the point has fairly entered the wood? The difference lies in the fact that the expert strikes the nall fairly and not too hard. "coaxing" 1t In. while the other strikes too hard and with indlrection. It may be properly mentioned right here that in driving a nall Into very hard wood 1t is usual ly profitable to dip the end In oil or grease. This will not sensibly inter fere with the holding qualities of the nall, while it will be found to very materially facilitate Its driving.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

and a half miles in width with possi bilities of still greater areas.
 But of particular interest is the vein which Mir. Marsh stakes his fort une upon and which was the cause o' the extreme toll of the last year. For over six months he struggled to get supplies into this region that he might start the development on this vein when the snows melted early las' spring. and his hopes and efforts hsy' been fully justified.
 This development work began as soon as the water began to run and has continued all summer with the result that the vein has been definite ly traced for distance of 42S feet, has been ascertained to a depth of 65 feet and has an average width of three feet three inches. growing wideE as the depth increases to over four feet.
 Eighty per cent of It's values are free gold. and the tailings are sus- ceptible of cyanide treatment to the extent that about s5 per cent of the values can be recovered. bringing the ore to an average value of s55 to the ton. On a computation based upon careful measurements and test Mir. Marsh states that there is now in sight s2SO,OOO worth of ore.-Tanana Tribune.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
THE TEASEL.
A Queer Plant With Water Traps For
 It's Insect Victims.


 It's Insect Victims.
 Among common plants there are few more remarkable than the teasel. There is little doubt, says well in- formed natural history contributor to the London Chronicle, that the teasel is as much flesh eating organism as any spider that ever spun web.
 Moreover. its method of securing its victims, though quite as ingenious as that of the spider, is much more com prehensive as well as more eficacious. Not only does this extraordinary plant capture all species of flies and gnats, great or small, but caterpillars, slugs, wood lice and the like are all frequent victims.
 How this is brought about forms one of the most wonderful incidents In na- trre's fascinating story of the year. The spider weaves her net of the finest silk; the teasel makes her snare out of dewdrops. The plant grows up straight as church spire. throwing out its leaves in pairs at intervals up the juicy green stem. The twin leaves unite at their base to form deep cup. and the leaves are so contrlved that the moisture precipitated on them runs down into this reservoir.
 A well developed plant will thus catch and hold in four or five of these water traps a full half pint of liquid, and the heat of the sun appears to evaporate so little of 1t that the cups will be brimminS even at the close Of 1 hot June day. The smooth, steep leaves all lead down into these pits, and their gradient gets sharper as the water Is approached.
 Thus the tcasels victims are made to walk the plank" to their death, and once in the water there is no hope of return. They soon drown, and every teasel well has at its bottom a layer of slime formed by their disintegrated bodies.
 It is of course difficult to prove that this deposit is absorbed by the plant as nutriment, but careful dis section will show at the base of each cup q ring of apertures-sink holes, in fact-which lead into the substance of the stem and the presence of which affords little room for doubt on the matter.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
DRIVING A NAIL.
More to It Than Simply Hammerins It
 Into the Wood.

More to It Than Simply Hamnerins It
 Into the Wood.
 One who thinks that the driving of a nail consists simply in getting the whole length of 1t out of sight has little conception of the real nature of the operation, says the Scientific Amer ican. A nall driven by an expert will often hold several times as much as one i'll driven, while, too, 1t is often made to draw the parts into place. If you have ever watched mechanic driving nails you have doubtless noted that he rarely drives one at right angles with the face of the work. There is reason for this. Suppose that he Is mailing the "sheeting" on the frame of building and desires to draw the board down tightly against the one below 1t. He points the nall downward, and few well considered
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

Tt matters. little if the creeks which have produced the big pans are worked out. it will not affect the of the Tanana valley, for few men realize that the state of Washington could be set down very easily within its watershed, and the vast quantities of low-grade pay gra- vel will be worked when and those
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
Hls On. Good Trait.

Loafer-Can yer spare us 'a'penny, mate?
 workingman7wo 7wotcher want 9 'a,pen- ny for?
 Loafer-cos got one. and wants another for the price of 'arf a pint
 workingman-Ever done a days work In yer life7
 Loafer-No. guE'nor, cawn't say as l ave.
 Workingman-well, yer never done Q pore bloke out of a job, anyway. 'Ere's yer 'a'penny.-London Punch.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES

Regular meetings of Skagway Aerie No. 20, Fraternal Order of Eagles first and third Wednesdays in each month, in their hall on Fifth Avenue at S:30 p. m. sharp.
 All members are requested to De present and visiting brothers are in yited to attend.
 HENRY A. RHODE, Worthy Pres. J. NJ. Keller, Worthy Secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Having been appointed administra tor of the estate of Fred Haines, deceased, by the commissioner and ex.otficio judge of probate at Skagwa precinct in the first division of the district of Alaska, all persons having claims against the said estate are hereby required to present them, witt the proper vouchers. within six mont from the date of this notice to me al my office in the town of skagway ir said precinct and district.
 Dated at skagway. Alaska, septem ber IS. 1909.
 Phil Abrahams,
 Administrator. First publication. Sept. IS, 1909. Last publication, Oct. g, 1909
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
rhoaa usele.r ous.tIonn.

Billy, did you ever pick up live trolley wire with your bare handsr Many time"
 Didn't 1t give you a shockr "Give me shock? It Killed me dead every time."-Chieago Tribune.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
PREDICTS FUTURE FUR TANANA

who follow me are dead and gone."
 This was the statement made yes terday by James H. Hamill. one oi the richest mining men in Alaska who with the Berry brothers is oper ating in many districts in the north Mir. Hamill was with Frank Berry al the time, and the two men said that the day of big pans as a feature is over in the north.-Seattle P. l.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
LADIES OF THE MAccAsEEs.

Regular reviews of Hive No. ?. La dies of the Maccabees will be held the first and third Tuesdays in the month at 8 p. m. sharp, in their hall on Sixth avenue.
 All visiting members are cordially invited.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE
 ORDER OF ELKS.

Skagway Lodge No. 431, B. P. O. Elks, holds it's regular sessions at s:3O p. m. on the first and third Thursdays of each month, at it's hall on Sixth avenue.
 A cordial invitation is extended t. all visiting brothers.
 FRED. CALLARMAN, Secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
Diplomacy.

But what made you irritate her Ia. therg'
 "I had to dG 1t. l wasn't any too popular with the girl until her father forbade me the use."-Louisyille Courier-Journal.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
After Him.

Aunt crabbe-I think 1t is my duty. to tell you that have heard from several sources that MT. Brown Is 2 very fast young man! Daisy-Fas as he Is, I shall catch him yet. .auntieE London Fun.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
DIRECTORY OF FRGTERHAL SOCIETIES
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD.

Regular meetings of Camp Skag way. No. 1, every Tuesday at S:SC o'clock sharp, in A. B. hall. Broad way.
 Visiting brothers are cordially in vited.
 J. M. Keller. A. c. F. J. Rosenberg, A. R.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

When on your way home drop into the Board of Trade and take with yo some bottled beer. It's always nice and old.-we keep It on Ice.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
FREE AND ACCEPTED MAsoNs

Regular meetings of White Pass Lodge, No. 1I3, Free and Accepted Masons, second and fourth Fridays of each month, at 8 p. m. sharp, at Ma sonic hall, 225 Fourth avenue.
 Sojourning and visiting members are requested to meet with us.
 A. P. DRAPES Secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

You car pend pleasant half hour in Q gamo f Pool or English Bil. liards. Th, Board of Trade has the best tab es in skagway. Drop in,- wen be glad to SC you.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

Go to the Pack Train restaurant for your Sunday French Dinner, The very best of everything the market affords. Ice cream served free with our Sunday dinner. s. tf
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
Oblivion.

Oblivion Is the dark psge whereon memory writes her light beam .charac- ters and makes them legibie Were 1t all light nothing could be read here any more than If 1t were all darinens.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
Very cIope.

warden-How's the campaign going up your wa5? Sort of close contesti Sellers (gloomily)-Closest l ever saw. Neither side Is giving pp. blamed cent.-Buffaio Courier.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

Guests are given every attention at the Caribou hotel at Csrcross. Clean comfortable rooms. good service. fine fishing and hunting close to Car. cross. E. W. Gideon. prop.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
FULL QUART MEASURE

Old Famous Cedar Brook Bourbon Bottled In Bond. well Aged in wood. from the Renowned McBrayer Dis. tillery. Full Quart s1.5o. at the Pack Train t
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

h witness whereof I have here. un.o SC. my hsnd this 9th day of Se. tember, A. D. i3os.
 H. H. Draper. Treasurer of the Town of skagway Alaska.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

It Is too late to throw water on tho cinders when the house Is burned down.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28

unmnHnRnaaRHHaa aK EaaIaKl
The daily Alaskan., 1909-09-28
Delinquent TaxList


 Notice is hereby given that the Taxes for the year 1908 levied by the Town of skagway Alaska pursuant to Law and Ordinance of said Town have not, been paid upon the prop erty Rltuated within the boundaries of said Town described below, and that the amount of Taxes delinquent and unpaid upon each tract of property described Is as set opposite the de- scription of said property together with 20 per cent additional thereto as penalty and interest at the rate of s per cent per annum from and af- ter the 1st day of March 1909 and that the taxes. penalty and interest constitute a leln on said property and the Treasurer will on Monday, oct. 4th, 1909, at the hour of nine a. m. sell the said lein together with the penalty Of 20 per cent and interest Q. the rate of per cent per annun rom the date of delinquency. The property according to the plat of the Town of Skagway as surveyed by F. g. Reed upon which taxes are de linquent for the said year A. D. 1909 together with the amount of Taxes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-05
BY SEWELL FORD

printed. Think of wastin all them letters, when just
plain Piddie is good seem strip of pingpong
pictures of him He's mostly up and down, Pidde
is like he d been pulled out of bundle of laths and
he's got of these nquistive that's sharp
enough to file bills
Refined conversation is Pidde's strong hold. 1t
bubbles out of him like steam out of the oatmeal
kettle. Sounds that way, too. You know these
mush eaters with their, Ah I'm -ah, quite su-ah,
doncher know? He's got that kind of lingo down
to art. I'll bet he could talk it in his sleep. I've
heard EN- before; but never looked to hold sit.
under
It's privilege, though, bein close to Pidde.
If don't forget all the things he tells and fol
lows EN- III be made in month more.
He begins with my Torchy don't fit right
with him. 1t might do for some places he didn't
mention, but not for the home offices of the Cor
rugated Trust.
Maybe you'd like Reginald better?" says l.
"But-er-aw-is that your baptismal name, my
boy?" says he.
Nix" says l. I'm no Baptist. And anyway,
| couldn't give up my real name, l m travelin'
they knew l really workin You can call me
Torchy, Reginald, whichever you think of first,
and if you be careful to say it real nice maybe I'll
come"
Every time throws jolt like that into J. Hem
mingway he looks kind of stunned and goes off to
chew it over But he gets even all right Some
times he'll take whole forenoon to dig up
thin he thinks is gon to i've me the double cross.
MOST of his spare time, though, he puts in tellin'
~ me about how I'm to behave when Mr. Robert
comes back. For the first few days had idea Mr..
Robert the pulley that carried the big belt and
that when he stopped there general shut down.
l got nervous watchin' for him. Then rounds up
the fact that he's Bob Elins who cuts ice in the