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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
A Monument To War Heroes,

GETTYSBURG, Pa. May 31.-Helen
TAFT, daughter of the president, today
unveiled the monument erected here
by congress in memory of the members
of the regular army dying in defense
OF the union.
President Taft, Secretary of War
Dickinson and army officers from
every section Of the United States
participated. The monument cost
nearly 5000, 900. A detachment of
regulars met the presidents party.
A salute of 81 guns was fired and the
soldiers came to attention when Mr..
Taft arrived. :
The ceremonies at the monument
were opened by the playing OF "Am-
erica" by the Thirteenth coast artil-
lery band, followed by a prayer by
Chaplain H. H. Chouinard, Fifth
United States infantry.
Taft's address followed. The presi-
dent praised the heroic deeds of the
participants in the American wars.
He declared it fitting that the national
government should honor the heroes
who fell in the struggles. At the con-
clusion of the address Helen pulled
the silk cord and the monument was
unveiled while the band played "The
Star Spangled Banner"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Milwaukee Prepares Big Map.

A railroad map of the United States
that is believed to be the largest ever
sent abroad has just been shipped by
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad for display at the Golden
West and American Industries exhi.
bition at London. 1t is Al feet, nine
inches long and IL feet, six inches
high, is painted in colors on trans.
parent cloth tracing cloth, and is
illuminated by electricity from the
back.
The map is aanked on the right and
left hand sides by twenty glass trans.
p%arencies, showing in colors some OF
the best scenery along the St.. Paul
road. 1t is to occupy q conspicuous
place in the Chicago building at the
London exhibition this summer. In
connection with the map, sixteen cases
containing ove $4,000 pieces of ad.
vertising matter regarding the St.
Paul road and the new line to the
Pacific coast, the Chicago, Milwaukee
& Puget Sound railway, have beer
forwarded to London. The ship
ment is in charge of G. G. Morrison,
immigration agent, who will have
charge Of the foreign exhibit for thu
St. Paul.
Letters will be mailed to Is ,00(
Britishers inviting them to see THU
remarkable map of America.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
The Substitution.

It is a we'll known fact that both
Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir W. 8.
Gilbert had a horror Of the titles of
their operas becoming known until the
very night of their performance. This
fear that they might be forestal1ed Gre
ated considerable confusion at the mi
tial production of "Iolanthe; or The
Peer and the Peri" The opera was
rehearsed for weeks under the title
Of "Perola." 1t was only at the dress
rehearsal that the company was in
structed to substitute the name "Io-
lanthe" for that Of "Perola" wherever
it occurred in the text or lyrics. It
was no easy task to replace vocally
and in the dialogue. a name Of three
syllables for one Of four. Sullivan,
however, said (maybe aside to one or
two Of the actors who were nervous:
go ahead and sing the music. Gil.
bert won't be in front" Colbert never
attended the first night, $50 s any
name that you think Of first If you
are ratified. No one in the audience
will be any Niser."-Boston Post.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Very unlvckv.

Not long ago a certain farmer be-
:ame bankrupt. In the course Of his
examination before the Official receiver
he admitted that he had been ~speculat-
ing on the turf. Moreover, he went ON
to explain that he had experienced
what he described as '.plaguy bad
luck
ibid you know anything about horse
racing?" the bankrupt was asked.
"No," was the reply; that's why I
engaged a fellow who did to buy some
losses for me-"
"And these horses turned out badly,
! suppose" suggested the oficial re-
ceiver.
every" vas the reply. though I
don't blame the losses for that They
tried hard, but summat wor bound to
turn up to upset 'em. They. nearly
allus ran second!'
Elbow do you account for that?"
"Well, sometimes they ran second
COS they'd overmuch weight to carry,
sometimes they ran second COS the
Jockey had backed another and want
ed 'em there, but more often than not
they ran second COS the Judge would
have 'em there! Sometimes, again,
they ran second eos there wor nobbut
two losses in the race!'-London Tele-
graph.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Responsive.


There was at least one responsive
nearer in the crowded little church in
an English village, and It happened
this way:
Guests had arrived Unexpectedly at
the country parsonage on Sunday
morning.
The weekly supply Of butter had run
short, 80 the ~hospitable host dispatch
ed old Joe, the handy man, to his
neighbor, Mr.. Paul, whose dairy al
ways boosted a surplus. The parson
proceeded to church with his well pre-
pared sermon on some Of the deep
sayings of the great apostle and was
well under way with it when old Joe,
returning empty handed, concluded he
would quietly slip in and hear his mas
ter preach.
Just as he entered the minister
leaned over the pulpit, stretched out
his hand with a most impressive in
terrogation in voice and manner and
called out, "And what did Paul say?"
Distinctly sounded through the church
old Joe's reply:
"He say, marster, he amt going to
let you have no more butter till you
pay for the last you got"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Couldn't Quite Qualify.

"Mebbe you'd like to put a piece
about me in yer paper" quavered the
old man, hobbling up to the city edi.
tors desk.
"What have you doneY demanded
the arbiter of publicity's destiny.
"Nothin' much, but I was a hundred
year old yesterday"
"A hundred, eh? But can you walk
without a stick and read fine, print
without glasses"
"N-nO."
"You are an impostor"
The old man broke down and con
fessed that he was only ninety seven
Cleveland Leader.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
What Was the Matter.


Il. A. Sothern once told q dilemma
he got into:
II was acting tn a comedy when l
had to speak the words, What's the
matterr Well, one night I was rather
slow about taking my cue and was
prompted. I forgot myself for the mo-
ment, and when the words came,
What's the matter7' I thought some
thing or other had occurred out Of the
common. I paused and looked round.
Everything seemed normal, and the
stage waited. Then came another
What's the matterT from tho O. p.
side. They were all getting anxious
behind the scenes, and so was 1, for
that matter. 1 looked myself up and
down and then scanned my fellow
actor, but for the life Sc me couldn't
see anything wrong. At last an audi
BILE whisper came: Go on with your
lines, you. idiot! What's the matter
with your Then it suddenly dawned
on me where I was, but the house had
tumbled to the situation and came
down in commissions. "-Minneapolfs
Journal.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Identified as Train Robbers.

SPOKANE. May 31.-Charged with
holding up the Great Northern mail
train at Colbert, Wash, May Is, Ban.
ton j. Cofer and Bert Cofer have
been bound w to the United States
court after q preliminary hearing be.
fore Commissioner j. w. Marshall.
Bail was fixed at Sl5,0 600 each, and the
men were remanded to jail. Engineer
Miller identified Banton Cofer as the
man who covered him with q revolver,
and Fireman Cole declared he was
covered with another gun with Bert
Cole behind it.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
One Of the Queer Ones.
Kalispell Inter-Lake.

Kaliepell Inter-Lake.
On the Flathead reservation will be
witnessed a sight that carries with it
its OWE comment. Agents Of the Ca
madam government, with q large force
OF men. will be there rounding up the
remainder of the herd of buff alo which
Canada purchased for the dominion
range in Alberta. The animals that
are left, and there are many of them,
are the largest and most vigorous of
the original herd. They resisted be.
Ing driven to the corral the longest,
and at the last moment broke away
and fed to the range.
Within sight Of where the cowboys
will be driving the buff alo to load
them on the cars, the richest nation in
the world will have . force Of men
building q fence for . buff alo pasture,
enclosing some thousands of acres OF
the range ever which the buff lo the
Canadians have bought have ranged
for years. Into that pasture when II
Is completed, the United States hopes
to place 30 or 40 buf slo, the gifts OF
private individuals, or bought by the
Bison society from herds throughou,
the country, and from this beginning
1t 10 hoped In the course of q quartz.
OF q century or more to build ND q
fair sized herd, possibly half as large
and vigorous as the splendid collec.
ton which the Canadian ~governmen,
was allowed to buy and haul away
We do many queer things in this
country and this ia one of them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Contest Of Steam Plows.

BILLINGS, May 3l.-A contest in
which steam plows will participate.
each striving to demonstrate to the
judges its points of superiority over
it's respective competitors, will be one
of the features Of the Dry Farming
congress at the meeting in this city
October 1928.
DR.. w. X. Sudduth Of the exhibit
committee, has been in communication
with the leading manufacturers OF
steam plows and q number OF them
have indicated shat they will enter the
lists.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
FARMING AS A SCIENCE.

About the most wonderful publica'
tions that come to us nowadays are
the agricultural papers and maya.
zines. That is, wonderful by com.
parison with what they were twenty
years ago. They are filed with dis.
cussions Of all points which concern
the tiller Of the soil. The character
Of soils and what will best grow on
each, the properties Of foods for ami
malls; the amount of nutrition in each,
why some are good for one animal
and hurtful to another; the different
breeds of animals; the virtues of some
for q purpose and others for other
purposes; the experience Of capable
farmers, the effects Of climates; the
diseases that affect animals and their
cures; drainage. good roads and
fences, farm dwellings and the best
fashioned structures for housing
stock, sanitation on the farm; as we'll
about barns o. houses, the water
supply; the different fertilizers-every
variety of subject that pertains to
farming-fruit raising and stock rails
ing. until it is easy to see that farm
ing is every year becoming Q more
and more perfected science, and that
In q few years more the farmer who 10
. mere worker with no scientific idea
Of the soil he tills and the needs Of
his crops, his livestock and the treat.
ment required for both the land and
its producers will be listed with the
fossils.
And the thought is oftener and Of.
tener awakened of how splendid an
occupation the scientific cultiv alton of
the soil is, and how the Creator made
no mistake when man in the beginning
was turned out upon the soil, with the
Injunction that by the sweat of his
face he must secure his bread. That
did not mean merely the toll of his
hands. 1t meant that his brain should
be worked as we'll, and though it has
required many thousands of years to
bring out the full understanding of
the facts, 1t is clear now that on the
farm are all the elements which man
requires to make him, when he once
understands the full scope of his bust
ness, the most accomplished as we'll
as the most useful of men, and more,
his life spent in that study and
work fits him better than any
other for the days when he begins to
feel that his steps tremble when he
walks down the final decline, at the
end of which is peace.-Goodwin's
Weekly.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
THE BOYS AND GIRLS.

Half a dozen papers printed in the
smaller towns of this state have in
recent weeks had something to say
about the boys and girls who are out
on the streets at uuseemingly hours Of
the night, and parents are appealed to
to watch over these young people more
closely. Instances are cited where
boys and girls have gone to to the
"bad" as the result of associations
made on the street, and when the ex.
posture has come the parents have not
only been grief.stricken, but sur
prised.
These warnings and appeals to par
ents may do some good, but they are
not all that 10 needed, says the Helena
Record. There are few young people
who are naturally vicious. Boys and
girls with good homes and surrounded
by right influences will grow into good
citizens If they are but given the op.
%portuntty. The young people who in
the small as we'll as the large towns
run the streets and visit places they
should not, start in that way because
they have nothing else to do. How
many towns in Montana have made
provision for q tennis court, q base.
ball ground. or any other healthful
or innocent outdoor sport? How many
make an aim to provide any amuse'
ment or recreation for the young PEG.
pie OF the community?
In many large cities Fairgrounds
have been established for the children,
and their influence for good is almos,
i~ncalculable.( There is not . small
town in the state, go far as publ,
knowledge goes, where the men and
women of the town have given thu
idea OF innocent pleasure for the chill
dren q thought. In many of these
towns there are commercial orgauizs
tions for boosting population aui
business, there are women's clubs
church suxiliaries and various othe,
organic atone whose objects ar,
praiseworthy, but what are any o
these organizations doing for tn
children? Absolutely nothing.
Boys and girls are full of life an,
spirit. They want something to d,
that is not regarded as . task an,
they want to be with their fellows.
the older people will but guide tn
twig there will be fewer sorrowin,
homes because . son or daughter ha
gone wrong. Making the home pleas
ant and having children feel free i
Il. 10 8 necessity. But the father an
mother must 70 farther than that, an
zee TO Il that the boy and girl hav
the opportunity TO meet their play
mates in innocent sports.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to ~depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues Its, own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid Or time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
DOING SPLENDID WORK.

HlEr MESA rHaA ...HLt f. 2NH--
With thousands Of e s~ettlere
coming into Montana it would be too
much to expect that all OF them will
make . success OF their agricultural
endesvors, for the simple reason that
among . large number of men en-
gagged in any calling there will al.
ways be found some failures.
II 10 only fair 70 pay q just tribute
TO the weekly press OF Montana for the
splendid work it is doing along the
lines Of instrucsing the newcomers
concerning the proper method of cul-
tivating the soil in this state under the
approved dry farming system.
The Bozemsn Agricultural college
with its numerous s~ub.stations, and
it, farmers institutes is certainly
doing oil 10 ito power to start these
homebuilders of right.
You can hardly pick up q country
newspaper these days that has not
columns devoted to the work of the
experimental stations and the insti-
tutes.
Every effort lie being strained to
instruct the new settlers and impress
them with the fact that farming in
Montana cannot be conducted along
the same lines as in the eastern states.
Those who will not learn cannot be
expected to be successful, but 1t must
be said that these individuals will
have no M to blame but themselves
II their agricultural efforts fail.
Land speculators may bring a large
number Of settlers to this state and
after getting them here and selling
land to them their connection with the
new homebuilders will naturally cease,
and then it is up to the people of the
state through organized and individual
effort to make the new citizens sue.
cessful.
Getting the settler here is only q
part OF the proposition, and the vastly
more important feature of it is in
relation to making him q prosperous
and c0ntented farmer
One disappointed individual, even
though he fails through his W lack
of intelligence, will do Montana's
r%eput1tion as a state of great agri.
cultural possibilities no little harm.
Admitting that among so many new
settlers come are bound to be unsuc.
cessful the great effort that is now
being made is to have fewer failures
in Montana than were recorded
against any other new state when the
emigr alton sets it's way.
Through the Intelligent, t~ireless and
patriotic efforts OF the press of this
state is believed that this desired re.
suit will be brought about.-Butte
Miner.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Lapland Reindeers.

In April the Lapp let's his reindeer
loose to wander as they please, and
when the mosquitoes begin to abound,
about midsummer, he collects his herd
simply by catching M deer, fitting 1t
with a bell and trusting to instinct.
which leads the animals to gather into
herds for protection against the mos
Quit0es, to do the rest. In a cool sum-
mer, when mosquitoes are few, this
instinct does not come into play, and
It ID almost impossible to bring the
reindeer together.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
PREDICTS WHEAT SHORTAGE,
James J. Hin Says Crop Will Be
Needed In Home Market.

James J. Hin Says Crop Will Be
Needed In Home Market.
SEATTLE, May 3l.-James J. Hill,
chairman of the Great Northern board,
visited the Alaska Yukon. Paci6c ex-
position today. He said:
1T is . mistake to say that Patten
cornered the wheat market. 1t is
merely q case Of q man taking ad.
vantage OF an opportunity. It has
been but . few years since it was
estimated that the average consump.
ton OF wheat per annum in this coun.
try was six bushels, but now the ex.
perts figure that It 10 seven bushels
and some pounds. The census Of 1910
will show that We have Q population
OF 10000. 900 which will mean that We
will require for our own use $50, 00O,.
900 bushels hereafter. We raise now
probably $4,000, 900 bushels Of wheat
In the United States, with good crop
conditions. This will leave ne but
q. 600 bushels as . surplus for ex.
port while in the past we have export
ed upwards Of 120. 000. 900 bushels per
annum. .
$50 you can see we will need all
u wheat 10 feed our own people.
Within the next Ave years the wheat
OF eastern Washington will be shipped
to the westward to feed the people Of
the east and central west. And in
considering these facts II must be re-
membered that the number Of livestock
slaughtered last year was 1000, 600
less than the year previous. When
the farmers OF Iowa, Minnesota and
Nebraska q get Is cents per bushel
for corn at the country station, they
will not endure the risk OF holding and
the labor incident to holding, but will
sell their grain"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Very Impressive,

Very Impressive.
Nouveau Richie is at times an anus
ing person. Said n Of these exotics
the other day-he was a commuter-
Just as the train was moving from the
station:
"CrcJohn."
"Yessirw answered the valet.
Ill think, after all, I would like the
asparagus served as an entree to-
night"
And the train moved OF amid smoth-
cred laughter.-New York Times.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
And Enjoyed II.

Ethel-Didn't it seem an age from
the time you were engaged till you got
married? Maud-Yes, but Jack and l
managed to squeeze through it.-Lon-
don Taller.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
Tact.

Harry-What in thunder did you ask
that fellow what time It was for when
You carry a watch that Is always right
on the notch? Dick-I merely wanted
to give him an excuse to exhibit bis
watch.-Boston Transcript.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09

Parties wishing to purchase live
stock will find some attractive offer.
lngs in our advertising columns.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
"Prints All tho News"

If any reader of the RIVER PRESS
considers it worthy of recommend alton
to friends, the favor will be very high.
~ appreciated by it's publishers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09

A happy heart is better than a full
nurse.-German Proverb.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09

Local Securities aSpectatty.
tlatefest AHoWedea Tine Deposity
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Water right blanks-only correct
form published-for sale at the River
PRESS Office.
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-23
OF DOLLARS
UTTERLY WASTED
Iowa Farmer Tells of Paying
Much Money to Doctors
Without Benefit.
SON SICK FROM CHILDHOOD
short Course of Treatment by the
United Doctors Has Now Re
stored His Health.

When 9 man spends money with doc
tors he either throws his money away or
else he gets many times the value OF his
money. II he pays money to doctors who
do not cure, his money IL utterly wasted,
but n the Doctors treatment cures him.
he cannot pay too much for the service.
No amount Of money can be compared
to health.
One reason for the great popularity Of
the United Doctors. those master medical
specialists who have their Omaha insti-
tuts at 2s Neville block, corner 18th and
Harvey streets, is the fact that they do
not accept any case for unless
~ ia such a one as they can cure. Anyone
ASafe In going to these Doctors; II they
cannot cure you they Will not take your
money.
A fair sample OF the hundreds OF letters
received by these specialists from cured
patients, is the following:
'Snver City, Iowa, Sept. %, 1903.
Dear Doctors;
I am q farmer living two miles north
Of Silver City, Ia. My son Ed, who Is now
twenty-one years OF age, had never been
we'll since he was four years old. l had
had him under treatment by the best doc
tors OF our home town and those / could
hear OF In the surrounding towns. but he
never seemed to get any permanent relief
from any treatment and gradually grew
worse. -Four years ago he had begun to
decline more rapidly and grew 30 bad that
/. we had 20 give him morphine TO relieve
the pain and many times were compelled
to sit up the entire night applying hot
towels and other means 20 relieve the aw-
full cramps IN his stomach. I had spent
thousands OF dollars for treatment for the
boy, all Of which did no good. We had
lost all faith IN doctors and medicine and
had given up hope OF ever having our boy
even partially restored to health whe we
decided as a last resort to try the United
Doctors.
We went to them three months ago,
ana while they told us they could cure
him. We did not believe &. but concluded
20 make 1he trial. He went under their
treatment on June nth. Before beginning
your treatment he would have those ter
rible cramping attacks almost every night
and the pain seemed unbearable. Now
this is the 25th day Of September and he
has had only one or two light attacks and
they were IN the first months treatment
Now he eats everything. digests 1t well and
has absolutely no trouble. He Is gaining
flesh, his color Is good and am sure he
will be entirely restored 10 health through
your treatment
make this statement simply In the hops
that nrmay lead some sufferer 20 your
office where they may be cured after a;
many dis0ppOintments as We have had.
+. Bailey.