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The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

This week Missoula will give DIR.
Cook the freedom Of the city and then
New York will h;tye no advantage
over us.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

The P"ary-Cook Pole-Mt. Mckinley
Barrill Bridgford controversy has
served TO give the Ananias club
boom In membership.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

There's more work cut out every
day for the booster club.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

prlntz has evidently concluded thai
II is wiser to swear not at ALL"
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

! At last the officers. in their quest
for secretaries" are breaking into
the right gang.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

The affidavit market does not present
the inviting opportunities to easy
swearcrs that il did "A week ago.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

Mr.. Taft. also. encounters the liar
now and then AZ he journeys on.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

Perjury as a profession is never
permanently profitable.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

The boosters viii make II 10000 nj
right If they work.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

Who is Healey. Watch for tunefui
NoNenil,cr
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

Rusy. bustling boosters make a busy
bustlinE burg.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-10-25

prlntz has evidently concluded that
II IL wiser to swear not at all
There's more work cut out every
day for the booster club.
Perjury as a profession is never
permanently profitable.
The boosters viii make II 10000 all
right If they work.
-----------------
busy. hustling boosters make a busy,
bustlnE burg.
Likewise. the court house grows.
Sure. the Mcintosh Red is king.
Are you boosting for $4,000"
Where is PrintZ?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30
MAY LOSE THEIR SCALPS,
incompetent Indian Agents Will Be
Fired BY BaIlinger.

r'red 6y BaIlinger.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-For some
time past there have been rumors of
radical changes pending in the Indian
service, and yesterday Secretary Bal
linger In Chicago gave an interview
IN which he declared he was after the
scalps OF incompetent Indian agents.
He laid the found alton for this cam
paign In q conference with Frank
Sorenson, superintendent of the Indi-
an warehouse. making detailed inqui-
ry into the manner of conducting bus.
mess with agents and inspected the
stock OF goods on hand which is being
shipped by carloads to reserv atoms.
II am not afraid to cut away red
tape when l see that it IL hamperinp
the work of the department." said the
secretary. "There are going to be
radical changes in the manner OF on
Quoting Indian affairs. I am already
convinced, at the beginning of my
trip. that there are many incompe-
tent agents who will have to step
down and out. l think the principal
difficulty is with incompetent agents
rather than anything else. The agents
are not INSCRIPTIONS, but it takes
good business men and men who un-
the ways of Indians to deal
them"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

calculate0 TO instantly bring down the
animal are those that penetrate the
brain, and this. Of course, cannot be
penetrated unless a man knows lust
how 1t is situated inside the skull.
When a herd takes alarm at a party
OF attackers and starts on a rampage
across country the hunters must travel
at a Furnishing rate If they desire to
secure any Of the specimens, and woe
be unto whatever is in the path of the
crashing monsters. O~bstructing trees,
torn up by the roots, are thrown aside
like so much driftwood On an ocean
shore, and they will 60 fifty miles at
2 stretch over country Of a nature
that men would cover only twenty
miles In the same period. Frequently
elephants Of the same herd become
angered at each other and indulge in
forest duels that would make a bull
fight look like a kissing bee down on
b old farm. The English authority,
G.. P. Sanderson, actually witnessed
such an engagement and describes It
and the subsequent hunt as follows:
1.-The elephants were separated from
us by a deep ravine, and we saw them
lunge fe%rociously at each other, cut
ting deep gashes with their sharp
tusks. The cane tops bowed and trees
shook as they bore each other back
ward and forward. The noise was ter
rifle, when the beast nearest us, evil
IDENTIFY having enough and losing large
quantities of blood from his wounds,
turned. uttered a deep roar of pain
and fed across the ravine to near
where we stood behind a clump of
bushes. He began to destroy the
foliage in sheer fury and grunted
deeply. He was very large. It. must
have been a genuine monster that
worsted him. Suddenly the animal
backed away and stood stark still. Not
a sound could be heard. He gazed
straight in u direction, and I knew
that he had winded us. His frenzy
now sent his ears forward, his tail up,
and straight at us he charged with
incredible swiftness, considering his
size. l stepped out into the open to
clear my gun Of the bushes and fred.
l looked to see where the elephant Law,
Good heavens! He had not even
been checked. To my horror he was
upon me. His tusks came through
the smoke like the cowcatcher of a 10.
connective, and I had just time to fall
dat before being impaled on them.
His ponderous left foot came within
a few inches of my left thigh, and l
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

would have been crushed had I not
drawn my legs forward as. shrieking
shrilly, he rushed directly over me.
my companion escaped by leaping
into the ravine. The beast kept straight
on and disappeared, leaving me soaked
and my hair matted with the blood
that flowed from his wounds"
When elephants fight each other one
Of their favorite tricks Is to bite of
each others tail. Females are espe-
cially fond Of doing this to rival fe-
males in the same herd. Elephants
roam about and feed both during day
and night, usually resting from 8 or 10
in the morning until the middle Of the
afternoon. In warmest weather they
battle frequently and roll around in
the mud. At such times they are shot
comparatively easy. They are expert
swimmers, going through the water
with only the tips Of their trunks or the
tops Of their heads showing above the
surface. An elephant shot in the wa
ter floats, while a hippopotamus sinks.
The fastest rate at which African ele-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30
Mysterious Dynamite Explosion.

CHICAGO, June Plan explosion
supposed to have been caused by dy-
Mantle did great damage in the bust.
ness district here tonight, injuring two
or three persons severely, and wrecked
stores and windows for q block near
Clark and Washington streets.
The exact nature of the explosion is
unknown because of the great amount
of debris thrown around the alley
where 1t occurred. The police think
it another in the series of gamblers
war bomb throwings that have mysti-
fed detectives for more than two
years.
The police estimate the damage at
s1O0, 900. Cne theory is that so cleo.
trio installers who have been on strike
against the Chicago Telephone COM
pany, which suffered the greatest dam
age, may have been behind the deed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

has thrown his life In the balance, and
t the balance swings against him only
he himself Is to blame.
Another way Of hunting the beasts
in a safe way, unknown In Africa, Is
the Indian custom Of organizing im-
mense drives with from 800 to 500
men, encircling a herd Of elephants
and forcing 1t by noise and other
demonstrations to enter a large, spe-
cially prepared Enclosure, termed a
kraal. There the tuskers can readily
be killed, or the beasts can be taken
out individually and trained to the
various kinds of work they are capa.
BILE of performing. While it is true
that elephant drives somewhat similar
in nature are vat times resorted to in
Africa, they are conducted on much
smaller scales, and the beasts are driv.
en- in front of the hunters who kill them
instead Of into Enclosures.
In elephant shooting it Is vitality i'm
portant that the hunter have a de-
tailed knowledge Of the makeup Of the
brain of the beast. as the shots best
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

a tropical forest, trunk appraised, tusks
glistening, eyes cleaning. legs like
monoliths crushing all opposition, is
more than enough to fill with awe
akin to fear the soul Of a mere hui
man, no matter how steely his nerves,
how true his rifle or how clear his con.
science.
That MI. Roosevelt should not be
satisfied with the dangers of lion, hip
popotamus and rhinoceros killing and
desires to add to them the unques-
toned perils Of elephant tracking is
cumulative proof Of his ambition to
experience every possible thrill that
this little world affords. His chosen
hunting field or the Uganda tableland
affords probably the best elephant ter
ritory now remaining in all Africa. Re-
mote from the coast, infrequently
touched even on its edges by whites,
growing luxuriantly the pachyderm's
best liked foods. we'll watered and we'll
shaded, central Uganda was apparent
~ created by the gods of the elephant
as the ideal breeding place and play
ground of their %favorite children.
African elephant hunting is more
hazardous than that of India, where
the venturers have trained elephants,
on the backs of which large baskets
or howdahs are placed to carry the
rifemen comparatively out of harms
way. But no such trained pachyderms
are had in Africa, and the tracking
and attacking must be done on foot, an
operation said by the renowned author
ity, Sir Samuel Baker, to be the most
dangerous sport on earth, for. since
many elephants are killed without any
danger On foot, it is absolutely in
evitable hat the charge of a wounded
animal will sooner or later have to be
met successfully by the man who
presses closely into combat with him
met successfully if the hunter would
preserve his life fromthis unsoughtcom-
bat that calls forth every ounce of un-
swerving, unhesitating, intuitive cour-
age. Like the hunter of the jungle
lion, the slayer Of the tusked behemoth
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

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, DRAWN z
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues It's own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on 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, 1909-06-30
BY Frederick R.TOombs


WILD bull ele-
plant Is the no.
bleSt work of
Cod" recently
said a vel
known African
hunter to the
writer.
Undoubtedly
the sight of him
lunging through
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

They will outwear a dozen wooden gates. They ar neat in appearance,
n Msd o IN n tn posts, and combine the greatest strength, rigidiy and durability.
Will turn the strongest bull and never need repairs.
Farm sinste-drive Gate (styIe A. 81 In. high I7-ft. opening, $3.50 each
81 in. high lift. opening, $3.50 ("
Walk Gates, 4S In. high 3-t. opening, $3.50 each
Ornamental fencing and gates to match. Priceso N application. If your
dealer does lot carry them in stock write us, and Re will supply your demand.
MONTANA ANCHOR FENCE c0 Aoan<c uI ETA MONT
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

youthful bootblacSs and donkey drivers,
and at evening guides, so-called,, come up
to tell In whispers of the charms Of a
Moorish dan~ce-"genuine Moroccan, a
Moorish woman, a beautiful Moorish
for 10 pesetas, Spanish. One of them, con-
fident OF catching us, presents a testi-
monial. and with difficulty We restrain our
smiles. 1t reads:
"Mohammed Ben TArah, worthy de-
seendant OF the prophet, Is q first-class
guide to shops which pay him a commission
on what you buy. He will also a X you
10 see an embarrassing Moorish dance,
thoroughly indecent, we'll initiated, for all
1 know. He has a n exaggerated idea Of his
superficial knowledge OF the English Ian
guage, and as a prevsTioator of the truth
he worthily upholds the reputation OF his
race"
Tho Soko Chico. though an ~unwholesome
place. is very interesting. About the width
of Broadway and half a block long. II is
large enough as spaces go in. Moorish
cities to be called a market and to be
used as such. From early morning until
midnight this little Sok Il crowded with
petty merchants whose stock Of edibles
brought on platteTs or In little handcarts
could be bought for a Spanish dollar.
Nightly they shout their wares, 500
hawkers In a space OF half as many feet.
The noise is terrific, The cry OF horsemsn
for passage, the brawl OF endless argu-
ments, the clatter Of small coins in the
hands Of money changers and the strains
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

OF the band at the Grand cafe struggling
to make audible selections from an opera
Az these together create an internal din.
the Soko Chico, where the postofficss
Of the powers alternate with European
cafes is of all Morocco the place where
east and west come into closest touch.
The Arab woman vSiled sits cross legged
In the center of tho road selling to Mos
lens bread OF semolina, and the foreign
consul seated at a cafe table sips his
glass Of absinthe and water. Occasionally
a horaeman with long pushed hair goes
by toward the Kasbah, followed a moment
later by the English colonel who lives on
the Marshan and wears a helmet.
A score OF tourists gather at the cafe
tables in the afternoon. and as many
couriers, with brown, knotty. big veined
legs, always bare, squat against the wall
of the various foreign postoffices, resting
until the last moment before beginning
their long, perilous all night runs. Jews,
who dress in garberdines, listen to Jews In
European clothes who tell them about
America. i,
But there lie another Sok, the outer Sok,
beyond the walls of the city, where the
camels and the storytellers come, and this
is no hybrid place., but really Morocco and
and as fine a sok as any town but Fee or
Marakesh can show. Here across a great
open space that rises gradually from the
outer walls are stretched rows upon row.
of little ragged tents as high as ones
ers. Arab BARRIERS ready to shave a e
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

ishment wal melted out to some offenders
even in Tangter. There IL q graphic story
Of one such killing told originally, / think,
in a British Blue Book.
IAN EnElishman, Drummond Hay, com
ing out one morning at one OF the gates OF
TRngier, saw q company Of soldiers drag
ginR along two prisoners with their arms
bound to their sides. One was q mountain
man from the Riff, formerly a gardener
to one of the European residents at Tan
gler; the other q young fellow, tall and
with an open and attractive countenance.
The Englishman asked the officer in COM
mand what crimes these two unfortunate
men had committed.
T sultan was tho answer-'may God
prolong his life!-has ordered their heads
to be cut off because they have engaged
in contrAband rad on the coast OF the
Riff with infidel spaniards.'
Tt Is very severe punishment for such
a fault observed the Englishman. and
II It Is to serve as a warning and example
to the inhabitants OF Tangfer why are they
not allowed to witness the executionT The
gates of the city had been closed and
Drummond Hay had caused one to be
opened for himself by giving money to the
guard.
DO not argue with me. Nazarens.' re-
sponded the officer. I have received an
order and must obey
THE decapltation was to take place in
the Hebrew slaughter house. A Moor or
vulgar and hideous aspect was there al
ready awaiting the condemned. He had in
his hand a small knife about six inches
long. He was a stranger in the city and
had offered himself as eXecutioner because
the Mohammedan butchers OF Tangier who
usually fill that office had all taken refuge
in a mosque.
AN alteration now broke out between
the soldiers and the executIoner about the
reward promised for the decapitaton OF
the. two poor creatures, who stood by and
listened TO the dispute over the blood
money. The e~xecutioneT insisted, declaring
that he had been promised 20 francs a head,
and must have 40 for the two. TIT officer
at last agreed. but with a very III grace.
Then the butcher seized one of the con-
demned men, already half dead with terror,
threw him on the ground, kneeled on his
chest and put the knife Into his throat.
The Englishman turned away his face. He
heard the sounds OF the violent struggle.
The exCcutioner cried out Give me an
other knife, mine does not cUtH Another
knife was brought and the head separated
from the body. The soldiers cried in a
faint voice, God proiong the life Of our
Lord and MASTER but many of them were
Supplied.
Then came the other victim, the hand
some and amiable looking young man
Again they wranglsd over his blood. This
officer. denying his promise. declared that
he would give but 20 franc for both heads
and the butcher WAs forced 70 yield. The
condemned man asked hat his hands
might be unbound.
Being loosed he took his cloak and
gave II to the soldier who had unbound
him, saying; Accept this; We shall moe,
IN a better world He threw his turban
to another who had been looking at him
with compassion. and stepping to the
place where lay the bloody corpse Of his
companion he said the AOslsm creed In Z
elsaE nTm voices There y no Cod bal
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

God, n MohGmmed IL His ~prophet!'
Then taking off his belt he gave it to the
S~xeoutioner. saying: Take It, but for the
love Of God out my head off more quickly
than you ala my brothers. He stretched
the SxecutionSr knesled upon his chest.
.
"a few minutes after two bleeding
heads were held up by the soldiers. Then
the gates OF the city were opened and
there came forth a crowd OF boys and men
who pursued the executiOner with stones
for three miles, when he fell falnting TO
the ground, covered with wounds. The
next day 1t was known that he had been
shot by a relative OF one of the victims.
" " The authorities OF Tangier appar-
entity aid not trouble themselves about
the matter, since the assassin came back
into the city and remained unmolested.
After having been exposed three lays
the heads were sent TO the sultan In order
that his imperial majesty might recognize
the promptitude with which his orders
had been fulfilled"
Since thIs Incident Of thirty years age
Tangier has changed. No longer may a
man be flogged in public in the sok; no
longer may the slave be sold at auction;
no longer may tho heads of the sultan's
enemies hang upon the gates, for the
place is dominated now by foreign diplo-
mats with tender European hearts. Though
stIll nominally within the empire OF the
sultan the city is defled forever. gone over
to the nfide NaEarene.
FREDERICK MOORE.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

voice OF the landlady through the open
door, my husband is drunk.
With no more ceremony than the oc-
casion demanded the drunken husband OF
the landlady was elected from the room
and the incident seemed to be ended. Not
at all. At most the bedclothes had been
Strengthened out and an attempt made
to lock the door when amid sounds of a
struggle on the stairs came the landladyfs
voice crying, "Give me that gun; give mes
that gun!"
Il WON'T" swered the husband. TIL
Kill the id Russian! I'll kill him. I
say! I've got n cartridge in the gun and
I'm going TO kill him.. Let me gol" -
The landlord was crazy. murderously
drunk. While the struggle was on the.
English woman whom we will call Mrs.
c., fearing lest murder be done and lest
her sleeping children next be the objects
OF the drunken mans rage, had Slipped
past him and rushed to the police station,
around the corner, returning with an in-,
spector Of police. Then came to the sur
face the real beauty OF the English law,
the significance OF the proud refrain, The
E~nglishman's home Is his castle"
Should the inspector touch the man or,
his gum He would not, Notwithstanding
he did enter the house as far as the foot
OF the stairway. Mrs. G. had opened the
door for him or no would not have crossed
the threshold. He declined to arrest the
man or to take the gun. saying blandly
that the man was "in his own house"
The fact that the man had threatened
murder with the gun in his hand made no.
difference to this representative OF the law
of free England and he declined absolutely
to interfere in spite of the protests Of
Mrs. c. and the American and a renewed
reminder that an irresponsible man threat
ened murder at midnight.
The inspector compromised at last by
taking away what the landlady told him
were all her husbands cartridges. The
drunkard. sobered just enough by the Of
, ficer's presence to say that all the dodgers
could get out OF the house at that hour,
II they didn't like 1t and to repeat in the
inspectors face that he would have no
id Russians in his house and would
kill this one" finally stumbled down the
basement stairs and fell asleep. What
put into his head the notion that the
American visitor was a Russian nobody
found out.
The exiEencies OF time and travel made
II impracticabls for the American 20 under
take either a prosecution OF the landlord
OF an inquiry, regarding the conduct and
duties OF the police inspector, but Mrs. G.
was not disposed 70 let the matter drop SO
easily. and with a member Of Parliament
set measures in motion to carry It further.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26
IAN ENeLISHMAN'S CASTLE"
American Learns More About An Oft
QaOted Phrases Mean
Ing,

YORK. England, Sept. 15.-That the
Englishman's home is his castle Is a
statement often quoted. How the thing
works out in practice sometimes an Amer
lean had a chance of seeing the other
day at saItburn, a watering place near
here.
The American had arrived at Saltburn
some lays earlier and taken lodgings,
Next to the Americans room was that
OF an English woman and next hers
tina OF her two children. These rooms
occupied all of the first floor OF the
modest house. On the night the trouble
came the "hall room 'front.'" AS he
would be designated in New York, "the
gentleman" as they put It here, was
aroused from the sound sleep that comes
soon after retiring and found a man VINO
had just entered the doorway approaching
the bed. Surprising tho intruder to be
some confused ledger the American
merely asked, We'll, what Is it?" with the
idea that a voice showing that the room
was occupied you'd be all hat was neces-
sAry to show the caller his mistake.
Instead. 70 the Americans RmRzement
the short and stocky Intruder with one
step had reached the bed and grabbed him.
TIL this time there had been no word
uttered save the awakened mans ques-
ton. The next instant, naturally, the
American was out OF bed. dragging the
bedclothes with him. and had ~grappled
with his a~ssailRnt, backing him against
the wall with a much louder demand 70
know What is it?'
"oh-h-hP" sams the moaning, WhininS
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

Already quite a trade is done with Japan
in canned and sailed whale meat. The
new idea is TO start q campaign to edu-
cate the people OF the European race on
pies OF canned whale meat have been dis
tnbuted from the headquarters Of the
whaling company, and all Of those who
tried II say that the meat is exceed
inRly palatable. being much tendsrer than
beef. and greatly resembling II in taste.
Al present tons and tons Of whale flesh
are used in the manufacture OF fertilizers,
which are one OF the most valuable by-i
products Of the industry. but II takes three
tons Of flesh to make one OF fertilizer, and
this latter Is sold az the rate OF 2 cents
per pOund.-Eational Food Magazine
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26
r G s
EoR eRAErsMAN FURNITURE

On account of the unusual demand
for Craftsman Furniture it has been
necessary to make rugs particularly
adapted to use with this class of furni-
ture. These are made in all sizes and
in two or three tone shades without
figures, in the different standings Of
brown, blue, green and gray.
No room furnished with Craftsman
furniture should be without a Crafts
mar rug. These add so much to their
improvement and appearance. They
are reversible and are heavy, service
able goods; prices range in the 9x12
size from $500 to $4,000.