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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Montana Bad Man Shot,

SPOKANE, January 2.-After being
hunted the country over for theft
committed in Anaconda, Theodore
Adams, alias Kid Adams, was shot
down yesterday while trying to hold
up street car. Adams and another
masked man boarded the car and at
tempted to hold up the passengers.
Seeing G. U. Smith, a land Office dep
uty, reach for his pistol, they fred at
him, the bullet cutting his scalp.
Smith returned the fire, the bullet
striking Adams in the back of the
head. inflicting a wound. which, if not
fatal, will paralyze him for life.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
RELIEF FOR THE HOMELESS,
Food and Shelter Must BE Provided
For Earthquake Sufferers.

ROME, Jan. 1.-Southern Italy and
the north coast of Sicily are today q
huge hospital. Before night it is ex-
pected 10000 survivors of the quake
will have been landed In Naples.
Emergency cases are being treated in
the streets of Messina.
The railway station at Messina
where many gathered after the first
shock, hoping to escape by train, was
uncovered today, revealing scores of
corpses packed together. The number
of dead was not counted, the rescuers
having more urgent work.
Naval officers estima ated the dead in
Messina and thereabouts today at
135, 900. They place the total deaths
at 175, 900. 1t is not stated on what
their estimates are based.
What chiefly concerns the govern
ment and the people is the progress
that is being made toward the re-
lief of those who have suffered by
the dread visitation. Considerable
advance in this respect has been made
at Messina, where, according to Off
cial reports received here, the supply
service is beginning to work satisfac.
torily. The different regions of the
coast have been allotted to various
warships and other ships as centers,
from which torpedo boats and launches
may distribute rations and water to
the different villages.
Relief expeditions that have been
making their way to Reggie have en-
countered tremendous Instructions
along the route. They report lS pro-
vincial villages besides those already
mentioned in Calabria as having been
completely ruined. This would indi-
cate that the earthquake did not con.
fine it's work of havoc to the coast.
What has become of the inhabitants
of these villages is not known.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06

will receive bounties from the state
OF sums from 81 .25 to 25 cents q week.
The cost to the country of this meas
ure will be thirty million dollars the
first year and possibly more.
Asquith has estimated that in the
United Kingdom there are 1,246, 900
OF seventy years of age and over and
that out of this total there are 572, 900
people eligible for pension.
The qualifications for pensions are
that the pensioner must have attained
the age OF seventy. He must for
twenty years have been a British sub
lect and have resided for that period
in the United Kingdom.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Old Age Pensions in England.

LONDON, Jan. l.-Old-age pensions,
so often promised during English
political campaigns, have become an
accomplished fact in England today
as the pension bill of the liberal gov
ernment will go into effect. When
the liberal government introduced the
bill 1t was assailed on all sides as be-
Ing purely socialistic.
After tomorrow, over 100000 men
and women above the age of seventy
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06

by Governor Norris to fill out the un.
expired term of w. F. Scott, state
game warden, who resigned . few
days ago, the resign alton to take effect
tonight. The term of Mr.. Scott does
not expire until next March. Mr..
Aware is deputy game warden and
has been connected with the service
for several years.
LEw1sTowN, Jan. l. The worst
fire that has been experienced in Lew.
istown in several years occrrued late
last night when the barn of former
Sheriff L. P. Slater and one of his
cab teams, the warehouse of the Par.
rott Furniture company and a small
residence were destroyed. The total
loss is about $4,000, with insurance
of sl,500. The fire originate in the
Slater barn and had made such head.
way when discovered that the pet team
OF the company could not be saved.
HELENA, Jan. Ex-Governor Edwin
L. Norris today issued q procl am alton
calling on residents of Montana to
subscribe as literally as their means
would permit for the benefit of the
Italian earthqua AXE sufferers. Mayors
Of cities are named as custodians.
ANACONDA, Jan. William Rock
efeller, we'll known young man here,
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed by Chief of Police Harvey Green,
early this morning. Rockefeller had
been arrested for trivial fighting, to.
gether with several other young men,
and was being taken to the station,
when he broke and ran, evidently to
avoid the notoriety of being arrested.
HELENA, Jan. 2.-Articles of in.
corporation of the Helena Butchering
company have been filed with A. N.
Yoder, secretary of state, by M. M.
Henniger, Grady & Geiseker, Moran
Waggeman aud others of the local
meat concerns. The company has an
authorized capital stock of s25, 900,
which is fully subscribed by residents
OF the capital city. Primarily the con.
Germ will do the butchering for local
meat dealers with one or two excep-
tions. Gradually the business will
be enlarged until large force of men
is put on the road in competition with
the eastern packing houses.
BILLINGS, Jan. 2.-According to A.
G. Logan, one of the leading live
stock dealers of eastern Montana,
the establishment of q national wool
storage warehouse in Chicago for the
handling of large portion of the
wool of the northwest is now assured,
a sufficient amount of wool has been
pledged and represent atives from the
different states which will ship their
wool to the new enterprise, will leave
in short time for Chicago, where a
meeting will be held and board of
directors will be elected. This board
will number Is, of whom nire will
come from the six northwestern states
which are interested in the PROPOSE.
tiOu.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Oregon Wins 100000 Suit.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The cour,
OF claims has announced it's findings
In the case Of the state of Oregon
against the United State and awards
100000 for moneys expended by
1t during the civil war in protecting
the adjoining territories of Washing.
ton and Idaho. When the war began,
Oregon was left defenseless and the
troops which at that time guarded 1t
against Indian outbreaks were taken
east. Subsequently the state raised a
large number of troops to defend it.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Ruef Gets Fourteen Years.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.-Four.
teen years in the penitentiary, the
maximum sentence provided for brib.
cry of q supervisor, was the sentence
meted out tonight to Abr am Ruef,
who for years directed the political
destinies of San Francisco as advisor
to the administr alton of Eugene
Schmitz, former mayor of the city.
Judgment was pronounced at the close
of day devoted to a legal battle
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
THOUSANDS ARE DEAD.
nthquake In Southern Italy Causes
/ Frightful Loss Of Life.


fand ofaSicily have been visited by
appalling calamity, the extent of
sich cannot yet be grasped. An
.rthquake yesterday morning de-
{5astated city after city and obliterated
famaller towns and villages without
enumber. Then q tidal wave swept
along the straits of Messina and
added to the horror, drowning the
people in their helplessness and panic.
Fire came to complete the work of de.
struction. Flames broke out in the
devastated cities and countless mum:
bers of injured men, women and
children were burned to death.
The horror and destructiveness OF
this visitation probably will exceed
that of any earthquake;in Italy since
1888, when 10000 persons perished in
! Messina alone.
Reports of heavy loss of life are
coming in every hour from city and
town and nearly every village in the
stricken zone, and the storylin its de-
tail has only begun to beIstold. The
horror grows as further reports come
in.
From one source here it is learned
that between 81, 900 and Is 900 persons
lost their lives, and that twice that
41mber have been injured.
SA message from Palermo states that
ZOO persons were killed in Messina q,
#Nly, and hundreds are still alive
Saeath the ruins of the buildings.
d Railway communication has been re-
NJ Established and commercial report
rom Messina to the government OF
tally stated that the city of 150, 900 in
q :abitants has been completely de-.
>royed. Besides Reggie on the main
md. all the smaller towns on the
n rats are in ruins and it is feared
ere is untold suffering and death in
Fle rural districts.
Rescue work is being pushed for.
ard with all possible haste. All the
rength of the Italian government is
eing centered upon the endeavor to
'elieve the unfortunate and the refu-
gees. The army and naval officers
are in complete charge. Looters who
began their work of pillage as the
fires were breaking out yesterday have
been driven to the mountains by the
troops and many have been killed.
Wherever possible ruins have been
searched and hundreds of injured per.
sons liberated from beneath the de.
bris.
Officers in charge of the rescue work
at Messina and Reggie have tele.
graphed that between 1900 and 5000
persons have been taken out of the
ruins and sent to temporary hospitals.
An equal number of dead have been
! taken out. These reports say the
work of recovering the bodies has
Escarcely begun. These officers esti.
cate the total dead in these two cities
At upwards of 10000, but it is believed
{lere that the reports are greatly exag-
t.erated.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06

Fine Book and Job Printing q spe.
cialtv at the RIVER PRESS Office.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19

ed him in the natural way, are boss
eS for whom he is working constant
ly. Frequently they demand his
labor of an evening, when his en-
plOyes are free from business care,
and sometimes they even wake him
up at night with their imperious COM
mands to hasten to work for them.
Periods of financial depression, sea-
sons when business is slack, and the
consequent huStling for business are
bosses that stand over the man in
business for himself like a slave
driver with his blacksnake whip.
The man who is bOssed by another
one never has to worry about his
money when it is due. But the man
who is his own boss frequently has
to rake and scrape and rack his
brain to obtain the money neces-
sary to meet his payroll At every
turn he meets obligations and respon-
sibilities Of all his employees.
No man is ever his own boss COM
pletely in this world, and no man
can climb so high that he does not
find someone higher up who bosses
him, even though Indirectly. There
is always some restraining power.
Even the president of the United
States, officially the highest man in
the country, is not his own boss.
Though he does not nave to get to
the Office at a certain time in the
morning and report to his employer.
he is, nevertheless, employed by ev-
cry one Of the SO-odd millions of
people in the United States. They
are all his bosses, indirectly, and
he feels his obligation to them if he
be a conscientious president. There
is but one way in which man can
be his own boss. and that is to boss
himself and so see that he does what
he is capable of doing in Jealous
fashion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
r. GALLOWAY TOOK TO TALL TIMBER

G. McLendon, who, as stated, is an
appOintee of Governor Smith S.
From what Chairman McLendOn
has written and from the questions
he asked of counsel and witnesses
during the port rate hearings the
conclusion has been drawn that he is
opposed to the granting of these
port rates. Yet he has never eX-
pressed any definite opinion, and his
real attitude is, therefore, not con-
clusively known.
1t is known that he takes the
view that low rate in one direction
and for the same distance is not
sufficient reason for the establish
ment of the same rate in the oppO-
site direction. This is in accord
with decisions which have been made
by the interstate commerce commits
sion.
The question is, therefore, wheth-
er there win be other and control
ling reasons to induce him to decide
in favor of the port rates-that is,
that the rate on special iron prod
Ucts, now under consideration, should
be 10 instead of 20 cents from Sa-
vannah to Atlanta, the same as the
rate prevailing in the opposite direc-
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
ROBUST LIAR SLIPPED CABLE.
Because of the Lies He Told His
New Wife.

To rid himself Of the crushing
weight of mountain of falsehood
that he had piled, lie by lie, upon
himself Herman Dewin, % years old,
killed himself in New York. One
of his lies was that he was a clerk
in the custom house. The truth was
that he had taken civil service ex-
aminations several times, but al
ways failed. Instead Of confessing
to his wife he kept up the deceit.
Mrs. Dewin thought it rather
strange that in their two months of
married life he never brought home
any pay. But he always gave a ready
excuse. Once he said his name had
been spelled wrong on the payroll.
At another time he told his brother
in-law, who is employed in a bank,
that he would mail two checks to be
cashed.
A week after that the brother-in-
law asked DeWin why the checks had
not reached him. Dewin replied that
a pOstOffice clerk had stolen them
and had been arrested. Several
days after that he announced he had
received So for appearing as wit
ness against the clerk The wife,
however, never saw any part of
the So.
He was found dead in his home
in Glendale with a rubber tube con-
nected with an open gas jet in his
mouth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
IS BEING ONES OWN BOSS WORTH WHILE?

There is a lot of talk nowadays
about the pleasure, comfort and sat
isfaction of being ones own boss that
needs looking into before accepting
as true. Many a young man, with
a good, steady job never loses occa-
sion to expand upon the privileges
and perquisites of having it as easy
as his boss has. His employer, he
argues, certainly has a mighty good
thing of it-jUst coming down to
the office and bossing his employees
around at his own sweet will. He
has no regular hours. and can leave
the Office whenever he gets good and
ready. In fact, it is somewhat un-
fair to him TO make his employees
work so hard when he himself does
nothing but sit in his office and look
out the window or fool around with
a few papers. If he could only get
to be in business for himself, the
young man argues, he would be able
to do precisely the same thing.
But he wouldn't. He would not
find this thing of being your owl
boss exactly what it is cracked ur
to be-from the standpoint of leis
ure. In all probability if he has
it in him he will eventually receive
greater returns for his labor and en-
JOY the satisfaction and pecuniary
advantages of building up his owl
business. But the rest of 1.-THE
easy, voorhees, part of it-he will dis
cover to be a snare and a deIusion
1 Lake many other people, he would
md out that if he gets a business
of his own he will be free to do a.
ne likes, but viii be bOssing himself
around more tnsistentIy than his ole
! emplOyer ever did.
The man who is his own boss has
many things to contend with. He
can never get up so high that he
! mas no boss. Every customer will
/ whom he deals is his boss as long a.
! ne is dealing with him. He mus
satisfy all demands of that customer
j ne wants to do business with him
ana put up with his peculiarities anC
serve him to the best of his ability
/ All financial obligations he under
takes, sucn as the payment of note
Tor borrowed capital or credit grant
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
MAMMOTH MINERS,
The Experts Who Prospect and Dig
for Prehistoric Creatures.

The Experts Who Prospect and Dig
for Prehistoric Creatures.
Mammoth miners are experts who
know where to prospect for NAM
moths and how to dig them out,
even as the mining engineer knows
where to prospect for silver and
how to extract it.
In the west, in Alaska and in
Siberia mammoth miners are always
| at work. They are always unearth-
ing creatures that died 100000
years ago.
Siberia was the mammOths true
home. Siberia 100000 years ago
was one luXuriant forest. Here the
| fur-cOvered beasts, with their ten
foot trunks and their fifteen-foot
stature, swarmed. Then an earth
quake removed a barrier range be-
tween Siberia and the Arctic ocean.
and those low-lying forests were
inundated. All their animal and
vegetable life was killed.
The first of the drowned Siberian
mammoths was found in 1899 by an
Eskimo villager on the banks of the
Lena. 1t was imbedded in a vast
cake of ice. The villagers melted
the ice, they Toasted on the 100
O0O-year-old flesh, and then they
sold the tusks
Only the bones remained when
ZlOtover of the Petersburg Imperial
museum reached that outlandfsh
village after a journey of 1900
miles. He took the bones back to
the museum, where you may see
them mounted today He bought
the tusks from the ivory traders and
fixed them on the skeleton, and the
book he wrote about his find is SIN
text book among the mammoth
miners of our day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
PRAYER ENDED MANS TRIAL
Minister'S References to Prisoner
Caused Case to Take I'm
usual Turn

The case of Jordan Swain, under
Indictment for the murder of w. c..
Beasley, near Mt. Vernon last Oc-
tober, was brought to a sudden and
unexpected close Immediately after
court went into session Tuesday
morning
On taking the bench of the Oconee
circuit four years ago Judge Martin
instituted the practice of opening
court with prayer, minister usually
performing this service. Rev. Joe
IS. Mcdaniel was present as a wit
ness for the state against Swain, and
upon invitation offered prayer.
Referring to the prisoner in his
prayer the minister said: 81 pray
for mercy for this poor boy who is
now on trial for life. His hands are
stained with the blood of his victim,
and | hope that when he comes to
die, which he must, the great God
will forgive him for his crime. If
he fails to get forgiveness in this
world | hope he will be forgiven in
the world to come. O, Lord, have
mercy upon this poor sinner, whose
hands are dyed in the blood of his
fellow man. 3 Nay the doctors
of the law in this case speak truth
fully, honestly and not lie"
After the prayer by Rev. McDan-
lei Solicitor Graham began argument
for the state, when to the surprise
Of a crowded court house Attorney
Cooper, for the defense, arose with
motion for a mistrial, based upon
the allusion of the minister to the
prisoner. His motion was sustained
and mistrial declared by Judge
Martin, and the jury discharged.
Swain was returned to Jail.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
INSISTED UPON COOKING MEALS.
This Chump Wanted to Keep the
House and Got Into Divorce Court.

This Chump Wanted to Keep the
House and Got Into Divorce Court.
Il want to do the housework, "
said Victor Johnson of st. Louis the
| day after he married Miss Elizabeth
GILES. "I'lI wash the dishes, do the
cooking and the sweeping. You had
better go out and get a job"
He said all this and more, too, ac-
cording to Mrs. Johnson, whose ac-
ton for divorce on the ground of
non-support was taken under advise
ment by Judge Hitchcock.
What do you think of that?''
said Mrs. Johnson. why, l WASH t
going to let him do the homework.
How fOolish!"
Their married life of a week was
one long wrangle, in which the hus-
band insisted he should:
Make the biscuits;
BrOil the steak;
Steep the tea;
Mob the floor;
Serve the dinner;
Wash the dishes,
And, according to Mrs. Johnson,
she was to hunt work.
"These biscuits aren't like moth
er used to make" Mrs. Johnson COM
planned, as she sampled one of her
husbands chunks of CONCEALED
dough.
And you're not making the
dough mother used to make,
either" retorted Johnson. You
ought to get a job"
He had read the joke in 'fun-
n.y. paper, but Mrs. Johnson didn't
care for that. 1t hurt her feelings.
The next morning she got up at
5 a. m. and cooked breakfast before
Johnson awOke. This made him
very angry. He declared she was in
truding on his household duties.
And Mrs. Johnson went home to
mother.
There was a reconciliation a few
days later and she returned to him.
But the old subject of who should
cook the meals again caused trouble,
and she left him for the final time
January II, 1909. Il don't know
why my husband was so determined
to do the homework, said Mrs.
Johnson, but he certainly was"
Johnson did not defend the suit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
viii Depend Upon McLcndon.

In the event that this summing
up Of the situation is correct the
final outcome Of the port rate prob
lem, as at present under considera-
ton. will depend upon Chairman S.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
MORE MUROERERS RELEASED
Despite Activity of the Prison Conn
mission Governor HOke Smith
Goes 'Em One Better.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Despite the I'M
usual activity Of the prison commits
sion during the past few months in
recommending executive clemency
for inmates of the penitentiary-
particularly those there for taking
human life-Governor Smith went
them one better again today and or
dered the release Of several man
slayers over the protest of the COM
mission.
The governor signed a pardon for
d. c. Perdue, convicted of murder
and sentenced to life Imprisonment
from Cobb county in 1905. This
was recommended by the commits
sion.
The commission declined to rec
Ommend clemency for Sion Bird, a
young white man given a 7-year SEN
tence for manslaughter about three
years ago, but the governor com
muted the sentence independently.
Bird, when seventeen years old,
killed his father, the crime occur
ring in Pierce county 1t was
claimed that the elder Bird was
drunk, and was threatening the
boys mother when he was slain by
the son. Clemency was urged by
many people of the community
where the crime occurred
The governor ignored the prison
commissions recommendation in the
case Of A. b. Griffin, who has been
serving a life sentence from FAY
cite county since 1897, and ordered
the mans release. The pardon was
well recommended
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
SmaShes All Records,

AS an all-round laxative tonic and
health-builder no other pills can COM
pare with DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They tone and regulate stomach.
liver and kidneys, purify the blood,
strengthen the nerves, cure constipa-
ton, dyspepsia, biliousness, jaundice
headache, chills and malaria. TRY
them. Csc. at Dawson Drug Co.'S.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-19
JACKSON KIRKMAN is DEAD.

Was Noted Mississippian, and Be-
lOnged to the Immortal 600"
Captain Jackson Kirkman, former
ly a Mississippi editor and a we'll
known confederate veteran, died at a
hospital in Washington Tuesday.
He was one of the officers known il
the south as The Immortal Six Hun.
bred, who as prisoners of war were
placed under confederate fire on an
island near Charleston, S. c., by the
union army as a measure of retalia-
ton. Captain Kirkman served UNI
der General John H. Morgan, and
enlisted when but fifteen years old.
in later years he had been a depart
ment clerk in Washington,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-10-07

Aberdeen, 2. fijna - Valentine
Waller, II roAG starry farmerskS
hoch pfiSel 0 zivot neo6yGeinym
zp1sobem. Nedavno praooval pfi
mlaticfm stroll pa farme sveho
otce, pfi cemz mu byla zacbycela
ruka a seredn9 odfeua. Spolupra-
cujfci Timed mu k~rvacejfcf rany
obvazali kapesnfmi sdtky, by zas-
tavili krev nezli pfij'le lekaf, a
vsak hoch druhg den skonal ma
sIedkem otravy. Lekaf tvrdil re
ptiGinou toho byiy prdv6 ony u,
spinene kspesnfky.