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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
No Morals In Dreamiand,

If. as many writer's have suggested,
It is the soul itself that guides the i'm.
agery of dreams, how are we to ex.
plain the fact that in this chaos OF
ideas and feelings there is so little dis.
tinction between right and wrong that
when dreaming we commit lets for
which we should weep tears of blood
were they as real as they seem to be.
As Professor Hoffman has said, 1.-THE
familiar check Of waking hours, 4
must not do it because it would be un-
just or unkind,' never once seems to
arrest US in the satisfaction Of any
whim which may blow about our way.
ward fancies."
From all Of which we must conclude
that the dream realm is a world that is
entirely oblivious to any moral sense
and that. though it may be true that a
troubled conscience may produce OF
affect our dreams. the dreams them
selves are never burdened with a con-
science Bohemian Magazine.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Declares Law Unconstitutional.

GREAT FALLS, April A. Judge
Jere Leslie of the district court has
held that the Montana law which
requires domestic corporations to
fence their right of way is unconstitu.
tional. This point arose in the case
In which j. H. Locke sued the Grea,
Northern railroad to recover $3.50 for
stock killed along the right of way
and was awarded $3.50. The un.
constitutionality Of the law lies in the
fact, says Judge Leslie, that in re.
quiring domestic corporations to fence
their right of way they are made to do
something which foreign corporations
are not asked to do. Locke's action
was against the Montana Central,
is a Montana corporation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

rail to Johannes burg. The freight
rate on the carload from San Francis.
co to Johannesburg was Is per cent
less than the freight rate on the ar.
load from San Francisco to Goldfeld.
From Bakersfield, CAL, to Los An
geles is 168 miles. Bakersfield for
merly shipped large quantities of tai.
low to soap makers of Los Angeles.
The rate IN tal!ow from Bakersfield to
Los Angeles was 90. go a ton in carload
lots. Later Galveston got a rate on
tallow from Bakersfield, a distance of
over nineteen hundred miles, of s1O. 40
per ton, only eighty cents q ton more
than the rate from Bakersfield to Los
Angeles. Bakersfeld's tallow went to
foreign markets, and Los Angeles was
compelled to look elsewhere for it's
grease. It's soap manufacturers went to
China for their tallow, and the freight
or a ton OF tallow from Chinese ports
is only 5000, or $50 less than Los
Angeles used to pay for the 1877 miles
from Bakersfield.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Big Suit For Timber Lands,

ST. PAUL, April 12.-Forty thous.
and acres of timber land, worth from
81 ,O0o, 900 to So, 600, 900 are at stake in
the case in which testimony was taken
today at the federal building by At.
torney Peyton Gordon of Washington,
a special assistant to the attorney
general of the United States.
The proceedings were begun several
years ago by the federal government
agaisnst the Barber Lumber company
OF Eau Claire, Wis, to cancel patents
that the government had issued be-
tween 1901 and 1908 for timber land in
the Boise basin, Idaho. The govern.
ment's complaint declared that the
patents had been obtained through a
fraud.
The case will be tried this year. In
the meantime Mr.. Gordon has been
securing testimony on behalf of the at
torney's office in Idaho, California
and the state of Washington.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
The Real Ruler.


I wish I were the weather man
To say when it would snow
And whether weather would be fair
And when the winds would blow,
To touch the button and produce
A regular full blown storm.
To have it chilly II I chose
Or change around to warm.
I'd be the finest weather man
That ever raised a breeze
Or caused the peaches in the u
To ripen on the trees.
If friends were going to the woods
To pass the time away,
I'd take a note of it and have
A made to order day.
If there should be a pretty girl
Who once had turned me down,
Who passed me with a naughty air
Or chilled me with a frown,
I think I'd order up a shower
Some sweet revenge to get
When she walked out where 1 nigh
see
Her brand new hat get wet.
In winter time I think I would
Select my dearest foe
Whose sidewalk ran around a block
And make him shovel snow.
If one who claimed to be a friend
Could just make good his case,
I'd have the sunshine all the year
On o u sides Of his place.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Would Amend Desert Act.

WASHINGTON, April. 12.-Unappro-
priated non-mineral desert lands of
the United States not contained within
any Indian alton, forest re-
serves, military posts or United States
reclamation districts may be sold to
any citizen of the United States al the
rate OF 1925 per acre if the bill re.
Gently introduced in the house by
Delegate Andrews of New Mexico is
enacted into law. The money derived
from the sale of the lands is to be de
posted to the credit of the reclama-
ton service to be used in the state in
which the lands are sold.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Niagara Is Silent.

BUFFALO,, April 12.-The voice OF
Niagara is mute for the second time
in the memory of man. The river is
frozen solid from bank to bank. On
Wednesday the worst gale of the sea.
son was recorded. The solid ice fields
OF Lake Erie were churned from end
to end. piled in a huge mass at the
lower end of the lake. At Niagara
Falls there had been q heavy ice
bridge in the pool below the cataract
since the middle of the winter. Under
the impact OF the mass of ice from the
lake above, and the added foes
brought through by the wind, the
bridge gave way and began to surge
down the rapids. But before 1t gained
freedom in Lake Ontario, the wind
shifted to the north. Instantly the
moving foes packed at the mouth OF
the river. The pack froze steadily
and each hour brought added pressure
from above.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
A Ooleful Mood.

The proprietor of a Paris cafe no.
ticed that after he had refused to give
his pianist an increase Of salary the
number Of his customers dwindled
rapidly. It was only when all but
one diner had deserted him that he
discovered that the pianist had been
inficting Chopin's Funeral March
on the audience nightly. The pianist,
who was proceeded against in the law
courts and was fined so francs, pleaded
that he played according to the mood
he felt in after his request had been
refused.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
EXPLAINS TARIFF BILL,
New Measure Makes Downward Re-
vision Of Present Law,

New Measure Makes Downward Re-
vision Of Present Law.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-The senate
committee on finance, with all mem.
bers present, met today and Chair.
man Aldrich presented the tariff bill
as amended by the majority of the
committee. Many of the pro.
ducing features will be reported su bse
quently as they are intertwined with
administrative features of the measure
which will be adopted later.
Senator Aldrich, when requested to
make q brief summary OF the genera al
character of the changes proposed by
senate finance committee, furnished
the following statement:
I'm the main the rates in the tariff
bill as reported from the sen ate
hnance committee are lower than those
In the bill as 1t passed the house. the
actual number of reductions being
about three times the number of in.
creases. Such increases as have been
made have been largely rendered
necessary to preserve the symmetry of
the schedules. A considerable mum.
Der OF articles in common use have
been taken from the dutiable list of
the house bill and restored to the free
list. The great mass Of the rates re.
ported are below those of the existing
law"
Although several important amend.
ments have been made, such as the re.
storation of the Dingley rates on WON.
ems gloves and hosiery, the placing of
works OF art on the free list and the
assessment OF a duty on iron ore, the
revenue producing possibilities of the
bill are little changed.
The changes are provided mainly in
The schedule covering Injuries, the en-.
tire liquor schedule being materially
advanced. The increase on wines and
spirits is expected to bring about 3d..
600 900 additional ven Senator
Aldrich states that the committee
realizes hattie increases recommended
will not counterbalance the loss in re.
venues resulting from reductions and
lengthening of the free list. This
shortage Will necessitate further in.
on certain luxuries and the
intends to report changes.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
RAILROAD RATE CONUNDRUMS.

The mystery regarding the basis up
on which the railroads arrange their
freight rates still awaits solution.
Distance appears to be an linn aterial
factor in some cases, while in others
it is the main consideration in fixing
the alleged value of the services rem.
dered.
The principal regulative medium in
making freight rates is said to be
water competition, and this feature of
the situation is the only answer that
can be given to some railroad rate in
c%ongruities presented by a writer in
Golfers weekly. Some of the most
striking instances of perplexing rail-
road rates are given by this critic as
follows:
A Spokane merchant wanted to ship
W carloads of linoleum from Chica.
go to Spokane. The railroad rate to
Spokane was the terminal rate from
Chicago to Seattle, plus the local rate
back to Spokane. The linoleum had
to pass through Spokane to get to
Seattle. The rate being exorbitant,
the Spokane merchant purchased his
linoleum in Liverpool, to which point
it had originally been shipped by the
manufacturing plant near Chicago.
He shipped it from Liverpool through
the Suez canal to Seattle, paying the
import duty and the local freight rate
from Seattle to Spokane. and beat
the railroad rate from Chicago to
Spokane by a considerable discount.
The proprietor OF q San Francisco
iron works shipped on the same day
two carloads of machinery of the same
kind and bulk. One went to Goldfeld,
New, . distance of about three
hundred miles from San Francisco,
and the other went to Johannesb burg,
South Africa. Both carloads went
w the same road to Reno, New, the
Goldfeld shipment going south and
the other keeping on it's way to New
York, whence it was shipped by water
to an English port, transferred to an.
other vessel bound for Cape Colony,
South Africa, and from Cape Colony
was shipped three hundred miles by
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Goina Some,

Being pursued by a farmer and his
three sons after being caught in the
chicken yard, a young colored person
bad just made up his mind that he
was not eluding his followers as quick
~ as might be when a long cared Jack
rabbit jumped up from the roadside
anu started down the road ahead of
him. The would be chicken thief had
run a few hundred feet farther when
the farmer and his boys were aston
1shed to hear the negro shout in a
voice that quavered with fright,
though unrestrained, "Say, for de Lord
sake, you rabbit. get out OBJ de way
and let some n run who can rum
Argonaut.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Oil Company Must Pay.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The man.
date of the supreme court in the
Waters.Pierce Oil company was is.
sued today. 1t il addressed to the at.
torney general of Texas, and upon its
arrival will be authority for the col.
lection of 81, 900. 900 fine imposed by
the state courts upon the company.
About two-thirds of the sum will be
divided among the LAWYERS who pro-
secuted the cases, while the remainder
will go to the state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal r. atment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buye
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
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, 1909-04-21
As Usual.

"Here is an account of a couple who
are going to make their honeymoon
trip in a balloon"
'That will be perfectly natural"
"How SOP
1T is customary for honeymooners
to come down in a few days with a
bump"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
1lnstalIment

"You are charged here with assault
and battery, and 1 will have to fine
you," said the judge severely.
Charged, is it," asked the prisoner
c%heerfully.
Eyes, charged"
"Well. charge the fine"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
The River Press.
Published every Wednesday Morning
by the RiUer Press Publish-
ing Company.
MARKETING FARM PRODUCTS.

With the increased development O
Montana's agricultural resources, thu
marketing of farm products becomes.
problem that will soon demand atten
ton. 1t can be solved, in part, b,
combining stock raising with the cul
tivation of the land, a suggestion
along that line being made by tn,
Helena Record 10 these remarks:
A feature of dry land farming which
is going to be a factor in the agricul
.tural development of this state will bt
the business of fattening stock fol-
market. One of the most ad anceG
scientific farmers in Montana IL DR..
w. X. Sudduth of Yellowstone county,
and in a recent interview the doctor
gives some facts about the industry
that are worthy of careful considera-
ton. In southern Montana, in the
Big Hole country, the feeding indus.
try has grown to large proportions,
the great hay fields in that part of the
state giving the growers the oppor.
tunity to winter feed thousands of
head of cattle which are turned off in
the early spring, principally to coast
buyers. In eastern and northern Mon
tana alfalfa is used with good results
and a few years ago many cattle and
sheep were fattened for the early mar
kets.
But the dry farming business, &C.
cording to DR.. Sudduth, opens up a
new field. DR.. Sudduth has learned
through experience that one of the
best forage crops for ~fattening cattle,
sheep and hogs is Canadian peas, and
it is a crop that can be and has been
grown with great success by the dry
land farmers wherever tried. 1t has
been found an acre Of peas can be
seeded for q dollar an acre and when
for hay the yield is FIVE tons to
the acre. In Wisconsin great areas of
"cut over" timber lands are given to
the crop, and it is used for feeding
with the result that it has become a
NV piOuVoOlc IuuuSLry III Gudu
state. At the Chicago livestock show
last year the winner of the sweepstakes
had been fattened on Canadian peas
and never had a grain of corn.
But the growing of the Canadian
pea as a food for stock is moi the only
advantage in the crop. 1t increases
the productiveness of the land, the
cultivation and tilling of the soil re.
quired in dry land farming holding
the moisture and the peas furnishing
nitrogen, so that the following crop is |
materially increased.
1t is somewhat remarkable that in
the Prickly Pear valley there has
never been any effort made to fatten
stock for the market. At Broadview,
where DR.. Sudduth carries on his
operations, the opportunities are not
superior to those offered on the high
err lands in the valley, that are with.
out water, but they have never been
utilized. An experiment station,
where sugar beets for fattening hogs
and Canadian peas for feeding stock
are grown, is worthy the c%onsidera.
ton of those who have faith in the
possibilities of the land adjacent to
Helena,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Needed Maxine Over,

A girl in her teens
Met a man in blue jeans.
And he said to her: "Ah, there, my treas
ure!
May I ask you to wed?''
But the little girl said,
Get some garments first cut to your
measure"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Nc Novelty.

"A novel always ends with the mar
riage."
(Which is proper. There's nothing
novel about the subsequent hunt for a
fiat and a cook and a job lot Of furni-
~ture."-Puck.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
One In; T'other Out.

1T must be very nice" said the call.
er to the authors wife, ito have your
husband at home so much Of the
time"
YES" replied Mrs. Richard Darling.
ton Spriggles. "It gives me q chance
to go wallpapers Weekly.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
A LAND LAWS.

Rested to the eleventh assembly the
~desirability of en- acting new laws for
the disposal of state lands, and sever.
al changes in the old law we're made.
AS there are over 700, 900 acres OF
state lands in Chouteau county, the
new regulations are of interest to
many residents of this part of Mon.
tana.
The new law requires that all lands
hereafter sold by the state of Montana
shall be at public auction only, at the
court house in the county where the
lands are located, and there must be
an auction sale of all lands at least
every two years, and oftener If the
State Board of Land Commissioners
so decides.
Only 16O acres of irrigated lands
can be sold to one individual or 32O
acres OF agricultural lands that are
not susceptible of irrig alton, nor more
than one section of grazing land.
Not more than one section can be
leased to any one firm, company, or
poration or individual.
Lessees who cultivate any lands be.
longing to the state hereafter, shall
be entitled to receive seventy.fve per
cent. of the value of such cultiv alton
from any subsequent lessee or pur.
chaser, and all improvements of
every nature and character placed up.
on state lands by any person before
another can acquire and lease or pur-
chase the same they must pay a rea-
sonable valuation of Isuch improve
ments.
From now on all patents granted
from the state of Montana will con.
tain a reserv alton for all coal, MINER
ais or oil, and known coal lands will
not be sold under any circumstances,
and the coal a only be mined under
roy atty basis of not less than ten cents
per ton.
, Persons who perform any act of re.
c%lamation, such as the construction of
dams or bitches for irrigatiug of any
state lands held under a lease, before
any person can purchase the same, or
lease the same in the event the former
lessee does not desire to release the
same, must purchase and pay the full
value of such improvements performed
by the former lessee.
Timber lands cannot be sold by the
state, but permits may be granted for
the cutting of certain portions there.
of, but provisions are made for the
protection of the forest and for refor.
Fees are charged in all cases a. fol-
lows:
Filing application to lease, Soc; fill
ing application to purchase, SOC; &C.
cepting and providing bonds, sl.0o;
issuing lease, Sl.00; issuing permit to
cut live timber, Sl.00; issuing patent
or certificate of purchase, $500; pro-
viding and recording assignments OF
lease of certificate of purchase, 81. 90;
patent for town lots, $500; deed for
right of way, $500; certified copy Ger.
tifcates of purchase, lease or patent,
$500.
All of the aforesaid fees must be
paid in advance and accompany the
apple alton, otherwise they will be re-
jected.
In case any application Of lease or
purchase ia rejected, the filing fee will
be returned.
Any land leased by the state of
Montana is subject to sale whenever
the State Board of Land Commission.
ers wishes to offer the same, at any
annual sale, but the purchaser or
lessee has the prior right of taking
the land at the highest lease or the
highest bid, If he so chooses.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

The wise woman is one who when
her husband comes in all out Of sorts
with the world HES herself to the
kitchen and at once makes a noise like
a good dinner cooking.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Hu1nor ano Philosophy
BY DUNCAN NJ. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

It is the people who work in the
dark that you need to look out for.
Those in the limelight work only to
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

Don't c~riticise.
Th G are al
ways plenty of
other people to
do 1t, and you
car just o. X.
somebody else's
criticism and so
e 8 c a pc detec-
ton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Helping Him.

"Mr. Chairman" began the man who
is unaccustomed to public speaking.
"I-er-I-er-I-er''-
"Wel.' interrupted the chairman
kindly. "to err is misunderstanding
ton Herald.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
A Wet Blanket.

Peckem-You are not married yet,
are you? Youngbach-No. but I'm en-
gagged, and that's as good as being
married. P~eckem-It's a whole lot
better, if only you knew.-London An
swerS.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Explained.

why do people have so much to SAY
against strong minded women?"
Part of WISDOM"
Where does it come in?"
Always best to get the start If 70,
cam"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Cheaper Variety,

From Africa We'll get some news
And JUNIORS quite absurd
That won't be worth to any one
A dollar bill a word.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

Probably If we all did live to be a
hundred years old nine-tenths Of us
would try u best to deny it.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

The difference between being a
schemer and a dreamer is practically
all in favor Of the former.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

Wit should be used as a shield for
defense rather than as a sword to
wound others.-Fuller.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

Water right blanks-only correct
form published-for sale at the RIVER
PRESS Office.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Succumbed.

"She didn't like him at first"
mo; his face was against him"
"But she changed her mind"
"Yes; when his face was against
hers"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

1t m q k e S US
m a d If our
friends pity us
and madden still
If we hear them
say that they
don't.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

Don't be surprised to find your place
filed by somebody else If you don't
keep it permeated by your own cor
porosity.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

People who are going to the devil
seldom have any use for a return
ticket.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

W. G. CONRAD, Pres.
JAMES T. STANFORD,
Vice-Pres. and MANAGER.
A. E. SCHWINGEL,
Cashier.
OMAR j. MALCOLM,
Asst. Cashier.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
Conrad Banking
COMPANY,
GREAT FALLS MONT
(Unincorporsted.)

PAID UP CAPITAL.........S 100000
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES 00o. 600
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

Local Securities a Specially.
Interest Allowed on Time Deoos