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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
Milwaukee Road Cuts Rates.

SEATTLE, Aug. 4.-The Chicago,
Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway
has entered into active competition
for shipment of freight to the Orient.
The first tariff Sheet was published
recently, in which the Milwaukee an.
nounced through rate of 81 per 100
pounds on machinery from Chicago
to the Orient. The Canadian Pacific
rate on this commodity was S1.50.
The Milwaukee also published q fiat
rate of Sl.50 per 100 pounds on the
entire classificat of merch andise,
which includes practically all west.
bound freight, with the exception Of
silverware, plated ware, ginseng, su.
tomobiles, bicycles and jewelry. This
rate was also promptly met by the
Canadian Pacific.
The Chicago, Milwaukee g. Puget
Sound road does not interpret the
interstate commerce ruling on this
matter to mean that railroads must
not quote lower rates for exports and
imports than for domestic cargoes.
The members Of the transcontiuental
freight bureau, OF which the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific are
have taken the opposite
view, lest the export rates be used % 8
basis for domestic rates.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
Steamships Race Against Congress.

NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Nearly twenty
transatlantic steamships, which have
been bending their utmost efforts in
response to orders by wireless to reach
New York before the new tariff law
went into effect. lost the race at 4:3O
this afternoon, when the custom house
closed and the last payment of duty
under the old law was registered. :.
Importers who have merchandise on
these boats will be losers to the ex-
tent of between 100000 and 5000, 900.
The vessel which lost by the narrowest
margin was the Hamburg. American
liner Pennsylvania, with a cargo of
wines and merch andise, which must
pay $4,000 extra duty under the new
law. Fast scout tugs had been out
all day awaiting the big liners
arriv al with orders to take off her cap.
tain aud hurry him to the customs
house with the ships manifest. But
when 4:3O O'Clock came the Pennsyl-
van:s was SO miles or SO from port.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
TARIFF BILL PASSED.
Measure Receives Favorable Vote and
Goes to President.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Sat 2:10 p.
N. today the senate adopted the con.
ference report on the tariff bill, which
effects the final passage of that bill
through congress. The vote was Al
ayes and 81 nays. The bill received
all the republican votes except those
of Bristow, Clapp, Cummins, Dolli.
YER, La Toilette, Beveridge and Nell
son. The senate then took up the
concurrent resolution, reducing the
rates in the leather schedule.
The concurrent resolution making
corrections in the leather schedule of
the tariff bill was reported from the
senate finance committee by Senator
Aldrich. The resolution changes par
agraph $50 to read as follows:
''Hides of cattle, raw or uncured,
whether dry, sailed or picked, shall
be admitted free of duty.
Provided, that on and after October
l, 1909, grain, buff and split leather
shall pay duty OF u per cent adva-
loren: that all boots and shoes made
wholly or in chief value of leather
made from cattle hides or cattle skins
of whatever weight, or cattle of the
bovine species, including calf skins,
shall pay a duty of 10 per cent adva-
loren; that harness, saddles and sad
dlery in sets or in parts, finished or
unfinished, composed wholly or in
chief value of leather, shall pay q
duty of 20 per cent. advalorem."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11

Rinsdaie Homestead: W. M.
Woodbridge has just received . new
machine which will cut and thresh the
grain at the same time. It is Q pretty
large machine and occupied the entire
space of one datcar in transportation.
This is the first machine of its kind in
the valley, at least the first we have
heard OF, and it will be watched with
interest. The sicklebar is IS or 20
feet long and will certainly cut the
grain fast, and the great convenience
of threshing and sacking the grain at
the time of cutting is considerable
over even the up.to.date
binder.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11

has consisted principally of the erec.
ton of steel bridges, replacing tempo.
rary pile structure. The greatest
work yet to be accomplished, however,
is the construction OF the million dol
lar cantilever bridge across the main
channel of Copper river, between Miles
and Childs glaciers. Both Of the gls.
ciers are active aud discharge foes o
ice Which drift down the river. The
bridge will be more than 1900 feet
long. The railroad when completed,
will be 160 miles long and will have
cost sl20, 900. 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
Two Federal Districts For Montana.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. - Senator
Dixon today introduced bill divid-
ing Montana into two federal judicial
districts and providing for an addi-
tional judge and other federal officers.
1t proposes two districts to be known
as eastern and western, the western
district to be composed of Missoula
and Butte divisions, and the eastern
to be composed of three divisions
Great Falls, Helena and Billings.
The Missoula division will be made
up OF Flathead, Lincoln, Sanders,
Missoula, Granite and Ravalli coun.
ties, with court at Missoula. The
Butte division will include Powell,
Deer Lodge, Beaverhea ad, Silver Bow
and Madison counties, with court TO
be held at Butte. The Great Falls
division will include Teton, Chouteau,
Valley, Cascade and Fergus counties,
with court at Great Falls. The Hell
ena division will include Lewis and
Clark, Jefferson, Broadwater,
Meagher, Gallatin and Park counties,
with court at Helena. All rem aiming
counties will be included in the Bill
lings division, with court at Billings.
Senator Dixon also introduced q
bill to establish bureau of mines in
the department of the interior, to in.
vestigate mining, experiment with and
utilize mineral substances, prevent
mine disasters and conserve mining
resources. The bill provides for the
appointment of director at salary
of 200 per annum and for the trans.
fer OF the supervision of mining from
the geological survey to the proposed
bureau.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
OF LAND PRIZES.
Oregon Man Secures First Choice In
Occur d'Alene 0raxsing.

oregon Man secures First Choice IN
Occur d'AIene Drawing.
CoEuR D'ALENE, Aug. 9.-swarming
around . great tent covered cage,
hundreds Of eager men and women
waited this morning for pretty little
Helen Hamilton's eyes to be blind
folded that she might plunge her
hands into . great heap of los, 600
yellow envelopes and drkw out the
name of the lucky person who had
won the right to the first choice of all
the $500 homestead timber claims on
the Occur d'Alene Indian reserv alton.
Inside the big transparent cage
where Supt. J. W. Witten was abso-
Lutte ruler, can after can filled with
applications of homeseekers had been
carried, the seals broken and the con-
tents dumped on the white canvas
that covered'the floor. More than q
half ton of envelopes all just alike
were piled up in golden mound.
Not one chance for hint of fraud or
favoritism was to be tolerated. A
marked envelope in that mass would
have had less chance than the ancient
needle in hay stack, but to shut out
the least possibility of collision the
pile of letters was ordered lstirred and
mixed to even more hopeless chance
than before.
1sadore Zelig of Myrtle Creek,
Oregon, drew number one in the draw.
ing for the Occur d'Alene reserya.
tion.
No. 2.-John Hedmarl, Spokane.
No. 3.-Chas. S. Cornwell, Spo-
kane.
No. 4.-Herman Newbauer, South
Tacoma, Wash.
No. 5.-Ella T. Maloney, Spokane.
No. 6.-Wm. T. Atkins, Troy, Ida.
No. 7.-Maude Sharp, Martinsd ale,
Illinois.
No. S.-Peter Weiderbach, Butte,
Montana.
Fifteen hundred names are to be
drawn today. 400 more tomorrow.
After the first few envelopes have been
chosen two other little girls are to as.
sist in the drawing, Harriet Post,
daughter of prominent Spokane at.
torney and Christine Donlan of Mis-.
soula. Wednesday will be a day of
checking up the work. On Thursday
the scene witnessed today will be re-
peated with little Miss Donlan taking
the place of Miss Hamilton and draw.
ing the first of the winners among the
1000 applicants for lands in Mon
tana's great Flathead reserv alton,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11

1908, will be spent on the erection Of
homes and barns and the purch ase Of
farming implements.
The band is widely scattered, &C.
cordtng to reports, and 1t may take
some time to assemble them. II this
is the case, they will be taken care OF
by the government this winter and
then removed In the spring. IL said
that this remnant Of the Chippewas 10
the only. tribe in the country for which
provision has not been made by the
government,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
A Big Irrigation Project.

SPOKANE, Aug. 3.-Preliminary
work for great irrigation project,
bringing water for 100 miles to supply
550,000 acres of land, is being taken
up by farmers of Grant county, Is
miles southwest of Spokane. The
plan is to take water from the Colum.
bia river near Marcus and convey it
by gravity through huge pipelines
100 miles long.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
AGREE ON TARIFF BILL.
Hide and Leather Schedule Will Be
Fixed BY Resolution.

Fixed BY Resolution.
WASHINGTON, Aug 3.-The COM
plete collapse of all important oppo.
sition to the conference report on the
tariff bill was evidenced today when
the senate agreed to vote on that
measure at 2 o o'clock Thursday. Halt
an hour after unanimous consent had
been obtained for T. a. course, declin.
alton on the part of senators to speak
brought an early adjournment until
noon tomorrow.
The lack OF interest in the proceed
ings was very evident. This was
caused by an agreement by western
senators to vote quickly on the report
and to correct the hide and leather
schedule BY means of concurrent
resolution to be acted upon separate.
ly. The form of the concurrent reso.
luton was agreed upon in an informal
conference in Senator Aldrich's com.
mittee room. Instructions are given
by this resolution to the enrolling
clerks OF the senate and house to
change the language Of thelprovision
reducing duties on boots and shoes
and harness.
The suggestion for an agreement to
vote was made in the senate by Mr..
Bailey, representing the minority,
and was at once concurred in by Mr..
Aldrich.
The Texan intimated that there
might be considerable debate on the
concurrent resolution, but it is not
believed that the discussion can be
continued for many hours. Senator
Culberson gave notice that he would
seek to amend the concurrent resolu-
luton by placing the cotton bagging
on the free list, that article having
been placed there by the senate and
removed by the conference committee.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
President Entertains Congressman.

VT0SSOOUS 6IuSSTI0lOS SOVKTeSSmens
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-With the
tariff bill passed and the animosities
of conferences and debate all but for
gotten the "tarif builders" sat with
the president at dinner tonight in the
state dining room of the White house.
It was Mr.. Taft's celebration of the
end of the tariff fight and this is the
farewell dinner of the season.
The democra attic members of the com.
mittees which framed the tariff bill
were included in the presidents invi.
tation.
Practice ally all OF the figures in the
tariff fight were at the dinner except
the "insurgents." The guests included
the five members of the cabinet who
are in the city, all the members OF the
senate committee on finance and the
house committee on ways and means;
Vice President Sherman and Speaker
Cannon and several members and rep
resentatives.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
To lrrigate FIathead Lands.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The board
of consulting engineers recently con.
vened to consider the developments OF
the Poison unit of the Flathead irri.
cation project, reports that sufficient
supply of water to irrigate large
area of the irrigable land in the Mis-.
sion valley may be made available by
storage.
The conditions favorable for fruit
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
THE BIG LAND LOTTERY,
Applications For Drawing Will Reach
Nearly 100000.

COEUR D 'ALENE, Aug. with q
total of nearly 2S5, 900 applications OF
land seekers piled up in steel cans Is
feet high in the general land registra.
tion office here, all past figures for
land drawings conducted by the gov.
ernment have been eclipsed even to
the famous lottery in Oklahoma.
Notaries have coined money, those
at Occur d'Alene, located near the
electric line etation where thous ands
alighted from the Spokane trains d al.
ly, having made as high as an average
of sl35 per day.
Armed men will guard the cans con.
taining' the applications until the
opening day, Monday, when those
containing filings for Occur d'Alene
reserve land will be opened and the
winners drawn by Miss Hazel Hamil.
ton, the pretty little niece OF Mayor
Boyd Hamilton of Occur d'Alene.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Miss
Christina, Donlan, the l2-year.old
daughter of Edward Donlan of Mis-.
soula. will select the slips from among
the thousands which will designate the
winners of the choice tracts on the
Flathead reserve.
On the following three days Miss
Harriet Post, daughter of Frank T.
Post, q prominent attorney and politi.
clan of Spokane, will pick the winners
in the Spokane reservation. Lists Of
great length will be selected 90 that in
case the winners fail to respond, or
do not qualify, the next man behind
him will win the lucky place.
Drawings will take place from q
high wooden platform, above the
heads Of the crowds, which have al.
ready begun to return to await the
drawings. The hotels are crowded.
Only 100 claims are to be settled on
the Spokane reserv alton. The Occur
reserv alton embodies 1850
claims, for which the applicant will
stand one chance in 100 of winning.
The Flathead reserv alton in Montana
is the largest of the three, and con.
tains $500 claims of 160 acres each,
the applicant standing one chonce in
30 OF winning q homestead.
These lands have all been appraised
by government men, the winner to pay
the appraised value per acre after
filing. He will be given reasonable
time by the United States to make q
final payment.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
Would Benefit Public Schools.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Represen.
tative Mondell today introd aced . bill
providing that moneys received from
sales OF public coal lands in excess Of
$40 and S20 per acre, and for timber
and stone lands in excess of 81. so per
acre, shall be turned over to the state
in which the lsnds from which the
funds collected are located for the
use of the public schools OF such state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
Montana Elks Have Big Frolic.

MILES CITY, Aug. 4.-So far the
Elks' convention in Miles City has
been nothing but q continual frolic.
Monday afternoon the special train of
Pullmans on which delegations we're
arriving was held up just east of the
Tongue river bridge by cowboys, and
many of the travellers thought it was
the real thing and attempted to con-
ceal their valuables. Only in consid.
Grafton for the ladies on the train
were the stage allowed to ride to the
depot in coaches, for it had been
planned that they were to be made to
get out and hoof it.
The cowboy and cowgirl parade
with Indians in war paint and an old
Deadwood stage coach opened to.
days doings. At noon everyone took
refreshments In Elkville, where four
steers were barbecued and beer was
free.
Governor Norris was thrown into
the Elkville jail as soon as he ar.
rived, for criticising the performance
At Bill Euright's Palace thester, but
all Witnesses testified the show was
rotten and deserved it, and the gov
ernor was released, to be succeeded
by G. B. Wiley, cashier of the first
national bank. who was charged with
forging check for two.bits on the
Elkville bank.
In the afternoon the bank of Elk.
vile was robbed in true Jesse James
style and Doc Butler. the robber, was
captured and his eflgy strung to
tree and the body riddled with blank
cartridges. A ball game between the
Great Falls and Billings Elk teams
resulted in victory for Billings.
Every Elk present swears that be is
having the time of his life, and from
the constant reiter alton of the fact
sung loudly on the streets at all hours,
everyone is satisfied that the gangs
all here.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
Great Falls Union Repudiated.


DENVER, Aug. 4.-The convention
of the Western Federation OF Miners
repudiated the agreement of the Great
Falls Mill & Smelter Men with the
industrial peace commission, on the
ground that it was q violation of the
bssic principles of unionism, and
called upon the Great Falls union to
annuul the agreement. Opponents Of
the agreement represented to the con.
vention that it imposed q maximum
of 81 per day in the wage scale of any
union.
The federation concluded it's annual
convention with the selection Of Den.
yer as the next place for holding the
annual convention.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
new TARIFF IN EFFECT.
Payne Bill Signed ey President and
Becomes Law.

Becomes Law.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The tariff
has been revised and the extraordi.
nary session of congress has been
brought to . close. Both houses Id.
journed sine die officially at 6 O'Clock
tonight. That is the time entered up
on the journals. but a. q matter Of
fact the house adjourned At 5:3s p. n, D,
and the cen ate at 5:58 p. m.
The closing hours were uninterest.
ing. The revision had been accord.
ing to the desires of some and with she
hearty disapproval OF others. and the
last two days had been consumed by
members Of the senate in expressing
their satisfaction or diss satisfaction.
President Taft arrived at the capitol
At 4:45 p. N. and entered the presi-
dents room. His appearance there,
the fret time since being president,
caused congressman to form In line to
be received by him. There was q con-
slant procession of b and sh aking states.
men through the presidents room
from the time OF his arrival until his
departure at $50 o'clock. At six
minutes past five the Payne tariff, as
the measure will be known, was laid
before the president. He picked up q
pen supplied by Chairman Payne
which had been used by both the vice
president and the speaker in signing
the bill and attached his signature.
After writing civilian H. Taft, ~
the president added "Signed five min.
utes after 5 O'Clock, Aug. 5, 1909-W.
H. IT,
After attaching his name TO the gen.
eral tariff bill, MIR. Taft signed the
Philippine tariff bill. The presiden,
picked up mother of pearl pen which
had been sent him from the Philippine
islands to be used in signing this
measure. He wrote his name with a
flourish, which was not in evidence
when he signed the general tariff bill.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11
An Expensive Alaska Railroad.

CoRDovA, Alaska, Aug. 4.-With
1900 men working night and day,
rapid progress is being made in the
construction of the Copper River and
Northwestern railroad, of which 95
miles are already in operation.
The work on the road this summer
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11

Conrad Observer: One can see the
smoke OF three steam plows just south
of town this week. c. F. Hover is
having about IS acres broken up on
his claim about two miles south.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-11

Fine Book and Job Printing q spe.
cialty at the RIVER PRESS Office,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-11

WHEN IN NEED OF A CORD OF
GOOD MAPLE STOVE WOOD CALL
UP 81,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-11
FORMER ALASKA MAN
IS VISITING HERE
w. w. THOMPSON is GUEST OF
. HIS UNCLE, CHIEF OF POLICE
MCDONALD.
Tells of Conditions In Alaska Some
Theories Are Busted - "Mushed''
Three Hundred Miles.

w. w. Thompson of Fairbanks,
Alaska, was an arrival IN the Guy
Friday afternoon and Is the guest OF
his uncle, Chief of Police Mcdonald.
;Mr. Thompson is a brother OF Carl
Thompson, the Tower City dugglst,
and the latter gentleman is expected
in the city in short time for a visit
with his brother before he leaves for
a visit during the winter to his old
home in Vermont.
In a conversation with Tribune
reporter Mr.. Thmopson stated that
he came out Of Fairbanks to the riv-
er where he took a boat to Seattle,
on foot. The trip was over the gov
eminent trail and makes a $50 mile
hike or ''mushing" as it is called IN
the far north.
When asked how much of a pack
he carried on the trip he simply stat
ed s'none at all, had been in Alaska
too long to carry pack"
1t Is possible to purchase trip
ticket and make the journey out by
stage, but the cost. including lnclden-
tails, is about $3.50. The trip can be
made on foot 10. about 500 and as
the time consumed, about eleven
days, is nearly the same on foot as
by stage, there are great many
who make the trip by foot.
The trip was made from the river
to Seattle by boat and then the long
train ride from the west to Bismarck
was made There are many delays
to be encountered in the latter trip
at the present time, due to the strike,
and also from the snow storms and
washouts along the line.
Mr.. Thompson says there are three
daily newspapers at Fairbanks and
they sell on the streets for rs cents
each, and in fact the lowest price
charged for anything is two bits"
Asked about the lid proposition In
Alaska, he said that the gambling
law recently passed is in full eject,
and there is now no open gambling at
all In Alaska. The liquor business
Is run on the same manner as 1t Is
In the states where the license law
is in force.
The greatest part of the work Of
the north Is mining and in fact 1t Is
the work that the country depends
ON for existance. There are, OF
course many. other lines of business
but It. all revertsf back to the mining
proposition as a basis.
Mr. Thompson said a great many
men go out there with the idea OF
making a stake and returning to the
states and living in ease for the
rest Of their life. but after they
have been there for O time they are
satisfied II they can get out with the
price Of ticket for the return trip
home. -"
Mr.. Thompson has made a success
In Alaska and states that 1t Is prob
able that his business interests will
cali him back there in the spring. He
IL an interesting talker In regard to
the country to the north and will re-
main in the city for a number OF
days.