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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-10-05
REQUIRES LEGISL LATION TO PUT
ROOSEVELT POLICIES into EFFECT
President in Favor OF Conservation of Natural Resources
But Can Find no Law to Carry Out Many
Of TeddyS Great Ideas

G CACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. AFTER
making one of the longest jumps
of his trip through the state of
Oregon and the northern half of Cal
ifornia, President Taft arrived here
tonight at 7:10 o'clock to remain un-
til o'clock tomorrow morning, when
he proceeds to Oakland and San Fran
CISCO
The president was met at the sta
ton by another of the large crowds
that have marked his advent into ev-
cry western city he has visited Dur
ing his stay here Mr.. Taft was enter
tanned at dinner, taken for an automo-
bile ride through the city, to be cheer
ed along the route, and made an ad-
dress in the state capitol grounds.
The president selected for the prin-
cipal feature of his speech the con-
Servation of natural resources, in
which he declared anew that before
many of the Roosevelt policies of con-
servation can be carried into effect
confirmatory and enabling legislation
must be secured, and he pledged him
self to use all his power to induce
congress to pass the necessary legis-
lation.
While to the average mind the
thought of day and night of unin-
terrupted travel suggests discomfort
and fatigue, the 25 hours between
Portland and Sacramento proved to
be a period of real rest and enjoy
ment for the president The only stops
made on the way were at division
points, stops necessary to the opera
tion of the train. There were crowds
at each of these places and the presi-
dent appeared on the rear platform
of his car to shake hands or to make
few informal remarks.
Mr.. Taft thoroughly enjoyed his day
on the train. He read a little, loung-
ed about the car, played a friendly
game of bridge with members. of his
party and during the five or six hours
Mount Shasta was in sight admired
that towering peak in all the chang
ing aspects the winding road brought
to view. Shasta was really the first
snow-capped mountains in the west
that the president has seen on this
trip. When he was in Colorado,
Pixies peak was hidden in cloud
bank. During the two days he was
in Seattle the weather was cold and
gray and the peak which is known on
the Seattle side as Mount Rainier
and on the Tacoma side as Mount Ia
coma, was nowhere to be seen. Many
pictures of Portland, Ore, show snow
capped Mount Hood ION guard" in the
background, but while the president
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Secretary of the Interior
Sustairs States
Contention
.BELTON CASE NOW
GENERALLY Believed That States CON.
ToVersy with Forestry Department
concerning Ownership of Sections
10 and 80 in Each Township VIII
Also Be Sustained by BalIinger.
tspecIal TO The g4anette.r

III ELENA, Oct. 4.-The state Of Mon
tana has won first blood in it's
controversy with the federal
forestry department. That is, there
are two issues between them and in
the first the commonwealth has scor-
ed a complete victory. The belief is
prevalent in state official circles that
It will also be successful in the sec
ond.
Inc issues are the right of Montana
TO make lieu selections in forest re-
serves, and this contention has been
upheld by Secretary of the Interior
Balllnger in letter just received by
the state land board. The second is-
sue is primarily known as the Belton
case, or the question of ownership of
sections 16 and SO in each township,
where they are embraced within for
est reserves
Inc state land agent is now under
orders to proceed to Flathead county
with Whatever force may be necessary
10 eject all trespassers and remove
any obstacles that he may encounter
but IN view of the action of the de-
partment in the instance quoted and
IT'S probable early and favorable steps
IN the second, he will await further
developments before resorting to force
in ejecting the forestry officials and
destroying its fences around the par
t1cular 80 acres in question, which
the state has sold to the Great North
ern Railway company, and delivery
of which has been requested in fee
simple.
When Montana was admitted to
statehood, the enabling act or con-
tract provided that sections 16 and 36
in each township should accrue to the
state for school purposes. Some years
later, with the creation of national
forests, the forestry officials have in
variably denied the ownership if such
sections were included within the re-
serves. This issue has increased in
terest in the case and it is now esti-
mated about 100000 acres are now
involved. 1t is stated that the Bolton
tract was sold to the railroad COM
pany at public auction and the for
estry officials after warning all the
wouldbe purchasers that the states
title was not recognized, proceeded to
fence it, and designating the tract as
an administrative" segregation.
Under a lease, however, the railroad
was permitted to enterS the zone and
began construction of buildings The
land board met and directed it's agent
as indicated, his movements being
held in check only until the interior
department could be heard from.
Should an unfavorable reply be re-
ceived, the state will proceed to eject
the forestry officials by force, if nee
essary. 1t is now believed, however.
that the forestry officials will be di-
rected by the national authorities to
vacate all sections 16 and 36, and the
trouble thus be amicably settled.
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| he had been overwhelmed with the re-
ceptionS he has received everywhere
on the trip. He said the cheers of the
crowds were probably those that every
president receives on such tour, yet
this fact made them none the less well
come and none the less inspiring to
him who happened for the time being
to be the central figure in the picture.
After spending tomorrow in San
Francisco, President Taft heads for
the Yosemite valley and is looking
forward to that feature of his trip
with the greatest pleasure. He has
never been among the giant old trees
in the valley, which are said to be
the oldest living things in the world.
Mr.. Taft has been warned that the
dust going in and coming out of the
park this year is fairly suffocating,
but his enthusiasm over the trip has
not been in the least diminished. Spe-
cial outfits will be procured by the
president and his party for the three
days trip.
President Taft was welcomed in
California at Red Bluff by Governor
Gillett, Lieut. Gov. Poeter, Senator
Perkins, former Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf, M. H. DeYoung of San Fran
cisco, and other members of the recep-
tion committee from different sections
of the state.
Representative Mckinley and Knee
land also helped to extend CALIFORNIA; s
welcome to the chief executive. Sena-
tor Bourne of Oregon, accompanied
the president all the way to Sacra-
mento.
Speaking from the rear of the car
today at Red Bluff, President Taft
said:
Il am on tour of some $4,000 miles
and l am trying to gather information
as we go with reference to the condi-
tion of the country and at the same
time to give you superficial aspect of
whom it has been your good or bad
fortune to elect president of the Unit
ed States. l think that personal touch
between the people and those whom
you honor by delegating authority
temporarily is a good thing all around,
so that you may know when | make
my mistakes and they are represented
to you with great deal of emphasis,
that l am still mortal praying for as
sistance and hoping that you will for
give human error.
Everywhere in this country I have
found evidences of prosperity from
Boston to Portland, and if signs do
not fail, we are upon an era of busi-
ness enterprises and expansion that
has never been seen in this country
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neer, who was supposed to have been
fatally burned, is recovering.
NeWhouse, who was 40 years OF age
came from Streator, ILL.,, a year ago
and his family arrived recently, At
the time of the explosion Newhouse
was on the tipple laying a new floor
The explosion hurled him high aloft
and he fell on a pile of sawdust, 45O
feet from the mouth of the shaft, with
his clothing torn from him and his
body frightfully burned.
At the shaft hole conditions were
much improved today. Strong streams
OF water were kept pouring down the
shaft all night and no smoke is now
visible. 1t is impossible to tell how
seriously the mine is damaged and
how long it will be closed.
Last night rescuing party entered
the stope which is directly connected
with the shaft. The party penetrated
the dip mine, hoping to enter the shaft
by circuitous route. 1t had proceed
ed 5000 feet when it suddenly encoun-
tered black damp. Engineer (Aoode
was overcome, but was dragged to
safety. The others managed to es-
cape. The black damp is spreading
and it will require several days to
pump it out.
The explosion has not been ex-
planned. No shots were fired yester-
day and the fire bosses reported that
the mine was clear only five minutes
before the explosion. The coal COM
pany has promised to take care Of the
families of the victims.
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RED LODGE MAN KILLED. .
Especial TO The Gazette,

RED LODGE, Oct. 4.-Telegrams
were received today stating that Jas.
j. Gurrell an old time mining man
of this city was fatally burned by
the explosion in the mines at Roslyn
Sunday and died shortly afterwards.
Gurrell was formerly employed as
mine foreman here by the Northwest
ern Improvement company. His re-
mains will be brought back here We'd
nesday for burial. He has many rel
atiyes here and in the state He is
survived by a wife and five daugh-
ters. His son, George, was brought
back a year ago today from Kattela,
Alaska, where he met his death in a
coal mine explosion, similar tb the
one that killed his father yesterday.
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Polar Controuersu
Rapidly N ears
The CZn lax
MI EW YORK, Oct 4.-The north pole
IN controversy is expected to

MI EW YORK, Oct, 4,-The north pole
IN controversy is expected to
reach a climax this week when
the Peary Arctic club makes public
the statement which Commander
Peary declares will prove that he was
the only white man to reach the pole.
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, president
of the club, will be in the city today
or tomorrow and will Immediately call
a meeting at which the statement pre-
pared by Peary and submitted to Cen
eral Hubbard at Bar Harbor, will be
gone over and then made public.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, who will be
in Baltimore tonight, has arranged to
issue a counter statement, it is an
nounced, to show that his rivals dec
laration does not prove that he did
not precede Peary to the pole by near
ly a year.
The cargo of Arctic trophies, gath
cred by the Peary party, will be un-
loaded from the Roosevelt at once, and
the ship, which has made two polar
trips, is expected to be offered for
sale by the Peary Arctic club. AS the
vessel was not built for carrying car
goes, it is expected to be useful only
for exploration trips and for the rea-
son that there are not now any prom
inent north pole seekers at least on
this side of the ocean, there is some
talk that fortune seekers may ac-
quire the ship for a search of the
West Indies for the hidden hordes OF
pirates.
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(speclal to The Gazette.l }

| Especial to The GaZette.)
| e POKANE, Wash, Oct 4.-Spok&ne
y and the inland empire will be
represented by several delega-
tions at the fourth Dry Farming con-
gress at Billings, October 26 and %,
when an effort will be made to Sc
cure the congress of 1910 or 1911 for
| Spokane.
H. L. Moody, a prominent land own
er and capitalist, and Arthur Hooker,
secretary of the eighteenth national
irrigation congress, have been ap-
pointed by the organization to attend
the sessions at Billings, and Freder-
ick E. Goodall, president of the Spo-
kane chamber of commerce, will also
appoint several delegates within the
next 10 days. Mayor Nelson S. Pratt
announces he too will name delega-
tion to represent the city of Spokane.
Mr. Moody will discuss "The Pro-
gress of Dry Farming in the Inland
Empire" showing what has been ac-
complished during the last few years.
AS he is practical man and fluent
speaker, Mr.. Moody's talk should be
of interest and value to growers all
over the country. He has been resi-
dent of the inland empire since terri
torial days and is thoroughly famil-
lar with the situation.
Discussing the far-reaching effects
of the gathering at Billings the latter
part of this month, Mr.. Moody said
in the course of an interview with
the correspondent of The Gazette:
GET 1nnIy thic
of the most important economic move
ments of the century, as it is of direct
value to every community in the coun-
try. 1t concerns the horticulturist as
much as it does the grain, grass and
root grower, and l am firmly of the
opinion that every district should be
represented.
81 have watched the result of prac-
tically every large gathering of this
kind during the last quarter century
and l believe that the benefits that
come to the growers are of untold and
unmeasured value, if for no other
reason that the discussions lead to
the solution of many knotty problems.
Spokane county, with the eXcep-
tion of the valley east of this city and
several smaller private irrigation
plants, is a non-irrigated proposition
and our farmers and orchardists have
made successes by conserving the
moisture of the soil, as advocated by
the foremost experts. So you see we
are thoroughly in sympathy with the
congress.
"The international exposition in
connection with the sessions of the
congress should also be of vital inter
est to the people of Washington, Ida
no, Oregon and other western states,
as the various exhibits will present
in a comprehensive picture the best
of what has been accomplished in
many districts and under varied con-
ditions.
"This in itself is something that
could not be seen in years of travel
and it's lesson is obvious. With these
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-10-05
NO DESIGNS
UPON I AFT
Police Now Satisfied
Wright Meant no
Wrong

IN ORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 4.-The ex-
animation of Arthur G. Wright,
who was arrested on Saturday
because OF his persistence IN attempt
ing to get near President Taft and
upon whom was found revolver and
an extra supply of ammunition, was
continued today until Wednesday.
Wright is charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons. The police have been
investigating his record and are sat
isfied now that he had no evil inten-
tions He probably will be released
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Founder of New York Journal
Was a Most Determined Suicide

VIENNA, Oct. ALBERT Pulitzer, a
brother of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher
of the New York World, committed
suicide in this city yesterday. It was
evident that he made doubly sure of
death. for he had first swallowed pois-
on and then standing in front of
mirror, had sent a bullet from a re-
volver through his right temple.
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AFTER CHEYENNE LAND s.

ABERDEEN, S. D., Oct. 4.-Regis-
tration for the government lands in
the Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock reservations began with rush
at midnight and within one hour
thereafter 1900 persons had registered
at the six centers.
Judge Witten, who is in charge of
the registration, has completed ar
rangements for handling 100000 per-
sons in Aberdeen alone
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Spokane viii Go After
Dry Farming Congress
Inland Empire viii Send Several
Strong Delegations to Billings
To Land Next Meeting

facts before us l believe it is the duty
of every community to be represented
by delegates who are in touch with
these matters, as we'll as those who
are not familiar with the latest ap-
proved methods practiced in various
parts of the country"
Gov. Marion E. Hay and the COM
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I en- Miners Fell Victim
To Deadly Fire Dam .
Mine Filled With Black Damp and
Amount Of Damage Cannot
Soon Be Ascertdned

n OSLYN, Wash, Oct. 4-The num-
Der of dead as a result of yester-
days explosion of fire damp in
No 4 shaft of the Northwestern I'M
provement company's mine, is ten,
Otis Newhouse, outside foreman, hav-
ing died today. John Jones, an engi-
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Additional Citations Are Filed
In the Case of John r. Walsh

CHICAGO, Oct. A document con-
tanning additional citations of recent
ly decided cases bearing upon the
question of inconsistency and repug-
nance alleged against the verdict Of
guilty found against John R. Walsh
was filed with the clerk of the United
States court of appeals here today.
Mr.. Walsh, president of the Chicago
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-10-05
ASK FuRTHER ISSuE.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-The postof-
fee department has made a request
On the secretary of the treasury to
authorize the bureau of engraving to
issue 200,000,000 additional Hudson
Fulton commemorative postage
stamps. The original issue of these
stamps was 50,000,000.
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was in town the atmospheric condi-
tions were not just right. Mr.. Taft
laughingly declared in Portland that
after several visits both to Seattle
and to Portland he was prepared to
question the existence of any such
mountains as Rainier or Hood
The president declared today that
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RRYAN C0MING WEST.

LINCOLN, Neb.. Oct. 4-William j.
Bryan will start Wednesday on an ex-
tended tour of the northwest. He will
deliver several addresses in Wyoming
and Montana, anad will visit the Seat
tie exposition October u.
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CONTRACT CONTINUED.

HELENA, Oct. 4.-The state rail-
road commission was advised today by
the Northern Pacific and the Yellow
stone National Park Railway COM
panies that the contract for the oper-
alton of the latter by the former had
been continued until December 81,
next The Yellowstone road is owned
by the Turner estate
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No Trouble Exi lists
Among Che eyennes

WASHINGTON, Oct, An
dian bureau officials today de-
cline to treat seriously reports
of an uprising among the In
dians on the Cheyenne Indian
reservation, South Dakota, and
advices just received from the
Indian agent in that section
deny that any trouble exists
among the tribes. 1t is looked
upon by the Indian authorities
, to be the result of animus of
stockmen who want to keep
settlers out of the country and
thus keep their grazing lands.
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missioners of Spokane and other
counties in the state of Washington
will be requested to appoint delegates
and if enough can be induced to go the
party from eastern Washington will
travel in a special car
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SUPREME COURT TO MEET.


HELENA, Oct. 4.-The supreme
court will meet tomorrow after hav-
ing been in recess for two months.
On that day three cases will be ar
gued, Cottonwood Ditch Co. against
Thom, Golden against Northern Pa
cific and Price against Stipek.
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Mr.. Pulitzer, who had suffered a
nervous breakdown, was greatly de-
pressed over the failure of his physi-
clans to benefit him.
Albert Pulitzer was the founder of
the New York Evening Journal He
had spent most of his time in Europe
since 1895.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-10-05
INTERNATIONAL EVENT.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-Great
Britain, Germany, Italy and
The Netherlands have an
nounced their intention of par
ticipating in the celebration of
the 140th anniversary of the
discovery of San Francisco bay
and the site of the present city
by Gaspar de Portola, to be
held in Sna Francisco from
October 19 to 23.
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FIENDISH CRIME ALLEGED.

BIRCHY COVE, N. Y, Oct. 4.
Charged with having muir
dered Mrs. Jane Collier and
thrown her body from a cliff,
Solomon Collier, her husband,
and John Collier, her son, were
arraigned today at Port au Port
Bar. The police say the wom-
an, who was 80 years of age,
had been cruelty treated by her
husband and son for several
years.
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National bank, was convicted of mis-
applying the defunct banks funds. He
appealed and decision from the ap-
pellate bench is expected tomorrow.
1t is charged among other things by
Walsh's counsel that the counts of the
indictment against him were contra-
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-12-30
WONT
QUIT FIGHTING
DOUBTS SINCERITY OF MAoRIz
AND TURNS DOWN OFFER
OF PEACE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6o.-pcubting
the sincerity Of President Madrlz, who
has made representations TO the reVo.
Iutionary army in Niearasua, with the
establishment Of peace as the oster.
sibIe object in view, General Estrada
has declined to suspect hostIIitIes, and
is determined to push his army on
ward towarn Manasua.
4, A cable ctspatch from Estrada dated
Buefelds, December 90, received last
night Ly Or. Castillo, representative
here Of the Provisional government in
dicated the attitude Of the revolution.
lists toward the proposition made by
the new president. It's text is as fol.
lows:
"Madrlz asked me te suspend I:os-
tlIit:ss, but our military operations
cannot be suspended because we
know MadrIz Is making conscriptiors
OF troops from the interior and 10 fo-
n,entIno division between the east.
ern and western sections Of the rePub.
lie.
"You know that this procedure can
oaIy result In more bIoedshed and
the Foundation of anarchy in our faith
erIand. "EsTRADA."
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-12-30
Burned 70 D!!,eatls
YOUNG WOMAN WHO FORM EIsl: 4
LIVED AT GRAFTON LOST
HER LIFE IN OHIO.

GRAFTON, Dec, 3o.-Wofd hiss Just
reached the city Of the tragic deati, 81 (
Miss Ella Douglass, daushter of Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Douglass; who were
former residents Of Grafton, but wire
now reside near Youngstown; Ohio.
Miss Douglas was burned 70 aeatti
in her home near younsstoWn on
Christmas day, when = lamp exple les,ss
ed, and before assistance could reaeis
her she was dead. She Wilt be re-
membered by many frisnds Of tire city
who will learn with sorrow Of her
tragic fate.
Miss Douglass was cousin et
Misses Daisy and Della dudley, of ts,l6
city, and also Of Mrs. Charlie w w 49,
OF the West Side.