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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
What Should She Say?

Il tell you, little wife, you can't
imagine how lonesome l am when I
am separated from you. You are the
best little woman in the world, so diff
ferent from briggs nagging and scold-
ing wife. You know that a man must
get ahead in the world and be free to
give his business his full attention.
My little girl isn't Of the suspicious,
doubling kind, is she? Why, dearest,
this very night I ought to go down to
the club. Brown Of Brown, Kalibo &
Co. is in town. They're among our
best customers. Ought to know him
socially, hadn't 1? But unless you in
sist, my little sweetheart wife, I won't
go. It may mean a loss to the firm,
but I'll stay with my precious"
Well, now, what can a woman dol
Chicago Journal.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
Cleo Man Gets His.

CHICAGO, Feb. 28.-Federal inquiry
into methods Of d%isposing of oleo-
magazine was ordered today by Judge
M. K. Lands of the United States
district court, after he had sentenced
one of four dealers indicted for vio-
lating the oleomagarine regulations,
to elk years In the federal prison at
Fort Lsavenworth and had him fined
SIS. 900.
The man who was sentenced to the
pe~nitentiary was w. A. B%roadwell.
The other three cases were continued
until Thursday.
ut has been disclosed that probably
not less than sl5, 900 and possibly
more than 800 900 has been lost to the
United States as the result of Broad.
wells actions" said Judge Lands in
sentencing the oleomargarine dealer
"Whenever arrested he has giver
bonds and then gone out and Violated
the law the next day. It has been 9
willful defiance of the law. His bono
has been supplied by an oleomar
garine manufacturer, q proceeding
which l regard as my duty to say II
highly Significant"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
To Survey Western Lands.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-The house
public land committee today reported
favorably the administra tion bill ap-
propriating $500, 600 for surveying
lands within railroad grants.
In Montana there are 1925, OOO
acres of ~unsurveyed land within the
Northern Pacific grant and 969, coo
acres of unsurveyed railroad lands
within the Montana national forests.
The aggrega ate area of ~unsurveyed
railroad lands il the entire western
country is 100000 acres.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
THE JURY DISAGREED.
A Fine Point In Equity That Never
Was Decided.

was OeCIOe0.
An old time story of the fine points
of law and equity which arose In car
rying out an amicable contract is told
in the Philadelphia Record. There
were four brothers who had inherited
a storage warehouse from their father.
He had divided the property equally
among them.
Among the appurtenances Was a cat
"a fine animal, excellent for housing.
This, too, was divided, the eldest
brother owning the right front quar-
ter, the second brother the left front
quarter and the younger brothers the
two hind quarters.
Now, unfortunately, the cat in n
Of its nocturnal prowls injured the
right front paw, and the eldest
brother attended to that portion of his
property by binding the injured men,
Der with a creased rag.
The cat, thankful for this relief to
it's sufferings, went to sleep content
eddy before the fire, but in the midst
of it's slumbers a falling coal ignited
the rag, and the animal, bowling with
dSOHy uuSueu tAAou6A lAC NoASAOuS0
and, coming in contact with some CON-
bustibles, set the building on fire.
When the loss came to be figured
out the three younger brothers wished
to throw it all upon the eldest on the
ground that had he not tied up his
part of the cat with the inlammable
rag the building would not have been
destroyed.
He, on the contrary, commended that
had the cat only been possessed of the
front right paw-his property-it
would have stood still and burned tc
death. 1t was the three other paws
that caused the damage.
The brothers argued the case unit
they died, but they eve reached ar
agreement.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
Will Teach Indians Farming.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-Wlth a
view to extending a helping hand to
the Indian in his advance toward
civic usefulness and to assist in pro.
noting the active competition of the
white men the bureau of Indian af-
fairs has issued instructions for the
establishment of demonstration farms
at the agencies situated in agricultural
sections to serve as models in i'm.
proved methods of tilling the soil.
In addition to their Instructive
feature, these demonstra alton farms
will furnish pure seed to the red men,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
The Largest Incubator.

There are a great many things that
we can claim to lead the world in, but
Australia has the largest incubator in
the world. 1t has a capacity of LILO
ducks eggs or 1850 hens eggs. This
monster Matching machine consists OF
an ordinary shed, with a corrugated
iron roof: the egg trays old 100 duck
eggs or l6O hen eggs. There are four
of these trays end to end. n above
the other, on each side OF the room,
making eight 10 all. Heat comes from
steam pipes supplied from q large
boiler and moisture from pans under
the lower tier Of trays. The incubator
is claimed to be working very vel.
and to be quite q success.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
VICTIMS OF SNOWSLIDES.
Thirty Bodies Recovered From Thu
Wreckage In Idaho Towns.

Thirty Bodies Rec vered From The
Wreckage In Idaho Towns.
SPOKANE, March 1.-Working des.
perately and almost exhausted, hun.
dreds of miners are trying today to
dig from packed ice, snow and wreck.
age the idead and injured thought to
be buried in six IDAHO avalauches
which have dealt death and destruc-
ton In the last two days. The death
toll, which included 10 yesterday, has
reached 81 today and it is believed
more dead will be found in the splin.
tered cabins which housed the families
of the miners.
At Mace, where the frst slide oc-
Cured, eleven are known to be dead
and eight are badly injured. Sweeping
down the mountain side, the great
mass Of snow and earth crushed the
cabins and small houses like eggs,
burying the occupants in q tangled
mass Of logs, snow and earth.
Nv AoES " u00s WOmou 8uO CQllOreQ
have been recovered from the wreck.
age at Mace by the miners and If
human effort can accomplish any.
thing, it is believed those still alive
will be rescued.
AT Burke, the scene of the second
Glide. five lives were lost and two per-
sons were badly injured. Such is the
chaotic condition in the email mining
towns. however, that the list is be.
lieved not to be complete.
At Carbonate Hill a third slide
swept two persons to death and in
jured half q dozen others. It is not
known how many are in the wreckage.
The Carbonate Hill slide was not 80
severe as the Mace and Burke slides.
A fourth slide at the North Frank
line mine, near B urke, played a pecu-
liar freak when It descended upon the
bunk house of the miners. Two men
were sleeping in n room of the bunk
house and the front part of log struc.
ture was empty. The whole building
was torn to splinters save one room
in which the two men were sleeping
and was swept down the mountain
eide and into the gulch below.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
AN iMP0ST0R'S TRICK.
The Cheerful Liar That Made a Fool
Of the Grand Monarch.

The Cheerful Liar That Made q Fool
Of the Grand Monarch.
Louis XIV. was taken in once in a
most humiliating way and by an i'm
poster whose only art was lying. In
1867, just after he had returned from
one of his most dazzling military sue.
cesses against the Dutch, Louis lie
Grand received word that an embassy
from Persia had just landed at Mar
settles en- route to the French court to
bring s%alutations and presents from
the shah. Pleased that his fame
should actually have run around the
world, he sent word that all the towns
on the way from Marseilles to Paris
should fete the ambassador.
AS a result the journey to Paris was
q march Of triumph. Children sang
and flowers were strewn along the
way. Arrived at Paris, several regi-
ments of the Swiss guard met the
shah's representative and escorted him
to a magnificent suit in the old palace
Of the Tuileries. Louis sent no less
a person than the Due de Richelieu to
welcome the p~otentate and invite him
out to Versailles to a special reception
IN the hall Of mirrors.
The ambassador presented himself
o. Ria Bey Of the Persian court and
after showing his credentials ad-
vanced to kiss the hand Of Louis lie
Grand and give him the shah's con-
g%ratualtions on his recent victories.
A caravan Of presents from his i'm
perial sovereign were on their way
and would arrive in Paris in a few
days, said the ambassador.
Festivals followed at Versailles. The
hey received magnificent presents from
Louis and royal entertainment. He
tounged gracefully or divans at the
French court and smoked in Persian
languor. he gave the grand monarque
a few fragments Of opal and turquoise,
saying that they came from a Persian
district bordering on the Caspian sea.
The woods there were full of them, he
explained, and he offered to divide
with France-had planted the French
flag there already, as it were!
At last the day came for the formal
presentation Of the shah's gifts, and
on that morning early Ria Bey melted
into space. He was never seen or
heard Of again. He had, as some n
said, "gone glimmering through the
dream Of things that WERE" The
gems that he had left were worth, If
anything, about Is cents apiece, being
glass.-New York Tribune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
Listen To the Kicker,

"Whst's the use of anything! Nothing
Motto.
What's the use of sunshine?
Only blinds your eyes.
What's the use of knowledge?
Only makes you wise.
What's the use Of smiling?
Wrinkles up your face.
What's the use Of flowers?
Only take up space.
What's the use of eating?
All you get Is taste.
What's the use hustliug?
Haste is only waste.
What's the use Of music?
just q lot of noise.
What's the use of loving?
Only brings US joys.
What's the use of singing?
Only makes US glad.
What's the use of goodness
When the whole worlds bad?
Why should we be healthy?
Might as we'll be sick.
What's the use of doing
Anything but kick?
Spokesman Review
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09

pretty busy during the recent British
elections, and by the use of automo.
biles and convenient train service
managed to cast ballots in seventeen
OF the districts in which they we're en-.
titled to vote.
II the elections we're all held on one
day such q proceeding would be i'm.
possible, and the present British vot-
ing system is probably arranged for
the purpose of giving such people a
chance to exercise their voting priv
ilege to the fullest extent. The aver
age American citizen, however, fails
to see the equity of an arrangement
which gives the large property owners
so much political power and influence.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
FARMS AND WARSHlPS,

The vests irrigation projects are
proving to be more costly than the
original estimates. At fret it was
declared with reference to irrigation
projects then proposed, that five dol.
lars an acre would be enough. Prac.
ticsl experience has demonstra ted that
twice as much per acre isn't nearly
enough.
Last autumn, when he was "doing
the west," President Taft said that
for the completing of several of the
unfinished irrigation projects ten mil.
lion dollars, in excess of available
funds, would be required, and he
promised to advocate the issue of ten
millions of bonds wherewith to com.
plete those undertakings. he did this.
The subject has been studied by com.
mittees In congress. The belief is that
twenty millions will be needed for this
work, and the proposition in congress
is to vote the bonds.
1t runs into big money; 80 do war.
ships and guns and military posts.
The veteran Secretary Wilson puts 1t
this way: IA forty-acre farm of irri.
gated land will comfortably support
a family of five. It costs S55, 900 to
make q twelve'inch gun. The money
that goes to pay for this gun would
reclaim l, ISL acres of land, providing
homes for 1876 people. When all the
guns on all the battleships are shot
one time the government blows in
noise and smoke $780, OO. This would
reclaim four thousand acres of land,
giving homes to more than five hun
dred settlers and their families. The
money consumed in powder is lost to
all future. The farmer who buys the
reclaimed land must pay the govern.
ment back in ten years, so it does not
cost the government anything to build
up the country by helping the far.
mer."
That is a pleasant way of putting it.
Even If these Wilson details turn out
to be not precisely accurate, even, il
the drawbacks encountered by the
farmer are sometimes d~iscouraging,
eve if it is not all smooth sailing in
connection with these irrigation mat
tiers, nevertheless, in bulk the benefits
are quite inestimable and the compar.
ison suggested by the secretary's fig
ures are of great practical force
Anaconda Standard.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
Kissing Is Dangerous.

This is the latest story in Atchison:
A young visiting man was declaring
that theory was all nonsense about
kissing being dangerous on account
of germs conveyed from one mouth to
another. "I've kissed hundreds of
girls," he declared, land I'm not dead
yet"
Promptly one of the listeners in.
quired: "But what about the girls?''
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
THE BRITISH VOTING SYSTEM

The recent general election in Great
Britain, and similar political contests
that have preceded 1t. afford an il.
lu~stration of the peculiar voting sys.
TEN which prevails in that country.
The election was in progress nearly
two weeks, the residents of some dis
tricts casting their ballots on q GER
tain day designated by the authori-
ties, while other dates we're set for
holding elections In other districts.
The American observer of English
politics was somewhat perplexed over
the arrangement, a. there seemed to be
no valid reason for prolonging the
political excitement and uncertainty
by holding elections for q series of
days in the several districts. It ap-
pears, however, that q of the reas.
ons for this arrangement is to give
all qualified voters q chance to vote.
The British voting system is based
upon q property qualification. The
right to vote is restricted to owners
OF tenants of real estate of q certain
value, and the owner of real estate
In any district has q right to vote In
that district. no matter where his resi-
dence may be. BY reason OF this pc.
culiar state of sffairs, the English res
ident who has property in more than
one parliamentary district has the
right to vote In every such district,
and the custom of holding an cleo.
ton In the various districts on differ.
ent dates gives him an opportunity to
exercise his right of franchise to q
very. liberal extent.
An English newspaper recently re-
ceived by the River Press records the
fact that two brothers named Walker
claim the record for plural voting al
the recent British elections. They
operate department stores In various
English towns. q review of their prop
erty interests showing they are en-
titled to vote In no less than twenty
I've parliamentary or congressional
districts. The Walker brothers got
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
Railroads Face Labor Troubles

MINNEAPOLIS, March 1.-Firemen
and engineers on the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific railroads have
completed q strike vote, and 1t Is ru'
mored that they have declared over
whelmingly in favor OF walking out
until the roads grant the demands
made last November. The men in
volved are keeping the result of their
vote secret, but outside estim ates de-
clare It IS per cent for strike. Nego.
tiations between the union and the
general managers are being conducted
at Chicago, and the result may be
Influenced by the vote on the strike
question polled on the Chicago lines,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
Land Locating.

Land locating and description surveying-only
some Prairie country. Surveying, $40 dollars
per day and expenses for eight hours time out.
Locating, $25. Some famous Highwood bench
per acre. A few good punches Of cattle at $50 per
head, also sheep. List your eve stock for sale
with me. Soil, crop and climatic expert for
A.. l. SUTHERLAND, Box Is. Fort Benotn.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
The Barrier.

Blobbs-No; I shall never marry.
Slobbs-But you don't seem like a wo-
man hater. In fact, you seem very
fond of the fair sex. Blobbs-Yes, and
l talk in my sleep.-Exchange.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
Unpleasant to Have Around.

OuPI0NSNut 70 VAVe NT0Uuos
"Are you still engaged to Mr..
Briggs?"
mo. I broke it of last week. 1
was afraid to marry him. He knows
too much. I gave him some ribbon to
match. He found it in the first store
he went to, and he bought it for 2
cents below the regular price,"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09

governments fourth attempt to con.
meet Heinze with certain other parties.
with the alleged misapplication of the
funds OF the Mercantile National bank
OF which Heinze was president.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
DOES FARMING "PAY?"

A question that is becoming more
interesting as food prices soar higher
IL this: Does farming always or gen.
orally pay? In attempts to answer
this question scores of magazine and
newspaper writer's are flooding the
country with tales of the soil. These
writer's are almost unanimous in their
enthusiastic estim ates of the future of
farming in America, but occasionally
there is . minor note that comes from
the farmer himself. Az q general thing
the magazine writer's are not practi.
cal farmers, says the Kansas City
Journal. They merely tabulste. OBJ.
serve and make deductions. The real,
matter. of-fact farmer, with his face
set to the stern realities of agricultural
conditions is not 80 strong on flights
of fancy, but he knows q thing or two
about his fields. pens, gardens and
orchards, and the general hardships
of farming that tend to dull the edge
of Imagination.
Agricultural suthorities-those who
sit at desks Ia cities and write articles
urge abandonment of centers of con.
gestion and q return to nature. Men
who have bent owe books and grow
prematurely old In the fever of trade
are told Of the blessings of farming
both a. q means of subsistence and
%or tho o;ruouotio ~ hoolth A.
this eason of the year the gladstone
chicken book and the damboyant seed
catalogue light up the metropolitan
heavens as q reckoning sign Turing
toward the farm. Does farming pay?
Yes, shouts the land agent, and the
shout is echoed by the man with the
hoe-to sell-snd the magazine writer's
spell us long screeds filled with fig.
ures.
j. G. Mohler, assistant secretary of
the Kansas state board of agriculture,
a thoroughly practical man, Gays in a
fascinating article in the Saturday
Evening Post that farming pays. To
prove it be tells US that in the year
1909 Kansas set a new stand ard of
wealth production. The value Of Kan
sas farm products in that year was
1888, 900, 900. With formidable tables
of exhibits Mr.. Mohler clinches his
argument that farming pays. Why,
farming has simply got to pay, with
those brain.crushing totals staring US
In the face!
But what about the inexperienced
man who wants to know whether farm
ing will pay him? What chances has
the city man with no accurate knowl-
edge of the art of ~husbandry to make
q modest income from a small farm?
1t Is all very we'll to give grand totals
and bank deposits per capita and
other statistical information for the
multitude. 1t is the individual that
is advised to Ego back to nature'
who wants to know about his case.
Will not some of the we'll informed
gentlemen who are dealing in glitter
ing generalities get down to the human
unit? If someone would ask Mr.. Mohler
whether or not the grocery business
pays, would he argue that it does,
simply because there are SO many
millions of dollars worth of -four
sold yearly, or so many ton of prunes
or barrels of molasses?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
Another Heinze Indictment.

NEW YORK, March 3.-A new In.
dictment against F. Aug. Heinze for
alleged violation of the national bank
ing laws was returned today by the
federal grand jury here. This Is the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09
"Prints All the News"

If any reader of the RIVER PRESS
considers it worthy of recommendation
TO friends, the favor will be very high
ly appreciated by its publishers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09

Lenity is a part Of Mercy, but she
must not speak too loud for fear OF
waking Justice.-Joubert.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues tts 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, 1910-03-09

Water right blanks-only correct
form published--for sale at the River
PRESS office.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-09

FRED q. WILSON, Pr0p'r
2Io} First Az S. Great Falls, Mont
Branch office: Telephone 449-L
81 E Park st, Butte, Mont.
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-13

Ing. when Gray, who has had ono arm
amputated, and carries an empty
sleeve. discovered the girl, and became
aware OF the existence OF the soul
mate. He called the police authorl-
ties to assist him in recovering his
bride, and Brown and the young mat
ron were quickly placed under lock
and key.
The affair was handled in a very
secretIve manner by the authorities,
but 1t leaks out that Brown was ad-
ylsed that the charge would not be
pressed against him provided he
would furnish the woman with rail-
road fare, Pullman reservation and
dining car expenses 10 California.
This the young man sought TO do, but
his appeals TO friends for monetary
assistance brought no response. and
the formal charge was pressed against
him. He was placed under bond Of
$500, which was later furnished by
the tardy friends he had previously
requested TO assist him.
The girl then was released, and
she left the station house with Gray,
apparently content to cast her future
life with him.
Brown asserts that the girl had
told him once or twice that she was
married, but that she had denied it
again. When Gray was asked 10 pro
duce a marriage license he explained
that II had accidentally been destroy
cd. but assured the authorities that
he could procure proofs Of marriage
from the records In Billings. Mont.
Gray has been In ogden for the past
month, ard claims to be driver OF
fast automobiles at fairs, races and
the like. He also asserts that he
has owned and operated pool halls in
other cities. He has not worked since
arriving here and Is without funds.
The girl told the police that she
never did love her husband. but that
she married him solely because she
expected that ne was to receive S25,-
coo damages for the loss of his arm.
She professed unbounded love for
Brown-until he found it impossible
to produce the $i5
Brown asserts that he did not know
the young lady was married.