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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
Will Ship Hayfed Cattle.

ANACONDA, Jan. pa forecast Of
the marketable beef steers and cows
in the Big Hole basin shows thai
there are, Is was estimated last fall,
about 10000 of these cattle to be sold
this spring.
The stock owners having the lsrges,
herds are Bales and Jones with 1900,
William Montgomery with 1900.
John Wenger with 1000, John Peter
son 500. George Woodwork 700, and
100 other cattlemen who have all the
way from so to 300 head.
Buyers r already in the basin
and are picking up the beef at tor
prices. The most active purchaser.
it is said, is the Frye-Bruhn company
of Seattle. buying for the coast and
Alaska trade.
Most of the shipment will come GU,
of the basin by the way of Anaconda,
and the railroad people are stirring
themselves in preparation for handl.
ing the trains. The Milwaukee ia re.
ported az getting busy in efforts to
ecu the business for the new road
to the coast and give the cattle men
q new outlet to the coast for tht
range cattle.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02

eral immigration Agent, Great North
ern Railway, St. Paul, Minnesota,
and suggest the names of three or
four of the best farmers located ad-
1acent to their respective towns for
the purpose of enabling the railroad
representatives to select n of the
farmers who is in a position to give
the matter proper attention. The
work will be carried on under the
Jurisdiction Of Professor Thomas
Shaw, the well known agricultural
and soil expert, who has already done
so much toward disseminating valu-
able information relative to the pro-
ductivity of Montana's unmatched
soil. The general outline of the plan
is as follows:
CD Each farmer who raj in
such experimental work will
furnish where possible, six
acres of land which has been
summer fallowed the previous
year or that has grown a cul-
tivated crop.
CD He shall grow on two acres of
tho same as he may elect, one
acre of each of the following
crops: Durum spring wheat;
spring rye; oats or white hull
less barley. The third acre
is to be sown to field peas,
one half to be put in with the
grain drill, and the other half
to be drilled in rows and cul-
tivated. The fourth acre is
to be planted to corn. The
fifth acre is to be planted, one
half to field beans and the
other half sOwn to alfalfa.
The sixth acre is to be sum-
mer-fallowed and sown to
winter wheat.
(3) When new breaking only or
part stubble can be furnished,
the first acre is to be sown to
fax, the second to alfalfa, the
third planted to corn and the
fourth to field beans. The two
remaining acres are to be
summer-fallOwed, and one of
them sOwn to winter wheat
and the other to winter rye.
ca The above crops are to be
grown at the expense of the
farmer, but from seed fur
nished free by the Great
Northern Railway. The grower
is to harvest and thresh the
crop at his OWL expense, and
in due time he is to furnish
to the railroad an accurate
statement of yields. The
farmer retains the crop.
(5) The Great Northern Railway
is to pay the farmer $1,000
per acre for each acre of land
SO used.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02

Let us hope that Montana farmers
will appreciate this proposition and
enter into it with the same degree of
interest and enthusiasm that the rail-
road officials and Professor Shaw are
showing. We have good farmers in
every community and their success
has been an inspiration and a help to
others, but such work has been car
ried on entirely at their own expense.
Under the plan proposed by the Great
Northern officials whereby the seed
is furnished free, the use of the
ground is paid for and the resulting
crop reverts back to the farmer him
self, there is no reason why those
who are selected to carry on the work
should not give it their very best
care and attention.
Full information relative to the
proposition can be secured by adj
dressing Mr.. E. c. Leedy, General
immigration Agent, Great Northern
Railway, St. Paul, Minnesota, or
Professor Thomas Shaw, Great North
ern Building, st. Paul, Minnesota.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02

(o) The crops r to be grown
SUBJECT to the instructions
given by Professor Thomas
Shaw.
PROFESSOR Shaw will issue instruc-
lions regarding the best methods to
follow In preparing the soil for the
crop and also the proper methods to
De used In cultivating the growing
crops and will either in person or BY
a representative visit the farmers
CHOSEN to carry out these expert
mencs, for the purpose of co-operat-
ing with them and assisting them to
get the best results. It is expected
there will be considerable rivalry
among the various localities to see
who can make the best showing. The
great interest taken by progressive
farmers and by the local develop
ment organizations in Montana, has
been a great stimulus in creating a
greater and deeper interest in the
possibilities of Montana as an agri-
cultural state. The success of Mon
tana exhibitors at the Billings Dry
Farming Congress and at the Ma
tional Corn Show, Omaha, has been
a potent factor in opening the ayes of
the people of the state and the nation
to the wonderful possibilities of
Montana's fertile soil.
Plans are already under way by
many communities, to send exhibits
to a number of the state and national
agricultural shows held outside of
Montana next year, in order to fur
ther convince the world that Mon
tana is "long on wealth but short on
farmers"
This movement which the Great
Northern Railway is about to launch,
Is the first of it's kind in this country
and from a practical educational
standpoint will be of untold value to
our farmers. While we have state
and national experimental stations
the idea of operating an experimental
station at nearly every important
point along its line, is a new n and
far in advance of anything of this
nature that has ever been attempted
before.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
Is Punishment Administered
AS an Example Today?

b CLARhNCE DARkOW. lawyer. or chicago.
I" HAT excuse has the state for sending a man to the penien-
tary or to hang him and on what does it base that right?
~ Is punishment administered as an EXAMPLE today?
It used to be that when a man was to be punished the
affair was PUBLIC. A scafod was erected on some high place, and
all were invited to see the wages of sin. That was GOVERNMENT
BY FEAR, but they used to believe in it, and we don't.
But men learned after a time that after each public hanging there
was wont to be a number of murders and that such scenes caused a
hardening Of. mems hearts, and so they gave up public hangngs.
That, of course, was really GIVING UP THE WHOLE IDEA
FOR WHICH PUBLIC HANGINGs STOOD, for unless people
saw the example before their eyes the hanging was of no use at all.
People grew not too good, but too squeamish, so OFFENDERS
WERE JAILED, as it offended their sensibiites to see men hang
ing. The prisoner was hanged and the story was given in the newspa-
pers. Then the more squeamish objected to reading that, and newspa-
pers in some states were forbidden to publish at any length accounts
of executions. 1t was a QUESTION WHETHER HUMANITY
OR CRUELTY GAINED BY NONPUBLIC EXECUTIONS.
In some states now at these hangings there is only the sheriff, the
preacher and the doctor present, the press being excluded.
THAT Is THE MOST MODERN WAY, BUT WHAT CAN BE ITS
EFFECT ON SOCIETY IF SOCIETY DOES NOT KNOW OF TT
THERE ARE THOSE WHO WISH TO HAVE LAWS PASSED TO Ex.
cLUDE FROM THE NEWSPAPERS THE ACCOUNTS OF MURDER
TRIALS, AND THAT WOULD MEAN MERELY TAKING THE MAN
OUT At NIGHT AND EXECUTING HIM, THUS SWEEPING FROM
ITS FEET THE ONE ARGUMENT PERMITTING PUNISHMENT.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
May Impeach Gov. Haskell.

GUTHRIE, Okla, Jan. 31.-A hint of
impeachment of Gov. Charles N. Has.
kell and other state officials is made
in q resolution introduced in the lower
house of the legislature here today by
Representative Humphrey.
The resolution demands an investi-
cation of the Columbia Bank & Trust
company, which failed at Oklahoma
City last fall and calls upon Attorney
General West to bring before the leg.
islature matters which he previously
stated were heing considered by the
grand jury at Oklahoma City, when
that body was discharged recently by
order of Gov. Haskell.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02

power alone disable the whole year round, making
A DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY AND CON-
MERGE NOT POSSIBLE ELSEWHERE ON
THE FACE OF THE EARTH, is infinitely more
valuable than simply a transportation canal disable
only eight months of the year.
Illinois is already securing income from power
derived from the drainage canal, and the state has
voted twenty million dollars to extend for sixty miles
farther this canal, with a FURTHER DEVELOP
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02

MENT OF WATER POWER,a and 1 heard the governor of Illinois
say before the committee on commerce of the United States senate
awhile ago that the state of Illinois could we'll afford to give the coun-
try twenty millions dollars, as it would SOON GET IT BACK
AGAIN IN WATER POWER at the rate of three million dollars
per year. Cannot New York state follow such a good example, BEN
EXITING HERSELF N THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
at the same time?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
NORTHERN RAILWAY TO
CONDUCT EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS
BY Cooperation With Farmers of Montana
Will Garry on Important
Experiments

The Great Northern Railway pro-
poses to put into effect a plan where
by the farmers of Montana, located
along its line, can demonstrate the
adaptability of the soil for various
kinds of crops. The plan was orig
mated by Mr.. L. w. Hill, President
OF the Great Northern Railway, and
the various commercial clubs and
local development organizations of
Montana have been INVITED to cor
respond with Mr.. E. G.. Leedy, Gen.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02

The WEEKLY RIVER PRESS is q good
newspaper to send away to your friends
in the east. It will save you the trou.
BILE of writing letters
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
Notice for Publication.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GR1Ar FALLS, Mont, Jan. Is,

Notice ie hereby given chat
GEORGE W. PARKER,
whose postofice address is Highwood, Montana,
on the 7th day of October, 1908, hled in this oface
his application to select under the provisions
of section 1905 Revised Statutes. the southeast
quarter of the southwest quarter Of section Is, In
meridian. Any and all persons claiming I'd.
versely the lands described, or desiring to object
because Of the mineral character of the land, or
for any other Ieason,to the disposal to applicant,
should hle their af1davits Of protest in this ONCE
ON or before the 6th day of March, 1910.
II is directed hat publication OF this notice be
culation In the vicinity Of the land above de-
ssribed. j. N. BURLIN0AME, Register.
G. H. Benton, attorney for ~selector.
First publication Jan. 81, 1910.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
NOTICE!

We have recently purchased all the
furniture and furnishings of every de-
scription that were in the Park hotel.
We bought these goods right and we
will sell them right. There were log
complete bedroom outfits besides SUI
ficient odd articles to stock q store.
AS fast as we can move them all these
goods will be on sale at our Exchange
store just across the e from our
big store. While your credit is good,
just remember that ''cash talks" and
If there il anything you want, whether
for one room or thirty rooms, just 60
and ask the man. If you have the
cash around your clothes, don't forget
to tell the man about it and you will
see the talking power Of the coin of
the realm.
"THE EXCHANGE is the place.
LOU COY Housefurnishing Co.
4O7. 400 First Ave S. GREAT FALLS
'GD0.D PATTERSON & SON.
BUYERS and
OF 1--we STOCK
WE HAVE FOR SALE
500 head grade Hereford stock cattle
$500 head mixed sheep
BENTON, Mont.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
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 it's publishers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
Sane. Thinking
Business Man
Must Be COun-
try'S Protector.

BY WHLAf1 J. CALHOUN, Minister to Gilman
&***<**4T is a favorite theory of mine that the history of tho
world is divided into periods and that each represents
a step forward in civilization. The French revolution
marked the beginning of the end of feudalism and
! the forms of government that it represented. The
<********* American Revolution was the beginning of the ERA
OF SELF GOVERNMENT, and our civil war ended the first phase
of that.
We are living today in an AGE BIG WITH PORTENTS and
men of business who want their business and property protected must
remember that A HIGH MORAL SPIRIT MUST BE MAIN
TANNED IN THE NATION TO GIVE IT P~ERMANENCE
do not mean that they must all join the uplift. The reformer
is an interesting type, but he is not always to be depended upon. His
aspirations may be all right, but often he is only a SUPERFICIAL
THINKER. On the other hand, the conservative NEVER RE
FORMS ANYTHING. Therefore the reformer must not always
be despised.
THE HOPE OF OUR COUNTRY TODAY Is IN THE SANE, THINKING
BUSINESS MAN. HE MUST MAKE HIS INFLUENCE AND ASPIRATIONS
FELT IN THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH HE LIVES TO THEIR FULLEST
EXTENT.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
Utilizing Water Power New
YOrk's Barge Canal Would
Become National Highway.

BY EDWARD R. TAYLOR, Expert OF Water Conservation. # Penn yam. \. Y.
- HE key to the water power situation of New York state is
the barge canal between Lake Erie and the Hudson river.
An amount of water producing one horsepower at Niagara
falls is capable of producing FOUR horsepower through
such a canal. With the larger view these last years are forcing upon
us shall we refuse to study anew this question Of such transcendent
importance-much more so since the plans of the barge canal were
laid, in which no provision was made for the DEVELOPMENT OF
WATER OWE
SHALL WE NOT HAVE A POWER AND TRANSPORTATION CANAL
WITH A HAR8oR AND A RAILROAD TRACK BY THE SIDE OF EVERY
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT ALONG ITS RANks-NoT ONLY A
STATE HIGHWAY, BUT A NATIONAL ONE, WITH THE SUPPORT NOT
ONLY OF OURSELVES, BUT ALSO OF THE WEST, WHICH LOOKS TO
THE ATLANTIC WITH LONGING EYES?
Think of the grain from the great west that COULD BE
MILLED IN TRANSIT THROUGH SUCH A PROPER
POWER CANAL, distributing its mill feed on both sides for the
feeding of live stock and the enrichment of the lands of the state.
A water power canal worth five hundred millions of dollars for
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-07-30

mains only short time and does not
see callers.
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Is there combination between city
paving contractors to keep prices
high? When bids were opened by
the board of local improvements for
paving Johnston avenue with asphalt
from North California avenue to North
Kedzie boulevard, IL was discovered
that the low bidders were only 80
cents apart. The American Asphalt
Company's bid, the lowest received.
was s1S.134.S0, while the r. f. Conway
Company bid s1S.1351O. Bids also
were opened for paving Elston ave.
nue. with granite blocks between West
Division street and West North ave.
nue.. The Parker.Washington Com.
pany submitted the lowest bid, $751;
$500, while the John A. McGarry
Company submitted the lowest for
paving West 18th street with brick be-
tween Talman avenue and South 10th
avenue.
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Three Chicagoans--Paul Wander,
$500 Greenwood avenue: Miss Celia
Martin, 1924 Ellis avenue, and Miss
Maud L. Wilson, 6iOS Star avenue
passed the civil service examination
for the position of State visitor TO
county jails and almshouses. The list,
on which there are five others from
other parts Of the State, was given
out at Springfield. Three will be GER
titled and the selection made from
these.
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Deputy Commissioner of Public
Works Hewitt Monday issued an or.
der directing that in future all sigma.
lures of heads of departments to
vouchers must be In ink. In addition
he ordered that the certiflcation of the
correctness of the voucher be signed
in ink by some one of responsibility
in the bureau In which the voucher
originates. 1.-The idea," said Mr.. Hew-
lit, lis TO get some one responsible
person In every department to certify
as to the correctness OF the voucher"
The contractors are dying for big
city bond issue.
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Why should elections for Municipal
Judges be held in the fall? All NUM-.
cipal officers should be elected In the
spring.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-07-30
I'd Peters, Isaac POWELL Leroy Goddard James Hogan william ac John F.
MUNICIPAL NEWS
Some Items of Interest. From the
Public Offices About Occur.
rences of the Week.

Preparation of the extension ordi.
nance of the Chicago Railways Com.
pany to include the lines of the Con.
solidated Traction Company is being
| pushed by Walter l.. Fisher, special
traction counsel for the city, and may
be ready by the end of the week. A
conference of city and traction Off.
cials was held In Mr.. Fishers office
Monday. It was said that rapid prog.
dinance might be ready to submit to
special meeting of the council in
two weeks. Letters were yesterday
addressed to all holders of series 1
Of the participation certificates of the
Chicago Railways Company, advising
them TO write letters to the directors
protesting against the proposed plan
for taking over the Consolidated prop
critics. The letters state that the
merger plans Is an injustice to the Ger.
tiflcate holders.
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Several aldermen are at work on
measures to prevent the stufiing Of
handbills into residence letter boxes
and the promiscuous throwing of such
matter into vestibules and on lawns.
The opinion expressed by many of
them was that the council should take
1t was pointed out that Philadelphia
already has an admirable ordinance
governing the matter, which has been
tested In the supreme court of the
state and not found wanting. From
the corporation counsel's office came
cheering word that the city can deal
with this matter in a conclusive way
as soon as public sentiment crystal.
Lies to the extent of bringing about
council action.
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John A. Guilford. business manager
of the board of education, left Mon.
day night for California, where he
will spend the six weeks vacation
given him at the last meeting of the
board. Assistant Business Manager
Samuel Frankland will have charge of
the Office during his absence. Many
other officials and employees Of the
board are away on vacations. Secre.
tary Lewis Il. Larson is spending two
weeks at Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young. superintendent of schools. is
spending her vacation at her home in
Chicago and working al! the time. She
visits her Office at the board rooms
two or three times week. but re.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-07-18
INDIAN ARRESTED
ON CHARGE OF
MURDER
Pueblo of Domingo Suspected
of Having knowledge Of
Killing of Jim Sing, Who Was
Shot and Burned

\ Pueblo Indian from Domingo was
brought to Albuquerque Saturday
night by Mounted Policeman 4. \.
Sena of san Miguel county. and after
spending sunday in jail here viii be
taken this morning to Bornalillu where
his preliminary hearing will take
place today on q charge of either haV-
ing murdered or knowing who did
murder Jim Sing, the Chinaman who
formerly ran a restaurant aud hotel
a Domingo
1he arrest of the indian is the re-
sui of two months constant search
on the part of the mounted police
around Domingo and whether or not
they have the right man is a question
OF sonle dodhl The Indian, who gave
his name IS Santiago Pacheco, denies
all knowledge of the crime The
mounted policeman arrested Paeheco
after picking up much chcumstantial
evidence. chief Of which. il is said, is
that Pacheco had too much money
shortly after Sing was killed. District
Attorney klock spent some time yes
terday afternoon discussing the case
With the officer. and he also took q
atement from the indian, which he
said did not, agree in some details
with previous statements. He Will
send dn attorney to attend the pres
lminaIA hearing, as he will be Occur
pied IN the q trict court here today.
Jim sung uas missed after his place
had been destroyed by fire, about
midnight some months ago. Later it
was found that he had been shot
beaten with an axe and probably
robbed. rs he lay asleep in his res
taurant and his body WAS incinerated
in the fire which destroyed the place
Sing was well known in Domingo and
elsewhere lie had lived there for
many years and it was common know
edge that he kept considerable sum
OF money always with him.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-07-18
PIONEER FAMILY OF
PAL MER KETNER TAKE
LEAVE OF OLD HOME
CGallup Republican }


Mrs Palmer Ketner and son, Pal
mer, and the two daughters. left
Thursday fog salt Lake city, Utah,
where they viii make their future
home Mr.. Kemer and soa Ralph
win leave for that place later.
Mr. and Mrs. Setner are pioneers
of Gallup, having lived here for
twenty-three years. They We're young
people in the early days of the city,
and were married and raised their
family in this town. Mr.. and Mrs
Ketner have always been active in
all the social, business and political
affairs of the city and cornty, Mr..
Ketner being at the present time a
member of the board Of county com
missioners and one of Gallup's lead
ing merchants
Mrs Ketner has been member
of all the social affairs of the town
since il was large enough to boast
of enough ladies to form any kind of
a society or club. she has been
member OF the Ladies' Aid society of
the Congregational church ever since
its organization ten years ago. having
been its vice. president for the past
two years She was the chief mover
i'm hsving the cement sidewalks placed
around the church. as also securing
its piano and a sewing machine for
the Aid society. She was also char
ter member of the cnnpter OF thc
Eastern star and has neld many Of
fices In the order The two sons are
members of the Gallup band. and Mis-
Martha has made herself quite prom
inent In local affairs with her excel
lent elocutionary aud vocal music tai
ent.
The Ketner home has always been
a center for social gatherings Of an
kinds and has always heen open TO the
rich and poor alike. and their leaving
will make vacancy that will be hard
10 fill.