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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
Washington News Brieflets.

WASHINGTON, June 28.-A new di.
vision will be created in thei!gener al
land office July l to pass upon all
contested government land cases.
VIM. j. McCree of Michigan, will be
chief.
Postmaster General Hitchcock de.
clared today that be will push as
rapidly as possible thu organic alton
OF the postal savings bank isy stem.
He announced, however. that he did
not believe that it would be feasible
to establish any repositories for sew
eral months.
An attack was made today by the
state OF Oklahoma on the charges for
upper berths made by the Pullman
company. In petition filed with the
interstate commerce commission by
Charles West OF Oklahoma, directed
against the Pullman company and
various railroads operating in the
western and southwestern territories,
1t is alleged that making the same
charge for an upper berth as for q
lower, was unjust and discrimiu atory.
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Washington News Notes.

WASHINGTON, July 2.-It is ex.
pected that the board of army engin.
GERS will first visit the Milk river and
Sun river projects in Montana so as
get work started under the $1,000, 900
bond issue in Montana. The reclama-
tion funds are in the meantime availa.
BILE. Senator Carter believes the army
engineers will pronounce both projects
feasible and worthy and entitled to
draw from the S20,000,000 addition
made in the treasury.
The treasury department has award.
ed the contract for the Great Falls
public building to W. Il. Maxwell Of
Tacoma, at STA 400. The department
advertised today for sites for public
buildings at Bozeman. Miles City and
Kalispell.
An estimate that the total number
of immigrant aliens admitted at all
ports of the United States during the
last fiscal year reach 1,035, ,545, was
made by Commissioner General Koofe
today. This is an increase of 2s3, 759
over the number admitted last year.
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expenditure, nor shall any portion of
this appropriation be expended on
any new project.
Roosevelt 0reets Taft,

BEVERLY, Mass, June 3O.-Former
President Roosevelt and President
Taft stood on the broad veranda with
hands upon each Others shoulders
with delight shown in every line in
their smile.wreathed couuten snces.
"Mr. President" it was Roosevelt
who spoke and there was earnest
warmth In his salutation.
Theodore" They pstted each
other affection stely on the shoulder.
They laughed In . way that left not .
single lingering doubt % to the exub.
ersnce Of their feelings. They seemed
utterly oblivious of the fact that others
were present.
White house attaches who witnessed
the greetings this afternoon said it
was just like the old days. There was
. rapid fire of conversation. The
meeting was everything that the
friends Of President Taft have claimed
IL would be and the persistent prophe.
stes OF those who have insisted all
along that GOODNESS had developed
between the two men proved false.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
The New Bureau of Mines,

WASHINGTON, July by the es.
tablishment today of the Bureau of
Mines, authorized by congress and ap.
proved by President Taft, the govern
ment has given the second greatest in.
dustry within its borders, an industry
which furnishes 65 per cent of all its
freight. q degree of recognition. So,
also, has the nations purpose to in.
quire into the deaths of 10000 miners
within the last decade taken form.
Provisions have been made for put.
ting on permanent basis new life.
saving corps, one of which will 60 in.
to the bowels of the earth when fame
and noxious gases run riot and drag
to life men who otherwise wouldlsuffo.
cate by hundreds.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
Pushing Conservation Policy.

BEVERLY, July 4.-President Taft
yesterday took the fret step in his
own conserv alton policy by signing
orders of withdrawal covering $685.
73l acres Of power cite, phosphate and
petroleum lands. The president also
appointed I've engineer officers of the
army who will constitute board to
pass on the reclaim alton projects to be
completed under the recent sppropria.
tion of go, 900, 900.
In the expenditure of s20, 600, 600 the
president 10 made the final arbiter.
He must approve each project before
any of the money can be expended.
The act provides that mo part of this
appropriation shall be expended upon
any existing project until II shall have
been examined and reported upon by
q board of engineer officers of the
army designated by the president Of
the United States and until it shall be
approved by the president as feasible
and practicable and worthy of such
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
Economy In Postal Service.

WASHINGTON, June 30.-Postma as.
ter General Hitchcock returned yester.
day to the secretary of the treasury
another million dollars of the sum
set apart from the public funds to de.
fray expenses of the postal service.
This makes total of $4,000, 900 thus
returned since January l. The post
master general is confident that the
financial returns covering the expenses
OF the present fiscal year will chow q
reduction OF more than $4,000. 600 In
the total annual deficit, which amount.
ed to sl7, 100000.
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that time has he appeared before an
audience, and that was for an inform al
talk in January.
Clark Denies Report.

NEW YORK, June 30.-Former Sen.
ator William A. Clark of Montan a,
returning today with his family from
Europe on the Teutonic, took occasion
to deny the report that he would again
try for the United States sen nate, en-.
tering a contest against Thomas H.
Carter. Senator Clark said the enor.
nous production of copper was keep.
ing the market Glow and the price
down and will probably continue to
do 90 for some time.
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Roundup Moonshine Outfits.

WASHINGTON, June 29.-Commis-
sioner Cabell. OF the International re.
venue bureau, recently gave orders
dispstching eight agents to Oklahoma,
Tennessee and North Carolina to ss.
sist in enforcing the laws against I'LL.
cit dtstilling. Reports at the bureau
show the extent to which the bust.
ness has developed in those states of
the south and southwest, which local
prohibition laws have relegated to dry
territory.
Mr.. Cabell says there is more illicit
distilling now than ever known before
in the states referred to. Roundups
OF moonshine outfits are frequent and
count kept recently showed that ave
agents or deputies had been shot in 80
days.
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Goat Hair ls Not Wool.

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Secretary
MacVesgh has ruled that certain i'm
portations, containing about s per
cent merino wool and 80 to 95 per
cent goat hair and brought to this
country as what are called cape skins
from South Africa and which are OF
Persian origin, are dutiable at 3 cents
pound.
The courts had held that such i'm
portation Of merino and goat hair
from South Africa In the proportions 3
described was dutiable at 10 cents q
pound as merino wool.
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Fighting Grasshopper Pest,

ST. PAUL, June 28.-In an effort to
get rid of the plague of grssshoppers
which has infested the RedlRiver val.
ley, so "hopperdozers" have been put
to work. Hopperdozers are large GAL
vauized pans, 16 feet long. two and q
half feet wide and four inches deep,
mounted upon runners. These pans
are filled with water, over which is
poured thin flm of kerosene. Two
horses, one at each end of the con-
trivsnce, drag it over the infested dis.
trict. The grasshoppers are stirred
up by the trampling of hoofs and hop
into the tank, the slightest touch of the
oil being sufficient to kill them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
Death Of Chief Justice Fuller.

BAR HARBoR, Me-, July 4.-Chief
Justice Melville w. Fuller of the I'm.
tied States supreme court, died of
heart failure at HE summer home in
Sorrento at 6 O'Clock this morning.
The death OF the chief justice was en-.
tirely unexpected, as he had been in
apparently good health lately and
there had been no premonitory symp-
toms of any kind of trouble. Yester.
day he attended church as usual and
when he retired last night he was to
all appearances in his customa ary
health.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
FUNDS FOR RECLAMATION.
Western Senator'S Urge Progress
Upon Unfinished Projects.

Western Senator'S Urge Progress
Upon Unfinished Projects.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-President
Taft's last day in Washington prior
to bis departure for Beverly was q
busy one up to the hour of his leaving
for the summer capitol late this after.
noon. Many congressional callers
and conferences occupied the time be.
tween the assembling of the cabinet
for the last regular meeting In this
city until fall.
Western senator's interested in the
thirty odd irrigation projects in vari.
ous stsges of completion which may
be affected by the 90, ,0o0, 900 adv .nce
from the treasury authorized by con.
gress talked to the president about the
conferent projects.
Senator Carter, Jones, Smoot and
Dixon were those who discussed these
projects. They want to get the in.
spection body Of the United States en-.
gineers at work at the earliest DOS.
stble moment, 80 as to complete the
plans heretofore made. The president
said he would handle the matter as
coon as possible. 1t ts expected he
will name General Marshall, former
chief of engineers, rs head of the com.
mission.
The statement was made by the pres.
ident's visitors that 1t would be neces.
sary for the secretary of the interior
to call upon the treasury for an ad-
vance on account of the go, ,OOO, 600 for
q year or more. There is now in the
irrig alton fund, available for work on
the various projects about %, 600, 900
and during the next fiscal year the re.
ceipts from the sources making up tn at
end are expected to bring in another
S7.OOO,0OO giving 5000, 900 for the
year. The $40, 1000, 900 will be called
on only in case of necessity.
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Death Of Senator Daniel.

LYNCHBURG, Va, June 30.-John
W. Daniel, senior senator from Vir.
ginia. died at the Lynchburg sanitari.
um last digit. The immediate cause
Of death was cerebral hemmorrhage
followed by recurrence of paralysis.
The statesman's illness began with
slight attack of apoplexy in Phila-
delphia last October, which kept him
from his seat at the opening of con.
gress last December. Only once siuce
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
Southern States Are Growing

WASHINGTON, June 30.-That the
census Of 1910 will show the southern
states, including Missouri and Okla.
homa, to have made q gain in popula.
tion of 81 per cent since 1900, is the es-
innate of the Southern Commercial
congress. The congress estimates the
population to be 32,4l5,2 ,297. The gain
of other states of the union during the
came period is estimate by congress
to have been 1871 per cent.
The five states OF the south which
have made the greatest gain in popu-
lation, according to the estimate, are
Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Georgia
and Alabama. Oklahoma gained l..
250,0 900. The figures are based on pro.
visional estim ates OF the census bu-
reau.
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DEFENDS RECLAMATION.
Senator Dixon Opposed To Supervi-
sion BY Army Engineers.

WASHINGTON, June 3O.-Senator
Dixon vigorously opposed the inspec.
ton OF the irrig alton projects by army
engineers, which was included In the
500, ,000, 900 certificate issue finally
passed by congress. He thought the
western senator's we're being "se.
duced" by the appropriation "into q
scheme that was fraught with great
possibilities for evil, and one that
may break down the whole reclaim q.
tion service, which. under it's present
management has promised to be the
one great thing for the development
OF the west in particular and the coun.
try in general"
He said the army engineers never
saw q reclaim alton ditch and know
nothing OF the commercial or social
aspects of a reclaim alton settlement.
He did not say that army engineers
were not good men, but to create q
board in Washington to pass upon
reclama alton projects which have taken
years of painstaking effort on the
part of the most devoted men in the
government, trained during these
years in a special branch of hydraulic
about which army engin-
eers know nothing, was to invite dis.
aster to the great scheme OF irrig ating
the arid lands. He protested against
the proposition believing it fraught
with possibilities OF danger to the
whole reclaim alton service.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
DEADLY POWDER EXPLOSION
Jefferson County Seat Is Scene Of
Frightful Disaster.

BOULDER, June 30.-Four hundred
pounds of giant powder stored in the
warehouse of the Graves Mercantile
company on Main street In this city
exploded at $3.50 o'clock tonight, kill.
ing three people and seriously injur.
Ing four others, two of whom cannot
live. The entire business section of
the town was partly wrecked. The
building in which the powder was
stored was blown to atoms. Every
window in the store front OF the build.
ings for two blocks south was blown
in and the damage ia estima ated at not
less than 5000
Just before the explosion happened,
George Hart was standing in the y ard
adjoining the house, where he was
shooting at a target with twenty-five
caliber rifle. It is believed that bull.
let from his rife entered the warehouse
OF the Graves company and exploded
the powder. Hart was killed outright.
His body was found badly mangled
beneath pile of debris.
His little daughter, who was stand.
ing by his side, was injured so that
she died before she reached the hospi.
tai.
Mrs. Hart was sitting on the porch
In front of her house, about fifteen feet
from her husband, and was thrown
az ainst the house. She was rushed to
Wards hospital where her condition
is reported to be critical.
Gladys Mifflin, Mrs. Hart's sister,
who was here on q visit, was hurled
twenty feet against q post and she
struck on her face, receiving frightful
injuries. There is little chance for
her to survive.
David Kirby, William Robinson,
Geo. Johnson and Albert Taylor four
employees of Contractor George Wort.
man, who was putting up the new high
school and hospital for the state school
for the deaf and blind, had frightful
experiences. They had walked be-
tween Main street and the bridge, close
to the warehouse, and were out In the
street about one hundred feet from the
building when the explosion took
place. Kirby was blown fifty feet,
landing beneath pile of boards and
hay from the building that was de.
molished. He died within fifteen min.
utes and before he reached the hospi.
tai.
II was not known by the people of
the city that powder was stored in the
warehouse, as the Graves Mercantile
company has q powder magazine
about two miles out of town. The
entire town of Boulder turned out to
render fret aid to the injured and the
fra department played q hose on the
debris of the warehouse to remove any
chance of fire.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
Woman Wants To Sue Roosevelt.

NEW YORK. June pa big bundle
OF papers purporting to be the COM
plsint in . suit of q ,000, 900 damages
against Theodore Roosevelt, Robert
Bacon, American ambassador to
France; Charles Graves, American
minister to Sweden, and his wife, 10
in the county clerks Office here,
awaiting disposition. The bundle was
thrown into the Office today by Mrs.
Ida Won Clsussen after the clerks re-
fussl to file them because Of irregu.
larities.
The attempted suit is an outgrowth
of the refusal Of Minister Graves to
present Mrs. von Claussen at the
court Of the late King Oscar of Swe.
den,
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made. There, according to the de.
tectives, York's alias was discovered.
CHICAGO. June 28.-The arrest By
Pinkerton detectives in Seattle lest
night OF Thaddeus E. York, said 70
be wanted In practically sN large
cities In the country on chsrges Of
forgery. was announced here today.
York has many aliases and is con-
sidered one of the cleverest men with
whom the authorities have had to deaf
In many years. In Ohio he is said 20
have netted himself nearly 900, 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
BIG RATE REDUCTIONS.
Railroads Must Charge Less On
Their Western Business.

| WASHINGTON, June 20.-Decisious
were handed down today by the inter.
state commerce commission, country
wide In Importance. They affect freight
rates, both class and commodities
on all transcontinental lines oper ating
between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. Extensive reductions were
ordered.
In what is known as the Reno case,
the class and commodity rates from
Sacr amento, CAL, by the Southern Pa
cific between Reno, New, and Cecil
Junction, Utah, were declared excess
sive, and reasonable rates" were
prescribed.
In what was known as the "Port-
land back haul" case, the commission
decided that the freight rates from
Seattle, Tacoma and Portland to
points in Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Montana we're unreasonable and
reduction of 20 per cent was pro.
posed. In the Spokane case the COM
mission decided that the present
freight rates were excessive and un-
iust and reasonable rates on both
class and commodity freight were es.
tablished for the future.
Present class rates between Utah
common points and Mississippi and
Missouri river transfer points were
also found to be excessive and they
were ordered to be reduced about 10
per cent.
The decisions are in what popularity
are known as the Pacific coast cases.
The cases were heard last autumn by
the commission on its six weeks trip
to the Pacific coast and inter-mountain
territory and have been under consi.
der alton ever since. The commission
realized the immediate Importance of
the cases not only to the railro ads,
but to the shipping public and it pre-
pared its opinions with the greatest
care.
In every instance reductions in the
rates complained of were made and in
some instance they amounted to near
ly so per cent. The commission found
remarkable rate existing on the Pa.
ci6c coast and even a more remarks
bic one in the inter-mountain terri.
tory. This is notably true of the rates
to and from Spokane, WASH, and
Reno.
As noted above, the decisions of the
commission In these cases affect all
class and commodity rates between
eastern points and the far west.
No complaint was made in any OF
the cases of the rates of the eastern
lines between Atlantic points and
Mississippi river transfers and all Of
the reductions ordered by the COM
mission affected the rates from Mis-.
sissippi river and Missouri river
transfer points to Pacific coast term.
insls and inter.mountain territory
points.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
JEFFRIES MEETS DEFEAT.
Former PugiIistic Champion Knock
ed Out ey Colored Opponent.


RENO. July 4.-James J. Jeffries.
who undertook to wrest the prize ring
championship from Jack johnson,
failed in the attempt today. He was
knocked out in the fifteenth round OF q
fast and furious fight. and has Joined
the ranks Of the ''has beens."
johnson had Je6ries clearly at his
mercy after the fret half OF the fight.
BE showed himself clearly the white
mans master At boxing and able to
Withstand all the punishment that the
white man was able to inAict.
In the fifteenth and last round of the
fight johnson put Jeffries down twice
with rights on jaw. They clinched on
the ropes. Az they broke away John
son sent hard right to chin. JEFF fell
against the ropes; he came back slow.
ly and unsteadily. Johnson landed
another hard right on jaw. then hook.
ed left to chin and knocked Jeffries
through the ropes. Jeffries was count
ed out before he was pulled to his feet.
Jeffries was bleeding badly. In the
last five rounds of the fight the negro
punished Jeffries severely and block.
ed Jeffries' lead with ease and it was
apparent In the 18th round that the
negro would win.
The purse amounted to 900, 900, of
which Johnson receives 60 per cent
and Jeffries 40 per cent. The share of
each in the moving picture privileges
amounts to fortune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
Clever Forger Captured.

SEATTLE. June 28.-A key to the
knee joint OF his cork leg led to the
capture OF Thaddeus E. York, charged
with defrauding the American Bank
& Trust company of klamath Falls.
Ore, out OF %, 500 by means of forged
drafts. Inquiring at every house In
the United States sndNMexico, his
pursuers found where the key lad been
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
May Displace Reclamation Chief.


WASHINGTON, July 4.-Rumors are
flying thick and fast that Director
Newell of the reclaim alton service will
shortly be replaced. 1t is said that
the reason for his dismissal is because
OF his lack Of experience in engineer
Ing, the assertion being made that he
knows nothing of practical engineer.
Ing. Nothing is said of his faithful.
ness, however, which has been con.
stant. It is pointed out that many of
the projects he inaugurated have
failed, money has been wasted and
the law violated by undertaking pro.
jects composed exclusively of private
land.
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. Pays Big Fine For Misconduct.

WASHINGTON, June 30.-Edward s.
Holmes, Jr., former associate statis.
tician Of the department Of agricul.
ture, indicted in 1905 for misconduct
in Office in connection with the cotton
statistics leak, pleaded guilty today
In criminal court No. /. He was fined
Is, 900, which be paid.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-03
PAYS AFTER 20 YEARS.
Landlord Blanchard of New
Paris Receives Money Due
for Board.

This is the story OF an honest
man.
Away back twenty years ago
.Alfred T. White, at present a
teacher in UNCONVENTIONAL acad-
envy at Gate, Oklahoma, was
given Evolutionary entertain
ments in Northern Indiana. and
became stranded in New Paris
on cold winter night. He APP
piled for and was given shelter
at the blanchard hotel, and when
he left in the morning offered to
leave his clothing to pay for his
board. This was refused and
White stated he would pay when
he could.
On last Monday. Landlord
blanchard received from White
a money order for 81 to pay for
his room and board twenty years
ago. The Blanchards have oncr-
ated the hotel at New Paris fci
ifty-two years, having movee TO
Elkfart county in 1886 from near
Buffalo. n. Y. F.. G. Blanchard
IS TOW "a years old.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-03

Farming is a money-maklng
business, according to the facts
and figures in sight. and city PEG
pie are interested in the subject
to an unusual extent. Young men
looking around for What are call
ed openings" have scarcely in
cluded agriculture in phe list. 1t
has been hard to retain farmers
sons in the business The call of
the CITY has been powerful and
the call OF the farm but little
needed. For many years the
farmers have been asking for
more help. but often without sue
cess. The demand for workers
on the farms is still lively, and
there seems to be scarcely a linn
it to the opportunities in that
quarter. 1t is an excellent chance
to gain practical experience, and
a few years diligently spent on a
farm. with fair wages and board,
should qualify a young man to go
into business for himself, and not
necessarily as a tenant. He
should be able to buy or home
stead SOME acres of his own and
apply the positive knowledge he
had gained.
Farming is now pursuit, with
many branches, and the range of
choice is wider than in any other
vocation. The variety in Local
ton is almost Infinite.