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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-11
The River Press
Published every Wednesday Morning
by the River Press Publish
ing Company.
IT PROTECTS STOCKMEN.
North Montana Roundup Association
Has Been Of Great Benefit.

Has Been Of Great Benefit.
With a view to protecting the live
stock interests of this part of Montana
against the various detrimental iniu-
ences that menaced the industry, the
North Montana Roundup association
was organized at a meeting held in
April, 1895, at Chinook. The field
covered by the association embraces
the counties of Chouteau, Valley, Cas-
cade and Teton, which contain about
one-fOurth of all the cattle returned
for taxation in Montana, and the pri-
mary object of it's organization was to
suppress cattle s~tealing-an industry
that had assumed alarming proper
tions but which has experienced a re-
markable s%hrinkage since the associa-
ton took the matter in hand.
The first president of the association
was the late Thos. O'Hanlon, of Chi
nook. and the first chairman of it's ex-
ecutive committee was M. E. Miner,
whose vigilant interest in the affairs
of the association has been recognized
by it's membership by retaining him in
that responsible position up to the
present time. The association has
about It's members, making it n of
the strongest organizations of it's kind
in the west. Its officers for the past
year were: T.. T. Broadwater, Havre,
president: DR.. j. V. Carroll, Fort
Benton, vice president; Thos. A. Cum
mings, Fort Benton, secretary-treas-
urer.
Executive committee-M. F.. Miner,
chairman; Jesse 1. Phelps, David G.
Browne, James Townsend, Norville
Wallace, John Harris, John Survant,
Simon Pepin, T. A. Cummings, d. c..
Kyle, c. w. Price, L. e. kaufman,
William Coburn, j. II. Murphy, C. H.
Austin, A. j. Davidson, A. w. Kings
bury, Thomas Couch, Jr., j. V. Car
roll. c. H. Green and j. E. Marcum.
The annual meetings of the associa-
ton have been occasions for renewing
old-time friendship as we'll as discuss
ing business matters of interest to its
members, and have invariably been
we'll attended by stockmen and their
friends. The fifteenth annual meeting
of the association is the second of the
series to be held in this city.
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X!b
@s
EARLY DAY ROUNDUPS.
Montana Range Cattle First Sent to
Market in Seventies.

According to a newspaper review of
the range cattle industry in Montana,
there was nothing doing in that line
until it was realized that the herds,
under conditions then prevailing, could
spend the winters upon the ranges de-
irving nourishment alone from the
grasses that had been cured by nature,
and it is accepted as true among the
cattle owner of the state that this dis
covery was made by accident. A
freighter, driving bulls from Fort
Benton to Helena, vas forced by storm
to abandon them. In the spring, much
to his surprise, he found them alive
and in better condition than in the
fall.
The first cattle were brought into the
territory in the summer of 1862, when
the necessities of the mining camps
suggested the business to butchers.
They were brought from the south. be-
inc driven oyer great trails hat later
became famous, and were kept on
ranches in the valleys near the mining
camps. Prior to 1870 the cattle in
that territory were kept only for home
consumption and the increase had been
so small that in that year there were
only 80, 1000 head in Montana. Thence
forth, the possibilities of the ranges
having been realized, there was aeon
| slant increase, but it was not until
1873 that any considerable shipment
was made direct from Montana to an
eastern market. In October, 1868, D,
J. Hogan, of Augusta, made the first
beef drive from the territory, for Oren'
stein & Pepper, of Salt Lake. They
were purchased from Ed. Creighton
and were sold in Salt Lake and along
the Union Pacific. In 1874, James
Forbis shipped Montana cattle to the
east from Ogden: they were purchased
out of Conrad Kohrs' herd on the
range on the south fork of Sun river
but were not classed as Montana cat,
tie on the market. In the early co.,
Tom Moran, Ed. Lewis, Jacob Schmidt
and others had small bands of cattle
in the vicinity of St. Peters mission
but they We're herded closely.
The range cattle business started il
the Sun river valley, into which the
first band, 700 head, was brought, il
1871, by Ford and Dunno. The fol
lowing year. o. H. and D. H. Church
i'll brought 500 head. Until the North
ern Pacific entered the state, in 1880
cattle We're driven from this section te
Granger, on the Union Pacific, 95(
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miles; or to Pine Bluff, on the Union
Pacific, 700 miles: or to Bismarck, on
the Northern Pacific. $40 miles; or to
Fargo, on the Northern Pacific, 800
miles. All drives in those days start
ed from the Sun river valley, and on
account of the presence of Indians
We're very dangerous. In 1873 the first
montana grass Westerns were class
flied in that way in Chicago. They
had been driven from the Sun river
and Judith valleys to Bismarck, and
thence shipped by rail. The returns
were SO satisfactory that, despite the
risk and loss, all began to ship in
that way.
In 1882 the first shipment was made
from a Montana point - Billings.
Flowerree & Lowry shipped 81 car
loads of steers from their Sun river
range from that station. In St. Paul
two steers were sold for 800 each, and
in Chicago the shipment brought S94. 50
per head, averaging LAS pounds.
Prior to that time the best beef steers
had been selling for $50, and the news
of the Billings shipment attracted to
Montana cattlemen from all parts of
the United States and many from En-
gland. The buff aloes began to disap-
pear and the cattle herds to increase.
Trans actions involving more than a
half million dollars were frequently
reported, and by 1886 there were over
700,0 600 head in the territory.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-11

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 It's OWE
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid OF time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
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Interest Paid on Time Deposits
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For Sale or EXCHANGE.

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Tor s..OD spot sash, or It's equivalent in bsnkS BILE
paper. Goods will he delivered in regular weekly
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Address II RIVER PRESS,
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tail, sweetbreads and tripe are all
sold for meat. There is nothing
wasted but the water in the
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Wa'er ~;cn. oianks-only correct
nrm p:!bt!,.~A--'..r sale al the RIVER
t'i.t:>S ,nx-.
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L. B. LONG & co.,
Opposite Park hotel,
Great Falls. Mont

Our speciality is buyirg sheer
on orders for cur customers. {
you have any fo. sole fer de;i,.
cry in the spring, or after shear.
Ing. write us giving description
and price.
We make no charges.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
; NEWS OF MONTANA
Important Happenings Of the
Week Briefly Told.
HARDlE'S PROCESS TRIED.
New Furnace Heat is Expected ia
Revoiutonize Methods.

Helena.-Helena men are to install
soon the first unit of large smelling
plant at the Rimini camp, sixteen
miles southwest of Helena. 1t is to be
equipped with what is known as the
Hardie process, a new and untried
heat to the blast furnace 1t is the in.
vention of John Hardie, metallurgist
and chemist of this city. He has dem
onstrated that his discovery will rev.
olutionize methods used in smelling
furnaces of the country, and so con-
fident are the men who have seen the
new Improvement and the drawing &C.
companying the plan for the furnaces
that they have subscribed the neces-
sary funds for the practical applica-
ton. 1t is asserted that gold, silver,
copper, lead and zinc ores can be
treated at cost far lower than under
the present system.
Hardie contends that his invention
is of almost inestimable worth, be.
cause such thing as refractory ores
will no longer exist. All ore, even
veSy low grades, will be treated on a
commercial basis. The heat engen-
dered is said to be so great in the new
process that no known substance can
resist it. The cost of reduction is also
said to be materially loWer.
H. Hughes Roberts, an expert, has
completed an exhaustive examination
of the characteristic district in JEFF
ferson county, and has submitted to
the Butte-Helena syndicate, which en-.
gagged his services, an elaborate re-
port, which on the whole is favorable.
In consequence, it is expected that op.
erations will begin in several of the
more promising sections of the dis
trict, and on an extensive scale.
He says, for instance, that the Annie
Laurie group is within the area of the
Butte batholith and that the claims
are traversed by quartz porphyry and
grano diorite dykes. The veins are
true assures, nearly vertical in dip and
some of them are from ten to twenty
feet wide. The ores in the district
vary; the honeycombed quartz near
the surface carrying good gold values
with some silver as we'll as hematite
of iron.
The first shipment has been made
from the Dixon mine at Dixon, recent
der bond of $125,000. The shipment
averaged 500 ton, chiefly in copper.
The vein is now seven feet wide AMI
evidently the future of the property is
assured.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
At tho One Horse.

Jere L. Sullivan, the head of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees In
ternational Alliance, said in Cincin-
natl, apropos of Labor day:
"Our American hotels are better
than they used to be, and for this bet
torment my organization deserves no
little credit.
I'VE have today no such hotels az
the One Horse of Tin Can, where. II
you asked for bath, they used to
give you a shovel and tell you to go
down to the hollow and dam the
creek.
IAN English earl once visited the
One Horse hotel. The landlord with
out ceremony led him outside, pointed
to a window on the fifth floor, and
said:
"'Thar's yer room.'"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
CANAL FOR TRADE, NOT Wan
WOULD NOT FORTIFY ZONE, IF
MADE NEUTRAL.
Mnnesotan Thinks Other Countries
Should Be Heard on the
Matter.

Panama, Nov. 25.-The Star-Herald
published as leading feature an in
terview with Representative James
Tawney, chairman of the appropria-
tions committee of the American
house of representatives, on the sub
ject of the defense of the Panama
canal
IF the nations of the world agree
to regard the Panama canal as neutral
territory" Mr.. Tawney says, there
will be no need for Notifications. l
am opposed to any plan or scheme for
military or naval defense of the canal
until the nations of the world have
been given an opportunity to express
themselves.
This great enterprise is being built
with American money and in time of
war there is no nation that would dare
say to the United States, You cannot
send your ships through the canal
built by you at tremendous cost of
money and blood
"The canal is being built for the
benefit of commerce, the land is be-
ing divided in order that the entire
world may be united and markets be
brought into closer communication.
The United States is big enough, or
should be big enough, to bend all it's
energies in the direction of making
the canal a worldwide commercial
success instead of war measure by
which an advantage could be secured
over an enemy"
Tawney Visits Arosemena.
Panama, Nov. 25.-Representative
James A. Tawney, chairman of the ap-
preparations committee of the house
of representatives, and five other
members, who are visiting the 18th.
mus, called on President Arosemena.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
HEALTH AND INCOME
Both Kept Up on Scientific Food.

Good sturdy health helps one lot
to make money.
With the loss of health ones income
Is liable to shrink, If not entirely
dwindle away.
When a young lady has to make her
own living, good health is her best
asset.
II am alone in the world" writes .
Chicago girl, dependent on my own
efforts for my living. I am clerk.
and about two years ago through close
application to work and a boarding.
house diet, became nervous in.
valid. and got so bad IF it was almost
impossible for me t. .tay in the ONCE
a half day at time.
"A friend suggested to me tho idea
of trying Grape-Nuts food which did.
making it large part of at least two
meals day.
To-day, am free from brain.tire,
dyspepsia, and all the Ills of an over.
worked and improperly nourished
brain and body. To Grape-Nuts I
owe the recovery of my health, and
the ability to retain my position and
income.
Read "The Road to MELVILLE" In
pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letterf A new
emo appears from time to time. They
nrc genuine, trues and full Of humaa
lAteHest
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
St. Paul Company Barred.

Helena.-Alleging that it's agents
were guilty of misrepresentat that
reprehensible conduct was engaged in
by it's adjusters and that dilatory tao
tics in the settlement of claims were
resorted to by the executive officials,
II. R. Cunningham, state insurance
commissioner, revoked the license of
the st. Paul Mutual Hail and Cyclone
Insurance Company, of st. Paul. All
agents were warned to cease the trans
action of business in this state. The
company was notified that it would
be given an opportunity to disprove the
charges.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
! SUMMARY !
WEEKS EVENTS !
Latest News of Interest :
Boiled Down for the :
Busy Man. :
PERSONAL.

Premier Asquith was assaulted by
suffragettes in the precincts of the
house of commons and was saved
from rough handling only by the
prompt arrival of a strong body OF
police The attack on the premier
followed an announcement by him In
the house that If he should be in pow
err at the next session he would give
facilities for the consideration of a
woman's franchise bill.
Gladys Amy Graham, twelve years
old, has come to New York from Cal
cutta, India, on the way to her IA
Tiers home in Canada.
Minnie Pickett, thirteen years old,
weighing only IA pounds, died at
Canyonville, Ore. She is believed to
have been the smallest person in the
world for her age.
Clarence Hill, a twelve-year-old boy,
died at Lebanon, KY, of injuries re-
ceived in a school football game a
week ago.
Governor-Elect Eugene N. Foss of
Massachusetts issued a statement in
which he demands that Senator Hen
ry Cabot Lodge withdraw from the
field for reelection. In the event of a
refusal Mr.. Foss said he would 60
into every section of the common
wealth in a campaign to defeat the
senator.
Lord Hardings, the new viceroy of
India, received the seals of office from
Lord Mimic at Calcutta.
Count Leo Toilstoi died at Astapova.
Doctor Makovetsky and other attend
Ing physicians and Countess Tolstoi
ard children were at his side when
the end, which was peaceful, came.
Efforts of the church to gather the
famous reformer into it's folds ef-
fected nothing, as neither side
yielded.
Premier BRAND, while attending the
ceremonies in the Tuilleries in Paris,
In connection with the dedication Of a
monument erected to the memory Of
Jules Ferry, the French statesman,
was assaulted by a Royalist, who
struck him twice in the face with his
fists. The premier was not seriously
Aurt
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Documents found in the house of
revolutionary in Mexico City are said
to have revealed conspiracy for the
wholesale assassination of prominent
government officers, including For.
eign Minister Creel, Vice-President
Corral and other prominent Mexi-
cans. President Diaz was to be ia
ken, but his life spared because of
his past services to the country
The Democratic representation in
the next house of representatives will
be 227 as against 1853 Republicans
and one Socialist, according to the
roster Of the house, just published at
Washington. These figures give the
Democrats a majority of GO and a
plurality Of Ga.
DR.. Hawley H. Crippen was hanged
for the murder of his wife, Belle Ell
more Crippen, in the court yard of the
Pentonville prison, London. The Off
cial hangman of England pulled the
trap that sent Crippen into eternity.
The prisoner, to all outward appear
ances, seemed resigned to his fate
and walked bravely to his doom.
Under Poverty Oak" on the hill
side at Yasnaya Poliana where as a
boy he had buried a toy hobby horse,
Count Leo Tolstoi was buried. The
choir sang Everlasting Memory" but
there was no other ceremony.
The board of governors of the Ma
tional Democratic club will give a
complimentary dinner at the Waldorf
Astoria, New York, on December is
to six Democratic governors-elect.
Miss Eugene Ladenburg will not
get the $4,000 year, without which,
her mother told the courts, no girl
properly could be finished Surrogate
Jackson of Hampstead, L. l., ruled
that $4,000 year is plenty for the
education of any girl of sixteen.
Transit shipment privileges on for.
est products are to be abolished on
all transcontinental railroads west of
the Missouri river after December "a.
Formal announcement of this ruling
was made at Seattle
After revolt at Pueblo, Mexico,
In which forty were killed and three
wounded troops fought their way in.
to the houses in which the women
leaders Of the rioters were intrenched
snd forced them to surrender. Three
J the rebels were slain, one of whom
filled the chief Of police.
Following a poker game in which
Oda Hubbell won all the money-s20O
-Hubbell and his wife and two small
children were slain in their home
near Marysville. Mo-, and their bodies
burned. Hez Rasco, who was can.
tured In corn field near by, is held
Ol suspicion,
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
FEAR COWS HAD HYDRoPHOBlA.
Wisconsin State Authorities Investi.
cate Death Of Dairy Cattle.

Neenah, Nov. 25.-The state dairy
department is making an investigation
into the cause of death of a large herd
of COWS belonging to Francis Fem.
lock and Bert Williams, living near
here The animals died in apparent
agony. The state authorities believe
hydrophobia was the cause. How the
animals became infected is not known.
Zemlock, his wife and three children
and Williams and family have all
gone to Madison to take the Pasteur
treatment.
An investigation is being made to
determine whether milk from the cows
creameries.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Build More Locomotive Stalls.

Miles City.-Superintenden Edward
Murray CT the bridge and building de-
partlnent of the Puget Sound extern
sion has received authorization to
commence the construction of five
locomotive stalls additional to the fif-
teen now at the company's round
house in this city, and the work will
start at once. Stalls have recently
been authorized as additions at Three
Forks and Harlowton in Montana, and
Marmath and Mobridge, in Dakota.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Mining Enaineer Dies.

Duluth, Nov. %. Word was re-
ceived in Duluth of the death in Phil
adelphia of II. B. Sturtevant, formerly
well known mining engineer Of Min
nesota, and we'll known in the mining
districts of this country and Mexico
He was for several years superintend
ent of the Pioneer iron mine at Ely
MIMI, and later developed the Sus-
quehanna mine at Hibbing for the
Rogers Brown Iron Company. Mr.
Sturtevant was at one time in charge
of the Ashland mine in Wisconsin.
He was 81 years of age and leaves a
family.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
LORDS IGNORE VETO BILL,
Britist Parliament Will Adjourn Mon.
day.

London, Nov. 25. - The house of
lords without division, adopted the
resolutions of Lord Lansdowne, the
opposition leader, and decided to send
them, together with Lord Roseberrys
plans for the reformation of the mem
bership of the lords, to the house of
commons. The upper chamber then
adjourned until Monday, when disso-
luton of parliament will take place.
Thus the governments veto bill has
been ignored by the house Of lords.
A noticeable feature of the debate
has been the number of Liberal peers
who supportd Lord Lansdowne's
scheme and opposed the governments
veto bill.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01

Seven-year-old William had become
the proud owner Of a pet pig, and in
sisted upon having all the care Of 1t
himself After a few weeks, as the
pig did not seem to thrive, his father
said to him:
William, I'm afraid you are not
feeding your pig enough. It does not
seem to be fattening at all"
Il don't want him to fatten yet"
William replied, knowingly. "I'm wait
ing until he gets to be as long as I
want him, then I'll begin to widen him
out."-Tit-Bits.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Gets Good Price for Ranch,

Miles City.-After staying with his
ranch since the early eighties, J. Stat
ford Of Ashland, who was one of the
pioneers i'll the supposedly barren
lands Of Eastern Montana has finally
reaped the reward of his fortitude and
faith by disposing of his holdings,
lao acres, for $4,000 to Harve
TrusSler, the average price amount
ing to a shade more than SIS per acre.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Oklahoma City Gets Meeting,

San Antonio, Tex, Nov. 25.-Okla
homa City was awarded the next ses-
sion of the trans-Mississippi CONNER
cial congress in 1911 at the conven-
ton of that organization. Fred w.
Fleming, chairman of the executive
committee, was elevated to the post
of president and A. G. Trombo of
Oklahoma succeeded Mr.. Fleming.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Veteran of Two Wars Dead.

LIE Roy, Mimi. Nov. 2o.-W. D. Har-
den, a veteran of the Mexican and
civil wars, one of the earliest resi-
dents of Mower county and for eight
years postmaster of lie Roy, is dead.
He was SO years of age. He was the
father of G. w. w. Harden. former
member of the legislature from Now
err county, and of G. S. Harden, the
present postmaster.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Father GalIauher Stricken,

Winona, Nov. 25.-Rev. Father P.
]. Gallagher, pastor of St. Thomas
pro-cathedral, and assistant to Bishop
Hebron, suffered stroke of paraly.
sis at the sanitarium at Prairie du
Chen Wis, whittier he had gone for
treatment for rheumatism.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Gov. CarroiI's Lead, 18,444,

Des Moines, Nov. 25.- Election re-
turns from every county in the state
gave Governor Carroll total of $685.
GOT, as against 1877, 1853 for Claude Por-
ter, Democrat a lead fol Governor
Carroll Of 1914.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Got Out of the Habit.

II see you have got young man
stenographer?"
Eyes,"
Don't you think a pretty girl
stenographer adds a great deal to tho
attractiveness of an Officer"
II suppose she does, but can't
dictate to woman somehow. l s'pose
it's because I have been married so
long,"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Slated for Commerce Court.

Butte.-Private advices from Wash
ington state that United States Sena-
tor Thomas Carater will be rendered
an appointment as a judge of the court
Of commerce, created by the last Con-
gress, and for that purpose has been
called to the national capital by
President Taft.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01
Operation on a Liner.

New York, Nov. 25.-A successful
operation for appendicitis performed
on the high seas took place on the
Mauritania, which arrived here TIE
patient was Baron Won Eichsteidstssn
The baron is reported in satsfac.
tory condition.