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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
CoRBETT GOING WEST.
Will Leave New York for California
to Take Charge of Jeffries.

VIII Leave new YORK Tor California
to Take Charge of Jeffries.
New York, May 14.-Jim Corbett,
unless he changes his plan will leave
New York the first of next week for
Jeffries' training camp, where he will
assume charge of the task of prepar-
ing the big fellow for the Johnson
fight.
Corbett is in pretty fair condition
himself and says that after he has
been at Jeffries' camp for ten days or
two weeks, he will be able to make
things hum in the ring.
If Corbett is allowed to have undis-
puted authority at the camp, it is be-
lieved he will make several important
suggestions, among them being the
engagement of one or two rugged
heavyweights who can mix it up
with Jeffries in earnest"
Corbett's friends say he favors the
engagement of a man like Kaufman
Barry, Flynn or Ross, who can hit
hard and is also big and strong
enough to receive heavy blows with
out fiinching.
That kind of work in Corbett's opin
ion, would do Jeffries more good than
light sparring, but it remains to be
seen whether Jeffries accepts this ad
vice with favor or not.
Joe Cans Has Tuberculosis.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
SHES Away from Wine.
MACK SAYS BASEBALL HAS
NOT CHANGED.

Connie Mack, manager of the
Philadelphia Athletics, knows
as much about baseball as any
5 man living and has a speaking
acquaintance with every player
) of note. and he thinks the game
has not rcvolutioniZed in recent
; years in any manner except In
point of attendance.
"The evolution of the game in
the last twenty years Is more
remarkable in point of patron
age than in the way 1t is
played" says Mack.
5 There We're marvellous play
ers in the old days, and there
are marvellous players now. 1t
Z was Il guessing contest between
the pitcher and batter In the
days of RadDourne and Arson.
1t Is no less guessing contest
in these days of Mullin and La
joie. 1t was a battle between
the catcher and base rlNoner in
the days of Ewing and Of Ham
) iltOn. 1t is still battle in the
days of sullivan and Ty Cobb.
The fan who believes there are
no ClarkSonS or Kellys or Sto-
) veys or Fergusons or Fogartys
today is just rs firmly set in his
) belief 40 is the fan who con-
siders LaS:1e, Mathewson, Joss,
) King, Cobb and Crawford
greater players than were in
; the game back in the eighties"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
TWO FAITHFUL PITCHERS.
Pittsbure Has Valuable Pair In Phil.
lppe and Lever.

Pittsburs Has Valuable Pair In Phil.
lppe and Lever.
Sam Lever and Deacon" Philippe
have won $50 out of 522 games for
the Pittsburgs during their careers
with that club, During the time they
have been with Fred Clarke their work
has been faithfully performed. Only
recently they demonstrated their loyal
ty to Captain Fred At st. Louis the
Pirates were forced to play the Cardi.
nails while rain and snow fell in in
clement combinations.
Clarke didn't want to take chance
on running either Adams or Camnitz
for life, so he asked for volunteers to
pitch the game. Lever and Philippe
were the ones to answer the call
Lever was chosen. and he went in and
won.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
Eiuht Fans Match Lack.

San Francisco, May 14-Jack John.
sons followers are well pleased with
the showing made by the fighter in
his opening workout.
They saw him stripped, following his
twelve-mile road jog, and many pro-
fessed to be agreeably surprised over
his condition. All were agreed that
the negro should have little difficulty
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
FORTUNES WILL BE BET ON
BIG MILL.

AS betting proposition the
forthcoming fight between Jim
JeffrieS and Jack Johnson will
probably be without equal in the
history of the sporting world.
being made in this country. as
well Ms the hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars that will he
stakcd on the outcome in other
quarters of the globe. it is esti-
mated that between $4.OOOOOO
and $5,O0O,O0O all told will
change hands.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
ARE CLEVER AcRoBATs.
A. o. hazen and Cleo Lederer Can Do
Circus Stunts.

When the Y. NJ. G. A. gymnasium Is
opened for business, a. o. Hazen and
Cleo Lederer will be among the best
athletes to make up the young mems
class. An exhibition given by them
the other afternoon showed that they
not only were good athletes. but would
make a hit as acrobats behind the
footlights On the soft green grass
behind the Durland Trust company's
office, after the days work was over,
n number of friends of these two ath.
letes gathered to enjoy some of their
exhibitions. Cartwheels, backward
sommersaults, walking on hands, high
and broad jumps and tumbling incud.
ed some of the program through which
they went In an amazing and seem
ingly easy manner
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
IL is Pat Stevens

Fairfax, S. D., May 14.-Special to
The News: 1t was Pat Stevens in
stead of Pat Kelly who was jailed here
for the Gregory hold.up.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
Lenal Notice.

n, Mistker, first name unknown, and
Mrs. r. Mistker, his wife, first name
unknown, will take notice, that on the
End day of May, A. d. 1910, c. F..
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20

in removing surplus weight during the
long training interval before the fight
and Johnson's announced intention of
taking things comparatively easy for
while is generally commended.
First Real Workout.
Johnson says that his road exercise
was the first real work he has done
in preparation for his meeting with
Jeffries. What he did at Chicago. he
declares, was more for the benefit OF
photographers than for himself
a tentative program has been out.
lined for Johnson's preliminary train.
ing. For the first two weeks he pro.
poses to put on the gloves three days
a week, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sun.
days. Later he will increase this to
four days a week, appearing in the
gymnasium on Tuesdays, Thursdays,
Saturdays and Sundays. No boxing
will be done until next Sunday, It is
said.
SHES Away from Wine.
After posing for pictures yesterday,
wine was uncorked, but the pugilist
SHE'D away from the bubbling bever.
age and called for buttermilk.
"Buttermilk is good for you" he
remarked, at don't put on weight and
it keeps you in good condition"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
A Payino Proposition.

Comparing this country with others
in Iowa and other states, similarly set
tied, the engineer says he is confident
this would prove a first class business
proposition.
He does not favor water power from
the Yellow Banks, because there would
be no other market for the power.
The report is now in the hands of
Secretary Pasewalk of the CONNER
cial club and will be considered soon
by the directors of the club and by the
parties interested in the line. 1t may
be said to seem very probable that
immediate steps will be taken looking
toward the building of this line.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
Details Of lnterurban.

Here's the train schedule for the pro.
jected interurDan line between Nor.
folk and Newman Grove:
Leave Norfolk at a. m, 10 a. m,
p. m, p. M; leave Newman Grove
for Norfolk at s a. m, II a. m, p.
m, p. III. Tie up the cars in Norfolk
for the night
The cars would run at rate of
twenty miles an hour to make this
two.hour service, according to Civil
Engineer Schreiner, and this would be
what is termed first class interurban
service
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
The Motive Power.

The report recommends that instead
of electricity, which is considered too
expensive, McKeen gasoline motors be
used for passenger service and light
steam locomotive for freight. Little
rolling stock would be needed for the
freight business, because competition
for the business developed on this line
would be keen among the standard
railroads and they would eagerly fur
nish empty cars for big shipments.
This is true, he says, in all such cases.
Three gasoline motors he would advise
buying for the interurban passenger
traffic
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20

Joe Cans Has tuberculosis.
Baltimore, May 14.-Joe Cans, the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-20
Best Soil In State: No Waste.

In his report to the Commercial club
Mr.. SChreiner says that he found the
proposed route intersected a territory
ka. He commented particularly upon
the fact that there is absolutely no
waste land in the entire district to be
traversed, which is very unusual. He
says that even in the richest portions
of Iowa, where interurbans have been
built, there is nearly always some
waste land. He was exceedingly
pleased over this favorable feature of
the Madison county project.
The grades for the road will average
less than l percent, he says.
Might Run to Battle Creek.
The road as projected would be thir-
ty-five miles long. Mr. Schreiner's
plan would be to run west to Battle
Creek, along the Elkhorn, either on
the north or south side, or, in case
Battle Creek was not interested to
turn south at the Flanagan bridge.
Region Thoroughly Cultivated
His report comments upon the fact
that the territory affected is extensive
ly and thoroughly cultivated, and that
there is not farm in the entire sec
ton which does not show, by its build
ings, that the country is one of wealth.
He advises that the right-ofway
should be purchased and that public
highways should be avoided, because
of danger from accidents and result
ant damage suits.
Only one steel truss bridge, across
the Elkhorn river, would have to be
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-11
New Postal Savings Bill.

WASHINGTON, May ga new pos.
tti savlng- bank bill was Introduced
today by REPRESENTATIVE Gardener,
republican, OF New Jersey.
Mr.. Gardeners b.!. makes several
radical departures irvin tie measure
as pas-ed by the senate. Tie main
~dlttereuces are tha, tie Gardener bill
will provide that postal savings banks
b. esia biished ouiy where the board
Of trustees deem it des!ra1le: hat ma
tioual banks only should be made
Repositories Of postal savings funds,
and should pay the government . per
cent interest; that the government
should withdraw S. per cent of the
total Of these funds from thu national
banks whenever they shall have ag.
gregated So, 000, 600 and that with these
Withdrawals should be Dough. securi.
ties under the decision of tie board OF
trustees.
The board of trustees as in the sen.
ate bill would consist Of the postmas.
ter general, the secretary Of the treas
ury and the attorney general.
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Dixon Arraigns Railroads.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The senate
leaders have been forced to accept
Sen Al o Dixon's ''lcog aud short
haui' amencmen. TO tu- railroad bill
putting a stop to the abuse of dis.
crimination against the intermountaio
country by sranscontinental roads.
Dixon addressed the senate this aft.
ernoon ia support IF his amendment.
He showed up the Decentralization, sup.
~plemeuting Bri-tow's arraigoment of
the railroads a few Days ago.
The senator- declared tia. Dixon
and Bristow have made a terrible
showing against the luad-. Dixon
showed today that the rua.- charged
four times as much for carrying Ger
tain classes Of freight from NJ" York
to Missoula and Butte as for the
through rate from New York to Seat
ia
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-11
Thousands Cheer Weston.

NEW YORK, May 2.-Cutting his
way through Q mass OF 20, 900 cheering
people, his white locks barred to the
breeze and his shuffling feet keeping
time to the strains of the "Star Spangl.
ed Banner" Edward Payson Weston
brought to q triumphant end tod sy
his ocean.to-ocean walk. He assembled
the steps of the city hall at $40 p. m,
completing the transcontinental jour.
ney of 3,483 miles in II walking days,
a feat without parallel in the annals
of Professionalism.
The grizzled athlete was welcomed
to his home city by Mayor Gaynor,
who presented him with a purse OF
$500, hurriedly raised by u handful OF
admirers in the last hours OF his spec.
tacular walk. This, with the applause
of thousands who have followed bis
tramp since it began at Los Angeles
February l Ia all the reward tina.
comes to the septusgenarian, after
months Of trudging across the con.
tineut.
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But even this did not satisfy Major
Alexander Culbertson, who had u C
ceeded Mr.. Kipp in charge OF the post.
In 1916, three years before the great
stampede to California, the fort was
removed to the head of navigation,
and to one of the most beautiful bot
toms on the upper Missouri, where ma
lure had made ways Of entrance and
exit at every point of the compass.
Here, 5000 miles above St. Louis,
was built the strongest and most COM
plete trading post in the far western
country, the massive adobe walls OF
which yet stand as a monument to the
heroic spirits of that remote period.
Fort Benton then became a historic
landmark-the pioneer settlement OF
the great northwest, and was the key
to this vast region during the supre-
macy of the American Fur company,
and also of the succeeding period,
when the gold hunt RS made their way
from the east to the mountains of
Montana, Washington, Idaho and
British Columbia. Millions of pounds
of merchandise were here unloaded
from the many steamboat that piled
the waters of the.upper Missouri. The
great rush to the mic e. for a score OF
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-11
OBJECT TO BIG FIGHT.
Preachers Protest Against Jefferies.
johnson Contest.

PHILADELPHIA, May 3.-The Phila.
deiph!a Methodist ministers are en-.
~deavoriny to start u na,ion wide pro.
test aga!us; the Jetferies. ohuson
night in California on July fourth.
AT the weekly meeting Of the Me,ho.
dist preachere' association q resolu-
tion was adopted which says:
"Resolved, That the permission of
this fight eau be regarded as nothing
less than a national disgrace aud a
calamity TO the moral life OF our PEG.
pie: that the Philadelphia preachers
protest against tie holding of this
fight aud we invite the ministers of all
other denomin atious in the state of
Pennsylvania and in other states to
stir their people AID to unite with us
In q protest to the governor of Cali
fornia against the permission to con.
duct this fight"
OAKLAND, May 3.-Branding the
match a ''desecr alton of our nations
great patriotic holiday" the greater
Oakland charter convention last night
adopted a resolution protesting
agaios. the holding of the Jeffries.
johnson prize fight on July fourth.
A public mass meeting held Ia re.
monstrance against ''this threatened
violation Of the moral sentiment and
good order of the community" is
favored. Plans are now being made
for the mass meetings..
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years radiated from this point, and
the post was the liveliest, busiest and
wealthiest town on the frontier. Rough
and turbulent we're those days Of easy
money-getting, and Fort Benton vas
known in every section of the Union
and dotted every atlas, a solitary
cross, far out and away from all
rivals, in the dreary terra incognito.
It was a stirring business mart long
before Denver, Kansas City or Omaha
were thought of, OF St. Paul, Salt
Lake aud San Francisco had d:opp.d
their %swaddling clothes.
The American Fur company sold
out in 1862 to the Northwest Fur COM
pany, who carried on operations here
until 1859, when the fort was occupied
by the national government as a EN-
devious for soldiers. The troops
abandoned the premises ia 1915, since
which time little effort has been made
to preserve the habitation. All that
now remains are ON extensive
mounds of earth and the ruined guard
house and end walls of the main quar-
tiers, some twenty feet high. The
adobe with which it "a constructed,
wherever unmolested, is yet in q good
state Of preservation, aud seems to
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-11
Desert LarG.a~Firui Proof,

UHtrED SrATEs AND OFFICE.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., April u, 1910.
Notice is .iert by gwen that
LUTHER Balm,
of Geyser, Montana, who, on lie en.her %, 1905,
made desert ard entry No. 2tS5, serial No. OBI,
for uusurveyed public lard in thon.esu county,
Montana, b rtc.!ng on Missouri river, tsginning
about one hnlr mile noItharly and opposite side
of said river fr0m mouth III Arrow creek, thence
up said river about one mile, thence easteriy
one-fourth mile, therce 3 Mtheriy. one mile.
thence westerly one-tourth nile to place Of be-.
ginning. probably in township % north, range
Is east, has died notice Of Intention to make
final proof, TO establish claim to the land above
missione', at his Office in Fort Benton, Montana,
on the .5th day Of May, 1910
Claimant names as witnesses: Andrew Lar.
son, Fred IL. Rolf, John I. Sheath, of Big Sandy,
Montana, James Conley, Of Judith, Montana.
j. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.
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been little affected by the Gle
The founder of Fort Benton. Major
Alexander Culbert5on. was a native
CT Pennsylvania and Il noted western
character. He was a man Of !iu. ply
sique, aud was possessed CT ,i"eless
energy. His wife was the on'y Gangh-
ter Of the chief Q: the Blood tribe Of
Indians, whic'l was closely allied to
the Blackfect. Several children were
born to this union, prominent among
whom were ''Gray Eyes" who became
chief of tho Bioods, and a brother,
Mekisto, or ''R.l Crow who sue
ceedeG as chief. There vas one daugh-
ter, named Nellie ''Natawista'') who
was highly educated and became the
wife OF Gen. George Fl. Roberts, late
attorney general OF Nebraska, and
subsequently of Idaho. Major Gull
bertson died in 1881, while visiting his
son-ia-law, Gen. Roberts, at Lincoln,
Nebraska.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-11
OLD FORT BENTON.
Early Day "reminiscences Of Mon
tana's Historic Landmark.

Here and there, at remote distances,
surrounded by advanced evidences of
civilization, stand the historic land
marks of pioneer settlement. These
posts OF forts, once the scenes of thrill
ing adventures and deadly conflicts,
now exhibit but silent mounds and
broken walls of log and earth. Con-
spicuous among these outposts of vest
ern settlements is Old Fort Benton,
Montana, says a writer in Opportunity
magazine.
About seventy-tive years ago James
Kipp, in behalf of the American Fur
company, then under the management
of Pierre Chouteau, of St. Louis, sue
cessors to John Jacob Astor, estab-
lished a fort in the then foremost part
of the great west, at the confluence of
the Narias and the Missouri rivers,
twelve miles below the present site of
Fort Benton. The location was act a
desirable one, and the post was moved
a few miles up the Missouri river to
what was known as the Brule Bottom.
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Desert land..Finai Proof,

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FALLS, Mont, March 81, 1910.
Notice 10 hereby given that
EMMA D. RICE,
assignee Of James W. Rogers, of Fort Benton,
Mont, who, on March 8. ls06, made desert land
entry No. aO72, serial No. 047+2. for SEA SEX
section 2. and EN MEX section II, township =
north, range : east, Montana meridian, has hled
notice of intention to make final proof, to o..
tablish claim to the land above described, before
Chss. II. Boyle, U. .. commissioner, at hfs Office
in Fort Benton, Montana on the 18th day of May
1870.
Claimant names as witnesses: John Gers
hacker, Cassius johnson, Frank Flanagan, Isaac
Poetill, ell of Fort Benton, Mont.
j. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.
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MONTANA CATTLE GOSSIP.
"reminiscences Of Live Stock Trades
That Amounted to Big Figures.

"reminiscences Of Live Stock Trades
That Amounted to Big Figures.
In the matter of big cattle deals,
Montana has witnessed many tran
sactions in which the purchase money
represented a comfortable fortune.
Deals involving over 800, 900 have
been numerous, and quite a number of
instances are on record where the half
a-lnillion dollar mark has been APP
preached or exceeded.
Among the notable cattle deals of
the early eighties was the purchase of
the Judge Davis interest in an outfit
of some L 1000 head by Con Kohrs. 1t
cost the purchaser nearly S27O, 900, and
is said to have been part of a deal by
which the whole outfit changed hands
at a valuation approximating s40O, 900.
The Montana Cattle company, or
ganized by Russell B. Harrison in
1880, made extensive purchases from
various parties, one of its acquisitions
being the Downs & Allen herd of some
1000 head, for which it paid about
S235 900. Another purchase by the
same company was upon the basis of
S35 per head-one of the highest-priced
deals on record. The company had a
brief and meteoric career. 1t is said
to have borrowed about 5000, 900 from
an eastern trust company, and also
became heavily indebted to Montana
parties; and when these latter fore
closed a mortgage in 1888 the eastern
creditors found there were no avail
able assets upon which they could
realize a cent.
In the spring of 1898 the Murphy
Cattle company made some big cattle
deals in eastern Montana, securing
the Ryan herd OF about 5000 head
and the AinSWorth herd of 5000 head
at an average price OF about $50. Il
also purchased the Stoddard & How
ard Cattle Co.'S herds, numbering
nearly $4,000 head. on private terms,
and some 1900 Nevada cattle at $3.50
per head, the total of these severa.
deals amounting to about 81, 400 900.
The largest Montana cattle deal OF
record was the purchase of the Nh
outfit by Mcnamara & NARROW, in the
spring of 1897. There were between
1000 and $4,000 head in the outfit
and the purchase price was 1925 PEI
head. The same firm bought the Mar
tin, Auchard and Nicholas herds il
the spring of 1897, making a grand to
tai Of 22,oGD head that cost in tn
ne~iYhborhood of $3.50, 900. Within
sixty days of the date of these pur
cila5es cattle prices took a jump O
about 500 per head.
The sale of the Matt Murphy cattl
Interests to G. j. Hysham a few year
ago is another Montana TRANSACTION
that ran into big figures. This dea
is said to have been another instanc
in which the purchase price exceede
half a million dollars.
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Notice Of tina Proof,
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FALLS, Mont, March 81, 1910,
Notice IL hereby given that
MARY FLICK,
formerly Mary Bedggo0d. of Great Falls, Mon
tsna, who, on April u. 1906, Homestead entry
ton 20, and WY MEX, NWk seq section 90.
township q north, range east. Montana meri-
dian, has hled notice Of Intention to make final
proof to establish claim to the land above de-
scr;bed, before Register and Receiver OF q. 8.
land ONCE at Crest Falls, Montana, on the 18th
day Of May, 1910.
~ 9!ms nam y Is w'i Ts : namue. eth
Bell, Mre. Amanda Bell, of Portage, Mon, ana.
j. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.
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Notice Of Final Proof,
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FALLS. Mont. March 81, .

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FALLS, Mont, March 81, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that
GEORGE r. FLINT,
Of Fort Benton, Montana, who. on May II, 1905,
made homestead entry No. 2427 serial No. 035S3,
north, range s east, and SM SEX, section "a.
township u north, range : east, Montana meri.
dian, has filed notice Of intention to make dnal
five-yesr proof to establish claim to the land
above described, before Chas. h. Boyle, U. s.
commissioner. at his Office in Fort Benton, Mon.
tana. on the 10th day of May, 1910.
Claimant names as witnesses: william Sam
pie. Edward Reichelt, Margaret Stocking, Kath.
crime L.. Stocking. all of Fort Benton, Montana.
]. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.