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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
THE MACHINERY OF JUSTICE

1t is becoming too much the practice
Of courts to protect the machinery OF
justice-the technic alities and the
formalities-rather than justice itself.
II the technicalittes are duly respected
and maintained, the question of jus.
tice is too often forgotten, comments
the Miles City Independent. Out in
Colorado the other day a woman went
to the court house on her twenty-frst
birthday and tried to file a paper pro.
tecting her alleged interest in the great
Tabor estate.
The paper was not in form according
to the requirements of the law and the
clerk could not file it. The clerk was
right, of course. If the poor paper
had been filed it would not have bound
anyone, nor could it have done her q
particle of good.
Yet it was the last day for her to lay
any claim to this property, and when
she went away she wept bitterly under
a sense of wrong. She was poor, and
could not hire q lawyer. Probably
her case was weak or some lawyer
would have taken 1t up for her, but
that is not the point. She believed
herself to have q claim and because
she could hire no one to take it up for
her, che lost it.
Good case or bad, weak case or
strong, did she have the treatment
that q just government would have
given her? She had spent a long time
in preparing 10 girlish language her
assertion that others we're taking her
birthright from her, and because II
was not written properly, though clear
to the ordinary understanding, and
because she took it to the wrong one
of the many offices of the state, che
was turned away weeping, regardless
of the old adage that the tears of the
orphan are the call of the gods FOL
vengeance.
In Jobs time the dsysman laid hole
on the wrong doer and brought hin
before the Judge, who dispensed jus
tice at the door of his tent. There
were no mysterious forms to be fol
lowed. The question vas the NOR
simple one Of right and wrong.
When the machinery OF justice i
more important than justice itself, Il
not wrong SURE to be done? And II
oil the technicalities of law do We no
set up the machine above it's function
Ought there not to be in q civilized
jurisprudence some Office to which
people might 20 for legal guidsnc
aud advicep Should not persons lik
the Tabor girl have provided for then
an agency for examining their claim
and presenting them properly.
There is q deep and widespread
sense of injustice pervading the poo
of the nation, underlying which is tn
belief that the laws are made for law
yers, by lawyers. and that courts ar
labyrinths through which litigsnt
may thread their way only by the ali
of hired guides. There is some foun
dation for their discomfort. The stat
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
Strike Breakers Coming West.

CHICAGO, Jan. Alt was announced
here tonight by the railroad managers
that more than q thousand men had
been sent to the northwest to take the
places of striking switchmen since
negoti atoms for q settlement of the
difficulties we're closed last Wednesday
in St. Paul.
The men we're recruited in large
numbers from railroads not affected
by the strike and assembled in Chi.
csgo according to F. L. Dickinson,
spokesman for the railroad managers
association.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
Time and ETERNITY.

The efforts and strivings of our
threescore years are not adjusted to
the scale of seventy; they are adjusted
to the scale of Immortality. This life
is not the opera; it is the overture. 1t
is not the book; it is the first chapter
of the book. A MAI must be wakeful
to his eternal destiny if he would
know the magnitude of things.-G. II.
Morrison.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
TRIBUTE TO JUDGE HUNT.

The promotion of Judge Hunt to the
federal tariff court is very pleasant
news to the Montana friends of the
distinguished jurist, and especially
pleasant to his old.time friends and
neighbors in this vicinity, where he
commenced his Montana career about
thirty years ago. Judge Hunt opened
q law Office in Fort Benton in 1879,
and was associated with the late
Horace Buck in the practice OF bis
profession. His advancement since
that time, and the recent recognition
of his ability by President Taft, is the
subject Of many tributes from the
Montana press, among which is the
following by the Butte Inter Noun.
tain:
In the promotion of Judge William
h. Hunt merely the expected has hap.
pened. His distinguished ability as
q judge and his record as an execu.
tive while directing the affairs of
Porto Rico at q critical time in the
history of that island, together with
the intimate friendship he enjoys with
the president, has made his advance.
ment certain. 1t is gratifying that it
Is in line with his profession, for
although Judge Hunt would grace q
position in the cabinet or any high
in the legislative branch or in
the diplomatic service, it is reasonable
to suppose he would prefer to round
out his career as q Judge than to de.
vote his abilities to other departments
of state.
BY some strange chance, the Taft
and Hunt families have long been
associated. President Taft's father,
Alphonso Taft, and Judge Hunts
William 81. Hunt, we're warm
friends; the former was aj!!cabinet OF.
ficer under Grant, who appointed him
attorney general in 1861 the latter
was President Garield's secretary of
the navy, having been appointed in
1881 to a place in the cabinet. The
one was from Ohio, the other from
and they met at Yale
university, the intimacy that followed
acquaintance there having been con-
tinued through life. Their sons were
at Yale and now their
sons sons are classmates at the same
institution. While the president was
serving his country in various high
capacities, Judge Hunt was governor
of Porto Rico. With his public ca
reer both before and since that time
the people of Montana r familiar.
Montana will regret to lose SO dis
tinguished a citizen as Judge Hunt,
but the state appreciates the honor
done to him. AS a member of the new
federal customs court, a tribunal
which is probably destined to rank
next to the supreme court of the Unit.
ed States, Judge Hunt will have an
opportunity for the display of his
peculiar talents. No one familiar
with his record as a Judge or his
attributes as a man will believe that
his advancement will stop with the
new court. 1t is quite ia the line of
probability that some day he will
grace the supreme bench of the nation,
and when that time comes all Montana
will rejoice in the recognition accord.
"a l:~,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
- The -
Scrap Book
Saving Himself,

An lrishman who was repairing a
chimney on a housetop fell from the
roof and luckily hit several clothes
lines that broke his fall until he landed
uninjured on a wire about twenty feet
from the ground. After he had strug-
gled there for a few moments the nan
deliberately let go and fell with a
heavy bump on the ground. Another
workman ran and picked him up and
asked, "Phat the divvil did We let go
for, you bluntherin' blockhead?"
Faith" was the reply. II was afraid
the domn'd wire would break"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
RELIEF FOR SETTLERS.

Congress May Amend Land Laws In
important Particular.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-On recount
OF the unusually severe winter weather
which has prev allied throughout the
west for the pact month, preventing
settlers from making residence upon
land entries and preventing them from
making q living upon lands upon
which residence has been established,
an effort will be made to have legisla.
ton enacted which will relieve the
tuation. Representative Martin of
South Dakota, who has introduced q
bill to grant homestead entrymen q
leave of absence from their claims
during the winter months, will receive
the cooperation and support of Chair.
man MOndell and other members of
the house public lands committee in
his effort to secure early action. In
the sena ate q measure will he pushed
for consideration by Senator Warren
extending for q period of three months
the time within which homestead n
trymen are required by law to make
residence upon their entries where the
time expires or expired. after Decem.
Der l, 1909.
il. Under q general law the commits.
sioner of the general land Office may
allow IL months from the date of fling
in which to establish residence on
homestead entries, but the extension
cannot be allowed in advance and
does not protect the entryman from
contest If be does not perfect residence
within six months from the date of
fling.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12

HELENA, Jan. 5.-The Great North.
ern Railway company confessed judg.
ment in the federal court tod ay in two
actions brought against it for violst.
ing the safety appliance act. The
judgment in each case was 81, 200.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
Joined the Rejected,

A murder case had been called in
court, and it was extremely difficult to
get a jury. A long list Of talesmen
had been examined with poor results
when Mike McGinnis was summoned.
mr.. McGinnis," asked the Judge,
shave you formed or expressed an
opinion as to the guilt or innocence
Of the prisoner at the bar?"
mo, SIR" replied Mike.
"Have you any conscientious scru-
pies against capital punishment"
mot in this case, your honor" Mike
replied.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
Tho Game Of Life,

Tho Game Of Life.
Life is q game of whist. From unseen
sources
The cards are shuf1ed M the hands
are dealt.
Blind are our efforts to control the forces
That, though unseen, are nc less strongly
felt.
I do not like the way the cards are shut
fled.
But yet I like the game inc want to
play,
And through the long, long night will I,
unruff1ed,
Play what I get until the break of day.
Eugene r. Ware.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
A Good Reason For Silence.

Lord Courtney was once addressing
a political meeting and spoke in ia
o Of the much debated deceased
wife's sister bill.
On the conclusion of Lord Court
ney's remarks a man put the question.
IF your wife were to die, would you
marry her sistery"
ITO answer that l must put another
question" replied the speaker. Are
you marriedY"
The man answered in the afRrma-
tive.
lis your wife present."
She was not.
''Then mine Isl" came the telling re-
tort, and a storm Of applause greeted
the reply.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12

has filled its law with traps and pit
falls. Should it not give guides to
the blind and the man with no money
to hire them?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12
Staying Power.

Success in life depends upon staying
power. The reason for failure in most
cases is lack of perseverance. Men
get tired and give up. r. Miller.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12

W. G. CONRAD, Pres.
JAMES T. STANFORD,
Vice-Pres. and Manager.
A. E. SCHWINGEL,
Cashier.
OMAR j. MALCOLM,
Asst. Cashier.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-12

Local Securities q Speciality.
Interest Allowed on Time Deposit
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
Killed by Falling Tree.

Glen Ulin, n. d., Dec. 20.-A fatal
accident occurred at the BrcckcEridge
crossing on the Heart river when the
life of Carl Serr was crushed out by
a falling tree. Mr.. Serr and his son
GroV" down TO the river after a load
of wood and while the young man was
chopping down u tree the father was
busy picking up tloodwood along the
river bank and happened to be in line
with the tree when it fell. Mr.. SER
was caught beneath the trunk Of the
falling tree and was almost instantly
killed.
Mr.. Serr was about So years OF
age. He leaves a wife and several
children besides Il large number Of
friends to mourn.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
Caused by Runaway Cars.

New York, Dee. 20.--InVestigatiOn Of
the causes of the explosion in the New
York Central power house yesterday,
which resulted in ten deaths, the in
jury of more than 100 persons and a
loss estimated a. upwards of $2,000,-
goo was continued with zeal today by
the city and the company.
Although the exact source of the
disaster has not been determined, it
is generally conceded that the first
cause of the upheaval was a runaway
train OF electric ears in the central cut
near F~iftieth street and Lexington
avenue that crashed over the bumper
against the house, broke a feed pipe
n caused a large quantity Of gas to
accumulate in the power house base
ment.
This WAS ~detonatoI possibly
by an electric spark from a
circuit The motorman
Of the train. Albert Scagroatt, as
unable to stop the cars IN time to
avoid their disastrous crash into the
bumper. The whole trouble may be
decided to have been due to slippery
rails or to some other apparently tri-
VIA cauSe.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
May POSTPONE ACTION
OPPOSITION is RAISED TO CON.
FIRMING LORIMER REPORT,
Committee on Privileges May Not Be
Sustained by the Senate
Lively Debate.

Washington, Dec. 20.-What may
prove formidable opposition to the
adoption of any report by the senate
for the eXoneration of Senator Lorimer
as the result of the investigation of
charges of bribery in connection with
his election by the Illinois Legislature
to succeed Senator Hopkins, is said to
have developed on the senate floor
today.
Several senators are declared to have
agreed that they would compel a post
ponelnent of the whole subject until
after the holiday recess in order thai
all members might have an opportun-
lty to digest the testimony as well as
the report of the committee on privi-
leGes II elections.
Chairman Burrows called the COM
mittee On privileges and. elections to-
Sether today and after adjournment it
was reported that he had been author
lied to report the Lorimer matter to
the senate in accordance with the ind
inSs of the subcommittee. Great dis
satisfaction is said to have been eX-
pressed by the committee to have
printed the findings of the sub-com-
mittec.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
DETAILS OF ENGAGEMENT ON
SUNDAY coRRoBORATIvE
OF FIRST REPORT.
FACES REAL REVOLUTION
Troop Train With Three Field Pieces
and $50 Men Meets Defeat-ln-
. surrection Exceeds Hope of
Ardent Sympathizers.

Chihuahua. Dec. 21.-The defeat of
the troop train with its three field
pieces and $50 men jntensities the ten
sion here. ON top Of the drawn battle
Of Cerro Prieto ten days ago it is talk
ell as a confirmation. of declarations
that President Diaz confronts a real
revolution. The most ardent Sympa-
thizers with the revolt and they in
clude most Of the unofficial population,
scarcely hoped the insurgents would
be able to make more than one stand
against the disciplined soldiers of the
government. The government states
the revolt consisted of but little save a
nucleus of bandits augmented by mis-
%uided poems who could not handle IL
rifle and whom it would be but police
work to subdue. The official report
n0" doubles the estimate of the num-
Eor Of instructors in the field. Cerro
prieto was a drawn fight. Nal Paso
was 2 victory for the rebels.
Chihuahua, Mex, Dec. 21.-Nia FL
IaSo, TeN.-Amplificd adViccs change
bat little today'S tclegraphic report OF
the cutting up of the
troop train at Nal Paso last Sunday.
lNlc official report OF tWenty-one fed
cr2l killed. ten missing and forty-two
wounded. stands With the addition that
thirty slightly wounded, bringing the
total injured to seventN-tWo. also came
N the train. The injuries of these
thirtN are not serious and it is not
customary to carry them in the hos
Iital lists. Most Of them are on their
feet. Rumors have been abroad today
that the federals lost 100, but this
seems to be without Foundation and
probably referred to the total number
Of killed, wounded and injured, which
makes about 100.
The hospital train brought in eighty
mauser rifles or about the number
. which their killed and wounded woul1
have drOpped.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
ENGLISH MINE HORROR.
Explosion Entomhs 200 Men Without
HOPE Of Rescue.

Bolton, Eng. Dec. 2t.-An explosion
followed by fire n causing many ia
~talities occurred in the little Hutton
COlliery of the Hutton Colliery Co, here
this morning o @ after 290 miners had
GONE below the surface to begin the
days work. The cause and extent of
tie disaster was in doubt Ior several
hours. The first rcscuing party to
reach h scene succeeded in bringing
seven men m boys to safety. Later
they recovered the bodies of five more
victims.
At the mOment of the explosion
flames spread through the affected
passage and smoke and poisonous gas
filed the mine.
The plight Of the miners was rem
fCred more DANGEROUS by a miShap tG
the machinery Of the shafts where the
cages refused to move for q time pre-
venting a quick escape and Interfering
with the ventilation. The rising gases
were checked by distractions anG
driven back upon the entonlbed men
Meantime the tire ragged hercely and il
is supposed that man who We're not
Nilled by the noXiOus fumes were
burned to death.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
Situation Up to Taft.

Washington, Dec. 21.-The anti
Whisky interests will confer with Pres.
don't Taft at 3 o'clock today, over the
Minnesota situation. They cOncede tC
thC state police DoW"r to control the
International affairs of the state, bu:
vii! resist an attempt to make nuga-
tory the existing prohibition of the
LIQUOR traffic as provided for by the
Indian treaty.
Both sides, however, express a will
i1gness to enter into a compromise
"@roemcnt whereby the dry zone is
restricted to a mile limit around the
Indian reservations. This would af-
ford relief to q great many towns
throughout the state.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES
FRESH FROM THE WIRE.
The STORY IN A NUTSHELL
Embracing a Condensation OF Events
In Which Readers Generally Are
More or Less Concerned.
Washington.

An appropriation for the Missouri
river may be inserted in the river and
harbor bill when it goes to the sen
ate.
The legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill was cut to $780,
825,219 by the house committee which
reported it to the house.
Several state democratic delega-
lions have Endorsed Champ Clark OF
Missouri for the speakership Of the
next house and his friends now claim
his nomination will be unanimous.
The name of George A. Foster, OF
Perry, Ok, vas presented TO the pres
ident with the recommendation OF
Representative Mcguire OF Oklahoma.
for the United States marshalshlp
made vacant by the resignation OF
Jack Alternately.
If the republican leaders in the
house carry out their present plan Of
re-apportiOnment Nebraska will only
have five members in the house in
stead Of six as at present. The plan
is to increase the ratio to one mem.
Der for each 235,G00 of population.
Senator Warren Of Missouri, offer
ed a resolution in the senate calling
for a report OF the board of three en-
gineers appointed to recommend the
most economical method of dredging
a six foot channel in the Missouri
river from Kansas City to its mouth.
Declaring that exaggerated ac-
counts of the revolutionary move
ment in Mexico had magnitied it's i'm
portance in the minds of many Amer
leans, Senior De La Barra, Mexican
ambassador to the United States,
said that the trouble had at no time
approached any significance.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
General.

Champ Clark fayors the house Sc
tecting its own committees.
The Kentucky delegation declared
itself for Champ Clark for speaker.
Trade with the Philippines has
shown an increase unCer the new cen.
sUs.
The house has passed the Indian ap-
preparation bill, 1t carries a total of
sS,277,9S5.
The government case against the
~so-calleN coal trust will be probably
carried to the higher courts.
1t is difficult to say whether or not
there viii be any serious effort to
change the tariff this session.
Sixty insurrectos We're killed and
many wounded in a battle with Mex
lean troops in the state of Chihuahua.
A board of naval physicians was
appointed by the secretary OF the
navy to Investigate the typhoid cpl
demiC at Annapolis,
In Che United States and all its pos
sessions the stars and Stripes protect
lO1 loo, 600 souls. This is the official
estimate Of the United States bureau
Of the census.
Victor II. Olmstcad, chief of the
bureau Of statistics of the department
of agriculture, in his annual report
says the high cost OF living has
helrcl farmers greatly.
Announcement is made at the war
department OF the selection Of S|everal
general officers Of nigh rank and their
nominations Will be submitted to the
senate to confirmation oon
The police OF fiaVana raided a house
In Nodado, a suburb Of tiayana, and
arrested an Italian named ROca and
five others, who were ENGAGED in
countcrteiting American treasury
notes.
Mrs. Ada Y. c. Adriancc OF P0ugh-
keepsie, \. Y, must pay $4,000 for
a pearl necklace, worth only $4,000,
because she attempted to smuggIe it
into this country from Europe last
August.
At san Diego, Cal, by the explosion
of a defective intake valve of the en-.
CINE on the submarine BOAT Grampus
three enlisted members of the crew
were injured, one SO badly that it is
expected he Will die.
Reports received at Jerusalem from
Assyrian villages say that the threat
ened revolution has become serious
that Turkish officials have been mas
sacred and troops at military posts
have been annihilated.
A reDOrt from the war deDartmen'
showing how the country is made
quately protected against invasion
from foreign governments was sent t.
the house and Vas returned to tn,
war department because the hous'
could not receive a secret report.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
Two Meet Death by Fire.

Cincinnati. c., Dec. 21.-rire whicf
started in the factory district here at
, o'clock this morning resulted in the
death Of two persons, the injuring OF
several firemen and q property loss
estimated at 50, 600, 600. one of the
Goad is Fireman Rnb-T; D.. Grear
who was crushed beneath falling wall
The other is Walter Morris, IS years
of g who was fatally hurt by d
falling trolley pole. BUILDINGS com
prising an entire block We're con.
SumeU.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
Minnesota Values Increased.

Washington, Dec. 2O.-The farm
land of Minnesota. with buildings in
Guided, increased from SIG to SAG ptr
acre in value from 1900 to 1910, as
shown by the census returns. There
are 155,7o9 farms in the state. The
average size is III acres, the total
farm area being 27,623,00O ucrcA.
The aggregate value of this vast acre
age was $1,o59,5l0, 00G, including
$242,621, 900 worth Of buildings.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
Personal.

Standard Oil will have to pay S21,
900 for accepting rebates.
Pat Powers was OuSted as head o.
the eastern baseball league.
DR.. Wiley, the governments pure
food head, is soon to marry.
Friends of Rear Admiral Capps say
he is being made a martyr.
Manuel il, the exiled king of Portu.
gal. Is said to be dead broke.
This session of congress is going to
break all records on quick work.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
Temple Company Out OF Business

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 20.--EolloW-
ing its decision that the Temple Iron
Co. controlled BY the Reading, and
other anthracite railroads, is an illegal
combination in restraint of trade, the
United States circuit court here TODAY
issued d decree permanently cnjoin-
ing the corporation from doing BUSH
ness,
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-30
Benefit Fire Sufferers.

Washington, d. c.. Dec. 2O.-A bill
relieving from nnual assessment work
all prOspectOrS who were injured by
the forest fires of last Sulnmer and
fall was passed yesterday by the sem
ate. TIL bill was hurried to the house
in the hope of procuring action there
before the Christmas recess.