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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Parisians Like Horse Meat.

PARIS, Oct. 28.-"Chevai" is the
principal item on the bill of fare OF
one OF the most novel bsnquets ever
held IN Paris, scheduled for tonight.
"Cheval" by the way, is Frsncaise
for horse, and tonight's affair is the
frat annual dinner OF q society bear.
ing the name-literally translsted-of
Friends of the Horse. In the same
spirit cannibsl chiefs might band
themselves together into . society
called Friends Of the Missionary.
So popular has horse meat become
In Paris that prices OF the better cuts
have been boosted to point beyond
that charged for beef, and the supply
does not equal the demand. The flesh
OF the horse has won official commen.
dation from the Paris board of health,
which buys nearly 1000 pounds week.
ly for the municipal hospitals.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Freight Rates Suspended.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-An order
was issued by the interstate commerce
commission today suspending the tar.
IFS on slaves, headings and lumber
recently filed with the commission by
the transcontinental freight bureaus
agents.
The rates proposed 10 the tariffs
suspended are considers able advances
over the present rates from;all eastern
points of origin to destinations west
as far as Pacific coast termin ais.
The tariffs we're to have become eff.
fective on November Is. 1910, but they
are suspended until March Is, 1911.
Meantime the commission will con.
duct an inquiry into the reasonable.
ness OF the proposed advances and an
nounce its decision. The defend ants
in the proceedings include all of the
important interstate carriers in the
United States-over 900 in number.
Proposed advances in livestock rates
between Missouri river transfers and
the Mississippi river transfers and
Chicago, we're suspended today by the
commission pending an investig alton
of their reasouableness. The tariffs
were to have become effective ON No.
vember l, and are suspended until
Dec. 10, 1910.
Meantime, on the 29th inst. at Kan.
sas City, Mo-, the commission viii!
institute hearing respecting the res-
sonableness of the proposed increases.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Tariff Board Free From Politics.

Uos" oO0uN UIO0 VUOIu TOltuCSs
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-With fur.
ther desire to keep the tariff board en-
tirely out of politics, President Taft
has directed that under no considera-
tion shall investig ators or experts be
appointed by the board for political
consider ations. The president had
thought that his position in regard to
the work of the tariff board was thor.
oughly understood but q recent appli.
cation for appointment in which the
candidate urged himself because of
party labor, called out an order from
the president. In q letter addressed
to the hackers of this political district
the president said:
II desire to indicate all communica.
tions on the general subject of ap.
pointments on the tariff board should
respect the wish that those employed
as experts are to be employed for mer.
it alone and entirely reg gardless of
their services to any particular politi.
cal party"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Will Recount Tacoma Residents.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-Complete
remuneration of the population Of
Tacoma, Wash, was today ordered
by Secretary Nagel as q result of the
protests made by the people of that
city, who were given hearing yester.
day and today.
The new count was ordered largely
because of the plea that In September,
when the census bureau went over the
ground for itself. large portion of
the population Of Tacoma was absent.
II was in this canvass that the bureau
discovered the alleged padding to the
extent OF more ian 30, 900 names.
In conceding the renumer alton the
director does not withdraw his origi-
nal charge Of padding but he has
written letter in which he states that
be considers the new count as the
most equitable means of settling the
difficulties. He and the secretry agree
that 1t 10 undesirable from every point
OF view to have the Tacoma people
remain dissatisfied for the next ten
Years,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Montana Fugitive Arrested.

CHICAGO, Oct. 28.-Penniless and
Ill. Reuben II. Stell, 81 years old, a
mining promoter. wanted at Butte,
Montana, for the alleged theft of g..
600, welcomed arrest tonight. When
he was found by Detective Jeremiah
Lynch of Butte, Stell wore no over.
coat and had on q summer suit and
thin underwear.
Stell, the police cay. obtained $4,000
from Mrs. John Martin, 405 Napton
block, Butte, July II. as payment for
1900 shares Of stock in the Hot
Springs and Carnegie Iron and Steel
company, but never delivered the
stock.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Riots In New York Streets.

NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Rioting of q
serious char acter occurred today in
with the strike of express
company employees In the metropolitan
district. No fatalities were reported,
but men were kicked unconscious right
and left. In the assaults of mobs on
express wagons, dozens of strike
breakers were badly beaten and many
mob members were severely dubbed
by the police in repelling the attacks.
The strike origina nated with the en-
ployes of the United States Express
company and spread sympsthetically
to the Wells Fargo, Adams and Am.
erican express companies.
It has brought shipments over the
routes Of these companies out OF New
York almost to . standstill. Gov
ernor Fort 10 reported to be ready to
call out the militiamen In New Jersey
II the stu alton grows more serious.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Railroads Resist Regulation.

NEW YORK, Oct. est has been
definitely decided that the railro ads
and express companies of the entire
country will unite in an attack through
the courts on the Manu-Eikins act,
which was passed by congress last
June at the earnest solicitation of
President Taft. The act provides for
an interstate commerce court to which
railroads and shippers alike may ap.
peal.
The attack on the law was decided
upon by the conference OF railroad
lawyers from all parts of the United
States which has been in session here
for several days.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Third Set Of Triplets.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 26.-Too
late for census, but earnestly doing
her share In Cleveland's remarkable
growth. Mrs. William G. Clarke, q
Lakeside avenue matron. Friday be.
came the mother of her third set of
triplets. She is also the mother Of
four pairs of twins and herself is the
only sister of twenty brothers.
Two pairs Of twins and one set of
triplets were born during Mrs. Clsrke's 9
first marriage and the remainder of
her II children came In groups during
her second marriage.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Wants Pardon For Montana Convict.

Wants Pardon For Montana Convict.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 3l.-Rev. Rich.
ard Williams, rector OF Trinity Epis.
copsl church. today sent petition to
Governor Norris for the pardon of
Harvey Whitton, formerly of Wash
ington, serving Q life sentence in the
Montana peuitentiary for completely
in the murder of sheriff near Vir.
ginis 20 years ago.
While here last winter Governor
Norris promised Whitton's blind sis.
ter to work for his pardon, but moth.
ing has been heard from him, and the
petition calls on him to redeem his
pledge. DR.. Willisms is Miss Whit
toms rector and has also asked
Bishop Brewer to importune the gov
ernor in her behalf.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Statement Of Census Frauds.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. - Director
Durand, of the census bureau, is pre-.
pairing q public statement regarding
alleged fraudulent returns in Fort
Smith, Arkansas, and Great Falls,
Montana, which will be given out at
an early date.
The census bureau asserts extensive
irregularities have been discovered in
both places. In Great Falls the dis
covery has already led to the convic.
tion of three enumer ators.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
ST0CkMEN WERE KILLED.
Three Montana Men Among Victims
Of Bad Wreck.

Three Montana Men Among Victims
Of Bad Wreck.
MoNTGvIDEo, Mimi, Oct. 3l.-Four
stockmen from Montana and South
Dakota were killed, two injured 90
seriously that there is slight chance
OF their recovery, and an engineer and
fireman badly crippled when section
four OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, eastbouud passenger No. 6. from
Butte, crashed into the rear end of q
stock train as II was being backed on.
to siding to let the passenger by, q
mile west of here today. The dead:
William D. Hill, Miles City, Mont.
Thomas Hill. Miles City.
}. h. Dechtee, Greenway, S. Oak.
J. H. Rich, Miles City.
Not expected to live: George Rah.
soldt. Aberdeen, S. D., and William
Downing, Miles City.
Engineer Pat Parker and Fireman
Sticker of the passenger saw the tail
lights OF the stock train csboose and
jumped In time to save their lives.
Both were injured.
Six stockmen coming east with the
train load of cattle were asleep in the
caboose when the passenger bore down
upon It and four were killed outright.
Two, George Rahsoldt and William
Downing, managed to crawl through
the mass Of steel and iron, more dead
than alive and are frightfully burned
and injured. They are not expected
to live. The force of the impa act sh at
tered the caboose, derailed the two
cars of cattle ahead OF it and tipped
the engine of the passenger over side.
ways across the track on top of the
wreckage.
Fire started and the bodies of the
four dead were burned to q crisp.
Two cars OF cattle also were burned
before the fire department of the city
got to the scene.
Box cars on nearby tracks were lick
ed up by the flames and in order to
save the passenger coaches they were
uncoupled and pushed back by pas.
sengers and members of the train crew.
Late this afternoon the charred re-.
mains of the men burned to death
were recovered.
The Montevideo fire department sue
ceeded in extinguishing the flames.
Doctors and surgeons were rushed to
the scene and every thing possible was
done for the injured, who later were
removed to this city.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
CENSUS WAS PADDED.
Minneapolis Enumerators Returned
Too Many Inhabitants.

Minneapolis Enumerators Returned
Too Many Inhabitants.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The popula.
tion of Minneapolis was announced to.
night by Census Director Durand to
he 301 ,40S. In connection with the fig
ures, Mr.. Durand charged that the in.
dividual enumerators had fraudulent.
ly returned 4.668 names. These, of
course, were not counted in the final
report.
The announced figures are gain of
almost 49 per cent over the popul alton
of 1900, which was POP, ,7lS.
In giving out the returns, Mr.. Dur.
and made statement in which he
said that as originally forwarded to
the bureau the report contained $685.
076 names. But, while more than T..
600 of these had been elimin ated, there
was no evidence, he. said, of any con.
certed attempt on the part of the enum-
orators or any group OF private indi.
viduals fraudulently to pad the census
returns. The greater part OF the n ames
elimin ated were in two out of 1876
enumer alton districts in the city.
"The enumer ators for these two dis.
tricts may not have deliberately in.
tended to defraud, but it scarcely
seems possible that they should have
failed to note that they were, to say
the least, interpreting the Instructions
very loosely" said the director.
1.-THE overcounting in these two die.
tricts resulted almost altogether from
the repetition OF visits to lodging
houses aud hotels.
''Not content with enumer ating all
the people who were present in such
lodging houses and hotels on the CEN
sus day or on the day of the first visit
of the enumerator, these enumer ators
counted very large numbers of people
who were not present at the first visit
or on the census day. but who came to
these lodging houses subseq uently."
St. Paul's population is PA, 744, Civ
ing the Twin Cities together SIG, 152.
The gain for St. Paul was almost 81
per cent, as against 40 per cent for
Minneapolis. In 1900 ST. Paul show.
ed gain OF 224 per cent and Mime.
apolis q gain of 23.l per cent.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Helena Man Suicides.

Los ANGELES. Oct. 27.-Standing
In front OF monument in Odd Fell
lows cemetery here today, Henry Nc.
Gee, resident OF Helena, Mont, aud
believed to be . former sheriff of JET.
ferson county, Mont, fred Q bullet
from q revolver into his brain. he
died q short time later In the receiving
hospital. McGee left q note for the
coroner stating that he was . member
OF Excelsior Lodge, I. o. o. F., of
Helena. He was about fifty years
old,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Gold Shipments From Nome.

SEATTLE, Oct. 26.-The steamship
Umatilla arrived from Nome with 51l
passengers and $3.50. 900 In bullion and
will be followed closely by the steam.
ships Victoria and Northwestern, each
carrying gold and q heavy passenger
list. The exodus from Nome marks
the end of the romantic period of the
famous gold camps history. In the
summer of 1900, 10000 persons were
assembled on the beach at Nome whose
sands were rich in gold duet. The
camp hss yielded $40, 600, 900 in gold
and will produce much more than that
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02

hotel, Main avenue aud Washington
street, yesterday afternoon at three
O'Clock. An element of mystery eur
rounds the case. On . dresser In the
room was found bottle OF carbolic
acid. Coroner H. E. Schegel says
Father Ahern died Of q hemorrhage.
Undertakers Buchanan and Gilman
declare from the condition OF the body
death might have occurred Eve days
ago. The dead man left . letter,
written In . melancholy strain. Its
contents throw no light on q some.
what perplexing case.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
RECORD BALLOON TRIP.
Missing American Aeronauts Made
Landing In Canadian Wilds.

Missing American Aeronauts Made
Landing In Canadian WiIds.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Alan r. Haw-
ley and Augustus Post, the aeronants
of the balloon America H., for whom
search had been prosecuted In the Ca.
madam wilds, are safe and,have estab-
lished q new worlds record for sus.
tained flight. They travelled approxi.
mately 1850 miles and came to earth
in Chicoutimi county, Quebec, on
Wednesday. October 10, but were not
heard from until today, when tele-
grams sent from. St. Ambroise, Que.
bee, reached New York.
The, balloonists started from St.
Louis with nine other contestants In
the intern national race on Monday.
October II. All the other balloons
have been reported.
Messrs. Eawley and Post landed
forty-six hours after their departure
from St. Louis. The balloon basket
touched earth at 3:35 o'clock on the
afternoon of the nineteenth. They
probably flew in all, about sixteen
hundred miles, although the direct dis
tance between the two points on which
the International race ia decided is on
ly shirteen hundred and ffty.three
miles. This would make their aver
age rate of progress about thirty five
miles an hour.
The new record established by Haw-
ley and Post unoficially, and estimat-
ed at l. $50 miles, exceeds all previous
flights. Only this year Count Oden-
sotf of Russia claimed to have flown
1925 miles in 40 hours, but the figures
were not officially estimated. II the
estimated figures are correct the long,
standing record of Count de la Vaulx
OF 1,l93 miles, made in 1900 in q flight
from France to Siberia, has been
broken by at least three of the con.
testants in the recent race, the Amer
lea H.. the Dusseldorf and the Ger.
mania.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
THREE DYNAMITE SUSPECTS
Authorities Believe Them Guilty Of
Los Angeles Outrage,

Authorities Believe Them Guilty Of
Los Angeles Outrage,
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. ga Los
Angeles dispatch to local paper says
that three Times dynamite suspects
will be arrested today when the Pacific
Mail liner San Juan reaches the port
of Acapulco on the Mexican coast.
According to the dispatch, which is
asserted to be based on inform alton
received from Chief of Police Gallo.
way of Los Angeles yesterday from
the state department at Washington.
the baggage Of the three suspected
passenger had been seized by the cap.
tain of the San Juan on Instructions
from Secretary Knox. The men It is
said have been under close surveillance
for four days and will be arrested at
10 O'Clock this morning when the boat
is scheduled to land, by Mexican Of.
ficials and the American consular
agent at Acapulco.
The suspects, the dispatch continues,
are believed to be the men who pur-
chased the 500 pounds of explosives
from the Giant California Powder
company on September II.
zone OF the three" the dispatch
says, "has glass eye, according to
advices, and answers the general de.
scription of the man who Is known to
the police as Smithy; the other two
passengers are believed to be- J. B.
Bryce and F. A. Perry.
"These three men, according to ad.
vices, boarded the steamer San Juan
at San Francisco on October Is: at
that time they gave assumed names,
and the man who is believed to be
Smithy did not appear when the tickets
were purchased for the isthmus.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02

in the future, but the rich dirt that
could be worked by hand has been
washed and the mining henceforth will
be done by dredges.
Estims stes Of the number Of persons
now In Nome ranges from 1000 to L.
500. There are nearly $500 men In
the Innoko' and Idisoad districts and
several hundred 10 the diggings north
OF Nome. These are still 'poor
mems camps" but Nome has gone the
way of the Klondike and will traus.
form no more laborers into million
aires.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
A BIG LAND SUIT.
Ownership Of Immense Tract In
Kentucky In Dispute.


Kentucky In Dispute.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-An empire
larger than the entire state OF Della
ware or the Island of Porto Rico, ly.
ing in the state of Kentucky, is the
prize at stake today In the supreme
court of the United States. Presenta-
ton of the controversy to the supreme
court today in oral arguments will re.
veal an unusual story in the western
advance of American civilization.
Owing to the carelessness with which
Virginia ia said to have issued grants
just after the Civil War to the unsur-
veyed and little known lands in what
is now eastern Kentucky, great con.
fusion has resulted as to the true own.
ers of land In the twenty eastern coun.
ties of that commonwealth. TO add
to the confusion, it is said, that Ken
lucky did little better than Virginia
during the first years of of her history
AS q result additional blanket grants
made by the new state are challenged.
In all about 2, 500, QUO acres of land
are said to lie under the doubtful title
of these "blauket" grants.
OF this amount the East Kentucky
Coal Land Corpor alton of which G. B.
Hillhouse is accredited with being the
chief owner, claims title to halt mil
lion acres. On the other hand, 300,
600 citizens of the state of Kentucky
have entered these lands. Claimants
under the "blanket grants" call them
"squatters. The attorney general
OF Kentucky has appeared in the su.
preme court to assert, in defense OF
their claim of title, that they are the
people who have built up the state and
have for years paid taxes on the
| lands.
Recent legislation in kentucky re.
suited in decisions by the state courts
which practically took away any title
which claimants under the blanket
grants might have had.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02

brought such structures of the old
town as could be readily and quickly
moved. And those buildings which,
for various reasons, they abandoned
when they fed from the drowning city,
have foated off down the flooded
stream as their found ations gave way,
one after another.
Barney put up q good fight, but no
town which the stream attacked has
succeeded in escaping destruction.
Barney was located seven miles be.
low Nebraska City and was built
right on the river bank.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Gathering Wool Statistics.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-Agents OF
the tariff board are now in the field,
gathering statistics on the production
of wool, which are to be the basis OF
the boards investigation of the wool
schedule.
Later, the cost OF the finished pro.
duct will be ascertsined and condi.
tious ss they exist abroad will be
found. The comparison OF the two
reports will be the basis of recommen.
dstions the board will make to the
president.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
River Wrecks Townsite.

NEBRASKA CITY, OFT. 28.-The little
town of Barney, Neb.. after fighting
the muddy old Missouri for 30 years,
has at last given up the struggle and
retired, completely wrecked, from the
site it once occupied on the banks of
the sire am. to the protection OF con.
We nient hillside, two miles from the
original site of the town.
Here the citizens have settled them.
selves down to rebuild the town. They
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Mark Twain Was Wealthy.

REDDING, Conn.,, Oct. 26.-The in.
ventory of the estate of the late Sam.
uel Clemens Mark Twain), filed In
the probate court here today, shows
the valuation as made by the sp.
praisers, Alfred Bigelow Paine, Mr..
Clemens literary secretary. and Har.
ry Lounsbury, superintendent of the
estate, to be S6l1, 1856.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Quits Politics For Farm.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. 26.-In.
stead OF raising presidential boom
this year, word has been received from
VIM. J. Bryan that he and his family
will in short time move to Texas for
the winter and raise Bermuda onions
and fruit. He will be located on his
farm near Mission, in the lower Rio
Grande valley. Mr.. Bryan bought
this place about two years ago and ia
guilty ating 1t on the tenant system
He is raising oranges, figs, dates and
lemons successfully.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Vice Pesident of Great Northern,

ST. PAUL, Oct. 27.-President Louis
w. Hill of tne Great Northern Rail-
way company. in circular issued to-
day, announced that Richard A. ] ack-
son, formerly with the Rock Island
railway, had been made vice. president
of the Great Northern company. As
vice.president and general counsel
Mr.. Jackson will have charge of all
the legal affairs of the road, with
headquarters in St. Paul.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02

MIssOULA, Oct. 29.-One of the best
bits OF news to the new settlers in the
Flathead reserv alton is that flow OF
artesian water has been struck at
Roman. The water can be seen today
flowing from the pipe in the we'll be.
ing driven at Roman by Stanley
Scearce.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
Montana Priest Found Dead.

SPOKANE. Oct. 3l.-The~ body OF the
Rev. T. G. Ahern, Catholic priest
of Boulder, Montana, aged 60 years,
Was found in his room in the Chicago
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-06
LAND CONGRESS FOR
 CLEVELAND COUNTY

Hon. B. F. Ashcraft, a member of the firm of Holmes and Ashcraf1, has been appointed vice president for the Arkansas Land Congress in CIeve- land county, which will be he'G at Rison, Friday, August 12. The speak- CTS expected to be present gre Judge E. R. Ratterree, Secretary Arkansas Land Congress; Guy l.. Stewart, as. ricultural and industrial agent of the Cotton Belt railway; Vim. R. Lighto9. who wrote The Story of an Arkansas Farm and Glide Morrison of the representative fthe Saturda,; Even representative fthe Saturday Even ing Post. Hon. Pitt Holmes will de- liver the welcome address.