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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
FOR] GOOD CITIZENSHIP.
Roosevelt Denounces Corrupt Meth
ods In Politics.

Roosevelt Denounces Corrupt Meth
DDS In Politics.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, March 15.-.
Colonel Roosevelt paid his respects
by name to Senate Lorimer OF Illi-
nois, and Governor Haskell of Okla
homa, tonight. He denounced both
as "unft to hold public Office" Their
election, be said, had been q disgrace
to the communitiesl which elected
them.
The denuuciation was made In the
course of Colonel Roosevelt's address
to an audience which crowded the
opera house and left hundreds stand
ing outside. In opening,his talk. the
colonel declared that Ia its failure to
grant New Mexico statehood at the last
regular session of congress the ma.
tional government has committed q
breach of faith. Arizona, he said,
might have offered ground for ques.
ton, although he favored Tits admis.
sion, but with New Mexico there was
no question.
Turning to the duties which the
cities of New Mexico must take up
when the territory did become state.
Colonel Roosevelt warned his hear.
ers that while good laws are neces-
sary, good citizenship must back them
up. He said that unfit men had been
elected to Office bothsby popular and
representative vote. Such q man re.
NAMED unfit for Office, he said,
''whether he is as unfit as Mr.. Lori.
mer is unfit, who was elected by the
legislature of Illinois, or as Mr..
Haskell is unfit, who was elected by
popular vote.'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Wages Of Farm Hands.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Higher
wages were paid! to American farm
laborers during 1910 than at any time
in the last As years, according to
statistics just made public by the de-
partment of agriculture. The average
wage for the country was s27.50 per
month during 1910, while 20 years ago
they were onlylSl8.83.
With board, the average wage was
S19.2l. In some parts of the country
the rate Of wageslof!tar laborers was
higher than in others.
The highest was In Nevada, where
the rate was S54, while in Montana
and Washington it was $50. South
Carolina paid the lowest rate, GIG. so.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Complain Of Unjust Rates.

WASHINGTON, March II. - Com.
plant that Duluth is being discrimin.
ated against by the railways and in
favor of Chicago, Minneapolis and
Milwaukee as grain handling ports
was made today to the interstate com.
merce commission by the Duluth
board of trade. The proceeding is in.
stituted against the Great Northern
Railway company and other lines op.
Grating in the northwest. 1t is alleged
that the rates on grain, grain prod
ucts and seeds from southern Mime.
sofa and southern North Dakota to
Duluth are excessive, unreasonab able
and unjust.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Counterfeit GangsDetected.

WAsHINGTON, March Is. Two
raids made within the last forty-eight
hours by agents of the United States
secret service are considered OF grea,
Importance in ridding several cities o.
counterfeit money.
The arrest of Martinali and three
others in San Francisco, reported
from there last night, closes case
where quantities of counterfeit bills
were made In Italy, smuggled into
this country on the steamer Itali
and circulated in New York and San
Francisco.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Engineer Meets Sudden Death,

BUTTE, March 17.-Daniel O'Grady,
hoisting engineer at the Pittsmont
mine, was instantly killed this after.
noon. He was at work oiling the ma.
chinery when he happened to press
against lever that set things in mo-
tion. His head was caught by the big
heavy weight used for the brakes and
crushed.
Only the day before he met his
death he told one of his friends that
in all the years he had worked, hoist.
ing and lowering thousands of men,
not one of them had ever received q
scratch. Within "a hours after be
made the statement he lay dead. He
was one of the most competent men in
the camp.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Montana Stockman Stricken.

Los ANGELES, March 18.-Colonel
A. j. MCGOWAN of Plains, Mont,
multi.millionaire cattle raiser, is
critically Ill at the Van Nuys hotel
here. He was attacked by q stroke of
oppoplexy after Witnessing game of
ball w Washington park March Is. Col.
MCGOWAN, after the baseball e anne, was
returning to the hotel with friend In
an automobile, when he was taken ill.
Some time before midnight the tele.
phone from his apartments rang, but
the operator tried in vain to obtain
an answer. He then went to the room
and found the colonel unconscious.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
MAY Be LONG SESSION.
Democratic Majority In Congress
Faces Difficult Task.


Faces Difficult Task.
WASHINGTON, March II. - These
days are sad days for the new demo-
cratic ways and means committee. All
they are supposed to do in the next
two months is to change the entire
system of tariff framing, grant hear
ings to interested parties-that is,
constructively speaking, raze the tar.
III wall, build q careful revenue.only
structure in its place; "bone" up on
dresry piles of statistics of imports,
manufactures, cost of labor and trans-
portation, and finally bring into being
q successor OF the Payne ,Aldrich tar.
if law.
1t took the republican ways and
means committee practically q year
to accomplish the present tariff law
and the democrats must do the same
work in two months, if they can. But
they lack majority in the senate.
and are handicapped by a republic an
administr alton in charge of the execu-
tive departments, and there is big
chance that Taft, strong proponent
of the present tariff, may veto their
measures even if they succeeded ia
jamming the proposed schedules
through congress.
In the light OF these distractions,
leaders on both sides are almos,
unanimous in the opinion that the ex'
ira session will not end before Octo'
ber. 1t 10 known that "Uncle joe
Cannon has made arrangements to re-
m ain in Washington until November
There is, too, q strong possibility ths
the coming session may establis {
record. The extra session of 1905
lasted IA days-and the present rec
ord of 1865 days made in 184l may &C
by the boards in 1911 with a 2OO-daJ
session.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
MExICANS MUST Be GOOD.
Roosevelt Indicates Purpose Of Unit
ed States Government.


ed States Government.
Ell PAso. Texas, March 15.-"All
that the United States demands OF
Mexico is order, justice and independ-
ence," declared Theodore Roosevelt
this morning at q breakfast given in
his honor by the Toltec club. The
colonel's rem marks were the only utter
ance he has made on the Mexican
situation and came as a surprise to
the members of his party.
Colonel Roosevelt led up to his OBJ
serv ations on the main trouble by say
ing that prosperity OF his neighbors
was q condition of the prosperity OF
any man. He declared that honest
dealings between man and man was
the only certain found alton of pros.
perity. The same thing was true, he
said, of the relations OF communities
to each other.
Pausing as though to select bis
words, he then said that he though,
he spoke for all Americans when he
said that all the United States de-
manded of Mexico was order, iustict
and independence.
Continuing, he declared that thil
country wished to see all its neigh
bors prosperous; that his hearers whs
dwelt along the southern border knev
from experience how the "turmoil t
the south" had affected business. 81
said that this country only demanded
of it's neighbors that order shoul'
reign in their borders and that orde
should be established upon justice.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
New Law Affects Federal Court.

HELENA, March 15.-Under the pro.
visions of an act recently passed by
congress and approved March 3, cop.
les OF which have just been received
here, codifying and revising the laws
relating to the judiciary, and effective
January l, 1912, radical changes are
made in existing statutes. Terms of
court to be held at Billings and Mis-.
soula are provided for and other
changes of interest to Montana people
are made. The most sweeping In.
novation Is the sbolishment of circuit
courts, the business now being trans.
acted by them to be hereafter trans.
acted In the district court.
Another important change is that
raising the value of the matter In con.
troversy from %, 900 to $1,000 before
the federal court has Jurisdiction.
Under the present law federal courts
have original jurisdiction of certain
classes of cases where the matter In
controversy exceeds, exclusive of In.
terest and costs, the sum or value OF
1900. Under the revised law this is
increased to $1,000. Gases involving
lesser cum than $4,000 must be
brought In the state courts.
Another important change is that
providing that grand and trial jurors
can be summoned by the marshal by
mail, instead of by personal service,
as at present.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Trust Reduces Prices.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-As the
first direct result of the governments
antitrust suit against the so.called
"electric lamp trust" the department
of justice has received intim ations tn at
the prices of all electric light bulbs
will be reduced 33s per cent all over
the United States.
By such out in present prices,
folks who buy the lamps will save
more than Sc, 100000 year. The de.
partment continues to receive word
that the various pools in the so.called
trust are breaking up in anticipation
of the suits that have been prepared.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
pierce ice foes which choke the strait
of Belle Isle, the barren stretch Of Va.
ter which separates Labrador from
the northern coast of New Foundlaud.
Promotion For Carter.

WASHINGTON, March 15.-Report
is given publicity here that former
Sen ator Thomas H. Carter of Mon
tana 10 probably to be given the place
of attorney general in the sTaft cabi-
net, to replace Mr.. Wickersham, who
will take Mr.. Knox's place as secre-
tary of state, Mr.. Knox being slated
according to the story, for retirement.
Archbishop Ireland, who recently
visited Taft, is said to have urged Mr..
Carter's selection for the cabinet posi-.
ton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
CONSERVE COAL LANDS.
New Method Of Valuation Adopted
BY Government.


BY Government.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-Over sew.
enty million acres of coal land In the
west is still owned by Uncle Sam.
The coal content of this land is enor-
nous; It can be figured only in hun.
dreds of billions of tons. Some tracts
are OF immense value, containing beds
of coal of the highest grade, 30. 40, so
and even 80 feet or more in thickness.
The old way was to sell the coal land
reg ardless of value, at the absurd fig.
ure OF $40 an acre II it was more than
Is miles from q railroad or at $20 If
within that limit. The present way is
to measure the coal In an acre and
sell the land at price determined by
its content of coal. AS q result coal
land has been priced as high as S400
an acre and one tract at even 5000 an
acre.
Since March 4, 1909, the geological
survey has classified, by 40.acre
tracts, 8,527, 1865 acres of the govern
ment coal lands. At the S10 to $40
minimum rate these lands would have
q valuation of s2ls, ,2S9 ,942. 90 that
the work done has resulted in q gain
to the government of nearly S420, ,000,-
900. 1t may be noted that the pro.
ceeds of coal.land sales are all de-.
posted to the credit of the "reclama-
tion fund"-the fund that pays for the
construction of the governments vast
water.storage projects.
AS q result of geologic field exam.
nations this administr alton has also
withdrawn 62, 140, ,548 acres of proba-
BILE coal land and has restored to sg-
ricultural entry 18,777,756 acres OF
non.coal land, which had been with
drawn from entry pending the geolo-
gical surveys determination of its
chars acter. A single Montana with
drawal, made last July, included 20,-
208, 1865 acres. The amount of coal
contained in this area is almost in
credibly great. A single 40 acre tract,
tor example, contains over two and a
half million tons of coal.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22

large grist passed by the legislature
on its last day. This makes q total
of 121 house and 81 senate bills that
have become laws as q result OF the
session. The bills approved today
follow:
S. B. 70, to prevent the obstruction
Of the waters of navigable lakes, and
II. B. II, creating the Office Of fire
marshal. In connection with the lat
ter, Governor Norris transmitted to
Secretary of State Yoder letter stat.
ing that while it creates an additional
Office the cost will be not be borne by
the state but by insurance companies.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
OPENED ROOSEVELT DAM.
Arizona irrigation Project Ready For
Settlers Use.

ttOOSEV ELY, ArlZOQa, M 8rCQ To-
Standing on top of the great storage
dam which bears his name, former
President Theodore Roosevelt press
ed an electric button which set in mo-.
tion a mass of grinding machinery
which in turn raised three of the six
massive iron gates weighing 5000
pounds apiece. By this act he off.
cially opened the Roosevelt storage
dam, a part of the Salt river irriga-
tion project.
The Roosevelt dam reclamation pro.
ject is stu ated half mile below the
confluence of Tonic creek and upper
Salt river, at the head of canyon
through which Salt river flows for
many miles. 1t is tho most imposing
feature of the Salt river project, the
first one undertaken by the United
States reclamatio service under pro-
visions of the reclama alton act, ap-
proved by President Roosevelt June
II, 1902, and after whom the town at
the dam site is named. 1t ia Is miles
east of Phoenix, which is stu ated in
the center of q valley of which 24O, 900
acres is signed to the Salt River VAL
ley Water listers association. This
corporation represents the farmers in
their dealings with the government,
guaranteeing payment of the construc.
tion cost of the project.
The dam creates q reservoir extend.
ing II miles up Tonto creek and 1a
miles up Salt river nearly to what is
known as the intake dam, 400 feet
long. The capacity of the reservoir
is l, ,284, ,205 acre.feet, the largest arti'
fetal lake in the world, Though the
dam is not the largest in the world, il
Is among the largest. The found atior
rests on bedrock 40 feet below rive,
level. 1t is 235 feet long, between the
canyon walls, and 10 feet wide. From
the river level to the crest OF the spill
ways at either end of the dam, the
height is 220 feet, that being the great
est depth of storage possible.
The dam is curved, arching w
stream, and at the top is $50 feet Ions
and l6 feet wide. The spillways a
either end are 200 feet wide, so tht
length, inclusive of the bridges ovel
the spillways is l,OS0 feet. The spill
ways are blasted from the mountain
sides.
The dam contains 339, 400 cubi,
yeards of masonry, every stone o
which was washed before it was per
manently cemented in place. In tn
construction of the dam and auxiliar!
works 1888, 452 barrels of cement wer
used, all Manufactured on the groun.
at q cost of sl,063, ,542, In q cemen
mill erected by the government ant
recently cold. The cost was 50 III pc
barrel as against $3.50 per barrel, th
best private bid available when oper q
tions began.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Railroads Gave Rebates.

BUFFALO, March 16. - The New
York Central railroad was fined $685..
600 and the Pennsylvania railroad
s2O, 900 by Judge Hazel In the United
States district court, after attorneys
for the railroad had entered pleas OF
guilty to granting rebates to the
Standard Oil company. The indict.
ments were found in 1907.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22

burg 1t ia only four above the zero
mark and Washington shows fourteen
degrees.
The cold wave was borne in on q
wind which averaged fifty.s six miles an
hour along the coast here and up in
New England. The storm moved
northeastward today and is centered
In eastern Nova Scotia,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Cold Wave Strikes East.

NEW YORK, March 16.-A cold snap
of unusual severity for this season of
the year holds practically the entire
eastern section of the country tightly
gripped today. There was a drop Of
thirty. six degrees in the temperature
to a minimum of sixteen degrees in
this city during the night. AT Pitts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Myers Credentials Received.

WASHINGTON, March 14.-The ere.
dentials of Senator Henry L. Myers of
Montana were received today by the
chief clerk of the sen ate and were
placed on record. They will be passed
upon by the committee on privileges
and elections when the new cen ate or.
gauiZes,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22
Governor Signs Many Bills.

HELENA, March 17.-Governor Nor
ris on this afternoon of the last day
allowed by law approved the last two
bills remaining on his desk of the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-13
REAL ESTATE
BARGAINS

3 room house one block from south
scnool building. nearly new, Price
$3.50. $50 cash balance $40 per month.
10 acre truck farm ~ miles from
bank corner. Price $1,000.
Room frame house nearly new
with barn and storm cave, lot 50 by
l65 feet in Phillips Add Price $1,000.
Loan Of s4OO. VIII sell for slOO cash,
balance SIS per month.
4 Room house with cistern, nearly
new on west hill. lot SO by 1870; house
cost $3.50. lot $780, Total sllO0, will
take $3.50, If sold this week.
S Room frame house and cistern all
New on west hill Lot 75 by $40, cost
$4,000. will sell for $i4OO, $500 cash,
balance on time or viii take a small
piece OF vacant property.
room frame and plastered house
With basement; good well. barn near
Iy new: lot 5Oxl4O; Sparks add; a
snap for $1,000 cash.
To exchange. 10 A. miles west
Of city, loan $2750. will take city prop
erty for difference. Price $4,000
Two-story brick building, well locat-
ed to trade for farm. Price $4,000.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-13
Jonas Cook

First Published Oct 20. l911.)
Notice Of Sale Of Real Estate.
State Of Oklahoma, Grady County,
IS.
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance to an order Of sale issued out
Of the Superior Court OF Grady Couh
ty. Oklahoma, on the 9Th day Of Oct.
1911. in an action wherein d. D.
Sayre, Trustee and Rietta Beavers
were plaintiffs and Thomas P. SUIT
ton, Robert 3. Sutton and J. w.
speake were defendants, directed to
me, the undersigned Receiver and
Commissioner duly appointed and
qualified. commanding me to. without
appraisement, sell the following de-
scribed property, towit:
Lots eight (s), nine ts), Ten (1O)
and eleven (11) in block seventy six
(76) in the city of Chickasha, Grady
County, Oklahoma, as per the official
plat and map thereof, to satisfy a
judgment and decree Of foreclosure
in favor Of said plaintiff and against
said defendants, obtained and made
in said court on the 2lst day Of
March. 1911, for the sum OF sl.1s5.s0
and costs, with interest thereon at
the rate of per cent per annum
from the 1st day Of Nov, 1911. un-
til paid
Therefore I win on the 27th day Of
November. A. D.. 1911, at 10 O'Clock
a. M, Of said day. at the front door
Of the court house in the city of
Chickasha, in said county and state,
offer for sale and sell to the highest
bidder for cash, said property above
described. or so much thereof as will
satisfy said Judgment, with interest
and costs.
Witness my hand this the 18th day
OF October, A. D., 1911.
HARRY HAMMERLY,
Commissioner and Receiver
10-2O-sOtt
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-13

200 Acres; 1850 under cultivation;
% acres in alfalfa. This is corn
and alfalfa farm; room house; cave;
crib u by so sheded smoke house;
hog lots: horse lots; 100 fenced hog
tight. and cross fenced. Price $50
an acre. Part time.
40 Acres of Washita bottom near
Alex. Price $500.
220 Acres, bottom farm; 1876 under
cultivation; small house; 2 miles OF
town and station. Price $40 an acre.
Time on half.
sl1OO Buys a room house and
quarter block in southwest part OF
city. Terms.
List your property for sale with
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-13
Best Bargains Selected From Many

$50 Acres choice blue stem land;
all tillable. miles from Chickasha,
400 acres in cultivation. No better
upland in Oklahoma. Price, $40 per
acre.
50 Acres improved land miles
from chickasha; has loan OF $4,000.
Owner must raise some money at
once WIN sell cheap or trade equity
for unincumbered property IN Chicka-
sha. Some one win get a snap in
trade on this property.
40 Acres one mile from I. I. & c..
good orchard. room house; all till
able land. Price, $500. Loan Of 81
600. win trade equity for real es-
state in Chickasha or any other good
town
6s acres smooth upland y mile
from Norge, 4O acres in cultivation.
balance fine meadow; fenced. Fine
bargain at $3.50 per acre. Terms
given.
100 Acres 5 miles from a railroad
town in Grady county. All ullable
land; must be sold within the next
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-13

ten days. This is worth $4,000. It
can be bought or $4,000. Can loan
s1,S00 on the place.
s.76O Acres of land in Culbertson
Co.. Texas; deep sandy loan: fine
clay subsoil. Every acre covered
with curly mesquite or sramma grass.
Fenced abundance of water. Price
$40 per acre. win exchange for good
gilt edge property
CITY PRtPERTV.
First class modern cottage. nearly
new; close in. Sold for $500. viii
sell today for s2lO0. Small cash pay
ment. Balance $40 per month.
Room house. located on West
Hill on the car line. slO5o. Terms
given.
New modern 9 room house. 4 blocks
from bank corners; will trade for a
good piece Of land. Cash price. ss.-
500
Fine corner lot In the best resi-
dence part OF town. Sold for $3.50
cash one year ago. viii sell today
for s7oo Terms given on part
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-13
SAVED CHILD FROM pEArH

After our child had suffered from
severe bronchial trouble for a year,
wrote G. T. Richardson. of Richard
sons Mills. Ala. I'VE feared It had
consumption. It had bad cough all
the time. We tried many remedies
without avail, and doctors medicine
seemed as useless. Finally we tried
DR.. Kings New Discovery. and are
pleased to say that one bottle effect
ed a complete cure, and our child Is
again strong and healthy" For
coughs. colds. hoarseness. lagrlppe,
asthma. Group and sore lungs. its the
most infallible remedy that's made
Price soc and si.oo. Trial bottle free
Guaranteed by Brown & Co. d&w.