davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Will Hunt Big Came.

NEW YORK, February 6.-Paul j.
Rainey, who returned only q month
ago from q hunt in Mississippi and
Alabama, on which he started soon
after his return with Harry Whitney
from the arctic, has sailed on the Maui
retania on q new hunting expedition
which may last three years. He plans
TO hunt big game In Africa, India,
Borneo and the Malay archipelago.
It is the most ambitious hunting ex'
petition yet organized by Mr.. Rainey
and will cost him $3.50, 600 before it ia
ended. A semioficial aspect is given
to the trip by the fact that Mr.. Rainey
will represent the New York Zoologi'
cal society, OF which he is q member,
and the Smithsonian institution a,
Washington in his hunting. For the
former he will endeavor to capture
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
To Remove Recreant Officials.

HELENA, Feb. 7.-Determined to
exhaust every resource in an endesvor
to advance q bill empowering the gov
ernor to remove recreant sheriffs and
county attorneys. which the chief ex-
ecutive recommended for passage in
his message, Representative Martin
OF Sweetgrass county, has drawn up
another bill with this In view which
modides the bill killed by the judi
ciary committee so % to meet the oh.
jections Of that committee. The bill
will probably be introduced within the
rext few days.
II makes consideration OF the ques.
ton of removing recreant officers pos.
sible after fifty qualified electors have
petitioned the governor for such re
moval. The governor is then required
to give the officers complained az aims
q hearing and his Judgment is subject
to review by the supreme court Of the
state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Taft Urges Reciprocity.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-If admins
tration senators had any doubt about
the attitude of President Taft toward
the Canadian reciprocity agreement, it
was removed when Senators Crane
and Carter returned to the capitol
today from q conference with the
president at the White house. The
message which the senators brought
to their colleagues al that there
must be a vote IN the agreement at
the present session or congress will
be called back in extra session almost
Immediately after adjournment on
March 4.
Although Senators Crane and Car.
ter declined to discuss their mission
to the White house. the report soon
leaked out that the president was in
sistent on q vote. II ia said he made
plain his belief that the country gen
orally favored the adoption OF a re-
ciprocal ire atty with Canada; that the
bill to put the agreement into force
will pass the house with a large ma
iority and that the senate would mac,
the measure it given an opportunity
to vote on 1t.
The rules of the senate, which per
nit untrammeled discussion of q
measure, are the principal barriers tc
. vote in that body. 1t ia known tina
Senators Hepburn and Bailey are bit
terly opposed to the agreement ant
that the opposition extends also (
most Of the progressive republicans
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
A SNAKE STORY.
The Reptiles Were Frozen Stiff, but
That Didn't Harm Them,

INC noPIiiSS VVSTo TrOze0 0tiH, 0Ut
That Didn't Harm Them.
A naturalist once told how in a
thicket on a mountain side he saw a
man kill a rattlesnake. He beat the
life out of it with a club and contin-
ued the pounding till it was mangled
beyond recognition. When the nat
uralist demonstrated the man said,
BOSS, you can't kill a rattlesnake too
dead"
On one occasion a boat bound for
the United States from Rio de Janeiro
touched at Pernambuco, where the
mate drove a bargain with a snake
dealer for a half dozen reptiles of vari-
u sizes.
The mate had them in a cage on
deck and charged a sailor tn the
duty of washing 1t out with Sea wa
ter every evening. All went we'll as
long as the weather was mild, but on
| the night before the gulf stream was
| crossed the sailor left a quantity of
water In the cage, and about thirty
hours from port a biting gale struck
the ship.
All hands were busy with the storm,
and the snakes were forgotten. When
the mate thought of them and went to
look after their condition he found
them frozen stiff and apparently as
dead as the %proverbial doornail.
The dealer for whom the mate had
brought them came on board the fol
lowing day. He professed great dis
appointment over the loss Of his in
tended purchase, but offered to take
the snakes away as a kindness to the
mate. He gathered them In his arms
like so much firewood and carried
them home. But a rival dealer after
ward told the officer that plenty o.
warm water had resuscitated the
snakes and that they had been solo
to various museums not a bit the worse
for their death by freezing.-Har
per's Weekly.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Washington News Notes.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.-The house
OF representatives today passed the
bill heretofore passed by the senate
granting leave of absence to home
steaders up to May 10, 1911. The bill
also extends until that date the time
in which homesteaders shall be re.
quired to esta blish residence.
The house of representatives today
passed the bill already passed by the
sen ate providing that where entries on
government irrigation projects made
prior to June Is, 1910, have been re.
linquished in whole or in part, lands
80 relinquished shall be subject to set.
Element and entry under the home
stead laws.
The house of representatives today
passed a bill, on motion of Represen-
tative Pray, placing employees of the
bureau of mines and persons engaged
in mine rescue work throughout the
country under the provisions of the
existing law, which provides for com.
pensation for injured employees of the
government, and which extends bene
fits to their heirs in case death results
from accidents.
The treasury department has award
ed the contract for the construction OF
the Missoula federal building to the
Sound Construction & Engineering
Co., OF Seattle, Washington, at their
bid of 1851, 442, plus $2,252 added for
substituting marble for wood in the
threads of the main stair and the
wainscoat In the public lobby.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
MILITARY ACCURACY.
Exaetness In Keeping Tab on tn
Movements Of Soldiers.

Exactness IN Keeping Tab on the
Movements Of Soldiers,
We hear much of the perfection of
military organization abroad, but it is
doubtful whether any foreign war Of
fee follows with an accuracy greater
than that displayed by u own war
department the movements of its Of
ficers. The following is an interesting
ease in point:
A young army officer who has seer
service in this country and in the east
was once with Il scouting party in Ari-
IONA. After two weeks in the desert
his squad came to the railway heal a
small station. Within ten minutes a
telegram from Washington was
brought to him by the station agent.
1t asked If the officer wished to be
transferred to one Of the new artillery
regiments then forming.
He answered by telegraph that he
would be glad to enter either Of them.
Then with his squad he set off again
across the desert.
1t was six days later when they
uSu1u SCluCh luC " ILLS llulC
eighty miles from the point at which
they had previously crossed it, but the
officers reply from the war depart
ment was awaiting him. 1t had been
telegraphed to every station within
200 miles.
A more striking instance of accuracy
occurred after the same officers trans
fer to the east. He was travelling
home on leave, and, as the regulations
require, he had notified the department
Of the day, hour and probable route
of his journey. After he had been on
the train for eight hours at a small
station the porter entered with a tele-
gram, asking if any one of his name
was present. On opening the tele-
gram the officer found that it ordered
him to detached duty.
Exactness of detail could not be car
ried much further. The war depart
ment knew the whereabouts of an in
significant second lieutenant even
when he was travelling on leave of alb
sence.-New York Herald.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Pardon For Whisky PeddIer.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. - Taking
compassion upon Guy Livingston, a
farmer of Dunkirk, Montana, whose
plea for mercy was that while he was
in jail his livestock was freezing and
his home being pillaged, President
Taft today within an hour after the
cas had reached him from the de-
partment of justice, telegraphed his
pardon.
Livingston was serving a sentence
OF sixty days, having been convicted
on a technical charge of having taken
whisky on the Blackfeet Indian reser.
vRtiOn.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
TO A PIONEER.

It is eminently fitting that the state
of Montana should officially join in
the work of erecting a memorial to
Col. Wilbur F. Sanders, pioneer, says
the Helen a Record. Shortly after the
death of the pioneer, a memorial as.
sociation vas organized, which has
raised s. 200. There ia a bill before
the legisl AZURE introduced by Col. G.
B. Nolan of this county, which pro-
poses to supplement that sum by a
like amount from that state.
There is nothing political, nothing
sectarian in the memorial to the pion.
eer. 1t is not SO much to Colonel
Sanders, the spokesman OF law and
order element in the days when crime
was In the ascendancy in Montana,
not so much q recognition of his per-
sonal courage in dealing with the
most serious problems that have ever
confronted the people within the con.
fines OF what is now Montana, as 1t Is
recognition of the whole body Of pion.
GERS and their work.
When law and order became estab.
lished in Montana, Colonel Sanders
was as other men-he made his politi.
cal enemies and his political friends.
He a counter to the opinions Of this
man and that man, he was an active
and aggressive factor in the life first
Of the territory and later of the state.
But it Ia not to the Sanders Of the
DAYS when Montana had emel I'D from
the trials and vicissitudes Of the pion'
Ger days, but to the commanding fig.
ure in those first days of the territory,
when he was the rallying point of those
who were trying to lay the found ations
of a great state, and when q leader
was needed with the courage not only
to say but to do, for whom the memor
ial is intended.
There are hundreds of men in Mon
tana today who did, so far as they
we're able, all possible to make life
and property safe in the young terri
tory. But it was Wilbur F. Sanders
to whom they looked for guidance, FOL
leadership In laying broad and deeI
the found atoms of a law.abiding com
monwealth. A bronze memorial t
Wilbur F. Sanders, erected by tht
joint efforts of state and individuals
will be a tribute not only to the mai
but to the cause for which he stood
and to those who stood with him TO-
law and justice.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15

lian's correspondent, ''the interests
have not been very active, preferring
to stand back and let the stu ation
drift, but there are evidences of an
organized effort to clip one over on
the unsuspectipg at the proper
moment"
There can be no doubt that there is
something doing along these lines.
The Muscular makes no charge that
the Amslgama ted company and the
railways are engaged in an organized
movement in the lobby; it merely
voices the talk that, for the last thirty
days, has been on the lips of men
most familiar with conditions at Hell
ena.
These are serious accus atoms.
They demand inquiry. If they are
true, the men who r ~exerting these
questionable influences are playing
with political dynamite.
The people of Montana are not an.
~tagonistic to the corporations which
are doing business in this state; they
would not knowingly see any injury
done to their great enterprises. But
such interference with the legislature
as is charged by onlookers at Helena,
is without warrant and the people of
the state are right in demanding that
the corporate influence keep hands off
the primary and re-apportionment
measures which are demanded by the
welfare and for the welfare Of the COM
monwealth.
1t is this very influence, now extend.
ing it's scope at Helena, If reports are
correct, which strengthens the demand
for the direct election of senator's; it
is this very situation at Helena which
makes more imperative than ever the
necessity for u fair reapportionment
of representation ia the house: it is
this interference with legislators TO
make them unfaithful to their trust,
which makes a fair primary bill es.
sential.-The M%issoulian.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Notice Of Hearing.

In the district court of the twelfth judicial dis
trict of the state of Montana, in and for the
county of Ch0uteau.
deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the will Of John
Nelson, deceased, has been produced and filed
Ambrose I. Phelan, of Havre, Montana, for the
probate of said will has been filed herein; thai
Saturday, the 18th day of February, A. D. 1911,
set by the clerk Of said court as the time fol
hearing said petition by the said court or judge
at the court room of said court, in the cour
house at Fort Benton, Montana.
That said notice Of said hearing is given b,
said clerk by publication of the same in thu
River Press, q daily newspaper printed ant
published at Fort Benton, in said county ant
state, for at least ten different days consecutive
ly.
Dated February 6, A D. 1911.
CHAS. H. BOYLE,
Clerk OF the District Court.
First publication Feb. z, 1911.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
II IRON HAND.

Ever since the present Legislative
session convened, it has been the al.
most unanimous opinion of those who
have visited the state capitol that the
democratic majority in the house is
controlled by the Amalgamated Cop.
per company and the railway interests
to the end that this man or that shall
or shall not be elected to the federal
senate or that this measure or that
shall not be passed. Specially EN-.
phatic has been the talk that has con-
nected the "big interests" and the
powerful influences" with the defeat
OF the direct primary and reapportion.
ment bills.
Not long ago, The Muscular call
ed attention to the manner in which
the membership Of the house commit.
tee on reapportionment had been seem.
ingly manipulated. This brought posi-
tive denial from Speaker Mcdowell,
but the fact remains that the reappor-
tionment committee is composed al.
most entirely of members from coun.
ties which will suffer q decrease in
representation upon any fair basis Of
respportionment and that these coun.
ties have double representation on the
committee to the exclusion OF counties
which, rs q matter of justice should
have larger representation in the
house.
This week, pending the meeting Of
the democratic state central commit.
tee, the talk at the capitol regarding
the pressure from the powerful inter.
ests" has been more pronounced thar
ever. The Missoulian's correspon'
dent at the capitol Gays that it is re
ported shat mighty financial organ
izations are in the game for keeps
now"
Heretofore" says The Nilsson
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Tho AmbuIant Barber,

Paris, like Picking, has its ambulant
barber. Armed with a little box, con-
tanning the necessary apparatus, razor,
badger brush, soap, scissors and servi-
cite, he exercises his calling on the
banks Of the Seine. All the bargees,
navvies and quay laborers are his eli
ents. Figaro seats his patient on
the pavement, v his knees with a
newspaper and for a sou shaves, cuts
his hair and gives a human appear
ance to the tramps and others who
intrust themselves to his care.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Odds and Ends.

Uncle Jim, an old negro driver in
Richmond, Va, had some ladies to
drive through the cemetery. He took
them round and showed them the nota-
BILE graves and monuments and then
drove to that part Of the cemetery
where the derelicts were inferred.
"Who are buried hereT asked a lady
In the party. II don't think I ever
was here before"
"Oh," replied Uncle jim, 'odds and
ends, missus, odds and ends"-Pitts'
burg Press.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
THE ESTRAY FUND SCANDAL.

The action of northern Montana
stockmen. at q recent meeting held
in this city. in adopting resolutions
regarding the estray fund scandal,
was due in part to rumors that an In.
vestigation of the matter might be de-
fested by interests opposed to further
publ icity. Confederation of these
rumors is given in q pertinent edi.
torial in the Helena Independent, which
says:
A little over two weeks ago a reso.
luton vas adopted by both houses
providing for the appointment OF Q
committee to make q thorough inves-
tigation of the method by which the
business Of the board is conducted,
which would permit of any such mis-.
use OF funds IS Langhorne is alleged
to have made. This committee has
been appointed and is made up of the
following named gentlemen: Senators
Survant, Stout and Sykes, Represen.
tatives Ashbridge, Brady, Murray,
McMurry.
Later a bill was introduced in the
senate which was passed by that body
and referred to the judiciary commit.
tee of the house, from which a favora.
BILE report has been made authorizing
the expenditure of $40, 600 with which
to pay the expenses of the proposed
investig alton. This has ex-
cited unusual interest in various di.
rections, sufficient, at least, to Great
the impression tina q certain element
is attempting to prevent an investiga-
ton being made. I. is a we'll known
fact that certain men have conversed
with some members of the committee,
advising against reporting the bill to
the house, aud with other members
urging It's defeat, should it be report
ed.
1t is passing strange that so many
men of influence should be interesting
themselves 10 this case, which makes
i. seem all the more irregular.
There are gentlemen connected with
the livestock board who are insisting
that a most rigid investig alton shall
be made. Among them is James T.
Stanford, president OF the board, a
gentleman noted the state over for his
strict integrity and high sense Of
honor. These same men, however, are
being importuned by others to desist
and prevent an investig alton. There
are rumors that If an untr ammeled
investiga alton is made, extending back
over q period of years, some startling
exposures may be the result. Whether
these be mere rumors or not, it ia the
duty of the Legislature to make q fear
less investigation. If there has been
footing in this Office it is the duty Of
the legislature to ferret it out, and
apprehend those who are guilty. The
law making body owes it to itself and
to the people to make a thorough re
search of the aft airs of this depart
ment.
The activity that is being made If
some quarters in the attempt to pre-
vent IN investig alton, by certain per
sons, is one of the chief reasons why
q full expose of the matter should bt
made. The mystery which has sur
rounded the Laughorne case from be
ginning to end is quite sufficient t.
establish the belief that there has beer
footing to an unusual degree. Th'
plunderbund should be thw arted in 1T
efforts to hush up the matter. Thu
Legislature should act quickly, ant
thoroughly.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
How She Knew.

"Will you have some fresh mush-
rooms" asked the hostess sweetly.
EYES," faltered the guest, IF you're
quite sure they're mushrooms and not
toadstools."
"Oh, I'm quite sure" replied the
hostess. II opened the can myself
Detroit Free Press.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Tho Bio 8iu.

Little Bob Gust started in SCHOOL,
Uncle Harry, what is the bird with the
biggest bill? Uncle Harry (who is sttll
thinking Of the night before)-A quail,
my boy; a Quail-on ~toast.-Judge.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15

You are probably aware that pneu-
monia always results from q cold, but
you never heard of q cold resulting in
pneumonia when Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy was used. Why take the risk
when this remedy may be had for a
trit1e? For sale by all dealers. n
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Notice to Creditors.

Estate of Peter Mitchell, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned.
administrator of the estate of Peter Mitchell,
deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons hsv.
ing claims against the said deceased, to exhibit
them with the necessary vouchers within four
months after the first publication of this notice,
to the said administrator at the store Of Sharp
Bros. in Fort Benton, Montana, in the county Of
Chouteau. L.. D.. SHARE,
Administrator of the estate of Peter Mitchell,
deceased.
Dated February 8, 1910.
First publication, Feb. 6, 1911.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
900 Reward,

One hundred dollars reward will be paid for
evidence aud conviction of parties driving of
from their accustomed home range, on head
waters Of middle fork of Clesr Creek, =
injuring. killing or %unlawfully brand
ing any cattle or horses bearing brand ~
on left hip for cattle and left shoulder
for horses. I desire to return all above stock
and will pay . fair reward for information lead
Ing to recovery.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Power Pumps For Sale.

The O'Hanlon Land and Stock company has
two Sinch horizontal centrifugal pumps, with
10 inch foot valves, betting and pipe that are
for sale. Can be seen at ranch below Fort Ben
tor. Interested parties may inquire of
W. r. EARLY Fort Benton,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Sheep : or Sale or Trade,

A mixed band of about 500 head of sheep for
sale, or will trade for horses or cattle. Would
take horses or cattle at once, and, if desired,
keep sheep until spring, as we have plenty Of
feed. FRANK STROUF s. CO.,
Stanford. Montana.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Alfalfa Hay For Sale.

Baled alfalfa hay for sale free on board the
cars at Fort Benton for $l7.5 per ton in carload
lots. I guarantee it to be first class in every re-
spect. Inquire of P. H. SCHWARTZ,
3lO9 9TH Ave N, Billings, Montana.
Phone 1923 Mutual.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15

In general, pride is ut the bottom OF
all great mistakes. -Ruskin.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Hay For Sale.

Alfalfa, rel clover ard wild hay in carload
lots. Very reasonable.
P. S. HILLEBOE, us 4th Ave. s.,
Great Falls. Montana,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15

animals alive. while to the other be
will send many OF the trophies of his
riHa
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Stallion For Sale.

A thoroughbred stud colt, old enough TO
service, pedigree furnished. Will sell or ex
change for good team Can be seen at rancI
quarter mile south of Kershaw.
g. L. DECK, Fort Benton,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
Esiray Taken Up.

Taken up, a bay horse about four years old
branded n on left hip. Has been with my out
fit about - m three yeare.
E. P. KILROY, Alma, Montana.