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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-09
NO REASON FOR 1T
When Columbus Citizens Show the
Way.

"Sys
There can be no just reason why any
reader of this will continue to suffer
the tortures of an aching back, the an
noyance of urinary disorders, the dan
gers of serious kidney ills when relief
is so near at hand and the most posi-
tive proof given that these ills can be
cured. Read what a Columbus citizen
says:
Mrs. C. A. Beardsley,. ITO Olive
ST., Columbus. Nebraska, says: I'm
July, 1907. gave public statement
in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills, say
ing that a member of my family who
had suffered from lame back and disOr-
dered kidneys had used this remedy
with marked success. For some time
he had been troubled with sharp pains
in the sides and loins and no doubt,
the misery was caused by strain.
Doan's Kidney Pills procured at Pol
lock & Co. 5. Drug store, proved to
be just the remedy that was needed
and it did not take them long to bring
relief. He has taken Doan's Kidney
Pills since then and they have always
proven effective. l, too, have used
Doan's Kidney Pills and think very
highly of them.'
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan' sand
take no other.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-09

way of restocking after an outbreak
of hog cholera will generally be found
to disinfect the premises completely
and start in again after two or three
months time. The method of doing
this is to thoroughly clean out all
straw and rubbish from the houses,
pens and feeding floors and then disin-
feet with strong solution of coal tar
dip, or corrosive sublimate. one part
to 1000 parts Of water. Disinfec-
ton must be carried on especially
carefully around the troughs and feed
ing floors. 1t is we'll to follow dis
infection with a good coat of white
wash. If the hog houses are old and
likely to fall down anyway the safest
plan would be to burn them. Plough
ing the yards up or burning layer of
straw on them is about all that is ne
cessary to disinfect them. The veter-
inarians say that if the work of disin-
lection is done properly, fresh hogs
may be brought on the place within
two or three weeks, but to be on the
safe side We would advise a delay Of
two or three months.
Hogs vacinated by what is known
as the simultaneous method are i'm
mune from cholera and may be brought
on the place with safety even while
the disease is still raging. Hog chol-
era vaccination should be done only by
a veterinarian who knows his bust
ness. Farmer.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-09
Home Preservation OF Eggs.

As the moulting season comes, there
that go to the market and a cores
ponding increase i'm the price of fresh
eggs, especially as the weather grows
cooler and fewer spoiled eggs reach
the market. Many poor quality eggs
are found to reach the markets in hot
weather as long as the railroads are
allowed to handle eggs they way the
do now. No matter how fresh they
go from the farm, fertile eggs will
not be good when they finally reach
the city markets if they have been
allowed to sit for hours i'm the hot sun
on station platforms, or are carried IN
hot freight cars that are equal to in
CubatorS.
But that is getting away from the
subject of preserving eggs for winter
use. Few flocks lay to amount to any
thing during the moulting season and
many do not finish the moult in time
to begin laying before cold weather
comes, SO with plenty Of hens, many
farmers must either buy or go with
cut eggs for a while 1t would pay
always to put down a few eggs in
waterglass for home consumption. if
not for sale. and there is no objection
to selling them if they are sold for
what they are preserved eggs. Of
all the methods of preservation tried
at experiment stations only the lime
water and the waterglass methods
have proved satisfactory, and water
glass of the two is the preferred me-
thod.
Waterglass is pale yellow, Odor-
less. syruppy liquor made from solu-
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-09
Many a Suffering Woman

Drags herself through her daily
tasks. suffering from backaches, head
ache, nervousness, loss of appetite and
poor sleep. not knowing that her ills
are due to kidney and bladder trou-
bIes. Foley's Kidney Pills give quick
releaf from pain and misery and a
prompt return to health and strength.
No woman who so suffers can afford to
overlook Foley Kidney Pills. For
sale by all druggists.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-09
Millions For Good Roads.

The good roads problem was brought
before the attention of congress dur
ing the past week by Senator Swan
son, of Virginia, who urged an annual
appropriation of $40, 600, 600 for five
years to improve the post roads and
rural delivery routes of the country.
Senator Swanson explained that his
plan would open up more than l, 600,
600 miles of road to government aid.
His bill would create a road depart
ment consisting of engineers and cap
able officials to carry out the object,
which, because it deals only with post
roads, he contends, would not be un-
constitutional.
Speaking i'm behalf of his measure
Senator Swanson said:
1.-The federal government should
delay no longer extending to the state
and local authorities generous aid for
road improvement. When the federal
government begins to bear its fair
share of the burden of improving pub
lie roads that day will work the be-
ginning of the end of bad roads in this
nation. Our wealth is greater today
than that of any other nation; We have
become supreme in finance and fore
most in the worlds commerce; We
surpass in money expended for primary
and general education and milage of
railroads, navigable riversand improved
harbOrs; the story of our progress
reads more like romance than history.
Yet no other enlightened people in
the world are cursed with such a
wretched condition of roads, with more
than nine-tenths of the public roads
and highways in the United States
during rainy seasons almost imassable.
1t is estimated that 80 per cent of our
internal commerce must first or last be
hauled over the public roads. The
average haul Of this vast commerce
over the public highways has been es-
timated at a little more than nine
miles, averaging in cost twenty three
cents per ton per mile against seven
cents in France and eleven cents in
England and Germany. Based on es-
Inmates of good authorities improve
ment of main lines of the system of
roads in this country along methods
adopted abroad would save in hauling
more than $23, 5000, 90 annually to
the people of the United States. !"
This sum of $3.50, OOOO, o is what
Senator Swanson calls a mud tax paid
each year by Americans for hauling
their products over poor roads.
1t is not considered likely that Sem
ator Swanson's bill will be adopted at
a very near session of congress, but
he has succeeded in giving publicity
to cause which needs enthusiasm as
much as anything else. His bill and
his speech may result in members of
congress studying the subject of good
roads very carefully, possibly in order
to make political capital for them
selves out of it. Whatever the mo-
tive, however, good can hardly fail to
result from the nations lawmakers
becoming peter posted on subject
which is of prime importance to nine
tenths of the people of the nation. -
Iowa Homestead.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-09
Sorghum Poisoning.

When sorghum. kafiir corn or re-
lated crops are suddenly checked in
their growth, before maturity, by dry,
clear weather, the plants become
dangerous for pasturage. The reason
for this is that there is in sorghum,
Kaffir corn and kindred plants kind of
sugar that is capable of being broken
down into simpler compounds, one
of which is the deadly Prusic acid, and
this breaking down process occurs
whenever the plants are checked in
their growth by the causes We have
mentioned. For some years it was
thought that only second growth plants
We're poisonous but now it is known
that the poison may develop in the
standing plants whenever they are
stunted by dry weather.
Last fall in the writing about this
We suggested that the hay from such
stunted plants would also be danger
Gus, but DR.. F. J. Away, chemist at
the Nebraska Experiment Station, in
forms us that such is not the case.
He says no instances are on record
where cattle or other animals have
died from eating sorghum hay made
from stunted plants. Apparently the
curing process causes reaction in the
plant juices that changes he Prusic
acid of harmless compounds. But
such plans used for pasture are deadly.
In Nebraska this year there are many
localities where the sorghum and re-
lated crops are very much stunted by
dry weather, and reports are coming
from here mad there of sorghum poi
soning. We wish to warn our read
ers against allowing animals of any
kind to pasture on stunted sorghum,
kaffir corn or plants of that nature.
If you must feed it to them now, cut
and allow it to cure before feeding.
The poison works rapidly, but in
case animals are taken in time there is
hope of doing something by giving
large doses of corn syrup such as is
bought for table use. Large quanti-
ties of milk may be used with good
effect, too although the glucose OF
corn syrup treatment is most effec-
tive. The better plan is to use pre-
vention rather than to be forced to re.
sort to cure. That means that cattle
and other animals should be kept
away from stunted sorghum and re.
lated crops as they would be kept
away from arsenic. Farm
! er.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-09
NOTICE PROBATE OF WILL.

In the County Court Of Platte county, Ne
braSka-
Notice probate Of will Of Sylvia A. Mahafey,
deceased.
The state of Nebraska to the heirs and next
of kin OF said Sylvia A. Mahaney. deceased:
Take notice that upon filing of written
il slr,lment purpOrting To be- the last will and
testament OF sylvia 4. Mahaffey for probate
and allowance. IL Is ordered that sald matter
~. set for hearing the 18th day of August, A.
d.. 1911. before said county court ut the hour
of 10 q clock Il. IN, Ut which time any person
interested may appear and contest the same:
and due notice OF this proceeding Is ordered
published three weeks successfully IN the
Columbus Tribune Journal. weekly and legal
newspaper printed. published and OF general
circulation in said county and state
In testimony whereof. ] have hereunto set
NV hand and official seal AT Columbus this 10Th
JOHN RATTERMAN.
IscNI County Judge.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-09
The Farmers Balance Sheet.

Probably farmers have benefited
more than any other great ella IS in
this cycle of prosperity. In ten years,
according to the Bureau of Labor, the
price of farm products advanced sixty
five per cent, while the price of all
leading commodities, taken together,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12
Ordinance No. 26A.

An ordinance to amend the ordi-
nances of the city of Fort Benton
relating to liquor saloon licenses,
and requiring the proprietors of sa-
looms to give bonds for good be-
havior.
Be it ordained by the council of the
city of Fort Benton:
Section l. Any person who deals
in, sells or disposes of, directly or
indirectly. any sprituous. vinous or
malt liquors, in any quantity less
than one gallon, within the limits of
the city of Fort Benton, shall, before
the tr%aus action of such business, OBJ.
tain q license from said city, for which
he shall pay the sum of sixty dollars
per quarter.
Sec. 2. Before any license shall
be issued hereafter to any such
person or persons to deal In such Ii.
quors, said person Or persons shall
give q bond, with two sufficient sure.
ties, in the sum of two thousand dol
lsrs, to be approved by the city coun.
Gil of said city, which said bond shall
be conditioned to be forfeited to said
city upon the violation Of said person
or persons, or either of them, or by
any Of their employees, while in OF
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12
They Want Chicago Soul Mates.

A more or less pathetic story of
bachelor loneliness on a Montana
ranch comes by way OF Chicago to
its point of origin, q Chicago news
item being to this effect:
Near Circle, Mont, q thriving town,
live "three cowboy gentlemen" whose
souls are calling out for their mates.
They sign themselves D. L. Boot, c..
II. Keys and S. A. Boot.
They have appealed to q Chicago
paper to assist them in finding their
a6Rnities and send the following letter:
'.Circle Mont, March 22.-We, the
undersigned o boy gentlemen, have
arrived in the happy stage of life in
which we have decided to take unto
ourselves women. Women being
scarce in these diggings, We appeal to
your paper for help and trust that you
can see your way clear to make known
to some of the fair ladies of the east
that their presence ia very much de.
sired in this womanless community.
1--WE are plain citizens and r pre-
pared to make any one desiring to
come to q country where saddle horses
and ssgebrush is plentiful q happy
home.
1--WE trust you are not suffering
from the woman famine there in Chi
cago 40 We are hereabouts, and hop
ing that you can put ne In right"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12
Public School Roll Of Honor.

The following students of the Fort
Benton schools received the highest
average In their respective classes
during last month:
1B. Veronica Sullivan, first, 96 3.5
per cent. Alice Morrison, second,
938 per cent.
Ia. Winnifred Joyce. first, 958 per
cent. Kathleen Egan, second, 81 SO
per cent.
2. Florence Kinder and Walter
Meyer, first, 90 Al per cent. Idabel
McLeisb, second, 80 81 per cent.
3. Dorothy Ragland, first, SO IL
per cent. Marion Townsend and AL
fred Ludtke, second, 90 per cent.
4. Alex De Lorimer, first, SO A.
per cent. Katherine Wackerlin, Sec
oud, SO 81 per cent.
5. John Green and Marguerite De
Lorimer, first, 80 per cent. May Shell.
don and Natalie Townsend, second,
SO per cent.
6. Mary Rowe, first. 81 81 per cent.
Irene Ragland. second, IS per cent.
7. Idabel Ragland, first, IS SO per
cent. Arnold Westfall, second, IS 4.9
per cent.
g.. Gladys Fisher, first, "a II per
cent. George Boyle and Edmund Lee,
second, 90 6 7 per cent.
9. Avis Allen, first, 9O4 per cent
Minnie Ludtke, second, 89t per cent
10. Genevive Carter, first, 81 is pc,
cent. Harriet Lse, second, 81 pc,
cent.
II. Agnes Matthews, first, 95 Ii
per cent. Nora HARDER, second, "a l.!
per cent.
II. Isabelle Morrow. first, SO l.!
per cent. Mary Green, second, 81 A.!
per cent. ]. w. LENNING,
City Superintendent Of Schools.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12

about the conduct OF such business,
or OF any business in connection there.
with, OF any law of the state Of Mon
tana or of any ordinance of the city
Of Fort Benton.
Sec. 3. All ordinances and parts
OF ordinances In conflict with this
ordinance are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall take effect from
add after its passage.
Passed and approved April 8, 1911.
FRANK MoRGER. Mayor.
JOHN F. MURPHY, City Clerk.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12
LEGAL 81 NkS
The River Press.

RIVER PRESS Fort Benton
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12

"A recect press ule p0tcu IrOm w beu'
ington says Special Agent Newton
will soon go to Seattle, Tacoma and
Helena to ask grand juries in those
cities to probe the census frauds to
the bottom.
The residents of Big Sandy are
somewhat concerned over the appear.
ance of smallpox in that Vicinity, two
or three cases of the disease having
developed during the past two weeks.
The matter is being given proper At
tention by the public health authori.
ties.
Assessor Phil Buckley returned yes.
terday from an official visit to Harlem
and vicinity. Mr.. Buckley reports
the arrival of several parties of new
settlers in that part of Choteau county,
most of them, however. becoming resi-
dents at too late q date to appear on
this years tax roll.
At the meeting of the city council
held Saturday evening, q new ordt'
nance relating to saloon licenses was
presented and adopted. 1t is q re.
enactment of the ordinance heretofore
in effect, with the exception that the
mount of the license is increased &c
sixty dollars per quarter.
Justice Kinder, acting coroner. re
turned Saturday evening from Eagle
butte. where % inquest VA held ove'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12
Pleasant Valley Items.

FIeaSant valley Items.
There is no grumble street in Pleas.
ant valley. Everybody wears . happy
smile.
Frank Kline's father 10 here from
Huntington. Indiana, on IN extended
visit.
Mrs. Ed. Wadsworth has returned
from Chicago, where she vas called
BY the serious illness Of her husband,
but who has since recovered.
Walter Scott and family are again
on their Homestead after spending the
winter a Garfield, Wash.
The big Advance steam pillow outfit
recently purchased by q company OF
settlers located In the Goosebill sec.
ton, passed through the valley Mon.
day.
W. N. Cox and D. D. Pugh of
Nezperce, Idaho, arrived last week
and are building their houses and
fencing their 32O.acre homesteads.
Their families will come later.
A. D. Wamsley and brother have
received their new gasoline pillow and
are testing and getting acquainted
with it on Mr.. Wamsley's ranch.
1t seems to be the right thing for this
country. Mr.. Bucknell 10 engineer.
Rev. r. W. Edwards, of Grea,
Falle, will be in Pleasant valley mex,
Sunday and will preach an Easter
sermon. The services will be held q,
the home of G. B. Luce. Sunday
school at one O'Clock and preaching
at 2 p. m. w. E. B.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12
Don't Delay

Putting In your order for q spring
suit made to your individual meas.
urement. Ask the man who wears
one. THE TOGGERY.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12

Lame shoulder is nearly always due
to rheumatism of the muscles, and
quickly yields to the free application
of Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale
by all dealers. Il
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12

Subscribe now for the WEEKLY Rlv.
Err PRESS. Send it to. "the old folks
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12
Terms Of District Court, 1911.

sCVtUS " OISluICS SVOUSy S0Sus
CHOUTEAU COUNTY.
Tuesday, July IL.
Tuesday, October 81.
VALLEY COUNTY.
Tuesday, May 8.
Tuesday, September 5.
Tuesday, November IA.
TETON COUNTY.
Wednesday, May 81.
Monday, July 81.
Wednesday, November 20.
FERGUS COUNTY.
Thursday, June =.
Friday, September 8.
Friday. December 8.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

which higher prices are paid. and
which is by far the more profitable.
AS It is now the railroads have more
than they can carry. and it is believed
that this system OF canals would So
increase the traffic that the railroads
would still have all and more than
they could do. Their business would
pay better and the dividends would
be correspondingly increased. 1t IS
the idea that the railways and water
ways might cooperate here as they
do in Europe. and that together they
would work not only to the advantage
Of the companies owning them, but
to that OF the consumer. Both would
be under an interstate commission. as
their business is between the States.
There are some railway men who
look upon such a combination as one
Of the necessities Of the future.
Among those who have the broadest
views is James j. Hill. He says that
railroad transportation cannot be per-
formed at much less than II cent q
ton per mile. The rates on iron ora
on the Great Lakes are about. mil!
per ton per mile. while the same ore
carried by railroads costs ten times
as much.
Uncle Sans River and Harbor Pro-
jectS.
AS it is now. the Government is
spending tens of millions OF dollars a
year on rivers and harborS, and q
great part OF this is political graft.
The none goes to the improvement
OF creek and other waterways which
nave no commercial importance. and
it is really an appropriation bill for
the benefit OF the representatives in
their individual districts. The amount
appropriated asst yea was Il little
more tina Sal 100000.
Among the important works under
NAV ara the "nrnvopant nf tho Ohio
and Mississippi, the deepening OF the
channels in the Delaware river at
Philadelphia, in the Hudson river at
Troy, and at Mobile, and at Oakland.
Cal. A considerable work has been
done at Baltimore and New York, as
we'll as at Galveston, where the en-
trance channel has been deepened to
thirty-four feet.
The Government Is making surveys
for a deep water channel from Lock-
port. ILL.,. at the end of the Chicago
Drainage Canal to the Mississippi
i've at Cairo, inc the State of New
making Of a new barge canal twelve
feet deep from Lake Erie at Buffalo
to the Hudson river. The routa is
from Buffalo to Rome along the line
of the old Erie canal, and from Rome
to the udson it is a canaliZation OF
the Ohawk river. The State is au-
thorized to spend s1O1,O 900, 900 on the
project, and it is probable that the
whole amount will be needed.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
n Little Lesson in Trusts.
Wichita (Kan.) Beacon.

Wichita (Kan.) Beacon.
Herbert Knox Smith, COM
missioner of corporations has
been delving into the history
of the tobacco trust. Here are
some of his findings:
In 1890 the trust had $25,-
100000 capital" In 1908
this capital" had grown to
$316,0O0,0O
A part of this capital is
listed under the head of
good" will = $14S, 900, 900.
Whose good will" is not
stated, but certainly not that
of tobacco growers or tobacco
users.
In 1885 one part of the
trust, the Duke Sons Company,
was worth the modest sum of
$250,OO0. By the mere pro
cess of joining the trust it
swelled to $7,5OO,OOO and,
later, was treated to a further
dose of s22, 100000 in "securi-
ties" Yes, and earns 10
per cent on that.
Now, what profits do you
think this little measiy Duke
proposition of $250,O00 has
earned in % years? Oh, a
matter of $4,000, 900, or 49,
500 per cent.
Really, gentlemen of high
finance. how Ieng do you eX-
pect the American public to
stand this game of watered
stock, industrial monopoly,
rising cost of living. and com
mercialiZed politics?
Don't you imagine the worm
will turn, sometime?
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
New York Must Move.
New York World.

New York World
h equilibrium Of the earth is
changing, and by and by New York
will have to be moved nearer the
equator. OF else we'll all freeze to
death.
So asserted Uncle Horace johnson.
OF Middle Haddam. Conn, after he
had taken q long squint at the sky
from the World dome.
What has disturbed the eQUilibri-
um?" Uncle Horace was asked.
You see, the big combinations OF
capital that have been moving coal
and minerals from one part OF the
surface OF the earth to mother for SO
long has upset the delicate balance
of the globe. and the gradual swaying
of it a hairs breadth has changed the
climate, and is changing it, till. as l
say. New York won't be warm enough
to live in by and by"
Look out for a hard winter. was
his parting advice.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

There may have been a time when the
good died young-but now they die poor.