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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Must Reduce Wool Rates.

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Radical
reduction in freight rates on wool
transported from west points of origin
to eastern destinations were discussed
by the Interstate Commerce commits
sion.
The commission held existing rates
were unreasonably high; that the
blanket system of N aking rates should
be discontinued and graded rates es-
tabltshed; that the rates on wool In
bales should be about Is per cent
lower than those on wool in sacks,
and there should be a readjustment
of the classification to the advantage
of the shippers.
The carriers will be expected to con-
form to the commissions suggestion
by May l. II by that date they have
not complied definite order will be
issued.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
she was stricken about year ago.
Miss Barton was 40 years of age

she was stricken about year ago.
Miss Barton was 40 years of age
when she first turned her attention to
the great works of humanity which
have made her name famous. The
Red Cross was established in America
in 1881 and Miss Barton was it's presi-
dent from that d ate until 1904. Before
that time she had made o name for
herself by her services on battlefields,
beginning In the Civil war and ex-
tending through the Franco.Prussian
war. Congress recognized her good
Office in the first case by an appro-
priation of fifteen thousand dollars to
be disbursed by her in searching for
missing men after various battles OF
the war. Miss Barton's work became
more extended with the organization
of the American Red Cross and COW
cred the new field of catastrophes in
time of peace
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Denounced Woman LOBBYIST.

WASHINGTON, April pa scath-
ing denunciation of the house COM
mittee on expenditures in the interior
department was delivered by Mr..
Mann of Illinois today, the minority
leader. He charged that Mr.. Graham
of Illinois, chairman of the committee,
had permitted woman lobbyist,
known by him to be In the employ OF
persons pressing claims before the
committee, to shape legislation.
Mrs. Helen Pierce Grey of Minnesota
was the woman named by Mr.. Mann.
He charged that for three months she
had occupied desk in the Office OF
the commissioner of Indian aft airs on
the strength of her relations with the
house committee.
In that time, said Mr.. Mann, Mrs
Grey had solicited and had received
fees amounting to several hundred
dollars from Indian claimants. Mr.
Mann said that q dissatisfied Indiar
had filed protest with Chairman
Graham and that he had told the
woman to 'keep the money"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Would lnjure Beet Growers.

WASHINGTON, April l0.-1f the beet
sugar industry OF the west should be
destroyed most government irrigation
projects would utterly fail, according
to testimoney given today before the
sen ate finance committee by Hans
Mendelson of the Billings sugar COM
pany.
Mr.. Mendelson declared that great
many government projects depended
upon sugar beets to make them sue
cessful, especially projects where the
farm unit is 40 to so acres, and il
sugar is placed upon the free list west
ern sugar factories would be closed
and farmers would be obliged to
abandon this crop. 1t was his opin'
ion that the free sugar bill would re-
suit in the abandonment OF many
farms on government and other irri'
CATION projects in the west.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Want Ruling On Electoral College.

WASHINGTON, April ia ruling
from the department of justice as to
whether the electoral college which
will choose the next president of the
United States shall consist of 400 or
53l members has been asked for by
mem bers of the house committee on
judiciary.
Political activity in both parties
has proceeded on the assumption that
the larger number was correct, but
this now is questioned on the ground
the respportionment of congress does
not become effective until March 4
next. The question has created con-
fusion but it will not affect the con-
ventions as the national committee
fixed the number of delegates arbi'
trarily in accordance with the new
apportionment.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Regulating Livestock Rates.

WASHINGTON, April l5.-The deci-
sion of the interstate commerce com.
mission, in the matter of the suspen-
sion of advances in rates by carriers
for the transportation of cattle and
sheep, will prove of interest to stock
men generally. While the testimony
was almost entirely confined to cattle,
the findings are equally applicable to
sheep. Discussing the reas0nableness
of the proposed advance OF 33t per
cent in rates on stock cattle and sheep
throughout the western states to and
beyond the Missouri river, the com.
mission said:
"There are two general bases of
livestock rates-the 100 per cent rate,
applying to all market cattle, and the
'75.cent basis,' on cattle shipped to
country points for further feeding.
The latter rate on feeders was origin
ally intended for application between
the raising grounds and feeding points
direct, but today the greater part of
stockers and feeders are bought at
Kansas City, Sioux City, South
Omaha and Chicago. The complain
ants in this case contend that from the
standpoint of value, character and
cost of service, damage claims, an
assured second haul on the cattle when
fat, and the value of the service to the
shipper, the 75.cent rate is reasonable.
The defendants mainly confne their
argument to the fact that cattle are
CATTLE with no such dissimil arity of
transportation conditions as to war
rant the lower rate on one class than
another.'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Attached Big Circus.

NEW YORK, April 13.-New York
city is in official possession today of
the entire menagerie of Barnum &
Bailey's circus. An attachment on all
the animals from monkeys to elephants
was served by Sheriff Harburger in q
suit for s25, 900 brought by q woman
bareback rider, who claims to have
sustained q broken arm in Cleveland
through carelessness of the manage
ment.
A score of deputies accompanied the
sheriff to Madison Square garden.
When the sheriff found that it would
cost the city o., 500 q day to feed and
care for the animals be agreed to
permit the circus managers to exhibit
the animals ii the city be relieved OF
this cost.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
High Prices For Hay.

P1TTsCURa, April 9.-The jump In
price of No. l timothy hay from S27.50
to s29. so q ton In the local Wholesale
market yesterday, overtops the high
est figure commanded by hay in this
market since 1870, when the price
scared to ga ton.
Light crops throughout the country
is said to be responsible for the high
figures. A representative of one Of the
leading hay receivers returned yester-
day from q tour through Ohio and
Michigan. He stated that farmers
who had sold of their last years
crops around s22 ton are shipping
it out to the farms to feed stock.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Blizzard In South Dakota.

DEADwooD, S. D. April 15.-Snow,
varying from Is inches to three feet
further up in the mountains, has fallen
In the last SO hours and IL still fall
ing. The storm is the worst of the
year and extends into Montana aud
northeast Wyoming. Railroad traffic
in the Black Hills is at q standstill
and telegraphic commune alton ia
hampered badly. No other damage is
reported and the farmers are elated
over the moisture.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Police Invade Convention Hall.

CHICAGO. April l5.-Three hours
delay was experienced in calling the
democra ratio county convention aud the
disturban which for time threat
ened to end in bloodshed, finally
In two conventions, one held by the
faction known as the Hearst. Harrison
forces and the other by the followers
of Roger c. Sullivan, national demo-
cratic committeeman.
The victory, IT there was victory,
went to the Hearst. Harrison faction
who, ,swith the aid of the police and re-
enforced by the direct orders OF County
Judge Owens, battered down the doors
of the seventh regiment armory, In
spite of the refusal of the militiamen
to open.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Introduced Home Rule Bill.

LONDON, Apri 1.-THE Irish home
rule bill, the third effort of liberal gov.
erpments of the United Kingdom In 25
years to settle the quarrel between
Great Britain and Ireland, was In
troduced in the house of commons to-
day by Premier Asquith.
Britishers have become Injured to
political upheavals In recent years,
so that the crowded house that greeted
Mr.. Asquith when he nailed up the
home flag today was q special tribute
to the historic Importance of the
occasion. Every seat in the house
was occupied and an overflow OF
members stood in the gangway.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
ROOSEVELT WINS ILLINOIS.
Result Of Directl Primaries Causes
Many. Surprises.

CHICAGO, April 10. - Theodore
Roosevelt defe ated President Taft In
the preferential primary held in Illt-
nois yesterday by approximately
10000 votes, and Speaker Champ
Clark received q majority of more
than 140, 900 over Governor Wilson,
according to returns up to o'clock
this morning.
Charles S. Deneen has been nomi--
mated for governor for the third con-
secutive term by the repu blicans, his
plurality being estim atedlat II, 1000.
Edward F. Dunno, former mayor of
Chicago, received the nomin alton for
governor on the democratici. ticket by
plurality close to 10000.
Lawrence Y. Sherman, president of
the state board of administr alton, re-
ceived the Endorsement of the republf.
cans for United States senator over
Shelby M. Cullom, by a..plurality estf-
~ ated at 10000.
James Hamilton Lewis had no OPP
position on the democratic ticket for
the sen atorship indorsement.
Former speaker of the nationa
house, Joseph G. Cannon, was renom.
mated for congress by q vote OF two
to one over his nearest competitor.
William B. Mckinley, president
Taft's campaign manager, also was
renominate to congress in the Ninth
district.
United States Senator Shelby NJ.
Cullom, 81 years old, dean of the up
per house in congress and nearly 60
years in politics, is pondering over
his first political defeat. Lawrence
Y. Sherman, former lieutenant gov
ernor, legislator, and new president
of the state board sof.|administr alton.
provided q republican Legislature is
elected next November, will be the
United States senator from Illinois.
Mr.. Cullom, on hearing OF Mr.. Sher-
mans victory in the preferential vote
of the state had only to say: II will
abide by the decision"
Senator Cullom will have completed
30 years in the United States senate
when his term expires March 4, next.
Prior to that he was twice governor
of Illinois. member OF the house of
representatives and member OF the
Legislature, serving one term as
| speaker.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Hill May Soon Retire.

CHICAGO, April 13.-J. j. Hill,
chairman of the board OF directors of
the Great Northern railway and one
of the country's railroad leaders, will
retire in few weeks, according to a
statement published by the Chicago
Evening Post today.
Mr.. Hills place as chairman of the
board will be taken by his son, Louis
W. Hill, now president of the Grea,
Northern railway. Carl r. Gray,
now president of the Hill lines in Ore.
gon, will succeed Louis W. Hill Al
president of the Great Northern. The
changes will occur about May l.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
MICHIGAN REPUBLICANS.
State Militia Called To Prevent Riot
In Convention.

State Militia Called To Prevent Riot
In Convention.
BAY CITY, Mich, April 11.-Michi-
gan republicans split today in con.
vention featured by fist fighting and
the calling out OF state troops.
The Roosevelt leaders and delegates
after electtng national delegat
withdrew to carry the question OF dis
puted delegates before the national
convention at Chicago. The Taft
forces claimed the regular convention
and began their organization.
Long standing bitterness came to q
head when q majority OF the state CEN
trail committee members took action
favorable to President Taft. Capt.
Luther Beck with IL members of com.
pany B, M. n G., of Bay City took
charge OF the republican state conven-
tion hall before the opening of the
convention.
While troops held the front entranc
to the armory against 1900 deleg gates
and contested delegates Taft members
of the state central committee were
admitted through side entrance and
Taft followers thus secured the arst
strategic advantage over the Roose.
velt men.
Governor Osborne, in q statement
from Lansing to the convention said:
II hope the convention, II 1t Issues
Instructions at all, will instruct its
delega'es to the national republican
convention In favor OF Colonel Roose.
velt.
"This would be in accorda ance with
the will Of majority OF the republi'
cans in Michigan"
The opposing chairmen attempted
at the same moment to open the con-
ventiOn.
w. D. Gordon of Midland, Roose-
welt man. sprang to the stage and at
tempted to address the convention.
He was hurled from the stage by B
F. Cremer Of Marquette, Taft man.
Police and militia forced back q
hundred men who sought to engage ir
the fight precipitated by Gordon aud
Cremer. All attempts to quiet the ex
cited deleg ates seemed useless.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Marooned On Housetops.

VICKsBURG, April l3-Urgent ap-
peals for aid for food sufferers have
been received here. From Roosevelt,
La, came q telephone call asking th at
boat be sent to rescue persons ma
rooned in store there. It was the
last place OF refuge that rem aimed.
Telephone messages from Madison
parish, La, confirm reports that the
entire parish is flooded. Hundreds
OF persons are marooned on house
tops and treetops. Many persons are
floating through the parish on RATS.
Reports OF loss of life have not been
verified by associated press CORE
spondents.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
SHIP STRUCK ICEBERG.
Largest Vessel Affloat May Become
Total Wreck.

New YORK, April Is. - Wireless
dispatches up to noon today showed
that the passengers of the White Star
liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg
off the New Foundland coast last
night, were being transferred aboard
the steamer Carpathis, q Cunsrder.
Already twenty boat loads have
been transferred and allowing for
forty to sixty persons as the capacity
OF each lifeboat, some 800 to 1900
passengers have been transferred.
Latest reports indicate that the tr ans
ference is being carried on safely.
The sea is smooth and the weather
calm. 1t is probable that all passen.
sengers of the Titantic are safe. While
badly damaged, the Titantic is still
a6oat and is reported to be making
her way to Halifax under her own
steam.
The Titanic is the largest steamer
ever built. She is 882 feet long and
has 1928 tons displacement. She
was launched last May and this was
her maiden trip. The liner carried
1,400 passengers and crew of 800.
HALIFAX, April 15.-The Can adian
government marine agency here re-.
ceived wireless dispatch at 4:15 p.
m. that the Titanic is sinking. The
message came via the cable ship
Nina off Cape Race. 1t is said the
steamers towing the Titanic we're en-.
deavoring to get her into shoal water
near Cape Race to beach her.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT
illness Was Not Considered Serious
BY His Physicians.

NEW YORK, April IL. - General
Frederick D. Grant, commander of the
department of the east, and son of the
famous civil war general, died sud-
denly at midnight at the Hotel Buck
ingham, where he had been taken se-
crelly Wednesday evening by his ply
sicians. His presence in this city was
not known until the news that he had
been suddenly taken i'll was flashed to
the newspaper offices by the police.
The policeman stationed near the hotel
had called an ambulance at the request
of an employe who told him that Cen
eral Grant was choking to death.
Major General Frederick Dent
Grant, the eldest son OF Ulysses S.
Grant, the 18th president of the United
States, was born at St. Louis, May
30, 1850. He was with his father in q
part of the Civil war, witnessed the
capture of Forts Henry and Donnel-
son. and went with his fathers COM
mand through the Virginia campaign.
He witnessed also the fights of
Corinth, Vicksb burg, Nashville and
Peters burg.
After the war, young Grant entered
West Point. and was graduated in
1871. For year he served as a civil
engineer for the Union Pacific rail-
road. and in 1872 accompanied Gen.
eral William Tecumseh Sherman on a
trip to Europe. Grant served as an
aide de camp to General Sheridan and
took part In the campaign against the
Indians. He served with Major Cen
eral Stanley In the Yellowstone ex-
pedition, and in 1874 in the Black
Hills expedition after which he &C.
compsnied his father around the
world.
He resigned his commission as first
lieutens ant in the army in 1881, and for
number of years was engaged in var.
ious enterprises. he was appointed
minister to Austria by President Har-
rison in 1888, but resigned on the elec'
tion of Grover Cleveland to the presi.
dency
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
BIG BOOST FOR ROOSEVELT
Machine Politicians In Pennsylvania
Suffer Defeat.

ouuOI OCI00ls
PHILADELPHIA, April 13.-At mid.
night reports to the associated press
indicate that Theodore Roosevelt has
carried at least half of the congress
sional districts in Pennsylvania. In
addition there is q strong likelihood
thai Roosevelt men will control the
state convention, which will name II
delegates at-large. If this be the
case, Roosevelt will have nearly two
thirds of the Is delegates from this
state.
Woodrow Wilson apparently had
little opposition and he will have q
solid deleg alton from this state to the
democratic national convention.
OF the 81 delegates elected in the 80
districts it is believed that so may be
pledged to vote for Roosevelt.
The republican organization leaders
are stunned by the defeat of the Taft
candidates and have nothing to say
regarding the result. United States
Senator Penrose, the recognized lead
er of the republican organization and
the leading Taft boomer in this state,
left the city early in the afternoon and
boarded his yacht at Atlantic City,
where he is safe from interviewers.
The Roosevelt campaign managers
are claiming more than the number of
deleg gates the returns go far give them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17

cons lower court bad held the Min
nesota rates confisc atory.
Mr.. Young said the report of the
Great Northern railroad to the stock
holders showed an increase of $500, 900
in oper ating expenses for the whole
system in 1908 over 1907, while tessf--
mony by railroad experts to the lower
court had shown an increase of $780,.
600 for operating expenses in Mime
sofa alone.
Chief Justice White asked repeated.
ly why that had not been brought to
the attention of the lower court, add
it would decide the case.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Additional Roosevelt Delegates.

PHILADELPHIA, April 15.-Late> re-
turns from Saturdays primary indi
cate that Roosevelt will have 65 of the
76 Pennsylv anis delegates to the re-
publican national convention, with a
possibility OF 81.
Colonel Roosevelt won 81 district
delegates and his supporters claimed
the convention which will name the
deleg gates at large. The convention
has the power to elect a new state
ch airman and the national deleg
can elect q new national committee
man from Pennsylvania delegation to
succeed Penrose.
Woodrow Wilson, according to the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Has Job For Dr.. WILEY,

NEW YORK, April ia New York
department. store owner who also con.
trolls chain Of stores in other cities,
has offered DR.. Harvey Wiley q posi-.
ton as pure food expert for the stores
at a salary of-S12, 900 year.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Prohibits Phosphorus Matches.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The presi-
dent has signed the bill to tax white
phosphorus matches. 1t Is claimed
the law in effect will prohibit their
manufacture. The matches have been
denounced on congressional hearing
as harmful to laborers engaged in
their manufacture.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
LAWYER Accuses Railroads.

WASHINGTON, April 11.-In the Min
nesota rate case argument before the
supreme court. Edward T. Young,
special counsel for the state, said
yesterday the railroads had manipu'
lated their operating expenses In q
test year and that was one of the rea'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Gave Her Life For Others.

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Miss Clara
Barton, founder of the American Red
Cross society, died at her home in
Glen Echo, Md, today. The cause
was chronic pneumonia, with which
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
Relief For Flood Sufferers.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Presi dent
Taft sent to congress today special
message urging the immediate appro.
priation of amounts aggreg ating near
ly S788, 900 for use in controlling the
foods of the Mississippi river and to
aid food sufferers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES

Charles Evans Hughes become the nominee the
Republican
which
twice elected second President Taft
q
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-17

figures at hand, will have "A Of the 76
members of the Pennsylvsnia delega-
tion to the democr attic national con.
veutiOn,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-20
TAFT GUEST OF HONOR.
Will Deliver Address at Annual
BANQUET of Harvard Club.

President Taft is to be the guest OF
honor and a speaker at the twenty
ninth annual banquet of the Washington
Harvard Club at Rauscher's Friday night
at 1:3o o'clock. The other speakers will
be President Lowell of Harvard Univer-
sity, Secretary Meyer of the Navy and
Percy b. Haughton, head coach of the
Harvard foot ball team.
1t is expected that between 80 and IN
members of the club and their guests Will
attend the banquet. Harvard songs, sung
by a Harvard chorus. will be "a feature
of the entertainment. The banquet hall
will be decorated with the crimson ban
ners of the Massachusetts university
The officers of the club are: President,
Beekman Winthrop. assistant secretary
OF the navy: vice presidents. John w.
Holcombe, DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, Repre-
sentative Nicholas I>ongworth and James
+. Curtis, assistant secretary of the
Treasury; treasurer. Pickering Dodge
secretary, John w. Davidge.
The committee in charge of the dinner
consists of Walter r. Tuckerman chair
man; John w. Davidge, James F. Cur
It's. Franklin II. Ellis and Charles T..
=