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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-09-25
Selected OeIega'es To Convention

Selected Oelega'es To Conventions.
The democratic primary held in
Fort Benton precinct Saturday even
ing, resulted in the selection of the
following delegates and altern ates for
the county convention:
Delegates Alternatss
John barrie Jas BARLEY
David G Browne Jas Nolan
Jos Sullivan T Coatsworth
] V Carroll w r Early
81 S Mckinley N Chestnut
Chas Lepley A E Bjerring
Al the primary OF the progressive
party. the following delegates we're
chosen:
W. J. Minsr, John Muir. F. E,
Stranahan, William Rowe, John Neu'
bert, R. Culbertson, E. M. Porter, G,
r. S%tranahan, Frank j. Merger, R
Richardson, G. M. Donaldson.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-09-25

In Costa RIGA canary birds, bull.
fnches and psrroquets are consider
ed special dainties.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-09-25

Fine Book and Job Printing . spe-
cislty At the RIVER PRESS of3ce.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
EMO LORIMER QUIZ
INQUIRY INTO ELECTION OF ILL
Nols SENATOR CLOSED.
Opinion Is Divided as to sheridan's
Ability as stenographer-Dic
graph Test Made.

MISUNDERSTANDING of testimony
in the senatorial investigation OF Sen.
ator Lorimer's election is concluded
Attorney Hanecy was given permis.
sion to file brief and also present a
plea Of res adjudica. Finpl action
by the senate is not expected before
June, although the preparation of its
report will be begun at once by the
committee
The nature OF the plea is that Sen
ator Lorimer's seat was placed in
Jeopardy once before on the same
charge and that the senate decided
he was entitled to his toga. The de
Tense will plead also that no add
tional evidence of material importanc.
was brought out at the second inves
tigation. and that the present com
nittee has no jurisdiction
The investigation just ended begar
on June 20. 1911 The committee has
been in session 102 days and has ex
amined $50 witnesses 1t is estimated
that the cost of the inquiry so far as
the government is concerned is $101.-
600.
Three things engaged the attention
OF the committee on the last day of
its inquiry-tests of the ability of
]. c. Sheridan, stenograrner en-
ployed by the Burns Detective agency,
to take down a conversation heard
through dictagraph: an apology
from Milton w Blumenberg. who lost
his position when he denounced Sher-
idan's notes as manufactured" and
Edward Hines denial of the story told
by Miss Sewers that he had tried to
bride her
The dictagraph tests of Sheridan's
ability were made under conditions
approximating those encountered II
Toronto when he made notes of con
versation between Charles MCGOWAN
Hines-Lorimer witness. and two de
tectives.
At the conclusion of the tests the
opinion was just as much divided as
before regarding Sheridan's ability tc
take down a conversation heard
through dictagraph.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
CHINA A REPUBLIC.
EMPEROR sDicATEs AT Pc
KING By ISSUING THREE
EDIcTs To THE PEOPLE.
DR.. SUN YAT SEN TO RULE
Only Opposition Displayed Against
American Educated Leader For
President Comes From Few Mon
golian Princes.

Picking, China--After three CEN
turtles of absolute rule the Manchu
dynasty has yielded up its power and
of a representative form of govern
ment This was proclaimed to the
people in three simultaneous edicts.
The only opposition against the
democracy, with Dr. Sun Vat Sen. the
American educated Chinese, as presi-
dent, comes from q few Monaghan
princes, allies of the old dynasty. who
declare that, unless Premier Yuan is
chosen president, they will rebel.
The abdication, without conditions,
comes as surprise. The third edict
in which the abdication was an
nounced advised the viceroys and pro
vincial governors Of the retirement of
the throne from political power and
instructed them to continue doing
their duty and to preserve order
throughout the land. 1t declares that
the step taken by the throne was to
meet the wishes of the people
The Manchu conquest was complet-
ed in 1914, and the race which accom-
plished 1t was the same which terror
lied western Asia and eastern Europe,
under Genghis Khan.
Pu vi. the infant emperor, who is
the last OF the powerful dynasty,
leaves the throne without a guarantee
of safety either for himself or his sup
porters. 1t is believed that they will
find refuge in Manchuria under Rus
sian protection, or, Ii that fails. they
will go to the wilderness of Tartary
and find safety on the steppes, where
their ancestors have made their home
since ancient times.
The promise of a constitutional gov
eminent made by the dowager en-
press on her deathbed in 1908 was not
fulfilled in any way until May last
year. In that month an imperial edact
abolished the old grand council,
which. together with the court. held
absolute power, and substituted cen
stitutional cabinet.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
U. S. AND HONDURAS CLASH
American Marines Are Landed When
Congress Declares Valentine Syn
dictate Contracts Cancelled.

Puerto Cortez, Honduras clash
has occurred between United States
and Honduras authorities over en-
forcement of a government deere di-
recting representatives of w s. Val
entine to surrender to the government
authorities the railroad, wharf and
other properties held under lease by
the Valentine syndicate.
Seventy-five marines from the u S.
gunboat Petrol landed and seized the
wharf and railroad Honduran troops
then were ordered to stop all trains.
The governor has filed protest.
The congress of Honduras has de-
clared that all contracts made with
Valentine are cancelled. The congress
directs the president of the republic
to take possession of all the property
Immediately on behalf of the govern.
ment
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
MAINE is AGAIN FLoATEn
Historic BattIeship in Havana Harboi
Still Lists to Port, But No Big
Leaks Discovered.

Havana.-The wreck Of the Maine
fioated free of the mud when water
was turned into the dam surrounding
the wreck.
Water was forced into the dam
through system of pipes fixed at the
bottom of the ship, the power being
supplied by pump which had been
recovered from the wreck.
The ship began to rise almost i'm
mediately. The midship section
which had been furnished with a
bulkhead, rose more rapidly on ac-
count of superior buoyaney than the
heavily weighted. sharp pointed stern.
so that the Maine is somewhat down
by the stern. The hull still lists to
port, which is being corrected by the
use of ballast. No leaks OF any I'm.
portance have been discovered.
AS the water slowly rose until II
covered the whole floor OF the Golfer
dam, nearly twenty feet Of mooring
lines were run out fore and aft on
both sides to hold the ship fast and
prevent the possibility OF its being
blown against the sides of the dam.
Major Ferguson, who has had
charge of the work, has received many
congratulations on his success.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
MANY DEATHS PREVENTABLE
State Board of Health. in Vital Sta.
tistics Report, Declares Lives
Needlessly Sacrificed.

Madison. -Valuing each life. ac.
cording to the American table at
$1,000, the annual economic loss to
Wisconsin from easily preventable
infectious and contagious diseases
and violence, which are classified as
preyentable causes, amounts to S16,-
059,900. This conclusion is reached
in the mortality report for 1911 is
sued by the state bureau of vital sta
tistics Deaths from the above named
preyentable causes, according to the
report numbered 9447 in 1911, or
34.3 per cent of the total.
The report shows that the annual
death rate is III per 1000 During
the calendar year, 27,226 deaths, ex-
elusive of stillbirths, were recorded
with the bureau. The death rate
noted is based on an estimated popu-
lation for 1911 of 2,35S,293.
Pneumonia again leads in the list
of causes of death, there being 216
more deaths from pneumonia than
from all other forms of tuberculosis.
AC dCdt1 1dIC III LuOCA OuiO0lo pei
100000 population for 1908 was
1910; for 1909, 1929; for 1910,
1926, and for 1911, 1922. This
does not show any material decrease
in the number of deaths from tuber-
culosis, but it is proof that the dis
ease is not increasing in prevalence.
Important causes of death with the
number of deaths from each disease
during 1911 were as follows: Pull
monary tuberculosis, zoos; other tu-
berculosis, 407; typhoid fever, 29S;
diphtheria, 1872; scarlet fever, 1871;
measles, 1854; whooping cough, 165;
pneumonia, 1928; diarrhoea, 959;
meningitis, 400; influenza, 1853; pu-
erperal septicemia, 120; cancer,
1914; violence, 1862; still births,
1892.
Among the deaths from violence,
the following causes with the num-
Der from each cause are shown: Sui
eide, $780, railroad accidents, 25O;
accidental drowning, 240; gunshot
wounds, 95; accidental burns and
scalds, 90; homicides, S5; street car
accidents, 81; automobile accidents
%; lightning, II; sunstrokes, 20;
cyclones and tornadoes, 6.
Twenty-eight deaths were record
ed from infantile paralysis, two from
smallpox, one from hydrophobia, one
from trichinosis, four from pellagra'
and two from lead poisoning.
Five thousand two hundred and
sixty, or 1913 per cent of the total
deaths reported were among persons
under / year of age.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
REJECT "DoLLAR-A-DAY" BILL
Senate Committee Votes Down Shcr-
wood Pension Measure and Adopts
Senator Shoots Substitute.

Washington.-The senate committee
on pensions rejected the Sherwood
pension bill, providing for one dollar
a day pensions to G. A. K. men, ard
adopted substitute measure offered
by Senator Smoot of Utah, providing
for an expenditure of $24.000,000
Senators Brown of Nebraska and
Curtis of Kansas gave notice that they
would move In the senate to substitute
the original Sherwood bill for the
Smoot pleasure and demand its pas
sage.
Senator Shoots estimate Of $24,-
100000 as the cost of his plan is
based upon the pension bureaus COM
putation of age and length of service
according to the pension bureau,
would have cost $75,00O,00O year.
The Smoot bill was adopted by a
vote of IL to 2, after the Sherwood
bill had been voted down 10 to 4.
The Smoot bill provides scale OF
pensions varying with age and serv-
ice, which in the case of a soldier
who served 80 days amounts to $13 a
month between ages of sixty-two and
sixty-six; SIS between sixty-six and
seventy; SIS between seventy and
seventy-five, and s21 from seventy-tive
on.
The scale rises gradually with every
six months service until it allows $50
per month to veteran of seventy
five years who was in the service
three years or more. For soldier
who served three years or more the
scale is: From sixty-two to sixty-six
years, $16 fros sixty-six to seventy,
SIS; from seventy to seventy-tive. $24,
and from seventy-five on, $50.
The action of the committee brought
a protest on the floor Of the senate
from Senator Kenyon of Iowa.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
CHURCHILL is JEERED
DEFiEs BELFAST RIOTERS AND
URGES HOME RULE.
Bad Feeling Develops but Meeting
Ends Without vio-
lence.

Belfast, Winston Churchill
came here to the heart of the Orange
mans country, made an address and
left safely for home minus the broken
head which his opponents had predict
ed for him.
The first lord of the admiralty and
John E. Redmond, leader of the Irish
Nationalist, spoke from the same
platform on the home rule bill. Mr..
Churchill oallined the intentions of
the government with respect to self
government for Ireland and declared
no greater boon could come to the
empire than the settlement of the
long and bitter quarrel between the
British government and the Irish peo-
pie.
When Mr. Churchill, with his wife,
arrived at the Central station his
party was given a somewhat mixed
reception. A number of Orangemen
who had gathered at the station greet
ed them with groans and boos, but
these were drowned in the hearty
cheers of the large crowd of Liberals
and Nationalists.
The essential feature of the Liberal
governments home rule bill to be in
troduced into the British parliament
were set forth by Mr.. Churchill.
The bill is to contain provisions for
a fair representation in the two
houses of the Irish parliament of all
classes OF the Irish people and re-
strictions will be placed on the pass
ing of laws or the imposition of taxes
which might be unjust to any party,
while religious freedom is to be Sc
cured.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
I DIE IN ORIENTAL
EXPREsG WRECK
Fast Train Is Piled Up Nea,
Devils Lake, N. D.
TAKES A ;3O-FoOT PLuvcr
Ten Coaches Go Over Enba,k,,.-.
ana Are Destroyed Scores os
Passengers lnjured-Catastro.s
Blamed to Defective Track

Devils Lake. N. D.-sevap
killed and scores manned wbor =
Oriental express, east bound nlr ~ rue
over an embankment three milas gu
or Devils Lake. Ten coaches left 49,
track. At least fifty passengers ro e,-9
imprisoned in the teleseoped mass
The precipice over which the +n.,.
dashed was thirty feet high. and az
the Pullmans We're plunged into the
ditch. The cries of the dying and i'm
prisoned added agony to the DELAYED
rescue work. In the darkness if woa
almost impossible to ascertain the
number killed.
According to the report of the fret
crew that brought the dead to tbis
city, the scene was horrible.
The escaping steam that scaldoa
the unconscious bodies held fast in
the wreckage, and the fire thar
threatened the supposedly freproof
coaches defied the rescuers.
A defective track is believed to he
responsible for the wreck.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
GARY WARNS RICH
STEEL HEAD SAYS CAPITALISTS
MUST MEND THEIR WAYS OR
SUFFER REuLTs.
FRENCH REVOLT RECALLED
yellow Press" Together With DEM
agogues, Blamed for Much of In
rest Prevalent Throughout World
Asks for Square Deal for Workers.

New York.-At the annual dinner
OF the New York Lehigh club, given in
honor of Charles NJ Schwab at the
Hotel Aston, Ebert H. Gary, chairman
of the United States Steel corpora
ton, made remarkable speech.
He said that unless apitalists-rich
men. powerful men-take a lead In
trying to improve the condition OF
mankind great changes will come and
they will come mighty quick, and the
mob will bring them
There is throughout the world just
now feeling of unrest" said MIR.
Gary. That feeling pervades all
countries whatsoever without any ex-
ception.
There are two reasons for it N
my opinion. 1t is the result, in the / 80
place, of the great recent improve
ment in the means of communication
throughout the world.
Those means of communication are
now so perfect that all important
things which are said and done at
any one place in the world are i'm
mediately known everywhere In the
world and reflect a universal infiu-
ence.
4 The second reason is because the
demagogue has for personal reasons
whether he be a so-called statesman
whom | would call an ordinary poll
tician, or whether he be newspaper
owner DESTROYS of increasing his cir
culation at any cost to get more adj
vertising and make money like the
rest of us-that man, whoever he Is,
is disposed just now to appeal to the
passions and the prejudices of what
he sees fit to consider the masses.
HE does that strictly to advance
his particular interest 1t is now fash
ionable to appeal to the so-called
working people, sometimes called the
poorer people, In order to excite them
to bitter antagonism against those
classes variously called capitalists. ed
ucated ones, or corporations.
Nov, this prevailing sentiment and
this prevailing attitude is growing. 1t
is the most important subject up for
the consideration of the people OF this
country.
Il tell you, gentlemen, that there are
things being said nowadays which are
very similar indeed to things said just
before the French revolution.
IT tell you that the spark may yet
make a flame, and that soon.
Il have an especial reason for say
ing this. a reason which affects you
and me.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
VOTES Tor CUT DOWN ARMY
House Adopts Amendment Dropping
Five Regiments of Cavalry, or
1900 Enlisted Men.

Washington.-Fiv regiments Of
cavalry were dropped from the army
list when the house passed an amend
ment to the Hay military bill.
This means the mastering out Of
nearly 1000 enlisted men, the absorb
ton of the officers into other branches
of the service, and an annual saving
in pay and equipment of more than
$4,000
AS the bill now reads that section
which provides pay for the enlisted
men by an appropriation of more than
$15.OO0.000 makes the appropriation
conditional on the proyiso that on
July 1, 1912, there shall not be more
than ten regiments of cavalry in the
United States army.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
H. w. TAFT's WIFE CATHOLIC
Presidents Sister-in-Law Abandons
the Protestant Episcopal Faith,
According to the Times.

New York.-Mrs. Henry w. Taft,
wife of the presidents brother, has
become a convert to the Roman Cath
Ollie faith. says the Times. She re-
nounced the Episcopal faith and was
received into the Catholic church last
Friday in the chapel of st. Ignatius
Loyola church. Father Vaughan, the
English Jesuit priest, who long has
been a friend of Mrs. Taft. received
her formal confession of faith.
From childhood Mrs Taft was a de-
voted member of the Protestant Epis.
copal church. Mr.. Taft and his broth.
er. President Taft, are Unitarians.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
NINE. NoRDlCA is STRICKEN
Famous Prima Donna Attacked by
Paralysis Just as She Is About
TO Appear on Stage.

Boston--Mme Lillian Nordica, ia
nous American soprano, who rose
from the7obscure town of Pennington.
Me-, to be one of the greatest prima
donnas on the grand opera stage, was
stricken with paralysis as she was
about to go on the stage here.
Nine. Nordica did not appear and
Nine, Gadski was rushed from New
York on special train to take her
place.
1t was announced that Nine. Nordi
cas- condition may be serious.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
GEM FORTUNE IS STOLEN
Thief Gets Away With TWO Sample
Cases Containing $4,000 Worth
of Jewels.

Chicago.-Tired of carrying sample
cases filled with gems for jewelry
statesmen, a young man, formerly
known as a "trusty carrier of jewell
laden grips" decided, it is alleged, to
start in business for himself, and
walked out of the display room. of
Spaulding & Co with more than $780,
900 worth of gems.
The jewels are the property of
Sloan & Co., New York. and were left
in the Spaulding display room by
Clement A. Holbrook, salesman.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
CONVERTS GIVEN ZERO DIP
Twenty-Seven Men and Women Are
Baptized in Icy Waters of
Monongahela.

Brownsville. Pa. - With the Their
mometer four degrees below zero,
81 men and women converts at a re-
cent revival at Mount Zion, African
Methodist Episcopal church here
we're immersed in the Monongahela
river after a hole 80 feet square had
been cut in the ice. Three thousand
persons shivered two hours and a half
watching the baptism.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
King of Montsneuro EIeea.

Vienna.-There has been military
revolt at Cettinje, Montenegro. and
King Nicholas has fed to Abbazia. a
health resort OF Istra, Austria-Hun.
gary. on the Bay of Flume. The crown
prince Danilo Alexander, remains at
the capital
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
Landlord Beats Jim Barry

Sydney, Australia. Sam Langford,
heavyweight American pugilist and
heavyweight champion of England
defeated James Barry, the. Chicago
heavyweight, on points in match of
twenty rounds.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
win Spend $40. 900 on Roads.

Ashland.-By action of the county
board in authorizing the issuance oil
$4,000 for ten year bonds Ashland
county Will do the most extensive ma
cadam road building during the com
ing summer ever attempted in north
ern Wisconsin. In addition to the
proceeds of these bonds the county
board also appropriated S27,OOV III
cash.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

One of our historians arises to re-
mark that Mother Eve was not good
locker, but what's the use of being
beautiful when there is only one man
in the world and no other women?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

A Connecticut preacher denounces
rice throwing at weddings as a filthy
habit The only excuse for it is that
it gives English sparrows change of
diet.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

Chinese highwaymen, we are told,
succeeded in getting away with a trifi-
ing sum like $S50.0O0. Even at this
early date the Chinese republic has
developed successful fnanciers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
New YORK Rroker a sulclde.

New York.-Washington n. Selig-
man, a well-known broker OF this city,
committed suicide by shooting him.
self in room at the Hotel Gerard. A
year ago Mr.. Seligman made an un.
successful attempt to take his life.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
Thompson Appointed Regent.

Madison. McGoyern has aP-
pointed George Thompson, ELLSWORTH
to be normal school regent IN place
of Freeman H. Lord, resigned. n0
term expires the first Monday III r eO-
ruary, 1914.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

Aviators are abandoning the flying
game because Of its dangers. and yet
there are plenty of men who persist
in venturing into the woods to hunt
deer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

A young woman in Chicago has
gone to Jail rather than talk. Such a
thing would seem incredible If there
we're not court records to prove this
amazing charge against any daughter
Of Eve.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
Anti.Third Term Bill In.

Washington-Sen Reed OF Mis-
souri, has introduced his anti-third
term amendment to the Constitution
prohibiting the election of any person
as president who has served two
terms or one term and part of an
other.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
EarI GREY AS, a eanker.

Ottawa, ont.-Earl Grey began his
career as London banker with the
opening of the British Bank OF North
err Commerce, of which he is chair
man. The capital is $4,000, 900, OF
which s5.00o,0O0>is subscribed.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

Wolves are said to menace the pop.
ulation in some districts of Michigan,
but Michigan is not the only state in
which people have trouble in keeping
the wolf from the door.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

New Yorker dropped dead when he
learned that he had been left legacy
of $180.000 but in spite of its dan
gers most Of us are willing to take a
chance on being left that much money
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

A rich man in Pennsylvania, and a
member of the bar at that. has had
to pay a $40 fine and $50 costs be.
cause he tried to beat Uncle Sam out
of a cent by sending through the mail
a check folded in newspaper
Served him right. you say2 We
thought you would.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
Rabies Menace in Brown County.

Green Bay.-Mad dogs are beconl-
ing a menace in the town OF Law
renee, Brown county. Several cows
and a boy have been bitten one
dog has been killed and it is believed
that at least two more are affected
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

A style congress in Chicago has
doomed the hobble skirt to extinction.
which, paradoxically enough. will re-
joice the narrow-minded critics of
feminine attire.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16

Brander Matthews predicts that we
shall have war again by 1880. We pre-
dict that in 1880 ''war" will continue
to be spelled the same old way.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-16
kaIser,s Son Here in Iune

Berlin.-Prince Adalbert, the kali
ser's third son. will accompany the
representative German squadron on
its visit to the United States during
the month Of June.