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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
SAYS WITCHES
ARE AFTER HER
'COlORED WOMAN GREW WORSE
AND HAD TO BE CONFINED
IN A CELL.

Ella Booker, the colored woman
who was committed to Jail Wednes-
day on account of demented condi-
tion of her mind, and who went to the
cell very quietly with the officers,
grew worse before night. She had
been allowed the freedom Of the hall
but she began a warfare on every
thing in her reach and had to be CON
fined IN a small cell. She is laboring
under the hallucination that she is
beset with witches and smashes ev-
erything she can as an imaginary
hoodoo or witch.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
see do his duty.

see do his duty.
Be it further resolved, That state
primary in which all democrats, re-
CARELESS of past affiliations who will
agree to support all the nominees,
may participate, is hereby ordered by
the state democratic executive COM
mittee, to be held on Saturday, April
27, 1912, to nominate candidates for
the United States Senate, for COVER
nor, state comptroller, state treasur-
err, secretary of state and railroad
commissioner.
Be it further resolved, That this
primary shall be held and conducted
by committee of seven-three to be
appointed by Maj. w. o. Vertrees,
chairman of the state democratic ex-
ecutive committee and three to be ap-
pointed by Col. o. G. Barton, chair
man of the state democratic eXecu-
tive committee, and the seventh mem
Der to be elected by these six; and
then the board will at once meet and
organize and arrange to hold the pri-
mary
Be it further resolved That this
primary board of seven shall lave
full and complete charge of the pri-
mary, that they shall formulate all
rules, requirements of candidates, and
regulations for holding said primary,
and that their action in declaring
nominees from the result of the prl-
mary shall be final; provided, howev-
er, that candidates receiving major
ity of the votes on the face of the re-
turns shall be declared the nominees,
and that this committee shall not
have the power to change any rule or
regulation after the date for qualifi-
cation of candidates, which shall close
at noon, hrty days prior to the fold-
ing Of the primary, without the con-
sent in writing of all candidates for
Office that would be effected by the
proposed changes. II no candidate
shall receive majority of the votes
cast for all candidates running for
any particular office, said committee
of seven shall order, as early as prac-
ticable, run-off primary between the
two candidates receiving the highest
number OF votes for such Office in
said election Of April q.
Be it further resolved, That state
convention is hereby called and order
ed to convene in Nashville on Thurs
day, May 16, 1912, at IL o'clock, noon,
for the purpose of nominating can
didate for supreme judge, a candidate
for Judge of the court of civil appeals,
presidential electors, new slate
democratic executive committee, for
selecting delegates to the national
democratic convention for adopting a
platform and for any other business
that may Properly be attended to by
state democratic convention and
which has not been provided for in
the aforesaid primary.
Be 1t further resolved, That all
counties in the state shall select their
delegates to the state convention in
he primary of April 27 by popular
vote; provided that in those counties
where for any reason delegates are
not elected in said primary, the demo
cratic executive committees in said
counties shall select the delegates
from said county.
The amendments made TO the origi-
nal plan as published Wednesday are:
First that ii is the sense Of this
committee that the new executive
committee Of she democratic party OF
the state, to be selected in the con
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
TOMATO CLUBS
BEING ORGANIZED

Six tomato clubs have been organ
lied in Tennessee. following Miss
Virginia T Moore's visit to Cooke
vile, from which town she returned
Tuesday right. Twenty-one members
were enrolled in the club there and
the people of that vicinity are es-
pecially enthusiastic over the work.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
Bills Affecting Montana.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Dixon today introduced three bills, as
follows:
Appropriating 500, 900 to purchase
cattle for the Cheyenne Indians in
Montana.
Authorizing the sale of 16O acres of
public land at Midvale, Montana to
Louis W Hill at s25 per acre as a
site for q hotel, which he proposes to
erect at the entrance of Glacier Ma
tional park.
Appropriating $4,000 additional
for the Missouls public building, in
order to provide quarters for the fed.
eral court.
Senator Myers today introduced q
bill providing that settlers having
unprotected entries within the limits
of reservoir sites may reliuquish thu
same to the government and recover
patent for an equal amount of public
lands located elsewhere.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
FIRE LOSS OF MILLIONS,
Equitable Building In New York is
Destroyed BY Flames.

Destroyed 6y Flames.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-The great mar
BILE nine-story building of the Eouit-
able Life Assurance company at 12O
Broadway. the home OF the Nero antile
Trust company, the Equita BILE Trust
company, the banking house of
Kountze Bros, the Mercantile Safe
Deposit company and the Hartman
lines, was destroyed early today by
fire. The property loss is estim ated
at about els, 600 900. Millions of dol.
lars in cash and securities are locked
in the vaults of the assurance society
and the banking and trust companies,
but are not believed to be affected by
the flames.
The fire was in the heart of the fnan-
cial district and the flames we're fought
mainly from the tops OF skyscrapers.
Business was brought almost to a
complete stsndstill among banking
and brokerage houses, whose employees
COulU uOt T00Cu VIC eC0u0 OF L0olr
daily activities. Financial firms stop.
ped business to care for the fremen.
The heaviest loss besides that of the
building was caused by the destruc-
ton of insurance and railroad rec
ords. Within W. hours after the fire
broke out at $50 o'clock the building
was a mass of flames and the fremen
we're working from the tops of sky.
scrspers and from the streets below
devoting their attention to preventing
the flames from spreading to the
buildings on the opposite side of the
street.
Four men are known to be dead and
five injured in the fire and several
persons are missing, including Bat.
talon Chief Walsh. The fire still
was burning in the debris in the base
ment OF the building this afternoon.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
Burbanking the Cactus.
New York World.


The cactus, ii we may trust Luther
Burbank's enthusiasm, bids fair to
become q competitor Of the bamboo In
general utility and variety of uses. In
Japan and China they do everything
with the latter, from eating it to build
ing houses with 1t. When the Califor-
mia wizard bred the spines off his
cacti they were found to have large
food value for stock, besides being
useful in candy making and in many
other ways, 90 it Is said.
The other day At Santa Rosa Mr..
Burbank startled the California fruit
growers convention by the announce.
ment that he had evolved an even
more remarkable cactus than his first
spineless creation. Besides produc.
ing splendid paint and Q high grade
of waterproof whitewssh which
sounds like . contradiction in terms J.
1t 10 going to revolutionize the auto.
mobile tire industry, and perhaps
also the wood pulp business. One Of
It's products is . wonderful aber suited
to become q substitute for either rub
Der or wood pulp.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
Two Clever Statesmen.

One crisis in Lord Palmerston's life
illustrates the absolute good humor
which may prevail even when political
enmity is at its worst. Lord Derby
had made an attack upon him in the
upper house with such energy and elo-
quence that the odds against him
seemed overwhelming. But he defend
ed himself and his policy from the
dusk Of one day to the dawn Of an
other with such tact, dexterity and
force of appeal to the national sense Of
honor that he was acquitted Of all
blame by a majority of fourscore.
Next day in passing through the cor.
ridor leading from an anteroom to the
upper house n swing door opened to
his hand and at the anne moment the
other to that Of Lord Derby. They
were opponents, but they were also
manly and sweet natured men. They
smiled.
II was just thinking" said Palmer
ston, "what a clever fellow he was who
so nearly put me in a hole!"
"Ah," was the rejoinder, "but moth
ing like the c%leverhess of the fellow
| who got you out of it,"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
Accused Men Plead Guilty.

HELENA, Jan. 10.-Perry Kennerly,
Carlisle graduate from the Blackfeet
Indian reservation, against whom in.
dictments have been found in many
previous sessions of the federal grand
jury, was indicted on three counts for
Introducing liquor on the Y alton
and selling 1t to Indians. He pleaded
guilty and was given four months in
the county Jail and fined 500.
William S. Borst, self.confessed
counterfeiter, was this morning sen.
fenced by Judge William n. Hunt in
the federal court to serve three years
10 the federal prison st Leavenworth,
Kansas, and to pay q fine of one dol
lar. Borst is y years old. He was
charged in the Indictment with having
made at Grass Range, Fergus county
February l last, 2l3 counterfeit dol
lars, and with having these coins in
his possession at Big Fork, Flathead
county.
Ebert Jones, alias Ed Jones, recent
ly arrested at Zortman. Chouteau
county, on a charge Of being a fugi-
tive from justice, was ordered removed
to the district of South Dakota by
Judge Hunt today. He was indicted
in South Dakota on a charge OF
horse stealing.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
Democrats Select Baltimore.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The demo-
or attic national convention will be held
in Baltimore beginning Tuesday, June
25. The choice was made late today
by the democratic national committee,
after q spirited contest and after rep
resentatives of Baltimore, ST.. Louis,
Chicago, Denver and New York had
presented the claims of their cities in
detail. Two ballots we're taken.
William j. Bryan made his fight
yesterday in the democratic national
committee and lost. He made Col. J.
Nj. Gufey, delegate from Pennsyl.
vania, the issue. and the committee
declined, by q vote of % to Is, to un'
seat Colonel Guffey. Mr.. Bryan al
once appealed from q decision OF
Chairman Mack, and was defeated 80
to l3. The committees session was
marked by extreme bitterness. Once
the lie was passed and blows seemed
imminent.
Mr.. Bryan inveighed bitterly
against Colonel Gufey. The feud be-
tween the two men is of long standing
Representative Palmer had accused
Colonel Guffey of consorting with the
republican "machine" in Pennsyl
vanis, and of disloyalty to his party
Mr.. Brya an repeated this and more.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
Winning q Bet.

Lord Marcus Beresford is, like all
the Waterford family, full Of high
spirits. There is but one person en-
titled to drive down Rotten row-the
Duke Of st. Albans-and it is doubt
full If ever he cares to exercise the
privilege. But Lord Marcus bet he
would do it in broad daylight and
without interference. The wager was
accepted and the time fixed for the
adventure about noon. All Lord Mar
Gus friends came trooping along to
see him, but time went on, and moth
ing could be seen Of the sportsman.
BY and by a watering cart came
along, driven by the usual waterman
in a smock. AS the car passed along
leisurely the driver smiled. and on
closer observation Lord Marcus
friends recognized the winner OF the
wager.-London Sketch.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
Must Make Good Rails,

ST. PAUL, Jan. 9.-With q view, 1t
is said, Of securing evidence for pros.
pective legislation to compel steel
makers to manufacture rails under
government supervision, the interstate
commerce commission is conducting
an investigation of the recent wreck
of the Great Northern coast train
near Sharon, N. D., in which Eve per.
sons we're killed and q score or more
injured.
The commission has demanded from
the railroad company the broken rail,
and this, together with o photograph
of it taken by an examiner of the com
mission, will be shipped to Washing
ton. Pieces OF the steel already have
been sent there. This is said to b
the first time that the commission has
taken such q step in the northwest. I
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
A Window Washers View.

A window washer was called upon
one day to clean the windows Of a
business concern on the nineteenth
floor of a s%kyscraper in lower Broad
way. The cleaner paused in wonder
ment as he passed through the lines
of typewriter operators as they click
ed off their correspondence and went
to the window and fastened the two
straps dangling from his belt to hooks
at the side Of the window frame. BE
cast another surprised glance at the
men operating the typewriters, and as
he swung outward over the dizzy
height, his weight sustained by the
slender straps, he muttered:
Its mighty odd how some people
do make their living in this world
anywayy'-New York Herald.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
May Be ~Electrocuted.

BOSTON, Jan. "a plea of guilty
to murder 10 the first degree, was
made by Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson
In the superior court today, and he
was sentenced by Judge Sanderson to
death by electrocution some time dur
in g the week of May nineteenth of
this year.
Kicheson had pleaded not guilty
when arraigned after his indictment on
the charge of poisoning Avis Linnell
of Hyannis, Mass, his fsncee, but
following q written confession, made
public last Saturday, be retr acted to.
day that plea and made q formal
plea of guilty.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
The River Press
Published every Wednesday Morning
bv the RiUer Press Publish
ing Company.
FOR POPULAR GOVERNMENT.

Colone! Roosevelt's position In an
article In this weeks outlook which
has attracted much attention amounts
practically to q dem and that. consti-
tuition or no constitution, the people
shall be allowed to make the laws.
He takes this stand on the impregnable
ground that the people have the right
to govern themselves, and that with
that right no court should be per.
mitted to interfere.
The opposite practice, which has be-
come common both where federal
statutes and state laws are concerned,
has grown up following the adoption
of written constitutions, says the Mis-
soula Sentinel. 1t is unknown in
England where the people Is repre-.
sented by parliament are supreme.
And it was inevitable, where no pro.
vision had been made by the founders
of the republic and the various COM
m%onwealths, for that necessary elasti.
city ia our basic law for the introduce
ton of new ideas and the progress of
unforeseen reforms. To say that 8
con stitution which was adapted to the
conditions which prev allied 100 or 200
years ago is equally adapted to the
conditions which prevail today, is
tantamount to jo,l,ttug that in the
meantime the na.!ou IA, made no pro-
gress. We all know, of course, that
this is not the case, and we all know
moreover, that q revolution in our
industrial and social methods has
created a demand for new rules to
regulate them. The right to make
these our Legislatures unquestionably
ought to possess. A dead constitu-
ton or q dead clause in q constitu-
tion should uot have power to deny
to a self.governing people their in
herent rights.
Neither courts nor lawyers have, as
q general thing, realized this. Moth.
ing can be mor common than On ap-
peal to the court by an attorney
ag ainst the constitutionality of some
law we'll known to be the product of
a demand OF the people. 1t is scarcely
less common for judges to strain
points, not to allow the public will to
have it's way, but to prevent its having
its legitimate effect. Colonel Roose.
welt makes a statement worthy of uni.
versal approval when be says:
hold not only that the courts in
these matters have usurped, or, q,
least, used IN wholly wrong fashion, 9
power properly and clearly abiding ir
the people, but that they have thus
strained to the utmost and, indeed
in my Judgment, violated the consti'
tuition in order to sustain q do.nothing
philosophy which has elsewhere COM
pletely broken down when applied to
the actual conditions of modern life.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
WHEN is AN EGG2

Since the animals went into the ark
two by two, and the dove wandered
over the earth to bring the green back
to Noah, one of the questions OF nat
ural history, perhaps it would be more
correct to say the leading question, at
least for breakfast discussion, has re.
solved itself in a simple query of
"When is an egg?'
OF course there may be some who
hold that the question of "Why is q
hen?"-"Why does q hen cross the
road?" and the age of Ann figure first
on the list, but to the man who be-
gins the day on ham and-Adam and
Eve on q raft, or wreck two and grill
the bacon-there can be no second
place for "when is an egg?" For
while one touch of nature is reputed
to make the whole world kin, one taste
of bewhiskered egg will certainly put
the whole world On the blink for the
optiest optimist that aver came down
the pike. And this goes without quail.
iication, interlineation or undue
freshness.
However, whatever, and notwith-
standing the bad errors, not to say
odars, Of the musty egg past, At last
1t has been decided-when is an egg?
The decision is official, has upon 1t the
grand seal of the state of Montana,
and the o. K. OF the Montana legisla'
ture, through agency of the Montana
pure food law.
So far as this state Ia concerned il
the solving OF when is an egg there
are but three varieties, not 81, and
heavy 6ne is provided for switching
brands. For instance:
Henoeforth q fresh egg Is to be de-
fhed % an egg that shall not be NOR
than seven days old and which ha|
never been treated with . preservative
The Montana solons have decided tina
an average. normal, we'll behaved egl
ought to DO kept even days withou
ohense and consequently no evldenc
based upon the odor will be admitted
However arbitrary this defnitionima
be 1t certainly will go q long ways to
wards ruling out of the "~strictl
fresh" clsss many eggs that are stall
with age.
The law goes on to define q franc
egg'' as an egg of indefinite age whic
has never been treated by preserv.
tives and Q tease egg" as an egg tn;
has been preserved by artificial mean,
These classes are the only kinds
eggs that . exist legally and Il
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
The Greatest Traveller.

By migrating from pole to pole the
arctic tern becomes the greatest trav.
eler in the world and also manages to
enjoy more daylight than any other
bird. It has been found nesting with
in 800 miles Of the pole. When the
young are grown the entire family
leave for the south and some months
later are found skirting the edges OF
the antarctic. A the daylight season
draws to a close in the far south the
long journey north Is undertaken.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17

penalty for calling 81 egg by q wrong
name ' on . bill of fare In Q rec
tsursnt, or eating house, lie yer
enough to make the owner think
twice before acting contrary to the
statutes.
Just what will become of that class
Of eggs which sometimes enter into
theatrical engagements, is not set
down by the Montana law, but 1t is
safe to believe that they will continue
to lead q strong existence far from
home and bsrnyard and near to the
smelling pot of the ultimate consumer.
And in the meantime it has been set.
tied when is an egg-at least until the
odor thereof reaches into the confines
of the court room for official identif.
cation Great Falls Leader.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
Shoe Combine Suspected.

Washington, Jan. 9.-O6dcials OF
the department of justice intend to
keep q close watch on the price Of
shoes this year in consequence of the
report that the price to consumers will
be materially increased. II the ad'
vance Is made, the government In oil
probability will institute an investiga'
ton TO determine whether or not It
resulted from . combination In viola
ton of the Sherman antitrust law.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
WHEN SICK YOU WANT THE BE,
Notice Of Sale OF Real Estate.

Notice is hereby given that application having
been made for the sale of the county's interest
in lots II and Is, in block 6, Of the original town
site of Fort Benton, Montana, and lots g., 9, (,
ia, of the Military reservation addition to- the
townsite Of Fort Benton. Montana, said above
described real estate will be sold at public sale
to the highest bidder for cash on the 9th day of
February, 1872 at the front door of the court
house in the city of Fort Benton, Montana, at Z
o'clock p. m. on said day.
By order Of the board of county commission
ers. j. LEE SEDGWICK, County CLERK.
Dated December 80, 1911.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
THE A

Congressman Palmer OF Pennsyl-
vania, whose bill for the elimination
of the mileage graft was defeated by
the democratic house despite the
typical democratic Opposition" to
extravaganza, shows in his " case
the fraud involved in paying repre-
sentstives and senator's 20 cents q
mile for transportation. 1t costs him
$40. 30 to get from his home to Wash
ington, yet under the mileage system
now 10 vogue he drew S103, ten times
the cost, from the pockets of the peo.
Pile. He showed that q congressman
going to Washington from the Pacific
coast would draw $1,000 for what cost
him only $3.50, the trans.continental
railroad rate being of course less than
q shorter distance mileage rate.
The motives of men who take from
the people as ''expense" money ten
times what they themselves pay out,
putting nine times that amount down
into their pockets, may be reasonably
ascribed to selfshness, If no harsher
term is used. Suppose congress
should pass q bill allowing the rail.
roads to charge 20 cents q mile for
transportation of congressman. There
would be q Ocross between q Denny.
brook fair and q New York peace
meeting inside of twenty -four hours,
says the Kansas City Journal. Yet
congressman do not scruple to appro-
pirate to their own use nine.tenths of
the money they draw for transporta-
ton. No wonder a western member
vigorously protested against the re.
duction bill a. 'penslizing large
families" A member could take
his wife and eight children, in addi-
ton to himself, to Washington on the
railroad mileage which he draws from
the people for his personal transpor.
tation.
The 20 cent rate was established
long ago when 1t represented the &C.
tual transportation expenses incurred
when travelling facilities we're limit.
ed and many stops had to be made.
With the increase of the pay OF mem
bers from S., 900 to 1880 q year the
last vestige of reason for retaining
the 20-cent mileage rate disappeared,
il indead it has had any just cause for
being retained during the past hall
century. If the members of city coun.
ellis in the various municipalities OF
the country should appropriate to
themselves 81 for the round "trip street
car fare that costs them 10 cents they
would be ridden out of town on 9 rail,
The people of the state would rise ir
a rebellion that would make q South
American revolution look like &
Quaker young peoples meeting II thu
state Legislators should charge thu
people 10 cents for every penny the,
spend for transportation.
1t must not be forgotten, incident
ally, that this graft went on year ate
year during the time when free passe
were permissible, thus Transforming
what 10 now only graft into larceny
which was ''petty" or 'grand" &C
cording to the distance which separ
ated the member of the national legis
lature from the capital.