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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Assails Trust Methods.

KANSAS Cry, Feb. 6.-Bitterly de-
nouncing the methods used by social.
ed trusts to control business and
charging that the United States Steel
corporation especially was unfair to
its employe, whom it forced to work
II hours q day and seven days q week,
Louis D. Brandels of Boston, in q
speech before the Knife and Fork club
here last night declared capital could
expect little better from the oppressed
working man than the Los Angeles
dynamite outragtes and the violences
in the Lawrence. Mass, textile strike
He ended his address with q warn
ing that unless industrial conditions
in this country are remedied there will
be a clash between capital and labor
that will result in bloodshed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Washington News Notes.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.-Representa-
tive Pray again was chosen republi-
can congressional committeeman for
Montana at the republican caucus held
at the capitol tonight. He was in
dorsed by Senator Dixon.
Senator Dixon today introduced q
bill to create q new land district, con-
sisting of the eastern portion of Daw-
son county the land Office to be located
at Glendive. Dixon also introduced a
bill giving each public land state S
per cent. of the receipts of the forest
reserves within its boundaries, to be
applied to instruction in forestry at
state agricultural colleges, but no
state to receive more than $1,000 an.
nually for this purpose.
While Secretary Fisher was before
the house public lands committee yes
terdsy making an arraignmeut agains'
the Borah.Jones three-year e ad
bill, Senator Borah called up the
measure 10 the senate and secured iti
prompt passage without q dissenting
vote. So thoroughly was the sem at
convinced by Senator Borah's recen
speech that 1t passed the bill In q few
minutes.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
HINTS
FOR FARMERS
The Sheep Barn.

The barn is for the protection of the
Cock during inclement weather. Yet
when we come to look about the large
portion Of sheep barns where protec-
lion is supposed to be provided the
very trap is there set that causes the
~ruination OF the health of the animals.
Drafts in a sheep barn are the worst
enemy Of good health. They silently
destroy the life O usefulness of hun
dreds of sheep every season. Alter
nate doors should never be kept open
ut the same time during cold weather.
The wind is apt to change almost no.
m~entarily and a draft that would
lay the foundation of some severe all
ment. When there are alternate doors
in the sheep barn carr should be exer-
cised to keep the Il open which is op-
posite from the prevailing wind.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Would Change Land Laws.

WASHINGTON, Feb. ga reclassif-
cation of the tracts OF entry lands in
the public domain; laws to meet the
facts in each particular class of entry
and the bona ide settlement of the
west, were advocated today by Secre-
tary of the Interior Fisher before the
house committee on public lands.
Mr.. Fisher submitted to the commit
tee q draft Of q new law to regulate
the homesteading of arid lands. I,
would relieve the settlers of residence
on irrigation projects for the first two
years OF their ten-year term and sub
stitute for that provision the cultiva'
tion of one eighth of the land the frs
year, two. eighths the second year and
so on for FIVE years.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Operated Counterfeiting Plant.

PORTLAND, Feb. CAS- the result Of
the finding of q complete counter
feiting apparatus in q local pawn shop
Steve O'Connel, head Of the secret
service for this district, caused the ar
rest late last night OF three men who
gave their names az Roy Smith, AL
hampshire and William Holman. A
woman, who refused to give any name
but said she ia Q waitress, also was
taken into custody. She was with
Smith when he was arrested.
According to O'Connel, the trio is
charged with committing burglaries,
the loot from which was melted down
and nodded into coins. O'Connell
says that according to a comics siou
alleged to have been made by Smith,
Smith committed the burglaries, Hol'
man acted as q CO. between in the dis.
posal of the countsrfeited coin ani
hampshire did the mechanical worL
of counterfeiting.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Trouble On Mexican Border.

SEATTLE, Feb. 6.-Orders have
been received at Fort Lawton com.
manding the officers Of the 25th infan.
try to hold their men In readiness to
move TO the Mexican frontier on in
Simultaneous notice. Four companies
OF the 25th are stationed at the fort
here and the other eight companies
are at Fort George Wright, Spokane.
PENSACOLA, Fla, Feb. 6.-For the
second time within II months two com.
panies of the coast artillery stationed
at Fort Barrancas received orders to.
day to entrain for the Mexican border
in Texas. Four companies stationed
here are being recruited to the full war
strength in anticipation of possible
orders to move on short notice.
The Fort Barrsncas troops will en-
train for Texas tomorrow morning;
! they will depart in full war strength
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
PURE BRED STOCK
FOR The FARMER
Scrubs Cost as Much to Feed
and Return No Profit,

It is not necessary or even desirable
that farmers in general should breed
only show animals or that they become
fancy breeders. They do not have
the time nor the inclination to get into
the show ring classes of breeders even
If they had the ability, but they do
need good stock in order to make mon
ey, and they must depend upon the
breeders for this. Good live stock costs
no more to raise than poor stock and
in many cases not as much.
Pure bred animals produce good mar
ket animals, and this is the final test
for all meat producing animals. Scrubs
will not do this, no matter how they
are fed or cared for. Pure bred ami
mails will reproduce their good quail
ties, while the scrubs will reproduce
their bad qualities. How often it is
that the farmer finds it necessary to
purchase a new herd boar in order not
only to improve the quality of his herd
but to actually prevent its further de
lteriOratiOn. 1t is much easier for q
herd to go backward toward the form
and character of the wild state than |
is for it to go forward toward the per
lection Of the prize ring. The breed
er's art is the only thing that ha'
brought these farm animals up from
their wild state into the modern mon
ey making machines which they nov
are, and too much credit cannot b
given the men who devote their live
to this work.
Utility should be the watchword O
the farm, and utility animals shoul
, be the only kind that should be foun
there. Back Of all successful work /
raising farm animals and making
profit from them lies the breeders ar
, and the nearer the farmer a%pproache
the perfect type Of the breed in h!
\ farm animals the greater will be h
Q success.-Kansas Farmer.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
v LAND LAWS.

As we read the news each day, we
find ample evidence that the tendency
toward placing the administration of
public aft airs on a business basis is
more general all the while. The great
departments of the federal government
are working thai way: the elimination
Of the old red tape method Is going
on as fast as possible. 1t is a vast
undertaking to reorganize a system so
great as our government executive
machinery, but the process is going
on, says the Missoulian.
Unquestionably one of the most
cumbersome of government methods is
that which controls the business of the
land department. There is much red
tape attached to the procedure OF get
ting title to 9 homestead. Surely 1t
was not the intent Of the land laws,
when they we're framed, that the home
steader should be hsrrassed and per.
picked by te~chnicalities in acquiring
title to THE land.
These laws were framed upon the
assumption that all homesteaders
were honest 1t developed that there
are many who are not on the square
Through conniv ance, there have beer
hundreds of thousands of acres of thu
public domain absorbed by the land
grabbers. When the nation wakenet
to q realization of the extent to which
its lands had been despoiled, there wa
. quick reversal of procedure In tn
land department and the practice wa
based upon the assumption that ever,
homesteader was q rascal.
This is, of course, humiliating t.
the man who is honest and who i
working in good faith to obtain TO
himself q home. But it ia the natura
result of what happened under tn
earlier practice. But there is now
movement, which has promise OF sue
cessful outcome, toward making /
easier for q bona ide homesteader tt
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Good Shelter For Hoes.

How about the shelter for your hogs?
Is it as good as you can make it or as
good as it ought to be? A lot of hogs
have been dying of pneumonia this
fall, which indicates that the shelter
has not been what it should. If the
hogs are compelled to crowd in order
to keep warm some of them will be-
freeze, The O~vercrowded ones are very
apt to take cold and contract pneumo-
mia when they are forced out on the
cold, damp morning after having been
overheated all night long. A good
straw shed is all hogs need, provided
they have plenty Of room and plenty Of
bedding under them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Raising Calves Properly.

The future usefulness of the COW de-
ponds a great deal upon how the calf
is brought up during the first year. 1t
should have plenty of water and salt
presented in clean vessels, sudden
changes of diet avoided and regularity
of feeding practiced. Warm, dry quar-
tiers are necessary if the weather is
damp. Plenty of roughage should be
fed and not too much grain, for then
a large capacity of handling food, so
desirable in dairy animals, will be de-
veloped. When six months old milk
should be omitted from the Calls ra-
ton and a full roughage and grain diet
substituted,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
POOR BOYS AND MILLIONS.

In the biographical notices of the
late Edwin Hawley, the railway man.
ager, appears the statement that he
began in business as an errand boy
and that he departed this life at the
age of 62, leaving an estate of $780,
600, 600. Announcements of this kind
are so frequent that in tracing the
genesis of the American multimillion-
aire it ia quite in order to look up
the original Office boy who started at
a few dollars q week. II the multi
millionaire is an undesirable the
place to get rid of the germs is among
the poor boys whom circumstances
compel to 60 on to work early and
hustle with the first Job that presents
itself. Among scores of others Mr..
Carnegie was thus initiated, and got
along so fast, when once fairly in the
current, that he had to devote his
later years to the science of giving
away millions.
1v 10 VIC POOI ALuCIlC0u OOt VIII
demands attention If the multimiilion-
aires are to be kept within the bounds
of popular prescription. The United
States is such q land of opportunity
as we'll rs expansive forces that no
present line can be drawn against the
perceptive genius and energy of youth.
E,,vono io 1oso n Go11 f0n tho hnirhk
boys who can not be kept down by
''low birth and iron fortune," but
ever there a ssllow little Corsican
cadet once made an opening for him.
self that enabled him to shift about
kings and ancient dynasties az If they
had become pawns in q game of his
own contriving.
1t may become necessary to put the
poor Office boys under bond not to
grow up with the country too ever.
lastingly fast and far. Yet what they
accomplish does not come without q
long and trying apprenticeship OF
some kind. Edison had been strug.
CLING a good many years when he had
the almost stunning experience of re-
ceiving and cashing his first $25, 900
check. The wizard of many in
ventions now q part of everyday life
is not one of the sort of multimillion-
aires held to be dangerous to the
march of mankind.
Dot tho rifto1 Aroov(oo~ h1r nm h
considered apart from the subject OF
millions, and there Ia no better time
to 90 into this branch than on an an,
niversary that ia near at hand. Abra'
ham Lincoln had no passion for
wealth. BE would rather discuss q
question of human rights and the duty
of a free people than any phase OF the
markets or speculation. BE lived If
a state of rare primitive richness, bu'
never could get interested in making
a personal fortune. Why, as hi
viewed wealth and display, should thu
spirit of mortal be proud? AS a mar
of homespun he was not only OF in
calculsble service to the country bu
to the world that is moving more AM
more toward the principles of human
liberty that Lincoln believed in, work
ed for, and will always shiningl
illustrate in the pages OF history. Fl
had more scanty advantages than an
of the poor boys who leave monumer
tai millions as their mark, a question
ed one, on the sands of time.-Glot
Democrat.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
INCREASING FOOD PRODUCTION

Certain nervous statisticians mani.
fest concern t the increasing dispro'
portion of town and country residents.
They unhesitatingly predict that it
this tendency continues 1t will be only
. certain definite number of months
and years before the people OF the
cities will starve to death, simply be-
cause there will not be enough people
left on the farms to produce sufficient
food for all. A generation ago, we
are told. the average farmer supported
two f~amilies-his own and one in the
city. Today, say the alarmists, the
average farmer is supporting three
f%amilies-his own aud two in town.
The logic of this procedure leads one
to believe that in time the average
farmer will have more people depend
ent upon his efforts than he can care
for.
There are several elements entering
into this question that have been lost
sight of, or at least ignored, by the
average reader. What was true of
farm life aud the factor of farm pro-
duction a score of years ago Is not
always true now. Agriculture is car
ried on today as q commercial BUSH
ness. Old methods are giving way to
new and better ones IN 1910 agricul-
ture composed Is l'"r ct,t of all gain
full occupations. 10 I9UJ this percent
age had been reduced to 80, and the
completed census reports of 1910 prob.
ably will record q still further reduc.
tion.. The records of the bureau of
labor show th at the same amour of
labor required to produce one bushel
OF wheat in 1910 will now produce
nearly twenty bushels of wheat. I'm
~provements ia farm methods explain
the miracle of how q decreasing agri-
cultural class can keep up the food
supply of an increasing urban class,
with enough surplus left to make q
substantial export showing.
During the decade ending with 1910
,he population of this country in
creased 81 per cent. While the city
population increased 1914 per cent,
the country popul alton increased only
Ill per cent. 1t will be e e that the
food demand from the cities has in-
creased faster than the facilities for
production, on the face of the situa.
ton. Increasing acreage, better meth
DDS. scientific direction, improved ma
chinery, crop rotation, intensive farm
ing-all of these things have helped
ahe farmers to keep the city people
supplied with food. But the ever 10
creasing demand for food has had the
inevitable tendency of increasing the
food cost.
Under the mechanical law of dimin'
fishing returns-or whatever it is-city
people will not be able to pay the in
creasing prices, and will be forced
to return to the farms. There is an
automatic balance which the exper'
fence of ancient civilization has
demonstra ted. With the vast re
sources which this country presents
Tor growing food there need be no fear
Of a ation even when the population
increases by many more millions
And with the constant improvement il
methods of production and transpor
tacion, the limit of adequate prOduc
ton is moved further and furthe
aw ay.-Kansas City Journal.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
SUSPECTED OF DYNAMITINC
Grand Jury Accuses Thirty Three
Men Of Criminal Acts,

Grand Jury Accuses Thirty Three
Men Of Criminal Acts.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 6. - Thirty.
three indictments, most of them said
to be against labor union officials,
were returned by the federal grand
jury today as q result of the govern
ment's investig alton of the dynamite
conspiracy.
The number and the names OF the
defendant we're ordered to be held
secret pending arrests.
1t is understood warrants are to be
issued at once. Not only members OF
the McNamaras' ''dynamiting crew.
but also men who are said to have
had knowledge of what Mcnamara did
with money at his disposal, are be.
lieved to be indicted.
Fully one hundred explosions of dy-
Mantle. at points scattered over seven
teen states, and covering q period
from the summer of 1905 to Oct. 16,
1911, when dynamite was found be-
meath q bridge near Santa Barbara,
Cal, just before President Taft's spe.
cial train passed over it. we're in
CURED into by the federal grand jury
which investig ated what the govern.
ment las regarded as a nationwide
dynamite conspiracy.
Tt has heen the theorv of tho uovorn,
ment that all Of these explosions were
intended to intimidate employers and
n%on-union workingmen with the gen.
eral intent to abolish the ~so-called
"open shop" and compel submission
to the demands Of certain labor organ.
izations. particu] arly the Ioter
national Union of the Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Separating Unthrifty Animals.

If you have a bunch of hogs feeding
or growing together and one begins to
show even slight signs of unthrifti-
ness, separate him from the others at
once. 1t is likely to be good for him.
and it will certainly be safer for the
others.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14

get his land. There will be q cutting
of red tape and the homesteader will
receive concessions which will make
it easier for him to become the abso-
lutte owner of the land which he has
selected for his home. 1t will, how.
ever always be necessary to guard
against the jobber.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Rations For Hens.

Scientists say a hen fed on wheat
alone gets in a day one and one-half
as much carbonaceous matter as she
needs for an egg, but only one-sixth as
much protein as is needed. This is a
hard and embarrassing mathematical
problem for a creature of mo more
sense than a hen" Help balance her
ration with alfalfa, cut bone, oats, KAT
fir corn. etc.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
Protect Farm Machinery.

The average depreciation of farm
machinery is figured at 10 per cent a
year. A good machine shed will cut
! this down materially.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-04
DAVIS WRITES OF
WAR CONDITIONS
Secretary of Y. N. C. A. in Levant
Writes Home to Friends
in Capital.

First hand accounts of war conditions
in ConstantInople are given in a letter
TO William Knowles Cooper. general Sec
rotary Of the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, by d. A. Davis. Mr.. Davis is
well known to washington. where he
spent some years as director of religious
work for the local Y. NJ. C. A. He is
now Y. NJ. c. A. secretary for the Le-
want, working under the direction Of the
associations international committee. In
his letter to Mr.. Cooper, written Under
date of November Q, Mr.. Davis says:
For a few days before the war was
declared there were a number Of parades
and public demonstrations. but these
were soon forbidden, and since the war
has actually started there has been very
little apparent excitement
Naturally. there are many inconven-
fences. The only traction service we
have consists OF horse cars, and now We
do not have even these. because the gov
Crnment has taken all the horses.
The price of many necessaries such
as meats, sugar, cereals, and petroleum,
have risen, and are still going up. I'M
agine paying 35 cents a pound for table
salt! Fortunately, the government con-
trolls the price of bread. and that remains
the same"
Mr.. Davis adds in his letter that SIS, 600
has been given in America for Y NJ.
c. a. building in Pera. which is near the
capital OF Turkey. on condition that the
money for a lot be raised in Constanti-
nople: while a lot has been donated in
StahbOul on condition that a building be
located there. He says, however. that
with conditions as they are at present, IL
seems impossible to raise in the near
f,,f ha 90 Ia
concludes: We must face the terrible
facts as they are. All available places
are daily filling with sick and wounded
and the streets are being crowded with
old men. women, and children crying for
bread. For the next few weeks ! am
planning to give as much of my time as
possible to the Red Cross Society"
Nevertheless. according to Mr.. Davis
the perturbed condition OF affairs and the
desire OF the people for education. both
give the Y. NJ. c. A. excellent Opportuni-
ties to extend its work.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-04
ESTATE Is VALUED
AT $4,000, 900
Will of Alvin M. Lothrop Filed for
Probate-Leaves Residue
to Only Daughter.

Alvin NJ Lothrop. by his will dated
January a. 1911. filed for probate yester-
dsy. bequeaths $1,000 each TO his sister,
Caroline +. Stearns. and his brothers.
Emery D and Frank B. Lothrop. all of
South Acton, Mass.
A nephew. Frank c. Lothrop. OF MIL
ford, Mass. and a niece. Mary Ii. Lo-
throp, are each TO receive $1,000. a sis
ter-in-law. Mrs. Sarah y. Eastman, of
Falls Church, Va. gets $1,000 and her
sons, William r. Eastman. surgeon l..
S. A, and Frank H. Eastman, 5000
each.
Martin Van Buren, Mitchell. a servant
for many years in the family of Mr..
Lothrop. is to receive $500. Max Fis-
cher. one Of the executors. is TO have
5000 in lieu of fees for services.
The remaining estate, which is valued
approximately at S2.G0O. 900. including his
interest in the corporation of Woodward
& Lothrop. is left to Mrs. Harriet Lut-
trell. the only child of the deceased
Samuel W. Woodward. Mrs. LuttreII.
and Max Fischer are named as execu-
tors. Attorney John B. Larner filed the
will.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-04
Hoy to Look Years
Less Than Your Age

The most aged face will look years
younger after the use of ordinary mer-
coliZed wax for from ten days to two
weeks. This remarkable substance. be-
actually removes the thin veil of faded
or withered outer cuticle, a little at
youthful skin underneath is revealed.
This absorption process being purely
hygienic one, an entirely natural COM
plexion is acquired quite different
from the artificial complexion, which
appears anything but girlish, though
often bearing painful evidence OF child
ishness. An ounce of mercolized wax,
obtaiUable at any drug store, is suffi-
cient to rejuvenate any complexion. 1t
is put on like cold cream at bedtime,
and removed mornings with warm,
sudsy water.
To eradicate such age marks as
wrinkles and burrows, make a wash To-
ton by dissolving an ounce of powdered
saXolite in a half pint witch hazel. This
has wonderful astringent and tonic prop;
critics. 1t quickly effaces all kinds Of
wrinkles, no matter how caused, making
the skin firm, smooth, and young look
ing.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-04

Make a light biscuit dough with milk,
roll out thin, and cut into rounds with