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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-27
WANTS TO STOP GRATING
King George Orders Audit of Buckins-
hun Pnlnce AccOmnts.

Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch. !
London. October 26--At the bchest
of Queen Mary, who wishes 10 put an
end to the grating OF servants and
palace officials. King George has or
dcred an Immediate audit of the house
hold accounts of Buckingham Palace
This is the first time an audit has
been made OF the accounts OF the
royal household since the accession OF
Queen Victoria. II is expected that
the result will be some Important
changes In the royal encourage.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-27
SNOWFALL IN OKLAHOMA
Reported Near Freezing
I'm Nnriuus Sections.

Oklahoma city, Okla. October 20
Snow fell throughout Oklahoma from
Saturday midnight to Sunday noon 10
II depth OF from three inches at Bartles-
Vile and one inch in the Panhandle. to
slight furry in the southeastern por-
ton or the state. hittcr north wind
accompanied the snow Temperatures
are reported near freezing
In the Panhandle section OF Texas
tho snow fall measured two inches.
the temperature dropping from so de-
grees TO 35 in four hours.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Onion 10 Without Rival

kill the onion ond you leave a gap
in the universe" says a medical auth
ority, and he continues, kill anything
else and there is a substitute for it.
The potato is akin to the cereal; cab.
bages, turnips and cauliflower are the
same family; beans are elongated
pears; the lemon is a pessimistic
orange, watermelon the survivor Of a
cucumber, and so IN.
"But the onion is alone sui generis,
alone, unique, triumphant. 1t is a spe-
cial creation to tempt the palate of a
weary world. Man in his wisdom
might have guessed everything else
under the sun, but he never would
have guessed an onion. Science may
deduce a new star before it becomes
visible, or radium before its discovery,
but the onion would have gone on un-
invented forever had not its W in
sinuating yet not bashful quality
forced itself into tear-flled eyes and
upon %liquescent anticipatory lips.
with what mixture of gratitude
and awe should we view the specta-
Gle of nature turning her energy to
the transmitting of mere clay into a
vegetable with an artistic tempera-
ment."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
For Baseball Championship

New York, Oct. 7.-Philadelphia
Athletics overcame the New York
National by a o of 6 to 4 in the
first game of the worlds champion
ship series here today
Some 100000 presons filled the broad
reaches of the big Brush stadium this
afternoon to witness the New York
Giants, pennant winners of the Nation
al league do battle with the Philadel-
phia Athletics, leaders of the Ameri-
can league in the first game of the
worlds championship baseball series.
Total paid attendance OF the game
was 1921; total receipts $75,255. OF
this sun the national commission re-
ceives $7,525, the clubs $13,546 each
and the players $40,63S.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Record Yield Of Oats.

Though remarkable indeed, the
yield Of oats on the J. F.. O'Connor
ranch six miles east of the Wilsall
falls far short of being "the most
bountiful yield of oats per acre
grown in the world" as the enthusiasts.
tic Livingston Post would have us be-
lieve. The average is an excellent and
unusual one, 165 32-pound bushels to
the acre. But it is not the worlds
record yield per acre
1t surpasses the yield of 163 bushels
an acre which was heralded as the
worlds best oat crop grown in the
Yellowstone valley a few years ago.
But Rudolph Vogel, Jr., threshed out
a little over 1876 bushels to the acre Of
oats weighed 43 pounds to the bushel,
OF his ranch near Bozeman in 1909.
At the usual weight of 30 pounds to
the bushel, Vogel threshed out 262
bushels of oats to the acre.
This yield will be found on record
in the 1909 bulletin issued by the
Montana state bureau of agriculture.
-Bozeman Courier.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Fuuitive Returns to Jail

Oakland, CAL, Oct. Tin 1912 Will
lam Walker, serving three months On
the Alameda county chain gang for
vagrancy, escaped with 30 days Of his
sentence to be run. Today he return.
ed, married and wealthy, and surren-
dered himself at the central police
station. He explained that he had
gone to Alaska and struck it rich, but
that the cloud of unexpired term had
bothered him. He asked If he could
pay a fine and escape going to jail,
but the city attorney found that the
sentence must be served.
Walker declared his willingness to
be locked up. In the next 80 days
Walker will be extended the favors
of the Jail as a trusty. His wife will
be given the privilege of visiting him
each day.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
The Largest Wheat Field

Harry Vincent, Of Eureka Flat,
Washington, harvested $4,000 acres
of spring and fall wheat this year.
This is believed to be the largest
wheat farm in one piece in the United
States.
To seed this farm there were used
t%hirty-nine drills and rorty-two har-
rows. Five steam plows, each with
a capacity of 60 acres a day, turned
over last years stubble. On this
farm are 600 spans OF horses and
mules, worth $3.50 to $500 a span.
There are employed the year around
$50 men, eighteen women and thirty
boys and girls. At harvest time the
force is trebled for three months.
Five combined 'harvesters and
threshers, ten header machines and
four s%eparators were used in harvest
ing. One combined harvester and
thresher has a capacity of seventy to
ninety acres of wheat a day. It cuts
a swath ~thirty.five feet wide. All the
wheat was sacked, more than half q
million sacks being needed for this
purpose.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Two Killed in Wreck

Great Falls, Oct. Light extra
1890 of the Great Northern, return
ing from Butte, whence It had been
to carry q party Of copper mine mag
mates Saturday night, crashed into
the rear of extra freight 1888 Just
this side of Ulm yesterday morning,
and Conductor Harry Williams and
Brakeman w. c. Powers of the freight
were killed and their bodies burned
beyond recognition. The freight ca
boose and two empty stock cars were
broken to splinters and burned.
Both Williams and Powers lived in
this city. Other members of the crew
escaped without injury. The trains
were running in a binding snow
storm and railroad men say It was i'm.
possible for the engineers to see far
ahead. Traffic was tied up four hours
The light extra was running at TWEEN
ty miles an hour.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
CONVENTION RULES
Senator cummins Describes Proposed
Plan Of Representation

sOps VO0tuSW4sOV
Washington, Oct. 7.-senator Cum
Minis outlined in part yesterday the
reform plans of the so-called concilia-
ton committee of republicans and
p~rogressives which hopes to bring
about the holding of a national repub-
lican convention early in 1914.
The change in the representation of
southern states in the national con-
vention is a secondary matter in the
program of the committee. With the
added support of many republican
leaders who did not participate last
spring in the "get together" confer
nee in Chicago, they will insist that
the control of the republican nation
al convention be abolished.
1.-THE chief issue in this fight" Sem
ator Cummins said, 'is that involving
the method of selecting and seating
delegates in the national convention
that dominates the Republican presi-
Dental and vice presidential candi-
dates. We shall insist that the pres
ent rules be so modified and recon-
structed that the Republican commit
tee will no longer have the power to
make up a temporary roll Of delegates
or to pass on the credentials Of state
delegates before they are seated in
the convention"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Missing Money Parcel Found

Seattle, Oct. 8.-Ten thousand dol
lars of the $4,000 reported stolen
from railway mail cars between Seat
tie and Havre, Mont, was recovered
as the result of an investigation con-
Quoted by Postoffice Inspector H. D.
Temple of this city.
Temple, working on a clue that the
money, instead of being stolen, had
merely been mislaid in the mail car,
obtained telegraphic confirmation of
his theory when the bundle of small
currency, belonging to a Seattle bank
ing institution, was found stored in a
bin of the car when it arrived at Far
go, N. d.
The remaining $4,000, which the in
spectors ri searching for, has not
yet been located. OF this amount
$1,000 was obtained at Havre, Mont,
when a mail sack was slit open on
the depot platform. The third loss
occurred near Great Falls, Mont,
when $4,000 was found to be missing.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15

as the Idaho state line. One billion
feet Of lumber is the total stand cred
tied to this area by the forest service
cruisers.
The period allowed for cutting is
20 years, with provision for price re-
adjustments at five-year intervals.
Prices based on a fair margin of profit
for the operator over prevailing rates
and including the Is cents a cord for
cordwood from inferior species to 50
a thousand feet for white pine timber.
Spruce, larch and %lodgepole pine from
about Is per cent of the stand offered.
The remainder includes white and
Douglas fir, white pine, hemlock, &C.
dar and yellow pine.
According to a sale prospectus which
may be secured on application, lum-
bering may be carried on by driving
on the Yak river, building a logging
road, or by means OF log fumes. Com
parative cost estimates for these three
methods are furnished for the infOr-
nation of bidders. The main trans
continental line of the Great Northern
railroad, it is pointed out, runs
through the Kootenai valley just south
of the sale area.
Sulphite pulp may be manufactured
from the wood, according to investiga-
lions made by the forest service, and
papers and boards may be made from
the pulp, such as craft papers, wrap
ping papers, box boards and the like.
The gross receipts to the govern
ment from the sale viii total in the
neighborhood of s 1900, 900, Of which
about a half million will go to the
state under the law for schools and
roads.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Wettest Place in the World

Baugio, in the Philippines, has been
strengthening it's claim to be tie vet
test place in the world. On July 20,
the precipitation was 31.79 inches,
which nearly equals the worlds NEAR
rainfall for the year.. But Bagu!o has
done better than that; it made a
worlds recE1 in July, 1911. win
91.53 inches in f"lr days, of which
When seven and one.half feet Of wa-
ter come down il one storm it is
time to look afte: the shfngling Of the
ark.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
The Persistent Office Seeker

The fact that one out of every 200
of the voters for Woodrow Wilson
had applied to him for office reminded
Senator Eourne of ar oflice-seeking
story.
"There was once a president" said
Senator Bourne, "who, early in his
administration, received a letter
which proved to him that there is no
such thing as discouraging an office
seeker. This letter said:
"'Dear Mr.. PRESIDENT under
stand you are going to take a month
off to destroy the big mountain of
letters asking you for jobs. If every.
thing else is gone, l would like the
job of destroying those letters
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
FEDERAL AID FOR ROADS

Secretary Houston of the United
States Department of Agriculture in
an admirable address before the
American Road Congress at Detroit
declared that the suggestion for fed.
eral aid of road building raises grave
questions and involves possible dan.
gers. That an insistent cdamOr from
every section of the country for i'm
mediate road building at federal ex.
pense might result in a drain the
treasury could not bear is true. This
could be checked by requiring large
state appropriations as a condition
precendent to feredal aid, says the
Globe Democrat.
Startled as some members of con-
gress appear to be at the suggestion
there is ample authority in the con
stitution for federal aid of road build
ing. There is ven precedent for it.
In George Washington's administra-
ton, in 1896. congress authorized the
building of a road westward from
Baltimore. and it was constructed for
a distance of $50 miles. The roads
of Europe, incomparably superior to
ours, are almost without exception
under governmental supervision. Eng
land took charge of general road
building in 1885, and there were spe-
cial statutes on the subject in 1924
and 1855. The British Parliament
gave Sir John Macadam 10000 pounds
for his invention in 1919 of the pro-
cess of road building that has been
named in his honor. Roman roads
are famous. At one time there were
Twenty-Five roads leading into the i'm
perial city, with a total length of ST.
964 Roman miles. These roads were
built by cOnvicts and by Roman SOL
diers. The soldiers were so used to
keep them employed at something ex-
cept political plotting. In ancient Pc
ru and Mexico there were roads that
put to shame those in the United
States.
OF course, in ancient times high
ways permitting quick transportation
of troops were a military necessity.
But while that was the object of their
building, their use in commerce be-
came still more valuable to the coun-
tries that built and maintained them.
Durable as the ancient roads were,
better ones may be built now at less
expense. The rural roads of the IN
tied States are a reproach. They cost
more in the aggregate than good roads
would in the long run. Competent
engineers should be employed and
roads should be laid OUT systematic
ally, with branches in every direction.
The mud tax" as it has been pictur.
esquely termed, is no inconsiderable
item in the high cost of living. And
it is entirely unnecessary.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
COST OF RAISING WHEAT

The United States Department Of
agriculture figures that the average
actual cost of all the wheat raised in
the United States is IS cents a BUSH
ell.
DR.. j. H. Worst, president of the
North Dakota agricultural college,
finds that the potash, pnosphoric acid
and nitrogen removed from the soil
by a bushel of wheat, when figured
at market prices, is worth 461a cents.
This brings the actual cost Of ev-
cry bushel of wheat raised in Ameri-
Ca, on the average, to $l.04h. But
the farmers of America v get
such an average price as that. Look
at the table below:
Value of wheat and wheat flour ex-
ported from the United States, 1907.
II, $3.50. O00, 900.
Cost to growers, including loss of
fertility 5000, 00O, 900.
Loss to country in fertility at 461a
cents per bushel, $270, 0O0, 000.
In other words, for every 81 woilh
of wheat exported in the five years
QuOIeu, pS was spent OF exhausted III
soil fertility to produce it. Also. and
this is a still more serious angle OF
the problem, for every 81 worth OF
wheat exported, nearly 81 vas taken
out of the country in the form Of pot,
ash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen
This is robbing the soil with a ven
gance against the time of our chill
dren and our children's children,
Some day the American farmer will
pay for his carelessness and his de-
votion to the one-crop system.
A revised system Of farm manage
ment which will permit the mainten
ance OF fertility does not mean a les
sened production of wheat. Fed land
will furnish an increased yield pei
acre to Offset the seasons devoted tc
other factors in a proper crop rota
ton. The German wheat average is
81 bushels per acre, but the German
farmer does not grow wheat on the
same land every year. Many an
American has halved his acreage and
doubled his yield. 1t may be a cen
fury before the country at large has
done as much, but any farmer car
do it within a few years.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Circulating Filthy lucre

Washington, Oct. For the first
time in many years, the United States
treasury is circulating dirty and time
worn currency. The t%reasurer's sup
ply of paper for the printing of money
is deficient by 60,000,000 sheets, or
enough to make 240, 1000, 900 notes.
The probable value is in c of one
billion dollars. Because of this scar
city of new paper, Treasurer Burke
gave orders today that no paper
money, however dirty, should be de-
stroyed. The failure of the money
washing machine to effect as great a
saving as was expected, is said to be
responsible for the dearth of paper.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Pure Seed Men Will Meet

Billings, Oct. 8.-During the sec.
ond week in December the first meet.
ing of the Montana Pure Seed asso-
citation will be held in Billings. Pres.
ident Summer, of Livingston, presid-
ing. It is intended that the meetings
shall be held annually hereafter. Lib.
eral cash prizes will be offered grow
ers, the largest of which is 500 for
the best bushel of seed wheat grown
in the state.
There will also be held at the same
time the annual cor contests, which
promise to be unusually interesting
this year because of the large amount
Of corn grown, and an agricultural
school for the instruction Of farmers
which will be conducted by members
of the faculty at the state agrfcultur-
al college at Bozeman.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Sauerkraut is Going Up

Fremont, O., Oct. Add to the
high cost of living an increase in the
price of sauerkraut. Kraut cabbages
reached the unprecedented price of
SIT a ton. Kraut makers in this city,
which is the center of the American
kraut industry, had hard work getting
material at that price, and several
suits have been instituted against
growers who contracted to sell their
cabbage at a low figure and now re-
fuse to deliver at the contract price.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
REVENUE FROM TIMBER SALE

Montana's school and road funds
will be enriched approximately $780,.
900 as the result of a prospective tim.
Der sale of 100000 feet-the first
government sale in the Rocky noun.
tain states, planned primarily to fur.
nish paper pulp-on the Kootenai Ma.
tional forest in Montana, is announced
in a bulletin received from the for.
estry service.
The sale area, which covers some
100000 acres, lies In the extreme
northwest corner of Montana, near
the Canadian line. It embraces most
of the western watershed Of the Yak
river from the international line south
to the Kootenai river and west as far
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Frozen to Death

Ogden, Oct. 7.-Raymond T. ODon-
nell, a local newspaper man and son
of a former supreme Judge Of Mon
tana was found frozen to death late
yesterday in the mountains near. here
where he had been hunting. O'Don-
nell came here from Helena, Mont.
He married Miss Matte Watts, a
member of one of the wealthiest FAM
lilies of Ogden last April.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS
Fort Benton. Sent. 2

rOrl bcutOu, sept. ~, 1918.
Board met at IL a. M, present Chair
and J. Lee Sedgwiek, cornty, clerk. The
m~iseeilaneous matters and ID for the he h SsS..
ing Of evidence for and against the
Eranting Of the petition n for a r:ad to be
parties interested were not present the
matter was postponed until 2 p. M.
The board audited the following bills:
w. F. MILFORD, coroner fees......$ IS 90
May G.. Flanagan, expenses. 49,. 1910
May G.. Flanagan, expenses insti- = j.
Geo. w. Frrields. If. auto hire 800
". g. Morrow, special duty ...... 800
Benton B PrSs s }}sWsllry &C. GO. SUP: 1s:sS
Z. p. Cowan. feeding prisoner =. 80
f. Z: E. E: ffGi%Ssn' } }Sstaif fe fees ;' .. ,o5 } 30
Lars Ramsey. witness fees ...... l.6o
MaSe! 4: cul6ertson. rewriting
R. f. Cowan. juror fees ......... $50
Oscar Johnson. road work ........ 400
Grand 6; ND onion Hnion; H fHas " Soard 'i&' room si:SS
Julius Ellington. road work 1000. 1850
G Gds MS, s@chwabndt, road rd,G viewing Ndrf " 81 s. 90
Fred Fletcher. road work ..:... 800
Victor n. johnson, road work 49,. 24.00
G: y. Frlsbee. collecting road tax $500
scott Guthrie Guthrie. % ROAD work siSu.. 1000
Continental OH Co, oil ......... 127.75
Continental Oil Co, oil .......... So 80
Erwin Lentz. road work ..:..... $50. 90
& Expense 12e. 90
Elmer Nulf, assist Co. surveyor. ~. 90
Leroy Nulf, assist Co. surveyor. 800
F.. Atkinson, insanity comm....... 1000
Johnson Grain Co, coal ......, 8.95
Lucy Roland, nursing Co. patients 49,
Bailiif 1920 M $500
W. Banks, planking bridge .,,,. 100
G. Spater, planking bridge 900. 100
Board met at 2 p. m. and took up the
consideration Of the petition for the Lip
pard road. After hearing the evidence
the board postponed action on the matter
until further investigation At s O'Clock
p. M, the board adjourned sine die.
j. LEE SEDGWICK,
County Clerk.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15

Helena, Oct. TEN Thousand year.
ling steers are now enroute to Mon
tana from Texas and Will be wintered
in the Missouri river and Prickley
Pear valleys. The shipment is being
made by the American Livestock and
Loan company of Denver, which for
several years past. has pastured much
stuff in this part of Montana. Besides
this ten thousand head, the company.
is wintering from two to five thous-
and head in northern Montana. This
is q new departure. In past seasons
the company has rounded up its stuff
that was not ready for market and
shipped 1t to Lewis and Clark, Broad
water and Gallatin counties to be
wintered.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15

Choteau, Oct. 4.-Lying partially
submerged in about Is inches of wa
ter at the edge of Priest lake, six
miles south of Choteau, the body of
a man supposed to be Thomas Jere-
miah Mccarthy, a Great Northern la
borer, was discovered by Joe Twiggs,
residing on the E. J. Robertson ranch,
as he was driving past the lake, and
was lying face downward in the wa
ter. Upon bringing the body to shore,
II was discovered that the victim had
oeen shot in the face and had been
badly beaten.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Thu Raraian Anran.

An apron is the Persian royal stand.
ard. A Persian who was n black
smith by trade raised a successful re-
volt, and his leather apron. covered
with Jewels. Is still lOrne in the van
Of Persian armies.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
Destructive Storm at Nome

Washington, Oct. LIVERY avail
able government wireless was splut-
tering out messages toward Alaska
today calling for reports IN the de-
structive storm at Nome. One brief
reply came from the Nome life-saving
station, saying the water front had
been devastated in a tidal storm. The
Red Cross prepared to extend its aid
as soon as the needs could be learned.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15

Fine Book and Job Printing a spec.
laity at the RIVER PRESS Office.