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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
A Fergus County Tragedy

A dispatch from Lewistown reports
that Stanley B. Scofield, a homestead
er in the Denton country, was killed
and Constable A. B. Cheney MORALLY
wounded in a pistol duel Tuesday
night, in which Scofield was the az
gressor. The tragedy is said to have
been due to the jealousy Of ScoAeld,
who intended to murder a young wo.
man to whom he had been paying at
tention.
According to n of the stories of
the tragedy Scofield formerly kept
company with Hazel Wright, a pretty
young woman of the Denton section,
but she broke off the affair several
months ago. Tuesday night Scofield
went to the Johnston home, Mrs.
Johnston being his aunt, and calling
Johnston out, covered him with a gun.
He ordered him to take his automo-
bile, to go to Denton, get Miss Wright
and bring her back.
Johnston got the birl, who said she
was willing to make the trip and en-
listed the services OF Constable Che
ney and Justice Webb Morrow, both
of whom were armed. AS they ap-
preached the farm Cheney and Nor.
row got out and started to walk to
the place over a plowed field. AS
they neared it, Cheney, who was in
advance, discovered Scofield and call.
ed on him to throw up his hands. For
answer Scofield began firing.
1t was very dark and the men adj
vanced to within seven feet of each
other when both fell. Scofeld fired
seven shots, hitting Cheney once.
Cheney fired three shots, all taking
effect, the last n going to the brain.
Scofield had lived on a homestead for
three years or more, coming from
Tropico, CAL, where his parents re-
side.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
Women Would Come West

Boston. Oct. 21.-So anxious is Miss
Charlotte Smith, head of the woman's
trade board, to send five hundred
New England women and girls out
west to find husbands, that she would
send them by parcel post If she could.
Finding that impossible, she asked ].
j. Hill, of the Great Northern railroad
who Is in the city attending the bank
ers' convention, if he would give the
girls free transportation on his lines.
II have letters from Minnesota ask.
ing for five hundred women to be-
come wives" said Miss Smith. "The
men out there mean business, and the
five hundred l have to send are the
kind OF women these farmers want. l
can't send them by mail, so l went
to q Mr.. HILL"
Mr.. Hill listened to Miss Smiths
request. but went away without com.
hitting himself.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
THE POWER OF TAMMANY

The rumor that Charles +. Murphy
is 10 retire from the leadership Of
Tammany has led to optimistic pro-
phecies that the tiger, sans teeth. and
sans claws, will no lonse, terrolize
But the tiger has a feline multiplicity
of lives. Sometimes an outraged cit
izenship has arisen and defeated the
ancient organization at tho polls, rut
When the reform wave ;ubs;ded Tam
many resumed its power. Its marvel.
Gus hold on the, voters of New York city
is ineXplicable to the people of the
country at large, who haze been amaz.
ed by the stories OF it's corruption
sent broadcast eve since Tweed died
in jail, following the most shocking
revelations of municipal dishonesty
ever brought to light.
The cohesive power of public plum.
der" does not entirely account for
Tammany's power, says the Globe
Democrat. 1t is to be sought partly
in it's treatment of the poor and the
distressed. Whatever calamity over
takes them, hunger, sickness, or ar
rest, they find a friend in Tammany.
In New York City proper there are
over 100 members of the General
Committee and each election district
has it's local committee. These are
all picked workers. chosen from the
ranks. They know the people and
are in constant touch with them. So
long as they can hold these voters, on
whom they have impressed both their
generosity and their power, they care
little about the ordinary taxpayers.
They are certain of enough thorough
partisans to retain their grip on the
city's affairs. Often they are defeat.
ed in the state, but seldom in the
city.
Organized as a patriotic, social and
f~raternal order in 1889, Tammany
aided in the election Of Jefferson as
president eleven years later. 1t has
taken a hand in presidential elections
ever since, although its open supper,
of a candidate seeking the nomina
ton is a handicap. But after a nomi
nation it's influence is appreciated. Il
defeated Hancock in 1880 and Nigh
have defeated Cleveland in 1884 bu'
for the notable loyalty of Hugh Nc
Laughlin, the boss of Brooklyn, ant
for the Republican OBJECTIONS of vari
GUS kinds, to say nothing of the man
ipulation of returns revealed year
later by the Lexow investigation
The society was named after a Dele
ware Indian sachem, who sold a vas
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
The Deep Breathing Cure

In the season when coughs and
colds are prevalent any method of
preventing them and checking the
first symptoms without drugs may be
of inestimable value, says a physician.
When you find you have a cough,
and before it gets to be deep-seated,
go into the air and practice deep
breathing. Draw air into the lungs un-
til they are completely distended,
raising the arms above the head dur.
ing inspiration to more fully expand
the chest. Hold the air in the lungs
for a few seconds; then breath it out
slowly. Repeat the operation a dozen
times or more, and after an hour try
1t again.
Persistency in this treatment will
often cure a newly.contracted cough
in a few hours. If the cough is of
long standing pain may be felt under
the shoulder blades and across the
chest during the breathing, but, as
this is caused by the tearing away of
adhesions of the lung tissue, it will
usually pass away in a day or two,
and the fact that it Is felt shows that
the lungs need thorough imitation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
Washington News Notes.

Washington, Oct. 22.-Secretary of
the Interior Lane has awarded a con-
tract to Wilson Bros. of V~andalia, for
the construction of SO miles of canals
on the Pablo unit of the Flathead ir.
rigation project at a cost of $33,321.
Senator Walsh was advised today
by Secretary Lane that he had re.
versed the decisions of the general
land Office and the local land Office at
Great Falls in the case of Lena Heck
ner of Button, whose final proof Oh
her homestead entry had been reject
ed because it was included within q
reclamation withdrawal.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
Would Remove Incurables

Portland, Ore, Oct. 21.-Painless
killing of the hopelessly insane or
mentally defective was advocated to-
night in an address at the First I'm
itarian church, when DR.. Calvin S.
White, state health officer, spoke on
Commercial Waste; Its Cause and
Cure"
"One-third of Oregon's taxes go for
the keep of those who are mentally
deficient, insane, incorrigible or GRIM
inal," said DR.. White. This burden
is greater than the people should
bear. Although there are many who
would oppose it, l believe that the
painless doing away with the unfor-
tunates who are incurable would be
a good action. They are an econom-
ic dead weight that bears hard on the
rest Of the people Of the state"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
The Man With a Crouch

The man who is as good a loser as
Mr.. Bryan is, really is not a loser at
all. Consider these fine words of the
secretary of state: "There is no load
that will break a man down so quick
ly and so surely as a load of revenge.
The man who tries to get eve with
others has few opportunities of graf
flying his hatred; but he Is all the
time c%orroding himself"
The man with a crouch or a griev-
ance is in that class. A sulky or vim
dictive temper isolates a man from all
smallpox quarantine isolates him from
persons. And it makes the man as
unhappy as smallpox makes him.
Kansas City Star.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
MILLIONS IN

The Wall Street Journal stands
sponsor for the statement that
'throughout the world the picture
business is collecting more money
than automobiles"
Europe has eight great firms manu-
featuring films and supplying the
larger part of the world. The black
film appears likely to become super
seeded by the film in two colors and
this in time to yield to that in three.
A first film may cost anywhere
from $780, 900 to $3.50, 600, the expense
in the case of "Quo Vadis" being said
to have reached $4,000 The outlay
recently for putting Robertson as
Hamlet on films is given as being ten
times more than it w cost to stage
the play. Filming the drama of eat
lantis" led the manufacturers to char
ter and send a steamer to Iceland and
spend $225,000.
The market for moving pictures is
worldwide. They speak the universal
language of the eye. Australia and
Austria, English, French and Germans
need no translations into their re-
spective languages.
The original film of "Quo Vadis"
was manifolded into 400 copies, each
800 feet long, and sold at rs cents a
foot. This price netted the manufac-
turers a profit of about 100000 The
film of Captain Scott in the antarctic
has yielded his widow a royalty of
$500 already.
Actors receive from $500 to $500 a
week for their part in making motion
pictures, but freak performers from
$500 to $500 a day. One woman earns,
we are asked to believe, I've $4,000
a week for risking her life with the
tigers, lions and leopards that r
pictured, and has engagements two
months ahead.
The movies have given fictitious
value to thrilling performances that
formerly had slight publicity and
small pay. The man who once jump
ed from Brooklyn bridge for fame or
wager now is paid $500 for doing so
make a moving picture. The man
who received a permit for another to
descend in a parachute from the build
ing of the New York Bankers Trust
was paid more than $1,000.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
EXPORT TRADE INCREASED
American Manufactured Goods Supply
Foreign Markets

Detroit, Mich, Oct. 21.-With the
declaration that 'the tide of Ameri-
can business in the foreign field is
at it's flood" the means must be en-
ployed to maintain it. Secretary Red
field, addressing the board of com.
merce here today, made a direct ap-
peal to business men to ask congress
to appropriate more funds for the
prosecution of the work of his depart
ment. The speaker said in part:
q" assume you are aware of the
great advance of American export
trade In manufactures during the last
year. Time was, within the memory
of most of you, when we sold abroad
chiefly the products of our fields and
farm, or Of our mines. We were
known as a food exporting country,
and in a n did largely feed the
nations. That day is gone. Our ex-
ports of crude stuffs are but eighteen
per cent of the total, and the major
place in our export trade is filled by
the products of our factories.
ITO sell our manufactures abroad
to the extent of over $3.50, 900 900 in
value in one year is no small thing,
but when this continues to expand at
the approximate rate of half q mil.
lion dollars daily, and when in this
total the largest item by far is that of
fully finished manufactures, which is
not only, as l have said, the biggest
item, but that which is growing fast
est, then the statement is very much
more Marked"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
First Touch Of Winter

Washington, Oct. 21.-The seasons
first touch of wintry weather was gen.
eral today east of the Mississippi.
Shifting gales, which whipped the
middle Atlantic coast and the lake re-
gion, had made their way to the sea,
leaving crisp, cool areas behind and
promising light snow in some Sec
tons. General frosts today touched
the south Atlantic regions as far down
as Florida.
Chicago, Oct. 21.-Chicago awoke
this morning to witness the first
heavy snow storm of the season,
which at times was almost a blizzard.
Light snow began falling last evening
and continued all through the night,
becoming heavier at daylight. Early
this morning the mercury dropped be-
low the freezing point.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
Cold Day for Collections

A merchant in North Dakota sent
out his new Swede clerk to make COL
lections. When he returned the mer-
chant asked him how they had re-
sponded.
"Oh," said the Swede, "Jim Brown
said he'd pay when he sold his wheat
Jan Peterson said he'd pay next week
Bill Jones said he'd pay in January
"Stop right there" said the mer.
chant. "That's the first time I ever
knew Bill Jones to set a date when
he would settle. Are you sure Bill
said he'd pay in january"
GAY tank So" said the Swede. "He
said it would be tam cold day
when he paid--ay tank Gat be in Jan
uary."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29

Missoula, Oct. PA jury in the
United States district court returned
a verdict acquitting Walter l. Moody.
Frederick H. Nichols, Harrison S.
Lord and Robert A. O'Hara of the
charge of having consptred to defraud
the government by obtaining land by
the use of dummy" entrymen. These
four men, all connected with the Bit
ter Root Valley Irrigation company,
which has financed a great irrigation
project in the Bitter Root country.
were indicted by Il federal grand jury
in 1911.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
HiQh Prices Disturb Mexicans

Mexico City, Oct. 21.-An increase
of so per cent. on all import duties
will become effective Oct. % by virtue
of a decree by President Huerta just
published. Consumers are concerned
over the prospect of a further ad-
vance in the already high prices pre-
vailing.
The new increase in duties is in &C.
cordance with the increase ordered
last July, making as importers esti-
mate it, a total advance of IS per
cent. under present admission duties,
In the face of almost impossible bust
ness conditions already existing
many regard as inevitable the closing
Of their establishments.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
Postoffice to Aid Good Roads

Washington, Oct. 21.-Good roads
movements throughout the country
are to have substantial support of the
postofice department. First Assist
ant Postmaster General Roper has
notified officially postmasters of all
classes that 1t is the desire Of the de-
partment that they cooperate with
the state and county officers in an en-
deavor to improve the condition of
the public roads,"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29
LAND LAW

"The whole west has felt bitterly
toward the interior department" said
Secretary Lane upon his return to
Washington, "and l have devoted
much thought and study to ascertain
the reason: l have concluded that
this bitterness is due partially to the
bureaucratic administration of the de-
partment, but the main complaint is
because there is too much red tape
With the determination to get to
the bottom of things which he dis.
played early in his administration by
sitting complaints against the recla'
nation service, Secretary Lane has,
during his tour through the west,
made a study of the unpopularity OF
his department with the people of
this section, with a view to ascertain
ing the cause, and then determining
whether the prevalent complaints are
we'll founded. He has arrived at the
conclusion that much of the dissatis-
faction is justified, and, having sifted
out the causes, he purposes to remove
them as far as lies within his power.
The secretary found that the people
of the west were dissatisfied with the
manner in which their land affairs
were being regulated at Washington;
they disapproved of long-distance ad-
ministration; of rulings and decisions
by men knowing nothing about the
facts, save as gathered from the re-
cord, and often by officials having no
sympathy with the people of the west.
Frequently, land matters arising in
the west would be referred to Wash
ington. BY Washington they would
in time be referred back to the west,
then back to Washington, and this
process would keep up indefinitely.
The officers in the west would be
without authority to act, and the au-
thorities at Washington, possessed of
the authority, would be without the
information possessed by field repre-
sentatives, local land offices and 9TH
ers on the ground.
Secretary Lane will urge several I'M
portant changes in the public land
laws, many of which he finds are OBJ
solete, unsuited to ~present-day condi-
lions. He will, in general, appeal for
more liberal laws for the benefit OF
the bona fide homeseeker, who today
has to cope with many administrative
hardships. and will urge upon con-
gress legislation which will make 1t
easier for the homesteader to get title
to public land, either irrigated or non
irrigated, provided always the home
steader is able to show his good faith.
In carrying out the reforms which
he has roughly outlined. Secretary
Lane will have to upset precedents OF
years standing; he will have to revise
departmental practices in the handling
of all sorts of public land matters. But
he is not adverse to ov%erturning pre-
cedents, nor is he the least disposed
to be bound by the course followed by
his predecessors in Office.
Secretary Lane is casting theory as
ide; he proposes so far as possible to
wipe out bureaucracy in the interior
department, and he will go as far as
the law and congress will permit IN
cutting out red tape, which he be-
lieves is at the bottom of most OF the
present trouble.-Anaconda Standard
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29

tract of land to william Penn. The
word Tammany meant "the affable."
But Penn should have traded names
with him, for he acquired the domain
for a little affability and a few pieces
of silver. In those days words but
tered aboriginal parsnips. The appli-
cation of such a term to Tammany,
however, is rich irony.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-29

Butte, Oct. 23.-One of the most
daring holdups that has taken place
in Butte in a long time occurred at 3
O'Clock this morning, when John Har.
ris, recently arrived from Canada, was
lured into an alley running off east
Galena street, and after being strong
armed, was relieved of all the money
he had, two SO Canadian bills and $12
in silver. William Harris, a former
policeman and Fred Nichols are in the
city Jail accused of the holdup. The
victim identified the former police
man as one OF the men who robbed
him.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-05-23
GOVERNORS ANSWER is ''NO''
Johnson Stands Firmly Upon Right
to Exclude Aliens.

Sacramento, Cal.-Governor John
sons final answer to the request of the
Federal government that he withhold
his signature from the Webb alien
land bill was telegraphed to Secretary
Bryan at Washington, and in sub
stance amounts to a courteous but un-
equivocal mo-"
After making this statement and
signing and sending the message, the
governor went out to the ball game
and spent the afternoon. He intima-
ted that he did not expect any further
word from Washington.
By the text of his reply, which was
made public as soon as it was dis
patched, Governor Johnson feels it his
duty to approve the action of the leg
stature. His message to the secretary
Of state not only affirms the right of
the state to enact law barring Asia
tics from ownership in land, but also
defends the public policy of such a
measure, citing the vote on the Webb
Dill as proof of the demand for such an
act in California.
With the sending of the telegram
Inc controversy over the bill is at an
end, so far as the California admins
ration is concerned. Governor John
son has until June Is in which to sign
Inc act, and in the normal course of
events it will become law at the ex-
pratlon of 80 days from the closing of
the legislature, or on August 10 next.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-05-23
MONSTER SHIP Is PLANNED
Navy Board Wants New Dread
nOught of 10000 Tons.

Washington, D. G. = Congress will
be asked next year to appropriate for
one battleship "a mammoth dread
naught displacing 10000 tons, and
costing about $50, 600, OO0-according
to tentative plans Of the navy general
board.
In the debate on the naval bill this
year members of congress particularly
interested in the navy became satisfied
that with two extreme factions, one
advocating two or three frst-class
.battleships year and the other with
"no battleships" as slogan, an over
whelming majority on both sides could
be counted on to vote for single
dreadnaught.
This one battleship, however, will
be monster, if the boards plans ma
terialize. With a displacement of
$1,000 tons she would easily rank as
the largest and most formidable craft
of war in the world. The plans call
for speed of Is knots an hour.
Just what the armament would be
has not been announced.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-05-23
Silver Nitrate for Sore Eyes of
Lambs.

l. G. Sisiman, of Fort Klamath,
wrote the Oregon Agricultural college
that many of his lambs have eve
trouble at birth. The eyes are sore.
and in some cases have become COW
cred with light-colored scum. Some
become blind, and one two weeks old
developed an inflamed growth on the
eyes. The same condition existed last
year. The ewes are in good condition,
having been wintered on wild meadow
hay. The lambs are strong and seem
to grow we'll.
DR.. B. w. Hollis, the college veter-
marian, advises him to drop few
drops of a-solution of silver nitrate,
part to 5000 of water, in the eyes of
the lambs as soon after birth as they
can be found, and to repeat daily for
ten days. This proportion solution,
to 1000, may be secured at the drug
store. He does not advise the prepar-
alton of the solution at home.
If in some instances, the eyes be-
come much inf1amed due to this treat
ment, he recommends its discontin-
uance at the end of five days, substi-
tuting a saturated solution of boric
acid.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-05-23
HILL SAYS RUSH IRRIGATION
Great Railroader Says Government
Should Quit Business.

Washington, D. C.-"Hurry up and
complete the reclamation projects al
ready under way, and be sure you have
competent men in the field" was the
advice James J. Hill, the railroad
magnate, gave to Secretary Lane at a
reclamation hearing.
He reiterated his statement that it
cost the reclamation service more than
twice what it cost over services of
private enterprises to reclaim the
desert lands.
Mr.. Hill based his statement as to
the high cost of reclamation work on
report of the census bureau. Di-
rector Newell of the Reclamation serv-
ice, and Senator Walsh, Of Montana,
questioned him about having personal
knowledge of the Reclamation service.
81 never built an inch Of irrigation
works in my life," said Mr.. Hill, "but
l know that when private enterprises
in Canada can sell the land and water
for $50 an acre, and the water on
reclamation projects in the United
States costs $45 an acre, there is some
difference in the COST
Director Newell replied that the
government work was more perma-
nent; that private enterprise was
prone to take in too large an acreage
for the water capacity and further,
that the government could work only
eight hours day and private enter
prise works ten.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-05-23
Long Life in Country.

"With air filtered through forest
and cleansed by meadows and fields,
free from the nerve-wracking noise of
cars, unannoyed by the odor of pack
ing house or mandatory, with the
absolute control of water and food
supply, there seems to be no reason
why the dweller in the rural home
should die save by accident or from
old age" says Dean H. w. Calvin, of
the home economics division of the
Oregon Agricultural college.
This, with an urgent plea for the
necessity of much greater intelligence
as to sanitation and hygiene on the
farm than on the part of the average
city dweller, constituted the vital part
of the address she gave at the confer
ence on the conservation Of human life
at Reed Institute.
ssIn the city there are boards OF
health, inspectors, and intelligent
next-door neighbors to counterfeit neg
ligence or ignorance, she said. ION
the farm each family has the entire
responsibility for the whole of its lit
tie community"