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Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-24
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BONfBARD TROYON.

Berlin, (wireless to Sayville),
Sept. 24.-Oficial announcement
yesterday says the German artil-
lery successfully bombarded
Troyon Les-Paroches, camp Des
Romans, LiOurville.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-24
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$4,000, CANADIANS GONE.

St. John, N. B., Sept. pa
Speaking before a labor conven-
ton, Canadian Minister Of Labor
Crothers announced that $4,000
Canadian volunteers have gone
to the front in the last day or
two.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-24

French front near Rheims has been
abandoned. The fighting here has
been confined to artillery action, the
German fusilade acting as a screen
for a general retreat. which is immin-
ent, if. indeed. it has not already be-
gun, as indicated by reports from the
front This retreat is planned to
cover the avenues of escape Of the
German right wing and the army Of
the crown prince. both Of which are
in great peril.
Preparing for Retreat.
General Won Kluck is believed 70
be preparing fora precipitate retreat
to a new line of defense, probably
with Valenciennes as it's base His
strongest position now is in the anrle
of the Aisne and the Disc.
The French left. on the right bank
of the Disc, is swinging its line around
until the center rests on the heights
OF Lasstgny. From this point the
most violent offensive movement has
been directed. while the allies on tho
left bank Of the Disc and north Of the
Atsne have been content to hold their
entrenched positions. g-7i5
Heavy withdrawals OF troops haya
been made by the kaiser from I1or.
rafne in an endeavor to strengthen the
lines of Won Kluck and Won Buelow.
but 1t Is not believed this will make
any material change in the situation,
practically outnumber the Germans;
two to one on the western center of
the line. !, ~
More than million French ana
British troops are ENGAGED alonr tho
whole battle front. and half million
more are being held in reserve 70 re-
fC.ort,r,>a II, -. -. !, I,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
OiscouraQes Matrimony

Milwaukee, Jan. 1.-THE immediate
effect of the new eugenics marriage
law in the first week of it's enforce.
ment, which ended tonight, has been
to cut the number of licenses to wed
issued, almost to nothing. Instead of
the average number of licenses issued
daily, most county clerks reported
that no requests for licenses had been
made, others had refused several re-
quests when the applicant had not
presented the requisite physicians
certificate that the man was free
from disease.
Publicity given in statements by
attorneys, that the Wisconsin su.
preme court has recognized as a lie.
gal marriage any agreement between
the contracting parties, resulted in
an announcement by julius G. Kroken
register of deeds of Dane county, that
he would record common law mar.
rage contracts for 10 cents each.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
PROBE LABOR TROUBLES
Federal Commission Will Investigate
Causes Of Strikes

Washington, Jan. 6.-Nationwide
investigation of labor disturbances is
to be undertaken Immediately by the
federal commission on Industrial re-
lations. it was announced here TODAY.
Decision to do so vas reached follow
ing a five days executive session.
The first step in the proposed in
Quiry will be the dispatch of investi-
gators to Calumet, Mich, where there
is Il strike of copper miners, and to
Colorado. where there is a strike of
coal miners.
Because of the apparent misunder-
standing as to its powers and duties
the commission adopted a resolution
stating that it has no power to act on
a board of Cancellation of mediation
in labor disputes or to intervene in
any manner with the attempted settle
ment of such controversies.
The resolution adds, however. that
the commission 'in carrying out it's
duties to discover the underlying
causes of industrial unrest will in
vestigate existing as we'll as past dis
turbanceS."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Big Timber Sale

washington, Jan. 7.-Sale of a bill.
lion feet of timber from the Kaibab
national forest in northern Arizona
with authority for the construction by
the purchasers of 200 miles of rail
road through M of the thickest sec.
tions of the west, was approved BY
Secretary Houston of the department
of agriculture. Bids will be received
up to the middle of June this year.
then three years will be allowed the
contractors for building the railroad.
The timber will be cut gradually owe
a period of Is years.
This project is the most gigantic
launched by the forestry service since
Its creation. So carefully have the
service officials mapped out their
plans that by the end Of the contract
period the land, which was first bar
ed by the cutting, will have been re.
forested by a new growth and the
scenic beauty will remain unmarried.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Food Products DESTROYED

Washington, Jan. 7.-At least 10
per cent. of the poultry and eggs pro-
duced in this country never reach
the consumer at all, but go to the
dump, crematory or some other place
not meant for foodstuffs, declared DR..
M. E. Pennington, chief of the food
research laboratory of the department
of agriculture, in a statement today
setting forth the enormous waste of
perishable agricultural food products.
DR.. Pennington added that besides
the actual loss there was a loss in
deterioration in the remainder of the
crop of perhaps 80 per cent, due to
bad handling. He said that his esti-
mate on the value of poultry and egg
production at $750,000 900 might pos
sibly be a little too conservative, and
that trades people say it reaches ST.
600, 900, 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Stops Headlight Glare

A novel device has recently been
perfected for overcoming the danger
from glare in motor car headlights.
This device consists of a rack of alum.
mum plates placed behind the main
glass and in front of the lens and
burner.
These plates are placed horizontally
n above the other, about one-eighth
inch apart, and have their lower sur
faces highly polished and their up
per surfaces painted a dead black.
The effect is that from a distance of
about $50 yards the full light is seen
without any apparent shading, but as
the car approaches, the light and
glare become weaker and weaker, un-
til, when a few yards away. nothing
can be e e but a faint gray glow.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Bureau Of Farm Loans

Washington, Jan. Gas a result of
an investigation into rural credits,
Senator Norris Of Nebraska plans to
introduce a bill for a bureau of farm
loans in the department of agricul-
ture.
The bureau would loan directly to
farmers for the purpose of making
part payments o homes and possibly
for livestock and farming implements.
Payments could be made at any time
by installments and the amount to be
loaned would be limited to either one
half OF three-fourths Of the value of
the lands.
The senator's idea is that through
the army of post Office inspectors,
postmasters, district attorneys and
others, the government could carry on
the business practically.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
capital from the undeveloped lands of

capital from the ~undeveloped lands Of
the west. A second new rule, also
designed to facilitate the influx of cap
ital to western land, authorizes the
reclamation service to send notice Of
default in payments on water-rights
to the mortgage-holder IS well as to
the owner of the land.
This new departure should help ma
t~erially to finance the families who
have undertaken the hard task Of
carving homes out of the dry remnant
of the public domain in the west. But
the action does not go far enough.
Australia is giving its irrigation set
tiers thirty-two years in which to pay
for water-rights. Congress should eN-
tend the ten-year payment period OF
the reclamation act at least to twenty
years..
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Favors Government Ownership

Washington, Jan. 6.-Representa-
tive Bryan, progressive of Washing
ton is preparing to bring up govern
ment ownership of railroads when the
house takes up the Alaska railway
bill next week. In addition to leading
a fight against the proposal to lease
the new Alaskan railroad to a private
corporation after the government
builds it, Mr.. Bryan intends to en-
body his government ownership ideas
as they apply to railroads generally in
a separate bill. He believes the time
is opportune for beginning a move
ment for government ownership in
congress.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Loss Caused by Stacks

Kansas is said to lose between q
100000 and 100000 bushels of wheat
each year because of the strawstacks.
The straw is of comparatively little
feed value. Some farmers have a hun.
dred more times straw than all their
stock could eat. The straw Is of no
use as a fertilizer until we'll rotted,
and 1t takes four to six years to rot.
Not less than 100000 acres of land, II
is estimated r covered will. straw.
stacks and made useless for farm pur.
poses every year. Burning these
straw stacks does great damage to
the ground on which it stands, as the
heat takes all the life out of the
ground for 100 feet or more around
the stack.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Indian Killed by Wolves

Crookston, Mimi, Jan. 6.-After he
had emptied his rifle and then fought
desperately with his knives, killing
nine wolves, the remainder of the
pack closed in on a lone and unidenti-
fed Indian at the Lake of the Woods,
IS miles from Warrod, and his bones
were found today stripped of flesh,
The nine of the wolves he
had killed we're lying within a few
rods.
Wolves are starving because of the
fine weather, and lack of snow. AS a
result, they are travelling in packs
averaging between 30 and 40. 1t is
said there are more wolves this win.
ter than have been seen for years
along the Canadian boundary.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Will Have Convict Farm

Sioux Falls, Jan. 7.-South Dakota
will have a state farm next spring,
on which pe~nitentiary convicts will
be provided with work. The board of
charities and correction has conclud.
ed negotiations for the purchase OF
24O acres just north of the prison
grounds. Governor Byrne has been
urging the adoption of such a system,
Before two years have elapsed most
of the prisoners will be engaged in
labor in the open air, rather than be-
ing subject to the confinement of in
door work as at present.
Adjoining the 240 acres just pur
chased, the state has another tract OF
equal size. The entire $50 acres will
be devoted to prison farming.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Heavy Rains Cause DAMAGE

Tacoma, Jan. 6.-Breaking all rec
ords in rainfall for the last ten years,
4.61 inches of rain have fallen since
Saturday morning. Small slides have
occurred on nearly all railroads in
the vicinity of Tacoma. The Northern
Pacific line between here and South
Bend is closed, as a result Of a wash
out near Ceres. The track has been
torn away for about 800 feet by the
overf1owing of the Chehalis river.
Operations at the Tacoma smelter
where $50 yardmen are out On strike,
have been further crippled by slides
today which blocked the railway
tracks into the plant.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Filed Big Mortgage

Great Falls, Jan. 6.-John G. Nor
ony, vice president of the Montana
Power company has filed in the office
of the county clerk and recorder Of
Cascade county a mortgage of the
Guaranty Trust company of New York
as trustee, payable in 40 years, and
for SIS, 00O, 900.
This mortgage owe all the prop
erty of the Montana Power company
in Is counties of the state. The sew
eral power companies owned by the
Montana Power company now owe in
present outstanding bonds about ST.
100000. These bonds are to be re-
funded under this new mortgage. The
bonds issued under the terms of this
new mortgage bear an annual inter
est charge of s per cent.
The purpose in making the mort
gage for so large an amount is to en-
able the company at any time within
the life of the mortgage to raise mon
ey for development purposes. At pres.
ent the Montana Power company has
been able to sell bonds to the amount
of $4,000, 900 to care for the work
now under way at the Great Falls
of the Missouri and at Thompson falls
on Clark's Fork of the Columbia.
Mr.. Morony stated that the Montana
Power company expected to spend
many millions of dollars in the state
to prosecute vigorously its develop
ment. He had no idea that the com
pany would ever borrow to the full
amount of the mortgage within the
next 40 years, but it seemed advisable
and good policy to provide for such
a contingency in a state like Montana
that was yet in its infancy of material
development.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
GOVERNMENT ExTRAvACANCE

Our national extravaganza IS
brought home to us at the end OF ev-
cry regular session Of congress when
the appropriations foot up owe a Dill
lion dollars for a single year. How
this extravaganza has increased and
is increasing is shown by the mount
ing figures Of the national aprropria-
tons presented in an article b. Sena-
tor Burton of Ohio. in the Saturday
Evening Post. 1t explains the steadi-
ly growing burden OF taxation. 1t
shows the recklessness and prodigal.
ity of those in power when no efficient
check is placed on their lavish expeni-
iture Of the peoples money.
While the population of the country
has increased t%wenty.four times since
1890, the national appropriations fer
the current year are 500 times as great
as in 1890. In the first fifty-seven
years of our history from 1889 to
1916, the total expenses of our gov
eminent, including those of the war
of 1912, was only a billion dollars. or
less than the appropriations nov for
a single year. In the ten years pre-
ceding the Civil wal the governments
expenses averaged less than s60,O00,-
600 a year. During the Civil war the
to what seemed enormous proportions,
yet the total for the four years, 1861
to 1865, were only $3,342,S1O,O0O.
During the four years of profound
peace which has just passed the Unit
ed States government expended $685.
100000 more than were expended in
the four years of the Civil war, when
we had a million men to maintain in
the field, with all the other frightful
expenses of that great civil conflict.
In the ten years succeeding the Civil
war the annual expenditures averaged
$261, $50, 900, which included the very
heavy interest charge then paid on the
national debt. This is, of course,
large compared with the a%ppropria-
tons before the war, but it is almost
triling compared with what is spent
now. From billion-dollar congresses
we have now developed billion-dollar
sessions of congress-. We have ex-
ceeded the billion dollar mark each
year since 1908.
"The future promises no relief"
says Senator Burton, in citing these
figures of extravaganza, but this can
not go on forever. The growth of the
country will not explain the growth
of national expenses, for the latter is
out of all proportion to the increase
in population. Much of the expendi-
ture is pure waste that cannot be JUS
titled. This same extravagant spirit
is manifest in state and municipal
governments, particularly the latter.
The ~eXtravagant habit is contagious.
1t spreads all over the land, and to
check it and bring legislators back to
a just appreciation of responsibility
to taxpayers is the work of true re-
form. There is great present need of
1t. To prevent waste, to stop needless
expenditure of every kind is the best
work any administration can accom-
plish in Il national, state and local
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
FARM CREDITS

In discussing the subject of farm
credits, a trade journal calls attention
to a new departure that should prove
of benefit to Montana settlers. The
article says in part:
When Grocer Smith, seeing his re-
ceipts dwindle and his debts mount,
quietly sneaks a wagon load of his
goods out of the back door and an
nounces his failure the next day, he
commits a crime with a p%enitentiary
sentence attached to it's tail. When
the homesteader performs the same
trick, bOrrOws money on the land he
claims, dispOses Of the land and van.
ishes with the proceeds, he has com.
mitted no crime. The man who ad
vanced the money can do nothing.
For this reason it is easy to obtain
credit to go into the grocery business,
to add another one to the thousands
of surperfluous retail stores, to in.
crease the duplication of equipment
and service in the distributing end
that is n Of the causes of the in
creasing cost of merely keeping alive.
ouI WHICH, IAO uOmCotcdUcI W6uIS b
loan with which to defray the cost of
blowing and seeding, with which to
increase the food supply, the money.
lender turns down his thumb. He
has to. Uncle Sam safeguards the
credit extended to the merchant, pun.
ishes dishonest mercantile borrowers,
but Uncle Sam has for years encourag.
ed the homesteader to be dishonest
by allowing him to relinquish or as,
sign his claim without first settling
the debts incurred.
The new secretary of the interior
having q genuine, sympathetic under
standing of the settlers needs, has
now come to the aid of the homestead
er. BY providing that the lender may
register a mortgage on an unpatented
homestead entry in the land Office
and by the further provision that such
mortgaged entry cannot be relinquish
ed Or assigned except subject to the
mortgage. Secretary Lane has re
moved n Of the obstacles barring
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
To Hush Memorial Chimes

New York. Jan. 6.-Because Mrs.
Julia Gertrude Lyle, widow Of John
S. Lyle, who died last July, leaving
the bulk of his $2O,00O,0 900 estate to
her insists on having memorial
chimes on her Tenafy, N. j. estate
ring every Is minutes day and night.
some Of her neighbors appealed for
an injunction to Vice Chancellor Lew
is in Jersey City, yesterday. Mrs.
Lyle will have to respond next Mon
day and give some reason why an in
junction should not be issued to hush
the bells at least during the sleeping
hours.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14

Billings, Jan. S.-The latest coun-
ty division plans contemplate the seq
regation of portions of Yellowstone
Dawson. Fergus, Rosebud and Mussel.
she'll counties, at the point where the
five join, and it is proposed to make
Milestone the county seat. Petitions
are being circulated and will be pre-
sented to the board of commissioners
of Rosebud county, from which the
larger portion of the new county is to
be taken.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Women Will See President

Washington, Jan. 6.-1n order again
to bring woman's suffrage to the at
tention of President Wilson the pres
ident is to be asked to receive at the
White house January 81 a delegation
of 1000 working women representing
the various trades in which women
are employed.
Plans for the proposed reception
are being made by the congressional
union of the National Woman's Suf-
frage association with headquarters
here.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Counties Receive Fees

washington, Jan. 5.-Clerks of
state courts may collect naturaliza-
ton fees but cities or counties for
which they r officials can claim
them. The supreme court so held to.
day In the case of Harry L. Mulcrevy,
county n city clerk of San Francis.
co, who %contended that the city char.
ter provided that all money collected
by officials shall be paid into the city
did not apply to naturalization fees,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
Washington Lowlands Flooded

Seattle. Jan. IA high wind early
today put an end, for a time at least,
to the heavy rain which has flooded
the lowlands in western Washington
the last five days, giving the swollen
rivers a chance to discharge the
storm water into the sea. The wind
tore down telephone and telegraph
lines, adding to the troubles of the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14

abroad companies, but they welcom-
ed the change as it promised relief
from the mud slides which had been
interfering with the prompt handling
of traffic.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-16

that point. ss.~li.sss !, t'sa.''
 This country for good and .sufh- cient reasons has refrained from in- terfering in Mexican affairs and it has no intention even of doing so now, but it cannot be expected to re- main passive while such a character as Huerta offers insults to the Amer ican flag. There is nothing in Mex ico for this country and there is no reason for any thought that the trip of the battleships down there now has anything in the way of conquest in view. There must be reparation for the indignities offered and when that is done, Huerta, Carranza, Villa and the others can continue their hos tilities and kill each other if they choose to do so. This is no time for hysterical demonstration but rather a time for the people to keep cool and preserve a level head.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-16
NEW BRITAIN HONORED.

F. V. Streeter has been elected de- icut G. A. R., and he is the second New Britain man in the history of the Grand Army to hold that position. the first being Postmaster Hicks, who was elected thirty-two years ago.
 New Britain is proud of it's old sol- diers, of the new department com- mander, and appreciates the distinc- tion that has come to it this time Commander Streeter has been a brave soldier. he is today a good citizen. and New Britain is delighted that one of its veterans has been so signally honored
New Britain herald., 1914-04-16
Something Dropped Hard.
(Ansonia Sentinel.)

(Ansonia Sentlnel.)
 The New Britain democracy dropped with a dull sickening thud yesterday. at the annual city election and took the count. It was a very sudden and entirely unexpected pro- ceeding, for, in view of the election in Hartford, Connecticut democrats were pluming themselves on the fact that they were not only holding their ground in the face of business de- pression in the state, but were even gaining trif1e. To these optimists the returns from the, Hardware City are almost a tragedy. There Is not peg of hope to hang ones hat upon. The landslide carried everything be- fore it, not only the mayoralty, but the council. the commissions and all of the minor elective offices.
 The battle was fought on purely local issues, although the republi- cans did have occasion to point out at several times the responsibility of the democrats for present business conditions. But there was nothing in local issues or in the difference be- tween the two men from the stand point of popularity to explain this tremendous reversal of former elec- llOH HS LII SS. HC ICeaooh liuoI oS found elsewhere and it is altogether probable that it is the first free eX- pression of a pretty general feeling of dissatisfaction with the way dem ocratic government is working out in terms of prosperity for the worker. New Britain is primarily an industrial city and the business depression, while not felt nearly as severely there as in some other places, was yet one of the moving forces that explains the decisive actions taken by the electorate. It is not generally wise to draw any conclusions as to national affairs and policies from To- cal elections, but this event in New Britain is so difficult to explain from the viewpoint of local politics and goes so far astray from the predic- tions of New Britain politicians, who all figured on a close contest, that there must be reason to look for the explanation outside of the men or city issues.
 Connecticut democrats, who regard ed the preponderance of 34 votes for Lawler over Cheney in the Hartford election as glorious victory for the party and an endorsement of the Will son administration, are kindly invited to make some appropriate remarks upon the result in New Britain.