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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-29
PANAMA CANAL IS OPEN.
Without Flourish Of Trumpets the
Great Ditch 10 Ready For Service.

Great Ditch 10 Ready For Service.
A steady stream Of barges is passing
through the Panama canal. Without
flourish of trumpets the great event
passes almost unnoticed. Ever since
stout Cortes' conceived the idea of a
canal connecting the Atlantic with the
Pacific the idea has simmered in the
minds of men. The dream of four CEN
turtles was realized but IL few weeks
ago-the Panama canal is open for
traffic. Quietly. unostentatiously, it
has opened itself while men quarrel
over no%nessentials. and mention of
Panama usually suggests the toll con
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-29
Notice Of Annual MEETING

The regular mi meeting of the
Monday, August Bird. 1914, at $500 O'Clock
p. m. at the Stockmen's National Bank.
JOHN V. CARROLL. Vice President.
David G.. SIuWle. Secretary-rreas.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-29
Strayed

From my ranch near Virgelle, one
gray horse branded Boz on left hip.
and one dark bay mare branded w on
left shoulder. Finder will please notify
me. 4 Q CLEVELAND.
Eirgelle. Mont,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-29
Boar for Sale

A pure bred Duroc-Jersey boar. one
wear old. Pedigree furnished. Address
c. c. ROSS, Fort Benton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-29
Serial No. 0S1457 Contest No.
Notice Of Contest

-
L. S. Land Office at Great Falls, Mon
tana, June 26, 1914.
To John Fox, of Conrad, Montana. con-
testee:
You are hereby notified that
WILLIAM S. INMAN,
Who gives P .. Box 45S, Great Falls;
duly corroborated application to contest
and n secure the cs y" ast Of your
e @Snss'e made eS May s. Ms ls1 ssl for n ssr1a' o Me-:
half, section %, township % north. range
5 east, Montana meridian, and as grounds
fail dlS to e'e Establish isl a, residen raa' upon pom a said
building Of any ,, kind nd has been DSa erected sSted
doned, .unoccupied, and unimproved at
You are. therefore. further notified that
office as having been confessed by you,
and your said entry will be Cancelled
hereunder without your further right
office or on appeal, II you fail to file in
FOURTH publication Of this notice. as
specifically meeting and responding to
these allegations Of contest, or II you
fail within that time to file in this Of
! copy Of your answer on the said contest
ant either in person or by registered
mail. II. this service Is made by the de-
contestant in person.. proof of such SER
vice must be either the said contestants
the copy, showing the date Of it's re-
ceipt. Or the affidavit Of the person by
whom the delivery was made stating
when and where the copy was delivered;
if made by registered mail. proof of such
service must consist of the affidavit OF
the person by whom the copy was mailed
| stating when and the post office to which
1t was mailed. and this affidavit must be
accompanied by the postnlaster's re-
ceipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer the
name Of the post office to which YOU de.
sire future notices to be sent to YOU.
Il. ". SUTHERLIN, Register.
Date of first publication July I, 1914.
Date of second publication July 8, 1914.
Date SAT Of fourth court publieation july p. 1914
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
BRINGS MOON NEAR TO EARTH

red prominence, composed of hydro
gen gas, rendered incandescent in the
solar inferno, would surroud the sun s
disk with an ever changing scallop of
wildly red and green flames. The
solar corona, seen only during total
solar eclipses, would stream out into
space and give the sun the appear
ance of those winged globes seen in
ancient Egyptian sculpture.
But picture to yourself if you can,
the rugged and overwhelming gran
deur of the lunar mountains and
crater-w walls, thrown into brilliant
wilderness wherever the sun picked
out certain crags or escarpments, and
plunged into the blacklist of Stygian
gloom those portions which were not
reached by the advancing lunar day.
If one were to stand in the centre of
the crater plain known as 'Ptolomy. ,
whose diameter is full Sc miles, the
encompassing walls of this crater,
which are about a mile and a half in
height, are entirely invisible, being
beneath the Observers horizon. Now
we may imagine the earth as being
full a great disk covering an area
times that of the full moon as seen
from the earth, and directly above
the observers head. But at this time
the moon would be close to the sun,
and therefore new moon to the
jewellers on the earth. Whenever it
Ii first quarter moon, the earth is in
her last or third quarter to the
lunarians, and yica versa"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 5. 1914
IT IS A NATIONAL VERDICT.

Il. the Seventh New Jersey district yesterday there
was registered what practically the verdict OF the
nation against the repeal of the provision oil me
Panama canal act which gives the right to the United
States the builder and sole owner of the canal, 10
exempt its coastwse commerce. which is exclusively
domestic and confined to ports, from tolls
In the canal
The American people have been unable to believe
that their official at Washington even would
seriously think of a surrender of these American
rights at the demand of foreign power Still less
could they believe that the contemplated surrender
was voluntary When the House passed the repeal
bill under pressure by the great railroad interests
which are profit by It, and under the whip OF the
administration the nations eyes began to open wide.
Under our government there Is no way to take a
referendum of the people great national question
The people must silent while their servants at
Washington act If by their authority So the
repea bill was railroaded through the House against
some scattered protests which disregarded.
Yet single Congress district can speak the
national sentiment in special election At the polls
in the district the popular will is heard and yesterday
1t spoke In tremendous tones There could be mis-
take in it's meaning There was practically only one
issue in election, and that the tolls question
and will be accepted by the whole country
as such despite all efforts that may be made to mis-
represent it.
The Progressive candidate favored repeal and the
Progressive vote was reduced from 4746 to eel The
Socialist candidate for free tolls and the Socialist
vote was increased from $40 to 5,053, within 1877
Of the Democratic vote. The Republican candidate
favored free tolls and the Republican vote was In
creased by 1854 The Democratic candidate favored
repeal of tolls and the Democratic vote shrank
from 9 $50 In 1912 to $40, loss of 4760 votes.
In the Twelfth Massachusetts Congress district
Gallivan, who fought the administrations policy
Panama free tolls issue energetically elected
On the Democratic ticket.
If o special election could be held in all the Con
gress districts the Presidents home State the
diet would be the In the districts that take in
Essex and Hudson tolis-surrender candidate would
Hardly know he running, and there won't be any
candidates of that kind running in this State next
November
Unless the administration back-tracks Congress
will be lost to the Democratic party in the next cleo
ton The warning is given in the Seventh New Jer-
sey district And probably the Senate, too, will be
changed It's political control If the tolls repeater
is passed by Senate the nsulted patriotism of the
nation will send the Democratic party into retirement
for years and the States will go back to Republican
control
Shall a Democratic administration do what the
Taft administration did wreck the party that elected
It? Is history to repeat itself so swiftly?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08

have been upheld. This is true enough. But the
statement completely ignores the fact that in of
these elections was the Panama tolls issue made The
district election was yesterday the election the
Seventh District And the result tremendous
rebuke to the administration Could there be better
proof than this statement that the administration
beaten the tolls question alone?
The President himself, in his strange misleading of
the popular sentiment made the issue in the district
palmer and sharper by doing almost unprecedented
thing lie to the Democratic candidate in the
district personal letter giving to him strong in
dorsement, and Senator Hughes instructed the cand-
date, who appeared to have musty ideas as to what
the tolls question was, to come out for repeal. All
the administration speakers in the campaign strongly
emphasized the fact that the President would consider
it Insult" if the district should defeat his cand
date. An issue could not have been clearly de-
fined And the administration defined it,
The result was staggering No wonder confer
hurriedly called at the White House. The
whole country had been watching this district election
to catch the drift of popular sentiment and its effect
would be nationwide. That consideration might not
be regarded of much Importance at the White
House except for it's effect upon the Senate, and there
is the rub
As it Is the election result gives courage the
patriotic in the Senate who aboring TO save
the nation from injury and dishonor, it demoralizes
the railroad and tory combination to bring about the
proposed surrender to a foreign power and in all
probability IT will influence the defeat of free tolls
repeal in the Senate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
THE MORRIS CANAL BILL DIsCoMFrruRE.

Another great disappointment to the Lehigh
Valley railroad management is the extinguishment of
its Morris canal bill in the Legislature For nobody
doubt whose bill 1t The canal commits
soners disown its paternity and, the railroad COM
pany is given all the benefits of the bill, it be
credited to the company's legal department
There previous great disappointments for
the company In it's canal bills 1t pretended in
past years that bills that introduced pre-
pared by unsefsh authority. Thus the bill
introduced by the Canal Commission several years
ago supposed to be commission bill but it was
drawn up in the Lehgh Valley railroads law depart
ment.
Twice the Lehgb Valleys attempts to secure the
Morris canal came within an inch of success and
failed when the prize seemed TO be in the company 3
grasp On of these occasions u charge of bribery
demoraized the Bills Legislative supporters, and the
bill lost the time appointed for it's final passage
in the Senate 1t is manifest that not until the Lehigh
Valley railroad is ready to make honest terms with
the State dscarding the trckery of it's attorneys will
canal bill be passed by the Legislature.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
THE SLAUGHTER TO GO ON.

Defeat in the Legislature of the Edge bill requir-
ing railroad corporations to provide safety devices at
their hundreds of unprotected grade crossings in New
Jersey in accordance with the argument used in
the of the Pierce embarrassing bill in 1912-it
would cost too much to the railroads, If there was
any other argument used for the defeat of the bill,
only the railroad attorneys know.
In brief, hundreds of death-traps for the people
must be maintained by the railroads in New Jersey
because the corporations that maintain them find It
less expensive to kill people than to provide ordinary
protection. Humanity is lost sight of in dividends.
The railroads public highways which cross public
highways at grade The railroad company uses its
highway under immensely valuable franchises, given
to them by the people of the State. In return for
the gift they set hundreds of traps to catch the I'M
wary citizens the public highways their tracks
cross and slaughter them.
And former governor of the State and State
Legislature say that the slaughter must on because
it is not convenient for the railroads to pay the
pense of safety devices
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08

The Carroll church statistics annu-
ally furnish the most trustworthy
census of the numerical conditions oil
the churches of the United States.
Those for 1918 appeared a few days
ago. They are considered by church
men to be satisfactory and encourag-
ing. says the Spokesman Review.
Communicates or actual members
of churches constitute the foremost
numerical test of the strength OF the
American church. The Roman Cath
olics lead off with 13,0s3,534 members,
more than third of the protested
Christians of this country; the Meth
odist Episcopalians. with 3,4l5,16S; the
Southern Baptists, with 2,471,SS9; the
Methodist Episeopalians South, with
,g96,877; the Colored Baptlsts, Win
/ 1904; the Northern Presbyterians,
with 1.402, 53S; the Disciples, with
/ .962, III; the Northern Baptists, with
1856; the Episcopalians, with
9SG, 6O7, and the Congregationalists,
with 74S,S40 The total of the com
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
What Is the Matter with Ireland?

then cut your throat, and charge your
heirs for the coffin
The Irish jaryey Gaunting-car
driver knew We'll that England had
not changed her methods as late as
last summer. Driving through Coun-
ty Donegal, an Englishman was ours
ing the vile Irish roads. please, SIR
said the iarvey, be aisy on our roads.
We must keep them bad
why must you keep them bad?'
the Englishman asked in surprise.
Because said the 1arvey, III
they were anyways middlin' good, the
English would stale them from us.
Isaac Butt, a DO. egal Presbyterian,
began a home rule movement in 1870,
but it lacked virility till Parnell ar
rived on the scene and took the lead
ership in the late 70s. He set the
heather afire in Ireland, shook Ire
land and shook England, and in a
very few years had Gladstone run
ming away from the Coercion acts
with which he had thought to kill
Irish sentiment
Till finally, in the middle of the sos,
Gladstone came forward with a large
measure of home rule-which measure
the Tory element in England finally
wrecked. In the early '90s. Gladstone
coming into power again, put forward
uiiObhNl NcbhCi iuib
which was lost, also-by the power of
the House of Lords.
The present So-called home rule bill
is home rule In its most diluted form
because. while creating what it
would call an Irish parliament, it re-
serves to the British Parliament the
power over all larger national things
in 1reland-chief among them being
Irish taXation-and to call a bill
which gives us no say in our own
taxes a home rule bill is a joke that
even an Englishman would almost
see.
Moreover, the present so-called home
rule bill ordains that any bill which
the so-called Irish parliament passes
one day may be put into the waste
basket by the British Parliament the
next day.
Summarizing the bill, it is q lame
mans step in the right direction.
But the main thing is that, as Ire
land has been for seven hundred years
how fighting for national independ-
ence-complete separation from Eng
land-even a measure of home rule
as full and complete as the present
measure is defective, would still only
be regarded by our people as a mile
stone attained on the journey.
Having got such a measure, they
would hardly pause to draw breath
before pressing onward toward their
only goal-the end where we rest the
Irish question, ireland a free arrs in
dependent nation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
THE WHITE HOUSE EXPLANATION.

s The explanatory statement from the White House
issued as soon the administration realized the
seriousness of the crushing verdict in the Seventh
New Jersey District in the Presidents own State,
evidently prepared in conference of the administration
leaders with the hope of softening the effect of the
verdict for members of Congress- But the explanation
is curiously ingenious and maadroit.
A list of eight Congress districts is given for the
period since the administration into power and
IN all of them il is declared the administration policies
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
Mexico and Receivership.

igrom the Review of Reviews
The solution that would be best for
all interests In Mexico would be that
of a voluntary receivership" for II
fixed period OF from ten years to
twenty years. Thirty years, of
course, might be still better. Self
government under the democratic
republican forms Is extremely diff
eult even for the most highly devel-
oped communities. The State of New
York falls sadly short, and the state
Of Massachusetts is far from per-
feet Mexico needs reconstruction
much on the plan used by the United
States for the temporary reorganiza-
ton of Cuba, or for the undermining
of the Philippines. 1t does not need
Americans to do the work necessarily,
hut 1t needs something like a guar
anty from Uncle Sam of stability and
protection, while n picked group of
MeXicans are reconstructing the in
stitutions of their country. Taxation
must be reformed, lands must be sub
divided. education must be diffused.
agriculture must be modernized, order
and Justice must be assured, the pub
lie health must be dealt with as in
ne canal zone, and administration
! all directions must be made hon
ST and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, so that re-
sources may be conserved and de-
veloped, and the people of the coun-
try may have as good an opportunity
for development and progress as the
Eilipinos are now having under In
stitutions that have been created for
them by the United States, but that
are already administered almst en-
tirely by their own people.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Remington Painted His Battle of San Juan

The late Frederic Remington, who
gained a high reputation as a painter
IN Indian life on the frontier and of
horses in action, was ambitious to
paint a battle scene descriptive of the
charge of San Juan Hill, Cuba, made
by the American soldiers at the time
of the war with Spain. He hoped
to be able to put upon canvas fair
lN accurate picture descriptive of the
battle at its most critical moment.
After Colonel Roosevelt returned from
Cuba, Remington had several CONVEX
sations with him and discovered that
the commander Of the Rough Riders
spoke with enthusiasm of the artists
purpose.
1t was apparent to Remington, how
ever, that il he were to paint his
picture so that there could be ae-
curate representation of the country
and of the landscape it would be nee
essary for him to go to Cuba and per
haps spend Two or three months in
studying the scenery which was the
environment of the battle.
He foresaw that he might have a
lonely time in Cuba. He did not
know but that his work would en-
tail rough life, camping at night, and
he was not assured of the means by
which he could obtain his meals in
comparatively regular order.
Shortly after Remington landed at
Diaqu.ri, he was greeted with the ut
most cordially by a man who knew
him well enough to call him Fred -
This man was Edward Jennings Cox,
who died only year ago. He had
been for some years stationed at the
great iron mines near Daiquiri, being
the executive manager of these m mes,
which are owned by American capital
From MIR. Cox WAS obtained the story
of Remington's adventures in Cuba
while painting his descriptive scene of
the assault upon San Juan Hill.
Fred was perfectly delighted when
he heard the sound of a familiar
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08

BY MARY
Barbara Bodichon, celebrated as the
founder of Girton College, in England.
and Laura Linton, pioneer American
physician and chemist. are birthday
celebrities for April s.
Barbara Bodichon was born in 1871
and in her early girlhood showed
remarkable talent for painting. She
was taught by the famous artist,
William Hunt. and her work was en-
eouraged by Turner, Rossetti, Corot
and others of world fame. However
interested she was in her art, she was
much more interested in the problem
of improving the advantages and, con
ditions of English women. When the
married women's property bill came
UP before Parliament, she was most
active in her efforts to secure its
passage, and q paper written by her
on the laws relating to women s
property rights in England was one
of the most effective measures taken
to secure the passage of the famous
bill
Mrs. Bodichon's marriage took place
when she was thirty. Her husband
was DIR. Eugene Bodichon, whom she
met in Algiers. Among Mrs. Bodi-
chon's most intimate friends was
George Eliot. the novelist, who based
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08

voice" said Mr. Cox. I'VE had
known one another st a time when
he was painting some of his Western
frontier scenes. [ invited him to be
my guest as long as he was in Cuba,
telling him he could come and so as
he chose.
II was as greatly pleased to have
him with me. as he appeared to be 10
accept my offer of hospitality. We
We're two of a kind, both fun loving,
fond of adventure and having keen
appreciation of the kind of lige which
Remington SO vividly painted, de-
plotting scenes upon the remote
frontier of the United States.
Il had heard that Remington WAS
a swift painter. not always careful
of details. But if any man could
have taken greater pains with the
detail of great painting than
Remington did I should like to know
how he did it.
He used to go out every day to
the battle-ground. which was not far
distant. He took sketch after sketch
of the lay of the ground. He studied
the contour of the country and the
battlefield from every angle. OF
course he was compelled to rely upon
his imagination. fortified by descrip
tons which men gave to him of the
battle. for that part of the work
which pictured forth the actual as
sault.
TT was not until year had passed
that he had obtained the material
needed for painting all of the pic
lures. When he went away / felt as
if 7 had lost my dearest friend. |
was delighted to know. as [ learned
before Remington's death. that his
picture was spoken of in words of
high appreciation both by those who
never saw San Juan Hill and by
those who took part in the battle"
Copyright. 1914. by +. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)