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VERDI AT THE OPERA.
"Un Ballo In Mnschera" Heard ~
Large Audience.

Nerdis TN Balo in Maschera' was
sung at the Metropolitan Opera House last
night. There was large audience and
apparently great amount OF pleasure
was given by the performance. The cast
was the same as before. except that Nine.
puchene was the C!ricd. Her impersona-
ton was entirely credi.able. Mr.. Caruso
was in exceptionally good condition and
sang with much vigor and a. times with
more than his customary finish.
Nine Destinn was heard TO advantage
as Amelia and Mime. Hempel sang the
music OF Oscar with manifest relish. Mr..
Amato. whose Rendto was not up to his
standard when the work was first given
this season. sang well and was good to
look at. The chorus had plenty OF spirit
and so did the orchestra Mr.. Toscanini
presided over affairs with his familiar
energy.
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TIM is in "A hospital recovering from an
operation performed to-day. There Is a
chance for his recovery.
Sheriff Anderson had two cronies of
Beardslcy approach him to-day ana oner
hin, "a rig in which he could escape.
Beardsley laughed at them and told them
he would take no chances Of being caught
that way.
A messenger was sent to James Boards
lev OF Tltusvillc. Pa. brother OF the
accused man, to see II he will consent to
take Beardsley's nine children. Boards
ley told the Sheriff he would surrender
II his brother would take the children
away.
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After weeks Of rehearsins members of
the Junior League gave last night at the
Waldorf.\storil the fin st performance OF
II mclange OF songs and dances called
THE Merry Whit" which was arranged
and conducted by Miss Lila Agnew Stew
art II was q sort of carnival that en-
listed most of the debutantes OF this win
ter and last and some who were debu-
tantss several years ago and are now mar
ried. For the dances there were as part
ners to the members of the league IA good
many of The young dancing men OF So
ciety
The Junior League Is an organization
that Interests the girls and young women
OF New York In philanthropy and social
service OF various kinds ana the money
raised from time TO time by its enter
tainments is contributed TO the support,
OF settlements. hospitals and charitable
agencies. District nurses and visiting
teachers are supported. flowers, fruits and
delicacies are sent to hospitals. food and
clothing being supplied In case of extreme
need.
AZ a rule only the dobutantes of the
current season are called upon for the
annual entertainment. but this year the
scope was so large that other recruits had
TO be sought. The grand ballroom of the
Waldorf-Astoria was arranged for a
keriress with booths of various kinds
where all sorts OF commodities were on
sale. \ stage was SIT. where pageant
Of dances was enacted.
Maurice Roche Crowned King.
First on the programme was a prologue
recitcd BY Miss Julia Robbins. who was
dressed as a pierrot. the verses being
written by Gerald Murphy. A proce ssion
on the stage OF all the dancers was then
followed by the choosing and GROWING of
the king OF the carnival. who was enacted
by Maurice Roche. After this followed a
series OF interesting dances, all appropri-
ately costumed and wonderfully well exc
cuted to the inspiriting music Of Conrads
Orchestra.
First came a tarantella, which had been
organized by Miss Margaret Trevor and
led by Miss Trevor, Miss Amy Bradish
johnson, Charles T.. Miller and Morris NJ
Pryor. The other dancers were the
Misses Joy Waldron Williams, Mercedes
de Acosta Genevieve Sanford, Mildred q
Rice, Gwendoln Condor and Nathalie
Slocum: William Palmer Shipper Davis
Edward Shipper I'd, Vivian j. Palinieri
David Ogden Rogers, William Travers
Jerome, Jr, Theodore Crane and Curtis
Browne.
Into this number was introduced a
! tambcurine dance executed by Miss Mar
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bill MIR. Stanley introduced to-day he is
also in favor of che Administr alton =
plans to have the legislation broad enough
to prohibit interlocking directorates and
TO create out OF the bureau Of corpora
lions an interstate trade commission.
Mr.. Stanley. as chairman Of the steel
trust investigating committee. focused
attention on interlocking directorates, and
in his report as chairman OF that commit
tee dealt at some length with the ques-
ton and recommended investigation
dealing with It.
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, :. Bryce Wing. Frederick 7. Ere
linghuysen, Philip o. Mills. Pennington
Pearson .>xen Wichfeld. Eustis +. Gibbs,
Harry r Peters and Lawrence :. Butler.
In this scene Mrs. Frederick y. Dalzel
and sydney : Breese did a wigwam
dance and Lawrence =. Butler sang The
sunrise Call" The stage WAS set to
represent the plains.
\ Venetian scene and gondolier dance
which followed had a most attractive set
ting with a canal and illuminated palaces
in the background. Some of the dancers
came on the scene in a gondola and while
seated I'm II Mrs. n. II. Rogers sang
Venetian song and later when she had
left the gondola with Bechtel Allcock she
sang Una Notte Venezia' and La
Spagnola'
\ Venetian waltz was capitally danced
by Mrs. Walter y. Stilman and Frederick
T. Frelinghuysen. Others in this dance
, Were Mrs. Henry c. DE Rham I'd. the
Misses Janetta Alexander. Beatrice Pratt.
Mary Cass Garfield. Jeanne Enmet,
Emily Sloane and Clara Fargo Lawrence
Mex. Miller. r. Stuart-Wortley. Chester
q. Burden. Whtewrlght Watson. John
ston l.. Redmond. r. Strcppa -Quaglia and
Eustis l.. Gibbs.
Oriental scene and Dance.
Tile final number on the programme
was an Oriental scene and dance. The
stage was set Ike "A bazaar and the peo-
pie in 1t were Mrs. William G. Potter.
Mrs. J, Hopkins Smith. Jr.. Mrs. clifford
y. Cochran. Mrs. Grafton Pyne, Mrs.
Frederick +. DE Khan. Mrs. Courtlandt
Nicoll. IN. Misses Audrey Osborn. Leonie
Burrill aud Elizabeth Hoyt George Mil
burn. Richard Whitney, Thomas Froth-
/ ingham, Albert l.. Hoffman. Paul Ham
mond and Frederick +. DE Rham.
In this scene Miss Margaret Andrews
7 faSs Il liz
charmer's dance and there was a peacock
, dance by Miss Julia Robbins and Horace
&. Stebbins.
Others In the Oriental dance were Mrs.
Louis W. Noel Mrs John Ruthcrfurd,
Mrs. Wendell =. Blagden, Mrs. ". Earl
Dodge, the Misses Eugene Philbn, An
gelica Brown. Maud Kennedy and Louise
Trevor Count Alto Salm-Salm sydney :.
Broesc. Umbcrto NJ. Coletti Arthur X.
Jones. Maurice Roche. Eric = Winston,
Harvey :. Ladew. W. Travers jerome. Jr..
Reginald b. Rives and Gerald Murphy.
After the dances We're finished votes
were cast for the most popular set The
decision Will be- known tonight, when the
entertainment will be repeated. There
will also be IA performance this afternoon.
when a feature in addition TO the other
dances will bc a French Doll and Teddy
Bear dance by children.
Some Of those at the booths and else
where were lUe Misses Alice haven,
: Rosetta Carson. Mildred Mordaunt. Eliza
| beth Burrll. Flora NcAlpin, Mary cut
| ting Cumrock Elizabeth Knapp Margaret
! Overton, Eleanor Taylor. Dorothy Ander-
! ton. Marie Louise Rodewald. Helen Griffin
Gabrielle Gourd. Dorothy Chisoln. Jose
| phiue Nicoll, Noel Johnston, Louise Tiff
fanny Frank. Mildred Dennis, Lcntilhon
/ clifford. Alexandra Emery, Mimi Scott
Elizabeth kirlin, Helen Hiss. Elsie
/ Stevens, Colne Ingersoll, Cathar.ne Gull
! bert and Helen Morgan, In the audience
were the parents and many friends OF the
participants, a supper and informal dance
] followed.
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OUTLAW EvADEs SHERIFF TRAP.
Chsutsuqua Cossty Man Has Deaed
Police for Nearly . Week.

JAMESTOWN. Jan. ls.-Edward Boards
icy is still safe inside his little farm
house near summerdale, all efforts to
lure him away having proved futile. The
Understood man has successfully dehed
N. county authorities for nearly week.
John g. w. Putnam, Beardsley's VIC
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saret c. Henderson and Miss Dorothy
L,gG Howard.
Aftcrwa:d came a Sunnybrook dance
organized 10y Miss Mary G. Alexander,
This had the appearance of village fair
and there was introduced into 1t a Reuben
clog. which was danced with mucn sue
cess by Miss Ale:ander and sydney :.
Breese. Miss Marian Clark sang a swing
Song while in "A swing, that now and
then swung out over the footlighis Others
in this dance We're Mrs. Stanley q. Nor
timer. the Misses Beatrice BurIll, Marie
Taller Harriet Paris. Marie Louise Rode
wald. Augusta Bishop and Muriel VIM
throp: Wadsworth Lewis. Seth Barton
French. Harry Gushing Sd, Bache Brown,
Murray Hoffman. John Munroe Johnston
Redmond and Hosmer Barrett
Spirited Polo Dance.
Following this number came the polo
dance, which was one Of the most spirited
OF the evening. The men were all in polo
toys and the women were dressed as they
might be at any one OF the polo matches
in the summer Into this number was
interpoated dance called the riding
lesson, which was executed with much
skill by Miss Augusta Bishop and Count
Alexander Salm-Salm. Miss Bishop wore
riding habit and Count SalmSalin a
hunting costume. Miss Louise Freeman
sang Goodbye. Everybody. while the
men Of the polo set danced about her.
The dance vas organized by Miss Carol
Hartman and Miss May Bishop Harri-
man In It We're Mrs. J. Gordon Auchin-
Gloss, Mrs. David WaystaT the Misses
Cornelia Landon. May Hartman. Jean
ne,te Klssel. Eugene Philbin Virginia
Mitchell and Miriam Hartman Sidney
Dillon Ripley. Count Alexander Salm-
Salm. Count Otto SalmSalm, Arthur Rus
sell Jones. Maurice Roche. David Wacstan,
, Dudley s. Morgan and Barclay II. Farr.
Another decided hit of the night was
the Brazilian maxiXe, danced by Miss
Clara Fargo and her brother. James G.
Fargo I'd. They wore typical Brazilian
costumes and went through the difficult
steps quite as we'll as many OF the pro-
fessional dancers
Hungarian Number PIeascs.
A spirited Hungarian dance came next.
suggesting dances given by the Russian
ballet troupe at the Metropolitan Opera,
This set was organized by Miss Edith
Mortimer and Miss Claire Bird. and dan
cling with them were the Misses Katharine
Turnbul,. Angelica Schuyler Brown, Elsie
Park and May Watson; Gerald Muir
ply, Whitewright Watson. Richard v hit
ney. Francis Roche c. Suydam Cutting
and T. Chesiey Richardson, Jr, In
this set was introduced the polka violette.
danced by the Misses Mortimer and
Brown. Gerald Murphy and Maurice
| Roche. The friska was danced by Miss
Claire Bird and Richard Whitney.
The American Indian was not over
| looked and there was a typical tribal
dance by men and women costumed Ike
the braves and squaws of the Far West.
| In this dance were Mrs. Allen q Wellman,
! Mrs Arthur Swami, Mrs. Oliver Perrin.
u AZ II ehA ttu
Robbins, Marie Taller. Maud Coster. Au-
drey Osborn. Sarah Morgan and Bar
bara Rutherfurd Harvey $. Ladew,
Lawrence Hopkins. 4. D. b. Pratt,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Makes Living From One Acre

In the current issue Of Farm and
Fireside Charles \. Byers writes an
interesting article in which he shows
how certain farmers in California are
making a comfortable living from an
acre Of ground and in some cases from
a fraction of an acre. Following is
an extract from the article:
sometimes a lot will be planted ex
clusively to some one vegetable or to
marketable flowers, but in most cases
a variety of garden truck is grown. AS
an illustration, the tiller of a half-acre
lot at Monte Vista during the past sea.
o tells me that he planted potatoes,
sweet corn, peas, three kinds of beans
cucumbers, melons, squash ~(several
varieties). tomatoes. sweet potatoes,
beets, carrots. onions. lettuce, and
kale. Rotation of crops is carefully
planned, and in this way the pro.
d~uctiveness of the soil is utilized to
the greatest degree.
"Many Of the farmers devote con-
siderable attention to raising chick
ems and eggs for the market. and the
milk. cream and butter produced by
the colonies are supplied by the Tog
genburg or Nubian goats"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Is His Own Grandfather

Last year | did not want to en-
barrass my best girl to make her pro.
pose to me, SO asked her to be my
wife, and she said: 81 would rather
be excused" and | like an idiot, ex
cused her. But | got ven with the
girl. l married her mother. Then
my father married the girl. Now
don't know WHO | am.
When | married the girls mother
the girl became my daughter, am,
when my father married my daughter
he is my son. When my father mar
ried my daughter she was my mother
If my father is my son and my
daughter is my mother. who in thun
der am |? My mothers mother
(Which is my wife, must be my
grandmother, and | being my grand
mothers husband, | an my own grand
father.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Fifty Feet Of Road Per Minute

Here is a new marvel of machinery.
A $4,000 self-propelled road-building
machine has been tested abroad with
results that are said to be highly sat
isfactory from the standpoint of eff
cheney and economy. The engine
which does all the work is a siX-cy-
Under distillate burning gas engine Of
so horsepower, which operates a SER
les of bucket chains that dig the soil
to and depth down to is inches. and
the tooth-armed buckets are SC power
full that they will cut through a fin
ished pavement if it be desired to re-
build old streets.
The earth is picked up by these
buckets. carried to a mixer in the body
OF the machine and thoroughly COM
bined with any desired binder. hot as
phaltum or crude oil. and is then
spread evenly and rolled. all in II OPP
GRAFTON. \ trailer containing the binder
follows the machine. and it is neces.
sary to have a string Of them in readi-
ness. as the device operates with great
speed. The earth is dug up. mixed. re-
laid and rolled at the rate Of fifty
square feet a minute for 81 eishtinch
depth OF asphalt pavement.
\ very advantageous feature Of this
method OF mixing is tina: il is uniform
from base to surface. SO that there is
no danger of the surface buckling. OF
course. when the mixture includes
crushed rock it is necessary to spread
the material before the machine. The
chains OF buckets are Independent of
each other. and as each has a width Of
six inches it is possible to form various
combinations for roads OF different
widths.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Montana Crop Report

Helena. May 26.-Rain is badly
needed in the tier of northern coun-
ties east of the main range, according
to the weekly crop report of the de.
partment OF agriculture, issued by
Section Director r. F. Young. Winter
wheat generally is in fine shape and
prospects for a fine fruit crop are ex-
ceilent. The report says:
The week ending May % was gen.
orally favorable for the progress of
farm york and growth of crops, eX-
cept in the northern counties east of
the continental divide. where rain is
badly needed. Showers occurred over
the southern and western counties and
the soil there, as a rule. contains suf-
ficient moisture for seed termination
and crop growth.
winter wheat is in good condition
throughout the state, and in most
places in a more advanced stage of
growth than usual at this time of
year. In the southeastern part of the
state it is from 10 to II inches high,
Rye is heading short in some north
ern counties because of lack of mois'
ture. Flax and oats seeding is still
in progress in many sections. On &C
count of the abundance of moisture
from rains in the southern and west,
ern counties very little irrigation has
been needed"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Growing Early Sweet Corn

A contributor to Farm and Fireside
says some of the most successful a
deners near Boston have found a
good way of getting sweet corn on the
market early enough to command a
fancy price. After thoroughly plow-
ing and narrowing the soil. they turn
up ridges the shape of an inverted V
where the corr row is to be.
The soil thus elevated dries out
quickly and absorbs heat much more
readily than would a level surface.
The seed is planted along the apex of
tie ridge and terminates promptly
into young plants that thrive and
ripen ears about two weeks earlier
than the ordinary level-soil method.
This plan may easily be adopted in
any northern garden where the early
III is desired.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
The River Press
Published every Wednesday Morning
By the Rircr Press Publish
ing Company.
INCREASE FARM PRODUCTION

che slogan back to the soil a few
years ago was 'alsed by a few far
sighted economists who foresaw the
day ,gnen the farm production was uCt
going to feed eve this country and
we should cease being exporters of
agricultural products and begin to i'm
port foodstuffs. Notwithstanding we
had land and fertility enough to feed
the world if we would but make it
yield what it was capable of yielding.
The expected has happened. but
much sooner than scheduled. We are
importing foodstuffs. with less than
half of our tillable land titled at all,
ana none of it worked up to anything
like its capacity.
1t is a startling comparison that
Frank Vanderlip drew before the Cot
ton Manufacturers association: Only
one farmer in the civilized world gets
less from his soil. per acre. that the
American farmer. and that is the Rus
sian moujik. Yet he has Anticipated
farming implements, is practically a
slave, has no education, and labOrs
under a social and political handicap
that robs him of the fruits of his toll
and, therefore. of any incentive.
This is not a pleasant comparison.
Mr.. Vanderbilt says the American
farmer is wasteful and careless. Jas.
j. Hill believes the system is wrong.
He thinks we must follow the same
movement that is going IN all over
the Notwithstanding our large farms
into smaller ones and increasing the
number of men who both own and till
all their land. Back of his argument
he places the fact that Il average
farm is too large for scientific. inten-
Sive farming by one MANTLE owner
and it is getting harder and more
expensive each year to get farm help.
Mr.. Hill also looks into the future
when we shall have some form OF a
rural credit law and shows that the
future farmers ability to borrow
money is lot going to depend so much
upon the amount of land he owns as
upon how much he is getting it to pro-
duce per acre. He then will be upon
the same basis as the merchant whose
credit depends not upon the size of
his store. but upon the volume of his
profits.
The present generation has learned
the secret of industrial efficiency and
by it's application has conquered the
world industrially. The next genera
ton will have to take up the question
Of agricultural efficiency or be COM
parable to the slothful servant who
hid his talent in a napkin.-Helena
Independent.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Pointed Paragraphs

Leave the wearers Of the slit skirt
alone. Sooner or later they'll catch
cold and come to an untimely end
Baltimore American.
The rain falls on the just and un-
just alike, but it sometimes seems as
if the unjust could afford the mor
expensive umbrellas.-San Francisco
Bulletin.
Those Vassar girls who slid down
hill in dishpans may be able to recol-
lect childhood days when shovels
were sufficiently commodious.-Cleve-
land Leader.
A New England ~suffragette has
tanned angleworms so that they come
out of the ground and eat sauerkraut
from her hand. Such a woman should
have no trouble whatever with mere
man.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
ing schoolhouses. If hat doesn't
prove that women should be allowed
to vote. what sort of evidence would
you NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
According to a fashion editor. there
is a great deal of personality seer in
dress these days. 1t almost seems at
times as if there might be more per
sonality than dress Cleveland
Leader.
a Mississippi man was bitten by
a mule Yesterday. When a mule be
gins to bite is is a sure sign that he
has rheumatism in his hind legs and
can't use them.-New Orleans Plea
yune.
We believe some of our forward
looking patriots are becoming SO trieG
waiting for postoftices that If some
thing doesn't drop pretty soon they
will have their whiskers sheared anC
go to work.-Houston Post.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
FORT BENTON
Crusade Against Social Evil

Chicago, May 26,-Commercialized
vice in Chicago has been almost
stamped out in the last year of unre-
hitting war against it, according to a
summary of events made public today
by a citizens committee of fifteen. The
old south side "Tevee'' district, for
many years the disgrace Of the city,
has been abolished, says the report,
and nowhere in the city is there All
immoral district where vice can be
organized and exploited. Two thous-
and undesirables have been forced to
leave the city, four hundred resorts
have been closed and many women
have been restored to worthy lives.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Farm Success Without Rain

One of the greatest and most tri-
umphant agricultural booms in the
world is tt be found in Africa-the
dry land farming of central Tunis.
where the rainfall is less than ten
inches. This success is astonishing
in the face of the uncertainty, dread,
and failure that harrass our own as
yet unadjusted dry land agriculture.
AS an evidence of local failure | would
tural scientist on a recent 90-mile
journey in the southern part of the
great plains, where the rainfall aver
ages twenty inches. says a writer in
Harper's Magazine.
In the 80 miles t%raversed there was
a cattle ranch. The dry farmers had
pushed out the cattlemen. and the re-
cent drought had pushed out the dry
farmers-all but one in a strip as long
as from New York to Philadelphia.
Our uncertainties arise under a rain
fall of 10 to 20 inches. The Africans
c~omplacency is assured by less than
10 inches.
subscriptions have recently been
taken up here for people living in an
average rainfall of ii to IS inches,
Yet the complacent success of Tunis
is in the vicinity of SfaX. where in
seven consecutive years the total rain
fall amounted to Al inches-fve and
eight-tenths per year.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Feet Prices Advance

washington. May 26.-Farm prices
for beef cattle advanced more than 3
per cent. but average quotations for
hogs and sheep were lower April IL
than on that date in 1913, figures pre-
pared by the department of agricul.
ture stated today. Cattle prices last
mont were $500 a hundred. an ad.
vance or Il cents. Among the state
averages We're:
washington. California $3.50, Ore,
gon $3.50. Idaho $3.50. Montana $500.
The average hog price to producers
April 10 was $3.50 a hundred. IA cents
less than on that date last year.
The average farm price for sheep
was S4.S6, compared with s5.1e a
year ago.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Puts Ginger Into Campaign

Washington. May 27.-Former
President ROosevelt's conference with
members of the progressive party in
congress on political questions here
last night was an interesting topic OF
discussion in political circles in Wash
ington today.
What effect ii any Colonel Roose'
veltS announced intention of taking
part in the campaign would have on
tie other parties could not be fore
told. Il was believed. however, to
forecast a more vigorous campaign
II tieir part.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-06-03
Affects Irrigation Projects

Washington, May 27.-The bill now
pending in the house providing that
settlers on irrigation projects in the
west shall have twenty years in which
to make payments for water, and pay
on a graduated scale, has the presi-
dents approval. he has informed a
western delegation Of congressman
led by Representative Stout of Mon
tana and Taylor of Colorado.
However. the bill will not receive
consideration unless the democratic
caucus authorizes the chairman of
the rules committee to report it,and
the president cannot assist in this
because he is pledged to Representa-
tive Underwood to hold his hand un-
til the antitrust measures have been
disposed Of.