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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Death Of Or. r. A.. AtkiSson

There will be general mourning
throughout this vicinity over the
death of DR.. F. A. Atkisson, the we'll
known physician, which took place
Monday evening at st. Glare hospital.
The end came as the result of a Sc.
r attack Of heart trouble, to which
the patient had been subject for sev-
eral years, and which on several for
mer occasions caused great anxiety
to his friends.
DR.. Atkisson has enjoyed the re-
spect and esteem of all residents Of
this part Of Montana during the past
thirty years. He was born in Ken
lucky about Is years ago, and came
to Montana from Atlanta, Ca, in 1879
as contract physician with the 18th
U. s. infantry at Fort Assinniboine.
A year or two later DR.. Atkisson came
to Fort Benton to fill a similar posi-.
ton with the Third infantry, and up
on the termination of his service with
the military authorities he opened an
Office in this city as a practicing ply
stefan.
DR.. Atkisson was a true southern
gentleman in every respect which
that term implies. He was of a kind
hearted, generous disposition, his pro-
fessional services being rendered in
most cases without expectation or de,
sire of financial reward. Many fam.
lilies to whom he ministered in times
of sickness have reason to hold DR..
Atkisson in grateful remembrance. BY
many Of the younger generation in
this vicinity, at whose birth he was
in attendance, DR.. Atkisson was es-
teemed almost as a member of their
family, owing to his kindly interest
in their personal welfare at all times.
The death of DR.. Atkisson removes
a good citizen who will be missed by
a large number Of local residents who
appreciated his kindly and g~ratuitous
services to the community during the
past thirty years.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Harold Morton Kramer

The next number of the Fort Ben.
ton Lyceum course will be a lecture
by Harold Morton Kramer, 1.-THE phil
osopher Of life," Saturday evening,
February z. The subject will be
"Here o. Nowhere"
Was Hamlet right when he de-
clared to Horatio, There's a divinity
that shapes our ends, rough hew them
how we will?" What influence did
philosophy have upon the life Of Ma
poleon, and what lesson is there for
men and women of today in Napole-
on's philosophy?
This lecture answers these Ques-
lions, and the lessons drawn from the
answers are applied to the lives OF
the average" men and women who
make up u nation. It is a psyche
logical and philosophical discussion Of
life and its problems-problems that
come to all Of us-and is vibrant with
optimism; not the optimism of the
ostrich that sticks its head down into
the sand and then comforts Itself
with the belief that there is no danger
because it a see none, but an in
telligent optimism that looks the dan
gers and problems squarely in thu
face and finds a rational solution To-
them. The lecture argues the respon
sibility of the individual, that thu
ideals and industry of the individual
are the guiding forces that determine
the destiny of society collectively.
The lecture is filled with hume
that needs no apology. The illustra
| tions illustrate.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Local Grain Quotations

Chinook Opinion: The wide spread
reputation of the Milk river alfalfa
seed was evidenced again this past
week by the receipt of an order for
a hundred pounds of the Chinook al.
falfa seed from Australia. The order
was sent to James Griffin by the Off.
Gals of the Great Northern railway.
A large ranch company in Australia
had written to the company to send
them some Milk river seed as they
had been informed that that was the
most reliable to be obtained in this
country and as they desired it for ex-
perimental purposes. they desired the
most reliable seed Obtainable.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
When Prices Were Hiah

The present high cost of living,
about which there is general com.
plant, is not disturbing old.time Mon
tana residents who remember the
famine prices of early days. Owing
to the difficulties, uncertainties and
expense of transportation there was
an occasional scarcity of certain
classes of supplies, and as the stocks
of such goods diminished it was the
custom to raise the price to the limit.
One of these incidents is related in
a biographical sketch of. George w.
Story, an old-time resident of Butte,
published by the Anaconda Standard.
which says in part:
"Mr. Story tells of a trip he made
to Fort Benton in his early Helena
days. He bought a trainload of sup
plies, including glass, nails and nee.
essities. He paid So a dozen for axe
handles, and at Helena sold them at
$3.50 apiece. For eight and ten pen
ny nails he paid 80 cents a pound, or
$50 for a 100-pound key, and sold them
in Helena at $1.10 per pound. That
was in 1865. Flour at that time was
selling in Virginia City at $1.65 per
pound and in Helena at $1.1o per
pound"
Similar experiences can be related
by many Montana pioneers, who re-
call times of high prices that seem
incredible to citizens who do not ap-
preciate the conditions of fifty yeas
ago. The quantity of goods sold ct
these exorbitant prices was compar-
atively small, and the citizens who
were compelled to make purchases
during a scarcity of local supplies
could not secure them elsewhere.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04

kinds. Call in forenoon. Oscar
Brooks, Franklin street.-Adv.
The Eklund photo studio will be
open Saturday and Sunday, February
Z and 8.-Adv. q.
The members of St. Paul's auxil-
iary will meet with Mrs. F. E. Stran-
ahan on Thursday afternoon, at $3.50
o'clock.
w. C. Poulsson returned today from
a business visit to Minneapolis,
where he attended a convention of
lumber men
o. A. Bergeson, who arrived last ev.
ening from Geraldine, reports several
new buildings in course of construc-
ton at that place.
The sheriff's Office is in receipt of
several applications for wolf and coy
ote bounty, the Montana law requir-
ing that the skins be presented for
inspection during the first ten days
/ of each month.
Montana postmasters and the gen.
eral public will be interested in q
| Washington dispatch which says pos
tai money orders will be payable al
any ~postofice instead Of only at the
Office on which they are drawn, under
a bill passed by congress. The new
plan will probably take effect in a
few weeks.
According to an opinion rendered
by the attorney general, it is the du
ty of a railroad company to construct
and maintain suitable crossings at al
points where the line of their railroad
crosses public highways, and thai
such construction and maintenance
includes whatever grading, cutting
and filling OF bridging as may be nee
essary to provide a safe and con
v~enient way for the passage of trafi'
over their railroad.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Thousands Of New Farms

That Montana is fast coming into
its own as an agricultural state is
shown in the annual report of Sur
veyor General Jerome G. Locke which
has been made public. Montana
stood head and shoulders above all
states of the Union in the amount OF
acreage taken from the government
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04

According to a government report of
the division of militia affairs, war de.
partment, the Montana National
Guard consists of So officers and 557
men, a decrease of eight officers and
III men as compared with the 1912
membership. There r 45.848 males
available for military duty in Montana
according to the report.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Notice OF Closing Of Registration Books
For City Election

Notice is hereby given that the regis
tratfOn books of ChOuteau county will be
closed on March 6, 1914, at s o'clock p.
M. for the city. election to be held April
6. 1914, in the city of Fort Benton. Elect
ors may register for the ensuing election
by appearing before the county clerk at
his office, or by appearing before a JUS
tice of the peace, or notary public in the
manner provided by law. All parties
whose anne do not appear on said reg
istration books will have to register In
order to vote at said election.
Dated February 3, 1914.
j. LEE SEDGWICK,
County clerk and ex-ofticio county reg
iStrar
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Notice for Publication

United States Land Office at Lewis
town., Montana, January 2G, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that
JOHN f.. CARLSON,
OF G~racevtlle, Montana, who. or June II,
1910, made homestead entry No. O11O9O,
for south half (Sl.) section 5. township
y north. range 10 east, Montana meri-
dian, has filed notice of intention to make
three-year proof, to establish claim to
the land above described. before Ross
EIwell. U. s. commissioner, at his Office,
at Graceville. Montana. IN the 7th day
of March, 1914.
Claimant names as witnesses:
ROSS Kellogg. Lester NJ. Kellogg, Lee
Murphy, James Stanton, all of Hawar-
den, Montana.
Fl. j. KELLY, Register.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
NON COAL LAND
Havre No. O4546.
Great Falls No. O153O6.
Notice for Publication

United States Land Office at Havre,
Montana, January 80, 1914.
Notice Is hereby given that
WALTER HIRAM DODGE,
of Iona, Montana. who, on May "a, 1910,
MAGE homestead entry No. O15306, for
ship. rs north, range 9 east, Montana
meridian. has filed notice of intention to
make three-year proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before Her.
bert D, Schmidt. U. S. commissioner. at
his office, at Fort Benton. Montana. on
the 7th day of March, 1914.
Eiai,nant names as witnesses:
|: Richardson. John Gwyn, all of Iona,
Montana.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-02-25
WET WEATHER

Indians and old timers agree in their prediction that
the reign of King Winter has just commenced.
We can insure your comfort with seasonable cloth
ing, and at reduced prices We don't advertise
Spring Clothing because it would be foolish do so
at this time Of course you will buy summer suit
but wait until you see stock from the best clothes
makers in the world We will give you dollars
worth of quality, style and workmanship for every dol
lar you pay
In the meantime we will be pleased to cater to your
present in cothing mackntoshes, rain of
every kind hats Shoes shirts, socks and ties
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-24
10000 VOICES,
And Many are the Voices of Welsh
People.

Thirty thousand voices--What a
grand chorus! And that's the number
of American men and women who are
publicly praising Doan's Kidney Pills
for relief from backache, kidney and
bladder ills. They say it to friends.
They tell it in the home papers. Welsh
people are in this chorus.
Here is Welsh case:
Mrs. L. R. Barbee. Polk ST., Welsh,
says: "Doan's Kidney Pills have been
used in my family with great success
and it gives me pleasure to recon-.
mend them. They are certainly a
remedy of merit. wouldn't think of
taking any other medicine than Doan's
Kidney Pills for kidney complaint.
They have no equal"
Price SOC at all dealers. Don't Simp'
ly ask for kidney remedy get Doan's
Kidney PillS-the kind Mrs. Barbee
mends. Foster.Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-24
Stops Neuralgia Kills Pain

Sloan's Linament gives instan, n
from Neuralgia or Sciatica. u
straight to the painful part-soas
the nerves and stops the pain 81
also good for Rheumatism, Sore TSsI|
Chest Pains and Sprains. You )
need to rub-it penetrates. Mr.
Swinger, Louisville, KY, writes
suffered with quite a severe Na,s,I
Headache for four months withon,
relief. fused Sloan'S LinameDt n, !
or three nights and haven't sps.s
with my head since. Get a botfo \
day. Keep in the house all the 4
for pains and all hurts. Csc, sp,.,
s1.OO at your Druggist. BucE.s'
Brnica Salve for all eS.-Ady.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-24
Excursion to Galveston

Excursion July 25th, round trip to
Galveston from Roanoke will be S4.25
Welsh S4.25; Iowa, $500. Tickets will
be sold for andhonored only on regular
train No. 3of July 25th going. Return
ing tickets will be honored on regular
trains up to and including July 2Sth. @
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-24
Bucklen's Arnica SaIye for Cuts
Burns, Sores.

Mr.. E. S. Lopez, Marilla, N. b.. writes
II have never had Cut, Burn, Wound,
or Sore it would not heal Get box
of Buoklen's Arnica Salve today. Keep
handy at all times for burns. Sores.
Cuts, Wounds. Prevents LockiaW. 25c
at your Druggist. -AdY.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-24
Headaches and Nervousness Cured

"Chamberlain's Tablets are entitled
to all the praise / can give them"
writes Mrs. Richard dip, Spenceport,
N. Y. They have cured me of head.
ache and nervousness and restored me
to my normal health. For sale by all
dealers. ADV.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-24
j. NJ. A. EoG.

Not Knocking ANYBODY.
The httleness Of some people is
the biggest part Of them. Boston
Transcript.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-24

Prescription No. 666 isprepared especially
Tor M. AosA Or ~Iii.LS g. FEVER.
Five 0 six doses will break any case, and
Il takel. then as a tonic 'he Fever will not
,eturn. - D. h liver better than
.,,alomel and does not grippe or sicken. Csc
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
lust. Arrived

Luther tool and sickle grinders.
Dino grit We have small quantity
of field fencing left which we are sell
ling at cost. Valley Hardware, north
side of Main street. G.. Watkins prop.
adv ha T 263
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
TRYING TO PLACATE
ULSTER'S OPPOSITION

London, March THE Daily News
prints what purports to be the gov
ernment's final offer to the Unionists
regarding Ulster and home rule. The
statement is written by the parliament
tary correspondent of the paper. !,
According to the writer the much
talked of scheme of "home rule within
home rule" has been dropped because,
among other things, the Unionists
made it clear that they would not ac-
cept it. The cabinet has not agreed to
go to the furtherest limit toward the
temporary exclusion of Ulster from
the control of the Dublin parliament.
The suggestion, which is said to
have been made solely in the interests
of peace and settlement by consent
is this: "Any county in Ireland which
makes the demand after the passage
of the act, but before the Irish parlia-
ment is summoned, shall have the
right to take vote of the electorate
of the county, and if majority IA
vors exclusion that countv shall be ex-
cluded for a term of years, probably
thse ee."
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
ST. JOHN GIVES RUM
BUT A SHORT LIFE

Chicago, March while the rest
of the world is struggling along in the
throes of sin, there is little town
in sunny Kansas where vice, crime and
rum abide not. The name of this NOR
al acadia is Olathe. One. of it's lead
ing citizens is former Gov. John P. st.
John, the man who "dried up" Kansas
in 1880 and who is in Chicago to speak
at prohibitionist banquet tonight.
Eyes, we do have 16 churches" the
former governor apologetically con-
fessed. "But we, the citizens. do not
need so many. We use them to con-
vert sinners from neighboring towns"
Kansas City, Mo, is but 20 miles
away.
The temperance leader gives Chi
cago from three to five years to learn
to, drink Bryan high balls. Prohibition
will be country wide then, he predicts.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
CALL COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS IN STATE

Sacramento, March 7.-Governor
Johnson, as one of the majority OF
governors of the II states west OF
the Rocky Mountains, has signed a
call for a commercial congress to be
held in Sacramento September Is to 1S
to consider the economic changes at
fecting the west by the opening of
the Panama Canal.
The states to be represented at the
congress, which will be compared to
the southern commercial congress held
in Mobile, are:
California, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,
Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mex
leo.
Among the men expected to take
part in the proceedings are Secretaries
Lane, Wilson and Redfeld; President
Frank Vanderlip, National City Bank
of New York; James j. Hill; former
Secretary of the treasury Leslie M.
Shaw; Professor Emory R. Johnson,
University of Pennsylvania; Charles
Lyon Chandler, department of state;
Joseph w. Teal, Portland, and Robert
N. Moran, Seattle.
John Barrett, director general of
the Pan-American union, is to preside.
The preliminary plans are in the hands
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
Pirates OfT to Training Camp
lIrnited Eress nav Servicel

Pittsburg, March THE Pirate:
got aboard today for Dawson Springs
KY, where they will spend a week
getting into physical trim before
starting spring practice at Hot
Springs, Arkansas.
Headed by Barney Dreyfuss, Mana
ger John Daily and others of the eX-
ecutive staff, the eastern contingent
left in a body. They will meet the
western players at Dawson Springs
and all will go south week from to
morrow. After fortnight at Hot
Springs they will go to Little Rock
for a game with the University Of Ark
ansas. On April 5 and 4 they will
play Sioux City at Tulsa, Okla; April
5 and 6, St. Joe at St. Joe; April
and 8. Omaha at Omaha; April 9 and
10, Topeka at Topeka; April II, II,
13. Kansas City at Kansas City. On
April ii they will open the regular
season at st. Louis.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07

letic, dramatic and literary life of the
institution; admit freshmen early for
better or worse and hold upper class
men to account for their influence over
them; weed out upper classmen who
fail to realize this responsibility for
lower classmen in their group, and fra
ternities become mighty influence
for the intellectual, social and moral
uplift of their members, far more po-
tent than any force presidents and
deans and faculties can bring to bear" :"
Professor E. A. kirkpatrick of the
state normal school at Fitchburg,
speaking on "Who Should Not Go to
College," said:
,"The Importance Of degrees of all
kinds should be minimized instead of
emphasized, and to this end students
should be allowed and encouraged to
take what is of value to them as long
as they wish, receivinr instead of a
degree. certificate stating just what
they have done, or in other words. uni
versities should be run as "open shops"
instead of being closed to all except
apprentices to scholarship"
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
COLLEGE MEN FROM
ALL CLASSES NOW

New Haven, March You may be
son of almost any one and go to col
iege nowadays, President Charles f.
Thwing of Western Reserve university
told an audience in Woolsey hall, Yale
university. this evening.
In Harvard. perhaps the most aris-
tocratic in reputation of all American
schools, one class has eight men whose
fathers are technically clasSed as la
borers," said President Thwing, while
other fathers are cigar makers, letter
carriers. firemen, paper hangers, house
painters, express messengers, sections,
cellar builders, shoe cutters, peddlers
or junk dealers.
President Thwing made this com
ment in the course of his annual ad-
dress as president of the religious
education association, which began its
eleventh annual convention here today.
The sessions will last four days.
Among the speakers will be Chas. S.
Whitman, District Attorney of New
Work county. eX-President William H.
Taft. and Gov. Simeon Baldwin of
Connecticut.
President Arthur T. Hadlev of Yale
university declared society today en-
forces a much higher standard of
right and wrong than that OF the
church or the scriptures.
Modern society has been gradually
developing theories Of morals which
compel US to decide whether our acts
are right or wrong by their effect on
the happiness of our fellow men, in
stead of contenting ourselves with re-
ferring them to some standard I'M
posed by the past" said Pres Hadlev.
The application of these new stand E
ards of right and wrong is more un-
certain and REQUIRED far more eXer-
else of the intellect in the affairs of
every day life 1t was a compare
lively easy and simple thing to de-
eide whether line of conduct con-
formed to certain traditional rules
laid down by the church or the scrip
lures. 1t is an infinitely harder thing
to follow out the consequences of a
line of conduct and see whether they
are going to produce good or evil to
mankind.
Nothing has done more to under
mine the influence of the pulpit in re-
cent days than the attempt to deliver
judgments on questions of business
or politics on the basis of merely
casual study of the facts. A preacher
who founds. his. precepts upon such
casual study is like a lawyer who
knows no more of his case than the
jury. or a doctor who understands the
disease no better than his patient."
'The remedy for the evils of ire
sponsible fraternities is no more fra
ternities and more responsibility" said
President William De Witt Hyde.
Have enough fraternities or clubs
like them to include practically the en-
tire student body; publish their rela-
tive rank, and stimulate a wholesome
rivalry in scholarship, in character, in
contributions to the social, artistic, ath-
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
WHOM GOD UNITED
ARE CUT ASUNDER

Paris, March 7.-Madelaine and
Sussane Durand, who were born in
November last, are living separate
lives today for the first time. These
"Siamese twins" were separated by a
delicate operation and the surgeons
believe they will survive, despite the
fact that other twins joined at birth
died soon after the operations which
senarated them.
The belief of the surgeons rests on
the fact that the junction of the ba-
bies did not involve any important
organ. 1t was realized that the oper-
ation was highly dangerous, but it was
decided on when the tragic deaths of
similar pairs of children were re-
called.
Madeleine and SuSSanne were united
by niece of tough, fibrous tissue
about four inches thick. An x-ray ex-
animation showed that the heart and
'unps of each were entirely distinct.
Each child has every bodily organ sep
arate from the other.
The operation took no longer than
* minutes. 1t was simple on account
# the exceptional nature of the juno
ton. Cocaine was employed as local
anaesthetic. A circular incision was
made and the loss of blood was small.
The fieshy tissue joining the twins was
from one liver to the other 1t was
possible to cut the norton of the in
testines common to both without dan
ger to their lives. .4tt
After the operation the children
went to sleen TRANQUILITY for the first
ne since their birth. Up to today
the fact of their junction prevented the
children from being able to sleep COM
fortably. They are four months old.
The operation was planned two months
ago. but one of the children was too
weak physically to warrant the risk.
The last operation of this kind was
performed in France in 1902, when DIR.
Dotien separateds the two Hindoo
children, Radica-Roodica. They died
shortly afterwards of tuberculosis.
Eng. one of the original Siamese
twins. died in delirium two hours aft
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
Registering Autos

Sacramento. March 7.-Registra-
tions required by the motor vehicle
act recently sustained by the supreme
court are coming in at the rate of
5000 to 1000 a day. There have been
nearly $4,000 registrations since the
decision of the supreme court was an
,nounced less than a week ago. Total
registrations to date are:
Automobiles, 59,073; motor cycles,
10000; chauffeurs' licenses, 9,4S7; op-
orators licenses, 63,125.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-07
To Visit the King

London, March when King
Christian was about to enter the new
st. Simeon's church at Copenhagen,
an aged woman rushed forward, and
seizing his hand, cried: II must have a
talk with you"
The police wanted to arrest her, but
the king smilingly shook hands with
her and invited her to come to see him
at the palace. The woman, who want
ed to ask the king to build more
churches, said: "God bless you" ana
retired. .--za~,-