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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Nav Tax Automobiles.

Washington, Sept. 30.-Reduction of
the proposed tax of 50 a thousand ON
bank capital and surplus is contem-
plated by democrats of the senate
finance committee, who are now de-
l%iberating on the war revenue bill
which passed the house last week.
The suggestion has been made that
financial conditions due to the Euro
pean war and revision of the currency
law make it unwise to levy so heavily
on bank capital at this time, and it
has been proposed to cut the asses
ment in half.
Those who favor this action, follow
ing protests from the bankers all over
the country, would provide for the loss
in ven thus occasioned by an
automobile tax to be substituted for
a tax of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline
now provided by the bill. An auto
mobile tax based on horse power, it
is said. would yield an enormous
revenue, enough to make up for the
estimated 1000. 900 which would be
derived from the gasoline tax and the
amount to be lost if the bank capital
levy should be reduced one-half.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Passed Rivers and Harbors Bill.

Washington, Sept. S0.-The rivers
and harbors appropriation bill in the
form of a senate substitute, carrying
only a general fund OF $40, 0OO, 900 for
continuing present projects in the dis
erection of the war department was
passed late yesterday by the house.
1t only needs the presidents ap-
prevail to become a law.
AS reported by the senate commit
tee the bill included appropriations ag-
gregating $4,000, 900. but the success
full filibuster conducted by Senator
Burton resulted in the adoption OF the
substitute.
During the debate Republican leader
Mann charged the Democrats with ex-
travagance and said that every man
who is hard up and signs a mortgage,
a promissory note or who signs a
deed or takes out an insurance policy
will help pay for the rivers and har-
bors project.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Congress Plans Adjournment.

Washington, Sept. 29.-An admins
tration-approved movement for three
day recesses of the house beginning
next week, an adjournment of the
house if possible by October 10, and a
re-assembling Of congress in special
session on Nov. II. under call of Pres
ident Wilson to consider specifically
the ship purchase bill was undertaken
today by democratic leaders at the
capital. All day there were conferen-
ces between the leaders and the rank
and file of their party and the results
tonight gave hope for an agreement
along this line tomorrow.
The president has told senators and
representatives repeatedly that the
wal revenue tax bill, already passed
by the house, and the Clayton anti
trust bill, should be enacted into law
before adjournment. The Clayton
bill in the form of a conference report,
which is being filibustered again in
the senate. but which will not occa
sion much trouble when brought up
in the house. The third which
the president urged was the river and
harbor bill which passed the house
tonight and is ready for his approval.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Wealth Of United States.

Bearing in mind that the United
States has only s per cen of the
area and Z per cent of the population
of the world, the following fundamen-
tai figures indicate our economic re-
sources and our ability to increase
exports. OF the worlds total we pro-
duce in the case of corn 6S per cent,
wheat 90 per cent, cotton 81 per cent,
sugar 10 per cent. tobacco IS per cent,
cattle on farms Is per cent, coal 40
per cent, petroleum SO per cent, cop
per 55 per cent, iron ore AZ per cent,
gold 20 per cent. silver IS per cent
and lead 30 per cent.
Our foreign trade-fiscal year 1913
was only 10 per e II of the interna-
tional total. This seems all the small
err when it is appreciated that in value
of manufactures the United States
leads the world with an output Of
over s2O.O 900. 900 900. of which only 5
per cen is exported. The world mar
ket for iron and steel products, cot
ton goods, chemicals and many other
products of industry has thus far been
held by England, Germany and other
European nations. Now the United
States is after it.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
World War In History.

When the smoke of battle clears
away, peace arrangements accepted,
and boundaries rearranged-then what
will this war be called?
1t is a little early for conjecture. but
the historians of the future must have
a name for the gigantic conflict now
raging. Just as the string of events
that ended at Waterloo were known as
the NapOleonic wars, as our fight for
independence is known as the war of
the revolution, Il later conflict as the
civil war-just so must the present
war have a name that will briefly
cover it in the volumes that will be
written about it in the decades to
come.
European war" hardly cover it,
since Japan is in it, together with
the gigantic colonies OF the nations in
volved. Participation Of the mikado's
warriors, India, Russia in Asia. Aus
tralia, the African colonies and the
island possessions of the sea will not
permit the conflict to be localized by
the lame European war;
It's a little early to guess, but
world war;" which people like to call
it now, seems to be the name that will
live in history.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Armour Will Learn Business.

Chicago, Sept. pa very rich
young man arose before dawn today
and at daylight was trudging about
the mud Of the cattle pens at the
stock yards, learning all. about it."
The very rich young man is Philip D.
Armour III, grandson OF the. founder
of Armour & Co., and following the
rule laid down by the late head of
the house, if he expects to enter the
business at all he must learn it from
the ground up. His work today is
but a sample of what he must follow
for some months until he becomes
qualified as a buyer. Some day, it is
planned by his uncle. Ogden Armour,
that he shall be president of the COM
pany. He is II, and a graduate of
Yale.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Prohibitjonjsts Beuin Campaion.

Chicago, Sept. 3O.-Under the lead
ership of Eugene w. Chaflin. twice
prohibition candidate for the presi-
dent, 1.-The flying squadron of Amer
ica' began a nationwide campaign for
prohibition today with Peoria. ILL.,, the
scene of the first demonstration. APP
proximately one hundred and fifty
cities, including all state capitals and
the national capital, will be visited.
J. Frank Hanley, former governor
of Indiana, and several other men who
have been prominent politically as
we'll as a number identified with
church organizations, are members of
the party. The squadron, however, is
declared to be affiliated with no polit.
ical party or organization but to be
working to uphold the hands of who
ever has declared for prohibition.
The speakers will tour the west as
far as Spokane, Wash, and will then
work back through the east.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Declare Copper Contraband,

Washington, Sept. 3O.-Great Brit
aims intentions to seize goods which
may be classed as conditional con-
traband of war specifically destined
for Germany or Austria, even when
such shipment ere carried in Ameri-
can ships and cons; ,ned to neutral
ports, was a%lInoullced today by Sir
Cecil Spring-Rice, the British am
bassador.
The ambassador called to explain
dispatches stating that two cargoes
of copper shipped from the United
States to the Krupp gun works in Ger
many, via Holland, had been seized
and diverted to England. He said it
was believed the copper was to be
used in the construction of torpedoes,
and that it came distinctly under the
classification of conditional contra.
band. Payment for the full value of
the cargoes has been RENTED to the
American shippers, and it is under.
stood that a similar course will be
pursued in such cases in the future.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Lands Restored To Entry.

Washington, Sept. 30.-On the rec
ommendation of the secretary of the
interior, the president today restored
to modified form of homestead entry
$1,000 acres of land in Yellowstone
county. Montana, lying south of Hy-
sham and Sanders and northeast OF
Hardin. The lands formerly were in
Guided in the Crow Indian reservation.
These lands will be formally opened
for homestead filing Oct. 26, at which
time they can be acquired in 32O-acre
tracts. After May Is, 1915, if a full
section has not been entered, the en-
tryman who previously filed on 800
acres may acquire title to the re-
mainder Of the $40 acres of the Sec
ton in which his entry lies. The
price of lands prior to Sept. Is next
will be 50 per acre, 81 down and the
remainder in two equal payments,
three and four years after filing.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
ANTWERP FEARS SIEGE
German Forces Plan Capture Of Bel.
Qian Port For Naval Base.

S'o' VoTt For naval Base.
Rotterdam. Sept. 29.-The activity
along the Belgium frontier indicates
that the Germans are planning for a
siege of Antwerp within a few DAYS.
More than $4,000 men of the German
naval reserves have been brought
from the North sea towns of Kiel and
Hamburg to Brussels and are being
held in readiness to serve on an i'm
provised German fleet should Antwerp
and Ostend be taken.
AS a direct result of this move the
Dutch authorities along the Scheldt
have increased their watchfulness, for
during a siege Of Antwerp, England
might like to send r~einforcements
through the Dutch Scheldt, which
would be a breach of neutrality, while
or the other hand, a German victory
would bring danger of an attempt on
the part of Germany to use the mouth
Of the Scheldt as a base from which
to attack the British naval forces in
the North sea-.
The moment for the actual siege of
Antwerp, according to the best in
formed circles here, will depend on
the outcome of the present battle in
northern France. Should Germany
win in this battle, the attack on Ant
werp will be pushed at once while in
case of a German defeat. the troops
now holding the line of the Scheldt
will be ueed to resist any Belgium
attempt to cut the route of the re-
treating Germans.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
OIL IN MONTANA.

For twenty years the people of Mon
tana, from time to time, have been
treated to news of oil discoveries
within the boundaries of the state.
So-called oil springs were known to
exist in certain parts Of the state
many years Ago., and in a desultory
way prospecting for oil has been going
on for perhaps a third Of a century.
Only in recent years. however, has
prospecting been prosecuted in a prac-
teal way. Thomas Cruise. the Helena
millionaire, was n of the first men
in the state to turn his attention to a
possible oil industry; Butte men later
entered the field. spending in the ag-
cregate a large sum in the eastern
part Of the state and in northern Wy.
., ing in the search CT oil. Now the
local interest in oil discoveries centers
il, no small part in northern Montana
fields, where conditions are said to be
favorable for the finding of large
,odies of oil Of IA marketable quality.
1t has been the experience of the
United States that new oil fields have
been developed as the need for them
became evident. The Kansas. Texas
and Oklahoma oil fields became pro-
ducers only after the Pennsylvania
wells reduced their output. The Cali
fornia fields came to notice only in a
comparatively recent period.
Some Of the greatest coal measures
Of the country are known to exist in
Montana. These coal deposits are
yielding only a small fraction of the
output they are capable of giving up.
Where there is so much coal it is rea
sonable to suppose that oil and gas
will some day become important fac
tors in the development OF the state.
The Post doesn't pretend to have in
side knowledge OF the subject. but il
it had only one guess. it would say
that the next ten years will show more
of an advance in the oil industry in
Montana than the last thirty have
witnessed.-Butte Post.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
HOW TO PREPARE BEETS.
Various Ways Of Cooking This Season.
able Vegetable.

Here is a new dish that combines
two sometimes unattractive vegetables
in a most interesting manner. Cut
freshly boiled beets in two and hollow
out the halves. In this cavity place a
spoonful of creamed spinach and serve
hot. The same combination can also
be prepared as a salad. The spinach
in this case should not be creamed.
simply boiled and chopped and season.
ed with a French dressing. and the
beets holding it should be set in white
lettuce leaves.
Cream Of beet soup is as unusual as
it is delicious. To make it chop we'll
cooked beets fine and simmer a cupful
of them in a pint of mutton stock for
fifteen minutes. Then rub them
through a sieve. Mix two teaspoon
fuls Of -four with two Of butter and
add to the mutton stock and beet
PURGE. Heat thoroughly, stirring con-
stantly, and add to a pint Of hot milk.
Season with salt and pepper and serve
hot.
4 delicious relish is made Of equal
parts of grated horseradish prepared
with vinegar and chopped boiled beets
mixed together.
Dreamed beets can be prepared in
this way: Slice boiled beets into Il
saucepan and moisten with a little
clear stock. Beat the yolk OF an egg
with a cupful of cream and slowly
add it to the beets. Stir carefully all
the time until the sauce is thick and
then serve Immediately.
Beets a la chartreuse are prepared
in this way: Cut boiled beets in quar-
ter inch slices and cut half as many
slices of onion as there are beets. Put
a slice of onion between two slices Of
beet in sandwich fashion and season
lightly with salt. pepper and a little
vinegar. Dip each sandwich in fritter
batter and fry in deep fat. Drain on
brown paper and serve piping hot.
Small whole beets or slices Of larger
beets a be used to garnish salads and
cold meat dishes. They must. however,
be used somewhat s%paringly. a little
beet goes a long way. Small beet dice
ranged neatly about a mold of veal
aspic, for instance. are good.
A good beet salad is this: Boil beets
and remove the tops. Allow one beet
for each person to be served. Stand
them on white lettuce leaves and hol-
low out the centers with a silver spoon.
Chop the whites of hard boiled eggs
and crumble the yolks. Mix the chop
ned whites cnld hnilad mr. cnnnad Mas
and mayonnaise together and fill the
hollow beets. Garnish with the crum-
b!ed yolks.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Boston Will Win.

New York, Sept. 29.-The Boston
club is the pennant winner of the Ma
tiOfnal league for 1914. Boston de-
feated Chicago in Boston today and
when the New York Giants lost to
Pittsburg I'm this city by a score of 5
to 2, Boston became winner of the
pennant.
With a nine-game lead Boston could
lose all her remaining games and still
finish first in the race.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
The River Press
Pxblished every Wednesday Morning
BY the RiUer Press Publish
ing Company.
HIGH COST OF KILLING.

What it is costing the embroiled
natiuons to prosecute the present war
probably will never be known. The
most commonly accepted estimate is
$685. 900 a day, but this may be
either too high or too low. The ma
tons themselves will not know their
expenses until the war is ended, and
then they may not reveal it. 1t is
generally conceded, however. that in
the Franco-Prussian var it cost
France $21, 900 for each Prussian
killed. In the Russo-Turkish con-
f1ict of 1877 the cost of killing a sol
dier dropped to $4,000, but it rose
again in the Russo-Japanese war to
$20,400. In the present struggle, the
outlay doubtless will be higher. owing
to the increase in expense of main
tanning armies and ornaments.
But the figures given take into ac-
count only the sums spent for main
tanning fighting forces, says the Kan
sas City Journal. They do not in
clude the uncountable losses due to
disturbance of industry and COM
merce, nor the Gripping of labor.
which, had it not been for military
service and the wounds of war, would
have gone on uninterruptedly ON
tributing to the welfare and prospect
ty of the several nations involved. So
the $2O,400 which had to be expended
to kill a soldier in the Russo-Japanese
war of 1905 swells to a huge sum
when all the elements of war loss in
1914 are taken into consideration.
The accounting is not yet complet-
ed, however. 1t is now recognized that
the present war is a war against
civilization" in the very important
sense that it is bound. if it continues
for any considerable length of time,
to set civilization back deplorably'
Such a result is inevitable. regardless
Of who shall be the victor. Viewed
in the light of these impressive facts,
the evil of wal takes on an otherwise
unappreciated recklessness and the
carnage of the battlefield becomes
still more horrible if possible. The
high cost of killing gives pause to that
part of the world which the war mad.
ness has not yet deprived of the pow
er of sober thought.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Observations by Luke McLuke.

The trouble with temperance lee
lures is that the people who need
them never attend them.
What has become of the %old-fashion-
ed boy who believed that he had a
chance to become presidento
Some men like to play with nitro
glycerin and others get more fun out
of fooling around married women
There wouldn't be any failures in
the world if other people We're only
as smart as we think we are.
The eaSO a mother always care
fully puts away baby's first pair of
day the hall of fame will send for
them.
The difference between being en-
gagged to a girl and married to her is
that you can have her arrested if she
picks your pocket when she isn't mar.
ried to you.
If we were all as good as We want
others to be. Heaven wouldn't seem
such a great place.
The old-fashioned man who didn't
know it was loaded now has a daugh'
ter who regards platonic love as harm
less.
Some day there won't be such things
as divorces. But it will be when
women won't believe a blame thing
a man says before marriage and will
believe everything he says after mar
riage.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Profitable Prices for Farm Products.

The greatest announcement that
can be given agriculture is profitable
prices for farm products. Crop de-
stroying insects have been a stubborn
enemy, and Jupiter Pluvius has played
many pranks on the farmer, but there
is no pestilence like low prices; they
will sap the life-blood of an industry.
1t is one of the most pitiful sights
in twentieth century civilization to
see a farmer after he has raised a
crop sit helpless1y by and watch the
bulls and bears of Europe and Ameri-
ca trample over it, and yet if the farm
err will only organize and cooperate
he can successfully fence out these
animals that devastate his products
after the harvest. The Montana farm
er needs cooperation as badly as d.
versifcation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Fig Day For the Editor.

The editor of a Kansas paper says
that he picked up a Winchester rifle
recently and started up the street to
deliver the weapon to its owner. The
delinquent subscribers got it into their
heads that he was on the warpath, and
everyone he met insisted on paying all
they owed. One man wiped out a debt
of 10 years standing. On returning to
the office he found a load of hay. Is
bushels of corn, 10 bushels of pOta-
toes, a load of wood and a barrel of
turnips.-La Belle Star.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07

twice as much of that grade went out
of the elevator as went into it. Which
means, plainly enough, that the farm
ers sold a lot of grain into that eleva-
tor that was graded. for the purpose
of buying it. below No. l, but that, for
the purpose of selling, graded up to
No. /.
1.-The North Dakota committee made
a calculation of the profit that the ele-
vator enjoyed by reason of this magi-
cal transmutation Of low-grade grain
into higher grades and found that the
profit was 200. So"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
; HOW TO PATCH NAIL HOLES.
LAUNDRY HINT.

Many ONE are ut u loss as
to how to cover up the ugly
holes left where nails have
been. They make bad spots on
the walls and very often ruin
the looks OF a whole room. A
plaster may be made of equal
parts Of plaster Of paris and
Portland cement. These should
be mixed to the consistency of
ordinary plaster. The holes
should be filled up with this.
1t will be found that not only
does this dry quickly. but it
leaves u nice. smooth surface
which does not crack. Plaster
Of paris alone. on the contrary,
is very apt to crack. Besides
nail holes. all chinks or cracks
in the plastering may be filled in
with this mixture, which can be
easily applied with al ordinary
knife.
Almost every country house
and some city ones have a hot
water boiler in the kitchen. One
woman made a discovery in con-
nection with her boiler which
saved her quite a bit Of money.
For embroidery she put the piece
while 1t was wet from the
washing on the boiler. with the
wrong side to the boiler. and
rubbed it out smooth. When the
piece had dried she found that
the embroidery stood out just as
if it had been ironed. Handker-
chiefs, too. may be ironed in this
way. and the things dry very
quickly next to the heat Of the
boiler.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Army Needs AXiators.

Washington. Sept. 29.-Sensational
use of air craft in the great European
war was added interest to steps or
dered by the war department to carry
out at once the provisions of the act
of last July to increase efficiency Of
the aviation service Of the army.
4 general order invites unmarried
lieutenants OF the line Of the army
under 80 years of G to apply for de-
tails of this extra hazardous service,
which entities them to a so per cent
increase in salary.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
PAINTED FURNITURE.
How to Amuse Yourself During Va.
ation

Old fashioned cottage furniture paint
ed in colOrs is being brought to light
again. Black furniture painted with
colored decorations is coming to the
fore in the general craze for black and
white. Here is Il chance for the home
artist who tries her skill on the backs
Of chairs. table tops and cabinet fronts.
This painted furniture is particularly
suited to the summe cottage. and
the decoration will give vacation en-
ployment to the artistic members Of
Se family. who will add baskets Of
fruit and floral sprays. according to
taste.
Old furniture painted gray with pink
roses transferred to the drawers would
he a pleasing innovation and could lie
used in the winter house also.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
How to Make Homemade Toilet Bleach

Do You like homemade beaches?
Grind up a little oatmeal in your meat
grinder and mix to a paste with the
whey from sour milk or with butter
milk and spread on the skin. leaving
It for a couple Of hours or more. Then
sponge on with tepid water ana apply
a little olive oil If You d" not hay" Il
good cold cream handy. This is !, sim.
pie but very etficaciouS bleach.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07

Great Falls, Sept. 29.-Frank Fuller
appeared before County Attorney
Meigs today. asking that official to
take steps to send him to prison. Full
Ter declared he had passed a spurious
check for $57.95 at Kalispell, and that
he secured money on other bad checks
at Kalispe!l. He was locked up.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Aberdeen Angus Bull Calves.

Nine Aberdeen Angus bull calves for
sale. They are from COWS out Of the
noted herd of Mccall & Bond, Of Iowa.
Each is a good one and priced right.
Would take in exchange one good and
large young mare. A.. BOND, Hopp, Mont.
25 miles southeast of Big Sandy.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-07
Boar For Sale

For Sale, a Duroc-Jersey boar. two
years old: will sell cheap. Apply to
J. o. PATTERSON, Fort Benton.