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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Would Teach Better FarmiQ

Washington, Jan. 19.-The aficul-
tural extension bill, providing fo fed
eral aid in the dissemination of Glen.
tific farm information by practicl ex-
periments and through %public,ions
was passed by the house todayoy a
vote of 1T to 9. Under the mesure,
the various state agricultural coeges
would receive federal funds to fiance
plans for a%cQuainting the farmerwith
facts established by the departnt of
agriculture.
AS it passed the house. the bill 'ould
provide for an immediate apprpria-
ton of $3.50, 000,of which $4,000 'ould
go to each state complying wit the
requirements of the law. This epro-
priation would be increased by 300.-
900 each year for nine years andfter
a 10.year period would become ,per-
manent annual appropriation O 3d.
OOO, 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Washington News Notes

Washington, Jan. 22.-The western
senator's and representatives will con
fer with Secretary Lane and endeavor
to agree upon a bill amending the rec
lamatiOn act sc as to extend the time
for making payments on government
projects for from 10 to 20 years and
making such other changes as may
be deemed necessary to tighten the
burden on the settlers.
Authority would be given the pres
ident by a bill which passed the SEN
ate to reserve natural townsites from
the public domain and to subdivide
such tracts into lots or villa sites to
be sold at auction to the highest bid
| der.
BY order of the interstate commerce
commission a cut in express rates on
all roads in the United States will be
put in effect on Feb. 1. The rates
will be less than those on the present
tariffs by Is to 80 per cent. The new
rates will be governed by what is
known as the block system and the
Interstate rates will be subject to
changes made in sub-blocking tariffs.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has granted the application of
he Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
abroad to establish class and COM
modify rates from Seattle, Tacoma,
Everett, Bellingham, Portland, Van
eouver, San Francisco by ports, Spo-
lane and common points to Great
Falls, Falls yard, Salem, Waltham and
Highwood, Mont, lower than rates in
effect to intermediate points. The de-
sire is to meet via the longer line or
oute rates in effect via the direct
Inc of the Great Northern railway.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Guarding Valuable Seeds

San Francisco, Jan. 21.-When
planting time M next spring there
is one crop for which the seeds will
be taken from a burglar and fire.
proof vault in San Francisco.
These seeds represent more than a
quarter of a century Of work by Lu.
Their Burbank. If lost or destroyed
they could not be duplicated, at any
rate not for years. and 1t Is to guard
against this that the Luther Burbank
company recently stored them in the
strong rooms of the Union Trust
company.
One seed is a new kind of fax,
from the oil of which artists will
make their paint. Another is a GER
cal known as quine to take the place
of wheat, barley or oats.
The quine plant is designed to take
the place of cereal food made from
different grains. The seed resembles
a small hominy and the plant looks
like a wild mustard. 1t is claimed
to have all the food values of other
grains, and is much cheaper. The
entire seed of the new plant is util.
lied. Originally it came from South
America. but its development and
climatization to California soil and
weather conditions have taken years
of study and experiment. OF the
quine seeds of the type Burbank has
produced there is not a peck in the
world.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28

onion in the case of a cold at least,
there is reason for believing that
grandmother knew what she was
about when she cooked up a mess of
onion, alum and sugar and forced it
down our protesting outlets in the
good old days. Perhaps she knew
nothing about diploccoi pneumonae,
but she knew that the onion put the
cold to fight and caused a material
lessening in the use of the handker-
chief.
Incidentally, those who have the
onion habit and are glad of it, will
find themselves no longer social out
casts while the winter months last.
Even if one hasn't a cold, who can tell
what the morrow may bring forth:
Isn't it well, fellow onion eaters, to
fOrtify against a peril?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Hold Spuds for High Price

Washington, Jan. 20.-The unsual-
ly high prices prevail in the plato
markets because the farmers this
year are holding a large proprtion
in the belief they will profit bya fu-
ture rise in prices, according to a
statement tonight by the department
of agriculture. The supply, hoover,
is said to be normal and conditions
do not forecast any material adance
in prices.
In consequence the firm holdig of
the potato by producers in Mine,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
important producing states-the
price on December l was about17H
cents a bushel higher than ayeaI
ago and 1914 higher than three ears
ago.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
MESSAGE ON TRUSTS
President Urges Congress to Enact
New Legislation

Washington, Jan. 20.-Presidnt WI.
son personally laid before a joint ,es.
sion of congress today the fundamen.
to! principles of :le democratic al.
m.%ilis,l atoms program for deallnz
with trusts and big business.
Besides suggesting the scope of leg.
islation the president made a personal
appeal for an atmosphere Of friendli-
ness and cooperation in congress,
while handling the problem.
THE antagonism,' he said, 'be-
tween business and government is
over. We are now about to give ex-
preston to the best judgment of
America, to what we know to be the
business conscience and honor of the
land. The government and business
men are ready to meet each other
half way in a common effort to
square business methods with both
public opinion and the law"
The chief points which the presi-
dent singled out as a basis for legis-
lation:
Effective prohibition of the in
terlocking of directorates of big cor
porations-banks, railroads, indus
trial, commercial and public service
bodies.
PA law to confer upon the inter
state commerce commission the pow
err to superintend and regulate the
financial operations by which rail-
roads are henceforth to be supplied
with the money they need for their
proper development and improved
transportation facilities.
The president made it clear that
"the prosperity of the railroads and
the prosperity of the country are in
separately connected" in this regard.
3-Definition of "the many hurtful
restraints of trade" by explicit legis'
lation supplementary to the Sherman
law.
1.-The creation of a commission tC
aid the courts and to act as a clear
ing house of information in helping
business to conform with the law.
5-Provision of penalties and pun
ishments to fall on individuals re
sponsible for unlawful business prac
tees.
6-Prohibition of holding companie:
and a suggestion that the voting pow
er of individuals holding shares in nu
merous corporations might be re
stricted.
7-Giving to private individuals tn
right to found suits for redress o.
facts and judgments proven in gov
eminent suits and providing that stat
ute of limitations should run onl
from the date of conclusion Of tn
| governments action.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Shot Down by Convicts

McAlester, Okla, Jan. 20.-Quie,
prevailed today at the state penitel-
tiary where last night seven perscls
lost their lives during a battle oe-
tween guards and three convicts who
attempted to escape. Bodies O the
three prison employees shot dom at
their posts of duty and those # the
three convicts were in the pniten-
tiary morgue, while in the city,a few
miles distant, the body of Judg John
II. Thomas of Muskogee, a visitor at
the prison awaited final preparation
for shipment to relatives.
Pistols smuggled into the prison
and reaching the hands of Charles
Koontz, China Reed and Ton Lane,
the convicts who were killed n their
dash for liberty, were the Cause of
the tragedy. Today Warden w. r.
Dick continued the searching hvesti'
cation to discover the meas by
which the weapons came with the
walls.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
GOVERNMENT EXTRAVAGANCE

"EXtravagance is generally consider
ed our national sin, both on the part
of individuals and on that of COM
munities and the government. 1t is
brought home to mems bosOms and
businesses at the end of every year
or of each session of congress. The
mounting and mountainous figures of
the congressional appropriations be-
tray the swelling of this extravaganza.
Americas population has multiplied
by "a since 1890, but appropriations
to the national government by 366.
The appropriations for one year have
become greater than the total cost of
national government from 1889 to
1916, although in those 81 years came
the wal of 1912 and some Indian cam
paigns. Even during the civil war
our governmental expenses, including
the enormous cost of the tremendous
conflict, were only three and One-third
times greater than u annual apprO-
priations now. 1t no longer is a case
of billion-dollar congresses. 1t is a
condition of billion-dollar sessions.
EVCIy ySdl o1IlCC 1CVC dAlAluu1 opPAO0
priations have exceeded 81, 200, 000, 900.
Their growth is out of gear with
our increase in population. Some Of
the expenditure is unjustifiable waste.
The future holds out n 70 prospect of
relief. But extravaganza in govern
mental expenditure must be pruned
to the roots. 1t is a considerable fac
tor in the high cost Of living Of which
rich as we'll as poor Americans COM
plain. 1t inevitably results in making
taxation burdensome. 1t is evident in
state and municipal governments, es-
pecially in the latter, and is raising
the rate of taxation in cities annually,
unless they take and maintain a de-
termined stand.
"Wilful waste makes woeful want"
There is sore need for a real reform
that will rouse legislatures and con.
gress to the realizing sense of their
responsibility to the taxpayers and as
watchdogs of the peoples money. To
stop needless expenditure and pre-
vent waste or extravaganza is as fine
craftsmanship as any government Cal
wish to achieve.-Spokesman-Rev Review
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Beware Of Radium Frauds

The United States department of
agriculture, through the bureau of
chemistry, lately issued the following
warning to the public in regard to the
81 tai cd radioactive mineral waters
offered for sale in bottles:
There are indications of the begin
ming of an attempt to perpetrate a
great fraud on the American people
through advertising certain mineral
waters as possessing radioactive.
These waters, in some cases, are TAX
en- from springs the water of which
as they come from the ground do pos
sess certain radioactive properties.
Examination of many of these waters
by the departments specialists indi-
Gates that whatever radioactivity they
possess at the spring is due almost
entirely to radium emanation rather
| than to the presence in the water of
any substance possessing radioactive
ity.
These emanations in the form of
gas quickly disappear from the water
and, as a result, after the water has
been bottled a short time, it will pos
sess practically no radioactivity. The
belief, long held by many people, that
some mineral waters used at the
springs are more effective that when
bottled has been explained by some
authorities on the ground that the
beneficial effect of these waters /:
due to radioactivity. AS the radioac
tivity disappears soon after the waite
is taken from the spring, any effec
due to the ~radioactivity must be los
in a short time. If the radioactive,
of a water in a spring is 100, fou
days after bottling it will be only 81
and IL days after bottling 10. In
:, month it will be practically nothin
, compared with the original radioa'
, tivity of the water at the spring. TIL
, public, therefore, Is warned to regar
g with suspicion any water advertise
\ as possessing r~adioactivity.
The department is nov investiga
8 ing a number of the so-called radioa'
tive waters with the object Of secu
ing evidence that can be made a bast
of prosecution for misbranding.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Must Not Delay Mail

Chicago. Jan. 20.-Michael B. Coyle
a mail carrier, was indicted by the
federal grand jury under the statute
which makes lettering by postmen
while on their route or delay by them
in delivering their mail a criminal of
tense. 1t was charged that Coyle
failed to complete his route Christ
mas day, but left his bag, which con-
tanned a number Of registered pack
ages, at the home Of q friend.
Five years Imprisonment and a
fine Of $500 may be imposed for viola
ton of this law.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
The River Press
euesy Wednesday Morning
by The RiUer Press Publish
ing Company.
G BEEF c

It is the belief of D. w. Raymond,
secretary of the state board of stock
commissioners, that the prevailing
high prices for beef will continue for
several years. Producers hope Mr..
Raymond's view of the situation will
prove correct, but consumers face the
future with doubt as to their ability to
pay the increased cost of their meat
supply.
In his annual report to the govern
or, Mr.. Raymond makes this interest
ing comment upon market conditions:
1.-THE prices for cattle for 1913 have
been very satisfactory. While the
price of beef has been about the same
as 1912, the price of stock cattle has
been considerably higher. 1t was ex-
pected by many that the new tariff
bill would lower the price of cattle,
but the fact that the price Of stock
cattle has increased during the past
year, proves that the stock men are
not greatly worried yer the future
importation Of beef from foreign
countries.
What beef has come in from Ar
gentine and Australia since the tariff
on meat has been removed, has whole
sailed at from only l to 2 cents per
pound under the domestic article.
This small decrease in price has not
reached the consume and all import
ed beef has been handled in New
York and San Francisco. Its identity
has been concealed and it's competi-
ton in no way reduced the price of
meat to the consumer.
1.-THE past consumers of Argentine
and Australia beef, principally Eng
land, are still taking about all that
can be produced in these cattle-grow-
ing countries. The price of beef in
England during the past year has
averaged a little higher than the
price of beef in Chicago. This in it's
elf, is a very strong argument that
imported beef will not injure, to any
extent, the price of beef in the Unit.
ed States.
"There can be little reduction in
the price of beef. The former meat
producing countries are not the vast
open range grazing areas that we
have been led to believe. The Argen-
tine Republic produces practically all
of it's exported beef on alfalfa pas
lures on owned land. New Zealand
and Australia produce their beef in a
similar way. The experience of the
stockmen in the western part of the
United States has proven that the
production of beef on owned lands is
an expensive business. These same
facts are true in the foreign countries
and we have not. therefore, the bis
free open range to contend with II
the production OF beef, nor much les
cost per animal in such production.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
n HUMBLE ONION

Medical science has come to the res
cue of the onion, a species of vegeta-
ton that has heretofore beer in bad
odor in society circles but whose Vlr-
tues should more thar offset its al
legged d~elinquencies in giving Otfense
to representative %olfactory organs.
The Helena independent submits this
defense of the humble vegetable that
has incurred undeseryed social ostra-
cism by the general public.
Those of us who in childhood were
compelled by grandmother to gulp
down copious doses of onion syrup.
during the time thai a bad cold al
flicted us, used to wonder what per-
verse imp eve gave the good old lady
the idea that onions were etticacious
as a remedy for the s%nitiies. That the
odoriferous syrup or something SEEM
ed to Danish the cold, seldom occurred
to US, but the fact was the cold dis
appeared.
Then there are old fashioned folks
who have maintained that the eating
of an onion before retiring was in
surance against winter ailments. such
as colds. pneumonia and the grip. But
unless father and mother were both
in favor of eating onions, it frequently
happened that they both went with
out, When father insisted on fOrtify'
ing himself against trouble, he was
respectfully, but firmly, invited to
sleep in the barn.
There has always been more or less
of a prejudice against the onion by
the socially inclined and the young
man who ate a raw onion and ther
called on his best girl, was indeed {
shining example of the person wht
paws some attention to the old sayint
that none but the brave deserve tn
fair" And if he lived through an onion
evening with u~nimpaired prospect
for q successful termination of hi
courtship, there was no doubt that tn
girl loved him.
But getting back to the cold, o
colds question, there is a reason VIII,
the onion is a remedy, according to
high.brow scientist who enjoys inves
tigating the "whyness of the where
FORE" A bacteriologist has discovere
a beast known IS d%iplococci pnel
monae which abounds in large nun
bers in the mouth of nearly ever
healthy person. A cold which veal
ems resistance gives this particula
germ a chance to work.
Appears the onion on the seem
This same bacteriologist finds that tn
oil of an onion absolutely kills tn
diplococci pneumonia. Anyway it di
courages him to a point where /
gives up the battle. While the onic
has q discouraging effect upon tt
family Of the victim of a cold. sti
this useful vegetable does not XII
even though it gives the eater
search light breath of wide range.
Now that we have scientific autho
ity for the usefulness of the humb
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28

Billings, Jan. IA mob which
formed at Forsyth, Rosebud county,
tonight caused Acting Sheriff John
Vanderpauwert to increase the guard
about the jail where John H. Burgess,
formerly deputy sheriff, and slayer
of Sheriff Moses. is confined. The
gathering dispersed about II O'Clock.
There was talk of lynching Burgess
and extra precautions will be taken
in anticipation of a possible assault.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Protest Cold Storage Limit

Washington, Jan. 20.-Swedel and
Norway protested to congress oday
through the state department aainst
provisions of the Mcclellan coldstor-
age bill pending in the house COM
merce committee, which will egin
hearings February 4. They wes re-
ferred to a subcommittee.
The Swedish legation pointe, out
that Sweden exports sailed ant pre-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
Seven Feet Of Snow

Truckee, CAL, Jan. 20.-Truckee
is emerging today from one of the
heaviest snow storms in 20 years.
The chamber of commerce has put a
hundred men at work breaking roads
to Bonner lake.
The snow lies seven feet on the
level. Five small houses collapsed
yesterday from the weight Of the
snow, but no one was hurt.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28

served fish on a large scale and pro
tested against the proposal to limit
storage to two months. The Norwe-
gian protest said Norway's salt fish
trade would also be embarrassed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13

years. The soil and climate here are
such that trees will grow twice as
fast as in our country. There are
eucalyptus a hundred feet high that
are not over fifteen years of age. and
palms as big around as a hogshead
that have been planted within the past
generation. The big trees on this estate
are numbered by the hundreds of
thousands. and they have all been
planted since 1884, which was the time
when Don Salvador began to turn his
ancestors grain and dairy farm into Il
nursery. Some of these trees are
raised solely for wood. and there are
little forests of eucalyptus containing
thousands of Individual trees that are
being grown for this purpose. Some
of these trees are only year or SO
old. while others are from rs to 100
feet high.
Around the large fields making up
the plantation are rows of Lombardy
poplars 100 feet high. These are the
fences of the estate, and they make
walls of green of wonderful beauty.
They often follow the irrigation ditch
es, making a double row of these trees,
walling the orchard or pastures within.
The rows of poplars are often $50
feet high, and that although they are
only sixteen years old. The custom
of using them for fences and to mark
out the boundary lines is common
throughout the central valley of Chile.
This adds greatly to the beauty of
the country. 1t changes the face of
the landscape and makes it look great
~ like the farming regions of France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13

soil and tap the underground layers of
water. and are therefore able to resist
the drouth. 1t was in recognition of
this discovery that the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of London has just unan-
imously elected Don Salvador Izquierdo
S. member of that body.
But i cannot give you better idea
of the possibilities of fruit raising in
Chile than by taking you with Don Sal
rador over his great fruit estate. We
start at the station In Santiago and
within an hour have ridden out to the
little station of Nos. Our way is
through the central valley of Chile, and
we see great farms and vineyards on
both sides of the railroad. At Nos we
leave the train and take the private
car line owned by Don Salvador for
the hacienda, which is d distance of Ave
miles away. The car is pulled by a
horse. but the Chilean driver makes
the animal go on the gallop. We go
over road lined with poplars hun
dred feet high, by great fields in which
fat cattle are grazing, and within a
short time are on Don Salvador's prop
erty- The estate is surrounded by mag
nificent scenery. 1t lies on a plain at
the foot of the mountains, sloping to-
ward them just enough to give the fall
required for the irrigation bitches
These are fed by a branch of the Ma
pocho river. rushing stream SO large
and swift that it not only irrigates the
1000 acres of plants. but also furnishes
the electric current that runs all the ma
chinery. One of the canals turns a tur-
bine that gives the estate 120 horsepower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13
THERE ARE $4,000 TREES THIS FIELD.
Izquierdo is in rish

year and the trees are cut low, so that
the branches grow out.from the ground
At the same time the limbs are thin. so
that the sun gives q daily kiss to every
peach on the tree, bringing ripe, rosy
blush to it's cheeks. Around the trunk
of each tree is a little ditch for irriga-
ton, and sprinkled over this after
watering is nitrate of soda, which is
fed to the trees at the rate of 200
pounds to the acre. They have no San
Jose scale here. but Don Salvador uses
the lime and sulphur spray every win
ter to guard against insect pests of all
kinds.
The same careful treatment is OBJ
served as to all kinds of trees. l am
told that the ordinary native workmen
are skilled in the handling of fruit and
they learn easily to care for the trees.
Don Salvador has about 400 employees
on his hacienda. They are all native
Chileans and among them are men who
can bud and graft and who understand
almost every phase of fruit cultivation.
AS we sat in Santa Ines, the great
country house of the plantati ton. where
Don Salvador lives during a part OF
the summer. I asked him to give me
some idea of the possibilities of Chile
as a winter fruit market for the United
States. He replied:
There is no doubt that one OF our
chief industries for the future is to be
in raising fruit for the north. We shall
soon he able to land fruit in New York