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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Indian Appropriations Reduced

Washington, Jan. 3O.-The Indian
appropriation bill as formulated by
the house committe carries $1,123, 900
less than was recommended for ex-
penditure in Montana. Nearly every
Montana item in the bill was severely
cut, but the heaviest reductions were
in the appropriation for continuing
construction on Indian irrigation pro-
jects, and for furnishing Indians with
cattle and implements to enable them
to become self-supporting farmers.
Where reclamation service asked
for $500,000 to continue the Flathead
irrigation project, the bill appropri-
ates but 100000, and the Fort Peck
project, for which $375,000 was rec
commended, gets only $4,000 under
the bill. These cuts are partly due
to the fact that the Indian commits
sioner maintains that irrigation pro-
jects in Montana should be principally
paid for out of the reclamation fund,
and not by appropriation from the
treasury.
Three hundred thousand was rec
commended for the purchase of farm
implements for the Flathead, Black
feet and Fort Peck Indians, but no
appropriation whatever is carried by
the bill, and where $4,000 was asked
to purchase cattle for the Northern
Cheyenne Indians no money is appro-
priated. The bill ignores the recon.
mendation for the appropriation of $25.
900 to erect a hospital for the Black.
feet Indians.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Expensive Prisoners

New York, Feb. 2.-Sheriff Max S.
Griffenhagen in report to the board
of estimates on the cost of maintain
ing the Ludlow street jail-the home
of the "alimony club"-declares it
would be cheaper for New York coun-
ty to pay the alimony which the pris-
oners confined in the Jail refuse to
pay. allow them their liberty and
close the building, than to continue
the present rate of expenditures. The
sheriff's report shows that it costs
about $3.50 day to house and feed
each prisoner.
Ludlow street Jail has been given
over almost entirely to the incarcera-
tion of men delinquent in their pay.
ment of alimony.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Cure for Cigarette Habit

New York, Jan. 29.-The crusade
which Recorder John j. McGovern of
Hoboken, N. j., has been conducting
to rid men and boys of the cigarette
smoking habit resulted last night in
300 men and boys submitting to the
"cure." It is said that since the
movement began, several young
mems f1ancees have refused to be
married until their fiancees gave up
smoking cigarettes, and this accounts
for large number of those who
sought the cure, which consists of
swabbing the throat with nitrate of
silver. The treatment is supposed to
affect the mouth of the smoker so
that it will be misery for him to
smoke again.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
FORTY WERE DROWNED
Steamship Collision Caused Awful
Loss Of Life

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 30.-The story of
how II persons went down to their
death in the chill waters of tho At.
lantic, when the liner Nantucket RAIN.
med and sank the steamer Monroe
early today, was brought to port to-
night by the IS survivors of the sunk.
en- ship that were rescued and brought
to shore by the Nantucket.
It was story of awful and sudden
death, sweeping out of dark and fog,
and taking unawares the doomed half
hundred with the heaviness of sleep
still upon them. 1t told how the
stricken Monroe, with her side gored
deep by the knife-like steel PROV of
the Nantucket, filled rapidly, rolled
over on her side, and in few min
utes turned over and plunged to the
bottom, carrying with her the pas
sengers and members of the crew who
had failed to get clear of the wreck.
The lost had scarcely a chance to
realize that death was upon them be-
fore they were struggling in the sea.
The doomed passengers of the Mon
roe fast asleep in their cabins when
the two vessels came together, went
down to death with only shrek of
despair. Only those kept awake by
the snorting sirens that walled their
useless warnings through the fog,
knew when the vessels struck.
The rest, thrown from their berths
by the force of the collision, heavy
with sleep, had barely time to strug.
gle to the deck of the sinking vessel
before they were plunged into the
water. Not ten minutes intervened
between the time the bow of the Nam
tucket crashed its way into the side
of the Dominion liner and the time
the latter slid under the waves. The
rescued were lifted out of the icy wa
ter after their vessel had gone down.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Death Of Senator CuIiom

Washington, Jan. 2S.-Former SEN
ator Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois, died
here today after an illness of more
than a week, during which he how
cred between life and death. His
last words were wish that he might
have lived to see the completion of
the national memorial of Abraham
Lincoln, who was his personal friend.
Shelby M. Cullom's death ended
fifty years of continuous public SER
vice that had made him a noted figure
in American national life and brought
him into official relations with every
president from Abraham Lincoln to
Woodrow Wilson.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Would Investigate Sugar Plants

Washington, Feb. 2.-Investigation
by the department of commerce of
beet sugar plants in Colorado and
elsewhere, to determine whether they
are justified in their scale of prices
paid to beet sugar raisers was urged
on President Wilson today by Repre-
sentative Heating of Colorado.
Mr.. Keating told the president that
the beet sugar companies were try
ing to hold up producers, that they
were overcapitalized from two and a
half times to ten times, that in many
cases they have inefficient plants and
that the department should investi-
gate conditions in the interest of the
farmers. The president suggested
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
Postoffice Department Would Control
Telegraph Business

Washington, Feb. 2.-Postmaster
General Burleson has submitted to
the senate the recommendations of
the departmental committee appoint
ed by him to investigate the practi-
cability of government ownership of
telephone and telegraph lines.
The report declared that "the only
way to afford to the people the COM
plete and modern postal facilities that
the constitution makes it the duty Of
the government to provide" is by car
rying out these suggestions:
THAT congress declare a govern
ment monopoly over all telegraph, tel
ephOne and radio communication and
such other means for the transmits
sion Of intelligence as may hereafter
develop.
2.-That congress acquire by pur-
chase at appraised value the CONNER
cial telephone net work, except the
farmer lines.
3.-That congress authorize post
master general to issue in his discre-
tion, and under such regulations as
he may prescribe, revocable licenses
for the operation by private individ-
uals, associations, companies and cor
porations, of the telephone service
and such parts of the telephone sys-
tenn as may not be acquired by the
government.
The report states that the United
States is alone of the leading nations
which has left to private enterprise
the ownership and operation of the
telegraph and telephone facilities and
that practically all of the economists
who have treated the subject have
agreed that telegraph and telephone
facilities should be controlled by the
government.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
To Control Radium Product

Washington, Jan. 29.-Members of
the house mines committee announc-
ed tonight they had tentatively de-
cided that the proposed radium bill
should provide for federal control of
radium ores and the finished product.
without authorizing the withdrawal
from entry of carbonite lands.
The committees plan is to permit
the development of the radium.bear
ing lands by private enterprise, and
at the same time give the government
control of radium production. It
virtually was agreed at tonigLt's
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Made Counterfeit In Prison

Joliet, ILL.,, Jan. 31.-Five convicts
who have been making counterfeit s.
cent pieces in the machine shop of
the prison here were detected today.
The nickels were passed in the prison
store. The leaders were F. Collins, a
tinsmith. and Andred Schock, a ma
chinist, both sentenced from Chicago
last August for robbery. The others
assisted in minor capacities.
All were employed in the machine
shop. They made probably SO worth
of nickels and had prepared dies for
quarters and dollars, none of which,
however, had been used.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
ASSESSORS FIX VALUES
Convention Of County Officials Adopts
Schedule Of Assessment

Lewistown, Jan. 28.-All the county
officials except the commissioners fin
ished their business this afternoon
and adjourned, but the commissioners
are holding night session at which
a large number of matters will come
up so that the session will run late
into the night.
The following schedule of minimum
valuations was adopted by the asso-
citation of assessors to govern assess
ments in 1914 in Montana, each as
SCISSOR to use his discretion on higher
Valuations; range horses, $35 per
head; work, driving horses and mules,
$50; common cayuse, $25 to $35; thor
oughbred, $40; dairy cows, to $35;
common milch cows not less than
$25; three-year-old steers, $685. beef
steers, $45.
Following are fixed Valuations:
Range stock cattle, $25; coming two
year-olds, $40; coming yearlings, SIS;
Stock sheep, not less than 50; lambs
not less than $1.50; bucks, not less
than IS; goats, not less than 81;
hogs, not less than SIS per head.
The assessors decided to assess
banks on their capital stock, surplus
and undivided profits, less banking
building and fixtures, which are as
sessed under other classifications at
Is per cent.
Merchants will be assessed upon in
voice or sworn statement, as other
personal property. The assessors are
advised not to disturb the constitu-
tional provision relative to mine tax
alton.
Tax Commissioner Houtz said that
the assessors had adopted the sche-
dule of cash values, and that he would
travel all over Montana to see that
the schedule is rigidly followed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
meeting to recommend the construc-
ton of government-owned radium
producing plant at some western
point.
Favors Voting by Mail

Boston, Jan. pa system where.
by a vote at all elections may be cast
either by mail or by messenger boy
is to be proposed within a short time
by Governor Walsh, who has been
perfecting details of the scheme for
several months, his intentions being
made public today.
what I am striving for" he said
this morning, "is way to give the
citizens the use of the most valuable
thing in citizenship, the right to cast
votes. Many Of the details in the
proposed bill will not be settled un-
til I give the public chance to
offer suggestions as to what is the
most practical"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Importing Foreign Butter

New York, Jan. 31.-An influx of
foreign butter from all parts of the
world, due to the reduction of the
tariff from to 21a cents pound, has
caused decline in the New York
wholesale price of 10 cents a pound
since the first of the year.
Butter has been coming into this
city from as far off as Australia by
way of San Francisco. Three hun
dred thousand pounds from that coun-
try have been laid down here within
the last two or three weeks. Butter
also has been shipped from Argen.
tina, Denmark and Siberia.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
Lives Lost In Blizzard

Chicago, Jan. 31.-More than a foot
of snow was left in the wake of a
snowstorm which descended today on
Chicago, northern Illinois, Ohio and
Indiana and southern Michigan. In
Toledo, Cleveland and in parts of In.
diana the snow was preceded by
sleet driven before a high wind and
telephone and telegraph and train
services suffered as a result. In Chi
cago one death was recorded and in
Indianapolis two as being due to the
storm. Near International Falls,
Minn., the bodies of three men were
found in snowdrifts built by a bliz-
zard of two days ago.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
that Mr.. Heating confer with Secre
tary Redfield, which he will do.
Six Thousand in Great Drama

New York, Feb. 2.-Announcement
is made here today that Percy Mack
aye, John Lindensmith, Frederick s.
Converse and DR.. Thomas Wood Ste
vens, head of the dramatic school at
the Carnegie institute of Pittsburg are
to produce for the city of St. Louis
a drama in which $500 actors will
take part-the largest yet staged in
America.
The drama will be entitled "The
Pagent and the Masque of Saint
Louis" 1t will be given the last
week in May to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the founding of st.
Louis.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
FARM LAND BANKS
Bills for Rural Credit System Intro.
duced In Congress

Washington, Jan. 29.-Administra-
tion rural credit bills were introduced
simultaneously in the senate and
house today by Senator Fletcher of
Florida and Representative Moss of
Indiana, members of the commission
President Wilson sent abroad last
summer to study the foreign systems.
The bills today were for long term
farm loans. Bills for short term
loans will be introduced later. The
introduction was a sequel to yester.
days conference at the White house.
The measures would establish in
the treasury department a bureau Of
farm land banks under the direction
of commissioner and make provi-
sions for the formation of such banks
in any state under federal charter
and federal inspection.
Any group of farmers within a
state might organize cooperative
farm land banks with power to issue
bonds to raise funds from distant
money markets for farm development.
Operations of the individual banks
would be confined within state lines,
the supervision will be federal, owing
to the variety of state laws bearing
on land titles, taxation, foreclosure
and like subjects. They would be
strictly prohibited from doing "a city
business"
Loans to farmers might not exceed
so per cent of the value of improved
land, nor extend more than 35 years.
No institution could begin business
without a foundation capital and dou-
BILE liability provided for national
banks. The amount Of long termed
business which might be undertaken
by any Of the proposed banks could
not exceed Is times the amount of
paid up shares, capital and surplus
They might accept and pay interest
on deposits not exceeding so per
cent of capital and surplus and re-
ceive deposits of postal savings funds
to the same extent.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
LIVESTOCK HAS DECREASED
Federal Authorities Discover Shortage
In Meat Supply

III "Sdt 0uPPuy
Washington, Feb. 1.-Shortage of
meat animals in the United States
was strikingly indicated by compare
tive figures made public today by the
department of agriculture, showing
that there are nine less beef cattle,
seven less sheep and three less hogs
now for each 100 persons in the coun-
try than there was in 1910. This means
that it would take 19,259,0O0 more
beef cattle, sheep and swine to give
the present population the same sup
ply that the census of 1910 showed
to exist.
While the population of the coun.
try is estimated to have increased
from 91,792,O00 to 9S,646,OO0 in the
past three years, the number of beef
cattle has decreased 1919 per cent and
of sheep So per cent. The number of
swine increased slightly, 1.3 per cent,
but it did not keep up with the pro-
portional growth of population.
Producers of farm products are the
last to receive any benefit from high
prices paid by consumers, yet they
are among the first to increase pro.
duction if there is a prospect of rea.
lizing better returns. The fact that
there is a present shortage of nearly
100000 meat animals in the United
States since the census of 1910, indi.
Gates clearly that the business is not
profitable to producers. The scarcity
of meat animals is attributed by de-
partment experts to the encroachment
of farms upon range territory, short
age in the corn and forage crop in
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma, in
creased value of land and higher cost
of labor and stock feed, decline in
stock raising on farms in the east and
south, because of poor marketing fa-
cilities, the temptation to sell live
stock at prevailing prices, and enor.
nous losses from hog cholera.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
New Express Rates

New York, Feb. 2.-The new sys.
tenn OF interstate express rates on a
scale sixteen per cent lower than
those formerly prevailing became ef-
fective today under orders issued by
the interstate commerce commission.
The Interstate rates are based on a
block system, the country being d.
vided into 826 blocks formed by the
intersections of the meridians of lon.
gitude and parallels of latitude.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
A Policy Of WatchfuI WAITING

Washington, Jan. President
Wilson outlined informally today the
status of those problems Of American
diplomacy that have been brought to
public attention by his recent confer
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04

ence with the senate committee on
foreign relations.
With respect to Mexico the presi-
dent let it be known that the only set
tied part of his policy at present was
to continue the course of watchful
waiting, but this was day to day
conviction with him, subject to devel-
opments in the revolution-torn repub-
lie. He has not made up his mind to
lift the embargo on arms, but is con-
sidering arguments for and against
such a course.
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AssocGATIoN
hrth"n Tanks.

The kind that holds OIL" H. r..
Nctonum. Tulsa and Drumright Okla.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Imperial Valley press., 1914-06-26
ESSENTIAL FACTS.

These are the essential facts for the citizens to con
sider at the mass meeting tomorrow evening:
The flood of this season has wholly destroyed Vol
cano Lake levee
To protect the valley from another flood by tempo
rary works at that point would cost in the neghborbood
of quarter of million dollars.
To provide permanent works to protect the valley
for all time would cost from million and half to two
million dollars
The irrigation districts purchase of the canal sys-
tenn is an absolute necessity to furnish agency to CEN
:ralize all interests in the hands of the people.
1t is not to be expected that the irrigation district
can consummate its purchase for several months.
The task of selling bonds for quarter of a
million dollars in the present condition of the financial
world is hopeless.
The people of this valley must do of two things
They must obtain from congress before it adjourns in
very short time an appropriation for permanent works.
or they must assess themselves for quarter of million
dollars for temporary works.
The appeal to congress may fail But it is lncon-
cevabe that any resident of the valley would oppose the
trial for it. knowing that it is that is to be heavy
assessment on themselves for works that cannot be de
pended on for more than two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-06-26
MONEY IN THE VAULTS.

A'1 A news item from New York is to the effect thai
trust company in that city is carrying between fiji
teen millions and eighteen millions of idle cash in its
vaults 1t illustrates where the nations money is, ant
the claim is made that the trust companies dpofe lack
of opportunity to this money
Yet millions in bonds of highest character and bear
ing good interest are unstable communities all over
the nation know.
The two statements in conflict The people OF
the nation are eager to go ahead as usual with their IN
ustria affairs but the great banks have the money
locked up away from the people
long time ago President Wilson was credited WITH
the statement that if the financial powers undertook to
force panic to prevent legislation demanded by the peo
ple the eovennnt would hang them as high as Hannah
T. NAV vet be necessary for the hanging to begin:
Imperial Valley press., 1914-06-26
An Ideal Newspaper Man

In the Interesting People depart
ment of the July American Magazine
Henry Sydnor Harrison, author OF
"Oueed" and ~. VS. Eyes" writes a
splendid sketch of his fellow-towns~
man. John Stewart Bryan, of Rich
mon6-an ideal newspaper man IN the
new South. Following is an extract:
"Now running newspaper OF an
idealistic tendency is difficult busl-
ness at best. The hopeful proprietor
who views his paper as an instru-
ment Of public servicc-as Stewart
BRYAN enthusiastically views his
must be prepared to meet one dis
courapement after another. He mus
be prepared to have his motives as
saulted by every conceivable distor-
ton of ignorance, malice or wounded
vanity, to please nobody, and to be
rewarded with abuse for the best light
nc has in him. And on those more
personal sides has he not considerable
room for perplexity? Shall we print
such -and-such tomorrow, or shall we
rot? Honesty is the only word, of
course. But now that we stop to
think, just where is the line between
public duty to ones readers and the
common promptings of kindness, or
even decency? That line is somewhere
between the jaundiced journalism that
invades the hearth with strictly scan
dalous intentions, and the office rule
Imperial Valley press., 1914-06-26

You may or may not see perfect
ly, and yet suffer with all kinds of
headache due to defective eyes. You
are very sure that it all comes from
the stomach, while DR.. Hutchison, the
Valley Optician, says at least rs per
cent come from the eye and may be
overcome by perfectly fitted glasses.
The doctor will be at the Eel Centro
hotel, over the Davis drug store, to-
morrow wednesday, and will be glad
to examine your eyes for you or
straighten you glasses. Call and see
him.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-06-26
MOVING MOVIE SHOW
FOR CANAL EXPOSITION
Omitted Press Day service)

Altoona, Pa, June 26,-Take two
passenger coaches, stand them side
by side on adjoining tracks, knock
out the inner side of each, lay con
Meeting floor and stretch a canvas
over the tops Of both.
That is a description of a moving
movie theatre being built today at
the shops of the Pennsylvania Rail
road here for the Panama-Pacific Ex-
position at San Francisco next year.
The theatre will be appointed and
finished as one of the Pennsy's regu-
lation steel coaches. 1t will be COM
pleted about November l and taken
to the exposition shortl yafterward.
The unique theatre will be part Of
the roads exhibit. In it will be given
pictures of scenes along the Pennsyl-
vania lines.