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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-18
SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET

Reports Of expert inspections of
eighteen boilers In service In the vari-
Gus school buildings of the city will
be submitted tonight to the School
Board by the inspectors of the Hart
ford Boiler Insurance ComnanY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-18
PoTTsvILLE MAN EXECUTED
BY .4ttoctntcd Prest

Pottsville, Pa. Sept. 1S.-The fam
lily of Frank Hoffman, of Ashland, re-
ceived word that he had been shot
down in Germany by German soldiers
when he refused to join the army. He
was forcibly seized and killed when he
attempted to escape.
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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
ACCEPT VILLA STORY
Mexican Leader Says Execution Of
Benton Was Deserved

Washington, Feb. PA cabinet
meeting afforded President Wilson an
.opportunity today to talk over with
his official advisers the latest advices
about the execution of William S.
Benton, the British subject at Juarez,
bv General Villa, the Mexican leader.
Much interest was manifested in
the published interview with General
Villa at Chihuahua in which he re-
cited again the story Of what he al
leges was an attempt on his life by
Benton. Though some doubt as to
the n in which Benton was
killed may exist in official circles,
unless positive evidence is presented
controverting Villas claim, it is GER
tain the American government will
not reject his story.
One direct effect on the incident, it
is admitted generally here, will be a
manifestation of some kind by the
United States to the constitutionalists
that foreigners must be given ample
protection. It is suggested In some
quarters that the American govern
ment may seek to reach an under
standing with Villa, through consular
officers, whereby the constitutional.
lists will agree to not take summary
action with respect to any foreigners
until he has previously notified the
Washington officials.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Banks Join Reserve System

Washington, Feb. 24.-The new fed
eral reserve system will begin bust
ness with a membership of at least
$500 banks. This was apparent last
night when at the close of the last
day on which national banks could
signify their intention of accepting
the terms of the currency law, less
than so of the 7,493 national banks of
the country had failed to respond fav.
orably.
More than enough state institutions
had applied for membership to bring
the total to $500. Most Of the insti-
tutions that have not come into the
system are comparatively small and
it is estimated that 81 per cent of all
the capital and in the pres
ent national bank system is repre-,
scented by those whose applications
are filed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Montana's Proud Record

Bozeman, Feb. 24.-With 81 states
and Canada competing with the clas-
siest exhibits ever shown at the show
Montana walked away with fully one
third of the sweepstake prizes, &C
cording to Prof. Alfred Atkinson of
the State college, who has returned
from Dallas, Tex, and the sixth an
nual corn exposition.
Montana won % sweepstakes, IL of
them world prizes and 16 United
States prizes. Canada, according to
Mr.. Atkinson, came down strong after
oats, wheat and barley awards, only
to be showed back by Montana, whose
farmers and exhibitors won the
awards on barley and wheat, the
United States award on oats and pos
sibly the termination test on oats.
This latter will be announced in a
few days when the agricultural de.
partment of the United States gov.
eminent has completed the test.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Denounced Automobile Lobby

Washington, Feb. 24.-Trans-conti-
mental highways proposed by the Am
erican Automobile association were
characterized today as "lanes over
which the members Of this high-brow-
ed, joy-riding association may strut"
by Representative Shackelford of Mis-
souri,, attacking what he called the
editorial canning factory" maintain
ed by the organization to promote
the measures it favored.
With funds the association collected
from it's 451 subordinate automobile
clubs and the like, Mr.. Shackelford
declared a "%nefarious lobby" was
maintained in Washington, and the all
essentiol "long green," was counted
on to fight the reelection of oppor.
ents of motor bills. He read a letter
from the president of the association
to a member in Kansas City, Mo-, urg
ing that support be withdrawn from
the Shackelford $25,OO0,O00 good roads
bill now before the senate, having
passed the house. The measure pro
vides for dirt roads in rural free de
livery districts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Consumers Pay Too Much

Chicago, Feb. 24.-The plan an
nounced some months ago for a sys-
tenn to be established by the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad COM
pany for gathering up the produce Of
Oklahoma farmers and distributing
it to consumers has not yet culminat-
ed in anything definite, but the Off
Gals of that road are still at work on
the problem. The contrast between
the price the farmer receives and the
price the pays is startling,
"When, for instance, the housewife
buys a package of oatmeal for TWEEN
ty-five cents she is getting about
three cents worth of oatmeal, the rest
being fancy package, advertising, the
middleman's profit, and the cost O.
delivery at the door, said Mr.. Rud
ley. "In the old days she used to g
to the store, with a basket, and tn
grocer would take her oatmeal out o
a barrel; but she now wants it pu
up in a sanitary package, with some
body's brand on it."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Have Faith in Our Country

The Chase National, one of New
York's Oldest and most prominent
banks, whose officers have been in
fluential in the financial world, has
sent to it's patrons the following "Pa-
triotic Creed:"
We believe in our country, the Unit
ed States of America. We believe in
her constitution, her laws, her institu-
tons and the principles for which she
stands. We believe in her future-the
past is secure. We believe in her vast
resources, her great possibilities-yes,
more, her wonderful c%ertainties.
We believe in the American people,
their genius, their brains and their
Drawn. We believe in their honesty
their integrity and dependability. We
believe that nothing can stand in the
way of their commercial advancement
and prosperity.
We believe that what are termed
"times of business depression" are bu'
periods of preparation for greater ane
more pronounced commercial success
And we believe that in our country
are being worked out great problems
the solution of which will be for tn
benefit Of all mankind.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Pointed Paragraphs

A mans outcome usually depends
upon his income.
Often a woman mistakes audacity in
a man for bravery.
Too much credit is dangerous
than too much money.
Just so it is pie the small boy does
not care what kind it is.
A woman is bound to have her way
ever If it is a roundabout way.
A man must suffer before he can
sympathize with other sufferers.
When May weds December she sees
only the silver lining of the cloud.
And a girl whose face is her for
tune is seldom able to support a hus
band.
Singers are the only people who are
able to hold a note for a long time.
There's mighty little fun in being
the kind OF a fellow that can't see the
point of a joke on himself.
There is no place like homeland
a married man is glad of it when his
wife is cleaning house.
Many a good man lives and dies in
the bachelor class because no widow
pities him enough to show him the
error of his ways.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Observations by Luke Mcluke

A family tree isn't any proof that
your family has been out of the trees
any longer than the other fellows
family.
After a mar has been married a
| while he realizes that a lawyer does
not know anything about the art of
cross examination.
When you can't bride a man to do
a fool thing you can always dare him
and he'll do it for nothing.
Every man believes That if other
people we're as charitable as he is.
there would be no poor.
l don't see why Diogenes had to
hunt so long to find an honest man
Just ask the first man you meet and
he'll admit that he is the party.
You would imagine they could save
a little money on dry goods these
days. But a two-yard hobble costs
just as much as a 2O-yard hoop skirt
used to.
Methuselah heard of germs
and he never slept on a porch, but
somehow or other the burned ignor
anus managed to live through it..
The meanest man we know Of put
a lead dollar in his pocket the Other
night, knowing his wife would cop it
She nearly got into trouble trying tc
pass it, but she daren't say a word tt
friend husband.
The women are getting so wise thai
a man has a hard time digging up ex
cuses. The latest is to blame the
blond hair on your vest to the fac
that you were playing with a skye
terrier when you were down town.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Stole Tableware At Free Feed

San Francisco, Feb. 24.-San Fran
cisco closed it's municipal dining
room today and hereafter no more
free meals will be served the unem-
ployed. The reason for the action
was that the city's emergency appro-
priation Of 100000 is exhausted.
More than 1000 men lined up today
in a pouring rain for the final free
breakfast, and a detail of police was
on hand to prevent the petty pilfering
Of tableware. Many suspected of
carrying away utensils were searched
and a quantity of knives, forks and tin
mugs vas yielded. No attempt was
made by the police to take away
whole loaves or half eaten loaves
which some of the men concealed be-
meath their coats.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Montana NegIects Opportunities

If it were not for Montana, and
the fact there is 10 canning factory in
this state, there would not now be
twenty-three canning factories in Op-
Grafton at the present time within a
radius Of twenty miles of Ogden, Utah.
Why should Montana not raise more
vegetables and provide some more of
it's canned goods consumption, says E.
4. Shewe, general agent of the Short
Line, as he pointed out to the Butte
Post some figures on the importation
of fresh vegetables and canned goods
to Butte and Montana from the south,
During the past year at least 500
cars-and probably far more--ct
fresh vegetables, dried fruit and ran
ned goods were imported into Butte
from California. This would repre-.
sent 10000, 900 pounds. During the
past three months 100 cars, or 5000.
900 pounds of canned goods arrived
through the Butte gateway for Butte
and other Montana points from Utah
alone, over the Oregon Short Line
During December there came 40 al
of fresh vegetables to butte.
"Within a radius of 20 miles of the
city of Ogden, in Utah." said Mr.
Srewe, there are % canning factories
Could Montana not have some canning
factories and thus secure a part al
least, of the immense amount of mon
ey which is leaving the state every
month for the imported vegetables
| dried fruits and canned goods?"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Chicago Women Vote

Chicago, Feb. 24.-Women voters of
Chicago cast their ballot today at the
primary election for the nomination
Of aldermanic candidates. AS candi-
dates. as voters and as election Off
GERS they played an important part in
the election. the first in this city
since the passage of the equal suff-
rage act by the last legislature.
The women conferred most of their
attention on the First ward, compris-
ing the business section, where Miss
Marion Drake was the progressive
candidate. If nominated Miss Drake
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
GOOD ROADS LEGISLATION

According to advices from Washing
ton, the western states will receive
a comparatively small part of the $685.
100000 good roads fund provided for
in the Shackleford bill, unless amend.
ments defeated in the house are re-
stored by the senate. AS this meas
use passed the house one-half of the
money is to be distributed on the
basis of rural post roads and rural
and star routes. With this plan OF
distribution the sparsely settled states
counted by the eastern states in pop
ulation many times. Practically ev
cry section line in the east means a
mail route. while comparatively few
western roads are used by Uncle Sam
in carrying the mails.
Two general plans of good roads
legislation have been submitted to
congress for consideration. What is
known as the S~hackleford bill propos.
es the appropriation and apporticn'
ment of $25. OOO, 900 a year among the
states on the basis of population and
mileage of rural and star routes. The
other plan is that proposed by for
mer Senator Bourne of Oregon, now
chairman OF the good roads commits
sion, which cOntemplates a billion,
dollar 3 per cent bond issue to raise
construction funds to be loaned to the
states at 4 per cent, the difference IN
interest taking care of the principal
and also proposes an annual $4,000.
600 maintenance fund, appOrtiOneC
among the states on the basis Of area
population, assessed valuation anG
road mileage.
Careful computation shows that thu
Shackleford plan is most favorable t.
eastern states. because dense popula
ton has resulted in the establishment
of more rural routes in the east thai
in the west and the east therefore
enjoys the double advantage of popu
lation and mail routes. The mor.
comparatively shy on population and
in proportion to their area and popu
lation, make a poor showing on thu
matter of mail routes mileage.
The Bourne plan, which makes are;
and total road mileage factors in de
termining the allowance for goo
roads work, is decidedly more favor
able to the west and, as a matter O
fact, the western states would re
ceive more money annually under tn
$50, 00O,0 900 found proposed by tn
Bourne plan than they would receiv
out of the $25, 000.0 900 Shacklefor'
plan.
Montana, for instance, would re
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04

ceive each year $4,000 under the
Bourne plan and only $4,000 under
the Shackleford bill.
California, under the Bourne plan,
would receive each year $71S,0OO,
whereas under the Shackleford plan
the allowance would be cut to $685..
900.
1t is evident from these figures that
if congress is to adopt one of the two
plans now under consideration, the
interests of the west will be best
served by bringing about the adoption
of the Bourne plan. for not only would
that plan give to each of the western
states a much larger allowance that
it would receive under the Shackle-
ford bill, but it would also provide
for a billiOn-dollar bond issue, thus
providing a fund upon which the states
might draw if they were so disposed
and draw up to the percentage given
in the foregoing table.
The Shackleford plan, by taking
population and post roads as the sole
factors in determining the allotment
of good roads funds to the several
states, emphasizes the advantage in
favor of the thickly-settled regions.
The Bourne plan, by making area and
total road mileage factors, counter
balances the population and assessed
valuation of the congasted states and,
in Senator Bourne's opinion, provides
a more equitable basis of appOrtiOn-
ment.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
BETTER FARM METHODS

The mouse agricultural
bill, popularity known as the Lever
bill, passed by the senate without a
dissenting vote, may easily take place
in history as the most important con-
structive legislation of the American
congress since the homestead act.
The measure is of peculiar interest
to Chicago because it originated here
with Howard H. Gross and other
prominent and public-spirited citizens
organized as the National Soil Fertil'
ity league, says the Inter-Ocean. This
group of leading and thinking citizens
and their associates say that the root
cause of that high cost of living which
has become so oppressive of late
years is that under a variety of in.
%fluences the fertility of our soil is not
advancing as it should-is even rela-
lively declining, as it always does
when countries ease to be new" un-
less proper corrective measures are
taken.
The high cost of living is essen
TALLY the high cost of food. And the
cost of food is relatively high because
American farms are not as productive
as they might be. The Lever bill is
an effort toward scientific education
of farmers on a scale of unprecedent-
ed magnitude and liberality.
The means are provided by an un-
conditional appropriation of 100000 a
year to each state, with further ap-
preparations of $500, 900 the first year
and increasing $6OO,O0O each year III
til a total of $4,000, 900 a year is reach
ed, conditioned on the states provid
ing equal sums for the educationa
purposes of the act. OF what is hopet
from it Mr.. Gross says:
"Most authorities agree that whel
this plan is in full operation, say, tel
or fifteen years hence, it will more
than double the output of the farms
1t will reduce the cost of production
and increase the farmers net income
and at the same time give the people
a more abundant and cheaper foo
supply. If a farmer raises a siXt,
bushel crop of corn on forty acre
instead of a forty bushel crop on 81,
ty acres he would have the sam
amount of corn and the cost woul
:, be materially less. If the gain |
crop value should be only 20 per cen
it would produce annually a SUI
twice the combined capital of all til
national banks"
=, The real way to reduce permanent
, ly the cost of living is to increas
, food production in such manner q
will leave the producer relatively
we'll or better off. 1t cannot be dor
by reducing the farmers profits an
giving him less incentive. 1t can
done only by increasing the etlicle'
: cy Of each man and each acre. TIL
:, is what the Lever bill promises
systematic effort to do by approve
educational methods.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Hill Predicts Prosneritv

Washington. Feb. 25.-James J. Hill
talked with President Wilson today
about business conditions and said af.
terward that the outlook for prosper.
ity was bright.
Mr.. Hill was mentioned recently as
a probable selection for the federal
reserve board, but administration Of
flclais said today he was not being
considered in that connection.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
The River Press
PMbiishpd every Wednesday, Morning
on the River Press Pmhlish-
tug COmpunN.
MONTANA AGRICULTURE

Montana grain has nee mare dem
worldwide contest the blue ribbon
has come to the product of Montana
fields. Park county this time wins
the laurels.
Montana has been winning medals
and ribbons in these contests for a
good many years. When Judge Bick
ford was the director of the Montana
part of the Columbian exposition in
Chicago, MissOula county captured
first honors in the agricultural world,
by bringing home blue ribbons for the
hay and grain which were shown there
by farmers of Grass Valley. That was
practically the first announcement
that the world received of the fact
that anything grows in Montana ex-
cept bunchgrass and sagebrush.
The news startled some of the east.
erners and they began to study their
Biographies. But they obtained little
satisfaction there. Then Marcus DAILY
began to send his famous racing colts
from the Bitter Root, back to the
great tracks of the east. And there
was always Bitter Root hay sent along
with the thoroughbreds. In this way
the eastern hOrsemen learned what
real hay is. The men with the Daily
stable used to say that they were re-
quired by circumstances to stand
guard " their hay supply all the
time or it would have been stolen.
And, upon the walls at the DAILY
farm, there used to hang, along with
the trophies Of renowned turf tri-
umphs, medals and certificates which
attested to the victories won at agri-
sultural fairs by the forage grown
upon the bench lands of that great
farm. These trophies had come from
great eastern shows, where the Bitter
Root hay and grain had been in com
petition with the products of the
farms of the world.
Such was the pioneering in agri-
cultural competition, which attracted
to Montana the attention of the farm
ing world. 1t has been followed by
the splendid triumphs Of Yellowstone
and Park and other counties of the
east side of the range. In more than
n important contest during recent
years these counties have we'll main
tanned the honor of their state.
Just the other night, in The Mis-
soulian Office, Secretary B~ieitenstein
of the Montana state fair said: mon.
tana oats are at a disadvantage be.
cause these judges will not believe
that the grain has not been clipped
and secured, it is so bright and full
On this account, several Montana ex
hibits have been barred in recent con
petitions, when they were perfectl.
entitled to consideration. They jus
don't understand our grain"
So Montana is commanding after
ton, wherever there are farmers. S
the agriculture of this state is con
ing into eminence as a contributing
factor in it's prosperity. 1t is the be
ginning of a march of development
that will amaZ the world.-The Mis-
soulian.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
Found Dead in Snowdrift

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Feb. &c.
Frank Casey, a chauffer who wager
ed that he could walk three miles an
hour through the deep snow, from
his home to Vincent Astor's villa at
Rhlnebeck, was found frozen to death
last night in a snow drift. He had
gone half the distance when he was
overcome by the intense cold.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04

will oppose Alderman lighthouse"
John j.. Coughlin. for election.
Election officials predicted that
from $4,000 to $4,000 of the 1853, 900
registered women voters would vote.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04

Blank forms for making annual re.
ports Of corporations on sale at the
River Press Office.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-24
Blood Tonic Has
important Meaning
Puts the Right Sort of Vim
Where Most Needed.

. To tone the blood means to enable 1t to
throw or accumulated impurities, to in
crease the red corpuscles and to put the
blood-making organs into such active condi-
tion as to produce that conscious sensation
OF what we feel as health
This is the logical effect of using the
famous blood purifier, S. s. s.
Half the people you meet complain Of
weary muscles, stagnant brain, tangled
nerves. and wonderful desire to Law down
and just quilt Most of these peopie have
been using nervines that spasmodicallv flare
mp the nerves only to die down again, as
die they must. Avoid nerve stimulants
Bear In mind that this worn-out feeling is
Que TO poor blood, to bacteria In the water
you drink; to the multiplying of destruc.
i've germs in the blood faster than they
can De overcome by the white corDuscles:
and to what Is known as auto-toxemia, that
condition where the venous or impure blood
sccumulates faster than 1t can be replaced
ny the red arterial blood
>: ;. 5. has long been famous as n blood
purifier. and its action by elimination of
rue irritating poisons that infest the blood
is one OF the very important things to know
You can get s. S. S. at any drug store
but. take no other so.cslled blood purifier.
,. \. s.. is purely vegetable product
ana you will make a great mistake to have
some enthusiast palm of mercury. arsenic
or iodide Of potash preparation that NAV
DO you irreparable harm
5. :: 8. Is prepared by The Swift Specifc
Co, .b33 Swift Bldg, Atlanta. Ga, and If
you nave any deep seated or obstinate blood
trouble. write to their Medical Dept for
free advice. 1t will be worth your while
to do so