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The River Press. Terms of Subscription : payable in advance. One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Credit subscriptions, $2.50 per annum. All letters and communications containing mat ter intended for publication in this paper should be addressed to "The River Press," and the name Of the writer must be given to insure attention Local advertisements will be inserted in these calumns at the rate of ten cents per line from transient and five cents per line from regular ad vertisers. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1903. TUE BURDICK Ml'HDER CASE. For more than a week the daily pa pers of the country have been printing long 1 accounts of the Burdick murder case at Buffalo, N. Y., and a day or two ago the great press associations of the country sent out thousands of words giving in detail the testimony of Mrs. Burdick, the wife of the mur dered man. This testimony of Mrs. Burdicd was given before the cor oner 's jury investigating the case, in the hope of finding out who is the murderer. While the woman was kept on the witness stand for hours, and subjected to a rigid examination, when she had finished she had told nothing, so far as the reader could gather, that would fasten suspicion strongly enough on any one to war rant their arrest. The case is one of the most scandal ous and sensational that has been re ported in the papers for a long time. Several weeks ago Burdick, who was a wealthy man, was found in aground tloor room of his house murdered. An examination convinced the au thorities that the deed had been com mitted by some one acquainted with the house, and that the murderer had been deliberate in his visit to the house and in his departure. The of ficers at first said they suspected a woman, and when the fact became known that Burdick was applying for a divorce from his wife on statutory grounds, the supposition was that she was the suspect. But it developed that his wife was absent from Buffalo when her husband was murdered, and then the police arrested two girls who were employed in Burdick's factory. These girls were released in a few hours. Then the police said the su spect was a man, but they did not make any arrests. A few days before the coroner's in quest began there was a sensational development iu the case. Arthur L. Pennell, who was mentioned as the co-respondent in the case, went riding in an automobile with his wife; the machine ran over a high embankment, and the two were killed. Then the sen sation lovers said the affair was not an accident, but that it was a deliberate attempt at suicide, and a successful one. But an investigation showed the brakes of the machine were set, the current was reversed, and that Pennell had done all in his power to stop the automobile from jumping the embank ment. Beyond this Pennell affair there were no particular developments in the case until Mrs. Burdick took the witness stand. The story told by the the woman and the letters read by the state's attorney written her by Pen nell and acknowledged to have been received by the woman, showed a most deplorable condition of affairs. The woman said she had twice left her husband or been sent away by him be cause of Pennell, and that both times he had taken her back at the solicita tion of Mrs. Pennell. There was no question as to Pennell's infatuation ior Mrs. Burdick, but one feature that was brought out was the statement that Mrs. Pennell was in love with Burdick. There was also an intima tion that Mrs. Pennell hated the scan dal of the divorce proceedings worse than anything else and a hint was .given that she would not have stopped at anything to have prevented Bur dick pushing his case against his wife and involving Pennell. He who reads may lind the moral in this Burdick story. Three souls uii sliriven have gone to meet their Mak er because of a violation of the sev enth commandment. One woman, the cause of the trouble, would undoubt edly welcome, the grim messenger. An aged mother is prostrated and foui innocent children will have to bear to their graves the burden of the sins of their parents, llad any of the actors in this tradegy counted the cast would they have followed the course which has had sure dire results? That is a question every man and woman who i6 tempted should ask, and ou the an swer may depend the weal or woe of innocent children and aged parents. T he building season has opened in Chicago and with it has come a strike. There are two unions in that city of sheet metal workers. One union went on strike March 10 and members of the other took their places. Now the advisory board of the building trades unions have ordered all their men to quit work on all buildings where the members of the tabooed metal work ers' union are employed. The out look is bad for those mechanics who have had little -ork during the winter months. TROUBLES OF DEMOCRACY. In their efforts to get together tfoe democrats of the nation are not mak ing much progress, but on the other hand they are apparently stirring up more dissension, and driving the sep arating wedge in farther. Several weeks ago there sprang from some un known source a boom for Judge Park er, of New York, for the democratic nomination for the presidency. That boom did not die a bornin', because the publicity bureau for Parker is still busy sending out two and three times ; a week columns of laudatory stuff about Parker to the democratic papers of the country. Bryan has not openly opposed the candidacy of Judge Parker, but he has served notice on the eastern dem ocrats that his followers will not sup port a presidential candidate who is foisted upon the convention by those democrats who were lukewarm in their support of the democratic platform and democratic candidate in the last two presidential elections. Grover Cleveland has been nomi nated for the presidency by the New York World, a professedly democratic paper, and no sooner had his boom been launched than the other alleged democratic paper in New York city, Hearst's American and Journal, noted the fact and it had one of its bright young men write an interview sup posedly with Cleveland in which the former democratic leader said that under no circumstances would he be a candidate for the presidency. Following this, Cleveland came out, and said the interview was false, and that he never said he would not ac cept a nomination. When the senate met in extra session a few weeks ago Senator Gorman, of Maryland, was boosted into the place of leader formerly held by Jones, of Arkansas. The democratic papers took this as a sure sign that Gorman was the Moses who would lead the democ racy out of the wilderness into the promised land of federal offices and power. But there are others who aspire to do the Moses act, and now there is an effort being made by these other saviors of the party to minim ize the effect of the Gorman business as the democratic leader in the senate. The democrats of the nation look to New York for their cue and judging from the latest returns from the Empire state the indications are that harmony is an unknown quantity in their party now. The Albany, N. Y. Argus, the leading democratic paper in the in terior, lets the cat out of the bag a little ways, far enough to see the claws, anyway, in a recent editorial, when it says: "Democrats in other states should not be misled by the Brooklyn Eagle or the New York World. With either, Democracy is but a mask, a means to betray. Both supported Seth Low for mayor in 1901 and both will sup port him for re-election. Both re fused to support the Democratic State ticket in 1!)U2, anil neither is anything other than an ally and supporter of the Republican State machine as against the regular Democratic organ ization in this State. "Of late, these papers have been full of wars and rumors of war to be made by democrats of this state against Mr. Bryan. The World and the Brooklyn Eagle are not in the confidence of any accredited democratic leader in this state. There is no plan to "humiliate" Mr. Bryan; no "war" against him; not a word of truth in all the vicious trash published in these papers and telegraphed out West, to serve there, it is hoped by its authors, its intended purpose of dividing and demoralizing Democrats, and making republican victory easy in 1004. Till': republicans of Butte having en dorsed the democratic candidate for mayor, and the citizens party having done likewise, and Mr. Patrick Mul lins being the anti-trust democratic candidate for the same otlice, aud Larry Duggau the labor democratic nominee, and Mr. Leamy the social democratic nominee, the question is, "Where do the republicans get off'.'" It has been a long while siuce Silver Bow sent a republican to the state leg islature, and the action of the party this spring iu Butte may account for the lack of republican votes in that city when the republicans in other parts of the state are doing their duty. As predicted, there was a string i n the Castro resignation. Like the Mon tana candidate for the legislature, the president of Venezuela has "yielded to the solicitations of Iiis friends," pulled back his resignation of the presidency and is once more back in olliee, while the populace shouts "Bravo!" Population of Loudon and England. London s population is now about V>:iii,0:U, an increase of some .">08,717 in the last ten years. Notwithstanding this, there are now :>oo fewer births daily in the United Kingdom than 20 years ago. The decline of the birth rate is a menace that is causing thoughtful b.uglishmeu more concern than the loss of trade and revenue. It may appear incredible, but it is per fectly true, that births in England are falling off at the rate of about 1 000 - 4 000 in five years. Reed Enjoyed It. Thomas B. Reed was once the victim of a printer's error the unusual aptness of which, after the first flush of indig. nation had sul tsided, appealed so strong ly to his sense of the comic that he never failed to refer to the matter with the keenest gusto whenever he met the man whom lie, with the utmost mock solemnity, always held responsible for it. The late Colonel John A. Cocberill's handwriting in the heat of composition was sometimes liable to lose itself in an almost interminable tangle, deci pherable only with the greatest difficul ty. On one occasion he undertook to say that "any one can see Tom Reed has the face of an honest man," but was horrified when he opened his paper the following morning and found that the types made him say that "any one can see Tom Reed has a face like a harvest moon." Womlors of the Human Heart. The workings of the human heart have been computed by a celebrated physiologist, and he lias demonstrated that it is equal to the lifting of 120 tons in twenty-four hours. Presuming that the blood is thrown out of the heart at each pulsation in the propor tion of sixty-nine strokes of nine feet, the mileage of the blood through the body might be taken at 207 yards per minute, seven miles per hour, 1G8 miles per day, 61,320 miles per year, or 5,150,000 miles in a lifetime of eighty four years. In the same period of time the heart must beat 2,869,770,000 times. Sadiron and Tailor's Goose. A "sadiron" is the style in which the common flatiron is spoken of in print, says the Syracuse Herald. "Sad" is an old English synonym for heavy, and Spenser wrote, "More sad than lump of lead." A "sadiron" was a heavy iron and long ago was applied to the flatiron now in common domestic use. The tailor's "goose" was so called because the handle bears a fanciful resem blance to the neck of a goose. This name because it had a reason for be ing still survives. Literary Diseases. Many occupations have diseases which are more or less incidental to them, and literature is not exempt. The two most prevalent literary maladies are writer's cramp and swelled head. The unfortunate thing about writer's cramp is that it is never cured. The unfortunate thing about swelled head is that it never kills.—Exchange. The Trouble Witli Poultry. An old woman who went into the poultry business under the expectation that she could make a fortune by sell ing eggs has quit it in disgust because, as she says, "the liens never '11 lay when eggs are dear, but always begin as soon as they are cheap." \ Qulcli Answer. Johnny's Elder Brother (who wants Johnny to go on an errand)—Didn't you know I was looking for you every where ? Johnny—No, I didn't. If I had, you wouldn't have found me.—Chums. The Fronted Hand. "Yes, and after she refused me she waved lier hand in farewell." "Sort of cold wave, wasn't it?"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. A chimney of 115 feet height will, without danger, sway ten inches in a wind. Beware of the man whose dog die likes to follow him.—New York Life. NOTICE. The annual meetinir of the Montana Stoek^rowers' Association will be held in Miles City oil April 21, 1003. Special rates will be given by the railroad eoiirianies. w g. P kkuitt . See-Treas. IS STRONGER THAN ITS iWEAJŒ5T( LINK IIS STRONGER THAN HIS STOMACH m D R PIERCES GOLDEN MEDICAL 1 DISCOVERY iMAKES WEAKl STOMACHS .STRONG Firn Book and Job Printing a spe cialtv at the R iver P ress office. Eruptions Dry, moist, scaly tetter, all forms of eczema or salt rheum, pimples and other cutaneous eruptions pro ceed from humors, either inherited, or acquired through defective di gestion and assimilation. To treat these eruptions with drying medicines is dangerous. The thing to do is to take Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Which thoroughly cleanse the blood, expelling all humors and building up the whole system. They cure Hood's Sarsaparilla permanently oured J. G. Hlnes, Franks, 111., of eczema, from which he had suffered for some time; and Miss Alvina Wolter, Box 212, Algona, Wis., of pim" pies on her face and back and chafed skin on her body, by which she had been greatly troubled. There are more testimonials in favor of Hood's than can bo published. Hood's Sarsaparilla promises to cure and keeps the promise. C. H. RAGLAND & CO., Live Stock Commission, B ank B uilding, Fort Benton, - Mont. J ERE SULLIVAN, U. S. Commissioner and Notary Public. Lund. Filings and. Proofs. d'ort benton, - - montana QHAS. H. BOYLE, United States Commissioner. fort benton, mont. .(I Illings und proofs. Abstract of land aiingi and proofs kept. "" Soldiers' Land Scrip for sale and located. P. EVANS, Attomey-at-Law, t'okt benton - montana. Practice in any court in the state. E. STRANAHAN, Attomey -at-Law. benton, - montana. (Late of the Helena bar.) C. G- FARNUM, A. B., Surveyor and Irrigation Engineer. Reservoirs, tiood Locations for Stock Ranches. Etc., Etc. harlem, montana. LLOYD Ü. SMITH, Surveyor and Civil Engineer. Prices reasonable, and good work guaranteed. Reservoir Work a Specialty. chinook, montana. DENTISTRY. ÎX T&r \ m N \ —? ^3 DR. GEO. H. TAYLOR, Fort Benton, Mont. First Door South ofGrnml Union Hotel. Will be at home ottice until the Kith of each month. At Chinook from 10th to end of month. OlUoc in Lohman Block. SHORT ROUTE FAST TIME TO MINNEAPOLIS AN !> ST. PAUL. Connecting with :ill railways for New York, Chicago, and all points East and South. Eastbomiil Westbound 1:34 11 .111 BENTON . 3:01 a.m. A. C. lil KCllFlELD, Agent. , KENTON LODGE, No. 59, - - I. O. O. F. »rvs—Meets every Wednesday evening at Odd Fellows'hall. Visiting member« are cordially invited to attend. H. B. LEWIS, N.G. tfilbekt K mui.eton , Kec. Sec. L1I. B auuman , Pres. f. ç. P reston , Vice-Pres. ZV7//77" FALLS . O scar D raper, S ec GREAT FALLS. MONTANA., NINTH YEAR. New Pupils May Enter at Any Time. Class or Private Instruction. Honkkeeping Typewriting: Knglioh Branche» Arithmetic Penmanship Commercial Law Banking Shorthand Isuftiness Practice Spelling Kapid Calculation Correspondence Musical Instruction—Piano, string and bund instruments. We assist our student» to positions. Day and Night School. Write for Catalogue. Telephone 241A WE have just received a large assortment of Devoe's Celebrated Guaranteed house, floor porch-floor, wagon and carriage paint in i, 1 -2 and 1 -4 gallon cans, in all colors. DEVOE'S GUARANTEED SHEEP PAINT In i, 3 and 5 -£allon cans, at respectively 1.25 k3.30 '5.50 $; Also Gypsine, the best and most economical of all Wall Finish, in all colors, in 5 -lb packages, at 60c. It will cover 500 square feet and is the most sanitary Wall Finish on the market. Our line of Paint and Whitewash Brushes is complete. Boiled Linseed Oil, 85c. Per Gallon Seeds Just received, a large shipment of Utah Fancy Recleaned Alfalfa at 16 i-2c. per pound. Montana grown Timothy, choice, 6c. per pound. German imported Bromus Inermis, 17 1 -2C. per pound. These seeds are clean and fresh. We will this week receive a carload of the celebrated John Deere Plows, Harrows, and Disc Harrows. We have added this year a line of STEEL BEAM PLOWS to our already complete assortment. Call and See Us. Our Prices Arc RIGHT. -Mail Orders Solicited Benton Hardware Co. Center Meat Market, Main Street, FORT BENTON, MONT. Fresh Meats of all kinds in Their Season. FRANK McDONALD, Prop'r. Grand Union Hotel, Fort. Benton, M^nt. Only First Class Hotel in the City Steam Heat. Rooms Singly or en Suite, electric lights. Baths and Closets on each Floor. Rates: $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 per day COMMODIOUS SAMPLE ROOMS. JOHN H. GREEN, Proprietor. 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