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The River Press.
Vol. XXVI.
Fort Benton, Montana, Wednesday, August 22, 1906.
No. 44.
CANNON SOUNDS KEVNOTK.
Speaker of House of Representatives
starts Republican Campaign Oratory.
Danville, 111., Aug. 16.— The con
vection of the Eighteenth Illinois con
gressional district was called at 1
o'clock and re-nominated Hon. Joseph
G. Cannon for the eighteenth consecu
tive time, being the seventeenth nomi
nation by acclamation. There was
the greatest enthusiasm especially
over the prospective candidacy of Mr.
Cannon for president. Mr. Cannon
had not intended to launch a boom
for president at this convention, but
the pressure of his supporters was so
great as to sweep away his wishes in
the matter.
Mr. Cannon fired the opening gun
of the republican congressional cam
paign by a speech, in part as follows:
"Since the election of William Mc
Kinley as president the business of the
country has doubled and the material
interests of the people have become
better than ever before in our history:
aye, better than the condition of any
people anywhere on earth in any time
since history began. This is under
the policies of the republican party
and enacted into law by congress and
executed by the president. Attribute
this condition to what cause you may,
speculate about it as you will, call it
confidence in men or measures, the
fact remains that it exists and that
there never has been recorded any
where such industrial development
and such a wave of prosperity as has
swept over the United States in the
last decade.
"Under the administration of the
Dingley tariff law there has been a
greater development in all forms of
industry than has ever been reached
under any other revenue law since the
government was organized. The
schedules of that law are not sacred,
but the principle it has embodied is
fundamental. Since the enactment of
the first revenue law under Washing
ton down to the present time the
periods of prosperity have been under
protection, and the periods of adver
sity have been under the policy of free
trade or tariff for revenue only.
"This remarkable prosperity under
the Dingley law has not been for one
class, but for all the people. It has
touched the artisan, the farmer, the
manufacturer, and the common labor
of the country. All have felt the bene
ficent influence, and I measure my
words when I say that the production
from all kinds of business enterprise
has doubled since that memorable
year of 1895, when the country in its
distress turned to William McKinley,
the champion of protection, as the ad
vance agent of prosperity. The capi
tal employed in our industries has
doubled: the total wages paid for la
bor have more than doubled in these
ten years: the farmers have lifted their
mortgages and are enjoying the em
barrassment of a surplus in the sav
ings banks: and laborers have ceased
to hunt for jobs and have become the
hunted by the jobs: in spite of large
immigration from other lands, there
is more work than workers in this
country today.
"The record of the servant is his
best and only certificate for continued
employment, and the republican party,
as a servant of the people, stands to
day in this campaign squarely on its
record."
Sentence Approved
Washington , Aug. 1«.—The navy
department today approved the find
ings in the case of Assistant Surgeon
Harry L. Brown, who was sentenced
to be reduced 15 numbers in his grade
on the charge of manipulation in his
examination papers when he was be
fore the board for promotion. The
case of T. N. Pease, who was impli
cated with Brown, has gone to the
president, as the sentence is for dis
missal.
Vermont Sues a Railway.
Montpelier , Vt., Aug. 16.—Two
suits against the Central Vermont
Railroad company have been brought
by Attorney General C. C. Fitts, in
behalf of the state of Vermont, on ac
countof alleged illegal freight charges.
The first suit, which is for $10,000, al
leges that excessive freight tariffs
have been charged, and the second,
for $5,000 damages, demands the re
turn to the state of amounts alleged to
have been collected in excess of the
regular rates.
Attorney General Fitts alleges that
the state has been compelled to pay
higher rates for all coal purchased
and used by the insane asylum at
Waterbury than private concerns
have paid.
Yerkes Dodged His Taxes.
Chicago , Aug. 16.—The board of
review yesterday added more than
$7,000,000 to the personal property
assessments of 33 estates judged to
have been undervalued by the county
assessors. Charles T. Yerkes' name
was placed high in the list of deceased
Chicagoans who failed to pay taxes
during life on the value of their per
sonal property. A back assessment
of $2,000,000 for 190." was placed
against his estate.
Battle With Russian Terrorists.
W arsaw , Aug. 16. — It is now
stated that during yesterday's mas
sacre 13 policemen, four police ser
geants, seven gendarmes and four sol
diers were killed, and that eight po
licemen, two sergeants, two gen
darmes and six soldiers were wound
ed. The soldiers, in replying to the
attacks on the police with volleys and
charging the crowds, killed 13 men
and two women, and severely wounded
70 persons and slightly wounded 95.
During the night shots were heard
throughout the city, but the casualties
have not been ascertained.
The Polska Gazette and the Dzvo
Polska, organs of the Polish national
ists, today published strong leading
articles denouncing the state of anar
chy which the socialists are producing
in Poland. Their object, the papers
declare, is not the attainment of free
dom, but the bringing about of a civil
war.
Bombs were employed in an attack
on the police station in Warsaw
where a sergeant, two patrolmen and
a soldier were wounded. Policemen
and soldiers were shot down like rab
bits in the streets. Their assailants,
who traveled in small bands, almost
all escaped among the terrorized
populace. The only considerable cap
ture was a band of ten men who had
invaded a grog shop and killed a sol
dier. These were taken by a passing
patrol.
Veterans Elect Officers.
Minneapolis , Aug. 16.—Comman
der-in-chief—R. B. Brown, Zanes
ville, O.
Senior vice commander—Wm. H.
Armstrong, Indianapolis.
Junior vice commander—E. B. Fen
ton, Detroit.
Chaplain-in-chief—Archbishop John
Ireland, St. Paul.
Surgeon general—W. H. Johnson,
Lincoln, Keb.
These officers were elected today at
the annual meeting of the Grand Army
of the Republic. All other officers
are stafi' appointments and will be an
nounced latter by the new commander
in- chief.
The total membership of the Grand
Army is declared in the report of Ad
jutant General Tweed ale to be 245,823,
an increase of 3,368 during the last
•ix months. The losses by death for
.the year ended December 31,190*», were
9,205, or 3.90 per cent, of the total
membership. In the preceding year
the losses by death reached exactly
the same percentage.
The receipts from the per capita tax
imposed on members are declared to
be insufficient for the proper conduct
of the affairs of the Grand Army. The
suggestion is made that the tax be in
creased from 3*c to 5c per annum,
which will increase the revenues of the
organization about $3,500 yearly. The
adjutant general also suggests that
certain things now issued gratuitously
to members of the Grand Army, be
sent out at a slight charge, increasing
the receipts in this manner also.
I'.videnee of l.ond Iran J.
P ortland , Ore., August 16.—The
dreary monotony of a thrice-told tale
was broken today in the trial of Man
ager Zachary of the Butte Creek Land
& Livestock company, charged with
perjury in connection with final proof
on the Charles A. Watson homestead,
when Watson himself, now under con
viction of having swindled the gov
ernment out of a homestead, took the
stand and made a full confession.
Special Assistant Attorney General
Heney sprang as his final bolt the con
fession of Watson, the man who,
Zachary swore, he knew had complied
with all the provisions of the home
stead law. Watson said that, during
the year 1898, he had talked with
Zachary to the effect that Zachary
wanted Watson to take up a claim on
the creek, because it would be more
valuable than on the hill. Watson
says ihere was nothing said about a
fence at that time, although he knew
ont was to be built.
Watson said that he paid no filing
fees, and asserted that Zachary built
the cabin on the land. The balance
of the witness' testimony concerned
the nomadic character of his life dur
ing the period Zachary testified he
was cultivating his homestead. It
was developed that he was absent, not
alone from the claim itself, but the
state, for a period, at times. Watson
said it was understood he was to re
ceive $.{50 or $400 for deeding the
place to Zachary.
ANOTHER EARTHQU AKE CALAMITY.
1'neonfirmetl Reports of Terrible Disaster
In South America.
New York , Aug. IT.— The city of
N alparaiso. Chili, is reported badly
damaged by earthquake. A report re
ceived here is that the situation in
Valparaiso may prove to be as serious
as the San Francisco disaster. Prac
tically every building in the city is
damaged and there are fires in differ«
ent parts of the city. Many persons
are reported killed and injured. The
earthquake has interrupted cable fa
cilities to lower South American
points and communication restored to
the route via Lisbon.
The reports vary and contlict. One
received here this afternoon says that
Valparaiso burned all night and that
the city is now a mass of ruins and
that hundreds of citizens are buried
under the ashes and wreckage. Upon
the heels of this report comes another
saying the loss of life is unconfirmed,
but that bad fires are burning in va
rious parts of the city.
Valparaiso is a fortified seaport of
Chili and the most important com
mercial town of the western coast of
South America. It has a population
of about 15u,u00. It is the capital of
the province of that name and is situ
ated on a large bay in the Pacific
ocean seventy-five miles northwest of
Santiago with which it is connected by
rail.
The port is the terminus of many im
portant lines of steamers for Europe
by way of the straits of Magellan and
Panama, and is the center of the South
' American coasting services.
I It contains numerous foreign col
[ onies composed chiefly of British.
I German and French merchants. There
j is a customs house wharf, along side
of which steamers of any tonnage can
! moor but most of the loading is done
! by lighters from a quay surrounding
the town. The harbor is defended by
modern, well mounted batteries. Se
vere storms and a tidal wave at Val
paraiso, June 30, 1899, wrecked the
railroad and did damage to the city.
Free Lunch Factory Raided.
Chicago , Aug. 17.—That the free
lunch served in hundreds of saloons
in Chicago is largely composed of
meat in a condition absolutely unfit
for use, was discovered yesterday by
Food Inspector Murray when his force
of assistants raided a baru at 24 Illi
nois street, owned by William David
son.
The place contained 30 stoves, over
which six men were working in an en
deavor to prepare decayed pork and
beef into free lunch for the saloon
trade. The men were working in the
awful stench of the place and were ar
rested on warrants sworn out by In*
spector Murray, and, with Davidson,
accused of violating the health ordi
nances of the city.
The raid of the Illinois street barn
followed the inspection of a cold stor
age warehouse. The warehouse was
a public one, and in it Inspector Mur
ray found 25,000 pounds of meat unfit
for nse. A search of the books of the
company showed that this meat was
the property of Davidson.
In addition to equipment at the barn
for converting unsalable meats into
supposedly roast, the inspectors found
a plant for the manufacture of saus
age of different kinds and other arti
cles of food which usually are on the
free lunch counters of the cheap or
middle class saloons. The entire
plant was confiscated aud will be used
as evidence against Davidson and his
assistants in Justice Gibbons' court
today.
Complain of Car Shortage
Chicago , August 17.—One of the
problems perplexing the traffic officers
of eastern roads is the shortage of
cars that threatens to tie up grain
shipments for months to come. One
eastern system, with an equipment of
25,000 cars, in addition to its former
equipment, is granting requests for
cars only on certified elevator certifi
cates. No verbal or abstract requests
are being considered, as the traffic
managers figure that already they will
be handicapped seriously in trans
porting the enormous crop, which in
the west is reported to be far in excess
of government reports.
Western roads are equally worried
over the situation. Building elevators
along the trunk lines and repeated re
quests for cars to take care of ship
ments which have been bought with
the intention of taking advantage of
the existing low rates before the date
of expiration are taxing the ingenuity
of the most expert directors of traffic.
Cutting off the Passes.
Chicago , Aug. 17.—Middle western
railroads have ordered all passes can
celed after August 2f, and hundreds of
annuals, supposed to be good for the
entire year, will be called in on the
day the new rate law goes into effect.
Order» were issued today by several
lines, including all the Harriman
roads, to limit the return portion of
all trip passes to August 28, and to
notify holders of annuals that they
will not be good after that date.
Originally the pass feature of the law
was supposed to go into effect Janu
ary 1, 1907.
Veterans Close Encampment.
Minneapolis , Aug. 17.— The G. A.
1». encampment today passed a reso
lution providing that its commander
in-chief should communicate witn Gen
eral S. D. Lee. commander-in-chief of
the Southern Veteran association, and
express the hope that the erection of a
monument to Henry Wlrz near Ander
sonville be not attempted. The ques
tion of deprecating the passage by
congress of the law abolishing the
canteen in old soldiers' homes was
tabled.
Saratoga was selected by a decided
majority over Cincinnati, its only
competitor, for the meeting of 1907.
The new commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, R. B.
Brown, was born in 1845 and has al
ways lived in Ohio. He enlisted in
the Fifteenth Ohio infantry at the age
of 16 and served in the Fourteenth
army corps in the Army of the Cum
berland until he was mustered out, in
1864. He then re-enlisted and served
until the end of the war. He was a
private for three years and then be
came a non-commissioned officer. He
has long been active in the work of
the Grand Army. Mr. Brown is now
editor of the Zanesville Courier.
A Woman Horse Thief
Delta , Colo., Aug. 17 —Ray Mc
Grew, a ranchman of this county, has
sworn to an information charging
Miss Leona Todd Smith, a young
woman, with stealing a horse, saddle
and bridle. Miss Smith was taken
into custody, but released on bonds to
appear September 1. It is said that
Miss Smith has a mania for riding
away horses owned by other people.
Some time ago she was urlasted,
charged with steal i.. g ami branding
three calves belongiug to .lohn Kop
penhoffer. Miss Smith d.-dares she
found the McGrew hor— tunning lno -e
and took it in charge, pend i ng ihe ar
rival of its owner.
Another Forest Reserve.
Washington , Aug. 17.--The secre
tarv of the interior today ordered the
withdrawal from all forms of entry of
529,928 acres of land in southwestern
Colorado for the proposed Sau Miguel
forest reserve. The tract is located in
Sau Miguel and Dolores counties and
includes a part of the San Miguel
plateau.
l eur of Dog Causes Death
New York , August 17.—Fear of a
large bull terrier led to the death of
Hugh Leonard, a middle-aged man,
on the east side last night. The dog
had dangerously bitten another man,
Martiu Donovan. The animal Dono
van told the physicians at the hospital
where he was taken, was set on him
and Leonard by an intoxicated in
dividual in a Chinatown saloon.
Leonard ran out of the place in fear
and presently died in a doorway
where hê had sought refuge. Dono
van's condition is serious. The po
lice later arrested August Marcellaine,
a bartender.
No Penalty I or Grufting.
Denver , Aug. 17.—Ralph W.Smith,
a member of the state board of par
dons, is accused of accepting a $1,000
retainer to use his Influence to secure
freedom for Leonard A. Imboden and
James A. Hill, who were sent to the
penitentiary last winter for wrecking
the Denver Savings bank. Smith is
charged also with accepting $10,000
from agents of Imboden and Hill to
be used in creating iniluence for their
release.
Members of the grand jury that in
dicted Imboden and Hill in a petition
to the board of pardons, make these
accusations against Smith, who, they
say, is the Colorado representative of
a bonding company, which signed the
bank wreckers' bonds. District At
torney Stidger said today that there is
no law to punish such an offense, but
that he would begin a vigorous cam
paign to abolish the state board of
pardons.
Another one Guilt).
Portland , Ore., August 17.—Iu
record time this morning the jury in
the ca-e of Clarence B. Zachary, man
ager of the Butte Creek Lumber ic
Livestock company, found the de
fendant guilty of perjury committed
in connection with the final proof of
the Charles A. Watson homestead in
Wheeler county. The jury deliberated
less than fifteen minutes.
TIlOl SANI»S ARE HOMELESS.
Earthquake In South America Causes
Enormous Loss of Life.
New York , Aug. 19.—There con-!
tinues confusion of statements as to
the magnitude of the disaster at Val
paraiso, caused by the earthquake
shocks which began on Thursday, Au
gust 16, and continued at frequent in
tervals throughout that and the next
two days.
Dispatches from Valparaiso, re
ceived this evening, state that a mod
erate estimate of the fatalities is 2,000,
and that the property loss may be as
high as $250,000,000, which latter is as
g re at a loss as sustained by San
Francisco in consequence of the earth
quake and fire which devastated that
citv last April.
A refugee who has arrived at San
tiago places the known dead at 100
and other messages indicate that the
first reports of damages and casual
ties were greatly exaggerated.
Dispatches to the state department
at Washington place the fatalities at
about 500. These conflicting state
ments cannot at this time be adjusted.
It is evident that even yet confusion
and panic prevails at Valparaiso, and
until order is restored it will be im
possible to ascertain with accuracy
the loss of life and property.
The dwellings in the city have been
practically abandoned by the inhabi
tants, who are existing as best they
can in the plazas and streets of the
city and the hills adjacent to it, with
out shelter from storm and sun, and
with famine confronting them. Food
is already scarce and high, water for
drinking purposes is lacking and dis
ease is feared.
The government is doing« all it can
to bring relief. The crippling of all
j the railroads into Valparaiso const!
I tutes a serious factor in the situation,
• as. for an indefinite period, relief sup
plies can only be obtained through
j other means of transportation.
At Santiago many of the best public
and private buildings were wrecked.
; The loss of life there is augmented
; by the panic which seized the people,
I many of whom thrèw themselves from
the balconies of their homes. The de
structive force of the earthquake was
experienced. «)ver a large section of the
country
Many Drowning Fatalities
New York , Aug. 19. —Twelve per
; -uns lost their lives in the waters
about New York today. Most of the
victims were bathers. A number of
heroic rescues of imperiled swimmers
Were made and these reduced what
otherwise would have been a much
larger death list.
Three persons were drowned in a
group near Manhattan beach iu a
manner that could not be ascertained
and the police of the Coney Island
station are conducting an investiga
tion. The only eye-witness to the
drowning disappeared. The victims
in this instance were Morris Grosse,
Martin Anderson and an unknown
bather, 20 years of age.
Government Wilt Do the Work.
Washington , Aug
tarv of the interior
19.—The secre
has authorized
the reclamation service to procure
such machinery, tools, appliances,
equipment and animals as may be
necessary in the construction of 14
miles of the main canal of St. Mary's
irrigation project in Montana, and to
prosecute the work by force account,
The secretary of the interior recent
j ly advertised for proposals for this
j work, but only one bid was received,
The bid w as so much iu excess of the
I estimate of the engineers that it was
I rejected.
senator Warren Accused.
W ashington , Aug. 19.— Senator
Francis P. Warren of Wyoming i 8
severely excoriated by the secretary
of the interior, E. A. Hitchcock, for
the former's alleged attempt to graft
upon the Oklahoma statehood bill au
amendment affecting mineral lands in
the territory. The Warren amend
ment is declared to be a deliberate
steal by the secretary who speaks
through a carefully prepared state
ment made public by Assistant Secre
tary Thomas Ryan.
Secretary Hitchcock takes credit to
himself for defeating Senator War
ren's amendment and asserts that by
its defeat the new state
aved
"school lauds, containing oil and
minerals, which arc estimated to be
worth between $1,000.000 and $2,000,
i UU0."
The amendment's relation to min
: eral leases promoted Secretary Hitch
cock to say that its passage was urged
by "attorneys representing an orga
nized band of laud speculators."
The statement makes the claim that
Secretary Hitchcock learned early in
March that the amendment had been
s lipped into the statehood bill and the
"secretary, on looking into the mat
ter, reached the conclusion that the
claims benefited by the amendment
were entirely without merit, and that
the whole scheme bore some resem
blance to a raid upon the treasury."
Seven Killed In Wreck.
Johnstown , Pa., Aug., 19.—Plung
ing through a blinding rainstorm at
the rate of 45 miles an hour, early to
day, a fast freight train on the Peno
sylvania railroad crashed into a
slowly moving work-train at Sang
Hollow, killing seven and seriously
injuring seven others of the work
train crew. Three of the latter prob
ably will die.
The work train had stopped to take
water. The freight was following»
and because of the rain, was unable
to see the work-train until just before
the crash. The freight engine plowedi
its way through the work-train. All
of those on the work-train were asleep
and the killed probably never knew
what happened.
According to reports, Engineer S.
N. Wooks of the freight train had in
creased the speed of his train and had
exceeded his orders. He jumped and
was fatally hurt.
Women Fight For Bargains.
St. Joseph , Mo., Aug. 18.—Dish
pans were cheap at a bargain sale
here, but life was cheaper. Of 1,000
women who took a fightlng|>chance to
get a dishpan, two are dylngjand half
a dozen others are nurslngSdangeroua
injuries. Incidentally there|{ls a de
partment store in town that presents a
picture of ruin and a police force bat
tered into a pulp. The women be
lieved to have been fatally injured are
Mrs. W. F. King and Mrs. William
Hevans.
More than 1,000 women were waiting
when the store opened. In the first
rush the entire front of the||store was
carried away, women plunging
through the gaps where the windows
had been, as well as the doors. They
! couldn't help it, for the pressure be
! hind them swept themjon.
A riot call brought a large force of
policemeu, but it was unable to con
trol the mob. Inside the store women
fainted by the dozen and there was no
way of getting them out.QOthers
screamed for help. In the street out
side the jam was as bad. More police
men arrived, but they could do noth
ing. A report was circulated that two
women had died in the store. This
started a panic, but no one could get
out. The jam at the entrance was too
great and there were no rear exits.
And the sad part of the story, from
the store owner's point of view, is that
not a dishpan was sold. The sea of
womeu that swept through the store
swept over everything. Clerks, dish
pans aud everything else were buried,
trampled on, squashed. Of the 1,000
women, 900 lost more clothes than the
price of 20 dishpans will restore, and
at least 100 will have to devote the
kitchen fund of a year to paying for
lint aud plaster and doctor bills.
Minnesota farmers Will Itenefit.
S t . P all , August 18.—The Great
Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo
lines today filed with the state grain
and warehouse commission notice of
a lu per cent reduction in grain rates,
The three roads named made a
proposition recently to the railroad
and warehouse commission, offering
to reduce grain rates 10 per cent, if
the commission would suspend the
pending hearing of merchandise rates.
The commission, owing to opposition,
declined to accept the proposition and
later, on suggestion of Governor John
son, gave notice of an inquiry into
lhc ' tf rain rates. The three roads then
voluntarily filed their notice of a re
It is estimated that the lower
rates wil1 tn ean a saving of from $1,
0u0,000 to $1,;>00,000 on this year's
cro l ) " r , .
Sentenced l or l.and Iratids
P ortland , Aug. 1».—Coe D. Barn
ard, convicted of perjury as a wit
ness to the tinal homestead proof of
Charles A. Watson, was this morning
sentenced by Judge William H. Hunt
in the United States circuit court to
imprisonment in the government pen
itentiary on McNeil's island for two
years and to pay a fine of $2,000.
Hamilton H. Hendricks, former
United States commissioner at Fossil,
and secretary treasurer of the Butte
Creek Land, Livestock Lumber
company, and Clarence B. Zachary,
manager of the company, will not be
sentenced until after the trial of the
Butte Creek fencing case, in order
that they may enjoy the privilege of
testifying in their own behalf In that
trial.