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THE NORTHWEST LAND SHOW.
Announcement la made from St.
Paul that the following sections and
communities of the American north
west will have special exhibits at the
land show to be given in St. Paul in
December under the auspices of the
Northwestern Development League:
Yellowstone valley, Bitter Boot
valley, Lakes region of North Da
kota, Gallatin valley, northern Min
nesota, Helena, Mont., Great Falls,
Mont., southern Idaho, Spokane val
ley, northern Idaho, central Oregon,
Flathead district, Red river valley,
Judith Basin, Wenatchee district,
James river valley, the Musselshell
district, the DesChutes and Crooked
river valleys, the Black Hills district
of South Dakota.
In addition to these the northwest
will be represented by extensive ex
hibits to be made by the Great North
ern, Northern Pacific, the Northwest
ern lines and the Duluth & Iron Range
railroads.
Preparation of these exhibits has
been under way for months while it
has required almost a year for the
commissioners to collect the Alaska
exhibit.
These special »sMMt« will supple
ment the display Je made officially
by each of the seven states and will
greatly assist in the realization of the
managers to "bring the American
northwest to the prospective home
seekers and settlers of the middle
west."
While there have been a half dozen
so-called land show enterprises in the
field, all claiming for their object the
exploitation of the west and northwest,
the communities of the northwest have
stood almost solidly behind the show
to be held in St. Paul because it is
really their own show. Different from
any other laud show the exhibition of
western products to be given in St.
Paul is one which the commercial
clubs and transportation companies
of the northwest have planned and on
which no private interest stands any
chance of making a cent. The large
amount of space in the show has been
sold at such a small expense that the
management is in a position to spend
110,000 advertising the enterprise to
get people to attend and see the ex
hibits.
MONTANA PHOSPHATE
DEPOSITS.
Montana has some of the best phos
phate deposits in the country, accord
ing to a report by United States Geo
logist Hoyt S. G ale, which was printed
in a recent bulletin issued by the geo
logical survey. The report places the
reserve tonnage of phosphate deposits
in the western states at 2,300,000 tons.
"One of the most important consid
erations in connection with the discov
ery of phosphate rock in western Mon
tana," says Mr. Gale, "is its signifi
cance as to the probable extent of the
western fields, for it now appears
probable that similar deposits may
extend over a large part of western
Montana. Their nearness to the large
copper smelters is important, for these
smelters produce great quantities of
sulphuric acid und sulphurous acid
fumes which are usually allowed to go
to waste through the smokestack of the
plant. Reduction of phosphate rock
by means of sulphuric acid appears
to offer what is perhaps the largest
commercial use for these waste pro
ducts of the smelter."
Mr- Gale quotes a report showing
the daily loss at the Anaconda smel
ter alone of about 3,800 tons of sul
phuric acid.
Mr. Gale's report is a brief de
scription of his discovery last year of
the Montana deposits near Melrose,
withdrawals of which were immedi
ately made by the president. The
survey's test of a number of samples
collected by Mr. Gale shows the rock
to be high grade, approximately
equivalent to 75 per cent phosphoric
acid. The best beds are six to eight
feet in thickness. A six-foot bed would
contain approximately 21,000 long
tons to the acre, of which there are
nearly 34,000 acres in this state.
Fields of phosphate were also dis
covered in Wyoming,Utah and Idaho
Until recently it had been generally
assumed that the phosphate deposits
of South Carolina, Florida and Ten
oessee afforded an "inexhaustible,
supply but recent estimates by the
United States geological survey show
that at the present rate of increase in
phosphate mining these eastern de
posits are likely to be exhausted with
in a generation.
The discovery of these phosphate
beds, adds another great industry to
the innumerable resources of Mon
tana. The Florida price of phosphate
is $7.84 per ton, that of South Caro
Una $4.41,and that of Tennessee $4.12
making the average $4.02 a ton, while
Montana phosphate is placed far
above the average.
Fine Book and Job Printing a spt
cialtv at the R ivek P ress ottice
FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT.
The pocket book nerve is about the
first and loudest to cry out when it is
hurt or thinks that it Is.
The roar of rage »od dismay that
has issued from Wall street ever since
Roosevelt set the Sherman act to work
against the trusts and while Taft has
pushed enforcement of the law against
intended monopoly and proposed
throttling of competition shows that
the voice of gain is louder with cer
tain classes than the voice of right
eousness.
It betrays the low moral level to
which men have sunk to denounce
their chosen rulers merely for doing
their sworn duty to enforce the laws
of the nation.
Senator Borah of Idaho is quoted to
this effect:
"It shows what a low moral ebb
many have reached when, for fear of
business, they denounce a president
for enforcing the law. He is doing his
duty. For it he should have the com
mendation of all law-abiding people,
* * * As the law stands it should be
enforced. I feel that the president has
done his duty so far as he has gone."
The senator from Idaho voices the
finest feeling and the deliberate judg
ment of the vast majority of Ameri
cans.
They know that the only thing that
really and permanently causes a peo
ple to prosper is righteousness.
They hold that prosperity which
springs from unrighteous business and
unjust profits is no real prosperity,
but ruin in the long run.
They believe in the Roosevelt
preaching of righteousness in business
and every part of the nation's life and
in the Taft practice of this preaching.
They do not want business hurt any
more than business does or Taft does,
but they still less want the laws made
a mockery by "bad trusts."
They want the laws enforced until
the evil practices in business have been
wiped out or until better laws to cope
with them are written into the statute
book.
One of the things for the United
Slates to give special thanks for on
Thanksgiving is that it has a presi
dent who enforces the laws of the na
tion. He is rendering service of the
greatest value to business.—Spokes
man Review.
The Population of China.
According to the latest figures given
out at Pekin there are 62,484,264
households within the borders of
China, 49,932,832 of whioh are desig
nated as regular and the rest as de
pendents, the total population num
bering 312,421.325. By regular house
hold is meant a family which occupies
an independent homestead, while the
dependent stands for one whose
house is found in the grounds
of others. It seems that the Chinese
people have a strange family system
which requires kinsmen to live on one
homestead, so that it is no rare thing
in the east to see a hundred people
congregated within an enclosure,
bich is occupied by one house. In
consequence, the standardization of
the number of members in a family is
ifficult, and yet the population set
forth above is taken on the estimate
that five persons form a family.
Uncle Joe's Dilemma.
The Missoulian.
Uncle Joe Cannon is quoted in the
Associated Press dispatches as saying
that the great problem with him has
always been to find something to do
between midnight and bedtime. This
is a problem, the solution of which has
puzzled more men than Uncle Joe and
the attempt to 9olve which has brought
serious and lasting trouble to thous
ands. Back in New England they have
tried to settle the question by making
bedtime antedate midnight so far that
there is nothing doing after twelve.
But, even in the realm of blue laws,
there are individuals who ha\£ found
the hours immediately after midnight
difficult to fill in.
In Missoula, we have the curfew to
help the youngsters away from the
perplexing question, but when the
curfew age is past the problem près
ents itself and demands solution.
Usually, however, a man has disposed
of the matter after a couple of decades
either through exhaustion or by fixing
his habits. That Uncle Joe, at three
score-and-ten, Is still fretting over it,
is evidence of his eternal youth. If
he hasn't found out yet, he probably
never will.
Helena, Nov . 15.—Suit has been
brought by Edward McCarvel,
brakeman, formerly in the employ of
the Northern Pacific, against that road
to recover $25,000 damages for injuries
alleged to have been sustained laBt
June, when he fell from an engine
against a pile of rock. It is alleged
the engine was allowed to go out
the round house in a defective condi
tion.
"I am pleased to recommend Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy as the best
thing I know of and safest remedy for
coughs, colds and bronchial trouble,
writes Mrs. L. B. Arnold, of Denver
Colo. "We have used it repeatedly
and it has never failed to give relief.
For sale by all dealers.
WILSON MAY RESIGN.
Secretary of Agriculture Will Soon
End Long Service.
Washington , Nov. 14 President
Taft met the cabinet today for the first
time in three months. Secretary
Stimson was the only member absent.
The head of the war department is in
Kansas City, where today he spoke on
the Panama canal.
The reassembling of the president's
official family gave currency to the
rumors that Secretary Wilson soon is
to resign. This is generally believed
to be true and in official circles it is
said that the secretary of agriculture
is only delaying the announcement of
his resignation until President Taft
decides on another man for his place.
It is said that the portfolio has been
offered to at least two men, leaders
in scientific agricultural work, and
declined.
Aside from a consideration of the
many questions which have accumu
lated during the summer, today's
meeting was largely devoted to con
sideration of the president's message
to congress and the official reports of
the cabinet offcers. The president's
recommendations to congress for sup
plementary anti-trust legislation,
probably along the lines of a federal
incorporation act, will be formed after
conferences with Attorney General
Wickersham.
Ruling Affects Irrigation Settlers.
Washington , Nov. 13.—Settlers on
the governmental irrigation projects
who find they have taken more land
than they are able to meet the various
charges on may relinquish part of it
and have payments already made
credited to the charges against the
retained part, according to a decision
today by Secretary Fisher. The set
tler may relinquish a second tract if
he still finds himself overburdened,
but the minimum area he may hold is
ten acres.
Experience has shown, it was pointed
out here today, that the 40 and 80 acre
units were in many cases too large
for cultivation for a man of moderate
means. The secretary's purpose is to
promote the intensive cultivation of
land for which the government has
furnished a supply of water and to
enable deserving settlers to retain a
part of their present holdings, which
otherwise might be lost through can
cellation for non-payment of charges.
Uphold Rate Regulation.
Washington, Nov . 14. — In the
majority opinion of the commerce
court, formally banded down today in
the trans-continental rate cases, it is
held that the long and short haul pro
vision of the interstate commerce act
is constitutional. Judge Archibald
concurs in the issuance of a temporary
injunction of the orders of the inter
state commerce commission, but in his
opinion holds the long and short haul
provision to be invalid.
Pardons Bank Clerk.
W ashington, N ov . 14.—President
Taft today pardoned Clarence W.
Robnett, former bookkeeper and clerk
in the Lewiston National bank of
Lewiston, Idaho, convicted of embez
zling the bank's funds and sentenced
to ten years' imprisonment. He has
not served any of the sentence.
Through Robnett's voluntary con
fession the government was enabled,
it is said, to convict William F. Ket
tenbach, former president, and George
H. Kester, former cashier of the bank.
The prosecuting attorney recommend
ed Robnett's pardon.
Chinese In Fierce Battle.
S an F rancisco, N ov . 14.—Pro
ided with arms and ammunition for
which they have been waiting for sev
eral days, the revolutiontary forces be
gan an attack on Nanking early to
day, according to cable advices re
ceived by the Chinese Free Press of
this city. The advices say that the
imperial forces have been driven to
the Purple hills, and that their posi
tion is desperate.
The cable dispatch further says that
thirteen vessels captured recently by
the revolutionary forces are on the
way to Nanking to aid the land
forces.
Harvester Trust Must Quit.
Jefferson City, Nov . 14. — The
supreme court of Missouri today
granted a writ of ouster asked by the
state against the International Har
vester company and fined the company
$50,000.
The International Harvester com
pany, In September, 1910, was found
guilty of violating the Missouri antl
trust laws by a commission represent
ing the state supreme court. The case
was submitted to the supreme court
for affirmation last April.
The effect of today's decision is to
prevent all the companies which make
up the International Harvester com
pany from conducting further business
In the state.
They Want Montana Coal.
W innipeg, N ov . 14.—The Canadian
Pacific railway already is receiving
messages from towns in Manitoba ask
ing for assistance in supplying them
with coal. The coal strike In Southern
Alberta Is not yet settled. Hopes held
out that It would be ended before cold
weather caused many dealers to put
off ordering large supplies. Now rush
orders are being sent to Montana for
a hundred thousand tons to be dis
tributed In Northern Saskatchewan,
where the greatest distress is felt.
The Magnetio Needle.
There are two places on the earth's
surface where the magnetic needle
must point due south. They are not
easy places to reach. One is in the
arctic regions north of the northern
magnetic pole, on the line between that
pole and the geographical north pole.
The other is in the antarctic regions,
south of the southern magnetic pole,
on the line between that spot and the
geographical south pole. In the first
case the point of the needle Is attract
ed to the northern magnetic pole. In
the second ease the other end of the
needle Is attracted to the southern
magnetic pole.
Reasonable Fear.
"John, Is that you?"
"Yosli, Mary."
"What in the world are you doing
down there? Why don't you come up
to bed?"
"I'm afraid of Rettin' hurt on these
darned revolrSn' stairsh." — Chicago
Record-Herald.
Tact.
He (to seeond wife»—I am glad to
be In this charming spot once more.
Bhe—I thought you were here on your
bridal tour witli your first wife. He
Yes, but I was so much In love I never
saw the landscape.— Fliegende Blatter.
No Free Hand Drawing.
Son—Father. I've decided to become
an artist. Have you any objection?
Father—No. provided you don't draw
on me.—Boston Transcript
Mean.
"What did the lady say when you
told her I was out?"
"She smiled ajjd said, 'Friday's not
always an unlucky day.' "
Helena, Nov . 15.—With the arrival
here of Charles W. Fairbanks, former
vice president of the United States, the
campaign of the Montana Methodists
to secure funds for the "Greater Wes
leyan" university was opened. The
Methodists hops to raise $75,000 in
Montana, and if successful they will
secure another 75,000 in the east, mak
lng a total of $150,000 available for the
erection of the first unit of a half
million dollar college on a 40-acre
campus near the state capitol. Of the
Montana fund Helena is expected to
raise $50,000 and the remainder in
other parts of the state.
Will give estimates on any kind
of Building desired
Franklin Street FORT BENTON
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Water Rights, for recording b0
Water Rights, for posting 25
Chattel Mortgages 75
Real Estate Mortgages 75
Satisfaction of Mortgage 35
W arranty Deeds 50
Quit Claiin Deeds 50
Bills of Sale 60
Quartz location for recording ... .50
«« " posting 50
Affidavit of representation ...... .50
Assignment of brand 35
Butchers' record blanks 50
Promissory Notes, per book of 100 .75
Receipt Books, with stub 50
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