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THE RIVER PRESS. ft THE RIVER PRESS. Published Every Wednesday Morning by the River Press Publish- ing Company. FOrit stars added to the flag of our oountrf are among the achievements of Mr. Cleveland's administration. Tan Pacific slope went for Harrison, but sot strong enough to earn a place in his cabinet. Mike DeYeung must be con- tent with a third-rate foreign mission. I NT'ER N A L REVENUE COLLECTOR SHIELDS is the first democrat in Montana to resign his office under President Harrison's ad- ministration. The disease does not ap- pear to.be epidemic as we have not heard of another instance of the kind in the ter- ritory. Russint.i.. B. made it very pleasant for the Montanians at Washington the other day. He did the proper thing in the proper manner, and thus earned the ever lasting gratitsde of many of his NIontana Mende, who without his aid would have found it difficult to gain the eye and ear of the president. SF:Y.K.Ess for office under the new ad- ministration are cautioned against forcing attention to their claims. President Har- rison and his advisors want a breathing sped now and time to get comfortably settled before being rushed upon by the army ef expeetants. Those who put in their oar too soon are liable to get left. THE Nevada legislature has a bill before it prohibiting ladies wearing bonnets over three inches higher than the crown of their head at any place of amusement. The Montana legislator who has the nerve to intzoduce a similar bill will re- ceive a car load of bouquets from suffer- ing theatre goers at Helena and Butte. Now THAT Mr. Blaine is inaugurated and duly and anciently installed in office the proverbial chip will doubtless be found resting upon his. shoulder. But it is barely possible that Mr. Blaine like many others in is party, is a better fight- er with his mouth than with a deadly weapon. We will see, however, what we will see. ADVERTISING pays. John Wanamaker advertised himself into Harrison's cabi- net. Had he not freely used printers' ink he would to -day be selling pins and ribbons in a one-horse dry goods store in- stead of being at the head of the postof- tics department at Washington. Here is a pointer for the business men of the coun- try. Advertising does pay. REPRESENTATIVE DAVIS introduced bill for the relief of X. Biedler. While it was under discussion in the house, Mr. Davis took occasion to insult a large and respectable portion of the people of Mon- tana—men who made it possible for Mon- tana to become a state in 1889. Mr. Da vis lost his bill, and was compelled to apologize :openly in the house for his gratuitous insult. As Mr. Davis grows older he will doubtless grow wiser. EDITOR JOHN B. READ, Of the Inter Mountain, starts in a day or two for Cali- fornia, where he goes for a month's rest and recreation. The Miner wishes him a pleasant journey, and hopes he will return with renewed health.—Butte Miner. We can't say as to the quality of it now, but a few year ago the Butte :article com- pared favorably with the California prod- uct. So we fail to see just where the \rest and recreation\ come in for Johnnie. Hope he will find it, however, but we nev- er heard it called by those names before. THE governor's nominations will proba- bly remain hanging on the peg where the council put them until that body shall become convinced that President Harri- son will not appoint a new governor for Montana within the next week. Should he do so, however, he will exhibit a haste in the matter, which can be ascribed only to intense partisanism. President Harri son, however, is master of the situation, and Mr. Hershfield is probably as well prepared to assume the duties of the of- fice now as he will be in a month hence. THE Inter Mountain, a paper published in Butte, speaking of Councilman Kenne- dy's election bill, says: \About the most idiotic bill that was ever introduced into a Montana legislature is the one now be- fore the council providing for the Austra- lian method of voting at elections. It is un-American, cumbersome, expensive and intricate. The council will of course tire it into the waste basket. It is a crank measure in every sense of the word.\ But the council didn't \fire it into the waste basket.\ On the contrary, the bill passed that body without an opposing vote. The crack of the Butte oracle's whip is un- heeded in the upper branch of the legiela- t u re. THE resignations of United States Mar- shal Kelley and United States Attorney Smith are doubtless in the hands of Pres- ident Harrison by this time. As the sen- ate is in extra session and the President has shaken hands with the army of Washington City visitors, the matter o! filling those offices will probably be at- tended to in the near future. The west side will claim the marshalship and W. H. De Witt, of Butte, thinks he is espec- ially fitted for the attorneyship. As there are about twenty five applicants for each federal office in the territory, the fun will be vociferously hilarious among our republican brethren for a season. It will soot be seen who has the longest pole among the Montana persimmon knockers. HARRISON'S INAUGURAL SPEECH. The speech of President Harrison at his inaugural outlines no new departure from the policy of his party, nor does it propose the adoption of radical measures to enforce it. It is simply a mild reitera- tion of the principles enunciated by the platform upon which he was elected, hence it will be regarded by the thinking world as the utterances of a partisan rather than those of a statesman. But whether the one or the other, it is the first state paper of the man who will be the head of the government during the next four years, and as such it commands the attention of the people. His reference to our naturalization laws and declaration that they \should be so amended as to saake inquiry into the char- acter and good disposition of persons ap- plying for citizenship more careful and searching,\ is pertinent, but a long white mark would be placed to his credit if he had even intimated how that inquiry could be \more careful and searching\ than it now is. Without saying it in so many words, the president favors the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine and deprecates en- tangling alliances with foreign powers. This has been the policy of the govern- ment so long that it forms a part of our national economy. The president doubt- less referred to it simply to round out his speech and not to open a new road to dip- lomats. Mr. Harrison makes glad the hearts of the bosses of his party when he says: \Honorable party service will certainly not be esteemed lay me a bar to public offtcv \ This declaration opens the door again to federal officials which Mr. Cleve- land so effectually closed. \Honorable ,party service\ will be interpreted in its broadest sense. It sneans that every of- fice holder under Mr. Harrison's adminis- tration is expected to take off his coat on election day and work for the success of the republican ticket. It means that Mr. Harrison proposes to perpetuate republi- can domination by all the agencies em- ployed by his republican predecessors. It means that no goody-goody, wishy-washy, milk -and-water party man will be toler- ated in a federal position. It means that none but stalwarts of the knock -down and drag out school need apply. It means the rooting out of mugwumpery in the republican party. In view of thus strengthening his party's lines Mr. Harrison cautions applicants for office not to be importunate. He and the heads of the departments will need time for inquiry and deliberation. Office seek- ers will make a note of this fact. Mr. Harrison disposes of the civil ser- vice problem in a few words. He says: \We shall not, however, I am sure, be ab:e to put our civil service upon a non-parti- san basis' until we have secured the in- cumbency of those whom fair-minded men of the opposition will approve for their impartiality and integrity.\ That relegates the Matter to the millennium. Civil service reform will receive no atten- tion during Mr. Harrison's administra- tion. The president is in the line of his party on the tariff question and the surplus. The former will not be reduced at the expense of protection to corporations and monopolists. The surplus will be put in war ships and coast defenses. The president carefully refrains from saying a word about silver or the coinage of the metal. Treasurer Windom will regulate that matter in the interest of Wall street. Montana's chief industry must take care of itself during the in- coming -administration, as it has in the past ones. SA RTOR HESART:5S. The Livingston Enterprise has every- thing to learn concerning the lands of northern Montana, the charactor of their soil, and what they can produce with or without irrigation. Had it known any- thing about them it would not have signed itself an ass in its issue \of the 2d inst., wherein it took the RIVER PRESS to task for favoring the entry of land in northern Montana,only under the home- stead, mineral and_,townsite laws. The Enterprise may be pardoned for its ignor- ance, but it deserves censure for advertis- ing it to the world. The RIVER PRESS is disposed to deal kindly with its Livingston contemporary, for others in remote portions of the terri- tory have fallen into the same error in which the Enterprise dumped itself. They cannot understand how good crops can be grown upon lands in northern Montana without irrigation when farmers in their immediate locality have all /they can do to mature crops with an abund- ance of water to run over their fields. The RIVER PRESS is not in the missionary business, but if the doubting Thomases of the Yellowstono are sufficiently interested in the solution of the problem to come to Benton, we will take pleasure in showing them field after field, guiltless of an irri- gating ditch, where for years excellent crops of No. 1 hard have been raised and will be raised this year. The secret of the whole 'matter lies in the fact that the rich loam of northern Montana lands rests upon a clay subsoil which holds moisture like a sponge, and plant roots seek it as the surface becomes dry. That kind of soil is not seen around Livingston, and hence the youthful pil- grim who controls the deetinies of the Enterprise and whoso acquaintance with Montana is limited by the view from his office window, falls into an error concern- ing the agric'ultural possibilities of this portion of the territory common to those ( who measure them by their immediate su rround logs. As the Enterprise grows older and learns more it will doubtless cease com- menting upon matters of which it is ig- norant, and not characterize as \lies and exaggerations\ facts patent to every well informed Montanian. C. B. No. 23. This is _a bill regulating corporations. One of its sections provides that if a stockholder can prove that the company's property is not worth within 15 per cent. of its capitalization, the corporation shall be dissolved. The object of the section as explained in the council the other day by Thompson of Silver Bow, is to prevent fraudulent mining schemes to prevent the stocking of a mine away above its value -and to prevent the people of Mon- tana being swindled. Section four of the bill made the provision referred to and the fight was made upon it. Noisy Brown led the opposition and de- clared th„, 11 , ..1.l1 was a pernicious one, and that it would ruin the mining inter- ests of Montana, etc. In the course of his speech he asked Silver Bow Thompson if he (Thompson) \could name a fraudulent mining scheme in Montana.\ Mr. Thomp- son's memory went back on him about that time, or he could have answered that question most effectively. He could have pointed to the fact that there is a hole hi the ground within gunshot of his lumber yard in Butte that a few years ago was capitalized at $10,000,000, and many shares sold to ignorant parties at nominal sums. He could have named another mining property which was capi- talized at $10,000,000 and thousands of shares sold to clerks, day laborers and servant girls in Butte for 50 cents a share. The mine never paid expenses and is now lying idle. In the opinion of Brown the over capi- talization of a mine is not a fraud upon the public, but to those who invest their hard -earnings in the stock and never real- ize nor have a show to realize a cent upon their investment, it smacks like a fraud, and is a fraud of the first water. The ob ject of the bill is to prevent a corporation thus to impose upon credulous parties. But the bill was killed by a vote of six to four, Thompson of Deer Lodge, and Brown of Beaverhead, both representing counties in which there are large corpo- rate mining interests, voting in the affirm- ative. C. B. 23 is really one of the best meas ures introduced in the legislative assem- bly during this session. Its object is a praiseworthy one and it deserved far better treatment than it received at the hands of the council. It would have closed the door against many a ruining swindle and saved many a hard wytking young man and young woman from be- coming their dupes. But the door is still left open to unprincipled men to fleece the unsuspecting and credulous, although the day for profitably capitalizing holes in the ground at $10,000,000 has passed away. IN THE SOUP. Our amiable and much esteemed con- temporary, the Great Falls Tribune, has acquired the unfortunate habit of \falling into the soup\ at about every turn it makes. In commenting upon the predic- tion made by the RIVER PRESS that \the question of the permanent location of the capital of Montana will be decided at one of the elections to be held this year,\ the Tribune gets off the following startling bit of information: \The constitution of 1888 expressly says in article eight that the legislature shall at its first session provide for submitting the question at the 'general election then next ensuing.' This defers the matter until 1889.\ As Montana has no \constitution of 1888,\ nor no other constitution that gov- erns it in this matter, we cannot see how the question is deferred \until 1889,\ the present year. The Tribune must have been thinking of Cascade's $30,000 indebt- edness to Choteau when it penned the above. That debt was created in 1888, and its payment deferred until 1889. REPRESENTATIVE BLAKELY'S bill to ex- empt from taxation the first paper mill established in the territory for thc period of six years should become a law. It is a generous encouragement to a much need- ed enterprise in the territory and may prove the :factor to inaugurate it. Mon- tana consumes enough wrapping and printing paper to keep a good mill in con- stant operation. It would doubtless prove a paying investment. As cheap fuel and plenty of clear water are prime considerations in the successful working of a paper mill, Benton's advantages in these respects point to it as the proper location for the enterprise. .` mono the bits of rot which some of the eastern newspapers are circulating concerning Mr. Cleveland, at this junc- ture, is that he and Mr. Lamont, Mr. Fairchild and Mr. Whitney will combine and \form a sort of democratic court in New York and jointly labor to secure his nomination for the presidency in 1892.\ The story is an improbable one. Mr. Cleveland doesn't want the earth. He knows when he has enough of a good thing and will be content to rest upon the laurels he has won during the past four years. Sunset Cox has brighter prospects for the democratic nomination for the presidency in 1892 than any other New York man. There is no danger in giving Chamber- lain's Cough Remedy to children, as it contains no injurious substance; besides it is unequalled for colds and croup. Children like it.. For sale by M. A. Flan- agan. REASONS Why Ayer's Sarsaparilla is preferable to any othec for the cure of Blood Diseases. Because no poisonous or deleterious ingredients enter into the composition of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. — Ayer's Sarsaparilla contains only the purest and most effective remedial .properties. —Ayer's Sarsaparilla is prepared with extreme care, skill, and cleanliness. — Ayer's Sarsaparilla is prescribed by leading physicians. —Ayer's Sarsaparilla is for sale everywhere, and recommended by all first-class druggists. — Ayer's Sarsaparilla is a medicine, and not a beverage in disguise. —Ayer's Sarsaparilla never fails to effect a cure, when persistently used, according to directions. „ Ayer's Sarsaparilla is a highly con- centrated extract. and therefore the most economi,n: Illotai Medicine in tl:e • market. —Ayer's Sarsaparilla has had a sto•- cessfnl career of nearly half a centur . and was never s.'• popular as at preset — Thoi!sitiol.s of tcs0trionials are ie. tile from r!:o.,• 11.•iiciired the use of Ayer's SarsapariVf PREPARED Ii Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Ma. a. Price $1 ; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION. Over a Million Distributed. •S•L• Louisiana titate Lottery Company. Incorporated by the Legislature in 1/4814 for Edu- cational and Charitable purposes, and its franchise made a part of the present state constitution in 1879 by an overwhelming popular vote. Its Mammoth Drawings take place Semi -Annually (June and December), and its Grand Mingle Number Drawings take place in each of the other ten months of the year, a -4 .re all drawn in public, at the Academy of Mu- , Nes, Jrleans, La. FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS, For Integrity of' its Drawings and Prompt Payment of Prizes, Attested as follows: We do hereby certify that we supervise the ar- rangements for all the Monthly and Semi -Annual Drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and control the Drawings themselces and that the same are conducted with honesty, fdirness, and in good faith toward all par- ties, and we authorize the Company to use thee cer- tylcate with fac-similes of our signatures attached, In its advertisements. Commissioners, We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will pay all Prizes drawn in the Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our counters. It. M. WALMSLET, Pres. Lc...Wane Nat'l Bank. P. LANAUX. Prea. State National Bank. A. BALDWIN, Preo. New Orleans Nat'l Bank. CARL KOHN, Pres. Union National Bank. GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING, At the Academy of Music, New Orleans, Tuesday, March 12, 1889. Capital Prize, $300,000. 100,000 Tickets at Twenty Dollars each Halves, $10; Quarters, $5; Tenths, $2; Twentieths, $1. 2 5 25 100 200 500 100 100 100 999 999 LIST OP PRIZES. PRIZE OF $300,000 PRIZE OF 100,000 is PRIZE OF 150,000 is PRIZE OF 25,000 PRIZES OF 10,000 are PRIZES OF 5,000 are. PRIZES PRIZES OF 1,000 are . PRIZES OF 500 are PRIZES OF 300 are PRIZES OF 200 are APPROXIMATION PRIZES. Prizes of $500 are.... , ..... Prizes of 300 are. Prizes of am are TERMINAL PRIZES. Prizes of $100 are..... ...... ........, Prizes of 100 are. 300,000 100,000 50,000 25,000 20,000 25,000 2.5,000 50,000 60,000 100,000 50,000 30,000 2A),000 99,900 99,900 3134 Prizes amounting to $1,054,800 NOTE.—Tickets drawing capital prize are not en- titled to terminal prizes. 13, - For Club Rates or any further information desired, write legibly to the undersigned, clearly stating your residence, with state, county, street and number. More rapid return mail delivery will he assured by your enclosing an envelope bearing your full address. Send POSTAL NOTES, Express Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordinary letter. Cur- rency by Express (at our expense) addressed to M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La. Of M. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D.C. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK. New Orleans, La. RIEMEMBER that the payment of all prizes is GUARANTEED BY FOUR NATIONAL BANKS of New Orleans, and the tickets are signed by the President of an institution whose chartered rights are recognized in the highest courts; therefore, beware of any imitations or anonymous schemes. ONE DOLLAR is the price of the smallest part or fraction of a ticket ISSUED BY US in any drawing. Anything in our name offered for less tnan a Dollar is a swindle. T. F. MORGAN, DEALER IN General Merchandise, DUBUQUE. Fergus County, Montana. Special Inducements Offered to Ranch and Stockmen. GOOD HOTEL, STABLE AND BLACK- SMITH SHOP EN CONNECTION. tir'Call and examine goods and prices. WM. COURTENAY, NILES CITY, N. T. IIIE STOCK BROKER, Real Estate and Commercial Agency, Loan Broker and Notary Public. First-class Ranches, Farms and Town Lots for sale Local Land Agent for the N. P. R. R Co. Agent for first-class Fire, Life, and Accident Insurance companies. rt 7- LIVE STOCK A SPECIALTY. T. C. POW R —DEALERS IN— x) noir Goo 5, • Staple and Fancy Groceries, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES and NOTIONS. Our stock in the above lines is now full and complete, and we are offering special inducements to Stockmen and Ranchmen in the shape of reliable goods at bottom figures. We are enabled to do thif by buying largely from first hands, at inside prices. • AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS We are sole agents for the celebrated Wood's Mowers and Binders, and for these machines have always on hand a full line of extras. The Best Hay Rake in use. Walking and Sulky Plows, Etc., Etc. COOPER WAGONS: Wool Sacks, Twine, and Cooper's Sheep Dip. —We keep a full and complete stock of— WINES, LIQUORS, BEER AND CIGARS, Both Imported and Domestic brands. :0: \ 1 % _ IIARNE and DDLEItir Special attention is called to our stock of Iftrness, Saddles, etc., which are of the best California and other celebrated makes. We keep a full stock of every thing in this line required by the Cowboy trade. Our Dry Goods Department! Is the largest and most complete in Northern Montana. We have recently secured the services of an experienced Dress Maker from the east, and are now prepared to take orders for Dresses and Ladies' Garments of all kinds. Satisfaction guaranteed. : Inspection invited in all Departments: T. a POWER BRO. - - Fort Benton, M. T. t • Great Falls, - Montana, MITCHELL FARM AND SPRING WAGONS, McCormick Mowers and Binders, Carriages, Buggies, Road Carts, Buckboards, Etc., HARNESS AND SADDLES, BARB WIRE, WALL TENTS, WAGON COVERS, ETC., ETC, Railroad Grading Supplies. Extras for Farm Machinery. BACH, CORY & CO., —WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— GROCERIES, HARDWARE, TINWARE Class and•Crockery Ware, GREAT FALLS, MONT. Sidr All our Departments are now complete, and we solicit a call from Miners, Ranchmen, Builders and Mill -owners. We invite a com- parison of prices and quality of goods. Respectfully, BACH, CORY & CO. JOS. SULLIVAN, FROXT STREET, MANUFACTURER OF -:Harness and Saddlery: - pr STOCK SADDLES A SPECIALTY. -*a Buggy and Team Harness of every description. CHAPS, BITS AND SPURS OF EVERY KIND. BEST LINE OF GOODS 114 MONTANA• Give me a call before purchasing elsewhere. FORT 1131111*TO.V. .11. T. -
