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cHokED HIM TO DEATH.
Bungling Work at tho Execution of Lew
the Choctnw Murderer.

"OaN ~ VA EXECUTION OF LEWIS
tho Choctaw Murderer.
SOUTH McALEsrER, l. T., Nov. g.
Silas Lewis, a condemned Choctaw
murderer, was shot at Wilburton Mon
day morning by Sheriff Pursley. The
bullet from tho sheritf's win
chester missed the condemned
mans heart, passing through his
body an inch above the nipple, and
he had to be %st,angled to end his suf-
ferings. Sheriff Pursley anticipated
trouble, huving just before execution
received n Telegram from Lewis
friends threatening vengeance aud had
over 100 heavily armed deputies at the
scene. When he arrived at the place
OF execution Lewis offered up a prayer
and followed it with a short talk.
He then pulled off his coat, vest and
boots and the sheriff painted u cross
just beneath his nipple. Lewis then
sat down and was blindfolded while
two men held his hands. The sheriff
retraced his steps five feet and fred.
The bullet went clean through the muir
derer's body, but missed its mari and
Lewis, throwing back his head, sanl,
grooming to the ground, blood squirting
from his wound. To end tho horrible
work, the sheriff was finally compelled
to take hold of the mans nose and
smother MIN TO death. He lived thirty
minutes after being shot.
Twenty-six other Indians are under
Indictment for the same murder for
which Lewis was executed. When they
come to trial trouble is feared, as their
sympathizers are aroused. LOWS was
"a years old. He had been given FREE
guent chances to escape, because of the
sheritfs dread of carrying out the law,
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NEW INDUSTRY in NEBRASKA
Pure Spirits Now Being Distilled There
From Sugar Iseet NIolasses

Pure Spirits Now Being Distilled There
From Sugar Beet Molasses.
The production of pure spirits from
sugar beet moiasses is a new industry
In Nebraska for which a great future
lis predicted, says the New York Even.
ing Post. The method of distillation
from molasses is common in France,
and it was from that country that an
expert was brought to a distillery at
East Omaha recently to experiment
N,sh the molasses from the sugar beet,
which previously had gone to waste.
1t is claimed that the experiments
made at Omaha, which were highly
successful, were the first of the kind
In this country. In some dlstilleries
the molasses from the sugar cane had
been utilized to make spirits, but moth
ing of the kind had been done with
the sugar beet product. This molasses
in its raw state is of a deep red color,
somewhat similar to the pure juice of
the grape, and is of the consistency of
ordinary syrup. When applied to the
to.sgue Il sweet taste is first noticeable,
which is Immediately followed by an
alkaline flavor that renders it very un-
desirable for culinary use. The secret
Of the French system is the conversion
of the alkaline salts by Il chemical pro-
cess, which transforms the molasses
into n sort of glucose that is perfectly
adapted for distillery uses. Itis believed
that the new use of this molasses will
give n decided impetus to the sugar
beet industry, as ar excellent grade of
spirits can be made from the molasses,
superior, it is claimed, to the spirits
distilled from corn and rye. To the
raw molasses is added about 10 per cent
of malt and yeast and Il quantity of tho
chemical preparation which is intro
duced to convert the salts. 1t is left in
the vat for II short time until the alkali
is n~eutralized, when the liquid is then
pumped into a large ~fermenting vat,
where it lies until the process of fer
mentation is complete. Afterward the
spirits are carried through watts of pull
verified charcoal, when all impurities
are removed.
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EXPLOSION IN sEEIHLRY
Natural Gas Explosion at a Fort
Wayne institution. +
Girls Fatally Burned at Westminster
seminary This Morning-Foundby
the Fire1nen Enyeloped
in Flame.

Fonr WAYNE, Ind, Nov. 6.-There
was u paric this morning Mt West1niu-
ster female seminary. During the
breakfast hour, while the dining room
vas filed with students, a terrific eX-
plosion occurred immediately beneath.
The building shook und a report like a
thunder clap rent the mir. Tho girls
rushed pell nell into the streets aud
flames burst out in all directions. The
fire department was summoned. In
the basement Misses Cha Dlebold of
Fort Wayne. Edith Masters of Auburn,
Ind, and Lille Anders of Lagro, Ind,
We're found enveloped in flames. The
fire in the building was smothered
quickly.
The victims of the explosion were
hurried to st. Joseph's hospital.
Misses Diebold and Masters arc futaily
burned. One of tho girls lighted Il
match In tho closet which was filled
with gas and an explosion resulted.
Natural gas pipes leaked into a sewer
near tho seminary and filled the closet
with the combustible fluid.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-10
BIG BUSINESS OF IRON RANGES

shipments Aggregate II Million Tong More
Than Was Expected.
DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. ct is now
possible to estimate closely the total
business of the Lake Superior iron
ranges for the year that is drawing to
II close. The result shows that though
the total Is less by almost two million
tons than h top notch reached in the
mining OF iron ore in the Lake Supe-
rior region, tho total of Bessemer ore
mined and marketed is greater by
nearly a million tons than ever before
in the history of the United States.
This In the face of an almost unprece.
dented depression OF the iron and steel
trade for part of the year, and the prac-
teal cessation of the steel rail
trade for much of the time. By
ranges the shipments of the year will
be as follows: Gogebic range will lead
with Il total of 1, no, 900 tons, of which
all but about 100, 900 tons have been
sent forward: the Mesaba range will
come next with a total of 1900. 900
tons, and of this there have been ship
ped all but so, tons; next come the Me-
nominee and Marquette ranges, in
Michigan, which together have shipped
100000 tons and will end the wear
with 2 ,700, 900 IONS to Their credit. The
Vermillion range OF the Minnesota side
OF the lake will have shipped LOO. O0O
ton ut the close of the season. The
grand total from these five ranges will
be about 1850, 900 gross tons, which is
over 1,OOO,o 600 tons in excess of what
was expected at the opening aud dur
Ing The earlier part of the season. Z
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STATE FUNDS LYING IDLE.
No Provision for Investing the Surplus
Wyoming Territory.

No Provision for Investing the Surplus in
Wyoming Territory.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. e.-State
Treasurer Grumm has filed his annual
report with the governor. The report
shows that the income from the state
land permanent fund has accumulated
to S22, 1Ss. IS, while there is on hand
about $4,000 of rentals lying idle, with
no provision for investment or distribu-
ton. In this connection the report
recommends that the next legislature
make some provision for investing
these funds. The treasurer reports
h a the money has been deposited in
banks and interest amounting 10 S3,-
G2l.50 has been added thereto.
Section 40, chapter 70, of the session
laws of 1s9o-91 would seem to provide u
means of utilizing these funds when 1t
orders That all such funds (refcrring to
state land funds) shall be invested in
interest bearing warrants of the state
at not a higher cost than par. Wyo.
ming's bonds, however, have ALWAYS
sold ut a premium and the state has no
houting indebtedness in which to In
vest, nor, under existing circumstances
can IL have, so that the law is rendered
nugatory.
The total receipts of the state treas
ury's office from all sources for the fs-
cal year ending September 80, 1894,
were S259,565.1 ~. and the entire expend-
lures for h same period 1915. COZ. Is.
The balance in the state treasury ut
that date was $14S. 1876.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-10
TREE PLANTING IN FRANCE.
Useless Sand Dunes Have Been Converted
Into NaIuable Land With Pines.

Useless Sand Dunes Have Been Converted
Into Valuable Land With Pines.
The French tho, oughly appreciate
the advantages to be derived from sys-
tematic tree planting. Speaking of
correspondent of the London Times in
Paris says: Tracts of sand have been
covered with pine forests. and the word
lande, borrowed, as it is thought, from
the German, is losing its meaning OF
waste Till IA century ago n large
portion of the forest of Fontaine-
bleau consisted of bare sand
hills, but tho planting of pines
was begun, c variety capable
of standing the %severest winters was
eventually found, and millions of trees
now ditfuse healthy aud agreeable
odors, besides furnishing timber and
fuel. The ~decomposed fir needles.
moreover, gradually form n crust of
vegetable mold, permitting the growth
of trees and shrubs less able than the
pine to live on air. The department
of the Landes, once u barren region
with IA SO loose That people had 10
walk on stills. is covered with pines,
and the problem of draining the sub
soil has been solved, as described in
Edwin About's story ofsMaitre Pierre
The losses by fire and anxiety
to produce something more remunera-
tive than pine are now, however induc-
ing schemes of artificial fertilization.
In many French watering places dunes
have been transformed into woods, thus
holding out to seaside visitors the at
traction of agreeable shade and u
change from II monotonous beach.
Shifting sands have been prevented
from extending inland. In some cases
dunes have been acquired by companies
which, after planting them, have cut
them up into building plots and have
seen them dotted with villas. Else
where municipalities have taken up the
matter, and in large operations the dis
trict Or the department has provided
the funds"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-10
STRAUSS DOG.
A Story of the Waltz King and His Famous
Retriever.

A Story of the Waltz King and His Famous
Retriever.
"This Strauss jubilee" said n New
York impresario to Il Sun reporter, ere
minds me of an incident of the visit of
the great composer to Boston at the
time of the Gilmore jubilee, which 1 do
not remember ever to have seen in
print. AT that time Johann was in the
full blaze of his glory, and The Blue
Danube waltZes We're as well known
in lis county as Yankee Doodle and
when the composer was found to be a
handsome, dapper little man with
lovely eyes and Il mass of wavy black
hair that was almost us extravagantly
long as Padere wslsi's, the Boston musi-
eal women went wild over him. He
was courted and carcssed, and feted
and followed until it is n wonder his
head-hair and all-was not turned
But Strauss had too much good bust
ness tact to lose control of himself, and
he accepted everything-civility and
compliment-with u smile that was as
comprehensive us it was stereotyped.
Strauss was u great dog fancier at
that time and was accompanied by a
u1lS lIuCGHG DluSh retriever. TOWARD
The last of the great Concert days some
enthusiastic young woman sprung the
Idea of getting u lock of Strauss hair
for her locket. Lockets were worn by
everybody in those days, you remember.
The fashion grew into o fad, and from
a fad blazed up to fury, and with a
comprehensive smile Johann promised
every applicant 4 memento. And in
due time the locks We're distributed
how many hundreds Of them | don't
know-each one of them accompanied
by the compliments of the waltz king.
Some statistical cuss said that enough
hair had been cut off and distributed 10
make Strauss look as though he had
been sandpapered. Yet when he left
Boston for Now York his locks were Al,
bushy and profuse as ever. 1t wns re
marked. however, that when Johann'i
beautiful black haired : & was pu'
into the baggage car the poor cren
tnre looked like a shorn poodle."-New
York Sun.
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o'TooLE WANTS TO RETIRE
A Scared New York Policeman Tires Of
His job.

A Scared New York Policeman Tires Of
His Job.
New York, Nov. 5.-Acting Captain
William O'Tooie of the Leonard street
station who was accused before the
Lexow committee on Sunday of taking
bribes while he was in charge of the
Essex Market court squad has asked to
be released from the police force. Sur
prise was manifested by the central Of
6cials at Sergeant O'Toole's action.
DR.. Newton Whitehead. the Lexow
witness, testified on Sunday that he
paid money to u'1oole as a bride on
several occasions when he (Whitehead)
was arrested on the charge of malprac-
tice. He swore that on one occasion
he gave O'Toole 5000. O'Toole's
application for retirement will
come up before the board
Mt its next meeting. 1t is not likely
however that the commissioners will
retire lilln before the charges made
against him by DIR. Whitehead are in-i
gestigated. 1t is more probable that
O'Toole, us well as Detective Sergeant
Frinls and Detective Murphy will be
placed IN trinl before the commits
Sioners.
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NICHOLAS LIKE HIS FATHER,
Brother in Law of the Russian Mlnlste,
of FINANCE Interviewed.

Brother in Law of the Russian Minister
of Finance Interviewed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 0.-Among the pas.
sengers who Ct me over on the French
liner, La Bourgognc, was NJ. Borus
Snrok, n brother in law of NJ. Serge
Witte, the present Russian minister Of
finance. Mr.. Nurok was seer at the
Waldorf. He speaks the English Ian,
guage huently. Mr.. Nurok frstlearned
of the death of the car, Alexander III,
at Quarantine.
''Npe had been expecting the cars
death for SO long" said he. CHAT
l was not surprised by the news.
I have been away from Russia
SIX months. was with my brother
IL law. Mr.. White, In Cries y-Botzen.
a health resort in the Tyrol, u month
ago, when NJ. Witte was recalled to st
Petersburg for consultation bv the
car, with whom lie was a great favor.
lite.
The present car is a man who will
follow the sa,le policy pursued by his
father. He resembles him very much
in manner, being very plain and uuas.
Stunning. l have bean away from Rus,
sia too long to speak of the state of af.
fairs there.
my visit to America is simply for
pleasure. shall stay about month,
most Of the time in New York. My
plans ut present include O visit ia
Washington and niagara Falls"
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.FlNFNl N-Htr
A New Zealand paper says that the
prohibition move ment Is assuming aw-
full proportions In New Zealand. 1t is
no longer . campaign against drink,
but against the individual drinker. In
h smaller towns the movement has
an eye on everybody. and If it consid'
ers that a persons nose is too wildly
illustrated, or his breath is not up to
sample. some prohibition advocate calls
upon him. Then, having leaned his
black umbrella against the door post,
he extracts with his block gIoved hand
= notebook from the tail pocket of his
black coat and asks him what he drinks.
While he Is waiting for ar answer he
hshes out q pencil from his black waist
coat and stands ready to enter the
name OF the drink in his book. If the
information is not satisfactory he most
likely calls on the woman next door
and asks if the suspected person is ever
9 intoxicated, if anyone has noticed
his breath, IL he looks Wild on Satur-
day nights, II he comes home late and
has a difficulty with his keyhole, If he
Awears or makes a disturbance, if he is
ever seen bringing home drink. and
various other questions. He notes
down all the answers, and deuands
whether the Intercepted females W
husband is strictly sober, and whether
she has any suspicions concerning any
one else In the neighborhood. Then
he goes round to the back and looks
over the fence to see il there are any
bottles lying about.
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M'KINLEY's CAMPAIGN CLOSES
Speaks at Youngstown Today and at Clevc.
r land TOpirht

Speaks at Youngstown To-day and at Clevc.
land Tonight.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-With an ad.
dress in this city this afternoon
and II that promises to be
a monster demonstration at Cleve-
land tonight Governor Mckinley
brings to a close the republican cam
paign in this state. In accordance with
a custom inaugurated many years ago
he will speak at Massillon and at his
home in Canton on the day before cleo
ton.
Politics and the amenities of "Anld
Lang Syne" We're blended in his visit
to Youngstown today, for he was born
and spent his first ten years of boy
hood at Niles, eleven miles distant,
and the older residents OF the burg as
well as may of the younger ones
came over to Youngstown to renew old
acquaintance. He spoke this afternoon
to an audience that overcrowded the
opera house. The special left Cor
Cleveland at 2:5O.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-10
NEBRASKA MAN MURDERED.
Benjamin Merritt of sawyer Found Killed
at Atlantic, Ia.

ATLANTIC, Ia, Nov. s.-Benjamin
Merritt of Sawyer. Neb., democratic
candidate for the legislature from Fill
more county, Nebraska, was killed at
or near Atlantic Thursday night. He
arrived at Atlantic in the evening md
hired a livery rig to visit his sister in,
law, fifteen miles south, being admin
istrator for his brothers. estate. His
dead body, with q bullet in the head,
was found in the buggy
near the livery stable Friday
morning, where the team had been de-
serted. Evidence shows hat Merritt
was accompanied on the trip by 8
stranger, who has disappeared. A re-,
volver was found in the buggy with
three chambers empty, and witnesses
from Lewis testified to seeing the two
men in the buggy md hearing three
shots fred. A gold watch and 81 in
money were found on the dead mans
person, but he is thought to have had
more money than that. The whole
affair is q mystery.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-10
THE LOGON sTlvE FlREMEN
Executive Board Considering Bid for Ma
tional Headquarters.

Executive Board Considering Bids for Ma
tional Headquarters.
TERRE HAuTE, Ind. Nov. e.-The
grand executive board Of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen is engaged
In considering the bids of Il number of
cities for the national headquarters of
the order, and it is expected that Il
place will be decided upon within the
next few days. In September the
brotherhood determined that it would
be advisable to remove the offices from
Ierre Hante to n larger CITY where the
f9ciiities rre greater for the prompt
handling OF the business of the organi-
cation. Letters We're sent to the com
mercial clubs in a number CT cities ask
ing that information be furnished The
brotherhood concerning the advantages
of their respective places. Grand Mas
ter Sargent says That what the order
wants Is place where Office rent is
cheap. where there is competition in
the printing business and where good
interest is paid by the banks on daily
balances. No bonus is expected. In
annapolis, st. Louis and Milwaukee,
are In the field aud one OF these cities
Will probably be selected
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LABOR UNION PROGRAM.
Propositions to BE Acted on at the Denver
Meeting.

Meeting.
New YORK, Nov. 3.-President Com
pers has sent to every labor organizu-
ton affiliated with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor a copy of the follow
ing political program with a request
that they instruct their delegation to
the national convention at Denver
next month what action should be
taken in regard to the adoption of the
propositions rs n whole or in part.
The program is identical with
that recently Endorsed by tho
trades %unionists of Great Britain.
The program declares for compulsory
education, direct legislation, u legal.
eight hour work day, the sanitary In
spection of workshop, mine and home;
the liability of employers for injury to
health, body or life; the abolition of
the contract system in all public work.
the abolition of the sweating system,
the municipal ownership of street cars
and all gas and electric plants for the
distribution of light, heat and power
to the public; the naturalization of
teleRraphs, telephones, railroads and
mines; the collective ownership by the
people of all meaus of production and
distribution, the principal of referen-
dun in all legislation,
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Great Cattle Sbinmenta.

HURON, S. d., Nov. $50 for this
season nearly 1880 carloads of cattle
have been sent east over this division
of the Chicago and Northwestern
railway, and contracts ure yet
to be filed for nearly as many
more. Most of them come from points
north and west. A contract for sixty
carloads from the Forest City and Sioux
City branch was made yesterday. Cat
tie shipments this season exceed those
OF former years by several thousand
head; the same is true also Of sheep,
hogs and horses.
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Bryant,s Hundredth Anniversary

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov. s.-The
Brooklyn academy of arts and sciences
today celebrated the one bundredth
anniversary OF the birth of William
Cullen Bryant. Parke Goodwin. Bry-
ants son in law, delivered the princi-
pal Grafton and a hymn composed for
the occasion by Rev. John w. Chad
wick was sung by the gathering, Be-
fore the conclusion Of the exercises
resolutions of regret were adopted on
the death OF Oliver Wendell Holmes
who had promised to write an anniver-
sary poem to be read at the centennial
of Bryant's birth.
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HARRIsoN's TRAIN HELD UP
Two Thousand Admirers Keep the Ex-
President Fifteen Minutes.

Two AnOusanu ADMIRERS hcep the EX-
President Fifteen Minutes.
MUNc1E, Ind, Nov. 3.-Gencral Har-
rison entered the state at $3.50 this
morning at Union City, coming on
the Big Four limited. At Union
City the trim was held up.
fifteen minutes by n crowd of {, 1000,
people, whom General Harrison
addressed briefly. He arrived here at
10:4O q. m. and vas taken to the court
house, where he addressed an open air
audience of 5000 people. The city
was gaily decorated. At this point.
q special train composed of the pri-
vate car of Superintendent Van Wrinkle
of the Big -Four and a Big -Four parlor
oar awaited him and took him to New.
castle for a twenty minute speech and
thence to Anderson, where he will
make a set speech. Leaving Anderson
at $500 he will make speeches at Rush
vile, Knightstown. Greensburg and
Shelbyville, arriving home at 7:3o.
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In Trouble for Initiating c. s. Money.

ST. Louis, Mo-, Nov. h.-The case OF
C. G. Cheney and John Holmes of the
Western Bank Note company Of Chicago
charged with printing bills in simili-
tude of the currency of the United
Sta ties, is q special order on the docket
OF the district court today. The case
IS the result of the Mississippi state
warrant dispute. the Western Bank
Note company having printed the war.
rants for the state of Mississippi and
the charge is the same as that preferred
against the governor. treasurer and
auditor of Mississippi.
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Struck Natural IN. odon

RADCLIFFE, Ia, Nov. 5.-Gas has
been struck in Hardin county. While
drilling u well on the farm of l.. Fisher
near this place, the workmen were
surprised to smell the offensive odor
emana:ing from the well and on inves-
tigntion it proved to be gas, which
burned readily on being ignited. OF
course the supply Is not sufficient to be
Of any practical benefit, but it raises
the question whether or not there is a
supply of natural gas to be found in
this section as we'll as in the vicinity Of
the coel fields of Indiana and Ohio.