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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-06
CHARGED TO A N

1t Ii Said That the American Wife of Bar
rios Has Caused the Guatemaian Trouble.
A woman again. We learn that the
prompter of the recent revolution in the
republic of Guatemala, through which q
dictatorship has been set up, was an am
bilious woman, the American wife of
General Barrios, a lady whose name is
not unknown in New York. The enc
mics of Barrios in Guatemala declare
that it was she who induced him to pro-
claim himself dictator, and who is the
author of the arbitrary policy under
which the country is ruled at this time,
and under which the deputies are kept
in prison and the army is held ready for
action and suspected persons are ban
ished, and the people are compelled to
keep as quiet NJ they can. The enemies
Of Barrios say that he has neither the
pluck nor the brains needed for a die
tator, and that he is merely the tool OF
the determined American woman whom.
he took to wife.
She may yet rue the day in which she
conceived the dictatorship. The an
t4-4SnA1 1OC 1udbEAA6IALc dIC 6LOuSEu
against her. They denounce her in
whispers. They condemn her in pla-
cards, which are stuck up in the night
time on the dead walls and fences of the
city Of Guatemala la Nueva. They get
out circulars, which are surreptitiously
printed and secretly distributed, in
which she Is characterized rs an Amer
lean interloper." There Is no doubt that
she Ii in danger. II the Constitutional
lists who r lurking around the capital
and on the Salvadorian frontier, stealth
lily preparing to take the field against
the dictatorship, shall overthrow Bar
rios, we cannot say that she will not
suffer as hard o lot as she has been
charged with ~inficting upon others.
We are surprised ct her course. Amer
leans ought to be the champions of dem
ocratic freedom and republican institu-
tions everywhere.-New York Sun.
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INDIANA WOMEN SUMMERS.
They Visited Chicago with the best oi
Motives and Were shocked.

They Visited Chicago with ths hest Of
Motives and Werc shocked.
The Indianapolis members of the Chi
cago stunning" expedition have re.
turned home. Tho ladies' who joined in
the expedition are recognized leaders in
w. G. T. u. work in Indiana. All of
them are reported as excessively cha
grined over the publicity given their
visit to Chicago slnrns, which was under
taken with the best of motives.
There are some falsehoods which
should be corrected" says Miss Ayres.
I'VE left our lodgings a. II p. m. and
returned at i:i5 precisely. We did not
visit the worst resorts either. We
aimed to inspect the more decent va
r~ieties, but the Lord knows for that
matter they were all bad enough.
The detective who guided MS said it was
nc uncommon occurrence for parties of
religious ladies to visit these resorts for
scientific purposes, and our visit would
never had leaked out IL it had not been
for a Judas Iscariot of newspaper man,
who gave the whole affair away.
1--WE had but one simple, solitary and
laudatory purpose in making the visit
continued the lady. I'VE wanted to
find some practical means Of elevating
fallen Our object was to ascer-
tain what relationship the tobacco and
liquor habits bear to this uncomfortable
vice which we are seeking TO cure. If
we can strike at the root Of the disease.
it will be a comparatv ely easy matter
to cure the disease itself. We ascer-
tanned that there was a very close rela-
tionship between the three vices. and
that the latter is superinduced by the
tobacco and liquor habits. Now we
know whatever we do to lessen the
amount of tobacco and liquor sold, by
just that much will we lessen the vice
which we are aiming at"
Miss Ayres was asked If what the Ia
dies saw was calculated to lessen their
estimation of humanity in general.
They were simply shocking. / had
never dreamed that so much evil exist
ed. Most of the resorts were like gilded
palaces and were always accompanied
by liquor and tobacco attachments
where the girls INDUCED as freely as the
men. never want to see the like again.
We were not prompted by morbid Curl
osity. We were working in the inter-
ests of social purity, and u motives
were Of the highest character. We be-
heve that we did a good work."-In-
dianapolis Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Notice.

State Of South Dakota, County of Lake, Town
Of Lake View. Before ID. d. Holdridge. Ponce
Justice of the City of Madison, s. ID. In the
matter of the taking mp and dispo~ing OF estrays,
described as follows: Two twoyeaf.o old mares,
one q black color and the other an iron grey
color. Sand estrays having been taken up by
Spanlding Westaby on the l1th day OF October,
1893, within the county of Lake, South Dakota.
Whereas, Spanlding Westaby did, on the nth
day OF October, 1888, take mp estfaye, which he
caused to be advertised BY Publishing . notice
thereof In the Lake County Leader for three sue
cessive weeks, of which the Glowing 10 q COPY:
''Came 70 my premises, three miles south OF
Madison, on the Town Line road, Wednesday,
OCTOBER ii, 1889, two two-year-old colts, mares,
one iron grey. one black. Owner prove property.
pay charges, and take the animals away.
"EPAuLDMG WIsrAnY.r
And, whereas, upon the 2lst day OF December,
1888, appraisers were duly appointed by me TO
appraise the valne Of said estrays and, whereas.
they dnly made their report nxing the yalue
thereof ct atty dollars,
Notice 10 hereby given, that the said estrays
were taken mp on the nth day Of October. 1883.
on the southwest quarter Of section 30, township
106, range ~, In Lake county, South Dakota. and
are described ~ two two year.old mare colts, one
b black color, and one an iron grey color. That
the residence OF the said Spaulding westabv IL
on the southwest quarter Of section 80, township
100, range 81, In Lake county, South Dakota.
D. D.. HOLDRIDaE,
Police Justice OF the City OF Madison, south Da-
kota.
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Mortgage sale.

Whereas, default has been made IN the cond-
lions of . mortgage dated the 9th day Of July
1893, executed by q. r. wilson and III. A, Hart
wick, mortRagoiH, TO Kirkbride Palmer Co.
mOrsgagee, which mortgage was recorded In the
once OF this. register Of deeds In and for the
county OF Lake, state Of South Dakota, on the
9Th day Of Jsly, 1888, ut I:O o'clock p, M, In
Whereas, No action or proceeding at law or
otherwise has been instituted TO recover the
Of; and
Whereas, The whole amount OF principal and
interest secured by said mortgage has become
due; and
whereas, The amount claimed to be due upcn
sum OF Five Hundred Sixteen dollars ana sixty
nve cents tsbi6.65), 70 wit: 5000 principal and
$16.65 interest, besides S25.6 90 attorneys fees. 4,
stipulated In said mortgage.
Now, therefore, notice ID hereby given. that
~ virtue OF the W OF sale contained ia sad.
mortgage, and recorded herewith 40 aforeeaiN
and N pursuance OF the statutes In such cass
made spd provided, the said mortgage will be
Ioreclosed by sale Of the mortgaged premises
therein described, at public auction, 81 he shere
IN OF said county o. Lake, or his deputy, at the
eogtn 'front.' door Of the court house, In the city
~ MADISON, In said county, On Saturday, the
10th day OF February. 1884, at 10 O'Clock In the
forenoon Of that day. The said morteaaed
premises are situate In the county OF Lake. ana
state Of South Dakota, and are described in said
mortgage ~ follows, viz:
q Ramona. intending warehouse, scales and
hxtures thereon.
Dated !: Madison. 3. D., this 27th dsy Of De-
KxiRiEBRIDE PALMER CO. xortearee-
4. Fal1zkLL4 Attorney, Tor Mortgages.
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titles of herself and her sisters held up
their hands in holy horror.
Miss Luella paled when she saw how
her speech affected her hearers, for she
had intended to try to learn to skate
herself before the glorious opportunity
should pass away. If she hadn't been q
school mistress whose income was de-
pendent on the pleasure Of the villagers,
there is no doubt she would have braved
public opinion, no matter how strong,
but as it was she didn't, to her lifelong
regret. and the good people of The Hook
saw no "lady skaters that winter.
AS time passed and the ice retained its
strength and gloss the skill of the skat.
ers increased, and feats Heretofore unat-
tempted became common. The playing
of ''shinney' and fox and geese came
to be regarded as calling into play no
special ability, and the skater who could
do nothing more difficult than the
Dutch roll" and skating backward was
but an ordinary performer. The stars
of the pond learned to write their names
on the ice. to skate q long way on one
foot and to perform what would now be
called the outside edge" besides divers
other seeming impossibilities before not
ever heard of.
A few days before Christmas it was
proposed to do some fishing through the
ice. and all hands Joined in the sport,
and all said that it was strange no one
had thought of it before. The result
was gratifying. The pond was full of
pickerel, and they bit greedily. So
abundant was the take that when some
one proposed that some of the fish be
broiled at the log fires by the side of the
pond and eaten by the skaters it was
agreed to. The feminine contingent
hailed this proposition with joy. for it
gave them something to do. The second
day of the fish broiling one Of the women
suggested that it would be a good idea
to add coffee to the fish, and then some
one proposed to bake potatoes in the
ashes. and little by little the meals upon
the ice grew in variety until quite a
menu was served every day.
This plan was not altogether liked by
the mothers of boys, who until then had
been certain Of seeing their sons at least
once or twice a day when the youngsters
got hungry, but it was found to be i'm
possible to break up the practice, and
finally everybody joined in the general
mania excepting a few who couldn't
find it in their hearts to indorse SO long
q period of devotion to pure pleasure.
These persons said that the craze for the
skating pond was running the winter
term of school. The boys and even some
of the girls. they pointed out, were prone
to 'play hooky" and make for the pond
upon the slightest opportunity, and, they
continued. Principal Jones and his as.
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QUITE A MENU WAS SERVED.

sistant, Miss Luella. were greatly to blame
that they did not find means to compel
their pupils to stick closer to their books.
The wiseacres predicted that more than
one ev would result from the prevalent
craze. The joints would be strained un
duly, they said, especially the knee joints,
and the result would be case after case
of ''water on the knee" and they painted
narrowing word pictures of how some oil
the most active skaters Of the village
would have to go through the rest Of their
lives crippled and dependent on clutches.
There was also the danger that the Ice
would break. It was indeed thick, but
the great weight it was daily called upon
to bear in the shape of ahundred skaters
might at any time prove too much for
Il, land" said retired Sailor Tom Da-
vies, ''then there'n be SIGH a catyclism o.
You won't never fergit-I say You won't
never fergit." just what he meant by
'scatyclism" no one knows.
Fortunately no one was drowned,
though two boys did come near to it by
skatinginto a squareof water whence the
tavern keeper had removed the ice for
his icehouse. These youngsters went
plumb to the bottom to oncst," they
said, and proved it, too, by the blue clay
they brought mp on their skate irons.
They were rescued without much diff
Guilty and hustled away to q big fire at
the head Of the pond, and their clothes
dried on their bodies instead Of being
Soy% horpa IN uynrvsxy <na;r rro+Ic-r -
CHANGED to be among those most opposed
to the sport. The prediction as to strains
and bruises came nearer ~veriication, but
though the doctor did have q pretty good
run of .millpond practice, al he phrased
it, that winter, no one suffered lasting
injury.
Two days before Christmas q heavy
snowstorm began and lasted for "a hours,
and there was no skating after that un-
til paths up and down the ice had been
shoveled clear. That was accomplished
by Don 81 Christmas, however, and the
holiday was enjoyed on the ice by all
who could turn out. There was no
more snow for . fortnight longer, and
every day the paths were extended q liz
tie further, till there were, all told, rev.
eral miles Of them.
On the 18th Of the month, however, o
storm began that lasted almost Q week,
and when the clouds cleared away there
was quite four feet Of snow on the level,
and the weight What rested on the ice
caused it to sink, become flooded and
spoiled, A certain old diary filed with
Grabbed, boyish handwriting contains
this entry for Jan. 81, 1857:
mo o skating this winter. Think
shall now study some mites ana catch
mp with my clas."
Traditions Of the skating season OF
1867 are still current Mt The Hook and
its vicinity. l. d. MARSHALL.
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Assignee's Sale.

Notice is hereby given, that under and by vlr-
tue OF an order issned ont Of the circuit court or
the second judicial circuit, In and for the county
of Lake, state of south Dakota, bearing date
December 2sth, 1888, the undersigned, assignee
OF the Bank of South Dakota, will sell at public
auction, at the front door Of the court house, In
the city Of Madison, said county and state. TO the
highest bidder for cash, on Friday, the 26th day
Of January, 1894, commencing ut the hour of ten
O'Clock q. m. on that day and continuing until
SAID salc is completed, and adjonrning from day
to day, IL necessary, the property referred to ana
described in the petition now on Ole In the once
remaining assets Of the Bank Of south Dakota
Parties desiring to bid can find = list of the said
assets and property to be sold by inspecting the
petition and order on file, or by consulting the
undersigned. MATTHEW w, DAILY,
Assignee OF the Bank OF South Dakota.
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Slid AND WERE PULLED ON SLEDS.
which the village was built a film Of
thick black ice, which for perfect smooth
ness far surpassed anything that had
ever been seen there before. And as the
old heads of the village prophesied that
the cold snap vas likely to be a long one,
there was a general sharpening up of
skates forthwith?
The skaters of today would be vastly
amused by the queer skates that were in
the possession Of the boys of The Hook
81 years ago. There were no club skates
there. Most of the boys had crease bot
toms with heel calks-'corks," they cali
ed them-and every one fastened his
skates on with straps. There were q few
fat bottomed skates, and most of them
were fitted with screws in the heels.
These were considered by their owners to
be far superior to those of older style, es-
pecially as the screw in the heel render
ed toe straps unnecessary, but in this
opinion the owners of the creasers did
not coincide. They held that the crease
was a great aid to rapid skating, that it
prevented Slowing around" and that
those who had the fat skates were Of
fensively devoted to new tangled no.
tons.
When after repeated tests by the eager
boys and some Of the younger fathers
1t was found that a uniform thickness of
two or three inches had formed, and the
30 or go boys of the village and neighbor-
hood were let loose to enjoy the glairy
delights of the ice, the contention waned,
for it was 500 discovered that the su-
periority rested in the skater and not i'm
the skates. Besides every one was too
busy skating to quarrel.
There is no doubt that the weeks be-
tween Thanksgiving and Christmas
were among the most enjoyable ever
vouchsafed to the youngsters Of The
Hook. Nor were the boys and young
men the only ones who partook of the
frigid pleasure of the time. As the
days passed and the temperature re-
manned steadily below the freezing
point, almost without wind and with
no fall Of snow. and the ice got thicker
and solder the middle aged men got out
their skates or took them away from
their sons and exploited themselves on
the ice. By the time q fortnight had
rolled around the old men took a hand,
n rather q foot, in the sport, and there
were as many graybeards as rosy
checked boys daily skimming over the
ponds frozen surface.
Great fires were built along the edge
Of the pond, where the skaters warmed
themselves and from which they got
light to enable them to skate by night,
and finally the women and girls turned
ont every afternoon to view the fun vi
~cariously and sometimes actually-that
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SIX WEEKS SKATING.
"lTHE HOOKS" UNPARALLELED LONG
COLD SNAP WITHOUT SNOW.

TN Those Days the Grease skate with straps
and Heel Caiks was Monarch OF the Ice.
Broiied Fish. Roasted Potatoes and Cof-
fee Served AlFresco.
The boys who lived in the village
called by its inhabitants The Hook con-
sidered themselves especially favored in
the matter of weather during the early
part of the winter of 1867. Three or
four days before Thanksgiving Jack
Frost swooped down from the north by
night and locked the smaller streams and
spread over the big millpond around
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il. they t'slid" and were pulled on sleds
by the men and boys and stood about
the fires and watched their sliding broth
ers and sons and sweethearts and fathers
and husbands and grandfather, and
wished that women, too, might skate,
For, singularly enough, the girls and
women did not skate. Such d thing was
unheard Of at The Hook. II was under
stood by some OF the Inhabitants Of the
village that in some places women did
skate. Miss Luella Morse, the school
mistress, said that in Holland women
were quite as expert In their use OF the
cleaning steel al the men, and for her
part she couldn't see why they shouldn't
be. This war o very bold. idea for any
female Of The Hook to PROFOUND, and
the ladies who heard Miss Luella declare
her belief in the skating rights and abil.
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The oIdes. soldier In the world.

Russia proudly claims the oldest sol
dier, if not the oldest citizen of any rank.
In the known world. Her claimant for
this distinguished honor is Colonel Grit
zenko OF Pottawa near Odessa, who, If he
lives until Feb. 2, will celebrate his one
hundred and twentieth birthday. Grit
zenko entered the military service in the
year 1889, 104 years ago. and received
from the hands Of Empress Catherine
herself . gold medal for conspicuous
bravery at the assault ON Ismail. This
trophy, of which the aged warrior Il
justly very proud, bears the following
inscription: For exceptional bravery at
the assault Of Ismail. Dec. IL. 1850
st. Louis Republic.
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Notice Of Hearing petition for Letters Of Admin.
istration.

lstTatlOn.
) State os South Dakots, County of Lake. In
County Court, Special Term, 1894. In the mat
ter of the estate Of Wm. Barton, deceased. The
State Of South Dakota sends greeting, to Grace
Barton, Alma Barton and Ray Barton. heirs ut
law and next OF kin OF William Barton, deceased,
and TO all whom these presents may come:
Notice 10 hereby given, that Ella Barton has
filed with the judge OF this court, q petition
praying for letters Of administration OF the estate
Of William Barton, deceased, ana that Tuesday.
the 18th day of January, 1894, Mt 2 o'clock p. m,
OF said day. being o day ofa special term OF this
court VI Lake county, South Dakota, In the city
OF Madison. county of Lake, q. D., has been set
for hearing said petition, when and where any
person Interested may appear and show cause
why the said petition should not be granted.
Dated at Madison, 8. D., this 9Th day Of Jana-
airy. A. d., 1894.
j.. III. WILLIAMSON,
Judge Of the County Court.
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Testins : DuskIng stool.

An ancient ducking stool for scolding
wives ID still preserved at Fordwich,
England. The other day some anti
quarians, anxious to test the apparatus.
found q youth who was willing to don
female attire and>go through the ordeal,
The apparatus speedily ducked the lad
into the river, but refused to phil him
out again, and but for timely assistance
he would have been drowned.-London
Letter.
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Land once ct Mitchell, y. D., Dec. 4, 1885,
Notice lie hereby given that the following-named
settler has fled notice of his intention to make
proof viii be made before the clerk Of the circuit
court, In end for Lake county, 3. d., Mt Madison.
Is D.. on January Is, 1894, viz: william Car
rott, for the southeast quarter section ], town
ship !OS north, range "a west, 9Th p. M. ca. e.
20, i1b.) He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and cuiti-
walton OF, said land, viz: Charles Brown OF
Oldram p. O. and Geo. Winslow, 0rlu Clifford
and J. l.. Hathaway Of Ramona Z. o.. =. ID.
II. N. KRAFT. Register