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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17

OF fundins warrants held there are NOT
PAID and an answer is now anxiously
waited from Albany, N. r, where sl2o :
WV - he'd. State banks cannot be
much affected If the people keep then
neaos' rs only two other banks will be
involved on the bonds Morris & La.
prle, OF the Doland bank, are caught
.me former for $50, 900 and the latter for
S,o.ooo. r. w. Brooks and Frank
neara: bankers Of Aberdeen. are also
friends OF Taylor in Sphinx county are
numerously victimized. In addition tc
tnose already mentioned are ]. O. Pow.
ers' W.. kiser, jr. and sr., J. A. Kiser.
W.D: Beebe. +. s. Myers. C. H. Vinton
ahu the estate Of r. NJ. Howard. John
McCnesney and ex-Gov. Mellette Zach
9ustined Tor 5000 0 and VIM. Taylor
aather OF the treasurer, for $50, 900.
The total amount Of justification is s345,
Ooo. several thousand short OF the de-
falcation.
Taylor's friends are weakening, ana
although much faith existed his morn
ing that he would yet show up, there
are put few who cling to that hope to-
night. 1t looks like a cleen sweep Of
the state funds, whiie the bank at Red
Held will not be 81 largely affected.
me ma>~-,ude Of the affair can be
fully '~aIized only by those who have
r-ywiedge OF the seyer straits in
which the state was placed prior TO
this new disaster. There are a few II
told you Sos" but the high esteem If
which Taylor has been held is mani
rest IN the almost universal expires
sions OF establishment. Although Dep
uty harrington received Saturday Il
telegram purporting to come from Tay-
lor at New York, the Herald Of tEat
city. In reply to Il telegram to look the
matter up, replies that Taylor does not
appear to ave been in the city Sor
some time.
Mr.. Palmer, OF Salem, says he met
Taylor in Chicago on the 18th of De-
cember. closcted in "a room, with
locked door, at a hotel in company with
a brother-in-law. S. c. Leppleman. and
a lawyer from Indiana.
Attorney General Crawford received
n telegram this morning from ex-Gcv.
Mellette. who is in Indiana, asking him
not to proceed on the hond units he
should arrive. Mr.. Mellette is ONT of
the bondsmen. This telegram cor
firms the worst fears.
Seven hundred and ninety-fiye thou.
sand dollars Of funding warrants were
in New York for payment. They have
not been returned. although Auditor
Ripple las been expecting them 'or
some time. and 1t is thought the banks
OF deposit have been renting to Nav
York for the payment of these war
rants. In addition to the amount neces-
sary to pay these warrants. the audit
or's report called for s5l. 900 Of cash in
current funds. There is also a large
mount OF school funds that were soon
10 be a~pportioned. making a possible
total shortage annroxir1ating $3.50, 900.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
County Surveyors.

State Surveyor II. J. Wallace Of
washington Springs has been the recipient
of numerous letters since election from
surveyors in the state regarding the sur.
veyors' law passed by the Legislature two
years ago, a great many Of whom have re-
Gently been elected county surveyors and
had not before fully realized the impor-
p~ortance of the law, or its exact meaning,
though notified in duo time by Mr. Wallace
to have been examined before the last cleo
ton. Mr.. Wallace is advising those who
have been elected county surveyors, and
cannot qualify under the1aw, to resign, gel
their license as deputy state surveyors, and
be appointed to the Offices for which they
wefe elected by the county commissioners
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Danger from Small Things.

We have read somewhere of a man
who crossed the ocean twenty times,
and at last was drowned in a small
puddle Of water by the side of a high
way. We have read also of a young
man who, being stung by a common
honey-bee, remarked that it might
prove a serious matter for him; that he
was stung ono before, and was made
quite ill thereby. The result Of this
second sting was that the young man
died. In the first instance the man
who often crossed the ocean stood
many times face to face with death,
and escaped all peril. Death met him
at last in an insignificant bit Of water,
and carried him away. The sting of q
bee is apparently q very trivial matter,
but a life was lost by sc small a cause
In our walk in life there is need fol
constant watchfulness. Temptation ir
many forms may be resisted or over
come, but many q man has fallen al
last before soMe seemingly small
temptation, and has gone down int
the shadows never to return. HE tina,
endureth unto the end, the same shall
be saved"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
A Complete Wreck.

Minneapolis. Mimi, Jan. "a special
TO the Journal from Aberdeen. s. D.,
says: From absolutely reliable sources
1t Is learned that the defalcation Of
stare treasurer W. w. Taylor will
reach 100000. Practically all the state
moneys were in his own hands except
some $4,000 or $4,000 on deposit in
various banks. The wreck is conn
p'ete. 1t has been known for a year
tina MT. Taylor personally has been in
PAD straits. but not one Of his most in
innate friends thought his %tuatio
hopeless or even desperate. They knew
he had been advancing and investing
money recklessly. considering the
times, yet they never dreamed the
truth. When the officials make an in.
vestigation OF the t%reasurer's Office
they will be simply appalled, at the con-
dition Of affairs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
A Good Showing.

The Journal Of Education is elated
owe the small number of truants
among the children Of school age in
New York and inquiries: How is this
for the schools of America? New York
City has a thru of a million children
in the public schools, and the truant
officers in 1898 made more than forty
thousand visits upon children whom
they thought ought to be in school.
They found but seventy-three children
in the entire city in the whole year who
We're not in school because of poverty.
Think of it! In that year Of notori-
ously hard times, a third of a million
children in the schools of one Ameri-
can city. but seventy-three kept out
from poverty, and but fifty-three who
stubbornly would not go to SCHOOL,"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Not Seen in New York for weeks.

~ Se<u III NEW IOFk IOr WcekAs
New York, Jan. 9.-Numerous In
quiries from the west reached tho
banking houses today in regard to the
whereabouts Of w. w. Taylor, who, as
outgoing treasurer OF South Dakota.
has failed to appear to turn over his
office to his successor. and against
whom an alleged shortage in the state
FUNDS is recorded. As proprietor Of q
small bank in Redield, Taylor did
business with the Chase National
bank. However, his accounts with tnat
institution are all right, his indebted
ness being amply secured. Mr.. Cam
non said to q representative OF the AS.
socinted Press tonight relative to the
matter:
mr.. Taylor was here about fve
weeks ago on business connected with
the bank. I have not seer him since
and ! have no idea where he is. Several
inquiries We're made today by inter
ested parties as to his whereabouts and
his standing, but we are unable to Five
any information as to the former. and
regarding the latter I have nothing
definite beyond the fact that his credit
with the Chase National bank was well
secured. I do not know where Taylor
Is. but I am certain that he 10 not in
New York.
James NJ. Brown, a banker and broker
who resides in Brooklyn. and who is a
particular friend Of the missing ex-
state treasurer, said when seer tonight
that ne had seen nothing Of Taylor for
some weeks past. He felt certain that
TAYLOR was not in this vicinity.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
peripatetic Pedagogy.

DR.. J. Nj. Rice, the well known au-
thority on public school education,
deals in plain criticism when he thinks
It IL needed. Having pointed out to
the public schools In his articles In the
Forum, what they ought not to do, he
has now shown them what they ought
70 Do By successfully planning and &C
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
SERMONS FOR SUNDAY
PREACHED THROUGH VARIOUS
CLEVER PENS.

Tempt Not Your Neighbor-Need for Con-
slant Watchfulness- W~ashington's Elk
ample of Obedience-HOw some Minis
tiers Shirk Their Work-Notes and Com
ments.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Crank After Two Judges,

JOS. Fleming of Faulkton, q crank with
a grievance against Judge Fuller Of the
supreme court and Judge GafIey Of the cir
Quit court was at Pierrea day or TWO ago
and attracted attention by seeking u ~
licences q both Judges.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Teachers Watch-WOrds.

Teachers Watch-W Words.
Like teacher like pupil.
Attend carefully to ventilation.
Good discipline is a great time saver.
The good teacher is always enthusi-
astic.
Calisthenics each session are impera.
tive.
Let everything be done decently and
in order.
The ~stillest room Is not always the
busiest.
Be neat and prompt in preparing ali
reports.
Much useful teaching is done without
talking.
Education is a drawing out; not d
filling up.
Let there be plenty of original WORK
by pupils.
Successful teachers are continually
experimenting.
"Short lessons thoroughly mastered"
Is the safest maxim.
Pupils are refreshed by variety in
work as well as in play.
The school is the training
ground for citizenship.
If you wish your pupils to improve
their English, improve yours.
Pupils will be judged by what they
can do; not by what the teacher knows.
The real work done by pupils in a
subject is exactly proportionate to
their interest in it.
Appeals to the superintendent to ad.
minister dicipline should be the last
resort
Keep the supplementary reading
books and other such property in tidy
condition. The cupboard is the place
for them.
To accomplish anything collectively,
men require discipline and able leader
ship; as witness the church, the army,
the navy. How much more, then, do
immature children need the same two
auxiliaries to success! Marshall
School Manual.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Excitement nt Pierre.

Pierre. Jan. Especial: The Taylor
defalcation has absorbed all interest
here. It Is learned that the only state
money to be found Is $4,000 In Taylor's
bank at Redfeld and $4,000 In q
bank at Pierre. Everything else.
amounting to $780, 900, has gone. Word
has been received from the Chase Ma
Eional bank ct New York that the 10000
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Examiner Zimmerman to Eckels.

Washington, Jan. Especial: Bank
Examiner Zimmerman telegraphed to
Comptroller Eckels today that he had
closed the First National bank. of Red
Geld. S. d. Of which State Treasurer
". W. Taylor is president. Beyond the
fact that Mr.. Zimmerman's telegram
states briefly that state funds were de-
posted in his bank. nothing Is known
as to the condition Of the institution
which was closed today.
On the 10th OF December, when the
last report was made, the bank owed to
depositors $107 1898: to other banks, $37.-
600, and bills payable, $4,000. On that
day the capital was $50. 900 and the sur
plus 0,000. The banks total assets
were 1884 900, and 1t held a reserve
against liabilities OF 40 per cent. in cash
in Its own vaults and in the hands OF
approved reserve agents. and this would
indicate that three weeks ago the bank
was In good shape and that heavy
drafts must have been made upon its
since the date of the report.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Notes on Education.

& WIVES IA
4 The income of oxford University is
f35O,OOO.
The Peabody Library is the best in
the United States.
There are $500 students in the Uni
yersity Of Michigan at present.
Pupil teachers in British board schools
earn ut first two to four shillings q
week.
One-sixteenth of Americas college
students are studying for the ministry.
The first school for the training Of
the blind was established at Paris by
EIauy In 1854.
The late Car founded an education
81 establishment for women, In the
cpumemoration Of the marriage Of hi
daughter. bearing the name OF thu
Xonia Institute.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Pulpit Plagiarism.

has frequently
been limited, though
less frequently be-
lieved, that there
5exists somewhere
! what might be
termed user m O n
factories" For a
specified sum SER
mons might be
bought bearing on
any subject and of
every degree of
ability. 1t has also
been said that such
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
A ~SChOOlrOOm Idyl.

How plainly l remember all!
The desks, deep scored and blackened,
The row of blackboards round the wall,
The hum that never slackened:
And framed about by map and charts,
And casts of dusty plaster,
That wisest head and warmest heart,
The kindly old schoolmaster!
l see the sunny corner nook
His blue-eyed daughter sat in.
A rosy. ~fair-haired girl, who took
With rs her French and Latin.
How longingly l watched the hours
For Ollendorff and Caesar!
And how l fought with Tony Powers
The day he tried to tease her!
And when, one day. it took the Next"
To stay some Gallo slaughter,
Because | quite forgot the text
In smiling at his daughter.
And she and 1 were kept till four
To study. after closing"
We stopped the clock an hour or more
While he, poor man, was doing!
And there he sits. with Bonded head,
Ger some old volume porting
Cor So, he thinks; if truth be said
He's fast asleep and snoring).
And where the shaded lamplight plays
Across the cradles rocking,
My schoolmate of the olden days
Sits, mending baby's stocking.
Ladies, Home Journal.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
Manual Training Taught.

For several years manual training
has been n of the branches taught in
the Brookline, Mass, public schools.
All the arts which underlie the manu-
featuring industries and which apply
in many trades are taught in the me-
chanical departments, and helps the
pupil to decide as to his true destiny
in the commercial world. So much in
terest has been shown by both pupils
and parents that the limited quarters
have become oyer-crowded, and in con-
sequence thirty thousand dollars have
been appropriated for a new building.
The new building is to be modelled af.
ter an old English school house and will
be unique in completeness and excel
lance.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17

complishing a school excursion" base.
on the method Of teaching by travel
which is an established accessory of
school education in Germany. 1t was
carried out last June, when he conduct
ed fifty-three teachers and associates
over a journey of 1900 miles, from In
diana to Washington, D. c., and re-
turn. This unique experiment which
the town Of Anderson, Ind, was SO
progressive to undertake, ought to be
the foreruner of many more such ven.
lures In peripatettic pedagogy.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17
STATE FUNDS GONE.
South Dakota's Retiring Treas
urer Missing.
OFFICIALS STUNNED.
GETS AWAY WITH SOMETHING
OVER S36o,OOo.

40 One Had an linking OF tho State OF
knairs-Has Bank Mt Redfleld Closed,
4 but 1t II Claimed that Depositors Will
Lose ~Nothing-Not Seen In New York for
Weeks.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-17

The Institutional Church has be-
come such an important factor In mod
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-08
MINISTER THURSTON RETURNS.
Says He Visited Portugal to Induce
Emigration to Hawaii.

NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-Lorrin A. Thur
ston, Hawaiian minister to the United
States, accompanied by Mrs. Thurston was
a passenger on the Cunard steamship
Aurania. which arrived from Liverpool to-
day Mr.. Thurston stated that his trip
abroad had no political Significance what
ever. He went to Portugal at the request
OF his government to reinaugurate the i'm
portaton of Portuguese labor by the
Hawaiian republic. When the sugar indus
try was fourishing in Hawaii a great deal
OF foreign labor was brought in and about
eleven thousand Portuguese found their
way to Honolulu from 1880 to 1887 They
make good laborers and the planters pre-
Ter mixed crews their plantations as
tney are less liable to make trouble than
those all of one nationality. Then the
sugar industry began to decline just after
tne enactment of the Mckinley tariff bill
the importation of laborers was stopped
About four hundred Portuguese will soon
leave for Hawaii.
Mr. Thurston was shown President Cleve-
lands statement in answer to Senator
Il was intimated that the President had
been influenced in withdrawing United
states war vessels from Hawaiian waters
oy the committee of Hawaiian royalists
Thurston refused to make any comment on
1t, remarking that it would be bad taste
on ms part to comment words or action
or the official head of a country to which
ne . IS an ambassador: He said he did not
believe the feelings for annexation to the
United states had diminished In his coun-
Try since The new republic was established
ana the people We're looking forward to a
change IN the administration here two
hence, when they hope to be taken under
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-08

amendment, proposing as the sense of the
caucus a bill authorizing each state TO
buy silver bullion TO the amount CT 81 for
each sinha btant and send the same to the
United States treasury to be coined and
returned TO the several States. This closed
the speech-making and the submission OF
amendments and voting began.
The Terry amendment was voted on first
and was defeated-54 10 >6i. The Sperry
amendment was also defeated-lS 10 20. The
last Tote was regarded significant in
showing the limited strength of the plan to
issue bonds to retire the greenbaeks. The
thirteen voting for the amendment were
Messrs. Sperry, Harter. Straus, Brickner.
Wells of Wisconsin, Coombs Lockwood.
Fielder, Hendrix Tracey, McAleer, Deforest
and Pierson.
The question then recurred on the original
resolution to indorse tho Carlisle substi-
tute BILL 1t was decided to divide the reso-
luton, so as to have separate votes ON the
Endorsement of the bill and the instruc-
tons to the committee on rules. The first
part indorsing the bill was carried by
vote of 81 to 30. The second part direct
ing the rules committee to bring in rule
Tomorrow, was adopted without division
and the caucus adjourned. Those interest
ed in the bill expressed satisfaction in the
result. as it gave the prestige of caucus
Endorsement to the Carlisle bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-08
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
FOrHeth Annual Report OF the New
York Chamber Of Commerce..

NEW YORK, Jan. THE fortieth an
nual report of the Chamber of Commerce
or New York will show a recapitulation
OF the foreign commerce of the port of
New York, compared with an ports of the
United States, for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1894 1t is as follows
Foreign merchandise, including coin and
bullion: Port of New York, $4S3, ,SS5, ,595; ;
total, all ports of the United States, S740-
130, 293. Exported: New York S24 S37 S2S:
United States, 46,SCs.52o Consumed and on
hand New York, s45S, 997, 767; United States,
s693921,1 ,173. Domestic merchandise, incIId-
ing coin and bullion, exported: New York,
s4o2644,96S United States, 1912, 76l, ,37S. Ex-
cess of foreign imports over domestic ex-
ports at the port of New York, s31, ,490 672;
excess of domestic exports over foreign
imports at all ports of the United States
S232 O51 ,0S5; total foreign commerce. lS9S-94:
New York, 1851 l,S1S,391; United States, ST.
10000 l9l; total foreign commerce, 1925 :
New York, 81 ,0S4 $50, 405; United States, ST.
91, S319l2. Decrease at the port of New
York, $73,047.013; decrease at all ports of
the United States, $147,5 ,721.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-08
GOFF NOW RECORDER,
His First Order Takes Indictments
from the District Attorneys Case.


NEW YORK. Jan. John William
Goff, the new recorder. took his seat to-
day on the bench as the presiding judge
of the Court Of General Sessions of the
Peace in the city and county of New York
Long before the court room in the south
east corner of the new Criminal Courts
building was opened, vast multitude
thronged the ample corridors and galleries
of the building. impatiently waiting for ad-
mission. But very few of these got in ow-
ing to the necessary presence of talesmen
for the January grand jury and the many
lawyers and friends of the new recorder.
Before Mr.. Goff entered, the judges desk
profusely decorated with flowers. The
new recorder introduced by Judge
Cowing, and his few remarks greeted
with prolonged applause. He charged the
grand jury with the duty of investigating
the charges of oppression and persecution
against public officials. He also made a
order requiring indictments to be kept
in the care of the clerk of the court in
stead of being given into the hands of the
district attorney
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-08

or devotion and of enmity TO the ad-
ministration. Should this bill or a bill
of similar nature pass the House and
come to the Senate Democratic leaders
state that there would be no filibuster-
ing against it in the Senate This state
ment is made after a conference by Dem
ocratic Senators with members of the
Republican steering committee of the
Senate held to-day. Even Senator Quay,
who has of recent months come 70 be
the most dreaded filbusterer on the Re
publican side, would make no opposition
to bill of such a nature. OF course a
final desperate effort will be made in the
House to pass some bill which Mr.. Car
Isle can regard as a vindication Speak
er Crisp himself is willing to take the
floor in behalf of vindication. but the
result of to-days caucus leaves little
ho0e
Scant faith is had in the vaunted de-
termination of Senator Hill to become
the administrations champion in the
Senate when the Carlisle bill reaches
that body, if it ever does. Leading
Democratic Senators sarcastically ask
what is Mr.. Hills following that he
could bring into line. His recent recon-
Citation with the President has not
made the New York Senator more popu-
lar with the conservatives than he
was during the tariff fight and there
is the certainty of some very spicy con-
troversies between the New Yorker and
Senator German when a currency bill
is discussed in the Senate
1t is possible that the compromise OUT
lined above may not pass the House,
but bill on that line will be enacted
or there will be no legislation That is
the fixed determination of the govern
ing majority of the Democratic SEN
ators. l.. G.