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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

Minneapolis Times: The Milwau-
kee ministers are engaged in a crusade
against gambling and will carry the
war into the municipal campaign next
spring. They will interview every
candidate on the subject and those
that are not outspoken in support of
the reform movement will be attacked
from the pulpit. Some of the Milwau-
kee politicians will be subjected to a
terrible strain.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

San Francisco bay is to be tunneled
to accommodate the traffic between
opposite sections of the city which
now has to go around. The distance
Is about five miles and the subway
will pass beneath an island in the
bay
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23
IOWA FIRE LOSSES.
Last rear Was Record Breaker 20
Town Fires.

Last rear Was n Record Breaker for
Tovu Fires.
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 19.-The in
Eurance companies and representatives
in Iowa have kept close record Of the
fire losses in this state during recent
years and they find that the losses in
the year 1901 were measurably larger
than in any year in the history of the
state. The heaviest losses We're In
Des Moines and Davenport, where
three quarters of a million dollars
worth of property was consumed in
each city. The total losses aggregate
s3,9O1, 900. not including losses on farm
property.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

The London Saturday Review puts
the business of 1901 this way: Am
erica had boom, while England had
three slumps." This is scarcely sta
tistical, yet we fancy we can grasp
il fairly well.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23
pny High for Farm Lp,d.

Crookston, MINI, Jan. 19.-The Geo.
Purvis farm south of this city was sold
for s42 per acre. this being the high
est price paid for farm lands in any
considerable quantity in this section.
The farm contains 800 acres. 1t was
sold to Iowa parties, who will plant a
part of it. as II adjoins the Great
Northern yards at South Crookston.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23
BEDBUG DECISION.
Famous Case in Iowa Appealed Ia
Smprcmt. Court.

Sioux City. Iowa. Jan. ia decis-
ion has beef rendered at Akron, Iowa,
in the case Of bly, VS.. Sears. in which
the court held that the presence OF
bedbugs in a hotel did not furnish
grounds for the recovery of damages.
The case has been appealed and prom
ises to rival the famous Jones county
calf case. The case was brought by
Frank BLY, against II. -. Sears for re-
covery of $50 back rent. Sears, who
had rented the hotel of Bly,, refused TO
pay the $50 on the unique excuse that
the buggy condition of the hotel was a
damage; that Bly, knew and could not
help knowing IL was buggy, and that.
therefore. the house was leased under
fraudulent representations.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

There are fewer orators in congress
these days. The dry frost of increas-
ing business nips the young jaws in
the bud
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

London. Jan. ia dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from
Budapest says that Baron Paul Bour-
avlinis, who has served with the Beers,
and Baron Lussens. will leave Buda-
pest In February with a strong body Of
recruits for the Trarsvaal,
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23
This Omceholder ResianeJ

Newton, Iowa, Jan. l9.-The case of
William Deutsch. supervisor of this
county, is unique. He went through a
hard campaign to get the nomination
and election to the board. He was
elected and after serving two weeks,
concluded he wasn't fitted for the posi-
ton and handed In his resignation.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

The Mexicans are favoring the pro-
posed 0lympian games in Chicago.
There was a time in Mexico's history
when the Aztec kings settled their
differences by resorting to a friendly
game of what is now called football.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

A st. Louis man and his wife pro-
vided Christmas tree for their dog
this year. Did Santa find any chill
dren's stockings hanging up in that
house Christmas eve?
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

IL wireless telegraphy becomes gem
eral 1t will only be necessary to send
mp a kite to tap the information put
ting girdle around the earth.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

The truly wise man groans under
the burden of his wisdom. None will
ease him of 1t, and none will stop to
ask him whore and how he got it.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

Conservative prophets predict. that If
the present year is more prosperous
than last 1902 will make a better show
ing than did 1901. This is at least
safe.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

Professor Garner has succeeded in
teaching a chimpanzee two English
words, but the brute never can remem-
Der them in company
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23
work Pleads Gu,,,,

St Paul, Jan. william J. Work.
the former night clerk at the postoffice.
was arraigned before Judge Lochren
In the United States district court yes
terday morning and pleaded guilty 10
taking money from the malls. He
was sentenced TO two years at STILL
water.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

The New Hampshire man who has
record of having sawed a cord of
hard wood in an hour and half must
have some lovely lungs.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

There's to be another whisky trust.
but there is no reason to believe that
whisky will be put beyond the reach
of the masses.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

Gen. Lew Wallace expects to have
his autobiography ready for the print
err in the course of few months.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

Anarchy is about to take its place
where it belongs-at the head OF the
list of crimes.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

Foreigners are requested to look the
other way while the Chinese court en-
tiers Picking. Why not let the spec
tacle be enjoyed through smoked
glasses?
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

Hate a big-souled man and he will
forget II; despise him and he will re-
member 1t to his dying day
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

1t is the reflections from our own
souls that surround us, more than
what we believe to be the acts OF 9TH
ers.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

The politician may always be relied
upon to reflect popular opinion with
prompt. unerring accuracy.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

A 20-foot giraffe in Greater New
York has obligingly absorbed the Wis
ible supply of influenza
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

one-eighth of the British empires
population are of British descent; the
remainder are ascending
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

King Edward will be crowned June
rs il his millinery is sent home in
time
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23

Il looks as If the old Yale spirit had
got into the Harvard jug
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Fltz Lee.

Fitz Lee.
 General Fitzhugh Lee has participated in many parades in his honor. some of them of monster proportions. but the mili- tary and civic escort that will march in his honor here next Thursday will be i'm posing and will be in every way worthy of the occasion" said an old Confederate
 Since Lees coming has been well ad- vertised everybody here will turn out to see him. and hundreds will come from the country around. It Is well worth while to see Fhz Lee on horseback because he is a famous rider He graduated at West Point and while he got through the aca- demic course with credit, he won his dis tlnction there as a horseman.
 'rAfter serving two or three years in the Indian wars Lee was detailed as cav airy instructor at West Point and he was filling that position in 1861 when he re- signed his commission fin the United States army and entered the Confederate service as lieutenant colonel. He was with his uncle, General Robert F. Lee, at the surrender at Appomattox, being then 2S years of age. He was full ma jor general.
 After the war Fltz Lee settled on a farm in Stafford county Va, and was a husbandman from that time until 1885, when he ran for Governor of the Old Do- minion. He beat John s. Wise, the Re- publican candidate, by 16,000 votes after one of the hottest contests ever known In the South. Lee made a horseback cam paign which was both picturesque and effective. He rode from Alexandria di- agonally across the state to Lee county on the Tennessee border. He was escorted through the different counties by splen- did cavalcades. and in one of these pa rades 300 women rode as his bodyguard.
 Lee was accompanied In his campaign by several New York correspondents. and at least three of the big dailies had feat ure specials about Lee every day for two months
 Lee made popular and business-llke Governor, and had the credit of settling the state deot. which was singularly com plex and which had played an important part in politics. He served as consul-gen- eral to Cuba from 1896 until war was de- clared against Spain.
 Lee is full of humor and is a great joker, but in his lecture on Cuba, while he will be bright and entertaining, he will deal with serious questions in a very dignihed and instructive way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
ALABAMA BERRIES.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 The culture of early strawberries for the northern and eastern markets is in it's infancy In Alabama, but in one sea- son has made great strides. When the subject of putting on refrigerator cars for the fruit was broached some time since to the officials of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, they hesitated as to the expedency of the venture. The strawberry raisers, however, were deter mined to have their product brought to market and started in with a vim to raise the fruit Castleberry was the ship ping point and in that vicinity large crop was raised. Nine carloads of fruit have thus far been shipped from this point on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and it is predicted that next season more than double that amount will be shipped. The berries are shipped to Chicago, Pittsburg, Cleveland and other northern points. and the returns have been most satisfactory to the farm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
Seaboard Air Line,

When John Skelton Williams became president of the Seaboard Air Line about three years ago. it was generally be- lieved that he would extend the system to Birmingham remarked a prominent citizen, "and when he and his associates bought Gate City property and the Mary Pratt furnace it was surmised that he was going to push his road to this dis trict forewith.
 But MT. Williams was too busy get ting the Seaboard in shape to come this way just then. His coming. however, was regarded only a question of time Within the last two years many stories have been published about the Seaboard's s plans. Some of these rumors seemed i'm probable, for they had the road entering Birmingham by all sorts of out-of-the- way routes.
 "A few months ago Baltimore friends of MT. Williams gave out interviews to the effect that while the Seaboard Air Line would be running its trains here some day, it would hardly do so for four or five years. It was therefore an agree pany announced its plans and got it's franchises here the other day. The line will be operating Into Birmingham within a year. If the directors of the Seaboard had been thinking of waiting for this important move, they wisely came to the conclusion that the Birmingham district was too rich a field to keep away from any longer.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
At the Hard Coal Mines,

The strikers in the hard coal dis tricts are customarily said to number 147 $50 persons, but only 36,000 of these are miners in the fullest sense of the word. The remainder are la borers. The breaker employees number 22,0O0, and other above-ground work CTS 27,500 Below ground there are 35,000 underground workmen," and 22,000 "laborers."
 The 36.000 miners are paid by the ton or car very much as the soft coal miner in this district is paid There is however, some difference between a ton of merchantable hard coal and a ton of run-of-mine soft coal The breakers and the slate picking are wholly unlike anything seen in soft coal districts.
 But down below the difference is not so great. The miner gets so much per car of coal mined, very much as he does in this district. He hires his laborer or laborers. He tells the la borer where to put in shots" and the laborer drills the holes, fires the blasts. and shovels the. coal into the mine cars. The miner himself often leaves the mine in two or three hours, while the laborer or laborers must stay down ten hours in order to make the days earnings satisfactory. The miner is pretty well paid, but no one else in or around the mines is well paid, least of all the Hungarian John, who does the drudgery of mining and gets very little from 1t. He earns whatever the miner is willing to pay him, and. the sum rarely exceeds $1.50 day. small sum for long hours under ground. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
ANOTHER COAL STRIKE.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The decision of the United Mine Work CTS of Virginia to inaugurate a general strike in June for an advance in wages is not to be considered as an extension of the strike in the anthracite region. It was discussed in March, long before the Eastern dispute eliminated. and is purely local to the two states. It's chief effect, if a settlement is not reached in the meantime. will be to accentuate the scarcity of coal
 The situation in the anthracite field, as detailed to our Wall street correspondent by one of the union leaders, has resolved itself into a waiting for developm ents. President Mitchell 1t Is said. was oppos- ed to the strike order at this time, but by a close vote was forced to sanction 1t. He is-a conservative and many of the members of his union in that region, un- versed in American methods and impa- tient of action, are radical. They hoped to secure a national strike in sympathy, but the President, better informed, real izes that there is little chance of the bituminous workers so voting. The con- tracts and the personal relations between operatives and operators in the soft coal field outside Virginia and West Virginia are against that development which in- stead of helping, would injure the cause. President Mitchells policy of delay, com bined with the efforts still being made to secure settlement, afford a much bet ter hope of adjustment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
Suffrane in inc PhlIinnlnes.

The pending Philippine civil gov ernment bill leaves suffrage untouched, and the present suffrage plan was established by the Taft commission backed by Congress and the Republi- can party. It is well to inquire what this suffrage is that the Republicans have devised for the Philippines.
 The voters in the Philippines are those who can read and write either the English or the Spanish language, or who own $25O of property, or who pay $15 a year in taxes. Here Is an alternative educational and property test. The voter must have culture or property. and very few Filipinos have either Practically speaking, the Re publicans have disfranchised at least nineteen out of every twenty persons in the islands.
 It is difficult to see how the Repub- licans can keep a straight face when they assail the suffrage provisions of the Alabama constitution while they uphold the suffrage plan of the Taft commission. The former calls for tax of but $1.50, while the latter in- sists upon the payment of $15 before 1 voting No poll tax in the South ex- ceeds s2.
 The ballot in the Philippines is in fact farce and pretence. No one can vote except few property holders and the carpet-bag followers of the Taft machine itself. The bill to pro- vide civil government for the Philip pines in no wise changes the situation, and the Republicans of today must be considered therefore to have confirmed and endorsed the suffrage already in force.
 To call such a system of suffrage free government is misuse of words. The intention plainly is to provide a colony in which no voting shall be done except by and through the ruling machine itself This plan has been fully inaugurated in the Philippines and all the voting that will be done there while Republicanism stays in power can be put in ones hat. What has been inaugurated will be main tained, anu the very fact that the new government bill affords no relief to the Filipinos plainly goes to show the nature of the suffrage the Republicans prefer when they can have their own way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
ALTON B. PARKER.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 David B. Hill is booming Alton B. Par ker for President. MT. Parker's name has long been a household word among Democrats, but few of them could tell offhand just who he is. Mir. Parker it will be remembered by all careful read CTS, either is or Is not the man who struck Billy Patterson. He can prove that he was in another county when Beau tiful Snow was written, though he does not swear that he was not over there for the purpose of securing a quiet place in which to write it. All the other pub lie and private acts of MT. Parker are household words-in his own one. MT. Hill has had happy thought; millions and millions sf his fellow countrymen have never heard the first bad word of MT. Parker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27

reports come from Louisiana and Texas. In the latter State the acreage is fully up to recent acreages.
 The generally favorable outlook of the young crop is having a consider able effect upon the market, both in respect to cotton goods and the raw material. There is a wide difference, however. between spot cotton and de- liveries in the new cotton year.
 Wheat prices, too, are declining on account of the crop outlook A good crop of winter wheat Is now reason ably well assured. A great acreage has been given to corn, and the crop is making excellent progress, but ow- ing to the very seant supply prices are well maintained.
 Iron and steel prices show no abate- ment. The demand relates now chiefly to deliveries near the end of the year, and no one has discovered any signs  of recession in any respect. The hard coal strike will, if longer kept up, be- gin to reduce the prouuction of pig iron, throwing the burden upon the coke furnaces. There isr of course, the possibility of another and unrelated strike in the soft coal districts of Vir1 ginia and West Virginia. but. such disaster need not be anticipated. .,.s
 All in all the business outlook is promising, and not even a pessimist can see signs of hard times in sight. The sale of iron and other materials, to be delivered in 1903 will soon be begun, if it has not already been started, and all such sales will be at full prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
THE NEW PLAN,
he Sheffield Standard.

From the Sheffield Standard.
 The state executive committee has evil dently made up It's mind to ignore the popular demand for a state primary. It Is now up to the people and they can checkmate the committee by electing del- egates to a state convention under in structions to make no nominations for state offices. The convention can meet and transact such business as is neces- sary and leave the nomination of can didates to the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
A Brave Preacher Who
 Says What He Thinks

|
 From the New York Evening Journal.
 Honor 10 the Rev Dr. Rainsford for his speech before the Harvard students.
 Courage to speak their minds courage to risk malignant criticism and bitter unpopularity for saying what they really think, is not common among men who haev the public ear.
 Dr. Ralnsfor tells MT Andrew Carnegie that the manner in which he made his colossal fortune "has done more to cause anger and discomfort among the working classes than any number of free libra ries can ever efface." He referred to the exposure during the Carnegie-Frick quar- rel of the fact that Carnegie had made $S6 100000 year under tariff imposed to save American laborers from for eign cofnpetition.''
 One can admire Dr. Ransford for his candor without endorsing his judgment in holding up Andrew Carnegie as pe- culiar offender.
 MT. Carnegie is no worse than any other business man who takes advant- age og the laws help to enrich himself through the tariff.
 It is robbery, of course. But 1t is le- galized robbery, under a system which has been approved by the people at the polls.
 If the people are being robbed by the tariff it is not MT. Carnegie's fault, nor anybody's but the peopie's.
 And then there is this to be said in Mir Carnegie's favor. He Is doing good with the money that poured in on him through the tariff sluce. The fair way to judge him is to compare him with other men similarly enriched and who try to do no good with their spells.
 The Carnegie libraries. no matter how Carnegie got his money, will be per petually flowing wells of knowledge, and will be factors in bringing about bet ter industrial system than that which has made possible the accumulation of the monster fortune Of Andrew Carnegie.
 Even John D. Rockefeller's gifts to the cause of education are to be welcomed The Standard oil Company's history is the history of crime. The methods by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27

Concord. N. IT.. why. nothing, as far as know"
 e3ut you haven't Invited him" said the reporter; The ought to be in your list" ftk And he isn't?" said Honis of New Hampshire.
 No" said the reporter; mot on my list" hHe# a
 Why nobody thought of him. said the New Hampshire secretary; "he slipped my mind"
 And mine, toe" said Connecticut man, standing close by: "and mine,' came an echo from the Vermont section on the further side.
 His name Is not even mentioned" the secretary continued; that is just how it happened"
 ''But he Is possibles he continued; you see we said and others feasible That might let him in."-
 Then he smiled and the galaxy of out of the state men around him smiled, and far away in New York the ears of Hir must have tingled a ssg