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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

The appointment of Ex-Governor
Shaw, of Iowa, as secretary of the
treasury to succeed Secretary Gage,
while not meeting with appreciation
among the dominent faction Of the
republican party in Iowa. is Civ
ing general satisfaction to the people
of the northwest. The new secretary
has for years been considered one Of
the leading authorities on finance in
this country, and during the last
campaign he more than all others
could best define the gold standard,
show the benefits already derived
therefrom and give reasons for its
continuance. The secretary the
president and the people are to be
congratulated upon his selection.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

Another year has gone by for
South Dakota, Ii was the best of
her history. Never before have so
many h~ome-seekers sought her
borders, never before has there been
such general prosperity. The lands
of the state in nearly every section
have increased from fifty to hun
dred per cent in value. Thefarmers
generally have given up exclusive
grain raising and gone into mixed
farming. We have come from a
state that during favorable years
raised a crop of wheat to a state
where there i no total crop failure
our people have found that they can
raise corn and the reports Of Uncle
sam give Us the oest average corn
crop per acre in the union. The
farmers have not stopped at mixed
crops but nearly all of them have a
small bunch Of COWS and that savior
of South Dakota the creamery
has done much for u prosperity.
From these money making institu-
tions the farmers through their cows
draw practically their living expen-
ses giving them their crops for
profit. The year Of 1902 opens with
South Dakota showing great promise
much depends upon her people.
Let everyone put his shoulder to the
wheel with a determination to do his
part and the end Of the year will
show a progress that viii make us
the object Of envy TO our neigh5ors.
South Dakota a few years ago was
the mecca of those who had a home
stead right and wanted to use it.
They knew nothing Of farming OF
stock raising. They had expensive
habits and thought they were coming
to a state where dollars grew like the
luxuriant bunch grass and were
gathered without exertion. They
were disappointed and became sore
An their disappointment, mortgaged
OF ssia iheir e4alnis for a plltance
and departed branding the state as a
desert. During the past year these
same homesteads have been sold to
another class of immigrants. These
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

Governor Herreid has issued a
commission to I'll. E. Dewey, of Lead
City, as county Judge to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of F. j. Washabaugh, who was cleo
ted circuit judge in November over
God of Battles" Moore.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02


Judge Campbell. who has served
tie people Of this circuit 50 faith
fully a Judge and given such splen-
did satisfaction during the past
eight years, on the night Of Deem,
Der 81, 1901, laid down the ermin e
and took up the practice Of law.
We think there was never before d
Judge who was 50 popular with his
constituents and especially the mem
hers Of the bar as Judge A. W.
Campbell. His decisions In civil
rases were monuments Of fairness
and in criminal cases he ever tenn
pered justice with mercy. The peo-
pie, regardless of politics. sincerely
regretted the determination made by
rim last fall to leave the bench and
sreat pressure was brought to bear
Ipcn him TO reconsider but to no
lraii. Ii must be certainly very
oleasing TO live after all these ear
deciding their controversies to know
hat he still retains the love and
aspect of all his fellow citizens.
Judge James III. Mccoy. Judge
'ampbelfs successor. IS an able
urist, a splendid lawyer and an
onest man. As Judge Campbell's
uccessor he has a large position to
II but we predict hat his knowledge
men, his aptness for the position.
IS determination to do right in all
Uses viii keep the bench OF his
ircuit at its present high standard
nd that in after years the people
i'll speak Of them as the two best
idges We have ever had Campbell
al Mccoy Here is hoping all
'e success possible to both gentle
en- in their new positions.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02
4 Cure For ago.

VIC. Williamson, OF Amherst, Va,
says; For more than a year | suffered
from iumbago. finally tried Chamber
iain's Pain Balm and il gave me entire
relief, which al other remedies had
failed TO do. Sold by all druggists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02
ROOSEVELT Eats Rnfaln.

President Roosevelt had an opus,r,,,u;,y
ON Christmas day to isnplan, his cele
DRAFTED teeth in a buffalo roast foru artied
!" hina by Hugh Jayues, Of Pierre. The
iact that Christmas is psoyetbiaIIy 4 day
90 peace and quiet h probably the on,y
thiiig that held the frontier prcSideu,
down as he nslsticate-l the prairie kin.
and recalled n thrilling days when he
was among t.iem with saddle. boots and
siin.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

The governors of several states
have been in consultation in Helena
this week trying to devise means to
defeat the manipulations Of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railroads to the detirment of the
people generally. As vet their
consultation has borne no fruit and
the press reports seem to the effect
that they hare not as yet hit upon a
solution of the problem that con
fronts them. While nothing NAV
come from the meeting the COVER
nors present are to be commended
for the getting together inthe hopes
of doing something for their con
stituents. But if we mistake no.
these great railroads viii find that
they are small fry when the people
of half a dozen states get after them.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02
Money ON the Rounds.

Enough money is in circulation in the
! niied States 10 give zach person s-s.ss.
The per capita in isss was szi.I0. and in 1853
SliS. IL will be noticed that even the
present amount would disappoint the peo-
pie who want an equal division all around.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

In great many of our populist
changes We see editorials written
tn intent to derogats the gifts
Andrew Carnegie to the public.
iese articles merely expose the
norance Of their authors. Mr.. Car
gle IS a rich man. immensely rich.
go as these same exchanges sug
4 divide his money among tie
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

CD. Collins, of Groton. Brown
county, has already began an active
campaign for the nomination on the
republican ticket for the Office OF
state treasurer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

The bar of SPHINX county presented
Judge A. w. Campbell with the
chair he occupied during the last two
years as the Judge OF the circuit
court of that county.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

Colonel Frost, who commanded
the First South Dakota regiment in
the Philippines, is now practicing
law in Illinois.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

Remember this year that depart
ment stores in st. Paul and Chicago
do not help to build up South
Dakota.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

Make a resolution the first of the
year TO buy your goods from home
merchants and stick to ii.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02

About the only pity TO be
expressed about the removal of
Maclay is hat II did not come
sooner.
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19
CHURCH FOR woRKINeMEN.
Labor Unions in an Indiana Town Are
Organizing One.


The movement recently inaugurated at
Marion, Ind. for the establishment Of
church by the organized laborers of the
city has now progressed so far that there
seems to be no doubt but it will be car
ried into successful execution, for the
forty-eight unions have taken up the
question, and there is said TO be a de-
cided preponderance of sentiment in ia
vor of it.
The men who are interesting them
selves in the movement are members Of
different denominations, and it was early
settled that the new church should be
undenominational and the preaching
should be along the lines that would es-
chew doctrine entirely so far as it relates
to the dogmas upon which the church is
now divided. 1t will therefore be open to
Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists. Luz
therans and all other religionists, no mat
ter what THEN beliefs, but it is neces
sary that every member must be a mem
Der of organized labor or of family
whose head is connected with some
union.
James E. Myers, one OF the most
prominent union men in Marion, is at the
head of the movement and thus defines
the objects of the proposed laboring
mems church: What the laboring men
of this country need, and what We hope
to have within a few months, is a church
erected and supported entirely by men
who earn their bread in the sweat of
their faces. The time has come when
we feel that we are not welcome in the
big churches, no matter of what denomi-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19
SHOWS ODD MACHINE.
Kansas City Man Believes He Has
Solved Perpetual Motion.

Kansas City Man Believes He Has
Solved Perpetual Motion.
j. s. Grimes, mechanic, who was
born in Yell County, Arkansas, and can
barely read and write, exhibited a per-
petual motion machine in the office of the
Kansas City Journal that runs for hours
with no other power than that furnished
by the machine itself. The invention is
simple, but it is the result of twelve
years work. Grimes first took circular
piece CIT from thick board and trimmed
down the edge to resemble circular
switchback railway. In the center of this
board he fastened a second circular
board on steel post that fitted into
bail-bearing bicycle. axle. Tothe top board
was fastened, by means of a rod, small
wheel, which was so fixed that it would
strike at each revolution of the upper
board at a point near the top of the in
cline plane Of the lower board, the lower
board being slightly inclined. Grimes
then placed weight en- top Of the upper
disk, placed the wheel at the top OF the
inclined plane. released it and the ma
chine began to move and continued in
motion until stopped by its inventor. The
machine is started by the wheel running
down the incline on one side. This takes
the weight on the opposite side away
from the center of gravity and it carries
the machine around until the wheel
strikes the top Of the incline again, when
new force is impaired to the revolving
upper disk. Grimes says he worked for
six years before he discovered a way to
force the carrier wheel over the highest
point of the circular track, although the
distance to overcome was less than an
inch. A company is being organized to
exploit the invention.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19
KILLED WITH A PAPER KNIFE.
Chicago millionaire Is STAINED 4,
Death i'm 4ss feys

--~--s~S -s@@'aAohatEN Is STABBED TO
Death in His Ofaice.
WalteS A. Scott. president Of the pli-
nois Wire company, was stabbed to death
In the Monadnock building. Chicago. ~
Walter L. Seedlings. i civil and consult
ing engineer with offices in the same
building. Stebbings used paper knife.
stabbing Scott twice.
The stabbing occurred in Mr.. Scott's
private office. Mr.. Stebbings had done
some work for the Illinois Wire Com
pany, over which there had been a dis
pute. The two had a quarrel. and Steb-
bings, it is said, called Scott a liar. There
was scutfie and the Two burst from the
private office with blood flowing from
SCOTS wounds Seedlings matte no It.
tempt to escape.
Seedlings, when arrested said he had
struck Scott in self-defanse and that ia
had not Intended injuring him seriously.
The fight was witnessed by Miss Myrtle
Shumate, stenographee in Scott's office,
who ran screaming into the hail. Occu-
pants Of other Offices notified the police.
who placed Seedlings under arrest.
According to Miss Shlmate's story the
two men were in SCOTS private offiee
for nearly an hour disputing over claim
for $1,000. Suddenly ttej door was thrown
open and the men staggered into the outer
office, kicking each Other aud using their
fists. Seedlings held tha long steel paper
knife in his right hand and the weapon
could be seen flashing as the men strug-
sled. Suddenly Stebbings struck Scott in
the body. The blow was repeated mo-
ment later. Scott staggered backward
and finally fell to the floor, He died with
IN half an hour.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19
RETURN SANS TREASURES.
Men Who Sailed to Hunt Hidden old on
Cocos Island Unable to Find 1T.

The elaborately equipped expedition
which set sail from Victoria. B. c., early
IN January Gu the brigantine Blakely TO
search for the mythical treasure OF Cocos
Island has returned, like other expedi-
tons which have visited the island. with
out having seen a sign of treasure of any
KIND. This latest expedition was an 70
ter failure. The instruments which sgere
10 locate buried wealth failed in all in
stances except in giving the members
work IN digging in different parts of the
Island. The Blakely was 101 days reach
Ing the island from Victoria, getting
taste OF heavy weather which prevailed
at times. and arriving at the island April
H. After days accommodating the in
struments were brought out and the men
started work at a place TO which the
apparatus pointed. After sinking a shaft
twenty feet deep another trial was made
with the so-cAlled gold finder, and it point
ed IN another direction-in fact, every
time 1t was brought out it pointed in
a different direction. Finally, getting dis
gusted 'Sith it, Captain Whidden decided
to test 1t with some gold coin on the
beach. 1t failed TO find the coin, and
then a search for the treasure was made
independent of it. Holes were sunk
where the crew of II. NJ. S. Imperius
and the schooner Aurora had searched,
without better results. Provisions get
ting low. it was decided to make a start
for home. and after a supply of corn had
been loaded the vessel was turned north
ward. This was May IL, only twenty
five days having been spent on the isl
and. Captains Whidden and Hackett
still believe the treasure is there, but
place no confidence in the instruments Of
Messrs. Gilkert and Enyeart.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19

Mrs. Ignatz Wiurchowski has made
written confession 10 the Cleveland POI
lice that the man who shot and killed her
husband was Charles Janaski, a former
boarder at the Wiurchowski home, and
who is alleged to be infatuated with Mrs
Wiurchowski. Mrs. WiurchowsH and
her husband were on their way home late
Sunday night when a man rushed from
the bushes and killed Wiurchowski in
stantly Mrs. Wiurchowski told the POI
lice that it was a robber that committed
the crime. Since the commission Of The
murder Alrs. Wiurchowski and Janaski
have been under arrest. The other night
two Of the city detectives went through
the crime in mimic as nearly as possible
from Mrs. Wiurchowskis description.
One detective acted as escort for Mrs.
Wiurchowski, while the other rushed at
them from the bushes. When the re-
volver was pointed at the detectives head
the woman went into Mysteries and cried
out: My Godl its Charles Janaski." The
confession was verified later and written
ont
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19
PLOT TO BLOW UP PAUPERs.
Dynamite Found in Inmates Room in
Adams Infirmary.

A plot to destroy the Adams County
infrmary and kill the forty-four inmates
was unearthed at Decatur, Ind. A. W.
Butler, secretary of the State board of
charities, was making an inspection of
the buildings. In the room of Charles
Echerman he found a pile of rubbish,
which he ordered removed. Buried be-
meath the rubbish sixty pounds of dyna-
mite, two two-pound dynamite bombs and
115 feet of fuse were found. Echerman
has been an inmate of the infirmary over
twelve years. He was reprimanded re-
Gently and since that time has been sulky.
When the discovery of the dynamite was
made he disappeared and no trace
of him can be found. 1t is known that
he has dynamite bomb with him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19
AMERICAS DRINK BILL.
Liquor Product of the Country in
1900 Valued at S34O,6I5,466.

For the first time the census Office has
made the manufacture of alcoholic liquors
the subject of special inquiry, and the
reIcrt contains some interesting facts and
statistics concerning that industry. never
before presented. 1t embraces wine, malt
and spirituous liquors, and finds the total
consumption in the United States for
1900. the census year, 10 have been ], 325,
G5S,094 gallons, or 17.3 gallons per capita
of the population. OF this !, 1851 .104
gallons were malt liquors. 03.33G,423
distilled liquors and %. AS, 567 wines.
The totals show also 1855 establishments
with an output of $500 value or more for
the year; a capital of $457 674,O en-
ployed, which represents re value of
land, buildings, machinery, tools and inn
plements and the live capital utilized but
does not include the capital stock of any
of the manufacturing corporations. The
value of the products is returned at $780,
615 466, to produce which involved an
outlay of $14,301 ga for salaries of off
Gals, clerks, etc.; $2S,005, asa for wages;
S1S3 O99, 796 for miscellaneous expenses,
including rent. taxes, internal revenue,
etc, and $T0,512, 042 for materials used,
mill supplies, freight and fuel. 1t is not
to be assumed, however, that the diff
ference between the aggregate of these
sums and the value Of the products is in
any sense Indicative of the profits in the
manufacture of the products during the
census year. The census schedule takes
no cogniZance Of the cost of selling man
ufacrured articles. or of interest on cap
ital invested or of the mercantile losses
incurred in the business, or of deprecia-
ton in plant The value of the product
given is the value as obtained or fixed
at the shop or factory.
The total value of the product is made
up of $6,547 $40 wines, 500 79S. 443 dis
titled liquors and $237, 1863, 713 malt liq-
uors.
The production of malt liquors in the
United States has increased in the most
extraordinary manner during the last
half century. closing with 1900, the num-
Der of establishments having increased
from 431 to i 500, capital from $4072,5S0
to S415, 2S4, 46S, wage-earners from 2,347
to 39.532, wages from $564 144 to S25,-
S26.211 and value of product from So
72S,56S to $685., 269,713
The greatest jump was during the first
ten years of the period named, from 1850
to 1860 when the increase was 212 per
cent; during the next decade it was 1914
per cent the next S14 per cent; from
1880 to 1890 it dwas sos per cent, aud
from 1890 to 1900 29.S Der cent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19
DIE IN A HOTEL ERE.
Ten Persons Perish ira Destruction 81
Texas Hosft.ff.v

Ten Persons Perish iIa Destruction of
Texas HostelI.y.
BY the burning of the Landon Hotel at
San Angelo, Texas, ten persons lost their
lives. The damage to property was S1OO.-
O00 In addition to tho hotel three sta
bles and half a dozen stores were burn-
ed, only the greatest affort preventing
the whole of the business section Of tile
town from being destroyed. All the bodies
were fearfully charred, aud could he
moved only in blankets
The victims got out oil small balcony
and were appealed to jump into blankets
which were being held for them. but they
failed to do so, and delayed until the gall
lery fell back into the flames which were
licking up the big frame house.
When the clerk discovered the flames
at 2 o'clock in the morning the interior
Of the dining room wasa gulf OF fame,
and he could not get through. He rush
ed up the main stairway, kicking in doors,
calling out at the top Of his voice, and
making noise in every way in his power
Some of those who were awakened first
discharged firearms to hid the clerk Ia
arousing those who sill were asleep.
There were seventy-fvei persons in the
botoI
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19
All Around the Grohe.

Amoret, Mo. is to have a new State
bank with capital Of $4,000.
From July 10 % earthquakes were
of daily occurrence in portions of India.
The Pennsylvania Nautical sehoolship
Saratoga and the Massachusetts Nauti-
cal schoolship Enterprise have arrived at
Havre.
Arnold Kroeger, a confessed embezzler
Of postotfice funds IN Essen, Prussia. was
2lraigned in San Francisco. He viii be
tcturned to Prussia for prosecution.
Captain Matthias Kn8sbel, one Of the
pioneer rivermen of the West, died at his
bone, St. Joseph, Mo. He was 70 years
Of age and he had been an invalid for
years.
Rev. DIR. Stephen L. Baldwin. record
ing secretary Of the missionary society
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, dieE
in Brooklyn OF typhoid fever. He was 81
years of age.
1t is officially announced that cholera
is raging at Mukden, MancAuria- There
were 757 cases between July 3 and July
Il. and 81 Russian and 363 Chinese died
from the disease.
Frank Rrhle. one OF the WealtnleSL
farmers Of Southern Gage County. Neb.,
hanged himself at his home. two and a
half miles southwest Of Odell The cause
Of the act IS unknown.
Peter F. Collier & Son. publishers Of
Golfers Weekly. are said to be at the
head Of a S10,000.O00 corporation which
is being organized to buy a number OF
newspapers up the State in New York.
Deputy Bill MeLamore shot and in
stantly killed Dave Putty. citizen Of
Leon. /. T.. while attempting 70 arrest
him. McLamore surrendered, claiming
self-defense- He is one OF the Oldest and
best known field deputies in Indian Ter
ritory.
The Secretary OF the Interior has ap-
5roved the survey for an electric s0ad
from South McAlester, !. T.. 10 Nailey-
vile. a distance OF fourteen miles. The
road is to be completed BY February next
Mgr. Lonatus Sbarretti. the fornIer
bishop OF Havana, win be ORDERED 10
Hayti as apostolic delegate to replace
Mar. Tonti. archbishop Of Port au PFsnce,
as SION as the political situation in the
Haytian republic permits IL
WEI Young and Dan MeAElif met =
terrible death while repairing a steam
pipe ct : miIl in Owensburg, Tea The
/ sczfFsgdinn on which they were working
gave way snd they fell into one Of the
boilers and we're cooked to death