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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
TERM OF FEDERAL COURT,
Personal Injury Suits Lead in Number
at Aberdeen.

Judge John E. Garland opened a
term Of the United States court in
Aberdeen for the trial Of several I'M
portant cases; most of them being per-
injury suits. One of these is the
suit Of Mrs. Kirkland of st. Paul who
sue to recover $4,000 for injuries al
legged to have been suffered while she
was on a Northwestern passenger train
at Redfeld. Her husband also sues
for $3.50.
Mrs. Hester of Texas sues the Mil
waukee road for $4,000 for the loss
of her husband, who was killed at
Evarts a year ago last summer.
Fred A. McEldowney of Veblen Is
suing the Gar-Scott company for $25,
$50 for injuries sustained by the loss
of a leg in a thresher self feeder made
by the company and alleged to be de-
fective in construction.
A case of Importance is that of the
Live Stock National Bank of Sioux
City against Judge A. w. Campbell, as
administration of the estate of Edward
Coleman, for $4,000 claimed to be due
on notes executed by Joseph Coleman.
Edward Coleman a murdered. and
his brother, Joseph Coleman, was con-
victed of numbering him for life insur-
ance, and is an inmate of the Sioux
Falls penitentiary. Judge Campbell
collected $4,000 insurance on Edward
Coleman's life, and the bank sues to
o the amount of Joseph Cole
mans Indebtedness on the ground that
while Joseph Coleman signed the note,
cattle secured thereby were for the
brothers, who are alleged to have been
in partnership.
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Total $33, 79417

State Supt. Nash is taking UP the
matter Of school district officer meet
ings, and has suggested to county SUI
p~erintendents the following topics as
good ones to select from: School
houses and appliances; ventilation of
rooms; decoration of school houses
and grounds; relations of teachers to
boards; relations Of boards to county
superintendent; how to induce the
larger pupils to remain In school; how
may patrons assist in the management
management Of schools; reports Of dis
triCt officers; teachers reports and
wages; how to improve the country
school; transportation and its prob
lens; regular and special uOard meet
ings; tuition of eighth grade gradu-
ates; formation of township districts;
salary of school district officers; pur-
chase of apparatus; institutes; pen
atty of non-attendance; moral instruc-
ton in schools; libraries; high
schools; compulsory education.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
CENTRAL TO INCORPORATE.
Mass and Committee Meetings to For
ward the Project.

Citizens Of Central have taken pre-
liminary steps toward Incorporating as
a town. A mass meeting was held at
which an informal vote was taken on
the proposition. A committee was ap-
pointed to consult with a lawyer as to
the best method of procedure and the
probable expense. Afte~ the consulta-
ton a second meeting of citizens was
held, at which the committee reported
favoring Incorporation as a town and
was accordingly authorized to have a
survey made to establish the limits of
the proposed corporation.
As Dol as the survey can be made
a census will be taken to determine
the number of citizens, and the county
commissioners will then order a spe.
cial election, at which the citizens re-
siding within the proposed corporate
limits will vote on the proposition to
incorporate. If the proposition car
ries at this special election, the com
missiOners Will then authorize the IN
corporation. The next step would then
be the election of town trustees.
1t is purposed by the citizens to in
corporate all hat territory between
what is known as Golden Gate and the
Gayville cyanide plant of the Home
stake Mining company, including that
tract occupied by the Columbus mill
and adjacent dwellings and extending
to the top OF the hill on each side of
Deadwood gulch.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND.
How 1t Has Increased in a Haif-Dozen
Years in South Dakota.

CaiS VII SSLt1 DSkOtd.
While the lease fund for the benefit
of the public schools Of the state mas
shown an increase of 500, 900 from
1897 to 1903, the endowment fund for
the different state institutions has
also shown a decided increase in lease
money. In 1897 the total endowment
fund secured from leases was S1,31S.96,
while in 1903 the amount received
from this source was $~33, 1917, the
increase being at a rapid ratio. For
1897 it was $1,31S.96; for 1898, 49,
1912; 1899, s5,613.69; 1900, S14,-
932.17; 1901, s~24,045.57; 1902, $685.
1867; 1903, 33,794.17.
The lands from which the institu-
tons draw their funds are not. as the
public school lands, located all over
the state, but were selected in the
counties in which there was the light
est settlement at the time of state
hood, or where reservations were
opened and selections could be made,
practically all such lands being in the
northern and western parts of the
state. The lease funds received for
the last fiscal year by counties show
the location as follows:
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20

elevation commanding q view Of the
surrounding country for miles. With
the aid Of a powerful telescope he was
able to get a view Of people approach
ing, and if they were strangers he rode
away to gulches where it was impos-
sible to find him. He spent his nights
in an Indian village where outposts
watched while he slept. All these pre-
cautions wore on him, and Mrs. Sally
told me he had left the country never
to return.
The Sully gang is pretty well brok-
en- up, but some of the worst members
are going yet, as evidenced by the es.
cape of John ConOire and Henry Boun-
Ger last week. The men were given a
steel saw with which they cut the bars.
and when they got out they rode away
on horses which were waiting"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
P To THE INSURANCE COMPANIES
as to What They Will Do in Consequence
of Judge Carland's Decision.

Mr.. Hannett also stated that the
companies did not feel any too friendly
toward the state and that there was a
probability of their withdrawal. The
companies feel that they have been to
a great expense in establishing their
agencies and that they cannot go to
the additional expense of making a
personal examination OF all the future
risks that may be written, as the law
requires.
One Of the members Of the local firm
will go to Chicago to confer with the
managers of the companies interested,
and they will then determine what
course they will pursue-carry the
case to the higher courts or withdraw
from the business of the state.
diers until the next Legislature con.
venes and anoti ,aw. framed to
stand the test of t-e courts, is enact.
ed.
Frank Crane, clerk Of the state SUI.
preme court, in answer to a letter OF
inquiry from E. j. Mannix Of this city,
secretary of the South Dakota Retail
Merchants association, does not hold
out much hope OF an early decision be
ing rendered in the test case, owing to
the large volume Of business before
the court which has to be disposed OF
before the test case is reached.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
NE, YET CONFINED IN AN ASYLUM
hsationai Experience of a South Dakota Woman
Some Lawsuits W ill Result.

guarded and the windows were barred
by heavy gratings. Mrs. Whitney cal,
culated that She must conduct herself
as a model prisoner. In a short time
she knew the routine Of the institution
perfectly and she was ready to escape.
The heavy shutters OF her frst-loor
wlndow were fastened by screws.
waiting till a night when there
would be no moon, she took from the
dlnlns o a spoon. S%ecreting it tin
she reached her room, she succeeded
IN removing the screws that fastened
the heavy shutters. She knew that at
a certain moment the electrical cur.
rent which maintained the incandes.
cent lights was turned off for a brief
space to switch the current from q
dynamo to a storage battery.
The grounds were p~atrolled by
guards, but with great care she man
aged to loosen the shutter screws.
IeaVlng the frame in it's place. Her
hands were on the shutters ready to
snatch them away. The lights went
out. Instantly the woman tore the
grating, dropped it to the ground,
Ieaped through the window and ran.
Iramping along the road toward Elk
Point, she walked till exhausted. Then
she lay down in the woods and slept
on the ground. In the morning she
t:udged on, keeping out Of sight as
much as possible. At night she reach
ed the town, ready to drop with hun
ger and WEAKNESS.
She went to a hotel and, taking from
her finger her wedding ring, said she
wanted to raise enough money to
keep her over night and get a ticket to
Sioux City. The next morning she
came to Sioux City. She found en-.
ployment at a hotel as a waitress. AS
a result of the affair some sensational
lawsuits are promised.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20

'noge Garland OF the federal court
oloux Falls, having given his de-
's'on In the anti-company case, which
ss'alns the demurrer of the state and
tac'ically upholds the law. it is now
70 the foreign insurance companies
make their last move, and there Is
aach speculation as to what they will
PRESTON & Hannett of Mitchell, who
~ the attorneys for the thirty COM
Ranles that are represented in the fight
the law, said before the case was
."lilenced that it was expected that
Inc companies lost they would carry
au case 20 the circuit court Of appeals
OF Louls and perhaps to the supreme
0urt at Washington.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20

Gaping from an insane asylum at
kton, s. D., where she had been
-,d as she believes, because of a
[nirscy; wandering two nights
TO-, the Missouri bottom lands, al
starved. not daring to be seen;
.,,g her wedding ring for money
AN At q hotel and buy a ticket to
civ: now holding a good posi-
=, that city and enlisting her in
L.i., South Dakota friends to find
little boy. who has been taken
bsr-such is the story Of Mrs.
al whitney, formerly teacher in
couth Dakota school for the blind
larry.
. Whitney, a bright young wom-
I'D thirty, told her story to B.. H.
| Of Sioux Falls, a member Of the
rd Of charities when Mrs. Whitney
at Gary. He and other prominent
I'M Dakotans pledged themselves to
| the plucky woman.
FRS. whitney, after leaving the
boil at Gary, went to Sioux Falls,
Ire she taught music. She had a
kyreement with a relative. which
Il have been responsible for Mrs.
itney's trouble. At any rate Mrs.
Iitney was committed to an asylum
yankton. She tried to induce the
IAorities to give her an examina-
l by skilled a~lienists. In this she
led. Her mind might have been
Itered, but for her concern about
! boy, who, having lost his father,
4 the pride of a devoted mother.
len she was sent to the asylum the
lie fellow a sent to an orphanage,
|ch she has been unable to locate.
\ this determined her to escape. She
hcluded that she must take French
I've Of the institution that was prac-
billy q prison. The buildings were
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20

Rev. N. G. Mallory. formerly pastor
If the Baptist church In Aberdeen,
dropped dead while running to catch
a train at Aurora, III.
Corn is yielding about se~venty-fve
bushels an acre around Alexandria:
wheat averaged about twenty, barley
sixty and rye fcrty-ive.
The news OF the death of r. B. Tur.
ner. superintendent of the K~earsarge
sold mine In Montana. has elected
nlary expressions Of sorrow from the
mining fraternity Of the Hills, where
Mir. Turner was well known. He visited
that region several months ago.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
WOULD LIKE A DECISION.

"e%rchants Want to Know the LEGAL
Standing of PeddIers in South Da-
So'a-Last Case Before Supreme
Court.
~Mefchants throughout the state
- peen anxiously awaiting a deci-
ny the state supreme court on the
.ahoiIy OF what is known as the ped
80 license law, which was enacted
De last legislature. The arrest Of
peuuier In Sioux Falls for refusing
\, ake out a license as required by
H. new law resulted in a test case
,s carried to the supreme court.
me supreme court upholds the
-" az, merchants in all parts of the state
sm see that it is vigorously enforced.
s.ouid the law be declared unconsri-
soauial and void, the merchants of
~ dakota will again be at the mer-
transient merchants and ped
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
JACK SULLY IN CANADA
Tired of Being Hunted and Took Himself Over
Into Edwards Domains.

Jack Sully, the best known cattle
ID horse rustler OF the West, alleged
have been involved in countless
tting and shooting scrapes, is now
Canada, according to United States
Nshal John M. Petrie.
After Sully broke Jail at Mitchell
6t summer, with the aid OF members
his gang who brought him a saddle
ffse. he returned to his home in Ly-
pan county and stayed there until six
Peeks ago. He left his wife and four
lighters behind.
The old man simply got tired Of
ping hunted" said Mr.. Petrie, He
ept a horse saddled near his house in
daytime, ready at a moments no
to start away. During the day he
nsited his cabin, which is built on an
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
BLAME ON DISPATCHER.
Responsibility for Wreck of Purdue
Football Team Fixed.

Indianapolis, Nov. II. Coroner
Tutewiler rendered his Verdicr Satur-
day on the Big Four wreck which oc-
Cured in this city Oct. 81. The cor
oner blames b. G. Byers, the chief
train dispatcher at Kankakee, who. he
says, failed to notify the Indianapolis
yardmaster that the special train was
coming. Sixteen people were killed
in the wreck. fifteen Of whom we're
Purdue students.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20

i, meeting of the bonrd of educa.
at Clark it was voted to divide
primary department of the city
M owing to the crowded condi.
Nj ano 70 employ an extra teacher.
Myrtle Boyle, who has a kinder.
tla class at Milbank, was proffered
|6iv,si o'ition as teacher Of the extra
q M and at once notified the board
or M acceptance. The lecture room
IN Lutheran church will be fitted
far the children and will be ready
es;a apancy Dec. l. A fine. up-to-
tA' spring. DSe Is 70 be erected in
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
WhirDed by Whites.

New Orleans, Nov. 17.-Race riots
of large proportions are in progress
In Scott and Smith counties. Miss.
The whites have whipped the occ
pants Of numerous negro cottages and
driven them from the state.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
Those Double keejs.

"a yachtsman Of New South Wales
proposes to lift the cup with a boat
fitted with twin keels. He'll be thor.
oughly cured of making any further
attempts il he tries It."
81 see. Sort O. double Kelley cure,
eh ?"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
New Recruits Arrive.

Sturgis, S. d., Nov. II. About
eighty recruits arrived at the Sturgis
depat yesterday afternoon from JEFF
ferson barracks for Fort Meade. They
Immediately proceeded to the post
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-10
THE NEW REVENUE BILL
Features That Will be IncIuded-An
Interview With Chairman Daush-
tom.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh, N. c.. February 5.-ln the
course Of ar interview this afternoon
with Rfl A. Daughton, chairman of the
joint subcommittee on finance, which
is preparing a revenue bill, he said: L
think the main features of taxation
will be like those in the present act,
except that officers will not be required
to disclose the reports of corporations,
that is. their books and their business.
but these will be required to be kept
wholly private. These inquisitorial
features will be eliminated.
Very probably there will be a bono
issue to cover the deficit. l do not
think that issue VIII go much beyond
the amount OF deficit. say three hun
dred thousand dollars. The interest
rate will hardly be over three per cent.
As to tax on railways, that, l think viii
stand ahout like it is at present. Liquor
taxes will be raised. say, so to 100 per
cent.
adopted by the legislature of 1899 will
he adopted, this taking real estate at
its cash value and not its value at pri-
vata sale. this being it's mone value.
BY doing this we comply with the I'm
ing to improve the machinery and not
to make the revenue law harsh. but to
make it run evenly.
Our committee hopes to get a bill in
much earlier than usual, say by next
week. We are holding two meetings
each day. one in the afternoon another
at night"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-10

Cotton Mill Men Working Against
Legislation Limiting ChiId-LnbOr.
(SDeCiaI to The MeSSeT

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh. n. c., February 4.-When
the statement was made some weeks
ago that a number of cotton mill men
intended to fight any and all bills reg
ulating child labor and hours of labor
there was a denial in some uulrttrs.
TOday's hearing before the committee
proved the truth of the statement.
The bill is being vehemently fought,
just as in past years.
Both the senate and house commit
tees met Jointly this afternoon. Dur
ham and Scott being chairmen. Tho
bills were before the committees, those
of Parker. Of Wayne. Durham and
Dockery. Parkers bill was more U.s.
cussed than the others and iii the
course of the discussion Messrs. H.
Cone of New York said Parker bad
never been in a cotton mill and d:dn't
know hat he was talking about.
Parker said he would show Cone he
did know. The hearing vas mainly
given up to talks BIO persons from q
distance.
DR.. j. II. McAden of Charlotte. &C.
clared he saw 10 necessity for legiSla-
ton and wanted a full hearing of the
pSlclS lIt NoIllll1lllSC- D. ns
Odell of Concord. declared that III As
years experience he had never se".l a
child abused in a cotton mill. and that
fectory children were better off Gfan
others; that he knew some who had
gone into factories at the are of ten
years who are now superintand ents-
A. A. Thompson Of Raleigh. spoke
in opposition to any legislation. D.
Y. Cooper of Henderson, opposed the
bills. He declared that n ght %
was no more exhausting than cay
labor, though he paid it IS per cent
more.
j. A. Murchison of Fayetteville, said
there was no abuse of children in the
mills there. and Senator lamb sup
Ported this statement. Representative
Dockery said his bill was along the
Lines of legislation suggested in Gov
ernor Aycock's message to the legIsla-
ture. The committee decided to have
another hearing next Wednesday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-10
Bill Savage to Roosevelt.

We have been furnished by a SUBJ
scriber with the copy of a letter which
may be taken as a fair specimen of
the hundreds that are being received
daily by President Roosevelt from The
negroes Of the south. The latter have
heard of his valiant championship Of
their political and social rights and are
fastening to place themselves under his
protection and to reap the benefits
thereof.
We know nothing of Bill Savage, but
We suppose he and his daughter jimmy
are as we'll qualified socially as this
matter is viewed from a southern
viewpoint, to be the guests at the
White house of Mr.. Roosevelt and the
ladies of his family as were the negro
men and women they entertained on
the evening of the 22nd instant. We
hope Bill and jimmy will enjoy their
visit. AS yesterday was the time ap-
pointed for their arrival, it is most
probable that Bill and Jimmy are this
morning enjoying the luXurieS of the
White house and will have the pleas
ure of attending service in some one
Of the fashionable churches of Wash
ington in the company of Mrs. and
Miss Roosevelt.
Here is Bill Savage's letter:
January 20.
Dear President
/ here the new rooms you has been
biIdin is done, and you has asst the
colored friends to come on and see you
| Wasent Waitin to De asst, but I am
comm now. l va over to the deepo
last night and l heerd the boys say
you a opened the door of hope l had
heeTd of the blue room the red room
and the green room but the dore of
hope must be to one OF the new rooms.
] will git there about SADLY to din
ner out l doant want you to make any
company Of me just take me in like
one of the family / spect you are full
if you are | can go in with your boys
it wont make any diffunce to me 1
know how it is at my house yearly
meetin.
1T will be saGdy before l can git
char Bill Sanders is IL solin my shoes
and l Will have to git a small patch on
the seat of my pants. Marian she is
my Wife is at Moss ferry and wont be
home till tOHcOrrer My girl jimmy is
stracted TO go with me but 1 doant see
how | can carer her it is time to
break up land and she can pillow as
q 1UIiFI DIS dI J VI Tic DOyS Sllt'
wants to see Alice bad If 1 give in and
let her come ] want you to put her in
the room with Alice for she will be
scared to dea In the first night in that
big house She won't look to be like
company | am going to carry you the
longest handle gourd you ever saw |
want to leave you sumthin to member
me- by and SIGH is better than dollars
ard scents. l will be thar SADLY to
dinner pleas have a red string tied
around the mob to the dore Of hope
SADLY morning so l can no which one
it is as | will be thar to dinner
Excuse riting and spellin 1 doant
rite mulch but I went to X roads
school and got all the larnin they a
which you Will no when you see me as
/ will be thar SADLY to dinner jimmy
says she IS houn to go I doant know
what to do but if she does go do as |
said about her and Alice and we both
may be thar SADLY to dinner.
My foxes send their respects to
yOurn.
Your truly
BILL SAVAGE.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-10
MR.. DO0LEY CALLS FOR AN
INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE.
BY F. p. dunno.

an tn bull-pen wud be full
Nv l~iltlrnaytlonal grafters, get-r'ch-
.uICh op iatorS an shut al IN Len,
MN IN loo thrIne wu1 be
onQlnined as a public nuiSancf. an
oouth America wUd tie burned undher
rohers ~ tn coort. but il hd.n't
ONE. Tn coort is there. nJGd.n cver
h docket jus like a cOort. while cut
de tn rOWieS ARE shootin' at each
lther, hOi0in' up Chinymen an hay
;urs. pickin' pockets, BLOWN safes an
ndanger:nS' tn lives iv dacint TO-
lie. Iheyse a warrant out fr bill
-ohenzo,le:n but theyse no wa;i to
9rve it. He's on tn rampage. break
4 windor an Chasin people over tn
'oofs while Edward or Edwards stands
round tn corner waitin' fr tn goods
o be delivered an savin' his aruII,u-
lytion to use it on his pal if they
uarrel over tn divide. There's til in
arnaytional coort We say, but 1 say,
where ARE tn polls. a coort's all
right enough but nc coort s anny
God onless it is backed up be n con-
;nted c~Onstabulary. ITS c~ounthry's
ride. as tn pote says Tn car iv
?ooshya didn't go far enough. Wan
God copper with a hickory club is
worth all tn judges between AmsIer-
am an Rotterdam. / want to see tn
lay whin jus as Bill Hohenz 2llorl sn'
Gward or Edwards meets on tn cor
Ter an prepares a raid on a i?undhry,
: big pOlieman will step out iv a c, re
m say: 1 want We. Bill an We ni.eht
g we'll cOme along quite But | sup
it wud be jus tn same thing as
t g now in rala life"
Pow 8 that?" asked Mr.. HinnaSSy.
All tn biggest crooks wud ct on tn
coils = ~~