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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-12-20

country OF winch Louis ANl. we
king, extended a helping hand to tn,
rebellious subjects of King George
III. Sympathy for America Kins
Louis expressed, and praise O.
Franklin angered him; yet he was
carried along by the wave of public
opinion which swayed the cabinet tc
assist the young republic.
The commissioners presented 6
written request for eight ships of the
line, ammunition, brass feld-pieces
and twenty or thirty thousand mus
kets.
The answer to this petition de-
clared hat the king could not as yet
furnish the Americans either ships
or conveys. 1t promised, however,
half a million livres-about 800, 900.
After feigning opposition, the au-
thorities allowed the Seine, the Am
phitrite, and the Mercury, laden with
warllke stores, to escape to sea. The
commissioners were able, also, to
make a contract for the sale of six
thousand hogsheads of tobacco; and
on this contract they received an ad-
of a million ~livres.
Of more value to our nation than
money were the enthusiastic patriots
who cast in their lot with the strug-
CLING States.
La Fayette charms u magma
ton as we see him young, handsome,
married. throwing himself
with ardor into the struggles of a
neighbor for that liberty which is as
yet denied France. When the Amer
lean commissioner tells him that the
new government has not even money
enough to furnish transportation to
those who volunteer their services,
Then / will purchase a vessel my
he declares.
And he did buy and freight the
Victory, which was to carry him, the
De Kalb and twelve other
French officers to America. During
he weeks of preparation. he made a
yisit to England. As he was only
nineteen, his desire to be presented
the English king was. doubtless.
oardonable. However. he declined
he kings offer of leave to inspect
he British navy yards. After leav-
ng England. he went to the Spanish
BORT of Los Passages. There he re-
'eived an order from the king to give
Up his expedition; he braved the or
Ter, nevertheless, and on the twenty
iXth of April. embarked for Amer
ca. The English lay in wait for |
lin. To his wife he wrote while at
ca: From love to me become a
rood Americans; the welfare of
America is closely bound up with the
of all mankind: it is about
become the safe asylum of virtue,
clearance, equality and peaceful lib
rty."
The queen of France applauded
lis heroism; public opinion extolled
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-12-20
An interesting letter to our read
ers from Mrs. Gertrude Warner
Scott, of Vinton, Iowa.
VINToN, Iowa, July 15,19O2.

VINToN, Iowa, July IL, 1902.
In the summer of 1898 1 was taken VIC
lently i'll. My trouble began with pain in
my stomach, so severe that it seemed as If
knives were cutting me. l was treated by
two OF the best physicians in the mt
and consulted another. None of them sus-
pected that the cause Of my trouble was kid
ney disease. The all told me that 1 had
so weak that 1 could not walk any more than
a child a month old, and 1 only weighed sixty
pounds. One day my brother saw in q pa
per an advertisement of DIR. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder
remedy. He bought me a bottle at our drug
store. and took it. My family could see 8
change in me for the better, so they obtained
more, md 1 continued the use Of Swamp
Root regularly. / was so weak and run
down that 1t took considerable to build me
up again. am now well, thanks to DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-ROot, and weigh 148 pounds,
and am keeping house for my husband and
brother on a farm. Swamp-Root cured me
after the doctors had failed to do me q par
t1cle Of good.
Gratefully yours,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

MJ. C. KOOBS.
N PHYSICIAN A d SURGEON.
3fice over Postolticc. i'll Brown Block
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

Jack Sully, the noted cattle rus
tier and chief of a gang of despe-
RADIOS over in Lyman county, who
has been giving the officers no it,
tie trouble for several years, was
killed last Monday by Deputy
Marshal Petrie and his assistants
while trying to evade arrest. For
nearly d year, since breaking jail
at Mitchell, Sully has been in hid
ing, but recently he got at his old
tricks and stole a bunch Of "A head
Of cattle which he drove over into
Nebraska and sold. This exploit
again put the officers on his trail,
and y. S. Commissioner Tidrick
instructed Petrie to 90 after him
and bring him in dead or alive.
This is command that Petrie
never fails to obey, and with the
assistance of five other men he
brought the worthless carcass of
the desperate into Chamberlain.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19
Two Iowa Parties Travelling Over
State View Capital Location
Mitchell's Way.

Akron, Iowa, Tribune: The ed
itor OF the New Hampton Tribune
has just returned from a trip
through South Dakota and in a
three column write-up of his i'm
pressions, makes the subjoined ref
erence to the capital fight now in
progress. His views are of partic-
ular interest as coinciding exactly
by the Register Tribune. AS a
matter of fact, no stranger can go
over any considerable territory in
South Dakota without being i'm
pressed with the folly which locat-
ed the capital at Pierre. Here is
the way the New Hampton editor
sized it up:
"Just now the removal Of the
capital from Pierre is the topic of
the day in South Dakota. Mitch
ell is making a strenuous effort to
wrest the plum from Pierre and
one is reminded of the days of the
capital fight between Pierre and
Huron. We have long thought
that the capital of the state should
be more centrally located. Pierre
is almost inaccessible, two days
being required to reach it by rail
from many parts of the state.
Mitchell is a pretty little city and
is easily reached from all points
east of the Missouri river. The
sentiment in Ipswich and through
the section in which we travelled is
overwhelmingly in fovor of the re.
E1oval of the seat of government to
Mitchell.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

The president has issued the
proclamation opening the Rosebud
reservation. The land will be Sc
lected by drawings. and for this
purpose registration may be made
either at Chamberlain, Bonesteel,
lankton or Fairfax, from July 5
to July 23. The drawing will take
place at Chamberlain July 2S, and
the land will be opened for settle
ment August s. For the conve-
vience of entrymen the land Office
at Chamberlain will be moved to
Bonesteel from August 8 to Sep
tember 10, after which date it will
be returned to Chamberlain. The
price of the land selected during
the first three months will be 81
per acre; during the next three
months it will be S. per acre; and
that remaining after six months
from date of opening may be taken
for $3.50 per acre. All entries
must be made in person except
those by ex-soldiers or ex-sailors,
who may employ an agent.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19
A Center That Is Central.

Aberdeen Democrat: However
much may be said or done to dis
tort or misrepresent public opin-
ion in this state it will be found
when the votes for capital removal
are counted this fall that the peo
ple are determined that the seat or
government should be at a point
always easy of access. No matter
what the future development OF the
state may be, that d point, CEN
trally located as to population,
must always be IN the James river
valley and also on north ana
south road. The north and south
roads are never seriously blockad-
ed.
Moreover, as long as railroads
are the property Of private corpo-
rations the capital would be much
better located at a point reached
by competent railway systems Ii
Huron, centrally located as 1t ls'
were accessible by both railway
systems, it would have been made
the capital instead OF Pierre "llen
the sad mistake was made OF Sc
lecting a geographical center Ill
stead Of q center of population
The only two towns having the
desired railway facilities, IN the
valley that will always he central
as to population, are Mite aell anu
Rediield, the former OF Wil1cn 'ne
members of the legislature, by a
vote approaching very near una
nimity, selected as a town TO WHICH
the capital should go, alter 1our-
teen wears of very unsatisfactory
experimenting with a geogra pnlcal
center.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

A lady who is canvassing for
dress goods for an eastern mail or
der house recently took her sample
book into one of the Springfield
stores and was very much surpris-
ed to find a number of the individ-
ual patterns in the book on the
shelves Of the home establishment,
and marked at prices Is per cent
lower than the mail order house
was selling for. Aside from the
economic moral of this incident
there are other considerations that
should induce people to trade at
home. The dollars spent with the
home merchant stay right here,
and where the prices are absolute
ly lower than mail order houses,
there is practically no justification
for sending them out of the county
and state.-Springtield Times.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

Aug. Makusch, a farmer living
IN western Yankton county, has
Just received a new Rumley engine
valued at $l700, which he won in
guessing contest. The prize of
the new engine was offered by a
threshlng machine company for
the closest guess on the number of
kernels of wheat in bushel, Mr.,
Musksch's guess coming within
nlne kernels Of the right number.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

4 most commendable change
has been made in the course of
study at the Brookings agricultur-
al college by the adoption of spec
lal two years course devoted en-
tirely to agriculture. Heretofore
the regular course has not only in
cluded mechanical arts and ad-
vanced scientific study, but has in
cludea the languages. The result
has been that when student has
completed the course his training
and his taste has been cultivated
in other lines beside farming, and
few of them ever return to the
farm. The former course will still
be retained, but q special course
has been adopted which will Civ a
student instruction only in the
practical lines needed for success
full farming Attempts have previ-
ously been made along this line,
but the trouble has been to formu
late short course that would fit
into the complete course in case
the student should wish later to
continue his studies. Pres. Chalm-
ers has solved this problem, and
the regents have adopted the course
outlined.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

BERT ia SMANN.
q DENTIST,
sice on second floor of Zolnowsliey block.
N
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19
\ Startling Test.

10 save life, DR.. 7. G. Merritt
of No. Mehoopany, Pa, made a
startling test resulting in a Won
derful cure. He writes, ga patient
was attacked with violent hemor-
rhages, caused by liberation of the
stomach. | had often found Elec-
trio Bitters excellent for acute
stomach and liver troubles so /
prescribed them. The patient gain
ed from the first, and has not had
an attack in IA months" Electric
Bitters are positively guaranteed
for dyspepsia, Indigestion, consti-
patton and kidney troubles. Try
them. Only SOC at Y. B. Diehl's.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

Aberdeen has been suffering from
a series Of incendiary fires, about
forty of them having been started
within the past few months. Last
week a demented woman, a Rus
sian Pole named Boseman, who
has lived in this country about two
years. was arrested while taking
one Of her customary nocturnal
strolls, and it is believed that she
has been the incendiary.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

Four republican state conven-
tions of unusual interest have been
held this week-Wisconsin, Hi
nois, Iowa and Nebraska. The
convention in Ohio was also held
this week but there were practical :
" no contests. In Illinois a dead
lock on the nomination of governor
has been on for three days, with
Yates. Lowden and Deneen in the
lead. In Wisconcin the fight was
between the LaFollett and anti
LaFollett factions. In Iowa the
chief interest is over the wording
of the tariff plank of the platform.
The "standpatters" were in control
of the convention, but in Difference
to determined minority, which
believes in moderate revision of
the tariff along projection lines, it
was not thought to be wise policy
to reverse the declaration of two
years ago. In Nebraska the fight
was on local issues.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

Secretary Cortelyou has been Sc
lected chairman of the national re-
publican committee, to succeed the
late Sen. Hanna. Mr.. Cortelyou
is a natural diplomat, and his ex-
perience as private secretary Of
both Pres. Mckinley and Pres.
Roosevelt has brought him in
touch with the leading politicians
of the entire country. In the deli
cate tasks that his position requir-
ed him to perform he never made
a blunder, and being a young man
possessed of push and energy it is
generally conceded that the choice
is a happy one. The only fears
expressed are that he will not be
able to appeal to the great business
men Of the country as etfectualiy
as did Sen. Hanna, but should he
prove unequal to this task, which
is hardly likely, the assistance Of
at least four ce-chairmen will
supply the deficiency. The secre-
tary of the committee has not yet
been selected.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19

The auction sale Of town lots at
Lake Andes yesterday aggregated
$4,000, the first choice Of lot going
at 81, 200.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-19
V. B. DlEHL.,

The members of the South Da-
kota Editors association started
last Saturday for St. Louis to take
il the exposition.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
FIRE COST KOREA
ABOUT S3,O00,000
Emperor Fears Ghost Of Murder.
ed Queen Haunts Kyong
Box Palace.

Seoul, Korea, Friday, April Is
The emperor of Korea has apparently
recovered from the shock caused by
the burning Of the palace, but is still
nervous.
Many Koreans believe that the fire
has a political significance in that it
will force the emperor to return to
the Kyong Box palace in the outskirts
of the city, where the queen was as
sassinated in 1895, and from which
the emperor filled to the Russian lega-
ton. The emperor, however, refuses
to return, claiming that the place is
haunted by the murdered queen. He
prefers to remain in the imperial
library, in the Kiuseiken building.
The ruins are guarded by Gordon
Of soldiers, stationed one foot and a
half apart around the palace walls.
The superstitious populace is excited
and depressed over the fire. It fur
nished wonderful spectacle. The
steep mountains about the city were
lighted up as tho it were day.
All the Korean government records
and accounts were destroyed and
much treasure. The loss Is estimated
alta S3,OO0,0OO,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
MUSIC HALL FUND
IS HALF PLEDGED
Committee Goes to Work With a
Vim on the Last
Half.
It's Desire Is to See Work Begun
at Earliest Date
Possible.
Looking Forward to Completion
of Auditorium by First
Of November.

One million dollars Of insurance in
the Northwestern National Life In
surance company has been secured to-
ward the auditorium project.
Six weeks work by the general
committee has accomplished one-half
the results necessary to insure an au-
ditorium at Eleventh street and Nicol-
let avenue. The members of the COM
mittees are elated over their success,
but will not abate their efforts one
whit. In fact they expect to do hard
er work for the second half of the
$2,O00,00O.
To-day letters are being mailed to
more than 1000 citizens stating that
passed and asking those interested in
the plan to see some member of the
committee. 1t is expected that large
proportion who receive letters will
take, at the very lowest policies OF
$1,000. ksSs
The committees handicap has been
the necessity of seeing so many per-
sors, many of thin two or three
times, before getting their interest
aroused and the insurance placed. A
c.. Paul, the chairman, urges that the
citizens take hold at once and call
upon some member of the committee
that the agreement with the insurance
company may be closed and construc-
ton begun at once so that the audito.
rum may be ready for use by Nov. 1
company, and A. B. Chamberlin the
architect, have made general can.
vass of the music hall question in the
east and soon will be ready with pre-.
liminary sketches for the Minneapolis
building.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
HARTMAN TO ASK
NEW JERSEY WRIT
Merger Magnate Will Invoke
Court IS Aid to Block
Hill Plan.
New York Sun Special Service.

NOW 1oEh oun opoCAaA ooHNASo'
New York, April 16.-An authori-
tative statement was made yesterday
that If e. H. Harriman's petition to
the federal court for Intervention In
the distribution of the assets of the
Northern Securities company is &C.
MED, the New Jersey courts will at
once be applied to by the Hartman
interests to prevent the carrying thru
of the Hill distribution plan at the
special meeting Of Northern Securi-
ties stockholders called for April 81
at Hoboken.
Such application to the Jersey
courts will prevent the meeting being
held on that date. The Union Pacific
interests will endeavor to prevent it
ever being held.
It develops that the Northern Pa
cif1c railway directors did not meet
last Wednesday to consider the usual
May dividends.
1t had been the intention of the
management to declare at this time
an extra dividend necessary to make
UP the per cent for the fiscal year.
The Northern Securities company
however, which owns nearly all the
stock cannot, under the judgment OF
the supreme court and the circuit
court, receive the dividends.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
MAYOR OF IOWA
TOWN SHOT DOWN
Mob Gathers at Washta to Yynch
the Assailant Of the
Officer.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Washta, Iowa, April 16.-Mayor
John Bum last night ordered the ar
rest Of Harry Thompson, we'll dig
ger, who was intoxicated and has fire.
quently made trouble. When Marshal
John Wilcox tried to arrest him,
Thompson resisted and escaped. Will
cox fired at him. Thompson went
home and got a revolver.
In the meantime Mayor Bum had
gone to the Jail to prepare for
Thompson's reception. Thompson
followed him and began talking in
solently. The mayor turned to go
and Thompson fired three times at
him, one bullet taking effect in the
base of Bunn's neck. The mayor is
in critical condition.
A hundred men gathered at the Jail
with a rope last night to hang Thomp-
son, but Sheriff Hogan arrived in time
to stand the mob off with a gun. He
drove to the train in a buggy, with
the prisoner, with the mob after him.
| They reached the train in time to
break some windows with brickbats,
but the sheriff escaped with the pris-
Oner.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
FOLSOM FUGITIVE
COMMITS SUICIDE
Pursued by Posse, Leader Of Pris-
on Breakers Blows Out His
Own Brains.

Hanford, Cal, April 16.-Ray Fahey,
one Of the leaders of the Folsom pris-
on outbreak, has killed himself after
a desperate battle with a pursuing
posse.
Constable Bernstein Of Hanford no.
ticed Fahey at the railway station
and attempted to arrest him as a va
grant. Fahey drew a revolver and
Bernstein called for help. but Fahey
fled.
Sheriff Buckner hurriedly organized
a posse with bicycles and automo-
biles. Two miles from Hanford, Fahey
was seen in an open field. He turned
and fired on the officers, and then
the entire posse shot and wounded
him in the legs. AS he fell, the con-
Wet put his revolver to his head and
fired shot that caused instant death.
The escape in which Fahey figured
was one of the most sensational in the
history of California. With thirteen
fellow convicts, he forced his way to
freedom by killing one Of the guards
and took the warden Of the prison
along as a shield. Two militiamen
were killed while pursuing the fugi-
tives. One of the other conyicts also
committed suicide and four were cap
tured,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Sioux City, Iowa, April 16,-Lieu-
tenant w. C. Davidson, who COM
manded the turret on the battleship
Missouri, which exploded, killing him
and thirty others, was a native Of
Sioux City. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. J. Davidson, are aged. and their
whole thought conferred in their only
son.
Lieutenant Davidson was admitted
to Annapolis while a student at Brook
ings college, South Dakota, thru the
help of Congressman Picker. He had
rapidly advanced since graduating in
1895, distancing his classmates.
During Dewey's cruise in the Philip
pines. Davidson distinguished himself
by capturing with his own men a
Spanish gun, which was presented to
Sioux City. Only lately he was given
the responsible duty of inspecting the
target work Of the battleship Kear-
sarge.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
CITIZENS FIGHT
OFF BANK ROBBERS
Shots Exchanged Between a Posse
and Several Outlaws at
Jesup, Iowa.
Special to Tho Journal.

Special to Tho Journal.
Waterloo, Iowa, April 16.-Bank
robbers appeared at Jesup, a small
town fourteen miles east last night
and were detected when about to blow
up the vault door of the Citizens State
bank.
A night policeman turned in an
alarm which the robbers heard. They
left the bank and a posse of citizens
started in pursuit.
hiding in the railroad yards and an ex-
change Of shots took place, but no one
was injured.
The men gained entrance to the
bank by cutting the glass out of a
window and when frightened away
had a charge of nitroglycerin under
the vault door.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
one POINT MADE
IN BRYAN'S FAVOR
Probate Judge Declines to Re.
move Executor in Bennett
Will Case.

cision, denying in effect, the applica-
ton for the removal of William J..
Bryan as executor of the estate Of the
late Philo s. Bennett, was rendered
to-day by Judge Cleayeland in the
probate court.
The application was made by coun-
sci for Mrs. Grace 1mogene Bennett,
the widow, and other residuary Legal
tees on the ground that Mr.. Bryan
was acting contrary to the interests
of the estate.
The decision sustains demurrer
filled by Mr.. Bryan's counsel. and the
matter will now go to the higher court
on appeal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
RUSSIA WANTS PEACE
King Edward Finds MuscOvite Super
stiton Helps His Project.

stition Helps His Project.
Special to The Journal.
London, April 16.-There is fresh
reason for believing that King Ed
ward is making unexpected Roadway
In the direction Of peace. Russia is
now the anxious party.
According to reports In the Italian
diplomatic circle, the tremendous
catastrophies suffered by Russia, be-
fore the war with japan is fairly be-
gun, have worked a drastic change in
the spirit Of the Muscovites.
If opportunity were presented to-
day whereby st. Petersburg could set
tie the differences with Toxic on the
basis of the Japanese offer Of October
it would eagerly be embraced.
The car is distracted between two
theories One supposes a divine judg-
ment on Russia for some national sin.
The other emphasizes naval incompe-
tency arising from beaurocratic neg
lect and corruption.
He is understood to entertain the
most pessimistic notions as to the OUT
come of the war.
This anxiety, in which the highest
Russian authorities share despite the
patriotic outbursts of the Moscow and
ST. Petersburg press, is the chief cause
Of King Edwards rapid progress in
the diplomatic negotiations he is
conducting at Copenhagen.