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Come to the Noxubee Hardware Co.'S
store and see the new arrivals in hard
ware. harness and furniture, also new
buggies.
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More Groceries,.

Jas. G. Irion will open a fresh stock Of
Groceries at the Griggs millinery stand,
on the first Of August.
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Send us your cotton, chickens and
eggs. We pay highest market price,
and sell you goods cheapest.
MACON MERCANTILE Co
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Great sale of Lawns at the Pat by Dry
Goods store, They are clearing out at
low cost. See adv.
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Don't fail to see the Colored Minstrel
at School House No. 2, Popular prices
and reserved seats,
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Do you wear waists and skirts? il SO
you will be interested in Lamberson's
new advertisement.
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We have for sale a quantity of Melli
lotus seed ut our store II miles east o
Macon on Fairfield road. First come.
first served.
j. A. DINsMoRE & SONS.
july30 I'm Mcleod, Miss.
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c.. n.
For Rent.
For Rent.

Dwelling honse IN Macon now occupied
by W. S. Staggers. Possession given Sept,
/. 1904. Apply to RAYMOND TRlMBLE.
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ALWAYS Fresh,

! am prepared to furnish regularly
butter, sweet milk and butter milk.
July 30 2m l.. T. SMITH.
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Send us your orders we will make
quick delivery any time Of day.
MACON MERCANTILE Co.
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three years old. blaze In face, long tail
an name, ioretop hangs close to eyes, one
hind foot white, no marks or brands.
will give twelve dollars for in
formation that will lead to her recovery.
Address Felix Grace at Macon, Miss. OF
myself Miss NJ, EICHELBERGER
apl23 Mashulayiile, Miss.
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Bay Goto Patty Dry Goods Company
to buy goods for the cash.
BUSINESS NOTICES.

Double column or larger advertisements,
to receive proper attention, should be in
by Thursday.
Extra copies should be ordered before
paper goes to press.
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Spessard has in stock the {
genuine Jockey Club Sardines.
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New stock shoes just in at
MACON MERCANTILE Co,

Try us with an order and see how quick
dock and the little mules will bring
1t to YOU, MACON MERCANTILE Co,
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S12 Reward.
BAY F1LLY,

Strayed from my place in Winston coun
ty, 3 miles southwest of Mashulaville, il
Dec, 1908, a
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1t is not too late to buy a summer
suit. See the offer Of Patty Dry Goods
Co.
GA - II la
Bears the n Tho Kind You Have Always BOuM
Signature "a NENA1ZM
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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04

Details Of the Canal Scheme or the
Belle Eourche.

oSuC TOOTCVSs
Raymond F. Walter of the United
states geological survey. is expected
TO return to Western South Dakota
within a few weeks 20 again take up
held work in connection with the
natlonal irrigation scheme along the
Belle Fourche river and its afluents
MT. Walter spent a great part of last
summer and fall upon this work and
Is still gathering data relative to the
mount of water available and the
area tina may be irrigated by govern
ment enterprise. 1t is approXimated
roughly that It's, 900 acres of arid land
may be reclaimed by this plan. 1t re.
mains to be seen whether or not ii
can be reclaimed at a price within
reasonable bounds. Officials of the
United States land Office at Rapid
City after carefully investigating the
situation, believe that it may, and
look for a favorable report by the
engineers and the secretary of the in
terror, who has authority to order the
building of dams and the construction
Of irrigating canals.
This project furnishes a striking ex-
ample of the bounty of the govern
ment. 1t is understood that If the
plan is found feasible, if sufficient
water may be conserved for the irri.
cation of this large tract at a cost of
not to exceed $40 an acre, the recon-
mendation OF the work will be made
by the engineers in the field. 1t is
not understood that any limit is estab-
lished by law, but that SO is regard
ed as the limit of practicability. This
land will then be sold to homestead
ers at the actual established cost with
'~cidental fees added. Payments may
. made in ten yearly installments.
If $40 per acre is the rate fixed upon,
the payments will amount to 81 an
acre per year, which is really less
than the water rent itself would cost
under private enterprise. At the end
of the ten years the homesteader has
his bround paid for, holds an inter
est in the ditch and a tract that may
have cost him $ 1000 should be worth
IS, 1000. as irrigated land is sold at
from $40 to $50 an acre in this state.
The initial payment is $14, which
covers the cost of filing on the land,
and the homesteader is allowed seven
years in which to enter his land for
final proof. He is not required to
make any payments upon the land un-
til the irrigating system is In opera
ton, when the cost is taxed against
the land at the rate Of %one-tenth OF
the total for each year.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
4 CORPSE THAT WALKED.
Queer Story Of Woman Who Fell Int
Cataieptic Trance.

Queer Story Of Woman Who Fell int
cataleptic Trance.
A queer story comes from FoeeeoI
nea Valence, in the department. y
Gers. where an old maiden lady named
Clementine fell into a cataleptic franc
so profound that her neighbors mAa
preparations for her interment
Clementine was laid out in her 9
dress: candles were lit and placed near
her, and q crucifix and piece OF bex-
wood were placed at the foot OF her
bed. The 'De Profundis" was beins
intoned by the priests, when suddenly
the dead woman sat up in the bed.
She looked wildly around her, and
then got down and walked round the
room. 1t is difficult to say whether
the deceased or the neighbors were
frightened the more, but Clementtne
was so panic-stricken that she leaped
out OF the window and was killed.
On the following day invitations
were issued to another funeral, but
those who had been invited to tho nrst
excused themselves on the plea that
their nerves were not equal to tho &C.
casion.-Paris Correspondence Phila-
delphia Press.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
CATTLE LOSSES BIG.
Northwestern Cattlemen Fear that
Cold May Cause More.

Catttenen rear that
! Cold May Cause More.
Great apprehension is felt by heavy
cattle owners on the Northwestern
range, owing to the heavy losses sus-
tanned among the herds and the flesh
OF the remaining animals. Conserva.
tive authorities place the loss at this
time at 10 per cent. This must be
greatly increased If March partakes
Of any severity.
The loss up to this time has been
confined to the large herds. The own
ers of small punches OF cattle have
escaped and their stock is in condi-
ton TO endure the remainder OF the
winter without n danger. The loss
is attributed chiefly to the arid con
dition of the range during the fall and
first few weeks of winter. There has
been scarcely any snow. and as a mat
ter of fact winter only set in some
| three or four weeks ago. The scarcity
! of snow was a detriment. Had there
been snow the range animals could
have appeased their thirst. but their
suffering so reduced them in flesh that
they were poorly prepared for the
cold blast that followed.
During the last week thousands OF
head of cattle have been thrown back
by the cattle outfits onto the range,
from which they had drifted. In one
| day Is 5000 were thrown across the
| Belle Fourche river. Many OF these
had drifted upward of a hundred
miles. For them to remain along the
Belle Fourche ean almost certain
death from starvation and cold. The
| mercury has been below zero several
times during the past two weeks, and
with cutting east winds blowing. many
cattle have frozen stark.
Old cattlemen declare it is the most
| severe winter since that OF 1867,
when enormous losses were expert
enced. Where cattle were enabled to
obtain water during the early part Of
the winter they we're in good condi-
ton. The principal losses sc far have
been among through cattle, brought in
from Texas and other Southern states
last summer.
Generally speaking, the winter has
been favorable for sheep men. The
only losses have been occasioned by
what is termed 'piling up" by sheep,
which is always to be guarded against
during excessively cold weather. One
flock recently lost 300 head in this way,
and a number of other focks have had
smaller losses from the same cause.
Persons in from several days ride
across the range report numerous
dead cattle. They are usually depos-
tied along fences and other barriers.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
MISS PITCHER TELLS HER own STORY
Had Nothing to Do With Burglary at Miller-She
Had Gone to Cemetery to Shoot Herself.

the next evening I started to go
down town, and had just about given
up my evil intentions, when l saw a
revolver lying on the table. / statred
o PICK 1t up, when I happened to
think OF papa and mamma and what
tney would think if they knew what
was contemplating doing. / got as
far as my door when the thought Of
all | had lost, and also lost when l
considered as the best friend l had
left. went back and picked it up.
l started to go to the cemetery to
papa and mamma. l got just about
halfway there when i began to realize
| was a fool. l had the revolver In
my muff, and you know l am left
handed. l had the muff resting on
my chest. Suddenly the revolver went
off and the bullet plowed its way into
my right shoulder. l dropped the gun
and started home.
l did not see any one as l went to
my room. went in and shut the door
and stayed all night there. l thought
my friend, Mr.. Romig, vas going away
in the morning and l did not want
Kim to know what had happened.
Such a night as I went through. MY
arm hurt me so. The next morning
as Mr.. DeHeart passed my DON l
called to him and told him l was hurt.
He went to Mr.. Romig's room and told
him. | would not tell them how it
happened.
The same night two men are sup
posed to have entered the drug store
and drugged the clerk. One was small
and the other tall, and when they
questioned me l would not tell. l did
not know why they were acting so
strange and watching me until Mr..
Pussy came, up and told me they
thought l was in the drug store deal.
and that they we're going to arrest
me. They thought l was the short
one, dressed in mems clothes.
Well, they arrested me, and for ten
days tried to make me tell who was
In the drug store, when | did not
know. The trial lasted three days
They did not have any evidence
against me and did not implicate me
in it, even with all the lies they could
tell. and some Of them Were terrible.
They wanted to bind me over, out,
thank heaven, they did not succeed
7 have told you all. My arm is some
better. but oh, will l ever be able TO
live this down? Although am limo
cent, still hate to meet people. Try
and think of me as good as you can.
Sincerely. Hattie Pitcher.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
The Most Common Djsease.

yorktown, Ark, Feb. 29th.-LelAnd
Williamson, M. D., a successful and
clever local physician, says:
There Is scarcely another form Of
disease a physician is called upon SO
OFTEN to treat as Kidney Disease. I
invariably prescribe Dodd's Kidney
flils n am not disappointed in their
erect for they are always reliable.
| Il mention many cases in which I
nave use this medicine with splendid
success, for example, / might refer
TO the case Of Mr.. A. II. Cole.
Age 81, greatly emaciated, some
fever. great pain and pressure over
region Of Kidneys. urine filled with
pus or corruption and very foul SMELL
Ing and passed some blood. Directed
to drink a great deal of water, gave
brisk purgative and Dodd's Kidney
Pills. The pills were continued regu-
larly for three weeks and then q few
doses every week, especially II patient
felt any pain In region OF Kidneys.
Cured completely and patient per-
formed his duties as farm laborer In
four weeks"
CDR. Williamson has been a regular
practitioner for over twenty years and
his unqualified Endorsement Of Dodd's
Kidney Pills is certainly a wonderful
| tribute to this remedy.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
CHILDREN AS CAR sPOTTERS."
Novel Way Students Have Of Earning
Extra Money.

Novel Way Students Have Of Earning
Extra Money.
1.-THE amateur spotter who cost me
my job" said a former conductor on
the Lexington avenue line, "is a nor-
NAL schoolgirl, who looked as innocent
cent as a dairy maid. / know it. BE-
cause l have taken pains since l wal
laid of to make Investigations. It 10
a fact we'll known to conductors that
students in the colleges make a little
extra money as amateur spoilers On
the cars. In fact. they make four OF
five trips a day and get from so to 80
cents for it. They work with beans,
beads, and lots Of other things. We
can never tell. But q conductor Is
never afraid o "a man with a pencil
and notebook.
1.-The amateur spoilers run only on
short trips. from Fourteenth to Fifty
ninth street, for instance. II q mar 10
caught on a short trip, the company
puts an expert on his for two or three
long trips. II the report Of the stu
dent spotter is confirmed, he is dis
missed with no explanation except that
his services are no longer required.
The company seldom makes a mistake.
IL a man is dismissed for knocking
down, ten chances to one he deserves
it.-New York Press.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
NOT GUILTY Of THE CRIME Of MURDER
Ralph Carr's Self Defense Plea Is Accepted by the
Jury at Deadwood.

A verdict of not guilty has been re-
sorned in the case of the state against
Ralph Carr, Martin Howe and Edward
Davis, charged with the murder of
Henry Stokes, and the three men &C
cuSed have been liberated at Dead
wood. Their trial took up the greater
part of a week in circuit court, and
closed with a night session, at which
the arguments were heard by the
court and jury.
Stokes died from injuries inflicted
with q knife by his brother-in-law,
Carr.
Mrs. Stokes, the main witness for
the prosecution, is a sister of Carr,
and testified that Carr, Howe and
Davis called at the Stokes home Nov.
&c and began a quarrel with Stokes
The latter, she said, tried to persuade
them to move on, but they drew
knives and made threatening demon
STATIONS. At this, she said, her hus-
band came out with a revolver II
fired into the air to brighten them
away, when Carr made a rush for her
husband with a knife, and Overtaking
him threw his arm about his neck
and plunged the knife several times
into his body.
Carr and his c~o-defendants. Howe
and Davis, testified that Stokes was
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04

A jury in the circuit court at Sis
seton found Frank Goodboy not guilty
On Oct. 3 Goodboy and his son Click
Indians, informed the authorities al
Sisseton agency that the elder Good
boy had shot ard killed a white man.
named James Whalen. a farm hand,
and that the body had been left on
the prairie. Several persons accom-
panied by the son went to tho scene OF
the crime and found the body Of Wha-
len cold and stiff on the ground. The
remains were taken to the agency,
where a coroner's inquest was held.
Before the trial the son Flick. the only
living witness of the crime. died. The
plea of the defendant was that death
was the result of an accident, and the
failure of the state to establish evil
dence to the contrary resulted in ac-
Quittal.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
FIX LAND SALE VALUES.
South Dakota Board Is Out for Profit
This Year.


The state board of appraisement
consisting of the state land commits.
sioner, state auditor and county SUI.
perintendent of schools of the county
in which the appraisement is to be
made, have fixed the minimum for
sales of land in the counties in which
they are to be offered for the present
year.
Sales will be made only in the coun-
ties of Kingsbury, Beadle, Sphinx and
Brown, and the values fixed are quite
different than in the days several
years ago when most of it was at the
acre. In Kingsbury county the mini.
mum prices run from SIS per acre as
the lowest to $50 per acre as the high
est, of it running over $40 per
acre than under that. In Beadle the
prices run from SIS per acre to $50
per acre. In Sphinx from s12 per acre
to s45 per acre. The tracts in Brown
which are fixed at $40 per acre are
very few, most of them running from
SIS to S25 per acre.
The policy of the state board at the
present time is to place the lands at
a figure at which there will be an OBJ
ject in making sales. The lands are
a better investment for the state to
hold for lease than to let go at a low
price.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04

n. F. Hunter Of the Milwaukee rail
way offers to build a $25, 900 station
at Douglas venue and Seventh street
at Yankton. Arrangements are being
perfected and the station will be built
this spring.
A report from Cheyenne River agen-
cy indicates that an effort will be
made to secure the concent Of the In
dians on that reservation to lease all
the rest OF their reservation not al
ready under lease, with the Indians
retaining their individual rights in
side the fence around the tracts COW
cred by lease. While the Indians NAV
consent to this, the matter does mt
appear to be n which will go through
without opposition on the part of some
of the leading Indians.
Quincy Bros. will ship a train load
of seed corn from Elk Point this
spring. Corn matured nicely there
last year.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
BIG PROFIT IN DAKOTA FARM.
Aurora County Man Has Income OF
Nearly $1,000 a Year.

Charles ~Glissendorf, a farmer living
near White Lake, in Aurora county,
recently finished threshing 1000
bushels of small grain, 5000 bushels
of which was wheat and the remain
der pats and speltz. He has now com.
pleted the work of husking his corn,
and finds that the 225 acres devoted
to this crop yieldcd him an aggre-
gate of 1925 bushels, or an average
of forty-fve bushels to the acre. He
took care of his crop without paying
out a cent for hired help, being as
sisted only by his sons. That the
members of the GlissendOrf family
are workers is shown by the fact that
the head Of the family, in addition to
his other duties, found time to milk
twenty COWS. The sale OF milk and
the increase in the value of his 100
head of cattle netted him the sum OF
81, 900.
The grain and corr raised by him,
at market prices, is worth 1886,
Thus his income from his last sea
sons work amounted to a total of ST.
95S.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04
O ST. LOUIS.
An Extensive Display to Be Sent From
Miller.

An Extensive Display to Be Sent From
Miller.
w. Nj. Fenton, A. S. Clouse and S
A. Palmer are arranging quite an ex.
tensive exhibit for the st. Louis expo.
sition and have some of 1t on exhibi.
ton at Miller now, the main curiosity
being a petrifed mar found some
twelve years ago in the Bad Lands, a
well preserved specimen of the hu.
man race, of adult size, examined and
pronounced by the best medical men
and authorities to be OF proper proper
tons and construction. They also
have a collection OF petrifed animals,
such as fish, turtles. snakes and birds.
Among their curiosities are q few live
animals, such as a wildcat, a buffalo
wolf, and a trained and intelligent
badger. Preparations are being made
to have the whole exhibit at the st.
Louis fair.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04

the first to assume the aggressive;
that he appeared at the corner of his
cabin with a revolver and Immediate
ly opened fire IN Carr, who had start
ed to leave the premises, and at the
first shot had started to walk rapidly
away. The other two men were at
some distance from Carr, and at the
third shot they said they saw Carr
turn and approach Stokes. The
fourth shot from Stokes revolver in
ficted a slight wound in Carr's side.
and they saw him finch. He then
closed with Stokes, grasped and threw
up the weapon with his left hand, hpv-
ing in the meantime drawn a knife,
They did not see the Stabs inflicted,
as the men were struggling in close
embrace. Carr soon disengaged him
self and, approaching the other two,
informed them that he was shot. They
Immediately put out a fire that had
started in his jacket from a flash Of
the revolver in Stokes hand. Testi-
mony was introduced by the defense
to show that Stokes was of a quarrel
some and dangerous disposition.
Stokes and Carr were both men OF
families and all four had been in the
employ of the Homestake Mining
company at the timber camp lear the
Homestake pumping station.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-03-04

Miss Hattie Pitcher Of Miller, who
was released from all connection
with the burglary case at Miller. has
made q full statement of the case TO
Supt. O. w. Coursey of Mitchell, who
was her instructor when he was asso-
ciated with the Dakota Central nor
NAL school. Under date OF Feb. II
h writes as follows:
Prof. o. W.. Coursey-Dear Friend:
Your letter received a few days ago.
but ! could not answer sooner. for
my arm was very lame. am limo
cent l will explain it to you as we'll
as / car. and mmence at the be-
ginning Of my trouble. Mamma died
Sept IL. 1901, and my brother in
March, 1902, the latter in Detroit,
Mich. Papa brought the other two
little children back home, one five
years and the other four. On Jan. q,
1903. papa died. You can imagine just
how I felt and how d~ownhearted I
was. All Of them died within eight
e months. ! was almost desperate.
But | had the two children. and that
helped me some. ] also had a gentle
man friend and he was very good to
me. IN March I took the children to
an uncle In Detroit. When | came
back my friend came to meet nae.
Well, then he was sent to North Da-
kota to take the charge Of q station as
a Telegraph operator.
While be was gone l went with his
chum and did not think he would care
and l don't think he would if other
people had not told him everything
and more too. He does not dance and
l 10. He made me q little mad and
/ went to the New Years ball and I
would not go home when he wanted
me to. Well, that caused trouble. and
he would not listen to me when l told
aim I was sorry. On Sunday night he
went to church and left me alone. and
the man he was jealous of came into
the parlor Of the hotel and spent the
evening with me. After he left my
friend came in and told me | must
stop. He was very mad. aud SO was
I. and we parted that night for good,
as l supposed.
l was foolish enough to spend the
night very miserably, and concluded 1
did not have much to live for. So /
got q revolver and intended to end
everything then and there. But as |
came out OF the hotel he same out
also and did not leave me until late
in the evening, even taking me to the
door Of my room. But he was just as
mad as ever.