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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
DOCTOR is POUNDED.
Farmers, Angry Because Guaranteed,
Whipped Physician.

Farmers, Angry Because Guaranteed,
Whipped Physician.
Neal Van Overschelde, a farmer, be-
came enraged because DR.. E. j. Phelps
Of Letcher and another physician quar-
antined his home. where a case of
diphtheria had developed. In company
with Alfred Duvetter the angry farmer
went to Letcher, and finding DR..
Phelps alone in his Office made an as
sault upon him.
One of the assailants held the ply
stefan while the other pummeled him.
DR.. Phelps cries brought assistance
and the two farmers were arrested.
When taken into court they pleaded
guilty to the charge of assault. Van
Overschelde was fined $50 and costs
while Duvetter was let of with $25 and
costs.
Both paid the amounts assessed
against them. Then they entered a sa-
loon and got into a fight with the pro.
prietor. But this time they caught a
tartar. for the saloon man promptly
armed himself with a beer bottle and
went after both men. He used the
weapon vigorously and in a short time
both his assailants looked as If they
had gone through a threshing machine.
The two farmers returned to the pillow,
c%ontented to live a life of peace
after.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
A SUMMER SCHOOL.
Huron College Will Hold One Begin.
nina June 20.

Huron College Will Hold One Begin.
ming June 20.
A summer school will be held in
Huron college commencing June 20
and continuing six weeks. These sum.
mer schools have become an impor-
tant gathering to teachers and educa-
tors generally In this part of the state.
The first two weeks of the school, by
special arrangement with l.. s. Dubois,
county superintendent, will take the
place of the usual county institute
and affords an opportunity for teachers
who wish to raise the grade of their
certificates as well as those who wish
to do regular college work. In addition
to the members of the regular college
faculty, Miss Olive E. Clark, teacher of
natural science in Huron high school
will teach physics, physical geography
and mathematics, and Miss Anna B
Herrig of the model department of the
Madison normal will give instruction
in primary work. Already a large
number have been enrolled and the
attendance promises to be larger than
at either of the three former terms.
Special arrangements for board . and
other accommodations have been made
and all who attend will be properly
cared for.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
THE NEWS RESUME
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A
CONDENSED FORM.
Notes From the Capital.

Before leaving for Iowa. Secretary
Shaw ordered a third call on the de-
pository banks on or before May 25 of
approximately $4,000, 900.
A warning has been issued by the
interior department against trespass-
ing on the portion Of the Crow Indian
reservation in Montana recently coded
by the Indians.
The resignation of Lieut.. William A.
Roberts, Jr., for the good Of the serv-
ice, has been announced /. He was a
second lieutenant of the Fourteenth in
fantry, stationed in the Philippines.
Lieut.. Winfield Harper and thirty
nine men of Company F, Seventeenth
United States infantry, were caught on
May 8 in ambush at Simpatem by sew
eral hundred Moros. Two American
officers and fifteen men were killed
and five were wounded.
Owing to a conflict of date with the
sale of the Chippewa Indian lands at
Crookston, Mimi, on May Is, Commits
sioner Richards of the general land
Office has directed that the sale of Red
Lake reservation lands at Thief River
Falls begin June 20, instead of the date
originally fixed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
s~cANDALoUs AFFAIR.
Sensational Case Developed In Law.
renee County.

Sensational Case Developed In Law
rence County.
The recent arrest at Huron of Mrs
Albert Scheef and George Raschke on
a statutory charge preferred by the
woman's husband, who is one of the
wealthiest and most prominent farm.
ers of Deuel. county, and the holding OF
the couple for appearance at the next
term of the state circuit court in Bea.
die county, is the elimination of a
scandal which has been a matter of
gossip for some time at Goodwin, near
which place Mr.. Scheef resides.
Scheef did everything in his power
to talk his wife out of her in~fatuation
for the young man, but without sue
cess. When he saw he could do moth
ing to induce her to mend her ways he
divided his property with her, kept the
oldest child. and after giving her a
sum of money, sent her adrift.
Mrs. Scheef with her youngest child
departed with her household goods
ostensibly for WATERFOWL, but instead
went to Huron, where she was joined
a day or two later by Raschke, and
where they were traced by the wrong
ed husband.
Scheef has now instituted an action
for divorce against his wife, and this
will be heard at a term of state circuit
court which will be held in this county
next month. The affair has created a
great sensation in this part of the
state, where the parties are all widely
known.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
Crimes and Criminals.

Highwaymen held up and robbed a
school teacher named James Walsh at
Hardy, Neb., taking $3.50 from him and
shooting him in the chest.
At B~alleatyne, Miss, Rufus Bobo.
colored, was shot and killed by negro
citizens who were attempting to arrest
him on a charge of numbering a negro
woman.
William Porter was shot five times
and killed by Willard e. Buck at Prai-
RE, Iowa. The cause of the shooting
is said to be rumors connecting Bucks
name with that Of a woman
officers at Fort Brady have been ex-
aiming the garrison to discover the
mar who attacked Marjorie Esler on
the street at Soult Ste. Marie. Mich.
beating her to insensibility with a
stone.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
MANY LOUISIANA NEGROES Al
LEGGED TO BE ILLEGALLY
HELD.
PEACE OFFICERS IN COLLISION
WHEN NEGROES TRY TO ESCAPE
THEY ARE BEATEN AND
SENT BACK.

Washington, May II. = The depart.
ment of justice is preparing to again
take up the subject of peonage in the
South. Additional reports have been
received indicating hat hundreds of
negroes are held in servitude.
Assistant Attorney General Purdy
has issued instructions to the United
States attorney for the Western dis
trict of louisiana to investigate a num-
Der of alleged cases of peonage on
plantations near Monroe, Ouachita
parish, and other points in that vicin-
ity.
Information regarding these cases
came to the department from Judge
Mcdaniel, assistant attorney general
for the Southern district of Texas, to
whom complaint had been made by a
number of the negroes alleged to
Have Been illegally Held.
Some Of the stories told are sensa-
tional in the extreme, and If their
truth is established the department
will vigorously prosecute the offenders
Judge Mcdaniel and Marshal Hanson
of the Southern Texas district have
made some Investigations, but have
been unable to accomplish anything
tangible because the places in which
the negroes are said to be held in
bondage are far out of their jurisdic-
ton. In addition to the charges made
by negroes, the Texas officials have
forwarded the statement of a white
ma living in Houston, who has made
several trips through Northern Louis
lana recently and who says that many
colored people of both sexes are be-
ing Illegally restrained of their liberty
in that region.
Peace Officers in Collision.
A feature of the affair which makes
1t of unusual interest is the intimation
that some Of the peace officers are in
collision with those who are alleged to
be holding the negroes.
One man who claimed that he had
escaped from a plantation south of
Shreveport recently asked Judge Nc
Daniels assistance in securing the re-
lease of his brother, who was still de-
tanned there. This person asserted
that whenever negroes who tried to es-
cape were caught they were soundly
beaten and taken back. If they sue.
ceeded in getting as far as Shreveport,
he said, they were taken in charge by
the officers and
Immediately Returned.
The owner of the plantation lived at
he claimed, and the Off
worked in collision with him.
Not long ago a negro named A. d.
who lives at Ledbetter,
showed Judge Mcdaniel and Mar
shall Hanson a letter from his brother,
who, it was alleged, was held in bond
age near Monroe.
This communication told of awful
among the negroes there.
If necessary the department of JUS
tice will send special agents from
here to investigate. A report from the
attorney of the Western Louisiana
district, who now has the matter in
hand, is expected some time this week.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
PICKS LANDS.
Gov. HerreId Takes Action Preceding
Opening Of Rosebud.

Gov. HerreId Takes Action Preceding
Opening Of Rosebud.
Under the provisions of the bill
opening the Rosebud reservation, Gov.
Herreid has made selections for indem-
nifty lands on that reservation. to in
iemnify the state for lands which were
granted to the state as public school
lands.
A total Of 6,S46.15 acres we're select
ed, which is two acres less than the
indemnity granted. The bill limited
the selections to two sections in n
one township, and this scattered them
different parts OF the land to be
opened. Immediately after these Sc
Iections have been filed in the land Of
ace at Chamberlain. the department at
Washington will issue the procIama-
hon declaring the land opened TO-
drawings by lot by settlers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
CORN INCREASING.
Wore Money In It Than In Wheat Grow
jnu.

Wore Money In 1t Than In Wheat Grow
ing.
Each succeeding year sees in south
eastern South Dakota a decrease in the
acreage Of wheat and corresponding
Increase in corn. The present seeding
season Is ample proof that the change
Is going on. From the southern tier of
counties the reports show a marked
change from wheat to corn. Practical
farmers give their reasons for the
change as follows: First. corn pro-
iuces more money to the acre; second,
he crop average for corn is better than
Tor wheat; third, stock farming has
come to stay, and corn must be had
:or feed. Last year where wheat went
twelve bushels of No. 3 to the acre,
corn yielded forty-ave to fifty bushels
Of No. l quality.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19

A curious custom has just been cele-
brated at Kiln. near Moscow. All the
manageable girls II the town lined
mp Ia the principal street. decked out
A their simple nnery, many OF them
also having with them the stock Of
linen. household and personal, which
forms part Of their dowery. The young
men contemplating matrimony then
walked down the serried ranks Of
beauty - they moved toward the
church, and selected the girls or their
ehoice. = formal visit 70 the parents
% arrange details Wa then made "A
each caso. and 3 date nxed Tor the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19

A dynamite bomb exploded on the
roof of the Jesuit college at Barcelona.
The roof was blown in and n person
injured.
Prof. E. York Powell, professor Of
modern history in Oxford university,
died in London. He is well known as
an author Of historical books.
A Paris dispatch says Harold J.
Clark, son of the late Jeremiah Clark,
the San Francisco millionaire, blew out
his brains in a prominent Partisan
hotel.
The Montreal harbor commissioners
have awarded the contract for the con-
s~truction Of the new steel sheds on the
wharyes to Peter Lyall e Co. Of that
city, whose tender was $2,305,0 00.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
Personal.

Henry Fuchs. once a millionaire, is
dead at thecity almshouse in San Fran
cisco. Formerly Fuchs was a partner
to John w. Gates.
DR.. M. Waldstrom, for the past twen-
ty years president of Gustavus Adolph-
us college at st. Peter, Mimi, has been
elected superintendent Of the Angus
tana hispital in Chicago.
George Hines German, AZ, a special
attorney for the United States, is dead
in Washington. He had practiced law
in st. Paul, Mimi, Portland, Ore. and
had been an attorney in the depart
ment of justice.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
AccidentaI Happeninas.

Four men we're drowned wnIie at
tempting to cross Big Sandy river a
Zelda, Ky.
Harvey Bradley, field manager for
Brice & Bradley, fell in a tank of oil
and was drowned at Batson, Tex.
Howard Fogle Of Laporte, Ind, died
in terrible agony from meningitis,
brought on from excessive drinking of
pop, eating of popcorn and smoking
cigarettes.
In an automobile accident at New
ton. Kan, Judge M. Simpson of the
district court was killed. Miss Anna
Lees, Mrs. H. H. Simpson and H. Leh-
man were injured.
Charles Cunningham, a New York
broker, lost his $4,000 automobile by an
explosion while he was calling at the
Vassar college inn, at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
While two men were watching her,
an unidentified girl, apparently 16
years old, walked into sixteen feet of
water in Lake Calumet at the foot of
Kensington avenue. Chicago, and was
drowned.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19
NOE BREAKS JAIL.
Hundred Men Force Their Way in and
Take a NEGRO Prisoner.

Men Force Their Way In n
Take a Negro Prisoner.
Appling, Ca, May ia crowd of
about 100 masked men forcibly entered
the county Jail here about midnight
last night, took out John Cumming, a
negro who was awaiting trial on the
charge of criminal assault, and hanged
him to a tree nea the public road
about half a mile from Appling. His
body was afterward riddled with bird
shot and bullets. A card was left at
tached to the negro's breast bearing
the inscription:
This is the penalty for rape. Yours
truly, Brother Dooley."
The crime for which the negro was
lynched was committed last week.
and his victim was q fifteen-year-old
girl. The crowd of lynchers was quiet
and orderly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19

Agricultural Machinery Warehouse and
Contents Destroyed.
Lake Elmo. Mimi. May IL. - Louis
Lohman's agricultural machinery
warehouse and contents burned early
yesterday morning. The building was
completed this spring and was 40x15O
feet. completely flied with machinery.
wagons. buggies, etc. Insurance on
building and contents. 81. 200. 1t is gen
orally believed that the flre was incen-
diary. There had never been any fre
In or about the building.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19

Prairie du Chen. Wis.,, May II. -
Emma Hopp. . daughter of John Hopp
of Franklin, with q sister, was thrown
from q buggy by q runaway team.
This young lady fell In such q way as
to fracture her spine and Is dying.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19

The seat Of H. Archie Bell on the
New York stock exchange has been
sold for $50. 500.
The Ohio supreme court has decreed
that the husband is the boss OF the
family. even II the wife owns the
home.
: The Nebraska grand lodge, Knights
Of Pythias, adopted a resolution bar.
ring from membership gamblers and
b~artenders.
The Farmers State bank at Nardin,
Okla, failed. Assets and liabilities not
given. 1t had $4,000 in the Guthrie
Capital National bank. which failed re-
Gently.
A jury at Sherman, Tex, gave Louis
James the actor, q Judgment for $40,
600 against the Oriental Hotel associa.
ton of Dallas. Tex. for libel. It is al.
legged the hotel people sent a telegram
to James and wife requesting them to
return p~illowshams said to be missing
from the hotel. James sued for $40.
900 actual and $4,000 exemplary dam.
ages.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-19

Company'e Certificate OF Authority.
Whereas, The Continental Casualty
Company, a corporation organized
under the laws of Indiana. has
filed In this Office a sworn statement ex-
hibiting IFS condition and business for
the year ending December 81. 1903, con-
formabie TO the requirements OF the laws
OF this stare regulating the business OF
t~nsurances N
Whereas. The said company has filed In
this ONCE a duly certified copy OF Its
charter. with certificate of organization,
In compliance with the requirements OF
the insurance law aforesaid:
Now, Therefore, /. John G. Perkins.
Commissioner OF Insurance OF the State
OF South Dakota, pursuant to the provf-
gions OF said laws. do hereby certify that
the above-named company Is fully en-
powered. through It's authorised agents.
10 transact its appropriate business Of
Accident and Health Insurance In this
state. according to the laws thereof. UNI
u the thirty-frst day Of December. A.
n srstimony Whereof. 1 have hersunto
yet my hand and ofacial seal at Pierre.
lseaiJ JOHN G. PERKINS.
Commissioners Of Insurance.
ny Emanuel Hendriksen. Chief Clerk.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-09
REGISTRATION SHOWS
INCREASE OF 265
OVER LAST ELECTION


Registration o3oo
rncrs.sa for 100, a6s
Above comparative registration of
years showing
the which closed last night midnight OF
There cancelled applications which deducted
the applications fled numbering 678 leaving
the registration standing 663I
The registration by districts follows:
Fourth District. total 1903
Fifth District, total. -. ..-.........
There were o cancelled applications Fourth 81
the Fifth making total of ~.
fCiortn.e .ed on pe
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-09
BICYCLE RACE CAUSES FATALITIES.

NEW YORK Oct. s.-George Heath American today
the mile automobile Vanderbilt
minutes and seconds Albert Frenchran
ond and he protested against the person
killed and four injured during
NEW YORK, Oct e-The injured automobile race in
George Arents millionaire expected to live AL
disallowed
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-09
Hayashi Denies That Japanese Be-
siegers Have Lost
Heavily.

II ASSOCIATED oAsLEaRAMs1
TOXIC e-The Russians using grenades
highly explosive deadly
DEARTH OF WAR NEWS.
ST PETERSBURG, Oct. e-There front.
JAPANESE LOSSES NOT HEAVY.
LONDON. Oct. o-Baron Hayashi japanese Minister,
Port Arthur
says
will then be
KUROPATKIN WATCHFUL.
PETERSBURG Oct Sit believed Kuropatkin
Strengthening his left Japanese turning
und
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-09

SUGAR go Test
Centrifusals. 4 2SS Cts, !,
Per Ton, $S5.lO. SS
Analysis Beets, It's: Sd.
Per Ton $S7 so.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-03-17

Flour is hauled from Minneapolis
1000 miles to the Pacific coast, thence
shipped 5000 miles by water to China,
at rate equivalent to "a cents per bus
he'll of wheat for the whole 5000 miles.
The eastern Washington farmer is
charged within half cent as much for
the carriage to China though he is 1900
miles nearer to the coast. Again, he
pays liz cents per bushel for the short
haul of 400 miles to the coast, while the
rate from Minneapolis is only IL cents
for the long haul of 1000 miles. If a
Washington farmer wishes to bring a
car of corn from Minnesota for feed, the
railroads charge him SO per ton for a
16O0-mile haul, while in the same train
will be -four for the Orient, made of
Minnesota wheat, which they transport
5000 miles for So per ton. The above is
submitted as truthful presentation of
facts and the reader asked to conjecture
what if anything of an improvement of
conditions might have been looked for
in case the U. s. supreme court had
given a decision favorable to the rail-
roads in the merger question handed
down Monday.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-03-17
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE BY ADyER.
TISEMENT.

Notice is hereby given, That that certain
wife, Mortgagors, to Z. S. Champ1pe, mort
gage, dated the 10th day of November A. d.
nineteen hundred and two, and filed for
record in the Office of the Register of Deeds Of
the County Of Cavalier and State Of North Da.
kota, on the goth day Of November A. d. 1902,
and recorded in Book "48' of Mortgages, at page
Ups" will be foreclosed by sale OF the premises
il such Mortgage and hereinafter described, at
the front door Of the Courthouse in the City Of
Langdon, in the County of Cavalier and State
OF North Dakota, at the hour of o'clock p. M,
on the 22rd day of April 1904, to satisfy the
amount due upon said Mortgage on the day Of
sale.
The premises described in said Mortgage and
which will be sold to satisfy the same, are those
certain premises situated in the County Of
Cavalier and State of North Dakota, and des-
cribed as follows, towit: The southeast Quarter
(seA) Of Section numbered ten (1O), Township
nunbered one hundred ffty.nine (159) north ef
Rango numbered sixty two (62) west.
There will be due on such Mortgage at the
Dollars.
Dated at Langdon, North Dakota, this 8th
ED. PIERCE, Morteaeea.
Attorney for Mortgages.
Fargo, North Dakota s2.S7
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-03-17

The Hon John Sharp Williams, floor
leader of the democracy in the house OF
representatives, has introduced bill for
the relief of the sufferers by fire at
Baltimore by rebate of duties on build
ing material and suspension of certain
internal revenue taxes. By SO doing he
has again put the republicans in hole,
soaped the sides and pulled up the
ladder. II they refuse to pass the
measure they will go up against pre-
cedent we'll established when the
Chicago fire occurred in 1871, and there
by rob many honest men who have been
unfortunate. If they do pass it they
will admit the democratic contention
that the tariff is tax and that the tax
is paid by the consumers of the country
and not by the foreigners as maintained
b. them. They are up against it. This
bin cuts both ways. Like the niggsr's
ooeu trap it catches thema comm and
: euin'. Let the CALLED Jade vince.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-03-17
cannot impose the pains as,the penal.
ties of the Law on the seller without in
curing them himself.

LAST Thursday bill was signed by
the president making valid certain
enteries for land in North Dakota, where
the proof was made outside of the dis
trict in which the lands are located.
This is especially in the interest of
Cavalier county, where the western tier
Of townships are in the Devils Lake
district, and the balance of the county
in the Grand Forks district. These
proofs are generally taken at the county
seat, and in this case they were made at
Langdon, which is in the Grand Forks
district, and therefore did not comply
with the law. Before the error was
discovered some 125 proofs had been
thus made, and many Of the original
claimants had sold their farms and left
the country. The new law clears up
the title on these lands and saves much
trouble. These was no fraud-simply q
technical error in where the proofs were
made.