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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
JUSTICE IN
Two Negro Murderers Burned ~
the Stake.

With clothing saturated with kerosene,
writhing and twisting in their agony,
screaming to heaven for the mercy that
the mob would not show, Paul Reed and
Will Cato, negroes, two Of the principals
in the murders and burning OF Henry
Hodges and family, six miles from
Statesboro, Ca, three weeks ago., were
burned at the stake Tuesday.
A determined mob charged on the court
house, o~verpowered the militia guard, Sc
cured Cato aud Reed, who had been
found guilty after a legal trial and SEN
fenced to be hanged, took them two miles
from Statesboro and there burned them
alive. The climax came quickly and un-
expectedly.
The forenoon had passed quietly. The
trial of Paul Reed, the ringleader in the
murder being concluded, and a verdict
of guilty rendered, both he and Will Ca
to, found guilty the day before, were
sentenced to hang Sept. 8.
In the trial Of Reed little delay had
been caused, and on it's conclusion the
pii 10 peloie, WciS huetASu INV
the witness room, where a strong guard
Of military was mounted over them.
In the corridors the agitation began.
Suddenly some twenty-five men crowd
ed around the guards. Before they
could be prevented they had caught two
of the guards, wrested their weapons
from them and thrown open the breech-
locks. The weapons were empty. That
was what the crowd wanted to ascer-
tain. The troops had been given orders
not to load their rifles.
The prisoners were then at their mer-
cy, all resistance having been beaten
down. Cato, Reed, Handy Bell and the
other prisoners covered before the crowd.
They dragged Cato and Reed out. Reed
was taken down one stairway with a
rope about his neck and Cato down the
other, both pleading for their lives. BY
this time the crowd numbered 500 per
sons.
The heat was so intense that the crowd
wearied when two miles out of town. Go.
ing seventy-fve yards from the road the
crowd halted. The two negroes were
told they had but a short time to live
and that they should confess. Reed con.
fessed, duplicating other negroes, as he
had in the court room. He denied, how
ever, that he had taken an active part in
the murder. Cato answered incoherent.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
NEWS or THE WEEK m A CON-
pENSED FORM.
Use wireless Telegraph-Seth Bull
locks Plan for Saving Forest Re-
serves-Approved by Secretary
Wilson-Stations Can be Notified.

The visit to the Black Hills OF Secre-
tary Wilson. of the agricultural depart
ment. is one of the most important trips
70 the country ever made by a govern
mental official. In company with Capt.
Seth Bullock, forest supervisor, ne speh'
several days in the pine forest district
making careful examinations OF the pres,
ent condition of the reserve. he Iouhu
that several hundred million feet or pine
timber already were destroyed by the
pine beetle. To prevent their future de-
vastation he proposes TO lmme-
diately upon his arrival in Washington
a series of experiments TO hnd, IL posi-
BILE, a way for destroying the insects.
Secretary Wilson estimates that the
Black Hills will be producing the golo
metal for 1000 years, and that, III order
to keep the mine in operation, there must
be an abundance Of timber. He Will also
begin making experiments to IND a tree
that will replant the destroyed districts.
He states that it will be possible, in all
probability, to replant the pine seeds,
which will, in q short time furnish an
abundance of timber. Capt. Bullock three
years ago distributed a great many pine
seeds over one or two Of the burned dis
tricts, throwing the seed on the snow
early in the spring. The seeds took root,
and young forests are the result. Sec
rotary Wilson expects to have the de-
stroyed districts r~eplanted in time to take
the place of the present standing timber.
Should the pine seed be found to be the
best tree to replant he expects next
spring to have several carloads of seed
on hand.
Another important addition to the for
est reserve will be the installing Of a
wireless telegraph station in each of the
subdivisions of the reserve. This is
Capt. Bullock's idea. In case of fire one
subdivision can wire to any part of the
reserve and call in help. In many ways
this wireless service will be a benefit to
the reserve.
Capt. Bullock states that the Black
Hills soil is peculiarly adapted to the
reproduction of the pine trees. Even
when fire has destroyed the fertility Of
the soil the second year the seeds will be-
gin to be carried onto the district and
trees begin to grow. Most Of the dam
age has been lone by the pine beetle,
which is still doing great devastating
work in all parts of the Hills.
Secretary Wilson was presented with a
key of tin taken from the linton mine in
the Bear gulch district. He will do all
he can to advance the interests of the
tin industry in the Black Hills.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
HORSE THIEF ESCAPES.
Gets Ont of n Foot Square Hole I'm
Watertown Jail.

The latest excitement in WATERFOWL is
over the theft of a horse and buggy, the
capture of the thief aud Of his sensation
al escape from the county Jail a few
hours after his Incarceration. The rob-
berry was committed in daylight Wednes-
day, the thief going to one of the best
appointed stables of the city, hitching up
a fine horse and private carriage and
driving away as though he owned the
rig.
The theft was discovered about three
hours later, and search Immediately in
stituted. The capture occurred at Brook
ings Thursday morning. The prisoner is
a small young man Of about Is years.
He was brought to WATERFOWL Friday
morning and placed in the county Jail,
from which he escaped at / o'clock. Es-
cape was made by squeezing through a
12-inch square air conductor from the
corridor of the Jail to the roof of the
court house.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
HOBO NEARLY KILLED.
Flesh Was Shaved From the Bone
From Ankle to Toes.

A serious accident happened in the
yards Of the Northwestern Railroad at
WATERFOWL. just as the evening passen-
ger had pulled in and the passengers had
disembarked, the train was backing onto
the sidetrack, and a hobo attempted to
board the train by catching hold of the
brake rod and get in under the coach,
probably with the intention Of getting a
free ride to some n~eighboring town, when
his foot slipped and was caught under
the wheel and badly crushed. When
picked up he was semi-conscious, and af-
ter a brief examination it was found
that the wheels had completely shaved
the bones Of the flesh from the ankle to
the toes.
Physicians were summoned and the
man was taken to the Watertown hos
pital, where he will be treated at the ex-
pense of the county.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
BLACKS In A PANIC
SHORTAGE IN NEGRO LABOR
SUPPLY AT sTATESBoRo. /.
IL is Claimed Exaggerated Reports
Of Violence Have Been Sent Out
From There-Prominent business
Man Admits He Led the Mob.

Developments in the situation at States
boro, Ca, following the burning Of the
negroes, Reed and Cato, on Tuesday,
show only a repetition Of Wednesdays
events, excepting no killings have been
reported from the country districts.
Two negroes, a man and a woman,
were whipped near Register Wednesday
night. 1t is reported several others re-
ceived lashings at other localities.
PREACHER Gaines, one of the alleged
leaders Of the Before Day" Club, has
left town, AID others Of less note are go
going.
A scarcity of labor in cotton fields is
sure to follow. The cotton picking sea-
son is at hand, and the exodus Of negroes
has been 80 great already as to at least
threaten Inconvenience.
: This question most discussed Thurs
day was the alleged mismanagement Of
the troops during the trial of the negroes
Reed and Cato. A non-commissioned Of
fcer OF the local militia company de-
clared 10 the Associated Press that two
officers of his company had prepared
their designations to the governor and
that a majority of the company had ask
ed for dismissal from the service. The
officers declared that the members Of his
company were required to give up their
loaded cartridges that had been issued
and that other smaller cartridges were
issued TO less than half a dozen mem,
hers NJ TIM NnYnnnnU IIn antA -Ia
were given that there should be no firing.
The local men lay the blame on the off,
Ger commanding, the captain Of the Sa.
vannah company on duty. 1t Is de.
clared, and not denied, that the mob with
the W negroes on its way 70 the stake
passed within a few yards of the soldiers,
and that the soldiers could have rescued
the negroes and held them against the
mob.
One well known business man who I'D.
mits his leadership of the mob, and that
he had a part in the burning OF the he
groes, said that the plans to kill the two
negroes at the end Of the trial, regard.
less Of what the verdict might be, were
premeditated, excepting that II was not
determined that burning should be the
method. He said that no grand Jury
would indict and on petit jury in the
county would find guilty any man who
had participated in the work.
Judge DAILY, presiding at the trial of
the negroes, said he could not say what
action, II any, would be taken to appre-
bend those who had taken part in the
work.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
IN CHICAGO.
Trolley Cars strike . Great Western
Train.

Train.
-Four people were killed, one fatally
hurt and % severely hurt in a collision
at Chicago late Wednesday afternoon
between On express train on the Chicago
and Great Western Railroad and n train
of three trolley cars returning from the
Hawthorne race track.
The accident occurred at the crossing
Of Forty-eighth Avenue and the Chicago
Great Western track. The train was
coming into the city, and, according TO
some witnesses Of the accident, was run
ming at a high rate Of speed. Others and
the train crew declare that it was not
going over twenty miles an hour. The
trolley train, which was made up of a mo-
tor car and two t~railers and was in
charge of Conductor w. II. Condor and
Motorman Michael Ryan, approached the
crossing at a rapid speed just as the
train came around a sharp curve TO the
west of the crossing. Ryan put OH the
brakes with all his strength in the effort
to stop his car, but the brakes refused to
work, and with undiminished speed the
motor car ran upon the tracks. at the
same time that the locomotive came up.
The car struck the train just between the
engine and tender. The motor car was
torn to splinters, the car Immediately be-
hina was knocked over, smashed nearly
to pieces and dragged along the track for
100 feet. The third car was not dragged
from the tracks, and but for the fact that
the couplings between it and the second
trailer broke, the list Of injured would
probably be larger, as all of the cars
were filed with passengers.
Motorman Ryan remained at his post
to the last and was fatally hurt, his skull
being fractured.
The scene OF the accident Is III the SUI
burbs, and it was some time before am
balances and the patrol wagons and ply
sicians could reach the place to aid the
injured, but the uninjured passengers and
one physician, who was a passenger on
the rear car OF the trolley train, together
with the members OF the train crew, did
all possible to aid the suffering.
Division Superintendent. Il. w. Ed
wards, of the Chicago Great Western,
said:
''Thc train was stopped within two or
three lengths. That proves that it was
not running at q high speed. The con-
ductor of the street cor did not run
ahead of his car to hook at he crossing,
as provided by the rules of his COM
pany. Naturally he would not 90 this
until the motorman brought the train to
a stop, and the motorman never brought
1t to a stop. What the trouble was l can
not tell, but the blame of the accident is
not with u.s."
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
HEAD or GRAND ARMY.
Biackmar, OF Massachusetts, Chosen
Denver Gets Next Encampment

Biackmar, OF Massachusetts, Chosen
Denver Gets Next Epcampment
A Boston special says: Gen. Wilmon
". Blackmar, commander OF the Massa-
chusetts department. was elected com
mander in chief OF the G. A. r. Thurs
day, by reclamation.
John r. King, OF Washington, former
commander Of the department OF Mary
land, was chosen senior vice commander.
Geo. W, Patten, Of Chattanooga,
Tenn, was elected junior vice command
er.
Dr. Warren r. King, Of Indiana, was
chosen surgeon.
Rev. J. III. Bradford, Of Washington,
was elected chaplain in chief.
Denver Yves chosen for the next nation.
al encampment.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
CLouosuRST IN ARIZONA.
Al Least Two Lives are known &C
Have Been Lost.


Reports by telephone from Layne
Springs, fourteen miles north of King.
man, Ariz., say that between 5 and G
o'clock Monday evening a c~loudburst fell
on the summit Of Cernbat Mountain
sending a food Of water fifteen feet deep
down the canyons, carrying everything
before it.
AT the Night Hawk mine a house was
carried away and two men drowned.
George Al. Bowers, a well known min.
ing man, escaped from the building, but
was imprisoned in the tunnel of the mine
and dug out next morning by fellow min
ers. The body of Ole Inglebrethren was
found two miles down the canyon imbed-
ded in mud and debris. The body of
John CoLnors, another victim has not yet
been recovered.
AT the Alpha mnie, 100 yards to the
north of the Night Hawk, ore dumps
were carried away and huge powders
piled up in the portals Of the tunnel. At
Stockton Hill and all along the range
shafts are filed with water and debris
and much damage has been done.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
FINE SOUTH DAKOTA STOCK
Compare Favorably with Iowa's
Best Corn Fed Animals.

Fred Batterman, of Davis, transferred
at Sioux Falls one Of the finest ship
ments Of cattle and hogs that has ever
gone out of South Dakota to eastern
markets. The animals compared favora-
bly, with the best corn-fed stock ever
raised in Iowa or any of the other older
states of the union.
In the shipment were 1S9 corn-fed
steers which weighed an average of LILO
pounds each. The shipment of hogs con-
sisted Of 275 head and were raised by
Batterman himself. They averaged 235
pounds each. The train carrying the
shipments was a double header. Iowa
feeders will have a hard time surprising
this shipment, so far as weight and quail.
ity of the animals are concerned.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
SEE A LONG
Packing House Strikers Will APP
peal TO the Workingmen.

1t seemed apparent Wednesday that
the labor leaders at Chicago had given up
all immediate hope Of peace through any
action of the packers aud were making
financial preparations for a long struggle.
1t was said to be improbable that any
attempt would be made to extend the
strike to the unions not already involved.
One of the chief reasons for this is that
tie unions not already out are said to be
not anxious to strike, but the reason the
strikers give is that the more men there
are on strike the smaller will be the con-
tributions to the benefit fund.
President Donnelly said an appeal
would be made through President Com
pers to every working man and woman In
the co~untry-about 3,0O0,000-to contrib
ute funds to support the packing house
strikers.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
BANKER COMMITS SUICIDE
Joseph Lunn, OF AIexandria, Shoots
Himself.

Joseph Lunn, president Of the Farm
ers' Bank at Alexandria, Wednesday
morning shot and killed himself with a
shotgun while on his farm near Alexan-
dria.
The cause of the act is supposed to
have been worry over a Spencer real
estate firm securing a judgment against
him, which involved the sale Of his farm.
The Judgment was secured by Ewing &
Parker, of Spencer, and was for the sum
Of 81, GOO.
Since the judgment was granted at q
term Of the state circuit court several
weeks ago, Lunn has brooded over the
matter a great deal.
The affairs of his bank are stated to be
in good condition.
Lunn was 60 years Of age and leaves
a widow and daughter.
The suicide has greatly shocked the
people Of Alexandria and vicinity, where
Lunn was well known and very popular.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
NINE BUSHELS PER ACRE.
Millers' Estimate OF South Dakota
Wheat Yield.

The millers' convention held in Mitchell
and attended by the representatives from
many Of the leading towns, has adjourn
ed.
A poll was taken of the representa-
tives from the various parts of the state
concerning the average Of wheat yields,
and it was found, so far as the state was
represented in the convention, that the
average would be about nine bushels per
acre, the rust cutting down the average
to a very large extent.
In some counties in the state, returns
based on thresbers' reports, it was as
certained that wheat would go from ten
to fourteen bushels per acre.
Thirty mills were represented in tbs
convention.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
LIGHTNING HIT SPEcTAcLES.
Steel Bowed Articles Nearly Caused
a Womapfs Death.

A pair of s~teel-bowed spectacles which
she has been accustomed to wear, nearly
caused the death of Mrs. Walter Porter,
living near Castalia, Charles Mix Coun-
ty. While standing in the doorway of
her home she was struck by lightning and
rendered unconscious. The bolt struck
one side of the steel portion Of her spec
tacles, melting the steel. and then passed
downward along her side and into her
shoe. She was quite badly burned by
the flash. 1t was several hours before
she regained consciousness, and for a
time it was feared she would die.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
SHIPS ARE RlDoLEp.
Remnant Of the viadivostok Flee,
keaches Port.

1t is learned officially at St. Petersburg
that the cruisers Gromoboi and Rossia
hav reached vladivostok, considerably
damaged. The Rossia lost two officers
killed.
An official dispatch from vfadivostok
shows every officer on the Rossia and
Gromoboi was either killed or wounded.
Rear Admiral lessen narrowly escaped
the fate of Admiral Without. He was
standing on the bridge Of the Rossia
when 1t was wrecked by a shell.
The cruisers were literally riddled, and
the guns and engines partially disman-
tied.
The escape of the vessels from Kami-
mura's four armored cruisers is regarded
as a wonderful piece Of luck.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
No Damage 20 Kansss Corn.

No serious damage has been done to
Kansas crops, says a Topeka dispatch,
by the extreme hot weather Of the last
few days. Some corr has been affected
by the heat, but unless the present hot
spell continues a long period the growing
corn viii not, it is believed. be damaged.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
Victory for saIoon SIDE.

A demurrer to the petition for a per.
emptory mandamus to compel the states
attorney and sheriff Of Meade County to
remove the screens from the windows Of
saloons and enforce the Sunday closing
law was sustained by Judge MCGEE. OF
cne circuit court at Sturgis, and the case
was dismissed-
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
Guests OF Pierre.

The Yankton fire department, accom-
panied by the Yankton band and a num-
Der of citizens, left last Thursday on an
excursion to Pierre, returning on Sunday.
trip was at the expense of the city
OF Pierre and was given to the band and
department in recognition of the royal
treatment accorded to the Pierre delega.
ton at the Yankton street carnival.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
WHEAT HITS HIGH SPOTS.


go and Sl.lS at minneapolis.
Wheat scared on the Chicago board Of
trade Wednesday. September opened
rs to III cents higher at $1.06A to
$1.06A. Later the market became great
ly excited, owing to a food OF buying or
ders on crop damage reports, and Sep
TENDER advanced TO $1.09, but receded
on realizing sales, closing at $1.0S1a. De-
cember advanced to S1.10, but reacted,
closing 3% to 4 cents higher at f1.093e.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Wednesday
morning September wheat touched $1.l2.
changes We're very rapid. The advance
was based on higher cables and fears that
rains in the northwest will spread the
rust damage.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24

New York; Demonstrations against
the non-union men who are taking their
places In the packing plants Of Schwarz-
schild & Sulxberger and the United
Dressed Beef Company were renewed
Friday by the striking beef butchers and
their sympathisets. Assaults on nom
union drivers became general during the
afternoon.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
ONE MAN KILLED.
T~hrashfng Machine Goes Through
q Bridge Near sheldon, la.

While taking a thrashing machine
across a bridge one-halr mile west of
Sheldon, Ia, the bridge caved in, in
stantiy killing p. ]. Shannon, the engi-
neer, and crushing the leg Of Jack Bacon
so It will have to be amputated.
The machine is owned by Henry Run
ger. As 1t approached the center OF the
bridge there was a crashing noise, and
the timbeRs gave way, letting the entire
machine into the creek. Both men
jumped, but were unable to save them
selves. The bridge was IS feet long.
y Shannon was terribly crushed and
scalded, and It is believed he was killed
instantly. Bacon's leg was horribly man.
gled.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
Big Creamery Busin ess.

A creamery company which has a
branch at Mt. Vernon reports that dur
ing the mopth of July it paid to farmers
In the vicinity an aggregate of 500 600
for butter and eggs which the ompan
purchased. The farmers Of that part Of
the state are each year paying more at
tention to the dairy business.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24

The new of the defeat OF the vladivo-
stok squadron has added another crush
ing blow to the reverses before Port Ar
thur. No public ann ouncement at st.
Petersburg has JET teen made OF the
sinking Of the Rurik.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24

Sunday was the hottest day on record
at Pukwana, at 3 p. m. the thermometer
reaching no degrees in the shade. Prai-
re fires are almost daily occurrences.
Sunday a large area of country between
Pukwana and Chamberlain was burned
over. The corr crop is past redemption
and the farmers are selling off their
hogs as fast rs they can get them 70
market.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
Children and Matches.

A combination of children and matches
caused a serious loss to Z. L.. Forbes, a
Day County farmer. The children, while
playing in a barn, set fire to the struct-
ure. 1t was found impossible to extin-
guish the flames and the barn, together
with a large quantity of hay and a val
liable horse, was entirely consumed, en-
failing quite a heavy loss, with only 500
insurance.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24

A special train from Cincinnati. bound
for Coronado Beach, CAL, and running
as the second section of No. 8 on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
way. was ditched one mile east of Scran-
ton, Kan, Wednesday afternoon. One
person was fatally injured, FIVE were hurt
seriously and six others sustained slight
Injuries.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
Organize a Gun Club.

AT a meeting Of a number Of Clear Lake
marksmen it was decided to organize q
gun club, which starts out with a mem.
bership OF twenty-five. Grounds have
been secured at a convenient point in the
city, a new trap has been purchased and
shooting tournaments will be held at fire.
quent intervals.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-24
A Dipping Vat of Steel.

A. W. Drew and e. f. Hall, of Belle
Fourche, loaded out Monday a steel cat
tie dipping vat. The vat was 20 feet
in length, A inches wide at the top and
Is inches at the bottom. 1t was taken
out in two sections, having been put to-
gether before being shipped, and made
two pretty good loads. The vat will be
set up on the Drew ranches on Antelope
Craek