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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
COLLEGES UNITED.
Redfieid and Wilton Are to Be Made
One.

'S
1t has been informally announced at
Redfield that the trustees Of Wilton
college, Wilton, Iowa, have approved
of the plan of uniting that institution
with Redfield college, and in all prob
ability the union will be effected this
fall. President Patch of Redfield col
funds; has presented his resignation to
the board of trustees, and President
Sell of Wilton will probably be made
the head of the united college.
Rev. Farriston Reynolds, president
Of the board of trustees of Redfeld
college, has returned from his trip
East. During his absence, besides sew
eral minor gifts, he secured three inn
pOrtant benefits for the college. He
obtained the approval Of the institu-
ton by the educational board of the
Congregational churches. He secured
a further gift from the same bo1y of
men Of $4,000 on condition that the full
$4,000 for endowment be raised and
that the union with Wilton be effected.
He also obtained from the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company a do
nation of land valued at ) 5000, on con-
dition that the $50, 900 be raised and
that the proceeds from the sale of the
land under 10 circumstances be used
10 meet current expenses.
Besides these two gifts, $4,000 has
already been subscribed, and conse-
quently the trustees are putting forth
Every effort to raise the additional 500
300 by commencement day, June Is.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
SHOT CURES RHEUMATISM.
When Mans Skull Is Patched Up He
Finds Malady Gone.

Frank Cessne, who about a month
ago shot himself in the back of the
head with a Winchester rifle, while in
a Claim shanty White River, is
out of st. Mary's hospital in Pierre.
Cessne was suffering from rheumatism
in a shanty and alone, and after sew
eral days of torture he shot himself
The shot struck him in the back of the
head and he lay in the shanty alone for
a day before he a discovered and
taken to the hospital. 1t was found
necessary to remove several pieces OF
skull. but he has recovered from the
effects of the self-inflicted wound, and
is also free from rheumatism. In fact
he says the rheumatic pains left him
at once after the shooting.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
10 GROWS FAsTIDioUs. :.
Indian Boy Charged With Stealing
Curlinu Tones and Powder.


Stephen Soldier Is the name of a
Sioux Indian boy who has been brought
to Sioux Falls by Deputy United States
Marshal Jerry Carleton and lodged in
Jail on the charge Of burglary, The
prisoner is a good example of what CIV
ilization is doing for the Indians in the
way of multiplying certain wants. The
Indian boy, it is charged, broke into an
Episcopal mission at Yankton Indian
agency and stole a number of articles
among them a pair of women's curling
irons and a box of face powder. The
prisoner is fond of dress, wearing his
hair in the fashion adopted by football
players, and it is thought he may nave
intended to improve his personal ap-
pearance by utilizing the curling irons
and powder. AS a United States grand
jury will not be in session until next
September he will have to spend the
summer in the county Jail at Sioux
Falls.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
LYONS MANIA FOR MARRYING.
A Confessed Bigamist Sentenced al
Sioux Falls,


Judge Jones of Sioux Falls has sen.
fenced REV" Charles A. Lyons, a self.
confessed bigamist, to four years at
hard labor in the p%enitentiary.
1t was argued in behalf of the pris.
oner that the marriage mania was the
only crime that could be charged
against him. His attorney also ex.
pressed the opinion that Lyons would
not live for three years longer, as
there was every indication that he had
q blood clot on the brain.
Lyons was captured in st. Paul the
latter part Of April, after having been
a fugitive since last December. He
made his first appearance IN Sioux
Falls a year ago. He protested to be
a preacher, and as he presented Gre
dentials which appeared genuine. he
vas soon in good standing.
He made his home for a time with
Rev. E. A. Orr, pastor of the Christian
church. Last summer he became ac-
quainted with Miss Emma Plrvis, Ste
nographer in a local bank. Lyons
wooed her with great ardor and on Oct.
5 last they were married.
On Dec. % Lyons mysteriously dis
appeared, and through his wife's per-
sonal efforts was located in st. Paul,
where, under the name of George Da-
Wis, he was working as a b~ookbinder.
1t has been definitely ascertained
that he had been married four or five
times before he made his appearance
in Sioux Falls, and the local authori-
ties are confident that he has been
married many other times.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
HEADS OFF LAW SHARKS.
Rosebud Agency Officials Tell Resi-
dents Not to Probate Estates.

The officials at Rosebud agency have
issued a notice warning residents of
the reservation who are interested in
inherited Indian land, and wish to list
the tracts for sale, that it is not neces-
sary for them to employ attorneys to
have the estates probated unless there
are minor heirs or unless there is a
question of heirship involved. 1t Is
stated that when it can be determined
at the Office of the United States In
dian agent who are the heirs, and when
none of them are minors, it is simply
a waste Of time and money to take the
cases into the probate court. All cases
whether probated or not, go to the sec.
rotary of the interior for his approval
and if not approved by him all the pro-
bate proceedings cuts no figure what
ever.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20

The president has issued a proc
lamation for the entry Of coded lands
OF the Rosebud Indian reservation in
South Dakota, beginning on Aug. s
next. The lands will be selected by
lot and a drawing will be established
tor that purpose.
There are almost 100000 acres of the
coded land and some of it Is very fer
tile. Much interest has been mani
tested on the part Of would-be settlers
and Commissioner Richards oil the
general land Office said that he had re.
ceived no less than a thousand letters
Of inquiry concerning the opening.
For the purpose Of greater conven.
,eEce to entrymen the land offices at
chamberlain will be temporarily re-
moved to Bonesteel, which is only four
miles from the reservation. The en-
tries at Bonesteel will continue from
Aug. = to Sept. 10 and afterward will
De continued at Chamberlain.
For the Settlers.
Other details Of the proclamation
are as follows:
"A persons are especially admon-
ished that under the said act of con-
gress, approved April 23, 1904, it is
provided that no persons shall be per-
mitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter
Qnv nf cold oaInI 1ooIo o,1o~4 T. A.
manner prescribed in this proclama-
ton until after the expiration of sixty
days from the time when the same are
opened to settlement and entry.
After the expiration Of the said
period OF sixty days, but not before.
and until the expiration Of three
months after the same shall have
been opened for settlement and entry,
as heretofore prescribed, any of the
said lands remaining under the gen
eral provisions of the homestead and
townsite laws of the United States in
like manner, as if the manner of effect.
ing such settlement, occupancy and
entry had not been prescribed here in
obedience to law, subject, however, to
the payment Of four dollars per acre
for the land entered. in the manner
and at the time required by the said
act of congress above mentioned.
" After expiration of three months
and not before, and until expiration Of
and not before, and until the expira-
ton Of six months after the same shall
have been opened for settlement and
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20

Preparations are rapidly being COM
pleted for the annual spring roundup
Of cattle on the great ranges of West
ern South Dakota. Thousands of
%bronchos are being gathered for the
use of the small army of cowboys and
stockmen who will participate in the
roundup.
The roundup this spring will be
more important than for years past
owing to the severity Of the spring
storms, two of which were experienced
during the month of April - much
later than usual.
Opinions as to the losses differ
greatly, some stockmen believing that
the losses during the winter and
spring will exceed 10 and may go be-
yond Is per cent. Those who take this
dismal view state that the roundup
will develop the fact that the losses,
especially in the Belle Fourche dis
trict. are greater than the owners are
willing to admit.
Other cattlemen take a more hope
full view and express the opinion that
the losses will not be greater than
usual, and will be about the average of
the past few years.
The result of the roundup will show
which view is correct, and because OF
this, and the fact that the thousands of
head of cattle which were last fall
turned loose on the open range to shift
for themselves-aS was customary
were widely scattered by the storms Of
the winter and spring, keen interest is
taken in what this springs roundup
will develop.
Jack Whipple, general foreman of
the roundup parties to be operated
under the direction Of the Western
South Dakota Stock Growers associa-
ton. has introduced a new rule for the
government Of the cowboys who will
work under his supervision, which
prohibits them carrying firearms.
cards and liquor while engaged in the
roundup.
The first roundup party will leave
Fort Pierre May Is, and commence
work at the mouth of Yellow Medicine
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
SOWING LEADS TO SUICIDE.
F arrner Discouraged Because He
Didn't Use Grain Enouuh.

Upbraiding himself because he found
he had sown three pecks of grain to
the acre instead of five, Otto Sibb. a
prominent farmer living three miles
from Flaxton, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head. He
made an unsuccessful attempt to end
his life the night before by cutting his
throat with a razor, but surgical aid
was called and he was in a fair way to
recovery. He vas unconscious most
of the night, but while his guards were
out OF the room in the morning he re-
gained consciousness, and getting hold
OF a rife, shot himself through the
head.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
STEAL HOUSES IN DAKOTA.
Pastor Loses Ranch Home and Settler
Is Carried Off in Castle"

Elder O. A. S~Wartwood, pastor of the
Christian church at Miller, states that
his house and fence have been stolen
from his homestead west of Pierre
while he was preaching to the people
at Miller and was unable to be on his
land. Another man recently returned
to his house after a months absence,
went to bed, only to awake in the night
ten miles from his land, thieves hav-
ing six horses hitched on moving it
west. The owner stepped out with two
guns and ordered the volunteer house
movers to forthwith return his home
to It's original foundation without pref
udice. The men did so, ap%ologizing by
saying they did not know he was home.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20

The farmers of Hutchinson county
are not doing much talking. but they
are Saving wood" in an effective man.
ner and rapidly becoming among the
wealthiest farmers of South Dakota,
They have recently sent to Eastern
markets an aggregate of over forty car
loads of fat cattle and hogs. On one
shipment of sixteen carloads the
freight amounted to about $1,000. The
cattle and hogs were raised and fat
tened in Hutchinson county, and at
the lowest estimate netted the farmers
who raised and fattened them an az.
gregate of $50. 900.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
NEW u EUUSE.
Faux County Needs One, the People
Thjnk

r ulk County NEEDS One, the People
Think.
The feeling is growing that Faulk
county should have a new court house
building, and efforts will be made to
induce the board of county commits
sioners to submit to the voters at the
election next fall the question of issu-
ing the necessary bonds for the cree
ton of such a building. Those who
are behind the movement favor the
construction of a building to cost $40,-
900 or $4,000, the bonds to be issued
for the purpose to run for a period of
twenty years, which would enable the
county to erect the building without
such an expenditure becoming a bur-
den On the taxpayers, who would thus
have evenly years in which to pay the
amount, increasing taxes but slightly
each year..
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
Quart Of Peanuts Kills.

Fairfield, Iowa, Nav 17.-As a result
of a wager that he could eat a quar-
of sailed peanuts at n sitting, Re,
Subbs, aged seventeen, is dead. Deatt
was caused by abcess Of the intestines
caused by the salt and peanuts.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
Shot in Bloody FIGHT.

Knoxville, Tenn, May II. - In a
bloody fight at a railroad camp near
Copper Ridge tunnel, seventeen miles
from here, Boss Andy Johnson was
shot and fatally wounded by George
Earl. colored. Earl was also killed,
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
Horse Draus and Kills Boy.

Huron. S. D., May 1.-THE son of
]. M. Silver and wife, aged about
seven years, was killed in a horrible
manner last evening. He was holding
a horse and wrapped the tie strap
about his wrist. The horse became
frightened and dragged the boy TO
death.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
SLAYER Of Two to Hano.

Red Cloud, Neb., May II. - Frank
Barker was found guilty yesterday OF
the murder OF his brother and broth.
er's wife. He was sentenced to hang
Sept. 2. The prisoner broke down
and made q full confession.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20
Santos Dumont Takes a Fly.

Santos DUnont Taxes a Fly.
Paris, May 17.-Santos Dumont yes
terday made a successful half-hour's
trial with his balloon No. 7. which he
will take to the st. Louis exposition.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20

The new packet boat which is being
constructed by Capt. Senechal at For
Pierre has been placed in the water
and the upper works are being con
structed while the machinery is being
placed in position. This boat will be
longer and narrower than any of the
boats now in use here, and will have
more powerful engines, it being the
intent Of the captain to use her fol
packet business on the river. 1t is ex
pected that the boat will be ready fol
work by the first of next month.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26
FIFTEEN CENTS.

Early in the cotton season I'D
persistenly ever since the Enter
prise told it's readers that cotton
would go to 15c in Georgia this
season, and it has.
Americas, Ca, Jan. 25.-Three
hundred bales of cotton were
sold in Americas this afternoon
at the round price of IS cents,
the highest price paid in twenty
years. Several farmers closed
out their entire holdings at this
figure and are now at work plant
ing another cotton crop.
Cotton is selling in Fitzgerald
to day for more than 15c per
pound.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

Editor Mercer has discovered,
so he says, that such a thing as
court scavengers" attend our
courts, and that he will so fully
define them that they will not be
DESTROYS of their position in
future courts. A new one on Us.
He says it is not janitor. What
are they Uncle Jesse. Irwin
County Courier.
Just PLAZA scaveng RS, that
feast on" the refuse and exist
by dent of their acute sent and
instinct in locating the dirty
things that honorable attorneys
leave
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26
BRIBERY.

The editor of the Arena, in an.
swer to the question, DO the
railroads govern the govern
ment?" says in part:
The chief secret of the sue.
cess of the public service com.
panies is found in the various
methods of indirect bribery that
have been employed on every
hand. Such, for example, as:
l. Free passes and other traf-
nc accommodations, popularity
known as courtesies.
2. Contribution to campaign
funds by means CT which the
support of the. political bosses
and managers, aud the influence
of partisan machines are secured
3. Retaining lawyers, and
then securing their nomination
to the legislature or congress or
securing the election of LAWYERS
who have long been their counsel,
andwho, as such, have been ac-
customed TO view every question
from the standpoin of their en-
ployers.
a. The lobby: Among the
many effective instruments of
corruption employed by the mon
opoly interests nothing save the
courtesies extended directly to
the peoples representatives and
the purchase of support by cam
paign contributions has proved
so fatal to pure government as
the powerful lobby sustained at
an enormous outlay by the cor
porations.
5. Special rate bribery: This
is another powerful weapon
which has been welded with tell
ing effect by the public carriers
Tor more than a quarter of CEN
fury.
%. Points on stocks or tips:
This has been another metod of
bribery by which favored legis-
lators have been enabled to &C
quire thousands and tens of
thousands of dollars by means of
information given them by trust
magnates.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

The Cordele Sentinel is evil
IDENTITY almost persuaded that
Willie Randolph H. is it.-Fitz-
gerald Enterprise.
Right Bro. Mercer, the Codele
Sentinel is also persuaded that
Mr.. Hearst is the only man in
the Democratic party who stands
the ghost Of show to rule this
great republic, believing this and
being Democratic to the core, we
are for Hearst first, last. and
every me.-Cordele Sentinel.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26
COTTON.
Are you cotton crazy?


Now is as good time. perhaps,
as will be offered.
Cotton is king in the South and
almost king in America. The
present crop on a II cent basis is
worth six hundred million dollars
and on IS cent basis is worth
seven hundred and fifty million,
with more than a hundred mill
lion for the seed, say eight hun
dred million for the cotton crop,
and next years crop can be sold
for about as much. 1t may be
sold for less or for more. That
depends on the size of the crop.
The smaller the crop the more
the South will get for it.
A queer statement.
But true. Eight million bales
will sell for more than twelve
million.
Fifteen million bales, Gift were
possible to produce that many,
would bring the South less mon
ey than seven and one-half mil
lion bales.
Let's see what the farmers
will do about it.
First, they naturally want to
see a small crop. Second, each
farmer wants to make as much
as possible of that crop. So that
does not argue we'll for a short
crop.
The cotton planters are not or.
gained and perhaps never will
be, but conditions over which
they have no control have limited
the crop in spite of them and
maze the South rich, and not
only brought many hundred mil.
lions into the hands of the plant.
ers directly, but has had the eff.
feet to double the value of South.
ern farms which alone means
billions.
We trust the farmers of Ir.
win county and south Georgia
and the South-oh! we'll, that
would spoil the whole PROPOSE.
ton. Everybody would like to
have few extra bales, which be-
ing the case, they will raise as
much as it is possible, limited
only by the soil, the seasons, the
labor and the insects.
The man who has cotton to sell
next fall will be in it. and, iudg-
ing from the number of young
mules that are going tothe farms
several of the Enterprise
readers expect to have cotton to
sell.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

The Fitzgerald Enterprise
states cold and crystal truth
when it says there are too many
weekly newspapers in Georgia.
A little more forethought and
sound business judgment on the
part of communities and would
be publishers would conduce
greatly to the public good
Triton Gazette.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

Congress is asked to provide
$4,000 deficit in the syrup boiling
plant at Waycross.
Fifteen thousand dollars was
first appropriated but it seemed
that $4,000 was absorbed in the
effort to demonstrate to south
Georgia farmers that there is
money in the business.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

The news of the death OF DR.
]. 0. Branch was indeed a shock
to thousands of people in the
South. He was widely
known and universally loved.
Not only was he a consecrated
christian but an admirable man,
a great scholar, a deep thinker
and a polished speaker. One OF
the best men, every thing consid'
cred the writer ever knew.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26
CORDELE NEWS.

Saturdays Corde1e News was
a hummer, great improvement
over it's old self.
Editor McKinzie's "A Word to
the Public" was too much in the
plural to admit of it's perusal,
but we take it for granted that
we understand it when we glance
over the paper.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

A tornado in Alabama last week
destroyed every house in the VIII
lage of Moundsville except a
small drug store, and wrecked
every car of a freight train ex-
cept one containing a sufficient
number of collins to bury the
more than three dozen who lost
their lives in the storm.
The drug store furnished
bandages and medicine for the
hundred wounded and the freight
car recsptsclss for the dead.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

There is a bunch of fossilized
crustaceans in this town who
would be deeply grieved to note
the success of any undertaking
not putting immediate coin in
their own Professionalism
News. There are other towns
in other states in the same cate.
gory.-Waycross Herald.
We sympathize with S. =.
towns.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

The man who thinks Fitzger-
aid is half grown is simply a
lunay. Can't see as far into a
mill stone as mouse could gnaw.
When we get the Belgian blocks
and trolley lines we will then
just be started on the road up
ward.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

Pneumonia, to the drunkard,
stands for certain death in ninety
cases out of every hundred.
Pneumonia makes a sure stroke
with those who indulge heavily
in liquors.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

Jim Ti1lman is now a back
number in South Carolina. The
newspapers do not mention him
any more.-Albany Herald.
When he shot Editor Gonzales
he killed himself.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

~. Durbin, of Indiana, who
ntly visited Fitzgerald, is be-
Boosted in some quarters as
ident.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

John Herring may not have a
contract to keep the bears off
of Griggs but he is giving yards
of space and many hours of toll
in explanation of that wiley
politicians doings.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

And W. A. Allen after a years
rest has returned to his frst1ove,
the fourth estate. We knew he
couldn't quit and stay quit, al
though he solemly told us that
he was done for good.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

icago stockmen have pur-
ia a million acres in south
ana and western Florida to
illzed as a pasturage.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

neither Mr.. Cleveland be-
les candidate or not, the
ocratic party will need his
ership next fall.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

1t seems that cotton did not
halt at the IS mile post but is
going right on to zoe. We fear
that is too good to last.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

Liquid sunshine" is the lat
est scientific offering. If it is
anything like liquid moonshine,
oh! let the blessed liquid sun
shine in,' says the Rome Tri-
bune.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

ldosta board of trade
letter freight rates and
the matter up with the
! Commission. They also
etter freight accom- moda-
! the depots, where freight
nently delayed several
ID the lack of facilities.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-26

4 Jesse Mercer, of Fitz.
ere are enough good peo-
fzgerald to land every
N OUTLAW in the pen,
become aroused and,
j IL they are about to
used" He is placed
good position to help
and from the looks
size be was doing his
blessing 'twould
Irwin County