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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-23
THE HURRICANE IN CUBA.
More Than One Hundred Persons Per
ished as the Result.

Santiago de Cuba, June 1S.-The re-
cent fall of fourteen inches of rain In
five hours, accompanying a hurricane.
has resulted In the death OF more than
100 persons. The most severe loss
was at the village of Ell Cobra, where
about sixty persons were drowned.
The river rose instantly. covering the
lower part of the village. Bodies were
carried eight miles to the bay. Thirty
bodies were recovered.
Six persons were drowned at Bal
quiri, fourteen at Ell Caney and many
in the surrounding country. The list
Is still incomplete.
One hundred and fifty houses were
destroyed or damaged here and five
persons lost their lives.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-23
BACK AT vLADIvosTok.

Russian Cruisers Return 4 Port With.
out Sustaining Damage.
st. Petersburg. June 21.-Undss
date Of June 20. Vice Admiral Skryd-
lon sent the following message to the
emperor:
The cruiser division has returned
to vladivostok without losing any men
or sustaining any damage"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-23
PLEA OF NOT GUILTY.

Counsel for Mrs. Patterson Asks for
an Early Trial.
New York, June PA formal plea
OF not guilty was made by Mrs. Nan
Patterson when she was arraigned In
the court of general sessions charged
with the murder of Caesar Young,
the bookmaker. At the same time
counsel for Mrs. Patterson served no.
tice on the district attorney that a mo-
ton would be made for the court to
direct an early trial for the defendant.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-23
SENT FROM CRIPPLE CREEK,
One Hundred and F~orty-four Men De-
ported Since June 6. =

porteo ONCE june ..
Victor, Colo. June 17.-One hun
dred and forty-four union miners and
their sympathizers have been deport-
cd from the Cripple Creek region since
June 6 and about 60 are booked for
exile. There remain as prisoners In
the bull pens and jails at Cripple Creek
and Victor Y men. most OF whom will
probably he ordered out OF camp with
In a fortnight.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-23
APPALLING DISASTER
EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY
FIVE VICTIMS OF sLocuM
HORROR RECOVERED.

New York, June 22.-The search for
bodies of the victims of the burning of
the steamer General Slocum continues.
BY the use of dynamite and heavy
guns, scores Of bodies were brought up
from the bottom near the shore around
North Brother island Tuesday. From
sunrise to sunset the searchers along
the beach and in the boats gathered
in 112, bringing the number of bodies
recovered to date up to the appalling
total of S45. OF these 700 have been
identified and the missing still are APP
proximated at something over 300.
Washington. June pa commits
sion consisting of Lawrence o. MUIR
ray, Major General NJ. w. Wilson,
Commander Cameron MGR. Wilson,
Herbert Knox Smith and Mr.. George
Uhler has been appointed to investi-
gate the disaster to the General Slo-
cum. The commission will report at
once to Secretary Cortelyou.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-23
BOTH CLAIM CONTROL.
Hearst and Anti-Hearst Men on Min
nesota Democratic Convention.

Duluth, June 22.-Possibly a third
Of the delegates to the Democratic
state convention have reached Duluth
and the hotel corridors are thronged.
Both the Hearst and anti-Hearst men
claim that they will be In the majority
when the test comes OF the question
for temporary chairman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
TO THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

When Uncle Joe Cannon was deliver ing his arm-swinging notification speech at Oyster Bay. he fiercely told the President that the Democrats did not dare tell the truth about his con duct in the Panama business. And the President started forward from his seat eagerly crying out That's so, that's SOL
 There Is gross impertinence in this when the conduct of the Senate with respect to all the official correspondence is considered. All the truth cannot be told because the President and the Senate have suppressed the facts. We are we'll aware that many Democrats were quite willing to secure the canal at any expense of smartness, cunning or brutal display of force. We do not care to be put in such class The canal was certain to be constructed by one of two routes and it is equally cer- preferred would eventually have come into our hands.
 Recurring to the challenge of MT. Cannon. repeated by the President, we wish to ask why the correspondence on the part of our government that pre- ceded the Panama revolution has never been published. Our information is that the minority in the Senate made a most determined effort to have the seal of secrecy removed and the Republi- cans turned faces of steel against the proposal. Why? That is a question the National Committee might 1t seems to us ask with all propriety of the President or Secretary Hay The cor respondence as communicated to the Senate in response to Senator Hoar's resolution Is buried in the executive archives of the Senate. The same cor respondence, the originals in fact. are with the State Department and while the President Is clustering and brag- ging about his management of the canal business and defying the Demo- crats to tell the truth as to his con- duet in the premises. he should be call ed down with a demand that he tell the whole truth himself.
 we are persuaded that correspon- dence if made public would put a big black suirch somewhere and this is the raeson 1t is kept secret and not because of any ticklish relations with European countries It Is this last ground that is ordinarily urged as the true ground for keeping the correspondence secret. There is no conceivable reason for thinking any European country was in- volved In the Panama transaction in any such way as to make 1t improper to set forth the truth. the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The cowardice is in fact on the Republican side. They have not dared tell the country the facts and will not dare. Why then permit them to go arrogantly along charging the Democrats with fear of speaking out?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 1904.
DIETING MEAT STRIKES.

The ending of the great meat strike may or may not result in a material and permanent reduction in prices from those which have prevailed of late. The strike itself was without defence and }he results ought to teach valuable lesson. The exact loss occasioned by 1t may not ever be accurately known, as so many interests were affected that the figures are not obtainable. We Nave seen 1t estimated at fifteen million IolIars, but 1t Is doubtful if this covers all the direct and indirect losses arising From this ill-advised movement. Much of this falls on the strikers and their Families, but perhaps the greatest bur len was on the millions of consumers of meat and lard who have been forced 10 pay higher prices. They were not to blame. directly or indirectly, for the strike, but they pay the cost.
 And this brings us-the people of Alabama-to the consideration of the question of minimizing the effect of such occurrences in future. The New Orleans Picayune remarks that the people of that city were fortunate, be- cause, as it states, this city is live stock center, and local dealers here are therefore in no wise dependent upon the great packing houses of the West for their meat supply" Then 1t adds this paragraph:
 The farmers of the section tributary to New Orleans should be encouraged to raise more stock a result that could readily be accomplished if our people should stand together in support of this important and growing home industry. We have just realized its value. there fore. let us determine to maintain it.
 That paragraph is commended to the people of this city and State. Why may not Montgomery become "a live stock center" as well as New Dreams? Not to the same extent. perhaps. but very largely so. As The Picayune suggests, the farmers and stock raisers should stand together for their own interests. and Montgomery would stand with them. It may not be practica- ble to raise in Alabama all the meat that~s required. but enough could be produced to render us largely inde- pendent of strikes and corners and other means by which we are forced to p8y greatly advanced prices for meat. There must be profit in it, both for producers and consumers
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27

is all can do to get through the head lines. And do you know, half l read is about women being murdered. What in the deuce do you want to kill the pretty things for?'
 To see ourselves as others see us is not always edifying, and sometimes has merely the effect of confirming us in our ways. In the foregoing snap shot the jovial Texan gives q flashlight Siew that Is worthy of serious consid- ity. than 1t will get. The good humor of it, however. takes away its sting Our own photographers are inclined. reason New Workers probably will not recognize their likeness in the picture the Texan presents. Let us hope we are not quite as ex-Governor Hogg sees us.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
Expansionist.
A New wrinkle in City Government.

Denver News.
 The charter of the city of Los Ange- les provides for the "recalr' of officials believed to have proven themselves unworthy of the trust bestowed upon them.
 Six of the city aldermen have been carrying matters with high hand. granting franchises that were anwar- ranted and awarding the printing con tract to a paper whose bid was $l3o00 higher than the next lowest office.
 The Good Government League select ed a member-one of the six-from one ward by the machinery of the new re- call. The petition for recall and new election had to contain 25 per cent of the voters of the ward.
 Half the number which voted at the preceding election was soon obtained but the city clerk refused to ac 'ept the names of such as had moved since the directory was issued. A second re- tition the unwilling official was op- dered. An effort to secure an inJunc- tion failed and the matter came to a vote.
 The alderman attacked was defeated by a vote of two to one. in spite of the active efforts of the elements in whose interests his malfeasance had been carried on.
 Doubtless the remaining five alder- men will now be proceeded against and, if equally successful, Los Angeles will begin to believe that there is. af- ter all, such a thing as popular rule.
 The first charter drafted for Greater Denver. which was defeated by the cor poration interests which are undertak- ing now to run both city and State contained a provision for the recall" or removal of officials deemed unwor- thy by the people. On petition Of 30 per cent of the vote cast at the last election the holder of any office was required to go before the people for approval or disapproval of his course The charter. of course, was defea: ed corporatiop hossas don't want it fSs tba, tia the people shall be able to remove rn- faithful public officers. The people of Los Angeles are fortunate in posses css- Ing the power.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
PLAIN TALK. Food for Thought There, Too.

Having found out for myself the food that enables me to get the most pleasure out of life. l consider it a duty to tell someone else my experience" says a Mass woman.
 Born with a weak and sensitive stomach, I suffered long with indiges- tion and the many ills arising from it, general constipation. weakness of the bowels together with catarrhal inflam- nation and rheumatism of every form and fashion with a tremendous amount of suffering. I had what is known as deposits of brick dust and uric acid, with almost every other impurity of the blood which such condition can pro duce
 Coming to the conclusion that I must eat to live and not live to eat I began looking about to find the best way and among the many foods tested was Grape Nuts. I did not use it as a gen- Fral food or exclusively, but simply ate it once day. either a morning or night on an empty stomach and soft ened in warm cream or milk with little sugar. bread or butter or cooked or raw fruit. T'p to this time I had tried every known remedy for consti- patton and had to rely on the medicines although I continually got worse in stead of better; within 2 short time tho vi ip MUS loOO NWnltu q HlWdNS ulStSt cd) had toned up my whole system and digestive organs in particular until every bit of constipation and bowel trouble disappeared and l bade good bye to all the cathartics.
 Now after using Grape. Nuts two years I still think it delicious My rheumatism is all gone, also the con stipation, something I had never ever hoped for. never have headache now adays. my eye sight and hearing are excellent for one of my age. but had given me much trouble while I suffered from constipation. I am now past so years of age, but walk out and enjoy it. Feel strong and well. and I know the Grape-Nuts has given added vigor to my brain, too. IL would be very grati- flying to me to know that my letter had helped show others the way to Il proper diet that has cured my stomach and bowel trouble. Name given by Postum Co.,. Battle Creek, Mich
 Look in each pkg. for the famous lit- tie book, The Road to Melville"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
Ex-SPEAKER HENDERSON.
Has Failed Both Mentally and Physi-
 caIly.

Has Failed Both Mentally and Physi-
 cally.
 Des Moines, Ia. dispatch to New York
 The Republicans of this State have learned with great sorrow that Col. David B. Henderson. who retired from Congress and the Speakership of the House two years ago, has suffered so greatly from i'll health and the pain of his old army wound that his memory has lost it's former keenness. He will live the remainder~ of his years in re- tirement with his daughter.
 It is given out at his home that he is unable to travel and that he can never hope to appear in public again. It had been planned that the former Speaker should deliver d few public addresses. and that he might come to Des Moines and welcome his successor, Speaker Cannon. on his arrival in the city next week. But he will be unable to do this.
 The primary cause of his breakdown is found in his loss of a leg due to an army wound. But for the fact that he was man of great natural strength. it is said he would have given up pub lie and business activity long ago.
 When he announced his retirement. two years ago, there was much mystery as to the cause. He had just attended a conference of the leading politicians in this city and had announced with much enthusiasm that he would defend the platform just adopted unanimously by the Iowa Republicans. including the tariff plank, which embraced what was then called for the first time the Iowa idea"
 Then he went home and immediately wrote a declination of his nomination for Congress, basing his reason entire ly on a statement that he could not stand on the State platform. His friends then felt that the incident marked a failing mind.
 He had represented the Third Iowa District in Cong ress many years, and was unanimously renominated He was very popular with the Grand Army and attended all reunions, but since his return from New York last spring he has not attended any reunions and has not taken up business in any way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
cetterS tc tbe Gdftcr
Court Square .

Editor The Advertiser:
 If the place that the fountain oc- cupies on Court Square Is the only one that can be secured for an office build ing, where on earth can the next onei be built? Lo! and behold, Montgomery can have only one office building. and no more, and of course, we ought to present the Square gratis to the Bir- mingham philanthropists for the pur- pose and have the City Council appro- priate $50,000 to help construct the portunity escape.
 But. seriously. Mir. Editor if an office building is erected on this spot, what does it mean? Business will be more contracted and congested around Court Square. Property there will enhance in value and deteriorate in other parts of the city. Crowds will throng around this building Knabe's corner, and the Merchants and Planters Farley Nation al Bank corner and with the numerous street cars and vehicles that pass up and down Dexter Avenue. 1t will be almost worth your life to cross the street near this point.
 One prominent attorney stated to me the other day that he was in favor of moving the fountain because the blow ing waters from 1t spoiled pretty la dies dresses. This can be easily stop ped by some practical business-like all derman having passed an ordinance pro- waters where pretty ladies resort
 The other day l dropped into prom inent real estate office and an Eastern farmer came in to figure with the pro- prietor in regard to locating here. About the first remark he made was This must be the most productive cot ton section in the world. The amount of cotton up there on that Square is ap- palling Is all of 1t raised in this VI cinity? What better use could be made of the space occupied by the fountain than advertising our chief product and industry-cotton. If the fa,, tot eyn . the space be used for cotton wagons and advertise our great staple to strangers who will flock to the New Exchange. and build the office building in some other part of the town and pand and stop advertising to the world that Court Square is the only place where property Is valuable and where business will thrive. This view is too narrow and contracted and Is not justi- fled by experience. I venture to say that the new building occupied by El- lis and Gay, the Jesse French Piano and Organ Company, and the Louisville and Nashville Law Department are paying investments.
 EXpanSiOniSt,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
THE NEW YORK SITUATION.

Down here at the South we are more than apt to have our views of New York politics colored if not shaped outright by New York newspapers. New York Is the most interesting city in this country and the newspapers published there are more generally and widely read than those of Boston. Philadel- phia, Chicago, St. Louis or New Or leans.
 If one should, however, at this pre- sent hour try to make up his mind as to the prospect of the Democratic state ana national ticket in the Empire State, he would be confused and troubled in mind if he looked to the newspapers alone for guidance and direction. For example The Sun is supporting the Republican candidate for the Presidency and opposing the Republican nominee for Governor. That great and good journal The Even ing Post. that watterson says is edited in Heaven. is supporting the Demo- cratic nominee for the Presidency, but halts at the Democratic nominee for the Governors ofice. The World and The Times, both usually good party organs, make so brave a pretence of independence that they hesitate and make wry faces over the nomination of Judge Herrick for the States high est ofice. They will support him, but they plainly do this with a mental reservation.
 We venture to Believe that business considerations had a hand in controlling policies of these several newspapers; that they are anxious to retain control of certain trade. so to speak: of that large element in New York city that seems to find a joy in not being Of any party or any organization Whether this is so or not, we feel sure the &C., ton of the State Convention at Sara toga in naming the ticket it did. has removed New York from the doubtful column and assured 1t for the Demo- cratic Party. Never in the history of the party has New York been in bet ter shape than 1t is right now. The pIcblcH pCtolC thc SohfChtAOh AiSNt as we heard one New Yorker express 1t, was how to lose the State not how to carry it. The convention. in one of the most memorable gatherings ever known, decided by sinking all factional differences and every bit of personal pique or pride. to carry the State and carried 1t will be.
 As the case stands the Democratic Party has every reasonable ground to count on New York and the contigu- ous States that usually respond to and follow the lead of that State. The | duty of the National Committee Is made plain to the wayfaring man at a distance. Without remitting work in the East. they should throw their at- tention to the Middle West. We know there is a disposition to look to some of the Rocky Mountain States for the handful of votes necessary with the East to insure victory and they should be had if possible. The real battle-ground. however, should be In- diana. Illinois and Wisconsin. Every energy in our judgment should be put into the effort to carry those States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
TRY FOR COLORADO.
Situation Requires Careful HAndIIng-
 Telling Circular Issued.

New York Special.
 The Democratic national managers have decided to make a strong fight for Colorado. They hesitated at first to the delicacy of the situation, fearing that if they denounced the military outrages and the deportation of men without trial their attitude would be deliberately misstated by the opposition into defense of the dynamite out rages.
 They have issued a striking circular which declares that $S42,096 has been the cost of maintaining the military in the field and at the Brown Palace in Governor James H. Peabody, the Re publican Chief Executive. It Is assert cd that the picturesque General Sher- man Bell maintained glittering staff costing thousands of dollars per week The extravagances of the militia are pointed out. and 1t is declared that the officers had valets and run up the most eXtrao aordinary bills.
 \ Pen Picture of Roosevelt. Louisville Courier Journal.
 His abuse of the South, and of all things Southern. Is part-and per haps the sinCerest part-of the under lying duplicity of his character for 1t doubtless had its orIgination in the mo- ton that, as there was a Confederate side to his house, he must be extra loyal to the other side in order to ef- face it. Hence in his earlier writings he has nothing but "archcousprators and rebels" and traitors" to say of most of the Confederate leaders His theory was that they had but two rights that to be hanged and that to be damned. <" Denied by his tender years the happiness of advocating the hanging of them, he proceeded to damn them, as far as he coUld, in print Yet. were his blood-curdling sentiments thrift thrift, Horatio, thrift" He was not old enough to know anything Of the passions of the war. His faith CT, though a patriotic Northern man, was d moderate man. The ruffie to his shirt Is Southern-the hot blood Is Bull lock, not Roosevelt, blOod-and If he had been born south and had lived in the epoch preceding the war, he would have been rank Secessionist; born North. with the Southern blot on his seutch"on. he thought 1t the canny thing to do to pluck 1t out by the roots, as 1t were-or to seem to do so-and, from that day to this he has lost no opportunity to prescribe and blacklist the people of the South. undotng much of the good wrought by the more tenn perate man-loving Republican leaders rom Grant to Mckinley.
 A man who can so hate the kindred or ms mother cannot by any chance be worthy man.
 (But Tom Watson says he prefers Roosevelt to Parker.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
Hogs Rubs It In on New York

@NtW l hlh IlDuIlp.
 Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas, large of body and mind and jovial as becomes one of his physical and financial m- plitude, has come up to New York. not for business or politics. but just "op q fun trip and to get something good tu eat" Seen by a Globe" reporter. the Texas statesman, who always says what he thinks and generally keeps ur his thinking in advance of what he says, made this breezy comment on New York and it's ways;
 You think We are all bronco busters and bad men in Texas, don't you? Umph. If we killed one-half as many men in Texas as you do here in New York, you would be getting out a red headed extra every minute. That isn't overstating the case a bit. You thrash out papers by the eartloNd Cv- cry minute now. By the eternal, l body could read em all. l don't dc anything but sit over at the Waldorf and eat and try to read them. and 1t