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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-11-11

and smooth, made SO by the wash
ing of the waves of countless ages,
Sheep Inspector j. r. Weddell
was up from Arlington way Monday
Miss Martha Wilmarth came
down from Aberdeen the latter part
of last week for a short visit with
friends.
Mrs. A. Bland writes from
Oregon that she aud MI. B. are both
enjoying good health. Mrs Bland
has improved greatly since their re-
moval from this city. In a financial
way they like the country and are
doing well.
George Snsezeby, of Mathews
township, is happy in the possession
of a flowing we'll on his farm. The
well was bored with a 2-foot anger
to a depth of go feet. A two-inch
stream of water flows from the well
night and day. George is in fine
luck.
-Delos Perry received a telegram
Tuesday stating that his youngest
son, Fay, who was with his mother
in Oregon, is dead. No particulars
were included in the message. Mr..
Perry thinks it may have been heart
disease, as it was know that Fay
was troubled that way. The many
De Smet acquaintances extend their
heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved.
In a copy of the FIT. Collins
(Col.) Courier we find the following
item concerning a former popular
young lady of this city.
To Miss Beatrix Hall belongs the
honor of being the first woman
notary public to be appointed in
Larimsr county. Miss Hall has been
employed as stenographer and type
writer in Judge Bailey's office for
the past two years. Her commits
sion was placed on record Tuesday.
-Gyy Geoleagc, who has been
attending the State School of Mines
for more than a year, arrived the
middle of last week for a visit
with his mother and friends 10 the
icity. Cyril is making his way
through the school and is making
rapid progress. He is a hustling
young mar and all De Smet people
are glad to know that be is getting
along nicely. He returned Friday
evening.
Mathews township went republi-
can by about 10 majority. This
township has always been strong for
the democrats or populists in years
past. But the change in the political
complexion of Mathews is not much
greater than that which has taken
place in Spring Lake township in
the last four years. At one time
the populists, or peoples party, car
ried the latter precinct by q good
majority, but this year the peoples
party did not receive a single vote.
The Northwestern railroad COM
pany has reason to congratulate it.
self, and the people Of the state
have reason TO be thankful that the
extreme care exercised by the officials
in the carrying of thousands up
on thousands upon crowded
trains was accomplished without a
single accident. officials and train
men strained every nerve and took
every possible precantion against
accidents. Trains carrying passen-
gers were given track privileges that
made collisions an i~mpossibility.
West of Huron where the lighter
stcsl is still used section men made
four trips of inspection owe each
section every t~wenty-four hours. The
Milwaukee road was less fortunate
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-11-11
Residence For Sale.

My house and three lots on Third
street west of the Catholic church
are for sale. ANsoN WRiGHT.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
PROGRESSIVE JAPAN.

The rapidity with which Japan, while
retaining many Asiatic characteristics,
is identifying itself with the Western
Powers and with advanced civilization,
was recently evidenced in a notable
way. on January 18th, 1904 ratinca-
tons of the new treaty between the
United States and China were exchang-
ed, and on the same date the recent
treaty between Japan and China was
published. The first treaty opens Muk-
den or Moukden to trade and thus, and
in other ways, commits Our govern
ment to the policy of commercial eX-
pansion in Manchuria. The Japanese.
who have grasped modern improve
ments with unexpected assnilating
power, secured, by Article VII of their
treaty, among other things, the reform
of Chinese weights and measures, the
Importance of which is obvious. Their
most signal success, however, which
does not inure exclusively to their own
benefit, is in Article Y, which provides
that the Chinese judicial system shall
be revolutioniZed so as to harmonic
with the judicial systems in Japan and
in the Western nations. This provision
is radical enough to awaken defunct
Chinese jurists from their long sleep.
The whole treaty is an important part
of the uprising of China from the petri-
faction of many ages. To make it alb
solutely effective, Article XII declares
that, in cases of dispute, all questions
of construction shall be determined by
the English text.
The coincidence above mentioned, in
connection with the evidence of
liberal policy manifested by the treaties
themselves, shows the determination of
Japan, while relying upon its own re-
sources, to range itself with the great
powers of the world.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
FARMERS LITTLE FOE.

Is is melancholy tale OF a promis-
ing venture in small farming come to
grief from a minute enemy as unit,
but in it's tribal strength a conquering
army that leaves a track of desolation
behind it, the account the Advertisers
staff correspondent with the Governors
party gives of the visitation of the cut
worm to the fertile district of Waimea.
The California colony of farmers at
Wahiawa on this island had full knowl-
edge of the danger from the cut-worm,
but they also knew of methods for cir
commenting the pest. These had rela-
ton to selection of what to plant, and
in what manner and time. 1t is pre-
sumed that these California farmers
put such methods into execution, for
there has been no cry of anguish on
that account from Wahiawa, much less
any sounding of a retreat.
With regard to subsoil pests, an in
teresting discovery is reported in
literary periodical of late date. The
, article is not at hand at this writing,
but the substance of the story is as
follows: An electrician engaged in
some work placed an ingot under
ground in his garden to cool the metal.
There was an electric connection with
the ingot and, the first thing the cleo
trician knew, all sorts of bugs and
crawlers began to come up from about
the roots of plants This gave the man
an idea. He planted several electrodes
at equal distances in the garden and,
connecting them with a battery, poured
In strong current of electricity. The
result was both comical and instruc-
tive. From all over the surface, for n
considerable radius about each cleo
trode, there emerged myriads of crea
lures gliding and creeping away from
the plants upon whose vital juices they
had been fattening. 1t was a complete
radiance of pests for the time being.
There is hardly anything that cannot
be done with electricity these times,
judging from the variety of applica
lions in different sciences to which
practice as we'll as theory is putting
the subtle agent, but there is nothing
for which more people would rise up
and call it the greatest modern gift to
man than its proving an economical
and effective destroyer of the enemies
of useful vegetation.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
THE VALUE OF HAWAII.

The Delegate from Arizona has in
formed Congress that Hawaii is oil
slight economic value to the United
States in that 1t does not return what
It cost. having no mines or public
lands to dispose Of"
A glance at the reports of the Treas
ury Department would have Informed
the cactus statesman that the Customs
receipts at the port of Honolulu for the
year ending June 30, 1903, were S,l93,-
677.s3. making Honolulu the eleventh
port of fiscal Importance in the United
States.
The internal revenue receipts of the
Territory of Hawaii, for the same
period were s40,O9O52.
The sales of postage stamps in the
Territory We're about S64, 600.
The net receipts of the United States
Government from Hawaii for the last
fiscal year were 1927, 76S.35.
So much for the gain to the Treasury
from Hawaii. This Territory cost the
Federal Government S4,OOO,OOO at the
time it was annexed and $1,000,0O0 in
the settlement of fire claims. The full
sum has already been paid back to the
United States since annexation and
will be paid over and over again every
four years less a few months.
AS for the Arizona mines their yield
is overmatched by that Of the Hawai-
ian cane fields which produced, in the
last year, value of S25, 3106Si.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
BERREY'S REPORT
WAS IN ERROR

Editor Advertiser: Kindly give me
an opportunity to say that the state
ment in Berrey's Commercial Agency.
Semi-monthly Circular of January 30th,
1904, that there Is said to be on the
books conditional sale of the Oahu
Ice and Electric Company to the Ha-
waiian Electric Company" has abso-
lutely no foundation.
think there is room here for two
ice works and I think also that it is
in the interest of the public that there
should be. Ice In this country is a
necessity and there is no reason why
the public should not be able to get 1t
good and cheap. which they are more
likely to do so long as there is healthy
competition.
AUG. DREIER.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
MILLIONS THAT TAKE FLIGHT.

The loss of millonaires to the United
states has been large during the past
few years and in the aggregate mas
enriched Europe by tens OF millions OF
dollars and by supreme commercial IN
tellects. The American colony abroad
is now important as well as perma-
nent. II is not composed, as formerly
of artists. musicians. exiles, dreamers
and Duchesses, but of busy, practical
men who find in Europe. not merely fair
opportunities for Investment, but that
sacred right of privacy which, If the
men are at all prominent, they cannot
enjoy I'm the United States. Nor In
Europe are their investments SO much
under the control of irresponsible walk
ing-delegates as here. and of quadren-
NAL elections which often strike at the
root of things.
The yellow press has done the coun-
try mischief by its keyhole quest oil
millonaires. Mr. j. p. Morgan, who
is about to expatriate himself, once
complained that he could get away
from publicity only by going to sea
and that Is chiefly why he maintains
an going yacht. In England the
law surrounds him with every kind of
safeguard; his house is his castle; his
private affairs may not be invaded
without his consent; the law of libel
stands between him and mere sensa-
tionalism. Even in the matter of per-
sonal safety foreign law and custom
suits him better than the American sys-
tenn. The men who are out cunning
for multi-millionaires here are after
political game in Europe; there they let
the Goulds and Sages and Morgans
alone.
The power of the walking delegate as
misused by such men as Convict Parks
has gone far to turn capital against
democracy. True, democracy has had
and does have much cause to be dis
pleased with capital; but 1t seems, dur
Ing the past few years. that capital
has been treated, by large bodies of citi-
zens, as If 1t were capital offence.
man who, like Parks, has seven
thousand blackmail strikes to his dis
credit, does more to repel the rich from
the country, to drive them abroad, than
even the yellow press with all its OBJ
trusiveness within the threshold of the
home.
Finally we have the quadrennial at
tack upon the fiscal and economic poll
cies of the Government. In President
Cleveland's time 1t was an assault up
on the protective tariff; in the Bryan
campaign it was an assault on the basis
of the currency. Cleveland, being
elected, gave the country some years of
hard times, capital retreating to its
shell under the threat of free trade,
leaving labor unemployed. Had Bryan
won, there would have been another
cyclone of adversely. In some form or
other the peril reappears every fourth
year. Naturally capital feels uncer-
tainty of ground but it knows no way
to make the underpinning firmer. If it
stays it must take it's chances. But
when it gets its multi-millions it shows
an increasing tendency to take them
abroad. Mr.. Van Allen, Mr.. Aston and
Mr.. Morgan are types of this class and
it is, economically speaking, a pity to
lose them.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
AUG. DREIER.
NEGLECT ALWAYS pANGBRoI

NEGLECT ALWAYS DANGEROUS.
To the average man 1t seems childish
to doctor a cold, and unless 1t becomes
particularly annoying to him, little or
no attention is given it. Often cold
contracted in the winter is allowed TO
run until the opening of spring. This
is grave mistake, as even though the
warm weather may bring relief, the
system is thereby weakened and rem
dered susceptible to disease. cold
should never be neglected, whether 1t
be a child or an adult who is afflicted
as health and often life is risked. A
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
costing but small amount will bring
speedy relief and by its use all dan
gerous consequences will be avoided
For sale by all dealers and druggists,
Benson, Smith s. Co., Ltd, agents for
Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02

VIM. c. Whitney, whose condition is
critical, has been called the father of
the new American Navy The honor is
not quite his, for the Navy was begun
by his predecessor, Secretary chandler,
who was at the head of the Navy De-
partment under President Arthur
Chandler laid the keels of the Boston,
Chicago. Atlanta and Dolphin, the first
of the fleet. But Secretary Whitney
put tremendous amount of vim into
his four years of work and the Ameri-
can war marine had notable additions.
Secretary Tracy, who followed, kept up
the lick. Since his retirement from poll
tiles Mr.. Whitney has given himself
up largely to sport, a fact which has
deprived public affairs of an executive
whose services they could not we'll
forego.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02

The Hawaiian Legislature helps those
who properly, as well as otherwise, help
themselves. 1t is marvellous that Hilo,
with so much value in combustible
property as it has had for many years,
should not long ago have provided itself
with efficient fire-hghting apparatus.
Even the Chinese merchants of Homo
lulu splendidly equipped an engine
company of their own in the former
volunteer fire department. And the
Legislature cheerfully built II house
the finest in town before the new CEN
trail fire station was erected. There is
little doubt that Hilo would have been
speedily reimbursed by almost any
Legislature that ever sat here for any
similar expenditure it made for its pro-
lection. The Hilo papers are complain
ing of the breach of promise
of the Territorial authorities To send
n chemical engine to their town,
1t is probably only delay from the same
circumstances, arising out of the Coun-
ty Act muddle, that have been holding
up many public undertakings.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
MANUAL TRAINING.

One of the things which go to make
manual training so desirable In the
schools is the difficulty American youth
is having when 1t starts out to learn a
trade I'm the ordinary way. Since trade
and labor unions have become formid-
able, apprenticeship are confined to
the few instead Of opened to the many.
and in the large cities. where the for
eign element controls, an American boy
stands no chance at all. The unions
are, of course, eager to get the full
benefit of the law of supply and de-
mand as well as of their own laws and
ordinances; and SO they are careful,
within their powers, to keep skilled
workingmen from becoming more nu-
merous than the jobs. Limiting APP
prenticeships is one way: sending cir
culars abroad or between localities.
warning mechanics that there is no
work is another way; both together
move toward the ends of close labor
corporation or trust
To meet this emergency the Manual
Training school presents itself. Not
that the school has merely this end in
view. There are other reasons for its
being which have TO do with the COM
plete ana symmetrical rounding out Oh
character. But the effect upon the
economic system of America is there
nevertheless: Every year the manual
training schools are turning out young
artisans and mechanics who are able
to find work in the smaller places
where unions do not interfere and who
preserve the best traditions of the
American handicraftsman. AS the
schools improve and are perhaps, sup
plemented by free collegiate workshops
and by actual field work, the problem
of what shall be done with the Ameri-
can boy who wants to learn trade
will be greatly simplifed.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
THE COLOMBIAN flASCO.

In reference to the Panama canal, 1t
seems that Colombia Is unable to speak
without committing a new blunder.
The latest diplomatic phase of the con-
troversy Is conclusive on this point.
On December 23rd, 1908. General Reyes,
lately elected President of Colombia,
under the inspiration of few Demo-
cratic malcontents, who do not repre-
sent their own party, II they have one,
virtually charged the United states
with bad faith and attributed the de-
feat of the first treaty by the .Colom-
bian Senate to the fact that Minister
Beaupre had declared that 1t must be
accepted without amendment
The reply of Secretary Hay. who has
exhibited a great patience and tact, Is
dated January 9Th, 1904, and, though
couched in moderate language, is alb
solutely crushing. Mr.. Hay went over
the whole case and resented the false
lmputations against our government.
But his argument, based on the treaty
of 1916 with New Granada, the prede-
cessor of Colombia, which succeeded
to its obligations, not only reiterates
the unanswerabe points in President
Roosevelts annual message, but shows
that the object of that treaty, under
stood and expressed at the Time was
to provide for the permanent opening
of the Isthmus of Panama to the traf-
fic of the world, with the United States
as the guarantor. This great de-
sign" as he terms 1t, and as he proves
could only be fulfilled by this govern
ment, and after referring to the man.
ner of the rejection of the treaty,
which is now fully understood
by the American people, he impress
sively states the fact that, having
completely gained it's independence,
without bloodshed, and established it's
autonomy, the United States had to
choose between the new republic, which
respected the treaty of 1916 and recog-
niZed the necessity for the canal, and
Colombia, which had disregarded its
legal obligations to this country and it's
moral obligations to civilization itself.
Upon the judgment and action of the
United States, Mr.. Hay adds "the
powers of the world have set the seal
of their approval"
Senator Morgan and his coadjutors,
who have objected to the new treaty,
have set at defiance public opinion, not
only in the United States, but every
where else where public opinion eX-
lists. The simultaneous proposal to
annex Panama and to construct the
Nicaraguan canal can only be treated
as weak satire or a stupid joke. The
American people want one canal and
not two, and they are definitely COM
mitted, through and behind the admin
istration, to the completion of the work
on the Isthmus of Panama.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02

The refusal of Russia, as the price of
peace with Japan, to guarantee the
independence of China, shows that
Russia cons.eers the old Mongol en-
pire fair game. If allowed to have
her way the northern power will alb
sorb China as completely as England
did India and with quite as much JUS
tifcation. In fact it may be deemed
probable that Russia means to pos
sess all : STA in the course of time.
Owning China she would have about
three-fifths of 1t, with her influence
strong in another fifth, including Th-
bet, Afghanistan, Persia and Asia
Minor. Should Great Britain ever be-
come involved in a life and death
struggle the Russian power would as
quietly reach out over Asia as the
power of Italy did in 1870 over the
Papal States.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
CRIME ON THE STAGE.

The spectacle of Gabrielle Bompard
reenactng the murder for which she
served time in France renders it espe-
cially gratifying that an English court
has made the pardon of Mrs. May
brick conditional upon her retirement
from public view. She is not to go
on the stage, to lecture or to write a
book with her crime as the theme. If
she does the prison will open for her
again.
Such a course as the English judge
has taken might not be lawful in free
America but if it We're, crime would be-
come somewhat less attractive than 1t
is to weak minds. 1t is undeniable
that the stage. by introducing the
James boys in their border melodrama
and by putting eX-convicts through
e-breaklng scenes, has gone far to
stimulate a latent spirit of crime in
young men of the hoodlum class.
Holding up trains on the mimic boards
is made to seem as romantic and
chvalrous as the adventures of Robin
Hood or Friar Tuck; while safe-crack-
ing seems to be a short and adven-
turous road to wealth, with the pit
cheering Justify and women smiling
from the boxes. People who watch
such things say that any new form of
stage suicide is soon followed by a
wave of such crimes in real life. May
It not be that the appearance of a
Bompard reenacting her traSedy and
of a Maybrick appealing for a sym
pathy which she so little deserves.
would do much to promote the arts of
the stranger and the poisoner?
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02

AS yet the Dowie church has not
created hymnology of its own but it
has borrowed one from the other
churches, taking some of the best of
the spiritual songs of liturgical and
evangelical bodies. The hymn printed
in these columns yesterday is familiar
to the Christian world, having been
written by Bishop Heber in 1921. The
Water of Life 20, for a Thousand
Tongues to Sing and Luther's "Judg-
ment Hymn" are numbered among the
musical assets of Zion, though Dowie
often gave them out when, in his
younger days, he was a Congrega-
tional minister.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
ASSIGNMENT
OF NOTES
Judge De Bolt Renders
Written Decision
Upon Points.

Judge De Bolt has filed written de-
tomley VS.. Wong Hee alias Wong zee
Kee. The case is thus stated:
This is an action in assumpsit by
the plaintiff, as assignee of the WASH
ington Mercantile Co. against the de-
PENDANT upon negotiable promissory
note for sl52.S3, payable on demand to
the order of said company. The
Washington Mercantile Co., by a GER
tain deed of assignment, made May Is,
1908, for a valuable consideration, duly
assigned and transferred to Allen w. T.
Bottomley, the plaintiff herein, for the
benefit of its creditors, certain leases
together with all other property,
including real estate and assets of ev-
cry kind, nature and description, own
ed by 1t wherever the same may be
situated. Prior to such assignment
demand had been duly made for the
payment of the note. The note was
not endorsed, but it was delivered by
the payee, together with the deed Of
assignment, to plaintiff. There are
two questions thus presented for de-
termination.
"O Whether the deed of assign
ment transferred the title in the note
to the plaintiff, and (2), whether the
, note could be assigned. without a for
NAL endorsement thereon, by a sepa-
rate and distinct paper so as to enable
plaintiff to maintain a suit thereon"
| The court, after considering these
! questions in the light of authorities
that he quotes, answers both OF them
| In the affirmative and then decides:
| Judgment may be entered for the
plaintiff against the defendant for the
sum of sl52,s3 with sl525 interest and
COSTS
Thayer & Hemenway for plaintiff; C.
w. Ashford for defendant.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02

People on Maui and in Waimea dis
trict, Hawaii, must be tempted, after
last weeks rains, to indulge sentiments
toward providence like those of the
hungry southern negro who prayed for
food and had bushel of potatoes roll
down the chimney upon the cabin
floor. the immediate benefactors being
boys who kneY his devotional habit.
Thanks, Lord, but please let 'em down
n little easier next time" was his ac-
acknowledgement