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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-23
Petition in Bankruptcy.

a Petition In bankruptcy has been filed In
the United States District Court BY A. O.
Billings, contractor Of this city. His lla-
bilities arc stated an 1881. Is, while his own
asset, a pension Of 12 per year Is exempt.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-23
PRINCETON WINS.
Takes the Game From Lehigt
With Great Ease.

(By Associated Press)
PRINCETON, N j., October a21,h,
Princetons gained their easiest foot ball VIC
tory OF the season to-day and defeated La
touchdown. which proved the hardest Ia SCI
cure, Lehsh gave way. and from then on II
was simply question OF how many points
9rlnceion could score In the allotted time
The game was marked with brilliant plavs, -
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-23
NEITHER SIDE SCORED,
Fulnbling. Off Plays Character
ize Game at Annapolis.

llsy Associated Press)
ANNAPOLIS, MD,. October 22-Fumblinr
ontslde plays and an almost total lack Of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-23

In some Of tho classes for harness
horses there were fewer entries probably
than at previous shows here, but in others
the difference was made Up while In tho.
Jumping and hunter classes splendid fields
competed and in many OF them we have
rarely seen the like OF these performs
ers, taken as II whole. A number OF
rev exhibitors appeared, while at the
same time others of prominence seen
Ecre on previous occasions were absent.
The s.utle OF Dr. w. IT, Woonend Of
New y ork, which was tho most complete
iii cvcryfdetail of any ever seen in the
South was dispersed during the carry
part of the year, hence was not here this.
Year as last; but the absence of the
Woodend collection was amply atoned Tor
by the presence of Mrs. j. 3. NJ Grosve-
nor's splendid string Of h'gh-steppng
harness horses and her trio of sadders.
The bay gelding Roseberry, who is the
pride OF the Grosvenor stables, ranks as
one Of the highest class harness horses
that this country has produced. Fowncs.
whose four-in-hand driving With the
Woodcnd S stable last year was 3aS .reye-
lat!on had an able counterpart at this
show in Jack Donnelly. who drove. Mrs.
sGrosvenor's horses to different figs.
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David Dunlop. Of Petersburg. ,yacitsn,an,
5horseniun. sei,d lpatrpn .of sports ~ kenerai.
az his stable. which includes among others,
fast afS g,dn,s IsS S %ho II srf harsa
M. second Ia FoHu Lambert, s:as IA, IN tho
III, .istar class. The stable nlso ellaes soma
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. harness 9rsss While NJ, Dnn;
snp and taken 10 tho as. shows North
rho nost liberal patron OF the light harness ss
4 ms city, whose private stable includes g
sanx.p az nnru. Ill tf6tters. In tho roadster
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON-
DENSED FORM.
Battle Dipping Question-Matter OF
Paramount Interest In soutn
Dakota-Those Who Do Not obey
Rules Are ut Mercy OF Buyers.

Cattle dipping is the one question:
which is probably receiving more discus
sion in South Dakota than any other one
proposition at the present Tune, says =
Pierre dispatch. And it is not a lues-
ton affecting the range section Oh the
state alone. Every shipper OF Cattle
whether he live in Lincoln COUNT or
Butte County, or any of the counties "
ing between these two, is vitality inter
ested. The government has taken hoiu
Of Tie situation and has declared tne
whole state to be affected with "scaD-
les" or Texas itch, and has PROVIDED
regulations for the shipment of cattle OUT
of the state. One of the absolute require
ments is dipping, and a heavy penalty Is
provided for attempts ut violation, either
by individuals or railroad companies.
Cattle can be shipped for slaughter with
one dipping, but they must be shipped IN
cars which are plainly marked either
Exposed cattle or Objected cattle" as
the case may be. The shipping bills ac-
companying the cars must also marked
plainly in the same way. This kind OF
shipments apply only to slaughter cattle,
and where they are stockers or feeders
they must be dipped a second time. The
government requirement is for two DIP
pings at periods of from ten days to two
weeks apart, and this alone will give the
shipper a clear shipping bill.
While cattle owners of the state have
been slow to realize the situation, they
are beginning to wake up to it, and dip
ping tanks are reported TO be under con-
struction at points all over the state.
The situation, as one cattle owner puts
ii, is this: I'VE are to be allowed to ship
slaughter cattle with one dipping, but in
marked cars. If they are not for imme-
date slaughter, or are Stockers or feed
ers. they must have a second dipping.
When we get our cattle to market every
one of them will be classed as stockers or
feeders, and the price will be run down
OH that account. No matter what
grade or quality they are, the buyers
have the 'cinch' on us as soon as we get
one classification. / am going to put in a
dipping tank at once and start to dipping,
and get within the regulations. That is
the only thing to do. and ! will make
money by the proposition
This man is an old shipper, and has
been through the mill'' often enough to
know what he is against i'll selling his
stuff, and hundreds of others will find
themselves in that place if they do not
get their tanks in readiness at an early
date, and it does not matter whether he
is shipping corn-fed stuff from the south
eastern part of the state, or grass cattle
from the Northwestern part. The whole
state is under the ban and all will be
treated alike.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
MINERS STATEMENT.
Disclaim Responsibility for Inde-
pendence Explosion.

Acting under instructions given by the
twelfth annual convention of the West
ern Federation of Miners, recently held
in Denver, Colo, the executive board Of
that organization has issued q statement
regarding the strikes in Colorado, and
the recent disturbances in the Cripple
Creek district.
"The Western Federation of Miners"
the statement begins, "has always court
ed and invited the utmost publicity in all
its acts, and the acts of it's members, in
matters affecting all it's dealings"
1t is declared that Notwithstanding
persistent reports to the contrary, every
local union voted upon the proposition
before In strike was called. The recent
convention sent a committee to Cripple
Greek TO investigate the situation. This
committee, it is declared, found the rep
resentativee of the miners ready and will
ing TO listen to a proposition of settle
ment.
Before any further conference could
be held" it is asserted, ''the Citizens Al
lance interfered in such manner as to
Illustrate further efforts in the direction
OF settlement, the interference of the al
lance being no doubt prompted by the
bitter hatred of the merchants against
the four cooperative stores established
and maintained in the district by the
federation"
The statement continues:
I'VE are fully convinced from informa-
ton by trustworthy persons that the
original explosion and subsequent out
RACES perpetrated are not only tie work
of the Citizens Alliance, but are thor
oughly of the opinion that the whole p1at-
ter was planned in advance
After referring to the imprisonment
and deportation of union miners. and
the refusal Of the Citizens Alliance to
permit any merchants to supply provi-
sions to the families of such men. the
statement continues:
The very fact that union men are de-
ported by the military is of itself sutli-
Gent to show that no evidence has been
obtained against these men, for if evil
dence of crime was at hand does any rea-
sonable man or woman suppose that the
military commandment, or that the sheriff,
would be simple enough to deport to 9th
er parts the guilty persons? No, indeed,
what evidence there is acquits the min
ers, but apparently fastens the crime up
on the heads of the Citizens Alliance"
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
POOR SEASON FOR CORN.
Crop Has Not Made Good Start in
south Dakota.

"
The crop bulletin for the week ending
June 6. issued from the Huron observing
station, is as follows;
The weather during the week was
cloudy and cool, with frequent showers
generally. The amount of rainfall was
generous in most sections, and except in
some middle Missouri valley counties,
where rain was much needed before, the
soil is now amply moist throughout the
state, and with fair and warm weather
marked growth in all vegetation may be
expected.
The conditions were very favorable for
the stooling of wheat, oats, barley,
spring rye and spelt, and these crops are,
on the whole, in very satisfactory condi-
ton; but there is still complaint of come
scattered fields being weedy, mostly due
to the grain having been poorly put in On
stubble ground.
The planting of corn, except the re-
planting necessitated by poor seed, is
completed cool, cloudy and damp wealth
er, however, retarded growth and germi-
nation. and the showers delayed c%ultiva-
ton of the early planted. which is gener-
ally sufficiently advanced to require il.
but does not show uniformly good stand.
Considerable replanting has been neces-
Sary and n few of the poorest fields in
some localities are being devoted to fay
or millet.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
WOE UNPARALLELED
DISASTER WORST or It's KIND
IN HISTORY.
Dead Exceed seven Hundred-Morc
Than Five Hundred Bodies Re-
covered-Many Believe Appliances
for Safe y Were made quate.

With unceasirg efforts, search is going
on for the bodies Of those who persisted
Wednesday on the Gen. Slocum in New
York harbor. What the list Of victims
will total scarce any one dare venture
q guess, but whatever the number may
be there is hardly a parallel in the his
tory OF disasters where death came to so
many in so brief a period Of time.
Police and health department officials
have placed the number at a figure as
high as 1000 and more, but Thursday it
would seem that the maximum fatality
will not largely axceed 100.
All day Thursday, from sunrise until
darkness shut off even the melancholy
satisfaction Of watching for the dead,
anxious searchers kept up their vigilance
and at dusk there had been recovered
$50 bodies, for the greater part women
and children-mothers who weeks ago
had planned that fatal outing for their
children, Titles ones who had longed for
the coming OF the happy day. Up to
dusk 400 bodies had passed through the
morgue, and Of these more than 300
were identified.
Unlike the Iroquois tbeater and other
great catastrophes Of recent years, where
the woe Of the disaster reached through
out the land, the blow OF the Slocum's
mortality falls practically upon one little
neighborhood OF d great city. st. Marks
parish, which furnished nearly every
victim, lies within ten crowded blocks
of the middle east side. Therein today
there is hardly a house that is not one OF
mourning. The membership of the little
Lutheran church, practically German, or
OF German descent, is all comparatively
OF a well to do class.
A rigid investigation of the Gen Slo-
cum disaster has been ordered by Secre-
tary Cortelyou, Of the. department OF
commerce and labor.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
APPALLING DISASTER.
Hundreds OF Children Dead In a
steamboat Accident.

Six hundred persons, men, women and
children, Mt a conservative estimate, met
death Wednesday by the burning, beach
ing and sinking of the big three decker
excursion steamer General Slocum,
which took FIRE in the East River near
the entrance to Long Island Sound, New
York, while on her way to a sound re-
sort with more than 1000 persons, the
Sunday school pupils Of the ST. Marks
German Lutheran church, their relatives
and friends.
At / o'clock Thursday morning, accord
ing to a statement issued by Coroner
O'Gorman, 4S3 bodies had been received
death, drowned and found on the shore
where they hal. washed, or picked up in
the river to which they had jumped or
fallen from the burning vessel.
The burning of the General Slocum,
n of the most appalling disasters in
the history of New York, tragic in it's in
tensity, dramatic in its episode, and
deeply pathetic in the tender age of most
Of its victims, took place in the East
River at the entrance Of Long Island
Sound, within a short distance OF the
New York shore and within sight IF
thousands Of persons, the majority of
whom were powerless to minimize the
extent of the catastrophe.
Approximately 500 bodies have beer
recovered, and have been tagged at the
morgues Of Bellevue hospital and Har-
lem. Divers were still busy at a late
hour taking bodies from the hold Of the
vessel, which they say is choked with
remains Of human beings, while the bod
les of scores who leaped or were thrown
into the river have not been recovered.
The fire is said 10 have broken out in
a lunch room on the forward deck
through the overturning of a pot of
grease. The wind was high, and all eff
forts to subdue the fire were futile.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
SMOTHERED HER CHILD.
Sioux Falls Woman Rolls on Babe
During Epileptic Fit.

A peculiar and sad accident happened
Mt the home of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Ferguson, of Sioux Falls, Saturday morn
ing, which resulted in the death of their
infant child. The mother and child re-
tired Friday night as usual. When the
mother awoke next morning she was
greatly shocked to find the babe beside
her still in death. Coroner Fulford was
summoned and after viewing the remains
and asking a few questions, he was thor
oughly convinced that the death was the
result of a peculiar accident.
The mother is subject TO epileptic fits
and it is believed that during the night
while the babe was nursing at its moth
er's breast the latter was taken with one
of these fits and rolled over on the little
one, smothering it to death.
The parents of the child are complete
~ Frustrated over the untimely taking
off of their little one.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
FLOWING WITH AN ENGINE.
South Dakota Man T0rns Over TWEEN
ty-Five Acres a Day.

State Land Commissioner Bach has
returned to Pierre from Gregory County,
where he went to look over the situation
in regard to placing on the market Sew
erai locations for townsites on state
lands i'll the newly opened portion of that
county.
While in that section he drove across
country from Bonesteel to the north line
of the county, and says it is a fine prai-
RE country. 1T one place where DR..
Lewis, a white man with an Indian
family, has secured a large tract of sew
crafty land, he saw a traction engine be-
ing used for breaking prairie, the engine
pulling a gang of eight plows and turning
over about twenty-five acres a day. 1t
is the intention of DIR. Lewis to break
two sections of land with this plow THY
year.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
BODY REPORTED FOUND.
Missing Harrington Child Discovered
i'm a Shallow Grave.

A report has come to Rapid City to the
effect that the missing Harrington child,
of Rapid Creek, had been found by her
father. 1t is stated that while the parent
was in the yard he noticed a piece of red
cloth, which, upon being pulled, revealed
the dead body of the child, which had
been buried in the ground. 1t was no.
ticed, it is said, that the sod had been
neatly cut the length of the child and
had been placed back in order to, it is
supposed, defy detection.
Suspicion points to a former employee
of Mr.. Harrington who was working at
the ranch at the time of the disappear
ance of the child. The little girl had
been missed nearly a month when found.
The Meade County coroner is investi
eating the case thnroughlY.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
FAT CATTLE FOR EXPORT.
Train Load Shipped from Geddes
Brings $50, GOO.

Johnson Bros, of Armour, sold a train
load Of fat cattle for the market. They
were shipped from Geddes last We'd
nesday direct to the foreign markets.
This is probably the first train of fat
cattle ever shipped from this state for
export. They Were raised by Johnson
Bros. on their ranch south of Geddes, in
Charles Mix County. They are an excel
lent bunch of steers, corn-fed and fat as
it was possible TO make them. One
steer in the bunch weighed 1880
pounds. The train consisted of eigh-
teen cars, and the purchasers will pay
the Johnsons $4,000 for the exporters,
the price being 20 cents per hundred
above the price paid for corn-fed cattle
for home consumption.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
NOT ENTITLED TO RELIEF.
Lower Court is Upheld in Case of
Frank Kotilinic.

In an opinion by Justice Haney in the
supreme court at Pierre in the case of the
State of South Dakota ex rel Frank Ko
tilinic We. o. s. Swenson, from Mime
haha County, the supreme court sustains
the lower court III refusing a writ of ha-
beas corpus to Kotilinic.
The man is in the penitentiary on a life
sentence for murder committed in Buffa-
10 County, and his attorneys asked for
the writ on the claim that the record
failed to show that he was present at
the trial. The court holds that while
the record does not so state specifically,
it does show that he was present three
out of the four days of the trial, and the
presumption will be that the court COM
piled with the forms of law and Kotilin.
lie is not entitled to relief
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
THREE KILLED IN DUEL.
Bioody Fight in Indiana is Culmina.
ton of Family Feud.

ZION OF Family Feud.
Three dead and two wounded. one IA
tally, is the record of a duel fought on
the streets at Bryantsville, Ind, Tues
day.
The dead are James kort, aged 80;
Charles Rout, aged 50; Milton Tow, aged
81.
The wounded are James Tow, aged 81;
Frank Tow, aged 26.
The fight was the elimination Of a
f;ed between the Rout and Tow families,
which has existed for several years. The
Routs reside at Bedford. The Tow boys
are farmers near Bryantsville. The lat
ter are relatives of the Tow family which
participated in the notorious Tow-Bass
feud, which formed a bloody record fol
southern Indiana.
Within five minutes after the Rout
boys drove into town hostilities began.
The Tow brothers were awaiting their ar
rival, and when the parties were within
ten feet Of each other the five men drew
revolyers, firing as they advanced. About
twenty-five shots were fired. None Of the
~bystanders was struck.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
PRAYER AT DANCE.
Ball in Indiana Opened in a Novel
Way-Sequel OF Church Division.

A dance given by the Pastime club of
Knightsville, Ind, was opened by prayer
by the pastor of the Methodist church. as
a compromise with the young folks who
are members of the club and church.
When the dance was announced there
was a division, followed by warm words,
the Older members supporting the pas
tor in opposition. The dance was given
Monday night, with thepastor and other
members attending in a body and opening
the festivities with prayer, and with au-
thority to stop the fun if it became in
their eyes unseemly. The waltzes were
played slowly, and there was no interrupt
ton. There is still much feeling, how
ever.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
HITS THE RAILROADS.
Valuation Placed on Property il
Nebraska 65 Per Cent. Higher.

Computing on a stock and bond basis,
with the cost Of construction deducted
from the franchise value, the state board
of equalization at Lincoln, Neb., reck.
oned the railroad valuation in Nebraska
at S46,300,000. This is an increase
of 60 per cent over last year.
The mileage values are as follows: I'm
ion Pacific main line, $4,000; Union Pa
cific average, a. 1000; Burlington, ST.
700; Chicago and Northwestern, $7,700;
Rock Island, $500; Missouri Pacific
main line, $500; Missouri Pacific
branches, $1,000 to S6,500; Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, $4,000;
Willmar branch, $500; st. Joseph ANA
Grand Island, $4,000.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
TO TEST LEGALITY or ARREST
Hearing to be Given President of
Cripple Creek Union.

A hearing is to be given G. G. Kenni-
son, president Of the Cripple Creek Min
ers' Union, to test the legality Of his ar
rest. The prisoner will be taken back
from Denver to Cripple Greek for trial
il the court finds that he was legally
arrested.
Eighty-seven.warrants are out for min
ers who are accused Of completely in the
explosion at the Independence station
and the rioting at Victor. These war
rants have been placed In the hands of
Under Sheriff Felix ONeil at Denver,
and will be given to his deputies to serve.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
LIVES AFTER HOURS IN COFFIN
Child Is Revived When Relatives
Gather for Funeral.

After lying thirty-six hours in her bur-
ial casket, the ~5-year-old daughter of G.
M. Fearing, of Custer, s. d., was re-
vived. She apparently had died of ty-
phoid fever. DR.. Il. S. Norton, a relative,
at the house to attend the funeral, decid-
ed the child's rosy cheeks were not those
of a dead person, and he called other
physicians to help revive the child. Half
an hour later the stethoscope indicated a
return of strong heart action. The child
will recover.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
CRITICISED THE COURT.
Editor of the Durango Democrat
Has Been Sent to Jail.

Editor David II. Day, of the Durango
Democrat, Durango, Colo, has gone to
Jail rather than pay a fine Of $500 i'm
posed upon him by Judge Russell, Of the
district court, for having criticised III his
newspaper a decision Of the court.
In a card to the public the editor says:
The court fined me $500. i will not
pay 80 cents"
Application win probably be made to
the supreme court by Days attorneys for
a writ Of supersedeas.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
Ends TieuD on axe

A Cleveland. O.. special says: After
six weeks Of tieup Oh the great lakes
that had directly involved a couple Of
thousand men, but Indirectly more than
100000 who have been idle because Of
its existence, a cessation was brought to
the strike BY a surrender OF the mas
tern, who. with the piloss, have been
holding ont for a mara Hasse-m scale u
wares. The strike has been declared of.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
ANGRY MAN SHOOTS WOMAN
Nathan Weinbeck Wounds Marie
Harris at Chicago.

Declaring that he would ''end it all"
Nathan Weinbeck fired six bullets at
Mrs. Marie Harris, a widow, as she
made frantic efforts to escape from the
attack in a fat at 072 West Madison
Street, Chicago, Wednesday noon. The
woman was wounded i'll both arms and
in the neck, but is expected to survive.
She was taken to the county hospital.
After his victim had rRshed, scream
ing, to the street, Weinbeck, returned to
his room in the fat and began to shoot
holes in the ceiling and walls. The fusil-
lade reused the entire neighborhood and
a big crowd gathered. Weinbeck was ar
rested by the police.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22

Arrangements have been consummated
for the South Dakota cornet band to go
to the st. Louis fair. All members have
been directed to meet in Woonsocket on
take charge Of them, and after a day or
two in preparation the organization will
depart for st. Louis, remaining in that
city at the fair until the 9th Of July.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-06-22
JOKE COSTS LIFE.

New Jersey Boy is Slain by His
Own Father.
At Mt. Holly, N. j., Frank Reinecke,
aged 16, was killed late Monday night
by his father while trying to play a joke
on the latter. The boy hid in the bushes
along the highway near Riverside. As his
father approached the boy jumped out,
expecting to scare him. Reinecke drew
a knife and plunged it into the lads
heart, killing him almost instantly.
Reinecke thought he was about to be
attacked By a highwayman. He is almost
insane from grief.