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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-02
LIFE OR MONEY DEMANDED.
Fairmont (Mirn.) Banker Threatened
by Alleged Biacknailer.

Fiairmont, Mimi, Dec. 2.-For writ
ing two letters TO a prominent local
banker demanding that $4,000 be left
in a designated spot and threatening
to slay the banker unless the demands
were complied with Harry Gilbert.
twenty years of age, is now confined
in Jail awaiting the action OF the
grand jury.
A. l.. Ward was the recipient of the
sensational communications and Thurs
day was the date set for his murder by
the author of the unsigned demands.
An investigation followed and the de-
tectives arrested Gilbert. The young
man at first denied the authorship of
the letters, but finally broke down and
admitted that he had written both de-
mands and made the threats upon the
life of Mr.. Ward.
The disclosures have caused great
excitement here as both Ward and
Gilbert are we'll known.
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ATTORNEYS FOR MRS. CHADWICK
SAY EVERY JUST OBLlGA-
TiON WILL BE MET.
AIR OF MYSTERY SURROUNDS CASE
LEAVES MORE THAN $500, 900
OUTSTANDING

New York Dec "A definite ac'
ceptance has been made, it is reported
OF the arrangement entered into be
tween the attorneys for SIrs. Cassie
Chadwick of Cleveland. o., and Henry
ID. Newton of Brookline, Mass, for the
settlement OF the suit brought by the
latter 10 recover money loaned on
notes for about $190,000.
The announcement of the settlement
has given new phase to this strange
case. AT the same time the air OF
mystery which has surrounded every
turn thus far made Is still present and
there was absolutely nothing beyond
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-02
HER METHODS KEPT SECRET
President Of Oberlin Bank Refuses to
Discuss Chadwick Case.

Oberlin, o., Dec. 2.-"I have nothing
to say, nothing whatsoever" was the
reply OF President Beckwith OF the
Citizens National bank when asked
to make a statement regarding the
methods used by Mrs. Chadwick in
obtaining the vast sums secured by
her from him and other bankers.
"They say / have been talking too
much,s he said. from now on | am
going to be as silent as a clam"
Directors of the bank claim to know
nothing of the methods which were
Esed by Mrs. Chadwick in obtaining
the loan through the Oberlin bank.
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LITTLE DOING AT THE FRONT.
japanese Summary of the Manchurian
Situation.

Toxic. Dec Manchurian head.
quarters reports as follows:
AT midnight body of the enemy's
infantry attacked Machuanantzu noun
tain. Our noncommissioned officers
picket there repulsed them.
japanese scouts dispatched to Liu-
changtun encountered and repulsed a
body OF the enemy and succeeded in
disc harging the duties required OF
them.
"A Japanese force in the neighbor
hood OF Haienchuang reports that
about . in the afternoon OF Nov. 2S q
body of the enemy, consisting of in
fantry and cavalry, advanced Oh Sian
taiatzu heights. We repulsed them at
about in the evening The same
day at in the afternoon the enelny's
cavalry and artillery attacked Suchi-
aloutzu. Our fire drove them back.
The same day our forces caused
some losses to the enemy's infantry
and cavalry appearing north of Chen
tzulin."
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WILL DELAY MEETING.
Russia's Suggestion for Postponement
of Peace Conference

Washington, Dec. 2.-Official an.
nouncement was made al the state de-
partment during the day OF Russia :
conditional acceptance of the Amer
ican government 5 invitation to JON
the other powers at The Hague for a
second peace conference. Russia $
suggestion for a postponement OF the
congress until the close of the war
must necessarily delay further steps
for the present for the reason that ii
is desired that Russia shall partici-
pate in this conference and moreover
several powers would be unwilling to
attend the conference II Russia were
not represented.
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A RUNAWAY BicYcle.

Terminated with an ugly cut on the
leg of j. B. Orner, Franklin Grove, I'll.
1T developed stubborn ulcer unyield-
ing to doctors and remedies for four
years. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve
cured. It's just as good for Burns
Scalds, Skin Eruptions and Piles. DC,
at Stoddard & Halstead's Drug Store.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-02
THREE FIREMEN KILLED.
Destructive Freight wreck on the Del
aware and Hudson.

aware and Hudson.
Oneonta, ". Y, Dec. 2.-Thrcc men
were killed, several othe. S had ie-
markably narrow escapes fIom GCath
and property valued at fully Sin,901
was destroyed in collision between
two freight trains on the squehanna
division of the Delaware and Hudson
railroad near here. The dead men
were all fremen.
A fast freight train, westbound, run
ming at the rate of forty miles an hour,
crashed into an extra freight which
was being shunted off to a sidetiack.
The engine of the fast freight was
smashed, cars were crumbled up ana
thrown from the tracks and the three
firemen were literally ground TO pieces.
The engineers and the other trainmen
saved themselves by jumping.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-02
Twenty Persons Poisoned.

Berlin, Dec. "A dispatch to the
Lokal Anzeiger from Kieff, Russia, an
nounces that twenty persons have lost
their lives there through drinking
poisoned brandy.
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peIl tnat - huSsian roam oI
$3.50 900 ,0a0 will be issued this or next
month A syndicate of French banks
will take approximately $l60,000,000
and the German banks $100, 100000.
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Russian Securities Decline

ST. Petersburg, Dec. 2.-The report
ed capture of 203Metre Hill at Port
Arthur was reflected on the bourse
during The day. Imperial fours de
clined quarter of point.
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conjecture to indicate what the out.
come would be That all the legiti-
mate claims against Mrs. Chadwick
will be met is the statement by heT
attorneys, but at the same time they
decline to say anything as to the
source from which the necessary funds
will be obtained.
Mrs. Chadwick will produce the
necessary collateral 10 meet all just
obligations CT the proper time. We do
not feel called upon to inform the pub,
lie as to the nature of this collateral
or from whence it will come"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-02

New Russian Loan.
Paris. Dec. 2.-The bankers hare az.
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Attol neys Have Nothing to Say.

This statement in brief covers tn,
attitude taken by Mrs. Chadwick
legal advisers. Beyond that they have
absolutely nothing to say. They would
not discuss the value of the securities
said TO be in the possession of Ir
Reynolds, treasurer of the Wade Parl
Banking company of Cleveland. o., o.
In fact any of the individual features
OF the case.
The settlement of the Boston claim
when made, will reduce Mrs. Chad
wicks alleged obligations by $4,000
At the same time, however, there re
main claims aggregating at leas
100000
Percy Carver, of counsel for Herber1
B. Newton, said:
"Mr. Newton's suit against Mrs
Chadwick will be held in allegiance
until full settlement is made This
Is done to give Mrs. Chadwick time tC
think the matter over and to give us
an opportunity to learn whether she
is willing and able to settle the case
out of court"
Edmond w Powers, counsel fol
Mrs Chadwick made a statement re
garding the case during the afternoon
He said that the total Indebtedness
to Mr.. Newton was approximately
$190,S00. OF this. he said, $4,000 was
money actually owed and due, S65,00t
was due ON bonuses to be paid for tho
accommodation and S50,000 was owed
on two notes of $4,000 each, which
WOild not mature for a wear
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DRS. BELTS s. BELTS
OS SrEOPAThS.

Office in Johnson's Block. DIR. Han
nah Belts make diseases Of women
and children speciality.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-02


.saacats xs.ur Asowsls with Casca1srs
Candy Cathnrtic, cure constipation f0resS
nc 5s 'fC n G. fail druggists ressrd mOn
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
A YOUNG MEMS c1TY.

Salem has bright and hopeful future
because there are several generations
of bright and active young men in the
front ranks here.
No city in the state can boast of so
many men in the twenties and thirties
in public office and in active careers
of business and professional life.
Both political parties have placed
many of their younger men in the front
in city, county and state affairs.
They are prominent and successful in
she courts, thei ministry, the newspa-
pers and the commercial circles.
Salem is distinctively a young man s
town-clean and able young men, with
a largo share of practical common
sense.
The young men can be counted on
to a man to fight for good government,
good schools good roads and good
streets and greater Salem.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
VOTE A NEW scHoo1 HOUSE.

The school meeting Friday evening
should have large attendance of thu
progressive citizens and friends Of tn,
public schools.
The directors will submit the annual
financial report, and make their recon-
mendations for the future.
1t can be said without hattery. that
Salem has model board of education
and that they have managed the fnanr
ces well.
The time has come to erect new
school house, and the board will ask
authority to construct building, and
select a site for it.
There should be general discussion
of these matters, and the citizens should
inform themselves of the details of con-
ditions.
The directors are solely responsible
to the electors. But they are only five
men, and must derive all their power
from the people.
The humblest citizen should feel free
to come out at the melting Friday even
ing, and make suggestions for the good
of the schools.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

makers and their rainstoppers, and
that the patriarchial tribes still believe
that comets, eclipses and other un-
usual appearances forebode dire dis
aster. Also, aneiently, the most civil
lized nations, such as the Chaldeans,
Egyptians, Jews, Greeks and Romans,
had their soothsayers and oracles, who
imposed upon a credulous public.
Latterly, the astrologers of the mid
die ages had large following, and
from the beginning of the 10th cen
tury up to the beginning of the 10th
century they flooded Germany, France
and Great Britain with almanacs con-
tanning prophecies of the weather, as
well as prophecies regarding the minut-
est details of conduct in the daily lives
of the people. These prophecies were
the merest twaddle, but it took a long
time after Copernicus had exploded the
theory that our little world was the
center of the universe before the be-
lief in astrology received and check.
Now it has so far disappeared that
none. but artful plunderers and ig-
norant dupes give it the slightest coun-
tenance.
1t is not so with the so.called long
range weather forecasters. Unfortun-
ately, many people, and some of the
less careful publishers, are apparently
in ignorance of the true character of
the work of these self-appointed proph-
cts. We cannot account for the con-
tinued publication of their utteranees
in any other way.
Characterizing them es fakirs and
impostors avails us little. The people
themselves must decide as to the true
worth of their work. Let those who
have any interest in the matter care
fully compare the published forecasts
with the actual weather day by day,
for in no other way will the utter
worthlessness of the whole mischievous
business be exposed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

it don't want, and will part with it to
the government at a good round figure,
and keep all it has any use for. The
Syndicate will sell to the people some
of their own water to hoat corpora
tion steamboats, through the locks at
public expense, instead of paying their
tolls. But this is a wonderful age, and
there is very little done without a graft
of some kind-exeept in this town of
Salem, Oregon. The government prob
ably better buy the locks before some
bigger corporation, like the Hartman
syndicate gets hold of them or hold of
the government and buys the locks of
itself with the peoples money TO save
tolls ON its own steamboats,. The state
or the federal government should own
the locks along the rest of the river.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
TOM CORNELIUS, RECORD.

The Republican candidate for city
marshal is objected to by some on the
ground that he is not lifelong resident
of this city.
His father, Jesse Cornelius, was one
of that historic family that came here
in 1s45, and the Republican candidate
was born in this state.
He has resided in Salem for seven
years, ever since the death Of his faith
er, and his life has been one of constant
industry.
He has sent two of his daughters
through the Salem schools, and two
have completed courses in Willamette
University.
He has one daughter married at Salem
and has lived in the third ward and
voted in the third ward at every state
and county election.
He has not mixed up very much in
Salem city politics, and that is moth
ing to his discredit. He filed the posi-
tion of second warden at the state
prison, difficult place to fill, and the
men under both administrations who
worked with him are his friends.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
INCREASE OF CRIME.

Now comes the announcement that
tho criminal records show a vast in
crease in crime during the last twenty
years. Murders and homicides have
multiplied at an alarming rate and far
surpass any former period. This is
only true of the United States, and
as compared with foreign countries,
gives some food for reflection.
The people of this country point with
pride to their churches and schools, and
look upon Europe as semi-civilized ,at
least our Puritanic leaders would lead
us to believe that crimes and infrac-
tions of the laws were winked at and
eountenaneed in those countries, but
the statistics prepared carefully show
that the opposite is true
The cause is not plain why murders
are more frequent than at any time,
except during the year of 1896, when
they reached the high water mark, un-
less it is the unrest of the rising gen
Grafton to break away from the farm
and to enter tho faster and more allur'
ing life in the large cities. Disap
pointments come in the large places
the boy of the small town or country
finds himself out Of employment and
turns robber, footpad, burglar OF
murderer, in quest of quick fortune
This accounts for some of the crimes
but does not explain away the abnor
NAL increase, which is far and above
the natural increase in population.
The laxity of the police officials and
officers in the large cities is one of the
principal reasons, it is believed. Muir
der after murder is committed and tn,
guilty men escape. Others take eour
age at this condition and apparent
helplessness ,of the peace officials anC
they allow their cravings and passions
to turn their heads,
Only few months ago the city OF
New York was shocked by a suicide ol
murder committed in a cab in the down
town section, and today the trial of 4
woman is dragging along, with chances
against her conviction. Whether she
is guilty rests ON slender thread OF
eireumstantial evidence and jury viii
likely hesitate before they send hel
TO electric chair OF to the peniten
tiary for life The police have worked
but they have failed to fasten tn,
chain in a way that would insure q
speedy conviction.
A few weeks ago the members Of the
Weber family were killed and theil
home burned in California. One sor
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

a novelty to see CRATER wesuag
stripes.
So far this season the airships az
doing well. But we haven't heard q
anyone buying a thousand'mile tleAe
on them yet.
1t is pretty tough for a country co
itor to get a picture postal card IRON
his wife inviting him to meet her %
the trail at the Lewis and Clark i'h'
Frank Durbin wishes it unders'oOu
that he did not make that bet on 'in
Skipton, but merely took up oe' 'u''
was offered on the other side
The city election win probably go a.
did the nation, the state, the county aAs
the school district. This is not a sO0'
Democratic year.
Several good Democrats say they We.
to the direct primary, and will suPpO''
the nominees, if they are RePublieal''
They prefer AN open people s pin
to Democratic machine, and ths' "
right.
The Journal will get out a ffteen'- ,a
anniversary number a crystal Weaaias s
number for New Years. AS good la's
mascot for the coming year 1t Is q 81
thing to get into.
state Senator Carter, of Ja'kso. s..
county, may become eanaiu1,' .'.s
state treasurer. He is an iae'i
for the place
Patton Bros. are leading as A0iiss =.
advertisers. Their stOck Is oe'-s
PLAYED. The lady clerks are IN ' m.
anee. All is light and color -.
brothers are among the best known .,.,i.,l l
in the state. Hal D. does 'ne "a "a u.
stunt. Cooke IS the sIeight-Ot-han1a. a.,
tertainer. Together they are a.l;,i..
team in business, socially anu
ally.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

was arrested for the heinous crime
but the officials are taking their time
and the guilty party may die of old
age before he is apprehended and pun
ished.
This slowness Of the officials would
not be tolerated for single moment
in England, Germany or hardly any
other European country. Very few
murderers 60 unpunished in Europe,
and the punishment is swift.
The laxity and slowness of the
American officers is due to several
things. They are elected without re-
gard to capability or adaptability for
the duties of the Offices and merely
to fill some political pledge or pay an
old debt. The politician picks out a
man and he goes in with a rush. Then
he is secure for a period Of years and
employs deputies and underlings with
strings on them. When murders and
crimes are committed they are at sea
for clue and the foxy criminal makes
good his escape.
Official foundering is more to blame
for the increase of crime than any
one other thing and more perhaps than
all the rest of the causes combined. A
new system is needed and men ocupy-
ing such places should be specially fit-
ted for their duties.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
LONG RANGE WEATHER FoRT
CASTS.

There are today in the United States
as well as in other civilized countries
a few persons who make their living by
publishing so-called long-range weather
forecasts, based upon old theories
which have no foundation, and which
scientific men long ago rejected. We
also find in almost every community
some man who sets himself up as a
weather prophet, and who prognosti-
Gates, year after year, hard winters
dry spells, and other ealamities. Once
in a great while he hits the mark, and
then his /" told you so" receives pub
lie acknowledgement; all his previous
misses are forgotten, and great is hi:
fame throughout the land.
These men may be conscientious in
their belief, or veritable trieksters, il
matters not which, and does not change
the fact that their sayings and dOings
are an inheritance Of the dark ages
when all the world was veiled in su,
perstitiOn and ignorance. This We
know, for by tracing the mental prog
ress Of the human race We find that
all savages today have their rain
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
WHAT PAVING DOES FOR A TOWN

Less than ten years ago Eureka, Cal,
was a town half the size of Salem.
There was not a block Of frst.class
paved street in the town.
In the past ten years that place has
awakened TO the benefit of pavements,
and today has miles of IL, and is city
of forty thousand.
Streets are graded and paved miles
long, aud reaching into the suburbs,
and the city is growing at a phenom'
email rate.
II viii never stop growing and prop
erty win never stop growing in value
Paving was accomplished against the
traditional mossback spirit.
Nothing but paving and other public
improvements will make Salem live
growing progressive town. Those who
are satisfied with COW pasture eondi'
tions will oppose paving in any form.
In Eureka the younger generation
took hold and started paving streets
and the work has never stopped,
Paving and public improvements is
the life of town-the lungs-the
blood, the town is a dead one-lunged, OF
no-lupged affair without,
Portland is spending this year two
million dollars on street paving and
public improvements, without the fair
Portland is alive.
Like a great magnet drawing the
steel filings away from a smaller mag
net, Portland is drawing the population
away from Salon,
Whyi Because we are spending moth
ing to keep people here, All kinds Of
people are leaving us to 80 TO Portland
40 live.
The example Of Eureka, Cal, can be
duplicated dozens Of times. The live
growing cities Of today are paving their
streets and growing,
Public improvements means that the
riehest and most profitable real estate
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
"PooR STUDENTS.

SOS CA - @~NA@H 49,
SO Harvard has "honored a poor
student" by electing as president of
the sophomore class young man from
Sioux City who is working his way
through"
Perhaps the "poor student" said.
''The honor is all mine" but a large
share of it must go to the boys who
were manly enough and gentlemanly
enough, to shatter all class election
traditions by their actions.
The new president of sophomores
seems to be just an ordinary, manly
fellow, shining neither as a society
nor athletic light. True, he has been
on the football squad, but has played
very little.
But he is a good waiter in more
ways than one. He is defraying the
expenses of his board by serving table
in Randall Hall. To carry food day
after day to a hungry crowd is not the
most inspiring occupation, but it is
work that has to be done, and with a
lad o'parts, can be made to serve a
purpose.
Perhaps one of the most difficult
bits of daily discipline is to observe
due respect to those who serve, wheth-
er in our office, our store or at table.
Familiarity is apt to breed contempt,
that lowest of vices when directed
against our fellow men.
That the boys of Harvard have done
honor to themselves by giving office
to one who had nothing but his own
manliness to carry him through diff
cult task is evident. All the world
loves a fighter, and' it takes a doughty
champion to overcome the obstacles
that lie in the path of a passage
through big university, unless the
almighty dollar" is present to un-
lock every door.
With regard to these great seats of
learning, Harvard, Yale, Oxford,
Cambridge, we are apt to get into the
way of thinking of them chiefly as the
abodes of wealthy young men, whose
only thought is of a good time and as
little study as possible.
The other side of life,-the "poor
student side, is that which is real,
terribly real, but the daily papers are
so full of the doings of wealth, that
there is left but little room in which
to tell of the struggles of poverty.
Biographies and newspapers are
greedy for the tales of the "early
struggles" by which some man made
his pile, but when that pile refuses to
show above grOund,-when the boy is
eating the bitter bread of want, the
most that he can hope to attain is a
police news item, "Found starving"
Not that the world is actually un-
JUST the injustice would be in praising
that which grows best in the soil of
privacy, manly self-help. Still, at
times it does seem that little of the
eulogy given to dead men, few of the
better bestowed upon the living.
Ineidently,-to point a moral and
adorn tale, those of you who are
burdoaod with superhuous wealth,
can tighten your own load and at the
same time offer an incentive to honest
effort by putting a little money into
the many funds for helping poor stu
1 laots