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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
BITS or NEWS.

A sWitchrnan with his foot caught In
q frog watched the slow approach 81 q
! freight train which killed him.
Women delegates from many coun-
tries, meeting In Berlin, formed an in-
ternationN league to promote woman
suffrage.
Patsy, King, head Of the policy
ring in Chicago, has been indicted by
the grand jury and says he will quit
the business.
Walter J. Travis won the golf cham
pionship OF Great Britain, defeating 3.
d. Blackwell In the finals at Sandwich,
Eng. by four up. three to: play.
Fire at the blackberry mine, Big Bug
district, Arizona, has destroyed the
hosting plant and resulted in tha
probable death of three miners.
New York democrats favor Parker
and Folk" as the national ticket. w.
T. Sheehan has gone to st. Louis to
urge MI. folk to allow use of his
name.
Lawrence G. Phipps, a wealthy steel
magnate OF Pittsbrrg, kidnapped his
TWO daughters from a hotel at New
York, where they were with their
mother.
The Japanese lost 744 killed and $3.50
wounded in the battle at Kinchou and
Nanshan hill. The Russian losses were
30 officers and 800 men killed and
wounded.
The Moorish bandit chief who holds
an American citizen as a captive is
said to have sent an ultimatum, fixing
a time limit for compliance with his
demands.
A writ Of habeas corpus was filed at
Lawrenceburg, Ind, for the release OF
James Gillespie, Myron Barbour and
his wife and Mrs. Belle Seward, de-
PENDANTS in the Gillspie murder case.
Nicaragua, it is learned in Washing
ton, has begun the construction OF an
isthmian railway to compete with the
proposed canal. The. country has app
propriated $50 0 900 for the work.
which is to be completed within one
and one-half years.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

lldl II may seem a
waste of words to say anything about it
again, but there are some features,of his
extraordinary career which will bear
REPETITION now in connection with his
latest assignment to duty, because they
bear especially on the question Of his
his qualification for the position. In the
first place Cortelyou is not a novice in
politics nor inexperienced in the ways
of national committees. The secretary
20 a president must. as a matter of course,
come constantly in contact with every
political phase and become acquainted
with every man of political consequence.
Cortelyou was with McKinley,for five
years, and he has been with Roosevelt
for nearly three, first as secretary, then
as a member of the cabinet. There is
40 other man in the United States who,
from the nature of his experience, has so
wide an acquaintance among public
men.
During the campaign of 1900 he was in
hourly communication with Chairman
Hanna and with the other officials of
the national committee, and there was
little about the machinery of the cam
paign with which he did not become IA
miliar. He will represent in the new
committee, if he becomes chairman, all
the latest sentiment FOR the martyred
president which is still SO strong a force
in the republican party. In addition he
will represent all the new sentiment
which may have come to the party dur
ing the incumbency of President Roose-
welt.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

"eN - "ise Fouse as rapher to q placeill
s'enographef' the cabinet, and no
man without force and tact could have
shown the organizing ability which Cor
telyou has shown both in the executive
Offices and in the department of com
merce and labor. When C%ortelyou went
to the white house from the post office
department in Cleveland's second adj
ministration he was known to the presi-
dent only as a capable shorthand writer
and a;republican at that. He hadn't been
in his new place a fortnight before he.
began to systematic the, white house
work and to organize the clerical force.
Where before there had been h~aphazard
confusion, there appeared ar orderly
method of doing business and the be-
& ginning of a system which, elaborated
under Mckinley, has developed marvel
ously.
Nobody who fr%equented the white
house under the administrations preced-
ing Cleyeland's second term and who
had not since been in Washington would
recognize the executive offices. They
have become to all intents and pur-
poses a new and admirably conducted
department of the government; and the
work was practically begun and COM
pleted by Cortelyou.
He perfected also the system under
which a president car transact the BUSH
ness of his Office as quickly and satisfac-
torily 1000 miles away from Washing
ton as he can in the white. house itself.
The journeys OF Mckinley and Roose-
welt would have been impossible had
it not been for Cortelyou's organizing
ability-an organizing ability that would
have been invaluable to any business
concern.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
MONTH WAS DISAPPOINTING
TRADE CONDITIONS IN MAY NOT
WHOLLY SATISFACTORY.
Quiet in Most Lines Is Expected
Pending Prospects for
Growing Crops.

New York, June 6.-Bradstreets says:
The volume of May business both at
wholesale and retail was disappointing,
confirmation of this being found in de-
creases in bank c%learings and in rail-
way earnings from a year ago, while
failures were more numerous, though
less costly than in recent preceding
months, while showing increases on a
year ago. Iron and steel, bituminous
coal and cotton manufacturing are
notably quiet for this season of the
year. There are, however, some signs
underlying confidence in future trade.
Ihese consist Of reports of improved
inquiry for fall goods at some western.
southern and eastern points, a rather
better tone in the shoe and leather in
dustry at the east, active buying at
full prices of the new western wool clip,
ana fairly satisfactory reports from the
WOODEN industry, notably that part
dealing with the clothing trade. Col
lect1ons partake of trade irr~egularity,
put are still classable as fair. Prices of
staples show a general sagging ten
dency, part Of which is seasonal.
Briefly summed up, the situation gener-
any centers upon the probable outturn
OF the growing crops, and until this mat
ter is settled most authorities look for
comparative quiet in most lines. Among
the Industries iron and steel and BIZ
luminous coal note specially marked
oppression. Furnaces are going out OF
olast, curtailment is making Roadway.
ana there is a disposition on the part Of
sellers to resist further price reduc-
lions.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of
says: Interruptions of industrial
progress by the holiday, labor conflicts
ana lnclement weather again produced
a somewhat unsatisfactory trade situa-
ton. Yet the money market is easy
and accommodation readily obtained in
legitimate business channels. Liabili-
ties Of mercantile failures are compare
lively small, indicating that most con-
Germs have prepared for a quiet season
and are able to withstand a period OF di-
mlnlshed sales and tardy payments.
h conservative attitude is the funda-
mentally strong feature of the situation.
and when business revives there will be
no pressure to dispose of heavy stocks
OF undesirable goods. More manufac-
turing plants have reduced hours or
wages, and several strikes have added
to the army of unemployed. !
Commercial failures this week in the
United States are 220, against 226 last
week, 236 the preceding week and 1872
the corresponding week last year. Fail
ures in Canada number 26, against Ii
last week, II the preceding week and "a
last year"
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

N f sE s@ pluCeACdlly III 4 . .
Barton's creation. She took hold of it
% years ago, at the instigation of
President Garfield, who had been
watching for years her work among the
poor and suffering, and who knew Of
her association with the International
Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war.
When our civil war broke out Miss
Barton was in Washington, teaching
a colored school-she had been a school
teacher In Massaehusetts-and when
the Sixth Massachusetts arrived at the
station in Washington after the as
sault upon it in Baltimore, she ap-
peared at the station with her colored
pupils and refreshed the tired and
wounded soldiers with coffee and food.
That raj the beginning OF her work
among the soldiers. She went into the
army as q nurse and she has devoted
her life yer since to the alienation OF
suffering wherever found. In all this
time she has v received d cent
of remuneration tor her services, and
she is as poor to-day as she was 40.
years ago.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
DAKOTA NEWS
Captured

sTfiee boys, eighteen years old,
made a sensational escape from the
Plankinton reform school. They had
been blowing in a field all day and
ut night, when they unhitched their
horses, they mounted the animals and
rode away with all possible speed.
Information was sent out over the
route taken and they. were finally
captured in the southwestern part OF
Hand county. After wearing their
horses out the boys walked for two
days until they were captured. They
We're making for the reservation,
where one of them had friends.
They were captured by a boy named
Frank Miller, who was but sixteen
years old. He saw them and, getting
his repeating rifle, mounted his horse
and started after them. He ordered
them to throw up their hands and
marched them back to Mitchell, where
he turned the trio over to the sheriff.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
OTHER CANDIDATES M
Illinois Republicans Select Remainder
of the State Ticket With
out Delay.

Springfield, Ill, June 6.-After the
nomination OF Charles S. Den.
cen, by the republicans here Fri.
day afternoon the convention took up the
nomination of a. candidate for lieuten.
ant governor, but the leaders OF tbs
new combination were not prepared
for this and a recess was taken until.
eight p. NJ. In the meantime, the par.
ties to the combination which had
nominated Deneen, met at the executive
mansion and prepared a slate for the
remainder of the ticket.
At the evening session the making
up OF the ticket was rapidly proceeded
with L. Y. Sherman, of McDonough.
was nominated for lieutenant COVER
nor; James A. Rose. of Golconda (pres-
ent incumbent), for secretary of state
Len Small, of Kankakee, for state
treasurer; james s. Mccullough, OF
Champaign lpresent incumbent), for
state auditor; ". H. Stead, of Ottawa.
for attorney general.
The following nominations were made
for university trustees: Mrs. Mary q.
Busey. Champaign; Charles Davidson,
Chicago; w. L. Abbott, Chicago. The
ticket went through according to the
slate agreed upon at the executive man
sion conference except in the case Of
F. NJ. Chiperfeld, who w. H. Stead de-
feated for attorney general.
The following were elected by the con-
yention to be members-at-large Of the
state central committee: Homer j. Tice,
James S. Neville, Scion Philbrick, ). B.
McPatrick, Edward II. Wright, Clarence
Buck and Scott Cowan.
At 11:46 the convention adjourned
sine die.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Six Indictments.

st. Louis, June 6.-The April grand
jury, which reported Saturday, indict-
ed James M. Seibert, state excise com
missioner, on the charge Of conspiracy
to hinder the due administration OF the
law. The Indictment grows out OF in
v~estigations into fragrant violations Of
the excise laws in the city of st. Louis.
The grand jury also returned indict-
ments against five, steamboat captains.
who are charged with permitting gam.
bling on their boats.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

Delivered the Keys of His most as his W
Office. child
About six months ago a couple OF
employees who were about to be dis
charged thought to clear themselves by
bringing charges against the secretary
of irregularity in Office. An ~investiga-
ton was ordered. Moseley did notwait
to be asked to give up the keys to
his Office and his desks with all his pa
pers and on a moments notice turned
the entire establishment over to the
investigators. He gave them access not
only to the papers at the commission,
but to all his private papers, his safety
deposit boxes and his correspondence.
It is doubtful whether the public and
private business Of any man was ever
more closely scrutinized. The secret
service agents were put to work and
his life for 20 years was laid bare.
The result of the investigation was
made public a day or two ago. 1t was
a complete ~exoneration. 1t could not
be found that a thing was out Of the
way in Moseley's conduct from begin
ming to end. The commission has
made a report TO that effect and the
president, who carefully examined all
the papers himself, showed his appre-
citation of a faithful officer by himself
adding his approval and directing that
the vindication be given the fullest
publicity.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Suicide.

Robert Geske, of Kingsbury coun-
ty, a farmer, rather than submit to
arrest on a charge of w~ife-beating,
placed the muzzle Of a shotgun
against his mouth, pressed the trig-
ger of the weapon with his toe and
blew the left side Of his face and
head off.
Geske, on several occasions, has SEE
verely beaten his wife. On the last
occasion he blackened her eyes, broke
her nose and otherwise maltreated
her.
News Notes.
Reports from Redfield state that
the residents of that place are being
greatly annoyed by the operations Of
a genuine Jack the Pepper.
The government is surveying the
district around Belle Fourche. The
work 500 square miles north
and northeast of the city.
The program has been completed
for the sixth annual celebration and
picnic Of the Day County Old Set
tiers Association, which will be held
June ID.
The secretary Of states Office re-
ports q rush of applicants for notariall
commissions coming from the south
ern part Of the state, especially from
the sections near the Rosebud coan-
try
1t has been decided to hold the
next annual encampment of the South
Dakota National Guard ait Hot
Springs.
The South Dakota Sunday School
Association held its thirtieth annual
convention at Huron, with more thaa
one hundred delegates.
Rev. III. y. Newton, Of Albert Lea,
MINI, has accepted a call to the pas
to-ate Of the Hniversalist church at
Wessington Springs.
A special policeman. in citizens
clothes has been appointed BY busi-
ness men of Lead tc look after in
~cerrigible boys.
49, ~ X NENN ErN
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Lassa General RilIed-

Simla, British India, June 6.-The
British expedition into Thibet has cap
tured two four-pounders from the en-.
and a Lassa general is reported
to have been killed. The Thibetans
have refused to forward to Lassa the
letter from Col. YounghIsband, the
political agent with the expedition, FIX
ing the latest date on which the Brit
ish are prepared to meet ard negotiate
with the Amban and Th1betan dele
gates at Gyang-Tse before advancing
on Lassa.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Schools versus CATTLE.

The new settlers in the country
west of the Missouri river are organ
izing school townships all over that
territory, and / preparing to build
school houses to accommodate their
children. This will mean an increased
tax, one of the things which the large
cattle owners have been STAYING off
as long as possible, and which will
go a long way toward wiping out
large herds. Settlers, wire fences and
school taxes are changing the coun-
try west of the river, and new condi-
tons are taking the place of old.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

republican nation
al committee, Just
as he has made an
ideal secretary to
two presidents,an
an ideal cabinet Of
.fcer is one Of the
things. that are set
down as certain in
Washington with
out the formality of
argument.
The rise of this
young man has
been told SO often
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Bad Game Warden.

Otto Beranek, game warden Of the
district around Rapid City, and his
deputy, Frank Faulkner, have been
fined for dynamiting a creek for tho
purpose of killing trout.
For some time past numerous com-
plants have been made by the game
warden and his friends that fish were
being dynamited and arrests were
threatened. A few days since Beranek
and his deputy were caught in the. act
of shooting a dynamite cartridge in
Rapid river for the purpose of killing
fish. They were arrested, found guilty
and fined.
1t now leaks out that all the COM
plants were made by Beranek, al
though he was the person who made
illegal use of the dynamite in the
creek. There is general indignation
among the sportsmen in that vicinity.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

ties in the chair
man Of q national
committee a re
force. tact and or
g~anizing ability,
and all these Sec
rotary Cortelyou
has shown that he
possesses in abund-
ance.
No man without
force and tact could
have made his way
in ten years from a
position as stencg-
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

Barton from the
presidency of the
American National
Red Gross. This
was to have been.
expected, because
Miss Barton, now
over 80 years Of
age, could. hardly
have hoped to con-
tinue much longer
in active work.
The Red Cross
in America as it
stands to-day is
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

just received a
v i n d i c a ton of
which he has a
right to be proud.
He has been secre-
tary of the COM
mission ever since
its establish
20 years ago,
and he has become
identified with it
until he almost
seems to be a part
of the machinery.
He looks on it al
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Death 81 3 Princess..

Gmunden. Austria, June 6.-Princess
Mary, Of Raden,eldest daughter Of
the duke OF Cumberland. and wife or
Prince Macmillan Of Baden, died here
Saturday. SIZE was born Ia 1870.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

Will be q blow to
the Young men
who have been.
connected W i t b.
the upbuilding Of
he department
and who have
worked for a year
with an enthusi-
"a 8 NJ s g ! d o M
equalled. If ever,
in the history OF
t b 3 government
service
It Is safe te4s
.that there has
thankless
organization Of his
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Crookedest River ii the world.

Hitherto the Jordan has been ac-
counted the most crooked stream in
the world. But it cannot compare with
the White river, Arkansas, which
travels 4 900 miles in traversing a dis
lance of 90 miles as the crow flies.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Many Theaters in Iondon.

In London there are So theaters.
where display plays are regularly prs
scented, snd 43 music halls devoted to
vaudeville performances.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN.
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE a GOOD
MAN IN CoRTELYoU.
HIS RAPID RISE TO THE TOP
From stenographer to Cabinet Officer
in Ten Years-Case of a Faith
full Clerk-Investigation
of Moseley.

Neutrality-suspicious. Secretary Cortel-
you will make an ideal chairman of the
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Ability Of Cortelyou.

After all, next to acquaintance with
political affairs, the most ESSENTIAL quail
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
The Case Of Ned Moseley.

Ned Moseley, the secretary Of the in
terstate commerce commission, has
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Resignation Of Clara Barton.

An extraordinary career m to a
close with the resignation of Clara
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Practical Joker.

F. G. Beers, a practical joker, nearly
lost his life as the result of his pen
chant for stirring things up" at
Conora.
An evening or two ago he donned
woman's attire and with a shawl over
his head started out to have some fun
on his own account. During his ram
bles he met several women, some Of
whom readily discovered by tho moon
light that the apparent woman was in
reality a man. They became greatly
alarmed and hurried to their homes to
tell the linen folks OF their discovery.
The village marshal was soon on the
trail Of the joker, who took to his heels
and sought safety in a coal house.
The marshal poked a huge revolver in
to the hiding place Of Beers and made
him come fctsh on pain of being shot.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Cattle Dipping Too Costly.

The Hand county commissioners adj
,journed without taking action in the
matter of building tanks to dip the
cattle for Texas itch. The undertake
ing wouldsniean an expenditure Of 81
900, and there is no law for it. In the
county are 81; 600 cattle. To dip these
in a reasonable time at $50 a day it
would require eight tanks or stations
at a cost of $3.50 each. Then it is not
known exactly that the government
will furnish dip free, and it would re
quire a carload. In counties where
there are few cattle the work may be
undertaken without a vote on the pro-
position.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
THE MARKETS.
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

Chicago, June4.
FLOUR-Unchangea. Spring wheat. spe-
cial patents, $3.50: Minneapolis, hard pat
sents, A.6O94.70; Minneapolis. hard spring.
straight, export. bags, $4.3o@4. 40; clear, ex-
port bags, $3.40G3.50
WHEAT-Lower. Cash, No. 2 red, 1860
Los; July, ssslS990Mc.
CORN-About steady. Cash No. 2, 50h@
5014c: July. 4sss951Ac.
~OATS-Closed easier. Cash Nc. 2, 40c:
July. 39A@40hc.
BUTTER-Firm and steady. Creameries.
per h., 12a17Ac; dairies. 11G15c.
EGGS-Feeling firm; prices unchanged.
Fresh eggs, at mark, new cases returned,
1411kg15c per dozen; prime frsts. Ice.
LIVE POULTRY - Market holding
steady. Turkeys, per lb., 1Oc; chickens,
fowls, n@11kch ducks 11@2oc.
PoTATOES-(New) Steady to firm.
Louisiana Triumphs, per bbl, So. 50a4. Is;
White, choice, $3s50@4.25., -,
New York, June 4.
FLoUR-steady but dull. Winter low
grades. s3.15G3.S0.
WHEAT-FIrm opening, but shortly
eased off. July, 93B@94hc: September, SGD
66hc; December, 65h@66c.
RYE-Dull. No. 2 western, zoe spot.
CoRN-Dull and ~featurelesss
OATS-Nominal.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
a Hard Working Clerk.

should Secretary CorteIyon leave the
of commerce and labor it
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10

Has Pit II Double Hour
beer more hard,
worl put into the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-10

paign, which it is now agreed
was marked by many mis- axes.
Now Jersey gives Roosevelt
60, 900, against 81, ,00U for McKin-
ley four years ago, and Connecti-
cut 10000, against %, 900 in 1900.
In both of these states the gold
democratic generally supported
Parker, but nevertheless the ex-
pected democratic gains in the
cities were insufficient.
In the west interest centered
in Indiana, which was S Jumped
thoroughly by Bryan and by
Fairbanks, But Thomas Tag
CARTS still hunt campaign was
~uas-.-lng. The vice presidents
state gives the republican candi-
dates $4,000 plurality. DaYis
lost his state by 10000. He was
put on the ticket to carry West
Virginia, and there were politl-
cans who Dragged about the mill
ions he would spend for the pur-
pose. But he didn't spend the
millions and he lost the state,
McKinley's plurality Of $1,000
being exceeded.