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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-20
FURNITURE
WILL COST
A FORTUNE

LONDON. Nov. 19.-It appears that
the rich and costly furniture which
the late proprietors OF Kylemore left
at the castle when the estate was trans
ferred to the Duke Of Manchester is
not good enough for the American
Duchess. She has given instructions
to a firm of Dublin auctioneers to clear
the lot out and sell it at what it may
fetch without a reserve price. The fur
nitpre is early Victorian and the
Duchess finds that it does not har-
mOnize with the scheme Of decoration
which she has decided on.
The best furnishing houses in London
and Paris are now being drawn upon
to refurnish the castle from flOOrs to
ceiling, and it is estimated that this
alone will cost a fortune or as much
as the Duchess intended originally to
expend on the whole transformation of
the castle. The scheme Of decoration
is white and pink and the furniture
will have to be made especially to suit
this. The same scheme will obtain in
the new house which the Duchess has
acquired in Grosvenor Square, London,
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FRENCH ARTISTS POKE FUN
AT POLITICAL BIG WIGS
Caricatures to Be Sold for the Benefit
of Unfortunate Brethren of
the Brush

the Brush.
PARIS, Nov. 19.-Wel known artists
and caricaturists are forming a Pari-
sian society known as lie Cornet and
have gone one better than the organ
izers of the Salon d'Automne by arrang-
ing for what they call Salon de Hiver.
This is now being held in the exhi-
bition rooms of the Figaro.
A spirit of gentle satire inspires most
of the exhibits and is directed against
the political big wigs of the day and
the artists of the more formal school.
All the works exhibited are to be sold
to create a benefit fund for brethren of
the brush who have been unfortunate.
A great feminine success is recorded
in the Ecole des Beaux Arts. For the
frs time a woman has won the first
medal for figure painting. The sue
cessful competitor is Mile. Rondenay, a
pupil of Ferdinand Humbert. Among
the competitors are NM. Muller, Midy
and Charpender, who are classed after
her The competition is only second in
Importance to the PriX de Rome, which
Mile Rondenay will probably win.
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Discuss X-Ray as a Cure.

LONDON, Nov. 19.-The annual meet
Jig. of The Rontgen Society. held this
week, is taken as giving an official
opinion about the value of the use Of
X-rays in illness. Briefly, the position
taken UP by DR.. Thurston of Holland,
who presided, is that so far as knowl-
edge goes at present it is difficult to
say that any real case of malignant
growth had been cured by the applica-
tion of X-rays. On the other hand, he
thought that it is more satisfactory
than the Finsen light for lupus.
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No Stockings for the King.

LISBON, Nov. 19.-An amusing feat
ure of the preparation for the depart
ure of the King and Queen for Eng
land was the fact that Lisbon was
overturned in a search for stockings
for his Majesty. No hose of the pecu-
liar shade required in England for
formal court affairs could be found,
although those attached to his Ma
jesty's household searched every store.
The news got abroad, and the King
was deluged by English hosiers look
ing for an advertisement.
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DOG Dies whiIe Doing Duty.

SCHAERBECK, Nov. 19.-The Bel
gian police dog Tom. which has assist
ed in the capture of twenty criminals
during his lifetime, has just died on the
field of honor.
Seeing two individuals breaking into
a goods wagon in Schaerbeck station.
he dashed upon them, true to his train
ing, bat was killed in the act of cross
ing the line by a passing train.
Schaerbeck is the headquarters of the
Belgian SheepdGg Club.
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Chinese Give Trouble in Africa.

JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 19.-The
Chinese in the mines appear to be
unsettled, and there has been serious
trouble at two mines. In one instance
a policeman used his revolver, wound
ing five coolies.
The authorities are taking active re-
pressive measures. Some natives ar
rested a deserter near Pretoria under
the belief that the Chinese are canni-
balls and eat babies.
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HOPE IN WEST AFRICA.

It is in Africa, and more especially
in West Africa, that the British Cotton
Growing Association expects to en-
throne another King Cotton who will
some day rival the American poten-
tate. In this district the inhabitants
have been familiar with the growing,
spinning, weaving and dyeing of cot
ton for centuries-before William the
Ccnqueror had invaded England. 1t is
one of the beneficent results Of the
early spread of Islamism, which
taught the virtues of cleanliness and
clothing, besides closing the gates Of
Paradise against those who get drunk.
In Mohanmedanized British West Afri-
ca the weaving of cotton is universal.
Notwithstanding the primitive nature
Of the looms, some Of the cloths pro-
ducea, it is declared, are so beautifully
finished as to defy European compe-
tition. But owing to the care lavished
on their manufacture they are much
dearer, even there, than the imported
Lancashire article. In the great city
Of Kano, the Manchester Of Africa" :"
with over 100000 inhabitants, the cot
ton industry plays leading part and
the same is true of many other centers
of Northern Nigeria.
The total area of the British possess
sions in West Africa amounts in round
figures to 100000 square miles. The
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at Rufford Abbey his host and hostess
treat him much as an ordinary guest
while still observing those points Of
etiquette which are always associated
with royalty.
At most places where he is enter
tanned a gorgeous funkey is at every
door through which he is likely to
pass, to open it for him with pro-
found obeisance. At Rufford he is al
lowed to open doors himself, and can
stroll about the house or the grounds
without having it thrust upon him at
every. turn that he is regarded as a
special object of reverence and adula-
ton
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Cab Horse Goes Fifty Miles Daily.

PARIS, Nov. 19.-For the purpose of
asce-taining the amount of work a
Paris cab horse can perform regularly
in day La Vie au Grand Air sent a
reporter to make trial in a cab fur
nished with a taximetre.
The result proved that the ill-fed, ILL
treated cab horse can make an average
of fifty miles a day without being un-
usually fatigued.
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Statue in Memory of St. Pierre.

PARIS, Nov. ia legacy of 100000
having been left by the late NJ. Potron
for the erection Of a statue of Ber-
nardin de Saint-Pierre, author of paul
and Virginia" a monument, the work
of the sculptor Holweck. is shortly to
be unveiled in the Jardin des PIantes.
The statue will have bas relief at it's
base, representing Paul and Virginia
as children.
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soil is said to be well adapted to cotton
culture. If only one-tenth of it were
devoted to that purpose at the rate Of
one-third of a bale to the acre, it would
yield 10,000,000 bales. Cheap labor is
abundant. A conservative estimate of
the population of West Africa places
it at 10000, ,000-in Northern Nigeria
alone there are supposed to be at least
100000 natives.
CONFIDENCE IN LEADER.
It is Sir Alfred Jones prominence in
the movement that more than anything
else inspires the confidence of the Brit
ish public in it's ultimate success He
has a record of never making a failure
of anything he has undertaken. He
owns some Welsh collieries which he
found were not paying. He installed a
new plant at great expense, but the re-
suits speedily compensated him for the
outlay, for he saved rs cents on every
ton Of coal mined. He called it bring
ing himself up to date"-a favorite
phrase Of his. He has been dubbed the
Banana King" though his success in
developing that industry in the West
Indies and the Canaries is really one
of his minor financial achievements. 1t
is now freely predicted it will not be
long before the title is superseded by
that Of the Cotton King"
Enormously rich, at the head of five
great steamship companies and several
minor lines, he is in no sense a money
grubber. He is man rather of the
Cecil Rhodes type, with whom money
is means to an end, and that end the
development Of British trade and com
merce.
He is 81 years old and welded only
to business. His gospel of success he
tersely summed up as Work, hard
work." and he practices it farsbetter
than he breaches 1t, for he is a man of
few words
Sir Alfred Jones has not done much
talking about the British Cotton Grow
ing Association heretofore, but the
other day he made this significant ut
terance: I'VE have got through now
with the preliminary process and diff
culties, and are rapidly approaching
results which are likely to astonish the
cotton world"
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WING AdnIterntor Fined.

PARIS, Nov. 19.-At Carcassonne a
wine grower has been fined 81 7,OOOf in
the Assize Court for adulterating wines
with an admixture of ingredients dan
gerous to the public health.
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Chenner Rates for Autos.

PARIS. Nov. 19.-It win be interest
ing to Americans expecting to take an
automobile to the Riviera this year to
know that reduced rates for carrying
automobiles on the railroads ara now
in force on all the principal hneA
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
FORCED TO RETRAcT.
Considerable Commotion at Sioux Falls
Over Slanderous Article,

Sioux Falls, Feb. l0.-There was
considerable c0mmotion in Sioux Falls
Saturday upon the appearance OF the
South Dakota Forum, a weekly paper,
which contained a broad statement
that a meeting Of parties Interested in
the reelection of G.. w. Burnside for.
mayor had been held at which an ar
rangement had been made to hold up
The seven gambling houses of the city
Tor s1.4O0, which sum was to be turned
oyer to the Argus-Leader as hush
money to keep still regarding the gam
bling situation during the spring cam
paign. The Forum gave it's authority
for the statement as a representative
Of the Sioux Falls Brewing
Saturday evening when the Argus
Leader appeared there was a letter
from M. Levinger of the brewing com
.pany offering a reward of $500 for the
name of the representative of the brew
cry who made the statement and deny
ing that n such statement he'd been
made. In connection with the letter of
Mr.. Levinger there also appeared a
signed statement from A.. B. Sessions.
sditor OF the Forum, retracting the
charge against the Argus-Leader. II is
understood that Mr.. Sessions was given
ms cholce between Issuing the state
nient r~etractine, or standing a suit for
SANDER.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
Doings of Grand Jury.

Canton, S. D., Feb. s.-The grand
fury in session here during the pend
ng term of the circuit our adjourned
after the most active and fruitful SEES
sion in years. Eight indictments We're
returned, seven of which were against
Illegal liquor sellers. The parties ar
:ested and being prosecuted on this
,harge are: Cal Tyler, two indict-
nents; John Westby, proprietor of the
Commercial House, one Indictment:
lars Bills, two Indictments, and S.
Simmons, two indictments. Peter Pc
;erson of Hudson was indicted for
making a criminal assault on Mar
shall Thackeray of that place last
week. John Westby for selling liquor
Na brought to trial yesterday after
noon and found guilty. The court has
ilso convicted Jack Riley of Harris
ourg on the charge of robbing a com
oanion farm hand of SOS in cash, and
.ound Dan Metz of Worthing guilty of
making an assault with intent to com
nit bodily injury on the person of J.
iongstaff Of the same place.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
Only One Tree Claim eff

Aberdeen, S. D., Feb. 9.-An exam.
nation of the records of the United
States land Office in his city shows
hat only n tree claim remains in
lie district upon which final proof has
lot been made. The district embraces
he of Brown. Mcpherson, Ed
nunds, Walworth and Campbell. MANY
ne groves Of trees were the result or
he tree claim law, the claimants max
ng success of the planting wherever
hey understood how to proceed to get
he young trees started and how to
are for them when once started.
Charles kuntz of this city was yes
:erday arrested at Milbank, the charge
being the theft of clothing from the
aberdeen friend of the accused man.
Auntz was a plumber, and it is said
vas pulling out for the east when he
vas taken off the train at Milbank.
The dates for the summer camp
meeting all Tacoma park have been
liked for June Of to July 4, inclusive.
4 number of the attractions for the
'ssembly have already been booked.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
SOUTH DAKOTA Z
IRRIGATION PLANS
Reclamation Engineers Nov in
Session Have Made Re-
port Of Project.
MANY ACRES WATEREp
Raymond F. Walker, District Engineer
# the State, Says Work on the
Survey Has Been Progressing
Since May Last.

Washington, Feb. 10.-Irrigation prof.
.cts which will reclaim many thou
lands of acres of unproductive land in
South Dakota are among the matters
he reclamation engineers now in ses-
sion here are considering. Raymond
:. Walter, district engineer for South
Dakota in the reclamation service, has
made a report to the meeting on the
Investigations and surveys thus far.
de has pointed out the possibilities
through the establishment of projects
IF accomplishing no end of good for
he state of South Dakota.
The present meeting of reclamation
engineers will make it's recommended
ions as to what projects should be
established. Secretary Hitchcock,
however. has the final word and until
ais approval is given no projects can
n~aterialize. 1t is believed the gov
eminent will pursue a liberal policy
n the irrigation work and no doubt
much of the work Mr.. Walter has
pointed out as feasible will be carried
through.
Surveys are now in progress on the
Belle Fourche project, which is the
most important n contemplated. II
S situated at the northern extremity
If the Black Hills, and the water sup
ply is from Belle Fourche river and its
main tributary, Red Water river. Mr.
Walter say work on urvey in South
Dakota has been in progress since May
20, 1908. A number OF streams were
examined and reservoir sites thought
suitable for surveying reported. Those
SO examined are:
Cheyenne river, from the Wyomine
inc to a point thirty miles below the
mouth of Cascade creek. The gauge
station is at Edgemont. A large reser-
joir site has been found below the
mouth Of Cascade creek, from which
| ditch of thirty-five miles long would
water 1900 acres of private land
Known as W. G. flats.
Spring creek, nine miles south OF
rapid City, Here is considered a good
;hance for storage. By the Box Elder
project, it is said about $4,000 acres OF
irst class land situated on the divides
between Elk creek and Rapids creek
IAN be irrigated. The reservoir select
ID is situated on Box Elder creek and
Rapid creek water is diverted to Box
Cider shed above the proposed reser-
soir. The project will be Investigate
I'd in November and definite results
obtained as to feasibility and available
water supply established.
Less successful examinations have
jeen mad of Beaver creek at Buffalo
zap, French creek and Battle creek.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING.
Yearly 400 Crowd Ooera House at Cen.
terville to Hear Crawford.

C~entervilie, S. D., Feb. 9.-Hon. Coe I.
crawford was in Centerville Friday,
lnder the auspices of the Crawford
Hub, and delivered an address to the
s1tlzens OF Centerville n vicinity. The
opera house was filled to it's utmost ca
oacity, many farmers driving from
.Welve to fourteen miles to hear him.
a large Crawford club has been organ
zed at Viborg, which was represented
also bringing the band. It was the
most enthusiastic meeting held in Cen
terville since Mr.. Crawford was here
1t a large tent meeting in 1895. He held
his audience for an hour and three
quarters n was responded to with
continuous applause, which shows
where this section of the county stands.
Meetings will be arranged later for
Viborg and Parker, in this county.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
WHIST LEAGUE 70 MEET.
Will Hold Annual Contests in Sioux
Falls This Week.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. 1O.-The mem
oers of the Commercial and Dacotah
clubs OF this city have perfected ar
Engagements for the annual meeting of
The Central Whist league which will be
3eld in this city on Friday and Satur-
lay of this week.
There are twenty cities represented in
the league and twelve of these have
written that thy will be representa-
at the tournament as follows: Coun-
I'll Bluffs, Des Moines, Kansas City,
Omaha, Marshalltown. Sioux City,
Commercial and Dacotah clubs of Sioux
Falls, Topeka, Yankton, Lincoln and
st. Joseph.
For the Richards trophy, now held
by the Athletic club of Kansas City,
the following clubs have announced
that they will compete: Commercial
and Dacotah clBbs of Sioux Falls,
Council Bluffs, Kansas City, Omaha,
Topeka, Yankton and the Hawkeye of
Sioux City. Aberdeen, Garretson and
Pierre of this state will nave repre-
sentatives in this contest, but as they
are not members of the association
their standing will not be considered in
h awarding of the prize.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
EARLY PIONEERS.
sreat Contrast in Conditions Around
Pierre in Twenty Years.

F!srfc IN l "enGT years.
Pierre, S. d., Feb. "a retrospective
glance at conditions a quarter of q cen
fury ago Will disclose great changes in
The capital OF South Dakota. Those
who came to Pierre in 1880 and stayed
during the winter of that memorable
now blockade of 10 days, without 4
regular mail or train, witnessed some
strenuous times. They no doubt can
WILDLY recall to memory the notorious
"AarkanSas' whose career was ended
by vigilants on the night of November
Is. Nineteen bullet holes We're found
In his body. No unusual sight was the
renowned frontier character. "Calamity
Jane" astride her white Steed in the
regulation cowboy attire, with her Al
Colts shooting right and left. "One-
Armed Tom" With the steel grapple,
conspicuous as a "hold-up'' artist, and
many other lesser bad men and
women held undisputed sway in the
little frontier town on the Missouri.
But there was another element mere
the better neutrality-suspicious., or
ierly, courageous and progressive. They
had the best interests OF the infant
city at hand. Among them were z. +.
Mcclure, Arson Hilger, brother of John
Hilger, Major Ledwick, Colonel S. M.
Laird, Colonel Campbell, formerly OF
South Carolina, who served with Cen
eral Hampton in the confederate ranks,
Moses Kinkaid, now congressman from
O'Neill City, Neb.. George Drew and
many Others who were leaders in a
movement to rid the community OF the
most desperate set OF robbers and para
sites that ever infest a civilized COM
monwealth. OF those who came here
IN 1880 but a few remain, but they have
been well repaid for their diligence in
she progress n prosperity of the
7ountry.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11
Successful Farmers, Insti+u+e

Canton. S. D., Feb. 9.-The Lincoln
County Farmers institute for this
county has adjourned after one of the
most Interesting sessions ever Witness
The institute was conducted by
Q NJ. F. Greedy of the Dakota Farm
y, and Professor j. S. Cole of the
~3rookings Agricultural college. Among
The most interesting features of the in.
stitute was the accompanying grain
contest in which a large number of
farmers entered n competition as to
he quality of corn raised during the
season of 1903. In this contest John
Sederstrom took the first prize on
wheat, and 7. j. Ferguson first on
pats. while Paul Bankson and J.. b.
Bankson got second on OK wheat and
Albert Millett and U. S. Sandow second
IN oats. The third prizes vent to Hans
Jonson for third best wheat, and John
eederstrom fer third best oats.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

The value OF the merchandise
brought into the country during the
year from islands which have recently
come under the American flag was:
Porto Rico, s11,051. 1876: Philippines,
s11,372,5S4: Hawaii. S26,242, sea total
Of $4S,666,648. against S20,252,563 in
1897. The shipments of merchandise
to those islands during the year were:
Philippines, $4,R3S,9 800; Hawaii, $1O,-
S40,472; Porto Rico, $12, 246, 225-a total
Of s27,125,606 against $6,773,h60 in
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

The English tailors have the credit
Tor being the first to offer organized
resistance to industrial oppression, and
hence were the pioneers of modern
trade nnionfsm. AS early as 1921, in
the days of the handicrafts, there was
a union of tailors in London numbering
$4,000, and they went on strike for bet
ter conditions Of employment, notWith-
standing the acts OF Parliament that
outlawed UGH combinations, made
strikes q criminal act and limited
wages by law,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

Expert estimates of the probable
manufacture of automobiles in several
states of the union in 1904 give the
principal place to Michigan, with Ohio
second. Even Massachusetts and Wis
consin surpass New York in the list,
while Illinois makes an extremely poor
showing. Detroit and Cleveland are
the two cities which surpass all others
In this republic as centers of the pro-
auction of the self-motors. 1t seems
odd hat New York and Chicago should
lag behind them so far.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

The Prussian government has decided
to found an agricultural, school at Del
itzsch, il the province of Saxony, near
the Saxon frontier. Delitzsch has a
population of 10000. 1t is on the line
of the railroad extending from Leipsic
to M~adgeburg, which belongs to the
Prussian government, in the heart Of a
most prosperous section Of the country,
where agriculture is the chief occupa-
lion of the people.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

1t is the hope of Portsmouth to open
a Dickens museum this month. The
Portsmouth corporation recently be-
came the purchaser at a public auc-
ton of the house. 1893 Commercial road,
in which Charles Dickens was born,
and decided to convert the place into a
museum. 1t is o intended to open
the museum on the anniversary of the
noveiist.s birthday. February Z.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

The largest tree in Oregon was feiled
recently to be sent as a curiosity to the
worlds fair. It is an Aberdeen spruce,
and stood nearly 300 feet high and 113
feet from the ground to the first limb.
Its age is calculated at 400 years, being
! good sized tree when Columbus dis
covered America.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

The largest gold coin In existence, it
may be mentioned, is the Annarnese
LOOT" 1t is worth about $315, aid its
value is written across the face of it
in Indian Ink. notwithstanding this
precaution, however, they are not
looked kindly upon by Europeans, for
The natives have a habit of saving the
huge coins in two and scooping out the
tptarj1r gold AZ
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

In consequence of the reduction of
the French import duties on sugar,
which came into force on September /,
last year, the mount consumed in
France in the three months following
Showed an Increase of q. Onl tons
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

For years visitors to the old Victory
lying IN Portsmouth harbor have been
shown the cockpit in which Admiral
Lord Nelson died ct Trafalgar. Since
the Victory has been ~overhauled, owing
to the damages she sustained in the re-
cent collision, it has been discovered
that the place where Nelson died was
quite a distance farther forward. The
spot will be rallied off and lighted by
electricity. SO that everybody that cares
to see it may be able to do so