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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13

The transformation of the world lies
iE correct answer to this question:
Is thought a form of energy? If it is,
after men learn how to properly use
that energy, what may not be accom-
plished?
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The New York World says the de
mocracy Is disorganized, divided and
incapable" 1t is the opinion of The
Independent that that is very truth
full statement.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13

The business man opposes the gov
eminent ownership of railroads be-
cause it tends to the Capitalization Of
government and stops his rebates.
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ANONYMOUS comm, Aications will pot ~
soticed. Rejected manuscripts will n0 -
returned
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It makes an old pop feel good to
think that he has lived to see Chicago
60 populist by $4,000 majority even if
they do call it by another name.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13

That congressman who introduced
the resolution should instead have
asked for an appropriation to buy a
few copies of Miss Tarbell's book.
Copies of all the official documents,
court decisions and description of the
acts of piracy and robbery can be
found there. The career of Rookie
Teller can be accurately made up from
Official documents, the authenticity Of
which no one denies.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13

Russia is still having trouble getting
a loan floated. If she will agree to pay
$500,000000 indemnity to Japan and
abstain from fighting Japan for %
years, she could borrow twice that
amount within "a hours.
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For twenty years some Of us have
been doing the endless, thankless
tasks without which cause dies.
None Of lis are sorry.ss
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13

In and around Judge Dunno, who
swept Chicago with nearly $4,000 ma
jority on populist platform, there
are any amount of political POSSIBLE
tiles. There has been an impetus
given to public ownership that will eff
feet the whole United States.
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left with them, and the subscriber fails to get
sropei credit.
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Lincoln. Nsb.
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r. H. TIBBLES, Editor.
G.. G. DEFRANCE, Associate Editor.
r.. y. EAGER, Business manager
The Havre herald., 1905-06-16
CATER PiL-LAES a
Actions Against the Tns
Courts of Fran

In the year 1916 the ovua7s OF the
vineyards of~St. Julian, Savoy, france,
solemnly took action in the law courts
against host of hungry caterpillars
which had played havoc with their
vines. This grave matter was referred
to arbitration and came in due course
before the bishop as ecclesiastical
Judge.
Two lawyers were retained in the in
terest of the insect ravagers, letters ad-
monishing them to discontinue their
mischief were issued, and a commits
sion sat to estimate the damage done.
The judge held that no hasty decision
should be given, since it was possible
that the caterpillars had not acted ma
liciously, but had been sent as a
scourge.
At the end of year from the first
proceedings it was held that the farm
ers must submit to the inf1iction and
pay all costs. After an interval of for
ty-tWo years another army Of caterpil-
lars invaded the vineyards, another ac-
ton was brought, and it was decided
that they were only exercising their le-
gal rights, while the owners were ad-
vised to provide piece of land where
they might range at will.
The Havre herald., 1905-06-16
LONDON WHITEHALL.
I9 Was known York House Until
Cardinal WoIsey's Fall.

Old Westminster palace was the Lon
don residence of the archbishops Of
York and was known as York House
or York Place down to the reign of
Henry VIII. On the downfall of Cardi-
nal Wolsey, 1929 York House was de-
livered and confirmed by charter to the
king, who changed it's name to White
hall.
There were already several White
halls in the country, and the choice of
the name in this instance may have
been due to new buildings Of white
stone, added by Henry VIII, which
contrasted with the red brick in gen
eral use. Another conjecture is that the
king wished to emphasize the depth Of
the cardinals fall by erasing the very
name of the palace SO clearly associated
with his elevation to power and posi-
tiOn.
This appears to have been Shake
speare's view, for in Henry VIII. we
read:
Sir, you must no more call it York Place;
that's past.
For, since the cardinal fell, that titles
lost.
TITS now the kings and called Whitehall.
london Telegraph.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
ADvENTlsTs IN JAIL.
Husband and Wife Suffering for
Christ's Sake, They Believe.

sselby, S. D., July 15.-R. Moser and
his wife. Christina Moser, are confined
in the Walworth county Jail, in this
place, under peculiar circumstances.
There is settlement in the north
east part of the county of Adventists
and who are excessively Jealous along
religious lines.
About month ago Mrs. Moser went
to the home of John Kerner, a neigh
Dor. and told his wife that the Lord
wanted her (Mrs. Kerner) to die and,
to emphasize the decree, took along a
pitchfork to help the Lord execute the
plan.
Mr.. Kerner had her arrested for as
sault. and after a hearing she was
bound over for trial and bail was fixed.
which she refused to give. saying that
she was like the apostles of old who
suffered Imprisonment for Christ's
sake.
After the hearing r. Moser returned
home and set fire to Kerner's barn.
Husband and wife are now confined
together, with 7-months-old baby, in
the county Jail awaiting the next term
of court, suffering, as they believe, for
ChristS sake.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
FIRST TRAIN CROSSES RIVER.
Miiwaukee's Advent into the Great
Range Country of South Dakota.

MiiWaukee's Advent into the Great
Range Country of South Dakota.
Chamberlain, S. d., July 15.-The
work of laying rails to the west bank
of the Missouri river ON the extension
of the Milwaukee railroad westward
from Chamberlain is completed, and
for the first time the construction train
was able to make a complete crossing.
The grading is completed to Oacona,
several miles down the river from the
bridge approach from the west, and it
is announced that the iron will be laid
to that town by the last of this week.
The iron gang will then leave for
place to Planlsinton. 1t is expected that
this work will be completed within two
weeks, after which the iron gang will
again return to Oacoma. In the inter-
val it is calculated that the work of
grading westward win have advanced
so far that the iron can be laid with
out further interruption. During the
next two weeks ties and iron will be
taken to supDly yards on the west side
resumption of rail laying upon the re-
turn of the crew from the Armour eX-
tension.
1t is positively asserted that the sur
veying crew, under the direction of j.
H. McNaught, is now at work survey
ing the line from the end of the track
now contracted for seventy-fve miles
out on to the Black Hills. Parties in
town from that section of country state
covered considerable new territory, and
there is no longer the least doubt as to
the Immediate extension of the line at
least to the Black Hills,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
SOUTH DAKOTAN
IN DOUBLE CRIME
Frank Woodberry Shot and
Killed Mrs. Anton Dokken
at Brookings.
HE THEN sUlclDED
The Crime Is the Outcome of an Un.
usual Mixture of Affection Be-
tween Members of Two
Families.

Bookings, S. d.. July 19.-F'rank
Woodberry shot and killed Mrs Anton
Dokken and then put bullet in his
own body, causing almost instant
death. The cause of the crime is said
to have been the refusal of Mrs. Dok-
ken to marry Woodberry.
There had been more or less friction
in the Dol1l1en family for some time.
Mrs. Dokken having commenced di-
Yorce proceedings against her husband,
supposedly with the intent to marry
Woodberry. Afterward, it Is said, the
proceedings We're dropped, the wife de-
claring her allegiance to her husband,
put all the time. 1T Is alleged, she had
been playing hot and cold" With
Woodberry.
Mrs. Doklsen went to Watertown last
week In order, she said, to get away
from the young man, but it is known
that they were together there on cir
Gus day Friday evening Mrs. Dokken
came home from Watertown and wrote
building cement sidewalks. to come
home, which he did. arriving just after
the tragedy was committed.
Saturday Woodberry borrowed SIS
from his widowed mother. purchased a
revolver and cartridges and took Mrs.
l1oNhen out T1dlnS. Their bodies were
found at the roadside three miles east
of this city.
The woman had either been shot
while in the buggy and fell out or had
tried to leave the buggy and received
n shot in the back of the head as she
stepped to the ground. When found
her dead BODY rested In n pool of water.
Woodberry had alighted from the
buggy and shot himself through the
heart. He was breathing hi, last when
found.
The horse, which showed that it had
been driven hard, was standing in the
road.
The bodies were brought to this
city, where an inquest was held A
great deal of sympathy is expressed for
Mr.. DoklSen, as he is hard working
man and has tried to give mis- wife
good home.
Mrs. DolSken's mother and sister res,
side at Watertown.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
CIRCUS WAS ovERcRowDED.
Falls Entertained Enormou:


Sioux Falls, S. O., July 17.-Notwith.
standing yesterday was the hottest day
Of the year-94 in the shade at 'clocI
In the afternoon-the largest number
Of people ever in Sioux Falls from the
outside were here to attend the Barnur
s. Bailey circus. The railroads runninA
into Sioux Falls report having brought
IN between 1000 and $4,000 people, whila
o. low estimate places the number who
drove in from the surrounding country
at 1000. The Barnum & Bailey off;
cials announce that the big tent has Il
seating capacity of 14,800 people, a.x
at twenty minutes to the order wal
given to sell no more tickets as all the
seats were gone and the Barnum &
Bailey show refuse to sell standing
room.
The heat in the big tent was some.
thing awful, and three women tainted
and We're carried from the tent
For the first time in the history OF
Sioux Falls many visitors had to go
hungry. At recent meeting of the
city council the restaurant keepers
went before the aldermen with pro-
test against allowing church societies
and others opening temporary lunch
stands during circus or carniyals. The
council passed prohibitive resolution
and as a result the restaurants and ho-
tells were unable to feed the people.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Henry Palmer of Ethan Killed Self
with Rifle Bullet,

Ethan, S. D.. July 19.-Henry Pal
nler. young farmer living about seven
miles east of this place, committed sui
eide at an early hour yesterday morn
ing. He was in town last Saturday and
is said to have been drinking heavily
for the past week. Yesterday morn
ing it is reported that he asked for
whisky from a member Of his family
and on being refused went into bed
room and shot himself in the head with
a rifle, death resulting almost Instant
ly. He was insured in the Workman's
insurance for the sum Of $1,000, being e
member Of the Ethan A. O. U. w. lodge,
The weather has been extremely hot
for the past week ana corn has beer
making good progress, but is rather
small and will require a late fall tc
reach maturity. Rye is in the shock
and barley and oats will be ready to
cut in a few days. Wheat is looking,
fine and all small grain promises to
be good crop. Hay and alfalfa are
extremely fine and will yield largely.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
AGENT AND CASH GONE.
Whether the Two Are Associated Is
the Object of Search.

the Object of a Search.
Fargo, N. D., July 15.-Chris Witmeyer,
a land agent, is missing and members Of
a colony of twenty farmers from Ener-
ado, Grand Forks county, are out various
sums, totaling $1,000. Witmeyer disap-
peared in Fargo and efforts are being
made to find him.
The colony went to Emerado six years
ago to farm rented land. They prospered
and wanted homes of their own. They
sent Jacob Rau, one Of the members, to
look over the country. AT Jamestown he
met Witmeyer, whose father he had
known. Witmeyer said he represented a
Minneapolis land company and had con-
troll Of all the government land along the
Northern Pacific in this state. Through
Rau, Witrneyer induced colony from
Emerado to accompany him to Kidder
county, where both homesteads and sal
able land were secured. When the papers
arrived it was shown there was an error
in the descriptions as written in and
outlined by Witmeyer. He told them they
would go back to Kidder county and in
spect the land, and twenty men accom-
panied him to Fargo where they stopped
overnight at local hotel Rau and Wit
meyer occupied the same room, but just
before breakfast Witmeyer asked to be
excused a moment and has not since been
seen.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
ORDER OF REDMEN
AT SIOUX FALLS.
Annual Convention of This
Fraternity Is in Grand
Council.
BRAVES WILL PARADE
Most Gorgeous Display of Trappinys
and Decorations Will Dazzle the
Palefaces of Sioux Falls
Laws to Be Changed.

Sioux Falls, S. D., July 20.-The city
IS in the hands of the Redmen. Not
the sons OF the forest who used to roam
over these broad domains, but of MEM
bers of the fraternal order of Redmen.
1t is the fourth annual gathering of the
great council, and delegates are pres
ent from practically every one of the
thirty tribes in the state. Something
like 100 visitors are attending the con-
Nention, among them being two grand
council officers, Grand Incohonee
Cherry of Nashville, Tenn, and Grand
Chiei of Records Wilson Brooks of
Chicago. This is the first time in the
history of the order that great coun-
Ill has been attended by two grand
council officers. The most important
business at this meeting is the chang
ing OF the laws OF the great council to
conform With the laws adopted by the
grand council a its last meeting. Last
evening was the big time of the con-
venton. There was 81 most gorgeous
display of war paint and headgears
when the annual parade took place.
Yankton, Irookings, Watertown and
Sioux Fails We're each represented in
the parade With degree teams, while
other tribes had regular delegations.
The Redmen are strong on parapherna-
liza and the parade was a grand success.
Following the parade a class of sixty
was initiated. Among those who We're
made full nedged braves last night
WAS United States Senator A. b. kitt-
,adge.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
WANT Tll.LABLE LAND.
Concerted Movement of Settlers on tho
EoreSY Reserve.

crest keSefVe.
Hill City, S. D., July 19.-At a meet
ing here of the settlers on the forest
reserve who have been unable to secure
titles to their land, over 100 ranchers
We're present. They came not only from
this county but also from Custer and
Lawrence, and even from the state of
Wyoming. Great excitement prevailed.
Some of the rancherS wanted to apply
lease the lands; others desired to ask
for the right to buy. They were agreed
upon one thing only, and that was that
they must keep their homes Many of
these ranchers have been living on their
small plots Of ground for years, and
have improved and cultivated them
with the intention of making them per-
nanent homes. When Secretary Will
son held up the order last spring for
one year which required all fences to
come down on government land, he Sc
cured merely a temporary benefit for
these people. They are now anxious to
do something that will be of permanent
value to themselves.
An association to be known as the
Black Hills Forest Reserve Homebuild-
erS' association was formed and a COM
mittee appointed to convene with our
congressman. They are to request that
a bill be introduced at the next ses-
sion of congress allowing all settlers no
the reserve, whether they have used
their right of homestead or not, to
homestead their land, paying for it at
$3.50 per acre. The ranchers agree not
to interfere with the forest reserve.
with mining interests, or with water
rights. They desire only the tillable
land from rim to
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
WATER RIGHTS SETTLED.
Sioux Falls Council Grants Franchise
to PEOPLES Companv.


Sioux Falls, s. d., July 2o.-At a
meeting of the city council last evening
a franchise was granted to the Peoples
Waterworks company. This is COM
pany of Sioux Falls leading citizens
who have perfected an organization for
the purpose of purchasing or leasing
The plant which the city constructed but
is not allowed to use through an injunc-
tion from the federal court. When
Judge Garland granted the injunction
he said that while the city was re-
strained from operating the plant it had
the right to sell or lease to the old wa
ter company. The citizens hold that ii
they can sell or lease to the old COM
pany they can sell or lease to the new.
Senator Pettigrew is at the head of the
movement Which, if successful, means
a municipal water plant without wait
ing for the United States supreme court
TO decide the question. G. L. Hoffmas-
ter of Pittsburg, vice president of the
company which owns the waterworks
in this city, is here consulting with the
attorneys of the water company and it
is expected they will attempt to stop
the Independent company completing
the municipal plant.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
WORK ON Big CANAL.
Government Irrigation Project is Being
Rushed to Completion.


Rushed to Completion.
Belle Fourche, S. D.. July l9.-Work
is progressing steadily on the irrigating
ditch at this place. Steam will be used
for pumping water to the various
engines, and also to pump out the
Golfer dam, which will be constructed
by placing two rows of sheet steel pil-
ing the full length of the permanent
dam, which will be about 400 feet in
length. A large forty horsepower boiler
will be utilized to furnish the steam.
The dam above mentioned will feed
the inlet canal, which will be six and
a half miles in length, forty feet across
the bottom fifty y-eight feet at the water
line. This inlet canal will carry the
flood waters to the main reservoir, to
be formed by a dam over 1000 feet in
length, 125 feet in height 500 feet wide
at the base and 100 feet wide at the
top. Above the dam the water will
be ninety feet in depth and extend
back something over ten miles, varying
in width from nothing to three miles.
There is on the ground q seventy tonA
self-propellng steam shovel which has
been transported to the sixty foot cut
near the Giles ranch; also two large
elevator graders, propelled by power
full traction engines, and which are fol-
lowed by dozens of dump wagons which
receive the dirt from the graders in the
same manner that wagons used to-
gather the wheat heads from the old
Haines Illinois headers. There are
thirty-six two-horse slips, ten two
wheelers and thirty-six four-horse
buck" scrapers.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
REASON FOR. REFORM.
oeadwood Gamblers Refusal to Return
Losses Of Secretary of Club Puts
Ihem Out of Business.

Vermillion, S. d., July 19.--"Strange,
Isn't it, how a match applied at the
right time will kindle a large con-
flagration." said a prominent man Of
the Black Hills here recently. "One OF
the greatest reforms ever inaugurated
in Lawrence county is now on, and the
beginning was a simple one. The peo-
pie, across the river on the east sido
have been led to believe that the move
nlent against the saloons and gamblers
was the result of premeditated action
on the part of the states attorney and
a number of the better class of people.
This is all wrong. The reform move
ment was started when the secretary
of one of the large clubs of Deadwood
LOST about $500 of the clubs money
tlt the gaming tables, and an additional
$500 advanced by citizens of Deadwood
to square the victim with the CLUB.
instead of using the last loan In re1m-
bursting the club, the secretary Went
back to the roulette wheel to win back
all he had lost. Fortune still smiled on
the gamblers and it was not long be-
fore they had $1,000 of other peoples
money.
Friends of the secretary then in
terested themselves in the hopes of
gamblers We're called upon and re-
quested to return the money This
they refused to do, even in the face of
threats to put them out of business.
When all efforts had failed in this di
rection. the states attorney was APP
pealed to. and he at once went after
the gamblers. with the result that ev-
cry game in Lawrence county has been
closed up tight, and the saloons are
now being made to live UP to the letter
of the lava condition never before
prevailing in the Black Hills.
Probably 200 gamblers were thrown
out of jobs because of the refusal to
return money which had been played
by one who could not claim it as his
ON.n'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
CAUGHT HIM REDHANDED.
Tankton Officer Neatly Nabs Bur-

Yanlston, S. d., July 2O.-Franle
Eiouchman was caught by Officer John
FOX Sunday night in the act of break
ing into the Hatz and Won Eschen
store. Brouchman had gained entrance
into rear room and had cut away a
panel preparatory to gaining the main
store when he was opportunely nabbed,
through a timely phone call by q citi-
zen. who saw the performance.
A member of the engineering force
of the Northwestern Telephone Ex-
change is in the city and announces
that the company. has decided to add
material improvements to it's entire
system here, including handsome new
central which has hereto been rented.
A cablegram last night from British
Guiana announced the death there OF
Neal Loynachan, highly esteemed
citizen of this place for many years.
and an employe of a we'll known Eng
lish syndicate. Mr.. Loynachan's busi-
ness has for years taken him to all
parts of the world.
Casper Hatz has sold his interests
here and returned to Aberdeen, where
he has started in on what will be the
finest store in South Dakota, in both
size and equipment. The stock here
was purchased by F. J. Hatz, brother
and Aaron Won Escken, a brother-in-
law.
mad dog scare was raised hero
yesterday on the streets and the ami
at its owners home, that of Vincil
Ridenger. The dog had bitten Lane
Goodwin slightly and three dogs before
1t was killed. The council last night
adopted stringent action and has or
dered all dogs muzzled or shut up.
The intense heat is the supposed cause
of the trouble.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
HEAD WAS MASHED.
Awful Accident While Stacking Hay
Near Dell RAPIDS.

Sioux Falls, S. d., July 2O.-Christ
simonson, aged "a years, is now lying
in the Sioux Falls hospital in crit
tcal condition, Il victim of a most pc
culiar accident Simonson, with two
other men. was working in his fields
near Dell Rapids stacking hay. The
stackers fell over striking Simonson
IN the face in such a manner as to
break practically every bone. His nose
Is mashed flat on his face, the eyelids
We're torn SO that they hung oyer his
cheeks and both jaws We're broken.
He was brought to Sioux Falls in an
unconscious condition and still remains
IN that state. The physicians who are
watching the case are of the opinion
that the skull las been fractured at
the base of the brain and they hold out
little encouragement for his recovery
He is one of the oldest settlers in the
northern part of the county
Oscar Olson, who came TO East
Sioux Falls two weeks ago from Chi
cago and took employment in the stone
quarries, was drowned yesterday after
noon while in bathing in deep pool
He was with half dozen other men,
but he sank in twenty feet of water
and it was two hours before his body
was recovered.