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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
Harvested the Sucker cron.

Kansas City, April 26.-H. NJ Loeb.
treasurer of the American Securities Con-
test company, was arrested today on a
charge of using the mails to defraud. The
alleged contest company was a lottery and
"get-rich-Quick" scheme.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
AREN'T PROUD THERE.
Pennsylvania Republicans Adopt Plat
form lndorsing the Last LesisIa-
tIIre of the State

Harrisburg, Pa. April 2S.-The re-
publican state convention today NOM
mated a state ticket by reclamation,
headed by ]. Lee Plummer, of Holli-
daysburg, for state treasurer. The
platform endorses the national and
state administrations and the last leg
islature.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
American Y. w. C. A. in Session,

Detroit, April 26.-Young women from
all parts of the United States arrived
in Detroit today to attend the tenth
biennial convention of the American
committee. federated with the Worlds
Young Women's Christian association,
which will be in session here for five
days. Routine business consumed the
line opening the session today.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
Colonel Willard elazisr Dead,

Albany, n. Y, April 26.- oonel y
lard Glazier author. soldier and ca
plorer, is dead of heart disease aged
Ga. In 1881 he made a claim to the dis
covery of the real source of the Mis-
sssppi small lake south of Lake
ItaSca
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
DEATH OF w. G. TIFFANY
We'll Known New York Man Expires of
Heart Disease.

New York. April 26--Wm. G. Tiff
fanny, well known In social and club
circles of New York, was found dead in
his rooms in the hotel where he had
lived for the past two years. Death
was due to valvular disease of the
heart. Mr.. Tiffany was IS years of age.
Mr.. Tiffany was formerly Interested
In railroad and mining property in the
southwest. He was the divorced huB-
band Of Mary Virginia Smith, a sister
OF Mrs. 0. Fl. F. Belmont.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
Train peraiIed in Ohio.

Marion, O..6April Pa Chicago ana
Erie westbound passenger was wrecked
today two miles west of the city by run
ming through "de-rail." Baggagemas-
ter Samuel Selby was badly injured and
three other trainmen and six passengers
Slightly hurt.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
PARADE is ABANDONED.
Show Occasion for the Guards Gale.
OF Because of Dancers

ST Petersburg. April 2S.As all the
guard regiments will be held in readi-
ness in various parts of the capital to
quell disorders on May day Russian
style May lD, the annual parade of the
imperial guard, which ordinarily takes
place in the presence of the emperor on
champ de Mars. has been abandoned.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
Golfers Quick Trip.

Norfolk Va, April 26.-The United
States noval collier Brutus. Captain
Hendricks, has arrived at Norfolk navy
yard, only ffty-seven days out from
Singapore, having made the quickest
trip on record for ali American collier.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
War to the Death.

London. April 25.-OiiiCialS conversant
with the situation in Yemen province
regard the situation there as being in
the nature of II life or death struggle
or the sultan of turkey
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
To Force Equitable Affairs.

New York, April EFT is reported in
Wall street today that a plan has been
formed to press the receivcrship proceed
ings against the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society in the federal court.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
STARTS TAnIFF WAR.
&c. many Will Exclude the United
States from Benefits of Reel
procity Pacts.

Berlin, April 2S.-The imperial gov
eminent. preparatory to excluding the
United States from the privileges of
the new reciprocity treaties signed re-
Gently with seven European states. has
formally notified the American gov
eminent that the tariff agreement be-
tween Germany and the United States
will terminate March L. the next day
after the new treaties go into effect,
but that Germany stands ready to
negotiate a reciprocity treaty with the
United States.
This notification was made by For
eign Secretary Won Richtom on March
IA. after the decision of the cabinet
that said treaties. concluded with Rus
sia Ilaly, Belgium, Switzerland. Aus
tra Ilungariu, Roumania aud Servia.
form new basis" so reads the text
"for the commercial relations of Ger
many. and the imperial government
holds itself prepared to enter into ne
gotiations for the conclusion of a new
commercial treaty with the United
States"
The German View.
The German view, as held at the for
.ign office, is that the United States
cannot reasonably expect to share in
the special benefits given by Germany
to certain European states In exchange
FOR other SPECIFIC tnrln reductions.
Should the United States have the
same advantages without giving any
thing in return, the treaty countries
/ could justly complain that they were
in effect Disseminated against, because
from them certain things We're exacted
by the bargain which We're freely given
to the United States. But If the Unit
ed States tries to take up the general
/ tariff question. and arrange a recp-
| rOcal agreement. Germany will be very
| glad to az. so. Otherwise Germany
new general tariff. which also goes into
| effect March /, 1906. will be applied to
/ imports from the United States.
| Washington has not yet replied to
| Iermanys proposals.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
TOGO MUST FIGHT
The ENTIRE FLEET
Nebogatotf's Delayed Division
Is Passing Through the
Malacca Straits.
They Are PatrolIinc the Straits and
Also Are Reported in Force Off
Hong Kong, Sailing a
Southeast Course.

ST. Petersburg, April 2S.--Private dis.
patches of an alarming nature haN'
been received from the cities anC
towns along the Nolga, saying that all
the dock laDorers have struck.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05

Hongkong April 2S.-The British
steamer Calchas, which arrived today.
reports having sighted three Russian
battleships and two cruisers this morn
ing, Steaming southeast off Limiting is
land. about 100 miles southwest of
HongkonS.
Later it transpired that the warships
sighted OF Limiting island by the Cal
chas Vera British not Russian
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
Tho SD. Paul,s Menace.

The threat of the ST. Paul to build to
the coast has been regarded as a move
against the Hill lines; but it would
also be making competition for the 9TH
er Rockefeller transcontinental inter-
ests So the best interests of all con-
cerned would be promoted by peace
and the abandonment Of such an extern.
sion This is undoubtedly part of what
is referred to as a check to 1.-The ambi-
lions of certain Pacific railway inter-
ests." Along with it is probably Gould's
Western Pacific, by which he expects
to complete transcontnental Gould
,VSten.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05
What the Settlement Means,

The Hill-Harriman fight has recently
been threatening II repetition of some
thin like the Northern Pacific corner
of 1891. Hill and Morgan are alleged
to have bought heavily into Union Pa
cific, threatening Harrimans control.
Hartman. controlling the directors.
threatened to defeat them by issuing
$500, 900. GOO preferred stock and getting
most Of il in his own crowd, thus en-
trenching his control. The Hartman
interest in Union Pacific is commonly
supposed to mean Standard Oil; and
Standard Oil controls all the ST. Paul
system u
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05

Island of Penang, Straits Settle
ments, April 26-The fourth division of
the Russian second Pacific squadron,
commanded by Admiral Nebogatoff, is
expected to pass Penang and enter the
Straits OF MalacCa today. The British
authorities are on the alert and guard
boats are patrollng the approaches to
Penang.
Toxic April 2G.-The privy council to-
day decided that martial law shall be
proclaimed throughout the island OF
FOlmOSu.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14

dirt roads of these Commonwealths
still constitute very important
perplexing element in the problem
of transportation by team. Fully
ninty-nine per cent. of the highways
of Missouri and Iowa are earth
roads, and State official of Iowa
once said to me that to have fifteen
per cent. of the main travelled roads of
his State macadamized would be to
realize the most ambitious dreams Of
those men of the State especially
interested in improving the condition
of its highways.
So much by way OF suggesting
the size of the problem which the
spilt-log drag has come to solve.
What has already been accomplish
ed, so far as the spread of the move
ment is concerned, may be put in
few words: 1t has been backed
and pushed by the Missouri Board
OF Agriculture; one railroad. the
Northwestern, has sent out q Good
Roads Special for the purpose of
evangelizing the farmers of it's ter
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14

day hitched my team to drag
made of a frost-spoiled wooden
pump stock and an old oak post,
held parallel to each other by three
pieces of fence board about three
feet long. Smooth wire served in
place of chain, and strip of plank
laid between the post and the pump
stock gave me a rough platform
upon which to stand.
The horses were attached at such
a point of the wire as to give the
drag a slant of about fourty-fve
degrees in the direction required
to force the earth that it would
gather from the side Of the road up
into the centre. We had just had a
soaking rain and the earth was in a
plastic condition. I had driven
this drag but few rods when 1
was fully aware that it was serving
at least the initial purpose for
which it was intended that of
leveling down the the weel rut ard
pushing the surplus dirt into the
centre of the road.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14

break from one of these spots clod
so hard that with it you can almost
drive a ten-penny nail into pine
plank. Naturally, it occurred to me
that if this puddled clay soil would
stay hard for three months when
left in a rough condition, it would
surely stay longer if moulded into
"a smooth roof, so that the water
which fell upon it would easily
run of.
This original half-mile of road
was dragged steadily for four years
before l had single active recruit
in my new crusade: At first my
.neighbors poked good natured fun
at me probably because the thing
was so new and so absurdly simple
and, perhaps, also because 1 did
the work without pay or any ex-
pectation of it.. Road-making il the
country, it may be well to explain,
is not generally followed as a fash
ionable philanthropy or a popular
diversion.
Continued on page 2.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
Killed i'm a Self-Feeder.

John Holmvig was literally sliced
into pieces in self feeder in town
OF Refs, Polk county on Friday last.
He was working around the mach
inc when accidently his foot slipped
and he fell head long into the SELF
feeder and was mangled beyond
recognition as human being. The
machine was Immediately stopped
and the scattered pieces of his body
picked out ofthe feeder and cylinder.
The whole interior of the separator
was spattered with blood, making a
very sickening sight. Work was
stopped for the day. Holmvig lived
at Rindal and had a family.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
Old Settler Dead.

Halvor Skoglund, who keeps a
farmers stopping place east of the
Great Northern depot, died Tuesday
evening at 10 o'clock, of heart
failure, aged, So years. In the
morning he went to Tom Schey's
place in Alma to work at thrashing,
but in the afternoon he commenced
to get i'll and was brought back to
town by his son Emil; who also
worked there. He grew worse and
death finally came to relieve him.
His health had not been very good
for some months. Wife and four
grown up children mourn his
sudden departure. He came from
Sweden to this county in 1882, and
until a few years ago lived in
Foldahl. The funeral will be held
at p. m. to-day.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
The VACATION
HAS ENDED.
The Warren Schools Commenced
the Mental Grind on Mon.
day this Week.

The Warren schools opened Mon
day with all the teachers and a
large number of pupils present, all
eager to tackle the grave mental
problems that will confront them
during the year. Prof. VIM. Angus
has charge as superintendent and
principal, Miss Clara D. Adams is
the assistant principal, and Prof.
W. B. Young is the science teacher
in the high school. The grade
teachers are as follows: In the High
School building Ethel Graves, Eli
"a Ireland, Emma Langvick, Ber-
tina Angus, Marie Bauer, Minta
Watkins, Myrtle Naylor; in the
Washington building-Dorothy So
mers, Jennie Wood, Anna Stearry.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
A High Glass Newspaper.

There is not newspaper
published in the United States that
is so universally read and circulates
SO generally in it's territory as does
The Duluth Evening Herald in
Duluth and Northern Minnesota.
It's correspondence and tele-
graphic reports from all cities and
towns in Northern Minnesota,
together with It's full Associated
Press reports over it's own leased
wires, and it's complete market
page, make it. the most desirable
newspaper to subscribe for in
Minnesota. Send for a sample
copy, or Is cents for months trial
subscription. Duluth Weekly Her.
aid, 81 per. year; six months, so
cents; three months, 25 cents.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
Obituary..

Mrs. Lucinda Bates departed this
life at her home four miles north
west of Tweet post Office Sept. 10,
aged 81 years and four months.
She was born in Mower county
May 10, June 9, 1894, she was
married to Adelbert L. Bates, who
with three children survives her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bates moved to
Marshall county in 1901 and settled
in town Of New Solum. About
twelve years ago she united with
the Methodist Epescopol church
and died triumphant in the faith.
The funeral occurred from the
home Monday, at 2:3O p. m., con-
Quoted by Rev. Flesher, Of Thief
River Falls. The interment was in
the Hegland cemetery.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14

ritory; other roads are eager to- in
stall the same kind of a broad -guage,
public-spirited campaign; thousands
OF miles of wagon roads have been
permanently reclaimed from bad to
good, and hundreds of meetings
have been held in the nine States in
which this gospel has been dissem-
mated by means of practical demon
stration. At these meetings thou
sands of persons have pledged
themselves to make and use a split
log drag; hundreds of newspapers
have taken up this movement, Civ
ing it generous space and square
deal; hundreds, if not thousands, of
dollars have been raised and have
been raised and offered in prizes for
the best miles or half miles of drag
roads, and most important of all,
perhaps, the public sentiment of
scores of communities has been
stirred to self-respecting hopeful
ness and energy by this new gospel
OF good roads without money"
Eight years ago l was devoting
almost my entire time to my farm,
three miles north from the little
town Maitland, Missouri. My in
terest frequent travel over the road
between my farm house and the
village, and I always felt keen
resentment when bad roads made it
it difficult or impossible to drive to
town-a state of things that was al
together too frequent.
A little investigation and exper-
ince demonstrated. to me that this
was by no means the result of in
difference or inactivity on the part
of our road commissioners. Then
reached the conviction that it was
the fate fthe farmer to spend $500
to $4,000 mile for macadamizedr road
or else travel in the mud in all
periods of continued wet weather.
which is to say very large proper
tion of the year. This conviction is
almost universal among farmers who
have really wresteled with the road
problem and know from experience
its difficulties.
However, this state of doubt and
Encouragement did not long con-
tinue, and 1 began to investigate
and experiment in an irregular sort
of a way. Acting under this per-
sistent impulse to experiment, I one
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
A *BRoTHER TO The OK"

03tOIhEh TO THE OA." ss
AS compared with the wage received
by his class in all other countries the
wage of the American laborer Is on a
high plane The most common unskilled
laborers the diggers Of dirt, the shovel
brigade-are nowhere being paid less
than $1.75 per day, many Of them
working only eight hours dnd many
getting So. While few Of the things
which such man will have to buy are
slightly higher in this country than in
other countries, he still is able with
such wage to have better food, better
clothing and better home than his
fellow workmen in any country on
earth, while his family is In every way
better cared for and educated. A Bo-
hemian not long from the fatherland
has done good many days work for
Us. It Is always $1.75 for each day,
and yet this man tells us that he never
earned to exceed 40 cents for the same
class OF work in Bohemia. Here he
has meat three times day at one
half the price in that country, his chill
dren are having the benefit Of the pub
lie school, he lives In q comfortabei
home and not hovel, be Is constantly
adding to his savings In the bank. In
tellectually and physically the man Isl
not very far removed himself from
Markham's brother to the or" butt
the next generation will show al
marked improvement, and a hundred
years from now some great mans ped
igree will run up against this crude
ancestor who gladly and well did thei
dirty work Of life In the dawn Of thei
twentieth century for $1.75 per day.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
THE SPLIT
LOG DRAG.
Simple Method by Which Good Roads May be Made and Kept
RePair-By D. Ward Kins.-published by Courtesy Of
The Saturday Evening Post-llustrations by
Courtesy Of the Thief River Press

THERE is something startling in
the statement that drag made
of a split log and costing only the
price of pocket knife is the imple-
ment that is going to revolutionize
the wagon roads of this country and
save many millions of dollars to the
rural population OF the United
States yet I make this statement
and put it upon it all the emphasis
OF which l am capable.
Downright absurd do you ex-
plain? I have had hundreds of farm
ers greet with jeers "a less sweep
ing statement of the se-and then
go home and prove for themselves
it's absolute correctness. Have you
any idea of what it would mean to
the people of the United States to
change the bad wagon roads of the
country into good roads? Such a
revolution in Transportation would
climb so high into figures that the
sum total would be absolutely start
ling and almost beyond comprehen-
sion. Not very long after l had
madetheirstcomplete demonstration
of the split log method of road-mak-
ing on my farm in Missouri, Col. G..
W. Waters, Secretary of the Miss
ouri Good Roads Association, said
to me: "
If the road commissioners of the
State of Missouri could stand here
and see what see, the result would
be worth a hundred thousand
dollars a year to this Common
wealth." ~.
1t is impossible to express in fig
ures even the most general estimate
of the value of such a revolution in
road-making as must result from
the general use of this new and
'absurdly simple method How
ever, it is we'll to keep in naind the
facts that in almost all States the
mileage of common dirt roads is
many times double that of macad-
anaized or other expensive roads in
tended to be permanent.
In a State so long settled, so pro-
gressive and prosperous as Ohio,
for example, more than fifty per cent.
of the roads are of earth, and the
interest shown by Massachusetts,,
Pennsylvania, New York and other
Eastern States in the work of the
split log drag indicates that the
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14

1AV AAy AO4SuOOA . SduO, UOWdAu
town, / turned around and took the
other side of the road back to my
home, The result was simply as
tonishihg. More rain fell upon this
road. but it ran off like water on
ducks back" From that time
forward, after every rain or wet
spell, I dragged the half-mile of the
road covered by my original expert
ment.
At the end of three months the
road was better than when it had
been dragged for three weeks, and
at the of three years it was immense
ly improved over it's condition at
the end of the first years work. l
studied the result of each step in
my experiment and finally learned
that three elements are required to
make perfect'earth road and that
the lack of any one of them is fatal
to the result. To be perfect an
earth road must be at one and the
same time oval hard and smooth. All
of these indispensables are acquired
by the use of the split-log drag in
any soil that I have ever come in
contact with-and 1 have worked in
the various kinds of clay soil, in the
gumbo of the swampy lowlands and
in the black mud of the praries.
Observation of my experiment
taught me that two weeks of rain
would not put this bit OF road in bad
condition at a time when the high
way at either end of it was impass-
able for a wagon. OF course, it was
plain that the reason the road was
not bad was that there was no mud
in it. But why mud would not
collect in it was not clear to me un-
til l was taught my lesson by the
very humble means of hog wallow.
One.day I chanced to notice that
water was standing in one of these
wallows long after the ground all
about it had become dry. Probably
l had many times before observed
this fact, but not until now had it
occurred to mo to inquire into its
cause. Examining the edges Of the
wallow, was impressed with the
fact that it was almost as hard as a
piece of earthenware. Clearly this
because the wallowing Of the hogs
had mixed or ''puddled" the earth
and water together, forming a kind
of cement which dried into hard and
practically waterproof surface.
The next important lesson in my
understanding of the real elements
of road-making was taught me by
studing what we farmers call 'sa
spouty spot in the side of a clay
hill. ALI who live in a clay country
know the unspeakable sickness of
one of these spouty places, and are
familiar with the fact that, after ten
days or two weeks of bright, hot
sunshin, you can take an axe and
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
THRESHERMEN,
. attention.!

The SHEAF has printed a record
book that will help you to keep the
accounts of every job straight.
Serves the purpose of a note. Copy
for customer detached. Best thing
out. Only 50 cents book, 60 cents
by mail.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
Bird Responds 70 Whtstls.

There Is girl In Hamburg, Ger
many. who has trained . beautiful bird
20 come ct her whistle and perch upon
her hat She goes abroad with the
oird roosttng there. and the effect is
described as very smart. to ray the
least.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
The Churches.
Nj. e. Church.
GEO. E. TINDALL, Pastor.

The services next Sunday will be
as follows: Preaching at 1870 a. m.
The subject of the sermon will be
"A, Heavenly Ambition. Sunday
school at 11.45 a. m. Epworth
League at Z p. m. Preaching at 8
p. m. Subject. ''The FOOLS Finale. y
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
Mission Church.

O. J. LUNDELL, PASTOR
Services Sunday at 1880 a. m.
and 8p. m. Sunday school at 12
a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday at
8 p. m.
Service will be conducted by
Rev. O. J. Lundell at Aug. West
berg's in Vega at 3 p. m. next Sun
day.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14
The Yoke! The Yoke!

Rev. LudYig Holmes, D. D., of the
Swedish Lutheran Augustana
Synod, who by the way is himself a
poet and author of no mean ability,
says of THE YOKE" :" the story that
is begun in the SHEAF last week:
The story as such is very cap
tivating and retains an air or plaus-
ibility througout. Except BEN HUR,
know no modern work thatcompares
favorably with The YOKE. It is
beneficial in many respects and
ought to be we'll received and ap-
preciated by all classes