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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
PAYS ROADS BIG REBATE
George F. Mead's Charge Against Ar.
mour Car Lines Com
pany.

Washington, May 19.-George F. Mead o
Boston, president of the National League
OF Commission Merchants, continued his
statement before the interstate
commission yesterday giving details of
alleged abuses of the private car system.
He asserted that Armour & Co. in some
cases charged several railroads s.. 50 per
ton of freight for ice, and paid the road u
rebate of 81 per ton.
E. r. Bacon of Milwaukee was again a
witness. The proposed legislation. he de-
clared, had nothing to do with rebates,
but was designed to prevent discrimination
in published tariffs.
c. NJ. Brown of California, representing
the lemon industry in his state, said that
Paul Morton. now secretary of the navy,
but then an official of the Santa Fe rail-
road, In conference with lemon dealers on
the coast, asked if a 81 rate would relieve
the lemon crop. When told 1t would, the
witness added, that rate was made. Mr..
Brown insisted that oranges could be car
ried as cheaply as lemons. He was salts
fed with the Armour car lines, but the
railroad rates were too high.
F. D. Boies of Chicago, assistant traffic
manager of the Illinois Central railroad.
discussed the difficulty of adjustment Of
rates because of the competition of water
and rail rates. He declared THAI it would
be impossible for the commission to fix
'ateS.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
TO BE NO EXTRA SESSION
Presidents Projected Trip Through the
South Disposes Of the Orig
inal Idea.

Washington, May 20.-President
Rooseyelt'st decision to make a south
ern trip in October is believed to set
tie permanently the question of an ex-
ira session of congress. Before the
president. left Washington for the
southwest%his>mind was made up, ap-
parently irrevocably, to assemble the
fifty-ninth congress in extraordinary
session not later than October l, for
the purpose of enacting railroad rate
legislation along lines that would in
sure permanent reform for many of the
evils of railway management. He was
only dissuaded from calling an extra
Session ~imlpediately following the adj
journment"of the fifty-eighth congress
in March by promises of leading repub-
lican senators and representatives to
support his legislative program SO far
as it applied to railroad rates II the
call was delayed until October.
Now the president appears to have
voluntarily changed his program and
instead of calling congress here in De-
tober he will make a prolonged tour of
the southern states which will keep him
on the road at least three weeks. He
may decide to issue the call for the first
of November, but this is purely con-
j%ectural. -E.s.
Senators and representatives who
keepein touch with his purposes are in
clined to believe that there will be no
extra session.: that the president is
satisfied hat the fifty-ninth congress
will heed the demand uf~the people for
satisfactory railroad legislation and
that a bill can pc passed as speedily at
the regular session as it could at a spe-
cial session.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
MAYOR BELIEVES
IN RESPECTING LAW
Executive Ferry Of VermilIion
Refuses to Sign a Tax
Refund Bill.
SAYS 1T is
Council Some Years Ago Granted He
tel Waldorf a Rebate in Taxes for
Fifteen Years, but Mayor
Refuses to Grant 1T.

Eermillion, S. D., May 1S.-Consid-
cradle has been stirred up in
this city over the refusal of Mayor II.
vor of the Eermillion Hotel company
for taxes paid to the city.
When The Waldorf was erected here
about two years 6 by the business
men of the city, it vas the under
standing that the company would be
let off with a meager tax each year.
The city council passed a resolution
to the effect that the hotel property
should be assessed on a valuation of
$1,000 for a period of fifteen years.
This as an inducement to get a good
hotel here. Last yea the assessor
placed a value of $4,000 on the prop
erty. The company paid the taxes and
then applied for a refund, which was
granted by the council. But Mayor
Ferry refused to sign the warrant, and
thus the matter stands to date.
The mayors refusal to do this is on
the ground that the state constitution
will not permit him to do so. There
is no such thing as eXempting prop
erty from taxation to its full value,
and Mayor Ferry believes in living up
to the law. He is not particularly OPP
Po5td " tHe CITY EIdi!tii-S q bolluS
of some sort to the company, but does
not wish to go on record for an action
Which is contrary to the constitution
which he has sworn to support.
The general sentiment is that the
mayor did right in abiding by the law,
but the majority are also in favor Of
making good the word of the former
council to the hotel company. since
the money expended was not for gain
in a financial way, but simply to give
the university city one of the best ho-
els in the state. .
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
PAT GROVE IN CHICAGO?
\ Hotel Guest Asserts That the Miss
ing Man Lived at the Re.
we're House.

Chicago, May IA story of Pat Groves
alleged residence in Chicago for a year UNI
der the shadows of the criminal court
building, while a heavy reward was Of
fered for his arrest, and the efforts of his
friends to keep the story of his stay in
Chicago from the police, was disclosed
yesterday afternoon when Attorney Sid
ney B. Meyer said that he had been in
structed to begin suit for damages against
Steve Grove and the Revere Hotel COM
pany. whose manager. j. J. King, caused
the arrest of Miss Anna Murphy, a former
guest of the hotel, on a charge of failing
to pay a board bill of SIG. when, Miss
Murphy says, the real cause was that she
had threa tened to tell the police that Pat
Grove had been in hiding at the Revere
house for over a veal.
Mss Murphy. who is said to be the
daughter of the sheriff Of Wright county,
Minnesota, was ARRESTED last Saturday
upon the complaint of J. j. King OF the
Revere house II later discharged by JUS
ticc Henry Roth on motion of the hotel
company.
Immediately after the hearing before the
justice Miss Murphy left the city. saying
that she had been threatened by members
OF the Grove family in Chicago and that
she was in fear of her life.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
SURRENDERED HIMSELF.
Thrilling Escape Of Furbie Howard
and His Repentance


Sioux Fails, S, D., May l9.-Furbie
Howard, a young man only about 20
years of age, is entitled to the distinc-
ton of being the first escaped prisoner
from the Sioux Falls pcnitentiary who
has voluntarily surrendered himself to
the prison authorities SO he could COM
plete his term.
Howard, on June 4, 1904 was SEN
fenced To a term of one year in the
penitentiary, his offence consisting of
attempting to smuggle saws to Riley
Hart~.ck, Of this city, his cousin, while
the latte. was a prisoner in the Min
nehaha county Jail.
Young Howard made a daring escape
from the penitentiary on July "A last.
This WAS accomplished by his conceal
Ing himself in a car OF stone which
was ready for shipment. with other
cars, from the p~enitentiary. He had
worked during the forenoon outside his
cell, but was not TO work in the after
noon.
His celImate, however, was to work
outside that particulars afternoon, and
II was not surprising hat the official
in charge of the ward should unlock
the cell door. and. under a misunder-
standing, leave il unlocked, expecting
that both inmatcs Of the cell We're at
work outside during the afternoon.
The young man grasped the oppor-
tunity, left the cell and went s~tealthily
TO a train of loaded cars which was
standing on the track within the pris-
on walls preparatory to being hauled
outside. The fleeing youth secreted
himself in The middle of the string.
All the cars were loaded with stone.
howard craWled between the stone in
the. car in which he entered, doubled
himself up into as small a space as
possible and drew a large fiat stone
over himself in order to conceal his
body. He states that every minute of
the time before the cars We're hauled
away from the psisoN seemed an hour.
Just prior to the starting OF the loco
motive attached to the cars ain inspect
or entered the car in which Howard
was concealed and came very close to
him, nearly stepping on the stone which
formed the screen over his crouching
body. But his presence in the car was
not detected.
When the train reached the Milwau-
kee depot, near the heart of the city,
young Howard made his way out of
the car. Although it was broad day
light he was not recognized.
Since his absence from Sioux Falls
and South Dakota young Howard has
been employed at various places. in
Guiding Lansing, Mich. and Memphis,
Tenn. The ~strangest part of Towards
story, the truth of which cannot be
questioned. is TO the effect that during
the time he was a fugitive he four
times came to Sioux Fails for the pur-
pose of visiting his mother. On each
trip he managed to elude the vigilance
of the authorities.
Recently he has been thinking the
matter over and anne to the con-
clusion that the only way to make a
of himself was to surrender him.
self and complete his term in the peni-
Tertiary, when he can mmence life
anew, firm in the determination to
of himself q useful member of
,ociety.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
COLD FLOODED MURDER
Negro Shoots Down Little Boy on the
Street and CooIy Makes Escane.

q
Chicago, May 2o.-Seeking venge-
ance because. several young men jeered
them, two negroes, believed by the DO
lice to be nonunion Transfers import
ed from the south to drive for the
Peabody Coal company, TWenty-siXth.
place and Canal street caused terror,
to scores of residents in the vicinityt
Of REIMBURSEMENT street and Prince
ton avenue shortly after 6 O'clock last
night by parading the streets flourish,
ing magazine revolverS and finally Sc
lecting az their victim Enoch C~arlson.f
an S-year-old scloolboy, whom they
playing with other boys in front of his
home, 27O1 Princeton avenue.
There vas absolutely no cause for,
the murder, so far as the police have
been able to learn from witnesses.
Enoch, in company with Ralph Larson,
a playmate living at 2703 Princeton av-,
enue. was standing on the sidewalk
hen the negroes approached and with
an oath one of them, described as being
a giant in stature, towering more than
six feet in height, pointed his revolver
at the little fellow and pulled the trig-
ger.
Race Wal Is Threatened.
The deliberate murder of Enoch Carl
son is the climax to a reign ofElawless-
ness which has existed in the vicinity
of the branch yards of the Peabody!
Coal company since the inception of the
strike, n this last crime, together
with many others committed by ne
groes on defenseless men. women and
children. has aroused the citizens to an
intense pitch and serious trouble is ex-
pected. A race war is threatened nm
eSS immediate action is taken,
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
PRISON SHIRT FACTORY.
Sioux Falls Penitentiary to Be Mad,
Self Supportino.

Sioux Falls, SID, May 90. S.
Swenson. who this week retired from
the position Of warden of the Sioux
Falls penitentiary, has been appointed
manager of the shirt factory which is
about to be established at the peni-
Tertiary. His appointment came
through the Chicago. concern which has
entered into. a contract to take the
product of the factory, The state board
of charities and corrections, at a meet
ing held in this city, has just awarded
the contract for the machinery needed
in the operation of the shirt factory,
which was provided for by the last leg
islature.
1t is believed the factory will be
placed in operation within the next six
weeks. About 100 convicts will be en-
ployed in the factory. the state having
entered into a contract to furnish the
services of this number for a period of
V years. 1t is estimated that 24O
dozen shirts will be manufactured
daily. and that the factory will mean
an addition of from 5000 to Sc, 600 a
year to the railroad freight receipts. 1t
Is figured that the state will make a
profit of about $50, 900 per year from the
Deration of the factory.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING.
Eastern South Dakota Teachers Con-
uention at Madison Next Meek.

Huron, S. D., May 1S.-This city will
be we'll represented at the inter-nornal
contests and second annual meeting OF
the eastern South Dakota teachers
convention to be held in Madison on
May 25-27. The address of welcome
will be delivered by General w. H. H.
Beadle, to which Superintendent L. S.
Dubois, of Huron, will respond. Pro-
feSsor NJ. H. Manuel. of the Huron city
schools, is name on the program for
an address, and Miss IneZ Hotalling.
also of Huron, Will discuss the subject
of drawing in country schools. A nufn-
Der of we'll known educators residing
in the eastern part of the state will be
present and participate in the proceed
ings. a debate between Aberdeen and
Springfield normal schools. followed
by the oratorical contest, will occur on
the evening of the 25th. Athletics, in
Guiding basket ball, tennis, ETC., will
occupy attention at, intervals during
the three days the convention is in ses-
ion, ..r.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
CENTRAL WRECK.
Freight Trains Collide Near Echols,
Ky, and Eight Are Dead; Four
INJURED.

Louisville, Ky, May 2O.-A collision
between two Illinois Central freight
trains two miles south Of Echols, Ky,
resulted in the death of eight men and
four injured.
The dead:
DOC TOURNEY, conductor, Louis
vile.
B. ENGLISH, engineer, Elizabeth,
Ky.
CHARLES SINCLAIR, fireman, Lou
isville.
Ky. ,-
FOSTER BELL, fireman, Louisville.
CORDIA SMITH, colored, brakeman.
GEORGE HOLLIS, colored, brake
MAYT OWENS, negro, tramp.
The injured:
Ed Crany, Columbus, o.
Gus Fallinger, Cincinnati, travelling
salesman.
Wallace Yates, engineer.
The collision was between a north
bound fast freight and the Louisville
and Central City local freight.
The latter carries passengers. and
from this fact, it is feared, that there
may be more victims buried under the
Wreckage. The misleading of its or
ders by the s~outhbound crew, it is said,
caused the collision.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
WAY ONE TRUST HAS.
Refuses to Exhibit Its Books When tn.
Government Started to Prosecute.

Milwaukee, Wis, May ia refusal by
the attorneys representing the General
Paper company to exhibit books or ac-
counts marked the first days proceedings
in the taking of dispositions in the case
brought by the government against the
concern on the allegation that it is a trust,
organized and operated for the purpose of
restraining trade, before Special Examiner
Robert S. Taylo~ of the United States cir
cult court of Minnesota.
Secretary l.. NJ. Alexander of the COM
pany vas on the stand all day. He testi-
fed t 1T The stock subscribed for by vari-
Gus paper companies of Wisconsin was
paid for in checks signed with the names
of the companies and not by personal
checks of their stockholders.
If the company is dissolved" says ]. S.
Van Nortwicl. one of the owners. IAN or
ganizauon is to be .ormed along the
lines of the international Paper company
of New York.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
Record Breaking Shipment.

Ethan, S. D., May lS.-Icsterday
two trains of stock We're shipped from
this place by special train to Chicago.
a number of feeders in the neighbour
hood shipping at once. Thirty-tive
loads of cattle and five of hogs were
loaded in n day. The new stock
yards not being completed, the railroad
furnished four or five section crews
to assist in loading. Superintendent
Beardsley and Division Freight Agent
Love We're both in town. There a.e
almost as many more cattle being fef
In the neighborhood that! are not ready
for the market. Ethan is, becoming
quite n station for feeding cattle, as
the business is rapidly increasing.
When the new yards. are completei II
great deal of stock that goes else
where at present will be shipped from
this point.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
MAY SECURE A BIG FACTORY.
Plant Wants to Locate i.
- :. Watertown.

Watertown, May 1.-THE Business Mems
Union of this city held a special meeting
to meet Gilbert Murphy, a representative
of the stra wboar factory which desires to
locate in his city, # prope inducements
are offered. Mr.. Murphy spoke at length
On the subject, outlining the benefits that
would accrue from the establishment of
such a plant in this city. If the factor!
is established here 1t would mean the en-
ployment of about 300 men, certainly a
good thing for Watertown. The business
men adjourned and will meet later 10. de
eide upon what sort of a proposition can
be mad TO the company's representative.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26

The difficulty of avoiding "howlers"
when one is transiating from English
into such a language as that of the
Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia must
be very great, says the London News.
We hear from the Bible society of a
curious case. In the first edition of
st. Matthew in Micmac the Translator
found, when he came to revise it. that
in chapter XVI, Z, instead of Nation
shallNise against nation" he mad writ
ten, "A pair of snowshoes shall: rise up
against a pair of s~nowshoes." And
yet there was only one letter misprint-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ga nation), hay
ing been displaced by naooktakumik-
silk "a S~nowshOe)
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
ARMoURs ADMIT MONOPOLY.
President Robbins, of Car Line, Ad,
mits Many Exclusive Contracts.

Washington, D.. c., May 2O.-Before
the senate committee on interstate COM
merce, which is Investigating railroad
rates, President George r. Robbins Of
the Armour car lines admitted that
the had twenty or thirty eX-
elusive contracts with railroads for
fruit transportation business, and ac-
knowledged a monopoly of that traffic
in parts of the west and south. Wher-
ever these contracts applied, he ad-
mitted, the producers and shippers of
fruit had to accept the rates aid down
by the A~rlnOurS.
He claimed that his company was a
privae one, and therefore not subject
to the interstate laws. He
was closely examined ly the committee
regarding the operation of the Armour
interests.
These exclusive contracts with railroads,N
he said, were generally private, though ex-
hibited when requested. He asserted that
the Armours do not get any advantages
over other shippers in these cars. Reply
ing to Chairman Elk.ns, the witness said
that his company did not want to be sub
Ject to the interstate laws. 1T
seems" interjected Mr.. Elkins, that you
have all the advantages and none of the
responsibilities of common carriers"
According to the witness the Armours
have 200 articles, known as packing house
products, which are transported in Ar
mour cars.
The Armours, he admitted, had exclusive
contracts with all the south Atlantic coast
states railways, exclusive contracts in east
Tennessee, and on certain roads in Mis-
souri, and Arkansas, and on the Southern
Pacific road, The Santa Fee was a compel
ing line in the fruit business in California.
Fruit producers and shippers on these
exclusive lines had to accept the rates Of
me mn Nn ~ n NV hue n, DNll;-.
said they satisfied so per cent. of the lat
ter. Senator Clapp asked a number Of
questions as to the position of Mr.. Robin
IN acknowledging an absolute monopoly
and yet withholding information as to the
business, and claiming immunity from the
interstate commission laws. Mr..
ROBBINS maintained that his position was
justified.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
SOUTH DAKOTA STONE.
Materials Used in New State House t,
Be Home

Pierre, S. D., May 1.-THE state capitol
commission has contracted with the Min
neapolis firm of Bell &c Detwiler for plans
fer the new capitol building III this state.
This firm of architects furnished the plans
for the Montana building, which IS on sim
liar lines as those which will be followed
in the South Dakota building. The archi-
tects expect to have the desired plans of
the work completed by the middle of next
month, after which the commission will
be in position TO advertise for bids for
work.
The building when completed viii be 29l
feet long, two stories and high basement.
and will be lG5 feet from the first floor to
the top of the dome. While the plans to
be provided comprehend the whole build
ing, nothing will be, done, this year eX-
cept on the east wing, on which work VIII
be commenced as soon as possible. 80"
The foundation stone are TO be granite
boulders from the Missouri. river bluffs,
and all material SO far as possible will be
South Dakota products.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
SCHEME BY WHICH
TO CONTROL PRICES
Method Of the Packers Is Dis.
closed by Live Stock
Commission Men.
ARE BEFORE A JURY
Testimony at the Omaha investigation
Shows That the Packers Can
Put Men Out of Business
at Will.

Omaha, Neb., May 20.-The eXamina.
ton of live stock commission men be-
fore the federal grand jury, which was
concluded this morning, developed
that packers force acceptance of their
prices for stock by means of their con-,
troll of live stock exchanges. Any COM
mission mar who tries to trade in
stock in violation of exchange rules
can be put out of business by refusal:
of the packers to buy from him. on,
one occasion the packers refused to buy
from Alma jackson until he paid a fine
of $3.50 for violation of the rules of the
live stock exchange. Clay Robinson &
Co., one of the heaviest cattle dealers
in the world, sold stock to an outsider
and We're boycotted ur.il they gave in.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
Speaks His Mind PLAINLY,

New York, May 20.-Abraham Levy
who defended Nan Patterson during
her three trials for the murder of
Caesar Young, announced today that
he had withdrawn from the case finally
and absolutely. Mr.. Levy said hat he
understood that Miss Patterson intend
ed to accept al offer from a theatre
cal manager, and radded that he strong
ly disapproved. Of such an action.
II wish to that my
tion with the case has ceased for all
time" he said. Il put in nearly a year
of ardous and patient work, and after
l had accomplished the purpose for
which l was retained INC secured my
clients discharge from custody, my
hands were cleared. l am through with
the Nan Patterson case. That cannot
We put too plainly"