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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30
Elsie Agnes Krause the
Victim of a Loaded
Shot Gun.
KILLED At HER HOME.
No One Present Went the Acct
dent Happened - Found
About 6 o'clock, Cold
in Death.

One of the saddest accidents ever
chronicled in Webster newspaper
occurred at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Krause, five miles west Of this city
Wednesday afternoon some time
between four and five o'clock and as
result their fifteen year-old daughter
Elsie Agnes Krause has been called to
her home on high.
Wednesday the deceased went to
school, Mr.. Krause was called to
Webster on business. Her brother,
Karl, was at work in the field. AT
about the closing time of school Mrs.
Krause went out into the field to take
her son lunch. 1t is supposed that
the girl came home during her mothers
absence and that the accident occurred
during that time as no report was heard
by anyone.
| There is no one who knows the sad
story but this is the theory advanced by
these in possession of the most facts.
Elsie came home from school immed-
lately at its close, she went to her room
took off the dress she wore to school
and put on the apparel she worked in
around home She then went into the
farmers blacksmith shop which was
located in small building at the end of
the house Her brother had used the
the shot gun in the morning and had
brought it into the shop and stood it in
the corner loaded. The supDositien is
that the girl found the gun and was
playing with it. She must have had
the stock of the gun higher than the
muzzle when it was discharged for the
charge entered at the lower rib, coursed
downward through the abdomen AS
was said before, no one heard the shot
About six o'clock while the mother was
getting supper she needed some salt aud
went to the shop where it was kept, to
i get same, and it was then that she
found her daughter cold in death.
Coroner Schenecker was called from
Bristol and arrived about IL o'clock,
midnight, Wednesday. He at once
impannelled coroner's jury consisting
of Matthias Johnson, John NJ Johnson
and Charles p. Johnson. After hearing
all the evidence the jury brought in yer
dict "That the deceased, Elsie Agnes
Krause, came to her death as result of
an accident with a shot gun in her own
hands"
Family funeral services will be held
at the home Friday morning at 10 a. m.
The public funeral services will be held
at the Congregational church Friday at
i o'clock, Rev. Gustave HUH will con-
duct both services and interment will
take place in the Webster cemetery
The bereaved family will have the
deepest sympathy of all our people in
the terrible death of their daughter
who was just budding into womanhood
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30
Obituary..

Fiksdal, Olav j., at Minneapolis
Monday, March 81, 1905, of typhoid
fever, aged 81 years, months and 20
days.
Olav j. Fiksdal was born in Fiksdal-
Romsdal, Norway, December 4, 1877,
where he lived with his parents until
1898 when he came to this country and
located in Webster where he has since
made his home.
The first few years were spent
with his brothers here in the store but
the last three years he has been attend
ing school in Minnesota preparing him
self for the ministry.
At the beginning Of the present school
year he entered Unity church sem mary
at Minneapolis TO finish his educa ton.
About two weeks since the seminary
decided to take q census of the church
going people Of the city and Olav was
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30
For Sale Cheap.

One 20-disc drill, one John Deere
gang plow ,one John Deere foot disc, one
6-foot binder, two sets double harness
The above have been used one year.
Four good horses, good cow (springer).
Terms to suit purchaser. !. f. Fin
ney, az miles west of Webster and u
mile east OF Christ Sauer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30

Upon terms to suit purchaser the
east u of northwest a and west u Of
northeast section 2, township 1870,
range SO, with improvements and good
water, 80 acres under cultivation and
40 acres in hay and 40 acres under
fence. Twelve miles south of Waubay.
For further particulars write Fletcher
Bros Minneapolis, Mimi, or r. O.
Sproul, Waubay, 8. ID.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30

Mr. Chas. Rathbun was given pleas
ant surprise by number of his friends
on Tuesday evening. The occasion
being his 5Sth birthday The evening
was pleasantly spent by visiting and
playing games. When it comes to hav-
ing good time the old folks are strictly
in it. Prizes were won by Mrs Kading,
Mrs. Efnor, Mrs Norris and Mrs j. l..
Clark The contests were some what
exciting to both the contestants and the
spectators. A comfortable rocking chair
was left with Mr.. Rathbun as a
reminder of the occasion aud was pre-
sented in an appropriate way by Mr..
Abbott. Refreshments were served and
every one went home having thoroughly
enjoyed the evening and wishing Mr..
Rathbun many happy returns of the
day,
Here Is an item from the Ashton
Chronicle to which the writer desires
to say amen: From time to time we
have heard it remarked in tones of dis
content that there are favored few
whose comings and goings are always
mentioned in the paper while others are
frequently missed. We don't deny it;
it's perfectly true. But the favored"
ones are those who always tell the
editor when they take a trip or return
from one, when they give party or
entertain visitor at their homes. They
don't expect us to be everywhere and
hear everything They help us to
make readable paper and we thank
them for it. But the honorable order
of the favored few is not exclusive:
you can belong TO it if you will and
We'll be glad to have you You are
entitled to as much space in the local
columns each week as you can fill, but
send it in; don't expect us to go news
gathering, in mid air on broomstick;
better looking people have been burned
alive for being suspected of such man
ouvers.
/ Jonnas a. Lee, of Cleveland, Okla,
arrived in the city Monday to pay his
Day county friends an extended visit,
he is the guest of his sister Mrs. p. r..
Gruby. Joe was one of the pioneers
of Day county and one of Webster's
first business men--in the erly SOS was
one of the best known and most popu-
lar men in the county. He was clerk
of courts during Clevelands administra-
ton. He left Webster twelve or fifteen
years ago and located in the south. We
asked Joe how the family were and he
replied there is not much of the family
left, only Mrs. Lee, frankie, the baby
and myself, they are quite well, how
ever-Mable aud Stanley are married
and have families-I am five times a
grandfather. The years have dealt
very kindly with Joe, who looks little
older than when he left Webster. But
say, if you want TO hear some reliable
early history of Dakota, when it froze
80 feet thick in winter, and snow was
so deep shafts had to be sunk in the
drifts to reach the houses, and the hot
winds in summer melted the points of
the Lightning rods, when they couldn't
build wire fences because the staples
got so hot they chared the posts and let
the wire down, just get round and
listen to Joe, DIR. Harris and Ed. Small
recounting "reminiscences of the pioneer
days. OF course these old boys won't
exaggerate any thing in the least
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30
Wanted.

Five hundred cattle wanted. We
have exceptional facilities for handling
large bunch of cattle this season on
the Efnor & Beachy ranch on the mill
tary reservation, plenty of pure spring
water and the best range in this section.
For terms and particulars inquire Of
Beachy g. Company, Webster, s. d.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30
WANTED.

Five hundred head Of cattle to pas
ture ON the military reservation, plenty
Of grass and good spring water. For
inflammation, inquire Of J. g. Rathbun,
Webster, 8 d.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30

Notice of Dissolution of Partne rship.
Notice 10 hereby given that the partner
Candy and w. &. Ladd Is hereby dis
solved by mutual consent of said part
ners. and all persons indebted to said
Arm will call at the Security bank Of
Webster aud pay the same where they
will find their notes and accounts.
NJ ID. Candy.
w. g. Ladd.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30
SEEDS! SEEDS!

Timothy, millet, bromus menus, rcd
top. rape, oats, alphalpha and gard&n
seeds all fresh and pare.
Jens PetersQn N Cor1pany.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30

25th.
Clara M. Parker, Grace Liant,
Jessamine Haun, Delbert Earl Dibble.
Sadye STEELE, Beatrice STEELE,
Amelia Nelson, John A. Roberts,
Amelia Hilbert, Sarah Hague.
+. M. Ahern, Mrs Agnes Crofoot.
Tracy Rider, Warren W. Jones,
Carrie Paulson, o. b. Palmer,
Bertha Good, Theodore @. Names,
Alice M. Yost, MolIie Hanson,
Julia Strobel, Hattie Lightizer,
Beatrice Yost, Julia s. Foste,
ID. J. Howell, Lizzie Martyr,
Clara M Suffer, Mamie Alderman,
Ella Omdahl, Myrtle Foltz,
Edith Gemmell, Inez g. Gibson,
Ruby Dart, Oliv Hagen,
Bertha Highland, Maud Cass,
Sophia Thompson, Elizabeth Moore.
Mary Bue, George Naessig,
Edna v. Conner, Ella Thompson,
Maude Nixon, Irving Cameron,
Mabel Morrill,, Clinton Lightizer-
Rowland Dudley, Frank johnson,
Vendetta Byron, Maud Bennett.
Ella johnson, Laura johnson.
Charlotte Buckners Rowena Walker,
Maude Peckhazn. Ella Miller.
Minnie a. Larson. Josephine McAllen,
Eva Parrot. Stephen Dolan,
Louise Biotodsau. Martha Barry.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-30

Day County Teachers to the
Number of Sixty Eight
Write for Ger
tifcates.

The following persons took part iia
teachers examination held in Webster,
Friday and Saturday, March cath and
25th.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18

entirely outside of the evidence. He insisted that the House confine itself to the evidence before them, and not a line of the evidence relates to charges made by other judges.
 It Is very plain that no little of poll tics has been injected into the swayne case. and it may be decided, not on its merits, but on partisan considerations. Some of the republicans at least seem to think they must stand by their own appointee, and by the judges as whole. Tho judiciary of the country is not a bit involved, and MT. Clayton is doing good work in his endeayor to hold the House republicans up to their plain du-y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
A 100000 Club.

"The suggestion made by J. A. Me- Knight at the Commercial club smoker the other night that a One Hundred Thousand club be organized in Birming- ham attracted considerable attention. said a prominent business man. He did not claim the idea as original, but said 1t was based on the One Million club of St. Louis. which has been organized to assist in raising the population of that city from 100000 to 100000.
 "The plan is for all citizens to join the One Hundred Thousand club and work to raise Birmingham to the 100000 class. Each member would contribute one dollar for advertising the city and district as an initiation fee. and If the work of the club proved to be satisfactory, would naturally make this an annual or a monthly payment, as the club might de- eide. It is simply a boosting project, in which every citizen is interested. Each member would wear a button with the legend: Birmingham. Make 1t 100000,
 Tt is believed by many that such a movement would greatly increase the unity and public spirit of the people of any city where 1t was taken hold of with the proper enthusiastic spirit. Birmingham will soon have 100000 people, and then the club should be designated as the GOO club and the good work be carried on with renewed vigor.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
The martlet
Coosa and Alabama.

The specials which state that the Coosa and the Alabama rivers will not be properly favored in the forthcom- ing rivers and harbors bill need not be taken very seriously along those noble rivers. The policy of Chairman Burtons committee plainly is to open first of all the Warrior. When that task is accom- lished all Alabama will stand ready to pull for some other Ala bama river
 The policy of concentration-con- centration of our influence and of gov ernment worx--upon one river until it is improved, and then upon another seems to be the best policy after all. Let the \ arrior be opened first, be- cause an Open Warrior would tap the mineral district, drawing upon it's i'm mense and increasing tonnage. But after the Warrior is opened every inch of Alabama should pull for an Open Coosa and an Open Alabama, and both will in due course be fully improved and opened to the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
WONDERS PERFORMED BY
 HANDS OF MISS KELLER

character through the hand. to describe people so accurately that they credited her with supernatural sense She disx claims. however, any extraofdtsary ea< gacity. She simply, but litersYy. rainS her impressions frst-hand, andk fhey ar4 unfailingly accurate. 4f
 The value of Miss Keller's record n fh2 impetus which 1t will give Co the rtud0 of the sense of touch, as well d the ass surance which 1t conveys that fho hup man hand will we'll repay more caref,,> attention. The individuality of tha hanS was emphasized in "Pudd'nhead WiIeon.s in which romance the dstinctiye linej of the thumb were made to play an i'm portant part. Since the appearance <1 that story the impress of the thumb f!aa become one of the methods of icr1mina}I Identification. Pamistry has alor1r beer practiced, but 1t has been ronderod d, disreputable by charlatan slirronndlnni that 1t has been avoided by those w1d might develop 1t into a science. If t be true that the hand is the index of tha. soul; if woman whose world n darl3| and silent can through the hau1 enteH| completely into the joy of living..t tf W6uId seem as if new field of explornfi6n had been opened. The opportunity whioh pre& sents itself for scientific study ought not to pass unheeded. It might be possible. Tor instance, to learn whether the hanc, like the face. reveals symptoms of dis- ease. It may have other secrets which stand ready to be disclosed if our pe,- captions are only delicate and sensitive enough to understand them Certainly the experience of Helen Keller demonstrates that the eye Is not the only window through which the soul can look out up- on the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
MT. NiedrInehaus of Missouri.

In the poodle campaign of last year Brewer Niedringhaus was collector for St. Louis, and in his name at least S21 ,000 of brewery money was paid in, ostensibly to promote republicanism in Missouri, but really to control legis- lation in case the republicans won the legislature. The money was collected and expended with legislation at re- publican hands in plain view. As much or more was perhaps contributed to democratic funds, but the situation be- came doubtful as November ap- preached, and the brewers concluded to hedge, and Niedringhaus was util- ized. He vas the acting treasurer and poodle collector for the republicans.
 It does not appear from the testi- mony taken that Niedringhaus was any worse or any better than all the rest of the managing politicians of the cam paign. It is not believed that he pald over personally $21,O00, but that that sum was raised by him among the brewers, all of 1t standing in his name. He paid no doubt slice of it. He rep resented the brewing interests, and be- ing elected a United States Senator he will continue to represent them on all possible occasions.
 And why should not the brewing in rests be represented in the Senate? Will Niedringhaus be worse or more selfish or more cliquish than Aldrich or Tom Plctt or Reed Shoot? It is "the interests" that are selecting United States Senators, and "the in terests" vii continue to select them until the people rise up and demand that tho primary election test be ap- piled to such representative officers as well as to all other public servants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
PETTUS IN THE CHAIR.
@ Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 Whenever the Senate debates develop into personal colloquies; when one man after another joins in the discussion and remarks are made from the seats of Sem ators and the presiding officer is ignored; when the Senate becomes disorderly and
 needs to be admonished-then does Presi-
 dent pro tenn Frye call the venerable Senator Pettus of Alabam to the chair and watch the result Pettus will not al- low one Senator to interrupt another without first addressing the chair and through the presiding officer obtain the consent of the Senator entitled to the floor. A running debate is very --lsicult under such conditions, and the colloquies are interspersed by interruptions of the
 chair, who declares first one and then
 another Senator out of order. The Ala bama Senator performs this duty with
 such an air of gravity and an evident
 desire for decorum that no Senator can take offense. On such occasions as these
 Senator Frye takes a seat in the Senate
 and enjoys the discipline being adminis- tered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
Expenses of United States Judues

United States judges while sitting away from home may collect their ex- penses from the government up to ten dollars day. As Judge Swayne lived in Delaware h, presumably presented bill of expenses for each and every day he sat in court at the full rate of ten dollars day. His expense account is the chief oasis of his impeachment by the House. although there are eleven other charges.
 Some members of the House hesi- tate to vote for the Impeachment of Swayne because there are other judges who have presented false expense ac- counts, and /. Swayne, be impeached, where do the others of his class stand Representative Clayton insisted, how ever. that any one who took such a yiew of the Swayne case was going
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
Innkinn fn the Gulf.

A telegram announces that the con solidated Gould lines of railroad are preparing to begin fight against all the steamship lines running into east ern seaports, and they will keep up the fight until all import traffic which legitimately belongs to the gulf ports is brought to those ports.
 This is the beginning of battle that will become general long before the Panama canal is completed-the battle between the east-and-west lines traversing mountain ranges, and the north-and-south lines that gently slope down to the gulf. In spots and in q mild way this Lattle has been waged a long time, but it will soon become general, and at length acute.
 Possibly the battle will last until the Panama canal is dug, and the open- ing of that great work will speedily settle the issue. The gulf ports are to get what nature intended they should get both of outward and inward traffic. The interests pulling towards the gulf will soon be very great, for every southern line is building towards the gulf. and all will be there before the canal at the isthmus is dug. The War rior, too, will have been opened, and tL first decade of the canal will pro- mote gulf traffic powerfully, and through that gate in various ways all parts of the south will be developed and enriched.
 The extent of the south's stake in the Panama canal is not appreciated It will lead beyond doubt to the full occupation and enrichment of the south. It will solve many problems. It will bring this way a host of white people. and this alone will solve the race problem. There is nothing the tidal wave started by the isthmus canal will not bring out, and our duty is to get ready for it's coming. Patience and constant endeavor, with an eye on the Panama canal, is what we need at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
The Cotton Problem.

lie oenoerations of men from every section of the cotton belt who will as- semble in convention in the city of New Ofleahs the coming week to consider plans and devise ways and means to bring the price of the staple to an equit- able and living basis, to preserve from saefihee the unsold portion of the 19O4-O5 crop and to secure fair price for the yet implanted crop of 1905-06; will attract notice In every portion of the country and in Europe said John H. Peebles, an extensive cotton planter, ginner and buy CT from Limestone county, in the Hillman lobby last night.
 From time to time similar eonven- lions have assembled to consider the cotton problem, but the hody of men who will gather in the great cotton mart at the mouth of the Mississippi next Tuesday will be characterized by bank ers' business men and planters from all over the south who have the business welfare of the country at heart. Null hilarious plans will be advanced, and the convention will doubtless be flooded with numerous impracticable theories, but
  will evolve some way to relief. The price of cotton is the barometer of busi- ness in the south, and the tankers and business men will give their best thought to the settlement of the vital and vexed question on a practical business basis.
 Yes" continued Mir Peebles, '1 had several hundred bales on hand when the recent slump occurred. I see nothing to do now but hold until quotations go higher The cost of producing this crop was approximately seven cents per pound, and 1t would be poor business sense to sell at the present market. I will hold my proportion of the 100000 surplus. Despite the immense decrease in cotton values in the tive. months past, our section of the state is in better financial condition than any time since the civil war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
Eort Moruan and Deep Water.

A special telegram to the New YorK Tribune, bearing a Sioux City, Iowa, date line, reads as follows:
 After years of effort Sioux City pro- motors, including a score of leading men, have interested capitalists of Philadelphia and St. Louis and secured contracts with the Rock Island and Louisville and Nash vile roads for establishing a new deep water harbor on the Gulf of Mexico. It will be at Fort Morgan, Ala, to which the railroads mentioned are being extend ed. A low lying peninsula twenty miles long incloses a great harbor over forty feet deep throughout. This peninsula has come into the possession of the capitalists interested, who will establish wharves and terminals. Tho port will compete for the business of both Mobile and New Orleans asserting greatly superior ad- vantages because of deeper water and larger area of it. Millions are back of the movement.
 This is but another indication of the drift of trade, speculation and promo tion to the gulf The proposed city at Fort Morgan will, however, have to contend with bar which will have to be deepened 35 feet or more. No doubt plenty of deep water exists in- side the bar and the projecting pentn- sula that is crowned by Fort Morgan, and no doubt in the long run the Sioux City project will become fact, for deep water harbors on the gulf will be In great demand when the Panama canal is dug and this country begins to at- tain to its Ill growth.
 But it is somewhat strange that the working out oI the project should have fallen into the Lands of promoters in Sioux City, Iowa. Most of the people in Sioux City would not know deep water harbcr when they saw it. But be that as it may, let Sioux City be not dismayed by the task No rail roads have been extended to Fort Nor gan, but anything perhaps is possible in this age of development. This dis trict looks at any rate with favorable eye on the Sioux City project, and even Mobile will not oppose 1t, for it may aid tho latter in it's task of induc- ins the government to deepen the water on the bar and all the way up | the bay.