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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26
RAILROAD NEWS
Santa Fe Engineering Department Leaves
Contract for an Automatic Cinder
Handling Plant

ished the yard limits as laid out Will
be 500 feet wide, a mile long and will
accommodate seventy miles of side
tracks Ii necessary. Sites have been
| selected for the new eating house,
passenger and freight depots and
round house and shops.
or the 10000 freight cars owned
by the Baltimore 4 Ohio. $4,000 are
said to be on foreign lines, while but
1900 foreign cars are In its possession
The air-brake instructor Of the San.
Ia Fe will be In this city with an In.
struction cur on January seth and
give a series Of Instructions on air
brakes.
Travelling Engineer John A. Ross OF
this city was In Albuquerque Tuesday
and spent the day inspecting Santa Fe
engines at the shops.
Mrs. A. w. Braun. wife Of the Santa
FEE operator at La Junta, returned
Monday to her home after spending a
couple Of weeks in FL Paso.
Robert Smith, who has been baggage
master at the Bisbee station for some
time past, has resigned his position.
His place will be filled by NJ. B.
Morse.
II Is rumored that quite a number
of night men in the local shops are
going to quit as they and the Santa
Fee railroad can not agree. Some of
the men do not like the orders.
Bob Mcintyre. grievance agent of
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
at Tucson, has returned to his run
on the Southern Pacific out of Tucson,
after a thirty days lay off.
Jas. f. Preston. commercial agent
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway. who is located at Denver,
was In Pennington yesterday looking
after the interests Of his road in that
section
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26

There was another reduction on the
engineers board, at Needles. last
week, and several men who have been
running engines for the past year
were put back to firing temporarily.
The present lull in business is the
cause of this reduction.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26

D. NJ. Splitter, who has been a San
ia Fa officer at Needles fer the mast
year. is now located at Ludlow, where
he is stationed as a railroad officer.
The necessity of this has been caused
by the number of men which have been
brought to Ludlow because OF the
building Of the Borax railroad north
from that point.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26

The Southern Pacific has won the
fight against the Santa Fee for the ex-
tension of its tracks along Jackson,
the pri4cipal wholesale street. of Los
Angeles, and an ordinance has been
granted the former road. The Santa
Fe also gets a franchise. but not upon
the street desired.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26
~ GREATLY"

writes Mrs. l.. +. CIevenger, Of Belle
view. N. c.. "at my monthly periods.
all my hfe, but the first bottle of Car
dui gave mi wonderful relief, and now
| am in better health than | have been
for a long tlme,'
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26

Bob Mcintyre. grievance agent of
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
at Tucson. has returned to his run
on the Southern Pacific out of Tucson,
after a thirty days lay off.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26

1t Is rumored that quite a number
of night men in the local shops are
going to quit as they and the Santa
Fe railroad can not agree. Some of
the men do not like the orders.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26

Mrs. A. w. Braun. wife Of the Santa
Fe operator at La Junta, returned
Monday to her home after spending a
couple of weeks In FL Paso.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26

Travelling Engineer John A. Ross Of
this city was In Albuquerque Tuesday
and spent the day inspecting Santa Fe
engines at the shops.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-26

Robert Smith, who has been baggage
master at the Bisbee station for some
time past. has resigned his position.
His place will be filled by NJ. b.
Morse.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA.
S. D. Pioneers of a New Religious Be-
lief Arrive in That Country.

lief Arrive in That Country.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 25.-"May God
help us so that we may be a light and bring.
the light to them, and may God use us as
fishers Of men, This is the ending of a
letter received from a member Of the party
of South Dakotans who left the state last
spring in obedience to a vision alleged to,
have been experienced by a so-called'
prophet who said that if q party Of those
who had been converted by the prophet to
a strange religious belief YOU go to
South Africa the Lord would provide for
them in that far-off-laud.
Those referred to in the extract from the
letter quoted are the Kaffrs, the South
Dakota crusaders having taken on them
selves the task of converting TO the Christ
ian religion the Kaffrs Of South Africa.
1t is stated in the letter that the party Of.
religious enthusiasts is now in a region
where it can see nothing but Kaftirs and
kraals. OF the people the party intends
to christianize he writes in part as follows:
''They live in small huts, one for each
wife, as a heather here is allowed to have
as many wives as he can afford to buy,
They buy a girl for ten to fifteen oxen, and.
an OK is worth So in American money. If
we go to a kraal where there are ten hutS
we will find the man has ten. wives. They
nave no floors in their huts, nor stoves,
tables, chairs or beds. They sleep on the.
floor and make a fireplace in the center of.
the hut.
The missionary out here has plenty to
do all the time, as we nave to be every
thing, doctor, Judge and teacher, and try.
to lend them a helping hand everywhere.
They are fond of music, and when we
begin to pray they will all get down on
their knees, so in thar sense they are
better than white people"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
RECEIVER APPOINTED.
Water Works Company at Sioux Falls
Held Up for Bonds.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 2S.-On ap
plication of the American Water WORKS
and Guarantee company, a corporation
doing business under the laws OF New
Jersey, Judge Garland, OF the United
States court in this city, has appointed
a receiver for the South k wa
ter company, a private corporation
which for twenty years or more mas
furnished the people of Sioux Falls with
their water supply.
The American Water Works and
Guarantee company is security for the
bonds issued by the South Dakota
Water In it's complaint lie
in the United States court it sets forth
that the company is now III an insol-
vent condition. 1t is stated that the
South Dakota Water company Was
forced 10 issue bonds in the sum or
$500, 900, which were sold to he Farm
ers Trust company, of New York. Inc
complaint sets forth that the company
for which the American Water works
and Guarantee company is security Is
unable to meet h next installment OF
interest on the bonds, amounting to 3d.
900, and is unable to keep up the run
ming expenses of the plant.
Judge Garland appointed as receiver
of the water company, j. H. Purdy, OF
Pittsburg, president of the company
and empowered him to operate the
plant Inc oHiy dCIoh li1t 80 -
be taken by the company against the
city of Sioux Falls is to bring suit for
the collection of the sum of $4O,2l2,
which is claimed to be due for water
rent.
The city will also have a claim
against the water company for the en-
forced inactivity of the municipal wa
terworks system, the water company a
year or two g having been compelled
by Judge Garland to furnish a bond to
cover these damages.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
IMMENSELY OF CROP
PREVENTS THRESHING
Ten Per Cent. Of Crop in Vicin-
ity Of Aberdeen Cannot BE
Threshed This Fall.
SHIP BUT 80 PER CENT.
Farmers Have Succeeded in Getting
Only a Small Portion Of Their
Grain to the Market Owing
to the Rush.

Aberdeen, S. D., Dee. 2.-Charles
Hilicker, acting division freight and
passenger agent for the Milwaukee
road, who has been investigating the
crop situation, states that fully 10 per
cent. of the grain crop In this section
of South Dakota IL still unthreshed,
and not more than 30 per cent. OF the.
crop a been hauled by the railroads
to the city markets. The crop was so
heavy this year all over northern South
Dakota that many farmers, after get
ting their grain crop harvested, found
It next to impossible to secure a
threshing machine to thresh the crop.
Most Of the machines In this section
worked until compelled TO close down
by the approach of winter and the
tnresher hands had one of the longest.
seasons i'm the history Of the state. The
unthreshed grain is in nearly every in
stance safely stored n will be
threshed next spring. The fact that so
large a percentage OF the threshed grain
Is sim i'm the hands OF the farmers Or
the local elevators is due largely to
the shortage Of ears on the railroads,
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
FRUIT ON THE PRAIRIEs.
Professor Hansen Conducting a Series
of Valuable Experiments.

or valuable experiments.
Aberdeen, S. d., Nov. 3G.-Professor N.
II. Hansen, Of the South Dakota ASricul-
tural college, Of Brookings, passed through
Aberdeen on Sunday on his return from q
trip 10 Campbell county and along the
Missouri river in search Of native plum
trees for his horticultural experiments at
the agricultural college. Every year dur
ing the fruiting season Of the native
fruits Of South Dakota Professor Hansen
takes a trip through the more sparcely
settled regions of the state i'm an effort
to find superior specimens of the wild
plum, the sand cherry and other native
South Dakota fruits. Where he finds an
extra specimen he marks IL, and later re-
turns 10 secure roots and CRAFTS to be used
in conducting his experiments.
Already, by a process of selection, he
has developed from the hard wild plum
native to South Dakota a species that IS
one and three-quarters niche in diameter
and equal or the superior to the California
plum in lusciousness. He is also develop
ing the sand cherry and in time expects
to make this native of the South Dakota
prairies a much priced dessert fruit.
Professor Hansen is also working on a
strawberry that will survive the South
Dakota winters without mulching, a grape
that is suited to the climate Of this state,
and is conducting many other experiments
Of a similar nature.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
FARMERS
Spent His Fortune in Gambling ano,
Is Now in Jail. Z

Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 2S.-From the
ownership Of a valuable farm to the occu-
pancy of q cell in the Sioux Falls peniten-
tiary is the bitter fate which has betaIlen
Andrew ThOne, a man Of middle age, VINO
had he remained on the farm, would today
have been a wealthy and respected cltlzeh
instead Of a convicted felon.
Thone and his brotheT-in-law, n. K. Van
/ Horn, were arrested a few days ago on the
charge of having been implicated in whole
sale thefts of chickens from hen rOostS IN
the outskirts of the city. In their case
Justice moved exceedingly swift, for with
in three days of the time of their arrest
they had been taken before a justice 1or
their preliminary hearing, had appeared
before Judge Jones, Of che state circuit
court. and pleaded guilty to the charge Of
burglary in the third degree, were SEN
fenced to terms of one year each in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary and had been
behind the bars of that famous prison.
When they pleaded guilty they doubtless
believed that owing to the apparently petty
character of their crime they would escape
with terms of thirty or sixty days each in
the county Jail. Now, however, that chick
en- stealing has been held to be burglary
and a p~enitentiary o~ffense, hen roosts in
future will be considered sacred by light
fingered persons who have a mania for
possessing themselves of other peoples
property.
Last spring Thone was a well to do
farmer in Nebraska. He married, and his
wife, dissatisfied with life on the farm, in
duced him to sell out and remove to Sioux
Falls, where her people lived. The farm
was sold for $4,000 in cash. To his wife
Thone gave $1,000 of this, and with a por-
ton of the remaining $500 he purchased Il
saloon in this city.
He knew nothing of the business, as is
illustrated by the fact that he sold bottles
of champagne for % cents each, thinking
they contained beer. He also lost heavily
by gambling, attempting in his ignorance
TO buck a combine among local gam
glers, the combine having been formed for
the express purpose of fleeing him 1t is
said that during a single evenings play
with members of the combine he lost the
sum of 81, 500.
About two months ago, having lost all
his money, he was compelled to abandon
the saloon business, since which time and
up to the time of getting into trouble with
the authorities he worked at any kind of
manual labor open to him. Not being able
to earn enough in this way to upport him
self and family he resorted to chicken
stealing, with the result that the next
year of his life will be spent behind prison
bars.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
over 1000 CLAIMS
WILL Be affected
South Dakota Homesteader!
Anxiously Awaiting Re-
suit Of Suit.
ASSIGNMENT
Notary Public, According to Receni
Ruling, Must Know Personally
Parties Signing a Mortgage
Instrument.

Sioux Fails, 5. D., Nov. 50.-The title to
fully S20,0 600 acres of valuable South Dakota
farm land, in which New York loan and
trust companies until recently were in
terested, promises to be affected by a case
which will be tried during a term of state
circuit court which will be held in Brult
county, this state, next month
The suit was instituted for the purpose
OF recovering possession of a quarter Sec
ton of and in Brulc county for which q
warranty deed was given by an lowe com
pany, now ont of existence, to Mrs. Lucir
Reynolds. wife of a well known Brult
county real estate dealer. The land origin,
ally belonged 10 ID. II. Skinner, who, II
May, 1903, gave two mortgages, one for $50
and the other for $l0j commission, to the
Fidelity Loan and Trust company Of SiouN
City.
This company assigned the mortgages tC
the Metropolitan Trust company Of New
York city, which foreclosed on the tract
by advertisement, n the land, under the
foreclosure, was bid in by one Otto T.
Barnard. Barnard gave a quit claim deed
TO the Fidelity Land company of New
York, and the company gave q warranty
deed covering the farm 10 Mrs. Reynolds
Where the trouble comes is in the assign.
ment Of the mortgages by the original
holders. The assignment was duly signed
by the president and secretary Of the com
pany and acknowledged before a notary
public in the regular way. But a decision
Of the supreme court Of South Dakota is to
the effect that a notary must not only
show in his Acknowledgement that he
knows the parties signing the instrument
but, in case Of an Incorporated company
that the parties signing it are the officers
described.
This was not lone IN the assignment by
the Fidelity Loan and Trust company tc
the Metropolitan Trust company, n the
plaintiff in the action therefore claims that
the latter never had any title to the land
and no right to foreclosure and mortgages
Ii is estimated that in South Dakota
there have been fully 1900 similar transfers
of farm land from incorporated companies
and nnnlnee LITIGATION nnnN rnsmlt
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.
Much Comment Against Jury's Verdict
in Carr Trial.

Yankton, S. D., Nov. 2S.-The present
term of circuit court will long be re-
membered locally as the most interest
ing for many years for many reasons
To be sure Yankton a q murder trial,
but other matters came up in one way
or another hat almost put that affair
into the shade.
First a too lenient jury construed a
case OF cold biooded murder into one
of manslaughter in the second degree,
with a recommendation for leniency.
This last Judge Smith saw fit to COM
pletely ignore, thereby giving an indi-
cation of the way the court felt about
it, Sam Carr, who shot Granville
Thornton last summe in a trivial quar-
rel was sentenced to -four years in the
state penitentiary at hard labor, all
the judge could give him under the YER
dict.
One local paper came out strong edi-
toriaIly against the verdict and the ac-
ton of the jury is receiving general
condemnation from all sides in law
abiding circles.
The states attorney, Lee Wyman, in
his next opportunity before another
jury in a separate case, took occasion
to refer TO the miscarriage of justice
by asking why it was it had gone forth
that Yankton and Yankton county were
headquarters for robbers and crimi-
nails of all kinds, and stated hat he
would say why, that it was because
"Yankton county juries do not convict,
no matter how convincing the testi-
mony, not Eel a murderer.
The term has also developed that the
immense expense the state will be put
to in several trials this November has
been caused directly by open sun
days. in the Frank Brauchman
burglary trial it developed that he got
drunk the night of the crime.
James Collins was sentenced to one
year in the state ~penitentiary for issu-
ing a false check at Mission Hill. Chas
Jones pleaded guilty to conducting a
gambling house. Carey n Walsh to
| keeping their saloon open Sunday and
Brauchman was found guilty OF bur
| glary. All will be sentenced today.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
BURKE WITH ROOSEVELT
South Dakota congressman Are Both
Committed to Presidents Rate
Plan.

Huron, s. d., Dee. 1.-CongreSsmar.
Chas. VI. Burke was here yesterday on
his way TO Washington. intending to
return for the holiday recess. Mr..
Burke said he believed congress would
pass q railroad rate bill In conformity
to the ideas OF President Roosevelt, and
would himself support such a meas
ure. He declared that his associate,
Mr.. Martin, would do the same. Mr..
Burke said he was well satisfied with
political conditions i'm South Dakota.
and had no fears as to final results in
favor Of the republican party. Re-
ferring to a public building for Huron,
he said the city is entitled to one and
believed that appropriations for South
Dakota would be sufficient to give HUI
ron a government building, adding that
he would do what he could to secure
such an appropriation.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
FOUND GIRLS AT JAIL.
fankton Young Women Shock Com
munity by Actions.

Yankton, S. D., Nov. 3O.-The sensa-
ton of the day here was caused by a
capture by Deputy James A. Dickson
Sunday night. For some months past
the officers have been aware hat out
side parties were frequently chatting
with the prisoners in the county Jail.
Now that most of them have been Civ
en- sentences and await Il trip to the
Sioux Falls p~enitentiary, precautions
have been doubled to avoid a Jail de-
livery. Sunday night, convinced that
the visitors still came, the deputy
spraEg Il trap and succeeded beyond eX-
pectations, capturing a half dozen
Yankton school girls. The girls begged
to be turned loose and were, after Il
calling down of some severity. They
had been in the habit of going to the
Jail to carry on conversations with
Sam Carr, a colored MAJ charged with
the murder OF Granville Thornton, and
he had been getting flowers from the
girls. Asked to name the visitors, Carr
said he would rather take twenty, years
than name one. He is a light-faced
negro, gentlemanly it is true, but the
affair has Shocked the community.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
LITTLE TOWNS c o
5fitton Has Shipped Eighty Five Car
lon2s of Grain.

Britton, s. D.. Nov. 30-All previous
records have been broken by the aggregate
grain shipments from this place this fall.
one buyer reports hat during the past
sixty days he has purchased $1,000 bushels
of grain and shipped eighty-five carloads
Of this product TO the markets of the twin
cities and the east. The buyer referred TO
further states that he would nave pur-
chased and shipped at least seventy-five
more carloads had il been possible for him
TO have secured the necessary cars, There
are three other buyers, each of whom pur-
chased at least as much If not more grain
han the buyer alluded to, so that in the
aggregate the grain shipments from Brit
ton, Notwithstanding that there has been
a shortage Of cars during practically all Of
the fall, will this season reach an immense
ggure.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-08
HURTS PURE FOOD LAW.
Supreme Court Of South Dakota Pre-
vents Enforcement Of Part.

NtULS -fllOIN NiisNif W y ~"
Pierre. s. D., Dec. 1.-The supreme
court handed down opinions in the follow
ing cases:
Bv Justice Fuller. Presiding Judge
Anna edge ct al vs.. st. Paul Fire and
Marine Insurance company, appellant,
Nina a, Gould VS.. D.. c. Tucker n e.
b.. King, sheriff, appellants, Sphinx eoun-
ty; affirmed,
Lawrence county; affirmed
BY Justice CorsOn- .
James Phillips, administrator, VS., Royal
u. Stearns ct al, appellants, Stanley coun-
Mary Carrigan, appellant VS.. Joe Hunt
liner ct al, Minnehaua county; reversed.
State OF South Dakota. defendant IN
error, VS., Claude Cambron, plalntln, IN
error, Beadle county; affirmed,
g. M, Nelson VS.. National Drill Manufac-
turing company, Minnehaha county; at
firmed.
States Mortgage company, appellant,
Kingsburg county reversed.
Lena A. Hawlcy VS.. Anon + Bond, APP
pelIant. Minnehaha county; affirmed.
A. r.. Kelley Il Co, appellant, VS.. Ellery
O. Meade, Brown county; affirmed
Edmund A. Bruce vs.. Edwin I. WanZer,
appellant, Douglas county: affirmed.
N, J. Schlachler VS.. ST. Bernard's Roman
Catholic Church Of Hoven, appellant, Pot
ter county; reversed.
Henry Herman vs.. William Winter, APP
reliant, Jerauld county; affirmed,
Joseph Remmilliard. appellant, VS..
George Authier. Union county; affirmed.
BY Justice Haney-
George w. Barrett VS.. Minerva +. Bar
rett, appellant. Minn&haha county; re-
yerscd.
Jewett Bros, e Jetwett VS.. p. w. Small,
state food and dairy commissioners, appel
liant. Minnehaha county; affirmed.
In this latter case the supreme court
holds with the circuit court IN he issuance
OF a temporary injunction restraining the
state pure food commissioned from the en-
forcement Of section II or the state pure
food law, which requires that the label of
the individual packer be placed on all cans
or packages Of food products offered for
sale I'm the state.