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MT. STERLING ADVOCATE,
Mt. Sterling Ky.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
SEEK PARDON FOR AULT.
Hundreds of People Have Signed
Petition.

The persons who are endeavoring to
secure a pardon for A. j. Ault, formeriy
of Gregory County, who is serving a term
in the Sioux Falls penitentiary for the
murder of kid" English, during the
Bonesteel rush last year, have been advis-
ed that his case will come up for hearing
before the state board of pardons on
Oct. II next.
At the time of the killing of Engllsh
Ault was a peace officer at Bonesteel.
English was a gambler, who with several
hundred other gamblers had gone to
Bonesteel for the purpose of fleeing I'M
wary lan~dseekers who fOcked to the town
for the purpose of registering for chances
to draw homesteads i'll the coded portion
of the Rosebud Indian reservation. 1t
is said the application for Ault's pardon
contains the names Of hundreds of the
best citizens Of that part of the state.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
TRAIN Is Hello UP.
Robbery on the Great Northern
i'm Washington.


a ST. Paul, Mimi, special says: Gen
eral Manager Elliott, of the Great North
ern Express Company, in q statement re
garding the holdup of the overland pas
senger train Monday night near Seattle
says the robbers secured less than 81 900
The passengers were not molested, no one
was hurt and no damage was done to
the baggage.
The Great Northern overland train
~eastbound, was held up Monday evening
and the baggage and express ear dyna.
mited FIVE miles from Ballard, Wash.
Two boys who got on the blind baggage
at Seattle as soon as the holdup began
entered the passenger coaches and began
holding up the passengers. They were
captured. They say two men were on the
blind baggage when they got OH, and a
third got on at Ballard. AID were wei
dressed with raincoats and SLOUGH hats.
No one was killed, but Charles Ander
SON, express messenger, is slightly in
jured.
After securing the contents Of the safe
the three men started off in an e~asterly
direction. The train was tagged near 4
brick yard, and as the engineer slowed up
two men with raincoats climbed over the
tender and presented revolvers TO his head
and compelled the engineer to stop the
train. The robbers then jumped off, max
ing the engineer and fireman do the same
and all marched to the baggage car door
The messenger was commanded TO open
the door, and, refusing, an extra heavy
charge of dynamite was placed against
it and exploded. The car was almost
torn to pieces. The safe was then dyna,
mited. The train was delayed two hours
and a half.
Conductor Grants report shows that
at least seven men were engaged in the
robbery. The conductor believes there
were other men further down the track
but they did not take any part.
When once inside the car the robbers
began dynamiting. the first explosion be.
ing of six sticks, the second of twelve and
the third of eighteen. \ continued fire
Of revolvers was kept up.
The express messenger says he does not
know how much money was obtained.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
POSSES ON TRAIL.
Search Country for Springfield, 8
d., Bank Robbers.

A Springfield, :. d., special says:
Posses are securing the country in search
of the men who looted the vaults of the
Bank OF Springfield Thursday morning
aud secured $500 in cash, and made
their escape.
After looting the bank the robbers fled
n q RIG stolen at Tyndall early in the
evening. The rig belonged to DR.
Greene, of Avon, who was in Tyndall on
professional business. From Avon they
are believed to have gone north or east
Officers in all the towns in this section
are on the lookout for the highwaymen,
and the authorities here are very hopeful
that they viii be captured.
Cashier Hill. of the Bank of Spring.
filed, said the banks loss was fully GOV.
cred by insurance. The bank was doing
business as Usual Thursday.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON-
DENSED FORM.
Bank Robbers Break Into the rirs'
National Bank at Howard, Dat
Are Unsuccessful - Sheriff ana
Posse Are in Pursuit.

The First National Bank at Howard
was broken into by burglars SUNDAY
morning at 2 o'clock, but nothing vas
secured. The night Waterman was
bound and gagged and Il guard placed III
the bank with the rest OF the sane'
and the night Waterman secured MS
knife from his pocket and severed the
ropes which bound him, and spread the
alarm. As soon as it was discovered
that he was gone by the remaining guard
the gang left, leaving their tools IN the
bank.
The tools were secured from the Hick-
rick hardware store, which they also
broke into, and from which they TOOK
a team of horses belonging to Henry Mel
fer, and a horse owned by DAVID Inc
Ophilus.
Sheriff Clark and a posse of men are
securing the country in search of the
robbers.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
NEW MASONIC TEMPLE.
Cornerstone Will be Laid at Sioux
Falls October 10.

Tuesday, Oct. 10, has been determined
upon as the date for the laying of the
cornerstone of the new Masonic temple
which is being erected in Sioux Falls. 1t
is planned to make the day one long to
be remembered in local Masonic circles.
With that object in view, invitations have
been sent to the various Masonic lodges
of the state requesting that delegations
be sent to participate in the services at
tendant Upon the laying of the corner
stone of the new building. The ceremo-
MES in connection with the laying of the
cornerstone will be under the direction
of the grand lodge officers.
The laying of the cornerstone will take
place at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon Of
the day stated.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
PEACE ESTABLISHED.
Treaty of Portsmouth to be Ratified
in washtn ptou.

Notifications of the treaty Of Ports.
mouth will be exchanged at Washington
between Baron Rosen, the Russian am
bassador, and Mr.. Takahira, the Japan
csc minister, as soon as these important
documents are received from st. Peters
burg and Toxic.
The ratifcations will contain the
French and English texts Of the treaty.
This was decided at a conference Wed
nesday between Baron Rosen and Mr..
Takahira, which began in the Russian
ambassadors apartments and was con-
cluded at the state department.
Mr.. Takahira called on Baron Rosen
In the morning to find from him the usual
form of the Russian ratification. In or.
der that the minister might inspect a copy
they went to the state department, where
Mr.. Adee, the third assistant secretary
of state, received them and showed them
the ratification Of the Russian-American
extradition treaty. Mr.. Takahira will in
form his government fully on the subject
so that the Publications may conform.
The special plenary powers to be con
ferred on the two plenipotentiaries for en-
abling them to exchange notifications will
be identical in scope. The approval of
the priyy council at Toxic in effect rati-
fies the convention, and it is said the for
mality of the emperor's signature will fol-
low shortly. AS soon as ratified, the ex-
change of notifications is only a formality.
Japan will be ready to exchange as soon
rs the emperor's signature is affixed.
as the formal ratification can be prepared
and delivered at the legation at Washing
ton. 1t is not be" eyed that the Russian
ratification will be long delayed.
Diplomatic relations between the bel
ligerents have been practically resumed
at Washington. Returning the courtesy
paid him in New York by Baron Rosen,
who called several times on the Japanese
plenipotentiaries, Mr.. Takahira made his
Fall Wednesday morning personal as well
as official, and the two ENJOYS have CORE
sponded frequently since the treaty was
signed.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
j. L.. Smith Tried to RAISE the
Wind at Dell Rapids.

a man giving his name as ]. l.. Smith,
who has recently been employed at Col
ton, northwest of Sioux Falls, has been
lodged in the county Jail in Sioux Falls
on the charge of forgery. Smith appear
ed at Dell Rapids and attempted to secure
from various persons an advance of 50
on an alleged forged note for 800. The
note was made out in a bungling manner
on one of the note forms of the Granite
City Bank, of Dell Rapids. and to it was
attached the name of c. Root. The note
was not made payable to Smith, and it is
charged the signature to it is a forgery.
When taken before a justice Smith
waived his preliminary examination and
was bound over to the next term of state
circuit court in the sum of $500.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
SCHOOL FUNDS GONE
SUPERINTENDENT or PEORIA,
ILL.,, SCHOOLS ARRESTED.
Charges Against Prot. N. @. Dough-
erty Make Great Sensation-Short-
age Will Reach Large Amount
Accused Promptly Resigns.

n. G. D~ougherty, for many years SUI
perintendent OF schools at Peoria, H.,
and one Of the most prominent educators
in the country, is under arrest, following
an Indictment by the grand jury charging
forgery.
Dougherty was released on a $1,000
bond. His arrest follows most astound-
ing revelations by the grand jury, now
i'm session, which has been examining the
books of the Peoria school board. With
in a comparatively brief space of tim
n shortage OF $4,000 was discovered,
but a further discovery was mad that
the populations have been extending over
a long term of years. The shortage will
reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The arrest followed an investigation
by the grand jury on charges brought
against Prof. Dougherty that the ac-
counts OF the school funds which We're de-
posted in the bank of which he was pres
ident were being manipulated. The in
vestigation resulted in the discovery that
there was a shortage of at least $780,
900.
Inc investigation covered only the pc
Rod from January, 1901. The grand
jury, it is stated, will investigate the en-
tire record of Prof. Dougherty as super
intendent of schools, and it is believed 4
much greater shortage will be found.
Prof. Dougherty was first arrested on
a charge of forgery, the specific charge
being that he had forged Il voucher for
S164.50 for coal. He promptly furnish
ed $1,000 bail. The indictment and ar
rest on the charge of embezzlement fol-
lowed Thursday afternoon, and on this
charge Prof. Dougherty furnished 3d.
700 bail.
Following his arrest on the charge of
forgery, Prof. Dougherty sent in his res
i~gnation as president and director of the
Peoria National Bank. He also sent in
his resignation as superintendent of
schools.
Prof. Dougherty's arrest created a sen
sation. He has been reputed a wealthy
man, owning much real estate, consider
able western land. and is connected with
A number of financial institutions be.
sides the Peoria National Bank.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
is DEAD.
Noted Iowa Man Passed Away at
Des Moines Tuesday.

Hon. Richard z. Clarkson, for a third
of a century one of Iowa's best known
editors and citizen soldiers, died at his
home in Des Moines. Ia, at $50 O'Clock
Tuesday morning. From a period of I'm
consciousness of twenty-four hours he
passed into the sleep of death. When the
end came his wife, his son John, and a
daughter, Mrs. Joseph Zwart, and her
husband, were by his side.
For several years n sufferer from dia.
betes, it was not until Sunday last that
Mr.. Clarkson went to his bed. The pre-
ceding day he was down town and to all
appearances was in his usual health.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
TOOK POOR DEBTORS OATH.
Plan Of a Kingsbury County Man to
Escape Paying a Fine.

Clinton NJ. Burger, of kingsbury Coun-
ty. who about a month ago appeared be-
fore Judge Garland, of the United States
court and pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging him with having violated the
provisions of the national game law, has
completed his term in the county Jail
in Sioux Falls. He was fined $50 at the
time he pleaded guilty, and to escape the
payment of this he appeared before Unit
cd States Commissioner Conway and took
the poor debtors oath.
Burger on Dec. 3 of last year, under
the assumed name of ID. G. Brooks,
shipped fifty prairie chickens by express
from Manchester, Kingsbury County, in
violation of law.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
WESTERN LIFE SENSATION.
Assets Of General Manager Placed
in Hands of Receiver.

a new upheaval financially took place
at Chicago Tuesday as the result of sen,
s%ational litigation over the affairs of the
Western Life Insurance Indemnity Com,
pany.
The assets of Il. |. Resented, general
manager of the Western Life, were order,
ed placed in the hands of a receiver. This
action was taken in the federal court by
Judge Bethea, who named as receiver
Edwin O'Day.
Rosenfeld was charged in a bill fled
in court Monday with being a ''trafficker
in and wrecker of life insurance compa.
MES for personal profit with utter disre.
gard Of the rights of policyholders."
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
WIFE BEATERS TO PRISON.
Brutes Given Severe Sentences il
New York Court.

Frank Mcdonald, convicted of beat
Ing his wife, was sentenced by the court
Of special sessions at New York to one
year at hard labor in the county peniten-
tiary and to pay $500, the extreme penal
ty under the law. James Cumisky, for
knocking down his wife, was sentenced to
nine months Imprisonment. The cour
announced that hereafter wife heaters
must expect the utmost punishment per-
mitted by the law and that intoxication
would not be accepted as a plea in miti-
CATION.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
DRAWS A BLACK PICTURE.
Cuban Leader Claims Liberty is
Dead in the Island.

Liberty is dead in Cuba, and the con-
dition of affairs there is worse than it
eer was under Spanish rule, ever in the
most ferocious periods of the Weyler gov
ernment Financial ruin and dishonor
face the people, and if things continue as
they are the nation will be converted in
to one of the hereditary rule"
That declaration was made by Gen.
Jose Miguel Gomez, governor of the PROV
ince of Santa Clara, and candidate of
the liberal party for the presidency of
Cuba. who arrived at New York from
Havana Tuesday.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
GRAND TRUNK FACES STRIKE
The Switchmen May be Called On
at Any Moment.

Eighty per cent of the switchmen EN-.
ployed by the Grand Trunk Railway he
tween Chicago and the Canadian border
may be called out on a strike within
twenty-four hours
Grand Master Hawley, of the Switch
mems Union of America, who went tc
Chicago Wednesday in the hope Of nego-
tiating with the heads of the Grand
Trunk for a settlement Of the strike ut
the Elsdon yards. and failed, made tie
foregoing statement Thursday.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
SHOOTING AFFRAY AT CLARK
Old Enemies Meet and hostili ties
Are Resumed.

A shooting ARRAY occurred last week
in Bockhoven's drug store in Clark. Chas.
Horn, proprietor of the two billiard halls,
shot at .John Kunkel, the bullet missing
the %latter's head by an inch and piowing
a furrow through the upper casing OF a
door.
A year ago Kunkel and Horn had trou-
BILE, and the latter as a result was in
bed several days. A warrant was made
out for Kunkel, but he left, returning re-
Gently.
As soon as Horn heard of his arrival he
closed his place of business and went
across the street to telephone the states
attorney. Kunkel followed him in, and
Horn started to go out, then swung
around and fired at Kunkel. Goth were
arrested.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
PLEA FoR MRS. CHADWICK.
liz Decision is Against Her She Will
at n Begin Ten Year Term.

A Cincinnati special says: A petition
for a writ of error for Mrs. Cassie l..
Chadwick, charged with bank wrecking,
convicted at Cleveland of conspiracy to
defraud, was heard in the federal court
of appeals Tuesday.
Mrs. Chadwick is now in the Cuyahoga
Couaty Jail awaiting the decision of the
court of appeals. If the decision is
gainst her she will at once begin her sen,
tence of ten years in the Ohio peniten
tiary.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
A Foot Ball Accident.

The first football accident of the year
at Yankton occurred Thursday at the
college gridiron. Sandy McGregor, one
of the most promising players in the col
lege bunch, was injured while tackling in
practice. He went on playing but later
left the game when it was discovered that
his collar bone and one rib were broken.
McGregor will doubtless be out of the
game for the entire season.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
A New Pest.

A dispatch from Sioux Falls says
alarm has been creaed among the corn
raisers of the northeastern portion Of
the state by the discovery that some of
the corn has been attacked by a new
pest. which may do considerable damage
to corn in cribs and %granaries. 1t resem-
bles the gray cutworm, and works entire
ly on the ears of the corn. 1t attacks
the ears at or near the tips, and burrows
into the ears, eating out a cavity and
causing rot.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
rirc ~ Birm,ngh.m. Aln.

At birmingham. Ala. fire Wednesday
destroyed the bui ding and stock of goods
of the Tyler Grocery Company at South
Twentieth Street and Powell Avenue.
The loss Is SIo.009. The Tyler Grocery
COMPANY WAS burned oft in Norris Ave
axe SIX weeks ago and tie company had
Just removed 10 is ne.Y 0nartcra.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
REPUBLIC NOT IN FAVOR.
Agitation in Norway Finds but Lit
tie Support.

Christiania advices say that the attempt
% create agitation for a Norwegian re-
public is finding no support from the
country. The leaders OF the movement
to the storthing in favor of a republican
form of government, but so far the APP
peal has met with no response. The com
mercial and industrial interests appear to
desire no disturbance of the existing or
der OF things.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Lower the Grades OF Wheat.

In a number Of places in the northern
part of the state elevator agents have re-
celved instructions to lower the grades on
wheat. As n consequence many farmers
will hold their wheat. They claim that
wheat that is now being graded No. 2 or
No. 3 will grade No. | northern when
the rush is over and the mills need the
Mhcnf.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
hi. Davennort Ere

TIE American Can Company's factory
1T Davenport, Ia. burned to the ground
Monday night. The loss is $4,000; par
TALLY covered by insurance. Three hun,
dred men We're thrown ont OF employ.
ncnt. TIE origin OF the Gre IS unknown
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Another Yaqui Outrage.

A report has been received from So
nora, Mex, that a train of freight teams
running between Carlo and the Sultana
mine was captured by Yaqai Indians re-
Gently. Seven of the teamsters were tied
to wagon wheels and presumably killed.
A posse of miners has gonc to the scene.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Falls -Four stores 10 Death.

Notwithstanding the desperate struggle
OF lis wife and son to hold him by the
feet after he had tainted and TOPPED over
the sill of n window, Geo. w. Knapp,
cashier oe tho Cooper Exchange Bank in
New York, fell TO the street from the
fourth floor OF his home "Wednesday and
was Killed..
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Toughs Run Out of Aberdeen.

The police ran out Of Aberdeen a num-
Der of suspicious characters that have
infested that city for a week, running
gambling games and occasionally a hold
up. Three mel attacked a Russian, who
knocked two of them down and scared the
third so he ran away. Other attempts
at robbery were made, but in no case
could the police succeed in catching the
perpetrator, so the whole outfit was run
out of town.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Death i'm tbs Mines.

The bodies of two men. Dexter McFad-
den and j. Il. Matthias, were found Sun
day morning when the workmen OH the
day shit entered the Saginaw mine.
eight miles west of Custer. The men had
been killed by a premature explosion.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Says Leonard w as a Tool

Miss Katherine Leonard, sister of Har
ry Leonard, the New York young mar
who confessed to the theft of $685. 0C
worth of securities from the National
City Bank, declared Tuesday that Leon.
ard was the victim of a Wall Street man
and that he was trying to protect the mar
and Il woman.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
warship Has Good FER .ct.

The presence Of the British cruiser Fox
at Hodeida, Turkish Arabia, has result
ed in the speedy settlement of all British
claims in connection with the rirat.cal
attacks of Arabs on British dhows in the
Red Sea.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Mitchell PRINTERS Strike.

The anticipated strike of printers IL
Mitchell took place at noon Monday
when eight walked ont Of the Daily Re.
publican office and three from the South
Dakota Educator Office.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Killed with a Pitchfork.

George Constance, a German farmer
40 years old living five miles north of
Twin Brooks, was killed by being stabbed
in the temple with "A %pitchfork in the
hands of Sietse Boekhout. Boekhout i'm
mediately went to a n~eighboring farm,
where Deputy Sheriff Cross was looking
after some threshing, and gave himself
I'M
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Indians Break .,nil

Sam Ortley and Jacob H~ookshaw, two
Indians confined in the Roberts County
jail nj Sisseton on the charge of horse
stealing, made their escape by saving
through the bars on the window of the
corridor of the building.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Volcano still in Eruption.

DR.. w. S. Solf, governor of German
Samoa, arrived at San Francisco Tues
day from Pages Page. He says the Ma.
tatu volcano, which burst into action
about two months ago. is still in eruption
Nearby Inhabitants are terror-stricken.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Roy Goes ON a Tramp.

Enticed by the glowing pictures of the
c~arefree life Of a tramp, rs told by his
foster fathers farm hand. Willie Kuhey,
aged II. is believed to have followed the
farm hand away from his home near Alb
erdecn.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-11
Watcrworks ut WAGNER.

In accordance with the result of a re-
cent special election at Wagner, when
the voters authorized the issuance of
bonds in the sum Of S10,00O for the con-
struction of a municipal system of water
works, the town authorities are arranging
to have the work Of constructing the sys-
ten commenced ut once.