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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
OF the Week

Criminal.
Mrs. Fred Schneider, aged twenty.
whcformerly lived with her aunt IN
Chicago, committed suicide by drown
ing in the st. Joseph river at st. Jo'
seph, Mich.
Eight women, joint smashers, farm
ers' wives, who, with hatchets, cleaned
out q joint at Industry, Kasi., have
been arrested on charge of unlawful
assembly and destruction of property.
Judge Barnes of Chicago sentenced
George Plummer Thomas Kelly and
Thomas Sherwin to life in the peniten-
tiary for the murder Of Mike White.
The lads also committed a number OF
burglaries.
Leola Morton of Cleveland discov.
cred her father on being awakened by
thunder under the influence of chloro-
form administered by burglars. She
summoned help and her father was re.
vived after an hours hard work.
The trial of State Senator Frank L
Farris on the charge of having &C.
copied bribe to influence his vote in
the legislature on the "alum bill"
was begun in the circuit court in st.
Louis before Judge Samuel Davis.
T. M. Casey, cashier of the defunct
Salmon & Salmon bank Of Clinton.
Mo-, recently arrested on charge of
forgery, and who has been out under
an $4,000 bond, was arrested on a
charge of receiving deposits when the
bank was insolvent. The deposits ag'
gregate $4,000.
While two women detectives were
trying to arrest two women shoplift.
ers in department store in Boston,
one of the suspects stabbed Miss Edith
Thompson, one of the detectives, with
a butcher knife. The woman also &C.
cidentally wounded herself with the
same weapon. The alleged shoplifters
were arrested.
Gabe MILFORD, arrested at Helena
recently on charge of enticing Leota
Gaines from her home in Wayland
Mo-, to Montana, after deserving his
wife, left last night in charge of Sher.
if Cockens of Clay county, having
abandoned his fight against extradi.
ton. The girl and her father also
returned to Missouri.
Joseph Barrett, a young man Of
Bridgeport, Conn, was held for the
superior court in bonds of $500
charged with manslaughter in causing
the death of Lillian Brabner, four
teen-year-old girl, by drowning or
July 8. Barrett is accused of having
abandoned the girl in deep water
while bathing at Seaside Park.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
INSPECTING IN SUPERIOR.
Minnesota Men Said to Be Working i'm
Great Northern Houses.

Superior, Wis, Aug. 6. = A notice.
has been posted on the Great North
are private and no trespassing will be-
allowed. Minnesota weighmen were
operating q, the elevators on this side
of the bay yesterday, and it is claimed
Inspectors were. The commission is,
incline. to be conservative on the
start Of the fight, but will make test
of the matter of allowing Minnesota
officials over here as soon as possible
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
General.

President T. D. Ewing of Corning
Academy, formerly president of Par.
sons college at Fairchild, Iowa, is dead.
Henry Robinson, disbursing clerk OF
the house of representatives, died at
his home at Mercer, Pa, from tuber.
cular affection of the bowels.
The San Jose scale has invaded Vir.
ginia for the first time, and fruit trees
are suffering. Peach and plum trees
particularly are affected, and in somV
instances the trees are dying.
Dell Stewart, ex-mayor of Osceola
Iowa, and formerly district judge OF
Iowa, died at hospital in Portland,
Ore, as the result of an operation
Death was sudden and unexpected.
The city council of Evanston, the
fashionable residence suburb of Chi
cago, made an appropriation for the
purchase of a pack of bloodhounds
with which to track thieves and hold
up men.
Secretary of State Root and Col.
William Carey Sanger, former assist
ant secretary of war, accompanied by
Mr.. Roots sons, Elihu, Jr., and Ed
ward, sailed for Labrador. They ex
pect to be absent month.
Contracts have been signed in Port
land, Ore, for the sale of the French.
Glenn ranch in Harvey county, COM
prising 100000 acres, to the Co-opera'
tive Christian federation. The consid'
Grafton is s1,S0O,000, the first install.
ment to be paid within thirty days
The ranch is sixty miles long and
twenty-five miles wide.
Judge Byington, in the district court
at Iowa City, Iowa, dismissed an &C
ton to dissolve the corporate exist
ence of the Amana society, said to be
the largest communistic organization
in existence. The society owns i'm
mense interests, chiefly farm lands
end factories. 1t was alleged that the
society was exceeding its rights a.
benevolent institution.
The Interchangeable bill won an
other victory in the federal courts IL
Chicago. Judge Grosscup gave de
cision adverse to William j. Moxle,
in his latest attempt to get arount
! the law. and ruled he must pay thu
full 10-cent tax on all colored oleomar
garine. In this case Mr.. Monkey hat
paid the tax, amounting to $4,000
under protest, and brought suit to re
cover it. Mr.. Monkey will take tn
case to the United States court of az
/ peals.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
SAID TO HAVE CONVERTED TO
HIS OWN USE MONEY OF WHICH
HE WAS BAiLEE.
SENATOR EATON is INDICTED
BRIBERY CHARGED AGAINST HIM
AND TWO oTHERs-GRAND
JURY RESTS.

Milwaukee, Aug. b. - CHaTIeS -.
Pfster, one of the wealthiest and most
prominent citizens of Milwaukee,
was indicted by the grand jury OF Mil
waukee county yesterday, charged
with stealing $4,000 belonging to the
Wisconsin Rendering company of this
city. At the same time indictments
were returned against four others,
the charge of bribery being alleged in
three of the indictments and one of
perjury. The list of persons for whom
capiases were issued and the charges
is as follows:
Charles F. Pfister, capitalist, one in
dictment, larceny.
indictment, bribery.
George F. Reichert, supervisor, one
indictment embracing fourteen counts,
bribery.
Barney A. Eaton, state senator, one
indictment, bribery.
Frank F. Schultz, former newspaper
reporter, one indictment, perjury.
Allege Theft Of $4,000.
The indictment against Mr.. Pfster
alleges that on March 80, 1901, the &C
cused was bailee of a large sum of
money, stated to be $4,000, said
amount being placed in his hands and
deposited with him for the Wisconsin
Rendering company for the purpose OF
obtaining for the Wisconsin Render
ing company large and valuable con-
tract from the city of Milwaukee for
the collecting, transporting and dis
posing of garbage, and If not so used
and expended, to be returned to the
Wisconsin Rendering company, and
not having been used for the purpose
aforesaid, and while he was bailee of
said sum, did unlawfully, feloniously
and fraudulently steal, take and carry
away, and fraudulently convert the
same to his own use.
Causes Big Sensation.
The indictment caused a profound
sensation. Mr. Pfster is engaged in
many of the biggest enterprises of
Milwaukee. He is a director of one
of the leading banks, owns large in
terest in big tannery, is proprietor
OIL d large AOlCl, anu OWAo oAC VI 'CAAS
leading newspapers of the city. He
has perhaps done as much or more
than any other citizen of Milwaukee
in building up the city.
Mr. Pfster issued statement in
which he says that the charge is abb
solutely false He claims that the
money referred to was disbursed &C
cording to the directions of F. G.
Gross, who was president of the Wis
consin Rendering company, and no
dissatisfaction was ever expressed by
any one.
Bribery Is Charged.
The indictments against Reichert
and Dittmar allege bribery in connec-
| ton with county deals"
Senator Eaton is charged with &C
cepting bride in connection with a
stationary engineers bill in the legis.
lature.
| Last nights batch of indictments
makes the total number SO far re-
turned by the present grand jury 1873
The jury has taken recess until
| Aug %
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Van t'ise Says He Never Said "Profs.''
Must Not Do Outside Work.

Madison, Wis, Aug. 6. - President
Van Hise, just returned from two
a story that new policy was to be.
inaugurated at the University of Wis
consin whereby members of the fac
ulty could do outside work, such as
teaching in the city schools or writing
text books for private gain.
II have never said a thing to any
body regarding any such policy" he
said. 'It is pure fabrication"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
Man Drowned; Horse Blamed.

Appleton, Mimi, Aug. Cole Rob-
ertson, a farmer of Hantho township,
is the second person to drown in the
waters of the Minnesota river south of
Appleton this season. 1t is thought
that his horse, which was blind, wan
dered from the road into the water.
The victim was a single nan about
fifty years old. Life was extinct when
the body was found.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Woman Prisoner, in Embrace Of Low
err, Passes Him Saw.
Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 6. - While
locked in the embrace of George Ell
their courtship, Mrs. Grace Butts
serving a sentence for shooting her
rival, two days ago passed to him the
saw that enabled him and seven other
dangerous criminals to escape from
the county Jail. This is the explana--
ton for the Jail break, which was &C.
complished by ripping off the sheet
iron ceiling and saving hole through
the floor above. Those who escaped
included four burglars, two thieves.
one highway robber and one horse
thief.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Lord Roberts says the army OF
Great Britain is altogether inadequate
and inefficient. This applies only to
mere fighting, however. At polo and
pink teas the army shines as much as
ever.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
COLT KILLS AGED EDUCATOR.
Prof. G. A. Graves Dies at AckIey as
Result of Accident

Eldora, Iowa, Aug. 6.-Prof. G. A.
Graves, a prominent Iowa educator.
died yesterday at Ackley as the result
of trying to break colt to harness.
The animal became unmanageable
and Prof. Graves was thrown from the
rig and fatally injured He was sew
enty-eight years old and for the last
forty years had taught in schools, col
leges and academies in Iowa.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
THREE DEAD IN WELL.

Farmer and His Two Sons Perish
While Cleaning Out an Old Well.
Berlin, Aug. 6.-The French govern
tin Storck and two sons, aged eigh-
teen and twenty-five years, living ten
miles south of Bigstone, were over
come by foul air while engaged in
cleaning out an old we'll and all are
dead. 1t was with great difficulty
that the bodies were recovered.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

''The country editor is close to his
icle And if many of the constituents
were not so close the country editor
would be considerably better off.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

This is tin can civilization. In the
days of Washington, there weren't any
tin cans. Now, one great concern
makes fifteen cans annually for every
man, woman and child in the country.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

A Pittsburg millionaire disinherited
his son for marrying dancing girl.
Why do millionaires who have chill
dren continue to run foolish risks by
living in Pittsburg?
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Work was suspended in Spain the
other day as a protest against the
dearness of provisions. The cable
neglects to report that the price OF
provisions came down.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Apropos of the coming siege of Via
divostok, Gen. Chreschcharitzki COM
mands the troops in the Ussuri re-
gion. Just give good sneeze and
you've got it.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

In Boston the people are stringine
live wires on their back fences for the
purpose of keeping the cats off at
night. The S. p. c. A. has not felt
called upon to act.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

That proposed combination to con-
troll the raisin market will create less
excitement now than it may next Oc-
tober or November when mince pies
are ripe.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

At Rye, N. Y. the constables stop
swiftly moving automobiles by shoot
ing holes in the tires. They must have
some expert wing shots on the Rye
force.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
ONCE RICH; DIES PAUPER.
Former La Crosse Business Man Sue
cumbs in Poorhouse.

cun1bs in Poorhouse.
Preston, Mimi, Aug. 6.-James o..
Coomes, an optician, who was we'll
known in this county, died yesterday
at the county poorhouse, about IL,
miles east of town. Last week he,
purchased revolver at one of the,
local hardware stores and Immediate
ly attempted to blow out his brains
but was prevented by the person who
sold him the revolver. DR.. Coomeg-
was formerly wealthy business man
of la Crosse.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
Bows Body Cut in Two.

ST. Paul, Aug. 6.-Daniel Ferguson,
seven years old, was run down by a
street car and killed. The body was
badly mutilated and crushed, the
trucks of the car severing the body at
the abdomen. The little fellow met
his death while going to meet his
father.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Three duels were fought in Missis.
sippi the other day, four of the six
principals being killed. Over in France
people will regard this as a new TO-
nance by some writer with an extra
ordinary imagination.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

The wife of a ball player saw he,
husband play game, then went home
and killed herself with carbOlic acid.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

New York is putting up a claim as a
summer resort. There are some genu
inc humorists in New York.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

The New York man who is charged
with having led double life on a sal
airy of 81 a week must be vegetarian
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Maybe the summer girl is really as
cool as she metimes-but we
don't believe it.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

The latest slang word is "chuff.
We don't tell you what it means TO-
tear that you may use it.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10
JUDGE D. S. WADE DIES.
Chief Justice of Montana Territory
Under Hayes Succumbs.

Under Hayes Succumbs.
AndcYer, Ohio, Aug. 6.-Judge D. S..
Wade, aged sixty-five years, died yes
terday at his home at Little Medford.
He was probate judge of Ashtabula-
county for several terms. He was
appointed chief justice of Montana
Territory by President Hayes and
held that Office twenty-five years. He
is survived by widow and daughter
Mrs. w. II. Stafford of Washington,
D. G..
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Chicagos new directory shows more
residents engaged in keeping saloons
than in any other business. The old
law Of supply and demand.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

An automobile trip through Africa
such as Mr.. Glidden contemplates for
next fall, is something that never &C.
cured to DR.. David Livingstone.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

1t was reporter with some humor
who stated that at the end of local
party 1.-The guests went home and the
ueighbors went to Sleep"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

The declaration of M. Delcasse that
sea power is the first requisite for .
nation at moment of peril must be
most discouraging to Switzerland.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

King Edward is wearing blue cog.
giles. He probably can not stand the
fierce light that beats upon the
throne"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Now that drugs have been discard
ed from the French army, how are
they going to hold drumhead court.
martials after this?
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

England, says the London Times
follows the procedure of the lobster.
]. B. is growing frank.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

What wonderful skill some people
show in having everything their own
way and still being such angels about
It.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

People have plenty of money to in
vest this summer, judging by the way
the new Japanese loan has been over
subscribed.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

Diplomacy, says Baron Rosen, re-
sembles whist. Yes; and in the i'm.
pending game the Japs will hold the
Tumps.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-10

It appears to be highly profitable
occupation making the smart set"
smart.
The Ward County independent., 1905-03-08
VAT1sS
Ward County's first Jeweler who died
last week.
A opportuns Moment.

well, sir, what can do for you?"
said the editor Of the Wahoo "Paralyz-
a." Is he looked up from his desk and
saw large man with saffron-colored
whiskers standing in front Of him.
"You are the editor, are you?"
"Yes."
II was reading last weeks issue Of
the 'Paralyzer, and was much struck
by one Of your able editorials. You
write the editorials, presume?"
'sYes sir" replied the editor. deep.
b gratihed, for it was not often that
citizens came In to commend the edit.
erials. what was the subject Of the
article which struck you SO favorably.
may I ask?''
ut was about the gold question"
"Oh, yes; / remember now. That
editorial involved great deal Of re-
search sir, but never spare any
pains or begrudge the time thoroughly
to investigate an important subject"
"You dealt with the gold supply, and
I think you used an expression some.
thing like this: Eve now have fifty.
seven million six hundred and sixty.
eight thousand dollars In gold coin.'
think I have quoted the amount just
- you had it?''
"You have, sir. My authority for the
statement was the very best obtain
able, SIR
mo doubt, no doubt. did not come
to dispute your statement, but to take
advantage Of 1t. SIR
"1n what way7"
'sWell, I'm the new collector for
Mr.. Chopps, the butcher, and 1t struck
me that while you had 80 much gold
on hand you might be willing to settle
q little bill of nineteen dollars and ten
cents which has been running two or
three months"
The editor silently counted out the
money and took receipt.
The Ward County independent., 1905-03-08

Only ApRIvAIt sol MIR
ny n o NTE 4 Z Z N +
(copysight, lSoS, by Daily Story PUBIC
.rss'v1tssJ1,sss

carefully upon the table and pushed
back the cheap spectacles upon her
forehead. She looked dazed and shot
glance of pitiful appeal at Mrs. Hen
derson. who had run in from the room
across the hall, to show her the sad
news. First Mrs. Henderson had read
It to her and she had reached for the
paper in dazed sort of way, as
though unable to comprehend the due
purport of the others words. She
had put on her cracked old glasses
and painfully spelled out the brief
line pointed out to her. 1t was q
laborious undertaking for there had
been but little time for learning even
to read and write in Jane Bradley s
hard and pinched life. Finally. how
ever, she had conquered the line. 1t
was only little line In agate type In
list Of dead cabled from Santiago.
JOHN BRADLEY, s7th Infantry; ye,-
low fever.
That was all-oaly that one little
line-but the spelling out of 1t swept
every gleam Of hope from the joyless
life Of the reader. She made no sound
and Mrs. Henderson, who had been
expecting half with hope and half
with fear an outbreak of sorrow, felt
10th disappointed and relieved
No outbreak! No there was no out
break. But that moment II dull Mrs.
Henderson had but known 1t she saw
the breaking Of q human heart. The
old woman. bent and shriveled and
worn and faded out was as
still as summer day. Only
the fading Of the last sug-
gestion Of light in her dull gray
eyes told Of the terrible weight Of Ice
and lead that settled UPON the poor
old crushed heart. Presently the thin.
wrinkled face dropped into the tired.
worn fingers and the tears trickled
down onto the faded calico gown.
Mrs. Henderson gulped spasmodically
feeling in some inadequate manner
the pathetic tragedy of the mcLient
and quietly slipped back to her Lwn
troubles in Number SO.
Her going or staying were Of small
moment to the old woman In her great
sorrow. The overburdened old mind
held for lifetime to sodden things
had been released for brief nom ent
by the awful catastrophe which had
overtaken her and this newly clari
fed mind was filed with great
panorama.
She could not realize at first the
dreadful import Of the brief line.
Johnnie dead-her Johnnie, her only
boy, and the image OF her husband,
dead these many years. 1t could not
be true. Johnnie, ah, how grapa ically
the picture arose before her Of the
happisst days Of her liIe- really her
oalg happy days, when little TolFlrte
was PLAYING at her Knee ard 1llias
her Starved heart with ms childish
rrattle, even While she st.a ts
but with eN energE and new ho8e
ana new courage. And slsa tsl.
bersl hoW the cuilfiss tie lad
nerved her for the fsa ssrpsgle
The Ward County independent., 1905-03-08

To be sure ne had not always
treated her right--at least 50 said I'll
her little world. and perforce she had
been compelled to admit to herself
sometimes that 1t did seem so, He
had been wild end f~llsr ,rto bad
company and instead OF. being the
help she had SO fondly counted on
his escapades had cost her all her
little savings. To he sure neighbors
had told her that he was graceless
ne'er-do-well scamp. and that she was
q fool to slave for him. To be sure
sometimes she herself had thought q
little bitterly of him, when Ill. weary
and heartsick, he had failed to give
her helping hand or even to come
to her with word Of cheer.
But she had reasoned in her great
mother heart that the boy had been
hereft of fathers care and that the
great necessity that always had con.
front.l her had made 1t impossible to
give him the attention she should and
would have done. So II he was little
Wllu was ~ not ner ldult ana tno 1ault
OF fortune rather than his.
Anyway she loved him with all the
passionate violence OF starved na.
ture and never once did she lose her
abiding faith that he would come
back to her and be her star and COM
fort.
1t was a sorry trial, indeed, when
he Joined the army after the call for
troops at the sinking Of the Maine.
that never once had he come to her.
Never once had she seen him In the
uniform Of his country. Never did
poet or painter have vision half 80
fair as her dreams Of Johnnie In his
regimentAls. For many nights sleep
did not visit her ragged cot. The swell.
The Ward County independent., 1905-03-08
TOO Good to Waste.

II see,' he said, that some preach
er believes flirting in church is a good
thing, because people naturally think
Of heaven and angels when their
!s.sa,.ts are attuned to love"
s.nh, is that so?" she answered.
ISN'T this a lovely morning? We
cant expect many more such Sundays
tbs fall. 1t seems almost too nice to
ra.nain in the house. You have never
been in our church. How would you
Eks to go?"
The Ward County independent., 1905-03-08
Only that one little line.

which had followed and never since
had ceased.
The awtul nightmare Of her hus-
bands death and the narrow margin
BY which she saved his body from .
grave In the ,potter's field rose before
her and her heart warmed rs she re-
membered the comfort and courage It
hsd been to her in those dark hours
Of unyielding grind and stckening
worry end merciless self-sacriice, to
i1od ti,eshttFe man-child to.heE bosom
and feeF.ails warm. arms about her