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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
A ST. PAUL TRAGEDY.
Man Kills Boy of 16 and Hi Mother
Without Apparent
Motive

St Paul Mimi. April 15.-Early to-
day William Williams, s,eamtitter
entered the flat of Frederick S. Keller
and shot John Keller, aged 16. as he lay
in bed. and then returned the revolver
Oh the boys mother Both victims We're
fatally hurt. The reason for the crime
is unknown.
Young Keller died of his wounds
later in the day. Mrs. keller's re-
covery is doubtful Williams told the
police that he had a liking for the
boy and went to the fiat for the pur-
pose of getting the lad to go away with
him. Mrs. Keller ordered him out of
the house. He claims that he does
not remember shooting anyone. The
police believe Williams to be an insane
degenerate.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
SENATOR MITCHELL
SEEKS A L0OPHOLE
Attacks indictments Agains,
Him Instead Of Pleading
to Them.
HAS PLEA IN ABATEMENT
Alleges That the Grand Jury That Re
turned the ellis Was Irregular
in All Sorts of Ways. and
indictments Illegal.

Portland. Ore. April l4.-Judge Bel
fingers court was crowded today when
the time arrived for Senator John II.
Mitchell to plead to four indictments
found against him by the late federal
grand jury.
In plea of abatement Senator
Mitchell challenged the acts of the late
federal grand jury by charging
specially that Jurors W. Robertson
and Carl Phelps. the original foreman
and secretary, respectively had been
legally excused for the term pending
the Investigations; that Jurors Frank
G. Buffum and George Peebler had been
sworn in some time after the grand
jury had been impaneled: that Juror
George Gus1in was not a citizen of the
United States; that Jurors Bolter an.l
Joseph Essner We're not taxpayers. as
required by law. and that District At
torney Heney was disqualified in many
ways, besides being prejudiced.
Demurrer Is Filed.
The plea of abatement was based
upon the case wherein Senator
Mitchell is accused of accepting pay
through the law firm of Mitchell &
Tanner to eXpediate land titles before
the legal department at Washington
in behalf of Frederick 4 krbs A de-
murrer was first filed after a stipula-
ton between the government and cOun-
sci for the defense that the plea in
abatement should not be waived by the
fling of the demurrer.
Judge Alfred S. Bennett of The
Dalles, as attorney for Senator Mitchell
announced that there was a question of
moral turpitude involved in the case
wherein Senator Mitchell is accused of
accepting S., 900 from S. A. d. Puter and
therefore he would waive all legal
technicalities and be ready to proceed
to trial without delay upon the issues
at stake.
Judge Bennett entered a plea of not
guilty for the senator in three of the
cases against him-tWo for conspiracy
under section 544S of the revised stat
utes and one under section 1912 for ac-
cepting money While holding the posi-
tion of United States senator to ex-
pedtc title before the land department.
w, H. Steiwer, president: II. H.
Hendricks secretary and treasurer;
Clarence b. Zachary, general manager.
and c. e. Glass, bookkeeper of the
Butte Creek Land. Live Stock and
Lumber company, entered pleas in
abatement similar to that OF Senator
MITCHELL the charges against them be-
ing conspiracy to cover or fence up the
public domain.
District Attorney Heney objected to
the pleas in abatement on the grounds
of their being filed too late. The hear
ing Will be given Friday.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
CHAMBERLAIN APPEALS
Discussing Fiscal Issue He Urges Dan.
ger of America Getting Close to
Canada

London. April 12.-Joseph Chamber
lain, presiding at the annual meeting
OF the Liberal Unionist club today
strongly supported The suggestion of
an Anglo-JapaneSe defensive alliance.
In the course of his speech Mr..
Chamberlain dealt at some length on
fiscal matters and the necessity for
Great Britain adopting IA system where
by she could reIaliate against dSCrm-
nations and enter into closer CONNER
cal bonds with colonies. At the present
moment, he said the president of the
United States is one of the ablcSt,
strongest and most courageous men
who ever set in the presidential chair.
He is Il patriot and has openly de-
clared that one of his great objects
and desires is to connect the United
States more closely with our Dominion
of Canada by reciprocity. Il do not
know success he may have with his
countryment, but certainly they are in
a position to offer very favorable terms
to the Dominion. If we reject the idea
of considering a similar proposition
made to us, it is too much to expect
that Canada may turn in another direc-
ton -
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
TAHITI SWEPT BY STORM
Much Damage to Shipping and to
Cocoanut Groves

Papeete, Tahiti, March 81, via San
Francisco April IA hurricane near
Tahiti and north of there on the oath
and 18th caused much damage to ship
ping.
On tn" Gath the gasoline schooner
Orlfna's bottom was damaged on a reef
at Mahatea. twenty miles north of Ia
hit. On the 18th inst. the storm broke
over Papeele. Great trees came crash
ing down, in some instances wrecking
houses In the harbor the schooner
COpennarth had Il narrow escape Paul
Martins steam launch suffered its back
broken, being washed ashore against
the rocks, following close upon a gov
eminent cutter which was completely
smashed The schooner Marian dragged
her anchors, but sustained little dam
age.
The other sections of Tahiti suffered
much damage from the gale. The
French Protestant missionary schooner
Leiox du Sud put into Raven bay, hav-
ing lost nearly AL her sails.
The steamer MaripOsa. of San Fran
cisco, encountered the outer edge of
the hurricane two days out from Pa
peete and was delayed six hours. being
compelled to avoid the usual passage
through the Tuamotu islands in favor
Of the New Westerly one which is
longer by 100 miles.
II is feared in Tahiti that the schoOn-
er Teita, owned by some natives, went
down in the storm. 1t is also feared
that the Famo Ter More which was
being repaired at Here Hentai. where
she had struck a reef two months ago,
was caught in the gale
The greatest damage done by the
storm is believed to lie in the destruc-
ton of cocoanut groves In the Tua-
motu section unqueStionably the copra
Industry has been greatly retarded for
this season
Edward S. Hall. presiding elder of
the Mormon church. has recently pur-
chased site in the city of Papeete
suitable for the erection of church
and mission house.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
The White Lily a Symbol.

Pittsburg Dispatch OF the many
species of lilies grown throughout the
world the white lily of the orient has
the Oldest history as a cultivated flow
en- It's origin is supposed to be in
China, but long before the days when
annalists took cogniZance of the Gull
tlNatioE of flowers 1t was common
throughout western Asia and Greece
1t Is the lily generally referred to in the
Hebrew scriptures, although commen-
tators say that the lilies of the field
spoken of by Jesus in the sermon on
the mount We're the red anemones, with
which all the hills of Galilee are dotted
in the spring. In heather Asia the
white lily was the emblem of purity
The Greeks had myth that it sprang
from the milk of Hera, queen of the
gods, with whom the Roman Juno was
afterward Identified. The Greeks also
held the lily to be the highest type of
purity. In the early centuries of the
Christian era the new religion made
this idea little more sublime. and the
lily became the symbol of heavenly
purity. Thus the lily is fittingly asso-
ciated with the Easter ceremonies
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
Easter in Early ENGLAND.

The Saxons and Angles celebrated
the time as sacred to the Goddess Os-
tara, and some part of her worship,
taken over by the more austere Chris
tians, survives still in the springtime
festivals, especially in the countries of
northern Europe For u long time the
Christian Easter was an eight day
approximating the time
devoted by the paganS to their cele-
bratiOn. 1t was afterWard cut down to
three days, then to two and finally
dwindled to single day, commemora-
tive of the resurrection
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
POLYGAMY AND ITS EVILS
National Council Of Women Denounces
1t in Resolution

Washington, April l5-Thc National
Council of Women elected the following
officers:
President, Mrs. Mary Wood Swift. San
Francisco: vice president at large Mrs.
Kate Waller Barrett Alexandria. Va;
corresponding secretary, Miss Belinda S.
Bailey, San Francisco: first recording sec
rotary, Mrs. Frances f. Burns St Louis,
Mich: second recording secretary, Mrs.
Isabella Quinlan. Galesburg. III treas
urer, Mrs. Lillian NJ. HOLSTER, Detroit
The committee on resolutions agreed
upon resolutions denouncing pologamy and
pronouncing III strong terms for social
purity.
The antipolygamy resolution as agreed
upon and reported to the council as fol-
lows:
Whereas The family is the unit of civic
organization and purity and upon which
the safety of the state depends: there
fore be it
Resolved, That to secure fidelity and jus
tce for all in the state there must be
purity in the home in which the family is
bulded
Resolved, That any practice which I'M
dermines the family life should be strong
" deprecated and that since polygamous
marriages are a terrible evil that threat
ems to destroy the home and state insti-
buttons of cur country, the people should
by petition and otherwise protest against
the seating of any man in our national
congress. or allowing any man to hold
such a seat. who may practice or sub
scribe to the doctrine of polygamN
The resolution was adopted by the coun-
Gil but not until after vigorous discus
SION. Miss Anthony participa ted in the de-
bate, advising against any reference to
action by congress, on the ground that as
women are not allowed to participate in
political matters they should ,sve no ad-
vice on matters affecting politics.
Mrs. Dubois, wife of the senator. pre-
dcted that unless steps are taken to OBJ
struct the spread of Mormonism, the Nor
mons in ten years would elect ten United
States senators and thus control the bal
ance of power in the upper house.
Only three votes were cast against the
resolution.
On motion of the Rev. Anna Shaw pres
ident of the Equal Suffrage associatio
the council decided to appoint standing
committee on the subject of political
| equity and civil rights for women. This is
considered an important step, because the
council alwars has been noted for its con-
! servatism
! At the night session there were addresses
1 by Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, of this
city, who made the report of the commit
! tee on legislation; Mrs. Willoughby Cum
mins corresponding secretary of the Ma
| tional Council of Women of Canada, and
Mrs. May Wright Sewall
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
READY FOR REVOLT.
CARNATIONS Throughout Russia
Are Causing a Sensation.

St. Petersburg. April 1.-the radical
position taken by the Pan Russian CON
gress Of attorneys, which has been
meeting mere, in its denunciation of
the bureaucracy and its demand for a
constitution, and the similar stand
taken at a meeting of the college pro-
fesSors have created Il great senSa-
ton.
Al efforts of the government to pre-
vent the meetings being held by pro-
hibiting the delegates from assembling
IN public have been unavaling. The
newspapers were then forbidden 10
mention the meeting, and for disobed-
fence of this order this mornings issue
of the son of Fatherland was confis-
Gated. The Russ also boldly defied the
authorities by printing the resolutions
adopted by the professors.
The BouIiean Commission.
The action of these influential bodies
served to emphasize the growing out
cry against the Bouligan commission,
which is proceeding with it's work
without any representatives of the peO-
pie. thus furnishing the liberals with
justification for the charge that the
execution of reforms outlined by the
imperial rescript is completely in the
hands of the bureaucracy, against
which all classes Of society are fight
ing.
ing With the newspaper censorship has
decided to abolish the censorship Of
special kilograms to the daily newspa-
perS.
The Aerarian Rising.
Peasants at Orgeieff. near Odessa
recently seized the land of some of the
| biggest estates and proceeded to divide
it. Troops have been dispatched to the
scene.
Near Eyelostik the peasants demand~
ed that the landlords cease TO use ag-
ricultural machinery. and as their at"
| titude became threatening COssacks
We're required to dispense them.
Additional forces of Cossacks have
been dispatched to Slratoff to quel
the agralian movement there.
Cars Valet in Plot
| st Petersburg. April Bone Of the
! cars Wallets was arrested here yester-
day afternoon. while he was in communi-
c-.ion with an unknown individual re-
gardins an attempt on the life of the
ear at Tsaskoe Selo.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
NOW PLEADS GUILTY.
Promoter of Defunct Chicago Bank
Hopes Court Will Be Gentle
with Him.

Chicago, April 4.-W. II. Hunt.
former president of the defunct Pam
American bank here, today changed his
plea Of mot guilty" to guilty" Hunt
is under indictment for embezzlement.
The change of plea places the case in
the hands of the court, and Hunt is
left free to follow his expressed desire
to visit eastern cities in the hope of
securing money to pay the depostors
Of his defunct bank.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
HORROR is GROWING.
The City of Maud, india, Reports That
Four Hundred Were Killed There
by Earthquake.

Lahore, April 15.-Later reports
from Mandi say at least 400 persons
were killed in the city by the earth
quake The palace, temples and resi-
dences were leveled. Estimates of the
number of people killed at Sulanpur
vary from 200 to 700.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
Origin of Easter Eaq RoIlina.

Undoubtedly the coloring eff eggs and
so-called egg rollings" originated in Il
most curious game of ecclesiastical ball
played with eggs in the churches of
England in the middle ages by the
monks.
These eggs were colored red, in allu-
sion to the blood shed for sinners.
From the records it would appear that
the rules of the game varied in differ
ent churches. but in the main the pas
time consisted of tossing the eggs from
hand to hand back and forth and cross
wise in bewildering and complex
figure. A missed egg meant a smashed
egg.
There are $4,000 pores in the hands OF
a man. -.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
Court Martial for Prince,

st. Petersburg. April 12.-The de-
mand of Pear Admiral Prince Ouk-
tomsky for a court martial has been
granted. 1t is claimed the prince did
not carry out orders issued by Admiral
Withoeft al Port Arthur
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
MAY Develop Battle North.

Toxic. April 12.--Manchulan reports
indicate that the Russians continue
concentrating troops and Strengthening
the Chang -kirin line. General
Madridoff'S force continues in touch
with the extreme japanese left. Ski:-
mishes are frequent and may possibly
develop into an engagement 1t is re-
ported the Russians have armed the
convicts of the island of Sakhalin,
promising money and freedom to those
fighting OrANelE.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
Prominent Odd Fellow Dead.

Baltimore, April 12.-General j. F.
Grant, grand secretary of the sovereign
grand lodge of Odd Fellows in the
United States. died from the effects OF
an operation performed four weeks
ago for an internal affection.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
ONLY TWO INJURED.
ern Railroad Prove to Have Been
Exaauerated.

Vicksburg Miss, April 15.-Only two
persons We're injured in the deralment.
early today, of a northbound passenger
train on the YaZoo and Mississippi VAL
ley railroad near Hardee station. The
ditching of the train was caused by an
open switch. Early reports indicated
that it was much more serious.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21

Somcrville Journal Spring bonncts
are to be small this year. but the pr,cc is
to be just as large as ever
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21

The poctcss wrote an Easter sonnet
And traded it for an Easter bonnet
Washington Capital
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21

Pittsburg Observation-Disclosures - Mrs
Snaggs- Easter is here.
Snaggs-Eggs-actl
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21

Somcrville journal: When the bill comes
in the economical husband varies the
words of the popular song and asks his
WIFE, "Why did you get that hat
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
Hot Cross Buns.

.ttsburg ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hunt
ing Easter honnets can be done. in the
clothes season.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
When Easter Comes

Somerville Journal: Easter is the
glad and joyous season when man
heaves sigh of relief as he smok es
the last of the cigars his wife gave him
at Christmas and goes out to buy some
of the real kind.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21

The British war department has Just
awarded medal to Sergeant Major
McClorey for bravery at the capture of
Pegu In 1852. The sergeant has, how
ever, been dead several years.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21

ter
Boil some bright red eggs at Easter,
Light.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
GIFT TO REPORTERS.

Resolution Introduced in Both Houses
of Minnesota Legislature.
Minneapolis. Mimi. April 15.-Reso-
buttons were introduced in both houses
of the legislature yesterday appropriate
ing $50 to be given to each reporter
who represented newspaper during
the sessions of the senate and house.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21

The poets lay for Easter
Is the sweetest poets make:
The Old hens lay for Easter
Is a lay that takes the cake.
Washington CAPITAL
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-21

and ample quantities Of alcoholic spirits In
which to preserve any living specimens
We might find, we set out for the coast oil
southern New Jersey.
The country Is an ideal one for nam.
moths. Sand sand and nothing but sand
rises in billow after bilow as far as the
eye can reach, with no tree, shrub or flower
to mar the landscape or detract from the
beauty Of the scenery.
Here lived and loved in prehistoric times
The Mammoth. the Mosquito and
The Fuzzy Tailed snipe. [Applausel
The problem Of existence 80 fraught with
care and anxiety amid artificial surround
ings was Of easy solution in this Arcadian
simplicity. All day long the mammoths
Toasted on the mosquitoes. and when the
pail Of night had fallen and the great beasts
had lain them down to pleasant dreams,
the mosquitoes toasted on them-a startling
instance Of great natures law in the matter
Of reciprocal economy.
Mammoth and mosquito being thus, as
We may say, absorbed in providing for each
others exclusive entertainment, nothing
was left on the menu but sand wherewith
to regale the snipe, and, in consequence,
he has always been the object of much
concern and sympathy. 1t has been sug-
gested, indeed, that he was soothed and
sustained by an all absorbing contempla-
ton OF the scenery. but to my mind the
theory lacks plausibiity
We found upon approaching the cavern
that the footprints, while indeed enormous,
were Of prehistoric and not OF recent
origin, as we had been led to believe
The cave contained, Of course, no living
denizens. but strewn upon the floor could
everywhere be seen the traces and relics
Of its former occupants, upon which time
had so worked its mighty influence that
most Of the bones crumbed into dust at our
touch.
A few, however, owing doubtless to their
less exposed situation, were in better con-
dition. These we brought away, and they
are pictured In our illustration.
To me was assigned the task Of reassem-
bling and mounting the dismembered relics,
and l have done what could to produce
a perfect skeleton. While / am conscious
Of the imperfecton Of my work. am con-
soled by the fact that it has been accepted
by the Smithsonian Institution as the best
that could have been done under the circum-
stances and well worthy a member of our
society.
A word, before close, with reference
to the illustration.
The artist 10 whom It's execution was
entrusted allowed an exuberant fancy to
overcome him, and depicted the skeleton
as being attacked by natives with bricks
and tomato ans. This il all wrong and
unauthorized 1t gives fictitious glamour
not warranted by the subject, and seri-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-21

did not soothe his anger to think of the
hundred marks which he had lost. Moritz
however, would not touch them, and at last
the friends compromised by spending the
money for a large and magnificent bunch
of roses which was sent, with two cards.
to the statel y house beneath the elm trees.
Upon their return to the regiment. MORT
became more and more troubled over the
affair. The more he thought of it, the worse
lie felt, in spite Of the old adys forgive
ness.
Strangely enough. he did not dare saw
anything Of the mater to Won Make, whose
sarcastic remarks. formerly inoffensive.
now provoked him keenly At last he
could stand it no longer, and he resolved to
go again to see his aunt" and receive a
Moreover, he had great desire to know
this George, the nephew, and become his
friend.
He presented himself accordingly at
the .door, OF the stately house. hut alas
he found that sorrow had preceded him
for George had not returned. Instead, a
telegram had come announcing his death
of yellow fever in the Antilles,
And the poor old lady wept as she told the
Lieutenant that she had lost the only hope
Of her old age. the only ito that bound her
to the world. Moritg, whose heart was not
stony. broke down utterly before her grief,
and clasping her in his arms he cried with
real sincerity:
-Ah. meme hebe tdnte how truly regret
the sorrow that ] caused you!"
Two months later the charming old lady
died, leaving her entire fortune to MoritS.
with the sole condition that he name his
first son George.
For once, when Won Make heard the
news he. did not scold. But he shook his
friends hand warmly and he said
We'll, old man, for capital of a hundred
marks you have drawn pretty good interest,
don't you Think"