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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
WOMAN HAS OLD ST BILL
Printed in the Year of the Declaration
Of ~Lndependence.

Alma, Mich, July 1S.-An old piece Of
paper money is owned by Mrs. l., :.
Cahoon, who resides near Alma. .
1t is Il ST bill and carries with it all
the crudities of age. 1t is q peculiar
brown paper Of much the same mater
ial as the present money, except that
it is heavier. In shape it is almost
square, with dimensions of about 3E312
inches. On one side of the bill is writ
ten the receipt, which is as follows:
This bill entities the bearer to re-
ceiVe seven Spanish milled dollars or
the value thereof in sold or silver, ac-
cording to the resolution of congress
passed in Philadelphia July %, 117G."
At the bottom is the signature of
someone in authority, appearing to be
r. Braman, as nearly as car be made
out, owing to the faded condition Of
the letters. Around the margin the
value of the bill is again printed and
the words continental Currency and
The United Colonies
On the back of the bill is drawn a
bow and set of arrows. The side is de-
corated with borders and at the top are
the words Seven Dollars" and under
meath the picture is the word ''Philadel-
phia' and Printed by Hall & Sellers,
17T6."
This piece of money has considerable
value outside of the amount upon its
face. Mrs. Cahoon has had it for a
number of years and values it highly
as Il keGpSake.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
REASON FOR REFORM.
Losses of Secretary Of Club Puts
Them Out of Business.

Vermillion, S. D., July 19.-"Strange,
isn't it, how a match applied at the
right time will indie Il large con-
f~iagration," said a prominent man OF
the Black Hills here recently. one OF
the greatest reforms ever i~naugurated
in Lawrence county is now ON, and the
beginning was a simple one. The peo-
pie across the river on the cast side
have been led to believe hat the move
ment against the saloons n gamblers
was the result of premeditated action
on the part of the states attorney and
a number of the better class of people.
This is all wrong. The reform move
ment was started when the secretary
of one of the large clubs of DeadWood
lost about $500 of the clubs money
at the gaming tables, and an additional
5000 advanced by citizens of DeadWood
to square the victim with the club.
Instead of using the last loan in REIN
bursting the club, the secretary went
back to the roulette wheel to win back
all he had lost. Fortune still smiled on
the gamblers and it was not long be-
fore they had $1,000 of other peoples
money.
"Friends Of the secretary then in
terested themselves in the hopes or
getting him out of his dilemma. II
gamblers were called upon re-
quested to return the money. This
they refused to do. even in the a of
threats to put them out Of business.
When all efforts had failed in this dt-
reCtion, the states attorney was APP
pealed to, and he at once went after
the gamblers. with the result that ev-
cry game in Lawrence county been
closed up tight. and the saloons are
now being made to live up TO the letter
of the lava condition never before
prevailing in the Black Hills.
probably 200 gamblers were thrown
r11t. ~ : y l,l,. loo ~ -ltA 10 7 ca to
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Henry Palmer of Ethan Killed Self
with Rifle Bullet,

Ethan, S. D., July 19.-Henry Pal
imer, a young farmer living about seven
miles east of this place, committed sui.
eide at an early hour yesterday morn
ing. He was in town last Saturday and
Is said to have been drinking heavily
for the past week. Yesterday morn
ing it is reported that he asked for
whisky from a member Of his family
and on being refused went into q bed
room and shot himself In the head with
a rifle. death resulting almost instant
~. He was insured in the Workman's
insurance for the sum Of So, 1000, being a
membe Of the Ethan A. o. u. w. lodge.
The weather has been extremely hot
for the past week and corn been
making good progress, but is rather
small and will require a late fall to
reach maturity. Rye is In the shock
and barley and oats will be ready to
cut in a few days. Wheat is looking
fine and all small grain promises to
be a good crop. Hay and alfalfa arc
extremely fine and will yield largely.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
A~DVENTiSTS IN JAIL.
Husband and Wife Suffering for
Christ's Sake, Thew Believe.

Selby, S. D, July 15.-R. Moser and
his wife, Christina Moser, are confined
in the Walworth county jail, in this
place, under peculiar circumstances.
There is a settlement in the north
east part Of the county of Adventists
and who are excessively Jealous along
religious lines.
About a month ago Mrs. Moser went
to the home of John Kerner, a neigh
Dor, and old his wife that the Lord
wanted her (Nrs. Kerner) to die, and,
to emphasize the decree, took along a
p~itchfork to help the Lord execute the
plan.
Mr., Kerner had her arrested for as
sault, and after a hearing she was
bound over for trial and bail was fixed,
which she refused to give, saying that
she was like the apostles of old who
suffered imprisonment for Christ's
sake.
After the hearing r. Moser returned
home and set fire to Kerner's barn.
Husband n wife are now confined
together, with a 7-months-old baby, in
the county Jail awaiting the next term
of court, suffering, as ihey believe, for
Christ's sake.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
FALSE, THEN REAL ARREST
Other Wife of Man Leading Double
Life Reads Story in Paper.

Life Heads story IN PAPER
Pittsburg, Pa, July 1S.-The arrest OF
William McVeigh Smith and Clara Gel
ner on complaint of Smiths wife, who
lives in Turtle Creek, revealed the fact
that Smith, q wealthy contractor, has
for some time past been living a double
life. He was known in Turtle Creek by
his correct name and at 50 Iunnel
street, where he was arrested, as Will
liam McVeigh. He might still be prac-
ticing the deception had it not been Tor
a peculiar turn of events.
Some weeks ago Miss Gelner, VINO is
known in the neighborhood as Mrs. NC
Weigh, was arrested on the street. AZ
the hearing the next day it was clearly
proven hat the two officers who MADE
the arrest had overstepped their au,
thority and there was a great hue anu
cry raised about respectable women pc
ing arrested without cause. Inc Two
policemen were dragged before the trlal
board and threatened with dismissal.
Mrs. Smith happened to see the story
in the papers. She became suspicious
and questioned her husband. he coulo
not answer satisfactorily. Then she
sought the policemen, who arrested NC
Weigh. She was not long in discovering
that her husband was leading a double
1ifn
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
WANT TILLABLE LAND.
Concerted Movement of Settlers on the
Forest Reserve.

Hill City, S. D., July 19.-At a meet
ing here of the settlers on h forest
reserve who have been unable TO secure
titles to their land, over 100 ranchers
were present. They came not only from
this county but also from Custer and
Lawrence, and ever from the state of
Wyoming. Great excitement prevailed.
Some of the rancherS wanted TO apply
to the government for permission 10
lease the lands; others desired TO ask
for the right to buy. They were agreed
upon one thing only, and that was that
they must keep their homes. Many of
these ranChers have been living on their
small plots of ground for years, and
have improved and cultivated them
with the intention of making them per
manent homes. When Secretary Will
son held up the order last spring, for
one year which required all fences to
come down on government land, he Sc
cured merely a temporary benefit for
these people. They are now anxious to
do something that will be of permanent
value to themselves.
An association to be known as the
Black Hills Forest Reserve Homebuild-
Frs association was formed and Il COM
mittee appointed to convene with our
congressman. They are to request that
a bill be introduced at the next SEES
sion of congress allowing all settlers no
the reserve, whether they have used
their right of homestead or not, to
homestead their land, paying for it at
$3.50 per acre. The ranchers agree not
to interfere with the forest reserve,
with mining interests, or with water
rights. They desire only the tillable
land from rim to rim.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20

The last stone on the Wachusett dam
of the Metropolitan water system has
been laid at Clinton, Mass. The work
was begun a little over four years ago.
Never before on a job of this kind has
80 great a quantity of stone been placed
IN so short n time. Often as many as
600 hands were employed, and the av-
erage has been more than 400. The cost
Of this dam will be 81, Coz, G35. This great
barrier of masonry, which is to hold
back $4,000, OOO, 600 gallons of water, is $50
feet in main length, with a waste weir
of 400 feet additional. It's greatest height
is nearly 225 feet, and the greatest
thickness is 10G feet, narrowing to
rs feet on top, where there will be a
concrete promenade, with protecting
fences.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
AGENT AND CASH GONE.
Whether the Two Are Associated Is
the Object Of Search

the Object of a Search.
Fargo, N. D., July l5.-Chris Witmeyer,
a land agent, is missing and members Of
q colony of twenty farmers from Emer-
ado, Grand Forks county, are out various
ums, totaling $1,000. Witmeyer disap-
peared in Fargo. and efforts are being
made to find him.
The colony went to Emerald six years
ago to farm rented land. They prospered
and wanted homes of their own. They
sent Jacob Rau, n of the members, to
look over the country. AT Jamestown he
met Witmeyer, whose fathe he had
known. Witmeyer said he represented a
Minneapolis land company and a con-
troll of all the government land along the
Northern Pacific in this state. Through
Rau, Witmeyer induced a colony from
Emerald to accompany him to Kidder
county, where both homestea9s and sal
able land were secured. When the papers
arrived it was shown there was an error
in the descriptions as written in and
outlined by Witmeyer. He old them they
would go back to Kidder county and in
spect the land, and twenty men accon-
panied him TO Fargo where they stopped
overnight 1T a local hotel. Raj and Wit
meyer occupied the same room, but just
before breakfast Witmeyer asked to be
excused a momen and mas lot since been
seen.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
DOES NOT BLAME WILSON
President Not Directing the Cotton
Scandal.

Washington, July 19.-Secretary Will
son insists that he has not received di-
rectly or indirectly any advice, sugges-
ton or order from President Roosevelt
in connection with the present scandal
in the department of agriculture. He
declares that every move that has been
made and all the Investigations leading
up to the disclosure of e. S. Holmes
actions in selling information concern
ing crop conditions, b2ve been made on
his w initiative. President Roosevelt
has, of course, been kept advised of all
steps taken.
1t is explicitly declared thai the pres
ident has not expressed any d~issatis-
faction at the steps that have been
taken by Mr.. Wilson. No credence is
placed here in the report hat the sec
rotary of agriculture will be forced to
resign, following the revelations that
have been made of incompetency and
wrong doing in his department.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Man Was Hit on the Head and In
stantiy Killed.

kimball, S. D., July 14.-Particulars
have just been received here Of the
death by lightning Of D. S.. Paddock, a
prominent stockman of Jerauld county.
Paddock, John Bosen and John and
Andrew Phaum were busy at work dip
ping cattle, with other men, at the sta
ton fifteen miles southwest Of Wessing-
ton Springs when q thunderstorm arose.
Several sought shelter in q nearby
barn, but the four men were in a hurry,
to finish their work and remained be-
hind. AS the lightning grew threaten
ing n the rain fell in torrents they
quit work and started On a run for the
barn. When within a few yards of the
shelter, a bolt descended in plain view
of the men already in the barn and was
seen to strike Paddock on the head.
All four men, running in a group, were
thrown to the ground. The two Pfaums
quickly arose to their feet and reached
the barn, but their two companions lay
PROSTATE. They quickly returned and
found Paddock ~lifeless.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
E:L.OPEMENT STORY IS
EXPLAINED At LAST
Miss Cook, Who Fled With
Smith to Avoid Another Mar
riage, Writes Relative.
SAYS SHE WE'D SMITH
Marriage Took Place at Milwaukee
June 2O-The Ex-Normal Student
and Her Husband to Settle
Down at Cripple Greek.

Mitchell, S. D., July 15.-Miss Caroline
Cook, the Madison S. D.. normal school
student who, on the V of her marriage
to an obnoxious but wealthy sutton,
was said to have eloped with e. e.
Smith of Sioux Falls and was supposed
to have married him in that town about
June 20, has been heard from by her
brother-in-Iaw, Thomas Morgan, of this
city. a letter reached him from Chi
cago a few days ago from the former
Miss Cook, who says she married Smith
in Milwaukee on June 20 and that they
will reside in Chicago until about Au-
gust 1, when they intend to settle at
Cripple Creek, Colo, where Smith has
employment rs Il civil engineer. This
Will end the romance until The honey
wears OFF.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
U LOST BROTHER.
Hotel Register Brings Together Men
Separated 25 Years.

Eldora, Ia, July T7.-Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Vele, of Grinnell, stopped in Clinton not
long ago while en- route tc the east, and
registered at one Of the local hotels. A
few days later Richard Velie, of Madison,
Wis, stopped at the same hotel on his
way to the west. He glanced idly over
the pages of the register at the Windsor
hotel, where he had engaged a room for
the night, and noticed the name of his
long-lost brother on the register. He at
once wrote to Richard Velie and in due
time received an answer saying that the
men We're in truth brothers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Velie passed through
Clinton this week on the, way to Madi-
son to visit the long-lost brother. The
two men had not met for over 4 quarter
of q century and during the intervening
years each supposed the other was dead.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
FIRST TRAIN CROSSES RIVER.
MiIwaukee's Advent Into the Great
Rance Country of South Dakota.

iW~!lNE0uNSS = SQNcilL IltO bIS IGSS
Range Country of South Dakota,
Chamberlain. S. D., July 15.-The
work of laying rails to the west bank
of the Missouri river on the extension
of the Milwaukee railroad westward
from Chamberlain is completed, and
for the first time the construction train
was able to make a complete crossing.
The grading is completed to Oaco1na,
several miles down the river from the
bridge approach from the west, and it
is announced that the iron viii be laid
to that town by the last of this week.
The irOn gang will then leave for
Armour to lay the track from that
place to P~lankinton. 1t is expected that
this work will be completed within two
weeks, after which the iron gang will
again return TO Oaconla. In the inter
it is calculated that the work Of
grading westward will have advanced
so far that the iron can be laid with
out further interruption. During the
next two weeks ties and iron will be
taken to supply yards OF the west side
OF tie river, to be in readiness for the
resumption of rail laying upon the re
turn of the crew from the Armour ex-
tension.
1t is positively asserted that the sur
Veying crew, under the direction Of j.
II. McNaught, is now at work survey
Ing the line from the end of the track
now contracted for seventy-ive miles
out on to the Black Hills. Parties in
town from that section of country state
that the surveying crew has already
covered considerable new territory, and
there is no longer the least doubt as to
the immediate extension of the line, at
least to the Black Hills.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20

The municipal library of Frankfort
more han 100000 volumes on its
shelves, proposes to establish a special
section for American publications,
public and private. An influential ON
mittee has been formed to raise funds
for the purchase of books for the
American section, which is to comprise
litical, industrial, commercial and So
Geological literature. The library is
open to all, free of charge, and the
undertaking should prove to be what
its projectors intend, an important link
in h amicable relations Of the two
countries.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
HORSE BLOCKS RAILWAY
Runs Five Miles Over Ties, Then Falls
THROUGH a TrestIe.

South Norwalk, Conn.,, July IA west
ern horse getting his first glimpse of g
trolley car, and heat-blinded as we'll
cleared a railroad embankment with 8
wagon at Rowayton today and ran five
miles along the tracks of the New York
New Haven and Hartford railroad until
he fell through a bridge at this place.
The baggage hands were not experienced
IN hosting a horse out of a ~trestle, and
the track was tied up for over an hour
While his was being done. When the
horse started the towernen telegraphed
to South Norwalk that a runaway horse
was coming UP the tracks, and all of the
baggage men lined up across the tracks
to stop it, but when it came with the
wagon the railroad men were afraid to
stay in its path. The horse was badly
scraped and little was left of the wagon
but the hubs.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
MUSIC FOR POOR Lo.
Prominent and Prosperous Indian Chief

Prominent and Prosperous Indian Chief
Buys a Piano.
Aberdeen, s.. D.. July 19.-The Stand
ing Rock Indians are rapidly acquiring
all the habits of civilization. An IN
dian last week took a $500 piano from
the station at Pollock to his home on
the reservation. 1T is stated that he
bought the piano for his daughter, who
is a graduate of one of the government
indian schools and an accomplished
musician. Costly musical instruments
are said to be by no means uncommon
on the Standing Rock reservation, the
Indians taking pride In purchasing the
best instruments they can find, re-
gardless of cost.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
SEWER MAN FACES DEATH
Buried for Four Hours in Shifting

Buried for Four Hours in Shifting
Sand in Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Wis, July 18.-Twenty
men worked four hours in a new sewer
at Nineteenth and Maple streets this
morning to release Michael Novak, a
fellow workman, from imminent danger
of DEATH.
Novak was caught in q caVe-in and
buried to the neck in sand and gavel.
With the dirt caVing in constantly and
covering the man to his eyes, his COM
panions toiled under a blazing sur
without result till one of them sug-
sested that the dirt be wet down With
a hose.
When this was done the work be-
came easier and in another hour the
man was rescued II sent to the hos
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
c GOES MAD.
He lmagines a Mob Is Pursuing Him
and He Runs.

Pierre, S. D., July 14.-"Bunk' White,
a negro, who has been employed on
ranches west of the river for years, IS
being held here awaiting an attendant
to take him to the insane hospital at
Yankton. His hallucination is that he
is being pursued by a mob, which de-
sires to lynch him just because he is a
negro. He was at first taken to the
hospital, but after being there several
days rushed out into the street to es,
cape the mob" and was only captured
after a long chase, since which time he
has been confined in a cell.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20

! an inventor has hit upon q method of
putting what are practically stone soles
on boots and shoes. He mixes a water
proof glue with a suitable quantity of
clean quartz sand and spreads it over
h leather sole used as a foundation.
These quartz soles are said to be very
flexible III practically indestructible,
and to give the foot a firm hold ever on
the most slippery surface.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
AN ASSASSIN EauEn

Naples. July lT.-An attempt was made
early this morning to murder Admiral Mi
rabello. brother of Admiral Mirabello, the
Italian minister of marine, who is residing
at Portici, a small coasting and fishing
porr and residential town on the bay Of
Naples. The admiral's wife was seriously
injured while defending her ushan
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
HEIR TO FORTUNE.
Meyers Father Left Him an Annua
income Of S2G.Onn.

Income Of $4,000.
W~ikesbarre, July 1I.-Roland S. Myers,
who for some years has sold newspapers
at the rSilroad station at Honesdale, Pa,
quit peddling them on Saturday and viii
now enjoy an income of about S2o,oq0 a
year. This is his share Of his fathers
estate, which he has just inherited.
TIL father, Lawrence Myers, OF this
city, was for Years q successful banker
and real estate owner, and when he
died. q. few weeks ago, he left a large
estate TO be divided among his four chill
dren. The property is i'll the hands of
trustees, and the children get only the in
terest 1T earns. While Roland Myers got
an allowance from his father he took up
the paper-selling business in order to have
something to do.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
MAKES FULL CONFESSION
John S~chliskloskas Says After a Quar-
rel He Cut His Wife's Throat.

Pueblo, Colo, July ia special to
the Chieftain from La Junta, Colo,
says:
John Schliskloskas, a Russian wanted
at Belmont, Mass, for the murder of
his wife last Wednesday night, was
arrested yesterday afternoon by Sheriff
Barr while passing through the city on
the Santa Fe railroad. The murderer
confessed and gave the details of the
tragedy, which had been puzzling the
Massachusetts police. He said that he
and his wife We're drinking and quar-
reling Wednesday afternoon and con-
tinued their quarrel at a park that
night, when her taunts enraged him to
such an extent that he cut her throat
with a knife and threw her body into
q gully. Then he started for the west,
making no attempt to conceal his iden-
tity.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
THE TURGEoNs SENTENCED.
Found Guilty Of Tresspassine on Mrs
Adams Land,

Elk Point, S. D., July 1.-THE Tur-
geons had a hearing before Judge
Jones on the charge Of contempt OF
court, in that they committed a tres
pass on the land of Mrs. Steve Adams,
In Big Sioux township. They were
proven guilty, and Fred and VALERIE
Turgeon Were sentenced to ninety days
in Jail, and n. Turgeon, their father,
was sentenced to fifteen days in Jail.
Charles Gray, alias Tom Gordon, was
arrested by Sheriff Sherman. charged
with knocking down and robb;ng one
w. Thompson of $3.50 in the railroad
lumber wards.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20
WOMAN SHOOTS q GIRI

of her mother Bessie Barnes, aged Is
years, was shot dead on the street in front
of her home at 2102 Lucas avenue. Mrs.
Mary Gardener. aged 80 years, is under
arrest charged with the shooting, which
is said to nave been the elimination Of
ill-feeling between the two families.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-20

; A story is told in Paris of a displomat
who represented n South American re-
public a few years ago. There had been
SO many revolutions at home that the
f1nanciers there had no time to send
him his salary. But he took this mis-
fortune philosophlcally, sold all the fur
ntture of the legation except a bed, a
table and some chairs and occupied
one room with his principal attache.
who cooked the meals.