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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON-
DENSED FORM.
"YeIlow Berry" in Wheat-New En-
envy Lowers Its Food Value
Changes Protein TO Starch-Causes
a Loss of 2 Cents a BCshel.

Profs. LeClarc and Chilcott, experts
of the agricultural department VINO are
travelling through the wheat growing
states from Texas to North Dakota, III
v~estigating crop conditions, were III Aber-
deem and vicinity FOR several days. Ihey
report the discovery of a new wheat enc
nv. heretofore unknown to the depart
ment, which for want of a better name
they call yellow berry" The disease
consists of a yellow spot on the berry,
sometimes covering half of the berry, and
which changes the composition OF the
berry from protein to starch, lowering
the food value of the grain.
The experts estimate that the value OF
the grain is reduced ut least 2 cents per
bushel by the existence of yellow Der
ry'' in a wheat field. The professors
found but very few wheat fields in South
Dakota affected with the new disease,
but report the trouble quite prevalent in
Kansas and Nebraska.
Isaac Lincoln last spring planted some
seed wheat procured at Devils Lake, n.
ID. Some of the seed was retained, and
the experts found at least 80 per cent OF
It affected with yellow berry" An ex-
animation of Mr.. Lincoln's field grown
from the seed showed not over l per
cent of the wheat affected, indicating that
the disease is not transmitted from the
seed.
A Pierre special says: The first thresh-
ing machine returns from this part Of the
state come from Highmore, showing a
yield Of 100 bushels of oats from ten
acres. Wheat is rapidly being placed in
the shock, and a few days more will see
It all safe. While there has not yet been
any of this grain threshed, several new
machines have been brought into this sec
ton to help handle the crop, and old
time wheat ~raisers are estimating the
yields all the way from 20 bushels to 30
bushels an acre.
The weather in this part Of the state
has been ideal for maturing crops, and
the section never showed a better pros
pect. Within q few days the machines
will be showing just what the result OF
the summer work has been. Corn is in
good shape. but there is n great deal Of
complaint of the ravages Of worms, which
are at work in almost every field.
There is a strong demand in this sec
ton Of the state for workmen to assist
through hay harvest and ~threshing oper-
atoms. Not n day passes but the city is
being searched. for men who are willing
to go out into the fields and on the ranch
es for work. Good wages are being of
fered to men who are willing to get out
into the country, but the demand is so
much greater than the supply that many
farmers and ranchers are going to be
hampered in their harvesting operations
unless they can soon secure the needed
help.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
HIT BY A FAST a
Trolley Car Smashed I'm Cincinnati
Suburb.

A Cincinnati, o., special says: Through
fast running through express from New
York to Cincinnati on the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern crashed into a Win
ton Place trolley car on the grade cross
ing at Mitchell Avenue, Winton Place,
a suburb Of this city, Wednesday night,
and three people were killed and ten 9TH
ers injured.
The dead are Robert j. Smith, William
Tueting, Jr., and an unidentified man.
The seriously injured are A. III. New
ton, mail clerk; S. p. Spaulding engineer,
of Chillicothe, o., head and arms cooked
by steama probably will die; Wilbur
Malsh and William Galligan.
According to eye witnesses of the
wreck it was due to an error of John
Driscoll, gate tender at the crossing. He
had let the gates down To allow a freight
train to pass the crossing. The engine
of the freight emitted heavy clouds of
smoke, and after it passed the gate tend
err did not notice the passenger train
bearing down ut n high rate of speed to-
ward the crossing. He raised the gate
and gave the signal for the car to pro-
ceed across the tracks. With a ~frightful
crash the engine struck the back part of
the car and it was tossed, q wreck, in all
directions.
The engine and mail car were also
thrown from the track and ploughed
through a truck garden and demolished
three outbuildings.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
AS A CALF.
Black Hills Has Lost its Wicked
Reputation.

A Deadwood special says: The Black
Hills, long known as the most wicked
country in the world, will soon be as
harmless as a yearling calf. The good
example set by Deadwood and Lead i'll
the closing up of gambling and the en-
forcement of the saloon regulations re-
garding screens, curtains, ETC., is being
followed throughout the Hills. Not only
has Sturgis played to the cards already
on the table, but it is reported on the
basis Of authority that Rapid City, Belle
Fourche and Hot Springs will soon be
without a faro table or a roulette wheel.
This will work the greatest revolution in
Belle Fourche, as since the ordinances
in the northern Hills this town, lively
by reason of the great irrigation work,
has been a goal for many of the gamblers
and sporting men.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
FORTY ARE DROWNED
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR NOR
FOLK, VA.
Excursion Train from Kinston, N.
c., Plunges Into West Branch Of
the Elizabeth River-Most OF the
Victims Are Negroes.

Many people were drowned and a score
or more of others injured as the result of
an excursion train on the Atlantic Coast
line bound from Kinston, n. c., to Nor
folk, Va, plunging through an open draw
over the western branch OF the Elizabeth
River. eight miles from Norfolk, Thurs
day afternoon.
Though only ten bodies nave been re.
covered, the latest details indicate that
forty is a conservative estimate of the
number OF dead.
1t is believed there are thirty or thir-
ty-ive people in the first car now at the
bottom of the river, and only five OF these
escaped. Others persisted in the second
coach.
The railroad officials stated Thursday
night that they are at a loss TO know why
Engineer Reigs failed to stop his train
before coming to the draw, this being the
custom of passenger trains crossing draw
bridges. An investigation will be made
at once. Reigs could give no explanation.
He was taken to the hospital at Norfolk.
Conductor Mccoy said that the respon-
sibility for the accident was obvious, and
Fireman Freeman added:
I'VE were running fifteen or twenty
miles an hour az we approached the
draw bridge. / grew alarmed, but said
nothing, as | supposed the engineer knew
his business. When we got within a few
feet of the draw. / said: Man, amt you
going to do nothing?'
Mr.. Reigs then applied the emergency
brakes and told me to iump.,
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
PEOPLES BANK LIQuiDATES
st. Louis Institution Forced to
Wind Tn Its Affairs

Following the decision of Federal
Judge Vandeventer at ST. Louis, No.,
denying the application for an injunction
to prohibit the enforcement of the fraud
order by the postal authorities, the direc-
tors of the Peoples United States Bank
have voted to go into voluntary liquida.
ton.
Notwithstanding the decision Of the di-
rectors to go into voluntary liquidation,
Judge mckinney Tuesday granted the
application for a receiver for the Peoples
United States Bank or request of Attor-
ney General Hadley. The court appoint
ed the receiver, but announced his name
woull be temporarily withheld.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
TWELVE CRUSHED TO DEATH

Rock Slide In Quarry near Allen
town, Pa. Catches Workmen.
A quarry accident occurred Wednes-
day afternoon at Ormrod, Pa, the site of
the Lehigh Portland Cement company's
big mill.
coroner has gone to the scene.
The local hospital has received in
structions to prepare to receive six in
jured men.
Thirty-6ve men We're caught in a slide
of rock. Twelve bodies have been re-
covered. Out of the balance still in the
quarry it is feared many are dead.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
CRUSADE AT SIOUX FALLS.
War Has Been Declared Upon Dis
reputable Characters.

The Sioux Falls authorities have de-
clared wal on ~disreputable characters,
and especially on women who occupy
rooms in the business blocks for illegal
purposes. AS the result of n raid made
by the police nine of the women were.
rounded up at one time and taken before
a justice. All were fined. Some We're
able to pay their fines, while others did
not have the necessary sums and We're
placed in Jail. :
One Of the women had enticed her 10
y~ear-old sister from one Of the surround
ing country towns to her rooms and was
severely reprimanded by Mayor Burn
side in open court The mayor ordered
that the girl be sent back to her home.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT.
Fever Statistics at New Orleans are
Better.

Deaths Tuesday, g.; total deaths to
date, I12; new cases, 62; total cases to
date, 1850; new sub-foci, 10; total sub
foci to date, 229; cases under treatment,
3S4.
Tuesdays record at New Orleans shows
that there is beginning to be an improve
ment in the situation. With only 62 new
cases found by the new system there is
every reason to believe that the progress
of the disease has been checked and its
eradication is only a question of a few
weeks.
Of the six deaths Tuesday only one was
an Italian. Among the others was j. 0.
Daspit, a prominent young lawyer, and
Pierre Aldal, a well known musician, at
one time leader of the French opera or.
chestra. Aldal, however, was in desti-
tute circumstances and was buried by
the city. He was found in a dying con
dition. Only a third of the new cases
Tuesday are Italians. The state board
of health announces that in the state out
side of New Orleans there have been to
date 100 cases and "a deaths.
Inc slute ms c"OntTlDuleu Sl,uuO tO-
wards the Patterson emergency fund,
which, added to the subscriptions of res
idents of the town, will enable them to
continue the campaign they have inau.
gurated TO eradicate the infection.
Thirty-tive ons of sulphur donated to
the marine hospital service will be dis
tributed among the poorer classes of the
population for a general fumigation Of
premises.
The arrival at New Orleans of DR..
John Guiteras, the Cuban yellow fever
expert. from his tour of the seat Of worst
infection was the most interesting feature
of the yellow fever situation Tuesday.
DR.. Guiteras left Havana to make an
inspection of the gulf cities in connection
with the Cuban quarantine and to offer
his assistance in the campaign in pro-
gress here. He landed first in Florida,
went thence to Mobile, inquiring into con.
ditions on the gulf coast Of Mississippi,
and finally came here Tuesday. He pre-
vious important visit TO New Orleans
was in 1897, wher there was also an ap.
pearance of yellow fever, and when the
mosquito theory had not been demvn.
strated.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
MUST ACT.
spanish Peasants are on the Verge
of Revolt.

Cadiz advices state that the fapine
which commenced last March has now
reached the point of actual starvation
throughout the fertile valley of Andalu-
sia. The workmen are unable to- secure
food. They are too weak to work and
are becoming desperate. The children
are living on fir cones and the fruit of
the wild cactus.
The London Daily Nails dispatches
with regard to the famine conditions in
Andalusia, Spain, state that the Span
ish government has entirely failed to
give relief, and that, as the money grants
are absolutely inadequate to meet the
necessities, the resources are completely
exhausted.
Hunger riots are of daily occurrence
and are becoming more and more serious.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
RAIN IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Farmers Delighted with a Storm
just in Time.

The corn growers Of Clay County
were just ready to cry for rain when
along came old j. Pluvius with his water
wagon last Saturday afternoon and Sun
day and served up an inch or two of the
choicest rainwater on record.
Under a real hot sun for three weeks,
the corn has been jumping along at a
rapid pace, and roasting ears on the
farm have been in order for more than
q week. The violent wind storm Of Sat
urday afternoon fiattened fields pretty
badly, but from reports received later the
stalks will straishten up pretty well.
There is every indication that the corn
crop in Clay County, though retarded in
the early summer by heavy rains, will
come out all right.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
TRUE HEROINE Is DEAD.
Mrs. Axtel Peterson, of Charles Mix
County, Succumbs { Injuries.

Mrs. Axtel Peterson, wife of a Charles
Mix County farmer, who was run over
by q team of horses and a binder while
attempting to rescue one Of her children,
after lingering several days died as the
result of her injuries.
In attempting to make the rescue she
proved herself a true heroine. The
horses drawing the binder ran away and
dashed toward the Peterson home. See
ing one of her children in what she be-
lieved to be the pathway Of the ~frighten-
ed horses, she rushed out of the house
to the rescue of the child and was her
self fatally injured by being run over
by the horses and binder.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
BLOWN TO S.
Foreman of Nitrogiycerin Works
Killed and a Dozen People Hurt.

Foreman of Nitroglycerin Works
Killed and a Dozen People Hurt.
One man was killed and a dozen Were
seriously injured in an explosion which
destroyed the nitroglycerin house of the
Judson Dynamite and Powder Company
at Point Isabella, near Berkeley, CAL,
Wednesday afternoon.
Edward Edris, foreman of the nitro
glycerin department, lost his life. He
was blown into atoms at the building
where he worked.
The injured, who will all survive, are
Chinese, who were employed in the mix
ing room, 200 feet from the nitroglycer-
in plant. A second explosion followed an
hour after the first, destroying the mix
ing works, about 500 feet from the
wrecked nitroglycerin plant. The shock
was greater than the original explosion.
Explosion number two was due to the
i~gnitiIg Of powder particles and acid on
the ground In the vicinity. Twenty men
had narrow escapes from the second ex-
p~losion. The property loss is about
$15. 600.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
NARROW EsUAPe FROM DEATH
Sewing Machine Agent Nearly
Drowned in Cheyenne River.

In an attempt to cross the Cheyenne
river. near Hermosa. Morris Goetz, OF
Lead, and Nj. Almit, Of Rapid City,
were nearly drowned. Both men are
representatives Of a sewing machine
company. They started in a wagon with
a driver and two machines for the Pine
Ridge agency and met with no acct.
dents until they cams to the river.
Owing TO the rains the Cheyenne is very
high, and at the point where they tried
to cross it is very rapid. They got
about half way over when the wagon
went into a hole and tipped over, spill.
ing all the occupants out. The driver
aud Mr.. Almit swan ashore, but Mr..
Goetz was carried further down the
stream, ~clinging to the wagon. One Of
the men ran to q farm house and got a
long rope, which was thrown to Goetz
and he was pulled out.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
DRUGGISTS NAME OFFICERS
Pharmaceutical Association Will
Meet Next Year at Sioux Falls.

The South Dakota Pharmaceutical AS
ISOLATION in session at Aberdeen, select
ed Sioux Falls as the meeting place for
1906, the date to be fixed later by Sec
rotary Bent. Officers were elected as
follows:
President, w. f. Michels, Willow.
Lakes; first vice president, George c.,
Sabin, Redield; second vice president,
DIR. Crosby, Hitchcock; secretary, f. c.
Bent, Dell Rapids; treasurer, A. A.
Woodward, Aberdeen.
r. c. Bent vas elected delegate to the
National Association of Retail Druggists
at Atlantic City, n. j., on Sept. 4.
The business sessions were completed.
Thursday afternoon.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
An Alleged Thief Arreste d.

A young man probably 20 years of
age, who worked as a farm hand two
or three days for f. w. Pischke, in Al
toona township, Beadle county, stole his
employers purse containing about $50
and also two certificates of deposit, and
donning a new suit of clothes also belong
ing to Mr.. Pischke, left. He was cap
tured at Frankfort and is now in Jail at
Huron awaiting the sitting of the cir
cult court. He gives the name of Jo-
seph Atackehvitch.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Unsafe for Negroes.

Because of the recent lynching at Sui
phur Springs, Tex, the Negro Baptist
Sunday school and Baptist Young Peo-
pies Union state convention will be held
at Dallas instead of at Sulphur Springs.
The statement was made that Sulphur
Springs was not a safe place for negroes
just at present because OF the feeling en-
gendered by the burning of q negro there
q few days ago.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
BAD TYPHOID OUTBREAK.
200 Gases are Reported in
Washtp gton, ID. @.


Twenty-nine new cases of typhoid fe
yer and two deaths from the fever were
reported to the health officers at Wash
ington, ID. c., Monday. The outbreak
has passed in severity that Of 1903, when
the greatest number Of persons under
treatment for the disease at any time was
pa, ana has spread rapidly. Health Of
fcials are bending every effort to fight
the disease, including a house to house in
spection Of back yards and cellars, with
a view to remedying %unsanitary condi-
tons.
One bed of the new filtration plant will
be opened at once, thus reducing to that
extent the danger from typhoid fever and
other disease germs which it is believed
comes from drinking water which is un-
filtered.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
ESCAPE AN AWFUL DISASTER
Great Western Train Nearly Wreck
ed on a Tresflc.

4 a Des Moines, Ia, special says: Chi
cago Great Western officials are congrat-
ulating themselves over the narrow es-
cape which the Kansas City Limited had
Thursday morning from what might east
iy have been a horrible accident. While
the train was crossing a trestle near
Norwoodville, Ia, the trestle support
went down. The train was over in safe
ty, with the exception of the two rear
sieepers, which sank in two feet at the
approach way and lurched nearly over.
Had the bridge givea away but a few
seconds later al awful accident would
have taken place.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Remembered Fellow Prisoners.

o. ID. Buchecker, the wealthy Wal
worth County man who was recently
taken to the Brown County jail at Aber-
deem, charged with threatening to shoot
his son, has been released, having fur
nished bonds for his appearance in cir
cult court In the sum Of $500. Upon
his release Buchecker went to a store
and purchased a fine silk hat and then
went to a bakery, where he bought a large
quantity Of food which he sent to the
county Jail for the benefit of his fellow
prisoners.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Tho wireleas on Trains.

The experiments made with wireless
telegraphy on engines running over the
tracks of the Chicago and Alton Rail
road have proved so successful that the
management of the road has taken steps
to equip all OF the engines of the com
pany with the apparatus.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Workman Badly Injured.

The first serious accident in the CON
struction Of the government building at
Pierre occurred Tuesday when Frank
Canty fell about thirty feet. striking on
a steel beam, breaking his hip and elbow
and receiving internal injuries. He is in
a serious condition. His home is some
where In Massachusetts,.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Accuse VIII. or Arson.

Mrs. Frank Silversack, wife Of a busi-
ness man at Bemidji, Mimi, is in the
county Jail ON a charge of arson prefer
red by her husband. 1t is alleged by Sill
versack that his wife attempted to burn
both the saloon building and a large barn.
Mrs. Silversack denies the charge.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Qnarantine Against Kentucky,

DIR. Egan, at Cairo. ILL.,, says that, ow-
ing to the fact that Kentucky has public,
~ invited refugees from the south insid,
her borders, strict quarantine regulations
would be established against Kentucky.
The work of inspection viii be transfer
red to Cairo Junction, where all trains
will be inspected.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
To Enforce Illinois Quarantine.

Secretary Egan, Of the Illinois state
board of health, has gone to Cairo, ILL.,,
where he will personally superintend the
quarantine against the yellow fever. He
will remain at Cairo ten days at least, as
he considers September the most dan
gerous month of all for the spread of in
lection to the north.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
To Lease Waterw orks.

The Sioux Falls city council has au-
thorized the holding of a special election
on Sept. 3. at which time the PROPOSE
ton Of leasing the municipal water works
system will be submitted to the voters.
Competent legal authority has declared
that the city plant can be operated at
once if leased to a company composed of
citizens. and the special election on Sept.
5 is TO determine whether or not the plant
shall be leased.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Lame to Have a Saloon.

After a delay Of three months the
board of county commissioners Of Jerauld
County has approved the bond of Fred
Siefken as a retail fiquor dealer at the
town of Lane. Heretofore the board
has refused to approve any bonds for re-
tail liquor dealers In the county.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Progress ON Government. Building

Workmen on the new federal building
at Pierre are nearing the top Of the Sec
ond story with the Bedford rock. Two
big derricks rapidly swing the blocks into
place and the building in a few months
will have the appearance Of nearing
completion.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
shot Down at Churuh Door.

At Czestochowa, Russian Poland, two
policemen were killed and one woman
fatally shot by an unknown man af me
doors Of the Church OF the Virgin. A
pilgrimage was leaving the church AFTER
mass, when the assault on the policemen
occurred.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
seoretary ROOTS Assistaur.

There was a report in ~Stockbridge,
Mass, Tuesday that William G. Sanger,
of New York, will be appointed assistant
secretary Of state this week. Mr.. Sang
er is now in Labrador with Secretary
Root. He served as assistant secretary
OF war under Root.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
own 5000 Pigeons.

Over 100 Russians comprise what is
called the Rosedale colony, about twelve
miles southeast of Mitchell. One of the
features of the colony is a large pigeon
farm, where 5000 birds can be seen the
year round. Over 800 squads are ship
ped to the Chicago markets weekly.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
Negro Business Men Meet.

Two hundred colored business men
opened the sixth annual session of the
National Nebro Business League at New
York "Wednesday. The object Of the
league is to bring together negroes who
are engaged in business for themselves,
for mutual help and support.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-23
An Augury or Peace.

The correspondent of the London
Standard at Odessa says that the order
for the departure of the infantry division
that was modified in the southwestern
provinces has been countermanded. This
is popularity interpreted as indicating the
probability of a successful issue of the
peace negotiations.