Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-11-23

ance director.
"The public is immortal" says
Mr.. Carnegie on the elections, land
always has the last say" The
trouble is not the lack OF power in
the public, but it's frequent neglect
to vote. A responsibility ignored
comes back as an emergency.
A SPECIAL train on the vandalia
railroad, carrying officials Of the
Kandalia and Pennsylvania lines
last week broke all records for the
road between indianapolis and st.
Louis union station, covering 242
milesin PAP minutes. The fastest
timewas made between Efingham
and East st. Louis, 90 miles in
80 minutes.
No boycott, no race feeling, but a
mere personal quarrel, was the
cause of the death of the FIVE Ameri-
can Presbyterian missionaries
recently in Lion Chou, China,
according to the report made to
Secretary Root by Sir Chentung
LANG Cheng, the Chinese minister
at Washington. The minister had
with HIM when he came to the state
department a copy of a long cable
gram from the viceroy of Canton,
bearing on this subject.
Secretary Taft made it clear that
he had no intention of relinquishing
supervision of Philippine affairs.
During his temporary absence in
Panama it was reported that matters
relating to the Philippines were to
be transferred to the state depart
ment and hereafter be under the
direction of Secretary Root. That
story, said Secretary Taft. origin
ated in the mind of the man who
wrote it. There is absolutely no
foundation for it whatever.
The sheriff Of Pottawatamie county
Iowa, has sent notice to the sheriff
of Brown county that a young man
by the name of Bennie Umble is
supposed to be living in the vicinity
OF Aberdeen. He has not been
heard OF for same time by his par
ents, who are becoming anxious to
learn of his whereabouts. The last
heard of him he was at Helca, work
ing on a farm. The young mans
parents r poor and do not feel
able to spend money in looking him
up. Any information given to the
sheriff of Pottawatamie county, at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be gladly
received.
Philip S. Fall, for twelve years
a resident of the republic of Mexico
and at present experimenting the
construction OF a wagon road
through the Sierra Madras noun
tains from Temosachic to Concheno
and Mulaeos, is in Minneapolis assist
ing a local employment agency to
gather the army of workmen which
are being shipped from Minneapolis
every day OF SC in a load lots.
Supt. Fall says the men who are
now being taken south will not be
expected to work as common labor
ers any length of time if they show
ability to act as foreman. That a
high class Of men are being obtained
from the northwest is shown by the
fact that they are to be paid $40 in
gold a month and in addition will
be given their board free, while the
native laborers + given only "a
cents a day and they are required tc
board themselves.
The rise Of silver bullion, which
has been going on steadily for 4
year, has now reached a level thai
Affects the currencies of the world
based on d ratio Of 80 TO I, like th.
new peso in the Philippines and tn
new Mexican currency. The Philip
pine commissioner, in CONSERVATION
over the prospect that the currenc,
of the people over there would b
turned into pots and melted int
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