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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF TRAVELLING MEN
Last Day Of Notification Nee =
ing Of Dakota Knights
OF the Grip.
ADDRESSED BY GOVERNOR
Largely Attended Meeting Held in the
Auditorium, and Governor Elrod
and Others Delivered
Addresses.

Aberdeen, S. D., June 5.-Saturday
was the last day of the convention of
the South Dakota Travelling Mems as
ISOLATION. The GROVE in attendance
TINS year is much larger han last and
the boys are all having the times of
their lives.
A feature of the convention yesterday
afternoon was the ball game between
WatertoWn and Bookings for a purse
of $500. The game was a hard fought
one, Bookings winning by a score of
. TO 4. In the evening d number Of
inc travelling men so inclined gave a
vaudeville performance in the opera
house, all the other travellers being
spectators. Another meeting was also
held IN the evening in the auditorium
at which addresses were delivered by
Governor ElrOd II others. Following
the auditorium meeting and the vaude-
vile entertainment q grand ball was
given.
Beyond naming the different commit
tees nothing of much Importance was
aken up at the sessions yesterday, the
real work of the convention being left
Tor today, when the session will begin
IN the morning and continue through
the afternoon. One of the principal
matters to be decided upon is to for
nuiat a plan to carry on an active
campaign against the catalogue houses.
Whlie no details will be given out re-
gard1ng the plans, it is known that the
campaign will be conducted in a most
thorough manner and will have the
united support of the South Dakota
travelling Mems association and at
a fve of the retail merchants asso-
Citations in this state.
A conference was held last night be-
tween delegates from these retail asso-
cations and the conference committee
OF the travelling mems organization.
The catalogue house matter was the
principal subject discussed and a set of
resolutions was adopted which will be
presented to the convention for it's &C
ton. At the close of the conference the
associations officers and the retail dele
gates sealed the compact of unity at
d pahQu given at the Commercial
club.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
BIG RUSH EXPECTED.
Black Hills to Receive Great Crowds of
Immigrants,

Gtr# a.#@-g u y III ...--H..
Rapid City, S. D., June 6.-The great
est rush OF settlers and xcursionisrs
ever known to h Black Hills will nm
doubtedly take place this summer as
commencing yesterday the RAILROADS
nave offered great inducements in the.
way Of low rates from Chicago. ST.,
Louis and Missouri river points, 4
great number of people are eager "a
take advantage of these opportunities
10 look over the prospects offered Nv
the new irrigation canal and ais, tbs
vast tract of country that will be
opened up between the Hills and the
Missouri river by the coming in of the
new railroads. Already people are COM
ing in here at such a rate that the ac-
Communications OF the town, though con-
stantly being increased, are severely
taxed. One of the smaller hotels has
turned away as many as thirty oeople
IN a single night and private homes
have been obliged to offer their avail
able rooms for the strangers. Prop
erty onSthe main street Of this city has
increased in value from 500 to 400 per
cent; and there is not a vacant house
in town. Several houses that are in
process of erection are already rented.
There is a great amount of building go
ing on, and with h building of the
railroads in and about the city the town
has assumed the liyeliest aspect in
many years. Il dealers in farm Inn
plements say that according to the
amount they have sold this sipring the
acreage this year Will be at least
doubled e that Of n preceding
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
NO "EvELESS EDEN'
FOR YOUNG DU PON1
Son Of Millionaire Powder Mar.
u%facturer at Sioux Falls to
Secure a Divorce.
SEPARATED FOR YEARS
Owns Five Residences at WiIminoto,
but Wife Declines to Share Re,+
One, Which Is Termed an
"EveIess Eden"

Sioux Falls, S. D., June 2.-'This tan,
about my Eveless Eden and all that sor.
Of rot annoys me, and the public ourbt
not to be interested in it. It's not of
the public's concern if I did come here
to seek a divorce"
With this characteristic utterance All.
fred J. DUPONT, son and partner Of the
multi-millionaire powder manufactures
Of Wilmington, Del, who is the latest
acquisition to the Sioux Falls divorce
colony, entered upon a discussion of tha
report that he was here for the pur.
pose of obtaining a divorce.
I'm here for my health-not for q
divorce said he. Here I am AZ wears
old n I feel like an old man of IN
Lord knows, I've lived a whole lot in
my time, though. Some would have
had more gray hairs than I, had they
gone through what l have. I'm over 5s
in experience. I've been married TWEEN
ty years or more, but my wife and 7
haven't lived together for years-no
matter 10Y many years-the public
knows all about that
Had Notoriety Enough.
Town Topics has been making com
mentS on my 'EVelesS Eden and MI
that and I don't care for any more no.
toriety. This comment was called forth
by my purchase of a splendid residence
a year or SO ago. 1 have two or three
other residences, too, in one Of which
my wife n children reside. Yes, I
have children"
DUPONT is accompanied by j. W, Will
hanson, a New York stock broker.
whom umo also listed as a member
Of the divorce colony. DUPONT was
asked if Williamson also sought a d.
vorce.
II really don't know he responded
dryly. II hardly think SO, however. as
he's never been married yet"
DuPont's attention vas called to the
Cataract hotel as a resident Of Viii
mington, Del, but had subsequently
crossed out the word Wilmington" and
substituted Sioux Falls"
If you are here for your health and
not for a divorce" he vas asked, why
do you thus change your residence"
Keeping the Record Straight.
my residence is Sioux Falls n not!
Wilmington" he responded. II want
that distinctly understood. And it does
seem a bit strange that 1 would aban-
don my residence n business at Will
mington to move out here for my.
health, doesn't it? Well, the public is
bound to make it's own deductions and
It's welcome to them. There's no Sc
cret about my estrangement from my
wife. The newspapers printed a lot
about it. She was a New Haven girl.
l don't care to discuss that, though"
HAS she done anything recently to
precipitate divorce proceedings-coM-
mitted n offense?" he was asked.
None that I know Of" he replied. I
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
PRICE OF A HAIRCUT,
Circuit Court Fixes Value of a Sam.
sons Head

Sioux Falls. S. D., June GA jury j n
the state circuit court of Douglas
county, S. d., has fixed the sum Of
S2lo as the value of a head of hair
which was alleged to be Just like
SIMPSONS" in giving the wearer super
natural strength.
The plaintiff in the suit was an in
dividual named Hudson, an alleged
strong man. The defendants were
Messrs. OBrien, Nelson and Mckenzie.
The strong nan based his suit on the
ground that while the three defendants
were intoxicated they securely bound
MN and then by force cut off his lux
uriant growth of hair, which he alleged
was he source of his great strength.
The loss of his hair. while he was
engaged in travelling over the state Civ
ing exhibitions of his strength. he con-
tended, took from him his means of
support. He sought to recover dam
ages In the sum of several thousand
collars.
After considering the evidence, the
jury fixed the value of his hair at s215.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
STOCKMEN ORGANIZE.
Company With Capital Of 100000 /
Formed at Denver-commission
Houses to Be Established

Denver, Colo, May 30.-Prominent
%stocklnen from all over the west as
sembled at the Brown Palace hotel yes
terday and organized a commission
company, capitalized at 500, 900, the
shares having a par value of $40 each.
All holders of shares are to be stock
men and no one man will be allowed
A meeting will be held TO-DAY To az.
range details of the plan and to draw
up bylaws and get the scheme in such
shape that operations can begin as
soon as possible.
The Offices of the company will be
In Denver and commission houses viii
be established in live stock centers.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
is JOHN o. THE COMPANY?
P%;ttsburg Firm Securing Leases on
Lands in Watertown Oil District.

Watertown, S.. D., June 1.-The
fame of the C~odington county oil fields
aas reached the east and the Pitts
ourg Development company, of Pitts
purg, Pa, has sent a representative to
Watertown to secure leases on the oil
lands In this part Of the state. F. M.
Todd, the representative sent out by
the eastern company, makes the state
ment thai the president Of his COM
pany will be here in a few days and
that they mean business and have
come a long ways for it. Mr.. Doremus,
who owns the land where oil was first
discovered, is not saying anything, but
Is looking extremely happy. He has
refused $500 an acre for his farm.
Samples Of the petroleum that flows
from the side Of a hill has been sen to
experts in Chicago, but the results of
their analyses have not as yet been
made public.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
EASTERN CAPITAL INTERESTED,
Holy Terror and Egyptian Mining
Properties to Be Consolidated,

Rapid City, S. D., June A deal has
been closed by which the famous Holy
Terror min has been consolidated with
the Egyptian properties and the whole
will be operated by a strong company.
Charles Morgan, OF the Morgan Steam
snip is to be president of the
company; William Arthur Babson, sec
rotary, and a MIR. Clark, treasurer.
Both are of New York city. w. F.
Collins, of New York, who now has
charge of the Holy Terror mines, is
TO be general manager. The Holy Ter
ror mine Is the most famous mine in
southern Black Hills, and produced
nearly 1900, 600 in the 0 years it ran.
me Egyptian is a very large body of
low grade ore that is fairly well de-
yeloped. The properties are situated at
Keystone, this county,.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
SCOTLAND, SOUTH DAKOTA

"A London s%cientir1 says that life In a
metropolis makes young children sharp
but not clever; that il often destroys
their chance Of ever being clever, for
1t hastens the development of the brain
~unnaturally; it makes them superficial.
alert, but not observant. excitable, but
without M spark Of enthusiasm; they
are apt to grow blase. fickie. discon-
tented: they see more things than the
country bred child, but not such inter-
estlng things; they do not properly see
anything, for they have neither the
time nor capacity to get at h root OF
all the bewildering objects that crowd
themselves into their little lives.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
ARMOUR LOSES HEAVILY
More Than 100000 Worth Of Wheat
and Other Property
Burns,

Chicago, May 31.-Fire early yester-
FAY destroyed Armour & Co.'S elevator
L." standing along a slip extending
from the south branch of the river at
Fisk street. With the elevator were
destroyed 100000 bushels Of wheat,
corn and oats. -Four men employed in
the elevator were hurt, one fatally,
soon after the fire started, when a Sc
rles of explosions caused by ignition Of
the dust spread the flames throughout
the building. The loss is estimated
roughly at from 100000 to more than
81, ZOO, 900.
In addition fifteen cars filled yester-
day with grain We're on the tracks by
the elevator and these were destroyed.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
MUCH MORE TAXABLE LAND.
$4,000 Acres CT Government Land
Proved Up On in South Dakota,

Pierre, S.. D., June 4.-The state
auditors office has received reports
from all the land offices in the state
showing the new lands to be brought
under taxation this year through
claimants securing title from the gov
me by final proof. This brings
552, 900 acres more real estate under tax
alton in the state his year than for
last. The largest number Of proofs in
any one county was in Lyman, with
1852, Gregory showing an addition of
$50 tracts. Within the next year the
claims Which are being filed in Stan
ley county will be in the final proof list,
and that county will show a heavy gain
in real estate.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
STOP JAIL
officers AZ Fort Dodge Overheard PIo.
and Frustrated h.

Fort Dodge, Ia. June IA Jail deliy-
cry Of six criminals held in the Web
ster county Jail, located on the fourth
floor Of the court house. was narrowly
averted last night by the chief of police.
As one-legged man, evidently d crook.
was observed during the day talking 10
prisoners from the street below. Al
night n Officer hid III the stairw.,v
near him and heard q plan concoctea
by which prisoners We're to lower !
thread from the top story at midnight
and pull UP n bundle OF fine steel saws
and file their way out. The man was
arrested after an exciting fight aId8tha
tools fauld In his possession
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
SPRINGFIELD COMMENCEMENT.
Last Week of Present School Year a;
State Normal.

Springfield, S. d. June 4.-Commence-
nent week. at the Springfield normal be-
gan last night with a song recital. To-
night the model school will give an en-
tertainment and tomorrow night will
occur the graduating exercises of the
department of music; Sunday evening,
he bac~calaureate sermon by Rev. l.. A.
Mcdonald; Monday evening, senior
class plays, "Tlle School for Scandal"
my Aunt's Heiress;" Tuesday evening.
concert; Wednesday evening, gradu-
ating exercises of senior class, and adj
dress by DR.. Samuel Weir, of Dakota
Wesleyan university. Mitchell.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
GENERAL ENGLESBY
WINS At WASHINGTON
Wires That He Gets Everything
He Went After, and
more. Too"
WILL ATTEND MANEUVERS
Adjutant General Succeeds in Getting
Department to Order S. D. N. g.,
to Participate in Events
at Fort Riley.

WATERFOWL, S. D., June 4~.-Adjutant
General Charles H. Englesby tele-
graphs from Washington: Il have got
everything I came after for the South
Dakota National Guard, and more too.'
This will be good news to the SOL
der boys all over the state, for it means
that a full regiment will be taken to
Fort Riley, Kan, to participate in the
annual maneuvers of the regular army
and several thousand militiamen from
the surrounding states.
All expenses will be paid by the fed
eral government, so all the boys will
lose will be their time. They car we'll
afford to do that, for the maneuvers
will be on a very large >cale, h near
est to actual war that most of the boys
will ever get it is hoped.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07

Two categorical paintings by Paul w.
ronese have just been diacoveerd in Por-
tugal. belonging to the O'Neil family,
the descendants Of the celebrated
Scotch clan. These two paintings, la
Sagasse," companion Of Hercules
and Paul V%eronese," between l. Vice
ct la Vertu." are of the same kline as
four works belonging to the National
gallery. They were part Of the collec-
ton Of the Regent Philip of Orleans.
and had passed into the hands Of King
Gustave-Adolphe, who took them In
1881 from the duke Of Prague.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
v WEDDING TRIP.

Deadwood, s. D., June 2.-stanlev
Gonklin and Miss Mabel Sphinx. who
We're married here yesterday, will have
an unusual wedding trip and honaw.
moon. They will leave today for .
point in Montana, eighty miles north ~
spearfish. h trip will be made over
land with their own team and wagon
and UPON arriving at the prosperity
point it Is their intention to take IN
governmeat land and commences ,:fe
together in the Wilderness.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
A WRESTLE WITH DEATH.
Valley Springs Marshal Has Marrow.

Valley Springs Marshal Has Narrow
Escape in Arresting Drunken Man.
Sioux Falls, S. D., jun HI. A. Cad
well, marshal of Valley Springs, east Of
Sioux Falls, While attempting to arrest
a runken farm hand named Charles Pat
ten, had a narrow escape from instant
death. Patten resisted arrest and himself
and the marshall g%rappled. A violent
struggle resulted in the marshal getting on
top OF the farm hand, who whipped out a
knife and made several unsuccessful at
tempts to plunge it into the marshal's
back. Fortunately he was disarmed
before he was able to plunge the knife in
the officers body.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
GETTING READY FOR SHAW.
Preparations Making for Address Be.
fore Republican CIuhe

--- y FfSPUOFIIdTT VTQUS.
ments rapidly are being perfected for
the visit to Sioux Falls next week or
Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treas
ury, who on Monday evening in tn.
auditorium in this city, will deliver an
ADDRESS under the auspices Of the Re-
publican State League of South Da-
kota. At a meeting of the members of
the republican clubs of Sioux Falls :,
committee selected from each ward in
the city was appointed to complete ar
engagements for an escort to Secretary
Shaw upon the occasion of his visit,
BY Monday evening the delegates and
others who will attend the republican
state convention next Tuesday will
have arrived in the city, and it is like
ly that Secretary Shaw will speak to a
packed house.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07

The Heroic is the name of a new
steamship belonging to the Belfast
Steamship company. She will ply be-
tween Belfast and English ports. She
is an Irish built boat, an Irish firm hav-
ing designed and constructed her. Irish
capital being used to pay for her. and
h Is manned only by Irishmen. 1t is
the object Of her owners to foster Irish
tourist traffic, and also the Irish fish
produce business.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07

Bread n butter is the food for mus
cular work, according to an English
physician. The perfect diet for those
who are faddists is as eight
ounces of cooked meat, twenty-four
ounces Of bread. eight ounces Of pota-
toes, two ounces Of cheese, two ounces
of bacon, one ounce Of butter and half
q pint Of milk a day. Green fruits are
desirable additions to any diet.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07

The number of converts and monas-
ferries in Belgium, and especially at
Sruges, a increased with wonderful
rapidity. In 1916 there We're 779 such
institutions in the country with a men,
bership of $4,000 men and women In
1900 there were $500 institutions with
q membership Of $4,000. Practically
one-third of the buildings in Bruges be-
long to religious societies.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
NO ALlMoNY FOR MRS. BLAINE.
The Naughty Beauty" Will Not Ask
James G., Jr., for Pension

10y ~ StiSlOIs
Sioux Falls, S. D., June Mrs
james G.. Blaine, jr., does not expect
her husband to resist her suit for di-
Vorce, which she is preparing to file
her six months hence, and on the other
hand she will not ask him to paw her
aLnlony. Furthermore, Mrs. Blaine
said she will not seek to have his d.
vorce from his first wife declared void.
as mas been reported, but instead is
Interested in sustaining it's validity. as
otherwise she would not have been le-
gally married herself. She thinks she
mas ample grounds for divorce with
out resorting to t~echnicalities.
Mrs. Blaine has given the first inter-
view she has granted since her arrival
here a fortnight ago..
On her way here Mrs. Blaine an
bounced her intention to establish A.
legal residence in Sioux Falls for the
purpose Of obtaining a divorce. I'm
1nedlately upon her arrival she en-
ployed Peter j. Rogde as her attorney
and he told her that it would not do to
admit that she was here for the pur-
pose of getting a divorce, as she 1n11st
establish in court that she came here
as a bona fide resident.
Accordingly she was very chary
ABOUT discussing her plans, predicating
her statements on the theory hat she
had not decided whether to sue for
ulVorce or not. She says she has per-
manently left the parental roof of Ad-
miral Hitchborn at Washington. She
says she has been living there for al
most two years while separated from
MI. Blaine. She denies the story Of
her intimacy with the first Mrs. Blaine.
now the wife of DR.. w. T. Bull. Of
New York.
Mrs. Blaine was asked If she had
heard from her husband regarding the
divorce suit.
Il most certainly have not" she re-
piled. Furthermore, l dc not expect
to. We have had nothing to do With
each other for nearly two years. 1 do
not even know what he is doing. Be
sides, he would hardly communicate
with me. regarding a divorce when I
nave authorized no one to say l con
templated one.
However, 1 do not think he would
offer any defense should I decide to
bring proceedings after having resided
here ther requisite six months. I would
not think Of asking or accepting ALI
mony from him n do not. think he is
interested in preventing me from OBJ
tanning my freedom.
Il have no hesitancy in saying. how
ever, that I do not propose to attempt
to establish that his first wife's divorce
was void. That would render my mar
riage to him void. I was aware all
along that there was nc irregularity
about his first wife's divorce. have
gone through the papers and find that
he was not only notified, but actually
appeared and began TO resist it. He
subsequently withdrew his objection,
and the divorce was granted on the
ground of nonsupport.'
Mrs. Blaine declined to say what
grounds for divorce would be alleged
In her wv petition.
She has expensive apartments at the
Cataract hotel, where she declines to
associate with any one. Already she
is known here as ''the naughty
beauty"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07

ST. William Macgregor, governor OF
Newfoundland, is n of the most re-
markable men of the British colonial
service, both physically and intellec-
tually; and, indeed, his herculean
strength has contributed in no small
degree to impress the savages over
whom he has been called upon to rule
In he past with a sense Of power Of
b British emperor.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07

No business Is Sc well supplied with
trade journals as that of insurance,
there being seventy-five Of these week
depend largely on the advertising OF the
companies, n the withdrawal Of much
OF the patronage Of the three big lift
companies of New York as a result Of
the investigation Is causing them some
frO,1h1e
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07

E. Walter Maunder, +. r. A. s., stated
at a meeting Of the British Astronoml-
c association that there were no few
er than twelve instances last year when
groups Of spots were seen on the sun
with the naked eye. March II, this
year., was the first day on which he saw
the suns disc with anything approach
ing the display of sun spots seer in Oc-
tober and November last year. The
groups this time were not as compact
as the chief groups Of 1905, but they
extended over considerable areas.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07
EQUiPM INSUFFICIENT?
Department Claims S. D. N. G.. Cannot
Take Part in Army Maneuvers.

department. Claims >. o. N. q. CannCt
Take Part in Army Maneuvers.
Watertown, S. D., May 31--There has
been a hitch in the arrangements for 4
ing the South Dakota National Guard to
the regular army maneuvers at Fort
Riley, Kan, and Adjutant General En-
glesby, on notification from Governor Ell
rod has left for Washington, D. c., to
make an endeavor to get matters straight
ened out.
For some reason the department has
ruled that the militia of South Dakota is
not sufficiently equipped to take part in
the general maneuvers. General Engles-
by ilnows that the state troops are fully
equipped and ready to go, and he will if
possible find out just where the little coon
is hiding in the fence down at Washing
ton.