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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09
An Oak Tree Of 20 Ton. Transplansec

From the Boston Globe.
A large English oak on the Fafrhaven
estate Of II. II. Rogers, the Standard Oh
rnagnate, has been traasplanted. The
tranSplanting was done under the direction
OF James Garthley, gardener for Mr..
Rogers.
The tree r. - feet high. has a spread Of
45 feet, and the diameter OF the butt IL 2
feet 3 inches. The weight Is 20 tons.
Nearly fifty years ago the late Warren
DeIano. returning from England. brought
with hin some English acorns- Some OF
these were given TO o Sweeney, who
planted them In his yard.
One OF the resulting trees was trans
planted 10 the estate of Edmund Allen,
row owned by Mr.. Rogers- IL grew near
the west wall surrounding the grounds,
not far from the northwest corner.
A section OF the wall was removed dur
ing the recent change in order that the
roots could be taken cut intact. Deep ex-
cayation was not necessary as the roots
were found lying on solid ledge. These
were carefully wrapped In short hay. The
weight was raised I'm a manner similar TO
that adopted In moving buildings, and the
tree was kept in a perpendicular position
during its trip OF several rods.
The tree " now lscatsd in the center OF
the west laws in front OF the residence OF
AF. Rogers.
From 0tYser acoTns brought from Eng
By Mr.. DsIan0 there are SIX trees
growing in the Sweeney lot. south Of Cedar
and there are a few fn the DeIass
ssS AT Riverside cemetery.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09
MINING QUICKSILVER.
Method of DistiIiing the Moving Meta
From Solid Ore.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Quicksilver, tine familiar but always fas-
cinating mercury that rises and falls IN.
the Thermometer tube. has established a
postoffice and built q town IN oregon.
Black Butte Is the nam Of the town and
comes, Is a mountain Of mer-
curry. 1t is claimed by the owners
tina this mountain has the largest
exposed body OF quicksilver ore I'm the,
world. A vein go feet wide has been OPP
ened for more than a mile along the noun
tain and 10 a depth OF 1890 feet below the
crest. More than three miles OF tunnels.
raises, etc, nave been made. and every
where the rich cinnabar ores from which
quicksilver 10 taken appear In great guam
titles.
In the Oregon mining section at the
Lewis and Clark exposition the visitors
saw In operation a miniature quick
silver distflhng plant, modelled after the
one at Black Butte. The Ettle engine ran
all day and attracted much attention.
Near By was the condenser and under the
spout an iron bucket Of quicksilver, show
ing Just h3w the moving metal runs out
OF the condenser after being liberated
from the ore through n scientific process.
the process ordinarily Is called dIsgIIta-
ton. First the ore is crushed and then IL
IL dumped into furnaces, where X 10 roast
ed at the fierce heat Of LEO degrees Fan
renheft. When the ore reaches a temper
allure Of $50 degrees rhe quicksilver Segfns
"a PASS Of IN the form OF yapor. The nler-
curry yapor passes into large chambers
built OF wood or brick, called conGensers-
These are coated BY water jackets and
other devices. AMI In them the yapor soon
changes into metallic form. the Gutckailves
being preclDgtated In fine globuies on the
walls and floors. The gIobuIes collect and
run out In troughs. ready 20 be maYkeses--
Quicksilver is put up for shipping in
TASKS Of wroughs iron. weighing fourteer
pounds each and hold seyen.y-six and
one-haIf pounds Of the metal. The pres
ent market price OF quicksilver is about
fffy-three cents a pound = hoIesale.
Quicksilver 81 found In VEINS CT rocks.
like gold. oliver and other meals. sorne-
times the tiny xiobules Of the mercury
appear IN the fnterstfces OF the rock. but
usually IL Is found Ia the form, Of c~inrzbaT.
q chemical compound containing las per
cent. Of sulphur and ST. per cent mer-
curry. When pure and reduced 10 e powd-
er II n Z bright red color.
The PRINCIPAL uses Of e~ufchn1tyer are SSr
~yo1novfng free Gu1d ana SILVER IN p1acov ana
Quarts mAnang, ~ MISUNDERSTANDING yop1usI-
uou paints en1 1yUa ~ bGG1dg -
rsss. Tor rattng thesm6nnotsyU - unav
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09
What Is the Northwest Passaae7

This northwest passage may b.
briefly explained. Tire long coasts OF
the mainland are not cloggedj like those
on many other polar shores. with Ice
bergs or glaciers or thick sea Zee. The
coast is low, the tundra behind II IL
only a little higher than the sea, and
conditions are not favorable for the
formation and flow of glaciers. Ice
bergs, therefore, are not found, be-
cause I'm the Arctic they are merely
the broken-of ends Of glaciers.
But from thirty TO forty miles north
Of Point Barrow. the most northern
point Of the continent, stretches the
great barrier Of sea ice, with hum
mocks and ridges thrust. by pressure.
from twenty TO fifty feet above the gem
eral level, so that when McClure's In-
yeatigator got into the heavy foe the
ice sometimes rose around her as high
as the yardarma. Az No islands inter-
vehe for hundreds Of miles east Of Ber-
Ing sea 10 protect the coast from the
polar pack. why is IL that this heavy
ice is not forced down upon the shores2
1t IS because the coastal waters are
comparatively shallow and the sea ice
grounds ull.ag away and farthg east
the coasts OF the mainland Are pro-
tected from the sea Ice, not only by
shallow water, but also by the islands
ANAGk EALEItA AAtANtS9k &"t4AAfAtAA11NAI ~
Banka Land TO the Atlantic end Of HUI
son Strait.
So the ice along the coast Is OF the
winters formation, and I'm summer II
disappears entirely or is SO narrowed
by melting as 10 leave channels of
greater or less width that are navig-
able for two or three months. The fact
Is. rs Lieutenant Wheeler, Of u rev
enue cutter service recently said. this
northwest passage has been made time
and time again by the overlapping OF
the tracks of vessels between the At
lantic and the Pacific. San Francisco
whaIers have already pushed far east
ward beyond the Mackenzie delta and
the mouth of the Coppermine river.
ColIinson, during the Franklin Search
took his vessel eastward through these
channels almost to the very waters
from which the Gtoa started last sum-
mer, and a short sledge journey farther.
east brought him within sight of King
William Land. but he little dreamed
that the bodies OF many OF the mem
he was seeking were scattered along its
shores
In time this route may be OF some Inn
p~ortance. Mineral have been
found along the northern edge OF Cam
ada, and some day they Will be de-
veloped. This water route IL by no
means Ideal, but. TO soT1e extent, ii wifi
facilitate the operations OF miners and
yhalers.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09

why, Paul, 1t smiles, it lives. il
breathes. 1t has a soul! You must
come with me and see Ii.
We soon reached his house and be-
gan 10 climb the stairs TO his apart
ments, which were on the nth floor.
Suddenly ne stopped and listened,
with a look OF anxiety on his face.
Il an hear mother. What can she
be doing here so late? I have asked
her never to so into the studio. and i
can hear She is there
lie opened the door to the studio. II
was dark, and we heard n noise Of
something heavy falling. followed by a
piercing cry. / pushed a button and
turned on the electric light.
There was Miroi. pale as a corpse,
leaning against the wall and in the
center OF the room stood his old moth
cr, trembling over her whole body, and
in front Of her a confused mass OF soft
clay and wet rags.
Hearing her son corning up the stairs
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09
The Great Family Fortunes of America.

The great fortunes that have sprung
up SO amazingly in this country during
recent decades today, in the opinion of
many serious thinkers, constitute a
menace to our national elI-being, says
Cleveland Moffett. in writing OF The
Shameful Misuse Of Wealth" in Sue
cess magazine. Without these great
fortunes there would be no reign OF
luxury in America. no Haunting of
feasts and foIlies. no riot OF e~xtraya-
gance: with them we may expect all
the evils that have I'm previous ctviliza-
tions attended upon enormous riches.
And many of these evils, as we have
already seen. are actually with US.
II IS admitted that we are the richest
people In the world today-the richest
people the world has ever seen The
yaunted wealth of Croesus Is estimated
at only IS 200. 900, but there are seventy
American estates that average 5000
600 each. AS showing the rapid growth
Of individual fortunes In this country
there f. interest IN a list Of rich men
printed in 1855, according TO which
New York City at that time boosted
only twenty-eight rnillionatres. And a
pamphlet ONE years earlier says that
in 1916 Philadelphia could he only
ten estates valued at a million o. more.
kDC TIEftESh EAA AAA4- VI 'N~RA4Nt
Girard, which reached s~7,008.000. In
contrast 10 which In 1892 there were
over 900 m~fiiionaires in PaiiadcInhEa.
As To New York City. the number Of
IT'S m~fliionalres, according TO best I'm
formation. Is oyer 1000. while the mum
Der Of mfEIionaires in the United States
il at Least 5000. or half the total urn
Der la the world. There IL ore family
alone. ar the head OF which stands the
richest and most powerful man In the
world John ID Rockefeller. and the
wealth ofsthis family is estimated at a
thousand nFiIlion dollars. a sum 30 huge
that the human mind quite fails "a.
grasp IL, a sum so huge that IL at the
birth Of Christ Mr.. Rockefeller had be-
gun making a dollar a rnEuute and had
let all these dollars accumulate day
ind night for all these centuries, he
EouId not yer. In 1906. Ia arnassed
a thousand million dollars. And II Mr..
Rockefeller should today turn hts
wealth into gold coin and take II out
81 the country, say into Canada, he
would carry across the border three
times as much gold as would then re-
main In the United States. Nor would
carry II himself. for the weight Of
Il would be 1.766 tops- And II ne Ioad-
"a q q The backa ~ porters. zach Wan
beax1ne hta own we1ghk IN soma gpo6
(0y - Deun6S9s u wUu11 yoQu1go
eyooo - - nove ~ AnA - t1ov
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09
Modern snoe Dressings.

From the e York Suns
Time was. said a manufacturer OF sho
dressings when everybody wore black
shoes. and the isataer commonly worn was
calfskin. In those days shoe backing
was to most people Just she backing. a
paste BLACK ing put up in a round fat tin
box
We did import from France a paste
backing tn It came in obEong square wood
en- boxes. and from England a liquid polish
that came In wtde-nouthed stone bottles:
but the great majority OF people when they
wanted shoe bIacking Just bought a box
Of the backing of the size they wanted.
and that was all there was TO IT: though
even in those days, there was an art In the
manufacture OF shoe backing, and some
manufacturer turned out a product that
came 10 be well and widely known.
Still shoe backing was then 10 most
people just shoe backing: while today
there are plenty of people who never saw
one of those once universally familiar
old time fiat round tin boxes, and shoe
dressings are now made In great variety
and put up in many forms, and the manu-
facture Of shoe dressings has progressed
from an art TO a science, In which the
chemist plays his daily part.
These great changes IN the business
AVE- been brought about mainly by the
t1tCfLGEu 4l~LEDN4Ct1Ou lfEtO general l&E. Toe
shoes, OF many different kinds OF leather.
and Of Feathers OF different ccIors and
shades Of color. and by the widespread use
OF canvas shoes, these including great
numbers OF white shoes. calling for whits
dressings.
so while nee the manufactured OF
backing simply confirmed to make
biackiag, With such improvements in
les composition rs experience suggested.
now th@ manufactured OF shoe dressings
Keeps track 81 the leather markets Of all
the new feathers and other materials put
out for use In shoes. and he rnuat know 10.
extent these are likely To prove popu-
lar. and be prepared with dressings sutc-
able for them Shen the shoes come on
the market.
The Eemis comes IN here In tire cora-
pounding OK a dressing that shall not Only
be suitable but adyantageously adapted
to the leather upon which II IS TO be used
And so we now have dressings IN the
form OF powders and of cakes ard ne
c!eaners and dyes. as well az many
liquid and paste dressings And while
formerly the sale Of the baackings prU-
ducsd here was practically condned TO this
country. American shoe dresstngx now
follow American shoes al over the woyid--
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09

Its looms was heard In the manufacturing
centers OF both hemispheres. 1t had fac
tories In England. ireland and Scotland,
in France, Italy, Spain. Germany, Austria
and Russia. in China, Japan. India ms
Australia. The great department stores
of the east controlled the trade on the
Atlantic coast. Marshall Field a. Co. had
the great expanse west and south OF Chi
cago as far as the Pacific.
Could Take a Joke.
Mr.. Field had an Instructive capacity for
estimating the ability OF his assistants,
he also Ia a human side in his relations
with them. The story is told OF a small
boy in his employ who once dared 10 ask
Mr.. Field for a raise in salary. You're no
bigger than a pint Of cider" said the ner-
chant grufhy. Then. as the boy kept
silent, Mr.. Field said:
How much are you getting now?'
Three dollars q week exclaimed tht
''Three dollars a week. exclaimed Field.
Why, when was your age only got
"weII.' spoke up the lad in desperation,
perhaps you weren't worth any more"
The reply amused the merchant million
aire and the boy got his advance.
Worth S~75Q,o0o,coo.
Entirely outside his enormous ~drygocds
business Marshall Field was estimated to
be worth Sl50.O0d0,OO0 lie was assessed at
SJ0,O09,004 on real estate alone in Chicago
and New York, and paid taxes on a $1,000
Coo personality assessment without suggest
ing that the figures were too high.
MIR Fields seventy years had turned his
hair and mustache 10 a silvery white. He
was 4 singuiariy distinguished looking
man and a man whose diguiled presence
inspired respect IN other persons. His
first wife was Miss Mamie Scott of IRON
ton. Ohio. After her death at Nice,
France, IN 1896, Mr.. Field was repeatedly
reported 70 be engaged to tho widow Of
Genera. Phil Sheridan. This SIR. Fled
denied and on September Of last year he
married Mrs. Arthur eaton, u wealthy
Enellshw0man.
Marshall Field, 5r., died IN Mercy hos
pital, Chicago, on November Il, 1905. from
a seif-infiiGted pistol wound, which his
family declared to nav been accidental.
and left three children. Marshall Field
Ill, aged 10; Henry, 3; and GWcndoIin. q
The elder Field has enc other child, Mrs.
Erhe. Beatty VINO was divorced from a
weakly Engllshman Tamed Arthur Tree,
and later married q British army captain.
a prominent ChlcagOan once said that
Chicago would never know what Marshall
Field had been 10 II until after he was
dead. In all his giving he wgs u~uostenta-
tious, and il Is more h likely that his
greatest benetaCtiOns have never been
told He made many gifts Of land to Chi
cag0 university, including Marshall
Field" the university athletic grounds
He offered Chicago 100000 with which
10 build and cndOW a permanent home for
the Field Columbian Museum Of Art. He
was a member Of the Presbyterian church
and a democrat in politics, having been q
favorite candidate against his wilD for
the Vice presidential nomination at ST.
Louis IN 1904.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09
F%EATHERED cANNieALs.
sea Gulls That Eat Sparrows in o
London Park.
From the London Mall.

From the London Mall.
In the highest point OF the island IT.
The lake Of ST. James park two large
gulls stood the other afternoon looking
Town with n kind OF scornful, notion
iess dignity on the smaller members of
their tribe wading at the water edge
Or Swimming 10 and fro on the wing.
The two gulls were said TO be those
who have taken TO eating sparrows and
who now regard their CO .npanions seek
ing a fishy diet with something like
contempt. The Westminster Gazette"
told the story OF how the wv gulls were
first seen at their deadly work with
the sparrows.
IL was on Bank Holiday when clus-
ters Of sparrows were everywhere I'M
st. James park seeking the crumbs
which fell from the holiday makers.
The two gulls watched a group of tiny
brown birds for some time. and then
the larger bird, presumably the male,
dashed no fewer than Ave consecutive
times into the struggling and absorbed
cluster Of sparrows, emerging each
time with a live bird in his beak. He
shook his prey rs q terrier shakes a.
rat, and then swallowed the sparrows,
feathers ana all. Twice, however. his
mate INTERVIEWED, and took the sparrow
from him for her " consumption.
The following day, when the major
lily OF the fifty or sixty gulls in the.
park were engaged in looking for food
in the lake or screaming their appre-
citation of the stormy weather. h two
big gulls stood silent and detached, oc-
%casionaily turning a thoughtful and
melancholy eye TO the bank, presuTn-
ably the scene Of the tragedy Of Bank
Holiday. More spaTrows were gathered
there.
A keeper could not understand the af-
fair. IT. he said. they've really
swallowed sparrows and got a taste for
poultry they'll probably give up fish
altogether. and the next thing viii be
these two big gulls will be trying to
swallow the little ones. The two or
them have been watching the other
gulls pretty keenly all the morning. |
don't like the looks OF them at ALL"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09

but none OF you have mentioned
what l admire mere than anything else
in Jean Mirol," said Chatray, after all
of US had sung the praises of the sculp-
tor; his heart Of the purest gold. All
that you have told about his heroic
struggle with hardships and poverty to
make 2 name for himself proves his
extraordinary energy and grit. But /
know from the time when his strug-
giles were over an Incident which proves
that fame and praise have not spoiled
his great, loving heart"
| had written several articles which
had interested him greatly, and as we
lived in the same part OF Paris he often
dropped in evenings for n quiet chat
Often / then went with him To his stu
do, and here we then talked about his
art till long after midnight.
This studio was In the rear OF his
apartments, where he lived with his old
mother, who was blind, and who
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09

Take this consular bill which IN now
pending. When IL was introduced IL
contained a series OF provisions under
which the c~0nsuIates were to be graded.
The original appointments made were
to be only TO the lower grades, and the
upper grades were to be filed by pro-
motions. 10 that we would catch fell
young while they still had some
motive power left In them. These pro-
visions rave been stricken out and the
bin reported without them. STILL the
bBl makes a great advance over n
present system II grades the CONSUL
ates and provides for the abolition Of
fees, and IL provides against the em-
ploynent OF any clerks, except those
or the very lowest grades, who are NOS
American citizens. provides against
what | think Is a very great abuse.
namely the fact that a great number of
American c0nsulates are run By clerks
OF country In which they are sif-
uafed.~.
The approaching end Of the active
work d The reciprocity bureau VA
sounded In Mr. Roots statement about
the expense for IN m-ainfeuance- Ehe
salaries A clerks IN IL burean ars
cafrje4 On ~ a~nnegGe0cy MI - ~
XME0 I&0tt 44@ AZ
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09
chariea va. skenticaL.

Nfkoia Tesla, the. noted electrician and
Inyentcr. was showing a group Of young
iadies over kls magnificent laboratory.
In froEs Of an ordinary reading light he
paused and aid
when this type OK light came out 7 had
I'm my employ q u ran called Charles.
Charles the first time he saw one Of
these lights burning said TO me.
sSure. Mr.. Tesla, and what's that.
That, sid !. 10 electricity. Charjes'
.He 1rOwned end shock his head-
Very gopd.' h Rtd- sVesy GooA. BIT
IN ~ hsnge6 n I oonss &hSnk 4 takso
DosO 49, essstS1etey ~ Da1Es ~ 1aaryen
buFn - ~ bsee3as~ y
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09

walked ten feet apart the line OF them
would reach forty-four miles and
would occupy fifteen hours IN passing
a given point. None OF which takes n
account OF the daily interest on this
fortune, which interest If paid I'm gold.
would require the strength OF seven
men to carry IL, for IL would weigh a
thousand pounds. Such are the riches
Of a single family.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-09

es Sas.s:s' e css.s ssss.. !; "a s;., I'D
century.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-22
DEATH OF JUDGE klNNE.

Des Moines Capitalize people of
Iowa will be shocked to learn of the
sudden death of Judge l.. G. Kline
member of the state board of control.
1t was understood that he was in poor
health, but none We're prepared for his
sudden passing away.
Judge Kline achieved a high and
honorable place in the affairs Of the
state because he had abilities which
We're bound to receive recognition. In
politics he was identified with the
minority. He was twice the nominee
of his party for governor and once it's
candidate for United States senator
Years ago he made an excellent rec
ord as district judge, and in the tri-
umph which came to his party with
the election of Horace Boies to the
waited to the supreme bench, where he
made a splendid record.
Upon the organizing of the state
board Of control Judge Kline was
mai lie the democratic member and held
the position until his death. In this
position he discharged his official
duties with fidelity. He took a deep
interest in the affairs of the several
state institutions and had thorough
knowledge of their needs. His place
on the board will not be easily filed.
Every young lawyer in Iowa felt an
interest in Judge Kline. In his work
on Pleading and Practice Judge
Kline solved many an intricate prob
lem for the young practitioner and led
him through the devious and uncer-
tain pathway of one of the most inn
portant departments Of professional
work.
AS lawyer. public servant and citi-
zen Judge Kline made an enviable
record. and thousands of people in
Iowa will sincerely deplore his death.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-22
RAILROAD NOTES.

w. Fl. Given, superintendent Of the
Des Moines Valley division of the
Rock Island, and A. w. Eberhart,
freight agent of the Iowa lines of the
Rock Island, passed through the city
yesterday afternoon in private car No.
1919, attached to passenger train No.
202, enroute to Keokuk. They re-
turned to Des Moines on Rock Island
Mo- 201 this morning.
Harvey Schamp, of Des Moines, for.
merly a resident of this city, who has
been stenographer for Superintendent
w. Fl. Given, Of the Des Moines Val
ley division Of the Rock Island, has
been transferred to Trenton where he
has accepted a similar position under
Superintendent w. N. Wilmington, of
the Missouri division. The many
friends of Mr.. Schamp in this city will
be glad to learn Of his success in Sc
curing such a promotion
T. w. Pixley, assistant timekeeper
at the local Burlington offices, re.
turned to his work today, after having
been on the sick list for the last week,