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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-02-02
question. Abolish the rebate and you
abolish the evil"

The marvellous proportions to
which the railway mail service has
are set forth in the annual re-
port of the superintendent of that
especial service for the fiscal year OF
1905. During that year there were
handled by railway postal clerks
10, 1852, sO2, ss9 pieces of all classes OF
mail, except registered matter. OF
this last-named class there were hand
led 39,OSl,s sos. Although this great
volume of business was distributed
over 376,5s4,O37 miles of railroad,
electric, cable and steamboat lines,
that percentage of mistakes made by
clerks was remarkably small, showing
the efficiency of the department to
have attained a high grade.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-02-02

Among the presidential appoint
ments this week, which were confirm
ed by the Senate, was that OF Edward
B. Kelly of Madison, L. Dakota who
is made agent for the Indians of the
Rosebud Agency.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-02-02

A spectacular fight for the enact
ment of a federal pure food law is
promised before this present session
is far gone. J. A. Y%erington, chair
man of the board of directors Of the
National Food Manufacturers asso-
citation, is in Washington and will
open headquarters. The fight will be
directed against the Hepburn bill,
which now is before the Senate. MI.
Yerington declares the measure is I'M
fair, and adds that the members of
his association, which represents a
combined capital of more than $780,
100000 and which extends through
out the entire country, desire legisla-
tion enacted by the present congress.
He says the association will ask that
the enforcement of any such law be
placed in the hands of the department
Of commerce andl abor, where it right
fully belongs, and not be left to the
department of agriculture, the work
of which is along theoretical and ex-
perimental lines.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-02-02
Special Correspondent Writes Of
Men and Measures Of Local
interest
COURTS INSTEAD OF COMMISSION
Urged in Senate to Effect Rail.
road Rate Reform
Captured National Board
Washington, Jan. %, 1906,


Representative Martini, of South
Dakota is bnsily engaged in striving
to have reported out of the house
committee on interstate commerce
his bill regulating corporations and
concerns engaged in interstate bust
ness. He expects to make an address
on his measure next week, and the
speech is looked forward to by mem
bers of congress. 1t was through Mr..
Martins activity that the beef trust
investigation vas begun, and the
bill he is Gathering contains his WE'LL
known views or the corporation ques-
tion, mellowed and ripened by his
later study of the subject and the dis
closures brought about by the work of
the department. of commerce and
labor in the beef cases.G
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
FIGHT OVER RECEIVERS
Chicago Bank Scandal in Courts Detracts
Attention from Chase for
Stensland

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 14.-Contempt
proceedings growing out of the receiver
ship complication of the Milwaukee
Avenue bank began before Judge Bren-
tano this afternoon. Following a confer
zee with Judge Bretano the attorney
for Receiver Fetzer prepared a petition
asking that at least one of the lawyers
and parties to yesterdays receivership
proceedings be punished for contempt Of
court.
Judge John Gibbons of the circuit
court yesterday appointed the Chicago
Title and Trust company receiver for
the bank, and today preparations were
made to GUST Receiver John G. Fetzer,
acting under authority of Judge Bren-
tano of the superior court. Besides this
complication there is still to be settled
the status of Receiver w. G. Niblack,
named by Referee in Bankruptcy East
man to collect the personal estate of
President Paul O. Stensland.
Another warrant against Henry w.
Herring, cashier, charging him with forg-
ing note for $4,000 in the name of
Marius S. Kirkeby was issued today.
Additional forgeries, amounting to $780,
600 and bringing the total of spurious
paper to $1,3OO,0OO, are reported by
Bank Examiner Jones.
Judge Bethea today issued a temporary
restraining order prohibiting all interest
ed parties from interfering with the as
sets of the Milwaukee Avenue Cooper
ative store, the majority of stock in
which is owned by President Stensland.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
LABOR SCORES A VICTORY
Milwaukee Road Defeated in Suit Z
Overthrow Scale District System
in Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Aug. 14-Ih
Illinois coal miners have just scored
victory of great Importance over IN
operators in controversy which, II
had been decided from the viewpoint "
the operators, would have meant W
humiliation of the scale districts an
the scheme followed for the last III
years in the solution of the wage gu"
ton. -
The victory comes through the t der
sion given by Judge E. K. NJ ME- !.
brough of Danville. The case was u =
augurated by the Milwaukee RAILWAY \, "
an effort to secure as low mining law
at it's Cherry mine as the North " esG'
railway has at it's mine at GlIleSp'
The court said:
The operators contend that because MINI IN
North Western railway is operating d. ~ IN
at Gillespie, in Macoupin county, az A.
price fixed for mining coal in the sc"is T A.
trict,' to which Macoupin county 10 10 m
tached, at less cost per ton than 1t cos S.ar Il
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul RAILWAY ~ y
produce coal at the Cherry mine, mp 1o'd dy
county, at the price paid in the sC ttncbqi
trict'' to which Bureau county Is a .t:tIo5
that the last named railway Is emit I,inp Il
have the price fixed at the Cherry , nIh
the same rate that is paid at the 0ii''''
mine. .;ob Al
Concerning only the basis on WnL sattJ
controversies in the past have Deen ''s end
and deciding the point only I from tbt
standpoint, am clearly Of the oplniivnup i
the position contended for by the u. INT az ID.
correct and that the price to be paiidd IN IN III
"scale district to which the niue -
tached
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
P0STOFFICES TO
CLEAN INSURANCE.
THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
WOULD FORBID MAILS TO UN-
LICENSED LIFE COMPANIES.

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 13.-The report
of the committee on insurance law of
the American Bar association to be sub
mitted to the convention of the associa-
ton which meets at st. Paul, August
29-31, was made public today by Ralph
w. Breckenridge of Omaha, chairman.
The conclusion is summed up in the fol-
lowing recommendations:
That the insurance commissioner be d1-
rected to draft and report to the next an
nual meeting Of the association bill that
companies and their policy holders but
which shall require deferred dividends ON
life policies to be biennially apportioned,
credited and certified to the holders of such
policies.
Want Laws Repealed.
The repeal of the so-called reciprocal or
retaliatory tax, laws.
The repeal Of the valued policy laws.
The creation in each state OF Office of
fire marshal.
Stricter Incorporation laws in the sew
eral states, with particular reference to
the capital stock and stockholders obli-
cations in insurance companies:
The enactment Of a federal statute for
bidding the use of the mails to persons,
associations, co-partnersh1p or corporations,
conducting any kind of insurance business
to transact such business by the states,
where such persons, associations, co-part-
nership or corporations are domiciled, or
under whose laws such corporations are
created.
The enactment of g federal statute pro-
viding for the supervision Of interstate
transactions in insurance
One Attacks Federal Control.
These recommendations are signed by
Ralph W. Breckenridge of Omaha,
chairman; Burton Smith of Atlanta,
Ga, and Rodney A. Mercur of Tono-
wanda, Pa. Of the other two members
of the committee, w. r. Vance of
Washington dissents from the recon-
mendation for government control on
constitutional grounds, and Alfred Hem
enway of Boston took no part in the
work of the convention.
Appended to the report is copy OF
the bill proposed for enactment by Con-
gress to establish in the department OF
commerce and labor a bureau of insur-
ance.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
BOSTON INDICTS ICEMEN.
Seventeen Individuals and Six Companies
Are Charged with Conspiracy to
Advance and Fix Prices.

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 14.-Secret in
dictments against seventeen ice dealers
and six ice companies, which were re-
turned by the Suffolk county grand jury
on Saturday last, have just been made
public in the superior cour
The ice dealers are charged with
having unlawfully conspired ito regu-
late. advance, and fix the price of ice
for public sale" and the ice companies
are charged as corporations with con-
spiracy. The dealers indicted include
President Lewis G. White of the Massa-
chusetts Ice Dealers association and
Secretary Charles W. Kallustram of the
association. The companies indicted are
the Boston. Independent, Union, Fresh
Pond, Cambridge, and Highland county
operative companies.
The dealers when arraigned pleaded
not guilty and were held in bonds of
$1,000 each
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
DEATH TO CURB
THE ANARCHIST.
Secretary Bonaparte Advocates Legal Elk
termination, Not Imprison-
ment.

CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 13.-The
anarchist, of all enemies of society, least
deserves mercy Or humane consideration.
At his full development he is hopelessly
beyond redemption, an irreconciiable foe
his disease the eradication of his breed
is impossible Yet he cannot be allowed
to thrive with safety to the community
What is to be done with him!
Death Sentence the Remedy.
This, in brief, is the view Charles J.
Bonaparte, secretary Of the navy, holds
of the anarchist, as he expressed it be-
fore the Chautaiqua here yesterday.
And this is what he would do with him:
Let death, uneqmvocally imposed by
ish m et Of every anarchist who seeks
directly or indirectly to take life. Let
the most rigorous imprisonment, solitary,
comfortless, and pitiless, with liberal
private application of the lash, be the
punishment of every anarchist guilty OF
offenses which cannot be punished with
death.
C1ap-Trap to Be Avoided.
Secretary Bonaparte does not advo-
cate this treatment as cure or panacea
for anarchsm. He does not believe such
q thing possible, nor the eradication of
the evil by any remedial legislation a
thing to be hoped for in this generation
or the next. He believes the source Of
anarchism too deeply interviewer in the
basic scheme of modern civilization to
be uprooted bodily.
What he does believe, and advocate,
is that in this country pseudo-humani-
tartan clap-trap should be disregarded
and anarchists treated as reptiles whose
determination must be the aim of the en-
tire community as a vital factor in it's
own preservation.
Secretary Bonaparte's conclusions on
anarchsm and it's remedy are the result
of deep study, prompted by the revela-
sassination of President Mckinley.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
BOUND TO KILL MAN.
Pittsburg Man Attacked on Street and
Later on Car-Doesn't Know
Two Assailants.

NEW YORK. Aug. 13.-While pas
senger on a trolley care proceeding along
the Bowery early today, Preston Macht-
ney, Il years old, stage carpenter of
Pittsburg. was cut and badly wounded
with d razor in the hand of q man who
made his escape. Machtney was accom-
panied by a woman who gave her name
as Mary Cook of Pittsburg. She tainted.
AS Machtney and the woman were
boarding the car at Rivington street a
man struck Machtney with stick and
knocked him down. Machtney picked
himself up and was assisted aboard the
car. Soon after another man jumped
aboard and rushed at Machtney with Il
razor and slashed Machtney twice with
the weapon, almost severing the jugular
vein.
After being revived Machtney told the
police he did not know the name of Ell
Their of his assailants.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
IS FROM WISCONSIN.
Mrs. Bina E. Verrault, Accused of Con.
Quoting Matrimonial Swindle in
New York, Born in 1ronton.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.--More com
plants against Mrs. Bina f. Vewaut
came into the office of United States
District Attorney Henry L. Stimson yes
terday. According to the story told byI
the woman's husband, George t. Vg.I
rault of 1914 Benson avenue, Benson
hurst, she is one of the chief figures hI
! syndicate of eight persons, working
men, who desired to get rich wives, do
| ing it from at least three houses in this
city in which Mrs. Verrault appeared IN
| der more names than one.
Mr.. Verrault said the syndicate was
composed of Mrs. Verrault; her friend
Mrs. James Pemberton Browne; anOth.
er woman relative of Mrs. Browne,
Gregory Allen, a young sculptor who
eight months ago, threw up his artistic
apprenticeship to Gutzon BOrghum, and
| four brothers of Mrs. Browne. The mat
rimonial bureau has been swstematicaly
worked for nearly year, Verrault says
Nerrault's acquaintance with tte
| woman, who, at various times, has gTI
en- herself out as widow-one at a time
| of Hamilton, Moulton. Montgomery
phia early in 1901: Verrault is an art
| list. The woman then was Bna r.
Brown, a widowed stenographer, in tte
employ of the Delaware Fire INSURANCE
company. Verrault married her in Feb
ruary. A week later, he says he was
compelled to. bail her out on a charge of
shoplifting. Her real name is Bha
Fjnnegan, he says, and she was born
| nearly forty years ago in Ironton, Wis
Verrault says several sporting men put
up money, which enabled the crowd To-
run their more or less regular business
Their business was worked entirely
through personal advertisements. 1nei
revenue was derived principally from a
rich widow swindle, which, according 10
Verrault, was worked on dozens OF
dupes.
Vetrault says one of Bina's broth
ers is a schoolmaster at Ironton, an
other an agent for the Rock Island rail-
road at Chicago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17

Then followed the story of how young
Stensland exposed his father to the bank
directors. of the closing Of the bank,
and of the run.
Cashier Herring was jailed Saturday
night in default of bail.
Vice President Gives Up.
Theodore Stensland, vice president Of
the Milwaukee Avenue State bank. ap-
peared in Judge Kersten's court this
afternoon. Inspector Shippy and two
detectives went to the home of Presi-
dent Stensland. at Irving Park, today
to seek further evidence against the
missing bank president. In the house
they found what they believe to be a
secret room but which was empty.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
WILL FLY TO NEW YORK.
Dr.. Julian Thomas to Make Trip from
New York so That America Will
Lead in BalIooning.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-In an at
tempt to make worlds record against
which competitors in the international
balloon races at Paris next month will
have to struggle DR.. Julian 2. Thomas
will take his balloon to Chicago and try
for a fight to New York. The date has
not been set. DR.. Thomas will initiate
his balloon with hydrogen, permitting
him to carry companion aeronaut and
an abundance of ballast and provisions.
Imitation of the great silk bulb will cost
$40, and the expense will make the
ascension one of the costliest ever made
in this country.
1T is my hope" said Dr. Thomas to-
day. ito see Americans outstrip the
French in their ballooning experiments
and hold the world records for success
full flights.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
RAILROADS OWN
THE ICE TRUST
Toledo Government Hearing DEVIL,
Sensation, Following Recent y
Convictions.

TOLEDO, O., Aug. 14.-Judson ~
ments. member of the interstate nv
merce commission, today began an
curry on behalf of the government ;n.
the relations between the railroads ~,
tering Toledo and ice companies Pom.
witnesses have been summoned.
Railroads Own Ice Plants,
Joseph A. Miller. manager Of tho r.
ledo Ice and Coal company, and one a
tne men sentenced to the workhousa "a,
titled that previous TO five years as
when he became manager of the ice rD s9
pany, he was purchasing agent for ia.
Ann Arbor railroad; but while an acer,
for the road ne had sold ice for ii,
company and was paid by the road en5
that Wellington K. Burt, president ~
the Ann Arbor, and Harry Ashley, geDS
al manager, We've directors Of the i,
company and that practically all IN
stock in the ice company was owned h,
the railroad people.
He further testified that the Office q,
the ice company is located ON Ann A.
Dor railroad property, but that no rp,
was paid. The 100 or 125 men SOM
each year by the ice company to cut E
were carried free by the Ann Ar6n
road until 1904, when a fiat rate Wa
charged. Miller testified that as man.
ager of the ice company he Travelled Owe
the road on annual pass.
Ed Schiller, manager of the Schulz
Ice company, with icehouses along III
line of the Ann Arbor road, testified h
company received no favors from h
road.
w. A. Bradley. superintendent of tI
Ann Arbor railroad and a stockhoder il
the Toledo Ice and Coal company, whg
asked how he could justify favors to ON
ice company and Withholding them from
another, frankly answered that such act
could not be justified.
Luther Walter, attorney for the com
mission, told those who testified for fin
government would be immune, but tn
corporations they represented would b
punished.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
FORCED TO JOIN RAID.
pulaianes Intimidate Farmers on Island
of Leyte to Garry on Their War
Against Americans.

MANILA, Aug. 14.-Gov. Ide re-
turned to Manila today after confer
ence at Tacloban, island of Leyte, Au-
gust T., with Maj.-Gen. Wood, Brig
Gen. Lee, Gov. De Veyra, fifteen presi-
dents and Col. Taylor of the constabu-
larry. The presidentes promised to sup
port the American authorities and to
furnish information leading to extermi-
nation of the Pulajanes.
The Pulaianes number is about 100 and
is being greatly increased by the leaders
forcing peaceful farmers to participate
in raids, threatening with death it they
refused. The recruits are armed with
bolos. The real Pulajanes do not trust
them with guns.
\ special term of court has been or
dered at Tacloban to try the prisoners;
1t is understood that the leaders Will
get the extreme penalty of the law, but
that the misguided natives will be dealt
with leniently.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
BRYAN TO SEE AUSTRIAN
Nebraskan to Sail Immediately N''
November Elections to Be Gons
for Ten Weeks.

PARIS, Aug. 14-William ). y, Di Nd
confirms the report from MelbouITIhae al
he intends to visit Australia. ~ ~ FL
he will start Immediately alIel 81,
November election, sailing 1rolff Nf
FRANCISCO and making q tour u IL vi Vi
Zealand as we'll as Australia nc ii
be gone ten weeks and travel alWlII aciidIs
itinerary is not yet definitely
upon. RrG
1t was expected that W. .. .oT III
would see President Fallaires toua' cobt
the foreign Office sent him mos nossosida
teous note saying that the 70 10 stl
regretted the fact that Mr.. Bryan ID
in Paris was so short that it qua NV rotptt
from Rambouillet in order to reeS'
such distinguished citizen. -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
TWO KILLED IN FLOOD.
Another Freshet Does Large Amount of
Damage in Texas on Southern
Pacifc's Path

HOUSTON. Tex, Aug. 13.-Another
flood swept down through the canyons
upon Langtry today. A gang of work
men were caught unawares and two are
known to have persisted. Nine bridges
of the Southern Pacific railway have
been swept away and twenty miles of
track is inundated. The sudden freshet
will rapidly subside as rain has ceased
to fall.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
SIMMONS NOT GOING.
Kenosha Man Unable to Attend G. A. R
Eneampment.

KENOSHA, Wis, Aug. 13.-[spe-
cial. Forty members of the Fred S.
Lowell post of the Grand Army of the
Republic Of this city left this morning
for Minneapolis to attend the national
encampment. The members of the Ke-
nosha post will be the guests of z. G.
Simmons. Mr.. Simmons will not be
will call him to Colorado. It is prob
able that the members of the Kenosha
post will carry his respects to Grand
Commander Tanner
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
BADGER AMONG INJURED.
T. 7. Frieburger of New London Not
Seriously Hurt, However, in Wreck
at Fort Scott Kan.

FORT SCOTT, Kan, Aug. 14.-[Spe-
cial. ii. j. Frieburger of London, Wis,
was among a dozen people injured IN a
wreck here today, when a St. Louis and
San Francisco freight engine ran into
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas fast pas
senger train No. &, northbound. at the
crossing of the two roads near this city.
His injuries are not serious. The pas
senger train was bound from Texas to
st. Louis and was six hours late. The
chair car was turned completely over but
the sleeper fell against telegraph pole
which prevented its falling to its side.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17

-Acetylene lighting is quietly gaining
favor, and the German Acetylene asso-
citation finds the gas is supplied the pub
lie by 70 places in Germany, 202 in the
United States, Is in the United Kingdom
and 10 in the British colonies, while Ger
many alone has 10000 private installa-
tons
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17
CHOLERA DEATH IN OHIO
Elyria Thrown Into Excitement Over Fa
tai Case of Dreaded Plague At
tempt to Hide It Fails.

ELYRIA, O., Aug. 13.-Elyria was
thrown into state of excitement today
by the announcement that the disease
which caused the death of John Starkle
last Friday was genuine Asatic cholera.
The body was buried Immediately, and
an effort made to keep the nature of the
disease q secret.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17

men in Paris are conducted strictly on
hygienic principles. Even the napkins
are not put into rings and allowed to
touch. but are put into marked pigeon
holes. and each laborer gets his own on
entering.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-17

Il opened the envelope and found two
sheets of paper. One was a list of notes
in fathers writing. The other was a
list of notes in Hering's writing. Faith
was not totaled. but it proved to be
some 100000 or 100000 less than
fathers. There were lots of names on
fathers that We're not on Hering's, and
| didn't understand then and don't now
the relation between the two lists
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
Ahsent-Minded Ministar

At the Chautauqua assembly a num-
Der of stories about Observation-Disclosures
were being told.
There was the story of the absent
minded doctor who handed his patient
a fee and took his prescription him
SELF the story of the professor. who,
coming home to dinner too early, and
seeing the table cleared. went back
upstairs again, muttering that he had
quite forgotten having dined; and
there were many other stories told.
BIT Bishop Vincent. among all these
anecdotes, carried of the palm with a
story about an absent-minded minister.
There was a minister" the bishop
said. who was so absent-minded that
he once lathered and shaved his retiec-
.tion in the mirror"