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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
To Get Back Fugitive from Justice
Surrenders Himself.

Standpoint. Idaho, Jan. 1S.-George
Hull, young man, gave himself up
today to Chief of Police Moran. He
told the officer he was wanted in Okla
homa City ON charge of horse steal
ing. Moran took Hull in charge and
wired to Oklahoma City that he was
under arrest. Officers there replied
they would get requisition papers and
came for him.
Hull told Officer Moran he was a
long way from home, without money
or friends, and wanted to go back.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
WOULD "sUB" FOR HER.
Husband Responds for Wife Summon
ed as Juror.

Denver, Jan. 18.-Mrs. Fidella New
man and Mrs. C. A. Wetzel were sum-
moned to jury duty in the district
court today because they appeared on
the rolls of property owners.
Il came to represent my wife. She
could not leave the children, SO if
you need a juror will take her place,
your honor" said the husband of Mrs.
Wetzel to Judge Palmer when his
wife's name was called.
Il could not bear the thought of
serving on a jury with IL men, your
honor" said Mrs. Newman. as she
looked about the courtroom. The
court sent both the woman juror and
the substitute home.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
HONOR cARNEelE's MOTHER.
[By Associated Press1

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 1S.-Provisions
have been made by the board of trus-
tees of the Carnegie institute for the
creation of a school of domestic
science and art for women, which will
be called the Margaret Carnegie
School for Women.
This name was chosen by the board
OF trustees as lasting mark of honor
to the mother of Andrew Carnegie.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
ASSETS EQUAL LIABILITIES.
Prominent Chicago Grain and Com
mission Concern Suspends.
[By Associated PressI

Chicago, JAN 18.-Announcement
was made this afternoon of the sus-
pension of the grain and commission
firm of McReynolds & Co., of this city,
one of the best known firms on the
board Of trade. The affairs of the
firm will be settled, and it will go out
of business. The statement is made,
however, that the creditors will be
paid in full and that the assets of the
firm are fully equal to the liabilities.
The house has been a large handler
of cash grain and controls two large
elevators in this city and one in ST.
Louis.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
CONSIDERING THE RECORD.
Believed that Decatur Will Follow
Coffin ct al.
[BY Associated Pressl

Washington, Jan. 1S.-The record of
the court martial in the case of Mid
shipman Steven Decatur, first class,
charged with hazing, was received at
the navy department today and is
under review by the judge advocate
general. This is the record of the
second trial in Decatur's case, and it is
believed he was sentenced to dis
miSSal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
TRIBUTE TO OLD SHIP.
IBv Associated Pressl

Washington, Jan. 18.-After paying
tribute to the frigate Constitution
and ordering an investigation to ascer-
tain the annual amount necessary to
preserve the ship, the house devoted
the day until 5:45 o'clock to the per-
fection and passage of bill providing
for the final disposition of the affairs
OF the five civilized tribes in Indian
Territory.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
THE CANADIAN WAY.
Effective Manner of Making Unpopu-
lar Illegal Combinations.

Toronto, Ont, Jan. 1S.-The govern
ment's prosecution of Toronto plumb
ers as individuals for combination in
restraint of trade and conspiracy has
resulted in 134 men pleading guilty.
Forty were yesterday fined total of
$10,600, the fines of the others being
suspended.
The combination, as a whole, was
fined $4,000 several weeks ago.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
USING REPREssIvE MEASURES.
German Government Undertakes to
Prevent Spread of Socialism.
[By Associated Press

by Associated Press1
Berlin, Jan. fS.-Severe precautions
have been taken to prevent the spread
OF the socialistic movement At Dres-
den and Leipsic all the meetings have
been forbidden by the police. The
commanding general of the First army
corps, it is learned from Koenigsburg,
has ordered the troops in all the gar
risons of east Prussia to be ready with
ammunition in case of riots.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
POSTMASTER AT ANACONDA.
[By Associated Pressl

Washington, Jan. 1S-The senate
in executive session today confirmed
the nomination of Henry T. Errett as
postmaster at Anaconda. Mont.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
STATE MASONIC HOME.
[By Associated Pressl

st. Paul, Jan. 1S.-Thomas Morris
of Crookston, Mimi, today was elected
grand master of the Masonic grand
lodge. A committee was appointed to
provide for the erection of state
Masonic home to cost $4,000.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
MONTANA WEATHER.

[By Associated Pressl
Washington. Jan. 1S.--Snow Friday
and Saturday.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1906-01-19
HIS ONLY REFUGE.

After Fifty Years Imprisonment.
[By Associated Pressl
Agram, Hungary, Jan. 18.-Ivan Pa
lencsuk, who is 103 year old, was re-
leased from prison today, after so
years confinement
He protested tearfully against his
release. but in vain. He Immediately
committed another crime in order to
be reimprisoned.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON
DENSED FORM.
The Fox Suit for Divorce-Husband
Probably Will not COntest-Wife IS
the Daughter of Ex-Gov. Andrew
Lee.

A Vermillion special says: The &C
ton of Mrs. Marion L. Fox, daughter
of ex-Gov. Andrew e. Lee, of this CITY,
who has instituted proceedings Tor
divorce from her husband on the
ground of non-support, attracts much
attention here. No other charge Is
named in her complaint save that Mr..
Fox has failed to provide for her.
The papers were served on Mr.. FOX
In Columbus, O., on Jan. 3, and he has
thirty days in which to file an answer.
Just what he will do is not known, but
It is the general belief that he will not
interfere in any way with the wires
plans. Both are very well known
around the state.
Marion L. Fox and Miss Jessamine
Lee We're married in this city on June
z, 1900, at the First Baptist church.
1t was a fashionable wedding, and the
fact that the brides father was then
governor of South Dakota gave the al
fair quite q good deal of prominence.
Added to this was the further fact that
the daughter of one of the wealthieSt
men in the state was joining hands
with one who had accumulated but
all appearances, however. the union
was to prove a very happy one indeed.
For a time the young people were no
doubt very happy, but the time came
when a barrier arose between them
which had but one ending-separation
by divorce.
Mr. Fox has apparently never been
much of a home man. The greater
part of his married life has been spent
away from his wife. What the duties
were that kept him away from home
no one here seems to know. In the
meantime the wife has continued to
reside with her parents.
During the fall Of 1904 Mr.. Fox was
a worker for the Mitchell campaign
committee in the fight for the capital.
He was stationed in the Black Hills,
and it was expected that his influence
would be felt there. In fact, ii was
through his efforts that the committee
relied to carry the Hills for Mitchell.
1t was apparent after the votes were
counted that a mistake had been
made. 1t was said that $4,000 was
handled by Mr.. Fox. Shortly after the
election Mr.. Fox returned to this city.
A little later he took his departure,
and has not been in Vermillion since.
1t is understood that for a year Mr..
Fox has been in the east trying to in
duce capitalists to invest their money
in the Holy Terror mine, near Dead
wood. One of the principal owners
of this mine is his father-in-law, A. T..
Lee.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
UNCLE SAM SKEPTICAL.
Won't Believe Missouri River in
Dakota is iCeIesS.

Daniel =. McCollum, weather observer
and official forecaster at GanktOn, is get
ting a touch of the strenuous life" in an
effort to convince the head of the United
States weather department in Washing
ton that it is not his fault that he has
not been sending in reports concerning
the thickness Of the ice on the channel
of the Missouri River at that point. This
requirement was imposed only last year,
and at this time McCOllum was sending
in reports of ice varying from two to
three feet in thickness.
This year the channel has not closed
and the weather observer, after q most
diligent search, found few inches on the
sloughs. and so reported to his depart
ment. 1t evidently thought it joke and
sent back word that the department de-
sired to know the thickness of the ice
covering the channel of the river. lnfor-
nation concerning lakes and ponds was
not wanted. In most polite letter Nc
Collum assured the department that his
first report was true one and it still
held good
Even the "oldest settlers" cannot re-
member when South Dakota enjoyed
such balmy winter weather.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
SENATE Is SHOCKED.
Tillman Makes Violent Attack on
Roosevelt

The recent forcible removal from
the White House at Washington of
Mrs. Minor Morris was made the sub
ject Of emphatic denunciation by Sen
ator Tillman in the senate Wednesday.
His remarks called out remonstrances
from Senator's Hale, Eopinks and Dan
lei. and led to the very abrupt closing
ment of the senate in the middle Of the
afternoon.
The speech abounded in Senator
Tillman's peculiar expressions and
was characterized by many and ex-
ceptional personal thrusts at the pres
ident and at times ne wept over what
he regarded as the indgnities to the
lady and his voice and eyes were full
of tears when he declared in the face
Of protests from his fellow senator's
that he would demand an investiga-
ton of the White House incident
The reference to the treatment of
Mrs Morris constituted the latter half
of a speech based upon the senator's
resolution making inquiry of the pres
ident concerning the status of our
relations with the republic OF Santo
Domingo, and was added to illustrate
his theory that the present admins
tration is tending towards imperial
ism.
In the first part Of the address he
characterized the course of the United
States in Santo Domingo as a great
extension of the Monroe doctrine and
said that If pursued the policy would
lead the country into many serious
complications. He accused the presi-
dent Of putting the treaty into exc
cution in the face OF the senate's re-
fusal to act, denounced the senate as
willing to submit subsequently to all
that is asked of it and implored sena-
tors to show their independence and
thus teach the executive a lesson and
at the same time serve the country.
With reference to the Morris occur
renee he declared that the president
had been derelict in failing to punish
his subordinates for their course, and
quoted statements from persons said
to have been witnesses to show that
the proceedings had been inhuman.
He informally presented and said that
he would Thursday formally present
q resolution for an investigation of the
entire incident.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
EXPLOSION CAUSES DISASTER IN
WEST VIRGINIA SHAFT.
Large Part of the Force Was Outside
at Lunch and Thus Escaped--Minc
Recently Examined and Pro-
nounccd Safe---No Hope for Miners.

a Charleston. w. Va, dispetch says:
Eighteen men are believed to have
been killed in terrific explosion
Thursday i'm one of the mines of the
Detroit and Kanawha Coal Company
at Detroit, on Paint Creek, this coun-
ty, twenty-five miles from here.
That more men were not in the mine
at the time of the accident was due
to the fact that almost all of the day
men men consisting Of miners, load
ers and drivers, were eating their din
ners on the outside, and thus escaped
the fate of their comrades. The ex-
plosion occurred at 1890 o'clock The
force of the explosion was so great
that tons OF wreckage and debris were
hurled from the mouth of the mine.
blocking the entrance and making the
work of rescue difficult
News OF the disaster quickly spread
to nearby mines and hundreds of men
We're soon at thescene, eager to join in
the effort TO rescue the entombed
miners if alive or recover their bodies
IL dead.
The ventilation fan was blown out
of position by the explosion and it was
not until o'clock I'm the afternoon
that 1t had been repaired and put back
in place. AS soon as it was set in mo-
tion a fairly good current OF air was
sent circulating through the entrance.
The first rescue party consisting of fif-
teen men entered the mine at $3.50
o'clock. The work of replacing the
fallen brattices and removing the de-
bris which obstructed their progress
was slow work.
The first body reached was that OF
G.. p. Neal which was discovered $50
yards from the entrance The
other men were working much further
back than Neal and he has no hope
of reaching them until late. Even
though the men survived the explo-
sion 1t is almost certain that they will
succumb to the deadly afterdamp.
Mothers wives and children of the
entombed miners crowd about the
mouth of the pit and declare they will
not leave until they know the fate OF
their loved ones.
The cause of the explosion is not
yet fully determined, but 1t is believed
that blast ignited the dust which ac-
cumulates in the mines.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
A YOUTHFUL DESPERATE.
Ike Davis, Of Spearfish, Out to BE Sec
ond Jesse james.

Ike Davis, of Spearfish, Out to BE Sec
ond Jesse James.
Prompted by the dime novels he had
read and by his ambition to become a
second Jesse James, young Ike Davis
of Spearfish, aged only %. has started
out to become a desperate. 1t is now
thought that he is the man who rob-
bed the Beulah postoffice of $3.50 dur
ing last month and succeeded in es-
Gaping with the booty.
His last escapade was the driving
off some four horses from a sheep
camp on the Belle Fourche belonging
to John Morton. The horses were val
liable and in a very short time their
loss was discovered and posse of men
organized to mt down the young
thief. Some miles from the place OF
the orime he was seen and a running
fight ensued, in which Davis was shot
in the left foot He succeeded, how
ever, in making good his escape for
the time being, and is now hidden
somewhere in the vicinity of the rifle
pits south of Beulah. The sheriff and
other officers are on his track and a
reward Of $3.50 has been offered for
his apprehension.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
DAKOTA PIONEER ENDS LIFE
Citizen of Dell Rapids Commits
Suicide in Hotel

Ferguson Tomson, of Dell Rapids,
pioneer of Minnehaha County committed
suicide in his room at the Clifford Hotel
in Sioux Falls Thursday morning by
drinking the contents of three bottles of
laudanum. He arrived in the city Mon
day. Before retiring Wednesday night
he had been drinking quite heavily. The
bottles of laudanum were purchased at
three different drug stores. One Of the
bottles contained an ounce of the poi
son and the other two half an ounce each.
He was discovered in an unconscious
condition at about Z 80 o'clock, and lived
until nearly noon. Financial embarrass-
ment is believed to have been the cause.
For some years he held the position Of
deputy register of deeds of Minnehaha
County.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
FIELD is DEAD.
Merchant Prince Succumbed i'm New
York Tuesday Afternoon.

Merchant Prince Succumbed i'm New
York Tuesday Afternoon.
A New York special says: Marshall
Field died at $3.50 o'clock Tuesday af-
ternoon. He was 20 years of age.
Marshall Field was without question
the greatest and most successful mer-
chant of his generation and he was
one of the worlds richest men, his
wealth being estimated at anywhere
from 100000, 600 to $500, 100000.
Mr.. Field was twice married, his
first wife having died several years
ago. Mrs. Field left two children, Eth
ell, now married and residing at Lea
mington, England, and Marshall
Field, Jr., who accidentally shot him
self at his home in this city Nov. %,
1905. and died five days later. Sept.
5, 1906, Mr.. Field was married in Lon
don, England, to Mrs. Cation, the wild
ow of Arthur Cation, of New York City.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
CREATES NEW DIOCESE.
Bishop Hare Provides Work for His
Assistant.


Rt Rev. w. H. Hare Of Sioux Falls,
the venerable Episcopal bishop Of
South Dakota, has issued an order d.
viding the diocese and placing Rt Rev.
Frederick Foote Johnson, the newly
appointed assistant bishop, in charge
of a part of the state, with authority
to perform all the duties of bishop in
the territory assigned to him.
That part of the state assigned to
Assistant Bishop Johnson is described
in the order as follows:
Beginning in the extreme northeast
ern corner of South Dakota and going
westward to the 102 meridian, then
south to the north bank of the White
River to the 101st meridian, then
north to the northern boundary of Ly-
man County, then east to the western
boundary of the Lower Brule reser-
walton, then north to its northern
boundary, then east to the western
boundary of Hyde County, then south
to the Missouri River, then along the
southern boundary to the northwest
ern corner of Miner County, then
south to the southern boundary of
Miner County, then east to the east
boundary of Lake County, then north
to its northern boundary line, then
east to the eastern boundary of South
Dakota, then north to the point of be-
ginning, namely, the northeastern
corner of South Dakota.
Bishop Hare will attend to the WISH
tations and duties of the unassigned
portion.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
TO BORE FOR OIL OR GAS.
Drilling Apparatus Installed at
Fort Pierre,

The citizens of Fort Pierre have decd
ed to attempt to secure oil or dry gas at
that town. The drilling rig which was
used in sinking the present we'll from
which they are securing a flow Of gas
along with the artesian water will be
used in sinking their deep well, and the
work will be done with power secured
from the gas in the present well. The
firm at work in that town is new one
in this state, having come in from the
Pennsylvania oil fields, and they met with
many difficulties in securing their first
well. but they have learned by expert
ence, and expect to make better progress
in the new well than they did in the old
one.
The new bore is to be sent down 1000
feet or more unless flow of oil or dry
gas is struck before that depth is
reached.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
POLYGAMY NOT DEAD.
Mormon Professor Makes Sensational
Charges.

A Salt Lake City, Utah, special says:
w. M. Wolfe. professor of theology in
Brigham Young College. Mormon
institution at Logan, Utah, has caused
stir in Mormon circles, according 10
Logan dispatch, by both renounc-
ing his belief in the Mormon faith, re-
fusing to pay tithes and severing ms
relations with the college. According
to Prof. Wolfe, as a newspaper quotes
him in an laterview, his change OK
faith was due to a trip to Mexico,
which satisfied him, he said, that the
Mormon church had receded from the
Woodruff manifesto and reinstated
polygamous marriages He found
many young women who had recently
entered into the plural marriage rela-
ton with leading elders of the Nor
mon church.
Prof. Wolfe is quoted as saying;
1.-THE Mormon settlements in Mexico
are closely in touch with those of Ari-
IONA and in each case polygamy Is
practiced as freely today as it ever
has been"
Prof. Wolfe is quoted as saying that
he sought an explanation of these con-
ditions of Apostle John Henry Smith
asking how these polygamous mar
riages could be reconciled with the
Woodruff manifesto, and he is report
ed as quoting Apostle Smith as fol-
lows:
why, Brother Wolfe, do you not
understand that the manifesto was
only trick devised to beat the devil
at his own gamer"
Prof. Wolfe is the son of a Presby-
terrain clergyman. After engaging in
the newspaper business he came to
Utah ten years ago and became con-
vert to Mormonism.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
DIE IN \ TUNNEL.
Four Men Lose Lives Under East Riv'
err, New York.

en- NC"
Two negro tunnel workers were kill
ed by suffocation and caisson disease,
two were DIR cvned and two others seri-
ously overcome ard a white foreman
and assistant suffered severely in res
cuing those who survived when COM
pressed air pipe burst in an East Riv-
err tunnel on Man-o'-War reef, oppo-
site Forty-second Street, New York,
early Tuesday.
The bodies of the two drowned men
still lie at the bottom of the shaft,
twenty feet below the river level
These men were overwhelmed by wa
ter that entered the shaft when the
pressure was removed. The other two
dead men were hoisted to the river
level with the bodies just in time to es-
cape drowning and death by the
bends as the dreaded caisson dis
ease is called.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
To Set South Dakota Right.

Gov. Elrod has received letter
from Secretary Wilson, of the agricul-
tural department in which he admits
the claims of the census department
in regard to crop statistics as being
better authority than that on which
the government report was based, and
stating thai the census figures will be
used from this time on. as the govern
ment figures, instead of those which
had been secured by the government.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
Death Probably Natural.

AT Philadelphia Coroner Jermon,
who is making an investigation into
the death of Mrs. Anita Morrow, also
known as the Countess de Battan-
court" who was found dead at her
home there under mysterious circum-
stances, said Thursday that he be.
iieved the remarkable old woman
came to her death through natural
causes
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
Seeks Rest in Canada.

L. w. Burlen, secretary and treasur
er of the Provident Securities and Saw
ms Company, of Boston, Mass, which
was closed by order of the courts, ar
rived at Montreal, Can, Tuesday night
and registered at one of the leading
hotels. Burlen said he came to Can
ada on the advice of an attorney in
search of. rest
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
Found Dead i'm Her Home.

Mrs. Anita Deb McCurrow, known
as the Countess de Battencourt, once
famous because of her claim to own
ership of vast estates in Spain and
Cuba OF the value of $32,000.000, died
at her home at Philadelphia, Pa, un-
der suspicious circumstances. Her son
John has been detained by the police
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
saloon and Pool Rooms CIosed

The Gid has been placed on tight by
the authorities Of the little town of Spen-
Ger, west of Sioux Falls, and MS result
there Is rejoicing in some quarters and
gnashing of teeth in others, AS a result
OF the action Of the council, the saloon
is closed and the two pool halls are being
operated solely for the sale of confec-
tionery and tobacco and as short order
lunch rooms
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
Catholic Church Burned

The Catholic churchof st. Onge, wall
ued at $4,000. burned to the ground
Tuesday night. 1t was built some fif-
teen years ago and was renovated and
repaired only a few months ago. In
surance was carried to the amount Of
$500 and about $500 worth of valua-
bles were saved
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-01-24
Echo of slocum Horror.

Capt William H. Van Schank, who
was in command of the steamer Gen.
eral Slocum when that vessel burned
in East River at New York in June,
1904, causing loss of more than I 1000
lives, was put on trial in the federal
court Tuesday. He is charged with
criminal negligence.