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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-30
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Gen. ColochtkapofI, ex-governor Of
Relisabethpol, wcs mortally wounded
It Tifis. The assassin escaped.
The French senate by IA to 96
votes decided In favor Of transferring
the ashes Of Emile Zola to the Pan
theon.
The sale Of all French newspapers
containing lottery advertisements has
teen prohibited in Belgium under the
anti-lottery law.
BY ! viva voce vote and without q
word Cf debate the French chamber
of deputies voted to increase the depu-
nes' salaries from $1,000 to $4,000 q
rear.
ca Jan. branch Of the Deutsch-
Dud-Amerikanische Of Berlin will be
astablished IN Mexico City. The bank
Wil1 have ! paid-up capital Of 10000 1000
Louise Moncheur. the fourteen-year-
Ola daughter Of Baron Moncheur, the
Belgian minister, and Baroness Mon
cheur, died of pneumonia and typhoid
1eveg.
The presence IN Rome Of Don Car.
~, The Spanish pretender. is declared
eo be connected with the present situ.
at1on Il Spain and the revival Of the
Carliat movement.
The Berlin press announces that the
onperor has rendered the portfolio Of
sinister Of agriculture to Won Arnim
Criewer, who Is It present president
u the German Agricultural society.
Marshal law has been proclaimed IN
~ province Of Kuban, In the Cauca
90, ~ IN imperial ukase. This stel
y taken IN consequence Of the agita
don among the Cossacks IN this prov
Criminal.
lan Zandberx. ! revolutionist 70
whom the police have long bee
searching. was arrested at Riga.
Louis Busse, the Butler county vii
/ murderer, must hang Dec. a. The 81
preme court has afhrmed the decisio
= the lower court s1
John q. Taylor was convicted IN th
district court of Cascade county, MOI
I eana of manalaughter for killing an =
q oociate. The jury was out twenty-si
hours.
1rrs. Abbie Ross Of Kokomo. Ind
Sonfessed to burning her house for Il
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-30
Otherwise.

Otherwise.
BY q mix-up in the new Mississippi
code the state will have to observe
two Thanksgiving days this year.
Two new cases of yellow fever de-
veloped In Havana, which makes sew
en- cases now in the city and three In
the interior of the island.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway has granted an increase in
wages Of 4 cents an hour to switchmen
and yardmen on the entire system.
The manufacturers committee at
Fall River, Mass, has granted an In
crease Of per cent In wages to the
cotton mill operatives Of this city.
The Norfolk & Western railway
beginning Dec /, will grnt an in
crease OF 10 per cent In wages to all
employees now receiving less than 5000
per month.
From Norway to Minneapolis with
out friends or guardian was the task
accomplished by Oscar William Ander-
son. lad Of nine years, who will live
with his aunt. :.
The New York Bowling association
has formally withdrawn from the
American Bowling congress and de
cided to join the newly organized Ma
tional Bowling association.
The will OF Mrs. varina Jefferson
Davis, wife Of the president Of the
Confederate states, leaves to Mrs. Da-
Wis daughter. Mrs. Margaret Howell
| Davis Hayes, practically all Of the 81.
tate.
The Hawaiian Planters association
is planning to manufacture denatured
| alcohol from the 100000 gallons OF
molasses produced annually, and for
this purpose will erect Z distillery al
Pearl Harbor.
United States District Attorney
Sims Of Chicago announced that thu
failure Of the Chicago National bank
which occurred last year. will be in
vestigated by special federal grant
Jury which will be called early mex
month.
Nearly all the large coal companie!
In the Wyoming region have issued or
ders that hereafter all the collierie.
, are to be operated six days week. L
Il believed that this means steady
} work for the miners until the latter
part Of next March.
Il Justice Stafford of Washington mad,
the formal order of nolle PROSE- gu
!. in the case of Former State Senato
George F. Green Of Binghamton, N
r., charged with bribery and corspira
cy In connection with the postoffic,
irregularities of 1903.
il An international concert of actio1
Tor the suppression Of anarchists ha
been suggested again as result of tn
explosion of bombs in the church Q
81. Peters and the palace Of the kin
| of italy In Rome.
The constitutional convention Of tn
; new state of Oklahoma was petitione
~ the annual convention OF the Ant
Saloon League Of America to insert
prohibition plank In the constitution
! The Kentucky state Democratic q
ccutive connitteo canvassed the :
tnrns Of the 1tats primary electia
and declared 0ev. J. CIV. Beckha
neenlnee Tor Unitsl State senator.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

whisky, and so it came about that
then and during the remainder of the
month Of April Betsy sold nine bar
rels Of the stuff, some of II in Polk
county, some in Rutherford, and some
over the line in South Carolina. But,
although she kept in touch with her
business all the while, she showed up
at the term of Polk county superior
court the second week in May, es-
corted always by party of her moon
sinner friends. She wore a different
dress and a different hat on each of
three days, this being the most i'm
pOrtant event in her existence to date.
Got Cases Continued.
There were three indictments
against her, but she contrived, on one
plea or another, and by means of ire
mendous lot Of swearing by moon
sinner friends, to get the case COntin-
ued, always putting up a cash bond for
appearance. She thus invested $500
Then the attention of the Judge was
directed more particularly toward her,
and ne found the extent Of her work
and The damage she was doing in parts
Of two states, in her open violations
Of the law, She must have felt in
the very air that something was wrong
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

Y u, as one could find in that wild
9alsfy even in a full days ride, and
s40 ~ as pretty as she is adroit and
saalug' with a killing pair of eyes,
S'snt and well-filled cheeks and hair
.a'ca deheS conventionalities, Betsy
$ cat no little figure in Polk county
s.nss she was Is, for even at that early
- she began her work as a seller of
SulsDand whisky. She made herself
saea a figure, in fact, that even the
9sr moonshiners began to look up
y vi ana in their rude way to idolize
!. n p!oeky girl, who had been bred
-, leF life to think the selling of
=. ,sAy was an act of the very best
-. 7 sac that the ''revnooers" were a
.aes Of people who deserved only
s .aa and who were sent out as op-
i.s s,Os OF the people. Such is the
s !, 2. which, Is literally the backbone
s. 0Sys point of view. and that OF
hOOnshiner companions, who
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

sprang upon the jailer, who had bad
quarter of IN hour, for not only was
Betsy a good wrestler, but star hair
pulle' and scratcher. Not satisfied
with these accomplishments, she
whipped out a knife and cut the jailer
five times. He was compelled to
knock her down and then to tie her
burning a hoe therein, through which
The matter was at once reported to
the judge, who ordered that she be
placed in the strongest cell and close
ly watched, and at the next term or
court she will be indicted for an as
sault with intent to Kill, not to speak
of another indictment for attempt to
escape. Some of her m00nshiner
friends have in a quiet way made
threats that she will not stay in Jail
long, but the county authorities say
they can hold her.
Betsy's exploit in the Jail has given
her an added importance and value
among her associates.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

common soldier attacked a fellow
soldier with a razor. A general mix
up resulted and a lieutenant ran to
the scene. Fortunately he was armed
with a pistol. He drew it and fired
at the malcontent, but, as it happened,
missed him altogether and killed an
innocent bugler who was looking on.
This only made the affair livelier, and
at last one strong fellow pinioned the
ruftian. Thereupon a sentinel, who had
caught on from his post, fired away,
and hit in the breast the brave man
who had the ugly one down.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK
Pretty Picture of Congeniality Be-
tween Animal Instinct and
Human Reason.

Broadway was very interesting to
the tenderfoot from the west, but she
hadn't expected to find such demon
strative new friend there as she ran
across recently. On one of the busiest
corners, where the crossing is as dan
gerous and as difficult as any noun
tain pass was in the old days, she
was walking into the jaws of death
with the fearlessness and confidence of
ignorance She was snatched almost
impatiently from the passing dangers
by mounted policeman, who, by the
way, wasn't mounted at the time. His
horse, a fine, spirited specimen of the
equine race, was patiently standing at
the corner by the curb, watching the
passing throng and his master. Said
master hurriedly thrust the dazed ten
derfoot to the sidewalk out of harms
way. She bumped into the horse.
Both were surprised, and both begged
pardon in their own ways. The girl
said, rapturously:
ooh, you beauty"
The horse whinnied softly, as If she
were an old and beloved friend, rub
bling his nose against her sleeve. Then
the girl started across the street once
more. When she was half way over
she felt light touch on her shoulder
and at the same time heard several
men laughing. In surprise, she looked
to see what could be happening. There
stood the policeman's beautiful steed,
looking pleadingly at her. The next
instant she had that horses head In
her arms and her face against his
glossy head, tears of pleasure in her
eyes. Around this odd pair flowed the
! stream of traffic, for this was a busy
center, but many people stopped to
see the strange sight. The next In
slant the gruff officer had brusquely
called to the horse, and when the
horse failed to come to his call he
quite rudely grasped the rein and
took the horse away from the tabieau,
which Immediately dissolved as the
girl went her way with moist eyes, a
! happy smile and a longing in heI
heart for her beloved home In the
far west and the horse she loved. SO
we'll,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

make corn whisky in the Snaded and
Well-hiuden hOllOWS in the mountains,
through which run streams whose wa
ters are always just cool enough to
give the distillery worms the right
touch.
Capture of Betsy.
Betsy has year by year become
more and more daring, and more
beautiful. A few months ago she be-
came extremely bold in her sales of
whisky, going to and from the stills,
sometimes alone, and sometimes with
male companions. Finally the state
authorities decided it was time to
stop her, so they sent three deputy
SheriffS for Betsy. The deputies had
the good fortune to find her, on foot,
and very near the South Carolina line,
which she knows perfectly we'll.
When she saw the three deputies
coming, she knew they were not her
friends, and made bold dash for the
line. AS Splinter she is a success,
and her running was like that of the
Grecian girls who competed in the
ancient Olympian games. The depu-
ties did not stop to admire, however,
but gave chase and dashed across the
state line, coming up with and taking
hold of the stout and charming Betsy
about a hundred yards over in South
Carolina.
Betsy was nearly out of breath
from the run, but had voice enough
left to give a signal, which brought
out of the thick bushes near by five
tough.looking moonshiners, any one
of whom was ready and willing to
die for Betsy any time. Betsy had a
good-sized revolver slung about her
waist, and very poorly concealed by a
checked apron, but her moonshine
friends made no concealment what
ever of the pistols which they had
in hand, and while they fingered
these, they parleyed with the detain-
ing deputies, letting them understand
that they were willing to pay cash
for Betsy's appearance in cot" and
that they were "willin' to put up $25
in greenbacks if Betsy could be sot
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

LEANING OVER THE RAILING"
size of it, and he would eat or die, and
maybe he would die anyway, and just
then a wicked-looking negro with big
oyster knife came to the table and
looked ugly at dad and said: Have
another dozen?' and dad said: Yes,
and then he began to eat as though his
life depended on it, and | could hear
the great wads Of oysters strike with a
dull thud on exposed places inside Of
dad, and before he got up from the ia
BILE he had eaten them all. and he told
the man he would be in again to lunch
after awhile Dad is the bravest man
I ever saw. and don't you forget 1t.
He would have come out all right.
suppose and lived, if it hadn't been for
his devilish morbid appetite for travel
and adventure. Quick as We got out
of the oyster place dad wanted to take
a steamboat ride down the river TO the
Eads jetties at the mouth of the river.
and we went on board. and had nice
ride down to the mouth. After we
had looked over the jetties, where Eads
made an artificial canal big enough for
the largest ocean steamers to come up
to New Dreams, the passengers wanted
the captain to run the boat outside the
bar, into the blue ocean, where the
waves come from. Gee, but | hope |
may live long enough to forget the
ride. We hadn't got boats length
outside the bar before the boat began
to roll and tC1s, and held on to dads
hand, and wished | was dead told
him my little tummy ached, and l
wanted a lemon. Dad said my little
tummy, with it's three oysters In II.
was not worth mentioning, and told
me to look at him. Talk about your
Mount Pelee and your Vesuvius, those
volcanoes were tame and embarrassing
compared to dad, leaning over the rail-
ing, and shouting words at the sharks
in the water. Why, he just doubled up
like a iackknife one minute and then
Strengthened up like an elephant stand
ing on his hind legs IN a circus the
next minute, and he kept saying:
.Ye-up," and all the passengers said:
Poor man. I told them he was not,
so poor, for he owned a brewery
home.
Well, we finally got back to -
Orleans, and dad took hack to
the hotel, and told the driver not to
pass any saloon where there were oys-
ter shells on the sidewalk. We came
home next day. Well, guess will
get my snake out Of the icebox, and
90 home and comfort dad.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

for when the judge took his seat on
the morning of the fourth day Betsy
failed to show up. The judge issued a
bench warrant for her, and she was
found at the home of moonshiner not
far from the little town, brought back
and tried, and the judge decided to
make an example of the bold young
creature by sending her to Jail at Co.
lumbTS for four months.
Astonished the Mconshiners.
The mOonshiners were simply par
alyzed by the sentence, for some of
them thought that Betsy bore
charmed life, so to speak, and one OF
them. in an outburst of admiration,
had said on the third day that she
would come clar," and that mo jedge
an no jury can tech her, in my min"
But Betsy had not quite reached the
limit of her resources. The jail at
Columbus is an 0ldfashi0ned barn OF
a structure, three stories high and OF
brick, and is generally SHINY tenant
ed. II happened that when Betsy
first entered its walls man was there
on his way to the penitentiary to serve
II months for the practice of the gen.
tie art of manslaughter, he having in
some kind of mix-up slain fellow
mountaineer with a knife, and "gittin'
off light" as the other side of the
case put it. Betsy was put on the
second floor of the Jail, this prisoner
whose name is Chalmers, being on the
floor above A rather rude flight OF
steps leads from the second to the
third floors, through weil-locked
trap-Goor of wood.
How She Broke Jail.
The weather was cool, and there was
a fire In Betsy's room. She did not
feel equal to the task of getting out
of iall unaided, so she sought the COM
panionship of Chalmers. They talked
to each other, commonplace while the
taller was anywhere within hearing,
but business when he was out of the
way, the business being the best means
of getting out. Betsy was the more
resourceful of the two, and so, taking
"chunk of fire. she went up the
stairway AMI set fire to the trap-door,
Chalmers descended. He and Betsy,
after passing the compliments of the
day, for they were acquainted, decided
on the mode of action, and then Chal-
mers fell to work to make hole
through the side Of the jail, while
Betsy made a rope out of blankets and
bedding, and arranged such goods and
ehattels as she had with her in shape
for quick removal. Chalmers, with
true ga!Iantry, decided that 1t was best
for him to go through the hole first
thus testing the latter, and, incident
ally, the rope below. Out ne got anc
fitted away.
| Nearly Vanquishes Jailer.
Betsy was going, too, but as she
was halfway through the hole sac
felt the rude hands of the jailer upon
her. and was hauled back into the
room. This aroused her fighting instinc
to the limit, and like a lioness she
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

"BY THE GREAT HORN SPOONS, I
WILL EAT EVERY OYSTER IN THE
HOUSE"
dow and trembled and yelled for the
police. A policeman rushed into the
store, and when he saw the snake he
backed out of the door.
ARREST that boy with the snake,
said the groceryman.
"Come out of that wild your menag-
erie" said the policeman, shaking his
his club.
Come In and get the snake II you
want It." said the boy. 81 don't want
It any more, anyway" and he took the
stuffed snake up by the head and
laid it across his lap, and began to
shake the rattles, and laugh at the gro
ceryman and the policeman and the
crowd that had collected in front OF
the store. The policeman came in
laughing, and the old sroceryman
crawled out of the show window and
all breathed free again, and finally the
policeman went out and drove the
crowd away, and went on his beat
again, after shaking his club at the
boy, and the boy, the groceryman, the
snake and the cat remained In tht
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22
Deputies Made Terms.

deputies MAUI 1SA4AS'
The deputies thought it wise to
temporize, and decided to take the
cash, which the moonshiners CALAMITY
put up, and Betsy retired with them,
looking back archly at the officers,
her charming eyes sparkling with de-
fiance and the roses in her cheeks
deepening until they were like Pc
onies. Her face was framed in a pink
sunbonnet of the type which is worn
on week. days by all the mountain
girls.
Betsy did not let her daring and
her adventures end with her capture,
but the very next day her moonshine
friends showed up with $3.50, they
having sold a horse for that sum.
There was a big meetin'" not far
away, and it was thought 1t would
be a good time to buy an extra lot Of
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22

,,,,h &c has been written OF the
-ara snd dofngs of the mountaineers
S'' North Carolina, any person at all
~ ,.miljar with the lives of the inhabit-
~, 'nts OF that romantic region cannot
s MI fec. that the half has not been
W" Toval TO a degree that holds life
roTth nothing if a friend can be
,.,,ed. an enemy punished or a traitor
~ ~, IN death, the mountaineer is typi-
T If state of existence the world
has long outgrOwn.
The average man of more sedate
,.mnerament and cooler blood leaves
,bo syenging of his wrongs to courts
~ law and the judgment of his fell
,ov. Int in the mountains each man
Il court of law unto himself, and is
Mt safisfed with the slow methods of
jnstiee with which other commune
flies are cOnversant'
II has been found a matter of mon
,montal difficulty to impress upon
these people that there is wrong IN the
moting of "mOonshine" whisky. To
tbsm the product of the corn they
grow is theirs, whether it is converted
into The staff of life or the delectable
lanid of the worm and still. The eff
forts of the "Revnooers' to put a stop
10 the distllllng of the juice OF the
corn necessarily, therefore, are not
Iooked upon with favor, and conflicts
With the officers of the law are fire.
ouent, Just now the federal officials
have complication to deal with
xAlca is more than usually knotty.
queen" New in Jail.
THE best looking gal in the noun
taips!" Betsy Sims, Queen of the
NOCnshiners," is languishing in the big
and lonesome Jail at Columbus, the
hIgh.up little mountain town which
is tne county seat of Polk, one of the
smallest AMI most isolated of the
North Carolina counties. What to do
With her is the problem puzzling the
authorities.
Betsy, though only %, is as daring
and well yersed woman, both in the
vays Of making whisky and of sell
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22


holes, slammed it on the counter beside
the groceryman's legs and yelled:
Wake up, Rip Van Wrinkle, the day
OF judgment has come, and you are
still buried. You got to get move on
you or the procession will go off and
leave you. Say, are you afraid OF rat
tlesnakes, and the bad boy shook the
paper box when an ominous rattle
came from within. as though a snake
had shaken its tail good and plenty.
Great Scott, boy, believe you have
got rattlesnake in that box" and he
jumped off the counter and grabbed
an iron fire poker, while the boy got
out his knife to cut the string on the
box. Now, lookahere, am suffering
from nervous prostration and a snake
turned loose in this store would settle
It with me-"
"Well, wouldn't that skin you" said
the boy, as he sharpened his knife on
q piece Of old cheese, and felt Of the
edge. "Here you have been telling
me for years what brave man you
were and how you were not afraid Of
anything that wore hair, and now you
have fits because little five-foot rat
tlesnake, with only ten rattles on.
makes formal call on you. Gee, but
you are squaw."
"Now, let up until I wait on these
customers said the old man, as he
went to the )or and let in a commit
tee OF women who were to buy some
supplies for a church sociable. The
women lined up on each side Of the
store, looking at the canned things on
the shelves, and the old man was try
ing to be polite, when the bad boy
opened the box and laid on the floor
a stuffed rattlesnake that was as nat
ural as life, and touched rattleboX
in his pocket, and the trouble began.
The women saw the snake curled up,
ready to spring, and they all went
through the door at once, tipping over
everything that was loose, and scream
ing. while the old man. when he saw
the snake, got into the front show win