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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1906-06-28

The reception given by Mrs. l.. N.
Grill and Mrs. J.. j. Sharon Monday
afternoon In honor OF Mrs. and Miss
Mcclure and Mrs. +. A. Buggy was an
exceedingly pleasant affair. Mes
danes H. e. French and NJ. a. Gill as
sisted In the receiving. Misses Blanche
Hasson and Ferne Tadlock of Sioux
City presided at the punch bowl, which
was placed In the bow window 10 front
of bower OF green. Misses Fioy
scboonover and Hoffman played sever
al beautiful piano solos and little Miss
Iris Vining Of Bessamer, Alabama, en- :
tertained the company with both
music and declamations. The dining
room was handsomely decorated with
smilax, ferns and roses. Miss Barthol.
onew presided at the table and the
delicious two course lunch was served
by Misses Berniee SWEET, Nellie
Nichols and Fioy Scho0noyer. The
out Of town guests were Mrs. McGrath h' 4
sister, Mrs. Graves OF Sioux City, and
Mrs. Frank Blair of Sterling, Colorado,
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
STOCKHOLDERS LOSE ALL
The Associated Banks Own ALI Of
the Assets of the Three
Walsh Banks.

Chicago, Dec. 28.-Chicago's associ-
ated banks are absolute owners Of all
the assets of the three Walsh institu-
tions, whose failure was announced q
week ago.
They have agreed on the selection
of the First Trust and Savings bank
as agent and trustee in the sale of as
sets and dissolution of the business of
the Walsh institutions. All the stock
holders in the Walsh banks will lose
everything they had invested. These
are secrets of the meeting at which
the bankers of Chicago, in an all-night
session, settled the fate of the Chicago
national bank and all it's fellow-insti-
tutions.
1t is stated on the highest authority
that the stock holdings of all Walsh's
followers are absolutely worthless. Not
only this, but from the same source it is
learned that the bankers fear a big
deficit in the closing of the business
of the Chicago national and Home
Savings banks and the Equitable Trust
Co. They will stand with more thaa
$4,000, 900 at stake when the last dol
lar has been paid the Walsh creditors.
President Charles H. Bosworth of
the Chicago national bank does not
deny the business of the three Walsh
institutions will Je transferred in a
short time to the offices of the First
Trust and Savings bank.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
JEROME AFTER GAMBLERS
The New York District Attorney
Threatens to FIRING "The Men
Behind' Into Court.

New York, Dec. 30.-That gambling
houses and pool rooms in this city are
as wide open as ever, and that many
of the employees in these places are
given positions by political leaders as
a part of the patronage of their district
was charged by District Attorney Je-
rome in the court Of general sessions.
room and gambling house cases on the
calendar, and Mr.. Jerome appeared in
person as the prosecutor. 1t was when
three men who had been indicted for
book making in an Eighth avenue re-
sort pleaded guilty and the district at
torney addressed the court.
"These men plead guilty, and tell me
they are only employees" said he.
''They are what I term statesmen GRIM
inals. They are put into these pool
rooms by political leaders as a part OF
the patronage of their district, and it
is almost impossible to tell whether
they are politicians or criminals. Pool
rooms and gambling houses are at pres
ent as numerous as ever. The police
organize a series of false raids, dart
into houses. wreck furniture, put a few
gentlemen in durance vile and call it an
attempt to get evidence. In this case
I ask your honor to impose a fine OF
500 each, and I say if they can not
pay, the hacker of the game will. If he
does not come forward and pay l will
bring him here myself in a manner
that will surprise him"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
WRECK OF PASS OF MELFoRT
None of Her Crew known to lave
Been Saved-vancOuverttes
Searching for Bodies.

Victoria, B. c., Dec. 29.-In all about
81 persons are believed to have been
drowned when the British bark Pass OF
Melfort foundered on the rocks off Am
phitrite Point.
The salvage steamer Salvor, main
tanned at Esquimalt by Lloyd's agency
and the Canadian government, went to
the scene Of the wreck, from which
broken wreckage is still coming
ashore, including much CT the cabin
fittings. More bodies are reported to
have been seen near shore. The great
or portion of the wreckage, all of which
Is much broken, is being washed on
the rocks In a small bay a quarter Of
q mile east Of Amphitrite Point. Set
tiers from Uncleulet, the nearest viii
lage, about seven miles from the scene
Of the wreck, have started a sys-
tenatic search for the corpses OF
the wrecks victims, to give them
burial ashore. The remains of the three
men already found were inferred. Capt
Gauden, agent Of the marine, who is
awaiting advices from Uncleulet, has
instructed Capt. Harris of the steamer
Salvor to spare no effort in the en-
deavor to recover the bodies of the
bark's crew and to identify all possible.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
BECkHAM HAS THE CALL
May Be Kentucky's Senator-Leaders
Opposed to Him.

May Be Kentucky's Senator-Leaders
Opposed to Him.
Frankfort, KY, Dec. 3l.-With the
Democratic senate and house caucuses
only twenty-four hours away, Gov. J.
G. w. Beckham is being frequently
mentioned as the man whose nominal
tion would settle what promises to be
one of the most memorable and stub
born senatorial deadlocks in the history
of Kentucky. During the past twenty
four hours the situation has changed
but little, there being no perceptible
variation in the strength OF United
States Senator Blackburn and Judge
Thomas Fl. Paynter, the leaders, 0
of w. b. Haldeman, the man who, with
the smallest number of votes, appar-
emily holds the key to the situation.
Haldemen men are apparently standing
firm. Both sides are still claiming suf-
ficient strength to nominate the speaker
of the house, but as the Blackburn and
Haldeman forces have apparently COM
bined to organize the house, the poll OF
their announced supporters seem nu-
merically the stronger. However, the
speakership race is complicated by the
fact that some of the Legislators are not
following the lines of division which
prevail in the senatorial fight.
Lieut.-Gov. Thorne has announced
that in case Gov. Beckham should be
put forward as a candidate, he will re-
sign, thus allowing the president of the
senate pro tenn. to become governor.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
BIGGER THAN GOVERNMENT
ASTOUNDING ASSERTIONS AS TO
STANDARD OIL.
That the Company Own Congress
and Can OPPOSE Secretaries.

Chicago, Dec. 30.-A staff correspon-
Dent of the Tribune te~legraphs from
Philadelphia that agents Of the govern
ment who are pursuing an inquiry into
Standard Oil methods are confronted
with the following statement:
I'VE are bigger than the government.
Standard Oil is stronger than the United
States. We own the senate and the
house. If You pursue your investiga-
tons beyond the point necessary to fool
the public we will have you removed.
We can secure the instant deposition OF
the secretary of commerce and labor,
Mr.. Metcalf, and the commissions OF
corporations, Mr.. Garfield. If you per-
eecute us in the slightest degree you
Will be out of your job, and if you keep
III the business you will find out what
we say is absolutely true"
Agents of the government were COR
fronted at the outset by evidence OF the
existence of extraordinary secret ma
chinery of the Standard Oil Co, the
correspondent says. They discovered
that it covers the United States and
probably extends into foreign countries.
It was discovered that this e%Xtraordf
nary secret service Of the Standard Oil
Co., which permeated every city and
state. was in the beginning organized for
the sole purpose of preventing danger
u competition. Later on it was di-
verted to other directions, and the
agents of the government realized that
they were up against a system.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
MRS. STANFORD'S DEATH
Was Due tc strychnine Poison, Say
Honolulu officials.

Honolulu, Jan. Local officials and
physicians who were concerned in the
investigation into the death of Mrs.
Jane Lathrop Stanford in this city, ex-
pressed Indignation yer a cabled report
to the effect that President Davis Starr
Jordan of the Leland Stanford Uni
versity, has made a statement in Den
yer, Col, alleging that the claim that
she died from poison has been made
the basis of a plot by the Honolulu Off
Gals to extort large fees. DR.. Hum
phreys declared today that the report
was a vicious falsehood.
In reference to the alleged statement
by DR.. Jordan that all the facts in the
case would soon be made public, it is
said this would be answered by a scien-
tific statement signed by the attending
physician and all the autopsy physi-
clans, backed by the chemists post NOR
tenn reports, all the doctors agreeing
that death was caused by strychnine
poisoning.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
BUSINESS WOMAN WEEDS.
Mrs. Florence Davis Yields to the
Whisperings of Cupid.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. Mrs. Flora
Davis of Shelbyville, known among
travelling statesmen and wholesale deal
ers as the most successful business wo-
mar in the State, and estimated to be
worth $500, 900, all of which she earned
herself, was married this evening to
Harry Carson, a broker and real estate
dealer.
Mrs. Davis was a poor girl at the age
of u, with the assistance of a friend
opened a millinery store or a small
scale at Shelbyville. She attended the
public schools in the morning and at
tended to her store il the afternoon,
and later when she had accumulated a
small sum of money, she arranged to
recite at night to her teachers and de-
vote the day to her business. When
she was 10 she was head of the largest
business house in Shelbyville.
Several years ago she purchased M
of the largest business blocks in Shell
byville and entered into competition
with the older merchants, and since
then her store has been enlarged sew
eral times and she now employs the
largest number of clerks in the city.
It is understood that Mr.. Carson will
become the active manager of her bus
mess after their return from their
bridal trip.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
GOAL OIL JOHNNIE" DYING
In Poverty-Squandered Three Mil
hon in Seven Months.

Franklin, Pa, Jan. LIN a little
house on the Moffatt farm, a few miles
out of Franklin, John Steele, known
throughout the petroleum world as
Goal Oil Johnnie" is dying tonight OF
pneumonia. The one-time multi-mil-
~lionaire is dying practically in proverty.
"Coal Oil Johnnie" it was who, in the
early sixties, made a record for spend
ing money which has never been
e~qualled. From a penniless, ignorant
lad of the Pennsylvania oil country, he
was dumped into a world of money
something like SO, OOO, O0O-and he made
a e worlds record for spending. In
side of seven months he had not one
cent left. He had made nj big Oil in
vestments, in which fortunes were then
made and lost in a day, but he had
simply spent the money in Jumps Of
extravaganza.
Steele was q years of age at the time
he had this money left him, and he pro-
ceeded to buy not only everything he
liked the looks of, but everything his
friends liked, be that an opera troupe.
a railroad, a city block, a needle or ar
anchor. He made one trip to New
York, and walking into a hotel, demand
ed of the proprietor what he wanted
for the place entire. A price was
named and paid on the spot. Steele
then bought all the cabs in sight and
presented the outfits to the drivers.
One of the favorite tricks of Goal
Oil Johnnie" was lighting his cigars
with 800 bills. 1t did not take him long at
this rate to run through a big fortune,
and soon Steele was back to making oil
barrels at S1.25.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
QUARANTINE BILL
To Be Presented at a Caucus by John
s. Williams.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Jan. Col. N.
E. Thompson, editor of the Tradesman,
is in receipt of a letter from Hon. John
Sharp Williams, minority leader in
congress, in which he says that imme-
diately upon the reassembling of con-
gress this week he will call the South
r representatives and senators to-
gether for the purpose of agreeing upon
a bill to regulate quarantine matters in
the South to he at once pressed for
passage, and which will conform to the
resolutions adopted by the Chattanooga
quarantine conference.
Mr.. Williams was chairman of the
quarantine committee at the conference
and it was through his efforts that
a unanimous report was obtained from
his committee, which passed the confer
ence with but one dissenting vote, being
by Senator Mallory of Florida.
1t is believed that Senator Mallory
will not object to the bill when it comes
before the senate, while all Northern
representatives and senators are will
ing to pass any bill regulating quaran-
tine that the Southern members will
agree upon
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
BUSINESS APPEARS QUIET
~cedented1y Active Holiday Bust-
ness in All Sections.

New York, Dec. 3O.-Bradstreet's
weekly review says:
Following an unprecedentedly active
holiday business in all parts of the
country, distributive trade seems quiet
by contrast, more particularly as I'M
seasonably mild weather affects retail
operations in ~seasonably heavy wear
ing apparel. What is bad for retail
business is, however, good for outdoor
industry, particularly building, which
remains very active, and manufactur-
ing operations are likewise facilitated
by the uninterrupted passage of raw
material to- consuming centers. In
wholesale trade clearing rates and
stock-taking operations absorb atten-
ticn. but it is noted that operations for
spring account are larger than ordinary,
and in fact business is heavier than eX-
pected at this season. Retail clearance
sales have begun rather earlier than
usual. Staples generally maintain all
their old strength.
Additional reports as to trade in the
year now closing point to 1909 having
been a record breaker alike in agricul-
tural, speculative, financial and indus
trial circles. On the whole, however.
primacy must be assigned to manufac-
turing industry.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
BRAVERY SECURES REWARD
yortb CaroIinian who Defended
q Post file From burglars
Gets q Good job .

Washington, Dec. 27.-As a reward
for defending the post Of 1t Emma,
n. c., four years ago agai-. ar burg
lars, President Roosevelt as waived
the civil service resu at p on the
recommendation of Po3t.naste
Co~rtelyou, and s.. H. N~leyanders
Christmag gift was a proof on from
a laborer TO q clerkship in the depart
ment.
Not only has the brave North Caro-
Imam been promoted, but to accentu-
ate the honor, All official stste nent was
issued which gives a full account or
the deed. The attempted robbery look
place on the night of February 6, 1901
All the burglars were arrested. Two
of them, together with two accom-
plices, after trial, were given the ex-
IRENE penalty of the law, which, for
the offense committed in North Caro-
lima, is death.
Afterward the sentence was ON
muted in the case of two of the bur-
glars to life imprisonment. The other
two were hanged February rs, 1902.
Alexander himself was shot in the
abdomen in his fight with the men.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
WORK AND STUDY.
Preacher Believes the Social Disorders
Arise from System of Education.

ARISE from System OF Education.
Chicago, Jan. 2.-The present educa-
tional systems were attacked by Rev.
e. A. Paddock, president of the Idaho
Industrial Institute in an address de-
livered before the cooperative class at
the First Congregational Church of
Evanston yesterday. The speaker de-
clared the average college graduate is
a complete failure when called on to
make his living by manual labor and
the whole educational system tends to
create a feeling of caste. He urged as
a remedy that students be required to
devote at least half of the day to learn
ing a trade.
81 believe the social disorders which
are prevalent in this country today
arise from the fact hat our system Of
education is all we can get" he said.
"We are training one faculty only and
sacrificing the others. The remedy is
to be found in a half-time school where
the student will be kept half a day at
his books and taught some trade dur
ing the other half. The half-time
school system would arouse a whole
some feeling of respect for fellow work.
ers and would tend to break down feel
ING of caSte.3
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
POST OFFICE SAFE WRECKED
Robbers Enter the Post Office at
Crystal City, Mo-, and Blow
the Sale.

St. Louis, Dec. 27.-Entering the post
Office at Crystal City, Mo-, through a
window, at 1880 o'clock this morning,
two unidentified robbers blew the safe
with a heavy charge of dynamite, which
wrecked the establishment. They es-
capped with a small amount Of money.
A boy was sleeping in the store at the
time. A Waterman in a newly-inished
hotel, attracted by the noise, ran out OF
the building and was shot in the leg by
one of the robbers.
Although Sheriff Hensler of Hills
boro was Immediately notified, the men
got away, and but an imperfect descrip-
ton is furnished to the authorities OF
those who perpetrated the robbery.
The boy in the store, Fred Harter, was
stunned by the explosion and could
give only a scant account of the cpl
sOCe.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
DID LAWSON MAKE KILLING
Rockefeller's Brother Doesn't Cred
it Reports of PlunGer's
Misfortune.

Cleveland, O., Dec. 29.-Thomas w.
Lawson, of Boston, has the best wishes
of Frank Rockefeller, brother of John
D. Rockefeller. Said MI. Rockefeller:
81 don't think Lawson is being
cleaned up. In fact, l have an idea that
he has made more money in the last
few weeks than he ever did before. l
do not know anything about Tiny
views are just a guess-but l feel sure
Lawson is far too shrewd a speculator
ever to let himself get short of the
market, as reports have made him
out"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
THE NEW YORK MAY0RALTY
of the Vote for Mayor of
Greater New York.

New York, Dec. 27.-The official
count of votes cast in New York county
for mayor at the last election was is
sued Tuesday by the county board OF
canvassers, and shows that Mcclellan
received 1920; Hearst, 1929, and
WINS, Ga, 2S9.
The official returns from the other
three counties in the city were n
nounced as follows:
Kings-McClellan, 6S,77S; Hearst,
"a. 1873; WINS, 81 1872.
Queens-McClellan, 1928; Hearst,
Il, 706; WINS, 1918.
Observation-Disclosures 6,127; Hearst,
1906; WINS, 4,499.
Total vote, Mcclellan, 228,397; Hearst,
224 ,929; WINS, 1877 ,193.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
THE SAN DOMINGO AFFAIR
The Government ut Washington At
taches Little Importance to Itn
Relations With Us.

Washington, Dec. 28.-The admins
tration attaches no special significance
to the revolutionary situation in Santc
Domingo, as it has a bearing on our re-
lations with the insular republic ant
as it involves the sale of the treaty now
pending before the senate of the United
States.
The gunboat Paducah left Norfolk
Wednesday for Monte Christi.
AS soon as she can be commissioned,
the cruiser Dixie will be ordered to the
West Indies, carrying a strong marine
guard for such conditions as require.
The Dixie will become the flagship of
the mosquito squadron. detailed for
service in those waters.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
EMANCIPATION PARADE.
Several Persons Beaten Up by Ne
groes in Savannah.

Savannah, Ca, Jan. 2.-Thousands
of negroes paraded here today in honor
of the signing of the emancipation
proclamation. The parade was marked
by the greatest disorder. Capt. J. c.
Mcbride, a former officer in the United
States army, now in the newspaper
business in Georgia, attempted to cross
the line and was set upon and badly
beaten.
A street car conductor who endeavor-
ed to run his car through the line,
which extended about two blocks, also
was painfully hurt and forced to leave
his car.
A photographer who attempted to
take a picture of the parade was run
from his post by the negroes, who ob-
jected to the taking of the picture.
This was the first time in a quarter
of a century that negroes have paraded
i'll the day without military escort, the
negro companies having been disarmed
by an act of the last legislature.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
STARTED ON LONG VOYAGE
The Dry Dock Dewey starts On It's
Fourteen Thousand Mile Trio
to Subig Bay.

Annapolis, Md, Dec. 29.-The gi-
gantic dry dock Dewey made an aus
picuous start, Thursday afternoon, on
its IA, mile trip to the Philippine
islands under the direction of Comman-
der H. H. Hosley, U. S. N. The start
was made at 2:05, and at 6 p. m. the
lights on the dock could be seen at a
distance of six or eight miles below
Solomon's island, the starting point.
There was no mishap of any kind.
Three other vessels in tandem are tow
ing the Dewey. Next to the dock is the
collier Brutus, then the collier Caesar,
and in front is the tag Potomac. Com
mander Hosley will have his quarters
on the Glacier, the supply boat which
will accompany the dock and its at
~tendants.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
CRYSTAL CITY ROBBERY
Deputy Sheriff Believes He Has an
Absolute Clew to the Identity
of the Dynamiters.

st. Louis, Dec. 29.-Deputy Sheriff
Arnold, of Crystal City, Jefferson
ty, believes he has an absolute clew to
the identity of the dynamiters who
robbed the post Office bank there early
Wednesday and wounded George Sprad-
ling, a night Waterman, i'm the leg.
Arnold says he has valuable evidence
in addition to the satchel and corduroy
coat found neal the building in which
the safe was wrecked, and that the ar
rests are only a matter of a few days at
the most. Arnold is the man who cap
tured John Higgins, implicated in the
robbery of the same safe April 25, and
secured the evidence which resulted in
a p%enitentiary sentence.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

With its annual average Of about
5000, 900 bales, Texas raises between
o third and a fourth Of the entire cot
ton crop Of the United States, and
more than is raised in all the world
outside of this country. In it's cotton
belt 12,0 900, 900 or 10, 000, 1000 bales could
be raised annually if there were a
market for it, and before many more
years pass there will be a market.
Nearly everything grown in the tenn
perate and torrid zones is grown, or
can be grown, in Texas. 1t has vast
tracts of good timber lands and mex
haustible deposits of coal, lead, zinc
and other minerals.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
TRAPPED IN WRECKED CARS
Three Persons Were Seriously In
jured and Hundred Lives
Placed In Peril.

Kankakee, ILL.,, Dec. 29.-Three per-
Sons were seriously injured and a hun
bred other passengers trapped in
wrecked railway coaches had narrow
escapes from death when a Big Four
passenger train bound for this city was
wrecked at Waldron, ILL.,, four miles
from Kankakee, early Thursday.
Injured: Harry l.. Ware, travelling
man, Chicago, hurled through a win
dow of a sleeping car; badly cut about
right arm and left foot; VIM. Odom,
porter of the sleeping car, Centurion.
face. burned; Mrs. Bailey, Chicago, rib
broken.
The passengers were trapped in the
cars, which were overturned when the
train jumped the track.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
ro,r po,,cencn suspended.

St. Louis, Dec. 30.-Patrolman George
Dennison, James Rovane, AL J. kuenne
and William Cohan were suspended,
Friday. by Capt. Gaffney Of the Dayton
Street district, pending charges that
they accepted valuable gifts ranging
from wearing apparel to diamonds, from
women on their beats. The investiga-
ton of the charges has proceeded far
enough to show that these women
claim to have paid tribute to the po-
lice, but the full extent Of the allega-
lions of graft has not yet been deter
mined.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
GOLD AUTOGRAPH ALBUM
Containing Names of Cubans to Be
Presented to Miss Roosevelt.

Philadelphi, Pa, Jan. IAN auto
graph album wrough in gold and hand
painted and containing the signatures
of hundreds of prominent citizens of
Havana who have sent it as a wedding
gift to Miss Alice Roosevelt, has been
brought to Philadelphia by DR.. G. F.
Mascara, who is studying at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
After it has been on exhibition for
some time in the Cuban consulate in
this city, prominent natives OF Havana
residing here will be invited to inscribe
their names therein and the album will
be taken by DR.. Mascara to Washing
ton and turned over to the Cuban min
lister, who will make the presentation.