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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
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Kit and sfl.

DeSmet Independent: "The worm
will turn, y chickens come home to
roost," che that soweth the wind
reapeth the whirlwind. - This con-
test is really fight against me,
walls ISittredge. Oh, Kit! Oh, Kit!
You turned the dogs Of war loose up
on Gamble. and now the turning ct
the worm, returning of the chickens
and the violence Of the whirlwind.
In his agony and desperation the
Great Boss, the nnapproachable, the
much advertised "Silent Senator
gets IN his marrow homes and writes
to and addresses Sid Lee and q thou
sand others in Lake county whom he
never saw and to whom he never
spoke or wrote word before In his
life as "My Dear Friend. !" Oh, Sweet
heart! Oh, Sid! Oh, Kit!
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
A REVIEW OF THE BATTLE.
A Brief Review of Men and Conditions Which Pro-
duccd the Political Avalanche that Swal-
lowed the Machine Bosses.

UlcS, over dll IIllS lIlilucIlCc dili UllS
prestige of machine control of every.
thing in the state, the progressive
republicans won a sweeping victory
which means the return of Senator
Gamble to the senate, the election OF
two congressman who will be in open
active sympathy with President
Roosevelt, the election of a state
ticket headed by Mr.. Crawford and
the election of legislature that will
support Governor Crawford in bring
ing about the reforms demanded by
the people, the reorganization of the
varions state boards, SO that the edu-
cational and other institutions will be
taken out of politics and out of the
control of men who have all but des-
troyed their usefulness.
An outraged people have risen in
their wrath and made it possible for
Governor Crawford and his lieuten-
ants to give them clean, honest ad-
ministration that will deal justly
with all interests, including the cor
poratiOnS.
The machine confident in its power
and influence, led on by blind arro-
gance in naughty contempt for the
people, was simply paralyzed when
the returns came in. The loss of
Minnehaha hit the gang with terrific
force, then came Lincoln, Union,
Clay, Yankton, Turner, BonHomme,
Moody, Brookings, Readle, kingsbary,
Sphinx, Charles Mix, Sanborn, Jerauld
Miner, Hand, Hansen, Aurora, and
so on until S6l votes were counted
safe and beyond the reach of any
Louisiana methods that the panic
stricken machine might attempt in
it's frenzy.
Among the most dastardly and des-
perate expedients Of the machine was
the attempt to indicate Coe l. Craw-
ford through fraudulent evidence so
as to discredit him before the people,
and even after the state had pro-
nounced in his favor the same des-
perate towards tried to blacken his
character before a second United
States grand jury at Deadwood last
week, and again failed. This shows
palmer than anything else the des-
peration of the defeated scoundrels.
Among the willing tools of the gang
none have earned a higher reward
among human skunks than Tom Rob
erts, Kittredge's private secretary,
who several years ago was bold
enough under machine protection to
say in his paper that 'tLinn ought to
be driven out of the state" This
was when this same Linn was driving
whisky out of the soldiers home.
Linn is still in the state and Roberts,
the cowardly pup, can begin the driv-
ing when he feels like it. Linn has
helped to skin several corrupt gangs
since he came to Dakota, and the
work he did in the recent campaign
is quite satisfactory and as pleasant
as any work he ever did, and very
large majority of the people are
pleased with the result.
The hard work of the campaign
was carried forward cheerfully by
men who stood for principle. Mr..
Crawford and Mr.. Hall did most of
the speaking, while Thomas Thorson
and Charles Cassill Of Canton looked
after the campaign over the entire
state. Every county had it's workers
and every man engaged in the contest
did his duty cheerfully and we'll.
1t was glorious victory.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
Short Time Loans.
Old Bridge For Sale.

The County Commissioners of Lin
coin County, South Dakota, will sell
at public auction the old bridge on
Bever Creek, one mile south of Can
ton, on Monday, the 2Sth day OF May,
1906, at 2 o'clock p. M
The sale will take place where the
bridge stands and sold to the highest
bidder on the ground.
By order of the County Commits
sioners. CHAs. kUNDERT,
County Auditor.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
Earmers and Horsemen.

Are your horses afflicted with
heaves? If Sc. o.you should at once pro-
cure a bottle of Luers Heave Drops, a
sure cure for Heaves, Short-winded-
ness, Coughs and Indigestion. For
sale bV A. G. Mold.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
Farm Leans.
Farms For Sale.

The Martin farm one mile and a
half east of the city, for sale cheap.
Also one quarter of good land 10 miles
northwest of White Lake, for sale or
trade. A bargain if taken quick.
Apply to HALvOR MARTIN,
47-3. Canton, S. D.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25

Have you pains in the ba ok, inf am
nation of any kind, rheumatism,
fainting spells, indigestion or consti-
patton, HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. makes you we'll keeps you well.
IS cents I. M. Helmey & Co.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
N. o. Nelson.

1t pours the oil of life into system.
Tt warns you up and starts the life
blood circulating. That's what Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea does.
IS cents Tea or Tablets. 1. M. Helmey
g. Co.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25

The Parker New Era weeps In ST.
lence. Charles, your punishment is
great, but man who would reprint
Holy Writ and then support the rot
ten tax robbing machine should be
given an extra dose of birthstone.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25

State Farmers Nut. Hail ms. Co.,
Waseca, Mimi. Largest Cash Sur
plus Wants responsible agent. Write
today. 41-4|.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
Estray Taken Up.

Taken up on my premises, in Sec
tion 26, Grant township, Lincoln
county, on Wednesday, May 8, 1905,
One Spotted Pony, branded on left
flank. The owner is requested to
prove property, remove the same and
pay costs.
A7-a N. 0. Nelson.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
German Millet Seed.

Recleaned, 60 cents a bushel. At
farm half mile north of town.
41-9. VIM. II. MILLER. JR.
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WHEN HIS WIFE CAME HOME
Earlier Than He Expected and Saw
Him Entertain His
Friends.
some way.

The Harlem resident emerged from
the city hall subway exit. He was plain
ly detected, relates the New York Globe.
why, hello, Jimson," cried a COM
rade of the night before. "You look as
blue as an undertaken at health resort.
Cheer up. l feel just as sick as you this
morning."
ooh, it isn't that" groaned the defect
ed man.
But you were the life and Soul o. om
jolly party last night You even insist
ed on Waiting with the dignified head
waiter
81 remember"
Then we took a hack to your house,
and we all cheered when you got up on
your front step and made a neat littlt
speech to the effect that your wife would
be home from the mountains on the
morrow, and you were glad to let loose
at least once before you settled down
It was large night"
Bah! My wife returned a day EARL.
er and was in the window watching nv
performance. Please kick me down
these subway steps and back, up again.
will your"
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front door, When she answered II
one Of the village children handed hel
an envelope. 1t was plain white and
bore nothing but her address in a
strong masculine hand, and the village
postmark 1t was just such an enve.
lope that had brought her valentine
20 years before. The writing bore
some resemblance to that of the faded
little note she had just been reading and
re-reading so many times that morn
ing. What could it mean? She was
almost afraid to open it, and carried
it back to the little secretary with.
out breaking the seal. There was a
strange flutter in her heart She
looked at the long glass beside her
and noted the flush in her cheeks.
She was almost beginning to hope, and
the hope was growing so strong that
she dared not open the envelope; she
dared not dispel the dream she was
dreaming. And she was dreaming
Dreaming in spite of herself of heI
love come back to her. Twenty years
rolled backward and she was again
girl-blithesome, pretty Jennie Nor.
ris, the belle Of the village, the af
famed bride of Henry Fraser. She
slipped the little golden circlet lying
beside her on her finger, and as she
did so the tinkle of the doorbell again
aroused her. Jane Morris, the village
Samaritan, was wanted by some OF
the village folk, but the dream had
been too real for the awakening to re
move the flush from her cheeks or the
love light from her eyes, and they
were there when she opened the door.
"Jennie!" There was entreaty il
the voice of the man who spoke; there
was love in the eyes into which she
looked.
Henry" The entreaty was an.
swered. Eyes looked love into eyes,
and Jennie Morris had received he,
second valentine as the affianced bride
Of Henry Fraser.
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than struck the fire in a sitting posi-.
ton, and filled the air with the odor
of fried buckskin, before the whole
tribe jumped on Pa, and they kicked
him with their moccasins, and were
going to murder him, while the chief
who acted as the burnt Offering, got
out of the fire, and sat down in the
cold mud to cool himself He held
up his hand as a signal for attention,
and he called a council of war, while
the squaws sat on pa to hold him
down.
The council of war sentenced pa to
be burned at the stake, and they tied
him to a tree and began to pile
sticks around him, and pa told me to
go to the circus lot and give an alarm.
and send the hands to rescue him.
Gee, but didn't l run though, and yell
an alarm big enough for a massacre.
l told the hands, who were sleeping
under the seats, or playing cards on
the trunks that the Indians were
burning pa at the stake, and some Of
the hands said that would serve him
right, and the fellows that were play.
ing cards said they didn't want to
break up the game when they were
losers, to rescue no baldheaded cur
mudgeon. thought pa was a goner,
sure. cause l could hear the indians
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stand on the corners when the parade
goes by, and never crack a smile, or
act interested, and when the parade
has passed they go to the circus lot
and see the balloon ascension, and
stand on wagon wheels and try to
look over the side of the tent at the
performance, and then they kick be-
cause the audience on the back seats
cuts off their view from the wagon
wheels.
Last year our show killed a Quaker,
and the community is down on us.
The Quaker got in the show because
he owned half inch of ground that
its tents were on, and he stood right
by the ring, and when the champion
female rider was suspended in the air
between two bareback horses, he
leaned over too far inside the ring,
and she kicked his hat clear up to the
roof of the tent, and female trapeze
perfosmer up there caught it and sat
down on it on the trapeze. The old
Quaker had heart disease and fell
dead. What the Quakers complained
of was that after the Quaker's re-
maias had been removed from the
ring, that the show went right on.
They claimed that we ought to have
shown proper respect to the dead by
closing the show for 80 days. and
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Henry called that evening and she
deliberately crumpled his love mes
sage into ball and thew it into his
face. In vain did he attempt to ex-
plain that lie was making every ef-
fort to save for their home. She would
not be pacified. If she was not worth
as saod as other girls received she
would have none of him, and he could
leave and never return.
And he did leave. Left the village
on the night train, and she had never
seen him again. Her mother found
the crumpled bit of paper on the floor
where 1t had fallen, and realizing its
full significance had carefully laid 1t
away. Within week the willful girl
was lamenting her loss, but Henry
Fraser was gone, gone she knew not
where, nor for 16 years did she so
much as hear of him. Then one day
in reading the city paper she attract
ed the attention of commercial GEN.
tiers throughout the country. There
could be no mistake, for it told of his
having been born and reared in this
same village.
Jennie Morris sat until well towards
noon recounting the memories of the
happy days before that fateful quar-
rel, and was awakened from her rev.
cries by the tinkle of the bell at the
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set up free lunch, with devilish GIN
ger ale to drink, and that the press
people got riotous on ginger ale. A
ginger ale jag is terrible. When a
man is full of ginger ale his intestines
loop the loop, and tie up in knots, and
grippe like cholera infantum, and un-
less his friends hold him he goes out
into the world and wants to kill the
women and children, and non-com-
batants.
Last year our press agents filed up
the members Of the local press with
ginger ale, and when we struck Phil
adelphia this time the newspapers had
sworn out warrants for our show, on
the charge of compromising a felony,
which I suppose is the legal name for
ginger ale. The way the Quakers pat
ronize show Is to put on their gray
clothes, and their big white hats and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-09
HER SECOND
VALENTINE
BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON

st. Valentines day. but it brought
no expectant flush to the cheeks of
Jennie Morris. Rather she was Jennie
Morris 20 years ago, now her neigh.
bOrs knew her as plain Jane Morris.
Twenty years ago she had been a
blithesome girl just budding into mag
nificent womanhood, the belle and pet
Of the village, and people generally
had voted Henry Fraser the most for
tunate of young men when it was said
that Jennie Morris was to be his wife.
Twenty years ago. How long the
time seemed to the woman living
alone now in the village where once
she had reigned as queen. Parents
gone to their long rest ten years be-
fore, leaving her just a sufficient COM
petence to keep hunger from the door.
She was still idolized by the village
folk, for she played the role OF Good
samaritan in every needing home.
Every day in the year save one she
was at the beck and call of any who
needed her help. But st. valentines
day was her own; her own to be spent
alone with the greatest sorrow OF her
life, for 1t was on st. Valentines day
20 years before that she had driven
Henry Fraser from her by bit of
foolish pettiness. For 364 days Of
each year she cast this sorrow from
her that she might be of help to 9TH
ers, but on this one day she brought
1t all back to her only that she might
cherish the love she had spurned SO
foolishly
When the remains of her simple
breakfast had been cleared away she
went to the drawer of the little secre-
tary and took from it the mementoes
OF her courtship; of the happy days
when she was the affianced bride of
Henry Fraser. Among them was the
golden circle he had placed upon her
finger when she had said Eyes" to his
wooing. She had never returned 1t,
as for years after she had driven
him from her she did not know where
to send it. Then when she saw his
name mentioned as prominent bust
ness man of an eastern city the little
circlet with it's modest setting had be-
come too dear to her to be parted with,
and besides he had probably forgot
ten its existence. Then, too, there
was the valentine 1t was the first
and last one he had sent her after their
engagement, and 1t was because of this
same valentine that she had spurned
the love he offered. 1t was but pref
ty verse, love message written on
q plain sheet of note paper, and signed
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and drive them off. but he said he
hadn't no time to go and wake up the
police, and they wouldn't get around
anyway before the middle of the
week. So pa took tent stake and
started for the green corn roast. The
Indians were taking turns dancing
and eating roasted corn, and they had
barrel of beer, and knew enough
about Indians to keep away from
them when they mix beer with green
corn, for it has about the same eff
feet as committing suicide with car
bolic acid.
Pa put his hat on one side of his
head and went right into the midst
of the Indians, and grabbed chief
called One Ear at a Time" and hit
him with the tent stake, and knocked
him down, and said, Nov, you git. :"
Well, sir, that Indian had no more
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-09
WESTERN CANADA'S
MARVELLOUS RETURNS.

The increase in the crop returns of
the Canadian West, in the past seven
years, has approached the marvellous,
and there is no reason to believe that
a corresponding increase will not re-
suit for many years to come. The in
crease has been particularly noticeable
in what was formerly known as the
Northwest Territories, but which, on
September 1, 1905, became the prov
inces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
From the official returns we find the
following results in the acreage sown
to wheat, oats and barley in the years
mentioned, and more favorable show
ing cannot be pointed to in any other
country during a like period.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-09
SAYINGS OF SAGES.

Glory should follow, not be pursued
Pliny, Jr.
Benevolent feeling ennobles the most
trifling actions.-Thackeray.
The usual fortune of complaint is to
excite contempt more than pity.-John-
son.
A given force applied for given time
upon a given point is bound to win
Napoleon.
Character is a bundle of habits. Hab-
it's originate in the mind and are regis
tered on the body.-George D. Trip.
Half the sorrows of women would be
averted if they could repress the speech
they know to be useless-nay, the speech
they have resolved not to utter.-George
Eliot.
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wearing Grape on our arms. but cir
Gus is not built that way.
Ordinarily it may be quiet enough
in Philadelphia on Sunday, but pa
found that he had more of run for
his money than at any place we have
been so far We have had tribe of
Indians with our wild west depart
ment all summer, and pa has not
stood very we'll with the Indians since
he was in charge of the show at Fort
Wayne, and they all got drunk, and he
had them tied up to the poles around
the ring until they got sober. They
have laid for pa ever since, and 1T
was only a matter of time when they
got him. Then at Pittsburg our man.
ager picked up a company of canni-
balls that had got left over from the
st. Louis fair, and who agreed to per-
form for their board and clothes, and
as they don't wear any clothes to
speak of, and only eat dog week days,
and hope to get human being to
roast on Sunday, it seemed a pretty
good bargain.
Well, the Indians got permission to
hold a green corn dance in piece of
woods near the circus lot, and the
management got them a wagon load
of corn, and they had built fire and
were roasting the corn, and dancing,
and pa didn't know about it, and just
after dark the Quaker who owned the
woods complained to pa, who was on
watch Sunday night, that his Indians
had got off the reservation and were
preparing to go on the warpath, and
he wanted them to get off his prem
Uses. Pa said he would go right over
and drive them back to the tents.
l tried to get pa to let the police go
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with his name. How angry she had
been when it came; how she had ex-
pected one of those silk and lace af-
fairs exposed for sale in the village
store. She could still remember the
one she had particularly admired and
expected. 1t was much the finest thing
of its kind in the village that year,
and her disappointment was but
heightened when Lucy Edwards came
in bearing the coveted bit of senti-
ment.
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Ever since we knew the show was
billed for Philadelphia for a Saturday,
and that we would have to stay over
Sunday in that town, there has been
symptoms of a revolt. Everybody
connected with the show has horror
of being found dead in Philadelphia.
They claim it is too dead for live peo-
pie, and not very satisfactory to dead
people.
A performer who was with the show
last year says that nobody but the
newspaper people who had free tick
cts attended the performances, and
some of them wouldn't go in the tent
unless the press agent promised to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-09

The yield has been uniformly good
every year except 1909, when there ap-
pears to have been slump all along
the line. This, however, was more
than compensated for in the following
year, when the bumper crop in wheat,
oats and barley put the returns of all
previous years completely in the shade
and gave an impetus to settlement In
the west which has prevailed to the
present, as the following table by bush
e1S will show.
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1t will be seen that the number OF
acres sown to wheat, oats and barley
in 1898 was 429,749, and that this had
increased in 1904 to 1,5S7,337. The
total crop in the cereals mentioned was
9,O33, 297 bushels in 1898, and in 1904
it had grown to the magnificent total
of 35,413,52 In the year lust closed
the forward movement" Il the agri-
culture of the west has been the won
der and envy Of the world. New sec
lions of the country have been placed
under tribute to the plow and harrow,
and the grain area has been largely
increased. This Is particularly the
case where it has been demonstrated
that Alberta Red" winter wheat nay
be successfully grown, and along the
lines of the new railways towards the
center of the country, where mixed
farming prevails.
The future of the Canadian West is
assured, and for years to come it is
bound to be the land of promise to the
agriculturist Of every nation and OF
every cline, and the land Of oppor-
tunity to every settler within its
bounds.
Fullest information can be secured
from any Canadian Government Agent.
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Copyright By J. B. Bowlssl

The Circus Strikes the Quaker City
They Go on a Ginger Ale Jag-Pa
Breaks UP an Indian War Dance
and Comes Near Being Burned
Alive-The Worlds Fair Cannibals
Have a Roast Dog Feast.
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CAUGHT BY THE GRIP
RELEASED BY PE-RU-NA.
Pneumonia Followed La Grippe
Pe-ru-na the Remedy That
BROUGHT Relief.

Brought Relief.
Mr.. T. Barnecott. West Ayimer, On
tario, Can, writes:
Last winter was i'll with pneumonia
after having la grippe. took Peruna
for two months, when I became quite
well: and l can say that any one can be
cured by it in a reasonable time and at
little expense"
Systemic Catarrh, t'e Result of La
Grippe. Pe-ru-na Receives Credit
for Present Good Health.
Mrs. Jennie w. Gilmore, Box A, White
Oak, Ind. Ter, writes:
six years ago had la grippe, which
was followed by systemic catalrh. The
only thing ] used was Peruna and
Manalin, and / have been in better
health the last three years than for
years before. l give Peruna all the
credit for my good health"
Pe-ru-na-A Tonic After La Grippe.
Mrs. Chas. e. Wells, Sr., Delaware,
Ohio, writes: "After a severe attack
of la grippe, I took Peruna and found
it very good tonic"
"Most Effective Medicine Ever Tried
for La Grippe"
Robt. L. Madison, A. NJ, Principal of
Cullowhee High School, Painter, N. c.,
is chairman of the jackson County
Board of Education. Mr.. Madison says
81 am hardly ever without Peruna in
my home. 1t is the most effective medi-
cine that have ever tried for la grippe >
Mrs. Jane Gift, Athens, O., writes
II had la grippe very bad. My husband
bought Peruna for me. In a very short
time 1 saw improvement and was soon
able to do my work"
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A Don't,

Don't forget your servants aud
washerwoman.
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Mrs. Chas. e. Wells, Sr., Delaware,
Ohio, writes: after a severe attack
of la grippe, took Peruna and found
it a very good tonic"