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SEN Ia %FOLLETTE'S
CANDIDATE is beaten
Governor Davidson Is Renominated by
Republicans, Although He Was
Opposed by the Senator.

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. Ex-Governor
James o. Davidson was yesterday NOM
mated to head the republican state
ticket, having defeated Speaker Irvine
L. Lenroot, of the last assembly, his
only opponent, by a majority that nay
run as high as 20, 900. Davidson carries
with him his running mate, w. d. Con
nor, of Mansfield, for lieutenant COVER
nor, who defeated John S. Strang, of
Oshkosh, for second place.
For the democrats John A. Aylward,
of Madison. is leading Ernest Merton,
of Waukesha, for first place, and John
O'Meara, of Milwaukee, appears to be
ahead of Michael F.. Blenski, of Mill
waukee. for second place. The vote
vas comparatively light.
Davidson won the nomination in
spite of the fact that United States
Senator LaFollette ~canvassed the state
for Lenroot, making speeches for his
candidate in nearly every portion of
the state. Davidson and several of his
adherents also made an active
The prohibitionists and social demo-
Gratis named their state ticket in con-
vention some time ago and the cam
didates We're voted for in compliance
with the primary law without opposi-
ton.
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SELL STANFORD JEWELS
100000 Collection Will Be Sold b,
University for Library.

San -FrGansoisco, Sept. 5.-The world.
famous collection of precious stonel
and jewelry. the property of the late
Mrs. Jane Stanford, valued at nearly
81. 900, 900, will be sold by trustees Of
LELAND Stanford university as soon as
possible. This action was decided upon
at a meeting of trustees held yester-
day. Part of the collection will be
disposed of at private sale, many offers
from leading eastern jewelers. being al
ready on file. Those unsold will be put
up at auction in New York and Lor-
don.
Members of the board of trustees Of
the university say that their action is
merely carrying out the expressed
wishes OF Mrs. Stanford that the jew
els be sold and a library fund be es-
tablisheo with the proceeds, the income
from which shall be used for the pur-
chase of books.
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RANKS HIGH
IN RIFLE TEAM MATCH
Score 455, as Against 500 for Massa-
chusetts, Which Took First
Place.

Rifle Range, Sea Girt, N. j., Sept. G.
On the 200 yard stage of the national
rife team match, which opened this
morning with forty-one contestants,
the Iowa team scored 455 as against the
500 by Massachusetts and New Jersey,
which took first and second places re-
spectively, 507 by Pennsylvania. sos by
Minnesota, which ranked fourth, SOB by
Connecticut, 500 by the District of Co
lumbia, 495 by New York and Ohio,
4S9 by the navy and infantry, 4S7 by
Wisconsin, 4S3 by the cavalry, ATS by
Maryland. 46S by Montana and 464 by
Indiana.
The high score for Iowa was "A by
Sergeant f.. E. Hilderbrand. of the
Fifty-sixth regiment. The high score
in the field was AZ by Sergeant Will
liams Of New Jersey,
The ia score follows: Lieutenant
A. S. e. en-, 80; Sergeant r. ]. Hide
man. 81; Sergeant j. L.. Carlson, Al;
Captain f. S. Hird, 40; Sergeant f. E.
Hilderbrand, "A; Private j. L. Hennesy,
IS: Sergeant A. r. Ruehle, 81: Lieuten-
ant u. S. Geist. 43; Sergeant G. N. Ross.
rs: Private Vernan Rinkle, IS; Sergeant
g. L. Ellsworth, IS; Sergeant Z. ~.
Can't, 80. Total, ass.
In Military Championship.
Rifle Range, Seagirt, N. j.. Sept. =
In the fifty leaders who won the first
stage eco and 600 yards of h presi-
dents match for the mile rifle cham
of America qualified for the
second and final stage Lieutenant %.
& Geist. of the Iowa team, took fifth
in the field of 27S contestants. He
scored los. The high mar was Sergeant
Skees, of the infantry, with ITO.
seasirr. N. j., Sept. Firing began
today in the most important competi-
80, In tho history of military rifle
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RETURNS FROM ERMoNr.

Montpelier, VT, Sept. 6.-Fletcher
D. Proctor, of Proctor, son of United
States Senator Redfield Proctor. was
elected governor of Vermont yester-
day by a large majority. The repub-
lican organization late last night
claimed that his plurality over Percival
Clement, of Rutland, the independent
and democratic candidate, would ex-
ceed $4,000. The normal republican
plurality in Vermont is about 21,OOO.
Scattered returns received from the
two congressional districts of the state
indicate that both Representative Da-
vid j. Foster, of Burlington. repub-
lican. in the First, and Representative
Kittredge Haskin, of Brattleboro, re-
publican. in the Second, nave been re-
elected by the usual large majorities.
Returns from 100 towns out of 246
show that the legislature will be over
whelmingly republican. Up to 10
o'clock p. m. it was shown that seven
ty-flve republicans. twelve democrats
and six Independents We're elected.
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ARREST AGITATORS
IN MINING CAMP
Frenchman and Two Mexicans Were
Trying to Organize Raid on Gus
toms House.

Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 6.-Collis Hum.
BERT. a Frenchman, and Leonardo Viii
.areal and Bruno Hrevino, Mexicans,
were arrested early today at the Now
~ and Patagonia mining camps where
many miners are employed. The ar
tests We're made by immigration In
spector Murphy.
1t is charged the men We're agitators
who were attempting to organize a
.orce of Mexican miners to attack
Nogales Sonora and capture the Gus
.oms house and arsenal of Rurales.
Letters on the prisoners show their
CLANS were directed by Mexican revolu-
Zionist leaders in st. Louis.
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Warsaw, Sept. 4.-Soldiers last night
killed four citizens here and made
wholesale arrests.

st. Petersburg. Sept. 6.-Chaos reigns
since the dissolution of the douma. Aft
er the establishment of the douma the
censorship OF h press was relaxed
and some freedom of assembly allowed;
and by newspapers, political clubs and
public meetings, all of which had a
prodigious mushroom growth a body Of
public opinion whose movements are
disquieting in the extreme was manu-
featured with bewildering haste. The
bounds of propriety are fagrantly
transgressed in the cartoons, the criti-
cisms and even the advertisements of
the daily papers,; in the shops grossly
indecent prints have displaced the lives
of the saints, and command a wide
sale; men and women reel on
the streets in greater numbers than
ever before.
Other symptoms have tended to
alienate the sympathies of the manu-
featuring and commercial classes of
the community. The last three years
have seen a great improvement in the
status, the hours of work., the wage
and the conditions of life of the work.
Ing class. Unfortunately, with few ex-
ceptions, these much-needed refol ms
were too long withheld by the masters,
AZ ILL., NAiSA A1S LIZ l4ClS oISdll.
lied themselves and become irresisti-
BILE, yielded to force, employed in nu-
merous and fierce strikes, What they
had denied to justice. The workmen,
having gained more h they ever
hoped for, now desire and demand more
than they a Yer receive. Managers
and foremen are subjected to abuse
and violence and threatened with death
they refuse to make impossi-
ole concessions to their men. Frequent
" the demands conclude with a claim
20 a share in the profits of the enter
prise-of course without any liability
.or the failure which would inevitably
.nsue were the other demands allowed.
Recently the men at a large factory
| put their masters overcoats n hats
INTO collins brought TO the premises,
| md with all the circumstance of a
funeral except the presence of a priest
.ead the burial service, mentioning the
aames of those whom they thus threat
ened as if they were already lead.
HostiIities in Full Sway.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 6.-The situa-
lion in Shusha, %Jevenshir and other
districts in southeastern Caucasus,
where the Tartar-Armenian hostilities
are in full sway, has grown SO serious
the viceroy has superseded General
Golochtakpotf, governor general of
Elizabethpol province, by General
Bauer, whose name was coupled with
| that of General Alikhanoff in connec-
, ton with the strong methods by which
order was restored in the Caucasus at
ter the revolt of last winter.
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INVESTIGATE THE
INTERNATIONAL
Attorney General of Kansas Will Probe
Into Affairs of Harvester
Trust

Topeka, Kas.. Sept. 6.-Investigations
Of the International Harvester company
oave been instituted by c. c. Coleman,
attorney general of Kansas, to deter
nire whether the concern is operating
N violation of the state antitrust
avs. The attorney general stated last
night that in the district courts of
Reno and Shawnee counties today all
The implement dealers of Topeka and
Hutchinson will be s~ubpoenaed to APP
pear before district judges and tell
wha they know about the operations
Of the
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-07
DEPOSITS N
IN MOROCCO BANK
Mere Concern Over Securing Funds
Stolen Than Extraction OF

Chicago. Sept. 4.-Assistant. States
Attorney Barbour today made a de-
ment for a warship to bring Paul O..
Stensland. the fugitive banker under
arrest at Tansiel. back to this coun-
Try. The request was sent to Govern
or Deneen following a series of COM
munieations oetwesn the state eSeeua
Adee in Washington.
President Roosevelt will be petit
toned TO ask the government Of No
rocco to turn the prisoner over to the
United States authorities.
Washington. d. c., Sept. 6.-The state
department is more concerned over the
steps taken to tie up the deposit of
none which has been made in the
Bank OF Tangier. Morocco, by Paul o.
S~tensland, president OF the Milwaukee
avenue State bank, of Chicago, thar
with the extradition of the fugitive
banker himself. Acting Secretary of
State Adee is giving the question his
personal attention.
1t is the Impression that no interna-
tional complication woul arise If the
authorities quietly kidnapped Stensland
and returned him to this country for
trial. but it is an entirely different
question when it comes to the recover
of the money deposited in the foreign
bank regardless of whether that money
was stolen or not.
The deposit is reported to be about
$1,000 and it is said that Stensland
may also have other funds in foreign
banking concerns.
Asks for Extradition.
Springfield. ILL.,, Sept. 6.-Governor
Daneou at noon jSS,1e6 a raoI1eSt TO the
secretary of state asking that the gov
ernor make a request upon the govern
ment of Morocco for the %extradition of
Stensland and that he be delivered to
Police Sergeant Shippy and Assistant
States Attorney Olson. of Chicago.
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ELECTION IN ARKANSAS
State to Go for Bourbon Candidate,
by the Usual Majority

Little Rock. Ark. Sept. 5.-State, dis
trict and county elections are being
held in Arkansas today. Indications
are that J. S. Little. the democratic
candidate for governor, will have a
plurality of 65.0 900 over his republican,
competitor. John I. Worthington.
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is JOHN D. THE HEAD7
Judge Banker Reserves Decision
Motion to Quas', information
Auainst RockefeIler.

Findlay, o., Sept. Clearing on the
motion to quash the Information
against John d. Rockefeller, as the re.
pany, was heard today. Judge Banke
his decision. Trial will fol.
low should the court sustain informa
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-07

Carlisle, Pa.-Lewis Emery, jr., nom
inee of the democratic and Lincoln re-
publican parties for governor, and who
as an independent oil operator has been
hghting the Standard Oil
says that join D. Rockefeller controls
corporations Which have a total capt.
talization CT S5,200.O0O. 0GN.
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In both and 1905, Illinois led in ag-
gregate value of farms, with Iowa a
very close second, the totals being Illi-
nois. 81, 469. 600, 900: Iowa, s {, 1882, 600, 900;
Texas comes third with $1,4S7. 600, 900;
and other states with farm and value
above the billion point are New York.
Ohio. Indiana, Missouri.
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TEDDY LEAVES OCT.
Goes to Washington, and from There
to Pennsylvania, Where
He Will Speak.

oyster Bay, Sept. 6-President Roose-
yelt will leave Sycamore Hill for Wash
tngton on October l. Three days later
he will make a flying trip to Har-
risburg and York. Pa, n deliver
speeches..
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Herino Refutes stensIand.

Chicago, Sept. 6.-Cashier Henry w.
Herring, of the Milwaukee Avenue bank.
today denied the statement Of Presi-
dent ~Stensland, cabled from Tangiers,
that he CHering) was the author of the
ruin of the bank.
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Mich Other

As against h large net Increase IN
values of live stock, the following show
ing for grains, ETC., suggests strongly
that the farmer who raises stock makes
better returns thar he who sells the
grain. The prices per bushel in the
years indicated are:
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WESTERN Coll TOURNEY
0usiifyins Round Played in a Driz-
zIinu Rain.

y. Louis. Mo. Sept. 6.-The qualify
ssnS round ind in the amateur championship
~ the Western Golf association was
y rssGg .nt the Glen Echo Ill in a driz-
~. Chandler Egan. Of Ghi e tho
, ,uss|'nLs champion, will not defend his
sn.s !, - 20 tournament ana denarta5I
Az. ~, Mn,cag slastsaigh on business rho
entry y ulnusualiyalarge :
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Il D VILLAGES
ARE WIPED OUT
Floods in india Have Devastated
Large Section Of Country and
DESTROYED the Crops.

Lahore, India, Sept. 6.-lFloods have
devastated a large section Of the Behar
district. Whole Villages We're obliter-
ated and great areas of food crops de-
stroyed. The indigo crop is ruined.
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New York-A letter from Bisllor
Charles McCabe, of the Methodist
church, addressed to Alton b. Parker
chairman OF the executive committee
of the International P~olicyholders' com
mittee, urges the members to adopt the
administration tickets of both the New
York and the Mutual Life Insurance
companies. The bishop expresses dis
approval of an address issued by the
committee in which attacks We're made
on the management of the insurance
mpa
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Chicago-Higher education as ar es-
sential to culture was discreditsd Nv
Professor William w. Folwell, profes.
scr Of political science in the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, in the convocation
Grafton at the University of Chicarc,
exercises.
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|;HAOS RE|CNS
IN CARS CAPITAL
The Bounds of Propriety Are
Transgressed in Many
Ways.
SITUATION MORE SERIOUS
General Bauer, a Man of Strong
Methods, Supersedes Golochtakpoff
in Provinces in the
Caucasus.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 4.-Three
hundred revolutionists were ex-
PEELED from St. Petersburg today.
Among them were many persons
connected with the local press.
The government. within a few days,
reforms on which 1t will go before
the country in the coming elections.
There is little activity in the general
political situation.
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Oyster Bay, N. YIN a letter 10
Charles A. Stillings, public printer at
Washingt n, made public today, Pres
ident Roosevelt wrote that if the
in spelling advocated by the
simplitied spelling board and mi into
use IN official documents meet opula
approval they will be IF
not, he wrote. they will be ropped.
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Detroit, Mich.-An operation which has
aroused the interest of medical men has
been performed in Harper hospital. A por-
ton of the tibula, or lower side calf bone
of a boy of u was removed and replaced
by the corresponding portion of the skele-
ton of a young dog. The inserted portion
has joined the healthy section of the boys
fibula and ii is all now growing as one
piece.
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Partisan unprecedented number of
Americans are stranded in Paris. The
American Relief society and Americans
generally are overwhelmed with requests
for help. Many Americans are even beg
ging in the streets. None of them speak
anything but English, which makes mat
ters worse. The relief society is sending
as many as possible to London.
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New York.-A man in ST. Marys, w. Va.
who wanted to contribute to the republi-
can congressional campaign committees
dollar fund, stuck n postage stamp on the
face of a standard silver dollar, and adj
dressed it with red ink to Congressman
James S. Sherman, p. o.. Box 2o63, New
York. The silver dollar went through the
mail easily and has been received at the
headquarters at the ST. James building.
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Baltimore. M~d.-Charles Butts who
blows a horn in the Middletown band
blew so hard at a picnic at which the band
played that he burst 4 blood vessel and is
in q critical condition.
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London.-The valet of the late Colonel
Hosier has come into the income from a
fortune by the death of his master. who
commanded the famous cavalry regiment
OF the Scots Greys.'' English Wallets are
rarely remembered in their masters wills,
but Colonel Hosier leaves his servant $780,
600 and an annuity. all his property In New
Zealand. all his clothes. his gold watch
and chain, many silver articles and all his
furniture and household effects. Colonel
Hosier had many relatives.
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Live Stock Ahead Of Grains.

In all this statistical array nothing
IS more interesting than the study of
the values of animals and crops, at
the farm year by year from 1880 to
1905. 1t is heard to realize the great
fluctuations that have taken place. For
instance, in animals, average years in
the years given have been:
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Springfield, ul.-The feet of Long Law,
n Decatur Chinaman injured in a collision
on the interurban railway at Riverton
Sunday, have been sent to a local under
taking firm, which has prepared them for
permanent preservation. AS soon as the
Chinanan is able to leave the hospital he
will send the feet to China to relatives.
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C~leveland.-The carbolic m OF the
twentieth century girl was pictured today
by DR.. Rurick n. Roark. Granting the
alarming prevalence of kissing and the
growing public knowledge as to death-
dealing microbes DR.. Roark predicted that
the cautious damsel will make a frantic
dive for the atomizer and then after the
antiseptic performance the osculatory pro-
cess will proceed as in former days.
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Cincinnati. O.-Professing to be hypno-
tized by a countess worth 81, 600, OCO. who
offered to buy him from his wife for s. 600
William Deane has disappeared and his
wife of a few months would like 10 know
his whereabouts.
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Philadelphia, Pa.-Mary Rata heard .
noise in a front room and. going to inves.
tigate, discovered a man in the act Of
r.hing the bureau drawers. What are
you doing thcre?" she inquired. None Of
your business" exclaimed the intruder,
making for the woman and grasping her
about the waist Don't you scream or /
will kiss you" This proved effective, and
the man escaped by climbing out at tho
second-story window. Miss Rata d.scov-
cred that he had taken $50 in cash.
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Washington, ID. C.-Shall naval officers
be taught Esperanto. the universe, lana
guage? The naval academy board is con-
sidering a letter of William Baff. of Wor-
cester, Mass, who says that with a daily
lesson of our hour for a period of five
months, the midshipmen at Annapolis
would readily acquire a complete knowl-
edge of Esperanto and would he able to
read, write and speak it tluently. Mr..
Baff ugges this to the board Only as a
supplements: = language.
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Milwaukee, Wis.-Thls city has a cow
that caused one strike and may cause an,
other. Sixteen young women who scwed in
the tailor shop of crank lAeft said a few
days ago If animals in an adjoining build.
ing We're not moved away they would quit
work, and when the time limit expired ana
the cows remained they struck. AS n re,
suit the health department compelled thu
owner to remove the animals. He KEEP!
one. however, and the girls declare this Is
still a nuisance. and IL proper quarters ara
not provided in three days they will strike
again.
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Bismarck, N. D.-Fred w. Scwanke a
ST. Paul boy, jumped from the Northern
Pacific railroad bridge, sixty-four feet
high, into the Missouri river and rescued
Miss Mabel Alleson, who had been thrown
into the water when her boat upset.
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Lewisburg, Pa.-Campers returning to
this place from Nittany mountains, tell of
seeing the operations of a resident of that
region, who has a passion for killing rat
llesnakes with his bare hands. So expert
is he that he has never been bitten. A
snake captured, he sits dow and cuts off
its head with a jacknife.
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All the foregoing figures, it should be
explained, are for land value only;
they do not include improvements. In
the North Atlantic states, in 1890,
buildings represented SO per cent of
the total value of farms; in the South
Atlantic states. 25 per cent; south
central, 10. ana north central, IS per
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-07

San Francisco. CALI. "A. Mack, an in
surance man of Alameda, and Antoine An
drews, of San Rafael dropped dead from
heart failure caused by the fatigue of the
long, arduous tramp from the foot of Mar
ket street To the business heart OF the
city. The long walk was made necessary
by the street car strike.
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Was a Long Chase.
Sultan Just as Soon 4ai! Him.

The sultan at Fee, to whom Mr..
Grummere is going on his first official
mission in two weeks, will do any
thing for President Roosevelt. The
mere matter of throwing a man In Jail.
and keeping him there Indefinitely is
so small a request that it is granted be-
fore it is asked. Two weeks in a Moor
ish prison would max Il man willing
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Dodge City, Kan.-When Governor Hoch
visited the old soldiers reunion he was in
troduced to a Mr.. Murdoch who arose and
looking at the chief executive said: II
don't shake hands with YOU" The gov
ernor passed on. making no
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Trenton, N. J.-Sleeping as peacefully as
a babe on the seat of his farm wagon, as
his old horse ambled slowly along, William
Johnson had a surprising awakening,
From the midst of dreamland he found
himself clinging to the pilot of a freight
trains locomotive with the wreck of his
wagon about him.