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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
PASSENGER DEATH RATE HIGH.
Report show. s,0a5 Accidents on
Railway Trains In Quarter.

Rerert Shows 3,0R5 Accidents on
Railway Trains In Quarter.
More passengers on railway trains lost
their lives in train accidents in the quar-
ter ended December last h in any pre-
vious three months in the history Of the
country except for the quarter ended IN
September, 1904, according to a bulletin
issued by the interstate commerce COM
mission. The total number of collisions
and derailments reported during the De
cember quarter of last year was 1864
and 1,43O passengers and trainInen were
killed and 1854 injured.
Of this number $50 passengers were
killed in train accidents, which is fous
times the general average of all quarters
since September, 1904, when the highest
record of 22S killed was made. The next
highest record was lat in the quarter
ended in December, 1908, and this was
three times tie average of the nine pre-
cedin1 quarters.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
NEW YORK.

Crop and trade reports are irregular
out there is a slight Improvement visible
as a whole, owing to higher tempera-
lures. Relatively the best reports as to
retail and wholesale trade come from
the Pacific Northwest. In the central
West, Southwest. Northwest, East and
South the volume of retail trade is be-
hind a year ago almost without exception.
Foundry pig iron markets are firmer.
Business for 1908 is appearing in various
lines. Within the week $4,000 tons of
malleable Bessemer were sold in Cleve.
land for delivery in the first part of 1908,
the price basis being $50 per ton, valley
furnaces. Som southern iron has also
been disposed of for first quarter ship.
ment. the quotation being $3.50 Bir-
mingham. Demand for basic pig for de-
livery in the last half of 1907 is quite
heavy. ... ..., .a. -..s- ..,
. Business failures for the week ending
May % number 1863, against 1874 last
week, 10 in the like week of 1906. 179
in 1905, 1874 in 1904 and 1S1 in 1908.
Canadian failures for the week number
10, as against % last week and IS in
this week a year ACCOMPLISHMENTS Com.
mercial Report.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
7.CTE4s1ER N1O&ss.'

regular night trip from Grand Haven to
Milwaukee.
Four of the victims were coal passers
penned down in the forecastle by the
flames where many of the rescued passen-
gers from the decks of the f%reighter Kerr
and the steamer Kansas saw them at the
port holes vainly imploring for help. j.
NJ. Rhoades of Detroit, a passenger, wa
the fifth victim. He was terribly burned
in his berth and died soon after reaching
Il hospital at Grand Rapids. By the time
the three steamers had reached the scene
the Naomi's boats were in the water
filled with people and a number of pas
sengers were still huddled on the stern
of the burning ship. The captain of the
Kerr ran his big steel ship up under the
Naomi's stern so close that the imperiled
people leaped to her deck. The rescued
pa sengers tell graphic and thrilling tales
of their dangers and are unanimous ] N
p~raising the GOODNESS II bravery of the
Naomi's crew.
The steamer was burned to the waters
edge, and was towed into the harbor q
smoldering hulk. The burned bodies OF
the four missing coal passers were found
in the forecastle of the Naomi when the
hui. was boarded.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
Interesting News Items.

Joseph Miner is under arrest as the
result of the finding of the lead body of
T. Sirmans. a ~storekeeper at Sirmans'
station, Madison county, Florida.
More thar a score of families were rem
dered homeless by a fire which swept
Lincoln, n. H., entailing a loss of $780,
600. Twenty-Five cottages and two large
residences were destroyed.
George w. Caldwell, a contractor, was
served at Little Rock. Ark, with a war
ant based OF an Indictment charging
graft in connection with the new State
capitol.
The steel steamer Saxon. owned by tho
Pittsburg Steamship Company, went
ashore oil Caribou Island, Lake Superior,
during a fog, and is declared to be in bad
shape.
Secretary of State Schmall formally
denied to the Minnesota Retail Lumber
Dealers Association the right to incor-
porate on the ground that its articles Of
incorporation filed March IL were In
conflict with the State antitrust laws.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31


One of the characters in a little COM
edy enacted at a Chicago market is an
old colOred nanny" She Is eccen-
trio, says a writer in the Chicago Rec
ord Herald. But there is wisdom in
her and a sense of good breeding. She
seems always kind, and grateful for
words of greeting from "de white folks
she meets upon the street or in the
shops.
She came into the market, and after
acknowledging with low obeisance u
Good morning, aunty!" she went into
the back of the shop and brought out
a rabbits foot. She stood examining
it with the q%uaintest comments:
Dis heah a funny rabbits foot-it
only got our toeses at l kin see, but
it a hind right foot all de same, and
guess it bring me luck. Maybe de boss
gives me a chicken more cheaper"
We were thoroughly enjoying her
monologue when a pert miss came in
and said, Hello, aunty!" The old
flame was at once incensed. She gath.
cred her scant skirts about her, and
walking to the other side of the store,
she said, oh, so s%cornfully:
"'Hello!' Don you say hello to
me. Amt yo' got nc manners? Why
dom yo' talk stylish and say Good
mawnen'? I suppose yo' say hello to
yo' teacher, do yo'? Girls down South
never say hello Dey never did heah
such a word"
The girl was truly embarrassed, and
seemed to feel the rebuke ever though
its source was humble.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
CHICAGO.

Aside from the effect of unfavorable
weather on leading retail lines. the course
of business is steady, production in the
industrial branches being fully sustained
and new demands carrying the period of
assured forward work farlhrr into 1908.
No minute appears IN the pressure
for supplies of raw material.
Current inquiries indiCur" that heavy
orders for rails and equipment arc i'm
pending. and there is fair activity in fur
mace product. structural shapes and wire.
Local building operations involve unusual
consumption of materials, and the forces
employed increase. at exceptionally high
wages.
Manufacturing conditions remain ia
yorabIe, wood and leather working plants
steadily increasing outputs, and there is
Il large distribution of electric and brass
goods. Receipts of ore fall short of ex-
pcCtations, owing TO late opening of nav
igAtion. but fresh arrivals Of lumber and
hides exceed those of n year ago. Deal
ineS in the wholesale branches make a
fair aggregate.
Mercantile collections, continue to be
very encouraging. Bank statements this
week exhibit deposits at the highest level.
Commercial borrowing is not particularly
urgent at this time. but money works
easier. although the discount rate re-
mains al ~. per cent.
The markets fer provisions and live
stock reflect steady absorption. and bet
ter receipts of hogs increase packing. but
the breadStufrs are in IesScned demand,
the rapid rise in prices having discour-
aged cash operations. The total move
ment of grain at this port aggregated
only T,4O3,SS6 bushels. against 9.36S,-
l3O bushels last week and 5,746,6SS bush
els a year ago. Compared with those of
last year. there arc increases in receipts
of lab per cent and in shipments 42.6
per cent. Receipts of live stock were
2G6,S93 head, against 2J3.345 head last
week and 2SO,S14 head last year.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number II, against 20 last week
and 24 a year ago.-Dun's Review Of
Trade.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
JUDGE HAReis FREED.
For the Second Time n Jury Finds
Him Not Guilty.

For the Second Time n Jury Finds
Him Not Guilty.
At Lexington, KY. the jury in the
case of Judge James Hargis, charged with
the murder of Thomas Cockrill, return
ed q verdict of not guilty.
Almost three years after the shooting
of Town Marshal Cockrill at Jackson
the verdict was rendered in the case of
the first of those who were charged joint
ly with the murder, and another chapter
in the famous Breathitt county feud an
nails is concluded. June 81, 1904, Cock
rill was shot in the court house at Jack
son. He died at Lexington, where he
was taken for medical treatment.
During the trial several witnesses
swore that Judge Hargis, his brothers
and Sheriff Ed. Callahan had entered a
murder conspiracy, promising immunity
to any one who would shoot Coclkrill,
DR.. B. d. Cox and J.. B. Marcum. all
three of whom since then lave been killed.
The defense, however, presented testl-
mony tending to disprove the conspiracy
charge, and Hargis, testifying on his own
behalf. denied all connection with the
shooting. Curt Jett, who confessed kill
ing Marcum, for which he was given a
life sentence, was a witness against Har-
gis.
The Hargis case had been on trial long
err than two weeks. More than fifty wit
nesses were examined. This is the sec
ond ~acquittal of Hargis, he having been
declared not guilty of the murder OF
James B. Marcum at his trial at Beatty
Vile last July.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
A Federation Of Peace


You won forget, Arthur, what you
promised me for Decoration Day"
"A ride to Woodlawn with the chill
dren? But, Margie, we have no soldier
grave to decorate"
Yes, dear, we have. I have adopted
one
Il don't understand. Margie."
"You remember that one lone grave
beyond the monument on the hill slope?
I'VE noticed last year that it had been
overlooked, and 1 found out the reason.
No one knew that it was a soldiers
grave, because it was so apart from the
rest. l looked the matter up. The man
was q soldier of the same company to
which my father belonged-my father,
who fell fighting for his country when
I was in my cradle! So l have his grave
We decorate tomorrow"
"All right, little wife, you shall have
the best box of flowers to be had for love
OF money"
,"Give them for love, Arthur, love of
our dear country, and of those who
fought her battles and left us a legacy
of peace"
what a good commanding general you
would have made, Margie, with your pat
riotic spirit"
"Oh, it's easy enough to be patriotic
In piping times of peace" answered his
wife, but you and l are old enough to
have heard the echoes of shot and shell.
These children know only the %splendor
and glory of war. They are old enough
now to be taught its reality, SO that they
may not only learn to live like soldiers,
but to die like them"
The two children, a girl of IL and a
&aro 18th ~{or~,% 1~l -,,~s
osity, for to them war was indeed a
splendid pageant, in which music, flags
and glittering uniforms made up a grand
tableau, and they looked forward with
great anticipation to Decoration Day,
strewing flowers on the graves of the
honored dead.
Arthur Lyman felt rather small when
he left home after having heard his wife's
GRAFTON. 1t seemed to him almost as if
he were to blame for being only five
wears old at the time of the war. and
not shouldering arms and going into the
battle. But he had no need to be ashamed
of his vocation, for he was a soldier in
the bravest sense of the word-a soldier
of peace.
1t is q common saying that a man is
often his own worst enemy.
Arthur knew what this meant. His
hasty, impetuous disposition was %contin-
ually getting him into trouble, and some
times it took all his wits to get out again.
He had at last found help by helping
Others. A white-haired man had come
to his Office one day mad asked for desk
room. He had no money and was Din
The presumption of the man in thus de-
~manding assistance surprised Arthur so
mucn as to render him for the moment
speeches., end he looked at the intruder
in blank amazement. If a blind mar can
hypnotize, then Arthur was hypnotized
into giving the old man the space he
wanted. There the hlind trange- set
up a little stock of pencils n station
cry, and at the end of a month rendered
. small rental for his stand.
On this morning, when Arthur en-
tered his Office, he saw that the little
stand was gone and that his blind pro-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
xMnMoRkOg
6!eASsGkofABLE
.AA~AAAAA-

The Sultan of Turkey is fond of ami
mails and has a wonderful collection at
Yildiz.
The King of Norway served as an or
binary apprentice in the Danish navy for
nine months.
The Gar of Russia has q strong dis
like to being photographed alone. He Il.
however, quite at ease when posing as n
of a group.
Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit, is an
educated man, tracing his ancestry
through Mulai Idris, the founder Of the
Moroccan empire.
King Leopold of Brussels is reckoned
as the richest man in Europe so far al
real estate is concerned.
The German Emperor rarely prepares
a speech and never uses notes when de-
livering an address in public.
Lord Cromer is such an industrious
man for England in Egypt that he rarely
accepts an invitation to dinner.
NJ. Rouvier, the French ex-premier,
has secured 100000 of the $1,4O0,OO0
necessary to start a new daily newspaper
in Paris. 1t will be the organ of the
Banque de Paris ct des Pays-Bas.
TIL crown of the King of Roumania 10
of solid iron, plain, and unadorned. II
was fashioned from q cannon which -
and his troops captured from the Turks
at Plevne.
Lord Walsingham is SO accurate . pis-
toll shot that he can hit wasps on the
wing. He is also a learned entomologist
and has the finest collection Of motha
and butterflies in the world.
The German Kaiser has two secretaries
employed in little else than supplying ths
royal table with magazines, newspapers
and books. Those passages to which hts
special attention is to be called are mark
Cd with green pencil.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
Brown. Dismissal InesaI.

The Supreme Court affirmed the ME
gality of the dismissal of Lieut.. Lewis
e. Brown from the volunteer army in the
Spanish war, Brown having brought suit
in the court of claims for back pay from
the date of his discharge. This was the
case in which Gen. Wood reconvened the
court martial which had acquitted Brown
of conduct unbecoming an officer ond a
gentleman, and ordered a reversal of the
verdict. While Brown will draw pay for
the time he lost, the dishonorable dis
charge will stand unless corrected by
Congress.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
grsP 'l
~~~~~@~

Justice w. II. Moody is the blond bach.
elor of the United States Supreme Court.
Charles Law Watts, a 16-year-old boy
of Kent, England, weighs 1873 pounds and
is still eating.
Theodore Gill, the worlds greatest au.
thority on fishes, works for the United
States government for 81 a month.
Joseph Lang, the public executioner Of
Vienna, wears a heavy gold watch chain
and a massive watch, which is held in his
pocket by a thief proof hook. .
J. ?. Nannetti, NJ. P, for the college
division of Dublin and mayor of that
city, is a working printer, and is fore
man of the F~reeman's Journal.
George I'rollope, an English actor Of
considerable note, has forsaken the stage
and will enter the Catholic priesthood.
He first appeared in THE Sign of the
Cross"
Chief Appah of the Utes holds com.
missioner Leupp responsible for every.
thing. Being told that Congress makes
the laws, IF you let them make such q
law you are no account in your job"
excl: med the old chief.
Stewart Edward White, the author,
has left his bungalow in California, where
he has been for the last two years, and
Joined the authors colony in New York.
Lord Kitchener, the famous English
general, and his brother, in boyhood days,
used to have to drive pigs to market.
They were sent off without breakfast and
had to do without that meal on their
return if the pigs remained unsold.
Chief Pleasant Porter of the Creeks
declares that the act of Congress hand
ing over Indian territory to Oklahoma
was the death kncll of his race. He
predicts that in 100 years there will not
be an Indian in the United States.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
T@. MAg2NlERS
e@tR. %RG

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime
$500 to $500; hogs. prime heavy, $4.NO
to $685.; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $6.1O; wheat, No. 2, 96c to Csc
corn, No. 2, 53c TO SAC; oats. standard,
45c to 47c: rye. No. ,, Sic to SEC: hay,
timothy. $14.O0 to $21.0O; prairie, 5000
to $1,000; butter, choice creamery 22c
to 24c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes,
SOC to 66c.
MISUNDERSTANDING, shipping. $500
to 5000; hogs. choice heavy, $500 to
500; sheep, common to prime, $500 to
S5.25; wheat, No. ., Ole to 93c; corn,
No. 2 white. 33c to ode; oats, No. 2
white, 42c to nc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 1925;
hogs, $500 to S6.52; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat. No. 2, 97c to CSC; corn,
No. 2, SIC to SOC; oats, No. 2, 43c to
45c; rye, No. 2. 75c to &c.
Cincinnati-CattIe. $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $S6.55; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 95c to 96c; corn.
No. 2 mixed, 53c to Soc; oats. No. 2
mixed, 43c to 44c; rye, No. 2. 74c to 76c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 1913; hogs.
$500 to $500; sheep. $3.50 to $3.50:
wheat, No. ?, 99c to $1.00: corn, No. 3
yellow, . to SIC; oats, No. 3 white,
47c to 49c rye, No. .. SEC to SIC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
99c to $1!01: corn, No. 3, 52c to 53c;
oats, standard. 44c to 45c; rye, No. 1,
Sic to S3c: barley, standard, SIC to Sac;
pork, mess, S16.45.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$4.9Q to 5000: hogs, fair to choice, $500
to S6.75; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1913; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 5000;
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, S1.O1 to $1.O3;
corn. No. 2, 0 to 62c; oats, natural
white, 49c to sic; butter, creamery, 23c
to 25c; eggs, western, 15c to lie.
Toledo-Wheat, No. . mixed, soc to
S1.OO; corn, No. 2 mixed, soc to SIC;
oats, No. 2 mixed, Acc to 47c; rye, No.
=, 8 to soc clover seed, prime. $500.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31

born at Galesburg ON March Z, 1913,
and received his education in old Lom-
onrd University. ate he attended
the Albany Law School, where he was
a student with President Mckinley,
and he was but Il youth when he step
ed from the classroom to shoulder a
musket in the war for the Union. En-
Listing in the One Hundred and Sec
md Illinois as Il private, he saw SER
vice in h same brigade with Prcsi-
lent Harrison, and subsequently,. march
ed with Sherman to the sea. Before
the end of the conflict he had been
brevetcd major for gallant and merito-
rious service.
h the war closed, Mr.. COnger
but in 1868 he went to Dexter, Iowa,
and there began farming and stock
causing, and also entered into the bank.
ing business. Naturally ne took an in
terest in politics, and successfully was
elected treasurer of the county, and
then State Treasurer. In 1854 he was
elected to Congress, and served three
HIS LII 1911 ne WAS uESl upDOlllcu
minister to Brazil, and was reappoint-
ed in 1897. and the following year he
was transferred to China, and while
there Mr.. Conger performed notable
service.
He was in Picking during the siege
following the terrible Boxer uprising,
and after the capture of that city by
the allies he conducted the negotiations
on the part of the United States. Sub.
%sequently he was head of h commits.
sion that negotiated the new CONNER.
cial treaty with China, which Went
into effect in 1902.
Mr.. Conger was appointed ambassa.
dor to Mexico in 1905. but his health
failing, he resigned the post within a
few months and went to live at Pasa.
dena, where he was seized with his ia.
tai illness,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
p-ob,b;t,on war in Kansas.

The Kansas Supreme Court has ap-
pointed receivers for the property of all
the breweries in the United States doing
business in Kansas, holding that the
State has a right to coniscate all prop
erty of any illegal business. Most Of
the brewers appear to be making little
resistance, but all are giving support to
the Annheuser-Busch company of St.
Louis. which is disposed to fight the
order. The receivership rule is based
upon the prohibition law which went into
effect in 1881.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
Things Theatrical.

Leading Man-Where are the eggs
for the barnyard scene?
Property Man-Oh, the audience will
donate them later.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
Ynnnr Girl Shot

Lena B. Reeves, 20 years OF age, shot
and killed at Sayre, Pa. Whether the
girl fred the shot into her own head or
was murdered is not positively known.
Four Italians are held.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31

at the
the end came.
In Il varied and
picturesque career
Mr.. Congcr, rs an
~Illinoisan. s h e j
h o on h y
State. AS soldier,
b Il : | n IN Il II ,
statesman and dip
lomat he fulfilled
his duties in n
h ! = h ly acceptable
manner. He was
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY.

Aged and grizzled and
a gray he stands,
The old flag clasped
in his loyal
Al hands.
- His eyes. no longer of
S youthful sight,
&tE Seem burning again
lHAN with the old war
NTg light
WIN His thoughts wing
ExyA back to the days
K4y when he
Il Marched beneath that
SsSlHHN banner to vic
Vy11HErfUf tory.
E>~S A IT'S the flag he fol-
S&1Ay IN lowed amid the
~SMSNE.Zk roar
STM&SGxANNS,EA And the fire and the
y&YKXttaus nhk4ssss~E crash and the
Eu%NTIxINhNS/ shock of war.
kS4EE ,.sNN Again can he hear the
&aSSnxNaSEafN wild rebel yell
kM3x81cSSTN$XY Arise from the nav
W1WSMmMySsMA of frp-fringed
WwWMMEFWM hell!
.WyWVN4 ~ Again does he hear
~iBWHMY M the defiant notes
~| OF response from Il le-
HEH/IR 'gion Of comrade
k1| REk/Il throats
VNA&MWHfM Again Is he seeming
HMMs|I to gasp and
tNVxfHN#H In the rolling pillows
"tSEfEfW of powder smoke .
49, v Again does he witness
u the plashins
Spring forth from its fount in a crimson
Again is he gazing at cold. dead eyes
And their s%ightless stare at the war-rert
skies!
He sees the grave trenches Jy which he
with the dead piled round them as corded
wood.
He sees the black buzzards soar overhead
With their greedy eyes on the ricks Of dead.
No priest nor parson was there to pay
A tribute to heroes they laid away.
No flowers were laid on the soldiers biers,
No loved ones christened their grave with
No kind hand coftined the forms that fell
In that fiery breath from the lungs of
As their elbows touched in the battles
blast,
70 they touched in the trench as they laid
at rest.
And these were the comrades long passed
away
Whose memory hallows Memorial day.
For them do these grateful hands of ours
Irvine garlands of natures fairest flowers.
And for those who answered the trumpet
can
Since the days Of battle our teardrops fall.
We honor them as the ones who gave
Their lives tor the country they fought to
They. too, we're ready and willing to yield
Their lives for the flag on the war-swept
.Mayhap from their camp up beyond the skies
They are looking downward with spirit
eyes.
Are watching the flag as 1t softly waves
Ger the comrades gathered around their
graves.
Mayhap the old comrade affection fills
Their spirit breasts with Its love-born
thrills.
Memorial Day: IT'S a sacred name
On the lips OF the heroes Of war-won
fame.
And till generations have come and gone,
TIL Time fades into Eternity's dawn,
Till the last sou of Freedom has passed
away,
Twill be honored. revered as 1t is to-day.
james Barton Adams.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31

The oldest flag in existence Is that
Of Denmark, which dates form 1919.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
EDWIN n. coNGER DIES.

Minister to China Succumbs
to Hines
Edwin Ilurd Conger. former minis
.er to China. died at his home. in Pasa-
lena, Cal. Saturday. The family was