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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy, $4.oO
to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $685.; wheat, No. 2, 96c to Csc;
corn, No. 2, Gle to CSC; oats, standard,
53c to 54c; rye, No. @, SOC to SOC. hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $500; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, 2lc
to &c; eggs, fresh. 1Sc to 21c; potatoes,
per bushel, SOC to Coo. q
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping $500
to $685.; hogs, choice neavy, $500 to
SG.4O; sheep, common to prime. $500
to $4.75 wheat, No. 2, 90c to 92c; corn,
No. 2 white, Gle to SIC; oats, NJ ?
white, 49c to SOC.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $7.1O;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, Csc to $1.00; corn,
No. 2, 6Oc to Gle; oats, No. 2, 47c to
4sc; rye, No. 2, SIC to S3c-
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1913;
hogs, $500 to $6.70; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 95c: corn,
No. 2 mixed, Csc to sc; oats, No. 2
mixed, sic to SIC; rye, No. 2, SSc to 9Oc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to Ole; corn, No. 3
yellow, Toe to Tic; oats, No. 3 white,
SIC to SIC; rye, No. 2, SAC to Soc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern.
S1.O4 to $1.OG; corn, No. 3, Gle to &c (;
oats, standard. sic to SIC: rye, No. !,
SOC to Ole; barley, standard, Ole to 92c;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
s4.OO to $685. hogs, fair TO choice, $500
0 $3.50; sheep. common to good mixed,
800 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to SS.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $6.45;
,ogs. $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. $1.O5 to $1.O6;
.orn, No. 2, 74c to 75c; oats, natural
white, 56c to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 2oc
% &c; eggs, western, tic to 22c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 94c to
DC; corn, No. 2 mixed, Goo to 67c;
,ats, No. 2 mixed, sic to 53c rye, No.
2, SEC to SIC; clover seed, prime, $1O.O2.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27

From Far and Near.

A thousand dock laborers are on strike
at Galveston, Texas. Traffic OF the
Southern Pacific is tied up.
Miss Helen Williams of Allegheny, Pa,
was killed and four other persons were
injured in an automobile accident in
Pittsburg.
William A. Culp, aged "a, awaiting
trial for the death of his brother, Floyd
G.. Culp, last July at Turtle Greek, Pa,
committed suicide in the county Jail at
Pittsburg by hanging himself. using his
suspenders as a rope.
DIR. Longstaffe, who is mountaineering
in the Himalayas with two guides and a
Gtukba officer has reached the summit
If Trisul, %, 4O6 feet. This is the record
y. the Himalayas.
More persons crossed the Atlantic ocean
from this side during the first six months
of the present year than during any other
similar period. There were $1,000 steer
age passengers in that time.
The latest figures available, those for
June, show that the gross earnings of
railroads operating over $500 miles
mounte in that month to $S2,O56,350.
the gain over June, 1905, being S9,700,-
4x3. or 1874 per cent.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
kiDNAPep HY eYPsres.
Child Slave Escapes From BAND
After Four Years, CAPTIVITY.

Shiiu slave Escapes From Hand
After Four Years. Captivity.
The flames Of the great South Chicago
steel mills were the beacons which a few
nights ago lighted a kidnapped boy to his
nome. After our years spent as a child
slave OF the wandering gypsies 1O-year-
old Walter Cutler found a safe haven
under their glare.
The boy was kidnapped four years ago
from South Bend, Ind, where his mother
and his stepfather, Frank Cullen, lived.
Some time before his father, J.. II. Cutler,
a South Chicago %shipyard superintendent,
died, leaving a widow and two children,
Walter and Flora. A year later the
mother married Cullen and went with her
husband and family to South Bend. The
couple had just settled on the outskirts
of the Indiana city when 6-year-old Wal
ter was stolen by a band of gypsies. No
attempt to secure a ransom was made,
and for a year the captive was only a
charge to his kidnapers. Then he was
taught to care for the horses and children
Of the gypsies.
The band subsisted by horse trading
and fortune telling and was commanded
by Chief Joseph Casmir. The captive
was abused by the gypsy children, who
regarded him as a slave, and any attempt
to resent their cruelty led to more severe
b~eatings by the chief and his followers.
He was compelled to sleep and eat
with the dogs and was commanded to
keep out of sight when visitors came to
the camp. The child became tanned to a
hue almost as dark as that of his cap
tors, and because of enforced silence he
had forgotten all but a few words of his
childhood tongue.
During all of his wanderings the bog
remembered the great sheets of fame
which rose from the scores of stacks in
South Chicago at night and which light
ed up the yard in which he and his sister
played.
y short time ago the gypsy band in
their wanderings reached the vicinity of
Chicago. One night the boy looked out
from his place among the dogs and saw
the great stacks belching forth sheets of
flame and once more the memories of his
home came back to him. He crept out
from among the tented wa CONS and STUN
bled out toward the great lights. When
dawn came he took refuge under a bush
md slept. When he awoke he pressed on
again to where he could see the great
mills.
When the boy reached the city he still
was lost. He could not explain his
wishes, and for a day he wandered the
streets without food. Blind chance led
him to the place where his grandmother
lived, and in an instant he recognized
her.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
AT PANAMA.
Work Progressing on the big Dan
and Other Main Features.

work Progressing on the BiE Dan
and Other Main Features.
The work on the locks and dams at
Panama has taken such shape that it
is now possible to see something Of
their form. 1t Is believed that the
actual masonry work can be com
menced at the Gatun locks within eight
cen months. -Four steam shovels are
now digging out the sites for the locks,
and construction can be begun after the
excavation for the top lock cs tk1s flight
is completed. Two steam shoyeis are
preparing the site for the erection Of
h spillway works Of the Gatun dam.
Railroad trestles are being erected
across the line that viii mark the in
side and outside boundaries of the big
dam, and from one OF these dirt trains
are now dumping dirt upon the site Of
the dam.
Preparatory to the installation of
pipeline dredges. by which more rapid
work on the dam will be possible, the
Charges River has been diverted from
its main channel and damned. The
pipeline dredges should be installed by
January l, when the work at Gatun
will be as actively in progress as that
at Culebra. Suitable sand and rock for
the big masonry locks have been 10.
Gated, and, what is equally interesting
to the engineers, material for the man
ufacture Of all the necessary cement
has been located on the Isthmus. 1t is
hoped, however, that cement can be
secured for such a price in the United
States as to make it more advisable tC
procure the needed supply there in
stead of manufacturing it on h 18th
mus.
The general features, designs and de
tails of the Gatun and other locks hav'
been worked out, together with thu
general type and number of lock gates
to be used. The survey of all the coun
try to be converted into the great Ga
tun lake has been completed and mn
ished reports show that the area vii
be I'll square miles.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
A BATTLE ON KANSAS PLAINS.
American Artillery to Reproduce the
Great L Conntct.

American Artillery to Reproduce the
Great Mukden Connict.
Out on a wide stretch of Kansas plain
the savage battle of Mukden is to be
fought again-a mimic struggle which for
ten smoke-blown days Is to stagger over
$4,000 acres of government reservation.
There will be the crash Of heavy siege
guns and the stencil of picric as the dis
rupting shells hurl earthworks and their
dummy defenders in the air.
The infantry, with its siege gun and
field artillery. will throw its strength
against the redoubts which the engineers
have constructed fertilization which
duplicates as far as possible the one be-
hind which Kuropatkin intrenched his
Russians at Mukden and over which the
little brown men swarmed after their
Shimose shells had blown great breaches
in the works.
1t is chiefly for the purpose OF seeing
what American artillery can do under
identical circumstances hat this mimic
battle is to be fought. Dunnite is the ex-
plosive with which our shells are to be
charged, a picric compound which takes
it's name from Major Beverly w. Dunn
of the United States Ordnance Corps.
The works which are to be attacked
by this shell were constructed by the
Third battalion of engineers, now station
ed at Fort Leavenworth. The redoubt
is so feet through at the base and IL
feet at the top. 1t is rivetted with ia
cines, hurdles, brush and sod and is made
as strong as the nature of the soil aAd
subsoils of the region will allow. On the
inner face a banquette tread, about four
and a half feet below the top, has been
constructed, and on this will be placed q
large number of dummy figures represent
ing men, to test shrapnel FIRE
The work of making this redoubt has
occupied the engineers all summer and
they believe that it will put the artillery
to a stubborn test. 1t is practically the
strongest fertilization that modern mill
tary science could construct.
In all about 5000 men will be engaget
in the maneuvers at Fort Riley.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
Strikes Paralyze Butte,

The City of Butte, Mont, for six weeks
has been without a telephone service on
account of a sympathy strike of opera
tors and linemen for some striking line
men in Utah. The courts have sustained
mandamus writs against the Rocky Noun
tain Bell Telephone Company to compel
it to operate it's lines, but so far as Butte
is concerned the company has made no
effort to resume service. The Geographic
strike almost completely isolated the city
from the outside world. The strike of
the mail clerks several months ago left
the postoffice service in a badly crippled
condition, mail delivery being almost as
uncertain as the telegraph. In addition
to these troubles the strike of the machin-
lists. who went out about a month ago to
enforce a demand for increased pay, is
gradually closing down the mines.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
NEW YORK.

Whether attributable to the improve
ment in the general financial situation or
because of favorable weather allowing OF
additional crop development, there Is a
p~erceptibly better feeling in general III
commercial lines. Retail trade has hard
ly been as brisk as desired or expected,
because the warm weather while helping
crops, has not stimulated fall buying to
any great extent. Reports as to jobbing
trade so far this fall are, in the main,
favorable, though the undertone of con-
ser ratism is still perceptible.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Sept. 10 number IT'D,
against 172 last week, Ill in the like
week of 1906. 173 in 1905, O in 1904
and 1876 in 1903.
Canadian failures for the week number
forty, as against twenty-five last week
and twenty-six in this week a year ago
Bradstreet's Report.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
To Collect so,ooo,ooo Seeds.

The forest service will collect 5O,0OO,-
900 seeds of forest trees in Montana,
'vyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Califor-
la from the Douglas fir, Englemann
spruce, western larch, incense cedar and
yellow pine. The seeds will be used for
broadcast sowing and for planting in for
est service nurseries. The broadcast SOW
ing will be experimental, to test the ex-
tent to which this method of renewing the
forest in denuded lands of the West can
be used. One method of gathering the
seeds is to rob squirrels nests. 1t is to
be hoped that Uncle Sab will not dc this
without replacing the boards of these
bright-eyed little rodents with a gener-
Gus amount of something lust as good
to eat"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27

e. c. Hall, writing in the August Tech
meal World Magazine, asserts hat Prof.
George Poe of South Norfolk, Va, is able
to restore life to apparently dead animals,
his treatment being based upon the we'll
known method of forcing oxygen into the
lungs. For this purpose he has devised
an artificial respirator, modelled in all
respects after nature. 1t embraces two
small cylinders, each having an inlet n
an outlet. with which plungers work sim
ultaneously, and from which tubes are
conducted to the nostrils or mouth of the
patient. One cylinder is supplied with
oxygen, and the outlet of the other dis
charges directly into the atmosphere. The
plungers are worked by hand and timed
according to normal respiration. Thus in
one movement ~noxious gases from the
lungs are drawn into one cylinder, while
the next movement forces oxygen from
the other cylinder into the lungs. This
device has been patented and will soon be
upon the market.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
Brief News Items.

Chicago banks send millions Of dollars
West to aid in crop movement.
Mayor Becker of Milwaukee, intimates
that he will in a short time be . full
aedged candidate for Governor.
A strong sentiment favoring Roose
yelt for a third term as President Is seen
by Secretary Stratus during q trip.
During a reception at the Eagle Club
rooms in McKeesport, Pa. Louis Delo, q
well-known athlete, attempted to kill him-
self by shooting. His condition is crit
ical.
The Panama canal cost the American
government $~s4,449,000 up to Dec. 81.
1906, according to a statement OF the
audited expenditures made as of that date
and just published.
Sherman Long, a carpenter, was shot
and killed at his home in Columbus, Ohio,
by Frank Miller, his brother-in-law, who
has had trouble with his wife, and went
to Longs house in search Of her.
Mrs. Carrie Meyers, q professional ball
~loonist, fell 1000 feet from a parachute
at Allen, N. Y, and was Instantly killed.
Eight thousand persons saw the accident.
In automobile accidents Martin KEEL
loge, street commissioner of Norwalk,
Conn, and Edward Fluette of Marquette.
Mich, were killed, and Frank e. Will
liams, a Cleveland bank teller, was in
jured.
The body of T.. II. Perkins Of Law
renee, Kan, whose death was followed BY
charges by life insurance companies In
which he held policies that he committed
suicide with poison, will be exhnmed for
examination
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27

The war between the transatlantic
steamship lines was continued, the in
ternational Mercantile Marine announc-
ing that first cabin rates from New York
to Liverpool on such ships as the Baltic.
Cedric and Celtic would be $3.50, a re-
duction from 500, and that the eastward
rates would be, from now on, $3.50, a
reduction from $50. The rate by the At
lantic Transport feet will be $50, instead
Of $40, for first cabin to London, and the
big Adriatic of the White Star line will
carry passengers for $3.50, instead of
500. The una followed suit with a
first cabin rate of $3.50, including Medit-
erranean ports, mad $3.50 on the Umbria
and Etruria. Corresponding cuts were
expected from the North German Lloyd
and Hamburg-American.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
Farmers. to Fight Grain Trust.


Open war has broken out between the
so-called grain trust and the farmers OF
the Middle West. The farmers say they
have paid $1,OO0,0O0 a year tribute to rhs
grain trust, and ave been organizing. un-
til now cooperative elevators are in or
Grafton all over Iowa and are bs:ng ex-
tended into Minnesota and Nebraska.
Their organization possesses a $4,000
900 reserve fund, wfnle back Of the trust
sands the wealth of the Armours and
other millionaire capitalists. The CO OPP
erative elevators will get all Of the grain
of their own members, but. in order to
win, must also get some II the gra:r
from outsiders, thus gripping che rus.
There are now 10 far,acrs' cooperative
societies in Iowa alone. WITH a tot,l mem.
bersh.p of $4,000. operating $50 eleya:4ors.
Also, the merchants of the Northwest
are organizing a cooperative association
to combat the mail order houses, the lner-
chants so organized agreeing to advertise
under one management. in order 20 lesseH
the expense and secure an Expert man.
ager. This movement is of great econorn-
ic Importance,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
OIL PROFITS.
Earnings from 1890 to 1906 Shown
to BE $49O,315,034.

earnings from 1899 to 1906 Shown.
to BE S49O,315,034.
Sensational disclosures regarding the
fabulous earnings of Standard Oil were
brought out in New York at the hearing
in the suit of the United States govern
ment to dissolve the corporation. Adroit
questioning drew from the reluctant lips
of Clarence G.. Fay, resident comptroller
of the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, the admission that in seven years
Standard Oils total profits amounted to
$430,S15334 or something over $4,000
600 a year.
Mr.. Fay was also forced to admit that
in 1899 the profits were nearly $SO,OOO.-
600 instead of $34,OOO,OOO as set forth on
the books of the company. The Standard
Oil managed to cover up its great earn
ings in that year by deliberately failing
to credit the earnings of nineteen subsi.
diary companies that contributed vas'
sums to the parent corporation. This
is the first time the c%ompany's earnings
have been made public.
Figuring on the capital stock now out.
standing-$9S, 339, 3S2-this is IN annual
profit of something over 70 per cent. Fig
ured on the basis of the Standard Oil
trust, which had a capitalization of $40.
100000 when it was dissolved n reor.
ganized into the present company with
out any additional investment on the parr
of Mr.. Rockefeller and his associates, thu
annual profit is something like 700 pei
cent. On the basis of the original Stand
ard Oil Company, with a capitalization
of $1,OO0,OO0, the annual profit is a littl,
more than 1000 per cent. On the basi.
of the little refinery Mr.. Rockefeller hae
when he started out, with an invested cap
ital principally of nerve, the percentage
of annual profit is-well, the statistician,
haven't figured that out yet.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
BLAST ON JAPANESE SHIP.
Twenty-Seven Men Killed by Ex
plosion ON the KnshiIna.

Twenty-Seven Men Killed by Elk.
plosion On the knshina.
Twenty-seven of the crew were kille'
and many were injured on the japanese
battleship Kashima by the explosion o.
powder after target practice near Kure
The Kashima. under command of Captain
Koizumi, went to kure, where the wound
ed were placed in the hospital. The deac
included a lieutenant, two cadets and ont
staff officer.
Details regarding the effects of the ex.
plosion are lacking, but it was terrific and
the ship was severely damaged. The blast
followed an attempt to remove an unex.
ploded shell from the gun. A majority Of
the b~ystanders were fearfully mutilated
{ The explosion is under investigation,
1t occurred inside of the shield of the
starboard after ten-inch gun. 1t was not
the shell which exploded, but powder,
which evidently caught fire from the gas
emitted from the breech when opened to
reload the gun. The hull of the kashima
is not damaged.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27

14O2-English defeated the Scots at
Homeldon Hill.
15OIColumbus took final leave of the
New World and sailed for Spain.
16O9-Henry Hudson discovered the riv-
err which bears his name
164O-Lord Stirling, to whom James /.
gave a large section of what is now
the United States and Canada, died
in London. g
l645-Covenanters defeated Montrose at
Philiphaugh. ,s7 81 ~
1742-Faneuil Hall completed and pre-
scented to the town of Boston.
landed troops at Quebec,
1T75-Gen. Washington began to commits!
sion war vessels. .g.r 's-.'
177S-Benjamin Franklin sent to France
as minister plenipotentiary.
17S1-Gen. Washington arrived at Will
liamsburg and assumed command.
17S2-Congress accepted the offer of
Y~irginia's western lanus.
17S6-Connecticut decided western land
to Congress.
17SS-Congress made New York the
capital city of the United States.
17S9-Alexander Hamilton became Sec
rotary of the Treasury. Henry
Knox of Massachusetts, became Sec
rotary of War.
1SO3-Lord William Downs appointed
chief justice of Ireland.
1S14-Battle of Plattsburgh, N. Y...-.
British made an unsuccessful attack
on Baltimore. j.. British bombarded
Fort McHenry, near Baltimore.
British abandoned their expedition
against Baltimore.
lS29-Treaty of Adrianople, ending war
between Russia and Turkey.
1S41-Walter Forward of Pennsylvania
z became Secretary of the United
States Treasury.
1S46-First Mississippi rihemen, under
command of Company l, Jefferson
Davis, charged the Mexicans at Fort
Teneria.
1S47-American army under Gen. Scott
marched into the Mexican capital. . 4.
Many lives lost in hurricane off New
foundland.
American stage at Castle Garden, N.
..r L. . AleAduucI IL. IL. lux VI
Virginia became Secretary of the In
terror.
1S5S-Steamship Austria, Southampton
to New York, burned at sea; Al
lives lost.
1S61-President Lincoln revoked Gen.
Fremont's emancipation order.
1S62-Governors of fourteen States met
at Altoona, Rp, and approved of
emancipation as a war measure. -.
Gen. Mcclellan appointed to com
mand the defense of Washington.
1S64-Gen. Sherman entered Atlanta
ending the four weeks siege. Gen
Sherman ordered all civilians te
leav We Atlanta.
1S69-National Prohibition party organ.
lied at a convention in Chicago.
1S71-Henry Irving first appeared in
"Fanchette' at the London Lyceum
Mont Gents tunnel opened.
1S72-Alabama claims against England
decided in favor of the United States
1SS6-Canadian Pacific railway tele
graph line opened for business.
1S93-Gov. William Mckinley of Ohio
opened his campaign for reelection
with a speech at Akron.
1S94EHinckley and other Minnesota
towns swept by forest fires.
1S9S-British forces defeated the Der
wishes at Omdurman. .Admira
Cervera and other captured Spanish
officers sailed for Spain.
19O6-Emperor of China issued an edict
promising constitutional government
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-27
Western Union stand, PIT

The expected conference between the
leaders of the striking telegraphers and
the Western Union officers did not nate
r~ialize, and the executive COMMITTEES of
the company sustained the course of the
officials in a formal resolution which re-
ferred to the late STRIKE as though it
were a closed incident. President Small
of the union and President Gompers of
the American Federation were in New
York, and both said that there would be
no surrender. Small said that most of
the telegraphers had got jobs on the rail-
roads. The Western Union declared its
regular quarterly dividend. as usual, but
did not publish the earnings for the quar-
ter, rs is customary.