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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-08-24
Local JOttings

nOlu It's annual picnic IN Dawson
Grove on Saturday afternoon, August
24th.
The third Pennsylvania Railroad
excursion to Colchester Beach was
held Wednesday, 24o tickets were sold
at Elkton.
The postponed anniversary SER
vices at Old St Anne's Church, near
Middletown, will be held August IS, at
80 a m.
Mrs Harry Bowers died Saturday
at her home in Mortonville, Pa. She
was daughter OF John McGurk, for.
merly OF Providence.
The 9:rt ua camp of the colorcd
people was held on the old pike just
over the Delaware line on Sunday. A
large crowd attended
Fred Hoover, who is playing base
ball with the Bradford team in the
Interstate League, is said to be play
ing good ball His batting average ex.
cccdS 800
There will be a festival at Priu-
cipio Furnace Friday and Saturday
evenings, August % and "a, given by
the Mite Society for the benefit OF the
NJ. f. Church.
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be held in the afternoon and evening
in connection with the picnic. #
stormy. come next dav.
The Tri-Statc Packers, .\,,ocia.
tion held a meeting in Wilmington oa
Thursday According to the reports
received bv thc Association. the GRO,
Of tomatoes in New jersey. Marvlanl
and DcIcwarc will average about 81
per cent. OF a normal weld
Frank KoonS. aged about iorty
years. who with party from Texas,
Lancaster county. Pa, while out fish.
ing ON the Octoraro creek. Wednc,.
day afternoon. accidentally iell over.
board and wa, drowned. His body was
recovered shortly afterwards and sent
t. his late home.
Three prisoners escaped from til.
l.aSton Jail last Tuesday night. They
were all colurcd and none were held
on serious charges. The escape. was
made early in the evening and was dis.
covered about o O'Clock. \S the ia.t
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-08-24
SAMUEL LLOYD.

Samuel Lloyd, aged 90 years. OF
Chesapeake City, died from kidney
trouble Monday night He is sur
rivcd by a widow. The funeral was
held Friday afternoon, at o'clock,
and intcrmcnt was made in Bethel
Cemetery.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-08-24
ENRLSTON BROWN.

EarIston Brown, aged 20 years, died
Saturday week. at the hospital in
Philadelphia, after a short illness OF
typhoid pneumonia. The young man
is survived by a widow, who was Miss
Leila Charshcc, to whom he had been
marrirl hnt two months
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
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On July 10, 1908, the College of st.
Cuthbert completes the centenary of its
foundation at Ushaw, Durham, England.
DR.. w. II. mclaughlin of Minneap-
oils has been made general superintend-
ent of the Universalist church in the
United States. the highest honor in the
gift of his denomination.
The Rev. Sohn o. Foster superannu-
ated member of the Rock River confer
ence, is filling the chair of practical the
ology in the Kimball school of theology,
University of Puget Sound, at Tacoma,
Wash.
The Rev. A. X. Baird, d. d., who
spent several years as synodical mission
ary of Montana after similar service in
Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas, has ac-
cepted the position of pastor at large for
Helena presbytery.
During the farewell dinner at New
York in honor of "Gipsy" Smith, the
English evangelist. and Rev. James Law,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
GOES UP IN SMOKE.
Many Millions Eaten Up by Actua
Fires and by Fire Protection.

Many Millions Eaten I'D by Actua
Fires and by Fire Protection.
In all this huge country of ours we
built about $5OO,00O,0OO worth of new
buildings year; our fire losses, includ
ing cost of fire departments and msur.
ance, exceeds that sum. Two hundred
million dollars is actually burned up
gone into smoke; fire departments, high
water pressure and all that sort of thing
mean nearly S300,0O0,G00 more; we an.
nually pay out $195, 100000 to the gen,
tlemen who condescend to gamble with
us on the question of fire in insurance
premiums. We get back, after consider
able trouble and some litigation. about
$95,OOO000 from the insurance com
panes as a slight salye for our fire in
juries Surely not a profitable gamble
Now then, the above are normal losses
SO called One fire, like San Francis
co.'s. means 1915, 100000 wasted in smoke,
$1,000, 100000 in lost business to thai
city and the country generally, $4,000.
600 to clean up the debris and $3.50, ,0O0,.
600 and 20 years time to get the city
in the condition it was before the fire.
To counterbalance all that vast total
the people of San Francisco may, after
long delays, much quibbling and tirina
litigation and fussing, get $135, ,0OO, ,O0C
from the insurance companies!
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
LIKE WHANG THE MILLER.
Maine Farmer Ruins Himself in Fu-
tile Search for Gold.

If faker, who made precarious liv-
ing selling patent cure-alls in the daytime
and holding second-sight seances at night
hadn't put up three years ago at the
home of Samuel Gordon, then a wellto-
do farmer near Macwahoe, Me-. the
chances are that Mr.. Gordon would be a
prosperous man to-day. Instead he is
dead, his farm has gone to ruin and his
children are scattered through the West.
When the faker put up at the Gordon
home he said he would give the owner
a second-sight seance for his keep. More
to accommodate him than anything else,
Gordon consented, and that night in
vited in the neighbors. After some weird
incantations the faker went into what
appeared to be trance and told of a
spot in the woods not far from Gordon's
home where vast amount of Indian
gold, taken from white men more than
two centuries ago, lay buried. He was
far from exact in locating the spot, but
he did mention a peculiar bowlder, and
the entire community was so impressed
that they secretly set out next day to
find the place.
Gordon found within week bowl
der resembling that described by the
faker and bought the property upon
which it was situated. TO do this he
was forced to mortgage his farm, but
this he did cheerfully, as he had great
faith in scances. He then began to dig.
The more he dug the more determined
he became to locate the wealth and the
more he neglected his farm duties. But
though he dug long and faithfully he dis
covered nothing more valuable than
stones and earth.
His children believed their father had
been fooled and sought to persuade him
to desist. but their efforts amounted to
nothing. and finally, one by one, they left
home, saying that they would return
when the gold fever was over. After
that Gordon lost his farm and his health
failed. Finally he became morose and
scm-insane. and remained in this condi-
tion until his death, recently.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
THE CHINESE FAMINE.
Wretchcdness Reaches Its Deepest
Depths I'm the Stricken Region.

There is no abatement in the dread
full Chinese famine which confronts
IL, 100000 people and in which 5000
persons are said to De dying every
day The horrors of this dreadful
visitation will never be accurately told,
for they are beyond the power of words
70 express. Side by side are instances
Of shocking depravty and Of marvel
Dus heroism. Cannibalism Is now COM
mon, and the living are rifiing the
corpses. Children are being offered for
sale on every hand and even offered as
gifts with the hope of saving them
from death by starvation.
In many cases now the famine vic
tins are dying of disease or poison.
All kinds of wild weeds are being eat
EN- and some of the latter being poison
Gus produce death. The fever which
always follows in the wake Of famine
Is beginning to claim its victims and
IN some Of the famine centers smallpox
has broken out and become epidemic.
The wretched condition of the people
$ seen in an incident which befell Cap
tain Kirton, an Englishman, one Of the
representatives of the Foreign Relief
Committee. The people in most parts
Of the famine area had never seen a
white man before, says Captain Kirton.
They were intensely curious, but there
was an entire absence of hostility. In
one village they congregated in front Of
The village "inn' in great crowds. Half
Of them were starving. | was talking
to the head man, through my interpre-
ter, and he was in state of terrible
distress on account of his people.
thoughtlessly took tin Of biscuits from
my own stock Of supplies and began to
give them to the youngsters, In mo-
ment there was a wild rush of men.
women and children, and it was only
| by a liberal use Of sticks that my es-
ccrt Of soldiers and yamen runners pre-
vented me from being mobbed and pos
sibly smashed up simply by the mad
rush of hundreds of starving human
beings.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
May Not Destroy Forests.

The Supreme Court held that the State
of Georgia had a right TO protect its
forests, and that the Tennessee Copper
Company and the Ducktown Sulphur and
Iron Company could be enjoined from so
conducting their smelling works on the
Tennessee side of the line as to destroy
forests and vegetation in the State Of
Georgia. The court gives Georgia until
the October term to submit the form Of
a decree with which it would enjoin the
operation OF the smelters. In the mean
time the Objectionable companies are said
to be installing a plant that con-
dense the sulphurous fumes, and which
would thus render the decree unnecess
sary. However, the decision remains inn
portant as affecting the principle of for
est and vegetation protection. The
smelling companies in the case are large
ly owned by Standard Oil interests and
the case has been pending for year and
a half.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

al a6lictlons, encouraged Lim when
there was darkness at hard. She be
lieved that his star Of destiny would
never set until he had become Presi
dent of this land and for more than a
quarter of a century cherished that be
lief until her hopes were realized.
After President McKinley's death
she expressed desire to join him and
prayed day by day that she might die.
Later, however, she frequently told
friends she desired to live until the
completion of the Mckinley mauso.
leum, which is the gift Of the nation
and which is to be dedicated on Monu'
ment hill Sept. 80 next.
Mrs. Mckinley was born In Canton
June s, 1S47. James A. Saxton, her
father, was an intellectual and pro
gressive business man and banker, hif
wife lady OF culture and refinement
Ida SaXton was reared in home OF
comfort and ease. After attending
Canton schools she was pupil at q
private school at Delhi, n. Y. Later
she went to a Cleveland academy and
finished her education at Brook Han
seminary, Media, Pa.
While she taught Sunday school II
the Presbyterian church young Lawyer
William Mckinley was superintendent
of the First Methodist Episcopal Sun.
day school Among many admirers and
suitors the handsome young soldier,
who had been with Grant and Sher
man and won distinction in the Shen
andoah valley, was the favored one
Her life as the wife Of William Nc
Kinley was devoted one. They never
''kept house" while he was in Congress
because of her invalid state. She, how.
ever, desired to be with him as much
as possible and spent much time In
Washington. On his campaign tours
while he was Congressman, Governor
and President, she journeyed with him
After McKinley's term as Governor
ended, they came to Canton in Janu
ary, 1896, in time to celebrate theil
silver wedding anniversary in the first
home of their early married lifa Thii
wedding anniversary was the begin
ming of year and two months resi-
dence in Canton, during which timt
Mr.. Mckinley was nominated and
elected President of the United States
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
VAST GROWTH SINCE 1900.
Expanding Conditions in United
States shown by Government.

Expanding Conditions in United
States shown by Government.
A series of panoramic views of condi-
the present time in area, population, pro-
duction, commerce, money circulation,
wealth. inter-communication, publication
and educarion is presented in a statistical
abstract of the United States just issued
by the Department of Commerce and La
bor 1t is a volume of 700 pages, with
scarcely a line of text discussion other
than the titles of the tables themselves.
Beginning with tables as to area. it is
shown that in the continental United
States the population to the square mile
has grown from six and one-half persons
in 1900 to nearly twenty-eight at the
present time. The per capita circula-
ton. which in 1900 was S., in 1906 was
S32.32. The per capita wealth, which in
1850 was S307. in 1904 was $1,31O.
Bank deposits, for which no record is
available earlier than 1875, were a tri1e
over S2.O00000.00O in that year. and in
1886 they were $12.2o00OO,OOO In 1920
deposits in savings banks amounted in
round numbers to $1,OOO,OOO, while in
1906 they were $3,250, 100000, with
S.O27.192 depositors. Imports of mer-
chandise, which in 1900 amounted to $91,-
100000. in 1906 were $1,226, 100000; |;
while exports. which in 1900 were $71,-
100000, in 1906 were $1.744O00.OOO.
The publication also shows increases in
cotton prodCction from 155,556 bales in
1900 to l. .333. 900 bales in 1906; in sugar
production, which amounted to less than
14.0O0 tons in 1S6J, to 5S2,4l4 tons in
1906. and in corn, the production Of
which in 1910 was 377,0OO,OOO bushels,
to 1927 7416.091 bushels in 1905. The
value of manufacturing products has
grown from 1.0OO.OO0.00O in 1850 to
nearly $4,000. .OOO,OO in 1905.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
ONE WOMAN IN FIVE A WORKER
Some Queer Occupations Reported by
the Census Bureau.

Some Queer Occupations Reported by
the Census Bureau.
The census bureau has issued a re-
port showing that in the United States,
exclusive of Alaska, Hawaii and other
outlying territories, there are 4,S33, $50
women at work. The total number of
women 16 years of age and over in con-
tinental United States in 1900 was 3D.
4Sj,559, which makes one woman in ev-
cry FIVE a breadwinner. OF the number
reported as divorced, 55.3 per cent were
supporting themselves wholly or in part
by their own earnings. 1t has been sug-
gested that the increase of divorce is
partly attributable to the more indepen-
dent economic position of women.
Domestic service, Notwithstanding the
increased diversity Of employments for
women, remains the most important Of
the occupations, almost one-fourth of
those reported as engaged in gainful pur-
suits being returned as servants.
The census shows that five females
were employed as pilots that on steam
railroads 10 were employed as baggage
men, 81 as brakemen, Z as conductors,
45 as engineers and fremen and 2G as
switchmen, yardmen and fagmen; that
43 were carriage and hack drivers. 9
ship carpenters, and roofers and slat-
ers; that 1S5 were returned as black
smiths and sos as machinists that 8
were boilermakers, 81 were charcoal. coke
and lime burners and II were well borers
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
Brain Injury and Speech.

Taking issue with the generally accept
ed theory that a definite region of the
brain presidcs over the function Of speech
and that an injury to this part of the
brain means an interference with the
power of using language, Pierre Marie, a
French investigator, whose views are set
forth in an article translated for the Lit
erary Digest. contends that the old notion
is largely erroneous. After referring
somewhat in detail to the results of ex-
periments on persons afflicted with apha-
sia, he states that failure to stand these
tests indicates, not word deafness, but
diminuton Of intelligence, since the pa
tient understands the meaning Of the
words separately, but Is not able to make
a proper connection of ideas. He con-
cludes, therefore, that the theory of word
deafness and its localization in the brain
cannot be sustained. While his views
are perhaps too radical for general accept
ance, they seem to necessitate some mod
ification of previously held theories on
this subject
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
MRS. M'kIELEY DEAD.
widow of Mar.-red President Passes
Away at Canton.

III
Mrs. Mckinley, the widow of the
nartyred President. expired at Can
.on, Ohio, Sunday afternoon. Her
Heath was so peaceful that it was with
difficulty the physicians noted when
dissolution came. There was no pain
and no struggle The body Of Mrs. Nc
Kinley is to rest in the vault in West
Lawn cemetery, which holds the re-
mains of her husband, until the COM
pletion of the national mausoleum on
Monument hill, when both caskets will
be transferred to receptacles in that
tomb.
Although for thirty years Mrs. Nc
Kinley had been something Of an inva.
lid, she was comparatively well until a
week before death, when she suffered
stroke of paralysis
Throughout the long period Of her
lnvalidism. dating from the death OF
her two little children. Mrs. Mckinley
showed firm and unwayerlng belief
in the career Of her husband and by
her cheering words, in spite of person
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

secretary of the
British council of
free churches, under
the auspices of
which the evangelist
has been working,
Mr.. Smith said he
had preached 4J0
times in the seven
months he had been
in this country, be-
sides making many
informal addresses,
giving hundreds of
interviews and writ
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06
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The wool situation at Pierre is not
as favorable to growers as for the
past few years, the price starting low
er than for last year, with the in
dications that sales will have to be
on a lower basis this year The prob
abilities are that 20 cents will be a
high rate for the year while 20 and
even more has been reached. The
amount of wool marketed at Pierre
this year will be less than for former
years, on account of the Lyman
county clip going out by the Milwau-
kee line. This year will end the wool
business for many. as the ranchers
who have been holding large herds
are being crowded out by the home-
steaders. IT. e. Philips & Son. who
have been doing an extensive business
in the vicinity of White City Butte
for years have purchased a location in
Montana. and will close out their
holdings to get to a location where
they will have more room. Others
are in practically the same situation
and will have to move this year or
next.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

Ing hundreds of letters. He said he had
spoken to NOR than 100000 persons,
and had seen $4,000 of them hold up
their hands and give themselves to Christ.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

At the G. A. II. meeting at Huron
there promises to be a warm contest
for the position of commander be.
tween c. Il. DeJean, of Plankinton,
and Warren Osborn, of Yankton. They
are both old residents of the state and
prominent in their order, and the
friends Of both are pushing for their
selection.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

At the sales of Capitol building
lands held in Edmunds and McPher-
son counties last week, twenty-six
hundred acres of the land was dis
posed of, at price little under ten
dollars an acre making the total re-
ceipts practically $4,000. This with
the sales Of the week before bringing
it over forty thousand dollars, maxi
ing available for the building fund at
the present time two hundred thous-
and dollars, which with the amount
already expended on the portion OF
the foundation already constructed
means that more than one third of the
required sum has already been rails
ed. BY means of private sales be-
tween now and fall and the public
sales which will yet be made before
the legislative appropriation will be
demanded, the chances are that prac-
tically all the fund required will be
secured, leaving a very small amount,
If any to be drawn out of the state
fund for construction work.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

Il the race between the Northwest
ern and Milwaukee roads for the
Black Hills, the Northwestern has
now less than twenty-five miles of
track to lay, with the Cheyenne river
bridged; while the Milwaukee has
about fifty miles to lay, with the
bridge over the Cheyenne yet to ba
constructed.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

The graduating class of the high
shool at Pierre for this year numbers
twelve, the list being Emma Marie
Beckwith, Grace Alberta Gunderson.
Ruth Elizabeth Hyde, Hazel May Ul-
rey Helen Marie Cox, Harriet Hersey
Henry, Dorothy Iris Glow, Francis
Xavier Greenough, Donald Henry
Rose, Henry Austin Robinson. Clay
ton Andrews Yarnell, Henry Newell
Cutting.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

The advertising to receive bids fol
small pastures, along the old Evarts
cattle trail, shows that the Milwaukee
road expects within short time to be-
gin the shipment Of cattle from points
along their new line west from Mo-
bridge. The leases along the trail
will be made some time in June, and
that outlet OF the range country,
which will be part Of the history OF
the northern part of the state. win
soon be wiped out of its distinctive
feature which has given it a nam(
and fame.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06

The body Of Sergeant Henry Ras-
seau. b troop. Fort Mead, drowned
Saturday, was found late Monday
night and taken to Fort Mead. 1t was
found twenty yards below where he
entered the water. He still had his
overcoat on, covered with mud. The
big steel bridge crossing Belle Fourche
river at the Minturn crossing
was carried out during the recent
storm. Adolph Dickman, ordnance SER
geant at Fort Mead, narrowly escap-
ed being drowned Monday He start
ed to cross Bear Butte creek with a
horse and buggy. All were turned
over, going down stream 200 yards
Dickman got out by grabbing a small
tree near the bank. The horse got
out but the buggy was wrecked
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-06


One Of the railroad laws which was
enacted last winter. was to prohibit
any railroad paralleling another
within eight miles. except at its point
Of entering towns. This was suppos-
ed to be enacted in the interest of
local roads. which the larger roads
might parallel, and was pushed
through by representatives of the
South Dakota Central Since the re-
ceipt Of the new laws attention IS
called to section 16, Of article XVII,
of the constitution which gives to
any railroad the constitutional right
to construct and operate a railroad
between any points within the state
and to intersect, connect with or cross
any other line Of railroad. That con-
stitutional provision would hardly
leave much Of the anti-parallel law, in
case anyone desired to test II -. any
way.