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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
INTERSTATE COMMERCE coMMIa
SION CALLED UPON TO TAKE s 81
ACTION. Ssss
EMPLOY FUNDS Of RIVAlS|
EXPRESS COMPANIES ENcRoAcfI
UPON THE FUNCTIONS o.
BANKS.

Washington, June 30.-What prdl II
Uses to be gigantic financial struggISs
was begun yesterday when the Ameri-
can Bankers association filed with the
interstate commerce commission ~
complaint against the express compa
MES of the country. charging thASiIfI
with placing the members of the ass0%s
citation at an undue and unreasonableH
prejudice and disadvantage by engag5
ing in financial business in addition tOls
that of common carriers, in violations
of the interstate commerce law
Encroach on Bank Business
In the complaint it is alleged that
the express companies are now andsE
have been for long time dealing i'm
exchange, both foreign and domestic,
In the form of money orders, letters OF
credit, both travellers and commerciaI
travellers checks and drafts, all Or
which has always been the proper, les
Ultimate and long-recognized business
and function Of banks.
1t is claimed that the express COM.
panies have encroached further upon
the bankers business by buying ana
selling foreign money and TRANSFERRING
money by cable and mail.
The complaint is directed against
the Adams Express company, che
United States Express companysS
Wells, Fargo & Co., the Southern Exs
press company and the Great NORTHERN
Express company. II
Rivals Utilize Bank Capital. ssS3
1t is asserted that in the ordinafy.s
course of business the bankss are
forced to cash express money orderE
and drafts without the charging Of in
terest, thus supplying to the express
companies the capital to compete WITH
the banks. sSssa
The complainant association re-
quests the interstate commerce con-
mission to take such action as will an
ford protection against the express
companies. sasz
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
Argue in Lovinu Cause.

Houston, Va, June 80. The argu-
ment of the attorneys in the trial of
Former Judge William G. Loving for
the murder of Theodore Estes began
late yesterday afternoon, after a day
spent by the attorneys in the prepare
ton of instructions and legal wran-
gle over them before the court.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
Revolt Breaks Out Afresh.

Guayaquil, Ecuador June 80. ~ The
revolution that was supposed to he
dead has broken out afresh, and a new
rebel band of 100 men has appeared at
Quevedo, an important center in the
province of Los Rios. The rebels
have occupied Quevedo without resist
ance and have burned the village.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
Kills stepnother.

st. Louis. June 49, John King, a
tween Bertha Wheeler, negress, and
her stepmother,. Mrs. Halle McGin-
mis-. YESTERDAY cufniiina in N Nc
Ginnis being killed by stone thrown
by Bertha. IA "
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
Destroys Saloon Section.

Ell Paso. Tex. June 20. Fire last
night destroyed. the entire saloon sec
ton Of Moronci, Ariz. The loss aggre
gates 100000 Twenty-seven build
ings were wiped out, and there was
only $4,000 insurance.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
Francis Murphv Near na,+h

Los Angeles, June 3O.--Francis Muir.
ply. the noted temperance advocate. is
hovering between life and death but
with the exception Of increasing weak
ness ness his condition shows little change.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04

E Michael Golding was killed ii the
Minnie Heaiey mine at Butte by drop
ping 500 feet down the shaft.
The plant Of the Utica Drop Forge
and Tool company at Utica, N. Y, was
DESTROYED by fire. Loss, 5000, 900.
Mrs. Samuel Conn Of Montezuma,
Iowa, was fatally burned by using
gasoline to start a fire, mistaking it
for kerosene. She died in great agony.
William M. Ayers Of Portland, Or,
one of the best known bookmakers in
the West, was killed by an interurban
car as he was leaving the race track
at Seattle.
IL a head-on trolley accident on a
grade near White Oak Park, summer
resort between New Brighton, Conn,
and Plainville, nesrly dozen persons
were injured.
Henry Zipf and Herman Ludwig
were drowned in Big Walnut creek,
near Columbus, Ohio, while bathing.
Neither could swim and they got be-
yond their depth.
Conductor Edward Harrison and
Rear Brakeman N. G.. Durfee were in
stantly killed as result Of rear-end
collision of two freight trains about
three miles west of Billings, Mont.
The explosion of gasoline furnace
started fire which completely de-
stroyed the refinery at the Kendall
mines near Lewiston, Mont, causing
a loss estimated at $4,000.
Attempting to board a moving train
at Ishpeming, Mich, Frank McCon-
nell, aged thirty, Of Marquette, rail-
road brakeman, fell under the wheels
and was badly mangled. Death occur
read few hours later.
In an effort to save his brothers.
life, sred Adler, twenty years old, was
drawn into the swift current of the
Mississippi river at st. Louis by Au-
gust Adler, aged twenty-three, and
both we're drowned.
George Spencer, a new York stock
broker, was killed at Oyster Bay, L. l.,
by being thrown from horse which
he was riding. The accident occurred
near President Roosevelt's summer
home at Sycamore Hill.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
MIsTRlAL IN OIL CASE.
Jury at Findlay Disagrees and Is Dis.
chardeG.

Findlay, Ohio, June 3O.-The Jury in
the case of the State of Ohio against
the Standard Oil company, charged
with violating the antitrust laws, yes
terday morning reported to Judge
Duncan that it had been found impos-
sible to agree upon a verdict. The
court thereupon ordered the jury dis
charged
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
THREE KILLED IN BIG sToRI
Many Injured in Electrical storg
and About New York.

and About New York.
New York, June 20. A death d
ing electric storm yesterday al
noon, following day of sweltei
soaked with humidity, swept oveHl
city and surrounding territory, xii
three persons, injuring several, q
Ing many fires and doing considerl
damage. In this city the only PHI
struck were tHse church The 4
pies of both were torn into fragme
by the lightning bolts.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
PAPER PIPE Law VOID.
Chicago Judge Annuls New Illinois
Statute ST

N 5f98 statute. *
CHICAGO, June 3o.Judge Chytraus
yesterday declared that the law pass.
ed by the last legislature prohibiting
the sale Of cigarettes IN Illinois is in.
valid. He held that the, body Of the
act did not conform to the title. The
Jude e eel e req that th nMeh the law
was declared to be an act 10 .sregu-
late, !. IN fact II was an act to pro.
shihit. AS ii d III
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
FIVE cHlNks KILLED.
misunderstanding Of oroers Causes
Railroad Wreck. "a

Winnipeg, Man. June sO.-A Cana.
dian Ia Pacific railway express and 4
Chinese special going east collided at
Butler, e s miles east of here. The &C.
8cldent resulted IN the death Of Eve
Chinamen on bosWd the special and
the serious In inrY of r. u. f,nn,,,,r1 -
St Johns, N. b, guard on The sn 8.
eial. The wreck was due to misunder-
stoed orders. - al
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
Still Try to Discredit Orchards Story.

Still Try to Discredit Orchards Story.
Boise, Idaho, June 80. - The attor-
neys for Haywood continue to center
their efforts on the discrediting of
Harry Orchard and the establishment
of their claim that Orchard killed
Frank Steunenberg in revenge for the
loss of his interest in the Hercules
mine. Yesterday they directly attack
ed the story Of the Vindicator explo-
sion with the testimony of witness
who made it appear accidental rather
than criminal.
indicator Explosion.
Thomas Wood, a non unionist, who
entered the Vindicator mine as tim
Der man after the strike began, swore
that the night before the explosion he
placed a box containing twenty-five
pounds of dynamite at the shaft of the
eighth Level. He saw the powder the
next morning shortly after 10 O'Clock,
and a few minutes later Supt. McCor-
mick and Foreman Beck came to the
eighth level. They remained but
short time and left to go to the sixth
level, where they were killed Wood
swore that when he reached the shaft,
twenty minutes later, the powder was
gone and it was reasonable inference
that Mccormick and Beck took it with
them.
Contradicts Orchard
Wood testified that he had seen a
revolver iii Deck's pocket; that the
fragments of only one revolver were
found in the sixth level, and that the
bodies of Mccormick and Beck were
blown apart, indicating that the ex-
plosion had occurred between them.
Orchard said that he fixed revolver
with a wire attachment, so that when
the safety bar was raised it would
send bullet in the giant powder he
had placed. One witness for the state
has sworn that he found a wire attach
ed to the safety bar, but Wood, who
was among the first to reach the sixth
level after the explosion, said that he
had carefully examined the safety bar
and found nothing attached to it.
William Easterly and D. G. Copley
both swore that they heard Orchard
tell Of the loss of the Hercules mine
and threaten to kill Steunenberg
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
THE HA WOOD TRIAL.

that at Cripple Greek, during the
strike, Orchard told him of the Her
cules mine affair and threatened
TO Kill steunenberg.
Mrs Lottie Day of Denver testified
that In 1904 Orchard told her about
the loss of the Hercules interest, and
that he said he would kill Steunen-
berg for the wrong done him, and
John d. Elliott swore that Orchard
told him in Idaho in 1905 that he was
in the employ of the mine owners,
and that there was plot against the
federation and it's leaders.
Judge Wood Rules Against Haywood.
Boise, June 80, = A ruling made
yesterday by Judge Wood while Ed
ward Boyce, for years the leader of
the Western Federation of Miners
and now wealthy mine owner of the
Occur d'Alenes. was testifying in be-
half OF William d. Haywood, may ma
terially limit the showing of the de-
tense as to the existence of the coun-
ter conspiracy against Haywood and
his associates which it alleges.
Claims Same Latitude as State.
James H. Hawley, for the state, OBJ
jected to a general question as to the
policy and practice of mine owners
throughout the West in blacklisting
union miners, and in the argument
that followed Clarence barrow for the
defense, claimed the same latitude in
proving counter-conspiracy that the
state enjoyed in showing a conspiracy.
Mr. Hawley contended that the state
had directly shown the existence of
conspiracy by Harry Orchard, and by
so doing had laid the foundation for
and made the connection of all the
evidence subsequently offered on the
subject. He said the defense was try
ing to show a counter-conspiracy by
proving various isolated instances and
certain general conditions, none of
which was connected with the case
and for none Of which proper foun-
dation had been laid.
Court Sides With State.
In ruling the court accepted in part
the contention of the prosecution, and
limited the proof of the defense along
these lines to events in Colorado and
the Occur d'Alenes connected with the
case as now established.
Ed Boyce was the principal witness
of the day, and his testimony was
chiefly devoted to the history, pur-
poses and work of the Western fedora
ton. He denied the existence of an
inner circle" or that there had ever
been a conspiracy in the organization
or an illegal act.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
]. Fron, other Shores.

Sixty officers OF the southern mill
\ tAry district OF Russia, several OF them
\ connected With the Odessa garrison.
Y haye been arrested.
The Rome Tribuna afiirms that EN-.
peror llian1's visit to England has
/ been fixed for the end Of the year.
probably III November.
j The American immigs alton commits.
I sion, having completed Its work ii,
italy, will soon visit Trieste and
study emigration methods at Austro,
/ Hungarian ports.
q There ia a rlmor In court circles at
Copenhagen that the Princess Thyra.
second daughter Of King Erederick, il
betrothed 80 Prince Adelbert, third
aensof the kaiser. The kaiser will Wis.
IL Copenhagen next week.
During the half year ended SEPT. 80
last there were :. $50 utomobile acci.
dents IN Germany. OF which 6 rs caused
I'M Jury to persons. The number OF per
/ SONS killed and wounded amounted to
.670. Including 81 killed.
Spring freshets In Northern Sweden
& have Inundated hundreds OF square
miles 81 fertile bottom lands. This is
the greatest innndation in fifty years
4 md threat ems 81 renewal Of the famine.
Tie political situation In Portugal is
much Improved, Opposition to the.
sini ntstry IL dying out. the politicians
asApp arently realizing that this would
4;=asnlazsl lead to- d iatnr haneas. disereai ting
4 them and strengthening the ministry.
mine owner named SIMILAR has
8 ii tfaii at
& Budap eest. IN Stretching himself on the
i Auar of HIS room he placed q dynamite
cart fridge unde his neck and set Are
81 Ia "a 7Swit:. o. fuse. The cartridge ex-.
4 Dloded and the mans head and part
\ OfE his body were blown into frag.
1 netts
81 Accidental Happenings.
3Ss ous, peraons were killed and Ave
ssbad injured by the collapse OF a
Hold AN San Francisco.
sss John chad Ter, born In Kentucky
S1 A7sl ago. lied at Hulls, III, as q;
result of being thrown ram IA buggy.
N iihlS a sIna III He j a.
\ sDOl5 iaIso tonarch, III ont, &, acct
dens shota and ki He'd Joseph saur.
The foytsy old dang Ter az Peter
Soster farmer living near Cascade,
dead as tt1 y result of q bee
iSss from thr oughout Mont ana
conaid lessssof life as the
atehs IA Ter ana swollen
IssI Him line former member
anna 81 spa u iument and once
lontT al ont IA two ~
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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
"a ple Talked About.

! Peopls Talked About.
Sir John Hall, former premier OF
New Zealand, il dead. He was born
] 81 1924
;s Mrs. Carrie Morcombe, grand chief
Of the Degree OF Honor Of Iowa. is
B dead at Cedar Rapids.
". RI Abbott president Of the
American National Bank Of Fort
! Smith, Ark, died OF heart failure.
;sss Mark Twain and Ambassador Reid
have had the degree Of LII. b.. confer
rod upon them BY Oxford university,
England,
George Won Lingen, German consul
In Baltimore since 1876 and head of
the firm of "A. Schumacher & Co..
aEents Of the North German Lloyd
steamship company, Is dead.
Frank r. Mower OF Ohio, at pres.
{ et,t consul general at Leghorn, Italy,
6 has been transferred to Copenhagen,
exchanging places with Ernest "A. Man
ofs Florida. who becomes consul gen
& efa1 at Legnurna
Miss Annie u. Mclaughlin, a hotel
manager, died ut Lexington, KY, Of
apoplexy When manager Of q hotel
4 at Les Chenau, Mich, abe took thirty
4 negro servants with her from Lexing-
{ ton ~ special car.
Stuyvesant Fish, Jr. son Of the
Former president OF the Illinois Cen
4 trail railroad, has started In at the bot
tom to learn the railroad business. He
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
NEW OF TIE WEEK IN fPITOMf
1leEeT OF THE NEWS WORTH.
TELLING sco CONDENSED FOR
8 BUsY READERS,
.3,TaS[
Vva.hlnotl Notes.

The census bureau has Just an
snounced that the production OF lumber
II the United States in 1906 was ST.
4s0. os7, 900 feet
No less than 3, 800 yards Of ribbon
will be required to furnish the mate,
rial for the various service badges lAa
ssmblems authorized to be issued b,
the war department some time ago.
q Two OF the Oldest battleships. the
Indiana and the Iowa, are to be with
drawn from active service and shelved
from further luty, except In the event
q urgent need. They Will be Joined
ON the shelf by the Texas, the first
sbattl eship OF the navy. Putting them
SO resarve at the present time Is made
necessary by the shortage OF officers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04
Criminal.

confessed to the robbery Of the post
Office at Tayloridge and Reynolds, III.
Raphaele Savara, who pleaded gull
ty to a charge Of assaulting an eleven
year-old girl, killed himself in jail at
Newark, N. ].
Because his wife refused to feed
chickens at his command Thomas
Dothert Of Richmond, KY, killed her
with monkey wrench.
Alvah Thompson committed suicide
at Iowa City, Iowa, by drinking car
bolic acid. His mind was temporarily
deranged from overwork.
An effort was made to blow up the
residence of Ashley Cockrill, former
city attorney and prominent lawyer
Of Little Rock. Ark, by dynamite. The
fuse failed to burn or the entire resi-
dence probably would have been de-
stroyed.
the corpse Of an unknown man,
with a bullet hole in the head and
having the appearance of having float
ed many days. was found in the river
at Burlington. Iowa. 1t is believed to
be case OF foul play and is being in.
svestigated.
Clyde Glidden, aged seven years,
has been arrested at Parkersburg, W.
Va, on charge of incenl!arism, it
being. alleged that he burned two
houses a week ago. The houses were
occupied and the families barely es-
capped with their lies.
The party Of revenue officers ssE,o
had fight with moonshiDers in Stokes
county, N. O., captured thirty-five
moonshiners and destroyed thirteen
Illicit stills. The officers state that be-
tween three and four hundred shots
were exchanged with the noun
taineers
Oliver N. bennett, the broker who
few days ago pleaded guilty to receiv-
Ing the bonds which w. O. Douglas,
the assistant loan clerk, stole from the
Trust Company Of America at New
York, was sentenced to serve not less
than five nor more than ten years in
Sing Sing prison.
After kissing his wife of a few
weeks George H. Searles Of Des
Moines walked out on the lawn and
drank some carbolic acid. He died
within few minutes. He left a note
saying that his wife was in love with
another man, so he took his own life to
get out Of her way.
= : 4 81
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-04

Another witness told of the effort to
locate the men guilty of the indie
pendence station outrage by starting
bloodhound from the chair rung
used in pulling off the mine explosion.
He said the dog took the road to Col
orado Springs, the one over which Or.
chard fled in the night. and that when
he reported to Sterling he got orders
to call the dog off Sterling said he
knew who blew up the station and
later said that it was Steve Adams.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-02
Not a Panic Year.

According to the law of trade
cycles, a depression is not due
either this or next year. The reg
ular interval does not occur until
1913. We had the 10-year inter
mediate or minimum depression in
1908, following the maximum ones
of 1898 and 1873. The 'law, >
however, is not inexorable and
may be upset by extraordinary
events or conditions. Our great
civil war appears to have broken
the cycle, to have bridged over, or
skipped, the small depression and
to have hastened the maximum de-
preston which came in 1873-16
years after the panic of 1857.
Present conditions are extraordi-
nary, not only because of great
loss by wars, fires and earthquakes,
and of the unparalleled output of
gold, but because of the monopoly
conditions in the industrial world.
-Moody's Magazine.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-02
Base Ball Rules.

The first thing for youngster TO
acquire is a nickname. A ball
player never became famous as Will
liam or Henry. Get to be "Muggsy"
or "Tripe' and your success is as
ured.
Remember that umpires are your
only friends and are meant to be
abused The jumps must be made
to take the blame every time you
are called out, and every good base
runner makes the umpire shoulder
the blame for raw work on the
bags.
Your job is never cinched. The
only way to get in right with the
manager is to catch him numbering
someone some dark night Then
every time he attempts to send
you to the bush, threaten to tell
on him.
To be success you must stand
in with the home fans. The only
way to do this is to make a home
run every time you come to bat.
NcNtc hboSh tue Daii So th9t
fielder can catch it. This rule
must never be broken.
If ball comes toward you do not
faint, catch it. Another unbreak-
aDlc rule.
Learn to be an ''inside ball play
err No one knows exactly what
one looks like, but be one anyway.
When you are on the coaching
Ii the manager is at bat make {
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-02
Wool Shrdrinq BeQinS.

Friday, at two different plants
in the hills, the shearing of the
seasons crop of wool began, and
will continue until between Us, 600
and 200, 900 sheep have been de-
nuded of their fluffy fleeces. At
Benefits station five miles south
OF Dixie, Matthews & Anderson
have plant in operation, while at
Dixie Messrs. Lee and Chattin are
running twenty machines also. At
each plant over 1900 sheep are
shesred each day, power being sup
piled by gasoline engines to shaft
ing from which flexible shafts run
to the machines, each of which is
operated by man. The work is all
by the piece, the shearer getting
eight and ope-half cents per head.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-02
Git Dumping Grounds.

Indiscriminate dumping of trash,
rubbish, cans, paper or any refuse
will not hereafter be allowed. At
their last regular meeting the coun-
ty commissioners by resolution es-
tablished a dumping ground south
of the city and instructed the sher-
iff to arrest and prosecute all part
les dumping refuse else where.
The grounds designated is the
southeast quarter of section 35,
township 3 south, range east, on
the hill between Brunaeu road and
the creek, about one mile south OF
the depot. All dead animals must
be disposed of as required by law,
either buried three feet deep OF
burned. Notices have been posted
to this effect and any violations
will have the prompt attention oi
the sheriff.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-02

A very pretty wedding was that
celebrated yesterday at the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Crandall,
when Mr. Joseph K Winter and
Miss Pearl Nelson were united in
marriage, yesterday at 3 p. IA.
Under a large floral bell the cou-
pie stood while the ceremony of the
ring was performed by Rev. c. Z.
Mason, in the presence of the
bride's relatives aud a few. invited
friends. At its conclusion a boun-
teous repast was served 10 the we'd
ding party by the hostess. The
young people were. the recipients of
many pretty and useful presents.
After visiting an aged mother
and sister and brother of the
groom at Pine, MIR. and Mrs. Win
ter will go to Ely, New, to make
their home.