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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17

i'll the private chapel at the palace. The
font used for the christening is one
that has figured at the christening Sf
Spanish princes and princesses for sew
eral centuries. The nurse for a royal
infant is always chosen from among
the peasant women of the Asturias, who
are noted for their beauty.
According to a decree of the Spanish
government, the son born to King AL
fonso and Queen Victoria will bear the
title of Prince of the Asturias. The
p~rincipality of the Asturias family IA
the mountain refuge Of the aboriginal
inhabitants of Spain, who remained
there unconquered by Roman or Moor.
In many respects the Asturias is re-
earded as the cradle of the Spanish
monarchy, hence h pride taken in the
title of Prince of the Asturias.
Queen Victoria, mother of the royal
infant, was married to King Alfonso
in Madrid May 81, 1906, amid scenes
of the greatest splendor, followed by
tho horror of Il bomb explosion which
killed scores of people and narrowly
missed the royal coach in which their
majesties were returning from church.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
BinRcr Hermann Not Guilty,

The Washington Cd. c. jury which
Mad heard the extensive testimony sub
nitted in the case of the government
against Binger Hermann, former commits
Moner of the general land Office, ON the
charge of destroying letter-press copy
hooks containing official records of the
Office, rendered a verdict of not guilty.
The trial had lasted ten weeks, and the
jury deliberated twenty-one hours. Mr..
Hermann, after being dismissed by for
mer Secretary Hitchcock. was elected
representative in Congress by his Oregon
constituency, Notwithstanding that he was
under the cloud of an Indictment. He
admitted having destroyed the books. but
said they contained nothing but private
correspondence, while the government
held that they contained evidence connect
ing him with certain land frauds.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
One Kitchen for the Tovvn.

The women of Montclair. a New Jersey
sub1b of New York, have projected a
domestic service corporation for the pur-
pose of doing away with the drudgery of
the kitchen and substituting for it a CEN
trail plant. which shall prepare all the
family's food, bring it to the house three
times a day and take way the soiled
dishes. leaving to the housewife only the
pleasant task of adjoining the table as
may suit her fancy. Some of the advan-
tages claimed for this plan are the solu-
ton of the servant problem, the combi-
nation of a first-class hotel service with
the comforts and privacy of ones own
home. absolute freedom from the care and
worry of providing for the table and a
cost for the highest grade of food prepared
in the very best manner probably not ex-
ceeding hat for the average family table.
The corporation may extend its service
so as to include laundry work. houseclean-
ing, lawn moving and gardening.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
HELPING COTTON PLANTERS.
now the Government Is Coming to
the Rescu of a Great Industry.

now the G~Overnment Is Coming to
the Rescue of n Great Industry.
cat one time it was thought the whole
important Sea Island cotton industry
would be swept away by a disease" avs
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. THE
departments experts entered the field, de
veloping a disease-restsance cotton by
breeding and selection. and re-established
the industry. In all the South where the
boil weeviI is now working the depart
ment is striving to secure varieties that
will be so early as to produce crops de-
spite the weeyil. We are succeeding in.
this :Ind are distributing new types of
cotton superior to those already in exist
ence. and which will mature ahead of the
woevil.
zone of the greatest lines of propa-
ganda work the department is carrying
on is in the South, in connection with
the cotton weevil. When the weevil in
vaded the country the cottdn growers
were discouraged, and it was necessary
to rally them. This was done by extern
sive systems of demonstration work. The
farmer is shown how to grow cotton de-
spite the weevil, how to rotate his crops,
how to improve his land, and how to sur
round his home with better conditions
generally. Last year the department was
working along this line with more than
100000 farmers in the States of Texas
and Louisiana alone, and this year the
number will be increased.
'1These farmers are being taught how
to maintain the fertility Of the land by
the use Of legumes, to grow corn, to
keep animals, and at the same time pro-
duce cotton. We are e~ndeayoring to show
them that they can produce just as much
cotton on half the land now in use, de-
voting the other half to crops which will
bring them ready money, and which will
not deplete the soil"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17

14s6-Lambert Simnel, pretender to the
English throne, crowned at Dublin.
1494-Columbus discovered Jamaica.
1524-Cheralier Bayard killed while de-
Tending the passage of the Sesia.
1G79-Archbishop Sharp assassinated.
I6S4-Battle of Bantry Bay, between
French and English.
1745-Battle of Fontenoy.
1756-Alliance of Versailles.
175S-Richard Vaughan hanged for forg-
ing Bank of England notes.
179S-Navy Department of the United
States established by act of Con-
gress.
1S0S-Charles ". of Spain abdicated in
favor of Bonaparte. 60.
lS26-Pedro ". of Portugal abdicated.s
lS35-First issue of the New York
Herald. Amos Kendall of Ken
lucky became Postmaster General of
the United States.
lS40-Adhesive postage stamps, invented
by James Chalmers of Dundee, first
used.
1s41-London Library, founded by
Thomas Carlyle and others, formally
opened.
1S45-More than 100 lives lost by col
lapse of suspension bridge at Var
mouth, England.
1S49-Roman Republicans repulsed the
French.
1S59-Jerome X. Jerome, English author,
born.
lS7S-First elevated trains run in New
York City.
tSS2-Frederick G. Cavendish, chief sec
Rotary to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, and r. II. Burke, under see
rotary, assassinated in Phoenix Park.
Dublin.
ISs7-Remains of Rossini reinterred in
Santa Croco, Florence.
1Sss-Lerd Stanley appointed governor
general of Canada.
lSS9-French Universal Exhibition open
ed in Paris.
1S90-Insane asylum at Tongue Pointe,
Quebec, burned with loss of 100
lives.
lS91-Rev. Phillips Brooks elected Prot
estant Episcopal bishop Of Massachu-
sets.
ls92-Ferdinand Wards term at Sing
Sing prison expired. 80. Deeming, the
wholesale murderer convicted at Mel
bourne, Australia. ..
lS95-Dowager Duchess of Marlborough
and Lord William Beresford mar
ried in London.
lS91-Trinity church, New York, cele-
brated its bi-centennial jubilee.
Congress of the Universal Postal
Union opened at Washington. D. G.
i901-Glasgow International Exhibition
opened.
19O3-Dedication of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition at st. Louis.
1904-British, under Col. Younghusband,
defeated Thibetans near Karo Pass.
l906-M. White resigned the Russian pre-
miership.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17

George NJ. Stratton, the Johns Hop
kins university expert on railway statls-
tics. discusses in the May Century the
subject of railway disasters at night, and
makes. practical suggestions for A change
of system which would minimize acct
dents. Prof. Stratton wants to Shift the
responsibility of the travellers safety from
the color faculty to the space sense by
making the yane of the semaphore lumln-
Gus at night. Such a line of fire would
be strikingly different from the usual
lights of buildings or streets, and would
stand out distinct from the colored lights
which it might seem wise to continue for
other purposes. This continuous line of
light, moreover, would be visible at a far
greater distance than is the present single
light. 1t would at once remove all need
of discerning whether the light burned
white or green or red, with all the risk
which the distinction brings. 1t would
be virtually continuing at night the same
system of signals which is used during
the day.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
The Dalai Lama Located.

The Dalai lama, or leader of the Bud
dhist religion, who fed from Lhasa on
the approach of the English expedition
which laid bare the secrets of the forbid
len Tibetan city some months ago, has
,een located by DR.. Tafel, a German ex-
~plorer, in a monastery at Gombmn, near
the Tibetan border. He describes the
anna as a very small man of the true
Iibetan type. He was employed in ex-
lmining candidates for the priesthood.
These, with the attending priests, were
'Quatted on the ground, while the lama
walked to and fro among them asking
questions. When the answer was incor-
rect, the lama clapped his hand over the
Speakers mouth, as if to prevent him
from disclosing his ignorance. DR.. TafeI
is said to be the first European who has
ever stood face to face with the pope Of
Buddhism.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
Short News Notes.

The business portion of Aldernn, 1. T.,
q mining town. was destroyed by fire, the
loss being $4,000.
The car barns Of the Cincinnati,
Georgetown and Portsmouth railroad in
Cincinnati were totally destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000, fully insured.
The manufacturing and storage plant
of the Pennsylvania Ice Company at
Creston. Pa, was destroyed by fire. with
5000 tons of ice, causing a loss of $780,
600.
Two persons were killed and twelve
injured in a rear-end passenger and
freight collision on the Southern railway
at Woodlawn Junction, Ala.
A conspiracy within a conspiracy was
the charge made by the commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania in the "black hand" trial
at Wilkesbarre. 1t vas charged that
witnesses were being inundated n
more arrests were ordered.
Definite steps for the erection OF q
monument to the late Edgar Wilson N.Y.
(Biil Nye) have been taken by the Amer
lean Press Humorists. according to q
statement made by f. L. Searsisht OF Los
Angeles, secretary of the organization.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
DRUG TRUST IS ENDED.
Court Isnioins ombine on complaint
of Government.

OF government.
The so-called drug trust was per-
petually enjoined from continuing It's
operations by the entering of a decree
in the United States Circuit Court for
the district of Indiana on the complaint
of the United States government filed
by Joseph r. Healing, United States
District Attorney. Ihe defendants,
n%inetyitwo in number, who are the
members, officers, directors, agents and
attorneys of the National Association
of Retail Druggists, the Wholesale
Druggists Association, tripartite pro
prietOrs, blacklist manufacturers" "di-
rect contract proprietors," wholesale
contract proprietors'' and Charles C..
Bombaugh, are perpetually enjoined
from combining and conspiring to re-
strain trade in drugs, fix prices by
agreement, blicklist retailers who cut
prices, or to refuse to sell to any re-
taller on equal terms.
All publication of blacklists is for
hidden and all contracts and agree
ments covered by the charges are de-
clared void. The direct contract serial
number plan is prohibited as we'll as
the securing of the adoption of sched-
uleS for the sale of drugs.
Charles c. Bombaugh was charged
in the bill of complaint with being en-
gagged in printing and circulating lists
called blacklists, which contained the
names of druggists throughout the
country who sold proprietary articles
and medicines at prices less than those
which the alleged combination ordered.
AS charged, he would send a list each
month to every retail and wholesale
druggist in the United States who be-
Iongcd to the association of those ac-
cused of cutting prices II as a result
of this these aggressive cutters as
they were called, could not buy goods.
1t was further charged that those ac-
cused of cutting prices on proprietary
medicines, We're unable to purchase any
kind of drugs from the members OF the
several associations. All such practices
are perpetually e%njoined.
The decree entered was dictated by
the government attorneys and agreed
to by the defendants. With the enter
ing Of the decree the litigation came
to an end with a complete victory for
the government.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17

. .f'
The State Department at Washington
has been informed of the successful con-
clusion of peace negotiated between the,
recently warning Central American repub-
lies. A provisional government of Hon
duras has been announced to administer
the affairs of the country pending a pres
idential and congressional election, which
will probably be held in about sixty days.
Washington confirms the dispatches
from Pekin to the effect that the Chinese
minister to the United States, Sir Chen
tung Liang-Cheng, is to return to Pekin,
where he will probably assume the Office
of president of the board of foreign af-
fairs and controller general of maritime
customs. Liang Tun-Yen, a graduate of
Yale college, is mentioned as his prob
able successor at Washington.
The italian government gave notice in
the chamber that it would reserve to it
self the entire initiative regarding the
proposed excavations at the ancient city
of H~erculaneum, thus excluding all for
eign aid of a financial nature. This means
that the work will be delayed indefinitely
pending an investigation. as it is known
that Italy lacks the funds to carry on the
work as it was proposed to do by English
scientists with the aid Of English capital.
The Japanese battleship .Aki, which
was launched successfully at Kure, Japan,
outclasses the British Dreadnought and
gives Japan the credit of having the larg-
est battleship in the world. The Aki
is 4O2 feet long, S3h feet wide, has 49,
800 tons displacement and turbine en-
sines of $4,000 horsepower, expected to
give her a speed of PIG knots. She has
three tunnels and an armor belt 9h
inches thick. Her armament includes four
12-inch. twelve 10-inch and eight 6-inch
guns. She was designed and constructed
exclusively by japanese, the net time of
her construction being only eight months.
The last vestige of war in Manchuria
mas now been removed, the Russian and
japanese troops having completed their
evacuation of that section of the Chinese
empire all military movements have
ceased. and the Manchurian towns have
been turned over to the Chinese authori-
ties. China has written to Japan ex-
pressing her appreciation of the with
drawal of the japanese troops, and Civ
ing assurance of the reorganization of
the Manchurian provinces. April 10 was
the expiration of the eighteen months
limit for the evacuation of Manchuria,
according to the treaty of Portsmouth.
In the House of Commons Chancellor
Asuuith submitted a budget statement
showing a year of unusual prosperity,
with a reduction of the national debt and
a surplus of nearly S27, 100000. The
old-age pension scheme is set to go into
effect next year and $I,500,Oo0 is set
aside for that purpose.
The strike situation in Paris has grown
more acute, many of the hotel walters
having Joined the ranks of the striking
bakers and other food-producing work
men. While no serious disturbances
have occurred, it has been found neces-
s:ary Il, nse the troops to dispense the
mobs which have gathered from time to
time.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
RIOTS IN FRISCO.
LABOR WAR IN WESTERN CITY
GROWS SERIOUS.
Attempt to Run TrOlIeys by Armed
Men Ficrcely Resisted by Strikers
-One Man Killed, Others FATAL
Eurt-I3,oO on strike.

Nine men We're shot down, one was
killed and several were fatally wound
ed in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon
in a pitched battle between striking
street car employees and their sympa-
thizers and guards employed by the
United Railroads to protect their cars
manned by non-union men.
The armed guards poured volley af-
ter volley into the crowds in the
streets, in response to showers Of
bricks and stones hurled at them. The
police made little or no effort to dis
perse the mob. Two of those shot were
members of II police force. Finally
the police arrested the guards on three
of the cars. and then turned their at
tention to beating back the mob.
1t was in the afternoon that the com
pany officials prccipitated the battle by
sending out seven passenger cars. All
day long n crowd had waited around
the barns ut Turk II Fillmore streets,
and no sooner had the cars appeared
than they were greeted by showers Of
stones
The first shot was fired al the inter.
section of Turk and Buchanan streets
by a guard from the rear platform of
the car that headed the string of seven.
The bullet struck a young man sitting
on the curb and inflicted a flesh wound
in his arm. The shot was not fired
until most of the windows of the car
had been smashed with stones, several
Of which had struck and severely bruis-
ed some of the guards on board.
The shooting of the man aroused the
ob to Il pitch Of frenzy. Paving stones
and other distractions were cast on the
track, and in hat way the car was
Brought to a standstill Il block further
on. Hurting any missiles that came
easiest to hand, hundreds of men and
boys surrounded the car. In 81 moment
a volley of shots rang out and the
CROWD fell back in fear. The Obstruc-
tons We're cleared away and the car
proceeded, followed a block behind by
two others.
The sound Of the shots appraised the
main crowd in the ~neighborhood Of
Fillmore and Webster streets that a
battle was OIL, and more than 1000
men and boys came running down Turk
street in pursuit Of the strike break
ers, who, standing to their posts, shot
again and again into the crowds as re-
peated showers of stones struck them.
Just beyond Van Ness avenue the
first squad of police arrived. The mob
stoned them, too, but presently desist-
ed on being implored by union pickets,
who shouted frantically Boys, don't
hit the cops; they are our friends"
The mob called on he police to ar
rest the guards on the first three cars.
The policemen tried to persuade the
maddened men and boys to dispense,
but without effect. At Turk and Hyde
streets, three blocks east OF Van Ness
avenue, the guards again turned their
weapons on the crowd. In the fusil-
lade a policeman was shot in the back.
With the street car men, the iron
workers, the telephone operators and
the laundry workers out, there are
more than 1900 strikers in San Fran.
cisco at present.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17

At st. Paul, in the CIRCUIT Court of
Appeals, Judge Sanborn fled the opin-
ion affirming the judgments against the
packers for accepting concessions of IL
cents a hundred less han the established
rates from Kansas City, Mo-, to points
In foreign countries. This upholds the
fines imposed by the western Missouri
District Court, namely, $4,000 each on
the indicted firms, which are the Armour,
Swift, Morris and Cudahy concerns.
Judges Hook and Adams concur. The
decision will form tie basis of futurs
action until it is reviewed by the So
pfsme Court.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
BANDITS KILL ENGINEER.
Gold Attempt to Hold Up Northern
Pacific Flyer.

.... 'asSE -
Masked train robbers held up the
Northern aPciic crack North Coast
limited train and shot The engineer
dead at Welch's spur, fifteen miles east
Of Butte. There was Il wild battle, in
which many bullets were fired into the
cars. The passengers wede panic
stricken. Repulsed by the deadly fire
from the trains guards, the robbers
fed into the wods, stopping every now
and then to fire their rifles at the train
men.
There were five men in the party of
highwaymen. They halted the flyer at
Welch'S spur by means of Il red lantern
placed in the center of the track, an I'M
usual signal, but one so significant that
the engineer did not dare to ignore the
warning.
When the train had been stopped two
of the robbers sprang from the ditch
with rifles in hand and covered the en-
gineer and fireman, telling them resist
ance meant certain death. At the same
time three other men dashed out of the
woods Il sprang toward the express
Sals "AiNi N'i " 'hi''Sh I'A W.
tanning a large amount of currency, re-
ported as much as 100000, from Seat
tie, Portland, and Spokane to the East.
The robbers evidently had knowledge
OF the large amount of money on the
train.
Warned, however, by three previous
train robbcries in this wild and desc
Lotto rnpjnp in nnn of which tho h1 nIitS
! secured $4,000. the railway officials
had equipped the trains crew with
magazine pistols and given orders to
shoot on si1nt any one who seemed a
rain robJer. The engineer and fireman
were therefore prepared for the attack.
As soon as they spied the robbers leap
iLg toward the engine they grasped
their arms and prepared to defend
themselves in spite of the fact that the
deadly rifles OF the highwaymen were
plainly visible.
The bandits order to throw up your
hands" was met by the crack of the
magazine pistol y held by the intrepid
engineer. His aim, however, was un-
certain and the shot went wild. The
tlcAl llSIsliL UhNlS was ioIiS Sho"
This time it was the rifle Of Il of the
bandits. The bullet tore a gaping hole
through the engine cab, barely missing
the engineer.
BY this time the fireman got his
weapon into action. For several min
utes train employees and highwaymen
exchanged shots, the railway men try
ing to keep within cover and the rob-
bers lodging around such shelter as
they could find beside the track. from
which they had been forced to retreat
by the p~erilous fire from the engine.
Finally, however, the bandits fire
proved effective and the engineer fell
dead in his cab.
Meantime the shooting had alarmed
the three robbers who attacked the eX-
press car. They ran toward the engine
to assist their comrades. At the same
time the shots aroused the guards in
the express car and they opened their
door and began shooting at the robber
band. This fire proved to be more than
the bandits had counted on and they
took to their heels. The traimmen pur-
sued them for a short distance, but
did not appar able to make an effective
shot ...... .- .a- u"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
Mnrringe a Real Lottery here.

Every year in the Rumai country, in
India, a marriage lottery is held, gem
orally in October. The anne of all
the marriageable girls and of the
goung men who are tired of bachelor
life are written on slips of paper and
thrown into separate earth pots. One
Of each kind is drawn at one time by
a local wise man. The youth whose
nane is drawn out obtains a letter OF
Introduction to the young wo.nan whose
name accompanies his. and then all
that remains for him to do is to start
oeurtship, with all the ardor of which
he is capable. Such fortuitous court
ships might not appear at first sight to
premise very well for future connsbial
happiness; but, nevertheless, in the
majority of cases, everything turns out
very satisfactory
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17

The New York State railroad commits
ZION finds that there were 3,014 break
ages in rails on the principal steam lines
of the State during the first quarter. as
compared with S26 during the same pc
Rod of last year. This matter has been
called to the attention of the American
Railway Association, in convention at
Chicago, with the request that it be plac-
ed before the rail manufacturers to dis
cover whether the increase in breakage is
due to new methods of manufacture or to
deterioration in the metal composition.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17
Train with New Field Gum.

Dispatches from Berlin state that the
German government has ordered PA, 900
men of the army reserve and territorial
army to join the colors for a fortnight's
service. to receive training with the new
field gun and modified rife, with improved
ammunition. The number of men sum
moned for duty is $1,000 more than were
called out for training in 1906. The mill
cary authorities are displaying unusual
activity in other directions. Military ma
neuvers on the largest scale. involving for
tresses as well as troops, are being pre-
pared.