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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
STRIKE AC-~rhN WATER.
Flow of SOC Gallons Il Minute il
New Lake Andes Well.

Ellet IldNlllS uIlleu ~ d. uSPLI VI
about $50 feet, the contractors who
are engaged in the work of sinking
In artesian well on the shores of Lake
Andes, Charles Mix county, report
that they have struck a flow of about
500 gallons per minute. While this
flow is a good one, the well men hope
to ecure a still better one, and ac-
cordingly have decided to drill the
well fifty feet deeper in order to pen
citrate the main portion of the water
bearing rock which forms the great
artesian basin of South Dakota.
It is estimated by the drillers that
this is about 500 feet beneath the
surface of the ground. When they
reach his water bearing stock they
expc>t the flow and pressure will be
considerably greater than that struck
at a depth of $50 feet.
This well and another one of the
same kind will be drilled at the ex-
pense of the United States govern
ment for the purpose of raising the
water level Of Lake Andes. Some
years ago a huge government well was
sunk on the shore of the lake, and this
kept the lake well filled with water
until the past yea OF SO, when the
stage of water in the lake has been
lowering.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Seven-year Record,
Deaths. Injured.
*Inco1nplete.
ALIENS RETURNING HOME.
Foreign Laborers by the Thousand
Taking Passage at New York.

Foreigners are swarming back to
their old homes this year in numbers
that have never been approached in the
history of the country. Steamship men
at New York declare that before winter
is far advanced 100000 aliens will have
returned to their native countries, car
rying with them close to $10O,OOO,OO
There is heavy steerage travel to Eu-
rope late in every fall for two reasons.
One Is the low fares fixed by the winter
steamer schedules and the other is the
winter lack of work.
The great majority Of travellers con-
sists of an army Of laborers who come
in the spring to engage in outdoor
work, and return when frost forces a
suspension Of operations. A great num-
Der Of these hail from Italy, and as a
rule they are employed in railroad con-
str1ction and mine work. They are
able. during the open season, to earn
more than enough to pay their travel
ing expenses and to meet the cost of
living during the months Of idleness.
This year the panic has served to
greatly increase the number of travel
ers. 1t is not alone the men who have
been thrown out Of work, but those thai
fea. a winter Of idleness in the mills
that swell the total. Their action will
probably have a strong effect on next
years immigration. All the winter
they will tell their neighbers stories Of
hard times in America, and that view
Of conditions here will be thoroughly
spread through Europe. If there should
be no pronounced depression the labor
shortage next spring will probably be
greater than it has been in the past
two years.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
South Dakota
State News
TO GATHER RAILWAY DATA.
Dakota Commissicncrs Name an IL.

Dakota Commissioners Name an tx
pert Engineer.
h state board of railroad cora
missioners appointed Carl c. Witt, an
expert engineer. to procure such dat~.
as will enable the railroad co.nmis-
sioners to make a valuation OF all the
railroad property in South Dakota,
in accordance with an act of the leg
islature which was in session last
winter. The new appointee was first
assistant engineer in charge OF the
construction of the bridge of the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad com
pany across the Missouri river a.
Pierre. He will make his headquarters
In Sioux Falls and viii assume the
duties of his new position about Dec
10.
Complains was made to the board
by a Mitchell produce house in refer
ence to the alleged oxorbitant rates
charged by the American Express
company on goods shipped from
Mitchell to Rapid City. in the Black
Hills. During the meeting of the
board, which has just been held, a
letter was read from the express com
pany, in whichlit vas stated that tn.
company had recently put into effect
a new schedule of rates from eastern
South Dakota to points in the western
part of the state, n that the new
rate made a reduction in the rate on
merchandise from So to So per 100
pounds. The old rate on butter, eggs,
dressed poultry and such articles Of
produce was $2.25 per 100 pounds,
while the new rate is S1.50 per 100
pounds. 1t is believed this will be
satisfactory to the business men of
eastern Sout.: Dakota who ship goods
by express to points in western South
Dakota.
The board, after concluding it's
work, toe an adjournment until Dec.
II.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
s12 a Week Mean. Privation.

The report Of DIR. Lee Frankel, man
ager of the United Hebrew Charities OF
New York, before the State conference of
charities and correction, tells of the re-
cent investigation of actual living condi-
tions in the big city. This shows that
the $2-a-day man, who is also the $6OOta-
year man, if he have an average family Of
wife and three children under working
age, spends more than he earns for the
necessities. Rent for two and rarely three
rooms is about 1854; his food costs $21O
for the year, of which his share is 221a
cents a day, or half a cent above the min
imum for physical efficiency fixed by
Prof. Underhill of Yale; for fuel and
light there is only $25, and perhaps SO
is spent for daily papers, S. for club or
church dues, leaving a final balance Of
Sc. or % cents q month, for recreation.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
NEW YORK,

While the number of cities report that
the tone of affairs has taken a turn for
the better, actual business, taking the
country az a whole, shows an increased
degree of quiet both at wholesale and re-
tail, a working out Of the continued scare
ity of currency at some points, of lessen
ing activity in industries and of the con-
tinuance of unseasonably mild weather.
with it's natural effect Upon distribution
Of winter goods.
Business failures for the week ending
Nov. p number 263, against 259 last
week, 212 in the like week of 1900, "a
in 1905, 1913 in 1904 and 167 in 1908.
Canadian failures for the week number
95, as against As last week and II IN
this week a year ago.-Bradstfeet's Com-
iercial Report.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
big Mexican Robbery,

News o. one OF the largest robber-
les ever committed In the country
has just been made public at San AN
tonic. Tex. While Hugo Scherr, q
wealthy banker of that city. was Civ
ing q dinner to q number OF friends,
$4,000 worth OF 1ewelry nj several
hundred dollars In cash were taken
from the house.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
o PAY FOR JURORS.
To Get SIS a Day in Circuit Courts
of the State.


of III State
The presiding Judges of sevcra of
the nine judicial circuits in South Da-
kota have this fall issued orders in
creasing the "a of jurors summoned
to try cases in the circuit court from
81 to SO per day. Until the last ses-
sion of the state legislature, and from
away back in territorial times, the
maximum pay of jurors in South Da-
kota has been 81 per day.
At the session of the legislature
held last winter a law was passed
providing that the minimum pay Of
jurors should be 50 per day and the
maximum So per day. The exact
amount was left to the discretion of
the presiding Judges in the nine cir
cults. For a number of years the
general opinion has been that So per
day was not sufficient pay for a man
to leave his farm or place of business
and serve on a jury.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Teachers examinations.

The office of the state superintend-
ent is receiving a number of papers
from the November teachers exami-
nations. and a force is at work mark
ing them. The returns SO far received
indicate tina there are a number IF
applicants for certificates, and with
the average number passing the teach
er supply for the state will be pretty
we'll filled.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Killcd BY . Race Horse.

John Hosier. an employe on the
stock farm Of r. G. Brien. near Nash
VILE. Tenn. was kicked and paved
to desth there by Mr. Brien.s race
horse Kerchevni, winner Of the Burns
handicap in California. the Cumber-
land derby at Nashville. and other
notable events at various tracks east
Inc west. 4
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
PLAN STATE POULTRY SHOW.
Largo Number of Exhibitors Elk.
pectel.

Largo Number Of Exhibitors Elk
pected.
NJ. J.. Gotthelf, of Sioux Falls. j. f.
iReinelt of Huron, w. S. Snyder OF
Ethan, and William Scallin and J. n.
Grow of Mitchell, held a meeting at
Mitchell n completed arrangements
in the way of a premium list for the
South Dakota state poultry show,
which will be held in the city hall
building in Mitchell, commencing Jan.
~ I'M closing Feb. 1. For years past
the state show has made it a rule to
pay the largest cash premiums of
any show in the state. and S a result
the managers have always received
the best patronage. The list of silver
cups and the special prizes will more
than make 1t an object for the chicken
fanciers to send their birds to Mitch
ell for the state show.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
LINEMAN IS ELECTRocUTED.
Sioux Falls Man Instantly Killed /
Grasping Live Wires.

Sioux Falls Man Instantly Killed by
Grasping Live Wires.
L. kirkpatrick, a lineman in the
employ of the Cascade Milling COM
lpany, of Sioux Falls, while engaged
with other workmen in repairing the
electric light wires of the m
in the eastern part of the city, was in
.stantly killed by grasping live wires,
one in each hand. 1t was some little
time before the hands could be re-
leased from the wires and his body
lowered to the ground.
During the temporary sojourn of
Bob Fitzsimmons in Sioux Falls about
two years ago kirkpatrick gained lo-
cal renown by boxing a bout with
Fftzsimmons in a local
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Music for Suicide.

Turning on the gas n photograph
at the same time Mrs. Georgia Little,
aged SIS, committed suicide at her
home in New York Thursday to the
strains OF I'm the wildwoods Where
the Bluebel1s Crow her favorite air.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Pythian Leader Dcnd.

Gen. Leon Jastremski, a confederate
veteran, candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor Of Louisi-
ana. former grand chancellor Of the
knights Of Pythias OF the United
States, died Friday at Baton Rouge,
or paralysis.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
READY FOR PURE ROOD TEST.
Wheaton to Start Action Against
South Dakota.


South Dakota.
A.. H. Wheaton, state pure food
commissioner, while in Pierre a few
Gays ago, said the delay in bringing
suit under the patent medicine clause
cf the pure foo act has been through
efforts to ecure a friendly suit on the
part of some outside drug house, to get
the interstate phase of the law tested.
A suit in the state courts will only set
tie the matter SO far as business with
in the state is concerned, leaving the
interstate question n of pen on
tention. But as he las failed to secure
action on the part of an outside house
he expects tn within a fewtaaIg oegln
suit against some Local druggist and
test the provisions oT the law SO far as
1t is concerned within the state and
leave the interstate part Of the ques-
ton to further Acknowledgements some
outside firm feels that it's interests are
involved to an extent which will war
rant it to bring such a suit in the
United States courts.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Castro's Worst Foe Slain.

General Rafael Montilla, known in
the Venezuela country for year as q
persistent insurgent and bandit has
ambushed and killed in Barqui-
lsimeto. Montilla had fought against
the Castro government since he came
intospower.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
To Ralse Capitol Foundation.

At q late meeting Of the state capt.
stol commission it was decided to raise
the foundation of the new building
two feet to give the grounds a good
slope from the structure to the streets
ION all side Of the grounds. Contrac-
tor Olsen is taking advantage of the
continuing good weather to get in as
much of n increased height of the
foundation as possible this fan.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Mrs. TAFT Is Failing.

Mrs. Louisa Taft. mother OF the sec
rotary Of war, As failing e day. ac-
cording to a statement made by a
member OF the household at Millburg,
Mass, Friday.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Deadly NCorrlsta,kv Disease.

The deadly ~'cornstalk disease' is
causing heavy losses to the rme
residing in the eastern part IF Min
nehaha county. One farmer residing
near Valley Springs thus far has lost
ten head of cattle. and others have
lost from three to six.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Conductor Accidentally Shot.

Only a few hours after his head
brakeman, Frank Mccarthy, met
death under a locomotive at Hot
springs. Arthur Eldridge. a freight
conductor on the Burlington, was Sc
riously shot at Hill City when entering
a saloon. He unconsciously crossed
the threshold during a gun fight be-
tween two men at the bar N receiv-
ed three bullets in the right leg.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
BURIAL ION THE QUIET"
New Yorker Commits Suicide and
Leaves Instructions to Friends.

John Davis. 50 years old, a retired
farmer, committed suicide at his home
near Lockport, N. y. Wednesday. He
used a revolver. In the room where
Davis killed himself neighbors found
q coffin ready for use. On the coffin
lid was pinned this note:
Call Taylor & Reynolds. No min
lister. Bury me on the quiet by the
small apple tree near the fence. Do 1t
on the quiet. Cannot stand the pain.
Do not let curious folks look at me to
talk about"
Taylor & Reynolds are undertakers
from whom Davis bought his coffin a
year ago. Davis suffered intense pain
from rheuamtism.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
BATTLE AT OAKLAND.
FIFTY Shots Exchanged In . streei
Fight.

a pistol battle between a deputy
sheriff and special policeman on one
side and a Chinaman and four white
men on the other took place in the
park at Oakland, CAL, Thursday night
in which fifty shots were fred. Spe-
cial Policeman Murdoch, w. M. Ryan.
non-combatant, and Wing Leong, a
Chinaman, were wounded.
The shooting was the result OF war
ring between the societies OF Hop
sing Tong and Bing Kong Tong. Sew
Cinnamon have been killed or In
Ijured in fights between the members
Of the two longs.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
FIRE IN Chfcapn Rrawcrx,

The Tosetti Brewing company and
the Mullin Brewing company, Of Chi
cage. each suffered q loss estimated
&C $1,000 III 4 flre that Destroyed the
malt house Of both plants Thursday
Eaftarnoon
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
VICTIMS Of prairie E,re

Wilbur Standish and his sister, Miss
Edna Standish, yer terribly burn
ed while trying to escape from q pra-
,ric fire near Hettinger, are Ii a SER
ious condition AID 1t is feared they
will not recover.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
BURNED TO DEATH IN CABIN.
Mrs. Rose Courtney Loses Her Life at
Fort Meade.

Mrs. Rose Courtney was burned to
death in her cabin at Fort Meade re-
Gently. The cabin burned to the
ground. She had just been given the
use of the cabin for the balance Of
her life by the government. The sup
position is that Mrs. Courtney acci-
dentally set fire tosthe cabin, but how
will never be known. Her husband
some years ago met death in a run
away, being thrown into a wire fence.
Mrs. Courtney was upwards Of so
years old.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Masonic Secretary Dead.

Hugh Murray, grand secretary Of
the Masonic grand lodge Of Canada,
died suddenly Thursday at his home
at Hamilton, Ont, from apoplexy. In
1885, he was grand master OF Canadian
Masons.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
TO TRY TO SURE LEPRosY.
Experiment will BE Made ON Ha-
wailan Island.

wailan Island.
The board Of health on petition OF
81 lepers at the Molokai settlement,
Hawaiian Islands. has agreed to per-
init =. Lore Wallach to attempt treat
'ment OF twelve lepers from the settle
,ment. This ts h result Of agitation
which has been carried on by Wallach
and hts friends for several months.
during which he has persistently
claimed he can ure leprosy. and has
thereby reused the hopes Of the lepers
themselves, who are almost all Ha-
swaiians.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Pioneer to Address Newspaper Nc

Pioneer to Address Newspapers Men.
An interesting feature of thu mid
winter meeting of the South Dakota,
Press association, to be held at Wa
tertown on Jan. 16 and II, will be
the presence of r. s.. Conklin, better
known as .Old Conk," who in 1884,
when the association was first organ
lied, was elected its first president.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Helpel Capturc ..Jerv Davis.

Charles Paddock, a veteran Of the
civil war, died at his home In Dams
willie, Mich. Thursday. He was "a
years old.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
Death 81 +. A. SAWYER

Al telegram from Dundee, Ill, an
nounces the death in that city Friday
OF F. A. Sawyer. formerly in the print
ing business IN Huron. His death re-
suited from diabetes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-06
UauREs OF FOOTBALLS TOLL.
1OO7-Up to Date.

Total deaths 10
Total injured 1852
College players killed.. .-......... =
College players injured. .......... %
High school players killed. ........ 4
High school players injured......... ~
Athletic club members injured...... ~
Principal Injuries.
Broken legs II
Broken collar 10
Broken arms .
broken Jaws .
broken noses y
Conclusion of brain. ............. 4
Torn ligaments Z
Dislocated shoulders ............. ID
Broken skulls =
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-07-24
NO INCREASE ON GRAZING.
Officials Believe That Such Move Will
BE Not Needed.

No increase in fees for grazing
live stock on national forests will
be required by the forest service dur
ing the present administration. Re-
ports to the contrary have been cir
culated in the west, but they were
denied by Associate Forester
Price. Mr.. Price says that the fees
asked by the government are less
than those charged by private own
ers. Mr.. Price said:
1.-THE government does not believe
in charging stockmen what might
be called full market value of the
grazing prilege-that is, in letting
the use of the range to the highest
bidder and trying to make as much
as possible out of the land In other
words, it is not in the position of a
landlord who seeks to realize the lar
gest possible returns from his hold
ings While there is no reason why
those who profit individually by ma
king use of the national forests
should not help meet the expenses of
their protection, the forests are run
not as revenue producers, but as
sources of public benefit through
rightly regulated use. Much misdi-
rected criticism has arisen from the
failure of many people to understand
this.
Some western papers, for in
|stance, have reprinted from the con-
gressional record the estimate of the
forester of the capitalized value OF
the national forests, totaling some
81, 100000, 900, and have assumed
that each of the general items meant
that the government proposed to turn
these resources to account by a sys.
tenn of charges. 1t can be stated au.
thoritatively that no such thing was
ever thought of. In their capacity
to supply water for irrigation, fol-
/ instance, the forests are immensely
valuable, and the capitalized value
of this use should be considered by
| the government as trustee for the
public in estimating how much it /.
worth while to expend in order t.
protect the water conserving capaci
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-07-24
YOUNG KARL HAU
IS CONDEMNED
To DIE

KARLSRUHE, July 22.-Karl
Hau. the brilliant young lawyer and
professor of Washington, was con-
demned to death this morning after
five days trial for numbering his
mother-in-law, Frau Moliter, Novem-
Der 6 last. The prisoner heard the
verdict of the jury with perfect COM
posure and chatted smilingly with
his counsel after the judges retired
to fix sentence. Upon their return
Hau arose, and standing erect with
folded arms, listened to the sentence
without moving a muscle. The sem
tence is unpopular with the street
crowds, which have been demonstrat-
ing openly for several days in Hau's
favor. So violent did the crowd out
side the court room become that it
required two companies of infantry
and a squadron of cavalry to drive
the rioters away. During the excite
ment one old woman was trampled
down by horses and it is reported
several other persons were injured.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-07-24

ty of the forests. But no returns
from the users of water for irrigation
were contemplated, not could any
change be made under existing laws.
Grazing stands half way between
irrigation and numbering in the mat
ter of the propriety of a charge.
When timber from the national for
ests is sold it is sold at the market
price. Timber, as Mr.. Pinchot said
at the Denver convention, is a trans
portable commodity; forage on the
range is not.
To put up at auction the privi-
lege of grazing would open those who
have settled in a region and those
who have permanent interest in a
particular range to what would often
be ruinous competition from no.
madic cattle and sheepmen. Stabili-
ty of the industry and the protec-
ton of the small settler who helps
develop the country along permanent
lines is of the first Importance. To
secure these ends the grazing fee is
put low, and the choice of those al
lowed to use the range is made along
lines which recognize residents and
past users as having the first right.
Though no general advance in the
fee will be made, some adjustment
in the interest of fairness will re-
suit in certain local changes. On
some of the new national forests a
lower rate than ordinary was fixed
for the present season on account OF
the crowded condition and conse-
quent inferiority of the range. A
slight increase in the fee charged
will be made in such cases as the
ranges improve in condition and bet
ter service is given. This will be
simply to equalize charges on the
basis of the present rates and along
the lines of fairness. No increase
will be made above the standard
prices fixed this year for the differ
ent states.
THE announcement by the forest
service that stockmen need not fear
that the rate charged will be increas
ed to an amount which they could
not afford to pay, will be welcomed
throughout the western states.''
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-07-24

T. H. Kreamer of Kansas City ar
rived in North Yakima Sunday after
three weeks trip in California,
Oregon and Washington. He will
remain a week camping in the noun
tains with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Kopf and Miss Beatrice Kreamer.
MIR. Kreamer is Mrs. Kopf's brother.
Jos. H. Lancaster, supervisor of
district No. /, is determined to stop
the practice of running waste water
in the roads. He has issued circu-
lar letters to all residents of that
district advising them of the law and
warning them that all offenders will
be prosecuted without fear or favor.
Stockholders of the Valley
traction company are signing stock
for the new company rapidly and ev-
cry effort is being put forth to Sc
cure all of the stockholders so that
work on the line may go ahead in
earnest. 1t is hoped that cars will
be operating from the fair grounds
to this city by state fair time.