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Sisseton Posten. [volume] (Effington, Sud Dakota [S.D.]) 1902-19??, 1907-06-21

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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
Accidental Happenings.

Four persons were killed and five
badly injured by the collapse of a
scaffold At San Francisco.
John Chandler, born in Kentucky
107 years ago., died at Hulls, ILL.,, as a
result of being thrown from a buggy.
While fooling with a small rife ia
cob Hanson of Monarch, Mont, acct
dentally shot and killed Joseph Saur.
The four-year-old daughter of Peter
Roster, a farmer living near Cascade.
Iowa, is dead as the result of a bee
sting.
Advices from throughout Montana
tell Of considerable loss of life as the
result Of high water and swollen
streams.
William Cleddine, former member
Of the Canadian parliament and once
mayor OF Montreal, was cut in two by
q train at Depew, N. Y.
BY the premature explosion Of a
blast at lola Cut, on the Tidewater
railway neal Brook Neal, Va, eight
Dersons were killed and six injured.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
sAAKE-UP FOR CANAL FORCE.
Radical Changes to Be Made in Man.
of Commission.

Washington, June 2S.-Congress is
about to gain a point. President
Roosevelt is to make some conces-
sions, and the result will be a radical
change in the management Of the
isthmian canal commission and doubt
less considerable economy in the con-
%struction of the canal.
Secretary Taft is expected here to-
day from his Eastern trip and confer
ence with President Roosevelt at Oys-
ter Bay. Under his direction a gen
eral reorganization of the canal force
will be carried out.
1t will make a change in the system
of auditing, dispense with the serv-
ices of a 100000 man, and also send
to the canal zone Charles Bucklin
Bishop, another of the $40, 900 beau
ties" as they were termed in congress-,
to the less genial field of activity in
Panama. Secretary Taft talked over
the subject of these with the president
and he expects to carry out the pro-
ject before leaving for his summer
vacation. While no special claim of
extensive economy is to be made in
connection with the order, it is under
stood that it is to bring about more
effective work.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
JUDGE LOVING is ACQUITTED.
Jury Believed He Was Insane When
He Killed Young Estes.

Houston, Va, July 2.-Af1er being in
the jury room for thirty-five minutes
the jury returned a verdict of mot
guilty in the case of Former Judge
William G. Loving of Nelson. manager
OF the valuable Virginia estate OF
Thomas F. Ryan. who was placed or
trial here last Monday for the murde,
OF Theodore Estes, the son of Sheriff
M. Is. Estes of Nelson county.
Judge Loving shot and killed young
Estes on the afternoon of April % at
Oak Ridge The tragedy was a sequel
OF a buggy ride Estes had taken with
the judges daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Loving. who told her father thai ile1
escort had drugged and assaulted ler
The foreman said that the jur,
voted unanimously for acquittal on the
first ballot. He said that the basis Of
the verdict was insanity. He and
other members of the jury believed
That Judge Loving was void of his
mind when he killed young Estes. The
stress, he said, had been brought or
by the story told him by his daughter
The real basis of the arguments of tbs
counsel for the defendant was the
"unwritten law"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPIIOMf
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
"a BUSY READERS.
Washington Notes.

The census bureau has Just an
nounced hat the production of lumber
Ia the United States in 1906 was 81
l90, 067 900 feet.
No less than $500 yards of ribbon
will be required to furnish the mate
rial for the various service badges aAi
emblems authorized to be issued BY
the war department some time ago.
Two Of the Oldest battleships, the
Indiana and the Iowa, are to be with
from further 1uty, except in the event
OF urgent need. They will be joined
on the shelf by the Texas, the first
battleship of the navy. Putting them
In reserve at the present time is made
necessary by the shortage of officers.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
EPIDEMIC FEARED IN NEW YORK
AS RESULT OF THE STRIKE OF
GARBAGE AND ICE WAGON
DRIVERS.

New York, July New York is in
danger OF an epidemic as a result OF a
strike of 1000 garbage and an equal
number of ice wagon drivers.
The health department is eXhaustins
its to clean the streets, but
last night the best that DR.. Darling
ton could promise was that 800 men
force will make little Roadway, as 755
carts are required to to remove each
days accommodations and the work is
six days behind.
b health department took hold
late Friday and since has used it's po-
lice powers vigorously and its emer-
gency fund of $4,000 without stint,
but so far has been unable to meet
conditions.
Refuse From Curb to Curb.
Yesterday the situation grew hourly
worse. What work was done was in
the vicinity of Chinatown, on the East
side. Meantime the waste count
lated in other streets. In places
refuse was piled high and elsewhere
strewn from curb to curb.
Unable to do better, the health
squads scattered disinfectants through
miles of highways.
Il do not believe there is any imme-
diate danger of an epidemic,' DR..
Darlington said tonight, but the situ-
alton is grave and presents possibili-
ties of imminent peril"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
BANKS TO FIGHT
EXPRESS FIRMS
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMITS
SION CALLED UPON TO TAKE
ACTION.
EMPLOY FUNDS OF RIVALS
EXPRESS COMPANIES ENcROACH
UPON THE FUNCTIONS OF
BANKS.

Washington, June 30.-What prom
Uses to be a gigantic financial struggle
was begun yesterday when the Ameri-
can Bankers association filed with the
Interstate commerce commission a.
complaint against the express compa-
MES of the country, charging them
with placing the members of the assoc
citation at an undue and unreasonable
prejudice and disadvantage by engag-
ing in financial business in addition to
that of common carriers. in violation
of the interstate commerce law.
Encroach on Bank Business.
In the complaint it is alleged that
the express companies are now and
have been for a long time dealing in
exchange, both foreign and domestic.
In the form of money orders, letters of
credit, both travellers and commercial
travellers checks and drafts, all of
which has always been the proper, le-
Ultimate and long-recognized business
and function of banks.
1t is claimed that the express COM
panies have e%ncroached further upon
the bankers business by buying and
selling foreign money and transferring
money by cable and mail.
The complaint is directed against
the Adams Express company, the
United States Express company.
Wells, Fargo & Co, the Southern Ex-
press company and the Great Northern
Express company.
Rivals Utilize Bank Capital.
1t is asserted that in the ordinary
course of business the banks are
forced to cash express money orders
and drafts without the charging of in
%terest, thus supplying to the express
companies the capital to compete With
the banks.
The complainant association re-
quests the interstate commerce com
mission to take such action as will af-
ford protection against the express
companies.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
REFUSES TO LET JOHN D. OFF.
Judge Lands Says Oil Masnate Must
Appear and Give Testimony.

Appear and Give Testimony.
Chicago, June 30.-Judge Lands. in
the United States district court, YES
terday refused to withdraw the sub
poena issued for John d. Rockefeller.
although Attorney John S. Miller. at
torney for the Standard Oil
urgently requested him to do so.
MIR. Miller informed the court that
Mr.. Rockefeller, although president Of
the Standard Oil company of Indiana.
was not possessed of the information
regarding the financial condition of
the Standard Oil company desired by
the court. He also informed the court
that Mr.. Rockefeller was an old man
who had many business cares. and
that no advantage could be gained bv
bringing him into court.
h request of the attorney did nor
appeal to Judge Lands, for he promnt-
~ refused to recall the subpoena. and
In addition directed that subpoenas he
issued for the vice president and sec-
retary-treasurer of the Union Tank
line.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
General.

Mrs. j. Wilbur Chapman. wife OF
the noted Presbyterian evangelist,
died at Warsaw, Ind.
Chief Justice w. F. Frear Of Hawaii
has cabled President Roosevelt his &C.
ceptance of the governorship of Ha.
waiian Territory, beginning in August,
At imminent risk to himself, Abra.
ham Walker descended into a we'll at
Massent, Iowa, and rescued Michael
Johnson, who had been overcome by
foul gas.
Driven violently insane by a thunder
storm, Daniel Arbuckle, a wealthy
farmer rear Hamburg. Iowa, attacked
his young wife and nearly beat her to
death before neighbors rescued her
The mex day Arbuckle had practically
recovered his reason. He has no rec.
objection Of his conduct.
One of the agents of the department,
of agriculture, working on his New
Jersey farm, has produced a new veg.
etable novelty in the shape of a seed.
less tomato. The variety has become
well established and has been called
the giant because of the very large
size that the plant attained.
In addition to the regular quarterly
dividend of 25 per cent, the directors
of the Fifth Avenue Bank of New
York have declared a special dividend
Of $50 per cent. payable out of the
earnings of 1906. which the president
Of the institution declares were ex,
ceptional.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
NO LET-uP IN THE CAMPAIGN.
Fifteen Corporations Are on the List
for Investigation.

Washington. July 2.-The admins.
tratlon's campaign against corpora
lions will be continued without let-up
has set in. dog DAYS" are APPROACH
ing, the White House is closed, the
better part of official Washington has
gone on vacation, but the trust buster
has made arrangements to stick to his
post until the snow flies.
The government is prosecuting, pre-.
pairing to prosecute, or is investigating
the operations of alleged combinations
in restraint of trade as follows:
The Hartman railroads, Standard
OIL, meat trust, steel trust, tobacco
trust, spool thread trust, umbrella
trust, anthracite coal trust, bitumi-
nous coal trust, harvester trust. powder
United Shoe Machinery company. the
Cotton Exchange of New York
and other commercial associations
throughout the country.
Let None Escape.
In fact, the government is scrutiniz.
Ing the business methods of the corpu-
rations that control the Of
transportation, as we'll as those that
preaching a monopoly, or something APP
preaching a monopoly, of fuel, food and
other articles of every day consump-
ton in the United States.
The investigation is al~l-embracing.
Its scope is widening daily. For ex-
ample, during the past week announce
ment was made formally that the con-
Germ or concerns that control spool
thread cotton will soon be brought
face to face with a suit in the federal
courts involving alleged violation of
the provisions of the antitrust act.
The powder trust also is to be nauled
into the courts. 1t made the blunder
OF holding up the government. charg-
ing Uncle Sam e%xorbitant rates for
powder and dynamite
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
From Shores.

Sixty officers of the southern mill
tary district of Russia, several of them
connected with the Odessa garrison,
have been arrested.
The Rome Tribuna aflrms that En-
peror Williams visit to England has
been fixed for the end of the year.
probably in November.
sion. having completed its work in
Italy, will soon visit Trieste and
study emigration methods at Austro
Hungarian ports.
There is a in court circles at
Copenhagen that the Princess Thyra,
second daughter of King Frederick, is
hetrothed to Prince Adelbert, third
son of the kaiser. The kaiser will Wis
1t Copenhagen next week.
During the half year ended Sept. 30
last there were 1920 automobile acct
dents in Germany, of which CTS caused
injury to persons. The number of per.
IONS killed and wounded amounted to
1870, including 81 killed.
Spring freshets in Northern Sweden
have inundated hundreds Of square
miles of fertile bottom lands. This is
the greatest i%nundation in fifty years
and threatens a renewal of the famine.
The political situation in Portugal is
much improved. Opposition to the
ministry is dying out. the politicians
apparently realizing that this would
only lead to disturbances, d%iscrediting
them and Strengthening the ministry.
A mine owner named SIMILAR has
taken his life in a ~frightful manner at
Budapest. Stretching himself on the
floor of his room he placed a dynamite
cartridge under his neck and set fire
to 1t with a fuse. The cartridge ex-
ploded and the mans head and part
of his body We're blown into frag-
ments.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
People ralked About.

Sir John Hall. former premier OF
New Zealand, is dead. He was born
In 1924.
Mrs. Carrie Morcombe, grand chief
of the Degree of Honor of Iowa, is
dead at Cedar Rapids.
w. r. Abbott, president of the
American National Bank of Fort
Smith, Ark, died of heart failure.
Mark Twain and Ambassador Reid
have had the degree of LII. D., confer
red upon them by Oxford university,
England.
George von Lingen, German consul
in Baltimore since 1876 and head of
the firm of A. Schumacher & Co.
agents of the North German Lloyd
Steamship company, is dead.
Frank r. Mower of Ohio, at pres
ent consul general at Leghorn, Italy,
has been transferred to Copenhagen,
exchanging places with Ernest A. Mar
of Florida, who becomes consul gen
eral at Leghorn
Miss Annie e. Mclaughlin, a hotel
manager, died at lexington, Ky, of
apoplexy When manager of a hotel
at Les Chenau, Mich, she took thirty
negro servants with her from Lexing-
ton In a special car.
stuyvesant Fish, Jr., son of the
former president of the Illinois Cen
trail railroad, has started in at the bot
tom to learn the railroad business. He
II assistant freight agent of the Frisco
lines at Muskogee, l.. r.
Berth Ramsey of Appleton. Wis.
died in a hospital in Chicago. He was
n of the bet known masters in Wis
consin, and his fortune was rated at
about 10000 900. He was a nephew OF
Lord Ramsey, noted English chemist.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
Saws p,tectives snjed or Union.

Boise, Idaho, July 2.-Morris Fried
man, formerly an employe OF the
Finkerton detective agency At Det>er,
who published lis adventures and
many of the conf 'en.ial reports that
on the agency, was 4 witness Satur-
day in behalf of William D. Haywood.
He told how the Pin!le, IONS Lad sent
spies into many of the imp l tant
unions of the Western Federati, n of
Miners.
The call from the defense for Fried
man to take the stall produced M of
the greatest sensations of the trial.
BY name and operating number
Friedman identified a dozen detectives
who succeeded in entering or getting
very close to the miners union in
Colorado, and he produced volumin-
Gus copies of the reports they made to
the agency for transmission to the
mine n
Spies Are Consistent.
Friedman was confidential stenog-
rapher under Detective Mcfarland,
and, SO he testified, it was part of his
duties to copy the reports of the opera
tives as they reached the office.
Friedman swore that in several in
stances the detectives sem out by the
agency in behalf of the mine owners
managed to get themselves elected to
high Office in the unions and that in
a couple Of instances they carried
their roles to the extent of sharing all
the hardships of the strikers and
finally being deported from the coun-
try with them.
Ten feet from Friedman's chair sat
George W. Redell. who, as a Pinker-
ton detective. worked up to leadership
in the Telluride union. Turning to
him by direction of Clarence barrow,
the witness identified him.
Tried to Besgar Federation.
Friedman said that one Pinkerton OBJ
erative became chairman of the union
strike relief committee at Globeville.
and as such had charge of all the
funds disbursed there by the local
union and general federation.
Friedman said that under instruc-
tions from his superiors at the Pinker-
ton agency this man first tried to beg.
gar the federation by a lavish expen-
diture in behalf of the strikers. and
failing in this he cut the relief down to
the lowest point in the hope that the
members of the union might censure
Haywood.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05

Michael Golding was killed in the
Minnie Healey 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, 0oo.
Mrs. Samuel Conn of Montezuma,
Iowa, was fatally burned by using
gasoline to start a fire, mistaking 1T
for kerosene. She died in great agony.
William M. Ayers of Portland, Or,
one of the best known b~ookmakers in
the West, was killed by an i~nterurban
car as he was leaving the race track
at Seattle.
In a head-on trolley accident on a
grade near White Oak Park, a summer
resort between New Brighton, Conn,
and %Plainville, nearly a dozen persons
were injured.
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 a result of a rear-end
collision of two freight trains about
three miles west of Billings, Mont.
The explosion of a gasoline furnace
started a fire which completely de-
stroyed the refinery at the Kendall
mines ear Lewiston, Mont, causing
a loss estimated at $4,000.
Attempting to board a moving train
at lshpeming, Mich, Frank McCon-
nell, aged thirty, of Marquette, a rail
oad brakeman, fell under the wheels
and was badly mangled. Death occur
read a few hours later.
In an effort to save his brothers
life, Fred Adler, twenty years cid, was
drawn into the swift current of the
Mississippi river at st. Louis by Au-
gust Adler, aged twenty-three, and
both were drowned.
George Spencer. a new York stock
broker, was killed at Oyster Bay, l.. L.,
by being thrown from a horse which
he vas riding. The accident occurred
les President R@oosevelts summer
home at Sycamore Hill.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
Woman Cuts Mans Throat,

Rrinkley, Ark, July 2.-Following a
terrific struggle for the possession OF
a razor, ]. NJ. Cole, a farmer, was dis.
armed by his wife, who cut his throat.
and, continuing the struggle, was
killed by the
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
FIVE cHiNks KILLED.
misunderstanding Of Orders Causes
Railroad Wreck.

Winnipeg, Man. June 3O.-A Cana.
dian Pacific railway express and a
Chinese special going east collided at
Butler, 275 miles east Of here. The ac-
cident resulted in the death of five
Cinnamon on board the special and
the serious injury of E. U. Conner of
St. Johns, N. B., a guard on the spe.
cial. The wreck was due to misunder.
stood orders.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
Fast Train Wrecked.

Evansville, Mimi, July 2.-Nels o.
co.'s fast south-bound train was wreck.
ed a here as the result of a wash.
out. The injuries were confined al.
most entirely to cuts and bruises.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
BOY sATAER is DROWNED.

Rapid Current Carries Lad to His
Death.
Billings, Mont, July 2.-Word was
received here from Big Timber of the
drowning of John Widdicome, Jr.. the
sevcnteen-year-old son of John Widdi.
come. The lad is said to have been
bathing in Boulder river and was car.
ried down by the rapid current.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
PAPER PIPE LAW VOID.
Chicago Judge AnnuIs New Illinois
Statute.

CHICAGO, June 3%0.-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
Judge declared that though the law
was declared to be an act to 'regu-
late" in fact it was an act to pro
hibit.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
Criminal.

Earl Chism OF Bloomington, Iowa.
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 a 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 a 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 a case of foul play and is being in
vestigated.
Clyde Glidden, aged seven years.
has been arrested at Parkersburg. w.
Va, IN a charge of incendiarism, it
being alleged that he burned two
houses a week ago. The houses We're
| occupied and the families barely es-
capped with their lies.
The party OF revenue officers who
had a fight with moonshiners in Stokes
county, N. c., 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 a
few days ago pleaded guilty to receiv.
ing the bonds which w. O. Douglas
| the assistant oar 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 II. Searles of Des
MONIES walked out on the lawn and
drank some carbolic acid. He died
within a few minutes. He left a note
saying that his wife was in love with
another man, so he took his own life tc
get out of her way.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
THREE KILLED IN BIG STORM
Many Injured in Electrical Storm in
and About New York

and About New York.
New York, June 30. - A death do.,-
ing electric storm yesterday after
noon, following a day of sweltering
soaked with humidity, swept over the,
city and surrounding territory, killing
three persons, injuring several. cans.
Ing many fires and doing considerahle
damage. In this city the only places
struck we're two churches. The stea.
pies of both were orr into fragment.
by the lightning bolts.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
Contradicts Orchard.

Wood testified hat he had seen a
revolver in Beck's pocket; hat the
fragments of only one revolver We're
found i'll 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 a revolver
with a wire attachment, SO taat when
the safety bar was raised it would
send a 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 y. G. Copley
both swore that they heard Orchard
tell OF the loss of the Hercules mine
and threaten to kill Steunenberg