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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
MARTIN WILL SPEAK.
To Address Graduating Class Of Elk
Point Hiuh School,

Preparations are being made for the
graduation OF thirteen pupils from the
public high school at Elk Point this
spring. The graduating exercises will
consist OF a play to De given by the
juniors on May "a at the opera house;
class day exercises in the seniors on
May IS and the regular graduating ex-
ercises on May %. EX-Congressman
Lben w. Martin of Deadwood has CON
scented to deliver the address on this
occasion. This will be the largest
graduating class in the history of the
Elk Point high school. Those in the
class are Lillian Ellis. Frances Murtha.
May Nangan, Claudia Compton. Julia
Curry, Blanche Hasson. Bernice Sweet
Carrie Ringsyud. Ethel Fennel, Michael
Mahan, George Feauto, Gerald Sharon
and Michael Connolly.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
BUIlD ELEVATOR At SUPERIOR
NORTH DAKOTA BANKERS AND
FARMERS FAVOR INDEPEND.
EMIT SCHEME.

Grand Forks, n. D., April 2S.-At a
meeting Of joint committee of the
North Dakota Bankers association
and the North Dakota branch of the
American Society of Equity yesterday
it was decided to build a terminal ele-
vator at Superior in order to better the
grain conditions at Duluth and Mime
apolis.
A joint meeting OF the committees
will be held in Grand Forks June IS
to report progress, n a further re-
port will be made at the convention Of
the American Society Of Equity in
Devils Lake June IS.
The meeting was harmonious and the
members of the committees were all
in favor Of the building OF a terminal
elevator. Several plans to attain the
object desired were proposed. Dele
gates ere in favor of building a large
elevator which will be abs ,lutely indie
pendent Of commission no lses and ele-
vator companies. Matters are not yet
in shape to all the details
Of the proposition.
1t was stated last night that the
committee members believe it advisa-
bic to keep some of the facts from the
puolic for a time.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
IS NEARLY UNDER DRILL.
Farmer Thrown Before Machine In
Runaway Is Saved by Son.

BY the prompt action of his SON, the
life OF James Bowers. a farmer resid-
ing In the southern portion of Brown
county. was saved. Bowers was en-
gagged in operating a %pulverizer drill,
to which four horses We're attached,
when the animals became frightened
and started to run away. In endeav.
orins to control the animals, the farm
er was thrown to the ground, and in
an instant he was being trampled by
the p%lunging horses. In a moment
more they would have broken away,
aud he would have been torn to pieces
by the machine. The son. having no
ticed the plight Of his father, rushed
to his assistance, and by d desperate
effort succeeded in bringing the horses
to a standstill when the machine was
only IA few inches from his fathers
PROSTATE form.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
TO IMP ROVE FORT.
Building and Other improvements at
Meade Will Cost $3.50, 900.


Improvement work at Fort Meade,
near S%turgis, will take on boom pro-
portions curing the fiscal year begin
ming July /. Senator E. H. Perkins of
Sturgis received semi-official informa-
ton to the effect hat there will be ex-
pended $4,000 for the erection Of a
cavalry drill hall; 100000 for a band
barrack, and $4,000 for two double
sets If captains quarters. The total
assured from fund is $4,000.
From another fund is to come a
sum Of $4,000 for macadamizing a
semi-circle road enclosing the plaza in
the center Of officers row, and the
further sum of $500 to provide for
macadamiZing the road between the
fort grounds and the city limits. There
is strong probability of an administra-
ton building being included with those
above enumerated.
To meet the urgent need of water
for trees and lawns Of the post an ir-
rigation system is being planned. The
project under consideration is to eth
er take from the flow Of Bear Butte
creek at the old bridge or TO use a
pump at the mill pond
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
MORE INDIANS FARMING.
Red Men Yearly Take increased In.
terest in Agriculture.

Spring on the Pine Ridge Indian res
ervation this year great activity
among its Indian residents, numbering
now about 1000 in all. Much of the
seasons work is well under way. and
crops of corn, oats and potatoes. in adj
dition to the garden truck, will be
raised. While the land is essentially
adapted to farming on account of the
d~ryneSs, yet more interest is being
taken yearly in the matter of farming
and this year will see probably one
third more land under actual cultiva-
ton.
The Indians also have given actual
intelligent attention to the question Of
stock raising. So far, their stock con
sists chiefly of cattle and horses; but
it is noticeable that the latter are i'm
proving much in quality. Instead Of
the tough little Indian ponies, inferior
in all other respects, the Indians are
now buying a good class Of horses.
Many Of the Indians are engaged in
the business Of f%reighting from the
railroad at Gordon to the reservation,
and ofttn as many as thirty or forty
teams may be passed IN The road with
supplies for the agency, and driven by
Indian owners. For this class Of work
excellent horses are employed.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
PUBLICLY WHIP THIEVES.
Homesteaders Will Organize Vigiian-
ties to Protect Property.

To Lc publicly horstwhipped and
branded before the people of the coun-
ty as thieves is the punishment which
is promised several persons who ap-
ptar to be engaged in carrying on
wholesale thefts among the settlers of
Lyman county.
The thieves make a practice of Wis
iting the homes of homesteaders dur
ing the temporary absence of the
owners, and large quantities of cloth
ing, household articles and other prop
erty have been carried away.
The matter has reached such a point
that a movement now has been inau-
purated among the settlers to organize
a vigilance committee in every town
ship in the county. Those detected in
thefts will be publicly horsewhipped
and then branded as thieves before
the people of the entire county.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
SETTLE UPON SHEEP LANDS.
Tracts East OF Missouri Also Are in
Demand,

The movement into the country west
of the Missouri river is spectacular, as
it Is concentrated practically at the
three points of Pierre, Chamberlain
and Rapid City, where the land offices
are located, and such concentration
calls particular attention to this move
ment. But while people are going
west OF the river by hundreds. the
portion of the Missouri valley east of
the river is securing a share of pOpu-
lat1on which comes to take the cheap
lands east of the river, to which they
a secure immediate title without
waiting to perfect homestead title.
These people come with their families
and household goods. stopping at the
small stations along the line, not max
ing any great showing at any one
place, but helping materially in the
increase of population.
AS a sample Of this latter movement,
for many years Raber township in the
eastern part of Hughes county has got
along with limited school facilities to
accommodate the few pupils in the
township, and the vote in the township
was not large enough to cut any great
figure on the total results in the coun-
ty elections. A few days ago the new
settlers in that township secured a
special election to vote on tht question
OF school houses, and out of a vote OF
slXty-eight, secured fifty-four in favor
OF The erection Of five school houses to
accommodate the needs of the children
who are now in the township. This
move shows not only a "homesteader''
vote, but it demonstrates also that the
population is permanent, with families
to provide for and a desire to give
them advantages such as they have
had before coming 10 this state.
Other townships in the same part
of he county are filing up as rapidly
as Raber. and the next election will
show a far heavier vote from the east
end of the county than at any former
election.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
MASONS TO n
Grand and Tempiar Bodies Will Con.
vene in Lead on June r..

WV ~ ~S~~ >" SSs'S go
George A. Pettigrew of Sioux Falls,
grand secretary of the Masonic order.
has issued an oflcial notice to the eff
feet that the grand Masonic and TEN
plar bodies and grand chapter, o. f..
s., OF South Dakota will hold their an
nual meetings at Lead. commencing
on Tuesday, June II, and continuing
for several days.
This years meeting will be the
thirty-third annual communication Of
the grand lodge. A. F.. and A. NJ; the
eighteenth annual convocation of the
grand chapter, Royar Arch Masons:
the twenty-fourth annual conclave OF
the grand commandery. Knights Tenn
Elar, the nineteenth annual SEES
sion of the grand chapter, Order of
the Eastern Star.
On Saturday, June S., a special train
will leave Sioux City for the accommo-
dalton OF those from Eastern South
Dakota who wish to attend the gath
ering.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
CONDITIONS REVERSED.
Company Which Insisted on Premium
Refuses to Pay Loss After Fire.

An insurance case was presented be-
fore the supreme court the past week
which will be watched with more than
usual interest by insurance men of the
country. The case is that of l.. l..
Nordness VS.. the Mutual Cash Guar
anty Company of Sioux Falls. Nord-
ness was doing a mercantile business
at Waubay, and an application was
sen to the home otfice of the Cash
Guaranty company for a policy of ST.
600 on the stock. The policy was writ
ten to go into effect Aug. L. Nordness
returned the policy to the home office
OF the company with the statement
that he had not made application for
any insurance with the company and
did not want it. 1t was again sent to
him with q letter from the company to
the effect that the application had
been made, and the policy issued on
the same. and n demand for the
amount Of premium due upon the pol
icy. A SECOND time Nordness sent
back the policy with his refusal to ac-
cept 1t, and a third time the company
lei in the policy, this time by regis
tered letter, with its letter insisting
that the policy had been ordered, and
was considered in force. This regis
tered letter reached Nordness on the
18th Of August, and the previous night
4 fire had destroyed the stock of goods
In question. Nordness at once mailed
to the company a draft for the amount
of the premium. On the receipt Of his
claim for loss the company refused to
pay on the ground that the policy had
not been paid for at the time of the
IRE, and other reasons, but the lower
court gave Nordness judgment for the
amount OF the policy. The case now
comes to the supreme court on appeal.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
State News of Interest
FIX PRICES FOR CAPITOL LANDS
Minimum in Many Cases 10 Above SO
an Acre.

an Acre.
The appraisment of state building
lands, which will te offered next
month to secure funds for the new
capitol, has been completed by the
state lands board. and soon will be
sen out in printed form to any one de-
string to purchase such lands. While
the last Legislative session relieved
the board from the rigid minimum OF
$40 an acre, the appraisement prices
as fixed in a large number OF cases
run to and above. that figure.
The sales this year probably will be
more attractive to investors than were
those OF last year on account of the
terms on which they were offered.
Last yea the cash was demanded on
sale: while under the new laws and
regulations only one-third is demand
I'd at the date Of the sale. one-sixth
next December. and the other half of
the purchase price to run five years,
with the option of payment after the
second year.
Last year the best lands in McPher-
SOL county were placed upon the mar
ket, cutting the average prices for
lands in that county lower this year
than they would have been If all the
lands were yet to be offered.
The sales dates and average mini
mum prices for this year IRE Hyde
county, at Highmore. May 10, average
from So to $1l an acre; Hand county.
from So to $40 an acre: Faulk county
sales will be at Faulkton on May Is.
with minimum ranging from IS to Sl4
an acre: Potter county, at Gettysburg.
May 16. with minimums ranging from
SIS to Sl2; Edmunds county, at Ipswich.
May 81, with minimums ranging from
S. to Sill; Mcpherson county, at LIE
ola. May %. with minimums ranging
from Sc to $40 an acre: Sully county.
at Onida, May %. ranging from Sc to
$40 an acre.
With a $40 minimum handicap last
year enough of this land was disposed
Of TO bring in the funds required under
the proposed plan to erect only one
wing of the building. and Commission
er DOkken, with more leeway in the
matter of sales and with the privilege
OF giving time on half the purchase
price, will do all in his power to sell
enough of the lands to keep the work
on the building going without drawing
upon the state fund appropriated as an
emergency in case the sales do not
nee the situation
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
FIND BODY MINUS LEG.
Cowboys Make Grewsome Discovery
in Montana GuIch.

Billings, Mont. April 2S. - News
reached this city yesterday of the find
ing of the body of a man lying in a "a
vine known as White Mans gulch.
near Fort Custer. on the Crow Indian
reservation. The man evidently had
been dead for several months. He was
dressed in an ordinary suit Of clothes,
the coat of which was tightly buttoned.
One leg could not be found. The body
was discovered by cowboys, who re.
ported the matter to the authorities,
who will investigate the case.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
RULE ON STATE PRINTING.

At a meeting Of the state printing
commission under the provisions of
the new law the commission was or
ganized by the selection of Gov. Craw-
ford as chairman and Secretary Wipf,
secretary. They formulated rules to
govern printing for state institutions,
giving them the privilege of ordering
printing where the bill is less than
s25, and requiring all printing in
greater amounts than that sum to be
let by bids.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
FLOODING is SLOW TASK,
Homestake Mine May Be Tied Up for
Months.

The work Of flooding the Homestake
mine for the purpose Of extinguishing
the fire which broke out four weeks
age already has begun, and practically
all the miners with the exception of a
few employed around the shafts and in
the offices are laid off. Not a stamp is
dropping in any of the mills.
So far the water has risen from the
1.550-foot level. the lowest in the mine,
to the 100, where it is now about
eight feet deep. From here on, how
ever, the rise will be slower, and
when the water reaches the 500. the
rise, for a number Of days, hardly will
be perceptible, as the workings on this
level are eXteisive.
Tht water is being turned into the
Ellison shaft, the lincoln shaft which
has been reopened for that purpose,
the open cut. and shortly will be
Whitewood creek. This tunnel con
meets with the 3VO-fOot level. 1t is not
yet possible to determine the exact
location of the fire or its extent. but it
is known to be burning some place be
tween the 500 and 4O0-foot levels.
The time it will take to food and
then unwater the mine is v%ariously es-
timated at from thirty days to six
months. There are about GS 900 900
cubic feet of space below ground
which it will be necessary to fill with
water before the mine is flooded to the
necessary level.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03

Relics of the days when Boadicea
conducted her campaign in the neigh
borhood Of what is now Kings Cross.
or, perhaps, Of even an earlier day,
were turned up recently by some
workmen at Crawford, Kent. The
men were digging in sand pits on the
Wansunt estate, when they noticed
some metal articles. On examination
these proved to be nine gold armlets
of uniform shape but varying sizes.
The articles We're taken to a police
station, where the police took posses
sion of them on behalf of the crown
as treasure trOve.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
Phone Company Seeks Injunction.

Mayor Reedy of Yankton has been
served with an injunction notice by
the Northwestern Telephone company,
which seeks to restrain the city from
further interfering with its plans to
improve it's plant there. This last
move is the latest in the lone-drawn-
out battle which began when Yankton
parties started an Independent plant.
The Injunction turns on whether the
Northwestern has any rights in the
city under a franchise.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
DOOMS "COW" TOWN.,

The historic Cow" town of Bovine
appears to be doomed by an order is,
sued by the p~ostofice department,
to Van Meter, N Of the new towns on
the Black Hills extension. For SIX
teen years Bovine has been one Of the
most important Cow towns which
sprung INTO existence with the opening
of the Great Sioux reservation in 1890.
bovine was named by the cattle men
who always have taken great pride in
the name as indicative of the charac-
ter and chief industry Of that section.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
ARE GENEROUS TOWARD UTEs.
Cheyenne River indians Grant Liberal
Lava.

The Indian council which has ad-
journed at Cheyenne River agency was
attended by a large number Of Indians
from all parts Of the reservation, and
the agency was surrounded for the
week by their tepees. The gathering.
which had under consideration the
leasing OF q tract to the Ute Indians
who broke away from their Utah res
ervation last winter, were rounded up
in Wyoming. and brought to Fort
Meade, where they were held all win
ter. was addressed by a number OF
chiefs and head men of the reservation
who generally were in favor of giving
their brethren a shelter. The repre-
~sentAtives of the Utes we're Chief APP
pach and Maj. Johnson of Fort Robin
on.
Appach made a plea for his people,
who he said could not live on the res
srvatiOn set aside for them in Utah,
and that they were obliged to leave it
or starve. Maj. Johnson also made a
strong speech for the Ttes, and 1t is
said by those who were present that
his talk was rather sensational in re-
gard to the Indian departments treat
ment OF the Utes. The discussion on
the matter lasted a day and a half.
The lease which was granted was APP
proved by a large vote Of a majority
OF he Indians present. 1t is to run
Tor five years. The permission is
given with 1T for the Utes to trave!
over the reservation free of charge,
and to send their children to school.
The matter Of the Benway Brothers
p%asturing their cattle on the Milwau-
kee road cattle trail was up before the
council, but was not acted upon, as AN
agreement had been reached between
the Benways and Agent Downs. the
details Of which are TO be completed
by the business council. which was au-
thorized to make a new lease of the
trail to tho railway company at a rate
OF not less than 4 IL cents an acre per
year. This is a question which proba-
ply Will require adjustment, as the
company only desires to use the
pasture part of the summer when they
will ship owe their new line to Mo
bridge. But as the matter was turned
over to the Indian business council. it
probably will be adjusted.
Arrangements were made for a
grand Fourth OF July celebration on
Virgo creek, about twenty-five miles
northwest OF the agency, at which In
dian COMMISSIONS Leupp is expected
to be present TO make an address to
the Indians. The council ended with a
big feast for all who were present.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
NO JURORS NEEDED,
Circuit Court Term Requires No Ven
iremen.

That the people of Hutchinson coun-
~ are usually law-abidins is shown by
the fact that no jurors will be suln-
moned for the regular spring term of
the state circuit court, which will
convene in Olivet on May 81. There
are no jury cases to be disposed of, all
the cases on the calendar, which are
few in number, being court cases. The
principal business of the approach
ing term will be hearings upon appli-
cations for certificates Of naturaliza-
ton.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
BISHOP HARE LOSES AN EVE.
Removed Because Of Cancer IN Nose
Caused by EYEGLASSES.

Sioux Falls, S, D., April est be-
came known here yesterday that Rt.
Rev. ". II. Hare, the venerable bishop
of the Episcopal church of South Da-
kota, recently submitted to an opera
ton in New York for the removal Of
one OF his eyes. The removal of the
eye was necessary because of a cancer
Gus ore with which the bishop has
been afflicted for some years. The
ANGER grew out of a small sore or
lieved was caused by the eyeglasses
worn by the aged prelate.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
TO BE PACKING CENTER.
Sioux City Interests to Erect Plant in
Aberdeen.

A plan has been formulated by the
packers OF Sioux City to establish a
plant at Aberdeen. 1t is likely that
Aberdeen will become a packing cen
ter before the end of the summer, and
Within the last few days two Sioux
City packers have been looking quietly
for a site. 1t is understood that two
local men will be interested in the
new plant. There is one packing plant
in Aberdeen now, but it supplies a
limited territory.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03

South Dakota drinking water has
beer indicated. Water from Lake
Kampeska, near WATERFOWL. is now
being shipped to the East by a large
firm in that city, Iowa receiving a
good percentage of the article. Pierre
has also entered the field as a dis
penser of pure drinking water, and is
shipping out considerable quantities of
the fluid. The old impression thai
good water could not be found in this
state seems to have been dispelled.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
Torch for Objectionable Pictures.

Sioux City, Iowa, May /. - The
Penny Arcade building and picture dis
play at Riverside Park burned yester-
day morning. Loss. $4,000. 1t was
for running this place in the city that
John Spencer was indicted, but the
jury disagreed. j. G.. Blake had pur-
chased it to run at the park. The fire
was ~incendiary.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
CAUSE OF WRECK UNKNOWN.
Coroner's jury Exonerates Officials OF
Great Northern.

Lakota, N. D.. April rs. The jury
in the %coroner's inquest on the bodies
of two unknown men killed in the
Great Northern wreck near here Mon
day, April Is, returned a verdict that
the wreck was the result Of an I'm
known cause. All the evidence and
the verdict completely e~xonerates
General Superintendent r. w. Bryan
of Minot from responsibility and re
flutes the charges that he was to blame
for the accident.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
BANKER WEEDS r
Romance Surrounds illness Of Fin
ancier's Broth .r.in-law.

Webster City, Iowa. May /. - A
months ago has ended here in the mar
'iage of J.. Fitzmaurice. president Of
he Citizens Bank of Eagle Grove, and
Miss Nellie Ferguson, "a comedy train
ed nurse. Mr.. FitZmaurice. who Is
sixty-tive years old, fell a victim to
Cupid's wiles when the young woman
vas attending his brother-in-law, War
.en W%orthington, who had been strick-
IN with paralysis.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
Play Ends in Tragedy.

Crookston. Mimi, May - Arnold
Sparby, aged eleven years, was shot
and instantly killed by Albert Singer.
aged sixteen years. The boys We're
playing with an old shotgun. They
did not know that il was loaded, and
Singer. pointing the gun at the head OF
Sparby, pulled the trigger. The charge
blew off the top OF Sparby's head.
Singer is almost crazed with grief.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-05-03
CUT OUT STATE PASSES JAN. 1
Railroad Attorneys Make l%nterpreta.
ton Of Law.

st. Paul, May l. Notwithstanding
he Interpretation of the attorney gen
aral that the new anti-pass law does
not become effective before Dec. 81,
1908. it is said in railroad circles that
the roads will obey the provisions OF
the act on Jan. 1. Some railroad at
torneys have made a ruling that the
Iaw becomes effective Jan. /. and from
present indications it is likely that
he roads in Minnesota will observe it
at that time.