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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
slips; Shoots Self.

Butte, Mont, May 5.-While hunting
muskrats near here George Gay was
accidentally shot and fatally wounded.
He slipped in the mud and his gun was
discharged, tearing away his right
arm.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
BROWNS IN SHALLOW RUN.

Section Boss Who Had Made Fortune
Has Heart Trouble.
Cedar Falls, Iowa, May s. - Hans
Larson, aged sixty-five years, who had
accumulated fortune of $4,000 while
working as section boss, was drown
ed in two feet of water in Dry Run,
near the city pumping station. He had
been i'll with heart trouble.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
200 LOADS RECEIVED.

Emigrant Goods Pour Into Pierre in
Month of April.
Pierre, S. D., May 5.-Two hundred
cars of emigrant goods were unloaded
at this city for the month of April,
most of them going to the country
west of the Missouri, with few loads
for immigrants who had purchased
lands east of the river north of this
city.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
Names Capitol Grounds Board,

st. Paul, May 3.-Gov. Johnson yes
terday appointed as members of the
capitol grounds commission r. T.
O'Ccnnor, ]. w. Lusk and F. O'Mera,
all OF st. Paul This commission, I'M
der the law creating it, will proceed
with the requirement, either by pur-
chase or condemnation, of ground suf-
ficient to give the capitol a proper set
ting
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
100 CRAFT IN BLOCKADE.
Fleet Of CoaIboats Tied Up at Head
of Lakes.

Superior, Wis, May 3.-The block
ade incidental to the arrival of the
coal fleet here now has 100 boats held
in the harbor, making by far the great
est congestion the harbor has ever
seen. Already the loss caused by the
blockade is considerable to the vessel
owners, and it is estimated that be-
fore it Is lifted the vesselmen will be
$250,000 to the bad. The punching Of
the feet at this end of Lake Superior
was caused by the extremely late
opening of the 500 passage.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
Kills Self With Bullet.

st. Paul, May 5-Harry G. Burdette,
chief lineman of the st. Paul police
alarm and signal system, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head. No motive for the deed is
known.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
MYSTERY in A MILL FIRE.

Incendiary Is Suspected Of Starting
Flames.
Sampson, Wis, May 5. = James
Fuliers sawmill was destroyed by fire,
and large quantity of lumber also
was consumed. The origin of the fire
is not known and there are rumors
that the fire was incendiary.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
HAS LAW-ABlplNG RECORD.
No Suit in Logan Township in Twenty.
-Four Years.

The residents ce Logan Township,
Hughes county, claim the record OF
any precinct in the state for law-abid.
ing citizenship. stating that for twenty.
four years there has not been a law.
suit in the township, nor one In which
residents of the township were princi
pals. They want to know If any other
township of the state can show such 8
record.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
Iowa CITY Safe Robbed

iowa City, Iowa, May 5.-Budglars
broke into the Duluth Lumber compa-
ny's Office last night and forced the
safe. They secured about $500 and
valuable papers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
Not Much Of a Catch.

The woman I marry" he said.
must be glad to take me with all my
faults"
ooh, she will be-" the girl replied.
"She will be SO desperate that faults
won't cut any figure with her"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
Woman Gets Wronq Bottle.

East Grand Forks, Mimi, May 81
Mrs. William Montgomery had mar
row escape from death by mistaking a
bottle containing acid for brandy.
Three doctors worked over her for
several hours before she was pro-
nounced out of danger.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
PROBE WoMEN's DEATHS.
South Dakota Authorities to Invest!
GATE Railroad Accident.

GATE Railroad Accident.
Investigation of the deaths Of Mrs.
Joseph Wilson and Mrs F. NJ Bittrick,
who were killed while riding on a
handcar near Edgemont, will be made
by the coroner. Mrs. Bittrick was the
wife of Burlington section foreman,
and she and the other woman started
to go from Marietta, their home, to
Edgemont, on hand car. When half
way to Edgemont they were 'overtak-
en- by Freight Train No. 46 and both
were killed Mrs. Wilson is said to
have been deserted by her husband
about two months ago. She had five
children dependent on her.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
COLD MAKES HAY SCARCE.

Farmers Marvel at the Lateness Of the
Season.
Albert Lea, Mimi, May 5.-The pres
ent season is about the latest ever
known here. Farmers are wondering
when their grain that has been put in
the ground for seed will show up and
also when pastures will be Of use for
stock. Hay is becoming scarce and
the price is going up, while grain is
commanding higher price in many
Instances than in Chicago.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
CRUEL TO JURORS.

Humane Society Threatens County
That Doesn't Furnish Cots.
Milwaukee, May 5. r. D. White
head, superintendent of the Badger
State Humane society, has informed
the board of county supervisors that
unless it at once makes provisions for
the furnishing Of cots for jurors he
will bring an action against the county
on the ground of cruelty to human be-
ings.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
SAY THEY WERE HELD UP.
Club and Razor Held Over Men to Get
Their Money.

Billings, Mont, May S.--Frank To-
NAL and Jacob Vogel reported to the
police that they were robbed Of Sill
at an early hour yesterday morning.
The men allege that while they were
sleeping in the California rooming
house they were held up by two des.
perate looking men, one of whom was
armed with razor and the other with
a heavy club. No arrests have yet
been made.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
DOWIE'S ZION

~ ION CITY, near Chicago, the ma
n terial results of the financiering
II ability of John Alexander Dowie,
was sold under the hammer yesterday,
with all it's Accomplishments of drastic
moral law, to a benighted local Gentle
dry goods firm of Chicago, putting a
quietus on all the troubles that clouded
Dowie's dramatic life and death.
With Dowie's earthly possessions
turned over to ordinary business men,
and his heavenly status a matter of bit
ter controversy by his former followers,
his life and works become the purveyors
of healthy lesson to the country. Per-
haps in no other country could such
career be possible. Claiming, as he
did. divine calling and power. he found
ready dupes who saw him wax fat upon
their substance, growing insolent and
blasphemous as money lent him power,
till inevitable exposure stripped him
and held him up as the champion re-
ligious mountebank of the new CEN
own publication, Leaves of Healing"
that he professed to have heightened
or to have drawn out the limb of a
young woman who was crippled by hip
disease by prayer and pulling on the
limb, and when the affected limb was
found to have been drawn out an inch
longer than the perfect limb he used
the fact as proof of Scripture which
says, Good measure, pressed down and
shaken together and running over"
That such sacrilegious words and acts
could find support in sin-cursed and
crime-ridden Chicago passes explana-
ton.
By hypnotic or some other occult
power he drew weak men and women to
him by the thousands, and the more OPP
position he encountered the more he
thrived. The united press and police
force of Chicago fought his monstrous
frauds for years, but without appre-
ciable results, and only when dollars
and cents became the bone of conten-
ton among his followers did the end
come.
Where are now the professed sanctity
and holiness of this charlatan? Swal-
lowed up in disgraceful fight for dol
lars and power he gained from de-
luded people, and the astonishing fact
remains true that the same people are
ripe to be hoodwinked again by the
first plausible fraud that comes on the
stage with assumed divine power
The Herald is a respecter of all re-
ligious beliefs. and believes in conserv-
ing the religious life of the nation, but
deplores the fact that such man could
find followers and limitless money after
he had been so ruthlessly and COM
pletely exposed. The lesson of John
Alexander Dowies life is bitter one,
but it may bear excellent fruit.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05

honeymaker had inserted the barbed
singer and chung to the brown youths
countenance.
The good woman went to the rescue
With kitchen apron she charged the
enemy, but a hundred of the angry in
sects turned, and discretion arose above
valor and Mrs. Soules fled
Then, as a flash of inspiration, she
turned to the hose and sprinkler nozzle.
In a second the spray encircled the luck
less Mickey in q cooling sheet.
With wet wings and anger appeased'
most of the bees tried to get back to
their home.
II believe Mickey's dying! was the
news carried to Mr.. Soules. Hes lying
face downward in the grass and his
groans are terrible to hear"
A physician applied soothing lotions
and the Japanese, whose eyes were swol-
len shut, was taken to the camp.
Later in the day Mr.. Soules yielded to
and drove to the camp, to
see if Mickey had succumbed to his
wounds
On a bench outside the vinegrown walls
of the Jap camp sat Mickey stone blind
from the swelling. He wore embroidered
shirt, tennis trousers and toothpick shoes.
Outwardly oblivous to the beauties OF
the landscape the artistic instinct arose
within.
Mickey was playing on mouthharp
Cheer Up. Nary"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
zIMMER's CASE

~ j. ZIMMER, vice president of
III the Pacific States Telephone and
- Telegraph company. is in a fair
way to learn there are flarebacks in law
as we'll as in ordnance, he having been
arrested under section of the law
which provides for the punishment of
recalcitrant witnesses and which makes
contempt of court a misdemeanor, and
imposes a penalty of six months in the
county Jail.
There have been so many and intri-
cate technical law motions sprung
by the defense in the graft trials
of late that it is refreshing to
find the prosecution has a move or
two up it's sleeve and that these
moves are being used in the interest
of the people. 1t is plain to all who
follow the graft cases that the devious
ways Of the law are the refuge of the
accused men, and it affords pleasure
and relief to the people to know that
the prosecution is up and coming to
meet them. If the law is duly enforced
in these cases, and everything points
to the fact that it will be, the state can
we'll afford the financial expense, for
the greater moral gain, and though
some regulations go down in disgrace
the crying need for deliverance from
bribery in all it's forms is so universal
that no tears will be shed for the con-
victed men. A fair field and no favor
is all any honest man asks, and, this
granted, the indicted men must make
good before the broken law or stand
the consequences.
Public opinion and sympathy are all
with the graft prosecution, based on
we'll defined sense of justice, and
though legal bubbles may delay, they
cannot defeat the popular will in these
cases. Men in high places must learn
the bitter truth so often forced on the
poorer criminal element that 1.-The way
Of the transgressor is hard
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
A GOOD SHOWING

POSTAL receipts in the Los Angeles
postoffice for the past year are
Il $,O070O0, and still they grow. 1t
is good news to all classes of people,
for nothing so signally manifests last
ing advance as the postal receipts. The
temporary lull in the real estate
market, common to all new sections,
calls out reckless complaint, and the
'knocker" is certain to be loudest of all.
A review of the facts will satisfy any
man that growth in and around Los
Angeles is steady and stable and in
creasing every year. The daily bank
clearances prove it; the great increase
in population proves it; the famine in
rooms and houses proves it; the unpre-
cedented growth in manufacturing
plants proves it; the remarkable i'm
ports at San Pedro prove it; the daily
volume of business grows every sue
ceeding day, and the pay rolls of labor
keep pace with the demands. Our mer-
chants are stocked to the limit and
sales were never better; the people
deliberately assumed a $4,000, 600 bond
are certain to come in the near future
Tourist travel and cognate sources of
income were never better, and money
was never more easy among visitors
than now. Hotels and rooming houses
are crowded, theaters turn scores away,
calls are listed for hundreds of working
men of all classes, and every safe indi-
cation of progress recognized by bust
ness men is found all about US. Climate
and contingent assets are always here,
and nothing mars the situation.
We have no appreciable labor or
capitalist troubles, no strikes or boy
colts, and wages are satisfactory. Men
of families who came to look remain
to live here, and for all these reasons
our postoffice receipts have grown. AS
trade opens up this morning the bust
ness and workingman can face it with
a smile born of content.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
OILS OPPRESSION

II UDGE lands has succeeded in
raising a greater disturbance in
- the Standard Oil camp in five
minutes than Ida NJ. Tarbell and
Thomas w. Lawson combined could
raise in lifetime. The reason is near
at hand. Judge Lands struck the
pocketbook of the oil company; the
Lawson-Tarbell attack reached only it's
feelings.
1t is recorded that the attorneys and
officers of the company We're stunned"
by the enormous size of the fine, but If
the law is not thwarted an additional
$SO,OOO,OOO may be assessed against
them, and complete the stunning
process.
We repeat it is in the air. and is also
in the blood of the people, that this
rank public robbery and debauching of
officials must cease, and the heroic
treatment melted out by Judge Lands
is the first goal in the race. Hitherto.
under manipulating tactics, these great
moneyed corporations have nuIlifed
the law through technical by-play, and,
sometimes more nefarious means, till
the people lost heart, and then interest
in the cases. Now, thanks to the leo
nine fight in San Francisco and other
contributing causes, the psychological
time is here, and delayed justice is
being dealt out to hardened offenders.
The unblushing arrogance of Standard
Oil was never more brazenly exhibited
than by it's attorney who sought to in
terrupt the reading of the decision, just
as he, doubtless, sought often before to
do the same thing, and successfully, and
never was sarcasm more weighty and
deserved than that with which the
honored judge squelched him. Effron-
terry, born of long success, like the law
breaking which produced it, was
whipped into silence and the people of
this country permitted to have their
day in court unmolested.
1t was great day and a great iudg-
ment for the people and revives hone
in the popular heart, so long sick from
delay. Six months will reach the an
peal, and then the wrongs of thirty
years of oppression will be righted.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
NIKE CASEY HAS
AN AWFUL BATTLE
is VANoUISHED IN ONE ROUND
WITH BEES
Japanese with Irish Name Alarms Hol-
lywood with YeIIs Never Heard
This Side of Manchurlan
Battlefields

1t is not the fault of Mike Casey that
his name is spelled Mikasi.
In the land of the mikado they have so
little regard for the American way of
doing things to the language that even
an honest representative of the Orient
dares not get his real name in print.
But Mike Casey, alias Mikasi alias
Mickey, has been mixing up in adven-
lures here of late. and the last of them
seems to have deeply concerned him, as
wei! as a beehive located on the premises
occupied by Charles H. Soules of Holly
wood.
The young gentleman from Japan is
attached to one of the camps near Holly
wood, and decided that, although his in
come was not far from what actually be-
longs to labor he might, without great
deal of trouble, increase his revenue by
doing little chores around the home of
Mr.. Soules. He attacked the sprinkling
question first under the householder's
supervision, and was then assigned to the
garden in the rear of the house.
Mikas seeing weeds that had no right
there, found hoe in the stable and de-
termined to exterminate all objects for
eign to the vegetables, flowers and other
things which flourish in the Soules gar
dens. But when Mickey Casey
Mikasi happened on to what appeared to
him as a large and luscious artichoke he
hacked his doe into the territory sur
rounding. A tragedy resulted.
There was a yell which no opposing
force has ever attempted since the fall of
Port Arthur, and Mik(asD gave demon
stration in pedestrianism calculated to
startle the neighborhood, only he carried
with him the bees which We're so comfort
ably ensconsed in the hive which he had
just managed to overturn with his trusty
hoe.
Mrs. Soules, who had been attending to
the supervision of domestic affairs, heard
the steady thud, thud of Mickey's hoe,
but paid no attention to the weed exter-
minating process
When the yell from Mickey brought
Hollywood to it's feet Mrs. Soules dashed
to the rescue.
"Yamamoto nagasaki, whoop, wheel"
shrieked the little brown man, tanning
wildly with his hat.
Twelve hundred bees swirled madly
about his head.
''why, Mickey, what on earth?" queried
Mrs Soules.
"Whee, WOW yokohama hakodate, ban
zai, DAM" or words to that effect, from
the Jap.
The bees were settling. Little black
patches on Mickey's face showed where a
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
WOMAN ASSERTS HOUSE
WAS FIRED BY ACCOMPLICE
DAN SANDERsoN DENIES HE is
GUILTY
Persists in Declaring His Innocence
Both Will Be Charged with Ar
son-Mrs. MorIey's Hus-
band Notified

Mrs. Christie Belle Morley, arrested
Saturday, charged with being an accom-
plice of Dan Sanderson, alias Charles
Foster, in burning her home at 245 Wood
ward avenue for the $3.50 insurance on the
contents, has made a complete confess
sion to the detectives.
According to Mrs. Morley she and San
derson, who is said to be the woman's
sweetheart, plotted to burn the house
some time ago. They did not do SO at
the time, but early Saturday morning
Sanderson lighted a match in a room
which had been soaked with gasoline.
The fumes of the oil had so filled the
room that an explosion which wrecked
the house occurred Sanderson was so
severely injured in the explosion that he
is still in the hands of physicians.
Mrs. Morley was not in the house at the
time, having left the building few min
utes before thes explosion.
The house is outside the city limits
and Sheriff Hammel is now in charge of
the case. Mrs. Morley and Sanderson
will be charged with arson.
The husband of the woman is in Mex
leo in charge of mining property he owns
there Word was sent him yesterday of
the trouble his wife is in, and 1t is ex-
pected he will soon come to Los Angeles
So far the detectives have been unable
to get a confession from Sanderson. The
man insists that the explosion occurred
when he attempted to light lamp which
had been filled by Mrs. Morley with gas
oline by mistake.
Sanderson was removed to the county
hospital yesterday afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05

In Kansas they have developed a fad
called the "onion social" One Of the
girls takes bite Of a raw onion and
the boys pay 10 cents apiece for guess
who bit the vegetable. Those who guess
correctly kiss all the other girls, while
those who guess incorrectly must kiss
the girl who bit the onion. There must
be tremendous rush among the girls
for the onion. The game looks easy,
but it probably depends on the distance.
At short range it would be just like
picking canned cherries. Anyway, it
is surely worth the money.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
AT THE HAGUE

HHE subcommittee of the committee
on arbitration of The Hague con-
Il ference has voted to adopt the
American proposition regarding the
establishment of a permanent court of
arbitration, and it is likely the con-
ference will adopt such plan. On the
surface it looks good for the peace of
nations, but like all things human it
has decided faults.
Unless resort to this court can be
made obligatory on both parties to a
quarrel. what good can result? and if
circumstances place a nation in a COM
promising attitude by reason of this
rule who will believe that nation will
tamely submit? There are grievances
expect any nation to be compelled to
resort to it for justice when all laws of
justice have been already violated is
too much for weak human nature. An
international court of arbitration could
settle many vexing problems likely to
arise, but in the event of studied or
international insult it is not likely any
nation would await it's action.
With compulsory arbitration settled
on what margin of debatable ground
could be found before an overt act
called the conference together and
what could not the past masters Of
diplomacy in Europe do to insult and
humiliate an enemy before the limit
was reached?
No man will submit to arbitration his
personal honor or that of his family,
and for the same reasons applicable to
nations, /. e., there are conditions
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
SHOVE? OF PEANUTS
FOLLOWS SMASHUP
Vender and Auto Get In Each Others
Way and Crash Follows to Boys
Deliqht-Driver Pays
for Damage

Broadway, at the intersection of Third
street, was showered with peanuts last
evening for few moments following
more or less disastrous attempt of an
automobile and a peanut vendor with his
cart to get across the street at right
angles.
1t may have been the only prospect of
getting rid of his wares, but those VINO
heard the keeper of the stand saying
things after the collision thought this
barely possible. The boys who gathered
around didn't care.
The automobile carried the number 6l5S.
The driver Immediately alighted, paid the
damage and continued his journey.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05

sacred to him that may be wholly the
reverse to others, and incapable Of
judgment by them.
With a list of specific offenses, each
clearly defined, as a basis for action,
some measure of good could be reached
by such a law, but until this or its
equivalent shall be found it is not in
humanity, individual or national, to
take its wrongs and insults to others
for treatment.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
Chinese Argue in Crowd

Lee Chan. a Chinese youth, and Fon
Goo, an older man, engaged in wordy
dispute on North Alameda street last
night which attracted a great crowd of
people. Sergeant Charles Sebastian
brought the two men with number of
their friends to the police station, where
their differences were quickly arbitrated
by Lieut.. Charles Dixon and they were
permitted to so. Lee Chan charged that
Fon Goo insulted his sister, with whom
he was walking at the time.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
Population of Los Angeles. 100000
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) Herald company. the corporation .
) which owns and publishes The Los .
: Angeles Daily Herald, has recent !
) ly been purchased from the former !
) owners by parties who have no .
) connection with any other news !
) paper in Los Angeles. and who !
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05

A seat on the New York stock ex-
change has been sold for 81, 500. A few
years ago the price was $4,000. In
other words, brokers are using less gov
eminent mint sauce with their Wall
street lamb.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05

That the Newport chimpanzee showed
signs of ennui at the famous Nara
gansett dinner is not surprising. Per-
haps he heard it said there for the
thousandth time how much he re-
sembled Harry Lehr.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05

The Milwaukee Yacht club sailed a
cup race last week. Those yachtsmen
must be getting proud. Plain mugs or
schooners are good enough for ma
jority of their fellow citizens.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05

Out in the Second ward there lives
family of so belligerent a disposition
that the neighbors are considering the
advisability of referring their case to
The Hague.